1Chapter 12

David leapt back as a tentacle slammed into the stone that he stood a moment before. Using his flame David threw up a wall of fire in hopes that he could conceal his location, but to no avail. To his surprise Markus sent both his tentacles threw the flame straight to David regardless of the danger to his own body.

David quickly jumped but only avoided one of the tentacles. He felt something strange, something warm and cold at the same time on his chest. The warmth seemed to seep from his own body and pool around him and at the same time he felt cold. Looking down David realized why he had this strange sensation. One of Markus's tentacles lay embedded in his chest. Time seemed to slow down at that moment, looking up David saw Markus's face with a grin plastered on his mouth.

Pain, intense pain, not from his chest but from his arm or where his arm would have been seemed to come to team up on him along with the pain he felt. 'Why. Why is all this pain coming from where my arm used to be?'

Looking to his right he saw something that defied all logic and sickened even him after everything he had seen in his long life. Silver seemed to burst from the stub of his arm and grew into a skeleton form of silver. The pain was intense but David felt something else now, it wouldn't have been noticeable if it weren't for the fact that he was connected to Markus. It was strange but he felt Markus begin to weaken.

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Jonathan slowly continued his work on graphing the silver to the dunpeal's skeletal structure. Silently he remembered when he too had this operation done simply as a preventive measure; it stung like hell the first month after the operation. Pulling the needle out he watched the skin quickly heal itself and seal the silver onto his bone. "Okay, mentally he should have regained control over his arm, onto the other one."

With practiced ease Jonathan and the others began their work on the next arm all the while knowing that should anything go wrong, that there was enough napalm around them to burn down the entire mansion twice over. Carefully Jonathan inserted the needle into the entrance point and squeezed the trigger to release the liquid silver gently over the bone. Before long they had finished everything except for the skull, silently, Alucard watched from the shadows as they operated on his son.

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It wasn't by chance anymore, David knew that Markus was losing his hold over him, and if that was the case maybe he too could bend the rules. Concentrating on his missing arm he felt his cells divide rapidly and soon a new arm was formed, complete with a new staff weapon in tow. Jumping towards Markus's form he leveled his staff for his head. Markus countered by throwing one of the tentacles in David's path.

David cut threw the thick flesh and continued for Markus's face, the weapon made contact square in the forehead. The force of the impact ripped threw Markus's body, separating his human form from the rest of his body; his human form was thrown towards the wall and slid down to the floor. "Damn you!"

David smiled, entered a ready stance and waved Markus to come for him. The insult was enough enticement to force the crazed vampire half to run towards him without any regard of his own well being or planning. As he ran towards him his entire body erupted into black flame, his arms open to embrace David and engulf his body in the dark fire. David inflamed the arm that held his staff weapon; the flames ran down his arm and engulfed the silver weapon.

Taking aim, David threw the burning silver staff like a spear square for Markus. In slow motion the staff flew straight and true and entered his opponent's chest. Markus slowed from a run to a walk to a craw. Looking down at the still white inflamed staff in his chest he felt the fire spread over his body. He tried to pull the weapon out but the flame burned at his hands and it slowly covered his body.

Looking up he saw David standing there, he made to say something but the fire had already covered his mouth. Finally the flame covered his entire body and he collapsed onto the floor in a pile of ash. Standing over the remains David reached and pulled the melted staff from the ash. As the staff came in contact with his flesh it reformed and returned to its original shape as if new.

Slowly the pile of ash reformed and Markus lay there, unconscious. David knew this was his only chance to regain control or they would have to fight all over again. But he still held back, even though it was all in his mind, he felt sick to his stomach about how he would have to regain control. Sighing David bent down and bit Markus's neck; slowly he felt his control return to him, though he still hated the method.

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David awoke in a dimly lit room surrounded by medical monitors and tubes running to and from his body. He felt a strange smoothness within his body, almost as if someone had taken his bones and dipped them in something. He tried to move his hand and was greeted by a stinging sensation in his hand and arm. 'Maybe it's not that far off from the truth...' David mentally said to himself.

Looking about the room he soon spotted the form of a man sleeping in a chair. Between a combination of dim light and his own fatigue he couldn't make out who it was other than it was a man. Summoning all his strength he sat up in the bed, as he sat up the different hoses were pulled from his limbs with a snapping sound as they gave way. Wounds where the hoses entered his body quickly healed themselves without leaving so much as a faint scar.

Finding a robe David put it on and left the medical rooms to find the hallway devoid of anybody or anything save a few security cameras that followed his movements. "Where the hell is everyone?" David mumbled to himself. Suddenly he felt his legs give way and he reached out his arm to the wall for support. Walking to a window he pushed the drapes aside and opened the lock. Cool twilight air greeted him and the last few warm rays of sunlight touched his face as if an old love would greet him after being gone for so long.

"Master Richard?" a gentle female voice asked from behind him. The voice sent waves of shock threw David; there was no way. There no way that she had survived for this long. Turning around David was greeted by a woman in a black business suit that complimented her form. Her long blonde hair was held in place by a ponytail but flowing bangs snaked about her forehead. Tears started to form in David's eyes as the reality that it really was her standing in front of him hit home. "Lau... Laura?"

DS/

Laura took one of David's arms and slung it over her shoulders to support him on the way back to the medical room. The man that was sitting in the chair was gone but that was the least of her concerns. Returning David to his bed she made sure he was properly covered. As she was about to leave David reached out and grabbed her hand. She was surprised that he even had the strength to move but then again, he was walking about the hallway. "How long?"

"You've been asleep for nearly a week." Laura replied softly. Before David could say anything else he blacked out. Slowly Laura returned his hand to his side and left the room.

Walking down the hallway to her group's own room that Ms. Hellsing had given them she could feel the camera's boring into her as she walked by. Finally arriving at the room she quickly opened the door and closed it behind her. There her own team, Priest, Michael, and Sam greeted her. There crew leader Jonathan was missing, most likely in a meeting with Ms. Hellsing herself.

Walking to her bed she unbuttoned her jacket, threw it in a chair and laid down looking at the ceiling. Sam was the first to come over, "Something wrong Laura?" Sam asked in his rough cowboy style accent. There relationship was like that of siblings. She had met Sam when she had moved to the states during the countries Wild West era. She was tracking a vampire that was going around raping young women and the end result were dunpeals being born. She had found Sam fighting the very vampire she was tracking and together they made the bastard pay for his crimes.

After words Sam became more of a little brother and she took him under her wing back to Section 80. "It's nothing Sam, it's just, well id rather not talk about it right now."

"Oh come on, yeah know ill find out sooner or later-" Sam was cut off by Michael playfully throwing him across the room with his mind.

"Ass..." Sam said as he picked himself up off the floor.

"You know that if I didn't Laura would have...and much harder I must add." Michael said with a Scottish accent. Sam just laughed it off.

"How is David doing?" this time it was Priest who talked. By far he was the oldest of them all and had lost any accent he may have had, something that happened to the older immortals. He was like the father figure of the group next to Jonathan. If Laura had to guess, he may very well be older than David.

"I found him walking about the hallway outside his room today, though when I brought him back to his bed he fell back asleep. Though that is still twice as fast as what it normally takes for someone to recover from that operation." Laura said as she sat up in her bed. Priest merely nodded in response.

"Where's Jonathan by the way."

"Phh, that monster Alucard came by and asked to speak with him in private." Priest responded.

"Hmm, I wonder why he agreed to talk with him"