1Chapter 5

In the days and weeks that followed after the warehouse incident Seras showed little improvement in healing her leg. Her healing was so little that even Integra had ordered Walter to begin searching the house library for the slim chance of finding any reference to silver dust in hopes of finding a cure. While Walter searched the Doctors monitored Seras' body almost constantly.

Looking over the report on Seras' latest blood work Integra sighed as it said the same thing as the others, no silver or infection was found in her body. The doctors didn't know why her leg hadn't even showed signs of regeneration until three days ago. Alucard had left the house in search of the hunter that had released the dust in the warehouse nearly a week ago. "Bloody hell, this house is too closely nit together." Integra said to herself.

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A lone figure draped in red and black walked the darkened allies and streets. The man passed threw crowds unnoticed and unhindered. Behind his yellow glasses his eyes remained closed and yet he never once collided with a person or object. With all his mental powers he searched the area for any sign of David.

At first there was nothing, then almost an echo in his mental radar. Pushing harder Alucard was certain; he was close by. Entering a hotel Alucard continued up the stairs to a room at the end of the hall. He was certain this time. Opening his eyes he stepped back and kicked the door in, not caring how much noise he made or the fact that three people saw his forced entry. Standing at the other end of the dark room, clothed in a black leather trench coat and matching gloves with weapon in hand stood David.

"Knocking was never your thing." David simply said.

"Not nearly as fun as coming threw the walls." Alucard replied.

"What do you want Nosfaratu." David spat as his weapon extended.

"Your dust hurt an innocent." Alucard replied, going for his weapon. "I'm here to bring you to her to cure her."

At this David laughed "my dust only kills the vampire vermin that infest this world. Pity it wasn't you that it touched." David entered his attack stance and waited for Alucard to make his first move.

"I'm not here to fight you for a change." Alucard replied, returning his weapon to its hoister. "Seras is an innocent, she is only a vampire because of circumstance, and she has never killed a human, has never drunken blood from a still breathing being. You of all people should know that all vampires are not evil, you were trained by one after all."

"Bah, if you want me to cure her, you will have to defeat me." David replied, turning towards the window he smashed the glass threw and leapt out the third story building onto the street. Alucard ran to the window to his David look up with an all to familiar smirk on his face before he fan away.

Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick. Turning to his right Alucard spotted another one of David's Silver dust bomb. Jumping out of the window he was quickly followed by a cloud of silver dust. Landing hard Alucard quickly rolled to avoid the ensuing cloud of silver. Regaining his bearings, he raced after David.

Alucard caught up with David on the outskirts of the town. No civilians, no casualties, Alucard thought to himself, guessing at his opponents reasoning. Unlike David, Alucard wouldn't have minded fighting right in the street without any regard for the humans safety. But he was being forced to stay on David's terms. Whipping out his two jackals he took aim and fired.

All would have been kill shots but each one was defected by the staff weapon even as David continued to run, not showing any signs of tiring. "Coward!" Alucard shouted at his opponent as he continued to flee.

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"Coward!"

'Good, he's angry'Turning sharply on his heel, he faced the Nosfaratu. The turning of his heel caused wisps of soil to be thrown into the air as he turned. Charging at Alucard, David sidestepped and rolled to avoid a series of bullets shot in his direction. Reaching his target he arced his staff's blade down towards his targets arm with the intent of slicing it off.

Alucard reacted in time to avoid the head of the weapon but was cut as the rear came up from his opponents back. David had continued the motion even though he missed the arm entirely; the result was a gash across Alucard's right cheek.

Alucard recoiled in pain and surprise at the attack. He felt the pain of the silver blades slicing his cheek open and expected the venom from the weapons serrated edges to eat his body. But he felt no pain from and silver or mercury in his body. The slice quickly healed, but by then David was in another attack stance and charging towards him with the staff level as if he intended to run Alucard threw.

Taking both guns this time Alucard fired off all the remaining bullets at his attacker. This time David aimed the staff down into the ground and launched himself from it. As he flew over Alucard's body he felt a gentle warm liquid flow from a bullet hole in his shoulder. Landing on the other side he took a star hidden in his selves and threw it toward his opponent. The star found its target and buried itself into Alucard's left arm.

Pulling out the star Alucard threw it aside. "You're toying with me. On any other day I would entertain you but I'm a little pressed for time."

David began to charge at him again, a throwing star in one hand and a strange weapon that looked like a gun in the other. Taking his gun that had a bullet left, Alucard aimed at David's legs and fired. The bullet tore threw David's leg and sent him falling to the ground. Rolling onto his back David threw his star, slicing the hand holding the gun clean off, the hand and gun fell to the ground with a loud thunk.

Both looked at each other, Alucard's hand was already regenerated; David wasn't so lucky. David had gun shot wounds in both his leg and shoulder. "Fine, give me my staff." David said between heavy breaths.

Walking over, Alucard pulled the menacing looking weapon out of the ground and handed it to his opponent. Using the staff to hold himself up David began to concentrate, with great amount of concentration; he forced the bullets out the wounds they created. Panting, David, looked down at the ground to see the bullets lying in the grass shining with his blood.

"Well I'm glad you haven't forsaken everything, little dunpeal." Alucard smirked.

"Oh shut up, just take me to her, ill fix what I did." David barked back. David began to walk but fell over; his leg was just too weak to hold his body weight. Trying to pull himself up again he felt an arm reach for him and being pulled over his neck. Looking to his right he saw the man he was fighting. "How degrading..." David murmured.

"Hmm, oh yes, Integra is going to think I'm going soft, yes this is degrading." Alucard brook out in laughter at his own bad joke, David just moaned.

editors note: I'm hoping the story is starting to take shape and will make people post reviews hint, hint.