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One week has gone by here at Yokai Academy. Tsukune was starting to think that he was going to be able to survive his time here. I was in my dorm room finishing my morning exercises. It was a morning ritual I started to do after Tucker and Sam left Amity Park. I needed something to help clear my mind of the loneliness.
But that is in the past. I am making a new life here for myself. I had a couple of friends outside of Moka and Tsukune. Besides Keri there were two others who I befriended; Natsu, and Claps. Both were kind of goofballs that I met through Keri.
I grabbed my backpack full of the standard equipment of a ghost hunter. It was this stuff that has made me more or less infamous about the academy. Most monsters think of it as a disgrace that a monster would resort to using tools rather then there nature abilities. But each monster wanted to be the one that managed to push me to the edge and make me reveal my true form.
Over at the gate I could see Tsukune, he always does get up early, though I don't know why. "Ha Tsu!" I called out to my more human friend. "How you holding up?" I asked him.
"Oh ha Danny." He said a little tiredly. He really wasn't a morning person, though nether am I. "I'm just fine thanks for asking." He said with a smile. He was learning to adapt remarkably quickly. After finding out that the bus only came once a month he really didn't have a choice. Not like you can just walk through a magical interdimensional barrier on foot.
"Wow, look it's Moka." One of the nameless masses of male monster students said.
Moka came out and was walking through the crowd towards us. As usual all the guys were going nuts. I don't blame them. Even I think Moka was hot.
She spotted us same as every morning before and ran up to grope Tsukune. Lucky bastard. "Tsukune!" She said pulling him in as she hugged his arm. As always all the other guys had murder in their eyes.
The murder disappeared when they all recounted the rumors that Tsukune beat up Saizou. Of course I was the one that started the rumor. Give him enough street credit to scare off the wimps but not enough to grab anyone too powerful's attention. And each of the monsters cried that they didn't stand a chance. "You two go ahead, I forgot my homework for Mr. Plock's class. If I don't get it he'll probably vaporize me." I said excusing myself.
Of course I didn't forget any such thing, I didn't even have Mr. Plock that day, but I didn't feel like being the third wheel. The two of them have a tendency to just stand around looking into each other's eyes. It gets pretty creepy to watch. So after they had gone on ahead I took a different route to school by a small lake.
I didn't really expect to find anyone there, no one was ever there before, but this morning there was someone else out there. It was a really cute girl with sky blue hair, she might have even been cuter then Moka. I had seen her around the school, she was even sat next to me in my homeroom, but I still didn't know her name. As I walked by trying not to stare she started to fall to the ground.
I immediately rushed to her side. "Are you alright." I said trying to help her to her feet.
"I'm sorry, I'm just so weak." She said feebly as she leaned up against me her chest pressed again mine.
"Don't apologize, just tell me how I can help." I said as she steadied. "We should probably take you to the nurse's office. Can you walk or do you want me to carry you? I could get the nurse to come here if you like." I started listing off options.
"Could you carry me there… If it's not too much trouble." She said looking up at me with the most beautiful purple eyes.
"Sure thing." I said lifting her onto my back, carrying her piggyback style. "I'm Danny by the way. What's your name?" I asked her as I started to carry her towards school.
"I'm Kurumu Kurono. I sit next to you in homeroom." She said leaning her head against my back. "You smell so good, almost exactly like a human." She said.
"So your name's Kurumu then? I never got it before, sorry." I said not caring too much about her talking about my human scent. I didn't worry about it like Tsukune did. Just like no one would have thought I was a ghost back at Casper, no one will think I am human here. Even if they did call me out, I would just show some ghost powers and that would dismiss their suspicions.
It wasn't that far left to the school so it was easy to carry her there. She told me that she has always had a weak body, but that was a lie. If this was chronic then she would have known better then to be on a path that no one usually used. "Here we go." I said as I lowered her gently onto the bed into the nurse's office. "Will you be alright?"
"Yeah I'm sorry, it just that my chest sometimes craps up. I am sorry to inconvenience you." She said putting a hand to her large chest.
"Don't worry, it was no trouble at all. And don't worry about class. I'll tell Ms. Nekonome that you aren't feeling well." I said turned and was going to leave.
"Danny!" She said loudly. I turned back the see her looking down as if debating something. "Will… will you be my friend?" She said and they looked up and stared me straight in the eyes.
Those eyes… they were the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen. I felt my heart speeding up and my mind filling with thought of those eyes. The thoughts expanded to all her other features and a great desire to make her happy filled me. 'Is this… love?' My body seemed to be asking me.
'No.' was the simple answer my mind gave. I recognized the sudden feeling. It was close to the sensation of love but not exactly. It was a physical need to comply with a spell that had just been placed on me. I remembered the feeling well from the time Ember had placed me under a similar spell. I knew what I had to do. 'She doesn't love you. She just wants to use you and will throw you to the side after she is done.' It felt like I was driving a hot stake through my own heart.
"Please don't do that." I said sadly through the pain. "I don't mind being your friend, but don't try to make me your slave." I said still looking Kurumu in the eyes. Her eyes filled with surprise even as mine filled with hurt. She was so beautiful.
"I'm… I'm sorry, I just was afraid that you would say no." She said acting innocent. It was probably just an act. But I believed her instantly. I don't know if it was my own nature naivety or if there was still some effect left over from her love spell.
I arrived a little late to homeroom but no one really minded. I didn't even have to explain myself and there was no punishment or anything. I went and sat down in my usual set behind Tsukune. I don't know why, but it looked like Tsukune and Moka had had an argument. She probably tried to use him as breakfast again.
"Alright class I want to remind you again that you are not supposed to reveal your monster identity or your true form while at school. I know this is simply but a majority of you have already broken this rule and it is only the second week of school." Ms. Nekonome said shaking her head. "You all need to work on maintaining your human from for when you go out into the human world."
I wasn't really listening to her. My human form was my natural state. I didn't need to practice it. But I did start to wonder about things. What is Kurumu? It wasn't like I could sense the difference between the species. Even if I can sense there power it would be like trying to tell the difference between two animals by only listening to their footsteps.
But I really wish I knew what kind of monster she was. Maybe that is selfish of me. It shouldn't matter what she is since I already told her that I would be her friend.
Today was a B-day class schedule. So I headed off to my first class, history of monsters. It was a really cool class. I think the teacher, Prof. Strange, was some kind of warlock or something. He was rather short at around four feet tall and had dark crimson eyes. He talked about most of the battles and disagreements as if he really had been there, and he had enchanted figurines that reenacted the events. It was really cool. He was by far my favorite teacher at the school, even though I didn't know nearly as much about the subject as I knew about science.
"And then the armies each unleashed their S-rank monster clans. These would be the types of monsters that are natural the most powerful pure breads. In this battle they included; Werewolves, who turn their demon energy into speed, Dragons, which turn their demon energy into element power, and Vampires, that can channel their demon energy into brute strength. There are others like the phoenixes and sirens but they were not involved in this conflict." Prof. Strange finished. "Remember that there are very few beings that can keep up with any member of these clans. So take my advice, if you even meet one of them in battle, run and hope they don't feel like you are worth the bother!"
'Wait, so Vampires are suppose to be some kind of super monster? I don't get it, Moka seems like she has less demon energy then all the other monsters. I guess all rules have exceptions.'
After my history class was Theories of Magic, another class I didn't have any previous knowledge in. I was in luck though because the entire class was done in magic runes and I didn't need to know Japanese writing since they had an English dictionary for it.
After that was math and I was surprised that I was actually ahead in that class. Turns out that your average monster is about as dumb as your average football player, but the teacher kept smelling me as she walked past. It was really creepy.
But soon it was time for lunch again. I was just walking around trying to find Tsukune and Moka or Kurumu. But no matter where I went I couldn't find them. I ended up on the roof eating my lunch on my own. "Man, where is everyone today." I said taking a bite out of my curry bread.
"Don't really know man. The school has been going crazy today. Apparently there was some kind of cat fight between two of the freshmen girls. I wish I was there to see it." Keri said. I was a little disturbed when blood started to drip out of his nose. I thought that only happened in anime.
"Seriously, someone was eaten alive in the… others' bathroom… and people are worked up about a cat fight?" I asked laughing a bit at the absurdity of how the male mind works… or doesn't.
He looked like he was going to talk back but then something… weird happened, I mean Amity Park weird. The entire sky turned blood red and the moon was easy to see even though it was the middle of the day. I felt an enormous demonic aura just a short distance from the school. If the bus driver was a bowling ball then this was a beach ball.
"What the heck is going on?" Keri said in a panic. The energy was so intense that even Keri could sense it.
"I don't know, but I'm going find out." I said and before he could stop me I was jumping off the roof. Using a bit of ghost energy to slow my fall, I was running off in the direction of the power right after my feet had touched the ground.
I got to the battle ground to find Kurumu flying in the air with a pair of bat wings and a black tail. Her finger nails had grown out to be more than two feet long each. Then I saw the one the power was coming from. She had long silver hair and crimson red eyes. The girl was practically bleeding demon energy.
"This is your true form? Then it's true… you really are a vampire." Kurumu said a note of fear in her voice.
"That's right." The voice of the vampiress is hard to describe, a strange mixture of seductiveness, threatening, and bore. It was as if she was toying with the idea of pulling of a spider's legs off one by one. "And you're the little girl who tried to steal from me." The vampire said given a terrifyingly beautiful smile. "How imprudent."
"Don't… don't mess with me!" Kurumu shouted in seeming desperation. "You couldn't possibly understand me! I am doing this for my species that is on the verge of extinction!" My eyes widened at that decoration… it was so saddening. "We succubae tempt men in order to find our 'destined one'. The one person who we will always stay with us so that we can keep our race alive. So I don't care how strong you are. I have a mission and I must succeed! I won't let you get in my way!"
Kurumu dive bombed the vampiress and attacked her with her claw like fingers. The silver hair woman simply dodged at a speed that far surpassed that of Kurumu's. "You're to slow!" The vampiress grabbed her tail and pulled her back before delivering a kick that sent Kurumu though several trees before one of the trees stood up to left over speed from the kick and Kurumu slide to the ground. "Know your place." The vampire said still hardly seeming interested.
The entire time I was practically paralyzed by the presence that the vampire had. But then she started walking towards Kurumu. "Please… stop… I'm sorry, I won't do it again." The succubus said gasping for air, not because of her injures but out of fear.
"I'm afraid I can't guarantee that." The vampiress said smiling as if she enjoyed the sight of Kurumu begging for her life. "Maybe I should just rip off your wings and tail. That way you will no longer challenge me."
The vampire lifted a leg to deliver another kick. Kurumu had closed her eyes preparing for what would come next. 'I have to help, Kurumu.' The thought pushed me forward. I dashed in the way of the kick opening up my quarterstaff and infusing it with my ectoenergy as fast as I could.
I barely got into stance when the kick landed. The kick hit my glowing green staff dead on and I nearly buckled under the initial impact alone. The focus behind it was enough to actually bend a weapon made by Fenton Works, a feat that no one has ever done before. I crouched slightly to take the edge of the kick before pushing back. It didn't even last a half a second but it felt like I had ran a marathon by the time I brought the kick to a complete stop. I had to use every bit of my ghostly strength that I could muster in my human form just to do it.
I looked up and saw shock on the vampire's face. Taking my chance I pushed back and throw her off. She staggered back and landed on her butt, it didn't matter how strong she was without any leverage or flight abilities. "Come on, she said she was sorry. There's no need to mutilate her." I said standing between Kurumu and the vampiress as she got up onto her feet.
I lifted my quarter staff into a defensive position, it was bent about thirty degrees from its original straight form. My arms and legs felt like wet noodles. Prof. Strange wasn't kidding when he said that vampires were the strongest of all monsters. If she didn't listen to reason then I would have to change to my ghost form just to survive.
"Da… Danny?" The vampiress said eyes opening and closing rapidly as if she believed that my image would be replaced by something else.
'How does she know my…' I thought but then it hit me. She looked familiar, if you just ignored her facial expression and her demon energy, and then changed the colors a little… "Moka?" The context clues catching up with me, Moka really was the only vampire I knew. But it was a dramatic change, her body figure and way of moving were completely different from before.
"Stand aside Danny, the little girl needs to be taught a lesson in respect. She tried to charm Tsukune and take him away from me, and then she tried to kill him." This new Moka said angry for the first time. Her demon aura was so strong it was a visible force all of its own.
"And she said she wouldn't do it again. If you don't trust her then trust me. I'll keep an eye on her ok. Just don't do this." I said standing my ground as Tsukune stumbled out into the clearing with the Rosario that is usually around Moka's neck in his hand.
"Don't do it, Moka." Tsukune said. "It isn't too late for us to all just make peace." I have to hand it to him; he was standing up to someone with unbelievable power, even though he was only a normal human. Though I guess he wasn't in any danger because Moka wouldn't hurt him… or the old Moka won't have.
Moka look from him then back at me and gave a light smile and a shrug. "Fine then, you take responsibility for the girl." She said and walked back to Tsukune whispering something in his ear as she took the Rosario and replaced it on the chain chocker around her neck. Her hair returned to its normal pink color, if you call that normal, and she fell into Tsukune who caught her. For some reason he was blushing bright red. All the demonic energy disappeared and Moka's presence on my radar returned to that of a grain of rice.
I stumbled and fell on my butt. "Danny, are you alright?" Kurumu asked me.
I flipped my head back to look at her and smiled. "I feel like I tried to stop a train with my bare hands. But I'm breathing." I laughed a bit from the stress of it all and gave a shrug. "How about you? Moka kick you though a couple of trees." I asked back.
"I… I'm fine." She said blushing a bit. "But… why did you save me?"
"Well, you asked me to be your friend after all." I said as if it was the natural thing to do. "Or do you not want to be friends anymore?"
"No… that's not it…" She said quickly then looked away. "I'm just surprised. I didn't think anyone would jump in front of a vampire to save me. I never had any real friends before."
I leaned back. "I heard what you said about your species being on the verge of extinction." I said as I watched Tsukune carrying the exhausted Moka way. Kurumu stiffened at what I said. "I guess I can relate a little, since I am the last of my kind." I said a little sadly. Kurumu look up in shock. "But you really shouldn't go around trying to magically charm everyone. If you want someone that you will be happy with then you're going to have to leave them with their free will intact." I said standing up. I held out a hand to her. "Come on, we should probably get to the rest of our classes. Maybe I'll see you after school."
She looked at me with those big purple eyes of hers and nodded as she took my hand. 'I guess we are probably really friends now.' I thought as we went to finish the rest of the day's classes.
The next morning I was standing outside the dorms with Tsukune and Moka as she explained what happened the day before. "So that Rosario seals away your power?" I said in awe. "So that's way you hardly show up with my seventh sense when you have so much power."
"Seventh sense?" Tsukune asked confused.
"Sixth helps me track ghosts, seventh responds to monsters." I said with a shrug as if it was natural.
"You're not a normal human are you?" Moka said as if stating a fact.
"I was born and raised human. I'm not quite sure if I still am one." I replied. Tsukune looked a little depressed at that. "Come on man don't give me that. You don't still think what kind of body a person has still matters do you?" I said poking fun of him.
"I guess not." He chuckled. "I just didn't want to be the only one here, you know."
"What kind of monster are you then?" Moka asked curiously.
"That's my little secret. It's against the rules to tell you anyways." I said with a laugh. Moka gave me an annoyed look. "Ha, you're the one that broke my quarterstaff you know. That was a gift from my mom." I said faking being upset. "After it's fixed, then maybe I will tell you."
"I said I was sorry." She said a little guiltily.
"Danny!" We all turned to see Kurumu running to us. She was carrying a picnic basket in her hands. "I made some cookies last night and was wondering if you would like to try one." She said offering me a cookie.
"Th… thanks." I said taking a cookie.
"Kurumu, what you doing?" Moka said surprised to see the succubus.
"Well, you know what I said about finding my 'destined one'?" She said grabbing onto my arm in the same fashion Moka usually grabbed Tsukune's. "I decided that Danny would be that 'destined one'." She said and started to pull me towards the school. 'I guess things are going to start getting a lot more confusing.' I thought as Tsukune and Moka watched me getting pulled way.