Warning: Things get silly/squicky/sexy in this chapter. It all depends on your point of view.

Things Can Always Get Worse

And Kill Them

There were a lot of kids at this school. But they weren't so abundant that he could just snack on one whenever he felt a mite peckish. Which was a damn shame.

But there were enough so that he couldn't risk pissing too many of them off at the same time. That was just asking for trouble, especially since Alex didn't know what most of them even were.

I really need to go stake out the library. Would they even have something like a Monsters For Dummies book?

Until then, Alex had spent his time familiarizing himself with the school grounds. He was surprised. The school was much larger than first impressions would indicate. The Academy was more a small town than anything else.

Alex was miffed that he hadn't found any other exits to the normal world though. The place had to get it's supplies from somewhere, but he had yet to find it. Maybe by boat?

That would explain some things, actually. He and water didn't mix well, so he certainly hadn't been looking to closely at that angle. Maybe he should look for a dock or something later?

In the mean time, he was also getting to know the students.

"Keito… are you smiling?"

Keito didn't answer her fellow enforcer. But that little smirk never left her face.

"If you're trying to scare me, it's working. Please stop?"

She didn't stop.

Jason would never understand how this girl's mind worked.

Exactly what was so funny about the new guy literally sniffing the students?

Kurumu was seriously frustrated with her lack of progress. That man, Mercer, was completely ignoring her! Well, almost completely, there was the eye-jacket incident to consider.

But other than that? Nothing.

Not a greeting, not a glance, nothing!

Men didn't just ignore her. That was not how things went.

How could she make a move without being considered a threat? They'd all seen what happened to Saizou even if it didn't bother the orc overly much. But few could afford to lose as much as a orc could.

Certainly she couldn't! An armless succubus? She'd be the laughing stock of the entire school.

No, she had to be more subtle about it. If only the infuriating bastard would actually try to socialize, but noooooo. He was too distant, too aloof. He didn't think he needed anyone else. And, damnit, but he was right. At least, so far.

But she had a little bit of hope left. She'd heard stories of Mercer doing something interesting.

If the rumours were true…

She could just bide her time until he came to her.

She shared a bemused glance with her friend.

"My name? You came all the way from wherever, just to hear my name?"

A nod from the strange man. His eyes never left hers. She loved those eyes. They contradicted themselves. They were blue, but shone orange. What manner of creature had eyes like that?

With a quick wink to her friend, she leaned over and whispered her name in his ear.

"Sybelle. Hmmm… I don't think you'll tell me what exactly you are?"

Oh, he was interesting! So bold, too just ask like that. Foolish, but bold. It was a dangerous combination.

"And break the rules, monsieur Mercer? I'm not a naughty girl, non. But I'm sure you'll figure it out. After all, what's in a name?"

And with a smirk she returned to her meal. She was shocked when he answered her and she whirled about.

"Merci, belle dame. Je ne peux qu'espérer que vous n'avez pas menti. Adieu. "

AN: Merci, belle dame. Je ne peux qu'espérer que vous n'avez pas menti. Adieu.

Thank you, lovely lady. I can only hope that you have not lied. Farewell.

Alex smirked as Sybelle stared at him. Was it so easy to mess with everyone? He left her with a wink.

Inwardly, he was kind of pissed. The girl and her friend wore so much perfume that it was all but impossible to get her true scent. Just a quick shower and they'd be all but unrecognizable, at least in that regard.

He had met with surprisingly little progress. He was being stonewalled much more than he liked. Sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly.

The easiest way was to surprise the guys and charm the girls. Which was really kind of disappointing. He was quite sure just about everyone knew about the strange charmer who occasionally took a deep sniff of random guys' chests and could eat you with his ribs. What a story.

As he was leaving the cafeteria (no food for him here), he saw that girl again, the one with the blue hair. She was staring at him again. Threat or love-sick? There is certainly enough of both here.

That was also quite the change. Alex knew he was handsome, but normally his demeanor would chase women away faster than roaming hands. But here, in this little slice of supernatural hell?

He was probably the equivalent of a rock-star or something. He still hadn't quite gotten a feel for the school's pulse. He knew they were impressed by his nonchalance as he handled Saizou, but he was extremely surprised when he found out he was way more respected over the way he treated Moka.

He really needed to get an idea of how this world worked. A vampire inspired that much respect?

Best to deal with her now, though.

So he shifted his path a so that he was headed straight for her.

Sybelle was still watching Mercer. That had been flawless French. How had he known?

That little use of the words non or monsieur? Or…

A shiver ran down her spine. Did he already know what I was?

It would explain his parting words. They certainly were ominous enough.

Still watching his back, Giselle was all but ignored. Her friend would understand. It wasn't everyday hat someone spoke perfect French in a school for monsters located in Japan.

She was still watching when he spoke to that Succubus. She snorted. What kind of cover disguise was that anyway? Everyone with half a brain could deduce her species. Ah, but therein lay the problem.

A good many of the students weren't exactly in their right minds once she had her way with them. Again, not surprising. Succubi were pretty weak in all regards, except political. And th – oh, what was this?

Is she really trying to seduce monsieur Mercer? In the cafeteria, no less?

It really did seem like it.

Wow. Time out.

This little girl really needed to learn what was appropriate.

And grinding her chest and hips into someone she embraced with both her legs and arms while moaning in the middle of a cafeteria? Not at all appropriate.

Time for a lesson.

Quick shift of biomass, small moment of focus…

Bingo. Couple of really long tentacles, ready to go.

Mercer smirked into her hair.

Kurumu smirked into his chest.

Now that she was touching as much as she possibly could, she could start to channel Youkai into him an-

What the hell was that.

Glancing down, she saw what was currently coiling and sliding along her legs and back. Tentacles? Really? That was just stereotypical, I swear.

But if he thought that would actually do anything (except make him a more enticing target), he was sadly mistaken. She was a Succubus. She lived for things like this.

Still, if she didn't do something to turn the tides soon, she would probably try to take him right there and then. She didn't know how it was possible, but where those things crossed her bare skin (and that are was growing with alarming rapidity!) she felt as though a thousand little mouths were kissing and nibbling on her skin. It was maddening.

Time to end this.

Oh hello, tongue. You don't belong here!

What exactly was this girl? Was she getting turned on by all this crap?

He was actually a little apprehensive about the answer. Some things even he wasn't twisted enough to understand.

Ah well. In for a penny, in for a pound.

Time to up the stakes.

Why wasn't it working!?

She was pouring Youkai into the kiss and he still was calmly letting her explore his mouth. What was he? What was his tipping point?

Finally, something changed. His tongue started moving and Kurumu took that as a sign of victory. She actually had to work for this one. Nevermind that her pullover was long since gone and she could feel a rope of warm, writhing flesh between her breasts, she had won.

She sent a mental command for him to stop.

Nothing happened.

That wasn't possible. That shouldn't ha- oh god. Her eyes widened.

His tongue was growing. She could feel it splitting into smaller tentacle, growing longer. Some of them she could feel wrapped around her tongue and some of them were in her mouth and one was almost gagging her and godgodgod one of the others had finally made contact with her nipple and the little mouth on the end was exquisite and she was going to burst and then he stopped.

Everything just stopped…

Why did he stop!?

Okay then. That wasn't working at all.

Time for a change in strategy. He certainly had enough DNA by now.

Jason, eyes bulging, watched at what was probably some human's wetdream.

He wasn't alone in his staring. The whole cafeteria was silent except for the girl's moans. He could hear the metal railing deforming under Keito's hand.

He very carefully did not think about what that could mean.

Moka was thoroughly disappointed with Mercer. She had been so sure the little slut's number had come up.

But it looked like Mercer was still just a man after all. Well, in a manner of speaking. Not many men could grow a tail that split into a handful of groping tentacles.

Still, she was honestly surprised to feel herself disappointed in Mercer's inability to keep it in his pants. She blinked.

She looked closer. That 'tail' hadn't ripped through his pants. It looked like it grew out of it. Were those even clothes? Or they merely part of his body? She very carefully ignored the voice that Mercer was naked all the damn time.

His deviancy wasn't quite such a shock anymore.

She was going to kill him. That was all there was to it.

… but who was going to help her relieve her frustration then? She gave a little whimper as the tentacles retracted. She hated herself for that moment when she grew hopeful when she suddenly felt his hand on her ass. And she was very shocked when that hand writhed.

She finally opened her eyes and looked into her own eyes.

Wait, what.

She wasn't hallucinating. She was looking at her own face. That hand that held her aloft was about the size of her own. The new pressure against her chest made her look downwards. Yhep, those are mine too.

What the hell.

Tsukune was either in heaven or hell, depending on how much of his memories he could suppress.

If he couldn't, he was in hell. A place where pretty girls dry-humped a tentacle monster.

If he could, he was in heaven. A place where pretty girls dry humped their lingerie-clad identical twins.

Oh no, wait. That was still hell. He couldn't exactly forget how the twin's flesh had rippled as it changed shape.

If this doesn't stop her, I need to run.

Alex, for all of his blatant power perversion potential, was distinctly not comfortable with what he was doing. This was meant to disturb and scare, horrify and chase away.

He was no one's goddamn sex-toy.

So he dropped the girl right there and then. He didn't exactly care that her butt firmly impacted the table where she was seated before her little sexual assault. But he had to keep up appearances. Nothing was allowed to phase the great Alex Mercer.

So he, very deliberately, bent over and gave a chaste kiss on the forehead.

He was quite aware that the view was probably spectacular, but then again, what did he care?

Wasn't his body on display, after all.

He was very deliberate when he chose to shift back into his 'original' form. Only three steps away from the only exit. Enough time to put use some memories to good use. He had consumed three models after all.

Kurumu's mind was carefully blank as she watched her own ass sashay away. It really was quite nice.

And that perfectly delectable ass was then ruined when her form blurred and changed back into Mercer in a writhing mass of black. He turned back and winked at her.

As the cafeteria doors closed, she primly fixed her clothes. Her shirt was half undone, her pullover lay several feet away on the floor, her ribbon had come halfway undone, her skirt was askew and her panties were pulled halfway down at the back.

As she buttoned up her shirt with a very blank look, she took stock.

She had all her clothes.

Her plan had failed.

She didn't exactly give a damn.

She knew what Alex was (apart from an evil cock-teasing bitch).

Her standing as a Succubus was probably ruined.

Half the school had seen her nude (or as close to it that it didn't exactly matter).

She had found her first Chosen.

And she was very frustrated.

There was going to be screaming. Oh yes, there was going to be screaming the likes of which this school had never seen.

Keito relaxed. She should have known mercer was more than a match for a Succubus.

And what a way to make a point!

Not only did he take a succubus' kiss, he actually turned the tables and left her as the frustrated one!

She was right.

Alex was an interesting one.

Rumours spread quickly in the Academy.

By nightfall, everyone had heard of the incident. It was one of those legendary stories, second only to classics such as the Killer Thrall and the Pacifist Vampire or the Mute Siren or the Black Knight.

Almost as legendary was the story of Ginei Morioka's lament.

AN: First of all, remember that Kurumu is a SUCCUBUS. A sex-demon.

There was no way this chapter was going to come out without some perversions. And come on. Alex Mercer = tentacles.

The Black Knight is an undead being dressed in armor. Yes, he gets limbs chopped off during his stay at the Academy. Yes, he's a Monty Python reference.

Also, Gin's Lament is either a) he didn't bring his camera with him or b) he wasn't in the cafeteria at that time.

'power perversion potential'? Yes, I'm a troper.

Remember, this story is classified as horror/humor.

On a more serious note.

Alex is distinctively not okay with sex. His core-personality is the closest thing to asexual I can imagine (like Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory, but without the morals and childlike personality). Couple that with all the people he has absorbed? We get someone who dislikes sex and gets right-the-fuck freaked out by anything other than straight, traditional sex.

This isn't exactly a plot-point, but still, I think it needs to be clarified. Alex has consumed a fuck-ton of people, each with their own morals, likes and sexuality. He's eaten quite a few bisexuals, homosexuals, prostitutes, rapists, sexual predators, bigamists and even one male porn star (that is canon in this 'verse, by the way). Put that all together, and you get a whole ball of issues and conflicting feelings.

Kurumu is way more sexual than in canon. She is not a virgin. She is not innocent (at least not in a physical sense). I'll probably expand on Succubi in the forum, but for now consider that the canon Destined One/ Mate of Fate has been replaced by a Chosen. Each Chosen is a man or monster that a Succubus can't seduce at her first attempt. I'll expand on this on the forum, as I've said.

Alex's tentacle episode was a legitimate attempt to freak Kurumu out. Alex had access to many different viewpoints, and these basically aligned in such a way that the tentacle-idea was one of the best ideas he could follow to scare her off. Alex doesn't yet know she's a succubus though. When that failed, he went for pure shock (rather than squick) and changed into her. Please note this is the first time anyone in the setting as seen Alex change his entire body into a new form.

We also get a little slice of Tsukune, where he again realises he's not in the normal world anymore. Moka and Keito also express some hidden feelings (but, please note, these are not necessarily romantic in origin).

I've also introduced three new characters.

Jason is a PSC-enforcer and Keito's preferred partner. He's a nice guy, unless he's in monster form. At this point, all I know is that he's Caucasian. It gives me some wiggle room when deciding his monster form.

Sybelle is a monster from French mythology, namely a mulesine. It's something like a mermaid. Her name means 'prophetess' and she frequently uses it to allow others to draw the wrong conclusion about her species.

Her friend, Giselle is also a monster from European descent, but I've yet to confirm anything else.

Youkai Academy (in this 'verse) is a world-renowned school, and so they get monsters from all over. Expect a number of OC's and new monsters.

Alex knows French? He ate someone. Seriously, that's just going to be a running gag in my AN's from now one.

Also, any and all translations will be put as close to the original as possible. I've never liked a fic where all the translation's are at the bottom, and you're forced to scroll all the way down to read it and then need to search for your place.

The title? I lied.

Kurumu's suspicions of Alex's nature will be revealed next chapter. But have a cookie if you figure it out. I recommend Oreos.

Hmmmmm... Oreos.

And guys? If you leave me a review with a question, give me some way to contact you! I can't answer everything in AN's (they are too long as they are already) and I like answering questions because it helps me locate plot holes.

Read, enjoy and review.

Written: 15/12/2013

Posted: 15/12/2013