Here's chapter one! Enjoy~! I don't own Mermaid Melody or Rosario + Vampire.

Chapter One

You know how I said that my family never knew the truth? Well, after my middle school graduation, my father said that he saw the markings on my neck that day and kept it secret from my family. He had suspected that I was a vampire and got me enrolled into a school someone had recommended for me, Yokai Academy. Apparently, it was a school built exclusively for monsters.

I tried to tell Dad that the vampire who bit me didn't turn me into a vampire, but he wouldn't listen. That's why I'm now on a bus, heading to Yokai Academy, telling the incredibly-creepy bus driver what happened to me. I thought I could, since I had nothing better to do.

"Yeesh...attacked by a vampire, eh? I won't tell anyone about what you told me, but keep your lips sealed for anyone else. I'll tell you now that one of the rules are that you can't reveal what you are. Got it?" he responded to my story.

I nodded in agreement.

"Good. Oh, we're here," he said.

The bus stopped, and I got off. While the bus left, I looked at the scenery around me. A cliff leading down to a sea of blood. Creepy. A forest of dead trees. Creepy. The school, which the forest leads to. Creepy.

Yup. The perfect school for monsters.

I started walking down the woods toward the school. All of a sudden, a thought came to my mind.

What if I ran into the vampire girl again here? How should I react around her?

As these questions ran through my mind, I suddenly heard a voice from behind me.

"Watch out! Watch out! Watch- AAAAAH!"

Suddenly, something crashed into me. I faceplanted onto the ground. I was struggling to get up.

"Jesus...what the hell was th-?!" I started to mumble, but then, I felt something...soft.

I was touching someone's thighs.

I looked up.

I was touching a girl's thighs.

I quickly removed my hand from her thighs and used both hands to cover my nose, which was close to bleeding.

"Oh, I'm very sorry. I was just in such a hurry that I didn't see where I was going," the girl apologized.

I got a better look at this girl. She had blonde hair that went down to her shoulders. She also had brown eyes. She was also wearing the academy's uniform, which appeared to be a green long-sleeved shirt with some white on it and a short, plaided skirt.

It was so short that I could actually see her white panties. This caused blood to leak from my nose and through inbetween my fingers.

"Oh, you're bleeding!" the girl cried. "Here, I'll wipe it off."

The girl grabbed a handkerchief from her bag. I removed my hands from my nose, and she wiped the blood from my nose and my hands. By the end of it, her handkerchief was full of blood. For some reason, I thought she would lick the blood off of the handkerchief. So she's not a vampire, much less the vampire I encountered years ago...

"Thank you," I thanked her.

"No problem! So are you a 1st year here?" the girl asked.

"Yeah," I answered.

"Really? So am I! Maybe we could be friends!" the girl exclaimed. "My name is Lucia Nanami. What's yours?"

"Tsukune. Tsukune Aono," I introduced myself.

"Nice to meet you, Aono-kun," Lucia said. "Or could I call you Tsukune?"

"Sure," I said. "Is it okay for me to call you Lucia?"

"Yeah!" Lucia exclaimed.

"So...what about your bike?" I asked.

We had completely forgot about the fact that she had come here on a bike. We looked at the bike to find that it was completely wrecked.

"I can just get a new one. I don't normally use a bike, anyway. We don't use bikes in the s-" Lucia started to say, but she suddenly stopped.

"Something wrong?" I asked.

"Oh, it's nothing. Well, we should get going. The opening ceremony is about to start!" Lucia exclaimed.

I nodded in agreement.

Thus, we walked to Yokai Academy together. I had no idea that this was going to be the school year of my life.

After the opening ceremony, we were sent to our respective classes. Lucia and I ended up in the same class, and we were sitting next to each other. Unfortunately, she wasn't at her desk at the moment, since she had gone to talk to her friend from middle school before the teacher would arrive. Because of this, I was bored out of my mind and had no one to talk to.

I looked around at my classmates. None of the students were ones I knew from middle school; none of them, in fact, were even human. Even though I had been bitten by a vampire, I was still human. The only human in the entire school, at that.

If anyone found out about my secret, what would happen to me?

All of a sudden, the door opened, and a girl entered. She had long, silver hair, blood-red eyes, and pale skin. I immediately recognized her. I shot up from my seat.

"Hey! You're the-!" I started shouting, but then, I remembered what the bus driver said.

"...one of the rules are that you can't reveal what you are."

I then shut my mouth and sat back down. All eyes were on me when I had started to shout, but then, they went back to their own business...which was whispering about the girl who just came in.

"Who is she?"

"Did that guy just say he knows her?"

"Well, I'd say, she's hot!"

"I'm going to do this and that to her later~."

I shivered at that last line. Who the hell would admit that to his friends? Apparently, the vampire girl heard it, too, because she stomped right over to the guy who did it and grabbed him by his tie.

"If you dare to do sexual acts to me, I will kill you," she told him. "Got it?"

The poor guy quickly nodded out of fear. The vampire girl then let go of him and took her seat...in the empty one behind mine. As if that wasn't enough, she leaned close to me and whispered in my ear.

"It's been a long time. I really missed the taste of your blood."

I shivered again.

I had to protect my neck from getting bitten again at all costs.

"Hello, class! Sorry I'm late! My name is Shizuka Nekonome, and I'm your homeroom teacher ~nya!"

Our homeroom teacher came in late. She had short, brown hair, and she apparently had cat ears and a tail that were the same color. She seemed like a very nice teacher.

"As you know, our school is a very special school that is exclusively for monsters!"

Yeah, I knew that.

"No human has ever even seen this school...at least, none have seen it and lived~!"

Oh sh*t. My dad may have thought I was a vampire, but for God's sake, he signed me up for a school that's actually going to get me killed one day!

As she went on to explain the rules, I felt a poke on my arm. Lucia (who was sitting in her desk now, of course) was handing a folded-up piece of paper to me. I took the paper and unfolded it as quietly as I could.

"So you like Moka-sama?"

I could feel myself blushing as I read that sentence in bubbly handwriting. I immediately wrote back.

"What?! What's with that question?!"

"Well, with the way that you reacted around her..."

"It's complicated. We had a bit of a bad encounter 3 years ago."

I saw Lucia frown as she read my note. She started to write back, but then, someone started to shout.

"Miss Nekonome! Nanami and Aono aren't paying attention!"

We were kept in class and scolded harshly after homeroom was over. For the rest of the day, all of the students were free to do as we pleased, while classes start tomorrow. That was why Lucia took me up to the roof as soon as we were free to go. Then, she asked the question she was probably going to ask before we were caught.

"Tsukune, do you have a pink pearl with you right now?"

When the mermaid saved me years ago, she seemed to have left something behind. It appeared to be a pink, sphere-shaped object; I guessed that it was the source of the warmth that saved my life. When I ran, I took the object with me, and I had kept it in a small, clear case ever since as a memento. Come to think of it, it made perfect sense that it was a pearl.

"Actually, I do," I answered.

I took the case with the pearl inside out of my pocket and showed it to her. Lucia then appeared very serious as she spoke.

"Listen. I really, really need that pearl. It's an emergency."

"An emergency?" I asked.

Lucia took a deep breath before answering me.

"That pearl actually belongs to Moka-sama."