The Fifth Element
Darker: Ah yes, a Fifth Element and Hellsing fanfic. I've waited a loong time to write one.
Integra: Oh shit….
Alucard: Why must she torture us so my Master?
Darker: Oh you two zip it. This is going to be very, very interesting.
Seras: I'm afraid…very afraid…
Walter: So it would seem.
Darker: Yes. You should all be very afraid. Now, a little bit about this new fan fiction. It takes some of the characters from the manga and the anime. Since there are a lot of characters that have large parts in the movie, I need to take a little of both. I'm going to keep the OC's to a minimum. There's only going to be about less then 5.
Alucard: That's a relief…
Darker: But…
Integra: We're doomed…there's a but…
Darker: The majority of the characters are going to HAVE to be OOC, due to the certain events in the story. So sorry. Most of the time you all will be in character. Now then, shall we get started?
Hellsing Cast: NOOOO!
The Fifth Element Chapter 1, Prologue
Egypt 1913
Somewhere on the Nile coast line at a temple excavation.
A small boy rode his mule up to a large temple and hopped off, grabbing a goats stomach filled with water and ran inside. He looked down various hallways until he found a large room with an older man reading hieroglyphs and an artist sketching on a pad of paper.
"When three moons…no, three planets are in an eclipse…" the older man said, tracing his fingers across the hieroglyphs. He narrowed his eyes and began to use the paint brush in his hands to remove the sand from the indentations. "the black hole opens like door…evil comes and rains terror and chaos on us all. See? The snake, Billy. The Ultimate Evil. Make sure you get the snake!" he said tapping his brush against the picture that looks somewhat like a snake.
"So when exactly does this…door opening evil snake act supposed to occur?" the young man said, his hand gliding across the sketch pad, quickly drawing the 'Snake of Evil.' He was about the age of 25 and had a strong American accent, no doubt from the US.
The professor thought for a moment. "This is five…ten…" he began and started murmuring numbers. He had a thoughtful look to his face. "Every five thousand years."
"Every five thousand years…" Billy repeated. "So I guess I have some time then huh?" his voice in a joking tone.
The professor shot Billy a glare then continued to translate.
The boy with the water watching in amazement as the professor translated. Long, skeletal looking hands grasped the boy's shoulders. He jumped and gasped, turning around to face a priest in long dark brown robes.
"I will take it to them my son." the priest said and took the bag of water from the boy's hand, who nodded. "Go with God…be free from evil." he said and made the sign of the cross on the boy's forehead.
The boy ran off and the priest turned to the professor, looking rather worried.
The professor continued to translate, running his fingers across the etched stone. "They arrange the elements of life around…a fifth…water, fire, earth and air. But a fifth?" he said, his hand stopping on a human shaped one, surrounded by the symbols representing the life elements. "The four elements…around the fifth…"
The priest opened the bag of water and brought out a small glass vile and poured a powder into it. "Lord forgive me…they already know too much." he said softly.
Professor Pacoli continued to read, the light dimming around him. He turned around slightly. "AZIZ! LIGHT!" he shouted.
Aziz, a small boy holding up a brightly polished sheet of gold or copper woke up and fumbled, holding the sheet of metal up, casting the sunlight onto the wall by the professor.
"Ah much better Aziz, thank you." Pacoli said. He turned around upon hearing the priest come into the room. "Father this is the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen! The greatest find in history is right behind me! Can you imagine the implications? "
The priest nodded in agreement, but his face showed differently. "Only too well…here, you must be parched." he said and poured Professor Pacoli water in a tin cup.
"Ah, thank you." he said and took the cup, placing it to his lips. "Look, it's like a battle plan!" he said, too excited to drink. "Here the good, here the evil." he pointed to two separate parts, close to the elements. "Here, a weapon against evil. I'm going to be famous!"
"Then let us toast to your fame!" the priest said. "Here, Billy." he held out a cup to Billy.
"To fame…salad!" Pacoli said and raised his glass. The others did the same. He brought the cup to his lips then stopped. "We cannot make a toast with water…BILLY! In my sack, get the Grappa!"
The priest looked disappointed.
Billy walked over to Pacoli's sack and grabbed a green tinted bottle of Grappa. While he was there, he found a pistol. He heard a noise and looked up, leaning out of the corridor to see bright lights and a strange…door. Billy froze, staring in wonder as these giant metal…things stepped out of the door and waddled towards the room.
Pacoli narrowed his eyes, trying to figure out what the scriptures meant. "This perfect being…perfect being…I don't understand what this perfect being is." He growled slightly. "Where is that boy? BILLY!"
Billy pressed himself against the cool stone walls, hidden in the shadows. His hand flying across the pad of paper as he sketched the things that lumbered past him. He blinked a few times, feeling the effects of the powder the priest put in.
"Hmm…this divine light they talk about…what is the divine light?" Pacoli wondered. He growled again, noticing the light begin to dim. "AZIZ! LIGHT!" he shouted. Aziz arranged the sheet of metal, but nothing happened. Suddenly, the room was filled with bright light. "Ah, thank you Aziz. Much better." He turned around and stared shocked at the things that stood in the doorway. "Uh…yes?" he asked before on of them grabbed him by the throat and carried him off.
The priest was on his knees, his eyes cast downward. "Master, they were about to discover everything, but I had the situation under control!"
Pacoli looked puzzled as he was held three feet above the ground. "A-A-Are you…German?"
"What have a done wrong my master!" the priest asked, jumping to his feet.
The leader of the Mondoshawans looked over the priest. "Servant, you and like thousands of others before you have served us well, but elements no longer safe on your planet. War soon engulf it, we must take them." the commander said. He waddled to the wall, his index finger turning into a key and slipped it into a groove. The wall where the professor stood opened with a mechanical noise.
"This is…unbelievable…." Pacoli said. The Mondoshawan who was holding him revived a look from the commander and nodded. He looked at Pacoli and suddenly he fell limp. He dropped the professor and walked back to the commander.
The Mondoshawans hobbled through the doorway into a vast room with a high, pyramid shaped ceiling. In the four corners where vessels that contained four, long stones with different markings at the top or bottom. The four elements, earth, fire, wind and water. They surrounded a sarcophagus that rested on an alter in the middle of the room.
"The fifth…element…." the priest said, following the rest of them. He stared in wonder.
"Get the stones. We need to keep them safe." the commander said. Four of them each took a stone and a few of them raised the sarcophagus using telekinesis and walked out of the room. He opened a case and the stone carriers put them into the case and carried it out, following the fifth element.
"But what about the great evil? We need it's protection!" the priest said, slightly panicked.
"We will return when mankind comes to it's senses. We will return when the great evil comes."
"Knowing mankind as I do, that could take centuries!"
"Time is of no importance. Life only important."
Billy staggered through the halls, carrying the pistol. He stood in the doorway and aimed his weapon. "Stop…" he said and took a step. He tripped and fell, the gun going off. The Mondoshawans made a mechanical groaning sound and the door began to close.
"Hurry Commander! You can still make it!" the priest said, urging the commander on. It's armor was too bulky and was too slow. The doorway was too small, but he managed to stick his arm out, his finger still in the form of the key. The priest winced as the hand was crushed. The commander said something, but the priest did not hear it.
Outside the ship from which the creatures had come from began to prepare to lift off. It releases a large puff of warm wind that blew sand in all directions. It lifted off and sped away, appearing to be a mere shooting star. The room began to fill like an hourglass, the priest being buried.
The boy with the water ran outside and watched, gasping for air and choking on sand.
End Chapter 1
Darker: wipes sweat away That took me a looong time. Sorry if it was sort of slow, it'll start to heat up next chapter.
Integra: At least she hasn't been able to torture us yet…
Alucard: But that'll change soon…
Seras: Please don't remind me…
Darker: Well, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. The real first chapter is next and everything will start to make a little more sense. Please review!