Inside Issei's Subconscious
Boredom would be an understatement to the feeling Alucard was currently experiencing. He was beyond exhausted with boredom. And how could he not feel it? Although he had the ability to exist wherever and however he chose to, he usually resided in Issei's subconscious. Yes, it was amusing to terrorize Issei when he least expected it, and it was entertaining, but all he ever did was mess with Issei mostly anyway. His expression was serious as he pondered.
"Hmm. Perhaps I could find some other way to entertain myself", the vampire said.
He hummed in contemplation, tapping his fingers on his throne. His eyes widened, and the smile on his face grew wider.
"Oh yes. I have something in mind."
The smirk on his face grew incredibly wide, revealing his ever shining sharp canine teeth.
At Kuoh Academy
With crossed arms, Issei listened with indifference as his teacher droned on about the class subject. He knew all about the class subject anyway, so he didn't really have to pay attention to get the gist of it. He looked around the classroom and saw that most of the students were chatting about, not paying the teacher any mind. With his eyes narrowing, Issei heightened his senses, perceiving the feeling of his fellow's classmates auras. He smiled in confidence, happy that he had honed this ability.
Knock Knock
At the knock of the door, the teacher stopped her lesson, and went to open the door. Opening it, a smile formed on her face.
"Class, we have a new student, and she's from New England, so make sure to make her feel welcome."
The class shot up in excitement, their interest piqued as they conversed about the subject of the new girl. Issei rose an eyebrow in slight curiosity.
"A new student, huh? This should be interesting."
A figure walked into the class, and stood in front of the teacher's desk. Issei almost dropped his pencil, and his eyes widened.
'Wait a minute! Is that... No! That can't be-'
It was a girl that appeared to be around Issei's age, possibly younger. She had deep black hair, with piercing crimson eyes, and was dressed in the traditional Kuoh Academy's outfit for girls. She sent the class a smile, that was bordering on utter wickedness. The class awed, with the boys commenting that the girl looked absolutely beautiful, with the girls commenting similar statements.
But Issei had a much different reaction. As he stared in shock, he opened his mouth, and since he wasn't thinking straight, he almost blurted his words out.
"Alu-"
He was cut off when his chair suddenly slipped out from under him, causing him to lean backwards, and bump his head on another student's desk, and fall down on the ground. The class gasped, their attention directed at the girl temporarily forgotten. Some of the students crowded around to check on Issei. Slightly grateful, but choosing to ignore the other student's words of concern, Issei rubbed the back of his head, and stood up, ready to give his ancestor a piece of his mind, until he heard Alucard's voice through their mind-link.
'Be silent, boy. You aren't going to ruin this for me.'
Issei looked on in shock.
'Ruin what for you? This isn't funny. What happened to your appearance? I know you can shape-shift and all, but why are you-'
Issei was cut off yet again, when the chair suddenly lifted up and slammed onto his foot.
"Ouch!" He jumped up and held his foot. He glared at the 'girl' in front of the classroom, who was giving him a evil smirk.
'Not cool, Alucard. Not cool.'
The teacher gave Issei a stern look.
"Mr. Hyoudou, would you please sit down so our new student can introduce herself?"
Issei looked ready to protest, but then he saw the 'girl' smirk smugly at him, and then the teacher's warning glare directed at him. Reluctantly, Issei sat down in his seat, and gave the 'girl' a moody glare.
The teacher's stern gaze morphed into a kind smile as she looked to the 'girl' in front of her.
"Now dear, why don't you introduce yourself in front of the class?"
The 'girl' smiled sweetly and turned to the class.
"Hello everyone. My name is Anil U. Card. You may call me Ani for short. It's nice to meet you, and I hope we can be friends."
She flashed the class a sugary smile, with the class immediately taking a liking to her. Issei looked around the class with a shocked look on his face, and glared at the female form of Alucard (which will now be referred to as "Girlycard" from this point on).
'Really? Anil U. Card? It's just "Draculina" spelled backwards. You couldn't have come up with something original?'
'Hmm. Did I hear a request for the chair to attack you by repeatedly bashing you over the head?'
Issei pouted. '...No.'
'Yeah, that's what I thought. Now be silent.'
The teacher pointed at the desk next to Issei.
"Ani, why don't you sit next to Issei, and since you are new here, after class is over, Issei can take you around the school for a tour."
Issei spluttered with shock and indignation.
"W-why me?!"
The outrage was ignored, as the teacher guided Girlycard to the desk next to Issei. As the teacher resumed her lesson, Issei tried very hard to ignore his 'female' ancestor, who was giving him a smug smirk. Issei scowled as he opened the mind-link.
'Why are you out here? And how can everyone see you? I thought I was the only who could.'
Girlycard shrugged, and then smirked.
'I was bored. There's absolutely nothing to do in your subconscious besides watching you fail in life.'
'Her' smirk grew.
'And besides, it's fun toying with you. Sure I could always annoy the hell out of you while I reside in your mind, but out here it's much more satisfying. And in response to your other two questions, so long as I will it, are mortals are able to see me.'
Issei gave 'her' a blank look.
'You do realize that now that you're officially a student here, you're going to have to attend here regularly just like the rest of us.'
Girlycard scoffed within the mind-link.
'Hmph. You seem to be under the delusion that I actually give a shit whether or not I even consider coming to attend here. It doesn't concern me at all. It's worth it just to see you struggle.'
Issei sighed in annoyance, and then widened his eyes when a thought came to him.
'How on earth did you get registered into the school? And more importantly, how were you able to sign up to this class?'
Girlycard gave Issei another smirk, much to the latter's dismay.
'It's all a matter of mind manipulation and hypnosis. And the fact that I had told your school staff that you and I were distant cousins."
Issei's eyes widened as he banged his desk with his fists, and blurted out, "YOU TOLD THEM WHAT?!"
The class jumped in surprise, and the teacher turned around to give Issei a stern glare. Issei, realizing he had shouted out his sentence, slid back into his seat in shame. It didn't help that Alucard was snickering in the mind-link.
"Um, sorry about that."
The teacher maintained her glare at Issei for a few seconds, and then turned around, resuming her teaching.
Making sure the teacher wasn't looking, Issei gave Girlycard an questioning look.
'Why did you tell the staff we were cousins?'
Girlycard shrugged again with a bored look on 'her' face.
'I don't understand why you're so concerned. Technically we are related. Blood-related to be exact.
'She' looked over to Issei with a solemn expression on 'her' face.
"You inherited the portion of my very blood from Wilhelmina Harker. Never forget that, Issei."
Hearing the solemn yet prideful tone from his ancestor, Issei nodded in understanding.
'I know. I promise I won't.'
The two were silent for a moment.
'By the way, if you don't mind me asking. Why did you take the form of a teenage girl?'
Girlycard was silent, then 'she' gave Issei an unreadable expression.
'There is never any meaning in the form that I take. Any particular form I take...it means nothing to me.'
The two kept their eye-contact, with Issei breaking it by turning back to listen to the teacher. Girlycard kept 'her' gaze still on Issei, but eventually moved 'her' now bored gaze to the window.
4 HOURS LATER (In Which School is Over)
The doors opened, the student crowding it as they ran out in excitement. Next, Issei and Girlycard walked out in no rush whatsoever. Issei had a content and calm look on his face, while Girlycard's expression bordered on barely suppressed rage. Issei gave 'her' a curious expression, and then he chuckled.
"I gotta say I gotta give you props for not killing any of those guys. I was sure that as soon as one of them tried to flirt with you, you would have snapped all of their necks." His response was a snarl from his ancestor.
"As if I need your praise, foolish boy. Those damn pieces of shit!"
The 'female' vampire tightened 'her' fists as 'she' kept 'her' pace with Issei. Issei vainly suppressed his laughter at Girlycard's misfortune.
"Now I remember why I stopped using this damn form!"
"So does that mean you're not going to attend here anymore?"
'He can embarrass me at home all he wants, but at school, no way.'
"I heard that."
Issei paled and chuckled nervously, with Girlycard giving him a glare.
"And absolutely not. If I can endure getting blown up, getting shot, and decapitation, then I can certainly tolerate the idiotic humans in this school."
Issei really hated to disappoint 'her', but he settled for rolling his eyes instead.
"Yeah, we'll see how that goes."
Girlycard gave him another glare.
"How utterly ridiculous. I've had enough tomfoolery for one day."
With that being said, Girlycard reverted back to Alucard. A glow surrounded the greatly irritated No-Life King as he retired back to Issei's subconscious.
Issei chuckled and he shook his head. Then he stopped, his eyes widening as he nearly evaded a attack from above. A blue light spear embedded into the spot Issei was in originally. Grunting in annoyance, Issei looked up to see a middle-aged-looking man. He had short black hair and dark blue eyes, and was clad in a pale violet trench coat over a white dress shirt with a matching ascot, black pants and shoes, and a black fedora. Issei's eyes narrowed as the man possessed black crow-like wings, the very same as Yuuma Amano.
Teleporting in front of the man, Issei floated in the air, as his eyes darkened in annoyance.
"And just who the hell are you supposed to be?"
The man chuckled.
"How amusing. It seems I have a caught a stray devil. No matter. I am the Fallen Angel by the name of Dohnaseek, also your eradicator."
Issei sighed as his eyes lowered.
'Just when I thought this day couldn't get any worse.' His eyes widened.
'Wait, Fallen Angel? Devil? What on earth is this guy talking about?' "What do you mean, Devil?"
Dohnaseek smirked as he charged another blue light spear.
"Unfortunately you'll never get the chance to find out. Now die!" He aimed his arm back, and thrust it forward attempting to pierce Issei with the light spear.
However, as soon as the light spear was about to come in contact with Issei, the hybrid vampire grabbed it, halting it in place. Dohnaseek gasped in bewilderment.
"W-what the?!"
Issei gave him a cold look.
"I don't know what the hell's going on here, but clearly you were trying to kill me. That being said, I have no choice to but to kill you in retaliation."
Without warning, Issei tore the light spear from Dohnaseek's hands, and thrust it forward, piercing through Dohnaseek's mouth. The Fallen Angel screamed in immense pain. He then snarled in fury, as he tried to backhand Issei. Unfortunately for him, Issei easily caught his arm, and held his arm in a vice grip. He then closed his eyes, reaching telepathically for Alucard.
In Issei's Subconscious
Watching from Issei's subconscious, Alucard smirked with pride. It seemed Issei had mastered some of his abilities quicker than he had anticipated. Alucard looked up, and felt a mental reach. He allowed the passageway to his and Issei's mind-link and opened it.
'Hey. Are you hungry?'
Alucard hummed in contemplation.
'Now that you mention it, I am quite famished. An arm sounds good about now. Yes, yes. An arm should hit the spot.'
Outside Issei's Subconscious
Heeding his ancestor's request, Issei turned to look at Dohnaseek.
"Hey I'm gonna need your arm. My friend's kind of starving, and he hasn't eaten in a long time. So um...yeah."
Dohnaseek raised a eyebrow. His confused expression then transformed into a horrified gaze, and the next thing he knew, Issei swung his hand down and severed his arm clean off. The Fallen Angel let out a roaring scream of agony, as he cradled the stump that was once his arm.
As Issei held the Fallen Angel's torn arm, he looked Dohnaseek in the eye. His tone was calm as he spoke, as though he was talking about the weather.
"Just think. If you didn't attack me in the first place, you wouldn't be suffering through this pain now."
Dohnaseek looked up in horror and agony. "WHAT ARE YOU?! WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU?!"
Issei held up his free arm, and from his hand manifested a gun. A crimson aura began to envelop his body, and as the aura increased, the gun started to glow with energy.
"Sayonara."
Out of the gun, ruby energy barrages was released, and as Dohnaseek could do nothing to stop it, the energy barrages engulfed the Fallen Angel, obliterating him.
Where Dohnaseek previously floated, there was nothing left of him. Issei looked away and hovered down until reaching the ground. He sighed, and then looked at the arm in slight disgust. He called out to Alucard.
"Hey, you can have this now."
A shadow overlapped from Issei's own shadow, and formed into Alucard. He greedily took the Fallen Angel's arm, and tossed it into his mouth, chewing contently. He paused in his eating, when he noticed Issei giving him a look of horrified disbelief.
"...What?"
Issei continued to stare, and then shook his head, as he continued on his way home.
"Nothing. Nothing at all."
Alucard, with an uncaring expression, shrugged, and after swallowing the rest of the arm, followed his descendant on his pathway to his house. Issei looked to his ancestor.
"You're a pig, you know that right?"
"Shut the hell up."