"How is the situation below?"
"Unfortunately the defense has been wiped out. No one expected an army of ghouls with military equipment and the ability to work efficiently in a group…this attack has been planned out very well," Walter replied.
Integra took off her glasses closing her eyes for a moment, thinking of the best thing to say in a situation like this. The eyes of the members of the 12 were all focused on her, waiting for her next move and possible their fates.
"Walter…" Integra started as she put her glasses on and opened her eyes.
"Truthfully…are we done for?"
"Impossible," Walter replied.
"Compared to the old days failure is not an option. Alucard will start in the basement, Mana will be taking the first and second floor and will meet us on the third floor to welcome their attack,"
"Are you sure that Mana will be able to handle this?" Integra asked.
"There is no need to worry. She is quite capable." Walter replied. Integra leaned back into her chair and sighed heavily.
"As you ordered Sir. Not a single attacker will leave this Manor alive," Walter smirked.
"We'll show them the consequences of entering the Hellsing manor uninvited,"
Mana cautiously walked down the hallway towards the main foyer, the scent of blood and decaying flesh invaded her nose. As she quietly made her way into the foyer she saw the damage and carnage that went through the Hellsing manor and upstairs.
"This was definitely planned," Mana thought to herself as she noticed there were a few soldier-esque ghouls that were left behind feasting on the carcasses of the former Hellsing employees. She slipped into the shadows as she saw a man with about shoulder length blond hair neatly tied into a ponytail, he had blue eyes and wore glasses and was dressed in a white suit. The unknown man was headed towards the basement to what she assumed to find Alucard.
"He must be one of the attackers," Mana thought to herself watching him disappear into the darkness of the basement.
"You should focus little scientist…or you might be eaten…"
Mana flinched as Alucard's voice echoed through her head, a shiver shot up her spine as if someone ran their cold fingers up along her tail bone to the back of her head, Alucard's chuckle echoed through her head.
"Thanks for the reminder…Alucard-sama," Mana replied quietly. Mana held out her arms, and her pearly white blades slid into place.
"One Hellsing ghoul extermination coming up," Mana said quietly, steeling her mind for the slaughter she was about to commit. A few seconds later Mana nodded signalling she was about to ready.
"Hai…ikimashou," Mana said as she darted from the shadows towards the unsuspecting ghoul-soldiers.
Mana ran into the large foyer, her steps almost silent. She began to slide her way across the foyer cutting off an arm of a ghoul and a leg of another near by. When she stopped she spun around dodging bullets from an armed ghoul-soldier. She smirked and charged haphazardly towards the ghoul-soldier that continued to fire at her. Mana spun around the ghoul, cutting as she spun. The ghoul-soldier fell into sections as it landed on the floor.
Mana didn't have time to admire her work as more bullets rained down at her. She grabbed the torso of the ghoul that she cut to pieces, throwing the torso and kicked the head at the group of ghoul-soldiers that were shooting at her from the second floor. She ran to the stairs hopping on to railing and began to run up the rail dodging bullets. As she made it to the top of the stairs she grabbed the nearest ghoul-soldier as a shield. The ghouls continued to shoot, ignoring that she was using one of them as a shield.
As she moved closer the more the body became riddled with bullets. A bullet the pierced the ghoul whizzed past her ear, she knew her shield was becoming useless. The bullets began to become less as she got closer carelessly she sliced though her shield and through the ghoul that was in front of her. Three ghouls left. Mana round house kicked the ghoul-soldier on her right. The force of her kick sent the ghoul spinning and landed with a sickening crack. The ghoul-soldier on her left fell quickly after being decapitated. The last ghoul-soldier in front of her tried to fire once again, Mana reacted quickly by knocking the gun up, the bullets pierced the floor above.
Mana growled in one swift movement the ghoul-soldier fell to the ground decapitated.
"This sucks...I'm gonna have to clean all of this," Mana said as she looked around at the dead ghoul-soldiers. She leaned on the railing looking out the large window above the front door, the sun was beginning to set, the beginning of Alucard's play time.
"Uncle Walter…the first and second floors have been dealt with," Mana said as she wiped her blades off with a piece of fabric from the dead ghouls.
"Good…" Walter's voice echoed through her earpiece. Mana began to walk down the hallways to check for more ghoul-soldiers.
"Hai," Mana replied.
"Most of the ghouls are on the third floor now…" Walter started.
"Provide back up?" Mana asked.
"Yes,"
"Ryoukai," Mana replied and headed towards the stairs. As Mana made her way to the stairs she noticed that two figures were in the foyer.
"Holy Hell!"
Mana instantly recognized the two men. It was the two soldiers she met earlier today, Cain and Dimitri. Mana leaned on the rail once more, looking down at them.
"Grab a gun and defend yourselves. Make sure you kill every single ghoul on this floor. Do not let your guard down," Mana ordered, her blades sliding back into their sheaths. She began walking towards the stairs on the left wing of the house.
"What the hell happened?" Cain asked. Mana looked down at Cain and Dimitri once more as she continued on her way to the stairs.
"Hey! Come back here!" Cain yelled.
"You heard her…" Dimitri said as he picked up a rifle on the floor.
"Dimitri she was covered in blood…" Cain started.
"I know…and it was kinda cute too…," Dimitri replied as he pointed his rifle at one of the ghoul-soldiers writhing on the floor.
"You are so weird…but I agree with you," Cain said as he picked up a rifle also.
"Ghouls will always be ghouls, using an army of ghouls isn't the brightest idea," Walter smirked.
With a tug of his fingertips several of the ghoul-soldiers were cut into sections. Walter's wires glittered in the light, as they seemed to vanish into thin air. The leader of the ghoul army shaken by how easily the ghouls were disposed of stood there in shock.
"Wetting yourself now? Have you said your prayers yet?" Walter asked mocking the man dressed in black. The man began to laugh.
"Come on gramps! The Valentine brothers don't scare easily! Besides you're just in time for the good stuff!" The man in black said as he retreated to the middle of the ghoul army. The ghouls set up their shields to deflect any incoming attacks from Walter or any rifle gun fire.
"This is interesting…" Walter started.
"FORWARD!" the unknown man ordered, the army began to move. Walter smirked as he saw limbs were being flung around in the back of the army.
"SHI-NE!" Mana yelled as she sliced her way from the back of the ghoul army to the front, leaving 50 percent of the army with out limbs and utterly useless.
"What the fuck!" the man yelled as several more of his ghouls were disposed of. The ghouls began to fire into the crowd killing more of the soldiers.
"Fire at will Miss Seras," Walter smirked.
"Got it!" Seras replied.
Seras had her Harkannon aimed directly into the middle of the army. Mana jumped over the man and quickly ducked into a room. Seras shot one round of the Harkannon, the large round shredding through the ghoul-soldiers shields and through their flesh. Seras' mouth fell open a bit at she witnessed the severe damage that one round caused.
"Holy Hell..." Seras whispered.
"Second shot, flip the barrel, switch to grenade launcher rounds VT Red type grenades," Walter ordered.
"Yes Sir!" Seras replied as she quickly changed the ammo to her Harkannon and fired. A small explosion echoed through the hallway.
"Wonderful," Walter replied as he ducked out of the room he and Mana were taking cover in. The unknown man unfazed by the complete destruction of his army jumped over to the room that Mana and Walter were hiding. In rage he kicked the door off of the hinges. Walter whistled as the door flew pass his face.
"Old man I think its time you die now," the man shouted now holding two rifles. Mana swiftly ducked from the room, and delivered a roundhouse kick to the man's face, he stumbled back into Seras who quickly disarmed him pinning him to the floor.
"Tanoshikatta," Mana said as she looked down at the man.
"Hm. A vampire with a highly organized plan…who is pulling your strings?" Walter asked.
The vampire on the floor struggled underneath Seras as he chuckled.
"I didn't hear anything about Hellsing having new crew," he muttered as he looked at Mana.
"Talk," Walter demanded.
"If you kiss my ass I might think about doing it," the dark haired vampire replied with a smirk.
Walter stepped on the vampire's hand breaking all of his fingers with on step. The vampire grunted in pain as Walter adjusted his glasses.
"I'll ask again. Next time I am going to let her kick you again," Walter said, talking about Mana.
"S-Shit…-F-fine. We had two jobs. Destroy Hellsing and wipe out the 12 conventions and the round table. The second was to destroy Alucard," the vampire spat out.
"We?" Walter and Mana asked confused. Mana remembered the man dressed in white, and that he was headed towards the basement.
"My brother is probably already fighting him," the dark haired vampire laughed.
"What should we do?" Mana asked.
"The question is what should we do with him?" Seras asked trying to keep a hold of him.
"Let's kill him." Mana replied as she looked down at the struggling vampire. Walter looked down at the struggling vampire then turned his attention to Mana.
"Mana go check on Alucard…although I think he is fine," Walter started.
"Alright," Mana replied.
"Awww you're sending the pretty one away?"
"Urusai," Mana spat bitterly as she ran towards the stairs on the right side of the manor, bypassing all of ghoul bodies.
Mana ran down the stairs to the first floor to see Cain and Dimitri pushing dead ghoul bodies to one side of the foyer.
"Watch out for that Vase," Cain said as he watched Dimitri push bodies.
"Yeah Yeah," Dimitri replied brushing off Cain. Dimitri looked up to see Mana walking down the stairs.
"Mana,"
"Stay here," she replied as she headed towards the basement hallway.
"Ok?" Dimitri asked confused. Cain looked up to see that she was headed his way.
"So about that explanation?" Cain asked.
"Later," Mana replied as she continued her way to the basement.
"Well damn is that how she feels?" Cain muttered.
"Ask her later," Dimitri replied.
A few moments later she stood in front of the basement door. As she reached for the basement doorknob the feeling of fear washed over her body, she instantly stopped. She heard screams of a man echoing through the basement then suddenly went quiet. Mana's hand began to shake as she continued to stand in front of the door.
"K-Kuso…" Mana muttered under breath. She forced herself to grab the doorknob and open it. As soon as the door was open Mana was pinned to a wall her hands above her head, the wind knocked out of her, her feet barely touching the ground A figure hovered over her, their face buried in the crook of her neck. Mana began to tremble not knowing who or what the figure was and what it was going to do to her. Even with her blades at her fingertips she was unable to move.
"Why so scared little angel of death?"
A/N: Chapter Seven proved a little difficult for me. I have painfully found out that I am horrible with writing fighting scenes which is something I need to improve on. So please bare with me on the fighting scenes. Also if you are having difficulties picturing what Mana's blades look like, think of Assassins' creed weapons.
I do not own Hellsing or any of its characters. I own Mana, Cain, and Dimitri.
Hai ikimashou = Yes, Let's go.
Ryoukai = Roger
Tanoshikatta = It was fun
Urusai = (It means noisy but mostly means) shut up
Kuso = Damn it