"I'm not sure if that's healthy, dear." The kind old woman said, her voice drifting off as Vash attacked the first row of doughnuts in the enormous box he had just purchased. He smiled and walked away –chewing away as well, for that matter. "Don't eat them too fast!" Her warning called behind him in the form of a concerned mutter. I remember her grandma, when she used to bake there, He mused, heading toward a semi-secluded bench with a good view of the the market place. The sun was bright today, and no incidents for an entire two weeks since 'Alucard' had murdered everyone at July's local T.G.C (Technology Gathering Center). Unfortunately, he knew better.. Eventually something would come to break the peace he had, but that would not stop him from devouring his doughnuts first! He was already busy on the second row. sub((each row contains a total of ten full-sized doughnuts here people! X.x))/sub
"I can see you've been enjoying yourself," A deep voice penetrated the peace he had been previously enjoying. Aw Damn, Vash thought screwing up his eyes in his presence before looking up. After a silent debate between slight fear of others being harmed and facing the mass murderer who would invoke bad memories, he looked up to find inothing/i. What? But he was just-, Vash saw him as a red cloaked figure barely visible in the shadows across the large market circle. How did I hear him from all the way over there?
i"'Sharp eyes, few could find me from where I'm hiding,"/i his casual tone again, as if he were standing right next to him explaining tomorrows weather. i Why, dry and upwards of triple digits of course, it never changes here!/i
"Alucard, right? Why are you talking to me? Aren't you worried I'll tell anyone?" Vash asked, almost not wanting to know as possibilities lined up in his head for the reasons he was there. i He could be a person who works for Knives and wants to kill me, he could be here to kill me because having one person escape was annoying, or he could just want someone to talk to –fat chance,/i Vash thought miserably. Fighting was not on his agenda today. iA mind reader. If it weren't for Lagato I guess hearing him in my head would be trippy.../i The grimace over his face was halted – he couldn't change his range of emotions too much in front of people.
"iYou really think they would believe you? I'm amazed no one realized who you were when you buried their dead,"/i Alucard stated, missing the tone of amazement he described feeling.
"You know who I am; does that mean you work for Knives?" Sighing he tried to quickly find a spot he could place his doughnuts before the possibility of a fight began. iSo much for finishing my doughnuts first, man, and I really hoped I would have another day of sitting in peace!/i
i"Another day of peace? When did I say I was going to fight you?"/i Alucard's voice asked, reiterating Vash's thoughts. Shocked, Vash stared at the man hiding in the shadows with new worry.
"So you can read minds!" Vash almost yelled, his voice muffled due to a doughnut he had been in the process of chewing.
"Why is he talking to himself like that?" A passing girl giggled to her boy companion. A few others in the market were also staring at him while others merely shook there head. "…Must be loony, or something," he vaguely heard another say.
"So then, knowing I am not trying to kill you, would you speak with me later tonight?" Alucard asked, his maniacal chuckle continuing as if it were impossible to separate it from his voice.
"Why tonight, and not now?" Vash asked, deciding it was too late to stop talking to himself in public with the last group of girls who passed him in a fit of sudden hushed voices and glances in his direction.
"I hate the sun." he stated simply. Yet another person concerned about the loony chewing on doughnuts and sitting on the bench passed Vash, hiding the red-clad man from view momentarily. When the pedestrian had passed, he found Alucard vanished. iSame spot, as soon as the sun is down,/i Alucard's voice said calmly in Vash's head. He searched the market area at a speed that was almost unnatural. When he failed to find him, he continued to eat his doughnuts –more slowly this time, as he was now deep in thought.
iSo he's either trying to kill me with less people around or actually talk- wow, i'm having a fest with fat chances today...but wouldn't that be nice?/I
"Vash!" A young woman's voice called, breaking him from his seriousness. His face lit up with a goofy smile followed by a wave with a doughnut shoved in his mouth. "Vash! You lazy good for nothing! One of your new drunk buddies from last night came over and fell asleep in our room at the inn! Can't you ever make normal friends who can make their own money! I know you told him he could sleep there, and you did it without our permission!"
His raised his hands in front of him in a shield, as if Maryl were about to punch him, as the angry insurance lady continued to rain death upon him through lectures. iI guess I'll leave the whole Alucard thing for later today,/i he thought, continuing his look of utter shock at the fact that she had noticed Steve snoring loudly, leaning on the small table from the chair back at the inn. iI'm so glad they follow me around sometimes, /ihe thought as he felt his happy-meter go up past what it was that morning when the girls had been out of town fixing their car.
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The last angry colored streak left the sky as Vash sat on the bench from earlier that day, watching the suns lower themselves to the other side of the world. Obviously not attempting any kind of sneak attack with his almost rhythmic pace, came dull almost sound absorbing steps.
"What was it you wanted to talk about?" Vash asked, slightly nervous as the temperature seemed to drop by considerable degrees as the man stood in front of him. The darkness suited Alucard perfectly, his strange red clothing seeming to copy the nights enclosing blackness. After a long pause, he spoke extending a gloved white hand. Well this is new, Vash thought, shaking the hand with little hesitation.
"Since I have reason to believe we will be together for a while after this meeting, I will give you, at the very least, a handshake to form a bond between us," a pause lingered after this, and he chuckled, reading Vash's thoughts once more. "I also promise not to harm you or the 'insurance girls,' although I am afraid I cannot be so gracious to the rest of the population in my current state."
"Current state?" Vash asked, slightly confused.
Alucard chuckled, obviously amused. i/He did his creepy laughing thing again,/i Vash thought with an inward grimace.
"Since you obviously have no idea what is going on, I will start with what I am. I am a no life king, or vampire," He said, menacingly. iI won't disagree with him there; this guy doesn't seem to have a life at all if all he does is kill people!/i A slight pause formed after that. Finally he smirked and continued, "I am assuming a large sum of years has passed since I was put to sleep by my previous master-" Alucard began until cut off by a very surprised Vash.
"'Master'! You're a human being, humans can't be owned like a pet!" Vash geared up for a full blown rant about humans having rights when Alucard stopped him with a cold glare.
"No, I am not human, Vash. I haven't been human for five hundred and twenty-seven years, now let me finish or I'll rip off your lips," Alucard threatened. Vash was silent, wondering if what he had said was true. "I was forced into a sort of hibernation ordered by my master after I 'betrayed the one I had promised to serve,' as i he/i put it," Alucard smirked at a memory, but for a moment Vash thought he could see a genuine look of inner-pain –though if he could, it was all thanks to his humanoid plant background. The look lasted less than a single bullet fired. "After put into the state of hibernation, to be brought back only until the family needed me again at its most dire time, I have no idea how many years passed. The most I understood from my state was that the world was dying, I could feel it, and it was most depressing as I wished to witness the event," this time he was grinning that wicked grin of his. The red eyes contrasted against the moons."If my master's bloodline is still on this planet. I must find the head of the family and continue my protection of them. If they are gone, then it means only the end of a great house. I will be free. Are you following so far?"
"Yep, except what does this have to do with me?" Vash asked, curious, and with no idea what most of Alucards explanation meant. This is where the man smiled to a point where his face threatened to split in two.
"I've noticed that you are one of a very few I was able to identify with. You are not a human, and thus have all the requirements I need for what I am about to ask of you," There was a brief pause as if to prolong curiosity, "I am asking you to help me find someone with enough technology to find someone of my master's family. This planet's too big –even for me. I also need you to assist me in finding a proper technological base to prevent a large sum of people on this planet from dying. As you hopefully have realized by now, I don't find food appetizing in the least, but rather, blood," Alucard stopped long enough to allow the information to sink in.
"What do you mean blood?" He said, eyes narrowing with concern for others safety. Alucard shook his head.
"Have no folklore of vampires survived the strange trip to this planet from when I was last awake?" He asked rhetorically.
"Eh, no?" Vash asked, sky blue eyes looking with disgust after realizing what the vampire ate –er- drank.
"We have a lot to discuss, you and I. The night is young, however, so this will leave us plenty of time, but I must ask, who is this Knives person, and why do you keep affiliating him with me?
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bWriters rant of the chapter…/b
The next chapter will prove a lot more interesting, i'm revamping this after a 5 year hiatus. …and I plan on finishing the entire story in the next month or so. I am sure at least on person will like it… AND I WILL KEEP WRITING FOR THAT PERSON! (not singling anybody out or anything) maniacal laugh as a sad attempt to sound like Alucard who immediately comes in and shoots me saying I am not the kind of person he wants imitating him. My last words? "Alucard…will you…sign…my …hat that I bought…off ebay..and looks…JUST LIKE YOURS:D?" he shoots me in the head for that one…poor me…that's a lot of money to be wasting on a shiny hat….
Vash: hmm….will I get those doughnuts back?
Me: No :) MWA HA HA HA! they get stale after sitting outside all night while your listening to cute Alucard..their not edible now…and HEY! STOP EATING THOSE STALE DOUGHNUTS! slaps them out of his grasp….he cries and I feel bad for him and buy him a new shiny box there ya go:D