Beyond †he Darkness (Hellsing)

investigate (15)

Angelica walked the perimeter of an old estate. Her feet lightly crossed the cobblestones as she made her way. Sir Hellsing had Miss Black accompanying Alucard on an investigation into strange occurrences. The SPARK employee on loan, heard the sound of glass breaking in the flower gardens.

'There must be an arboretum,' Angel thought.

"Pip, what do you see since the high and mighty one won't wear an earpiece?" Angelica said in hers.

There's a moment of silence then a French accent comes into the ear piece. "Mon Cher, The arboretum has glass fogging up and then cracking. Once the fog leaves the glass then the glass shatters out."

Angel thought for a moment, "Does the glass fog up like someone is breathing on it?"

"Oui!" Pip exclaimed.

"Shit."

Angelica pulled a palm size device, SPARK created for doing paranormal research, out of her armored coat. It gave you ghost stories of houses and any rumor, urban legends and such. The device had everything that was found out or on just about anything that can be thought of. SPARK was always adding new information. The young woman scrolled through an entry on the estate and the house.

"Ooh. This isn't good...."Angelica said.

Pip replied, "Cheri what isn't bon (French for good)?"

"Well, all of your guns are worthless as it's either a poltergeist or an angry water spirit," Angel stated the facts. "So you want the good news or more bad news, first?"

"Merde..tres (very good)bon news Mon Cheri..."

"The good news is that if it's a Poltergeist I can probably get it to leave or need to perform an exorcism but..."

"I'll bite since Alucard can't hear me so bad news?" Pip asked now.

"Yeah...that angry water spirit is most likely a drowned relative who comes out of the lake and kills residents. The only way is to get the bones from the watery grave and bless them, " Miss Black explained. " A fish pond is a bitch but a lake...fuck it."

"Is there another way to dredge the body out of water?" Pip now said with a sigh.

"Alucard or Seras going for a swim..." Angelica said. "I need to come around and see what we are dealing with anyway, so on my way now."

The paranormal investigator on loan, walked through the gardens and hedges to make her way around the house. The arboretum was attached to the manor house. Angelica sighed as she rubbed her face. It's the worst case scenario, a scornful female relative that died for mysterious reasons.

The spirit was probably female and to be this angry was murdered versus suicide. Someone had messed with a protection ward or something that had allowed the angry spirit, to get this close or of some sort of nature.

As for Alucard, he been a vampire for so long an angry spirit is nothing. It wouldn't even venture near the King of Vampires but if you were foolish and mortal, you just became fair game.

Shadow King watched Angel go about taking charge of the situation. She was pretty good at the moment but how was the young woman under pressure. He was about to find out.

"Well it's the not so good kind, " Angelica told Pip.

"Cher, I have three men pinned down in there also..." Pip relayed.

Angelica growled, "Where the fuck is Alucard? His guns won't work on the spirit but his shadows could hold the entity long enough to get your men out!"

"How would your team do this normally?" he asked Angel.