Buckle up boys and girls, this is definitely gonna be the longest chapter I've ever written, both in terms of length and content. Are you prepared?

No. No you definitely aren't.

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"Choose… what?" Tsukune said, dread filling his mind and body.

Tamel's insane laughter came quietly from behind him. "Choose which one of your friends dies of course."

Tsukune stopped cold, those words reverberating through his mind. Which of his friends… dies? He had to decide their fate? That was no different than driving a sword through their heart himself!

"No…" he mumbled, not believing his ears. "This has to be a… a trick…"

He couldn't do what they asked. Kill his friends?

They have betrayed us!

They couldn't mean it.

"You doubt us do you not?"

Tsukune looked up, only to see the uncaring face of Uven next to his friends.

"You want me to kill them!"

"No. Just to choose which dies, that's all." The God of Death replied dismissively.

"There is no difference between me choosing one to die and stabbing them myself!" Tsukune yelled, agitated and panicky as he desperately tried to stall for time. Time to think of a way out of this twisted situation.

Tamel giggled behind Tsukune. "A ploy for time is it? Doing that will only make us grow bored and kill them all."

Tsukune despaired. There was no way out.

There is one… perhaps…

Straightening up, Tsukune looked the Death God straight in the face. "If I have to choose who lives or dies then I would rather sacrifice my own life to save them. You said one must die. I choose to die so that they may live!"

Uven stared at the boy for a minute, as Tamel continued to giggle. The giggle became chuckle, then a full blown laugh. Tamel roared with laughter as Tsukune turned to look at him quizzically.

"You really think," Tamel said between gasps of mirth, "that it would be that easy? That you could just get out by dying? Oh no. No no no no no."

Uven nodded. "He's right you know."

Tsukune turned to look at him.

"This isn't something so easily avoided."

With a snap of his fingers, Uven conjured up chains to bind Tsukune into place. They latched onto his arms and tightened, forcing him down to his knees.

"If you will not decide, then we shall do it for you."

The God of Death walked calmly to the youngest, Yukari. "Such a young girl. You have quite the gentle nature, my young Chaos Elemental. Perhaps she should die first?" As he spoke, the Shade holding her and Ruby tightened its hand, causing blood to drip from the claws holding Yukari's neck.

"NO! Please stop I beg of you!" Tsukune yelled, straining against the chains holding him down.

Uven continued on, disregarding the poor boy's pleas. "Or perhaps the older one should die. After all, she did try to erase you and your friends during your trip to Witch's Knoll, didn't she." The Shade tightened its other hand, making Ruby scream as the claws pierced her skin. She did love pain, but not like this.

Twisting and turning, Tsukune continued to struggle in vain, tears beginning to form at the corners of his eyes.

"Or maybe it's the ice girl. The Snow Maiden. Such a pretty race, such a pretty girl." Uven said, drawing a finger across Mizore's cheek, making her flinch and pull away, murder plain in her eyes. "She did use her feelings and her suicide to try to make her yours. Perhaps she should disappear from this world instead of the others." A hiss escaped Mizore as she tried her best to keep calm and not show the pain the fingers piercing her skin caused.

Tsukune yelled wordlessly. He was right there and he couldn't do a thing to help his friends.

"And now the vampire. Such a powerful creature. Two minds in a single body. Such an interesting situation." Uven commented as the Shade gripped her harder, making her scream as blood spurted and poured over her Rosario collar.

"STOP PLEASE!" Tsukune screamed in anguish, powerless to stop the torture being inflicted on his friends, tears streaming down his face.

"Tsukune…" a voice whispered.

He turned, tears still flowing freely. Kurumu was looking at him sadly, smiling and putting on a strong face. Her eyes were full of love for her Destined One, and were looking only at him. "It's ok Tsukune. We are all here for you. It will all be ok."

Tsukune's face twisted in pain at her words. They all cared so much for him and he couldn't help a single one of them. He looked at Uven.

"Please master. Please don't do this." He begged, hoping his master was still open to him and his pleading.

Uven ignored him, continuing onto Kurumu. "And here we have your final friend. The succubus, the lust demon. Didn't she try to enslave you when she saw you with her rival in beauty? Tried to kill you as well when you didn't fall for it all. So loving. So caring. Or is she just deceiving you for her own ends?"

Kurumu looked at Uven defiantly. "He showed me what it means to be a caring person. He was a true man, sticking by his values no matter what happened. Say what you will, but that man has stolen my heart with his purity and I love him."

The Shade holding Kurumu suddenly increased the strength he was using to hold her, driving his claws deep into her shoulder. She screamed in pain, unable to hold her voice back.

Tsukune's eyes widened as time slowed to a standstill.

He saw every drop of blood that splattered up from Kurumu's wounds. The expressionless face of the Shade as he drove his claws into her. The twisting of Kurumu's face as she screamed in pain. Sound was nonexistent. He didn't see Moka, Yukari, Ruby, or Mizore. He didn't see Tamel, nor the world around him.

She's hurt!

No…

He hurt her!

The Shade?

No. HIM.

He summoned the Shade.

He gave the command.

He could have stopped the Shade.

It's his fault.

It isn't only him.

He did it as well.

He could have stopped him.

He just stood by.

He did NOTHING.

We trusted them!

They were supposed to be my masters!

They lied to us!

They betrayed us!

THEY HURT HER!

Time started to flow again as space and reality warped around Tsukune, his eyes glowing dark red, darker than before. Dark clouds formed in the sky as lightning cracked and struck around the boy. Waves of youki poured off him in greater levels than before. Dark purple lines formed on his skin, seeming like veins, but smoking slightly. A deep growl rumbled over the entire region, a sound more felt than heard.

Uven froze. This was an unexpected eventuality. Damn these Chaos Elementals. What was going on?

Tsukune flexed his arms, snapping the chains that bound them. The clouds swirled, a vortex forming above him, the lightning continuing to crack around him. He threw his head back and roared at the heavens as a blinding light surrounded him and spiked upwards into the heart of the vortex above. The roar persisted despite the pillar of light surrounding him, changing and going to an even deeper pitch, reverberating within the bodies of everyone present.

"Tamel!"

The Chaos God all but teleported next to The God of Death.

"This is completely unprecedented!" Tamel had to yell to be heard over the roaring of the wind, despite being next to his partner.

"What in the FUCK is going on?!" The God of Death was uncharacteristically rattled. These sorts of things were supposed to happen on a schedule, within his plans. He calculated every possible eventuality and then these Chaotic Elementals constantly broke each of his carefully thought out plans.

"To be completely honest," Tamel replied, "I have absolutely no goddamn idea what's happening!"

A shockwave emanated from the pillar of light that contained Tsukune and something hit the ground. Hard. A fifty foot high explosion of dirt and debris suddenly took the place of the pillar of light.

Tamel's eyes widened. "Oh no…"

Uven glanced over at his slightly psychotic partner. "Oh no? You don't say 'oh no'. What does 'oh no' mean?"

Raising a slightly shakey finger, pointing at the cloud of dust, Tamel replied, "He's in full form now."

"Impossible."

"No it's definitely possible. He's in it."

"He can't be!" Uven replied, frustrated. "Getting into full form requires years if not decades of training! How can this kid pull it off now?!"

A light seemed to go off in Tamel's head as he snapped his fingers. "The binding of genetics!" He exclaimed excitedly. Turning to Uven he rapidly explained. "Earlier we realized that his true nature didn't completely exorcise the vampiric blood within him it actually broke it down and integrated it into his genetics which is also quite possibly containing human and elemental as well so he has three different types of genes within himself so that could possibly be the catalyst for making it possible though I must admit very unlikely for him to progress into his full form!" He finished breathlessly, panting slightly.

Uven ground his teeth. Damn Chaos. "I'll buy us some time. We'll take the fight to him on his ground."

A smash echoed as another, smaller weight pounded the ground from where Tsukune was, raising another cloud of dust. Uven mumbled a couple words and raised his hands to the sky, dark energy between his hands before being discharged. Out of nothing, a dark dragon with empty eye sockets leaking dark energy came and landed next to Uven. A wyvern, two hind legs and wings, no front legs and nearly a hundred feet long. It radiated death, wings riddled with holes and tears, a spiny tail with traces of dried blood.

Uven looked up at the creature. "We need time. Buy us as much as you can." Tamel ignored the dragon and began concentrating and consolidating his power.

The dragon roared, acknowledging his master as it turned towards the dust cloud and raised itself up and flapped its wings, raising off the ground and summoning a gale of wind. As the gale hit the dust cloud, another roar echoed back at the dragon as Tsukune in his full Elemental form charged out of the dust cloud.

Over fifty stories tall, Tsukune's full Elemental form was a force to be reckoned with. Pure power radiated from his form. His body appeared to be made of the same dark purple armor that had encased his arms earlier. His head was missing any form of nose with dark blood red eyes, glowing and leaving trails behind them similar to before. His mouth didn't have any form of lips, the armor just turned into gigantic fangs, the inside of his mouth just glowing with light, giving a sense of zero depth. Purple electricity snapped and cracked over his armor. His hair a mass of dark purple flames, writhing and flaring, stretching from his forehead to his shoulder blade region. Hand with fingers that were sharpened claws, spears that could impale five men at once and still have room for more.

A screaming roar came from him once again, directed at Uven, Tsukune's glowing eyes focus on his prey. The one who hurt his friend. His Kurumu.

His Key.

Tsukune charged towards the God of Death, his intent perfectly clear to everyone nearby. The dragon intercepted the enraged Elemental and flames poured forth from its maw, covering Tsukune. He lifted a hand to try to block the flames as his eyes narrowed. How dare this creature try to stop him. Faster than the eye could follow, Tsukune's other hand lanced out and grabbed the wyvern's jaw, snapping it shut and stopping the flames. He swung the dragon around and slammed it into the ground, the sounds of splintering and snapping splitting the air as its bones broke. It clawed at the Elemental with its hind legs, claws raking against Tsukune's chest, sparks flying. A fist flew through the air and collided with the dragon's chest.

While the battle raged between the Elemental and dragon, the two gods were gathering up their power. Despite the fact that they were both gods, gathering the amount of energy they wanted in the mortal world was a difficult and arduous task. Tamel had a fierce, insane smile on his face while Uven was intently focused, his mouth in a tense line. The energies of the two were colliding and fighting with each other. The Shades holding the girls faded and the girls collapsed to the ground, but if Tsukune had been watching, he would have noticed that they too faded into nothing.

A couple yards away, the five girls were hiding behind an illusion created by another, smaller Shade summoned by the God of Death.

During Tamel and Tsukune Fight.

Uven turned to the five girls. "We don't have much time. I need you all to do as I say and to trust me and my partner."

The girls looked at him quizzically.

"We need to find out if one of you is Tsukune's Key. His key is someone who means more than anything to him and is someone the energies of Chaos have bound him to. The only method of discovering the key is by hurting said key in front of him. This will set off a chain reaction and it will be plainly obvious who it is."

"So you have to hurt us?" Kurumu asked.

Uven smiled. "No. My Shades will touch you and replicate your entire person. Your bodies, your energies, you minds and personalities."

The girls stared. Only Ruby and Yukari only truly grasped the complexity of that statement. Recreating a believable person was an amazingly hard task and making a believable replica of an actual person was even harder if not downright impossible!

Reaching out, the three Shades touched the girls' shoulders and when they pulled away, a perfect copy of each of them formed, lifeless for the moment.

"But wait." Yukari said. "If you said that Tsukune's energies have been bound to his key, then won't he realize that she isn't the actual key and just a fake?"

Uven nodded. "Under normal circumstances yes that would be the case. But we are whipping him up into a frenzy, distracting him from what is. This should be good enough to make him believe that they key is hurt and he will react accordingly. Now go over there and hide." As he finished he pointed to an area behind them where a smaller Shade fazed into view. "He will hide you until it is time for you to reveal yourselves. Once we know who the key is, that person will have to come forth and subdue him. He will be angered, but will respond to his key's call."

"But-"

"There's no time. Go!"

As they left, Uven turned to face the battle. Why do I get the feeling that something isn't quite right?

Present Time

Kurumu's heart was about to leap out of her chest. Her Destined One was also destined to be with her! She was so happy she wanted to flip for joy. But there was a bigger problem. The small Shade had fortified the barrier and she couldn't get out to calm Tsukune down.

She battered against the barrier. "Let me out I have to get to him!"

The Shade shook its head.

"Why not?" She huffed.

The Shade pointed at the fight in front of them.

Tsukune had crushed the dragon. Literally and figuratively. As the body of the wyvern began to fade beneath his feet, Tsukune turned his attention back to the two gods, the young Elemental's eyes glowing with murderous intent. Inhaling deeply, Tsukune's chest and cheeks swelled. With the sound of a drawn out sigh, he opened his mouth and liquid black flames poured forth, dripping from his jaw and spreading out across the landscape, seeking out the two who caused his key pain.

With a sigh that made the air shudder, the shadows of the land contorted and moved towards the God of Death. They climbed his body and encased him in darkness. The shadows swelled, growing in size until the shadows were nearly forty five stories tall. They blew away like so many autumn leaves in a storm, revealing the full form of the God of Death.

The Reaper stood, hooded and tall. Bone wings stretched out from its back, flaring open with a creaking sound and spanning eighty feet from tip to tip. The hands that poked out of the sleeves were made of bone. Sinew, muscle, nerves, skin, all missing. A skull was visible beneath the darkened hood, teeth chattering lightly and wielding an even larger scythe than before. Death was truly the master of the dead, he himself being a physical incarnation of it.

The Chaos God roared, loud and strong, as his skin swelled and bubbled, making Yukari clap a hand over her mouth so as not to be sick. Tamel's skin split, dark purple chaotic energy flowing through the tears in his skin as it dissolved and revealed the purple power beneath his flesh. It grew in size, shedding its human form and growing fifty stories in height. Looking nearly identical to Tsukune's form, the God of Chaos flexed his shoulders and let loose a roar to the heavens. Its hands in claws with glowing red eyes, flames coating his head, but stopping at his neck. No electricity snapped over his body, but his teeth were the same as Tsukune's.

Chaos and Death stood before the champion Tamel had chosen. Despite both gods being shorter in stature than the Elemental, neither backed off and both stood prepared for battle. Heavy sighs emanated from Death, the rattle leaving impressions of the sounds one makes before dying while his partner roared loudly, barely able to contain himself.

Tsukune growled.

THEY HURT HER

She will be protected.

WE ARE POWERFUL

Yes…

We can kill them.

Yes.

Tsukune yelled a challenge to the gods, half scream, half roar. He charged, focused on Uven, the one who had summoned the Shades that harmed Kurumu. Mid-step, the Elemental was intercepted by Tamel who drove his hand straight into Tsukune's face, stopping him dead in his tracks. Not without receiving a return fist straight into his stomach at the same time however, making the impact to Tsukune's face approximately half of what it would normally be. Uven spun his scythe and advanced on the Elemental, the scythe making a large arc before coming towards the Elemental's head. Tsukune bent backwards, under the scythe and forcing Tamel to let go of his face unless he wanted Uven's scythe to sever his arm half off.

Rolling backwards, Tsukune's feet slammed into his feet into the ground, creating a level 5 earthquake and cracking the ground. Inhaling again, Tsukune let loose a powerful scream at the gods. This scream was nothing like the challenge beforehand. This had another purpose.

Tsukune instinctively poured his power into his scream, light emanating from his mouth. Smoke rose from the two gods as the scream began to corrode their bodies. Tamel and Uven threw up their hands to block the scream but even then it continued to damage them. Tamel dived to the side and leapt forwards once he was on his feet attempting to blindside the young Elemental. Tsukune stopped his scream and slammed his hands down and spun on them, using the centripetal force to flam his feet into the Chaos god, launching him into his counterpart who simply stepped out of the way.

"You have to let me go to him!" Kurumu screamed at the small Shade.

It shook its head stubbornly.

"Your master said he wouldn't stop until the person he reacted to said to stop!" She exclaimed, pointing at herself. "He reacted to me!"

The Shade made motions with its hands frantically as it waved its arms around. Kurumu growled in frustration. "Why couldn't your master have given you speaking!?"

Yukari had her eyes closed, ignoring the battle and empty-head raising a ruckus. Ruby was looking hopelessly at her wand, tears forming at the corners of her eyes. She couldn't have Tsukune all to herself. But maybe he would still take her as his toy. A threesome maybe? Mizore sat on the ground facing away from everyone to hide her tears. Why did it have to be her? Maybe if she hadn't tried to kill him, or if she had introduced herself to him sooner. Ifs and maybes flew around her head. Moka just watched her friend battle the gods. So this is what Tsukune was truly capable of. She smiled sadly, she had always known her first true friend was special. And here was the proof. She just wished he was a vampire. Still, friends was perfectly fine with her. Inner Moka was thinking along the same lines as her gentle pink haired counterpart. With one small exception. She just couldn't help but imagine him using that power for another purpose. Vampires loved power, and seeing Tsukune's display just turned her on so badly she could barely stand it.

Yukari's eyes snapped open. "GOT IT!" She yelled. The barrier dissipated, dissolving into nothingness. She wasn't called a genius for nothing. The Shade just stared in disbelief.

Kurumu's wings and tail snapped out and she flew out to the ensuing battle, her Destined One's name on her lips.

"TSUKUNE!"

Tsukune elbowed the Chaos God in the face and unleashed a devastating side kick into the chest of the God of Death, knocking backwards a couple hundred yards. Tamel screamed in rage and punched Tsukune in the side, making him double over. Roaring in rage Tamel brought his arm up to drop an elbow into the Elemental's neck. Tsukune growled as the elbow came down and snapped his head up into the chin of Tamel, causing him to stumble. Tsukune grabbed Tamel's other arm and mustered up all his strength to throw him into the God of Death. The Chaotic God collided hard with his partner, sending them both a further hundred yards away before they separated and flipped over onto their feet.

Suddenly, a tiny figure flitted into view of the battle, between the gods and Elemental. Kurumu flew straight for her Destined One and went straight to his face, hugging him between his eyes.

"Tsukune…" she said.

The Chaos Elemental froze in his tracks, as did both gods. Surely, despite being his key, Tsukune was too consumed by rage and his own power to stop until he had finished off the one he wanted. Tamel was the most confused. He still recalled bits and pieces of his own first changing, the first time he shifted into his full form. It was impossible to regain sanity and conscious thought until the power had run its course. It was too much, it simply swallowed you up.

Tsukune slowly, shakingly, lifted his hand to his face, a giant clawed finger gently coming up beneath Kurumu's feet. She noticed and dropped down onto it, standing on his finger and looking up into his gigantic face, love and adoration and pride filling her up. Her Destined One. Her loved one. Her Tsukune. Tsukune simply stared at her, his other hand coming up to brush her shoulder and neck where he would swear he saw her get hurt. She rested her hand on his finger, smiling.

At that motion, all the tension seemed to just melt out of Tsukune's gigantic, fifty five story form. His body began to dissolve into smaller and smaller particles, causing Kurumu to take flight once again as he fell to his knees, his body breaking apart as he fell to the ground. His full form broke into dust as he hit the ground, leaving only his human form lying, unharmed, upon the strewn battlefield. Kurumu instantly went to his side, gently lifting his head into her lap, cradling him gently.

"He'll be fine. I wouldn't worry about that blockhead." Tamel said, walking up in his human form. Whilst everyone was transfixed on Tsukune, he and the God of Death had shed their full forms and reverted back to human form.

The rest of the Newspaper Club rushed forwards to their male friend. Each still cared for him, but they knew he was Kurumu's just as she was his. Sad as it made them, they would always be there for him. And they know he would always be there to help them too.

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Hehehehehe didja like that one? Went for a bit of a longer chapter here. Lemme know whatcha think of it. Now onwards Tsukune. There are challenges and trials that await you in the oncoming storm.