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[The screen flickers on and before it stands a pale creature with black hair and a long white coat. His eyes are red as rubies, lips bloodless pale in a faint smile

He tips his head to the side, hands clasped behind his back and when he speaks the voice is childish, affecting a lilt at the end of his words]

Canada. Aha.

[His tongue is pointed as it darts out to wet his lips]

I see through your trap. Nazis. You’ve mastered killing off your own kind but fail so badly at humor.

[Those red eyes take on an inner glow, burning like hellfire. Shadows thicken and draw forward, velvety fingers licking at his boots, at the shadowed hem of his coat]

I’ll have my Coffin and my human, now. [He looks left. Then right.

Then up.

Then down, back on the NV.

His tone is solemn, scolding, though the smile at the corners of his mouth deepens] No? [His bloodless lips pull back in a ghoulish smile, revealing dainty fangs that grow longer, sharper, two sets of upper canines, two sets of lower canines]

Then I shall huff and puff and tear this whole island down.

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[Alucard noticed, he could sense something near, another vampire? Maybe. Maybe not. He didn't care. His challenge was answered and not in the way he demanded.

He knew they wouldn't return what was his. Not without spilling their blood.

Which was the plan anyway.]

Releasing Control Art Restriction System to level three until target is eliminated. [A sharp increase in his power, the shadows around the white clad figure lick at his boots, at the hem of his coat.]

[Soma circled over the field, before coming to a rest on a lamppost, shifting back to his human form. This kid... was he controlling the Darkness? It looked just like...]

Who are you?

Alucard.

[His eyes glow red as similar eyes of differing shapes open in the shadows around him, watching Soma]

Alu...

[Soma drifted off, feeling something stirring in his chest. A feeling... a memory? He couldn't tell, just that in the moment he left it unchecked, a surge of emotion rushed through him -- love, adoration, hate, and realization -- tipping his balance on the pole.]

No, not the same...

[...but it wasn't really what he wanted to say. It was almost like a reflex, and the feelings faded immediately after.]

Not the same as what?

[He's curious, but no matter.

A sneer curls up the corners of his mouth]

Is this how you intend to fight? No demon familiars? No mastery of shadows? Fine.

[And then he's surging forward, small and fast.]

[Soma had none of that; his imp familiars were gone, as were his other powers. The only soul that remained with him was the Great Bat, not that it would do much good with this tiny thing running for him.]

But he's emitting so much Darkness... you could just take it; he won't notice...

[For a moment, that voice in the back of his head made it sound like a good idea. For a moment, his body took in the Darkness, tendrils from Alucard leaking off into Soma...]

[...and then Soma snapped out of it, using all of his willpower to force it to stop.]

No, I'm doing this my way.

[He pulled his knife from his coat, ignoring the grumbling in the back of his mind as he surged forward to meet Alucard.]

[It delighted Alucard when the boy began to leech his own shadows into himself] Come now, when you have an advantage, press it.

[He saw the flash of the knife's blade and a laugh crawled out of his throat] That? That's it? You intend to scratch me?

[Slowing his attack, he allowed the boy ample opportunity to stab.]

I don't need the Power to Rule to fight just one monster!

[Soma took a practiced swipe at Alucard, his movement obviously brought about by forced training in a battle ground of monsters. But... he's obviously still just a human.]

[And with Soma's words, his actions, Alucard allows the strike, allows his blood to spill under the cutting of the knife and merely watches Soma] You would face me as this? As little more than human? When there is so much more power you could twist to your advantage?

[Soma paused at that, frowning. This kid had ever opportunity to strike out at him, seemed to want to strike out at him, but he wasn't... why? He eased back, watching blood from the blow he landed trickling down, though he never let up his guard.]

I have a dark power. Not evil, but... some parts of it bring me closer to that Darkness than I like.

[He took another step back.]

Look, there are plenty of vampires here that can coexist with humans, and if you can do that, that's fine. There doesn't need to be another person like Eric around here.

[And at that Alucard tilts his head, his grin fading to an ill-pleased expression. One more fight lost.

But this boy, he piqued Alucard's interest]

Hoh, I don't hunt humans. I hunt vampires.

[...wait, what?]

But... on the NV...?

Nazis. [A huffing laugh] They want to engineer supernatural soldiers to win their war. That falls to may domain.

[...well. He felt stupid.]

It's the year two-thousand-twelve. There hasn't been an organized Nazi movement in over sixty years.

So I have been told and am starting to believe.

[A snerk] Disappointing. The promise of war snatched away.

At least we discovered this before I ate you.

[Soma focused him with a sour look.]

I may not be happy with my powers, but I wouldn't have let you eat me.

Let is subjective.

[A faint flash of fangs as he calms down from the high of potential batte.]

Why not fight with your own powers? Will they consume you?

They've... come close, twice. Though it was under special circumstances both times.

I rather not risk it.

Tell me? [More a request than an order]

There is something about them; the way you began to take in my own power. Perhaps we are of a similar nature.

[Soma hesitated, giving the kid a curious look. One moment they were about to kill each other, the next he wanted to know everything about him? Well... he was able to draw in darkness from him really easily... maybe he'd be able to offer some insight on his abilities.]

On my world, Dracula existed. He would return from death every hundred years or so to try and get revenge on humanity. At the turn of the century, he was defeated for good, but...

[He hesitated again; was it really okay to let someone completely new know this? What would Elaine say?]

[...probably something completely vague, and let him know that he had already made up his mind to tell someone.]

...he was reincarnated. As me.

[His eyes widened at the mention of Dracula, mouth curling up into a fanged smile, a barely held back laugh.

At the reincarnation bit he did laugh, it was not pleasant, half mad and brittle like shattered glass.]

Of course, of course! How strange [He began to circle Soma, then, not with a predator's gait, but curiously, though the weight of his gaze was intense.] - improbably, but here we are.

For centuries I bore the name Dracula. [He pauses, hands clasped once more behind his back, in front of Soma] Until my metaphorical death and rebirth as Alucard.

Your ability to feed from my power, the familiarity of it, even with the differences I feel...ahah...hah

[Soma stared, at a loss for what Alucard was saying. It took a long moment for it to sink in, his mouth hanging open in shock. When it finally did, he took a reflexive step back, snapping his jaw shut.]

Y-you're... Dracula.

[He had to say it out loud, just to properly process what he had just heard.]

Of course he's like me. Not the same, not at all.

No, there's something much more there; it's hard to imagine, but he's much more powerful than anything on my world.

[Soma shook himself out of the mental dialogue, forcing himself to relax.]

I... don't even know what else to say. I must look pathetic to you.

[His smile, while half mad, was old and out of place on a child's visage, but there is something approving in it and he reaches out to tap Soma on the nose]

No. You are quite impressive.

To have all that power at your disposal, but the iron will of a true human to not be consumed by it, that is strength. Bravery in the face of impossible odds, facing me with a knife...[He grins wider, mouth full of sharkish fangs]

Never give up on that.

[Soma blinked, his nose twitching rather comically at the tap. He... he just got complimented... for not giving into his dark side. No one had ever done that before. Sure, Mr. Arikado had complimented him for defeating the Heart of Chaos and all that, but no one had ever really praised him for his restraint.]

[He really didn't know how to handle this.]

Ah... thank you.

[A bit of a smile crept up onto his face.]

You are welcome. [A pause] What is your name?

[His curiosity over this boy has piqued even more. Was he on his own? Did he have any idea of how to control his power? Was there a way to snap him out of it should he lose control? He was eager to know.]

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