CHAPTER 17

Alucard's POV

Flashback night before

Sir Integra Hellsing had called for me a call I could not resist. I have been a slave to the Hellsing family for 500 years. And every command and mission I have ever received I have never failed.

"Alucard I need you to go to North America this instant, those Judas dogs have tried to kill a coven of vampires in the Olympic Peninsula region and as much as I hate to admit I want one of those vampire's caught and brought back to Hellsing." Sir Integra stated matter of authority in hr tone.

I smile the grin that I always wear when I am given a mission that will allow me to fight another of my kind that is not a man made freak like so many others I have silenced.

"And which vampire is it you wish me to retrieve my master?" I ask I always hope to get a reaction out of my stern master with my mock displays of respect.

Sir Integra sighs it was going to be another of those nights of irritation from her servant's derogatory ways that irritated her to no end.

"You are to retrieve this vampire" she threw a picture at him which Alucard caught "Her name is Isabella Swan, she is a brunette female, about 5'7'' possibly 125 lbs. She like the rest of the coven only drink from animals therefore you are not to engage any of them except that girl if she does not come with you back here peacefully."

Alucard pulled his face into a sneer when it came to the girl's diet he would never stoop so low as to drink from animals.

"She appears to be 20 but she has lived as a vampire 30 years. Her powers are that of a mind shield and telepathy as well as she can phase much like you. You will need to use these to allow you to bring her back here if she decides to try to fight."

Sir Integra tossed a set of handcuffs that had multiple pentagrams and words written in Latin covering the smooth metal. "The spell on those will prohibit her from phasing away from you."

I looked at my master calmly wondering why this one female vampire should be captured instead of silenced. "Master why do you give me this task, when it would be so much more fun to search and destroy." I grin evilly.

Sir Integra grimaces and rubs the bridge of her nose slightly pushing her glasses further up her long nose. "Because Alucard she will be a great weapon to have she can not drink human blood and with her as a weapon of Hellsing it will piss off the Vatican knowing that we have her and they are unable to hurt her."

I raise one of my eyebrows interested suddenly in what this small girl could have done to upset the Vatican so much so that my master would be interested in her.

Sir Integra seemed to realize that Alucard was wondering what had happened between the girl and the Vatican knights. " Anderson went to try to kill the vampire coven even though they do not harm humans and found out the hard way that the coven is a different breed of Vampire that is immune to holy water and other blessed items, the best Anderson could do against them was trap them in a barrier".

Then as if on a second thought Sir Integra continued, "She tried to hold Anderson's partner hostage to save her coven from him and when he refused to leave them alone she killed the female priestess that always follows after him before she escaped.

My grin grow to that of a Cheshire cat, oh yes I would have a lot of fun this night. "What are you orders my master" I ask with a deep bow. "Search and capture the vampire known as Isabella Swan." Sir Integra ordered.

I nodded and looked across the room at the two vampire's standing there. The tall female had light strawberry blonde hair and the male beside her had dark black hair that hung in messy disarray.

Both had golden eyes. They were the two that showed up during the daylight hours as I slept in my coffin and handed the information of my target to my master.

As I faded into the shadows with a last glimpse of the two I notice the female had several bite marks on her face and shoulders they looked new as they were a dark pink and angry red color. I smirked to myself there be no vengeance in the world like that of a woman scorned.

I phased to the airport where the Hellsing jet waited for my arrival. The jet would take me to the North American continent where I would be set loose to find the girl who was my mission to capture.

End of Flash Back

I grinned I was getting closer the scent of the vampires I was tracking was getting stronger. I had known that they would stop to hunt and feed sometime and now I was maybe an hour or so behind them.

It was disgusting to come across the corpses of the elk herd that were sucked dry in haste before they had ran quickly away again sometimes my prey had doubled back trying to confuse the scent and other times they would rush ahead and phase somewhere else trying in vain to hide from me.

It made me respect them to some degree their knowledge of how I was tracking them. Finally I came to a large white house on the outskirts of a small town named Forks. Their scent was everywhere here and in the surrounding woods.

I gave a low whistle my master would love to see this place. Even if it was not a mansion like the one my master has grown up in and still resides, It was a large house with six large bedrooms each with their own bathrooms, there was a kitchen and sitting room as well as a musical room with a piano, paintings, and a small violin that smelled strongly of the girl I was after.

Most of the outside walls were made of floor to ceiling glass windows showing those inside the beauty of the night outside. I frowned there were several of that Judas priest's spell pages still littering thru out the house.

I finally came to the side of the house to find a garage. It was big like the three-story house I had just came out of. There were a few vehicles in it still but many were gone. What were left were a monstrous size jeep, and a dark colored BMW, there was silver colored Volvo too, all of which had very dark colored windows.

There were spaces for five other cars as well that were not there. I frowned this would make my tracking a bit harder. Especially if they had the cars ventilation on recycle. It would keep their scent from getting out of the car and into the air.

Looking into the sky I knew I would have to find a cave or something out of the sun as dawn was not far off. They had eluded me for tonight but by nightfall again I would be on their trail once more.

Bella's POV

Flash back two nights before

After our family found Emmett and I Alice explained her vision to us about an ancient vampire named Alucard who was not like us. He was much like Bram Strokers Dracula. He would have to sleep during the day light hours where as we would not have to. he like us would not be bothered by mans guns, silver, or most holy items.

I did not understand why this strange organization call Hellsing was after me. All I knew was I would never try to drink human blood again. It had made me so sick I had never tasted anything as vile as that woman's blood before.

Alice told us we only had a little bit of time between the remaining few hours tonight and the daylight hours before this Alucard would be hot on our trail. My family was trying to figure out what to do and where to go. I hated that all of this had occurred because of me.

I don't know where that priest came from or why he had tried to kill us all I know is that Tanya was involved and so was Trent. Poor Alice was still dry sobbing into Jaspers chest as he held her tightly.

I too was no longer angry with Edward who was now holding me. I had a sudden idea. "Alice what would happen is we left several trail of our scent all over the place here and at home, would it buy us time to get to Victoria and Matt?"

Alice lifted her head to look at me her eyes were blank. When she finally snapped out of her vision she nodded her head. "Yes it will confuse him for a little while he doesn't know about how cloudy it is here so he will hide from the sun and we will be free to move about during the day."

I nodded a plan forming in my mind. "Then we shall run as far and fast as we can all around here to disguise where we are truly going and every now and then I will phase us else where to start new trails." Jasper's head snapped up.

"Gorilla tactics?" he asked. I nodded again.

Jasper smiled a grim smile, "well Em you always wanted to play soldier so lets see how well you would do."

Emmett grin widened with excitement.

End of flash back

For the rest of the night my family and I would run for miles in all directions keeping in touch over cell phones once we had covered a huge portion of Canada in our scent in erratic patterns and even backtracking over our scent several times to confuse the scent.

Every so often we would kill animals bear, elk and deer and only drink them part of the way it was a terrible waste but it would make our scent stronger in that area as well as give us a small amount of new strength even though I was the only one truly thirsty.

Finally I tried to phase everyone back to the house to gather some things before leaving. The strain hurt like I have never experienced before. It felt like I was being pulled apart but the feeling only lasted until we arrived back at the house.

The priest was long gone as so was the woman's body I had left there. Alice and Rose and I ran to our rooms grabbing the first things we saw and throwing them into suitcases.

I vaguely recall Jasper and Emmett coming into my room to help me by grabbing my suite cases and running back out of the room. When I got down stairs I noticed that Edward was loading the last of my luggage into his vanquish. It was the same car he had taken me to prom in all of those years ago.

Edward turned and saw my standing looking at his car and went to my side gripping my arm and leading me to the passenger side. "Get in love, you're riding with me." I nodded and slid into the car. Before I could shut the door Edward was already putting the car into gear and pealing down the drive heading for the highway.