Rosario X Friends Ch7
Not much happened for the friends over the next few weeks. Tsukune and Moka started going out every now and again, and the two were almost named Yokai Academy's cutest couple. Patrick's Horror Movie Theater became quite popular, and the students were always fascinated by the plots. Kurummu certainly made things interesting, but it seemed as though she hasn't made a move against anyone in an attempt to create a full male harem out of the school. And of course, Mizore continued to stalk Patrick on a regular basis, and Patrick tried his best not to notice.
However, they were overdue for trouble, and it came near the end of the month, about the time when the results of some major test was done by all of the Freshman was to be displayed.
"Okay guys, you want to see what results we got?" Patrick asked.
"Sure." Moka said.
"Alright." Tsukune said.
"What do you think you guys got?" Mizore asked.
"I don't know, I probably just did alright." Moka said.
"Me, I probably didn't do so well." Tsukune said.
"Well, I don't mean to sound cocky, but I think I got a really good score." Patrick said.
"Um, Patrick, no offense but you get rather bad grades, what makes you think you'd get a high score?" Tsukune asked.
"Well, it's not because I'm stupid that I get bad grades, don't I seem like an intelligent person? I usually get bad grades because I don't do the work." Patrick told them. "Here we are, you let's see what we got."
The results were posted along a line, the worst grades at the far right, and the best at the far left. Tsukune was somewhere in the middle, Mizore was between the middle and far left, Moka had a really good score, and was at the left of the line, but as Patrick had predicted, he had gotten the best grade of them all.
"Wow Patrick, I didn't think you had it in you." Mizore said.
"Yeah, now this obviously says that the education system in this country is flawed, if I can test this well, and get such poop grades." Patrick said.
"You did really good Moka." Tsukune said. "I wish I was smart as you, you really do have it all, brains and beauty and brains." In Tsukune's opinion, the gap between their scores was too big.
"Oh, thanks Tsukune, that means a lot." Moka said, blushing horribly. "You know, if you want... maybe next time we could study together?"
"Sure Moka, I'd love that." Tsukune said.
"Hey what's that?" Mizore asked, pointing to a some commotion not too far away from them.
A bunch of big guys seemed to be teeming up on some small girl.
"Thats it, your gonna pay for that!" One of them said.
"Stop it!" Patrick said, putting himself between the bullies and the small girl. "What the heck to you think you're doing? Attacking a little girl."
"You should be ashamed of yourself." Moka said joining him. Tsukune and Mizore also joined him, now outnumbering the bullies.
"Wait a minute, your that guy from the movie theater." One of them said.
"Where do you get off attacking someone who can't fight back?" He asked him.
Some of the students nearby checking their grades noticed the commotion.
"Hey, what's going on there?"
"Aren't they those people from second class?"
"Too many witnesses." The leader commented. "We'll leave for the moment. All right let's go."
As they were leaving though, the leader commented: "Seriously, just being in the same class as that filthy race makes me want to puke."
"God, I could have died there." Patrick said relieved. Patrick turned to look at the little girl that was being bullied, she had straight brown hair that she had grown to her shoulders,
her eyes were a light violet, and was for some reason, wearing a cape, and a stereotypical witches hat. "Hey, are you okay?" Suddenly, a brass pan materialized, and hit Patrick over the head. "Where did that come from!?"
"I don't need to be saved, I could've saved myself!" The little girl yelled at him.
"Hey, he just saved you life." Tsukune said. "Don't you think you should-" Then Tsukune was hit by another brass pan, that came from nowhere.
"Hey, why are you acting like this?" Moka asked. "Can't we all just be friends? Let's start over, my name is-" Then Moka was hit by yet another brass pan.
"Ha-ha! Take that you snobs!" She said. Suddenly Mizore appeared behind, and grabbed her, making her squirm, and desperately wiggle out of Mizore's grasp.
"You shouldn't act like a brat, no one will like you." She told her.
"Let go of me, let go of me!" She yelled. "I'll make you regret this!"
"How?" Mizore asked, in a tone that almost dared her to try. Then, the girl waved a pink wind she held in her hand, and yet another pan hit Mizore, the a second, and then a third, causing her to fall on the ground, her Lolipop falling out of her mouth.
"You get what you deserve!" She told them, and then ran off.
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"So let me get this straight." Kurummu said, trying her best to contain a smile. "You guys helped defend a little girl, who then beat all of you up?"
The Newspaper club was having a meeting, and Moka let it slip that about what happened earlier that day.
"No, that's not what happened." Patrick said. "You see, the girl was just a big brat, and a random meteor shower happened, bonking us on the head, while the girl laughed at us."
"Ha-ha, so that's what happened?" Kurummu said.
"Well, I certainly don't see how those brass pans could have gotten there." Tsukune said.
"I think it must have been space junk." Patrick said. "Piece's of satellites, or spaceships that fall off and crash to earth."
"Um, don't you think if they were falling from space, they would have killed us?" Tsukune asked.
"Well how do you think they got there? Magic?" Patrick asked him.
"Actually, I think she was a Witch." Mizore said. "I think she's that super genius kid from the next class, her name's Yukari Sendo."
"Wait, so Witche's existed too?" Tsukune asked.
"Why do you sound surprised? Kurummu surprised.
"Hey, Kurummu, I need you to come with me, there's some... supplies I need you need to help me with." Gin told her.
"Hey, avoid dark places, and locked rooms." Patrick advised her.
The two left, allowing Tsukune, Patrick, Mizore and Moka to continue talking.
"So you weren't sure that witches existed?" Moka asked.
"Well, after all I've seen so far, I would've thought witches were just superstition compared to all the deadly monsters that have almost killed me so far." Patrick said.
"He has a point." Tsukune said. "I mean, Mermaids were never man eaters in all the kids stories I've heard."
"Well, who did you think you were mercilessly killing all those centuries ago?" Mizore asked.
"Heh, that is viewed as maybe the second worst thing Humanity as a whole has done to themselves." Patrick said.
"Oh, I guess I kinda... shouldn't have said that." Mizore said, ashamedly.
"Ah, no, it's alright, we understand that over the course of history, Humans have been a bunch of jerks." Patrick said. "As for the infamous witch trials, we now think they were just Humans, just people who were odd, or different, or even just didn't agree with the church."
"I see." Moka said.
"I have a whole rant prepared, but I don't think nows the time to be on the subject." Patrick said.
"Well, Magic is real then?" Tsukune asked.
"Yeah, Witches are supposed to be nature spirits, so they use the elements of Nature." Moka said. "I don't know about it too much, but they're supposed to be considered to live on the border of Human and Demon."
"Huh, do you think that's why she was being bullied?" Tsukune asked.
"Yeah, remember what that guy said, he didn't want to even be the same class as that 'filthy species'." Mizore recalled.
"I guess that makes sense." Tsukune thought.
"Yeah, on the one hand, the Humans used to publicly execute them, and on the other, there's no way to tell them from regular Humans by the Demons." Patrick said.
"Get off of me you pervert!" The friends heard from outside the room.
"Gin's back." Mizore said.
Soon Kurummu walked through the door, behind her, a thoroughly beaten Gin.
"You think he would learn." Moka commented.
"So what were talking about while I was gone?" Kurummu asked.
"Well, we've still been talking about the little girl, we think she's Yukari Sendo." Tsukune said.
"I heard about her, she's supposed to be real smart, but really selfish. She gets teased by her classmates. It's probably because she acts like she's better then everyone else." Kurummu said.
"Well you can't believe everything you hear, right?" Moka said.
"Piece of wisdom: Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear." Patrick said.
"But still, we helped her out while she was being bullied, and she hit us with brass pans." Mizore pointed out.
"You know what I'm gonna do?" Tsukune said. "I'm gonna find her, and have a talk with her, try to be her friend, she must be rather lonely."
"Wow Tsukune, that's rather mature." Kurummu said.
"Ah, really?" Tsukune asked. "Well, I just think it would be better if I made a friend instead of an enemy."
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"Hey, Patrick?" Moka asked.
Patrick was looking through the old films, trying to decide which one he would be using next Saturday.
"Hey Moka, which do you think would be better, Frankenstein, or Them!" He asked. "Frankenstein is based of the book by Mary Shelly, it's about a scientist that created a creature made out of the different reanimated body parts he had stolen from a graveyard, and Them! is based on what the world would be like if Ants got just a little bit bigger."
"Um I really wouldn't know." She said. "But I wanted to ask you where Tsukune was, I wanted to hand back his notebook, he left it at my room after our study-date last night."
"Todays the what? The 30th?" He asked.
"Yeah, what does that mean?" She said.
"It means it's the end of the month. Todays the day that the bus comes back." Patrick said. "He told me he had written a bunch of letters to his parents, and he came over to ask me if there was anything I wanted to send anything to my folks while he was on the way."
"So he went over to the bus stop?" She asked.
"No, I pointed him over to the postbox." Patrick said. "It's just down the hall, go down the stairs, and outside the door on the left."
"Oh, okay, thank you."
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"Okay, so this is Youkai Academy?" Max asked the bus driver.
"Yes, but be careful, this is a very scary place." The Bus driver warned him.
"I'll be sure to remember that." Max said. 'Can't be any worse than this guy.'
"One question." The bus driver said. "Don't you think you're a little young to be going to a High school?"
"Oh, I'm not attending, just dropping of some of my brother's stuff." He explained. Max stepped off of the bus, and on to the cliff overlooking a red-colored see. 'I heard that algae and plankton can color the water like that, but that's supposed to be in the middle of the ocean, isn't it?'
"Oh, and one other thing." The Bus driver told him. "The bus schedule is based on month, so you better finish up you're business by tomorrow, or you'll be stuck here for a month."
"Wait, what?" He asked. The driver just closed, and drove back into the extra dark tunnel. "Great, now what?"
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"Okay, so I'm stuck in a place I know nothing about, with hardly anyone I know how to relate with." Max thought aloud. "What do I do now?"
Max had made it through the woods with no problems, and was now in front of a school building, the sun now setting. He then saw a girl his age, setting next a wall, crying. She was dressed oddly dressed, she wore a cape, and a witches hat. Max decided to see what was wrong.
"Hey, are you okay?" He asked the girl
"Go away!" She told him.
Max ignored her, and sat down next to her. "I told you to go away!" The girl said, still crying.
"I want to help." He said. "I'm not the kind of person to see someone hurting, and just walk away."
"Well I don't want your help." She told him.
"Why not?" He asked the girl. "I'm willing to listen if you have something to say."
"D-do you really want to know?" She asked.
"Sure, let's start over, my name is Max Fairfax." He said offering her his hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
"My names Yukari Sendo." She said, shaking his hand to look him in his face. He had brown hair, and soft green eyes. His face was just beginning to mature.
'She's cute.' He thought. "Well it's a pleasure to meet you Yukari, you have a very nice name."
"Thanks." She said.
"So why were you crying?" He asked her.
"I'm feeling very lonely. No one here cares about me, they just want me gone."
"So, are you actually enrolled here in this school?" Max asked.
"Yeah, I'm a freshman here."
"Wow, how old are you."
"Eleven." Yukari answered.
"Hey, you're the same age as me!" Max said. "You must be really smart! I bet your parents are proud of you."
"Yeah, they are." Yukari said. "But, everyone here is jealous of me. I'm so smart, and everything is so easy for me, they all pick on me."
"Ah I see. Me, I'm not as smart, I only get average grades. My brothers, they're real smart. Always give me good advice."
"Really? I don't have any brothers, or any sisters." Yukari said.
"Hmm? Well, having siblings has its good and bad qualities." Max told her. "Like at dinner, we always fight over who gets the last piece of Pizza, and we have to schedule our baths too. But I always have someone to turn to when I'm in trouble, or someone to talk to."
"I wish I had a brother." Yukari said.
"Did I make you feel better?" Max asked her.
"Yeah, you did. Thanks."
"Your welcome. Hey, Yukari, would you mind if I ask you a favor?" Max said. " You get your own room at an academy, right?"
"Yeah, why do you ask?" Yukari said.
"It's getting dark, and the creepy bus driver who brought me here said the bus doesn't come back until tomorrow." He explained. "I need a place to sleep, and I have no idea where my brother is, I came here to give him some of his stuff you see."
"Are you asking me to, like a sleep over?"
"I guess, I mean, I don't want to intrude, I'm sure I can find somewhere else to sleep if I have to."
"Sure, why not." She said. "You're kinda cute, and I've never had a sleep over."
"Me?" Max asked, disbelieving. "Cute?"
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"Hey, your Yukari right?" Tsukune asked, talking to the young girl that he had helped yesterday. He was in the class across from his during Homeroom.
"What does it matter to you?" She said.
"Well, I think we met yesterday, you were being picked on, but when I tried to help you, you hit me and my friends on our heads with brass pans." Tsukune said.
"I didn't need your help!" She told him. "I can fight my own battles."
"Yeah, but I just wanted us to be friends, we really don't need to fight, and be enemies, do we?"
"Why would you care?" She asked. "You don't really care, you're just want me to stop bugging you."
"Well that would be nice, but-"
"Save it!" She said. "I don't need your help." She brought out a pink wand, waved it around a few times, and suddenly, a whole manner of supplies came our of a closet at the end of the room, staplers, hole punchers, scissors, and a manner of sharpened pencils came out of them, and flew towards Tsukune.
"Oh crud!" Tsukune yelled, running out into the hallway, where he was followed by the supplies. Yukari just laughed at him.
"Serves him right!" She said, laughing her head off.
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"Are you alright Tsukune?" Moka asked, helping put on a bandage on his cheek in the school clinic. She had fed on Tsukune earlier, and was able to keep the urges to suck his blood again, back.
"Yeah, it could've been worse, the staplers could've been loaded." Tsukune said.
"Don't lie Tsukune, it hurts a lot, doesn't it?" Moka asked sitting down next to him.
"Yeah, I feel like I went through hell. I don't think I've ever felt this lousy before." Tsukune confessed.
"It's okay, I'll help take care of you." Moka said, giving him a kiss on the cheek to make him feel better.
"Thanks Moka." Tsukune said blushing.
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"Oh, hey Yukari." Max said, as he saw the girl crouching under a window.
"Shh!" She said, motioning for him to come closer. "I'm about to play a prank on these two."
"Really, how?" Max said. "One of my brothers is really good with explosives, he knows so much, we can't leave him in the kitchen unsupervised."
"I'm gonna use this." Yukari said, showing him a doll made of straw and string with a piece of paper for it's face.
"What is that, a Voodoo doll?" He asked.
"Yeah, it is!" She whispered.
"Did you know that Voodoo originated in Africa?" He asked.
"No, I didn't. Anyway, I'm about to use it on this couple in there." She told him.
"How are you gonna do that, magic?"
"As a matter of fact, yes." She said. "I am a witch." She said, as she placed a hair inside the doll. "Watch this." She twisted one of the dolls arms, causing it to hit itself in it's face. Max heard the sound of a punch landing, and a girls voice saying:
"Tsukune, are you alright!?"
"Yeah, why did I just punch myself in the face?"
Yukari caused the doll to hit itself in the face a few more times, causing the poor guy in there to do so as well.
"Here, why don't you fondle those girls big breasts!" She said, making the doll move it's hands into the air in a circular motion.
"Tsukune! W-what are you doing!"
"I don't know!! My arms are moving on their own!"
"You-you can't stop?" She asked, her breath starting to come from gasps.
"Hey." A new voice said. "...am I interrupting something?"
"I think now is a good time to leave." Max said, taking Yukari's hand, and running.
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"You know Moka, I think it's really nice of you to be helping me like this." Tsukune said.
"Don't be silly Tsukune." She said. "I want make sure you healthy and happy."
"Thats really considerate Moka, thank you." Tsukune said.
"Your welcome Tsukune." Moka said, looking Tsukune in his eyes. Even though they had been going out for awhile, they still treated every kiss as their first one.
"Moka, do you want to..."
"Make out?" She asked inching closer.
"Yeah." Tsukune said, staring deep into her eyes. Moka pressed her lips against Tsukune, kissing him hotly. It seemed to Tsukune that it was more intense than any of the other kisses she had given him before.
Too soon they had to part, forced to breath, breaking up the couple. Suddenly for no apparent reason, Tsukune curled his hand into a fist, and punched himself in the face.
"Tsukune!? Are you alright?" Moka asked in deep concern.
"Yeah, why did I just hit myself?" Tsukune said completely bewildered. Suddenly Tsukune gave himself a left hook, then a right, and another right, before he stopped.
"Tsukune are you okay?" Moka asked. Suddenly Tsukune arms shot up, and grabbed Moka's breasts, squeezing them, completely taking Moka by surprise.
"Tsukune! W-what are doing!" She asked, his hands beginning to massage them, making Moka feel like never before.
"I don't know!! My arms are moving on their own!!" Tsukune said, clearly panicking. Had either of them been able to pay attention, they could've heard snickering coming from under the windowsill.
"You-you can't stop?" Moka asked, almost starting to moan at Tsukune's touch. A small naughty part of her mind was thinking it wouldn't be a bad thing if he couldn't.
They heard a knock on the door, and Mizore came in to see Moka and Tsukune... well...
"... am I interrupting something?" She asked. "I'll just leave." She said, turning to leave.
"Wait no! Mizore help!!" Tsukune said.
"Hey, what's going..." Patrick came into the room, seeing Tsukune, still fondling Moka. "... on. Well then..."
"Help! My arms are moving on there own!" Tsukune said. Moka finally freed herself from Tsukune's grasp, and tried to get away, but as she did, Tsukune grabbed her by her hips, grabbing on to her panties and pulling them down. "NO!!! IT' NOT MY FAULT!!!"
Patrick covered his eyes, as a small breeze came from the window.
"You know, what you two do in your spare time really isn't any of our business, so we'll just leave." Patrick said.
"NO! You gotta tie me up, I can't control my arms, please!"
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"Heh-ha-ha-ha-ha-haha! That was the funniest prank I've ever pulled." Yukari said, laughing her head off. Yukari then moved the arms of the doll in a downward motion.
"That thing really works." Max said in awe.
"Of course it works." Yukari said.
"So you really are a Witch!" Max said.
"What of it?" She asked.
"That's awesome!" Max said.
"It is?" Yukari said in surprise.
"Of course it is! I've never met an actual Witch before!" Max said.
"You haven't?"
"No, I'm just glad you're one of the Good Witches, not one of those bad ones that eat kids."
"Eww, why would I eat children?"
"Like in the stories. The bad Witches eat Human children, but the Good ones are all nice and cute." He explained.
"You say that like your a Human."
"Well I'm certainly not an elf." Max said.
"W-wait, so you are a Human?" Yukari asked.
"Yeah, of course I am? Don't I look like one?" He asked.
"You? A Human?" She said, scared. "No Human should be able to get into the school!"
"What do you mean?" Max said confused. "My big brother got into this school."
"No, all Humans are killed on the spot!" She told him.
"M-my brother is dead?" Max asked. "Yukari, you got to-"
"Stay away from me!" She shouted at him.
"W-what's wrong?" Max said.
"I thought you wanted to be my friend." She said, beginning to cry. "Humans and Demons can't be friends, it just can't happen!"
"What are you talking about?" Max said. "I still want to be your friend."
"No! That doesn't happen!" She shouted. "My Papa told me what Humans do to Witches, you burn them! You kill them! You murder us!"
"Yukari, I'm not like that." Max tried to tell her, but to no avail.
"No! All humans are the same!" She shouted, running away.
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Yukari kept running, and running, until she couldn't run any more, and she didn't bother looking where she was going, something she regretted when she bumped into someone, and fell on to the ground.
"Hey, that really hurt! Watch where you going you idiot!" She yelled into someone.
"Well, compared to you, we really are idiots, aren't we?" Yukari looked up to see her Class President, also the same person that had been bullying her before.
"This brat needs to be knocked down a peg, don't you think boss?" One of his cohorts said.
"Wow, the class President sure is angry." Another of his accomplices said.
"Get out of the way, I'm in no mood for this!" She told them.
"Too bad." The Class President. "It's time you've been punished for all disruptions you've caused." He said, grabbing her by her wrist, and lifted her into the air.
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"Okay," Patrick said, finishing up the knot on Tsukune's wrists. "Tsukune just started hitting himself, and fonlding Moka's breasts?"
"Um... yeah, basically." Moka said, blushing profusely.
"Yeah know, I was going to ask for help for the Movie Theater." Patrick said. "But this is worthy so much more attention."
"What are we going to do?" Mizore asked. "Cut off Tsukune's arms?"
"I'd rather keep my arms." Tsukune said.
"Well, maybe we could-"
"PATRICK! PATRICK! PATRICK WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU!"
"Who could that be?" Tsukune asked.
Suddenly the door slammed open, revealing a younger version of Patrick.
"THERE YOU ARE!" He said pointing at Patrick.
"Who's that?" Mizore asked.
"Max?" Patrick said. "What the heck are you doing here? Wait, you gotta get out of here now!"
"Look, I need you, come on." The little guy grabbed his arm and started pulling.
"Who's this?" Moka asked.
"It's my little brother." Patrick said. "What is it that you want?" He asked him.
"Look, I'll answer on the way, we can't just stay here!" He told him. "If you guys want to come, then hurry up!" Patrick followed his little brother, Mizore, Moka and Tsukune following, Tsukune trying to undo the knots on his wrists.
"Okay, tell us what's the big deal?" Patrick said.
"I came to drop off some of your stuff, and I met this girl my age, her name is Yukari. She found out I was a Human, so she ran away. I tried to follow her, but them she was taken by these big guys. They said they were going to punish, and brought her into the woods. They looked like they were going to hurt her!"
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The guys went and threw Yukari into a tree in a misty region of the woods.
"What are you doing?' She asked them.
"Shut up already." One of them said. "Man, even hearing you talk is too troublesome. You truly are a filthy creature."
In the mist, she could barely see the transformations that took place, she couldn't see they're teeth elongate, or claws grow from their fingernails. She couldn't see they're skin turn into a slimy green, of a scaly frill emerge from their scalps where they're hair was receding. The mist obscured the tail that erupted from the base of their spine, or they're eyes turn in slitted and yellow.
Yukari readied her wand, trying to ready herself.
"Our class doesn't need a snot-nosed kid like you, stinking up the air." The Class President told her.
Yukari waved her wand to perform a spell to defend herself, but one of them grabbed it in his mouth, and crushed it into a thousand tiny fragments.
"That tasted disgusting." He said, spitting out the fragments in his mouth.
"How should we take care of her boss?" One of them asked.
"Let's eat her, no one will notice in this fog."
The Class President opened his mouth wide, and let a long forked tongue flit through his teeth.
"You're right, eating such a spoiled brat would be a nice change in tastes."
"No... No! Get away from me!" She screamed.
"Shut up!" The Class President said, raising his claws to strike. Before the blow could land, Max came from nowhere, and took the blow into his back.
"M-Max?" She said completely shocked. Max grabbed her arm, and ran into the mists, despite the deep red gashes in his back.
"Where did that brat come from?" One of them asked.
"Doesn't matter, we'll just eat him too." Suddenly the one that said this was struck by a rock to the head.
"No one threatens my little brother." Patrick told him, wielding another rock in his hand.
"What! Now you're going to get!" The guy said, chasing after him into the mists.
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"Let go of me! Let go of me!" Yukari said, struggling against Max's grasp. Max placed his hand over her mouth, and told her to shush.
"What do you think is gonna be worse? Me? Or those three Lizardmen back there?" He asked. He let go of her mouth, and her wrist, but she didn't try to run.
"Why are you helping me?" She asked. "Human's are supposed to hate all Demons!"
Max sat down against a tree, clutching his side. "Sit down." He told her. She sat down in front of him, and Max took her hand and matched up his fingertips with his.
"Ten fingers, ten toes." He said. "We don't have to point out what's different about each other, what separates us. We can't expect any progress, if we are always tearing at each others throats over the littlest things. If we keep that up, not just Humans, not just Witches, but all people, if we keep it up, soon there will be none of us left. Yukari, it's what we have in common that brings us together, and our differences that make us strong."
"So you really don't care that I'm a witch?" She asked.
"Yukari, I expect no more of you, than I would of myself." He told her. "Not all Humans are the same, just like I'm sure not every Witch is the same. We didn't just do horrible things to Witches, we have also done horrible things to ourselves. Slavery, we put a price on our fellow man, and treated them like property, the colonists in the ancient Aztec civilizations were hailed as gods, and they used the opportunity to ransack the their empires, and just 60 years ago, a group of people, were mercilessly slaughtered, because the reason all the suffering of just one country was pinned on them. They were carted away from their families, and homes, like animals, and like animals, they were put up the slaughter, exterminated, because the problems of their country had been put on them for no reason."
"Why?" Yukari asked, gripped by his words.
"The people who did it, thought that they were the perfect Humans, they deserved to do what they wanted, and these other people needed to die, because they were a disease. Just like they had done to Witches centuries before. But Humans are not all that bad. Slavery has been abolished in the modern world, the people who ransacked the ancient cities are viewed as the murderers they were, and as for the slaughtering that happened way back when? The leaders were tried for the first time for crimes against Humanity. We're not just one way."
"I see. Thanks for helping me Max." Yukari said.
"Thanks, now do you think you can help me with these scars?" He asked.
"Oh, yeah, what should I do?" She asked.
Max took off his shirt exposing the three gashes in his back. "The wound needs to be cleaned. You have any water?"
"No, could I use my spit?" She asked.
"As long as you can get the blood off." He told her. Yukari began wiping the blood off of his back, spitting on her palms to help wipe it off. "Okay I think that's it." She said.
"Okay, now you need to cover it. Can you tear up your cape into strips." He asked.
"My cape was a gift from my mom." She told him.
"You don't have to use that." He said.
"No, I have two." Yukari tore up pieces of her cape, and wrapped them around Max's wound. "You didn't have to take that hit you know." She said.
"I'm not a person to see someone get hurt when I can prevent it either." He said.
"Your a good person you know that?" She said.
"Thanks."
"That should do it." She said. Max took a moment to look at his back, the makeshift bandages would do. Max put his shirt back on. "Come on." He said getting up. "We need to find my brother and his friends."
"Max, they destroyed my wand, without it, I'm as powerless as you are." She told him.
"It doesn't matter, we just have to find them, and get out of these woods he told her."
"But, they'll kill us!" She said.
"Yeah, and they'll kill them too if we just run away." Max said. The two of them wandered through the mists, moving slowly and quietly.
"Hey look!" She said spotting a shadow in the fog. "I know that girl, hey-" Max placed hi hand over her mouth.
"Those Lizardmen might also be here." He whispered. "We have to be quiet." Max walked slowly through the fog, and tapped the girl on her shoulder, causing here to quickly turn around and almost scream had she not been shiushed in time.
"Yukari?" She asked. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." She said.
"And your Patrick's little brother right?" She asked.
"Yeah." Max said.
"We haven't been introduced properly, I'm Moka." Moka then noticed the blood dripping from Max's sides. "Oh no, your bleeding." Moka took a hankerchef out of her pocket, and wiped it away.
"It's okay, Yukari helped patch me up." He told her.
"Odd..." She said. "I don't feel hungry at all..."
"Um... what was that?" He asked, nervous.
"Oh nothing, nothing at all." Moka said quickly.
"Ah there you are!" One of the Lizardmen said, coming out of the fog. "I'm gonna eat you up, you look so juicy!" Suddenly he was hit by a rock to the forehead, and Patrick came from nowhere to help them run away.
"Hey ugly, I've seen bettter looking people at an ugly convention!" He yelled behind his back as they ran. "Max, what the heck were you even thinking pulling off that crazy stunt of yours?"
"Hey don't talk down to him like that, he saved my life!" Yukari told him.
"He's my little brother, it's my job to do that." Patrick said, coming to a stop, having lost the big lizard.
"That's your big brother?" Yukari asked him. Max nodding.
"Where's Tsukune?" Moka asked.
"Your standing on him." Patrick said. True enough, as Moka looked down she saw the lifeless body of Tsukune lying under her feet.
"Ah! Tsukune arw you alright?" She asked, crouching on the ground holding on to him.
"Relax," Mizore said, appearing out of nowhere, scaring everyone out of their wits, aside from Patrick, who was half-expecting it. "he just hit his head on a low tree branch, and got knocked out."
"Big Bro, does this happen to you a lot?" Max asked Patrick.
"Having monsters trying to kill me, or Mizore appearing from nowhere?" He asked.
"The getting killed."
"Oh, every now and again."
"There you all are!" The leader of the three Lizardmen said, his two lackeys on either side, said. "Well, it's a looks like it's a banquet tonight, eh boys?"
"Dibs on that pink-haired girl!" One of them said. "She looks delicious!"
Suddenly the temperature dropped. "Hey, did anyone notice a-" Max said, before turning Mizore transformed, Ice claws and all. "Um, what exactly is she?" He asked.
"I'll tell you if we don't get eaten." Patrick asked. "Mizore, can't you just freeze them?"
"The fog makes it very difficult." She told him. "It's very humid, so it's hard to do anything."
"Okay, I've been wanting to test this out anyway." Patrick said. "Moka, come here."
Moka came closer to Patrick, still holding onto Tsukune. "Okay let's hope this works." Patrick grabbed the Rosario on Moka's neck, hoping it would snap, but the it stayed firmly attached to the chain connecting it to her neck. "Yeah, that figures."
"What are we gonna do?" Moka asked, as the Lizardmen came closer.
"Let's eat!" Their leader said.
"Plan B." Patrick then grabbed the unconscious Tsukune's wrist, and wrapped his fingers around the Rosario, and pulled, this time the cross successfully coming off.
"Well what does that d-" Max said, before an explosion of demonic energy washed through the forest, clearing most of the fog, but as Max looked up, the sun was gone, replaced by a blood red moon. He felt waves of the energy, clutching at his heart, filling it with dread, and fear.
He turned to see Moka transforming, her hair turned into a stark silver, and as she stood up, she seemed much taller than the Moka he saw before, just by the way she now carried herself. She opened her eyes, and a pair of red, slitted irises looked out from her eye sockets.
Her mere presence radiated malcontent, and arrogance.
"Normally the Rosario seals this Moka. You met Yin Moka before," Patrick explained. "but when it comes off, Yang Moka comes out."
"Stand down you inferior beings!" She told them.
"Wait, so this is what she's really like?" Max asked.
"Kinda." Mizore said. "Their actually two different people."
"Dyed hair is against the school rules!" The head of the group said. "That skirt is also way too short, your going to be punished accordingly!"
"These guys are really stupid." Mizore said.
"Huh, what happened?" Tsukune said, finally coming to.
"Ah, you woke up just in time." Patrick said.
Moka ran at them, kicking the two lackey's in the jaw, moving too fast to be seen. She then did an upward kick on the two, and flung them into the trees, being hung like laundry out to dry.
"Th-that's a legendary Demon, a super Vampire!" Yukari said, finally recovering her voice.
"That's a Vampire?" Max asked. "Since when were Vampires able to kick but like that?"
"H-how could she do that?" The leader said in awe. "Within a moment? I couldn't even see it."
"So you had to bring two of your buddies with you to fight a little girl?" Moka asked, appearing behind him. "It is only those who are truly weak who bully those that won't ask for help. You pitiful trash."
The leader suddenly jumped three feet in the air, and tried to put some distance between him and Moka. "You're power is against the school rules!" He then lunged to attack her, teeth first, but Moka kicked him in his mouth, breaking each of his teeth, and kicking him past Tsukune & Company. and into a pond that had been concealed by the fog.
"Okay from unsealing to the end, that took about a minute." Patrick said, looking at his watch.
"What are you talking about?" Mizore asked.
"I'm timing these from now on." He answered.
"So stuff like this has happened before?" Max asked.
"Actually I'd have to say this is... fourth." Mizore answered for him.
"Well, this is to be expected of Moka." Tsukune said.
"Why did you do this?" Yukari asked. "After the way I treated you all?"
"I saw those guys taking you, and I found my brother so we could help you. His friends wanted to help too." Max said.
"Like I said before, I'd rather be friends than enemies." Tsukune said.
"We all wanted to help." Mizore said.
"You guys..." Yukari said, speechless. She began to cry, and sniffle, so Max laid his arm around her shoulder to make her feel better, making Yukari grab on to him, and cry into his shoulder. Max tried to ignore the pain in his back.
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"You know, what I can't figure out, is that the leader of those guys was the Class President." Patrick said. "Makes you wonder what their slogan was. Vote for me, or I'll eat you."
Mizore laughed a little at his joke. The friends, Patrick, Tsukune, Mizore, and Yin Moka, were walking on the path that lead to the bus stop, along with Max and Yukari. Yukari was wearing her second cape, and Patrick had gotten proper health care, and his shirt had been fixed up so good by the sewing club, it looked brand new.
"Let's just hope we don't have to deal with something like that for a while." Moka said.
"You know it makes me wonder, if someone who's supposed to be a leader, if he acts like he can do whatever he wants, what does that say about the world?" Tsukune asked.
"Yeah, Democracy, even on a local level, is designed so that, by nature, cannot become corrupt." Patrick said.
"Still, those guys aren't in charge anymore, so that's a good thing." Yukari told them. "You know, I went to class, and apologized to the whole class, and they went and made fun of me, and everyone stood up for me."
"That's great Yukari." Max said. "Hey, while I'm here, can I just clear something up?"
"What is it" Tsukune asked.
"Okay, you're a Vampire, but you have your powers sealed by that cross your wearing, right?" He asked Moka.
"Yeah, that's about right."
"Okay, Yukari is a Witch, and you" He said facing Mizore. "are a 'Ice Woman'. What exactly is that?"
"I did some research, they're supposed to be of Japanese origin, they're said to be incredibly beautiful, but use their looks to lure weary travelers to their deaths." Patrick said.
"So your from Japan?" Max asked.
"My family is, we actually own a Ski resort in the Rockies." She said. "Don't you think that research is a little inaccurate though?"
"Hey, the origin of the Vampire myth was thought to be based on the real life person, 'Vlad the Impaler', who impaled his enemies on a stick." Patrick pointed out.
"Um, well... that guy actually was a Vampire." Moka said.
"Well still, I'm just saying, that over the centuries, fact and fiction have separated slightly." Patrick pointed out.
"Okay then." Max said. "What's he then?" He asked, pointing to Tsukune.
"Oh, he's the scariest monster of all!" Patrick said. "He eats children."
Soon they arrived at the bus stop, and everyone was saying their goodbyes to Max.
"Well, eat, drink, and be merry, because you've lived to see another day. And say hello to Daniel for me." Patrick said.
"It was nice to see you, I hope we meet again." Moka said.
"Yeah, you know how to hold your own." Mizore said.
"Um... nice to have met you." Tsukune said.
"Um... Max?" Yukari said. "Can I tell you something?"
"Sure, anything." Max said.
"I WUUUUUUV YOU!!" She said, hugging him tightly. "The way you took that blow, I was overwhelmed by your maturity! You don't care that I'm a Witch, and I don't care that your Human! Your so smart, and wise, and you really care about me, I've completely fallen for you!"
"I... really like you too Yukari, I promise I'll write." He said.
"Promise?" She asked. "I'm really sad you have to go."
"I promise I'll write every day." He said. "I guess I have to go now." Max turned to get on the bus, and soon the doors closed.
"I just had the weirdest sense of Deja Vu." Patrick muttered.
"Hey! Before I forget, I left your laptop in your room!" Max shouted halfway out a window.
"Wait, you brought my Laptop with you?" Patrick asked.
"Yeah, did you think I came here just to get killed?" He said as the bus left through the tunnel.
"Ah, finally!" Patrick said.
"You have a Laptop?" Mizore asked.
"Yeah, I had to sweat blood to afford it, but it was worth it. It has my entire life on it." He said.
"Hey, you guys?" Yukari said. "I heard your all in the same club, do you think I could join? You all seem like great friends."
"I'd really like for her to be in." Tsukune said. "Don't you guys think so? We'd love to have you in, but that's up to the club head, be careful, he's a real pervert though. We'll put in a good word for you."
"Thank you!" Yukari said.