-waves dramatically at readers- I'm BACK!!!! Forgive me for the extrodaniarly looooooong delay for releasing this chapter! My muse took a long holiday…stupid bastard.

Btw, Alex and Alucard have a mental conversation.

When Alex is speaking this is her format. –insert sentence here-

When Alucard is speaking this is hisformat *insert sentence here*

ON WITH THE STORY!!

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got up around 7:30, and went to get her roommate, Yoh up for school. Pushing her coffin open, she yawned, and her canines started to show considerably, predicting what she was going to eat this morning. Putting on a pair of black pants, silver pocket watch, white gloves, and a dark blue tank top, she went to go wake up Yoh. (A/N: Alex's gloves are similar to Alucard's)

"Well, aren't we up late…" Alucard said in his dark velvet tone as he materialized beside his apprentice. He had discarded his normal red attire for a more…demonic look. He had long hair, and was wearing all black, like the way he looked when he faced incognito. Which he had shown her via telepathy. He was walking beside Alex towards Yoh's room at a leisurely pace.

"Shut up." Alex said grinning, "I have to get Yoh up before Manta goes haywire, and barges into the house screaming…" She paused in her walking, and started to chuckle darkly. "On second thought, it would be extremely amusing to see Manta do that…" She drawled as she Imagined the scene in her mind, projecting it to her ghostly companion, who grinned maniacally. Alex turned around and headed for the kitchen, saying her good morning's to the other ghosts in the Inn. Once she arrived in the kitchen, she went over the dull white refrigerator to get her daily blood packet. Sensing that a certain samurai warrior had entered the kitchen, she nodded to him. "Good evening ….Wait…Morning Ami-san" she yawned.

"Good morning to you Lady Alexan-" Amidamaru started to say but Alex cut him off.

"Please no formalities, Ami-san, I consider them a way to group people, sort of like a stereotype..Do you understand what I mean?" Alex said, stuffing her hand in her pocket to find her silver pocket watch. When she found it, she flicked it open and looked at the time. "Shit." Alex deadpanned. The time was 7:50, and school started at 8:00. 'Manta should be due in any minute….' She thought to herself.

As if on cue, the front door, swung open, it's hinges in dire need of some grease. Alex spotted the little figure looking at her pleading, and she pointed up the stairs to where Yoh's and her room are. Nodding a thanks, Manta sprinted up the stairs. Turning to Amidamaru, the young vampire smirked, "Well, that is my cue to leave. Au revoir Ami-san!" Hurriedly grabbing her backpack, and the two guns that always hung around her waist, she sprinted out the door. Manta dragging a dead tired Yoh quickly behind her.

"Ami-san?" Amidamaru commented to Alucard when the girl was out of hearing range. His eye's a little larger than usual, with confusion. Sometime in the

Alucard just grinned at the confused samurai, "It's called a nickname. Though I wish you some luck with Yoh if he is as energetic as Alex is…" he paused, "But I applaud you for dealing with the naïve attitude that he possesses " He finished

" Will I be seeing you at the school then?" Amidamaru asked

"Like my charge, I must bid you goodbye, but yes you will see me there.." Alucard drawled as he distingrated into nothingness.

"I really need to learn how to do that.." Amidamaru sighed. He then looked wildly around, for a dark laughter had filled the room. Slightly freaked out, he then poofed away to join his Lord and Lady.

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At school, Yoh, Manta, and Alex were waiting for their turn to pass the kendo test. In Alex's opinion Yoh had the easy way out because he had a samurai ghost. Sure she had a vampire with perhap's endless knowledge, but she doubted that he knew how to fight with a sword, let alone a kendo sword. Yoh was just finishing telling his vampric friend that he had almost died that morning via falling billboard. "And so the billboard just fell on me from out of nowhere! I nearly DIED this morning!!!" he finished excitedly.

"Sounds like a regular billboard needed fixing to me…" Alex mused. Yoh gave her a look, that only she could decipher. Alex's opinion then did a 180, "Oh…That billboard…By the way Manta, did you take this test already?" she asked hoping to draw his attention away from the subject.

"Yeah, I passed," Manta answered dully.

"Asakura, Yoh" a Monotonous instructor called from the kendo mat.

" A simple matter…" Yoh said as he integrated with Amidamaru so he could pass the test.

Manta screamed "Amidamaru!!" , Alex said, "Lucky Bastard" , and the instructor said "Pass!" all at the same time. Yoh just grinned at the expressions of his friends. He was so happy to have them here and to interact with them. When he returned to his seat he was greeted with a mumbling (Alex), and a fishy face (Manta) (A/N: OMG I almost wrote Fanta…XD) After a few more names were called, the instructor said, "Hellsing, Alexandra"

Sighing Alex got up while giving Amidamaru a pleading look. Slightly perturbed at this, Alucard wanted to prove to Alex that he could fight with a sword almost as well as with a gun, so he forcefully integrated with Alex, and taking full control of her body, her eye's narrowing instinctively, then closing.

-WHAT THE FUCKING HELL ALUCARD?!-Alex screamed in fury at her spirit ally in mental conversation.

*I want to show you something.* He replied calmly

-What could you have to show me that requires possession? You said you wouldn't possess me unless it was a life or death situation.- she questioned angrily

*Do you trust me? When I was a mortal, I was Vlad Tepes or just simply Dracula "The Impaler Prince". I had no need of guns…I was in the Order of the Dragon; there we used swords, and strategy to defeat foes. Then again guns hadn't been brought to my attention at the time. It was only when Van Hellsing defeated me did I truly realize the capacity for gun power…* he mused

-…I trust you. You know that, Now…Vlad…Show me your strength...- Alex responded after a moment's consideration. She then cut the link to their conversation, and gave Alucard full control leaving him slightly stunned. He knew though that she was watching him.

To Yoh and Manta, all they had seen was her eye's narrow, and then her entire body went rigid for about 3 seconds, then relaxed. "Alex" opened her eyes only to reveal them to be an even brighter red, with pupil's the size of a pinhead. She then whispered, "Alucard…" in a darker tone.

Yoh's eyes widened considerably. How had he not noticed the missing ghost?! He tensed up, knowing what had happened. Getting ready to integrate with Amidamaru, Yoh took a glance at "Alex". Alucard then made Alex wave her hand dismissively after putting the mask on, and started to walk toward the mat. The mask didn't hide their eye's what so ever. In fact, it made them look even more demonic than usual. The dismissive wave still didn't calm Yoh down, as he was still tense.

Stepping onto the mat, Alucard took the kendo sword from the instructor testing it's weight and balance. Thinking it was too light Alucard made Alex ask the instructor to get a heavier one. The instructor left, then came back quickly with a heavier one. Grabbing it from the instructor, he tossed it from one of Alex's hands to the other. It was perfect; stepping into a fighter's stance, time became slow for Alucard, the instructor yelled "GO!" and Alucard struck with snakelike speed. The kendo sword hit the base of the opponent's hilt and dislodged it. Alucard then pulled back and batted the sword aside, and held the tip of his sword to the person's throat. "Dead." He made Alex mutter.

"GO!" the instructor yelled, but then stopped short. The red eyed girl had disarmed her opponent within 3 seconds. His jaw dropped, he had never seen a person disarmed that quickly before. Ever. "The Prince still reigns..." The girl muttered absently after the "match" was finished. "….Pass…" the instructor said.

Once Alucard was off the mat, he slowly let Alex gain control of her body again. By the time they were back at the bench they were sitting on, he had fully let her regain control. Alex was tired, letting Alucard control her was tiring, even more tiring than training with him. Sighing she sat next to Yoh and Manta, and before they could say anything, she leaned on Yoh's shoulder and closed her eyes, hoping that she could try to get rid of the oncoming headache and fatigue. Yoh smiled and patted her head.

Amidamaru was shocked at the speed and strength to which Alucard pressed his host. Then again, he was about 580 years old, give or take a few years. There were no guns back then, at least in his country. "Alucard, your skill with the sword is impressive. I would like to face you in a sparring match sometime in the near future. What type of sword did you use when you were…um…alive?" Amidamaru said to the passive ghost-vampire.

"It would be fun, I admit, but I'm reluctant to push my luck against a samurai legend. As to your other question I used a Broadsword, rapier, or a claymore, though I prefer the latter…" Alucard said to Amidamaru, which started a conversation about various sword types. While Yoh and Manta decided to talk about Yoh's helpers.

Letting the chatter fill her mind, Alex closed her eyes, not ready to sleep, but not ready to stay awake either, so she tuned everything out until a angry-hysterical Manta starts to scream all of this reandom stuff about being disappointed at Yoh, and then turns to her and does the same thing, then storms out of the building just as the bell rang. Still confused, but not wanting to seem it, she calmly looked at Yoh for orders. Upon receiving them she went to her gym locker, changed, and left to carry them out.

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"It seems that you are getting used to having a master, aside from myself…And you miss the small freedoms that we had when we belonged to Hellsing" Alucard mused to his young fledgling, in his ghost ball form. In this form he had his usual red fedora, short and mussy hair, and chibified red eyes. Alex thought it was so cute, but Alucard absolutely abhorred being called "chibi", so she called him just that quite often.

Alex ignored her partner's remark about her mental status, and glanced up ahead. Further along the sidewalk, she glimpsed the top of Manta's light brown/dirty blonde hair, further still was the billboard that her orders had included. Increasing her lazy walk to a slight jog. Manta had reached the billboard: and it was tipping. Yoh's orders echoed thorugh her head forcing her to a dead sprint.

"Protect Manta at all costs. Do not allow the fixated spirit to hurt him, let alone touch not fire any shots. Now Go."

She started counting off the meters as she ran towards him. 10…7…4…2…Just as the Billboard was about to fall on him, she had gotten there, picked Manta up, and gotten out of the way. Setting him down oh-so-gently (note the sarcasim), she turned around and growled at the spirit, showing her immense canines. Alucard got in between the two and reached for his guns. (A/N: In this story the Casul and the Jackal (guns) have spirit copies. So Alex has the material half while Alucard has the spirit half. When Alex and Alucard intergrate, the guns become whole again. When they separate, the material half only works on material objects and vice versa. They are both still effective. )

"Alex! What are you doing here?!" Manta said wide eyed. He was scared, he knew that she was a vampire, but had never really seen that side come out until now, and the sight of Alucard and the large gun's didn't exactly help.

"Orders." She replied still focused on the malignant spirit, that Manta STILL hadn't seen. Was he fricking blind?! Sensing his confusion at her remark she clarified, "Yoh ordered me to protect you at all costs from-" she was interrupted by Manta's scream when he saw the spirit. Sweatdropping, she finished dully, "…That."

"What is it?!?!" He asked questioningly with a touch of fear laced in. It was followed by a hissing sound which seemed to come from the mal-formed spirit.

"Wh…Wh…WHITE!!!!!" it screamed as it violently launched itself at Manta and Alex. It's body became more lithe and rectangular, if that's even possible.

Alucard got there in time to block it with the edge of his guns. "That is a Fixated Ghost-"

"Do you mean that thing used to be human?!" Manta intrupted.

"Yes, But a ghost is, in effect, a mass of swirling emotion. If the emotions are malicious, then it's form will be malicious. Who knows what happened to him to make him this way, but once a ghost is fixated to a place then it tries to make itself known to anyone that has second sight…" He informed the two juvineiles while holding back the ghost who was hissing with fury at being detained from it's original target, "…and it will suck them in." he finished.

"Suck them in? I didn't know that there were dangerous ghosts all over town." Manta said unknowing voicing Alex's question. She knew that they were all over town, but didn't really know much other than that.

"Not just here, Many people who suffer sudden and violent death's often don't understand why they died, their emotions go out of control, and they become fixated ghosts, and this is only a small sample." He finished.

Alex's eyes narrowed, what was making this ghost so obsessed? What was White? Stepping away from Manta, "Alucard, let me join the game!" she laughed, as she integrated with him, though this time she was incontrol, well at least to an extent. It dove to get around her again, but they batted it away easily with the Jackal, she couldn't risk firing a shot here, not when it would go against a direct order from her Master, even though her trigger finger was getting itchy.

"Was this the white you wanted? I brought you some white paint" A familiar and quite wanted voice said

Alex smiled and deintergrated from Alucard, who was still wanting to just kill the thing and be done with it. Old habits die hard she supposed. The "Battle" was over, "Geez Yoh could you have come at any other time? We were about to go Hellsing on it." She complained putting her gun it it's holster, and starting to walk away. Alucard simply mumbled that he was going home to his memorial tablet and that he was going to "sleep" and vanished.

"Eh, not my problem where are you going?"He asked

"Away, out, for a walk, you name it." She shrugged, as she walked away.

"Anyway Finding out about you was a real pain, I talked to some roaming…." Yoh started to explain…

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The next day…

Alex woke up from her snooze at around 1:00 in the afternoon. Confused as to why the house was so quiet, she pushed open her coffin, and looked at Alucard's memorial tablet. Alucard was snoozing as well, and would probably break her mind if she woke him up. So being quiet as the dead, (A/N: I've been using puns a lot lately…^///^ srry bout that) she put on her usual attire and left the room quietly, but left her guns by Alucard's tablet. Walking down the stairs, she glanced around the room, looking for anything that signified life, or the reason why the house is quiet. Her eye's settled on a post-it note, so she walked over to investigate.

"Morning alex! Manta and I are gonna go around town today! I'll be home for dinner!" –Yoh

Wanting to do something rather than sit here , all day Alex went back up to her room for her wallet, and decided to go get a new book to read. After locking the door once she was outside, she started to walk to the nearest bookstore, which just happened to be Barnes and Noble. Heading straight for the clearance section, a particular title caught her eye, causing her to back track towards the book. "The Art of War" By Sun Tzu, taking the book off the shelf, she flipped through it's pages and was intrigued by what little bits that she caught.

Now happy with her choice of literature, she walked over to the cashiers and paid for it. It was 9.95 plus tax. After leaving the store, she headed for the park, not the sunny where-people-makeout-in-plain-sight area, but the darker and more dense area where not as many people were. Upon arriving to her sacred place, she glanced around taking in the lack of people around the area. For the most part, it was her and a short boy with black hair who was practicing some kind of martial art, her body instinctively found it's way to her favorite tree. Putting the bag that held her book in her teeth, which slightly revealed her fangs, pulled herself up to the lowest branch.

Reaching her hand in the bag to pull out her book, the bag slipped from her hand and fell to the ground with a crinkle of the bag and a THWAK of the book. "Crap." Was all she said.

The boy stopped his training and looked over at the fallen bag, which was near the bench where his belongings were at. Hearing the "crap" come from somewhere near the bag, he glanced above the bag into the tree irritated, he saw a pale girl with black hair who was looking at the bag. Why do people always have to interrupt his training?! Sighing, he went over to retrieve the bag and it's contents and return it to the girl. Picking it up his yellow eye's glinted almost joyously when he saw the title, as it was one of his favorites.

"Um, excuse me…may I have my book back please?" Alex asked the black haired boy that held her book in his hands. Man, if he took off with her book, she was gonna bleed him dry, then burn the corpse. Shaking off the gruesome thought, she took an interest in his appearance; she noted that he had stark yellow eyes, and one giant point of hair. No seriously, a giant, point, like at the end of a sharpened pencil.

Glancing up at the girl, the first thing that he noticed were her blood red eyes. "Yes, sure." He said as he handed the book back to her. At the corner of his eye his spirit ally Bason appeared.

"Master Ren. You have a schedule to keep, you have an appointment coming up in thirty minutes that we must leave for." Bason said bowing low. Ren noted what Bason said, but took a greater intrest in the facial expressions of the girl. He thought that she was a normal non-stargazing human, and with those thoughts started to walk away.

Alex wanted to scream and point at the huge ghost, but decided not to. She liked suave entrances, so whe waited till he started to walk away. "Oi, it's rude to not say greetings to a fellow Shaman, so I'm just going to get it over with. My name is Alex. Ok, now that I'm done, it's your turn and then we can walk our separate ways…" She said casually.

Ren froze. This girl was a shaman?!?! She didn't have a ghost with her! But she had extended the 'formal' greeting of shamans, and people in general. Ren had honor and pride, and refusing to respond would be a blow to the tournament was coming up, and he was just itching to add another foe to his kill list. This was the first female Shaman that he had encountered here in Japan. "Ren. Where is your ghost Shaman. I'd like to get rid of you before the tournament." He countered while pulling out his Lance/harpoon thing.

"Touchy aren't we. Look buddy, I really can't help you, My ghost is at home, sleeping till the sun sets. Which should be in about 10 minutes." She shrugged as she jumped down from her tree, "Thanks for getting my books for me" she smiled as she tried to walk past Ren, who continuously blocked her way, she growled slightly, "Let me leave." She said

"Not while you're still alive. Your ghost will be mine, if it isn't up to par it will be a servant for me." He countered

Alex chuckled darkly, using some of her powers to make it seem as if it were coming from everywhere and nowhere at the same time. "Funny you should say that." She grinned then proceeded to take the end of his practice harpoon/lance thing and bend it so she could get by. "Thank you, and have a nice Night. I hear it's a full moon by the way…" she said to him as she walked into the brush and disappeared.

Ren turned to Baison, "It seems we may have found me a challenge finally" he said looking at the bent blade. "I'll wait till the tournament to kill her, she might be fun."he quipped to the empty area.

"Oh yeah, and one more thing, work on your manners, its rude to plan to kill someone after you meet them for the first time." Alex's voice echoed.