1Chapter Thirteen: Enter the Iscariot (Darn)
Johnny, Seras, Lui, and Alucard walked down the deserted streets of London. They had talked Integra into giving them some much needed leave.
Of course, they had to convince Alucard to borrow some clothes from Lui. He looked quite the heavy metal fan in his new black outfit, and long hair. He still wore the yellow sunglasses though, and had his pistols about him somewhere.
"So what do you guys want to do? The night is young, and I am really bored." Lui asked.
"Surely there are some clubs on this accursed island. So how about it Seras," Johnny asked, "Know anyplace?"
"Not really. The only time I went to any sort of night club was normally a mission. I was a cop you know."
"Even police girls have lives Police Girl." Lui told her, taking Alucard's nickname for the young vampire.
Alucard grinned wickedly, "But of course, Police Girl was a good little Police Girl, weren't you Police Girl?"
Lui said it again, "Police Girl... You know, I now realize why you call her that so much Alucard. It's got a nice smooth feeling to it. What do you think Police Girl?"
Seras grabbed Lui by his shirt and pulled his face down so she could glare at him eye to eye, "I have a name you know."
Lui patted her head affectionately, "Of course you do cutie. But just cause you got a name don't mean we have to use it."
She tried to throw him to the ground, but instead he reversed it and she found herself walking beside him in a not-to-comfortable arm hold, which she couldn't get out of.
Then they ran strait into Alucard, who had stopped suddenly. Lui let go of Seras, and they looked around Alucard to try and figure out what had made him stop walking.
"What is it?" Seras asked him, seeing nothing.
Johnny and Lui exchanged a glance, then looked at Alucard's face. He was grinning his insane vampire grin, fangs and all. Something had peaked his attention.
Finally, after a few seconds of silence, the older vampire said, "He's here."
They looked, and approaching them through the fog was a man in a white coat. He had white-blond hair, and wore spectacles. A silver cross hung around his neck, and he held a book in his hands. A large scar was visible on his cheek. He was grinning at his luck.
"Paladin Alexander Anderson. Iscariot dog." Alucard greeted him, smile widening.
"Black demon of Hellsing. Abomination." Anderson replied, his grin also spreading further.
For a tense moment nothing happened. Then Lui asked, "So is this that Vatican guy you told us about? Section XIII or whatever?"
Seras nodded grimly, "Ya, that's him. He's as insane as Alucard."
"Hmmm, that sounds fun. Hey Vlad," Alucard glanced down at Lui in response to hearing his old name, "Mind if I go a round or two with him before he, you know, dies."
Alucard shrugged, his grin fading slightly, "Do as you wish. But if you kill him you have me to deal with Luis."
"Don't worry, I'm just going to mess with him a little."
"What is this vampire? I thought that Draculina there was the only other vampire in your midst. Or have you corrupted more innocent souls?"Anderson asked, readying himself to strike.
Lui stepped forward, smiling confidently as he entered a fighting stance, "Don't pretend to know anything about souls priest."
Anderson faltered for a second, then charged forward, drawing two bayonets out of his coat. He slashed in an X pattern. However, Lui dodged to the side, and drew the holy knight out into the middle of the street. Anderson tried a double stab, but Lui caught his arms, and twisted them into a painful arm lock.
"I'm disappointed. I though Iscariot had some of the best trained hunters in the world."
Anderson laughed, and twisted away, braking his own arms. However, he also managed to swing one of his blades at Lui's neck. Lui, surprised by this move, almost had his head cut off, but as it were he felt a deep gash form under his chin. There was a slight burning hiss.
As the two fighters healed, Lui began to crack his knuckles and get his joints loosened up, "I retract my previous statement. So I take it you regenerate minor wounds like that quickly."
The priest nodded, popping one of his elbows back into place, "Your lucky vampire. I won't miss again. I hope your ready to face judgement in the eyes of God!"
Lui took a step back in false surprise, "Wow, this guy is actually original. I mean, normally it's 'prepare to die, vampire', but I must say you have a way with words. I saywe put on some mood music."
Lui snapped his fingers, and a song came out of thin air, literally. Like before, it just seemed to appear from no where. Lui snapped his fingers again, switching the songs. He continued to do this until he stopped on a song that wasn't rock at all. It was a light hearted tune, consisting of drums, singing, and what could only be described as beeps. A few other instruments began to play as well.
"You like this priest? If you do I can get you the cd. 19-2000 by the Gorillaz, and that's spelled with a 'z'."
Anderson grimaced. What was this vampire getting at? And what in the world was this music? It was horrible! "I'll send you and your infernal songs to Hell demon!"
Lui gave off a taunt of mock fear, "Ooh, the big bad priest is going to get me with his garden tools."
Anderson gasped, startled by the sheer insolence of the vampire. Not even the other one was that disrespectful. He snarled, and threw his bayonets, charging.
Lui dodged the knives that flew by him, moving with the beat of the song. As Anderson approached,Lui gave him a rather rude hand sign. Anderson sliced at him, but missed again. The vampire began to weave back and forth between the paladin's attacks.
And Anderson would be darned if the vampire wasn't dancing now!
Indeed, Lui was doing a small dance to the music. He was smiling in a carefree manner, waving his arms back and forth slightly and making small hand motions. He was swaying, moving his weight from on foot to the other. Seras giggled a little, and Johnny and Alucard merely smiled. Alucard had to put his face in his hand at how much of a fool Lui was making out of Anderson.
Anderson watched the vampire in stunned silence. What on earth? Were they even fighting? After trying a few more times to hit Lui, Anderson appeared to give up.
"Tired already Anderson?" the American vampire taunted.
The paladin shrugged, then threw a knife at the group of onlookers. Johnny was caught off guard, and it hit him in the chest. He feel back, Seras and Alucard emmediatly tending to him.
Lui looked on in cold, numbed shock. The priest smiled insanely, "May God have mercy on your soul. Amen."
Then he noticed the music had stopped. Lui was shaking, his anger rising. He looked at Anderson over his sunglasses, revealing crimson eyes that burned with fury. Dark energy grew up around him.
"You just made the worst mistake of your life priest."
Suddenly the music came back, but this was so loud that Anderson had to clamp his hands to his ears to try and block it out. A loud bell sounded, then a guitar picked it up.
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls, for it tolls for thee." Lui quoted softly, and though the music was deafening, Anderson heard it clearly, "So says the reaper. I hope you like 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' priest. It's by Metallica. See, I hope you like it because it is likely to be the last thing you ever hear."
Anderson barely had time to move at all as Lui's arms became a blur. He pulled out all four of his pistols, and let loose a storm of bullets that would have put a minigun to shame. He fired so quick that the stream of silver was solid, and he drew it across Anderson like a sword.
The paladin felt the bullets cut into him, going through him like a blade. As the stream of projectiles was dragged over his body, he actually felt himself being cut in half.
The American stopped, bullet shells and empty clips in a pile around him. The music stopped with him. Then Lui holstered his weapons and ran over to his brother.
"Johnny, come on, talk to me man."
The younger vampire coughed, and smiled weakly. They had removed the blade, and the wound was healing. But it hurt like heck, "Give me some credit Lui, it takes more than a little knife to kill me."
Alucard left them and walked over to Anderson, who had 'pulled himself back together', "Well, he had no intention of actually fighting you. He told me he wasn't going to fight back against your attacks. But you brought this upon yourself Judas Priest. That was low, even for a Vatican dog like yourself."
The paladin smiled, "You would know all about being low wouldn't you you cursed son of Lucifer. I will kill you ,vampire of Hellsing, sometime or another. Perhaps tonight, perhaps not for twenty years, but you will die at my hands."
"Not tonight. I don't think I had all that much intention of fighting you, though it would have given me great pleasure to rip you to shreds. I was going to throw you into the ocean and make you swim back to your home, as my Master ordered. I give you one chance to run. After that my master said that you're mine!" Alucard told him, his fangs seemingly getting longer with the words, and his grin widening.
Lui walked up beside him, spinning a pistol lazily in one hand until he let it settle, pointed at the priest, "Don't be selfish Alucard. Surely you can give your guest some common courtesy."
Alucard laughed darkly, "Indeed. Well then Anderson, you have ten seconds to run or you are ours."
Lui's grin grew to match the older vampires, "Thank you Alucard."
Anderson felt a twinge of fear. The first in a long time. He knew that like this, weakened and outnumbered, he stood little chance of success. So he got to his feet, and summoned up his holy pages, drawing them about himself, "Till we meet again."
Then he was gone. Lui frowned, then looked at all the paper that was left behind. Feeling his normal self resurfacing, he tried to lighten the mood, "Man, look at all this crap. Hey Seras, you were a cop, how much of a littering fine would this be?"
Integra listened carefully. Then sighed and rubbed her forehead. She had gone to great lengths to negotiate a cease fire with the Iscariot after the Incognito incident. She had given orders so strict not even Alucard could twist his way around them. But now it seemed it was all for nothing, "So Anderson attacked you. Did you do anything to provoke him?"
Lui shrugged, "I was taunting him a little, but that was after he nearly severed my head from the rest of my body."
Walter walked into the office, a phone in hand, "Sir Integra, it's Enrico Maxwell. He wishes to speak with you."
Integra nodded, and picked up her office phone, "Hello? Yes, it's Sir Integra. Your sorry about Anderson's behavior? Sorry, I need more than that. I've kept my servant on a leash, you keep your servant on one as well. Wait, where are you Maxwell? Your kidding," Integra put the phone to her shoulder so he couldn't hear what she said to the rest of the room, "The idiot is in England!". Then a smile played across her lips. She winked at the people in the room, then put the phone back to her ear, "Maxwell, I'm not going to ask why you violated our treaty and came here, but I will give you a chance to explain yourself in person. Where are you staying? No, that won't do. I suggest you come here and stay. Alright, we'll expect you then."
Lui was in shock, "Did he just agree to do what I think he just agreed to do?"
Integra smiled wickedly, "Walter, prepare some of the guest rooms. We are going to have company."
Walter bowed slightly and set off to do as ordered. Johnny and Lui were still confused. Johnny asked, "Why would he agree to come here? I mean, that Anderson guy must have told him there are not only Seras and Alucard, but me and Lui here as well. Isn't that guy super against the undead in general?"
Integra pushed her glasses further up her nose, "Well, let's just say Enrico has a bit of a... Crush on me. He's been trying to charm me ever since we first met. He probably thinks I'm finally falling for him. You four better get to the basement, they'll be here shortly. Oh, Lui."
The American stopped as his companions walked on. He looked at Integra, eyebrows raised, "What is it?"
"Make them fear the name Hellsing."
Lui smiled slowly, "Please, be more specific Integra dear."
"I want you to torment Enrico and whoever he brings with him until he leaves England and never comes back. Do whatever you want, he's on our turf now. Just don't hurt him to bad, nothing that could be taken as a strict attack."
Lui looked at her over his sunglasses, face full of mischievous evil, "One favor."
"What?" Integra asked. She was in too good a mood to be brought down by Lui's 'favors'.
"Don't worry, nothing that involves you personally. I'll tell you later. If you find my performance satisfactory, then I don't think you'll have any problems with it. However, there is an idea in my mind that you might not like too much."
"What's that?" Integra asked, her smile disappearing a little.
"Let us do a small, presentation shall we say, out in the main hall. The band I mean. Let us practice out there. I want to see how the idiot reacts to the first undead heavy metal band. Oh, and if you wouldn't mind..."
"Mind what?"
"Make yourself lady like. No malice intended, no pictures, though I will tape it. Dress, makeup, perfume, all that good stuff."
"Why would I want to that?"
"This Maxwell guy has the hots for you right?" She nodded, "Make it seem like you are finally falling for him. You don't have to kiss him or anything, but be romantic. Say you want to discuss things, take him to a candle lit room, and have Walter serve something. But be sure there's wine."
"Wine?" She asked, her interest beginning to grow.
"Wine. Whatever you want to serve as long as it has alcohol. If it were me, sharing a drink with the woman who I lust after would be about as good as it could get. Anyway, drag it out, and see if you can't get him drunk."
She laughed out loud. The thought of Enrico drunk was truly amusing.
"I'll get someone to video tape it. And at the end of whenever he decides to leave, blackmail him with it. He is a priest after all. I'm sure the Vatican will be quite upset to learn he was getting drunk with the leader of the rival organization. And as an extra plus, we get to see how many other vows we can get him to brake. People tend to lose their better judgement when drunk. Oh, one more thing."
Integra was too pleased with the prospect of blackmailing Maxwell to refuse him, "Name it."
"If that Anderson guy comes, tell Walter to get a coffin in the room next to his, and board up the windows in that room. I want to be beside him."
"Alright. Go tell Walter, do what you have to. But hurry, they should be here in ten minutes."
Enrico straitened out his clothes as he walked towards the front door. Anderson walked beside him, sulking.
"Father, I don't see why I had to come-"
"Because you idiot, you almost broke the treaty. I hate to admit it, but that incident a while ago with the vampire named Incognito showed that we need Hellsing for now. You're the one who told me thatwe couldn't stand up to something that evil, with that much dark power."
Anderson went silent, crossed his arms, then sulked some more. Enrico cleared his throat as they walked up to the front door, and rang the bell. Walter opened the door, and let them in.
They took three steps and stopped.
The Vampires of Hellsing were playing in the main hall. Alucard was in his red suit, Lui and Johnny were in their black uniforms, and Seras was in an outfit similar to her normal uniform but all black and sporting a coat like the American's.
They were playing a very heavy song, and Alucard was singing,
"The light fades from the world,
The moon rises in the sky,
Monsters rise from their hiding,
Time for mortals to die..."
"Feeding time has just begun,
And it's just you and me.
You are now in my grasp,
Let the blood flow free!"
Alucard began to laugh as Lui went into a screeching guitar solo.
"Mary mother of God." Enrico exclaimed, and both men crossed themselves. Their eyes were wide. What in the world was this?
Lui finished the solo, and Alucard began to sing again,
"Now rises the cursed sun,
And you look at the crimson sea,
But just wait until the night,
The blood will flow free!"
The song ended, leaving the two priests shivering, praying, and speechless. They had gotten in over their heads.
"They're good aren't they?"
Enrico turned, and his jaw nearly hit the floor.
Integra stood at the top of the stairs in a fairly tight dress, which hugged her features nicely. Her hair was carefully done, and Enrico felt sure she was wearing perfume. "Enrico, if you would accompany me, perhaps we can settle this matter tonight. Walter has prepared rooms for you and Father Anderson. Lui, if you would show your temporary neighbor to his room. Enrico."
Enrico followed Integra, dazed slightly. What was going on? What deed had he done for God to favor him like this?
Anderson merely stared, unsure what on earth he had done for God to punish him like this.
Lui walked up to him, smiling innocently, "Hey, looks like we're going to be rooming next to each other for a while. How about we forget about earlier and just be friends?"
"Don't count on it vampire."
Ha! Cliffhanger! So let the battle with the Iscariot begin...
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh, and sorry if I make Enrico act different than he actually is. This is just the impression I got of him.
And how do you like the song? I actually wrote it. There's more, I'll post the rest of it later if you want me too. I have a whole list of song the 'Vampires of Hellsing' are going to torment Maxwell and Anderson with.
Hehehehe... Prepare to squirm Maxwell...
