Chapter # 5: Battle of the Jackals
All was quiet, the man continued to hide among the many shadows of the beltline, the Captain will probably have taken care of his partner by now, but he seemed to be more problematic.
"Come out, come out wherever you are Mr. Retriever, I just want to play a little, you're not going to leave a lady like me waiting like this are you." I said, walking gently while keeping my guard up for any surprise attack
"Lady huh? I don't remember ever meeting one who wanted to suck me dry, well, at least not in the same way you do." Came the echo of his voice, taunting me as I suddenly noticed a slight movement on the corner of my eye.
"Got you." I shouted; slamming my shadows against the floor, making them move across it and slash all over the place, but he wasn't there.
"Close, but you're too slow girl, would you like to try again." He said, this time from behind me.
I turned around and striked, but he was ready, he caught my fist in his and crushed it down, he had so much pressure in his hand it was unbelievable, even with my vampiric strength I still was no match.
He smiled and punched me in the stomach before I could react; leaving me coughing blood on the spot as I fell to the ground, helpless for a second attack that did not come.
"Well, aren't you going to finish me?" I said, quickly concentrating my shadows behind him.
"Nah, I don't like hitting women too much, so why don't you just stay there and let me go." He said while taking out a cigarette and placing it in his mouth.
"I don't think so." The black spikes erupted from the floor and stabbed him in the back; his face went blank with shock and pain. His body fell slumped against the shadows as he slowly gave a last choked before dying, bleeding freely from all the wounds I had made.
"Sorry, but I can't go against my master." I turn to leave when his hand caught mine.
"Really, you would kill me for him Cherie." That voice wasn't his, it was…I turned around and looked at Pip, standing in his place, bleeding and dying.
"What, this isn't possible. Pip already dead, he lives inside me, this inst true. I closed my eyes and opened them again, this time it was my mother who stood there dying because of me.
"NO STOP THIS, YOU ARENT REAL!" I screamed, backing up trembling in fear and denial, the woman if front of me, covered n blood wasn't my mother; she died before my eyes too so long ago, just like Pip.
"You weren't strong enough to save Cherie, that's why we are like this." Said Pip from behind me this time, grabbing my arms and forcing me to the floor, my mother soon followed, and my dad to emerged out of nowhere, dead as a corpse.
"We loved you so much Seras, why couldn't you do the same, why did you let us die.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" I screamed, tossing and turning violently in denial, but they held me fast, their flesh rotting away as the bent to bite and eat me, slowly I felt their teeth sank in me, eating me alive.
"MASTEEEEEEEEEEER, HELP MEEEEEEEEE, PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!" Then suddenly everything disappeared, the corpses, the wounds they made, everything.
I felt the hot tears running down my check, the shock was still present, it had all been so real, so what had happened, I can't even move because of the fear I felt.
"So tell me princess, did you have a nice dream?" I tilted my head slightly to the left and saw him standing there, lighting his cigarette peacefully as if nothing.
"Now who said monsters couldn't feel fear, huh?" he said, just before disappearing into the shadow once more.
Alucard Pov
"JAJAJAJAJAJA, magnificent, how magnificent these two are, they are like a vision of perfection, so blissfully floating around towards me, to enchant and dazzle me beyond all expectations, it's really like a dream come true." I said, watching their performance through the monitors of Makubex, the boy had followed all their movements with his "system", to be able to beat through Seras and her Lycan familiar so easily like that, really impressive.
Still, it seems like we missed one, the guy in black, he evaded all the security so far; it won't be long before he reaches this place.
"All right boy, keep your eyes open for the other one, I got a feeling he'll be here soon."
"Sooner than you think my dear Vampire Kun." I looked happily at my left, all across the wide room to the only door, which broke to pieces. A man soon entered, dressed in black and with blades at hand, a thin smile mocking his surroundings as though he had every right, his aura was that of pride, pride of his power.
"What happened to my guards if you don't mind me asking?" I said standing up from my throne like chair.
"Guards? Oh you mean those poor souls that were standing outside; well they provide any entertainment at all." He said, and tossed a broken piece of wood in front of me, one that used to belong to Rip Van Winkle Musket.
"Hmm, We're not so different apparently, my good doctor jackal." I said, walking slowly to meet him as he did the same.
"A pleasure meeting you Alucard, you master was most descriptive of your…talents, I hope she wasn't exaggerating."
"And why is that?"
"Because… I want to enjoy this as much as I can." we stood back to back; we didn't even look at each other.
"Well isn't that precious, so do I." a moment of silence, and then we striked, both at the same time. Drawing my jackal and swinging it to his head, only to meet his blades instead. The echo of the clash resounded through the room as we were both driven back a few feet by each other's blow.
"Not bad, not bad, seems like you have some talent too, you might amuse me long enough for your two partners to come and help you." I said, cranking my neck audibly.
He smiled softly, lifting his hand slightly to his right. "Don't insult me; I'm more than enough for the likes of you, Vampire Kun!"
"Bloody Hurricane!" he said, and from his hand were shots dozens and dozens of those scalpels of his, flying in circle around me for a moment before all diving against me, I tried to shoot down as many as possible but it was useless, they all landed and stabbed me all over.
"is that it? I had hoped for a longer fight after all." How amusing indeed, I started to laugh like a maniac, without even the slightest trace of sanity and despite being wounded all over my body.
"Something funny?"
"You are, you remind me so much of an old friend of mine, he too had a thing for blades and an iron will, unbreakable even in the face of a monster like me, so come, stab this no longer beating heart of mine, end this never ending nightmare of my life with you own hands, come, come, come, COME!!!" o drew both my guns and launched forward, firing at all his vitals as I did.
"And they say I'm crazy, but very well, I like that spirit, Bloody Shield!" the blades in me left my body and flew to his defense, forming six circles floating around him, stopping the bullets in mid track. Each circle consisted of 18 of his scalpels, so that's meant he had only 108 of them.
I stopped moving once the bullets ran out, letting the magazines fall to the floor, but didn't bother to replace them, it was clear that guns would be useless in this battle.
"I hope you got more trick up your sleeve than just guns Vampire Kun, otherwise this is going to be a really short battle." With that he closed his fist real hard and then stretched it suddenly, letting a bright crimson sword out from the palm of his hand.
"Bloody Sword" he said simply, grasping the blade and moving gently to the air.
"Control Art restriction System, releasing to level 3, level 2, level 1, level 0, Situation S, The Cromwell Approval is now in effect, hold release until target is silenced."
"What are you mumbling about, you should get…" he stopped talking as he noticed me change, my old red coat and other clothes simmered away to make way for my old suit of armor and cloak, my beard grew back in place as I felt the old familiar weight of my sword at my side.
"Now, shall we?" I said, drawing my own sword, my face contorted with absolute pleasure in a diabolical grin.
"Tee hee, perfect, let's enjoy the battle then." With that both of us launched forward, crimson and silver blade clashed, once twice and again all in rapid succession, each time they touched something other than each other it collapsed to rubble.
Soon the whole room was like a war zone, due to the constant explosions of our blades, craters were made all over it, and pillars and walls were cut as though made from paper.
I wielded my sword in perfect coordination, aiming for the heart, then the head, but every time he parried the blow and returned the favor, in all truth, he was more skilled, or perhaps I was just rusty due to all the ears I had spent without practicing, for while I failed to reach him, he had scarred me three times already.
"You're good, but you're still lacking." I said, finally finding an opening in his defense, swinging my sword hard against him, only to find it blocked by one of his shields, that although it did break, left ,e defenseless for his retaliation.
He plunged his sword into my heard and with his left he used one of his other shields as a saw to cut my head off. My head went rolling in the floor, but that didn't stop me from grabbing his hand while the blade was still inside me.
"Oh, so Sir Integra didn't exaggerate the details of your immortality, well I'm glad, the fight was just getting so enjoyable." As he said that I slashed him across the chest, from waist to shoulder, he fell back a few steps but remained standing…and smiling.
"S perfect, I'm reaching my limit, right now I was just using 80, but since you're such a stubborn dead I'll have to go all the way tee hee." He let the sword and his reaming shields fall to the ground, where they melted into a pool of raw blood.
He took an odd position, holding both hands outstretched to his right, from them emerged another crimson weapon, this time it was a long red lance with a cone like hilt in the center.
"Bloody Lance!" He gripped the weapon with his left and then vanished, appearing a second later behind me, swinging it at my freshly regenerated head; I dodged just in time…only to meet the back of it.
Sending me flying hard across the room, only fell the tip sharp tip pierce me from behind, he had traveled the same distance in seconds and awaited me to fall into his lance…and I did. He left me suspended in the air, impaled, now there some real irony.
I swung my sword again the middle and broke falling to ground, still the lance regenerated just as fast as me.
"Now I see, you use a particularly high stance, spinning the lance using the wrist like an axis, a technique evocative of dancing, so graceful and deadly at the same time. You abandon the shields to focus all you power and concentration on attack only, and the sword to bring forth an even deadlier weapon, impressive" I said, taking the opportunity to heal all my wounds.
"Close, everything you said is true, but there is also another reason why I dropped my other weapons" as he said that he pointed down, I followed his gaze with my eyes and saw a the pool of blood of his melted weapons underneath me.
"Bloody Shadow!" he said, and the blood beneath me erupted in large pikes, impaling and holding me I place, as he launched forward again, thrusting it through the exact center of my body, the like a drill the lance began spinning as he swung it upwards, tearing my body into dozens of bloody pieces.
"This is the end, Vampire Kun." He said smiling. "Thank you for the good time."
"JAJAJAJAJAJA, What, you think that's it?" he froze automatically and looked back, all the bloody pieces of what was my body melted like his weapons had, dragging themselves to single point. From it emerged a new form.
My face was smooth again, and my hair longer and silkier, my clothes changed again, this time into a black leather outfit, reminiscent of a straight jacket, my white gloves shone with an angry red, revealing the pentacle that once binded me to the Hellsing family, but which still feed me my power.
"You seem to have forgotten, that I'm a vampire, and vampires feast on blood my friend." Now it was my turn to point down, as he saw his weapons be absorbed by me.
"Though it's true that I had released all my power, this is my strongest form, and it is with it that I can fight at 100 and more…it was pleasure fighting you Dr Jackal." I vanished from his eyes and appeared a second later on his right, performing his left side with my bare hand he stumbled to the ground coughing blood as I prepared for the last strike.
"Bye good doctor." I attacked, but to my surprise it was stopped inches away from his face, another hand caught mine, it was bare but felt stronger than mine.
"Dammit you useless bastard, now this is why I hate working with you, damn cacabane!" said the man with h the evil eye, Ban Mido.