Hellsing Fan Fiction ❯ Darkness and Light ❯ Chapter 4: Unstoppable ( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter 4: Unstoppable

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

“I still can't believe we're doing this.” One of the seven people in the room said in disgust. He kicked a nearby chair into the wall, breaking the wooden piece of furniture apart.

“Alex, calm down. You're scaring them.” A woman with long red hair said. She wore a winter hat over her head, but the hair came down behind her towards her shoulders. She was wearing a blue jacket and a pair of jeans. She glared at her friend with her red eyes, as if challenging him to continue his rant. Her hand was pointing to the three figures in the corner of the room, as far away from the other four as possible.

The vampire identified as Alex ignored the subtle warning in his friend's voice and turned towards the three hostages. The man and woman sat in the cornering, shuddering in fear. There arms were around their eight year old child in a feeble attempt to protect her from the four people that had abducted them. He took his baseball cap off and scratched his head before replacing it on his head with the lid facing backwards. “They should be afraid, after all, we are vampires.” He said with a sickening grin.

“Stop that. I don't need to hear this again.” Came another voice from the opposite corner. The other three vampires turned towards the man and quickly shut up. The man was leaning against the wall, a pair of black sunglasses covering his eyes. His arms were crossed and he was looking at the floor. He was wearing a red jacket and a pair of tan khaki pants. A gun was holstered at his side, providing the man with some degree of authority.

The room went quiet at the man's order. The woman and man who had been fighting looked away from each other and silently cursed at each. The forth vampire who had been lying on the ground before this sat up and looked towards the one who had given the order. “Bro, what now?”

The man lifted his gaze from the ground and looked to his brother. “Reiki, did you and Alex take care of those men who tried to come in.” The younger man nodded and looked up to his brother.

“Alex fed on a few of them.” He stated darkly, glaring at the other vampire.

Alex scoffed at the statement, “Hey, we're vampires right. We were going to kill them anyway, why waste food?”

The woman punched the wall in anger, “So you've already accepted this….state?” She yelled, turning on Alex.

“Jen.” The single word caused the woman to stop and stare at her leader. She looked down at the ground and backed away. The man sighed and looked up, “We need to get out of here.”

Alex looked at him as if he had grown another head, “Scott, what do you mean?”

Reiki looked to his brother and said, “Bro, they had the uniforms of D11.” The three vampires became uneasy when their leader cursed under his breath.

“All the more reason. Don't you guys know police procedure for this situation. If they lost the first group, they're going to send in another and another and so forth. We can't win this.” Scott stated as he looked over his friends.

“Can't we just tell them to stop or we'll waste the hostages?” Jen asked hesitantly.

The man known as Scott shook his head. “It'll prolong it, but they will still come.” He pushed his glasses up and said sadly, “I don't want this to become a massacre.” All four looked down at that statement, knowing full well what their leader meant. The silence was broken when the door to the room opened. All four vampires frowned and drew weapons. Alex and Reiki held machine guns taken from the infiltration team they had wiped out, Jen and Scott were holding pistols with one hand. All four pointed their guns at the doorway but paused when they saw what stood there.

“Oh god that's gross.” Jen said quickly as she turned away and covered her mouth with her free hand to keep from vomiting. Before them stood corpses, unmoving yet standing and…moaning?

“…The hell?” Reiki asked, lowering his machine gun. Alex watched with a similar expression and was about to ask a question when Scott spoke.

“This is why I didn't want to feed off of people.” He said with what seemed like annoyance. The other three looked at him in confusion. He explained, “I remember reading some books about vampires back when I still was in school. Apparently, if a vampire feeds off of a virgin, that person can become a vampire too. However, if the person isn't a virgin, then the victim becomes a monster that follows the whims of the vampire.” Scott scratched his head with the barrel of his pistol with an unsure expression. “I think it was something like that anyway.” He turned to Alex and said, “Hey, tell them to do something.”

“Huh, why me?” Alex asked, quite confused.

“You killed them.”

Realization seemed to dawn on the vampire as he looked at the ghouls in disbelief. He stared at them in deliberation, as if unsure what to do. Finally he said, his voice somewhat amused, “Hop on one foot.” Unbelievably, the ghouls began to do exactly that. Alex laughed in amusement, “Okay, okay stop. You,” he said, pointing towards one of the ghouls, “do a handstand.” He watched as the ghoul, although very slowly and clumsily, get into a handstand.”

Scott took his sunglasses off, revealing a pair of angry red eyes. “Alex, that's enough.” Alex gulped and told the ghoul to stop and stood there, waiting for his boss to tell him what to do. “Have these things prevent anyone from entering the building, go with them to make sure they only attack police entering, not anyone with the goods. One ring means to leave them and escape to the roof.”

“I got it covered.” He said, giving a small nod in assurance. He turned towards the ghouls and said, “We'll let's go you… whatever the hell you are.” Alex closed the door behind him as he left.

Jen shook her head in disbelief and said softly to herself, “Are we really…vampires?”

Reiki finally lowered his weapon and laid back down on the ground. After what seemed like an eternity, he slammed his fist into the floor. “God damn it! That bastard tricked us!” He yelled, rage evident even to those who had no idea what these four had been talking about.

“Reiki…” The redhead watched the young man bang the ground with his fists, his eyes still locked on the ceiling. She understood his anger, hell she agreed with him. That bastard tricked us. None of us would have agreed if we had known what would become of us.

“Reiki, act you age.” Scott said coldly as he walked over to where his brother lay. Reiki sat up and shot him an evil glare but Scott's won out and Reiki remained silent. “We have no one to blame but ourselves for this situation.”

“How do you figure that Scott?” Jen asked, gritted her teeth at the man's accusation.

Scott looked at her in disbelief. “The man promised us power didn't he? He didn't say how, just that he would make us powerful. We have the strength to tear a man apart with our bare hands. He fulfilled his end of the bargain; we were the ones who assumed too much.” His cold and analytical tone shut both vampires up as he took his glasses off and placed them in his coat pocket. “When making a deal with the devil, be prepared to taste hell.” The room was silent for a while, letting the profound statement sink in. Scott looked to Jen and said, “Make the call. Tell them to hurry up.” Jen nodded in agreement and opened her cell phone to make the call.

Seras stood at her assigned location and waited. She grabbed her head in slight pain lightly with her left had as she listened to the radio traffic in her ear. I haven't had a headache for years, why now? She had sensed the ghouls stirring and already reported it to the other team. She stared at the ground as she sensed what was going on underneath. Lord Hellsing said these freaks were new. Perhaps I should shake them up for information before terminating them. They haven't acted like the freaks we normally deal with. She suddenly frowned at that thought and found herself disgusted with herself. When did I become so cold? She then broke away from that train of thought as she felt one of the freaks leave the room. She smiled as she positioned herself towards where she assumed the hostages would be. “Command, do you read me?”

“Yes Victoria, go ahead.” Came a crackled voice through the com-line.

“One of the freaks is accompanying the ghouls out. I'm assuming there are setting up a defense of some sort. Tell the infiltration unit to make sure that they anticipate gunfire. The ghouls were the members of D11 after all.”

“Understood. When will you make your move.”

Seras smiled to herself as she raised her hand. “Now.” She said as she slammed her fist through the floor. She smiled as the hole was large enough for her to jump through and that's exactly what she did. She landed in the room beneath her in a crouch, luckily right in front of the hostages. She grinned over her shoulder to see that they were still human. She looked up and saw that three vampires were staring in shock at her. She smiled and closed her eyes in anticipation.

Scott was startled by the entrance and immediately turned to face the new arrival. Something happened though, and for some reason the first thing came to mind were the words, “Reiki, Jen, get the hell out of here, now!”

Without questioning his orders in the slightest, both of them dashed away, one heading for the door that led to the hallway, the other towards another room. Seras smiled to herself as she willed some of her power outwards. We can't have that now can we? Both vampires were held in place by some invisible force at first, then were thrown back towards the center of the room. They stood up and looked to each other in confusion and then stared at the woman as if expecting an answer.

Scott looked at the woman with great interest. Who is this? He thought mildly as he replaced his sunglasses and removed his pistol. Seeing his reaction, his two friends drew their weapons as well and pointed them towards Victoria. He held his hand up, holding them back from firing and walked over to the woman, his pistol pointed at her head. He then cocked an eyebrow upon noticing something. How the hell can she smile in such a position? “Who are you?”

Seras opened her eyes and glared at the man, causing him to take a step back. “I don't need to give my name to someone who's going to die.” She said, standing up. As she stood up she whispered to the hostages, “Hug the floor, or your going to die.” The family seemed to understand as she stood up and walked around the man with sunglasses.

Reiki and Jen merely watched as the woman circled their leader, not intimidated at all. Reiki felt his hands start to sweat and he gulped in a breath. He watched Scott meet her gaze and ask, “Oh, and you plan to kill us?”

Seras merely nodded once then closed her eyes after stopped behind the man. “Hellsing operative, Seras Victoria. Trash removal division.” She then narrowed her eyes at the younger man with the machine gun and added, “Lower the gun Sparky. I might let you live a little longer.”

Reiki felt himself about to yell at the woman when Jen beat him too it. “Hellsing? Never heard of it.” Seras shot the redhead a glance that rivaled something of pity and amusement. Jen gulped and finally noticed her eyes, “Hey, you're…one of us too aren't you?”

Seras laughed as she walked over to the girl and inspected her. Seras then locked gazes with the woman and let a sick smile cover her mouth. “I think not, you low-level trash..” The woman gulped and her eye twitched, causing Seras to let out another chuckle before moving on to the younger man. “Unlike you artificial freaks, I'm the real deal.” She said as she looked him over. He was smaller than the other man and was nervously clutching a machine gun. She leaned over and whispered in the man's ear, “How was their blood? Was it tasty?” She widened her eyes when she realized what she had just said, Wasblood ever tasty? Wait, why the hell am I even thinking about this?

Reiki's eyes widened exponentially and he dove backwards against the wall, shaking like a leaf in the wind. Scott frowned at this and grabbed the woman's shoulder from behind. “Stop that.” He felt as if he had to step in for his little brother.

Seras blinked once, Whatthe hell is wrong with me? She then smiled. “Ah, I had forgotten. None of you have drank blood yet have you?” She paused for a minute to think about it, “No, that's not true. The one out front controlling the ghouls must've had fed on them.”

Scott narrowed his eyes and all three retrained their guns on the woman. “Who are you?” He demanded, his pistol unwavering from the back of her head.

She smiled sweetly and grabbed his gun without saying anything. With a flick of her wrist, the weapon was ripped in half, the handle still in Scott's hand. She tossed the broken piece towards the family that was shivering on the ground and said with a cold voice, “Why I'm your angel of death. Can't you hear the bell's toll?” She shuddered after she said that, wondering where such words came from. Sounds like some Alucard would say, where the hell did those words come from?

“Kill her.” Scott ordered, taking a step back and discarding his weapon. His two friends obeyed immediately and filled the young woman's body with bullets. He watched as she collapsed to the floor, her body ridden with bullet holes. Blood seeped out from the corpse and spread across the floor. He heard the hostage woman scream but other than that ignored everything but the corpse.

Reiki walked over and stepped over the body to stand next to his brother. “She went down easy, considering all that nonsense she was spouting out earlier.” Jen nodded in agreement and lowered her gun.

Scott nodded as he stared at the broken pistol. She did go down too easy. She was a vampire too, why did she come here? He looked up when he heard Jen's cell phone go off. She raised her to her ear, “What is it Alex?”

“Jen? Shit, we're under attack!” Came a panicked voice through the phone. The woman had to pull it away from her ear from the intensity of the scream.

Scott held out his hand for the phone and Jen handed it to him. “Alex, explain what's going on?”

“I don't know! It looks like they sent another unit in like before. But whoever these guys are, they're cutting down those monsters like its their job. They didn't even flinch. Those monsters are practically exploding as they're being shot.”

Scott looked to Reiki and asked, “Explosive shells?”

Reiki shook his head, “No, D11 doesn't use that equipment.”

“Oh shit!” There was a cry of pain and then the line went dead. Scott looked to his two companions in complete shock.

Jen was the first to speak, “Scott we need to get out of here before they get here.”

Scott nodded in agreement when Reiki spoke up, “I wonder what kind of weaponry they were using. Before Alex and I were shot and granted it hurt, it didn't kill us.”

“Silver.” Came a cold voice. All three heads looked to the source of the sound and in unison all their eyes widened in shock. Standing against the wall, as if she didn't have a care in the world, was Seras. “Vampires are weak to silver, thus we use it for hunting.”

There was a long tense silence as the three vampires stared at the woman who before had been dead. How is she still in one piece? Reiki thought as he and Jen raised their guns at the same time. He didn't have time to react before something ripped through his arm. He screamed in pain as he fell to his knees in pain, clutching for his arm only to find that it was no longer there. He heard a similar cry from Jen and looked up to see that she had lost her weapon in a similar way. Her hand was now missing and she was biting her lip to keep from screaming out in pain. Reiki's eyes glazed over and he glared at the woman leaning against the wall, holding a pair of rather large pistols in her hands.

Scott watched in complete shock as the woman had pulled two weapons from her coat and fired at his friends in an instant. He felt his glasses slide forward towards the brim of his nose. His mouth was hanging open as his friends screamed in pain. If I had blinked I would have missed that. “What are you?” He asked softly and in a fearful voice.

Seras said nothing at first but then lowered her weapons. “You should know that no mere gun can fell a vampire.” She then laughed as the man looked to his two friend's missing appendages and added, “at least, a normal gun.” She then pointed a gun at the woman and one at the younger man. “Now, you are going to tell me who implanted the freak chips in you.” She ordered, her voice dropping to an icy tone. All three of them shuddered when hearing the tone used in the last statement.

Scott stared at the woman in confusion. Freak chip? What is she talking about? Trying to maintain a cool front he took a step forward and asked, “Will you let us go if we cooperate?” He asked, his voice level. He felt his two friends staring at him in confusion but ignored it. If there is still a chance to get you two out of this, I'm willing to die for it.

“Noble sentiments young man, but no. I respect your wish to protect your friends but sadly I can't spare any of you. Though if you tell me I will let you pass on as painlessly as possible.” Her eyes narrowed as she holstered one weapon into her coat and added, “Trust me, I can make it as painful or as painless as I need but I will get the information I require.”

Jen panicked and cried out, “Why can't you let us go? You're a vampire too aren't you?”

Seras stared at the girl, causing her to shrink back. “That's right, however if I let cockroaches like you four run free it'll cause trouble for me.” She then glared back at the leader and stated in a cold voice. “Now tell me who turned you into freaks.”

Scott glared at the woman and could only feel a chill from her. Is this it? I need to think so Jen and Reiki can get away. However, before he could come up with a plan, Jen dove towards the hostages, grabbing the woman by the neck and holding her in front as a shield. “Let us go or this bitch dies!”

“Jen!” Scott shot a rebuke that fell on deaf ears as he felt cold air rush by him. Without hesitation, Seras turned her gun towards the vampire and fired once, striking her in the head. With only a scream from the captive, both captor and captive fell to the ground. Jen turned to dust before Scott or Reiki could call her name. The woman just lay of the floor on her stomach, sobbing bitterly. Scott and Reiki both turned to the attacker and growled. “You monster…”

Seras blinked when she heard that, an old memory coming to mind.

“Master…they were humans.”

“That's right. I can kill them, because I'm a monster.”

Seras shook her head to dispel the unpleasant memory and took another shot. This bullet struck Reiki in the leg, causing his leg to vanish. His cry of pain was heartbreaking to his brother, who clenched his fists in absolute hatred of this woman. She withdrew her other gun and said again, “I'm not going to ask you again. I can make this as drawn out as possible if you want.”

A voice crackled in her ear. “Victoria, the team in approaching your position, they'll be there in two minutes.”

Reiki spoke up, “Go to hell.”

Seras frowned, “I've been there. Its everything you expect. I hope you enjoy it.” She said as she fired again, striking him in the other leg.

“Stop it!” Screamed Scott as he charged the woman. Seras merely sidestepped and hit him over the base of the neck with the handle of the Jackal. He slammed headfirst into the fall, leaving a small hole in it. She looked to her left and grabbed the younger man who by now was so petrified that he couldn't move anymore.

“Listen up now. Last time I'm going to ask! If you don't answer me right now, I'm going to torture this boy instead of killing him. Just tell me and make it easier on yourselves.” Seras said again, her voice no longer containing any coldness. In fact, it seemed more like pity than anything else. Seras tilted the boy's head towards her own as Scott pulled himself out of the wall.

Reiki gulped under her gaze. “We don't know. Some guy we had never seen before did this to us.”

Scott yelled, “Reiki, no!”

Reiki continued, despite his brother's assurances. “It doesn't matter anymore Scott. If she doesn't get it she's just going to torture you. I don't want that.” He turned back to Seras, “He brought us to some abandoned warehouse in the port district. I don't remember what happened but when we woke up we were like this.” Reiki hung his head in shame.

Reiki felt his head being tilted up gently by soft hands and looked up to see Seras giving him a small smile. She bent over and gave the younger man a small kiss on the forehead. “Thank you young man. If I had the authority, I would've let the three of you go but I'm afraid that's not possible.” Her eyes seemed distant as if remembering some painful memory when she added, “I'll make the one who did this to you pay, I promise you that.”

Reiki smiled, a small and genuine smile. A smile that made its way past all the pain and shame. “Thank you.” He then turned to his brother and mouthed, “It's okay brother. I'll see you again soon.” He suddenly fell limp and turned to dust. Scott watched as Seras withdrew her fingers from where Reiki's heart had been and rise to her feet.

He couldn't take it anymore. Jen, Alex, little brother… He fell to his knees, tears in his eyes. His will to fight was gone. He just stared at the dust that used to be his brother in silence, tears flowing freely. He didn't even noticed when Seras came over and kneeled in front of him until she brought her arms around him gently. “I'm sorry.” Her voice came in softly, as if she was repressing tears of her own.

He took no action as she hugged him. “You have no right to say anything. You killed him. You killed Jen.” His voice was dead, tired, and as if he was speaking to himself.

“You're right. I'm sorry.” He then felt something wet hit his face and looked into the eyes of the woman. She's beautiful, he thought. It turns out that was the last thought he had before he turned into dust.

Seras stood up and faced away from the door as she heard her men enter. She didn't face them as she said, “Take them out of here. Contact a disposal unit and tell everyone to clear out. Go back to Hellsing manor and issue a report to Lord Hellsing. I'm not going back yet.”

“Understood.” The team leader said as he motioned for his men to free the hostages and bring them outside. Finally he shot a glance back at the young woman before leaving the room, a question looming on his mind. Was she crying?

It was the same thing that was on Seras' mind as she felt them leave. She still hadn't moved as the thought bounced around inside her head. Finally she raised her hand to her eyes and found them to be moist. She wiped her eyes quickly and whispered angrily to herself. I'm not much better than Alucard am I? These freaks were harmless, asking for medical blood so they wouldn't harm anyone. And I killed them like they were less than nothing. I'm just like Alucard…a monster. “I fucking hate this.” She whispered angrily to herself in a soft and weak voice. She picked up the sunglasses from the dust pile that used to be a person and turned them over in her hands. She grabbed them gently with her left hand and then turned towards the wall and sent her right fist through it. “Damn it to hell!” She yelled out, her eyes closed in an attempt to stop the tears. She slowly backed away from the wall and placed the sunglasses over her own eyes. She took one last look around the room and sniffed once more before vanishing into the shadows.

Several blocks away, two shadowy figures stood atop a hotel in the main square of London. There were looking towards the distance with similar grins on their faces. One looked to the other and asked, “So, how was it?” The voice was light and chipper, definitely owned by one of the fairer sex.

The other figure's grinned only widened as it opened its hand. Inside was a small red jewel that had been glowing gently. “Like a charm. I'm surprised it worked so well from this distance.”

The first merely sighed and added, “Well it did take a while to kick in. But it looked like it was working. It looked as if it was starting to affect those other three too. She left before we could really confirm it though.” There was a long pause before she asked, “Is that woman really a threat?”

There was a gruff cough but then the second said, “She could be. She isn't a freak, and loyal to that riff-raff.”

The woman sighed, “I can't believe that Incognito lost to that riff-raff.”

“Understandable. His purpose was to eliminate the pure blood and he failed. Though Hellsing's fall from a position of power will benefit us well.”

“Unexpected, true. But is that enough?”

The second nodded in agreement, “Despite the setback a century or so ago, the plan is still good to go, there have been no unexpected moves.”

The moonlight lit the face of the first figure, revealing a pale skinned beauty with light green hair. “Even the moves of the Vatican? Master did say that they could interfere with the plan.” Her red eyes glistened in the moonlight as she looked back to the horizon.

The second figure stepped forward, revealing itself slightly. He also had red eyes, and was wearing a brown suit. His black hair was tied into a small ponytail as it flopped around in the breeze. “Catholicism will probably not be too much of a threat. It has been rotting from the inside for some time now. It will most likely be too weak to stand in our way. The only reason that the Iscariots remain as they are is mostly because they are under the direct command of the Pope himself.” He then grinned as the woman next to him stood up and they both turned around and began to walk away. One more thing was said before they vanished into the darkness.

“Everything is going according to plan, our master will be pleased.”

~DeathLover~