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Disclaimer: I don't own Hellsing or future things that I will be using later on in my story. I only have my brain. Please let me keep my brain. I need my brain. ;.;

Warning: things may get really ugly in here. You have been warned.

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Chapter Four: Hintereinander

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"Unit two, respond! Respond, unit two!" Adrian shouted into his radio, but the only reply was faint static and a few other muffled sounds from the other side. He then swore under his breath and aloud, "Damn it! What the hell is going on over there?"

"What's the problem, Lieutenant?" His partner that he was paired with inquired, adjusting the weapon strap on his shoulder.

Adrian scoffed then, "What's the problem is that no one is reporting in for anything."

"And...that's a bad thing?"

Adrian looked at him in a way that said he wanted to do more than just knock the other soldier silly for his incomprehension and ignorance, but stowed most of it. This one was a fairly new recruit that had been assigned on board with the Hellsing Organization fresh out of training and just very young with no experience. Still, on the other hand, in the field of work the Hellsing Organization does, there will be no slack or breaks for anyone no matter who they are.

"What are you, stupid? Of course it's a bad thing!" He snapped, "For this mission we've been ordered by the Captain to report in briefly with each other every 10 minutes. It's been about half an hour already and all I've been getting is just silence from about everyone in unit two, including Captain Victoria herself! So, yeah, it's a bad thing, Murrow!"

Adrian turned away then and continued to try and get into some form of contact with the other group that had Seras Victoria in the lead, ignoring the fact that his partner was cowering up flat against the wall from his superior's growl.

The building unit one was currently scouting had a small flow of electricity, allowing whatever light bulbs that wasn't broken, burnt out or missing to have life and to shine when two men went down into the bottom floors. For the interior and exterior of the complex beside the main one was in a slightly more fair condition, considering the circumstances of both time and apparent physical factors such as loitering and graffiti.

There came a faint hum of a buzzing that crept through the walls and came down from the ceiling, shaking the silence from its stale dwelling. The dim light fixture above the soldier's head had faded out, then came back for a few seconds, then proceeded to flicker a little more rapidly and randomly as time went on. It cackled and sparked as the power to flair the energy to chase away darkness was seemingly starting to get interrupted; meaning that there was something up with the once steady circuit of electricity.

The two men looked at each other then, trying to focus on one another's face in both dark and light, their minds both trickling along the line of wonderment. What caution they had and keeping their wits about them was starting to fester deeper into the world of anxiety, a tingling starting to set at the base of their spines.

It was still...a really eerie stillness now with the soft drone of a weak electric line and the static having yet to cease over the radio.

Another sound in his ear disrupted Adrian's thoughts and eye contact by a click from his earpiece, several patter sounds, and a rushed, frantic voice soon followed, but it was hard to decipher as an increase of static suddenly occurred right then, "...eutenant Adrian, sir! I'm with...an...lso...w...re...ttack...n...can't...a...!!"

A muffled long sound, a loud abrupt snap...then just silence. The static now completely absent.

"Hey! Come in! Come in, Joe! I know that's you!" Adrian shouted into the mouth piece, his hand pinching the bridge between the ear piece and the microphone, "Answer me, damn it!"

Murrow flexed his fingers on the trigger of his gun then, his eyes watching carefully of the situation and also taking in Lieutenant Adrian's posture, facial expression, everything, and that only fueled the sinking feeling he was getting from the start of the lights flickering. He finally worked up his voice to speak, surprising himself a little that it sounded so serious and even despite what was going on inside him, "Sir? What's the update?"

The elder man shot an articulated breath through his clenched teeth, "Tch...I finally got someone on the airways but it's from our own unit. It was Joe."

"What did he say?"

"Don't know. There was too much static to make out much of anything." Adrian then wielded up his weapon, checking it over quickly but properly and clicked off the safety, his voice low, "But whatever it is, it's not good. I haven't had anything else coming over the comm., so something's going down."

Murrow gulped as the Lieutenant looked at him straight in the eye, the light above them holding strong then to show the seriousness and the weight of all possible situations and scenarios start to set into power.

Adrian continued, "This is your first mission, and you're pretty unlucky to get a situation like this on the initial go. I'll tell you this once and you better bloody damn well listen: shut up and strap yourself in tight, kid. It's probably gonna be one hell of a bumpy ride."

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"Damn ghouls..." A soldier cursed as he reloaded his weapon, his uniform stained dark with blood of the dead.

Guy then glanced to the floor where his radio laid broken in pieces with a couple of corpses full of large bullet holes caused by close-range shooting. Gore littered the floor, walls, and ceiling, making everything slick and shiny, even with the flickering lights.

He swore again under his breath and glanced at his pair buddy that was just getting up from having been knocked down by a vampire's puppet, "Hey, you okay, Earl?"

"Ugh...yeah...man, these things smell disgusting! And the lights are starting to piss me off!" Earl answered, taking off his helmet for a moment to rake a hand through his sweaty dark brown hair.

"Deal with it. Until someone checks out the problem on the electricity, we're going to have to overcome this. Using our night vision, of course, won't help, so we got to be extra careful. We still need to find the freak or freaks that are doing this."

"I guess...how many did we g-" The partner to Guy started before his eyes caught site of a familiar color at the end of the hall where the light flashed and he grinned a little, raising a hand and waved, "Hey! Captain Victoria!"

Guy blinked at him then glanced over his own shoulder, "What? Captain Victoria?" He furrowed his brows and squinted when the light flickered on down there again, "I don't see anything...besides, why would she be here instead of over in the main building with unit two? You must've been imagining things."

He turned his head back to look at Earl, "You listening or wh-" Guy stopped his voice then, his eyes widening slowly as to what his gaze landed on.

Earl was flat-up against the dirty wall, arms spread and feet slightly apart but also tilted up on the heel on the floor, indicating that he was somewhat dragged. His body convulsed slightly, limbs trembling as his voice came in short sounds from what would be his mouth if his tongue wasn't hanging low and free because the bottom jaw was missing suddenly. Streams of blood from the veins at the joints and along his neck splattered out along with the half upper body of a teenager turned ghoul having pierced through Earl's gut to pin him to the wall spewed out and decorated the area around him.

Aside from that, a large, cold and hard lump formed in his throat and made his body temperature drop, draining everything from Guy's mind at what else he saw. Not even the word or impulse of 'run' stayed with him. Everything was gone except for raw, raw fear.

What stood in front of him was Earl's supposed imagination made real. The well-endowed and mature young female physique with light dandelion hair would never fail identification even for an instant.

A hearty laugh of enjoyment bubbled up from her delicate throat and her dark hand waved Earl's mangled missing jaw in front of the dying man's face. She had a wide grin adorning her lips that could be seen in the shadows and a sweet, high tone that could make any man shiver, "You always did say that your teeth was your pride and joy, didn't you, Mr. Earl? You floss even though you haven't eaten anything, Mr. Earl. You carry around a mirror to check your teeth every chance you get, Mr. Earl. You hog the bathroom to yourself for a long period of time, making many wait, Mr. Earl. It's not good to make people wait for very long...Mr. Earl."

Seras Victoria chuckled darkly, the gleam of her wild crimson eyes tinted the darkness in a glowing red, leaning in closer and dropped the volume of her voice, "You preen almost like a girl, Mr. Earl."

She took a firm hold on his neck, crushing it with her inhuman strength, her muscles in her torso rising with her action as her other hand shoved Earl's bottom jaw right through the man's face, teeth first, and embedded his head in the wall by his own body part. The force caused what fluids the body had left to leap out and land on her body.

The draculina stepped back finally, admiring the gore that was strung around her fingers. She took both her hands then and ran it down the front of her figure almost in pleasure at what was occupying her clothes and available skin, making them dark red with blood and death.

It felt good. Really good.

Seras laughed and pivoted on her feet to face Guy, lifting her head up slightly, her face taking on the normal childish look and smile that she usually had before with her eyes closed, "Mr. Guy, you look pale. Are you feeling alright?"

He took a shaky step back away from her, but his feet caught on to a ghoul's body and he fell back on his seat. Guy made a small sound when he heard that the gun he had clattered out of reach and hit the wall to come to a stop. The man could barely manage out words with his condition of mind, "...C...C-Captain...V-Victoria..."

She walked over to him leisurely and Guy jumped. Her appearance was more of a beast to him in his eyes and more frightening than anything he's ever seen before and it gripped him hard, shouting out, "No! You're not Captain Victoria! Y-You're an imposter!!"

"Oh?" Seras put her hands behind her back and smiled a little more at him, "You're a male, right, Mr. Guy? I'm sure there are many things on a woman's body that you like, but I've seen you take particular interest in their legs. You always checked mine out. However, have you tried looking at yours, Mr. Guy?"

A sickening crunch and then an ear piercing scream of agony as Seras held up the right leg in which she ripped off, holding it up, continuing to talk without changing her easy tone of voice, "You see, Mr. Guy? There's nothing wrong with yours. You have one..."

Another cry and a shower of blood as the young woman tossed the left leg up and down in her other hand, leaving the soldier to writhe and thrash on the floor, "And two! Two perfectly good legs. Don't you think you're lucky? Not everyone can have legs like yours."

Seras lined the two up, still smiling and bent them the opposite way of where the knee is suppose to go, breaking them without much effort before tossing them aside. Her hand reached out and firmly grasped Guy's chin, opening her eyes to show an intense fire of blood lust gone way out of control mixed in with a heavy dose of insanity, her lips pulling back to reflect what was inside her gaze, "You were also such a good guy, Mr. Guy. Despite how you joined this field of work..."

Guy blearily opened his eyes, but then they shot open impossibly wide, his voice caught with his life liquid quickly filling up in his lung, throat, and mouth. In the flicker of the cruel light above that was covered with blood, he stared. In his Captain's hand was his heart, and it beat for a moment before going completely immobile.

She reached then for the knife at his breast pocket, put the organ down and brought down the blade to the round part of Guy's shoulder, nailing the heart in place without making it burst, "...you always wore your heart on your sleeve!"

Seras threw her head back, arms and palms faced up as she laughed in a high pitch, the electricity finally given out and engulfed the building in darkness, "Yes! Yes! More! More! Such a wonderful feeling! Such thrill! Such pleasure! Such ecstasy! Yes!"

"Are you enjoying yourself?" A deep voice came from a fair distance behind the girl, the shadows swaying about, yellow glasses, hat, tie and trench coat taking form in a wind that suddenly picked up within the hallway, "Eh, Policegirl?"

Alucard's typical grin became visible then as his eyes caught site of the two dead soldiers, his powers melding away from visible vision but could still be felt even if it can't be seen, "Even though it may be for the wrong reason."

"Why, if it isn't my Master. Come to scold me, have you? Lecture me? Treat me like dirt?" Seras had shot out with sarcasm, her own smirk still in place.

He looked back at her then, his lips falling into a line of disapproval with her choice of words, expression, and tone, "You disappoint me, Policegirl. You really are pathetic if you let yourself go this far. You've given up, hm? How sad."

"Hah! Me? Disappoint you? Like you have any right to say that. You were never there when I was in need. In need of someone to stay with me, be with me, guide me, help me!"

Seras took a step forward then towards him, "You left me alone. All alone, my Master..."

Another step, "You disappoint me, my Master."

Another step and her grin widened a little more at the corners, "You have given up on me, my Master."

Then she sprang off into a run, readying her hands and drawing them back to strike at the elder vampire, a giggle starting to work its way up from her voice box, "YOU failed ME, Alucard!"

Alucard stayed still, watching her with a passive look before the smirk graced his face and his hand took a hold of the Casul, drawing it out and aimed it at his fledgling. Taking no moment to allow a thought come to pass, his finger pulled back the trigger and shot at both her hands, the bullets traveling up inside her arms and out through her back, taking a good amount of her blood out with them and tearing at her bones and muscles.

The searing pain interfered with Seras' mindset and something gave way inside her. When her feet faltered and her speed, Alucard reached out with his left fingers and grabbed unto her throat in a violent grip, clutching firmly and quickly slammed her body up against the wall, making it crack up to the ceiling line from his strength.

Seras coughed hard, crimson making its way past her lips before more soon followed when the Nosferatu yanked her back on her feet and crushed her back up against the wall, her body moving around like a rag doll. Her arms were rendered useless from the damage they took.

Alucard then narrowed the gun to lock onto a place between her eyes, a click resounding as his voice continued to be smooth while he watched her intensely through his glasses, "I've replaced the explosive bullets with plain ones, but they are blessed and will do more than just fair harm."

His voice then hissed dangerously low, the grin disappearing, his powers flaring up with dark tendrils holding Seras in place, "You're not a true Nosferatu yet, you fool. I made you. I can break you, and I can just as easily kill you..." Alucard then scoffed at her, "On the other hand...you,at the moment, are not the Policegirl..."

Suddenly streams of red trickled down her dirty cheeks from Seras' eyes as she opened them to stare at her master directly, despite the gun in her way. Her crimson orbs were now entirely filled with fear, trying to bring her injured arms up and touched the hand holding her up by the neck weakly, the draculina's voice quivering, "...M...Master...i-it's trying to take me over...it's trying to consume m-me...! I can't take it...I can't...I can't do this on my own...!"

She shut her eyes tightly as the tears flowed freely, gasping a little in her weeping and cried out, "Master...help me...! Help me, please!"

Alucard's eyes widened in surprise and immediately released her. Seras would have slumped to the floor amongst the carnage of ghouls and the soldiers she had slain earlier had her master not caught her at the last moment before she collided with the ground. He knelt on the floor and pulled her up against him, just like he did when they met in Cheddar, the gun he had used against her put away.

Seras hiccupped, shakily trying to cling to him as much as she could like a lifeline and buried her face in his chest, not being able to stop crying, "I'm sorry...I'm sorry I was so rude to you, Master...I'm sorry...!"

He didn't give any response, looking down at her without an expression of any kind for a long while as he pondered. Alucard delved into her mind and noticed that the wall was still present, but there was a large break in it and he guessed it was the work of his fledgling. He narrowed his eyes slightly as he saw the broken section slowly start to mend itself.

A question crossed his thoughts as he withdrew out: just what was all that about and what did set Seras off?

The scent reached him then, now that he was close to her. There were the blood traces of young, old, middle-aged, along with the decay of ghouls and the fresh kill of Guy, Earl, along with a number of other soldiers of unit two and some of unit one. The eldest smell stuck out the most and he knew that the draculina couldn't have done that kind of murder since she struggled enough with taking out ghouls. Someone else had done it.

"Be still, Policegirl." Alucard commanded, but a little softer this time than usual, "Walter will see to the remainder of your units. I have already dealt with a freak vampire and the rest of his ghouls that had planned to hide here for the day."

He then rose up to his feet, a hand at her shoulder and the other under her knees in bridal fashion, half-aware of his next words, "I will hear no more. I'm taking you home."

Seras just nodded once, holding onto Alucard, her master. She felt his powers creep up over her body and reach her head, luring her frantic nerves and emotions to be calm and allow her to let sleep overtake her like a gentle hand was stroking her hair. A small sigh escaped and her eyes closed, drifting off before Alucard began to transport them.

His mind was on other things, however, as they headed back to the Hellsing manor.

Through that hole in the wall of Seras' mind, he could see just how thick the width was and it was very, very long. It also had pockets were a deep form of darkness and intentions were dwelling and each had their own voices that could only be tied into berserk, blood lust, insanity, and power. Beyond the width of the wall was a labyrinth, much like his own, and he knew Seras was lost somewhere within. What alarmed him as well was that there was a noticeable growing presence also dwelling inside aside from his fledgling.

It was perplexing to say the least, and for Seras to reach out to him like that, even though he hurt her quite a lot, made a warmth spot in his chest and urged him to comply. The draculina was right. This was definitely something she couldn't do on her own, and Alucard will do something about it,

'...Integra's report can wait. This is a more pressing matter to tend to. My fledgling needs me...'

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The room was dark, black one could say, but not quite. There were many squares of light with images on them lining with each other as the screens played video footages. What those footages held were all that had gone on in the asylum, mostly focused on one intruder in particular that was the only female among male. It displayed from the moment she came through the gates till her exit with the tall, lean vampire.

Everything zoomed back as the video rewound and played a particular scene again where it showed many angles of Seras in all her gore glory and blood bath and her shining streak of formidable strength.

A wide crescent smile spread in the dimness, a low chuckle echoing in the room, "...yes...there you are...my servant. I have been watching you for a long while now and your inner struggles of your past and present life is perfect timing. Everything is going smoothly. Those wretched, poor excuse for humans, were so easy to manipulate. They obeyed me well, I suppose. They did good to lead you to the edge that made you, oh so deliciously, unstable...pity you had enough of a will left to refrain from feeding on their corpses. You would have faced your master much better if you did."

It was the voice of a man, a very sophisticated one at that, "Your powers, they lay dormant but they're beginning to wake up...oh yes...beginning to wake up...when your master helps you..."

Another chuckle and the smile widened more, "Yes...until your master 'helps' you...I'll be waiting..."

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Chapter Four: One after another

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...um...well...haaaa...it got (a little?) graphical in this chapter. Since I did this, I have to give the rating for my story a step up because of the violence. Gotta obey the rules and all. Also, I may be kind of cutting it close again as well in the next chapter for a...few things...heh. It depends on just how far I'll go, so we'll see. There was an actual Alucard and Seras interaction rather than a short convo over their link in here. More to come, I assure you.

Ugh...I'm going so damn slow in moving my story along...I'm probably starting to bore you guys, especially with my long winded things at the end.

In any case, I'm back at home. I would have gotten this chapter out sooner, but I'm pretty lazy. Which reminds me; I need to do some serious cramming on reading now that I'm finished with this chapter since I have a book report that's due VERY soon.

Okay, for questions and stuffz:

To Samantha-san: well, that last scene break should answer your question, heh.

To Slaymyheart-san: I actually did need to edit several things when I read my chapter over a couple times. Rank changes needed to be made, a few words out of place...the works, but nothing major.

Some insignificant and irrelevant thing I forgot to mention last time for you. The name you sign at the end of your review is my nickname XD

To Naikoru-san: you got it, lol.

Review please! Thank you very much. And thanks for all the reviews so far! I know it's a long journey to sit so long through this stupid thing, so thank you very, very much!