Chapter Three!
Oh… That was a horrible dream. First I have to teach master Tennis… And he just… Oh… Hey, why is this place so small? I do believe that my bed is bigger but then..
Seras's eyes snapped open as she sat up quickly, bumping her head painfully on the coffin lid. Her slightly trembling hands searched quickly for some button or clasp, or anything that would open the coffin and give her freedom.
Her finger depressed a button, and the hissing of air was heard as the coffin lid opened. Once the lid was opened, her head popped up out of the coffin. She rubbed her head where she had bumped it.
She heard clapping over to her right side, and her head whipped in that direction. She visibly relaxed as she said,
" Master… What am I doing in your room… in your coffin..?" She took this time to take in what her Master's room looked like. It was actually plain, at least to her. He had a table, his coffin on a stand, and a dingy light hung from the ceiling.
" Well, I supposed that you just couldn't dream of leaving me. I took pity on your dreams and allowed you to stay in my room." He grinned that maniacal grin and re-crossed his legs on the table.
Seras, still groggy, started to pull herself out of the bed. Halfway out, her hand slipped and she fell head over heels onto his cold stone floor. That in itself knocked not only the wind out of her, but her common sense out of her.
Alucard laughed insanely at this, and returned to sipping what looked like wine out of his goblet.
"Master… That's not funny…." Seras's voice was muffled and made Alucard laugh even harder than before. Before Seras could pull herself up, however, she felt herself being grabbed and lifted.
" You really should watch your step, Police Girl. You can't very well teach me tennis with a broken arm, now can you?" At this, Seras felt what little blood was in her face leave.
" You aren't serious about that, are you? Please don't tell me that I have to still teach you tennis and badminton?" Her voice was pleading, and this drew another laugh out of Alucard. He was still holding on to her shoulders, helping to keep her up.
"Um… Master?" Alucard snapped out of his slight trance. He had been staring off into space for a while now.
" Why do I have to teach you TWO sports?" She sounded exasperated. Alucard grinned once more and laughed suddenly.
" No! I talked Integra out of you teaching me two sports… But you still have to teach me tennis." Seras groaned loudly and made a whimpering sound. She wasn't exactly happy to have to repeat their last incident.
" Why Master? Why must I teach you tennis? Last time you almost bloody killed me!" She gasped at her own outburst, and quickly covered her mouth with her hand and looked down, feeling embarrassed at having talked back to Alucard.
" Because, Police Girl," He gripped her chin with his gloved hand and brought her face up to meet his. His eyes met hers and he said, " Sir Integra wishes to challenge us. You and me," He smiled then, his fangy toothy smile, " against Sir Integra and Walter."
Seras's face twisted into a strange look.
" What? I'm sorry Master, but I don't believe that I can do that… I mean you, and tennis, well, just don't get along well…." That statement produced yet another loud laugh from Alucard. She ripped her gaze and face from his and stared once more at her feet.
He let go of her shoulders and stepped back to the table. He then picked up his glass and took a sip.
" Too bad Police Girl, I guess that we're going to be going out tonight." He reached into his coat and produced two new rackets and several cases of tennis balls. " Sir Integra gave us these. She then ordered us to go out later tonight and practice. She wants me ready in one week."
"Master, I can't do it! You just… ARGHHHHH!" She made a couple more strangled noises and kicked at the wall, leaving a few dents. As she reared her leg back to kick again, she felt Alucard's presence behind her.
He wrapped his arms around her waist as she gently lowered her foot, her eyes wide.
"M-M-Master… What…ar..e you doing?" She trembled as he brought her closer, as she felt her legs begin to give out, she saw out of the corner of her eye the rackets that he still held.
Her hand snaked out and grabbed one of them from his hand and said quickly, " Uh, Master I think that we need to go now… So um.." She eased out from his grip and walked quickly toward the door.
" Well Master, are you coming?" That was way too close… Why was he touching me? He hasn't touched me since well… he turned me. She shook her head and opened the door.
Alucard looked after, standing in the exact same place as he had been when he had held Seras. He grinned his strange grin and looked down at the remaining racket that he held. As chuckled softly to himself, he then picked up the bottles of tennis balls and disappeared after Seras.
Thirty minutes later, Seras stood at one end of the tennis court that they had been to last time. Alucard stood at the other end, his grin still plastered on his face.
" Please Master… I need you to concentrate… and please don't kill me!" She took a deep breath as she put herself into a crouching position. She looked a little skeptically at Alucard. He stood with his arms crossed, the racket in his right arm, still grinning at her.
She closed her eyes one more time before opening them and serving him an easy ball. It was hit towards the right, he teleported right in front of the ball and hit it with ease, hardly moving.
Seras caught the ball and stamped her foot angrily.
" Maaaasstteeeeeeerr! You can't do that, that's cheating! Play the game fairly! Put a little bit of muscle into it, and actually move around! Please Master!" His grin flickered, replaced instead by a slightly angry frown on his face.
He said nothing and Seras served another ball to him, this one moving faster, aiming more towards him. He crouched slightly and hit it to her, perfectly.
Seras's face brightened into a happy smile as she hit it back to him. They hit it back and forth, Seras moving more than Alucard.
Every so often, Alucard would miss, or Seras would miss. Seras missed more than Alucard, and Seras began to wonder if perhaps… he was doing it on purpose…
Meanwhile, Back At Hellsing Manor…….
"Come on Walter! If we're going to grind that idiotic vampire into the dust, we're going to have to be better than that! Pick up the game." Sir Integra stood wearing a specially tailored men's tennis suit with a head-band around her forehead. She stood on one end of the Hellsing's private tennis court.
She had a bead of sweat running down her temple as she held her own tennis racket. Walter stood at the other end of the court. He wore tennis shorts and a tennis shirt, holding a tennis racket also.
He looked awkward standing there wearing those clothes. He was breathing heavily and looked disheveled, sweat rolling down his face.
"Sir…Integra… I…can't do… this… You must…remember… I am… an old…man…" Integra looked at him but had no pity. She only crouched back down and whacked another ball at him. He sighed as he dove for it. This was going to be one long week for him…
Back At The Tennis Courts…
" You're doing great Master! But I think that we might have to leave soon… it's getting light out…" She resisted the urge to laugh hysterically. Before she had been turned, she would have been needing to go because it was getting dark, and well, this twist of events just made her laugh.
A new thought suddenly came to her. This was the first time since she had taken on her new life of being a creature of the night that she had actually had fun. That she had felt…
"Normal, Police Girl? I hardly doubt that you could ever really be normal…" He grinned at his own remark as she turned as red as a tomato.
"Master, no fair. Stay out of my mind!"
" One more round before we leave, dear Seras?" She blushed once more at the mention of her name and turned to look at the coming dawn.
"Um… Okay…" She sighed, hoping that she would be able to make it back to the manor in time…
It was his turn to serve, and serve he did. She hit it back to him. They hit it back and forth, and Seras would have completely forgotten about the oncoming sunrise, but for one thing.
After she hit the ball to him, she didn't receive it back.
" Police Girl. I do believe that we have stayed just a bit too long." He gestured to the first pinks of dawn as Seras turned on her heel. Her eyes widened as she gasped.
" Ah! Master! I can't make it back to Hellsing Manor in time! What do we do? I just.. have to run! Oh shit!" She began skittering about the court, picking up loose balls and shoving them into tins.
Alucard only stood there, staring at her with an amused look on his face. After she had managed to gather up most of the tennis balls, for several of them had been thrown over the fence by an over-zealous Alucard, she began to race towards the fence, planning on vaulting over it and running for dear life.
Instead, she ran right into Alucard.
" Master! We have to hurry! If we don't hurry, we're going to burn up! We have to, and then, but then…" Her voice was shrill, and she had a panicked look on her face.
He wrapped his long arms around her as his coat enveloped them both.
"Eep! Master……" Seras suddenly felt as though she was floating, suspended in thin air. She was afraid that she was going to fall, to fall into this abyss that she was surrounded by, but she then felt as though she was being held, and it was comforting. She clung to it, and continued clinging to it even when she was back on solid ground.
"Police Girl, you can let go now." Seras's eyes snapped open as she realized that she was clinging tightly to Alucard.
Her face began to glow pink as she pushed away from him. She kept her eyes down as she pushed the racket and balls into his arms.
" Um.. I'm hungry Master… I'm …going to well, you know, leave… now…." As nonchalantly and quickly as she could. She reached the door, opened it and bolted out of it. I can't believe that I was grasping to him! No.. No all I have to do it teach him tennis and then I can just go back to doing what I usually do! Fighting freak and such…
"That is… if you want that to happen… HA ha ha ha ha…" Alucard's voice filled her room as she crossed the threshold.
"Master! STAY OUT OF MY HEAD!"
That took a while… But then again, that is what summer is for right? Oh well, I hope that this helps until I can get another chapter out. This feels rushed, but hey, it's all good! Sorry if the characters are OOC, but I'm cool like that. . Love, peace, and chicken grease!