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Eternal Hearts: Book Two-Homecoming	By : alucardsangel1973 Category: Hellsing > General Views: 14939 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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- 12
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Ok, this isn't the conclusion, but the chapter afterwards will be. Here is basically Alucard telling Seras the tale of how he became a vampire and helping her to come to terms with her first kill by telling her about his own experience.

Homecoming

Chapter 13

A few hours passed before Alucard and Seras
returned to the Hellsing mansion. The two vampires stood before
Integra making their report. Walter, Ferguson and Pickman were
also present.

"The traitors have been judged and silenced
master." Alucard stated.

"Good. The queen wishes me to pass onto you
all her gratitude for your service during this mission. Officer
Seras, you are to be congratulated for helping capture the spy in
Hellsing and also helping to weed out the traitor in the Round
Table Conference. The other knights claim to have no knowledge of
Regenald's plan, but he message has been clearly made that such
acts will not be tolerated against the queen, her subjects,
church and her noble Hellsing Organization." Integra
responded.

"What about Iscariate Sir Integra? Will
anything be done to them for their involvement against us?"
Seras asked.

"Since they were unknowingly made part of
the diversion I'm afraid no real action can be taken against
them. However, they have been warned to keep Paladin Anderson out
of Hellsing affairs or we will not be held responcible for any
unfortunate incidents if you understand my meaning." Integra
answered.

"Understood completely." Alucard said
with a toothy grin.

"Tomorrow evening we will be holding
services for those who lost their lives in Romania. Alucard, I
also extend my sympathies and condolences to those in your
homeland who have suffered because of Sir Regenald's plot against
the queen and Hellsing." Integra replied.

"He was justly punished for his
crimes." Alucard said with a serious look.

"Then that will conclude this organization's
business for this evening. I must finish informing the families
of the soldiers in my service of their loved one's fates. And I
wish to do this alone. Everyone is dismissed." Integra said
ushering the small party out of her office.

Alucard called to Walter as he left for the
kitchen. "Rations won't be necessary tonight Walter. Seras
and I have fed...well." He said as he disappeared to the
sublevels of the mansion.

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Seras changed out of her uniform into a more
comfortable night shirt. She opened her coffin and sat down.
"Did I really do that? Did I actually take a man's life
tonight?" She asked herself. She could still feel the blood
of the man she'd killed within her. She placed her head in her
hands as the reality of her actions began to hit her.

"Seras?" Asked a deep voice. The
younger vampire looked up to see Alucard standing in front of
her. He didn't have to ask her what she was feeling. Not even
reading her thoughts was necessary to know the conflict she felt.
He gently rested a finger under her chin tilting her head upward.
Then he leaned down putting his hands around her face.

"I know you struggle with this now, but in
time it will become easier." He said.

"I...I can't help it. I know he wasn't
innocent, and he deserved to die for what he did. I guess it's
just, well, there's still a tiny part of me that's screaming at
me for it. I know I'm not human anymore, but it's going to take
me a little while to get used to this." Seras said her voice
cracking.

"For some the first kill is difficult. For
others the first kill is easy, but coming to terms with it can be
a challenge. It took time for me to realize killing as a human
and killing as a vampire can be very different." Alucard
replied.

"You...you had difficulty?" Seras asked
somewhat suprised.

"It is both simple and complicated. The
first night I spent as a vampire was the most terrifying. I felt
fear that no human can possibly comprehend...or survive."
Alucard answered.

"I've read so many things, but I've never
learned how it is you came to be a vampire. Were you turned like
I was?" Seras asked.

"No. Your turning is simple to explain. I
drank your blood, and fed you mine. That moment you became my
fledgling and I your master. In Romania I fed you again, and you
became a true vampire from that night on. My birth into darknes
was...different." Alucard began. He took a brief pause and
then continued his story.

"It was the night after I'd had those whom I
felt murdered my wife executed. But I was still so full of rage.
I was angry at the world and the God who created it. Man's deceit
took her away from me. And I was told God would not allow her
into Heaven because she took her own life. But the one I was the
most angry at, the one I hated more than all others...was myself.
I always felt I'd failed her. I had failed as a ruler and as a
human."

Alucard paused again. His eyes were distant for a
moment as he started to speak once more. "I remember that
night. The screams of the condemned still rang in my ears. The
priests, guards, any who saw me...now feared me. I was truly a
mad man that night."

"How did it happen?"

"I was away from the castle. I'd run to a
remote area taking out my anger on anything I could find, trees,
rocks, anything that I could abuse. Even the animals seem to know
better than to cross my path. I cursed every living thing in my
rage. And in that I ended up cursing myself for all eternity. I
had fallen to my knees both weeping and raging at the same time.
I pounded my fists into the Earth. I'd never felt more useless,
more helpless. It was then in the darkness I could hear a voice
inside my head, but saw no one around me."

"What did it sound like?" Seras asked.

"Nothing I'd heard before and would ever
want to hear again. Yet I hear it every time I kill. It was the
most inhuman and demonic tone echoing in my mind. It told me how
my anger had in turn angered God, and I would never enter Heaven
beause of it. It told me I was already damned. But that I could
have the ultimate revenge against those who had taken my wife
away from me. To have what man had sought for ages
past...immortality. I could have strength beyond comprehension.
Sickeness, old age and death could never touch me." Alucard
answered.

He paused and then started again. "Then I
was told the price of this immortality and power. I would become
a creature bound to the night for all time. I would sleep by day
and rise by night. It was the lure of power and revenge that
bought me. I hadn't even thought to listen to what the other
condition was. All I knew was I would become a creature far
stronger than anything man had ever seen. I would live forever.
And without question I accepted what this voice in my head
offered."

"The voice commanded me to take my sword and
stab it into the Earth. I did so and before my eyes blood began
to seep from the ground. Then I was told to drink from what
sprang fourth from the Earth. And without question I did as I was
told. I cupped it in my hands and let it flow into my mouth. I
felt both sickened and hungered at the same time. As offensive as
the act seemed, I could not stop. I had to have more. So more I
took into myself."

Seras sat listening intently. She was learning
what most likely no soul had heard before, the begetting of her
sire. Her eyes and ears focused soley upon him as she took in
every word committing it to memory. After another pause Alucard
continued his tale.

"After the third handful was when something
started to happen. I could feel an intense burning within me,
like my own blood had been turned into acid. My insides were on
fire as what I'd drank began taking over. The blood I'd drank was
beginning to consume my own. I could feel myself changing inside.
Like you did with your turning I began to struggle. My muscles
all seemed to start spasming at the same time repeatedly. I felt
my throat closing making it impossible for me to breathe. I
couldn't scream, couldn't even whimper. I started convulsing and
choking. My heart was beating so fast I was sure it was about to
explode. My eyes felt like they'd had hot pokers put to them. I
felt like I was breathing in nothing more than burning hot
flames. I had no control at all over what was happening to
me."

Another pause before continuing. "It was
pain unlike anything I'd ever felt before. Even the tortures I
endured as a prisoner of the Turkish sultan were nothing compared
to this. It was like my body was being twisted inside out. The
convulsions, inability to breathe or speak, the burning and the
inhuman rapid heart beats..."

"Then what happened?" Seras asked.

"Then it all just stopped. My body lost all
feeling. My eyes rolled back and my heart stopped. I was dead.
But as quickly as my body seemed to have died, I suddenly felt
life, or the illusion of it shoot back into me. My eyes snapped
open. I had feeling in my limbs once again. I felt myself move.
My throat was no longer constricted, though I strangely did not
feel the need to take in air. I could hear everything. The sounds
that humans take for granted that night became terrifying to me.
The chirping of birds became like screeches of demons. A rat
moving across the ground felt like a heard of elephants stomping
toward me. Even the sound of worms slithering against the Earth
were overwhelming."

This seemed all too much for Seras to take in at
once, but she wasn't about to ask him to stop either. She began
to realize just how different it was for her when Alucard turned
her. She also realized she'd had it much easier with her turning
than he had with his.

"I saw things no human can see. Humans are
basically blind at night unless they have special devices to help
them see. But what a human cannot make out in the blackest of
night, I saw clearly as if it were illuminated by the sun. It all
amazed, yet frightened me because I didn't understand what had
happend to me. But my hypersenses were not the only thing I had
aquired. My thoughts turned back to the blood. The blood that had
triggered this change within me. I looked down at the spot where
the blood had suddenly appeared. Now it was all gone. Nothing
remained but dry ground. All the evidence that remained was the
hole I'd made with my sword."

"The first hunger?" Seras asked.

"Yes. The first hunger is always the
strongest for any newborn vampire. Fortunately you had a ready
supply waiting for you when you were fully recovered from your
transformation. I saw to that when I had Walter look after you
while I went to finish off the bastard who'd stabbed you. I
however, was not that lucky. I had no master to guide me or tell
me what was happening to my body. I had also neglected to learn
the last condition of the immortality I'd now been given. I would
hunger for one thing and one thing only...blood."

Alucard looked down for a moment, his face
serious. "Even though I'd had three large handfuls of that
strange blood, or what I assumed was blood I was starving. I felt
like I hadn't eaten in weeks. Every sound continued to overwhelm
me until I heard something very, very familiar. I could hear the
beating of a human heart not far from where I was. It was then I
also realized that my own heart had no beat at all. I was
confused. How could I be moving if my heart did not beat and did
not pump blood throughout my body. But as that heartbeat grew
louder and louder, I stopped trying to understand what was
happening to me. For the first time I heard not only the beating
of a human heart, but the pounding of blood in human veins. Every
other noise was drowned out by those two sounds alone. And not
only could I hear the blood rushing inside a human body. I could
smell it as well. And it smelled sweeter than any flower, any
wine. All I knew was I had to have it. My body was screaming for
it. My senses were overwhelmed by it's scent. It was then three
words played in my mind over and over...blood is life.
Blood was life, and the key to our immortality."

"I could hear breathe rapidly enter and
leave the body. I was beginning to track the source insesently. I
was stalking a human as a wolf stalks a sheep or deer. It was a
young girl, no older than sixteen. She was already frightened. I
guess she was a village girl who had gotten lost while finding
water or perhaps doing an errand for her mother. At that point, I
really didn't care. All I knew she had what could satiate my
hunger, and I had to have it."

"She obviously saw that something was not
normal about me and started to run. Before I knew what had come
over me I rushed after her taking her down in one stride. I held
her down and forced her head back. Her heart was beating as mine
had before my human death. Except she could scream where I could
not. I had to silence her. I had to keep from being seen. It was
something I'd never done before, but it seemed perfectly natural
at that very moment. I opened my mouth and sank my teeth into her
throat. It all happened so fast. I could hear her screams yet I
could not. My lust for her blood drowned out anything else. She
continued to struggle a moment more as I fed on her. I held her
down with what seemed to be an iron grip. I continued ripping
into her throat like a wild beast. The feel of her blood, her
sweet, warm blood rushing into my mouth made me feel something
beyond euphoric."

Alucard took one more pause before finishing his
story. "When I'd finished feeding I felt myself renewed. I
felt like a starving man who'd feasted like never before. Then I
looked down and saw the reality of what I had done. I looked at
the girl's face. It was twisted forever in fear and death. I saw
the horrible wound I'd inflicted upon her delicate throat. I felt
her blood dripping from my lips. I watched it drip onto my
fingers. I looked at it, and then at her. I could not understand
how I could have done this. I had killed an innocent. I could
hear that voice laughing in my mind. I could hear the devil
mocking me for what I had now become. That night I truly became a
monster." He finished.

"Alucard, how did you get through it?"
Seras asked.

"I had to accept that I was no longer a
human being. I actually learned to be a better hunter by watching
animal predators. I watched wolves hunting, stalking their prey.
How they methodically picked out their victims and overwhelmed
them before they could get away. Wolves never felt pity or regret
for killing what they needed. They usually weeded out the sick
and the weak. Those who would not survive anyway. I let their own
sense of reason become like my own. I was a hunter, a
predator...a killer." Alucard explained.

Then he looked at Seras, his red eyes gazing into
hers. She returned his gaze. "I think...I think I'm
beginning to understand now. At least, understand why you are the
way you are. It all seems so different than what I've been taught
to believe. Not just about vampires, but about you. When I think
about it now, so much of what was in the book Bram Stoker wrote
was so...wrong." Seras said.

"There is something I know about that book
that I will tell you. But it is something you must never reveal
to another living soul or both of us will end up in a great deal
of trouble. You've read the book by Bram Stoker, yes?"
Alucard questioned.

"Yes, but it was a while back so I couldn't
remember every detail." Seras answered.

"I trust you do know how the book
ended." Alucard replied.

"It ended with Dracula's destruction. But
that is a complete contradiction to the fact that you're
here." Seras said.

"Exactly. The ending was a complete
fabrication. As you now know Van Helsing did not have me
destroyed. He couldn't destroy me. So instead he and the men who
hunted me down performed a dark ritual that bound me to the
Hellsing family. My powers are restricted and only with the
permission of my master can I ever go at an enemy with my full
strength. Van Helsing made a deal with Stoker who had heard about
me through stories and papers and wanted to write a book turning
me into a vampire. Little did he know that what he thought was a
creation of his imagination was in fact real. And it would have
been rather disasterous for the queen and for Van Helsing if the
whole of England, not to mention the world knew that Vlad The
Impalor still roams among the living. So they struck a deal.
Stoker would be allowed to write his novel with certain facts and
events, but there was one condition. The world had to believe Van
Helsing had me destroyed. Stoker agreed and both parties got what
they wanted. Stoker got his little book, and Van Helsing kept his
little secret."

Seras looked at Alucard in amazement. It was
going to take a while for her to digest everything she'd learned
this night. Would she even be able to?

"All we have is time. There are many things
you will learn as your powers manifest themselves and you learn
to use them. But we will save that conversation for another time.
This night has left me feeling a bit eghausted. And I would wager
you are feeling rather tired as well." Alucard said.

"Yes, I am tired. Strange as it seems,
everything that happened from the time we left til now is going
to take a while to really sink in." Seras answered.

"I guess I should let you get some rest.
Tomorrow night we will have things to do." Alucard said as
he got up to leave.

"Alucard..." Seras called quietly.

"Yes Seras?" He asked.

"Please...stay with me in my coffin tonight.
I just...I don't want to be alone right now. I know it shouldn't
be such a big deal but..."

Alucard turned to face Seras and gently placed a
finger against her lips. Then he nudged her over to give him room
in her coffin bed. He laid flat on his back while Seras snuggled
up to him. Not another word between them was exchanged as night
turned to day. They both quietly fell into their death slumber
waiting for the moon to conqure the sky the next night.

to be continued...
- 12
- 13
- 14
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