Me: (nods) alright, I am trying to get all ideas within this story, but a few will and will not work... so just read and see... and of that fluff... I must admit, I'm not good at it, but I'm trying... thus this chapter shall be a long one.

Ty: Is that really a good thing?

Integra: (Laying in bed unconcious)

Me: ... anywho, hope you all like it, enjoy!

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"Donovan..."

"Hush..."

"But... Donovan..."

"Silence!" Donovan hissing the cold word, snapped his blazing golden red eyes through the gloomy darkness right for the single set of faintly glowing hazel eyes. "Silence is our main goal right now, how is she?" the owner of the hazel eyes, blinking, slowly looked down through the darkness no human could see through, there resting in the hazel eyes arms was a small human girl taking shallow breaths as both scrapes and bruises lathered her small form. The small simple jeans and red shirt she wore was covered in her blood as well as dirt and tears from getting caught on sharp objects. With a weak sigh, the hazel eyes nodded ever so slight as he looked back to Donovan. "She's... still alive... but in bad shape, Donovan... I'm sorry... I..." blinking the man's words were silenced as Donovan rested his hand upon the man's shoulder. "Calm down... just... calm down..." Donovan's mental voice faltered as the vampire hunching forward, gave a weak muffled groan as pain tore through his body.

The other figure worriedly watched the vampire king. He could smell his ally's poisoned blood spill onto the water damaged wooden floor beneath them. the faint roar of gunfire echoed far off making two furry ears rise on end on both sides of the other man's head. His hazel eyes shined hard to the narrow but long stairway that led upstairs to the ground level where a battle was taking place. "Shit... Arram, find your father, Jonathan... take the child with you..." hearing the sound that reminded Arram to much of dry leaves being crushed slowly, the werewolf glancing over, froze. Donovan having at some point fallen to his knees, wore crimson tears that slipped down his face as the one time pale soft flesh was beginning to dry out and crack allowing fresh blood to spill out. "wha... Donovan!"

"Stay back... if my blood touches you... you'll become just like... me..." Donovan's body suddenly convulsed as violent watery coughs tore through his entire form. Blood sloshing out from his parted jaws, collided heavily onto the already near drenched ground making Arram fall back as he clutched the small child within his arms. "Do not fear... this poison... is temporary... to us undead royals... but... it's making me go dormant... I will become useless to you in a matter of minuets..." Donovan's stern voice echoed through Arram's mind as the American undead still hacked loudly making more blood to spill out while his eyes were tightly shut. "D... Donovan..." Whispered Arram. With a loud coughing yell, Donovan forced his violently glowing golden red eyes open making them burn right onto Arram's own set. Dry large flecks of flesh began to slosh off of the vampire's face exposing glistening bone and muscle tissue giving him a true demonic look.

"Get... out... of here... find your father... and send a messenger... to Zuranna... go, get... out of here! Do not... let Maxwell.. get a hold... of that child!" hearing the man's voice mutate as the innards deep within his body were drying out, Arram with fearful hazel eyes and ears bent flat onto his head, turned and ran up the narrow stairway with the child in his arms. Donovan watching the wolf leave, gave a weak sigh as lockjaw began to take hold. With the look more of a corpse then a living figure, Donovan grumbling in annoyance, began to lose all motion in his form. 'well... you got smart 'Maxwell', lacing your soldiers with silver in their blood... very... smart...' with those last thoughts going through his undead mind, Donovan's legs grinding, shattered from the weight allowing his body to crash hard onto the wood blood soaked ground. Soon enough after his legs folded under even more, Donovan collapsed into a deep slumber as his body began to reset itself from the silver poisoning he had drained from a solider of Maxwell's.

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"And... what exactly is Haku?"

Seras sighing softly sat there within the courtyard of wild tall grasses in a field as large as two football fields if not larger. The young queen sat though right on the three foot tall and one and a half foot wide black marble fountains edge that rested in the dead center of the courtyard. The fountain itself was a fairly large gathering of a red liquid that pooled through a vamperic illusion that consisted of a simple pond of blood, the blood passing through such an illusion, spilled into the underground blood waterfalls around Alucard's rose garden. Within the center of the gathered red liquid, a risen black marble pedestal laid in the center as upon the black marble stood a eight foot tall figurine of a chrome black skeleton dragon on its hind legs and tattered wings held outward, one forepaw flared outward ready to attack as its other forepaw held a scythe with a well sharpened metal silver blade as the red liquid pooled from its eyes, skull and bones in general.

As Seras sat there, her fatigued and worried eyes watched the timid layer of fog no deeper then half a foot, gently roll around through and over the tall grass and wild plants. All around fairly decent sized weeping willows rested cloaking their small patches of wild grasses and plants with their embracing soft branches lathered in the finest of green leaves. the entire courtyard was surrounded by the castle and a outdoor hallway held up with black marble pillars laced with soft green ivy as within the exposed hallway, a few more doors were scattered around and stain glass windows hung above on the touring castle that encased the courtyard. High above, there rested in the sky half cloaked in gentle giant rolling clouds and the other half of exposed clear star filled night sky, the full moon shined brightly down sending faint beams of the haunting but beautiful moon's glow down onto the lands below.

Sighing slowly, Seras resting her bent left elbow onto her left folded upper leg. The young queen placed her chin into her upturned open palm as her mind raced. All that had happened the other night, Integra's severe injuries, Zuranna's information. Zuranna's... narrowing her eyes, Seras watched as far off on the rim of the courtyard, Yuki was stalking the outdoor covered hallway and making sure the icy on the pillars were not causing to much damage from their embracing roots. The skeleton servant of both abilities to that of a flying human with small vamperic talents to that of a ghost being capable of going through near every substance and fading from sight, when he got annoyed with a certain strand of ivy, he flicked his wings ever so slight, yet... Seras blinking, saw the servant stand erect and with a silent bow of his head, the servant backing up to the wall, phased through and was gone in a matter of seconds. Smiling slightly, Seras went back to watching the rolling fog that caressed her feet. With Maxwell returning...the wars would begin. "And just when... I thought... we finally could take a break..." The words slipped past her soft lips as the sorrow clung to Seras's soul.

Hearing the muffled steps stalk through the fog, Seras blinking, peered up seeing him come to a slow elegant stop before her with no more then five feet between them both. With the fog swirling around his brown boots with silent agitation of his disruption, Alucard stood there. Neither cloaked in his hat or shades, and with his ebony hair glistening in the moons shine, hung behind him with a soft touch. Wearing a face of dark content as only a faint flicker of darkness was curled within his eyes, the small smile resting on his own lips was only that, dark. A one of many sights to remind Seras as she stared at him, how much this man; this king meant to her. As this thought crossed her young mind, Seras's want grew as well as her sorrow of what to do now, of not knowing.

The vampire gave a gentle yet very deep chuckle drawing Seras back from her worries and thoughts. "the answer is simple enough dear Seras, we fight." The vampire king spoke the harsh words as a faint breeze kicked up making a few tendrils of his ebony hair to rise and dance as if agreeing with their master. Seras though with a few of her own blond locks drifting in the breeze, blinking, watched him as the pain grew within her chest, recalling all the bloodshed from the past twenty years. The wars, both European and other aiding armies being massacred just by the hands of Alucard, humans rebelling, not believing, the death of the American president from Donovan's hands, and... the pain. Throughout those twenty years of bloodshed, rarely did Seras and Alucard ever have a moment to themselves for more then one or two nights. "Fight... why do we have to keep fighting, I'm sick of it, can't we ever just, try to live a normal life?" Seras cried as she bit the lump of sorrow back, forcing it down from her throat into her chest making the pressure rise. Alucard chuckling, watched her as the moon's light made his blood red eyes shine with a eerie glow. "Live a normal life? My dear, being an undead, this is a normal life, bloodshed and war is our neighbors, and Hell as our guardian..."

"But I don't want to fight anymore!" Seras couldn't hold in her loud cry as the tears shining in the moons touch, slid down her face as her bottom lip faintly trembled. Her blue eyes stared forward right into Alucard's as she rising her chin from her palm, rested both feet solidly on the ground with her tightly clenched fists on either side of her stiff form, Seras rose swiftly to her feet from the perch on the fountain as she had spoken her loud sad words. "I'm sick of it all... I don't want to fight any more, and I don't care if it is my humanity, I want it to stop, I-" Seras fell silent as Alucard in a blink, was suddenly right in front of her, his cool fingers resting so gently upon the underside of her chin, forcing her tear shedding blue eyes onto his own red as he no longer bore any sign of a smile upon his lips. "do not let your fear grasp your soul, that will become your very downfall." The man's words softly whisper over Seras's face as she faintly trembling, continued to feel the tears slip down her face. "Al..." with a weak whimper, Seras hanging her head, heavily pressed her forehead onto Alucard's broad chest as his fingers slipped from underneath her chin. "I... I'm sorry... I just... want it to stop... I..."

Seras's loud cries were muffled as she wept within Alucard's chest, her clear tears soaking into the soft material of his black clothing cloaked by his red trench coat. Lifting her hand up to just beneath her chin, Seras finding loose folds of the cloth, gripped them tightly to that of a child cradling a stuffed animal for comfort after a heavy fright. She was scared, no... Seras was terrified, she didn't want to see more names be engraved on that cross... she didn't want to see any more suffering from those she knew and cherished. The girl's form flinched as a pair of very strong slender arms slinked over her form in a dark yet oddly comforting manner. "if we must, we will fight, but if we all fight properly and not like blind fools. There shall be no new names on that cross." Alucard's dark voice rumbled from his chest right into Seras's body as she slowly loosened her grip on his clothing. Seras's small cries began to fade as she silently wept within his embrace.

Seeing her ebbing sorrow, Alucard gave a small dark chuckle allowing the laughter to embrace her with the aid of his arms and darkness. "Do not become afraid, we are those that deliver fear, not those who gain it, understand this, my queen?" Alucard crooned onto the top of Seras's mat of blond hair gaining a small wet smile from her lips as she weakly rubbed her tear covered face onto his chest in a feeble attempt to both nuzzle and clean her face of the salty clear liquid. "I... understand..." Seras whispered into his chest, yet Alucard heard as his dancing red eyes stared down at his small queen. Having lost her vamperic powers and with no immortal link for a while, she had actually grown into the age of twenty three years and gained a few inches as well as her blond hair no longer with its childish charm, was also a bit longer and made her truly hold the grace of a young woman then the gentle but very timid teen he had changed from what seemed so long ago.

Seras fully relaxing her fists, slinked her bent lower arms onto his chest feeling no breath nor heartbeat. Pressing her entire front onto his body with just enough force, Seras felt his body warmth bleed onto her own form. Even if undead and baring no pulse or need for breath, Alucard was still very warm to the touch. Resting the right side of her face on the soft material, Seras felt one or two buttons rest on the edge of her face. Alucard's embrace drew tighter around her own, to Seras, she had no idea why, but... To Alucard. His eyes were drawn half shut as a faint dark glaze hung over them with memories haunting his mind drawing forth a human emotion he had been reunited with near twenty years ago from more then one event in his life with Seras Victoria. An emotion that was strong enough to even tame the monster within his cruel and dark soul.

Alucard smashed the feeding vampire from the screaming woman. With blood flying against the blazing flames, the man in black seemed to fade from sight as Alucard uncaring of that duplicate's location, fell to his right knee hard by the woman who was soaked in her own blood. Seras coughing heavily weakly lifted her fading gaze to the red eyes that looked down at her. The girl felt her throat was mangled and barely mending, she felt her life was slipping... she was dying. With a heavy cough, blood slipped down her face from the corners of her mouth as sad red eyes looked to the man kneeling beside her. "A... Alucard... I..." her feeble voice was barely audible and watered down from the blood filling her lungs. "Seras..." Alucard spoke in a dark tone as his eyes watched her own. The girl smiled sadly as she rising her trembling hand upward, planted her cold blood soaked palm onto the man's left cheek as the blood tears fled from the corners of her eyes. "I... good... b-"her eyes going wide became a foggy grey and with a strangled gurgle, Seras's arm going limp fell to the ground heavily, spraying the blood soaked mud into the air. Alucard kneeling there beside his fallen chosen queen felt her life fade, her soul leaving her body... the man gave to a slow shaky breath as he understood... Seras Victoria was dead...

The rain falling heavily still, began to cleanse the blood soaked ground, washing away the signs of the war from what seemed so long ago. Yet within the pounding rains, steam clearing more, exposed a man covered in black ash clinging to his fallen queen.

As the rain fell onto the man's form, the black ash began to slowly wash away exposing red cloth. For the first time of anyone ever knowing Alucard, the ones who had never seen his true form, and now... for the first time in their time of knowing this vampire, a man supposedly cruel and heartless, having been dubbed by near all who knew him; a monster... be it silent and muffled by the pouring rain, those who were nearby, saw the shimmer of the red tears slipping down the man's pale face as shaky breaths muffled from the pounding rains were faintly heard. Alucard was crying; he was crying for his fallen love.

"A... Al... Alucard... I can't... I can't breath..." Blinking, Alucard's dark vision clearing, relaxed his arms greatly allowing Seras to fall back as she coughing weakly, tempted in trying to fill her lungs with the needed breath for life. Immortal she may be, but the young lady still needed to breath. With a brisk wipe of her left sleeve to her face to clear away any left over tears, Seras looked up into the blazing pools of blood red eyes attached to a near emotionless face, only his eyes swirled with a deep unreadable emotion. Eyeing him, Seras gave Alucard a timid uneasy smile. "What is wrong... why did you do that?" Seras asked as a small light yet shaky laugh passed her lips as she continued to watch her king that stood before her like a lone wolf in the moon's tender embrace of soft light. The emotion swirling within his eyes seemed to fade as a slow curl of a sadistic smile began to claim his lips causing his red eyes to reclaim their wicked cold dance from deep within. "Zuranna is seeking you out and I must hunt..." the man spoke as shadows began to engulf his form. "Huh... wait... please... is everything alright?" Seras asked as his body began to fade from sight leaving his cruel dark laughter to echo around her like a dark caress onto her soul. "everything is fine, just fine..." his last few dark words faded on a light breeze as he himself was out of sight leaving a very startled and confused, but very relaxed and at peace, queen of all undead.

Seras sighing, turned and headed for one of the nearby entry points into the castle as she took his words to heart, Zuranna sought her out and yet... Seras smiled weakly to herself as she slipped by the dark metal door to one of the many corridors of the castle. When she would find Zuranna, she would ask her old friend of what Alucard's odd emotion filled eyes were all about and to find out of Integra's current condition. 'fine...' Seras mentally sighing, made her way through the massive castle proving to her many times throughout the twenty years of living here. If any humans ever were to get into the castle, there would be no way of finding the location to Alucard's resting chambers, the entire castle was such a bloody maze. It took Seras five months of trying to find her way and merely ended up getting lost twenty four seven.

With a weak laugh, Seras actually felt her face flush from the very embarrassing memories. She had gotten lost so many times, she had to keep calling Alucard from his be it battles, feeding, or sleeping to come rescue her. The most amusing though was when Seras to damn tired and just could not for the life of her find the stairway that led down into the many corridors underground where Alucard's chamber rested. She gave up soon enough and fell asleep right by the front doors inside the castle seeing near almost all the hallways led back to that location. Seras though when she awoke, found Alucard with deep shadows underneath his red eyes and a very annoyed and fatigued look, looming right over her and without any words spoken, plucked Seras from the ground just to phase into his chambers and dunk her into his coffin. With him no doubt clearly just as fatigued as she, Seras had cried out loudly as he collapsed onto her body and was out cold for the rest of the daylight hours leaving a now wide awake Seras with a beet red face underneath him and not knowing what to do then. She never really did outright ask when he found her seeing she had awoken to see him standing right by her, or if he was truly annoyed with her getting lost all the time.

Drawing back from her memories and returning to her current thoughts from this night, Seras chuckled as she saw Yuki nearby manning to more replacing of candles. '... let us fight. I promise you Alucard... I will not be afraid.' Seras thought as she turning a corner saw Zuranna heading her way and both queen's smiling, waved and drew together to chat happily. 'I will not be afraid...' Seras thought once more as she and Zuranna made their way down one of the many corridors.

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Me: Woot! I'm trying to keep this fic more so on the AS side, but the other characters both old and new shall come into play.

Ty: ...

So keep up the reviews, and comments of what you all think and I'll add more, till then, ciao for now!