Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii…minna! Ah…well…hmmmm….remember me? *cough* So sorry…please don't kill me! *begging for forgiveness on both knees*
Well…I am alive and well and updating this and Stairway to Eden. Writers block is a TUFF sh**, kiddies! GOMEEEEEEEEEEN!
On with the chapter.
Hellsing and Sailor Moon sadly do not belong to me.
Chapter 3
Usagi, dead tired and sleepy, showed up for breakfast in a big red hat she had found in her room on the nightstand. Walter suffered a mild heart attack but Mina, happily clapping, announced that Usagi was in the holiday spirit and that red was TOTALLY her color.
Her mouth full of pancakes, Mina made lively chatter with the all too quiet Usagi about decorating the hall and the dining room and then going trick-or-treating after dark.
Walter poured some tea in Usagi's cup. "May I ask where miss found that hat?"
Usagi adjusted her new head accessory and scrunched her nose. "Dunno…was in my bedroom when I woke up."
When Walter spilled hot tea on the table and knocked cups over trying to clean the spill up, Usagi finally came to the decision that this place was nuts, something was wrong, and she and Mina needed to get the hell out of there as soon as possible. Well…maybe after she turned it into senshi business and checked the castle from head to toe – then they would leave. It would be unfair to leave Mina's beloved cousin living in the haunted house all by herself, right? She had to make sure the place was safe.
Usagi grabbed her blonde friend and, ignoring her protests, dragged her all the way to her room. There she filled Mina in on all weird things she'd been sensing, hearing, and seeing.
Mina sorrowfully sat on Usagi's bed. "I'm sorry, Usagi. I guess what I was trying to do was to see if things were different here since I left. But it seems to me that things are the same, if not worse. Well…I don't see red alerts as often as we had them before, but…things are not back to normal here."
Usagi gulped. "They have youma in England?"
"No, it's not that…but pretty close. Ghouls, zombies, evil beings, vampires." Mina glanced at Usagi's pale face. "Sorry I dragged you here…. To tell the truth, I was scared to go on my own. I used to fight zombies here as Sailor V. There were tons…but then Integra Hellsing got a handle on things and it looks like she's been doing a pretty good job. So…I just came to check. My destiny called me to Japan, I had my duty to the Princess, but I had to come back and see if they were okay without me."
Usagi climbed on the bed next to Mina and hugged her. "No, Mina, I'm not upset that you brought me here. I am actually glad that you shared your past with me. I had absolutely no idea what you'd been doing before we all met. And now that I do know – can we please go home? It's SO CREEPY!!!!!"
Mina laughed and tackled Usagi. "Of course we can go home, but we've got to be polite about it, I wouldn't want to make Walter upset. He's already on the edge! They have no clue about my identity as Sailor V and think I don't know anything about the Hellsing Organization - Bah! How silly!" Mina giggled then grew serious. "There's just one more thing I need to check on before we leave." She carefully eyed the red hat on Usagi's head.
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Mina quietly opened the door and looked down the hall. "All clear. You take downstairs and I'll go upstairs. Make sure you have your communication line open, and if something feels even a bit weird – transform."
Usagi nodded. "So what are we looking for?"
Mina shuddered. "I don't know for sure, it could be an object, or some other source of humongous power. Can't tell until I see it. So…be careful. You never know if it's friendly or not."
"C-c-c-creeeeeeeeepy…." Usagi had just started to realize how much she actually hated this place. Seeing her normally babbly friend go all serious on her was a bit scary, too. Mina meant business. Now they were looking for something which could certainly bring trouble. Usagi's earlier determination to make sure that the house was safe disappeared. She hid behind the door, her teeth chattering. Two soldiers passed. The blonde waited for a long time until the noise of their steps disappeared down the hall. She sat on the floor, panting. "I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!"
To her left she noticed a set of stairs going a floor or even maybe two down. She was now at a dead end, so she contacted Mina for directions. "There's more stairs, Mina. You think I should go and check it out?"
"Yeah…there's nothing going on upstairs, I think Integra has a meeting…rather surprising, because I didn't even know she was in the building!"
"Well…you did say yourself she's not a big fan of yours." Usagi snickered. "Well then, I'll go down and maybe there's an exit or a backdoor of some sort, I'll let you know."
There was another hall, and another and another. Usagi stood in the middle trying to sense things like Mina told her to. Nothing…although…some faint call…hmmmmm…a faint call that offered Usagi the comfort, safety, and sweetness of long desired sleep….
Usagi followed the call, yawned, and pushed one of the doors. The room was poorly lit. There was a table and two chairs and nothing else.
"Eck…bloody cold and creepy here…." Usagi placed the hat she was wearing on the table and sat on the chair, placing her tired legs on the other. "I'll just wait for Mina here…really…too tired to move or anything…."
The communicator had stopped working as soon as she reached this floor, and she wasn't sure if it was the device itself or the possibility of Mina having moved out of range, but she wasn't too worried for some reason. The place was too calm and quiet.
"I feel like I'm in a tomb." Usagi shuddered at the thought. The lights went off. Usagi jumped off her seat. Some unknown mechanism was making soft sounds, like those an elevator would make while going up.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…." Usagi's mouth was suddenly dry, her stomach doing flip-flops. "G-g-g-g-got…t-t-t-to…t-t-t-t-transform…." Her fear was so strong that Usagi couldn't concentrate on her transformation phrase and decided to just take off and run and run and run…. But she tripped on one of the chairs and flew across the room, dreading the inevitable fall on the cement floor.
But instead she fell on something fairly soft.
Alucard smiled at the blonde sprawled on top of him, his fangs shining in the dark. "Look what we have here…."
