*inhales* Well, that was awesome. Just saw Hellsing Abridged 4 and all I can say was…*sigh* Damn though, it was awesome. At first I was kinda annoyed with it 'cause I thought it went too fast, but on my fifth or sixth watching of it, I kinda got into the swing of it and now it's awesome. Oh well…back to running in circles around the neighborhood n' waiting for the next one. On the semi-plus side, it snowed! About an inch, and there's still some left over from this morning. Yes, it snowed already where I live. I'm in Minnesota. We count ourselves lucky it doesn't snow on Halloween. (Has not happened thus far in my area, but I don't wanna jinx myself) Anyway, on we go. Kudos if you get the butterfly reference. (I will say it was from a certain someone playing the Alice Madness Returns game, not mentioning any names. Google it or whatever) Also, sorry about it being late, I had to re-watch Hellsing Abridged # 4…sixty billion times, and the fact that you should all remember I was gonna wait until I FINISHED my BB fanfic to even start on this. Count yourself lucky I just happened to have a flood of inspiration. I shall now quote some of Hellsing Abridged 4's awesomeness to show you why I had to watch it…over and over and over again.
(Alucard to Anderson) "Man, I don't know what I find funnier, the Catholic Church strong-arming you into helping us, or the fact you obviously haven't seen what I did to the statue of Big J!" *referring to the Jesus statue in Rio*
(changes to statue, which has large banner saying "420yoloswag4jesus" tied to its arms)
(Anderson) "AAAAAHHHHH!"
*much later in the episode, when a priest is reporting to Maxwell*
(Priest) "The banner won't come down! I think it's a constrictor knot…"
(Schrödinger to Seras) "Fraulien… fraulien… fraulien! Hey fraulien!"
(Seras) "Oy."
*grins* "We would make beautiful children."
*Sears flushes in shock and Alucard shoots him*
(Alucard) "Was that boy-girl bugging you?"
(Anderson to Maxwell.) "Oh I see, so this is a Crusade!"
(Maxwell) "No, no no no no, we don't say that anymore. We're calling it…damn, what do the American cows say?"
(Anderson) *enthusiastic* "Peace-keeping?"
(Maxwell) "Right! Now, shall we keep the peace?"
(Walter) "Well, we do have one option. However, it was decommissioned in 1998."
(Alucard to Integra/Walter) "The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, an advanced long-range strategic reconnaissance aircraft capable of Mock 3 and an altitude of eighty-five thousand feet!"
(Integra) "…You sure do seem to know a lot about it."
(Alucard) "DO YOU EVEN READ MY CHRISTMAS LIST!"
Yeah…so I had to watch that a lot before I remembered about Soul Eater. Sorry guys. *sheepish*
November 6-10, 2013
Now I have become Death; the Destroyer of Worlds.
-Hindu Bible
Hazel's POV:
DK walked calmly beside me as the others all huddled close, but the sun was rising slowly as the streetlamps sparked out one by one, and we all felt safer at the return of natural, bright daylight as opposed to flickering, pumpkin-headed street lamps. Suddenly the ground opened up in front of us, and I ran into the steel bar of DK's arm as he held it out in front of me, all the breath whooshing out of me as it hit my stomach. "I forgot it did that." He said calmly, and there was a moment of silence as we all gulped and edged away from the rift in the street. It opened up out of nowhere…it's like the street has a mouth or something. I thought with a gulp, and DK sighed heavily, hands in his pockets as he idly kicked a stone into the gaping chasm. "Give it a second guys." He murmured, and the street suddenly snapped shut again as we exchanged in bewildered looks. "Don't worry about it guys. Happens all the time." DK said reassuringly, hopping over the cracked line as we all followed, turning around to speak face to face. "A lot of things normally considered inanimate move around and tell the inanimate inanimate objects to take a long walk off a short piieeeerrr-"
Just as he said that, his foot came down square in the middle of a sewer hole, and he plummeted downwards with a hiss of shock as I squeaked and scampered forward a step, then edged back nervously as I heard a muffled splash far below. "Uh…you okay?" I asked nervously as I leaned down, and I heard him growl in annoyance as there were several more splashes, probably him coming to his feet. "I became a butterfly…" He grumbled up at me, and I squeaked again and fell on my rear as he shot up out of the sewer, muck sliding off him instantly as he growled and picked some gunk out from under his long nails, landing on his feet and then kicking the cover, lying several feet away. "And don't think I don't know that wasn't you." He said loudly, and I raised an eyebrow as Rowan twirled a finger around his ear, pointing to the demon as he tapped a foot impatiently.
Suddenly merry laughter rang out, and a dark-haired female, along with a shorter boy and a red-haired male dropped down onto the street, grinning at DK unabashedly. "C'mon dude, you opened yourself up for that one!" the red-haired one said, high-fiving my new meister as he grinned, showing his sharp teeth, and nodded cordially to the other two. "Kage told us we had some visitors, did we finally find someone?" she asked, and I saw a desperate light in her eyes as her two companions both looked hopefully at us, like they were beggars and we had brought crusts of bread for them. "We think so, if they all stay. I even got a new weapon-partner out of it." he said, pointing to me, and the girl beamed and leaped forward to rapidly shake my hand. "Thank you thank you thank you thank you! You have no idea what this means to us!" she squealed as DK coughed pointedly. "Uh, none of us managed to tell them what we want them for, if you please." He muttered, and she let go, backing away and rubbing the back of her neck. "Hehe, sorry."
DK sighed noisily, before gesturing grandly to the trio before us. "Ladies and freaks, this is Lock, Shock, and Barrel." He pointed to the girl, the bleach-blonde male, and the fiery-haired guy in turn as they all waved in a friendly manner. "Whistle and wait." Lock said politely, and Shock gave us a peace sign. "Respond and return." Barrel bowed elegantly, then straightened and smirked. "Cursed meet, cursed part." They all laughed and said in unison "-Dead we meet again." We all just stared at them, and Lock rolled her eyes. "It's a Nightstalker greeting. If you can get this instead, wazzup?" she asked, putting both hands on her hips, and we all made an "ah" sound and murmured greetings. "So then, we get them settled in the dorm and after Akuma comes back we can discuss things." Shock said, nonchalantly putting his hands behind his head and yawning. The others all nodded, and DK impatiently made a "come on" motion at us as he started walking away, leading us to a larger building, one that looked almost normal compared to the other unbelievable stuff that had happened to us today.
Of course in this place, normal was a relative thing.
It had a gate like the outside of the city, some rusty iron posts stabbed at random in the ground with more rusty metal connecting them to each other, a jack-o'-lantern on each post with the eye-holes and the mouths spreading a faint yellow glow onto the dark streets, the sun still hovering around the very edges of the horizons and the treeline. The building was tall, made out of crumbling reddish-brown brick, and the doors and windows were all made out of a dark, creaky-looking wood. The doors slammed open as we cleared the gates, and Kage grinned at us from the front steps. "Hey, you made it. No casualties DK?" He shook his head silently. She nodded, moving aside and motioning us inside as we all huddled together and obeyed, trying to attract as little attention to ourselves as possible. However, due to the large amount of people and the small door, someone had to go first, and I was somehow pushed forward, stumbling into a large hall with a grand staircase at the back, several rooms going off (probably down) and a couple tables and armchairs were grouped around some large fireplaces.
The others all smiled slightly as they crowded in, seeing a normal dorm hallway, and I relaxed slightly as Kage made no motion of discouragement, even rolling her eyes at her brothers as Berry and Birch both started exploring the softness of the armchairs, calling loudly for us to try them. I didn't move however, catching some mutters from Kage and her brothers. "We sure about them?" Akuma muttered, and Kage sighed, her snapping green eyes sweeping over the others. "We have to be. Some of them won't stay here, but the ones that will are going to stay because we offer them something the DWMA doesn't." she muttered, and I saw a glint of exhaustion in her eyes before DK spoke up. "We scare them, and I don't blame them for being scared of us, but there's a fine line between healthy intimidation and bullying into a corner, especially with the gap between us and them. You guys were raised here, and I'm a demon. What's normal to us is grotesque and horrifying to them, and teasing for us is like overt threatening for any normal person. Lock and her brothers can ease them into the lifestyle when we're gone." He said slowly, and they all nodded.
"Yo, Hazel! C'mere!" he shouted suddenly, waving me over as I gulped and walked over, hoping they hadn't noticed me listening to them. "We're gonna be heading over to the DWMA, and since I'm technically registered as a meister there, we gotta chalk you in as my weapon, not to mention show you around our apartments." He said in a friendly way, and I nodded silently as Kage coughed. "And I gotta say hi to Kid." She reminded my partner, and Akuma made a gagging sound as DK rolled his eyes. "We could skip that ya know." He said hopefully to her, and she stared at him, a flicker of something dangerous showing in her eyes as he snickered and looked away, back to me. "Anyway, let's go." He said, grabbing me by the arm and starting to drag me away as I squeaked and dug my heels in, to no good. His strength was…demonic. "I can't leave my friends here!" I protested, and he raised an eyebrow at me over his shoulder. "Are you kidding? This is the safest spot in the entire world, at least during the day for newcomers. If they stick close to Lock and her brothers and don't go outdoors after sundown, it'll be like a vacation. And they'll be taken care of, trust me. You guys are very important to us." He said with a slight smile, and I looked away with a little heat rising in my cheeks.
In any other circumstances, that might've sounded reassuring, maybe even a little romantic, but right now it was a little creepy and unsettling, and I looked nervously behind me as I was pulled out of the safe-feeling house and into the dangerously shadowed streets, Kage and Akuma already waiting in the air above us with the ragged, paper-cutout wings stropping the air with soft hisses. "Move it demon-boy, we have places to be." Kage called down, arms folded sternly as he rolled his eyes, muttering "And Reapers to see…" sourly. He held out his hand, and I gingerly grabbed it as he flashed his by now slightly familiar razor-sharp grin, crouching a little. "Hold tight and pipe down." He said smugly, and before I could protest there was no way I was letting myself be flown with only a grip on his wrist for assurance, we were rocketing upward as the bottom dropped out of my stomach, taking the breath from my lungs as I was about to scream and curse.
"Number 2 on what we teach her, flying lessons." DK grunted as Kage and her brother nodded and soared upwards with us, his nails almost piercing my skin from his death-tight grip on my wrist. "W-whats number one?" I managed to squeak, and he spared a grin downward in my direction. "How to fully transform." He said gleefully, and I nodded, returning to the all-important task of hanging on for dear life as he zoomed through the air, the countryside rolling out beneath my dangling feet in a way that might have been breathtaking, if all my breath hadn't already been taken by the stomach-churning fact that all that kept me up in the air was his grip on my wrist, and that he could drop me at any second and I would be powerless to stop him.
Kage's POV:
Hazel's face was white as chalk, and I could hardly blame her, suspended thousands of feet in the air by her wrist, her only life-support a demon who had no doubt already shown little to no regard for her life. So I slid under her easily, carefully making sure I could still fly as I smiled up at her. "So, what do you know about Nightstalker already?" I asked, and she made several swallowing noises, clinging to DK's wrist even more as I waited patiently. "Y-you c-can e-eat human souls and n-not turn K-Kishin." She whispered, her eyes tightly shut as she clung to DK with all her might. I nodded, although she couldn't see it, and kept my voice friendly as I asked "Nothing else?" She shook her head barely. I sighed, shaking my head a little in disappointment. "Well, I suppose we'll have to fill you in." I admitted, and DK accordingly quieted his wingbeats, along with myself and Akuma.
"See, we've got Weapon, Witch, and Meister souls all mixed into one, so we can eat the human, Kishin, and pretty much any soul we want because at least one of our soul-parts will be unaffected, thus allowing us to operate as normal. Me and Akuma are special cases, because we were possessed with demons when we were younger, and they bonded our souls together so we're on par with Lord Death and…do you know about Asura?" She peeled her eyes open, looking at me dumbly. "I'll take that as a no. How long were you in that lab?" I asked her curiously, and she blinked. "A couple years." I whistled under my breath as Akuma and DK nodded appreciatively. "That explains a lot. We'll definitely have to drop a line to Stein and ask him about a top-off of the war against Medusa and Arachne and all them." I said to the others, and they nodded as Hazel looked blank, having no idea what we were talking about, or who we were talking about. I sighed, sucking in a deep breath. "You see, about three or four months ago, we came to the DWMA…"
Right, that should fix my absence, and sorry about it. I don't really have anything else to say to you people, except hi. I may suddenly come out with some May n' Jays, we've been working at them again. So be warned…actually, I gotta go work on one of those with her. Review Request, Rcomment. Auf Wedersien!
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