Alucard's long muzzle formed a wide grin; the sight he saw before him was insane.
A Siberian Tiger with black stripes, not just a kitten, but full-grown; he estimated her to be almost as long as he was tall in his human form.
And she probably weighed several hundred pounds; this amused him greatly, as Seras normally barely weighed one hundred. His six eyes stared at her, taking in everything of her transformation.
"Hmmm..." He mused. "Very suitable for the weather." He sat down with his bushy, black tail wagging strangely. "How do you feel, Seras?"
She, the slightly bigger than her human form and much heavier than her human form, and very slender tiger, moved her legs one after the other, walking in a circle around the pitifully tiny dog. She only stopped when she was standing in front of him again, though she did not sit down; her ears twitched again and her tail did the same; she found this very entertaining and actually...quite enjoyable, if she should say so.
"Interesting...this is very new." She said, not even thinking about how she did so, she had spoken with her mind, as she couldn't speak as she would normally; her dark, feline-shaped eyes stared at the dog's six pair.
He looked at her with two of his eyes, seeming undaunted by her size.
"Ah, now is time for a walk," He raised his head. "A dog and a tiger, how amusing that would be to see...and no chasing after strays."
Seras turned herself around; she felt used to this form already.
"Strays? As if there are any stray tigers in the area." She meant to snicker, but all that came forth was a pretty loud and deep growl. Alucard stepped back a little; he growled as a dog, but a tiger's growl...now that was a scary thing.
Yet it amused him all at the same time. His ears stayed down, and two of his eyes looked to the floor while the middle two looked at her, the other two just mindlessly wandering. He cackled loudly in her head, almost sounding obnoxious as a grin spread his muzzle.
"Whoever said that I meant other tigers, Seras? I have heard some bigger cats like to dominate...smaller family members."
Her head turned abruptly and shot him a glaring look, she bared her teeth; just like him to still be a raging hentai. It just proved him further that nothing could stop him.
"What?!" She stopped, then turned her head around, and continued speaking in a thoughtful voice as they walked slowly out of the protection of the trees. "I'd think I would end up crushing them...I do feel heavier than normal, that's for sure."
He amused himself to glance at her with all of his eyes again.
"Hmmm...You look heavier than normal, Seras." Taking in that she was now practically twice his size, he turned his head and growled low...randomly breaking out into a run deep into the forest behind them. His tongue hanging out from the corner of his mouth, he panted as he took the longest strides he could to put space between them.
"Try and catch me, Seras, if you can...I may be small, but I'm still fast!"
With her reflexes tree times better as normal, she whipped herself around and stared at the retreating dog's back, her teeth showed greatly as she growled and grinned at the same time and she took off, sounding like an elephant with how hard her enormous paws pounded into the ground.
She amazed at how freakin' fast she could go; this was definitely convenient. She skittered in and out of trees like an expert, going through a maze to try and head off Alucard's initial path. It was then did she remember her claws, and she saw a large tree up ahead and jumped into it, landing gracefully on a tall and thick branch, crouching low inside of it. Her keen eyes saw the dog coming into view slowly...far away...coming closer...
Alucard was panting at this point, but suddenly thought of something. He should be able to hear her behind him...unless she wasn't behind him at all. He started to search with his eyes; they darted back and forth. He heard a little swish of something, but did not know from where it came.
His mind could still see her even in his form; he trotted behind a nearby tree next to him, and in a moment ran the other direction on a different path to avoid running straight into the giant tiger that was Seras Victoria.
A double back never hurt anybody, he laughed to himself, thinking how amusing this whole situation was.
Seras saw him get closer, then stop, and then suddenly turn around and run the way they had come. She snarled and lunged out of the tree, landing HARD on the ground and creating a slight rumble from the impact. She started pounding after his tiny little black, doggie-tailed ass.
She was catching up to him, and she wondered when he would notice...
She also found herself very...scary, as a tiger, it even surprised herself.
Alucard definitely heard her coming; it was not easy to miss a 7-hundred something-pound tiger chasing you down. His red eyes on the top of his head rolled backwards to see her behind him. He even wondered if it was the same Seras, being that much faster, and stronger than him.
He knew that she could climb trees, as a cat, but how far could she go without breaking branches? He wondered...So testing his theory; he stopped immediately and saw a rather low branch right above his head.
But as he did not have claws that were not sharp enough, it didn't help that much. A large curve in the middle of tree was next to him so he ran up it, more like a bear than a dog, but it was amusing to watch, anyway.
When he reached the branch he was under, Seras was watching him from the ground, her tail twitching and flicking behind her. He extended his tail like a rope and hooked it around the top most branch, and hoisted himself up weirdly. His eyes followed Seras with a wide grin on his face; he was practically gliding through the air backwards.
Seras skidded to a halt and looked up at the weird little dog; she jumped, using her claws to dig into the tree and sat herself on the branch below him, her tail hanging limply off the side and she stared up at him, thoroughly bored.
A toothy grin spread across the dog's face.
"Coming down, Seras!" He exclaimed shrilly in her head, jumping right onto Seras' back to purposely knock her down...but he underestimated her weight in tiger form and his strength in dog form.
So he just stood there, on top of Seras' back. She seemed to barely notice, as he was so small in comparison. She flicked her tail and perked her ears back, turning her head a little.
"Master...What are you doing, standing on my back?"
Two of his eyes looking at her lively tail, two on her oversized back, and the other two on her.
"Well, if I had sharp enough claws I would scratch your back." He started to dig his paws into her back, without much effect, however. So he just ended up walking on her, prancing with his four paws.
She turned her head back around, straight, and perked her ears back so she could hear him (his movements).
"Master, what would you do if I decided to jump off this branch right now?"
He stopped his odd prancing for a moment to consider this, and sat his little furry behind down, his tail limp to the side. All of his eyes focused on her.
"I would either cling to you, or fall mercilessly to the ground." Her size was definitely kind of embarrassing, not to mention that she was even stable and could function as well as a tiger.
"Ah, I can no longer call you Kitten, what am I going to do? Master is beside himself..." He fell on her back, cackling like a deranged maniac.
She eyed him. "You never called me Kitten in the first place..." She ignored it, though. "Okay, then..." She stood up abruptly, growling low in her throat and jumped off the branch to the ground, and landed with her feet touching the ground kind of hard.
She turned her head more around this time to see how that worked out for him. His head lie flat against her shoulder blade, and his body flat against her back. His ears were down and four of his eyes were skyward, two on her.
With a look of approval as it was something he would have done, he spoke.
"A little warning next time would be preferred; not that I mind being squished to you, but it does look rather weird in this form." He stood up a little wobbly on her back, and winced a little.
"I don't think I will be able to sit for a week."
"Master is being very melodramatic." She paused, looking ahead. "Okay, master, I'm going to walk now...you may want to get off."
He mused and walked off her back, closer to falling off as his hind legs cringed a bit under his weight.
"'Melodramatic'...I don't think so, Seras...'sarcastic' is fine, 'exaggerative,' I'll buy that...but 'melodramatic'...now you are pushing it." He almost tripped over a root as he tried to walk, but composed himself again; he wouldn't allow himself to fall without being intoxicated. She nudged him in his side, gently this time, with her nose and started walking.
"I'm sorry, master."
He felt her cool, wet nose against his side, and took three steps with one of hers.
"You know how I only joke with you about such trivial human conflicts." His ears perked up. "It is a nice night, the rain isn't falling as hard now."
Any of her tense muscles relaxed.
"That's good...Now it just has to stop, and that'll be even better."
"One power we vampires don't have: we can't stop the rain. We can start fog, make things overcast, call the rain, but we cannot stop it." A drop fell through a spot through the leaves and branches and landed on his head, just missing his last row of eyes. He growled low in his throat.
"So what do you think of your form?"
She grinned, showing her teeth.
"Interesting, master...I can get used to this."
"You will have to, this is the first step to unlocking your ultimate power." He paused. "Of course, you would have to be a nosferatu to have your true power...but this is a start."
Seras took longer strides. "This is a lot farther than what I was..." She trailed off, looking outside of the trees; they were at the very edge of the forest. He saw the edge approaching too and he stopped right before it.
It was drizzling outside, which was a lot better than it was before. He turned to the tiger version of Seras.
"That is true..." His tail swished in acknowledgment. "It is the farthest I have guided a rookie vampire to go."
Seras bared all of her teeth again, lazily flipping her tail around.
"Hmmm...Why thank you, master."
"I have never been thanked for something before, but there really was no need." He said rather calmly, starting to walk to the front gates. He nodded his head for her to follow, and they walked to them together.
Seras quickened her pace to catch up with him, then slowed to a long-stepped walk to the front gates; she wondered if she was going to have Integra see her in this form when they went to report to her...
They walked through the iron gates and down the long corridor, passing by in complete stealth and silence behind Walter with papers, obviously going to deliver them to Sir Integra.
But he just happened to be walking in front of them, and miraculously didn't notice. Seras and Alucard continued their chat telepathically; they were able to walk behind him without a single sound.
"Walter must have something on his mind, he usually notices when I am behind him...and it's kind of hard not to miss a Siberian Tiger walking through the halls."