A/N Again I've decided to leave off so that you would have a chapter sooner. I feel like it has been a VERY long time since I posted one but it has only been six days. I think the time has been going by very slowly since I have been feeling so down. I hope you enjoy this chapter. i supposed it reveals some more things about the odd mission.
Fairy Children
Cat grabbed her forehead in shock when it collided into the unseen barrier. She fell backwards onto the ground and laid there for a moment trying to make sense of what had just happened. As it were, none could be made, so she pushed herself up into a sitting position and stared out into the room.
Alucard was walking towards her now and staring intently at the spot where she sat, but he was still staring through her.
She cautiously stuck out her leg and gently pushed her foot against the barrier. It held fast just as any wall would, but nothing could be seen. She looked at Alucard's face and kicked the wall to test her theory.
At the sound of the thump Alucard's face changed and he looked to where the noise had come from.
"So he can definitely hear me," she said out loud and stood back up.
"Katherine?" he stuck out his fist and rapped on the wall.
"Yeah! I can hear you! What the hell is going on!" she put her hands up to the wall as if it would help her sink through it.
"I don't know. Are you in another room?" he started pressing against the wall with the palm of his hand.
"No I'm still in my hall way! I can see through whatever this is! It just looks like an archway, but I can't get through!" she pushed harder against the barrier, but nothing happened.
"You can stop yelling I can hear you just fine," he leaned against the wall with his shoulder and pushed harder.
"Oh, sorry. Can you come through and get me?" she stepped back so he would have room to step through.
"I can't I've been trying. This is a very odd wall. In fact this entire building is very strange," he pushed on the wall a few more times then raised his gun.
"What the heck are you doing!" Cat screamed and dove to the side just as he pulled the trigger.
Cat watched as the walls on either side of her shuddered, but no damage was done to the invisible barrier.
"How delightfully queer!" Alucard studied the spot where the bullet had hit. The wall was completely smooth with no trace of a dent or even shards from the bullet. "It would seem that it has swallowed the bullet. Or maybe it will come out somewhere else." He raised his gun once more and shot the wall again. This time the bullet promptly bounced off the wall and tore into his stomach.
Cat screamed as blood sprayed the wall and Alucard was thrown backwards to the center of the room. He lay still for a moment then started laughing manically. She bounced up and down trying to see around the blood that to her was hanging in the air by itself. "Are you okay?" she called.
"Fine," Alucard reached into his stomach and pulled out the bullet which had been burning a hole through him to his back.
"Smear the blood off I can't see," Cat sat on the floor and looked though an opening where no blood had dripped. She looked around the room and then thought of something, "Where is Seras?"
"I'm not really sure. She may have turned back to go down your hall and find you," he walked back to the wall and placed his palm upon it. The blood began to creep towards it like it was a magnet.
"Shouldn't she have been here by now then?" Cat stood up again and leaned against the wall with defeat.
"Who knows? This place does not follow the rules of time. We are mere yards from the entrance yet it took you so long to travel down your hall," Alucard re-holstered his gun and sat down with his back against the wall.
"What are you doing? Shouldn't you be looking for her or for something? Like I don't know, maybe the thing we came here for?" she kicked the spot of wall where his head was at.
"Which would be?" he turned and looked at the spot he was guessing her to be standing in. She slid out of the way in annoyance so he would be looking at nothing.
"This mission is stupid," she slid down against the wall and leaned her back against where his was.
"Just because something is too hard for you to understand does not mean it is stupid," he twiddled his thumbs in his lap and yawned.
"There isn't anything to understand! This is just a stupid building playing stupid games and I don't see what is dangerous about it at all. We should have just let it be. Whoever was doing experiments in here is obviously gone. We should just leave before any more weird things happen," Cat waited for his response, but none came. She turned around to find the wall back in view and a great wooden door set into it.
Alucard quickly turned around when he heard Cat's voice abruptly cut off, "Katherine? Have you seen something? Answer me!" He started to pound on the wall, but there was still no answer, "Seras!"
Seras came running down her hall just as he called her, "Yes? What's happened?"
"I don't know. Did you find the hall?" he continued kicking at the wall, but to no avail.
"Yes, but it was completely blocked off. I tried to break through it, but nothing had any affect, not even my cannon," Seras held her cannon lovingly.
"I am tired of these games!" Alucard spun around and faced the center of the room, "Come out you low life freaks and face us!"
Meanwhile on the other side of the wall Katherine knocked at and prodded the new wooden door. She tried the handle, but found the door to be securely locked.
"I just don't understand what the point of this place is. It hasn't tried to harm us or anything of that sort so why does it play games so," she slumped back down on the floor.
"Oh, but it will," a cackling voice spoke from the dark depths of the hall.
"Cat? Is that you cat?" Cat stood up and peered into the dark. She heard chuckling, but the cat did not show himself.
She started to walk down the hall, but a voice called out to her, "Stay where you are!"
She turned around in shock and saw the little brown haired boy standing next to the door like he had been standing there all along.
"I had wondered where you'd gotten off to. Do you know how to open the door? I need to get to the other side," she smiled at the boy so he would see that she was not there to hurt him.
"You mustn't go to the other side!" he took a brisk step forward to show his point.
"But, why not? My friends are on the other side and I must help them," Cat kneeled down so the boy would not be frightened.
"Oh, there's no helping them now," the cat's voice chuckled again from the dark.
"What ever do you mean cat?" Cat turned around to see if the cat would show himself, but he still stayed hidden.
"Use the key if you want to get in," Cat saw a glimmer in the dark and thought it might be the cat's teeth.
"Oh, right, the key," she dug in her pocket for the small golden key.
"No! You must not unlock the door! If you do they will get you!" the little boy grabbed for her arm, but Cat quickly stood up and held he key out of his reach.
"Who will get me?" Cat looked from his face to the dark hall and back.
"The children of course! I've already told you!" Cat turned around and saw the cat coming out of the dark. He was quite a bit larger now and looked all the more menacing indeed.
"But what is the harm in children then?" she tried to stay casual with the cat so he would not have a reason to become angry. She noticed the small boy had inched his way behind her and was clutching the back of her shirt.
"Oh, no harm. Go ahead and use your key. Open the door and then you shall see. It will be fun for you and so much for me. If only you would hurry," the cat curled his lips back further than ever.
"Please, you mustn't," the little boy whispered from behind her.
She turned her head slightly towards him so the cat would not see, "Why not? What is the matter?"
The boy stood up on his toes so she could hear him better, "They aren't the same as you or I. They have no mothers."
On the other side of the door Alucard stood watching in interest as a door began to appear in the wall across from the invisible right hallway.
"Are you seeing what I'm seeing, Master?" Seras stared at the door in awe as it grew larger and larger until it was a full sized door.
"Yes, very interesting is it not. It seems my jest has been answered," he picked up both of his guns and readied himself for whatever entered the room.
Soon after the door finished growing it creaked opened and a small blonde head poked out from behind it. Two very blue eyes surveyed the room before they landed on Seras and Alucard.
"Oy! They are in here!" the little voice whispered then popped back behind the door to push it opened fully.
"Nein nein! Not ull the vay! Don't you remember the entrance ve planned?" another tiny voice chirped.
"Oh right, sorry," the little fingers gripped the edge of the door and pulled it back again.
"Everyvone! Get into positions! Nein you go there remember! Ist everyvone ready? Yes? Okay I vill count down and then ve go!" the small voice started to chirp down from ten.
"What is all this?" Alucard looked at Seras as if she would know more than he did.
"I don't know. They sound like children. Do you think it was only a prank?" she sighed and leaned on her cannon as the little voice continued to count down, missing a few numbers and starting over at least twice.
"I've had enough of this," Alucard flicked his wrist and the door swung wide opened.
The ten small children inside gasped and one that looked older than the rest hollered in anger, "You haf ruined our entrance!" She stomped her small feet on the ground and huffed and puffed.
Alucard, who had learned to deal with children by now, waited silently until she was quite finished.
When she was done stomping the small girl who had hair as black as Alucard's and eyes just as dark stepped forward and motioned for her fellow children to follow her. They all filed out into the room and the last one closed the door behind him. They all stood silently for a moment staring at Alucard and Seras. Slowly each one of them unfolded a thin pair of wings that were on their backs. The wings began to flutter very quickly like a hummingbirds and the children rose into the air.
"Are they…fairies?" Seras watched stunned as the children gently floated back and forth in a double line formation.
"They certainly are not fairies. They are what we came here for. They're vampires. Can you smell it? They reek of blood and you can even see some of their oversized fangs sticking out of their tiny mouths," Alucard laughed at a particularly small child who had covered his mouth in embarrassment.
"But, who made them like this?" Seras watched the children cautiously. They did not look dangerous, but they were vampires. If there were more of them hidden somewhere they could prove to be a problem.
"There are no more of them. They are only children after all and not skilled enough to plan out an attack. They are simply experiments who have been left here as failures and maybe as distractions from something bigger. As to who made them? Who else? The Germans I'm guessing. They shouldn't be too hard to deal with," Alucard raised his gun at the oldest girl who seemed to be the leader.
"You're going to kill them! They're only children Alucard you can't!" Seras ran a few steps forward for fear Alucard would shoot anyway.
"Have you not learned anything in these ten years? Perhaps they were children at one time, but they are monsters now. Ruthless blood sucking things that were too young when they were turned into vampires so they now have no sense of restraint. Have you seen a child have a tantrum before? Well if one of these had a tantrum they could kill everyone who angered them if they chose. No, they are not children, only small beasts," he fired a shot at the girl and she disappeared in a blur. The bullet hit the wall behind her and was dissolved.
"Wow, so fast," Seras backed away from the group of children no longer feeling the need to protect them.
The little girl giggled a few feet away, "You vill haf to try much harder Mister Alucaaaaard," she bounced up and down in the air and tossed her hair teasingly.
"Yes, it would appear so," he laughed and began shooting both guns at once at the group of children. They scattered like little bats and flew around the room as fast as they could. Seras was wondering if they would ever get tired and slip up when she heard one scream and fall onto the ground.
"I got one," Alucard smiled proudly and began re-loading his guns.
"Who ist it!" the eldest girl flew quickly to the scene to see who had been shot, "Ohh it ist only Vinkle. He ist the newest you see, so he hast not had as much practice as the rest of us." She shoed away the rest of the children and flew back to the middle of the room to float about.
"Seras, try and get to Katherine and get out of here. I can handle these children on my own," he locked the clip into his gun and aimed it at the children again.
"Oh nein nein Mister Alucard, you vill not be able to get to her. All vays to her are blocked oontil I decide othervise. You see, Mister Alucard, it ist not you or that girl ve care about. Nein nein, ve vant your precious human. She ist a nice age and vill make a nice addition to our army," the girl giggled uncontrollably.
"Then I will just have to kill all of you now," he began to fire again.
Back on Cat's side of the door things were getting tense.
"Do you mean something happened to their mothers?" Cat leaned down and took the boy by the shoulders, ignoring the cat.
"No! They never had mothers! The man that was here, he tried to use regular children, but it would never work. He had to grow them out of jars so they would have wings that were their own," tears started streaming down the boys face, but he did not make any sound.
"Wings? What kind of children are they?" Cat was forgetting how urgent the boy seemed to be and became curious.
"They shouldn't be called children at all! They're vampires don't you understand? They want you! They don't care about your friends they want to steal you and make you into one of them!" the boy finally lost control and threw his arms around Cat's neck and started to sob.
"Would you unlock the door already? I'm getting tired of all this waiting," the cat had moved up behind her while she was talking to the boy and was now standing very close. He had grown even more and looked to be about three feet tall.
"I don't think I should. He seems so upset and if Alucard is over there then I'm sure he can deal with them," the boy clutched onto her harder and she had to sit down on her knees to keep from falling over.
"No no no no no! You must open the door or your friends will perish!" the cat waved his arms in the air with exasperation.
The boy finally let go of Cat and pointed at the cat angrily, "He's a liar! He knows they want you and he wants to see you get caught! He's always trying to make games out of bad things!"
The cat raised its paw into a fist like he would hit the boy, "I'm not the one who gave her the key you little brat!"
The little boy stepped back aghast at the low remark the cat had throw at him, "I gave her the key so she could use it how she wanted and so you wouldn't try to take it from me!"
"What makes you think I even need a key! I've been here longer than any of you I can do whatever I want in this rotten building!" and with that the cat ran to the door and pushed his paw through the key hole.
"You wouldn't dare you nasty cat!" the little boy ran towards him, but Cat grabbed his arm in fear the cat would scratch him.
"I would dare and I do dare!" he turned his paw in the lock and laughed.
"I thought you were a nice cat, but I guess I was wrong," Cat looked at the cat with visible hurt on her face.
The cat faltered for a moment and frowned, but the door was already unlocked and it had begun to open slowly, "I am a nice cat my dear, but after being in this building for so long with no visitors one must take advantage of excitement when it comes around. I'm sure you will be completely fine. After all, they need you alive."
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