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Chapter 4: Crimson lips, sweeter than blood

"Crimson... such a beautiful colour, isn't it my child?"

These words echoed in Harker's ears, slithering into his conscious like a serpent. That and the patterning drops of blood that drained from the carcasses of the men and women he slaughtered, forming an alluring pool made from the streams that left their veins.

"It is the elegant colour of your eyes, they match your mothers perfectly."

Harker tensed up to the sound of his words that disgusting him to his very core. Although they seemed gentle, they gave the feeling of nails being hammered into his head. Not being able to tell if he was being comforted or provoked by the unnaturally joyful man. Harker turned to face the man, intentions of ripping him apart like the rest of the cattle ready to be massacred. That was until he took a closer look at the presence, which was to be more of a freak than what Harker was thought to of been, just his appearance caused Harker's knees to give out. The man possessed a strange leather suit that radiated with a darkness that cast a shadow on darkness itself, consuming all light and distorting the area around it, as if it was made of shadows itself.

Harker was afraid to speak, trying to summon the bravery to move his lips. "Wh...who are you?"

The man looked down at him, shooting him an expression of disappointment. "I am Drac... Alucard. ..". At this point the man looked as though he had suffered a loss of some sort, something about his name.

"What do you want with me?"

Alucard's body began to fade into darkness as he approached Harker, the only colour given out was his piercing red eyes that multiplied all over his body. "I have been sent here to kill you by master van helsing himself. If you try to resist it will only make your death all the more painful, and all the more enjoyable for me." The sadistic man began to cackle psychotically to himself as he walked, crushing the skulls of dead peasants while he trenched through the legions of corpses.

"Wait... you're.. like me aren't you? Why are you taking orders from Van Helsing? He was suppose to of killed you."

The man's chuckle dimmed as he thought to himself, the look of overwhelming disgust took over his face. It was as if he was hiding something about his past, something connected to Van Helsing. "My child, there are things in this world that you wouldn't understand. Master Van Helsing has ordered me to kill you but... I believe you could be of some use to him. I'm going to let you live today but you must promise me that once you have become stronger you will serve under the Helsing family banner, this is what I want... no, this is what I demand."

Harker smiled at the man. "Of course, It's either that or death and becoming powerful seems like the more promising decision. I swear to become stronger, strong enough that I can lay waste to anyone that stands in my way. Strong enough that I could even kill you if I wanted to."

Alucard returned a smile and laughed, but this time it was a gentler laugh than before. "I look forward to the day, I pray I will be able to sample your strength myself. May I ask your name boy?"

Harker nodded. "Harker... Quincey Harker"

Alucard's smile stretched across his face. "Quincey? You were named after that bastard? One of the men that put me here? A member of the group that tried to kill me and succeeded, he was the one I was able to kill before I was jailed in this humiliating prison, only to be used as a toy for the bastard! "

"You don't have to serve them you know? You still have free will of your actions."

Alucard drowned what Harker had said out, for it was just too painful to admit the truth of what really happened. "...It seems my time is up for now my child, until we meet again. I look forward to seeing you in the future, good luck."

The burning light of the torches began to fade as darkness submerged from the ground and leached itself to Alucard. Soon it consumed his entire body, leaving only a black statue with a dark radiance giving the illusion of smoke. The statue burst into swarm of bats that formed a vortex, they then rose into the sky, disappearing without a trace of existence. Harker was still on his knees, sat in silence for several seconds.

His eyes began to well up with tears that he soon wiped away. "Goodbye... farther"

"Please Quincey, please wake up. Don't leave me!"

Harker opened his eyes, head pounding with a brain splitting pain that churned his stomach. As his senses soon adjusted he could feel a softness under his head, the enticing smell of perfume and fresh blood slipped up his nose, but an irritating wetness dripped onto his face that caused discomfort. He opened his eyes, noticing Seras was above him at abdomen height, his head had been resting on her lap. Her eyes were welled up with tears, which explained the wetness that dripped on him. He raised his hand and placed it on her cheek to wipe away the tears, but as the cold surface touched her she flinched away. Realising it was him she held it against her and smiled, soon crying tears of joy and keeping the moment dear to her.

"Why do you cry for me Seras? A monster is not worthy of tears."

She stroked his face, he felt a gratifying warmth from her touch. "Because the monster I cry for retains my love."

They both froze, staring deeply into each others eyes. Seras showed a look of weakness, which urged Harker to take the lead. He propped himself up using is arm to get closer to her, struggling to withdraw strength, still exhausted from his memories. He moved his hand to the back her neck and proceeded to pull her close, using little energy as she didn't resist in the slightest. Their lips finally met at what seemed to take forever but what really took seconds, but the reward was far more precious than the journey's endeavour. She wrapped her arms around his neck, emotions flurrying through their minds that were hushed by the silencing of their actions. What they did seem to come naturally to them, even though the experience was unknown, purely what instinct told them to do.

Minutes passed like days before they eventually stopped, but not a moment was regretted by either of them. As they stared at each other the tension in Harker's body soon relaxed as he passed out from exhaustion. Seras gently smiled at him then took a hold off his arm and swung it over her shoulder, then began to lift him. When Seras finally managed to secure him she stood below the hole made by Harker's gun and leapt out of the darkness and into the radiant red moonlight that shone through the windows of the building. Seras reached into her pocket and pulled out a flare gun, then used the hilt to smash the glass of the window and shot a flare through the gap.

Several minutes later a military transport helicopter flew overhead and landed outside the building. A group of armed soldiers exited through the steel shutter behind the cockpit and set up a perimeter.

Seras smiled and headed for the door. "Looks like our rides here, better not keep them waiting..."