Maybe I should've marked this story as horror genre instead of supernatural? Nah…

Rating: T

Disclaimer: Durarara, tentacles and other strange thingies aren't really my invention.


The tentacles attempted to seize Izaya but she managed to evade them by a hair's breadth.

"Be a good girl, Orihara, and stand still!"

Since Ayame's mouth was still wide-open, her voice sounded distinctly odd. But Izaya got other, more important things to worry about.

"I should stand still, so that you can eat me? No thanks."

Izaya started analysing the situation. The tentacles weren't remarkably fast but they had rather long range. If she managed to evade them once more and reached the door leading to the exist, then she might survive all this. Most probably Ayame wouldn't risk attacking her again, if there were witnesses around. Izaya threw her switchblade at the monster as a distraction and quickly rushed to the stairs. Unfortunately something cold and slimy wrapped around her ankle and she fell.

"No escaping."

Ayame wagged her left index finger while holding the switchblade in her right hand. She made several steps towards now immobilised Izaya.

"That is enough. You're not allowed to do such disgusting things in my school, manticore."

Ayame turned in the direction of the person that uttered those words. And then in a blink of an eye her head fell off. The tentacles let go of Izaya's ankle, so she was able to stand up and take a look at the face of her saviour. She saw a tall, lanky figure in a red suit.

"Aren't you hurt, Orihara?"

"I'm mostly all right, Sensei. But would you mind giving me some explanations?"

Alicia nodded and slipped her long knife (or a short sword) into the sheath hidden under her skirt. She pointed to the monster's corpse that was bleeding white goo instead of red blood.

"It's a manticore. I've never seen one before and I thought they were extinct nowadays. Apparently I was wrong."

Izaya smiled and nodded.

"A manticore? You mean that mystical man-eating creature?"

"Precisely. I knew that Yumenosaka wasn't human right from the beginning. But before I attacked her, I needed a proof that she might be a danger to others."

"I see. You've done a nice job, Sensei. Especially for a someone who doesn't exist."

Alicia frowned.

"What do you mean by that, Orihara?"

"Do you remember when I told you that my parents are abroad? They are currently staying in Edinburgh. It is in Scotland which is your homeland, Am I right?"

Alicia was silent but Izaya noticed that she understood the hidden meaning of the last sentence. With a vicious smile on her face she continued:

"I asked my parents to pay your grandmother a little visit. Can you guess what did they found out?"

Alicia shrugged her shoulders and answered in her usual cold tone:

"They found out that the real Alicia Wong still lives in Edinburgh with her grandmother and teaches children in one of the local schools."

"Bingo. Care to explain this to me, Sensei?"

Alicia sighed.

"Alicia Wong is my relative. We have the same name and we even look alike. Since she wasn't planning to leave Scotland anytime soon, she gave me her passport."

"You want to tell me that she willingly allowed you to use her identity?"

"Yes. What are you intending to do now since you discovered my secret, Orihara?"

Alicia gave Izaya a cold stare. The latter didn't stop smiling.

"I'm not that ungrateful. You've saved my life, after all. I won't reveal your secret to anyone. But in return I expect that you'll start cooperating with me, Sensei. How about it?"

Alicia didn't answer. Instead she fixed her eyes on Ayame's body. Izaya followed her line of sight. In horror she noticed that the corpse was still moving. White tentacles crawled from its neck and grabbed the severed head. Soon the head landed in its place and Ayame slowly stood up with a pout on her face. She looked at Alicia.

"How could you mistake me for a manticore? I could tell that you're a dhampyre at the first glance!"

Alicia instantly pulled her blade out and pointed it at the monster.

"What are you?"

Ayame smiled and answered in a bright tone:

"My kind has many names. But you can call me Yidhra."

"Yidhra? It's impossible…Are you one of them?"

Both Alicia and Izaya were extremely surprised. Ayame or rather Yidhra became visibly sad.

"Not anymore. My brethren excluded me. Nyarlathotep is the only one that talks with me sometimes."

Alicia narrowed her eyes.

"No matter who you are, I won't allow you to eat my students."

"It's unfortunate cause you can't kill me with that blade of yours. I myself don't even know how to do it. But I don't feel like eating someone such as you who is half-dead either. What to do…"

Alicia was mulling something over. Then she opened her mouth to say:

"Let's enter into contract."

"Contract?"

"I won't be able to kill you and you don't want to eat me, so we have to find a way to coexist with each other. I'll let you stay in this school and I'll keep your real identity a secret. But you must swear not to eat anyone."

"Anyone? But what about her? She knows our secrets."

Yidhra pointed to Izaya who had been listening to their conversation with a mixture of disbelief and amazement. Now she also started to feel fear. Fortunately Alicia shook her head.

"Orihara may be troublesome but she still is one of my students. Eating her is out of question."

Yidhra pouted and then spat a small, white worm on her palm.

"Maybe I can feed her a part of me? She'll become my slave, if she eats that."

Alicia shot her an icy glare.

"This is also out of question."

Izaya was really grateful to Alicia for stopping Yidhra. She was afraid that the teacher might want to take the opportunity to get back at her for her earlier attempts at blackmail. It seemed that dhampyres were righteous beings. Yidhra, however, had the third suggestion:

"I can also remove her memories, so that she won't remember anything that happened here."

Alicia raised an eyebrow questioningly:

"It won't damage her brain in any way, I hope?"

"Rather not. At worst it may slightly distort her memories from the last few days."

"If you had such power, then why did you eat that stalker boy?"

"Because eating is less troublesome and more fun!"

Yidhra smiled cheerfully while Alicia facepalmed and muttered:

"I start to understand why you're excluded."

"I start to understand why you're an old maid, Alice. Cause you're such a meanie!"

Alicia frowned angrily.

"Firstly I didn't give you permission to address me by my first name. Secondly It's Alicia, not Alice."

While the two female beings were still arguing, Izaya took the opportunity to escape. She tried to climb the stairs quietly but was caught by a pair of small but very strong hands. She desperately tried to talk Alicia out of allowing Yidhra to brainwash her:

"Come on, let me go, Sensei. Nobody would believe me, even if I told them."

"Forgive me, Orihara, but I can't let you go. I simply don't trust you."

Yidhra approached Izaya with a bright smile on her face. She stretched out her left hand.

"It may hurt a little."

She touched Izaya's forehead with her palm. It did hurt. Izaya felt as if someone smashed her in the head with something heavy. And then she woke up.


I'm not a racist, so even beings such as Yidhra will also receive their character profiles.

Yidhra

Height: Varies
Weight: Varies
Birthday: Unknown
Blood Type: Unknown
Hobbies: Eating
Things she likes: A lot of them
Things she dislikes: Being bossed around
Foods she likes: Humans
Foods she dislikes: Zombies, ghouls, vampires, corpses (everything that is dead or undead).
Favourite saying: "Follow your own star!" Dante Alighieri