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"This stinks. I carried the sports team to victory and saved the day against that fake vampire and I still don't get any girls." Gin was still complaining about it as we handed out the papers after the game.
"What are you talking about perv? Moka was the MVP for the game because of the grand slams. And it was her and Big Brother that really fought the Jiangshi." Yukari said as we passed out the papers.
"Oh who asked you!?" Gin shouted upset that his plan to get a girl didn't bare fruit.
"Well none of them better try to take my Danny, because I saw him first." Kurumu said grabbing my head and dragging it into her chest again. It was a usual occurrence and Gin was always angry about it.
By the time Kurumu let me go the topic had moved on. "That's the last one." Moka said as she came over with an empty box.
"That's great Moka." Tsukune said smiling at the girl he liked.
"Alright! Do we rock or what." Kurumu said putting her hands on her hips and puffing out her chest with pride.
"I know, we should have a party to celebrate the Newspaper Clubs success." Moka suggested.
"Yeah, that's a really good idea." Tsukune said.
"Yeah, we can being snacks and everything." Yukari said excitedly.
"What do you think Gin?" Moka asked but then we realized something. "… were did Gin go?"
"He probably went to go and flirt with more girls." Kurumu shrugged. "Well forget him. He hardly ever works anyways and we shouldn't interrupt his flirting."
"Yeah that guy is the enemy of all women." Yukari said in agreement.
"That's a little harsh don't you think." I chuckled as they bashed on Gin's name.
"You newspaper clubbers sure get along well." Another voice said. Everyone turned to see who it was.
I didn't recognize the girl. She had purple hair that went half way down her back and she was wearing a really baggy sweeter that exposed her shoulder. She still had the small miniskirts as all the other girls at the school, but she was also wearing long stripped purple stockings, a sort of belt strapped around her left leg, and she was sucking on a lollipop. But the thing that grabbed my eyes the most was her eyes. They were a glassy ice blue color, same as mine only with a more hollow and lonely look about them.
"Excuse me?" Tsukune said a bit confuse. He was the closest one to her.
"You all get along… I don't get it." She said in a monotone voice. She walked straight up to Tsukune and reached out a hand. "Newspaper." She said simply in the same monotone voice. "Are there any left?"
"Um… you can have mine." Tsukune said handing his newspaper to the odd girl.
She took it and moved closer to Tsukune. She was right up in his face and Tsukune looked pretty confused and had a blush growing on his face.
"So you're Tsukune…" The girl said and blushed a little herself. "You're cuter that I thought you'd be…" She said before turning and walking away.
"… that was… different." I said watching the girl leave.
"You mean freaky right." Kurumu said holder herself as if she was spooked.
"Friend of yours, Tsukune." Moka said in her gentle voice but her body was trembling with suppressed rage.
"What? No, I've never even seen her before today." Tsukune said trying to defend himself.
"Well she wasn't licking him so there isn't too much to be worried about." I said with a shrug and Moka's eyes widened in horror at the thought of another girl touching Tsukune with their mouth.
"Let's just go to class and try to forget that happened. We hadn't seen her until today so there is a chance we will never see her again right." Yukari said walking back towards the school.
"Something tells me you just jinxed us." I said as I took the equipment and followed after her.
"Here!" One of the students in our homeroom class said during the attendance call.
"Good." Ms. Nekonome said looking down at the attendance roster. "Alright… Ms. Shirayuki?" She wasn't there. She had never been there. It wasn't that she was dead, but she was suspended from school a while back. I can't even remember way. Mizore Shirayuki was one of the people I had to look into to see if I needed to put them in the obituary. "I guess she isn't here again." Ms. Nekonome was visibly disappointed.
But before she could continue the door opened and the purple haired girl from that morning came in. "Oh there you are, Ms. Shirayuki." Our teacher said happily as the girl came over and took the seat in front of Tsukune that had been left empty after Hera had been killed by one of the mermaids.
"Wait… you mean that girl was in our class." Kurumu said for next to me.
"I guess so." I whispered back. "Mizore Shirayuki, she did something to get suspended, but I can't remember what it was."
"Well you might want to look into that since she has her eyes on our friend." Kurumu said worriedly as Ms. Nekonome introduced the girl and we moved on with the day.
During lunch instead of hanging out with the others I went to the club room and found the file for the research I did to make sure Mizore wasn't dead. "Oh shit." I mumbled as I scanned my own notes. I never bothered to hide them since few of these monsters knew how to read English. Mizore had been suspended after stalking a teacher and when he rejected her she attacked him and froze him alive.
I looked at the name of the victim and it was the gym teacher, Mr. Kotsubo. The guy is big and not likely to be taken easy, even if he was one of the weaker teachers as far as Demonic energy went. I looked at the material I had and found that the only evidence was one love letter to the teacher and Mr. Kotsubo fingering her. Mizore's account was that she had wrote the letter, but when she went to meet with him in private he attacked her. In her account she even gives an account of Mr. Kotsubo's true form.
'So she is either a psycho stalker, or a victim or both. I should try to find out more about this.' So I went outside the girls' locker room to find the guy who could help. "Hey Gin." I said softly from behind him as he was peeking through the window of the girls' locker room. I still didn't understand why that window was there.
"Danny… this isn't what it looks like." Gin said also hushed as he turned to me.
"That's not what I am here for. I want to know what you know about Mr. Kotsubo." I said as he came down looking relieved that I wasn't going to turn him in.
"The gym teacher? I know that he is supposed to coach the boys' soccer team. But guy teachers aren't really the ones I look into." Gin said as he scratched his chin. "There are rumors about him being related to some missing girls. But there is no evidence and the paper shouldn't publish hearsay."
"A girl in our class came back after being suspended for supposedly assaulting him. But my gut says that there is something off. I didn't see any evidence that she did it other than the teacher's word whenever they suspended her. And she claimed that he attacker her, and even named his true form as a Kraken." I told Gin what I thought. Then I handed him the file I had on her since Gin could actually read English.
"So you think she is innocent?" Gin asked looking at my stuff. "If we are going against a teacher's word we are going to need pictures for evidence. I will watch the gym class. I could always use more pictures of girls in there gym uniforms anyways. I will probably follow her around and take some better pictures of her too." He said as he held up the student roster photo of Mizore. "Man she's hot."
He was doing it for the wrong reasons, but Gin was on board. "Thanks man. Hopefully Mr. Kotsubo will try something when he hears that she is back." We fist bumped and I was off. But before I rounded the corner I turned my head back. "Oh, and Gin make sure the evidence isn't anything that you would get in trouble for."
If the fact that Coach Kotsubo was making us hop up and down the side of a steep hill with our hands and feet tied together was anything to go by, I think he knew that Mizore was back.
After school I grabbed some snacks for the student store and started heading for the club room for the party. Along the way I ran into Kurumu. "So what did you find out about Mizore?" She asked as she carried a large homemade cake. I really don't know where she found the time to make it.
"Quite a bit, but I would rather not make assumptions. Some things are just not adding up." I had spent a lot of time investigating during my time as a ghost hunter. And experience had taught me that there was nothing worse than making a wrong assumption. "But thing are under control for today. So let's just enjoy the party."
We opened the door and there in the middle of the room was Moka being choked and frozen by Mizore… no not Mizore, a doll made of ice that looked like her. I could feel that it was only ice just like I could tell it didn't have the right demonic aura to be the real Mizore.
"Moka!" Kurumu said in a panic but I didn't waste time with words. Moving forward I back handed the doll hard enough to remove its head. The remaining part of the doll fractured and became nothing but snow. I lowered my hands that were now glowing blue to Moka's neck and absorb the ice that was crushing her windpipe.
"Moka, are you ok?" I asked as she gasped for air.
"Still think you have things under control?" Kurumu said seriously.
"Oh come on, like you never tried to kill Moka and kidnap Tsukune." I half joked.
"Smart ass." Kurumu muttered. "Come on. If she is trying to kill Moka already then Tsukune is probably with her right now."
"Alright how do you suggest we find her?" I asked.
"I… don't know… but we need to try. Sitting here won't accomplish anything." Kurumu said.
"Alright. Moka, you stay here and wait for Yukari and tell her what happened." I told the vampiress after sitting her down in a chair. "She might have a spell to help us track them." I said making an excuse so that Moka might actually stay. She was in no condition to be running around.
"Please… just make sure you all come back safe." Moka said holding her hands in front of her chest. 'To think… people call her, Yukari and Kurumu monsters.'
"Don't worry. We will get him back here before you know it." Kurumu winked and we walked out the door. Just an ordinary day with the Newspaper Club.
As it turned out they were a lot easier to find then I thought they would be. The mist for Mizore's ice could be seen for miles from the air. They were at the lake which was completely frozen over. As we approached we could see Tsukune half incased in ice as the real Mizore stood in front of him. Her features resembled an ice statues and she had claws made of ice.
"Tsukune! Don't worry, we're coming!" Kurumu said as we began to descend.
"You stay out of my way!" Mizore said, the shy monotone in her voice was lost in her anger. Icicles shot up out of the icy lake.
"Kurumu get behind me!" I said dropping below her. My entire body began to glow icy blue as I called all the control of ice I could use in my human form. It was not enough to take control of the ice, but it is easier to tear down a sand castle then build one. But unable to multitask in my human form I fell a good distance and had to fight to stop myself from falling face first onto the froze lake.
I destabilized the ice reducing it to snow. "What… impossible." Mizore said as were came close. I grabbed Tsukune and broke the ice around him. I pulled him a little distance and Kurumu lighted down beside me.
"You alright, Tsu?" I asked looking at the girl in front of me.
"Yeah… but Moka's in trouble… we need to save her." Tsukune was staggering it his feet. He was probably suffering from hypothermia. The human body wasn't meant to be incased in ice.
"Don't worry about Moka, we already saved her, you need to warm up." I said handing him my own jacket to put over his.
"All you people that are trying to get in the way of the true love between me and Tsukune need to just disappear." Mizore said the temperature around us was still dropping. The snow fairy raised one of her ice claws.
Tsukune got up and positioned himself between us and her. "Please just stop this Mizore. Stop this before it goes any further."
"Why are you asking me to stop?" Mizore said. "You of all people, we share the same loneliness, why don't you…" Mizore was saying confused but Tsukune cut her off.
"You're wrong. I'm not lonely at all." Tsukune said almost more to himself then her.
"But Tsukune…" Mizore wasn't taking it very well.
"Leave us be!" He shouted.
"You're… you're rejecting me… you don't care about my feelings." Mizore said and I felt sorry for her. I mean sure she tried to kill us. But so have most of people I have met over the last year and a half. "Tsukune why!" She screamed and a miniature blizzard appeared between her and Tsukune.
The blizzard only lasted a second, but after that Mizore was nowhere to be seen. "Mi… Mizore's gone." Tsukune said half way between relieved and ashamed.
"Come on. Let's get you back to Moka. She's got to be worried sick." I said and I started half dragging Tsukune away back towards the school.
When we got Tsukune back to the club room we wrapped him in blankets to help warm him up. We were all eating the snacks, but it didn't feel much like a party. The topics of conversation were too serious. "So now Tsukune has a dangerous stalker. At least it isn't us again." Yukari said as she poured the poor guy some hot tea.
"I don't think that the three stooges count as dangerous." I said looking at the little witch. "Maybe… maybe we should help her…" I said looking out the window. They all looked at me like I was crazy. "She's just lonely like you and Kurumu were before we all became friends." I pointed out. "Her actions aren't that much different than yours."
"Oh, you're just too sweet." Kurumu said grabbing me again.
"Alright, I guess you might have a point. But do we at least have a plan on what to do?" Yukari asked. But before I could answer her there was a loud commotion coming from the hall ways.
"That is probably step one of the plan right now." I murmured to myself as Moka went to the door to see what was wrong.
Our homeroom teacher, Ms Nekonome came by looking in a panic. "Ms. Nekonome, what's going on?" Moka asked calling the teacher over.
"Oh it's terrible. Mizore froze two students a beat them half to death. They are in the hospital right now but it doesn't look good." Our teacher said. "The other teachers are combing the grounds for her right now, but once they find her…"
She didn't have to finish the sentence. Her silence spoke louder than words. "If a teacher, or an officer in the student police, starts an inquiry about a student in a case of murder or attempted murder then that student will first be suspended, and then the second time will be put to death when they are found guilty." I said a little bitterly, I had become fairly familiar with monster law will I was poking around with this case. "I say when, because without hard evidence of innocents they don't stand a chance. The teacher's word out weighs their own."
"Oh no. This is all my fault." Tsukune said getting up. "If I wasn't so hard on her." Tsukune started walking to the door but I grabbed onto him. "What are you doing? Let me go, I have to find her."
"That won't do her any good now. We have to wait for Gin." I said seriously.
"Wait… what? What do we need that useless perv for?" Kurumu said crossing her arms underneath her chest.
"Well that was harsh." A voice came from the door. "Remind me why I am doing this favor for you guys again?" Gin was holding pictures and a tape.
"I guess that means we were right in our suspicions. Mr. Kotsubo is trying to get rid of her again, isn't he?" I said and everyone looked at me in surprise.
"Big time, he even had the soccer team try to jump her, when they failed and she got away from them, he beat up two of them to a bloody pulp to have an excuse to go after her himself." Gin said throwing the pictures on the table. "I got pictures of it for the newspaper and the whole thing on film for evidence." He turned to Kurumu and grinned. "Who's useless now?"
"Ok… so you're a useful perv then." Kurumu said blushing a little.
"Damn straight." Gin gloated handing the tape to Ms Nekonome. He either didn't hear her about him still being a pervert or he felt proud of it. I am leaning towards the latter.
"This is great, meow." Ms Nekonome said her tail coming out again in her excitement. "Now we can get them to call off the man hunt and clear Mizore's name."
"Alright, now we can go after her." I said releasing Tsukune's wrist. "You guys need to have more faith." I said walking to the door ahead of them. "There is a madness to my method."
"Danny, are you sure it's this way?" Yukari said as we were moving towards the bus stop and the cliff overhanging the blood red sea.
"She's a snow fairy, I can sense the unnatural chill she makes in the air with my sixth sense. And I can sense her and Mr. Kotsubo's Demonic aura with my seventh sense." I said as we ran forward. Gin stayed with Nekonome to help with the clearing of Mizore's name. But then I sense both Mizore and Mr. Kotsubo's Demon energies growing. "They've release their true forms. We need to hurry."
"Man those senses of yours really come in a lot of handy huh." Kurumu said following close behind me.
Even before we reached the clearing we could see Mr. Kotsubo. His true form was monstrous. He was half the size of the school gym, several tentacles could be seen and heard smashing against the ground. "That is a big squid." Kurumu deadpanned.
We came into the clear and found Mizore backed up to the edge of the cliff, the giant squid moving towards her. One of the giant tentacles came down on the ground in front of her and the outcropping she had been standing out shifted and began to fall backwards.
"No!" I could vaguely hear someone scream, but I didn't have time to see who. It very well could have been me. The wind wiped past my ears as I made a mad dash for the cliff as Mizore began to fall. I made it to the edge of the cliff only seconds after she had fallen and jumped off myself.
Mizore was right in front of me. But she was falling faster then I was. I could see the jagged rocks at the bottom of the cliff. 'Faster… I need to be faster.' The thought spread through me along with a deathly chill. A ring of pearly white light appeared in front of me, a familiar white that make the moon seem yellow in comparison. As I went through the ring all the strength returned to me, the ghostly power that I had only been using in spares since I had arrived at Yokai those two months ago.
As my legs twisted into my ghostly tail, I shifted into high gear and closed the distance between Mizore and me before she could hit rock bottom. I grabbed onto her and held her bridal style. The eyes that she had held closed the entire time shot open and she looked at me as if not sure how any of this could be happening.
As I turned us to head back up I could hear the laughter coming from the teacher. And voices calling me back. "Danny!" They cried. But everything turned silent as I rose up over the edge of the cliff, my legs returning and I lighted down onto the ground.
"Is… is that… Danny's true form?" Moka said being the first to find her voice.
My school uniform was still there. I guess it was resistant to monster transformations, but the top jacket was now open and blowing in the wind of my own power. My entire body was engulfed in a glow that seemed to come off of me in small wisps. I could feel the old strength in my venomous green eyes as I moved my snow white hair out of them so they could settle on the form of the massive sea creature. "You forced me to use this form. I suppose I should congratulate you." The power echoed through my voice but it didn't conceal the sarcasm or the threat.
The squid monster soon recovered and began to laugh again. "You think you can scare me with that light show. I can't even sense your demonic aura it is so weak." He swung a massive tentacle at us but I didn't bother to dodge. Instead I raised a bright green dome around myself and the snow fairy.
"You are so naive." I said as I set down Mizore. "Let me show you the difference between our levels." I grabbed the tentacle and flying up over the monster I throw him into the side of a cliff. The impact shock the rock face and a few rocks fell down onto his body.
The legs of the monster spread out and where a normal squid would have a beak, Mr. Kotsubo's human form's head could be seen. "What are you doing? That girl is going to be arrested and executed as accordance to the school rules." The teacher said. "Help me catch her, and I might forget this little transgression."
Mizore backed up a bit but stopped when I started to laugh. "We have already presented evidence that proved her innocents of any wrong doing… or at least what you're accusing her of." I said waving a finger at him. "Gin and I knew that you would come, so Gin was tailing you and got the entire attack on her with the soccer team on film." Now it was Mr. Kotsubo's turn to back away. "You lose, teach."
"No!" He shouted and the legs closed. "I won't let it end like this!" The giant body started to rush at me. I simply turned invisible and stepped out of the way. He stopped and started to look around. "Where… where did you go?" He said a little scared.
I only dropped the invisibility after my glowing green fist made contact with the creature's giant eye sending him stumbling back and screaming in pain. "Just give up. You have already lost."
"I'll kill you all!" He screamed and charged again.
As he came at me I lifted one hand and my whole body was surrounded by my freezing cold energy. "You need to chill." I said and I formed a snowball with a glowing green center and tossed it lightly at the monster. As soon as it made contact the ball exploded and froze the monster in its tracks. Only its head was still able to move.
"What… what are you?" He said with a touch of fear in his voice.
"Uh uh uh, you know I can't tell you that. That would be against the rules." I said chuckling as I walked away from him over to Mizore as the white rings returned me back to normal. "You alright?" She just stood there blinking.
"Danny!" Kurumu shouted jumping onto my back and causing me to fall to the ground. "Oh Danny you were so amazing." She said hugging me hard enough to break most people's bones.
"Wow Big Brother that was so cool!" Yukari said also jumping on me as well.
Tsukune and Moka came up to us. And then something happened that was a little bit of a surprise. The Rosario began to speak. "What kind of monster are you? You clearly are S-class, but I have never heard of a monster like you before." The inner Moka said.
"Well, my kind are called Halfas, but you won't find it in any book or anything. Our numbers were never impressive and I am the last one." I said leaning back on the ground. It was true enough. There had only ever been me and Vlad, and with Vlad dead from the Ectoacne, there was only me. There was no need to bring half ghosts into the picture.
"I'm not going to thank you." We were all startled out of our thoughts by Mizore's voice.
I interrupted Kurumu before she could start a fight. "You don't have to. That's what friends are for." I said shocking the snow fairy. "We were going to have a party back at the club room for the newspaper club, but we got too much food for just us. Want to come along?"
She looked like she was at a loss for words. "But… I attacked your friends." Her monotone voice still showed all her emotions as if they were on her sleeve.
"That happens from time to time." I said with a shrug. "Besides, we believe in second chances here." I said with a smile. Mizore didn't say anything, but the tears spoke loud enough.
"So Fenton is something called a Halfa huh?" Gin said once we were all back at the club room. The others allowed Gin to stay for the party because he saved the day with the pictures. But they got mad at him again when they found out he was peeping on the job. Mizore said she would go to her room for a bit but then come straight back. "Guess we need to get in touch with the people from the betting pool to tell them the results."
"Wait… what? You guys bet on what kind of monster I was." I said looking at everyone.
They all looked a little guilty. "I thought you were a Dragon." Yukari muttered. "You used those energy attacks… Dragon's turn their power into element attacks."
"I also thought you might be a dragon." Ms. Nekonome said then blushed when we all looked at her. "It's not like I endorse betting among my students but, you were the only student that the chairman wouldn't tell me about." Tsukune's eyes showed a little fear at this but no one noticed except for me and Moka.
"My money was on Vampire." Gin admitted Moka looked a little upset that I was mistaken for a vampire. "But I guess you didn't suck any blood."
"Werewolf." Moka said and this time Gin looked agitated.
"What were you guys just looking at S-class monsters and going down the list." I joked.
"A few people guessed Siren and Phoenix, but it was mostly those first three." Kurumu said a little embarrassed. "I guessed some kind of Majin."
"I have no idea what that is." I admitted.
"A Majin is an idea or concept that is given living form through Demon magic." Yukari explained. I blinked think about how close that one was. After all, ghosts are born from nothing but scatted dreams and fare off memories.
I turned to Tsukune. "What was your guess?"
"… a witch." He said quietly as we all just looked at him.
"At least he didn't say a Leprechaun." I joked.
"Well it isn't exactly fair when you're a type of monster no one's even heard of." Gin said shrugging. "Let's just forget about it for now."
"Sounds good to me." I said bringing a monster soda to my lips. I felt a slight chill and noticed Mizore's demonic aura behind the door. "Don't just stand at the door, come on in Mizore."
The others looked a little surprise, but it was common knowledge that I had more than just the five senses. The door opened just a crack and Mizore slowly edged her way in. It took me a minute to realize that there was something different about her. "Mizore, your hair?" Moka was the first to say.
Mizore blushed. "I decided to shorten it." She said in her monotone voice. "Does it look ok?"
"I think it looks super duper cute on you." Ms. Nekonome said with her tail popping out again.
"I guess I thought that if I was being given a new chance then I would start with a new look." She said putting one hand on her chest and looking away with her shy embarrassment.
"Well you look great." Gin said holding up a pocket camera and talking a quick picture.
Mizore turned to me before glancing around. "So… what do you think?" She asked me.
"Well… I think it suits you, Mizore." I said with a smile. I really didn't know what to say. I hadn't been paying too much attention to what my eyes saw since I got my seventh sense. And even before that I didn't know anything about girls. Most of the girls I have dated were dead or possessed.
"Thank you." She said blushing and grabbed onto me. I really didn't know how to react then.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing? Danny is my destined one." Kurumu said grabbing onto my other arm and trying to pull me away from Mizore. I soon found myself in the middle of a tug-a-war until metal wash pans fell down and hit Mizore and Kurumu.
"Neither of you are good enough for my Big Brother." Yukari said as the two girls fell to the ground clutching there heads. And those started the first of what would be many fights between the three girls.
"Well… it looks like she decided to go after Danny instead of Tsukune now." Moka said looking a little too glad for my tastes.
"Man… and after all the work I put into this too." Gin gripped. "When will it be my turn!?"
"Come on Gin. You did a really good job today. Isn't that its own reward?" Tsukune said. Gin just looked at him like he was crazy. I guess that this is the new norm… and yet again, still more normal than my place back in Amity Park.
I want to do a segment on the relationship between Monsters and Ghosts, but I don't know were I would actually fit it in without it seeming really forced. So it will probably be just villain exposition. Sorry if you don't like that kind of thing.