Chapter 20

                Seras tried her best to stop, as putting her hands down was not easy with her belongings. She knit her eyebrows together, tugging as hard as she could, eventually stopping mili-inches from Alucard's form.

                "Hya..."

                "Hmm...Good..." He hovered above her and behind her, not taking his eyes away from her. "...Let's try some decent...it is the opposite of going up...but keep your arms in close to your body, and push down..."

                Seras looked down, pondering on how she would go about doing this. However, after hearing it was just like going up, she would just have to do things backwards a little, so she dropped her weight, using the hand holding the kit box, and she stopped short.

                The sudden jolt caused her to fumble and catch her halconnen that almost flew off of her shoulder, and her bangs flew into her eyes. She whipped her head back to clear them away from her line of vision, and she looked up at her master who was where she used to be, grinning at her progress.

                "That went a little more smoothly, eh, master?" She had some doubts about that, though.

                "Hmmm...That it did, Seras..." He looked at her from his position way up, his eyes straining a bit as the light of the moon was behind him, highlighting Seras' features. He felt lazy and just nose-dived straight down, straightening out and hovering next to Seras with a chuckle.

                "Good, you've learned much..." He looked at her, talking in his playful, sarcastic voice. "Let's joyride on air...watch the ground move below us faster...faster...mwahahaha..."

                However, Seras eyed her halconnen and her box again, trying the hint again. "I'd like to put these down, though..." She sweatdropped. Alucard eyed her stuff, then his eyes wandered up to her face.

                "Mmmm...Okay..." He took both things from her, disappearing from sight. In about three minutes later, he reappeared right next to her with dark red, round eyes.

                "Ready to have fun…?"

                She felt better having her arms free to move around, and she smirked, kicking up and flying forwards shakily at first, then gaining speed as she grew more confident.

                "You sound like you're enjoying yourself..." She stated as she grew nearer to him, seeing him slowly hovering to wait so they could fly side by side. He turned to watch her.

                "Hmmm..." His hat and coat swayed in the breeze as he moved, noticing she was catching up to him. "Hehehe...faster, Seras..." He sped up, enjoying the fresh wind on his face, while the ground below was getting harder to see.

                Seras grinned evilly, deciding to go as quick as she did the first time, pelting towards him at an incredibly fast speed and tackling him in midair, and quite hard too. As she careened into him, she braced herself by closing her eyes. Alucard fell a little in altitude at the impact, noticing Seras had the upper hand now. He turned his head slightly to see her clenched onto his midsection awkwardly.

                "Hehe...good...two can play at that game...mwahahaha..." He rolled around, flipping her over and holding her about the waist as she faced down towards the ground, and he held her close to him.

Seras felt him speed up, going impossibly faster through the blackened sky. She turned her head to the side, observing the view to her right, and to her left lazily. As she so obliviously watched everything around her, Alucard glanced down at her neck, his red eyes gleaming and his arms tightening around her middle a little more.

He rested his head on hers, enjoying the feeling of the trails of his coat flapping in the velocity of their flight. He grinned as she watched the ground below her fly by and zig-zag around. Her hair whipped her in the face and blew around.

"Enjoying this, Seras? Mwahahaha..."

                She turned her head slightly, yelling up to him as the wind rushed by her ears, making it hard for her to hear well. "HAI!!!"

                He jerked his head away, having sensitive hearing (being a vampire and all), then momentarily moved his head back to position. But this time next to her head, leaning his chin lightly on her shoulder, whispering as his eyes glinted.

                "Hmmm...You do not have to yell now..." He looked down over Seras and then resumed looking forward where he was going, chuckling. "We have gone far in land..."

                She nodded, his black bangs hitting her in the face along with her own orange ones, and she blinked them out of her eyes, narrowing them to focus more on the land blurring below. She could make out a few things; things that seemed almost unfamiliar to her.

                "Hai, master..." She almost whispered too, wondering if he could hear her whisper. She looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

                Alucard, however, was more interested at what he saw ahead; seeing something he recognized as a cliff, but farther down. They would have to descend if they wanted to go. And indeed he did.

                He grinned and rubbed his face against Seras, seemingly nuzzling her, whispering.

                "Down to the right, make a slow descent...there is something I would like to show you..."