1 Chapter 9

Alucard stood there silently, this was his son and at the same time it wasn't. David's mother and master Berne had taught him his virtues, but this, being, or what ever this thing was, wasn't his son.

Markus made the first move, with blinding speed he closed the distance between Alucard and himself, they now stood only inches away from each other. On reflex, Alucard jumped back in time to avoid the blade of the staff from slicing him in two. He had no choice now, he had to fight regardless of the fact that his own blood ran threw this mans veins. Taking his jackal Alucard unloaded the entire clip into the chest of his son.

Markus stammered back, his hand clutching his bloody chest. Looking at Alucard and back at the bullet wounds he began to laugh. Ripping the clothing off his chest he revealed the gapping holes in his body and the blood that poured from the wounds. Clenching his hands into fists and tightly closing his eyes his pushed the bullets slick with his blood out of his own body, the rounds fell to the ground with clanks and glistened red in the dim light. The pool of blood that had formed around him gathered and clawed up his legs and entered the wounds before they sealed leaving no scars.

Opening his eyes he smiled at Alucard, "Please tell me that was just a warm up father." Alucard threw his weapon aside; it was pointless to use the weapon. Mentally, Alucard asked the woman that mothered his son for forgiveness.

"Situation A, removing the seal, the Cromwell approval is now in affect." Alucard's human from melted into a formless glob of blood and eyeballs, suddenly several hellhounds shot from the formless glob. Racing towards their target they howled revealing their fangs. When they were nearly upon Markus he side stepped to avoid the first hound and dodged the second.

The hounds regained themselves and renewed their attacks with more force then before. The first hound lunged for Markus's arm but only bit into air. The second hound was a little luckier though, while the first hound distracted Markus the second managed to sink its teeth into his leg. Opening his palm, Markus unleashed a maelstrom of fire onto the hound, the hound turned to ash within seconds.

The remaining Hound morphed into a formless glob of blood before returning to the human form of Alucard. Upon returning to his human body Alucard looked drained and breathed heavily for air. He quickly stopped when he remembered his was undead.

"Oh come now father, is that all that you have left? The great nosaratu can't defeat a simple dunpeal?" Markus mocked. Making his hands into fists Markus concentrated, suddenly black fire erupted over his arms. Smiling, Markus raced towards Alucard at blinding speed. Throwing a punch Markus's fist connected with Alucard's face, black fire remained on the impact mark for a moment. Alucard tried to counter by delivering a kick to Markus's side but to no avail.

DS/

Seras followed her master as fast as she could, halfway to where he had run off to she saw him engaged in battle with another vampire, and losing. With a new sense of urgency she ran faster than she had ever before. Entering the mansion she discovered piles of dust with silver stars embedded within them. There was no doubt in her mind now that David was here. But why wasn't he helping her master in his fight? Regardless she raced up the stairs and kicked open the doors.

Black flames and dark light greeted her as she entered what remained of the third story of the once great house. 'Was this what my master meant?'

In the center of it all two being's battled. Seras instantly recognized her master in his red trench coat. He was having a difficult time holding his ground; if this dragged on much longer he would most certainly lose the match. The other only wore pants and boots; black flames enveloped his arms but didn't seem to faze him. Going into a lying position Seras took aim with her cannon. As she was about to shoot the enemy vampire his stance changed and she got a clear view of his face. "David?"

'Police girl take the shot!' Alucard's voice boomed in her head.

'Master? What's going on? Why are you fighting David?' Seras returned

'This isn't David anymore, take the shot!'Alucard replied.

'Yes, my master.' Looking down the barrel of the cannon Seras finger slowly pulled the trigger. Before she could get a shot off a lone figure ran out from the smoke and black fire towards her. Kicking the cannon to the side the force caused the shot to go off, the projectile fired safely into the distance away from both Alucard and David. Looking up Seras saw the figure of a well-built man. One hand was missing while the other held a Celtic sword. "I can not allow you to interfere." Aundae said.

Rolling quickly to her side Seras avoided the sword strike meant for her. Getting to her feet she pulled a pair of side arms and unloaded the clips at the new attacker. Aundae dodged a fair number of them while a few others impacted into his arms. Stepping back he quickly pushed the silver rounds from his body with his mind.

"I'm sorry young one, but your simple weapons will have no affect on me. Prepare yourself" jumping towards her Aundae was about to strike when a staff blocked his sword.

"What?!"

Looking at the being that blocked him he was shocked to see David holding the weapon. Looking at his eyes he saw them shifting from red to blue and back again. With a quick twitch of his hand David severed Aundae's arm. Stammering back Aundae retained a neutral expression on his face. David made no move and remained in his same stance with his weapon held above his head, his eyes continuing to shift back and forth in color, an indication of the battle being waged in his soul.

"I see that Markus still does not have full control over the body, no matter. My master will be pleased either way. Until then." slowly Aundae's form separated into hundreds, then thousands of bats, flying away leaving the trio behind.

Running to her master's side she pulled his arm behind her head in an attempt to help stabilize him. The pair looked at David, his body remaining in the same stance that it was when he took the other vampires arm, his eyes continuing to shift between red and blue.

"Master, what do we do with David?" Seras asked, looking into Alucard's eyes. The weakened vampire looked at his son. David was still in there, fighting for his life, no fighting for his soul.

"We take your brother home, police girl."

DS/

David watched as his body was being controlled by his vampire half. He was fighting Alucard, his father. As much as he hated him, as much as wanted to allow Markus to continue, he fought for control. Suddenly he felt a new presence near by, Seras. Someone else, someone that he had lost track of when he lost control advanced towards her, Aundae. He knew what was going to happen next, he couldn't allow it; he forbad it.

Reaching up he punched Markus off of him. Elongating his own fangs he bit down on Markus's arm. Blood poured from the wound and he felt some control return to him. "What are you doing?!" Markus demanded, ripping David off his arm. Using the strength that David had recovered he summoned his weapon or choice and inflamed his arms as well; the light that the flames gave off was a pure white.

"Oh so that's how it's going to be. Fine ill play your game." Markus said. Summoning the twisted version of the staff he to inflamed his arms with his black fire. Both didn't waste any time and ran towards each other. The clash of their weapons sent waves of thunder threw out the massive room that both personalities resided in. Opening his palm David threw a ball of white fire towards Markus. The fire sped towards Markus in a blink of an eye and would have killed a mortal before he could draw his next breath, but Markus managed to dodge the ball of fire.

Taking several stars from his pocket, Markus threw them all towards David.

DS/

Seras looked at the display on her field cell phone, still no reception in the area. Walking along side her master she let out a long sigh. "Something on your mind police girl?"

"How can you ask me that after telling me all this to me about David Master? I still don't fully understand how David could possibly be my brother. And why are his eyes changing color back and forth like they are?"

This time it was Alucard who let out the long sigh as they silently walked along the abandoned county side. "Long ago, I was a very different being than what I am today. I was the king of all Nosfaratu, my castle sat on a cliff in Romania. I had a court, a private army of ghouls and vampire generals. I had vampire wives and mistresses. I had everything any man could want, mortal or otherwise, everything except this one woman.

"She was mortal but for some reason I didn't care. At first she defied me, ignoring my summons and requests to come to my castle. Finally one night I came to her thinking I would make her like me and then she would be mine. Little did I know that she was a skilled warrior with the sword or any other weapon, naturally I defended myself when she attacked me." A smile broke over Alucard's face as he remembered the small battle that had happened that night. "Anyway she managed to get out of the house and ran into the woods. If I hadn't followed she would have been dead.

"A group or rival vampires and found her and had her at their mercy. Of course she gave them hell; she wasn't the kind to go down with out a fight. Before they could kill her I was upon them and within a hand full of heartbeats I had slain them all. That's what convinced her; she agreed to come to my castle under one condition, that I would never change her."

Seras was amazed at what she had just heard from her own master. She knew that he had feelings for his master, Sir Integra, but she didn't think that he had actually loved a mortal woman. Quickly glancing at the display on the cell she noted that it was still roaming for a signal.

"Well eventually, she and I married and had a mortal marriage or all things. She gave birth to my first and only child, Markus. I guess I should have known better but I didn't care. At the age of five my son had the body of an eight teen year old and the mind equal to that age. He was my pride; my son was the perfect blend of my wife and myself."

Alucard swallowed hard as he recounted what came next. "Around the time Markus had actually aged to eight teen he had caught the eye of a young countess in my court. Well young compared to a vampire, she was about a hundred or so but it didn't matter, they were in love. He had even proposed to her and she accepted.

"Then it happened, three days before the wedding was to take place, the plague had came threw the surrounding villages and passed threw my castle. Its deadly effects affected no one, not even Markus; all save for my darling human wife. The disease ate at her body leaving only pain and misery. Markus begged his mother to allow me to turn her; naturally she refused. She was so stead fast on her choice that she would not back down from it.

"Markus came to me and begged that I go against her wishes, that she didn't know what she was talking about, that the disease had warped her mind. I wanted to believe that, but I knew better. I respected her choice and only she could have changed her mind. The day finally came and she died in the arms oh her son. He brought me her body and laid it at my feet, his eyes we so cold, after that he left, no one, not even his beloved knew where he had gone. I tried to find him threw our mental bond but I could never find where he was if he didn't want to be found. And so I lost track of him until recently."

Seras couldn't believe it, but it made so much sense in its own way. Still, Alucard hadn't answered her question. "Oh, yes that. He's your brother because you were turned by me, should I turn another then them to would be your sibling." Alucard replied as he read her thoughts.

Her mind was spinning; most of her questions had been answered so she pressed on. "Master, why are David's eyes changing color like this?" she asked gesturing towards David's eyes that continued to shift from blood red to blue and back again.

"I suspect that it's because David is at war with himself. David is half human, half vampire, every time David kills, he losses a little bit of control over his vampire side until eventually the vampire takes control. The battle may be over for us police girl, but for him, he's fighting to put the beast back in check."

Seras look at David now sympathy. She couldn't think of anything that could compare to what he was going threw. "Can he win?" Seras asked.

Alucard stopped and thought about the question. "As far as I know, all other dunpeal that lose themselves to their vampire side have been met with death..."

DS/

David threw Markus off of his staff and ripped the last star out of his leg. He had lost all track of time, he felt like there was no end in sight for this battle. No, he had put the beast back in its cage before and he could do it again. Markus had rebounded from being thrown from his prey and ran at David with his staff in one hand and a fireball in the other.

David dodged the staff but the flame hit its target. The Black fire latched onto his arm and began to spread. He felt what little control he had left over his body began to wane. Jumping to the side David quickly twisted his arm off and tossed it aside.

"Ouch, that had to hurt." Markus mockingly said.

"Not as much as this will." David threw his staff aside and ran towards Markus as fast as he could, his remaining arm erupted in his own flame just as he grabbed and twisted his opponent's arm. The Black flame that covered Markus's arm was overcome by the other, Markus quickly ripped off his arm. Both personalities stood facing each other, gripping the stubs that once were there arms. "Why...why are you fighting this, it's... it's your destiny." Markus rasped.

"I'm getting sick of all these people telling me about this destiny of mine. Ill fight this dark and demented plan for me as long as I can!" Both charged towards each other with nothing but there arms engulfed in black and white fire.