As Seras flew through the sky her mind wandered, she was no longer just a vampire, not only fledgling to Alucard, which is a great thing in itself, but she was the only hybrid that she knew of.
Alucard had told her that once a werewolf or a vampire you cannot be afflicted with the other, but then how was she this way then? She was still afflicted with both. Although she did not think she was a little while back either. As she flew over a vast lake, so dark in the middle of the night, the water looked almost black. No light shone, no boats were in the area, only far off on either of the coasts as she crossed the vast river were there lights. Seras remembered the first time she had discovered she still had the use of her lycan form.
flashback
"Hey get these men out of here!" Pip shouted, he waved to the other troops. As the heat of the fires blasted in his face, an explosion shook the building they were in.
"It's coming down captain!" A male voice shouted. Seras stood next to Pip, they were on a mission to take down a werewolf running rampart in this area. The Vatican didn't seem to care about its people anymore, as a distress call was made to them from Rome itself to deal with this! What was the world coming to? Pip and the geese had been called out, with Seras as backup. And her backup was very much needed. Pip coughed and had to cover his mouth from the smoke that did not seem to affect Seras at all.
"Go, take you men. I will take care of it." Seras spoke to Pip, with his hand over his mouth and his remaining eye squinting he nodded and then ran out of the smoky door, followed by a few others with wounded men on their backs.
This werewolf was more intelligent then the common mutts they were used to. It had used the building to its advantage and even set it alight to try and kill them all, unlike a normal werewolf, it had tactical thinking. But whatever it was, it was still a berserk monster.
Seras took up her position at the door to see them off and make sure they were all gone, when all of a sudden a growl from the smoke caused her to look back at the fire. A set of black hollow eyes pieced the flames and stared at her. The beast sniffed and took in her scent over the smoke of the flames, its unnatural body also immune to smoke. Its silhouette raised itself up in the fire as it growled at her.
Seras raised her arms over the door.
"You will not pass here!" She shouted at it, protecting the men fleeing behind her. Suddenly the werewolf moved! It leapt forward quick as lightening straight for her! Seras widened her eyes in surprise but she could not bring her rifle back toward her in time to shoot. The massive bulk of the wolf fell on her as she fell back, its claws dug into her chest and legs as her back hit the floor forcefully. Seras yelped as she did so, before opening her eyes and seeing the black eyes of the creature before her. Her arm was pinned and her gun rendered useless, saliva dripped onto her from the demon's mouth, anticipating its next meal. It raised its head back parting its jaws ready to strike, Seras was frozen in fear…how could this happen? Images swirled in her mind…what should she do now? What would Alucard do? But she was shivering in fear as the wolf's head came crashing down.
Seras! Seras quickly moved her head of the way of the oncoming wolf. A voice shouted in her head awakening her from the grip of fear, saving her. But pain cut through her as the maw enveloped her shoulder instead. Seras screamed out as she struggled to kick out or push the beast off. But she was not strong enough, not like Alucard. As her blood spilled out onto the floor she could hear the beast growling and snarling as it did so…wait, that noise did not come from the beast…but from her! Her human mind seemed to become separate from her own body, her body acting on instincts she herself was not aware of. As her own clawed hands dug into the skin and flesh of her captor and wrenched the jaw of it off her. Tearing her shoulder more, but she did not care; blonde fur grew once again, as her own snout grew in size. She never thought she would be glad to see her own animal form. But she was.
Using both her hairy arms and legs she forcefully pushed the beast from her. Her clothes ripped as she pushed herself back up. Her fangs were much longer then when she had last been a lycan, but then again, she was still a vampire after all. She now matched the beast in size, as she raised herself up and glared at the beast. Crimson eyes met black, each one sizing up the other, Seras felt her shoulder wound already healing. The other beast also saw this. An angry glare shot at her, both thought the same thing. What was she? But then Seras charged first, catching the beast by surprise and she drove her claws in deep as she pushed the wolf off the floor into the air, a howl was let loose from its lips as it fell. Blood dribbled down its chin as it was taught a lesson in brawling, from another of is kind. Seras stood over her enemy, not hesitating as she pounced and dug into its fur with her claw, the beast was on its front and Seras stood a hindleg on its head as she gripped the skin of the back, with force Alucard would be proud of she wrenched the skin and fur from its bone! A sickening ripping and squelch followed, a sound any other man would vomit to, the beast howled in agony and pain, the inhuman cry would make a hardened soldier shudder. As Seras pulled muscle and bone apart she increased the pressure on its head, crushing it underfoot, splaying blood and brain matter around the small corridor. The flames had caught up to them now, and even as the dead body of what was left of the beast began to turn back into a human it was being burned with the rest of the building. Immediately Seras' body commanded her to run, run out of the building. She complied immediately, running out of the door the geese ran out of. As soon as she was out in the open she heard a click of guns in her direction. It was the geese thinking she was another werewolf! Her body was about to attack them as well, but luckily someone was there to stop her.
"Don't shoot her." Came a commanding male voice, it was Alucard. The men were a little ways off in the darkness under the light of a streetlight, their guns all cocked in her direction, but the swirling crimson that is Alucard began to walk over to her. Seras stopped growling as soon as she noticed him, and seeing him walk over her hair began to recede and fall, bone twisted and reset itself to her human form…but too late she realised how naked she was! Just as the last of the hair had fallen and her body returned to normal Alucard was on her, he immediately whipped his coat around her to cover her nakedness from them. She let herself bury her head into his shirt. "We'll make our way back my way. You geese fly on home." Alucard stated. Before he began to disappear with Seras.
After they were gone the men lowered their arms, many looked up at their captain. But he just whistled.
"Merde…" He swore.
Seras was now flying over houses and fields, she was back in London. She could not perform the same trick as Alucard, disappearing to reappear near to his master. Perhaps that was just the connection she shared with him. She did not really care, just that she could not do it…yet. But great black shadow wings had grown out of her back whenever she wanted to fly anywhere. Unlike any other creature's wings, could only be described as shadow matter keeping her aloft. Soon the Hellsing manor could be seen in the distance, closer now…closer. She crossed the fields and the road leading up to the Hellsing building. Now she was within view of the great glass windows that marked the front of Integra's office at the very top floor of the building.
Integra watched her servant, he just stared back, as if both of them were waiting for the other to speak first. Integra was just about to speak when he suddenly looked up, the shadows disappearing from under his hat as his face sharply moved to look out of the window. A true smile crossed his face, not one of his infamous grins that he shares with her and his enemies. Integra wasn't sure what he was looking at…the moon? The moonlight shone on the floor behind Alucard, the great white sphere only broken by the wooden window edges. Integra stood up to see Alucard's face better when she then noticed movement in the white orb. Something with great wings was flying right for them! Integra immediately swung around her chair to better see out of her window. The shadowed figure swooped low and was on a crash course with the glass window! Integra ducked down behind her chair as the figure collided with the glass….only the smash never came. Integra saw the black winged figure somersault over her chair and onto the floor. The wings silently folded into her back, as if they were never there, Integra raised her gun to the figure in instinct.
"No need my master." Alucard spoke to her, he had not moved from his spot except to watch the figure land, now Integra looked more closely at the figure, now she recognised the Hellsing uniform and blonde hair. Seras. Integra put the gun down on the table with a heavy thud.
"Don't ever do that again. Some of us in this room still have beating hearts you know." She gasped as she held her fast beating heart in the shock of it all. Seras swung her head around, her hair whipping round as she did.
"I'm sorry sir." As Integra's heart slowed to a normal rate, and she could no longer hear it pound in her ears, no doubt the other two could hear it as she did. She noticed something. When Seras turned her left eye began to change back to its sky blue, like it always did when she came back from a battle and her bloodlust. But when she fully turned the other remained a bright crimson, identical to Alucard's. Was she becoming a full vampire already? This soon? Or was it this new lycan form she had found. Integra had never heard of a hybrid before, although with Seras it was never the norm with her.
First she was a paladin, then she was a regenerator where they must have done any sort of experiments on her, they being linked with Alucard at the same time. Then bitten and turned into a werewolf, now also turned into a vampire. None of it seemed possible, especially to one girl and all these things. But working in this job, you get to see a few things. "How was the mission?" Integra asked, changing her pattern of thought away from the poor girl before Alucard caught on. Seras' mannerisms changed back the way they were and her previous grin faded to a smile. Although her eyes remained as they were. Seras clicked her heels together like she always did as if she was in the army and saluted.
"Mission accomplished, the werewolves have been silenced sir." Alucard began to move away from her desk and toward his fledgling.
"Very good, what about the men?" She asked.
"They are cleaning up the scene and are on their way back." Integra wondered about something, if she really was progressing faster then expected on her way to being close to Alucard's power.
"Did you find out any information on the Vatican?" She tried asking. But it was only met with a confused face.
"How could I…?" She began. But Alucard explained.
"She means did you drink their blood to find any information." Seras lifted his face up to meet his.
"How do you do that….?" She sounded like a child. No she was not as powerful as she thought. This childlike girl could not be a nosferatu. But Integra could not get the image of her when she landed and looked back at her out of her mind. She emitted a dark aura similar to Alucard, her face, the way she acted. But now that dark aura was gone, the only evidence that it was there at all was the remaining crimson eye.
Alucard gazed at his future no-life queen, he was proud of her, but he would never say it. At first she was hesitant, but her instincts are in the right place, they are powerful and lead her willingly down the undead dark path he had walked down himself. If only she was not under the control of his master, she would have been pushed down the path half-mad like he was. Although on second thought, he would not want that harsh life for his fledgling. Here was safe and comfortable, until Alucard sees fit to leave. He raised an arm and placed it delicately on Seras' shoulder pushing her lightly toward the door. She glanced up at him, he noticed the two differently coloured eyes, unusual but not unheard of in fledglings when they start to change from human to vampire in their mind. He noticed the brightness of the crimson eye, showing a girl worthy of being his, then the other, reminiscent of her paladin past. But for now he would say nothing.
"Come Seras." He led her toward the door, she let herself be pushed toward it.
"Alucard, remember my orders." The female knight called after him. Seras grimaced at that, but Alucard did nothing.
"My master, I would never think of such a thing." He chuckled. But Integra huffed and rubbed her eyes from under her glasses. Before they even reached the door the shadows leapt up to meet them, as a dog greets its master. And Alucard walked right into them, disappearing into the darkness.
Back at the Vatican HQ…
"Anderson the newest batch of subjects are ready for inspection." A small voice wormed its way through the silence of the room, the man sat at the table stopped taping his fingers on the metal table.
"Good." He spoke. The young doctor coughed and then looked up from his pad. The room was dark and small, only a small light lit the room from above, casting shadows on the faces of the men.
"Darin?" The doctor asked. A crack could be heard as Darin flexed his fingers.
"My father is a little tied up at the moment, so I'm going be testing out this new batch of subjects." At this the doctor stepped back toward the door.
"You can't, only a paladin has the authority…" But then Darin shot the doctor a hard glare.
"Do not try and tell me what I can and can't do….I will be filling in for my father at the moment, he is….shall we say, weak. He has a soft spot for the concubine of the devil." He declared matter of factly. The doctor was now quivering being near his aura.
"You mean your cousin?" But that only got a glare from the Vatican member that could kill if looks could kill. His knees went limp for only a second so that he seemed to bob.
"Never refer to that thing as a member of my family, she cannot be saved and brought back to the light, she is no longer Seras, she is a demon from hell. Now…." His voice softened. "Let me see these new subjects."
The wind ruffled her hair as Seras sat atop the great Hellsing mansion, the night was black and bleak today, and if she was human she would be tucked safely up in bed. She sighed as she scanned the ground below. A few soldiers made their rounds on the grounds and the faint noise of crickets could be heard a little way away. Only broken by the whirring of helicopters, one of them must be the returning geese. But she never looked for them. Seras smiled, she knew she was happy here…but she was worried about the future…what was going to happen. But that made her nearly laugh, since when did she care about the future? Sure her life was a mess and she was afraid she was turning into nothing but a weapon for Hellsing. But for the most part, she was happy. She did not let her mind dwell on the fact that she was turning into what humans would call a monster, many in the mansion thought of her as one already. But she did not care, and did not think about it. But the train of thought caused her to think about her family, what happened to her parents? They must miss her dearly…she wondered if they knew if she was alive or dead…but then again, her uncle probably informed them she had been killed or something by now. Her uncle…she wondered what Anderson was up to now. There was no way of ever being able to be a family with him ever again…she knew this. But what about her cousin? She was worried about him.
Darin stepped into the large expansive room, the doctor just behind him. The room's roof was glass and ornate, coloured glass forming biblical pictures caused the light to shift colours as it shone down into the dark room. They were far underground. Inside the room was a garden, as if someone had tried to re-create the garden of eden. But on a poor budget. Tress of every description littered the vast room, palm, oak, pine. Shrubs and flowers adorned the place as well, filling every corner and even climbing the bark of the trees. But it was miss-mashed together, with no order, bar one clearing from the door to the rest of the underground facility. Darin's face lit up and he smiled at what he saw. A small group of people stood here and there in the clearing, all looking right at him as he entered.
"They are indeed creatures blessed by God. They are evolved… better!" The beings stood before him looked human on first glance but then this team showed signs of their inhumanity. One male bore twisted horns similar to the rhino and an antelope, with a long and twisting tail of a monkey. He was taller then the others, if an animal could even be close to being called a 'behemoth'. Like them all he bore no iris', only white could be seen in his eyes. Another, this time a female bore white furred skin, covered with holy markings and also with no iris', she bore horns like a ram's twisting in a curl around her head ending at her jaw. Another female next to her bore the white ears of a cat as they flicked around listening to every noise around her, white wings like a giant Dove's adorned her back, they were brought in close and bent for the time being. Another male on the far side under a tree away from the others was the leader, he also bore horns like the other two, these began at the back of his head and twisted back curling into each other, holy symbols covered his face. His hair was long as it ended down his back, claws grew from his fingers and a snake like tail slithered on the ground behind him. As he stepped into the light near his companions a pair of lizard like wings were curled tight to his back.
"What is our mission?" His voice rasped, yet deep at the same time. Darin turned to the Doctor.
"I must say, well done on them. I must try them out for myself." The Doctor raised an eyebrow at this. "Have they all the enhancements of the previous experiments?" The Doctor looked back down to his pad.
"oh yes of course." Darin grinned and turned back to the team of four, who stood a little way away staring him down. The holy energy covering their bodies should disintegrate anything dark that comes into contact with them, Darin unsheathed his sword from his belt. In one quick slash he brought it up to face him.
"Now, I wish to test your strength….fight me!" At this the three before him hissed at him and tensed up, but a hand up from the fourth male stopped them. A clear example of his leadership.
"If you wish to fight, then fight me."