Madness is such beautiful state of mind....

It relieves the self from the bitterness of reality, excuses it for an second, an minute, an hour, an eternity. It is to some the prism of the many colors of personality...anger, sadness, happiness is all melded and only show prominently in
small portions that hardly stifle the cravings of the sanity that demands release. To others, it is Hell in sleepless nights, horrific visions and a mind filled with nothing but frustration caused by the struggle for a simple mind.

Sadly, that is not their case. Their case is much more...complex.

The Father is a whirlwind of morals that can never cross. One side shows the face The Father saves for the ones he calls 'my children', the other is the last face the damned see before their proper execution takes place on the ground they stand. One side of him is the streak of wanting to save and protect the weak and the other is the dseire to watch blood spill onto the ground with perverse delight. The Sister and The Priestess are the same way, though The Priestess does not wish to admit it. Noble and prideful, they must walk with heads high and the walk suggesting of old blood and ancient duty that humbles all who look and watch. The weapons they carry do not suggest nothing out of the ordinary when they hold them in limp hands at their sides......but when raised for battle, create bloodshed rivaling the blood that ran in the streets during the Riots of Ancient Rome. Blessed by God, blessed by The Pope, they are true followers of Him and his holy son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
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"You stupid bloody beast!"

"Have mercy on me! Ah cain't help if ah shoot at what ah see!"

"Just a few more twirls.....YUMIKO, do you have the fruit ready?"

The nun held up a orange with wicked delight, and lifted one of Heinkel's guns.

"Ready!"

Heinkel grinned, and grabbed the gun from YUMIKO's grip. She pointed it at Pip's head, his eyes going wide in horror, a slow stain seeping from his crotch. He relaxed only slightly when she moved the barrel to the right a few inches.

"Aim...FIRE ONE!"

YUMIKO tossed the orange by Pip's head, and Heinkel whipped her head around to shoot it only inches from his eyes. The juice spurted out, getting into Pip's remaining eye.

"FUCKSHIT! THAT BURNNNNNNSSS!!"

"FIRE TWO!"

YUMIKO tossed a apple low, and Heinkel shot it as it neared Pip's crotch in mid-air.

"How'd you like that Captain Pippy? Too close for comfort?"

"A barely acceptable shot. You must learn to shoot directly in the middle and not near it. Much more kills that way will go down quicker."

Heinkel turned around and frowned at the grinning vampire leaning against the doorframe of the shooting room.YUMIKO growled and pulled her trusty katana out of it's cloth wrappings.

"I thought I locked that door."

"No my lady, I could very simply unlock it with a fingernail. I expected this out of a pair of Catholics, to pick on the weaker opposition."

"Who said ah was weak?"

"Silence boy. You're only disgracing yourself further by attempting to defend yourself....tied upside down by those clumsy feet of yours by nuns.....pitiful."

Heinkel held her head up proudly, and lowered her eyelids in satifaction.

"Don't you have anything better to do...like train that weakling subordinate....wait, correct if I'm wrong, you have not a subordinate anymore! Silly me!"

Alucard's smile grew tighter as he strolled casually over to Heinkel, and took the sunglasses from her face. Red eyes clashed with cool green as they stared into each other's faces, guns by their sides.

"That is correct. But you have no master anymore due to your idiot mistake. It must have been very hard for you, to be dismissed by your own infatuate!"

Heinkel's eyes wavered as she blushed violently. She brought the gun up to the grinning vampire's chin, and pulled back the trigger.

"I have no idea what you are talking about" she said " but you have no right to say such things, you filthy Protestant, rotting has been."

"Liar. You were infatuated with him, weren't you?! You stared into his eye's and felt your heart break as he coldly cast you off into the unknown to fight for yourself without his comfort!" Alucard leaned in closer and closer, and Heinkel gritted her teeth.

"I? Infatuated? You must be joking you disgusting bag of trash. How can I be attracted to that horrible, twitchy eye and those frozen muscles in his jaw and his girlish face without vomiting?! And he's a jerk and you know, I know it, and and and.." Heinkel began to twitch, and Alucard's smile grew wider and easier.

"Little girl losing her touch. Little girl losing her touch." He taunted, keeping a eye on YUMIKO as she crept closer and closer.

"SHUT UP YOU *censored for this rating*!"

Heinkel leapt forward, and shot at Alucard. The vampire danced away, and waved his gun around.

"Finally! A reaction!"

YUMIKO dived at Alucard as he passed her, but only suceeded in slicing the rope holding Pip up in half, sending the captain crashing to the floor.

"FUCKSHIT!"

Alucard shot at Heinkel's shoulder, taking careful consideration to not hit any vital areas...he wanted to play with his prey as long as he could.

"You know what you like to do??!!" Heinkel screeched. "You like to *edited for this rating*! Yes, you *edited for this rating* *edited for this rating* dirty * edited for this rating* who likes to suck *edited for this rating* and *edited for this rating* ASSHOLE!"

"Such a filthy mouth you Catholic's seem to have."

"That's all you got out of that?"

"Well, I'm resisting the urge to laugh."

"You bastard..just for this, I shall release the hound of Hell upon you and let you be torn apart by it's one metal tooth!" She whirled around and pointed at Alucard.

"YUMIKO!"

YUMIKO cackled as she made for Alucard,raising her katana triumphantly.

"HERE I COME!"

Alucard watched, amused, as she ran at him. A sudden pull of the wrist and a dagger flicked out, and he slashed out at the nun when she was only inches away. She fell back, and dove in, only to be blocked again. He slowly inched forward at each confrontation, and finally, put the dagger away. He held out his arms invitingly.

"Come."

YUMIKO stood still for a second, but quickly shrugged off the feeling of doubt and ran at the vampire one last time. Just as the tip of the katana drove into his chest, Alucard brought his palm up, and sent her backwards to Pip. The captain didn't have any weapons, Heinkel had made sure of that when she caught him. So he used the one thing that could possibly inflict serious damage to a leg.

He bit YUMIKO.

"OW!"

"That's what you get when you fuck with me!" He grabbed the katana and shoved it away, and began to wrestle with the raging girl.

Heinkel stamped her foot, and glared at Alucard, shrugging as he still smiled at her.

"Oh, you wanna smile!?" She whipped her gun up, and shot over and over at the vampire's arms. He didn't even wince, just smiled as both of his arms were blew away to nothing.

"....how the hell do you do it?"

Alucard shurgged again, and danced around her, waving his stumps.

"Put up your dukes!" he taunted.

"You have no dukes!"

"Then put away the gun and be fair for once....stay away from my teeth and you can win." he urged softly, convincingly.

Heinkel stared down at her gun in her hand, and looked up to stare at Alucard. She slowly threw the gun to the side of the room, and removed her priest's collar.

"Let's do this."

Pip and YUMIKO stopped by this time, their hands clamped around each other's throats as they watched in bewildered enrapturment as the two deadly hunters circled each other.

"To the death?"

The vampire paused, and furrowed his brows in mock thought.

"To the first blood drawn....to the death will be so messy for poor Walter."

Heinkel nodded, and ran at Alucard. The vampire dived, and slammed her legs out from under her body, kneeing her in the stomach to knock the breath out of her. Heinkel dropped to one knee, but leapt up to send a blow into Alucard's kneecap, and hit him in the stomach.He snapped his teeth viciously at her as she backed away, smacking at the area where his ears were. She soon boxed them, and the vampire winced and smacked her across the face roughly with a slightly longer stump.Heinkel felt the world spin in reds and blacks as she hit the wall, and she fell into a limp pile. He stood over her, his face twisted in a ugly sneer.

He reached down, and roughly jerked her up to her feet by her hair with his teeth. She brought her hand out to smack him, only to numbly feel the favor returned. She was sore, and she had felt a tooth cut the inside of her lip. She kept her mouth closed, praying that the blood wasn't seeping out the corner of her mouth.

"Shape up!" he roared as he kicked her in the leg and smacked her again with a stump." You have barely begun!"

Heinkel clenched her fists, and hit him full on in the face, and shoved him away. She felt her lips, feeling the kiss of his stump.She narrowed her eyes, and screamed as she began to pummel him crazily. From all directions her fists landed, hoping to inflict at least a little damage on his acidic face and sinfully awful body.

Heinkel stopped for breath, sweat running into her eyes. The vampire took this chance to push her against the wall, and closed his teeth over her throat. Heinkel let out a thin, piercing shriek, and sank her hands into his black hair. She tugged fiercely, and he let go of his mouthful with a yelp as he stumbled back. Heinkel moved her hand to her throat, and felt a little trickle there, felt the bruising. Breathing heavily, she glared at the vampire he drew himself back into his usual demeanor.

"I win."

She cursed to herself as he left in a whisper of red, and stumbled to the door. Yumiko( by this time having placed her glasses back on) and Pip stared at her, astonished. She let out another colorful string of profanities, and threw her gun at Pip's head.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STARING AT???!!"

She whirled away, and stomped out the door, muttering curse word after curse word until she faded in the shadows of the adjoining hallway.

"Is she always like that?"

"Yes....is he always like that?"

"'Fraid so." He pushed her slightly. "Now get off."

He pulled himself up, and shrugged off the last of the ropes.

"Sorry about...strangling you and stuff. To make up for it, ah won't steal any of ya'll's stuff."

She raised an eyebrow. "That's not a very good gift."

"Peace of mind and shit. Take it or leave it."

"I take your offer."

"Good....now if you excuse me, ah have beer to drink and bellybuttons to pick lint out of."