02x01 - A Living Legend

[bunniefuu]

- [wind blowing softly]
- [sand rasping]

[mysterious music plays]

[sand whooshing]

[vampires exhale]

[snarling]

[snarls]

[Alucard] You can
let me through peacefully.

Or I can k*ll every one of you.

Your choice.

- [exciting music plays]
- [vampires panting]

- [vampires snarl]
- [squelch]

[vampire groans]

[yells]

[music fades]

[mysterious music plays]

[dramatic sting]

[sniffs] Hmm.

[crackling]

[high-pitched shriek rises, booms]

[gasps in pain]

[disorienting hum rises, fades]

[woman grunts]

[exciting music plays]

[both grunt]

[all grunting]

- [grunts]
- [blades clang]

Huh? [grunts]

[both grunt]

[grunts]

[yells]

- [Alucard grunts]
- [yells]

[bats screeching]

[both grunting]

[groaning]

- [body thuds]
- [gasps in surprise]

[yells]

[music fades]

[gasping softly in surprise]

[gasps wetly]

[groans]

[mysterious music plays]

[music intensifies]

You make me k*ll every last one of you,

but then there's nothing f*cking here.

[ominous sting]

[theme music plays]

[music fades]

[dramatic sting]

[birds chirping]

[solemn music plays]

{\an8}Why not keep the world in darkness
forever and destroy it all at once?

{\an8}She must have exhausted her power.

{\an8}We should attack again now

{\an8}while she's weak.

{\an8}[Alucard] She's not weak.

{\an8}I'm sorry I didn't get here sooner.

{\an8}Who did you lose?

{\an8}[Richter] Her mother.

{\an8}Though she's not exactly dead.

{\an8}I'm sorry.

{\an8}I know how she feels.

{\an8}I found a well.

{\an8}There are places we can sleep
which are dry enough.

{\an8}There's a hearth, too,
where we can light a fire and cook.

{\an8}[Richter] Thanks, Mizrak.

{\an8}How much do you know
about Erzsebet Bathory?

{\an8}She absorbed the power of an Egyptian
goddess called Sekhmet.

{\an8}Which apparently
is a lot of f*cking power.

{\an8}I went to find the source of it.

{\an8}Her power.

{\an8}Perhaps it would be a key to a weakness.

{\an8}A way to destroy her.

{\an8}I found a temple half-buried
in the Egyptian desert.

{\an8}Half temple, half tomb, in fact.

{\an8}Sekhmet's tomb.

{\an8}You mean the goddess is dead?

{\an8}[Alucard] Dead for thousands of years.

{\an8}Her blood, however,
is still stored in the temple.

{\an8}Goddess blood stays fresh, I suppose.

Why did they keep her blood?

So that one day, Sekhmet
could return to Earth and rule again,

as she did at the dawn of time.

Which meant someone drinking the blood.

Someone it would not destroy.

Erzsebet.

She's very powerful.

I threw everything I had at her,
but she brushed it aside.

We had to run.

Do you have a plan?

An Egyptian deity has two souls,
called the ba and the ka.

The first is present in the blood.

The second is in the goddess's heart,
which is preserved in her mummy.

She gave her heart to her mother?

[grunts in confusion]

It's an ancient pagan practice.
A preserved desiccated corpse.

[Richter] Oh. Uh, sounds lovely.

[Alucard] But are grounds for hope.

{\an8}Centuries ago, the mummy was stolen.

{\an8}Drolta was Sekhmet's High Priestess

{\an8}and did everything she could
to conceal this fact.

I spent the last few years tracking it,

the tomb robbers, their descendants,

across Africa and then to Europe,

finally, France.

I believe it's in Paris now,

where I must go to destroy it.

And I could use some help, Richter.

You're a Belmont, after all.

[Richter sighs softly]

[birds chirping]

{\an8}[solemn music plays]

When I am strong again,

I will make him grovel
and piss himself in terror.

I will cut his half-breed head
from his half-breed neck

and tie it to my chariot
for all the world to see.

Alucard, son of Dracula,

vanquished by my power.

How dare you leave me all alone.

[music fades]

[footsteps approaching]

He's a living legend who's known
my family for hundreds of years.

And he appears from nowhere,

saying I should go with him
on this important mission to fight evil.

And I'm a Belmont. How can I refuse?

But I know Maria won't come.

She won't leave Tera.

And you don't want to leave Maria.

She'll want revenge.

On the Abbot, on Erzsebet,
which will get her k*lled.

I could tell her this plan.

Going to Paris is the way to get revenge,
win this w*r, but suppose it isn't?

Staying here to be defeated again
isn't a plan at all.

[inhales deeply, exhales]

[inhales deeply]

- [gentle music plays]
- [Annette sighs]

- [birds chirping]
- [solemn music plays]

[Erzsebet] Speaker woman.

"Think what a powerful servant
you would be," you said.

You do magic.

Do some magic.

[whooshes]

[groans in pain, grunts]

[growls]

[Tera grunts, gasps]

- [Tera gasping]
- "Loyal too," you said.

As if you could be another Drolta.

[Tera whimpers, gasps]

- [sizzles]
- [cries out in pain]

- [ice crackling]
- [grunts]

[Tera gasps]

- [groaning]
- [Erzsebet grunts]

You are not Drolta.

But perhaps I have a use for you.

[panting]

[Erzsebet] The Abbott,

the man who loves you
but sacrificed you to me,

go to him.

Bring him to me, now.

[Tera pants]

Machecoul's a long way.

I don't know if I can keep
making ice that far.

Find out.

[ice crackling]

- [mysterious music plays]
- [Tera gasps softly]

[music fades]

[church bell tolling]

[Abbot] Give them eternal rest, O Lord.

And let the eternal light shine upon them.

[night creature snarls]

[solemn organ music playing]

[Abbot] May they rest in peace
through the mercy of God.

{\an8}Amen.

No songs today.

Why is that?

I'm sorry that all your friends are dead.

How can a creature like you be sorry?

[snarls uncertainly]

The girl from Saint-Domingue,
she was your friend.

You remember her, don't you?

Yes.

That is not possible.

These men died
because they believed in you.

So you pray for them, hoping it will help.

But not for us.

The night creatures you will burn
because you think we offend your God.

You are devils from hell,
and that's where you'll return.

What would be the point of prayers?

And when the time comes,
you will see me there.

[gasps]

[gasps] Tera.

- [magic humming]
- [ice crackling]

[Tera panting]

[eerie music playing]

Aren't you going to tell me
how strangely beautiful I look?

[gasps softly]

[shudders]

We saved our little girl.

Did we?

The Vampire Messiah
demands your attendance.

[sinister sting]

[scoffs]

So, of course, she sends you.

And is she your messiah now?

What does she want?

She wants you to come when she calls.

You still love her?

Maria?

Even now you're a vampire?

- Of course I love her!
- [sinister sting]

Stay away from Maria, Tera.

If you harm her now,
your sacrifice will have been for nothing.

Oh, what a loving father you are.

[ominous music plays]

[night creature snarls]

[shovel rasps]

[night creatures snarling]

[night creatures bellowing, snarling]

[gate creaks, thuds]

[Abbot] No.

What will you do if I don't cage you?

Will you do more than just sing?

[footsteps approaching]

[sighs]

Whatever happens with your mother, Maria,
it won't bring you peace.

She's a vampire. We have to accept that.

Just like that?

No, no. Sorry.
Of course not just like that.

And don't talk as if my mother
matters to you as much as she does to me.

You chose to leave her there.

[sighs]

It was her choice, Maria.
And it was a choice between her and you.

{\an8}No. You needed to escape.

And you were only able to take me with you
because I was unconscious.

You ran away, Richter.

It's what you do.

So, run away to Paris.

I don't want you here anyway.

[sighs]

[haunting music playing]

- [music fades]
- [Tera gasps]

[pants]

[inhales deeply]

[Olrox] Welcome to immortality.

[footsteps approaching]

[Tera] What do you want?

Have you fed yet?

It's impossible to fight it,

but it doesn't make you an animal.

You're not just a beast
consumed by lust for blood.

You have a mind which can think
and a heart which can love.

I could tell her what a treacherous little
snake you are. That's why you're here.

Well, you can relax.

I'm not going back to Erzsebet.

[Olrox] I see.

That's good.
You're following your heart then.

But you might want to eat something first.

[footsteps approaching]

- [man mumbling]
- [ominous music playing]

[Tera gasps]

[gasps]

[growls softly]

[grunts]

[footsteps approaching]

[tense music plays]

[shrieks]

- [blade rasps]
- [music fades]

[blade rasps]

[blade rasps]

[blade rasps]

What are they?

Really?

Vampires.

Me and Richter,

we used to think it was fun,

which is stupid,

to k*ll them.

They were just evil things
there to be k*lled.

What's it like to have one as your father?

[Alucard] You mean, are they all evil?

Well, they're not all Erzsebet Bathory.

My father, in the end...

I believe there was good in him.

[gentle, intriguing music plays]

He loved my mother, and that made him...

not evil, at least.

I've known human men who were far worse.

Like my father.

- He's a Forgemaster.
- [chuckles softly]

Families, eh?

So, love?

Love can redeem them.

Love is a fragile, capricious thing
in this cold, fleeting world.

But if anything
can redeem anyone, then yes.

Love.

Probably.

What happened to your father in the end?

I k*lled him.

- [military drum beat plays]
- [gasps]

The National Guard.

- I know who they are.
- The Revolutionary Army.

The government in Paris
must have sent them to join us.

[ominous music plays]

[magic humming, whooshing]

[mysterious music playing]

[ghostly voices whispering]

[music fades]

You said there's a light in the darkness,
but I can't see any light.

We lost.

We lost completely.

There was a power down there.

It swept Papa Legba aside like a cobweb.

Papa Legba is the gatekeeper, Annette,

who opens and closes the portals
to the spirit world.

- You need to go further.
- [steady drum beat plays]

Beyond Papa Legba, through the gate.

Listen. Look.

Hear. See.

Why did you give this task to me?

You are much more powerful than me.
You should have come yourself.

Hear.

See.

- Hear what? See what?
- [whooshing growing louder]

- [drum beat intensifies]
- [snarling]

[roars]

[groans in pain]

[dramatic, eerie music playing]

[music fades]

[pants]

[shudders]

[Richter] Annette.

Are you all right?

Maria doesn't want me here.

So we should go.

Mizrak will keep an eye on her.

And there's someone else
who can come and protect her.

[elegant classical music playing]

Countess.

Your Magnificence.

[snarls]

We need to discuss our next steps.

We agreed our first objective should be
the Revolutionary stronghold of Nantes.

[Erzsebet] Ugh. Your trivial plan.

No.

When we are ready, we march on Paris.

Cut this revolution's head off.

I believe they're fond of beheadings.

But that isn't why I summoned you here.

You did not summon me.

You asked me to come, and I agreed.

How many of your hell-beasts did you lose?

More than I would have wished,
but I can make more.

You, too, suffered some losses.

Your monks are all dead. Use them.

No.

[ominous sting]

I won't do that.

It seems, sometimes,
the creature retains its soul.

And those were Christian men.

I will let them rest in peace,

if God wills it.

They're not simply your servants then.

They will do as I command.

[tense string music playing]

You could bring her back.

And she would still be herself.

[gasps]

She's a vampire. She was undead.

I don't know if the machine
can work with such material.

You are suffering, grieving.

And your servant's death
is difficult to accept.

I do not accept it.

[gasps]

And you have the means
to return her to me.

You will do so.

But she's a vampire.
What I said about returning their souls?

She doesn't have a soul.

[scoffs]

You think that's the difference
between us, don't you, Father Abbot?

You and your monks have souls,
and we do not.

Bring her back.

[music fades]

[footsteps approaching]

Edouard's made his choice, Annette.

You'll see him again.

Where's Maria?

At least I can say goodbye to her.

She ran off to meet
the Revolutionary Army.

I'll go after her if you wish.

[sighs] Well, if it's the National Guard,
she'll be in her element,

catching up on the news about Paris,

debating them to death
about God knows what.

Tell her we looked for her,
and we'll see her again too.

Tell her...

[chuckles softly]

Don't tell her anything.

When all this is over,

I'll tell her myself.

[somber string music playing]

[disorienting hum]

[ghostly exhale]

- [clunking loudly]
- [chaotic organ music playing]

[thuds loudly]

[thud echoes]

[hissing]

[mechanisms whirring]

[gasps exultantly]

[creaking]

[unsettling string music playing]

[door slides open]

[dramatic sting]

[eerie music playing]

[shudders]

[moans contentedly]

The Vampire Messiah
welcomes you back from hell.

Father Forgemaster.

This was very kind.

But I hope you don't expect me
to obey you.

As always, I have one mistress
and one mistress alone.

- And she has a world to conquer.
- [eerie music rising]

[music fades on discordant note]

[solemn, haunting music plays]

[music fades]