"Speak"
'Think'
"Move / Inner Moka's voice / Monster Encyclopedia"
Throughout his career, he had never had as passenger a guy weirder than that. He had met and transported all kinds of monster, all kinds of yokai known to him, from the least dangerous to the most dangerous. He had encountered a lot: werewolves, witches, kitsune, manticores, chimeras, vampires. And recently (eheheheh) he had even carried a human ... but any way, nothing made him feel more strange or more uneasy of that boy sitting in the back of the bus.
Since he had got on the bus, he hadn't said a word. He sat and closed his eyes, perhaps to meditate, as the wrestlers before a match. However each time he turned his gaze, his cigar still in his mouth and eyes perpetually covered by the hat's shadow, he felt that there was something strange in that guy ... as if ...as if it was a wrong guy in a wrong place.
"Well, we arrived" announced the driver while they left the gallery and crossing the barrier that separated the two worlds. "Welcome to Yokai Academy!" exclaimed some minutes after stopping next to a scarecrow and getting off the boy.
"Before you arrive, I want give you an advice." he said to the boy who was staring the red sea. "Be careful what you do when you're at school " the driver said before taking a puff of his cigar. "This isn't a school like any other. This is a very scary school"
"... scary, did you say?" the boy said, his voice like the wind blowing in the tunnels of a cave. "Maybe it's better that you know a thing about me, old man." he said, turning around "I never fear. Do you know why? "asked to the driver looking on the monster. His only visible eye, deep and disturbing as a pond during a calm night without moon or stars, looked the shiny eyes of the monster.
" Because I'm, the fear" the boy concluded, turning around again and walking towards the dead forest that preceded the school.
As he watched the boy get away, the only thing that the driver could think about was that a lot of problems were about to fall on the school ... but then, why every time he thought about it, he couldn't stop giggling?
"Hey, have you heard the latest news?"
"Eh, news? What news? "
"It seems that by this semester we will have a new classmate"
"Well? There are new students almost every day "
"Yes, but this is different: the fact is that no one knows anything about him, not even the teachers. Who he is, where he comes from, what kind of monster he is, if he's a boy or a girl "
"Hopefully he will be a girl and hot too. It would be great if she was a girl as beautiful as Moka or Kurumu "
"What?! No! " Kurumu exclaimed hearing the murmurs of his companions " I don't want there to be another girl in this class! Don't want there to be another rival to keep me separate from my destined one! " the succubus said whining while instinctively grasped tight the Tsukune's head between her huge breasts.
"I told you a lot of times, Kurumu Kurono" Mizore said monotonously throwing a kunai ice to the forehead of Kurumu, her unconscious as blood gushed from the wound "You must stay away from the father of my future and numerous children" the yuki-onna concluded with a faint blush to the cheeks which betrayed his voice cold and emotionless.
"Oh no, forget it!" Yukari exclaimed dropping a washtubs on the head of Mizore "The only woman he Tsukune will marry will be Moka and the only child who they will have and who will sleep in their bed in among their naked bodies will be me-desu " the young witch said as imagined the scene dreamily.
"It's great to be back at school." Tsukune said enjoyed watching the three girls get up and resume their quarrel "Don't you agree Moka-san?" the boy asked as he sat next to the vampire "Yes you are right. It's nice to come back after so much time at school " Moka said cheerfully with a sweet smile on his face. " Can go back to school, can resell our friends, can again see your face ... " Moka said approaching Tsukune, the face turned red for the sudden tone seductive vampire "But especially ..." the front face of Moka to Tsukune, now deep red, his lips very close ... chuuu "Daaah!" Tsukune yelled surprised while the vampire was enjoying the meal "Aaaah, how nice it can once again drink your blood. If you could understand how much I wanted its taste "Moka exclaimed in seventh heaven as the face became slightly red. "Oh yeah. It's just great to be back at school "Tsukune groaned, his face leaning on the counter now white ash and dug while his soul ghost flew away.
"By the way, have you had problems with your rosario during our absence?" Tsukune asked, indicating the rosario around the Moka's neck. During the battle against Hokuto, who tried to cancel the barrier that separated the school from the human world, Moka had used temporarily his rosario to replace the one that held the barrier which was destroyed, but the rosario weakened. In addition, during the school festival the Lilith's magic mirror had forced the rosario making out the Inner Moka personality. After all that had happened, Tsukune was afraid that the rosary had been too weakened.
"Ah, that. Don't worry, nothing was happened. I also talked to the principal and told me that the rosario is still powerful and fully functional "Moka said reassuring the young.
"A moment of attention, please," Nekome-sensei said with his usual smile and playful attitude while clapping his hands to attract students' attention. "Well, first and foremost, welcome back to all of you in this wonderful school monsters. Yeah ! " Nekome-sensei exclaimed waving cheerfully his arms and immediately imitated by the whole class. "And now the news. Maybe some of you know that from today we have a new classmate. I won't conceal that I am excited, because even I have ever seen him. However we shouldn't expect much. He should be here at moments".
Toc... Toc... Toc..
"Good, he is. Come in" Nekome-sensei said as the door opened and all the students looked out to view him. Such as the new student came in, it seemed that the temperature inside the class was dropped twenty degrees.
The new mate was a young boy with long hair in tip, white with a big lock that covered the right side of the face hiding the eye. His skin was pale pink, the body strong and sturdy and well-defined cheekbones and the eyes of all might look nice, maybe even fascinating, if not for the only eye sapphire, so beautiful to be tremendously disturbing. He wore a long-sleeved black shirt and a pair of jeans of the same color but they were almost entirely covered by a thick black overcoat that reached down to the feet where it was repeatedly ripped and tattered and that hid his black shoes, gloves blacks hid his hands and a big red scarf covered his neck and , from looking to clothing, gave him a elusive and disturbing appearance, almost ghostly.
"But who is that? It's so disturbing "
"Did you see her dress? With that you can hardly see his feet. He looks like a ghost "
"This guy won't let me sleep at night for the nightmares"
"Nightmares, huh?" the new mate thought chuckling watching with the corner of the eye the boy who had said that last sentence amused at the irony.
"Well, I think we are all happy to have a classmate" Nekome-sensei said to the class hiding with his usual smile the nervousness that the new guy had caused in her "Why don't you introduce to new classmates and tell us a some of you?" the woman cat suggested.
"... My name is Kurai. Kurai Dark. All you need to know is that I do not like to make friends so Take care away" the boy said as looked every one of them, his face expressionless and his voice calm and gloomy as he looks.
"W-Well, why don't you sit down so we continue the lesson?" Nekome-sensei suggested to Kurai increasingly nervous about the new student.
Kurai agreed and began to go through the classroom toward his desk when a guy turned around looking at him and held out his hand "Hello, my name is Tsukune Aono. I would like to welcome you in our class. I know you said you do not like tying, Kurai-sama, but I still hope that we can become fri..en..ds " Tsukune whispered, his voice more and more flakes and hesitant while the newcomer was watching him, almost he looked her soul instead of the face. After a disturbing moment, Kurai slowly reached out his hand and shook that of Tsukune "Thanks ..." Kurai murmured resuming walking and sitting in back of the room near the window.
"Do you think we can trust this boy?" Kurumu whispered to the group. "He isn'ts certainly the type of person who inspires confidence-desu" Yukari admitted. "Mhm. With a look so blank and a look so piercing is nothing short of glacial " Mizore declared beholding the lollipop in his mouth. "Coming from you, Mizore, is somewhat 'ironic" Moka said sweatdropped "Let's not jump to conclusions. Maybe he isn't as bad as he seems. I think that the doubt privilege we have to give to him. I can not explain, but I have the feeling that he is just misunderstood "Tsukune said looking Kurai for a moment, his arms crossed and eye closed as if he were meditating.
"Mmmmm, what the hell I'm doing, I'm doing, I AM DOING?" Kurai yelled frustrated in his head, paying little listening to the rest of the lesson "Why am I here? Why am I in this stupid school for monsters? Why it's happened to me this drudgery? Daaah, the stupidity of the old is as big as his power. What the hell is past in mind to send me here? "He thought exasperated as remembered his last meeting with him.
(flashback)
The room was entirely white. It seems that it had neither the floor nor the ceiling and that would extend to infinity. At the center of this room there was a creature which looked like a horse: the body was white with gray chest, the mane on the head and the tail that seemed moved by a nonexistent wind. The legs were pointed with golden hooves and a golden crown cross with four green jewels surrounded the abdomen. The gray face was devoid of mouth and with his green eyes and his red irises stared the multitude of spheres containing what appeared be galaxies as they turned around him, one in particular.
" Did you call me, Father?" a grim voice said as a shadow appeared in the room and materialized behind him, his head slightly bowed as a sign of respect.
"Yes" the figure said, his voice calm and wise like that of an old masking the enormous power that he had "Do you know why I called you?"
"No, Father" the black figure said with his usual gloomy voice.
"You probably don't know but when, millennia ago, I created the universe with all Pokémon living there, it bred a multitude of independently alternate universes where the rules of the world where you live are different." He continued the white creature .
"No Father, I was not aware."
"Well, of course, not that I ever interested in these universes. Committed as I was to maintain order in the world created by me, I never looked with particular attention these worlds " the wise creature continued.
"...Until now . A particular universe has caught my attention recently." the creature added as a ball came off from the otherand then stop between the two. "During a particular and momentary event, I found a universe devoid of pokémon where there are two worlds separated by a barrier. This barrier was annulled for a moment, but allowed me to glimpse what was on the other side without having to force it with my powers. It was a world, more precisely a school, where the creatures called yokai, creatures which looked like half human but with powers similar to ours, learn to take human form and how to behave in order to live peacefully among people. "
"So?" The shadow churches.
"I want you to go there," said the white creature in the shadow startled.
" What ?! "
"I want you to go into that school and that observe it to determine if there may be potential threats to our world" the creature repeated.
"But-But ... Why? Why do you send me? Why don't you send someone else? Send Zoroark. He is perfect: with his illusions can make himself invisible and study that world " the shade proposed trying to make him see sense and change his mind.
"No. Spy in this case is not enough. To get the information that we need, we need someone who looks from the inside, that you mix with those yokai so he can find the information we need, and Zoroark is too irresponsible and arrogant to do that."
"Then send Latias or Mew. They can mingle and interact very well" the shadow continued.
"No, they are unreliable and irresponsible too. We need someone that, if seen by others, is immediately recognized as a monster "
"Then send one of your Ghost types"
"None of them is quite powerful to support a battle against an unknown enemy"
"What do you think of Mewtwo?" "Are you kidding? He's too violent, he would attack anyone who annoy him attracting too much attention "
"Then Lucario or Latios. They are powerful, reliable, faithful. I'm sure would succeed- "
"Enough!" the white creature exclaimed irritated. The crown and the hooves with the face and chest changed instantly becoming colour blue and when the creature hit the ground with one of his hoof frustrated unleashed a very powerful Surf that struck the black figure.
"You'll go to that school, you'll mingle with the yokai and you'll informed me of all possible dangers for us and my children and I won't accept other objections" he said being decided, his voice now absolutely authoritarian who was leaking its power. If first appeared as a quiet but solemn old king sit on his throne, it was now rather a giant white sun next to become a supernova of energy.
"...I obey, Father" the shadow said a little frightened by his sudden anger and began to walk away. "Only ... why me?" He asked quietly pausing to look the creature that had meanwhile turned.
"... Ever since I created you, you've known only solitude and emancipation" the creature sighed, his voice now sad and full of bitterness. "Because of your skills and your appearance, you're feared and hated by both pokémon by men worse than an Absol. Fortunately your good heart has allowed you to live like this without experiencing hatred towards others but nevertheless you were not able to integrate yourself with any of them, and so you withdrew into yourself " the white creature continued feeling that familiar sense of guilt that he felt whenever he thought to his fate. "I thought, that if among men and Pokémon you can't integrate yourself, perhaps among the yokai would you be good. Who knows ... maybe you could even find ...friends... "he added as he turned to watch the face of the shadow that tried to process and understand what the powerful creature had just said. A moment later he flung a Dark Pulse to the Father. In an instant, the Father's body changed again becoming slate color with red jewels and when the ray came up him vanished leaving only a ripple around the horse. "Ahahahahahahah" the creature laughed heartily for silly face and for the attempt of the shadow that vanished irritated and angry about the stupid idea of the old as he prepared to his new, unjust and annoying work.
