Hey everyone this is Rixa, I am proud to bring you the long awaited Chapter 2 of Project Nethareth! sorry if it's short but I ran out of ideas for this chapter.

Chapter 2

Awakening to Truth

I lay in bed and while my eyed were still closed I wondered why the Doc had yet to try to wake me. I sat up groggily and wiped the sleep from my eyes. After a moment I had to clutch the back of my head in pain, and could feel a nasty bump under my shoulder length strawberry blonde hair. I opened my eyes fully and realized I wasn't in my apartment. I was sitting on the edge of a large four poster bed with black silk curtains. The blankets should have been a dead giveaway that I wasn't home, since it was a pillow-topped down comforter that was the color of blood. I began to panic as the memories of last night began to flood my mind. The abbey, the fighting, the man in red, being hit from behind, and the voice who had called me Nethareth. A million questions popped into my head, but I didn't feel like sticking around to find the answers. I bolted for the door and opened it and came face to chest with someone, and as I looked up my ice blue eyes met the crimson ones of the man in red.

I began to back up slowly, and with each step I took he followed. It didn't take long until I backed into one of the bed posts. On reflex I closed my eyes, not really knowing what was going on, but soon I felt a gloved hand take hold of my chin.

"Open your eyes." The man in red said, his voice sending a chill down my spine. I did as I was told and as we looked into each others eyes I lost track of where I was and the thought of escaping this place left me completely. I was lost in his crimson eyes, just as he seemed lost in mine... and we had only just met! Not to mention attacked each other!

"Master- umm... am I interrupting something?" Said a young woman from the doorway and we both turned our heads to her to see her with a shocked look on her face. The man in red smirked to me slightly and stood back from me at his full height of about 6' compared to my 5'8". I ignored him and turned to the girl since she had no doubt been there long enough to see the man in red as close to me as he had been... oh god had she thought-

"Umm I think you have the wrong idea, we weren't-" I stammered but was cut off by another woman who came into view.

"Seras, Alucard... I told you to let me talk to her first." Said the new woman to the man in red, who I presumed was Alucard, and the previous young woman who was more than likely Seras; unless I was wrong, but frankly the man in red looked more like an Alucard than a Seras so I thought my assumption was correct.

I sat on the edge of the bed once again as Alucard leaned against the door frame, obviously preventing me from bolting from the room. Seras sat on the low dresser by the windows... covering that escape route, and the older woman who was obviously their boss pulled up a chair and sat with one leg over the other. There were a few moments of silence in which I took the time to examine the people in the room other than myself. Seras seemed nervous about the situation, hiding her eyes from view behind her light orange hair though I remembered from when she came in that her eyes were an odd red-orange, and when she had been standing I guessed she looked about 5'3". The older woman who seemed to be their boss, was a blonde with cerulean blue eyes and from when she walked in it looked like she was a smidgen taller than me at about 5'9".

"My name is Sir Integra Hellsing (Double check); do you remember your name?" The blonde woman asked, surprising me slightly. I couldn't really answer her, I had a name... but I knew it wasn't my birth name.

"Well... for the past few weeks my name has been Netty Faulkner, but before that I really don't remember." I said, and reached into my pocket to pull out the metal band that had until a few weeks ago had been on my wrist until the doctor had removed it using a surgical saw. "But I guess this is my full name, though I don't know what my last name is..." I continued as I showed them the word Nethareth thatwas clearly engraved on the shiny silver metal. Integra sighed and adjusted her glasses,

"Nethareth is not your name, but your code name, your true name is Sophia April Reynolds. You are an operative for this organization. The Hellsing Organization. We fight the hell spawn creatures that you have no doubt been fighting out of pure instinct; you've been fighting them haven't you?" she said gravely, and the name she gave me seemed... familiar and right to me. I nodded to her, hoping I would finally get the answers about myself that the doctor couldn't help me with.

"As I said, your code name is Nethareth. You have been fighting alongside your partner, Alucard, for the better part of the last two years; that is until your... accident. During a mission, you were cornered and bitten by a vampire and you threw yourself off a building in an attempt to prevent the change. We attempted to locate your body but you had obviously survived the fall and had run from the scene... with apparently no memory of anything. Though whether you choose to fight again is up to you." Integra finished explaining and since she had no reason to lie to me I believed her. I sat there with my head down, thinking about all that they said had happened. The room was dead quiet before I broke the silence,

"I've been fighting those vampires since I woke up in an alleyway with no memories... why should this change anything? Though I have one condition, don't call me Nethareth." I said with my head still down, though I could tell Integra was smiling when she said,

"It's a deal... Sophia." And she rose from her chair and left taking Seras with her. Alucard had yet to leave his place on the wall since I could still see the hem of his coat in my peripheral vision. For a moment I though he had fallen asleep, and he made me jump when he finally spoke,

"Tomorrow night we'll see what you can do, and then we can train you to do better- though I don't expect much from you yet." And he left, just like that! How I could have worked with him for two whole years and not loose my mind is beyond me! I brushed off my frustration and crawled back into bed and easily feel back to sleep.

In Integra's office, from Alucard's P.O.V.

"Is it really a good idea to lie to the poor girl? Haven't we put her through enough?" asked Walter from beside Master Integra. She then leaned back in her desk chair, turned it to the side, and rested her arm on the armrest to place her chin on her knuckles,

"Probably not... but it's too soon to tell her the truth, she's not strong enough to survive the shock of what we have to tell her. Not yet anyway..." Master said as she looked out the window beside her as she sat behind her desk. I myself leaned against the wall not far away from her desk, she had wanted to speak to me- no doubt about Sophia. My mind began to wander back to the girl that slept down the hall and one floor below us. How I knew she was asleep was beyond me, but that wasn't really what was on my mind. When we fought I hadn't had the chance to really look at her, so when she was brought here I thought I could at least see her face as she had slept... I really don't know why I was so inclined to! Fate be as it may, she had been awake and I had scared the living shit out of her. And when I glimpsed her eyes I saw something and needed to know what the hell it was, so I scared her even more by cornering her. I felt like a dumb ass and was mentally kicking myself in the face for it. It didn't help that I had nearly fallen asleep to her voice...damn it what the hell was wrong with me? I shook my head absent mindedly, forgetting I wasn't alone in the room.

"Something wrong Alucard?" Master Integra asked, but I shook my head and left to hopefully sleep off whatever the hell effect that Sophia had on me; and hopefully tomorrow it wouldn't happen again, hopefully I was just hungry. I would have to make a pit-stop at the infirmary for a blood pack or two just in case.

Integra's P.O.V.

"She's affecting him already... this soon." I said with a sigh. We would have to wait and see what kind of an effect it is, and if she becomes a hindrance… we may need to terminate the project. We can only hope this will not be the case.

I want peoples opinions, should i rewrite the prolouge? does it give away too much too soon? please tell me so i can make it better!

-Rixa