Me: (coughs loudly) Meh! I hate being sick! (begins to whine)
Alucard: ...
Me: (sighs) Anywho, here's more as promised to all of ya, and if mor eis not added, Happy Turkey day!
Ty: (within a small cubicle dressing room) I'm not coming out!
Zuranna: (smirks) let them read now while we prod the wolf boy out.
Me: (nods) enjoy, and again, thank you all for the wonderful reviews, I'm trying to keep all ideas and questions in mind so to answer them and all, but for now!
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"Alucard... huh?" seeing the faint shimmer of something small on his side from the aid of a violent bolt of lightening passing by the window. Slowly reaching over his frail thin body, his coat hanging from his form like a mere skeleton underneath his cloak of red cloth. Seras felt the ill feeling rise within her heart as she withdrawing the small syringe from his side and drawing it to her eye level, saw inside a few droplets of a odd crimson gold laced mixture. Hearing his mangled laugh, Seras gripping the syringe tightly snapped her loathing red eyes over to Maxwell as he sitting there with his legs hanging out in front of him, gripped his still bleeding side.
Even though bleeding heavily, the man's red eyes were amused and cruel as he watched her with a dark victory shimmering within the pools of his eyes. "a mixture of my blood and a black magic elixir made from a Hellsing... not even the great famed Dracula can stop its effects, it attacks his blood and sends all the dark powers... into the vessel of whoever mixes their blood with that elixir... thus, he goes human to the proper age he should be... and I take his place as the new king... let this world of darkness come... I'm ready..." the man cackled as Seras heard it kick in like a faint drum. Alucard's heartbeat had kicked in and... Seras weakly looked back to Alucard as his body suddenly violently shook from heavy coughs tearing away the soft tissue in his ancient lungs. Droplets of blood flew from his wrinkle infested mouth as the white hair sliding away exposed his face. Seras froze with eyes wide with fear and horror as the blood in her face drained.
His face looked to that of a skull with a paper thin layer of near white flesh covering the bones within. The only thing that showed he was still defying death was the vivid eyes that have sunk into the sockets of his skull... yet they were no longer red... but a murky gray blue, only a faint red ring around the irises remained of his once magnificent blood red eyes. Seras felt her heart sink with sudden pain, sorrow... her grip upon the syringe tightened to near white knuckles making the glass groan ever so slight as it neared shattering. Maxwell continued to cackle loudly in the background as he watched his wound slowly mend, the finally transformation from human to undead was near complete.
"Face it Seras Victoria, you lost... I am now your king, you and this very land belong to me now, your Alucard is finished, he's de-" Maxwell violently crashed hard into the door spraying more blood around as his bloody hands rapidly clawed at his face with wide tearing pain filled eyes. Blood poured down his face as his entire bottom jaw was violently ripped off and left a gaping hole through to the back of his neck. Maxwell's tongue lolled down the front like a morbid red carpet as blood spilled violently out with chucks of ripped flesh and muscle tissue dangling forth on his front. Seras with her back to Maxwell held her right arm over her shoulder with the timidly smoking Jackal within her tightly clutched hand. "Shut it human... Alucard, I... I don't know what to do..." Seras's viciously cold voice, faltered greatly to pure loss and fear as she looked to her dying king. His eyes didn't waiver at all from her own as with small tendrils of blood slipping down his chin, the corner of Alucard's lips trembling, slowly curled into a very pathetic attempt of his signature smirk. It was a pitiful sight to make Seras's heart want to curl and turn to ash.
Weakly looking to the syringe in her hand, Seras's mind began to race... a large idea began to form in her mind. Having to move fast to lack of time, Seras eyeing the syringe smiled weakly and with a swift flip of it in her left hand, opening her bare right hand as the Jackal was placed beside her. Seras giving the syringe a tight squeeze watched as a single drop of the gold laced red mixture slip out onto her flesh and remain... with a weak sigh, Seras watched the needle as she held it tightly in her left hand, "Please... forgive... me... if this doesn't work...". The needle flashing in another flash of crashing lightening, Seras cringed as the needle slammed into her right arm.
"What are you tempting to pull, there is very little elixir left, and he's to far gone, if you try anything his heart wouldn't take it, he'll die, you will never- GEYEAHHH!" pulling the syringe suction, Seras's red eyes were narrowed as she both sending very gruesome images to Maxwell's mind, and felt her blood get pulled from within her body filling the syringe all the way to the top. With a weak cry, Seras withdrawing the needle and eyed the mixture of her blood and the few small droplets that had been leftovers mixed together. "Even... if... it's a small amount... don't under estimate... a Hellsing!" Seras yelling violently in a instant to humans eyes... Maxwell giving a gurgling surprised groan, looked fearfully up into the queen's eyes as she standing right before him gave no spare seconds for him to think or act.
Maxwell's mind and physical voice screamed as he saw the needle going right for his left eye. "go back to being a human and then be put back in your place, you god forsaken monster!" Seras yelled with all her fury, her pupils fully retracted. The soft tissue much like the skin of a grape, popped from the needle's sharp point. With more blood oozing forth, Maxwell gave a mangled scream of pain as Seras with no mercy... her other hand's fingers curled gently around the small drop of remaining elixir.
Seras with her left hand gave no pause and with her thumb on the syringe, put full force sending the red golden contents right into Maxwell's skull. Upon withdrawing the needle, both a bewildered Maxwell with one eye still open and Seras with both livid red eyes... nothing happened. Seras with needle in hand, stumbled back hard as the storm outside was lessening to a mere savage downpour. Both lightening and thunder lessened into small cries from bellowing roars. With her shock lifting the mental torture from Maxwell, the man looking at Seras and seeing her dismay and shock, began to full out cackle in her mind. Yet as he laughed, Seras narrowing her eyes, fell back as she saw it... the red in his eye was lifting back to a murky gray. Maxwell's laughter was abruptly ended as waves of savage pain like glowing white hot blades were slammed into his body. That was when the trembling began, no... it wasn't like trembling, Seras realized as she falling back even more stood there between her king and this monster.
The man began to convulse violently as his one good eye going wide, began to bleed. Dark blood sloshed from his mangled red throat and gut with thick dark chunks following suit. Maxwell with his single eye going fully wide, began to sink back into his skull, and with a high pitched squeal, began to slip to the right leaving a thick crimson upon his one time expensive doors made of mahogany wood that now bore a giant bullet hole from the Jackal. Crashing to the ground, his convulsions grew as the flesh on his arms and face began to sink in, drying out. Flesh began to split in long lines making Maxwell's mangled slushy screams grow... With his flesh tightening like a wool shirt in the dryer, Maxwell shuddering violently, like a blister bursting from to much pressure. The gaping bullet wound from before broke open unleashing the inside fury. With a wave of hot blood spilling out, the remains of the melting organs sloshed out in a fierce outburst of chunks going from the yellow intestines, to the graying lungs. This was the reverse effect of the elixir, any human who was being removed of anything of dark powers dried up.
Seras couldn't take the gory sight as his bones began to grind and wail due to them becoming as brittle as dry twigs. His skin already as dry as dead leafs, began to flake off allowing desiccated flecks of blood to spill out like specks of semi moist dirt. Turning her back to the man with a violent turn of her heels, faced her master as he barely took any breath, nor his heart was near faded from her vamperic senses. Seras knew right away from what she had witnessed... she had to move fast before his powers fully were driven into her body. She didn't want to see the outcome of her taking the entire power of Alucard on top of her own. Eyeing the still moist droplet of gold laced blood resting so timidly within her right palm, Seras brought the needle to the small droplet. She prayed her faith in how stubborn Hellsing were, that this would be enough or... Seras's gaze faltered weakly to her dying master as already his own withering skin was beginning to peel and crack allowing tendrils of near black blood to seep out all over.
Drawing the small drop into the syringe, Seras upon swift legs making the wooden floor groan from her movement, kneeled by Alucard who seemed no longer aware of his surroundings. His blue gray eyes glazed and very distant. "Alucard, hang in there... please..." the man didn't even flinch as she jabbed the needle into his arm and began to draw forth his blood. No time could be wasted, and without thinking of the consequences, Seras jabbed the needle hard once more into her right arm with a painful wince going over her face and form. Letting the syringe to drop to the ground with a loud clatter as the wind pelted the window with the heavy rains. Seras weakly watched Alucard as Maxwell's struggles had ended behind her, yet the girl did not want to see the outcome of the elixirs reverse effects. Nothing... five minuets passed, ten minuets passed... Seras sighing weakly sat beside her king who somehow was managing to stay alive... barely. Bringing her bent knees to her front, Seras curling her arms timidly around her legs, rested her face from lips down onto her bent up joints. What now?
Seras's mind began to wander. She didn't want to lose him. Not after all they've been through. As she sat there, Seras recalled... she remembered. With a small sigh, Seras not moving her head, looked over to Alucard whose white hair once more concealed his face. "A... Alucard... Do you... remember first time we met... in Cheddar... you let me live... and I became your fledgling..." looking once more to the ground by her feet, Seras gave to a timid smile as the scenery outside even still blustery was lessening up in the rains downpour. She could smell the gathering smoke as the building they resided within was beginning to become consumed by flames like her former home. "I called you master for what seemed... so long ago. I remember Hellsing, Sir Integra, Walter... my never wanting to feed... then after a few years, hellsing burned down, you gained your freedom... life seemed so much better... I became your queen. Alucard..." the tears brimmed her eyes causing her vision to blur, her mind taking in the full conclusion of either outcome as flames began to lap past the mahogany doors. Hearing the wooden beams within the wall groan like an old ship. Seras weakly gave a shaky breath, she wouldn't leave his side even if the house was fully consumed by the fires ravenous hunger to consume all.
"... I... wanted to spend my life with you... to be your queen... but.. I guess it won't... happen... if you die, I lose you... but... if this works... I'll be human, and I'm no longer a virgin... I will not be able to get changed back... Alucard..." burying her face into her legs, Seras gave in to a loud muffled sob as she wiped her wet eyes onto the black rough jean material. "... I'm sorry... I didn't know what else to do... but please... please, don't die... I... I can't..." Seras gave a strangled cry as her entire body began to lose strength. She couldn't move as her muscles throbbed from the feel of falling asleep and before the pins and needles. Cringing, Seras with relief on her mind as well as sorrow, buried her face further into her legs as even without movement, the painful waves coursed through her form heavily. She felt it, her familiar faded, the dark coil was burned away. Through the wooden doors, the vivid orange flames lapped at the wood making it crack and peel. The young woman didn't even see the flames begin to consume and choke the room with black smoke as with sweat trickling down her face, Seras giving a weak whimper, collapsed hard onto Alucard's side as all around her became blurred and unfocused.
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"wolf, mind telling me... just what the fuck is going on?" Kunisaku shaking his head of the drenching rain, peered over to Ryuichi as he shaking his own wings of water with a very disgruntled glare on his face, eyed the blazing building before them as it was fully consumed on the outside with the flames from hell itself. More rather, Kunisaku watched the wolves that circled the violently burning building, laying in the mud as limp bodies bleeding off small multiple orbs of black light. The wolf king looking from Ryuichi, went back to looking at the fallen wolves who gave very faint whimpers.
"It's Seras... something has gone wrong within the building..." both royals of Steel Wings from America and Hell Hounds of United Kingdom glanced over to Donovan as he silently slinking though the mud with his body utterly drenched in both blood and rain, held his golden red eyes sternly watched the building the collapsed wolves surrounded. "Donovan?" Kunisaku murmured as his ears flicked hard against the onslaught of pouring rain. The American vampire king sighing softly, narrowed his eyes to the building as he could feel the boiling heat spill off onto their bodies. "those wolves I've seen once before... when I was revived and Alucard was near killed... they had come to Seras's call." The vampire spoke with a soft hiss slipping past his dark features.
High above in the still dark and violent night sky, the harpies and dragons bickered viciously over the few remaining scraps of fresh meat. "Tell me Donovan... did she use a great deal of power back in that forest?" Kunisaku spoke as he snapped his own gaze over to a slowly advancing Deborah, humans and griffin. Donovan politely in a dark fashion, nodded to the queen and griffin before looking back to the building before them. "Yes, she did... she had drawn up if I can properly recall, all her power... so let me take a wild guess, those wolves came for when she first called them, a bit of her own dark powers bled into them..." Donovan spoke softly as he narrowed his golden red eyes even more, the realization hitting him and making him feel like a fool to miss that. "Kuni, why are the two true undead allowed in but no one else can enter?" Deborah spoke with a very worried and concerned tone to her usual sarcastic tongue, her own ears hanging on either side dripping heavily of the rain water. Kunisaku eyeing his sister, looked wearily to the building as a few bolts of lightening crashed over head as a last true cry of dominance to the night sky. "for one... it's near fully burned down... and two, no doubt barriers are built in those walls that only Alucard and or his queen could pass through... but..."
Deborah watching her brother, the queen gave a small smile, uneasy and very small, but a smile none the less. "It's Alucard and Seras... I'm sure they're..." Blinking slowly, Deborah brought her own golden eyes to the building as the roof began to groan of a dying wail. "... safe..." the Italian wolf whispered the last word with a faint tremble. Kunisaku watching her, understood all to well. She didn't trust her own words of near false comfort. "Donovan, Kunisaku, all you royals... get over here to the other side of the building, NOW!" near all of the gathered group jumped from Zuranna's sudden frantic voice ringing loudly in their heads. Both humans had stumbled back hard as Ryuichi clicking loudly, resettled his metal feathers once more as he, Kunisaku, Deborah, Donovan and Kitanne traded very uneasy glances.
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Upon arriving through the thick mud to the other side of the building. The odd gathering of royals, humans and solitary griffin just went rigid as they saw the dragons, werewolves, vampires, harpies... near all who had remained from the battle and/or converted to the side of darkness, were frozen and staring forward. Even Kujimara with a blood lathered muzzle was locked in place, not even his tail twitched from the faint gathering of carrion flies. Nearby Integra with Walter stood together cradling each others battered bodies. Zuranna standing beside Sorah and Ty who held blood soaked bandages all over his left side where a arm use to be. Anderson also stood nearby with uneasy red eyes, a look near impossible on that man's face as Heinkel and Yumiko stood beside him. Slowly joining his queen and loves side, Donovan in a slow near un wanting motion, began to turn and face the crumbling buildings of hot embers and boiling flames. Yumiko with wide tear filled eyes, was the one to emit a small cry of loud fear as the roof of her one time home suddenly caved in sending huge flames and plumes of black smoke hundreds of feet into the air. But that wasn't what caught Donovan's eyes and make the vampire's body go rigid and frozen as the temperatures finally going full frigid began to turn the pouring rain into blustery flakes of white snow.
Standing there as two silhouettes from the roaring flames behind them. A heavy long trench coat bellowed to the hard left on the man's single form as within his arms hung a near limp form of a unconscious petite figure that gave faint whimpers of pain and... shear sorrow? Zuranna was the first to react as she hearing the heartbeat pulsate from the petite woman, stepped forward with very uneasy steps on the slippery ground that still consisted of a fine mixture of blood and water downed dirt. "Alucard... is that... please... tell me... w... why does Seras have a heart beat, who dies she.. give off the feel as a human!" Zuranna cried as she taking another step didn't flinch as the sky gave one final crash of lightening making the black smoke and bellowing flames glow blindly. With his own slow gait coming to a soft stop making mud squish out from underneath his brown boots, Alucard standing tall gave a direct forward stare with his fierce red eyes onto Zuranna's own through the near white curtain of snow. Donovan seeing his one time ally's stare, knew all to well. Seras wasn't dead, but she no longer was of the undead either.
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Me: oooh... a total twist...
(hearing the commotion, I look to the left as the cubicle fall apart)
Ty: (with ears hanging low, is wearing a turkey suit) Gobble... gobble... (sweatdrops)
Zuranna: (outright laughing)
Seras: (pales)
Me: uh... maybe that is a bit to much... but for now... Keep up the reviews and I'll try to post more this week, but if not, have a fun week and I shall return to full health and create one chapter a day by next week... So Ciao for now! (sneezes upon exiting)