Fumasu and Anderson watched in awe as the statue looked around the room as each individual head tried to make sense of its surroundings. The Beast's center head looked down at Seras' ravaged body and growled as its mouth opened to reveal a massive set of razor-sharp teeth.
Alucard raised the Casull and Jackal in defiance and started to fire at the Beast's head. Six flashes of sickly green energy sliced through Alucard as Hubris moved toward Seras.
"You will not interfere," Hubris stated as he watched the No-Life King collapse. There was a bang and Hubris' body was knocked back across the room.
"What was that about not interfering?" Metal taunted the eldest homunculus as they lowered the Crucifix and hurried toward Seras. They fired a round into the eye of one of the Beast's heads as they watched Alucard reform and pick up Seras' dazed body. There was an ungodly howl from the wounded head as the round pierced its eye.
Fumasu took control of his body and quickly assessed the situation. 'There's seven pillars holding this room up…Probably holding the whole castle up now that I think about it…' Fumasu thought before looking at Alucard, Seras, and Anderson. "Alright listen up. You three are going to go through the portal and find a way out of this castle," He ordered, "I'll buy you some time to escape."
Alucard didn't need encouragement. He took off toward the portal, ignoring the enraged Hubris, who charged past to block their only exit. He was sent flying back as Metal shot him with the Crucifix a second time. The force of round knocked the fourteen foot tall homunculus into one of the seven pillars. The pillar cracked down the middle and started to sag under the weight of the castle.
"MOVE IT ANDERSON!" Metal roared at the Paladin as they watched him jump through the portal. "Now that they're gone, let's get on to more urgent matters," They quipped as they turned toward the Beast, which had finally found the one who was making such a racket. Its heads opened their mouths as one and fired a concentrated blast of hell flames straight at Metal, engulfing them in a raging inferno. Metal reappeared standing on the pillar that had started to sag and shouted, "Oi Beastie! Ya missed Us!" They taunted.
As Alucard jumped up out of the portal with Seras, he nearly fell back in when he saw who was standing in front of him. "Didn't I just kill you?" He asked a battle ready Avarice, who stood leering over Alucard with both of his axes poised to make mince meat out of him and Seras.
"Homunculi can't die," Avarice lied as he raised both axes over his head. "Now be a good vampire and die." That was when Alucard notice the sharpened wooden ends of Avarice's axes. He could go Control Art Restriction system on Avarice, but that would require that he dropped Seras first. Alucard grimaced and braced himself for the worst.
"Alucard is my kill ya freak!" Anderson shouted as he leapt from the portal, sailing over Alucard and hurling scores of bayonets into Avarice's chest, head, and arms. The perverted homunculus lurched out into the hall on the left in an attempt to avoid being skewered by more of Anderson's bayonets and flailed his axes about defensively. Anderson pressed forward, his eyes filled battle lust. He ducked underneath both mammoth-sized axes and cut Avarice's torso off his tentacled lower half with a swift horizontal stroke from a bayonet. As Avarice's lower half dissipated, he panicked. Solid spikes of dark blue miasma shot out from his bandaged arms, trying to impale Anderson as he stabbed away at Avarice's torso. As Anderson jammed a bayonet in the homunculus' abdomen, he yanked his hand back as acidic liquid miasma squirted out of the wound instead of blood.
"That's right! Get the fuck off me you fuck prie-" He was cut off as Anderson shoved both bayonets he was holding inside Avarice's open maw and out the other side. More bayonets appeared in his hands and he kept impaling the perverted homunculus with them until Avarice every inch of Avarice's body had a bayonet embedded in it.
"Ye Hellsing mongrels need tae learn tae finish whit ye start," Anderson said as he turned to face Alucard, who had carried Seras out into the hallway. His glasses had slid down the brim of his nose when he was slaughtering Avarice, so he pushed them back up with his free hand and continued, "First ye dinnae eradicate Millennium like ye were supposed tae fifty years ago, and now ye dinnae kill this amoral freak tae first time." He pointed a finger at Alucard accusingly. "Ye're gaun soft Alucard. Ye owe me yin."
"I don't owe you anything," Alucard said bluntly and pointed at Avarice's bleeding form.
"Hngah…" Avarice moaned as the shadows around him started to prop him upright. He coughed as his tongue forced the two blessed blades out of his mouth as his body 'melted' the bayonets out. "Actually your Nosferatu friend has tried to kill me three times today…" Avarice pointed out as his body rose to its full height and towered over Anderson, who pulled out two more bayonets and jumped back to Alucard's side.
"Why didn't I do this before?" Avarice said aloud as the solid massive spikes of his dark blue miasma rose from the ground and shattered into thousands of blades of his deadly miasma. Avarice stared down at Alucard, Seras, and Anderson as the cloud of miasma blades swarmed around his body. His massive arms hung limply at his sides as his mouth spread into a demonic grin rivaling the one on Sinister's mask. "Such a shame to have to kill off the draculina, but I get my werewolf/draculina fucktoy, so why don't the three of you be good targets and-"
The Beast's heads let loose a chorus of hellish roars and sent another combined blast in Metal's direction. Metal dropped from the pillar and watched with grim satisfaction as the raging inferno hit the ancient pillar dead center and it snapped like a twig. Metal looked up at the ceiling as it listed toward the empty space. 'I hope Anderson can get out in time,' Fumasu thought as they turned toward the next pillar. "Frankly," Metal replied aloud, "We don't really give a shit."
"-die." Just as Avarice finished monologuing, the entire castle shook and the floor underneath them rolled like a wave in the sea. "Okay, what the fuck did you pricks do?!" Avarice said in annoyance and started to raise his right arm. "Eh, no matter. Just die."
"Anderson! Barrier!" Alucard shouted at the Paladin, who nodded in agreement. He thrust his arms out and dozens of blessed pages from the Holy Scripture attached themselves to Avarice's body and the walls around him, blessed nails holding them in place.
"SHIT!!" Avarice shouted as his body was zapped by the holy energy. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE THINGS?!" Suddenly, the hallway he was standing abruptly imploded. Avarice let loose an "AW FUCK!" before the hallway's walls smashed together and crushed him in between the barriers.
"How did ye know tha' tae barriers would kill 'im?" Anderson asked Alucard, who shrugged.
"Instinct," Alucard replied and stepped back as the ceiling started to crumble. "I vote we run." Anderson nodded in agreement and the two took off down the hall that Anderson and Fumasu had come through earlier.
The area that the now destroyed massive pillar had held up started to list entirely downward, causing sections of the castle to implode ((e.g. the area where Avarice was killed)).
There was a loud hiss and Metal whirled around to see Hubris rise from ground. The eldest Homunculus cast his cloak off and showed his true form. Hubris had eight arms hidden underneath that massive cloak he wore. All of them branched out from the same two shoulders as a normal human, and like Metal/Fumasu, they all extended down to the ground. His three back right arms were made of indigo colored miasma in solid, liquid, and gaseous states of matter. His foremost right arm was completely concealed by bandages but seemed to radiate an ominous energy. His foremost left arm was completely covered in belts, while the other three left arms were made of red, black, and blue fire. Hubris' torso became a shadowy mass that secured him to the ground. His chest was a dull dark grey and had an indigo ouroboros emblazoned in its center. What caught Metal's attention was the six large scythes that Hubris carried emanated the same sickly green glow that had cut him and Alucard apart back in the hangar.
"So those are still you're weapons o' choice, eh Hubris?" Metal taunted as they jumped back and pulled out both of their MGMs and leveled both barrels at Hubris' chest. "You are old fashioned."
"Old-fashioned am I?" Hubris said as he held up his belted left arm and unbuckled the belts around the palm of his left hand. Metal's eyebrows shot up in surprise and he jumped back onto another one of six remaining pillars as a black, 30 meter long, 80 cm diameter gun-barrel erupted from Hubris' left arm. Even the Beast stopped the seven blasts it had prepared to fire at Metal to examine the unusual contraption.
"The Schwerer Gustav?" Metal said and cocked an eyebrow out of surprise as they saw the gigantic Nazi railway gun hovering above Hubris' belted left arm, "How the bloody hell did you get that?"
"I've been living in Sin Castle for a thousand years," Hubris said simply, "I've had time to rebuild it." Then he fired the 4.8 ton, 800mm HE shell from the massive gun at 820 meters per second at Metal.
Metal's mouth split into a demonic grin as they were blasted apart by the massive explosion left a 30 ft wide by 30 ft deep hole in the pillar they'd been standing on. The pillar shattered three seconds later.
"Vhat the-?" Schrodinger said as he felt the ground rumble beneath his feet. Again. The Major had given the evacuation order when the first rumble hit, and Schrodinger had been sent to round up the stragglers. He was about to run back to the dirigible when he the hallway he was in imploded, squashing him flat like a pancake.
Author's note: Sorry for the long wait, I've been very preoccupied with other things...