1 Chapter 4. Vampric assassin
The warehouse was old, but far from abandoned. Several snipers, looking threw their scopes could see movement inside but took no action. They were only there to observe, not silence. Over the radio, one of the snipers gave a number of many ghouls were in the warehouse. The commander sighed; Alucard and Sera's would have to deal with this one, way to many ghouls and vampires to put the forces in this one. "All right, all snipers pull out, will let the Sera's and...."
"Sir, new target heading towards the warehouse." one of the snipers quickly cut in. "Take him out?"
"No, that might be the secondary target, pull out."
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David could sense the ghouls and vampires in the warehouse, hundreds of them. All of them milling about in a seemingly unorganized fashion and oblivious to his presence. From his vantage point up in the scaffolds David could see at the far right a pen filled with humans. He didn't have to guess if they were scared. David walked silently above; he could see the vampires lounging in another corner, oblivious to his presence. They lounged in what used to be the managers office but the roof had long sense collapsed and had been removed. He was right above them now. They aren't my kind... Flicking a switch on his weapon, his staff extended.
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Alucard and Seras had arrived at the warehouse in both their usual fashion, Alucard by a swarm of bats, and Seras within a troop transport. Bringing her cannon she looked at the old warehouse. The windows looked darkened and the building itself deserted. Alucard reformed and walked over towards his child. "Time for some fun, police girl."
Entering the warehouse, the two vampires were shocked at what they saw, even Alucard was shocked, if not angered at the fact his fun was taken from him.
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Descending from his vantage point David landed in the middle of the vampire's, taking them by surprise. Swinging around David decapitated several vampires in his weapons wake, their bodies turning to dust as the last skin cell separated from the head. Throwing his staff like a spear he impaled a vampire threw the shoulder, coming cleanly out the other side and embedding itself into a concert wall, holding the vampire there in extreme pain as he couldn't escape the contact of ancient blessed silver.
Under his black trench coats sleeves, silver-throwing stars flew into his hand, throwing them at the remaining vampires, embedding themselves into different parts of their targets bodies. Looking towards the door he saw the army of ghouls heading towards the office and the source of the disturbance. Calmly walking to the door he pulled out an intricately crafted silver dagger, with a single motion, David slammed the dagger into the door and frame, stalling the ghouls for a time.
Turning to the vampire impaled on the staff he smiled sinisterly. "So, I guess you and I will have a little chat."
The vampire bared his fanes at David. Walking over David calmly rested his hand on the weapons controls. "As you may have guessed, this weapon is blessed silver, but what you don't know..." to make his point perfectly clear, pressed the release of mix lightly, releasing the mercury silver into the vampire's body. The vampire screamed in pain and begged for mercy.
"That mix that is flowing into your body is an ancient poison known only to Berne and his followers. I guess I don't have to explain anything else about that. You will die, even if I pulled the staff out of you right now, the poison will continue to kill you, eating you slowly from the inside out. I can make your death painless, provided you tell me what I want to know." David said with spite in his voice. The vampire gave him a dirty look. "What do you want to know?"
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In exchange for the promise of a quick death, the vampire told him about his master. A vampire of amazing power and strength that had promised all that followed him the world, a vampire named Aundae. A master of the dark magical powers granted to a vampire. He was the one that had ordered David's family killed. When asked why, the vampire didn't know.
David pulled another star from his sleeve. In a blink of an eye David pulled the vampires head down and stabbed the back of his neck with the star. The vampire screamed in pain and his body went limp. "You bastard!!" the vampire screamed.
Throwing another star into the scaffolds, a cable snap was heard. With a loud thunk, a silver suitcase fell to the ground. "Oh yes, I promised that I would grant you a quick death, just never said how. In this suitcase is a simple bomb, the payload however, is ground blessed silver crosses. Simply put, vampire radiation." David laughed. At the sound of this, the vampire's eyes widened in horror.
"The humans will be perfectly fine, just the ghouls and you will, well you know where this is going." David said as he quickly inputted the code to activate the bomb. Closing the case he threw it over the wall and into the crowd of ghouls. Walking over to the paralyzed vampire he put one booted foot on the chest and pulled the staff out. "Have a nice, oh thirty seconds of un-life."
Before David could leave, the vampire spat out one final question. "Who are you?!"
"Simple, I'm David, you may know me as the vampiric assassin." at this the vampire eyes widened. He went to say something else, but as he opened his mouth, the bomb blew, sending blessed silver dust into the air. He saw the cloud come over him, and then darkness.
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Entering the main storage section of the warehouse, both Alucard and Seras were shocked at what they saw. The warehouse was entirely empty, save the humans huddling in the one corner of the warehouse.
Seras was about to walk into the storage area when Alucard ripped her back; a small amount of dust flew back and touched Seras leg. Instantly she screamed as the dust began to sink into her leg. "Master what is this!?" Seras cried out.
"Blessed silver dust..." Alucard said as he tried to comfort his child. The dust had left fine holes in her exposed leg as they sank threw her body to the other end. Alucard was becoming nervous, silver dust was the one weapon that could not be dodged, pulled out, or removed without ripping the infected area off the body.
"Seras, I have to remove your lower leg to save you." Alucard said, in his rare solemn tone. Seras looked at her master; she nodded at him to do what had to be done. "It will be painful, but it will grow back." Alucard tried to assure her. Outside the warehouse, the troops heard a scream.
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Back at the Hellsing manor Alucard laid the sleeping form of his child in her four-post coffin. Where her right foot once was now was just a bandaged stump, it would be some time before her foot would re-grow and she could go back out on missions. Brushing a strand of her blond hair aside Alucard silently thought of what he would have done if his child had died. Though he would never admit it to anyone or even to Seras herself, he loved her like a father would love his daughter.
Hearing his masters' call in his head, Alucard quickly made sure his child was comfortable before floating up threw the ceiling. Floating threw the floor of his masters office he immediately realized this wasn't going to be pleasant.
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Integra was sitting at her desk with a glass cylinder in one hand and a report from Walter about the contents. Silently she recalled what Walter had told her about its contents.
"The lab has confirmed that the dust is in fact blessed silver; however the manufacture and way it was delivered is somewhat strange. First, the silver was from standard blessed silver crosses, we think about fifteen were used to cover the amount of space it had. The way the dust was made would hint at that the crosses were crushed as such a pressure that no known machine could make the dust this fine and small." Walter continued onto the way the dust was distributed but by then Integra had figured the rest out on her own.
Looking at the vial of silver dust, Integra raked her mind about anyone that could have created such a devastating weapon. It was the perfect vampire killing weapon, harmless to humans, but devastating to vampires and ghouls. If only her organization could replicate the process that had been used to make the dust so fine.
But then her thoughts turned to the object that had brought this potential new weapon to her attention, Seras Victoria. At first she found the young vampiris annoying at best, a distraction at worse. But after the Incognito incident, she had found her to still seem more human than vampire and even a little refreshing.
How could she justify the thought she was entertaining a few moments ago when Seras lay in her bed minus a leg and foot. Throwing the report onto her desk Integra got up and went to stand under the larger than life portrait of her father. Though he had long sense been dead, she still turned to him for guidance.
Without realizing it, Integra whispered the name of her bound servant. "Alucard." Quickly she regretted it as almost the moment she said his name she felt his presence behind her. "Its funny how humans turn to the dead for their answers, and yet when the dead reply, they usually run away."
Turning she faced the tall, red clothed vampire standing only inches from her. Ignoring what he had just said asked a hopefully seemingly harmless question. "How is Seras?" Integra asked, already returning to her desk.
"She's sleeping now, she lost a fair amount of blood, but it was necessary to remove and silver dust that had gotten passed the infected area." Alucard said in a seemingly unconcerned tone.
"Tell me Alucard, you know better than anyone most likely, why is this silver dust so dangerous to you vampires?" Integra asked rolling the vial in her hand. Silently she enjoyed watching Alucard shift around as he tried to come up with an answer to a question with the poison to vampires within throwing distance.
"The dust is so fine that it is attracted to the body. With it being silver and blessed, it cuts threw the vampire body nearly effortlessly. If it enters the bloodstream, that it is almost certainly lethal to the vampire it infects. The only thing that can stop it is to rip of the body part that has come in contact with it, and that's assuming that it touched a leg or arm." Alucard said, remembering the pain that he infected on his child and the rare emotion he felt as he forced himself to harm her to save her.
"You sound like you have dealt with this silver dust before Alucard, is there something else about it?" inquired Integra.
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Alucard knew where this was going. Integra wanted to know about a possible new weapon. Biting his tongue he had to make another choice, lie to his master again or tell her the truth. He opted for the first choice though he knew if he did this much more that he would end up Integra's favorite target for her shooting practice for the next ten years. "I dealt with it once before, a wannabe vampire slayer tried to use it on me, I had to rip off my arm." Alucard could sense Integra trying to pry into his mind to find the truth; luckily she couldn't read his mind that well.
For a moment Alucard thought that she had found that he was lying but then she just sighed and allowed him to leave. Quickly he fazed threw the floor. Returning to the police girl's room he pulled up a chair, put his feet on the table, and watched her sleep.