Log: Complete

[sinfulpride.livejournal.com]

When: March 4, evening
Rating: Everyone
Characters: The Captain [wolfsmercy], Major [warconductor], Alucard [thekingofpain], Girlycard [tinyvampiregod], Integral [steeldame], Vladislaus Dracula [rekindled_heart], Schrödinger [cutecatenvoy], Red [smiledlikeknife], Seras [draculinaseras] and Vlad Dracula [sinfulpride]
Summary: Dracula is not amused by the abrupt rerouting of his journey to England.
Log:

When the Demeter came to rest at Whitby, there was not a living soul above or below deck. Dracula had seen to that detail with ruthless efficiency. No one would know how he had come into England. No one would know that the men who had brought him had seen a monster. Perhaps, in another era, the living would have believed the fantastic tale woven in the ship's log, but the world was changing, and England's officials were inclined to approach mysteries in a pragmatic and scientific fashion. They were fools ... but their foolishness suited his endeavors.

Still, there was one more difficulty to overcome before he entered England. All members of the ship's crew had been accounted for in the log. No passengers had been listed. A survivor in the form of a man would be remarked upon and detained, but Dracula had no intention of coming ashore on two legs. Unhindered by the violence of the ship's final drive to shore, he moved above deck. He had taken the form of a large, black wolf. In the chaos of the storm, he would easily be mistaken for a dumb brute if he was seen.

The Demeter shuddered as she ran aground. Dracula leapt from the bow. His claws found purchase in the slick sand, but he skidded to a halt not two strides onto the beach and spun around.

There was no wrecked ship in his wake. The sea was calm, free of fog and gale and frothing waves. Dracula ground his teeth together in consternation as he slowly swung about. Everything was different. There was no village, no cliff, no churchyard. It was as though, in the instant he had left the deck of the Demeter, the world he had meant to enter had been swept away and replaced by another.

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[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

A shadow leapt down from a building, slaming into the street below.

It raised itself up to resolve into the shape of the Captain.

This was unbelievable. Two in one day.

Four in all.

This was impossible.

The Captain glared at Dracula appraisingly.

Maybe if he killed the vampire now before the City's magic could take effect, it would be permanent. Maybe it would cause the other three to disappear altogether.

_{[[OOC: Don't worry, Major will reel him in before things get too violent.]]}

[sinfulpride.livejournal.com]

The wolf's approach did not go unnoticed. Dracula knew at once that it was no average beast, and when he turned to watch its approach, his ears were flattened and his teeth bared in warning. It might not have been a mortal creature, but the vampire would kill it all the same if it hindered him in any fashion.

[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

Wolf form?

Did he think the Captain a complete ignorant? He would know Dracula's smell anywhere.

He reached into a pocket in his coat and pulled out a mirror. Holding it up to the wolf, he glanced in it to see if the reflection was there.

[sinfulpride.livejournal.com]

How dare he? Snarling, Dracula hurled himself at the interloper. There was something vaguely familiar about him, but the vampire did not stop to consider it. He could do so later, when appropriate punishment had been meted out.

[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

The Captain raised an eyebrow and simply attempted to bat Dracula to the side as heattacked him.

It wasn't like he could actually hurt him. Not like that.

[sinfulpride.livejournal.com]

Instead of allowing himself to be tossed aside, Dracula latched onto the offending limb, growling. Harker. The man reminded him of Harker, but that was patently impossible. Harker was trapped in Castle Dracula, if he was not dead already.

[OOC: If Drac goes too far, just let me know and I will revise. Cap is welcome to smack him around as he sees fit.]

[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

The Captain calmly reached forward with his other arm and tried to pull Dracula off.

When you have super strength and don't care if the flesh comes with it, you can afford to be blase about these things.

[sinfulpride.livejournal.com]

Startled by the strength of his opponent, Dracula lost his hold. He let the meat he had torn away fall, but cleaned the blood from his lips before he suddenly twisted and broke free. When he landed, he was no longer in the guise of the wolf. The vampire had taken the form of his youth, and regarded his opponent with hard eyes.

[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

The Captain popped his neck.

There. Now they were done playing these games.

Now to retroactively end it. He stood back and motioned for Dracula to make his move.

[hercount.livejournal.com]

The sound of a hammer being pulled back broke the silence.

Coat flaring out, the vampire's red eyes glowed as the gun trained down on Captain. "Dracula. Meet Johnathan Harker. The new version."

[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

The Captain's eyes widened.

And then, the primal took over him. Kill the first Dracula, the other will die. It stood to reason.

And the first Dracula didn't have the years of experimentation. Nor did he know how to deal with a Harker who had spend centuries training to kill him.

His bones started to crack and shift, his face elongating, fur sprouting, teeth sharpening.

[steeldame.livejournal.com]

From behind Alucard, Integral Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing appeared, dressed in her knight uniform and holding a gun. Her sword was sheathed firmly in her belt.

When Alucard told her about the new arrival, she had insisted to keep an eye on him and be taken with him.

"Count," she greeted, aiming to the wolf in case he tried anything. The vampire would be no doubt shocked and violent. "Come to me. Slowly. We will escort you to safety."

[rekindled-heart.livejournal.com]

All the while, Vladislaus had been watching from a curved Tree branch. The entire affair was unnverving, unpleasant...and somewhat amusing.

Four of them, here. In the same place. Two servants, two their own masters. How droll..and yet, entertaining.

He decided to make his presence known at last, jumping down from his branch.

"Really...what an interesting display..."

[warconductor.livejournal.com]

"Is it not?" the Major said, nodding to Vladislaus.

"I almost wonder if your legend has outgrown yourself, Count."

Of course the Major knew that this man was also Dracula.

He was the Major. He Knew These Things.

[rekindled-heart.livejournal.com]

"Or eachother." He gestured towards his counter parts..then regarded them. He and Alucard had already met, of course, and with Sir Integral...the child was odd to say the least.

But this Dracula...he approached him first, keeping a certain distance.

OOC

[cutecatenvoy.livejournal.com]

((OOC: If you want him to join Alucard and Integral carrying off Dracula, be my guest *g*)).

[cutecatenvoy.livejournal.com]

Suddenly a young boy with cat ears appeared at Major's right. Or was he always there the entire time? "Sieg Heil!" He greeted before whispering something into his superior's ear.

[warconductor.livejournal.com]

The Major leaned in to listen.

"Oho. Wunderbar, wunderbar! This is the greatest of days for us." He patted Schrodinger on the head. "Good work, Warrant Officer. Have you met the four Draculas yet?"

He turned his attention to the scene.

"I am sorry to bid you farewell during such an exciting meeting, but I'm afraid we have business elsewhere. It is time we started building our home."

[smiledlikeknife.livejournal.com]

"Tame, I like better what's happening with the Red Helmet," Red pointed out. She had been there since the beginning, unseen, as a drop of sweat, in the cries of anger. "Hullo, Major, Kitty."

[cutecatenvoy.livejournal.com]

"Nein. I met only two," Schröding replied, twitching his ears. He glanced at red lady of War when she was made herself visible, grinning. "Guten tag!"

[warconductor.livejournal.com]

"Ahh, yes. The Red Helmet. He's having so much fun, isn't he? If business did not force me elsewhere, I would enjoy watching him work. But I'm afraid that the building of the Deus Ex Machinia II is our top priority. Captain, it would do you some good to get away from these Draculas for a while," The Major said.

He turned to Schrodigner, pointing out the one that had dropped from the tree and the one being dragged away. "You see that one there and that one there? Unlike Alucard, they are free. And that one, being dragged? He is from the earliest time of all. Almost the original."

[wolfsmercy.livejournal.com]

The Captain narrowed his eyes at the Draculas, then leapt up into the air, bouncing off of buildings as he shot off towards... somewhere.

He was followed by a purplish blur, bounding from roof to roof, and sometimes walking on walls.

The Major stepped back into the shadows.

Anyone looking for him there would find him gone.

[tinyvampiregod.livejournal.com]

"Careful," The smallish vampire warned. "That one is a voyeur." And dropped down next to Vladislaus.

[rekindled-heart.livejournal.com]

He looked down at him. "And quite out numbered, isn't he."

Yes. Very odd.

[tinyvampiregod.livejournal.com]

"Very." Then smiled, looking small, feminine and sweet.