"Stop!" Mana shouted as she sat up, Cain and Dimitri both looked at Mana surprised and confused.
Panting Mana looked at the two men and then to her surroundings, she was back at the Hellsing Manor in the lower level study.
"Mana—" Cain started
"Maji…kore wa…baka…" Mana trailed off and sighed.
"Are you alright?" Dimitri asked
Mana looked up at Dimitri only to clutch the right side of her head in pain.
"I-Itai…" Mana whimpered.
"Is it your head? Dimitri where's the first aid kit?" Cain asked as he knelt next to Mana. Dimitri began to search around the study for the first aid kit.
"Mana—" Cain started as he looked at her, he stopped in mid sentence when he noticed her eyes.
There were specks of red in her irises that seemed to grow larger as her pupils dilated. Cain quickly lifted her head to get a better look at her eyes.
"aaah! N-No! It hurts…no…d-dame—" Mana whimpered in her native tongue as she fought against Cain.
"Mana stop it. Let me see!" Cain said as he pushed her hands away from his.
"What's wrong?" Dimitri asked as he held the first aid kit in his hands.
"Her eyes…there's red in them…" Cain said almost in a whisper as he listened to Mana whimper as he held her face. Dimitri looked at the young woman as tears began to well in her eyes. The pain in her head seemed to be intense to cause tears in her eyes, Mana crying suddenly wasn't a part of her normal behavior.
"W-what?" Dimitri asked confused as he too began to inspect her eyes.
"Mana stop, let us see," Cain growled.
Mana opened her eyes for a few moments only to close them a few seconds later. The two men looked at each other then back to Mana, Mana pushed Cain's hands away and shielded her eyes from the two men.
"That's not normal…definitely not normal…What should we do?" Cain asked in a whisper.
"Call Sir Hellsing—" Dimitri started.
"No! N-No…I'll be fine…" Mana replied cutting off the two men as she wiped her eyes.
"But Mana—" Cain started.
"There's noting wrong! Uruse!" Mana shouted.
The two men looked at Mana surprised, this was a new side of her that they haven't seen. The two men looked at each again then back to the woman.
"Sorry…I just need something to drink…" Mana grumbled.
Mana ran her hands through her hair as Dimitri handed her two caplets and a cup of water. Cain had moved back a to give Mana space to breathe and cool down.
"T-thank you…" Mana grimaced and down the two caplets and the water.
"Alright…so I don't know what that was, but…I think you need to brief us on what she told you…I'm sure it's related to this," Cain said as he stood and motioned to Mana.
Mana looked at the empty glass cup as her mind went over everything that happened before she collapsed.
"It's related isn't it?" Dimitri asked.
"Huh?" Mana asked.
"Your eyes…are turning red. Didn't you notice?" Dimitri asked.
"No. They look normal to me," Mana replied.
Dimitri and Cain looked at each other and nodded, they then sat on the sofa and looked at Mana.
"What happened?" Cain asked.
"Apparently…I have another soul inside of me," Mana replied quietly without hesitation.
"Come again?" Cain asked.
Mana looked at the man confused, she didn't understand what he was asking for her.
"Say it again," Dimitri spoke up.
"I…" Mana started, but hesitated.
"I...I have another soul inside of me," Mana repeated.
"Another soul?" Cain asked
"I would say something like that is impossible…but Alucard himself is impossible, but he exists…" Cain added
"Something happened where an relative had gone to desperate measures to keep whatever soul that is inside of me away from the enemy, the Illuminati," Mana replied.
"Wait…so the Illuminati is after the soul inside of you, but not you?" Cain asked
"I-I think so," Mana replied hesitant.
"I don't think it works like that, a soul needs a body in order to exist if there's no body, there's no soul. They are basically after her," Dimitri replied.
Cain looked at Dimitri surprised, as Mana looked away from Dimitri.
"If you put it that way it makes sense…" Cain said.
"Milo De'Medici…" Mana thought to herself.
If you eliminate him, you eliminate ze illuminati from Hellsing…
The words of Stella echoed in her mind, reminding her of what would end Hellsing's annoyance, but the soul would remain.
"Do you know what soul is inside of you?" Dimitri asked
"No one knows…I didn't know…" Mana replied.
"That's…never a good sign…" Dimitri trailed off.
"None of this is good," Cain sighed heavily.
Vzzt…Vzzt
Mana's cellphone vibrated against the leg of the table on the floor, reaching down her vision became blurry. She quickly grabbed the device and sat back up, she ignored the wave of dizziness and opened her phone.
Be careful of who you trust, those who seem friendly…
…Are usually a wolf in human skin
"Nani…kore," Mana said out loud as she looked at her phone.
"What is it?" Cain asked.
"…Something I do not understand…I suppose it's not important…" Mana said as she closed her phone.
"I will have to call my family about Kairi, and come up with a new plan," Mana said as she pushed the heavy wool coat from her legs.
"We should tell Walter about this," Dimitri said as he stood to help her stand.
"Yeah, maybe he will be able to give us more insight on what to do," Cain sais as he also stood.
"No. I will do it myself…see if you can find out any information about the Illuminati. I need to check my resources to actually confirm that this is true so let us not get too excited over this. I will find you tomorrow morning with a new plan," Mana said as she looked around and noticed a dark figure in the corner of the fire lit room.
"Alright…Do you need help walking to your room?" Cain asked.
Those who seem friendly are usually a wolf in human skin
"No I'll be fine," Mana quickly replied as she grabbed her purse and made a beeline to the door.
Cain and Dimitri watched the woman walk from the room and close the door behind her.
"That was interesting…" Cain said quietly.
"Yeah…" Dimitri replied as he checked his watch. It was midnight.
"Two souls in one body…you don't think the soul may have already melded into one?" Cain asked as he sat back on the sofa.
"I hope not…if it did then there's no way to really stop the Illuminati from coming after her," Dimitri replied.
"and we don't even know what type of soul is inside of her…maybe we should talk to Walter about this…sooner the better…" Cain sighed.
"Yeah definitely," Dimitri replied as she looked towards the same direction Mana looked in before she quickly left the room.
"To make things more interesting...we don't even know if this is all true or not..." Cain added.
"There has to be a reason...it sounds far-fetched but...Alucard exists so why not?" Dimitri replied and looked at Cain.
"We're sitting here blind Mitri," Cain said.
Dimitri rolled his eyes and sighed heavily.
"You know what they say, the most important part of the puzzle is found underneath our noses," Dimitri said as he looked into the fire.
"It starts with Mana," Cain added
"Chouto…wakaranai…"Mana said to herself as she stared at the message that Irvine had sent her. She began to text back a response to Irvine when she suddenly felt weak. She ignored the feeling and finished her text.
I do not understand. Who is Milo De'Medici?
Mana closed her phone and looked at her mixing set on her desk. Thoughts of her family flooded her mind.
"Did my mother and father really know about this? Of course they knew…they had to of known," Mana thought to herself. She slowly walked over to the plush chair near the French doors that led to the private balcony. She plopped into the chair and re opened her cellphone, Irvine had replied to her.
I can find out anything for you, for a price of course.
Mana rolled her eyes in response to the Incubus' response.
Talk to Integra, in the meantime who is he?
Mana replied to the text and within a few seconds Irvine's response came back.
Payment first, then I'll talk
Mana frowned and closed her phone, there was no chance that she was going to let him feed of her energy, let alone her ' sexual frustration' energy that she apparently had. She sighed to herself as she looked around her darkened room, it had been three months since she had arrived at the Hellsing Manor, since then everything had seemed to take a turn for the worst. She sighed again and opened her cellphone and began to dial a number.
"Moshi moshi, Mitsurugi—" a female voice echoed from the other side of her phone.
"Yukina-san, Mana desu. Okaasan was doko" Mana spoke quietly.
"Mana-sama?! Eto…Ojou-sama wa…shou shou omachi te kudasai," Yukina said.
Yukina had placed her on hold to go find her mother. Mana pulled her knees into the chair as the coldness pierced her clothes as she waited for Yukina to return to the phone. She knew that going to the source of the issue would be easier than dealing with Irvine.
"Ano Mana-sama, Ojousama wa korarenai irasshaimasenga, Goshujin-sama wa—" Yukina started.
"Daijoubu desu," Mana replied.
Seconds later a man's voice echoed from the other side of the phone.
"Mana,"
"Father," Mana replied
There was a short moment of silence between the two them, although her father was Japanese, his English was perfect and he preferred to speak in English. Her father was strict and was responsible for her physical training when it came to the Dornez bloodline. Because of this she tried to maintain a serious tone with him which in turn made her cautious when speaking to him.
"Are there any issues? I haven't heard from Walter," he asked.
"ah…yes…there is an issue…" Mana said cautiously.
"What is it?" he quickly, but calmly asked.
"…How come I do not know of Kairi Inoue?" Mana asked bluntly.
There was another short pause on the other side causing Mana licked her lips nervously.
"It has come to that…hm," he replied quietly.
"What do you mean?" Mana asked
"Kairi Inoue is your aunt on my side of the family…she has had some issues recently so she has not been around," he replied smoothly.
"Like what?" Mana asked.
"She is being hunted by the Illuminati," he replied bluntly.
"The Illuminati…" Mana repeated quietly as her eyes glazed over.
"If she's alive…I don't know, perhaps…" he trailed off.
"Then…you know…right?" Mana hesitated.
"Yes. Of course, your mother and I both know," he replied
"Why? Why did you not tell me?" Mana asked.
"It wasn't important at the time. We just made you were safe and that you had a normal childhood," he replied
"A normal childhood?! This secret that you kept has now made me a burden on Sir Integra and to Hellsing as a whole! The Illuminati's target is now Hellsing," Mana shouted.
"That is the main reason you were sent to Hellsing," he replied bluntly.
"W-What?" Mana replied, caught off guard.
"The seal that Kairi placed on you are weakening, and there's no way to reseal them unless Kairi appears," he father replied.
"…." Mana was silent as she listened in shock.
"You weren't sent to England to do menial tasks. Your mother, Walter, and I knew all about the situation. You are there to use the means you have to improve and develop yourself before the seals are destroyed. No one is certain of the soul inside of you, you are there find out what it is," her father explained.
Her father's words hit her as hard as bricks falling on her, they lied to her and kept everything a secret. Walter had knew about it since she arrived, and she wondered if Sir Integra knew of her situation and maybe that is why she gave her the project of the Illuminati. Mana forced herself to speak again.
"a-and the black outs?" Mana stuttered.
"Signs of the seal weakening," he replied
"How can you say everything so simply?" Mana asked shocked.
"I knew this day was coming…I prepared for years to tell you this…" he trailed off.
Mana was silent once again.
"I am glad that you are still alive and yourself…" he trailed off.
"When you were 10 years old…you were knocked unconscious…that is when the seal was damaged…" he continued.
"What happened," Mana asked curiously. She remembered the time where she was knocked out, but when she had awoken she was covered in blood and was surrounded by bodies.
"You slaughtered everyone in cold blood and almost killed me in the process," he replied.
Suddenly Mana completely froze as the memories flooded back into her. The blood that was on her was the blood of others, the voices in her head, the psychotic laughter the came from her. Fear had wormed itself inside of her and taken root, now it felt as if it was going to consume her.
"Mana," her father's voice.
"I-I..." Mana began.
"meministis..."
Mana quickly looked to the source of the voice, behind her. She looked up to see a dark shadow figure looking down at her with red eyes.
"bonum omnia meminisset...quid ages deinde? vos fias debilior..."
Mana's vision started to become blurry as could do nothing but stare into the red orbs that looked down at her.
"...N-No..."
A/N: Here's an update for the month of March! Lots of Japanese and Latin!
Mana is tough on the outside, but how is she on the inside? There's a soul that's been incubating inside of her since she was ten years old. Did it meld with her soul or is it still separate? What's this about wolf in human skin? Who is Irvine referring to? What's Alucard gonna do?
Maji...kore wa...baka: Seriously...this is...stupid
Dame: No don't...
Itai: Painful
Uruse!: Shut up!
Moshi moshi, Mitsurugi—: Hello this is the Mitsurugi's
Yukina-san, Mana desu. Okaasan was doko: Miss Yukina, this is Mana. Where is my mother?
Eto…Ojou-sama wa…shou shou omachi te kudasai: Um, your mother is...please wait a moment.
Ano Mana-sama, Ojousama wa korarenai irasshaimasenga, Goshujin-sama wa: Um Miss Mana, your mother cannot come, but your father
Daijoubu desu: It's ok
meministis: You remember...
bonum omnia meminisset...quid ages deinde? vos fias debilior: Good remember everything...what are you going to do next? You will become weaker (roughly)