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A pair of ice blue eyes looked between the slats on a grate, a single strand of brilliantly red hair fell out of the girl's ponytail and across her brow. She was watching the blond man in her mother's study converse with several of the Hellsing guards.
"I want her found," he said, "The old butler is away and now's our chance to get rid of her. I want you to search everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Start in the attic and go down to the lowest basement. If Elizabeth is not found within the hours all of you will find yourselves on the next ghoul mission."
'Bastard,' the girl thought. 'Mother's not even dead a day and you're already after me. You couldn't even wait a week like her uncle did! Oh, mom, why did you have to leave me.' Her brother, Lucas Hellsing, was her younger, fraternal, twin. The only thing that they shared were their eyes, they were just like their mothers. Blue and cold. Elizabeth turned in the vent, making sure she made no noise and crawled to her mother's bedroom. Integra had passed her daughter only one clue on how to survive.
Flashback:
"Come here Elizabeth," a younger Integra said to a child Elizabeth, mentioning to below her huge bed, "Now, one day I won't be here anymore and you'll be in control of Hellsing as the next heir."
"What about Lucas," Elizabeth said, her voice still high.
"He is not the firstborn," Integra said, "Now hush. When I'm gone, I want you to crawl under here and pull up the third board. There you will find a clue on how to live as the head of Hellsing."
"Yes, Mama," Elizabeth had said.
End Flashback:
Elizabeth crawled out of the vent and landed on the floor. She had about five minutes before the guards would search the room. Her mother still lay on the bed, her skin pale in death. Elizabeth knelt next to the bed and whispered.
"I wish you were still here mother," she said, barely hearing the words herself, "I wish you could help me again." The seventeen year old took her mothers hand a final time and then crawled under the bed, counting to the third board. She knocked it a couple times a lifted it up. A cloud of dust met her face and she stifled a sneeze in her sleeve. She then reached down and felt around in the gap. At first she felt nothings, then her hand brushed a very old envelope and she pulled it out.
Elizabeth replaced the board and wriggled out from under the bed, brushing dust off her skirt, blouse, and glasses. She heard footsteps in the hall and quickly got back into the grate and crawled away. Looking for somewhere to read the letter. She found a grate with enough light filtering through to read the letter.
Elizabeth Integra Hellsing was on the outside. She ripped open the envelope and opened the folded piece of paper inside; it was in her mother's handwriting. My dear Elizabeth, it began, If you are reading this right now then I am dead before you have reached the proper age to be knighted and Lucas has begun his hunt for you. Enclosed in the envelope is a map of Hellsing Mansion, use it to get to the basement. Do you remember the room I told you never to enter? I want you to go there, if you are using the vent system (I did the same) then the map should take you right there. Inside that room lays your protection. Go there, daughter, be safe. Just remember, you are my daughter and that counts for something. I love you. –Integra Hellsing.
Elizabeth tucked the letter into her skirt and pulled out the map. She crawled through the cramped system and reached the basement. She jumped down into the dank room and a horrible stink filled her lungs. She covered her nose and found a light switch. The light flickered on and she turned back, stifling a scream. When she clamed she looked closer at the chained being that was leaning against the wall.
"A corpse," Elizabeth said, moving closer, "My mother left me a corpse. This just fucking makes my day. How in hell is a corpse supposed to help me?" Elizabeth sat down next to the corpse and waited, it was only a matter of time before her brother found her and she couldn't reach the vent she came in by. She was trapped (the door was locked from the outside) with a dead man.
Elizabeth, with nothing else to do, looked over at the corpse. The skin was somewhat intact, but the eyes were rotted out. 'I wonder what he did,' she wondered, 'To deserve a death like this?' She reached over and untied the laced on the straight jacket, ignoring the puff of dust that came with it. She then sat down again, taking her gun out of her jacket and removing the safety. Elizabeth could hear her brother and his men just the floor above. Then down the hall, then outside the door. She heard them argue and the door scrape open. Elizabeth looked up at Lucas' face, the insane grin that matched the look in his eyes.
"Well, well, well," Lucas said, walking into the room, "If it isn't Sir Hellsing, my dear, beloved sister. It seems hard that a seventeen year old could outsmart all the guards of Hellsing for so long."
"Not the guards," Elizabeth replied, still sitting so her gun was hidden, "Just you, which isn't all that hard." Her brother laughed.
"Yet you're the one who is going to die," he said, raising his gun. Elizabeth dodged and the bullet grazed her ribs, lodging itself in the arm of the corpse behind her. Elizabeth raised her gun and emptied the clip into the guards, she had no spare rounds. More guards showed up. Lucas looked back at her. "Just like mother," he said, taking aim at her head, "You're going to die alone, and I am going to kill you. Wait, no, you already have some company, but I don't suspect a corpse to grant you any protection. Two Hellsing bitches dead in one day. Goodbye sister."
"The queen will have your head," Elizabeth said, "And the devil, your soul. Pull the trigger, coward." Lucas took a better aim and fired. Elizabeth closed her eyes, ready to go into the waiting arms of God, but she was never hit. When she opened her eyes, the corpse was blocking her with his arm. He was moving. He bent down, making her shiver, and licked, the blood pouring from her side. His skin regenerated and his eyes came back. Lucas and the guards were still frozen at the sudden turn of events.
"What is your name," the corpse, man, whatever asked.
"Hellsing," Elizabeth answered.
"Good," he said, then turned and faced the guards, "I'm Alucard." With lighting fast movements Lucas was suddenly in the man's grasp two feet in the air. His glasses fell off and Alucard hissed. He ripped Lucas' head from his shoulders and killed all the other guards, draining their bodies of blood. He then turned back to Elizabeth. "Where is she," he asked a very frightened Elizabeth, "Where is my master?" His voice was husky, like asking where a loved one was.
"Integra," Elizabeth asked. The vampire, Alucard, nodded, a strange, hungry, look in his eyes. 'Oh God,' Elizabeth thought, unaware that Alucard could read her mind, 'I don't know how he's going to take this.'
"Take what," Alucard demanded. His gloved hands curled into fists. "Tell me where my master is or, Hellsing or not, I'll tear you limb from limb." Elizabeth stood, raising her chin. If he was going to kill her she had survived too much to get it in a dark, dank basement.
"We should go upstairs first," Elizabeth said. Alucard followed, reading her mind. 'Something tells me I'm going to need a smoke and a rather large brandy before this is over.'
Upstairs
"Fine," Alucard said when they arrived in his master's study, "Now we're upstairs. WHERE IS INTEGRA!" He bellowed and knocked several things of Integra's, now Elizabeth's, desk. Elizabeth sat behind her desk very calmly and pulled out her hair, shaking it over her shoulder and taking out her cigar case. 'She looks like Integra,' Alucard thought, 'Everything but the hair. My beautiful master has hair like the rising sun, not the setting one.' Lighting one from her pocket lighter, she was to stressed to use her normal method lighting up.
"All in good time," Elizabeth said, "I have no idea who you are and you've been in my basement for God knows how long. So, who are you and what are you doing here?"
"My name is Alucard," he said, pacing. 'Where is Integra,' he wondered, 'Why isn't she here. Her brat is obviously old enough to control me, but where is Integra?' "I work for Inte… the Hellsing family."
"All right," Elizabeth said, "But what do you do?"
"Kill stuff," Alucard drawled, "I'm a vampire." Elizabeth immediately whipped out her pistol, now that it was confirmed, preparing to destroy him only to find that he was holding it on her. "That wasn't courteous," he drawled, "Now tell me where Integra is or I'll kill you where you stand."
"Alucard," Walter snapped, have killed several guards just to get in the room. He grabbed his wires and took the gun out of Alucard's grip. "Elizabeth. You're all right." Walter, showing a rare sign of emotion, hugged Elizabeth to him. "I take it Lucas is dead?"
"Yes," Elizabeth said, "Alucard killed him and the guards."
"Walter," Alucard said, "I'm going to get an answer out of someone, where is Integra?"
"I'm sorry Alucard," Walter said, "Integra died late last night. Elizabeth is now Sir Hellsing."
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