Author's Note: This in an AU story that picks up at R&V II Chapter 65.2, Page 9, final two panels since the manga after that becomes more and more FUBAR and completely unsalvageable to continue.
This is it. This is the great climax of the battle to save the world as they know it. All of their lives have led to this point. Aono Tsukune and his friends are fighting not only for their own lives but to protect the world from Fairy Tale under the command of Shuzen Gyokuro and The Masked King, who was just revealed to be in fact Alucard's clone. Moreover, after stringing Tsukune and everyone else along in order to ascertain the threat posed from Moka's rosary and finding out the truth, he has no further need to let any of them live now.
Chapter 1: End of the World?
The Floating Garden
October 30, 2005
"But no matter how much you love Moka, that won't make Jasmine happy, you know?"
Enraged by Alucard's words, Akua…
SLISH! SLISH! SLISH!
…Sliced him to pieces, completely shocking everyone.
"I thought I told you to shut up, Alucard."
"You bitch…!"
Not wanting to hear anything more from him, Akua…
SLISH!
…Cut Alucard's head to pieces.
In an instant…!
As Tsukune's mind raced in all directions with many thoughts, another hit him as Akua speaks to Moka (Omote).
Wait a minute, I've seen this before. Yeah, back when I was still trapped in Moka's memories. Akua fought Alucard then too, and…
Tsukune turns white as he realizes the truth. He then makes a mad dash towards one of the others.
…And just cutting Alucard up won't kill him! So his first target will be…!
Tsukune reaches Moka and quickly pushes her away just before...
STAB! STAB! STAB!
…Countless sharp spears shot up from the ground. However, as Moka looks up from the ground where Tsukune had pushed to, she is utterly stunned to him hanging in mid-air, his body run through multiple times by the same spears he had just saved her from. Despite that however, he still has a soft expression on his face and smiles down at Moka as he coughs up yet more blood while still more drip down those same spears.
"…Mo…ka…-san… I'm glad you're…alright…"
Tsukune coughs again and this time some of the blood gets splattered across Moka's face before his head drops and body goes limp.
"…Tsuku…ne…?"
Akua is also shocked by what happened.
That boy…he saved Moka…? He was actually willing to die for her…?
Moka cannot believe her eyes. In shock and disbelief, touches her cheek and sees the blood on her fingers. It's sticky, and smells just like Tsukune. So focused is she that Moka cannot even hear the many cries of horror from the others there, having seen what happened to Tsukune.
Tsukune…dead…? And all because he wanted to save me. No, he died because of me!
"NOOOOOOOOO!"
With her mind in complete chaos and despair, she immediately rushes to Tsukune's side, hoping against hope, that…
The long daggers that had pierced Tsukune now start moving as if they were tentacles and all point at Moka before shooting towards her. As they are about to impale her too…
SLISH! SLISH! SLISH!
…They are all sliced to pieces by Akua.
"Ungrateful grand-daughter…" Alucard angrily grumbles as he reforms his body.
Akuha right away sends a jingen-tou wave straight to Alucard that splits his body cleanly in half right down the middle. As his two haves start coming back together again, he groans in frustration.
"Will you please stop killing me? It's highly irritating."
Akua replies in a firm tone.
"I told you. I will kill anyone who tries to harm my Moka."
She looks at him with death in her eyes and Alucard lets out an irritated sigh.
"You're really not going to make this easy for me, are you…?" [*1]
"TSUKUNE!"
A desperate Moka calls out as she reaches him lying on the ground. When Akua cut Alucard's tentacles just a moment ago, she also cut the parts that where holding Tsukune up which caused him to fall to the ground.
"Tsukune, please be alive!Please be alive! Don't die!"
She finds him unconscious and badly wounded, but still alive. Unfortunately though, both his breathing and heartbeat are very weak. He clearly needs treatment right away. Or else, he really will…
"Moka-san!"
Moka looks up to see Yukari-chan running towards her with the others right behind her.
"Yukari, he's still breathing! Please, can you save him?"
"I'll do everything I can, desu!"
Yukari reaches and looks him over with a very pained expression on her face.
"We need to pull the tentacles out of his wounds, then I can close them. I just hope that his blood loss and internal damage's not too severe, desu."
Moka then realizes not only is Yukari still bleeding from when Alucard attacked her with Rubi and Fong-Fong, but that Mizore is helping Kurumu as they desperately stagger towards Tsukune by holding her right arm across her shoulders as Kurumu grips at her heart with left hand while breathing very heavily and both women's faces are covered in tears, clearly because of Tsukune's current condition. Kurumu in particular appears to be in agony.
"What's wrong with her? Have her wounds opened up again?"
Mizore shakes her head and points at Tsukune just before they reach him, which confuses Moka.
"I'll explain it later, desu! Mizore-san, please freeze the ground under him and around us just in case Alucard tries to kill him again and around his wounds after those things are pulled out of him so he doesn't bleed out before I can save him!"
Mizore nods and though still in great pain, Kurumu helps pulling those things out of her beloved Destined One's body.
Watching all three of them rush and frantically work to save Tsukune's life, Moka feels helpless and sinks back on her knees. After everything that's happened, she feels that everything's her fault and even though her heart is telling her to reach out to Tsukune and do something for him, her overwhelming sense of guilt holds her back.
"Look out!"
Moka turns around just in time to see more dagger-like tentacles shooting straight towards her when…
CLANG! CHINK! DING!
…They are blocked by many iron feathers. Moka looks up and sees Rubi hovering right above her.
"…Rubi…"
Plop!
Moka feels something fall on her arm so she looks down to find a drop of blood that does not have Tsukune's scent on it. She then looks back up.
Rubi, everyone… You're all so badly injured and it's all because of me…! What have I done? If I had known it was going to turn out like this, then I would've let them kill me to spare them!
"Don't give up Moka! Trust that Yukari and the others will save Tsukune and fight!"
Moka is amazed at Rubi. She's doing her best to not only fight Alucard, but to hold back her own tears over what happened to Tsukune on top of the painful wounds she still has. Even so, the watery shine on her cheeks tells her that she was not entirely successful.
"Fight? Me? But how…?"
Moka doesn't know what to think anymore and casts her gaze downward. She wants to save Tsukune, but realizes that there's nothing she can do. She wants to fight to protect everyone, but knows can't fight on her own. That's something only Ura Moka could do. But what about her? What could she do? What could Omote Moka possibly do? Something? Anything? Anything at all?
As if reading her thoughts, Rubi calls down to her again.
"Don't sell yourself short, Omote Moka!"
Moka quickly stares back up at Rubi.
"There are still things that you can do! You just need to figure out what they are!"
After a moment's pause that seemed to last an eternity, Moka realizes that Rubi's right. Filled with a new sense of confidence and determination with a singular purpose as if a switch had been flipped inside her, Moka reaches over and grabs Tsukune's hand, puts her rosary in his palm, and quickly pulls them both away.
With her power now unsealed, Ura Moka picks up the rosary from Tsukune's hand and looks down at it.
"Omote…"
She closes her eyes with a pained expression and grasps it tightly in her palm.
"I understand your plan."
She looks over at Alucard who's still fighting Akua though she seems to be weakening. Moka then starts walking towards Alucard.
Floating Garden Control Room
As Bus Driver-san does his best to maintain control of the garden's mainframe and in particular, it's steering, he makes a call with his cell phone.
"Mikogami, are you there?"
[Yeah, how are things progressing?]
"I hacked the mainframe but it looks like I won't be able to turn it around. This thing's coming down and soon."
[Something happen?]
"Probably. Fuhai's phone went dead and Alucard's getting more energetic. So we're switching to Plan B."
[Alright, I'll let everyone down here know. Do you think Moka could have been…?]
"No. If she was, then Alucard would be completely unsealed now.
[That's good to hear. We'll be waiting.]
He hangs up the phone and does his best to steer towards their prearranged location just in case he could not steer it out to sea and thinks to himself.
Whatever you do, Moka, don't get yourself killed!
Battling Alucard
Akua gasps for air as she stands ready to fight once again in front of Alucard.
"This is getting us no place…" Alucard sighs. "Tell you what, you be a good little girl now, and grandpa will get you a cute little dolly for Christmas. How about it?"
Akua grits her teeth and glares at him, causing Alucard to groan in disappointment.
"Kids these days…" He says under his breath.
He then sees someone walking towards him from behind Akua and smiles. Seeing that, Akua can't help but shoot a glance behind her. There she sees her beloved Moka coming with her rosary in her hand.
"Moka? What are you-?"
"Get down!"
Akua watches as Moka kicks a large piece of broken stone right at her and does as she was told.
CRASH!
After it had passed over and obviously hit something, Akuha looked behind her and saw one of those giant tentacles with teeth still being flung backwards with chunks of stone all around it.
"Be careful, Akua nee-san."
She looks up and watches as Moka walks past her while she talks.
"I don't want to see my Nee-san get killed, especially if it's for my sake. That would make me sad."
After all that, Akua can't help but swoon with clasped hands under her chin and beating hearts in her eyes.
"EEEP! Oh Moka, you made me fall in love with you all over agaaaaain!"
Moka stops in front of Alucard and they exchange stares at each other.
Alucard grins, takes the cigarette out of his mouth with two fingers, and exhales some smoke.
"I don't suppose you're here to surrender that thing?"
Moka remains coldly expressionless.
"No, I suppose not." Alucard says with an annoyed tone as he shrugs his shoulders.
"I'm going to end this."
He puts the cigarette back in his mouth and looks at her with curiosity.
"I was wondering why you would come to me with the rosario. I'm curious, what exactly are planning to do with it?"
Though he had already determined that the rosary could not control him, Moka definitely has to be up to something. Otherwise, why would she bring it to him knowing that he needed to destroy it to awaken his main body?
She must have some sort of trick up her sleeve. The question is, what? Until I know that answer, I can't afford to be reckless. Not when I'm this close to achieving my goals.
"Huh, looks like he's hesitating."
{He's just being cautious.}
"Omote?"
{But be careful, Ura-chan. It won't be long before he attacks again.}
Moka exhales and calms herself. Though still confident, she cannot help but to be more than a little anxious with everything that's at stake. Omote's words however, helped ease her mind.
Both of them stare at one another, knowing that whoever moved first would be the one at a disadvantage. The wind blows between them. It's a nice cooling breeze. The kind that would be welcome on a hot beach.
After a minute though…
CRASH!
CRUMBLE!
…Several of Alucard's large tentacles erupt from the ground all around Moka and attack her. She then…
RAAAGH!
CRUNCH!
…Kicks the one in front of her backwards and runs up its body. When she reaches the tip she jumps up, does a flip, and brings her foot down towards Alucard.
"Alucard!"
He smirks at her.
"I win."
As he is about to unleash countless more tentacles upon Moka since she cannot possibly dodge them in midair…
"What…?"
…She disappears.
Now in a near-panic, his eyes widen and he turns around but finds nothing behind him. He turns back around and…
KABASH!
…Receives Moka's kick that…
BOOM!
…sends him into the ground, face first.
"Know your place!"
Moka quickly looks back and sees Kurumu with Mizore still holding her up but looking a little better than before and waving at her.
{Ah, Kurumu must've cast some kind of illusion on him!}
Moka breathes a sigh of relief.
Guess I delayed and bought just enough time for someone to recover and help end this. And since they're both looking better now, Tsukune must out of danger. Thank goodness!
With a renewed vigor and hope, she grabs Alucard, lifts his upper body up until he's on his knees, and…
What…? What happened…?
"Here you go, Omote!"
STAB!
…Jabs the rosary into Alucard's chest as far as it can go.
Moka stands there as Alucard looks down at it and starts laughing.
AHAHAHAHAHA!
"This was it…? This was your big plan? This is what you had planned all along…?"
He begins to reach for it.
"…I'm disappointed in-"
DOKI!
His body suddenly freezes and he feels like his heart is being squeezed in a vice.
AHUH!
With his body racked in pain, he looks up at Moka with a confused expression only to see her looking coldly down at him.
"…Moka…! What did you…?"
She looks down at him with her icy stare.
"Absolutely nothing; I'm not the one doing this to you."
Unsure of what she means, Moka starts fading from his sight. Everything becomes white all around him.
An Unknown White Space
"What…? Where is this…?"
{This is inside the rosary, Alucard-san.}
Before him appears a glowing maiden with beautiful pink hair who slowly approaches him, seemingly floating. His eyes widen at her sight.
"…It can't be… Akasha…? But, you're dead…!"
The maiden remains expressionless.
{I'm not my mother. I'm the outer one, Omote Moka.}
Seeing that he was mistaken, Alucard manages to quickly calm himself down.
"You're a fool for coming to me. You both are. As soon as I kill you the seal will be—"
He notices that he can't move at all in this space and she speaks again in a cold tone.
{No, you're the fool for failing to realize your situation until now. You see, out there, you might control be able to control everything around you. But in here…}
He sees the whiteness surrounding him starting to eat away and swallow up his body.
{…In here, I'm in control.}
He looks at her with intense defiance and hate in his eyes and she returns the same look in hers.
"This won't work! You can't kill me! This is pointless! You should just let me destroy the seal and spare your friends all this pain and suffering that they're going through because of you!"
Though he struck right at the doubts and worry that were plaguing her mind and heart, she stands firm.
{Even if I can't kill you, I can still at least buy the others some time.}
"This is futile! The world belongs to me now!"
{You're in my world now, Alucard-san…and you'll pay for what you did to Tsukune!}
"YOUUUUUUUUU!"
The Floating Garden
On the outside, Alucard is writhing around in agony while grunting and yelling all the while. Moka meanwhile, continues to watch him with her cold, merciless eyes.
"Suffer, go ahead suffer in my sister's hell, you bastard. Just try to kill her now, if you can."
"Mokaaa-saaaaan!"
She feels someone grab her from behind and start rubbing her face against her back. Moka knows who it is and half closes her eyes with an annoyed expression on her face.
"Hello, Akua nee-san."
"I love you!I love you!I love you!I love you!I love you!I love you more than anything in the world, my dearest Mokaaa-saaaaan!"
As Moka tries to peel Akua off of her, Kokoa slowly staggers towards them.
"Onee-sama…"
Hearing her voice filled with so much pain and sorrow, both sisters look at the crying Kokoa who looks up at Moka before suddenly dashing to her, throwing her arms around her and crying like a baby.
"Hey! We're trying to have a moment here! Do you mind?" An annoyed Akua yells from behind Moka.
Moka simply throws her hand up to tell Akua to be quiet before putting both hands around her baby sister to comfort her, knowing that it would take something very serious to put Kokoa into that kind of state.
As Moka is about to ask her about it though...
KABOOM!
[Alarms going off]
…The garden shifts and tilts, causing the three girls to fall to the ground. To make matters worse, they are descending even faster towards the human city and Alucard's true body is becoming more active! One thought immediately comes to Moka's mind.
"Omote…!"
She gets up and rushes to Alucard's body where she had left the osary lodged in Alucard's chest. She finds him motionless on his side and flips him over. His body seemingly deflates like a balloon and she momentarily jumps back. Seeing nothing more happen, she looks for and finds her rosary right where she left it and picks it up.
"Omote, are you there?"
{Haa…haa… I'm sorry… I'm sorry, Ura-chan. …He somehow managed to escape from me.}
She sounds exhausted! Is she okay?
"Are you alright?"
{I'll be…just fine…}
CRASH!
A large, toothed tentacle erupts out of the ground right under Moka's feet. Before she knew it, Moka…
CHOMP!
…Had already been swallowed by it, but…
SLISH! SLISH! SLISH!
…It's sliced to bits by Akuha.
Another one just like the last shoots up to devour Moka, only to…
BASH!
…Be put in its place.
With more coming at her, she…
BAM!
…Kicks another on the left side, sending into another and…
WHAM!
…Kicking another straight up until it points towards the sky with its blood spurting everywhere. With even more coming at her, she sees some of them skewered by iron feathers, others are shredded in a hail of ice, while the rest start attacking each other.
Looking over to the side, she sees the three of them there with Kurumu still leaning on Mizore and Rubi standing next to them. All three of them are breathing hard.
Rubi-san! Mizore-san! Kurumu-san!
Though they've all clearly been pushed far past their limits, a happy tear forms in her eye as Moka lands back on the ground with the rosary still in hand, Alucard groans in displeasure as he rebuilds his body yet again nearby.
"This is ridiculous! It shouldn't be this hard to kill one little girl!"
Moka looks at Alucard closely and notices that he's breathing hard for a change.
"Looks like Omote did some damage to you before you ran away from her. What's the matter? Couldn't kill her after all?"
Alucard angrily glares at her in stony silence and Moka confidently smiles.
"Your silence is very telling."
{Ura-chan…if you can get me inside him again, I might be able to buy you some more time.}
"Are you nuts? I saw how much that took out of you!"
{…I'll be fine. I just…I just want to save everyone else for a change!}
Moka, who had been side-glancing down at her rosary while Omote spoke, looks up at Alucard and tormented between risking Omote or the others, makes a difficult grin.
Alucard guesses what she's thinking and is determined to keep the two women as far away from him as possible.
I need to watch Moka very carefully. If they can do that to me again, I might not be able to get away next time. I just barely got out of that alive the last time. I'm not going to underestimate Moka—no…BOTH Mokas again.
Floating Garden Control Room
"Ah, damn it!"
With more alarms blaring in his ears, the Bus Driver desperately tries to regain control of the steering, but with Alucard's true body thrashing around even more and destroying more of the garden, it's becoming much harder to maintain control.
"Mikogami, I hope you have everything ready down there! Cause we're coming down right now!"
He reaches for a particular switch.
"Guess it's time to throw this switch. I just hope that the power supply lasts long enough."
Battling Alucard
Aside from Alucard, everyone tries to stay on their feet as the garden violently shakes. Wanting to take advantage of the distraction, Alucard is about to launch another attack at Moka, Akua, and Kokoa (since she's there) when…
"Jingen-tou!"
…In anticipation of his move, Akua launched a preemptive attack on him and split him in half, yet again, to cover their next move.
"That move is getting really old, Akua!"
Moka lunges at him, but sees him smile. Sensing danger, she jumps back and just barely dodges more daggers coming up from the ground.
"You're not one to talk, Alucard! We're not seeing any new attacks coming from you either!"
Alucard then sends another toothed tentacle after her that she dodges.
"I only need one attack to kill you!"
Just then, the garden itself seemingly disappears from underneath them. They can now look down and see the sea directly below them!
Seeing it as well, Alucard furiously grunts.
It must be that cursed Nurarihyon! He activated the Garden's cloaking barrier! But what's he planning? It takes a lot of energy to maintain and I can't imagine there being very many sources of energy left undamaged after my true body's rampage. So it's merely a temporary measure if he could keep the Garden airborne but since it's crashing it's completely pointless which he has to know. So, what's he up to? [*2]
Looking towards the human city that they're about to crash into, he sees something strange there. It looks like a glowing rip in space and they're heading right for it! His eyes widen as he realizes what it has to be.
A dimensional gap! NOOOOO!
The Human City
A Few Minutes Ago
The wind fiercely blows as Mikogami stands atop a large skyscraper, watching as the Floating Garden drifts closer and closer to him. Having used his human world connections to evacuate the city under the pretense of a mass seaquake and tsunami drill, no humans remain to witness the never before attempted feat that he and his allies are about to pull off.
He addresses the two people behind him.
"It's time."
Hearing him give the signal, Tamanori and Fujiko Sendou (Yukari's parents) raise their wands and together with a large group of other witches and warlocks, they start chanting a spell that will open up a doorway between the human world and an extra-dimensional space previously created and prepared for the Floating Garden just in case it couldn't be stopped. Mikogami had approached their covenant beforehand for their assistance just in case things got that far, but it was Yukari who convinced them all in the end.
With the doorway now open directly in the Floating Garden's path and only the rubble and debris and people on top of the Garden visible, everyone watches as it slips into the doorway. Everyone in the coven then stops chanting and the doorway gradually shrinks and closes. If there had been a human nearby, all they would have seen would have been the glowing doorway as it swallows up floating junk before disappearing into nothing. The main event of Alucard's master plan has failed.
With his part there done, Mikogami turns around and thanks everyone for their assistance. Though most are now resting and breathing collective sighs of relief from their strenuous ordeal just now and patting each other's backs, Mikogami walks past them with Otonashi Sun following close behind.
"Come Otonashi, we'll make our way there right now."
She responds with her sketchbook.
RIGHT BEHIND YOU.
As they reach the edge of the roof, Mikogami says a quick chant that opens a doorway for them just two feet away from the ledge of the skyscraper in midair.
"I hope Alucard enjoys the other guests we have waiting for him over there, heh heh."
A fierce updraft blows upwards as they then both step off the building's roof and into the sealed space before it closes behind them.
Battling Alucard
A Minute ago.
As they all pass through the large doorway Alucard becomes enraged and yells outwards.
"Damn you, Mikogami! You ruined it! You ruined my plan! My revenge! I know it was you! It has to be!"
"It's over, Alucard-san."
With the male voice bringing him back to reality, he looks in front of him and sees Tsukune being propped up by Fong-Fong and Ling-Ling and everyone else standing around him.
"Your plan failed."
Alucard glares at him with murder in his eyes when…
SPLUUUSH!
…The Garden crashes into the lake in the sealed space, causing everyone to loss their footing and fall to the ground before…
CRUMBLE!
…Running aground.
After it comes to a stop, Tsukune and everyone else sit up and look around them in astonishment. It is a world much like the headmaster's paradise. The Garden crash-landed in a large lake of water and around it, mostly clear grassland with clumps of trees further out. It is mostly a world of beautiful green and blue.
"You will pay…"
Hearing Alucard's voice again brought him and everyone else back to reality.
"YOU WILL ALL PAY!
"Heh heh, temper temper, Alucard." Mikogami mockingly says as he arrives with Sun.
Alucard's eyes blaze with furry as he sees his old enemy once again in front of him.
"YOU…!"
Mikogami smiles.
"But not just, heh heh."
Suddenly sensing youki behind him, Alucard turns to his right just in time to…
BASH!
…Catch a fist to his face that sends him flying.
SCHREEEEE!
He stops his momentum and looks up to see a tall figure wearing a dark gray coat with an enormous amount of youki emanating from him and blood red eyes.
"Hello, Alucard. We've been expecting you."
To be continued…
Note #1: In order to completely unseal his true body, he needs to destroy the rosary's seal and kill Moka (Omote).
Note #2: Just as a reminder for everyone, Nurarihyon = Bus Driver-san.
Author's Note #2: Holy crap! I had to type the word "tentacle" so often in this chapter (since there really is no other term I can use to describe those things) that I felt like a doujin artist, ugh. Anyway, this is my third story here and if you have not already, be sure to check out my first two. Do not forget to leave a review (My ego needs to feed!) when you do (trolls are not welcome though).
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