"Damn...you..."

The vampire's words were croaked in a final effort to breathe. The sword thrust firmly into his stomach prevented him from doing much else. He would die in a moment, as soon as Selene removed her sword from his gut and hacked off his head. The vampire gnashed his teeth at her in a last effort of defiance.

Selene looked coldly down at him, the once great creature pinned to the ground by her heavy boot. She mercilessly yanked her sword from his belly. The vampire cried out.

"This will teach your kind to feed upon the innocent, you disgusting worm." She spoke the words in a tone of total frostiness, and let them hang in the air before she decapitated him. Glittering blood spilled onto the ground, and she knew that he was finally dead.

Selene wiped her sword on his well-tailored garments, then swept a hand across her face. Blood was on her hand. Her blood. She needed to go.

She resheathed her sword in the small hidden scabbard that she carried with her. Then, she set off for headquarters.

As she walked down the deserted street, she got the queasy and uncomfortable feeling of being watched. She whirled around, searching the street with her eyes. As a Hunter, she had to be on her toes always. Her kind was hunted as well, but by creatures that were anything but human.

She saw nothing, only shadows fleeing from her probing and frightening gaze. She turned around and began walking again, this time more alert than ever.

She turned into a dark alleyway, seemingly random and harmless. Here was the entrance to headquarters. She needed only to speak the words and the door would open.

Selene unsheated her sword once again, thinking to herself how tiresome and old-fashioned the entrance ceremony was. Anyone could notice her there, standing with a sword in hand and speaking strange words. She held the sword in front of her face and spoke the words:

"Nosferatu e' pluriba se quan."

The stones of the wall in front of her creaked out of place, revealing a small opening through which she could just fit. She was about to step in when she once again heard the noise.

Selene spun around with her sword out in front of her, ready to fight. Never before had anyone dared to attack her at the very entrance of the Hunter's coven. Whoever it was had to be very stupid...or very strong.

Her eyes came to rest on a shadowy figure that stood about five feet away from her. She recognized the shape of the dark overcoat that the figure always wore, even in the hottest days of summer. She saw the signature hat drawn low over the eyes. She lowered her weapon, but only slightly.

"What do you want, Alucard?"

The figure stepped into the dim light that came from a streetlight outside of the alley. He had dark hair beneath the black hat and the eyes to match. They always gave him a creepy brooding look.

Alucard shook his head. "I'm here for you, Selene."

Her eyes narrowed. "This is no time to fool around. Who do you think you are coming for me right outside the door to headquarters? There are hundreds of Hunters in there that would slay you in a moment!"

Once again he shook his head. "No, there aren't."

A confused expression crossed Selene's face. "What do you mean? Of course they're there!"

"No. They are gone. There was a mole amongst you...he let a group of my kind in, and all the Hunters were slain. There is nothing you or I can do to save them. They are all dead." He said it slowly and deliberately, as if explaining some complicated matter to a small child.

Selene shook her head desperately. "No, that can't be...that can't be true. There has to be someone inside." 

"See for yourself," Alucard said quietly.

Selene looked at him, then at the doorway. She took a few hesitant steps, then her back straightened and she went inside.

Once inside, she saw a scene of such carnage and destruction that it made even her, a seasoned Hunter, retch. The vampires had come through and dealt them all grisly deaths, then took the liberty of sucking them all dry. There was blood all over the walls and furniture. Things were overturned. Bodies lay strewn everywhere. The place was a nightmare that Selene had visited only in her most frightening dreams.

"Now do you see?" Selene jumped when she heard Alucard's voice behind her.

She turned to face him, shakily. Tears pricked at her eyes, threatening to spill over and betray her. Finally, she grew tired of holding them back, and she let them fall freely.

"Dead...they're all dead...even the children that lived here with their parents...oh my God..." Selene fell to her knees and sobbed.

Alucard stood there watching her, awkwardly. He had never seen Selene cry before, let alone show any emotion that she deemed "weak." He didn't know what to do. He eventually settled himself with crouching next to her and patting her gingerly on the back as she cried. As soon as her tears abated, he turned her so that she faced him.

"My original intention in coming here was to kill you before you went inside, to spare you the misery of seeing your fallen comrades. But now I've decided that I will take you with me."

"Where are you going?" Selene asked.

"I'm leaving this country. Since I did not take part in the rebellion against the Hunters, my coven deemed me a traitor and banished me. If I stay much longer, they will surely find and kill me. They will do the same for you, since you are the last of the Hunters here."

"But...but I can't just run away..." she began.

Alucard shook her. "No. But answer me this: do you want to live or not?"

Selene looked at him as if to say what a stupid question it was, then hesitated. There was nothing left for her, only a life of looking over her shoulder and living in constant fear. There was also the option of revenge...but however good of a Hunter she was supposed to be, she didn't stand a chance against an entire coven of angry vampires.

She gave Alucard a meaningful look. Then, she gave him her decision. "Kill me. Do it quick."

He shook his head. "I won't kill you. I don't think that I can manage that. But...I can give you the strength to fight back. I will make you one of us."

Selene stared at him in horror. "I've spent my entire life trying to kill off vampires, now you want me to become one? Are you out of your mind!"

"No, I am perfectly sane."

"But even if you did turn me into one, I will only be one vampire against many. I can't take them all on--"

"That's where you're wrong. I highly disapprove of what went on tonight. That's why I will help you."

She gave him a skeptical look. "But that's only two of us--"

"Wrong again. There are many others that have been exiled from this country along with me. They will be happy to fight back. And you forget: there was only one coven of Hunters, but there are many covens of vampires all over the world. We will gather allies. And we will win."

She thought for a moment. The plan might actually work. They could pull it off. It was then that she nodded to Alucard and said "Go ahead and do it."

And so he lowered his head to her neck and sank his fangs into her tender flesh. He drank until there was nothing left to drink, then gave her his blood in return.

Selene looked around at the bloody mess that was once her coven. She would make the vampires pay for all the blood spilled here. She would use her new life and powers to get what she had been after all along: absolution for all the terrible things she had done.

that was some really good writing. interesting name- Alucard. Where'd it come from? Your head?

Actually, (and i feel kind of bad about this...) I got it from an anime called Hellsing. The vampire in that series' name was Alucard.

lol

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