For a moment I don't know how long I stood there petrified of what I saw before me. Not any stranger with Flora but she's unconscious and the stranger has red eyes like Alucard's. I felt in every cell of my body this isn't right and I must do something and fast. Pointing the gun is not an option, I can only think of stepping in between. There's no better idea I can think of! Rapidly I stood in between and held unconscious Flora in my arms. "Sorry but she's not interested in men like you, especially strangers no offence."

"What makes you think that I'm a stranger? I only wanted some company of the beauty." Remarked the stranger calmly with a soft voice. His red eyes glowed for a moment.

"I let someone else be the judge of that."

"Come on, you stood up for me last night. Would you care to do it again?" He smiled at me broadly.

I blinked. "You're-"

"Yes, the creature as Alucard prefers to call me. I can't fathom why he is after his own kind? I wonder if he's gone around the bend?"

"Then you were the one who killed all these people here! Why? Just to survive?"

He laughed. "Ha, ha, ha; is that what Alucard told you? It is more than that, it is also for pleasure. Imagine such a beauty as her and she offers it to you freely? So fresh, so warm and oh what youth." He held her hand and smelled her skin. "Her sister was perfect to the taste, like a unique vintage of wine."

I pulled her hand away from him. Flora began to groan softly, waking up from her slumber. "About time Flora." I spoke under my breath.

"Wha-what happened?" She wondered. I remained silent and kept my eyes focused at him. She soon followed my glance. "It's him! He-he murdered my sister!" Flora was about to walk right at him and give him a punch. Rapidly I took hold of her wrist and held her back.

"There's even spirit in the beauty, I like that." He chuckled amused and smirked broadly.

Suddenly I heard a gunshot and it hit the stranger's shoulder, within a blink I noticed Alucard standing beside me with his gun at hand and the smoke came from the barrel. He wasn't smiling and stood there silent while facing the stranger.

"Ah! I should have known it was you, Alucard." The stranger spoke calmly with a smile while pressuring with a hand against his wound, red blood oozed between the fingers. "Still going after your own kind?"

"Only for my little brother." Alucard began to smirk.

"Brother? He-he's your brother? Why are you after him?" I wondered surprised. He did not give me the impression that he had siblings nor did he say anything about it.

"It doesn't matter, his time is due. I see your wound doesn't heal as it usually does, brother." He smiled broadly.

"What? Why would two brothers go against each other?" Wondered Flora astounded in a quiet tone. I felt her hand holding tightly to my arm and stepping closer to me.

"Interesting how far you will go for your dear little brother. These can't be ordinary bullets or this wound should have been healed by now." He spoke through clenched teeth, trying to cope with the pain.

"Correct, these are silver bullets filled with my own blood." Alucard raised his gun to his brother's head.

"Time out!" I stepped in between. "Why don't you talk with your brother about the grudge you two have?" Come to think of it I also have an issue with Knives.

Alucard chuckled. "Ha, you have no idea what you are getting yourself into and you should know by now that I'm not much of the talking type. Step aside!"

"But I'm sure there's a way to solve the problem without killing." I kept my ground.

"I thought as much." Alucard smirked. "Radu is as stubborn as I am and hence won't stop at any cost." He pulled back the upper blade.

So Radu is the name of his brother, what Alucard says makes complete sense but there must be a way, there must! Vividly my mind recalled the moment as Knives was in July City and I was ready to shoot him for what he's done. The result was disastrous so will this be too. Suddenly I recall what Meryl did the other time as everyone was against me.

I began to smile at Alucard. He raised an eyebrow. "You know even the strongest minds can be convinced with strong words and right arguments and reasons. All you have to do is try."

Alucard chuckled and lowered his gun. "It seems I misjudged you, Blondie. I allow you to do the talking."

"Eh, I'm afraid that's not the way it works." I laughed nervously.

Radu bursted with laughing. "What's this I hear, are you too cowardly like a dog to talk with me, Vlad?"

"I prefer speaking the language of bullets." Alucard hissed and pointed the gun at him.

Quick-witted I pushed the gun down. "Maybe try speaking without the bullets?"

"You're no mortal to be so calm in this situation." Noted Radu to me.

I laughed nervously.

Flora pulled me strongly down by the sleeve that I almost fell. "What are you trying to do?" She whispered bewildered.

"Just wait and see." I smiled.

She looked at me speechless.

"Obliviously you two have a grudge on each other. What was it that all started this?"

"That's none of your business." Hissed Alucard.

He's persistent. "You got to start somewhere to talk about the problem. No one can keep them away forever you know."

"Ha, sounds like you know a lot about that." Alucard smirked at me.

I grinned to his notation.

"If he insists us to talk, then why not?" Radu sighed. "You know perfectly as well as I do and yet we fight ever since I can remember. It wasn't my fault, I too didn't want it to happen but I had no choice."

"You know as well as I do that you had more than one choice!" Alucard hissed.

"You want that I should have protested and be killed by the ottomans who held me captive at the time?"

"I mean double cross them, believing they have you under control when in reality it would have been the opposite."

"But you came too late to save me." Radu hissed.

"I tried with all my might to reach you as soon as possible."

"Not soon enough, brother." Radu's eyes glowed bright red. Suddenly he attacked Alucard with his bare hands at his throat. So quick that I had no time to react yet Alucard did by holding off Radu's hands at the wrists. His large gun landed first now on the ground.

Flora gasped shocked behind me.

Alucard didn't smile as he faced Radu. Radu became to laugh. "You were always the strongest in the family but when it came to forgiveness there is another story to you."

"If you think I had a hand in changing you into a vampire, I have none of it. You never deserved this and yet here you stand, you took the vampire's blood out of your own will. For what reason? Revenge? Because I didn't come soon enough? Or simply because I remind you too much of father?"

Radu roared in anger and saw how Alucard was struggling against him. Alucard grunted with clenched teeth. "You two get out! Now!"

Before Flora and I had a chance to move Radu stood in front of us with a broad evil smile and glowing eyes. "You two aren't going anywhere." He sniggered.