Sorry for the long wait. I'm in the middle of my revisions for the BAC but be still. I'm still using some of the little free time I have to continue this story. You'll notice that I've corrected the slight glitch in the dialogues that caused the – not to appear before some lines.

So, back to our story: MI-5 is surrounded by ghouls, Dante has found Harry and Hellsing is coming to the charge, but what about the other wizard apprentices… (bad suspenseful music).

CHAPTER 5: The welcoming ceremony.

As the young wizards came in the hall, Hermione made a few observations:

First, there weren't that many people. Probably due to the psychoses.

Secondly, a few new faces could be observer on the teacher's stand.

There were the traditional ones. Among them stood up Hagrid whom Hermione was glad to see. They smiled at each other. Slughorn was here too, being the first new teacher to last more than one year for a very long time. But the most surprising was McGonnagal who was sitting at Dumbledore's seat. So it was her who inherited of the job. Just as well Hermione thought.

The students all sat at their respective tables. Hermione could see that were all at list one third missing if not more. Some absences were easily noticeable such as Crabbe and Goyle, Malefoy's cronies. In fact, anyone with a direct link to the Deatheaters was missing. Humanity's loss…

She could see two new figures on the teacher's stand: A young green hared woman and quite short bold man that kind of looked like a gnome. They were chatting with the other teachers quite lively, as though the sinister atmosphere of the rest of England didn't touch them.

Once every one was in place, Professor McGonnagal rose and asked every one's attention.

- Hum hum. So, once more, Hogwarts is proud to open it's doors to those who wish to learn.

That first sentence was received by clapping from all the students.

- Thank you every one. It is hard to tell you my joy of being here today with all of you. After the tragic events of last year, our hopes for this school were at their lowest. For a moment, it was even thought our school would be forced to close down, but, the ministry has decided to maintain it open as a symbol of us not submitting to evil.

As you can see, I have been chosen to replace Dumbledore as headmaster this year. I think I can say for sure that it would of been an insult to his memory to close down his place. The administrating of this school was the greatest accomplishment of his life. I consider it the greatest honor but to continue his task.

She lifted to glass: " To Dumbledore!"

All the students repeated this before applauding once again.

- Now, to more joyful maters. I wish to introduce new personnel in Hogwarts.:

The new transformation teacher, professor Jansen.

The gnome like man rise with a smile greeted by the applause of every one.

- And the new defense against dark arts teacher: professor Horst.

The green hared woman rose applauded too.

Back in London.

- Take that!

Victoria Ceras shot one of her oversized bullets on the group of ghouls surrounding them. It exploded in the middle of them literally disintegrating a dozen of them. The men with her started to shoot out with their silver bullet charged MP5s.

- Caution every one. There's no saying were the bloodsucker is.

She reloaded her rifle. She went towards the two MI-5 agents that were also shooting with MP5, although not loaded with silver bullets.

- Your boss asked mine to send help. We are experienced in dealing with that kind of threat.

The dark skinned man answered first:

- Thanks, I guess. Who the fuck are these guys ?

- You'd rather not know.

Her earphone ringed.

- This is command APC, two individuals have just escape the scene on a red motor bike. Two male. One dressed in a red coat, possible Vamp, the other is a young man ID unknown.

Man in red coat. Did Alucard take on biking ?

- Is it Alucard ?

- Negative. The individual has white hair. The chopper says it saw him using a sword against two other unidentified individuals. We have lost trace of them.

Strange…, well she didn't have time to think about that. She had a vamp to kill. She took another shot with her gun, blowing up special branch ghouls. They were no longer a problem.

The exterior of the warehouse was now safe. Hellsing had cleaned up the whole place, roofs included (Walter's idea of arming the choppers was definitely a brilliant one Ceras thought.). Now came the hard bit.

- Ok every one we all know it started inside. We need to be extra careful. Do you get that ?

They all answered: Yes mam.

And they stormed inside the warehouse. It was empty, and calm…too calm. She hated that. That meant an ambush was planned. She opened her senses, far superior to those of her squad. One of the few ups of being a vampire too she guessed.

She couldn't hear anything at all. That meant two things: Either whoever was stalking them was really silent. Either there was no one left. She couldn't hear, see, or even smell anything, but something felt wrong. Almost as if evil incarnated was concentrating here. It was getting intense. More and more in fact..

- EVERY ONE GET OUT!

She barely had a few seconds and grabbed two Hellsing soldiers before running out of the building. The others, seeing that something was wrong, followed her. It had been close, too close. The second they were out the warehouse exploded in some unholy energy, throwing them down on the street.

- Every one OK ?

There were a few positive answers, most of them still being dazed. She looked back and saw a green ray going up towards the sky. It made contact with the clouds, changing their shape.

- Now what ?

The clouds altered to take the shape of a giant snake. It hissed at them.

- Oh Shit! Fire at will, fire at will!

There came a shooting frenzy, as well from Hellsing troops as for the surviving police force. The shots just went through the thing without affecting it. The radio crackled:

- Permission to use sidewinders Colonel.

- Denied pilot. It's not real. Cease fire immediately.

The soldiers obeyed, but still stared at the snake. It just kept hissing and moving.

Not a threat.

- We're gonna have one hell of a time covering that one.

Her radio crackled again:

- Ceras, this is Schaffer, Baroness Hellsing gave us the order to evacuate survivors to Thames Building. The Round table has being advanced and they need to know what exactly happened.

- Got it Colonel. I'm bringing them back.

After some cycling through the streets of London, Dante finally arrived back at Ashim's. He parked in front of the small garage Ashim rented him and took off the bike.

- OK kid, this is the destination.

The kid Harry was looking at him with a mixture of awe and caution. Reassuring him was the first priority.

- Time for presentations I guess. I'm Dante, Devil Hunter. Owner of Devils Never Cry. I was hired to protect you and help you.

- Devil hunter ?

- Yes, Devil, as in these ugly thing with horns, claws and homicidal tendencies. My job is to kick their ass. I also do ghosts, monsters, and, in this case, lunatics with supernatural powers.

Dante had strategically omitted one thing. He was also half devil himself. But the last thing he wanted right now was to spook the kid with that. He already had enough reasons to be suspicious like that.

- How do I know I can trust you.

- Well for one thing, if I wanted you dead, it would of been you I discharged my shotgun on if that was the plan. Not that punkass. That usually shows I'm not your enemy.

That seemed to more or less work.

- Just let my time to put my bike away, and I'll give you the detailed version of the reasons of my presence over a glass of beer. You're 18 right ?

- Yeah..

Dante put his bike in the small garage before heading with the kid towards the pub. Just as they came in, they were greeted by Ashim who was cleaning the bar that had probably just shut.

- That was quick Dante. Thought you were out all night.

- That was the plan. Until I heard the radio. Felt like I should go in. Found him there.

- You mean the terrorist there were in fact…

- Yep, part of the crew of the asshole whose making all that shit in England. Care to serve us a beer ?

- Sorry, it's to late at night. I'm not allowed to serve to clients anymore.

- Damn! Well forget it. Can I at least have or coke or something.

- There, take it. On the house.

- Want one too kid ?

He nodded as a confirmation. Ashim went and brought them two glasses. Dante told him:

- One piece of advice, don't listen to what we're saying, you wouldn't understand half of it and the other half would scare you.

- Enzo warned me about that. You tend to do weird stuff.

He left them to their drinks and conversation.

- So, you were hired to help me that is.

- Yup…

- And who hired you ?

- Didn't bother to present himself. He just showed the money and explained the plot. Seemed fun so I went in.

- And you're not the slightest bit worried that it's a trap.

- Crossed my mind. If it is, he did a very stupid mistake. The last guys who tried to trap would whish they hadn't, would they be still alive that is.

- You seem confident. Do you even know who Voldemort is ?

- Just a punk compared to the guy's I've already faced. One shot and he's down.

- You really think you will get him that easily. He's very powerful, and invincible with all his Horcruxes…

- Yeah these. He told me about them. Told me where to find them so I could wreck them.

He looked surprised and glad by what he heard.

- You mean..

- Yes. We're going to blast them one by one, then kill that dofus….

Dante took a sip of his drink.

- Drink while it's still fresh.

End of chapter for today.

Next episode: The round table.. Stay tuned.