Sanctuary to the Lost and Damned
Ch 6: Seal Torture
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Alucard stood in front of the same long pane-glass mirror from the bed room. Lady Ellen Hellsing, had brought a newer, nicer one for the room so he had taken it to his room.
He looked at his body, top to bottom. The cuts form the beating one week earlier were still visible under his clothing. It had only taken two days for his tongue to grow back, but he still had not spoken to Abraham since then.
They had also shaved his head to collect samples of his hair. They had taken more than enough hair for testing, but he knew that that action was not just for science, but also a show of power. Most people of that age and earlier regarded a women with a shaved head as a sign that she had done something to shame herself. In his homeland as well as many other places long hair on a man was a sign of wealth and power. They had shaved it to emphasis that he no longer had these things. The hair had all grown back, however the reminder of his current station would linger on for many day.
Alucard stood in front of a mirror looking at his new from. He had been experimenting with his form-changing ability. He had taken a fascination with himself in a form of a young woman. He, or rather she, at this time had long dark hair, with perfectly cut bangs. The body had been modeled after Lucy, but for the face he had chosen many features that stood out in Mina.(1)
He moved his hands down the curves of the feminine body. He heard the sound of foot steps. He cringed hoping that Hellsing was not fetching him for a painful experiment.
A pair of small blue eyes peeped around the corner.
"Oh, Miss, are you a new Maid here?" Alucard stood there relieved that it was not Abraham, but some what disappointed that the boy could not recognize him.
"I'm Arthur Hellsing." The boy stuck out his hand politely.
Alucard smiled. "I know who you are already." He still shook the boy's hand.
"Oh, you do. Well do you know Mr. Alucard, I'm looking for him?"
Alucard let out a girlie laugh. "I'm Alucard, young master."
The boy looked at Alucard."Are you really a girl, or do you just dress like that?" Alucard opened his mouth, but the boy had stated to talk again. "My mother's cousin, Donald, he sometimes wears women's clothes when he thinks that everyone is gone or sometimes late at night when one of his friends comes over. His friends sometimes put on women's clothes too. I wonder if Jenifer-"
"Young master. I don't thing that your relatives would want you telling other people about...these things." Alucard said as sternly as he felt that he could given his station.
"Why not?"
Alucard ignored the question."Do you remember when I told you what I am?"
The boy nodded. "I am a type of monster that can make myself look like many other people. I can look like a girl when I want to." Alucard explained.
"Can you make yourself look like me?" the boy asked.
Alucard thought for a minute. "I have never tried to look just like someone else before, I think that I could if I really wanted to."
Alucard heard a set of heavier foot steps approach.
"Arthur! There you are!" Abraham's attention fell to the pretty young woman beside his son. "And who are you?"
"It's me, your," Alucard looked at the boy, "...dog."
"Dog?" the boy questioned.
"Alucard?" Abraham found it momentary difficult to believe that the girlish woman was actually Alucard. He then remembered just what Alucard really was.
"Isn't this great!" The boy said excitedly, " Mr. Alucard can make himself...herself...," the boy stumbled on the concept of whether Alucard was male or female.
"What are you doing down here?" Abraham yelled at the top of his lungs.
"This is my room, master." Alucard replied.
"Not you!" Abraham pointed to the boy. "Him. Haven't I told you never to come down here?"
"But father, I saw Alucard come down here a few times and I wanted to see him."
"You wanted to see him? For what?" Abraham yelled out in frustration.
"I wanted to ask him to chase the monsters away from my room before bedtime."
"Molly can do that!"
"No she can't "
"Why not?"
"Because she is not a monster."
Abraham opened his mouth to tell his son that monsters did not exist, but he stopped. He turned his head to Alucard with fury.
"You told him what you are?" He barked at Alucard.
"You never specified that I could not." Alucard answered back truthfully
Abraham kept his eyes glaring at Alucard. "Arthur. Leave now."
Alucard had expected the boy to argue with his father, but the boy quietly left.
"What else did you tell him!" Abraham demanded.
"He asked me about the rumors that he had heard."
"And you told him! You idiot, those sorts of rumors always float around among children!"
"You expect him to take over from you yet you hide this from him? It does not seem to make any sense, Master."
"It does not have to make sense to you. I do this to shield him from the evils of the world."
"Those who are shielded do not learn to defend themselves." Alucard knew much about the evils that existed in the world. He had learned quickly as a child ; this knowledge had allowed him to survive well into his forties as a mortal. Without it he was sure that he would have perished long before then.
"He is a boy!" Abraham said furiously.
"He is your boy. Tell me, what will he do when your mortal life span runs out and he finds himself on the receiving end of his father's sins, your sins."
"You forget your place, slave. It seems my Count, that you are in need of another lesson." Alucard head the cracking of Abraham's jaw as the man's teeth clenched.
Alucard fell to his knees in the same sourceless pain as he had felt time and again. "The whip!" The vampire implored, "Please... use... the.. whip.. instead...Of this." The vampire continued to beg for a punishment less painful than this.
The punishment lasted forever to the vampire in Abraham's hold of wrath and to the young boy who was still standing outside the door.
Hellsing sat in front of the fire place of his study with a book in his hand. Every few minutes Alucard, who was standing at the window looking out, had his attention redirected by Hellsing's groans of non-enjoyment.
"Is something wrong, Master?"
"This book is ridiculous." Abraham sounded offended.
"Then why continue reading it?"
Hellsing ignored him. "The story has a Dhampir in it. A god-damned half-breed of a vampire male and a human female; a supernatural mutt. (2)"
"I have never heard of such a creature."
"That's because they do not exist. They can not exist. The dead can not produce life. Even when a virgin is bitten by a vampire of the opposite sex, it is still death from death. You see Vampires exist as a disruption of the natural order. First of all the do not follow the nature order of life which involves death. But the natural order which follows that involves the living benefiting from the dead. Everything is broken down to be used by new and upcoming life. Dust we are and dust we shall once again become. Vampire are a disruption of this order. They are immortal dead creatures that feed on the living."
Alucard stood by the window and thought what his master had told him. His mind wondered to the nature of death itself, as he had never truly feared it. There had been a time in his mortal life when he had prayed to God, but that was a long time ago. He had believed that death was the beginning of a new type of life. He supposed that that was what he got when he became a vampire however this existence was not the blissful heaven that he had imagined; it was far closer to the opposite.
"Vampire, did you hear what I said?" Alucard turned his attention to his master. "I said that Vampires are a scorched mark on his earth. A spat on order and an abomination to both Humanity and God."
There was a silence between the monster and the man. "Well, what does your vampiric pride say to that?"
Although it had only been two weeks since the last episode of 'seal punishment', as Alucard had termed it, he would not risk further pain.
"It says that as long you are my master, I will agree with you." Abraham smiled.
End of Ch 6
AN:
(1) – Lucy and Mina, are characters from Bram Stoker's novel. In the Hellsing cannon the events are assumed to be mostly accurate, except the ending...
(2) - A Dhampir, is a human/vampire hybrid found in some works of fiction and video games. I hope that it is spelled right...
Preview of the next chapter: Bitch
"That bitch!" Abraham Hellsing Slammed his fist down on his desk.
"Is something wrong, Sir?" Alfred asked him.
"That bitch, my wife, is divorcing me!"
