NOTE: This is mature for a reason. Language - actions - and possible sexual scenes in later chapters.

"The color of the world had turned dark on me~ falling free. Losing my reflection and my clarity~ talk to me.
I feel the sickness taking over me~ let me be. Imagining that you are here with me."
-Killing Time by Infected Mushroom

A body arose from the window seat in a fast motion, siting up straight as if suddenly startled from a dream. Their eyes darted around the lit room, the outside light casting from behind them being the sun, and saw the same old room that they've come to know since the age of eight. A sigh left their lips as they stood up, staggering a little as they walked through the room and out the door then into the bathroom. Raising both hands, the girl gave her eyes a rub before turning fully to the mirror. Half open green orbs stared back due to still being half asleep along with messy black hair draping around her face and over her shoulders. Marble like skin graced the features, no acne nor the scar she had come accustomed to seeing, on the skin. The reflection was beautiful and she could not help but reach out to the girl staring back, finger tips touching the cheek on the mirror surface. Slowly the same hand with drawled and landed on flesh, fingers running down to lips then neck and finally touching stands of smooth raven colored hair.

The dream.. it really happened? Or is this still a dream?

Now wide awake Ash leaned forward- closer to the mirror, practically climbing the sink to do so as her feet left the ground. She tilted her head left and right, up then down, and opened her mouth to reveal small elongated incisors. Her gaping mouth grew into a smile as her cheeks became warm,'This is really me.' she thought excitedly. Leaning back to her feet once again she looked down and saw her sleepwear- tight black tank top and baggy NMbC bottoms. The outfit seemed to fit better then ever before due to her new body structure.

Ash hurried out of the bathroom and down the stairs, noting that the living room was spotless and that the furniture occupying the space was not the same, before running back up the stairs to the hallway. She stood at the first door that lined up the interior wall and stared at the doorknob. This was her mothers room, a room she avoided as much as possible, and she didn't know what to expect to be waiting for her on the other side.. Finally she turned the knob and opened the door wide. The entire room was empty - not even a bed or dresser to be seen. This was her house, everything about it was identical with one exception; anything related to her mother never existed as well as her mother. Ash stood there with a blank expression..

As if on cue, a large white snout nudged her palm, pressing against it enough that it caused her hand to subconsciously pet its head. Her hand stopped between the long white ears by the time green eyes glanced down. The white wolf from her dream stood next her and he was no longer massively large but about the proper size of a grown male wolf. Ash slide her hand down the slop of his head to his shoulder blades, repeating the processes as her lips lifted into a smile. 'No drunk, drug abusive, whore claiming to be my mother anymore - that is perfectly fine by me.'

"Say, do you have a name?" she asked while crouching down, leveling with golden eyes.

"I have been called many names." was his reply. Stepping forward the male wolf turned and sat down in front of Ash. Instead of sitting she went from crouching to leaning forward on her knees, wrapping her arms around the wolf's neck before continuing to run her fingers through his fur while looking past him to the bare window. This wolf allowed her freedom from hell, gave her a opportunity to become something more- a new person and new powers. A new life.

"How about Kiba? I've seen many canine characters use that name and in Japanese it means 'fang'. In fact you almost look identical to one of those characters so I think it is fitting. You will be my guardian- a weapon in means of protection, so.. what do you say? Does 'fang' work for you?" Ash asked as she leaned her head against her new canine companion while waiting for his answer.

"Any name you give me, M'lady, I will be happy with." She should of saw that coming. Ash leaned back while chuckling softly, her green eyes meeting with gold. She gave his head a rub like you do to a kid before lifting up to stand straight. "Kiba it is then."

Ash turned to leave the room, leaving the door ajar, and quietly walked down the hall to her own room. Kiba following her and sat down by her computer chair in which she currently occupied.

"So, am I the only one that can hear you?"

"Yes."

"Do I attend school anymore?"

"Only if you want to. It would be useless to do so though."

The girl let out a sigh as she leaned back into the chair. So much was different and she didn't know if she should be jumping at this moment or chewing at her nails. School was her only means of a meal, the cafeteria being free to serve to students, since the only thing that lady bought was booze and drugs. The only good thing her mother did was pay the bills and rent. So now what? How was she going to sustain herself and keep electricity and water on?

As Ash was contemplating getting a job - going over options of which fast food joint would give her the least headache, a thought occurred. Jumping out of her seat she stumbled a little to gain her footing before dashing to her closet. She slung the doors open and began to dig through the clothes. Some of it familiar while some was not, in fact.. Ash paused as her hand held the sleeve of the jacket from the 'dream' realm. She pulled it off the hanger and toss it to her bed decided that will be apart of her outfit. While she continued to scan through her clothing she spoke up.

"So um, Kiba.. why is that I am stumbling around so much since I got here? Is gravity different in a anime world?" she recalled having to catch her footing twice this morning. Being clumsy was not common for her but she doubted that a 'anime' universe would be any different once you lived in it. Well, unless it was a crazy anime show.

"To make your body capable of running the speed you wished for I had to lower your body mass. A human, by physical standards, can run up to 40 mph. This is what scientist have come to understand even though the fastest human on record could only reach 28 mph. You can now run 40 mph without straining your body." Kiba answered as he sat there, watching her.

Ash pulled out the torn up black jeans while he was talking and walked over to the bed, only pausing to think on his words when he finished. 'So I weigh super light now? Alright, I guess.' she accepted that. What could be so wrong with that? She'd learn soon enough the down falls.

"Is there anything else I should know about?"

"Not that I have not already explained M'lady."

"You know you don't have to say 'M'lady' all the time. You can just call me.." she trailed off. Not ever being in a predicament to choose her own nickname or tell someone her actual name, well in this manner anyways. Other then with teachers, police officers, and doctors of course. "Raven. Call me Raven." If she had a choice at birth, Ashton would of not been her birth name, and this time would be as good as any to choose one.

"As you wish." was Kiba's reply as he walked over and now stood next to the bed, near her once more.

'For a wolf, he is really obedient. Then again he's not wild or really a wolf.. I think.' she thought to herself as she undid the ties on her pajama bottoms, NMbC print trousers falling to the floor leaving Ash-now Raven- in her black tank top and red 'boy shorts'- panties. Never really been a fan of briefs, hipsters, or thongs. Not phased by the slightest that she was undressing in front of a spirit, demon, familiar thing. Grabbing the jeans, Raven pulled them on, than sat on the bed to slip on her socks. After that she stood up with the jacket in hand and headed to her door.

From the looks of the sky outside her window, night fall was only two hours or so away, meaning vampires will be lurking soon and that ghouls will be causing mayhem. Most of all; That the count himself will soon awake. Tonight was as good as any night to test her new body out.

"Come Kiba, lets do some site seeing." Raven was smiling again despite being a human going on the hunt for demons. She was feeling eager to kill some ghouls- knowing what you are up against giving her the right amount of confidence she guessed.

A young woman walking around the street with a full grown wolf would make anyone glance twice so after the first accident- Where a group of girls ran away screaming - she asked Kiba to shift into something less intimidating. Resulting to a white cat trotting beside her as she traveled through London. The site of this city was breath taking, the landscape had that 'Victorian' feeling from buildings to light posts, at least compared to a small towns in North America.

"I feel like I am walking around in the 1900's." she disclaimed openly to Kiba, but appearing to talk to herself to the people who walked by. "Minus the clothing style, most of the cars, and up to date buildings of course." Stopping, she waited for the traffic to go by then kept on her unknown path when the coast was clear. The sky was dimming down finally but the streets were still crowded with clusters of people. Raven guessed it will be little while longer.

Raven stopped as she noticed the building next to her, it was a rather tall building with no lights or 'people traffic' but it appeared to be in decent shape even if it looked to be abandoned. 'Vamps would totally crash here. I would.' she thought as she stood at the wall, it was a fence more then a wall seeing as it was made of iron with gaps in it but it was still rather tall - like a private fence. "You think I can jump that?" she asked the cat that sat next to her left foot, glancing at Kiba when he didn't answer. Gold eyes just blinked up at her then he gave a meow, a legit meow. Her face deadpanned,"I'm guessing you don't know? Well.. I guess I'll see if I can."

Checking her surroundings and satisfied when the last body rounded a corner and disappeared, she gave the wall her attention again. Hunching down like a cat about to pounce or a olympic runner about to sprint and jumped, arms stretched out. The wall scrolled by as she launched up by at least five feet- practically her entire body height, but her fingers fell short by two feet and felt gravity shift around her. Black hair lifted up into view as she began to excel down the seven feet or so but instead of the seconds it should of taken her feet to touch down, it was like an entire minute. Her body practically floating down. Yea.. almost zero body mass meant she was close to a feather.

Back on the sidewalk again, Raven picked up the cat and lifted it to eye level. "If I fly away in a wind current I am going to stuff you in a bag and toss you over a bridge." of course the threat was far from truth. Animal cruelty was not on her bucket list to do- in fact Raven got into many physical confrontations over that subject in school. Clearly Kiba wasn't phased by this either.

"I suggest avoiding high winds, M'lady. I also recommend having a head start to clear the wall or simply walk around till you find a opening." his voice really didn't fit the cat, it was still deep and for someone reason Raven pictured a feminine voice from the white fur ball in her hand.

"Alright." she said while siting Kiba back down before giving a glance around again, just checking, then backed up into the street. Raven bent at the knees and leaned forward, her conversed bending a little as she stood on her toes, then kicked off. The wall met up with her rather quickly and she almost smacked her face into but reacted quick enough with her hands in which she avoided that bloody nose. Her hands and toes scaled the fence as if crawling on the floor and before she knew it she was on top of the iron post. Yup, she just Spider-man climbed. Raven hurried and jumped off encase anyone was to walk into view of her but that was a mistake.

"UGH! I should of just climbed down." she declared angrily as she watched the ground slowly reach her spread out body. Her pose reminding her of a bird if her legs were the tail feathers and arms the wings. "It would of been a lot faster.."Raven stated the obvious as she landed on her feet a minute later. A white cat stepped up next to her, either transporting was a power of his or he squeezed through the bars either way he was now on the other side too. Without saying anything to each other they both started to the building.

It wasn't hard to find a way in for a few windows were broken - the boards that once covered them also broken. Raven crawled through one, avoiding some jagged glass when doing so and glad to have shoes on for glass crunched beneath her when she landed. Now that she stood in the abandoned building the girl felt more human then she'd felt the entire afternoon. Her eye site limited in the dark room and with human sense of awareness - nothing more- resorted to her running into objects while wondering through the room.

After crashing into what felt like boxes and making a huge commotion Raven was sure if there was anything here- it knew she was here too. So she bent down and felt the floor for a weapon. Her fingers touched something sharp and she bit her lip when a trickle of blood slid down her middle finger. The sharp object had poked her. Careful now that she knew of its existence, Raven stretched her fingers out and grabbed the shard of glass. A stick, or pipe, hell anything else other then glass would of been a lot better but you make do with what you have.

Standing up straight again she halted all movements as something creaked near by. A chill slipping up her spine as she strained her human ears but only the sound of her heart beat pounding in her ears answered back. Till now the girl didn't even know her heart was racing. A hiss sounded off in front of her then a low yowl but in her mind words formed, "Something is in the hallway."

Indeed there was something in the hallway but by the time the message sunk into her brain it was too late. Something hard slammed into her chest and if she weighed like a normal person the girl would of just stumbled back- maybe fall on her ass, but instead she flew back. The momentum strong enough to propel her through the window, breaking them even more and causing the glass to dig into her back and side like scissors to paper when doing so. The iron fence being the stopping point as she slammed against it to only see the world flip from sky to ground quickly while blood flew around her. Her body falling forward faster then any other times she fell to the ground today due to her body bouncing off the wall.

Raven could already feel the bruised muscles as she lifted up on her hands and knees, attempting to get off the ground before the 'thing' that hit her could reach her again. A commotion could be heard in the room for a few minutes then a long body slithered out of the now completely gutted window, Kiba wiggling within the mans hand as he squeezed the felines throat while holding him up into the air. The cats body doing it's best to tear away at flesh and turn around but with no luck. A voice called out to Raven as her wide eyes stared at the scene, at same time the man spoke but she could only see the pale lips move. Her body was pulsing, her mind racing, yet she crouched there on the ground- body frozen in place. She expected to go up against a ghoul or two not a actual vampire..

The voice came again- repeating itself,"Hurry Raven make me a wolf! If he kills this body I can't do anything to help you till I can channel enough energy to summon a new body. Hurry!"

Raven gripped the grass and closed her eyes tight, trying to focus but just as soon as the picture of a wolf appeared completely in her head a snap sounded off. It was so clear as if everything fell on mute just to single it out. Green eyes flew open to take on the horrid site and she clenched her jaw as the night light made everything visible for her. A grinning man stood there with a motionless ball of fur within his grasp, the head leaning over the hand in a odd way as white slowly began to stain red. Swallowing hard the girl cut her eyes from the deformed cat to the red glowing eyes and this time when he spoke it was as clear as it could ever be.

"My my, it's not often I am delivered a meal. I don't eat vermin I am afraid so I will have to cut to the main course."The man cooed while still smiling like a person who just won a million bucks. The vampire effortlessly tossed the motionless body at her and it landed just inches away. The action made her look but she quickly turned her head away regretting that she looked. 'Kiba died just now because of me.. because of me. Because I didn't act quick enough..'her voice repeated over in her head as her arms trembled.

In a blink of a eye the man stood before her, one of his booted feet landing on the felines chest in which it gave away to the weight and cracking sounded off as the man laughed. The girl didn't even have time to react, to scoot or crawl away, as the man quickly grabbed a chunk of her hair and lifted her up.

'I'm so stupid- How did I even THINK I could handle this?!' her head screamed at her now as the adrenaline rushing through her vanes made her entire body shake. Raven lifted both her arms up and grabbed the wrist of the single arm that held her off the ground, with both her hands. This action was more to let off the strain on her scalp then to free her but even doing that was hard because of her shaking. The guys mouth opened and a long tongue darted out, licking her chin and up her cheek, wiping away what blood was there before retreating.

"Why do you not scream? I kick you through a window slamming you against a iron fence and kill your cat in front of you. Com'on girly, scream for me?" It sounded like he was almost begging Raven and as she continued to be silent a very unhappy face appeared. While snarling the vampire slammed her body against the fence causing her to gasp out in pain before the same hand that murdered Kiba held her throat tightly. It was the only thing keeping her feet off ground and it really made breathing difficult for Raven.

"Alu.. card.." Raven struggled to say but it was barely a whisper. 'It would be really.. nice of the Hellsing Organization to show up annny minute now.' She thought as dots started to appear in her vision. She struggled beneath his weight, legs kicking out to push him away as darkness started to invade. Her lungs struggling to expand as her strength started to dwindle. One hand broke away from the vampires wrist and reached out to land on the guys face, as if to cup it like a romantic partner, but instead with her last remaining strength she jammed her thumb into his right eye socket.

Air, air spread through her like wild fire as the hand released her throat. The vampire taking a step back with a hand covering the eye her finger dug into, blood seeping though his fingers and dripping off his chin. His reaction more human like then Raven expected but it gave her enough time to NOT pass out. With ground beneath her once again she quickly darted to her right, running around the building to the other side where a opening should exist. As she rounded the corner the man stood there with a hand still covering one eye. The vampire looked extremely pissed off.

"You lil' bitch! You WILL pay!" and with that statement he lashed his free hand out, aiming to back hand her right across the face which would send her flying again, maybe even break her neck? But Raven had her wits together now. No longer the shaking girl on her knees on the verge of tears. With quickness she took a step back as and leaned to the left, her body reacting with movement even Raven did not recognize. Just as she stepped back, she stepped forward with the opposite foot and in the same motion her right hand had gripped his arm and gave a pull. Surprising both of them, his body followed just as her torso twisted, elbow swinging - connecting with his chin and causing his feet to fly out beneath him with the force of his body being shoved. The vampire's body tilting and his face slamming to the ground as his arm twisted within her grasp, breaking.

The vampire screamed. Out of shock maybe? Or anger? Raven assumed anger by the look she was receiving from the ground. Without her even thinking about it she felt her body lean forward, forcing his broken arm to move with her, as she slammed a foot into his back. A nasty popping sound gave away and a bone now stuck out of the vampires upper arm, his blood splattering on her cheek when it 'popped' out. Raven ignored it as she pinning him down. This serge of power pulsing through her making her feel.. dare she say it; cocky.

"How am I going to pay with you laying on the ground like this, huh?" it was almost like a different person speaking. She felt the grin break out on her face as she applied even more pressure. "Huh!?"

"FUCK! Get off me you crazy bitch!" he cried out. She ignored his demand.

"Com'on, scream for me?"she repeated his words in the same pleading tone while completely dislocated his shoulder by jerking his arm at the same time as shoving his body down with her foot. Flesh tore from the wound the rigid bone created and without even meaning to his forearm, from the elbow down, broke off. His fanged mouth flew open and a scream shook out, echoing off the buildings. Once his voice lowered Raven dropped the arm in front of his face like he did Kiba to her while speaking."Woops.. I didn't mean to tear it off completely. To bad a fake vampire like you can't regenerate.. you are never going to be able to use that arm again." she didn't stop the insane feeling bubbling up in her chest. Tilting her head to the side she released a laugh- a laugh that could rival the Counts but she stopped the moment another laugh joined her own. Crackling louder then her's would ever reach for it was on a entirely different level of sadistic insanity.

Raven turned her head quickly, recognizing that laugh. Sure enough a man dressed almost completely in red, from wide brimmed hat to duster, leaned up against the wall with his arms crossed. As her eyes landed on his face, she felt her heart stop then kick back up- it was really him. Really Alucard. As his laughter subsided, he tilted his chin down and a single red eye stared straight into Raven from over the lens of his sunglasses. This made her look away quickly, the girls attention falling back to the bleeding vampire below her as her cheeks warmed up.

The pathetic looking guy started to raise up, using his only arm and nub to do so and she decided to give him that. Raven removed her foot and stepped away about five feet away to be exact as the vampire struggled to his feet. His right arm/nub and right side of his face bleeding as a single eye looked at Alucard then to the girl. Raven almost forgot she jammed her thumb into his eye.. Kiba meant what he said by 'muscle memory'. Her body now doing things she never knew she could even do to someone. 'Kiba..' The thought of him made her lips scowl. She understood that he wasn't truly dead, that he'd return to her as soon as he could, but she still felt shitty for getting him pretty much killed.

While Raven was thinking this the Nosferatu lifted off the wall and aimed the Casull to the vampires head, taking it upon himself to dispose of the 'trash' seeing as the girl no longer appeared to be doing so. His gloved finger pulled the trigger before the vampire could even speak, blood splattered the ground behind him before his body shifted to dust particles. Now it was just Raven and Alucard outside the abandoned building. The Casull didn't lower but instead aimed at Raven.

"Wa-wait."she stuttered out with hands raised. Alucard didn't pull the trigger so she continued. "I'm human, you cannot kill me."

"Human you say?"his deep voice radiated out, making the girls heart skip a beat again. "I just watched you tear a vampires arm off with your bare hands and you call yourself a human?"he laughed.

Yes, that was true and even she didn't understand where the strength came from. It had to be the bone tearing away at the muscles and flesh that made it easier for her to do that but hell, she didn't even mean to rip off his arm to begin with. Just as the girl was about to speak again, Alucard closed the distance, the barrel of the gun now pressing against her temple, as his nose almost touched hers. Now both sets of red glowing eyes stared into her green eyes.

"Why can I not kill you, 'human'? What is stopping me from pulling this trigger?"

Raven closed her eyes, taking a breath through her nose - it was true what the fanfic's wrote about, he did smell of blood and gunpowder. She spoke with her eyes still closed, "Without a directed order, you can not end a humans life and.." she gripped her side with her right hand, letting the soaked tank top ooze out blood from the wounds inflected by the window, she then lifted her hand up next to her head. The girls eyes were open now as to watch The Red King and noticed that her hand was entirely covered in blood which made her question why she was still awake. "and if you need to test to see that I am really human then please, have a taste."

Without removing his site from her's he brought her hand closer to his lips. Those pale lips parted to reveal fangs along with a long tongue in which it darted out and slid along her palm in a single stroke. Raven could of sworn she watched a small shiver flow through him before he leaned back, allowing distance between their bodies. The Casull no longer in eye site.

"I am not sure how you know so much but needless to say, you will be coming with me. Rather you want to or not."

The girl mentally breathed a sigh of relief at this. For a moment there she was sure she was a goner and unknown to Alucard, this was exactly what she needed. Working for the Hellsing Organization will be a lot more rewarding then McDonalds or Starbucks. Smiling slightly, Raven spoke in responds,"This might sound odd to you.. but that wou-" she stopped as a wave of nausea struck her. Seeing as she was no longer running off of a adrenaline rush it was only a matter of time that the lack of blood would get to her. Raven's vision began to blur as she took a uneasy step back."Yup.. I lost to much blood." she spoke openly, declaring it to herself more then to the vampire as she strained to keep her eyes open. Alucard's figure was just a massive blur till the shadows began to swallow him- at least that was what it looked like to Raven as her body tilted an her eyes began to shut. Her last thought being, 'I wonder if he will catch me or let me fall..'

WHOA- even the 2nd chapter reached the 5,000 word maker. Damn this story just writes itself lol. Don't worry, Kiba will be back in the next chapter! Thank you for reading so far - I really appreciate it!