Walter saw the cars pulling up and walked up to Integra's office, "Sir Integra, they've arrived."
Integra had been staring at the painting of her father for quiet some time. "Yes, Walter… Thank you." She turned towards him with a small smile and headed towards the board room. She opened the doors and looked over their faces. It had been a long time, a very long time since their last meeting. She stepped forward and the doors closed behind her. "It's rare these days for the Knights of the Round Table to wear their swords..." She flashed a smile.
Sir island looked to Integra, "Sir Integra Hellsing, the knights of the modern world have far more effective weapons than swords, now kindly take your seat, I doubt any of us has much time to waste… Sir Integra according to your reports many of the creatures you have been encountering lately are man made vampires due to these implanted freak chip devices." He looked to her awaiting her response.
"The mission of the Hellsing Organization is to end all earthly activity of non-human creatures. In the process of completing this mission, it is often that we have many direct encounters in battle with vampires. But it is not our responsibility or our duty to investigate the mechanism of this chip, or who is distributing it." She eyed one of the other knights.
the investigations head spoke up, "we are in the midst of conducting our investigation."
"An investigation during which you let your own man die in the process... They even stuck the union jack in him." Her eyes hardened and she turned back to face Sir England.
"
You misunderstand your situation sir Integra we all attend the round table conference to share our power and knowledge with each other out of reverence to her majesty." He was angry at the brazen way in which she was handling this"
"I understand." She said.
"No I don't think you do" said the head of media management, "you see your actions are becoming a bit too flash of late the Hellsing organization has existed since ancient times and great Britain has managed to keep this quiet controlled and contained up until recently, Your Hellsing organizations activities are leaving a stain on our illustrious history Hellsing has been to loud to public one could wonder if your qualified for your job."
She growled lowly. "The enemy is armed with powerful weapons. I've had no choice. As for information control, I believe that's your job." She looked into his eyes.
The man was furious and slammed his hand to the table, "that's beside the point there's a limit to how much information can be suppressed!"
"So you're telling me that the Round Table conference members are not powerful enough to handle the situation." She was not going to be intimidated by his childish behavior.
"You're overstepping yourself Integra your father would have never been so irresponsibly brash."
Her eyes narrowed as she clenched her fists tightly. "My Father... was my father."
Ferguson spoke into the mike, "Respond, please respond, damn, "all units ready yourselves for attack, proceed to front gates." solders ran past him as he got to the command center, an attack on Hellsing proper, and my god. Oni awoke hearing explosions and gunshots, he didn't want to fight right now but no one ever cared, they just did whatever the hell they wanted, "he would show them what it was to attack Hellsing, to attack Integra, and to attack him. "control arc restriction to level 5!" dark energy surrounded the house and everyone inside could feel it, to the enemy's it was the worst feeling in the world to the solders, it was the best, it was called battle meditation, it had turned the tide of battle before and it would again, he fed the squadrons advanced tactical data directing them all.
Integra suddenly felt something pull over her and she blinked, hearing gunfire and explosions. This alarmed the knights. "Integra, what the hell is going on?" She blinked. She didn't quite know. She called down and hoped Ferguson would answer. "What the hell is going on? What's happening?"
Ferguson responded, "were under attack, it seems to be an unknown number of enemy ghouls all fully armed, they were disorganized but things are better now they've stopped advancing and fallen into a defensive position. they broke into the compound at several key points but they're not attacking there it seems that all their forces suddenly broke off and are defending one point, but we'll win I know it!"
"Integra!" They said again. "What is happening?" She turned to them. "Didn't you hear… we're being attacked by an unknown group. Our field units are pushing them back at the moment.."
Yan laughed maniacally seeing the army of ghouls rip through the Hellsing troops. "I am so fucking hard right now! We're smarter than you bitches and you can't stop us!" A slight pain had been going through him for a couple of moments, but it was nothing.. He was sure it was that little prick pet of Integra's. He chuckled and that chuckle grew into a loud pit of laughter. "MOTHER FUCKERS!" He screamed out.
In the whole of the Hellsing house a song could be heard as oni stepped through the wall into the conference room.
Os iusti meditabitur sapientiam
Et lingua eius loquetur iudicium
Beatus vir qui suffert tentationem
Quoniam cum probatus fuerit
Accipient coronam vitae
Kyrie, ignis divine, eleison
Oh quam sancta
Quam serena
Quam benigna
Quam amoena
Oh castitatis lilium
Oni nodded as the song played, "the battle goes well, my battle meditation is working, but the two vampires are to strong for it, ill deal with them personally. and you, cowering idiots, you call yourselves leaders, I'm sad and at the same time scared for England if there GREAT leaders cower in fear at the first sign of trouble, If it were up to me id kill every last one of you and prey to whatever exists beyond that stronger better leaders take your place but as it is... get off the floor." Oni turned to Integra "your orders sir Integra."
Integra looked to Oni with a half-smile half frown. "...Destroy them.." She said. "They've come to us.. Destroy them all." Her eyes grew hard. "...Tell me of the damage when you are --." She was interrupted by another huge explosion. She turned back to the round table. "That was the helicopter. You have no choice but to stay here.." She said and turned back to Oni. "...Go." She said.
Oni nodded bringing up his hydro lance and a charging sound came out of it, "Yes ma'am" he turned and walked through the wall, he appeared in the basement and knew Seras would be there momentarily, she and the angel of death would take out one of them then he would go to the helipad to deal with the other.
Seras was picking up the injured and putting them into the basement.. and Gods, there was a lot of them. She picked up one of their guns and shot the rest that would become ghouls or that already have. There was just so many of them! She rushed towards the basement and looked up to see Oni already there. "Master.." She said, placing him down.
Oni looked to her as the angel of death came into the room, "lovely music selection oni, and perfect for all of us here." yeah well its part of the battle meditation, Seras I take it you've been feeling better than usual, and the casualty rate isn't too bad comparatively speaking? You and the angel of death there will take out yan and what's left of his band of sorry assholes A.K.A. the merry men, and ill take out the other, good luck." he stood disappearing and reappearing on the pad where the other vampire was, "so you attacked Hellsing, tell me your mother drop you on your head when you were a kid, shook you too much? eat paint chips? perhaps a neurological condition? cause this is one of the stupidest undead maneuvers I've ever seen, and I mean that, I've seen a lot of stupid vampires but I applaud you as a grade-A idiot."
He looked up with a smile. "You… are late. I was getting tired of waiting." He stood, his long golden hair flowing behind him. His eyes showed nothing but pure evil. He stepped forward, pulling a gun from his jacket. "I hope you are ready, because I have been waiting for this for a long time." He bent down and smiled. He disappeared, reappearing in front of Oni within a second. He smiled. "How's that little bitch of yours?" He laughed, pulling back the hammer to the trigger of the gun.
Oni bared his fangs as he growled, "Fuck you!" when the vampire pulled the trigger it merely ricochet off him and the gun snapped in to, "I'm going to kill you slowly and painfully for your actions, "releasing control arc restrictions to level 3 level 2 level one situation a the Cromwell initiative is in affect keeping restriction released until target has been silenced!" Suddenly another wave of power washed from him and his improved battle meditation made the rest of the solders all but invincible. Suddenly 5 arms became visible as the surrounded him before lashing out lifting the cretin off the floor. "YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU JUST PISSED OFF" his eyes went pure black as he raised his weapon firing slicing off only one foot, "You will pay a thousand fold, that hurt didn't it? That was only a foot; now imagine a leg an arm or parts of your head! Or I could merely will one of my arms to do this!" Suddenly part of his left arm was gone, "as I said, you are undoubtedly the stupidest vampire I have ever met, and you will pay for every inch."
He screamed with agony. "What the fuck are you?" He yelled, trying to get away from him. "You're a monster! YOU'RE A GODDAMN MONSTER!" He screamed, holding his arm. What and the world was this… he wasn't even a man. "Get away from me! Get away!" He looked down and tried to reach for his gun, if he could get to it. It would give him at least some hope.
Oni was furious, "you dare call me a monster! You attacked us you killed our officers our solders. Your the monster here I just am better at what I do! Your weapons are useless, is this all the power you have? I feel sorry for you because you are even dumber than I thought!" He fired again and again, slicing off his legs little by little, making him feel every inch. "You are the one that had to attack using your ghouls as instruments of terror, instruments of destruction why? Who is your master?
He looked up, the pain overtaking him. "...Fuck off!" He grabbed the gun and continued to shoot until he realized he had only one bullet left. He was debating on whether to use it or not… either on himself… or... No, it wouldn't work. He screamed and shot towards Oni in the head one last time. He knew he was going to die, the pain, the feeling creeping up his stomach told him that.
Integra looked over to the Knights, seeing them at the window. "Idiots… get from the window. They'll shoot right through the window and kill you." She said. "What the h-hell is he?" One of them yelled, pointing towards the Helipad. Integra sighed and stood, walking over to see Oni tearing the vampire apart -- literally. Her eyes hardened. "He is doing his job." She said.
"He's a monster! He's a true monster!" They yelled. She grabbed one up and threw him into the seat. "He's protecting your ass as well so shut up and compose yourself." She growled and looked back to the window. She had known he was strong, powerful, dangerous… yes, but not like this. Her eyes hardened and she turned away from the window.
Oni had enough, and sent the rest of his vectors into his chest literally exploding what was left of him, "pay in hell moron." He turned knowing his battle was over before it had begun. He know wondered how Seras and Walter were doing.
Seras looked to Walter, looking over him. "Aren't you going to bring any weapons?" She looked into his eyes seeing something... completely different. She blinked and turned without another word. She grabbed the custom-made gun and smiled almost evilly. She cocked it, made sure it was loaded and went on her way.
Walter smiled, "my dear not all weapons can be readily seen and sometimes those are the best ones, not all of Master Oni's weapons are visible as you will soon learn, and I am not talking about the dark energy fields, Oh, perhaps I've said to much." He saw yan and the other ghouls and lashed out the microfilament wire slashing off the cigar and several ghouls "Oh my I missed."
Yan looked behind him to see the ghouls fade into ash to his feet and turned back around, dropping the remains of the cigar. "I can't believe I left someone breathing on this floor… and you… I thought Oni was the only one of that little bitches vampire pets." He laughed. "You're both fucked."
Oni looked to the dust of the corpse and simply flew from the roof transferring his energy now into his battle meditation he could feel the minds of the solders and the one vampire left, he focused in on him and pushed on his mind... hard, this would make him feel as if his head was going to implode making his grey matter flow through his eye sockets. He flew to the center of the compound and let loose a huge blast of black energy that destroyed the ghouls there and started to move out destroying ghouls in a large black wave.
Yan put his hand to his head, getting a huge fucking headache. "Damn… that fucker is good." He smiled and grabbed up one of the guns, pointing it towards Walter and Seras.
Seras growled turning to see ghouls coming from behind them. She looked to Walter, to the vampire, back to the ghouls. A smile swept up her face and she turned, dropped the gun and walked towards the ghouls without a word.
"You know..." He could hear the ghouls being destroyed. "You're some hard mother fuckers to kill. You know that? But hey… EVERYBODY'S GOT TO DIE! HAHAHAHA!" He laughed as she shot towards them.
Walter lashed out slicing the bullets in pieces, "Your fine but I've fought the true undead!" He lashed out killing more ghouls.
"Fuck this. You're going to die, old man." The pressure was building on Yan's head, and it hurt like a son-of-a-bitch. He charged forward, continuing to shoot and flipped over both Seras, and Walter, landing in the huge crowd of ghouls behind them. "See you, fuckers." He laughed and turned.
Seras was literally ripping ghouls apart, one by one… limbs, heads, pieces of ashing flesh. It was all over the place and when she looked up to see that vampire jumping overhead of her, it just got faster and she started to loose control. Her mind and body went into overdrive and it was nothing but a pure hurricane of ash. When he started running there weren't many left, and Seras wanted to continue, panting and heaving like a tired dog.
Oni scowled drawing his sword and teleporting in front of yan on the 3rd floor, "so your both cowardly morons, your even dumber than he is! Would you like to die now or shall you fire your gun at me first?" He raised his sword and rushed towards him.
Yan blinked and dodged out of the way just in time. "Damn, you're a fast fucker." He chuckled as his yellow eyes narrowed. "Yeah, Oh yeah! FUCK YES! That's just what I want to hear. I was getting so bored with these easy kills." He looked into Oni's eyes, readying for his attack at any minute. He was going to get to that bitch, no matter what.
Oni turned around and said, "I've had enough of this!" Oni's eyes went black and he pushed even harder on his brain, "PAIN!" He watched as he screamed and he picked him up, "now you will answer my questions or I will push harder and you will feel a pain you cannot understand, there is only one quick way of death, tell me what I want to know.
Yan screamed just a bit more before they turned into laughter. The watch on his wrist started to beep as a march was heard through the hall. "Fuck… you…" He managed to say, clenching his teeth from the pain. "...You aren't… getting shit from me." He laughed. Blood started to pour from his right ear and he smiled. "...Come on… gimme more of that. I'm not scared of a pussy like you!"
Oni could hear them, rising standing and marching forward, Hellsing troops now Hellsing ghouls, "Shit... You little son of a bitch!" He turned seeing a team of ghouls marching up the stairs, all of them Walter looked at them, "You've turned Hellsing in to ghouls." Oni put yan to the wall and a black energy field surrounded him he turned and closed his eyes focusing on the energy that coursed through him, "final controls released." Suddenly from within oni a light sparked to life and grew consuming his whole form when they could see again, it was as if the light had taken form. The energy grew forms of arms and legs he stretched out his arms and a wave of white energy blasted the ghouls and the entire mansion was surrounded in light obliterating any enemy.
Seras covered her eyes and took a deep breath, her eyes burning with brightness still. She looked over to the vampire that was pinned against the wall and clenched her fists. What was Oni going to do with him? She closed her eyes, taking a REALLY deep breath and leaned against the wall. So many of them were killed; and she didn't even know it. Her whole infantry -- gone in a second.
Oni looked to him his voice a gathering storm, "you should be." He closed his eyes and began to dig into the core of his mind finding out the one thing that terrified him most of all and then implanted it as a loop in his mind, it would seem as if that one thing was actually happening.
Yan screamed loudly, his eyes glazed over the images of fire engulfing his body. His skin heated up to a degree unrecognizable. He continued to scream, louder and louder and louder, until he couldn't any more.
Seras backed away. What… the hell? Her eyes widened, what the hell was Oni doing to him? It scared her more than anything. She looked to the vampire as his eyes rolled back into his head. She backed away a little bit more.
Oni looked into his eyes, "Tell me or ill rip it from you and fry every synapse you've got!" In truth a part of him loved watching the piece of trash squirm under his power, but another was horrified that he was willing to go to this extent. Walter knew what he was doing but had never seen it pushed as far as it was Alucard could and had done it in interrogations but he wasn't capable of this level of attack and manipulation.
"THIS FUCKING FREAK DID IT!" He screamed. "A FUCKING FREAK!" The pain was unbearable, it was like nothing he'd ever felt before… screaming, the heat, the feeling of his flesh melting away.
Oni let up some, "Give me a name and it ends, ill even let you feel some pleasure before you die."
"I don't know his goddamn name!" He screamed. "ALL I KNOW IS HE'S A FUCKING FREAK! DR. FREAK!" The pain was slowly subsiding, turning into a warm numbness that washed over him. "...Ha-ha… Fuck off. I don't want… anything from you."
Oni sighed before he put his sword through his head taking what little info he could. He stood looking at the wall, "All targets have been silenced, limited release complete." He said his voice cold and tired, "its over. Let's clean it up." He walked to the room and appeared in the board room "It's over."
Integra was sitting down quietly but, the Knights on the other hand, were freaking the hell out. "YOU, MONSTER!" One of them yelled. "You need to be locked away! The Queen will hear of this. How dare you come and face us? You're the danger here!" They all started to say. "You will be locked away! Forever! FOREVER, I SAY!"
Integra stood. "He has clearly saved your ass, and this is the gratitude he receives. You are just as much as a monster as you blame him to be." Her eyes were cold, showing the unnerving annoyance she had been put through. She stepped forward. "He did what had to be done and he saved us; probably in more way than one..." In truth, some of the things she had felt, some of the things she had seen scared her, but she would never let them see this.
She had learned through the years that she could put up a block, even with Oni if it was powerful enough to not let him hear and see everything that was in her mind. "..You will be able to leave soon if you wish to. The Queen will hear of the attack, but I am sure she has already heard some of it." She looked over the scared faces of the Knights. "...You need to calm down and gather yourselves for all I smell right now is the stagnated stench of your piss and its driving me insane.." She growled.
Oni watched as the knights walked -- ran, past him as soon as the room was empty he sat down tired and feeling very unwelcome, "What troubles you Integra? Discontinuity of the heart and spirit does not take a mind scan, and I know that it isn't the attack the knights think I'm a monster, I know you have a perfect view of the helipad from here, did my actions disturb you?"
She looked into his eyes. "I've never seen such brutality. It horrified me, but in the same way, it made me feel secure. I knew they would not reach here... for one reason and one reason only." She paused. "...You." She sat with a sigh. "Yes, they did… but a lot of things do right now and I already know there isn't one damn thing I can do about it. You've done your job, and you've done it well. I just hope to never see that kind of... attack again, and I hope not to see that maliciousness coming from you again. I would hate to be on the wrong end of that." She couldn't help but smile softly. "I am sure the clean-up will take a few hours. And unfortunately," she stood, grabbing her gun. "I need to take care of a few… things."
Oni shook his head, "No I know that you would have had to so I spared you that, you saw a white energy surge? It destroyed all ghouls and those that would become them, which was also me. you saw some of the darker side of me, but what you don't understand is that there is something beneath what you see what you saw on the helipad, there is something I once held as my core belief, I am become grey, I am dark tempered by light, steel tempered by flame, we are grey we stand between the candle and the star, the light and the darkness, Where you saw some of the darkness within me, I will now show you the light within me, and you will be the closest person to understanding me than anyone else in 700 years." Oni stood closing his eyes, the light sparked and grew again, and he once again became light with form.
She looked over at him for a moment and then squinted her eyes as he became light. She placed the gun on the table and slowly walked over towards him. She had never seen anything like it, and... It reminded her of something that the angels in heaven would look like. She had dreams when she was a child of something like this. And… well, she guessed she knew why now. She didn't even notice when she brought up her hand to touch him. "Yeah." She said. "You're definitely unique." She gave a small smile.
Oni felt her hand touch his light form in that moment their minds linked it wasn't even something he wanted to do let alone could control, and in that moment they understood each other, the darkness and the light of each other, and it was then that she could see it, what had tainted his soul and what had made him the way he is.
-- Shared Flashback --
Shinto was walking back to his home, he turned looking to the sunset, his blue eyes watching the small village, the women walking in the fields, and the men at practice , the village was the picture of serenity itself he smiled and took off home, he arrived and slipping off his sandals walked inside where he was greeted by his two children okina 10 and kasha 7 "Okiri nasai!" they both chimed as they ran towards him, he picked up his younger daughter, "did you do good work in the fields today?" She nodded and looked as his wife entered the room, "Welcome home dear." he smiled as they embraced the setting sun behind them as it ducked down just below the horizon, The evening meal was quiet and they ate in peace, when the meal was over he stood and walked out with his son, he worked with him for a time, suddenly he heard a noise, he turned to see what it was as the alarm bell rang, he ushered his son inside and drew his sword, He looked around and saw one house was on fire the men were fighting an invading force, and loosing. he rushed towards the nearest battle but before he could get far a scream came from his house, he rushed inside to see one of the attackers had his daughter in his arms he was bent over and his face was by her neck he could see blood coming from her neck and ran forward, "Get your hands off my daughter!" he thrust forward plunging his sword into the man up to the hilt and ripped upward, he stepped back expecting the man to fall but instead he stood dropping the now lifeless body of his daughter and said, "You little son of a bitch that actually hurt, you'll pay for that ill let you watch them die!" He slammed Shinto into the wall hard enough to send him flying through it. he watched his vision blurred his entire body numb, but it was as if he was lifted from the ground and held in the air as the daemon attacked his son, he fought bravely picking up his fathers sword and attacked him but was killed instantly and then his wife, her screamed mixed with his own his mind overloading with pain and horror when he was released he stood his entire mind focused on getting revenge for his family, for his village, he picked up his sword sheathing it he stood a moment before launching, "Heten mitsurugi style Ultimate Attack!" The entire house shook with the force of the impact as he sent the daemon straight through the roof. He landed and stood a great gaping hole in his chest but as he approached the hole sealed itself and he grabbed Shinto, "you're an impressive little maggot, I think I can use you." And from that moment all he new was blackness for more years than he could count he became the great unknown Hitokiri that fought for no side all under the orders of his master who had twisted his mind beyond any recognition.
-End flashback-
This was all shared in an instant but it felt like a lifetime but for that instant they knew all there was of each other.
Integra pulled her hand away and blinked… She just saw... everything. She blinked again and looked down, her eyes were dilated and still a bit distant. She looked up into his eyes after a moment. "I'm sorry." She said, unable to really say anything else.
Oni returned to his normal form, "yeah me too, I don't know how that happened, possibly because of this" he held up his hand with the seal, "possibly because we've known each other so long." Suddenly something snapped into his mind, for some odd reason I like her I don't know why. Oni looked down, it was because Integra... She reminded him of his daughter.
She nodded; she really didn't know how to react to that. It was almost like she could feel everything happening and it made her heartbreak to see such a thing happen. She backed away slightly and looked down from his eyes. "..I… I'm sorry... about your family." Her eyes grew sincere, behind it was a bit of sorrow and unrealized pain. "...You shouldn't have had to go through that…" She clenched her fists. "No one should have. Especially, you." She closed her eyes.
Oni nodded, "that is why I give myself to see that no one else does, to see that you are never harmed and to save as many lives as I can, if I have a choice I will never let another person go through what I had to. Integra, what happened was a long time ago, please do not loose sleep over it, the past is the past it can not harm me can not change me and can only affect me if I let it, I regret my actions under my master and some time after until someone opened my eyes and saved me, showed me the way and helped me for the rest of their lives."
She nodded and looked back up into his eyes. "I understand." She closed her eyes again and she stepped closer, hugging him tightly. She hadn't in a long time and... She just wanted to. "You are strong for what you are doing, and no matter what they say… you are not a monster." She said.
Oni returned the embrace; it had been years since anyone had touched him and truth being told he missed it once and a while, "thank you Integra." He stood the moment over, "we need to get started we have some unpleasant business to attend to, the only somewhat positive news I have, is that I got limited information from the brothers."
She nodded, but still kept her arms held tight around him. She laid her head on his shoulder and gave a sigh. "..Later." She said. "Tomorrow will be the funerals, and tomorrow… most likely we will have another visit, or we will have to visit someone. Today has been one of the worst days in a long time. The information is important, though it was limited. I am sure we can come up with something." She said.