Chapter 1

Terra 2

Japoness

Celes Victoria stared across the table at the two young adults.

"He what?" she asked.

"Sentaro seems to have gotten some powers." Kristine Aida, Goddess 1st Class Type 2 Unlimited replied. Her brother, Sentaro Aida, up till recently mortal, nodded.

"It started after I helped them with Yggdrasil." He added.

Celes nodded. "Ok. What does your mother say?"

Kristine and Sentaro looked nervously at each other, then at the tabletop.

Celes groaned. "You haven't told her?"

"No." came the weak reply.

The vampire indicated the restaurant around them.

"That's why we met here isn't it? You haven't told anyone."

"You're the first." Kristine whispered.

"WHY haven't you told anyone?"

"Because Mom will worry." Sentaro replied, "Since we've started talking again, she's been there, but not as smothering as she was."

"Not that she was smothering you." Kristine muttered.

Sentaro glared at his sister. "We already promised Mom we weren't going to talk about the past anymore."

"Yeah," Kristine said, "I'm sorry."

Sentaro looked back at Celes.

"If we told Mom, she'd flip out." He said, "Then Grandma would flip."

"The Council would be in an uproar." Kristine added, "Course it would mostly be those Council members that are closely associated with Saturn…….."

"I don't keep up to date on the Council of Heaven." Celes said, supporting her head with her arm on the tabletop. "I have enough fun trying to stay current with Terra-2 politics."

"Saturn is the Roman God Councilor." Kristine said, "He was once closely associated with Loki, even shared the same view regarding half mortal deities."

Celes frowned. "I remember your mother telling me about Loki. So why is Saturn still on the Council?"

"Unless he resigns or dies, he's there for eternity." Sentaro replied, "And since nothing will get him to resign……."

"And he's not likely to die soon." Kristine added.

"…..we're stuck with him." Sentaro finished.

"I'm glad he's not in charge of Terra 2 then." Celes said, "Now, why are you telling me this?"

"We needed to tell somebody." Kristine said, "We decided on you because Sentaro lives here…….."

Celes raised her hand. "Hold on. Keima lives here too. Why not tell him?"

"He'll report to Grandma." Kristine said.

"Still…..why me?"

Kristine glanced at Sentaro.

"We've been….testing my powers." Sentaro said softly, "And there's been some……..complications."

Celes' eyes narrowed. "What kind of complications?"

"I was responsible for all those calls about ghosts a week ago."

"The floating cars?" Sentaro and Kristine nodded, "The trees?" another nod. "What about the rock that…?" more nods. Celes rubbed her forehead. "What is it exactly you want me to do?"

"Cover it up." Sentaro said.

Celes stared at Sentaro, then fixed her gaze on Kristine.

"You of all people……want me to…..of all things……change reports…..hide evidence……for all intensive purposes…….Lie?"

Kristine shifted nervously.

"It's not really lying…….." Sentaro began, "and we're not asking you to change reports."

Celes eyes narrowed. "What exactly do you want?"

"Just….omit things, maybe include a few errors……"

"Great….you want me to be incompetent."

"No…..just…." Sentaro started before Celes' hand stopped him.

"I'll keep your secret." Celes said, "I won't tell anyone. But it's up to you two to keep others from finding out." Celes then stood up and left the restaurant.

"Well that was a waste." Kristine said.

"No." Sentaro replied, "She was right."

Kristine turned and stared at her brother.

"Don't tell me after convincing me not to, you WANT to tell Mom!"

"No." Sentaro said, "It's our problem, not hers. If we get in trouble, we take the blame. No one else goes down with us." With that, Sentaro stood up. "I have class." He then turned and left, leaving Kristine alone at the table.

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That evening.

Japoness Spaceport

The official stood bored behind the customs counter. It had been a rather slow day, not many people from Earth visited Japoness this time of year. At this point of time, New Texas was the hot tourist spot. Thus, it was a complete surprise to him when a shuttle rumbled overhead and landed. A moment later a tall red headed woman walked into the building and headed towards the counter, pulling a rather large suitcase behind her. The woman was dressed in red and black leather, as well as a large black trench coat. She also wore sunglasses.

"Welcome to Japoness." The Official began as the woman stopped at the counter. "Your papers please."

The woman handed over her passport. The Official looked it over.

"Your purpose for visiting Japoness Miss Rayne?" he asked.

"Business." She replied.

"Have you brought any fruits or vegetables?"

"No."

"Any weapons or…."

Before the Official could finish, the woman named Rayne had pulled out a piece of paper. The Official glanced at it, then back at her.

"This says you have the permission of Her Majesty of England to carry both firearms and bladed weapons. That will suffice for here, though I suggest you not use them. The security forces tend to frown on such things."

"Of course." Rayne replied.

"I will, of course, have to foreword this weapons report as well as your name to the security forces as a matter of routine."

Rayne smiled. The Official noted that she seemed to have fangs, much like the Shogun's Head of Security.

"I wouldn't have it any other way." Rayne replied. The Official handed her back the passport. Rayne took it and headed on her way.

The Official just stared at her.

"Strange woman."

The Official turned to see the pilot of the shuttle.

"How so?"

"I wasn't supposed to fly here today." The pilot replied, "She paid me double to fly her. I decided for that much money, I'd fly her past some of the major landmarks, but she kept the shade down the entire time. Even left her sunglasses on." The pilot looked back in the direction the woman had left. "Very strange."

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Japoness Castle.

Celes sat at her desk going over the many reports that had accumulated. Some listed status of the various security teams, others were Intel on possible threats to the Shogun, as well as to Lorelei. A few were reports issued by the forces of the other city-states. One report was a special one, only her vampire eyes could read it. That report was a status report on Rogue Demon activity, sent to Celes as a courtesy by Belldandy.

…….Belldandy.

Celes sighed and tossed the report aside on her desk. She still couldn't believe the secret that Sentaro and Kristine were keeping from their family. She couldn't even believe they had come to her, a long time friend of their mother, expecting her to help them hide their mistakes.

A beep alerted her to new information arriving on her computer. Celes hit a button and the screen lit up. Celes' eyes scanned the screen. As she read, her eyes slowly narrowed.

When she was done reading she clicked her screen off. She stood up and walked to a picture hanging on her wall. She moved the picture aside revealing a key code panel. She quickly entered the code. With a loud click, the entire wall shifted back slightly before rising up, revealing a large vault. Lining the walls of the vault were various firearms of all different types. She moved past them to the far end where a large black cannon hung just above a pedestal. On the pedestal sat the large silver handgun she had received from her Master Alucard so long ago. She slid the magazine into the weapon, then loaded the chamber.

"Time to finish this Rayne." Celes muttered softly.

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Outside Otaru's Restaurant.

"So how about this," Kristine began, "I'll tell Uncle Keima, and whatever he suggests we do."

"You can't be serious." Sentaro replied, "Uncle Keima still doesn't trust me."

"He's better now that Mom's talked to him."

"He still burns the food I order."

"Yeah but……."

"Kris," Sentaro said, "I know you're worried. I am too. But I don't want to end up as some project of Heaven to be studied."

Kristine was silent for a moment.

"What about Dawn and Yui?"

"What about them?" Sentaro asked.

"Well, Dawn is a Valkyrie." Kristine said, "And she was a mortal at one time. Yui has been there since we were kids…….."

"Yui was there when Uncle Keima was a kid."

"Anyway………" Kristine said, "They relate more to us then the others."

"Mostly due to the fact they are a lot younger then most of the people we know in Heaven." Sentaro replied.

"Yes well, there is that." Kristine was quiet for a moment. "I think we should tell Arael too."

"Why her?"

"First, she's always with Yui. Next, Saturn is against her too. If anyone would understand our reasons for secrecy, it's her."

Sentaro rubbed his head, "This is becoming a conspiracy now. If Mom finds out she'll……" Sentaro's voice trailed off. Kristine looked at him curiously.

"What is it?"

Sentaro pointed. Standing just up the street, leaning against a street lamp was a red haired woman. She wore black leather pants and a kind of leather vest. Leather gauntlets wrapped around her wrists. Attached to the back of the gauntlets were a pair of blades, each going up the back of her arms. She stared intently at Sentaro and Kristine with bright green eyes.

"She looks like a sexed up Mana." Sentaro said. Kristine rolled her eyes and smacked her brother.

"Quit drooling," She muttered, "or so help me I will tell Auntie Mana you said that."

Sentaro paled slightly. "So who do you suppose that is?"

"Maybe she's a marionette?" Kristine said, "No one else would have weapons like that."

"You could tell better then me." Sentaro stated.

Kristine closed her eyes and tried to sense the woman. She opened her eyes a moment later.

"Vampire." She whispered, "…….I think."

"You think?" Sentaro asked.

"Well she…." Kristine's eyes widened.

"What now?" Sentaro asked. Then a slight chirping sound reached his ears, followed by the fluttering of wings. Hundreds of bats raced down into the street. They began to circle around a specific spot, moving closer and closer until they seemed to melt together into the form of a person, a person they knew all to well.

"Auntie Celes?" Sentaro and Kristine whispered together.

Celes slowly raised her head and stared at the woman leaning against the light pole. The woman straightened up and walked towards Celes. She finally stopped about twenty yards from Celes.

"Hello Celes." The woman said, "It's been awhile."

"Not long enough Rayne." Celes replied, "I thought Brimstone was disbanded."

"And I thought the same of Hellsing." Rayne said, "Apparently we both were mistaken."

"As much as it hurts me to say it," Celes said, "You are correct. Hellsing is no more."

"And yet one of their pet Vampires still lives."

"I'll ignore that comment. Now why are you here?"

Rayne smirked, "I thought that would be obvious. You're a blood sucker, and I kill blood suckers."

Celes crossed her arms. "And what is it that you do?"

"I feed off of the Vampire's human underlings." Rayne replied, "Not innocent lives."

"I've never feed off a living person." Celes snarled, "I'd kill myself before ever doing that!"

"I can arrange that." Rayne whipped her arms up, the blades attaches to her gauntlets flipped around. She grasped the handles and held them before her in an attack stance.

Celes pulled out the massive handgun and pointed it at Rayne.

"I'd like to see you try it." Celes said with venom in her voice.

"Kris….." Sentaro whispered moving closer to the restaurant.

"I know I know." Kristine replied. Uncle Keima! Get out front and watch it!

Rayne crouched down, then leaped at Celes. Celes raised her gun higher, then fired. Rayne dodged the shot by twisting in the air. She landed on the ground just as Celes fired off another shot. Rayne leaped at the wall then bounced off of it and swung around the nearest lamppost. Celes continued to track her and let off another shot, followed by another. Rayne continued to dodge each shot, leaping from lamppost to wall and back, moving closer and closer to Celes. Then the door to the restaurant opened.

"What the hell is…?" Keima started to asked before Celes fired off another shot at Rayne. This time Rayne raised one of her blades and deflected the shot. The bullet slammed into the door Keima had just opened.

"CRAP!" Keima shouted as he dove for the ground. "What in the name of Kami-sama is going on around here?"

Celes would have liked to give an answer, but she was trying her hardest to get Rayne to keep her distance, and failing. Then Rayne was right in front of her. Celes pulled the trigger point blank at Rayne, but instead of the guns roar, it only clicked.

"Out of ammo." Rayne said with a smile, her fangs glistening in the streetlight. She swung one of her blades right at Celes' head. Celes moved the handgun and blocked the blade. But she forgot about Rayne's other blade.

Rayne slammed her right blade deep into Celes' stomach, right up to the handgrip. Celes grunted in pain as Rayne lifted her off the ground by the blade.

"Now Celes Victoria." Rayne said with a smile, "it's time to send you to hell."