MANGA VOLUME 8

CHAPTER 1 [86] // WOLF FANG 1

As Seras rises from the chaos of the debris around her, Pip’s internal telepathic dialog rings loudly in her mind. The Wild Geese Captain advises that her adversary is no disposable monster; instead she stands within the presence of a genuine werewolf. From the vast storeroom surrounding them, ruined wooden crates rain down their ill-gotten treasures. Seras takes a moment to acknowledge the silver filling in a tooth that strikes her hand. Fifty years of plundered treasures by the deplorable SS troops encircle them. Seras’ quiet contemplations and Pip’s focused discussion within her mind is soon cut short as the Captain makes ready to launch a feral assault on the young woman. For moments they battle tooth and claw, Seras at Pip’s instruction taking hold of a huge missile and launching it at the Captain, only to have it kicked back like a hapless toy. Amidst the chaos of trading blows, Pip’s anthropomorphic self materializes from Saras’ body boasting that a silver tooth will have to do in the absence of a silver bullet. Seras plunges her final punch chest deep in the Captain, breaking his dog tag in the process.

CHAPTER 2 [87] // WOLF FANG 2

The final blow is met by scathing remarks from Pip as the werewolf Captain finally hits the ground. And as his disintegration commences, we watch him smile before the flames consume him. Seras is victorious! The Captain is defeated. Meanwhile within the halls of the fallen zeppelin, Integra continues her steady march to find the Major. When at last in his presence, enraged, she pulls her pistol and opens fire, only to be mocked, the Major advises that the bullets are useless against him. Like her tears, they will simply fall away. The Major appears safe behind some impregnable glass containment. Aggravated, Integra draws her sword and rushes the barrier to no effect. The Major advises that she is now to witness one of the greatest events of the century. Alucard is to be completely erased. From a bell tower far above the blood river streets of London, Warrant Officer Schrödinger smiles, takes hold a great dagger and decapitates himself, committing his body and blood to the river beneath him, smiling as he tumbles. Below, Alucard laughs unsuspectingly, his battle with Walter to continue.

CHAPTER 3 [88] // BLACK ONYX 1

Alucard is euphoric in his bloodlust unawares that within the rivers he is slowly ingesting, Schrödinger’s body draws ever closer. A distraught teenage Walter fears the effect this will cause and screams for the Major to halt his plan, wanting to taste Alucard’s defeat unaided by outside forces. The Major apologises, his plan is irreversible and concludes that Walter’s only chance to take Alucard down once and for all is lost forever. Alucard closes in on Walter, uncaring as those deadly wires rend him in two. He taunts the boy now, while the Major sits and sings of his victory.

CHAPTER 4 [89] // BLACK ONYX 2

The Major insists that Alucard’s defeat will be at his own hands, only to have the Vampire King scoff at the notion, insisting that a loss on his part would be unthinkable. Until Alucard catches sight of the coming dawn. In shock he looks on at the rising sun, painful memories of his previous deaths being dredged up from the pits of his mind. His body begins to disintegrate into a miasmic assortment of countless eyes all struggling to keep open. The Major snaps his fingers, an insinuation of how briefly Alucard will seize to be. Integra is beside herself, she insists on answers. The Major explains that officer Schrödinger is like the scientific experiment of the same name. That the boy exists in neither one place or another and as such, ingested by Alucard in place of all the lives he’d previously consumed, will now be nothing more than an imaginary number. Neither alive nor dead. Integra screams for Alucard to remain, however the great No Life King wishes his final farewell and disappears forever leaving nothing but his insignia on the cold ground.

CHAPTER 5 [90] // BLACK ONYX 3

Integra stands mortified at the loss of her greatest agent. Centuries of cultivation that made Alucard the great creature he was, lost forever. The Major meanwhile concedes that his raison d'etre is complete, that his longed for victory is finally his. He as won! Integra damns the man for all he’s worth, behind her the zeppelin coming apart in a cacophonous explosion. Seras Victoria emerges ready for battle. In the ruined streets, Walter catches hold Alucard’s cravat and laughs desperately. Questioning if this was really what he wanted. His contemplation cut short, for he is gunned down by a distant assailant. Heinkel insists upon Walter’s death. The failing young retainer struggles to hold on just that little bit longer.

CHAPTER 6 [91] // BLACK ONYX 4

Amidst the clearing smoke and broken glass Seras Victoria stands at the ready. The Major concedes his knowledge that he expected his death to come at the hands of the Hellsing women. Meanwhile a quickly fading Walter staggers back to his feet, bleeding profusely and insisting that this is a fitting end to his traitorous life. In the distance Heinkel makes ready for another shot drunk on revenge. Through the scope of rifle, Walter begs to be shot down. Heinkel opens fire repeatedly and once the bullets are through, charges Walter on foot. The bullet riddled butler, gets back to his feet and begins to turn away, insisting that there is one thing left for him to do. Meanwhile, back aboard the zeppiln, the Major accepts that now that Alucard, his archenemy has been defeated; it is logical for the Hellsing women to make an arch enemy of him. Integra gives the order for Seras to finish him.

CHAPTER 7 [92] // SORCERIAN 1

In a passionate fury, Integra once more orders for Seras to open fire on the Major. The vampiress wastes no time adhering, taking shots with a 88MM anti-aircraft cannon. The effect is shuddering devastation. The zeppelin is all but completely destroyed and Integra advances upon the Major now that his protective glass shield has been destroyed. Amongst the rubble the Major sits, partially ruined, complex parts of machinery spilling out of him. Seras in shock realises, as does Integra at that moment- The Major was nothing more than a complicated cyborg, a machine of war that insists the core of his humanity is imbedded in his sheer will. The Major protests against Alucard, claiming he will never accept him, for he was a monster. Having heard enough, Integra removes her coat and pulls forth a pistol, as does the Major, both taking a shot. Integra loosing her left eye listens to the Major exclaim that he was right and that this was indeed a beautiful war as he explodes into flames.

CHAPTER 8 [93] // SORCERIAN 2

In spite of her pain and suffering Integra watches the Major’s body recoil back from a bullet to the head, his final words still praise for this great war. Overshadowing him, cigar in mouth, Integra grants that his death was needed, that he had gotten exactly as he deserved. Meanwhile within the zeppelin’s research facility, the Doc contemplates not yet having attained his goal, as he stands before The She. His contemplations about science and miracles are cut short as a quickly deteriorating Walter interrupts him, stating that all he has ever created, including himself has been a great failure.

CHAPTER 9 [94] // OBLIVION]

Walter severely battered and surely on his last legs, informs the Doc calmly that this cheap and twisted comedy has certainly come to a close. As he attempts to bring himself to his feet, his botched surgery becomes evident, his fingers and hand break away. Infuriated the Doc refuses to allow Walter to mock everything his research and the battalion stood for, proclaiming that one day he will create a creature to surpass even Alucard. Walter won’t have it, telling him that defective products will cease to exist.

Before the Doc can pull the remote that controlled the demise of all the other agents, Walter relieves him of his arms by aid of his fearsome wires. Upon his falling, the veil hiding The She is removed, revealing a skeleton whose canine teeth are clearly vampiric. A plate bolted to the skull reveals the name of the creature to be ‘Mina’. Walter acknowledges the history of the Doc’s research now. Having exhumed Mina Harker herself to be the catalyst for which all other vampires in Millennium’s employ were created. With a final regret for not having killed Alucard himself, Walter destroys the zeppelin, killing himself and the Doc. Feeling his loss, Integra, exhausted, tells Seras the time has come to return home.

CHAPTER 10 [95 - FINAL] // ROMANCIA

The final chapter opens on a much older Sir Rob Walsh being questioned on the incident in London. Later, a fencing duel is had by two fighters. The set is called, and beneath the fencer’s mask, a now mature Integra Hellsing, in 2030 smiles at her victory. Applause is heard, and she is interrupted by staff from Iscariot whom compliment her arm. Unimpressed, Integra asks the priests to leave. Retreating, Section Chief M’Quve concedes that much of the Vatican’s power has been lost, and that waiting another century would be of little harm to them at this time. Meanwhile Integra’s fencing partner has finally been revealed. The grandson of Sir Penwood inquires of Integra the nature of his grandfather, and if the fantastic stories about his heroics were true.

As Penwood’s grandson retreats, Integra discusses the future of the Hellsing family with Seras complaining that her age reminds her of Walter. Seras however seeks to mimic her Master suggesting that if aging were depressing Integra then she’d happily drink the elder woman’s blood. Only to be booted swiftly in the mouth by her aggravated boss. Thirty years have passed, claims Integra, and although Seras insists that Alucard will return, Integra does not share the optimism.

As the night progresses, and Integra retires to her room, a familiar ambiance appears and watches over her. Razor sharp teeth ready to latch at her exposed throat, the freakish fiend is shot at as Integra bolts upright. The noise alerting Seras who rushes in, gun in arms. In the corner, a sheepish and blood-splattered Alucard complains on the violence of his welcome and the noise Seras makes. Sitting up, Integra enquires as to Alucard’s return. The Vampire King explains of the laborious task it was to kill the lives within him until there as nothing left except one. His own. Integra laments on his lateness for which he apologises, and then asks if the Count is hungry after thirty years..

And thus the story ends…As Integra takes a moment to feed her great servant.