1Chapter 10
Alucard laid David down in his own oversized coffin. He felt that he was laying his Son in his deathbed; he hoped that wasn't the case. Pressing the button on the side, the top lowered and sealed with a resounding clank. 'If he loses this battle, I doubt this will keep him in for long.'
Turning, Alucard walked threw the wall and headed toward Integra's office.
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Integra sat at her desk reading over the documents that the Iscariot sent over. Most of the documents contained old vampire stories, legend and some personal history about her family's protector, Alucard. "Dam, how did they find out about the dunpeal vermin so quickly?" Integra silently cursed to herself.
"Simple, they have a spy in your ranks, Integra." a voice from the walls echoed. Silently Alucard walked thru the wall, a smirk on his face. Integra looked up at Alucard as he approached her desk. Handing him the document she tried to guess what he was thinking as he looked over the document.
"Care to explain this to me Alucard, how much of this report is fact, no more lies."
Alucard read quickly the report, indeed most of it was speculation and other portions were totally false. But one section was cold hard fact, flipping to the next page he looked at a photo of carved stone. The stone had seen its fair share of time and was moderately worn, but its message still stood out clear. Silently he read the carvings in his mind, like he had done so many times before.
A man neither alive nor dead shall be born half way to a mortal mother. The holy metal will protect and bind his being and power. His power will know no limits but will be controlled by his blood. His families name will be his true form. He will have the power to rule all our kind, or destroy our kind. The dark gift and a wish will be passed to the one that slays the twilight prince. Only suns metal may bring an end to the twilight.
Alucard looked up at Integra, "It's a legend among the vampires, a twilight being, other wise known as a dunpeal will become a vampire. Once that happens then everything is set in motion. Any other dunpeal, if a vampire tried to turn them would die instantly or go insane and slaughter anything in its path for three days, and then die. But if one survives and becomes a vampire than he will become a hundred fold more powerful than the strongest normal vampire, me." Alucard said with a smirk towards the end. Integra didn't look amused.
"His family name will be his true form, that means what ever his fathers name means will be a form that he can become. The other versus means that so long as he lives, all vampires and dunpeal shall continue to live, should he die, we will all die. Lastly, who ever that kills him will become a vampire himself, but more powerful, he will have the combined power of all vampire and dunpeal, and if that happens, than there will be nothing to stop that being form re spreading the curse."
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Both David and Markus held each other's necks in their grips of fire; both flames licked the others necks as they gained hold of the others flesh. David's vision began to darken as he felt the flames take hold of his neck. Finally he threw Markus back, batting at his neck he put the fires out on his neck. The flesh was swollen and burnt, but other wise no real damage had happened.
"I...I think that we need a breather...would...wouldn't you agree, David?" Markus said between breaths.
"What...what are you planing?"
A smirk appeared on Markus's face, slamming the end of his staff into the ground he began to laugh. Shockwaves rippled threw the ground, the ground lifted and sunk, before he knew what had happened, David was in a maze in his own mind. "Great..."
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A lone figure sat on a giant thrown in a cavernous room. Her slender body was draped in a thin black material, she looked down at he most loyal servant and noted his missing arm and the fact they refused to heal. "Are you certain Aundae that David moved against your attack on the other vampire while fighting Alucard?"
"Yes my master, forgive me, I was not able to carry out your orders my lady."
"Non sense, the fact that he moved against you proves it is the twilight that we seek. You did well my servant, now go, have our friend heal your arm and hand." Aundae bowed deeply and left into the shadows. The woman looked down at a little intricate device centuries old, inside it contained blood in the outer rim, slowly it seeped into a section closer to the center and stopped, signaling that one step was either complete, or about to happen.
Silently a smile crept across her face, everything was going as planed, her army was slowly forming, key targets were being turned one by one, and soon she would make her move, soon everything would be as it should have been all those many years ago.
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David walked down the hallways that made up the maze, his arm engulfed in his white flame ready to block or attack anything Markus threw at him. Every now and then he would put him remaining arm on the wall and let the flame turn whatever stone, if this was stone, black to mark where he had been.
Suddenly a voice echoed rhythmic threw the halls "If I go crazy then will you still call me superman, if I'm a alive and well will you be there holding my hand...."
At first David didn't understand, and then he realized what it meant. One of his son's favorite band's had made a song called Kryptonite. The lyric reminded him when his vampire side took over, when Markus took over. "Bastard, how dare you..." David cursed under his breath.
A laugh echoed threw the stone; he was close if he could hear David's curse. With renewed energy David ran down the hallway towards the source of the laughter.
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Walter stood silently in Miss. Hellsing's office as she went threw some papers on her desk. He was accustomed to this; it was her way of getting her thoughts together before giving him whatever order or task for him to carry out. 'Another trait she learned from her father...' Walter silently thought to himself when he quickly glanced at the giant portrait of his old friend.
"Walter..."
"Yes Mam" Walter said snapping to attention.
"I remember that you have a contact with the American's anti vampire order, Section 80 was it?"
"Yes Mam, a distant cousin actually, we keep in touch and trade weapon specs, intelligence, that sort of thing. In fact, Alucard's Jackal is based on a design that Section 80 personal use in their missions."
"I want you to contact your cousin and tell him about David's condition, we don't have much background on dunpeals... perhaps they can offer some help for the man."
"Sir Integra?"
"Just do it Walter, let me know when you get some results."
"Yes Mam." Walter turned and left the room closing the door behind him.
Walking down the hallway to his room Walter was puzzled over his conversation with Sir Integra. Before this, Sir Integra made no attempt to hide her disgust of their newest member for what he was. Why was she now, in her own way showing concern for him?
Entering his room Walter walked over to his desk and turned on his computer, putting a head set on he opened his email and entered in the address to his cousin. Scrolling down he entered the handshake phrase for his cousin to counter.
God save the Queen. Hitting send Walter waited for several minutes before he received his reply. God bless America. Smiling, Walter hit the reply button and entered a handshake phrase for the one he just received. God bless those that cast down evil. Hitting send Walter waited two minutes before receiving his reply. God blesses all that casts down evil. Clicking on the text and the screen changed. A series of windows popped open, some had scrolling code, and others scrambled the automatic trace programs that both Hellsing and Section 80 used. One displayed a countdown of about five minutes before the anti trace programs were over ridden and both organizations found each other.
Finally the last window popped up with a video feed of a woman in her mid fifties. Light brown hair flowed from her head and complemented her face. A pair of glasses stood on her face but didn't hide the soft green eyes she had. A warm smile was on her face when she saw her cousin. "Hello Walter, it's been a while sense we have seen each other."
"Sidney, its good to see you, how is the family in America?" Walter asked, this was the final test they gave each other; they would ask each other information that only the other would know.
"Their doing well, I'm a grand mother now. I had sent you photo of my daughters little boy, looks a little like you." Sidney giggled. Walter Glanced at the photo already in a frame that he had received the day before.
"I look forward to seeing him at the next family reunion if I can pull myself from work." Walter said with a slight smile on his face.
Finally Sidney's face turned a little more serous as she glanced at the timer, they had about four minutes left. "So Walter, what do you need?"
Swallowing, Walter proceeded to tell his cousin the condition that David was in. He couldn't lie out all the details, they didn't have the time, but he made sure that she got what she needed. "Okay, ill contact my superior about this David's condition and will see what can be done, the reply will come threw proper channels this time around."
Glancing at the clock Walter quickly thanked his cousin and clicked the command to disconnect. In a few days he would get the reply he would need.
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Integra sat at her desk with one of her cigars in her mouth. She looked at the portrait of her father and wondered out loud. "What would you have done father? Is it bad enough that I let Alucard turn Seras into his underling? If what Alucard said is true, I can simply have some prisoner come and kill David and just seal away the man forever. Why, why don't I do that?"
She already knew the answer; Alucard was like a brother, no something more to her. She had to admit, she was even a little fond of Seras though she would never admit it to either one of them. Taking another puff of her cigar Integra looked out the window, dawn was approaching.
"Dam it all."
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Alucard stood over the form of his son. Over the years and century's he would now and then mentally search for his son in hopes of finding him. Maybe that was one of the reasons he had become the way he was today, a little crazy.
But now, he wished that he could help him, reaching mentally for David's mind he was met with resistance. He pushed a little harder and the result was he being thrown into the wall. Standing back up he sighed, closing the door to the coffin and making sure it was secured Alucard walked to his chair and sat down. Pulling his Jackal out of his coat he sat it in his lap and turned the safety off. Slowly the Nosfaratu drifted to sleep.
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Seras laid in her bed in her flat, one of the few things she still owned before being turned by her master. It had been a while sense she was here, and she just needed some time alone. She looked over at the photo of her father holding her on his shoulder when she was a young girl. God she missed those days.
Not that along ago she didn't believe in vampires, now she was one. She didn't know what it would be like to have any siblings, now she has a brother, and to top it off, she can have more if Alucard turns anyone else.
"What should I do Daddy?"
Before she could think of an answer that her father would say she was fast asleep.
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David finally stopped running; there was no possible way to find the source of the laughter with the way the sound would bounce off the walls. It was still annoying as hell to listen to Markus's laughter wherever he went. Walking along the hallways David soon began to think of this family that he had lost. It had been nearly three months sense that had happened and he was still no closer to killing Aundae. And yet, he felt as if Aundae was just a pawn in this game, true he was strong, but he lacked something.
Then it hit him, a will. Aundae lacked a will of his own; he was following someone else's orders. "Dam, that puts be back to square one."
Leaning against the stone wall David tried to make sense of it all, who wanted to kill his family, why bring out his demon, what was the bigger picture to all this?
"Dayyyvid, oh David can you come out to play?" Markus boomed in a maniac tone followed by psychotic laughter.