We continue to make our way through the ruins when I suddenly feel a small amount of monster energy nearby. I stop and look around for a minute.
"What are we stopping for Reiji?", Kokoa asks me as the girls all stop behind me.
"One of them might be nearby. Keep an eye ou-", I begin to say before I spot something on the wall. I act like I didn't see it so it doesn't run away.
"What? What is it Reiji?", Kurumu asks, surprised by my sudden stutter.
"I just realized I haven't had a cigarette all day! I need one immediately!", I say, trying not to set off any red flags. I pull a cigarette from my pocket and as I go to light it I sear the whole wall with a spray of fire.
This causes the monster to fall off the wall and scream, "My eye! My everything!"
"Yeah yeah, it wasn't lethal so quit your complaining.", I say as I pick it up off the ground.
"W-what is that? When did that get there!?", Kurumu asks surprised
"It was watching us and sending some sort of signal too. Now tell me who you were sending the signal to or I sear your insides.", I say as I form another fire in my other hand.
"I-I won't rat you out boss. I'm not sayin nothing! Not a.. damn... thing...", the ugly fuck says before passing out from shock.
"So, his boss was watching us then? Who's his boss?", Mizore asks as we glare down at the tiny creature.
"Don't know, this gang is just a group of violent thieves. I guess they'd have to have a leader to keep thing organized.", I reply while lighting my cigarette.
We continue down further into the ruins, but still no sign of the other thieves or Tsukune and Moka. Suddenly we hear a familiar voice call out to us, saying, "Everyone, you came to save me." We look down the hall to see it's Tsukune. The idiot starts walking towards us while saying, "Everything's okay, I already defeated all the enemies."
Tsukune actually beat people in a fight without any help? Is that possible?
Kurumu starts running towards him screaming, "Tsukune! I'm so glad you're alright!"
The boy just laughs before saying, "I'm perfectly fine."
In typical Kurumu fashion, once she gets close enough to Tsukune she grabs his head and shoves it into her chest while screaming, "Tsukune! I was so worried!", and shaking him violently like a ragdoll. She surprisingly let's him come up for air and blood just gushes from his nose, though his blood smells a bit off.
When she sees this, Kurumu lets go of Tsukune and he hits the ground bleeding, though he seems to still be awake. Kurumu helps him to his feet while blood continues to drip from his nose.
I notice that he left a bit of blood on the floor where he fell and decide to inspect it, dipping my finger in the small pool of blood to coat my fingertip in the crimson liquid. Luckily nobody notices this since Ruby and Yukari show up just in time to be a perfect distraction.
Ruby introduced herself to Kokoa then I motioned for Kokoa to come over to where I was at.
"What do you want?", the little vampire asks in her usual annoyed tone.
"Keep your voice down. I need you to do something.", I whisper to her so nobody would be aware of what we were doing.
"What's that?", the girl whispers back to me.
I hold up my finger and show her the blood and ask her, "Can you taste this and see if it's right?" She just gives me this weird look like I'm ridiculous for asking such a thing from a vampire and I just glare back at her. "I have a theory and this test will either prove it or blow it all to hell so just do it.", I whisper in a slightly aggressive tone.
The girl reluctantly licks my finger, which felt pretty weird honestly would not suggest getting your finger licked, and makes the most dissatisfied face I've seen anyone make in my entire life.
"I'm guessing that wasn't pleasant.", I whisper to her mockingly.
"That was terrible. The one good thing about him is all gone.", the little red vampire whispers while trying to clean off her tongue with her hand.
Before I can do anything, I glance over my shoulder to see Tsukune as he elbows Ruby straight in the rib cage. Suddenly this becomes a war zone, Yukari throws herself at him, literally. Mizore freezes the witch and almost Tsukune in her ice, and the idiot goes to touch Kokoa, but before his hand can touch her I grab his wrist and ask him, "Do you know what happens next 'Tsukune?'"
He just looks at me, confused with a slight grin, and I punch him so hard that his body gets stuck in the wall.
"Reiji! What did you do that for!?", Kurumu screams at me as she sees Tsukune's body in the wall.
"Hey dumbass, look at his wrist. Notice something shiny and golden missing?", I note as I point to the missing Holy Lock. "This guy can't be Tsukune. If he was he'd be a ghoul and his blood wouldn't taste like literal ass.", I say as I ready my new toy.
"Wait, if this guy isn't Tsukune then..", Yukari starts saying before Ruby says, "He must be a member of that group of thieves."
"Bingo! Yatzee!", I shout sarcastically as they finally put two and two together.
"If you're a fake, then the real Tsukune and the others are somewhere else, right? Where are they?", Kurumu asks demanding an answer.
The man pulls out a pack of cigarettes and pulls one out with his mouth while saying, "That guy's probably dead by now. My partner's looking after him, but he's a dangerous guy." As he lights his cigarette he says, "He's the type of guy who gets off on cutting up meat with a knife. That's why he's in charge of the killing. Around now he more than likely offed your beloved Tsukune and is having fun with Moka. It's better if you don't see it. He gets messy."
"Perfect, that will make finding him a cakewalk!", I shout in excitement.
"How is Tsukune being dead going to make finding him easy?", Kurumu shouts in a panic as she glares daggers at me.
"If he tries to kill Tsukune and pushes him far enough, he'll go all vampire and probably kill him and come after this guy next. If he just changes for a moment I can pinpoint his location and find him if he doesn't just come find us.", I explain to them, surprising the girls.
Kurumu charges at the guy with her nails, but he simply slices her shoulder with his hand.
With a slight smile on his face, the man puts his left hand over his face and says, "This is good. If someone comes at me with the intent to kill I can kill them. Even if it is a girl. If you're gonna come at me, be prepared. I'm stronger than I look."
Suddenly I feel it down the hallway, a sudden spike in monster energy! It has to be him! Either him or Moka! No it's definitely him, Moka's monster energy is more controlled while this is all over the place. "Well, looks like your time is up 'Fake.' Your partner just died.", I tell him as I look to him with a smug grin.
"W-what? What did you just say!?", he shouts at me.
I laugh and tell him, "Your killer just got himself killed. I guess he wasn't prepared to deal with an out of control vampire. Tsukune's probably breaking every single bone in his body. And once he's done you're next on his shit list."
"I can do this by myself. You're all just teenagers. There's no way I can lose to your raw numbers alone.", he replies before taking a drag from his cigarette.
"Originally my race was unfit for combat. That's why in order to become stronger, we had to plan ahead. One of those plans was 'Mastery of Martial Arts.' I learned how to fight from humans who were weaker than me.", the fake says as he removes his jacket. After taking a drag from his cigarette he continues by saying, "Karate, kung fu, boxing. I have mastered all of the martial arts. If you come at me you better be prepared."
"Oh, so you had to learn how to fight from humans then? That's sad.", I mock the faker as I look to him with a sly grin.
"Hey! It's not like I had any other choice alrigh-", he begins to shout before Kurumu charges in, trying to take advantage of my small distraction. He dodges her attack and ends up behind her. His right hand begins to glow as he says, "Oh, you're pretty quick. You're not just stronger than me, you're faster too." He swiftly places his right hand on her face and continues talking, "As I was saying, in order for me to become stronger I have one more trump card." With a flash of light his body begins to change into a copy of Kurumu's as he says, "To make up for our lack of fighting skills, our race specializes in copying others. Whatever I feel like, face, physique, sex, or even special abilities. I can copy everything about a person. Therefore, if I transform into a race that excels at fighting, I can become as strong as I want. I am a doppelganger. A sly race that steals and lives the lives of other people."
Yukari screams, "The enemy looks exactly like Kurumu!"
I just let out a sigh and say, "Well that's kind of how they work Yukari."
Suddenly wings rip through the back of his shirt and he says, "Ohhh, since you were in human form, I couldn't tell, but you have wings, interesting. I copied your body completely so even if you try to hide it, I know eeeeeverything about you." As he tightens his belt, he asks himself, "But why does it feel like it's harder to move now? Why?" Looking down at himself, the faker realizes he has breasts now and gets a massive nosebleed at the sight of the melons.
What's wrong with this guy? Has he not seen a boob before?
As he gropes both of his breasts, he exclaims, "Whoa! These are huge! What are these!? What's with these boobs?! They're in the way!"
Kurumu, with her face now as red as a tomato, yells at him, shouting, "Don't say rude things about my body!"
He notices how bothered the Succubus is and, not even joking, he starts squeezing his chest, as if he's trying to mock her. This man has a serious problem.
While he continues to molest himself, he tells her, "Oh yeah, this is the first time I've ever copied a woman's body."
Kurumu is both embarrassed and furious, shouting at the boy, "Stop groping them! Those are still myyyyyy boobs you pervert!" As she charges at the doppelganger the Succubus shouts, "You're pissing me off! What kind of harassment is this?! What are you planning?"
She swings wildly at him, but he is able to dodge all of her attacks while saying, "And so, from this day forward, I am your replacement. Know what they say? 'One who sees their own doppelganger will die.'" As he goes for a counter attack he says, "That's why I need you, the original, to disappear."
Before the attack can hit her though, Mizore deflects his attack by engulfing it in ice while saying, "Don't lose focus, Kurumu." Mizore seems to have at least done something, but she only managed to cover his right arm in a thin layer of ice.
The doppelganger shatters the ice off of the wall with a furious punch while saying, "It's a monster that manipulates ice this time. I'll have fun turning into one of your kind."
It looks like Tsukune is taking his sweet time getting here. I should probably jump in to stall until he gets here. I walk up to Kurumu and Mizore and say, "Okay, play times over. Time to put this guy in a box and ship him down the river." I put my right hand over my face and tell him, "You're not the only one with a trump card.", then there is a flash of light and my monster energy fills the halls. The first seal is released and my power is boosted to that of an S class super monster.
"W-what's that? He isn't a vampire! How is he this strong?", Kokoa frantically asks as she sees my overwhelming monster energy.
"He hasn't explained that part yet! Maybe he'll do it later in the season!", Yukari shouts as my monster energy blows past them like a whirlwind.
As the light dies down and my body glows with my monster energy I say, "It's been so long since I've been able to use this form. Please do make this worth while, okay?"
He looks at me, eyes widened in fear as he asks, "Y-you were hiding this much power? How is that possible?"
"I'd be more worried about dodging if I were you.", I say as I charge at him with the sword in one hand. I swing down at him, but he's quick enough to dodge. I cover the blade in my monster energy and swing at him again, but this time I miss him on purpose to see if he'll still dodge. I swing a few more times before using my monster energy to extend the reach of the blade mid swing and cut him across the chest.
"That was clever. Using your own monster energy to extend the blade when I least expected it. Haven't seen that one before.", he notes as he backs up a bit from me.
As we glare each other down, I start to hear footsteps coming from down the hallway. I sense Tsukune and he's coming in hot! I throw the blade up in the air and say, "I'm done for now. You have another challenger who wants to fight you."
As the blade falls to the ground it blocks the doppelganger's sight for just long enough for Tsukune to run up and land a hit launching him into a nearby wall.
"There you are, Tsukune! You're a bit late, but I'll let it slide since you had to deal with some stuff.", I call out to the boy, but it seems like he's completely out of it. Is this what that vampire blood does to him?
Tsukune charges at the still recovering doppelganger and tries to crush him with another super punch, but the weak monster's able to barely dodge out of the way.
As the two continue their battle, I walk over to check up on Kokoa and she asks me, "So it is true? That Big Sis gave Tsukune some of her blood?"
I give her a quick nod and tell her, "He isn't a full vampire. His body does mix well with the vampire powers and he turns into a ghoul the last time he tried to use it. The Holy Lock he wears usually suppresses his vampire blood, but it looks like it came out to play anyways. This should be fun."
"You got quite the cheep shot on me, but that won't happen again!", the doppelganger shouts as he continues to dodge Tsukune's relentless attacks.
As Tsukune rampages through the halls, trying to crush the doppelganger with all his might, he begins to laugh uncontrollably like a crazed monster.
"The vampire blood is out of control! It's overwhelming his consciousness!", Ruby shouts as Tsukune continues to rampage.
"Well, can you two seal his power away or something? You two have a spell for that, right?", Kurumu desperately asks the two witches.
Ruby and Yukari look to each other before giving each other a quick nod and Yukari says, "We'd need to hold him in place for it to work."
"I say we give it time. If the doppelganger doesn't think of something soon, he'll die and we can just stop the weaker Tsukune. If we do it now the doppelganger still has a chance to get away.", I suggest as I pick the sword back up off of the ground.
"What thing can the doppelganger do to stop this!?", Kokoa shouts as she points to Tsukune's rampage.
I shrug and then it happens. The doppelganger thinks of the most abstract way of beating Tsukune: Kurumu's 'feminine charm,' aka flash attack. At first we're all shocked that he'd do such a thing in the middle of a fight, but then Tsukune actually stops.
With blood gushing from his nose like a raging river, Tsukune falls over, defeated, while the doppelganger also gets a nosebleed from looking at his own chest. Or is it Kurumu's chest? I don't know.
"How does that even work!?", Ruby shouts in her confusion.
"I'm a little disappointed myself. Such a wonderful rampage stopped by a pair of boobs. How sad.", I note as I look at the others. I'm further confused by Yukari's drooling and Kokoa's nosebleed. Did she get a nosebleed from looking at the boobs or smelling all of Tsukune's blood all at once? The world may never know. I hand Kokoa a tissue before chasing after the doppelganger.
As the doppelganger runs down the hall he shouts, "See!? Women are the weakness to all men!"
Furious, I shout back, "No, just idiots like you two!", before chucking the sword so hard that it shatters one of his wings, keeping him from flying away. As I run down the hall, Kokoa follows me and I hear both Ruby and Yukari trying to seal Tsukune's powers. I know they have that under control so I focus on handling the doppelganger, but once we catch up to him we see that he has Moka and has turned into a fake Inner-Moka.
He smirks at us as he says, "I knew this girl was hiding something good in there."