Persona Vampire Chapter 2, a Rosario + Vampire + Persona Series Crossover fanfic

Chapter 2

Full moon + Vampire

Poke poke

Poke-

"I'm awake…" I mutter as I give in to the poking and prodding. "Took you long enough Mina-Kun." Came the voice. A very familiar voice.

I rocket up from bed and stare at the boy in front of me. Slicked back hair, yellow scarf, white button up, all of it tinged green by the dark hour. Wait what!?

I turn my head out the window and gape in disbelief at the green sky, the full moon taunting me. How? Why? I thought I stopped NYX.

This can't be happ-

SMACK!

"Get a hold of yourself Mina-Kun!" shouted Ryoji Mochizuki.

"What the hell is happening Ryoji?" I ask, holding my face where he slapped me. "You are sleeping." He says as he takes a seat in my desk chair.

"how are you here?" he is no mere dream. He smiles and says, "I never left you."

I frown and get ready to argue that he VERY much did.

"Hold on, let me explain." He stands up and pulls a white board out from…?

Oh yeah, dreaming.

"let me explain before you have an aneurism. When I became Ryoji I left behind Pharos, he became Thanatos, The persona you received by creating an unbreakable bond with me. When I awoke as the appraiser and showed you my form as Thanatos, I left behind Ryoji Mochizuki and you accepted that part of me. My humanity." He draws a neat little diagram showing his forms as Pharos and Ryoji and filling in a picture of Thanatos' helmet. "You had the form, the personality, and all that was left was the essence. And when you faced the NYX avatar, you chipped away at that essence. Leading to you ascending past your humanity and sealing NYX." He shows Nyx locked behind a door. "And that's when you died."

I look at the diagram, and ponder how the sentence 'that's how you died' should really bother me more than it does. "what you fail to realize Minato, is that Nyx never wanted this to happen." I already know that. She was only doing what humanity asked of her. As depressing as that is.

"Exactly!" he's reading my mind?

"No, you are dreaming. Your thoughts are basically just loud whispers here."

Oh.

"anyway, Erebus is the one who is forcing her to cause the fall. You kept him from her. You saved her from ending humanity. She loves you for that."

Oh, I didn't think about it from that side of things.

"of course not, Nyx was your enemy until the end, and she understands that. But that brings us to the here and now." He puts the whiteboard away.

He walks up to me and says with pride. "She gave you the greatest gift she could. ME!"

…

..?

"You seem confused."

Really? I hadn't noticed.

"Ok, listen, you had pieces of me in you as Thanatos, right?" he says in exasperation.

I get that, it's how Thanatos kept getting livelier.

"exactly, and now you are here alive, and NYX has given the rest of my existence to you."

So, you are in my head.

"More than that Mina-Kun, The entirety of me is inside your head."

That's what I said?

"No, you are thinking too small. Let me put it clearer." he says as he opens my window.

"Come on, let's go somewhere with more space."

I shrug and we climb out the window.

Suddenly we are standing on the roof of Tartarus.

"Much better. Now, let me show you what I mean."

Ryoji, grabbed his scarf and took it off. I watched in amazement as the scarf morphed into the coffins of Thanatos, moving behind Ryoji and opening up. From the coffins came black shadows, covering Ryoji and enshrouding him in Thanatos' clothes. He ran his hand through his hair, and Thanatos' helmet appeared on his head. Finally, a coffin presented itself to him, and from it he drew Thanatos'… no, HIS sword.

Ryoji was Thanatos. Not the persona. The god of death.

"You understand now." His voice was hollow, raspy, cold.

I understand Ryoji.

"Good, I'm not sure I could explain any better." He dissipates his form and returns as Pharos.

"I am limited to existing within you, manifesting my power through your persona of me. But I will be glad to help you when I can. I can travel to the Makai, and other realms separate from yours to seek out aid in the form of Demons who may lend you their power in the form of personas, weapons, or other blessings."

That sounds useful, but I think I'm strong enough to keep myself safe.

"for now, but I'm sure you noticed that without the dark hour helping you, your persona capabilities have been reduced." Of course, I noticed, but I'm still strong enough. "For now. But the future is going to be difficult. Trust me, and let me help where I can?"

All right.

"Good, now it's time for you to wake up, for real this time."

Oh, right. School.

-P+V-

I walk to class, observing the student body as I go. Most of them look like normal high school kids, though some of them clearly can't hold up their disguises this early in the morning. I overhear so much gossip. Little of it is consequential, but I hear a little bit of useful info in the end.

Apparently, I beat up someone named Saito, though the name doesn't sound all that familiar, so it seems like the general populus takes my stoicism to mean I'm some sort of psycho. Not the best, but it could be worse.

Suddenly the voices change to a praise of a certain vampire I have become acquainted with. And sure enough, here she comes. Moka walks down the path and the entire area stares at her. I swear, it's Mitsuru all over again. I decide to both say hello and piss off the sycophants.

"Akashiya-San." I say as I wave to her. Her eyes light up as she looks to me and shouts, "Minato!" as she runs towards me.

HA! They look like they want to strangle you Minato!

I know right?

Wait.

Ryoji?

I'm in your head, remember?

Oh yeah.

Suddenly, I feel teeth in my neck. Moka is drinking my blood again. "Did you really forget breakfast again?" I ask as I quietly heal my wound.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I just love your blood! I think I may become addicted to you." She says with a blush. I just sigh and we go to class.

-P+V-

After class, I head to the lunchroom to see what they have, Moka takes a separate trip to her dorm to grab a blood bag after I scolded her for expecting me to just feed her my own blood.

She wasn't joking about the addiction, was she?

Doesn't seem like it.

As I walked, I heard a girl's voice. "won't someone please help me? I feel so weak." I turned to see girl with light blue hair crawling on the ground near the incinerator. I hurry over and help her up.

"Are you ok? What happened?" I ask as I pulse a slight dia into her.

"I don't know, I've always been delicate. I just had this spasm, it felt like my chest might burst." She says as she leans into me. Heavily.

I guess hanging out with Keisuke will come in handy after all. "Let me check what's wrong with you." I say as I put my hand to her forehead. No fever.

"You know medicine?" she asks. "I had a friend who did, and I may have picked up a thing or two. Does your heart feel strange?"

She gets a smirk on her face as she says," oh, I don't know. Why don't you check?" I nod and put my ear to her chest, her breasts are large for her age so it's somewhat hard to hear her heartbeat, but it seems to be stable, just a little fast.

I can't believe I'm seeing this…

What are you talking about Ryoji?

Suddenly the girl says, "hey, can you look me in the eye for a second?" I look her in the eye, and suddenly I realize I've been played.

"My name is Kurumu Kurono, Lets be good friends, OK?" she's a succubus.

I know you haven't actually met one before, but dude. She was all over you.

Shut up Ryoji, you know if 'somebody' didn't steal my Narcissus flower in Kyoto, I wouldn't have to worry about being charmed.

Hey, you didn't need to wear it in public where I could just take it from you. I thought I was human at the time, there was no way I could have known it was a rare magic version of the flower!

My point still stands.

She leads me around and keeps me just far enough under her control to keep me from resisting. After a bit she asks me to wait down the hall from Moka, just out of sight. This can only be bad.

I can help you break through this you know.

I know, but the backlash would hurt her if you did. And I would be a hypocrite if I did that after letting Moka drink from me.

She is controlling your mind.

And we don't know why. Maybe she just thinks it's how she's supposed to make friends, or-

"Operation: Yokai Harem! My plan to enslave the entire male populus of the school!"

…

Shut up Ryoji.

I didn't say anything.

With my own effort I break her charm and walk up to them. "Kurono-San. I think we should talk."

She looks to me in surprise but plays into it.

"Oh, Minato! Let's go, you don't want to be her personal juice box after all." She grabs me by the arm and starts to drag me off, but I stand my ground.

She seems surprised, but she doesn't seem to realize the situation. "Come on Minato~ lets go somewhere private." She purrs.

I'm no longer giving her the benefit of the doubt.

"you shouldn't have used your charm magic on me. It doesn't work like you want it to." I say, my expression remaining flat.

"What? How could you resist? It's her isn't it!" she goes from confused to furious in a split second. This is getting out of hand.

"Fine! Then I'll just kill the both of you!" she shouts as she transforms.

The only change to her is the wings and tail she sprouts, but she has a bit of power to her. The way her nails sharpen isn't lost on me as they pierce my wrist.

I pull my hand from her grasp and hop back towards Moka.

You can't defend her and yourself at the same time, you know. Not without killing the succubus.

I know, that's why I'm going to let her defend herself.

I reach to Moka's Rosario and remove it. As she transforms, the other students flee, terrified by the strength Moka is giving off.

When the other Moka opens her eyes she looks at me. "you let me out for this harlot?" she asks with a raised eyebrow.

"only so I don't have to worry about your other side getting hurt." I say as I focus on Kurumu.

She looks surprised but determined. She charges towards us, and I redirect her momentum, tossing her through the window.

I hop put behind her, idly noting Moka following me.

Kurumu has taken to the sky.

"What does she have that I don't, huh!? What makes her so damned special!?" she shouts as she dive bombs me, nails now long enough to be compared to a sword.

I roll backwards, letting her fly right over me, and plant my feet into her sternum. She is winded ang ends up crashing into the school building.

Out of the corner of my eye I see the awakened Moka watching with interest. However, my attention remains primarily on Kurumu.

She stands up and glares at me. "so you are the kind of 'man' who would hit a girl huh?"

Moral high ground? The hypocrisy is almost comedic.

"anyone who would come at me with intent to kill would receive the same response." I say as I put my hands in my pockets.

I need to find a way of incapacitating her without just killing her. Something about her doesn't feel like she is evil. There's more about this I don't know.

She charges me again and I bend as if I'm going to repeat my previous tactic. She sees this and adjusts her trajectory.

This time I kick her in the face instead.

"You have no idea how to fight." I say.

"So what? After I kill you, I'll practice more. I have no choice!" comes her frustrated retort.

She looks a mess, her uniform is torn and filthy, and she's bleeding from her nose. Looks like I broke it.

"What choice is it you lack?" I ask as I start dodging her wild slashing.

"None of your business! You should have just stayed my slave, then everything would be perfect!" comes her reply.

"If not me, than someone worse." I say.

"what's that supposed to mean?" she growls, as she lands and stares me down.

"Have I made any attempt to kill you? Most people who wake up from mind control get rather upset." I say as I dust off my pants. "Most monsters would be even more extreme, I would think."

She grimaces and looks unsure for a moment before she looks back at me with resignation. "then why haven't you?"

I tilt my head. "Why haven't I what?"

You aren't really that dense, are you?

She needs to ask the question, or I cant give her the answer she needs.

"Why haven't you killed me! You said it yourself; I have no idea how to really fight! You haven't taken a single hit from me; you haven't taken your hands from your pockets since your first move!" she is breaking down now. I feel kinda bad about this now.

She tried to in order; mind control you , ruin your friendship with Moka, make you emotionally hurt Moka, and kill you. Why should you feel bad?

Look at her and tell me you don't feel bad.

You do remember that I'm both Ryoji and Thanatos, right? I like a pretty face and all, but I also love the dead. Her dying is literally the most beautiful thing I can imagine involving her.

…

I kinda forgot Thanatos was like that.

That's a morbid combination of personalities.

Anyway.

"because you aren't a bad person." I say, as I walk up to her.

She looks at the hand I offer her. "What?" she says, confusion clear on her face.

"You don't feel like a bad person. You've done bad things, yes, but mistakes are part of living. Without them you never change. And if you never change you never get the chance to be alive." I say, my empty face turning to a slight smile.

As she stares at my hand, I see Moka walking over to us.

Kurumu sees her and pales as she starts backpedaling on the ground.

"Calm yourself succubus. At most, I feel a mild distain at you for what you tried to do. Honestly my anger was satisfied watching you get played with by Minato." Says Moka as she walks over.

I look at her and realize she has been sizing me up for the whole fight.

I decide to call her out on it. "What did you learn?"

She smirks, "good combat awareness, excellent flexibility, decent speed, and good focus. If I weren't afraid I'd kill you by accident I would try and spar with you."

I return her smirk with one of my own. "Maybe if we have to deal with multiple foes at once we can fight alongside another." I say as I walk to Kurumu again.

"come on, I'm sure your tired by now. Let's all of us get some lunch." I say as I reach out to her again.

This time she only hesitates for a moment before she grasps my hand.

"Thou Art I... And I am thou... Thou Shalt have our Blessing When thou choosest to create a Persona of the Lover's Arcana."

How appropriate

-P+V-

We walk to he cafeteria, it's after school, so very few people are here.

We get some food from the lunch ladies, and sit near the corner of the room,

Surprisingly, the awakened Moka is still out. And she seems content to join us.

Kurumu sits and stares at her plate. Not that I can blame her. The food here is surprisingly high quality.

Eventually she finally speaks.

"Succubae are in danger of going extinct."

I blink at the suddenness of the statement, but when I finally understand what she says, I say,

"WhaT?"

Oh, I'm not the only one surprised by that.

Awakened Moka seems genuinely surprised, even Ryoji seems offput by this information.

"it's a long story." She says, looking uncomfortable.

I look at Moka and we share a moment of silent deliberation.

Eventually Moka nods and says, "we should discuss this in private."

-P+V-

We go to my dorm, the girls entering through the window.

As I set some seating for all of us, the girls look at my room.

"your room is more spartan than I expected." Says Moka.

"I kinda expected something darker." Says Kurumu.

I look at her funny.

"Well, you have that moody look going on. I kinda thought you were goth or something." She says with a light blush.

"I don't own much, I didn't have time to pack when I came here." I say as I set the last cushion on the ground around the table. Hmm, maybe I should invest in a kotatsu.

The girls join me and Kurumu starts her explanation.

"there are some misconceptions about Succubae. Like the idea that we can have kids with anybody. We can have a boy with anyone sure, but a girl will be only born once in a blue moon. The only way we know to have a girl is with our destined one." She slumps in her seat and says, "we can't find our destined ones that easily anymore. It used to be that, we could wander the world invading the dreams of men the world over until we found the one we were connected to. But nowadays, its too dangerous. There's rules and restrictions, and competent monster hunters who would kill us if they found us doing that. So the best we can do is pretend to be human, and go 'hunting' at whore houses and bars."

That would put a major damper on their reproduction.

You can say that again.

"if that was the worst part, it wouldn't be that bad. But we have no choice but to live secluded in our own hidden city in Makai. Other races look at us as one of two things. Toys or homewreckers."

"that would be your kind's general lack of care about whether or not their targets are married, wouldn't it?" said Moka as she stared pensively at the table.

Kurumu flinched, "yeah, pretty much. Because of that succubae who live on their own often find themselves killed for our very nature. The succubae hunts over the centuries have been really bad."

Their problem is worse than I thought.

"when I was getting ready to go to Yokai academy, our queen gave me a mission. One to help our species survive." She continued. I know where this is going.

"Operation: Yokai Harem" I say.

"Yeah. I'm supposed to enslave the whole school, putting them under my control before they grow older, making them breeding stock for us. I'm supposed to have as many children as I can, and let the rest of my people do the same with them. And all the males would be raised as breeding stock. An endless cycle until we have enough succubae to avoid extinction."

The silence that follows is deafening.

Kurumu stares at her own lap, shame clear on her face. Moka has her eyes closed and seems to be thinking rather intensely. And me? I need to know something.

"do they expect you to find this destined one of yours?" I ask.

Kurumu refuses to look at me, but whispers, "if I find him, I'm supposed to kill him." She starts to cry. "Starting the breeding stock project is more important to the queen. A succubus who bonds with her destined one loses the ability to control others. Our whole existence becomes one with our destined one."

As Kurumu cries, my fists clench. Moka looks immensely disturbed.

Minato. This is more than just bad.

I know Ryoji. This is wrong-

No, you don't get it. If other monsters, or mother forbid, Demons, find out about this then it could lead to the extermination of the whole succubus race.

Oh, that would be worse.

It gets even worse. The succubae straddle the line between monster and demon, while they are alienated by monsters and humans, they are actually highly respected amongst demons. If they were wiped out by monsters, we would se a lot of demon factions attacking monster kind out of retaliation. It could lead to a war that could best be described as apocalyptic.

…

Fuck me.

This could be part of the bad future Igor and Clockwork mentioned.

"We can't let this happen."

Me and Moka look at each other in surprise.

"If anybody finds out what your queen told you to do, the rest of the succubae would be exterminated." I lead.

"That would cause great instability in Makai, who knows what would happen in retaliation." Finished Moka.

Kurumu looks between us in confusion. "What do you mean?" she asks Moka.

"your race are a border race, if you all get killed by monsters in revenge for this 'breeding plan' then the demons of makai would be able and willing to declare war on monster kind. My father would most likely be on the front lines of such a war." Moka says. "he is one of the most powerful monsters in the world. But he is no demon."

That explains why she is concerned.

"But what can I do? I'll be banished or worse if I don't do what her majesty says!" Kurumu cries out.

I know where this is going.

"I'll protect you if it comes to that." I say.

Called it.

Both of them look at me in shock. Moka seems to ponder the idea, but Kurumu just says, "why?"

She seems lost. "Why would you do that for me? I just did all those awful things to you. I tried to kill you!"

"Because you aren't a bad person."

She stares at me.

"Because you don't want to do this."

Her eyes become damp again.

"because nobody deserves to suffer for doing the right thing."

She starts crying again.

"most of all, because you deserve to find love. Like I did before the end."

You may have wanted to keep that last part to yourself.

Probably, but she needs to hear this.

Moka looked at me and seemed pensive, but Kurumu strangely enough seems to have stopped crying.