Chapter 38:
Alucard stared at the floor, waiting for the endless sun to drift beneath the clouds. He could always tell when it was light out even when in the cellar; he always had a gut instinct about it. At the moment, his gut was also telling him that something was not right about that carriage that took Seras away, and that she was in danger. The thought plagued him, especially since his telepathy was not working to Seras. That either meant she was too weak to hear, too far away, or asleep. He did not doubt that it was all three, but, could still sense that she was alive, in a matter of speaking as she was undead.
Alucard heard Wilhemina stir, though, she did not awaken. The chair beneath Vampire Hunter D creaked, and he had a feeling that he had been up the whole day, though, he chose not to speak as he did not speak much normally. Alucard got up out of his corner, and went to stand against the wall next to D. Alucard poked his head under D's hat to see if his eyes were open, they were closed. However, that did not stop D's hand from shooting up to Alucard's neck. D's eyes glowed red, and he let go with a growl. Alucard laughed lightly in amusement.
"Is that what they call sleeping with one eye open?" Alucard asked, chuckling lightly to himself.
D's silence came as no surprise, but, Alucard knew there were other reasons this time. D kept his hand closed completely; he did not feel like hearing his parasite talk to him about things he did not care for. If D was in a better mood, he would not care as much. Even Alucard could tell that D missed Seras too.
After ten minuets time, D went to the cellar door. "The light will be completely gone in a minuet. I'm going to get my horse. I'll wait for you outside." Alucard nodded in acknowledgement. Though, he wondered if D would go off without them, but doubted it.
Wilhemina yawned stretching her hands up. "Night yet?" She asked seeing Alucard stand by the cellar.
"Almost…Another minuet or so…" He replied almost completely monotone which made Wilhemina wonder how he was taking this all.
Wilhemina got up and walked to the side of Alucard.
"It will be alright, I know we'll find her, and well. Seras, from what I've seen, is one tough vampire." Wilhemina said, and held onto Alucard's arm, but he didn't seem to notice as he continued to stare at the cellar door.
As he did not answer, Wilhemina figured he did not want to talk about it. Then, Alucard smiled insanely.."Hehe..time to go. I smell there will be blood this night." He mused, and looked at Wilhemina who did not seem to understand what he had meant, but followed him out of the cellar anyways.
As promised, D was standing right in front of the cellar on his black horse, but he also had the reins for another horse in his left hand.
"Here, I found him wandering." D said coolly and shoved the reins into Alucard's hand, which he mused in appreciation for.
Alucard helped Wilhemina onto the horse first, and then followed after. D took a look around, and the horse patted the ground, and then shook his head in the positive.
"Horse has her scent." D said, and without anymore words, he pulled on the reins and the horse sped off down the village, in the same direction the carriage had gone.
Alucard shrugged and pulled on the reins to let the horse follow. Alucard wasn't used to riding a horse so it was unexpectedly bumpy, and having to try to keep Wilhemina on the saddle did not help much either. After two hours of the same type of riding, Alucard got fed up. They did not seem to be getting any further, the area around only looked the same as the area before it.
"STOP!" Alucard yelled, and pulled on the reins to a holt. It took D's horse another minuet to realize and stopped and turned around to face Alucard as well. D's face contoured with the question that Alucard already knew.
"Is it me, or does it seem that we have not moved an inch? It feels like we are running in circles." Alucard explained, feeling a little annoyed that he had not stopped earlier.
"That's because, we are!" D's left hand finally spoke up, and all of them turned on him in shock. "Sure, you could have asked me before and I would have told you, but NOOO D had to keep me locked up. See. I do come in use D, you're just too stupid to .." D cut him off again, rage in his eyes.
"DID YOU KNOW THAT THIS WAS A CIRCLE?" Alucard yelled, and yet in a serious way that Wilhemina did not think he had.
"No…" D answered honestly, and then he released his hand again. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"Like I said, you weren't listening. Besides, you can't get to where she is being held that way. D, don't you feel it. The darkness…nearby… It's keeping you in this illusion. You think you are going no where, but where you are is here, and here is everywhere." Seeing all of them even more confused, hand started again, "Fine, D, throw a rock, anywhere, it doesn't matter."
D did as he was told, and when he threw it into the forest, there was no sound, it actually bounced off of thin air, or what appeared to be thin air. Wilhemina withdrew her breath sharply, and Alucard pondered about it.
"You said a dark presence, right Lefty?" Alucard asked and Left hand shook up and down as if to agree with him. "Well...invisible barriers are dark magic...hehe..Thankfully, I am dark magic." Alucard got off his horse and stood on the ground his arms outstretched as if he was being crucified. "Situation A, Level 1 Cromwell Restriction Release."
With those words, Alucard's body turned completely black, and his hair elongated all the way to the ground. He flipped it up, and it glowed white. He laughed and his arms elongated with the heads of his hounds. He lifted himself from the ground and went arms first into the forest where D had thrown the rock. Alucard went right ahead until he felt the force field push him back. He pushed, slowly to gain access in, but it was not working. Alucard backed away a step, and but his hands together again so that the Hellsing signal showed and his eyes glowed completely red. He turned completely black and flared up in red and black flames in a messed up shape of a bat. Red lines ran throughout him in the many shapes of the Latin symbols that appear on the Hellsing sign. Alucard's black and red flamed mass flared up to about 20 feet tall, leaving Wilhemina in awe as she watched it descend into the force field. Alucard wrapped his dark flames around the force field completely, growing to a mass bigger than a castle. He laughed, but then felt a shockwave from the force field, and then a blinding light that showed through his blackness, though, he contained it the best he could.
D and Wilhemina lost sight of everything in the blinding light, but had a feeling that it could not be a good sign. After what seemed like five minuets, the light dyed down, and Alucard was back in his red suit, apparently holding onto his stomach as if in pain. Wilhemina ran to him and held him straight again.
"Hehe…Bastards! They had an electronic generator with the positive and negative feed of very strong black and white magic. That's why not even the rock could have passed through. If it was just one or the other, it would have, but it had to be both. It created a vacuum kind of like anti-matter." Alucard stopped for a moment and winced in pain.
"Are you alright?" Wilhemina asked concern in her voice raised.
"I'll survive. I'm the undead." Alucard replied, but he also added, "I don't know how much energy I have to fight with." He looked at D, who just nodded in response.
D wanted to go past him, but stopped on the side of Alucard and said, "Save you're strength. You'll need it." Then, he continued, and Alucard moved Wilhemina from him.
"Stay here, tend to the horse. You will be in our way." Alucard said to her, but she shook her head.
"You're hurt, you'll need my help." Wilhemina pleaded.
"No, I can barely protect myself at the moment; I would have no strength to protect you. You're not as strong as me or D."
"You're weak. I know. At least… let me do you a favor." Wilhemina knew they had no blood left for him to drink to heal himself, so she moved the high collar of her dress down to reveal her throat. "Drink, you'll need you're strength."
Alucard looked at her in surprise, though, the offer did amuse him. Being a vampire, he could not resist the urge of it. Wilhemina walked closer to him, and he grabbed her, tilted her head side ways, and bit down on her throat. Instantly, Alucard felt better, more revived, and stronger. He drank until he felt her squeeze his arm as if she was going to pass, and let go. His blood soaked teeth and the taste intoxicated him.
"Hehe…All deposits are thanked. Awe…I knew there would be blood tonight." Alucard mused, and saw how weak she was now and just left her, running in after D. He knew she would be alright, and was not worried, though, he did not care about much now that he was more himself.
Hehe…and so they enter the layer…welcome to the castle. Next chapter, fighting…fighting…and…hmm…Seras…LOL. I have it planned out in my head, but not written, yet. Until next chapter, and I promise, it won't take as long to do (I'm great with fighting) hehe. Laters