Chapter 31
Alkanon glared, grinning evilly. "I may be like him...but I am not..." His threw back his head, smashing it against Alucard's chin and spun around as Alucard lost his grip on him. Alkanon stabbed him back and forth with even bigger blessed swords that his father used, and chains of cards wrapped around Alucard's bleeding body.
"Got you...monster..."
Alucard glared back with the utmost hatred. "That's what you think, priest..." He extended his arms, making the chains struggle to hold onto him. The chain's hold was futile and he broke free, hunching down as his blood drained everywhere.
Seras, holding her guarding position, looked down as she stepped forward, noticing she stepped in some sort of puddle. She looked more, lowering her head to examine it more, and realized it was a puddle of blood...but who's it was, she did not know yet. But she had at least one guess.
Grabbing her halconnen she performed a front roll in, landing on a kneeling position on one knee, the end part of the cannon resting on her right shoulder.
"Master! You need some help?" She grinned and cocked the gun, becoming trigger happy, and not really paying much attention who his opponent was.
Alkanon rushed at Alucard, his hands extending with more fresh blades that were smaller, but sharper. His chains wrapped around his arms as they extended, grabbing Alucard as he lunged right to Alucard's neck.
"Hmmm...Didn't expect that, eh, monster..."
Alucard grinned evilly. "He he he...your father didn't teach you much about me...mwahahaha..." Alucard's arms melted away into blackness, and his smile widened as his eyes glowed a deep red. His body turned completely black, and his hat and glasses disappeared. The black mass of his slid to the floor, and his hair extended onto the ground and caught Alkanon by the legs.
"...Seras...FIRE!!!"
Her finger was ready on the trigger, ready for her master's beckoning call. On his cue, she pulled it the moment the words flew from his mouth, the huge bullet careening into the head of the intruder, creating a huge explosion that blew smoke everywhere, making everything cloudy and hard to see. Seras brought up a free arm to shield her eyes as debris flew toward her.
Alucard seemingly grew up from the ground, his body molding back to normal, bringing his hair back to knee length. He stared down at his opponent, whom was lying on the ground with a huge hole through the center of his skull. Alucard picked him up as if to carry him, and he grinned with malice.
"Seras...I know he is not dead..." He looked at him. "Where is your master?"
Alkanon was silent. Seras wiped her face off of the flying debris quickly with her glove, and held her halconnen sturdy again as she approached them both, a look of disgust written on her face. Alkanon finally looked up at Alucard pathetically.
"I've got a hole through my head...how am I supposed to answer if I have no brain to say..." Oh boy. This fellow sure must have been the good egg.
"Hmmm...You're still talking, aren't you? Mwahahaha...and you say you have no brain to talk with...you're talking just fine without one..." He looked to Seras. "He's such a kid...mwahahaha..."
She rolled her eyes, standing in front of both of them, not believing what she was hearing. "Is this guy for real, master?" She raised an eyebrow. Alkanon looked at Seras strangely.
"Of course I am for real...do you not see this bullet in my brain??" He pointed to his head. Alucard shook his head pitifully.
"Hmmm...He's always been like this..." He stared at him. "His father left him to his own devices...still a regenerator...but not a very smart one...mwahahaha..." He then looked at Seras. "...See..." He poked Alkanon in the head, who replied with a faint 'owwie.'
Seras smacked herself in the face. "This guy isn't serious...too juvenile...hmmm..." She stood up, holding her gun with one hand.
Alkanon looked at Seras angrily, gritting his teeth. "What do you mean 'too juvenile'?! I am Alkanon Alexander Andersong...priest, 16 years of service in the Vatican...and you..." Hatred was in his voice, his eyes, and his cocky grin. "Nothing more than a half-cocked vampire..."
Alucard looked at him angrily. "Hmmm...One should talk, regenerator," He hit him on the back of the head, and cackled, his own blood still running all over. "...Nothing but a priest who cannot even kill a monster..." He grinned evilly.
Seras, pissed as hell now, dug the tip of her halconnen into his head, just egging him on to say something more.
"Na~ni?" She asked in a singsong voice, somewhat higher-pitched, and dripping with anger. She pressed the tip harder as Alkanon stared evilly up at it.
"...Don't make me take out these..." He brought, out of his coat, more knives than a steak house. Alucard put his hand on Alkanon's knives, lowering them down as his hair slithered onto Seras' gun.
"No more fighting, children...that's my job..."
Seras growled and did so, pulling back just a little bit before spitting on the priest. Alucard looked at Seras, silently telling her to stop as Alkanon began whining again.
"Hey...that's not fair...I'm injured here.……"
"You attacked us...it is not my fault you hurt yourself in doing so...and you're not hurt..." He put a hand on his forehead where the bullet shot through, and wiped away the blood to find nothing.
"See? It is already healed, regenerator...now will you tell me who you work for...or shall I let Seras have a taste...? Hmmm...Seras?"
Seras cocked the halconnen, holding it in both hands as the tip was tilted halfway up towards the sky. Her grinning face peeked around the steel edge.
"You mean in lead, master?"
Alkanon shook his head. "You wouldn't...monster..." Alucard looked from Seras to Alkanon.
"...Would I...?" He looked at Seras in a hungry type of way, allowing her to go first. He spoke teasingly at her. "...You know what I mean Seras...mwahahaha..."
She lowered the gun, looking a little disappointed, and yet confused at the same time. She was slowly falling apart at the seams. She knew what he meant...
"...No...Master..." She was hesitant.
Alkanon's eyes widened in shock as he looked at Alucard, who was glaring at his neck and poised to strike at any moment.
"Fine...I'm working for this guy named Dominique Rezeau Innocent...now would you put me down?!" He swung at Alucard, who dropped him to the floor.
"Hmm...Those bastards are at it again, eh? ...First Incognito...now this...these super vampires..." He said, sarcastically to Seras, "...And I thought the Vatican was supposed to stop vampires, not help make them...mwahahaha..."
Seras half-shrugged, blinking once, a look of confusion flashing across her face. "Well...everything seems to be going crazy lately...everything falling apart...one would only expect as much...I guess..." She trailed off quietly, deciding not to say anymore, as it wasn't her place.
"The world is falling apart, Seras...always has...people like him only make it decay faster..." He stared blankly at Seras now, while Alkanon scratched his head.
"...Huh...what does he mean by that...?"
Seras gritted her teeth together, becoming very irritated. She growled. "Would you SHUT UP?!" She yelled at Alkanon, trying her best not to clobber him with the end of her halconnen. He was asking for it good upside his head. Alucard looked at the now helpless Alkanon, and said jokingly.
"Mwahahaha...come, come Seras...he's only a kid...mwahahaha..." He, then, looks at Seras. "Hmmm...Let's go..." He started to turn, Seras gripping the cannon so hard her knuckles stung.
"Fine..." She turned around so quickly that she almost tripped over her box, but nevertheless did not, and bent down and swooped it up in her other free hand.
"Che..."