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A/N: Thanx to all of you for reviewing! Some of you have been so faithful, reviewing since chapter 1 and that means so much to me! I'm not how much longer this fic will carry on and some of it will depend on you, the reader/reviewer! I'll try to update as much as I can, and if I don't get it done during the week then I'll get it done on the weekends. I'm in the middle of three stories right now that take up a lot time along with working full time. If you'd like to read them they are: 1) This one you're reading now, 2) Shinobi Elements (Naruto) 3)Fate's Impasse (Naruto) . Also, I'm debating on whether or not to continue a one shot I'd written. It's entitled, Aggravation, another of my Hellsing fics. A warning however, I wrote it for a friend of mine who requested the Alucard and Integra pairing! Just thought I'd warn you! I don't like the pairing, however, cuz my fav pairing is Alucard/Seras:) Whooohoooo!
My Blood, Tears and Humanity
Chapter 5: New War, Old Enemy
Sunset had come rather fast this evening. Several of Hellsing Manor's occupants were bored, though there was plenty of work to do. It seemed even Integra was affected be this affliction.
She was either pacing her office or staring out the window. Suddenly turning from her position at the window, leaving the office, the blond headed towards the lower levels. Smirking she wanted to have a little fun. Just a little fun to pay Alucard back for his insufferable pranks. Coming to the door at the bottom of the stairs, she knocked. Hearing the voice telling her to enter, she did.
Sometime later Integra exited the room snickering. What? Yes, she'd smiled and even smirked. But for her to actually be snickering, something really funny must've happened. Passing Walter in the hallway, the Hellsing heiress was still laughing. The poor retainer, so confused as to what's going on with her. Integra hadn't outright sniggered like that since a little girl. Shrugging off his confusion, he got back to work.
Meanwhile, back in the lower levels, Seras, stretched and yawned. Waking up , to her, always so difficult even if it was around six or seven in the afternoon. Phasing from her bed, she showered then dressed. So much to do in a night's time. A mischievous smile crossed her angelic face. Concentrating hard, feeling her power flow, she allowed her form to change. She just had to pull one last feat off before the bet was off! Besides, this was a special request!
Phasing to her master's room, she noticed a solitary lit candle on his table. He was still asleep! Good. God she wanted to laugh so hard. Walking to his bed, she crawled on it. More like crawled on Alucard and straddled his waist.
Bending down, his fledgling kissed his gently. She whispered,"Wake up,Alucard. I'm here." Allowing her hands to run from his chest downwards, as her hands came in really close contact with his male parts, his eyes snapped open.
Quickly, Seras leaned in again while he was off guard. Hearing a growl build, she ignored it and kept at it. "My God, Alucard. I've wanted you for so long!" Continuing to mess with him, she kept on til he didn't know up from down.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, she found herself shoved on her ass. Seras thought, 'Man that's gonna leave a mark!'
"I'm not doing this with you, Integra. You're not my type. I like the feisty not bitchy type." Alucard was stunned that his master would even think of him that way. "You persist in this and I'll fuck with your mind!" His dark side was slipping out now. Obviously, it wanted to play too.
Integra laughed. "You want a mind fuck? I'll give you one. Try this on for size." Integra's form melted away revealing a smirking Seras. "Gotcha", she spoke in a sing-song manner. Then, turning, she left his room skipping, so happy she'd gotten him again. Down the hallway she was singing,"Who's your daddy?" and all he could do was laugh at the childishness of it all. It brought back memories of the last time she'd nailed him and asked him that same question just to pick at him.
Alucard was in shock. His angel had gotten him again. Thinking to himself he wondered who she'd be talking to. He wondered if the queen bitch, herself, had put her up to it. Closing his eyes, the vampire felt such an overwhelming pride. Seras had accomplished such a great feat with no training at all! Eventually, the beautiful, busty blond would make the perfect No Life Queen to stand by him through all eternity.
Seras, wondered up to the upper levels. Entering Integra's study, she gave her report.
Integra cackled at the mind fuck bit. "That was perfect, Seras. He loves to screw with people. That was just perfect. I'm sure he'll exact retribution on me. It was well worth it, however!"
"Why would he suspect you, Sir Integra?"
"Believe me..you took my form. Who else would've put you up to it?" Picking up a cigar , lighting it, she put it to her lips and inhaled. "Trust me. He'll know. Alucard's not stupid."
A dark voice echoed throughout the room. "No, he's not."
Seras let out a little squeak. She should've known that he'd manage to surprise her. He was the best at it after all.
Appearing to the women in front of him, the male vampire didn't look too happy. "Integra, I want a word with you... now."
Vastly amused, Integra slowly inhaled her cigar. "What's wrong, Alucard? Someone get a piece of you this morning?" The usually iron maiden inwardly sniggered at her own joke. Everyone knows that he deserved it!
Growling in reply, Alucard bared his fangs.
"Ooh. Don't bare your fangs at me. I'll rip them out and use them for my new can opener." Her playfulness disappearing, coolness surfacing when he bared his fangs. "Do it again, Alucard and you'll be lucky if I don't throw you in the basement for a week!"
"You won't do shit. You need me too much." His infamous cocky grin accompanied those cocky words.
Seras chose those moment to interrupt. "Guys, Sir Integra, master, I'll leave you to it. I've got some things to do."
Nodding her head, Integra dismissed her, "We'll finish discussing your mission later, Seras."
Alucard sent her a dark look. "We have things to discuss as well, Seras." The heaviness and darkness in his voice told her of the trouble to come for her.
"Ok. Later." Leaving while she had the chance, Seras bounded out of the room. First things first, she'd go look for Walter. She wanted to ask him to requisition a few things for her if possible.
Integra and Alucard were both shouting in her study.
"Integra, what gave you the right to influence my fledgling to do that?"
"What? You mean play a little too close to home, you mean?"
His eyes glowed red. "She would do almost anything to make you approve of her and you know it. You used her." This situation pissed off the No Life King more than he wanted to admit. It'd been playing close to home alright. It had played with what heart he has, no matter how black.
"Please..don't tell me she means anything to you. You're just using her for a blood and vampire booty call." Her eyes widened in fright at the sight in front of her after her insult. Integra wasn't usually afraid of anything, but she was scared of the creature standing in front of her.
Alucard's eyes, blazing red, his fangs elongating, saliva dripping from them. His black hair had changed as well. Becoming tendrils, dark as night, they reached forward grabbing every part of the Hellsing heiress' lithe body. The thick masses wrapped her up as if in a cocoon. The only visible part being her eyes and nose.
"Now, are your going to be more reasonable? And please, for your sake, do not ever insult Seras again! Just a little information for you, she's going to be my No Life Queen one day. "So do not ever insult her that way again." Alucard's voice started out on the maniacal side and ended with a sexy timbre to it. If she allowed it, she could fall prey right here and now, but it wasn't feasible, not now or ever.
Her servant calmed. Thick black hair relaxed and retracted back to it's original state. Alucard was such a complex creature. So simple and difficult to understand at the same time. He'd forever be a mystery and a friend to her. But tonight couldn't be so easily forgiven. She was still going to punish him for his attack against her.
"Alucard, for the deeds you've done this night, your punishment is thus. I sentence you back to the basement where I found you for the duration of one months time. Have you anything to say before it's carried out?" Integra's ice cold voice carried in the large room adding to the cooler temperature.
"Yes. My apologies for attacking you. I know I shouldn't have done it, but I was upholding the honor of my future queen." Alucard was standing there head bent, feeling a million emotions rush through him. What would Seras do during his imprisonment? How would she handle it? His only concern...for her.
"Alucard, I promise you, Seras will be fine. Walter and I will keep her busy and safe. Are you ready?"
He nodded his head once in agreement.
Integra muttered the ceremonial words of entrapment.
The signals on his gloves glowed bright, scarlet red. The etchings on his gloves looked like there was blood flowing throughout them. Adding to the mystique that was Alucard. His clothes had become the tight, red leather. Chains wrapped all around him and he was sucked into a portal which would automatically transport him to his prison in the basement.
Tears welled at the sight of Alucard being imprisoned again. She couldn't let him defy her in that manner without some form of punishment. She hoped for the next month that nothing big happened. With their biggest hunter in sleep, they'd have a severe handicap should a really big problem occur.
Reaching for a glass and her whiskey flask, she poured and tossed. Repeating this process several times until she was satisfied and throughly drunk. Integra was in the middle of another drink when she passed out on the desk, her glass spilling its alcoholic contents and dropping to the rug.
Walter entered Integra's study seeing her asleep on her desk. Sighing, he picked her up. Carrying her to her room, he laid her on her bed and covered her up. "Good night, Sir Integra." Smiling as he left, he paused to remember the times he'd done that when she was a little girl. She'd always been as a daughter to him. "Now back to work." Strolling back to the armory, he was whistling, eagerness showing. He had almost finished a new pistol he'd been working on for Seras. A real beauty for a beauty! She'd be pleased! But to finish it first.
Seras had been roaming the Hellsing grounds for the last hour. Bored, she radioed in to headquarters. "Walter, I'm going for a patrol outside the grounds. I'm going to check the park and local cemetery. If there's no trouble, then I'll head back."
Walter's voice crackled back through the radio. "Affirmative, Victoria. But at the first sign of trouble, head back. Since, for a while, you no longer have Alucard to back you up." Grimacing, he couldn't believe he let that slip. That little information could greatly affect the draculina.
"What? What do you mean, for a while, I won't have him as a back up?" Fear building up in her voice already. It wasn't sounding good.
"Sir Integra made him angry and he attacked her. She punished him by imprisoning him for a month. I'm not sure what caused the whole thing, but it must've been something for him to go after her."
Seras could hear the questions in Walter's voice. "I'm not sure. Maybe you should ask Integra. Anyway, I'm on my way. And, yes, before you ask, I've got my new bullets you made." Cocking Alucard's Casul, which he'd graciously let her borrow, she readied it for action. "So, Walter, these bullets, not only explode on impact, they kill freaks due to the silver in them, right?"
"Right. The silver finds it's way to the chip, binding to it and destroying it with the heat generated from the output of the man made chip." Walter always knows how to give a good, brief scientific explanation on how something works or is destroyed. Walter is like Alucard in a way, a bringer of destruction, just not on as large a scale as the vampire enjoys. "Victoria?"
"Yes?"
"Be careful. We're right here should there be need." The older man came across to her as worried. Maybe because one of their old enemies had come back to town. Worst thing being, no one knew what he had come for. No one except...Alucard.
"Yes, mother. I will. Honestly,Walter, you sound like my mother. Relax, I'll be fine." Several minutes ticked by with no contact. "Walter, I'm here at the park now. There seems to be nothing out of the ordinary. I'll continue on to the graveyard then."
"Acknowledged. Over and out." The older retainer knew Seras was confident in what she was doing. He just didn't want her to get hurt. If something happened to the blond draculina while Alucard was in his imprisoned seclusion, there'd be extreme hell to pay!
"Walter? Seras, here. Patrolling the cemetery." Seras' voice for some reason or another was breaking up.
"Seras, repeat your last transmission. You're breaking up."
"I'm here patrolling the cemetery. Never liked these damn places. Just too spooky to suit me." Something felt off here and she couldn't explain it. It just felt eerier and spookier by the second.
"Walter, there doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary here either." The bad feeling was creeping closer and closer. Her skin crawling like the time Alucard had buried her in bugs. She could've kicked his ass over that one!
Another voice startled her."There is now."
Turning, she saw one of her worst nightmares lounging in front of her. Stretched out over the top of a crypt was...Xander! "Shit!"
Quickly, she switched her radio to transmit her conversation automatically. That way, base would hear everything said and heard should anything happen to her.
Walter's voice coming rapidly over the radio. "Seras? What's going on? Who's there? Seras?"
Swallowing her fear, she addressed her unwelcome visitor. "Xander, what do you want?"
Leaping from his perch atop the crypt, he smiled. "Thought you'd never ask. It seems like you're not happy to see me,Seras."
"I'm not. I'm busy, so cut the bullshit and leave." She'd already moved into position to attack. Her eyes kindled into a fiery, glowing red.
"YES! Just what I like. I just love a feisty woman." Licking his bottom lip, his eyes flashed red at her too.
Rushing her, he pushed her hard against the crypt she'd been standing in front of. Holding her neck with his left hand, he struck her in the stomach.
She let out a small grunt."Ump. Man that hurt, she thought. I've got to get myself out of this. Alucard can't come to my rescue this time, at least I don't think he can. Damn, Integra, why couldn't you have done this some other time?
A surge of energy running in her veins, she kneed Xander in the groin. Using the palm of her right hand, she struck him in the throat. Whipping out the knife her master had given her for her birthday, she stabbed him where his human heart used to be.
Laughing hollowly, the ex hunter, growled,"You think that'll do me in? Seras, Seras, I want to see what you can really do." Grabbing her by the back of her neck, he pulled her face close to his. His lips by her ears, he smelled her hair. "God, Seras, the very smell, of you is turning me on. Your violence is turning me on."
Jerking out her knife, he stuck her in her lower right side. "Seras, you're such a walking contradiction. You have the face and voice of and angel, yet you fight like a demon. You don't like drinking blood. Several occasions now, I've seen you on the battlefield, covered in it, like you'd bathed in it. Those times, you'd partaken of it willingly. Was it because of your master? Did he force you?"
Seras listened to the verbal reminders he gave her. The picture he painted of her, she didn't like it at all. But the truth was the truth. It couldn't be changed just to suit your version of truth. She really hated this man standing before her. Seras wanted to kill him. So she would do her best to put him out of everyone's misery!
Pulling the knife from where it had been embedded, Seras yanked it out. Spotting her next target, she was immediately stopped.
"Now, Seras. You know I can't let you hit the family jewels. I do wanna have a family, you know. Which brings me to this little visit." Xander's face twisted, smirking psychotically. Honestly, the man could rival Alucard with his dark and evil glances.
"Well, spit it out, I'm decaying from the wait, you little Alucard-wanna-be!" Seras had been a little patient up until now. Now, that had flown out the window. She had to know what the hell this idiot wanted with her. Crossing her fingers, mentally, she prayed that headquarters was hearing every word spoken.
Ignoring her bait, Xander revealed his reason for wanting her. "I want you, my dear, to help me create little Xanders. All in my own image. And before you suggest it, no, I don't want to use any labs! They screw it all up! I want the all natural approach. Besides," he ran a finger down the side of her face and neck, " it's not like my Eve isn't beautiful!"
"You're sick! I already belong to Alucard." Giggling insanely, taking a page out of her master's book, she asked him,"What makes you think I'd willingly help you anyway?"
"If you wouldn't come willingly, then there's force. You were a virgin when you met Alucard and he turned you. Still after all this time, he hasn't tasted your delights. Me, I'd break you. I'd celebrate every tear you shed and mark every cry of pain. I'd keep giving you pain until that's all you'd expect and then..."
"And then what?" Seras had to beat back her fear. This guy was certifiable. Without a doubt, he was one hand stroke short of a nut job. Shutting her eyes momentarily, she wished Alucard was here. He'd kick the hell out of this bastard. She thought to him. 'Alucard, I need you. I need your help. Most of all, I need your strength... save me! Please!'
Faintly as if he was far away, she heard him, briefly. "Seras, I can't do anything. I'm locked and chained. I'm sorry. Fight. Get away! Get away from him. Do whatever you have to! I'm fading. I'm going to sleep now. I'm sorry, it can't be helped. ...being pulled into the blackness. ...ove...you." Then all communication with him was gone. A void opened in her soul, a wide gaping hole that needed to be filled. The only one who could fill it, was the one who couldn't hear much less answer her right now.
A single tear ran down the right side of her face.
"Giving up so soon, my love? And I'd hoped you'd make this fun!"
Fire burning in her eyes she shot back, "Fun, you want fun? And as for giving up...not a chance in hell! Not to you... not ever."
Energy renewed, she drew her fist back, ramming it through his chest, creating a massive bloody hole. "Shit, Seras! You are serious, aren't you baby?"
"Don't call me your baby!" Going in again, she grabbed his left arm jerking it over her shoulder breaking it. She basked in his cries of pain. "I'm going to enjoy each cry of pain you utter or release. That's a promise."
During this time, his chest had already healed. With his good arm, Xander punched Seras hard, shattering her collar bone.
She kicked forward, nailing him in the stomach. The blow sent him flying backwards into an angel statue headstone. Holding his side, his ribs protesting. "Damn girl! I think you broke my ribs."
"Want me to cry you a river? Get up." She sighed. "Don't be a wuss. Our soldiers at Hellsing can take more than this." Taunting him, she wanted to mess with him, and make him angry. Just like her mast er would do. It'd always seemed childish when he did it, but now it seemed to be such fun. Crazy , right? Running forwards she kicked him in the side with the sharp toe of her boot. Hearing the loud crack, Seras found it exilerating to be kicking his ass! She'd rarely been in this form without going berserker.
Once more hit ought to put him out. Aiming carefully, she punched hard at his head, effectively knocking her adversary unconscious.
Yes! Time to haul it back to HQ! Boy, she'd need a hell of a bath when she returned. She was one bloody mess! Picking up her radio, she prepared to take off to Hellsing Manor. Turning, to reassure herself that Xander was still there, her eyes widened, her chest heaving... he...was...gone! Oh, no! That wasn't a good sign.
Her attention back to the radio, she was preparing to call in when the blow came from nowhere.
"Never underestimate me Seras. Well, we're going home now." Lifting the female vampire, he took off. He'd leave it to her employer to figure out her whereabouts. The only article of Seras' left behind was her radio that she took whenever she patrolled. Xander was counting on that to bring Alucard to them so he could destroy that damn vampire once and for all!
Walter, Integra and several soldiers sitting at a desk stunned. There would surely be hell to pay when Alucard awoke!
"Walter? Should I go wake him?"
"Let us try to find out where he's going first. Give it a couple of days. If nothing's found by then...I'd go and wake him. Maybe he won't be too angry. Do you think he knows anything?" The Hellsing retainer's brows had knitted up, so worried about Seras. Even with her being a vampire, they had things that could kill them also.
"I don't know. I'm not sure the ritual had been completed before all this had happened." Wrapping her arms around her waist, the heiress was worried about her vampires frame of mind when he awoke. "If something happens to Seras, there's no telling how Alucard will cope. He's likely to go berserk himself. No one has seen that for centuries.
One of the soldiers glanced at her and asked,"What happened?"
Forcing out a breath, she said,"He obliterated several countries. People, buildings, animals... it didn't matter. If it was standing, it was open territory. Soon after was when my ancestor bound him. A creator with that much power... he couldn't be allowed to commit an atrocity like that ever again."
The soldiers gulped and glanced hard at each other. Both were thinking the same thing. They hoped the binding never released and allowed him to run amok.
TWO DAYS LATER:
Walter dejectedly walked into Integra's study. He'd found nothing. No sign of Seras or Xander anywhere. He'd asked for two days and he'd failed. Walter had never really failed at anything. He owed it to his tough-as-nails boss to know his discovery.
"Walter. Have you found anything?"
"No, Sir Integra. Not a trace of either has been found. This Xander if good, too good."
Integra could hear a trace of envy in her friend and caretaker's voice. This man must be good if he could avoid being found by Walter. "Ok, then. Let's get what we need and go to the basement. I can't allow any more precious time to slip by us." Standing up, she grasped her letter opener and pocketed it in her suit jacket.
Walter met her at the door to Alucard's prison in the basement. Taking hold of the knob, he turned and opened it for her. The two of them entered the dank, dark room. Walter held up the lantern and both were taken back by what they saw.
So many changes had already taken place in the powerful vampire. His hair had gone snow white. His skin...faded off the bones as if it never was there. He appeared to be a corpse that had existed there for a hundred years or more!
Breathing deeply, Integra reached inside her suit pocket. Bringing out the letter opener and taking off her jacket, she turned to Walter. "I'm ready, Walter."
"Let's get this done, Sir Integra."
Smiling nervously, she stepped to Alucard's vampiric corpse quickly. Willing her nerves away, she brought up the letter opener and smirked. "Well, here goes nothing."
A/N: That's it for Chapter 5. This chapter was definitely darker than I've been writing. Not everything can be all light nor all dark just like this story. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it regardless. Just drop me a line and let me know. :) Read/review... please... :)