Return of Royalty

Chapter 1

Soon Now...Soon

Well let's continue where we left off.

Alucard stared out at the moon from his perch on top of the Hellsing mansion. It had been twenty years, twenty long years since he parted ways with Seras, but that would soon be over. He smirked as he phased to Integra's bed room. He appeared in the corner of the room and watched the machines work that where keeping Integra alive. He moved over to the bed before looking down at his master and saying, "I told you those cigars would kill you."

Integra just smirked slightly as she knew she could no longer deny the truth. She had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer a year ago. So now here she lay in her bed plugged up to machine to keep her alive and help her breathe. She looked at her servant before she thought, 'Why did Seras really leave?'

Alucard looked at Integra before taking his glasses off and into his pocket. 'So you knew I wasn't telling the truth that night,' Alucard replied but was not too surprised at the outcome.

Integra nodded slightly, even though she could not move that much, and thought back, 'You are a terrible liar Alucard. We both know that...so tell me the truth before I die.'

Alucard smirked before replying, 'As you wish master. I sent Seras away because she was pregnant with our child. The last thing I wanted was for any kind of overreaction.'

Integra looked at Alucard before thinking, 'In my younger years I would've flown off the handle had you told me...but now it doesn't seem that important.'

Alucard placed his glasses back on and began to walk away. He was stopped by Integra thinking, 'What will you do when I die?'

Alucard looked back at the dying woman and said, "I haven't given it much thought. But, I'll probably find Seras and our child and go back home. England is filling up with a lot of trash recently."

Integra nodded before closing her eyes to go back to sleep. Alucard left the room while thinking, 'Sleep well master.'

Andreea stood at the bar in a local night club as others populated the dance floor. She watched as couples gyrated to and froth to the loud, blasting, techno music that the multiple speakers shot through the building. Andreea smiled as she watched. This was her kind of place, a place where she could feel alive, and not seem like a wilting flower in a window. 'I love mom to death but she just seems to be content to let the world pass her by. I can't settle for that I need to go out and feel alive,' she thought as the bartender set her drink down next to her.

She took a sip of her, 'Bloody Mary,' as she continued to watch others dance. It was about this time that she was joined by three males at the bar. They were freaks one and all and with Andreea as their fourth member they were quite the group. The first guy was a man that stood about five foot ten with brown hair, cut in a short and orderly style, and red eyes. His skin was pale, as most creatures of the night were, and his dress was that of a normal club patron. He wore a black tee-shirt with black jeans and black sneakers. Andreea knew him as James and he was the ring leader of the other two.

The other two were mirror images of each other. They both had blonde hair that came down to their shoulder with the same blood red eyes that all freaks possessed. Their faces were identical and the only way to tell them apart was by the style of their hair. The first one named Charles, or Charlie as he preferred, had a piece of his bangs grown out to where it covered the left side of his face. Sidney, his identical twin brother, had the reverse with the bang falling over his right side. All three of them ordered drinks before Charlie said, "Well here we all are again. And, I thought your mother didn't want you hanging out with us."

Sidney smirked before replying, "Yeah, last time we met that look of her's was enough to kill."

Andreea sighed before explaining, "Because the last time you saw her was the first time I had gone into bloodlust. Mom's a loving person at heart but she's very protective as well. She probably thought you guys were part of the reason I went into that state."

James smirked as he received his drink and took a sip. After setting down his glass he replied, "That's not what I've heard. According to my sources your mother was quite the hellcat when she was younger. That and she is a true vampire...she probably sees people like us as upstarts that are trying to take the easy road to power."

"I don't think mom cares one way or another. She just wants to protect me," Andreea thought as she took another gulp from her drink.

"Maybe, but she was sired by someone," James began, "And, whoever that was would have had a huge impact on your mother's ideals about things. If it was one of those old fogies that hates our guts..."

Andreea huffed before saying, "It doesn't matter. Mom won't tell me who sired her and I've had enough of this talk. I came her to have fun not talk about my mom," before walking out onto the dance floor.

'It's almost like they all keep pictures of her and fantasize about spending a wild night with mom,' Andreea thought as she shuttered from the idea.

True, she had to admit that her mother was quite the attractive woman, but the only persons her mother would give the time of day to would be her father and her. Andreea soon found a partner and joined in with the convulsing throng of dancers. Andreea swayed back and forth in the center of the dance floor as some on the side lines watched. She was one of the tallest people there and it did not help that one asset that she got from her mother was quite the attraction to young men. Of course her choice in clothing for the night did not help in that matter. Andreea was dressed in a tight, black, vinyl shirt that had no sleeves. Her skirt, which stopped just above her knees, was form fitting as well as the same color as the shirt. The deep, red fishnet stockings she wore started just inside her skirt and ran down until they were swallowed by a pair of black, high-heeled boots. She fit the look for a clubber but at the same time her height was a bit above most the others. Her long black hair swayed with her body as she began to lose herself in the music. "Man, your a bit touchy tonight want to talk about it," came a voice from in front of her.

Andreea looked to see James had moved with her and was dancing right next to her. "There's nothing to talk about I just don't like you guys ogling my mother like she was the next notch on your belts," Andreea replied as she continued to dance.

James shook his head in a silent laugh before saying, "It's not that. I guess we're just a bit curious what it's like. I mean she has reached a level of potential that we will never get to experience."

Andreea smirked before looking at James and asking coyly, "Or do you want a back up plan in case you ever run into Big Red as you call him," before moving back towards the bar.

James followed and sat down next to Andreea to be joined by the twins before he replied, "I guess we are a little guilty of that as well. Big Red is quite the killing machine and no one knows why he does what he does. We just know that he is very good at killing us off and having a true vampire to help out our own little community would not be a bad thing."

Andreea ordered another drink before saying, "Why not get help from your own. I heard that Marco, a freak that runs places like this, has gone up against Hellsing and survived. Why not ask him for protection if you are that worried?"

Charlie shook his head, "Nah, that won't do any good. Ole' Marco has lost his nerve over the past twenty years. All he cares about now is running his business under Hellsing's radar."

"Well, you won't get any help from mom. Hell, she seems to have a lot of respect for Alucard," Andreea replied before taking a drink.

She looked over the rim of her glass when she heard James spit out some of his drink. The brains of the crew looked at her before asking, "What did you say?"

"Alucard," Andreea replied, "I called him by his actual name. Mom found your little nickname for him very funny but told me that his real name is Alucard."

James' eyes lit up as he said, "Are you sure your mother won't help. If she knows anything about this guy that could be of use..."

James was interrupted by Andreea, "Like I said mom seems to have quite a lot of respect for him. And, at the same time she has apparently fought with him before and does not relish the idea of meeting him face to face right now."

James was about to retort when a gunshot went off from the front of the club. One of the bouncers came running in bleeding from the arm shouting, "Hellsing! Hellsing is here!"

The club went into a state of panic as the freaks looked for ways to escape. Andreea and her group kept their cool and made their way to the fire escape. They opened the door, glad that the alarm had been turned off ages ago, and began to walk down the iron steps. They soon reached a ladder and each slid down to the ground before heading into the back alleys of London. After getting a bit away Charlie laughed before saying, "Not bad. Got out Scot free."

James smiled before saying, "Yeah, but it has been easier to do lately now that Big Red has seemed to be awol."

As they turned the corner Charlie and Sidney stopped in their tracks. Both Andreea and James looked up to see a tall, lanky man dressed all in red. His head was bowed so all they could see was the brim of the red fedora and a frown on his face. All four backed up when the man slowly lifted his head to reveal red irises hiding under yellow tinted sun glasses. He smirked madly as his fangs came into better view before Charlie said, "It's him...It's Big Red!"

"I really hate that name," the deep and seductive baritone washed over the group with an almost hypnotic nature.

'Now I can see why mom acts like that when she mentions this guy. All he's done is said five words and my body is shivering,' Andreea thought before she tapped James on the shoulder and whispered, "Listen, I have the best shot at getting out of here alive. I'll cause a distraction and you guys run for it."

James nodded before the elder vampire in front of them spoke again, "One of you isn't a freak...which one might that be? It's been a long time since I've been able hunt a true nosferatu."

The group watched as he pulled a large hand gun from his coat pocket and aimed it while saying, "Oh well, not like it matters. I have to kill all of you anyway."

"Now," Andreea shouted as she rushed forward.

The other three took off running as Andreea took off a lighting speed to deflect the gun away. As she moved for the strike she summoned her favorite weapons to her. A hand guard formed on both of her hands with a long blade like piece of metal running down the length of both her arms for two feet. She moved up with her hand at the last moment to deflect the shot away. She jumped back from the elder vampire before saying, "Well, I guess you found the one that is not like the other."

Alucard chuckled as he looked at her before replying, "Not bad but those gauntlets are very cumbersome and limit your movement. I wouldn't use them if I were you."

"These are not gauntlets," Andreea replied as she thrust her first forward.

The weapons reacted to the force and the spring load mechanism released thus quickly shifting the long blades of metal out to the front. Alucard's smiled widened as the young vampire dropped into a stance. "I see...spring loaded Katars. This might be fun," Alucard replied as he moved forward.

Andreea dodged the shot he fired before thrusting her blade at his chest. The elder vampire parried with his hand gun and was pushing her arm down. Andreea quickly spun and slashed at Alucard just to catch a bit of his coat. He laughed before saying, "I see Seras has taught you well."

Andreea felt panic run through her as she thought, 'He knows who I am?'

'Yes, little one I know exactly who you are,' came the evilly seductive baritone of Alucard through her mind, 'There is no way of mistaking you. You look a lot like your mother and fight like her as well.'

Andreea shook her head and squared off with Alucard just to see him turn from her and begin to walk away. "What do you think you are doing," Andreea shouted as her pride had taken a hit, "Come back here a fight me!"

"You aren't my target so I'm going to cut you some slack little one," Alucard replied as he continued to walk, "Go home to your mother I'm sure she's waiting on you."

Andreea glared at the vampire as he disappeared into the alley. 'The nerve of that guy,' she thought before dismissing her weapons and turning into a flock of bats to head home.

As she took off she did not notice Alucard watching from a roof top. A smile spread across his face as he thought, 'Seras...you've done well raising our daughter."

'She just needs to stay away from the trash,' he thought with disgust about the freaks that had been with her, 'Soon little one soon...your mother and I will be back together very soon.'

Alucard then turned and disappeared into the night heading back to the Hellsing manor for his next assignment.

A/N: How's that for a little fun. Father and Daughter meet for the first time.

Disclaimer: Any characters or ideas from Hellsing do not belong to me. I am not selling this material, just writing for the heck of it as I go.

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