12 Years:
Year Six
My Daughter Tics Me Off:
The girl didn't know why it happened. They were just the most random, sudden movements that she would make for no reason.
Last week, while running to her father's room, she stopped and shrugged her shoulders.
About two days later, the right corner of her mouth started twitching.
When she went to that dinner party with the queen and various nobles, her knee felt like the doctor just hit her with that little hammer, and ended up kicking her leg out underneath the table.
Now, she was talking to her mother and waving her hand. She didn't know why, she just did.
"Nymphadora?"
"Yes Mother?"
"Why are you waving your hand? Is it getting to hot in here for you?"
"No, it's okay Mother."
-x-x-x-
She sat down on the bed and grabbed her piggy.
"That pig again?" her father materialized out of the shadows.
"Ya." she stuck out her bottom lip.
"Why the frown?" He asked her.
"I don't know..." she looked up at him, and blinked hard.
Alucard just gave the draculina a puzzled look, and fazed out into the shadows.
-x-x-x-
"They're tics." the doctor said.
"AHHHH!! MOMMY TOLD ME ABOUT TICKS!! I'M GOING TO DIE OF LYME DISEASE!! WAHHH!!" she started to cry.
"No, no, no. You don't have lyme disease."
She stopped crying and sniffled. "I don't?" She looked at him.
"No, these are different kinds of tics. They're just movements that your body does without you telling it. A lot of people get them. So, you're just a version of normal."
"Since I am a version of normal, does biting my Father's ankle normal?" She enquired.
"I guess, as long as it doesn't hurt."
"Okay!" She hopped off the examination table and walked out of the office. Seras met her at the door and they walked home.
"So, what did the doctor say?" The Police Girl asked.
"He said I was a version of normal."
"Ok."
-x-x-x-
"Hello?" Integra spoke into the phone.
"Yes, Sir Integra? This is Dr. Sherwood, and I want to discuss your daughter's condition."
"Yes Doctor, I'm listening."
They spoke for a while.
"So, you're telling me I should keep an eye out for her, and that her tics can get much worse?"
"Yes, if they get notably worse within...I'd say about six months to a year, then you must bring her back to me."
"Yes Doctor, I understand." She hung up.
The First Hunt:
"NO! I WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT ALLOW IT!"
"I believe she can pull it off."
"I know she can Alucard, but she's six years old! She is at an age where traumatic moments leave permanant impressions."
"You were thirteen when you killed your first person. You still seem pretty scarred from that."
"But she's six years old!"
"You taught her how to hold a gun when she was FOUR."
She glared at her husband, then returned to her paperwork. "I will not expose her to such violence. She will not go. "
"Expose her to violence? Integra dear, look at me." Normally she wouldn't but the 'Integra dear' caught her attention.
"What is it Alucard?"
"You shoot her on a daily basis."
"It's not my fault she's stupid. Your point?"
"If she gets shot she can regenerate herself."
"Point taken."
"Can she go then?"
"Yes, I give you my permission." As Alucard turned and walked away, she heard a little "YES!" and looked at the floor behind him, where she heard the sound come from. Alucard had a shadow. Wait, he was a vampire! He didn't have a shadow. How the hell(sing) was that possible?! Then, realization dawned on her.
"Alucard!" She called to him when he was right at the door.
"Yes Master?" He stopped and turn to her.
"Nymph's been caught."
"What do you mean Master?" He made an obviously fake puzzled face.
"I mean that Nymphadora has been listening the whole time and that I finally caught her in the shadows."
"Fine. Shrimpadora, get out." The shape of the little six year old formed from the shadow.
"Father! I'm not a shrimp!" She glared at him, but not without having to look straight up just to see his face. Then, she turned around to face her mother. "Hi Mother!"
"Hello."
"So..."
"What?"
"May I go?"
"No."
"WHAT?! BUT YOU--!"
"You just proved that you aren't able to hide in the shadows correctly yet and are thus incapable of going out on a mission."
"But Mother--"
"No! I will not allow it!"
"Please? Pretty please? Ice cream sundae and a cherry on top?" She made the cutest face possible.
Alucard bent down next to the draculina, put his head next to hers, and attempted to imitate the look. "Please? Pretty please? Ice cream sundae with a cherry on top?" He repeated in a high pitch voice.
Integra pulled out two guns out of her desk. One with normal bullets, and one with mercury-coated silver bullets. She aimed one at each head.
"No." And she pulled the trigger. Both triggers actually.
-x-x-x-
"Father, are you sure this is okay?" she asked in Romanian.
"Yes, and be quiet, or one of the Wild Geese will catch you." He replied in the same tongue, and pushed her back in the shadows.
The Wild Geese ran onto the crime scene and the two followed. Suddenly, hundreds of ghouls started coming up out of nowhere.
"NOW!" Alucard gave his cue, and the girl sprung up out of the shadows. He smiled, "Remember what I taught you. Good luck kid." He handed her a gun loaded with silver bullets and disappeared off to some other corner of the battlefield.
"Father? Father?! DADDY?!" She looked around frantically."...AH!" A ghoul came up behind her and she shot it. Right where she was taught. In the heart. Its blood spurted out all over her face and clothes. The ghoul fell.
She trembled and looked at her hand, which was covered in a little of the ghouls blood. Being a curious little girl, she quickly looked back and forth from her hand to the ghoul, then licked its blood. Then suddenly, the No-Life Princess felt a sudden rush of ecstasy, of pure pleasure. Nymph's eyes flashed red and she knew what she wanted. She wanted more, more blood. And she knew how to get it. She had to kill. A group of ghouls began to circle around her. She smiled. This was her lucky day.
Nymph started firing maniacally, hitting each ghoul in either the head or the heart. The child didn't waste a single bullet for each one hit their exact target and knocked each one the the ground. She laughed as their blood drenched her being, and she felt alive and free, a feeling she never got to truly experience. Once they were all gone, she sighed and her eyes returned to their normal ice blue. Her father rematerialized in front of her.
"Hm, how was hunting for the first time?" He smiled at her and picked her up.
"FUN! I wanna do it again!" She smiled.
"Okay. Now, let's go home and get you cleaned up before your mother finds out." And then they went home.
-x-x-x-
And so, for the next few months, Alucard sneaked his daughter out on missions with him. But over those few months, she was starting to change. She came only to not plop down on her bed, but she would long for the night. After a few hours, she would go to sleep. Soon, these few hours of sleep developed into none.
I'M SORRY! I DIDN'T UPDATE ON TIME!! WAHHH!! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!! Okay, so I have a personal deadline of every Sunday by 9:00pm. Apparently, I didn't meet it this week. I was so tired from animeNEXT that I couldn't do ANYTHING the next day...I promise to update on time with Year 7 by 9:00pm. AND SCHOOL IS FINALLY OVER!! WOOHOOO!!