HELLSING Chapter 11 "Castle Vania (1)"

Castle vania (1) is the Eleventh chapter of Hellsing: Volume 8. It is also the Sixty-Eighth chapter of the Hellsing manga. It is the First part of the Castle vania series of chapters.

Summary
As the flames burn around him, Alucard looks back on his life and the past that led to where he was now.

Synopsis
Alucard, as he is consumed in flames, sees a figure. Wondering who it is, he recognizes it as himself years earlier. As a young man in Walachia, he would pray daily for God's mercy as the King would mercilessly violate him. As time passed, Dracula began to believe that God only answered the prayers of those who fought for him, and so he fought. In the end, it was not enough, and his men were killed and he was captured and sentenced to death. As he knelt there, he would witness before him the blood of others pooling around him, drawing toward him, and a voice calling out to him. Giving in to his weakness, he drank of the blood, and his head was removed. But he did not die. A brief flash of The Major in World War II insinuates a similar predicament but a different outcome. Then, he sees in the flames Seras Victoria, his Draculina...

Appearances (In Order)

 * Alucard
 * The Major
 * Seras Victoria

Organizations

 * Iscariot (Vatican Section XIII)
 * Hellsing Organisation

Trivia

 * The Chapter "Castle Vania" is an obvious homage to the game "Castlevania" by Konami. The Game centers around the Belmont Family as they face off against the villainous Vlad Ţepeş, also known as Dracula. In this game, the Belmonts, who claim to be distant relatives of the Helsing Family, swear an oath to stand against Dracula every time he rises.
 * Ironically, the Castlevania series features their own version of Alucard, though this version of the character is not Dracula himself, but the son of Dracula and a woman named Lisa; Adrian Fahrenheit Ţepeş. Much like Alucard in Hellsing, Alucard was known for using a pistol in combat and stood against the evil Dracula with the Belmonts. Upon destroying the Count, a guilty Alucard puts himself into a slumber until 1797 when a Belmont fails to appear to end the threat of the return of the Castlevania. Alucard would once more team up with the Belmonts, this time with Richter Belmont to defeat his father once again.