I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx, Rosario + Vampire, or any other franchises used in this story related to the for-mentioned or not. The events and people in this story are completely fictional and any resemblance to real events or people in purely coincidental.
Honest Lies
As Jaden walked out to the incinerator with a box of used papers a teacher had asked him to take out, he wondered what curveball fate would throw his way next. Well whatever it was it couldn't be more unbelievable than when he discovered that Yubel and Kisara were slowly becoming more than friends. Or, at least that's what the evidence at hand was saying.
A few nights after Yukari decided that she was in love with both Jaden and Moka, he was inside the "Hotel", talking with Burstinatrix, they decided to see what Yubel was up to and found Yubel with a paint brush in her hand, a naked Kisara on her bed hurriedly trying to cover herself by wrapping in the red bed sheet, and a painting easel.
After Jaden had regained enough sense to talk he asked Yubel about her relationship with Kisara and was told, "I find her company to be enjoyable and her form is pleasurable to look upon."
Bringing his mind back to the present, Jaden saw three boys standing before him, all of which were wearing pink robes instead of their green school blazers, one was a fat boy with blond hair that had a greenish tent who's robe said "Kurumu is my life", anther was a plane looking boy who's robe said that Moka was his life, and the last one was a lankly guy with round glasses that did nothing to enhance his appeal, his robe said "Yukari is my life".
The one with the glasses was just finishing up some kind of introduction/threat, "...SO PREPARE YOUR SELF FOR OUR TO FEARSOME FAN-CLUB RATH!" he yelled out striking what he thought was a dramatic pose with his friends.
Now Jaden having missed almost the entire speech aside from the end had very limited options for a response, such as... "I'm sorry, I don't speak English." or... "I'm sorry, I don't speak idiot." another good one would be... "You and what Vampire?" or quite possibly... "You know, those glasses make you look like a newt."
What he decided to do was to smile and say, "I'm sorry, did you say something? My mind was elsewhere."
As the trio started to charge toward him Jaden smiled as he used this time to put his training with his cards to use. Before the three could come near him he tossed the box he was carrying up into air and flipped back and kicked the box into the lanky one's face at the same time, braking his glasses and sending the boy flying several feet, which caused the two who were behind him to stop and watch their leader hit the ground, making them prime targets.
Jaden stood in a slightly crouched position and smiled as the two remaining members fan club turned to face the former duelist they saw him holding two baseball sized fireballs in his hands, which he wasted no time in launching at them. He knew that he was enjoying this too much but still there was something oddly therapeutic about it.
As the leader came to he saw that his group stood no chance and no time in bidding a hasty retreat and saying the traditional line of "You haven't seen the last of us!" but Jaden just rolled his eyes as he wondered when someone would come up with some original parting words.
"Jaden! Are all right?!"
Jaden didn't even need to turn around to know who was behind him; it was the Yukari-Moka-Kurumu trio. He smiled and turned to face his friends and said, "Not a scratch anywhere on me." as calmly as if he was talking about the weather.
"But..." Jaden began to say with a small frown, making his friends tense, "I really need to stop spacing out, because I have no idea who I just wasted."
The face faults that the ladies displayed at the former-duelist's statements were both classical and priceless.
x-x
As it turned out the three boys that Jaden had dealt with earlier were the despicable creatures that men and women everywhere find repulsive Fan-boys.
Jaden sat on the roof of the school building where he and Moka had gone ever since the incident with Saizo and let his thoughts run free and think about everything that was going on in his life at that time.
His spirit-friends were relatively content and things were quite at the Hotel for the moment... too quite, they were planning something and whatever it was, it was going to be big.
The sound of the door that lead to and from the roof-top opening and the sound pair of woman's shoes approaching made him take notice that everyone's favorite pink-haired vampire had come round to visit him.
Jaden smiled as she sat beside him and said "The buffet is closed until five o-clock."
After he had reassured the pink-haired vampire that he was teasing he began to let his mind wonder back another problem that was weighing down on his mind, and he unintentionally let his unease show on his face.
Moka placed her hand her friends shoulder and voiced her concern, "Jaden, is everything okay?" she asked the young Umbralist.
At first Jaden was going to say that it was nothing, but he remembered that he had already spilled most of the beans already, so telling Moka a slightly altered version about what was bothering him might acutely help, "That fight with those three fan-boys got me thinking..."
"About what?" Moka asked, the way Jaden kept staring out past the school grounds was starting to make her worried.
Jaden sighed, and uttered one word. It was a word that if said in the Shadow Realm or the world of duel monsters, would make all present feel terror grips at their heart, "Haou..."
"Back when I was fighting those three today I started to enjoy the fact that they didn't stand a chance. Haou was a human that started out a happy-go-lucky youth who had a natural talent for seeing duel spirits, which is incredibly rare for humans... But he had something else that came along with his power to see spirits which was even rarer... the power of darkness."
Moka was shocked, as was Kurumu and Yukari who had been listening at the door, monsters with the power of darkness was almost unheard of and the fact that it could actually reside in a human was completely unheard of. Jaden looked Moka dead in the eye with a look as serious as a heart attack and continued, "Now, listen when a human use the power of darkness they usually need ether a Shadow Charm some other method of channeling the power of darkness, but because he had the power to begin with, Haou could use the power without a Shadow Charm. Now two things all three need to understand..."
Kurumu and Yukari looked at each other surprise, how did he know that they were there?
"People often as associate darkness as being evil but that is wrong. It's only when you lose sight of yourself and let the power corrupt you in to a being of destruction that it's evil. The only reason why the darkness has such a bad reputation is because it's rare for the light to be misused or go hay-wire, but when it does it's just a bad if not worse than misused darkness." Jaden told all three of the monsters who had been ignorant of this information, and then gave his companions a few seconds to absorb the new knowledge he had imparted to them before telling them more,
"This so you can understand that when darkness is used properly it can be the greatest force for good in existence. But the problem is when humans, who spend most of their lives in the light which gives them an aggressive world view, try to use the power of darkness their nature doesn't mix right the nature of darkness, which calls for a passive-aggressive nature-"
"So basically, what you're saying is that using the power of Darkness is dependent on your mindset?" Yukari interjected.
Jaden had a odd on his face, it displayed annoyance at being interrupted, approval that the child was able to understand his long winded explanation, and the sort of joy a teacher might feel when one of the students in the back row actually prove that they're listening. "In not so many words, Yes" he answered.
Now, where was I?" Jaden wondered out loud, having lost his train of thought.
"You had just finished explaining about needing the proper mind set and were about to tie it back to that "Haou" guy you were talking about." Kurumu prompted.
"Ah, yes... Thank you for reminding me, Kurumu." Jaden thanked the blue-haired succubus before continuing with the story about "his friend Haou", pretending not to notice the blush, "Now as I said before Haou was an easy happy-go-lucky young man starting out, but when the stakes were high he would always knuckle down and fight harder than anyone else."
As Jaden told his story he began to remember all of his adventures at duel academy, and how he had truly enjoyed playing the game he was all but unbeatable at, but he remembered that he was telling his friends about "Haou" and continued.
"Now if I had been smart I would have had realized the truth of Haou's powers and done some research on them... but I didn't." This was partly true but still wasn't what had happened, Jaden felt horrible about lying to the girls but he wasn't ready to confess to what he did in the Dark World as his actions.
Kurumu stared in wonder at the one she had chosen as her Destined-one the way he was talking so unusual, he normally never talk about his past but then again she had never asked. Just how much did she not know about him? "So, you and this 'Haou' guy were close, then?"
Jaden simply smiled, "A lot of monsters think that humans are worthless scum, but Haou was as better a person as any monster, any day."
"But..." Jaden said his frown returning, "Like I said before the trick to using the power of darkness is dependent on your mind set, so when Haou used the power in an act of rage and revenge, those feeling consumed him and he became the Supreme King of Nightmares. A ruthless murderer, who cared nothing for friends and sole purpose, was to fight and conquer..."
"And the truly scary thing was that in terms of power and skill..." Jaden said as the stared at Moka, and made sure that she understood that she was paying attention, "Haou was stronger than Fangs ever was. And the last act that Haou did as himself was pass that power down to me."
"I don't believe it..." Yukari said, having seen the power of the inner vampire that Jaden called Fangs in action when she was unsealed and couldn't comprehend that Jaden could possess a power that could surpass the sliver-haired vampire. Sure while Jaden had shown that he had some power in his own right and the wall of vines he had used to Defend against the lizard-men and the fire powers he used against the fan-boys were impressive they hardly matched up to the raw power that Moka had.
Jaden turned to Moka, "You still have my Winged Kuribo?" he asked and Moka nodded and handed it over to Jaden, who took it and wondered where she kept it and then decided that it really wasn't all that important.
Held the card up to eye level before closing his eyes and concentrated, if he had a duel-disk it would be much easier but he still had all he needed right there; the bond between him and the card, and the power of darkness. He now knew that the power had always been there, he just wasn't aware of it and its potential remand untapped but now that he had realized it was just sing out to him, begging to be used...
Opening his to reveal that they had changed from their normal brown to the same eyes that Yubel had, he held the card out, and summoned his long time companion and partner.
"It's so cute!" Kurumu squealed, as she saw the duel monster commonly and the succubus was one of the many females who find such things cute and hugged the poor fluff ball like a teddy bear.
Jaden smiled at the blue-haired girls actions before he turned to the two who too were shocked to have the cute factor take hold, and told them what he knew he'd have to repeat at some point later on for Kurumu, "Winged Kuibohis one of the duel monster spirits that are aligned themselves with me."
"But it doesn't look like much." Yukari interjected.
Jaden had that odd smile again; Moka couldn't help but think that it reminded her of a parent that whose child had said something amusingly naive, "While he is weak in terms of raw power..."
The fluffy creature in Kurumu's arms shot an outraged look toward the former duelist.
"But, he has saved my bacon more than once." Jaden said, ignoring the happy noises that the small duel-spirit... which were being matched in the yokai holding him.
Jaden reached into his deck case and pulled out a card that depicted a white dragon with blue eyes and held it up for the others to see, "This however, unlike Winged Kuibohwhich is a level 1 monster, is a level 8 known as the Blue-eyes White Dragon, a powerful engine of destruction, virtually invincible, very few have faced this awesome creature and lived to tell the tale and there are just five cards like this in the world, one of which is torn leaving four in useable condition."
Jaden looked at all he's friends in turn before he closed his and continued, "One story states that back in ancient Egypt when she was young, she had become enamored with a young youth, and when the object of her affections had come to be endanger, she completely destroyed the whatever she perceived to be a to be a threat to him. Of course, he was trying to escape a town of salve traders, murders, and rapists that was about the same size of the entire school campus, so she blasted it all into a crater in one shot."
"..." no one there present could think of anything to say about that.
Jaden just shrugged, "I like to think of it as a very beautiful love story myself, but still that is not the reason why I told it to you. I told it to you so you understand just what sort of power I have at my disposal through others... And in order for someone to be able to call upon the power of Duel Spirit and not burn out, their own spirit must be as potent as the power of the spirit. However, because of Haou, my spirit is mixed with the power of darkness and I can call upon it at will without summoning a spirit to fight for me."
"So you're saying that if you wanted you wipe out whole cites in a few minutes?"
"More like 30 seconds." Jaden corrected the estimation given by the child-genus, "But I still untrained and couldn't make a simple fireball without my gloves but I'm working on improving my skills as what would be traditionally be known as an Umbralist"
"While, back to the point" Jaden said and "I'm worried that I might wind up losing myself like Haou did, kill everyone here, and no one would be able to stop me if I'm not careful"
"Wait, you said "she" when you were talking about that dragon card..." Kurumu said darkly, no longer holding the fluffy Winged Kuibohwho had bid a hasty retreat when he saw that the succubus was beginning to manifest a malevolent aura and was beginning to extend her nails to battle length.
And to make matters Yukari and Moka were also beginning to get a scary look in their eyes as they realized what Kurumu was saying
Two thoughts were running through Jaden's mind at that minute.
One was, 'Seriously? That is what you're taking away from here?' the other was, 'Oh, shit!'
x-x
After he had successfully evaded Kurumu, Yukari, and Moka, Jaden walked out to the bus-stop with a bag on his back... it was due any minute now.
x-x
Meanwhile the trios of yokai girls were doing their own individual things until Yukari saw Jaden headed toward the bus-stop with a bag on his back. And when she saw this she was off like a shot to tell Moka. She found the pink-haired vampire with the Kurumu and when they heard about what the young witch saw, they could only come up with one reason for that... Jaden was leaving Yokai Academy because he was worried that he was going to lose control like his friend Haou. And when Moka voiced this, they started off to the bus-stop themselves at their top speeds without any signs of slowing.
x-x
As Jaden stood by the scarecrow arrivals board for the bus stop he heard three sets of footsteps. Did he even need to open his eyes for this?
"Alright! Now that you're no longer on the school campus, we can take you out in our true forms!"
Feeling three small ripples of energy Jaden turned and cracked open one eyelid and saw that the fan boys from before had changed into their true forms. The plain one had become a brown umbrella with an eye, a mouth that had long tongue hanging from it and a pair of human legs instead of a handle. The fat one was what could only be described as... disgusting. His bulk had increased and had taken on a sick sweat like coat of slime, and his fecal features had disappeared into the fecal fat that grown over them. And the one that had the glasses that made him look like newt now had an extended neck.
Jaden closed his eyelid again. "Was that supposed to impress me or something?" he stated calmly, as he told Yubel what he planned to do with the three through their link.
"Give, those imbeciles, who would dare stand against as your opponents, hell." Yubel told her partner and got to work.
"Because..." Jaden said, now addressing the three boys only, as Yubel surged her demonic aura, making it look like Jaden was a powerful yokai transforming and gave him her wings and eyes. Only unlike the last she gave him her inch long talons and her diamond shaped third eye. And to make sure that the already scared fan-boys were thoroughly terrified, she gave him her fangs as well and made her aura stay filling the boys with a since of foreboding that could be shook off because it crept in through any weaknesses in your mind, heart, and soul. Jaden smiled, reviling the two wicked looking fangs to the three boys.
"My home town has scarier PETS!" he yelled out, the last part ringing with power.
"Jaden!" the voice that called out wasn't one of the fan-boys, it the three voices of Yukari, Kurumu and Moka in perfect sync with each other's concern for the former duelist.
Jaden couldn't help closing his orange and sea-blue eyes as smiled at the arrival of the trio.
And the fan-boys seeing his eyes, closed rushed toward him to attack, the dread induced by the aura forgotten, only to be stopped by a wall of thick thorny vines that blocked their path that caused them to feel great pain when they ran into them.
Jaden just glared at his the opponents, clearly annoyed at them. "First, is anyone at this school not going to be completely obvious in their attacks? Secondly, just because the lower set of eyes is closed, don't mean that the third eye has stopped working."
"YOU JUST GOT LUCKY!" the fat one bellowed.
Jaden's frown was replaced with anther smirk, "You call it luck. I call it "having cool powers"."
"It doesn't matter!" newt glasses shouted, "No one makes us look bad in front of the girls of our dreams!"
"Yes, you do that well enough on your own." Jaden said, perfectly claim.
"YEAH!" all three of the fan-club member shouted. "Wait, a minute..." the umbrella said as he figured out what Jaden had said.
Jaden's smirk now was as wide as a Cheshire Cat's, and was made all the more intense by his new features, "Like I said. You do that well enough on your own." Now Jaden had been practicing and he was right to confident in his progress, but then a transformed Kurumu stood in between him and the three low ranking yokai along side of Yukari who had her wand out, and Moka, who was standing protectively in front of the former duelist.
"What are you doing?!" the former duelist asked, "I can handle this! These guys are nothing!"
"N-nothing...?" the eye of the umbrella yokai twitched irritated, before the three fan-boys were out beat the freaky haired boy up to make him back off but now they were out for blood, "Alright, now it's time for the Moka, Kurumu, Yukari Fan-club Trio's all powerful Amalgamation Form!"
And then the three joined together to form a large... disappointment. The creature standing before them had the body of the fat one only it was bigger and had one a mouth on its stomach, its shoulders was the canopy of the umbrella, its neck was long like the boy with the glasses had, and head had the one eye and the tongue of the umbrella.
"YOU STILL GOINA SAY WE'RE NOTHING NOW?!" the thing before them shouted at the boy with black and purple wings. Its voice was a combination of the three boys who had merged to form it.
Jaden walked away from the ladies, who were too shocked or too revolted by the transformation that had just happened to stop him, and moved toward the hideous thing. And then, when he was three-fourths of the way between the Amalgamation and the young women, he looked up at it with his third eye and closed the other two and smiled. "Yes... you're still nothing."
Enraged by Jaden's words the giant yokai charged at him intent on crushing the former duelist only to once more be stopped by thorny vines only this time, instead just blocking the attack, they wrapped around the arms, legs and chest of large blubbery beast. The thorns of the vines sunk into its flesh and prevented it from moving, as Jaden prepared his attack.
Channeling his power and converting into fire magic, he created a fireball like before only this time was as big as a basketball and it exploded out as a dome of fire when it hit the Amalgamation dead-on and destroyed the vines that held it ensnared.
Jaden turned back to his friends and smiled as he walked toward them...
But, then the creature that he presumed Defeated moved with speed impossible for its size and hit Jaden just as he turned to see what was happening and knocked him into the scarecrow signpost. Where Moka immediately rushed his side and tried to try to help him. But the former duelist cried out in pain when she touched his shoulder which made the sealed vampire quickly withdraw her hand.
"You've managed to sprain a wing. You should-", Yubel said to her life-partner, clearly worried about him. But her advice was ignored by Jaden who spoke to both her and Moka, "I'm fine!"
After taking a moment to clam himself, he slowly stood up, "Moka, I don't want your help. I can handle this on my own. My last attack failed because was absorbed and distributed across its blubbery body."
Jaden started falter and he stumbled... and unintentionally broke the rosary off of its chain.
As the fan-boys felt Moka's energy spike as the amalgamation, they were truly awe-struck by the sheer magnitude of her aura. The aura that Jaden possessed was fear inspiring in its nature and was not in the least bit small, but it felt... like it was watered-down somehow. But this new aura was intense!
Jaden closed all three of his eyes knowing that when the rosary seal was removed Moka's innocent self would vanish and her inner vampire would awaken.
"That silver hair... Those red-eyes... This undoubtedly the legendary yokai we've heard about. A VAMPIRE!" the words that were being spoken by the large creature were nothing new and Jaden was already starting to see a pattern. The routine was simple, first it started with the opponent being shocked when they realizing that the 'helpless one' was a super powerful yokai, then they'd recover and try to fight her, and it ended with them being soundly Defeated.
"At long last the supreme goddess of grace and beauty has arrived!" The merged form of the three fan-boys, "We have been in search for one of your greatness for ages! Please, we pray that you well accept our affections and return them."
...Okay, that was new.
"Not if you were the last amalgamated yokai in the world." Moka answered bluntly.
It didn't seem to upset the amalgamation. In fact it seemed to enjoy just being addressed by the silver hired vampire.
Moka just ignored the large creature and addressed the young witch and the succubus, "Yukari, Kurumu, I'm going to need your help on this one."
The other two yokai nodded in understanding. But before they could do anything a crescent wave of red energy flew toward the repulsive beast and hit it diagonally across the chest with enough power to cut through its skin deeply, making blood fly in an arc as it pushed back against its target and destroy the link that kept the three fan-boys in their combined form and knocked all three of them onto their backs and into their human forms. Each one of them now had an identical scar running down from the center of their chests to there navel. It wasn't as large or as wide as it was before, and it wasn't bleeding but it was already red and inflamed with infection.
The girls turned to the attack's origins in surprise. Jaden was standing with his left arm out in front of him his hand glowing with fading red energy, his eyes glowed brightly, and hiding how tired he was from using one of Yubel's greater powers, as he stared at them with a completely emotionless expression on his face, "Fangs I don't mind you joining in my battles, but cutting me out entirely is just rude."
x-x
After the three members of the newly named "Vampire Fan-club" had run away, Jaden looked over to Moka who was still unsealed and the one there who was still in their yokai form and said completely straight faced, "You know, they really were lucky that they didn't fight you... You'd probably kick their amalgamated form's crouch hard enough that all three of them would become sterile."
"Jaden." Moka said, ignoring the boy's comments, "Your leaving doesn't work for me."
If the vampire had been looking at Jaden, she would have seen the confused look on the former duelist's face but she wasn't looking at him so she continued, "If you leave that would mean no more blood for yours truly. And it would make her cry... The other Moka I mean. I personally don't care what happens to you."
That's when something unexpected happened Jaden started chuckle and then laugh.
After he was able to repress his mirth Jaden looked to his vampire friend and said, "I'm sorry. I really shouldn't have laughed, but I'm not leaving Yokai Academy."
You could have heard a feather drop at that moment...
"But, you had a packed bag!" Yukari exclaimed.
Shaking his head, Jaden walked over to spot by the scarecrow where he left his bag and opened it so he could show what was in it. It was a large bundle of letter's that Jaden had written to his friends back at Duel Academy, "I was going see if the bus driver would post these for me."
"You came all the way out here to mail a few letters?" Moka asked as the bus drove up to where they were standing. Something about this situation just wasn't making since to her.
"Well that and to pick up... Seto Kaiba!?"