Alright this chapter is a little shorter than the other two but who cares about the length, all that matters is the quality. This chapter was kind of rushed because I didn't have any idea how to continue it at some parts, but here it is.
Chapter 3:
Deceiver
"Don't forget class, it's almost time to pick out your school clubs. It will be very great, we'll be selecting them in the gymnasium tomorrow." Nekonome said with her usual cheerful voice.
"Yeah, I don't think I'll be joining any." I said as the bell rang.
"But, you have to. It's not something you choose." Lala said standing up and gathering her things.
"Are you kidding me? Back in my old school you never had to join any extracurricular activities. In fact we never had any clubs." I said grabbing my stuff and walking out with Lala.
"Hey, where are you going? Schools over." Lala said as I turned to go to the headmaster's office.
"I have to go take care of something." I said beginning to walk down the hall.
"So, you would like me to fix your car." Said the headmaster to clarify what I was asking him.
"Yes, the fact is that I'm not a very powerful monster so I have to get something to protect myself." I said to strengthen my request.
"Alright, I'll make your car work in the barrier. But I thought you would have taken the bus." Said the headmaster standing up.
"Where I come from, you're not made fun of when your sixteen and driving." I said with a nervous face.
"Understood." Said the headmaster walking out of his office.
"Good morning Ryker. What's wrong with you?" Lala asked as Ryker walked past her.
"I'm tired. First it was a stalker, who I think may still be following me. Now it's something like the bus in the middle of the night." Ryker said barely able to keep his eyes open.
"I heard the same thing last night. I don't think the bus should be here that late." Lala said walking beside Ryker.
"Ah, man I slept great." I said to myself after yawning.
I walked down the road and then suddenly ran into a girl who was also heading for the school.
"Whoops, sorry about that. Need any help?" I asked holding out her hand.
"No, but thanks. My name is Moka Akashiya, what's yours?" Moka asked standing up.
"Dakota Gire, nice to meet you." I said helping Moka pick up her stuff.
"So are you in Nekonome's homeroom?" Moka asked.
"Yeah, I sit right behind Lala Deviluke." I answered.
"Oh, right. She sits to the right of me." Moka replied as we began walking.
A little ways behind us Minato hid behind a tree still in earshot of hearing us.
Nine hours later...
"I wonder where Moka is all of a sudden?" Ryker asked himself.
"I know where she is. But I'm sure that you won't want to hear it." Said a voice behind Ryker.
"What? Have you been following her?" Ryker asked turning to see Minato behind him.
"She's been off somewhere with a friend of mine. He plans to kill her." Minato said.
"What! Where is he!?" Ryker asked with an angry face.
"He says that he is a powerful vampire. I don't think you want to fight him." Minato said chuckling.
"Where is he! Tell me now or you're brains are going to be painted all over the school's walls!" Ryker said grabbing Minato by the collar.
"Why don't you fight him on your terms. Like where you defeated Saizou, in the middle of the night, and guess what's out tonight." Minato said with an evil smile on his face.
"It's a full moon tonight. I like that, I like that a lot." Ryker said getting a smile.
"He also plans to kill Lala Deviluke, so bring her along just in case he tries to kill her before he goes for you. Bring Moka too, he may try something with her. By the way, don't bother trying to get them to see reason. He's already got a hold over her mind." Minato said as Ryker let go of his collar.
"Understood, now go tell him where to meet me. Then I'll rip him into fifty pieces and mail them to every american state." Ryker said turning and walking away from Minato.
"Yeah, see you guys later." I said walking away from my friends in my new club.
"There you are, Dakota. I've been looking for you everywhere." Minato said walking up to me.
"Why are you here Minato?" I asked with an irritated tone.
"I'm here to tell you some terrible news. There's a werewolf, his name is Ryker, he's threatening to kill Lala and Moka." Minato said in a worried voice.
"Yeah right, how do I know that you're not trying to play me?" I asked beginning to walk away.
"Oh well, don't believe me. It's their lives on the line. I mean after all. You're supposed to be one of the elite vampire." Minato said.
"Lala can take care of herself." I replied.
"No she can't, she trusts him too much. She'll die if you don't go." Minato said turning to walk away.
"Aren't you supposed to be dead from the waist down?" I asked looking back at Minato.
"I'm trying to help you and you make jokes. Yep, you still haven't changed." Minato said walking away.
I stood there for about five minutes trying to come up with a reason to believe Minato.
"Lala, Moka, would you come with me for a minute?" Ryker asked walking up to Lala and Moka who were becoming good friends.
"Uh, sure, where do you want to go?" Moka asked.
"Oh I just want to take a quick walk with you guys." Ryker said turning to begin walking into the forest.
Twelve o'clock, midnight...
"I see that you're here." Ryker said seeing me walking through the tree line.
"Dakota? What's going on here you guys?" Lala asked looking at me and then at Ryker.
"I've found out what he's really been doing. He's been playing both of you, so that he can kill you." Ryker said with an angered face.
"No way, that's impossible." Lala said shaking her head and taking a few steps away from Ryker.
"Is that really true?" Moka asked looking at me with a freaked out look.
"No it's not true! He's playing you both for chumps! He's a werewolf that's trying to kill both of you who, one of you I know is a vampire." I said with an angered tone.
"That's a load of bullshit! Oh forget this, you're dying today!" Ryker exclaimed as the full moon shined down on him.
Ryker jumped at me, transforming into a werewolf mid-jump. I didn't have time to react before Ryker pounced me and tried to maul me. I fired a bullet from a pistol that I had hidden away in a holster in my jacket. The bullet grazed Ryker's cheek but it visibly burned his face. Ryker jumped off and covered the scratch with his hands and howled in pain. I stood up as Ryker fell to his knees.
(Bite Sized Monster Dictionary: Also known as Lycanthrope or Lycan, a werewolf transforms upon the sight of the moon, most commonly the full moon. With the full moon the werewolf gains it's full power. The earliest sightings of the werewolf stretch back to as early as the ancient greeks. Werewolves are people that have the ability to transform and are granted great power and speed upon this transformation. The Werewolf myth was brought to North America by European settlers and quickly integrated into the Native American culture. The most famous werewolves are the European werewolf and the North American werewolf. The European werewolf has speed that is said to match that of many of our cars if not a slow traveling fighter jet. While the North American werewolf [which Ryker is] makes up for it's lack of close to supersonic speeds with it's power that matches a small modern rail gun. Both have great speed and power that is said to rival that of vampires.)
"Ow! What the hell was that!?" Ryker exclaimed in pain.
"It's called a silver bullet. A little birdy told me that you were a werewolf and I already knew a werewolf's weakness. What I lack in physical strength I make up for with my head." I said growing a smirk.
"He came prepared? That means he was planning on killing Ryker and us." Moka said taking a few steps back.
"The hell it does. He must have been tipped off by someone when they heard that Ryker was trying to kill us." Lala said getting angry.
"Where did they go?" Moka asked noticing that we were gone.
Ryker looked around the forest trying to pick up a trace of where I was. He noticed my smell and rushed in my direction. Once he saw me he fell through a hole in the ground.
"What the hell is this!?" Ryker asked holding himself up above sharpened wooden spikes that were pointed up towards the hole's opening.
"It's called a hole." I answered aiming my pistol.
"Why don't you fight me!? Don't use these stupid traps!" Ryker exclaimed.
"Because it's fun this way." I said getting ready to fire my pistol.
Ryker leaped out of the hole knocking my pistol out of my hands. I pulled out the shovel that I used to dig the hole as Ryker tried to attack me. I blocked Ryker's attack and pushed him back. I swung the shovel and made a large cut on Ryker's nose.
"What the hell is that!?" Ryker exclaimed covering his scratch.
"It's an entrenchment tool or E-tool. Used by the greatest special forces in the world, the Green Beret's. I ordered it to have a special silver edge. It wasn't made to be used for a cutting tool, but I think it works just fine." I said with a smile.
"I'm starting to think that you're not a vampire at all, I'm starting to think that you're human." Ryker said with an angered face.
"Listen, I think we've both been played for suckers. I think I know who did it too. I'm going to use my sniper rifle here to shoot off his arm. If you want to help me then get him into position. If you don't and decide to attack me right now then I have a silver fifty calibur bullet already in it ready to shoot at your head." I said pointing at my sniper rifle.
"How did you get all of this stuff?" Ryker asked.
"I know a few people. I ran out of gas, or Sodium Borohydride, I'm not going to get into the scientific crap, since my car is runned by a hydrogen fuel cell, in Rapid City and met a black market arms dealer there. He's not that bad actually if you move passed the fact that when I met him he just killed to cops in a needless firefight." I answered.
"I help you, I don't like being played." Ryker said popping his knuckles.
"That's good. I can already tell that we are going to quickly become good friends." I said with a small grin growing on my face.
"I'm glad that you girls could make it out of there okay." Minato said as Lala and Moka walked out of the tree line at the academy's main building.
"Minato! You caused this didn't you!?" Lala exclaimed in anger.
"Yes actually I did. It's time to repay them by making them kill each other and then I kill both of you." Minato explained.
"I wonder, do you really want to die that badly?" Kurumu asked walking up to the group with Mizore.
"Why Ryker? He's never done anything to you." Moka said with an irritated face.
"Oh that is just an added bonus." Minato said with a sinical grin.
"Too bad, you didn't get your bonus." Ryker said walking out of the tree line with a bleeding severed arm.
"Ah so you killed him?" Minato asked.
"Yeah, he wasn't even able to cry out for help." Ryker said chuckling.
"So what happened?" Minato asked.
"He tried to convince me that you were playing me. I knew he was telling the truth but I just wanted to kill him. He seemed like he would squirm a lot... he did." Ryker said chuckling.
"Very good. Now if I let you keep Moka then you'll let me kill the other three?" Minato asked.
"By all means, go right ahead." Ryker said as Minato began to face the tree line.
Suddenly a loud bang rang out throughout the school just before Minato's right arm fell off. Minato dropped to his knees screaming in pain. I ran out of the tree line with both of my arms still on my body.
"Did I get him?" I asked looking around before looking down to see Minato.
"Yeah... you got him." Ryker said dropping the arm he had in his hand.
"Wait... what the hell's going on?" Lala asked looking at the two of us and then back down at Minato.
"Well... we figured out that Minato was playing us. So we decided to work together. I got a fake arm and poured fake blood on it to make it seem like he ripped off my arm and I was having a bleed out in the forest. While Ryker had Minato distracted I was aiming a sniper rifle and preparing to hit his right arm. It seems like I hit my mark." I said looking down at Minato who was lying in his blood on the ground.
"Maybe we should take him to the hospital." Lala said as Minato began to lose consciousness.
"Yeah, maybe we should." Ryker said helping Minato up.
"Looks like Minato was taken out of school for a couple of months for rehabilitation, to get him to learn how to write with his left hand." Lala said reading a newspaper that Moka had just given her.
"Good riddance. Again don't take this the wrong way but I'm sick of monsters." I said with a sigh.
"I have one question for you though, are you a human?" Ryker asked.
"No, of course not... why would I be standing here if I were a human?" I asked with a nervous face.
"Exactly, the school board would've found him and killed him by now if he was a human." Lala said with the same nervous face.
"I guess you're right." Ryker replied.
Behind us a man with white hair and black highlights in the back of his head was leaning next to a tree with a smile on his face.
"I've finally found you... Lala." Said the man.
To Be Continued...