Chapter 13: Sieghardt's Life and Power
Disclaimer: I don't own Hellsing
AN: For anyone wondering why Seras is calling Alucard by his name instead of Master, it just seems to fit better since they had admitted their feelings for each other, that he would allow her to call him by his name rather than just Master.
Seras had only come up in time to see Sieghardt pull his swords up from his father's neck and withdraw them, before dropping them so that they landed piercing the floor and standing straight up. She had seen him glaring at Integral and telling her that he wasn't going to be ordered by her or anyone else. And finally she had seen him walk through the door to the Manor, and that was it.
She had heard him yelling at Alucard and came to see what was happening, this was and yet was not what she was expecting. She had expected what happened with Alucard, but she did not expect to see what he said to Integral, and actually walking away from it.
She walked over to Alucard to see him beginning to stand, he ceased to have a scowl on his face, but his usual grin.
" Alucard, what was that?" questioned Seras as she stood beside him looking at the door.
" Integral had told me of the attack on Hellsing when he was 17, and how I took him to be trained. He said it seemed like a nightmare, and to me it seemed that he blocked the incident out of his mind rather than use the rage to call on his powers and go after Kagan. I called him weak for it and this happened, but I was wrong. Could you not sense his power, Seras?" asked Alucard.
Seras nodded. She did feel his power, and it seemed to go beyond her Master's. But the question was: How far beyond did it go?
" Seras, why don't you go look for him?" asked Alucard, " Right now I don't think he would listen to me."
" Alright, I think I know where he is." Said Seras as she too exited the Manor.
Alucard looked up to see his Master with a stoic expression on her face, but he could tell on the inside she was fuming.
" Alucard, why did you send Seras after him, instead of going yourself?" asked Integral, evenly, but at the same time straining to keep that even tone.
" She will be able to calm him, and I don't believe he would listen to me after what has happened." With that Alucard sank through the floor and back into the catacombs, but not before mumbling something as he sat in his chair.
" He's as defiant as his mother."
Roof on the docksOn one of Pier roofs sat a great black dog, but not just an ordinary one, this one had six crimson colored eyes, though four of them were closed.
Sieghardt sat on there simply listening to the ocean in the Moonlight, drifting back into his own thoughts and gaining back control over his emotions.
Simply sitting there he could sense another presence interrupt his musings, but allowed it to pass, it was Seras.
He knew that she would probably find him here, this was his place to simply calm down and think, and it had been Seras's as well. She came here to think as well, which is how he found this place.
She saw him sitting in his Familiar form on the edge of the roof and knew what he was doing, calming down as he listened to the ocean waves lapping against the sand in the small gaps between to docks.
The docks were fairly large with a great view of the ocean as well as some of the lights in Britain. The whole area seemed to calm her whenever she needed it.
" I guessed I might find you here, so, care to tell me what happened?" asked the female Vampire as she took a seat next to the great black dog.
" My father called me weak, and I lost it, but the problem was that I lost control of my anger and subconsciously began to call upon my powers." Sieghardt began, answering her in her mind, " If I had called on enough power the I would have broken through the seals."
Seras was somewhat baffled at this, he had the power to break through the seals on his powers, but he refused to do so?
" If I were to gather enough energy to release my powers then I would cause a massive bloodbath. The energy I built up would have to be released, and it would probably cause mass destruction for everyone within a great area." Said Sieghardt answering her unspoken question. " It happened before, when I fought Kagan over the La Magra Dagger. It destroyed the entire cave and killed everyone in the surrounding area. The locks did come back into effect once I had emerged from the Time Portal. But the greatest problem is that I could barely control it then, and I haven't dealt with that power since."
" But, you have been training for 350 years, why wouldn't you be able to control your powers after that long?" asked Seras, when she turned she could see Sieghardt had regained his human appearance and was sitting with one leg dangling over the side of the roof, and the other on the roof with the knee facing up.
" I trained without calling upon those powers because I couldn't, so I have never figured out if I could control them or not. And with training with my powers constricted I don't know how much my maximum power has become, but I know it is greater than my father's. He has had the luxury of being able to draw upon his full power when needed almost all of his life, but I have not." Said Sieghardt.
" So that was why you seemed more powerful than Alucard." Said Seras as she continued to stare over the ocean.
" Yes, but that isn't the only reason, I know I would be more powerful than my father. Why? Because of you Mother." This time Seras looked over at him, eyes nearly bulging out of her head, but Sieghardt still continued to look at her evenly, " You have a great amount of untapped power Seras, where do you think I learned to use my own power and put it into my weapons? You were the one who taught me to do that, and I have only gotten stronger at it."
" What…"was all Seras could say, she had completely lost her voice.
" You believe you are weak, but you are not, if you would see that then you tap into that power and unlock." Said Sieghardt.
Seras could not believe what she had just heard, for one she never expected to be told she had this great and untapped power in her, and two, she had just been called Mother. She simply had lost the ability to talk
" Father has seen it, and that is why he turned you. He knew that you could be powerful, given the right opportunity. And believe me you are, you just have to see it." Began Sieghardt, " I have to go back and apologize to Integral, right now I think you should talk to father about what I have told you."
He simply stood up, and began to walk away but not before saying, " Thank you for listening, Mother."
With that, he became a wolf this time, bounding over the buildings back to the Manor, leaving Seras there for only a few moments before she decided to head back as well, she and Alucard had some things to discuss.
ManorWith Seras and Alucard.
Seras entered into the catacombs looking for Alucard, whom she found sitting in his usual chair with a wine glass in the table next to it, though not filled with wine.
" Where did you find him Seras?" asked Alucard as she entered.
" That I can't tell you, it's a private place, and I would rather you not look into my memories to find out." Said Seras.
" But I would like to ask you something, Alucard, while I was talking with Sieghardt he told me why you turned me, and I wanted to make sure what he said was true."
" Did he tell you that it was because I sensed how much power you could have given the right opportunity?" aksed Alucard in an amused voice, Seras nodded thinking he was going to reprimand her for thinking of such things.
" It isn't true then, is it?" asked Seras, sadness and despair seemed to radiate off of her.
" No it isn't" began Alucard, his next step was to walk up to Seras and lift her face up to look at him, still wearing his normal grin, " Well, the whole truth anyways. That was one reason I turned you, but there was something else. An attraction, if you will, I knew you could gain power, and I believed also that you would make a wonderful Bride."
At this point Seras's eyes bulged out as she continued to stare at her Master.
" It seems I was right." Was the last thing that he said before swooping down and capturing her lips with his own.
Seras couldn't believe what was happening, this night she learned of an untapped power, and that was one of the reason's Alucard had turned her, but also because he believed she would be made his "Bride".
Alucard then took her into his own room, and lied down in his own coffin. His room was as big as Seras's but with crimson red painted on the coffin and different weapons hung on the walls, Medieval mostly.
There he wrapped his arms around her and allowed her to fall into a peaceful sleep as the first rays of the sun peered over the horizon, thought neither of them were aware of it being where they were and fast asleep.
Nor did they know of the events that went on with Sieghardt and Integral.
Manor Sieghardt and IntegralSieghardt arrived at the Manor a little before Seras, but had a different objective in mind. He had to go and apologize to Integral for what he had said to her, and pick up his swords on the way back down to his room.
He knocked on her office door, but heard nothing. He then chose to use his senses to find her. He could smell her lavender scent coming from the balcony that was connected to her room.
He did not knock, but phased through the wall of her room and then began to walk on the steps to her balcony.
Her room was amazing, a four-poster bed in the center with large dresser on the facing the foot of it. The dresser took up a good portion of the wall and had a mirror built into part of it with many drawers coming out of the sides on the bottom part of it with a chair in the middle.
Her bathroom faced the opposite end of her balcony, it was simple, just a tub, sink, and toilet. Nothing fancy, of course Integral wasn't the type of woman to indulge too much in the greater luxuries in life like most women in her position of power.
She heard his boots going up the steps and turned to see him standing there, and had to restrain herself from taking out her gun filled with Silver bullets and put a few right in his head for disrespecting her earlier.
" Might I ask what you are doing on my balcony without asking my permission?" asked Integral anger lacing most of her words.
" I came to apologize Lady Hellsing." Said Sieghardt as he began to bow low.
This she had not expected, I mean, the son of Alucard apologizing to the descendent of an enemy.
" I am apologizing to you, though you may be a descendent of my father's enemy, he was not mine." What he did next caught her completely off guard he kneeled before her, head down and all.
This was something she had truly not expected, but she had to keep her composure.
" What I said earlier was brought on by anger that should not have been directed at you, I was brash and hot-headed. And for that I ask your forgiveness. I am not asking from a superior though, nor a human, I am asking this from the descendent of an honorable man, and genius. I am asking this from someone whom I consider an equal."
At this point Integral didn't know whether to simply faint, or bend down and kiss him for showing her this much respect to her even though his actions earlier were much different. She managed to keep her composure as she spoke though, " I will give you my forgiveness, this time, but the next time it happens you will be punished severely, whether you serve Hellsing or not."
" I thank you, Integral." Said Sieghardt as he began to stand again. Integral had turned back to her stargazing as he spoke once again, " I will begin again with the Shard tonight, but there is one more thing I would like to discuss with you."
Integral turned around just in time to receive a peck on the lips from Sieghardt, and before she could even retaliate he had phased through the balcony floor and back into the catacombs.
AN: Hope this was a good chapter, R and R, and I'll try to update soon, and the kiss Sieghardt stole from Integral will be explained next chapter, though no into great detail. Sorry for the OOCness if there was any.
