1 Chapter 8
To Seras, it was both terrifying and breath taking; she could see all the angles that all the little bats that were in place of her body could see. She could also sense her master more clearly; it was like he was right beside her. 'In time you will learn to do this your self, police girl.' Alucard said to her in her mind. 'Were almost there, be ready, were going to drop right in the middle of the town, and the ghouls.'
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David had reached the town limits when he began to hear, cannon fire? Spotting the first group of ghouls David quickly extended his staff and jumped into the middle of the massive group of ghouls. Decapitating the ghouls immediately around him with a single swipe David pushed a group of ghouls into a flood drain. Looking down at the large group's vain attempt to clime back out of the drain David felt a smile creep up on his face. Slowly his canine teeth grew slightly in size as he handled a pair of his silver dust grenades. Taking the pins out he tossed the pair into the drain and walked away.
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Alucard and Seras had already returned to normal. Back to back they quickly took out the town ghouls in their sights. Suddenly Seras stopped dead, standing not that far from her was a ghoul in Hellsing fatigues. "Oh god, not again..."
Hearing the police girl's voice Alucard looked at what she was talking about. Smiling he took aim with his jackal and fired. Suddenly an explosion was heard not that far away. Looking in the direction of where the blast came from both could see giant plumes of silver dust rising over the skyline of buildings. "Reveal in the destruction David, let your true form take shape!" Alucard shouted ecstatically as he stabbed his hand threw the body of a nearby ghoul, violently turning it to dust.
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Walking down the street David pulled a star from his coat and threw it aside, turning to the right the star hit a vampire squarely in its chest sending it flying into the street before it shook violently and turned to dust. Once again, David's fanes grew slightly in size at the death of another vampire. Walking silently again down the street he heard more cannon fire, this time closer. Stepping up the pace David ran towards the source of the noise. He didn't notice something clawing at the edge of his mind, or that his fangs had even grown.
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"Yes master, David approaches the mansion that I am standing in at this very moment. I will do my best to bring out Markus, the dark prince." A lone vampire mentally said to his master thousands of miles away. Looking out the window he could see giant plumes of silver smoke rising from the town. Looking down the street he could see the nosfaratu and another vampire fighting side by side against the ghouls and other vampires. Calmly, the vampire looked for the aura of his target.
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David walked calmly down the street, every now and then throwing a silver star in a direction followed by other worldly screams as the star hit its target. Turning the corner David saw Alucard and Seras fighting off a large group of ghouls and vampires in the middle of the road. From the looks of it there were handling themselves quite well. Looking down the street he saw a strange mansion. It felt like it was surrounded by something dark and forbidding. "He's there..."
Jumping onto a roof David quickly made his way to the mansion. As he ran past the battle the smell and sounds of the ghouls dying intoxicated his senses. Slowly a glaze of crimson lightly covered his vision as he passed by and headed towards the mansion.
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Was that? No it couldn't be David; he was back at the Hellsing manner. Taking out another group of ghouls with her cannon she looked back in the direction she saw the form run to. Nothing was on the roof or anything out of the ordinary save for the ghouls in Hellsing uniform advancing from that direction.
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David smashed threw the door like it was nothing and ran into the entry hall. Two vampires were lounging on a near by couch when David ran by, before they could react, silver stars were already embedded in there fore heads and quickly turned to dust. As David reached the top room he kicked the door in. Walking into the darkened room he saw the outline of a male figure. "Aundae!!"
"Yes? To whom do I have the pleasure of addressing?" the lone figure replied.
"I'm the man whose family you ordered killed." David spat, his vision was reddening and yet he still did not notice any change.
"Funny, you are not a man and yet you claim to be one. As for your family, you were never meant for one, at least not a human family. I took the liberty of freeing you from them." Aundae replied, a slight smile forming on his face.
"Bastard!" David shouted as he threw himself at his target. Calmly his target sidestepped and tripped his attacker with his foot. Jumping to the other end of the room he turned and looked at David.
"Oh come now, you knew from the prophecy what would happen and yet you went ahead and brought the mortals in on this." Aundae said calmly.
"Don't you dare talk to me about that!!" throwing an entire swarm of silver stars at the vampire David was sure that at least one would hit there target. To his disbelief not one reached their target, all of them were deflected by a sword of some kind.
"I must be mistaken; you're not the dark prince. The dark prince would have no problem dispatching the likes of me from this world. Or perhaps..." jumping towards David, Aundae leveled his own weapon onto his target. "...He needs a little incentive to come out."
Quickly pulling to the right David felt the tip of his blade slice threw flesh but at a price. Looking down he saw his stomach sliced open buy his opponent's own weapon. Looking up his face was contorted in pain; he saw the wrist of his opponent begin to bleed. Suddenly Aundae reached over and ripped off his own hand without so much as flinching. "Messy..."
Without warning David heard his heart beat in his ears, everything seemed to slow down, looking up into his opponent's face he saw an evil smile as if he had done what he set out to do. Everything turned a dark shade of crimson red. He felt fangs burst out of his mouth. No, oh God no, please....
David felt himself loss control of his body, he was just a viewer now...
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Alucard fired the last round in his jackal before he felt the mental shockwave. It was like perfectly dark energy washed over him like a tidal wave. It was like nothing he had felt before, not for a long time anyway. Looking towards the source of the darkness he saw a column of dark light erupt into the sky, the darkness pulsated as it continued to shoot into the sky with no end. Storm clouds rolled around the column as if attracted as well as repelled at the same time. Lightning struck at the column attracted to it like a giant lightning rod.
Without warning, the lightning the column had gathered shot out in all directions, striking down the ghouls and vampires with no problem, their bodies incinerating as the electricity pulsed threw there bodies, and shot threw the other side of them into another ghoul or vampire.
Alucard looked into the center of the dark column, even with his vampire sight he had a hard time looking past the wisps of dark mist and electricity. In the very center floated the form of a human, his muscular frame highlighted by glowing red hair that seemed to wildly go out in all directions. His face was blocked by wisps of dark mist.
Suddenly, lightning from the column shot towards Seras. Without thinking, Alucard threw himself towards her, pushing her out of the way and missing the bolt as well. "Master! What are you doing?" Seras shouted. Pulling himself off her, Alucard offered a hand to help pull Seras off the ground.
"You really should look out for the lightning police girl, I might not be able to save you the next time." Alucard said as he pulled Seras up.
"Lightning? Master there isn't a cloud in the sky, though I don't know what happened to all the vampires and ghouls." Seras said giving her master a strange look.
"You don't see the column or even the lightning that tried to strike you?"
"Master, are you okay?" a look of concern appeared on the police girl's face. Clearly she didn't see the darkness that was flaming up into the night sky. Slowly Alucard smiled, it was an invitation for battle!
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David struck out at the vampire with his staff but hit nothing but air, the vampire was quick. Throwing a swarm of his silver stars in a wide field gave him the same result; the vampire seemed to almost anticipate his moves.
Suddenly the room became dark on the outstretched walls. Looking around David couldn't find his enemy or see anything else. Clutching his staff he wildly threw it about hoping to hit something, anything. Listening he thought he heard the sound of a weapon cutting threw the air. Turning he blocked the blade of, his staff? No, not his, this one was darker, soaked in the blood of the innocent. Pushing back he finally got a good look of the face of his attacker. Himself, he was fighting himself.
The vampire smiled evilly at him as he returned the shove and pushed David to the floor. Before David could react the vampire threw stars into his clothing, pinning him down to the floor. The weapons glistened with blood.
The vampire descended over him until his face was only inches away from David's. His red eyes looking straight back into David's blue eyes with a defiant look, as if he had finally won a long battle. "I've been waiting for this moment for to long David, it's my turn now."
Defiantly David spat in the vampires face. "I put you back in your place before; I can do it again you bastard." Markus chuckled at the remark as if an old friend brought up a moment in time that was fun for both of them.
"Ah yes, that was nearly twenty years ago, wasn't it? Those poor Iraqi soldiers's didn't stand a chance. To bad that I ended up killing your platoon, weren't you trying to protect them though?" Markus smirked defiantly.
David struggled against the weight of his captor and the weapons that bound him to the ground. He wouldn't allow something like that to happen again. Suddenly Markus looked up, sensing the approaching vampires, David could sense them as well, Seras and Alucard. Smiling Markus looked down at David again. "It's been fun David, but I think ill have a talk with dear old Alucard." Falling down onto David's neck, Markus bit down and began to drink, with each drop he gained more control over the body they shared; it was David's turn to watch.
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"Watch how a true vampire does battle, police girl." with that, Alucard flew towards the dark column leaving Seras in the dust as she tried in vain to follow him. Adrenaline pumped threw Alucard's body in anticipation of fighting a possible equal.
As he approached a shockwave emanated from the column in an attempt to knock Alucard down. Quickly he jumped over it and onto a rooftop. Looking back he saw the shockwave strike several lamp polls, cutting them clean off. "What fun!" Alucard shouted as he continued to jump from rooftop to rooftop towards the dark force. "Again! AGAIN!!"
The being in the center of the column gladly agreed by sending several shockwaves and lightning bolts in Alucard's direction, Alucard was in primal joy, it had been a while sense such a vampire could release such amounts of power like this. Not even the recently killed incognito offered this. No, this vampire would be so much fun, to bad he would have to kill him after this. He would have liked to fight him a few more times.
Finally arriving at the base of the column Alucard stared into the dark swirling clouds, a feeling of power and electricity pulsated in the air. The being that floated in the center of the column stared right back at Alucard. An evil grin crept over the being's face; his glowing red hair pulsated in anticipation of the coming battle. In a slow and deliberate motion, he beckoned Alucard into the maelstrom.
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Markus floated in his column of darkness looking down at the Nosfaratu. Making a hand gesture, he beckoned the no life king in; Alucard entered the dark clouds that flowed around him. Lowering himself to ground level, his red eyes gazed coldly at Alucard. Both stared at each other, neither one saying anything or moving.
Alucard was the first to break the silence. "It's only fair that we exchange names before battle. I am Alucard, and you are?" A smile crept along Markus's face, slowly the dark clouds that surrounded his body parted, revealing his face to Alucard, he took great pleasure watching his face go white in seeing the body of the man that he would be forced to fight.
"Hello father..."