Alien Watch in a Monster School

by Emblemfan1

Christian Hawke's been given the mission to build a bridge between the world of humans and monsters. What challenges await him in his quest for peace? Will his bonds with his new friends help in his task or lead him to despair? Armed with his new Omnitrix, anything is possible.

4. Chapter 4

"..." Speech

'...' Quote

'Hi' Thought

"Learn your place!" Inner Moka through Rosario

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my OC

Alien Watch in a Monster School

The Fan Boys' Fearsome Rath

It had been two days since Yukari declared her love. Since then, the boy's life had become even more hectic. Christian didn't really care though. In fact he had been acting rather strangely.

He still chatted with his friends, however at the same time he seemed distant, like he wasn't truly there in spirit. Of course the girls had noticed and were concerned. They all knew why Christian had been in his slump. As did the rest of the school, after all, they had been tormenting him for it. The news Christian had almost killed the Class Rep had spread like wildfire. Of course they all knew what the Class Rep had done to deserve such a fate but the jealousy of the students had for Christian was too strong. They all blamed him for the Rep's condition and if their insults were bad before, their death threats were worse.

Of course, Moka and the others had tried to defend him, but to the other students of the academy, Christian was public enemy number one. He couldn't go anywhere without being the target for verbal abuse. This made it all the better when Christian was able to go back to his dorm and rest.

Unfortunatley, luck was not on Christian's side that day. When returned to his room and checked his laptop, he discovered to video call from Max Tennyson waiting for him. Steeling himself, Christian answered and was greeted by the magister's angry face.

"Christian, we need to talk," Max stated. "I read your report and I can't believe you would do something as foolish as use the evolution feature to defeat a foe who couldn't even protect himself. I am very disappointed in your cause of actions," he lectured. Christian remained silent and looked at the ground. Max sighed. "That being said, you were provoked. I may not condone your actions but I don't blame you for wanting to avenge your friend." Christian raised his head slightly. "I know that it has been tough for you, but you need to cool your anger around people like that or one day you will go too far."

I know..." Christian said sullenly. "I never meant to take it far. But it was like the evolved Vaxasaurian DNA took over. The only reason I was able to regain control back there was because Moka and others were able to talk some sense into me."

On the screen, Max moved his hand to his chin. "That doesn't sound right. When Ben had the Ultimatrix, he never had this problem with the ultimate," he noted. However both Max and Christian knew that wasn't exactly true. There had been a point when the ultimate aliens had become sentient and had been trapped inside the Ultimatrix. Ben had almost died setting them free from the device. However Azmuth had fixed that fault.

"I will discuss this matter with Azmuth; he may have the answers we want," Max told him. "In the meantime, refrain from using the evolution feature unless it is absolutely necessary."

"At this point in time, I'm going to refrain from using the Omnitrix. I don't think I'm ready to use it again."

"It's not the machine that makes the man Christian; it's what he does with it that defines him. Remember that."

Christian nodded, but he still seemed unsure. "Yes, sir."

Max looked at the teen for a few more moments before sighing. "That will be all for now. I'll let you get some sleep." Christian once again nodded; he had wanted the conversation to end anyway. "Remember that I still need to talk to Miss Akashiya. It is important that if she knows your secret, she understands why it must be kept."

"Yes, sir. Goodnight."

"Goodnight, Christian. Remember, don't fear your power. Use it to protect those you care for." With that, the call ended.

Christian turned off the laptop before getting ready to turn in. Once he had turned off the light and got into bed, he stayed up and looked at the device on his wrist. 'How can I not fear this thing if I can't even control myself when using it?' He asked himself before he turned in his bed and allowed sleep to overtake him.

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Christian found himself in a dark, empty void. Looking around, he found nothing but the empty vastness of space. "Hello!" he called out. There was no answer.

Suddenly, colour flooded his vision and forced him to avert his eyes. When he could finally see again, he found himself in the middle of the forest surrounding the school. He noticed figures were now around him. Upon closer inspection, Christian was able to make out Moka, Kurumu, Yukari and Zack. They were all in a fighting stance, ready to face an unknown enemy obscured in shadow. Fear was evident on their faces. Kurumu had transformed into her monster form while Yukari had her wand outstretched in front of her.

Kurumu was the first to strike, leaping forward with her claws out stretched. However, the moment she got close, she was swatted away like an insignificant fly. She hit the ground hard and looked up just in time to see the large figure stomp on her. She was crushed instantly beneath the weight, leaving a bloody stain on the ground and a broken body.

"NO!" Christian yelled in absolute horror. He tried to move but found himself unable to. His felt like he had been chained down. He struggled to move his body to no avail. He was forced to watch as the rest of his friends engaged the figure. One by one, they fell. Yukari was next. She lasted just as long as Kurumu. Before Christian could even blink, she had been thrown across the area. She hit her head on a large rock and flopped to the ground. Blood flowed from her head as she passed.

"PLEASE STOP!" Christian begged, tears freely flowing down his face.

Zack was next. The figure simply picked the boy up in one large fist. Zack struggled until the figure just used its large thumb to snap the boy's neck. It then threw the body down to the ground as it moved towards the last person standing...

Moka

"DON'T DO THIS! PLEASE! I BEG YOU!" Christian shouted in desperation as he watched the figure slowly approach the cowering Moka. "RUN MOKA, RUN!" he pleaded, desperate for her to survive. However it appeared Moka could not hear him. She backed away from the figure. She was finally stopped as she pinned herself against a tree.

The figure stopped just in front of the girl, seemingly eyeing her. It then raised one large hand towards her as Moka said, "Please don't do this. Don't do this Christian."

The blood in his veins ran cold, not believing the words to be true. To his horror, the figure became clearer. Its features revealed. It was him as Ultimate Humungousaur, his right arm shifted into a bio-cannon.

"No. It can't be..." Christian said, his voice barely a whisper, "I would never do this."

"And yet you have!" Ultimate Humungousaur said suddenly, surprising the teen. "Now watch as I kill this insect!" It shot one single blast of energy, causing an explosion that engulfed Moka, forcing Christian to listen to her screams as she burned.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Christian screamed towards the sky before he was finally allowed to collapse to his knees. His tears burned his face as he cried out in sadness. It wasn't until he felt the large footsteps of Ultimate Humungousaur that he looked up from the ground to see the massive titan in front of him. An evil sneer was plastered on its face. "Why!? Why did you do this!?"

"This is what you are to become," the alien replied. "You will kill your friends because you allowed your anger to blind you."

"I will never become you!" Christian shouted back.

"We will see," the alien smirked, an eerie chuckle escaping the titans lips. "For now...DIE!"

With that, the alien pointed his still transformed hand towards Christian. There was a flash of green and then everything went white.

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"AHHHHHHHHH!" Christian screamed as he flew from his bed in a cold sweat, panting hard. "It was...just...a dream..." he assured himself between breaths. He leaned back on his bed in relief. He turned his eyes to his alarm clock on his side table to find it was only 5 am. "Great..." he growled knowing he wasn't going to get back to sleep.

BANG BANG

Christian's attention was drawn to the sound of someone bashing their fist against his door.

"Bro! Are you okay?" Christian recognised the voice as his new friend, Zack Orion. As Zack continued to bash on his door, Christian finally managed to will himself to get up. Opening the door, Christian was met with the worried eyes of his friend.

"Bro, are you alright?" Zack asked the instant he opened the door. Christian was only just able to make out that Zack was wearing a pair of boxers with a blue and white flame pattern and a white t-shirt.

Christian gave a small smile. "Yeah, just some bad dreams," he lied. What he had just experienced could only be described as hell.

"I think it's a little bit more than 'some bad dreams'. You were screaming your head off. You practically woke up everyone in the dorms."

Surprised, Christian stuck his head out to look down the corridor to find other members of the male dorm gazing at him with looks of concern, annoyance and hatred. Mostly the latter.

Once the boys had realised he was looking at them they retreated back into their rooms, leaving Christian and Zack standing in the middle of the corridor. Christian suddenly felt the cold night wind brush against his body. It was then that he realised that he was only wearing a pair of boxers, making him very self-conscious. He raised his hands to his elbows as he began to shake.

"Want to go inside?" Zack snickered.

Christian gave a grateful nod before the two entered his room. Christian closed the door and gestured for Zack to take a seat at the table in the corner while he went to grab a black shirt.

"So, motorbikes, huh?" Christian heard Zack say from the table as he pulled the shirt over his head.

"What?"

"Your boxers."

Christian looked down to find that he was wearing the boxers that Ben had given him for his last birthday as a joke present. The boy instantly turned red.

Christian had always liked motorbikes and Ben had known. Therefore, his present to him that year had been these boxers and a set of keys to his own bike that Ben and his friend, Kevin Levin, had built for him. Since he was a plumber, Christian already had his driver's license, unfortunately he couldn't drive it leisurely until he was sixteen. Luckily, his birthday was coming up soon so that wouldn't be a problem. Maybe once he was allowed to drive he could take Moka for a ride? After that thought, he felt a bit of heat on his cheeks.

"Are they that embarrassing?" Zack's asked, bringing the teen out of his thoughts.

"No..." Christian replied slowly. "They're a birthday present from a friend."

Zack gave him a quizzical look before accepting the answer. "Okay then." His eyes moved to the side of the room towards the bed before he looked back towards his friend with concern. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." He lied, wanting to drop the subject.

"Dude, it was more than a bad dream. You were screaming your head off. You woke up half the building. Some of the girls in the other building may have heard you." Zack countered, becoming frustrated.

Had he really been that loud?

"I-I really don't want to talk about it."

Zack's eyes softened. "Sometimes the way to make it better is to talk."

Christian looked at Zack's calm face and feet that he could somehow trust the boy. "You're not going to let this go are you?"

"No chance," Zack replied with a smirk. "If you don't tell me now, I'm going to get the girls to talk to you later."

Not wanting his other friends to know about this little episode, Christian sucked up his courage before he began to tell his friend about his nightmare.

All the way through, Zack just listened. He didn't interrupt or ask questions. He just nodded his head. Christian didn't realise it at first, but he felt a small tear roll down his cheek as he finished recounting the horror he had been forced to experience.

At the end, Zack got up to place a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Bro, you shouldn't need to worry about that. What the Class Rep did was plenty reason enough for what you did to him. Let it go."

"How can I let it go?!" Christian countered angrily. "I almost killed someone! I breached almost every principle I have when I attacked him!" Angry tears formed in his eyes as he continued to yell his mind. "I used my powers to try and kill someone! I was the true monster in that situation!" Before Christian could continue, he found himself stopped by something impacting with the side of his face.

He fell to the ground disoriented and when he finally managed to find his bearings, he looked up only to see Zack's angry face. The teen had punched him.

"You don't understand, do you!? You don't get what you're doing to yourself?" He began to make his way towards the door. "Listen Bro... I know that you've been out of it since you went...berserk." The word made Christian cringe. "But you need to get over it," Zack continued. "If you don't, you are never going to be able to protect those closest to you. And dude, everyone at this school is a monster, it was kind of the point when making it." With those last words, Zack left Christian's room and headed back to his own.

"If you're going to be a hero Bro, It's time you started acting like one," Zack muttered to himself as walked down the corridor.

Back in Christian's room, the teen finally pulled himself off the ground and sat on his bed, his face focused on the ground.

"Pretty soon I'll have been here a whole month." Christian muttered to himself. On his first day at the academy, Christian had discovered that the bus back to the human world only arrived once a month. Now there were only two days until a full month had past. If he wanted to, he could go home. Abandon his mission and go back to Bellwood. However, in doing that, he would have to leave his friends. he didn't want to leave, but after the past few days' events, did he have any right to be with them?

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Christian's thoughts weighed too heavily on his mind and he found himself unable to get back to sleep. Therefore the young plumber found himself performing his normal morning routine.

After a wash, a change of clothes and a quick breakfast consisting of buttered toast and apple juice, (Christian made a quick mental note to go shopping for groceries. Christian was ready to head to the academy...in two hours. It was still early morning and he had time to kill so he decided to get some homework done. May as well do something.

However, he soon found it to be a fruitless endeavour as his thoughts drifted to what he knew was going to happen within the next few hours. As soon as he left, he was going to be insulted and tormented by his fellow peers for the events that had transpired. People had begun to throwing things at him as he passed them on the path or in the corridors. Of course Christian ignored them, but it didn't mean that it didn't hurt.

Christian dropped his pen onto the desk in frustration. He couldn't concentrate on it while this shit was on his mind. Leaning back in his chair, he raised his left wrist to look at the Omnitrix. Despite the fact that he had been using it to help his friends, Christian found himself unable to even activate it to scroll through the suggestions. He feared that if he did, he would be unable to control the alien DNA. That nightmare definitely didn't help his convictions. At this point, he desperately wanted to remove the device and return it to its rightful owner. However in doing that, he would have to leave as the school would be too dangerous for him to stay. That and everyone believed if he took off his 'limiter' he would die as his various 'monster' forms would overrun him and kill him.

Christian was torn. He could either remove the Omnitrix and go home, never to see his friends again. Or he could suck it up and keep going. He had to decide soon because tomorrow was the day it could all end.

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Moka stood outside the dorms buildings, waiting for Christian to arrive so they could walk to school together. However, he was taking longer than normal. As the vampire girl watched the other students leave, she saw no sign of her Omnitrix bearing friend. Kurumu and the rest of their friends had already gone ahead, believing Christian had gone earlier to avoid the hassle. Moka however had decided to stay behind in case he hadn't left yet.

Luck was on her side. Only once all of the other students had left did Christian make his appearance. As the boy made his way towards her, Moka's smile grew. But as he came closer, it faded.

The boy in front of her didn't seem to resemble Christian at all. His normally neat brown hair was messy; his clothes looked ragged as if they had just been slung on. His movements were slow and staggered, however what worried Moka the most were her friend's eyes. They seemed distant, despite the fact Christian was looking at her, they seemed to pass through her like she was invisible.

"Christian…?"

Almost instantly, the teen snapped out of whatever he had been thinking about. He looked around as if he hadn't realised where he was. However, upon seeing Moka; a small, tired smile appeared on his face.

"Oh hey. Good morning, Moka," he greeted casually, like he hadn't just been walking like a zombie.

"Good morning, Christian," she replied hesitantly, still slightly worried. "How are you this morning?"

"I've been better," he admitted, scratching the back of his head. "I didn't sleep very well."

Moka looked at him quizzically before nodding. "Well...as long as you're okay then."

"Don't worry, Moka. I'm fine." He then looked around the area, as if expecting something. "Where are the others?"

"They went on ahead. They thought that you may have already left."

His tired eyes seemed the tinniest bit happier. "Well I'm glad you did," he started, "I guess that means it'll be quieter than normal though. Still, the company's great so I can't complain." The vampire girl's cheeks reddened but Christian seemingly didn't notice. "C'mon, if we don't hurry we're going to be late."

Moka's blush vanished as she realised Christian was right. She ran a few paces to catch up before they walked side by side towards the school. However they were unaware of the three pairs of gleaming eyes, glaring angrily at them, one pair shining more brightly than the others.

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Christian and Moka had only just made it into their class before the bell rang signalling the start of the day. From the annoyed look on Kurumu's face, he could tell she was miffed she'd been wrong about him having already been at school.

Upon taking his seat, he could feel all the angry glares of the students around him, each one wanting to try and take him down. With a sigh, he took out his books and listened to the teacher's lecture, a thoughtful expression on his face. Amidst his thoughts, he didn't realise the concerned expressions of his friends.

'Chris, what's wrong with you?' Moka wondered.

'There's got to be a way to get him out of his funk...' Kurumu told herself.

For the rest of the lesson, Christian remained silent as he worked. Every so often he would look up and stare out the window towards the forest as if there was something out amongst the dead trees.

It came as a relief when the bell rang, signifying homeroom with Ms. Nekonome. However, when the teacher entered with her cheerful smile, she noticed the atmosphere in the room and her expression fell. Her cat ear like hair drooped and her tail, which she did a horrible job of hiding, stayed still. After taking registration, she tried to cheer the class up with some weird stories relating to cats. However, that just made things more awkward for her pupils.

Once again it was a relief when the bell rang. As Christian got up to leave, he was stopped by his teacher.

"Mr. Hawke, can you please take the bin to the incinerator out back? It has been full for a while."

Christian responded with a nod. "Yes miss, I'll take care of it."

"Thank you very much," the teacher said with a cheerful smile. As Christian picked up the bin and made his way to leave, Ms. Nekonome stopped him again. "And Mr Hawke, please don't worry about the events the other day, you responded the way most would."

Christian looked at his teacher with wide eyes before a small smile appeared on his face. "Thank you, Ms. Nekonome," he replied as he left, leaving his teacher inwardly celebrating that she managed to make him feel a little better.

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Christian made his way to the back of the school where the incinerator was. As he walked, he thought about the situation and his mission.

"What am I gonna do?" he asked himself with a sigh as he approached the incinerator.

"You! Christian Hawke!"

Surprised, the teen turned towards the source of the voice. What he found was not one, but three people. The first one was tall and had long, shaggy brown hair. He wore glasses on his face. The second guy was short and pudgy with spiky, straw blond hair. And finally, the guy between them, who was the one who had spoken, had reddish blond hair and looked like your everyday average guy. However, the weird thing about them was that they were all crying and seething at him in anger. Ok, maybe the last one wasn't weird considering recent events.

"Yeah, is there something you want?" Christian replied, confused as to why the three had approached him.

"Today is the day we finally declare war on you, Christian Hawke!" the average guy proclaimed. He was clearly the leader of the three.

"Declare…war…?"

"We'll never forgive you!" cried the fat boy.

"Huh?" Christian gawked,utterly confused. "Why? What did I ever do to you?"

"You don't know?" the average guy asked with a small smirk.

"It's because you're bothering our goddesses!" the fat boy growled.

"We can't tolerate it anymore!" the boy with glasses shouted. "It's not fair that a foreigner like you just suddenly got so popular with the hottest girls in the school overnight!"

Christian couldn't believe what he was hearing. He had never met these guys before. Who were these goddesses they were talking about? He grew frustrated; he didn't have time for these guys. "That's…great, but as you can see I'm a little busy right now," he said as nicely as he could, desperately wanting to leave this awkwardness.

"Oh no you don't!" the average guy cried, once again stopping Christian. "You can't leave until we say you can!"

With that, the three guys grabbed hold of their jackets and ripped them off, revealing pink coats underneath with something written on them Christian couldn't understand.

"Formation start!" the average guy cried as he began to a strange dance and sang, "Give me an M, give me an O, give me a K and give me an A! What's that spell? MOKA!"

"I'm gonna cheer for the woman of my dreams too, bub!" the chubby boy declared as he began dancing and chanting too. "Kurumu, Kurumu, she's my love! Touch her and you'll get a shove!"

The boy with glasses suddenly followed his cohorts' actions and began to sing in a high voice. "Y! U! K! A! R! I! Yukari! Yaaaaeeee!"

Christian's jaw dropped when he realised what this was all about. "Oh God. Please don't tell me..." he began with a pleading expression.

"That's right!" the average guy announced. "I'm the leader of the Moka Akashiya Fan Club, Kouzou Kasahara!"

"And me, I'm the leader of the Kurumu Kurono Fan Club, Gouzaburou Taira!" the chubby boy proclaimed.

"And I'm the leader of the Yukari Sendo Fan Club, Kubisaku Naga!" the boy with glasses announced.

"And together we are... The Cute Girls Fan Club Coalition!" the three cried in unison, posing weirdly.

Suddenly the area around them became very quiet; the only sound to be heard was the blowing of the wind.

"That's...nice..." Christian finally managed to say, feeling extremely awkward. He quickly opened the incinerator and threw the rubbish in before he could be interrupted again. "It was nice...meeting you, but...I think I should go."

He turned to leave before he heard Kubisaku shout out. "Don't think you can just get away from us that easily!" Christian turned around to find all the boys were holding megaphones. "You are our sworn enemy!"

"Our vengeance will be painful and swift!" Gouzaburou added, pointing his own megaphone at Christian. "You won't know what hit you!"

"Prepare, yourself, Hawke!" Kouzou finished, raising his own megaphone.

"Guys, I'm not going to fight you," Christian stated. Unfortunately his words fell on deaf ears, because no sooner had he said those words did the three attack.

"Love-Love Alliance!" Kouzou shouted loudly. "Charge! Fearsome Wrath!"

The trio then ran towards him and began hitting the Omnitrix teen with their megaphones, unleashing their 'fearsome wrath' whilst chanting those exact words. The boy in question however did nothing to stop them and just stood up straight.

A: because their megaphones were made out of a soft plastic and didn't hurt. And B: Christian was too dumbfounded that this was their 'fearsome wrath'. It wasn't even intimidating.

After about thirty seconds, Christian had enough of the idiotic display. Using his Plumber training, he jumped into the air and performed a back flip, surprising the three other boys. Christian landed on Gouzaburou's head and then performed a second flip, pushing Gouzaburou into his two friends and causing the three of them to fall over each other, Gouzaburou crushing his fellow members with his weight.

'That's not pretty,' Christian thought as he landed on the ground. However, he noticed the position he had landed in. His legs were far apart for balance where as his chest was slightly bent over. The Omnitrix was activated and Christian's right hand was ready to press down on the core. His eyes widened in horror realising what he had almost done. He quickly deactivated the device, not able to believe he had almost transformed to fight people who he was sure couldn't protect themselves.

He was brought out of his thoughts by the sound of the fan boys getting back to their feet. Kouzou glared angrily at Christian, his anger rising. "You're not good enough to be around Moka! After what you did to that class rep, it's only a matter of time before you hurt her!"

Christian's whole body froze as he heard those words, the memory of his nightmare still fresh in his mind. His arms fell to his sides as if he had been defeated by an unseen enemy and he began to shake, fear gripping him. The fan boys wasted no time in using this to their advantage. Kubisaku pushed the unresponsive boy over with ease and then the group began to hit him with their megaphones.

Christian barely felt the blows as the words of Kouzou replayed through his mind. His body paralyzed and his emotions clouding his judgement.

"What's up with this guy?!" Gouzaburou questioned between blows. "He's supposed to be strong isn't he?"

"Yeah! Why doesn't he fight back?!" Kubisaku agreed. "Is he only strong when he's in monster form?!"

"Someone like you doesn't deserve to be with any of our goddesses you trash!" Kouzou exclaimed as he hit Christian harder with his megaphone. "You should just disappear!"

Christian did nothing as the fan boys continued hitting him with their megaphones for about half a minute before somebody stopped them. A shadow of a person came out of nowhere and within seconds the fan boys found themselves falling down several feet away.

Upon feeling the disappearance of the blows, Christian looked up to find Zack standing in front of him with a playful smile on his face. He looked at the three recovering fan boys with amusement. "You know, it's not nice to gang up on people," he commented mockingly. "Especially if it's my friend."

"Who're you?!" Gouzaburou demanded once he was back on his feet.

"Me? I'm Zack. Didn't I say that already?" he asked Christian like it was supposed to be obvious. Christian just stared at him. "I can't believe you let these guys knock you down," Zack continued, completely ignoring the three boys fifteen feet from him. "I thought that this would have been easy for you."

"Hey!" Kouzou shouted, regaining Zack's attention. "Are you ignoring us!?"

"Yeah," Zack said simply before turning back to Christian. "So anyway-"

"Hey! What the hell!" Kubisaku shouted. "Stop ignoring us!"

"No," Zack replied with a shrug. "Besides, I think someone else has something to say to you." As soon as Zack said that, the trash cans and brooms in the area started to float and began to attack the three fan boys. The trio tried to protect themselves to no avail.

"What the hell is this?! It's like they're possessed or something!" Gouzaburou cried.

"It's not possession, its magic!" Kubisaku shouted excitedly.

"What the heck is going on here?!"

Five pairs of eyes turned to see Yukari running towards them, wand raised. "Leave Christian alone you jerks or I'll kick your asses!" the witch shouted.

She wasn't alone. Closely following her were Moka and Kurumu.

"It's…my love!" Kubisaku exclaimed dreamily.

"And my sweet Kurumu!" Gouzaburou drooled.

"And my Moka!" Kouzou swooned.

Once the girls finally got close enough, Kurumu began to shout at the fan boys. "What the hell are you three doing?!"

"I'll tell you," Yukari answered as she pointed her wand at the trio. "These three were ganging up on poor Christian over there."

This caused Kurumu and Moka to glare at the fan boys.

The trio, realising they had no chance, quietly began whispering to themselves.

"What should we do?" Kubisaku asked nervously.

"Gentlemen, I think it's time we initiate plan delta," Kouzou announced.

"It's risky…Do you think we can do it?" Gouzaburou questioned.

"If we work together, we can do anything. You ready?"

"Yeah!" the other two agreed.

With that the three turned back to the four people staring them down. They all wore confident, determined expressions. Suddenly they all pointed towards something to the left.

"Look at that!" they shouted, causing everyone to look in the direction they pointed. Seeing nothing they turned back to find the trio was already running away.

"Yukari," Kurumu said.

"Right!" Yukari replied, waving her wand, causing the brooms and trash cans to follow the trio to continue pummelling them.

Once satisfied, the girls ran over to their friend, who was still on the ground. Moka was the first to reach him, automatically dropping to his level and began checking him for injuries. "Christian! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine…" Christian replied, lying through his teeth. "I'll be fine." He turned to Yukari and Zack and gave them a sad smile. "Thank you for the help guys, I really appreciate it." Zack returned the smile with a small one of his own whilst Yukari blushed.

"It-it was no problem; you would do the same for me."

"Yeah, anyway let's go and get some lunch. I don't know about you guys but I'm starving," Zack interjected, walking away towards the cafeteria, his arms behind his head. Unknown to the group there was a frown on his normally goofy face.

"That sounds...good…" Christian said weakly, struggling to his feet. Moka and Kurumu saw this and helped him up.

"Are you okay? Did those guys hurt you?" Kurumu asked angrily.

"Yeah, maybe we should take you to the nurse's office?" Moka suggested her eyes full with worry.

"Seriously guys, I'm fine. They didn't really hurt me with those plastic megaphones and they weren't dangerous," he deadpanned. However, despite their actions not hurting, the same could not be said for their words. Even though Christian was acting like he was fine, he really wasn't. Kouzou's words kept going through his head and it terrified him what he could do if he lost control of an alien form when transformed. "C'mon," he said moving forward out of the girls' grips. "Let's catch up with Zack." With that he continued forward, hoping the girls would not see the fear in his eyes while missing the concern in theirs.

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That night, Christian sat at his desk doing the homework he'd been set earlier that day. However, his mind wasn't in it. Luckily, the three from earlier had not attacked again so he had managed to spend the rest of the day with Moka and the others. It had made him feel a little better about himself but the pain of Kouzou's words was still there, preventing him from fully enjoying himself.

"You're not good enough to be around Moka!"

"After what you did to that Class Rep, it's only a matter of time before you hurt her!"

"Grrrr!" Christian shouted out in frustration, scratching at his head. "Just get it out of your head, Chris," he said to himself. "It's nothing, that is never going to happen." As he said that, the memory of Ultimate Humungousaur blasting Moka in his dream flashed through his mind, causing him to get angry.

He punched the desk in frustration, letting out the breath he didn't know he had been holding. He remained still for about a minute before he silently removed his fist from the desk.

"I need some air. He changed out of his school uniform and put on a pair of blue jeans, a white shirt and black coat. Once he put on his shoes, he walked out of his room and in to the cool night air.

He went unseen by all but one as he left his lodgings. He walked out towards the fountain between the two dorms and stared at the reflection of himself in the water. With no one else around, he felt...relaxed. Closing his eyes, Christian pointed his head towards the sky, embracing the light breeze.

"Want some company?"

Christian's eyes shot open as he looked behind him to where the voice originated. Standing before him was Moka, still dressed in her school uniform minus the jacket. Her beautiful figure seemed to radiate in the moonlight. She looked at Christian with kind but pleading eyes.

"Sure...I would appreciate the company," Christian replied, his cheeks flushed as he gestured for her to join him before looking back towards the , Moka sat down to his right and copied Christian's actions, looking up towards the sky. Unfortunately due to the barrier protecting the school, they were unable to see the a minute of silence between the two, Christian looked towards his friend. "So how did you know I was out here?"

"I'm sorry, I was looking out my window when I noticed you leaving your room. I saw you by the fountain and thought that I could join you," she admitted.

"Don't worry about it," Christian deadpanned. "As I said this morning, the company's great so I can't complain." Just like earlier, Moka blushed at the comment. However, it was dark enough that Christian didn't notice. They remained silent for a few more moments before Moka broke it.

"Christian…What was bothering you today?" She had been worried about him all day, ever since he had walked up to her that morning. Moka knew something was bothering him but she also knew that he wasn't one to open up easily. Especially if he knew it would affect his friends.

Her suspicions were proven correct when Christian looked down at the ground sadly. "I'm sorry, you don't need to tell me. I was just…worried."

He sighed, still looking at the ground. "You apologise too much, you know that? If I told you, would it make you feel better?"

Moka nodded. Christian sighed again before he leaned back up and looked Moka in the eyes, allowing her to see the pain within them. With gathering resolve, Christian began to tell Moka about his nightmare from the previous night. As he told his story, he watched Moka's face go through a number of emotions including sadness, pain and shock before her expression finally settled on one of fear. The look on her face killed what was left of Christian's confidence. Turning away, he rose from the side of the fountain and began to walk away, believing that he had just lost his closest friend at the Academy.

However, he had barely made it a few steps before he felt someone embrace him from behind, wrapping him in a tight hug.

"Is that really why you've been sad all day?" Moka asked, sadness in her voice and tears forming in her eyes.

Christian, who was still shocked by the embrace, could only nod.

"You've been reliving losing all of us to yourself, fearing that you could lose control and hurt us?" she continued. Christian just nodded again.

Slowly, Moka released Christian and moved round until she was looking the teens in the eyes. Silently, she reached out a trembling hand and brushed away a lone tear from his eye. She moved closer and once again hugged Christian, comforting him. It was then that he realised that she had not been in fear of him, but rather fear for him. Fear that he would let this eat him up instead of getting help. She feared for her friend.

Christian, hesitantly, moved his arms until he was returning the hug. They were so close that he could smell the sweet aroma of Moka's hair. The two friends held each other in silence, nothing spoiled the moment they were shared. Until…

Grrrrrr!

Both Christian and Moka were forced to part by the sound of Moka's stomach growling. The vampire girl turned beet red in embarrassment. The two shared a small glance before Christian began laughing.

"You hungry, Moka?"

"Ye-yeah…" Moka admitted, embarrassedly. "Hey! It's not that funny!" she cried, trying to defend herself from Christian's small giggles. "I just didn't have dinner…" she said quietly while pouting.

After hearing that and seeing Moka's cute expression, Christian sighed and used his right hand to pull down the collar of his shirt a little. "Go on…"

"Thank you!" Moka exclaimed happily, leaning in towards his neck. However, before she took her fill, Moka looked at Christian one more time. "Chris…" He looked down at his closest friend. "You don't need to worry about ever losing me or the others. We will always be here for you, after all, were friends." With that she re-closed the gap and began to drink his blood.

Christian didn't really mind though. Moka's words had made him feel a lot better and gave him back some confidence. However, as he looked down and saw the Omnitrix shining on his wrist in the moon light, he found that he was still uneasy about using the device.

His mission was once again brought to his head. He wondered if he was really the best person suited for it if he couldn't even control himself when using the device he needed to complete it.

Once Moka had finished taking her fill, the two backed away and decided to return to their own rooms. However, Christian offered to walk Moka to the entrance of the girls dorm in order to continue their conversation.

"Hey Christian, I just realised, tomorrow we will have been at Yokai for a full month."

"Yeah..." he replied nervously, not wanting to let Moka know what he had been contemplating all day. Even if he had told her about his nightmare, Christian didn't want Moka to know that he had been thinking of leaving. "It's hard to believe isn't it?"

"I know, so much has happened," Moka said happily. "I mean for one thing. we met Kurumu, Yukari and Zack and became friends with them. We've been in three fights and my Rosario was unsealed."

"That's right," Christian replied, wincing when she mentioned the fights. They were now right at the door of the girls' dorm. The two stopped and looked at each other again, neither one wanting the other to leave. Unfortunately they both realised that they had to. "Good night Moka." Christian finally said.

"Good night, Christian." Moka replied. Christian turned to leave however for the second time that night Moka stopped him from leaving, this time by grabbing on to his hand. Christian turned to find Moka looking at him with the most beautiful eyes that he had ever seen. As she looked at him they seemed to sparkle in the moonlight. "Chris...Do you know what the best part of this month has been for me?" she asked, a hint of nervousness in her voice and a unseen blush on her cheeks.

"N-no, what?" Christian replied with a blush of his own.

"It was meeting you," She admitted causing them both to blush brighter. "You were my first ever friend and it doesn't matter that you are a human. You're the reason I'm so happy at school. I-I just wanted to say thank you for being my friend."

To say Christian was shocked would be an understatement; he was flabbergasted by Moka's statement. He had never heard something so honest and heartfelt in his life. "Moka, I-" he started, unable to find the words to say.

"It's alright Christian," Moka said kindly. "Just promise me that we will always be friends."

His eyes widened ever so slightly before a smile appeared on his face. "I promise."

Moka's smile could have lit up a Christmas tree. She surprised the teen by leaning in towards him. Christian thought that she might be going for another suck of blood but she surprised him by planting a light kiss on his cheek. If Moka's smile could have lit up a Christmas tree then Christian's face could have been used to lead Santa's sleigh.

Once Moka pulled away she gave Christian another smile, wished him good night and then begrudgingly went back in to her dorm house, leaving the Omnitrix teen standing outside holding his hand to his cheek.

"Good night Moka," he said before he headed back to his own dorm, still holding his cheek.

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Meanwhile, in an unused club room across campus, the three fan boys were plotting their revenge. The club room they were using was, disturbingly, covered from wall to wall in pictures of Moka, Kurumu and Yukari respectively. In the centre of the room, the fan boys were deliberating their plans.

"Christian Hawke!" Kubisaku growled. He was sitting with a cardboard cut-out of Yukari in his arms. "Why do you go to him, Yukari? Why?!"

"You can do so much better, Kurumu," Gouzaburou moaned as he cuddled against a life sized picture of Kurumu. "That murderous gaijin doesn't have an infinite amount of love in his heart for you like I do."

"Damn it!" Kouzou exclaimed. "If it wasn't for Hawke, we wouldn't be making out with pictures of our goddesses but with the real things!" He turned around to face a shrine dedicated to the three girls. "We have seen the enemy and he has seen us!" Kouzou declared. "Now the battlefield has been set for us to destroy him!"

"Huzzah!" Gouzaburou and Kubisaku shouted.

"I have a cunning plan," Kouzou told his two compatriots. "We will wait until he is alone. That way we can crush him! We must not let our idols see, such actions would crush them."

The other two fan boys nodded their heads in agreement.

"But what will we do if he transforms in to one of those many forms of his?" Kubisaku asked.

"Or the scary one that took down that rep?" Gouzaburou nervously asked. He didn't want to end up in the infirmary like the class rep, eating out of a straw.

"According to rumours, Hawke has one weakness. He is only to maintain his transformation for a few minutes before he is reverted back into his human disguise. As we saw earlier, he is as weak as a human in that form. That means that even we can take him out." He stopped for one moment before he gave his fellow fan boys a cunning smile. "And if that fails, we can use our secret weapon." He suddenly began shouting, pointing his arms up towards the ceiling. "We will prove our superiority to our idols!"

"Huzzah!"

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The next day, Moka, Kurumu and Yukari were happy to see Christian was acting normal again. He had woken up early and had walked to school with all of them, he smiled and he even put up with the tug of war that the girls always got into over him. The day passed by peacefully. Moka and Christian occasionally shared a small glance, remembering the events of the previous night.

At lunch and Christian and the girls were eating their food together like they always did. Christian had invited Zack but unfortunately the boy was busy. Therefore it was just the four of them in the cafeteria. They chatted about the school day, ignoring the angry glares of the fellow students. Eventually though, the conversation turned to the trio from the previous day.

"Hey guys," Kurumu started. "Have you noticed the guys from yesterday hanging around a lot recently?"

Yukari, who had been trying to grip some noodles with her chopsticks, suddenly looked up in surprise. "You know what, I have." She realised. She then began to recount the story of how she had been carrying video equipment when she noticed Kubisaku taking pictures of her.

"He made it out to be taking pictures for the year book but I know what that jerk was doing."

"WHAT!" Christian cried out, disgusted. "That's illegal! Taking pictures of a person without their knowledge is disgraceful. Have you told anyone about this?"

"I-it's just that it only happened once and I didn't think anything of it at the time." Yukari told him.

"Yukari if that ever happens again you tell one of us okay?" Moka told her.

"Don't worry, I will." Yukari replied, touched by her friends concern for her.

Christian suddenly felt something soft lean against his arm. He looked to his side and eyes bulged to see Kurumu leaning up against him.

"You know, Christian… I've been having to put up with a stalker too," she said flirtatiously

"Re-really?" he said, slightly flustered.

"Uh-huh, it's been really creepy…" she then began to tell Christian about how she had noticed Gouzaburou following her around recently at all points, when she was buying supplies for cakes, when she was coming out of the bathroom, even when she was in P.E and exercising.

"He always looked at me with this weird look, it was so creepy…" Kurumu trailed off. She had stopped hugging Christian half way through the story and just settled for looking disturbed.

"That's just as bad as the other guy!" Christian pointed out. "We need to tell someone about this." He continued before looking at Moka. "Has that other guy done anything weird to you, Moka?" He asked.

"I haven't seen him before yesterday." Moka told him.

"Well, it is still dangerous to let these guys continue." Christian told them. "We should talk to a teacher or the headmaster about this. They will be able to do something about it."

"There's no need," Kurumu stated cockily. "We can easily protect ourselves from them if they try anything with us." She said, referring to herself and the other girls. "And Christian can just transform and kick their ass's if they-"

"I'm not transforming," Christian interrupted.

"You may not have a choice if they try to attack you again," Yukari pointed out.

"I don't care," he protested. "I will not use the Omni- my limiter to fight opponents who are weaker than me."

"You do realise they are probably stronger in their monster forms right?" Kurumu asked.

"It doesn't matter."

"It does matter! You could get hurt!" Yukari cried.

"There right," Moka agreed. "You're just not that strong as you are now. It's because you're a hu-" Moka quickly stopped herself before she could finish her sentence. Christian had visibly tensed. "I'm sorry, what I meant to say is that you're not that strong in your human form so it's wiser to fight in your monster forms."

"Yeah! What Moka said," Kurumu agreed.

"We just don't want to see you hurt," Moka told him with a concerned look. Yukari nodded in agreement.

"I know it's just that-" Christian began before he was interrupted.

"What?! You're planning to put more people in the infirmary?!"

The four friends looked to their let to see a blond haired boy standing at the side of their table, an angry expression on his face.

"Well?!" he demanded, catching other peoples' attention.

"What are you talking about?" Christian asked.

"Don't play dumb!" the boy shouted angrily. "I heard you, you were talking about fighting some guy who you didn't think could defend themselves!" That caused some murmuring between the other students.

"I would never hurt anyone like that!"

"So what were you just talking about then?!" another student asked.

"If you must know we were talking about defending ourselves from some guys who have attacked me and stalked my friends."

"It's true!" Moka defended.

"Yeah, Christian would never hurt anyone without a reason!" Kurumu added.

"Is that why that class rep is practically dead?" a rather snide boy shouted from somewhere in the cafeteria. Christian automatically looked down with guilt, he clenched his fist as it began to shake. Finding that he had nothing to say to defend himself, he silently began to leave the cafeteria. Angry stares following him as he walked. Moka was quick to follow her friend while Kurumu and Yukari stayed behind to try and preach Christian's case.

"Yeah, that's right, leave!" one student shouted after him. "Hey, the bus is coming today! Why don't you just get on it and leave!"

Once outside, Christian began making a beeline for the front gate, his hair overshadowing his eyes. However, he found himself stopped as Moka, who had caught up to him, grabbed him hand. "Chris, please don't listen to what those people said. They don't know what happened in the woods." She said trying to console her friend.

"It's not that Moka…" Christian replied quietly, surprising Moka. "I just feel so useless right now…"

"Chris…" Moka said sadly, looking at the boy with tearful eyes. Suddenly, Christian broke free of Moka's hold and began running.

"I'm sorry, I just need to be alone right now!" he called as he ran, leaving Moka reaching out her hand for him despite the fact Christian had already gone.

"Chris…" Moka repeated, watching his slowly retreating figure.

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Back inside the cafeteria, Kurumu and Yukari were having a field day trying to clear Christian's name.

"He only did what he did because he was angry that Moka was hurt!" Kurumu protested. "Anyone would be angry in that situation!"

"That still doesn't give him the right to almost kill someone!" said one of the female students in the crowd that surrounded Kurumu and Yukari.

"Yeah!" another student agreed. "How do we know he won't attack us?!"

"Maybe we should get him before he tries to hurt us!"

"Christian wouldn't do that!" Yukari cried. "He saved my life from that rep and I refuse to believe he would just attack people without a reason!"

"Yeah! You tell 'em!"

Everyone turned to look towards the voice and saw Zack standing behind the massive crowd of students, a smile on his face and his hands in his school blazers pockets. "Bro would never hurt a person with ill intent. If these guys don't believe that then they can all go and suck a lemon."

Everyone stared wide eyed. "Zack!" Yukari and Kurumu cried.

"Who're you?" one of the students asked.

"They just said," Zack replied, pointing to his two friends. He then began walking towards the crowd, forcing it to part as he walked past them. "Listen! I don't care what you guys think happened out in the woods. I don't care about your attitudes towards my friend! But!" He pointed a finger at the boy who suggested attacking Christian. "If you think that you can just attack my Bro then you have another thing coming!" He then stuck his hand out to the side and slowly began to circle. "So, if anyone want to get to my friend then you will have to go through me! I will take any one of you on, anytime, anywhere!"

Yukari and Kurumu shared a worried glance. Honestly, they didn't think Zack would be able to put his money where his mouth was. Zack turned to the girls. "Maybe you two should go and look for Bro. I don't know why, but I think that he may need some company right now." The girls shared another look, not wanting to leave Zack on his own. "Hey!" the girls looked up to see him with a confident smile. "I'll be fine, just go and check on Bro."

For some reason the smile reassured the girls. "Ok, just don't do anything crazy." Kurumu said as she began to run off.

"Yeah, we'll see you later," Yukari said with a smile and a wave as she followed Kurumu. "Kick their butts!"

Once they left, Zack turned with a smirk back to the crowd he had pissed off. "So…who's first?"

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The girls had soon found Moka standing at the school gates. The vampire girl told them what had happened with Christian before the girls told Moka what Zack had done. While they were worried about their friend, they knew Christian was their real concern at the moment. They figured that he would head to lessons. However when they asked Ms. Nekonome whether she had seen him, she told them he had gone back to the dorms for the day as he wasn't feeling well. Unfortunately they were unable to leave as there were still lessons going on.

Therefore, the girls had to wait for the school day to end. As they did so, their nerves began to rise as they worried about their friend.

'Chris, please don't do anything stupid…' Moka thought nervously.

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Inside his own classroom, Zack was trembling with anticipation. He was going to be fighting five students who had challenged him at lunch. He couldn't wait, he really wanted to test his skills against other monsters. However, his thoughts did linger to his friend. Christian had been acting out of it recently and Zack knew that he was going to need some closure if he was ever going be able to protect anyone.

Zack knew Christian was human, he knew that he wouldn't be able to protect himself unless he used that thing on his wrist. Zack moved his right hand to his chin in thought as he looked at his left wrist.

'What would happen if I…?'

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Christian sat in his dorm room against one of the walls. He had long since changed in to casual clothing. He was wearing a white shirt with his black jacket and blue jeans.

His thoughts were preoccupied with what the other students had said at lunch. He felt bad for leaving Moka on her own but he needed some time to think about what he should do. And now he had finally come to a decision.

He looked at the Omnitrix, and with a few sweeps on its touch screen the time was displayed. Ben had taught Christian this little trick back when he had been learning to use it. It was 3:30 pm, school would be ending around now. However, that also meant something else. With a sigh, Christian got up and went over to his back pack. Slinging it over his shoulder, he put on his shoes and left the room, locking it behind him. From there, he headed downstairs and walked away from the dorms.

However as he left, a certain boy who had snuck out of lessons early to wait for his five fighting opponents noticed his retreating figure as he turned at the crossroads between the cliffs and the school campus. With a sigh, the boy turned around and continued waiting. However this meant that he missed three more figures as they ran towards the crossroad path that led to the cliffs.

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As soon as school finished, Moka, Kurumu and Yukari had rushed to the dorms. They were desperate to talk to their friend and check that he was all right. They ran up the stairs, causing every guy they passed to ogle them, surprised that the cutest girls in the school had just ran past them.

Upon reaching Christian's door, Kurumu began knocking on it loudly.

"Hey, Chris! Open the door! It's me Kurumu! Open the door and we can have some fun!" Kurumu cried, causing the other girls to sweat drop. When there was no answer, Kurumu tried knocking again, but ended up with the same result.

"I don't think he's in Kurumu…" Yukari said sadly.

Frustrated, Kurumu stamped her foot on the ground. "Then where is he!?" she shouted. Moka and Yukari looked down sadly as they were unable to answer.

The demoralised girls made their way downstairs. Once they left the dorms, they were about to start searching again when they heard the shout of a familiar voice.

"Moka, Kurumu, Yukari! Over here!"

Said girls turned towards the voice to see Zack smiling and waving at them childishly while sat on a gravestone.

"Zack, what are you doing?" Moka asked as the girls approached him.

"Waiting."

"For…?" Yukari asked, a small sweat drop on the side of her head.

"People," Zack stated as if it was obvious as he began waving his legs on the grave stone.

"Ok…" Kurumu sighed, smiling awkwardly.

"Zack, have you seen Christian anywhere?" Moka asked desperately.

"Bro?" Zack remarked putting his hand to his chin as if he was in thought. "Oh yeah!" he cried before turning and pointing towards the crossroads. "I watched him go down one of those roads, unfortunately I don't know which one. But I can tell you that he was wearing casual clothing and had a back pack with him." After he told them that, the boy got up and began to walk into the forest. "See you guys later, I have some people to find myself." With those words Zack vanished in to the trees.

However, Moka didn't notice. She looked at the paths and began to think about what she had just been told. Suddenly her eyes widened in fear as she put the pieces together and came up with the only conclusion she had in her mind.

Seeing her expression, Yukari became concerned. "What's wrong, Moka?" She asked, worried about the answer she would receive.

"Guys, we need to hurry to the bus stop right away."

"Why?" Kurumu asked, also fearing the answer.

"I think Christian might be going back to the human world!"

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The fan club trio stood on the edge of the cliff near the bus stop, frustrated. They had arrived when they were trying to follow Christian in order to fight him. However, the boy was nowhere to be seen.

"Where is that gaijin?" Gouzaburou asked, looking around.

"Are you sure that he went down this route, Kubisaku?" Kouzou asked his fellow member.

"Pretty sure, although it was kind of hard to see him from those bushes" Kubisaku replied.

"Maybe he got on a bus and left the school." Gouzaburou suggested, causing Kouzou to walk over and check the bus schedule.

"No dice. The bus doesn't arrive for another 30 minutes. He can't have left yet."

The trio all looked at each other in confusion and thought as they wondered where their 'sworn' enemy was. Unable to think of anything, they began to walk away from the cliff when they heard a shout that made them stop in their tracks with excitement.

"Christian!"

Before the three boys, running towards them was Moka, Kurumu and Yukari. The three boys went goo-goo eyed to see their 'goddesses'.

"It's my Moka!" Kouzou cried happily.

"And my sweet, Kurumu!" Gouzaburou swooned.

"And Yukari!" Kubisaku squealed.

However upon seeing the boys the three girls stopped in their track and looked angrily at them.

"What are you three doing her!?" Kurumu demanded.

"We are here to win your love my Goddess!" Gouzaburou answered, causing the girl of his affections to give him a disgusted look.

"Yes! Once we find him, we plan to take down Hawke and break his hold over you!" Kubisaku announced.

"WHAT!?" the three girls cried.

"It's true, just wait a little longer!" Kouzou announced. "Soon you shall be free of that murderous gaijin's influence!"

Moka scowled at Kouzou's words. "He is not murderous!" she shouted angrily. "We have said it so many times! Christian only did what he did in order to protect us from those lizard men!"

"Yeah!" Yukari cried in agreement. "The only reason Christian hurt the rep like that was because he was angry that Moka got hurt!"

"You guys are the lowest of the low if you decide to judge someone for his actions when you don't even know the circumstances in why he took them!" Kurumu added. Once she had finished, all the girls stared at the trio of boys with hard glares. To their surprise, tears began to flow from the fan boys' eyes.

"Hawke, he's so mean!" Gouzaburou wept.

"He's not even here and he's stealing our women from us!" Kubisaku cried.

"I guess we have no choice..." Kouzou said sadly, reaching for his megaphone. "If we want to take you back from that gaijin then we are going to have to do it by force!"

Hearing this, the three girls prepared themselves for a fight, Yukari took out her wand and Kurumu transformed into her succubus form, growing her wings and tail. Her finger nails also extended out to sharp blades. Moka just got into a fighting stance, determined to help despite not being able to use her full strength (or knowing properly how to fight.).

Suddenly to the girls' surprise, Kouzou placed his megaphone over his head and it immediately extended into a brown umbrella covering the top half of his body. One large eye and a mouth appeared with a tongue hanging out on the umbrella for a face. "Umbrella!" the transformed Kouzou shouted.

"Bloooob!" Gouzaburou shouted as he gained more weight, ripping open his shirt exposing his chest. His face also lost all of its facial features.

"Stretchy Neck!" Kubisaku exclaimed as his neck began to stretch out until it was three times the size of his body.

The girls relaxed as they stared at the trio of monsters, knowing they weren't very strong. "Those are your monster forms!?" Kurumu asked, trying to hold back her laughter.

"I hoped you would never see me this way," Gouzaburou said sadly. Well at least it sounded sad; it was kind of hard to tell without a facial expression.

"Now you see why we hate Hawke!" Kouzou shouted, his tongue moving around all over the place. "The girls at this school always go after the cool looking monsters. With forms like these, we stand no chance. But Hawke has you!" he cried, looking directly at the girls. "He doesn't even need to be in one form to attract you!"

"What?!" Moka cried. "What Christian is has nothing to do with why we like him!"

"Yeah, right!" Kubisaku retorted. "You're just saying that!"

"Enough of this!" Kouzou shouted. "It's time to reclaim our goddesses! Fan Club Coalition, Charge!" and with that, the trio charged at their respective girls.

Kubisaku curled his neck around Yukari, but didn't touch her. "Yukari, my love! You're a ripe fruit waiting to be plucked! I'm gonna wrap myself around that smoking hot little body of yours!" he proclaimed.

"Gross! Get away!" Yukari shouted running away from her attacker, too disturbed to fight back.

"Kurumu! I have an unlimited abundance of love for you, so let's gaze lovingly at each other as the sun rises!" Gouzaburou asked.

Kurumu cringed at the thought and gulped. "How am I supposed to gaze at anything if you don't even have a face, you big fat freak!?" she shouted as she attempted to stab the boy with her claws, but his body fat absorbed the blows.

Kouzou approached Moka, his umbrella top spinning, his saliva splattering all around as it escaped his mouth. "Moka, let me be your umbrella of love! With me around, the harmful rays of the sun will never reach your lovely alabaster skin!"

"Uh, thanks, but I already have an umbrella," Moka told him, dodging out of the way of the incoming saliva as Kouzou came closer towards her. "Ugh! Get away!" she cried as she jumped back.

Unfortunately, the girls could do nothing to fight their opponents and were backed into the side of the hill near the bus stop.

"What are we gonna do, Moka?" Yukari asked, scared.

"I don't know." Moka replied, staring at the three approaching boys with fearful eyes.

"It's finally time that we claim our goddesses!" Kubisaku cried.

"Yes!" Kouzou replied. "Now let's-!"

"What's going on here!?"

The six teens turned to look towards the new voice. Standing a few feet away from them was a casual clothed Christian, a bulging backpack slung over his shoulder.

"Christian!" the girls cried happily.

"Hawke!" the trio of monsters growled angrily. "What are you doing here?!"

"That's none of your business!" he retorted, reaching for left wrist before hesitating slightly. Finally, he withdrew his hand and just settled for glaring at the boys. However, Moka saw this and her smile fell. "What are you doing to my friends!?" he demanded.

"We are freeing them from your influence, gaijin!" Kubisaku shouted.

"Yeah, so stay out of this!" Gouzaburou added.

Christian suddenly realised who he was talking to. He looked over the three of them before trying not to laugh. However the fan boys saw this.

"Oh, so now you're making fun of us!" Kouzou shouted.

"I didn't say anything!" Christian replied raising his hands in mock surrender, a small smile on his face.

"We know, we're low class monsters," Gouzaburou said sadly. "It's why we are looked down upon."

"And it sucks because looking like this, we don't stand a chance with any girl!" Kubisaku shouted.

"I'm sure there is someone out there for you," Christian said, trying to settle the issue calmly.

"Shut up!" Kouzou shouted. "You can't talk! You look down on us to! That changes today! We'll take you out now and prove to our goddesses that we are the ones worthy of their attention!"

With that, all three of the monster trio ran towards Christian. The boy in return threw down his backpack and went to use the Omnitrix. However, just as he was about to activate it, he hesitated remembering what had happened the last time he transformed. It was this moment of hesitation that gave the fan boys the chance they needed to get a hold of Christian.

Kubisaku wrapped his long neck around Christian's legs, waist and arms. "Struggle all you want, you won't squeeze your way out of this one!" he cried, keeping the teen from moving.

Kouzou hopped on to Christian's stomach and began to stomp on it. "We won't let you rain on our parade, by stealing the women we love!"

Finally, Gouzaburou then began to suck up Christian's legs in to his stomach. "We'll never let you chew the fat with our darlings ever again.

"Stupid puns!" Christian shouted as he struggled to get free.

"Get your hands…I mean, neck off of him!" Moka shouted, getting the boy' attention. However when they looked at her something seemed off. They saw Moka and Yukari standing there, Moka glaring at them while Yukari just smiled innocently at them. It was then that Yukari pointed up with a confident smirk.

The three boys looked up to see a very angry Kurumu flying above them. Suddenly the girl did a loopdeloop in the air before charging straight at the fan boys. The collision caused them to let go of Christian which sent him flying into the air. Yukari was quick to react by using her magic to summon a bubble chair for him to fall into.

Christian looked up to see Moka, standing two feet from him. He smiled at her as she knelt down until they were eye to eye. "I owe you guys a lot, I'm sorry you got mixed up in-" he began before Moka put a stop to him.

SMACK

Moka slapped him right across the face, surprising not only Christian, but Kurumu and Yukari too. The teen looked at Moka to see tears running down her face. She grabbed him by his collar and buried her face into his chest as she cried out her feelings, her voice slightly muffled. "You moron! What were you thinking!? Why didn't you tell us what you were going to do?! Jerk! Idiot!" She looked up at him, allowing Christian to see her eyes. A kind smile appeared on her face. "What happened in the forest was not your fault. You were just upset, you didn't mean to hurt him. Don't be afraid of your power. Your kind heart and willingness to protect your friends are your greatest strength. Please never forget that."

"She's right," Yukari chimed in. "If it wasn't for you, I would probably be dead right now. Your kind words saved me, you even stood up for me."

"You saved me from the other Moka, even after everything I did to you," Kurumu added with a wink.

"We're your friends," Moka said with a smile, wiping away her tears, "and friends do everything they can to help one another. If there is something bothering you, tell us. We can help you. So please don't leave."

Christian looked at Moka in confusion. "What are you…" He was interrupted by the sound of crying coming from their side.

The four looked to see the fan boys weeping. An impressive feat from Gouzaburou who had no eyes. It was clear their hatred for Christian had only risen.

"Damn it, now he's stealing our women in front of us!" Kouzou whined.

"He's hogging all the love!" Kubisaku whined.

"That does it! Hawke, you're in violation of the Romance Anti-trust Act!" Gouzaburou shouted. "I'm gonna blob you in to a blob if it's the last blobbin' thing I ever blobby do!"

Christian looked to the trio, then to the girls in front of him. He knew what he had to do. He rose from the chair, causing it to disappear. The girls looked at the boy with curiosity as he walked towards the trio.

"Listen to me!" he cried. "I know you guys hate me, no idea why, but you do. You guys may think I don't deserve to have them as my friends but truth be told…I don't either." The three girls and the trio of boys looked at Christian with confusion. "They have been so kind to me and I've been taking their kindness for granted and for that I'm sorry." Christian slowly lifted up his left wrist and activated the Omnitrix and dialled in a hero, exposing the core. "However, I think it's time I made up for it!" he shouted, slamming down his right hand on the core, enveloping him in the familiar bright green light that brought happiness to the girls and fear to the fan boys.

Once the light had faded, a new form stood where Christian had once been. The form stood proudly at nine feet tall. He resembled an orange and white bipedal tiger with one claw coming out of each wrist. The creature had no tail. It was very muscular and had green eyes. It had stripes on his shoulders, head, legs and upper body. Its jaw, neck, chest plates, hands and feet were white.

"RATH!" the alien shouted as he looked angrily at the three fan boys. "LET ME TELL YA SOMETHIN', FAN BOY COALITION!" the alien shouted, pointing a finger at the quivering fan boys. "NOBODY, AND I MEAN NOBODY TRIES TO ATTACK RATH!" Moka, Kurumu and Yukari stared at the new alien in awe. They had never expected Christian to act like this when he transformed.

"NOW, IT'S TIME FOR A LONG AWAITED ASS KICKING!" Rath cried as he pounded his fists together, before making a run for the trio.

The fan club trio looked at each other in fear. They knew they had no chance in this fight.

"Gentlemen, it is time to use our secret weapon," Kouzou said to his cohorts.

"Agreed!" the other two boys said, looking at the approaching creature.

However, before they could do anything, Rath was upon them. Gouzaburou was sent flying as Rath punched him in the stomach causing a small sonic boom that sent him flying in to the side of the cliff. Fortunately, due to his body mass, he was largely unharmed.

Rath then turned to the other two boys. "LET ME TELL YA SOMETHIN' FAN CLUB COALITION! YOU DO NOT DISCUSS SECRET PLANS WHEN RATH IS ABOUT TO POUND ON YA!" He jumped into the air and pounced on top of Kubisaku. "THIS'LL TEACH YA TO MESS AROUND WITH MY FRIENDS!" He tied Kubisaku's flexible neck into a bow before tossing him over his shoulder, causing him to land on top of Gouzaburou. After that, Rath turned to Kouzou, whose legs were knocking together. Rath walked over to him before he was stood directly above him looking down at his one eye. Rath leaned in and glared at him. "Boo," he whispered, causing Kouzou to jump high up into the air in fright. Rath jumped after him. "INCURSION KNUCKLE THRUST!" he screamed as he punched Kouzou in the eye, sending him flying into his friends.

The trio got up slowly, battered and bruised. Kouzou turned to his friends. "We must do it now! If we don't, we will lose in front of our goddesses!"

"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU PANSIES TALKING ABOUT!?" Rath demanded as he approached the boys.

"Now, Algamation!" Kouzou shouted.

"Algamation!" Gouzaburou and Kubisaku cried along with their leader.

Kubisaku positioned his now untangled neck so Gouzaburou could stand on it. Kouzou began spinning like a spinning top until he took to the air. He came to a stop on top of Gouzaburou's head. As they made contact, a bright, blinding light forced Rath and the girls to cover their eyes. When the light died down, they all got a surprise.

Where the three monsters originally stood, one big monster was now in their place. He had a large fleshy body with a face on its chest. His back held an umbrella while the head on its shoulders had brown hair, a single eye and a really long neck. He was wearing the same pink jacket that the fan boys had.

Rath looked at the new monster angrily. "HEY! THAT'S CHEATING!" he shouted, pointing a finger at the monster before turning to the girls. "HOW COME THEY CAN DO THAT?!" The girls did nothing but shrug their shoulders, not wanting to be on the receiving end of one of Rath's rants.

The monster looked down at Rath and began to laugh, causing the alien to turn back to it. "Not so tiny now, are we pipsqueak!? You can call us Big Bro!" he mocked in a combination of the three fan boy's voices.

The girls looked at the amalgamated monster with looks of awe and worry. However Rath just got angrier.

"PIPSQUEAK!? PIPSQUEAK!? LET ME TELL YA SOMETHIN', COMBINED FAN CLUB COALITION MEMBERS! NOBODY CALLS RATH A PIPSQUEAK!" He was not intimidated in the slightest. "YOU THINK TURNING INTO A BIG MONSTER THING IS GOING TO HELP YOU AGAINST RATH!? RATH HAS TAKEN DOWN OPPONENTS WAY BIGGER THAN YOU!"

"Prove it then!" Big Bro taunted.

"FINE!" Rath shouted as he began running towards the monster, the girls wondering how Christian transforming into Rath could make him so confident and stupid.

Once he was close enough, Rath jumped up at Big Bro, determined to hit him. However he didn't get close as the amalgamated monster swatted him away like a fly, causing the tiger like alien to be sent crashing into the girls.

"Hahahahaha!" Big Bro laughed. "Is that all you've...What the...?!" Big Bro had been interrupted by a bright violet light and the release of a tremendous amount of monster energy. It had appeared that when Rath had crashed into the girls, he had managed to pull off Moka's Rosario in the process, releasing her vampire side. However, Rath ignored the transformation as when he had gotten off the ground and saw the Rosario in his hand, he began shouting at the inanimate object.

"LET ME TELL YA SOMETHIN', MOKA'S ROSARIO! RATH IS TIRED OF YOU COMING OFF ALL THE TIME! THIS IS RATH'S FIGHT! NO VAMPIRES ALLOWED!" He shouted, not noticing the transformed Inner Moka glaring at his back.

"Are you done acting like a fool?" Inner Moka sneered, causing Rath to turn his attention to her.

"LET ME TELL YA SOMETHIN', INNER MOKA AKASHIYA!" he shouted pointing a finger at her, annoying the vampire girl further. "NO ONE TALKS DOWN TO RATH BUT RATH!"

"What you say does not matter to me," Inner Moka replied, turning away from the angry tiger alien.

"HEY! TURN BACK RIGHT NOW AND TALK TO RATH!" he shouted angrily.

"What was that?!" Inner Moka asked with a deadly calm voice, turning to face Rath with cold eyes. "Do I need to remind you of your place?" She asked, ready to kick the alien if he tried anything.

"MY PLACE!? MY PLACE!? LET ME TELL YA SOMETHIN', IF ANYONE IS GOING TO TEACH RATH HIS PLACE ITS RATH!" He then realised what he had just said. "THAT IS BEFORE HE TEACHES YOU YOUR PLACE... WHICH IS BELOW RATH!"

Yukari looked at their two friends and could literally see the sparks colliding. She and Kurumu hastily tried to stop the two arguing. Unbeknownst to the four, Big Bro had been having his own moment ever since Inner Moka appeared. "So cold..." he began, crying in happiness. "That silky silver hair, those cold but beautiful eyes... she is the one we have been waiting for, the true idol." As he finished his sentence, Big Bro began running towards the four friends.

Hearing his thundering footsteps, Inner Moka stopped her argument with Rath to glare at Big Bro. "Pests" she said under her breath as she began making her way towards the combined monster.

"HEY! GET BACK HERE INNER MOKA! WE AIN'T DONE ARGUING YET!" Rath shouted after her; however the proud vampire didn't even bother to acknowledge him. "DON'T IGNORE ME!" Rath cried angrily, kicking the ground.

"Yukari, Kurumu!" Inner Moka called, earning the girls attention. "Help me out with this!"

The two girls smirked. Kurumu took to the air again and Yukari ran around to the side.

"Magic wand, let's rock!" Yukari cried, conjuring a boulder out of nowhere that caused Big Bro to trip.

"Take this dorks!" Kurumu exclaimed as she flew down at high speeds before turning and spear kicking the monster in the back, making it fall towards Inner Moka.

"Look out!"

"Get lost losers." Inner Moka said as with two swift kicks, she sent the amalgamated monster flying high in to the air. As Big Bro descended, he turned back into the three fan boys in their human forms, before crashing hard into the ground.

As the boys got up, they looked up and soiled themselves to see Rath standing above them with an angry snarl. "NOW LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING FAN CLUB COALITION! YOU WILL LEAVE RATH AND HIS FRIENDS ALONE! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?" The fan boys nodded their heads slightly. "GOOD! NOW, GET LOST!" Rath roared making the fan boys take off to both hide and find a new set of underwear. "Wimps," Rath muttered to himself before the Omnitrix began beeping reverting him back into Christian. He quickly walked over to pick up his backpack that had been lying on the ground since the fight began. However, when he turned around, he was met with Inner Moka staring at him.

"Hawke!"

"Yes, ma'am!" He jumped to attention in fear of angering the woman.

"Your leaving doesn't work for me," she told him, her arms crossed. "Because if you left, that would mean no more food for yours truly," she said with a small smile, exposing her fangs. "And besides… it would make the other Moka sad. You'd break her heart."

Christian looked at the girl with utter confusion. "Wha…? I'm not…" he tried to explain. However, before he could say anything else, Kurumu gently grabbed a hold of his arm. "Not having Moka drink your blood would be a good thing. But I'd miss you too much."

Yukari then ran up and latched on to him, hugging him while crying. "Please, Chris! Don't leave!"

"That's what I've been trying to tell you guys. I'm not leaving," Christian finally managed to say.

The girl's eyes widened, even Inner Moka's. They hadn't been expecting that answer.

"But, Zack saw you leaving with that bag!" Yukari pointed out, referring to his backpack. "You're even wearing casual clothes!"

"That's because I like being in these clothes," Christian explained. "They remind me of my home in America. Besides, I don't normally wear my uniform after school."

"So why is your backpack here?" Kurumu asked.

"I was running out of food so I went out to buy more," he explained. "Remember there are two crossroads. One that leads here, another that leads to the school campus where the shops are. Zack may have seen me walk towards the crossroads, but I bet he didn't see which path I took."

The girls thought about what Christian had told them. They realised that Zack hadn't actually said which path he'd taken.

"But then…why are you at the bus stop?" Yukari asked, confused.

"On my way back to the dorm, I heard shouting coming from this direction and I ran to see what was going on."

"So you wanting to leave…" Kurumu began.

"Was a mistake in Moka's judgement?" Yukari finished before the three of them stared at Inner Moka.

The vampire girl turned away in a huff.

The sound of a horn alerted the teens to the arrival of the bus. It stopped a few meters away from the four and the bus driver stepped out, his hidden eyes staring directly at Christian. "So, kid…are you heading home?"

Smiling, Christian replied, "Sorry, but I'm staying here for now. I have friends here who can never be replaced. Besides, I have a mission I need to accomplish." Unbeknownst to Christian, the girls behind him were blushing. Inner Moka did a good job of hiding it, but there was definitely one there despite it being small.

With a nod, the bus driver said a goodbye and got back on the bus and drove away. "Good luck kid, it's commendable that you're sticking around. Gotta admit, for a Plumber, you're taking a long and twisted road," he said to himself as he drove through the dimensional tunnel.

Back with Christian and the girls, Inner Moka walked over to the Omnitrix teen and snatched the Rosario from his hand. "I swear, you are so confusing," she said as she reattached the Rosario to her choker. However, before her transformation was undone, she sent one last glare at Christian. "If you ever talk back to me again, I will punish you." Those were her last words before the transformation was complete, leaving the tired Outer Moka to fall forward.

Noticing this, Christian quickly rushed to catch her.

"Please…don't leave…" Moka mumbled in her sleep.

Christian looked to see the concerned expressions Kurumu and Yukari were giving him.

"Don't worry, I won't be leaving anytime soon. I still have a job to do," he told them, earning a smile from the other girls.

'And I don't ever plan on leaving if it means I need to leave you guys." Christian thought, looking down at the unconscious Moka in his arms. 'Especially you, Moka.'

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Back behind the dorms, Zack stood on his own with the bodies of five unconscious monsters around him. The monsters bodies were all battered and bruised whereas Zack was barely scratched.

"Well that was fun while it lasted," Zack said to himself, letting out a sigh of annoyance. "That wasn't even a challenge, why did they have to be weak monsters?" He looked up to the sky, fully knowing that Christian was still at the school. He began to walk away with a small smirk. "I look forward to our fight, Bro."

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The next day in class:

"They have just installed some phones in the campus store that will connect you to the human world." Ms. Nekonome told the class. "Furthermore the bus that came here once a month, well due to overwhelming demands, it shall now be coming here once a day."

Moka poked Christian in the back with her pencil to get his attention. "Isn't that great, Christian? Now you can call your friends in America."

"Yeah," Christian replied with a smile.

Suddenly, Moka's nose twitched. "Oh, Chris…" Moka said with a smile and a small blush. "You smell nice."

Knowing what was going to happen, Christian raised his arms in defence. "No, wait! Moka!" he protested to no avail as Moka jumped over the desk towards him.

CHUUUU!

"Moka! Stop! We're in the middle of class!" Christian shouted hopelessly.

And there you go.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter and Rath's debut. It was interesting writing that part. As always leave your reviews and I look forward to seeing you next time.

Bye!