I do not own Rosario + Vampire, I am just a simple fan of the anime and of the manga. All rights belong to the man who is responsible for such a wonderful story, Akihisa Ikeda.
Chapter I: Rebirth of the Shadows
Moka walked through Youkai Academy, her silver hair was gently stirred in the wind as the other students rushed to avoid her scarlet eyes, she was no longer her usual self. It had been several months since Alucard had been sealed away, yet Moka still felt numb from the shock. She still could not accept what had happened to Tsukune, even though she had seen Tsukune sacrifice himself to end the terror that was the ancient shinso. She walked through the courtyard of the academy and came to a stop in front of a memorial that Mikogami had erected in honor of those who had given all they had to stop Alucard, her eyes settled on Tsukune's name at the top of that long list of names chiseled into the stone.
"Oh Tsukune…" She muttered softly to herself. "I miss you so much."
Moka continued to walk through the academy, making her way slowly to the forest, she just wanted to get away from it all. None of them had gotten over the loss of Tsukune, Kurumu at times would just start crying while Yukari held her head in her hands, it was rare to see Mizore come out from one of her hiding places anymore, and Moka's vampire pride wouldn't let her cry no matter how much she wanted to. She started as she realized where she was, she was at the spot where she met Tsukune all so long ago when the world wasn't as bleak as it was now.
Suddenly a sharp pain went through her back as she was caught by a powerful, unexpected blow that sent her tumbling. As she rolled she caught a glimpse of her attackers, three vampires she had never seen before who were in their true forms, their combined monstrous aura was staggering to her. When her body stopped moving the leader of the group, a big male with a buzz cut hairstyle and a powerful build, made his way to her and casually grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and proceeded to lay into her face with his fist. Moka didn't even try to fight back against the vampire, her will to live had died with Tsukune.
"You are going to pay for killing our lord Alucard you little bitch!" The big male grunted as he punched Moka harder and harder.
One of the others, a lithe woman, laughed "Yeah, and when we're done with you we're gonna take care of your pathetic friends too!" The other male laughed at the prospect of spilling blood.
The big vampire's fist continued to lay into Moka, until a bloodcurdling scream and a blast of tremendous youkai energy caught both Moka's attention and the attention of her assailant. As her assailant turned his head to see what was going on with his comrades, Moka's eyes widened in horror when she caught a glimpse of what was happening over the male's shoulder. What looked like a charred husk of a creature had latched onto the throat of the second male and was draining him dry, the female vampire screaming in horror at what was occurring.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?!" Roared the big vampire on top of Moka.
"I DON"T KNOW! THE THING APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE AND JUST GRABBED LOUIS!" The female screamed.
The big male jumped off of Moka and ran to aid his ally, Moka just laid there as she watched the creature drop the empty shell of the vampire Louis as one who had been pummeling her ran at it. The vampire sent a brutal kick at the creature in an attempt to kill it instantly, Moka's eyes could barely keep up with the speed of the kick, but the creature caught the vampire's foot as if it were nothing, its grip around the vampire's foot was almost to the point of breaking bone.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!" Roared the vampire.
"K—kill, m—must kill" The creature moaned as the vampire tried to release its foot from the creature's grasp, its dark voice sent a shiver of fear done Moka's spine as she listened.
The vampire screamed out in pain as the creature latched on to his throat and began to feast, each gulp making the vampire more mummy-like as the creature began to fill out and take on a glossy look to its hide. The last vampire, the female began to scream and cry in earnest now.
"I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" She cried as she began to run away from the horror before her.
Moka's eyes were ripped from the fleeing vampiress when something moved in the corner of her eye, she looked back at the feasting creature and watched in awe as its own shadow began to move on its own, her eyes widened in horror as the very shadows themselves lifted off the ground and began to sway about the creature like tentacles. Before she could blink, the tentacles shot towards the fleeing vampiress and pierced her body with five sickening thuds… the screams of fear coming from the vampiress were silenced. The creature dropped its second meal to the ground and retracted its tentacles from their victim, and it turned to Moka.
Her breath caught in her throat as she finally got a good look at the creature, its recent feeding had left it looking well-built and sleek, and a gloss adorned its black, humanoid, hide. But its eyes, those eyes were what caught Moka's attention, blood red like a vampires' but instead of slits the pupils were four point stars, looking into those eyes she saw no mercy, no forgiveness, just hate and rage. Just looking at those eyes made Moka feel something she had only felt once before, fear, she wanted to run away from whatever this creature was and never look back but as she tried to get up her body spasm of pain stopped her. The creature began to slowly make its way toward her.
A strange calm suddenly overtook Moka, "Are you going to be my death then?" She asked quietly, the thought of dyeing and leaving this pain, this suffering behind had suddenly become even more appealing than before, and the thought of it happening at this creatures hands did not disturb her even in the slightest.
The creature kneeled down at Moka's side and surprise swept over her body as the creatures eyes softened and filled with pain and sadness. "H—hurt, M—Moka hurt…" The creature moaned.
'Why should this creature care about what happens to me? And how does it know my name?' She wondered to herself. She flinched when she felt the creature's fingers gently touch one her wounds, the fingers pulled back momentarily but began to gently trace her wounds once more.
"M—Moka hurt, m—must make Moka b—better…" The creature moaned softly.
"What are you doing?" Moka whispered as she watched the creature pull back its hands and bit into the palm of its left hand. The creature did not respond as she watched blood slowly pool in its palm, the smell of its blood hit her and sent her mouth to watering; the smell of its blood was delicious, it smelled almost as good as Tsukune's had, no… it was better. To her amazement the creature pinched at its blood and lifted it as a cohesive whole, the blood swirled around between the creature's fingers as it condensed into a marble sized ball. Once this was done the creature slowly and gently placed it in Moka's mouth, as if it were feeding a lover something sweet. The moment the blood marble touched Moka's tongue, an explosion of flavor hit her, the creatures blood was unlike anything Moka had tasted before, Moka gasped as she felt her body mending faster and cleaner than it ever had before.
'This creature's blood is so tasty, I could get addicted to it real fast' She thought to herself, then something else caught her attention, as the taste of the blood faded from her mouth one last taste was left, one taste that she would have never forgotten as long as she lived.
"Tsukune?" She asked softly, hope and fear mixing in her eyes and voice as she looked upon the creature.
The creature seemed to smile as it slowly got up and began to leave, regret in its eyes.
"WAIT! Tsukune is that you?!" She called out as she herself began to rise, hoping to catch what she hoped, no, what she now knew to be Tsukune.
Tsukune had already gotten a good distance from Moka and was beginning to disappear when she called out to him, but then something happened. A sphere of light formed around Tsukune, cutting him off from anything else, Tsukune began to howl in rage as he tried to free himself from the sphere, the sounds he made were unlike anything Moka had heard from Tsukune before.
"What the h—"Moka was interrupted by a familiar voice.
"Moka! Are you all right?" Moka turned to see Ruby who was at the side of Mikogami, the headmaster of Youkai Academy.
"What's going on here? And what is that creature?" Ruby asked as she looked at Tsukune who was still attempting to escape the spherical barrier that now was obviously created by Mikogami himself.
Moka looked at the headmaster, a pleading look in her eyes "Please sir you must help, that creature is Tsukune. He just saved me from three other vampires that planned not only to kill me but everyone who had a hand in Alucard's defeat."
The headmaster chuckled "So, the young Tsukune is alive you say, are you sure?"
"Yes sir, I have tasted his blood and it is him, I would stake my life upon it."
"If that is so then I will not be able to aid you."
"Why not?" Moka started to panic, she had to find a way to aid Tsukune.
"If you want to help him, you need to do it yourself."
"What am I supposed to do?"
"Try calling to him Moka." Ruby stated "You have a closer bond with him than anyone else, if you call he may come."
Moka nodded and turned back to Tsukune, she swallowed, the after taste of Tsukune's blood was still in her mouth. She walked toward the carrier around Tsukune, he was still howling and clawing at the barrier.
"Oh, and I suggest you hurry Ms. Akashiya, Mr. Aono is stronger than I anticipated and he is about to break through the barrier any moment."
Moka looked at the headmaster with surprise, how powerful had Tsukune gotten? She walked up close to the barrier and rested her forehead against it.
"Tsukune, listen to me, please." She said softly, almost begging, the howling stopped almost immediately. "Tsukune, please come out of wherever you are, everyone misses you. Kurumu won't stop crying, we haven't seen Mizore in days, and Yukari doesn't say anything anymore. We need you back Tsukune, I need you back." Quiet tears started to crawl down her face, after all this time she finally started to cry. "Please Tsukune, I need you, I can't carry on anymore without you. I love you."
Tsukune locked eyes with Moka the monstrous aura around him began to waver then began to drop like a stone, the black skin on Tsukune began to peel off showing his pale skin, silver hair, and scarlet eyes. As she watched his youkai energy dropped to the point where if Moka had not felt his power earlier, she would have believed he was human again, his vampire traits disappeared as well as she watched his hair turn black and each eye took a different color, one as blue as the sky while the other was the same soft brown it used to be. His body was bare of any clothing, his chest and back adorned with the scars that Moka know too well. The last few bits of black skin did not fall off of his arms though, what had stayed behind formed what looked like intricate tribal tattoos that started at his wrists and moved up the arm to his shoulders. The barrier dissipated from around Tsukune and he dropped like a stone, Moka caught him in her arms, any embarrassment she had at his nudity was forgotten by the thrill of having Tsukune in her arms once more.
"Moka…" He groaned, his eyes locked with hers. Then Tsukune went limp as fatigue claimed him and took consciousness from him.
"Tsukune? Tsukune!" Moka started to panic.
"Oh I'm sure Mr. Aono is fine Ms. Akashiya, although I expect he is weary after that terrible ordeal. I do suggest however that you take him to the nurse's office for the time being, just to be on the safe side."
"R—right." Moka stammered.
"Ruby, come with me, I have something I need to find and I could use your assistance."
"Yes sir. Oh, and Moka, take care of Tsukune." Ruby stated.
"You know I will." The silver haired vampiress answered.
They departed the area, Moka to the nurse's office to make sure Tsukune was well, Ruby and the headmaster to his office so they could find whatever it was Mikogami needed.
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Somewhere across the world, an ancient being stirred in a cave system that had not seen the light of day in what seemed like an eternity. It was awoken from beautiful dreams of carnage and destruction by a presence that it thought it would not feel again. The creature opened its baleful red eyes and clicked its teeth together. Finally, an opponent worth its attention, it started to salivate. Too long it had gone without a good fight, too long since it had felt its claws tear through the flesh of another, but now, another of its kind had arisen, something the creature thought would never happen again. The creature's mouth began to water, it couldn't wait to fight once more, to kill again and hear the screams of pain and agony of its opponent. But it could be patient; it could wait just a little longer for its fun. The creature began to chuckle darkly as a metallic clicking began to echo off the walls as its pets made their way to their master.
A/N: I hoped everyone who read this enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it... I am new to writing fan-fiction but I know that there are not going to like what I have written but hey, que sera sera, whatever will be will be. Feel free to leave reviews whether the are good or bad, I do want to know what you thought of this and I will not hold it against you if you do not like what I have written. However I will not change my style of writing just to get liked and to get good reviews. Lastly I thank any who spend the time to read what I write, it is an honor to have even one person read what I have written much less like. Thank you for your time.