1Chapter Sixteen: Duck and Cover (Seras)
It was an odd mix of emotions. He was thankful she had risked so much for him. He was angry that she had been inside his mind looking at his memories. He was annoyed by the fact she had saved him.
And who knows. Maybe he loved her. Darned if he knew anymore.
"Darn it, now I'm really beginning to sound like Alucard. I'm trivializing one of the strongest emotions there is. Oh well, no rest for the wicked.
He phased behind Seras, and coughed to get her attention, "Seras?"
"What is it Lui?" She asked, taking a cautious step back. Smart girl. Alucard must have tipped her off.
"Just, I really never thanked you for before. So, thank you."
Seras was touched. There was nothing but sincerity in that voice. And Lui meant it. "Lui, I..."
"Doesn't change the fact that I'm going to do this."
She was about to run when he snapped his fingers. One of those flaming horse things popped up from under her, and she screamed rather loudly. Then it took off full gallop, phasing through the wall.
Lui nodded approvingly, and began to make his way to the kitchen. Him, Alucard, Johnny, and Walter were going to have a poker game. He chuckled as he thought about how much money he was going to make.
Seras yelled as the horse ran through a forest at breakneck-speed, even for vampires. She didn't think Alucard moved this fast. Branches whipped towards her, threatening to take her head off every second. And the horse itself seemed to be trying to torment her. It chose the roughest possible ride for the young vampire. And un-dead or not, she was going to be sore for a while after this. She saw a chasm, and screamed as the horse jumped over it.
ABOUT ½ AN HOUR LATER
"Alright Walter, what've you got?" Lui asked cooly.
The butler smiled as he reveled his hand, "Strait flush, 56789 of diamonds." He began to move all the money on the table towards him, saying, "I do believe you lose."
Lui regarded him in annoyance, then smiled. He threw his cards down on the table, "Royal flush butler boy. Give me that."
Walter watched in shock as the American pulled all of the money back to his side of the table. That had been over five hundred pounds!
Then Lui stopped as a thought occurred to him. He stood up, and walked out the kitchen door. He looked up, and waited.
Seras and the horse suddenly phased, and she recognized the roof of the Hellsing manor. The horse was running wildly, and she gave one final scream as it jumped off the roof, then dissipated. She fell strait down, and she knew she was going to hit the ground hard.
Then suddenly she felt someone catch her. She opened her eyes, and saw that Lui had stuck his arms out at the last second. He glanced up again.
"Now this is my kind of rain." He said, mimicking one of his favorite video games, "I thought the sky looked funny."
Seras was limp in his arms. She was too tired, to exhausted. He smiled as he looked down at her, and for a second she smiled back.
Then he unceremoniously dropped her, splat, right into the mud from where it had rained. Nodding once again in approval, he turned to go back inside. Yet then with a loud thump, something hit him in the back of the head. He raised his hand to see what it was, and then brought some of it in front of his eyes. Mud. She had thrown mud at him.
He turned cooly, saying, "Alright, very funny, now-"
Suddenly another large glop of brown hit him in the face, getting in his mouth and everything. He stood there, stunned, as Seras began to giggle and rise to her feet. He spat the mud out of his mouth, and wiped some of it off his face.
"Seras, you will regret that."
She giggled a little harder, taking a few steps back. He smiled at her. Their looks matched. He reached down, and scooped up a large clump in both hands. She shook her head, saying, "You wouldn't dare."
His smile widened, and he hurled the mud at her, catching her in the chest. As she looked down at her now nearly ruined uniform, he snickered.
Alucard, Johnny, and Walter appeared, wondering where Lui had gone. They saw two very muddy vampires. They both regarded each other in a mix of amusement and anger.
"Five on Lui." Johnny said, pulling out a bill from his pocket.
"I'll take that bet." Alucard said, producing some money he had stolen from Integra.
"Look at you two! Making bets when we should be trying to stop them! Incognizable!" He scolded, then pulled out his wallet, "I have ten on Miss Victoria."
"It's like a dream," Lui said, circling with Seras, "I'm mud wrestling with you."
"Don't get any bright ideas Yank."
"Oh, I wouldn't think of it. Most of my ideas are very, very dark."
They both dived and scooped up some mud, flinging it madly. Both missed, and they began to hurl mud so fast one could barely see the air.
"Come on Lui, I'm disappointed."
"Are you? Well then, I'll have to fix that won't I?"
Suddenly, there were two of Lui. They both stood smirking, and picked clumps of mud.
Seras looked on in horror, "That's not fair!"
"Who said we were playing fair?" They two asked in unison, then flung their mud. One missed, the other connected right in her face. Hard.
In fact, she cried out and fell back, holding her face. Lui looked on in shock for a moment, then ran forward, his doppleganger dissipating. He was afraid he had accidentally picked up a rock and flung it at her. Not fatal, but very painful.
He crouched down beside her, and asked, "Are you alright?"
She quickly scooped up some mud and slammed it down on his head. She quickly jumped away, laughing, "You fell for it! That's got to be the oldest trick in the book."
Instead of attacking her some more, he just laughed and sat down in the mud. He shook his head, saying, "I can't believe that got me. Wait a minute..."
He spotted Johnny giving money to Alucard and Walter, both of whom looked very pleased. He glared at them, "How long have you been standing there?"
"Long enough."
"Uh huh." Lui said, then sent a mental message to Seras none of the caught. She considered, then nodded.
Then Seras and Lui started hurling mud at the three observers, causing them to scatter.
"Miss Victoria! Master Luis! You will stop this nonsense this instant!" Walter cried, emphasizing it with a stomp of his foot. Then a well placed shot hit him in the face.
"Come on Walter!" Seras cried, hiding behind a tree, "Have some fun!"
Cleaning off his monocle, he smiled. She was going to pay for that.
The mud war commenced. Mud was flung at everyone and everything, and childish laughter filled the night. Seras and Walter called a truce to get Lui and Johnny, while Alucard just dodged everything. Then he started phasing and hitting people, so everyone teamed up on him. Eventually he was laughing like a normal person again, and was covered in a fair amount of mud.
"I haven't done this since I was a child." He muttered to himself. This is what he and his friends did as children once spring came and melted all of the snows. But that had been so long ago...
Integra looked out of her office window because she heard noises, and saw the little mud battle. At first she was appalled, then laughed. She wished she could go down and enjoy the fun, but she simply had to much to do.
Alucard and Lui phased into the room, stifling giggles. Putting his finger to his lips for silence one more time, he pulled one mud filled hand back. Alucard followed suit. He began mouthing words and counting down from five on his fingers.
Then they flung there mud, hitting her square in the back of the head. She whirled around furiously, and grabbed her gun. She unloaded the entire clip, but they had already phased away, laughing. Integra sighed and put her gun down.
"A day-care center. I'm playing baby sitter for a bunch of undead children at an insane daycare center."
Then she smiled, and began to walk outside. If it's war they wanted, they had drawn first blood. Or, mud. Whatever.
They all stared at her when she walked outside, picked up two handfuls of mud, and flung one at Lui and one at Alucard. They didn't even try to move. Then suddenly it all whirled back into motion, but now with a new player.
This continued for what must have been an hour. None of them noticed the curly haired guy in his late teens, a white t-shirt and blue jeans staring at then. He was tall, only a few inches shorter than Alucard maybe, and glasses. Not sunglasses, regular glasses. Which was odd, considering his eyes were red.
Then after shaking his head, he yelled to them, "Hey, save some of that for the grass!"
Lui stopped dead, and turned slowly. He saw the curly haired man, and smiled, "I don't believe it. Kyle?"
"In all of my undead glory."
Lui dashed up to him, saying, "It's been ten years! What are you doing in England?"
'Kyle' put out his hand, palm flat, and Lui ran right into it with his chest.
"Hold on there. You aren't getting mud all over my clothes."
Lui smirked, then backed off a little, "Clean freak."
"No, I just don't want you to get my clothes dirty."
Lui shrugged, then asked, "How have you been? And why are you here? You told master that you were going to take your leave to Japan. What happened?"
Kyle shrugged, "I'm good. And yes, I was taking a vacation in Japan, until a few months ago this weird Irish guy showed up and started trying to kill me with butter knives. He's been chasing me for a while. Until I came here, then he just dissapeared."
Lui smiled, "Ya, I don't think you'll have to worry about him. He's been... Deported."
"Sounds like there's a story behind that one. Hold on a sec, is that who I think it is?" Kyle said as Johnny walked up a little sheepishly.
"Hello sir."
Kyle looked over the mud-covered Texan, then laughed, "Last time I saw you, you were still trying to figure out how to use telepathy. And now from the power I'm sensing you've almost progressed enough to try and start phasing! Ah man, the little Black Knight's almost all grown up."
Johnny laughed shyly. Kyle nodded, and phased through the wall, asking, "You guys got anything to drink in here? I'm starving of thirst."
Lui quickly phased after him. Johnny sighed, and began to trudge back to his room.
Seras walked up beside him, "Who was that, and did you just call him sir?"
Johnny began to explain, but Walter did it for him, "That was Kyle Newman, a vampire a few hundred years older than Luis. He was the one who taught Johnny how to sword fight."
Johnny nodded, "I'm still no where near as good as he is. And until I beat him, I'm going to call him sir. It's a respect thing."
Alucard laughed, "I remember when we were all a unit. Me, Johnny, Kyle, Luis, Sarah,-"
"Who was Sarah?" Seras asked. That was a new name to her.
"That's the name my master goes by. It seems that it was rather close to her original name."
"Yes, anyway, it was Me, Johnny, Kyle, Luis, Sarah, and Walter. There were others, but we didn't meet them. That was a time for battles the likes of which you will probably never see Police Girl."
Then from inside there was a loud crash and screamed insults about a lack of intelligence. Walter grimaced, and Integra glared.
"If they have broken something important, I swear I will..." Integra began.
Hehehehehe, another chapter! Kyle won't be around very long, but I think it'll suffice to say he taught Lui and Johnny almost everything they know. Hmmm, can you guess where this is going?
