Dear readers, I'm sorry to followers of the fic that I stopped writing any sort of fanfiction for over 3 years. Real-life and a change in career prompted this. My overall general decrease of interest in Hellsing and anime/manga was also a deciding factor (I currently work in the Digital animation and interactive media field).
For Midian, I'd like to thank all who felt that Tian was such an interesting character. I'm just happy you accepted him and not have complaints of 'over-power' and such.
Now, I'd like to point out that I will skip to the ending, because I'm far happier with it than the middle.
The story originally involves a dragon, unicorn, and a Chinese man who apparently can transform into a dog/dog-like.
I kept Tian, but what seemed like a good idea seems clunky now. The dragon and unicorn still exist in this story, I just don't want to write about them anymore.
However, PLEASE continue to read this. I still love to write, and as much effort as before was put into this chapter as any other before.
PS: In part, I appreciate Hellsing and this fandom as a springboard for this original character, who is now a star of his own original manga produced in Singapore. He has a sizable cult following.
A troubling dark.
Deep and pock-marked with mirrors of memory; shattering into more pieces and showing more images of time.
The miasma of a dulled pain, red and livid, snaking and thrashing.
The dark was bleeding into the light.
Spirit to Beast or Demon. Beast to Man or Demon. Man to God or Demon. This is our sacred order. The passage of all of the Middle Kingdom.
I am the Dog of Heaven! I and my Belly of Iron! I wield the Simadhi Flame; the Death of Gods and Demons!
You were the worm in the ear of an old woman. Then you became the Five-Coloured Dog, the favourite of the Emperor. You won a war and wed a Princess, and you would become a man. Then Heaven came down and took you and your children away, making you into warriors and the Servants of Heaven. You became a God. A God in servitude to Gods.
Then Heaven made a mistake, and you destroyed it. You became the Scourge.
Gods, what am I?
Bleeding, rending into light. Tian opened the eye not covered by dirt and peered into a dull sun at dusk. A tall shadow covering most of it.
You are the God Dog who killed the Gods and devoured Demons. You are the child of the earth who brought Heaven to the ground.
"...I...I was a husband...the father of twelve..." Tian groaned.
He pulled his hands slowly underneath him. The joints moved as if for the first time. He swore he heard them creak and shudder, as if he were an old man.
"Need a hand?" the voice seemed to purr with slyness.
Tian growled, twitching from his sleeping limbs. He stopped once he had both his arms underneath him to prompt his upper-body at an incline; and huffed.
There was a pause.
"Well?" Tian said slowly and indignantly, slowly twisting his head up to face the vampire.
It was fairly hard from his position, so he focused on the shiny teeth.
"...you actually want my help?" Alucard answered in surprise.
With some effort, Tian managed to pull one hand up to his face and grimaced into it.
"I just defeated, single-handedly I might add, your ancient half-crazy possessed dragon-mentor. To help your master, I agreed to not only burn the body, but get rid of the remains by eating them. He wasn't tasty, if filling."
"Now I just got my full memory back. My body's asleep, and I'm digesting. I won't be able to move for hours and I smell rain coming."
Tian paused again, and still looking up at Alucard, he sighed.
"So...if you wouldn't mind..."
Alucard gave a smirk, but said nothing else.
Helping Tian to his feet, he let the Asian man to use him as support as they shambled towards the waiting car and vans.
"You're not getting into the car you know?" Alucard said as they neared where Integra stood, along with a contigent of armed personnel.
"...as long as there's not a collar involved, I'm fine with the van." Tian sighed as the uniformed soldiers took him off of Alucard's hands, under Integra's watchful eye.
"Heh, you never know. Her father put me in a strait-jacket."
As metal chains and clasps were snapped onto his wrists and ankles, Tian did not resist and let the soldiers complete putting on the restraints.
'I think I'll snap these if I sneeze.' He thought derisively as he was loaded into the back of one of the vans.
Just as they were closing the door behind him, Tian suddenly remembered something.
"Weren't you in a dress most of the time?" He called out as the doors closed.
Integra twitched.
"...what?"
NOT THE END, PEOPLE!
I'm just done for today. It gets pretty...ugly...and serious after this. Think politics, with the supernatural. Yeah, more than sparks fly...