Chapter 4:

                        Back at the Hellsing Organization, Alucard has just walked out of Integra's office. His long hands were hanging down to his side as he tried to walk calmly, but it was easy to detect that he was fidgety. The news had upset him, and at such times, there is a limited amount for him to do…

                        Alucard walked down a corridor, his hands crossed now, as he was trying to figure out why Seras would have done such a thing. Wasn't she happy here? He thought, I know she had some things against Integra, vice versa, but to run away completely…its' just not like her. He walked unknowingly into Walter's room on the side of a long corridor, which is far enough away from Integra's office.

                        Walter, Integra's servant/ butler, was sitting in what looked like a comfortable chair, next to a small table. He held a book propped open by one hand; the other was around a glass of what could have been brandy, but Alucard was unsure as he did not drink liquor. Walter's room was well lit, but not so much so that Alucard would be hurt by the light. His bed was in the opposite corner of which he sat, if you walked in, his bed was on the left; him on the right. Behind him was a small bookcase filled with books of all sorts: including geography, history, mathematics, demonology, and fictional books as well. This was only a small portion of a larger library in his study. Walter's computer was plugged into the wall on a small rectangular table before the bed; all was orderly in his room.

                        Alucard walked past the table to Walter's bed and sat on the end, stretching slightly, and fell backwards in an odd reclining position. Walter, seemingly not to have noticed, flipped a page of a book he was reading, one entitled Demian by Herman Hesse.

                        Alucard spoke, but his own voice seemed to surprise him as he did so. His eyes gazing dazedly at Walter, expressionless, and in a somewhat awkward voice, thus it startled him.  "Walter, you haven't seen Seras…..have you?" He asked hopefully.

                        Walter, still reading this book, replied after a moment's pause. "I gather that you have heard the news from Miss. Hellsing then?" He put the book down open faced on the nightstand table and looked at Alucard amusedly, "I heard the yelling from here."

                        Alucard looked at him a moment, as if to kill, sternly, but just as quickly, the insane smile returned to his face. "Mwh ha ha…Were we really that loud, Walter?"

                        Walter still looked at him, his face hardened a bit, but he was still in a pleasant mood. "Who could mistake Miss. Hellsing's potent screams, cascading down the hallways? I have known her since she was a child, and her father before that, and so on. If I can say anything for her, she has the most recognizable little growl followed by a scream of some sorts, including shouts."

                        Still amused, his eyes brightly lit, Alucard spoke with a little laugh caught in his throat, "Oh, so that's your hobby then, old man." In a higher pitched insane voice, with a wide grin he continued, "Even as a child Walter, you should be ashamed….mwh ha ha…Looking at one so innocent in that type of annalistic manner. You truly are a wily old man."

                        Walter looked at him, but taking this in light, as he has known Alucard a long time as well, he spoke merrily. His eyes of wisdom, age, and yet still vividly alive was always somewhat of mystery about him. "The same could be said for you, Alucard-soma. You are at least ten times my age, and still pulling stunts." He chuckled lightly.

                        Alucard just cackled, he hasn't spoken to Walter like this in awhile, and had almost forgotten how amusing he could be. Even so, in the back of his mind still lingered the face of Seras. Alucard stopped his amused appearance, or tried to, as he is usually amused about something, and looked at Walter levelly. "Walter, back to business, we can settle old scores later, or even new ones found. He he he…What do you know of Seras' disappearance?"

                        Walter, crossed his right arm over his left stretching it a little. Then, he shifted in his chair allowing his elbows to fall on the table, and his head in his hands. Staring idly at Alucard, he started speaking sternly. "I have not seen Seras-son in two nights now. The last time I saw her, she was in her coffin, and I happened to be walking by her room. Her halocannon was out where it normally is, and everything seemed alright, just as the previous night. I may not know why she left, but it could be that something bad has happened."

                        Alucard looked at him, his red eyes a dark color red, which looked sorrowfully. "Hmm…I can remember many nights where she had seemingly too much of a specific someone and thought about it, but I did not know she seriously considered it. Women, I just can't understand them. Even after half a century, they are still as confusing as ever."

                        Walter looked at him, picked his face up from his hands, and laid both arms down on the table. He chuckled lightly, and said, "Well, I guess women are a little odd. Part of the reason I could never find one, and now I am way to old for that sort of thing. All I have ever known was as the Angel of Death and being servant to the Hellsing organization. Let's just say, Alucard-soma, that you have come farther in the last decade than I have in the past six decades."

                        Alucard looked amused by this, his eye brow raised slightly and his voice was sarcastic. "By which are you referring to at that, Walter?" His eyes glinted evilly, in a joking manner.

                        Walter laughed heartily and hit his knee with his left hand on reflex. "And you call me wily, Alucard-soma? You are far worse than even I."

                        Alucard sat up at this, and put his hands on his knees. He glared at Walter, still jokingly. "Do not act like you wouldn't have tried anything in your youth…..you old sly dog you, mwh ahah…..I have your number, don't go trying anything I wouldn't!" He cackled and a wide grim smile crossed his face.

                        Walter just laughed at this, and smiled jokingly. "But Alucard-soma, you know I do not have a telephone." He laughed again, this time with a glint of malice in his eyes, as if to compete.

                        Alucard was even more amused at this, and would have replied, but he knew that he was just wasting time. He stood up, using his long arms to help push him off the bed. His coat fell into place behind him.  "Hmm….that's true. You have to steal Integra's, if she doesn't slap you too. Mwh ha ha…Well, the time is late, Walter, and I have to do a few things before my task."

                        Alucard walked to the door, but before he could leave, Walter had one more thing to say to him. "Alucard-soma, you should know that there has been heightened vampire and freak activity in the past week, and supposedly priest sightings." Alucard murmured a thanks and was about to leave when Walter asked, even though he knew the answer what his task was, before Alucard could walk through, again. Alucard turned his head back around with a grin, "To find Seras, you old fool…mwh ha ha…" He turned back around and walked out.

                        Alucard walked briskly down to Seras room, just to check things out. He opened the door half expecting her to be there, greeting him as she once did, but she was not, and he was slightly saddened by this. He searched around the room, popping in and out of things, but the one thing that disturbed him the most was that he found her halocannon on the floor under the coffin. He picked it up one handedly and peered at it, his eyes concentrating on it. "Why….why would you leave your most favorite toy behind?" Trying to understand what Seras was going through, but it did not help much. He placed it lightly on the coffin bed, and caught the whiff of Seras scent just from there. He could track her now, as he already tried to telepathically talk to her, but that was unsuccessful.

                        Alucard disappeared into the blackness of the room, only to reappear outside the castle. He glanced up at the reddened moon and said to himself, "Ah, the blood flows well tonight." He grinned evilly, but hoped that it was not Seras's blood that was flowing. He walked a little, but after a minuet or two decided that walking would take forever.

                        Alucard knelt to the ground, hands out stretched, and his body going completely black. His hair extended out wildly in all directions, and seemed to take over his body, covering every inch. His front arms extended and his hands and feet became padded. His mouth elongated outward, his eyes multiplied, and the hair that covered him from his head seemed to start becoming a single strand on his body. A fluff of black hair seemed to attach onto nothing behind his rear and became fully moveable. He opened his new addition of eyes, all six of them, and wagged his newly formed tail to make sure it worked. The transformation was complete; he was a black dog. As a dog, he howled at the moon, pawing at the ground twice as he did so.