Chapter 8: Dark Dreams and Pointed Confessions
Nathan's P.O.V.
Explaining everything had gone smoother than anticipated, Natalie herself had said that she would fight Jayson if he somehow ended up an enemy, and demanded we be prepared to do the same. I'm not sure if she's as set on that as she would like us to believe, but it's a start, and with any luck, an unneeded start. Over the week that followed, Mason learned that a student in our class had missed every lesson and volunteered to take her homework to her, and to help her study if needed, Nekonome was thrilled and immediately gave him her room number and told him she would have her assignments when the last class let out for the day. I thought about telling Mason that this may get him in one of the scenarios I mentioned before, but decided he was smart enough to realize that himself. I was startled when I ran into Kurumu, a short girl with light blue hair in a short ponytail. Kurumu is a succubus and was trying her 'Love Charm' hypnosis on me, she seemed disgruntled when I asked if she wanted something, or if there was something on my face. I really hope my apparent immunity to her charm doesn't make me her main target in place of Tsukune. She's cute, and I wouldn't mind terribly, I just don't think I want that kind of relationship right now.
Kurumu kept trying to charm me, and I noticed that she had enthralled Neal, and kept him nearby most days. At first Kurumu was trying to charm me four or five times a day, but by Friday she had barely tried twice in three days. I soon found out why.
"You're a Vampire right?" Kurumu was sitting on the banister on the landing halfway between the first and second floors. Moka was standing in the hallway beneath her. Seems I have stumbled into the second chapter. Kurumu has just charmed Tsukune and is trying to use him to make Moka cry. And just succeeded, I would go check on Moka, but I know that the inner Moka has a handle on that. As for Tsukune, he will manage just fine alone. Knowing this I grabbed the others, who I noticed were also in the area, and led them to where the fight would take place, prime seats for the clash. Upon learning that Kurumu was going to fight Moka, Neal ran off to warn her, he returned a few moments later having been told to stay out of it.
Not five minutes after Neal returned, Kurumu was sent crashing through the second story infirmary window. She recovered in the air gracefully and flew back to collect Tsukune, Moka grabbing on and causing them to crash right where I had said. The fight lasted only a few seconds after Tsukune regained himself and removed Moka's Rosary, switching the inner and outer personas. Moka, now with silver hair and crimson eyes, was going to move in for the 'kill'. I was unconcerned until I noticed Tsukune had made no move to stop her. I recalled telling him once in middle school, after saving him from some bullies, that people who tried to control you through underhanded means were worthless and deserved whatever Karma dealt them. I face-palmed, I had inadvertently desensitized Tsukune to fights, and made it so he would be accepting of the more violent Moka. I was about to intervene myself when ropes erupted from behind Moka and held her in place. Neal had made his entrance.
"What are you doing here?" Kurumu half yelled half cried when she saw Neal. "I told you to stay away! I used my Charm and told you not to come!" Kurumu was sobbing between words as she yelled. I believe she was crying mostly from relief.
"Can't do that. Ya see I was never under that spell of yours." It amazed me how Neal's Georgia accent shone through even when speaking fluent Japanese. "I stayed by you, and am getting involved here, because I want to, not because you made me." Kurumu gasped and just started bawling at this point and Moka turned and leveled a glare on Neal.
"While it's adorable that you think you can save her by yourself but…."
"It's adorable that you think he has to fight alone." Nick said as the rest of us dropped out of the tree. "We'd rather all be friends, but we will fight you if we have to." Moka seemed to consider her options before huffing and walking over to Tsukune.
"Whatever, it's not like what you all do has any effect on me." And with that she clipped the Rosary back into place and fell asleep. Kurumu ran off saying she was fine, and Mason followed her to be sure. The rest of us spent the remainder of the day trying to convince Neal that he wasn't rejected, which was easier than we thought, and explaining the situation to the outer Moka and introducing ourselves. The hardest part of the whole ordeal was remembering to use the false names we'd given ourselves.
The next morning we all met up to walk to class together, Tsukune and Moka joining us for the first time, when Kurumu cut us off, with cookies. Seems that all of us, except Tsukune and Moka, were now 'treasured friends' and Neal got some 'special' cookies. And Kurumu declared, loudly, that he was her destined one. So began a new week, with three new friends, and in the next Friday homeroom we would learn of another new headache.
"Well then everyone, this academy's goal is to train monsters to adapt to human society, just as I've been saying all along." Nekonome sensei was carrying on as was usual at the end of her lecture, but what would come next would remind me of one of the biggest headaches in this part of the story. "So that means… starting today you're all taking club activities!" There was an air of shock around the class as the words just seemed to hang in the air for a moment before Nekonome continued. "We'll get a deeper understanding of humans by experiencing human-made activities, through some sweat in club activities." She went on to state that this would help with perfecting our human transformations, and a student in the front row made the painful mistake of again pointing out that her tail had slipped. She then all but said the clubs were mandatory and even plugged the newspaper club rather shamelessly. When class let out I managed to gather the six of us to discuss a plan.
"From this point on, a lot of trouble will occur around the Newspaper Club. One or two of us should join it to help minimize the fallout that was no doubt caused by our arrival. The rest of us can join the same club as Nick or Neal so we all are grouped in case of unforeseen fallout. Things will start getting crazier from here, and this is our last chance to really group up for safety." The others nodded and we split off to join clubs. Natalie ended up being the only one to join the Swimming Club, Mason and Ethan joined the Newspaper Club, Nick and Neal were in the Karate Club since last year, and I joined them there. We tried to convince Natalie to join the Newspaper or Karate Club instead, but she could only be swayed into part-timing for the Newspaper Club when there were no Swimming Club activities. At least one of us will be there to deal with the Mermaids and spare Moka the danger of water, that's a plus to this, I guess.
~A/N~
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