Me: Alrighty... my time yet has been choked up with work... Ack! But it soon will, So I'm trying to make each chapter now very long!

Kunisaku: (flicks ear) So tell me... Will I ever make another appearance?

Donovan: (nods) Same here...

Me: ... Yes... all the old characters will appear once more... this story is going to be odd and deep if all goes smoothly and to all who has reviewed... thank you all, it makes me so happy, and yes, Thom and Jonathan being humans once themselves do indeed care of their former kind... and of the Hellsing child... you'll have to wait and see of her when we all though Integra was the last... but for now... enjoy!

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Alexial sighing deeply, stood there once more in the single tower her mother had flown from. Having seen it empty, the young vampire timidly rested her body onto the windowsill her mother had sat upon the night before. Her red concerned eyes looked out at the night sky as with a faint rumble in the distant cloudy sky, the night sky ripped open letting loose the glistening streamers of the cool spring rain. With her left hand subconsciously rummaging around in her black coats pockets, Alexial's red eyes watched the few bolts of lightening dance through the dark clouds. Her mind was racing with worry and concern, Alexial had never seen her mother so pale and worried before in her twenty years of life. Seeing such a reaction from her mother even made Alexial worry. With a faint flash of lightening far off making the sopping wet castle shine like a reflective beacon, the lights shine made Alexial's red eyes seemingly glow for a mere second as the young woman continued to stare out at the roaring night sky. 'mother... father... please be safe...'

Blinking, Alexial narrowing her eyes to focus past the pouring rains, saw three figures flying hard and uneasily through the air. "what the..."

"guests... it looks like..."

Alexial jumping, stumbled hard from the windowsill as to not fall off. With her legs scrambling wildly to gain proper footing, Alexial finding footing at last, hunched forward to calm her panicked undead chest as her reds eyes glancing through her ebony blue tinted hair, saw the skeletal legs to her right. Slowly rising into a tall position like a blade of grass recovering from a harsh wind, Alexial stared at Yuki with a look of annoyance as he seemingly feeling her stare and its indicator of the woman's current mood; the servant glanced over ever so slight with his red eyes of light meeting her own vamperic. "my apologies of startling you Miss Alexial, but I had to check fast of what was causing the rising stress within the other guardians of the castle." The man's smooth words spoke as he gingerly stared back out ahead at the oncoming figures.

"Stress?" The young offspring of Donovan whispered past her lips as she also looked back out at the winged figures. Yuki nodding without removing his eyes from the forward stare they were still locked within, the servant's red eyes dimmed and relit as he gave them a hearty blink. "those creatures were no invited by Lady Seras, but they have requested when upon arriving into Lord Dracula's territory, they wish to land safely to deliver startling news apparently about Maxwell and the Hellsing bloodline." The skeleton spoke as he rustled his dusty wings ever so slight.

Narrowing her eyes to get a better focus through the dark harsh rains, Alexial peered out and saw the forms as they flying closer, began to take a solid form with details slowly bleeding over as they continued to head for the castle of darkness. "Griffins... they're griffins..." Alexial whispered with a worry tune to her words making the servant nod his skull causing a few of his black neck bones to grind ever so slight from the ever so simple gesture. "indeed they are... one of them though has come to these lands before... I do wonder why he has returned to my Lord's lands." Yuki spoke in a smooth tone yet... Alexial gave the man a uneasy sideways glance, she had sworn she heard worry in his ever so gentle voice.

Sensing her stare, Yuki even if a skeleton, oddly smiled as he continued to stare forward. "the last time that griffin came here, he came to inform my Lord and Lady of the location to Lord Hakuyaoshi's location... I do hope nothing has changed of that previously given information." The servant spoke as he slowly slipped his arms over each other to come to a rest upon his boney black rib cage. Alexial though, continued to eye the servant before her with uneasiness shining in her blood red eyes. "How... would you know this... did that griffin come to the castle in the past as well?" the young woman asked. Yuki actually chuckled softly as he ever so slightly, shook his head. "No... he was by the memorial near the docks in the city; you must understand Miss Alexial, we servants of Lord Dracula have connected thoughts and dreams when we are both awake and asleep so information is constantly fed to us so to keep us servants up to date... so when one servant saw that griffin..." Yuki drifted off as he slightly glanced to Alexial as her mind putting the pieces all together, smiled timidly as she looked back out at the griffins were very only a near fifty feet away now.

"you all saw the griffin... Yuki.." slowly with a uneasy gesture, Alexial rubbed her left arm with her right hand be it to just to relieve herself of an itch or rub out the goose bumps underneath her coat's sleeve. "Yes Miss Alexial?" the servant questioned as with his arms still crossed over his chest, Yuki's red eyes glanced ever so slight down to the young vampire. Lowering her hand to her right side once more, she kept her eyes to the sky as the griffins not to far off gave their screech indicating their arrival. "... do you enjoy... being a servant to that man?" the young woman asked weakly gaining a very odd look from Yuki as if he had any eyebrows, one would be raised.

With a light laugh coming from his ribcage, the servant looked at her. "Enjoy? I should, Lord Dracula cold have let me die after he fed off of my once human body... yet instead he made me this and so I swore to serve him until my bones turn to dust.. as you can see, my wings after these many years of servitude are beginning to change." Yuki murmured as he gently flexed his frail like wings causing a few flecks of dust to rise up in a eerie dance by the light of the candles flames. Alexial without even really thinking, gave a sideways glance to the man's dusty grey wings as he continued to watch her with now very amused eyes. She was indeed still very young in the ways of a vampires life, be it she was born as such.

With a weak swallow to moisten her suddenly dry throat, Alexial blushing ever so slight looked back to the window's opening as the griffins with the sounds of very heavy wing beats echoing within the tower, flew over calling out once more in a harmonious screech causing near all the servants around to call back to indicate the uneasy truce between uninvited guests and servants. "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to stare... just... wait... fed... don't you ever regret the past... the things you've lost?" Alexial whispered her last few words as the blush on her face grew, she knew she was now prying and felt a bit uncomfortable out of the fear of annoying Yuki. With another light laugh leaving his chest, this laugh bore a bit of long lost pain... suffering almost. No... Alexia realized as she somehow was beginning to be able of reading this man's skeleton expressions... this man had suffered.

Seeing this realization spring up within her red almost so innocent eyes, Yuki nodding to her, turned slowly on his boney heels to face the towers door that led into the castle's depths. With the candles flickering violently from a gathered cool gust, the man's dusty wings flittered ever so slight giving the sound of faint tissue paper on the open breeze. His arms sliding to his sides once more, the servant peered forward with what seemed a neutral stare. "My dear Miss Alexial... of my past... I regret not losing it... I was a mere homeless with no family, no job and if Lord Dracula had not drained me and made me what I am today... I would have committed suicide right on the doorsteps of the church who wouldn't welcome in for sanctuary to the harsh winter... I owe that vampire everything and will serve him with joy because..." with a faint laugh from recalling the angst in his past, Yuki ever so slightly, glanced over his shoulder to the young vampire woman who watched him with widening red eyes as his story struck her heart and soul hard.

Smiling, the servant nodded to Alexial as he went onward. "... that man, gave me a purpose, even if undead and a servant... here I actually make a difference of what happens within this castle... and I am one of the four main guardians to his domain, like that dog demon figure who now stalks the grounds, I continue to 'stalk' this castle... but now... I must go and greet our guests before this uneasy truce lifts from the servants and the griffins... you may join me if you so like young Miss Alexial." And with that, the man in a fluid motion, fully flung wings thing gray wings open and with a three step start, faded from sight leaving Alexial up there within the one tower staring at the spot Yuki faded from. With a shaky breath passing her slightly pale lips, Alexial rubbing her eyes, timidly headed for the doors herself. Having yet to learn the full use of black portals and phasing, the vampire merely opening the door with her hands, continued to walk down the long black marble covered stairway with very few candles and carrying blood red carpet upon the steps, thus muffling her feet as she went on her way.

Yuki's story just near bothered and shocked Alexial very much as she remembered that man, Dracula. When she had met him, she was afraid of him. That man was cruel and pure evil, he didn't give off any feel of compassion or heart like her father and mother gave off. Then again. With a weak sigh passing her lips as the young woman began to regain herself from the startling story told by Yuki, she did recall... Dracula was indeed the first... so maybe that was why he was so cruel... No... with a slightly crooked grin falling upon her soft lips, Alexial stared forward as she went on her way. He was just that way, a cruel sadistic basturd... who oddly... has a sympathetic heart deep within that abyss of black evil he calls a soul. With that thought in mind, Alexial smirked even more as she remembered how that man acted around the human, Seras Victoria; his queen who had also once been a full undead. He may not show it outright on his sleeves like others, but that man's feelings... they shined deep within those haunting red eyes of his.

With a small laughing passing her lips, Alexial's uneasy steps began to regain her slight bounce and stubborn gait as all worries began to lift. Though she knew as she went onward, she would never fully get rid of some fear of that man due to how he was, but... her smirk broadened as she was halfway down the tower's stairway. One thing she was sure of... Dracula loved that immortal human queen of his as she loved him back, and as long as that bond was strong and with the queen's human heart. Alexial knew she was safe even in the company of such a sadistic ruler.

"Oh really... are you sure of such a though young daughter of Donovan?"

Alexial froze as she heard the icy cruel words curl behind her. The darkness and pure evil began to cloak her form like a blanket of ice as her blood seemed to freeze within. Red eyes going wide, the girl did not want to turn around as she had a very good guess as to who was behind her rigid form.

As cruel laughter rumbled through the walls like thunder, Alexial wanted to leave, she wanted to run... "Then run, go ahead and flee." The man cackled with clear wicked amusement ringing in his sadistic voice. The darkness had full grasp of her form causing Alexial to shiver as she felt the bitter cold seep through her clothing, flesh and into her very soul. With a slight tremble rising be it from the cold or just down right fear, the woman saw in a fluid wave with no breeze, the candles from behind her and going past; went out. That was the last straw, her panic began to rise violently as within her mind she screamed. within seconds of her fear though... Alexial physically screamed as she suddenly felt she was falling through the ground, open air, the ground once more, like that of a very fast elevator with darkness and sudden flashes of light. No... trying to reign in her fear, Alexial's wild and frantic eyes stared all around as she saw the surroundings all fly by. With a strangled cry, the woman suddenly realized... she WAS falling!

With the realization... slipping past another ceiling... her transparant body became solid and with the rushing whistling winds engulfing her body,Alexial came to asavage crash upon something knobby yet oddly soft that... swore? Alexial crying out rolled hard to the side from a few ribs being cracked due to the violent crash, soon to rise upon her hands and knees as she hanging her head, shook visibly while the young vampire tried to calm her terrorized heart from her encounter with Dracula. "Ow... god... damn... who... what the... Alexial?" hearing a woman's all to familiar voice, Alexial going rigid once more losing all trembling. The young woman with a faint uneasy sound passing her gritted teeth, her vamperic red eyes drifted up and rested upon sapphire eyes of... 'oh shit!' Alexial's mind raced as she saw Seras stumble hard to her feet as slowly, the sound and odd angles of broken bones began to mend and refit themselves properly into the queen's body as she oddly eyed Alexial who had dropped on her from out of no where.

Sitting up hard upon her bent knees with her hands tightly clutching her pant leggings, Alexial's fearful eyes held fear and apology as with her mouth open to speak, could only let out a few squeaks. Seeing this from clear signs of past run ins... Seras smiling slightly, looked with sympathy to her friend's daughter. "Let me guess... you had a run in with Alucard... correct?" Seras spoke gaining a faint trembling nod from Alexial.

Sighing deeply, the young woman made her way to Alexial and kneeling gingerly upon her left knee, Seras rested her left hand gently onto Alexial's shoulder gaining the very frightened woman's gaze onto her own. "Calm down... you're... going to have to get use to his actions... but if it will help you... I can ask him to not do that again." Seras's gentle voice softly smoothed the edges of fear from the Alexial's soul as she blinking, timidly looked to this sapphire eyed immortal queen of Dracula. With a faint swallow gaining no help to moisten her very dry throat, Alexial smiled weakly. "I... would like that..." She whispered, her voice sounding like that to a whisper against sandpaper. Seras nodding, smiled "why not follow me... Yuki has informed me of three guests, it might take your mind off of what Alucard did." Seras chuckled making the relief suddenly bleed over Alexial's body. "please..." came the young woman's answer.

Within a few minuets of more coaxing to her feet and calming of her very frightened soul, both Seras and Alexial walked side by side for the front entrance through the maze of what seemed hundreds of hallways, stairways and doorways. As they walked though, Seras gave a faint mental smirk as she felt the small tickle in the back of her mind. "that wasn't very nice Alucard." Seras spoke as she staring forward, continued on her way with Alexial beside her unaware of the queen conversing with the man who just a few minuets ago scared the shit out of her.

With a deep chuckle in her mind, Seras felt his red eyes glistening in the dark recesses of her mind as he gave the ever so familiar Cheshire cat grin. "Think of it this way... the young daughter of 'Donovan' can now phase through solid objects..." the sadistic vampire cackled making Seras give a faint bitter laugh causing Alexial to weakly glance over at her supposed savior from Dracula.

Ignoring Alexial's stare, Seras mentally shook her head and eyed Alucard within her mind. "I do remember we were to aid in Alexial's training, but your 'method' is a bit unorthodox is it not?" Seras spoke with a faint sarcastic ring to her mental voice gaining Alucard's grin to just grow more as he wickedly chuckled. "Unorthodox... possibly, but my 'methods' as you so put it... seem to be more effective..." Seras giving a slight growl narrowed her red eyes as she in her mind flipped Alucard off who merely cackling broke the mental link from their minds.

"L... Um... Seras?" Hearing her name, Seras glancing over saw Alexial's uneasy eyes as she watched the queen. Blinking, Seras giving a weak laugh nodded to Alexial. "you needn't worry... I was just communicating with Alucard... he should leave you be for now... but don't worry now... lets just go see what brings these griffins to our home..." Alexial uneasily watching Seras, sighed weakly knowing she was safer with Seras then alone with Dracula. The two continued to walk down the elegant dark corridors unaware that within the clutches of a silver griffin... the true last human Hellsing slept.

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Me: So... what do you all think so far?

Alexial: (rubbing her back) Ow...

Seras: Ditto

Me: (shrugs) in any case... keep up the reviews and to all my loyal readers, more is always promised (grins) but for now, ciao for now! (waves)