Choices
C5: Above Us
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Seras kept her eyes on Syn's back. There was something that frightened her about the new vampire. Of course, there was something that frightened her about Walter, but she had seen him use his garrotes. Even though she knew her master had gotten Syn under Integra's control through trickery, she was worried.
"Through the door." Syn snickered, pointing at a rather normal door, "Through this door, my master is trapped."
"Then let's go!" Seras walked around the other woman, grabbing the doorknob. She tried to open it as softly as a human would, but it was locked. She turned red. Syn smirked and kicked the door—before Seras could let go of the knob. The door flew off its hinges and down a high bunch of stairs. Seras landed hard on the door, groaning.
"You open a door like that in a place like this." Syn chuckled, hopping down the stairs four at a time, "Now come on. I think Alucard has found his playmate. We should get Master out of here before the spells are cast."
She ran off, leaving Seras to regain her senses and follow after.
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Alucard and Andersong stood a few meters apart in the church, staring at each other. Alucard had both his guns drawn, and Andersong had two long blades in hand.
There was a long pause before either moved. When they finally budged, they moved in unison to their right, winding in a semi-circle to the center of the aisle between the pews. Alucard had his Jackal against Andersong's head, and Andersong had his blades to the vampire's throat and skull.
Both grinned and 'fired'.
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Integra stared at the door, waiting rather patiently for someone who was gagged and bound. She heard a few gunshots only minutes earlier, and Maxwell had run away after tying a gag over her mouth.
The door creaked open and Seras stood there nervously, looking straight at Integra.
"Well, I guess I'm not that dumb of an American." Syn walked around Seras, grinning, "Now, let's all get out of here."
"I never said that!" Seras replied.
"I can hear what you think." Syn replied shortly, "Now shut up and come on." She walked to Integra, setting her silver staff down and kneeling to untie the knots that bound Integra to the chair. The Hellsing squirmed in her binds, trying to say something against the gag in her mouth.
"I know you'd like to be out of here faster, but if I use my staff, I'll only want to stab something more than cut the ropes." Syn said as she fiddled with the knots, "And we can't have Sir Integra being injured." Integra squirmed more, much to Syn's bother.
"Why are you doing that?" she asked, "I can't untie you if you keep fidgeting." Integra only nodded her head towards behind Syn, but the black-haired woman only rolled her eyes and set herself to untying the knots. Whilst Syn didn't bother to look where Integra was staring at, Seras did. Integra had been looking towards the wall to the left of the door, where shadows were abundant. And in the midst of the shadows was a gleam of light on metal.
"Look out!" the blond woman shouted. Syn glanced up at the shout and fell backwards when the gleam struck her in the forehead. Ten more gleams followed swiftly after, stabbing hard into Syn and driving her into a wall.
"You fall right into our traps." Enrico Maxwell stepped out of the shadows, followed closely by Father Ronaldo, "You always do." Integra simply scowled at Maxwell, her eyes narrow behind her glasses.
Seras raised her simple handgun and aimed at Father Ronaldo, who held a blade in one hand. The silent priest threw his sword and knocked the gun from Seras' hand, slicing it into pieces. Seras frowned—her master was not there to help her with the blessed blades.
"Now to end this." Maxwell said, raising a gun of his own and aiming for Integra.
A long, low laugh rang out in the room. All eyes turned to the vampire pinned to the wall.
"Why is it that this entire organization uses these damn things?" Syn asked, her face breaking into a grin.
"How can you possibly be alive?" Maxwell snarled.
"I'm a vampire, dumbass!" Syn laughed at the top of her lungs, "And believe it or not, you've made me even more angry than before! COME ON!" She strained against the swords and pulled herself free of the stonewall. Father Ronaldo threw more blades, but Syn dodged, pulling the blades from her skin and casting them away. Once all the swords were gone, she ran to her staff and kicked it up off the floor, catching it easily.
Father Ronaldo found himself impaled. He looked down at the staff before falling backwards off of it, dead. Syn laughed and turned to Maxwell.
"Now, what to do with you, father bastard?" she walked towards him, a menacing grin on her face.
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"Pathetic dog!" Alucard laughed wickedly, standing by the altar and waiting for Andersong to reveal himself, "I shoot off one of your arms and you hide with your tail between your legs!"
Andersong was behind one of the pillars in the church that hadn't been destroyed by Alucard's shooting. His arm had stopped bleeding and had never really hurt, but he was short one weapon, unable to carry two swords in one hand. He wasn't afraid of dying, but wanted to see Alucard dead before him.
The priest took in a deep breath and readied himself to throw blades as fast he could with one hand. Andersong waited one more second and whipped around the pillar, sword raised for battle.
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"That's quite enough for now." Integra said as soon as Seras untied the gag, "I won't have you sinking as low as them."
"Oh, but I really wanted to stab him in the head." Syn said with a sardonic smirk, her foot firmly pressed down on Maxwell's chest, "His men have stabbed me enough." Maxwell lay very still, his face contorted in pain from the foot on his chest and the slash on his hand from when Syn had struck his gun away.
"Enrico Maxwell." Integra stood from the chair when Seras undid the final knot in the ropes, "You have obliterated the pact between the Hellsing organization and Iscariot. What do you have to say in your defense for committing this atrocity?"
"God will see it His way." Maxwell chuckled, "We are merely His tools to destroy the evil of the filthy nosferatu."
"Oh, good move, stupid!" Syn stomped on his chest a bit, "Insult the creature that has you on the ground!"
"Filthy monster!" Maxwell spat at Syn, aiming for her face. The vampire, enraged now, dodged the projectile and fell to her knee on his chest, pressing her gun against Maxwell's forehead.
"Tell me I can blow his brains out, master." Syn looked over her shoulder, her eyes narrow slits, "He's insulted me, and no doubt you. This man is nothing but a pack of filth that's barely worth the bullet I'd put in his skull."
"You may not." Integra stood with her arms crossed, "Get off him." Syn frowned, closing her eyes tight and gritting her teeth. Oh, how desperately she wanted to shoot the priest. But, she stood up and away from Maxwell, following her master's orders.
"You do remember the agreement, don't you?" Integra said, reaching a hand into her jacket, "If an organization breaks the pact between us, the current head of the violating organization will suffer the consequences." She withdrew her own pistol, aiming at Maxwell's head.
"In the name of God and her Majesty…amen."
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"I believe now is the time for you to leave. Say goodbye."
Ka-chik.
"That's enough, Alucard."
Alucard paused and looked up. There stood his master in the doorway of the church, flanked by Seras and Syn. She looked unharmed, but very tired.
"The Iscariot organization is no more." Integra sighed, her pistol in hand, "Enrico Maxwell is no more." Alucard could smell that Integra had recently fired her gun, and the scent of blood from Maxwell came from her as well.
"Understood." he nodded, lowering his head to hide his eyes below his hat, "You seem to have a lucky streak, father." He put his Jackal and Casull back into his coat, walking past the injured and defeated Alexander Andersong. The priest made no movement, his eyes wide at Integra's words.
He did not move when Integra collapsed into Alucard's arms. He did not move when Alucard and Syn took Seras and Integra away through the shadows.
Alexander didn't move for a very long time.
—to be continued—
