New Blood chapter 2
Chapter 2: New battles and New BloodThe gang of ghouls shambled slowly forwards, uttering a low groan as Seras raised her rifle and began firing, still advancing at a steady pace. The first two were given a coin-sized hole in the middle of their heads, the next one had his brains splattered on the windscreen of the car he had been trying to hide behind. The three remaining ghouls all raised their assorted shotguns, rifles and pistols, opened fire but only succeeded in hitting a few trees and bushes. Seras had leapt out of the way to land gracefully behind a low wall and quickly propped her rifle on it and resumed her shooting, taking care of the rest of the ghouls.
She saw about a dozen ghouls fast approaching from the west but they passed by her as if they hadn't even noticed her. Even after she'd taken one down with a shot to the back of the skull the others kept going as if they were very focused on going somewhere. Curious Seras decided to follow them.
Alex leapt up to the wall and vaulted over it to land expertly in the churchyard, the gun he'd taken from the body of the dismembered policeman tucked into the pocket of his school blazer. He'd been on the run ever since sunset, some two hours before, going first to his own home from school, then to the school, then to his friends house, then back to the school again and now finally to the church. Nowhere seemed safe and of the fifteen students who'd tried to flee the town he was the only one left. The rest had slowly been picked off one by one. He crossed the grounds and tried the door. Luckily it was unlocked so he quickly left himself in and locked it from the inside, just as the ghouls poured through the churches gates.
He was able to stagger over to a pew before collapsing on it in exhaustion.
"Those doors looked pretty strong, with any luck they'll hold until help gets here. If it gets here." He said to himself, though he knew those foolish to try to run for help would most likely have been caught and torn to shreds by the monsters prowling outside, some of whom he'd called friends and hung out with just a few hours before. It had all started a week ago when one of the students taking extra credit lessons at his high school hadn't come back. As the days passed more and more people h ad gone missing, either students at the school or had last been sighted near it. The new French teacher, Miss Darla had quickly become a suspect. He thought it was odd how she never seemed to leave her classroom unless it was cloudy, raining or the sun had set. Or how her curtains were always drawn and s he used electric lights, even when it was a brilliantly sunny day.
Then one day he and his friend Josh had found a wallet in her supply closet. It had belonged to one of the recent victims and had a small drop of blood on it. They'd taken it straight to the police but when they'd gone round to question her the sun had already set. From then it became a case of running away, finding somewhere to hide, getting found, one of the group of students getting either ripped to shreds or turned into a ghoul then running and hiding again.
The baptismal font at the front of the church suddenly started running and Alex quickly drew his pistol and trained it on the figure standing there, running her hand in the supposedly holy water. It was a woman in her early thirties with long flowing black hair, dark eyes and a blissful smile on her face as she drew her hand out of the water and turned to look at him. She tsk-tsked and waved her finger.
"Now now Mr Harkon, you've been a very bad boy, giving your teacher the run around like this, take a weeks detention." Alex raised his pistol and rested his finger on the trigger.
"I don't know what you are but you're definitely not a teacher, real teachers don't drain their students like a carton of apple juice. I can't do detention anyway; you've killed all the staff and students at school. And shouldn't that holy water have turned you to ash by now?" she laughed and cupped a handful of the liquid in the font and held it up, letting it run down the sleeve of her white dress and stain it dark red.
"Does this water look holy to you?" she asked, showing her fangs, Alex saw with horror it wasn't water but blood, the priests body with the slit throat behind the font showing where it had come from. A bolt of lightning flashed and the vampire wasn't at the font anymore. She'd seemingly vanished.
Outside the sounds of gunfire alerted Alex to a battle raging outside. His hopes rose, rescue had come at last. Then a soft evil laugh next to his ear dashed his hopes as quickly as they'd risen.
"Looks like someone wants you to live after all. Well too bad for them because you're all mine boy." Miss Darla said, her voice soft but full of evil.
Seras swung her rifle around like a club, caving in the ghoul's skull like an oversized egg. With a manic grin on her face she drove the bayonet fitted at the end of her weapon into the temple of the final ghoul, pulling out she collected the blood on her finger and licked it off, relishing the taste.
"Enough with the preliminaries, on to the main event." She said to herself as she walked up to the doors of the church, one kick opened them up and she was greeted with the sight of her quarry, the vampire.
Miss Darla was facing her and held a teenage boy by his throat in an iron grip. The boy was slowly turning blue and was clearly having trouble breathing. The boy was clutched to her chest, forming a protective shield.
"Let the human go vampire, we'll finish this hunter to monster."
"I don't think so you little brat, he's staying right here by my side" she said as she slowly backed away, heading towards the doors at the rear of the church.
'Damm it. I can't let her get way but I can't risk a shot while she's got that boy hostage. Allucard would just blow them both away but I'm not like him, not yet' she thought to herself. She raised her gun and tried for a shot on the vampires arm. Just as her finger was tightening on the trigger a bolt of lightning flashed through the night's sky, signalling the arrival of a storm. The flash of lightning only made her focus waver ever so slightly but it was all that was needed for something to go terribly wrong. Instead of going through the vampires arm the bullet passed through Alex's stomach and into Miss Darlas heart.
Miss Darla was distracted and in the few seconds her attention wasn't focused on her opponent Seras had sprinted the length of the church, yanked Alex out of her grasp and drove her hand into her chest, ripping out Darla's heart in a fountain of dark blood.
"Is…she…dead?" came a pained voice from behind Seras that made the young vampire turn around, she saw the boy on the floor, blood pooling from the hole in his stomach.
"Yes, she's dead"
"It…hurts," he gasped, in great pain.
"I'm sorry, I'm really, really sorry, I was just trying to kill the vampire and protect you"
"Yeah…you've done…a great job…in that department" he said, his eyelids were starting to droop as death neared. She knew there was a way to save him but she hated herself for screwing up so the poor boy had no other choice. Seras walked over and squatted down so she was staring him in the eye.
"What's your name kid?"
"Alex. Alex Harker"
"Well Alex I'm Seras. I might be able to save you but it's not going to be very pleasant"
"I'll take… unpleasant over dead any day miss Seras" he replied.
"Well don't say I didn't warn you," she said as she leaned in close, her fangs glinting in the light from the bolts of lightning.
'Allucard's gonna kill me for this. Good thing I'm already dead' she thought as her fangs brushed the skin of Alex's neck…
Allucard, Integra and the other Hellsing operatives were standing outside in the rain waiting for Seras's return, Interga protected from the rain by her umbrella.
"She's taking a while. I thought the police girl would be back by now"
"Careful Allucard, people might think you're actually worried about her" Integra said, smiling faintly. Allucard frowned.
"I am only expressing my concerns as a teacher worried about his student. If you could call her that." He said as he spotted two figures coming towards them, impossible to make out due to the driving rain, the other operatives raised their weapons but as they saw it was Seras they lowered them. She had Alex's arm over her shoulder and was helping him walk. As they reached the others Alex's strength gave out and he collapsed, exhausted. Allucard caught him as he fell and two other Hellsing agents picked him up and laid him on a stretcher.
"Excellent work Police gi…Seras, you even found a survivor. Very impressive indeed" Allucard said to his charge. She let out a nervous laugh.
"Err, well you see the funny thing about that is…there isn't any survivors. He's sort of well…dead"
"Dead but how did he…" Allucard noticed there was some blood around Seras's mouth. He glanced over at the boy and saw there was a bite mark on his neck.
Integra caught on as to what happened.
"POLICE GIRL! YOU'RE IN FOR IT THIS TIME". Outbursts and threats of a similar nature echoed throughout the village all night long.
To be continued, please review
Also Alex's last name has some significance in this fic, anyone who's read Dracula may know how/why