In the end, I never got a chance to ask Master Alucard ,Seras harshly sighed as she drew out the last line that would complete the magic circle. With common set-up, she stood at the centre the circle.
Are you sure about this, Miss Seras? Pip asked her. I don't want to vanish.
"It will be alright Captain," Seras assured him. "Your soul was connected to mine after all."
Eh? But I thought we were merged as one soul and not just connected?
"Nope. No one can merge two souls as one but they can be connected. On human process, it can be done by the holy sacrament of marriage for the couples. For the other important persons like family and friends, it was through memories and love. With those as bridges, you would have enough reasons to be connected to a soul as long as you possess the same memories. Bridges like memories can be also applied to vampires. And since vampires like me and their prey got the same memories of encounter, a bridge was made. The only difference from the humans is that vampires just not connect the souls to ours but own it. But I wanted to clarify that owning and merging is different. Owning means you control their will without being truly one with them; you are not absorbed into the main system and a real part. Just like Master Integra had said, blood is the currency of the soul. To drink someone's blood to the last ounce means taking their life."
Pip nodded though a little bit confused and just pretending that he understood what the Draculina had said. Seras chuckled and continued "I know you're worried because only one soul can inhibit a mortal flesh but as long as we are connected, there's nothing to worry."
"Well, I'm going to continue now, Captain Bernadotte."
"I wish you luck little miss."
Alucard's omnipresence was no match on the lightspeed casting time of Seras' spell. By the time he got on the entrance of the Sorcery and Research Lab, the whole room was filled with divine light. No matter he wanted to enter the room, some kind of force temporarily sealed his power.It seems that outside intervention is prohibited,he thought.
What is mine is already mine and I don't take it lightly that it would just slip away just because of frivolous desire!
The Kind of Vampires took the form of Glenn St. Germaine, Duc de Orleans.
She tried to use her sixth sense to enhance her sight, smell and hearing but it was not responding. All she can do was to hear her heart racing in excitement. She grinned in triumph. The vampire, Seras Victoria, is a full pledge human again.
Congratulation, little miss. Seras heard Pip's voice but too bad she can't see him anymore.
"Thank you, Captain."
"I hate to say this but human body is really awesome," the door of the lab flew open and Seras recognized the man walking towards her.
"Glenn! I- ," but in her horror, Glenn was reverted into the ancient vampire as the flash of red and black course into his features. Every sounds of step he took echoed in the room and in Seras' mind.
"You're kidding me…" Seras started to feel the fatigue in her mortal body. The years were taking toll of her body that should little by little was weathered through time. Now she was paying for it and she knew that this might happen and she decided to deal with it later. A hell-sent storm was approaching her and it was time to stand still and to clench her teeth until it was gone.
"I'm not kidding you police girl. I do admire human bodies that aged naturally through time," Alucard's eyes were glowing red and though she was just human, Seras' knew that her former master was angry enough that he might kill her now, no, he was really gonna kill her.
"You lied to me," Seras murmured. All the moment she spent with Glenn was just lies. She realized that Glenn was just another soul that Alucard own and used it to toy her, a mere distraction to buy time, sneak in the mansion and unravel her secret research.
"It was you who first lied and I just returned the favour and now we're even," Alucard told her sarcastically disdainful and smiled maliciously. "I told you before police girl, you chose to be a night walker and you can't go back to daylight. You could have died as a human if you do not want to be a vampire."
And yet here I am; I have gathered consent from my research to be a daylight walker "I don't want to die as a human and to live as a vampire. I wanted to live as a real human! If a mere Midian decided to be a Nosferatu, why can't I desire to be a human? The answer was just everywhere, it was just needed to be pick up by a wish and simple choice –,"
Alucard was now deluded in multitudes of dark shades of wrath. He grabbed Seras by the collar "You utterly disappointed me police girl! Desire? Humanity? Don't make me laugh! Everyone desires to be immortal even to throw out their humanity! Those Nazi bastards wanted to be a Nosferatu and you who attained it were laying waste of your own efforts!!!" In truth, Alucard is not disappointed to Seras but to himself. It was just again a human who made him realize that a single choice and a selfish wish can turn the events.
"Well then tell me No life King, are you happy at your situation? Perhaps contented but not glad," Seras said with straight face. Alucard let go of her and she fell on the ground. She dusted off her clothes as she got up and started talking again knowing the vampire was slightly perturbed. "Nosferatu? Yes, I might near of being immortal but it was no good! I can't do anything because our existence should not be revealed in the surface world and simply ostracized in the underworld. We fed on human blood. And that made us pathetic; you and I and the vampires are pathetic without those frail humans that our prey! Even the title 'No Life King' is worthless, so worthless I can't fulfil my desire-,"
Her speech was brought to halt again and Seras gasped when she realized her master pulled her hand and embraced her so tight she thought he was squeezing the very life of her.– to be at least near to you the most, she finished her statement on her mind.
"I can hear you clearly enough Seras so you don't have to yell at me," the storm inside Alucard calmed down. He pressed his lips upon the top of Seras' head. "Ah, how nostalgic! Your words instantly brought me to the past! Just like Abraham van Helsing had said as he plunge a woodstake on my heart, I am pathetic and so was my title – Nosferatu"
She did now understood that he was forced to be a monster to escape the pain of being a man like an angel banished from heaven that got limited choice of being a demon. Alucard got his left foot trapped in a sensual seduction. At the moment of his death he chose the forbidden power to trample on humanity. He savoured the power until he was defeated several times, finding himself astounded at the event that it made him fall deeper into the depths of despair.
Seras' adrenaline rush flowed slowly as he whisper the words with undeniable desolation. She could feel tranquillity was overcoming her defiance against the vampire. Tears of blood flowed on her golden hair until it reached her cheek. "I know I am too arrogant to think that your future belongs to me – the future that shall crush the burdens of my past." Alucard released her and Seras watched with her blue eyes the strokes of bloody tears streaming down from those crimson eyes
The bluntness of her words gave her master a bitter dose of pain that she did not foresight that it could lacerate her heart, too. She wanted to blame him for turning her emotions upside down. She tried to smile though she was about to cry and her voice broke "Master… You're too unfair." She got closer to the vampire and tip-toed to close the gap of his towering height to her. The first step of her bravery started when she cupped Alucard's face. She felt the coldness of his pale skin and it seems that the first step will also be the last as she nervously licked the traces of his bloody tears that brought back the vampire's sense of reality. Seras crimsoned tremendously after executing her daring move.
As if his cold lips got its own life, it took possession of Seras lips. She responded to that move, touching then entwining her master's. An exploding sensation coursed all over her body like flares of fireworks with the knowledge that her Sire pressed her body closer to him. "Seras Victoria,mySeras Victoria," the King of Vampires murmured as their part their lips.
The kiss almost took away her breath and godly, those sweet, ill-fated words forcibly stripped away the stored energy in her mortal flesh. Seras knees felt jelly-like she might sit on the tiled floor but without receiving support from Alucard's tapering arms.
The Count's lips were now on her neck, on the place where he sucked her blood the day she died on the Cheddar Village. The police girl knew she might convulse if this erotic sensation continue to stir her inside.
He looked up at her, asking permission to draw blood from her "It will be your choice. You can reject me if you want to." He was not wearing his usual scythe like smile clad with maliciousness but a serene expression.
She did not answer but have her hand at the back of his raven haired head and pressed it at her neck. How the hell she could reject such beautiful creature? Without another second thought, Alucard plunged his fangs on Seras' neck and drew blood then swallowed it.
Seras became limp and can't move any inch or any part of her body. She was getting numb to the dazzling trap she had set for herself. Alucard pulled his fangs out of her neck. From blue, Seras' eyes turned into blood red again. All her basic abilities as a vampire came back. She was a Midian again.
My experiment was for naught. It seems that Master's best talent is laying waste of someone's experiments, she thought. Seras tried to hide her mirth yet her lips cracked a smile.
I'm proud that is one of my specialties, he answered through telepathy. She gazed at him and now he was wearing his mischievous smile.
The Draculina cannot help but to notice the ravenous hunger that was reflected in the eyes of her master. She wondered if she can satisfy that infinite desire.
Their lips met again in a violent kiss. Alucard was now demanding everything Seras have as he pushed his tongue to her parted lips and received an eager, satisfying response.Oh sure you can, he told her seductively,yet after my hunger dies comes next was craving, just like having a bite of the most delicious and forbidden food, I might not let myself not to savour that one of a kind flavour again.
Now that he got her distracted by his seductive kiss and expression, the Count took that opportunity to destroy every material inside the room using his swirl of shadows of red and black. From the books to the documents and even the equipments and her research was turned into ashes. Forget everything, specially your research for you are mine again, no, you are always mine, he put her in control and she easily submitted. As they parted from their burning kiss, Alucard released her from his hypnosis. Seras' jaw dropped open as she noticed the shambles and the broken remains of the Sorcery and Research Laboratory.
Drink my blood, he ordered her. And he knew like in Badrick, she was hesitating to do it.That is an order!
Intimidated by his order, Seras fangs grazed into the pale skin of Alucard's neck until it punctured the flesh full of blood. She realized how hungry she was for she drew out blood so much. She swallowed every drop of his blood and it painted her blue eyes into permanent crimson dye, a sign of being a full pledge vampire- a Nosferatu that knows no fear any longer. And by incident, she had read his recent memories.
On those memories, Alucard approached her, conversed with her with the same lines Glenn had told to her and he got the same reply from Seras just like her answers to Glenn. On Alucard's perspective, he was dancing with her and he was looking at her intently with passion as if he took away his gaze on her, she would vanish instantly without any trace in his arms. And the rest of it was their stroll in the Swan Gazebo and the kiss.
Seras the police girl finally understood that the King of vampires did not use another soul to keep her distracted but it was really Alucard himself, who took another appearance, disguised himself and escorted her all through the night. It was somehow amusing that he did change his attitude and characteristics and even mock himself just not to blow his cover. Or maybe it was not just an act. His kindness and the tenderness of his sweet words were truly part of him, hidden beneath those cruel acts. Alucardiskind and ruthless at the same time.
And that's why Glenn and Alucard's kiss were the same because they were but a single entity.
She pulled out her fangs. "You almost save none for me," Alucard darkly chuckled.
Seras looked at her Master's blood red eyes and found that it was gazing her with pride and it put a sparkle in her eyes. "I fell in love with you Master when I died, when I became a vampire and you are yourself," Seras was reluctant to let the word slip out of her tongue but she continued to speak. "I fell in love to Glenn when I desire to be a human when in truth you are Glenn. And still I fell again for you as a human and all through my transition from Midian to Nosferatu. No matter the situation was, it was an inevitable answer that I will be always smitten to you. If it will be possible for a vampire to be reincarnated, I know that I will always fell in love with you. Do you think it will be alright, Master?"
"I would haunt you if you didn't. I'm going to force you and seduce you if I have to when you are not smitten to me anymore if it happened when you reincarnated. But sadly you are no longer a human, You are a true blood Nosferatu, my blood kin, a No Life King or Queen whichever you prefer and you shall endure eternity with me," he told her softly and darkly in her ears that sent shiver down her spine. He licked her earlobe sensually and grazed it with his sharp teeth. Alucard smiled roguishly. Teasing her was really entertaining and her embarrassment adds allure in her
To save her from drowning in his attention, Alucard scooped Seras up and carried her bridal style. She was a bit surprised. She viewed him and remembered that it was the second time he did this to her. The first time he carried her like that when she was killed and turned into a vampire in Cheddar Village. It was slightly uncomfortable to her when he brought her like that in front of the police support team and to Master Integra
Her eyes didn't deceive her. After all the years, Alucard was still the most beautiful and devastatingly handsome creature she had ever seen.
"Master… Alucard"
"We are near to end yet your mind still drifting from the starting line," he noted "Be sure that you'll be focused later for I'll own youagain (yet diffently) tonight," he muttered as he led down their path to nowhere.