Me: (Cheers happily) Man I really am loving the reviews, and the one who asked, Yes Thom will return, just the timing needs to be just right.
Integra: (eyes me) Your timing is always off.
Me: Meh! I know I started this story twenty years later, but what was all missed will be explained!
Ty: Hope so.
Me: (sighs) Anywho, this chapter shall be a long one, so enjoy! (and of the fluffyness, I will do that soon enough, but patience(weak grin) I'm trying)
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Seras found herself standing a good ten feet from the front doors with the strangest look upon her face as Alucard left her right by the entrance of the domain with no explanation whatsoever. Sitting there right by the giant dog demon statue before the front doors. Cocking her head to the side, the young woman sitting there cloaked in black, just stared right at Seras with red eyes as the young queen merely stared back. "So who are you... the maid of this castle?" the woman asked as she cocked her right eyebrow ever so slight. Seras blinking, narrowed her gaze to this very cocky woman. "Who are you, food for the king of this castle?" the queen sneered back gaining a full on glare from the woman before her who remained sitting against the dog statue. "so tell me, why is a human allowed onto this domain, I thought the master of this land didn't fraternize with his food... uh..." Seras heard the figure slowly draw to a stop behind her and emit the cruel signature chuckle. "harassing our guest are we, dear Seras?" Alucard's voice seemed to make Seras's petite form shiver, yet her blue eyes continued to stare forward as the woman having heard the man speak Seras's name, stumbled hard to her own set of feet.
"Seras... hold it! you're Seras? As in the Queen of Dracula... that man behind you... oh shit..." Seras eyes the suddenly surprised and very uneasy woman watch them both with what seemed disbelief. With a weak laugh, the woman nodded her head in a weak attempt of salvaging and last bit of formality as she gave a very weak grin. "Uh... my apologies... um..." to Seras's surprise, the young woman blushed a deep crimson to the near exact shade as to Alucard's coat. A light loud ring of laughter flew from behind the two vampires making Seras turn sideways while Alucard remained standing there, peering forward at the still very bright red woman. Seras though froze as her eyes grew wide to whom she saw standing there just a few feet from Alucard. Red eyes as well as golden fell upon Seras's blue. Ty grinning, cocked one ear up into the night air as he stood there in his formal black slacks and tank top with his metal arm fully exposed, he looked like a fish out of water in the odd clothing.
Standing beside the wolf stood Zuranna. Her long dark blue hair hung tied up into a horse tail behind her as the American undead queen wore common blue jeans that held on each upper leg leather gun holsters holding a set of rather well sized hand guns. Upon her upper body, Zuranna wore a loose long sleeve cream white shirt that was covered by a thin elegant black trench coat baring a simple tan collar. With a cigarette in her mouth, and wicked red eyes dancing with shear enjoyment and laughter. "Z... Zura!" Seras fully forgetting the other woman, Seras kicking up her feet made a few pebbles fly into the air as she with tears of joy brimming her eyes. Zuranna extending her arms gave a faint grunt as Seras laughing and crying at the same time collided heavily right into her old time friend and held on as if to never let go for all eternity.
Zuranna laughing loudly held her friend with the near same strength if not tighter due her being a true undead. Ty smirking watched the two, "oh what... yeah, I understand, no one loves the wolf, I'll just go into the corner and write bad p-" Zuranna laughing outright withdrew her left arm from Seras's form and swiftly dragged the surprised wolf into a three way hug. Seras didn't care, with the clear tears sliding down her face, Seras held both of them, taking in their scent, taking in the feeling of her friends being so close. "It's been... to long... far to long..." Seras's muffled voice spoke within the two bodies of Zuranna and Ty as they chuckling, pulled away. The young queen of Alucard, sniffing, wiped her eyes feebly onto her sleeves as she with a smile upon her lips, couldn't take her eyes off of her friends. Zuranna chuckling, nodded her head to Seras as her own eyes shined more then usual. "I agree... fifteen years is way to long to have a reuniting of friends, oh and old bat, try to not scare my daughter to much, she I do not believe knows of your cruel sadistic nature." Smirked Zuranna as Seras blinking, looked over at the woman who had remained standing there and weakly watching Alucard.
"Hold it... that's Alexial?" Seras murmured as she glanced back to Zuranna who smiling more like a proud mother now, chuckled lightly. "yes... Alexial, come over here... ignore that old bat, he's not important whatsoever." The American laughed as Alucard, clearly not amused, gave a slight sideways glance over his shoulder to Seras, and in a blink, his entire form was swallowed into a dark swirling portal that soon after faded from sight. Seras sighing, smiled as she looked over to Alexial as the uneasy woman made her way over to the three. Not even meeting Seras's sapphire eyes, Alexial giving a shaky breath, grinned ever so weakly to her mother. Ty on the other hand outright laughed gaining both mother and daughter's gazes. Eyeing Alexial, the wolf grinned cheerfully, clearly enjoying her uncomfortable situation. "So... you still think Alucard is a snobby English blood sucker and Seras being his 'prissy' queen?" that just made Alexial go even redder in the face, yet still narrowing her eyes, the daughter of Zuranna flipped the cackling wolf off, and sighing, weakly looked over to Seras, yet still didn't meet full eye contact. But... why?
"Would you believe my daughter, as stubborn as she is, is no doubt intimidated by you and your king... I don't think she expected anyone like either of you." Chuckled Zuranna's light voice within Seras's mind making Seras weakly watch Alexial. "Uh guys... please tell me... what the hell is that?" hearing Ty's loud voice, Seras and Zuranna whipping around just froze. Seras recovering first as to realizing what was going on... began to outright laugh. With hoofs pounding on the ground hard, red eyes blazed forward with both long mane and tail flowing behind with such grace and beauty, yet... Zuranna's lips slowly curled into a small smirk. "Is that... Walter?" Ty whispered as he flicked his ears to the sides. "Why, I do believe it is..." chuckled Zuranna as upon the back of the demon horse... With a faint cry of agitation, a very wobbly man losing near all his dark composure and manner, straddled the horse's back as best he could. Gripping the leather rope tightly, Walter bore a very disgruntled look as he seemed to be hanging on for dear life.
With a demonic screech, Kujimara came to a violent skidding halt kicking plumes of dusts and rocks into the air right by the gather of vampires and single werewolf. Giving a loud whiny, the horse stomped his right front hoof digging a deep gouge into the pebbled ground beneath. A clear sign, as Walter stumbled off Kujimara's back, the horse clearly did not enjoy having another vampire ride his back. He only preferred his master and or his queen. With a slight high step to his gait, Kujimara snorting loudly, went right for Seras making Alexial fall back with a weary eye. Seras seeing this though, greeted Kujimara with a friendly pat on the demon horse's muscular muzzle as she gave a sideways glance to Alexial. To the side, Zuranna and Ty warmly greeted Walter and went to asking of where Integra was as the man carried in his left hand, two gold cuffs.
Meeting the red eyes with her blue, the young queen smiling, nodded faintly as she looking back to Kujimara's blazing red eyes, continued to pet him as Walter nearby responded to Ty's question of Integra's current whereabouts. "this is Kujimara, our main transport... or more so mine since twenty years ago when I became... well this." With a small laugh, Seras with her flat right hand resting fully onto Kujimara's muzzle, the young queen fully turned and faced Alexial having their eyes meet and stay met. "My name is Seras Victoria, and well, Alexial, welcome to the castle of darkness, I do hope you enjoy your stay here." Alexial heard Seras's light words, and the happiness she wore on her form due to the reuniting of old friends, but... Alexial saw it, deep in those what seemed so innocent blue eyes, a darkness, a darkness that had one time fully consumed her soul and body and now remained only within. It was such a darkness though, Alexial felt the shiver vibrate down her back as she hid her thoughts from this so innocent looking young queen.
She had felt the raw darkness dripping from that man, Dracula, he was overflowing with the dark energy to an extant that far exceeded her father's. And here she saw that same darkness to the same lengths of pure rawness hiding what seemed dormant inside those sapphire eyes. "Alexial?" hearing the concerned voice, Alexial being brought back from her thoughts, looked meekly right at the Seras who had spoken her name. Even with the look of concern in her eyes, Alexial could still see that darkness... smiling timidly, Alexial sighing nodded with apology on her very form. "Sorry... I did not mean to insult you... or your king." Alexial murmured as they both hearing words filled of fearful emotions, looked over and froze. Lurching violently down the path, lathered in blood, black swirls of raw black energy swirled where a right arm had rested, the black energy trying to reform into the lost limb. Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing stood there, her eyes shut from blood soaking near her entire face. Bullet wounds covered her as thickly as her own blood that lathered her body.
"Holy sh... what happened?" cried Seras as Walter with a very pale fearful face, ran to Integra whose legs folding under, crashed hard onto the ground splattering fresh blood all around. Zuranna falling back to Seras, watched with very worried eyes as Ty went and joined Walter's side into aiding the fallen Integra who gave faint groans of pain. Her right arm still consisted of mere black energy as the pain being to great, Integra just couldn't focus her thoughts of regeneration. Then again she and Walter were only twenty years old in the life of a vampire, and were just beginning to rise above intermediate and go near equal to that of the lesser no life kings and queens. "I know you cannot smell it Seras... but... Integra reeks of Maxwell's blood..." with a deep sigh, the two queen's of the two most powerful undead kings, traded uneasy glances. "I have very stressful words to pass onto you and Dracula, but before I do just that... Lets get Integra inside." Zuranna spoke as Walter giving a faint grunt, hefted Integra's unconscious form within his arms like that of a child before turning to fully face his other allies and friends with very worried eyes.
Seras nodding, sighed deeply, "Let me just gain more security for safety of our castle, as well as we'll gain more eyes to keep a look out..." running her tongue faintly over her suddenly very dry lips, Seras pursing her lips, gave a loud whistle that echoed through the very land that the castle rested upon. All around, her entire gathering of old friends and Alexial stared with wonderment and to a single young vampire no older then twenty years, fear shined in her red eyes. Those remaining as statues all over the forest and castle walls to the peaked rooftop, their eyes blazed a violent red. Alexial feeling a cold breath brush past her neck, the uneasy young vampire timidly turning around, went rigid as her red eyes became wide and all blood in her face, faded.
With a metallic black body, eight red eyes shined with malicious protection as the demonic dog came to life. Seras hearing Alexial's faint cry, turned around as to her other friends just staring in shock. The demonic dog's eight red eyes snapped right over to Seras, and only Seras who swallowing weakly, smiled to the demon servant. "Please forgive of your rude awakening, but keep these grounds safe." Seras spoke. Snapping its jaws violently allowing sparks to fly from its metal teeth, the statue grinding, rose to its feet and with a deep bow of its head, slinked past the group with near feline grace and headed off into the darkness as one of the few main guardians of this castle. Holding about the same amount of vamperic powers its master bore, the beast would not stop its given orders unless told to by its master or the masters queen.
"Lets move... hurry, we have a emergency blood storage hold inside." Losing all her cheerful composure as well as the innocent human charm, Seras led the group right for the massive front metal doors that wore the symbol of darkness. Alexial hanging in the back, weakly looked around as she saw through the darkness, many servants sitting there, their red eyes watching out at the sky and the grounds. Shivering ever so slight, Alexial stared forward as the doors grinding, slowly pulled open exposing a gaping maw of pure elegance within. The walls, floor and high arched ceiling was made of pure black marble with pillars evenly placed a close seven feet apart from the doorway and fading to the long hallway that seemed to go on forever. Chandeliers made of chrome black metal and gothic charm hung elegantly from both the walls and ceiling as they all held fairly decent sized blood red candles that carried their stiff tears of wax on their red bodies. With the flames flickering softly, on the floor ran a very soft blood red carpet that had the feel of Hollywood's red carpet. Yet, Alexial gave a weak grin, she knew better, this was not Hollywood, and if any human dared to followed this red carpet, death was their only reward.
"Oh my... guests... I thought they weren't going to show up until a week later, and not so covered in blood." Alexial now really did cry out and fall back behind her mother. The young man's voice belonged to another servant with red eyes made of nothing but pure red light. Ranging to a good six feet in height, this figure wasn't clothed at all, then again, he didn't need any. The black skeleton stood there with what seemed dust encrusted gray feathery wings hanging from his back as if to fragile and incapable of any sort of flight or movement for that matter. They looked like the very dust made up the wings and if you were touch, you would immediately guess the wings would just fall into a pile of ash. Standing there though, even if just bones, he did in fact wear a startled look as within his skeletal hands dangled two bags, one of fresh red candles, and the other with dead and unusable candles he had been gathering from all around.
Seras sighing watched this servant as urgency was upon her very form, "Yuki, get the blood ready within the right wing, we have a very injured vampire." Seras's voice spoke as small curls of the darkness slipped into her words. The skeleton taken aback, gave a weak nod, "My apologies, I shall get to it right away..." and with that as to a sharp turn on his boney heels, those dusty wings seemed to explode from his side as with a few running steps, the servant rising into the air, his very form faded in thin air leaving only a faint hint of dust particles swirling about. Seras turning sideways, stared at Walter as he held Integra's ravaged form, the dark energy her disemboweled joint spilled out, slinked over Walter in a form of some morbid embrace. Even if she was more human then anything, Seras knew time was short. Peering forward at the empty corridor, she drew in a slow deep breath and closing her eyes... began to call for a certain man in red.
Mere seconds slipped past before the wicked chuckle rumbled throughout the entire hallway making the candles flames flicker heavily. "You beckoned dear Seras?" Zuranna gave a small sideways glance to Alexial, trying to calm her daughter's shot nerves as before them in the form of darkness bleeding from all the flickering shadows, rose up Alucard's form with pure evil bleeding from his very body. Seras sighing looked to him with relief shining in her eyes. "Please... can you transport Integra to where Yuki will be, you can read my mind of what happened or whatever, but I do not wish to see Integra die in our home." Seras spoke as her voice grew strong and dark gaining a set of uneasy red eyes from Alexial as she watched the queen face this very evil king of all undead. Alucard giving his signature smirk of pure cruelty, the king looked right at his queen with evil amusement.
"Even after all this time, you still wish to save that woman..." Yet as soon as he finished his words, Walter giving a loud cry watched as Integra being cloaked by shadows, faded from sight as the master of those shadows also was gone. Walter was soon left standing there covered in his loves blood and still gripping the golden cuffs. Seras allowing a shaky breath of relief to pass through her lips, the young woman turning faced her friends with a small smile. "She'll be alright, but I cannot say how long it will take for her to mend... Integra was injured pretty bad, and not with normal weapons..." Seras murmured as she looked weakly to her slightly trembling hands, before he had left, Alucard had spoken into her mind... "You... owe me..." His sadistic words had reverberated throughout her entire body and soul causing Seras to shiver. Whenever he spoke like that... he always... Zuranna sighing, watched her friend with very uneasy eyes, "It's best now to tell you before we get all cheerful once more... Seras..." turning fully, both queen's faced each other as the others watched with weary eyes. Her red eyes showing a wall of seriousness, Zuranna took in a slow deep breath "Seras... Donovan thinks that Maxwell... found a way... to control Hakuyaoshi... as a mindless puppet... but that isn't what truly worries me... it's what Haku is..." Zuranna practically whispered the last few words making all watch her weakly.
Seras, wringing her suddenly very clammy hands together, watched her long time friend. "and... what exactly is Haku?" Seras spoke softly unsure if she wanted to know the answer. Zuranna giving a shaky breath, rubbed her weary eyes as she suddenly felt her age weigh down upon her shoulders. Just how was she going to explain this one?
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Me: (grins) I'm trying to make this story very interesting, many twists and turns are to happen!
Zuranna: Like they haven't already?
Me: (nods) that's true... well, keep up the reviews and more is always pormised to be on its way, until then, ciao!