Chapter 4: Turtle + Succubus
Tsukune had just woken up and was beginning his day as usual with brushing his teeth, a quick shower, and some breakfast and he was off to class (ignoring the kids who were partially in their monster forms due to the lack of control during sleep). Near the front gate he met up with Moka, who was being ogled at by the present male populous. Overjoyed to see her friend, she ran up to the young rider to greet him, "Good morning Tsukune." She greeted.
"Hello Moka." He said with a smile "Sleep well?"
"Yup, sure did." She answered cutely "But well Tsukune, you see I sort of forgot breakfast this morning so I was wondering if I could maybe-?"
"Uh Moka, what are you-?" He began to say.
At that the young vampirene was almost to the point of salivating "So hungry." she then wrapped her arms around his neck, fangs bared ready to take a drink when suddenly.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything, am I?" Came a voice that startled the pair when they turned looked to see who it was they saw none other than the 'transfer student' Hana 'Yagami' a.k.a. Den-O's supervisor and handler. "Hey Tsukune." She said to him.
"Jeez Hana do you want her to tear my neck to shreds?" Tsukune exclaimed.
"Well if you didn't want that to happen, you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." She teased "See you guys in class." She said as she walked off towards the school building.
"Well I'm off." Said Tsukune frantically using the distraction to his advantage so as not to get his precious blood taken from him. "See you in class Moka." And with that he ran off to avoid getting bit again
"Wait Tsukune!" The pinkette called to her friend. Meanwhile inside the rosary Moka-sama was watching her 'food source' slip out of her grasp. 'As that damn flop of a demon would say hanakuso onna.'
After escaping Moka's bite Tsukune realized that he wasn't looking where he was heading and had gotten himself lost in front of a small swamp "Aw man, well that's just great." Tsukune said with an exasperated tone.
'Well it wouldn't keep happening if you could just say no to that vampire chick.' Momotaros said from the Den Liner. 'Oi Naomi-chan, coffee."
"Do you really think I would take advice from someone who has gotten 'me' into three fights in the same week?" The high school rider retorted "I'm just glad Hana and Moka are around to keep you from killing us."
Momotaros was about to retort when he froze 'Tsukune I'm sensing an imagin!'
As soon as he said that Tsukune heard a female scream from behind some bushes on the other side of the swamp. "I'm guessing over there." He said as he ran off to find the source of the scream.
As he rounded the bank he saw a girl on the ground with a human shaped, brown and white furred, monkey based imagin that was carrying what looked a bow staff looming over her. "So this is the girl my master wants me to collect?" The monkey imagin said lecherously "I must say he has good taste."
"Come on Momotaros!" said Tsukune. "And don't use twin sword form; we don't know what could happen to Moka if we use it recklessly."
'Alright' the reformed imagin said he then went to possess his contract holder turning him into M-Tsukune. He then took out the Den-O belt, pressed the top red button starting the transformation chime "Henshin."
"SWORD FORM." The mechanical voice of the belt sounded and Plat Form formed around M-Tsukune, then the red aura skin and armor attached itself to his chest and shoulders, finally the forms peach shaped Denkamen face mask slid down the train track-like strip in the middle of his face and pealed to form the eye markers.
"IKUZE, IKUZE, IKUZE!" Den-O SF said as he formed the dengasher into a sword and ran up to slash the Monkey imagin "Ore sanjō, oi monkey yaro, let me say this to start; from start to finish I'm at the CLIMAX!" He then went on to slash at the creature repeatedly with his sword.
"Den-O you traitorous filth have you completely forgotten the plan!?" exclaimed the monkey imagin.
"How could I have forgotten, I never knew?" Den-o SF rebutted "Now, hissatsu-."
But the imagin took out a small black ball and smashed it on the ground releasing a bright 'Ah, flash bomb' Tsukune grunted as Den-O SF covered their eyes.
When the flash died down and the sight returned to his eyes Den-O saw that the monkey Imagin got away. "Tsk he got away; he didn't even let me perform my Hissatsu Waza." Den-O SF pouted as he deactivated the henshin and left his contract holders body allowing him to check up on the girl who was attacked.
Said girl was wearing a variation of the student uniform with a yellow sweater vest instead of the green jacket. She appeared to have the same build as Moka; slender figure and fair skin. She had bright blue hair that was done up in a ponytail, with a purple ribbon, and her eyes were an alluring shade of purple, but the most notable thing about her was her above average bust line "A-A-Are ok-?" He began to ask with a stutter as he noticed her beauty.
But suddenly she brought Tsukune into a death hug crying her eyes out smothering him in her oversized chest "OH THANK YOU, THANK YOUFOR SAVEING ME!" The girl yelled in relief.
After composing herself the girl apologized and properly introduced herself "Sorry about that, I'm Kurumu Kurano but you can call me Kurumu-chan, thank you for saving me from that thing, whatever it was."
"You're welcome Kurumu-san." Tsukune said, to which she pouted because he didn't use the honorific she wanted "But, unfortunately I managed to scare it off, it will come back for you, those things never give up."
"What!" The girl asked as her eyes widened in horror. Could it be him? She thought he eyes wide with fear.
"Don't worry Kurumu-san I promise I'll protect you in case that thing comes back." He said with a look that radiated confidence "Oh, in all of the confusion I forgot to introduce myself. My name is-."
"Tsukune Aono." Said Kurumu cutting him off. "I sit right next to you in class, which means I'll be seeing you in a few minutes." She said with a wink causing Tsukune to blush as she walked away swinging her hips, neither noticing a glowing yellow orb enter Tsukune, sand erupting from his body.
Just then Moka found him and ran up to the young rider. "There you are Tsukune." She said. She then saw Kurumu walking away "Tsukune who is that girl?" She asked curiously.
"Um, that's Kurumu Kurano." He answered "And I guess you could say that I sort of put her under our protection."
"Huh!?" She said in bewilderment.
"I'm sorry master." The Monkey imagin said to its contract holder "Den-O interfered and I was forced to flee."
"See that it doesn't happen again." The contract holder said to the kaijn "And take care of that, Den-O was it? Whatever, just take care of him."
"Yes sir." And with that the imagin vanished to carry out its orders.
"Soon my dear Kurumu." The unseen contract holder grinned creepily. "Soon."
The Monkey Imagin reappeared on a tree near the academy and began plotting on ways to carry out his masters orders and get rid of Den-O. "And I know just how to accomplish it."
Later after class Tsukune was explaining to Moka and Hana what happened that morning involving Kurumu and the Monkey Imagin, and how he promised to keep her safe in case it came back. While Moka was unsure about the girl Hana only wanted to take care of the imagin. "I don't know what you're so worried about Moka-chan, the way I see it we find out who's after this Kurumu girl and why, destroy the imagin and let you're other side teach his place and get back home for supper." The brunette said casually.
"I know Hana-san but something just isn't siting right with me." Moka said with a worried tone.
"Moka, I'm saying this as a friend." Hana began. "You, are, being, paranoid, and jealous."
"Maybe you're right Hana I need to calm down." But then the second thing she said registered "hey." to which her friend chucked mischievously
The trio was currently heading to the lunch room to meet with Kurumu and get some clues about who was after her. When suddenly, "Moka Akashia!" called a voice, "I challenge you!" When the group found the source of the voice they saw none other than Kurumu herself sitting on the railing of the stairs leading up to the second floor, however, something about her seemed different to Tsukune. She then jumped down from the railing landing gracefully on her feet, doing so attracting a crowd mostly consisting of guys.
"What do you mean, challenge?" Moka asked confused.
"I'm challenging you for the title of school beauty." She proclaimed, again Tsukune sensing something wrong with her, it may have only been for a few seconds but for some reason this seemed like a completely different girl. "I'm sick of the fact that you make guys just drop at your feet without even so much as an effort, a succubus like me would kill for that kind of ability, making me seem like an idiot."
"Hey you're not supposed to reveal your monster identity like that." Moka said trying to be nice and keep Kurumu out of trouble.
"Who cares!?" The blue haired succubus said. "I only came to this school is to put the male population completely under my control."
Finally snapping, Tsukune decided to get in between the two, "Ok Kurumu-san unless you have an evil twin you're acting completely differently from this mourning and-."
But he was cut off because Kurumu then latched onto him in the form of a tight hug "Oh Tsukune there you are, I've been looking for you everywhere." She said joyously as she pulled him into a tight embrace earning him glares from the crowd surrounding the group.
"Kurumu-san, what are you-." He started to say.
"Aw come on Tsukune, it's rude to talk to someone and not look them in the eye." When she managed to lock eyes with him she executed her plan. "Charm" she spoke under her breath. With that incantation she let loose a wave of magic into Tsukune causing his eyes to dull heh, heh got you Den-O "Come on Tsukune let's get out of here."
As if without a soul Tsukune willingly complied. "Whatever you say Kurumu-chan."
"Wait Tsukune, what about the imagin?" Moka tried to argue.
"Is that the best you've got to keep me and my blood around?" Tsukune droned. "That's the only reason you keep me around right? For a little pick me up in the morning. I'm just an endless juice box to you aren't I." Was what he was saying but what he was thinking was. What am I doing? Moka don't listen to me, Momotaros do something!
"A juice box." Kurumu said with mock horror as she hugged Tsukune's arm "No wonder you always look like a zombie in the morning." She said with a sinister smile. "Come on Tsukune let's get you away from this vile woman."
"Anything to get away from her." At that comment Moka started to tear up. Having enough she just ran off tears in her eyes Hana following to offer support flashing the boy a dirty look. Moka, Hana, wait, Momotaros where are you, you'd kill for a chance to possess me and when I say you can you don't, when suddenly a thought came to the young rider wait a minute what if he can't possess me because of whatever Kurumu did to me.
On the Denliner Tsukune's fear was proving to be true because Momotaros had sensed that his contract holder's presence was fainter than it normally was. When he tried to possess the boy all that happened was him painfully head-butting the wall of the dining car "Oi what the hell kid let me in!" the red imagin yelled in annoyance
"This does not bode well." Owner said seriously as Naomi brought him a plat of pudding with the usual mini toothpick flag sticking out.
"There you go Owner-san." The waitress said cheerily.
"Arigato Naomi-kun." The well-dressed man said as he at away, avoiding the toothpick flag.
"Wait a minute." Momotaros said as he looked up. "Owner, that kid formed a double contract with that vampire chick. does that mean I have a connection to her to?"
"It is entirely possible." Owner said just before he took too big a scoop of the pudding causing the flag to drop and made his trademark surprised face and quickly composed himself. "Why don't you try contacting Akashia-san to prove your hypothesis?" he said in his usual sage-like voice.
At that time Moka was crying her eyes out in between two school buildings from the hurtful things Tsukune said to her, with Hana comforting her. "I can't believe Tsukune would say something like that." She sobbed.
"Hey don't worry next time I see him I'll give him a piece of my mind so don't worry Moka-chan." Hana said holding her hand with a confident look on her face.
Moka continued to let it all out when suddenly she heard a voice "Oi vampire chick can you hear me?"
"Momotaros is that you?" She asked in confusion
"Momo?" Asked Hana. "Oi what do you think you're doing Baka-Momo."
"Ignoring the hanakuso onna, for some reason I can't possess Tsukune."
"I was afraid of this." spoke the inner Moka as the rosary's gem glowed.
"Who said that?" The Momotaros asked.
"I did, I'm using the rosary as a medium." she explained. "Anyway on to the matter at hand, that Kurumu girl is a succubus, a breed of demon that preys on men, utilizing a special type of hypnosis magic called charm. I'm guessing that's why Tsukune said all those things. Oni boys' inability to possess him must be a side effect. And that's not the worst of it."
"What do you mean?" the pinkette asked fearing the worst.
"If a succubus kisses someone under the influence of their charm they will be under their control, forever."
"Oh no, Hana we need to find Tsukune, quick" Moka said franticly.
"Let me lead the way." Said Momotaros "It may be faint but I can still sense him."
"And how exactly do you plan to do that?" Moka-sama asked critically.
"Like this." And with that Moka was enveloped in a red haze, surprising Hana. Her hair became wilder and crackled with electricity, her eyes turned from emerald green to ruby red, and a single strand of her bubblegum pink hair turned to electric red, with a wild grin on her face she declared "Ore sanjō," Momotaros had turned Moka into M-Moka "now follow me."
"Like I have a choice, next time warn me when you do something like that!" Moka yelled at the imagin as he used her body to run through the halls to find Tsukune, Hana following close behind.
"This just gets weirder and weirder." Hana deadpanned.
Meanwhile with Tsukune and Kurumu, the succubus had led Tsukune to the nurse's office having charmed the personnel away. 'I can't believe I said all those horrible things to Moka.' thought Tsukune. 'More importantly why did I say those things?'
"Now Den-O," Kurumu said in a distorted voice turning to Tsukune, he nails lengthened to the size of long swords and looked just as sharp. "Time to die." she said menacingly.
'What the, is she crazy!' Tsukune panicked in his head.
She stalked towards him ready to slice him in two when she suddenly began to clutch her head in pain. "What the, I thought I sealed you up girl." She grunted.
'What's going on?' Tsukune wondered.
"RUN GET OUT OF HERE TSUKUNE I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG I CAN HOLD HIM BACK!" Kurumu yelled her voice returning to normal. Using he last seconds of control she freed Tsukune from the charm "Damn her, well at least I'm back in control," her voice becoming distorted again. "Well if you won't go quietly Den-o then that's your problem!" She yelled as she lunged for him.
As she began to close the distance between them time seemed to slow down for the boy. Great I can move on my own again and I'm about to be cut in two. As he prepared for the worst one word burst from his throat "MOMOTAROS!"
As if answering his call the door flew right off its tracks and into the possessed Kurumu sending her crashing through the window, the one responsible for the act was M-Moka. "Oi Tsukune what do you think you're doing making the vampire chick cry?" Momotaros said as he left the vampire's body to deliver a sandy punch to the boy causing Moka to panic "I like you kid, but despite being controlled I figured you would be the last person to say something like that."
"Aw, is the big bad demon going soft on us." said Hana as she poked her head through the door to admire their handy work "Damn, monster strength is no joke, I'm impressed Moka-Chan." She said as she admired the vampire's handiwork.
But their reprieve was short lived, because Kurumu flew back up to the window, yes flew, because now she had a pair of black demon-style wings coming out of her back along with a spade tipped tail, her ears had become also become elf-like "You filth, I will make you all suffer." She roared as she charged for them "Starting with you Den-O!"
"Looks like you need my help, boy-kun." A new voice said in Tsukune's head.
Oh no not another one. Tsukune thought in despair.
He was then surrounded by a blue aura and just as he was about to be run through, he bobbed under the trust, put his hand to Kurumu's stomach "Sorry but you will be the one to suffer imagin-kun." And with that he pushed her with the strength of fifty men, sending back out the window and about 15 kilometer away.
When we get a good look at the new Tsukune we see that his hair became calm and straightened, a blue streak now in his hair "My, this looks like a bad case of an imagin possession." He said in a suave voice.
"Tsukune?" Moka asked.
"Now if I'm seeing this boy's memories right." He said as he reached for Moka's rosary. "Then removing this should unlock you're full power, Vampire-chan."
"Tsukune what are you-?" But she couldn't finish due to the seal on her powers being removed and the shift between inner and outer Moka had begun.
A bright pink light was released and the transformation began. Her hair became starlight silver, he nails clawed out, and her overall physically appealing features grew to proportion, she then opened her red slit eyes and glared at the possessed Tsukune "Good grief not another one." Moka-sama said in exasperation then her eyes widened as she remembered what he said. "Wait a minute, did you say imagin possession?"
"Why yes I did Vampire-chan." the new imagin possessing Tsukune said "I can hold her off long enough for you to hopefully come up with something."
"Leave that to me." Said Hana, she then took out a device, pressed a button and case appeared in a flash of light "I had Naomi order these babies for Moka after that incident last week." she then opened the case to reveal what looked like a pair of red leg greaves with a pentagram design "They're designed to only hurt imagin, keeping any humans, or in this case Youkai, they possess safe from harm, they weigh almost nothing, deliver an insane amount of damage, and they can exorcize an imagin from anyone they possess, I call them image banishers."
Hana quickly put the greaves on the vampire's legs leaving her to test out her new equipment "Whoa your right, it's like they're not even there." Moka-sama praised.
"Well now that that's out of the way." He then took out the Den-O belt "Time to cast the line." He then pressed the blue button, second from the top releasing a repetitive almost electric bongo beat "Henshin." He then swiped the pass in front of the crystal embedded in the belt.
The belt then called out "ROD FORM." Plat form once again covered Tsukune's body, the six pieces of the aura armor appeared circling their owner attaching themselves so that the yellow and black side would go onto his chest. However, before it attached on, the yellow chest opened up to reveal blue and orange turtle shell themed armor, this armor attached to his chest while the sword form armor snapped onto the back, finally, a blue "turtle" with silver flippers rode on the tracks on Den-O helmet before the shell opened up and the fins flipped around so that the long sharp tips faced up revealing orange lenses with an aqua hexagon on the forehead.
[Insert song-Double Action Rod Form]
By the time the transformation sequence finished the possessed Kurumu was back in view "Mind if I, real you in?" the new Den-O said with a twirl as he arranged the dengasher parts into a staff with a bladed tip.
While he did that Moka-sama rushed forward and, using her new greaves, kicked the incoming Kurumu in the stomach, but instead of a grunt of pain, a surge caused something to phase out of her back revealing the monkey imagin from that morning, leaving an unconscious Kurumu "I may not be fond of using weapons, but if it means teaching these walking sand box's their place I'll gladly make an exception. Now, KNOW YOUR PLACE!" she roared as she flipped over Kurumu and delivered a powerful heal kick to the kaijin's face sending him crashing to the ground.
Den-O rod form followed in pursuit attempting to deliver a powerful strike to his opponent on the way down but the imagin rolled out of the way. Both oppositions got up staring each other down "Another traitor." The monkey imagin said with venom in it's voice "I'll be doing our race a favor, getting rid of you Den-O, in more ways than one."
"Sorry monkey-kun, but I'm sort of attached to this body." Den-O rod form countered as he ducked under a strike from the imagin's bow staff, seeing an opening the train rider went in and swung the bladed tip of his weapon striking the time parasite, releasing a flash of sparks form the creature, he repeated this about seven times befor he was satisfied "Well, I think that's enough slack, time to real in the catch. (A/N. Honestly I don't know where I'm getting all these fishing phrases from, I don't even fish!?) Vampire-chan you think you can help me reel this one in!" He called to Moka-sama
"If one more sand creature orders me around I'm going to lose it." Moka-sama said as a blood vein bulged on her pale forehead. She then ran, jumpong out the window to the ground ready to deliver a combined finisher.
Den-O then took out the liner pass again and held it in front of the belt. "FULL CHARGE" the belt announced as blue electricity crackled into the rod's butt and it surged with energy.
He then threw it javelin style at the imagin, "Here's the Solid Attack." but instead of going through him it generated a blue hexagonal energy field immobilizing his prey, "The Aura cast." finally he and Moka-sama leapt in the air and used gravity to execute a powerful side kick "Den-rider kick" Den-O rod form called out as they made contact with the imagin causing it to explode, the pair appearing on the other side of the explosion, kneeling on the ground unharmed.
[End song]
"Well that was fun." he said as he turned to Moka-sama "Now how about you and I go and spend a night on the town Vampire-chan."
"Call me that again and I'll show you your place, sand freak." She said as she tore the Den-O belt off the rider
"Thank you Moka-sama" Tsukune said with a sigh of relief free of the new 'ally'. She held out her hand expectantly "Oh the rosary" he chucked sheepishly as he handed her the seal "Now let's go check on Kurumu-san."
"Don't bother, were already here" they turned and saw Hana with an unconscious and fully transformed Kurumu draped over her shoulder "She woke up just long enough to fly the both of us down to the ground, then she just collapsed again." She explained.
"Why would she do that?!"Tsukune asked in concern as her breathing seemed labored. I couldn't protect her even after I promised that i would.
"Hana does the Denliner have any medical facility's?" asked Moka-sama turning to the girl.
"Yeah there is." she said as she checked her watch "And we're in luck, it's a few minutes before 12:12 let's get her there quick, Moka-chan, sorry Moka-sama, please help me get her to the nearest door." she said as Moka-sama took Kurumu's other arm over her shoulder and they hurried as quickly as they could to find a door in the next few minutes.
They managed to find a door with plenty of time to spare; now all they had to do was wait for the numbers to line up. As they waited Kurumu began to stir, "Moka, is that you?"
"Save your energy succubus, just focus on recovering." Moka-sama said sternly.
"I just wanted to say, I'm sorry for all the stuff that thing made me do." the blue haired girl said weakly.
"If you want to apologize, do it to my more sentimental side." the S-class vampire said to her before she fell asleep again. And just in time because the time was now 12:12:12, Tsukune opened the door to show the sands of time and they hurried the injured girl onto the train for treatment.
To be continued
Next time on Imagin+vampire
"The stuff that thing made me say wasn't entirely a lie."
"How about we call you Urataros?"
"Your mine Kurumu!"
"I won't let anything happen to you Kurumu!"
"Tsukune you're the one."
Just wanted to say hey to the good readers of the world and explain my logic behind my interpretation of the introduction of everyone's favorite blue haired, big boobed succubus. It's quite simple really, the imagin screw with EVERYTHING. Anyway if you're a true R+V fan you'll know who the monkey imagin's contract holder is and for putting him in early i am sorry. See you soon.
