Reprieve-Order 8-Choices
Alucard watched the paladin swing the supposed sword of the first hunter at him. Even in his altered state of mind he doubted the claim of the legendary weapon being genuine. He felt the sword slice across his chest, the stinging sensation of ancient silver was instant but being as old as he was didn't matter to him. Looking down he frowned, the wound would not seal itself. Alucard jumped back in time to avoid the priest's next attempt to strike him.
"Confused are ye demon? This weapon not only blocks ye cheap tricks tha yah kind are so fond of usin but will make yah bleed till one of us is dead, and it wont be me ye demon!" Anderson screamed as he ran towards his prey with sword in hand.
'So it is that sword, I thought it was buried with the slayer. Well I wouldn't put it past the Iscariots to grave rob for the weapon...' Alucard thought as he ignored the pain in his chest. Jumping once again he avoided the slice of the weapon. Reloading his gun with explosive rounds he took aim and fired.
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Seras ran for the church after she heard the first gunshot after the ghouls turned to dust. Her first thought had nothing to do with a possible battle in the church. She simply needed to see Alucard. Her pride had been shattered by the priest when he said there was no point in killing her, like she was hardly worth noting.
The second gunshot froze her to the spot, a few inches from her hand pulling back on the handle to the main door of the church. Quickly she began looking for an alternate entrance to the church.
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Alucard felt her presence in the area. She was close, maybe near the church. 'Dam D-11, to send Seras back into this...'
Alucard dodged the blade as it made an uppercut intended to slice his head clean off. "Stand still ye demon!" Anderson shouted as he panted while wielding the giant silver claymore.
"What's the matter Vatican dog? Cant handle that toothpick?" Alucard smirked. Alucard's blood was all over the floor and pews as they fought in the closed space. Just as Anderson had promised the wound still didn't seal and allowed blood to spill to the floor where it refused to return to its host body.
"Taunt all ye wan demon, I could leave ye now and ye would still die." Anderson said as he took another swipe at the vampire, though the demon was right. The combination of fighting with the claymore and the required amount of regeneration from the bullets that made it past were starting to fatigue him, but it didn't matter to him. He would kill this vampire than go after the heathen that controlled this monster.
Anderson swung the blade back down onto Alucard, but was blocked by silver and black guns. "What the..."
"Try again." Alucard said as he fired explosive rounds from both the Jackal and its little brother, the Casull, at Anderson. Several of the rounds missed completely from poor aim, the blood loss and mind poison from Seras were working together against him now. With a kick to the wound Anderson made some distance between the two of them. Wounds in his chest fought against the bullets as they tried to heal themselves from the micro grenades that Alucard called explosive rounds.
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Alucard clutched his stomach as the pain from the kick flooded threw his body. It had been a low blow even from the Vatican dog. He took a little delight when he saw the wounds that the bullets had caused Anderson some pain. He guessed he only had a few rounds in each gun left. If he was going to survive this match it would have to be a final confrontation. Someone wasn't going back home tonight and he refused to let it be himself.
Once again the two began their clash. One wielding an ancient weapon the other a pair of hand guns that would shatter the bone in any normal humans arm. Silently the strawberry blonde watched in the darkened corner oblivious to both her master and the paladin.
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Seras watched from the corner as both beings fought to the death. Her master fought with a huge gash across his chest and unknown to her all the doubts and thoughts she had in her mind. The priest had managed to land several minor cuts and gashes as Alucard dodged and fired the guns or tried to reload the weapons once the rounds had been spent.
Suddenly she heard Alucard shout out. Seras watched as the Paladin got the sword under Alucard's arm and pull up, severing the arm that held the Casull and sending it to her shadowy corner. The arm hit the wall with a sickening wet slap; it stuck to the wall for a moment before it slid down trailing blood to the floor. The gun, still being held by the severed arm of her master glistened in the little light.
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With a shout Anderson threw Alucard to the alter and sunk the sword into his shoulder, effectively pinning him to the side. Quickly he kicked the jackal out of the demons remaining hand. Slowly he pulled out a pair of his normal swords.
"So... I lost." Alucard panted. The action amused him; even Seras' mind poison was forcing him to breathe like she did even when she was still a vampire in his last moments.
"That's right, ye lost. No nightmare like you lasts long ye demon." Anderson said using one of his blades to pull Alucard's chin up, forcing him to look at the paladin.
"Ye own former bloodsucker lass is what did ye in, wasn't it? Ye fought so poorly, she leaving yah really shook ye up." Anderson chuckled.
"Ye don't need to answer demon, its all over ye face. Well it makes no difference now. Soon ill send ye master to follow ye to hell."
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Seras Held onto the heavy silver hand gun. She knew there was at least one bullet left. Standing on the red carpet she took aim for the paladin.
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Anderson raised the swords in his hand over Alucard's head. The crazed face showed total victory as his mind gave his arms the order to lower the weapons threw the vampires head.
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Seras opened fire with the weapon. She felt the bones in her arm shatter sending the fragments into her flesh totally destroying any chance of mending the limb. Her arm went limp from the lost support from any bone structure. But the bullet flew true and grabbed the paladin's attention as it slammed into his back. Turning the priest was shocked by who he saw. "You?!"
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Anderson felt the hot metal enter his back. At first he didn't understand then the thought of Hellsing reinforcements coming to the demons aid entered his mind. Turning he couldn't believe who it was that had shot him. Looking back he saw the re-humaned vampire, Seras Victoria. Her right arm hung limp, it barely held the gun that it fired.
"So, even after God granted ye freedom from this demon you still stand by its side." Anderson said as he started walking towards Seras.
"I was wrong about ye, I thought ye had the sense to pick up where ye left off and so I let ye live. I see ill have to send ye with ye master to hell!"
Seras just stood there, dwarfed by the huge man. She did all she could think of when she pulled the trigger that shattered her arm. How long would it have been until Iscariot came after her anyway? To killer her, to study her body for the secrets of a vampire turned human?
"In the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost!" Anderson raised the swords to strike down the young woman. "Amen!"
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Alucard couldn't believe it. Seras had actually taken his weapon and used it even though she knew the result of her actions. He couldn't let the crazed paladin kill her. Looking to his side just outside his reach was his jackal. Forcing his remaining strength he felt his remaining arm stretched and picked up the gun. A single bullet remained judging by the weight.
The pain from the weapon was making his vision blur. He forced his arm to continue to stretch to the paladin. He tapped the jackal on the paladins shoulder to get his attention.
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Anderson felt something tap his shoulder as he was about to strike down Seras. Turning he saw the black gun being held by a far to long arm and hand. Turning back he saw Alucard still pinned to the alter with the sword still embedded in his shoulder. Suddenly he felt the barrel of the gun jam into his neck.
"Good bye, catholic!" Alucard shouted as he pulled the trigger. The bullet exploded at point blank. The explosive rounds force was enough to completely destroy the paladin's neck leaving nothing to connect head to body. The jackal clattered to the floor, its barrel destroyed much like it was when it was used to kill Incognito. Anderson's headless body collapsed to the floor and convulsed before growing still.
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Seras ran towards Alucard, as soon as she was in arms reach she pulled the large claymore out of his shoulder and threw it aside with little effort. As the priest had promised, the wounds were closing up painfully slow, however, Alucard's blood that was splattered all over the room remained still.
Seras bent down towards Alucard, her soft blue eyes holding tears. "Please tell me you can get threw this, please."
Alucard's eyes were half open; he was so weak that he doubted he could heal in time. He felt like he did moments before he turned into a mound of blood and guts at the tower where he defeated Incognito. "Police girl... I'm... glad you're alive." Alucard rasped, coughing up blood.
"Don't, please just stand up and grin for me. You've been threw worse, you can't die. You would be letting Anderson win after all."
"Not... this time... police gir... Seras. I lost to much blood in... the fight..." Alucard reached up and brushed a tear away from Seras' check.
"I still... prefer... the red ones, Seras..." Alucard said. Blood started to stream out of the sides of his mouth. He could practically see the reaper behind Seras, waiting for him to die so he could take his soul down to hell.
For the first time sense she became human again she realized fully how much her master meant to her. She realized why he never mentioned the serum, he saw so much potential in her, a power that all humans had but was almost never awakened, and she was to blind by her own stupidity to realize it.
Sighing Seras unzipped the top of her jacket, exposing her neck much more. Even in Alucard's state he saw what she was doing. "No, Seras. Don't...couch not for my... not for my sake."
Bending down, Seras embraced her fallen master, she could swear she felt shallow breathing coming from his mouth. "It's my choice, master." Seras whispered into his ear.
For a moment she thought he would refuse, or that he was too weak to do what she was asking him to do. Suddenly she his fangs weakly sink into the old scar marks from the first bite. All the sensations came flooding back as her blood left her to heal her renewed master. 'Poetic, isn't it master? That this time around I'm the one saving you?' Seras thought as she felt their link reopen.
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The Hellsing troops stormed into the church, guns drawn. Alucard had failed to report in for over an hour and now they feared the worst. The first thing they saw was the head rolling around from being hit by the door, a few of the soldiers cringed at that sight. The church was a total mess but it wouldn't matter in a few hours. The government had enough of Cheddar and so in a few hours a barn fire would grow out of control and engulf the town before it could be put out.
Walking down the blooded carpet one of the soldiers rolled the headless corpse over. "Iscariot agent..." one of the soldiers mumbled.
"More than that, it was Anderson..." Another spoke up, having recognized the face on the head.
"Wow... thought he was a regenerator though."
"There he is!" Another soldier shouted, spotting Alucard at the alter, apparently asleep. As the troopers came closer they noticed a young girl in a D-11 uniform along side Alucard, her eyes closed as well.
"Commander Victoria?" One of the soldiers said out loud. Hearing her name she stirred from her spot next to Alucard. Her blood red eyes fluttered open.
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364 days, 23 hours and thirty minutes later... half an hour till the year is out.
Seras fired her new gun, the redeemer, into a swarm of freaks. The miniature cannon's bullets ripped threw the enemy ranks before exploding, sending silver shrapnel into any nearby freak. Along the side of the guns barrel was a simple phrase. "Reprieve denied..."
She ran down the hall way as she heard the gun chatter of her fellow Hellsing soldiers going off. As she rounded the corner she fired two rounds into the narrow passage way, the bullets screamed by the soldiers over head and hit the remaining ghouls, killing them instantly. "Amen!" Seras shouted as the last ghoul fell to dust.
"Indeed, commander." One of the soldiers said. "Well that was the last of them, we can handle removing the evidence from here sir."
Seras gave a slight smile and nodded; opening up a portal she walked threw it and entered her room. Putting the gun down on the table she grabbed the blood packet and bit down without any hesitation. Her vampire powers had grown rapidly sense her re-embrace, Alucard had personally seen to that.
Throwing the empty bag aside she sighed and looked at the calendar. Thoughts of both teams she had lost on this night came flooding back, but they weren't sad memories. Each one of them, Andy, Eugene, Bobby, Dan, and Rick, they all drove her now with a passion. Each ghoul was mercifully laid to rest and the vampire that made them personally had a taste of hell by her hands before going to hell, compliments of the redeemer. A few frames of each man hung on the wall next to her coffin, a reminder to her why she fights.
Alucard never made a pun about what drove her; he enjoyed her methods of honoring the "Fallen human officers" to much to say otherwise.
"Hello master." Seras said as she felt him enter her room threw the wall.
"Hello savior." Alucard replied. Ever sense that night back in cheddar that was her new private nick name between the two, in front of others it was always police girl. "I see you had fun tonight."
"Not really, the vampire I found was pitiful. The bastard actually thought I was a joke in my uniform."
"I hope you showed him the errors of his ways." Alucard replied, taking a seat in one of the chairs.
"What do you think?" Seras said with a smile, revealing her fangs as she took the other seat. Alucard smiled at his fledgling, it was indeed poetic that she saved him in the same place he saved her. This year had been much more interesting. Seras no longer refused to drink, had eagerly developed her powers and privately Alucard knew she was nearly on par with him save for one thing.
Placing two wine glasses on the table Alucard pulled out a vial of Walter's serum and poured it into one of the glasses. Taking a knife he cut open his hand and let the blood pour into the other wine glass, the wound resealed quickly.
"Master?" Seras asked confused.
"You have about ten minutes left, Seras, before the year is out. The choice is yours." He said with a grin as he placed the two glasses towards her.
Seras looked at the two wine glasses placed before her. One held the blood of her master, the other the serum to go back to being mortal, the correct serum anyway. When they had returned to the mansion that night they were greeted by Walter, a large grin on his face.
"You planned this didn't you, Angel of death?" Alucard said as Seras slept in his arms.
"It was only fair that she knew everything that this life would bring Alucard." Walter said, with the grin still on his face.
Neither Alucard nor Walter knew Seras had awoken and heard the little conversation. Silently Seras thanked Walter in her mind for her little reprieve.
With a grin Seras took hold of the glass with the serum and brought it to her lips and started to tilt its contents into her mouth. She enjoyed the utter shock on Alucard's face; she knew he thought she was an open book still.
"Got you, master." Seras laughed as she put the glass down, all the serum still in the cup, grabbed hold of the other glass and drank her master's blood.
Alucard was still recovering from his shock when he saw her drain the glass with his blood in it. He smiled at her; she indeed would be a great Nosfaratu.
The End.
Authors note:
Well I hope that this ending gives everyone what they wanted. Personally, I don't think that ill be creating a sequel to this story but one never knows. The entire idea behind this story was that Seras truly didn't know what she was getting into when she agreed to be turned by Alucard. Being given a choice to becoming human or staying vampire seemed fitting and I wanted to show that things that we normally take for granted, such as eating a simple hamburger, going out during the day and so forth should always be like a first time experience as shown how Seras savored even simple paperwork. Ultimately Seras decided to return to being Alucard's fledgling not because he was dieing but because it was her choice and she knew all the things that entailed in that choice.