Rosario Friends Ch. 4.
Tsukune woke up rather late; 10:00 AM. It was Saturday, meaning time to sleep in, but Tsukune woke up later than normal, due to the constant threat of being killed by fellow students, and math tests, he needed to rest.
Tsukune got dressed and headed downstairs to meet with Patrick at the swimming pool.
'Tell you what' He had said. 'you said you took swimming classes right, I'll try to convince Moka to come, and maybe she'll be impressed, and you'll get a second chance to talk to her.' he had said.
'But what about the water?' Tsukune had asked him.
'As long as she's out of the splash zone, she should be alright. Hey, if you're lucky I might be able to convince her into wearing a swimsuit.'
Tsukune walked down the path, hoping that he could fix things with Moka, he especially hoped that Moka would stop thinking of him as a pervert, when he had been framed.
As he was walking he saw Moka walking ahead of him, so he ran up to her to make up with her.
"Moka, please forgive me, yesterday was all a misunderstanding, an accident."
"I don't care if it was an accident, I don't care about you anymore Tsukune!" Moka said coldly.
Tsukune was completely devastated by this and hung his head. He headed towards a different path.
Patrick appeared out of nowhere at that moment to speak to Moka.
"Geeze, that was harsh don't you think Moka?" Patrick asked her.
"Oh, hey Patrick, I'm not being serious, I'm just not going to be talking to him as revenge for, um... did you hear about what happened yesterday?"
"You mean the panty peeping?" Patrick said.
"Oh, yeah..." Moka said rather emberassed.
"Yeah, you should know that it's really killing him, he looks like he's about to commit suicide." Patrick said.
"Well he shouldn't have peeped." Moka told him.
"Oh come on, do you really think Tsukune's that kind of guy?" Patrick said. "I mean compared to the other guys that drool over you, if Tsukune was going to act perverted, it certainly would have showed before now."
Moka decided to say nothing about this.
"Anyway, I've been commissioned to get you to the swimming event, today."
"Eh! But Vampires, and water..." Moka said.
"Don't worry, just sit in the stands, and you'll be alright, you can help take pictures from the stands, that way you won't get splashed by water." Patrick explained.
"Wait, why do I have to take pictures?" Moka asked.
"Why else would I ask you to come to the swimming pool, I would've asked Tsukune or Mizore, but they were busy with something else at the time. I got the article itself down, I just need pictures, and it would be best if I got two angles of the pool." Patrick said.
"Oh, okay." Moka said.
"Great, just ask for a camera from Gin, and I'll meet you at the swimming pool at 2:00. Oh, I forgot to ask if you had any plans, you should disregard what I just said."
"Oh, I don't have anything to do, I'll meet you there." Moka said.
"Great!" Patrick said with a smile. 'My plan is falling into place.' He thought, letting off an evil chuckle in his head.
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Tsukune slowly walked in the woods, in the general direction of the pool, feeling miserable that Moka still thought of him as a pervert.
'Patrick, I hope this plan of yours works. Gin, I hope you burn.' Tsukune thought.
As he was walking he saw a girl on the ground, looking as though she was hurt. Tsukune headed to see if she was alright.
"Hey, you all right?" He asked.
The girl was breathing heavily, and was on all fours. She tried to get up and said to him,
"Thanks, sometimes I get dizzy, and..."
"Wait, I know that voice!" Tsukune said in alarm.
Before Tsukune could run, the girl jumped on to him, and was rubbing her chest against him.
"My breasts get all tingly, they feel as though they will burst!" The girl said. Obviously the girl was none other than Kurumu Kurono, and was trying to seduce Tsukune.
"I can't look in her eyes, I have to look away from her eyes!" Tsukune said more to himself than to Kurumu.
"Oh come on, I have very pretty eyes, you can just take a peek." Kurumu said, in her best seductive voice.
"I can't look, or you'll hypnotize me into being your slave!" Tsukune said, desperately struggling to get out of her grasp.
"Wait." Kurumu stopped rubbing her chest against Tsukune, and tried to look him in the face, even though he was covering his eyes with his arms.
"How did you know that I can hypnotize you?" She asked.
"Patrick researched succubi, he told me that a succubus can look a man in the eyes, and hypnotize them into being their slaves."
"Wait, you mean that guy with the glasses? Damn, that guy is starting to get annoying." With that Kurumu got up and started pacing as though it would help her think of a solution to seducing the rest of the men in the academy.
"You know, at the very least, I'd like to know why your trying to seduce me." Tsukune asked, thinking that Kurumu was still infront of him, and would enslave him the moment he opened his eyes.
"In order to decimate my rival Moka Akishiya, and seduce every male in this school of course." She said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Well you can stop, Moka doesn't like me anymore, she thinks I'm a pervert." Tsukune said miserably.
Kurumu felt an odd twinge in her heart as she heard the hopeless tone in his voice but ignored it.
"Well obviously your not, if you were you would of started fondling me when I came on to you." She said her back to Tsukune.
"Yeah, but now she's not even talking to me."
"Well if you were a pervert I'd do the same." Kurumu said. "All perverts deserve to die, especially that serial peeping tom that's been going around. They have no respect for the services women choose to offer."
After this Tsukune was silent. Kurumu turned around to see him staring at her as though he had never seen a girl in his life. When she saw him, Tsukune quickly used his arms to cover his eyes again, so he wouldn't get hypnotized.
"What?" Kurumu asked.
"You say you don't like perverted guys, but you try to seduce every male by having them think perverted thoughts about you." He explained.
"I have to do it, I have to find the one guy that is right for me, the only one, so I have to try to have every possible male added to my harem, so as to make it easier to find my chosen one." Kurumu explained.
"But if you hate perverts, then why are you encouraging them to think about you like perverts? I doubt you'd find the guy who's right for you, based on whether you can get them hypnotized."
Kurumu felt another twinge in her heart, and felt confused. In anger she pushed him to the ground, and on top of him she said. "I don't care what you think, if you have any respect for women, you'll look at me and become my love slave!"
"Tsukune what are you doing here, I got Moka to go to the pool. She'll be-- dear God! It's Kurumu!" Kurumu turned her head and saw that same guy with the glasses that could resist her figure and her charm.
"Tsukune, run to the pool, I'll hold her off." With that Tsukune got up from under her, and high tailed it down the path, but almost slammed into a tree. "And look where your going!"
"Why'd you do that?" Kurumu yelled.
"You looked as though you were gonna rape the poor soul!" Patrick yelled back.
"Oh yeah, why did you have to tell him that I could hypnotize people!?"
"One: There's enough sex-crazed guys in the school, that idolize you like a god. Two: He's got a crush on someone else, Moka, and it'd really suck if you turned him into another perverted guy, when he's trying to prove to Moka he's not a pervert so she will start talking to him." Patrick told her.
"Oh yeah!" With that Kurumu pressed her body against Patrick and stared into his eyes. "You will be my love slave!"
"You really are as shallow as a kiddie pool, aren't you?" Patrick said.
Kurumu just shoved him away and turned away from him. She looked as though that comment had hurt her.
"You know, I'm sorry, that was a low blow." Patrick apologized. Kurumu still wouldn't look at him.
"I'm just going to head back to the swimming pool." Kurumu said and started walking down the path. Patrick looked at the camera he had hanging around his neck and followed.
After a while Kurumu saw him and said "Why are you following me!"
"I have to get to the pool too, I'm doing an article for the school newspaper." Patrick explained.
"Well can't you go a different way?"
"I don't know my way around, this is the only path I know. Sorry."
Kurumu just sighed and hung her head.
"You know what, let's just start over, my name is Patrick Fairfax, it's nice to meet you." Patrick offered his hand, but she refused to look at him.
"So why are you heading to the pool?" He asked.
"I'm a member." She said.
'Well this could complicate things.' Patrick thought to himself. There were so many people at the pool when he interviewed he must have missed her.
"Ahh, I thought you would have been head of the Kurumu fan club." Patrick said. It wasn't an insult, when Patrick, Mizore, Tsukune and Moka were looking at different clubs, there was a stall for the Kurumu fan club, which had been officially founded on Thusday. When they had visited the stand, they had been warded off, and labeled 'Heretics'.
"Even I can only take so much male attention. The swimming club seemed fun and it was." Kurumu said still not looking at Patrick.
"I hope I'm not going too far, but can I ask why you have your own personal fan club it's been bugging me."
"I intend to turn every male in the academy into my love slave by using my looks and my charms. You and that Moka are getting in the way."
"Okay, different question, why do intend to put every guy into your personal male harem?" Patrick asked.
"Succubi are of a small population if you must know, I have to find my single Mate of Fate, so that my people can thrive, and in order to do that, I have to seduce as many men as possible so I can find my chosen one." She explained.
"I see, do elaborate."
"My Mate of Fate is the one who will honor me, defend me, and treat me with respect, earning the services a women gives to a man, once I find that man, I shall take his heart, and my plan will succeed."
"Hmm-hmm, go on."
"Moka is interfering, because many of the men in this school are falling for her instead of me, and you are being a nuisance, because you refuse to become my love slave."
"And eliminating me and Moka is expected to help you find your soulmate?" He asked.
"Exactly."
"Alright, I find many things wrong with that plan." Patrick said. "Now this is just me, but for one: I don't understand the logic of trying to seduce the men who are obsessed with Moka, that right off the bat, tells me that there not going 'deserve' your 'services', as they are all perverts, who don't care at all about a emotional relationship, they just obsess about her body. Secondly, most of the men in you so-called 'harem' are the exact same, they don't really care about relationships, they just think about your body like perverts, and I'm sure that isn't 'Mate of Fate' Material. Thirdly, it sounds to me as though you don't even care if the man truly likes you, you just want him to act like it. I thought love was supposed to be when two people truly care about eachother, and bring out the best in themselves."
Kurumu felt another twinge in her heart as he said this. 'He has a point, all I'm doing is attracting perverts, I haven't found one guy that came into my harem, because they could care for me.'
"I do want him to care for me, I just have I just have to make sure he's truly deserving." Kurumu told him.
"Well, I'd think that you'd be warding off anyone who would care about you emotionally, as you're so busy trying to add to your 'harem', that he'd feel rejected." Patrick said. "And another thing, as for me refusing to be your 'love slave', why don't you just think of me as a challenge, rather than a nuisance."
"A challenge?" Kurumu asked, looking at Patrick for the first time since she started walking with him.
"Yeah, you'll know for sure if I'm your 'Mate of Fate' if I'm deserving without you even having to seduce me." Patrick said.
'He's right, some of the guys in my harem didn't even have to be hypnotized, I just put my breasts in their face, and that was it. Am I truly going about this the wrong way?' She thought.
"How about we talk about something else, I could always use more quotes about the club." Patrick said.
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"Wow, this is much more of a big deal than I anticipated." Tsukune said to himself. Lined around the pool were hundreds of guys, filling up any available space on either side of the pool. As one end of the pool was a huge stage, it seemed like someone was going to sing there at some point. Tsukune looked to the sky and saw a few fireworks going off.
'Where did Patrick say Moka would be?' He thought as he scanned the crowd.
"Ah, there you are." Tsukune turned around and saw Patrick making his way through the crowd. "Hey Tsukune, I got bad news, you the line of men with the pink jackets, and emblems with Kurumu's face?" Patrick pointed to a certain section of the crowd. "As it turns out Kurumu's a member of the swimming club."
"What!? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Tsukune said.
"Hey I would've, but I just learned right now, I mean, look how many people are in the club, it wouldn't have been that hard to miss her."
Tsukune just hung his head.
"So do you want to abort the mission?" Patrick asked.
"No, I've come this far, I can't turn back now."
"Alright, ahh, there's the club leader, let's go ask." The two slowly made their way through the crowd to get to Tamoa.
"Hey, Tamoa!" Patrick greeted her.
"Oh Patrick I glad you could make it, should I start posing for the pictures?" She said.
"Um, I'm not really looking for posed pictures, but I came to ask a favor."
"Really, what is it?"
"Tamoa, this is Tsukune, he's a fellow club member, and he's come into a spot of girl trouble. Tsukune was falsely labeled a pervert, and now he's trying to impress the girl in question by showing how well he can swim." Patrick explained. "Although, it would be best if Tsukune was put into some of the more competitive sports, such as the races, or the obstacle course. Is that okay?"
"I always say, the more the merrier. But there's a small catch. The event is all girls only."
"What!" Tsukune exclaimed.
"Didn't I mention that?" Tamoa said.
Patrick took out his notebook containing the interview from yesterday, and quickly skimmed over it.
"No, as a matter of fact, you didn't." Patrick said.
"Well how did you think we were able to gather such a large and male crowd?" She asked.
"You know in retrospect, I should have thought of this." Patrick said.
"You're always welcome to swim with us afterwards, in fact I insist on it." Tamoa said.
"Thank you, but I doubt that will help fix Tsukune's girl problems." Patrick said.
"Now what am I gonna do, Moka is going to think I'm a pervert for the rest of my life." Tsukune moaned.
"Okay, new plan, I give you my camera, I set you beside Moka, and you two can talk it out. How does that sound?" Patrick proposed.
"Why will that work this time? I couldn't talk it out before."
"Because under the pretext that the two of you are here for the newspaper club, Moka will have to act professional, and something along the lines of 'even if you're a pervert, let's still try to make a good newspaper' and while she's trying to ignore you being lecherous, she'll notice you're still a decent guy, not a pervert. If it goes wrong, we can just blame Gin for any ensuing awkwardness."
"Do you really think that could work?" Tsukune asked him.
"Well the way I see it, it can't make things any worse."
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The club was split into two teams, red team, led by none other than Kurumu, and white team. The sports themselves actually involved little swimming, rather simply knowledge of how to stay afloat.
Each of the team captains started out with a song, and dance, and they soon began the show. Some of the events included a sort of limbo on top of small rafts, while others was sort of last man, err- woman standing, as they tried to stay on to a small raft, and trying to push the other's off.
"Looks like your plan backfired." Mizore appeared from nowhere and scared the living daylights out of Patrick. He would have feel into the pool, had Mizore not grabbed him.
"Dear god, Mizore you almost gave me a heart attack, what are you, some sort of freakin' ninja?" Patrick said.
"Sorry. I brought an extra camera with me." Mizore said offering him a camera.
"Thanks, I have to say, I'm getting to enjoy photography." He said taking the device.
"Although I'm probably going to have to burn a lot of these so Gin can't get them, there are more topless chicks here than you'd find in an adult magazine." He remarked.
"Well, it kinda makes me feel glad I didn't join, I'd be completely embarrassed." said Mizore.
"Guess you could say that you'd 'melt' from embarrassment." Patrick said, although Mizore didn't laugh.
"Hmm? Oh, sorry if I said something I shouldn't have, I kinda overstepped my boundries there, didn't I"
"It's- It's okay, you didn't know what you were talking about." Mizore said.
"Still, sorry." Patrick said, taking a few more pictures. "Hey I just remembered something."
"What?" Mizore asked.
"You went and said my plan backfired, what plan were you talking about?"
"Your idea to get Tsukune and Moka to make up." she answered.
"Yeah, but I only told Tsukune about that." Patrick said.
"I know, I heard you two talking about it."
"When?"
"When you first told Tsukune about it."
"Mizore, one day, I am going to sit you down, and have a long and deep conversation about a great many topics, ranging from personal space, boundries, and why it is a bad thing to stalk people." Patrick said.
"But still, I highly doubt that this is helping Tsukune and Moka reconcile with each other." Mizore said.
"I hope they can get over this though, it's obvious that the two are into each other, and they make a really cute couple. But in retrospect, it's probably better that Tsukune isn't directly participating."
Mizore simply nodded.
"You know, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to rewrite my article, this is not how I envisioned the club to be like." Patrick commented.
"What do you mean?" Mizore asked him.
The two teams had assemble on to opposite sides of the pool, groups of three, one being carried by the other two, the one riding wearing a cap to match their team color.
"This must be one of those wars Tamoa told me about." Patrick remarked.
"What are they doing?" Mizore asked him.
"The goal is to take the cap of the person riding off. The team with the most caps wins." Patrick explained.
The two teams were attacking each other ferosciously. neither side seemed to be at a disadvantage. While most of them were going for the caps, many were more underhanded, snatching the top part of the bikini's instead.
"Now that's what I meant, I didn't anticipate as nearly as much nudity." Patrick said.
"You seem upset." Patrick turned to see Tamoa walking towards him. "Is this not what you expected of the swimming club?"
"Oh no, I was expecting the fact that the knots that held the bikini's were as sturdy as spagheti, I just don't understand why they bother putting on the swimsuits in the first place." Patrick said sarcastically.
"Well today has been a bit more hectic than usual." She admitted. "My, my, who's this?" Tamoa asked, as though she just noticed Mizore.
"This is my friend, and fellow club member, Mizore. Mizore this is the head of the swimming club, Tamoa." Patrick said.
"Nice to meet you. Well I must be off to inform the school comittee to stop sending in swimsuits, I guess we'll just prance around naked." With that she left.
"I really hope she was kidding." Patrick said.
"I don't trust that girl, something about her is wrong." Mizore said.
"Well she looks harmless enough." Patrick said.
"Patrick, I thought by now you would have understood that looks can be deceiving. Just look at Moka."
"Mizore you make an excellent point, I guess I should roll around in something ill-smelling, so as to make myself unappealing, so she won't want to eat me." Patrick mused.
"I'm just saying."
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After the event was finished, the spectators left, and the male club members were in the water, having fun.
"Well Tamao, I had a good time interviewing the swimming club, ignoring the fact that most of the spectators of the event were only their for the swimsuits." Patrick said, crouching by the side of the pool.
"How did you friend do with his 'girl troubles'?" Tamao asked, her lower half submerged in the water.
"Don't know yet, but it's most likely train wrecked." Patrick said.
"Well, now that the interview is over, why don't you swim with me?"
"Thanks for the offer, but I don't have any swimming trunks, and I barely know how to keep afloat." Patrick said. "Guess I better get these photo's back to the club." But before Patrick could leave, Tamao grabbed him, and put his face into her breasts. Patrick almost fell into the water.
"It's not that simple, I never let anyone escape from my sights." Tamao said.
All over the pool, the senior members were biting the new male members, and when they did, their bodies seemed to wither away until they looked literally like skin and bones. Tamao then threw Patrick into the waters.
"Don't blame me," She said after he had resurfaced. "for luring the guys into the water, and then sucking their life energy out. This is originally how mermaids survived."
Tamao had changed, her lower half had changed into a fishes, and fins appeared in place of her ears, and on her forearms. She then did an arial flip as if to make a point.
"Mermaids, infamous for for their beauty, known to lure sailors to their deaths, and said to be incredibly vain. Said to have the upper half of a beautiful woman, and the lower half of a fish. Something akin to sirens, known to sink ships by entrancing men with their songs." Patrick said reciting the research he had done of infamous monsters. "I totally called it!"
Tamao then placed he hand on Patrick's face to keep him from moving, he noticed how her nail had become elongated, and webbed.
"I've had my eye's on you since school began. Because you... smell just like a human!" Tamao said. Then three dark lines appeared on either side of her cheeks, and a pair of gills on either side. The rest of the mermaids were encircling them, saying things like, 'you should share', or 'let me have some of him too'.
Kurumu had started trying to fight off the mermaids, her fingernails had elongated to a point that would put Wolverine to shame, and was trying to rescue some of the men.
"Get away from him!" Mizore said, throwing a few Ice daggers at some of the mermaids, but they easily dodged them.
"Now, now, water is a mermaids territory, there's now way you could defeat us in our element, just stay out of the water, or we might eat you too." They said.
"Don't worry Patrick, I won't suck out you life energies." Tamao said, "I'll just eat you up instead!" With that, her eye's narrowed, and her mouth turned to that like a Pirahnna's, complete with two rows of teeth..
Mizore threw more ice daggers, closer this time, at Tamao. This seemed to annoy her slightly, but she just said. "Fine be difficult, he will taste just as good drowned, as he would alive."
With that, Tamao took Patrick into the deep end, and dove into the waters. Mizore hesitated for a second, and jumped into the waters as well. Sinking to the bottom, and getting Tamao off of Patrick wasn't too hard, but it was fending off the rest of the mermaids, and trying to get back to the surface was.
Up on dry land, Tsukune looked at the pool. Yes he had failed horribly trying to make amends with Moka, but he was concentrating on the fact that Mizore and Patrick were down there. Tsukune, without a second's hesitation, jumped into the pool, and swam to the bottom to help them. He made it past the mermaids, and grabbed Mizore and Patrick, and swam back to the surface. When they broke the surface Tsukune and Mizore took a deep lungful of air, but Patrick had already passed out.
"Get him to the surface, and give him mouth-to-mouth quickly! I'll try to hold them off!" Tsukune told Mizore.
Mizore maid it to the edge, but Tsukune was grabbed by the mermaids.
Moka was trembling by the pool too, her gaze transfixed by the water. Even though she still thought Tsukune was a pervert, she desperately wanted to help him. When he gave off a scream of pain, Moka, determined, expertly jumped a great distance into the pool, but was in obvious pain due to the water, energy crackled through the waves, apparently only affecting Moka.
Mizore, would have helped, but knew she had help Patrick, or he might die.
"Well it looks like the rumors are true." Tamao said. "Moka really is a Vampire."
"What is that idiot doing! She's gonna die if this keeps up!" Kurumu said, still trying to fend off some of the mermaids.
Tsukune, being held by Tamao, was astonished by Moka's actions. He hadn't imagined that water would have been this painful for her.
"Moka!" he cried out, trying to break from Tamao's grip.
"I won't let you escape, you smell almost as good as Patrick did." Tamao said.
Moka then finally dropped from the surface line, and sunk into the deep end.
"Let me go!" Tsukune said.
Kurumu grabbed Tamao from behind, and told Tsukune "Quickly, go while you have the chance!"
Tsukune immediately swam after her, thinking, 'Moka did that for me. Just to rescue me. She jumped into the water.'
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Patrick was finally revived, and he felt water coming out of his lungs. 'Dear god, what happened to me?' he thought. He opened his eyes, and saw Mizore's face coming closer to his. 'What is she- oh!' Mizore placed her mouth on his, and felt her breathing into him. Patrick tapped her on the shoulder to let her know he had come too.
"Thanks Mizore, were you just giving me CPR?" He asked.
"Yeah, you almost drowned." She said, blushing. "But now Moka and Tsukune are-" Mizore was cut off by a huge wave of energy. The deep end of the pool seemed boil, and then the water turned a menacing deep shade of red. Then a vortex appeared, starting from the deep end, but soon encompassing the entire pool. The sky turned dark, and a red moon replaced the sun.
The whirl pool had grown to such strength, that even the mermaids had difficulty resisting the currents. Then a flash of light burst from the center of the whirl pool, and caused the waters to turn into tidal waves that splashed Mizore and Patrick. Mizore held onto Patrick, as they felt a familiar wave of terror and fear consume them.
In the middle of it all was Moka, not the Moka that was nice, and sweet, but rather the one that had almost killed Saizou with a single blow.
"You dare... you dare do as you wish?" She said, looking at Tamao.
Most, if not all of the mermaids had been beached by the tidal wave, and the water level had since dropped severely, enough for Moka to stand past the surface line at the deep end.
Tamao was still standing upright,- more like treading water, but did not seem as terrified as Saizou had been.
"Such an oppressive feeling... I never expected it to be such, but you're still a vampire after all, take this!"
Tamao used her tail to splash Moka, and the remaining mermaids followed suit. Despite the fact that the other Moka wasn't as vulnerable to water as the regular Moka, it still affected her. But out of nowhere Kurumu attacked the other mermaids, saying I won't let you girls do as you like!"
"Mind your own business." Moka said.
"What're you talking about? Since your weak in water, just be frank and accept other people's help!"
"You poor thing." Tamao said. "Getting such a reaction just from getting wet, must feel very painful, doesn't it? Stop pushing yourself and just die."
"You don't have to care about me." She said. "I can finish a small fish like you, even with my eye's closed."
"Small fish?" She said. "I won't lose, even if I die!" Tamoa dove under the waters, and shot at Moka like a torpedo. "Water is a vampire's weakness, and a mermaids territory! You have no chance of victory!" She said. "Just take this chance and beg for your life!"
"Don't make me laugh." Moka said. She then jumped from the pool, up about twenty feet into the air, and Tamao followed.
---
"Hey Mizore." Patrick said.
"Yeah?"
"Remind me never to doubt ever again, okay?"
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"I can't believe you fell into my trap so easily... you're really a fish, aren't you?" Moka said.
Tamao just laughed, and lunged to take a bite out of her. "Die!"
"Know your place!" Moka did a backflip, and kicked Tamao back down earthwards, where she fell into a basket they had used earlier for a sport, looking as thought she was a fish at the local market, while Moka landed on the edge of the pool.
"I got defeated so easily..." she moaned.
"How long did that take? One and a half minutes?" Patrick asked.
"That was rather obvious though, air isn't a mermaids territory." Kurumu said.
Tsukune quickly went to Moka's side to see if she was alright, she was breathing rather heavily. Moka slapped Tsukune in his face, shocking everyone present. Tsukune was holding the cheek she had slapped, absolutely dumbstruck.
"Don't be so smug." She told him. "You don't understand her at all. Someone like you doesn't deserve to be beside me." The other Moka took the Rosario from Tsukune, and left. The sky slowly turned back into a peaceful blue, and the sun slowly appeared among the clouds.
"Mizore." Patrick said.
"Yes?"
"You can let go of me now."
"Oh, sorry." she said, letting go of him.
"Are you guys okay?" Tsukune asked.
"Yeah, I'm just not going to be able to watch 'the little mermaid' in a while. Possibly forever." Patrick said.
Tsukune didn't laugh.
"I'm guessing my plan was crash and burn." Patrick said.
"Like the Titanic."
"Sorry, I guess this is my fault."
"How could it be your fault" Mizore asked. "You had no Idea this was going to happen."
"Come on guys, it looks like it'll be raining soon." Tsukune said.
Indeed, clouds of gray were starting to gather in numbers.
"By the way, anyone manage to get a picture of the mermaid attack?"
Both of them shook their head.
"Let me see, it looks like this camera is waterproof..." He said, checking the camera that still hung on his neck. He took a picture of Tamao hanging in the net. "I guess I'm plain unlucky when it comes to girls, first Kurumu, then this."