Seras sighed exasperatedly, knowing that if he tried to escape now that'd be just plain idiotic, so she put him down on the floor to stand for himself. Integra's cold eyes stared them both down.
"You are not being held anymore." Her voice was icy and solid, filling with annoyance. "...Alucard, report."
He grinned; he couldn't help it. It was amusing to him that he was a dog and staring avertedly at his master, talking as if normally. He controlled himself, remembering what he was there to do.
"Hmmm...Seras has shown great improvement tonight…she has done something that I wasn't sure if she could do: she found her animal spirit..." Noticing his master's questioning glance, he continued.
"...A guide that she can turn into, like me being a dog."
Integra's eyes concentrated on only him even more so, as if to detect a lie directly. She crossed her arms and started in her familiar cold voice.
"Is that so, Alucard...or is it another type of spirit you were enjoying? One that you and Seras, here, shared, maybe?"
Seras pretended to clear her throat lightly, and then started to speak; her voice was dangerously calm, clear, and to the point.
"He was ordered to come to report to you about my progress nightly, was he not? He has reported my progress for tonight, that I have found my tiger spirit; he has done as you ordered." She started to hink that saying all of that was probably not such a good idea, and that she should turn to her tiger form and high-tail it out of there as fast as her furry ass could run-but she didn't, and stood her ground.
Integra looked at Seras with the same kind of hatred, actually more so, a sense of loathing. Her pale red eyes concentrated harder on Seras, and then to Alucard, who seemed to be staring at the floor. She smiled evilly, almost growling.
" That cannot be, Seras...Alucard and I both know that no new vampire has the capabilities of the old, especially something as difficult as that." She walked over to Alucard and gave him a swift kick in the stomach; forcing him to look up...trying to make him admit that she was right...
Feeling the kick to his side, and being in such a small form, took more out of him than he could have expected. Since she was a vampire, it was pretty hard.
He winced slightly in pain, and sank his head a bit; his eyes glowed red, dark red...but he knew he could not do anything to his master. He just stared there for a minute, but his rebellious spirit would not allow it. He growled low in his throat.
"That is not true, my master." Integral threw him a severe look; if looks could kill, that's what her's would have done.
Seras was growing angrier and angrier by the second.
"Lady Integra, I'm sorry...but what is wrong with you?! I don't think I have any proof of my animal guardian now...I have not yet thought about how to transform...I actually don't exactly know at this point, but what happened to the calm-and-collected Integra that I thought we both knew?! She never kicked anyone in the stomach and meant it..." It was hard for her to stand there and keep her footing, but she stood in place as if her feet were glued to the ground, keeping herself from doing something crazy. Her eyes glowed red and narrowed to almost slits, her fangs appearing every time she opened her mouth to retort.
Integra focused completely on Seras, practically forgetting about Alucard on the floor next to her.
"...Nothing is wrong with me. With the pride of the Hellsing organization on me, I find that I have two certain vampires in my rankings that seem to think that having fun with each other is above their orders. Even now, with my heightened awareness, I can smell the two of you on each other like..." She glared at Alucard for once. "...Dogs..."
Still on the floor, Alucard thought best not to get caught in this. He knew Integra's rage, and now the strength of Seras; this would be one major fight. He tried backing away a little, but ended up turning his tail and started to walk away.
Integra noticed and put her foot down on his tail, preventing him from leaving. Alucard yelped a little as a dog, whimpering, but calmed down and looked up at his master with saddened eyes. He knew, she had found the demon within from becoming a vampire.
But it wasn't fully there, it just seemed like it was. How was he so blind for so long? And even as Integra scowled at him, he finally knew what this was about, though, both of them were too proud to realize it themselves.
"Master, this is madness..."
Integra still glared down Seras, her foot pressing more on Alucard's tail.
"No, you have not been dismissed yet, Alucard. I still control you, and now Seras is under you as well..." She didn't need to continue for them to know what she meant; it was a low blow. Seras, not being able to hold herself down any longer, and hating the fact that she was stomping on his tail (which, she knew, was very sensitive indeed), brought her leg out.
The front curve of her foot caught with her ankle and thrusted her leg up and off of his tail. With that, she spun around and took Integra's leg with her, letting the leg fly off of her foot, causing her to make a mild spin away from her and Alucard. She didn't want to do something that she would regret later.
So she remained standing still, just hoping it would end soon.
"I have a feeling...that this isn't a simple meeting anymore..."
Integra spun around from having her foot wrenched away from the dog. She growled in dislike, her eyes vivid with evil and daunting at Seras as she spoke harshly.
"...You...You will end up bringing down this organization..." Which really wasn't a threat, but the way she said it, it was like handing death over in a basket.
"...This organization is my bloodline, I will not let a bunch of vampires destroy it...We have a new threat, and what are you doing about it? We are losing more and more human officers daily; I can hear their screams...You don't even care..." Integra spat at this, itching to attack Seras; clenching her hand together into a balled fist. Alucard transformed to his human form and quickly stopped her just as Integra flew her arm forward. He caught her fist hard as he stood between them. He glanced back and forth.
"...That is enough, master..." He glanced to Seras, muttering. "..Seras..." And then back to Integra. "...We shall have no fighting tonight, it is almost dawn and I know what some of us here are in desperate need of sleep." He unclenched Integra's fist and let it drop to the floor. He looked at her sternly, silently telling her to back off.
Integra scowled at this, as she looked at the both of them; afterwards turning to Seras directly. "You're lucky Alucard likes you so much, I would have gotten ride of you long ago...a vampire servant that does not take orders is of no use." She walked away a few paces and Alucard turned to Seras.
Seras, however, glared in the direction of Integra, her eye twitching as she just barely contained herself. She dared not to say a word, fearing what she may let loose.
Alucard looked Seras up and down, trying to decipher if she would attack; seeing the anger still in her he grabbed her arm, spinning her around and walked out the door. Just before he left, though, he called after Integra in an insane, sardonic kind of voice.
"Oh, and master..." He glanced back as she was staring at their retreating backs. "...You aren't the only vampire with a demon...except this one I think was there even when you were young...mwahahaha..." He shut the door tight as he turned his head back around. His side hurt dully where Integra had kicked him, but he wasn't going to attack his master.
Seras' eyes shone with rage as she was dragged down the corridor. When she realized she couldn't fight her master's strength, even with her own, she stopped fighting to pull back and walked numbly forward, remembering how tired she was.
But she didn't let it get to her, and she growled. "How can you just let her do that to you?" She muttered, glaring at the floor.
He looked at her, a little bewildered by her anger. His eyes shown deeply, red as ever; his face had no hint of expression: good, bad, or indifferent.
"Hmmm...She is the master...I cannot directly go against her..."
She sighed soundlessly and continued forward. With his other hand he touched her face lightly, bringing it into his view. He tried to smile a bit, but the pain of being transformed forcefully, and then the finishing touch of his master's attacks made him a bit weak.
"It is okay, Seras...I do not mind how she is, as long as she didn't hurt you, I do not care what she does to me."
AN: Alucard being very chivalrous...*tear*.….O_o...*cough* anyway—conflicts! Even more!! @_@...If you can see, there's a triangle becoming visible here! ^_^ Ohohoho...what's going to happen in the next chapter? Something crazy...really strange!! (I guarantee this next chapter will be the WEIRDEST chapter yet!!!)