Chapter 2: Memories, and a Shooting at Twilight

Author's Note Part 1: Well guys, I'm going to assume that you like the story so far with the amount of views that I've gotten, although with the single review (at the moment of writing this AN), I can't be entirely sure. Either way, I at least hope that you're enjoying this, and will continue to like it as I progress with the story.

Now, for this chapter, it's gonna be focused on the shooting that involves the two vampires attempting to gain "immortality". And I'm sure you can gather from the title of the chapter that I'll be heavily incorporating the Hellsing Ultimate Abridged plotline into this chapter, even though it's likely going to be a bit shorter than my last one, since I want to focus entirely on all of the hospital scenes next chapter, and not spread them out over the course of two or three chapters.

As it is, I'll still be taking from the regular Hellsing Ultimate anime quite a bit near the beginning, but the Abridged parts will be more noticeable near the middle and the end of the chapter. Not only that, but I'm sure that you can also tell from the title that we'll be getting a bit more backstory on Dante. After all, since there's only 10 episodes of the anime that I can draw from before I have to rely on the manga, I'd like to spread out Dante's backstory a bit over those 10 episodes.

Anyways, that's about it for this first Author's Note, so I'll let you guys get to reading the newer chapter for this. Hope you all enjoy it as much as the last one!

An armored truck was driving down a dirt road that had empty fields on either side of it. Inside, Alucard was sitting in the passenger's seat, a Hellsing operative was driving, and Dante and Seras were sitting in the back, the prior sitting while holding onto a rifle without a scope, that was twice as large as a regular rifle. As they drove along the road, Integra's voice came over the radio in the front of the truck.

"The target is moving north on route 17 butchering whole households along the way! Do not leave a single freak standing!" She exclaims, Alucard, Seras and Dante listening to her voice as the newly made vampiress grits her teeth at the orders. Dante watches as he holds Ivory in his hands, before reaching over and placing his hand on Seras' shoulders, making her look up at him.

"Hey, don't worry about it for now. Chances are Alucard's gonna have too much fun on this job, and end up killing the target with extra flair, meaning we won't have to do a thing." He tells her, making her stare at him for a little while, before nodding. He smiles at her in response, before going back to his gun, wiping it down even though it was already spotless. In reality, he was just doing this to keep his mind off Seras. Not that it was working.

The blond vampiress was fairly attractive, although the way that she acted was a tad too innocent for him. After the life he'd lived, he wasn't all that into girls who were as innocent as her, even though it was a nice change from the usual personalities of Hellsing operatives. As he continues to think, Dante succeeds in getting his mind off Seras, but not in the way that he was hoping.

By thinking about his past, it brought up memories. Some of which he wished that he could forget. He closes his eyes, and a small frown makes its way onto his face as the memories play out behind his eyelids. Some from Manhattan and the spread of the Blacklight Virus, others of his older brother figure, and finally, that one memory of the night that everything changed for him. The night that he gained the Blacklight Virus. The night one year ago… When his parents were murdered.

*Flashback*

An 18 year old Dante was crouched behind a couch, an iron pipe held in his hand with one end being a flat circle, while the other was sharp at different points in the circle, showing that it had been snapped off a larger piece instead of being cut. Dante was breathing heavily, and the sharp end of the pipe was dripping blood onto the hardwood floor.

Dante suddenly stiffened up when the wooden door to the room he was in was opened, and a man walked in. Said man had short white hair, and pale Caucasian skin. He was wearing a business suit that consisted of black dress shoes, black dress pants, a tuxedo, and a black tie. However, the thing that stood out about him the most was the fact that his eyes were blood red.

"Come out, come out wherever you are. You little brat." The man says with a bloodthirsty smirk on his face as he looks around the room, revealing his sharpened teeth. Dante tightens his grip on his makeshift weapon at the man's voice while he stays hidden behind the couch, refusing to do as the man says. "You might have gotten the other vampire who was with me, but I'm afraid that you won't kill me." The man says as he walks into the room, revealing that he was actually a vampire, which explained his sharp teeth. "Perhaps if you come out of hiding and beg me, I'll give you a painless death. Unlike your parents that is." The man continues, making Dante stiffen up in response.

His parents, Dante remembered the fear he saw on his mother and father's faces as the two men who'd entered their house revealed their sharpened fangs. How they'd urged Dante to run, only to be decapitated and stabbed through the hearts by the two men seconds after they'd pushed him through the door and deeper into the house. The fear in their eyes hadn't been for themselves, it was for what the men could possibly do to their son. He'd done as they asked and ran as the men's laughter echoed through the household, eventually making his way into his basement.

There, he'd found the pipe that he was currently holding in his hand, and had stabbed one of the men through their heart when they'd opened the door to check the basement for him. Unfortunately, his yell of pain had succeeded in getting the attention of the other vampire, and Dante only had enough time to rip the pipe out of the man's heart and run, instead of attempting to kill the other one who had caused his parent's deaths. Because of this, he only noticed the man he'd killed turn into nothing but dust as the other man made his way into the room out of the corner of his eyes as he ran through the house to find another hiding place.

Now, he stayed hidden behind the couch, sweat trickling down his face as he attempted to find a way out of the dilemma that he found himself in. However, his thought process is broken as the man rounds the couch and sees him, his bloodthirsty smirk changing into a sadistic grin as he looks at the teen in front of him.

"There you are you little brat." He says, and acting on pure instinct, Dante attempts to lunge forwards with a yell that was completely filled with anger as he tried to bring the pipe down towards the man's heart, hoping to kill him the same way he'd killed the other and avenge his parent's deaths. Unfortunately, the man had seen this coming, and brings up his hand to catch Dante's arm, stopping the pipe a few inches from his chest.

"Tsk, tsk. Now this won't do." The man says, before bringing his arm down on Dante's, breaking it and causing the teen to release a yell of agony as his grip on the pipe becomes non-existent, allowing the piece of metal to fall to the floor with a loud clang. Then, the man brings his hand to Dante's throat, and lifts the teen up, who starts to choke as his passageway for air to travel to his lungs is partially blocked.

"Now, I think it's about time I get rid of you., you annoying little brat." The man says, opening his mouth to reveal all his sharpened teeth once again, the canines especially sharp. However, instead of staring at the man in fear like anyone else in Dante's situation would, he instead glares at the man in utter hatred, no fear present in his eyes at all as he stares at the man who'd been one of the two who killed his parents.

Just as the man's teeth are inches from Dante's body… The man's head is suddenly separated from his body, before red and black tendrils grab onto the head flying through the air, along with the rest of the body, causing Dante to fall to the floor. Then, the tendrils completely cover the body, before it's absorbed into the person who's standing right behind the spot that the man had previously been.

Dante coughs as he wraps the hand attached to his unbroken hand around his throat as he looks up at the man who'd saved him. He was wearing black shoes, blue jeans, a white shirt, grey hoodie, and a black leather jacket. He had Caucasian skin, blue-grey eyes, and his brown hair was hidden underneath the hood on his head. However, due to the clothes that he was wearing, Dante had no problems recognizing the man in front of him. The fact that his entire right arm was nothing but a mass of red and black tendrils which also created a large blade also made it so that Dante could easily identify the person standing in front of him.

"Alex…" He mutters. Alex Mercer, the "cause" of the Blacklight Virus that spread through Manhattan, was standing in front of him.

*End Flashback*

Dante is suddenly shaken out of his memories when the van comes to a halt, and the Hellsing operative driving the truck turns around in his seat to face the two in the back. "Alright, we're at the address that Sir Integra gave me. You three are to go in there and take the target out per Sir Integra's instructions." He says, Alucard getting out of the truck with a scoff.

"Yeah, yeah. Dante, police girl, go onto the roof. I'm going to go in the front door. And operative guy. Stay right here, we'll be back in a few minutes. I want to get back to the mansion in time to see the new episode of Adventure Time." He says, making Dante sigh as he opens the back door for him and Seras to get out.

"I swear Alucard, at the rate you watch that show, you won't be bi-polar anymore, you'll just be plain batshit insane." He says with a chuckle at the end due to the pun, and the truth of his statement. "Anyways, let's go Seras, might as well get this over with quickly." Dante continues, walking towards the side of the house with a wave towards Seras.

"Oh, sure thing Dante." She says in response, jogging over towards her fellow 19 year old, who bends down slightly, before pushing off the ground with enough force to easily reach the roof of the building in front of him. Seras stares up at him in shock, before shaking her head and sighing as she simply starts to climb the side of the building, making Dante release a sigh of his own as he realizes that Seras doesn't know that she could do the same thing as him.

While all this is going on, Alucard makes his way to the front door, and is about to ring the doorbell, when his vampire hearing picks up the sounds of two vampires in there, instead of one like they'd thought. He decides to listen in on the two conversing, and almost wishes that he hadn't.

"I love you, Edward." A feminine voice says between the sounds of heavy making out.

"And I love you, Bella." A male voice responds, making Alucard frown, before a smirk makes its way onto his face as he knocks on the door. In response, he hears the male voice start talking again. "Hold on…" He says, and Alucard listens to the sound of the vampire walking in the house, before he stops a few yards away from the door. "Who is it?" Edward asks, and Alucard allows the smirk on his face to change into a bloodthirsty grin.

"Oh you know." He says, and a few seconds later he starts unloading into the door with Casull, prompting yells of pain from the vampire behind it, before he climbs through the doorway after the door itself is turned into nothing but ash by his vampire powers as he continues to fire, and then finally pierces the other vampire's heart with his hand, turning him into dust as he turns around towards the front doorway, the smirk still on his face as a bloody cross is left behind on the wall from the death of Edward the vampire. "A real fucking vampire." He states.

As he walks towards the door, he opens the mental connection that he'd created with Seras when he turned her into a vampire to contact her, Hey police girl, do you have the target? He asks, and up on the roof, Seras looks in the direction that the other vampire, Bella, was running from the house after the death of her boyfriend. Dante looks in the same direction, having no problem seeing the woman thanks to his nature as a host to the Blacklight Virus.

"Okay, master, my name is Seras. And yes, I have the target in sight." She says as she aims at the woman running with the rifle she'd had with her in the truck, able to see the running woman without a problem even though she was currently 600 meters away thanks to her "third eye" as Dante had told her it was called.

Well you'd better take the shot, you're letting her get away. Alucard comments, making Seras' eye twitch as she aims down her "sight" towards the woman, closing one eye to get a better view.

"If you'd just give me a second to concentrate I could-" However, she's cut off by Alucard as he uses the shadows to teleport himself up onto the roof a few yards away from Seras and Dante.

"She's getting away, she's running." He comments, making Dante turn to look at him out of the corner of his eyes, before turning back to Seras with a light chuckle at Alucard's current behavior.

"I get it! I'm lining up the-" However, even as Seras' eyes turn red to show that she was getting a better view of her target, Alucard interrupts her again, the large smile on his face similar to the one he had when he'd killed Edward. In fact, it had never gone away this entire time.

"Going to miss it. Going to miss it!" He says with the smile clear in his voice as Seras continues to stare at the running vampire, Dante stifling his chuckles off to the side at this personality of Alucard's.

"Just be quite and let me-" But once again, Alucard doesn't let Seras finish.

"Hey police girl! Hey! Hey police girl!" Alucard calls out, and Seras' eyes widen in annoyance as she finally takes the shot, the force of the bullet tearing through the heart of the running vampiress, causing the hat that she'd been wearing to fall to the ground behind her as her body slumps to the ground, most of the top half of her body gone thanks to the speed and power behind the bullet that tore through her, ending Bella the vampiress' life.

"There! I took the fucking shot! She's dead! There's blood, everywhere!" Seras exclaims, and Dante finally starts laughing out loud as Alucard gives a smile filled with his sharp teeth.

"Oh you are just a treat." He comments as Dante walks over to clap his hand on Seras' shoulder.

"Great shootin' Tex!" He exclaims with a wide smile on his face. "Now, let's head back to the mansion. The last thing we need is for Alucard to miss the beginning of Adventure Time and have a hissy fit about it." He says as he helps Seras to her feet, and the three head back inside as the sun slowly starts to rise in the sky. Back inside the house, Alucard calls up Integra to give her their field report, and at the end, Integra lets off a sigh.

"So that's your field report." She states more than asks.

"Yup." Alucard responds, while Dante and Seras stand off to the side, Seras with a slight look of confusion on her face, while Dante is smiling since he knows how this conversation will likely go.

"So you broke into the house." Integra continues.

"Yup." Alucard says.

"And you shot him 36 times." Integra says.

"Thirty-seven." Alucard corrects her, making Dante attempt to stifle his laughter since he didn't want Integra to hear him.

"And took out his partner." Integra continues, making Alucard glance over at Seras.

"To be fair, that was the police girl… With the big titties." Alucard says, finally making Dante chuckle enough that he can't stifle them as silence is heard over the phone, before Integra sighs.

"You need to stop with the theatrics." She says, making Alucard pull the phone away from his ear and hold it in front of him.

"And you need to hurry up and hook up some god damned DSL in here." He tells Integra. In response, the three standing in the living room of the destroyed house hear Integra's sound of annoyance, before she starts talking again.

"Listen, you have another assignment." She tells them, making Alucard whine.

"Aw, but there's a new episode of Adventure Time in a few hours!" He says, but Integra simply brushes him off.

"It's in Ireland." She tells them, and Dante smirks as he walks closer to the phone.

"Ooh, we've never hunted down a leprechaun before. Do you think that if we shoot it with our guns Lucky Charms will explode everywhere?" He asks, making Alucard laugh maniacally at the thought, Seras even letting off a light chuckle, while Integra simply sighs in annoyance.

"Sweet Christ. Just get to Ireland, kill the vampire who's taken over the hospital, and bring the police girl with you." Integra says, making Dante smile at the thought of Seras being along for the ride with them, while Alucard lets off a slight sound of annoyance.

"Aw come on, I have to bring her everywhere." He complains.

"Ah, ah, ah. None of the sass." Integra tells him.

"Yes, mom." Alucard responds, before hanging up on Integra, and making his way back to the truck outside, grumbling about the fact that he's going to be missing the new episode of Adventure Time, leaving Dante to chuckle as he stands besides Seras.

"Come on Seras, might as well get out there quickly. Unfortunately we probably won't make it in time to save anyone from becoming a Ghoul, since the job's in Ireland, but we'll at least be able to avenge them by taking out the vampire, and putting their souls to rest." He tells her with a somber look, before a smirk makes its way onto his face. "All while having fun of course." He says as he turns and starts to make his way towards the truck behind Alucard, making Seras hurry to catch up to them.

"Right, of course Dante." She says as the three climb into the truck, and the Hellsing operative that's behind the wheel slams down on the breaks, and causes the truck to shoot down the street in the direction of the new address that they have to make their way to. All the while Alucard grumbles under his breath, Seras thinks about her knew powers and possible problems that she has now that she's a vampiress, and Dante simply thinks about the new job ahead of them…

As well as what would happen if he shot a leprechaun with Ivory.

Author's Note Part 2: Well guys, that's the second chapter for you! As you can see, it was indeed a bit shorter than my first one, but I already said in the first AN that I want to fit in the hospital scenes in the next chapter. I hope that you're at least enjoying this so far, since I've only gotten two reviews so far. Granted, there's a few of you who have favorited and followed this story, but it would be nice to have a bit of feedback as well.

Now as you can see in this chapter, the middle and end were largely based off of Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, with Alucard's personality, Seras' personality, and the conversations between characters. Note that next chapter will also take from the Abridged series as well, since that part is too hilarious not to include a good amount of what happens in it.

You guys have also been given a bit more info in terms of Dante and his backstory! Now, like I said before, his past will be talked about over the course of the 10 episodes of Hellsing Ultimate, and possibly afterwards when I eventually use the manga only when I run out of anime to use.

Anyways, I suppose that now would be a good time to respond to the two reviews that I've gotten on this story so far.

Anime PJ:

Good to know! I was trying to take this more along the humor route, since I'm using Hellsing Ultimate Abridged for most of this anyways! As for everyone being bi-polar, I'm glad you like that, since that's pretty much the only way I could think of in order to combine everything together in a way that would make at least a little bit of sense. I like that I've managed to put you into a good mood, and I hope you liked this chapter just as much as the last one!

Guest:

Glad to know that you liked the last chapter! To answer your question, I've addressed this in a few of my other stories, but I'll say it here as well. I have ADD. Because of this, I could be working on a scene for one of my stories, before suddenly thinking up a scene for a completely different one that I've posted, or even come up with an idea for a completely knew story at any point during the day. This especially happens after I've watched a new anime, TV show, or even after reading a new book, or re-reading an old book.

So essentially, if there's anything that my attention is drawn to that has the possibility of giving me new ideas for old or new stories that I can post, you can assume that it's likely that will happen. Hence the reason for 99% of the stories that I've posted here.

And that's about it. Next chapter we get onto the hospital scenes, and Dante will have his first "real" fight in the story! Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this, and I hope to see you all next time!