A/N: So. Just what insane thing did I come up with now? It actually started off when my good friend Nichie was drawing on my planner. She ended up drawing a mermaid Zero, and then I came up with the rest. Ideas just kept flowing out of me, and therefore this monstrosity of a fanfic came to be. I am Filipino, so I twisted some fun about our local legends with Vampire Knight. I had fun writing it, especially Shiki, since he's an awesome little vampire. Hee. Well then, I'll try updating this soon.

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*Vampire Knight and its characters or Philippine mythology monsters don't belong to me*


Chairman Cross shifted about his bookshelf, tracing his finger through the exposed spines. Something wasn't right. He could feel the dirt collect on his hand, but he didn't particularly care. He only cared about the gap in between A Man's Beginner's Guide to Vampires and Momma's Pasta Recipes of All-Time.

"Eh?" he wondered out loud, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose. The retired vampire hunter scratched his head confusedly. "Now what could be missing there?"

It wasn't long before Senri Shiki stumbled upon an old book lying open on top of a desk inside the Cross Academy library. He had been looking for Rima, who had stolen his box of Pocky once more.

"Rima," groaned the red-haired youth in his passive voice. "This isn't funny this time. Please come out. I want my Pocky back."

He sighed, exasperated, when his companion didn't show. "Ah, well. I'm definitely not sharing next time."

Curiosity sparked his gaze when his blue eyes flickered onto the open book. Perhaps it was something to pass the time?

Shiki sat himself down and lazily stared at the book's wilting, fragile pages. It seemed aged, since it smelled rather odd and its pages were stained with a strange brownish-yellow color. His pale hand got a bit dusty as well, when he flipped the book carefully. Shiki took a look at the cover.

Manila Scare: Creatures of the Night in Rural Philippines.

Hmm? Creatures of the night? Didn't that include me? Shiki thought. He shrugged at his own question and began to read. It seemed interesting anyway. The young vampire propped it back open randomly, ending up setting his eyes on a huge letter S. His eyes grew even wider when he met the gaze of an illustration of a beautiful girl with a tail instead of legs. He raised his eyebrows as he followed the words carefully.

The sirena is a creature of Philippine mythology that is said to be living under the sea. They are the Philippine version of mermaids. The sirena is a mythological aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish. The male version of a sirena is called a sireno. Sometimes they were also paired with another aquatic creature called the siyokoy.

"Sireno," repeated Shiki slowly. The book was going to be quite interesting indeed.

"ZEROOOO!!!" Yuuki Cross called angrily. "It's time for our guardian duties, where the heck did you run off to now?!"

She rolled her eyes and paced around the forest impatiently. If that bloody vampire doesn't show up in five minutes, I swear, I'll—

Yuuki snapped her head up as a whisper called out her name.

"Yuuki! Yuuki! I'm in here!"

"Zero?" she asked, lowering her voice as well. "Why are you whispering?"

Another frustrated whisper sounded from who-knows-where. It grunted in difficulty. "You'll see later! But right now, I need you to help me with something."

"You have to tell me where you are first before I could do that."

"Dear lord, Yuuki, you butthead! BEHIND YOU," Zero's voice continued. "In the pool area."

Yuuki rolled her eyes, annoyed. What the hell was Zero playing on her again? And who was he to call her mean names?

She strolled over to the pool, hands inside her pocket, and sights set on her feet. Once she looked to the pool, Zero's intolerant expression met her irritated one immediately. His silver hair and bare upper body were wet from the water, and his damp, pallid arms rested on the concrete. He was still inside the pool.

"It's about time you got here," Zero muttered, obviously embarrassed.

Yuuki chuckled, bending down and resting her chin on top of her knees. "Looks like someone pushed you in the pool, Zero-kun."

Her childhood friend glared at her. "It's not funny."

"Aww, let me guess, you were robbed of your clothes somehow and the only place you're safe in is in there," laughed Yuuki.

Zero growled at her. "Again, it isn't funny, Yuuki, and that…didn't happen."

The flustered expression engulfed his face once more.

The brunette merely laughed even harder. "I'm sorry, Zero, this is just hilarious! It's rare seeing you all vulnerable and…naked, you know."

She slapped the ground in her laughter. "I should have brought a camera!"

"Alright, alright, you've had your fun," groaned Zero in nuisance. "Now will you help me or not?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'll get you some clothes, wait here."

"NO, DON'T GO, YUUKI!"

"Eh?"

She stared at him as he grabbed a hold of her wrist, half his body out of the water already. Yuuki gasped at what she saw. And she would much rather see bare legs and a male reproductive part than this.

But they weren't a man's legs.

It was a tail; a fish's scaly tail.

The girl would have shrieked if it weren't for Zero cupping his wet hand over her mouth. "Not a word about this, Yuuki," he warned, leaning closer to her. Yuuki's heartbeat hastened; Zero was too close for comfort. His cold touch made her cringe. "Now listen. I know it must be hard to believe, but a weirdo fairy appeared to me before the sun set and gave me this horrible fish's tail. She said I could only get my legs back if I receive love's true kiss."

With a deep breath, the vampire-slash-vampire hunter-slash-sireno-slash-whatever thing let go of Yuuki, waiting for her to reply. He sunk back into the water in shame, the upper part of his face only showing.

It took more than a minute for Yuuki to regain her composure. She now stared at him skeptically, rather than in disbelief. "AH, I GET IT."

"You do?"

"You're wearing that tail-suit in order to fool me AGAIN. Well then, Zero, now it's not funny, and hell no am I giving you a kiss," she argued.

It was now that Zero stared at her in disbelief. "Vampires exist, why can't mermen and fairies do?"

"Because now that's just pretty stupid."

"Look, do you want to pull my tail so you could believe me?"

"Give it here."

Zero made an irritated sound and lifted himself from the pool. He smirked at Yuuki in confidence, flapping his wet, scaly tail on the concrete. "Go ahead. Just try and remove it."

He smiled smugly.

"UGH," yelled Yuuki. "You're really freaking serious about this?!"

"Yuuki," said Zero, getting tired from attempting to convince her. He massaged his temples lightly. "Would you really think I would go as far as this thing over here?! I LOOK STUPID. I'm not just a freakish vampire anymore; now I'm a vampire and a merman! DON'T YOU KNOW HOW SCREWED UP MY LIFE IS?!"

"But I'm not even your true love!"

He sighed. "Well. You're the only girl that I've thought of…and…well; let's just give it a try, Yuuki. Please? I really don't want to go to class with a fishtail and disgusting scaly skin."

She sighed at the same time, grinning at him. "Fine, Zero, my aquatic, mermaid friend. One kiss."

"Thanks. And it's merman."

"But you owe me some of that ramen of yours after this."

"Agreed."

The silver-haired young man braced himself as his best friend drew closer to his lips. She was actually going to kiss him. For some reason, this made Zero happy that the fairy visited him.

Yuuki's eyes were closed while she moved in. Three inches. Two inches. One inch. One centimeter.

She flew them back open while she gasped for breath, staggering away from Zero and holding her neck with both her hands. Her breathing turned heavy, and she began hyperventilating.

Zero crawled to her with difficulty (he did have a tail, after all) in concern. "Yuuki? Yuuki? What happened?! Talk to me, Yuuki!"

"I—." She gasped. "I--."

"Yuuki!"

In seconds, the girl screamed, as if her body was in utter pain. Wings broke through her uniform and her upper body dismembered from its lower half. Yuuki's eyes turned red and her teeth grew sharp. She laughed maniacally and flew into the night, cackling with malice.

That was the last thing Zero remembered before he passed out.

"Manananggal," Shiki read out loud, with difficulty pronouncing the words. "It resembles a Western vampire, in being an evil, human-devouring monster or witch. The myth of the manananggal is popular in the Visayan region of the Philippines. A manananggal is capable of severing its upper torso in order to fly into the night with huge bat-like wings to prey on unsuspecting, pregnant women in their homes; using an elongated proboscis-like tongue, it sucks the hearts of fetuses or blood of an unsuspecting, sleeping victim."

He glanced at the picture of a dismembered woman, with bat wings and a long tongue. He grimaced, but then chuckled eventually.

"Oooh. Scary."

Kaname Kuran happened to be looking out his window that night, bored to death once more.

"Hmm?" he slurred at the sight of a floating upper torso flying in the midst of the darkness. He remained calm as he recognized who it was. "Well, that would be very difficult, indeed."

The pureblood strode along the hallways and into Hanabusa Aidou's room.

"Aidou," Kaname commanded, in his deep, authority-filled voice.

The blonde, blue-eyed vampire stood up respectfully and bowed down. "Yes, Kaname-sama?"

"Yuuki's been caught in a very complex situation now," he explained wistfully, an unfathomable appearance on his flawless features. "If you don't catch her upper torso before the sun rises, then…well, we'll see what happens to you now, won't we?"

Kaname gave a threatening smile to his noble blood follower.

"Upper torso?" Aidou repeated, bewildered. Kaname merely pointed his finger to Yuuki's upper body floating in mid-air.

"Oh. That upper torso," he laughed nervously, attempting to keep his cool, only to be silenced by Kaname's weighty glare. If Aidou wasn't under that certain glare, he would have already ran off under his bed and begin sucking his thumb, holding his teddy bear close.

This really is going to be one crazy night, Aidou thought to himself, then glancing at the horrible cackling form he was commanded to get a hold of.

To be continued.


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Oh yeah, Nichie also drew a doodle of manananggal Yuuki and mermaid Zero, and she posted it on dA. Review if you want the link. ;)