Ranma Plus Vampire! – By DS Wynne


Disclaimer: "R1/2" and "Rosario + Vampire" belong to their respective owners.

Note: This is a multi-genre story.


Part 9


Meanwhile…

Moka sighs, as she looks up at the wall clock in the Journalism Club's room. She was hoping that the treats she and the other girls were preparing for the club's party would be enough to entice Ranma to be in the room early…

"Ranma is certainly late," Moka says, as she places her head in her hands while leaning over…

CHUNK!

Moka turns to face the room's door, as it begins to open.

"Ranma?" Moka says, as she begins to smile.

Unfortunately for her, she saw Mizore's face, as the snow girl enters the room.

"Mizore?"

"Ranma won't be here," Mizore says, as she closes the door behind her. "In fact, he won't be in your little club."

"How can you say that?" Moka says with a slightly angry expression.

"Simple. He's more like ME than he is like YOU…"

Mizore begins to walk towards Moka, as if in a trance.

"Then again, you have more important matters to be concerned about," Mizore says, as she suddenly begins to choke the vampire.

"Ack!" Moka replies, as she is leaned over.

PLOP!

Now on the ground, Mizore begins to press down on Moka's neck.

"Mi-zo-re…?" Moka manages to say.

"Ranma doesn't need you, I'll make sure of that," Mizore says with detached expression.

'Her…hands,' Moka thought. 'They're so cold-'

With no other recourse, Moka slaps Mizore hard in the face.

SHATTER!

Unfortunately, as evidenced by the partially detached face, Moka realized that "Mizore" was not herself, literally.

"I'm not here, only my 'ice doll'," "Mizore" says, as raises her right arm. It begins to reform itself into something sharp.

"Ah!" Moka says.

"And now to end the eyesore…"

"Ranma!" Moka screamed.

Meanwhile, Ranma was having trouble of his own.

"Yikes!" Ranma says, as he dodges several ice projectile attacks from Mizore.

"Why won't you stay still?" Mizore asked. "I simply want to embrace you."

"Uh, no thanks," Ranma replied, as he skids back on the newly form sheet of ice, which blanketed the pond. Unfortunately, Ranma, to this very day, still did not know how to ice skate.

SLIP!

"Ulp!" Ranma says, as he fell back.

"I'm a 'snow woman', Ranma," Mizore says, as she calmly walks across the pond towards the object of her affection, while creating a type of corridor that would prevent Ranma from escaping. "The ice element is my birthright. And with just a thought…"

Suddenly, Ranma felt himself encased in ice.

"Huh?"

"I don't want our friendship to change, so I will keep you like this…forever."

While Ranma was not affected by the cold, thanks to the Soul of Ice Technique, he was hesitant in dealing with a girl who needed help. In some ways, Mizore's loneliness reminded him of hers, back before he came upon the Tendo household.

'Akane,' Ranma thought.

"We'll be together forever," Mizore says, as she lifts her cold, icy hands.

Ranma lifts his free left hand just enough to form a "flick hand gesture".

"No," Ranma says, as he taps on the ice that had him imprisoned.

FLICK!

SHATTER!

"Oh!" Mizore says, as her ice casing comes undone.

"Friends don't hold their friends against their wills," Ranma says, as he gets serious. "You may be a girl, but I WILL defend myself-"

"RANMA!" cries a voice from above.

Ranma and Mizore both look up to see Kurumu carrying Moka, while flying towards them.

"Ranma!" Moka yelled.

"How-?"Mizore says.

"By luck, I happened to arrive just before one of your puppets tried to kill Moka," Kurumu says, as she makes her final approach. "Though I had to destroy a perfectly good cake to do so…"

"What?" Ranma yells.

"Get away from here…Ranma is MINE!" Mizore yells, as she creates large shards of ice that nearly impales the girls.

"Ah!" Moka and Kurumu screamed.

"Moka!" Ranma yells, as he leaps into the air. "Kurumu!"

Ranma catches the girls in his arms.

"My hero!" Kurumu says, as she wraps her arms around her "Destined Ones".

"Uh, yeah," Ranma replied, as he gently lands-

BAM!

Or tries to.

"Ow," Ranma says, as he manages to get up.

"Ranma, are you okay?" Moka says, as she and Kurumu help Ranma to get up.

"Yeah, though my pride has been mortally wounded…"

"Those that stand in the way of my true love deserves to be punished," Mizore says, as she stares down Moka.

"I won't let you, Mizore," Ranma says. "If you take one more step towards my friends, I'll do whatever it takes to stop you."

"Wh-why can't you understand that we should be together?"

"He's suppose to be with ME, you know!" Kurumu yells. "Not with a snowflake."

"I'm not supposed to be with anyone, save for the person I choose to be with!" Ranma yells. "And nobody can do that!"

"Why…why can't you understand me?" Mizore says, as she begins to back away. "Why won't you understand that we're suppose to be together?"

WHOOSH!

A concentrated burst of wind and snow envelops Mizore.

"Ah!" Moka and Kumuru yell in unison.

"Mizore!" Ranma yells, with his eyes squinted.

And then, the snow girl was gone.

"She's gone," Kurumu says, as she scans the area.

"Ranma, are you okay?" Moka asked, as she goes to Ranma's side.

Ranma turns to face Moka.

"Never been better," Ranma says, trying to deflate the intensity of the situation. "I'm always on top."

"Really?" Kurumu says with excitement.

"Kurumu!" Moka says with a furious blush. "This is serious. Somebody could have been hurt."

"Well, I for one am glad she is gone-" Kurumu begins to say, when-

SHATTER!

"Huh?" Moka begins to say.

"The ice-!" Ranma says, as all three friends fall into the pond.

Later…

"Ugh," Ranma-onna says, as she shook her head of cold water. "I hate water…"

She, Moka and Kurumu managed to climb out of the pond. Unfortunately, the experience afterwards was none too pleasant.

"Ah-choo!" Moka says with a sneeze.

"I feel SO miserable," Kurumu says. She then turns towards Ranma-onna.

"But we can warm each other up, you know."

Ranma-onna merely sighs.

"The next time you three get into a fight, you should at least let me know what's going on," Yukari says, as she hands Ranma-onna a kettle of hot water. "Otherwise, the ice cream wouldn't have melted."

"How can we celebrate with the snow girl out there?" Kurumu says.

Moka turns to Ranma, as he is fully restored to manhood.

"Ranma?"

"I don't know WHAT to think, Moka," Ranma says. "Mizore is dangerous, but there is a lonely person that I feel empathy with."

"I wish someone would do something before more people get hurt," Moka says.

And then Yukari turns towards the entrance of the club.

"I wonder what's the commotion is all about?" Yukari says, as she gets up to open the door…just in time to see Miss Nekonome running by.

"Miss Nekonome!" Yukari yells.

The normally bubbly homeroom teacher stops to turn towards Yukari.

"Oh, Yukari," Miss Nekonome says. "Are all the club members here?"

"Yes," Yukari says.

"Except for the jerk Gin, of course," Ranma says. By now, Ranma has more control over his fear of Miss Nekonome, even though he still felt nervous around her.

"What happened?" Kurumu asked.

"One…of the teachers was hurt by Mizore," Miss Nekonome says. "The school has been looking for her."

"Oh, my," Moka says.

"Sounds like she's been throwing tantrums for being rejected by Ranma," Yukari says.

Ranma then gets up.

"I'll be back," Ranma says, as he opens the window.

"Ranma?"

"Stay here."

And with that, Ranma leaps out of the window.

"RANMA!"

Ranma immediately extends his senses, as he localizes the center of an enormous cold front.

"There," Ranma says, as he heads for the direction of the coast.

A few minutes later, Ranma comes to a complete stop.

"Mizore," Ranma says.

The snow girl, who was facing the red ocean, turns to face Ranma. She appeared to have been crying.

"Ranma…"

"You…did a bad thing because of me," Ranma says.

"I…did?"

"We need to go back to the school to deal with this."

Mizore shakes her head violently.

"No, no, NO!" Mizore yells. "I thought you could understand me. But you DON'T. You're like the others."

"What?" Ranma says, as he is taken aback.

"Why couldn't you understand me? WHY?"

FWOOSH!

Ranma felt an extreme temperature drop, as the surf pounds into an elaborate ice sculpture of jagged, red ice.

Ranma braced himself for the worst, when-

"Ranma!" Moka yells, as she and the girls come running up.

"Moka!" Ranma yells. "Kurumu! Yukari! Stay back! Mizore might try to hurt you all again!"

"Ranma, we just learned from Gin that Mizore was almost molested by the teacher she got injured," Kurumu says.

"Apparently, Mister Kotsubo, the gym teacher, has previously assaulted her," Yukari says. "That's why she's the way she is all this time."

"Damn," Ranma says. All this time, he thought that Mizore was on the verge of becoming a true monster, when, in fact, she was a victim herself.

"Mizore, I'm sorry-" Ranma began to say.

"It doesn't matter," Mizore says. "NOTHING MATTERS!"

"Yes," says an ice clone, as she and several more begin to pop up out of the ice sculpter.

"Yes, it doesn't matter," says another.

"Everyone will be buried in ice!" Mizore says, as the immediate area is blanked with ice and snow. "HAHAHAHAHAHA-!

"The cold-!" Kurumu says.

"All will feel my loneliness-!"

CRACK!

Due to the suddenly extreme temperature, the portion of the cliff that Mizore was standing on collapsed.

"Yahhhh-!"

"Mizore!" Ranma says, as he slides to grab the snow girl before she falls into the drink.

"Let me go!" Mizore yells.

Meanwhile, Mizore's ice dolls begin to surround Moka and the others.

"So cold, so lonely," says one doll.

"We should just die," says another.

"I don't think we can take them all," Yukari says, as she waves her magic wand.

"You think?" Kurumu replied. "All of them are attuned to Mizore's inner will."

Moka turns towards Ranma.

"Ranma!" Moka says.

Ranma looks back and assess the situation.

"Moka, you have to defend yourself and the others," Ranma says, as he lifts his free hand to form a knife hand gesture. "I'm sorry."

FLICK!

Faith in his abilities, Ranma threw a vacuum blade at Moka's rosary, praying that the only thing that will occur is a clean separation without causing an injury.

SLICE!

As the cross fell to the ground, Moka was swarmed over by bats.

"He did it!" Yukari says.

"Thank goodness," Kurumu replied.

SHATTER!

Moka-sama assessed the situation, while being slightly angry towards Ranma's seemingly disregard to Moka-chan safety. However, first thing's first…

"Sorry for the wait," Moka-sama says. "Regardless, I will have to destroy you all."

"All things must die," says one puppet.

"You and the others will die as well," says another puppet.

"Humph," Moka says with a smirk. "Worthless puppets."

"You will disappear, as will your friends," yet another puppet.

"The only ones to disappear…will be YOU."

Using her intense supernatural aura, Moka-sama begins to shatter the dolls by will power alone.

"Amazing!" Yukari say.

"I agree," says Kurumu, as she unfurls her wings and claws. "Let's help…"

Meanwhile, Ranma continues to talk to Mizore.

"Mizore, I'm sorry for thinking that you were a bad person," Ranma says. "Spooky, but still…"

"Why do you care?" Mizore replied. "Why would you care about a lonely weirdo like ME?"

"I care because I can, girl. And…I DO know what's its like to be a lonely weirdo."

"You…you do?" Mizore says, as she stares into Ranma's eyes.

"Yeah. When was growing up, I never had any friends, because my Pops took me on the road for ten years. Heck, I didn't even know my mother was even alive until recently. And it was only until I got settled a year ago that I was able to make friends, and this is while I am getting into fights and stuff."

"Oh…"

"So, you see, I do know what it's like to be lonely and weird."

"I don't see weird."

Ranma swallows hard.

"I become a girl whenever I get wet with cold water, because of a curse."

"Oh."

"Look, I don't know what will happen after this, but…I'm willing to face that unknown as your friend."

"Really?"

"Really. But you have to ease up on the stalker stuff."

"Oh, okay…"

And with that, Ranma pulls Mizore up to safety.

"There," Ranma says, as he scans the area. "Moka-?"

BAM!

Ranma fell backwards, as Moka-sama looks down at Ranma.

"Ranma!" Kurumu and Yukari yell in unison, as they run towards Ranma's side.

"What the heck was THAT for?" Ranma yells, as he rubs his face.

"For being a careless idiot, stud," Moka-sama says. "Don't try stunts that could cost both of our lives."

"And a loser!" says a stray bat, as it flies overhead.

"Oh, shut up!" Ranma yells. He then returns his attention back towards Moka.

"Moka, I would rather that you hit me with a mallet or something instead, you know."

"When I know that you're man enough for me, then I might just do that," Moka says, as she picks up her silver cross.

"And that means…?"

"You'll see what I mean when it's time, stud," Moka says, as she resets the cross on her rosary.

"…"

"Scary," Mizore replies.

"No kidding," Yukari says, as she applies first aid to Ranma's left cheek.

"Ah, you get used to it," Kurumu says.

"I hope not," Ranma says.

Later…

"Good work, everyone!" Gin says.

Ranma looks at the upperclassman.

"Well, we, um, couldn't have, um-"

"Yes?" Gin says with a knowing smile.

"Alright, thanks for helping us with your 'hobby'," Ranma says through gritted teeth.

"You can thank me properly by going out with me."

"Not in this OR the next life, jerk! I'm guy!"

"It's only a question of time before you accept your fate with me-"

Gin notices several battle auras within the room, with the source coming from Moka, Kurumu and Yukari.

"Or not…"

"Well, I have good news!" Miss Nekonome says. "Mizore will NOT be expelled!"

"That's good news," Yukari says.

"And the best news of all is that-"

'Why is it suddenly cold in here?' Ranma thought to himself before seeing Mizore's face peeking through the door.

"Ah!" Ranma jumps. "Stalker!"

"You're just being silly, silly," Mizore says, as she enters the room with a decidedly shorter haircut.

"You look good," Moka says approvingly.

"Well…I wanted a fresh start…as friends."

Ranma leans back in his seat and smiles. In spite of all the weirdness at Youkai Academy, he was finally feeling at home-

CHU!

'Dang, I let my guard down,' Ranma thinks, as Moka taps into Ranma's neck for his blood.

Tbc.


Next time: Studying has always been hard for Ranma, so he acquires the services of a tutor to help him…with disastrous results! See you next time!