Ok I know that everybody is doing a crossover with Rosario with the main character from another franchise taking the place of Tsukune but here I go any way. Grim Tales by Vinson Ngo, Junior and Minnie by Dead-Doll on Deviant-Art, Rosario + Vampire by Akihisa Ikeda I own nothing.
"Normal Talking"
Story
"Thinking"
"Nergal"
*SOUND*
Rated M for Tobacco, Alcohol, Sexual themes, blood&gore, and Mature Language.
AUTHORS NOTE: I will for the most part be following the plot of the Rosario + Vampire manga, that said I will be flashing back to Junior and Minnie's pasts in the five year gap between Grim Tales and now. I will be putting my own twist on the story-line so as to make it mine own. Also since Yokai Academy is a international school in a pocket dimension instead of actually being in Japan here in this story I will be slightly modifying the time table to be more in line with a Canadian school, seeing as how I'm Canadian and all. Also I've rewritten the first chapter, no change to the plot but my grammar and spelling has been fixed a little.
A familiar bus was driving through a portal from the underworld. Inside were three occupants the first the bus driver, he wore a ordinary uniform with a cap that hid his eyes rather effectively leaving them little else but glowing triangle shaped slits, the terrifying effect added on by the smoking cigar sticking out of his mouth. He looked into the rear view mirror where he spotted a 15 year old girl. She was exceptionally pretty looking had shoulder length blond hair which she held in a black head band bright grey eyes the right one hidden behind a eye patch that emblazoned a skull emblem, barely noticeable scars ran down from her eyes to her chin. She wore the Academy's green uniform which made modest work of what would normally be rather noticeable bust. Unfortunately the skirt foiled all attempts at modesty which Minnie swore was intentionally made short so to attract the perverted to the school. But right now her look of concerned was reserved for something else entirely.
"Something bothering you little girl?"
The girl turned to face the bus driver, seemingly melting away all concern and dawning a kind looking smile.
"Tis naught sir, I most assure thee. Tis this skirt, tis... embarrassing."
"You can always put some pants on if you want. The school isn't strict about the dress code."
"Grammarcy for thy kind advice sir I will take it into consideration."
For the umpteenth time since they left the underworld a loud snore rung through the bus. That would be the third occupant, a 16 year old boy with messy brown hair and Caucasian skin, he had a very thin build, he wore the male version of Minnie's uniform with brown jeans instead of a brown skirt and was lazily asleep in the back of the bus loud rock music uselessly blaring into his ears.
"How does he sleep through that?"
"Tis a mystery that doth many perplex many since the dawn of his birth. I can only assume that tis relaxing for him."
"Makes sense."
"Introductions mayhaps be in order. I am Minnie Mandy daughter of Evil incarnate. The one in the back seat is mine brother Grim Junior Son of Death. I will tell to you how we are here because I most fear that it shall be the down fall of mine brother dearest."
"Mother ye wished to see us?"
Inside the living room of the Castle known as Grim-Skull a sign was posted on the door, FAMILY MEETING IN PROGRESS DISTURB AND DIE. Inside the room we have four people one was a one woman who was clearly the mother of Minnie, she would be her identical twin if not for the fact that she was clearly older by two decades at lease and had red eyes. Her outfit was also a stark contrast, it made no attempt at modesty consisting of a black corset type thing with a red design in the middle with a red orb that made full use of her bust. She wore a fitting black bottom that almost seemed to be a pair of panties. She had two giant red feather like protrusions on her top and has black armbands running the length of her for arms with black thigh high boots. She also has a long cape attached to her bottom with the same red feathers. A cigarette pipe fashioned to resemble a skull stuck out the corner of her mouth.
"She has many names, many aliases, one of the less liked are 'Queen Bitch' (repeat that in front of her and she'll kill you on sight), some say she embodies evil itself, in all of the underworld there is no one more feared than her, she wouldn't mind it if you called her Mandy, seeing as how tis her name, but I know her best as Mother. It was never a good thing when she called a family meeting, it usually means that someone is about to get shot."
Minnie was doing better in the modesty department now, she was wearing a black leotard over red pantyhose a combination in which she wore a green petticoat over. Aside from that her outfit remained the same wearing the same eye-patch and hair band. Junior stood leaning on the nearby wall arms crossed. He was wearing a black leather rain coat on top of a hoodie and blue jeans, but one characteristic that made him completely unrecognizable was the fact that he did not resemble in any way a human but was in fact now a walking talking skeleton, grayish hair sticking out and over his head in place of brown. And he was not the only one a taller and older skeleton dressed in a long black coat was also attending the meeting.
"A Couple of months ago the two of you graduated from Junior High-school, Minnie being skipped ahead a grade..."
"We've been through this."
Mandy gave the young skeleton a glare that looked like the devil himself was staring him down.
"As you were saying."
"For this reason the two of you will be attending Senior high-school in September, I have already picked out which one."
Mandy threw the acceptance letters at the siblings each of them grabbing their respective letters followed by opening them with a finger.
"The primary objective of the school is to teach it's students to blend in with the likes of normal humans. For this reason you will be required to remain in human forms at all times bar emergencies."
"Then why am I going, humanity is something that is beyond my abilities?"
For the second time Mandy donned a angry scowl that would send most running with a glance, and as a consequence she gave a snap of her fingers.
"Charles!"
A green skinned man dressed in blue chain-mail armor and a spiked helmet walked into the room carrying a serving tray which he then held out in front of Junior and opened to reveal what resembled a PEZ dispenser, the words running along the dispenser read 'Doom Candy' and was capped off by a plastic human head.
"What's this?"
"Swallow one and find out."
Reluctantly Junior grabbed the dispenser and held it open revealing red colored tablets. He dropped the tablet into his mouth and swallowed. What happened next Junior would remember has the second most painful moment in his entire life, he keeled over grabbing his mid-section in pain and started to scream. Minnie moved over to help Junior but she was stopped by the elder Skeleton.
"I can assure you dat he is in no danger of being harmed, but if you touch him in dat state you will be."
Reassured by her father the Grim Reaper Minnie relented but her look of concern did not falter. Her Mother's look of concern however was non-existent, she kicked a bucket over to Junior that until now was idly sitting by her chair.
"Don't puke on the carpet."
True to her predictions Junior grabbed hold of the bucket and puked into it large and copious amounts of bright green mucus. The pain did not stop there Junior grabbed his face as he felt something soft and squishy, and then he fainted. Junior awoke later after what seemed like a eternity. The first thing he saw when he awoke was Minnie sitting over him, shock clear and evident across her face.
"Brother... art thou okay?"
"If I had intestines I would say that it feels like I just puked them up."
"Encroaching Doom Syndrome, not quite as bad as the name would imply in my opinion. Still the side effects are rather nasty, the lucky ones like your self fall unconscious early on."
"What are you blabbering about?"
Junior pressed his hand against the wall to support himself. It was then that he saw his hand was covered with flesh, human flesh. He spun around to ask what in the name of sanity happened but before he could Charles was holding his mirrored finished serving tray in front of him, a gray eye and a blue eye staring back at him, he was human now.
"By now you are aware of all the symptoms of Encroaching Doom Syndrome, a disease that is unique in that it only effects reapers, and instead of killing the infected like say Small Pox it brings them to life, in your case turns you into a human."
"Aw Fuck."
Mandy got up to leave, turning her head to address her son and daughter.
"Your uniforms are waiting for you in your rooms, pack whatever clothing you deem necessary but I expect you to be appropriately dressed by the time the bus gets here."
"And here we are, a human being shipped off to a academy for monsters like a lamb to the slaughter house, I've seen a dozen scenario's like this in cartoons, video games, and comics. None of them ended well. But my brother, father and mother were not concerned by this so for the time being it had the benefit of the doubt, unfortunately doubts is all I have right now."
"And here we are."
Minnie was snapped from her musings by the bus driver, she rushed to the back of the bus carrying her pink backpack to awaken her brother. At first she attempted to nudge him awake, which he simply shrugged off. She tried nudging again but this time their were slightly less desirably results.
"Quit it Mimi I'm trying to sleep."
It was one thing to be ignored, however Minnie never approved of Junior's choice in girl-friends and now he had made the mistake of mistaking her for her and thus a line had been crossed. With out hesitation she grabbed her brother by the arm and threw him to the front of the bus and smashed him through the window.
"Ouch."
"Come on Sleepy headed one, we cannot be late on our first day of school, less we face the wrath most potent and unforgiving of our mother."
Minnie and her un-expectantly cheery voice left the bus, dropping Junior's grey colored duffel-bag off at the door as she passed. As soon as Junior pulled himself out of the latest in a long line of awkward predicaments he followed.
"Have fun getting killed kids."
"Not likely old man. We've survived worst."
"I heard."
The bus doors closed behind the siblings, Junior shooting the bus a dirty look after it left before he followed Minnie. The dirt road was deserted, cutting through a forest of tree's with their branches bare and a cemetery of unmarked graves.
"So what doth thou think the academy will be like brother dearest?"
"No different from the last two, everybody will be trying to kill us again."
"Not so Brother. Not everyone attempts to kill us."
"Easy for you to say, people actually like you. Besides..."
Junior stretched his arms out drawing attention to the graveyard that surrounded the school.
"What kind of school needs it's own Grave Yard?"
"May-haps ye have a point brother."
Junior heard a very distinct sound, almost like a bee buzzing in his ear or a very fast moving bird.
"You hear that?"
"Indeed brother dearest, May-haps tis the sound of something small and cute moving through the air to great us."
"Minnie, this isn't a place where anything small and cute lives."
The whizzing noise grew progressively louder, and it was soon made clear that it was coming from behind them, Junior saw a cloud of dust off in the distance and acted just in time to step out of the way. Minnie however was not as fortunate being smashed into by the cause of the dust cloud head on.
"See we aren't even there yet and we're already getting ourselves killed!"
Junior walked over to the tangled mass of limbs that was his sister and the person who nearly ran her over, that latter's bicycle leaning against the tree it landed on.
"She made that... with that?"
While Junior was pondering about the girl who had quite literary run into them Minnie was also wondering about the girl, most of her thoughts however related to the fact that the pink haired and green eyed girl's bust, adorned by a silver cross with a jewel in the center that was nothing short of demonic, was literary inches from Minnie's face not to mention the green blood trickling from Minnie's nose and the blush across her face.
"You two want some time alone?"
"You're humor is as bad as your breath brother!"
Junior opened his mouth to respond, but he experimentally sniffed his own breath and cringed as a result.
"Good point."
The offending girl in question soon jumped out of the tangled mess getting on her knee's to apologize to Minnie.
"I'm Sorry! I'm anemic I couldn't see where I was going!"
"Nay Pink haired one, Apologies won't be necessary. But I most insist that in the future ye take care in where thou art going, less ye wish to try mine patience."
The girl noticed that Minnie was bleeding, and took out a handkerchief from her pocket to mop up the mess.
"Here let me get that for you."
Wondering about what she was talking about Minnie touched her finger to her lip and observed the neon green blood. The girl moved herself closer to Minnie, intimately so to the point that Minnie suddenly felt very uncomfortable.
"You smell nice..."
"I-I-I appreciate the assistance but tis not necessary."
Junior moved within view of Minnie, mockingly playing a imaginary violin, intensifying Minnie's blush as she cringed furiously.
"Not Funny!"
Suddenly Minnie developed a throbbing pain in her neck, the end result of the pink haired girl digging her teeth into her neck and sucking furiously. Luckily it wasn't long before Junior ended his sister's suffering with a boot to the head of pink hair, sending the offending girl in question flying into a tree.
"You ok sis?"
The blood was reabsorbed through Minnie's skin as the neck wound healed.
"Yes brother dearest, but from hence forth I would appreciate earlier intervention."
"Don't blame me, you looked like you were enjoying that as much as I was, besides you didn't ask for any help."
Minnie's cheeks puffed out angrily like a bullfrog as she turned beat red. The mockery portion of the activities over and done with the siblings turned to face their pink haired associate.
"And then there was one."
Junior grabbed the girl by a leg and held her upside down and face to face.
"Care to tell me what you were doing to my sister?"
"Honestly..." Minnie grabbed Junior's wrist and twisted it forcing him to drop the pink haired girl "anemia, blood sucking, she's a vampire brother."
"You mean like that crazy Marcy chick?"
Minnie rolled her eyes at her brother's unfailing bluntness, he was definitely their mother's son.
"Yes, like Marcy. This one was just following her nature, and ye of all people should know what's that's like."
Junior gave the vampire a final scowling glance before he left. Minnie offered the vampire a hand on her feet.
"You'll have to excuse my brother, he is as blunt as a hammer and as over protective as a fortress."
The pink haired girl accepted the hand up, a bit perplexed by the pair.
"I think we started on the wrong foot, if we can I would like to try again from the right foot this time. I am Minnie-Mandy that is mine brother..." Junior shot a look that could make his mother proud "who wishes to remain anonymous, and what is your name pink one?"
The Pink haired vampire donned a warm smile of her own.
"I'm Moka Akashiya, Minnie-Mandy."
"If you two are done with your date..." Moka's bicycle was thrown at the pair, being embed deep inside the tree "we should probably go to school now."
Minnie stared in shock at the tree, Moka looked back at her new friend concerned.
"What's wrong Minnie?"
"He-he-he isn't that strong, he should not be that strong..." Minnie stared at Junior, he was flexing the muscle in his arm as if to try and test it "what did she do to ye brother?"
Mandy sat in the dining room of her castle, Charles pored her a glass of wine, she took a sip first removing her smoking cigarette, letting the smoke exit through her mouth. *RASPBERRY* Mandy spotted the second of her two sons entering the room and circling it, a four year old who had taken playing airplanes to a whole new level, in that he was actually flying like a airplane. He had white smoky hair, green eyes and bluish skin he wore a green colored suit that in a way resembled his sister's Minnie's.
"Manny I thought I told you to do that outside."
Following his mother's instructions Manny blasted the nearby window with green colored energy, shattering it until the point that it was all but dust and left through the new opening. Mandy shot Charles a dirty look that told him exactly what to do and more.
"I miss the good old days... where they couldn't fly."
Charles climbed through the window, a whine of air could be heard as he fell several stories ending with a loud crash.
"I'm ok."
A second individual walked into the room, another four year old like Manny, Mandy's second daughter Daniela she was wearing a long black dress that is white in the middle, dark pink ribbon and leggings with brown boots. She also had dark black hair and bright red eyes, though unlike her brother she had a normal skin tone.
"Did big brother and sister leave already? We didn't even get to say good bye."
"Don't sleep in next time."
Daniela looked through the ball and saw Junior with Minnie and Moka.
"Is that big brother?"
"Yes, why wouldn't it be, you know what his human form looks like from the album."
"It's just that, I never saw it like this before. It seems dark somehow, is that normal for you humans?"
"Not really, he just takes after me; he leaves a trail where ever he goes... mostly consisting of Craters and Corpses."
"Is that why your spying on them? You want to make sure he's ok?"
"In a way yes."
Daniela's concern for her brother grew by the moment, she stood on her tip toes as she tried to get a good look into the ball.
"Is he ok?"
"He's sick in a way, simply put he hasn't been right in a long time, I'm hoping that this school can help him."
From the courtyard a green mushroom cloud explosion rattled the entire castle "KABOOM YEAH HA HA HA!"
"And he isn't the only one who leaves a trail where ever he goes."
"Ah Should we stop him?"
Mandy let out a small groan before she got up to leave.
"Remember to turn that thing off after you done with it."
After having gotten the bike out of the tree Moka used it to go ahead of the two. It was fine by Junior he needed time to understand what was happening to him. Not too long ago he literary had no meat on his bones, now he was playing lumberjack with a bicycle.
"Damn you mother... what screwball mess have you gotten me into now!?"
"Brother..." "what is it?" "We're here."
Junior was snapped from his thoughts as he looked at the school, it looked old, a hundred years or so, the construction looked rickety and unstable. He certainly wasn't looking forward to going there.
"Great..."
"I know right!"
Junior gave his sister a 'have you gone insane' type of look.
"It looks so elegant, the architecture has the same atmosphere as home, it'll be just like being in our rooms."
"Minnie our home is made out of thousands of corpses mushed and mashed together. If that's what that thing is made up of then we should consider a strategic retreat."
"I thought you said it was 'great'?"
"Because I thought you were familiar with the concept of sarcasm."
There was a bit of a awkward pause between the two, then with a sigh Junior continued the conversation.
"We should go find some answers."
"About what?"
"Nothing in particular, but it will pass the time."
Junior spotted the signs directing them towards the welcoming ceremony. He also spotted men dressed in builder's uniforms digging trenches into the ground and laying cables inside.
"Come on, lets go get welcomed."
Junior left for the signs while Minnie donned a sad look.
"Why is it that every time I try to help you, I end up hurting you instead?"
"You coming!?"
Minnie washed away her sad look and regained her standard cheerful look instead.
"I'm coming brother!"
The pair followed the signs to the main building where they entered the auditorium where the welcoming ceremony was being held.
"Your names, sir and Madam?"
Junior looked to his left and saw a man holding a clipboard.
"Pardon?"
"So that we know you arrived safe and sound, you are students here are you not?"
"Of course... I'm Junior that's Minnie."
"Your full names, if you please."
"As it so happens I don't."
Junior walked away from the name taker, seeking to attend to other business.
"Ye really must excuse mine brother, he can be rather blunt at times."
"Name?"
"Minnie-Mandy my good sir."
"Last name?"
"I am sad to say that I lack one, or rather I was never made aware of it."
"I see..." the name taker looked over to Junior "what about him?"
"He has given ye all the information he wishes, and I shall respect them."
Minnie joined up with her brother as he walked through the auditorium.
"So than brother, what shall it be? ye said ye were looking for answers, where shall we look?"
"Patience Minnie, answers come from questions, with our luck we'll be getting into a fight sooner then later; and since I'm not looking forward to the prospect of my little sister bailing me out of trouble again I would appreciate knowing the upper limits of my new found strength and if necessary how to remove this annoying form my mother has roped me into."
"An interesting suggestion brother. She spoke of it as a disease, so then logically the nurse practitioner would be the idea place to start."
"My thoughts exactly, now we just have to find him or her."
Minnie grabbed Junior's shoulder, pointing up to the stage where there were several people, the teachers of the school they presumed, but one face caught their eye, he had grey hair tied back into a pony tail as well as blue eyes and pale white skin. He was wearing a Pin Stripe suit and combination boulder hat as well as carrying with him a elder wood cane, it was notched and in many way resembled a spine, it's handle was a large amber stone with a red flower inside.
"Dan Phantom!"
"Nay brother. I doubt it."
"What are you talking about, that stuffed suit up there could have posed for the picture!"
"Verily, that is a 'stuffed suit'. If memory serves Dan is a Vulgar Uncouth punk, far from the respectable business man being portrayed up there."
"So what's your explanation?"
"May-haps Dan is a, how you say, Evil Twin?"
"Really that is what we're going with?"
While the two siblings discussed their old acquaintance 'Dan' spotted them after smoke came out of his nose.
"Now that's peculiar..." 'Dan' looked down and spotted Junior and Minnie looking back at him intently "Peculiar indeed."
While 'Dan' spied on the siblings and they discussed him the Academy's chairman stepped out from the line up of people to give his speech.
"Students of Yokai Academy I, Tenmei Mikogami, welcome you! 200 years ago I founded this academy as a stepping stone to achieving peace between all the races, monsters and humans. I understand that many of you are not here by your own choice, but I sincerely hope you come to enjoy your time here. That said there are a few ground rules: Number 1 you must remain in your human forms at all times this is to teach all of you how to maintain your forms for when you are out in the human world, for this reason you will also not be aloud to reveal your true forms to anyone. Number 2 For the purpose of comparison field trips to the human will be a frequent occurrence be warned though that these trips are a privilege, should you perform poorly in either behavior or your grades this privilege will be revoked. Number 3 humans on campus are strictly forbidden, any human found on campus is to be killed on sight, and any of their co-conspirators are to be expelled immediately, some of you may believe this to be harsh but I will assure you that it is for your own protection."
"Harsh? That's a understatement."
"Aye, even mother allowed Mimi to live after violating her personal space in the vault."
"And now with that dreary topic out of the way I would like to introduce the school's brand new sponsor, whose technology and funding has gone a long way to modernizing the school for your convenience: Please welcome Vlad Masters!"
Tenmei stepped out of the way allowing 'Dan' to walk over to the microphone in his place.
"Vlad? I thought mom said his name was Dan."
"There is a certain ring to Dan Phantom, mayhaps he took it as a alias some point in his life."
"Then why go by Vlad again?"
"I don't know. But we can find out."
"Ladies and gentlemen" the crowd focused their attention on Vlad "I'm not one for speeches so I will be short. I am a man who likes potential, sometimes it finds me, sometimes I find it, but either way I like to see to it that it lives up to it's full ability. Before me I see a fresh new batch of potential" Vlad eyed the siblings intently "and I like what I see."
After the welcoming ceremony the siblings reported to homeroom, Junior recognized their teacher from the opening ceremony she was an attractive older woman in glasses and tight colorful clothing. She had short blonde hair with cat ears and a tail.
"I guess the disguise policy is relaxed with the teachers."
Junior and his sister were sitting on opposing sides of the class room, Minnie on the left side of the class room next to it's window while Junior was sitting on the Right next to the door.
"Good Morning Class, I'm Miss Shizuka Nekonome."
"Good Morning Miss Nekonome" the class responded in a collective monotone.
"I am your home room teacher and as I'm sure you all know this is a school for monsters."
"We've been through this already" Junior mumbled to himself.
"Like it or not, humans currently rule the world," she continued "The purpose of this school is to teach how to coexist with humans. Because of this, all students are to stay in their human form. This will teach you how to stay disguised in the human world."
"For those of us who weren't at the opening ceremony" Junior again mumbled.
"But Miss Nekomone... your tail is showing."
For his trouble the student received a trio of overlapping x shaped scratch marks across his face.
"Anymore questions?"
"Not if you're the one answering them."
"Hey teach, wouldn't it be better if we just ate those puny humans? Except for the hot girls. I can think of better things to do to them."
Minnie's attention was drawn to the student to her right, a well muscled young man, long greasy hair, black eyes, and two silver piercings one in the eye and the other in his lip. He noticed Minnie and licked his lips at her with his disgustingly long snake like tongue.
"Well hello beautiful!"
Minnie cringed in disgust at the vulgar student.
"I would appreciate it if ye would cease speaking to me, your breath is as bad as your face and your vulgar attitude worst than either combined!"
Thoroughly insulted the student turned away facing the teacher while cringing and blushing furiously.
"You shouldn't do things like that. Every one here to the ends of their toes to the tops of their heads is a monster. Come to think of it you shouldn't do things like that to humans either, probationary student Saizou Komiya."
"Probationary student? I don't like the sound of that."
Junior was trying to get a better look at the vulgar student who was flirting with his sister when the classroom door slid open.
"Sorry I'm late..." someone said from the hallway "I got lost after the entrance ceremony."
"Oh that's fine. Just take a seat" Ms. Nekonome smiled.
"Ok, thanks" the pink haired girl said as she stepped into the room. As soon as Moka entered, every boy in the room went nuts.
"Who is she?"
"That hair… Those eyes…"
"She's so beautiful…"
Moka looked to her left and saw Junior, bad memories coming back to her in a flood she was immediately creep-ed out and all but leaped over to the other side of the classroom.
"Good Morrow Miss Akashiya."
"Minnie?"
Moka looked down and spotted Minnie sitting at the desk beside her.
"MINNIE!"
Moka squealed with joy, pouncing on the blushing Minnie and knocking her to the floor ending with putting her into a death hug.
"Ugh... Cease and Desist immediately!"
Before anyone had realized it Junior was standing over the two girls, and with his usual rough and tough bluntness separated the two of them before Moka cut off Minnie's oxygen supply.
"You alright sis?"
"I am fine brother."
Junior let go of his sister allowing her to slink back into her seat.
"Moka... isn't there something you'd like to say to my sister" Junior asked in a threatening tone?
"Hey that Jerk is threatening her!"
"Lets kill the punk!"
The rest of the male students got up, many of them donning claws or their muscles growing to grotesque disproportions as they prepared to clobber Junior. He gave his collective would be attackers one of his mother's infamous death glares along with a low not too subtle growl.
"I'm sorry, I think I was hearing things. Did one of you just say 'Lets kill the punk?'"
The student in the lead, and the one who uttered that 'lets kill the punk' comment gave a nervous twitch, looking Junior's death glare in the eye he was paralyzed with fear.
"I'm sorry Minnie..." Junior had already released Moka who was respectfully apologizing "I promise to know my own strength in the future."
"Tis alright, nay harm has been done."
*TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* *TAP*
The class looked forward to Miss Nekomone ruler in hand. "That's enough class, settle down."
The class unceremoniously returned to their seats, starting with Moka and ending with Junior.
"Now than as I was saying: Yokai Academy is surrounded by a special barrier that makes it effectively invisible to the outside world..." while Miss Nekomone went on about the barrier Saizou eyed Junior with burning hatred.
The rest of the day was boring as expected, it was the first day so the teachers were just giving a introductory speech about their lessons and such, Moka had been over joyed to have Minnie in all of her classes, significantly less joyed to have her big scary brother in all of them as well. But he preferred to keep his distance he stepped in on the occasion where someone had given his sister a unpleasant look or Moka had gotten too overly attached to her but his 'Evil Eye' usually ended any conflict before it started. He really couldn't give much of a opinion about the cafeteria food, before very recently he couldn't even eat let alone taste, Minnie made the recommendation that he order one of every thing on the menu so that he could get a generalized idea of what kinds of foods he likes.
Now that classes had ended for the day Moka was dragging Minnie along insisting that they explore the school grounds. Minnie however insisted on first stopping by the girls dormitory so that she could change out of the school uniform and into something that she wouldn't have to struggle with a on a constant basis to get into a comfortable position or be in without constant concern that someone was looking at her panties. Junior, deciding not to enter the girl's dormitory for many obvious reasons, found a particularly scary tree, apparently known as the monster tree, to sleep under and soon dozed off. Minnie and Moka soon found their respective rooms, much to the latter's joy as they were close together.
"Minnie are you having trouble?"
"Nay Moka..." Minnie emerged from her room, wearing her usual outfit "I simply wished to look my best."
Minnie took note of the fact that Moka had not opted to change as well.
"Were ye not going to change as well Moka Akashiya?"
"No, I like the uniform."
"Aye then. Let us go and get mine brother out of trouble shall we?"
"What do you mean?"
"There has always been one simple fact about mine brother..." *CRASH* *SMASH* *SMASH* *SLAM* *CRASH* "if you leave him alone long enough then he will always find trouble."
Junior was sleeping peacefully underneath the Monster Tree loud music once again uselessly blaring in his ears.
"Hey lover boy, I want a word with you...!" It was never a good thing to ignore someone like Saizou Komiya "Hey get up...!" he was gifted with immense brute strength and cursed with the stupidity to use it on everything in sight "I told you to get up!"
Saizou kicked Junior in the ribs sending him flying *CRASH* Junior landed on the other side of the wall separating the girl's lounge from the courtyard, a red headed girl sitting on the sofa who was previously doing crossword puzzles simply staring at Junior.
"Of course you do realize, this means war!"
*SMASH* door vs Foot, door doesn't win. Saizou walked into the dormitory looking for Junior.
"Where is he?!"
The girl pointed to where Junior was only to learn that he wasn't there anymore.
"He was just there I swear!"
Junior picked up a flower patterned vase from a stool *SMASH* the dirt from the vase settled, Saizou turned around to face Junior unharmed, the latter holding the broken vase in his hand. Saizou grabbed Junior by his arm and flipped him over *SLAM* Junior landed face up in front of the girl Saizou's grip firm on his arm.
"Miss I would recommend that you vacate the area, and find someone to prevent this fool from forcing me to kill him if you can."
The girl slowly nodded her head, before running away. Junior was thrown by Saizou *CRASH* Junior landed face first outside his face being dragged through the dirt by the momentum.
"Ouch!"
Junior got back up on his feet, standing face to face with Saizou.
"Would you mind telling me why your trying to kill me?"
"My name is Saizou Komiya! Future Boyfriend of Moka Akashiya!"
"This concerns me why?"
"Because for some reason she wants to hang out with a twig like you instead of a man like me!"
"Who are you calling a twig?"
Junior gave Saizou one of his 'evil eye' looks, it effectively unnerved him. Unfortunately Saizou was not the type to like being unnerved. Well unfortunate for Saizou anyway.
"I'm calling you a twig twerp!"
Saizou raise his finger to the point that it was just before Junior's nose.
"What are you going to do about it?"
Junior grabbed Saizou's finger and bent it backwards, nearly breaking it.
"Reap what you sow!"
It was warning, a command, and a death threat all delivered in a low growl, and Junior backed it up all the way. Juniors eyes began to take on a green and red tint turning pale and purple respectively. Suddenly Green Electrical energy flowed from Junior's body and into Saizou through his finger, electrocuting him and bringing him to his knee's, once Junior was sure Saizou was unconscious he observed his hand, still smoking from the energy and his eyes returning to normal.
"Interesting."
"I agree."
Junior looked over at the wrecked girl's dormitory and saw the source of that voice, another familiar face from the opening ceremony Miss Ririko Kagome, she has short light-colored hair cut in the shape of her head with circular glasses over her black eyes. She was wearing a white v-neck shirt over a black tight shirt with a wide collar that reveals some of her admittedly large cleavage and a dark skirt.
"Hello there, my you've been a naughty boy haven't you" said Ririko waving her finger playfully at Junior?
"He attacked me, I defended myself."
"Really? Oh Kasumi..." Ririko's playful voice brought out the red headed girl from earlier "was he defending himself?"
"Well first he got smashed through the wall so there's that but..." "But?" "He smashed that vase on top of that other guy's head, but he told me to go get you before one of them killed the other so..."
"I've heard enough, the two of you have been very naughty boys and need to be punished, so you're gonna march right down to the wood-shop class room, you're gonna bring back all the needed supplies, and your going to fix..." the wall of the girl's dormitory collapsed "make that rebuild my wall!"
"Yes Miss Kagome, what about him?"
"He'll join you as soon as he wakes up."
"Brother..." Junior looked pass Ririko and at the stairs and he saw Moka and his sister Minnie, the first looking at him with with mixed looks of shock and terror and the latter a look of pure and utter annoyance "honestly, every time I leave ye alone something gets destroyed!"
Minnie walked down the stairs and to her brother, fuming as she went along.
"Ye leave a trail everywhere thou go and tis made of corpses and craters!"
"Not everywhere Minnie."
"I do sense a pattern, no doubt thou have been shuffled off to the wood shop to acquire the supplies to begin repairing the dormitory, am I correct?"
With a slight groan Junior left for the wood-shop as Minnie predicted, the latter turned around to face the still terrified Moka.
"Art thou coming? Ye did say thou wanted to go see the school."
"I-I-I'll catch up. I f-f-forgot something up in my room."
Before Minnie could ask what she forgot Moka had ran up the stairs.
"I see, so she's like the rest of them then."
Minnie went to catch up with her brother, preferably before he leveled the Shop room, Vlad meanwhile was watching the events with interest.
"Another one? How interesting."
Mandy was walking through the castle, she was carrying a sleeping Manny, who had gained a normal skin tone and black colored hair, in her arms. Now that it was bed time she was in the middle of putting her youngest children to sleep. She re-entered the living room where she had last left Daniela to put her to bed with Manny.
"Daniela are you still in here?"
Instead of finding her youngest daughter like she expected she discovered that the room had no one in it, worst yet it was also missing her crystal ball, in it's place was a note reading 'Going to help big Brother, be back in the morning'.
"Great... it's going to be one of those nights."
Mandy walked out of the room and took immediately action, calling up one of her most trusted minions on her hell-phone for aid.
"Charles I need you to put Manny to bed, I'm leaving him in the living room."
"Right away mistress, will there be anything else?"
"I need Grim's cloak and Scythe 2.0 as well, prep the usual arsenal too, have one of the guards bring them to the front door."
"Right away Mistress."
Mandy close the phone and left Manny asleep in a chair.
"I'm getting too old for this."
*BANG* *BANG* *BANG* Junior lined up another another nail and wound up the hammer *BANG* *BANG* *BANG* Ririko was sitting in a lounge chair supervising Junior working on the wall.
"My you're quite handy with your hands aren't you."
"Thanks, I've had practice, as you no doubt overheard from my sister I've spent a lot of time rebuilding things."
"Oh I wasn't talking about your work..."
Junior responded to that statement with a shudder and cringe.
"I would appreciate it if you kept comments like those to yourself Miss Kagome, and on the subject..." Junior walked over to the edge of the scaffolding and looked down at Ririko "where the hell is what's his name anyway?"
"The Chairman has already decided on Saizou's punishment, let it be known that it will be severe."
"I'm not concerned about Saizou being punished, I don't want to do all this work by myself!"
"And you won't be; Mr. Masters insisted on getting his men to do the bulk of the work, your punishment is to do the frame work, which by the way is nearly completed. Now I'm going to go get something to drink for myself and my big strong handyman."
Junior gave a groan of discomfort, this was shaping up to be a long year.
"What does Dan want with me? He does demolition not construction."
While Ririko was leaving Vlad looked around from the Monster Tree to see Junior working on the building.
"Good now I got a chance to talk to him..." "Hey you!" "or not."
Vlad looked over to see Saizou walk up to Junior.
"This will not end well."
Moka was sitting on her bed in her room, looking scared as she was curled into fetal position.
"What are you?"
She heard a knock on the door, she walked over and opened it and saw Minnie on the other side.
"May I come in?"
Minnie shook a rack of tomato juice cans in front of the door.
"I brought snacks."
Within minuets the two girls were sitting on Moka's bed, on their collective third can of of Tomato juice.
"So your brother..." "Thou art scared of him." "No its not it's just..." "Moka, tis alright to admit that thou art scared I most assure you. tis your nature... tis in the nature of all living things to be scared of him, even I once in a while."
Moka was concerned now, after all here we have the one person in the world who Junior actually seems to give a damn about and even she was scared of him.
"Even you?"
"Aye, I have seen him on the worst..."
An image briefly passed through her mind of a giant Nergal beast carrying a massive scythe
"and the best..."
a image of white bone and red skin holding one another in embrace
"days of his life. When my brother snaps, he is unforgiving."
"What do you mean?"
"Have you ever heard of the phrase 'Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me'?"
Moka nodded, concern growing, another flashback Junior in skeletal form was tied up between the goal posts of a football field while several large stones were thrown at him.
"Tis not a saying for mine brother, all his life he has been feared, fear led to hate, hate led to violence, and my brother could not fight back..."
Another flashback: a younger Junior was yelling as his sister
"All he could do is hate in return. He does not use violence as a first alternative ye understand, but when he is pushed to it, he's quite good at it.
Moka stared at Minnie for a moment, awestruck "he's just like me."
Minnie gave Moka a curious look as she explained.
"I… I actually went to human schools before, but I just couldn't make friends there because they thought I was different. They're nothing but a race of cruel and heartless people!"
Minnie gave Moka a curious look.
"I see, would say you that ye hate humans Moka Akashiya?"
Moka nodded her head in shame.
"Tis ok Moka. People fear the unknown, and as I said fear leads to hatred. If thou art willing to help me understand ye and I'll help ye understand the humans that ye hate and fear so."
"How would you know?"
"I am human, in part, my mother was human, once, I think. Tis hard to explain."
Now Moka was shocked, Minnie the kindest sweetest person she ever met, was one of those horrible humans that she despised so much.
"You're... human?"
"In part as I said, while mine mother is, or was, human..." Minnie showed her hand which she transforming into a mass of black tentacles, green teeth and green eyes "mine father is another matter."
"What are you?"
Minnie gave a sigh returning her hand to normal.
"Truthfully, I doth not know, once I could be counted among the ones known as the Nergals. Now I don't know."
"What do you mean?"
"That is a secret to be kept between myself and mine brother, it t'was not a pleasant experience."
"Hey you!"
Minnie and Moka looked down through the window seeing Saizou walking through the court yard.
"What does that fool want now!?"
Down in the court yard Saizou confronted Junior.
"I want a word with you, you god-damn freak!"
"I want none with you, get out of my sight before you make me kill you!"
*BANG* *BANG* *BANG* "Your name's Junior right..." *BANG* *BANG* *BANG* "bit of a odd name ain't it?" *BANG* *BANG* *BANG*
"A friend of mine who use to go to school in the Underworld knew someone by that name..." *BANG* *BANG* *BANG* "He was a bit of a Mommy's boy, still knew how to lay down like a dog and take his beating like a man..." *BANG* *BANG* *BANG* "funny thing is, I think he's you."
Minnie was almost in tears, silently praying that Junior wouldn't so foolish to fall for such a reckless and stupid taunt.
"Laughable I'd say."
Minnie exhaled a breath that she was unknowingly holding.
"If you came here to apologize for bush whacking me you'll have to do better then bad jokes."
Saizou's eye twitched furiously as his rage boiled, none the less he managed to maintain his air of mockery and supposed superiority.
"Something else I heard, that Junior's true form is a weak ass skeleton, kind of like another Skinny ass bastard I know of."
"You're not talking about me are you?"
"As a matter o'fact I am!"
"Excuse me for not making steroids part of my morning balanced breakfast."
Junior jumped down to ground level, and Minnie unknowingly held her breath again.
"Good you got some fight in you now..." Saizou released his true form, tripling his already massive height, hardening his skin and bony protrusions growing through forming a insect like set of armor.
"Now release your true form so that we can have a proper fight!"
Minnie cringed in disgust at the hulking grotesque beast.
"What is that thing!?"
"A Orc..." Minnie looked around for the source of the admittedly cute sounding voice.
"Up here."
Minnie looked up and saw a bat hanging upside down from the roof, she held out her finger and allowed him to perch on it. The creature only slightly resembled a bat, it more accurately resembled a hamster with bat wings, guess there is something small and cute that lives on the school grounds after all.
Moka recognized it immediately.
"Kou?"
"Ye know this creature?"
"It's Kou, my little sister's pet Bat."
"Hello Moka-San" said the Bat waving a wing!
"How'd you get here?"
"In your bag, you packed me by mistake."
"Ye said that... thing down there is a Orc, some more details would be appreciated orange one."
"Orc's are part of the larger sub-group known as Monstrels, hybrid monsters whose traits from their pure blooded ancestors are almost unrecognizable. Orc's are A-Ranked Monstrels, which usually means big muscles and small brains."
Minnie had become sternly determined, she would defeat this fool and spare her brother further abuse from the school. She prepared to jump out the window after him but Junior spotted her, and he pointed back into the window telling her to stay put, reluctantly following his orders.
"I sure hope ye know what thou art doing brother."
That Issue resolved Junior picked up another board before climbing the scaffolding.
*BANG* *BANG* *BANG* "What the hell are you doing? Change into your true form so that we can end this!"
"Let me make something clear to you, I want nothing to do with you and you want nothing to do with me. Now get out of my sight before I get you out of my sight!"
Now Saizou was furious, who the hell did this guy think he was? This scrawny, puny, cowardly, little punk had the balls to insult him!? HIM!
"I'm going to TEAR YOU APART!"
Junior responded with a sigh, his plan to keep Saizou talking until Ririko got back was falling apart. He needed a plan B preferably one that didn't involve Ririko giving him more detention for clobbering Saizou.
"Big Brother!"
Junior whipped around to face the source of the voice, young, soft spoken, accent yet to fully develop, some difficulty pronouncing certain words, he recognized it in an instant. Standing by the 'Monster tree' was Daniela, his youngest sister holding their mother's crystal ball.
"Daniela!? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!?"
"Perfect, I was getting tired of your stuck up attitude!"
Saizou picked Daniela up by the collar of her dress.
"Now fight me or..."
Saizou was silenced by a hammer to the face, blood gushing from his mouth as the sharp end of the hammer dug in.
"Reap what you sow!"
Junior yanked on the hammer.
*PAINED ROAR* Junior grabbed his sister and ran up the tree and jumped back off and into Moka's bedroom window, carrying Daniela in her blood stained dressed with him as Minnie and Moka looked Junior in his blood covered face.
"Take her and keep her safe."
Minnie took her sister in his arms while Junior turned around in the window he gave some free advice.
"If you're squeamish vampire then close your curtains."
Junior jumped out the window landing on the scaffolding before jumping again to ground level.
"What did he mean by that?"
"Tis very simple, he intends to kill the Orc."
Moka became horror struck as Minnie continued to explain.
"Mine brother has fought and defeated that uncouth abomination before and he came back for a fight, and this time around when mine brother didn't give him what he wanted he threatened a member of our family to make him fight, so for the sake of what's dear to him mine brother intends to make sure that this fool will not threaten our family again."
Minnie put Daniela on Moka's bed.
"Keep her safe."
Minnie walked to and opened the door of the room.
"What are you doing?"
"Mine brother fights when he believes tis what's best for whats dear to him, he always keeps our safety in mind, now tis mine brother who is at risk, and I intend to stop him from doing something that in the future in a moment of weakness he may briefly regret."
Minnie closed the door on her way out, leaving Moka once again awestruck.
*THUD* Junior landed on the ground bloodied hammer in hand.
"BASTARD, BASTARD, BASTAAAARRRD!"
Saizou was wildly swinging his left arm around in front of him while he used his other hand to retain at least some of the blood gushing from his face.
"I'M GONNA KILL YOU IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO I WILL RIP YOU TO SHREDS WITH MY BARE HANDS!"
Junior gave a slight grin as his white eye turned no less than a brilliant bright green as his other one turned a dark red crimson.
"We both know that isn't going to happen."
Saizou rushed Junior in a blind charge, Junior ducked and dodged, stabbing out one of the knee's with the hammer.
Saizou countered with a crushing swing, Junior not only grabbed the arm but he also twisted it *SNAP* Junior followed up the counter attack by flipping Saizou over *SLAM* Finally Junior pinned Saizou down with his foot and raised his hammer for the death blow.
"Just remember, you brought this on yourself."
"STOP!"
Junior looked over to see his sister angrily glaring at him.
"Stop what..." Junior walked off of Saizou confronting his sister face to face "By stop do you mean don't kill this ignoramus punk? He threatened to kill Daniela! If I don't kill him now he's going to keep coming after us! And he will never stop! I'm ending this, RIGHT NOW!"
Junior breathed in and out a few times venting his anger.
"Is that it brother?"
"Yah that's it, you going to stop me?"
A Nergal made rapier fell out of Minnie's sleeve "If I have to."
Kou flew down between the two siblings, continuing to provide encyclopedic knowledge.
"Nergal a creature dating back to ancient Sumeria whose primary ability was shape-shifting. In addition to being able to mimic the appearance of any living creature they can also create any weapon they can imagine from their bodies. One was even worshiped as a god."
*SMACK* "I already know what my sister is you screwy bat!"
With Kou now on the ground Junior could return to dealing with his sister.
"Sorry you feel that way..." *BAM* Minnie was sent flying, smashed through all of Junior's hard work, several walls inside the girl's dormitory, and sent her flying out the other side dropping her sword in the courtyard. Junior picked the sword up and prepared to stab the unconscious Saizou with it.
"Restrain him!"
Suddenly the handle of the Rapier turned into a cuff, wrapping itself tightly around Junior's arm the blade turned into a drill tipped whip and dug into the ground, pinning Junior by his wrist to the ground. Junior turned to face Minnie, whom by now had gotten back on her feet and was approaching Junior.
"End this brother, before one of us does something we'll both regret!"
"The only one with regrets here is going to be you!"
Junior pulled on his arm, ripping the whip out of the ground and freeing himself from being pinned.
He Whipped his former shackle at Minnie, wrapping it around her arm in the process.
"Retract!"
The whip pierced Minnie's skin, burrowing into her body and dragging Junior along for the ride.
Rather than resist Junior jumped forward, adding the momentum of the whip to his punch *SMASH* Minnie left a rather large dent in the floor when she hit the ground, Junior followed it up with pinning her to a wall.
"Why are you defending him?! He tried to kill Daniela!"
"Ye have a lot of regrets piling up brother, if you don't stop you'll go insane!"
"Regrets!? You want to talk to me about regrets!? I'm nothing but a murderer Minnie! A Filthy disgusting Murderer! I've killed thousands of innocent people in cold blood! Men, Women, Children, Young, Old, Soldiers, Martyrs, Terrorists, Good and Bad! So why the name of god would I ever regret killing him of all people!?"
"Big Brother..." a look of surprise briefly donned Junior's features, he looked to the stairs where he saw Daniela holding Moka's hand.
"Are you okay?"
Confusion mixed into Junior's anger, he gripped his head as he felt a headache coming on.
"What are you doing here!?"
"Mommy said Big Brother was sick so I came to make him better."
"Why are you stopping? You're so close! Do you remember what happens when you refuse to kill?"
Now Junior's head was throbbing, he grabbed his head with both hands as he slowly backed away, releasing Minnie in the process who was now becoming concerned for her brother.
"Brother art thou okay?"
"Stay away from me!"
Junior backed away slowly, gripping his head which was now in intense pain. Minnie went to her brother's side but he pushed her away
"Stay... away... fr...!" *PAINED ROAR*
Junior began swinging his arm around wildly while he use his other one to grip his head, as if he were trying to hit some invisible enemy.
"What do You want from me!?"
"I want you to do your damn job!"
Junior stumbled back through the front door, before Minnie could try to comfort her brother again he had stumbled outside, unfortunately Saizou was now awake.
"Brother look out!"
Before he could react to her warning Saizou used his remaining limb to whack Junior in the head, sending it flying.
"BROTHER!"
Minnie ran after the rolling head down the path, catching up with it she cradled it in her arms.
"Brother! Art thou alright!?"
It did not look good, Junior's jaw was slack, his tongue hung loose, and his eyes lifeless. Make no mistake Junior lost his head before, back when he was a skeleton and already dead, but this was the first time he had lost it while human and alive, and by the looks of things it was making all the difference. Moka also showed great concern, she admitted that she didn't know or even like Junior very well, but still that was... disturbing, and Minnie was brought to tears which only strengthened the depressing atmosphere. Saizou limped to the siblings, and realizing what he was doing Moka stepped in his way.
"I'm not going to let you hurt them anymore!"
Saizou raise his arm to strike Moka away, she cringed her eyes closed as the arm came down on her *CRUNCH* slightly nervous, Moka opened one eye to see Saizou's arm in the jaws of a giant serpentine Black Beast, his once good arm now left a bloodied mess, following the creature she discovered it was lined with rows of sharp green teeth, bright green eyes, and eventually leading to Minnie, sticking out of her back.
"Minnie...?"
"Get him out of my sight!"
Moka couldn't quite understand what Minnie was saying, her voice sounded distorted, unrecognizable even, she couldn't even begin to understand what she just said if she started now and tried for a hundred years. What ever she said the beast did it, the creature coiled around itself and flung Saizou over the forest, crashing into the forest. Minnie slowly got up, reabsorbing the creature into herself, she took a look at Moka with cold blank eyes.
"Minnie... are you alright?"
"O-O-Of course... he's survived worst than this... I shall show you."
Minnie slowly walked over to her brother's body carrying his head, she got down on her knees and placed the head on the body, unfortunately it did not move even after she used her Nergal abilities to staple it on.
"Minnie... I don't think he's..."
"Don't be so ridiculous... come on brother wake up..." a tear ran down Minnie's cheek and fell onto Junior's lifeless face "Please, please, please wake up!"
Minnie picked up Junior's lifeless body and hugged it tightly, crying into his shoulder as realization slowly sank in. At this Daniela ran into the courtyard.
"I can help big brother watch!"
Daniela produced a green neon energy field around her older siblings, Junior absorbed the energy into himself as his neck wound healed.
"See all better."
Junior may appear to be physically alright but he wasn't talking or moving.
"Brother art thou..." *CRACKLE* Junior's body slowly twitched to life *SNAP* *SNAP* *SNAP* Minnie released he grasp on her brother as he slowly stood up.
"Brother I knew ye would be okay!"
Minnie put her brother into a second death hug.
"I was so worried about ye! Don't ever worry me like that again!"
Junior began breathing heavy, there was something ghostly about it, down right raspy in fact, if it wasn't for the fact that she knows her brother better then that she'd say it was sinister even. She also felt something squishy and gooey, and releasing Junior from her death hug she realized that he, and now her, were both covered in goo.
"Sister dearest, what atrocious slime have ye doused us in?"
"That never came up before..."
As it turned out there was a good reason why Daniela didn't recognize the slime, since it wasn't her who made it, it was in fact coming from Junior, literary pouring from his mouth like a waterfall.
"Brother? Art thou alright?"
A green electrical spark flew between Junior's teeth, biting down on them a ear piercing explosion sounded throughout the academy, the resulting burst of energy shot directly into the sky in the form of green light, from the bus stop Mandy wearing the familiar cloak of the Grim Reaper and carrying a high-tech futuristic looking scythe looked at the explosion, a rather blunt expression on her face.
"Well at lease I know where one of my children is."
While Mandy walked to the girl's dormitory the energy bolt that had consumed Junior had disappeared. However in it's place Junior stood wholly changed, his entire body was covered in neon green bandages in a bizarre raggedy cloak and his head a skull alight with green fire.
"Brother...?"
Review response:
Coldblue: I appreciate your constructive criticism, I wasn't sure how to write it, I've re-posted the chapter with your consideration in mind, and I will be explaining to you the gaps in the story you were talking about, without giving the story away that is. First off Junior is not quick to trust for a reason, a very good reason in fact, he made the mistake of trusting Lock, Shock and Barrel and look at where that got him? Second off Junior now being a bad-ass is a direct result of Minnie's memories and experience, as a result he is now well versed in fencing and archery as well as her graceful dancing abilities, and while he has no real taste for being a ballerina the skill set does easily translate into agile and fast-pace fighting as Minnie already demonstrated.
Thirdly the "Mandy Glare" as you put it is a direct result of all the abuse he receives in school, he already mentioned that people constantly try to kill him, and being Mandy's son he's developed his own dark aura though not in Mandy's league it still scares the crap out of people. Fourthly in regards to the Angst personality the reasons behind that will be explained in the next chapter, which I'm planning on posting this coming Monday. In regards to Minnie, several years back Junior gave her back her powers, at a cost which is the point behind her eye-patch, after it became clear to him that he couldn't control them. As for her relationship with Moka Minnie's a good judge of character, she isn't easily fooled and is quick to trust, as for the Yuri if that refers to a lesbian relationship I'm still exploring that.
I will be keeping first person point of view to a minimum, I can assure you as for your questions: Yes Mimi will be appearing in the story and will be a integral character. No Junior no longer has Nergal powers of his own but a occasional scythe provided by Minnie is very useful. As I mentioned Vlad's company is updating the school's technology, high speed internet, increased band width, and while he's here he's seeing if anything interesting pops up. I'm debating doing another story set between the gaps of Grim tales this story and it's various flash backs. I will consult the other authors I can assure you thank-you for dropping their names.
Nightmaster000: As I already Mentioned Mimi will be appearing in the story as a main character, I'm debating including Chi pending what I learn about her from the comics. The story will primarily be Junior x Mimi with occasional harem.
Cross177: No I doubt that Moka would recognize Mandy, she spent the bulk of her life thus far in the human world where word of the underworld barely reaches, Inner Moka might barely recognize her but I plan on making that a little difficult. How many people do you recognize from when you were six years old? More to the point how many people do you recognize that you've never even seen before?