HELLSING Chapter 8 "Lunatic Dawn"

Lunatic Dawn (ルナティックドーン,) is the eighth chapter of Hellsing: Volume 9. It is also the Seventy-Sixth chapter of the Hellsing manga.

Summary
As Walter comes out of the smoke caused by the crash of corpses Baskerville, Luke and Alucard, the Angel of Death states that it's over as he ensnares Alucard, dismembering his body and slicing his body in half as he twists his head around. Tired, the tie keeping Walter's hair clean drops and Walter begins to bleed again, and drops down as he holds his arm and grabs a pole near the ground. Moving towards Alucard's body, he stabs Alucard through the heart. Walter won. Won against Luke Valentine that is, as the man who he had impaled his heart with a pole was actually Luke. He was fooled.

Shocked and moving backwards, he was met by a pat on the shoulder and then a punch in the face as his body reverts back to his 14-year old self. In response to his body slowly regressing, Alucard too turns back into a form he had over 55 years ago when he and Walter was on a mission to destroy a secret project held by The Major. As he continues to mock the Angel of Death, the Deus Ex Machina behind them begins to explode, taking both of their attention away from each other; to the zeppelin.

As Integra continues to walk over the hallways of the Machina, both she and Seras kills every enemy that stands between their way of finishing this massacre. Only to be met by The Captain at the end of the hallway...

Climax
The battle between the Ultimate Vampire and the Angel of Death is near at its end, with the crash of the corpse of Baskerville which held Alucard and Luke in its mouth, Walter states that he has Alucard cornered. Now, coming out of the smoke caused by the crash of that giant hellhound's corpse, Walter pulls all the Monofilament Wires he placed onto the hounds of Baskerville's corpse and Luke Valentine's, and shouts at Alucard who stood still near the end of the smoke that it's over. Surrounded by the corpses of his former familiar, Alucard turns his head around and says that it's time for their farcical dance to end.

Shortly there after, Walter then slices both of Alucard's arms, and then legs to ribbons as he puts Alucard's remains in place; reducing him nothing but a torso. As he twists Alucard's body around; rendering more pain to the No-Life King who had run out of all the lives he had in him; therefore, couldn't regenerate from this. Then, he slams the palm of his right hand which held and twisted Alucard's body; ripping Alucard in half. Shortly there after, Walter then twists Alucard's head around; it was an overkill at Walter's part and Walter begins to get tired, taking a deep breath as the tie that placed his hair begins to get loose and eventually, his nose bleeds as he drops to the floor.

Sweating all over the place and on his knees, Walter puts all the energy he has into grabbing a pole on the ground and stabbing Alucard through the heart with it; finishing him off. He did so while saying "his heart" twice as he breathes heavily. But however, the corpse of Alucard smiles and he has the feeling that this isn't even him. Upon seeing Alucard's body shifting into the corpse of Luke Valentine, he was then shocked and scared; stepping backwards as he glares at his corpse. Then suddenly, he was met by a pat from behind and then heard "Yup, too bad you screwed up. I had thought I was all out. But half-eaten dog bait's surprisingly good" and then took a strike to the fake so hard that it pushed him to the ground as the familiar face smiles manically in doing so.

Welcome back, Walter
As Walter falls to the ground full of rubbles and parts of buildings, Alucard, with the form of a little girl tells the "Black One" to stand up, and calling him "boy" to mock him, Alucard says the he can't just give up after getting hit by a punch once. Alucard then states that, that's what he gets for becoming a vampire through a nasty procedure of which he calls a "No-good hack," then says that regeneration and healing takes a huge toll on his body, then asks about what'll happen to him next. Alucard, smiling as he's shrouded in shadow says that he bets he can't even keep that form sustained, then questions if he'll return back to being an old man, or maybe... he'll be a kid again. He was correct, Walter regressed back to a kid as he bleeds while his deformed face regenerates.

Welcoming the kid back, Alucard says that it's been sixty years. Then in response, Walter tells him to stop toying with him; only for Alucard to say that he's toying, not him. Alucard states that he's just playing along with his show; his child's play. He then goes on to remind Walter that appearance and shape holds no meaning to him and says that Walter's a slow learner as he again calls Walter a boy. Alucard then states that this kind of thing's a kid fight, and so; look, they're both kids. Him and Walter. As the panel cuts to a bayonet of Anderson stuck on the floor Alucard states that it's the essence of conflict; "Unless you beat it down, you can't be yourself."

For that, Alucard states that Walter overturn anything and everything in a sacrifice sale, and yes, like him 500 years ago and like Walter right now; like Anderson, like the Major. Alucard then proceeds to ask if Walter wanted to fight him because otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to take a single step; then asks if he even know which way to go to do so. He then continues to ask Walter questions, if he's afraid to become useless and such, then asks if he fears about becoming old; fearing old age, fearing to be left behind and then says that everything Walter had stated about being "John Bull" is bullshit, then once again states that he's the one who's toying. As the darkness that covered Alucard's face except for his body begins to fade away as his face smiles, Alucard states that Walter's no more than just a little punk- a scrawny little punk who hasn't changed a bit in the last sixty years. So, Alucard tells to bring it on as he goes into a combat pose and calling Walter... a punk bitch.

However, just as the two are ready for the next round; the Deus Ex Machina behind them explodes and erupts in flames that caught the attention of both of them; with Walter being the one shocked and filled with regret, and Alucard with joy and satisfaction. As the hat Alucard wore flew away due to the explosion radius that caused a huge wind, Alucard manically smiles in satisfaction before again, mocking Walter over the fact that everything Walter did is all coming down to nothing; as he wishes. Before that however, he says that; that's what he call "showy" to Integra and Seras. It's about time for the climax- Alucard states that it's Hellsing's turn. At the Deus Ex Machina, Integra calmly walks at the last line of defense set by the Letzte Bataillon and Millennium.

Meanwhile, in the Deus Ex Machina
As she slowly walks towards them to put an end to their 50-year long misery, she was shot at but the bullets were quickly blocked by the shadow of Seras Victoria. Then soon, Seras Victoria launches herself from Integra's back, to the line of defense; swiftly punching one of the members so hard that his head explodes into pieces. However, one of the members managed to lose the grip of Seras and launches himself at Integra as she pulls out the Hellsing Family Saber to duel with the soldier. While it seems that the soldier has the upper hand, Integra quickly slices the man's soldier as soon as he lander; sending forward a rain of blood which caught Integra's face as the soldier dies. Soon as Seras murders the last line of Battalion, one of the members that was alive stares at Seras and with a smile, states that she'll be his death; "our" death, then was soon brutally killed too.

As both of them takes a look at the corpses of the battalion members, they soon realizes that all of them dies with a smile on their faces; they're glad to die. Integra was quick to realize this; stating that they came here just to simply die at the hands of somebody. In a fit of rage on why would they wait 50 years for somebody to kill them, put an end to their misery, ect. Seras says that if they want to die so much, why don't they just put a rope on their neck fifty years ago; hang themselves. Only to receive an answer by the Major as someone stands at the end of the hallway that Seras and Integra is in.

The Major states that they could never kill themselves; that's how incorrigible they are. He then states that no one in the world has any use for them; everyone in the world is trying to forget them; but even so, they need themselves for the sakes of themselves. Then, he goes on stating that they dont' want to just die- they want anything but that, something more is desperately needed for their deaths; thus they've come this far, come all the way. As the Major states that there must still be something more- still a place where they can fight, still an enemy somewhere they can fight as the world is wide, filled with menace and wonder; rich and brimming with conflict and order- they thought that there must surely be in this world; a battlefield sufficient enough to support them, Seras sees in the end of the hallway that there appears to be someone familiar waiting for them.

Characters

 * Walter C. Dornez
 * Alucard
 * The Captain
 * Arthur Hellsing
 * Sir Hugh Irons
 * The Doctor
 * Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing
 * Seras Victoria
 * The Major

Organizations

 * Millennium Organization
 * Hellsing Organisation