A Second ChanceChapter Two

She stands strong in front of Alucard as a trained fighter would in a ring. She sizes him with her eyes like a lioness to her prey. She holds her daggers in front of her chest and smiles. She knows what to do, she steps forwards and Alucard chuckles with the prospect of the violence that is lays before him. He brings his hands up and forms fists as he sinisterly laughs.

"What? No guns? Where are your .454 Casull Auto and Jackal?"

"I don't need it for your kind."

"My kind?" The mystery woman is shock to hear his words.

"What do you mean by that?"

"You're a freak. You are either vampire or human. You're a manufacture thing. You reek of weaponization."

She smiles at Alucard's words.

"Reminders you of anyone?"

As the stranger's words pass Alucard's vampire ears, memories of Alexander Anderson and the Millennium group flash through his mind.

"You are nothing like Anderson but you are like the Millennium group. You're probably underneath someone like those dogs were. So the question is: whose orders are you following?"

"I guess you just have to win this fight in order to find out."

The woman answers Alucard with a cocky attitude.

"I guess so."

The woman rushes and jumps towards Alucard. She slashes his upper arm with her right blade and lands on the floor behind him. Alucard looks down to his arm as it falls to the floor and his blood rushes out the wound. Alucard laughs with a devilish delight as the woman thrust backwards into Alucard's chest and her blades hit their mark. She moves her blades up creating an opening in his chest and pulls them out. She turns to him and watch as Alucard heals his wounds. His arm forms back and extends to her throat. He grabs her tight and starts to squeeze. The woman begins to laugh angering Alucard.

"You do realize that you choking me isn't causing any discomfort. I don't breath. This just feels like a tickle."

"Really… It is still fun to do."

"I know because I know you. I know your fighting style, Alucard. You are cat with a mouse. You play with your prey as you let them believe that they have the upper hand on you but then…"

Alucard forms a fist with his free hand and channels his energy towards the woman's abdomen. Her body is thrust back with the kinetic energy and he hears her ribs break with the force. Alucard pulls her to him and then throws her across the room making her hit the wall. She tries to use her hands to soften the fall and lands on her abdomen. She brings herself up with her arms and shakes her head. She uses her right knee to lift herself off the floor. She faces Alucard and smiles.

"Then you show them with hell truly is. Frankly, I'm a little disappointed. I hope you're not going easy on me because I am a woman but then again I heard what you did to Rip van Winkle. After all your years on earth, I believed that you have a changed your tactics. How boring you have become since her death?"

With no flash or trace, Alucard disappears and reappears in front of her and before she can react, Alucard's fist hits her face forcing her fall to the floor. He climbs on top of her to pin her down with his legs and begins to thrust his fists to her face. She protects herself with her blades, forearms, and twists of her upper body. Although she is unnatural, she cannot see all the ways Alucard is breaking the laws of natural with the speed of his fists. She can only see what she believes to be a bloody tear but is unsure due to her blood spraying from the wounds that he is causing her.

She tries to find her chance. Once she finds her opportunity, she takes one of her blade and slides his throat deeply to the point where his head hangs by just a thin piece of his skin. She rushes to pull herself from under him and gets up from the floor. She stands away from the nearly beheaded Alucard. She wipes her lips of blood as her wounds begin to heal slowly.

"Oh, I think I hit a nerve. Mentioning 'her' gets you started now-of-days, huh?"

"Shut up!"

Alucard turns his still hanging head to her. His skin begins to reforms and he straightens himself. He stands and rushes to her. He grabs her neck and rushes to the wall. He slams her against it breaking frame picture of Integra and her soldiers before the Millennium attack on the mansion. Blood starts to drop down the back of the woman's head.

She takes her blade and slams it into his chest but this time the action doesn't seems to faze him. She pulls out, takes both of them, and aims them to his eyes. He seems to be waiting for them as the blades enter his eyes. The piercings cause blood to bust out and onto her face as he drops her. She runs to the door of Integra's office and opens it but in her way is Alucard.

"Going somewhere?"

The woman is shock to find that he is holding the paper spell that she had placed on the office door. He rips the paper up as it burns softly at his hands. She walks backwards away from Alucard. He disappears from her sight and she raises her blade to her lips.

"Data collected… Transfer data now."

The woman stops in her steps as she feeling something on her back. She turns around to see Alucard behind her.

"What data? Why are you here?"

The woman is quiet and her eyes search the room for a way out.

"You pick on the wrong vampire, freak."

She looks up at him and smiles.

"No I didn't."

She lifts her blades to him to show the once empty tubes are now filled with his blood.

"What are you doing with my blood?"

"If you really want to know, then open up wide."

The woman brings her right hand to her mouth and bites down on her index finger. Her blood runs heavy from the wound. She smiles and thrusts her hand towards Alucard causing the blood to land in his mouth.

As soon as a drop of blood land on his tongue, a flood of the woman's unorganized memories appear in his mind. There are flashes of laughing and running down the streets of an American city; then flashes of scientists looking down at the woman. Then the last flash is an image Alucard never expected to see. Integra is floating in a solution filled tube with wires and mentors attach to her. She is young but her eye patch still remains.

Before Alucard can realize the full extent of this memory, it disappears from his mind. He is angered by this and grabs the woman by her throat. He runs with her against the wall once again but this time he takes her blades and pierces her through her chest. They travel through and pin her to the wall. She struggles to pull them out but to no avail.

"What the fuck are you doing to Integra?"