"How can I help you Mr. Waller?" The Headmaster of Yokai Academy was a priestly looking man, wrapped in white robes with a hood, only piercing golden eyes peering through the shadow of his hood, his chilling grin seemingly carved onto his face, the only visible addition being his golden cross and prayer beads.

Zac stood with his arms crossed behind his back, "Headmaster, I have something I feel that needs to be said." Begun the youth.

Tenmei Mikogami leant forward and gestured the young man to take a seat, his office was long and ominous, incense burning at all times. The curtains were drawn and the only source of light was the several candles dotted around the place, to others this would seem excessive but to Mikogami he prefered dim light.

"Speak your mind, child." Instructed the Headmaster.

"Sir. I am human." Zac said, throwing all caution to the wind because his mouth ran faster than his brain, "But I request that I be allowed to stay at this school."

Tenmei paused for a moment, his grin actually faltering before he began to laugh, Zac sat quietly in his chair his arms crossed over his chest as he watched the man through the dim light and smoke of the room.

"Quite the courageous one aren't you, Mr. Waller?" Mikogami asked with a smirk.

"You're the man in charge, it'd be pointless to hide something like this from you." Zac said with a firm expression, his green eyes narrowed.

"Well I appreciate what it took for you to come to me, so I'll put you at ease. I'm happy for you to remain among my student body, but there's little I can do directly to protect you from the rule against humans being here." Mikogami admitted, his grin returning in full force.

"That's fine, but I want to ask something else… if you don't mind, sir." At the Headmaster's gesture the youth continued, "Is there… a way for a human to become a monster?"

"May I ask what brings this on?" Mikogami questioned with a curious tilt of his head.

"Well from the fact that Vampires straight up exist it must also mean that some of the myths surrounding them are also true, such as their ability to turn humans into their kind. Does that apply to anyone else?"

"Werewolves are one of the more common type to spread themselves that way." Mikogami leant back into his chair as he began listing off monsters, "Yuki-Onna are able to take willing males and turn them into Yuki-Otoko, their male counterparts… other monsters operate in similar ways to vampires, where a bite can transfer some of their essence into a lower being and make their prey like themselves."

"Any you would personally recommend?" Zac asked, keeping his tone level.

"You're quite serious about this, aren't you?" At the young man's nod Mikogami pressed further, "Why do you wish to shed your humanity at the first chance?"

"Being human isn't anything special, we're short lived when compared to most monsters. We can't exactly do anything spectacular… honestly I think most people in my shoes would do something similar. My humanity isn't exactly valued and changing who I am physically wouldn't change who I've been my entire life."

"How about I make you a deal, Mr. Waller?" At the quirked brow of the teen he continued, "Now I may not be a professional practitioner but the magical arts are open to essentially every living being on the planet, if you were to take up a branch you could disguise yourself as a Warlock or Witch of some kind. No need to alter yourself so heavily."

"And if I can't use magic?" Zachary asked straightforwardly.

"Then I will see what else can be done, but you must at least give it a proper try before resorting to such extreme measures." Ordered Mikogami.

"Yes, sir. Thank you, sir." Zac said simply, crisply. As one who respected authority he saw this as an opportunity to know more about the man in charge and to get something out of it, a win-win.

"Very good…" Mikogami dug through one of his drawers and withdrew a thick tome, it was black with wild green and blue archaic sketchings across the front and back, the pages were all completely black and it was held shut by a thick chain.

The ancient man threw it towards the youth who caught it easily, the book vibrated for a moment before settling down, "Well you've got the ability." Mikogami said with a new kind of grin.

"And if I didn't?"

"The book would have eaten you."

Later: Homeroom

Zac drummed his fingers on his desk, Moka had taken Tsukune's place and some other girl had taken Moka's previous spot, long pale-violet hair, she didn't wear a uniform though instead a white and blue jumper, a pale yellow skirt and striped stockings.

Unf, stockings.

"What's with you?" Saizou groused quietly, "You've been fidgeting for ages."

"Got a new book, wanna read it." Zac answered truthfully, gesturing to the tome sitting on his lap.

"Ahh, so you're a Witch?" Saizou questioned, interested.

"Warlock." Zac corrected, "I ain't gonna turn you into a toad."

"Nah you're just gonna turn me inside out." Saizou commented with a grin, "That's awesome, I've always wanted to know a spellcaster."

"This one is new so forgive me if I don't impress." Zac said with a muted chuckle, Saizou nodded, "So~ anyone catch your eye?"

"Aside from fat-tits a few seats across? Not a lot." Saizou grinned and jabbed a thumb to the a girl with cyan blue hair, bright blue eyes and breasts far to big for her body to reasonably carry, given how petite the rest of her was.

"Jesus christ those sweater melons could fuckin' kill somoene." Zac whispered lowly, looking at the girl, baffled at what he was seeing, "Whaddaya think she is?"

"She's apparently a Succubus, already got her own little harem of mind-slaves." Saizou said with a shrug, "Not really my thing."

"I'm more an ass and hips kinda guy." Zac said with a shrug, "Besides her hair is so offensively blue it hurts to look at it."

"I hear ya." Saizou agreed with a chuckle, hiding behind his own book.

"What are you two talking about?" Moka asked leaning over to the blond boy's shoulder, guiltily enjoying his scent as she did.

"Succubus mind control and butts." Zac answered truthfully, Moka rolled her eyes and slapped his shoulder, making him hiss in pain, she quickly tried to soothe him but he waved her off.

"Jesus-tapdancing-christ woman you hit like a freight train!" Scolded Zac with a snarl, agony blossoming in his shoulder.

"I'm really sorry! I just forget my own strength around new people!" Moka explained hastily, fretting.

"Just… think in the future." Zac groused, Saizou snickered at him only for the Warlock-to-be to flick his ear getting a hiss in response, "Watch it boy." Warned the blond.

"I could snap you in half." Saizou threatened lowly.

"You could. But you wouldn't." Zac deflected with a wave of his hand.

"Why not?" Saizou asked with a predatory grin.

"You like my company too much, everyone else is too scared to talk to you." The Australian shot back with a smug grin.

"Fuck he's got me there." Admitted the teen, grinning as he clapped his fellow on the back, careful to avoid breaking him, "Delicate little thing like you, someone's gotta watch you back, yeah?"

"Exactly, that's why I got you my man, you're the muscle. I'm the brains, and we're both the dashing good looks." Zac preened pompously, Saizou quickly joined in for the sake of amusement.

"It's our cross to bear." Lamented the delinquent with a sigh.

"Truly a burden." Zac said, looking despondent into his hands.

"Are you two done with the theatrics or may I continue my lesson?" Nekonome-sensei questioned with a deadly tone.

"Yes miss, sorry miss!" The two answered quickly, getting snickers from their peers.

Lunch

Zac fiddled with his new key to salvation nervously as he almost sprinted to the small lake he knew was near the dorms, there was a wooden bench where students could eat and enjoy the small area with actual grass.

Zac threw down his bag and cracked open the book - finally - as he did he felt his whole body seize up, a large burst of smoke rose from the book, a pair of red eyes cut through the smoke and stared into the youth's green eyes.

Zac opened his mouth and closed it several time, his throat unnaturally tight as the spectre took form, it was still made of shifting smoke but it had a distinctive body, it's torso was hunched and it had no lower section as that was connected to the book like a genie from a lamp, it's arms were long and had wicked talons in place of fingers on its hands, the creatures head bore no 'hair' but instead had black flames rising up from its otherwise featureless skull.

It quirked it's head at him, inspecting him it made a motion akin to sniffing before running it's talons along his jawline, "Huuuuuumaaaan." It whispered in a voice both masculine and feminine, like two people talking at the same time.

Unbidden words spilled out of Zac's mouth, "...Yep…" Well… word.

The creature released something akin to a purr, "Gooooood." It nuzzled against his neck, "You may call this one Seeker. We dwell within this book, and have done so for many centuries! Often those with the gall seek our power, not often do we have the pleasure of serving a human master! So we hope you treat us well, Master. For we shall treat you very well in return."

"Sounds fair… so uh, how does this work?" Questioned the Novice.

"Ooh! A neophyte! Marvelous! Very well I shall introduce you properly." The Seeker straighted up and gestured to the book.

"What you hold in your hand is an artefact of great potential! This book is known as the Grimoire of Abaddon, it is in fact written by dozens of his students but he is given the credit. The most important thing to know is that the true power does not reside in the book alone! No indeed it resides in the act of using it's magic… you see most mages and witches draw power from simple tools, such as wands and staves but this grimoire sucks the very life essence out of those it comes into contact with." Before he could speak Seeker held up a hand to silence him.

"The true genius is that even though it draws life from you, Master you are able to in turn draw life out of other beings to bolster your own! Given enough time and effort your lifespan will dwarf that of even a Vampire Lord."

"So Sauron." Zac questioned, getting a confused look from the creature, "Sauron, Lord of the Rings? His power revolved around ripping life energy out of everything and then transforming that into magic, or some shit like that a friend told me ages ago-point is, so long as I'm careful at the beginning I've basically got endless magic?"

"Hubris will do you no good, Master! Indeed, you must be ever vigilant, for if the runes on the book begin to dim, your time shall start to run out. When the light leaves the centre rune, your time as the books master is ended." Zachary nodded in understanding, a sword with two edges cuts both ways and all that.

"Does the draining power work on anything living, or just sentient creatures?"

"All life surrenders to our will! Anything that has life force can sustain the book, and in turn you, though monster's posses the most, humans have meagre scraps but en masse they suffice, beasts of either age or power and rich in life force, and should worse come to worse, nature itself has an abundance. Take heed master, Mother Nature is not a being to be crossed!"

Now, Zac had many questions. Anyone would given the situation but before he could really get any answers Seeker sunk into his shadow like one would dive into a pool, splashing the human's face with the smokey residue it left behind.

Zac coughed for a moment, and spat onto the grass "It got in my mouth…" Muttered the youth, his heart beating like a drum, before suddenly he felt lethargic he fell back onto the grass, his bag spilling out onto the ground, "My feet feel like cake…" He muttered as the grass felt really good against his skin.

Jesus, magic hit like a freight train.

"Uh… Zachary-san?" A voice asked, Zac leaned into the ground and saw Moka - though upside down - "Are you alright?" She asked, worriedly looking him over.

His face felt very hot, something about the vampire girl sparked something in his very core, "I think my book got me high…" He whispered conspiratorially, "I can't really feel my anything right now."

Moka blinked owlishly, she went to open her mouth only for him to start giggling, "Don't vampires drink blood…? Hehehe, where's your blood, dude?"

"I uh… have to drink out of blood bags, they're provided by the school." Moka explained, somewhat fascinated that a book had done this to her friend, especially given how good it made him smell, like even more so than usual.

"Pfffft! School food is trash, have a nibble at my lovely bod my dude, c'mon… you're gonna have to come down here because I can't go up right now." He pat the ground, "Gravity is like, kicking my arse right now."

"A-are you sure? Are you in the right mind?" Moka asked, though she was already salivating at the idea.

"Yeeeeeah, dudette. C'mon…" He fiddled with his collar, revealing his neck to her, "That's uh… the best I can do at the moment." Admitted the youth, his breath ragged, like he'd just run a marathon.

Moka had to resort to straddling her friend, something that she did her utmost to ignore, she sunk her fangs into his neck and was immediately in bliss, the flavour! The texture! The heeaat!

The fire in Zac's stomach exploded into an inferno as he was immediately hit with the single-most pleasurable experience of his life, "Uhhh~!" He writhed under Moka's ministrations, his back arching as his heels dug trenches into the ground, it was like every inch of his being was being stimulated at once.

"I-uuuhhh-oh god…" Mumbled the teen as he tried and failed to form a coherent sentence. He grasped at whatever he could get ahold of, his left hand clawing at her back his right hand went straight for the kill, aimed for the glorious globes on her chest.

Instead he caught metal, through the haze he was in he growled, he wasn't interested in fuckin' metal right now!

He pulled it away and heard a faint clink noise before his hand sunk into her breast, her throat vibrated in some macabre purr as her fangs remained in his neck.

"What do you think you're touching?" A pair of bright red eyes with slits like dagger edges stared down at him, silver hair flooded his vision.

"Wha…?" Mumbled the red faced male.

"Your blood may be the best thing I've ever had, what with whatever this tome has done to enhance it, but if you ever touch me like that without my permission again, I'll kill you." Hissed the silver haired goddess.

Zac drank in her features, his blood lined her lips her cheekbones were perfect, her eyes made his knees weak, weaker than they already were, his chest heaved as his ragged breath blew against her flesh.

"Are you listening to me?" Demanded the woman with a severe tone, she pulled him up into a sitting position, noses almost touching.

"I ah… I'm sorry my brain has just stopped working." Admitted the youth, "I think you've ruined other women for me."

The silver haired vampiress dropped him and stood up, his eyes fixed on the pink tongue that slid along her lips, she leant down to fetch the rosario and twirled it between her fingers.

She looked at him and curled her lips in disgust, "Cover your erection you fool." Ordered the vampire.

"R-right, yeah… sorry about that, lot's of stuff just happened at once." Explained the young man as he stood up, legs wobbling. He turned away from her and adjusted before grabbing his book, snapping it shut with one hand he returned to the bench and started gathering his fallen belongings.

"Also, avoid touching this when the other me wears it… I dislike being stroked when I have no say in it." Ordered the woman, holding the rasario with purpose.

"Yeah-yeah, sorry about that."

"Stop apologizing you weak fool." Sneered the girl.

"Mmm… so what do I call you, are you still Moka or someone else?" Zac asked, setting his bag on the table and sitting down, electricity dancing down his spine at the sensation on his neck.

"You could look at it like the pink one is the Outer whilst I am the Inner, the true Moka Akashiya. The Outer is a mere mask I must wear when my youki is being suppressed." Informed Moka as she sat down across from him, probably still nursing a high from fresh blood.

"Fair enough." Zac said, fishing something to eat out of his bag, "So like a split-personality that was introduced instead of something inherent."

"If that helps you rationalise it, yes." Moka said with a roll of her eyes.

"Mhm…" Zac pulled the book back into focus and opened it once more, he begun reading the first section, "I wonder how much this simple book can do for me?"

"If it helps you pass as more than a simple human, I'm all for it." Moka said with a smirk, "Better to have some tangible power than relying on others."

"I don't rely on others." Zac waved her off with that, "Can't trust them to always follow through."

"I share those sentiments… perhaps you're less foolish than I initially thought. What with your ogling of the succubus and desire for a male partner." She barbed with that same self-assured smirk.

"I didn't oggle anyone, I took note of how disproportionate her tits are when compared to the rest of her, besides she has no ass so she's not my type." Zac rebuked with a shake of his head. "And I explained my position on the latter already."

"Mhm. Whatever helps you sleep at night." Moka drawled, though it did appear she at least took a fleeting interest in what he had to say.

"I actually have a lot of trouble sleeping recently. I guess I'm already homesick." Answered the human with a frown.

"You enjoy talking about yourself, don't you?" Questioned the vampire.

"Doesn't everyone? It's my most researched topic." With a grin the blond actually forced a small smile out of the vampire, "But you raise a point, tell me about yourself. We sort of got side tracked last time… what are some things you do in your down time? Hobbies and whatnot."

Moka considered this for a moment, spinning the rosario between her fingers as she thought it over, "I suppose I enjoy combat, or at least the physicality of it. Especially when I crush someone beneath my heel."

"Jesus you must be fuckin' terrifying in the sack." Muttered the human with a chuckle.

"Excuse you?" Snapped the silver haired girl with a snarl.

"Oh come on, you can call me out for being a degenerate but I can't make jabs at you, double-standard much?" Zachary complained with a frown.

"Of course there's a double-standard! I am a Vampire, a superior creature, an S-Class Monster! You're a human who's dabbling into magic to avoid being eaten like cattle!" Snarled the silver haired maiden.

"Aaaand I'm your friend, where I'm from friends take pot-shots at each other all the time, it's a way of to make sure you don't end up hanging around with a bunch of high and mighty assholes." Zac explained as he leant into his left fist, nibbling at chips as he read his book.

"That's besides the point, here in the world where monsters rule-" Moka began only for Zac to interrupt.

"Preeeeetty sure that we're supposed to learning how to cohabitate… unless you plan to just, never actually use the human world." Pointed out the human with a mumble, turning a page.

"This is actually really interesting. Did you know that every creature has access to youki in some capacity or another? It just has different names depending on who you talk to. For a human monk it might be chakras, for demons it's just energy, for monsters it's youki, for mages it's magic. How fun."

"You're trying my patience." Moka admitted, a bored inflection to her voice.

"Yeah well you made me harder than steel with no payoff, so I guess we're even." Zac commented without looking up from his book, Moka - despite herself - actually flushed at the blatantly crass statement.

Home-Economics: Midday

Zac tied his hair back and slipped on one of the provided aprons, listening as the teacher wrote down the instructions for the recipe, they were starting simple. Cookies.

Truth be told he'd never made cookies so the lesson would actually have use for him, most of the things he made were dinner or lunch stuff, bacon and eggs didn't specifically count as breakfast because they were all day feeds.

"...So students, I'll be available to answer any questions you may have but let's all try to make this first lesson productive, yes?" The teacher smiled at her class, "Pick a partner and take a station."

Now Zac was not someone who liked to toot his own horn, not really. He loved to ironically talk himself up, and enjoyed the quality banter that being a faux egotistical ass could provide.

So when he was almost swarmed with people trying to be his partner he had a minor freak out.

"Uhh…" Was all he managed to get out before someone snared his arm and dragged him away, it all happened so quickly he wasn't sure it was real. One moment he was surrounded, the next he was at a station.

"Figured you could use a save." Oh shit, it's the blue haired girl.

"Apreciate it." The Australian offered his hand, "Zachary Waller." He had noticed that the people around here usually gave their full names so he just went with it.

"Kurumu Kurono." The Succubus accepted the hand and batted her lashes at him, "So what brings a guy like you into a cooking class?"

"A guy like me?" Zac questioned, crossing his arms across his chest.

Kurumu apparently didn't expect this response, "Well uh, you know a tall strong looking guy."

"I'm lankier than you." Zac pointed out with a dry expression, "You don't need to try and blow smoke up my ass."

The blue haired girl was put onto the back foot, for the sake of appearances she decided to just skip ahead to the part where she got an exotic boy-toy in her harem, using her Charm ability she pouted, "Sorry, I'm just not used to meeting new people. Forgive me?"

Zac looked at her, his brow quirking in response, "I'm pretty sure you're a lot better than you give yourself credit. I've seen how the guys around here react to good lookin' girls, so having someone actually respond in words instead of grunts probably threw you off." He smirked to himself, amused at the jab at the hormonal monsters that roamed the halls.

Kurumu blinked, 'It didn't work..?'

This could mean one of two things. One, he was incredibly powerful despite giving off such a passive aura and thus was easily able to overpower her mental control.

Oooor, he was her destined one! The only person her powers could not work on and thus the one person she must seduce and ensnare with only her body, her wits and her natural sex appeal!

'This girl is fucking weird, why does she keep looking at me like that?' Was all the Australian could think at that moment, 'I just wanted to make some goddamn biscuits.'

Why did Home Ec. have to be weird?

After School

Zac was walking towards his dorm room, Normal-Moka at his side, as they chatted about random things, such as how - apparently - good tomato juice was a good blood supplement, if only for taste and not nourishment.

Conversations weren't always revelation-heavy and thought provoking.

A noise alerted Zac, the annoyed scream of a child?

Oh wait, he knew a child!

Making an immediate B-line for the noise, Moka hastily followed at the sudden haste in his step, Zac rounded the dorm building to see a large bipedal bear with thick boney plates down its spine standing before Yukari who was shaking like a leaf against the building.

"Oi, fuck-face you got something to say to someone in a closer proximity to your obnoxious size!?" Shouted the Australian, he pulled out his book and as though it sensed his intent the pages begun to emit a noxious smoke that would probably raise questions in any other scenario.

"Ugghhh! More of you fuckin' border races, what ever happened to this school being for monsters not fuckin' mix breeds!" Snarled the bear.

"Right well, I know just the-Hex!" A blast of smoke shot from Zac's outstretched hand it burned into the flesh of the bear right above his right eye, making it roar in agony, Yukari quickly ran towards the older students.

"Now I'm sure you're a reasonable fellow and I'd love to sit down and talk about-Frailty!" The Hex Mark rapidly spread across the monsters body, it wailed and screamed in agony the Hex Mark begun to glow and pulsate like a cyst slowly growing in size as the muscles on the monster atrophied.

"Apologise for being retarded!" Ordered the human as he marched up to the bear, kicking it in the jaw, sure it hurt a bit but not anything noteworthy when compared to the fact that it sent that giant bear-beast to the ground.

Gods bless the Frailty Curse.

Think about bragging later, results now!

"Hff… fuck you, you fucking cu-" The beast was cut off as Zac grabbed the Hex Mark and dug his fingers into it, they seemed to actually pierce the flesh of the giant monster and found purchase beneath the skin.

"I'm going to start draining your energy now, and when I'm done you're going to go into your room and sleep until your fucking bladder pops!" The commanding tone of the newly minted Warlock actually startled the little Witch who was looking at the older student with a mixture of awe and reverence.

The process itself took seconds, the bear-beast didn't really have that much potent energy to physically drain, but it was easily double what Zac had at his disposal, and the smoke creature that lived in his shadow seemed to really dig it.

The creature morphed into a skittish teenager and ran towards his dorm, ignoring the screams for him to put clothes on.

Zac nursed an orb of pale red energy that danced in his palm it was about the size of a tennis ball, Seeker rose up and clasped it.

"We will assimilate thisfor you Master, rest well this night for you have done well." Praised the creature as it nuzzled his neck again.

Once again though Seeker left before Zac could get a word in edgewise.

Zac looked at his book, "Magic is cool." He decided.

"That was awesome!" Cheered Yukari, running up to him and tackling him around the waist, "Who knew you'd use forbidden magic just to save me! I knew it was love at first sight." Somehow her pupils turned into hearts.

Zac was concerned.

"Forbidden?"

Yukari nodded fervently, "Oh yes, I don't know how you managed it but the Grimoire of Abaddon is one of the most heretical magical artefacts around! Using something like that to protect me! Ahhn~!"

Zac looked to Moka who shared his sentiments.

End

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