Seras of the End

Disclaimer: Seraph of the End and Hellsing belong to Takaya Kagami and Kouta Hirano respectively.

Summary: Seras and Integra continue to defend England after the Last Battalion's attack. Then a mysterious plague wipes out most of humanity. With Alucard still missing, they must lead England in a post apocalyptic world alone.

Prologue - End of the Halcyon Days

Christmas 2012

Behind the Hellsing Manor: Shooting Range

Integra watched as Seras interacted with Jackie, the young stray that had attached herself to the Draculina.

It was an almost incongruous sight, seeing a vampiress acting like a bubbly big sister to a child, but considering it WAS Seras, Integra only took it as a matter of course. The former police girl had managed to retain more of her human kindness than most human soldiers, let alone most vampires.

Jackie, or Jacquilyn Taylor, a nine-year-old with green eyes and chestnut hair held in a braid, was one of the orphans that attended the nearby boarding school, the Fairbrook Academy, which had been founded in the wake of the Zeppelin incident.

On the surface it was a Military Academy and Technical Institute that prepared the youth of England for a life in service to Queen and Country. It was known to accept a select number of orphans as students in order to give them direction in life.

What the public didn't know was that all of the orphans who attended the Fairbrook Academy had all lost at least one parent in paranormal phenomenon. What was also unknown, was that the academy also held electives in the Occult Arts, in order to prepare those who would one day guard England from all supernatural threats.

Seras had saved the lives of many of these children from the foul creatures that had taken their parents from them. And despite her nature as one of the very supernatural beings that had wronged them, all of the children loved Seras and looked up to her as 'Big Sis Seras'.

Jackie in particular was very close to Seras. Jackie had not only lost her parents to a Vampire. For some reason he had decided to spare the girl's life, instead abducting her. He brought her along with him as he went from family to family, killing them in front of her, making her watch. What's more the sick bastard only let her eat when he did, forcing the girl to keep herself from vomiting at the gruesome tableau if she wanted to stay alive.

Whether he had wanted to turn Jackie eventually, or just see how far he could push her before her mind broke, they would never know.

Jackie had stayed strong, right up until Seras finally tracked them down and ripped him apart. With the danger was finally over the girl broke down and began stomping on the dead vampire's head screaming and crying. Seras enveloped her in a hug, trying to comfort the poor thing. The shadowy tendrils that had rent flesh, bones, and steel were instead gently lapping against Jackie's back like waves across the beach.

Seras carried her to the clean up team waiting outside to let her receive professional attention, but Jackie refused to leave Seras' side and clung to her like a barnacle, pleading to be allowed to stay with her. Seras, in a decision that had annoyed Integra at the time, chose to let Jackie have what she wanted and brought her back to the manor.

Integra had wondered if Seras had taken after her sire's sense of whimsy, but upon seeing Seras' wistful expression, realized that she had seen a kindred soul in her fellow orphan. Seras always did have a soft spot for kids with troubled pasts.

After getting the gist of what Hellsing was and what it did, Jackie immediately demanded to be allowed to join so she could help stop anyone else from going through what she'd had happen to her.

Of course Integra had assured her that she could join in time if she trained hard and took her schooling seriously. But one day Jackie had shocked Integra by asking her about the treatment that her father had used to make Walter into a super soldier.

Seras and Integra had both tensed at hearing that. Memories of the traitorous butler always put Integra in a somber mood. Not to mention the thought of a young girl volunteering to be the subject of human experimentation had seemed troubling.

Integra, though rebounded, and then addressed Jacquilyn Taylor by her full name, something the girl hated, and made a counter offer.

'Become my maid, and I'll consider it. You'll need to be able to follow orders if you want to be given that kind of power.'

Jackie had cringed, a tom-boy through and through, she undoubtedly despised the idea of wearing a frilly dress and doing house chores. Yet surprising Integra again, the girl had simply squared her shoulders and responded that if that's what it would take then she would do it.

So after a series of medical examinations Jackie Taylor was finally assessed to be compatible with the procedure. Seras had paced around the Manor the whole time worrying that something would go horribly wrong. Yet Jackie came through just fine.

However between her studies and her duties as the only maid in the Manor, time for training was somewhat sparse. Since they weren't at war right now there wasn't as much need for child super soldiers. Still Jackie was getting to a point where she could reliably control her razor wire and use it to cut what she wanted to cut and merely grip what she didn't.

But right now she was just telling Seras to make increasingly complex patterns of holes in the targets down range. Seras was testing out a new gun some of the soldiers had chipped in to get for her. Those very soldiers, a group that now included men and women to account for the manpower shortage following the Zeppelin incident, were also present, about ten altogether.

The Barrett M82, tooled to fire the more commonly available Nato .50 BMG rounds was certainly less powerful than her Harkonnen, but could use off the shelf munitions, and was still more than powerful enough to dispatch the sort of vermin that Seras normally had to deal with.

Naturally she had detached the scope in favor of her 'third eye', and didn't use the same ear protection that Jackie had been required to wear in order to even be allowed on the range during live fire drills.

Jackie, having forgone her maid's outfit in favor of a junior sized Hellsing uniform that she much preferred, called out the next pattern, "Spiral!"

Crack, Crack, Crack… the large semi-automatic rifle reported as Seras fired each one of the ten rounds in the magazine at the target 2000 meters down range.

After the last round had been fired, Jackie held up the spotter scope she'd been using to check the vampire's work.

After a few moments she grinned before jumping and hooted "Perfect, great shooting Big Sis!"

The Soldiers broke out into clapping and whistling, earning a small blush from the Police Girl. She held a shadowy hand behind her head and sheepishly replied 'It's not that big a deal guys'.

One of the female soldiers, Alicia, asked, "What is that? The fifth time in a row you got the pattern square on? I'd love it if that kind of shooting was 'no big deal' for me. Too bad I'm not a guy… or a virgin."

"Wha… wha...Whaaat!" Seras spluttered, embarrassed at the innuendo that her comrade would enjoy being turned by her.

Gathering herself, "now that the mood is ruined, I guess that means we're done out here." Seras groused before setting the rifle down to put it in its case.

Integra stepped forward, smiling, "Well Seras, did you like your Christmas present?" She asked.

The two adoptive siblings turned to face her, "Yes Sir Integra, I really like it! It'll be a lot easier to carry ammo for this than the Harkonnens."

"Happy Christmas, Seras," Integra said warmly.

"Happy Christmas, Integra," Seras replied, smiling.

...And then everything went wrong.

Simultaneously all of the Hellsing soldiers standing around them seized up before letting a stream of blood pour out from their mouths.

Then Integra felt a pain in her insides, and she knew. She was next.

It was a sudden instinct that this couldn't be natural, that this was a supernatural event, and that England would need her.

"Drink Me!" Integra called out weakly, before she too, coughed up a gout of blood and felt the strength leave her body.

But before she could even begin to collapse, Seras was in front of her, right hand holding her head to the left while her shadowy tendrils folded around Integra's back, holding her tenderly, a small pain registered in Integra's neck as Seras fangs found her throat.

The pleasure of being drained clashed with the pain of sudden catastrophic organ failure. Integra could feel that Seras was stiff, most likely in shock about the situation and what she was doing. Such a sweet girl. Integra inwardly cursed the fact that she had no strength to embrace her vampire, her beloved daughter, nor the strength the give her any parting words of comfort.

Integra eyes drifted towards Jackie. Still standing and alive. Good, if one human here lived than others must have survived this sudden visitation of death. Though Jackie appeared just as stunned as Seras' body felt.

Integra did manage to muster enough strength to make a small smile at the girl. Given the blood covering her chin, it probably did little to comfort her, but at least Integra had managed that much.

Vision fading, Integra thought 'Death, you may have my body, but Seras will have my soul… I wonder how long it will be before I wake within her, after all, we have a lot of work to do.'

To be continued…

Author's Note:

I hope you enjoyed this prologue, and are interested in continuing to read this story.

I am sorry that I haven't updated my other stories, but the first would require an extensive knowledge of Japanese history and geography, and I sadly don't know enough. Someone who does, and is interest can adopt it as long as they get permission of the original story author to continue the sequel.

With that bit of unpleasantness out of the way, I am very excited about this story. I hope to get plenty of Favorites, Follows, and Reviews, but mainly I'm writing this story because I find this concept interesting. No Hellsing/SOTE crossover I've seen matches up the cannon timelines of both mangas. Which I think, is the most interesting way to do this matchup because Alucard isn't present to kill the dramatic tension.