Chapter 43
Alucard grinned faintly, and turned around as if to a class, but only looking at Seras.
"...Okay, for this to work, Seras, you have to be perfectly one with yourself to feel the wind around you...I would have suggested listening to your heartbeat, but it doesn't do that anymore...mwahahaha..."
She half grinned and stood there completely still, trying to concentrate on nothing but herself. It was, for the first time, that she realized that no sounds came from her body, as once did when she was alive...
She found it strange that she didn't notice before.
Her eyes closed halfway as she tried concentrating hard. Alucard grinned appraisingly, and then returned to his almost expressionless act.
"...Listen to it, the nothingness that is you, and surrounding you, Seras...Let it enter your lungs, your body may not need it, but to become one with the wind, it has to be with you as well."
Seras tried concentrating on breathing inward, slowly feeling herself become slightly lightheaded. Alucard watched closely, feeling the wind himself. It told him that all was well, and he saw Seras taking it in…but this power was difficult to master, and he didn't expect it to work on the first time, though he was confident.
"Now, Seras...Feel the wind, the air in you, and that around you...try to meet them, to be friends...they will help if you let them...Open your mind to the possibilities...the wind is you and you are it, become one..."
She scrunched her eyebrows together, trying to make sense of what he was trying to say; she let out a long slow breath to empty her lungs, and then tried breathing in again to try. Alucard looked back at her a little strangely, but then realizing what was going on, his face became a little distorted as he practically barked this, becoming indignant that she mastered it. He was so determined that she could do it that he needed her to get it right the first time.
"...No...Seras...keep the breath in...YOU DO NOT BREATHE...you don't need to inhale and exhale...let the wind in you consume you from the inside..."
Her eyes bulged out a little, as she said quietly, a little sarcastically, "Hmm...Touchy..." She inhaled again and kept it this time, concentrating on herself and relaxing her entire body.
He watched, trying to figure out if it would work. It seemed to be taking affect, but the wind was not easily predictable. He put his hand to his mouth as if considering.
"Hmmm...Come on, Seras...You are better than this...It's a good start, but not for someone of your level...CONCENTRATE..."
She emptied her mind, feeling her lightheadedness again, but a little more severe this time. She started to feel herself, after a few minutes, feel almost weightless little by little. Alucard watched her transformation.
From her feet to her knees were gone, still have quite a ways to go to complete her transformation. He knew that it must have been taking a lot of out her...but this was the only way.
"...Seras...Concentrate with everything you can, feel the peace of the wind...Come on, I know you can do this...you're almost there…do not give up on me..."
She had to admit, she was struggling a little bit. She closed her eyes for two minutes, feeling like she was asleep, but yet awake in a weird sort of way, and she opened them and her eyes seemed almost dead of all emotion and feeling, like she really was asleep with her eyes open.
Alucard looked around, and to his surprise, she had gone. He grinned evilly. It was managed; his eyes were wide with happiness.
"Hmmm...Nice work, Seras..." He looked around again, this time for a different purpose. "Ah, and just in time...the super FREAK's zombies are arriving...mwahahaha...You can attack them from there by willing what would be your arms and legs to move..."
Seras felt, somehow, herself grin. The possibilities of all that she could do was running through her head; her grin widening. Her voice sounded low from the air, coming from everywhere.
"Perfect timing..."
Alucard stayed stationary, surveying the ground; the moon now completely red. His eyes matched the moon's bright color with playfulness; his hat and coat swaying in the slight breeze that just could have been Seras floating by. He knew where Seras was, his keen vampiric abilities springing into action; the movement of zombies he could hear, but couldn't see them.
"Seras...you can do anything you can imagine to do...remember training in flight, your movement is the same..." He reached into his coat and slid out his beloved Jackal and clicked it with his wrist, ready to fight.
"Mwahahaha...Time to play..."
Her hearing unusually sharper than usual, she grinned, and glanced around as she listened to the movement of unseen zombies all around.
"Hmm..." She made a noise deep in her throat, much close to one of sheer giddy amusement that boomed from everywhere again...as she was the air in the sky. She remembered her flight training well; she did not forget things easily, and zipped this way and that all around quickly, bringing out her hands in front of her to strike at any given moment. Alucard felt her movement in the air surrounding him and grinned with a chuckle in his throat.
"Mwahahaha...That's the way, Seras...Try not to run into things...You would pass through it, but you would get this weird sensation..." He turned quickly before he could even finish his sentence, just avoiding an unseen force that seemed to be attempting a strike at him. Extending his arms, he brought down his elbow sharply on the top of its head, crushed his head in and stamped it to the ground, gritting his teeth in the process.
"I won't need my guns for this...he he he..."
Seras whipped out both of her arms out to her sides and flew at top speed straight forward, tackling two opponents clear to the ground; her face screwing up in sickening pleasure as she felt their heads nearly pop off as she squeezed them both into a headlock.
When she saw she had had enough of that, she threw their unseen bodies away like trash, hearing a sickening squish and other assorted noises as they were defeated.
Alucard, again, felt her pass by him, but was otherwise distracted by attacks of his own. He had not failed to notice her incredible speed, and he grinned in realization as he smashed the head in on another visible attacker.
"Ahh...There you are, Seras...Enjoying the insanity of blood?...Mwahahaha...I am..." He whipped around in time to catch one by the throat and rip it out forcefully. Another hurled itself at him from behind, but he quickly tossed the invisible carcass of the enemy he just destroyed behind him and kicked them both into the nearest tree, leaving splatters and pools of blood the only thing seen. Seras whipped her head around, seeing the blood fly, letting out a low hiss, sounding very unnatural to her.
Her ears perked up suddenly and she whipped her body around and dove like a madwoman, tackling an unseen beast as such herself, calculating the area where its head would be located and grabbed it with one hand, her right. She rammed it as hard as she could into the ground, the head of the victim cracking like 100 eggshells all together. Her grin curled upwards as if it were taking over her face; her eyes were narrow like slits.
Alucard looked around in amazement as blood squirted freely from everywhere from invisible enemies; this blood he did not shed himself, or help the enemies shed...just came from nowhere. He grinned; so much carnage just made him lose himself.
"You're enjoying yourself too much, Seras, leaving me with nothing to do..." He extended his arms and started running in an inhumanely quick speed and impaled a zombie on first contact, lifting the body up with one arm.
The foul blood dripped down his arm as he raised his arm full length, grinning all the while. His arm snapped back and he tossed it into another one coming from his right, and he dove at a third behind him, clawing the unseen body, only looking up momentarily to punch another one in front of him. He cackled loudly, the bloodshed of the fight finally peaking his senses.
Seras was surprised with how much she could do with just her bare hands. She looked down briefly, not seeing them physically, but remembering that she had feet, too.
"Heh he..." She stared at the direction of what seemed to have another unseen enemy and spun around, thrusting out her leg and kicking it seemingly squarely in the jaw, as the crackle of the heel of her boot hit the area was quite loud. The blood that came forth drenched her leather combat boots, and she kicked it again, as if blaming it, turning her body forward as she kicked with her other leg, impaling him with her heel with all of her strength and the enemy fell to a pool of blood on the ground. Alucard studied his surroundings as he stood in the middle of a pool of blood to his ankles.
He bent backwards to avoid a quick punch when it came right over his head. The minute it flew overhead he bit it hard, creating a trail of blood down the side of his face that slid down his neck to stain his white collar a little more. He tugged at it hard with his incisors, ripping the arm off before he stood back up, extending his arm at the creature and knocked it down. He spit out the dislodged arm, giving another enemy ample chance to try and trip him up from the side.
But he was too quick as his reflexes sparked and he jumped up, then quite a surprise to himself body-slammed on top of it, knocking it to the floor.
"Seras...Try not to get too bloody...mwahahaha..." A minute later he was standing again, and he rushed at one to his left and ripped his head off with one clean swipe, relishing the blood draining freely as he held its head up high...
Seras' cackle was heard all around, her voice sounding very unlike what it did normally. She slowly turned her head whipped around as her body followed it; her eyes slightly bulging.
"Hmmmmm...Aha..." She sprung herself forward and her hands tightened around the throat of yet another enemy, her fingers squeezing harder and harder until it seemed to grow limp. Blood oozed like drool from the unseen one's mouth and nose area.
Alucard looked around again; it didn't seem like there were that many left, and the few that were...were being killed off quickly by Seras. He was deeply amused...but what if she went too far?
He whipped around, the disembodied head in his hand was used somewhat like a bowling ball as he threw it at a group of two zombies. Distracted by this, he pounced on them like a cat; extending his arms to reach a tree branch he hoisted himself up and swung around to hit another oncoming zombie. Crouched in the tree he surveyed the immense blood spill that soaked the ground.
The tree shook and he stared down; a zombie had rammed the tree, knocking him off of his unsturdy sitting position and falling into a puddle of blood. The zombie attacked him, but Alucard merely smacked him off and broke his neck with a move of his arm; ducking narrowly, he felt something else pass by outstandingly close to him. It wasn't a zombie: it was Seras.
"Trying to hit me now, too...?"
Her voice was shrill as it ran out loud. "Only when the enemy is near your head...!" She 'body-checked' it to the ground and punched it squarely in the face well; his face smashed inwardly nicely to fit her fist.
Alucard looked at her, or tried to as he was just staring at vapor. He grinned still, and his eyes widened as he was splattered with blood from the close attack.
Barely noticing, he punched a hole in another that was around him. As this one writhed and died, he sensed nothing more except for one, which he was sure Seras, would get for herself.
"Hmmm...Well, okay, Seras...mwahahaha...No more playtime..."
"Aww..." Her voice echoed as she let out a pitiful whine, and smashed the face in of the last of them that she sensed nearby, almost casually punching in near the nose. "...Okay..."