Chapter 4: A Vampire's story

Everyone was quiet for awhile, until Alexis said what she and her friends were thinking. "He's joking isn't he Jaden? I mean there's no way you could be a vampire."

Jaden sighed, then, pulling off his glasses, he said "No Alexis, its true." He opened his eyes to show them his now red irises.

There was a collective gasp from his friends. Then, Alexis finally asked what was on a few people's minds. "Jaden, why didn't you tell us about this?"

Jaden was silent for awhile. Then he told them about his fears about his vampirine condition. His friends couldn't help but feel a little warm and fuzzy on the inside, even Chazz, though he wasn't about to admit it.

The man suddenly cleared his throat. "Ahem. Before we continue I think it might be better to introduce ourselves. We know your names already, so don't bother saying them. But, you don't know our names so..."

"My name is Integra Helsing." stated the white haired woman calmly.

" I'm Seras Victoria, but my master calls me 'Police Girl' because I used to work for the British police." Said the blond haired one cheerily.

"And I," said the man in a rather proud and sinister tone, "am called Alucard, but you probably already know me by my other nickname, if you want to know it its just 'Alucard' spelled backwards."

Suddenly, Bastion gasped, started to back away from Alucard, and began stuttering. "N-no way. Tha-that's inmpos-sible." he said with a look of pure terror. Then, he yelled "That's impossible!"

"Huh? What do you mean Bastion?" Jaden asked curiously.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" Alucard laughed with his head thrown back. "What he means is that he's figured it out. You see I am known by many names, both vampire and human. The humans were Vlad Tepes, a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler." That one got Alexis scared too, though the others were still clueless. "My vampire name is the No Life King." Now Syrus, Chumely, and Chazz were scared too. "Though I think I am best known by the name I have in both lives: Count Dragon's Son, or in my language, Count Dracula!" Jaden now had his creped out moment too.

"WHAT?"

"He is telling the truth you know." Everyone turned. There was a spirit form of Drake standing beside Jaden.

"So," said Alucard smiling, "You've finally woken up. Took you long enough."

"Most of it was from the fact that it took so long for a child to be born so powerful in the Astral Line as Jaden. But please, you must tell me how you're still alive, or as close as a vampire can be."

"Huh, you two know each other?" Jaden asked, turning to Alucard.

The vampire smiled, "Of course I know him, he's me." This statement was followed by an even louder collective "What?" than the first one, since now every one but Drake and Alucard were saying it. "I suggest you get comfortable, this is going to take awhile to explain. And, so Alucard began his tale about his life and then his no life.

His story started with a shortened version of his human life. Then he told about getting turned into a vampire during the Crusades when everyone thought he had died. After that he had gone to live secretly in his castle, before once more taking control of Transylvania. During that time his heart had softened somewhat, until his wife was killed by a ghoul called Incognito. After that he had returned to cruelty, though not as much as before. Then he told about his war with Van Helsing and company. How he wasn't really killed because Jonathan had slipped and Quincey Morris n had been in too much pain to aim properly and so had missed his heart. Van Helsing had decided to keep him alive and so had contracted him to his family. He wore the magic gloves Van Helsing had given him to keep his power in check. The two of them, along with the others who had hunted him had gone on to form the Hellsing organization to find and kill all evil vampires in England. Before Van Helsing had done this though, Dracula had believed he was going to die, and so had taken a few of his cells and some of his spirit and sent the package to his eldest son. The cells then went from child to child looking for one with enough power to be the No Life King's reincarnation. At last, one was found: Jaden. So, the two spirits had begun sharing the same body, as was the way reincarnations worked. However, Dracula had been only 13 cells. So he had slumbered in Jaden until he was awakened, due to the new vampire blood surging in him, and the pendant Jaden wore. Interestingly enough, though the pendant looked Egyptian, it was made by the son Jaden was descended from.

Alucard then switched things back to his side of the story, telling about the FREAKs and how Hellsing fell. Then, how he had offered Integra his blood and she had excepted. Afterwards, they had started to simply keep fighting vampires on their own, and doing an assortment of odd jobs to pay for their home, gear, and food. Then, one day Alucard and Seras come back from one of their missions and Alucard had sensed "Drake's" awakening, and so they had come here. Alucard had tailed Jaden during the day, though he never let on to Seras or Integra why the boy was so important ( since he got a kick out of their frustration at his secrecy). Then, tonight, Alucard had asked Winged Kuribo to get Jaden while the three of them got the others.

"So, it was you who was following me." said Jaden.

" Yeah, I wanted to make sure nothing really bad happened to you before you got complete control of your powers. Speaking of which, I had a friend make this for you." Alucard said producing a black grove without finger tips or backs and with a pentagram identical to the one on his own pair. "This glove is magic, it will keep your true vampire form and its full powers suppressed. They will be released if the glove is taken off, however, it can only be removed with a vampire's fang."

Jaden knew from Drake that it was okay to take the glove, so he did.

Once it was on, Alucard said, "Oh, by the way, from what I can tell you won't get much more vampire than you already are." Jaden and his friends all breathed the world's largest collective sigh of relief. "Oh, by the way," Alucard said, in a slightly different tone, "We're going to need to go meet Chancellor Shepard."

"Huh? Why do you need to see Chancellor Shepard?" Jaden asked as he and the others gave the three vampires puzzled looks.

Alucard grinned and said "Come on and find out for yourselves."