Chapter 21: Vampiric Final Battle
Dislclaimer: I don't own Hellsing
Kagan drew his sword from the side of his throne as Sieghardt drew his blades from his side. This was it, the battle he had been training for over 350 years for, the battle in which he would claim his revenge, or die trying, the latter of the two being a pure impossibility.
He charged with both swords at the ready and jumped over the fountain only to come down on Kagan with both swords and have him block by holding up his own. Kagan pushed him backward and then once Sieghardt landed Kagan slammed forward with a stinger like move, charging forward with his sword. Siehgardt parried this attack and managed to cut Kagan horizontally and cause him a gash in his abdomen.
Kagan spun around and stopped only to heal himself and come at Sieghardt once again. He ran forward and attempted to drive his large bastard sword through Sieghardts two swords. Sieghardt slid to the side, but Kagan expected this, once he was on the ground once more Kagan sliced a huge gash into Sieghardt's back with his sword, slicing through his armor as well.
Sieghardt could hear cries and some cheers from the "spectators" but he couldn't piece them together. They were all a simple blur in his head after he dodged Kagan's attacks on after another. The movements in this fight became blurred as the two battled on, one could see blades forming in the air as an affect of the battle, slicing through statues and putting deep cuts into the once smooth walls. Blow after blow was exchanged and each one healing at an exponential rate, each opponent never tiring, each opponent exchanging blows at their full force, this was truly a battle.
Sieghardt's blades came down on Kagan again and again but were only blocked by the large Bastard Sword that the other vampire wielded. Kagan slashed at Sieghardt with his giant sword again and again but his attacks were only met with one of two results, either a dodge or block.
Kagan finally came down on Sieghardt's swords once again in attempt to break them but in this attack an X shape was formed and Kagan's sword was thrown backward, landing blade first in what was left of the fountain. But this plan backfired when Kagan grabbed Sieghardt's swords and kick him backwards with enough force to knock them out of his hands. Kagan threw the swords to separate sides of the room and came at Sieghardt with his fist at the ready.
Siehgardt had gotten back up only to be punched in the face with Kagan's attack, breaking his glasses, and sending him flying backwards. He landed on his two feet using his hand to stop his bodies' momentum then stood up and ran at Kagan once again. Sieghardt dropkicked Kagan backward once he was in distance then flipped and landed on his back. He flipped backward once Kagan was over him, clipping him effectively in the jaw but giving Kagan's knee free reign on his chin once he had was in the air and halfway back to his feet.
Sieghardt landed on his feet even after that brutal attack rushed forward again. He came about a foot in front of Kagan before sweeping him off his feet by sliding his leg under Kagan's. He continued to slide and then put his leg up and came down on Kagan's stomach with an earth shattering blow, but he also saw Kagan's hand moving within a fraction of a second. Though Sieghardt wondered what he had done, he didn't have time to think about it now. He slid backward on his but as Kagan's back, and a few organs' healed, waiting for the fight to continue.
Each got up at almost the exact same time and flipped up at the same time as well. Sieghardt did something unexpected and began to run toward the wall and Kagan stupidly followed in an attempt to beat him down more. Siehgardt ran toward the wall and up it then did a back flip, looking to Kagan like a way to get away from him. Kagan turned around and was prepared to kick him once he landed but Siehgardt had other plans; he seemed to go into a sitting position for a moment and then used his feet to wrap around Kagan's head. He pulled backward, arching his back, and bringing Kagan with him. Kagan was then pulled forward with tremendous force and was let go at the same point that Sieghardt began fly forward in order to regain his footing, Kagan flew forward and slammed right into the wall on the opposite side of the field, breaking his neck.
" Come on Kagan, I know you can take more than that, or if you're ready to give up then I would take great pleasure in simply killing you now and taking your last piece of the Dagger. I have other, more important matters, to attend to." Said Sieghardt, thinking about Integral.
" Yes, but how are you going to complete the dagger and leave, when I have it right in my hand?" asked Kagan. Kagan held out the blade and the grip of the dagger, that was what he had done earlier. He had snuck the dagger parts out of pouched on Sieghardt's armor. He was now holding what he had been questing for.
Well, let's see what sort of powers that this thing has." Said Kagan.
The wrist
guard of the dagger floated over with its brother pieces, right in the middle
where it belonged. Kagan connected the dagger itself, finally completing his
mission. Well that was until he noticed something very important: the crystal
in the center of the dagger was still missing.
" Where is the final piece!"
bellowed Kagan.
" Why, can't you complete your little "plan" without it?" asked Sieghardt sarcastically.
" DAMN YOU!" began Kagan; they both knew they needed the crystal to open the portal along with the sacrifice. The crystal contained the essence of the Blood God. This combined with the blood of the true Nosferatu would open the portal.
There was one thing, though, that Sieghardt knew that he hoped that Kagan didn't: He didn't need the crystal to gain the power of the Blood God. While one needed the other two elements to open the portal, one only needed the dagger itself to gain an immense boost in power. To become a Class S vampire, as it were.
" Since the Dagger is useless to you then why don't you hand it over?" asked Sieghardt holding out his hand. " You'll never find the crystal where I've hidden it."
" It may be useless to open the portal, for now." Began Kagan, " But I will be able to beat you with it. I know of what the Dagger can do, with and without the crystal in the center. Sieghardt, PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DOOM!"
With that the dagger began to glow in a brilliant light, one that blinded all on the field or in the room, even those who saw it from the outside of the building.
Once everyone was able to see once again they could see what Kagan had become. His black hair had turned into a deep blood red, his eyes had become completely black, and his fangs grew immensely, bulging out of his mouth. His clothes hadn't changed but his body had become a sickly pale color with a number of different carving like symbols on him, his nails had also grown to a great length.
" Now, you will see what shall cause your end." Said Kagan icily in a new and much more menacing voice.
Sieghardt may have not looked it, but on the inside he was scared. He had never fought someone who had this much power, and unless his mom remembered it, then he couldn't fight at his full potential either.
Though he was scared he knew he had to try, so he called on his swords and rushed toward Kagan. He jumped and slammed down toward Kagan once again in an X shape, but was stopped by Kagan's sword, which had seemed to appear out of nowhere.
" You don't have enough power to beat me now that I have the Dagger in my possession. You are finished."
Kagan pushed Sieghardt back and slashed his sword down on him, Sieghardt tried to block but when he did the force of Kagan's sword broke his own swords.
He was able to push backward at the last minute, but stared in shock and anger at the destruction of the blades that had helped him for about 300 years.
Sieghardt used his last resort and pulled out Callus and Jackal, loaded with silver blessed by the Church of England, and fired at Kagan.
Kagan simply moved his hand forward and stopped the bullets from moving forward anymore. He sent them back with full force, striking Sieghardt dead center.
First Sieghardt's guns exploded into showers of metal splinters. Next his armor cracked and broke once the bullets went through, but not before creating gigantic craters. Sieghardt was thrown backward and landed on his back.
Somehow he was able to resist the blessing, but his strength was barely enough to allow him to stand, he could only kneel.
" I see that you have now kneeled before me, now as your reward for this show of respect, I will kill you quickly and take your love Integral for my bride." Said Kagan, " After all, I will need someone to rule at my side in the new world once I open the final door and unlock the Army of No Lives."
Kagan put his sword into the air and brought it down with enough force so it caused the air pressure to create a crescent moon cut, coming straight toward Sieghardt.
Once it hit him, all he could do was stare at the ceiling and send one last mental message toward the group of spectators.
" I'm sorry I failed you."
"SIEGHARDT!"
A\N: Hope you liked this cause it's all you're gonna get for a while.
A\N: Only kidding, this fight is way too much to turn into two chapters.
Kagan only chuckled as Sieghardt fell into a pool of blood. It was over, and Kagan had finally come out the winner. Sieghardt's body dissolved into a pool of thick blood while his head remained last until it finally dissolved as well.
" I see the weakling has finally decided to die. Now, as for you." Said Kagan
He walked over to where Integral, Seras, and Alexander were held.
" Your not going to win Kagan, we will beat you." Growled Integral, even though she was currently tied to a cross.
" That attitude is exactly the reason why I want you, I am going to enjoy breaking you of that. Look around you Integral, you are imprisoned, your vampire is under the restraint of runes more powerful than yours, and your love is no longer in existence. So tell me, how do you think that you're going to beat me?" asked Kagan
' I hope he's ready for the power he's about to go up against. And I hope that Sieghardt is ready for the power he is about to have under his control.' Thought Seras. She knew she was Sieghardt's mother, and even though it took her a moment, she still remembered what he had said.
" I entrusted the locks to my mother. Do you have any idea what my father would have done with me were he controlling that power."
' It's time he realized his true power.' Thought Seras
" Release Control Art Restraint System fully. Locks unlocked and put under the control of Integral Wingates Hellsing. Cromwell System is now in Affect. Sieghardt, ACCEPT MY APPROVAL!" yelled Seras.
With that great bells began to ring. From all over Europe (They never left Europe, but they are in France), giant Hellhounds were ramming up to them and ringing them. Giant red areas almost 100 yards wide began to appear, covering all of Europe in the shape of the rune marks on Siehgardt's hands. The bells began to ring louder and louder almost becoming earsplitting. The symbols began to shrink from their giant size and then re-appeared right in front of the door to the room.
Kagan stepped in front of the destroyed fountain, sword drawn and ready for anything. The blood that had pooled around the fountain as well as the blood from every level in the entire building and formed into a huge tornado right in the center of the symbols, and in the center of this tornado of blood a figure began to form. He was suspended in the air for a moment until the tornado began to subside and he floated to the ground.
The figure had waist length 'darks as night' black hair and was wearing an all red ensemble, a straight jacket looking thing on his chest but also what looked to and extra coat on top with buckles in the center holding. He had on red pants and red shoes with a trench coat tail coming down from the straight jacket. Two sword scabbards facing opposite ends horizontally on the back of his waist and two holsters for guns on a skull belt buckle. And last, but not least, was a pair of red gloves, with the Hellsing symbols engraved in black on the back of them.
He stood straight up, with his head down, and put his arms out. The symbols on the backs of his hands began to glow as he called forth his guns. The handles came first into his hand and the splinters of metal that came next. They came together with a red glow between the cracks and then were fully repaired and restored to their former glory. He placed the guns into his holsters and then held out his hands again, this time calling on his swords. After a moment the same event occurred, his swords were restored by his magic and put into the empty scabbards on the back of his waist.
He finally looked up and then opened his eyes to reveal their purely blood red\ruby color. His next act was to walk forward to Integral and the others. Once he arrived there he simply placed his hands on the floor and the crosses began to sink back down while those who were imprisoned on them were freed. He stood up once again and walked over to the wall where Alucard was being held. He put his hand upon the runes and pushed forward, muttering something in another language. Almost instantly the runes were dispersed and Alucard was freed.
Alucard hit the ground with a thud and fell down face first. Seras was hovering above him trying to wake him up within a matter of seconds while the figure went over to Integral.
He kneeled down in front of her and placed his hand on her shoulder bringing her face up toward his level.
" I want you to promise that whatever happens to me that you get out of here, now. If I can't beat him then now my father is the only one who can."
" Sieghardt…" that was all Integral could manage, there he was standing before her after being hit with bullets blessed by London's church and a sword attack from Kagan that could have cut a building in half.
" Yeah, this sort of thing happens if there is enough blood in the building, and that idiot decided to put a fountain of it there. I am glad to still be here, but I still want you to promise me, right here and now, that you will leave, and keep going no matter what happens to me." Said Sieghardt.
" I promise."
" Good girl." said Sieghardt. He leaned down, his bangs falling over his and Integral's face, and placed a goodbye kiss on her lips before standing once again.
Alucard had woken up at that moment to see his son in his full vampiric form. He could sense the enormous power radiating off of him. He could see the murder, anger, and rage filling his eyes. This wasn't the level of power he was expecting form his offspring; this surpassed that expectation on a grand level.
" I say this to both of you, Alexander and Alucard, if I die I expect you two to take care of the rest of the world. If not I'm comin' out of the grave and killing you two myself." Said Sieghardt.
" I see that I finally get to see you in your true form." Said Alucard
" Yeah, I know, now I want you to get out of here NOW! Things are about to get heavy." Said Sieghardt.
After that he left them to leave, but not before saying one last thing to Integral.
" I promise I will kill Kagan." And then he mentally added " When I get back, I believe you and I have unfinished business that we need to attend to."
Seras, Alexander, Alucard, and Integral all managed to make it out of the building, but were still waiting on the outside. The did have to fight some of Kagan's soldiers, but most had fled for fear of fighting a creature with as much power as was now going up against Kagan. They were still waiting a good distance from the building, and the last thing they saw of Sieghardt before they left, he standing toe-to-toe with Kagan.
Sieghardt stood in front of Kagan looking at his hands and then looking into Kagan's eyes. There he saw something that simply fueled his current fire for carnage: pure uninhibited fear.
" You remember this form, don't you Kagan? That's why you're so scared now, even with the power La Magra Dagger, I am going to annihilate you." Said Sieghardt gaining a cheshire smile on his face. He had gone into a full killing mode now; sanity for him at this moment had simply gone out the window.
Kagan, on the other hand, couldn't speak. He couldn't fathom how someone suddenly gained this much power after being totally decimated.
Kagan, though fearful, was still cocky. He may have been scared but he believed that the power of the Dagger would be even greater than Sieghardt's full potential.
" Now, how about we finish this, once and for all?"
" I couldn't agree more."
Kagan drew his sword and once again tried to cut his opponent in half, but Sieghardt jumped back and landed on his feet before that could happen.
He knew that they needed an even field for weapons, and he knew exactly what to do. He drew his swords in a normal state and put his power into them. They did begin to glow red and black, but they didn't go into the same form they did when he was fighting Donavin. Once they began to glow the slammed then together and a black aura began to expand from them. Once the aura had cleared a large cross-shaped bastard sword was held in his hand, silver on the bottom and obsidian black for the blade. It had different depictions and a skull hilt on the bottom.
Sieghardt charged forward and slashed his sword horizontally but Kagan pointed his downward and blocked it. He came around again before Kagan could fully jump back and managed to get him with a slash across the stomach though.
" Alright, it seems this can't be settled with swords, so how about we take this to another level?" asked Sieghardt
Before he could blink Kagan had jumped through the roof with his form beginning to change, and Sieghardt followed soon after.
Once on the roof Kagan transformed into a giant man-bat with wings under his arms, gray skin, and fur on his legs. Sieghardt called upon his familiars, the Hounds of Hell, to take the form of his body. He began to disengage his physical form as his arms became black and six-eyed dog heads began to form at his hands.
Kagan took to the skies and Sieghardt followed after him, his body finally disengaged with his eyes spreading all over and his familiar's helping him to fly. He met Kagan above the clouds, in the light of the full moon. Kagan flew toward Sieghardt, extending his arms and summoning his snake familiars and forming them on his arms.
Each one came after the other, Kagan whipping Siehgardt with the snakes and Sieghardt's hounds biting the snake familiars. But the problem was that the snakes kept regenerating and coming after him, one after another, but the same applied for his hounds if Kagan was ever able to snap off one of his hounds.
Sieghardt had enough of this farce and began to call back his minions, only to put them into his sword. Its symbols began to glow fiercely as they were replaced with six eyes. Once he slashed his blade at Kagan it grew to an amazing length, much like a whip but still having its physical form. He slashed again and again, cutting and cutting, but it was to the same effect as with his hounds. Kagan kept regenerated after each blow and kept on attacking Sieghardt, but he wasn't going to quit.
Kagan got the same idea as Sieghardt soon after and called forth his own sword to fight against him. Their swords clashed again and again, each strike causing the sky to let loose it's fury in thunder and lightning. And each strike also caused a shockwave like affect that traveled over a great radius in the sky. To those on the ground it might have looked like a battle of the gods in the heavens, but to those who knew what was truly happening: then this was simply a battle of demons on a plane that they could never truly enter. But this fight would not last much longer for one very important reason.
Sieghardt was wearing Kagan down with each slash. The problem with the La Magra Dagger was without the Army of No Lives, the sacrifice, and the crystal at the center the power that it gave to the user was merely temporary. Even though Kagan was strong he wouldn't be able to keep up this form for much longer.
Sieghardt called his familiars out of the sword and back into his own body. He summoned his full strength and lost what was left of his physical form. He became a pure shadow, and called forth the full power of his familiars. Every last one of them charged at Kagan, ready for the final charge.
His minions latched onto Kagan's arms, legs, and wings, pushing him back down to the ground. As Kagan was falling another minion that was where Sieghardt's head used to be came down and latched onto Kagan's throat. They fell forever until they reached the building that they had come from, slamming through floor after floor until they reached the very bottom.
Once they got up they began to stare at each other across the battlefield, each ready for one final attack.
A\N: What did you think of the battle, it took me a while to get it done since I had to do it bit by bit so that I wouldn't try to rush things too much and make it suck. R and R and the last chapter or the last two chapters should be up soon.
