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CHAPTER X

Alucard just stared at the blank ceiling, too afraid to pull off any stunt that might get Seras killed. If he tried anything, Seras was a goner on the spot. He just had to sit this through until Pip could find the window dotted with his blood. That blood he left there purposely when he regenerated. It should have been enough to give Pip an idea where to two vampires were trapped. Now he was trying to communicate with Pip mentally.

Where the fucking hell are you?

We ran into a bit of trouble, but now we are in front of a zet of oak doors. Is-

Yes! We're in here! Storm this damned place!

Yes, zir!

Alucard was clearly irritated at this point; he was just itching to melt from the chains. He was contemplating whether or not he would be quick enough to save them both...

"Achim, make sure this beast doesn't get loose." Ciprian turned sharply on his heel and grabbed Seras by the elbow. She responded by kicking him in the gut. As Ciprian doubled over, his grip lessened and Seras flashed a frantic look at Alucard as she pulled her arm away. At that moment, the doors burst open and several shots rang out closely followed by howls of pain. Time to regenerate... again. Alucard's form became a shadow and the shackles clinked against the cold stone as they fell free from Alucard's body. Rematerializing his shirt and coat again, he swept Seras off of her feet and stepped through a black hole he had conjured.

Back in the grand room, he whispered to her, "We have to get you out of here. He wants to drain you of your gift. Take the power for himself, to destroy me. First, we need to find my Casull and Jackall."

Seras fought to keep from dropping on her face from distress. Alucard sensed this and held her close while he continued the search for his precious weapons; if they were going to leave Romania in one piece, they were going to need those guns.

"Looking for something?" Alucard grimaced as the sardonic voice drifted to his ears. "These are quite the armaments you've equipped yourself with." Alucard stared at his prized possessions in the hands of his brotherly enemy. Without a second thought, Alucard dove and wrestled with his brother, trying to wrench the weaponry from his clasped hands.

Seras watched as the two brothers rolled and exchanged blows at each other's faces. The image of them was fading, concentrating on helping Alucard, in the process passing into her strengthened, yet prone state. Alucard froze with his fist pulled back as he picked up the rise of he aura in the room. Ciprian seized the chance to shove Alucard off of him. Dazed, with his mind spinning from the forceful strike, Alucard saw through hazy eyes as a lashing chain, seemingly sucking the life from Seras and transmitting it to Ciprian.Ciprian was in complete control now. He was becoming stronger than Seras, taking her life. She was dying right before hiseyes. Though he would have liked to just sprawl out and sleep, he pushed himself back up and tackled the menace, but the damage was done.

As Seras's eyelids fluttered closed, she swayed and dropped to the ground. Alucard could not reminisce on a time when he had felt so devastated and unlike his usual apathetic self. The walls had caved on him many times, but that didn't mean he wasn't going to find his way out. In a blind rage, he lunged for his Jackall, depleting the bullets by firing nonstop at the fiend that was his brother. He had taken Seras's life force, eating it rapidly, but Ciprian hadn't counted on the fact that a few seconds of vulnerability would be all that Hellsing's ace shooter needed to dive in for the kill.

Flinging the empty gun aside, he retrieved his Casull and made for the broadswords still hanging over the doorway and freed one from it place. Pulling the trigger from afar, he shot while walking towards the demolished body. In one graceful swing, the sword met its mark, and the severed head fell from the body that was bleeding silver.

sorry that the chapter's short, but the story is coming to an end...

i am updating two more times for the actual ending and the alternate ending...