Chapter 15
DP, Hellsing, and Iscariot
William barely dodged the Vlad copy that flew after him. The copy then unleashed a storm of ghost rays at him so quickly that William had to tap deeply into his electrical power to dodge every blast. Buildings were destroyed all around as the fighters that were still conscious battled Vlad Plasmius and his copies. Seras's shadow arm made a quick shield to protect both her and Sir Integra, the copy fighting her was firing ghost rays so quickly that she couldn't counter attack. Heinkel Wolfe on the other hand was swinging away at the copy battling her with her katana; it was already glowing bright blue as the copy was struggling to dodge. Cameron was just holding her own along with Sam who was fighting back to back against the two copies that went after them. Danny was swinging the Staff of Solomon every way he could, but Vlad was dodging every strike.
Cameron was punched hard in her face and then kicked back by the Vlad copy she was fighting, sending her slamming into the brick wall of a store. She quickly went intangible and floated through the wall then clapped her hands together and let the vibrations flow through her body. The wall in front of her exploded and she quickly went intangible as pieces of the wall passed through her. Cameron then saw the Vlad copy and punched it as hard as she could in its head; shattering its jaw and making its head spin around 180 degrees. Cameron tried to follow up but the copy grabbed her fist and then blasted her right in her face with a ghost ray. The copy's head then turned back to normal and said, "My copies are much more powerful than before!" The vampire-ghost copy then grabbed her face and picked her up head first and slammed her into the ground.
The Vlad copy slammed her head first into the hard ground again and again. Cameron tried to go intangible, but his supernatural fist still clung to her and he sent thousands of volts of electricity through her, making her scream in pain as she went tangible again, her face covered in green ectoplasmic blood. The Vlad copy held her face closer to him and with a tongue that was too long to be human licked her blood. The copy smacked its lips and smiled at her, teeth all fangs, "Still a virgin, oh how delicious would it be to send Daniel's own daughter against him." "No…" Cameron moaned as she concentrated as hard as she could. A copy of Cameron appeared behind the Vlad copy and punched him as hard as it could in his head, making the Vlad copy let go of the real Cameron. The Vlad copy punched the Cameron copy so hard in its head that it immediately disappeared in a puff of smoke, but it bought Cameron time to focus her energy. Cameron let loose a massive Ghostly Wail right in the Vlad copy's face, destroying it instantly. The exhausted halfa fell to her knees and white rings flew up and down her body. "Hold on everyone, I'm coming," she said as she forced herself to stand and limped out of the building.
Heinkel dodged a ghost ray from the Vlad copy she battled and answered back with a few gunshots that it blocked with an ecto-energy shield. Heinkel brought her arms together and a blue shield of energy surrounded her as she charged at the Vlad copy. The copy tried to fire ghost rays at her, but they all bounced off the shield and Heinkel hit the copy full on, slamming it through a mall as her shield's energy burned it. The Vlad copy screamed as it forced itself to come off of her shield. The copy then got behind Heinkel and before she could stop her running it blasted off one of her legs, sending her tumbling into a sporting goods store in the mall. "Fuck!" she cursed, her leg would grow back, or she could reattach it, but that would take at least ten minutes, and the Vlad copy was flying right at her with an ecto energy shield in front of it in a mockery of her attack.
Heinkel rolled out of the way just in time to get burned by the friction across her back. Heinkel got out her katana and yelled, "PERDERE DAEMONIUM!" Heinkel crawled to a wall and forced herself up by leaning on a wall, "Show yourself you fucking coward!" "Right here," a voice said behind her and then punched her right in her chin. Heinkel swung her katana wildly, but the Vlad copy was unharmed, and remained invisible. "What's wrong Regenerator? Can't you sense ghosts?" the invisible Vlad copy laughed. "Damn you," Heinkel said as she grabbed a rack and forced herself up again. She heard as something moved close through the air. Heinkel stood still. "What's wrong, don't you want to avenge your beloved Pope? Or Rome? Do you want to hear how the Pope screamed as I-" That was as far as the copy got before Heinkel stabbed behind her and through the copy. Heinkel turned around and looked at the copy and told it, "Go to Hell," as she swung the blade up and sliced it in half, and it disappeared in a shower of darkness. Heinkel found a crutch and used it to head back to where her leg was. She needed to heal before she could rejoin the fight.
Sam was kicked back by the Vlad copy she fought but managed to dodge his ghost ray and fire a ray with her Ghost Peeler. The Vlad copy dodged her blast, but she nicked its leg, making it yell in surprise. "Getting slower in your old age Vlad?" Sam asked as she fired several small volleys. The Vlad copy had to go intangible and fly behind a wall to avoid her blasts. Sam tapped the side of her helmet on her Ghost Peeler and changed the view of her helmet to see where the Vlad copy was. Sam went into the building and looked around and saw the copy's signature. "Got you!" Sam yelled as she blasted the copy full on with her Ghost Peeler's laser and it was reduced to dark shadows. Sam came out of the building and saw Cameron stumbling down the street.
"Cammie!" Sam yelled as she ran to her daughter and deactivated the Ghost Peeler. Sam saw her daughter was bleeding badly from her face and held her, "Cammie, stop. You can't fight anymore!" Cammie said, "I got to, I can show them what I can do…showthem whadi got…" Cameron passed out and Sam activated her Ghost Peeler and then lifted her oldest daughter up and flew past the line of soldiers to the medics behind them. Sam got down and yelled, "HELP!" Two medics rushed forward and asked, "What happened to her?" "I don't know, Vlad Plasmius made copies and we've been battling them. Cameron fought one and then I lost track of her because I had to fight one too. I saw her stumbling down the street and then she passed out when I reached her," Sam told them. The medics put her on a stretcher and into an ambulance, "Ma'am, you need to come with us," a medic told her.
Sam shook her head, "I need to get my other kids," and flew off. Sam flew through the devastated Washington D.C., wreckage was everywhere. High above her she saw as Danny and the real Vlad battled, blasting ghost rays at each other and lighting up the sky. She tapped her ear mic and said, "Willie where are you?" She heard her son gasp as he told her, "Morgan's back up and we're trying to fight the Vlad copy. He's so fast-" she then heard a very loud something hit her son. "WILLIE!" Sam yelled as she activated a tracking device in his ear mic. She saw that he was three hundred yards south by southwest and she immediately headed that way. When she finally arrived she saw as William, now wielding Morgan's ice powers, blasted an ice ray at the Vlad copy.
The Vlad copy deflected the ice ray into the ground and blasted him back with a ghost ray. Morgan hit Vlad like a flash of lightning using William's powers, but the Vlad copy threw her away before she could shock him and kicked her into the ground. Sam kicked the Vlad copy away and checked on her youngest children, "Willie, Morgan; are you okay?" "Ugh, yeah," Willie said. "I think I'm bleeding," Morgan said. She indeed had a cut on her forehead that was starting to bleed heavily. "Hold on kids, it's almost over," Sam said. As if to prove her wrong a bright light lit up the sky and the three of them looked up to see Danny and Vlad caught in a beam war, their energy blasts battling back and forth. Then suddenly Sam felt herself get picked up and a knee driven into her back. "GAH!" she yelled in shock as she was then thrown aside.
Sam struggled to get up, luckily her back wasn't broken, but her armor was badly damaged and she could feel part of it jabbing into her spine. Sam struggled to get up, only to have to remove the helmet to cough up blood. Sam looked and saw as the invisible Vlad copy banged William and Morgan's heads together then slammed them into the concrete. The Vlad copy then appeared and before William or Morgan could move it stomped on William's left hand and Morgan's right arm, breaking them! The children screamed in pain and fear as they blasted the Vlad copy with what was left of their power, freezing it and then making it explode. The twins turned Human again and laid there crying in anguish. Get up! Sam internally screamed; your babies need you! Get up! Sam managed to stand up and get her helmet back on as she went to William and Morgan and gently lifted them up. "It's going to be okay," she told them as she flew to the medics.
Seras carried Integra as she ran away from the Vlad copies that pursued them. Integra had regained consciousness and held on tightly as Seras ran at supersonic speeds to dodge the Vlad copies' attacks. "We can't be defensive forever," Integra pointed out as Seras ran up the side of a building. "I know," Seras said as using her shadow arm and Third Eye she aimed behind herself with the Casull and shot at the Vlad copies, only for them to block her shots with ecto-energy shields. We need to get through their shields, Integra thought, He has to have a weakness….weakness… "Seras, we need to find an ectoranium RPG and fire it at them, that should weaken them long enough to destroy them," Integra told Seras as Seras ran off the building and glided through the air for a moment. "Alright, I'll try to distract them while you look for an RPG," Seras said as she went closer to the ground.
Integra let go of Seras and rolled on the ground. She saw as Seras flew at the two Vlad copies and swatted at them with her shadow arm, now turned into a long tentacle. The two Vlad copies scattered and blasted at her with ghost rays that Seras barely managed to dodge as she returned fire at them. Integra ran around looking for a grenade launcher and soon found one. She lifted it up and checked the ammo, "Damn!" she yelled, it wasn't what she needed. Integra then saw as the Vlad copies started to overpower Seras as one grabbed her shadow arm and the other powered up a ghostly ball of energy. Integra quickly took aim and fired at the Vlad copy forming the ball of energy, it was hit directly and the resulting explosion distracted the one holding Seras long enough for her to escape his grasp and shoot its head. Seras then finished off the other copy before it could recover.
Danny and Vlad's ectoplasmic beams continued to struggle against each other. "How can you be so much more powerful!?" Vlad yelled. "Modern medicine is a beautiful thing Vlad!" Danny yelled back. To both their shock the beams slipped past each other and Danny and Vlad dodged the beams. Danny smirked at Vlad, "I can sense that your copies are all destroyed. You're through Vlad!" Vlad glared at him and screamed, "NO! NO! NO! NO! I WON'T LET YOU BEAT ME! I AM THE MOST POWERFUL BEING TO EVER EXIST!" Danny flew right at Vlad with the Staff of Solomon's point first. Vlad flew down just in time to avoid being impaled then flew straight up and punched Danny hard in his stomach. Danny kicked Vlad away and focused his ectoplasmic energy through the Staff and fired a pure white beam at Plasmius, who quickly raised a deflective ecto-energy shield and sent the beam right into the sky, splitting the clouds above.
Vlad glared at Danny, Danny would have returned his glare if he still had his eyes. "Why do you persist in this fantasy?! What have you earned from all this!? What has being a hero earned you!?" Vlad yelled at him. "More than you ever had," Danny told him, "I got to become a husband, and a father. People around the world love me for protecting them. Do you get it Vlad!? I am everything you could have been! But you let your stupid fucking pride get the better of you and now look at you! You're not even human anymore! Do you really think that the world will just fall to your rule quietly!? Even if you somehow kill us, people will always be looking for a way to end you, they would rather die than be under your heel!" "SHUT UP!" Vlad screamed at him then he was shot by Seras Victoria, Integra Hellsing, and Heinkel Wolfe.
Vlad blasted at them with ghost rays and then Danny charged at him. Vlad transformed into a swarm of bats and flew around Danny, avoiding the Staff of Solomon for dear life. The bat swarm then flew all down and went after Integra, Heinkel, and Seras. Seras whipped her shadow arm all around, knocking many of the bats back and protecting Integra from the worst of it while Heinkel shot at the bats with her guns. The bat swarm then turned invisible and suddenly Heinkel was overrun by bats. Sam flew in just then and blasted at the bat swarm with her Ghost Peeler, and Vlad Plasmius coalesced once again into his half-ghost form and formed an ecto-energy shield to protect him from her attack. Sam kept on blasting as did Danny, and Vlad started to sweat from the strain of fending off the power of both their attacks.
Vlad then went intangible and went down under the street and Danny and Sam's attacks met in the middle, causing a small explosion that knocked everyone back and to the ground. "Ugh," Heinkel said, "What the Hell are you doing!?" "Damn it! Where is he!?" Danny yelled. He quickly tried to sense Vlad and saw that he was trying to get out of D.C., heading north. "Come on Sam," Danny yelled and grabbed her and then flew off after Vlad. "Seras, go after them!" Sir Integra ordered and Seras flew after them as fast as she could. She quickly caught up with them and Sam asked her, "How much ammo you got left?" "One magazine and a half," Seras told her as they flew. "Alright, Vlad doesn't have many souls left in him, we've damaged him a lot and I think he used up some when he made those copies. It feels like he has about ten more souls left, and then he'll be finished, just him. Sam, you and Seras need to distract Vlad so I can finish him with the Staff of Solomon," Danny told them. "Got it," Sam and Seras both agreed.
They were now over a small town and Danny let go of Sam and went intangible and phased down to where he was sure Vlad was heading. This is it! This is where we end it! Danny thought as he poured power into his right fist. Vlad came at him faster than the speed of sound. NOW! Danny unleashed a massive uppercut that could shatter a mountain, right into Vlad's stomach, making him tangible again and sending him flying out of the ground. Seras and Sam shot at him, but they missed with their first shots, giving Vlad the opportunity he needed. He blasted ghost rays through Seras and Sam! Seras vomited up blood, and fell to the ground along with Sam. "NNNNNNOOOOOOOO!" Danny screamed as he sensed Sam's wound. He flew faster than he ever had and caught his wife.
"Sam! Stay with me!" Danny begged her, but he could feel her bleeding through the hole in her stomach, and something fell out of her body that he didn't want to think about. Sam's vision started to dim as Danny took off her helmet. "D…Dan…ny," Sam whispered. "We'll get you to a Hospital, just stay with me," Danny futilely begged her. "Don…let our k-kids…don't become… " Sam struggled to say the last thing she would ever tell the man she loved, "…monsters." Danny felt it as the last of Sam's life force left her body. He floated down holding her body like it would fall apart at any second. "No," Danny groaned. This can't be happening! No! NO! Danny held her body close to him as he quietly sobbed. Vlad had taken away his ability to even shed tears for his wife. Vlad had taken her away from him!
Vlad floated high in the sky, laughing at Danny's pain. Danny gently put Sam's body down and turned his attention to his mortal enemy. "So, what are you going to do now hero?" Vlad taunted him. Vlad was caught completely by surprised as Danny answered with a Ghostly Wail directed at the sky, breaking all of Vlad's bones and sending him past the clouds. "I'LL KILL YOU!" was all Danny screamed as he flew after him. Vlad barely caught Danny's punch and punched him right in his face, breaking Danny's nose. Danny ignored the pain and punched Vlad's head hard enough to make his head explode, the Staff of Solomon left behind with his beloved Sam's body. "DIE!" Danny yelled as he poured more energy into his legs and kicked Vlad's body in half right down the middle. "DIE!" Danny screamed again as he sucked in one last breath.
"DDDDDDIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEWWWWHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Danny's Ghostly Wail was pure black as it erupted from his body; he poured every last scrap of power he had left into the attack, never relenting even as the clouds all around were dissipated and the skies darkened from his display of power. For hundreds of miles around people heard his Wail as he laid vent to all his pain, all his anger, all his sorrow into one final attack to kill Vlad Plasmius once and for all!
Danny at last stopped, and sensed that Vlad was dead. He floated down to the town below. Danny fell to the ground and turned Human. And he screamed at the Heavens above, Hell below, and everything and everyone that had ever conspired against him. He wanted to end it; he wanted to end it all! When he at last stopped to breathe he remembered Sam's last words. Danny pounded his fists into the ground. He was still pounding his bloody fists into the ground when the paramedics arrived fifteen minutes later. Danny sensed their presence and stopped his energy all gone as he at last fell unconscious. Seras watched from the shadows as she silently shed tears for Danny and Sam. She wanted more than anything to comfort Danny now, but could not reveal herself. "I'm sorry Danny," she whispered as she joined with the shadows and left him to be picked up by the paramedics.
Author's Note: I'm sorry it took so long for this, I had to help set up and participate in a Haunted House for Halloween and afterwards had a bad case of writer's block. The next chapter won't take so long to put up.