Tsukune groaned as reality hit him hard.
For the second day in a row sleep had not come easy as life was determined to aid his subconscious in its journey to drive him mad from hormones, women, and breaking his weird-shit-tolerance-level on a daily basis.
Having two sets of memories, the power to transform and adapt, and the devil's luck did not make women any easier for Tsukune Aono to understand. Women with abnormal hair colors were particularly confusing. Tsukune had barely crossed the threshold of the boy's dorm entrance when his pair of female friends ambushed him, already arguing.
Kurumu got to him first, a steaming plate of cookies in hand and a flirty smile on her face. "Try one of my cookies Tsukune!" the succubus offered cheerfully.
Moka followed quickly snatching her friend away from the temptress with a scowl on her face, "Leave him alone Kurumu!" the vampire demanded, wrapping her arms around Tsukune.
The boy in question looked at the two in a half-asleep confusion. "Do I get an opinion here? Why can't I walk to class with both of you?" he asked, trying in vain to negate the argument. Even half-asleep, Tsukune noticed a problem to his approach. "Your both not listening to me are you?"
Indeed, they were not. The exemplars of teenage vampires and succubus everywhere were busy glaring at each other with borderline hatred, each now grasping, and refusing to release, an arm of their desire. With arms pinned between the beautiful blossoming breasts of both beauties Tsukune was manhandled on the path to the cafeteria, his body wedged between the two in an odd sort of hormonal hell.
"Why are you even here Kurumu?" Moka questioned her burning eyes , face flushed with jealous anger "You were trying to mind control him yesterday! I doubt Tsukune wants you around!"
Kurumu was not dissuaded by the accusation, instead she cuddled into the brown haired target of her affections. "Don't be mad Moka, I know it's just because your jealous!" the seductress counter accused, her devilish smile making a return.
"Why me?" Tsukune questioned in his head, genuinely confused at why the two were so determined to monopolize his attention.
The potency of Moka's glare increased several fold, drawing on her vampire power. The crowd that had been drawn by the potential cat-fight fled in fear of Moka's feminine fury. "I. Am. Not. Jealous!" Moka replied, the words slipping through her clenched teeth like the hissing of a furious viper. "I am just angry because Tsukune is my friend and you're annoying both of us!" she added.
Kurumu finally looked at Tsukune and his exasperated expression, a small pang of guilt wiggled into her head as she realized the both of them had been ignoring the very thing they were fighting over. "So, Tsukune, what do you want for breakfast?" she asked awkwardly, relaxing her grip.
Instead of releasing him entirely Kurumu tugged at the neckline of her shirt with her free hand, pulling it low enough to show not only her neck but a tantalizing peek at the beginning of her bountiful cleavage. The succubus had to withhold a giggle at Tsukune barely resisting the temptations of the flesh. "He's so noble..." she thought to herself in victory. "Maybe you want to taste me again?" Kurumu cooed, licking her lips sensually and gently rubbing herself against him without being blatantly sexual. "Last time was divine..." she added with an embellished moan.
The moment Tsukune's reply formed, it was held on his tongue by the feeling of sheer fury he felt beside him. With the deliberate slowness only known by a hunter pinned by their prey, Tsukune turned his head to see the frightening visage of Moka Akashiya. Her hair was moving in a supernatural wind, a red haze of hateful miasma poured from her surface as she smiled at him with the innocent poker face of a Bodhisattva. Tsukune had never faced a more terror inspiring sight in his young lives.
Tsukune turned back to Kurumu, his face as white as the pale horseman of death, "For the sake of my health I think I will say no." The dark aura beside him dissipated in an instant, to be replaced by Moka's normal cute and innocent appeal.
"Come on Tsukune!" Moka urged, trying to pull him away from her rival, "We don't want to be late for breakfast!"
Tsukune felt a pang of hunger, and a demonic craving for steak and eggs. "Stupid monster body." his human mind complained, feeling thankful that the day wasn't going to get any worse.
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"Pop quiz today!" Ms. Nekonome gleefully announced as the students entered her class, further adding credence to Tsukune's theory that the forces that be hated him for unknown reasons. The perky ears and waving tail of the educating cat-girl no longer seemed cute, instead seeming malicious. With a sigh of defeat Tsukune and the girls took their seats, with Moka on Tsukune's right and Kurumu behind him.
Tsukune glanced at the presented papers loaded with a general questionnaire of math, science, grammar and history. The questions were ranged from grade school to beyond college level, however that detail went over Tsukune's head as he panicked at the academic challenge. "How the hell am I supposed to know the speeds needed to properly operate a Hadron Colider!? What kind of test is this?!"
Hours of paper shuffling, attempted spying, attempts at prayer and guess work later the assortment of cruel testing was done. Tsukune's brain felt scrambled by the stressful mental assault of the test. "If I had one more sheet to go over I was gonna scream!" Tsukune bitched in the confines of his thoughts.
Ms. Nekonome collected the tests with her usual cheer, "Don't worry about the test everyone, it's just something for us teachers to see where the students need improvement. This will not affect your grade at all!" Tsukune covered his face and groaned, an action repeated by almost all the class. The homeroom teacher's ears and tail drooped, "Oh. Maybe I should have said that before the test..."she remarked.
Let no-one say that a teacher isn't the cruelest monster of all... Even if they didn't want to be considered evil.
It took Nekonome a moment to regain her pep after demoralizing her class with a casual mistake, "Anyways class... Starting today you're all going to take club activities!" she stated with a smile. "We all can get a deeper understanding of humans by experimenting with human-made activities!"
Kurumu leaned over to Tsukune from her seat behind him, gently whispering "I can think of some activities we could do together..." Tsukune tried valiantly to remained focused on the teacher, and not Kurumu's hands that were teasingly running up and down his back.
"Pay attention please." Moka interrupted from her spot, pushing Kurumu back into her seat with a well placed shove. Tsukune however, had started brewing an idea in his reality warped mind.
"Does everyone understand? The rest of this afternoon will be spent searching for a group to join! Be sure to visit the newspaper club that I advise!" the class ignored the shameless self promotion.
As the class departed and Tsukune hastily moved to dodge the wandering hands of his succubus friend and to ask a question before he lost sight of the teacher. "Ms. Nekonome!" Tsukune called out, "Is it possible to join more than one club?"
The teacher looked at her ambitious student, as if puzzled by the unexpected question. "I suppose that would be all right. Do you have a club in mind?"
"More than one!" he replied, departing with the class.
The moment the girls caught up with him, he cut off the potential cat-fight at its source. "What club do you girls want to join?" he asked.
Moka paused at the direct question, allowing Kurumu to get the second word in, "What club do you wanna join Tsukune?" she counter asked.
Tsukune shook his head, determined to not fall into the trap. "I'm not saying." He stated, "I double checked with Ms. Nekonome. There is no rule saying I can't join clubs with both of you! So say Moka wants to join swimming and Kurumu wants cooking I can do both!"
"Cooking sounds nice." Kurumu agreed, looking thoughtful.
Moka looked ill at ease at the topic of swimming. "I'm not sure what I'd want to join. Can we still look around a bit?" she asked.
Tsukune grinned. "Sure." he replied, "I still haven't picked what club I want to join."
Within minutes the halls and schoolyard of Yokai Academy were filled with the hustle and bustle of students swarming to find a place to belong. Some had criteria to join, like the karate club. Others accepted everyone, like the track and field team. Twelve minutes into the mess of people calling for people to join, Tsukune found a third category. Desperate perverts.
The photography club asking for the girls to pose in swimsuits was the tamest. Then came the chemistry club, asking for them to test love potions and other solutions. Then the paranormal club... "I swear if I ever see that brat with the glowing green eyes again I'm gonna cut off his ghost balls." Tsukune swore, irritated.
A loud group cheering caught the attention of the trio. As they drew closer to the crowd they could hear the splashing of water, and other sounds of swimming. Kurumu felt suspicious when she heard the excited mutterings of several horny boys watching the show.
Tsukune spotted the ring leader first. The sea-green haired lady of the water was dressed in an open dress shirt that exposed a beautiful scale pattern bikini top, to finish the ensemble of water themed eroticism was a transparent white skirt that flowed like silk. She stood upon a diving board around the school pool, leading several girls swimming in a brilliant display of synchronized swimming before finishing with her completing a stunning dive in between her teammates.
With elegance and grace the swim team pulled themselves with shamefully erotic fan service for the crowd of watching men, many of whom were trying to out-applaud each other in order to draw the attention of the lovely ladies. Their leader pulled out a microphone to make sure she was heard over the horde of hooting boys, "Welcome everyone! I'm the swimming captain, Tamao Ichinose!" she cheered, introducing herself. "Who's ready to swim?" she asked with a sexy flourish, riling up the hormonal crowd even further.
Tsukune watched the events enfold with mild disinterest. His lack of enthusiasm had two reasons. First, he just thought swimming would be a way to relax, not the mess it looked like. Second, Kurumu and Moka were still at his sides. In his heart he knew if he showed the slightest interest in the swimming captain, there would be hell to pay. "Damn it," he swore in his head, "Was it too much to just get to swim without all this fuss?"
Tsukune turned to his companions, "Let's go. This looks more like a feeding ground than a swimming spot." he remarked, "Besides if I have to listen to these guys trying to get laid I'm gonna be sick." He purposefully didn't remark on the fact that he was sure Moka had an issue with water.
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The second trip across the campus looking for groups was less eventful. With many of the groups having received their quota of new members the crowd had drastically dropped from orc-like horde to the normal levels expected for a school gathering. There were still many clubs leftover still hoping for more to join: the cooking club, newspaper club, mythology club, even one just labeled fight club. Tsukune avoided the fight club, when the girls asked why he had replied, "You don't talk about Fight Club."
After another half an hour of marching about and considering options Tsukune realized that he could find nothing that appealed to him. "I don't suppose either of you thought of something that you would like to join?" he asked the girls.
"I've already joined cooking!" Kurumu replied cheerfully.
Moka eyed her rival, "When?" she asked. "You've been with us the entire time..."
"I signed up the first time we passed, I just didn't say anything. I didn't want to force Tsukune to join because I did."
Tsukune debated it, and looked at Moka oddly for a moment, "What do you think Moka? Is cooking alright with you?" he neglected the fact that he was hoping to see her in an apron... With other clothing completely optional.
Moka stared at Tsukune, flattered that her opinion mattered to him. "Cooking sounds fine Tsukune."
The trio went straight off to the cooking club's stand, right next to the school swimming pool. It was a simple matter for Moka and Tsukune to register and learn the time for the first meeting the next day. It was only luck, really bad luck, that they had finished the registration in time for them to hear the scream of panicked men from the swimming club's pool.
Tsukune looked at the above ground, high walled pool that now looked more like a doom fortress. "I got a really bad feeling about this..." Tsukune sighed, wondering if he had a saving people problem in a past life. "Kurumu can you stay here with Moka while I check this out?" Without waiting for an agreement, Tsukune ran for the pool and prayed this wouldn't be any more than someone jumping too close to the walls of the pool.
Tsukune reached the top, his legs taking the steps three at a time in case time was of the essence. At the top was not a scene of accidental harm, or of shock and surprise at an innocent incident. It was the watery scene of a massacre. Floating about in the pool were dozens of mermaids, each clinging to a withered victim as they fed. The reason that there had only been women luring boys to the swimming club had become obvious. There was no need to let in other women, not when the mermaids were only looking for food.
"Fuck!" Tsukune swore, "How the hell do I get them out of this..." Tsukune sniffed the air. It lacked a common scent of a public pool. "Chlorine!" he exclaimed, rushing for a room clearly labeled as 'Maintenance'. Inside the cramped and moist space were several shelves dedicated to chemicals. Most were less toxic variants of cleaners that wouldn't be as harmful to aquatic monsters but hidden on the back wall was the treasure the shapeshifter was seeking.
The mermaids were not happy upon spotting a still healthy male burst from the Maintenance room, and even less pleased at the sight of the chemical. Tamao swiftly swam to the edge and hopped out of the pool, having spotted the oncoming threat.
Tsukune pulled the top off the plastic container, holding the bundle dangerously over the pool water in case any of them got a wise idea. "I really, really don't want to start a fight here," Tsukune called out, "but if you don't let these guys go I'm gonna dump this nice bucket of chlorine into the pool."
A few of the mermaids ceased feeding, preparing to flee for the wall the moment the poison touched the water. Tamao glared, already returned to human form and preparing to charge at the first opportunity. "You wouldn't survive it if you did. You may have beaten down an ogre, but a school of mermaids will rip you apart." she bluffed.
Tsukune moved at the water, moving as if to toss the chemicals in. The frightened screams of the mermaids exposed the bluff. "I'm sorry miss. But if mermaids are anything like your average fish, chlorine is painful and causes death, am I wrong?"
Tamao cursed, the foul look she gave was more than an answer.
Tsukune took a few steps back, trying to play nice. "Look, I really don't wanna do this, but you were just munching on a bunch of my classmates. I'm betting the tales of mermaids stealing the life, energy and youth of men were true and you were just eating, but I can't let that happen if I can stop it."
"What do you expect us to do then? Starve?" Tamao questioned with indignation. "That's not an option either."
"You don't have to drain all of these guys to death do you?" Tsukune spat back, "Most of these guys would let you suck them to near death for a little T and A, but not kill them! Just let them go and I'll drop the chlorine, okay? I told you I don't want a fight!"
Tamao glared, "Fine." she spat out, "let them go girls." The mermaids obeyed their leader, pulling the half-dead men from their waters. The victims still having enough power in their withered forms to flee.
Tsukune stupidly turned his back on the mermaids to place the container against the maintenance room's wall. Tamao used the opening to throw Tsukune into the water. "Moka!" He yelled, a second before impact, "Help!"
In an instant the mermaids were upon him, each taking a bite and began pulling the life from him in an instant. He struggled, and for a precious few seconds he genuinely thought that he had a chance to get free, until Tamao swam up to him in her mermaid form, and placed the finishing bite upon his throat.
Tsukune barely felt himself black out as they fed, he already felt hungry himself.
Hearing Tsukune's cry for aid quickly drew Moka and Kurumu to the top of the walls, in time for Moka and Kurumu to see their friend lifelessly sink to the bottom of the pool. Moka felt the familiar sensation of heartbreak as she watched her friend sink and knew she couldn't reach him. Consumed with grief, her legs gave out beneath her, barely registering the pain of her knees slamming against the unfeeling concrete. Kurumu transformed out of anger, her succubus wings ripping out the back of her shirt as her tail and claws emerged, "What did you bitches do?" she demanded an answer.
"Tsukune interrupted our feeding time. He even threatened to poison our pool water. I couldn't let him escape, especially after he made us release all our meals." Tamao looked at the furious succubus with a sly smile, overconfident after having fed upon one of the top monsters in the school, "If it's any consolation, he was Delicious. Full of so much youthful energy..."
Tamao barely dived under the water in time to avoid the bloodthirsty claws of the flying fury Kurumu had become.
"You stole him from me?" She muttered, unwilling to believe the fact. The succubus felt true hatred as she too had felt the sensation of a love denied. "You fish freaks are gonna die! " Denied a chance to claw them while they swam under the water Kurumu grabbed at her only chance to force them out of their protective element.
The container of Chlorine.
Tamao realized a moment to late that in her hubris she forgot to dispose of the hazardous chemical. That mistake cost her and her fellow mermaids dearly. Without hesitation, Kurumu took to the air, pouring the chemical over the water from above. The liquid chlorine was swiftly dispersed in the water, spread by not only the pumps, jets and filters, but by the mermaid's own frenzied movements to escape the poison. Within seconds of watery thrashing the tainted liquid began its insidious work, seeping into their bodies from their gills, mouth and noses.
It started with a burning on the skin. Then the gills, a burning in their lungs causing them to gasp. Their hearts beat erratically as they panicked. Some, desperate to escape the searing hell her sisters felt, had jumped onto the concrete path surround the pool, the transformation to human only barely dulling the pain that now sank into their flesh. Tamao herself dove out of the pool, but not before the cursed chlorine poured directly over her gills. The mermaid leader landed on the unforgiving concrete in a messy heap, her body already suffering from exposure.
Kurumu's revenge hadn't ceased yet, she landed beside the trembling form of Tamao, claws still longing to bathe in the blood of a mermaid. Kurumu looked at her foe with unsympathetic curiosity, before forcing the first of her sword like nails into the trembling girl's gut.
Tamao managed little more than a pained whimper, at least until Kurumu twisted the claw inside her. The mermaid leader finally screamed, the chemical poison and subsequent penetration too much to endure, "Please!" Tamao gasped out, desperate to stop the pain, "Please stop!" she begged.
Kurumu looked at the desperate girl beneath her and smiled in her normal cheerful manner. "Sure. I can do that..." she replied, pulling out her claw. Tamao almost had a sigh of relief pass her lips before it was cut off by her scream as Kurumu forced the claw back in with two more. "Of course you have to bring Tsukune back first." Kurumu stated, her voice still that same cheery tone.
While her psudo-friend had gone on a rampage and poisoned the pool, Moka had remained in place as still as a statue, with only tears from her eyes indicating she knew what was transpiring around her. Thus, she was the first to spot the giant thing emerge. "He's not dead!" Her mind sang out in joy. Then dread hit her as she felt the corrupt energy flow from whatever hell spawned abyss the thing had just swam out of.
The new form was even larger than the last. The hard steaming brown carapace was replaced with blue transparent flesh, with each of the internal organs visible in the torso. Unlike his first transformation, Tsukune's new body had no legs, only a swarming mass of tendrils and tentacles swarming around each other like an Eldritch conch shell. Four extended flat arms extended from the torso reaching out to grab hold of several mermaids as it emerged from the water. The most hideous feature of the new form was the head, a human skull leering out from behind the watery flesh that covered the abomination.
The new beast roared, Moka and Kurumu could both see the mermaids in its horrible grip struggle as something was pulled from them into the core of the monster. Seconds later they ceased moving, and the beast released them to tumble back into the water as it reached for another to take from. In their Chlorine weakened state the mermaids were easy prey to the gargantuan water titan, Its fifty foot form encompassing most of the pool's deep end.
"Is that...thing...Tsukune?" Moka questioned, stunned by the appearance of the monster. She stood, reaching out a hand at the beast as if her hand could call out to her friend.
In a way, it did. The water colossus turned at the sound of Moka's voice, its beach ball sized eyes locking on to her.
"Tsukune! It is you!" Moka proclaimed, halting at the edge of the water.
The monster released the remaining mermaids, leaning towards the vampire. The shifting of the bulbous form created several waves in the water, a sign of just how big the monstrous form was. Still covered by the gelatinous flesh the jaws of the skull extended, a mouth forming, tearing a gap where lips would be on a human. A loud gurgle was heard as water and slime poured from the gap. "Mo...ka..." the monster's voice was thick and loud, rumbling like the thunder of an oncoming storm, yet as heavy like a gust of hurricane winds.
Moka didn't flinch as the colossus extended an arm out to her. Gently it tried to caress her face with a finger. Even the gentle action held enough force to push her back a step. Tsukune's other arms were busy, gathering the defeated mermaids and depositing them outside the pool. "Go..." the thunder like voice commanded, "I... change..."
Moka caught the meaning, Tsukune was going to return to human form. "Kurumu! I need you to help me move the mermaids!"
"Are you serious?" Kurumu questioned. "These bitches nearly killed Tsukune!"
"And Tsukune's wants us to move them!" Moka replied, already carrying two of the fish women to the stairs.
"Fine." Kurumu pouted, "I'm not carrying the lead bitch!" she protested.
As the girls evacuated the mermaids Tsukune's body began withdrawing back to its core, the flesh hemorrhaging slime and water as it shrank into itself. The parts of the body above water began to steam as the transformation to human began, while the brown muck of Tsukune's mutations had already begun forming on the underwater sections. The Muck covered limbs were already in motion, forming the cocoon as the upper body shriveled.
As Moka finished carrying the defeated mermaids away she noted that Tsukune's cocoon had attached itself to the walls of the concrete walls of the pool, a discoloration spreading across the material that he had touched. Moka knew the transformation was near complete as the pool water began to bubble and steam with Tsukune's cocoon now fully submerged beneath the waters.
Moka cleared the way in time as a pillar of evaporating water began to rise from the pool. The steam quickly reached an amount that could only be surpassed by the cooling towers of a nuclear reactor. Just as quick, the steam died down, accompanied by the sound of tremendous cracking, "That must be Tsukune's cocoon breaking..." Moka thought.
Clearly audible from the pool came Tsukune's voice. "Goddammit! Those were my favorite pants too!" The victorious hero proclaimed in scandalized anger.
Moka wanted to help him, until her mind remembered what happened the last time Tsukune had a full body transformation. "Tsukune's naked!" her mind squealed at her, as the embarrassed blush erupted, and her mind filled with smutty visions of her and a naked Tsukune.
The sounds of mumbling and annoyance soon reached her ears, causing her to cover her face to hide the full bloom blush covering her features."Oh gods he's coming! What do I do?" She asked herself, "I don't wanna look do I? If I do, does that make me a bad person?" The scandalous thoughts assaulted her mind, blinding her to Tsukune's continued approach.
Tsukune's footsteps stopped directly in front of her. "Moka? What are you doing?" he asked.
"Umm... Tsukune... Are you naked?" she asked shyly, keeping her hands over her face.
"No...?" he replied, and she could hear him smiling, "Do you want me to be?"
"Yes!" Her mind screamed. "N...No!" Moka stuttered, dropping her hands to see the smiling, towel clad form of her best friend.
"Aww..." Tsukune embellished a pout, "Darn. I was hoping you did want to see me naked..."
Kurumu took that moment to make her entrance, dropping behind Tsukune and wrapping her arms around him. "Ooh. Can I see you naked too?" Kurumu asked nuzzling her face into Tsukune's "Or would you rather I be naked with you?"
Tsukune took a moment to ignore the bountiful breasts pressed into his back, the seductive breath on his ear or the delicate hands roaming his chest before he was shamed by pitching a tent with a towel. "Dead puppies, dead puppies, dead puppies." Tsukune chanted in his head.
Once he felt more in control, he replied. "Thanks for the help Kurumu." Tsukune said honestly, giving her a swift kiss on the cheek.
The succubus released her hold in surprise, allowing him to quickly step up to Moka. Before the lady vampire's mind could catch up to her, Tsukune leaned in and gave her a chaste peck upon the lips. "Thank you very much Moka." Moka didn't reply, her hand daintily touching her lips instead.
With both ladies in his school life stunned, Tsukune began his walk of shame across campus yet again, "I gotta run! I am not getting locked out of my dorm dressed like this." he yelled as he departed.
Moka watched the daring boy jog out of sight before her question left her lips. "Did that just happen?" she asked rhetorically.
"I don't know." Kurumu replied, "But I think I'm in love."
Moka glared at the succubus, the moment ruined.
