Psalm of Darkness: Hellsing Institution (Order 01: Not Human)

[Alucard]

Order: 01 ~Not Human~

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardevileye.txt align=right hspace=5>The evening was still and quiet as he walked along the path. No insects sung their song, no trees swayed. Nothing among the trees, bushes and grass stirred. Even his footsteps made no sound as he walked along at a relaxed pace. If one were to smell the scent on the air, they would find it strange that there was no scent. Everything around seemed almost devoid of life, save the lone figure clad in the long red coat and red hat.

Then with no warning whatsoever he stopped and stood still. His head raised enough so that his eyes could be seen peering over the tops of the sunglasses he wore in the darkness. The pupils were blood red and just as he looked up, he spoke.<br clear=right>

“Restriction control method number three, lifting the seal.”

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardtgrin.txt align=left hspace=5>As the final word passed from his mouth in his deep powerful voice, the stillness of all that had been around him ceased and a light wind blew, billowing out his coat as he raised his arms towards the night sky, where the silver moon sat perched high among the stars.

“The hunt begins.”

A grin spread across his face.

[Integra Hellsing]

Hours earlier

“We have reports that there is an unnatural disturbance in the small town of Cion.”

Came the gruff and cold voice of the chubby sliver haired man that sat at a chair pulled up to a table where there were two others present, a woman and another trimmer younger looking man in what looked like a military unifrom.

“Explain what you mean by unnatural.”

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/integra2.txt align=left hspace=5>Came the calm voice of the blonde woman, just after she exhales a small flume of smoke. The glare of the lights in the room making it so that her eyes could not be seen due to the reflection off of her glasses. She was collected and not nearly as nervous and bewildered sounding as the man who had just spoken to her.<br clear=left>

“According to our information, a new minister recently arrived to take the divine doctrine to the people of Cion, but shortly after he arrived, communications with its townspeople stopped. We dispatched a team of officers to try and find out what had happened and lost contact with them also.”

The man’s expression changed into one of dread as he continued.

“After contact was lost with the law enforcement officers was lost, we sent in Division DV-II to investigate properly. What they found was what I mentioned earlier as unnatural. They came under attack by the people of the town. The part making it unusual was as they tried to ward off the townsfolk who confronted them, there own men began to turn on them. Those men that had turned on them were people that the captian who reported the incident back to us, had witnessed being killed by the townsfolk who appeared to be eating their flesh.”

His look of dread had slowly become one of disgust and horror as he told the woman what he knew.

“Ghouls.” Came her single answer.

“WHAT?” A Shocked reply came from the man as his lowered head shot up and set his eyes firmly on the woman.

“Has DV-11 forgotten that the Royal Knights of my Institution are more suited to handle such things?” She asked him sternly, her voice having a distinctly aristocratic tone.

The man lowered his head and began to shake it. “No, we haven’t forgotten. We just thought those times had passed.”

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/integrameeting.txt align=right hspce=5>
“Hellsing Institution will take over from here on.” She said as she rose from her seat and walked towards the window, having extinguished her cigarette.

The man in military garb that had been sitting beside her also rose as she did, but he did not follow. He spoke up as her back was turned.

“How many are to be sent on this sortie Maim?”

She didn’t turn around or even answer right away.

“Dusk is approaching.” She uttered with a fairly quiet voice and then she turned and answered. “Just one.”

The militarily dressed man just nodded as the silver headed man wore an expression of shock.

[Seras Victoria]

The young woman crouched next to her comrade. On her shoulder she bore the insignia of DV-11. Cold antiseptic spray shot from the canister she held onto what looked like a bite wound on the down man’s arm.

“Its going to be okay Rick, the injury doesn’t look too bad at all.”

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/hseresscared.txt align=left hspace=5>She heard a noise behind her and turned to look and see what it was. Had they come back to finish her off too? She and Rick were all that were left of her unit after the initial attack. All her fellow comrades beside him were about ten meters away, lying around the all terrain vehicle. Standing up and taking a few steps away from Rick, she spoke out with fright in her voice.

“Hello? Is somebody there?”<br clear=left>

There was no answer and she heard no more noises from the underbrush she was staring into with her big blue eyes open wide full of fear. Then something else happened that got her attention and she quickly turned around to face it. Rick was getting up off the ground. When her eyes fell on his face, she knew something was wrong, terribly wrong.

His face looked lifeless and wrinkled, it looked as if he had aged thirty years and had been in the sun too long as the leathery look of his skin stretched across his bones. He began to moan and make strange noises, walking towards her.

“Rick?” She called out questioningly, her voice sounding even more frightened that it had earlier, reflexively she started to step slowly backwards.

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/hseresgun.txt align=right hspace=5>No answer came from her friend, as he just continued to moan and kept moving towards her, His tongue parted his lips and he licked around the circumference of his mouth as if he were hungry.

Seras Victoria drew her gun and aimed it in his direction, her hands visibly shaking.

“Stop or I will shoot!”

[Integra Hellsing]

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/integraintransit.txt align=right hspace=5>Over the skies of the city much larger than Cion, that Integra was in she sat, donning a headset to communicate with the politician that she had not yet spoken to about the situation. We break in mid conversation but can only hear one side of it.

“Ghouls sir.” There was a short pause as the man on the other end of the line said something before she continued.<br clear=right>

“They are what DV-11 encountered and most likely has become. Servants of a Vampire who did not go so far as to make them the same form of undead as itself.”

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/integrahelicopter.txt align=left hspace=5>Again she stopped talking, listening to his response. Her expression remained unchanged and she turned to look out the helicopter’s window, the signs of the large city they were in starting to lessen as they reached its edge.

“I am on my way to Cion now. Leave this to Special Institution Hellsing. The matter will be resolved before the evening has ended.”<br clear=left>

The scene cuts away from the inside of the Helicopter and to the outside. The night sky growing darker as it leaves the big city and heads towards its destination. Hellsing Institution would soon be in Cion, More than already were.

[Alucard]

Seras’ hands continued to shake and thoughts raced through her mind. ”Who am I kidding, I can’t kill my friend. Is he even still human?”

She continued to back away, but Rick moved closer and closer, still groaning. His teeth were now visible and didn’t look too out of the ordinary considering the color and state of his face and skin.

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardblow.txt align=left hsapce=5>From out of nowhere, Seras saw a hand wearing a white glove, bearing a strange star on its top, pierced through Rick’s chest, and she watched in shock, as her friend became nothing more than a pile of dust blowing away in the night’s wind.

There stood Alucard, his arm outstretched and a satisfied look on his face. He then straightened his posture and put his arm back at his side, facing Seras.<br clear=left>

Seras still had her gun raised and now instead of it pointing at Rick, it was aimed at the man in the red hat and coat. She said nothing as he casually walked a little closer to her. His gloved hand that had just dispatched Rick as if it were a stake driven through his heart was still as clean as clean as driven snow. There was no sign of blood or even the ash that her friend had become.

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardlaugh.txt align=right hspace=5>The man in the red coat, Alucard smiled and said.

“It is a very nice night.”

His head turned skyward and the glow of the moon reflected upon his sunglasses.

“On such a night I crave for blood.”<br clear=right>

Alucard smiled wide and his head started to lower, his eyes meeting Seras’. She could see his teeth were far from normal fangs were plainly visible.

[Seras Victoria]

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/serasshooting.txt align=left hspace=5>Seeing his fangs showing coupled with the fear she had already felt at having her friend stalk towards her then be killed in such a strange way caused a reflexive action. She fired her gun at Alucard and hit him in the shoulder. He reeled back from the impact and shreds of red cloth and black mist filled the air. As he stood back up straight, you could see that a sizable hunk of his shoulder was missing.<br clear=left>

The fact that he seemed to not be phased by the shot scared Seras even more and she turned and took off at a full run, heading back towards the all terrain vehicle that her squad had come to Cion in. Had she stuck around she would have seen that the black cloud like mist around Alucard’s shoulder, where he had been hit by the shot, was congealing. The wound on his shoulder vanished as did the damage to his coat.

It didn’t take her long to arrive at the DV-11 vehicle and when she did she stopped, catching her breath. Moans quickly caught her attention and she spun around in their source’s direction. They sounded much like the ones that Rick had been making just before the man in red killed him.

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/seressquad.txt align=right hspace=5>Her eyes grew extremely large as she saw her entire squad, minus Rick, heading towards her, but none of them looked as they had before.

“But you were all dead....and now...”

She saw her Captain at the front of the pack, but could see no recognition in his eyes, only what looked like some eerie hunger.

“Captain?” She asked, but received no reply. <br clear=right>

”I’m not a scared kitten, I’m an operative of DV-11. I am bold and brave!”

She raised her gun and shot him square in the chest, but after the initial flinch, he just kept coming. Again her fear took over and she turned back towards the woods and ran as fast as her feet would carry her.

She ran for probably five full minutes through dense woods and brush, not seeing any more of the ghastly people who had once been her comrades in arms, or the man in red who she had shot earlier. Eventually she came upon something that at first frightened her even more.

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/serasgraves.txt align=left hspace=5>The sight that initially made her fear stronger was the ominous vision of many gravestones and crypts before her. She had come across a graveyard. But her fears diminished some as she saw a structure nearby. It was a small chapel and she thought she could find some kind of sanctuary there. She headed for the door and pushed it open, finding it unlocked.

She took a few hesitant steps inside and the door creaked as it closed all on its own behind her.<br clear=left>

"Hello?"

[Alucard]

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucard5.txt align=right hspace=5>His shoulder showed no signs at all of the injury she had inflicted as he stood with a smiling expression.

“So you can shoot when you know its not human, female officer.”

He said to her as she fled. She would have been able to hear even if she was out of earshot because he had made his voice present in her mind as well as on the wind.<br clear=right>

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardfac.txt align=left hspace=5>He turned and looked in a different direction then the one she had gone running off in.

“Target confirmed. The hunt resumes.”

His smile grew even wider and he leisurely started walking in the direction he had faced.<br clear=left>

“Such a night as this makes me crave for human blood.” He said again, this time to no one but the air around him as he walked.

[Seras Victoria]

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/minister2.txt align=right hspace=5>The small church appeared to be completely empty at first glance and then a pale faced man appeared shrouded in shadow. Initially he wore a plain expression, but as his eyes fell on Seras, a smile grew on his features. He set down the book he was carrying and turned to her.

“For one that seeks redemption, the church’s doors are always open.”<br clear=right>

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/Seraschappel.txt align=left hspace=5>She raised her gun by instinct and aimed it in the man’s direction. His eyes seemed of a strange color and his skin was so free of color she wondered if he wasn’t like many of the others she had seen this evening, not human.

“Minister?” She asked timidly. “Or are you like the others I saw before?”<br clear=left>

He started to walk towards her slowly, speaking calmly, his voice having a compelling feeling of control over her.

“Those you saw outside are but ghouls. Servants a Vampire has sucked the blood from but not seen fit to make into their brethren. They exist as mere undead creatures, while we are so much more.”

She could see his eyes better now. They were blood red, a color one didn’t normally see a human being having. She had unconsciously lowered her gun and was standing with her arms at her sides as if she was in a trance. He moved closer.

He stopped walking and spoke to her again, as he raised an arm.

“You however, I will grant pleasure that will last eternally. You will become as I am.”

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/serasminister.txt align=right hspace=5>Just as his hand reached an outstretched state, pointing in her direction, she seemed to glide up the aisle between the pews and come into his arms.

“Such a warm and pleasant taste you have flowing inside of you."

He smiled and she could now see his fangs, but she could barely move. She was ensnared in some kind of spell he had cast on her. She managed to say a couple of feeble words in return.<br clear=right>

“Not human.”

[Alucard]

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/minister1.txt align=left hspace=5>Seras managed to raise an arm as she saw the hungry look in his eyes deepen, and his control over her seemed to relax just a little. She placed the barrel of her gun against his forehead.

“Let me go, or I will blow your head off.”

His response was nothing but a laugh, before her arm weakly fell to her side again. He had full control over her body again, She was helpless.<br clear=left>

His fangs crept closer and closer to her neck and she was frozen, unmoving. She wasn’t able to struggle or speak. She was completely at his mercy. He would have his way with her and if she understood correctly, she would no longer be human once he had.

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardkickdoor.txt align=right hspace=5>Before his fangs could pierce the flesh of her neck there was a sudden sound of wood shattering and being broken. The minister spun around, still holding her and faced the doorway to the chapel. Someone had just kicked a hole in the door and his face was becoming slowly visible as he stepped up to the door and peered in through the opening.<br clear=right>

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardlookdoor.txt align=left hspace=5>”That will be enough! ……….PUNK!”

It was a voice Seras recognized. It was that of the one in the red hat and coat she had shot then run from earlier. The light from inside the chapel was now on the face looking in through the door and he could be seen with a sinister look of satisfaction on his face.<br clear=left>

He stepped in through the hole he had made and started up the aisle towards Seras and the Minister. The Minister challenged him.

“What is it to you? What do you care what I do? Even more importantly, what are you going to do about it?”

From the pews on either side of where the Minister and Seras were standing two-dozen ghouls suddenly came into sight, each of them holding firearms of different sizes and types.

[Seras Victoria]

Seras watched in shock as this man whose name she didn’t yet know, walked down the aisle towards them with absolutely no fear in his eyes or posture. He started to speak again in response to what the Minister had said.

“You are scum. Do you have any idea how silly you look dressed like that?”

He didn’t give the Minister time to respond before he continued.

“I am here on behalf of the Hellsing Institiion. I am part of the trash division. And that is exactly what you are…trash. A Vampire who makes ghouls to do that which he is too cowardly to do himself is nothing more than a disgrace. There is no place for you.......even in Hell!”

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/ghoulsguns8.txt align=right hspace=5>The minister raised his hand and all the ghouls opened fire. The sound of gunfire filled the chapel. Seras watched in horror as the man in red was torn to shreds by the onslaught. The gunfire went on for almost a full two minutes before the man finally fell forward onto the ground face first, and the Minister spoke up.

“He was nothing but big talk. Look at him now.”<br clear=right>

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardhand.txt align=left hspace=5>Seras could see one of the man’s hands laying on the ground a few feet from his body, having been ripped off by the massive amounts of lead that he had been pummeled with. A black glowing mist started to rise up from it. She recognized that mist from before, when his shoulder had miraculously healed itself. She was too shocked to speak at all.

" ... "<br clear=left>

The Minister was too busy laughing and gloating to notice what was going on before he actually saw the face of Alucard rise up from the floor. His body shrouded in the black cloud as his body regenerated. Alucard’s voice came as the Minister’s face bore a look of utter surprise.

“I cannot be killed by plain guns. Now it is time for me to show you just what it takes to deal with the likes of you. Prepae to meet oblivion.....scum.”

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardinchurch.txt align=right hspace=5>Alucard rose into a standing position in the aisle between where all the Minister’s ghouls were still standing awaiting orders from their Master. The Minister was dumbstruck and silent, he backed away, clutching Seras closer to him.

“Are you ready for your lesson lesser Vampire?” Came Alucard’s taunt as he reached towards the inside of his coat.<br clear=right>

[Alucard]

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardaimcas.txt align=left hspace=5>A long silver plated gun came out from inside Alucard’s coat. It had writing on the side that could not be read unless nearby. He aimed it towards the Minster and Seras.

“This is my Casull ARM454. Made from melting down Lanchester’s Cathedral’s silver cross. It has 13 millimeter exploding rounds forged from the same silver.”<br clear=left>

Without even turning his attention from Seras and the Minister to aim, he moved the gun to the side and opened fire on the ghouls, taking sometimes as many as three out with a single shot. Within only a few seconds the pews were filled with ash where once the ghouls had been.

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardloadgun.txt align=right hspace=5>A clip droipped to the floor with a clanking noise and Alucard reached into his pocket with his other hand, drawing it out then inserting the new magazine into his weapon.

He drew the gun up to his face and clamped down on the slide with his teeth, chambering a round by using the slide action in his mouth.

Seras could hear his voice in her mind as the gun moved back in the direction of herself and the Minister.<br clear=right>

<font color=red>"Do you want to live?"</font>

[Seras Victoria]

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/Serasshield.txt align=left hspace=5>The Minister had watched in amazement as all of his ghouls were dispatched with so much ease. Now Alucard had refocused his full attention, meaning the barrel of his gun, on him. He pulled Sears up off the ground and covered his chest with her, using her as if she were a shield to protect him. Seras answered Alucard’s telepathic question out loud.

“Yes.”<br clear=left>

The Minister spoke, not sure what Seras was talking about, but from what he had seen he knew that Alucard was like him, a Vampire.

“Surely a dog of a Vampire wouldn’t want to harm this human? Why not help me, brother?”

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardaim.txt align=right hspace=5>Alucard laughed low and deep in tone, not swaying in his aim on the Minister and Selas.

“You are correct, there is a complicated matter as to why I am under the command of a human, but you are not worthy of hearing such a tale. But my duty does not hinder me from doing that which I must to rid this world of the likes of you.”

Alucard went silent again, letting the Minister consider what he had just said, while also speaking again to Seras mentally.[/I]<br clear=right>

<font color=red>”I wil not let you die, but you will have to become like me. Do you understand?”</font>

Seras spoke a single word again in reply as the Minister trembled and started to back away, still holding her in front of him.

"Yes."

Alucard spoke in hear head once again.

<font color=red>"Will you join me as my servant Vampire? I will not force you. You must choose this yourself. I will shot through your lung and hit that Vampire in the heart."</font>

Seras didn't respond right away. This was a tough decision. The evening had been full of newfound horrors and surprises, yet she did not want to die, and it looked like she was about to.

" ... "

This had all transpired in only a matter of a few seconds, but the Minister had backed himself up against the alter at the head of the chapel and now had no where to go. Time was running low and Alucard had to complete his mission and carry out his orders. Seras wasn't answering and he had to know before he ended this.

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/hserasaccept.txt align=left hspace=5><font color=red>"ANSWER ME!"</font> Seras heard loud and fiercely in her mind.

"Yes." Came her reply as she closed her eyes, awaiting the painful blow that would be her being shot.<br clear=left>

[Alucard]

The sound came with a thunderous crack.

*BOOOOMMM!*

The bullet ripped through Seras’ chest and into that of the Minister, who took the brunt of the exploding round’s force. It threw him against the wall with a gaping hole where his heart had once been. His body became nothing more than ash at about the same time that Seras hit the ground.

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/dyingseras.txt align=right hspace=5>She was still conscious but wouldn’t be for long as Alucard moved over to where she was, having put away his weapon. He looked down on her as she lat at the foot of the chapel’s alter. Her eyes were open wide and looking up at him with their innocence. He lifted her head up into his arms.

“Say farewell to humanity and embrace what I am about to give you. It is the decision that you have made willingly.”<br clear=right>

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/slucardturnseres.txt align=left hspace=5>Alucard leaned closer to her bearing his fangs, yet Seras did not look away or close her eyes.

“Usually one closes her eyes in this kind of situation.” Came another statement from Alucard.

He leaned in closer and his fangs dug into her neck. Once he was done sampling her blood, he brought his arm up and sliced it open on his own teeth and let some of the blood from the fresh wound drain into her mouth.

[Integra Hellsing]

Back on the road where the DV-11 all terrain vehicle had been there was now some activity. Military men dressed in uniforms similar to those of DV-11 were moving about. An airborne transport landed a short distance away from the vehicle and Integra stepped off of it heading towards what looked to be the commander of the men to exchange a few words. The insignia on his shoulder bore the words. 'Knights of Hellsing'.

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/integraprofile.txt align=right hspace=5>The man’s head nodded in the direction behind Integra and she turned to see what he was pointing out to her. She then turned fully around and faced Alucard as he walked up the road towards her.

“That took far too long for only a single target Alucard.” She said sternly, her face showing her displeasure.

She could see that he was carrying a woman in his arms.

“What is this?”<br clear=right>

<img src=http://www.geocities.com/integrawhellsing/integra1/alucardcarryseres.txt align=left hspace=5>"The target has been eliminated. Lifting the restriction served its purpose." Replied Alucard, as he then looked down at Seras in his arms. She was conscious again but in a state of shock from all that had transpired.

"She is the only survivor, who has joined me by her own decision. I would like her to join Hellsing Institution. She will undoubtedly prove useful to you and the agenda of the organization."<br clear=right>

Integra raised a hand and nodded at the same time, accepting his request and dismissing him at the same time. Alucard walked past her and faded into the darkness with his new disciple still in his arms.

<center>End Order 01: Not Human
<a href=http://www.swforums.net/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12237>To be continued...</a></center>