A/N: This prompt is a big one. It started simply, a few good friends, a couple rounds of our favorite drinks, and the drawn words, "Supernatural romance" and "Creatures of the night". Along with that, I had to draw a chapter count slip from the hat...bad mojo right there, chapter counts. I hate them for prompt fictions, but like a dutiful person, I plucked up my chapter number from the hat, just like everyone else. Anyway, this was my chapter 1 submission, and I thought, why not, and I'll post the story up here on the FFN as we go along...supernatural stories are not my strongest suit, but we'll see...

I don't own Mai HiME/ Mai Otome.

Warnings: Futa themes. AU. Likely some OOC. Multiple character pairings, lemons, limes, and god only knows what else in later chapters.

Chapter 1

A thick smog fell over several blocks of city, as a raging fire took place in a high rise building, one of great importance. The air was covered in the thick, blackened smoke as it billowed from yet another pharmaceutical company. It burned slowly, like a poison, angry with justice. It would be in shambles, finally, and the creature that caused the flames jumped down from several stories up, landing on a car, sounding an alarm that wouldn't be turned off.

Everyone with a brain hid on a night like tonight. There was no human with the gull to even utter a peep, and the creatures like her, well they were busy laying claims of baser impulse throughout the entire world. Be it of sexual desire, raging anger, or even territorial disputes, this night was a night for humans to cower, least they face unwelcome ends, or horrific beginnings.

On a night like tonight, the moon demanded it, an instinctual call.

It was one of four nights, four moons, that dictated such an occurrence. While the creatures usually stayed in the shadows, not drawing attention to themselves, on this night, many lost control. One such creature, was a brash young thing, who merely teetered on the cusp of adulthood. She was about to scamper off, in search of her own satisfaction, but then she'd heard it.

The pained groan of a man, dying under twisted metal, and the sobs of a woman who could not pry him out. I'm just too damned nice, sometimes. The creature thought to herself as she went over to gift her aid, a rarity that was too. "Move." She ordered in a dark growled, throwing the woman to the side as if she were a feather. "Don't you dare shoot me either, bitch." The fires masked her well, the burning light not enough to see beyond the dark smoke.

"Don't hurt him." The woman was covered in sweat and soot, breathing heavily in panic, as she held her gun in shaken disarray. "Please, just go." She was frightened, and blood splatter made it unclear of who was hurting more, the man, or the woman. "I don't want to shoot." Her lips were pale, the glistening truth of human emotions were things that the creature tried to shun away...emotions a worthless thing, when instincts came naturally.

Lime green eyes, glared a warning before she pulled the large framework up in the air, snarling as it gave her difficulty, dropping it a few inches from the man's head. He wouldn't have cared, he'd stopped breathing anyway. She could smell it. Death, and he wasn't the only one who had died from the fire...but, he was just an innocent bystander. "You're buddy's dead." Nao grumbled to her, before jumping away, hiding in the smoke.

She watched as the woman mourned him, shook him violently, and even cried for him, until Nao could watch no longer, at the pained cries destruction brought.

It stirred within her, and she was unsure of why had the urge to commit mercy. I was a human once. She thought to herself, nipping at the inside her her cheek. Is that why? She had no connection to this woman, no real reason to feel such a way. Maybe, it's just the moon. Whatever it was, she knew she would answer the call. No one was around to tell her otherwise.

She knew well of the dangerous pendant both of those humans had on their necks. They were hunters, and Nao, she was the hunted, but she didn't care. She was captivated by the sorrow that the woman dripped from her eyes, and with that, she'd made a hasty decision, using her bruit strength to dive onto the woman, pinning her to the ground. "This building will fall apart, idiot." Nao warned the woman, as she cupped her clawed hand over quivering lips. "You don't want to end up dead too." She pulled Shizuru's weapon from her hip, and then scowled. "I won't kill you." Even as she said that, she knocked the woman hard with the butt of the gun, rendering the woman unconscious.

Hoisting the woman up with a soft, agitated grunt, she carried the human to a place she knew of. She was unsure however, of just how safe it would really be.

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This night was dangerous because of the pheromone...how easily it would dilute the mind of any sort of common sense, rational thinking often tossed aside, especially for a human, who couldn't tell the difference between baser truths, and baser desires...both of them mingling in a fashion that made them willing, without worrying about the reprimands, if the strongest creature in the area so chose.

"You are devastating." The heated sigh was something like a blade as it cut through the night. "Do you realize that?" Liquid head dripped from her core as soft touches from clawed fingers coaxed a steering heat from between the apex of her legs, and it was all she could do to close her crimson eyes in a shuttering denial as the warm hand left her yet again, and so too, did the warmth of the beast. There was a smell in the air, one even she, a nose blind human, could tell loomed over her. She couldn't bring herself to care, her mind intoxicated beyond her normal reason.

"I don't really care." The growled retort came. What should I do with it? Nao thought to herself, unused to having a fully nude woman unable to fend her off.

"Surely, you are not shy?" The woman breathed, catching her breath, and trying to figure out just where on earth she was, knowing this was not the fiery building she had been mere hours ago. No, she's far to gifted a creature for that. "Your kind, quite rare indeed...a beast to covet, are you not?" Clear your mind, analyze the situation. She thought to herself. Escape if necessary, don't cause an undue ruckus. She'd been training all of her life, but she never thought she'd actually be caught by the very thing she was to be chasing. Don't go against their whims unarmed, least you'll be dead. She recalled every bit of her father's training. "So, why are you after me, a mere human?"

"Feisty pain in the ass." The voice told her. The darkness masked her and the soft purr, one so unearthly, that it shattered the very notion of what they knew they were doing. "I don't ever want to hear that from you. I told you I'd protect you." Now, the redhead couldn't be so sure. She thinks I can't smell it. The fear...she is afraid though, isn't she? This woman was confusing, utterly so. Yet she leaned into me, she didn't shun my touch...dumb human. Nao growled inwardly, unsure, and agitated. "I am keeping my promise."

That took Shizuru aback, as she paused. Does she think this is normal, to just take a woman away from her home? "So you have, but I've still yet to see your face." Clearly, the voice was that of a woman, but she knew nothing of what awaited her in the blackness of the room. "I wish dearly to do so." She could hear growling, as that of a denial. "I saw you in the flicker of darkened flames, and I see you as a shadow, even now, but I'd like to see your face."

"You'll just think I'm a monster." Nao told her, keeping away from the woman who was no longer tied down to delirium. Why isn't my pheromone working? Why isn't she just submitting? Nao couldn't figure it out, knowing Shizuru's head must be hurting, pained from the blow she took. With a heavy sigh it dawned on Nao. I'm not the strongest werewolf here anymore. That's why! With a glower towards the ceiling, she relented. "I look like one, so you'll think I am."

"Yet, you aren't?" Shizuru questioned, pushing past her fear, wishing to be let loose from the shackles that so bound her. "What animal would do this, if they weren't truly a monster?"

"Shut up!" The growl came forth, the omen set, and the brash werewolf leaned over her waiting pray with her fangs glinting dangerously. The looming answer, one found within the pits of of their hovel. "Don't mistake my kindness for other things."

"I merely said that you were a monster, because are are inhuman." Shizuru sighed. Unwise to make her angry I see. "However, you are kind, are you not?" The captive asked, the chains that held her arms rattled and echoed off the mossy, stone wall that surrounded them. "I wish to see you. The face of someone who saved me." Saved me from what, I've no idea. Shizuru would play along, if it meant her life.

"Hrmm." It was a soft growl. Confused, as she once again took sight of the beauty she'd so easily taken advantaged of. Pretty gutsy for a human woman. In the shroud of darkness, in the lack of city lights, she'd dragged home a woman. "No." Was finally the rumbled statement. "I can't." Nao growled dangerously. "You're the one who's coveted." A human was not welcome here, just as the wolves were outcasts in this big city. Especially on a night like tonight. Nao recalled her actions, with just a tinge of regret. I forgot how powerful the moon is.

"Either way, don't you think this just a bit much?" Her eyes, a dark glow, seemed to reflect in the firelight, a lone candle in the large basement. "I can't go anywhere, so why not?"

"I can't trust you." Lime shaded eyes, and fiery red hair, gave color to the pale figure, who would otherwise have none. "I could die, you are a human, and can't be trusted." Came the harsh whisper, hissed between glinting teeth. "When the sun comes up, I'll let you go."

"Such colorful words for a best." Shizuru sighed tiredly. "Colorful, and uncanny." Though, this is a rather thorny situation. She was a Fujino, and she most assuredly didn't let things like this happen. Oh, but it is. She thought with a gasp. And I've allowed it to happen. The abomination she was supposed to kill, was watching her with a curious look. It isn't...it's not suppose to be this way. Yet, the fire like kiss had been maddening, and the vicious bite from sharp teeth were enough to set her nerves alight. I'll burn for this. She sighed deeply, clutching at the tattered, silken shirt, of the one looming above her. "Your master, won't she be displeased, seeing you upon my form?"

"Hmm." Again, the odd woman sat back to contemplate that, sniffing the air, and the heady scent of fear mingling with lust...and yet, this woman showed no sings of either feelingly outwardly, suppressing it well. "You are not in your safe little place anymore." The voice above her said, those eyes glowering in a mild satisfaction. "You're a hunter of my kind. I understand that clearly." Nao spat back. "You're little games won't work with me...I saved your sorry ass because I had a score to settle. That's all."

"You pulled me from a building that was about to fall to the ground." Shizuru said then with pure honesty. "For that, I thank you. I will not kill you, not when you've spared my life."

"I'm not out for humans." Nao sighed, walking around in the dimness that she could navigate so easily, knowing that this human woman would not have the same gift. "I can release you tomorrow, but those bullets stay here. I can't let you use them."

Ah, but what home is there in which to return? Shizuru took a few breaths, looking into the depth of the darkness, where she wanted to be pulled away from the mortal shell of the human world, become a creature such as that which she hunted. "I'm afraid, you've miscalculated." I can't go home. "You've bitten me, have you not?" She's a sin against nature, and she's touched me...and I've allowed it. "I'll become like you are."

"Our powers are more subtle than that, I fear." The voice was a different woman, who turned on the light to the basement. As she walked down the steps, they creaked underfoot. She pulled out a key, and without even giving it a second though, she blushed at the nude, disheveled woman. The bloody bite marks spoke of lustful passions. "Hold still." She ordered softly, averting her eyes from the supple flesh, as the feelings within her, made her rumble with satisfaction. It was little more than an instinctual calling, but it was also one that Natsuki would dare not amuse, not with a human. "How did you get here?"

Shizuru regarded the two beasts in the room, creatures she'd only seen in books, unless she gazed upon their human form. They were bipedal, and beautiful beings, even in this form. With their large fangs, and claws like daggers. They could rip anyone to shreds, and they both donned what Shizuru guessed to be quite over sized clothing, jeans and shirts that were likely meant for men, but she knew exactly what they were. "I was rescued."

"I pulled her out of one of the buildings we demolished." Nao finally explained. "Can't trust her though." In Nao's clawed hand, a pendant hung, twisting a little in telling truth. "She's a Fujino. Her buddy was a Kanzaki...he's dead." The report was uncaring, and crude, but Nao wasn't bothered by it. "The building crushed his torso..he stopped breathing."

Natsuki thought about it for a few moments, partaking the woman on display, with a deep frown. "I'll take the risk." Natsuki muttered then, finally undoing the metal clasps that held Shizuru into place. "Get dressed."

"They're torn." Shizuru knew well what had happened to her clothing, having the marks upon her body as proof.

"Gah, damn it all!" Natsuki couldn't take it, tossing the tablecloth at the woman of fawn tresses. "Just cover up then." She growled. Every passing second, she could taste the heat in the air, mixing with spent passions, and slick arousal. "And you, find her some clothes!" She roared at Nao, who snickered as she began to slink away, knowing well of Natsuki's easily railed temper. Talk about heady. She put her hand over her nose. Nao's scent is all over her. With a shake of her head, she regarded the woman who was now covered with the blue and gold stitched tablecloth. Natsuki subtly sniffed the air, and took comfort in a simple little truth. "She didn't claim you." I'm going to kill Nao. "You can go at sunrise." What the hell was she thinking?

"I can't." Shizuru licked her lips, and looked to the floor in shame. "You know who I am, so you know I can't go home."

Natsuki knew, the ways of the humans were not unknown to her. "You know, of all the things I find completely and utterly immoral...it's these old traditions that the old farts can seem to get over." In fact, she could rant for hours, about throwing such traditions out the window. "The old days are dead, gone. They aren't coming back, but those old geezers don't want to let go." Natsuki told the woman evenly. "We're nothing in the grand scheme. As a Fujino, you'll get what you deserve for failing in your rights of passage...and you're okay with it because, hell, it's a tradition."

"I do not deny that some of you are innocent, but others are not." Shizuru offered her rebuttal slowly, but with careful meaning. "Most are not, and it is my job to bring you back on a silver platter...it is a job, not a joy I take."

"Nao doesn't mean you any harm, and nor do I." Natsuki told her with a stern voice. "Just get out of here when the sun rises...run away if you want. I'm not going to force you to go home." She wouldn't dare try to go back there now.

"You are not human, but you are also not completely an animal." Shizuru's voice was a soft whisper. "As sequential hermaphrodites, your bodies change to fit the occasion of just whom you run across. You're running amok, and it's my job to rein you in...failure in that, means my untimely demise." Asking for redemption is more than I care to ask...they won't give it to me anyway. "You know the way the three households work, three bloodlines, we're forced to act out on behalf of all humans."

"As a Kuga, I'm forced to act on behalf of werewolves." Natsuki felt her blood begin to simmer. "Don't go opening your mouth on bloodlines that your tight little ass can't cash...I am a living being. These claws don't change that, nor does any other appendage that I may gain or lose depending on the season." Natsuki muttered then, awestruck that such a human could instill such a vocal outcome. Her normally cool, and indifferent demeanor was shattered. "My kind are everywhere, in places you don't see. That's the thing I hate most about humans, they just don't see the truth."

"What might that 'truth' be?" Shizuru found herself amused, as she stood up with a weakness in her legs. While pleasant, it spoke well of just what power these creatures had...it was however, the season for such a hormonal drive. She could feel it, even now, in her aching womanhood. This person before her was sending out a pheromone in waves. Clutching what little protection the small table cloth gave, around her frame, she tried to steady her screaming body that begged for whatever this creature would give her. She took a few steps forward, before a low growl in warning stopped her. "I'm unarmed, I can't hurt you."

"I don't even know your name." Natsuki told her dangerously. "Besides, if you come any closer I'll have no- Rrrr." Natsuki stifled her words in a snarl, as her cheeks turned pink in a tiny flush. "Damn it, just stay where you are!"

"You won't have control." Shizuru nodded, understating the vexation in emerald eyes. "I understand." Though, she was confused. This person was different than her earlier encounter, she didn't seem willing to chance any further nearness, least she wish to fall into the carnal desires. It was a privilege the redhead took without question, but this woman was much the opposite. "My name is Shizuru." She told the distrusting woman.

"Natsuki." The woman of midnight tresses replied. "Of all the things I thought Nao might bring home on a night like tonight, I never thought she would bring home some human woman." Natsuki's agitation was twofold, as she grabbed a broom, and began to beat the handle on the wooden support above her. "Nao! The clothes, bring them down!" She bellowed, before throwing the brook clear across the room. "God, I can't believe she actually touched you." It was a disgusted utterance, and yet, Natsuki felt her anger dissipating at the truth. And now, the woman has no home in which she can return...they'd kill her if she tried...Nao, you idiot.

Shizuru was drawn in, she could taste the desire in the air, though she did not know why. Without being able to restrain herself, she began to breath heavily of the dominate musk that spoke of feral natures. Humans feared these animal people, who were, at one point, merely a trick of an angry industry. However, that afforded her little comfort, when such a calling washed over her. A wave of need that, she had never had any reservations about satiating that desire before.

This was different, Natsuki was inhuman, and also capable of infecting those whom she bit, if she wished to do so.

Nao, had chosen not to, for whatever reason...during a romp Shizuru's throbbing desires would not soon forget...least she be daft, and unable to put common sense into her mind. She could not be sure about Natsuki, who just so happened to be jetting out her calling card like that of pure insanity.

"What are you looking at?" Natsuki was such a conflict in every move she made. Withdrawn, with both her stare and actions...and yet, her voice, a dark, sometimes smoky hush would waver...sometimes, it would be a snarl, and others, a soft whisper. Those emerald eyes, also seemed confused, a mask with no few breaks, not so little cracks to the hard shell. "Stupid woman..."

"You." Shizuru told her, suddenly feeling unable to put her emotions into words. "Is it always so strong?"

"You have not come into contact with my kind during mating, have you?" Natsuki wondered that, her own flowing power enough of a truth...she looked away, her eyes glaring at a bucket on the floor, if only so she didn't have to look into those red irises, that so called her. "Full moons are the strongest night of the month, especially the four that dictates the change of the seasons for beings like us." It was a bashful explanation, with just a hint of animosity.

"The four moons in the year, in which your kind seeks not only sex, but a habitual mate, correct?" Shizuru herself, understood very little on an emotional level, but academically, she had studied Natsuki's kind quite thoroughly. She had grown to understand it, had been raised to see them as animals, and studied them as would be rats on a lab table. "It can't be one of those nights...I would have..." Shizuru shook her head. "The woman you call Nao...she would have..."

"The mating ritual is done though very strong bonds." Natsuki spat at her, for lack of anything better to sling in Shizuru's direction, rather than vicious words. A plenty of them sat at the tip of her tongue, but she felt no need to use them, finding it strange. "We aren't like normal humans, who look for a cheep fuck from our kind." Natsuki snarled low in her throat. "Even if Nao didn't claim you as her own, she damn well brought you here, and even now, I can smell it." Natsuki was angry, but more than that, she was scared. She'd never felt so strongly in her life. "God, what was Nao thinking?" Natsuki sighed as she overturned the table in rash anger, before she stomped her way up the stars, leaving a very confused Shizuru in her wake.

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She was angry. Furious even, at the fact of all that she'd just witnessed on this night. This horrendous, spiteful evening, when even the most arrogant of werewolves became unable to stifle down desires of baser natures. Passions of instincts ran wild, and consumed them. Some went rabid, killing all in sight, a pure show of power. Then there were others, who weren't so lost by the howling calls of the moon above them. "See, this is why I told you not to go out tonight!" Natsuki finally snarled after having paced around her bedroom for the better half of an hour. "You never listen, and now you've really done it...you've screwed up a human life...an innocent bystander, Fujino or not...and I've gotta answer for it, because you brought her here."

"Getting pissed off over a human?" Nao laughed at that, her mouth open wide as she boisterously let loose waves of chuckles that knew no bounds. "The unshakable Kuga finally met her match!" It was true though, she knew exactly what she'd done. "Really though, we are the ones that set the building on fire." Nao wasn't going to shrug off such a big responsibility, life a precious thing to protect. In a rare show of affection, and loyalty, Nao finally neared Natsuki. "I'm a bastard, I can't help it." Nao's scent was covered in the thickness apology, that Natsuki knew Nao would never really say.

Even so, that didn't matter, as Nao tossed away the robe that had been covering her body.

"Don't make me bite it off." Natsuki growled as she disrobed of her clothing, before stooping down to take hold of Nao's throbbing arousal, gripping it firmly in her hand, hotly breathing on it. "You promised me, you wouldn't take any humans." She told Nao as her lips ghosted over the tip of sensitive flesh. "And now we have one in my damned basement." She gifted a soft lick. "I really should teach you a few lessons about that." Then a tiny nip that elicited a tiny whimper.

"I told you, I wouldn't claim them." Nao hissed when Natsuki's tongue trailed over her throbbing, hard arousal. "I never promised that I wouldn't get my kicks." She threaded her fingers into the dark, midnight tendrils of Natsuki's hair. "Besides..." Nao growled softly, when Natsuki's soft mouth envelope her length. "I'm not like you, I don't mind a few games."

Natsuki, annoyed with what she was being told, rolled her eyes, but resisted the urge to bite down roughly. Though that didn't stop her from toying with dangerous notion of just what her sharp teeth could accomplish, if she so chose, as endeavored to take Nao to shuttering highs, and crashing her to oceanic lows. Expertly, her tongue did wicked deeds, as her own desire continued to rise, before she finally she finally cursed in a loud sigh. "It's no use, there's a human woman in the area." Natsuki grumbled. "I won't stay controlled at this rate."

"It doesn't matter." Nao growled, feral tone in her throat, pushing Natsuki to the bed. "Five hours, and then the sun rises. You can survive that long."

Natsuki was so reserved, and refused to even touch the humans, her distrust of them so strong, that she all out rejected it...but her pulsing, throbbing member wouldn't let her out of the ritual so easily. It wouldn't release her from her chains, nor the anguish of need to claim something for herself. Her mind screamed at her, and her body was at war, and gods help her, she craved to be touched, least she go on a rampage like others who couldn't stop the hammering calls within their blood.

"You've done it before, you'll do it again." Nao could smell it, the dominate aura that would make most cower, submit, and wait for her to powerfully command the situation. She bore her sharp teeth to Natsuki's neck, quelling the lustful intentions of the monster within, fanning the flames of Natsuki's desires with firm strokes of her hand. "If the call is that powerful, you'll tear that human to pieces." Nao murmured as relented her assault on the nape of Natsuki's neck, and stiffness that grew harder in her hand. "But I'll take you on."

"I hate mating season." Natsuki bit out, as she overpowered Nao, flipping the redhead over, onto the bed. "Damn it all." Natsuki's couldn't resist the sight before her, and Nao displayed the submission, the request, rolling her hips just a little, as an invitation. "And damn you too, jackass!"

"A romp's a romp." Nao told her. "Pony up, Natsuki."

It was a rarity, but the call was strong, and she didn't want to lose herself to her instincts. Eventually, before the night was over, the monstrous blood within her would do horrendous things. She dare not take a human against her will. Nao was right, she quite likely would rip any human that so resisted her at all, into bits, drinking from them like the being she was, feeding off of the soul like the crazed animal she could become when pressed.

The nights that either an equinox or solstice, took place, they changed into living, breathing, monsters that could hear not the call of the suffering around them.

And so, she allowed herself to partake of the scent that so set her blood alight, and without a further thought, she a purred rumble, making it known that she was the master in their little frolic. One that would amount to little more than a quenching of trustful insanity. She nipped the back of Nao's neck, as she continued to let the possessive noise in her throat cut through the heady air. She entered Nao's slick, eagerly waiting core, reaching around Nao's slender hips, to continue to inflict agonizing pleasure to the hardened arousal that stood at attention.

That was the start of the hot, sticky night, a blur of growls, snarls, bites, and tainted pleasures. Within the strength that the moon's glow provided, they didn't fight it. Not an ounce of remorse comforted them, not a breathy moan escaped them, their minds clouded by the howls heard in the night, only by their own kind.

So, that was chapter one...as we see Nat/Nao will be a pairing in this fiction, but we will also see Shiz/Nat and Shiz/Nao...