Alucard was walking through the countryside, his hands clasped behind his back, his golden hair almost glowing in the morning light. He could hear the birds chirping and the world starting to wake up, a perfect time for someone to contemplate.

Hearing his mother had almost gotten burned at the stake before his father managed to save her certainly gave him a lot to think about. He knew the church had done a lot of unforgivable things, but attempting to kill a woman of science, his own mother, was a step too far.

Quite frankly, that wasn't all that was on his mind. He didn't know what to do with his life. He couldn't just stay at his father's castle for the rest of his life, reading books and practicing swordsmanship, but then where did that leave him?

So lost in thought he almost doesn't hear it, but luckily his vampiric hearing picks it up. The small cracking of a twig. He follows after the noise, his footsteps soundless in the forest, when his eyes finally land on you