Bleach – The Heart of the Matter

By Tayla Drago

So many things to be going on with Ichigo, Orihime, Chad, Uryu, Kon, along with Renji and Rukia who were both aiding them from the Soul Society to save the lives differently against Dracula and his monsters who are invading the World of the Living. Even the world if nothing is done for Alucard and Sonia to complete their task and save Richard Belmont's life, who's Alucard's friend and Sonia's older brother. And how can our heroes aid them and still defend Karakura Town? By becoming not only a rock band member with a manager/bodyguard, but they also needed to become students to stay closer with the others and lots to explain their plans later. 'As well as Hayame Yoko who's a new student, and feeling out from what happened since last night to remember the rest to have some powers ever since she was born with them'. Cool!

Besides Hayame already making some new friends 'for Uryu to really like her' and Renji as a janitor to go undercover, as Keigo was hitting on her and Sonia too 'while Alucard was trying to keep her protected a little too well'.

"Wow! Wow! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" Keigo goes love-like crazy at Sonia and Hayame. "Ms. Hayame and the Hot Idol Sonia! At our school! Please go out with me, lovely ladies! Or at least one of you-!" Just as Keigo was making his moves on the two girls, Alucard punches him in the stomach slightly to slow this human down from his great strength that he has.

"Forgive me, but…I'm Sonia's childhood friend, bodyguard, and manager." Alucard said calmly. "Anyone who dares approach to her, I'm afraid I must restrain you."

Sonia smirks to pat Alucard on the back for another job well done 'like she was laughing from the inside'.

"Down, Alucard, you've done well." Sonia gives Keigo her autograph. "You can have this instead. Enjoy."

Ichigo, Chad, and Mizuiro saw that part coming for Keigo was a bit hurt to try getting back up on his feet.

"That had to hurt, huh Keigo?" Mizuiro said to his friend.

Keigo then does it again to Hayame this time.

"I'm still a big fan by the way…Then what about you, Ms. Hayame? Do you want to go on a date-!?" Uryu throws a book at Keigo's head hard to go on the ground again and in pain.

"Now that had to hurt." said Chad.

"Sorry, Mr. Asano, but you're not my type." said Hayame. "Do you still want to be friends instead?"

At least Hayame was being nice to him, talk about getting a double rejection for this guy once again, as Keigo was rolling around to be in such pain.

"Not going to happen!" angered Uryu.

The other girls were confused and the other students in the class room as well.

"Uryu?" questioned both Rukia and Orihime.

Looks like the smart genius Uryu might have a crush on Hayame…

"Ah…! Nothing! I didn't say anything!"

With Hayame laughing and Renji was enjoying the show quietly from outside of the classroom, Ichigo sees from having three more students 'and two he knows of', there was going to be a lot of planning to be going on of the battle to soon make it's arrival.

"(Sonia and Alucard better give us a good reason why they're at our school later, after we survived this day first…)" Ichigo said to himself to be sighing.

Will Keigo be all right?

"Ah, Keigo?" Tatsuki tries helping him out. "Do you need a hand?"

"Please…Don't touch me…"

Tatsuki goes back to her seat next to Orihime's instead.

"Yep. He'll be just fine."

I guess he will, but with a broken heart Keigo has gotten now…Bummer. And so, as the school was going by normally – the after-school program has started. For the other five girls of the band agreed to go to school in Japan for a while touring still of Raven, Coley, Robin, Taylor, and Sam 'the five names of the girls in the band there' would do an idea concert planning of a rock and roll club 'for Tatsuki, Keigo, Mizuiro, Chizuru, Michiru, Ryo, and Mahana were also in' to aid the girls with Sonia, Alucard, Ichigo, and the others to also be in as well during their lunch break in return or after school day to end; the real thing will be happening from Sonia and Alucard to have in mind for their new teammates helping them out in return by training them as well with gifts to let them borrow during the battle against Dracula by training in a big open fields of the school area would be the best place to train everyone at 'with no one else around but them'.

How so…? Well, looks like Kon follows Orihime and Rukia at the school building to get close to them 'again' as someone stops them from behind to get involved in this whole thing. Huh? As Sonia and Alucard were in the clear as they could finally talk to Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, Rukia, Uryu, and Renji on their idea of training them 'and Kon too' before Dracula and his goons will strike again to be ready for him. And soon enough they'll stop the lord of darkness to save the world and save Richard Belmont along the way.

"Are we all clear, Alucard?" Sonia asks him.

He doubles checks for it was only them, along with Kon falling on the ground to be showing up, with one person on the team.

"Just two more left." he carries Kon. "Here's one, and another human from last night."

"Hello…!" Kon said in pain. "I was stalked by a beautiful girl…"

Hayame Yoko shows herself to everyone to be very happy about this whole thing.

"Hey, everyone!"

This comes to a shock to Uryu to be seeing her again.

"Ah! Ms. Yoko!?" he was very surprised.

And so were Ichigo, Orihime, Rukia, and Renji.

"The new student who was attacked last night!?"

"Huh?" and Chad was lost.

Looks like Kon didn't care on what was going on right now 'since he was in a good mood today'. So much confusion to happen in an empty class room, for Hayame tries calming everyone down first.

"Hey! Hey! It's fine! There's a reason why I came here…"

"Alucard and I invited her!" Sonia spoke out.

That…they did bring Hayame along. No joke, and then everyone calms down to hear more about it.

"What do you mean - you've invited her? Huh, Sonia?" Ichigo demanded to know.

He moves up closer to Sonia to get some answers out of her.

"Why are you staring at me? Weirdo!" she said.

"Who are you calling a weirdo!?" angered Ichigo.

With them arguing again, Hayame tells them before they get the meeting started.

"Well, after they rescued me to bringing me back home half asleep…I saw everything that happened." she said. "You see, like you guys...I too was born with powers to sense out, see, and hear things from which no one else can not. I'm serious! From two Soul Reapers, another for some humans to awaken with special powers, two more like you guys, a talking doll, a Quincy of the man who saved my life, a girl who's a Belmont member who has to stop Dracula to be for real, and his son Alucard, who's a half human and vampire…are all here in this school I just transfer too! I'm also a fan of Sonia's band work, so yeah…" Hayame says the rest. "So they felt out I had a gift to sleep on it, and this morning, Sonia told me to come after school to see you guys. And…I did. Other than helping and knowing more about my powers, I hope we can still be friends. I'm Hayame Yoko by the way. Nice to meet with all of you."

And there was Ichigo's answer there for Sonia to be laughing about it to be right.

"After we healed her back up thanks to Orihime's skills, Sonia and I knew she would be great in battle if we train her with us during the upcoming battle." said Alucard. "So, forgive us for not saying anything to any of you from earlier. She won't tell anyone else about this."

With everything else aside, the others get it now as Uryu did as well for he introduces himself to Hayame and he was really shy about a new girl that he thought look cute to him.

"Please to meet you, Ms. Yoko." he said with his hand out. "I am the last of the Quincies, it's very nice of you to notice." Hayame shakes with Uryu's hand to be sweating a lot.

"Nice to meet you too, Uryu. I hope you can help me out with my powers, and I'll do the same with yours. With new ones to come back to you soon I hope! Also, thank you so much for rescuing me yesterday."

"Don't….! Don't mention it…! I'm glad to help! (She's really cute!)"

Aw…Looks like Uryu has a crush on someone since Yoshino that one time, this will be even better for him and Hayame. Little at a time, she wanted to know the rest of Uryu's friends next.

"So you see? I'm trust worthy." Hayame laughs and smiles. "I can also fight pretty well! See?" she shows off her fighting moves to them. "Anyways, what are your names?"

Looks like it was introducing time one by one…From Kon…

"The name's Kon, a handsome Modsoul who can be a real lady's man-!"

Ichigo just kicks Kon's little stuff toy of a body to the wall to keep him away from Hayame, as well as Rukia, Orihime, and Sonia. Enough with the perverted moves for today!

"The name's Ichigo Kurosaki, I'm a Substitute Soul Reaper." said Ichigo.

Then Rukia, Renji, Orihime, and Chad go next.

"I'm Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper from the Soul Society who's also a lieutenant of Squad 13 and member of the Kuchiki Clan."

"Renji Abarai, I'm also a Soul Reaper to be partners with Rukia here. Same area and a lieutenant of Squad 6."

"My name is Orihime Inoue. I have the Six Princess who can create a barrier, heal my friends, and attack enemies as well."

"And I'm Yasutora Sado. But you can just call me Chad, and my arm can change into something different to punch things with."

And with that, Hayame was happy to have new friends in the group she was with besides Uryu who was her saver – seems Sonia and Alucard has gotten some good people to help them out so far.

"Please to meet with all of you." she shakes hands with the others. "Ichigo, I love that hair color of yours. Rukia, you seem awesome in battle. Same with you too, Renji, you must be cool with Rukia by your side. Orihime, I know you and I will become good friends. And Chad...Ah…well, you are strong with a pure heart. So, good for you. I will train my hardest to be useful in battle, to my new friends. Oh! And the same goes for you, Kon. Hello."

He always gets hurt, doesn't he?

"Right back at you, Hayame-Chan…" he said while he was still in pain.

The more, the merrier, right…? With Ichigo and everyone else liking Hayame already to have some strong Spirit Energy to feel out and Uryu to be smiling in the good way, everything was going to be alright. Right now, it was time for Sonia and Alucard to speak up about their strategy to be doing during the war they were in against Dracula.

"Alright." Alucard goes first. "Now, Sonia and I have gathered you all here for a reason…To stop Dracula from ruling our world and to save Richard Belmont's life. Sonia and I can't do this alone; we need to work together. And by doing this, we will train you all with different skills and powers to use in battle besides your normal ones. We call this, the Belmont Upgrade!"

The Belmont Upgrades? What was that?

"Belmont Upgrade?" Ichigo was lost. "What's that?"

"Your guess is as good as mine, Ichigo." said Rukia. "Even Renji or I haven't got a clue."

Renji just stays out of this to keep things to himself without feeling like a complete fool on what Rukia just said.

"(Not even I don't know much about the Belmont and such but heard stories…)"

Continuing…Sonia explains to the eight all about it, as Alucard writes it on chalk of the chalk board on what they know about for the others to learn and to be taught every day after school.

"Looks like Alucard and I will explain to you all…" she says it. "So all of you listen up! For all of us to beat Dracula and his monsters to save our world and get rescue Richard, the two of us must teach you some new skills in an after-school training from their open fields of many sports things that you guys have from behind the school's building. If we're going to fight, we're must learn so many things each eight of you have other powers you didn't know about just yet, but with Alucard and I aiding all of you out, we can do this in no time. Now, let us all take this outside! Let's go!"

Alucard leads the others to follow him and Sonia outside of the school, where their training will soon begin.

"Follow us, please."

And so, they do follow the two outside of the school to be roomier enough with some things for shelter and the back way to get into the school was there; with Alucard and Sonia to give Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, Uryu, Rukia, Renji, Kon, and Hayame some of the things which will be suitable to them of their energy to use in battle from the Belmont family to make different weapons. Each of them were different than the other ones but the Quincy was the only one to somehow be the same but with more things for Uryu to use. That was good! Now it was time for Sonia and Alucard to show and tell 'with other things they needed to do with those weapons for training as well'.

"Now then, we're all here." Sonia gets out the bag. "Alucard, it's time."

"Yes, Sonia." he hands her the things. "They're all here as we requested by our Master's help."

"Good. Let's get started! Line up!" And so, all eight of our heroes do so right away for Sonia and Alucard to hand over their new items one at a time. "First up…Uryu Ishida." Sonia hands the item to him. "These are for you."

"T-T-Thank you so much, Sonia!" Uryu was happy about this. "(This is it…!) Well now, these Quincy items are all for me, they sure look different."

Time for some of the weapons 'of two different ones' as it was explained for Sonia to tell Uryu all about it…

"Okay, Uryu. Now I'm letting you borrow these two Quincy items to use along with the powers when using them. The more you train, the stronger you'll become by using one of these at a time. From the original arrows, a bow, and gloves mix in. For your energy is red instead of blue since the Belmont clan helped the Quines over the years to keep some of their old weaponry to come in handy; along with this stick to create a light saber-but double-sided blade for which can cut through anything from your Spirit Energy for it's strong to use in battle. Good ahead, give it a try."

Uryu does so between the bow to create many arrows to pop out in red color this time and fires at a tree, so strong and fast when firing them!

"No way…! Look at you, Uryu." Ichigo said in a silly way again. "Not bad for having borrowed powers…"

"This is wonderful!" said the happy Orihime.

The he does the same of his sword's skill of using the Saber Blade of a Quincy to do the same thing to be quick, fast, and skillful to cut down anything with one powerful slash from it. Cool! Looks like Sonia and Alucard came through for Uryu to be all good to go.

"Way a go, Uryu!" Hayame cheers him on.

Looks like this made Uryu very happy about this.

"Thank you…Ms. Yoko… (This is wonderful. All of this…It's good to have some Quincy powers back, for now at least. It's still worth it.)"

One more thing to add for Sonia to say this to Uryu.

"Do you like it?" Alucard asks him.

"I love it! Thank you so much, Alucard and Sonia!"

But remember, Uryu was borrowing these items until it's all gone and it will last long for him for this battle to come.

"Now remember this, these are for borrowing." Sonia explains. "These powers will last for you, until you feel a certain point to run out during the fight. Just so you, Uryu, so train very well and I know it'll come back some day from the rest of your Quincy powers. You just need to search it. I did with my powers to become a Belmont, that's for sure."

Uryu understood to remember the whole thing very well, for now he will use those powers wisely to be in some use in the Dracula wars.

"You have my word then. I'll do my best." he said.

Next group of people for Sonia and Alucard to give out the other weapons to each of them, next was Chad.

"For you, Chad, I give you the Gloves of Judgment."

"I see…" said Chad.

And now, I shall explain on what was what as those two gives it to our heroes…Chad gets two gloves. Putting two of them on each of your hands can make anyone have higher offense skills to punch much harder.

"Orihime, here's the Necklace of Beauty."

"Oh…It's lovely." said Orihime.

A special diamond like of a necklace to increase anything within anyone's body…When it's around someone's neck, can create a shield even in battle to protect you to be twice as strong, healing abilities to heal anyone with the necklace is on, and attack from creating something from your hands of a strong invisible-type of weapon.

"Rukia and Renji, for the both of you..." Sonia hands one thing at a time. "Rukia, the Icy Boots. And you, Renji, the Spike-a-Rang."

Nice for two Soul Reapers to have two weapons of their own in this type war that's soon to come.

"Why thank you, Sonia." Rukia said to her.

"Damn! I got a type of kick ass boomerang!" same with Renji.

The boots can make you move faster 'like skating on ice' to be sharp when cutting or kicking anyone with the power of ice, and the odd type of boomerang can move on to the earth's ground to create strong rocks to pop out of a type of controllable earth quake when throwing at any type of enemies…

"And for you, Hayame, here's a special Amazonian type of staff. Also known as the Reggie Tiger's Fang."

"Wow! So cool!" Hayame moves around like she knows how to use the weapon. "I always wanted to use something like this and I am! Check me out, Uryu!"

The staff is made from a powerful and last one of the sabretooth tiger, from the handle of a bamboo tree to have some spirit power of the forest to move quickly to defend and can attack at long range. More of an instinct type of ability when someone uses it. It would seem like Hayame Yoko has some special powers a whole lot more besides seeing, hearing, and sensing things out from this girl since she was born. Cool!

"Ichigo, your weapon is a very special one. I give you the Path Belt of Righteousness."

Ichigo felt funny from wearing the belt around his waist.

"Belt of what…?" he was lost. "Why do I have to get a belt?"

"Oh, just live with it." said Sonia. "It does give you the upper body strength when having this around your waist, plus your spirit energy will increase to controlling it twice as much. When you're in the break of death, it can also heal you back up, well slightly besides Rukia or Orihime using their weapons. Along with making you defend and speed to upgrade very well. So this belt's useful that both Trevor and Simon Belmont both used to wear this when they fought against Dracula. Just try to use it wisely, please?"

Ichigo's Spirit Energy was showing all over his body to have some good results from it, guess the item does work.

"Well, what do you know? You were right, Sonia. (I guess…)"

"I told you." she smirks at Ichigo. "Next time, listen to me."

"Oh, very funny!" he gets mad at Sonia again.

Last it was Kon's turn, for he wanted an item from Alucard and Sonia as he was part of the team besides staying in Ichigo's body to be faster and stronger.

"Hey! Hey! Cute, Sonia! What about me…?" begged the Modsoul.

With the two partners looking at each other, Alucard had one more thing of the Belmont items for Kon to use…

"Alucard."

"I do have something for him, Sonia." he gets it out. "This is the last one…"

Sonia hands Kon over a type of girlie-like super hero type of weapon for this Modsoul to have in his toy-like hands.

"Here you go, Kon. The Pretty Puff Hearty Wand for you, from the Pretty-Pretty Puff Sisters super hero show for girls." said Sonia to be laughing.

"WHAT!?" Kon was both shock and upset. "Are you kidding me!? What am I supposed to do with this thing!? Huh!? Wave it around to feel and look like an idiot!?" With Kon waving the wand around in anger, a powerful beam comes flying out for Alucard to throw a powerful harden clay for the blast to hit it instead at anyone else. Looks like it does have some powers for Kon to use.

"You were saying, Modsoul?" Alucard questions him.

Looks like everyone was speechless after seeing a power like this one.

"You see? Powerful!" Sonia mocks Kon.

The wand for Kon has maybe a cosplay of some kid super hero type of show, but it was powerful for someone who's a different body to make the wand turn into any type of light shape as a weapon to strike at any type of enemy – from a hammer, a gun, a sword, different types of animals, and so on…

"(Maybe this girlie thing can be useful for me.)" Kon then tries smooth talking to Orihime, Rukia, and Hayame, and Sonia. "Oh, ladies! What do you think of me now? Come to Kon and hug me with your boobies or hot legs-!"

Sonia kicks Kon in the face to save Rukia the trouble and Hayame poking him on the ground.

"He's such a pervert this talking doll is." said Hayame.

"No kidding!" Sonia kicks Kon some more. "Try touching us again, Kon! Or else…! Come on! I dare you to!"

"Ouch! Ouch! I give, alright!? Just stop!" Kon said in pain. "Although it was worth it…!"

Rukia was amazed by those skills of Sonia and Hayame to be useful.

"(Looks like I'm starting to like those two.)"

And now everyone was all set on each of their ends 'along with Alucard and Sonia to continue training with their items, weapons, and skills', time for the training to begin.

"Now that we're all set up, let the training by using your new borrow weapons and items begin." Alucard said. "Sonia and I will tell each of you on what to do with each different exorcise skills you'll each face when using them, to train every day after school from time to time and for us to still help you out if Dracula or his henchmen might show up again, so be on your feet."

"And for all of this to happen, take your places on where I want each of you eight to be in while Alucard and I train as well. Any questions, come to either one of us for or ask for some help." said Sonia to point out the spots they needed to be at. "Let's get to it!"

Let the training, begin! With Alucard doing fine to control his powers to stop his father for good and Sonia the same to try to save her older brother by doing every Belmont skills of weapons, items, and fighting skills with everything she has. They were doing well. As for the other eight...It's a good thing Sonia and Ichigo each explain everything on what's going on and such for Hayame to understand it all, so she's good in keeping secrets like these type of things. So everything was good for Hayame, that's for sure.

For Kon trying to us his wand for target practice with quick skills without destroying certain targets but the rest for more points; Orihime to reflect the lights of defending, attacking some she needs to, and healing herself from time to time when needed, Chad punching a lot on a special punching bag so many times to get harder to do little by little, Rukia ice skating to be fighting all at once, Renji trying to control the boomerang type of weapon, Hayame to be swinging her staff in many different ways, and let's not forget about Uryu…Yep, he has got the skills to get use to firing a lot of his new arrows and swinging his new Quincy blade around so many times. For he was good at that.

For Alucard and Sonia were showing each of the eight heroes the way from their training, Ichigo however…Well, he had a big problem for his type of training. His task is to try to control his inner powers of the belt boosting him up while firing a powerful attack; but there's a catch of that by cutting through only the sixth flag that was standing tall as targets to remain but one of air control and such. It was really hard to do, but not if you learn how to do. Sonia didn't like on how Ichigo was doing it.

"No!" Sonia yells at Ichigo. "No! No! No! That's not how you do it, Ichigo! Like this!" Sonia whips the ground to directly hit the sixth flag only and not the rest of them.

"Well, I'm sorry for trying my hardest!" he said. "But it's hard to control this belt and it's giving out so much power, while at the same time to only control my attacks on a far away target! It just one out of seven flags!"

Ichigo gives it another swing at it, only to destroy all the flags on the ground twice now. Sonia gets mad to be whipping him like crazy.

"Ah! You're doing it again! Get it right!"

"Hey! Stop whipping me already!" he said to try avoid getting whipped.

"Not until you get it right on your training!" she said while chasing after Ichigo.

For Alucard to be letting out a big sigh from seeing Sonia angry at Ichigo's mistakes again, this will be a while for him and Orihime to worry about Ichigo the most while still training with her friends of her powers aiding her as well.

"(Ichigo…I know you can pass this training with flying colors, because I am doing the same thing like you are.)"

Looks like she'll be just fine, for Chad and Kon were the same thing. Well, more for Kon to make his wand manlier by designing his own to get use of firing without getting pushed back. Only for Chad to catch him on time.

"Got you." he said.

For Kon hates on how Chad likes cute things even for dolls 'to accidentally squeeze his body to death' to move away from him quickly to continue on with his training.

"Ah! Ah! I'm good, Chad, thanks anyways!" Kon said to him. "Now back to work!"

Looks like Renji and Rukia were training as well for they watch over the World of the Living, they each kept on reporting back to the other Soul Reapers all the way from the Soul Society, and learn a lot about the Dracula and the Belmont history things little by little. Well, more on Rukia's end since Renji will forget a lot to be reminded.

"Not bad, Rukia!" Renji cheers her on. "Keep it up!"

Someone was in love with her…Cute! For Rukia was keeping it up on her training already.

"Thanks, Renji!" she said back. "You should do the same thing too! Quit getting distracted!"

Meaning that Renji almost loss control of his new weapon to get his clothes ripped off, to almost having his head removed. Close call…But he did get it back in his control in time.

"Yeah, yeah, I know! (I just hope we can fight this war together, Rukia, just you and me this time.)" he said to himself.

Aw…It's so cute those two make, of course since they were kids to grow up together for Rukia and Renji are. Like Ichigo and Orihime are also a cute couple, as well as Alucard and Sonia too from the looks of it, and now with Uryu to be liking Hayame a lot more than just friends...Uryu's borrows new Quincy powers were doing well and Hayame's new fighting skills as well to discover her own hidden powers soon enough, for another reason she was on the team now. It would seem like ever since Uryu first meant with Hayame to save her life from last night, he never felt very calm and sweet around another woman like her since Yoshino. A whole new beginning for him here.

"Way a go, Uryu!" Hayame cheer him on. "You'll be back to your normal self again in not time!"

"Thank you, Ms. Yoko…"

Hayame goes up to Uryu to fix in saying her real name.

"Hold up! Please call me Hayame only. I'm fine being called by my first name."

"Really?" Uryu smiled. "(She's really cute up close…) Very well, Ms.-! I mean, Hayame. Let's you and I train well and get to know the others. Orihime, Chad, Kon, Rukia, Renji, Sonia, Alucard, and…Ichigo. Whether I'm a Quincy who is still an enemy to him as a Soul Reaper."

"Do you mean Ichigo as the Substitute Soul Reaper?" Hayame corrects him.

He gets it to still care for Ichigo as his true friend deep down…

"Ah…Yes! Yes, of course. A Substitute Soul Reaper. Forgive me."

"It's fine, Uryu." Hayame laughs. "You're fun. I like your friends very much. Being so kind and all makes you a very kind-hearted person."

Uryu was touched by Hayame's word to be much closer to her than ever soon enough, taking things slow.

"(Hayame…)" he was blushing again. "Thank you again, Hayame. Let's train as much as possible. And one day, I'll get my Quincy powers back after this battle is over."

The two shake on it.

"You got it. Let's train together then."

With those two getting to know each other more and more 'and still training together', the day to the sun setting, and then turning into night time…As everyone was about done for today, Sonia shows Ichigo a few tricks of her own to make sure that he uses his item well in battle as they've been working hard all day since school was already over. Not bad, for they were growing stronger and stronger of a powerful friendship to start out.

"Are you ready for this?" Sonia said.

She uses from four different whipping skills to hit one flag only, to that the chain or and the last was fire. To using her cross-throwing skills, slashing with her daggers, and fighting a lot to get one flag down and the rest was unharmed to be blown away from a powerful gust of wind. This surprises Ichigo after seeing all of this happened.

"What…? How in the hell did you do all of that?"

Sonia just snaps her fingers to help Ichigo's belt to upgrade a little more of controlling his Spirit Energy to flow from Ichigo's body. As she places his hands out for his Zanpakuto to aim at the sixth flag only out of the seven standing on the ground this time.

"I had a lot of practice I guess." she said. "You just need to have a show and tell, on which I did. So try doing it again without hurting yourself this time."

"Well…You sure?" he asked.

Sonia slaps Ichigo on the back.

"Just do it!"

"Alright! I'll see what I can do!" With Ichigo in a standing pose of aiming with his weapon, he releases another shock wave again to go flying to destroy the one sixth flag this time and not the rest, by luck.

"(I knew he just needed I good push.)" Sonia said to herself. "See? You did it. Now you'll have no problem doing the rest while you're still training."

Even Ichigo was amazed on what he just did…

"Wow, I never knew…That was amazing!" he said to be looking at his Zanpakuto. "Guess I needed a little push, huh? (I think I'm starting to like this training program.)"

Sonia's whip was almost close to Ichigo to gets his head out of the clouds.

"Ah, Hello? Earth to Ichigo? Back to training before going home in thirty minutes!" she said. "The more you do it, the better you'll get your new skills!"

And so, Ichigo does so before calling it a day.

"If you say so, Sonia, thanks." he said.

"Did you say something?" she asks him.

But of course, Ichigo had to be all tough to be a nice guy and get shy about it.

"I mean, whatever! Don't rush me!"

I guess Ichigo's saying, 'sure, no problem' or 'you're welcome', you know? For Sonia to see this already within his eyes and Alucard to notice of his partner was changing a little…As it was night time now for Ichigo, Sonia, Alucard, Orihime, Kon, Chad, Uryu, Hayame, Renji, and Rukia called it a night to head on home and rest for tomorrow to be training again after school; Executioner was still upset from failing his last mission for his master Dracula and such to look at the World of the Living to get back at his enemies on his own for revenge and he was part of a member of the higher ranking solider again…With some help with some group of different monsters, or hordes of Stone Dragons. From his strong skills and their fire powers, the giant can't lose this time for invading the town they go to cause some trouble already.

Stone Dragons 'or The White Dragons is a two-headed dragon. They attack by releasing blue fireballs from the mouths. After one of the heads lose half of the energy, its color will change from white to gray and will release a large amount of fire from the mouth.

"Enemies to Lord Dracula shall pay…!" Executioner said in anger. "Think member make fun me? Like it's nothing? Time to show them what I do best. Crushing enemies to nothing! Come, Stone Dragons! Aid me of revenge attack to get back to ranking and then ruling this world!" As Executioner, and his army of Stone Dragons started to travel in town to cause more trouble again, they got another thing coming to come across a black cat to just show up out of nowhere. But I doubt this was no ordinary cat. "What? Cat? Not cat or enemy of Lord Dracula will stop us!" However, this cat comes flying at Executioner's face to knock him down to the ground. Nice hit! Though he wasn't too happy. "Bad move, cat…" Executioner order his dragons to strike back. "Attack!"

Just then…A huge shield type of spell was cast to destroying some of the Stone Dragons. It was Tessai's doing! Meaning...Urahara, Jinta, Ururu, and the cat who's really Yoruichi have come to stop Executioner and the other monsters invading the area as well as Ichigo and the others to fight against Dracula. Sweet!

"Sorry, big boy. But anyone who dares attack the World of the Living, is going down." said Yoruichi. "Starting with your stone-like armies."

Before Executioner tries destroying the shield with Tessai in it, Yoruichi uses her skills and speed to slow the giant down.

"I'll ax you to death!"

"Well, you should've ax me nicely. Now…Come and get me!"

With her keeping the giant like Executioner busy, Tessai says this part next.

"The rest are all yours, boss!" he said out loud.

"All righty, here we go. Scream, Benihime."

Soon Urahara appears to stop some Stone Dragons by using his Zanpakuto, Benihime – Red Princess. Strong, for this Zanpakto can hit anything at far distances, and destroys his enemies with one strike from his sword. Then Jinta comes in to smash the rest away using his baseball bat of some kind, and Ururu was next with her many rocket launcher to fire away. Also, Tessai's body strength took care of some dragons behind him in seconds. As Yoruichi beats up the Executioner some more to hit his face and his weapon many times to stop, and a few more to crush in to pieces for the last of the Stone Dragons…Now this dude's army was no more but a pile of dust.

"HA!" Executioner laughs at Yoruichi. "Cat lady or friends can't stop us, or me. Stronger than smaller creatures! Pointless too-!" but Yoruichi's punches and kicks did cut Executioner's ax in half to be broken this time.

"You were saying?" Yoruichi questions the monster.

"Why you…! Stone Dragons! Crush…Huh!?"

Too late, all of your other armies are dead from the looks of it for Jinta to stick his tongue out and Ururu to wave this monster a good-bye to his early grave.

"Sorry, Mister Big and Scary…They're all dead thanks to us!" Jinta said. "Score one for me!"

"And for me too." and Ururu.

Looks like Executioner was out numbered again to make another retreat quickly and back to Dracula's hideout right away.

"No…No…! No!" he started running. "Can't lose! Not like this! Not to Lord Dracula!" Urahara comes up in front of Executioner's face.

"But I'm afraid you have, my friend." he kicks to firing an attack at Executioner and finishes it. "Benihime, it's your move now. Finish this guy off!"

Direct hit!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! MASTER! Forgive failure!"

There goes Executioner this time. From one powerful slash-like attack from Urahara's Zanpakuto, to fire a huge blast to hit the Executioner as he was turning to ashes and in pain to his final defeat. That was easy thanks to Urahara and the others with Yoruichi, but they still have more to go in defeating Dracula's minions little at a time before getting to him last. While Ririn, Kurodo, and Noba 'in their human-like body forms' took care of the other Stone Dragons as back up – from illusions, becoming one of them, and going from one portal hole a lot of times and all.

"Yes! Yes! I got them!" Ririn cheered.

"Ah, correction, Ririn." Kurodo spoke up. "I took them all with my clever disguise."

The two started to argue with each other – of Ririn saying repeatedly of her say 'no, I got them', and then the same thing with Kurodo…However, for Noba…

"I believe I did." said the shy Noba. "Look."

Looks like Noba shows those two since he beaten Ririn and Kurodo did, so they were in second place 'or a tie' for those two. As the three join back with Urahara along with Yoruichi, Tessai 'putting the shield back down', Jinta, and Ururu to see from the dead or destroyed the Stone Dragons all over the place to clean up and Urahara wanted to study them a bit more of their new enemy being Dracula himself.

"So…This is what type of new enemies we're dealing with." he said. "I'm glad you've warned us, Yoruichi. Seems we'll finish the job for Ichigo and the others."

"I guess we did." said Yoruichi. "Still, they're going to need our help stopping Dracula for what we've learn from Renji and Rukia. All eight of us must join with this other female Belmont and our enemy's half breed son Alucard right away."

She has a point there, for Urahara couldn't agree with Yoruichi even more.

"I couldn't have said it better myself. In any case…"

Looks like they're going to join with Sonia and Alucard to aid Ichigo and the others, cool! However, somewhere in the skies had something flying around to be some type of bat. Yeah, a bat which wasn't normal looking at all, but a type of vampire bat working for Dracula to be the information gathering type of demon to serve and report to Dracula only for he was Deku 'for he doesn't fight but he gathers data to control other vampire bats to work for him who can fight'. As he flies back to headquarters to tell his master on what happened tonight and of Executioner was dead and some of the Stone Dragons, there will be more monsters to face off with our heroes before the other six warriors who serve their master. Not good…

It's the type of bat from the video game - In Symphony of the Night, Alucard can turn into a bat once he finds the Soul of Bat relic. While in bat form, he will normally fly at a slow speed while consuming MP. The powerful Wing Smash, which causes his bat form to dash across the screen at high velocity while dealing out Hit damage, can be pulled off if the player knows the button combination. The Wing Smash ability varies depending on the version of the game. In the PlayStation version and ports, it has a fixed duration and Alucard will automatically leave bat form after a short dash. The dash can be extended by re-inputting the command for the spell during the previous one, allowing a Wing Smash to continue until Alucard either hits something or runs out of MP. In the Saturn version, the Wing Smash won't automatically end and will continue for as long as Alucard doesn't hit something or run out of MP. Alucard can gain additional abilities for his bat form by gaining additional relics, including: Fire of Bat: This relic allows him to shoot fireballs while in bat form. Echo of Bat: This relic gives him a sonar which will allow him to see what is ahead in dark areas. Force of Echo: This relic causes his sonar to deal damage. If the Bat Familiar is out while in bat form, it will mistake him for a possible mate and a heart will appear over its head. Smitten, it will follow him much more closely, making it more useful. Also, additional bats will be summoned depending on the familiar's level (one additional bat for every 20 or so levels). If the Fire of Bat relic has been found, whenever Alucard fires off a fireball while in bat form, any bat familiars following him will launch a fireball as well. The bat familiar has no action to match the Wing Smash ability, however. The color of the currently equipped cloak, as well as the customization Joseph's Cloak, affects the color scheme that Alucard's bat form will take. This version is different here to have annoying type of villain.

"Lord Dracula." Deku flies over to his boss's side. "It is I, Deku. For I have returned with news."

Looks like some demons and monsters talk and sound different than others do, for Dracula almost sounded human, but he was still pure evil.

"Oh, really?" he replied. "I take it that Executioner disobeyed my orders to get back at our enemies and then died for it?"

Seems like Dracula sense the whole thing out from the World of the Living, for he was very powerful and very dangerous to mess with.

"You are as smart in sensing things like this one out as you did centuries ago, my Lord. That's correct!"

Deku shows Dracula on what he witness from Executioner getting killed off by Urahara, Yoruichi, Tessai, Jinta, Ururu, Ririn, Kurodo, and Noba. The bat uses his little magic to go to a screen-like crystal ball type of mirror to know what was happening.

"I see. Looks like my son is at it again to try to stop me."

Guess Dracula knows about Alucard who's trying to stop him a lot from every century so far…

"It would seem so, along with another Belmont." Deku said. "A girl and who's related to Richard, his little sister. The other one who's trying to stop you."

This was news for Dracula to hear, even though he had one Belmont of Richard as his hostage who's within his hideout.

"Another Belmont? A girl?" he questions Deku. "Who else besides these humans are working with this woman and Alucard?"

Deku freaks out for he was not able to get the other data for Ichigo and his friends yet but Urahara, the other people working for him, Yoruichi, and Alucard so far…For the bat begins on asking for forgiveness from his mistakes by bowing to Dracula many times while flying.

"AH! Forgive me, Master! I didn't get that far on my research!"

Dracula puts his hand out to calm Deku down a little, meaning he wasn't too worried about it at all.

"There's no need." he said. "Just keep at it by sending some of my creations down to the human world to find other living humans that are stopping my plans again. Besides having one of my enemies of the Belmont in my cell…This female one, I need to learn more about her as soon as possible. So my good friend, Deku, listen to me well on your task at hand. Watch over our new enemies as they face off other creatures to report back to me with new ones right away, while I study the rest I've gotten so far besides Alucard, who's my only half breed son left in my family. Is that clear?"

Deku understood to get to work right away, for he never fails from doing his job at all or never will.

"Oh…Yes! Yes! Good idea, Master! I'll get right to it!" the demon bat takes off. "I won't let you down this time!"

With the bat flying out to the World of the Living again to learn more about Ichigo, the others, and Sonia…Dracula waits around to give some of his monsters some orders to do down there 'at a time'.

"(A female Belmont, eh? This should be excited to learn more about this one…)"

Not good the way he was thinking…The next day, another training starts up once again after school for Sonia and Alucard sees Ichigo 'who was doing better this time', Orihime, Uryu, Chad, Rukia, Renji, Hayame, and Kon to continue with their work. So far so good on their upcoming battle. But they won't be training or fighting against Dracula alone and such for eight more people join in…Urahara and the others themselves to be showing up 'thanks to Rukia and Renji reporting everything back at the Soul Society'.

"Sonia, someone's here." Alucard tells her.

For those two get in to battle mode to fight back if they needed to.

"Halt!" Sonia said. "Who goes there!?"

So out of the bushes with his hands up, Urahara shows himself to have a funny smile on his face.

"Okay! Okay! Sorry about that." said Urahara. "Wow. So you must be Alucard, the half breed son of Dracula to stop his own father from ruling the world, huh? Good for you." he goes over to Sonia next to kiss her hand. "And you're the lovely Sonia Belmont. A female hero and a rock band. I love your last album; I've listened to your songs all the time you know. And…I think I might have a crush on you-!"

"Back off!" Sonia said in anger.

Looks like Sonia kicks Urahara to the face as he was acting like a creep to her, while Alucard comes up from behind him with the blade next to his neck.

"Who are you-!?" Alucard demanded to know.

Soon, Yoruichi shows up to stop them in time along with the others appearing.

"Easy, you two." she said to move Alucard and Sonia away from Urahara. "We're on your side. The same as Rukia and Renji are. We're Soul Reapers just like them."

Ichigo, Rukia, and Renji say so too.

"It's true." said Rukia.

"Sorry, we almost forgot to tell you guys." Renji felt silly. Rukia hits Renji on the head very hard.

"You always forget!"

And for this type of surprise, Alucard and Sonia let Urahara be to trust him and Yoruichi's words.

"Please forgive us." the two said to them.

"We do, it's no big deal." said Yoruichi. "Anyways, guess who's coming to join the training thing to stop Dracula…?"

Everything was forgiven of course, with good reflex skills to see if they were friends or not 'and there are good ones'. Soon Ichigo was surprise to see Yoruichi, Urahara, and the other six to be joining in.

"Wait a minute…" Ichigo gets it. "Hey! Don't tell me it's you guys!"

Yep, they sure are for they already know the whole thing that's been happening lately to help them out in the World of the Living. So other than it is all said and done, both Rukia and Renji did a fine job reporting back in time to get half of the story with new friends joining in for Hayame that is.

"(Cool…Two other Soul Reapers, three odd people with strange powers, and three Modsouls like Kon!)" Hayame was happy.

Urahara introduces himself to his teammates joining in to meeting with Sonia and Alucard so far. And by doing so, he was playing around with his fan again.

"Now then…Sonia, Alucard, and new human with strong Spirit Energy name Hayame Yoko. Let us introduce ourselves!" Urahara was being silly again. "I'm the once a Captain of Squad Twelve of Research and Developments. Kisuke Urahara! But now I'm just an owner shop…With my friends, family, and partners here…Tessai Tsukabishi, Jinta Hanakari, Ururu Tsumugiya, along with three other Bount hunting Modsouls - Ririn, Kurodo, and Noba."

And finally, this happens…

"And I'm the once former Captain of Squad Two of the Stealth Fore, Yoruichi Shihoin." she said. "Now I'm aiding the team here and such to sometimes be a cat from time to time. So nice to meet with you, Sonia and Alucard. Autograph?"

Of course, she had to be a fan of Sonia's, as she does her and Urahara a favor 'to keep him away from her the most'. And how does she and Alucard feel about all of this?

"I see…New people to train with us. I like these guys." Sonia said with a smile on her face. "Alucard, looks like we might win this fight for good this time against your so call father and save Richard to come back home to our village. This is perfect!"

Alucard sees that now with his own eyes.

"Hmph. I guess the more, the merrier then." he said. "It'll be fine, Ichigo. We're going to need a lot of help on this one."

Looks like Ichigo can't say anything else to argue back.

"(Great…Just great…)" he was down the dumps about it.

"In that case, welcome to the team Urahara, Yoruichi, Ririn, Kurodo, Noba, Ururu, Jinta, and Tessai." Sonia gives their thanks. "Please to meet the other friends of Ichigo's. However, you guys will be training with your skills."

"Then we'll do our best, won't we?" Urahara said. "Am I right, you guys?"

"Right!" said the other six and Yoruichi as well at the same time.

And so, they were good to go. Making it about eighteen people were on the team now. So cool! For Alucard and Sonia continues training the others at a time – for Yoruichi to use her kicks to train a lot, Tessai meditating, Jinta and Ururu learning some chores as part of their training, even for the three Modsouls to learn heavy lifting from their dolls and other bodies to get use of, and Urahara to train his ability moves quite well. While Orihime, Uryu, Hayame, Chad, Kon, Rukia, Renji, and Alucard continue their other parts 'still', same with Ichigo to see the upcoming battle will be something else 'to soon be the same thing with Sosuke, Gin, and Kaname one day'; Sonia sees on how different he and his friends are than she was to get use to them all.

"This is really cool, Ichigo." Sonia said to him.

He takes a breather like she was to talk for a bit.

"What is?" he sees it. "Oh, yeah. A brand-new people joining our team. It is something else. Let's do our best."

Sonia looks at Ichigo to be so calm today suddenly…

"Ah, Ichigo?"

"Listen, Sonia, answer me this question."

"And what's that?" she asked.

"Why do you want to beat Dracula so badly?" Ichigo says it. "I know it's a tradition to keep the world saved by an evil vampire for the Belmonts to do, you need to save your brother, and Alucard wants revenge against his own father for hurting him and his human mother…I would do the same thing if Dracula killed my mother instead. Or my Dad. Or even my two little sisters, Yuzu and Karin."

Sonia didn't know Ichigo had a family until he told her about it now.

"What!?"

"My mother was killed by a Hollow."

This hit Sonia hard to get upset of Ichigo's loss of the enemies he was stopping and a reason why he became a Soul Reaper with a reason.

"(So that's why he's a Soul Reaper…)" surprised Sonia to answer Ichigo's question. "I'm doing this because…I want to end this curse of Dracula's for good. Both Richard, Maria, Alucard, and myself. Richard's my only brother I have left in our family for us and our two friends to live a life in our village to keep our people happy and safe from the danger in the woods in your hometown. If that Dracula bastard has done anything to my older brother, he will pay with his life. I want to become the most powerful female member of the Belmont clan! To prove I got what it takes to face with anything that comes in my way!"

Same with Ichigo to be hearing about this.

"(No way…! She's just like me!)" he said.

Sonia then says this to Ichigo next about her mistakes when they first met each other next…

"Listen, Ichigo. I'm sorry…"

"Sorry for what?" he asks her.

Sonia got mad at Ichigo.

"Ah! Really!? I'm sorry for not believing in you about this Soul Reaper business until Renji and Rukia showed up, and then Urahara with Yoruichi!" she said. "So now I believe in you! And I think Alucard did from the very beginning!"

He gets it now.

"Oh, yeah…It's cool." Ichigo does the same thing. "And I'm sorry for not believing in you two at first either, until a group of monsters who tried to kill us and saving each other's asses. So now, we're even."

"We are?" she was lost.

Ichigo then holds out his hand to Sonia.

"Listen, Sonia, we will save your brother. You have my word. Let's stop Dracula and his scary movie monsters together." he said. "We're a team after all."

And so...she shakes his hand on that, becoming true friends/brother and sister bounding like with Rukia and Ichigo as true partners/friends/brother and sister type of relationship.

"(Wow, Ichigo's a good person deep down. Not bad.)" she does it. "Yes we are a team, Ichigo. Let's win this battle."

And with all said and done, this was a brand-new beginning for our heroes to be getting stronger little at a time. With new skills and some to learn a lot more on what's to come real soon for Deku to have his eyes on them little by little…And for Dracula to study their skills and even more to learn about Sonia Belmont the most. Will Richard be okay? Who was trapped and such…? For the World of the Living, and soon enough the Soul Reapers in the Soul Society will help them out to beat Dracula and his monsters as he sends out one of them to go first, as well as stopping his only son. As Sonia and Ichigo are becoming good friends now, they've both made a promise to each other by helping out one another to the very end and so on was about to come…

"(Sonia…I won't let anything else take your only family members away from your life, or your closes friends.)" Ichigo said to himself. "(Mark my words. Although we maybe different, our goals will always remain the same. For you will know more about my friends and what I do best, while I learn a lot about your line of work. It's team work and family, and I feel like with you around me to be the older sister I never had. I kind of like it.)"

You said it, Ichigo. Seems like Sonia sees him having family, friends, and Orihime to have a crush on her…The two will slowly get to know each other, that's for sure.