Authors Note: Man, it's been that long? I'm sorry, now on with the new chapter NOW!

Chapter 23: One Of Us

Sora woke up to a bleak urban alleyway. He looked around him. His eyesight took a few seconds to adjust, but he quickly realised that surrounding him was a wreck…

He looked around for any sign of his friends, but nothing. No-one was there. Suddenly, it began to rain, and he got soaked. He quickly ran under a hollow piece of the ship to avoid completely soaking his clothes, only to realise that the clothes were completely dry. He, on the other hand, was not.

'Damn, if only they'd dry me too…' he moaned in his head. But his whining was interrupted by footsteps he picked up nearby. Thinking it might be Riku, he stepped out to see, and was introduced to a boot, right to face, breaking his nose.

He fell to the ground, clutching his nose, but he was bleeding profusely. His first instinct was to crawl away, but the man grabbed him by the back of the neck and pulled him up, putting them face to face with each other.

The man was very young, resembling Riku in his stature and silver-platinum hair. But his face was different and looked angry. He couldn't make out much more because his eyesight was becoming blurred by his busted nose, but he could make out that his eyes were red, indicating a vampire. Who was he, and why was he angry at Sora?

"So you're the one…" The man said.

"I'm…" Sora stuttered as he was attempting to regain his composure. "Please, what did I do?"

He was answered by being thrown across the alley, stopping by the wall.

"You won't even own up to your crimes? How pathetic… then if you won't be a man, you'll die like a rat." He walked toward Sora. "And I'm not in the mood to give you a painless death either."

Sora cringed up in the corner and closed his eyes, wanting this to be a dream. But it was real, and he knew full well what was coming.

Acting on instinct, he quickly got up and ran as fast as he could down the alleyway. He could barely see now, and it looked like the alley was never-ending, not doing much to help with his morale, which had completely gone by now.

The man growled angrily as he chased after Sora, catching up with him easily. He grabbed Sora by his jacket and with ease, chucked him towards the wall, stopping him in his tracks.

"Hmm… you seem determined not to attack me, yet you are desperate to evade your impending return to Hell. In that case… I think I will give you a quick death, because I have no more time to play with you."

And then what shocked Sora next is that his attacker summoned none other than a Keyblade.

"A… Keyblade? So that would make you a Keyblade Bearer…" Sora sputtered.

The man was seemingly hesitant to kill his target, hearing those words come out of his mouth.

"Hmm… and what would you know of the Keyblade?"

"I know because…" Sora suddenly stood up and smacked the Keyblade out of the man's hand with his own. "I am the Keyblade Master!" Sora proclaimed. He wiped his face to try and clear up his vision.

"Impossible! You, of all people can't be the Keyblade Master!" the man was getting angry now, his eyes beginning to glow.

"Don't judge a book by its cover!" Sora shouted.

"Stop!" A familiar voice proclaimed. From out of nowhere, Kaine jumped in between them, drawing his own Keyblade ready to defend himself if necessary.

"Victor! Are you insane?" Victor, realising that he was about to go berserk, stood back shocked, realising who his target really was.

'Wait a minute… He is…!'

"Sora, are you alright?" Kaine asked him.

"Never better cough" Sora replied.

Later…

In a large mansion was where Sora slept. It was daytime again. Riku sat by the bedside happy he was ok. Cloud and Sophie stood nearby, while Kaine laid out the details.

"He should be fine. A broken nose is nothing for a vampire, especially when the vampire is the Keyblade Master. He should heal up by the night." Kaine told them.

"I can't believe this happened. Who did this?" Riku demanded.

"Well, the person who did it thought he was someone else-"

"Who was it?" He asked again, more sternly this time.

"Alright, it was a friend of mine. And don't go looking for him. His dad's the big cheese of vampires around here. He doesn't like it when people go beating up his kin."

"I don't care! They're vampires, and they wanted to take Sora out, I'll kill both of them!"

"Look, I just said they thought it was someone else! You're forgetting Sora is a vampire too!"

"SO?"

"So, they are vampire hunters, they hunt evil vampires for a living, as do I, so the mistake was easily made!" Now please, calm down."

They quieted down for a bit, and Riku quietly asked: "So… why did he attack Sora?"

"Well, it's like this. We were asked by another vampire clan to assassinate a kid vampire whom would be protected by a keyblade wielder, a sword-master and another female vampire…"

A week earlier…

A man wearing a long thick black coat with a hood walked into the Hellsing Mansion. Most of his features were hidden by his hood, although two individuals could easily identify him in the dark, although his name escaped them.

He sat in a nearby seat as if waiting for someone. He didn't have to wait long.

Walter, the butler of the mansion, walked up to the man and said:

"The lady of the house will see you now, sir. It's just this way."

The man stayed silent as he was led to a private room on the second floor. In there sat a woman with blonde hair, wearing a suit and round glasses. The person knew instantly who she was.

"Lady Hellsing."

"So you are the one who wished to see me in private. You had best not be wasting my time."

"Don't worry. My business here is important. Although I will admit it is also personal to me."

"So what is it you wish me to give you?"

"Your services."

The lady paused to take a sip of her tea. "Go on."

"There is someone I want dealt with. As you might guess, he is a vampire, which is why I came to you."

"Can't you track him down yourself? You are after all, as I can tell, a -"

"He is difficult to track. He is always one step ahead. But I hoped that maybe with some help I can stop this menace."

"How does stopping him help us, or anyone other than you?"

"Well for one thing, he is a very powerful warrior, but he targets both humans and vampires. I'm not quite sure what his true purpose is, but he has already attacked several of my clan. We are a peaceful group, but we can take action if we must."

"Alright then, let me see him."

The man handed her a file. In it was a picture of Sora, along with a description of him. Behind it were similar details on his friend, Riku.

"They may have more people with them."

"This one with the silver hair is not a vampire."

"His bodyguard, so to speak, thus why he may have extra support."

Hellsing overlooked the files carefully before stating that she would consider it, depending on numerous factors. The man promptly left, leaving Hellsing with the file.

"So, what do you think?" Hellsing spoke out loud.

"The man is hiding something. But if this child is who he says he is, he should promptly be dealt with. We can't risk another outbreak of vampires." A man said as he suddenly revealed himself from the shadows. Alucard, the greatest vampire known.

"So be it. I leave you and your son to take care of it. Do as you will."

"As is your wish, my Lady." And with that, Alucard disappeared into the shadows again.

"…and that's what the conversation was about. Never would have thought you two would be the ones that guy was talking about. Whoever he was, he wanted you out of the picture. Either way, just thank god Alucard never showed, or he would have been killed."

"Who is this Alucard, anyway?"

"He is the man personified commonly in fairy tales as 'Dracula'. I don't know the full details on how he was resurrected, or why he helps us rather than them, but I won't complain. He's a cool guy, although it's a bit unnerving whenever I'm near him, cause he's really tall. There's this other girl that he once turned to save her life, called Sera, but I don't see her much. She's usually with the rest of the actual army."

"They sure do accept vampires around here." Riku said.

"Well, we kinda keep it a secret from the outside world. They'd go ballistic if they knew about it."

"Hmm. Well, anyway, we gotta get this guy then. Don't want him running around spurting lies about us if its going to get us killed."

"Well then, we can go looking for him at night. We'll need your friend's help, anyway."

Authors Note: Cutting this chapter short because I have stuff needs doing. Again, SO SORRY for the wait!