Chapter 33:
Alucard walked through the tree coverings, and stopped as the moon reached its' zenith directly over head of him. He was in a clearing, and his abrupt stop almost made Wilhemina walk right into him.
Wilhemina began to protest, but Alucard stopped her by saying, "Hmm…It seems we have visitors." He said in amusement as his eyes began to glow a pure blood red.
Wilhemina listened for a minuet, but she couldn't hear anything at all. She looked around, left to right, and then noticed that across the way was a flicker of black. A formless shape that seemed to have red eyes as well and they followed her movement even while she looked at them.
"He he he…Let's not be rude and great them." Alucard said as he grinned evilly in amusement.
Alucard strode out to the middle of the plain, awaited for the people on the other end to do the same. He already knew who was there, but he had never met a half vampire, and was amused at the thought of doing so. However, he didn't show Wilhemina how much he missed Seras, and how he wanted to see her again, but the thrill of the fight had over powered his emotions for Seras.
Meanwhile, D and Seras looked at each other sideways. D helped Seras get off the horse, and tied him to a nearby tree before they walked out to meet Alucard's challenge.
Seras felt unsettled in the pit of her stomach, and even though she didn't want to go back to Hellsing Organization, she did want to see her Master. However, she still had unfinished business, and wanted to get it over with, but she also knew that D's and Alucard's business went further then that.
D walked up to Alucard with Seras and stopped about a foot away. Wilhemina ran from the trees and stood by Alucard already, making Seras question over in her mind who that was and why she would run after Alucard so, but she would not ask it.
D looked to Seras and then back to Alucard and said, "Hello, Alucard. I have been looking for you. You may not know me, but I'm D, and I know that you know Seras…" D couldn't help having the strangest feeling that he had seen him before, or met him in another time, but he also knew that it could not be possible.
Seras looked at the both of them. There was something about them, their mannerism, or their facial expression that was exactly the same. The thought of it frightened Seras, but she would not say anything, but she could not stop her mind from thinking…Something about them…It's too similar to just be a coincidence…Or maybe it is just because their some of the last few vampires over 200 years old.
"Police women, yes." Alucard said plainly, leaving Seras to question his motives, and if they were just purely Hellsing orders. "I do know who you are. D stands for Dunpeal, a half breed. I could smell it on you a mile away."
"Then you know why I have sought you out…?" D questioned in his own amused away allowing his hat to hide his face and the wind behind him to blow his hair out.
"Hmm…I would not be Alucard if I did not." He said amusedly, and then continued in a darker undertone, "I know what you are...Vampire Hunter. A vampire hunter…how amusing, I would think there were none left with all the vampires running around." Alucard said the last bit sarcastically.
At this point, Seras knew instinctively to get out of the way, and dragged Wilhemina with her. Even though Seras did not know who she was, she was not going to let her get hurt from their battle.
"HEY…What do you think your doing?" Wilhemina questioned as she was being dragged to the side.
"Don't tell me you're that naïve! Look, their going to fight and unless you want to be around to get killed I suggest you allow yourself to be dragged." Seras said ironically and with a sense of knowledge for at least understanding the priorities of this match. Meanwhile a little voice in the back of her mind repeated Please don't die… Master…D…Don't kill each other…
Now that the girls were out of the way, D's hat slid up and his dark red eyes beamed at Alucard. "Good…shall we begin then?"
Alucard didn't even have to answer; he just grinned and laughed evilly. D withdrew his sword and charged Alucard while he laughed. D lunged and attacked to Alucard's right side, but Alucard just withdrew his Jackal and parried the blow with the hull of his gun. He grinned and started to shoot at D when he stood back. Matching sword with bullet, D deflected all the bullets without a wink, and continued to lunge for Alucard.
Alucard was becoming amused and either blocked with his gun, or dodged left and right. It was like a dance, D attacked; left, right, up, right, and Alucard just moved right, left, under, left. D could not get a hit on Alucard, but Alucard in turn could not get a shot off on D.
Alucard, whose hat and glasses flew off by this point from the sheer speed that they were fight at, suddenly jumped into the air; right above D. Alucard grinned and dove down with both guns out firing simultaneously. D deflected some and ran to the right so Alucard would not come down on top of him. Then, D jumped up sword extended and attacked Alucard from the side, and even though Alucard was firing, D dodged until he was no more than half a foot away. Alucard grimaced as he felt D's blade go right through his side and out the other end, and D withdrew it with a kick sending Alucard flying to the ground. D's cape made a wave effect allowing him to come down gently, but Alucard hit the ground with so much force that any human would have been crushed ten times over. D grinned, and walked over to Alucard.
"Not nearly what I would have expected from one so feared as you." D said in disdain and took his sword, and chopped Alucard's head off with one swing.
Seras watched in horror. "But Master can not die…he can't…" Seras started to remember the last time his head had been chopped off, and that had been by Paladin. Wilhemina next to her was in hysterics, and that made Seras feel a little amused by her.
"You must not know my master very well…" Seras said doubtfully and with a long drawn face.
"Your Master?" Wilhemina questioned, and Seras just felt like crawling in a whole at that point with what the girl's next words out of her mouth would be.
Meanwhile, D watched over Alucard's lame body as his head rolled on the ground.
"That was it. Look, now he might try to bite your knee calf's off..Oh, that would be funny, wouldn't it D?" D's Left hand started to comment on Alucard's body.
"Shut up you…There is something still wrong here." D clenched his hand and growled to it.
D turned his back to walk away from Alucard's body, but by the time he turned back around, it was gone, which left D questioning.
"What the h…" D started to say when he heard a loud mechanical laugh from no where.
"MWH HA HA…You think I can die by a SWORD?!?!?!" Alucard laughed, and in the distance, his body formed into a mass of blackness, his hair standing on end glowing and the only thing that could be made out from the form were his eyes and teeth.
D looked on amused, and stood guard. His sword pointing straight at Alucard, and then he lunged swiping back and forth. Every cut went right through Alucard's blackened form, but it only rematerialized the next second. D stood back, and felt that he was wasting too much effort on a needless task.
Alucard laughed, and extended his form out grabbing D by the hands and tossing him around. After D got thrown and smashed to the ground, Alucard's hands became mouths and he extended them toward D, who was now in shock of what he was seeing. However, D would not lose, and defended the dogs' mouths with his sword, but he could not defend all of them. Alucard's black mass dogs attacked in waves, biting new chunks at a time. D was doing his best to defend against them, but they surrounded him, engulfed him. All around D was Alucard's blackness, which forced D to the ground in submission.
D's left arm was the first to be bitten off, causing D a new feeling of pain that ran up through the stub on his left side. Just as Alucard laughed thinking he had the upper hand on D, something happened. D's eyes glowed red, his hair flowed out, and his teeth elongated. Alucard gasped as D formed some kind of wave around him, and engulfed him while keeping his dark mass at bay. D screamed yelled and through off Alucard's dogs, and then his left arm got up on its own and supported itself.
Alucard grinned and sent more of his dogs after D, who could now through them off of him just like they were his bullets. Alucard made some of his dark mass form sticks and run along the floor, aimed to pop up on D wherever he went. D jumped and hit all the sharp things that formed under him, aimed on impaling him. That is when it struck him, D knew of only one other person who tried to impale people on stakes like that, but he wasn't going to stop just for that. D could dodge them, one of them grabbed his foot and dragged him down, but his left hand, moving of its own accord, opened its mouth and sucked all the impaling sticks on the ground, even the ones that pierced D.
"HEY, BE CAREFUL! It's my body too!" His left hand screamed at him, before reattaching itself right at his stump.
Alucard was shocked, but could accept that as he noticed it was a parasite. D lunged again before Alucard could react and went right through his head, in between his opened teeth. Alucard gaggled as his darkness flustered around him, engulfing both him and D. D, seeing that it was bothering him, only pushed the edge down his throat, harder then he ever had, yelling from the excretion of his strength from it.
Alucard's mass took shape again, and almost trapped D in as he reformed. D backed up in the nick of time, leaving his sword jammed down Alucard's throat, and into his heart. Alucard stood there, and D just looked on to see what would happen.
Wilhemina was watching hysterically crying, while Seras was in shock. She couldn't believe that D would manage to be so useful like that. Seras felt a wave of dread as she wondered what would happen next.
And I leave you with a cliff hanger…LOL…sorry about that, I was just so eager to do the battle, but I don't get much time to write -_- This one is definitely for all those who know D and Alucard intricately enough to know there strengths and weaknesses. I can tell you now, though, you will not believe what's going to happen next time ^,-,^ *fangs...LOL*