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Authores note: Well, here I am again! I was very busy wiyh my apprenticeship and FCE exam... Heh... On Sunday I have my speaking part... I'm a little bit scared. Thanks for all your reviews. And of course big kisses to my beta-readers: Yerzyk, Crow, Zar, Alucard and my sister Gosia. Great thanks to Kamil for checking this translation. You're the man!! Mhahahaha!

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Now... I have a request... If anyone could help me with my translation... I mean is anyone there, who could check it? You know, Kamil is my English teacher and now it's the end of school year. And I am looking for a person who could check mistakes in other NMOTM chapters during holiday. Please send me an e-mail if you decide to help me. Onegai shimasu!!! My e-mail address is: ayanami_aska@o2.pl

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Next Master of the Monster - Chapter 5 - Spike and Victoria

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" I think, my dear friend, that she felt offended." Spike stood in cellar's corridor and he threw a big pack with medical blood on the table.

" Why is that so? Oh, I suppose that it's about yesterday. All in all I haven't done anything in bad faith. I was just curious." The vampire, with satisfaction, tore off the stopper and he started to drink the red liquid stright from the pack.

" She get upset and feels... hmm... underestimated by her "first" instructor. She counts on you, Alucard. You should have realized that."

" I'm aware of that very well. And I think that she is perfect future leader of Hellsing Institution... She's cheeky and has strong personality. But she's too impulsive."

" She spends some time with you, and she'll get over it. And seriously, that's good. Otherwise, she would be cold, taciturn and completely washed out from higher emotions."

" Suddenly you became expert on women characters. Heheh...Well, well..." The wampire whistled through his teeth.

" Stop it... The same as usual. Strange insinuations and other things. And Integral is still a child."

" Heheh... I know, I know. You prefer older ladies. Much older. How many years is your girlfriend older than you? Over thirty?" Alucard smiled mockingly.

" Very funny! Ha... ha... ha... Supposedly we're pals, so don't offend her. Say something wrong about her again, and I'll cut out that smirk from your face." Spike was pissed off.

" Do you think you can hurt me with those "threads" inherited from your grandfather? Hahah!"

" Oh boys... You're quarreling again. Are you nuts?" Victoria came out of her room. " What's wrong this time?"

" You shouldn't be interested in that. These are our private issues." Alucard looked at her with a gloomy face.

" Master! How could I not be interested? You're almost dueling..."

" Vicky, it's for laughs.You're too sensitive." Spike sized her up. " Hmm..."

" Vicky?! Haha! How sweet! And what a glare! Hahah!" Alucard collapsed heavily in a chair and bursted out laughing.

" Any problems, Master? Or maybe you are jealous?" Victoria leant against Spike's arm.

" Huh... Of what? I can perfectly manage without all this... hmm... how to say it... physical pleasures. And it seems to me that you can't, Policewoman. Heheh."

The girl flushed and offended went out from the cellar.

" You know what, Alucard... Find yourself a girlfriend. You have sunk into dotage. Besides, some... hmm... physical pleasures would considerably improve your view of that."

" As I said, I don't need to. For me... hmm... the physical pleasure is, when I get the big portion of a delicious, red soup, after a long starvation. And I do not intend to change my views." Alucard's smile became crooky.

" Eh... You don't know what you're loosing, man." With a pleasure expressed on his face, Spike turned round and walked away through a corridor.

" Heh... humans... Their weaknesses are funny..." The vampire murmured to himself. " Oh, Spike!" He shouted after a butler. " Mind your carotid artery!"

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" Grandma... What are we going to do?" Integral fidgeted impatiently on the sofa in a library.

" Oh, darling, can you wait one minute more? I must send a fax and make some calls." Said grandma, holding a cigar between her teeth.

" But it has already gone dark, and we were to see something..."

" It's already dark? That's great. You'll stop boring in a minute." Sir Integral put out the cigar. " Alucard..."

{No... Anyone but him...}

" Master..." The vampire's head showed under the ceiling.

Integral was looking, with astonishment, as the vampire was making fun of gravitation's rights, hanging with his head down. Even his hat didn't fall from his head.

" Hallo, Sunshine..." He turned to the girl and smiled, showing all his fangs.

" Eeeh... Hi, Alucard..." She said, but after a moment she recalled that she is offended and turned her back on him.

" Hoo, someone is angry here..."

" Alucard, as I've told you earlier, you'll go for a walk with my granddaughter, a walk full of facts concerning our organisation's activity. I'll quiz you on that, Integral..."

" But Grandma, couldn't I go with Spike or Victoria instead?"

" No. They don't have adequate qualifications. You're going with Alucard and that's my final word. No sulks. What's happened with you? Yesterday you liked him..." Sir Hellsing was surprised.

" Your granddaughter is offended with me, 'cause she thinks, that I'm checking her, which is not true. I was just curious." He leant over Integral so that his nose was almost touching hers. " Will you forgive me, Miss?"

" Hmm... I don't know, if I can be convinced so easily. I have to be tough and I can't show how much your behaviour irritates me." The girl kept still and she was looking bravely into vampires eyes.

" Well, well... The very picture of her grandmother. Heheh. The same flash in the eyes. Can we go, Miss Hellsing?" Alucard straightened up and approached to the door.

" Won't we go out through the ceiling?"

" You can't do things like that, yet... Maybe in the future..." The vampire turned round and smiled widely.

" There, now! Alucard, don't say such things." Sir Hellsin's face had menacing expression. " Don't you dare even try..."

" Oh, Grandma! He was kiddin', wasn't he?" She looked at the vampire, who was already showing all his teeth. " Or maybe not..."

" Honey. With your passion for a vampirism, everything is possible..." Grandmother smiled slyly, glancing at her granddaughter, who blushed.

" A passion?" Alucard looked at the girl with surprise.

" Grandma! It's only a game! What have you done? He will be asking me about everything now! You see, now he's loking at me... I don't want to go anywhere now..." Integral stood nervously up from the sofa.

" Heheh... Of course we'll go. Games and vampires... That's interesting..." Alucard smiled evily, caught her in her waist and threw her on his shoulder.

" Aaaaah! A nut! {Thanks God, I've put on my trousers!} Grandma! Say something! Why are you laughing? Aaaah!! Put me down...! Did you hear, what I've just said? Hey, do not tickle me!!! Grandmaaaaaa...!" Integral's shouts faded, as they were walking away along the corridor. And Sir Hellsing, with a sadistic smile, lighted her cigar.

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" Hey, where are we going?"

" Be quiet! Don't shout! You don't want everybody coming here after us, do you...?"

" But... We can't do things like that! Do we have to... hm... hide this way?"

" At least nobody will disturb us... Okey, get in here. And don't turn on the light."

" Where are we? Ah, I've stumbled on something..."

" Quiet! It's a shed for equipment and tools. It's in a garden."

" Are you crazy? Why did you... Spike, what the..."

" You're so lovely, when you're angry, you know, Vicky? Come here..."

" Get you're hands off me! Why are you so hot-headed?"

" That's because you look so sexy in this uniform..." Spike embraced Victoria at her waist and he kissed her in the neck.

" Hmm... That's interesting. Why don't you put on yours so often, huh?" The girl leant her back against the cabinet.

" Heheh... Because I'm a "special task man", like Alucard. And I'm a butler, not a soldier." He started to unbotton her shirt.

" Won't you prefer being in an active duty, instead of sitting in the residence all the time? Hmm..."

"I'm in an active duty... Like my grandfather in his young days. Besides, just like he, I'm busy with special weapons for units and I'm the main co- ordinator and menager in resid... Ahh, Are you crazy?! Don't bite me! Hey, what are you doing...?" Spike grasped his neck involuntarily.

" I'm sorry..." Victoria licked her lips. " I got carried away... Stop talking that much!" She grasped him by his shirt and pulled him much closer to herself.

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" I think, it's enough of Hellsing stories for today. Besides, I don't want to talk too much..." Integral and Alucard were walking along garden's alley in the back of the property. " You don't look well, Miss Hellsing."

" Uh, I've had enough! I've got a headache. I'm all confused. And where, the hell, am I?"

" Heheh..."

" Alucard, it's not funny... Where are you leading me?" Integral stopped and crossed her arms.

" Well, well... How militant you are. Heheh... Don't be afraid, silly. I've told you, I won't hurt you. Do I look like a young girl's killer?"

Integral raised her eyebrow. " No, not at all! (sarcasm) You look like a nice, middle-aged man." She grinned evily. " Of course you look like a killer. And that madness in your eyes... It makes me shiver."

" Middle-aged? ...It can't be that bad... All in all I'm an eternaly thirty- year-old man... Well... Now it's your turn."

" My... turn? What are you talking about?" The girl looked at the vampire in surprise.

" I'm talking about... like your grandmother said... passion for a vampirism or something like that. What's that game?"

" But it's a nonsense... And it's not "a passion"... Together with my friends I've played rpg... You think up a character and you impersonate it..." Integral started to stammer. {I feel stupid telling him about all this things.}

Alucard looked with amusement at the ashamed girl. " Mhahahahahahahah!"

" Why... why are you laughing?"

" Hahahah! And you have probably played "Vampire"?" He laughed.

Integral's eyes widened in astonishment. " How do you know? Stop laughing like a fool and answer me!"

" Huh, you, humans, are so naive... Do you know who invented this game?" He asked, seeing an irritation on her face. " Bored vampires, who didn't know what to do with themselves between their meals."

" You don't say...! There are books for it, just like for "The Werewolf" and "The Middle Earth"... Or will you tell me that "The Middle Earth" was invented by dwarfs?" Growled, pissed off, Integral.

" Heheh... I don't know anything about it. If you don't believe me - tough luck." The vampire spread his arms in resignation. " At least tell me which clan you belonged to?" He winked his left eye at her.

" It depends... Usually a gangrel..."

" Savage girl? That's interesting..."

" And you, Alucard, who are you, according to "Vampire"?

" Everyone, Sunshine, everyone."

" How can it be that you're "everyone"?"

" You will know everything in a proper time..."

" Are you an expert in that, heh? You play in "Vampire"?" Integral laughed.

" Really, amazing sense of humor... Truly enviable. You're quick in changing moods, Miss Hellsing. A few minutes ago you were ashamed, angry a while ago, and now you're cheerful and willing to joke. Chameleon woman."

" Very funny... Hey, we've reached some kind of a wall."

" Okey, now you must climb it, and tell me, what you see."

" You must be kiddin'! How do I climb there? This wall is almost three meter high!"

" It's simple. Heheh. I exceptionally allow you to trample on me today, because I'm in a good mood." He grabbed her waist and lifted her. " Do not stand on my hat!"

" I won't do such a thing!" The girl pulled herself up on her hands and sat on the top of the wall. " I don't know why I have got... there. Wow!! Revelation!"

" Now you know why?"

" My, I can see the whole city! And this moon! Amazing! Ooh, good evening." Integral waved to the soldier who was passing by the wall.

He stopped, surprised. " What are you doing so high, Miss?"

" Admiring the views. Beautiful, isn't it?" The teenager sighed.

" Oh yes, today is a very nice night. Please be careful, Miss. Try not to fall down."

" She's safe , because she's with me." Alucard's head appeared through the wall.

" Lord Alucard! You've scared the hell out of me!" The guard jumped two meters back.

Integral chuckled. " Guards on their duty don't fear anything. Please remember about it." She said, with a flash in her eye.

" Of course, miss." The soldier got disconcerted and walked away.

" Don't be so strict, Sunshine. You've started to throw your weight about."

" That's not true. It's just words. Okey, I'm gettin' off this wall. Will you catch me?" She looked at him nicely.

" Well, I don't know. All in all you're quite heavy..." Alucard's smile became crooky.

" What?! I'm heavy?! All right, I'll jump without your help. And you will have to explain that before grandma If I break my leg...

" You crafty beast... Are you going to jump or not?"

" Yes, yes..." Integral gave a wild shout and in a second she was in Alucard's hands. " You can put me down..../Boom/ Ahh! Are you nuts? You didn't have to throw me on the ground." Unhappy, she stood up, brushing her pants off the sand.

" You wanted me to put you down, what I promptly did." A vicious smiled appeared on his face.

" Very funny... Ha-ha-hah. We're going back home." She turned round and started to walk along the alley in the direction of the residence.

" As you wish, Miss Hellsing."

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" Are you sure, that no-one will come here?"

" Why would anyone be walking round the garden and looking into an old shed at this time?"

"Well... I don't know..." Victoria looked at Spike with doubt.

" Vicky, darling, don't do this to me..."

" All right, I'm quiet now..."

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" Did you hear that?" Integral stopped in a middle-step.

" Of course I did." Alucard reached to the inside pocket of his coat.

" It's coming from this shed. What's in there?" She asked in a whisper.

" Some piece of junks and maybe garden tools. Besides it's a preety good hideout."

" What are we going to do?"

" Heheh. Your first mission - "What's in this shed?" Heh. Oh, don't look at me this way. Shall we check it?"

" Sure! What should I do?"

" As far as I know, on the left side at your head-level should be a light- switch. I'll open the door quietly and you turn on the light."

" Action like taken from "McGuyver"..." Affirmed Integral, looking at her instructor.

" What's your problem? We' just check, what's going on inside. Maybe it's only a drunk gardener." He laughed.

" All right... I'm ready." Whispered the girl and suddenly stiffened in terror, when the thirty-centimetre gun barrel appeared over her arm. " Wh...wh...what's that?"

" Quiet! That's my gun. Caution! I'm opening the door..."

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Integral opened her mouth in shock and embarrassment. After a moment Alucard covered her eyes, pulled her out of the shed and laughing like a madman, slammed the door.

" Spike, I think I'll kill you."

" What?! It's not my fault!"

" No one will come here, heh? Ghrrr!"

" How could I know that Integral and Alucard would be passing here... ? Ahh! What are you doing?'

" Nothing, huh, could you hand me my bra?"

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" Aluca~rd... A drunk gardener, heh? Ghrrr!" Integral grinded her teeth.

" Heh. Everybody makes mistakes..." The vampire was grinning from ear to ear.

" Why are you so happy? Jeez... that was strange..."

" heheh..."

" Don't say anything. O my, what were they doing there..." Integral's cheeks were coloured with a dark red.

" This kind of experience can affect your further life." Said Alucard mockingly and put his gun away.

" Heh... Nonsense... So Victoria is Spike's girlfriend..."

" Don't say you didn't know."

" I knew that he has a girlfriend. But I didn't suppose... it's her. That's cool."

" Have you recovered from the shock yet? You're quick."

" What do you mean by "yet"? Do you think I've seen something like that for the first time? I'm not a child anymore!"

" Where have you seen this kind of thing?"

" Eeeh... In TV..." Integral blushed again.

" Naughty girl." The vampire laughed. " Will you tell your grandmother about all the interesting things you've been doing during this evening? Heheheh."

" Surely passing over the last thing." She opened a front door and they got into the house.

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" Well, Integral, have you had a good fun?" Sir Hellsing looked at her granddaughter over the laptop's screen.

" Oh, yes I have... Grandma, I'm deadly tired. I'm going to sleep."

" All right, I'll tell Spike to..."

" No, no, no, no... I'll manage by myself... He surely has other problems on his hands..." The girl protested.

Alucard looked at Integral with amusement. " Heheh, I don't doubt... Ahh!" The teenager stepped on his foot with all her strength.

" Darling, you go to school tomorrow, so you should have a good sleep. Alucard, could you escort her? 'Cause I can't..."

" And who, the hell, am I? A nanny? Ah!" [Integral! Stop kicking me on my ankles!] The vampire telepatically yelled to her.

[Stop yelling at me!] " I've told you, I'll manage by myself. Good night, Grandma." [Good night, Alucard.]

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" You know, Vicky, you're mean..." Said Spike, putting an ice against his red cheek. " You did it on purpose, didn't you?"

" You're stupid. I stumbled and... that wasn't my fault that you were stooping and you had your head on my knee-level..." Sighted Celes.

They were sitting at the kitchen table and drinking tea. Well, Spike was drinking tea.

" You have to talk to her..."

" I don't have to... Hey, don't look at me this way... I'm giving her a lift to school tomorrow, so maybe then..."

Victoria showed all her fangs in discontent.

" All, right, all right... I'll talk to her... Don't bare your teeth like that. You've bitten me already today and I'm not in a hurry to have another bite..." He laughed urchinly at her. " You're very convincing."

" She must have felt strange... Well, the sight surely was very interesting... I'm feeling a little stupid..."

" I've completely forgotten, that today Alucard was showing the property to Integral."

" Interesting, why have you forgotten..." The vampiress smiled.

" You know what? Buy yourself a longer skirt..."