AN: I do not own Hellsing, I am merely taking artistic licence with the series.

Alucard: I think your license has expired.

Jay-T: Shut up, Alucard. Or I'll make you a mini forever.

Alucard: Not a problem.

Jay-T: And I'll keep you in a box. Romi's box. [See this chapter for details!]

Alucard: meep

Jay-T: All right, this is part 4 of 5. Rating might go up next chapter. Have faith, it will come soon.

[Note: I meant to tack this on at the end of my last chapter, but I forgot to do so. Here it is now, in all it's teaser glory.]

Sir Integra grumbled as she looked through her thick, foreign spell books for a counter-curse to the shrinking spell she'd performed on Alucard earlier that day.

"Well, at least it works." she said, sighing. She turned yet another page. Frowning, she adjusted her glasses and peered at the miniscule printing.

"Shrinking Spell Warning: This spell must be removed within twenty-four hours of casting or results will become…" she looked up, dazed.

"…irreversible."

Unless she found the counter curse within the next four hours, Alucard was going to be eighteen inches tall…forever.

Meanwhile

"No, Master!" Seras moaned. "It hurts!"

"It's all right, it's all right." he soothed. "It'll get better, I promise it will."

"You shot me!" Seras grumbled, and went back out to change the target distance. "Your aiming is different, it's worse now that you're so small!" They had been on the target range for some time now, and Alucard was trying to improve his aiming.

"Just a little more to the left. There!" he exclaimed, and shot dead-centre in the target. Unfortunately, said target was no more than 40 feet away. Seras pointed this fact out.

Alucard growled at her.

"I'm just trying to help." said Seras, sarcastically. She stood over Alucard and shot the target bang on, four times in rapid succession. "I'm getting better, at least." She put her hands on her hips and smiled proudly.

Alucard took this opportunity to make the best of his…short stature.

Walter came rushing out.

"Alucard! Miss Seras!" he exclaimed, quite out of breath.

"What?" they asked together, Alucard stepping quickly away from Seras' legs.

"Sir Integra has found something important in her book of spells." he managed to say. "It seems that if the spell is not removed within twenty-four hours of casting - that is to say, in four hours - it will become permanent.

Seras and Alucard looked at each other.

"Much as this has been fun, Police Girl, I believe we must go and aid Master Integra. I do not wish to be of this size for the rest of eternity."

"Good idea." Seras said weakly.

And so

They quickly settled themselves into Sir Integra's office and were racing to get through some books to find the spell, with no luck.

Then, disaster struck.

An urgent call from the front.

"We need Alucard! There's been an attack and a rogue vampire is making off with a couple of hostages!"

Sir Integra grimaced. "What now? Oh, this is just wonderful. Seras, take Alucard and go!"

"Yes, Sir!" Seras did a hasty salute, grabbed Alucard to her side ("Oomph!") and speedily left the office.

Running down the stairs brought them to a nervous official-looking young man, who quickly briefed them further, and they were off before he could ask about Alucard.

The two arrived on the scene with several police officers crowding a burned-out building. Seras sneaked around on the rooftops until they were close enough to jump. Luckily they didn't see her. She stomped a hole in the broken roof and slipped down with her tiny Master into the top floor.

The hostages were in this room, but they hadn't seen her yet. There were two of them, a man and a woman. They looked to be asleep, and were breathing deeply.

"Well?" whispered Seras. "Where's the vampire."

"Here I am." said a deep voice from behind them.

The last thing Alucard saw was Seras' horror-stricken face as he was shoved into a small box, and then he blacked out.

Ooooh, I'm so scared! What's going to happen to poor little Alucard?

Watch for the conclusion in chapter 5, coming soon!