Me: this is by far one ofthe longest chapters I've written, thus no doubt mistakes will be made within these words of dark fun...
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Me: ... anywho... Thank you again for all the reviews, I truly enjoy your kind words and helping me of my minor errors... but for now... enjoy!
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Deep below in the depths of unknown catacombs that held barely any light, bones of both fresh and old were still morbidly scattered all around within the water covered floor as recently ravaged human carcasses drifted about in the gently rushing waters. Water dripped in the darkness as chains dangling from the ceiling clicked softly in the alien breeze. Upon a small beam of faint sunlight breaking through a crack in the high ceiling, within the light that shimmered faintly onto the ground covered in two feet of water, the same single man stood with his back against the wall made of ancient bricks that was covered in a odd black moss. With his arms still chained above his head and a silver rune lathered steak in his chest, the man's blazing exposed left ice blue eye stared forward with pure anger and loathing burning within his eye while his right was still cloaked by the long banes of his black blond tipped hair.
Throughout the passing weeks, the catacombs became a lively underground base of monsters that one time looked like creatures of the darkness, now were nothing more but mutated monster puppets. Water sprayed heavily into the few beams of light as giant creatures to the size of buses fought over the remaining large amounts of decaying flesh making the pale chunks of flesh and muscle to splash onto the ground where monsters half the others sizes, scrambled for the easy meals without getting crushed. Hearing the dark chuckle, Haku's single eye snapped over to the solitary form of Maxwell as he slinked his way from the shadows. With a face now more of a zombie then anything, only his wicked murky yellowing eyes shone his true nature as he grinning, exposed rotting away teeth. "Impressed, No? they are rather marvelous... I am so glad the Vatican's underground research wasn't fully lost in the fires twenty years ago..."
"When I get free... I am going to rip your heart out..." Maxwell slowly blinking his rotting away transparent eyelids, glanced over so leisurely to Haku as the form Director bore a cold grin on his rotting face. "free? My dear boy, when you are 'free' you will be like them..." nodding to the mutated monsters cloaked in shadows with only their many sets of glazed glowing red eyes exposed in the darkness, Maxwell chuckled watery due to his innards also rotting away. Soon even his capability to talk physically would collapse as would the rest of his body, he would become nothing more but a mere immobile skeleton with his damned soul trapped within the ivory bones.
Haku spitting hard onto the watery ground, growled deeply showed his fanged teeth. "I will never become yours... I'm a Hellsing!" Haku just stared with loathing malice as Maxwell began to outright cackle as he cruelly looked to Haku. "You... no, the human that body once catered to was a Hellsing... you are not, or have you forgotten; demon exile?" the rotting man sneered making Hakuyaoshi's eyes retract. "shut it you rotting corpse..." the vampire growled making Maxwell's sneer merely grow even more. "So... you do not deny it, then that means... it's true..." with his shaggy shoulders cloaked in clothing to that of a homeless, Maxwell chuckled coldly as he narrowed his eyes onto the man he kept imprisoned. Nearby more of the smaller monsters began to fight over the scraps as the larger beasts skulked off into the darkness. "You are a demon from Hell, exiled for unknown reasons... so how did a monster like you consume that human's soul, a bribe, a threat?" the man chuckled. Haku snapping his jaws began to give off a faint fiery red glow over his very form as he stared at this man; this monster.
Maxwell seeing this, his cruel eyes danced wickedly with pleasure of this man's anger and unable to do anything. Crossing his arms over his rotting chest, resting in Maxwell's right hand hung a thick half inch collar made of black metal with mechanics whirring inside. "What... is that?" growled Haku as his aura began to grow even more violent with the rune lathered steak beginning to blaze in rebellion to its prisoner's struggles. Maxwell lifting a eyebrow, smirked as he eyed the device. "oh this, nothing to important... it merely keeps my servants in line, as well as shall we say... certain demons who should learn their place." Maxwell began to full out laugh as Haku yelling began to struggle hard against his imprisonment. Sloshing water violently around his thrashing feet, Hakuyaoshi blazed with a fiery fury both upon his body and within his single exposed eye.
"Now... please, be a good little servant, and... Freeze!" with a faint amber glow cloaking his own form, Maxwell didn't even move as Haku with a strangle yell of savage fury, was thrown hard into the wall shaking a few broken bits of brick down into the cold water below at their feet as a few servants having heard the commotion, stared at them both. Chuckling deeply, Maxwell eyed Haku as the man continued to glare at the rotting man. "You have been asleep for over a near thousand years, you've gotten weak demon... but you have yet to answer my question, how did you gain that human's body?" the man crooned as he turning, stared fully at his servants that chittering or growling weakly, fell back within the murky water. "I... will never tell you..." Haku growled deeply as Maxwell gave a simple sideways stare to the pinned down man. "Fine... then let me guess... I read in the old text of Hellsing, the brother of Donovan Hellsing had fallen ill with a fatal virus during his times of hunting down the undead.. but that very human who didn't want to die, made a deal..." turning his head, Maxwell's murky eyes fully locked onto Haku's single icy eye. "... with an exiled demon from Hell."
"Silence you miserable excuse of undead!"
"No... seeing it has pushed a certain hate inside of you, mind showing me then your demon eye... I hear it's quite frightful." Sneered Maxwell as he turning his entire form, faced Haku as the vampire glared solely at the man before him with his exposed eye while the other remained hidden behind his long hair. Saying nothing though, Hakuyaoshi growled deeply as a faint red glow began to appear through the long hairs concealing his right eye. Seeing this, Maxwell's cruel grin just grew even more. "so you do have a demonic eye, the only visible sign of your true self when in that form, this is getting even better... the perfect weapon against that monster Alucard... seeing the bitch decided to join the undead then finish them off, I shall do so for her, and you are going to help me whether you like it... or not..." unfolding his arms over his chest, Maxwell gripping the metal collar, began to advance for the very enraged Hakuyaoshi as the runes on the steak began to blaze once more.
Baring his fangs viciously, Haku's form suddenly blazed as if on fire with brilliant red flames as a loud yell slammed from his parting jaws. The steak glowing a blinding white began to groan and crack to the sound of ice in a hot liquid. Haku's powers were becoming to much for the very thing that had enslaved him so long ago. All the nearby mutated servants fell back giving frightful screams and bellows. With the feeling of invisible blankets of lead falling onto everyone's forms, many servants crouched onto the watery ground, unable to move as violent bolts of continuous red light thrashed throughout the catacombs as Hakuyaoshi, finding full motion in his joints... lunged.
Maxwell, before gaining any more seconds to act or think. The man was savagely lifted from the ground letting the water dripped heavily from his drenched lower legs as his soft rotting throat was tightly clutched within Haku's clawed hands. Haku with his enraged face looking right up at Maxwell's own rotting, the long hair once concealing his right hair, fell to the side exposing a solid glowing red eye that held a turquoise slit pupil within burning with a savage fury like Hell itself. "you want to see my demon eye, then look into it, look damn you!" Haku's voice yelled echoing violently off of the catacombs walls as the vampire shook Maxwell's near limp form within his tightly clutched hand. The vampire's sharp claws began to slip through the flesh like that to a half rotted tomato making Maxwell's rugged form struggle as the man kept his eyes tightly shut. He knew exactly how dangerous that demon eye was. Then again, he also took into account... Haku was distracted. With a flash of metal and feeling a cold tight pressure clamp onto his neck.
Maxwell gave a slushy cry as his body crashed hard into the cold waters. Yet paying no heed to a few lumps of his pale blue flesh drifting through the murky water, Maxwell urgently looked up at Haku who with his hair concealing both his eyes, stumbled back hard as his clawed hands scratched and tugged violently onto the collar that curled around his neck with a tight near choking embrace. "What the fuck is this... get this- GYEAHHH!" Maxwell's uneasiness melted as soon as he heard the man's painful wail and the sound of faint whirring emerged from the collar. Coughing heavily, with a lump rising like phlegm into his cold mouth, Maxwell parting his jaws let the tongue sized lump of ill maroon meat slosh and disappear within the waters gentle current. Seeing this, the man narrowing his murky eyes, groaned as he wearily rose to his feet. Time was running out for his organic form before being turned fully into a skeleton prison.
Pushing his worries to the side, the homeless dressed Maxwell turning slowly, fully faced Hakuyaoshi as the man stood there with his faintly twitching clawed hands hanging on either side of his form. With no pupil inside his single exposed icy blue eye, blood slid down the vampire's neck from the small needles that had embedded themselves within the man's neck and nervous system filling Haku's blood with a silver laced elixir made from the Vatican twenty years ago. The elixir itself was meant to be used against Hellsing's own servant, Alucard, and aid into his destruction, but... Maxwell watched the vampire that was now under his control. With the demon eye on his side, Alucard would fall before this year was over.
Haku's mind though was aware of all things going on, Maxwell knew this all to well, but he also knew, even if so, Haku's very body now was under the command of him. Chuckling deeply feeling his decaying lungs clog his throat so slight once more awaiting to be expelled, Maxwell stared at his new recruit. "I am glad you are now being a silent and obedient servant... but you are needed now... I cannot have you attack Alucard quite yet... no..." Chuckling, Maxwell continued to watch his new servant with cold and joyous eyes as his mind worked. "It seems to me... Alucard is still very fond of his little human yet immortal queen... yet she too will have to wait, but soon enough she shall be retrieved and become my own queen once more, but... Seeing that basturd brother of yours kept the main ingredient to our victory from me... that will be out first goal..."
"In... gre... diant?" Haku's very weak voice spoke making Maxwell smirk as he looked at this vampire, he swore he could feel the man try and fight from within. It was useless though, once injected, that collar begins to fuse with its host making it a full slave within days, weeks if not months depending on the will of the host. "yes, ingredient... a small girl; Integra thought she was the last Hellsing, but that child is truly the last human Hellsing out there now seeing Integra was changed... to keep my body in a organic state, I must use Hellsing blood from that of a human and mix it with a few other items so that I do not fall apart... so... you're a vampire, read my mind, gain the necessary information and get going, I grow weaker by the day.. now... serve your master!" Maxwell cackled as he felt Haku's enraged but forced mind, dig deeply into Maxwell's own for the needed information and within seconds... Hakuyaoshi faded from sight as Maxwell stumbling, leaned hard against the brick wall nearby where the undead was once confined.
The shine of victory glinted in his murky eyes as the man baring his rotting teeth, chuckled as he felt the watery chunks of rising innards slosh up his throat. Even if he was almost a mere skeleton, he would return to a full undead... oh the power he felt for those few minuets from Alucard when he had drained that vampire of his powers, the very cravings that man had... the sadistic yet very protective cravings Alucard held to a certain young woman who had one time been his mere fledgling. Whatever Alucard felt and craved, Maxwell had the exact for those few moments of being the undead king of all vampires. Then that wench, Seras, made him lose it all, made him lose everything and become this... corpse. With a dark growl, Maxwell's dark mind raced long and hard, yes... when the time came, she would get what she deserves from what she did to him. Shuddering with the lustful joy of anticipation, Maxwell with a weak groan, leaned to the side and began to hack up the now useless innards.
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"So... she's the last of the Hellsing... she will not stay here because of that... Maxwell will surly come to retrieve her."
"Then where do we take her, she's just a child!"
Murmurs of five voice began to mix into one as golden and hazel eyes traded uneasy glances with those of a single set of silver and gold. Standing there within a old graveyard overgrown with wild grasses and tall weeds, five tall figures with their near full forms cloaked by shadows, stood in a oddly formed circle as there sleeping in the center unaware of anything, slept the little human child. Sighing, ebony wolf ears on a young woman, flicked irately about as her golden eyes narrowed to the child. "in any case she cannot stay here... it took me five years to finally hide my domain from all human eyes and I will be damned if it were found by that freak of nature..." Deborah whispered as Jonathan with his hazel eyes watched his queen with concerned as his mat of blond hair rustled in the slight cold breeze exposing two blond wolf ears that hung back with weariness. Arram stood nearby watching both his mother and father as to the right stood both Deborah's and Jonathan's old friends with hard eagle like eyes.
Jonathan and Thom had so long ago been humans themselves and got tangled in the wars with the creatures of darkness through the aid of both their curiosity and Deborah herself. In the end of it all, or rather before the main wars began to rise, the two men lost their human links to those they had fallen for. A Italian Wolf queen and a rouge griffin capable of going into a human like form, Kitanne. Yet because they had once been human, unlike when being turned to a vampire, they still had one thing, a marker you may call it that showed their original positions in life. Jonathan kept his hazel eyes while Thom. The man no longer wearing a bushy beard, held a finely etched face as he still looked to be in his mid forties, Thom's last human trait was the color of his hair. Instead of like all metallic griffins such as Kitanne who their hair color was exact to their eye color. Thom with golden eyes, kept his mat of grey hair giving him a elegant but slightly odd appearance.
With a few crickets chirping loudly nearby, the tall weeds and wild grasses rustled all around from a faint breeze and small creatures stalking through looking for the musical food. The sky being filled with thick clouds kept the light down to a very dark degree leaving the five safely hidden within the blanket of cold darkness.
Blinking, Kitanne's silver eyes on a hard yet soft and pale face turned and looked full at Deborah making the two woman trade glances. "She's a Hellsing, so.. .return her to the Hellsing who thrives in New York." The griffin's voice spoke as she flexed her hands ever so slight making a few bones crack softly within her pale flesh. Arram's eyes looked at her with a small smile on his lips, yet that was swiftly shot down. "That would work... but Integra has gone missing about a few days ago." Jonathan spoke as he itched his neck uneasily with clawed hands. Thom blinking, watched his old friend, and gave a faint smile. "What I heard was that she and Walter have gone to Dracula's castle..." the five suddenly flinched as the coming darkness was falling onto them like a unseen fog of pure darkness unlike true evil that Alucard carried.
"shit... lets split up, I will not have Maxwell find where we live... Kitanne, you know I ask very little from you my friend..." Deborah started yet fell silent as the woman merely grinned with a dark glint in her silver hawk eyes. "no need... I shall take the child to Dracula's castle... but it's best we all do not stick around like mice in a open field for easy pickings... Thom." Turning her sharp gaze onto her mate who stood there near a bit taller then she and having the near same harsh look glint in his own golden hawk like eyes. No longer human himself, Thom had turned into a griffin much like Kitanne, with a rouge attitude to follow. "The darkness is drawing closer..." the burly man spoke as he continued to stare at Kitanne who nodding looked quickly back to her friend and allies. "Fine... get out of here wolves, this human is on our shoulders now, we can out fly anything." Her sharp voice matching the extent of her hawk eyes, Kitanne locked her eyes solely onto Deborah who giving a deep look of relief and apology, nodded to her friend. "Thank you Kit... return to our domain when you have delivered that child." The wolf queen spoke as Arram was already shifting into his small young adult wolf form with his father turning and looking to Thom whose own body began to grind and shift.
"please.. be safe Thom, we're dealing with things far older then us former humans..." the young man spoke softly as within Thom's place stood a very large griffin whose body was cloaked still in the nights darkness. Golden eyes blazing, the griffin nodded to Jonathan who began to shift his own body while his old friend and former chief and boos tenderly picked up the child within his huge forepaws lathered in metallic claws. Within seconds three wolves fled into the darkness as two huge winged beasts took to the cold air with one of them carrying a small bundle.
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Seras with a weak sigh stood there in the simple guest room Integra was being housed within. With the entire room having both black walls and ceiling of marble, the ground was concealed by the ravishing red carpet as the bed sheets to the queen sized bed matched. A single chandelier hung from the ceiling giving a soft glow onto the pale face of Integra Hellsing as she laid underneath the sheets. To a human eye, she looked like a dead corpse, but to Seras, she was alive and thankfully mending from her severe wounds. Feeling a dull throb, Seras rising her left hand up, began to tenderly rub her very sore throat as last nights memories were still fresh in the young queen's mind making her face flush. Alucard... had rather surprised her with his recent and continuous actions whenever he was around her... but the question was, why now? Was it because of Maxwell, or something else?
Hearing a faint murmur nearby, Seras glancing over saw both Ty and Alexial sleeping on the ground with their backs against the wall and their heads lean inward resting onto each other for support. Walter slept nearby within a elegant yet simple wooden chair beside Integra's beside with his head near her own, his hand having at some point slinked underneath the covers to grasp his loves hand. Smiling slightly, Seras turning, began to head for the door to leave her friends and allies to sleep peacefully.
Walking alone down one of the many empty corridors that flickered with waning flames as dawn approached, Seras's faint footsteps tapped softly all around with a whispering echo. Her mind racing from all the information, she couldn't get it out of her mind of what had happened the night before, Alucard... Maxwell... all of it... "Are you alright Lady Seras?" flinching at the title she rather wanted to do without, Seras looking over saw Yuki standing there with a concerned look upon his skeletal face as within his hands rested a blood canister that had been Yuki's master's for well over fifty years. A canister even Seras had drank out of when she was still a true undead. Smiling softly, the young queen nodded to the servant, "I'm fine... just stressed out." She murmured, Yuki blinking, which was rather odd as he had eyes made of red light that merely dimmed whenever he had to 'blink'. The servant watched her still. "Stressed... if I may not be so bold to ask... is it because the Blood Moon has come unto these lands?" the servant questioned making Seras just stare at him with a odd look. "Blood moon?" the young woman asked. Nearly dropping the canister to the ground, with a few attempts of juggling it in his boney hands, Yuki gaped at his young master other then his true master Lord Dracula. With a faint sound of a throat clearing, Yuki smiled weakly to Seras "never mind me... forget I even asked..." and with that the servant began to walk off.
Seras just standing there with a dumbfounded look upon her face, turned and followed the servant with her uneasy blue eyes. "What is Blood Moon?" The queen asked making Yuki freeze in place yet refused to turn around and face her. "Blood Moon... if you so wish to find out, it's best you ask your king... I have no right to explain it for I am not a true undead... now if you will please excuse me Lady Seras..."
"It's Seras, just Seras!" yet Seras seeing Yuki fade from sight into thin air, the young queen gave a grumble of confusion that added to her already stressed out heart. Stuffing her hands roughly into her pockets and with shoulders hunched forward and annoyance, Seras slinked off once more down the hallway with another thing upon her mind... Blood Moon, whatever the hell that was.
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Me: (waves) Yo, so far so good, but no doubt you readers of mine shall see the mistakes I've missed... no matter... more will come as always promised though quick heads up... I am going to become very busy after this coming saturday and updating may slow down, but it will continue, that I promise you all... well till then, keep up the reviews, ciao for now!
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