Hellsing: Blood Rhapsody

Chapter 1: Enter Akuma

‘Yet another boring patrol, tonight. I was hoping for some action.’

I ran my hand though my silver-gray hair and sighed. ‘There have been a lot of mysterious murders lately and all of the victims that where found where completely drained of their blood. Even more mysteriously was that after a few hours the bodies would just end up disappearing it’s like they just got up and walked away.’

I let out another sigh and continued down my normal path. I walked for about hour until I reached the end of my patrol. I reached into my coat and shuffled around in my pocket till found what I was looking for. It was lighter a gift from my father ‘the only thing that ever bastard gave me’ It was actually a Zippo-type and the only one of its kind from I could find out. It was made of a strange black metal that seemed to absorb the darkness in the night making it look darker than it really was. It was engraved with word Akuma on the top and one side had the etching of the death tarot card, the back was engraved in a language he hasn’t learned yet it spelt ‘Ist der Tod nur ein Tor zum ewigen Leben*’. I reached for my back pocket and pulled out a slim metal tin with a dragon etched on it and produced a cigarette. A special cigarette that I made myself, took me years to do. It has the same kick but none of the side effects, well except for the addiction.

I lit the cigarette and inhaled. I could feel the smoke enter my lunges, it felt great.”Oh, that is refreshing.” I could feel the cigarette taking its affect as I finished it. As I took the last drag a woman came running out from the darkness. She ran right into me like she didn’t even see me. She scream and starting to fall down. I caught her with my right arm and pulled her back onto her feet.

 “What’s going on?” ”A woman, a woman is chasing me.” She said franticly. I looked around, nothing.”I don’t see anything.” “We need to run or she’ll kill us both!” She grabbed my hand started to run forward pulling with more strength then I thought possible. ’What the hell is going on…’ We ran for quite awhile and as we ran I swore I saw a woman and a man following us. She finally came to stop and pulled me in an abandoned warehouse. “We should be safe here.”

“So now that we safe you’re going to tell what’s going and why you dragged me here” All of the sudden the lights in the warehouse turned on. I shielded my eyes for a second for ever since I was born I was sort of unused to sudden bright lights. ’I really fucking hate it when people do that.’ She was actually quite stunning almost unnaturally so and her eyes where a bright red. ‘Okay. That’s not natural but who am I kidding I silver eyes.’ She jumped back snapped her fingers and laughed. “I brought you here to well, how do I say this. To kill you.” I heard shuffling and all of the sudden I was surrounded by several people or at least they looked like people except for the fact that they were all decaying and had flesh ripped from certain parts of their bodies. ‘Shit guess I figured out where all the bodies where ending up.’