"Gimme that titty knife!" Minato yelled, trying to snatch the blade away from Mitsuru's grip. The redhead growled and struggled back. It was her property, like everything else.
"Its origins are sacred!" Mitsuru cried, socking him on the face. "You will go blind!"
"I saw the place where that came from and I'm far from being blind. But you're free to try to turn me into Dare Devil any time you want!" Minato replied with a smirk on his face.
"Insolent peasant!" The redhead yelled back, trying to slap him on the face again.
The two battled for the sacred knife and the other two looked on in confusion.
"You got anything else in there?" Minato cried.
"Shut up!" Mitsuru kicked him in the nuts and snatched the knife away, earning a fist pump from Yukari and a wince from Akihiko.
But something weird happened.
After taking the kick, Minato simply up and collapsed, as if his power switch was hit.
And the confusion between the group grew. Except Akihiko's surprise and confusion looked more like fear and desperation.
"Minato!" He yelled as he made a run for the blue haired boy.
Noises could be heard from the next wagon, stopping Mitsuru from 'pocketing' the knife again and tensing Yukari up, who had half a mind to crawl and hide behind the older girl.
"Come on, man! Wake up, dammit!" Akihiko kept shaking Arisato, but nothing worked. He was out like a light.
"Leave this impudent dog be, Akihiko, look sharp!" Mitsuru ordered him, as Shadows came through the wagon's door.
Akihiko hung his head. There was no other way...
He fished around his pocket for one of his special pills and popped it in Minato's mouth.
Mitsuru was ready to ignore Akihiko and turn towards the Shadows, but as she spun on her heels, she felt the wind of someone running by her side and briefly caught the blue blur speeding up ahead of her.
Along with a mad laugh, she heard the blur say: "Watch and learn, motherfuckers!"
Minato rushed forward and jumped on the first Maya in range. He clawed into the live mush as the creature wailed in pain and torn a piece of it. He then threw the piece of Maya at a nearby Tiara like a snowball, successfully staggering it. He jumped from the Maya to the Tiara, pinning it to the ground, before he forcelly torn the mask off of its face and let it dissolve into ichor. He then turned towards a Beetle that was aiming a horn thrust at him and dodged the attack by hopping to the side.
To free his hands, he bit the Empress mask he had in his hand before he grabbed the beetle's horn and snapped it in half using his knee. He took the broken part of the horn and jammed it in what would be the creature's mouth, Emperor mask and all. The monster turned into a pool of ichor.
Nowhere nearly about to stop, he stepped on the Maya's mask and broke it, turning the already suffering Shadow into dead mush before he turned towards the second Tiara, which was readying a bufu attack at him. He dodged by jumping to the side, but the maneuver was not just a dodge. He kicked the train's bench to gain momentum and kicked the Tiara, knocking it down. He then picked the other Tiara's mask off of his mouth and began to beat the creature down with it, until it dissolved into a pulp.
Seeing that the horde of Shadows had been defeated, he gave another laugh. "Yeah!" He screamed as he slammed the mask he was holding in his hands on his own forehead with all his might to break it in half. "Angel Of Deaaath!" He screamed and banged his head a few times before moshing into the next wagon.
Leaving the other three stupefied teenagers behind, mouths agape.
"... Akihiko, what on Earth did you do to him...?" Mitsuru was the one to break the silence.
"I just gave him a little..." he started... but meh. "Never mind," he looked to the side, averting eye contact. "Let's just go."
Yukari, who was searching for an opportunity to snark and regain her lost vibe finally perked up. "Oh, don't worry, he just whispered that he'd be waiting at his room later to Minato," she said with a smirk.
Akihiko just looked at her with a blank face. "... Takeba... control dammit."
The girl blinked.
Shaking his head, Akihiko simply put a nearby 'slippery floor' sign near Yukari and rushed into the next wagon. Mitsuru just shrugged and followed after him, but briefly stopped to address Yukari.
"That thing about waiting in a room for Arisato... that will be you, won't it...? Oh, just forget I asked," she shook her head before resuming her advance.
Well, what could she do? That was awesome, dammit!
-Meanwhile, in the Hate Train's next wagon...-
Akihiko had caught up to Minato just in time to see Minato swinging a Gigas' severed leg like a baseball bat at some other Shadows while walking circles. They were quickly turned to dust as the blue haired devil's rampage went on. Mitsuru followed on through soon after.
The two seniors looked at each other. Their work was being done for them rather quickly, but the train was still moving forward. With Minato's pace, they might have been safer than they assumed. The redhead even considered giving Arisato her knife to speed things up, but decided against it.
"Pounding the world!" Minato yelled as he kicked open the door to the next wagon. "Like a battering ram!" It had been locked, but it wasn't enough to stop him.
Yukari noticed that the Priestess had gone quiet, which was weird. She caught up to the three and they just decided to follow the moshing teenager as he headbanged his way forward into the train.
She didn't find the will to throw snark around. Instead she just focused on the Minato as he wrecked the remaining Shadows on the train. The way he moved... the way he pounded away at the monster made her heart pound faster in her chest. The way he yelled those thrash metal lyrics as he did so... wasn't that attractive, to be honest. But he was still ranking pretty high in her list.
Oh, if he could always be like that... she would have no problem calling him hers. Maybe she'd feel a bit of Mitsuru's possessive joy.
Her thoughts were interrupted by something wrapping around her ankle.
When she looked down, she noticed that it was the Priestess's hair.
Her screams were drowned by the Shadow's screech as it lifted her up and hung her upside down. It seemed to be pissed.
"Takeba!" The two seniors exclaimed as they rushed in to help, but were stopped by someone coming from the emergency exit from above them.
It was Minato.
... But how? Wasn't he far ahead, already?
And when in the blue Hell did he get up there?
Without saying a word, he caught Yukari by the wrist and pulled her down, before outright biting at the Priestess' hair, in an attempt of tearing it apart. It less than worked, as the Shadow pulled its own hair back to itself, dragging Takeba by the ankle and Minato by the teeth, both of them skidding along the ground. The former screaming her lungs out. The seniors had to hop to each side to avoid being dragged along the two second years.
The two followed along the wagons, hurriedly pushing aside the remaining Shadows, until they got to the last one, finally met by a strange sight.
Yukari curled up in the corner, cowering away.
Minato standing in front of the Shadow, on a fighting stance different from the one they'd seen before.
The Priestess' shoulder was bleeding ichor from a strange wound, and more of the substance was forming a pool under the Shadow. Even more strangely, one of the metal bars in the wagon had been broken and a piece of it was missing. A rather big piece, actually.
When Minato turned around, there was... ichor on his lips...?
Then he fainted.
Akihiko rushed to help him as the Shadow released a screech.
"He... he made it bleed..." Yukari said from her corner, as Mitsuru parried a hair strike with her knife.
"... I think it was bleeding already," Akihiko nodded sagely, dodging the numerous strands of hair.
Yukari had half a mind to drag Minato's carcass from the fight but she decided against it. "Ah well," Yukari pulled out some cupcakes outta nowhere and watched the event as a harmless spectator.
"Be mine, you sons of bitches!" the shadow growled but ended up winking seductively at them.
"What the hell!?" Akihiko yelped, noticing the shadow was getting a little larger. "Is she growing!?"
The shadow now started crying.
Mitsuru blinked and stepped forward, only to get shoved away by the shadow's hair, which made the redhead crash into the window.
"You think you're hot shit, huh?" the shadow growled. "I got the size advantage."
"Wow, she mad," Yukari noted.
"Bleed for me! I'm all for gory org-" Akihiko charged ahead and punched the shadow in the face before it could finish the sentence.
"Just what did Minato do to her?!" Akihiko yelled.
"Bleed for me!" the shadow growled, launching several icicles for the teens.
"Not again!" Yukari yelled.
None of them could dodge and the teens ended up crashing to the ground in pain and the train only picked up speed.
"Holy Arnold on steroids!" the boxer panicked. "It's going to crash!"
"Then I get to play with you all!" the shadow squealed.
Utter silence prevailed and the teens exchanged horrified glances.
Mitsuru briefly pondered on stabbing herself with the knife and Akihiko nearly jumped out of the window but stopped himself because he had to defend Minato.
Yukari was noting every expression shift on the shadow. It was on a whirlwind of emotions but one thing caught her eye the most, her face whenever Akihiko got close to Minato. The brunette put her sassy chick persona aside and switched to a heroin. She stood tall, eyeing the shadow with festering vengeance.
"HEY!" Yukari ran ahead and kicked Akihiko right on the ass, making the boxer roll forward and ultimately crash on top of Minato who was still knocked out. The shadow stopped the next attack upon seeing Akihiko lying on top of the unconscious blunette.
"YOU!" Mitsuru blinked, where did Takea suddenly get all the courage? "Look at them!" she pointed to the two nearly dead males.
The shadow quivered out of excitement and Yukari smiled proudly.
"Where are you going with this?" Mitsuru questioned but got ignored.
"Fancy love hotel," Yukari said with a wink. "A waterbed and these two assholes sucking each others' faces." the shadow shook its head and Yukari panicked slightly. "With the right amount of tongue."
The Priestess sighed dreamily and the brunette continued.
Mitsuru nearly vomited because of the images forming inside of her vulnerable mind. She shook her head to see the shadow leaning back and described a rather disturbing male on male fantasy.
"... seems like you found a friend, Takeba," Mitsuru commented.
"Shut up," the brunette hissed back. "And then, the shower stops running and the blue asshole-"
Mitsuru blocked out the oncoming detail and slowly made her way towards the two grounded males. "I'm sorry Akihi-" she smirked. "Enjoy yourself you filthy virgin!" she forcefully grabbed a hold of the boxer's head and pressed his face onto Minato with a sick cackle.
Minato finally came to and flailed like a fish much like the boxer on top of him. Mitsuru was enjoying this but for a totally different reason than the two squealing on the other side of the car.
"Holy shit!" Minato struggled to break free but for some reason, Akihiko pressed him into the ground, petrifying the blue haired prick.
"HAHAHA!" Mitsuru laughed out loud.
The shadow sighed once again, it felt enlightened as the two males... did something. Hell, they even started rolling across the ground with Mitsuru onto them.
Yukari looked between the shadow and the pricks. It was her best chance. She controlled herself from doing something stupid and pulled out a short pistol from her own bra. The brunette was a little conflicted on killing a fellow fangirl but she was going to die and there was no way she was going out without leveling up to 100.
Yukari shuffled her way towards the enlightened being and shot the shadow on the face thrice and watched on as it withered away into nothingness.
"HAHAHA!" Mitsuru was still enjoying herself as she forced Akihiko on top of Minato once again but as soon as she witnessed the shadow disappearing into red/black mist, she let go and stood up, regaining her graceful demeanor.
"How did you?" Mitsuru questioned and Yukari shrugged.
"Yaoi fangirl," the brunette replied.
"Right..." Mitsuru questioned, kicking the two on the ribs with another cackle. "Filthy queers!"
Akihiko rolled away, somewhat horrified... but he kinda like blueberries. "What the fuck..." the boxer trailed off, looking away from Minato.
"You swing that way!?" Minato growled, bashing his fist on the table. "What about all the dreams I've had!? Who is going to take care of that?"
Mitsuru blinked and kicked Minato once again who rolled forward into the control room, smashed into the brakes and brought the train to a halt. Mitsuru blinked once again. "I nearly forgot about that..." she shrugged. "Ah well, saves me some money."
"... I totally forgot that we were going to die," Yukari added.
Mitsuru nodded knowingly. "With good reason..." she said. "... for you at least."
"Secondly, you had the gun the entire time?" Mitsuru eyed the pistol in her grip.
"I-I had a lot on my mind, alright?" she half shouted. None of them realized that the Dark Hour was over.
Akihiko had finally stood up after regaining control of his senses. "I ran outta signs." the brunette growled and shot him on the leg for his insolence.
"FREEZE!" a mature voice commanded the teens did so, looking ahead to see a couple of police officers making their way towards the group of teens. The head of the team took one good look at each teen. They had roids, guns and knives, not to mention all of them were injured with the monorail wrecked.
"Hey, we found another retard!" his assistant called as he dragged Minato out of the control room.
Mitsuru panicked. This wasn't happening...
"Foolish children!" the officer pulled out handcuffs. "You are all under arrest."
"My name is Mitsu-" a very familiar police officer dashed over to Mitsuru and knocked her out with another stamp. Ekoda moonwalked towards Yukari and knocked her out as well. Minato was out already and so he sent Akihiko into the realm of unconsciousness with a victory cheer. The rest of the police force watched on as Ekoda backflipped out of the monorail, leaving them alone with the knocked out teenagers.
"... Well, lock them in!" the head ordered and so our heroes were taken away.
They all woke up behind bars. Mitsuru was nearly drive insane while Yukari struggled... with something very complex.
"At least get me some blueberry, dammit!" Akihiko groaned.
Minato ended the night by puking his guts out.
Sorry for the late update, lost motivation due to less feedback but I planned on updating this once before college starts so here it is. The rating is changed to M and you can see why. Yes, every full moon shadow will have a gimmick and this time, it was a yaoi fangirl.
Thanks a ton to my co-author, he wrote most of the stuff.
Well, see you later. Review as always.