Chapter 10
Alucard slowly made his way out, thanking Walter one more time, and grabbed Seras as she made googly-starry eyes at Walter, thanking him repeatedly.
"Can't training wait..." He grinned at his gun. "I want to enjoy trying this out...mwhehehehe..."
Seras held her cannon like it was a prize she won. "I guess Walter's 'something' wasn't bad after all...eh?"
Alucard looked at her as the exited the castle, stepping onto the grass of the grounds, sarcastically looking at her the entire time. "Mwahahaha...of course, it is bad..." He pointed the gun at her, jokingly, so she could see it better. "I can kill more savagely." He grinned at the thought of long-dried blood and mangled bodies of zombies. Just what he wanted: a new toy to play with...
The tip of the Jackal barely touched Seras' sore nose, and her eyes bulged for a moment. However, she realized that he wouldn't shoot her, and she relaxed her face.
"I guess the same goes for me, too, master," She laughed a little on the crazy side, situating the cannon comfortably in her arms. Alucard pulled the gunpoint away from Seras, noticing how her eyes lit up as she looked at her halconnen. He turned from her, keeping on-task, and started walking forward a few steps, remembering that Seras could not disappear like he could.
"Time for target practice..." He grinned evilly. "Walter said that there was a super freak base nearby; the church two towns over...mwahahaha..." His eyes followed down to his feet as he really didn't feel much like walking (as he didn't do it often), and he suddenly rose up, floating low to the ground so Seras could follow next to him.
"Target practice, master?" She brought her right leg back, bending the of that leg's knee, and the left leg she bent even more, almost seeming like she sat, her weight falling from the waist - down. While she brought herself into her stance, she flipped her halconnen up and slipped her left hand into the handle and her finger through the trigger, and her other hand propping up the middle-half of it. "At you?" She grinned, liking the feel of her lighter cannon...she felt as if she could move more freely than before.
Alucard looked at her playfully. "You like to target me, don't you...mmmhmmm?"
She laughed in response, "You certainly don't object to that fact yourself, Master."
Amused by the comeback, his red eyes focused on Seras below him, his coat flapping and his hair blowing wildly as he hovered. "I don't object to many things..." He hovered over her, now, "...And I know you like seeing me in this position..."
Seras lowered her gun a little, not breaking her stance, and raised her eyes to look up at him. "And I can't say that I object to that myself, master."
He looked down at her from above and lowered his gun as Seras did, chuckling a little. "Seras...you wouldn't be trying to pull something on your master, or would you?" He raised his eyebrow a little and focused on her. "Mmmmmm..." He grinned again, showing all of his teeth. She narrowed her eyes.
"Maybe I'm not...but then again, maybe I am..."
Alucard hovered over to her right side, Seras looking at him the whole time. "Damn...walking is taking too long..." He grimaced. "Would you like to go for a ride?!"
She looked at him in surprise, but at his offer, a wide silly grin spread across her face as she held the cannon close to her.
"Hai!"
His extended arms went around her and picked her up in a carry position, and immediately started rising, flying higher over the ground and flying fast to make good time. He watched her out of the corner of his eye as she fidgeted for a few moments.
"Don't like heights, Police Girl?"
"Not really, Master...this is just new for me," She gripped her cannon closer, hoping she wouldn't drop it, gulped, and looked down. Alucard kept his eyes on his path, and due to his increasing speed, his coat flapped in the fierce breeze, and the tip of his wide hat blew back a little.
"Hmmm...almost there...these freaks have many destructive marks..."
Seras WAS a little nervous, but she tried to hold it all in and eradicate it. She knew she had to be brave for this one; she had to become stronger...and because of that, she said nothing, and just watched the blurring scenery whip by below her.
Alucard looked down, and out of years and years of experience and good eyesight, he could make out all the details of the township below. He could see and sense the ghouls, the super ghouls created by the super freaks. He could sense bloodshed, and slaughter, and on top of that, he predicted an interesting evening.
He grinned widely and took a sharp nose-dive.
"Hold on, Seras...wouldn't want to drop you," He then added, in his usual sarcastic voice, "...yet, mwahahaha..."
Her eyes bugged out at the sudden drop in altitude and increase in speed. "WOAH!" She gripped her halconnen tighter, hoping he really wouldn't drop her...and her eyes stayed as wide as dinner plates the whole way down.
"Hmmm...it's not that bad, Seras..." He grinned as he watched her hold on tighter, and he increased his speed more, wanting to get to the ground, the so-called 'battlefield' as fast as he could...
She looked up at him, her bangs whipping her sharply in the face. "Well, you've done this before at least ONCE, I'm sure!"
He glared at her as he set his feet on the ground, now standing in a vertical position, and he grinned at the thought of 'flying lessons.'
"...Of course," He said, more high-pitched and in a sarcastic tone. "I haven't done this for decades! Mwahahaha..." He looked down at her, but only to be interrupted by sensing presences surrounding them. Seras looked around too, vaguely sensing something not right.
"Hmm..." She narrowed her eyes.
Alucard looked at Seras, noticing that she, too, senses something, and he smiles lightly, not insanely.
"You see them, Seras...they have cloaking on..."
Her eyes scanned everywhere. "I would think so...I can hardly sense them..."
He put her down, setting her on her own two feet, in front of him. "Remember training: see what cannot be seen...mwahahaha..." He brought out his new Jackal bullets and the corresponding gun from within his trench coat.
"Time to kill," He moved a foot away from Seras and extended his right arm holding the loaded-and-ready gun. He suddenly widened his grin, smirking like a Cheshire cat, and he fired and blood spewed from seemingly nowhere.
Seras nodded, remembering clearly now, and she looked the opposite way her master was so they could cover each other. She sensed more strong presences in front of her, and so, she readied her cannon in her arms, putting her finger against the trigger.
Alucard looked on in amazement, watching the blood spill onto the ground. "Hmmm...they bleed..." He brought out both his Jackal and his Cassul, and stretched out his arms vertical to himself.
"Time to die," and he fired, once shot after another from both guns.
However, the presences Seras sensed vaguely were now stronger, as they closed in on her and surrounded her on all sides, except for her back. She growled and bent her knees for support and balance and immediately started firing in a semi-circle, spiraling in an axle on the balls of her feet. Blood flew from every direction, staining the ground with a deep crimson color.
The presences stopped for a moment for her, and she backed up until she was back-to-back with Alucard, and she set her cannon ready again, waiting for another round of attacks.