Log: Ongoing

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

When: June 6, evening
Rating: General for now?
Characters: Julius Belmont [lastbelmont] and D [favored_son]
Summary: Two vampire hunters, a crypt, and a conversation.
Log:

The City was relatively quiet again with the passing of the latest curse. D had found the chaos of the preceeding day onerous, to say the least. First had come the parasite's incessant rambling and repeated attempts to do things he was Not Allowed to Do, and then the matter with Doris trying to get as far from D as possible, followed by the matter of what was happening to the younger version of his father.

The parasite was behaving itself now, but D knew it was only a matter of time before the creature found a new avenue for its enjoyment. As he waited at the crypt in Xanadu, he hoped that the meeting with Julius Belmont would not provide that avenue.

Comments

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

"If you ask me, he prefers it a little too much."

[lastbelmont.livejournal.com]

"Close combat's for non-humans, I'm afraid," Julius said. "And how do you enter the equation, then?"

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

"Self preservation," the creature immediately supplied.

"His uses outweigh his less-than-helpful running commentary," D added wrily. "I'd prefer not go into the whole of it just now. He's gotten into a rather bad habit of speaking when he should be silent."

[lastbelmont.livejournal.com]

"Hm," Julius said. "Let's see... what have you asked that I have yet to answer? There's my methods, the nature of my prey, and my allies, although I've only talked about Alucard or Adrian or Genya or whatever he calls himself these days."

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

"All of which are better than 'D'."

By this point, D had given up on silencing the parasite short of forcing it to leave his body, a tactic he did not think was well-considered just at the moment. "If you wish to expound on anything further, or ask more questions of your own, do so. I have time."

[lastbelmont.livejournal.com]

"How much of a threat are your vampires?"

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

"My father as he is here? Or the ones in the time I came from?" D did not wait for an answer, but instead leaned against the fence, his arms crossed over his chest. "Some are barely more than ghouls, easily dispatched by halfway competent human hunter or by a determined mob. Others present a moderate challenge even to the average dhampir hunter. The older Nobility have more deceptions and powers at their disposal, but they are still faced with the expected limitations--inability to move in daylight, to tolerate holy symbols, to survive a stake through the heart.

"If the City ever chooses to draw their king into its bounds for any length of time, then it would be best to hope that the Hellsing bloodline can seal him."

[lastbelmont.livejournal.com]

"Ahh, that actually does remind me. If my Dracula does come here? Don't expect the sunlight to deter him."

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

"I don't expect the sunlight to deter mine. Yours is resistant to other conventional methods as well, I take it?"

[lastbelmont.livejournal.com]

"Well, we've never tried garlic and no one's gotten close enough to stake him without having their head snapped off. I was more referring to the fact that the sun does not shine around Castlevania. Ebony stone."

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

"Interesting. The Dracula of my time has so far proven impervious to all methods. There are times when he disappears, but his essence does not dissipate."

[lastbelmont.livejournal.com]

"Well, as I mentioned earlier," Julius said. "I was the one who put Dracula down for good by sealing away Castlevania. He can be killed, but as long as the castle still existed, he could come back eternally."

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

"So it's seals for both of them, is it?" the parasite remarked. "My my ... just think of all the trouble you could avoid if you showed half the initiative of these Belmonts ... "

[lastbelmont.livejournal.com]

"I like him," Julius said.

[favored-son.livejournal.com]

"Would you like to keep him?" D offered drily.

"I'd probably kill you by accident," his companion stated cheerfully, "so I wouldn't say 'yes'."

[lastbelmont.livejournal.com]

"No thanks," Julius said. "It'd probably screw up my hunting. I'm too old to be trying new techniques."