feels like freedom but it tastes like death

[bitchin_beanie]

DATE: Day 81
CHARACTER(S): Jan Valentine, Lucy/Nyu, anyone that wants to hang out with a vampire on a rampage?
STATUS: Closed until the Jan-and-Lucy/Nyu thread is done, THEN OPEN LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER.
SUMMARY: The best way to snap out of a funk is with -- you guessed it! Mass homicide!
LOCATION: Cafeteria

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Time for another vampire to get involved

[vampire_medic]

Reiri was pissed beyond belief. Jan did the one thing she would not tolerate ever: taking human life without a reason. Being a vampire herself, the medic is far from innocent. The difference really was academic; she took lives for the greater good.

The elder vampire received the full report on the situation from her bat spies around the ship. What they told her infuriated her to the point of nearly ripping the ship apart. Jan had killed Lucy.

Even at this emotionally unstable condition, the medic knew that she didn't want anyone else to get hurt. That meant she would have to take down her "sibling" Jan.

"Damn you Alucard. I never knew what you saw in this brat. As the heir of the Dracul bloodline, I cannot let this upstart get away with this. Once more, I have to be the one to clean out our bloodline," muttered the vampire aristocrat to herself.

The only things that stopped her from just diving headfirst into the fight were the barrier and Tim. The barrier kept Jan from getting out for the moment so she didn't need to rush in right away. This would give the medic time to come up with something alongside Integral. Integral, she knew, was at ground zero and probably needed Reiri's back-up.

Tim was a problem. He was fundamentally human and didn't have the tools to fight Jan. However, he was probably as valiant as the blood warriors Reiri met in her past. Taking a huge risk, Reiri summoned her bats to cover the cameras and she shadow warped behind Tim. The vampire hoped the boy was used to teleporters and didn't suffer a coronary from her actions.

Grabbing him rather roughly, the medic frowned and criticized Tim. "What do you think you're doing? Didn't I say the next time we meet, that I didn't want it to be you suffering fatal injuries? You're about to jump into a fight that didn't plan for!"

The medic allowed a moment for those words to sink in before saying, "You're a brave kid. I'll give you that. If you're going to get involved, there are three things you need to accept. First, stay silent and stick to the shadows. Getting Jan by surprise is our best bet rather than rushing in. Second, silver is your friend. This silver retractable staff will be more useful."

Reiri did plan ahead and had commissioned a lot of silver items to be made by the scientists. Handing over the staff, the girl took a deep breath to calm her nerves. Even she has trouble being exposed to silver for too long.

Smirking, she said the last thing. "Third, you need to trust me completely with your life."

[ms_hellsing]

Reinforcements were appreciated. Now that Jan wasn't some fast-food instant, Integral wasn't sure what abilities he'd inherited. Many of Alucard's had been perfected if not wholly manufactured by Hellsing during his confinement. How many of those, she wondered, did Jan get?

Integral never took her eyes off Jan as the others arrived. Her gaze flicked quickly to Tsuzuki, then back to the enemy before them. "That barrier, put it around him! We must immobilize this beast!"

[redxrobin]

Tim hadn't expected Reiri's appearance, much less being criticized by her for trying to help! On a somewhat positive note, he was used to teleporters, so there was no need to worry about a coronary anytime soon.

"'What am I doing?' I'm trying to help the people who haven't been killed without remorse-!" Tim quickly shut up however, at hearing the majority of the explanation the medic gave him. He made sure to pay close attention to what she said, as Reiri reminded him of Cassandra. To a point.

"First, I'm really used to staying in the shadows." Tim quickly, and quietly, explained back to the medic while putting his staff away and accepting the one she gave him without hesitation. "Second, we're not dealing with the normal run-of-the-mill villain I'd be more used to...even though I'm used to the more psychotic types, anyway!"

At seeing Reiri's smirk, Tim's eyes widened just a bit before he gave her a smirk of his own. "Third, if I didn't trust you with my life...would I have let you treat me the day we met?"

[vampire_medic]

Reiri expected the heroic outburst from Tim. He definitely would be a top notch blood warrior if he came from her world. The fact that he barely flinched when she appeared was a good sign.

"I have an idea of what we're dealing with. I don't know the full extent but that can easily be deduced by testing Jan. You better get over to Captain Hellsing and see what she has planned. I'll meet you over by her after I do something," stated the girl.

"Oh," the vampire added, "I think I can trust you to keep what you're about to see to yourself." Reiri shadow warped away from Tim and recovered the dead bodies in the cafeteria.

[bitchin_beanie]

There were the fuckers Jan was looking for. A little late, but the cavalry had arrived! He'd have loosed another maniac laugh, but it was at about that moment that he ran into what seemed pretty close to an invisible wall.

Much one the one that had been in front of Tsuzuki.

Jan scowled, but didn't waste time trying to break through it. He spun instead, dashing off in another direction -- only to find a wall there too. One more dash convinced him that this time it wasn't just a wall, it was a cage.

He snarled, spinning around to face those that had pinned him in.

"Cockwads!" he shouted, body tensed and crouching. "Lemme out! I got some fuckers to be dining on, if you hadn't noticed!"

[sugaranddeath]

Tsuzuki didn't quite care for anybody being called a 'beast'. Nevertheless, the barrier was set up and maintained. It would take another skillful spell caster to break it, or somebody who could teleport to take Jan out of there.

"Why, Jan?" The shinigami asked, distraught. "What started this- this massacre?"

[ms_hellsing]

A smile curled up one side of Integral's mouth. Anything to make Jan uncomfortable pleased her. He slaughtered her soldiers to a man, delivered them to a fate far worse than death. Jan corrupted them. That was unforgivable.

She shot a look over to Tsuzuki before turning her focus back to Jan. "This is his true nature," she droned just as calm as ever despite the gleam of fire in her eyes. "We need to finish this!" She bellowed to the others in proximity.

[bitchin_beanie]

A grin fought its way through Jan's anger, and he aimed it at Tsuzuki to hear his question. He hunched down further, as if poised to spring at a moment's notice -- an illusion shattered if one remembered those goddamn walls in place.

"Bitch's right," he announced, jerking a thumb over at Integra without actually looking at her. "Also a pretty damn good shortcut outta here, huh?"

[redxrobin]

Tim took a moment to stare in surprise as Reiri seemed to vanish in front of him before melting into the shadows and making his way over toward Captain Hellsing; good thing she had a loud, strong voice so he'd be able to hear what she said. It didn't take that long for the Boy Wonder to appear near Integral at all, silver staff in hand.

"If we're dealing with what I think we're dealing with, the usual techniques might not work against a guy like him. Still...silver is our friend."

[vampire_medic]

Reiri went on an undercover mission to recover the dead bodies of Jan's current victims. 'These poor souls deserved better than this,' thought the vampire. She was mostly intangible and within the shadows while she moved the bodies so no one will notice her. After completing that job, Reiri emerged behind the trust-worthy police captain and the Boy Wonder.

"We're dealing with an animal that lost his mind. We need to take him down quickly before things get too messy around here. Do you have any ideas how to do that, Sir Hellsing?" Reiri could just fight Jan straight-on but the collateral damage would be severe. She definitely didn't want to destroy the ship just to stop Jan.

[sugaranddeath]

Tsuzuki, on the other hand, ignored the rest for now and made his way up to Jan, leaning his forehead on the invisible barrier.

"Is this why you're doing this? Just to get out here?" He asked quietly.

[bitchin_beanie]

Jan's tension grew as Tsuzuki neared, ready to leap if the barrier showed any sign of falling. But when his roommate made a distinctly not violent move instead of what Jan had been expecting, surprise eased his tensed body.

"...Yeah," he finally said, speaking just as quietly and glancing away. He wasn't gonna be remembered as a pussy, but... he had a feeling a guy like this wouldn't go spreading Jan's truth around.

[sugaranddeath]

A wretched look crossed Tsuzuki's face. The rest are going to kill him, and honestly, after what Jan had done, he couldn't blame them. Cabin fever, that's all. But... the shinigami looked around and squeezed his eyes shut at all the lives that had been lost.

"They are going to kill you, you know."

[bitchin_beanie]

"Counting on it." A mirthless smile twisted Jan's lips, but he still couldn't bring himself to actually look at his roommate. "How the fuck else was I supposed to get out?"

And goddamn Jan wished he was out of this cage. He'd intended to go down fighting, not as a fish in a fucking barrel. Not much he could do about that one, though.

[ms_hellsing]

Integral snorted as she listened to them. As if anyone could believe a word out of the murdering psychopath's mouth.

"Consider this justice," she murmured, not caring if Tsuzuki heard it or not. After this was done, once Jan was cold and dead at her feet she would tell Tsuzuki all that he'd done.

She leaned back slightly toward Reiri. "Can you blind him with shadow? Even just for a moment," she whispered.

[vampire_medic]

Reiri didn't even bother pretending to breathe right now. Her thoughts were on the question Integral posed. The vampire had an inkling that she could do that possibly. The real problem was that Jan was created by Alucard. Running through his veins is the same bloodline as her.

"Not sure. Jan and I are somewhat siblings after all. The same bloodline flows through both of us," explained the medic. "However, I'm significantly more experienced than Jan is. I'll give it a 50% chance of success."