Pain Is My Love Language

The Father and Mother of Monsters

Alucard POV: 

When I woke up to hear that Allison had been assaulted in her dreams, to have been blinded, I felt for the poor girl. Master has asked me to look into possibly using my shadows to block her ability to dream, to sever the ability of the cruel beast that had done this. I was sitting in the library with Allison, watching over her as she relearned how to write her name blindly. I wish I could help her, but I was strictly told by both Master and Alex not to touch her. Seras was to be her aid when Alex was away on missions, Pip was also delegated to the task, my only job was to shield her with my shadows, to protect her from Echidna.  

I was starting to get bored, when Seras bursts into the room, holding a piece of paper. 

" Alex, Master, you have a job. A small village along the Scottish and English border is being attacked by two hostile entities. Search and Destroy are your orders. Good luck, I've got Allison, just go!" 

Alex kissed Allison goodbye, and we both left, Alex snatching the paper from her on our way out. 

" The pair are a male and female, both are violent, very hostile, and are slaughtering everything they can. Fire effigies are being made out of the corpses they make. This is just appalling. I have never seen something like this." 

" Neither have I. This should prove interesting, to say the least." 

I grabbed Anderson's arm, and we traveled by my shadows, getting there in record time. I could smell the death and smoke before I saw it, and once I did, I felt slight repulsion. This was a cry for attention, and damn did they get it. 

" Look Ty, they actually showed up! I'm surprised!" 

" As am I Echi, as am I." 

Two shadows dropped, the sounds of snakes hissing filled the air, and I felt it, these weren't normal monsters. Fear gripped me as if I were a mortal, and for the first time in centuries, I felt mortal. 

" Alex, we need to leave, now. This is above our pay grade."

I went to use my shadows to leave, only to have us both thrown back onto our asses. We both groaned as we went to stand, only to be knocked back down.

" Oh no! Please stay, we want to meet the hero who changed our daughters heart back to a mortal one."

A woman came out of the shadows, her skin was as red as her gaze, and it rivaled my own, only one eye showing due to an ornate eye patch on one, the lone eye was in a sea of ebony, the red iris glowing. Her outfit was a modern take on a Victorian monster hunter uniform. Her hair was shockingly bright white, and her smile was fanged like my own, her ears pointed at the end, showing the fact she was definitely a monster. This was Echidna, Mother of all monsters, and she was absolutely terrifying. 

Next to her came a male, skin as green as a serpents, eyes as red as my own in a sea of black, the same fanged smile, his hair was thick, black, and curly, like it were a mess of snakes on his head, his ears were pointed as well, and he wore a classy suit of black and puke green. This was Typhon, Father of all monsters, and he radiated power and fear like it were his birthright. 

I got back up, actually feeling pain in even trying to as I did, Alex was next to me, his bayonets ready to fight, my guns trained on them, never once wanting to have them waiver. 

" You must be the vampire she met along the way. I have to say, you don't look like much, but you do look somehow familiar." 

" Your daughter Lamia seemed to have liked my work enough to give me her powers before passing on." 

" Wait- Vlad Tepes? Count Vlad fucking Dracula? Oh sweet fucking Zeus it has been a long while since I've seen you! Still looking every bit as tasty as you did way back then." 

" I don't remember our first meeting. Enlighten me, please." 

" You don't remember because I went by a different name, and a different face. Maybe this can help you remember." 

She slowly started to shift, and I felt a lump form in my throat, my heart clenched, and absolute horror and hurt clouded over me. Alex next to me wore a face of shock and awe, my guns clattering to the ground, as did my knees, denting the pavement from my sudden inability to stand. 

Before me was the one woman I loved more than my own life, a woman I had believed to be dead all this time, slain by the man who had enslaved me. The only woman I had believed to be worthy of being my equal, my Countess, my Queen of the night. I felt bloody tears pour down my face as I croaked out pitifully the only thing my brain could process. 

" Mina?"