A Demon's Kiss

Buddykilla

Chapter 3: No Real Escape

Alucard shifted slightly feeling Selena's hand tighten around his own. She curled into herself slightly, a soft sigh escaping her lips. Alucard smiled against her onyx waves. She felt calm despite her current fading state.

"Good morning, my queen." He whispered.

"Mhmm. What is it, love?"

"You need to drink."

"Five more minutes, Alucard." Selena groaned. Alucard pulled her into his arms, rising as he did so. The full moon called out to him, Selena needed to drink or she would fade into monochrome and then from his life. He refused to let her go so easily. She slipped her arms around his neck holding him closely. Alucard held her firmly as he carried his queen into their old home. Her domain, Castle Renana, was Alucard's marriage gift. She was so beautiful on that day, before that damned Catholic stole her from him. Selena cooed softly against his neck, he shuddered at the heat of her breath sliding over his skin. How she affected him so easily was something he was never going to understand. The castle was dark, dreary, and above all perfect. It needed a fair bit of dusting and sweeping. Alucard laid his beloved into her white oak coffin. Selena sighed contently as he set the velvet lined lid over her resting form. Alucard stalled for a moment drinking in the sight of her wasting body in the moonlight.

"I'll be right back."

Alucard lured the young couple to the castle far easier than he anticipated. He felt a twinge of worry; he was careful with the protection seal he placed on Selena's coffin before he left, but his insides were telling him to hurry. He set his spell over the young lovers, putting them into a flirtatious run towards the safety of their (his and – HIS – Selena's) castle. Upon their arrival the young lovers ran blindly into the cellar depths, stopping just before his beloved's coffin. Alucard sealed them in and drank them dry in the fastest of seconds. He leaned over the bodies, a feeling of hollowness coming through him. He opened Selena's coffin, sat beside her for the first time in a thousand years, and held her hand in his own.

An instant was all it took. Her fangs dug into his arm so deeply he could tell she felt his bones underneath. Her eyes shined a blazing amber color as she fed, drinking the memories and blood from her lover; she purred softly as she drank him in. Alucard stroked her hair as she filled the emptiness that surely followed from her lack of nutrition. He was well aware that Vampires feel sick and weak without blood and daily rest. A Shade however, if left to starve, would lose their powers and literally fade into ashes. Selena drank greedily, knowing Alucard was her life source, in the full moonlight. She didn't want to stop but she knew she couldn't bleed him dry.

With her feeding taken care of, she leaned against her lover as he draped a thin sheet around her. Alucard smiled at the renewed vibrancy of her pigmentation. She looked almost the same as when she met him. She slept soundly against his chest, but a presence was near causing her to jump up in alarm.

"Alucard, what is that feeling? Who is that?" She asked weakly.

"Damn. It's Alexander Anderson, my love. A worthless pity on humanity." Alucard growled.

"Selena I need you to stay here. Whatever happens; do NOT leave this room." Selena nodded, she knew it wasn't just an order but a warning. She slipped back into her coffin as Alucard placed his protection and left. His guns in tow (thankful he brought them) he set outside. Sure enough, as he reached the castle gates was Alexander Anderson with his blades at the ready.

"Well, look what we have here. A filthy heathen spreading his plague further into this Holy world God provides." Alucard glared menacingly at Alexander.

"What do you want Regenerator?"

"Just going to my station to teach."

"Teach what?"

"Killing sorry Vampire vermin like you!" Alucard raised his gun but was struck down by a series of knives almost immediately. Alucard screamed in agony as the onslaught continued. Blade after blade ran him through, he felt himself growing more and more tired, he knew he couldn't keep his consciousness for much longer. A large blade sliced into his chest and his cry echoed throughout the moonlit night. Selena shot up through the protection seal of her coffin, her eyes blazing a sinister gold and her teeth bared, easily showing her fangs. She was connected to her prince and when he was struck her Rage was set free. Whoever this Alexander Anderson is didn't matter, Alucard was hurt and he was going to pay.

Selena howled in fury as her Rage filled her from the cells in her bones flowing to the moonlight. Her glossy onyx hair faded into a burning red, her nails extending into fierce black claws, feathers coated her silken skin which gave it sandpaper like texture. Selena roared as her blood-black wings burst from her back; their falcon shape casting a cloak around her body, fresh blood dripped from her eyes in place of her diamond colored tears. Alucard! My Alucard! Alucard, my beautiful Prince of Shadows, I'm coming for you! Please live, be strong, I'm coming! Selena cried in her thoughts as she set herself to the stairs. She would need to claim this night, so she would claim the skies!

Alexander laughed maniacally as he dug the blade further into the still vampire at his feet. He knew Alucard would rise soon but as long as the blade was moved every so often, Alucard would be kept in Limbo. He glanced at his two disciples as they set up a bonfire near the gate. Alexander smiled viciously and ruthlessly twisting the blade in the fallen Shadow Prince beneath him. He knew it would end soon, the Hellsing pet would die and the Catholic Church could resume their own hunt for the increasing Ghouls, Vampires, and Demons. A shadow passed over the moon for a moment, but Alexander paid no mind. When the shadow passed he saw the red-orange glow surrounding him and filling the night. Silence filled the strange light.

"What's taking so long you lazy heathens?!" Alexander paused as he saw the heads of his disciples were in each hand of the menacing winged creature before him. Fire blazed in its skin and eyes, a horrid clicking noise filled the air as its feathers bristled.

"You killed my lover." The creature hissed its voice was that of a singing sparrow and an angry snake. Anderson felt the waves of dark energy surging from the winged beast. The feeling of hatred and death began to cripple his senses of movement. He was helpless, for the first time he felt paralyzed by pure and immeasurable evil.

"You fear me?" The creature smiled, fangs flashing in the blood light. "Good, I'll taste your fear before you die. Just like you tasted my beloved's hate before he died." Anderson began to shake. The clicking hissing noise grew rapidly in volume as the creature spread its wings. An agonized scream filled the air as the creature took flight… with Anderson in its claws.