OF Blood and boxes ch.6 of Paladins.

Joe Casto

Disclaimer: uhm yeah.

Alucard was staring at the food in front of him with a look of intense scrutiny. IF you've

ever seen a small child look at something they were were going to eat, but probably shouldn't have,

that's what it was. 'let me see...' Alucard thought, 'I'm a person of power eating at a public place.

..I might not want to eat this.' Then, He thought of the fact that he was a vampire and didn't need

to worry about silly human poisons. "Why even bother with it?" he said aloud.

"What?" asked Seras. She had been chowing down on her soup...if that's even possible. She

thought about it for about thirty seconds and then she was afraid her head would explode so she

stopped."sorry...what did you say?" she clarified.She looked at Alucard who way playing with his

soup.

"oh..nothing. I was just thinking about getting killed." said Alucard. He quickly realized

his mistake. Not ONLY did he say what was on his mind but he also said something nonplussing to his

lovely comrade. He beat himself up again for being so quick of tounge. He stole a glance at Seras

and noticed that she was still sitting there smiling at him. 'I must've not messed up that bad.'

he thought.

Seras listened to Alucard's comment with intrest. She thought about it for a second and

realized that he COULDN't die after a second. she poked him in the nose and giggled.

"you're......silly" she said. And laughed some more.

And that was the icebreaker. From there on Seras and Alucard spoke freely. Seras disclosed

her obsession with blood and Alucard said it was natural. Seras said she had trouble sleeping alne

in a coffin and Alucard went on a rant about newbies and how they needed to have their hands held

constantly....and so on and so forth.

"Well....." Seras tilted slightly in her chair and leaned in towards Alucard, Winking and

whispering in as blatantly sexual a voice as she could muster."Maybe I like to have someone to hold

my hand at night." she whispered. "I need to use the bathroom. Excuse me." and she left for the

bathroom, leaving Alucard in a pathetic state of mental dissarray.

'but......but..' alucard thought. He wore a goofy grin the whole time and stared at the wall.

'why?' he thought. he decided that Seras might actually be attracted to him. He then mentally

searched through his crusty tomes of mental information for his chapter on flirting. He remembered

in early eighteen hundreds europe when he used to be a regular lady-killer. And not literally. He'd

meet some desperate woman and show her a great night and then she's go home happy and he'd be less

bored. He very seldom killed women...except when the situation called for it. he snapped out of his

revere at the feeling of being sprayed with vampire blood.

He snapped his head to the right and saw that one of the vampires from the table beside him

had been....whacked. The Priest from earlier was just assembeling his cross.he held it by the long

part and moved the cross forward and backwards quickly. a small spike came out of either side of the

cross. He then flicked his wrist forward and the base elongated and a blade came out of the top.

The overall weapon looked rather like a pickaxe and Alucard was suprised with the proficency with

which it was done.

The priest swiftly disposed of three more vampires by bopping them on the head with the

sharp points of his weapon. They fell limp to the floor and spasmed slightly. This informed Alucard

that he was using blessed silver alongside magic, which is how he disposed of the first one.

Alucard watched in sickenening fascination as he killed several more. He was alarmed by

gunshots coming from the door. Some of the more perceptive Vampires had taken for the door and were

being slaughtered by men at the door with silver AK-47s. He turned back to the priest where he'd killed

another four. Two of the casualties had bleeding footmarks in their chests andthe other two were

stapeled to a wall. Alucard had never seen anything like this...it was incredible.He thought as

the priest jumped the twenty feet into the air to reach the third balcony. Alucard lost sight of him

but he could hear the screaming coming from where he was. Seras ran out of the bathroom and Alucard

drew his gun. He stared at Seras, who'd been in the bathroom for all of ten seconds and said:"run."