A short bit to satisfy the needs of certain people. If you have any specific ideas about Seras that you would like to see written out DO tell me because I had not planned to write her in at all, but I can see how much so many people love her and I gave in. As always, review and be honest, I do so love readying what you have to say.
Seras Who?
Two days had passed since the ball and Cat sat quietly in the library by herself looking through all the books she could find that were very old.
She had woken up that morning earlier than usual and decided it would be a good day for research on vampires and other various things that no one really talked about. She had hastily dressed and went straight to the library to be sure no one was in it. When she found it empty she hurried to the kitchen and made a quick breakfast that she horked down on her way back up the stairs. She had gone to the very back corner of the library because it looked the dustiest and started pulling the most tattered books off the shelves.
Now she sat flipping through one of the smaller books. It was one specifically on vampires and she found it the most informative so far. Another book she had liked was one that had been about many different nightmare creatures, some of which she had never heard of before. It had given bios about them and lists of strengths and weaknesses. The words were typed like any normal book, but it curiously had no author or publisher. The front simply read in gold letters A Helpful Guide to the Unknown. It had been slightly helpful in giving her information about the general characteristics of vampires and werewolves, but most of it she had already found out for herself.
The page she was on in the smaller book was giving various opinions about vampires and what makes them what they are. In the table of contents she had seen the word Souls and had flipped to the page that it had numbered. So far it was the most interesting thing from any of the books. The debate it was mentioning was whether vampires had souls or not. She read the passage quietly to herself:
"A fact that has always been debated is whether vampires have souls or not. Most people who are aware of the existence of vampires believe they have no soul. They think that the soul resides in the blood of humans and if a vampire had a soul of its own then it would not need to drink blood. The vampire's veins are dry of its own blood so souls can not exist there. It fills its veins with the blood of others, therefore stealing their souls. The souls it takes can not live in the foreign body so perish quickly and the vampire must feed again. The opinion that I am in favor with is the one that they do indeed have souls. A soul is what animates a body. It gives it life and movement and thought. If the vampire had no soul it would not be so much like a human. It is the type of soul the vampire has that makes it so different from humans. After all, the vampire was once no more than a human with a soul just the same as yours or mine, but when the human took on the life of a vampire the soul it possessed changed into something different. It turned black and hollow. The bad attributes of the human doubled, tripled, even quadrupled! Vanity became over bearing, lies became more sinister, gluttony turned its attention to a different meat and greed became the most powerful of all. Yes, my dear reader, a vampire has a soul, this you can be sure of. You must fear the vampire, but you must fear its soul even more, for when you vanquish a vampire its soul does not go to heaven or hell like you believe yours will. It roams around the earth looking for a suitable body. It waits until it finds one that it favors, most often a baby not yet born. It waits until the most opportune moment, when the babe is born and takes its first breath of real air. At this time the soul lets itself be breathed into the baby's lungs and then it spreads itself through the infant and waits. It waits for the child to grow and waits for the opportunity to become a vampire once again."
Cat sighed and wondered which opinion was true or if either of them were. She favored the second opinion because she had always thought a soul is what animated a body. It made sense that if you did not have one you would not be walking around and talking and being alive. It also made sense to her that it was not a regular soul, but one more evil than any murderer. She wondered if Alucard had an opinion about it or if maybe he knew the genuine answer. It seemed that he had been a vampire long enough to know everything about them. Surely he had read some of the books before out of curiosity.
She flipped back to the table of contents and scanned down the page. She came across the word Creation and flipped to the page it supplied. This section was short and it explained how a vampire was created. There were many different ways and none of them were very interesting. It explained that different vampires chose to create familiars in different ways. The most common was sucking the blood of a willing human, but leaving a small bit inside of them rather than sucking them dry. This would keep them alive long enough for the transformation to take place. It seemed that vampire fangs had a sort of poison in them and if a body was near death the poison would take affect as a sort of life preserver, only it would not be a real life, just a half life.
"I wonder if Alucard has ever made any other vampires. He doesn't seem like the type that would want someone hanging around him for eternity," she thought out loud.
"That is what we thought as well before the night he brought home Seras Victoria," Cat jumped and turned around to see Walter carrying a steaming cup, "I brought you some hot chocolate, it is getting very cold."
"Seras who?" Cat took the hot chocolate and took a sip. She had not realized how cold she was until she felt the warm liquid hit her stomach.
"Seras Victoria. She was a very young police girl that Alucard turned into a vampire to save her from dying. She must have only been twenty the poor thing. She adjusted rather poorly and clung to us for quite some time. She did however finally come to terms with being a vampire and drank human blood. Soon after that Alucard offered her his blood so she would be free and she left after that, most likely in fear that Sir Integra would be angry. We have not seen her since, but I believe she went to South America," he began picking up the books that were sprawled across the floor and putting them away, "I see you have been doing some reading."
"Yes, I was curious about some things and I didn't think I would be able to get many answers from anyone. What did she look like?" Cat curled her legs closer to her and held her cup in both her hands.
"She was about as tall as you with short blonde hair and very blue eyes before she was transformed completely. A very kind girl who cared for other people very much. That is why she had so much trouble becoming a vampire. She was very much attached to being human and did not want to become something other humans feared. In the end I think what consoled her was that she would be able to help humans for eternity and could help them all the better with so much more power," Walter plopped down on one of the soft chairs and sighed, "The cold weather makes me so much more tired."
"Do you think Alucard will tell me about her if I ask?" Cat stood up ready to go ask him no matter what Walter thought.
"I have not the slightest idea. There is no telling with Alucard. You never know how he might react to anything you say to him, but go ahead he will be up soon. Bring him a blood pack for me if you don't mind," Walter leaned back farther on the chair and shut his eyes.
"Sure I will," Cat smiled at him and threw one of the throw blankets over him. She skipped out of the Library and down the hall, ready to take as much time as it took to get a decent story out of Alucard. She stopped by the kitchen quickly and grabbed two blood packs for him, making sure one of them was O. Then she proceeded down the hall that led to his ominous doors and dark steep stairs. She pulled the doors opened and stepped carefully down the dark staircase, excited for what answers she would find at the bottom.
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