Walter watched as Integra returned, "welcome home sir Integra, young Laura is waiting for you."
Integra walked towards him and blinked. "Laura?" She asked and looked up to see a young woman's figure on the balcony. She gave a long pause. "...Laura Hellsing."
"Integra!" The blonde haired woman smiled. "It's been too long."
"Laura. Hello, dear sister." She stepped forward and met with Laura at the edge of the stairs.
"I've missed you, Integra."
They both walked into her office. "Sit down, Laura…" Integra said and sat behind her desk. She grabbed the dagger and ripped open an envelope. "You should have called ahead. But it's still good to know that you have a mask of proper etiquette. All of the family living in Avon is doing well."
"That's good." Integra said.
"Don't you ever get lonely here, by yourself?" Integra sighed, clasping the bridge of her nose for a moment. "Why don't you stay here for the night? I'll have Walter prepare a room."
"Thank you, sister." She said, getting up and walking out of the room.
Seras had finally gotten into the mansion and sighed. She turned down the hallway to her bedroom and paused. She threw herself around, a cold breeze flying up her spine. She looked up to see a woman she didn't recognize walking up the upstairs balcony. Her eyes narrowed.
Walter walked up to Seras, "Miss Victoria?"
Seras jumped and turned around. "Holy crap!" She put her hand to her chest. "Oh My God… Don't scare me like that. I know I'm not human anymore but no body no matter what they are doesn't like to be frightened like that."
Walter bowed. "I… am sorry for frightening you."
Seras looked back up towards the stairs. "So who's that girl?" She asked.
"That would be Ms. Laura, Integra's younger sister." He said.
"Her sister? But they don't even look alike." She looked towards Walter's face and gave a nervous smile. "But I guess with their family does have a complex history so I guess those things could happen." Walters's eyes were still as cold as ice, hard as stone.
"Ow… oh…" Walter placed his hand on his heart, writhing in pain.
Seras stepped forward. "Walter? Ar-are you alright?"
He forced himself to fight the pain and stand straight. "Excuse me; I guess I forgot I am not as young as I used to be. I believe I must take my leave for the night. Have a good evening." Walter bowed once more and stepped back, walking away.
Seras watched him and after a few moments, she turned back. "...Something's… not right…"
Oni had tracked the thing down to an old building, "so this is where it ends, would you like a quick death or a slow one?" He readied his sword.
Laughter ran through the darkness. His eyes shot open and he stepped closer. Light hit his body, one of his eyes bigger than the other. A trench coat shrouding his body. He smiled, looking over Oni. "You're Oni…" He smiled wider.
He disappeared within seconds and appeared behind him. He shot his hand to the right and chains rattled. Out came a huge gun, chains hooked to it. He pulled it up and aimed it towards Oni. "I am… Incognito." He smiled. He fired once, the bullet zooming towards Oni.
Oni turned in time to shoot the bullet with his hydro lance, "You're no body? I can handle that because you'll be nobody in a second. Disappearing and reappearing huh? I can do that too." With that he launched again completely gone before slicing his sword through incognito's arm that held the gun.
Incognito's face glowed a bright purple as his arm started to grow back with a few sickening cracks. "Who are you protecting?" He asked, pulling up his gun once more. "It's not like you have a master... anymore."
Integra had fallen asleep at her desk, and she'd been having the strangest of dreams. She was in a bright church, the cross engraved upon the wall in front of a crying baby. A red wave splashed over the child as a skeleton and a woman dressed in red appeared above it. Flashes of a dead woman in a blood ridden tub, her hand pale and still. She shifted and opened her eyes to see Laura hovering over her with a smile on her face.
Seras jumped and looked behind her. What the hell was going on? Her eyes grew wide and she started running for Integra's office.
Laura pulled Integra up and unbuttoned the cross around her neck, untying the tie and unbuttoning her shirt. "Wha-what are you doing?" She paused. "Laura?" Her eyes turned hard. "Goddammit! I, ugh, God… I never had a sister!"
"Laura" placed her hands on Integra's chest, feeling the warmth creep up through her fingers. She bent down.
"I knew that something was wrong."
Laura bent down a little farther and bit Integra's breast. "You evil bitch! How dare you do this to me?"
Integra closed her eyes, trying not to scream. She couldn't move, she could barely breathe. "Laura… Is your using that name some kind of sick joke? Is it? There was a Laura taken by the Countess of Constine."
Laura sat straight. "Tell me your true name, Bevanshee. Are you Carmella? Did my ancestors and the Hellsing family kill your people? Is that it?" Integra gave a small smile. "You really came here for your petty revenge?"
Laura reached over for the dagger and smiled.
"I wouldn't bother to waste my soldier's time sorting out a sad she-freak such as you. You're nothing but a--!"
Blood shot across Integra's lap and onto the floor as Laura plunged the blade into her stomach, slowly turning it to only cause more and more pain.
Seras ran faster. "Walter! Integra is in danger! We need to help her!" She said, running up to him seeing that he was in front of the stairs.
Walter looked to her the looking like the angel of death of old. "Don't you dare interrupt sir Integra," he lanced out with the wires and slashed Seras's cheek.
"Walter! Snap out of it! Wake up!" She stepped forward. "Please, Walter?" Her eyes narrowed. "Don't make me do this."
Walter lashed out and wrapped it around Seras's neck and brought her to the floor.
Seras fell to the floor and closed her eyes, her mind went into overdrive as an invisible force threw Walter against the wall, pinning his hands. She shot her eyes towards him, feeling something… someone… controlling him. A trance of some sort. She fought with all of her might to get through it and finally succeeded.
Oni looked to incognito, "What have you done scum?" The blade disappeared and was replaced with the rifle which fired immediately.
Incognito pulled his gun and shot a few rounds as well, knowing at least one of them would hit. He smiled seeing the blast fly towards him.
Blood dripped out from the side of Integra's mouth as she looked up into Laura's eyes. "You have such a dirty mouth, big sister." Blood dripped to her side out onto the floor. "O-...Ni..." She whispered.
Integra could barely breathe her vision going in and out as she fought for consciousness. "Do you think you're torturing me?"
She asked, watching as Laura licked her bloody fingers. "You're blood is delicious, sister. Oh, no… I'm just doing what I was told. They told me I shouldn't make you into a ghoul too quickly, but I think it's just about time."
She reached down and took off her glasses, throwing them to the side. Laura placed her hand behind her head and whispered in Integra's ear. "Now dear sister, I'm going to chew through your neck and drink up every last drop of your delicious blood until you're dry. Then, I will give you just a bit of my blood. Just a taste though. Since I can't make you one of us, you will become nothing but a mindless ghoul." Integra looked over and tried to reach for the dagger. "So sorry." Laura said as she bit into Integra's throat.
Integra gave a painful whimper and closed her eyes, hearing her own heartbeat in her head. Her body was growing weak fast.
Oni heard Integra's call his eyes flashed and he disappeared firing one more round He appeared in Integra's office hydro lance in hand, He looked to Integra and his eyes doubled in size, "Buvanshi! You dare attack Integra! I'll see you die slowly for this!"
Laura slowly pulled her lips from Integra's throat, cradling her head in her hands. The dagger was to Integra's throat as she stood with a huge smile on her face.
Integra's eyes slowly opened, which were dilated almost to the point of no return. She let out a small breath as she felt the blade being pushed into her throat.
"Come closer." Laura said, making a bit of blood seep from behind the blade.
Oni snarled, "I don't have to bitch believe what you will cause your going to fry!" He fired the lance the laser blew straight through her head.
Laura screamed and flew back, dusting into nothing but a pile behind Integra's desk.
As the blast threw Laura back, the blade so close to Integra's throat sliced it open. Integra fell back against the chair and slowly closed her eyes, hearing the scream of her attacker. She could feel the warmth spill over her and she clenched her fists tightly, still trying to hold on… and trying to catch as much air as she could.
"NO!" oni screamed as he saw her throat sliced open he rushed to her side catching her as she fell, "Integra," and for that instant the darkness inside of him tried to take over and made him so very tempted to take what was left of her blood he looked to her neck and almost began to lean in, "NO! Control arc release to level one! The Cromwell approval is now in affect releasing the power!" A light grew from within oni and his entire being was focused upon a single thought I will not let that thing win, I will save Integra. The light grew and it revealed the true form of oni.
Integra could feel the light on her face and she could barely hear his voice. She fought to open her eyes, but they opened… slowly. Her body was numb, and she couldn't breath all that well. She was afraid, probably the most afraid she had ever been. She clenched her fists tightly and looked up towards the light of which she knew was Oni. She gave a small smile and closed her eyes.
Seras kicked the door open and looked over to see a bright light hovering over Integra. Without even guessing, she knew who it was. She could see so much blood and she stepped forward, her eyes worried and frightened of what Oni would do if Integra died. "Sir Integra!"
Oni focused all his energy on Integra, "Let what I have be passed unto her, let her be saved, let her be spared." Light began to focus on her injuries and slowly heal them, Walter rushed into the room and couldn't help but fall to his knees with anger and fear, "My god, who, who did this... and what is that?"
Seras blinked and stepped back for a moment, not wanting to bother them... not wanting to stop him. "..It's Oni… he's… healing her." She whispered, not taking her eyes from them.
Integra clenched her fists. Pain shooting through her. She arched her back and gritted her teeth. The only good thing about pain was that you knew you were still alive. She felt something washing over her, something that she didn't recognize but was familiar all at the same time. It swung her into a state of calm instead of fear. The wound on her stomach was first to heal, then the bite mark and the slit across her throat.
Oni was almost out of energy, he moved to Seras, "get her to med bay protect her," once he handed her to Seras he rose in the sky as he turned back into his physical form and slammed to the floor so hard that it cracked the floor splintering it and rendering him unconscious.
Seras did as she was told, rushing Integra into the hospital as fast as she possibly could. She laid her on the bed as the doctors surrounded her and pushed her away. Seras looked down to her hands, seeing that they were covered in blood. Her blood. Seras backed away and turned, feeling Oni drop from her sensory. She blinked. "I'll be right back! Make another bed!" The doctors nodded, hearing the frantic anger in her voice as she rushed off. She ran outside to see Oni on the ground which was cracked pretty deep. She rushed over and kneeled in front of him. "Master?" She placed a hand on his cheek and looked over his unconscious state. Without hesitation, she pulled him up from his indentation from the ground and rushed him to the med bay as well.
Walter was running as fast as he could but he still couldn't keep up with Seras, what had he done, that she freak took control of him like that he couldn't stand it, and then Seras broke him free even after he had nearly killed her. It would have been better to have died by her hands than endure this shame, and to let sir Integra become injured, he couldn't stand it.
Seras laid Oni on one of the beds that was already prepped for the worse. She, then, turned to Sir Integra whose neck was already wrapped and she was on the respirator. She blinked as the doctors pulled the curtain and she turned back around to see Walter. She looked into his eyes seeing what he was feeling; plus, the new things the book Oni had shown her had given her. "...It wasn't your fault, Walter." She said. She grabbed a chair and sat beside Oni with a sigh. She didn't know what would happen now.
Walter looked down "Yes it is, I'm supposed to protect her, I'm the only human that she can trust, and I failed her, I'm just a stupid useless old man. And I can't even accomplish my mission; I have no purpose in this world. He walked away as fast as he could trying to hide the rage and sorrow that raged within him. Oni came to hours later he slowly opened his crimson eyes, "Integra!" he sat up and almost fell unconscious again the pain was excruciating.
Seras put her hand to his chest. "Lay back." She said. She stood and looked into his eyes. "...She's behind that curtain. They're still working on her." She said. Seras sighed, remembering what Walter had said. She would have to talk to him later. "She'll be alright. You saved her, Master." She gave a small smile.
Oni nodded sweat pouring down his face from the strain, "Good then this was worth it." he tried not to scream as his body tried to find balance, "you see Seras, when I used my healing ability's it healed Integra but the light also severely injured me because of what I am... my ... body is trying to find... balance again... and its not a fun thing."
She looked over him. "...Is there anyway I can help… you with it, Master?" She hated seeing two out of the three people she cared about most in pain like this. Walter, he was in pain as well, but it was an emotional pain. She closed her eyes. "I wish there was a way I could help you." She said.
Oni looked to her, "Seras you have... such a kind heart, and you always will, you will have battles within you, once and a while, but I can safely say I believe you need not fear turning into any sort of monster, I'm proud of you Seras, that I am." He took Seras's hand in his and began chanting, "I am become grey darkness tempered by light, steel tempered by flame, we are grey we stand between the candle and the star, the light and the darkness." Occasionally his voice was interrupted as a wave of pain swept over him.
Seras closed her eyes and started chanting as well. She looked over to Integra often, just to make sure that everything was alright. She could feel the waves of pain running through him as he touched her hand. She smiled to him, happy that she made him proud but frowned because of that pain. She took a breath and closed her eyes for a minute. There was both a hidden sadness and a hidden anger behind her. She knew that Oni would not stop until punishment was given, and neither would she.