Chapter 1
So it was just a normal day, went to school, hung out with friends, and then went to bed after doing homework. Now just add youkai into all of these and you have a normal day for Aono Tsukune, plus having his blood sucked from a vampire, Akashiya Moka, the school's beauty and vampire.
She is beautiful, smart, a little naïve, and she loves Tsukune, even though he is a normal human, now ghoul. Tsukune doesn't know why she loves him, though he doesn't know why all of his friends are youkai and he is the only human, is he still human or a ghoul?
Anyway, he thinks of this as a normal day, get his blood sucked by Moka, get smothered by Kurumu, the succubus, find out that Mizore is hiding behind a bush, the yuki onna, and watch as Yukari, the witch, makes a bronze basin hit Kurumu over the head for suffocating Tsukune.
But even through all this madness, Tsukune still thinks of this as a normal day. But that night was different than others, abnormal you can say.
It started as a normal day, but as Tsukune was trying to fall asleep he heard a loud explosion outside.
"Fights don't usually happen at night. Nor do they end with an explosion." Tsukune thought as he got dressed and went outside. He then saw a giant crater in the grounds outside the dorm. "That shouldn't have caused an explosion." Tsukune thought with a panic as he rushed to find out what happened.
Tsukune rushed out to find that nobody was outside, even after that noise. Tsukune looked inside and saw a young girl was inside the crater. Acting on instinct Tsukune rushed in and pulled her out of her resting place.
"Are you okay?" Tsukune said, but then he realized that his question was utterly foolish, she can't be okay after that! "What happened?"
"…" The girl didn't open her eyes. Tsukune then felt her pulse, it was slow, and he then noticed all the wounds on her.
"Damn." Tsukune then put his ear to her chest to try to hear her heart beat, it was faint. Tsukune the lifted her, just noticing she was naked, and tried not to look at her until they got to the hospital.
Tsukune was waiting outside of her room when he noticed the doctor come out of the room. "Don't worry, she's fine. A little wounded but fine, just don't push her too much." The doctor said laughing.
"I-I wouldn't do anything like that!" Tsukune said.
"Sure thing, Harem King." The doctor said, laughing as he left.
"Where do people hear things like that?" Tsukune asked himself as he went inside.
Tsukune walked in the room and saw the girl in her bed, she looked like an angel. She was one of the most beautiful girls he ever saw, not like Kurumu, nor Mizore, not even like Moka, who was also very beautiful. They are all beautiful in their own way.
Tsukune took a chair by her bed and sat there, looking at her, she had long golden hair, and a face that not even the best artist could do justice for when drawing. She was beautiful, she was an angel.
Tsukune then brushed some hair off her face and thought to himself. "What would I do if Moka-san saw this? Moka-san would probably pretend it doesn't bother her, but the vampire Moka-san…would probably kill me." Tsukune thought grimly.
"W-Who are you?" a frightened voice asked him.
"You're awake?" Tsukune asked, being as calm as he could, gave her a smile. "I'm glad you're okay, how are your wounds?"
"My…wounds?" The girl then lifter her shirt, making Tsukune blush, thankfully she covered her breasts.
To Tsukune's surprise, not a wound was there, not even a scar was left on her. "W-What? How did that happen? Those wounds seemed almost fatal, yet it healed in just half an hour?!"
"Was there wounds here, I don't remember any." The girl said curiously, and then she blushed. "Did you do anything to me?"
"W-What?! No! I-I didn't do anything!!!" Tsukune said. "Inner Moka would kill me."
There was silence. "Are you homosexual?"
"W-Where did that come from? No!" Tsukune said desperately.
"Then you have no interest in the female body?" The girl asked, looking radiant.
"N-No… It's just…I…never mind." Tsukune then let his head hit his hands on his lap. "This isn't turning out too well."
"You're really cute when you do that." Tsukune looked up and saw the girl right in front of him.
"Really?" Tsukune asked, taken back. "Not really." Tsukune said scratching the back of his head.
"No, it's true." She then gave a big yawn.
"You must be tired." Tsukune said with a smile. "Go to sleep."
"Yes." She then straightened up. "What happened?"
"What do you mean?" Tsukune asked, puzzled.
"I don't remember how I got here. I barely remember anything else." The girl said cutely.
"You fell from the sky, I think, and hit the ground making a giant crater, I'm surprised that you're alive after that. I found you and took you to the hospital." Tsukune said quickly.
"So…you saw me…naked." The girl blushed.
"W-Well I-I-I-I d-d-d-did…kind of see you naked." Tsukune said stuttering. "I-I'm sorry, it's just that you…" Tsukune was cut off by her soft lips.
"Thank you for helping me. I wish I could do more for you." The girl said sweetly.
But only one thought was being processed through Tsukune's mind. "S-She kissed me."
"Good night." The girl then went into bed and went to sleep.
Tsukune chuckled and went to the door. "She must be tired. I better leave."
"Where you going?" Tsukune stopped as he heard her voice.
"I was just going too my room to sleep." Tsukune said in a confused voice, and then he smiled. "Do you need me to get something?"
"Would you please stay by my side? I would be worried if I woke up and saw that you weren't there." The girl said with fear in her voice.
Tsukune thought about it for a moment, but then went to the chair. "I guess it's my duty to help you. So I'll stay as long as you need me." Tsukune sat down and patted her head. "I will still be here if you need me. Whenever you need me, I will be there to help. Now go to sleep."
The girl sank back in her bed. "What's your name, knight?"
Tsukune chuckled a little. "I'm Aono Tsukune, nice to meet you."
"I don't remember who I am, nice to meet you." She said imitating Tsukune.
"Then we should think of a name for you." Tsukune scratched his head. "I got it! Manami. How does that sound?"
"Thank…you." She said as sleep took her.
"Goodnight Manami-chan." Tsukune then sat back in his chair. "I hope Moka-san doesn't hear about this, she'll probably misunderstand. And I don't want to go there." Tsukune then relaxed as he waited for the sun to rise.
"I need to get some sleep, but I can't. I have to make sure she is okay, but I can't do anything half asleep." Tsukune let his head hang. "Maybe I should have taken Uncle Ajax's discipline training. He's a master of almost every style of fighting there is, and he's taught for a couple years and has already made head coach, teacher, for his kendo dojo. He might have given me some skills to survive off of in this school."
Tsukune gave a deep sigh and left his seat to look out the window.
"But I'm still glad I went to this school. If I didn't meet them, life wouldn't have been any fun, and I wouldn't have made any good friends." Tsukune's thoughts drifted to his friends, then to Moka. "I couldn't bear to live without you."
Tsukune's thoughts were interrupted by crying, and it came from Manami. "Sorin, please…please don't die." Tsukune saw her crying, her body was trembling, and her body temperature was dropping quickly. "Sorin, please, I-I… Sorin!" Tsukune then held her hand.
"Damn, what can I do, I can't help her. Why is she going through so much pain, this better be one of the god's idea of a joke!" Tsukune then diverted his attention back to Manami. "Come on! I have to help her!" He then tried focused on her, and he felt her pulse, every beat off her heart was a loud thump in his ears. He felt everything she felt, he could feel her fear, her distress, and her sorrow. He took those feelings and took into himself, trying to purge her of negative energy.
He kept at it until he couldn't feel the pain from her anymore, and she went into a calm sleep. But Tsukune knew this was different. He could remember things that happened in her past that she couldn't. The memories were vivid. He saw one person, he should have been Sorin. He was holding his arms out and his eyes were solid red.
"I have given you Twilight's Advent. But the only way for you to use it to its full capacity is for you to kill me." He smiled. "Let me die."
Manami rushed up to him. "Please, Sorin! I can't kill you!"
"It's your duty; I was a Shadow Sage, evil. I need to die, now!" Sorin yelled and Manami clung to him.
"I can't!" She screamed.
Tsukune was then brought out of the dream and looked around. The sun was shining and his head was on Manami's lap.
"Why didn't you tell me you were a Shinning Sage?" Manami asked.
"A…what?" Tsukune asked, lifting his head, but was stopped as she pushed him back down.
"I don't know, but I just remember something called a Shinning Sage." She said curiously.
"Really? Well…I better get to school." Tsukune said as he got up. "See you later Manami-chan."
(During class)
The teacher was lecturing, but Tsukune wasn't listening to the lecture. "What happened? Was Sorin her boyfriend or something? Is he still alive? Or was that all just a dream?" Tsukune shook his head. "What happened to everyone, I haven't seen them all morning and they aren't in class. What happened?"
"We also have a new student today." Nekonome-sensei said. "Please come inside."
A girl came inside. "Hello, I'm Manami, nice to meet you." Manami bowed.
But Tsukune was speechless. "She's now in my class. Things couldn't get anymore weird." Tsukune let his head hit the table. "I hope she doesn't get hurt." Tsukune then tried to make him invisible for the rest of the class.
(At Lunch)
"Aono-san, where's your harem?" A student named Raijin asked Tsukune during lunch.
"What do you mean?" Tsukune asked.
"I mean that those girls that follow you everywhere, what were their names?" Raijin thought for a moment. "The succubus Kurono Kurumu, the yuki onna Shirayuki Mizore, the little witch Sendo Yukari, the older witch Toujo Ruby, and the vampire Akashiya Moka. Correct?" Raijin asked.
"Those are their names." Tsukune said nervously.
"Oh, I can't forget her other personality, the other Akashiya Moka. Is she part of the harem too?" Raijin asked in an uncaring voice.
"I-I wouldn't think so." Tsukune said, embarrassed.
"Really?" He shrugged. "Ask her."
"Huh?"
"Ask her if she loves you." Raijin said that as if it was nothing. "Or you can try reading her reactions."
"What do you mean?" Tsukune asked.
"People act a special way when dealing with the person they love, whether consciously or subconsciously. They might be rougher with you, they might be shy, or they might just act out of character. Read her actions and compare them to her actions with other people." Raijin said.
"It's hard to do that." Tsukune said.
"Then look in her eyes. It is said that when you look into someone's eyes you are looking into their soul. Try looking into her soul." Raijin said.
"But…" Tsukune said.
"The Chairman wanted me to get you. Follow." Raijin turned around and left, expecting Tsukune to follow him.
"Well, it must be important. Why didn't he send Ruby-san to get me?" Tsukune just followed him. "I hope everyone is okay, maybe I'll go check their rooms."
They arrived by the Chairman's door. "Don't die." Tsukune was about to respond, but he was thrown into the room before he could say anything.
"Aono-kun. So you arrived." Tsukune looked to see that they were standing in Paradise.
"So, umm…Board Chairman…why are we here?" Tsukune asked, not wanting to believe his imagination.
"Prepare yourself." The Exorcist said. Then the Exorcist held out the Rosario of Judgment and started praying.
"Damn." Tsukune then ran, looking for an exit.
"It's no use Aono-kun." A bolt of light just flew past Tsukune. "Fight."
Tsukune had to dodge many more bolts, but he couldn't see an opening, neither in the Exorcist's moves, nor in Paradise. Tsukune then tried to come up with a plan.
"Okay, I can't get close, how can I fight him like this? Unlike fighting Inner Moka, the Exorcist is a range fighter; I have no experience fighting a range fighter." Tsukune took in his environment. There were trees, rocks, it had an ocean. "None of these things would help with fighting, the Exorcist is not around anything, only a rocky territory, and all I can do is punch people. That's it!" Tsukune looked at the Exorcist's attacks and saw that there was a five second gap between attacks; that is where he strikes.
Tsukune kept dodging, slowly getting closer to the Exorcist. The attack just left the Rosario and Tsukune moved and was in a crouch. "Hope this works." Tsukune the slammed his fist diagonally into the ground, sending rocks flying at the Exorcist who couldn't dodge this attack.
"Very clever." Just as the rocks were going to hit him, a barrier went up around him. "But don't forget, this Rosario has the ability to create barriers. But very good, you could count the exact timing, and learn to expand on the arts you learned here. Not just concentrate, but eject your youkai that distance, very good." The Exorcist mused. "But that isn't good enough."
The Exorcist then fired light bolts at much higher speeds, Tsukune could barely see them, let alone dodge. But this wasn't enough for the Exorcist; he then started trying to create barriers around Tsukune while sending those light bolts at a hundred miles per hour. Tsukune gave up trying to dodge the bolts completely and settled for not letting them fatally wound him.
"Why is he fighting me? Did I do something wrong?" But Tsukune didn't have time to think about this between dodging the barrage of attacks and trying to think of a strategy. "I don't have time to stop; all I can do is dodge until he hits me." The trees around Tsukune were destroyed by the bolts, and there was no place to hide. "Maybe I should start making a will? It's but a few moments until I die, and he has already shown that he can send the bolt through water."
Tsukune tried to keep dodging, but he tripped. Tsukune was hit by the bolt. It felt like he was being thrown into the sun, it singed every cell in his body, it was cooking him alive, and it was death.
"You idiot. Must you be saved all the time? Grow some strength, but that is what he wanted." A voice told Tsukune.
"Who…Who is this?" Tsukune asked weakly.
"A friend, the one that has been holding in your…gift. We probably will be talking later, but for now use that gift well." The voice said. "Good luck, mage."
(Narrator)
There was a massive release of youki, and standing in the middle of it was Aono Tsukune, but different. He didn't look like the vampire Tsukune, the one that he was transformed into so many times, nor was he the ghoul, the product of those several transformations. He didn't change except he gained crystal blue eyes, instead of his brown ones. He had an aura that could easily match any vampire though, almost Inner Moka.
The blue eyed man stepped forward. By this time, the Exorcist stopped firing light bolts and stopped creating barriers. "So this is what you would become. Excellent. Come, show what you can do, Shinning Mage." The Exorcist fired off some bolts, but as they were going to hit Tsukune, they disappeared. Tsukune held out his hand and those same bolts went flying at the Exorcist. The Exorcist diverted the bolts, but was then face to face with a bolt of pressurized wind.
The Exorcist was blown back by the attack. But Tsukune gave no quarter; he then created blades of winds and had then strike. The Exorcist disappeared right as they were about to hit.
As the blue-eyed man looked around to find the elusive Exorcist, the Exorcist appeared behind Tsukune and had a hand to the back of his neck. "This worked out better than I hoped." He struck a pressure point in the student and the student fell to the ground unconscious. "He even proved a result as good as Akashiya-san." He turned around. "Right Ajax-san, King of the Humans."
"Yes, Tsukune did well. Let see how this turns out, the boy gifted by the Lord of the Sun and the Lady of the Moon." Ajax, Human King said to the Exorcist.
The Exorcist and Human King walked away. "Don't die, boy." The Bus Driver said, letting out some smoke from his cigar.
"That will kill you eventually. I suggest you stop." The Human King said to the Bus driver.
"We aren't as weak as you humans, boy." The Bus driver said, puffing smoke out at the young king.
"That reeks." The young king said as he waved his hand around in an attempt to blow the smoke away, causing the older two too laugh.
"Let's go." The Exorcist said, disappearing into the night, with the Bus driver following him.
"I wish that they would stop forgetting that I'm human." The Human King said, clearly irritated, as he walked into the night.
I guess no one was expecting to hear from me, but I came back. Sorry.
I'm sorry if the Exorcist's powers were wierd, but I couldn't think of anything else for him, and he is one of the Three Hades Kings, he must be very powerful, though he did get badly injured.
Well, I'm going to put all the characters in, most, so please don't complain, it goes in order.
See you later!
