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Once both were awake and ready to go they reported to Integra. Ari was wearing one of the uniforms that had been provided even though she could create her own clothing. Integra looked Ari over taking note of one thing that was different on the uniform. There was an extra patch that was pitch black with a golden cat's head on her right arm.
“What is this?” She asked.
Ari tipped her head a bit and just smiled.
“It is my family emblem it is the only thing I added to the uniform.” She replied.
Integra nodded her head lightly. She returned to her desk lighting a cigar. She opened up a folder that was laying on her desk. She flipped through a few pages before she looked up to the pair.
“I want you both to go to Badrick and check it out. Ariellia this may be hard for you but you know the area and we need to know what happened.” Integra said.
Ari nodded her head lightly as she let out a soft sigh. She gave a slight roll to her shoulders squaring them up.
“It is alright and you can call me Ari most do. I will be alright with going there.” She replied.
Integra looked over to Alucard and nodded her head to dismiss them both. Both turned and walked out and for once Alucard actually used the door instead of walking through it. Both walked outside of the manor and looked to each other.
“Ari are you sure you will be alright with going there?” Alucard asked.
She could have sworn that she heard a touch of concern in his voice. She shrugged her shoulders lightly and let out a breath of air.
“Yes, I will be fine besides I want this vampire dead for what he did.” She growled out the last few words.
He nodded his head and pushed his glasses up his nose hiding the crimson eyes behind the orange lenses. He held his hand out to Ari and she wrapped her fingers around his large white gloved hand. She closed bright blue eyes as he shadow ported them to Badrick.
Once they were there Ari could smell the ghouls that were already here. She let out a low growl as she stepped away from Alucard. She took time to strip out of her uniform and shifted forms to that of the panther. She moved to stand beside Alucard her massive size was equaled with the sheer power she carried.
They both walked in to find that the place was overrun with ghouls. Ari let out a scream that would make a mortal man’s blood run cold. She leapt at the closest ghoul slicing its head off with a swipe of her paw.
She ran and leapt and the ghouls beheading them easily with her razor sharp claws. Alucard was not far behind her shooting the ghouls. She knew theses people had not become ghouls by choice. They were nothing more than shells of their former selves.
He body was flecked with blood darkening her coat and showing off the more blue highlights in her coat. They were down to the last few ghouls when another scent caught her attention. She lifted her head and sniffed the air lightly.
{We have company. It is a scent I am not familiar with Alucard.} Ari said.
{Keep track of where this person is and how close to us it comes.} Alucard replied.
She nodded her head a bit as she finished off the last ghoul before her. Suddenly there were pages flying all over the pace and nailing themselves to the walls, windows, and doors. She shook her head a bit sniffing at them. They did little to bother her any at all.
The pages smelled of some sort of enchantment. She walked on till she heard a set of footsteps that didn’t belong to Alucard. She let out a pain filled scream as a bayonet pierced her right shoulder and then her left. Pain or not she leapt up and twisted turning her body in mid air to face the source of the bayonets.
She saw a blonde haired man dressed similar to Alucard save the coloring of his clothing and the fact that he had a white priests collar. Alucard felt her pain but he was able to not let it affect him in the least. He was able to follow their connection and find Ari face to face with Father Anderson.
Her lips were pulled back in a snarl she was showing off all of her teeth. Her claws dug into the wood of the flooring as if she were getting ready to run and leap.
{Ari do not take this one on.} Alucard stressed to her.
But the pain Ari was in had sent her mind straight into kill mode but Alucard was noticing some gold marking starting to show up on her face. Now this was different he had never seen them before. He watched as her muscles bunched up under her slick coat.
She launched herself straight at Anderson but she didn’t leap over him by ploughed straight into him. Her massive jaw was snapping at his throat. She was aiming to kill him or rip him apart.
Anderson got his feet under her and kicked her off sending her flying into a wall. She hit shoulder first driving the blessed silver blade farther into her shoulder. She cried out in pain but got back up anyway showing she was ignoring the pain she was feeling.
Her massive body moved albeit a touch slow due to pain. Her small rounded ears were flattened down against her head. Alucard moved towards Anderson.
“Beautiful night isn't it” He said
“What have you done with the vampire we were hunting?” Alucard questioned.
“Already dead, it wasn’t much fun.” Anderson shot back.
The two walked towards each other while Ari snarled and growled her body was losing too much blood. If she didn’t get the blades removed soon they could cause her a lot of damage. Not that she wasn’t ready to deal with the damage.
She watched as Alucard and Anderson fought. Alucard shot him in the face splattering him against a wall. Alucard looked to Anderson’s body and pulled out the blades that he had been hit with.
“I am reminded of something I heard some time back that taking on a vampire at night is a mission for morons and fools. So which are you Father Anderson?” Alucard laughed.
He turned and made his way towards Ari. He saw the damage the blades were doing to her.
“Be still you have been stuck with blessed silver blades.” Alucard said.
Ari’s head shot up as she let out a scream and leapt without warning and straight into Father Anderson who had gotten up. His body was regenerating almost as quickly as what theirs did. She snapped at him with massive jaws.
Anderson tossed her aside and the two went back at it again. They were fighting back and forth till Anderson pinned Alucard against a window and cut off his head. She cried out in pain because he wasn’t able to block that pain from her. She watched his head roll across the floor.
Her body was in excruciating pain but she ignored it as Anderson turned his attention towards her. Her black body was darker in color now save the now gold marking that showed around her face. She made a quick turn and ran in the opposite direction from Anderson.
“So even with that damage the cat is still able to run perhaps I have underestimated this cat.” Anderson mused.
He walked easily a bayonet in each hand. He could see the blood trail she was leaving behind. She made sure to get a good distance from Anderson before she stopped and used her jaws to pull out the two bayonets that were stuck in her shoulders.
Her ears perked up as she heard a chopper and the caught Integra’s scent. She shook her head as Anderson’s scent started to move away from her and Integra’s was getting closer. She turned quickly and head back towards what her instincts told her could spell death.
Anderson had Integra pinned against a wall and she was laughing. She wasn’t paying any attention to what was being said but the sudden swarming bats did catch her attention for a split second. She gathered what strength she had left and leapt at Father Anderson knocking him away from Integra.
She may not like the woman but she wouldn’t allow the woman to be slaughtered either. She stood in front of Integra now as Alucard reformed from all the bats. She just snorted out a breath of air.
{Show off!} She huffed.
She heard his laugh as he drew his guns again and went at Father Anderson once again. When the passed each other both of Alucard arms were sliced off but he quickly reformed them and kept the pain from reaching Ari. He regenerated both arms in the blink of an eye.
He was laughing manically at Father Anderson. He hair was now long and flying around his face. He looked as evil as evil can get.Father Anderson backed off and pulled out what looked to be a bible. He opened it up and pages began to fly around him.
“I will be back. I need more time to prepare for you both” He laughed.
With that he disappeared in a flash of pages. Ari shook her head and wanted nothing more than to collapse on the floor but she wasn’t going to show weakness. Alucard made his way to her and Integra.
{You are weak pisica mica I can feel how weak you are rest and let me take care of the rest.} Alucard purred.
She shook her head a bit because she was as stubborn as the day was long. She had never been one to show weakness no matter who she was around. She held her head high unaware of the gold marking that were now on her face.
This was a hint that her powers were starting to show through. She didn’t know about the markings she was concentrating on not passing out. The blood had stopped flowing but she had already lost a lot.
“What are the markings on your face Ari?” Integra asked.
Ari tipped her head a bit a bit of a confused look flashed across her features as she looked back over to Alucard curiously.
{What is she talking about Alucard?} She asked.
{You have gold marking on your face now pisica mica. They resemble the markings you see in books on the Egyptians.} He replied.
She tipped her head back toward Integra and then towards Alucard. She let out a huffed breath of air and shouldered Alucard because she didn’t want to over extend herself at the moment. She didn’t want to try and link her mind to Integra.
“My Master it seems Ari has no idea what the markings are or what they mean.” Alucard said.
Integra just nodded her head and walked out to the awaiting chopper. This was the one thing Ari hated. She detested flying with a passion you might say she had a fear of flying.
Even with her fear she got into the chopper and laid her body down on the floor. She closed her eyes and tried to take a cat nap on the ride back. But the pain she was in wasn’t letting her sleep.
{Odihnă pisica mica esti slabe și au nevoie să-și recapete puterile. Voi veghea asupra ta îți promit. Nimic nu te va face rău nici măcar visele tale.} Alucard said
Ari lifted her head up and looked to him not having understood a word he had just said but the soothing tone was enough for her. She laid her head back down and let the exhaustion overtake her. It didn’t take long and she was asleep as her body fought to repair itself.
Once the chopper landed the massive cat didn’t wake up at all. Integra looked to Alucard and then to Ari and back again. Alucard stood up and then picked up the massive animal and held her as if she weighed nothing at all. To him she really didn’t weigh anything at all.
He carried the seemingly comatose panther into the mansion and down into the lower levels. He took her into his room and kept a hold of her while Walter had the large pet type bed brought into his room. Once the bed was placed beside his coffin he placed her in the bed.
He sat down in his chair to watch over her as he had promised. She slept the remainder of the night and all of the next day. It wasn’t until the following night that she woke up.
She lifted her head up slowly not really remembering much of the fight other than the pain. She still hurt and would probably hurt for a few more days. Her power had replenished itself some but not completely. She stood up very slowly stretching out and yelping because her shoulders were not completely healed yet.
She yawned a bit somewhat and licked her lips as the bright ocean blues looked around seeing a sleeping Alucard still in his chair. She padded silently over to him and laid her head in his lap letting a purr rumbles low in her chest. She was only slightly surprised when she felt his hand on her head petting her.
She stayed where she was not really wanting to move any at all because then she wouldn’t feel any pain from sore muscles.
{You can stay where you are pisica mica. You do not have to move if you don’t want to you are comfortable and so am I.} Alucard said.
She didn’t even bother lifting her head any at all. She just kept purring and relaxing. Then she heard Alucard let out a frustrated sigh.
“It would seem that my Master wishes to talk to both of us pisica mica.” Alucard growled.
{I knew she would eventually want to talk to me. Now that I am feeling a bit better I think I have an idea about the markings.} Ari said.
He could tell by her mental voice she was still weak. Even with her massive size he picked up in his arms and shadow ported them straight to Integra’s office. He found a chair sat down in it and then put her down on the floor.
She rested her head back in his lap purring loudly. He just chuckled and began to pet her head again. The markings had since faded from her face leaving nothing behind.
Her small rounded ears turned towards Integra but beyond that she didn’t move or try to change her shape any at all. She heard Integra growl a few choice words at there being a massive panther in her office.
{I hate to ask this but can you relay for me Alucard. I don’t think I can shift yet without causing myself a great deal of pain?} Ari asked.
He nodded his head lightly to Ari and then looked up to his Master a crazed smile on his face that Ari didn’t see. Integra seemed to be getting frustrated by the presence of the massive panther who was purring rather loudly.
“My Master I will be relaying her answer to you she is still to weak to shift without causing herself a great deal of pain.” Alucard spoke.
“Ari can you explain the gold marking that were on your face when I got to Badrick?” Integra grumbled.
She was not happy with the idea that the answer she wanted were having to come through her own servant. Ari on the other hand didn’t rightly care she wasn’t up to trying to link her mind to Integra’s. That would have been to much stress and she didn’t need that right now.
{My best explanation of those markings come from the Egyptian lore. The marking represent those chosen by Bast to carry her powers. Or so I was told when I was a child.} Ari explained softly.
Alucard could tell even this was wearing on her system. Her normally bright ocean blue eyes were slightly dull in color now. Her normally shiny fur was dull and matted showing exactly how weak she presently was.
Alucard looked to his Master and shook his head a bit as he took in a breath.
“It would seem to her knowledge the markings represent one who is chosen by the Goddess Bast to carry her powers. That is her best guess as it was what was told to her when she was a child.” Alucard reiterated.
Integra’s head canted a bit as she seemed to think on this new tid bit of information for a few moments. She stabbed out her cigar in the glass ash tray that sat on her desk. She looked to be deep in thought as Ari just did her best to remain relaxed so her body would heal.
“What powers would this be Ari?” Integra finally asked.
Ari thought for a few moments herself because in all honesty she really didn’t know what it meant. She started to roll her shoulders a bit but yelped in pain because it still hurt her to move her shoulders. One of the wounds reopened and blood got onto Alucard’s pants.
She didn’t see that the blood was absorbed by him but she felt something in her mind tighten. She wasn’t really concerned with that at this particular moment in time though.
{To be honest I really don’t know. If you like once I am fully healed I can see if I can locate one of the elders that might still talk to me and see if I can find out.} Ari spoke weakly.
Alucard looked up to his Master and just growled softly. The growl didn’t escape Ari as she unsheathed a claw and got Alucard’s booted foot with a razor sharp claw. He snapped his attention to her real quick.
{She isn’t hurting me with the questions Alucard so behave ya walking corpse.} Ari teased.
Alucard looked back to his Master once again. His hand had never stopped petting Ari’s head because that seemed to be the one thing that kept him somewhat calm.
“She said she really doesn't know but once she is healed if you would like her to she can try to locate one of her Elders that might talk to her and see if she can get some information.” Alucard replied.
Integra nodded her head and then waved her hand to dismiss them both. Ari lifted her head up so Alucard could stand back up. He picked her up in his arms and shadow ported them back to his room. He set her down as careful as one might an egg in her bed.
He ran his hand along her head once again as he stretched out in his coffin which was beside her bed. She laid her head down on her paws as she started to drift off to sleep again.
{Don’t get into to much trouble while I rest you old dust bucket.} Ari teased softly.
Alucard chuckled as he felt her mind slowly quiet down as she fell back asleep. He kept his hand on her head as he relaxed back in his coffin.
“Dormi profund mica mea de pisică și de a recupera. Voi rămâne mereu de partea ta. Nimic nu te va face rău niciodată nu atât timp cât am mers pe jos noaptea.” Alucard said softly.
Ari just nuzzled his hand with the top of her head lightly. The sun crept up into the sky as both finally fell into a deep sleep.
Translations
pisica mica = little cat
Odihnă pisica mica esti slabe și au nevoie să-și recapete puterile. Voi veghea asupra ta îți promit. Nimic nu te va face rău nici măcar visele tale. = Rest little cat you are weak and need to regain your strength. I will watch over you I promise. Nothing will harm you not even your dreams.
Dormi profund mica mea de pisică și de a recupera. Voi rămâne mereu de partea ta. Nimic nu te va face rău niciodată nu atât timp cât am mers pe jos noaptea. = Sleep deeply my little cat and recover. I will remain ever by your side. Nothing shall ever harm you again not so long as I walk the night.
“What is this?” She asked.
Ari tipped her head a bit and just smiled.
“It is my family emblem it is the only thing I added to the uniform.” She replied.
Integra nodded her head lightly. She returned to her desk lighting a cigar. She opened up a folder that was laying on her desk. She flipped through a few pages before she looked up to the pair.
“I want you both to go to Badrick and check it out. Ariellia this may be hard for you but you know the area and we need to know what happened.” Integra said.
Ari nodded her head lightly as she let out a soft sigh. She gave a slight roll to her shoulders squaring them up.
“It is alright and you can call me Ari most do. I will be alright with going there.” She replied.
Integra looked over to Alucard and nodded her head to dismiss them both. Both turned and walked out and for once Alucard actually used the door instead of walking through it. Both walked outside of the manor and looked to each other.
“Ari are you sure you will be alright with going there?” Alucard asked.
She could have sworn that she heard a touch of concern in his voice. She shrugged her shoulders lightly and let out a breath of air.
“Yes, I will be fine besides I want this vampire dead for what he did.” She growled out the last few words.
He nodded his head and pushed his glasses up his nose hiding the crimson eyes behind the orange lenses. He held his hand out to Ari and she wrapped her fingers around his large white gloved hand. She closed bright blue eyes as he shadow ported them to Badrick.
Once they were there Ari could smell the ghouls that were already here. She let out a low growl as she stepped away from Alucard. She took time to strip out of her uniform and shifted forms to that of the panther. She moved to stand beside Alucard her massive size was equaled with the sheer power she carried.
They both walked in to find that the place was overrun with ghouls. Ari let out a scream that would make a mortal man’s blood run cold. She leapt at the closest ghoul slicing its head off with a swipe of her paw.
She ran and leapt and the ghouls beheading them easily with her razor sharp claws. Alucard was not far behind her shooting the ghouls. She knew theses people had not become ghouls by choice. They were nothing more than shells of their former selves.
He body was flecked with blood darkening her coat and showing off the more blue highlights in her coat. They were down to the last few ghouls when another scent caught her attention. She lifted her head and sniffed the air lightly.
{We have company. It is a scent I am not familiar with Alucard.} Ari said.
{Keep track of where this person is and how close to us it comes.} Alucard replied.
She nodded her head a bit as she finished off the last ghoul before her. Suddenly there were pages flying all over the pace and nailing themselves to the walls, windows, and doors. She shook her head a bit sniffing at them. They did little to bother her any at all.
The pages smelled of some sort of enchantment. She walked on till she heard a set of footsteps that didn’t belong to Alucard. She let out a pain filled scream as a bayonet pierced her right shoulder and then her left. Pain or not she leapt up and twisted turning her body in mid air to face the source of the bayonets.
She saw a blonde haired man dressed similar to Alucard save the coloring of his clothing and the fact that he had a white priests collar. Alucard felt her pain but he was able to not let it affect him in the least. He was able to follow their connection and find Ari face to face with Father Anderson.
Her lips were pulled back in a snarl she was showing off all of her teeth. Her claws dug into the wood of the flooring as if she were getting ready to run and leap.
{Ari do not take this one on.} Alucard stressed to her.
But the pain Ari was in had sent her mind straight into kill mode but Alucard was noticing some gold marking starting to show up on her face. Now this was different he had never seen them before. He watched as her muscles bunched up under her slick coat.
She launched herself straight at Anderson but she didn’t leap over him by ploughed straight into him. Her massive jaw was snapping at his throat. She was aiming to kill him or rip him apart.
Anderson got his feet under her and kicked her off sending her flying into a wall. She hit shoulder first driving the blessed silver blade farther into her shoulder. She cried out in pain but got back up anyway showing she was ignoring the pain she was feeling.
Her massive body moved albeit a touch slow due to pain. Her small rounded ears were flattened down against her head. Alucard moved towards Anderson.
“Beautiful night isn't it” He said
“What have you done with the vampire we were hunting?” Alucard questioned.
“Already dead, it wasn’t much fun.” Anderson shot back.
The two walked towards each other while Ari snarled and growled her body was losing too much blood. If she didn’t get the blades removed soon they could cause her a lot of damage. Not that she wasn’t ready to deal with the damage.
She watched as Alucard and Anderson fought. Alucard shot him in the face splattering him against a wall. Alucard looked to Anderson’s body and pulled out the blades that he had been hit with.
“I am reminded of something I heard some time back that taking on a vampire at night is a mission for morons and fools. So which are you Father Anderson?” Alucard laughed.
He turned and made his way towards Ari. He saw the damage the blades were doing to her.
“Be still you have been stuck with blessed silver blades.” Alucard said.
Ari’s head shot up as she let out a scream and leapt without warning and straight into Father Anderson who had gotten up. His body was regenerating almost as quickly as what theirs did. She snapped at him with massive jaws.
Anderson tossed her aside and the two went back at it again. They were fighting back and forth till Anderson pinned Alucard against a window and cut off his head. She cried out in pain because he wasn’t able to block that pain from her. She watched his head roll across the floor.
Her body was in excruciating pain but she ignored it as Anderson turned his attention towards her. Her black body was darker in color now save the now gold marking that showed around her face. She made a quick turn and ran in the opposite direction from Anderson.
“So even with that damage the cat is still able to run perhaps I have underestimated this cat.” Anderson mused.
He walked easily a bayonet in each hand. He could see the blood trail she was leaving behind. She made sure to get a good distance from Anderson before she stopped and used her jaws to pull out the two bayonets that were stuck in her shoulders.
Her ears perked up as she heard a chopper and the caught Integra’s scent. She shook her head as Anderson’s scent started to move away from her and Integra’s was getting closer. She turned quickly and head back towards what her instincts told her could spell death.
Anderson had Integra pinned against a wall and she was laughing. She wasn’t paying any attention to what was being said but the sudden swarming bats did catch her attention for a split second. She gathered what strength she had left and leapt at Father Anderson knocking him away from Integra.
She may not like the woman but she wouldn’t allow the woman to be slaughtered either. She stood in front of Integra now as Alucard reformed from all the bats. She just snorted out a breath of air.
{Show off!} She huffed.
She heard his laugh as he drew his guns again and went at Father Anderson once again. When the passed each other both of Alucard arms were sliced off but he quickly reformed them and kept the pain from reaching Ari. He regenerated both arms in the blink of an eye.
He was laughing manically at Father Anderson. He hair was now long and flying around his face. He looked as evil as evil can get.Father Anderson backed off and pulled out what looked to be a bible. He opened it up and pages began to fly around him.
“I will be back. I need more time to prepare for you both” He laughed.
With that he disappeared in a flash of pages. Ari shook her head and wanted nothing more than to collapse on the floor but she wasn’t going to show weakness. Alucard made his way to her and Integra.
{You are weak pisica mica I can feel how weak you are rest and let me take care of the rest.} Alucard purred.
She shook her head a bit because she was as stubborn as the day was long. She had never been one to show weakness no matter who she was around. She held her head high unaware of the gold marking that were now on her face.
This was a hint that her powers were starting to show through. She didn’t know about the markings she was concentrating on not passing out. The blood had stopped flowing but she had already lost a lot.
“What are the markings on your face Ari?” Integra asked.
Ari tipped her head a bit a bit of a confused look flashed across her features as she looked back over to Alucard curiously.
{What is she talking about Alucard?} She asked.
{You have gold marking on your face now pisica mica. They resemble the markings you see in books on the Egyptians.} He replied.
She tipped her head back toward Integra and then towards Alucard. She let out a huffed breath of air and shouldered Alucard because she didn’t want to over extend herself at the moment. She didn’t want to try and link her mind to Integra.
“My Master it seems Ari has no idea what the markings are or what they mean.” Alucard said.
Integra just nodded her head and walked out to the awaiting chopper. This was the one thing Ari hated. She detested flying with a passion you might say she had a fear of flying.
Even with her fear she got into the chopper and laid her body down on the floor. She closed her eyes and tried to take a cat nap on the ride back. But the pain she was in wasn’t letting her sleep.
{Odihnă pisica mica esti slabe și au nevoie să-și recapete puterile. Voi veghea asupra ta îți promit. Nimic nu te va face rău nici măcar visele tale.} Alucard said
Ari lifted her head up and looked to him not having understood a word he had just said but the soothing tone was enough for her. She laid her head back down and let the exhaustion overtake her. It didn’t take long and she was asleep as her body fought to repair itself.
Once the chopper landed the massive cat didn’t wake up at all. Integra looked to Alucard and then to Ari and back again. Alucard stood up and then picked up the massive animal and held her as if she weighed nothing at all. To him she really didn’t weigh anything at all.
He carried the seemingly comatose panther into the mansion and down into the lower levels. He took her into his room and kept a hold of her while Walter had the large pet type bed brought into his room. Once the bed was placed beside his coffin he placed her in the bed.
He sat down in his chair to watch over her as he had promised. She slept the remainder of the night and all of the next day. It wasn’t until the following night that she woke up.
She lifted her head up slowly not really remembering much of the fight other than the pain. She still hurt and would probably hurt for a few more days. Her power had replenished itself some but not completely. She stood up very slowly stretching out and yelping because her shoulders were not completely healed yet.
She yawned a bit somewhat and licked her lips as the bright ocean blues looked around seeing a sleeping Alucard still in his chair. She padded silently over to him and laid her head in his lap letting a purr rumbles low in her chest. She was only slightly surprised when she felt his hand on her head petting her.
She stayed where she was not really wanting to move any at all because then she wouldn’t feel any pain from sore muscles.
{You can stay where you are pisica mica. You do not have to move if you don’t want to you are comfortable and so am I.} Alucard said.
She didn’t even bother lifting her head any at all. She just kept purring and relaxing. Then she heard Alucard let out a frustrated sigh.
“It would seem that my Master wishes to talk to both of us pisica mica.” Alucard growled.
{I knew she would eventually want to talk to me. Now that I am feeling a bit better I think I have an idea about the markings.} Ari said.
He could tell by her mental voice she was still weak. Even with her massive size he picked up in his arms and shadow ported them straight to Integra’s office. He found a chair sat down in it and then put her down on the floor.
She rested her head back in his lap purring loudly. He just chuckled and began to pet her head again. The markings had since faded from her face leaving nothing behind.
Her small rounded ears turned towards Integra but beyond that she didn’t move or try to change her shape any at all. She heard Integra growl a few choice words at there being a massive panther in her office.
{I hate to ask this but can you relay for me Alucard. I don’t think I can shift yet without causing myself a great deal of pain?} Ari asked.
He nodded his head lightly to Ari and then looked up to his Master a crazed smile on his face that Ari didn’t see. Integra seemed to be getting frustrated by the presence of the massive panther who was purring rather loudly.
“My Master I will be relaying her answer to you she is still to weak to shift without causing herself a great deal of pain.” Alucard spoke.
“Ari can you explain the gold marking that were on your face when I got to Badrick?” Integra grumbled.
She was not happy with the idea that the answer she wanted were having to come through her own servant. Ari on the other hand didn’t rightly care she wasn’t up to trying to link her mind to Integra’s. That would have been to much stress and she didn’t need that right now.
{My best explanation of those markings come from the Egyptian lore. The marking represent those chosen by Bast to carry her powers. Or so I was told when I was a child.} Ari explained softly.
Alucard could tell even this was wearing on her system. Her normally bright ocean blue eyes were slightly dull in color now. Her normally shiny fur was dull and matted showing exactly how weak she presently was.
Alucard looked to his Master and shook his head a bit as he took in a breath.
“It would seem to her knowledge the markings represent one who is chosen by the Goddess Bast to carry her powers. That is her best guess as it was what was told to her when she was a child.” Alucard reiterated.
Integra’s head canted a bit as she seemed to think on this new tid bit of information for a few moments. She stabbed out her cigar in the glass ash tray that sat on her desk. She looked to be deep in thought as Ari just did her best to remain relaxed so her body would heal.
“What powers would this be Ari?” Integra finally asked.
Ari thought for a few moments herself because in all honesty she really didn’t know what it meant. She started to roll her shoulders a bit but yelped in pain because it still hurt her to move her shoulders. One of the wounds reopened and blood got onto Alucard’s pants.
She didn’t see that the blood was absorbed by him but she felt something in her mind tighten. She wasn’t really concerned with that at this particular moment in time though.
{To be honest I really don’t know. If you like once I am fully healed I can see if I can locate one of the elders that might still talk to me and see if I can find out.} Ari spoke weakly.
Alucard looked up to his Master and just growled softly. The growl didn’t escape Ari as she unsheathed a claw and got Alucard’s booted foot with a razor sharp claw. He snapped his attention to her real quick.
{She isn’t hurting me with the questions Alucard so behave ya walking corpse.} Ari teased.
Alucard looked back to his Master once again. His hand had never stopped petting Ari’s head because that seemed to be the one thing that kept him somewhat calm.
“She said she really doesn't know but once she is healed if you would like her to she can try to locate one of her Elders that might talk to her and see if she can get some information.” Alucard replied.
Integra nodded her head and then waved her hand to dismiss them both. Ari lifted her head up so Alucard could stand back up. He picked her up in his arms and shadow ported them back to his room. He set her down as careful as one might an egg in her bed.
He ran his hand along her head once again as he stretched out in his coffin which was beside her bed. She laid her head down on her paws as she started to drift off to sleep again.
{Don’t get into to much trouble while I rest you old dust bucket.} Ari teased softly.
Alucard chuckled as he felt her mind slowly quiet down as she fell back asleep. He kept his hand on her head as he relaxed back in his coffin.
“Dormi profund mica mea de pisică și de a recupera. Voi rămâne mereu de partea ta. Nimic nu te va face rău niciodată nu atât timp cât am mers pe jos noaptea.” Alucard said softly.
Ari just nuzzled his hand with the top of her head lightly. The sun crept up into the sky as both finally fell into a deep sleep.
Translations
pisica mica = little cat
Odihnă pisica mica esti slabe și au nevoie să-și recapete puterile. Voi veghea asupra ta îți promit. Nimic nu te va face rău nici măcar visele tale. = Rest little cat you are weak and need to regain your strength. I will watch over you I promise. Nothing will harm you not even your dreams.
Dormi profund mica mea de pisică și de a recupera. Voi rămâne mereu de partea ta. Nimic nu te va face rău niciodată nu atât timp cât am mers pe jos noaptea. = Sleep deeply my little cat and recover. I will remain ever by your side. Nothing shall ever harm you again not so long as I walk the night.
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