Rosario To Vampire ch 30 p4
"Ah my name is Giles Cornere. I pride myself on knowing who's who of the royal houses. But please forgive me, I must say I haven't heard of you or you houses name. Is it new?"
"You could say that." Tsukune said with a grin.
"Oh imagine that."
"Again I'm not surprised my family has worked very, very hard to kept it that way."
"If I may ask the reason?" Giles prodded.
'Oh damn what am I going to do?'
"Just relax buddy just tell him what I tell you. Now repeat after me." His vampire self directed.
"The reason my family has worked very hard to keep my name and our house away from the eyes of the other nobles is, our business alone. However I'll give you a bit of info. Now if I hear you spouting your mouth off I will be very very unhappy." Tsukune glared at the noble.
"Oh yes of course I wouldn't dream of telling a soul." Giles squirmed.
"Now then we have been away for sometime and have be working on a project. One that we don't wish to be disturbed with. You saw my brief fight with the noble in the purple suit earlier? Well my house has perfected the ability to mask ourselves so thoroughly we can even fool not just humans, but other youkia with it. Look at me I look like a human, I smell like a human, and I appear to have the same strength as a human. I was able to fool that pompous ass of a noble I fought with earlier. Truth be told others of my house didn't believe it would fool other vampires. This will surly be something to tell everyone once Moka and I return home." He laughed briefly.
"Tsukune excuse me I'll be right back. I have to powder my nose." Moka left his arm and went to the women room.
"Ah how were you able to get her? She is from the house of Akashiya. Her father is extremely particular about who he lets his daughters see much less date. From the rumors I've heard the adverage S-class would be dead before he could even get to the front gate, much less the front door and ask her out. Her mother they say killed hundreds of S-class nobles who asked for her hand. They even say she beat Mikola himself before claiming him as her most prized possession and her Blood Mate. What was your secret?" He asked.
"I met Moka before I met her father Mikola and her mother Livia. You see we encountered each other at a event. She didn't have a escort so I walked with her. The two of us started our relationship from there. Both of her parents found out about me rather quickly. The two of them even invited me over to talk and things fell into place from there." Tsukune said smiling.
"Tsukune would you get me a drink?" Moka said sweetly after returning from the ladies room.
"Of course. Now if you will please excuse me." Tsukune escorted Moka over to the other side of the room to get a drink. He went to the table and the servant got them two small glasses of blood to drink.
"Thank you." Tsukune said kindly to the human servant.
Unfortunately it seemed that this seemingly small act of kindness drew some of the women who hadn't forgotten, Tsukune's fight or his impressive awaking, to his location. Tsukune quickly downed his blood drink.
"Hello Tsukune." A noble women with brown hair purred as she pushed Moka away and pressed her breasts against his chest. Soon another women joined her.
"Hello Tsukune are you getting tired I can help you relax. We can go up to the temple and-" The blonde was pushed away as a red hair took her place.
"Get lost he disserves a real women. Now Tsukune do my breasts look nice and firm? Maybe you should touch them to see if they are the right size."
The red head was given a quick shove into the wall by a tall brunette. Tsukune recognized her as the same women he had seen earlier who had shoved her name and number in his pocket.
"Thorn?" Tsukune asked.
"Hmmm. I'm honored that you remember me Tsukune." She let her tongue drift across her ruby red lips. The brunette vampire pressed her breasts in Tsukune's face and slowly began to grind herself against his leg.
"So now that we have lost the third wheel….We can dance or we can do other things." She purred as she dragged her finger nail against his cheek.
Tsukune bit back a moan. It was taking every bit of self control he had not to run and find Moka.
'I have to act like a noble…I have to act like a noble…Nobles don't run from ladies…Don't get aroused Moka will kill me. I'll got to get out of here!' Tsukune thought furiously.
"Tsukune every rose has it's thorn! She is trouble get out of there and get our Moka! If you don't and Moka sees you talking to Mrs. Thing instead of looking for her….Will all hell and heaven won't be able to save you from her wrath. Trust me that women is dangerous! She has all boobies, and a great body. But she has no brains or heart."
'Great so how do I get rid of her without insulting her?'
"It's simple repeat after me."
'I'm not going to say that!'
"You have got to! To this women it is a game over who can get you! She apparently wants to bet Moka and take you for herself."
'Can't I just tell her I'm human.'
"Oh yes you could and end up dead of blood lose or worse!"
'What could be worse than death?' Tsukune wandered.
"Either she will kill your or make you her blood slave!"
'Umm what is a blood slave?'
"Never mind that…Now if you were Moka's blood slave that might not be to bad. You would probably enjoy it….Anyway I doubt that the she devil would believe you if you said you were human. She has seen you transform. Thorn likes your scent it smells like a human and she craves your blood. Same as Moka! Just say it! Remember act like Moka's father taught you! She is one very dirty noble. Women like her want only one thing. You should be able to get rid of her easily if you act like you will give her what she wants."
'Act like a noble…Lay on the charm and charisma.'
"Thanks for getting rid of the dead weight Thorn. Moka was such a eyesore. Being with her was like being with the girl next door. She always seemed to be so emotional and clingy for my tastes. I want something wild and adventurous. Now be a good girl and get me some fresh blood I am clean out." Tsukune said confidently as he grasped her hand and gave it a quick kiss.
"After you get back we can go upstairs and have some fun." Tsukune flashed a quick smile and gave her a quick swat on the behind. Thorn's cheeks flushed and she happily rushed off to get his blood.
'Thank heavens that worked.'
"Told you so. Now to find Moka and pray she didn't hear or see any of that. By the way nice touch with the kiss and smack on her butt. I didn't tell you not to do it thou. You would love to do that to Moka wouldn't you?"
'Yes, I mean no! I would not do that to Moka!'
"Sure you wouldn't, and Kurumu doesn't like to suffocate you with her boobs." His vampire self grinned.
Tsukune made his way around the room. Looking for Moka. Thankfully it didn't take to long to find her. She, it turned out, was looking around the room for him as well.
"Moka I'm sorry for what happened. Come on let's dance, I think a slow one is coming up."
Once again Moka felt herself get swept up in Tsukune's arms. The two of them glided across the dance floor with ease. Moka loved every minute of it.
In the mean time back at the mansion
"I'm soue donk ib bleeve dnet todsh." Asumi said as he poured his bottle of brandy on his lap and the floor while aiming for the shot glass on the table. He tried in fain to stay awake put passed out as he and his chair fell to the floor with a BANG!
"I'm waene sote baoote thaned woup!" Mikola said as he looked over at his human friend and grinned. He too poured his bottle of brandy on his shirt and on the carpeted floor while aiming for his mouth. Unfortunately as strong a vampire he was the brandy won out in the end, as he and his chair hit the floor with a thud!
"Ha I knew the two of them could do it…." Livia said as she and Kasumi looked at the two of their husbands both passed out on the floor. The two of them were smelling of booze and covered with alcohol.
"Now what do we do with the two of them?" Tsukune's mother wandered.
"Well under normal circumstances I would grab Mikola's wallet, take all his money and his credit cards while he was passed out. Then go on a shopping spree, and hopefully be back before he woke up and sobered up. But I can't do that…..I know! Quick grab your husband and we will take them in the bathroom down the hall and to the left."
The music died down and Tsukune walked Moka over to a chair to sit down.
Unfortunately the two of them heard a all to familiar voice.
"TSUKUNE! How dare you dance with HER! When you could have been dancing with ME!" Thorn cried. She had been looking all over for Tsukune with a single glass of blood for the two of them to share.
'All I wanted was a taste of your blood and a romp in bed with you and then I would leave. But no! You had to be all high and mighty! I've bedded vampire nobles before and gotten their money and prestige you will be no different! Besides she isn't even look the real Moka. That's just a shadow. If I beat her I'll be famous! The vampire who beat the daughter of Mikola and Liva .'
Thorns' blood boiled with anger at seeing that Tsukune had outsmarted her and was now dancing with Moka.
'Oh damn! This is not good!' Tsukune thought as he tried to steer Moka away from Thorn. Unfortunately Moka saw Thorn and it appeared that both Moka's wanted a confrontation.
"Tsukune take off my Rosario." Moka said her green eyes were locked on Thorn.
"Moka I'm not-"
"Tsukune that women tried to take you away from us! She needs to be taught her place! " Inner Moka said coldly though the Rosario.
"Tsukune trust me." Moka reach up and wrapped her hand around his and the two of them pulled off the Rosairo.
Tsukune felt the familiar rush of Moka's aura as she was transformed into her true self.
Inner Moka now stood before Thorn.
"Well congratulations on such a magnificent awakening. Now I thinks it's time I take you seriously."
Thorn pulled from her right wrist a ornate silver bracelet. It had miniature black crosses attached along the sides onto the opaque metal.
Tsukune and Moka found themselves assaulted by a black aura that rivaled Moka's in power and strength. Thorn's physical appearance didn't change but Tsukune could tell that Thorn had just raised the stacks.
'Oh damn! This is going to turn ugly real quick. Why isn't everyone running? Their just standing there like they don't care. It's like this is entertainment for them or something!'
The other nobles just stood around and looked as Moka and Thorn looked at each other. It was more than clear that each one wished the other nothing but ill.
Thorn rushed forward and did a round house kick at Moka's face. Moka ducked and grabbed her opponents leg. She used Thorns momentum and swung her around and slammed her into the dessert table.
Thorn flipped herself over on to her feet covered in pudding and bits of cake all over in her hair and on her dress.
"YOU! YOU RUINED MY DRESS!!" She screamed. Thorn jumped into the air and got behind Moka. She reached behind Moka and grabbed her hair and pulled. Moka brought her right arm back and slammed her elbow back into Thorns head. Stunned Moka reach up and grabbed Thorns right wrist and twisted it backwards behind her back. The raven haired vampire screamed as Moka broke her wrist. Thorn leaped up into the air and across the room to put some distance between the two of them.
"Running away are you." Moka growled. Thorn suddenly appeared behind her and drove her fist into Moka's ribs. Moka groaned in pain. Thorn then slammed her fist into Moka's back making her go on her hands and knees to the floor.
"What you saw was a after image. Give me Tsukune, he will keep me warm tonight. Don't worry I'll give him back after I'm done with him." She whispered in Moka ear.
"You will not!" Moka screamed as she rolled on her back and struck the side of Thorn's chin with her palm. The impact drove her head back and gave Moka a opportunity to bring her foot up and strike her opponent in her stomach and kidneys. Thorn was pushed upwards and fell on her back.
Now it was Thorns turn to double over in pain. Moka rushed over and delivered a swift uppercut to her face and sent her opponent into the wall.
"You can't fight well with a broken wrist. Can you?"
"Can fight well enough to beat you." She growled. Thorn glowed as she disappeared in a cloud of grey mist. Moka stood on guard.
'There's nothing for me to do now but to wait for her to reform. She did it to heal her wrist that I broke. Things just got a lot more complicated. If she can do this, she could know how to transform other parts of her body….Like Kahlua does. I've got to be prepared for anything.'
Thorn quickly used her mist to heal her wrist and then she reformed behind Moka. She used her new wrist and delivered several punches at Moka's back. The raven haired vampire then swung around and brought her right fist into Moka's stomach. She then used her left fist to hit Moka in the face. Moka did a cartwheel and got away. She leaped in the air and seeming disappeared. Moka appeared in front of Thorn and flipped onto her hands and turned on her hands. She turned herself and struck Thorn in her face twice. The silver haired vampire growled in anger at her opponents audacity. Moka then kicked Thorn in her gut and then followed it with a round house kick to her face. The silver haired vampire then dropped to the floor and slammed both of her high heels into Thorns knees. Moka smirked as she heard the bones and muscles break. Thorns muscles knees screamed in protest as they struggled to support her weight with torn muscles, ligaments and shattered bones. Moka then used her aura and slammed her fist into Thorns jaw.
Moka quickly got to her feet and drove her heels into her opponents feet. Hearing bone and muscles break. Moka smiled. Despite the pain Thorn smiled as she concentrated on her mist form. Unfortunately for her Moka saw Thorns lower half disappearing in the mist and knew what she was trying to do. The silver haired vampire drove her thumbs into Thorns eyes putting pressure and pain on her. Doing so forced her to loose her concentration and control of her mist form and she couldn't transform. Moka then reached around and snapped both her opponents wrists for good measure. Increasing the pain she was in. Moka then ran forward and spun around gaining momentum up until she finally sent a kick into Thorn's chest and sent her into two heavy wooden doors. The doors splintered under the force of Thorns body being slammed into them courtesy of her kick. Thorn landed on another balcony.
Moka ran forward and drove her palms into her adversaries chest sending her into the balcony rail. Thorn was soon coughing up blood.
"Tsukune is MINE and no one will take him from me! You only find and sleep with men only to get money and power from them. You are nothing more that a leach a gold digger! My Tsukune would never be seduced and go to the likes of you! KNOW YOUR PLACE!!!!"
Moka growled as she leaped up into the air and did a series of flips. She then did a flying air kick and sent Thorn crashing through the stone banister falling down to the hard ground.
"AHH!!!!" She screamed as she found herself falling.
Moka hoped she had a long way to fall before hitting though.
The silver haired vampire walked over and picked up Thorns black bracelet. She walked over and dropped it over the edge after Thorn.
"I think you forgot that." She called after her.
"Moka are you ok? Where's Thorn….I mean, where's the other vampire you were fighting with?"
"I sent her home air mail." Moka growled as she pulled Tsukune to her and gave him a forceful kiss.
Tsukune felt Moka's fangs biting his lips and nipping at his tongue. Inner Moka was demanding in her actions. She had no intention of waiting for Tsukune's consent. The silver haired vampire took what she wanted from her blood mate. Right now Inner Moka wanted to reinforce her claim on Tsukune. Tsukune wasn't sure how long the two of them kissed. All he knew was that Inner Moka had just laid a kiss on him that would have killed a normal man.
"Moka that was…"
"Tsukune come with me lets go upstairs." Moka grabbed his tie and pulled him to her. Together the two of them made their way to the bed rooms.
Mean while at the mansion…
"Ah!!!! COLD!!!!"
"Shit!!! COLD!!!!"
In the bathtub two grown men screamed as both of them awoke from their drunken stupor. The two of them felt ice cold water run over the two of them.
"Ha! HA! Husband you look horrible and you smell nasty!" Livia smiled at Mikola as she laughed at how stupid her husband looked. Mikola glared at her. He looked over and saw his drunken companion glare at his wife as well.
"Oh your right Livia this was fun! You're a bad influence on me. HA! Arumi you look so ridicules. You also smell revolting. The two of you enjoy your bath and clean the booze off." Kasumi grinned and laughed happily. Livia and Kasumi exited the bathroom and left the two men alone.
"Mikola I think your wife is a bad influence on my wife."
"Yes…I'm afraid that my Livia is a bad influence on anyone. She could turn a saint into a sinner no problem. Before you ask, no I can't divorce her. Hell would freeze over first and the devil himself would give free sleigh rides before that could happen."
Moka and Tsukune made their way up to the bedrooms on the higher levels.
Tsukune found himself in the same bedroom as the two of them had been in before.
"Moka really are you ok? Do you need anything?"
"Yes I'm fine Tsukune. As if that weakling could hurt me. Humph! She deserved what I gave her. As for needing something." Inner Moka grinned evilly at Tsukune.
Inner Moka pressed Tsukune into the bed.
"I want your blood." Inner Moka cried as she sank her fangs into Tsukune's neck and sucked happily. The silver haired vampire purred with delight as she inhaled Tsukune's blood.
"Moka take as much as you want. It's okay." Tsukune moaned.
"I intend to my blood mate." She replied as she smiled and bit down again on a different spot on his neck.
Tsukune didn't know how long the two of them were together on the bed or how long Moka had been feasting on his blood. Nor did he care at this point. Moka finally released her hold on his neck and brushed her tongue against the wound to seal it shut. She reached down and grasped the rosario and replaced it.
"Good bye for now my Tsukune." She said as she went back to sleep in the Rosario.
Tsukune looked out one of the windows of the room and saw a quick opportunity.
"Moka come on lets look at the moon."
The happy couple made there way out to a large balcony. The bright pale moon cast it soft rays down on the two of them.
The two of them basked in its light a sea of stars blinked overhead.
"Here Moka look at this." Tsukune reached up and put his thumb and forefinger around each side of the pale moon and moved them back and forth. He moved his palm over the moon covering it from Moka's view. He brought his right hand downwards and flipped something round, bright and shiny between his fingers. Moka looked in his palm and saw a small circler glowing moon in Tsukune's palm. He brought it close to Moka for her to see. It's soft light glowed then went out, and the moon disappeared with it.
"Moka look up." Tsukune whispered as he pointed up into the nights sky. The pink haired vampire looked up just in time to see the soft pale moon appear from behind the clouds. She laughed happily at Tsukune's trick. Tsukune took both her hands in his, gently and pulled Moka into his embrace. Tsukune gazed deeply into Moka's soft green eyes.
"Moka no matter what happens tonight, tomorrow, or for the rest of my life I want you with me. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to keep you with me in this moment. I'm willing to care for you and provide for our future together."
"Tsukune…"
Moka pressed herself tightly against him. He leaned down closer to Moka. Tsukune looked deeply into her green eyes. He could feel her warm breath on his neck, which usually meant she wanted a drink. Tsukune turned his neck inwards towards Moka. Moka brought her hand up and caressed Tsukune's check. She gently pulled him to her and the two of them brought their lips together in the softest of kisses. Tsukune could feel Moka pressed against him. Moka's lips caressing his and Tsukune's caressing hers in return. The moment was invigorating. Each brought to the other one moment of perfect beauty and indescribable happiness.
The two of them were one. Not vampire, not human but for a few all to brief moments two hearts beating as one.
BONG! BONG!
The two of them separated reluctantly.
"Moka what was that?" Tsukune asked as he looked around for the source of the noise.
"Shush…It's just the temple bells. The priests ring them each night at midnight. They mean the festivals over. It's time to go….Tsukune the ceremonies will be starting soon. We should get going the two of us need to get ready. The ceremonies start at Midnight. Other nobles have arrived before us, so their bonding ceremony will start before ours. The priests will conduct ours once we arrive. Let's go and get our cloaks and robes on." Moka turned away from Tsukune and the two of them stood and went to get their attire on for the ceremony.
Ten minutes latter both Moka and Tsukune had both changed into their black robes.
"So Moka were is The Temple Of Eternal Night at exactly?"
"Oh it's right over there Tsukune." Moka pointed toward the black looming mountain in front of them. Tsukune swallowed.
"Moka you mean the temple is inside the mountain?"
"No the temple is the mountain. There are various rooms carved out of the black stone inside. Also there are rooms underground too. The burial rooms are buried even farther underground. It's divided into eight floor's. The top floor is the bell tower. The second floor are the rooms where the priests live and pray. The third floor is the rooms of worship and where the blood ceremonies will take place. The fourth floor is the bonding rooms are. The fifth floor is the treasure room. The sixth floor is the human and ghoul room.
The seventh floor is the catacombs. The eighth floor is…Well I'm not sure. No one has ever been down there except for the head priest. Even when he goes it's under extremely special circumstances. Whenever he goes he never talks of what he sees or what he does. So the eighth floor is a mystery. Even to me and my family."
Moka saw the look of fear in Tsukune's eyes.
"Don't worry we won't be going into the eighth floor. We will be using the first, third fourth and fifth rooms. So relax Tsukune." Moka smiled.
Slowly the two of them made their way up along a grass trail which appeared to lead no were except to the side of the mountain.
"Are you sure this is the entrance? Maybe we took a wrong turn somewhere?"
"No I'm sure this is it."
Moka pulled out a orate black dagger and slicked a thick cut across her palm. She placed it to the mountain face and let her blood drip on it. Moka licked the wound shut. The mountain seemed to move as the rocks rearranged themselves to form a very large and not to mention very dark entrance. Moka reach out and took Tsukune's hand and the two of them entered.
"One last show." Tsukune murmured.
Tsukune found the floor slopped downwards and gave way to a kind of waiting room. All around him he could see all various nobles dressed in black being escorted off to various parts of the cave. One man stood alone from all the rest. He stood at the top of a high rock face at the front of the room. He seemed to be looking for something or someone. The man whoever he was made Tsukune shiver for he seemed to be looking right at the two of them. The man in the black robe turned and walked away from his rock face.
"Moka who is-" Tsukune was about to ask Moka about the strange man on the rock face. When suddenly the man he had saw was standing right in front of him.
"Akashiya Moka, Aono Tsukune come with me." The man gestured with a bony finger for both of them to fallow him. The three of them walked down several stone flights of stairs until they came to a black door carved in the rock face. The priest opened it and Moka and Tsukune soon found themselves in a large shadowy chamber, with many lit candles all along the walls.
The man walked along the wall until he came to a unlit candle under which rested a smooth black chalice with curved handles on both sides.
He gave the cup to Tsukune, placing it in his right hand. The man walked over and placed a obsidian dagger in Moka's left hand. Then he placed Tsukune' left hand over Moka's right.
He spoke in a harsh cold voice as he addressed the two of them.
"The left hand is the hand which protects and the right hand is the hand which nurtures. Not two but one till life is gone."
Moka quickly slit Tsukune's left wrist and her right wrist. Tsukune quickly managed to catch the blood from both of their bleeding wrists in the cup. The two of them watched as their blood filled the cup and Moka then went forward and placed her wrist near Tsukune's mouth.
Tsukune quickly took Moka's wrist into his mouth and sucked the blood down. Like wise Moka had taken his wrist in her mouth and sucked the blood down. Both of their wrists healed. Moka took Tsukune's hand and he placed his hand over hers once more.
Moka placed the dagger in the hands of the priest who then placed it on a small pillow. Which he placed the pillow by the candle.
Moka then took the other handle of the cup and drank from it. The pink haired vampire left half for Tsukune. She then gave the chalice back to Tsukune which he calmly drank the rest of mixture of their blood. The priest took the cup and put it on another pillow beside the dagger.
Moka placed her right hand in the center before the priest again and Tsukune placed his left hand over hers once more.
The priest thrust a small lit punk into both of their clasped hands and the two of them lit the candle on the wall together.
"Congratulations." He smiled at both of them. However to Tsukune the mans smile made his blood run cold.
"I will make sure that the dagger and cup get to your home Ms. Akashiya." The priest turned away from Moka. He stopped turned back to her and bowed.
"No please forgive me for my mistake, I did not mean to get your name wrong please forgive me Mrs. Aono. Mrs. Aono I will make sure that the dagger and cup are taken to your home. Now if the two of you will come with me now the night is short." The priest turned and began to make his way down the stairway.
"Moka." Tsukune whispered. "Why did he call you Mrs. Anono? The only reason he would do that was if we were married."
"Well you see Tsukune-"
"Ahem!" The priest appeared before the two of them. He looked annoyed that the two of them hadn't fallowed him. He cleared his throat interrupting their conversation.
"Please fallow me we have much to do and so little night left to do it in."
The priest lead the two of them down several more flights of stairs to a large stone wall. It had a small circular opening in it. The priest inserted his arm and turned it like a key would turn to get a lock on a door to open. The wall split open to revel a large room filled with treasure. Small bars of gold, silver, were all pilled up in large heaps in the room. Next to them were large blood red rubies, green emeralds, and small pale diamonds.
"Moka what do we do now?" Tsukune whispered in her ear. He gave it a soft nip to cover his conversation with Moka.
"We are on the fifth floor, the treasure room. Each of us gets to pick out one thing to keep and take with us. If we are too greedy the priest will kill both of us. Remember pick one thing." Moka gave Tsukune a nip on his ear to cover her conversation.
This action didn't go unnoticed by the priest. He smiled and said.
"The two of you are very eager I see….Good. I can see the two of you will not get much sleep tonight. Then again she will probably deprive you of many nights of sleep." The priest lecherously grinned at Tsukune.
'Well he, Gin, and Eoko would get along fine.' Tsukune thought.
Moka looked in the room and spied a pair of small beautiful silver hair clips. She walked over and picked them up and showed them to the priest. He nodded. Tsukune looked at
the heaping mounds of treasure.
'Great I have to pick out one thing. Moka found something she liked. Hummm. Whatever I pick I don't want it to stand out. Humans don't go around with treasure like this every day. It would raise a lot of questions if I got something shiny. It has to be something small, something that won't draw attention to itself. Something that will remind me of Moka when I look at it.'
Tsukune looked and saw something small reflect the light of the room into a corner. He looked closer and saw something had been stuck in the farthest corner of the room in between a small jewelry box and a extremely large ruby. Tsukune looked closer and saw a small ring covered with dust. It had a large black stone on top of it.
Tsukune reach out and carefully lifted it from it's cramped space.
"Sir could take this?" Tsukune asked as he showed it to the priest.
The priests eyes widened. He grabbed Tsukune's hand and the ring.
"You will come with me NOW!"
"Sir did I do something wrooong!!" Tsukune said as he was dragged out of the room by the priest.
Tsukune and Moka suddenly found it hard to keep up with the priest as he rapidly ascended the stone steps. He burst into a large room at the second floor. A large pool of blood was in the room. Out of the pool of blood rose a man who looked like a living corpse. He had a bald head, boney arms and legs, his eyes seemed to sink back into his head. His completion was that of a dead man. Two other priests helped him put on his black robe.
"Why have you disturbed me? I was right in the middle of feeding….This had better be important. Otherwise it will be your blood on whom I feast on tonight." The man sneered.
"Forgive me high father but some one picked this out from the treasury." The priest showed the ring to the old man. His eyes widened. He spoke to his two aids who brought him a scroll.
He picked up the ring and looked at the inside of it.
The priest grabbed Tsukune and thrust him before the head priest.
"So you are the one who picked this out boy? You have unusual tastes. Then again so it was rumored it's owner did too. This was believed to be lost to us…Here it was under our very noises. Why not he was the most cleaver of the pair of them. He was the smartest and wise in the ways of war. Yet…He seemed to have a heart like that of human. He was the nearly perfect…His brother was the warrior and reveled in the blood. He cared not how many of his men died in the fight as long as his enemies lay dead." He showed the ring to Tsukune and Tsukune could barely see a small inscription etched on the inside of the ring.
The priest opened scroll and it looked for a moment to be a blank document. The old man gestured to his aids who brought him a cup of blood and he poured it on the document. Slowly symbols began to appear in red on it. Fallowed by what appeared to be a map of some structure. The old man rolled up the document.
"Do you know what it says on the inside of this ring?" The old man asked.
"No sir I don't."
"Humm, you don't….It's an old dialect only spoken by the eldest of our race. It says "Beware those who walk under the crown of night." The old man grinned at Tsukune and Moka.
"Well the two of you are in for a very interesting night. The two of you will come with me and we will see if we can see beauty in the darkness. This is not a request we must go now."
The old man grabbed a torch and began to make his way down the stone steps to the
next three levels of the temple. Moka and Tsukune could see other couples doing the same ritual as they had done in a few rooms they pasted. The next level both of them saw a few couples getting escorted to several stone doors along a hallway. Slowly but surrey the three of them made their way down the many winding stone staircases until the three of them reach a large black wall. A large row of pale white human skulls seemed to form a arch way. The old man spattered a beaker of blood on the stone only to have it form a door way. The three of them entered and the gateway sealed its self.
Both Moka and Tsukune soon began to smell a vary revolting aroma. It seemed to rush at the two of them head on. Then quite suddenly the head priests torch turned green and cast an eerie green light all long its way.
"Sir why is your torch green?" Tsukune asked afraid to know the answer.
"Ah it simply means that the air in here is poisonous. Don't worry the three of us will be fine. The gas in here is only deadly to our kind after twenty minutes of exposure. For humans they would be dead in ten minutes. Come we must get going. Otherwise we too will join this rooms inhabitants."
"Inhabitants sir?" Tsukune asked again.
"Yes follow me and you will see. " He grinned.
What Tsukune saw next frightened him dearly. It nearly mad him want to wet himself. All along the walls, were hundreds of human corpses in various states of decay. There was a couple with their throats slashed. Another had its eyes and its heart ripped out. While yet another corpse had a spike driven through one of its eyes and out the back of it's skull.
Next to it was a small baby that appeared to have been skinned and left to rot. The childs cold dead eyes looked onward not seeing anything anymore. It's entrails were strewn, about it's head had been crushed. Tsukune and Moka looked at the decaying flesh and both tried hard not to vomit on the spot. The sick green light of the torch added to the sick greens and yellows of the decaying mangled bodies all around them.
Tsukune kept looking at his watch with eagerness.
'Five minutes to go before I'm dead!'
The three of them walked on wards the room of the dead seemed never ending.
'Three minutes to go before I expire! Please let the end be near!' Tsukune prayed silently.
They past another corpse impaled on five spikes. Two driven threw his both his hands, two more drove threw his feet. The fifth one threw the back of it's head and up into it's toothless mouth.
'Two minutes to go…. Before I go…. Please let the priest not get lost and forget where the exit is.'
The voice of the head priest brought Tsukune out of his desire to keep track of time.
"Now you can see this is all a room of dead decaying humans. All of them are but tomb robbers. Originally we locked the humans in here and they were driven mad and nearly killed each other before we drank their blood from them. Unfortunately they foolishly had a child with them. It became the first casualty of their violent acts." The priest spoke with the same tone one would expect from a tour guide giving a up close look at a hotdog stand. Tsukune looked back at his watch.
'One minute… Forty seconds, thirty, twenty, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three two, one.'
Tsukune closed his eyes and gripped Moka's hand tightly.
When he suddenly felt a rush of equally stale but freshair.
He opened his eyes and saw that the priests torch was not longer green it had taken on it's cherry red flame once more. Tsukune looked around and saw that the three of them were standing in a great cavern. In the middle of the room was a large open pit in which a underground vain of magma flowed. Above which swung a red metal cage. Tsukune looked closer and saw that the cage it's self wasn't red rather the red color he had been seeing was what appeared to be blood. It seemed to be accumulated from multiple uses and caked on, and it hadn't been bothered to be cleaned off.
The head priest suddenly turned and looked at Tsukune in the face.
"Sir what was the cage for?" Tsukune asked fearing the answer.
"The cage was used for sacrificing ghouls. We would rip out it's heart and burn the body in the lava pit. Of course we would do the same to humans too. Except we would not burn them."
"You wouldn't sir."
"No we wouldn't. We would take their hearts and eat them. Then drain their blood and display their bodies in the previous room. Have you ever eaten a human heart?"
"No sir I haven't had the pleasure." The priest grabbed Tsukune by his collar and brought him close to his face. The old man began to sniff at Tsukune's neck. Tsukune began to feel a faint prickle of the old mans fangs on his neck. He seemed to be in a trance not aware of what he was doing.
"Sir last time I check nobles aren't supposed to drink other nobles blood except in the bonding ceremony." Tsukune said quickly. This seemed to snap the old man out of it. Tsukune lifted up the folds of his robe and showed him his holy lock.
"Ah forgive me….Your scent is much like a humans. Now I see why she is attracted to you. You boy could have any noble women you wanted with that scent. I would wager to say the she thought your blood tasted almost human no? I myself wished that you were a human boy."
"Why is that sir?" Tsukune asked as he prayed that the answer wouldn't be something death orientated.
"Oh I haven't eaten a human heart in eight hundred years and I haven't drank from a human in six hundred years. The blood I take now isn't good blood it is weak tasteless blood from the numerous blood slaves I keep. When I tried to bite you a few moments ago I wished you to be human so I could rip out your heart and drain your blood like I did when I was young. A human heart tastes good. It tastes much like venison. If you ever get the chance try one, it 's a experience you will not soon forget. Then the blood practically dances down your throat." The priest licked his lips as he finished. He acted like he was describing eating his favorite pizza and not a beating human heart.
"So I guess it's a good thing that I'm not human." Tsukune managed to grin. Moka gave him a quick kiss on the check.
The three of them continued on until they entered a narrow walkway. It slanted sharply downwards as the three of them carefully made there way down the stone steps.
Tsukune suddenly heard a CRACK as his foot touched the floor. He looked down and saw what it was that made the noise. There on the floor were hundreds if not thousands of bones that covered every square inch of the floor. He looked over at Moka who didn't look to be effected by the blood and gore they had seen eariler. The two of them grasped each others hands and keep fallowing the priest. Tsukune tried to ignore the cracks and crunches he made while stepping on the bones.
He silently prayed a quick prayer for desecrating the dead whoever they were.
"Sir could you stop and wait for few minutes please?" Moka asked sweetly. The head priest stopped and waited.
"Tsukune look." Moka pointed at a large stone coffin in the far corner atop a slab of stone.
Moka grabbed Tsukune's hand and ran toward the sarcophagus. The coffin itself was covered with runes, symbols, and pictographs that Tsukune couldn't understand. Moka suddenly placed her hands on the sides of the stone lid and pushed it over until it rested on the stone slab. She quickly ran over and pushed three more lids over from three more stone sarcophaguses. Tsukune quickly waked over to her and grabbed her hand and whispered in her ear.
"Moka what are you doing? Do you even know these people?"
"Yes I do. They are my great grandparents. Two from my mothers side and two from my fathers side. Trust me Tsukune they wouldn't mind if I did that for a very good reason."
She hissed back into his ear.
"Besides I want them to meet you and you to meet them. It's a tradition to introduce your blood mate to your relatives. They have to look inside the coffin and greet the dead relations. If we don't do this the priest will get suspicious. Say hello to my other relatives. Besides when you go back home I expect you to do the same. Introduce me to your honored dead."
"Sure I'll take you to the cemetery and shrines but I won't dig up their bodies. It's considered a serious no no where I'm from." Tsukune murmured back.
Tsukune swallowed and looked into the stone coffin. Inside was the nicely dressed skeleton of Moka's great grandmother. She seemed to be grinning up at him with her extra long incisor teeth. He walked over to the next one and looked inside to see Moka's sharp dressed skeleton of a great grandfather. Tsukune walked over and looked into the other coffin. Moka's other great grandmother and great grandfather looked slightly better. The two of them wasn't quite total skeletons yet. Their upper bodies still had pale skin pulled tight over the face bones. Hair was still visible and had yet to decay. All in all the two of them looked pretty good at least from the head to their waists and was where the rotting flesh started. The worms, maggots, the decay of time slowly gave way to smooth white bones barley covered in their dress and silk slacks.
Tsukune walked over and stood by Moka again. Moka quickly got to her knees on the bone floor and clasped her hands together in prayer. Tsukune quickly did the same
"Great Grand father Akashiya, Great Grand mother Akashiya, elders to the parents of my father Mikola Akashiya. Great Grand father Darkwell, Great Grand mother Darkwell, elders to the parents of my mother Livia Darkwell, this is Tsukune Aono. He is my blood mate I wanted to introduce him to you. He cares for me and he loves me. Please except him into both of our houses."
"Umm…Hi…" Tsukune said weakly and extra quietly so the priest wouldn't hear .
Moka gave him a glare.
"Uhh...Right….I'm pleased to met all of you and I have never done something like this before…They always say meeting girls parents is tough. Also they always say you don't just marry the girl but marry her family as well…Not to mention they always say a guy getting introduced to his in laws is even tougher……Granted you know I'm not your son in law as of yet. I hope to be some day…Listen I'm not quite sure if any of you can hear me but, I may not technically be your son in law yet; but I do care for Moka, and I will continue to care for her to the best of my abilities. Believe me when I say that I do love Moka. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to keep her with me. I'm willing to care for her and provide for our future together. Hopefully one day I will be able to marry Moka and be your son in law….Sorry if we disturbed you earlier…Rest in peace too….Bye." Tsukune bowed and held Moka's hand and the two of them got up of the bone floor.
The two of them got up replaced the stone lids on all the coffins.
The three of them continued onward.
Down deeper and deeper the three of them went. The texture of the cavern walls began to change from a hard course stone to smooth almost like glass. All along the walls were rows of skulls with large incisor teeth.
Tsukune gulped.
"Sir isn't this the-"
"Yes this is the eighth level of the temple. What you are seeing here is the graveyard of the honored. The hero's, Nobles who never broke the rules…. The eldest and proudest of our race."
"Sir do you bury humans here to?" Tsukune asked timidly.
"HA HA! Bury a humans here with our eldest of honored dead. HA! You have a sense of humor boy! As if we would give a human a burial next to us. HA! Even our servants we do not bury their bodies. We simply put them into the humans room to decay and rot. Once they are done we take their bones out and put them on the floor of the catacombs!" The priest laughed happily at Tsukune's question as if he had just told him a highly amusing joke.
"Yes sir it's very funny indeed. Ha, ha." Tsukune laughed weakly, clearly finding nothing at all amusing about his question.
The three of them proceed downwards until they came to a large dais on which sat a silver metallic coffin. The priest walked forward and lifted the lid of the coffin.
Inside perfectly preserved looking as if he had died no more that a day or two ago was a silver haired vampire dressed in silver medieval combat armor. His long pointed arrow like shield was buried with him. Despite being dead he still had a air of strength, authority and power about him.
"Behold the vampire General Gelnarf. We have stood guard over his resting place since time eternal."
The priest went to the end of the room and struck his arm in a small opening in the rock and turned his arm. Over head a pale sliver of moon light descended on the body of the elder vampire.
"So this ring it belonged to him then right?" Tsukune asked.
"Yes it was his. I wonder why he would take it off?" the priest mussed as he tried to get his arm out of the hole.
Tsukune got closer and reached forward and gently lifted the nobles left hand up and slipped the ring back on the nobles ring finger.
The moon light struck the stone on the ring an bounced off it to hit a small area of the cave. It seemed to gleam. Tsukune went over and saw a small white crystal that was stuck in the rock. He carefully pulled it out and looked at it. It was small flat and had a unusual star shape. Moka looked at the nobles coffin and saw something unusual about it. The coffin itself looked flawless except for a small cut on the side of it.
"Tsukune let me see that?" Moka asked. Tsukune handed her the small crystal. She carefully slipped it into the small slot. A creaking noise was heard. Suddenly from the ceiling it began to rain blood. Moka soon found both herself and Tsukune being hit by the blood. Some of the blood hit the shield and oozed down the sides. It stopped and Tsukune and Moka saw that the blood had gotten down into various grooves and cuts in the shield to form writing on it.
"Father I'm sorry for what just happened but I think we've found something. Can you read this writing?" Moka said as she saw the priest get his arm out and go over to them. The priest looked at the blood that covered the body and the vampire lords shield.
Two of his most basic instincts kicked in. One: Someone had just desecrated the body of the most important leader of the vampire nation ever. Two: This was something new he had yet to see. Having been down in the tomb many times it surprised him that he had missed something. He walked over and looked at the shield. He saw that the blood had gotten down into points he had previously dismissed as cuts and abrasions in the shield to form writing on it.
"I can't read it yet I will need to take time to translate. But bless you my dear you have found something." The head priest rubbed his hands together happily.
"Sorry about the blood on-" Tsukune began
"Don't worry….We can get the blood off this is more important, I mean this is almost as important as the discovery. I will send others down here to clean up while I translate this." The priest had a eager look in his blood red eyes. For a few minutes he reminded Tsukune of a guy who had just gotten his hands on a playboy and was now going to pass off his job of cleaning the living room to his little brothers while he did something else.
"Sir aren't you supposed to take care of this?" Tsukune asked.
The priest shot Tsukune a look of pure hate as it looked like his fun would have to wait.
"I meant Tsukune, that I will give this to my bothers to translate while I attend to this." The vampire priest walked over to the right side of the room and stuck his hand in and turned a knob inside a crack in the wall.
A section of rock on the right opened to reveal a dark opening in the wall. The priest went in and lit several torches along the walls. He guided the two of them in and down a corridor to his right. Lighting several more torches revealed a large hot spring. Several fur robes lay close by it. Going out and taking another corridor to his left. He lit several more torches. Revealed a large overstuffed fury make shift mattress made with several dead furs lay at the center of the room.
"Granted the room itself hasn't been used by anyone in twenty some odd centuries. I'm sure it will be comfortable. The two of you go in there clean up, complete the bonding night and don't bother me, I mean have a nice night. Just toss out your cloths, I'll make sure that they are cleaned properly. Also don't worry I'm sure the great vampire general won't mind if the two of you use his quarters for the night. I'll come and get the two of you in the morning after sun rise. Ah yes the viewing window for seeing the sun rise is over here."
The priest walked over and stuck his hand in and small abrasion in the rock and turned his hand. A long opening appeared in the rock that looked like it lead up through the mountain.
"There the passage will lead the two of you to a small viewing area of the mountain so the two of you can watch the sun rise. Now don't worry the room is sound proof. I won't hear a thing. ENJOY!!" The elderly priest quickly shoved the two of them in and with a click shut the door.
"Something tells me the old priest is going to ignore his duty and start working with the writing."
"Yes he is very focused now." Moka laughed.
"Moka so when he said The Great Vampire General did he mean…The person who is in the coffin?"
Moka nodded her head at Tsukune.
"Your kidding right… This was HIS ROOM! As in the deceased man currently outside laying in the coffin room."
"Yes it looks like it is. It certainly explains the lack of the temples modern conveniences."
Tsukune signed.
"So Moka what do you say we get out of these cloths. I think the priest said there was a restroom around here somewhere."
"Ok."
Moka went into the hot springs. She put on a robe and took her cloths out to Tsukune. Tsukune in turn stayed in the main room and wrapped a fur robe on him. He noticed that the head priest had left a small part of the rock door open so he could slip out their cloths. Tsukune sat his and Moka's cloths near the door and soon saw the priests bony hand reach in and grab them. The rock door slamming shut and locking them in.
Tsukune walked into the hot springs. Moka was pouring a large jug of green liquid in the water of the spring. The water soon had a greenish taint to it.
"Moka that's the herbal antidotes right?"
End of ch 30 part 4
Continue in ch 30 part 5