Greetings, one and all and welcome to another chapter of Rosario Vampire: Moon Reader. I hope your going to enjoy it as much as I had writing it and now on to the story shall we?
The sun had began to set, and the street lights turned on as Tsukiyomi was waiting in front of the festival grounds, a shrine filled with people eating food and playing games. The young man himself was dressed in a black polo-shirt, similar colored jeans and his usual white high-top sneakers. "Come on, where is she?", he muttered watching the time on his phone.
"Sorry for being late."
Turning around, the young man saw Mizore standing behind him, wearing a snow white yukata with a multi-colored purple circle patterns and an faded blue striped sash. The sleeves and hem of the yukata gradient to a pale lavender.
"Yukatas are pretty skimpy, if you ask me. They are nice in warm weather, but they don't offer much protection, and they take some time getting used to.", Mizore said, looking down at the one she was wearing, "Shall we get going?", she was quite amused at the light blush on her friend's cheeks.
As they moved to the festival grounds Mizore moves closer and grabs hold of Tsukiyomi's arm. "What are you doing?", he whispered, but the Snow Fairy wasn't paying attention, she instead eyed two girls with a glare as they walked past them, the two of them staring at Tsukiyomi.
"...That girls Yukata is pretty cute.", Mizore muttered, "I didn't know they make ones like that. I should have looked harder for one."
"You look pretty cute already.", Tsukiyomi said with a slight smile.
"Really?", the purple haired girl at his side asked, "Where you checking me out? I guess I'll take it as a compliment."
It was an actually blast, playing games, munching on festival food. Mizore was a bit surprised when she saw Tsukiyomi buy a candied apple, she expected someone like him to get something a little less on the sweet side.
He caught her eyeing him and blushed, "W-What?"
"Oh, it's just that, I really didn't expect you to get something so sweet.", Mizore muttered, "Because I haven't seen you eat sweet things all that often."
"I just like candied apples... They remind me of the times when me, mom, dad, my uncle, aunt and niece went to summer festivals.", Tsukiyomi admitted, with a nostalgic smile, "Does that make me weird?"
"On the Tsuki weird scale, I'll give it a three.", Mizore said dryly, taking a bite out of her own candied apple.
"And on the Mizore joke scale... I guess no one's needed one of those before.", he jabbed back at her.
As they checked out more of the festival, they stopped near a game booth, cans stacked up in pyramids waiting to be knocked down by balls. He headed over with her in tow, handing the attendant some money and receiving three balls in return.
Tossing the ball up and down in his hand, carefully lining up his first throw, he spin it on the top of his index finger before throwing it, knocking over the first pyramid of cans easily.
The next two fell just as quickly, making Mizore look impressed by Tsukiyomi's throwing skill, "I never thought you could actually win at a place like this.", she said as the attended handed the black haired teenager a plush from the top shelf for his win, "This is probably the first time I have seen someone walk away with a prize."
"What can I say? I am just that good.", Tsukiyomi said, handing the prize he won to Mizore, it was a plush of a black hedgehog with red hair lights. Somehow this small plush reminded Mizore of someone.
With a light smile, and a faint blush, she accepted the plush he offered, "Thank you for this, Toshi.", her purple eyes meeting his yellow eyes, creating a deeper connection than they had ever felt with one another.
The two began to walk around again, checking out more of the stands until they came across the Ferris wheel.
"Let's go on the Ferris wheel.", he said, getting a nod from her, the pair walking through the crowd together until they reached the ride.
They were the only ones on there, taking their seats and waiting until the ride spun them up. It didn't take long before they were at the top of the Ferris wheel, the ride stopping at the top.
"This view is beautiful.", Mizore said, as they could see the entire festival grounds and leaning in close to him.
He placed one hand on hers, leaning to her as well, "Not as beautiful as you.", He said, smiling as he enjoyed having her by his side.
After getting off the Ferris Wheel, the two came across a large section reserved for dancing to the music that was being played by the small band located at the very front.
"Uh, y-you wanna dance?", Mizore asked, a bit awkwardly.
"I don't really know how to dance... But if it makes you happy.", Tsukiyomi muttered, as the two went to the dance floor, "But if we are looking ridiculous and everyone starts laughing, you are buying me a cotton candy."
"Fair enough.", Mizore said, then in that instant, the band began to play a slow song. Both Tsukiyomi and Mizore had light blushes on their faces.
"At least this is easier to dance to.", Mizore muttered.
Tsukiyomi hesitantly reached out and placed a firm, yet gentle, hand on Mizore's hip, making her slightly flinch from the contact. "I-If this is too awkward, we don't have to do this.", he said, secretly hoping that she would go along with this.
"No, no! It's fine. I have always wanted to dance like this anyway.", Mizore said, taking his hand and placing her other one on his shoulder. The two began to simply sway left and right, back and fort, nothing fancy since neither of them really knew the proper steps to dancing like this.
Even without any dancing skills, the two were really enjoying themselves. After a while, they began to step back and forth, left and right, Tsukiyomi even managed to send Mizore into a small twirl as they danced.
The song came to an end, but the two didn't let each other go, instead, they both shyly stared into each other's eyes. That was until Tsukiyomi found himself leaning his face closer to Mizore.
She blushed heavily, but didn't back away, instead, she too began to lean in. Their lips were only centimeter away when a huge explosions was heard in the distance and shook the ground.
"The fuck was that?", Mizore asked, as the two separated.
"Don't know.", Tsukiyomi said, "What I do know is that the explosion came from close to our camping spot." as the two began to rush back.
Arriving back at the campsite, the two quickly noticed that is was deserted. "Where is everyone?", Mizore muttered as her friend kneel down until his finger tips caressed the ground, touching as much of the smooth sand as he could, until he finally stopped, his hand pressed flat against the ground.
"They went into the forest.", Tsukiyomi said, gesturing towards the barley visible foot prints left in the sand. Holding out his hand, a flesh of red shot out from his tent and his Scissor Blade landed in his hand as he stood up and rushed into the forest, Mizore following him close behind.
As the duo made there way through the forest, they soon saw a field filled with sunflowers up ahead. But much to their shock, they saw the rest of the Newspaper Club being caught in vines, which seemed to be controlled by some outside force.
"I have seen enough hentai to know where that is going.", Tsukiyomi said charging forward and with a few quick slashed cut his friends down, "You boy and girls okay?", he added as they landed on the ground with a thud.
"We're fine.", Moka said, rubbing her behind as she stood up.
"You always arrive just when your needed huh?", Tsukune said, still holding his flash light.
"I know.", Toshiyuki said, switching his Scissor Blade to his left hand and using his right to help his friend up, "Why do you always go and find trouble?"
"I don't go looking for trouble.", Tsukune said as he was pulled back to his feet, "Trouble always finds me!" before hearing a threatening voice.
Turning around, Tsukiyomi saw a woman with long black hair that is put up in two ponytails on each side of her head and the rest fall down to her back. She has what appears to be pink eyes. She was also dressed in a pink corset, a long black skirt with frills at the end and high-heeled black shoes.
Out of the woman's back, six black feathery wing appeared stretched out.
"You know lady... That whole six feathery wing thing.", Tsukiyomi said, as he turned to face her, pointing his weapon at her, "I think my grandpa could do something like that."
"So... Your grandpa was a witch?", Kurumu asked, spreading her own Succubuss wings, "Wait, what's with the Yukata?"
"I think the correct term would be Warlock.", Mizore said, taking her own fighting stance, "And I had a date."
"Shut up already! His grandfather could be the Dark Messiah for all I are about. It doesn't matter! None are allowed on this hill.", the woman said as she advanced on the teens, "Leave or you will parish!"
"Okay, whatever my friends did, I am sure its just a huge misunderstanding.", Tsukiyomi tried to reason with her, his friends trying as well and thanks to Yukari, he picked up that the woman's name was Ruby.
"I heard enough!", Ruby shouted, raising her staff as the earth around them exploded in dust and earth, revealing green plant monsters with glowing red eyes and razor sharp teeth, "What you see before you is Her Ladyship's loyal brood, bred to defend Witch Hill."
"Huh, I guess that guy from the convenient store was right.", Mizore noted, as the horde of plant monsters descended on them, "There are witches living in the hill."
The group quickly rolls to the side. Tsukiyomi leaps over it, and slashing it behind his back. Another group runs at Mizore again, only to get pierced by shards of her ice.
Kurumu deliver several slashes and a kick to send the creatures back. One of the plant monsters swipes at her Yukari, only for her to barely dodging the attacks.
"Geeeez, you guys couldn't hit the broad side of a ba...", she quipped, but before she can complete her insult, a single strand of her brown hair falls in front of her face and lands on the forest floor.
"Less insults, more fighting!", Tsukiyomi said, planting his Scissor Blade in the ground before kicking away the Grimm, Mizore propels herself upwards, performing aerial bombardments with her ice shards on the plant monsters before three others send her crashing to the ground.
Kurumu slashes a plant monster with her nails before Yukari fires off her tarot cards at them. Tsukiyomi slashed three more of them, before seeing one behind him being kicked into a row of another.
Turning around, instead of seeing pink haired Moka, he saw instead the silver haired one. His yellow eyes met her red one, the two gave each other a nod before standing back-to-back.
"Think you can handle this many?", Moka asked, kicking through an charging monster's head.
"Well... It might get difficult if one more shows up.", Tsukiyomi responded, slashing a plant monster while they tried to strike them from above.
"That will be the one I take care off.", Moka told him with a smirk, kicking another of those monster's sending it crashing towards several more plant monsters.
"Did you just make a joke?", Tsukiyomi said surprised, cutting two plant monster's in two, before looking at Ruby, who was standing on a pile of defeated plant monsters, overlooking the battle.
"Thinking what I am thinking?", Moka asked, getting a nod from the young man, as the two charged towards the witch, evading a beam of magic before hitting the witch with the blunt side of his Scissor Blade and her feet, knocking her into a pile of dead monster plants.
"Stay down second sexiest witch I know.", Tsukiyomi said as he landed back on the ground.
"Who is number one?", Yukari shouted from a distance
"Hermione Granger.", he told her.
"Don't you mean Kimmy Granger?", Tsukune asked.
"That is a pornstar.", Mizore corrected him.
However, Ruby is not done yet, as she brings the monster plants back to life and merges them into new ones twice as big as before, also she traps Tsukiyomi, Tsukune and Moka in vines and begins slashing away at them with her razor-sharp wings.
But suddenly they felt the vines cut in two, freeing the three teens from them as they fell on the ground. "Getting trapped by this witch? How pathetic.", a voice said, coming from a tower of defeated monster plants.
"That voice.", Mizore muttered, as her eyes widen to see the man who helped them out at the convenient store, wielding a katana with a black blade standing there.
"Uncle Abby? What are you doing here?", Tsukiyomi said surprised.
"There had been more than a few disapearance in this region, so your aunt asked me to look into them.", the man, who Tsukiyomi had addressed as 'Uncle Abby'.
"T-that man is your uncle?", Kurumu asked surprised, before getting a smirk, "... Uncle Abby is kinda hot...", she thought.
"Tsuki, you and your guy friend go find this Her Ladyship and try to reason with her.", Uncle Abby said, before turning to face Ruby, "I hold this woman and her pets busy."
The two teens nod, and made their way through the plant monsters as Tsukiyomi took point. "I won't let you!", Ruby shouted sending vines in their direction only for them to meet the blade of Uncle Abby, who stood there with a smirk, "How dare you! Who do you think you are!?"
"My name is Abyssion Kiryuin.", Abyssion said, taking his fighting stance, "And I am about to put a stop to you." charging forward, he slashes down at the plant monsters as he made his way towards Ruby, throwing one of them into the air to block a barrage of Ruby's magic.
Moka and Kurumu attack a pack of plant monster by unleashing a combo of slashes and ice shards that make the pack explode. Mizore and Yukari fire ice and magic at the charging plant monsters. But the strain of fighting for such extended period of time began to take a toll on them.
Abyssion preforms a brief slash at Ruby, who blocks the attempt with her staff, but this resulted in her being knocked to the ground. Landing just a few feet away from her, Ruby charged at Abyssion staff ready, unleashing a quick flurry of bladework, but the older man easily shoved aside ever attack, before sending into the ground by one of his counters.
"Your facing a superior opponent, stay down.", Abyssion warned, easily blocking another attack, before throwing Ruby back, straight through a tree and into the ground.
Using her magic, Ruby hurls a broken off tree trunk at him, who calmly threw it to the side.
"Stop it!", a voice suddenly shouted.
Turning around, they saw that Tsukune and Tsukiyomi had arrived back, and that it was the male brunette who had spoken up. "Ruby, doing this won't help anyone, nobody will care anymore.", Tsukune continued only for the older witch to shout at him to shut up.
"I am doing all of this for Her Ladyship. Everything I have ever...", Ruby began to shout.
"How crazy are you? Her Ladyship is dead!", Tsukiyomi shouted, silencing the older witch, "She is gone, your having some sort of Norman Bates thing going on with her corpse."
This shocks Ruby, who we seemed to have an inner struggle, before cries out in despair, purple lightning striking the surroundings.
"No! Ruby don't do it!", Yukari shouted as her fellow witch used a forbidden spell that merges her with the plant monsters, which results in a giant multi-mouthed plant monster with Ruby in the middle one.
"Stay back, I am going to finish her with one punch man.", Abyssion said, raising his weapon as Ruby screamed for all of them to die.
"But... that thing is massive.", Kurumu said with a slight worry to her voice, as he stepped forward.
"I know...", Abyssion said with an not entirely sane grin, "She should have summoned more.", holding his katana extended to his side as he charge forward, a crimson red aura surrounding his weapon causing it to resemble a giant longsword.
The rest looked on in awe as Abyssion took out the giant plant monster while sending Ruby crashing into the ground with a single swing, causing a giant explosion to occur.
But as the dust settles, Ruby is nowhere to be found.
As the sun began to rise, the Newspaper Club and Abyssion where standing at the bus stop, waiting for the bus to take them back to Yokai Academy.
"... Why couldn't we help her... If only I had been a little stronger.", Tsukune muttered.
"Strength hadn't anything to do with it. Being alone for so long must have done something with her psyche... You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.", Abyssion said, trying to comfort the students, "All I know is that we have to try, sometimes that is all you can do."
It was then that Ms Nekonome arrive, a bunch of fish in her bag as she realized it was time to go back already. "Oh, who is this handsome man?", she asked skipping over to Abyssion.
"Abyssion Kiryuin, I am Tsuki's uncle.", the older man explained, "I ran into your students and we were just talking."
It was then that the bus arrived to take them back to school. After saying goodbye to the man who had helped them, who himself wished them a good remaining shool year, they boarded the bus.
"Say hi to aunt Rei for me.", Tsukiyomi said before boarding himself.
"Wait, aunt Rei?... Is he married?", Ms Nekonome asked as the bus began to drive away while the others waved at the man.
"Yes, he is.", he black haired young man answered making Kurumu and Ms Nekonome's head drop in disappointment.
There ya go, another chapter, hope you enjoyed. Many thanks to everyone who reads, reviews, favorite or follows this story, you beautiful bastards! For now I wish you all a fantastic day and I will see you ladies and gents, next time.