A/N
A massive thanks to everyone who has stuck with the story despite some of the flaws, late updates, plot holes ect.
Here's the new version of the story, id recommend going back and skimming over it as i've added some bits taken out others ect, but its not super necessary.
Thanks for reading, please review.
For the first time in several days there was no rain although clouds still hung gloomily in the sky and the manor was unusually silent for a Tuesday afternoon.
"So where's Integra?" Victoria asked casually while painting,
Seras frowned, "she's in a round table conference"
The artist laughed softly, "sounds important, shouldn't you be there too?"
"No" Seras started awkwardly, "if anything it'll be about me" she trailed off. 'They're probably deciding if i'm worth keeping or not' the blonde thought sadly. Before Victoria could respond she quickly changed the subject, "do you remember last night?"
The artist tapped the end of the brush against her forehead in thought, "I remember the club", she looked down at her bruised knuckles, "punching someone and you throwing up" she laughed. An image flashed in her mind, 'and Alucard's red eyes' she thought.
Seras blushed, "yeah... Walter still hasn't forgiven me" ,
"well overall it was a pretty good night" she reminisced,
Seras giggled, "yeah, it was". There was a briefly awkward silence, "so today's your last day?"
Victoria exhaled slowly and put the brush she was holding down, "yeah, I'm pretty much done except for a few touch ups",
The blonde lowered her head disappointingly, "oh".
"Oh Seras, we'll still hangout, I'll give you my number before I go and you can text me whenever you want to" she said reassuringly. "You have a phone don't you?" Victoria asked suspiciously,
The fledgling blushed "Erm well, yes and no". Victoria motioned for her to continue, "well Alucard took it" Seras murmured
"What! Seriously?" Victoria said in disbelief, "I'll get it back don't worry"
"How" she whined, "he never gives anything back".
Victoria held her confidence, "well I'll make him",
Seras was about to say something when the lights flickered and a loud crash was heard down the hall followed by yelling, Alucard's voice echoed in her head "Police girl get down here we're being attacked".
The fledglings head shot up and she pulled her boots back on before rushing to the door,
"Wait where are you going?" Victoria asked, confused at her sudden sense of urgency.
Seras's eyes were wide and she was fumbling with the door knob, "Victoria, stay here until I get you, I'm going to lock the door, if someone knocks don't open" she said sternly,
"Whats going on?" She barked,
"I-I can't tell you right now, just please don't leave" she begged.
The artist shuffled awkwardly, "fine",
The blonde smiled sadly, and quickly slipped though the ajar door before locking it behind her.
As soon as Seras left Victoria rushed to the door and pressed her ear against it, listening for anything that would tell her what was going on. Firstly all the woman heard was yelling, then suddenly gunshots, a lot of them. She froze and her eyes widened, listening for more there was what sounded like a small army of people marching up the stairs and down the halls. "Shit" she cursed, she then ran to the light switch before turning them all off and running to hide behind the couch, waiting for Seras to return.
XxX
"What happened, report" Integra spoke into the phone
"Sir Integra, this is control room one, we're under attack it's an unknown enemy!" The voice over the phone called back. "We're exchanging fire at the front entrance"
Integra grit her teeth, "Hold your position and buy us some time" she commanded, "who are the enemy, I need details!"
"Ghouls" a weak voice sputtered out before the phone line crackled and went silent, closer gunshots could still be heard over the line.
"Dammit" Integra cursed,
everyone at the round table was silent until someone spoke up ,"What does th-" he was cut off when an explosion was heard overhead.
"The helipad is down, this was a well planned attack" Integra remarked. A screaming was projected through the phone before a new voice was heard,
"This thing on?" a male voice asked before clearing his throat, "this message goes out to the round table conference and the queen bitch Hellsing herself. Your ass is being kicked by the Valentine brothers, I'm Jan valentine and I can't wait to meet each one of you. Let me be the first to thank you for providing these tasty snacks. By tomorrow Hellsing will be nothing but a pile of burning shit" Jan announced.
Integra was shaking with rage and snapped her current cigar in half, the round table began complaining immediately and the knight was finding it hard to stay calm. Dialling a new number on the phone, she summoned Walter and Seras.
XxX
Victoria sat behind the couch, occasionally peaking from behind to see if anyone had entered the room. Every once and awhile screams and gunshots could be heard downstairs, and it wasn't long before they were on her level. Crawling along the floor she pressed her ear to the door, but jumped back in surprise when something scratched against it, "Whats that boy? Find something" a mans voice cackled,
Victoria was frozen, unable to move. She heard more people approaching, 'they're all groaning like zombies' she thought. Suddenly the knob on the door twisted violently,
"fuck whoever locked this" he cursed before kicking the door lightly.
Calmly and carefully the artist slunk back to her hiding spot, trying to calm her breathing while simultaneously looking for a weapon.
After several seconds of silence she thought they had moved on and contemplated escaping through the window but froze again when she heard his voice,
"Stupid fucking ghoul, everyone's upstairs" it complained.
'Ghouls? I've heard that before' she recalled,
however now more of the things were heavily scratching on the door trying to enter.
The man tisked "We're on a schedule shitheads, they're better be something good in there", soon after that comment he begun trying to break down the door.
'Shit Seras where are you' Victoria cursed.
XxX
Alucard sat calmly in his throne, aware of the situation above ground, he was not the least bit surprised when a wall broke down in front of him, he knew he was coming. A man in a white suit with pale blonde hair confidently strolled towards the vampire,
"I know your in here, even when your hiding I can feel your presence" the man smirked,
"Why would I hide" a voice spoke from the darkness, "don't mistake my patience for cowerdness" Alucard said boredly.
"Im Luke Valentine, It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, I'm a fan of yours" The older valentine brother complimented. He went on to say how he admired the vampires various feats, and remarked on how vampires were chasing his shadow, leaving Alucard unimpressed to say the least.
"You fool, there's no such thing as an immortal" he scoffed,
Luke agreed, "yes, and once I have your head on a stick, everyone else will know too".
Both vampires pulled out their guns and had each other's instantly planted on the others skull, the shots were at the same time resounded off the stone walls. Laughing lowly, Alucard begun wildly firing shots at the regenerated vampire, each shot missing by mere millimeters. However it wasn't long before bullets started connecting with flesh and while Luke was occasionally hit, it was Alucard who had the most damage. The elder vampire was hunched over, waiting for his damaged flesh to regenerate,
"is this all the great vampire Alucard is capable of" Luke mocked.
Alucard smirked, figuring he was finished with his game the Hellsing vampire released his restrictions, "releasing control art restriction systems three... two...one,"
the Valentine brother paled, "what the hell are you doing"
Alucard ignored him, "approval of situation A recognized. Commencing the Cromwell invocation. Ability restriction lifted for limited use until the enemy has been rendered silent". Immediately his form begun to change, "now.. ill show you how real vampires do battle" he roared before he advanced on Luke, sending hounds and various familiars after the man. Luke Valentines screams at being torn and devoured alive could be heard throughout the manor.
XxX
It wasn't long before the door was sent flying off it's hinges and hit the wall with a loud crash. 'no way a human can do that' Victoria thought, she was close to hyperventilating as she could hear someone walk into the room, "go upstairs and join the rest" the man commanded to the monsters.
"Shit this is a nice place, too bad we're gonna burn it too the ground" the man cackled, walking around the room he inspected every space occasionally kicking things over. Victoria could hear his foot steps circle around the room, it wasn't long before they stopped all together and her breath hitched in her throat. She slowly peered out from behind the couch and couldn't see the man anywhere, she stood up slowly, however as soon as she turned around she was met face to face with the man. The woman shrieked before she ran for the door but didn't get far before something wrapped around her neck and ripped her to the ground, wheezing from being winded she tried to fight him off.
"seems there's still some fuckers alive down here" Jan cackled,
"Ah shit" the woman hissed, Jan had his hand wrapped firmly around her neck and pinned her to the ground, "ooh and a woman too" he snickered.
"Kinda small chested for my liking, but fuck it, she'll do" he muttered as he begun tearing off her shirt,
"Fuck you piece of shit" she was able to choke out before his hand clamped harder around her neck.
"Don't speak to me that way bitch" he snarled as his fist hit connected with her face,
Ignoring the pain in her lip, she desperately tried to escape his crushing grip. '10 seconds before I pass out' she thought remembering her self defense lesson, seeing her vision darken she flailed her arms around before it connected with a large shard of wood from the broken door. With all her remaining strength she brought it sideways across the mans head as hard as she could, a sicking crunch was heard and blood begun falling from the wound. He snarled and released his grip from around her neck and brought his hands up to his broken skull, "dumb bitch, I'll fucking kill you" he hissed, trying to stand up.
Easily throwing off his body she stumbled to her feet and sprinted out the door, thankful to find none of the monsters around. "I have to check on Seras" she wheezed while running to Integra's office.
Meanwhile Jan was leaning against the door frame, cradling his still healing head, "shit that hurt, fuck her, I'm going after the whore herself" he growled.
XxX
Walking down the long corridor to the conference room, Jan begun taunting the woman, "come out and play Hellsing, I promise it'll be fun" he cackled,
Jan stopped when a figure appeared Infront of him, "huh? Who the hell-" he stopped mid sentence when the cigar he had in his mouth along with the hoard of Ghouls behind him were severed in two.
The man chuckled, "Oh did I miss, guess I'm not as spry as I used to be. My name is Walter Dornez, butler for the Hellsing family and former master vampire hunter" the butler said cooly,
Jan chuckled and snapped his gloved fingers indication for the ghouls to attack. The monsters behind the vampire fired, sending hundreds of bullets flying at the butler, as a result of their poor aim and the butlers wires none came into contact. In the glint of the low light Jan saw the wires wrap around his ghouls and eventually slice them cleanly in two, it was only after they had been dispatched when heavily armed ones showed up.
Seras who had been waiting and watching from afar, waited for Walter's signal to fire several heavy duty armor piercing rounds at the hoard. After it wasn't long before all that remained was blood smeared walls and various body parts coating the surrounding area.
"Oh fuck you" Jan cursed before running at the two with automatic weapons, while Walter had distracted him by pulling out a lip ring, Seras came up from behind and restrained him in a hold. "fuck this bullshit" he spat while struggling against the woman,
"What was your purpose here and who sent you" Walter asked coldly. After several curses directed at him, the butler brought his for down on the vampires hand crushing it,
"Ow shit" he cursed,
"Left ones next" Walter threatened,
"We were just following orders, kill everyone inside, including Hellsings pet vampires." He shrieked,
"What else?" Walter hissed,
"Bring back some bitch to headquarters" Jan laughed manically. Seeing an opportunity for escape he took it, "you don't even know how dead you are" he mocked before breaking free of Seras's grip. Jumping back away from the two, a new army of ghouls created from the Hellsing soldiers approached.
"Time to get this party started" he laughed as the Hellsing ghouls marched blindly forward, the vampire then ran forward and charged into the room containing Integra and the round table conference, all of which had guns pointed at him.
"Shit" he cursed before all the members shot all their ammunition at him causing him to fall against the wall in a bloody heap.
XxX
Victoria ran up the hall luckily finding her path ghoul free however once she was closer to Integra's office she felt her tired legs give out in defeat as a crowd of the monsters stood infront of her 'no, not these' she thought in disbelief. Walter and Seras were on the other side as she could hear both of them fighting, "Seras!" The artist called, there was no response however several of the monsters turned their attention to her. "Fucking hell" she cursed, standing up and preparing to run, again she didn't get far and she felt several horribly discolored arms grab her own and torso pulling her towards the crowd. Fighting and pulling as hard as she could, Victoria found it impossible to beat these beings, but it was only after she felt her flesh being pierced and pressure on her shoulder she understood what they were after, "they're eating me!" She shrieked, kicking away as many hands as she could while the thing gnawed on her shoulder. She could feel it's teeth scrape her bone and blood drip down her side, punching one in the head it was temporarily distracted and she was able to pry her shoulder from the beast. As she was clambering up a new set of teeth bit down on her calf and she again screamed in pain, every move she made only made the ghoul sink it's teeth further into her flesh. This continued for several minutes and she barely noticed when the monsters were torn off her, as she was writhing in pain her vision faded and the last thing she could see Seras looking down at her in shock.
XxX
"She's losing too much blood" Walter called to Seras while holding off ghouls,
The fledgling was staring blankly at her body, "you bastards" she growled. Something inside her snapped, her eyes changed from their normal sky blue to a crimson red and all that mattered was killing every ghoul in the manor. Grabbing a nearby ghouls head she smashed it into the wall, feeling it's weak skull crumble beneath her fingers. Immediately all the remaining ones turned their attention to her and charged, she grabbed a few by the throat and smashed them to the ground with such force their heads detached. One came up from behind and she easily swung her elbow back with enough force for its skull to shatter, she rushed over to the crowd approaching and forced her gloved hand through three of them at once severing them in half. The remaining ghouls she easily darted between the flailing limbs and tore her choice of limbs off, but ultimately incapacitating them.
Integra shot up from her seat and ran over to Seras, "SERAS STOP", the fledgling ignored her and continued dismembering the ghoul. The Knight wrapped her arms around Seras in a last ditch attempt to stop her, "please Seras, stop" she begged. The Fledgling snapped out of her murderous state, shocked at what she'd done.
XxX
Quickly rushing over where Victoria lay Seras was relieved when she saw she was still breathing although more slowly than usual and much more labored. kneeling beside her she pushed the stray hair out of her face and tried to cover her exposed torso with the remains of the shirt. Someone knelt beside her but she couldn't tear her eyes away to see who it was,
"she's still alive" Integra murmured,
Seras tried to blink away tears "her hearts slowing".
Integra nodded slowly, pulling something out of her pocket she placed it next to Seras, "you know what has to be done. She'll become a ghoul otherwise",
looking at the item she understood what she had to do, slowly picking up the weapon she pulled back the hammer and placed the barrel of the gun next to Victoria's temple,
"SERAS" a voice roared from down the hall.
The fledgling jumped and almost pulled the trigger in surprise, "master?" she questioned aloud,
The vampire walked upto her and pulled the gun from her hand roughly, "stupid girl, don't shoot her" he growled.
"what's the meaning of this, do you want even more ghouls!?" Integra hissed
Alucard knelt beside the artist and begun examining the bites, "she's immune to the bite of ghouls".
Integra scowled and silently pulled the gun from his hand, cocked it and sent a round into his chest,
the vampire grunted from the pain, "apologies master, I should have informed you of this earlier" Alucard spat out
Integra stood up leaving Seras and Alucard to tend to Victoria. She begun walking towards Walter and Jan, "damn right you should of, I don't need this extra stress".
XxX
Jan sat against the blood stained wall writing uncomfortably in pain and occasionally hacking up blood,
"your going to tell me who put you upto this, before I put you out of your misery" Walter commanded, Jan only laughed still no willing to communicate. Integra walked over gracefully and walter moved to the side bowing in respect,
"whatup bitch" Jan said snarkily
Integra shot several rounds into the vampire, "there'll be none of that, im pissed of" she barked. A mixture of coughing and laughing came from the vampire but he remained silent,
"who are you people? what did you hope to accomplish here? start talking!" the knight commanded.
Jan only laughed at her questions, "come on, you know the ones that put the fucking chip in me" he groaned standing up, "they can hear everything i'm saying, do you really think they're going to let me stand here all fucked up and dying, about to tell you shit". And on cue he suddenly burst into blue flames, manically laughing he made a final comment before turning to ash, "i'm gonna piss a little wisdom on you, so take this clue and shove it up your ass, beware millennium".
Walter, Seras and Integra stood in silence staring at the pile of ash that was Jan, "that's it? millennium" Integra murmured, she looked over to the still animated remains of the Hellsing ghoul army, "Walter put them out of their misery" she said sadly.
Sir Irons stood infront of Integra and held out a handgun, "belay that order, the responsibility must fall to their leader.
"Sir Irons that's too far" Walter protested,
"this entire situation could have been prevented, your lack of preparation is an offence, its your fault these men died and were reanimated as ghouls" Sir Irons barked. Integra reluctantly took the handgun and knelt next to the first of many soldiers, each shot she fired hurt more than the last.
XxX
Seras and Alucard knelt next to Victoria, the fledgling was panicking unsure on how to stop the bleeding, although it had slowed a small pool of crimson stained the carpet beneath her body.
At the sight of the liquid she felt her stomach growl, "not now" she sighed,
Alucard chuckled darkly, "you were friends weren't you? friends share, i'm sure she wont mind"
the fledgling ignored his comment, "master she's dying, what do I do?" she sniffed.
The vampire sighed, "well she was a medic wasn't she? somewhat ironic that shes out when she could be useful",
Seras clenched her fists and snapped, "your not helping! she could die master! do you want that!?"
Alucard pondered her question, did he want her to die?,"no" he said shortly, "put pressure on the wounds",
the blonde huffed at his answer before obeying, "you can change her can't you? to a vampire, like what you did with me?".
"its not that simple police girl, Katja will take over her body" he murmured,
the fledglings eyes widened, "so she'll forget who we are?"
"No, but Katja's volatile and violent, there's no guarantee she'll let Victoria have control" he explained,
she nodded sadly returning to check on the artists state, "she's still losing blood and her skins going cold".
Integra walked over with Walter, "she's still alive then?" Integra asked,
"barely" Alucard replied.
The knight nodded, "you mentioned that Katja is an ancient powerful vampire",
"good to see you still have a functioning memory" Alucard smirked,
Integra pulled out the gun from her pocket, "careful vampire i'm in no mood".
"yes, she is" he said shortly, annoyed at the whole situation.
Integra rubbed her temples at his attitude, "keep Victoria alive, she could be useful against this millennium" she ordered before turning and walking away.
Alucard removed his glasses and propped Victoria's form in a sitting position before rolling up a sleeve and severing one of his veins with a nail, and pressed it to Victoria's now blue lips.
the blonde watched his every move and caught on to what he was doing, "master you can't change her! Sir Integra said keep her alive, key word being alive" she rambled.
"shut up, i'm not changing her." he barked, "she's a reincarnate, vampire blood should heal her"
"there's alot you should have told us" Seras mumbled under her breath.
After several minutes the vampire pulled his arm away from her lips, "Seras go prepare a bed for her in the medical ward" he ordered,
the fledgling shifted uncomfortably not wanting to leave the woman "but I.." she begun to protest.
"No! do it now" Alucard hissed,
"right" she murmured before running off to the ward.
XxX
After Seras was out of sight Alucard turned his attention back to the woman, he gently wiped away the thin trail of blood that had leaked from her mouth and checked on the various bites around her body. Many had stopped bleeding and a few had begun to scab over slightly, although her skin was still extremely pale and cold, 'like a vampire' he mused, pulling off his coat he laid it over her body to try and retain heat. The vampire wasn't sure if she would survive at this point, he made himself more comfortable on the floor and lifted her wrist to check her pulse, slowly it was returning to normal rate. He turned to survey the surroundings only to see a ghoul, or half of one, dragging its rotten torso down the hall, sighing he pulled out the Jackel and effortlessly killed the ghoul with a single shot,
"loud" Victoria whispered,
Alucard froze at hearing her voice, "Victoria" he said in disbelief. The woman slowly opened her eyes and tried to sit up but was easily pushed back down, "don't move" he commanded. Victoria nodded and layed back down, she turned to look at him blankly and he again felt guilty. "how are you feeling?" he grunted,
she frowned and let out a rattling breath, "I taste blood... everything hurts".
The vampire placed a gloved hand on her cheek, "your warmer now, everything'll will be fine".
She turned her head away from him as she felt tears form, "they were eating me...I should be dead"
Alucard looked into her mind and could feel her physical and mental pain, he tried to reassure her "they're gone now" he said softly,
"...he wasn't human" she murmured. Alucard frowned and gently picked her up with surprisingly no resistance, Victoria pulled the coat more tightly around herself and remained tense in his hold,
he sighed and begun walking slowly as not to cause the woman discomfort, "relax, i'm taking you to the medical ward".
"i'm really tired" the woman yawned,
"sleep then" the vampire deadpanned,
"no, I have questions" she protested.
Alucard readjusted her in his arms to a more comfortable position, "ill be here when you wake up, you can ask me then" he reasoned,
Victoria yawned and rested her head against his chest, "alright, thanks".
XxX
Seras was standing next to Integra as they were attending to the survivors of the attack, when the fledgling saw Alucard walk through the door she called out to him, "oh master ov-"
"quiet police girl" he hissed,
the fledgling looked at the woman in his arms and could see Victoria asleep and wrapped in his coat, "how is she?" she whispered,
"alive, she's healing slowly but faster than a human" he explained irritably. Walking over to a spare bed he carefully placed her down on the bed and pulled the cover over her shivering form, deciding that retrieving his coat was a good reason to visit her later.
"looks like you two are warming up to each other" Integra remarked snidely,
Alucard growled lowly and made his way towards the door, "she has a lot of questions".
Integra cursed under her breath, "dismissed, go help clean up" she ordered,
the vampire cursed and walked out of the room. Seras went over to Victoria's side and examined her state, "i'm sorry I let this happen" she whispered, guilt weighing heavily on her heart. "what do we do now?" she asked Integra,
"from what you've told me Alucards blood should do all the healing, she'll have morphine when she wakes up" Integra explained, "for now, we let her rest".