Chapter 40:
Meanwhile, D had his hands full in the basement. The being in white laughed as black lightning struck the walls and ran along the floor illuminating the room in electrical darkness.
D twirled to the right, then left, each time not allowing his foot to touch the ground for not more then a split second for if he allowed any longer the lightening would hit him that much harder. As it was, D was barely keeping up with the lightening from the walls that attacked him wherever he went.
"D, left..no..right..no..down.." Said Left hand, guiding D as he could see the lightening faster then he could.
Out of no where, Left hand took the blade of D's sword in his mouth and ripped it out of his hand.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" D shouted at his hand.
"Don't yell at me, look. The lightening is attracted to metal, you're sword is METAL. Get rid of the sword, and the black lightening will focus on that." Left hand explained and D remained quiet.
As Left hand said, the black lightening extended from the being and rebound off the walls, but only to strike D's sword that was now on the left and further from D. The man watched his lightening as it was being conducted away from him, but only laughed more.
"Good. I was rather enjoying watching you dance, D, but I will find more pleasure in tearing you apart with my own hands." The creature said in amusement of the coming battle.
The creature glared at him for a moment, and then, quick as a flash, he went on the attack. D did not have much time to respond, but throw his arm up to block the strike. The being attacked; left and right, punch after kick. D did everything he could to block; he was not the fondest of fighting with his hands. The being jumped and came down with his leg extended poised at D's head, but D ducked and rolled under giving him a swift kick while he was coming down that sent him to the ground with a crash. D turned, and the being was already standing, wiping fresh blood from his mouth. He glared at D for a moment, and then went on the attack again, this time, he clicked his heels and silver knifes came out of his shoes as well as daggers attached to his hands.
The creature advanced and with the extension of the daggers, D could not block in time. The creature struck D's chest once, twice, and then kicked him with a round house right in the face sending him flying back into the wall and giving him a gash on his face. D looked to his right, and there was the sword, and immediately the creature electrocuted the walls with black lightening. D yelled with the pain of the lightening and the sword being right there acting as a conductor reflected it back at D making the damage that much more severe.
The creature stopped for a moment, and looked over D. D's face was dripping blood and his armor was becoming blood soaked from the exhaust of his energy. D's breath came staggered, and painfully.
"It seems you're enjoying this almost as much as I am. Hehe… Can you feel it? You're time is almost up Dunpeal, and I will be the last to see that beautiful face of yours."
The creature bent down and took his knife out, and started to puncture D's armor musing at the thought of being victorious. He stabbed D's chest nearly missing his heart and took out the knife blood soaked. He licked it, and laughed as D did not seem to find it amusing.
"What's a matter D? Are you too weak to fight back, or do you like being tortured?" The creature laughed at the thought of D being helpless.
D grumbled something, and the creatures bent down to try and hear him better, but it was a mistake on his part. As soon as the creature moved forward, D unleashed his fangs and bite down into the being. The creature yelled in pain and sent out more black lightening to try and get him off, but D's fangs would not disengage from the creature's throat. Then, the creature ran him into the wall, dragging D into it so hard that it cracked the stone. D kicked off the wall and then disengaged his fangs leaving the creature to fall to the ground. The creature's blood ran down his neck and soaked his white clothes until they were red. D's cape allowed him to float for awhile after the kick, and then tumble and roll to get to his sword. D's blood ran down his arm and onto the sword, and he stumbled a little feeling the weight of himself like never before. The burden of jus walking was intense.
The creature looked at D, and cursed his being. Then, he through more black lightening directly at D, but with the blood covering his sword it no longer conducted, yet repealed and he threw off the lightening. D's eyes glowed white as the black lightening attacked him and stung, but did not injure anymore. The power in D surged and became its own lightening that streamed off of him, his hair flowed and his fangs elongated more. The creature looked at him in fear, but stood up wearisome.
"I CA N NOT DIE!" The being in blood soaked white screamed and sent all of his power of black lightening at D.
D felt his knees weaken, but leaned against his sword and combated with the white lightening that came off of him by his life's energy alone. D felt himself still weak, but when thinking of Seras and the situation, he drew himself up and screamed out in fury. The white lightening he was producing had been getting consumed by the blackness, but now he threw it off. The two polar opposites destroyed each other, and left the room with an air of power. The creature stood there with his daggers drawn and D with his sword.
D ran up to him extending his sword to give him more agility. The creature dodged and attacked. Round and round they went, attack and dodge. D noticed the creature tiring and weakening from the drain of his black lightening, and quickly took the upper hand. The creature attacked, but and D countered fiercely knocking the dagger out of his hand, and then D ran his sword right through the creature's chest, dead center on his heart.
The creature dropped his other dagger and fell to his knees. He looked up to D with fear and mercy in his eyes, but D showed no mercy and swung down splitting him in half the long way and then fully decapitating his head. The creature had not the chance to scream, and it was all over for him.
D fell back, and leaned against the wall to rest. He was still bleeding too much to heal without rest.
"Hey D! You know, you came pretty close there at times, I almost became fried parasite." Left hand scolded D, but then laughed saying, "Well, we won. And I thought we wouldn't make it there for a second. But, hey, we should celebrate."
D said nothing, but sighed and Left hand did not have to ask to know why. The war still ragged on, just not for them at the moment…
Alucard stared at his revival with shock and amusement.
"It has been a long time, Nosferatu Alucard. I was beginning to think you had forgotten about me, about what we represent."
Alucard walked closer to him, and Lucien stared at him just as amused and interested. Seras lay on a sacrificial table under the Templar cross up at the front of the church. The rows of the church seemed to loom towards Alucard as he got a little bit closer.
"Hehe…It has been too long for that, Lucien. Those times have past, my reign is over. My friends were destroyed those centuries ago, and I work for an organization now. I have a master now, and this one belongs to me." Alucard glared in Seras's direction, but she was paralyzed on the slab, she could hear, but not move.
"Wrong! Some of us have survived. We remember the old ways, and are going to bring them back." Lucien said in anger, but then his own amusement got to him and he continued more friendly, "Hehe…Alucard, my master, my friend. Won't you come and join me once again? I will make you a reign all your own. Wouldn't you like that? You're powers unrestricted and to have no master, no HELLSING BITCH to crawl home to."
Alucard stood there as if considering the matter carefully, he took off his hat and glasses and looked at Lucien with his fully deep red eyes and Lucien was taken a back for a moment as it had been so long since he had seen Alucard eye to eye.
Lucien felt that something was not right, and hurriedly asked, "So, what is you're answer, Nosferatu?"
Alucard grinned evilly and his eyes turned blood red. He disappeared and then reappeared right in front of Lucien, backing him into the wall.
"My answer …Pathetic maggot! Did you think I would join with you, you're powers have diminished too if you fear me so now. Hehehe.. " Alucard laughed in his face and then backed away from him, seeing the fear in Lucien's eyes and the want made him that much more amused to killing him.
Lucien stared at him, and when Alucard turned his back, he jumped at him, kneeing him in the back and knocking him to the ground.
"Then it is pay back, my new enemy!" Lucien flipped off of him, and extended his arm down. From his own robes came a sword, but it was not just a sword, it was pieced together of various swords and armor, making it that much stronger and faster. Lucien continued, "I had thought you would give sympathy of you're old servant for having survived thus only to see you RULED BY A HUMAN!"
Alucard grinned evilly and drew his Capsul 454 and Jackal. Lucien laughed and charged Alucard. The Capsul and Jackal fired rapid rounds, but Lucien dodged the bullets and was now the one in Alucard's face. Alucard mused at the thought of Lucien actually getting somewhat stronger, and bent his arm backwards extending it and shooting Lucien in the head. Lucien stumbled back, but didn't completely fall; his sword had detached some of its parts and blocked the shot.
"Hmm..is that how you managed to survive the Dark Ages, Lucien? Hehe…Amuse me, and show me what you can do, make you're self worthy of the power of Templar." Alucard grinned evilly with a hum of amusement and insanity on the end of his words.
Lucien brought his sword down, and its part's fully detached, some stayed loosely to the end like an extended whip while others circled like missiles of sharp objects and mini daggers. Alucard's smile extended from ear to ear in his insanity, and waited from Lucien's attack.
Lucien sent some of the parts around him flying, Alucard dodged some with a slight movement, but others hit. As Alucard dodged flying parts, Lucien attacked with his whip like sword lashing and back lashing him; each time, Alucard moved, but couldn't get out of the way of the full force of the attack. Alucard ran sideways shooting off double rounds from his gun; Lucien's parts just blocked them each time.
Lucien molded some of his parts together to create a double sword connected at the hilt. Alucard ran up shooting trying to throw him off, but it did not work, Lucien's sword went right through the bullets and actually lopped off Alucard's arm. Alucard jumped back, his arm falling to the ground and disappearing into darkness and eyes.
"See, you are not invincible as you were before, now even I can kill the king vampire!" Lucien said watching as Alucard's arm withered on the ground with his gun.
Lucien extended his whip edge sword and wrapped it around Alucard's throat pulling him closer and making him close to the other sword's edge. Lucien twisted it the whip and cut off Alucard's head with the blade's edge and the pressure of the whip. Alucard's head rolled off and onto the floor, his body bleeding throughout his arm and neck.
"Ah, so that is the all powerful Alucard." Lucien laughed as he kicked his head around on the ground and to the slab where Seras was laying paralyzed. "Here's you're master, Seras." Lucien picked up Alucard's head and put it on the slab next to Seras.
Seras's eyes widened with panic, and she did not know where D was. She tried to mouth the words, "Master," but the paralysis made it so she could not speak either.
Alucard's eyes opened and he saw Seras laying there staring at him.
"Police girl…Seras…" Alucard mouthed his body turning into blood and dust while his head dripped blood onto the floor.
"Awe, reunited in death I see. For one I used to look up to, Alucard. It's a truly sad ending for you." Lucien gloated and then held his sword over Alucard's head, and swung down splitting him in two right in front of Seras. Her eyes brimmed with tears, and Alucard's head turned to dust.
Seras heard her master's voice in her head, and mouthed words that were barely audible, "Cromwell restriction release, situation A level 2 ." Seras didn't think that would work, and was not surprised when she saw nothing happened.
Lucien raised his other dagger poised to strike Seras, but as he was about to strike, this dog bit at his leg and pulled him down. It was big and black and growled at Lucien with a set of teeth that would scare anyone. His six eyes stared at Lucien, but he was not buying it. Lucien took his sword from the ground and detached the other portion, and whipped at the dog. The dog growled back and caught the end of Lucien's sword in his mouth, Lucien struggled to get his sword back, but the dog kept it in his mouth. Then, the back of the dog expanded and the dog's form became completely black.
"What the hell are you?" Lucien spoke as he wiggled the sword free from the dog's grips.
The black mass turned completely into eyes and expanded upwards, what would be Alucard's hair flew backwards flailed out everywhere. Lucien attacked with his sword and all the pieces detached, but, they were consumed by the black mass, all except for his sword whip. The black mass expanded and became tall, bat like pieces of black mass covered the room and two deep set red eyes were finally made as regular eyes instead of the millions that occupied the blackness. The mass's hair and arms extended trying to attach and attack Lucien, but he jumped around and cut at it fending for himself. Alucard retracted his mass and took human form, his hair still flailing up and out, but his body now had a red like straight jacket with broken shackles covering him up. Alucard laughed insanely.
"Pathetic…Is that all you got? Call you're demons and summon you're masters strength!" Alucard mused seeing the fear in his eyes once more.
Lucien stood up shaken, but could not give up yet. He knew that he had killed him once, and would do so again. So he whipped at him with his sword whip and Alucard just caught it in his hand and broke it off. Lucien tripped backwards over himself. Then, he started to laugh.
"Hehe..Fine, I didn't want to do this." Lucien said and then raised his hands and magic generators came up from behind him. He continued to speak, "Well, it's been fun, but now, I'm going to be the ultimate power, just watch."
Lucien went to the generators, and hooked them together, and then, he smashed them right in front of him, and the magic mist surrounded him, engulfing him with both types. The mist grew into weird proportions and put markings all over his body, runes with a magical origin. After the mist had died down, Lucien came out looking more like a demon then a vampire. He laughed, and Alucard smiled seeing him in his truer form.
"Ah, just when I was beginning to miss you're hideous face..hehe.." Alucard said in amusement.
"Hush, vampire. You are nothing now, feel the wraith of ancient power."
Lucien extended his arms and the whole building began to shake, fire and light came out of every bit of his body, whether there were wholes there are not. The light was so bright it hurt Alucard's eyes, and Seras was left there to watch the insanity of it all. Alucard turned completely black and took him on. His body became of dog heads, eyes, and hair, while Lucien's body became red, orange, yellow, and white, a combination that looked like growing fire but on a larger proportion. Black mixed with fire as Alucard's dogs went after him. The church exploded from the amount of strength that they were using, it consumed and engulfed everything around them, with the exception of Seras.
Blackness and fire scorched the sky, black mass of dog seen against a fiery serpent of hell. Attack after attack, Alucard fought tooth and nail as the dragon blew flames at him and tried to catch him on fire. The fight raged as the mingling became worse, dog biting serpent and serpent flaming the entire area. After several minuets, both descended torn and injured, but not dead.
Alucard laughed seeing the flames everywhere. Lucien looked around and smelt the flames blazing all over, it smelt like death, and he loved every moment of it.
"Hehe…You're power's exhausted. Let's finish this." Alucard laughed and Lucien grinned.
Alucard's blackness flared up once more as did Lucien's whiteness. They raced at each other, hands poised out. Impact came and went quickly; Alucard's hand went through Lucien, and visa versa. They stood there, hands in each other's stomachs. Alucard removed his hand, and snapped Lucien's in half as he backed away. Lucien was stunned by him being hit, and saw how Alucard could deal with it so well.
Lucien fell to his knees and said, "You…are..Nosferatu..Alucard..King..." Lucien fell forward, and Alucard removed the hand from his stomach.
"Pity…he was a loyal vampire at one time. Hehe…but he tried to kill a monster, no one that is a monster can kill a monster."
"Mas..ter.." Seras spoke the word weakly, and Alucard turned to her knowing she was there.
Alucard untied her from the slab and that took off the effects of her paralysis. Seras stared at him for a moment, as if she had not seen him in years. She put her arms around him, and he flinched from his wounds and her now pressing up against him. Alucard pushed her back from him. His body was still bleeding from being cut and singed from Lucien.
"Seras…Victoria…Drink, and you'll be able to do what you please." Alucard said with a deep serious tone and put his arms out as if showing off his stomach wound.
Seras looked at him in wonderment and with a pained expression… But…If I drink, I won't see him, my master again. With what has happened…can I really do that? Seras shook her head and held it as her thoughts played on her mind…No…I…I don't want to leave him, there is still so much I could learn, so much stronger could I be so that this wouldn't happen. And…I…Seras's thoughts trailed as she looked to the ground.
Alucard went over to her, and lifted up her head to look him in the eyes.
"You hesitate Seras…hehe…Fine; open you're mind like when you were a new born vampire. I am still…you're master." Alucard said in a somewhat serious tone, but Seras seemed to be happy with that.
Seras got off the table, and almost slid, but he was still standing there and able to keep her from falling. Alucard laughed in amusement, but then said to her through his telepathy that she had opened to him…Hehe…I know what you're mind denied you from speaking. Seras looked into his eyes, and he nodded, but then she turned away and he mused to himself about her expression enjoying how it got to her.
Alucard and Seras realized quickly that the last battle had made the place very unstable, and stone fell all around them. Seras stayed by Alucard as to not be hit, but he just walked on not caring for the stone. They walked out of the church and found that the next room was different, it was one of stone, and in the corner far corner was D.
Seras ran up to him, to see if he was still alive, and Alucard walked closer every second.
"Master…he's alive." Seras said quivering as he too seemed to be badly injured.
"Well now, he's more than that…Of course, him surviving had nothing to do with me, isn't that right D?" Left hand mocked as D's eyes seemed to open from his rest.
"Seras…Alucard…" D spoke softly, but then when he saw Alucard's motion to get out of there, he hauled himself up by his sword and sheathed it when he could.
Seras saw him struggle to get up and walk, but when she tried to help him, he would not let her.
"I'm alright, just stiff. I don't need you're help." D growled somewhat out of it from the wounds and Left hand mocked him.
"Now now, D. You're getting grumpy in you're old age, and you know that you can barely stand. Of course, I wouldn't suggest you to sit, but…" Left hand barely finished when D closed his hand of him, and he almost fell backwards in the effort.
Seras stopped him from falling, but Alucard helped him.
"What do you think you're doing?" D asked him with irritation in his voice.
"What do you think? Or are you too out of it to even do that right?" Alucard asked with a hum of amusement on his voice, and D just remained silent as he was helped out of the building.
From room to room the stone crumbled, but missed every time. They made it outside with enough time to see the walls become visible and start to crumble. Wilhemina ushered them over to the trees and away from the falling rubble, she held the reins of D's horse in her hands. They stood watching the castle fall apart, and when all the dust settled they stared at each other, speechless.
"Alucard, I am no longer bound by a contract to kill you. I shall be on my way." D said while he let go of Alucard and found the reins to his horse.
"Wait…aren't you still hurt?" Seras asked seeing his wounds still effect how he walked.
D turned to Seras and looked at her, "Compared to the pain you have bore, this is a flesh wound. And as you have you're…Master, I am of no use." D swung his right foot up and over his horse, and held the reins to the saddle. With that D continued, "I will see you again; from hunter to prey, I still kill vampires and demons. It is what I was born into." With that, D reared his horse and rode off.
Alucard mused at the possibility of seeing him again to fight, but Seras sighed hearing that from him. Seras thought that D was very good to her, and she would have liked to thank him, but missed her chance to do so.
Wilhemina walked to Alucard and spoke to him harshly, "Well, now that the job is completed, how do you plan on getting home? It is obvious that it would take more then a fort night to walk…" Wilhemina trailed in wonderment.
"We could always fly." Alucard mused knowing that Wilhemina could not do so and Seras was still in her beginning stages of getting up in the air.
Wilhemina glared at him, "There is no way you could carry two, I shall be taking my leave as well then." She turned to stomp off, but Alucard caught her at the last moment.
"No…there's a way." Alucard said and with that, he grabbed Seras with one arm and Wilhemina with the other. He kicked off the ground and went soaring into the sky.
After a few hours, Wilhemina was back at her cottage, rather disgruntled as she wanted to go with them, but Alucard would not let her. Alucard returned with Seras to the Hellsing Organization. A rather disgruntled and bothered Integra met them, but everything returned back to normal, somewhat. Alucard trained Seras, and still enjoyed bothering Integra. Seras no longer took her master for granted; and Integra sent them on more missions.
The End
Woah! It took so long to write! Wow, I'm done. Well, I would like to thank my readers who have supported me throughout the making of this piece especially for those of you who stuck with me in the beginning as it was very difficult. I would also like to thank Miss B. Also, I would like to give an EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS to TigerRain as she has been my biggest supporter and kept me sane during these trying times. Thanks to you all. ,,