Chapter 8
Danny
The next morning went by fine, nothing worth mentioning happened until after Dinner when Sir Integra had Jefferson get Danny to come to her office again. He saw Sir Integra in a green suit with blue tie and her ever present gloves and brown cigarette thing standing in front of her desk. "Come walk with me, Daniel," she said, and they walked outside into a garden in the back yard of the mansion. "We are allies now, equals. Because of that, I will be straightforward now. Vampires are not the only opponents you may face," Sir Integra told him. "What else is there? Ghosts, vampires, zombies, what else, aliens? Werewolves? Frankenstein!?" Danny exasperatedly asked; it was beginning to feel like every month a new monster was appearing in his life. Sir Integra blew smoke out her nose with a look of amusement, "Aliens, no. Werewolves are a possibility, though it's been 6 years since we last encountered one, and Frankenstein's Monster is a work of fiction I can assure you. No, the enemy I refer to is Iscariot."
"Iscariot?" Danny asked. "You noticed that my organization is the Royal Order of Protestant Knights. Iscariot is the Roman Catholic Church's dirty little secret, a fanatical order whose purpose is to kill all unholy abominations in their path, using any means necessary. They are one of the Royal Order's worst enemies," Sir Integra explained. "Why? Aren't you after the same thing, killing all monsters?" Danny just didn't understand it. "You're a poor student aren't you," Sir Integra said, Danny didn't comment. "For centuries Catholics have resented Protestants and vice-versa, while now they're making attempts to reconcile, Iscariot is still around 'just in case'. They hate non-Catholics with a fury only surpassed by their hatred for monsters. Because of this, and the fact that I had Alucard as my servant, and now Seras as well, they see me as the physical embodiment of all that they hate."
"So now a bunch of crazy monster hunters are going to come after me. Business as usual," Danny said, rolling his eyes. Sir Integra then surprised him by lifting him up by his shirt collar, "Do. Not. Underestimate. Them. They have access to ancient magic and technology the likes of which we still cannot fathom. Their greatest weapon is The Regenerator; a human being who has been enhanced to that their physical speed and strength matches a vampire's, and they also heal like a vampire as well. The one that Alucard fought was Father Alexander Anderson; Alucard himself admitted that Anderson could have killed him." Danny looked at her shocked, can't I ever catch a break!? "Father Anderson and over 90% of Iscariot were killed in the Zeppelin Incident, but according to reports from some people I have in high places, Iscariot has recovered enough to make a new Regenerator. We still don't know who he or she is, but there's no doubt that they will be Anderson's equal, if not superior, in power," Sir Integra told him then she let Danny back down.
"You think I'm afraid? I've been through things just as bad as you!" Danny yelled at her. "I doubt that. You didn't watch your men being slaughtered, only to rise up and be slaughtered again. You didn't watch as one of the oldest cities in the world burned. You didn't watch someone you trusted all your life betray you. Whatever you've seen cannot compare to the horror's I have witnessed," Sir Integra said with a look daring him to continue. "Yes it can," Danny said, making sure that she was paying attention. "I've been to the future, 9 years into the future. And I saw the world was destroyed, and I fought the thing that destroyed it," Danny said.
"What did it?" Sir Integra said, paying full attention. "Me," Danny told her. "Last year we had a test at school, the and there's a bright future waiting for you. Fail and you're flipping burgers forever. I fought a ghost and there was an explosion, I went intangible and phased through the case my teacher had the answers in. This is where things changed.
"In that future I used the answers to ace the test, Mr. Lancer figured out I cheated and called my parents to meet him at the Nasty Burger. Sam and Tucker, my two best friends, went there to try to stand up for me, just as I showed up the Nasty Burger exploded when their 'secret sauce' overheated. My worst enemy, Vlad Plasmius, adopted me out of pity. I couldn't take it anymore and begged him to separate my Ghost and Human halves, and that's when everything went downhill."
Sir Integra looked at him suspiciously, "This all sounds like the plot to a comic book." "Says the lady that runs a vampire hunting organization," Danny shot back. "Touché." Danny continued, "My Ghost Half went crazy and tore out Vlad's own Ghost Half and merged with it. Over the next ten years he rampaged throughout the world, destroying everything he saw. I ended up in that future and fought him; he beat me, and came here to make sure all that happened. I managed to get back to this time and stop him, but I got his greatest weapon when I did." At this Danny went Ghost and left the garden, Sir Integra following him. "Where's the firing range?" Danny asked. "This way," Sir Integra said, and they went to the East corner of Hellsing Manor. "Cease fire!" Sir Integra yelled and all the men that were practicing stopped shooting.
Danny took a deep breath and walked about ten feet away from the men and unleashed his Ghostly Wail, destroying everything 1000ft in front of him. When Danny finally stopped the men all had their mouths open in shock, even Sir Integra. Danny then looked at Sir Integra and said, "I have to constantly keep a lid on that. Not to mention the fact that I've been brainwashed, framed, kidnapped, tortured and hunted more times than I can count last year. After all that, I'm not afraid of anything anymore." Danny said then flew into the mansion.
Seras
Seras woke up just after Supper to find everyone was a little more somber. Soldiers she passed kept on saying, "That kid can destroy anything!" Or things like, "Looks like we got this thing in the bag now." Are they talking about Danny? Seras asked herself. It was true that he was powerful, but the troops were acting like he was the Second Coming. Seras stopped one of the older soldiers; she thought his name was Dougal, and said, "What are the others talking about?" Dougal took a second and said, "This afternoon at the firing range, Danny Phantom yelled real loud and everything in front of him for a good 300 meters was destroyed!" "What!?" Seras yelled, "It's true," Dougal responded, "With him on our side, those vampires don't stand a chance!" Seras was a red blur as she ran to the firing range to see that everything was just as Dougal said.
Danny did this!? The vampire couldn't believe that that small boy was capable of such destruction, but the evidence was laughing at her face. Seras traveled in the shadows and knocked on the door to Sir Integra's office. "Enter," Sir Integra answered after a few seconds. Seras went in and smelled brandy, and indeed Sir Integra was sipping from a glass. "Master, did you see-" "I was there," Sir Integra interrupted her and sighed. Seras took a quick sniff of the air and was glad to note that the alcohol wasn't too strong in her master's breath. "I underestimated that boy. He has been through more than I suspected," Sir Integra said as she took another sip of brandy.
"Before his little… 'demonstration' he told me that since he became half-ghost he was tortured, brainwashed, hunted, and framed for crimes he didn't commit. The raw anger I saw in his eyes was as real as mine whenever I look in the mirror," Sir Integra said. "I had assumed that his life couldn't possibly compare to mine, and in the grand scheme of things it doesn't, yet his own personal struggles were much worse than mine." Seras took a minute to think about all she knew about Sir Integra: mother dead at three, father at 12, traitor uncle, Alucard, Millennium, Iscariot, the Convention of Twelve, her recent nightmares, what could compare to that!?
"Are you sure that's not the brandy talking?" Seras asked, maybe she just can't hold her alcohol. "If only it was," Sir Integra said. "I never considered that Daniel had fought all his battles in the front, while most of mine have been from the rear. My life was not in as constant danger as his, I would just order men to go here or go there, before Millennium's attack my life was almost never in danger, and these last six years have been so remarkably quiet that it's unbelievable." If only it was remarkably quiet, there had been plenty of vampire attacks, all the soldiers earned their pay, but compared to Millennium, yes it was quiet. Sir Integra took another sip of brandy and snorted in amusement then concluded, "I've fallen into the same trap the Convention of Twelve made, I judged a person by their age alone."
Just then an alarm sounded and Sir Integra immediately ran to the phone on her desk, "What's happening?" "An army of ghouls is approaching from the South-West, and there appear to be at least five vampires leading them," was the reply. Not again! "Are they armed?" Sir Integra immediately asked, just as the sound of a rocket launcher impacting a wall resounded throughout Hellsing Manor.
Danny
Danny woke up to the sound of alarms going off, that's never a good sign. He quickly got out of bed and ran out to the hallway where he saw soldiers running throughout the mansion. "What's going on!?" Jack asked, and then they heard an explosion. "Security breached! Security breached! Hostiles are armed but unarmored, aim for the heart!" Danny heard a soldier yell and then shooting filled the hallway. Maddie and Jazz were soon in the hallway and ten soldiers immediately surrounded them, "On Sir Integra's orders you need to come with us to the safe room immediately," an older soldier with a mustache said. Jack, Maddie and Jazz followed the soldiers while Danny defiantly said, "I'm going to fight!" and without another word went Ghost and flew to the sound of gunfire.
I'm not letting anyone die for my sake! Danny quickly saw men shooting at a mass of purple eyes that was firing back at them. Danny took aim and fired away with his ghost rays until the shooting from the other side stopped. "Move in! Move in!" a soldier yelled only for a female voice to say, "Fall back, I'll handle this!" Danny and all the soldiers saw Seras emerge from the shadows with the two cannons Danny saw in her room. The soldiers retreated but Danny floated down and stood next to her. "You should be with your family," Seras told him as she took aim. "I'm not going to stand by while people get killed," Danny told her as the smoke cleared and more ghouls started marching towards them.
"Don't die," Seras told him and opened fire. Danny's ghost rays and Seras's Harkonnen Cannons made quick work of the ghouls and they quickly flew and ran respectively forward, firing away at anything that had purple glowing eyes. They soon arrived at the hole in the wall the ghouls were coming from. They spotted a tall woman with black hair and an even taller redhead man, both of them had glowing green eyes. "So, you're Danny Phantom?" the man said, "Scrawny little wanker aren't you?" "What do you want?" Seras immediately asked, pointing both cannons at the vampires. "Our Master wants two new brides," the woman said, laughing. "JAZZ!" Danny yelled and turned to fly back to his family when the man blurred and was in front of him. Danny went intangible just as the man punched him and Seras and the woman charged toward each other.
Seras
The black haired woman was fast, as fast as Seras in fact and what was worse was that she was taller. Damn, I shouldn't have wasted my ammo on those ghouls! Seras dodged a kick and tried to move in on the woman only to be punched back 20 ft. She has ze reach advantage, but what of 'er abilities? Pip asked in Seras's head. Seras immediately punched the floor with her shadow arm, sending shadows out along the walls and floor. The woman was a blur as she nimbly dodged the shadows only for a hand to grab onto her ankle as she jumped, "I got you!" Pip crowed as Seras's fist pierced her heart.
Danny
Danny stayed intangible as he tried to blast the redheaded vampire but the man dodged his blasts. He's so fast! For what felt like the hundredth time in 2 minutes the man kicked through Danny, and an idea finally sprung in his head. Letting the power of his Cold Core throughout his body Danny charged at the man. "Persistent git, aren't you?" the man laughed as he tried to kick him again. He passed right through Danny, emerging from him completely frozen solid. Danny then blasted away at the frozen vampire, shattering him into ice and dust. Danny immediately flew in the direction he last saw the soldiers escorting his family, only to nearly run into a mass of ghouls.
"OUTTA MY WAY!" Danny yelled as he blasted away with his ice rays. Danny soon heard his sister scream and flew even faster, only to get a fist in his face. "You're not going anywhere," a short yet muscular bald guy said. "Says you!" Danny yelled as he tried to phase through the man, only to be grabbed by his throat. WHAT! "I'm not some weak fledgling that's powerless against ghosts, boy," the bald guy said, punching Danny hard in the gut nearly 50 times in 5 seconds. Danny moaned at the pain and stopped being intangible. "I wonder what your blood tastes like," the bald man smiled, his mouth full of fangs. Suddenly a fist exploded from the man's chest and Danny saw that it was Seras, "Come on!"
Danny and Seras soon heard a scream and something exploded right in front of them. Danny blasted blindly and saw that he froze one of the vampires holding a grenade launcher. Danny flew as fast as he could and saw his parents lying on the ground.
"Mom! Dad!" Danny quickly checked, they were bleeding, bad. "They're still alive," Seras told him then saw that all their guards were dead. Seras took one of their rifles and ran off while Danny grabbed his parents and flew to where Sir Integra told him the Medical Wing was.
Seras
Seras flew to the roof through the hole in the side of the Mansion after killing all ghouls in her way. Using her Third Eye the vampire saw a medium height blonde man running, carrying the unconscious Jasmine and Sir Integra over his shoulders like gunny sacks. Just as Seras was going to pull the trigger a feeling of immense pain flew through her head. It was as if she was being cut by Zorin Blitz's scythe, mauled by the Captain's werewolf form, stabbed by Father Anderson's bayonets, and shot by her Master's Casull all at once, multiplied a thousand fold. You should be thanking me for freeing you, ungrateful little cunt! A voice roared in her head when the pain stopped. Seras stood up and realized that Sir Integra and Jasmine were gone, in the hands of a vampire who would do unspeakable things to them.