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Alucard slumped into his chair. Seras had been waking up screaming from nightmares. Again. Each one ended the same way. A face coming out of the dark. Coming to get her.
They weren't even memories, and this confused him the most. Vampires didn't dream; they remembered.
At least he knew one thing. Her dormant strength was awakening, and it was triggered when she was a- angry or b- upset.
The worst part was that her skin became very hot, as if she were burning. Then, clusters of strange looped marks would take the place of the seals on her gloves, and blood would seep out of it. Next thing he knew, they were gone, as if they had never been there.
The marks. He had a strange feeling he knew them...
Seras sat out on the roof as snow plummeted from the sky. It was a beautiful night; as far as she could see, it was covered in soft white. She had tried to make Alucard come out, but he hated snow. So here she was, all alone.
"Eet'z wonderful, eezn't eet?" (It's wonderful, isn't it A/N: a lot of books I've read, catcher in the rye in particular, frenchies say "i" like "e")
Seras turned around to come nose to nose with Pip, Hellsing's perverted mercenary. Scooting away from him, she nodded.
"Thees is what I mees most about France, ze znow." (This is what I miss most about France, the snow)
"I've never seen much snow. Sir Integra says it doesn't ever snow this much in London. I wish Master would come out and see it."
"And I'll come and see. Not because you asked me to, but because I wanted to see what you loved so much about this white stuff." In truth, the moment he felt Pip's presence with Seras's, he came up to the roof, glowering at Pip.
Pip saw it as his cue to leave or pay. Scowling as he stood and walked away, he glared at Alucard over his shoulder. With Pip gone, Alucard relaxed again.
"Police Girl- " he began, but was cut off sharply.
"I have a name! Seras Victoria."
"Just because you have a name does not mean I have to use it. As I was going to say, do you remember your dreams at all?"
"No, every time I try to, I get a massive headache. Why?"
Alucard turned to her, suddenly very tired. For the first time ever, Seras saw a deep frown revealing sadness and age. This was not the No Life King she knew.
"Did you know that you attacked me in your sleep?" That was something else she was doing. It was as if those marks had some strange control over her. When he received no answer from her, he continued.
"Police Girl, something is happening to you. Something that will put both you and the Hellsing organization in danger, so you have to try to remember what you are having nightmares about. It would be very helpful."
"Could I get back to you on that, Master? I'll try hard to do that. I really will. I promise." Seeing Alucard's expression had made her feel guilty. She was tired of letting Alucard down. She would do her best to make him proud of her.
Changing the subject Seras said, "Master, why don't you like snow?"
He couldn't tell Seras that. It all went back to when he was changed. That night, it was snowing, very much the same as it was now. He was a man of nineteen, ready to take the throne. It never happened the way he had imagined...
His family was gathered near the fire. His father, mother, his brother, and him. It started as a peaceful evening, but it certainly didn't end that way...
The windows shattered and three men jumped through. Three men with crimson eyes and various scars and tattoos on their arms. On instinct, Adrian, his brother, and father bore arms, while the queen fled from the room. Immediately, one of the demons, as his father had called them, appeared before her and snapped her neck, dropping her dead on the floor.
With that problem out of the way, the men turned their attention back onto the armed trio. While those men advanced on them, the three left of the royal family attacked, only to fail to hit their targets. The tallest of those men twisted the king's arm back and used the fireplace poker to stab and kill him.
Now the two brothers were left. Adrian was occupied when two of them grabbed his brother and disappeared.
"Ciprian!" he shouted, but Ciprian was gone. Dead? He didn't know.
He turned around, but faced nothing. He thought he was alone, but iron arms came from behind him and he felt needles sink into his neck. He was losing blood. Then he felt something liquid in his own mouth, and everything went black...
Alucard was still thinking back on his memory when he remembered the tattoos on those men's arms. They were the same marks he had seen on Seras. Unknowingly, Seras had just helped him with who might be behind it.
He realized she was still waiting for an answer so he said simply, "Bad memories," and sank into the roof.
Alucard tore through every book in the library, flipping the pages nonstop until he found the looped mark. It said:
Letum Somnium-Death Dream
The symbol of a bleeding entwined serpent and fire looped around a black dragon appears on the children of the night. The fledglings of counterparts suffer through nightmares of darkness. In these nightmares, the master's counterpart is a face, a reminder of who is in control during sleep. This face is an emblem of evil.
Master's counterpart? What counterpart? Alucard didn't have a counterpart. Then it hit him like a slap in the face.
Ciprian.
Wow. Another chapter by me. I didn't think I would get this story all the way here. Anyway, that this chapter is up, I think I might be able to write chapters a bit faster than before.
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