(For those of you just joining us)

A few months ago Dr. Yoshi Serizawa, Professor of biology at Yokai Academy, used the DNA of all Tsukune's friends to create his version of the perfect girl, he called her Demona. Demona inherited all Moka, Kurumu, Mizore, Yukari, and Ruby's powers, as well as their desire for Tsukune. She challenged them all to a fight for his hand and proved too great a match for even Moka, but all the while Moka's vampire blood took over Tsukune completely and he was given the choice to evolve or die. To stay with his friends Tsukune chose relinquish his humanity completely and became the Legendary Super Ghoul, a being of unfathomable power unseen for centuries. Tsukune then used his newfound power to defeat Demona and save his friends. It was assumed that Demona was vaporized by what was at the time Tsukune's most powerful attack, the Ulikai'e'emakeloa.

Sometime later Tsukune and the rest of the newspaper club was invited to the beachside manner of the most famous witch in the world, Jessina Esmeralda, who upon their arrival predicted her own murder and offered a five million dollar reward to whoever solved the crime. One by one the servants of the mansion began to die, until Tsukune deduced that the killer was Mrs. Esmeralda's butler Ulysses, who turned out to be a rare and powerful Greek Diamond Dragon. Tsukune and his friends fought for their lives, but despite the fact that Tsukune had been training with his new Super Ghoul powers for weeks, they were completely outmatched and saved only by the timely arrival of the Headmaster. In Mrs. Esmeralda's will Tsukune received not only the five million dollars he had been promised, but half of her entire fortune, and unknown to everyone else… a ring. The ring came with instructions from Mrs. Esmeralda that Tsukune would give it to whoever he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, and even though he'd be under pressure to make that decision, she told him to do what would make him happy and that it was his decision to make and no one else's.

A few days before graduation Tsukune proposed to Moka and she accepted, that had been the easy part. When Tsukune broke the news to the others after commencement they were all heartbroken, but Mizore's mother, who was determined to make Tsukune her son-in-law, brought up the fact that even though vampires were free to love whomever they pleased, they still needed permission from the bride's father in order for the engagement to be valid. Much to everyone's surprise Tsukune went immediately to Castle Shuzen and challenged Moka's father Issa for the right to marry her. Through the training provided by the spirit of his predecessor Udar the Wicked, Tsukune's powers had increased by leaps and bounds since the fight with Ulysses, and he was able to put up a fight, until Issa transformed into a huge demonic bat and began to beat him senseless, forcing Tsukune to use his last resort, the Black Death Ball. When Tsukune had Issa at his mercy he choose to spare him, knowing that otherwise Moka would only hate him for it. With this act of selflessness Issa told Moka to do whatever she wanted, and he wouldn't stop her.

Tsukune knew how disappointed the others felt, so he showed them the letter that came with the ring Jessina Esmeralda had given him, saying that they would find love somewhere else. Now that the others have made peace with the fact that Tsukune will marry Moka, the wedding day is rapidly approaching, but unknown to Tsukune there is still someone who hasn't given up on him.

"Damn vampires…"

Tsurara Shirayuki had been all set to have her daughter Mizore marry Tsukune Aono as soon as they graduated from Yokai Academy, she had picked out a dress and everything, but then that blasted Moka Akashiya seduced Tsukune into choosing her instead, and if she or any of her fellow snow fairies tried to interfere then Issa Shuzen would wipe out their entire species. Mizore had been cheated out of a husband and children by those leeches and now she was going to attend the wedding when she should be the one getting married.

"Maybe we'll get lucky and she'll be the one who catches the bouquet."

Suddenly the room became cold, even for a snow fairy that lived in the mountains. Any light in the room was suddenly snuffed out.

"Hello? Is somebody there? Darling, is that you?"

The answer came in the form of a blast of energy that froze Tsurara to the wall. She was an experienced snow fairy, but for some reason she was unable to free herself.

"What's the meaning of…"

Before Tsurara could finish her sentence she felt something sharp cut across her face, it was only moments before she felt warm blood trickling down her cheek.

"What have you done to my…"

Tsurara was face to face with someone whose face was hidden inside the hood of a black cloak. Her huge razor sharp nails were pointing at Tsurara's throat.

"Ageha?"

"No… I'm a hell of a lot worse."

"What do you want with me?"

"Here's the way this works old bag; I ask you a question, you tell me an answer, one question one answer, if I don't get the answer I want to hear then we've got a problem, and if we've got a problem your face has a problem. Is that clear?"

"How dare you? Who do you think you are?"

Tsurara was slashed across the other side of her face.

"I think I'm not the one frozen to the wall with her "flawless skin" getting damaged."

"Okay… what do you want?"

"Where is the Printesa Elizabeth e diamant albastru de dragoste?"

"I… I don't know what you're talking about."

"That's funny… I believe you… In that case where do you keep your jewelry?"

"Uh… In there…"

"Okay… You stay right there."

Before Tsurara could do anything the cloaked person covered her mouth with a sheet of ice. She then walked over to the room Tsurara had looked at. Tsurara could hear her going through stuff.

"No… no… no… no… hmm… There you are."

She came out holding a perfectly cut blue diamond that was the size of orange.

"Thank you for your assistance Mrs. Shirayuki… And don't worry, that ice will melt eventually."

She left Tsurara without saying another word. It was snowing when she came outside. She was grateful for being part snow fairy, otherwise she'd be freezing to death for wearing only her cloak and the rather revealing outfit she wore underneath.

"Time for a little music."

She took out her iPod and selected a song before she let loose her wings and took off. As she flew across the night sky she admired her prize. The diamond glittered in the moonlight.

"Diamonds are forever… they are all I need to please me... they can stimulate and tease me… they won't leave in the night, I've no fear that they might desert me… Diamonds are forever… hold one up and then caress it… touch it, stroke it, and undress it… I can see every part, nothing hides in the heart to hurt me… I don't need love, for what good will love do me? Diamonds never lie to me, for when love's gone… they luster on."

That song may have been right about the fact that diamonds outlive a man, but it was wrong about the part where she didn't need love because she had them.

"You can't perform unspeakable acts of passion and carnality with a diamond. Love is one of the reasons I'm looking for these things in the first place."

After awhile she finally made it back to the city. She could see the lights were on in the penthouse.

"Harold is no doubt waiting for me."

After the incident at Yokai Academy she needed to find a place to stay, luckily Harold Hernandez, heir to a wealthy American weapons manufacturer, was staying in town. So far Harold had proved to be an excellent stooge, doing whatever he was told, then again that wasn't really a challenge. Almost no man could resist her charm, even the wealthiest of individuals would become a servant for her. When she landed on the balcony she saw that he was there inside waiting for her.

"Welcome home, Mistress Demona…"

"Evening Harold…"

Spoiled from a life of luxury, Harold used to be about a hundred and fifty pounds overweight, but as the months went by Demona noticed that he had really slimmed down.

"Did you get what you went out for?"

"Mm-hmm." she said showing him the diamond.

As Demona took off her cloak Harold's face turned pink, then again who wouldn't given the outfit she was wearing underneath.

"Mistress I have your sustenance prepared… If you'd like."

Demona looked in mirror and saw that wrinkles were forming on her face and her hair was turning gray in some areas.

"Excellent suggestion."

Demona sat down on the leather armchair next to the TV and sunk her teeth into the warm blood packet that Harold had prepared for her.

"Mmm… AB positive…"

When Demona had sucked the packet dry she looked in her vanity mirror and was relieved to see the youth return to her face.

"Much better."

"Mistress, why does that happen to you?"

"Because my creator forgot to take into account the possibility of birth defects when he created me. It's hard enough to make a perfect genetic duplicate of someone, and I'm a hybrid."

"Is there any way to fix it?"

"That's one of the reasons I'm collecting these diamonds."

"What do they do?"

"All in good time Harold… Now tell me what you've found out about Tsukune Aono."

"Uh… Mistress… I'm afraid I have some bad news."

"… Go ahead."

"I'm afraid he and that girl you mentioned are to be married."

"… When?"

"Tommorow…"

Harold was worried that Demona was going to bite his head off or something, but she just sat there admiring the latest addition to her collection.

"I will deal with that later; you concentrate on finding the next diamond."

"Yes mistress."

After Harold had left the room Demona just continued to look at the blue diamond.

"Enjoy yourself while you can sister Moka… When I'm done Tsukune will dump you like yesterday's trash."

(To be contniued)

New illustration available on deviantart

Demona's new look