"Onyx and Vampire"

Chapter 2: "Succubus and Onyx"

Disclaimer: Rosario + Vampire belongs to Akihisa Ikeda and Viz Entertainment. Kamen Rider Dragon Knight belongs to Steve and Michael Wang and Adness Entertainment. I make no monetary or other material profit from this story whatsoever.

Author's note: I'm glad the response to the first chapter of this story has been so positive so far. The questions are quite intriguing as well, and I promise you, at least one of them will be answered. In the meantime, it's time for the debut of Kurumu Kurono, the sexiest succubus since Morrigan of Darkstalkers! Let's ride!

It had been two days since the night Adam had revealed his Kamen Rider powers to Moka in defending her from Saizo's advances. While she sincerely appreciated him risking his life for her, she had questions for him, too, but she wasn't sure she should ask. In the end, her curiosity had overwhelmed her shyness.

As soon as she and Adam were alone, Moka remarked, "You're a strange guy, Adam Taylor."

"What do you mean?" Adam asked.

"You're able to fight Saizo when you're both in human form, and even when you're both transformed . . . you can still fight him. How did you do it?"

Adam pulled his Advent Deck out of his jacket pocket and showed it to her. "This. This is something all Kamen Riders possess. It allows us to call upon special armors and abilities that empower us to fight our enemies, which would normally be physically superior to us, on a somewhat more even playing field."

"What about that black dragon?" Moka inquired.

"Dragblacker is my Advent Beast and partner," Adam replied. "We forged a contract, and through the contract, Dragblacker shares his power with me."

"What are Kamen Riders?"

"Defenders of Ventara, a world that can only be accessed through mirrors and then only by those holding Advent Decks."

"So you're like some kind of manga superhero."

Adam shook his head sadly. "I'm not that great."

"You are to me," Moka whispered, leaning closer to him. Adam blushed as he looked into her eyes, her green eyes staring back into his blue. Adam . . .

Moka . . .

Adam . . .

Moka . . .

Adam . . .

She bit him again. This time, the pain was there and gone in almost an instant, immediately replaced by warmth surging through his veins even as their contents flowed into Moka's mouth. Against his will, Adam let out a guttural groan of pleasure, one that Moka mistook for a groan of pain.

She pulled away from him. "Sorry . . . but you really are great to me." She brightened up. "You let me suck your blood! And you're like my knight in shining black armor!"

"Knight . . ." Adam murmured, thinking of the days when he'd been called Kamen Rider Dragon Knight . . . before his worst sin against Ventara.

By the time he snapped out of it, Moka was already on her way to class, and Adam was following her somewhat slowly. Is that all I am to her? Her personal blood bank?

As he walked, he heard some whimpering mewls. "Someone . . . help me . . ."

Unable to resist the call of someone in need, Adam sprang into action. He soon found a girl with blue hair tied back by a frilly purple tiara with a gold star in it lying helplessly on the ground, garbed in a yellow sweater vest over a white blouse and the tartan miniskirt that marked her as a student of Yokai Academy. Adam immediately helped her into a more upright position, and noticed that she had really pretty violet eyes.

"Are you . . . ?" he asked.

"I . . . forgive me, I've been weak since childhood . . . and I have these spasms," the girl whispered. "And this feeling of fullness . . . in my chest, like it's going to burst . . ."

On that last sentence, Adam noticed that the girl, for someone so small, had amazingly large breasts, which were now rubbing against his chest. "Ohhh . . . that's so much better . . ." she purred.

"What are you doing?" Adam asked, trying and failing to suppress his incipient arousal.

"I'm sorry, but I . . . I need this . . ." the girl replied. "It keeps the fullness in."

The worrying thing was that her bust bounced a lot as she rubbed it against his chest, and he was having a harder and harder time hiding his body's response to it. Then he looked into her eyes . . . and felt a mental fog come over him.

"Please . . . hold me."

Against his will, his body wrapped his arms around the girl's small waist and pulled her closer to him. He had enough will left, though, to keep his hands strictly at her waist, even while her closeness made him want to respond in more overt ways.

Unbeknownst to Adam, the blue-haired girl smirked in satisfaction. He was under her spell completely . . . but why wasn't he making any moves? He was just holding her tightly, and his hands weren't going lower than her waist. She knew he wasn't gay, because she could feel his body's response to her advances . . . but he was just holding her, as though he . . .

Moka had noticed that Adam wasn't following her anymore and went to look for him. When she did, she found him holding a strange blue-haired girl in his arms, like a lover would. . . . Who is she to him? The rosette beauty wondered. Before she could ruminate further on that, she remembered that she had classes to attend. "Adam!"

Adam heard her call and snapped out of his trance, gently pulling out of the blue-haired girl's arms. "Moka!" he called out as he jogged toward her. The blue-haired girl followed him, tugging him by the arm. When he turned to look at her, he felt the mental fog come over him again.

"Come on, Adam . . ." she whispered. "Wouldn't you like to get to know me better?"

"Yes," Adam responded before he was really aware of what he was doing. "Yes, I would."

Moka looked on sadly as Adam allowed himself to be escorted into the school building by the strange blue-haired girl, who was pressing his arm firmly against her more-than-generous bosom. This caused Moka to repeat her earlier question to herself. Who is she to him?

Class went on like usual, except Adam had once again snapped out of his momentary trance and was now filled with regret, looking forlornly at Moka from time to time. I have to apologize to her, he thought. Sure, this new girl's pretty, but . . . Moka's more important to me.

After class was over, Moka went out into the halls, where she spotted the blue-haired girl on the balcony above her . . . and the girl was jumping off to confront her. As she fluttered down to Moka's level, the male students in the hall were remarking at the color of her panties, which she'd inadvertently flashed (or was it?). When she landed, the boys started remarking at her petite stature . . . with the exception of what Moka noticed were very large breasts.

"Who are you?" she asked. "And what were you doing with Adam?"

"Oh, your little suck toy?" the girl taunted. "He's going to be mine soon. All of these boys here will be mine, for it's my plan, the Yokai Academy Harem Transformation Plan!" As she declared the name of her plan, she waved her hips in an exaggerated yet sexy way, before her expression hardened. "And you, Moka Akashiya . . . are in the way of that plan! The boys are falling head over heels for you instead of me!"

"I . . . I didn't mean for that to happen . . ." Moka whispered bashfully.

"No matter . . ." the girl purred maliciously. "I, Kurumu Kurono, will defeat you, and I will do so using your pretty little suck toy!"

"Adam's not a toy!" Moka snapped.

Just then, Adam had come out of the classroom, wondering what all the commotion was about. He saw the standoff between Moka and Kurumu and started walking toward them, hoping he could defuse the whole thing before it got out of hand. "Moka, I . . ." he started to say, but was cut off by Kurumu latching on to him.

"Adam!" she squealed in a delighted voice.

"Um, I . . . I have to talk to Moka," Adam answered.

"No, you don't," Kurumu contested. "She just wants you for your blood!"

"No, that's not . . ." Adam started to say, but was cut off by a mental voice that sounded strangely like Xaviax.

Come on, boy. What do you really know about this girl? She's a vampire, and she likes your blood. That's all you know. Is it so wise to trust her?

Shut up, Adam snarled quietly. I listened to you once, and look where that got me!

"That's not true!" Moka insisted.

"Really? Why else would you keep him around?" Kurumu taunted. "Although he is really kinda cute, and has such a sweet smell . . . like a human, only better. Much better."

"Kurumu . . ." Adam started to say, only to look into her eyes and feel the mental fog come over him once more. "Yes, you're right. Of course you're right. You're right about it all. Why didn't I see it before?"

"Adam, she's a succubus! She'll devour your soul!" Moka warned.

"Like you want to devour my blood?" Adam murmured tonelessly.

Her heart shattered by what Adam had just said to her, Moka ran down the halls crying. Adam blinked, back to his senses . . . and clenching his fists in self-loathing rage. He'd done it again, betrayed someone else who'd taken him into their trust. Damn it all, what is this power she holds over me?

Moka sat on an outdoor bench, weeping softly. "Hey . . ." a voice that sounded like hers, only colder, growled. "This is no time to be wallowing in self-pity. Adam's life is in danger."

"Who . . . who are you?"

"You. The you that comes out when your power is unsealed. I am merely using the rosary as a bridge between us."

"How . . . how can I save him if he doesn't even recognize that he's in trouble?"

"Fool. Do you think he'd say those things to you of his own free will? It's the succubus's chief ability, the power to mentally ensnare any man who stares into her eyes."

"Then Adam's under a spell?"

"Yes. And if you don't find him and that succubus in time, she's going to bind him to her permanently."

Moka stood up and wiped away her tears. She had no time to waste, not if she was going to save Adam!

Speaking of the Kamen Rider, he was sitting on Kurumu's bed glowering at his feet while Kurumu was rejoicing at her "victory" over Moka. "Awww, what's the matter, my knight in shining armor?" Kurumu asked, draping herself over him.

"I have to apologize to Moka," Adam replied. "It's not right, what I did to her . . . or what you made me do to her."

"What are you talking about?" Kurumu asked innocently.

Adam snarled. "Don't play innocent with me. I don't know how you did it, but you usurped my mind, my will . . . and I am not going to let that pass."

Kurumu looked into Adam's eyes innocently, while casting her spell on him once more. Adam blinked as he tried to fight it off, but Kurumu embraced him, pushing his head against her bountiful bosom. The softness of her chest started to lull Adam into a daze, opening him to her control.

She gently laid him down on the bed, straddling his waist while her breasts hung in his face. "I've never done this before . . ."

Surprisingly, Adam could believe that, but he wasn't going to let himself be her first. He was saving that for Moka. Wait, what the hell? With a supreme act of will, he forced himself upright, even as Kurumu attempted to push him down again.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"I'm not doing this with you," Adam whispered. "I can't . . . I won't betray Moka like that."

Kurumu's eyes flashed with rage. "You . . . you have no idea . . . what I put myself through for you! How can that pink-haired bitch mean so much to you? How can she be more appealing than me?"

"Because she is."

That wasn't the right moment to taunt a heartbroken succubus, as Adam found out when bat-like black wings ripped out of Kurumu's back, a pointed black tail slipped out from beneath her skirt, and her nails grew incredibly long. Hell, they were almost as long as the claws of that cyborg woman who was always fighting that short, hairy guy with the claws embedded in his arms in those comics Kit liked so much.

"Everything Moka loves . . . including you . . . I will destroy!" Kurumu vowed.

Adam's response was to kick her in the stomach, throwing her off balance just enough for him to throw himself off the bed, take out his Advent Deck, and thrust it against the mirror nearby. A burst of black energy from the Advent Deck formed the Advent Belt, and just as Adam was about to lock the deck into the empty buckle, Kurumu flew to attack. Fortunately for him, Moka burst in on them.

"Get away from him!" she shouted, pushing Kurumu with enough force to knock her out the window.

"Moka!" Adam called. He moved to her side. "How did you know?"

"My inner self helped me . . ." Moka admitted.

"Anyway, I'm happy you're here," Adam said. "And I'm sorry . . . about those things I said to you."

Just then, Kurumu flew back in. "You're pretty strong when you've got the element of surprise on your side. Let's see how you do in a real fight!"

Adam glared at Kurumu as he stood protectively over Moka. "You'll be fighting me, Kurumu. Kamen Rider!" He slid his Advent Deck into the Advent Belt around his waist and once secured, it whirred inside the buckle, generating a waist-high ring of black energy accompanied by an energy sphere that repelled Kurumu when she flew to attack Moka. Inside the sphere, twin rings folded over Adam, forming the familiar black suit of Kamen Rider Onyx. Once fully armored, Adam ran to the edge of the window and jumped out, sliding an Advent Card into the card scanner mounted on his left forearm.

GUARD VENT.

By the time he landed, he had a two-part shield shaped like Dragblacker's underside in his hands. Kurumu had recovered from Adam's use of his transformation as a defense and now hovered in the air ready to attack. "We succubae have a duty!" she declared. "We're dying out, and we need to find our destined mates so we can restore our numbers! Surely, in a school like this, someone would be monster enough to father my offspring!"

"Am I supposed to care?" Onyx taunted, just as Moka had arrived.

Kurumu flew at Onyx for an attack, one that Onyx tackled Moka out of the way of . . . only to see a multitude of trees collapse from clean cuts through their trunks. "This power . . ." Onyx murmured. Well, this was going to be tougher than he thought.

"You're supposed to be a vampire, right?" Kurumu interrogated Moka. "Well, is it true, or is it just something you made up to attract guys? What the hell is so special about you, anyway?"

Moka stared up at Kurumu. "Nothing . . . but Adam is special to me, and I won't let you hurt him!"

"How sweet," Kurumu purred. "But you're a fool."

Kurumu flew in for another attack, and this time Onyx raised his shield to block it. The attack still came with enough force to push him back, and as he twisted around, he slotted another Advent Card into the scanner on his left arm.

SWORD VENT.

Drawing the familiar Black Drag Saber, Onyx slashed at an attacking Kurumu, managing to slice off the claws of her outstretched hand if nothing else. "You . . . you . . . I'll kill you!" Kurumu yelled, renewing her attack on the Kamen Rider, who flipped over Kurumu to ricochet off a tree and kick her from a different angle. The kick connected halfway, but Kurumu had slashed his leg with the uninjured claws on her other hand, robbing it of its full force.

"Adam!" Moka called out, rushing to him.

"I can still . . . do this . . ." Onyx growled, holding onto Moka to steady himself. In the process, he accidentally pulled off her rosary, once again unleashing her darker, "truer" self.

The "Inner" Moka glared coldly at Kurumu, who was trembling in fear from feeling the sheer power emanating from her. "So you're the one who tried to take my favorite snack away from me. And you hurt him, too."

"Is this . . . what a vampire's power is like?" Kurumu wondered in abject terror. Steeling herself, she shouted, "You two just don't get it! I have a duty to my people!"

"And this duty involves putting everyone in school under your spell?" Inner Moka mocked.

"I don't care what you think!" Kurumu yelled, flying at Inner Moka, only for Inner Moka to easily dodge her attack and grab her by the tail.

"So slow," the silver-haired vampire taunted. With a brutal yank, she used the tail as leverage to throw Kurumu into a tree. "Recognize the difference in power between me and you. A little girl like you could never fight me."

As she stalked toward Kurumu, ready to finish her off, Onyx blocked her. "Leave her to me," he whispered.

"Very well," Inner Moka assented. "You are the one she attempted to kill, after all. It's only fair that you be the one to strike the killing blow."

Onyx withdrew a card from his Advent Deck and slid it into the card scanner.

FINAL VENT.

"You should keep your eyes open for this, little girl," Inner Moka taunted. "Those not ready to face death should never bare their fangs to fight."

As she spoke, Onyx had levitated into the air, his dragon's aura trapping Kurumu as he prepared to strike the killing blow. He shifted into a flying side kick boosted by the flames of the darkness dragon that served as his partner beast. Instead of hitting Kurumu, though, it knocked down the tree that she'd been thrown against, both severed ends smoldering with black embers.

"It's pointless to kill you," Onyx whispered as he straightened up.

"What are you talking about, Kamen Rider?" Inner Moka asked. "She tricked you, seduced you, and attempted to kill you when you wouldn't let her have her way."

"Yes, she did do all those things," the dragon Rider admitted. "But it's still pointless to kill her." He started walking toward Inner Moka and Kurumu, willing his armor to disengage as he did. Said armor pulled itself apart in the form of a pair of briefly seen mirror images that faded away to reveal Adam, who kneeled before Kurumu.

"I don't think you're a bad person. No. There's a difference between someone who lashes out because they want to hurt people, and someone who lashes out because they're lonely." To the surprise of both Inner Moka and Kurumu, Adam hugged Kurumu.

"You're . . . you're sparing me . . . ?"

"I am . . . and so are you, Moka. I'm not letting you kill her."

"Sentimental fool," Inner Moka murmured, annoyance in her tone as Kurumu unabashedly wept on Adam's shoulder. Nevertheless, she would respect the darkly clad knight's decision on this . . . for now.

The next morning, Adam met up with Moka for school. As they were about to walk into the building, they received a surprise. "Adam!" a familiar feminine voice squealed joyfully.

Adam and Moka turned to see Kurumu running after them. "Kurumu!" Adam called out, trying not to let on just how shocked he was by seeing her again so soon.

"I've decided something!" Kurumu exclaimed.

"What?" Adam asked.

"I'm in love with you, my knight in black armor!" Kurumu declared. "You showed me mercy, compassion, love! And I've decided that you're going to be my destined one!"

Adam kept his face as impassive as possible, but groaned internally. He was perfectly happy with just Moka. He didn't exactly need two girlfriends. Unaware of Adam's internal dilemma, Kurumu held up a bag full of sugar, mint, and chocolate chip cookies. "Would you like to taste some of my cookies?" she asked excitedly. "I baked them just for you!"

Adam took the bag. "Sure, thanks." He looked at Moka and smiled at her. "Would you like to share them with me?"

"I said they were for you!" Kurumu insisted.

"Yeah, and since they're mine now, I can share them if I want," Adam rejoined, "and that reminds me. Kurumu, would you like some of the cookies, too? After all, the chef deserves to taste the fruits of her labor just as much as anyone."

"Sure!" Kurumu exclaimed, beaming at Adam's implied compliment. Then she caught Moka glaring at her out of the corner of her eye and glared back at the pink-haired vampire. As luck would have it, Adam completely did not miss the stare-down between the vampire and the succubus that were now competing for his heart.

This is going to be such a pain . . . he thought.

Next: School Clubbing and Onyx

End Notes: There you have it. The second chapter of Onyx and Vampire is finished, and the happy relationship between Adam and Moka has become a love triangle! Of course, things are only going to get more complicated, what with clubs and other suitors for both Adam and Moka, plus Adam's own troubled past as the betrayer of Ventara when it comes back to interfere with his present happiness with Moka! To see how everything will turn out, stick around for the next chapter!