The Wizard had lasted a long long time in this strange profession of his. A great deal of his longevity was from knowing when other forces were at play and needed to play out. As he (and the shop) faded out, he noted that the Hottie Cop uniform and its ultimate effects were added TO the world, as opposed to changing it..
He was a bit surprised at getting shipped to Great Britain of all places, but since the GIs he'd trained with and under in the earlier days of the training trip taught him English (and his rather rough language patterns), he knew he was able to hack the language at least. The college was not that famous, but it was surprisingly good, and best of all, it was far far away from his hassles!
As Ranma sighed in memory, she adjusted her sunglasses, loving the shocked and envious looks on several girls' faces. She'd never have admitted it back when she could change, but she liked out-doing the girls that so confused them when it came to arousal. And now that her options were settled once and for all, being a total babe was her only true consolation.
Ranma didn't pace down the street, she stalked, with all the grace of a panther raised by ninja. The day was too bright for her without her sunglasses, but that was always the case as long as the Daystar was up.
College had been a wild time, and as Ranma had used his intense training to put off silly parties and other chances for trouble, it had been suggested by the regular instructor during the class Ranma taught for added college credit that the Pigtailed One assist training in self-defense at the Police Academy.
This idea kinda tickled at Ranma from the moment he'd heard it, and he accepted. He didn't let the college folks know it, though, going so far as to use the old dodge of Ranko Tendo for a name and staying in girlform. After that, the challenge got to Ranma, and on the last year of the scholarship, he'd entered the Academy.. as Ranko, of course. At that point, Ranma had thought he'd finally stepped aside from the strangeness of life before. and fully planned on settling down on British lands, all his fiancees safe from his chaos.
In retrospect, Ranma now felt what happened was inevitable.. well, maybe not Cheders, but something ridiculous. It was, ironically enough, his third mission with D-12, the squad being the rough equivalent of the infamous American Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) teams. As such, Ranma was was girlform and carrying a gun, though as always she didn't want to use it. That hesitation vanished when the only member of the team to survive the rush of those grotesque things choked up, then became one himself, like something out of Biohazard.
Of course, the red-coated monster of a 'savior' that killed her partner the second time was another shot, but she felt that was understandable even now, if not for the reasons Alucard later told her he'd figured at the time. It wasn't his inhumanity per se, but rather his intent interest in her body. Blood drinking or whatever, Ranma simply thought girls were more to her taste, thank you very much!
Ranma paused and shook her head with a slight smile at the feeling of distant amusement. She knew that even after the second draught of her Maker's blood, he'd always pick up thoughts that referential to him, no matter where she was. It was a bit of a comfort now, really..
It took a while for the old attitudes about the unusual to come back, and she'd died during that time. To this day, the feeling of herself dripping away left Ranma feeling very sympathetic towards humans in mortal pain. She had WAY too much on her plate in the early days, and Alucard figured his unexpectantly talented Childe would take decades to get past it and develop into a true No Life King. Ranma knew, because the Nosferatu of Hellsing has said so on many occasions.
She murmured to herself "Police Girl" as she strolled into the outskirts of Nerima Ward. That was Alucard for you in a nutshell, simultaneously reinforcing the simple fact that Dead folk didn't change from Jusenkyo, no matter how well they walked about, and challenging Ranma to earn back her name. That challenge and the imperious ways of one Sir Integral Wingates Hellsing finally got Ranma out of her remaining urge to go on cruise control.
The Paladin, Father Alexander.. he was the first to truly injure her, remind her that for all her death, Ranma was still a part of this world. Alucard never tried to force the lessons down her throat, he simply did things, his gifts already passed by the Kiss and Ranma's urge to learn and embrace the truth of her being being strictly up to her. Even his command over his Childe (until the second draught during Incognito) would not safely force Ranma to develop faster.. that, and Alucard outright refused to act at all like Genma had.
Ranma never checked to see if Alucard had told Integra about her true past or if she's subsequently had Walter prepare a file on her. She knew that both of these must have happened, else Integra would never have waited as long as she did in Ranma's case. Integra's patience was generally held to be measured using units normally only utilised in describing subatomic phenomena, after all.
Ranma's acceptance of herself and her situation truly flowed into being after the second draught, as Alucard later said was usually the case. He also said he'd have to kill her if she acted like those factory reject chipped vamps, now that she was free of his binding, but that was only to be expected.
She'd stopped aging at 21, due of course to her change--death does tend to end aging problems after all--but her bust swelled further and her waist narrowed. It took walter to finally explain it to Ranma, as Alucard found it too amusing to bother ending the confusion, and it was apparently a bit risque for Integra to talk about. Seemed the body fat in female vamps moved to the best places to appeal to others, over time. Males improved too, but generally in terms of puffing out the musculature.
Ranma broke out of the reverie of her past unlife, as she was approaching the section of town she once called sheer raving Hell Home. Now that she was a Protestant Knight, a full No Life King (she laughed herself silly at learning the title was unisex, for reasons most obvious to those aware of her past), and set to cover another region of the world, Integra had basically ordered her to return to life as Ranma and hook up with and/or train forces fighting the good fight in Japan. And here she was:
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