A/N: Sorry that it took so long for me to update. I was trying to work on two prjects at the same time. And I just foung out that a little of the information I put into the last chapter may have been a bit inaccurate. Thanks to the unreliable Wikipedia, I had no idea that Saizou's father was actually Ko. If nobody minds, I'll keep that part in the story, since I can't think of any other was of interpreting it. Anyway, here's the next chapter.

Moka hastily pulled the rubble off of Tsukune's back as battle erupted behind her.

"Can you move yet?" she asked.

"No. My body is going numb." Tsukune grunted.

As Moka continued to dig Tsukune up, something flew into her, throwing her into the ground.

"I'm not done with you yet." Seiteki panted.

Moka kicked her off. "You're still weak, Seiteki. I could kill you easily."

"Sure you could. You could've killed me while we were still at the school. But you didn't. Why?"

Seiteki pointed one tail at Tsukune.

"All the crap you were pulling about me when I first arrived at school was 'for the sake' of whom?"

Seiteki pointed another tail at Tsukune.

"And I never told you this, but I spared your life TWICE last year! One time was out of inconvenience, but the other time, in the back of my mind, I didn't want to kill you, because if I did, WHO would be crushed?"

Seiteki pointed the rest of her tails.

"Tsukune might as well put a collar on you and drag you around by the ear. You're pretty much his pet. And if I know Tsukune as well as I think I do, he's not going to let you kill me."

"I don't care what Tsukune thinks about me or you. I don't care if he grieves for you after I kill you, but believe me, when I'm done here, there won't be ANYTHING LEFT to grieve over!"

Moka ran forward to throw a punch. Seiteki tried to block it, but her weakness made it nearly impossible to defend herself. Moka mercilessly stepped on her head, keeping her pinned in place.

"Any last words, you louse?"

Not too far away, Megami kept one eye on Seiteki while continuing to focus on her own opponent.

'Hm. I've already cleaved my life in half to give her memory and powers back. What's another ninth of it to give her a step up?' She thought, pointing a tail at Seiteki and zapping her with a golden stream of energy.

Megami dropped to one knee in weakness, giving Ko an opportunity to give a jarring kick which sent Megami flying backwards.

Seiteki, who was severely close to unconsciousness, began to twitch. All of a sudden, a sixth tail burst from her rear.

Imbued with new strength, Seiteki defied Moka and pushed her off of her.

"I'll thank Mom later. She always does so much for me." Seiteki said.

Moka swung her body around in a powerful roundhouse kick, but Seiteki just caught her foot, stopping Moka dead in her tracks and leaving her in a precarious position.

Seiteki gave her own kick, straight into Moka's jaw. She flew into the mound of rubble that was on top of Tsukune.

"Moka, help me out of here! She's too powerful to beat on your own!" Tsukune pleaded.

Moka ignored Tsukune and stood.

"Wow. You're doing an EXCELLENT job of hiding your pride, Moka. I don't know, nor do I really care to know what happened between you and Tsukune, but whatever rusty staples you have in your respective consciences don't bother me."

Moka brushed the dust off of her shoulder and prepared to strike again.

***

Kokoa ducked and weaved away from Rujutan's powerful punches and kicks, which became increasingly swift.

Rujutan prepped for a roundhouse kick that Kokoa found that she was unable to avoid, so she turned Kou into a steel shield. Rujutan couldn't pull out of the kick and smashed her heel into Kou.

The kitsune's shattered heel rebounded painfully, making her unable to walk and forcing her to stand on one foot.

"You haven't won yet. My foot should be all fixed up in the next thirty seconds or so." Rujutan said.

"Then I'll have to finish you in twenty-nine!" Kokoa said, turning Kou into a large axe and swinging it at Rujutan. She hopped backwards progressively away from Kokoa. After one golden swing, Kokoa caught part of Rujutan's jacket.

Before Kokoa could bring the axe down on top of her, Rujutan, planted her healed other foot on the ground and sidestepped, using the opportunity to deliver a jarring punch which forced Kokoa to release Kou and sent her flying into a building behind her.

Rujutan crouched to all fours and assumed her full kitsune form. She spit a wad of fox fire onto her paw. All of a sudden, the fire began to spread until it had completely engulfed her body. The fire began to contort and warp itself until it formed the shape of a cat-fox like creature with five thrashing tails. Suddenly, large, yellow, bulbous eyes appeared on her face, completing Rujutan's Nibiru form.

Almost instantly, Rujutan's eyes shriveled in the light, blinding her.

"How are you going to fight me now? You can't see." Kokoa said.

"True, but to compensate, my senses of smell and hearing are heightened." Rujutan said, pouncing at Kokoa. She managed to catch her and pin her to the ground, singing her clothes.

"Now die!" Rujutan yelled, preparing to bite down on Kokoa's head. All of a sudden, a slab of rock flew through the air and slammed into Rujutan. The thrower, Kurumu, flew down to the ground and helped Kokoa to her feet.

"Need help?" Kurumu asked Kokoa.

"Of course not! Didn't you see that I had the situation under control?" the carrot-haired vampire said with strong sarcasm in her voice.

Rujutan began to stand, having landed inside the large building behind her. The fire that covered her body activated the smoke alarm, causing her sensitive ears pain and discomfort.

"Aw, man! She ruined my favorite perfume store!" Kurumu whined.

"Perfume… That's it! That's how we can beat her!" Kokoa said. "Kurumu, what are the strongest-scented perfumes in the store?"

"The most expensive ones, Le Flora Plume. They're in the back, so I don't think she touched those, thank goodness."

Kokoa ran into the wrecked store and straight to the rear of it. She grabbed a vial of Le Flora Plume, then ran back to Kurumu.

"What about the worst-smelling ones?"

"Sora de la PePe. Those are near the storage area. What do you want with all these-"

Kurumu stopped as Kokoa ran off again. She grabbed a vial of purplish liquid. Rujutan had overcome her disorientation and roared at Kokoa as she ran by. The large green Nibiru clumsily tried to follow Kokoa around the store, knocking over racks of items. Kokoa was grabbing as many different brands of perfume as she could.

Once she had reached her carry limit, she began to toss the bottles at Rujutan's nose. They broke as they collided, splashing perfume all over Rujutan's face, which quickly evaporate into a murky, scented cloud that loomed around Rujutan's head.

"What are you doing? You're wasting perfectly good perfume!" Kurumu yelled.

"I'm trying to trigger a sensory overload." Kokoa said. As Rujutan stumbled around, confused out of her mind with all the smells gathering around her, Kokoa grabbed Kou, who was still stuck in the ground.

"Thank goodness! I was starting to get a headache."

Kokoa turned Kou into a boomerang and threw him into the sprinkler system, making them spray water all over Rujutan. The pained Nibiru hissed and crouched down low to the ground. Slowly, the fire dissipated and Rujutan reverted back to her kitsune form, paralyzed.

Kokoa caught Kou in the air and turned him into an axe again.

"Get the tails! Get the tails!" Kurumu said. Kokoa brought her axe down hard on Rujutan's five tails, cleanly severing them all.

Her eyes widened and she screeched in pain, then she fell limp.

"Still a bad way to use perfume, but good plan, Kokoa." Kurumu said, giving her friend a high-five.

***

After being cannoned in the stomach, Kahlua skidded backwards into a wall, showing little signs of pain, despite the huge bruise around her naval. Kenage was smiling almost cheerfully.

"Is this a game to you?" Kahlua asked, her eyes becoming misty.

"As a video game addict, avid beta tester, and number one ranked nationally on Urban Rivals Japan, EVERYTHING is a game to me. I'm hoping that you won't make this one of those crappy games that you can get for $7.99 at Target."

"Well, don't worry." Kahlua said ominously. With tears in her eyes, she removed one of her earrings. Her left arm began to twitch, then suddenly exploded into a freakish bat wing with five sharp 'talons'.

All of a sudden, Kahlua began to bawl loudly, running forward and wildly swinging her arm at Kenage, who sprung backward onto the top of a light pole, where he launched swift balls of fire at Kahlua. She was able to sparingly avoid them and run her claws through the light pole, sending it toppling to the ground.

When Kenage fell to the ground, Kahlua tried to bring her claws down on his head. He rolled out of the way and launched a fox fireball into Kahlua's blind spot.

"Stand still so I can kill you!!" Kahlua bellowed, running forward and plunging her claws into Kenage's torso.

"Hm. This hurts less than I thought it would." Kenage grunted. Kahlua's jaw dropped.

"What are you?"

"I'm as much a kitsune as you are a vampire. My endurance traits are just a lot more advanced than an average kitsune. It's going to take much more than that to kill me. Now, enough idle chat."

Kenage kicked Kahlua hard in the stomach, tearing her claws out of his body.

"The game is on."

Kahlua stumbled backwards, still shaken slightly. Kenage shot his tails forward, grabbing Kahlua around her waist.

"Let go of me!" she yelled as Kenage raised her into the air and slammed her into the ground.

"I said let go of-" Kahlua said as she was raised into the air and pummeled into the ground again.

"You and I are alike. You have a very high pain tolerance as well." Kenage pointed out. "But now it's time to end your game for good."

He bound Kahlua's arms and legs with four of his tails. He them pulled his arms back, preparing to launch a huge ball of fox fire.

Before he could finish, a large cloud of ice struck him, freezing him solid. Mizore appeared from behind him.

"I think your game is frozen." she said.

Kenage's arm broke free from its icy casing. He used it to punch the rest of the ice, freeing himself.

"Ha ha. Very funny." Kenage said, shivering. He extended his arm to launch a fox fireball, which cruised slowly through the air. Mizore ducked to avoid it.

"Wow. That was much slower than usual. You must be lagging." Mizore taunted, smiling.

'Hypothermia. It's slowing me down.' Kenage thought. He charged a fox fireball in his hand and threw it on the ground, sending up a giant cloud of smoke.

"You can't fight me if you can't see me."

"Are you going to upgrade your system in the meantime?" Mizore called, coughing. After several seconds of stumbling around in the heavy smoke, Mizore called out.

"Kahlua! I can't find you! Can you throw me a bone?"

"I'm over here!" called her voice after several more seconds. All of a sudden, Kahlua ran out of the smoke, up to Mizore.

"Come on, let's get out of this smoke before that game geek finds us.

"Idiot." Kahlua said.

"Huh?" Mizore said, before Kahlua shoved her claws into Mizore's heart.

"I am that game geek."

Suddenly, Kahlua's face morphed into Kenage's.

"I morphed into Kahlua to put you off guard."

"Then…where's…" Mizore wheezed.

"Kahlua? Already killed her. What's left of her is sitting over there."

As the smoke cleared, Mizore noticed that Kahlua's mutilated body was lying nearby.

"And now you're joining her." Kenage said, running his claws through Mizore's body. She collapsed to the ground.

"Well, that takes care of-"

Kenage stopped as two sets of icy and freakish claws delved into his body. On either side of him, Mizore and Kahlua had shoved their claws into Kenage's chest.

"How…" Kenage grunted.

"Me and Mizore had a couple of extra lives." Kahlua said.

"Nice." Mizore said, giving Kahlua a thumbs-up with her free hand.

On the ground nearby, the corpses of Mizore and Kahlua began to melt into water.

"They were my ice clones. We quickly coordinated this while the smoke was still heavy. You've got to admit, that's some good strategy." Mizore said, erecting ice spikes from her claws that ravaged Kenage's body.

Kenage spit up a massive clod of blood.

"He he he. You think it's game over, don't you? Not yet. Welcome to the sudden death round." Kenage wheezed.

"What are you clamoring on about?" Mizore asked.

"You haven't thought this all the way through. I'm still alive, and I've got one more game-changer. Look at your claws. What do you notice?"

Mizore looked at her and Kahlua's hands. She noticed that their claws were interlocked.

"Yeah, so?"

Kenage quickly rotated his body to the right, locking Kahlua's wrist in place and placing strain on Mizore's hand.

"Now your claws are hemmed in. You can't escape."

Mizore and Kahlua tried to pull their claws out. Neither could move their wrists correctly.

"Okay. You've trapped our hands in your chest. What now?"

"I'm glad you asked." Kenage said, his voice lowering to a whisper. "I'm going to die in a few moments. The moment before I do, I'm going to rig myself to explode. And since you can't escape… Well, let's just say that I'll save you a spot in hell. TTFN."

Kenage went silent. Suddenly, his tails stiffened and straightened out. The tips of them lit up with fox fire and began to burn down like fuses.

"He's a bomb! We have to get out of here!" Kahlua said.

"There's no way we can do this without tearing out our arms!" Mizore panicked.

Kahlua tried her hardest to pull her claws out, all attempts in vain.

"Man! It's like one of those Chinese finger traps that I got in Hong Kong!" Mizore said in frustration.

Kahlua gasped, her brain scattering. "I know how to do those! You just push your fingers in, THEN pull them out. Wait… That's it!! Push your hand further in, then pull it back out! Hurry!"

Kahlua and Mizore simultaneously pushed their hands in, freeing their wrists. They quickly pulled out and leaped away, not a moment to soon. Kenage exploded in a large cloud of green fire and smoke.

"Wow. That's the biggest firewall I've ever seen." Mizore said. "Kahlua?"

Mizore looked over at Kahlua and saw that she was on the ground, passed out from her injuries.

"Go figure."

***

Megami began to pant hard. She and Ko stood face-to-face in the center of the street.

"Hm. I'd have thought that after twenty-five years, you'd have gotten stronger, Megami. I guess that for the first time in a LONG time, I was wrong. Ironically, it's the first time in twenty-five years. Can you guess who I was wrong about?"

Megami spit on the ground, then stood up straight. "You never did have a sense of humor, old man."

"Well, this isn't a battle of wits, OLDER woman."

Megami charged a ball of fox fire in her hand and threw it at Ko, who dodged to the right.

"Oh, so it's dodgeball we're playing now. Fine, then." Ko said, concentrating his monstrous aura into an orb. He threw it hard at Megami who just barely dodged it.

In response, Megami rapidly launched a myriad of fox fireballs. Ko jumped onto the side of the building beside him, but the cloud of fireballs followed him. He jumped from wall to wall, but the cloud continued to stalk him. One fireball blasted forward, striking a jutting flagpole that Ko was going to use as support. He fell to the ground, landing on his feet. The fireball cloud all fused together, forming a large blob of fox fire that slammed into the ground where Ko was standing.

"Yes!" Megami said. All of a sudden, a large ball of monstrous aura smashed into her, sending her flying. Ko was standing a little ways away, where he used his blinding speed to escape the fox fire. Ko snapped him fingers and the ball exploded.

"Gotcha. You're out." he said.

***

Moka and Seiteki had their arms locked in a test of strength. During which, Seiteki smiled.

"My memories are resurfacing pretty quickly, and I just remembered something cool I could do."

"What?" Moka asked.

"This."

Suddenly, Seiteki's eyes turned red.

Moka gasped, remembering Seiteki's mid-control abilities, but it was far too late. Her eyes turned red and Moka stood up straight.

"I am under your command."

"Moka!" Tsukune called.

"I'll be with you in a second, cutie. Right after I figure out how to dispose of HER."

"Moka! Snap out of it!"

"Oh, please. You can't do anything from where you are." Seiteki laughed. "Now, what to do with you? Should I make you jump off of a building? Or maybe drown in the harbor? Or…"

While Seiteki was gloating, Tsukune spied a small rock, then looked back at Moka, specifically her broken hand. Tsukune picked up the rock and threw it and Moka's hand. It hit her dead on target.

Moka yelped and her eyes snapped back to normal. She turned quickly to Tsukune.

"YOU SON OF A-"

Moka stopped, realizing that she was still fighting. She turned again, swiftly backhanding Seiteki in the face.

"I'll kill you later." Moka said to Tsukune, as a way of thanks. She and Seiteki began to struggle again, and Seiteki got the upper hand. She ended up on top of Moka, trying to choke her to death.

"Seiteki! Don't do this!" Tsukune yelled. "You're a better person than that! I know that the better you is in there somewhere! Bring it back! This isn't you! Bring back the REAL you!"

"This…is…the real…me…" Seiteki said, her grip loosening slightly on Moka's neck.

"No it's not! You're just a shadow of yourself! I know the other you is in there somewhere! Come back!"

"Ah! I have a headache!" Seiteki said, releasing Moka to clutch her head.

"Aah!! It's getting worse!"

At this point, Seiteki was on her knees, crying because the pain was so intense. Suddenly, her head snapped up and her tears stopped.

"Tsukune? Noka?"

"She's back!" Tsukune said. "Can you help me out of here now, Moka?"

Moka stood up, still trying to catch her breath. She and Seiteki pulled the rest of the rubble off of Tsukune, helping him to stand up.

Seiteki was about to speak, but she knelt down again, clutching her head. She slowly stood, her left eye shut tight. Her right eye was wide, bloodshot, and fierce.

"I'm not…going to lose…control!!!"

Seiteki's two personalities were locked in a subconscious war. Suddenly, the fierce Seiteki's eye closed, and her left eye, which was gentler and misty, opened.

"Help me, please! I can't keep this up!"

"What can we do?" Tsukune asked.

"Exactly. What CAN we do? She's fighting with herself, and there's no way we can tap in." Moka said.

Seiteki's body began to convulse and she dropped to the ground, letting out a huge scream.

She stopped, lying face-down and panting. When she stood, both eyes were open, and her expression was very different than either of the other two. Her smile was neither shy nor malicious, but rather mischievous.

"Wow! That sure was a wild ride! But I'm all good now." she said. "Moka! Tsukune! You guys look great!"

"Seiteki?" Moka asked suspiciously.

"That's ma' name!" she said with a huge toothy grin.

"Interesting… Her two personalities have somehow combined."

"Hey, guys! We did it! We beat'em all!" Kurumu said. She gasped when she saw Seiteki, putting her claws to her neck.

"Whoa! Sharp!" Seiteki said.

"Why is she still here?" Mizore asked.

"Calm down a second. Something happened to her. Her personalities have fused somehow."

"Tsukune did it." Seiteki said.

Everyone stared at Tsukune in confusion. Tsukune looked equally confused.

"When you yelled encouraging things to me, my old personalities began to fight each other. They fought so much, that eventually, they just splat together, making me!"

Everyone's attention shifted when Ko landed on the ground next to them, sweating.

"Don't relax yet." he warned.

Suddenly, Megami walked down the street, toward them.

"You think you've won, don't you… Not even close! I've only just begun to fight!!!" Megami screamed, crouching down to all fours.

Light began to emanate from her body as sleek, golden fur began to cover her.

The light slowly began to amplify, to the point where everyone else had to shield their eyes. When the light diminished, Tsukune was the first to look. He gasped. The rest of the group slowly opened their eyes and they had the same expression as Tsukune. Before them was a large golden fox with glaring red eyes and bright light shining around it.

"Face my true power!" Megami yelled in a malevolent voice.