(Now then, I have been writing almost non-stop for two days on this fic, and Im gonna keep working on it until I reach the ending... I'm not sure when that'll be.)
(Hah Hah Hah I Am the Ultimate Telemorase, I am the Perfect Chain, ahh hah hah hah.
Sorry, that was the guy who lives in my head, I told you he was crazy.)
(I am a spelling idiot, please forgive me.)
Disclaimer: I own nothing, I don't own Hellsing, or anything else. I own my mind, that is all.
Something was moving near Seras. She could feel it as much as she could see it. It was large, and built like a dog. It lunged at her, she fought it off, using all of her strength. She saw now that it was a black hound, not unlike Alucard's familiar, but with a smaller body. It opened it's eyes. It had four instead of Alucard's six. The hound seemed to grin. It then spoke to her in a cold, raspy voice.
"Soon... Soon... yes, powerful you are, very powerful, you are surely of the No Life Kings. Wonderful... Wonderful, we will be as one... soon... Sooon." It's babble continued for a few moments, then it disappeared, and Seras woke up.
Walter had just given Integra the oddest bit of news she had heard in a long time. The United States of America was having a severe vampire problem in the city of Chicago. This was news to Integra, because the United States had a vampire hunting agency that was almost as proficient as the Hellsing agency.
"How is that possible, Walter?" Integra asked. Walter gave a chuckle.
"Their new president has done away with most of the funding for thier organization, for the purpose of tax cuts, as I understand it." Integra clenched her teeth.
"Dear God, between the Round Table and the United States government, the world is ruled by idiots." Walter shrugged.
"It's been that way scince the beginning. In any case, the U.S. government has requested our help, We believe that there is at least one Freak factory in that area as well, and as the human unit has this city pretty well in order, I suggest we send Seras." Integral shook her head for a moment, then agreed. "Okay, I'll help Seras pack up, I don't think she has ever been to the united states."
Two hours later, Seras decided that she had everything she needed. Spare clothes, money, ammo (Lots of it), and the only bit of Alucard the investigators were able to find, his sunglasses. She was set to leave on the next flight to the United States. She hated airports, because they were so crowded, but that was outweighed by her excitement.
She boarded the plane (Delayed by almost an hour) and headed for the eastern shore of America. She had nothing better to do than sleep, as this was a day flight, mostly. A curious observer would have wondered why her breathing was next to stopped when she slept, but thankfully there were no curious observers. Seven hours later, she got off in New York Airport. She showed her passport to the customs guy. Another man at customs wanted to send her bag through an X-ray. That would have been bad, considering the weaponry she had in there. She had been forced to leave her halconnen in London, but she was still rather well stocked.
"Yes, it would be fine if you would not do that..." She said to the customs guy, he was about to do it anyway, then she gave him a full grin. Her fangs fully visible.
"What the..." He looked her in the eyes, and she hypnotized him.
"Of course mam, you can carry it." As she stepped out, she released him from her spell. He seemed to wake up from a trance. "What the..." He quickly forgot all about it.
She decided that taking a plane again to get to chicago might be a bad idea, considering that she might not be able to get another customs guy to look her in the eyes, so she would go by a more... unusual method. Walking into a dark alley, she disappeared into a swarm of bats.
Moving that way was very tiring, so she made a few stops, it took her three nights of travel to reach chicago, and in that time She broke into several hospitols to get at their supplies of blood. She hoped Integra wasn't going to get any complaints from this. She eventualy reached the place she was aiming for, but she wished she could teleport like Alucard could. Like it mattered anyway.
She wasn't entirely sure where to start, scince Chicago is quite large and very sprawling. Integra had not given her a single bit of advice, except to "find what's left of the American agency". She asked a few people if they had noticed anything strange about the area, most had not. One man shrank away from her, disappearing into an alley. He was dark haired, and wore black. He was quite tall and rather thin. Seras followed, her hand inching toward her gun. The man she had been following was gone. She turned around.
She found that she was looking down the barrel of a gun. The man she had been following held it. He grinned and she could see fangs coming down from where a human's canines would be. "Now, Now, not from around here are you? see, we don't do things that way here." Then he laughed. "hmmm... your not like those man-made ones we've been taking out for the last year, what is your name?"
"Seras" She answered, a bit fearful of the gun in her face. The man's face seemed to light up.
"Is that as in "Seras Victoria?" He asked happily. She nodded. He let his gun lower. "Wonderful, we've been waiting for you, see, we needed one more real strong vampire to pull this bust. Come on, I'll take you to the headquarters." Seras was a bit taken aback, as she had gone from having a gun in her face to being welcomed with open arms in about one minute. The man told her his name was Victor. Victor lead her to a grubby looking shop. There was a very big man standing out front. Victor walked to him.
"Yo, Jimmy, I found her." Jimmy looked hard at Seras. Then he grinned, Seras could see his fangs in the moonlight.
"Excellent." He reached out a hand, Seras reached hers out and shook with him. "I was wondering when the Hellsing agent would be arriving. Wow, I didn't know we were that popular. They actually sent Alucard's protege. Victor, you can go do whatever, im gonna show her around, okay." Victor nodded and Jimmy invited her inside. Victor walked away.
"Here we are, home sweet home." Jimmy said as he motioned to the grubby looking apartment-like room they had just walked into. Here, meet some of the boys." some men, obviously vampires, were playing cards and smoking cigarettes around a card table. Jimmy motioned to one of them. "This is Joe." Joe was a rough looking man, and when he grinned Seras could see that nearly the only teeth he had were his fangs. He had a strong smell of whiskey around him. Joe eyed Seras hungrily.
"Mighty fine woman you got there, Jimmy." he said with a sniff. "Didn't know you still had it." Seras was tempted to hit him. Jimmy just laughed.
"She's the one from Hellsing. They sent us Alucard's fledgeling." Joe looked up from his cards with a more intense stare.
"Alucard, really? wow, that's cool, I aint seen him in years, hows he doin nowadays?" Seras looked down at the floor.
"Dead." she muttered.
"Dead? nah, not Alucard, why I seen him come back to life after bein burned alive, then having his ashed scattered across the country. Believe whatever you want." Joe was probably in a state of denial, but part of what he said made sense to Seras. Jimmy shook his head. Then he Introduced the others to her.
"Come on, Seras, I'll show you the cool part of this place." He led her into a back room of the place. Weapons, guns, swords, spears, every type of weapon imaginable, lined the walls. "The best weapons in America are in this room. I noticed that you are only carrying one gun, thats no good if you have two hands, why not pick out another one." Seras began inspecting the cases. She noticed a gleaming silver knife, she started reaching for it, but something stopped her arm.
Jimmy was holding a large whip, he had whipped it around her arm before she had seen him move. "I wouldn't touch that if I were you, it's silver, your hand wouldnt like it... Oh, pardon my manners." The whip released from her arm. She looked at it, it seemed to be able to vary it's length, silver studs were embedded in the leather, and they seemed able to rearrange themselves at will, because none of them had touched her arm. "This is slayer, it's my whip, made especially for destroying vampires." She could tell that he was bit different than any other vampire that she had met yet, except Alucard.
"There's something different about your power." It was a statement, not a question. Jimmy answered.
"I am an elder vampire, one of the first who was turned by Vlad after he recieved his powers. Go pick out your gun, and choose well, we believe that there is at least one elder vampire and a few lesser vampires among the Freaks at the factory, and most of the other vampires here are either newly made or just weak, that is why we requested help." Seras looked up and down the rows of guns, until she found one to her liking. She picked it up. It was night blue, On one side of the gun, the words 'Live for Power' were written in a form of calligraphy that she had never seen before. On the other side was 'Kill with Hate' Jimmy seemed to like her selection. "That is one of my favorites. It's a .666 Vulture. It fires 36 mm quicksilver rounds. It was designed, built, and blessed by me personally. You couldn't ask for a better gun. You want it?" Seras nodded. "Then take it, I'll even provide you with ammunition and a holster.
Newly outfitted with her new weaponry, Seras walked back into the main part of the building with Jimmy. Joe and the others were having a dispute because both Joe and the man across from him at the table had both played the ace of spades. Victor walked through the front door.
"Found em, the factory is five miles from here, over in the industrial zone." Jimmy nodded and Seras yawned. Joe looked at her in a way that tempted her to slap him upside the head.
Jimmy seemed happy with the way things were going. "Good, be ready to release all of your seals, we will hit them tomorrow night, as soon as the sun goes down. Have your weapons ready."
Victor nodded. "You got it Jimmy, 'cuz somethin' tells me the Industrial area is gonna be a war zone tomorrow night. I look foreward to it." Victor and the others were walking toward the back of the building.
Joe looked over at Seras. "Hey Jimmy," he said "Is she sleeping with us today?" Joe looked excited. Jimmy shook his head.
"Actually, Joe, Your sleeping on the couch today." Joe had a look of supreme disappointment. Jimmy showed Seras to the place where she was going to sleep today. It was in the back of the building, in a seperate room from the other vampires. It was no where near as nice as her own room back in london, The coffin was an actual coffin, but it would do.
Dreaming again. Seras thought. The hound from her dream was back, still muttering to itself (how on Earth does a hound mutter?) but this time Seras was sure that she could see it more clearly now. She could make out the mats and tangles in it's fur. "Soon..." it muttered "sooon".
Seras woke up a little bit before everyone else did. She was dressed and ready to kick some Freak ass when Jimmy woke up. Jimmy got up, looked around at everyone else, and yelled "Get the hell up." This actually worked on Victor and two of the other three. One was still asleep. Jimmy walked over and shoved the third coffin over, it landed on it's side.
"Dangit, i'm up, i'm up. You don't have to get violent with it." Jimmy laughed at him.
"Get your weapons ready, and someone go wake up Joe."
Ten minutes later, the seven of them had thier weapons at ready and were doing thier best not to draw attention as they walked toward thier target. Jimmy was giving out quick orders as they released the highest level seal they could. In Seras' case, it was level five.
"Okay, Lefty and I'll go in from the front, as we can take the most hits. Victor and Seras, You will come in from the roof at the moment I give the signal. Joe, Steve, and Miller will go in the back door. We can expect some real fierce fighting, so be careful. One more thing. Leave the Elder to me."
"Right."
"right"
"Got it"
"Cool"
"Ready"
"Sure" The other six vampires answered Jimmy at the same time. The seven of them moved to surround the building, as they had now reached it. It was a very large warehouse that had once been a factory, now it was a factory of a different sort. Jimmy gave Seras a nod, and she and Victor leaped onto the roof. Jimmy gave another signal, and Steve and Miller went around the building. That left Jimmy and Lefty (Seras wondered if that was his name or an alias) in front of the building. Jimmy turned toward the large door.
"Shall we knock, or just let ourselves in?" Jimmy had always wanted to say that, just once. He and Lefty rammed the door, it gave as if it were made of paper. At that moment, Seras and Victor punched the roof of the building with as much force as they could muster. The concrete roof gave way, and they fell in.
Jimmy seemed to be enjoying himself, his whip darting around too quickly for Seras to see, cutting up ghouls, Freaks and low level vampires as if they were nothing. There must have been hundreds of Freaks. Victor waded right in. He carried a silver sword. It was not like the ones the regenerators used, it was large, and built somewhat like a katana. Seras grinned. She pulled her weapons out and started shooting.
That is when things went wrong. Victor took a shot in the chest. He should have stayed up, not even noticing it. Instead he fell to his knees. He looked at the blood pouring from his chest.
"Silver, the bastards knew we were coming... Shit." At that point, Victor took two more. He was down now, and Seras couldn't tell whether or not it would be permanently.
Joe was having problems of his own as he watched a larger man step out of the shadows. His hair was long and had a purple tint to it. Seras noticed that he was built a bit like Incognito had been, but she sensed less magic power from this vampire than she had in Incognito. The new man began chanting a few strange words, and his arm transformed.
It became a tiger-like creature. It had many, many eyes. It leaped straight at Joe, who had no time to evade it. Joe disappeared into it's gaping maw with a final scream. Jimmy realized that that was the elder vampire at this point. Summoning his own familiar, an enormous bird-like thing, he started to fight the other vampire. At this point Seras was in a full blood rage, tearing at anything that came too close with her bare hands and shooting anything that came into her line of sight. She took a few hits from the silver pullets, but none hit anything vital, so she just kept going. She only came to herself when a horrible thought entered her mind.
Jimmy was losing.
His bird was being all-most entirely devoured by the other vampire's familiar. Soon, there would be nothing left of him, just like there was nothing left of Joe. Seras looked around for anything she could do to help the outcome of the fight. Then, she was somewhere else.
The room was dark, just like it had been in her dreams. The hound was even there, growling and snarling, like a dog who had been kenneled for too long.
The hound muttered under it's breath. "Time, you are running out of time, we will go too if she runs out of time, Yes, now is the right time. Yes." The hound leaped at her. She lifted an arm to stop it, but the hound passed straight through her arm, then her body. The hound stopped inside her body. "Yes, warm in here, yes, yes, you are perfect for us. Good, good."
Seras woke up, the was still standing there, Jimmy was still fighting and losing. There was only one difference in the scene; That was that she knew what to do now. The cromwell excercise, that releases the vampire's final and most awesome power.
"Until target is completely silenced, releasing Restraint Control number 2, approved due to invocation of cromwell confirmed. Activating limited disengagement of ability-protection." She wasn't sure where she had learned the words she spoke, they seemed to pop right into her mind. She felt enormous amounts of raw energy flow through her. She glanced above her head. An odd symbol was appearing outside of the warehouse. It was a pentagonal star within a circle, like Alucard's sigil, but it lacked most of the runes around it, and had a red crucifix through the center of it. She felt the thing inside her awaken. She felt all of it's wrath build up inside her, then let itself loose. Light and darkness seemed to reverse themselves, what had been in shadow was now lit, and what had been bathed in light seemed to be nothing but shadow. The hound ripped its way out of her body. Transforming her limbs, body, hair, her entire state of being. The pain was... exceptional. She figured that she'd eventually get used to it. She seemed to be looking through eyes that were placed all over her body, instead of just on her head.
She found that she could exert very little control over the Hellhound that had come out of her body, she could only mentlly tell it what to attack. It ran full speed toward the vampire that was locked in combat with Jimmy. The vampire never saw it coming until its teeth dug into the flesh of his shoulder. Jimmy was just as suprised as he was. 'Yep' he thought 'definitely Alucard's fledgeling'.
The vampire moved his familiar away from Jim to defend him from this new threat. This was a big mistake. Jim wasn't out of the fight just yet. His bird dug it's beak into the vampire's body. Seras watched as her Familiar grew larger, it went from having four eyes to having hundreds, then it engulphed the vampire completely. It then withdrew back into Seras' body. She felt the restraints move back into place. Suddenly, she felt very, very tired. She fainted onto the ground.
After the destruction of the elder vampire, all that was really left was to clean up the additional Freaks. The remaining four vampires who were still in the fight took them down easily. Then Jimmy set the place on fire.
Seras woke up back at the apartment. Jimmy was standing over her.
"That was the first time you summoned your familiar, wasn't it." Seras nodded. "I thought so, here, drink this." He handed her a packet of medical blood. "You saved my ass, you know." Seras did, of course, know that.
"How's Victor." She asked, there was no need to ask about Joe.
"He'll live, I think. We actually did pretty good, going up against an elder vampire with only one casualty. I lost a whole team once doing that." Seras nodded. She had a splitting headache, or body ache, she couldn't quite tell which it was. Her body seemed to have lost all co-ordination.
"I'll be headed back to london, soon." She said. Jimmy nodded.
"Yeah, you can leave tomorrow night, I think.
She laid back into the coffin she was lying in. "I finally did it." she said to herself. "I didn't think i'd ever be able to pull that one off.
Somewhere deep, deep inside her body, something laughed.
(Hah Hah Hah I Am the Ultimate Telemorase, I am the Perfect Chain, ahh hah hah hah.
Sorry, that was the guy who lives in my head, I told you he was crazy.)
(I am a spelling idiot, please forgive me.)
Disclaimer: I own nothing, I don't own Hellsing, or anything else. I own my mind, that is all.
Something was moving near Seras. She could feel it as much as she could see it. It was large, and built like a dog. It lunged at her, she fought it off, using all of her strength. She saw now that it was a black hound, not unlike Alucard's familiar, but with a smaller body. It opened it's eyes. It had four instead of Alucard's six. The hound seemed to grin. It then spoke to her in a cold, raspy voice.
"Soon... Soon... yes, powerful you are, very powerful, you are surely of the No Life Kings. Wonderful... Wonderful, we will be as one... soon... Sooon." It's babble continued for a few moments, then it disappeared, and Seras woke up.
Walter had just given Integra the oddest bit of news she had heard in a long time. The United States of America was having a severe vampire problem in the city of Chicago. This was news to Integra, because the United States had a vampire hunting agency that was almost as proficient as the Hellsing agency.
"How is that possible, Walter?" Integra asked. Walter gave a chuckle.
"Their new president has done away with most of the funding for thier organization, for the purpose of tax cuts, as I understand it." Integra clenched her teeth.
"Dear God, between the Round Table and the United States government, the world is ruled by idiots." Walter shrugged.
"It's been that way scince the beginning. In any case, the U.S. government has requested our help, We believe that there is at least one Freak factory in that area as well, and as the human unit has this city pretty well in order, I suggest we send Seras." Integral shook her head for a moment, then agreed. "Okay, I'll help Seras pack up, I don't think she has ever been to the united states."
Two hours later, Seras decided that she had everything she needed. Spare clothes, money, ammo (Lots of it), and the only bit of Alucard the investigators were able to find, his sunglasses. She was set to leave on the next flight to the United States. She hated airports, because they were so crowded, but that was outweighed by her excitement.
She boarded the plane (Delayed by almost an hour) and headed for the eastern shore of America. She had nothing better to do than sleep, as this was a day flight, mostly. A curious observer would have wondered why her breathing was next to stopped when she slept, but thankfully there were no curious observers. Seven hours later, she got off in New York Airport. She showed her passport to the customs guy. Another man at customs wanted to send her bag through an X-ray. That would have been bad, considering the weaponry she had in there. She had been forced to leave her halconnen in London, but she was still rather well stocked.
"Yes, it would be fine if you would not do that..." She said to the customs guy, he was about to do it anyway, then she gave him a full grin. Her fangs fully visible.
"What the..." He looked her in the eyes, and she hypnotized him.
"Of course mam, you can carry it." As she stepped out, she released him from her spell. He seemed to wake up from a trance. "What the..." He quickly forgot all about it.
She decided that taking a plane again to get to chicago might be a bad idea, considering that she might not be able to get another customs guy to look her in the eyes, so she would go by a more... unusual method. Walking into a dark alley, she disappeared into a swarm of bats.
Moving that way was very tiring, so she made a few stops, it took her three nights of travel to reach chicago, and in that time She broke into several hospitols to get at their supplies of blood. She hoped Integra wasn't going to get any complaints from this. She eventualy reached the place she was aiming for, but she wished she could teleport like Alucard could. Like it mattered anyway.
She wasn't entirely sure where to start, scince Chicago is quite large and very sprawling. Integra had not given her a single bit of advice, except to "find what's left of the American agency". She asked a few people if they had noticed anything strange about the area, most had not. One man shrank away from her, disappearing into an alley. He was dark haired, and wore black. He was quite tall and rather thin. Seras followed, her hand inching toward her gun. The man she had been following was gone. She turned around.
She found that she was looking down the barrel of a gun. The man she had been following held it. He grinned and she could see fangs coming down from where a human's canines would be. "Now, Now, not from around here are you? see, we don't do things that way here." Then he laughed. "hmmm... your not like those man-made ones we've been taking out for the last year, what is your name?"
"Seras" She answered, a bit fearful of the gun in her face. The man's face seemed to light up.
"Is that as in "Seras Victoria?" He asked happily. She nodded. He let his gun lower. "Wonderful, we've been waiting for you, see, we needed one more real strong vampire to pull this bust. Come on, I'll take you to the headquarters." Seras was a bit taken aback, as she had gone from having a gun in her face to being welcomed with open arms in about one minute. The man told her his name was Victor. Victor lead her to a grubby looking shop. There was a very big man standing out front. Victor walked to him.
"Yo, Jimmy, I found her." Jimmy looked hard at Seras. Then he grinned, Seras could see his fangs in the moonlight.
"Excellent." He reached out a hand, Seras reached hers out and shook with him. "I was wondering when the Hellsing agent would be arriving. Wow, I didn't know we were that popular. They actually sent Alucard's protege. Victor, you can go do whatever, im gonna show her around, okay." Victor nodded and Jimmy invited her inside. Victor walked away.
"Here we are, home sweet home." Jimmy said as he motioned to the grubby looking apartment-like room they had just walked into. Here, meet some of the boys." some men, obviously vampires, were playing cards and smoking cigarettes around a card table. Jimmy motioned to one of them. "This is Joe." Joe was a rough looking man, and when he grinned Seras could see that nearly the only teeth he had were his fangs. He had a strong smell of whiskey around him. Joe eyed Seras hungrily.
"Mighty fine woman you got there, Jimmy." he said with a sniff. "Didn't know you still had it." Seras was tempted to hit him. Jimmy just laughed.
"She's the one from Hellsing. They sent us Alucard's fledgeling." Joe looked up from his cards with a more intense stare.
"Alucard, really? wow, that's cool, I aint seen him in years, hows he doin nowadays?" Seras looked down at the floor.
"Dead." she muttered.
"Dead? nah, not Alucard, why I seen him come back to life after bein burned alive, then having his ashed scattered across the country. Believe whatever you want." Joe was probably in a state of denial, but part of what he said made sense to Seras. Jimmy shook his head. Then he Introduced the others to her.
"Come on, Seras, I'll show you the cool part of this place." He led her into a back room of the place. Weapons, guns, swords, spears, every type of weapon imaginable, lined the walls. "The best weapons in America are in this room. I noticed that you are only carrying one gun, thats no good if you have two hands, why not pick out another one." Seras began inspecting the cases. She noticed a gleaming silver knife, she started reaching for it, but something stopped her arm.
Jimmy was holding a large whip, he had whipped it around her arm before she had seen him move. "I wouldn't touch that if I were you, it's silver, your hand wouldnt like it... Oh, pardon my manners." The whip released from her arm. She looked at it, it seemed to be able to vary it's length, silver studs were embedded in the leather, and they seemed able to rearrange themselves at will, because none of them had touched her arm. "This is slayer, it's my whip, made especially for destroying vampires." She could tell that he was bit different than any other vampire that she had met yet, except Alucard.
"There's something different about your power." It was a statement, not a question. Jimmy answered.
"I am an elder vampire, one of the first who was turned by Vlad after he recieved his powers. Go pick out your gun, and choose well, we believe that there is at least one elder vampire and a few lesser vampires among the Freaks at the factory, and most of the other vampires here are either newly made or just weak, that is why we requested help." Seras looked up and down the rows of guns, until she found one to her liking. She picked it up. It was night blue, On one side of the gun, the words 'Live for Power' were written in a form of calligraphy that she had never seen before. On the other side was 'Kill with Hate' Jimmy seemed to like her selection. "That is one of my favorites. It's a .666 Vulture. It fires 36 mm quicksilver rounds. It was designed, built, and blessed by me personally. You couldn't ask for a better gun. You want it?" Seras nodded. "Then take it, I'll even provide you with ammunition and a holster.
Newly outfitted with her new weaponry, Seras walked back into the main part of the building with Jimmy. Joe and the others were having a dispute because both Joe and the man across from him at the table had both played the ace of spades. Victor walked through the front door.
"Found em, the factory is five miles from here, over in the industrial zone." Jimmy nodded and Seras yawned. Joe looked at her in a way that tempted her to slap him upside the head.
Jimmy seemed happy with the way things were going. "Good, be ready to release all of your seals, we will hit them tomorrow night, as soon as the sun goes down. Have your weapons ready."
Victor nodded. "You got it Jimmy, 'cuz somethin' tells me the Industrial area is gonna be a war zone tomorrow night. I look foreward to it." Victor and the others were walking toward the back of the building.
Joe looked over at Seras. "Hey Jimmy," he said "Is she sleeping with us today?" Joe looked excited. Jimmy shook his head.
"Actually, Joe, Your sleeping on the couch today." Joe had a look of supreme disappointment. Jimmy showed Seras to the place where she was going to sleep today. It was in the back of the building, in a seperate room from the other vampires. It was no where near as nice as her own room back in london, The coffin was an actual coffin, but it would do.
Dreaming again. Seras thought. The hound from her dream was back, still muttering to itself (how on Earth does a hound mutter?) but this time Seras was sure that she could see it more clearly now. She could make out the mats and tangles in it's fur. "Soon..." it muttered "sooon".
Seras woke up a little bit before everyone else did. She was dressed and ready to kick some Freak ass when Jimmy woke up. Jimmy got up, looked around at everyone else, and yelled "Get the hell up." This actually worked on Victor and two of the other three. One was still asleep. Jimmy walked over and shoved the third coffin over, it landed on it's side.
"Dangit, i'm up, i'm up. You don't have to get violent with it." Jimmy laughed at him.
"Get your weapons ready, and someone go wake up Joe."
Ten minutes later, the seven of them had thier weapons at ready and were doing thier best not to draw attention as they walked toward thier target. Jimmy was giving out quick orders as they released the highest level seal they could. In Seras' case, it was level five.
"Okay, Lefty and I'll go in from the front, as we can take the most hits. Victor and Seras, You will come in from the roof at the moment I give the signal. Joe, Steve, and Miller will go in the back door. We can expect some real fierce fighting, so be careful. One more thing. Leave the Elder to me."
"Right."
"right"
"Got it"
"Cool"
"Ready"
"Sure" The other six vampires answered Jimmy at the same time. The seven of them moved to surround the building, as they had now reached it. It was a very large warehouse that had once been a factory, now it was a factory of a different sort. Jimmy gave Seras a nod, and she and Victor leaped onto the roof. Jimmy gave another signal, and Steve and Miller went around the building. That left Jimmy and Lefty (Seras wondered if that was his name or an alias) in front of the building. Jimmy turned toward the large door.
"Shall we knock, or just let ourselves in?" Jimmy had always wanted to say that, just once. He and Lefty rammed the door, it gave as if it were made of paper. At that moment, Seras and Victor punched the roof of the building with as much force as they could muster. The concrete roof gave way, and they fell in.
Jimmy seemed to be enjoying himself, his whip darting around too quickly for Seras to see, cutting up ghouls, Freaks and low level vampires as if they were nothing. There must have been hundreds of Freaks. Victor waded right in. He carried a silver sword. It was not like the ones the regenerators used, it was large, and built somewhat like a katana. Seras grinned. She pulled her weapons out and started shooting.
That is when things went wrong. Victor took a shot in the chest. He should have stayed up, not even noticing it. Instead he fell to his knees. He looked at the blood pouring from his chest.
"Silver, the bastards knew we were coming... Shit." At that point, Victor took two more. He was down now, and Seras couldn't tell whether or not it would be permanently.
Joe was having problems of his own as he watched a larger man step out of the shadows. His hair was long and had a purple tint to it. Seras noticed that he was built a bit like Incognito had been, but she sensed less magic power from this vampire than she had in Incognito. The new man began chanting a few strange words, and his arm transformed.
It became a tiger-like creature. It had many, many eyes. It leaped straight at Joe, who had no time to evade it. Joe disappeared into it's gaping maw with a final scream. Jimmy realized that that was the elder vampire at this point. Summoning his own familiar, an enormous bird-like thing, he started to fight the other vampire. At this point Seras was in a full blood rage, tearing at anything that came too close with her bare hands and shooting anything that came into her line of sight. She took a few hits from the silver pullets, but none hit anything vital, so she just kept going. She only came to herself when a horrible thought entered her mind.
Jimmy was losing.
His bird was being all-most entirely devoured by the other vampire's familiar. Soon, there would be nothing left of him, just like there was nothing left of Joe. Seras looked around for anything she could do to help the outcome of the fight. Then, she was somewhere else.
The room was dark, just like it had been in her dreams. The hound was even there, growling and snarling, like a dog who had been kenneled for too long.
The hound muttered under it's breath. "Time, you are running out of time, we will go too if she runs out of time, Yes, now is the right time. Yes." The hound leaped at her. She lifted an arm to stop it, but the hound passed straight through her arm, then her body. The hound stopped inside her body. "Yes, warm in here, yes, yes, you are perfect for us. Good, good."
Seras woke up, the was still standing there, Jimmy was still fighting and losing. There was only one difference in the scene; That was that she knew what to do now. The cromwell excercise, that releases the vampire's final and most awesome power.
"Until target is completely silenced, releasing Restraint Control number 2, approved due to invocation of cromwell confirmed. Activating limited disengagement of ability-protection." She wasn't sure where she had learned the words she spoke, they seemed to pop right into her mind. She felt enormous amounts of raw energy flow through her. She glanced above her head. An odd symbol was appearing outside of the warehouse. It was a pentagonal star within a circle, like Alucard's sigil, but it lacked most of the runes around it, and had a red crucifix through the center of it. She felt the thing inside her awaken. She felt all of it's wrath build up inside her, then let itself loose. Light and darkness seemed to reverse themselves, what had been in shadow was now lit, and what had been bathed in light seemed to be nothing but shadow. The hound ripped its way out of her body. Transforming her limbs, body, hair, her entire state of being. The pain was... exceptional. She figured that she'd eventually get used to it. She seemed to be looking through eyes that were placed all over her body, instead of just on her head.
She found that she could exert very little control over the Hellhound that had come out of her body, she could only mentlly tell it what to attack. It ran full speed toward the vampire that was locked in combat with Jimmy. The vampire never saw it coming until its teeth dug into the flesh of his shoulder. Jimmy was just as suprised as he was. 'Yep' he thought 'definitely Alucard's fledgeling'.
The vampire moved his familiar away from Jim to defend him from this new threat. This was a big mistake. Jim wasn't out of the fight just yet. His bird dug it's beak into the vampire's body. Seras watched as her Familiar grew larger, it went from having four eyes to having hundreds, then it engulphed the vampire completely. It then withdrew back into Seras' body. She felt the restraints move back into place. Suddenly, she felt very, very tired. She fainted onto the ground.
After the destruction of the elder vampire, all that was really left was to clean up the additional Freaks. The remaining four vampires who were still in the fight took them down easily. Then Jimmy set the place on fire.
Seras woke up back at the apartment. Jimmy was standing over her.
"That was the first time you summoned your familiar, wasn't it." Seras nodded. "I thought so, here, drink this." He handed her a packet of medical blood. "You saved my ass, you know." Seras did, of course, know that.
"How's Victor." She asked, there was no need to ask about Joe.
"He'll live, I think. We actually did pretty good, going up against an elder vampire with only one casualty. I lost a whole team once doing that." Seras nodded. She had a splitting headache, or body ache, she couldn't quite tell which it was. Her body seemed to have lost all co-ordination.
"I'll be headed back to london, soon." She said. Jimmy nodded.
"Yeah, you can leave tomorrow night, I think.
She laid back into the coffin she was lying in. "I finally did it." she said to herself. "I didn't think i'd ever be able to pull that one off.
Somewhere deep, deep inside her body, something laughed.