Seras was awake even before the Sun went down. She was told to get ready to move out, so she did as ordered to. She strapped herself up with the gun Walter had fixed and moved out. She ran outside and ran into the group, hearing the new commander scream orders, over and over again. She had heard rumors about the new commander, but held no expectations over his head. She bit her lip and held the gun tighter, running into the truck.
"Hey you," he called out to Seras. She stopped immediately.
"Yes, sir… what is it?"
"I don't think you belong in a human field unit." He said coldly. Seras's head sunk to her chest, clenching her fists. He raised his hand and put it to her cheek, raising it up to look into her eyes. He had a huge grin on his face. Seras had to fight the urge to punch him in the face. "Even though you're a monster, do you ever feel the need for a man in your bed?"
She growled, clenching her fists even tighter. Her hair covered the hatred and rage in her eyes. She looked away quickly, throwing his hand from her.
Seras turned and walked into the van without another word, thinking it was best to keep her mouth shut and not say anything. It would only make things worse. She kept her head down, keeping her hands on the gun at all times. She figured she'd need it.
Oni appeared behind the officer, his eyes cold and lethal, "So do you feel that makes you a better moron? Asserting you over someone else? Is that what it takes to get a pathetic human like you off?" He clinched his fist and punched the guard in the face sending him flying back a good 2 yards. "I asked you a question scum!"
Stedlar pushed himself up, rubbing his jaw as he did so. The soldiers in the van stepped out, watching their commander and Oni go at it. Seras didn't even know what was happening until she looked up.
"You're a monster, just like her!" He laughed, tossing his gun to the side. "I think we should kill all of you." He laughed. "But hey, that's just me. I just offered. No big deal." He smiled evilly.
Oni's eyes flashed dangerously and he lifted the officer off his feet, "yeah, really? its because of people like you that the rest are blinded its because of people like you and Anderson that try to kill all when its only a small handful that actually commit the heinous crimes, your blinded by your hatred and your pettiness and you'll blame people like me as ya run to your death!" every cell in his body was telling him to kill the worm right there, he would only cause problems. But he would at the very least give the man time to consider the error's of his ways, as he started to choke the life out of the pathetic moron."
Seras rushed out of the van and basically tackled Oni. "Stop it!" She yelled. The soldiers around them all started to mumble amongst themselves. She grabbed Oni's hand and looked into his eyes. "Let go of him… Don't become the monster he wants us to be. Let go of him..." She said.
Oni phased out of the way as Seras tried to tackle him he looked to her and then back to the solder and after a moment dropped him none too gently and looked to him, "your lucky, you bother her again with your little weak spirited blind rage ill kill you where you stand, got it!"
Seras let out a sigh of relief as she saw the commander drop to the ground. Stedlar glared up at Oni, holding his throat as he coughed and gasped for air. "Sir Integra will hear of this." He threatened, grabbed his gun and walked into the military van without another word as all the soldiers were looking at them. Seras gave another sigh.
Oni looked to him and said, "Yes she will." he turned away and disappeared angry at the man but in a way understanding, for him there had been a time of darkness, for him there had been a time when he was blind. He tried to focus on other things but flashes from that time... came unbidden into his mind. He looked down trying to shove the memories away, he phased into his room and sat the memories flooding over him, the blood and the screams, and the darkness, it called to him whenever he remembered it, and there was not a day when he did not. "I am become grey I am darkness tempered by light, steel tempered by flame, we are grey we stand between the light and the darkness the candle and the star." He focused on his chant trying to get the images out of his mind, and he knew the solder would betray them or kill him.
Integra yawned slightly and leaned against the doorway of Walter's office. "Has the new commander reported to his post?" She asked Ferguson. He nodded. "Yes, just transferred from the SAS." Integra gave a small smile. "May God and her Majesty be with you… Amen." He turned away and so did she, walking into Walter's office. "You wanted to see me, Walter?" She gave another smile and started to walk towards him.
"Yes, Sir Integra.." She walked over and sat on the desk slightly behind him. "I have something to show you."
She watched the screen, seeing a person get shot and killed. "What is this, Walter?" She was disgusted by it.
"This is a snuff film I found on the internet. There's an underground market for this stuff. Films of people being killed."
She sighed heavily. "In the older days, it was film.. Then it moved on to video... Now, it's all on the internet." She sighed heavily, disappointed as to what the world had become.
"That's very true, Sir Integra... But I called you down here because some of these films have a very special guest star." Integra's eyes widened.
"The Hellsing Code of Arms." Her eyes grew hard and angry. "It's poor dead Gareth.." She clenched her fists slightly.
"When was this made?" She asked, her voice stern and as angry as her eyes.
"I guess, three weeks ago. The film is only three minutes in length."
"How many have seen it?" She asked, turning towards the door.
"It's impossible to say, Sir Integra. The film has already been online for twenty four hours. The first recorded posting was a link found on a small underground bulletin board system yesterday. By now, it's managed to spread its way through the world like everything on the Internet does.."
She sighed. "Who's responsible?" She asked.
"A Television station and some tabloids tried publishing the story. I'll have media management kill the story and any evidence of it, immediately."
She turned away and started for the door. "Make sure you do, Walter. We cannot have the innocence know of our existence." She turned back towards him -- her eyes heavy and cold.
Walter chimed up one more time, "I hate to be the bearer of more bad news but... the new captain and Oni had... a scuffle." He looked to her wondering what she would say when he told her the rest, "from what I heard he came three inches from snapping his neck or choking him to death."
Integra stopped for a moment and closed her eyes considering. "I shall speak with him; I am sure there are more things to it then what there seems to be, Walter. There always is.. We don't have any time for internal scuffles at the moment, nor do I have the patience and in the mood to deal with such." She gave a forced smile to Walter and closed the door behind her, walking towards Oni's bedroom.
Oni was in meditation but it wasn't working, and he didn't know what else to do. "I am darkness become the light, I am darkness become the truth, I am the darkness become the way." the words held turmoil and something deeper, doubt, every time he thought, that he could have possibly removed the stain... he remembered this and it was as clear as day, and it felt as if the stain was upon him once more and it had become erasable, the thing was, is that when he looked into the captains eyes he saw mirrored in them the same thing he had seen in the mirror a very long time ago.
Integra approached his bedroom and knocked on it softly. Things had happened, so she was.. Just a bit hesitant. She put her hand to the door knob and turned it slowly, stepping in and closing the door behind her softly. She looked over the darkness and sighed.
"Good evening Integra, what can I do for you?" His voice revealed nothing, if possible he hoped she was merely here as a social visit but he doubted it.
She stepped forward. "I've heard of what happened, and I will not jump to conclusions for I know you would not do such a thing for no apparent reason. Tell me what happened and I will come to a conclusion on whether or not to take action." She looked into his crimson eyes with her own beautiful bright sky blue.
Oni sighed feeling deeply tired and for the first time in a long time feeling his age, "he will betray you, or he will run to his death blindly, he's to narrow-minded to be otherwise and to stupid to change, I know this for a fact. Don't trust him, Don't assign him and Seras to the same unit, and he might live to see the end of the week, but I doubt it."
Integra couldn't help but give a small chuckle at the end of his sentence. She looked up to him, suddenly falling serious. "I will take your words into consideration, Oni. I will have no hesitation of allowing you to do anything to him if he does betray us in any way.. But only if the time comes. If this happens one more time I will not have a choice but to punish you in some way, even if the cause is undeniably righteous." She turned for the door once again. "Seras will be taken from his unit so that we do not have any problems; but as of now, they are on a mission. Get some rest.. You really do seem tired." She gave a small smile.
Oni nodded and all he could say was, "yeah" as she left
Seras could feel his stare all the way to the site, and it burned away at her patience and calmness. The van had finally stopped and she ran out into line, listening to Ferguson call orders. "FOLLOW STEDLAR!" He yelled. She closed her eyes softly, hoping that he'd learned his lesson.. But she highly doubted it. She knew how men were, especially obnoxious egotistical men. She clenched her fists around the butt of the gun and kept silent.
Stedlar turned from Ferguson when he said, "in and out in 10 minuets, "alright don't disappoint me In and out in 5 minuets!" When he saw Seras running by, "planning to hide in the back of the unit, eh? I don't think so here lets have that door down." He gave her a 40 mm G.L. and took her rifle.
Seras looked over to the door and sighed, pulling it up and blasting down the door within seconds. She ran into the darkness, her crimson eyes scanning over the surroundings. She stepped forward, keeping her finger on the trigger -- just in case. She turned just in time to see a ghoul rushing at her, blood dripping from its lips as it dragged itself across the floor. Her eyes grew hard and she simply blew it away.
She looked up from the dusting corpse to see A LOT more coming.
Walter couldn't believe what he was seeing as he watched the reporter, "Sir Integra!" He called out she had to see this.
Integra slowly walked over and couldn't believe her eyes. It was the attack! The blonde woman from the television station started to explain it and Integra's eyes grew hard and rough. She grabbed the nearest keys and rushed off towards the site. She slammed the door shut and jammed the petal to the floor, rushing off. "We can't let ourselves be exposed on National Television! This is a Nightmare… Those idiots, manipulating… Bastards!" She drove even faster.