Pain Is My Love Language

Calling in the cavalry.

Alexander POV: 

We got back to the manor, and had just finished telling Integra the results of the mission. She looked so terrified, so grief stricken, that I almost didn't recognize her for a moment. The Iron Maiden of Hellsing, the one woman I thought that was unshakable, was looking damn near close to tears scared. 

" Is there anything we can do? These heathens obviously know how to kill their own kind, to blend, and to be masters of their craft. We need to have a miracle happen. Both of you go rest and recover. Allison is in your quarters learning braille with Seras and Pip." 

 I nodded and went straight to my room, walking in to find Allison carefully sounding out each letter as she ran her fingers over the small bumps on the piece of tin. 

" Hello, love. I'm home." 

She perked up, her head turning her ear closer to me. I walked over, and carefully took the tin from her, her hands stretched out to touch me. I knelt down to her level, and I gave her my hand, and she carefully touched it, before smiling. 

" Hello, Alex. How did the mission go?" 

" Horrible." 

" I'm sorry to hear that, dear. What happened?" 

I hesitated, before I swallowed hard, and carefully placed her hands in mine. 

" Love, Echidna and Typhon are declaring war on the humans, starting with Hellsing and going from there. They almost killed Alucard, I was lucky enough to walk away with a few scratches. I don't know what we are going to do, and to be quite honest, for the first time in a very long time, I am actually afraid I won't wake up to be around for the morning. These two, they are unnatural forces of pure evil incarnate, and I have no idea of how we are going to beat them." 

I felt tears fall down my face, and I rested my head in her lap, her hands were carefully petting my head, her comfort was a vain effort, but I welcomed it. Anything right now would be better than nothing.

" Alex, I am so sorry you feel this afraid. I wish I could help, but I have no idea of how to even weaken them, let alone kill them." 

Her voice was even, it held no emotion, aside from trying to comfort me. I looked at my pendant, and saw it was a shade of pale purple. 

" Do you know how to get a hold of the old gods?" 

" Yes, but it isn't pretty." 

" How?" 

" Well, I need to draw a very specific symbol in blood on a slab of Greek marble."

" Alright, is it a sigil we can look up, or is it one only you know?" 

" I believe so. You want to draw a symbol of the god or goddess you wish to summon. For Hades, you need to draw a bident, a two pronged pitch fork. Then you need to call him forth, and tell him the exact amount of favors you want from him." 

" He is the one I want to call. He might have an idea as to how to fix this mess." 

" He will ask for something in return, and you must give it to him, no matter what." 

" As long as he doesn't ask for you or myself, I honestly don't care about the price."

" Alex, please be careful. He may be a fairly calm man, but his anger is very easy to trigger." 

" I will be careful, love. You stay here, I'm going to go make a very long distant call." 

I kissed her, and went to Integra, to see if we had any Grecian marble laying around. I knocked on her door, and it actually opened on it's own. I saw Alucard sitting with her, his guns on his lap. He was being her guard dog. 

" What is it Alex?" 

" Do we have any Grecian marble laying around? Preferably a slab of it?" 

" Does it have to be large?" 

" Sort of." 

" The back patio is made of Grecian marble. Whatever mess you make, please clean it up." 

" Thank you." 

I carefully closed the door, and bolted downstairs, and went out the back door. I got started, having a rough Idea of what I needed to draw. I sliced my hand, letting my blood pool in it, using my other hand to draw the bident. Once it was draw, I rinsed my hands off under the hose spicket, kneeling in front of the ominous symbol. 

" I call forth Hades, God of the Underworld, husband to Persephone, to grant me two favors."

The symbol glowed a bright white, before vanishing. Standing before me, was Hades, and he looked a little mad. 

" What on earth do you want, mortal?" 

" I have two favors to ask of you. Typhon and Echidna are calling war onto all of humanity, and they plan to destroy Hellsing to start. Is there any way you and the other Olympians can help us defeat these two permanently?" 

" You can't kill them, they are god tier. The only thing we could do is imprison them in the deepest bowels of Tartarus. I can rally my brothers and sisters to help, as this is a very serious issue we should've seen coming. what is your second favor?" 

" Echidna attacked Allison in her dreams, stealing her sight and permanently marring her flesh. Is there any way you can restore her sight?" 

" I can. Where is she?" 

" Follow me."

We moved quickly to my room, where I knew Allison was. I went inside, and found her where I had left her, Hades looking at her with pity. 

" Hello, Allison. I have a gift for you." 

" Hades? Is that you?" 

" Yes. I am going to restore your sight. Let me see the damage Echidna caused."

She slowly removed her emerald sash, to expose the barren sockets. I wanted to cry, it was painful to see. 

" I have seen far worse in my lifetime. Allow me." 

He placed his thumbs on the empty sockets, and pressed his fingers into her temple. Slowly, I saw her eyes reform, until they were closed. 

" When you open them, it will take a moment to adjust to the light." 

She carefully fluttered them open, and I felt the wind leave me. They were the most beautiful green, as if the entire rainbow of green sat in her eyes. She blinked a few times, until she looked as perfect as ever. She looked at me, and smiled. 

" Have you always had that scar?" 

I laughed a small bit. I saw her walk over, and I bent down to kiss her. 

" I hated to see you suffer, so I called in a favor." 

" I know. Now, what about those rotten monsters?" 

" I will call a meeting with my fellow Olympians. I will send message as soon as possible, until then, wait here." 

Hades vanished, and we were all left hoping we would get some help.