AN: Well here's the next installment! I hope you enjoy it. Thanks to alucardgal, the only person to review so far. I hope more people review it, please do it people! It makes me want to write... how cheesy does that sound? Oh yeah, sorry if the girl seems a bit Mary Sue-ish, but she is telling Alucard what she can do. She definately isn't a Mary Sue, she's quite clumsy and childish actually P

Disclaimer: I don't own Hellsing... blah blah blah... Kohta Hirano does... blah blah blah...

Tests and Trials of Initiation

The tour was short, uninformative and boring, but it had all the information she needed. Being new, all she wanted was the basic details of the mansion and the grounds that accompanied it.

"So where are we going now? My room isn't near the troop's gym room" The only reply the new girl received was a slightly insane grin from Alucard.

"I don't think I'm going enjoy whatever's coming next." She said. This just made Alucard's grin broader and more sinister. She would have gulped in nervousness, but she knew Alucard would hear her.

They entered the deserted training room and Alucard kept walking until he stopped on the opposite side of a large mat in the centre of the floor.

"Show me your skills." It sounded like an order, so obviously, she growled.

"I don't take orders." She said through her clenched teeth. Although, Alucard noted, they look a tad sharper than normal human teeth.

She crossed her arms over her chest and continued to glare.

"Well if you plan on lasting more than five minutes in this organisation then you will learn to take orders." He said all this with a smirk that grew as the intensity of her glare grew.

"If-" she snarled, "-I were to take orders, it would be from someone who had earned the right to order me. And at the moment, the only person that would refer to would be Sir Hellsing." Her glare lessened at the mention of his master.

Alucard raised a brow at this. "So you are interested in my master?" He smirked again.

She rolled her eyes. "By the look on your face I assume you meant in a romantic sense. So, to that I will say no. I don't know her well enough. But I do respect her. More than anyone else I've met here."

He ignored the jibe aimed at him, while he thought of her reply. So she doesn't like Integra because she doesn't know her? So she is interested then. He chuckled inwardly. She's going to be fun. He grinned outwardly. All the new girl did was roll her eyes again and unfold her arms.

"Moving on." She said firmly.

"As you wish." He grinned pointedly at her. "Show me your skills." He repeated, although with less of a demanding tone. But this was only because she had provided him with some valuable information about herself.

She dropped her glare and stiff posture into something more relaxed. "What did you have in mind? I've got lots of skills" She grinned slightly in an arrogant way, and he got a better look at her teeth – more fang-like than teeth, he thought, how intriguing.

"Your physical talents then." She heard the slight suggestion and decided to not even dignify that with a response.

"Well," she brought her hand up to start listing things off on her fingers. " to start with, there are my basic superior skills like: strength, speed, stamina, agility, endurance and the like."

Alucard didn't comment, surprisingly, so she continued.

"I don't know if this counts as physical or not, or if it's even relevant, but I'm good at singing, and most things artistic."

"Not bad" he replied "Now, what of your magical abilities?" he looked slightly more curious – probably wondering if I'll be a worthy opponent, she thought.

"Well, I can conjure almost anything I want, whenever I want. So that means I can change my clothes at will. I think I can change my physical appearance too, but I've never tried, although, like yours, my appearance changes with the different levels of power I use, but I don't control it."

She paused again, and he nodded, signalling for her to continue. He actually looked interested. Wow, she thought.

"I can also do pretty much any elemental-style attack. Fireballs, ice attacks and such, and I can create shields. The rest you have to find out for yourself" With that final comment, she winked.

"So what are we gonna do now?" she asked as she rocked back and forth on her heals, looking around the gym.

"Now the fun begins." He answered, grinning menacingly. She just stared at him with a confused look.

"Do you think I was going to trust you to tell me the truth? My master told me to have a sparring match to test your skills."

"But I'm not in the mood to spar." She whined. "Especially with you. You're not gonna go easy on me 'cause I'm tired are you?"

His continual grin answered that better than any words could have.

She sighed and got into position. She had her feet apart, shifting her weight from one foot to the other, but only balancing on the balls of her feet. Her hands me raised in front of her in fists. She wasn't sure how Alucard was going to fight, but in this position if he used a magic attack she could dodge and counter.

I hope he doesn't get too physical; he'd probably over-power me. Damn him. She thought.

Quickly, quicker than she could see, Alucard had got behind her and whispered in her ear "Aren't you faster than that?"

But after the word "aren't" she swivelled and tried to punch him in the face. He grabbed her fist with ease. A slight frown marred his face.

"Move faster" he growled. This shocked her slightly, and she tried to pull her arm free, but to no avail. He started to crush her wrist, and she hissed in pain.

"You think because this is a test I won't hurt you? I won't break your arm?" he sneered, "Show me your powers or you're going to get seriously injured." Alucard spoke those words of warning with dead seriousness, and added more pressure to her slowly breaking wrist.

Great, she thought, I'm acting like some pathetic human girl; I better start thinking like I normally do. Her eyebrows creased together in a frown, then she smirked at Alucard with a leer not unlike his own.

She summoned some of her supernatural strength and agility, and used it to pull her wrist free and flip backwards, out of his reach for now.

"Better" was the only praise she received before he was back to business. She only had a few seconds to summon her power. She called upon almost all of her power, and closed her eyes slightly, revelling in the feel of power running through her veins again.

This was her mistake. Alucard came up behind her again, and took hold of her wrists and pinning them together behind her back.

"Shit" she said aloud. "I must be getting rusty if I'm making this many mistakes already."

"I don't mind." He said as he lazily licked her exposed neck. "It just means I get a free meal."

"What?" she exclaimed loudly "I thought the seals prevented you from drinking from people?"

"Oh they do. But this counts as a fight, and I am allowed to do as I please when I fight." She felt him grin.

"So you win if you bite my neck?" she felt him grin more and nod. "So how do I win?" she questioned, shivering slightly as her licked her neck more.

"Well you can always try and bite my neck. I'm sure you'd enjoy that." He chuckled. She growled, and then smirked. "Fine" was the last word exchanged.

She tried to elbow him in the stomach, but his grip was firm and unyielding. She even tried to edge away, but that attempt was more for amusement. While he was nibbling on her neck she tried stamping on his feet, but being bare-foot and with him wearing boots, she didn't get very far.

She growled in annoyance, at him and at herself. I'm stronger! I know I am! Damn him! It doesn't matter though, she thought.

Alucard was in the process of sinking his fangs into her neck, when he realised he couldn't taste any blood, or even skin. He opened his eyes to see mist hovering where the girl had just been standing.

"You didn't tell me about this little trick" he commented smirking slightly.

"Like I was going to tell you everything. I knew we were going to fight, why else would we be in a gym?" The mist cloud moved to the other side of the mat and changed back into the new girl. She stuck her tongue out at him in the most immature way she could manage.

Surprisingly, his retort was to stick out his own tongue, which was much longer than hers.

"Cheat" she said childishly, crossing her arms again.

He just grinned and launched himself at her once more. But this time, with her supernatural reflexes to counteract his own vampiric speed.

When he tried to sink his fangs into her neck, she managed to move to one side slightly so he scraped her shoulder, and she tried to bite his neck.

They both withdrew, taking a look at the damage. The new girl had quite a deep gash in her right shoulder, and its blood was staining Alucard's lips as he slowly licked it up, apparently enjoying the taste.

"Exquisite and obviously not human" he commented. She grinned at him.

He looked at the scratch she had inflicted, and it had indeed been on his neck. She had won.

"It's a shame I didn't get to taste any. Perhaps I could clean the cut for you?" she offered, pulling a face when she saw it close.

"Spoil sport." She muttered.

He chuckled but said, "Seeing as you are not human, what are you? You're obviously no filthy FREAK vampire, but nor are you a true vampire, like myself."

She just winked and said "Perhaps I'll tell you sometime." With that she left. She stopped at the door. "If you're good." She added with another wink. He chuckled as she headed for her room and a good nights sleep, and he went to his master to report the obvious skill of Hellsing's newest weapon.