Chapter 9
DP
Dearborn, Michigan
Cameron wasn't sure how she felt about Dani, and she looked at her Dad's clone again. Dani was about as tall as her Father, and had many of the same facial features, except that her lips were more feminine, and her jaw was softer. Cameron felt a sharp twinge of jealousy when she saw that Dani's body was much more…developed than her own, she had some downright amazing curves, and the body hugging blue shirt and red sweatpants Dani wore showed it off. Right now the two of them were alone, walking through Dearborn. Sam said that it would be good for them to get to know each other, to take their minds off of her Dad. Cameron suddenly bumped right into Dani's overly large chest and at last heard the older halfa say, "What is up with you girl?" Cameron looked at her and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't- it's just that…" "Breathe then talk," Dani suggested. Cameron took in a breath then exhaled.
"Sorry, everything is just so crazy now; I don't know what to do!" Cameron said, louder than she meant to say. Dani took her by her shoulders with one arm and they walked on, "Just tell me whatever you want. I know that this is really sudden Little Cuz, I've never been part of yours or your sibling's lives, and I bet your parents didn't say much about me, did they?" Dani said as they walked on. Cameron looked down, "Dad used to talk about you a lot when I was growing up. He'd tell me stories about you, saying that I could be just as strong as you, even though I didn't have your powers when he was training me." Dani stopped and smiled down sadly at Cameron, "He missed me that much?" Cameron nodded and they walked on through the streets of Dearborn. There weren't a lot of people out.
"So, you told Dad that you had a few boyfriends," Cameron finally said after a while. "Yeah, most of them were only for one night though, though a few were for a few months. It's hard to keep up a relationship and be half ghost too," Dani told her. Cameron thought back to a few times ghosts had kept her parents from being together. She even remembered hearing them fight behind their bedroom door; those were really uncomfortable dinners to say the least. "Yeah," Cameron said. "So, what about you, you got any boyfriends?" Dani asked her. "No," Cameron said. "Girlfriends?" "No," Cameron said, "I don't swing that way." "Just making sure. I'm really surprised, you'd think that the daughter of Earth's Greatest Hero would have to beat guys off with a stick to keep them away from her," Dani said then Cameron's stomach grumbled.
"You think your Mom would mind if we ate out?" Dani asked her. "Let me call her," Cameron said and called Sam. "Mom, can I eat out with Dani?" Cameron asked. "Alright, but I want you back at the Hotel in two hours," Sam told her. "Thanks Mom, love you," Cameron said. "Love you too," Sam said, and hung up. The two female halfas went into a mostly empty sports bar and ordered some burgers and Dani continued their conversation, "So, why no beaus? A cute girl like you, it's kind of surprising." Cameron shrugged as she sipped her drink, "A lot of guys don't go for the girl with no chest and a fat butt. And the guys that saw past that wanted to do creepy stuff with my ghost powers." "Really? That's all? I find that hard to believe," Dani said. Cameron looked down and finally said, "I think that it was also because of my Dad. He's…scary when he fights, and his ghost fights are always on the News. Who wants to risk going out with the girl who's Dad can melt their dick off, or freeze it."
Dani looked at her, "He doesn't just fight ghosts, does he?" Cameron shook her head, "I've known about vampires since I was 5, and a vampire tried to kidnap me. That was when I first went Ghost, and used the Ghostly Wail. Daddy told me about vampires in bits and pieces since then. Ever since he met Integra Hellsing and Seras Victoria they've helped teach him how to fight them, and he helped them a lot too. They trained me too every summer since I was almost kidnapped. Wait, how do you know about vampires?" Dani smirked and they were quiet for a moment when the Waiter came with their food. After he left Dani said, "I've been around the world; I've encountered a few vampires here and there, mostly in bars and clubs. First one I saw was in Ukraine, she went after other women; whenever she was caught she'd act like she was making out with the girl so no one suspected a thing. Let's just say I turned on the charm and gave her more than she could chew."
Cameron let that sink in as she ate her lunch. "What have you been doing to…survive?" she finally asked between fries. "Actually, I'm a professional hotel critic," Dani told her. "How?" Cameron asked. "Well, I managed to make an ID that let me go to college, learned all about traveling and critiquing, and did a lot of traveling during the summers, I was so well traveled that I got the job instantly. I get to enjoy fancy hotels and get paid for it," Dani told her. Just then, the TVs in the restaurant all shut off then turned on to show someone they didn't want to see.
"Hello, humans," Vlad Plasmius said, smiling, his mouth was filled with fangs, but he was in his Ghost Form. "This is your rightful ruler, Vlad Plasmius speaking. Don't bother changing your channel, I'm on every station and will be until my message is finished. With that said, let me say this. Your armies are defenseless against me." Vlad then made air quotations, "Your 'Greatest Hero' is barely alive. Your Gods are nothing compared to me, they will not save you from me. Unless you wish to have more lives destroyed by my hands, the United Nations and the leaders of the world will all submit to me, at the White House, in forty-eight hours. If my demands are not met, I will destroy an entire country, and its neighbor. If one member of the United Nations isn't there, or one leader of a nation doesn't show up, I will know. And the deaths that follow will be on your heads. That is all, remember, you have forty-eight hours, starting now." The screens went black as a timer counted down.
Hellsing
Bern, Switzerland
Iscariot had chosen a Five Star Hotel in Switzerland to hold their meeting. Seras and Integra were given a good room with a view of a nearby forest. They checked the room as soon as they entered it for bugs, cameras, any electronic devices at all that weren't the TV or phone. They found nothing, and only after this did Integra calm down. "I wish I hadn't given up smoking right now," Integra said as she took off her nicotine patch. "When is the meeting again?" Seras asked. "We have two hours, if I read right," Integra said as Seras turned on the TV and Integra went into the shower. The TV showed reporters all frantically yelling about something, Vlad's face was on the corner of the screen. This isn't good, Pip said in Seras's head. Pip, are you alright? Seras asked him. I've been better. I can speak some Swiss; those reporters are talking about a video that Plasmius released. The bastard said that he would destroy an entire country, and its neighbor, if all the UN representatives and world leaders didn't appear at the White House to declare him King of the World in forty-eight hours, and that was five hours and 10 minutes ago, the Familiar told Seras.
Seras went into the bathroom and said, "Integra, there's news about Plasmius. According to the News, about five hours and eleven minutes ago he released a video where he said that he would destroy an entire country if every UN representative and world leader wasn't at the White House in forty-eight hours!" Seras yelled over the shower. Integra almost ripped the shower curtains off as she opened them and yelled, "HE DID THAT!?" "He did," Seras told her. Integra shook her long wet hair and then pounded her fist into the wall, "THAT BASTARD! HE'S DRIVING US INTO A FUCKING CORNER!" "Integra, calm down, this isn't the time to lose yourself to anger!" Seras told her.
Integra looked at her and Seras saw that Integra had taken off her eye patch, the hole where Integra's left eye used to be seemed to look at her, like an omen of horrors to come, and reminded her uncomfortably of what happened to Danny. "Get that stool over there and get in, I need a massage if I'm going to meet the Papists with any kind of decorum," Integra ordered her and closed the shower curtains. Seras grabbed a stool beside her and then her clothes shifted into shadows and disappeared off her body as she stepped into the shower. Integra was sitting down on the shower floor, hot water pouring on her lean body as Seras put the stool down and sat on it to give her a massage.
I love it when I'm useful, Pip commented in Seras's head as she used his memories to massage Integra's stiffened muscles. As she went about her task, Seras noted how Integra's skin was just slightly looser. Integra and Seras didn't speak at all as Seras gave her the massage, Integra only made a few moans when Seras got rid of some particularly tough knots in her neck and back. Seras was about to tell Integra to turn around and let her massage her legs when Integra told her, "Thank you, Seras." The two women stood up and Integra gave her a small kiss then told her, "Get cleaned up, we need to look our best before we meet Iscariot," Integra then left the shower and dried herself off.
Seras set about washing herself and as she did so, she took the time to really look at her body. Chronologically, she was now 45 years old, and yet she didn't show it at all. Her legs were still as firm and smooth as they had been before she became a vampire, what little body hair she ever had never grew back. Her body was without blemish despite the countless injuries she had obtained over the years, her breasts were as full as ever, her hair had never faded; her face was unwrinkled. She then thought of Integra. Integra had taken on a little weight, only someone who knew her as intimately as Seras would know this. Integra's hair was pure white, her skin was showing wrinkles, and she had lost her eye all those years ago. Am I cruel Pip, to have started my relationship with her?
Mignonette, you stayed true to her all these years, how could anyone think that cruel? Pip responded. Do you think she resents me? My body is still young and beautiful, and always will be, while she will age. She is still the most beautiful woman I've ever met, but does she see that? Seras asked. This isn't the time to dwell on that. We got a job to do that's more important than your self-doubts, Pip responded. Seras knew that he was avoiding the question, but pushed that to the side because he was right. They had just over 42 hours to figure out how to stop Vlad Plasmius; she could focus on her relationship later. Seras got out of the shower and saw Integra finishing up brushing her hair.
Seras reformed her uniform and then went to their luggage and took out Integra's own uniform and laid it out on the bed. She then reached into her shadow arm and pulled out Integra's guns and her sword, and Alucard's .454 Casull Automatic handgun and strapped it to her shoulder with its holster. Integra finished preparing herself and put on her uniform. From her black boots to her khaki uniform to the sword on her hip to the bulges showing where her guns were, to the white gloves on her hands to the eye patch over her left eye and her long white hair flowing down her back, Integra looked like a general ready to go to war. The two of them left their room and headed for the Auditorium where their meeting with Iscariot would be held.
They went into the guest room where the meeting would take place in and Sir Integra and Seras sat down at a long rectangular table in the room and waited. After ten minutes twelve people walked into the room, all of them dressed in the priestly garments of Iscariot. Among them was Heinkel Wolfe, her face wrapped in bandages and her eyes practically glowing with rage. The twelve of them separated into two groups of six and a man with long disheveled white hair and violet eyes walked in, his face had a scar over the right side of his face, especially his right eye. He smiled invitingly at Sir Integra and Seras and greeted them, "Ah, Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, and Inspector Seras Victoria of the Hellsing Organization. It is an honor to meet you, I am Chief Samuel Makube."
Sir Integra looked at him and then stood up and shook hands with Chief Makube. "We're not here to chat, we all know what the situation is," Integra said and sat back down. "As sharp as you are lovely. It is such a pity that you will burn at Judgment Day," Chief Makube said as he and his entourage sat down. "I thought you Papists wanted to go to Hell to fight Satan's legions. If I do wind up in Hell, at least I'll have company," Sir Integra stated, "And after what Maxwell did, I'd say that is a very good possibility for all of you." "Let's not bring up the past," Chief Makube said with a small strained smile, "We are here because we have a common goal, the annihilation of Vlad Plasmius." Chief Makube's smile dropped from his face.
"He killed His Holiness Victor VI as he tried to evacuate from Rome, for that he must pay! We will do everything in our power to avenge him, and if that means working with you degenerates, so be it!" Chief Makube was yelling by the end. "What are you proposing?" Sir Integra asked. "We offer our souls for the battles to come. And we offer you the chance to bring your ally Danny Phantom back into fighting condition before the countdown Plasmius gave us runs out," Makube told her. "And what do you want in return?" Sir Integra asked. "Plasmius, first and foremost. After he is dealt with, we want your family's research into the Vampire Alucard," Makube told her. Sir Integra clasped her hands and closed her eye, weighing her options. Seras believes that Alucard will come back one day. These Papist dogs will use that research to find ways to kill him and Seras… But if I don't, how many more will die?
Integra thought back to Millennium, and all the dead in London, the reports of Detroit, Rio de Janeiro, and even Rome. Plasmius claimed he could do even worse, he could have been bluffing, but was it worth the risk? Too many innocents have died. Better the Devil you know, I suppose. Sir Integra looked into Chief Makube's eyes and said, "Very well, I accept your terms."