Awakened in ice

Integra sat back in her chair behind her desk, reading a report of a freak incident. The photos of the aftermath would’ve churned weaker stomachs but by now she was used to seeing horrific sights. But what concerned her was the freak that had been recovered from the ice. It was still roaming the Ice but it was waiting for something or more likely someone.

“Alucard!!” she screams out into the seemingly empty office, a deep voice replies from the shadows of a far corner “What is it?” he replied in a bored tone “I was just informed of something found in an exploratory dig, something you may have a particular interest in” Integra says interlocking her fingers under her chin “My only interest is in eliminating undead scum” Alucard replies bearing his fangs along the edge of his lips “I believe you'll change your mind once you see these pictures” Integra argues, throwing a handful of photographs from her hand onto the desk in front of her “if you are so determined I will humour you” he said turning into black and whisking his way up to the desk, taking a single look at the photographs his lips curl into the familiar manic smile “So you've finally shown yourself…” she smiled slightly “The body was uncovered from ice in the Antarctic and being winter now the sun won't rise for about another six months, of course it's up to your discretion on whether you want to bring the girl with you” Alucard cackles slightly “The police-girl will come, I do not want her to miss out on the chance to let loose…..Velongrick this time you will fall” in a swirl of black and red he vanished.

A voice echoes through seras victoria's head "We have a new target; this one is not only an original but also from the blood-line of an extremely powerful vampiric clan. You will need to regain your strength" Seras looked away from the blood packs on the table “I can’t…..its wrong…it’s just not right!” dark mist curled around her, his dark voice spoke softly “You have nothing to fear with a will as strong as yours you will not succumb to the blood frenzy that has taken so many before, now drink. Our target awaits”.

Alucard and Seras entered the office of their master “Now, due to the nature of this mission we've made a few changes to your arsenal” Integra speaks while gesturing Walter out from a hidden room, Walter steps out carrying in his hands Alucard's trademark silver pistol and his black pistol. “Due to the fragile nature of the environment we'll be experiencing, the muzzle velocity has been tweaked, so as to prevent cracking the ground we're on, but this decrease in power has been compensated for with a slightly heavier silver-alloy bullet and a small explosive charge has been placed inside the round as well. We all know how stubborn some of the undead can be" Walter explains while displaying these features. “As for you Seras, your freak-cannon has been enhanced with a tall tri-pod mounting system to allow you to be standing while firing, yet retain all the accuracy. Also in case of the unlikely scenario of you being disarmed the weapon has been fitted with a biometric lock that will cease up the barrel, making it impossible to fire, unless of course it recognises your biometrics on the trigger also in the chances of close-combat fighting we have attached a modified grenade launcher to the freak-cannon, this can be removed and used to fire the any shells you have left also attached to this is a strong one metre long switchblade, handy if you feel like a bit of slice n' dice" "Alright, now you've been briefed on your weaponry, let's go. Outside is a military cargo plane I acquired to transport us Antarctica" Integra salutes the warriors standing in front of her "in her majesty's name the impure souls of the living dead shall be eliminated" Alucard and Seras oath while saluting Integra back.

On the other side of the country in a little cottage, a woman stood staring at the setting sun a man in his forties early fifties sat at her table “He is powerful beyond any that I have heard of. He has most likely fed as well” the woman laughed coldly “That’s what you said about the last one. But I hope you’re right” the man smiled “I knew you would take the job, we’ll have to leave now to get there before they do” The woman strapped her guns into place and tied back her hair on the way out she grabbed the sword hanging over the mantel piece “The Iscariot filth will have to wait…..I love competition”.

Hours later a covert mercenary helicopter hovered low over the northern ice shelf. "Raziel if this group captures you we never meet you know nothing of us” she smiled "Understood, I thank you for helping me Raver even though technically you should kill me" he grinned broadly "You hate those Iscariot bastard's as much as us if not more, and that is reason enough to help you just don't pike out early" Raziel laughed loudly and slid down the rope hanging out the door when she landed she looked up "You worry too much old man!" with that she turned into mist and disappeared.

She could sense a strange presence approaching this frozen wasteland and though it was intensely forbidding she was not afraid of it in fact she welcomed it. {Whatever you are or whoever you are it doesn't matter, this thing is my target though it may also be yours I won't let you take it from me without a fight}.
“How far away are we?” Integra asked "We are about 3 clicks off the south-east ice shelf ma'am, but I can’t land” Integra smiled “That’s not a problem fly over the thickest area of ice hey can free fall there without causing much damage” she turned from the cockpit and walked into the cargo hold and booted the coffins lightly “We are nearly there, the light is all but gone now so you two can come out" they rose from the coffins, Seras stretched and stood up "Don’t mind me asking, but who exactly is our target?" Seras asks Alucard while throwing her bag of provisions over one shoulder. "They say he was the real black plague. He killed millions in his days before being driven from Europe into the frozen wastes of the south” Alucard’s voice had lost its morbid joy and instead gained a solemn tone that made it seem like this was no longer the combat-mad vampire Alucard that victoria was talking to.

Raziel drew closer to where the body was found but something was off about this place there should've been men posted here to guard it. She smelt it first; the blood then saw it; bodies lying mangled on the snow. Her hand flew to her blade gripping the handle tightly she looked around "From darkness into light we were born only to fade into the black just out of deaths reach" then she sensed him, a dark presence that seemed to choke the very air around her she turned and with her free hand she pulled out a gun and shot at her target, her voice boomed out across the frozen landscape like cannon fire "DRINKERS OF THE UNWILLING BLOOD SHALL BE JUDGED AND DAMNED TO HELL!!!"

"Something has disturbed this place" Alucard says as he examines the scene of the corpses in the snow, searching the black for his quarry “Is it our target?” Victoria asks while taking in the alluring scent of blood mixed with the scent of the vampire. "Yes, these men were killed by our target, however there's something else” he smiled but it was a smile Seras had never seen “That sweet musk…..so familiar, no need to worry about that at the moment, we now know he has fed, this makes our situation all the more dire”.