Integra forced herself to stand next to the bed, happy that she was finally able to get out of it and stay out of it. She wasn't going to rest any longer than she absolutely had to. She imagined her office to be a jungle of paperwork, stacks all the way up to the ceiling, through the windows. She sighed heavily. She looked over towards the window; the night had fallen faster than she had originally expected but she guessed that happens when you slept 15 hours straight. She gave a small smile and pulled her jacket on and fixed her hair over her shoulders. She looked into the mirror, into her own eyes as they narrowed.
Oni had slept heavily that day and when Integra awoke so did he, he wore one of his kimono's and walked up to her out on the balcony, "You know, my father always said, if your falling off a cliff, and you have no way of catching yourself, you may as well try to fly, hoping against hope that the world will grant you one wish, I feel like that this organization is like that now, but at least we have the power to fly, how are you doing Integra?"
"Fine, I guess." Integra said, looking out into the distant night. "What news do you have?" She looked over into his eyes, hoping he'd at least have something.
Oni nodded, "well, were ready on our end but I have both good and bad news, The bad news is that the entire S.A.S. division was turned into freaks, not ghouls, and they did it using thruminology, a forbidden art among my people, he brought them through with the chips as well, these will be some powerful freaks, that's how the chip works, its not technology, its not science, its the darkest art ever known hidden in a metallic box, and he used them combined with his own power, now for the good news, He is from the dark continent, the most evil and darkest place in the known universe, but because that's where he draws his power, I will have some control over them, when we go." He looked to her knowing she wouldn't like this.
She sighed heavily and closed her eyes. "We tried to help them, but I guess it is never good enough." She turned towards him. "I am sure it will happen soon -- this is the calm before the storm, but I am sure it is more chaos than we see. This vampire is dangerous, very dangerous, but I do know we will win. We can never fail because failure is not an option." She opened her eyes slowly, not really knowing what else to say to the news she was just given. "...Is this the beginning of the end?" She asked quietly, her voice still calm.
Oni looked to her shocked by what she had said, he reached his had out and gently took hers, "Never, as long as we refuse to give up, as long as we keep fighting, we never loose, the only way the end can come is if you let it, Velin said, that in every conflict there are two sides, ultimately, the side your on and the enemy, one must loose the other must win, it is the very nature of the universe, but what is not predestined, is our will, if we fight with everything we have, then we never loose. I promise not to stop fighting if you do the same." His eyes held a bold determination, and his will, as he gazed into Integra's.
She looked into his eyes and gave gentle smile. "You're right." She said and closed her eyes, wrapping her arms around Oni. She let out a sigh of relief. No matter what she did, she felt as if this was going to be the end of both the Organization and the end of her and everyone else in it. It was a horrible feeling and the only way she could ever get rid of it is with Oni's words. He had always been beside her, he had always helped her, and he'd always be there. "I will not stop fighting." She whispered with a smile. "...Never."
Oni smiled, "then we'll win." he was glad she accepted him both as what he was and saw past it and regarded him as a true friend, and perhaps more, he knew that eventually an end would come, an end to this one called Integra, and he didn't want that day to come, but for today they had each other..
Integra smiled. She wanted to stand there for as long as she could, maybe even forever but she knew she couldn't. Not if they wanted to live passed next week. She gave a sigh and pulled away slowly. "Unfortunately, we both have work to do." She said. "I must get started, or I shall never finish." She gave a small smile. "And if you laugh at me because of those huge piles of paperwork, I'll make you do them all by yourself." Her smile widened. "See how you like it." She nodded and before she walked away she embraced him tighter. "Thank you, Oni... For... for just being here." She smiled and turned to walk out of the room.
Oni smiled, "always Integra, always." he smiled and disappeared, he reappeared in the crew barracks most of them were not on missions tonight, "alright its time you get off your collective ass and lets get training, soon you'll be up against an entire S.A.S. regimen, and you frankly aren't ready. I'll see you in the training grounds in 5." he disappeared, he would have them running training scenarios till dawn and beyond.
Seras hadn't had the best night after she had left to sleep; dreams had haunted her... They were like the test that she had passed that very night and first, she thought it was another one of Oni's tests… but it couldn't be. It was... They were just too graphic, too violent... and God, the urges surpassed any test. When she had first awoke, she had to drink at least 6 packets just to stop her from ripping apart a human. And that man… that man in those dreams, she knew she had seen him before. His voice was so haunting and it echoed in her head even now. 'Taste them, Seras Victoria. You know you want to. Taste their crimson life.' She shook the voice from her head and walked through the corridors. She was still looking for Walter because she felt as if she needed to apologize to him. But she also had some other things to speak with him about. She had heard about Oni taking the soldiers for a… training session and smiled. Oni was a good teacher, and dammit, they would need it.
Oni had them running mazes and drills all day, they had all been finally equipped with the hydro lances as a sidearm he was going over the four attack steps over and over, "Block, attack, repost, parry." as he said the words the solders moved the staff's extended they were as one now after 3 hours of straight training. He sensed Seras was troubled and sent her a telepathic message, "Seras, before you look too deeply to yourself, I believe your under another form of telepathic attack, try to block the images out, use the meditation I taught you, and if all else fails, Helena may be able to help you." with that said he closed the link and began to pair off the people into live sparing groups.
Seras paused and nodded. "Yes, Master." Seras started to bite on her bottom lip and headed straight for Walter's office. She laid a note on his desk, -- "I'm sorry," -- and walked back out. She had tried, but her memory had just brought those images right on back. She sighed heavily and walked back to her own bedroom, changed and headed towards Helena's. She hoped Oni was right, but didn't doubt it. He always was. She stepped from Hellsing ground and walked towards Helena's, thinking all the way there what exactly to tell her and how she'd be able to help. A feeling crept up through her stomach, and that feeling. It wasn't good. She started running towards the house and hoped, hoped that Helena was alright.
She looked towards the door and sighed a HUGE sigh of relief seeing that on the outside, everything looked fine. She knocked on the door softly. "...Helena?" She asked. "It's me, Seras Victoria. I spoke with you a couple of nights ago…" She knocked a couple more times. "Helena… Please..." She leaned her head against the door. "I need to talk to you…" An image shot through her head again and she shot her body up and kicked the door open, holding her gun in hand. "HELENA!" She screamed as it reverberated through the very big library of Helena's home. "Helena?" The candles were lit and were around, hanging so beautifully. The music of the record player had stopped, but that crackling sound traveled to her ears. "Hel...en...a?"
Incognito walked from the shadows his face covered in blood, "Your blood is of Oni's blood, still you are powerless before me, and even your master's pathetic attempts to strengthen you aren't near enough to even fight me." a small once white shoe dropped from incognito's hand, "how could you." said Seras in shock. "I will chew through you're bones."
Seras looked up to him and with fire in her eyes, shot him over and over again with the gun. It was like she was frozen, her feet couldn't move, her eyes couldn't be torn away from him. He was wrong, he was wrong… she could kill him… She could, right?
Integra looked over to Walter, her eyes widening as she read the paper before her. "It is a Royal order." She looked back down to it and stood. "I must go speak with Oni," she looked towards Walter. "I'll be back." She said, walking out of the office, towards the training sessions he was holding for the soldiers. She stopped and watched him for a moment and smiled a small smile. She'd wait until he was finished with this course, but she was sure he had already read her mind and knew all about it by now.
Oni noticed Integra and stopped the training, "commander on deck!" the men stopped and stood at attention, he knew she wanted to talk to him and he looked to the men, 50 more ladies then you can get your sleep. Cary on!" he walked over to Integra, "What's going on?"
She gave a small smile to him. "Don't be too hard on them." She smiled and turned to face him. "I've received orders from Her Majesty. As head of the Hellsing family, it's the first time I've been given this honor." She looked into his eyes.
Oni looked to the men and then to her, "if I don't, the freaks will, I assume you prefer me? As for the ceremony, I think it's a bad time, it's too much, and they'll take advantage, can't you convince the queen to delay it until next week?" Oni looked to the men and said, "Alright 25 more." The men sighed in relief.
"No," Integra said. "This is exactly why I must attend." She knew he wouldn't like that.
Oni looked down, "perhaps you could explain that hmm this week might be a problem, your schedules full up with... Impending danger to the country the crown and the queen!" Oni left English and began swearing somewhat in Japanese, "I'm sorry, I've just had it up to here and I'm starting to show some stress fractures, sorry." He sighed and looked to Integra, "I don't know if I can protect you and fight this war."
"The ceremony is tomorrow..." She said and looked up into his eyes and sighed, closing her own. "I'm sorry if this is causing you stress, but we are in the same boat... I cannot disappoint the Queen, for you know exactly what that will do. I know exactly what to do if I am in trouble, and this time, hopefully, I won't be caught so off guard." She said.
Oni sighed, "its not you and... its not physical attack I'm worried about... its... its something just I cant explain, something that has been just out of my reach for a month now and its worrying me badly, too many dark forces, on both sides of the line are gathering, and we are smack dab in the middle, I cant explain it just is and I don't know how to stop it, there is a perfect possible future but right now I cant see it." Oni put a hand to his head and fell to his knees.
"Oni?" Integra's eyes widened as he fell to the ground. "Oni?" She kneeled and put a hand on his hand. "What's wrong?" She was worried, very worried... and you could see that in her eyes. She inched closer. "Oni?" She asked again, hoping this time he'd answer and he'd be alright.
Oni winced as he tried to raise to his feet, "telemetric and telepathic interference they've been putting it out on mass the more freaks the stronger it is and its blocking my abilities, I've been able to keep it out, its blinding me and binding me and I don't know how to stop it, as their numbers grow, so does the power of the field, I've never told you this but, I can see beyond what you can see, beyond the energy that drives all living beings, and I could see the darkness and light below that, I stood in the center and so I became grey, but all of that is being taken from me slowly and surely, incognito must die, or I will."
Integra's heart jumped for a moment and she looked into his eyes. "...You have to remember what you told me." She let out a small breath. "...You will win, I know this. This may be a different vampire, and different numbers, more on the heavy side," she added, "but... I have seen you pull through the impossible, and you will do it again." She blinked. She had no doubts, but she could still worry. She knew he could defeat him, she knew it. "I believe in you."
Oni was breathing heavily even though he didn't need to, old habits died very hard, he tried to concentrate and soon the disruption fell from his mind he stood and looked to her, "then I will do my best, I believe I'm tired, that could be what brought this on. " The solders had stopped and were watching them, "you're dismissed, all of you, the fight comes tomorrow, be ready." He nodded to Integra and walked off to his room.
Incognito smiled, "do you regret not drinking blood and becoming stronger? Do you wish you had stayed mortal? Is your only regret that you allowed that pitiful Oni's blood into your body?" He smiled and raised his gun.
Seras's eyes widened as she saw the bullets didn't even faze him. Her eyes grew with hatred and her eyes turned a complete black as a huge ball of black energy formed as she threw the useless gun and put her palms up. Some of the veins in her face turned as dark as her eyes, showing her complete rage. "I regret nothing of that." She said as the ball of energy grew larger and larger as a bolt of lightning twisted around it with grace. "My only regret is that I couldn't get here faster to kill you before you killed Helena." She pulled her arm back and threw the ball of energy towards him with a wicked smile on her face.
Incognito fired but the bullets were simply absorbed by the dark energy he flew back and landed hard, suddenly the record player started making noise and reset itself to the beginning. Incognito stood and looked around as papers of books started to flutter in a sudden breeze the window above them flashed red and suddenly Helena was standing behind incognito. but she faded away as if nothing but sand, incognito turned and fired but hit nothing but books, suddenly a hand reached out followed by part of a head, it grew stretching the flesh of the monster.
Incognito brought up a knife Seras moved to stop him but she was slammed back, then the knife descended severing the parts of Helena clean from his body. He laughed, "Total destruction, I live for nothing else." and walked out.
Seras fell to the floor, panting. The darkness from her eyes and face had disappeared as she looked upon the head of Helena. "Hel-Helena?" She slowly crawled towards it and looked upon her with sadness in her eyes. She closed her eyes, tears on the rims and clenched her fist. "Damn monster…" She said. "I'm sorry, Helena."
Helena looked to her, "Seras do not cry Seras. Even with we supposed immortal beings when our bodies are torn asunder then our essence's are free, and allowed to wander the heavens, be a loyal and worthy companion to your master oni, he needs you more than he ever says, that thing is like oni in that he is also being kept by humans, his actions serve human designs, Now this is important, you must give this to oni he must receive it, if he does not he may die tonight." suddenly a triluminary floated from one of the book shelves and floated in front of her, "now go, my body will soon be gone."
Seras looked up to see another object that looked almost exactly like her own. She blinked and looked down to Helena. "But I--?" She looked over as the candles started to burn the books around them. She looked back down. "Thank you... Goodbye, Helena." She stood and with reluctance left the house. She watched outside as the fire tore the house apart and she rushed off back towards the mansion. Master, she said, and she hoped he could hear her and she also hoped she'd get there in time.
What am I thinking? Seras asked herself. She stopped and took a deep breath and in an instant, she was in Oni's bedroom. She fell the floor, panting as sweat dripped down the side of her face. "Master?" She said, still holding the Triluminary in her hands tightly. "Helena... That... Bastard… This… She's dead." That's all she could get out.
Oni had just made it to his room and fell in taking the door off its hinges, he looked up lines of black were all over his face and hands, lighting could be seen jumping between the lines under his skin, he was dying.
"Master!" She jumped back up and rushed over to him. She placed the Triluminary on his bed and pulled him over to it as well. She looked into his eyes. No, he wasn't going to die, goddamnit. She looked over to the Triliminary, asking herself why... Her eyes widened. She grabbed the Triliminary and placed it in his hands. "Master… Helena told me to give you this." She said, hoping it would work. It's all she could think of because of what Helena had said. She'd do anything to save her Master's life, not only because it was her duty, but because she did care.
Oni looked to her, give me yours." he extended a hand and his flew from the shelf, he caught it and staggered to the table when he took Seras's he assembled the three into a 3 sided pyramid, he let go and the sides melted into one solid object, then it lit up and shot blue white energy from all 3 sides and a silver beam from the top it shot it up and it passed through the ceilings walls and surrounded the entire building and the beam shot straight through the roof high into the sky.
Seras walked towards the table slowly, watching the light and watching Oni. What exactly was he doing? What was happening? She looked to him, hoping soon his condition would get better.
Oni stood the lines disappearing and everything else returning to normal, "Helena, thank you for your sacrifice, I'm sorry." He looked to Seras, "The triluminary is truly complete, 3 people 3 triluminaries make the true triluminary, this will keep them at bay and give our side more power, I heard what he said, he just wants to destroy things, that bastard, it makes me want to destroy him even more."
She smiled softly as the lines disappeared and faced him. "It's almost daylight; do you think he'll attack now?" She asked, hoping he'd say no. What would happen now...? She knew Oni would win, but... Ugh, she just had this feeling and she figured he had it as well. Something was going to happen and it wasn't going to be good.
Oni shook his head, no tomorrow night, and its going to be a trap, but they don't realize how strong I am, how strong we are together." He looked to Seras, "we'll go there and wipe them off the face of this earth. Sleep now, tomorrow night, we fight."