Pain Is My Love Language

Slaying the Mother

Alucard POV: 

I went to the beaches of northern England, where we were told Echidna was causing some problems. I saw fire effigies along the beach, noting a lack of corpses this time. 

" I knew you'd show up, buttercup. What's the special occasion, Vlad?"

" I just wanted to say hello, talk, maybe even have fun this beautiful night."

" How did you survive that gunshot?" 

" I was fed the blood of a pure soul. Alex maybe no virgin, but he is a man of noble beliefs." 

Echidna walked out of the shade of a cliff, dressed in a black leather corset and matching leather crop jacket, her skin tight leggings and riding boots left nothing to the imagination, a plain leather eye patch over her eye, a smile of fanged teeth graced her twisted face. She knew how to play me, so I had to be careful. 

" Looking radiant, Mother." 

" Mother? You dare call me such given our history?" 

" I thought you loved being called 'mommy' or is Mistress more your forte these days?" 

She giggled. " You shameless flirt. You can just call me Echi." 

" Echi, huh? I prefer it if I called you my bride." 

She laughed, clutching her stomach. " Oh, wow, kiddo, you really got me in a good mood. I would never take a new groom. Ty and I are bound together through out time." 

" And where has that gotten you?" 

" He's given me beautifully terrible children. Among them, Caedis and the Hydra were my favorites." 

" Ah, yes, little miss murder. Tell me, why her?" 

" Well, to be quite honest, she reminded me of Lamia, a brown haired, beautiful maiden. You know your sire was once the lover of Zeus? I had to laugh, when she told me Hera cursed her with the lower half of a snake, making her akin to me."

" Would you show me your true form, Echi? Surely this mortal skin you wear is dreadfully underestimating of your true power."

" You are right, it is, but it is in this form I can protect myself."

" Please, you almost killed me with my own gun at point blank range. What threat do I oppose to you?" 

" You know what? You are right on that point as well. I guess it would be nice to let my scales breathe." 

" And think, the water would be warm this time of year, you could cool off and wash off the grime the human form collects." 

" True. Oh, alright, you've convinced me, you little scoundrel." 

She took off her jacket, and slowly, her legs twisted into a dark green tail befit a viper, her white hair becoming a beautiful chocolate brown, and her crimson skin faded into a caramel bronze. her eyes of black and red changed to those of blue and became serpentine in shape. She really was beautiful in her true form, and it shocked me with this fact.

 She then went into the water, and played like a young maiden, while I sat on a rock and watched. I wanted to tire her out, without having to resort to unsavory methods. She came back on shore a few times, and I would summon glasses of blood for us both, her's laced with a sleeping agent that was a creation of Artemis. It was tasteless, odorless, colorless, and strong enough to knock out a god.  She played in the water for a few hours, until she yawned. 

" Oh shit, I'm fucking beat. I want to just rest, but I need to be careful. I should just shift back and sleep that way." 

" I have nothing better to do. I could watch your back. Like I said, how can I be a threat to you?" 

" True. Oh, fine. A quick nap couldn't hurt." 

She coiled up into the shadows of the cliff side, and I watched her sleep, using her own torso as a blanket and pillow, her head and left side arm and shoulder, all that was exposed. I wanted to finish this, but I needed to wait until I felt and heard her heart signal to me she was in fact in deep sleep. After an hour, she was in a blissful sleep.

 I summoned my Jackal, and lined up the perfect head shot. Two bullets to put her in a temporary death, long enough for me to cut her fucking head off. With rapid succession, two bullets buried into her third eye, and I summoned my sword. I walk over, and grabbed a fistful of hair, and separated her head from her body. 

" You will no longer curse this plane with your existence." 

Her body started to turn to marble stone, then cracking, eventually crumbling into dust, her head doing the same. 

I move with my shadows up to the cliff side, lighting a cigarette, and look at the moon over the ocean. I'll have to take Integra here one warm night.  I think she'll love it.  I toss the cigarette butt into the sands below, and start my long trek back home, back to my Queen, who I know awaits for me, guarded by the former priest and my fledgling. 

I concurred one great beast of a woman, now I get to concur another, just in another wonderfully fun fashion, and I smile knowing this fact.