Gregory was not a fool. He knew his mistress had sent him to England expecting him and his sister to die there. Gregory was happy and willing to die for his mistress, but really preferred not to. He had hit upon a plan that would fulfill the Death Eaters' request and give him the best chance of making back to his mistress.
Long before Vanessa began her terribly obvious attack upon the normal hospital, Gregory slipped through the backdoor into St. Mungo's. He then began to turn the inhabitants, in singles and pairs, into ghouls. These he had hide themselves, and he had gained control of the hospital in short order. With the low number of patients it took in at night, Gregory figured he could be well away before the daytime's business brought enough wizards there that someone would get away to inform the Ministry that their hospital was filled with man-eating ghouls. He rather thought the question of how many people entered seeking treatment only be devoured alive would prove the horror that Death Eater requested. At worst, the Hellsing troops would just find them early, after killing off Vanessa, and he'd have less of a head start. That wouldn't be ideal, but better than a standup fight with the group.
Unfortunately, ward 49 provided a problem. Apparently, an insane human resulted in an insane ghoul. Not that ghouls weren't off the deep end anyway, but he couldn't have one ignoring orders and wandering off into the street, tipping off the authorities early. Fortunately, Gregory had a modicum of talent at meddling with minds. In ones and twos, he regressed the patients back to before their minds snapped, then drained them. It was quite easy to know when that point had been reached, they always asked where they were.
Hm, the next two in line were married; he'd take those two together. Their first (and last) normal thoughts would be the knowledge that their beloved spouse was being killed right before their eyes. . .
Alice Longbottom had no idea what was happening. At one moment, Bellatrix Lestrange was threatening her and her husband with the Cruciatus Curse if they didn't reveal Voldemort's location. The next thing she knew, she was staring at what was quite obviously a vampire. Auror training rushing to the front of her mind, Alice leapt to the side and rolled. In the moment of surprise before the vampire responded, Alice had ripped a wand from the coat of a ghoul that once was a healer, and had it pointed at the undead. Beyond the vampire, she saw her husband Frank holding another hastily acquired wand. As one, they quickly chanted.
The vampire moved with inhuman speed to kill Alice, only to discover, to its horror, that the very act of casting an anti-vampire charm rendered a witch impervious to vampire attack. Of course, most vampires killed one before they got a chance to start casting, but Alice and her husband, trained by the aurors and skills honed in the war against Voldemort, had, despite the sudden change of location and surprise confrontation, managed to get the drop on their assailant. Gregory vanished in an explosion of ashes.
Alice nodded to her husband. The ghouls were next.
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