I do not own Rosario + Vampire in any way shape or form

"What is this blasphemy!?" Kuyou said stalking into the room like a vulture who lost its prey.

"Hey!" Kuyou yelled at the sky, shaking his fist crazily.

Can I help you?

"Yes you can! I was reading ahead in the script and you plan on doing what to me!? I will not..."

Muffler squad!

Two men barreled into the room, gagging Kuyou and dragging him out before he could react.

I can't believe he almost said a spoiler... some people just don't have any class.

Chapter 5 Shattered

Tsukune lay in his usual place each night, in the dirt. Face first of course, his body aching from his running. "I guess that's good enough for tonight…" Gin said sighing from his favorite stump. Tsukune groaned as he rolled over onto his back, sprawling out on the ground. "I swear… I still don't get you. Your endurance sucks, speed sucks, strength sucks…"

"Gee, thanks."

"Don't hate the messenger! It's true after all!"

"Aren't you supposed to be fixing this as my trainer?"

"I can't do anything till you gain some decent endurance. You'll just become exhausted after five minutes. Tell you what, your birthday is at the end of the week right?"

"Yeah, how did you know?" Tsukune asked raising his eyebrows, he had only told one person of his birthday.

"I heard Moka-san saying something about it earlier today. But anyway, how about we just try out some sparring then? We'll see how you do, maybe you can get some better results from that."

"Really?"

"Well, with the rate of how you're progressing it'll be another month or two till I would recommend we start some real training. But you've been groaning this past week about running so I'll give you something else that's worse."

"Uh… that's… reassuring."

"Alright, that's enough of that. So what does this put you at, 16? What you gonna do?"

"I don't know… I guess… I guess I would like to spend it with Moka-san."

Gin gave a laugh as he stood up from his stump. "Well, good luck with trying to ask her. I'm still going to make her my girl." Gin said flashing a smile at Tsukune as he sweat dropped. Gin turned his back to Tsukune, walking away before Tsukune could respond, waving as he went. "Well, see you at club time Tsukune-kun."

Tsukune shook his head as he got up into a sitting position, looking at where Gin had disappeared into. 'He never changes, it's a miracle I've been able to keep me being human a secret from Gin-sempai for this long. But how long will it be before he realizes it? I just hope he isn't angry when he does… maybe I should just tell him…' Tsukune thought as started his walk through the forest. 'I've been tricking and lying to everyone lately… heck, I've even lied to Moka-san about how me and Yukari-chan met. Well… I didn't necessarily lie… more like, stretched the truth. Oh, who am I trying to kid, I lied to her about it.'

Tsukune scratched the back of his head as he thought over the past week that had passed. 'Yukari-chan actually has become more sociable since we became friends. She even joined the newspaper club. But I need to focus on how to ask Moka-san to spend my birthday with her, I'll ask tomorrow after school, when we're walking back.

The next day came quickly, the day going by normally. Gin and Kurumu professing their love as usual and being thwarted in their attempts by Yukari's magic. A well placed desk, or a few cleaning supplies doing the trick. Tsukune merely chalked it up to the average day of the newspaper's club. Before he knew it, Moka and he were outside and about to walk to the dorms. 'Alright, I'll ask when we're about halfway there.'

"Later Tsukune, see you tomorrow." Moka said as she turned and walked the other way.

"Huh? Aren't we going to walk home together Moka-san?"

"Sorry… I have to go somewhere now." Moka said slightly hiding behind an Art textbook in her hands.

"Hey, isn't that the art book you were reading before?"

"Yeah, the thing is, I got asked by the art teacher to be a model for a picture. So I can't go home with you for a week."

'WHAT?! A model!? For a whole week!? Then what's going to happen on my birthday in six days!?'

"Don't worry, I'll still work hard for the newspaper club!"

'No, I'm not worried about that! She couldn't have forgotten about my birthday, could she?' Tsukune thought, "Mo…Moka-san, do you know what day is coming up soon?" Tsukune asked hopeful that she had indeed remembered.

"Hm? What day?" Moka asked giving a small smile of innocence.

'She's totally forgotten about it.'

"Tsukune… Tsukune? Would you… let me suck your blood?" Moka asked, stars appearing in her eyes.

"Wait a minute! Why are you like this now?"

"It... It's just, I thought this would be goodbye for a while after today and I… I'll be lonely Tsukune…" Moka said slowly moving closer to Tsukune.

"Moka-san." Tsukune said before Moka clomped down on his neck. 'Aggh! I let down my guard!'

"Thanks for the treat!" Moka said, thanking him before she ran off.

"Everyone, we have some news! The 'Missing Girls' problem!" Gin called out behind the front desk in the club room.

"Missing girls!?"

"Exactly! Several female students have vanished without a trace lately, one after another… Seven, in just one month. It's not all that unusual for people to go missing here, but don't you think these numbers are unusual? I've collected some basic information on the missing girls! We're going to find out the facts on this incident!" Gin said before passing out a paper with each of the girls' pictures and names on it.

'Normally he isn't this serious, this must be important.' Tsukune thought as Gin moved over to the window, peeking through the blinds.

"As you can see from these pictures, the girls that have disappeared are all pretty hot! If someone is holding them hostage, I wanna save them somehow. If they see me in a good light, it'll be a chance to get to know em better!"

'And there's his real motivation…' Tsukune thought silently sighing to himself while Gin went into his imagination about the girls fawning over him.

Tsukune walked by his lonesome outside, kicking a small rock out of his way. 'Something just doesn't seem right about this week. Everything's supposed to go great since it's my birthday! Or at least be normal, so why isn't it? Moka-san doesn't even remember my birthday, and she just sucks my blood all the time!' Tsukune thought before coming to a tree, stopping to lean against it.

"Oh sensei, sorry to keep you waiting!" Tsukune heard from behind his tree, raising his eyebrows as he looked around it to see Moka and the art teacher Ishigami Hitomi.

"Oh, you really did show up for me! Thank you! I'm really glad, Moka-san. When I see someone as beautiful as you, I just want to have you in my art collection." Ishigami said, her blue tube top under her paint-stained white trench coat. A red bandana tied over her head, hiding her hair. "Your beauty is truly high art."

"Sensei, I'm looking forward to working with you for the next week!" Moka said bowing to the art teacher.

"Oh me too…"

'So it's true, she really is going to be a model… and for a whole week!'

"Well, in art class today, you'll be painting pictures continuing with last week's theme of 'What's important to you'. And just what is important to you is the art in each and every one of your hearts. Feel free to paint whatever you want." Ishigami said before everyone started to talk between another, painting at random.

'What's important to you?' Tsukune thought as he glanced over towards Moka in her seat, drawing, intense concentration over her face. Tsukune looked back towards Ishigami who was currently being chatted to by three other girls, each saying their compliments. 'Ishigami-sensei is really popular with the girls isn't she? Maybe because she's tomboyish?'

"Sensei, I'm skipping gym class to have fun with you!" A girl called from the window, two pig tails hanging on each side of her short light brown hair.

"Oh you!" Ishigami called out, looking back toward the window with a smile at the arriving girl.

'Wow, even girls from other classes.' Tsukune thought as he watched the girl climb in and head over to the group before he looked back down at the art book he was reading. 'I wonder just what kind of model Moka-san is going to be for Ishigami-sensei anyway.' Tsukune thought as he flipped to the next page of the book containing a picture of a naked model. 'Could… nope! Next page, don't look! Don't look!' Tsukune thought as he forced himself to flip to the next page.

"Um, sensei could you help me with this?" Moka said causing Tsukune to look over to where she sat, Ishigami moving over to her to help.

"Oh you see this…" Ishigami said as she started to go over Moka's work.

'Moka-san, I can't talk to you directly here. Somehow I feel as if you've become more distant.' Tsukune thought as he watched the two converse before going back to his book, flipping through the pages at random. His interest in the book warring over time.

"Moka-san! I have something to talk to you about!" Tsukune said gaining Moka's attention while walking through the halls to their own respective classes.

"Hm? What do you want to talk to me about?"

"Uh… well, um…" Tsukune said as he tried to find the words he was wanting. 'I've got to invite her.' Tsukune thought as he gained more courage before he took Moka's hand and started to walk back. "Anyway it's too noisy here, come this way…" Tsukune was saying before he ran into someone who was coming through an open door in front of him.

The collision knocking over Kurumu who had bumped into Tsukune. She fell to the ground, landing on her butt. She pushed down her skirt as it had flown up during the fall. "Er…wah! Tsukune!" Kurumu said as Tsukune apologized for knocking her over. Kurumu leapt up, defying gravity as she wrapped Tsukune into a hug, pushing Tsukune's face into her breasts. "I'm so happy! We're so lucky to bump into each other in the hallway, aren't we? It's fate!" Kurumu said as Moka stood behind Tsukune, a tick-mark growing on the back of her head.

"Sorry Tsukune! I'm in a hurry!" Moka said as she turned around and walked off.

"Hey! Moka-san, I still need to talk to you…." Tsukune called out after her as he managed to gain his head back.

Tsukune kept trying to invite Moka to his birthday, but for various reasons, they all ended in failure. Sighing to himself as he walked through the halls, not catching the glance of two girls. "Hey, Tsukune-kun!"

"Huh?" Tsukune asked as he looked back to see the two girls run up to him. "Can I help you?"

"Hey, have you seen Aika-chan?"

"Um…Aika-san?"

"Yeah, Suzuki Aika, you know, short brown hair, yay high, blue eyes, two pigtails." One said making a gesture with her hands about each description.

"We haven't seen her all day today, and yesterday, and she also wasn't at her dorm either."

"Wait, did she skip her gym class to go to art earlier this week?" Tsukune asked remembering the girl who had climbed through the window as she had matched her description.

"Yeah, that's when we last saw her. After art, Ishigami-sensei asked her to stay after and we waited for her. But she never came out, and when we asked Ishigami-sensei where she was, she said that Aika-chan had already left. You're nice and always helping people out, can you keep an eye out for her?"

"Um yeah, I'll keep my eye out for her, and if I see her I'll make sure to tell her to get to her friends."

"Thanks Tsukune-kun! I knew we could count on you!"

"No problem." Tsukune said as he waved bye to the two girls. The two girls turning around and walking the way he had come. 'Another missing girl? Both the girls and I saw her at the art building last, maybe if I go there I can find some clue where she went to. I'll have to ask Moka-san later, I should try to find something before the trail runs cold.' Tsukune thought before changing his course to go to the art building.

The night was rolling over and all the students had or were returning to their dorms. Tsukune stood outside the art building that stood seemingly vacant. 'I'll check the building to see if I can find anything before I start my training with Gin-sempai. Hah! Training, more like running.' Tsukune thought, shaking his head as he pulled open the sliding door. Taking a look inside and seeing no one inside. 'Hm… seems empty.' Tsukune thought as he walked into the building, closing the door behind him.

Tsukune looked around the room closer, his eyes falling on where Aika had climbed through to join the class. Walking over to the now closed window before looking over to where she had joined talking to Ishigami. "She climbed through the window then talked with Ishigami-sensei and the other girls… they said Ishigami-sensei asked her to stay…" Tsukune said to himself, "Maybe there'll be more on the second floor…" Tsukune said as he shifted his gaze towards the stairs, walking over before stalling.

The soft sound of someone crying penetrated his ears as he was about to start climbing. Tsukune looked back towards a lone cleaning cabinet in the far corner that sourced the noise. 'What the…someone's crying? Could it be?' Tsukune thought before stepping back and moving across the room to the cabinet. "Aika-san, is that you?" Tsukune asked before he pulled open the cabinet doors. He stepped back, his heart racing from the scare he had just received. 'A statue!?'

Tsukune looked at the stone statue of a naked teenage girl resting against the side of the cabinet. Her short hair pulled down into two pigtails on each side of her head. 'The statue… is crying?' Tsukune thought as he looked closer to the statue's face, seeing the tears run down the stone.

"Hey! What are you doing to my art?" Tsukune heard behind him, the words not bothering to hide their malicious intent.

"Ishigami-sensei! I'm sorry, I barged in here and…" Tsukune said as he flipped around, noticing the look on her face.

"Hm?" Ishigami hummed before she moved around Tsukune, closing the cabinet and muffling the sounds of the crying. "Oh aren't you Tsukune-kun from class three?" Ishigami asked as a smile appeared on her face.

'She just gave me a look so scary I thought she was going to kill me, but now…'

"So, you came to pick up Moka-san, Tsukune-kun? You just missed her actually."

"Oh, um I'm actually not here for Moka-san…"

"Oh?"

"I'm here to see if I could find anything on Suzuki Aika-san."

"What do you want to know about Aika-san, and why in here without any permission?"

"Um, I'm sorry Ishigami-sensei. It's just Aika-san went missing some time earlier this week, and this is where everyone has seen her last."

"Who is this everyone?" Ishigami asked causing Tsukune to look around the room, scratching the back of his head.

'I didn't ask them about revealing their names… but why is Ishigami-sensei so interested? I better not say anything for now.' Tsukune thought before he turned back to Ishigami. "My sources, they asked me not to reveal them, so I would rather not…"

"Who?" Ishigami demanded causing Tsukune to take a slight step back towards the door.

"I can't say, I'm sorry Ishigami-sen…"

"It's those friends of Aika-san's isn't it? I will tell you what I told them, she had already left here before I had left myself."

"Um… what was that statue Ishigami-sensei? I've never seen a statue cry before." Tsukune asked, changing the subject. Hoping to get some answers so he could leave the area and of this teacher that was beginning to scare him.

Ishigami's face turned from its happy self to the one before. Her eyes meeting Tsukune's for a brief moment and Tsukune had a sudden urge to start backing away, which he did. "That statue is of unique type, why don't you sit down for a while Tsukune-kun? You look tired, why don't you take a break?" Ishigami asked, gesturing to the chair beside him, slowly walking towards him.

"I'm fine, thanks… um… I think it's time I leave Ishigami-sensei." Tsukune said as he moved around the desk, noticing the movement under Ishigami's bandana. Ishigami gave a soft smile to Tsukune, calming his nerves ever so slightly.

"It's okay, Tsukune-kun. You can rest forever here." Ishigami said as Tsukune kicked up a chair in front of him. The snake like hair of Ishigami becoming indented into the wood.

'Yikes! Just what are those things!? I don't want to find out!' Tsukune thought before he leapt over a table behind him as he made a break for the door.

"I never said you could leave foolish boy!" Ishigami yelled as she swung the chair that her hair held. Tsukune ducked under the flying chair before he skidded to a halt. The chair had landed in front of the door and was now blocking his path of escape.

The sharp pain of the unnatural teeth that the snake like hair shot up his arm as it bit into the skin of his forearm. Tsukune was about to tear the hair off him before two more wrapped themselves around his other arm before they bit into him. He was swung into the wall like a ragdoll, the hairs keeping him against it by his arms. Several more hairs lashed out, quickly wrapping themselves around his body and biting him.

Tsukune struggled to move his body, feeling more heavy and strained than ever before. "It's no use, just give into it." Ishigami said as a stone grew from the snakes' bite marks and started spreading over his skin. Ishigami laughed as Tsukune continued to struggle and try to grip the hairs to tear them off, gaining little success. "I told you, just give in." Ishigami said before Tsukune stopped struggling, the stone encased over his body and his senses going out.

Tsukune didn't know how long his senses had blacked out for, but they returned to him some time later. His stone eyes glossing over the room he was in, several stone statues of girls residing with him. 'What is this? Are they…the missing girls? They're all crying…' Tsukune thought as he did a head count, coming up with eight statues, each with tears streaming down their stone faces. 'There's eight, but there was only seven…no, Aika-san would have made the eighth girl. This is insanity! She's turning people to stone and keeping them here.' Tsukune thought before his train of thoughts were interrupted by the door beside him opening.

Ishigami strolled in, her smile as cheery as ever. She walked around the room, going to each statue and fawning them briefly. "Oh my beautiful art, how are you doing today? Hm? Your tears bring me much joy! These emotions of sadness and despair, they're all so magnificent!" Ishigami said before she whipped on her heel to Tsukune, her upper lip curling in disgust. "And you…" Ishigami said before she swept over to Tsukune, her eyes going over his form as if he was a piece of work needing to be critiqued.

'Oh great, now I'm being examined… wait a minute, where's my clothes!?' Tsukune thought as he began to panic, instinctively trying to move to cover himself more. But due to his stone nature, he did not budge from his position.

"You are no body builder, and your lean physique is decent. However, you are not slender and beautiful like the others. Hm… but what should I do with you, an ugly human."

'She knows I'm human!? Crap, she must have figured it out while I was unconscious, don't eat me!'

"If I inform the safety committee they'll take my beautiful art. If I don't tell them, then I have an ugly human ruining the beauty within this room. Ugh, Aika-san, it's all your fault, why did you have to drag an ugly human into my collection? I only wanted Moka-san for my next piece, not this trash."

'Moka-san! I completely forgot! Moka-san is being a model for Ishigami-sensei. I need to break out of here and stop her insanity. But… how do I move?' Tsukune thought before he focused back on Ishigami who was looking back at a clock on the far wall.

"I'll have to decide at a later date, I must go teach art to those pitiful souls who do not know the value of it. I shall be back my magnificent art with a new member later today!" Ishigami near sang as she walked out of the room, closing the door behind her. The sounds of crying, becoming the only source of sound within the room.

'This, this is horrible! I need to figure out how to break this, I can't literally be stone if I'm alive right?' Tsukune thought as he started to mentally struggle to move his body. 'Okay that's not going to work, think smaller, maybe just my hand.' Tsukune thought as he started to struggle with his body to move. The sound of cracking stone coming ever so often. 'It's working!' Tsukune thought as he increased his force, the sound of cracking stone becoming more evident. 'Just a little more.' Tsukune thought before the loud snap of stone being broke echoed throughout the room.

Tsukune's hand fell from his arm, clanking against the wooden floor. 'Waah! My hand!' Tsukune thought as he started to mentally panic. 'That's not permanent right!? Right!?' Tsukune thought as the sounds of crying loudened as did the sound of cracking. Tsukune started to fall forward as his lower leg broke from his body. Sliding off the top of the leg to fall to the floor. His body crashed onto the wood floor, breaking it from the weight of the stone. But the sound of snapping was as loud as ever as his body shattered into pieces.

Syphon walked into his office, his sandwich hanging from his mouth as he stood in the doorway.

Mizore sat in his chair, Inner Moka, Outer Moka, Kurumu, Yukari, and Kokoa all leaning over the chair to look at the screen. Tsukune standing behind them and shaking his head disapprovingly.

Um... can I help you?

The girls looked over towards Syphon, Tsukune sighing, and putting his face in his hand.

"What's this thing called a password? Is it some sort of magic?" Kurumu asked as the girls leaned towards Syphon, eager to learn the secret of this 'password'.

Uh...

Syphon turned and walked out of the office.

"Hey wait! Tell us what this sorcery is!"

"I told you he wouldn't be happy that you were trying to get on his computer."

"But I just want to know what this password thingy is!"