Prelude to the End Chapter 32: Death has no meaning, a rosario + vampire fanfic

Several months have passed by and these 'simulations' have been getting more and more disturbing as the days pass by... To make matters worse everytime one of my friends die... I'm starting to react less and less to it, to the point it's not really affecting me...That's wrong! I think I see what Michael's trying to do desensitize us to the fact that if one of us dies we can't break down... we'd have to keep going...

For better or for worse I believe this training is making me stronger... though each day here I feel like I'm becoming distant... to my Humanity. Alexis and I haven't announced what happened a few months back, as she feels like keeping a secret until she is able to become comfortable with the whole relationship thing as she says it... I'm not going to force her to anything she doesn't want... I mean I love her like crazy!

Kyoko has been changing as well, she's a lot less freaked out and she's taken the liking to firearms and hand to hand combat...

Kururmu is worried for my well being, she's been pushing herself to the brink in the training just to keep herself independent in combat, able to take on foes twice her strength. Truth be told I'm more worried about her pushing herself.

Moka and Kokoa seemed to be enjoying this training, both always testing themselves to grow stronger, faster, and more aware... Though Omote, she's starting to become more and more progressively better in combat, however once and while she'll have her slip ups... Omote and I... we almost had our night last night... though we were interrupted by a raging ravenous horde of Demonic Hellspawn...

Mizore has been nothing but concentrated when she's been training, she and I have felt closer when we fought together... We talk to each other when we can, once in a while she'll feel homesick... which can be expected... remembering how long we'll be trapped here is nothing but madness... I'm feeling homesick as well..

Nick and Liz seem to be getting... umm... Close with each other, truth be told the two hold common interests.

Kasano seems interested in getting to know me better... which is odd, we sort of were at odds with each other... and for Luise, well rumor has it that Kasano has been getting hounded by Luise as she's been on the attack trying to get in with Kasano.

Yukari seems more interested in learning more advanced magic, spells, and arcane abilities, she's been progressing surprisingly well.

Ruby has been...uh... well it's a' long story with her' she's taken steps to improve upon her abilities, and... ahem... I almost slept with her as well... she's been acting really strange around me... asking me to punish her... I think... I think she's a Masochist.

Gin... is somewhat removed from the rest of us... he said something but this whole The Great Darkness we're preparing for is a distraction that something else is making way before The Great Darkness makes it's appearance... something does feel off, I get this feeling we're just walking in to it's plans... I mean this thing is supposed to be a Evil entity.. And those things usually are full of plans and tricks... whose to say this thing is any different.

Tsukune's Blood Elder blade slashed across a Master Necromancer's chest, followed by the Necromancer falling back as the fire burned through his chest. The blade was shaking as Tsukune was covered in blood, while bleeding heavily. Around Tsukune was mounds of corpses from enemies of all sorts, Tsukune planted the end of his blade in to the blood soaked ground, taking a moment for himself.

"God damn it..." Tsukune swore as he was trying to block out the pain his body was delivering from the toll of the attacks that were directed towards him. Omote approached Tsukune shaking his shoulder trying to get his attention. "Tsukune, you okay?" Omote asked seeing the training taking a toll on him.

"…..." Tsukune's brown eyes flickered in to a red hue while looking a Omote, then back to his original color.

"Tsukune?" Omote called his name again snapping him out of his brief trance. "… huh?... oh yeah I'm... uh alright, just a bit exhausted is all." Tsukune pulled his sword out of the blood soaked ground sheathing the blade.

A .338 bullet from a PGM 338 passed mere centimeters from Tsukune's face striking a Necromancer assassin in the head, saving Tsukune. Turning his attention to the direction of the bullet's origin, he saw Kyoko on a high twisted rock formation, loading the next bullet into the chamber of the rifle.

"Geez Tsuki you let your guard down again!" Kyoko yelled at Tsukune as she slid down the rocks with her PGM 338 strapped to her back. Several bodies rolled down a mound of corpses with Moka and Kokoa jumping down covered in wounds and blood both theirs and enemies. Ruby appeared almost out of nowhere grabbing on to Tsukune's back rubbing her head against him.

"Oh my beloved Master, are you alright?! I saw you freeze up, tell me if you're in pain and need to vent your anger, I stand ready for punishment!"

Seriously Ruby what the Fuck...?

"Ruby I'm fine, really... hehah there is no reason for what you're suggesting..." Tsukune got a hold of himself, trying not to picture Ruby in a certain position.

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Another week in to the training the entire group with Alexis and Michael being absent, sat around a fireplace in a dark dreary forest.

"So Liz what are the Sentinel's like?" Tsukune asked biting into the cooked rabbit he caught. "They're the elite of the elite Guardians, sworn an oath to the Guardian Council to protect Earth at any cost... we're filled with Masters of the Arcane arts, speed, strength, infiltration, etc... though I guess it doesn't matter anymore now that we've been pulled from the veil to fight in the Guardian War." Liz knew the risks of the vote, even though it was a long shot she believed the war would end with the Sentinels being thrown to the field to fight Dark Guardians.

"What did you do before joining the Sentinels?" Tsukune asked trying to change the subject from the war.

"Let's see back on my Home world which was under the control of the Golden Empire, I was part of the 57th Owl airborne ranger brigade, since I was a Warlord they quickly promoted me to the highest NCO position in the transport we were flying in... My father pulled some strings and got me out of the Airborne Rangers as he feared the environment was to unstable for someone like me... a year later because of his connections he got me in to the Sentinels."

Nick blinked at this revelation, a few of the others had similar reactions to her story. "you were an airborne ranger?..." Nick asks with doubt lined in his tone, she looks over to him and puffs out her cheeks "Is it really that hard to imagine? I'm pretty bad ass you know!" Nick stares at her for a long moment* "Yeah but I mean...you're so... small." Liz's eyes widen, and she seemed to wince a bit at that word. " I am not! You are just...all really tall!". Nick shook his head* "well... I can't speak for everyone here but where I am from, I'm average height..."

"Uh... changing this topic what were doing before coming here to Yokai Academy Nick?" Tsukune asked while hoping Liz and Nick wouldn't start a heated argument. Liz sulked, but listened in along with everyone else, who would glance at him from their meal, or whatever else they were doing around the warming fire. Nick would stoke the fire a bit and sigh. "it's not a secret anymore I'm a soldier. So there's that. I'm a multi-purposed tool. " he says the last word with a bit of fire in his tone. "Heavy infantry, skirmisher, EVA combat, airborne, extraction of high-value targets, executions of similar targets..I've done a little bit of everything, except for infiltration, they figured my...attitude was more of a fighter than a shadow". Nick would perk up a bit and laugh "oh! I almost forgt, guess who's ugly mug is on every poster for the Legions marine recruitment ads..." Nick would give a somewhat charming grin and throw the small stick he was using to stoke the fire, into the flames. "but that story is long and filled with boring shit so...I'll keep it to myself."

It was decided to put the questions on hold for now, and get the rest that is needed for tomorrow's journey. Though each trainee conflicted in their thoughts, worried, scared, or paranoid, of what is to come tomorrow.

"Tsukune?" Omote's voice called out to Tsukune waking him from his rest immediately. "Yeah Mo..Omote, what's going on?" Tsukune asked seeing Omote smile at him offering him a hand. Tsukune gladly accepted her hand letting her pull him up.

Quietly Omote and Tsukune left the campsite, letting their friends rest while the two would sneak away to talk privately. Hidden from plain sight, Omote and Tsukune wasted no time, Omote leaned in to lock lips with Tsukune, while Tsukune pulled her in closer holding her shoulders. Omote pulled away to breath as she was so concentrated on Tsukune, that she forgot to breathe. "Easy Omote... still trying get used to calling you that..."

"It's alright you can call me Moka when we're alone." Omote said to Tsukune, blushing a bit. A few moments later Omote sunk her teeth into Tsukune's neck drinking his blood, but this time no shock, Tsukune nearly chuckled hearing Omote make a slurping noise from drinking. Pulling her teeth away from his skin, he began to heal instantaneously. "Ahhhh, that was great Tsukune, your blood is so rich in flavor."Omote said licking her fangs, of the drops of blood that were still left over.

"…..."Tsukune stood in silence, his forehead touching Omote's his eyes closed. Omote wrapped her arms around Tsukune hugging him tightly, though it was the briefest of hugs as the two began kissing each other again, Tsukune soon after began guiding her to the ground, with him on top of her. Tsukune took off his cloak.

Tsukune parted Omotes legs opening them up, Omote didn't even mind Tsukune doing this while she was resting on grass and leaves. Tsukune began to pull down her skirt pulling it right off, and tossing it by his cloak. Tsukune saw Omote's white underwear his mind begging him to tug it off. Though instead of ripping the underwear away, he began to unbutton her shirt, while Omote laid on the ground looking so innocent. Pulling away her shirt Tsukune saw a matching set of color for her bra, he placed his hands on her covered breasts gently squeezing them getting a teased groan from her. Tsukune ceased grabbing at Moka's boobs and navigated his hands toward her waist as he was grabbing the fabric of her panties.

Swallowing his dry saliva he began to slowly slide her underwear down past her ample ass, past her legs and shortly past her feet. Tsukune lowered his mouth to meet her opening, while Omote was blushing of anticipation. Kissing the entrance, Omote's eyes fluttered as she was expecting this was the starter of this feeling. Tsukune then began to tease her folds driving his tongue up against it, causing Omote to bring her hands to Tsukune's hair, while she began breathing heavily. Tsukune took a step further sticking his tongue inside her causing her tongue to stick out and making a strained breathing noise as the feeling was tormenting for her.

Tsukune pulled away, only to meet up with Moka's mouth kissing her while he stuck two fingers from his right hand in to her body, slipping past her folds, preparing her body. "Mmph Tsukune... ha... wait.." Omote struggled to get out, while Tsukune with his left hand unhooked her bra and pulled it away. Tsukune pulled away from much protest internally from Omote, as she wanted Tsukune to continue kissing her. Tsukune tugged his pants down to half his waist and pulled down his boxers with it, he looked as Omote's body readying himself as this was going to be Omote's first time with him. His erection twitched as he only had Omote in his mind. Positioning himself over Omote, he moved his left hand around the back of her neck lifting her upper half up, he prodded at her folds testing I, though it was too much for Omote to handle, she made the inch forward moving Tsukune to sheathe himself in to her with a pained expression.

Omote sunk her teeth in once again in to Tsukune as she tried to relieve the pain by quenching her thirst with blood. Tsukune didn't mind he just held her closer, as he fully sheathed himself in to her body, and with a slow motion he began to rock his hips slapping his body against hers. Omote was enjoying the slow pace, she moved strands of her pink hair away from her eyes so she can look upon Tsukune. Tsukune laid back into the ground letting Omote mount him, Tsukune grabbed Moka by the hips guiding her in to a motion and rhythm that they both found comfortable. Tsukune grabbed a hold of Omote's ass, squeezing them together against his hardened cock.

"Oh Tsukune!" Omote cried out, reaching pure bliss. Tsukune's eyes ignited red causing him to stop. Tsukune pulled out falling on his ass while Omote just fell over on her left side, breathing heavily.

Tskune swung his blade, the crimson steel slicing through the torso of the Shade Warrior as he lunged at him from afar. As he turned around, two more Shade charged at him, each one with a short sword in their hand, as he braced himself, two arrow flew past his head and struck the hellish beasts in the face, killing them dead. Tskune turned, seeing Omote up on a nearby cliff edge with Kyoko, who had taken up a sniper's position with her rifle.

"Thanks girls," he said with a wave.

Across the open battlefield, Mizore and Kurumu, were in a fight with a bevy of Wraiths, a Shade species composed in heavy armor and wielding two-handed weapons when they charged into battle. So far, the girls managed to strike down at least seven or eight of these tanked up monsters, if not with slight difficulty.

"Ugh, these bastards just keep coming," said Kurumu.

"You don't say," Mizore said as she was in a battle of strength against one such Wraith.

The ice girl pushed up against her opponent with all of her strength, as she fought to force the Wraith onto its back foot; however, the Wraith was persistent and refused to lose to her. The Wraith let out a deep laugh, which seemed to echo from his fully enclosed helmet, Mizore looked up in confusion when she was struck in the arm with the Wraith's spiked mace.

"Argh!" She screamed as she went down.

Kurumu turned and gasped, seeing Mizore on the ground and clutching her arm. When she turned back around, she jumped back as another Wraith charged and brought his greatsword down on her, caused the ground to crack in all directions. The Wraith pulled his sword out and looked at Kurumu, who had her claws out and ready to slice through more of the enemy's ranks.

"Looks like this is where you die... succubus," hissed the Wraith.

As Kurumu prepared herself, there was a blast of cold air coming from behind her. She whirled around fast and saw the Mizore had frozen a good portion of the Wraiths who were closing in on her, the only exception being that she was banged up a bit. Her armor looked cracked, almost as if it was starting to break, blood was starting to drip onto the ground from her wounds, and she was panting heavily.

"You alright?" Asked Kurumu.

"Been better," said Mizore.

Kurumu smiled, pleased to see her friend still had some fight left in her. Just then a Wraith grabbed her from behind and drove his heavily armored boot into her back, forcing the poor girl to her knees before grabbing her and hoisting her up in the air by her arm. Kurumu grimaced and whimpered in pain, she looked at the Wraith who held her up and gritted her teeth as he prepared to cleave her in two with his weapon.

"Time to die," he snarled.

Suddenly, there was a loud roar, a large wolf came flying out of nowhere, snapping up the Wraith the had Kurumu and forcing him to release her as he started getting shook around like a ragdoll. As Kurumu collected herself, she gasped and smiled as the wolf jumped from Wraith to Wraith, crushing them under his paws, biting down and shaking them around, and even chewed a few of them up before spitting them out in bloodied heaps.

"Thanks Gin," said Kurumu.

The large wolf turned and grinned at the succubus, small drops of black blood falling to the ground in the process as well. Just then, a loud battle cry was heard in the distance, prompting the trio to investigate and see what it was. It was Kokoa, who seemed to be in a fight with a bevy of Banshees and Specters, two of the most vicious species of Shade.

The Specters, who were known for the hellish form of arcane magic, were leading this little offensive against the young vampire girl. The Banshees, who were basically the support units, and were also known for their summoning as well as raising the dead and (in some cases) their ability to use mind control spells on hapless victims, were using their forbidden magic to call up the mana from around them to bolster the Specter's powers.

"Is that all you got you bastards?" Asked Kokoa, "is that all you've got!?"

Clank..clank, the sounds of steel clasping together as it moved in large quantities flooded the green woodlands. the small, spunky Liz stood with her back to Nick's ba-...well..her upper back was to his lower back, with her being so much shorter after all. She looked over her shoulder at the larger warrior, in his right hand was his standard issue side arm. His side arm strongly resembled that of a M9 Beretta. He pinched the gun just below the rear sights and pulled back ,cycling a round into the chamber. Surrounding them stood shadowy, smoky figures contained within suits of armor, or wrappings, they slowly circled the two cut off and surrounded enemy. The poor bastards. How were they to know they would need so, many, many more to overwhelm but two cut off individuals? Gunfire rang out as Nick opened the conflict, firing a round square in the visor of a specter, making it tumble back, it's knees buckling, and it's armor quickly becoming vacant as the black smoky figure inside disappears upon death. Liz would fire a crossbow bolt into the abdomen of another crudely armored shadowy warrior. the bolt penetrating him and entering yet another one, pinning them both very briefly to a tree trunk, before their solid forms disintegrate, leaving behind clothes and equipment. the two would push off of one another and crash out of the circle the enemy had constructed, Nick's cheek getting nicked upon a crude blade, his wound quickly sealing as he drives his own blade into the sweet spot of the clumsy shadows armor, slaying it quickly, he would twist his body and fire two rounds into the chest, then forehead of a charging opponent. Killing these things was not satisfying at all for Orion, he found it quite dull...mindless, soulless beings, he would dispatch them quite coldly with a simple gesture of shooting them, or stabbing them in vital areas or two, without blood, and without them having some sort of face/distinguishing feature, he felt like he was just shooting/stabbing targets on a range. Liz on the other hand was having a blast, firing her crossbow bolts with devastating effect, penetrating or bringing larger shades to their knees with the force of those bolts. when she got to close range, she would drop her crossbow, and draw her daggers, relying mostly on mobility, as opposed to Orions strength and reflexes. She would jump from target to target, dealing either lethal or crippling blows to Achilles tendons, lower spines, or stomachs. leaving those enemies defenseless, immobile, or dying slowly. After the initial wave was clear, Liz looked over to Nick and threw her arms up in celebration "Wooohoo! Did you see that Nick?!" Nick sighed and turned to look at her..placing the sharp black steel combat knife between his teeth and biting down on it, "mmhmmph, pha phid phawesome" he says with a mouth full of steel as he drops the empty magazine from his side arm, grabbing said empty clip, sliding it into his back pocket, to withdraw a full magazine from the opposite pocket and sliding it up into the grip of the gun. She'd huff a bit, feeling like he just said that on auto-pilot, and didn't actually care. Just as she turned to sulk, she'd be face to stomach with a large, new opponent, whom would let out a loud, angry growl, she'd reach out and touch with just a few fingers the fluffy, rock solid wall and gulp " you're..not a tree..." she said as if indenial at what she was staring at...Nick roared out as he took aim and fired three shots into the heart of the lumbering furry mass of muscle, making it stumble back and whimper, holding it's chest as it's wounds rapidly healed. Nick held his ground as Liz stumbled back...what she saw next made her eyes widen...the two wolves clashed, one more man than wolf, and one more wolf than man. they clawed, and bit, and snarled at each other with an intensity unimaginable to most non-predators. Nick had abandoned his gun knowing that it would only buy him time with this thing, and why would one waste their ammo on something that wouldn't be put down with lead alone...knowing these big bastards can move faster than he would care to calculate in combat, he didn't care for wasting bullets on it...he was biting at the furry bastard in it's throat, drawing quite a bit of blood...but the full werewolf was winding up a bite of it's own, it just had to position and angle just right for a killing snap of It's teeth, it's claws were hard at work clawing and tearing at the clothes and flesh of his back, while Nick's hands remained busy with his revolver. Just as he snaps the cylinder shut, and rolls it to the proper chamber...crimson flies about as his throat is bit in the larger, and more powerful jaw of the feral beast, Liz stared in shock still, her eyes trembling at the sight of the 'giant' bastard getting his throat bitten into, NIck's eyes opened as well as his mouth in a sign of pain...he lifted the barrel of his revolver, pushed it to the center of the beasts furry chest, and pulling the trigger, the bullet penetrating It's powerful pectorial muscles, and into It's heart, the silver tipped hollow point round expanded and slowed on it's way through the heart, and out the back, making a much larger exit wound for the beast, bringing an end to it's assault. The beast released it's lock around his throat and fell straight back, limp as a noodle, making a loud thud as it laid sprawled out on it's back. Nick stumbled and fell back to his ass, he blinked a bit of blood from his eyes, muttering/sputtering "Fucker" it took Nick a solid minute for his wounds to heal, and he pushed himself off of the ground with a small stumble, he turned and looked at the blushing, wide eyed, blood splattered girl propped up on her hands, lying back on her ass a bit. He reached out with a blood soaked hand and asked with a gruff tone, while giving a soft nod "you okay?" she could only nod as she stood up straight and look up into his green eyes. he'd give her a big smirk, his pearly white teeth looking awfully predatory with that large amount of blood around his lips... "Let's get back to work then, shall we?" he turned and left the owl girl to stare with blinking eyes, she'd nod, pick up her crossbow and trot after him "hey, wait up!" she says as Nick strips off the last of his scrapped shirt, tossing it to the right as a bloody rag, revealing all of the burn, stab, shot, and other various wounds upon his torso. She couldn't help but walk closely behind him, squinting her eyes a little to admire-er, investigate them, if one accused her of 'admiring' them, they'd be pelted with a series of cuss words, excuses and other various deflection techniques. She thought about asking for some background on these wounds but she thought it would be best to keep those kinds of questions to herself for the time being. "You sure you're okay to be moving around after that? ...It looked like it hurt.." He would shake his head "ahh...it wasn't so bad, I mean compared to being lit on fire, it was pretty painless...heh...heh..hahahah..." he would laugh a bit and shrug...as soon as he turned to ask her something, his eyes would widen, and he'd suddenly grab her by the collar of her neck and yank forward...pulling her to his side and pressing her against his side...one arm reaches out, and he catches the thrusting blade meant for her...well..the blade pierces through his right hand's palm, attached to that sword was a shadowy figure who would struggle to attempt and remove the blade...however Nick had closed his hand around the wielders hands, sealing them together. Nick stared down the shadowy figure with a pissed expression, and a slightly annoyed look in his eyes, a sudden breeze pushed through the woods, sending loose leaves tumbling down from the tree tops, giving Liz quite the image before her, his eyes got a brief glint to them, as if filled with pure concentration, his expression hinted at violence, implying death to his foe, the air around him was so thick and filled with electricity, that one could f- squeeze...squeeze... Liz's expression fell from one of awe, to one of...shock, then to one of slight irritation. His left hand was firmly placed upon her small, firm buttocks...he looked down, and grinned faintly... suddenly twisting his hand, seemingly breaking the arms of the attacker...then releasing the girl from his side, he'd turn his right hand, so the palm would be facing him, blade pointing at the now defenseless mysterious assassin warrior...plunging it into the bastards heart...before tearing the blade clean out of his own hand, and tossing it aside...he would clear his throat and look to Liz very briefly "uh, we should-" Liz would squeak out, her voice contrasting her irritated face with an embarrassed tone "yeah we should!" She would storm along, and he would simply sigh, running his non-holey hand through his hair "...shit" he says quietly, his question no longer seeming like a good idea. She would stomp ahead of him, her fists tightly balled, a blush strewn across her visage, she was rather flattered that he had such strong...protective instincts for her...

"Kokoa!" Exclaimed Kurumu.

The orange-haired girl turned and saw a volley of ice spears go flying at the Specters and Banshees, forcing the Shade spellcasters to break off and turn their attention towards the cavalry. The specters threw their cloaks back and snarled at the sudden reinforcements, one of them snapped his fingers and pointed at Kurumu, Mizore and Gin as they drew closer and closer.

"Seraphs!" He ordered.

"Kokoa, we're here to hel-argh!" Yelped Kurumu.

"Kurumu!" Exclaimed Mizore.

But even the ice girl was struck by an invisible force, knocking her to the ground. Gin, who had just shifted out of his werewolf form, looked around to see what had attacked the girls. Suddenly, all around him, a pack of lightly armored Shade warriors had surrounded him out of thin air, each one wielding a katana or a blade staff in hand.

"What the hell?" He asked, "who the fuck are these guys?"

"We are Seraphs," said one of the Shade, "masters of stealth and assassination."

Gin readied himself, Kurumu and Mizore slowly rose to their feet and looked around, seeing the Seraphs all around them, waiting to attack.

"Seraphs! Engage!" Ordered one of the Specters.

The Seraphs lunged at the trio, Mizore slammed her fist into the ground, creating numerous chasms of ice to deter the enemy Shade assassins, if not kill at least a good number of them.

"Where are the others?" Asked Kurumu.

"I don't know," Mizore said as she generated another suit of armor for herself, "but I hope they find us soon, otherwise this is going to be one short fight for us."

But across the battlefield, Tsukune and the others were having a bit of trouble of their own.

"Motherfucking Hellbats!" Exclaimed Kyoko.

Kyoko continued firing off volley after volley of rounds as the winged Shade continued circling the team, continually diving and gnashing at them with their sharp black talons. So far, Kyoko and Omote both managed to shoot down twenty-five Hellbats, but their were still many more left.

"Dammit, I'm not going to do much damage to those things if my sword is like this," Tskune thought as he gazed at his blade.

Tsukune looked around and spotted the downed Hellbats who were struck with an arrow or shot down by gunfire, without thinking for another second, he ran over to the nearest Hellbat and prepared to stab it right in the heart.

"Suki!" Kyoko called out.

Tsukune turned and saw one of the Hellbats flying for him, letting out its terrible screech and flashing its vicious talons. Tsukune gripped his sword tightly and swung at the beast, cleaving it in half with one blow, the Hellbat's blood and insides spilled everywhere, with a few droplets of the black blood dripping on Tsukune's face which he paid no mind to. What was important though is how his blade soon flared up like a bonfire after bathing in the blood of the slain Hellbat.

"Time to take out the trash," he thought with a grin.

Tsukune took a running start and jumped into the air towards the swarm of Hellbats, swinging his fiery sword wildly and cutting scores of the winged monsters down in a vicious frenzy before landing on the ground. Kyoko and Omote turned and looked at Tsukune as he turned towards them, for a second, it looked as if he had a whole bottle of ink splash him right in the face.

"What?" He asked as he noticed Kyoko was giving him a look.

"You... Seriously scare me sometimes," she said with a bit of concern and genuine fear in her voice.

Tsukune opened his mouth to speak when he took his sword and threw it at Omote, who let out a shirek and ducked. When she stood back up, she glared at him, her face red with anger.

"Are you insane!?" She demanded with a squeaky, terrified tone.

Tsukune pointed over Omote's shoulder, prompting the vampire to turn and gasp, seeing a Hellbat on the ground with Tsukune's blade in its chest.

"I was afraid if I told you to look out, you would've turned around," he said.

Tsukune walked over and pulled out the sword, sliding it into its sheath and looking up at the sky.

"The Hellbats... they're leaving," said Kyoko.

Tsukune shook his head.

"No... they're not leaving... I think they're headed someplace else," he said.

"But where?" Asked Omote.

"I don't know," Tsukune said as he drew his sword, "let's find out."

The trio kept going, following the Hellbat's to see where they were headed. During the trek, Tsukune's mind was soon filled with thoughts of fear.

"Please... Please tell me they're not," he thought.

The trio got closer and closer, sure enough, Tsukune, Omote, and Kyoko all stopped dead in their tracks as they see the rest of their friends struggling against a collection of Specters, Banshees, Seraphs, and even a few Goliaths.

"This... Might be a problem," said Kyoko.

Tsukune turned and looked at Omote. Omote looked back at him.

"I think we're going to need some help," he said.

"Somebody call for help?" Asked a voice.

Tsukune turned and saw Moka leap out of the shadows, with her sword in hand, and her armor smeared with blood.

"What the hell happened to you?" Asked Kyoko.

"Wraiths... Wraiths happened," said Moka, "so what seems to be the problem?"

Tsukune didn't say anything, instead pointed over to the others, who were struggling to survive their assault. Moka smirked and wiped the blood from her face, flicking a few of the drops onto Tsukune's blade and causing it to flare up.

"Let's go send those bastards a one-way ticket back to the fiery depths of hell," said Moka.

"Agreed," said Tsukune, "let's move team!"

Tsukune and Moka lead Omote and Kyoko to the others, and just in the nick of time, as Mizore and Kurumu were nearing their breaking point.

"We're much more powerful than you succubus," one of the specters snarled as he fired a beam of Spectral energy at the weakened girl, "much, much more."

Kurumu strained under the Specter's assault, trying to push back against the energy beam with all of her might, but another Specter launched a telekinetic force orb her way, hitting her in the side and causing Kurumu to lose her footing; the first Specter's energy beam was free to strike her right in the chest and throw her to the ground.

"Hehe, I think we're almost done here," the Specter said menacingly, "all I have to do now it just tear your wings off and then... I'm going to impale her on a spike."

"Impale this!" Shouted Moka.

"Wha-"

But the Specter was cut off as Moka swung and cut his head off. The second Specter, who was caught completely off guard, prepared to generate a spectral sword when Tsukune flew in and sliced his arm off with one, clean cut, blood spilled out as the Specter dropped to his knees and cried out in pain. He looked up at Tsukune and tried to stand, when Otome shouted, "Tsukune!"

Tsukune turned around fast and jumped out of the way as Otome jumped and fired three arrows at the Specter, striking him in the chest and killing him dead. Tsukune gave her a smile and a thumbs up for the precise shot on her target.

"Are you alright Kurumu?" He asked the downed succubus.

Kurumu opened her eyes and slowly sat up, she looked like she went through hell and back, her armor looked completely, if not fully destroyed, she had numerous wounds and burns from head to toe and she appeared exhausted.

"Ugh... Eh, hehe... you sure took your sweet-ass time," she said.

"Sorry," said Otome, "we got held up. Damn hellbats were giving us something to think about."

"Are you alright?" Asked Kyoko.

Kurumu shot a glare at Tsukune's cousin.

"Do I look like I'm alright?" She asked firmly.

Kyoko blushed with embarrassment and scratched the back of her head.

"Hehe... sorry, bad question," she said.

"Wait, where's Kokoa?" Asked Otome.

Kurumu opened her mouth to speak when something lashed out and wrapped around her throat torso, hoisting her up in the air. It was a tendril from two of the Banshees.

"Well, well, well, it seems we have more toys to play with," said the lead Specter, "deal with the human, vampires and the succubus. Leave the boy to me."

The Specter generated a spectral sword and beckoned Tsukune with his finger, prompting the boy to steel himself.

"Suki, wait, you're not serious about fighting that guy are you?" Asked Kyoko, "have you seen his rank? He's a field commander."

Tsukune gripped his blade tightly.

"I'm the only who can handle the likes of a Specter like this one," he said, "if I can defeat him, defeating the rest should be a lot easier without someone calling out orders."

"But-"

"Kyoko... you have to hold out long enough while I deal with the field commander," said Tsukune, "head over to Mizore and Gin if you have to. Go!"

Before Kyoko could get a word out, Tsukune took off, bulldozing through torrents of black lightning from three Specters, each one who was decapitated with a single swipe from his blade... each. Tsukune made his way to the Specter commander, who seemed all too eager to face the boy.

"You seem pretty skilled with that blade boy," said the Specter, "I can only imagine how many of my soldiers you slew with it. Nevertheless, those were merely low-ranking Shade... practice targets... you won't last long against the likes of me."

"Want to bet?" Asked Tsukune.

The pair lunged at each other, their swords letting out a loud ring as they crossed each other, thus sparking the duel. Tsukune locked his blade with the Specter's the two of them pushing against each other in a test of strength as each combatant tried to overpower one another. Using his free hand, the Specter generated a telekinetic orb of magic and threw it at Tsukune's face, knocking him back. Tsukune tried to get his bearings, only to take a punch to the face and get backhanded by his opponent before being struck again with another telekinetic blast.

"I'm sorry, is the bet offer still open?" Asked the Specter.

Tsukune gritted his teeth and tightened his grip around the hilt of his sword. Tsukune let out a battle cry as he swung his sword on the Specter with blinding speed, cutting him across his face and causing the commander to grimace and groan in pain; however, this didn't deter the commander, but merely make him smile.

"Heh, for a second I thought this was going to be too easy," he said as he threw off his cloak, "that's good, I like a challenge."

Tsukune watched as the Specter generated another sword in his offhand and brandished them both. He shuddered.

"Oh great," Tsukune thought.

"Time to get serious boy!" Bellowed the Specter.

Tsukune let out a gasp as the Specter glided towards him, breaking his defenses with a dual sword slash and striking him in the face the with pommel of his offhand sword to disorient him again. Tsukune shook off the hit, but the Specter came upon him again, lashing out in blind flurry as he swung both of his swords on him again and again. When Tsukune blocked the Specter's main sword, he jumped back as the offhand sword came at him and jumped at his opponent, driving his shoulder into his ribs and then delivering an uppercut, knocking the Specter back a few inches.

"This bastard won't think twice about doing that again," Tsukune thought grimly.

As he tightened his fist, Tsukune's eyes started to... shift... frequently changing from between red and brown... his Berserk Mode was starting to call to him.

"No... No... Keep it together Tsukune..." He thought as he started breathing slowly.

"You are unwise, to lower your defenses!" A voice called out.

Tsukune looked up and jumped back as the Specter swung on him again, this time with a spectral blade staff. Tsukune groaned and shook his head.

"You've got to be kidding me," he thought.

The Specter grinned before gliding forward and delivering a series of thrusts and lightning fast spin strikes to force Tsukune on the defense.

"How long do you think you can keep moving boy?" He asked.

Tsukune only responded by dropping to the ground as the Specter swung at his neck. Tsukune rolled to the left as the Specter tried to impale him, then he rolled to the right, then back to the left before he jumped back to his feet.

"Hmm, not bad," said the Specter, "but it won't be enough."

Tsukune swung on the Specter, who deflected his attack with a spinning parry and unleashed deadly torrents of black lightning upon him. Tsukune grimaced and groaned as he slowly dropped to one knee, when the Specter stopped, he struck Tsukune in the back, knocking him to the ground.

"I told you boy... You wouldn't last long against the likes of me," said the Specter.

Tsukune tried to get up; but his right hand was immediately impaled by a spectral knife, causing the poor boy to scream in pain.

"But I will give it to you... for lasting this long against the likes of a Specter Field Commander," he said, "not many of your kind ever do... humans I mean. But it seems... your luck has run out."

Tsukune gritted his teeth his arm began shaking."I'm going to make you eat those words..." Tsukune's eyes shift in to a red hue as he grabbed his impaled right hand tearing it off his arm. "The thing is... I'm not technically Human anymore...so losing a limb isn't a big deal for me..." A molten fire flash immediately hit the wound growing a skeleton hand and regrowing the lost flesh.

The Specter jumped back, completely unprepared for this sudden... surprise, if you could call it that.

"Impossible," he said in disbelief, "this is impossible!"

Tsukune's pupils began to shift in to a reptilian shape his teeth becoming razor sharp. "This is my first time doing this so you'll have to forgive me if I make a mess of you and your friends! GRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Tsukune's blood began to travel all around his body completely covering him, a few seconds later after the blood around him boiled a bubbled a Thirty Five meter Red eyes black dragon appeared it's wings unfolding. It's Murderous devil eyes looking at the Specter dilating.

"Blood of the king," the Specter said as he stepped back in fear.

Not to far from the fight, even the rest of the Shade forces, the Specters, Banshees, Goliaths and even some of the Seraphs, stopped and turned to see what was going on.

"You know I have an Idea, I wonder if I can do it in this form!" Tsukune's dragon form took a deep breath inhaling.

"Strun...Ba...QO!" Tsukune shouted causing a massive lightning storm to form out of the dark sky. "Seems to have the same effect! HA!" Tsukune laughed as the storm became progressively worse.

The Specter Commander looked around wildly before turning towards his remaining troops. As much as he didn't want to do it, he knew he didn't have much of a choice.

"Fall back!" He ordered, "fall back to higher ground!"

"Where do you think your going?!" Tsukune growled as he quickly turned around to face his retreating foes. "WULD!" Appearing before his foes he unleashed a torrent of flames from his mouth. The Specter commander watched in horror as his own forces were engulfed in a sea of golden flames, the sound of their screeches and screams echoed throughout the battlefield as the Hellish race of demons were reduced to smoldering piles of ash.

"Blood of the king," he said as he dropped to his knees in defeat.

Kasano relaxed in a well lit bath house, he rested the back of his neck against the ledge as he tried to let the water soothe is alms and worries away... He hadn't enjoyed a real bath in a while, and that was years ago where he'd just take a minute for himself to relax. Kasano held out his right palm pointing ahead of him, trying to tap into his Elder Dragon powers, his eyes began to flicker in to a white bluish glow, it was already putting a strain on him as he was not used to calling this form. A white glow appeared from his palms trying to harness the energy, though due to his lack of experience he tossed in the air as it became unstable blowing up in a shockwave.

"I'm going to need a lot more training to even try to do that again.." Kasano said to himself as he got back to relaxing, closing his eyes. Hearing a disruption in the water Kasano opened his eyes to see Luise naked and on him. "Kasano..." Luise said in an almost haunting tone for Kasano, it took several seconds for Kasano to process what was going on, before yelling in panic backup as much as he can against the ledge. "Ah! Luise?! How did you get here!?"

"I followed you in... We can finally have our alone time and become one, like you promised." Luise said to Kasano as she was crawling on him letting her hand wander around on his chest.

"I never promised that!" Kasano yelled as he was panicking from Luise's advancements.

"Shhh... It's alright, Luise is here to make it all better. ; 3 " Luise put her free hand on Kasano's lips, as her hand on his chest began to travel downwards, Kasano froze up when Luise reached her destination and target. "Got'cha." Luise slowly pulled her hand up to the length it was allowed to stretch, though Kasano couldn't take it anymore, he needed advice. Quickly as he got here Kasano got out of the dimension returning back to the staging area of the Dimension.

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