Rosario X Friends Ch8
Patrick had always hated Gym, but at Yokai Academy made it even worse than normal. Mr. Kotsubo, the Gym teacher, seemed to enjoy making the students, especially the less than athletic ones, such as Patrick and Tsukune, work themselves into an early grave.
And today's Gym Period was about to start off one of the worst days in Patrick's life.
"Okay, first your gonna do 100 sit-ups in 60-seconds, then I want you to run 10-miles on the track, and then you have to partner up and wrestle." Mr. Kotsubo said, eliciting moans from almost every student present. "Komiya Saizou with Patrick Fairfax."
"Saizou?" Patrick asked. "Tsukune, did you-" Patrick turned to Tsukune, but bumped into a very solid chest of someone a good 2 feet taller than him. Patrick looked up at the head belonging to the chest, and saw the still scary face belonging to Saizou. "Saizou! Good to see you, I was expecting to first see you in Homeroom. So, you're out of the Hospital, how's that concussion of yours?"
"Look here twerp." Saizou, said, picking him up by the collar of his gym uniform. "If you think I'm letting you off easy after what you did to me the first day, your delusional."
"Quick question, how much of the fight do remember?" Patrick asked.
"What does it matter to you?" He said, shaking him violently.
'Good, if he remembered that I let it slip that I was Human, I'd already be dead.' Patrick thought.
Patrick turned his head, looking for Tsukune, and gave him a pleading look when he saw him. Tsukune just gave him a look of pity, and went to the mats to do the sit ups with his partner.
Saizou dropped Patrick on the ground, causing him to fall on his but, and walked towards the mat.
"Um, Mr. Kotsubo, can I switch partners?" Patrick asked.
"Why, is there some sort of problem with the two of you together?" Mr. Kotsubo said, as if he didn't know.
"Whatever, why the heck did I bother..." Patrick muttered.
Saizou laid down on the mat, Patrick holding on to Saizou's feet. Mr. Kostubo signaled to start, and miraculously, Saizou managed to do all two-hundred sit ups in the miniscule time-frame, though he was one of the few to do so.
'Okay, think, the longer I stay here with Saizou doing push-ups, the larger the chance he's gonna try to maim me, and there's no way he'll actually count it if I somehow do the number of push-ups in time. So the only way to make sure I can get out of this quickly, is to make him want him to get rid of me, though not in a violent, or bloody way.' Patrick thought.
Patrick laid down on the mat, Saizou having a tight grip on his feet. Kotsubo set the signal to start, and Patrick started on his plan.
"So, you actually don't remember the fight?" Patrick asked, starting the push-ups.
"Shut up, or I'll make you shut up." Saizou told him.
"You know, I didn't even do anything really, actually it was Moka and Mizore that did it."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Saizou said, tightening his grip on Patricks feet.
"I mean, that everyone thinks that it was Tsukune that did all the fighting, but actually, you were beaten up by a girl." Patrick said, ignoring the pain in his feet. "It'd be really bad for a guy like you if something like that got around. Especially if it was put in the School Newspaper."
Saizou grimaced, and as the 60 seconds finished, Saizou let go of his feet, and let him join the other kids who had finished in time. Eventually some of the students managed to finish, but the other half, including Tsukune, didn't finish in time, and got an F for the day.
"Alright, get on the track, every 5 laps on the track is a mile, so run around the track 50 times." He told them, as they lined up. He signaled for them to start.
Mr. Kotsubo grinned as some of the weaker students began to wheeze as they ran.
It's not like Yokai Academy didn't have odd teachers, Patrick was convinced that their English and Homeroom teacher was part Cat, and their Math teacher was... well, she was sort of a flirt. With the students.
Regardless, Patrick was convinced that the worst of the entire staff, was Mr Kotsubo. If it wasn't bad enough that he worked everyone to the extreme limit, but the Students were convinced he was a Pedophile.
"Tsukune, do you think we're gonna live to see tomorrow?" Patrick asked.
"I don't know." Tsukune said. "Now that Saizou's back..."
Patrick thought for a moment before saying, "I think I'm starting to see a pattern. First day, Saizou almost kills us, week later, Mermaids try to kill us, week after that, Gin goes feral, two weeks after that, three lizardmen try to kill us."
"So it's like once a week these guys try to kill us?" Tsukune asked, trying to keep up a proper pace.
"What I don't like, is that it was two weeks since the Lizardmen incident, and it's Friday." Patrick told him.
Patrick eventually finished the run, and collapsed on the ground, soon joined by Tsukune, some of the last students to do so. Patrick stared at the blue sky, trying to remember when last he felt anything his legs.
Mr. Kotsubo looked over the collapsed students as though they were Cockroaches.
"Get up, you still have to partner up on the wrestling mats." He told them.
"Please, please, please, for the love of God, don't pair me up with someone's who's going to try to kill me." Patrick prayed.
"Tsukune Aono is to be paired with Rico Sanchez." He said. Tsukune was rather lucky, Rico wasn't that tough, or mean, he was nice enough.
"Patrick Fairfax is to be paired with Chopper Rikishi." Mr. Kotsubo said.
"Are you trying to kill me?" Patrick asked, trying to get up.
"What's the big deal, step down." Kotsubo told him, looking at him almost disgusted.
"That guy's from the Professional Wrestling Club! The last guy he fought broke both his arms, and his legs, and the guy before that was sent back in a full body cast!" Patrick said.
"You're talking as if I cared for your well being." He said. "Go to the mat over there, and try not to die."
"I am going to die now. I am going to totally die now!" Patrick moaned.
"Hey, it's gonna be alright, it's not like he's gonna act as though this is an actual Wrestling match." Tsukune said, trying to comfort him.
"Yeah, that's what the kid who bumped him in the hallway thought." Patrick said. "Remember the kid they found stuffed in a Urinal?"
"He did that?" Tsukune asked.
"Yeah, I learned all this stuff when I though about Interviewing the Pro Wrestling Club." Patrick told him.
Patrick walked up to the mat, trying his best to keep his legs locked, and not collapse on the spot. He looked up at the kid who was literally twice his size, with muscles that looked like they could lift an elephant.
"So, Pipsqueak, I heard you beat up Saizou on your first day here." Chopper said, sizing him up.
"No, I'm not one to fight, I use my words as my weapons." Patrick said.
"Well, anyway, that's one of the rumors." Chopper told him. "I expect that you come at me with all you got."
"And I hope you don't break any of my bones." Patrick responded.
Mr. Kotsubo signaled for them to start, and the first thing Chopper did was rush at Patrick at the speed of charging Rhinoceros. Patrick ducked in between his legs, and as he got up, Chopper turned around to charge at him again.
"Hey! Be careful there!" Patrick said after dodging another Chopper again.
"I'm gonna let you in on a little secret." Chopper told him. "Mr. Kostsubo said he'd give me extra credit if you get hurt."
"Oh in that case..." Patrick turned to run, pretty fast considering he had to run 20 miles.
"Come on, give me a challenge hear, don't run." Chopper said, chasing after him.
'ImgoingtodieImgoingtodieImgoingtodieImgoingtodie!!!!!' Patrick screamed in his head. He kept running, dodging the other students wrestling on the mats, Chopper following him.
Soon Patrick ran out of breath, and tried using his smaller size to his advantage to dodge him. After awhile it seemed to work but every time Chopper struck at Patrick and missed, which caused a crater to form in the place he had hit instead, the angrier he got.
After awhile, he got so angry, he yelled: "OKAY, IF YOUR NOT GONNA FIGHT ME SERIOUSLY, AND RUN AWAY, I'M NOT GONNA HOLD BACK!!"
Then he turned into his true self, long spine appeared on her back, and his muscles doubled in size, ripping his shirt, and almost, but thankfully not, ripping his shorts off. He doubled in size, now becoming as large as a small building, his neck disappearing between his shoulders, and teeth growing longer and pointed, and horns growing from his forehead.
"ARE YOU GONNA FIGHT ME SERIOUSLY NOW?!!" He bellowed.
"No, I'm gonna run some more." Patrick said, now running as fast as his handicapped legs could carry him.
Everyone on the mats retreated to a safe distance away from Chopper, even Tsukune.
Tsukune turned to Mr Kotsubo to ask for help. "Mr. Kotsubo, he's gonna kill him if you don't stop them!"
"You win the obvious statement of the day award." Mr. Kotsubo said.
"Come on, there's no way that Patrick is gonna survive him!"
"Maybe it'll encourage students to try hard in Gym."
Tsukune looked at Mr. Kotsubo, and to Patrick and Chopper, and back to Mr. Kotsubo, before running into the fray to help Patrick himself.
Back with the assembled gym students, Saizou chuckled to himself. "Heh, that idiot is actually trying to help. At this rate, their both gonna die. Two birds with one stone." Then Saizou was coated in a thick layer of Ice.
"I never did like you." Mizore said, fully transformed, walking into the fray herself.
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Patrick was gasping for breath, and his adrenaline levels were low. He was hiding behind a bench, along with Tsukune, similarly drained, trying to regain something before Chopper grabbed the bench, and continued on his rampage.
Soon, Chopper ripped the bench from the ground, and tossed it somewhere, maybe 50 feet away. Tsukune and Patrick tried to run again, but both of them fell to the ground, completely drained. The best they could was turn around to look at Chopper as they ended their lives.
"It's been nice knowing you." Tsukune said.
"Ditto." Patrick responded.
Before Chopper could smash the two of them out of existence, a wall of Ice materialized between them, and while Chopper smashed through it with no problem, it gave time for Patrick and Trukune to roll out of the way of his fist, and survive.
Suddenly, Mizore, like a ninja, appeared and scooped the two of them, hauled them over her shoulder, and ran as fast as she could, which was certainly faster then either of the two could run, even if they were properly rested.
"Is this Mizore?" Tsukune asked, completely amazed, and shocked at the same time.
"Kinda like an ice-covered Guardian Angel, huh?" Patrick responded.
After they had gotten a safe distance, Mizore put them down, however their legs collapsed beneath them, both completely beat.
"Are you alright?" She asked the two of them.
"Not for long, he's coming after us!" Tsukune pointed out.
Soon, Chopper was upon them, Mizore tried freezing him, but he just shrugged off the Ice chunks, and kept going. When all seemed lost, it was actually Mr. Kotsubo who appeared to save them.
"Mr. Rikishi, your behavior has been unacceptable, you've shown your true form to the entire class, and your conduct has been completely unruly." He said, still looking down at him, despite the fact that Chopper was four times his size.
"YEAH, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT, TEACH? THIS GUY IS REFUSING TO FIGHT ME SERIOUSLY, HE HASN'T EVEN CHANGED OUT OF THAT PATHETIC HUMAN FORM. GET OUT OF THE WAY, OR I'M GONNA HAVE TO STEP ON YOU."
"Unfortunately you've forced me to call in the Student Police." Mr. Kotsubo said.
"HEH, I WAS PLANNING ON CHALLENGING THEIR LEADER ANYWAY." Chopper told him.
"Good, because he's here." Mr. Kotsubo said. Behind Chopper was a young man, in purple robes, followed by other people dressed like he was.
The man was eery, his eyes seemed too slanted. His face was that of someone who knew he had to be right. His hair was exceedingly long, almost all the way down to his feet. Despite that though, the way he walked almost demanded people to acknowledge he was right. Whatever that might be.
"So, your the trash that is messing up something as simple as Gym?" He asked, with an even more superior tone of voice then what Mr. Kotsubo used.
"SO, YOUR KUYOU, THE LEADER OF THE STUDENT POLICE, HUH? WELL, I'LL GLADLY DITCH THIS FIGHT WITH THIS WEAKLING FOR A FIGHT WITH SOMEONE WORTHY." He said.
"Huh, really." Kuyou said. "Well, if you think your so strong, then come at me."
"ALRIGHT, TIME FOR A REAL FIGHT!" Chopper raised his fist to strike at Kuyou, but spontaneously burst into flames, screaming in agony. Kuyou just looked at him like he was simply killing an Ant with a magnifying glass.
After awhile, the flames on his body died out, and Chopper fell to the ground, every part of his body burned.
"He shouldn't be a problem any longer." Kuyou said, who then turned to leave.
Patrick tried to get up, and tried to walk around Chopper's body to Kuyou. Patrick managed to grab on to Kuyou's shoulder, and said: "Hey, man, um... thanks for helping me, I probably would've been killed."
Kuyou wheeled around and punched Patrick in his stomach, sending him falling to the ground.
"Don't touch me weakling. If you are so weak to stay in your Human form while in a fight, then you are unfit to touch me." He said arrogantly before leaving.
Mizore rushed to Patrick's side, to try to help him up, staring in shock as the Student Police left.
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"So, basically, that day, I was pushed to the point of collapse, had to run for my life from something the size of a small building, and then when everything seemed safe, got punched in the gut." Patrick summarized.
Everyone from the Newspaper Club was present, helping Patrick set up for his Horror movie theater, though some with different motives than others.
"Oh, that must have been awful, I wish I could've helped to make you feel better." Kurummu said.
"What I didn't get, was that I asked Mr. Kotsubo to stop it, but he told me he didn't care." Tsukune said, checking the film projector.
"I wouldn't think that Mr. Kotsubo would say something like that." Mizore said, setting up some chairs.
"Are you kidding me? Do I have to mention the fact that he was the one who ran me to exhaustion, and that he paired me up with Saizou, and that other nut in the first place?" Patrick said, looking through a box filled with videos.
"I heard the man's a pedophile." Kurummu said.
"Waah, Pedophiles are scary." Yukari said.
"He's not that type of pedophile Yukari. He is a pedophile to be sure, but I think he only goes for teenagers." Patrick said.
"Heard the old man was once burned for getting rejected by a girl." Gin said, sitting in one of the chairs facing the screen, not doing anything. "Started to stalk her, and the school almost got sued."
"That would be scary, having someone do that." Mizore said.
Everyone stopped what they were doing, and stared at Mizore after she said this. "What?" She asked
"This coming from the stalker girl?" Kurummu said.
"Mizore, you stalk Patrick all the time." Moka pointed out.
"It's not just Patrick. I do it to other people." Mizore said.
"Still..." Moka said.
"That's not much of a defense." Kurummu pointed out.
"Well, I do it because I'm shy. I'm not good with being with people out in the open." Mizore said. "It's different from what your saying Mr. Kotsubo did. If someone didn't want to be in a relationship, I would stop."
"Well, that's better than nothing right?" Tsukune said.
"I still don't think Mr. Kotsubo would do something like that though." She said. "He seems nice enough."
"Yeah so did the Mermaids." Patrick said. "Hey, speak of the devil, they have a Pirana movie! I just noticed this." Patrick said, showing them the cover to an old movie showing a Pirahna swimming towards the cover, teeth bared, with the word Pirahna in ried between it's teeth. "Did you know that the confusion about Pirahna's being man-eaters came from Theodore Roosevelt's expedition to the Amazon."
"Hey, when does the movie actually start?" Gin said.
"We still got about 20 minutes until people begin to show up." Patrick told him. "Right now, we're just setting up. Ah, here it is." Patrick pulled up a video, and handed it to Tsukune. "When Chopper was about to kill me, this movie came into mind, and I think it's fitting that I show it."
"What's it called?" Yukari asked.
"Actually, I'm going to be doing a marathon, first I show King Kong, a giant ape from some island in the Pacific, who's brought to New York, and then goes about destroying the city, then it's Godzilla, basically an Atom Bomb with legs, I find it interesting, since it was first made by the Japanese in the 1950's, and the creature is meant to be an ancient Dinosaur mutated by the test of the Atom Bomb. After that, it' King Kong vs. Godzilla."
"Sounds like a lot." Gin said. "I just wish I had a better way to spend my Saturdays."
"I think it sounds interesting." Kurummu said.
"What's interesting about a big monkey?" Gin asked.
"Let's not fight, alright?" Patrick asked. "Tonight's gonna be busy, and I really appreciate the help, but we should try to work together."
"It's not my fault I can't work with perverts." Kurummu said.
"Well Kurummu, how about you handle the Concessions?" Patrick asked. Patrick guided her to an old Popcorn machine, and a table lined with bottles of different types of sodas. "What you want to do is fill the bags with Popcorn only up to about three quarters, and put lots of ice in the cups, okay?"
"Doesn't sound too hard." Kurummu said.
"Alright, Yukari, you think you can handle the projector?" Patrick asked.
"How does it work?" She asked. Patrick headed over to Yukari to help her with the Projector, leaving Moka and Tsukune, relatively by themselves.
"He really seems driven about the movies." Moka commented.
"Well, he does a really good job." Tsukune said. "I think it's good to have some sort of hobby, helps get rid of stress."
"Yeah, must be really hard for you two." Moka said.
"Well, it's nice having friends like you, and Mizore, and everyone else in the Newspaper club." Tsukune said.
"Yeah, I just wish Kurummu would stop flirting with you so much." Moka said.
"Hey, is it me, or do you sound jealous?" Tsukune asked.
"Well... what if I am? Were supposed to be girlfriend-boyfriend, so I don't like seeing other girls flirting with you." She said.
"It's alright, I think your just being protective." Tsukune told her.
"Tsukune..."
"Hey, sorry to interrupt the moment." Patrick said, completely eliminating all romance in the air. "I kinda need you to get something for me. Can you guys get me some popcorn kernels for the machine, and some sodas from the cafeteria?"
"Oh, no, not at all..." Moka said.
"Um sure..."
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"Today, you will have the pleasure of meeting the worlds most infamous of monsters." Patrick began. "First up, we have an example of when the big guy is beaten by the little guy, how beauty can fell the beast, and why you should understand when to stop. After that, we are given understanding about the proverbial Pandora's Box, about whether someone should chose to do what should be done, and what can be done. Giving life to what is truly feared. And for the finale, we get a battle royal between the two. Remember, as always, this is fiction, these things will not come to being, they are simply embodiments of what we fear." With that, he gave the signal to Yukari to start the film, and King Kong began.
The students were riveted, shocked, and amazed, by the plot lines, and many of the couples were capitalizing on the fact it was dark, and that the scary parts gave them a reason to grab on to each other, Tsukune and Moka included.
At the end of the Film, Patrick came up to give a little information about the movie, and let Godzilla play, and repeated the process for King Kong vs. Godzilla. After all the movies had played, and everyone had left, the Newspaper gathered round, and began to clean up.
"I thought that was really interesting." Kurummu said, sweeping the floors of leftover popcorn.
"It was really scary, that big lizard could've destroyed the world." Yukari said, handing the video's to Patrick.
"Well, it was a personification of the Atomic Bomb, the only two ever used in warfare being dropped on Japan." Patrick said, putting the Video's back in their box.
"I wonder if something like King Kong could exist." Moka wondered.
"I sure hope not. If he does, I hope they don't bring him to New York." Tsukune said.
"You know, I have to say, that was the largest audience I've had so far, I might have to move to a new classroom." Patrick said. "Thanks guys, you made a lot easier. I hope you don't mind if I give you a little something for your troubles."
Patrick began putting out piles of dollar bills. "Come up if you like cash."
Patrick handed out the piles to Kurummu, Moka, Mizore, Yukari, and Tsukune respectively, but when Gin came for his share, he refused to pay him.
"Come on, you paid everyone else!" He said.
"Yeah, everyone else did something. All you did was watch, eat popcorn, and complain." He said.
"As the head of the Newspaper Club, I-" Gin was interrupted as Patrick flicked him on the nose.
"What was that for?" He exclaimed
"Every time you try being difficult, I'm going to be doing that." Patrick told him, pocketing the rest of the money for himself.
"That really hurts you know." Gin said, rubbing his nose.
"Heh, well today's about as normal as it's been since I came hear, so stop complaining, your ruining my mellow." He told him.