Chapter 34:
Alucard staggered back, with the sword running down his throat, he could not speak a word. D looked on in awe, amazed that he had not fallen down or turned into dust like all the other vampires would have by taking such a direct blow to the heart.
D started to move closer, to get a better look at how he could be still standing, but as soon as he reached within a yard radius of Alucard, a blade came out of no where forcing him to jump back. The blade hit the ground where he would have been a second before hand. D was startled, and began to look around. He was defenseless without his sword, but that was stuck down Alucard's throat and any try at it he would have been hit by another blade.
Alucard looked at D, and then at the blade, which he recognized instantly.
"Paladin!" Alucard mouthed the word, but it could barely be heard as the sword muffled whatever he said. D could not hear or see what he said, but by the look of amusement in Alucard's eyes, he knew that it would be something very interesting.
"MWH HA HA…Aye, ye monster!" Yelled the Anderson as he jumped from the trees in the background and whipped his holy writs papers forming a chain and getting back his blessed blade. He crossed his blades together with his arms which made a cross and grinned at the poss.
D revered him as another vampire hunter, but not like any he had seen before. Alucard used this distraction to grab hold of the sword, and pull at it. However, the sword was really stuck, and he was having trouble dislodging it. Anderson laughed again, and looked at D, as if he was deciding on killing him or joining with him to kill Alucard and then taking him down with no problem.
For the moment, Anderson decided to ignore D, and started to walk towards Alucard who seemed non-threatening with a sword down his throat. "Aye, ye monster. Didn't think ve vould met' so soon." Anderson unfurled his swords, holding them steadily out aside from him. Alucard could not reply with the sword, but managed to muffle something that sounded horrible to him.
"Haha…Ye gettin vhat ye deserve." Anderson started to walk closer, while saying, "In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation…AMEN!" With the final word, Anderson took off as fast as he could, and charged at Alucard.
"Well look at that D. This Alucard guy doesn't seem to be popular now does he? Getting attacked by you and this priest whoever he is all in the same day back to back. Makes you wonder if it was a set up. What do you think D?..Hey, don't ignore me!" D's left hand started to comment on the fight along with ridicule him for being so quiet.
"SHUT UP!" D growled at the hand, "Look, even with that sword in him, Alucard is bending over backwards to avoid that priests blows. He is no ordinary vampire…"
Just as D had said, Alucard was dodging Anderson's continuous and rapid blows with the blessed blades. One swipe with those could kill a vampire, and yet Alucard was dancing around them as if he knew every blow before it happened.
"Grr..Damn monster…Ye must die!" Anderson growled, as he continued to attack.
Anderson stood back, after Alucard had avoided another right swipe, and laughed. Anderson's coat floated up reveling several dozen blessed blades of varying sizes, and all aimed at Alucard on the attack. Alucard tried to dodge, but no matter how fast he went, there would still be another two blessed blades on the other side to stop his movement. Alucard muffled a yell as blade after blade went through all his vital organs, and arms and legs as well. Anderson laughed. The next thing Alucard knew, Anderson was above him and coming down on him with more blessed blades, these managed to go right through his head, and would have knocked it off had that sword not been through his mouth already. Alucard fell to the floor, blessed blades jutting out from all sides at all angles of his body.
Anderson stood over him gloating and wearing a grin that would make babies cry from his insanity. Anderson bent over him, and lifted up Alucard's head with all the swords threw it, even through the eyes
"Damn monster…Hope ye enjoy yer death." Anderson pulled out one of the blades that was in his eye, and saw that there was only a socket left. He lifted the blade high, and decided on taking off his neck, even if he had to go through another sword.
Just as Anderson was about to strike, Alucard's eye socket filled again with a red dilating pupil, and a split second before the blade hit his neck, Alucard yanked D's sword out and cut off Anderson's arms instead. Anderson fell back on his behind with a look of complete shock and utter disdain on his face.
Alucard floated up and said, "Hehe…Even with my body dismantled and torn to pieces, no foolish priest is going to kill me. You need a man to kill a monster, regenerator…You a neither, nothing but an abomination created by section 13 bastards. You're a tool for them, and nothing more." Alucard laughed insanely, and grinned with an evil glint in his eye.
Anderson growled again, and whipped around his holy writs to lash out at Alucard in his fury. Alucard allowed one of the writs to grab hold of a sword that jutted out from his body, and when Anderson couldn't recall it, Alucard twirled around dragging Anderson closer. Alucard twirled and twisted until Anderson was right besides him and he grinned evilly.
"Enjoy the spin? How about a taste of your own swords, Paladin?" With that, Alucard twirled once more despite Anderson's struggle and sent four of the blessed blades jammed into Alucard right into Paladin as well.
Alexander gasped in shock and winced in pain. He spit at Alucard when he got a chance. "Ye may not win, monster!" Anderson yelled at him, and tried to bite at the holy writ that bound him to Alucard. Alucard was amused at his efforts, and grinned mildly.
"Can't even take your own writs Paladin, how pathetic." Alucard took his free arm, while the other still held D's sword, and dragged Anderson off the swords by the tuff of his hair and threw him away. Anderson was bleeding and in too much shock to comment on being hauled up so easily by the monster. Alucard proceeded to pull out all the blessed blades with a wince and cracked his neck because the sword that went through his mouth made his neck tingle.
Anderson tried to kick away with his feet, and hoisted himself up by his holy writs scriptures. "Aye vill get ye monster. If it be thy last thing aye do. By the rights of God..Amen." Anderson said and disappeared as his scriptures covered his entire body and surrounded both Alucard and D.
D looked at Alucard with a new sense of awe for being able to defeat such a hunter. Half the time, D did not even know what the priest was doing; let a lone to defeat him so quickly and powerfully.
Alucard walked up to D, the thrill of the previous fight still coursing through his veins. "He he he…Enjoy the show, hunter? I would gladly tango again…" Alucard said amusedly, and handed D back his sword.
"I see. I will not lie, you are one of the strongest I have seen, if not more so. So I must ask; do you know of anyone named Lord Lucien?" D asked, remembering the name on the letter sent to him so long ago.
Alucard stared at him for a moment, if not longer, and drew a complete blank. "Hmm…I don't think I have. Or if I have, it is beyond my memory. Why ask?" Alucard said still in an amused tone, but now it also held an interest.
D pulled out the old letter from a pouch on his belt, and looked for an insignia or something that could be used to trigger one's memory. "There!" D pointed with his right hand to a specific seal that held a skull with snakes, "Recognize it?"
Alucard looked at it, still in D's hand as he would not let it go. "No…but what is the one down here next to your name? Dragons intertwined…"
D looked at his own, which Lucien had made on the note to make it official. "It is my symbol, D...Dunpeal, but also the Order of…"
"Dragul." Alucard busted in to D's sentence. "But…that makes no sense. My family is that order..Dragul..Dracula..Alucard..unless…" Alucard covered his mouth from the thought.
D said nothing, but stared at the older vampire. Then, it was there, their similar character and subtle sharp features; the dark red of their eyes and the plain paleness of their skin, the darkness of their hair and tallness of their stature. They were almost the same in that respect.
Seras looked from the side, and saw it as well. She gasped and thought about it for awhile…It makes sense…that would be why I felt safe with him, D. He's just like my master…no, he's got to be related somehow…Even their blood smells similar. Of course, Seras having a great nose would easily be able to recognize the last feature.
Alucard and D stared at each other for awhile, until Alucard looked up at the moon, and saw it was heading down beyond the borders of the horizon. "Do you at least rest during the day?" Alucard questioned, with a stern tone.
"Yes. I may be a half, but there are things that still hurt me." D answered just as coldly.
"Yea, well that's cause you do too much in the daytime D. Plus, you don't listen to me, so when you go getting yourself exhausted you leave me here to rot with you. And to think I live on your hand, I…" Left hand was caught short by D crushing him.
Alucard looked at his D's clenched hand and laughed. "A parasite spirit?!?! I didn't even think those existed anymore."
"….Do you want to get cut off?" D growled to his hand out of the side of his mouth.
"No no..I'll be quiet. Well if I'm not allowed to speak my mind so be it. It will not be my fault the next time you need my help and I do nothing for you." With that, the hand kept quiet.
Alucard walked past D and looked into the bushes where Wilhemina and Seras sat. He grinned at them, and motioned for them to come over.
"There will be no more fighting for the moment…we're both exhausted." Alucard said, and D did not have to say anything because he knew that he would not be able to stand another round with Alucard even if he wanted to.
Wilhemina and Seras scuttled over. Wilhemina was far more upset then Seras, who was just happy that no one died.
"Shouldn't we be finding someplace to rest then?" Seras asked, wondering why Wilhemina was crowding around Alucard and D just stood there.
"I know of a place where there is a cave that should fit us." D said quietly, but everyone still heard him. Alucard grinned, and told him to lead the way.
D walked with Seras and Alucard with Wilhemina. The walk was not far at all, not even a mile and the cave did seem big enough for them.
"Hmm…Do you think this will work? I mean, there really isn't much room if the light comes in at an angel." Wilhemina said while inspecting the cave.
"It should be fine, look. There are trees to block that. Time to go in." Alucard said as he pushed her in and then followed while D and Seras went after.
The cave must have been a bear cave at one point as it was big enough to hold all of them and leaving space enough for even if the light came in at an angel during the day. Wilhemina curled up in the corner, Alucard leaned against the back of the wall, D did similar, and Seras used D's lap as a pillow as she had tried to lean against the wall, but it hurt her back more. Alucard seemed to grumble a little seeing that, but soon closed his eyes to fall asleep. Within ten minutes of going into the cave, all four of them were out like a light for the day time hours.
Woah…who would have seen that coming…OO…I went as quickly as I could on this chapter, but I had AP's which delayed the time I was able to write, but I promised I would so here it is… MWH HA HA… Hmmm…I wonder what will happen next time…hehe…All I know is, beware. LOL…Laters!!!