Chapter 17

"There, that's better, now we can talk. Like grown up vampires." Alucard mocked. Seras coughed as blood dribbled down her chin, those guns sure did leave big holes. Two gaping holes ripped her open, one in her chest close to her heart, the other just below her stomach. The blessed bullets stung like hell…

"Why…why are you doing this?" She asked, regaining her strength as her wounds healed. Alucard's head was in shadow, she couldn't see him. But she knew he wore his usual grin.

"Do you think of me as a monster? A freak? As one of the same pitiful low-life's out there?" He asked almost threateningly. Seras slowly shook her head. "Good, then why don't you help me? ((AN: Join the dark side! Muhahahah…whoops wrong fic…)) Humans are mere food to us." He turned his back on her. "Don't you see?" Seras didn't know what he was talking about. "I have launched a war using the undead to enslave the humans…we are higher on the food chain. It is our right!" Seras started to pick herself off the floor. Pulling her own demon out of her coat. "Do the humans think that rearing and slaughtering cattle is evil? No, then I plan to do the same…" He turned back around to see Seras, her face was twisted in anger and disgust. Her gun pointed directly at his heart.

"You aren't my master…. your some sick twisted freak!" Alucard sighed,

"Then perhaps you need another lesson." Alucard raised his old guns, but Seras was quicker, she pulled the trigger and her gun ripped through his heart. But instead of falling he disappeared. Now her wounds had totally disappeared, she readied herself for an attack, but there was silence. Seras threw out her senses searching for him, but there was nothing, she stepped forward lightly. Yet the floor betrayed her, a loud creak made her cringe. And suddenly she felt her master close to her! He swung an arm around her throat from behind, she felt the metal of a gun at her temple. Seras gritted her teeth, her fangs unconsciously lengthened.

"I haven't had a battle with a real vampire since Incognito…do you remember?" But Seras still had a mission, she wasn't going to let the fact that her former master was the enemy. What would Alucard have done in her position? He would have fought, revealed in the fight in fact. So she did just that. Seras used her old knowledge of self-defence from her days as a police officer all those years ago. She navigated out of his grip and knelt on the floor, he was a bit surprised how she had done that, but she retaliated with an uppercut to his jaw. He landed on the floor. Skidding to a stop he looked back in slight amusement at her.

"So, you want to play do you? That's fine with me…." Alucard started to change…glaring eyes opened all over his body. His body shifted to his pre shadow form.

"Oh, shit!" Seras swore and whirled around to get away. But a jaw clamped around her ankle. She fell to the floor, Seras turned over to see a great writhing mass of shadow and tentacles! She pulled out her gun and aimed at the eyes. The shots ripped through him, although she was not hurting him at all! The great mass neared her, the hounds nearing her. Seras knew she didn't have enough power to fight him. She had to release her seals…but the last time she did it in the black area she lost control. This was the pit of darkness…how much sanity and humanity would she lose this time? But there was no time to dwell on such thoughts. "Situation A. The Cromwell approval is now in effect…" Seras chanted, Alucard slowed as if waiting for her to finish.

Elena entered the room she had come to for safety barely a few weeks ago. Seras' coffin was gone, placed in her room. But the black beat up coffin was in the corner still.

'What was that one? Why was it here?' She finally thought to herself. But no time to dwell on that, the ghost of Integra stared at her. Elena stood next to the ghost of her ancestor, still no word uttered from her lips. She merely stared. An icy stare that Elena wished she had. Then Integra moved, she pressed a brick in the wall, it moved! It was loose! Elena did the same; she put her hand over Integra's but her hand passed right through as if her hand was never there. When he looked up to see Integra's face, she saw nothing…Integra had gone. She was alone in the powerful dark room once more. Elena shook her head.

'Was I just imagining things? No…I couldn't have…I saw her as if she was really there…' Elena thought. But as she pushed the block in it moved and slid to the side, to reveal a small compartment. Inside was a something that looked like a safe, a keyhole in the front. Elena pulled the key out of her pocket. But the safe looked even older then the key itself, it looked as if it would fall apart by her touching it. But Elena played along; she pushed the key into the hole and turned it. The safe clicked, unlocked.

"C'mon! Attack me!" Alucard taunted. Seras was sick of it. This wasn't her master, just some sick freak that had a dark dream. It was now her responsibility to lay the shadow of her former master to rest. The grip on her leg released, Seras stood up. She felt her hair beginning to lengthen, all the way down the bottom of her trench coat. Her boats clicked on the floor as she pulled herself up. The dark seething mass watched, still goading her on with her master's voice. Seras crossed her arms in an open-handed awareness, ready for whatever comes her way. Seras found the black pit in her mind. Where her familiars dwelled. She called on them, all of them. They answered her. Seras' shadow split into four globs of darkness, they pulled away and the shadows lurched up as liquid. The liquid lurched and bubbled as they formed into their true forms. The great shadow werewolves were once again in the material plane. Seras didn't make a move, still in her same position, as the werewolves charged past her, her now long hair billowing around her. "What?" Alucard shouted with a hint of surprise. He didn't know what they were?

But Seras kept up her attack, she watched as her werewolves tore apart Alucard's shadow form time and again, but it wasn't enough. A piecing howl reached her ears as one of her werewolves fell to the floor. It's head ripped clean off! The shadow mass began to form a figure. Alucard formed himself again. In an image that angered her. He formed his old visage, the same red trench coat and hat adorning his features, including his sunglasses.

"Stop toying with my memory!" Seras screamed at him. Alucard said not a word as he struck his arm through an incoming shadow werewolf. Two werewolves were left, the two others had melted back into liquid and rejoined her shadow. But Alucard had disappeared! Seras looked around, she barely blinked and he had gone! She rested her arms and glanced around, her werewolves shifted uncomfortable and sniffed the air, looking for his scent. One crouched on the floor, his nose to the floor. A sudden bang behind he whirled her around. The werewolves immediately ran to her side. But it was a false alarm, it was merely a body that had fallen from above, but as Seras got a better look at his features she recognized who it was…it was Arthur Hellsing! His eyes glazed over in death. His body rigid and unmoving…

Elena opened the safe…she peeked inside, but all that was inside was files and papers. Elena stuck her hand in and pulled them out. She glanced through them…they were the missing files of Seras Victoria! Yet another piqued her interest the other file was someone by the name of Alucard. Who was that? But Elena glanced back at the broken coffin,

'There is something that Seras is not telling me…'

"I think we need a better audience then these…things…" Alucard's voice echoed through out the room. But Seras stared at one of her masters….dead.

"You monster!" She yelled. But Alucard laughed, just laughed. His laughter pieced her very being, but she let it. She didn't know what she was doing anymore. Her two werewolves sensed him on the rafters above, they leapt up. But a sickening sound of flesh being torn from bone they fell as liquid to rejoin her shadow. Now it was Seras' turn…the rafters were too high up, so she jumped to the wall and pushed off the wall to the rafters. The corpses all simultaneously fell of, as if pushed. They landed with a crack and squelch to the floor. Seras peered through the darkness, he was there. He stood staring at her. Seras gritted her teeth, this was too much, even for her. She crouched on the beam and felt her body shift and change to her wolf form. Fur grew and her face distorted. "Now look who's an animal…" Alucard mused before charging her in his own dog form.

Elena was shocked by what she had read! Seras never was the trash man of Hellsing she had been led to believe…this Alucard was. She was merely created by him in Integra's time as Hellsing family leader. But where was this Alucard now and what was he doing? The papers in hand she stormed out of the room and ran toward the stairs.

Seras ripped at his throat, but Alucard was too swift. The six-eyed dog was usually smaller in stature then Seras. But he was quicker, stronger and more agile. Seras leapt for where he was, but clamped down on only air, while Alucard had spun around and bit into the scruff of her neck. He wasn't trying to hurt her, he was still playing with her. Letting her know that he could tear her throat out quicker then she could stop him. But Seras had developed a stubborn streak, even more so then when her master had first turned her. She tried again and lurched behind her, tugging Alucard off and trying for his throat again. He dodged again, but she caught his ear. A slight trail of blood touched her tongue as she ripped of the skin of the tip of his ear. They say that a vampire can see the memories of any person's blood they drink if they wish to. Flashes of images flew past her mind. But then they slowed and they cleared to show one in particular.

"Let us go and you and your family shall come to no harm…" Alucard spoke. Seras was in the same room as when she was sealed away. But the room seemed different. She was stood beside her master Alucard. She wore her usual clothes, her black trench coat, with a black greyish suit and black boots, much like her master. But her master was wearing a look of both mirth and a slight hint of fury.

"No, you know I cannot let you do that…" That voice it was so familiar…but the woman who spoke was a hunched over old woman. Yet as the image cleared she recognized the wizened old woman, it was Integra! The same steel look, with those ice blue eyes. Her hair was pure white; wrinkles covered her face, how old was she? "The seals have weakened to such an extent that they have broken, but it is still my duty as a Hellsing to see you either killed or sealed up for humanity's good" Alucard smile.

"No, sir Integra. You do not have enough strength. If you do, you will die." The man beside her stiffened.

"He is right…I should do it…" But Integra put his hand on his shoulder; no I owe it to them to do it myself.

"NO!" Alucard yelled. Seras didn't know what exactly was going on. So she stayed silent. Integra started to chant…but instead of staying put Alucard leapt for the man! Seras was shocked but her instincts kicked in. She was still loyal to Integra even with out the seals, she pulled on her master's coat with strength she didn't know she had. She pulled him back and forced him to the side. He was flown into his own coffin, which shattered on impact! Seras immediately put her hand to her mouth in shock. She was shocked that she just did that. But the shock of that didn't last long, when all of a sudden she was hit by a powerful sealing spell! She was stood where her master was moments before…she was ploughed against the wall, the pain and heaviness was excruciating, seals appeared on her gloves as invisible chains binded her. Quicker then expected the spell was done, she fell to the floor, her trench coat was singed and torn, her hair had grown down to the floor. Seras panted for breath she didn't need. Seras felt the bindings heavy on her soul, to a crushing point. It was a struggle to hold herself up, but her vision was blurring and her arms couldn't hold her weight anymore. But she stole a glance to where her master lay…but he was gone!

"Mum!" The man shouted as a body slumped to the floor. Seras knew what was wrong…Integra was dead…

"Get…" But the rest of the words slipped away as she fell unconscious.

((AN: Alright that's it. I don't care anymore. I'm going to spell Alucard with an L. Seras with an S. It's going to be 'Cassul' not 'Joshua' and I'm going to spell Harkonnan cannon like that. Right I've finished my rant. People have different views and that's mine. So please no more reviews or PMs trying to correct me. Please let me write…

That aside I thank all my readers and loyal reviewers. I thank you for your support. It's really helping. Ok, another update tomorrow hopefully. See you then!))