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We gathered everyone up in the auditorium of the old abandoned school. Most of the prisoners that we had released headed for the hills right after their prison cells were opened. But we still ended up with thirty-seven of the prisoners following us back to the hide out.
But as it turned out they mostly did it for the protection. They were not looking to join. Some were considering whether or not to bolt, when they found out that the underground only had four members.
"You're all crazy if you think you can beat the Student Police. There are just too many of them." One of the escaped prisoners said.
"And Kuyou is too powerful. Heck all of them are too powerful." Another said equally scared.
"Will you all just stop whining!" Keri barked.
"You're talking like we are going to fight them head on." I said walking up to a platform above them. "We aren't stupid. We know we are outnumbered. We know that they are powerful. But we have one thing that they don't." Everyone was staring at me now. "All of them have names. We are an anonymous group. We know from their own files; who they are, what they are, their classes, where they sleep, their patrol routes. All the information we need to take them out one by one."
"We'd be going to win this rebellion the way rebellions were meant be won, by terrorizing the shit out to them." Natsu said with one of his wild grins.
The ex-prisoners were looking at each other unsure. They didn't want an open fight with the Public Safety Commission, but a little payback would be nice. And they couldn't go back to their classes after breaking out of jail. They were stuck until the Commission was taken care off.
"We aren't going to force you to do anything. But if you want your revenge then you won't have to work alone. Come forward, and we will rip them a new one together." Keri shouted to the onlookers. One by one the freed monsters stood up and came to join us. Only three didn't seem to want any part in it. But they eventually offered to organize the information I stole on the Commission. Or rebellion was starting to show promise.
We received more members in the form of the baseball club joining in with what their younger members were doing. This boosted our numbers up to a strong sixty. Though still not enough to combat the commission head on, the members of the sports club were more able to attack some of the stronger members.
There were a lot of people on the Safety Commission. I mean a lot! There were easily four hundred monsters in that one organization. But we were starting to make a dent in their numbers. Every day we picked off ten or more members. After just one week we had cut their numbers down to a mere three hundred.
We had found the prisons in the old school and now had the captured police in our custody. How ironic. Each time we took down a member of the commission, we left a note saying that it was once again the Yokai Underground that did it. Each time I took one out I added 'Phantom' to the letter.
A few members of the former classic literature club got the idea to send fake letters from people in the commission accusing one and other of being the Phantom. The idea expanded into all kinds of faked letters of resignation, threats, and confessions.
The Commission tried to sniff us out using the prisoners that we had captured, but that plan back fired on them. The day they tried we took the prisoners clothes and used them as bait to lure all the trackers into one area. One stink bomb later and we captured twenty more of the Commission's best trackers.
The members of the Commission were going insane as they became preyed upon by our shadow organization. A few of them just disappeared all together. People thought that we did it but they simply ran away. Either that or they were taken down by other people with the same goals as we have.
The war was well underway, and we were invincible and invisible. Kuyou, the leader of the Public Safety Commission, called for an emergency assembly in the auditorium. "Student of Yokai Academy. Your school is under attack by a band of criminals that wish for you to believe that they are your liberators." Kuyou shouted from above the crowds of students. He was a tall individual and had long blond hair.
Frankly I was having a hard time believing he was a high school student since he looked like he was in his mid thirties and instead of the same uniform as the rest of the commission, he went with a trench coat version that I will grudgingly admit is pretty cool. I think I'll take it from him after this is all over. Though he had two dots like things over his eyes that might have been eyebrows but I can't really tell. "They are only trying to deceive you and lead and this glorious school to ruin." His speech continued.
I was holding back a chuckle as I flouted invisibly above the stage with a banner and a stack of papers. "If any of you have information that would lead to the capture of this band of treasonous swine then…" Kuyou was saying but then I cut him off.
"Now now Kuyou. I don't think that treason is the right word for it. Last I checked you didn't get elected president of the school. And no one wants you or your thugs." I said throwing my echoing voice at the walls so it seemed to come from everywhere at once, one of the perks of being part ghost.
I let the banner fall showing a picture of a sheep dressed as a wolf inside of a rabbit hole, the symbol that was voted on as the image of the Yokai Underground. It took forever for the former members of the Yaoi Manga Club to draw it. I still don't know what yaoi is, but people keep telling me that I don't want to know. I had just wanted something simple for our symbol, like a seahorse, but I was out voted.
The papers in my hand began to fall to the ground, so they seemed to appear out of nowhere. Each was a file on one of the members of the Commission's members that we had captured with a large red X over the picture of them.
Kuyou caught one of the falling papers and realized what they were. The crumpled it in his hand and his body was covered in fire. "Phantom!" He screamed on the top of his lungs as his incarnated the pages and tried to do the same to the banner. But the banner was made fire proof using magic runes.
It warmed my frozen heart to know that Kuyou knew my name.
"They're starting to take us more seriously, and if we could recruit then I'm sure we would pick up a lot of new blood." Keri said as we all celebrated our victory with food we got from the cafeteria's storage area.
"We have everything we need and all the time in the world." I said looking around at the partying monsters. "At this rate we should have those idiots on the ropes by the end of the semester."
"You say that mate, but... what are we going to do about Kuyou?" Natsu asked in a hushed voice so only Keri and I could hear him. "Think you can take him?"
I thought about it for a few seconds. "If it was a fight between our human forms I'm pretty sure I could. His fire isn't so hot that I can't resist it and keep fighting with my weapons. And if he is anything like the rest of the monsters at this school, his actual combat skills probably don't measure up to mine." I said fingering my repaired staff. "But I don't know about how things will go once we both take on our true forms. His power boost might be strong enough to make our difference in skills a mute point."
"So in other words we don't know if we can win this war?" Keri summarized.
"No one ever said we know anything. I mean, have you seen our grades?" I joked getting a small laugh out of them as they weakly protested. "But if we can take out his organization and have a fifty on one fight, then it should be a piece of cake. We just need to hold out until the shipment of weapons come in, so everyone who can't handle a close up fighting can provide ranged support."
"So until then we just keep taking down the underlings and locking them up?" Natsu said taking a drink out of something that was giving off a lot of steam. I think it was lava. "I can live with that for now."
But as we sat there laughing, Claps ran though the open doorway into the underground school's cafeteria. "Danny, we got a problem!" He shouted as he ran up to me as fast as he could. He was gasping for air as he struggled to spit out his report.
"Wow, no need for you to have a heart attack, drink this." I said handing him a cup of punch. He took it gratefully and took several gulps. "There, now what's the problem?"
"It's Tsukune, our informants say that the student police are going after him. They... they say he's a human!" Claps shouted loud enough for everyone to hear. Whispers went through the crowd as I felt my heart sink. The punishment for a human found at school was death. Not only that, everyone who is suspected of concealing him would also be in danger. "They are going to grab him out of class right now!"
"Keri, Natru, your with me!" I shouted, getting up and turning to another one of the squad leaders. "Chopper, I want you to take combat squads two and three to secure rondevu point three and it's route back to HQ!"
"On it chief!" The blond haired senor student said starting to gather the students I named. Chopper Rikiishi was once the captain of the wrestling team, but his pride had stopped him from paying the bribes to the Public Safety Commission and he had tried to muscle his way through them, winding him up in their prisons. Though he was lucky they didn't just roost him alive.
At first he had challenged me for the position as leader, but after being introduced to the ground he accepted me as his boss. Apparently it's a troll thing.
I started moving towards the open doorway with Natsu and Keri at my heels. I was fingering the tools in my pocket trying to come up with a plan. But there was one gaping flaw in every plan I made. I had no idea what kind of monster Kuyou was.
"So... Tsukune was a human all along." Natsu grumbled. "At least he isn't another leprechaun."
"Damn, we owe Claps twenty bucks each." Keri said as if that was the extent of it. "He better not die, because we're going to make him pay Claps the money."
"You in position." I said into my pair of Fenton Phones as I waited in a side room along the path that lead from our classroom to the Student Polices's interrogation rooms. I suppressed a shutter at thinking about what would happen if they had managed to get them there. Most of the imagines were of Kurumu getting her nails pulled out, or Mizore having hot coals placed on her. I didn't even want to think about what might happen to little Yukari.
"We're in position and waiting for hell to break loose. You sure you can handle him?" Keri asked over the com. It was obvious who him was; Kuyou was bound to be there whether he realized that Tsukune had connections to Yokai Underground or not. A mad man like him would think that it is the best PR he can get.
"As long as we're inside the halls he can't use his full strength without risking leveling the school. He may be corrupt but I doubt he's that stupid." I said. "At least I hope he isn't."
I could easily hear the whispering in the surrounding halls. The time had come. I stepped out into the hall right in front of Kuyou who was leading a small group of five of his men who were standing guard around Tsukune, Moka, Kurumu, and Mizore. Yukari wasn't there, I had forgotten she was in a different class, she would have probably gotten away.
"That's far enough, Kuyou." I said looking straight at the leader; the true enemy.
"Danny." My friends whispered, surprised to see me.
"Who is this?" Kuyou asked glaring at me with a look of disgust. "Out of our way, this is Public Safety Commission business. Try to obstruct us and you will be arrested as well."
"Is that all I get after everything I've done?" I said with a cheeky grin. "I would assume that the leader of the Yokai Underground would get a little more respect."
It took a moment for the words to sink in. It was oddly satisfying to she Kuyou's eyes slowly widen and his teeth become bare. I really should have been scared, but I was actually feeling excited. Here was a creature that forced his will down on a school full of monsters for years. I wanted to see... I wanted to see how I measured up. Maybe I have more in common with the average monster than I thought.
"Phantom!" He shouted in rage, a bit of saliva flying off of his razor sharp teeth as his arms flew out to his sides. Fire erupted from his finger tips and flew straight at me.
I had already been ready for his attack though I had to admit it was more power than I thought he would willingly be using inside of his school, but it was still not enough to get through the cold I had built up in my immediate area.
Turning invisible and rushed through the fire to stand right up in front of him. As the fire disappeared I opened up my ectostaff and smashed one end into his stomach as I dropped my invisibility, trying to give the illusion that I had super speed.
He collapsed a little around the tip and a look of shock passed over his face as the air was forced from his lungs. I spun the other end around hitting him in the side of the head with a far amount of super strength, sending him flying through a classroom door next to him.
I quickly used some ectoblasts fired from my eyes to take out the guard that was grabbing onto Kurumu, just as Natsu and Keri launched themselves down the stairs and full body slammed into the other four guards while in their monster forms.
"Take them to the rondevu!" I shouted at them.
"What about you?" Kurumu asked as Keri tried to lead her towards the stairs.
I put up a shield of cold as a heavy blast of fire came at me from Kuyou. My hope that he would try not to burn the school down seemed to be wrong. "I'll meet you guys back at the HQ, now go!" I shouted before turning my full attention to Kuyou.
I could hear the screams off terror for the people in the classroom as he bleed fire. Rushing toward me he throw a punch which I blocked with my ectostaff before I countered by bringing the bottom of the staff around for a strike to his gut.
But to my surprise he blocked it with his elbow before jabbing at my face with his other arm. I ducked his attack and tried to sweep his legs, only to have him jump back out of range before throwing a fireball at me, which I batted aside with my staff.
I moved in quickly in to attack range and rapidly thrusted my staff, trying to get at hit as he danced around it, until he managed to grab the end of my staff with is left hand. He then tried to throw a fiery punch at me, so I jumped up and pivoted around it. I tried for a wide kick to his face, but he managed to bring up his punching hand in time to block my leg.
I felt pain shoot up my leg as it made contact with his flaming forearm, but I charged up my other foot with ecto-energy and kicked him hard in his face. Forcing him to let go of my staff and sending us flying apart.
A rowed with the impact on the ground and was up and facing him even before I came to a complete stop. He had a bruise on the side of his face where I had kicked him, though he hardly seem to mind as he stood their grinning like a... I would say like a fox. "So this is the monster that has been plaguing my school. I can see why you have given my men so much trouble. But... you seem to be on your last leg." He said, taking personal pleasure thinking that I wasn't able to put to much weight on my injured leg. Though I had managed to resist most of the burn and the pain was not so great that I couldn't still use the leg.
'Damn, he's tougher than I gave him credit for.' I thought, but a grin was plastered on my face too. This was not just some monster that relied on its natural strength. He was a fighter, and a good one at that. Even if we were both in our human forms, we could each still take down most of the monsters in this school. His demonic aura was easily the same strength as Mr. Kotsubo's giant squid form. His monster form must rival Moka's true form. I was having fun with with fighting him.
But a quick glance made me realize the amount of collateral damage he was doing, and to prevent the unnecessary lose of lives, I had to retreat. "So I'm the plague on this school? You're the fire hazard?" I pointed out. "But I think we've had a good introduction for today. So I'll back off for now." I said jumping back and running towards a window at the end of the hall.
As I jumped out I could feel a blaze pass by the back of my neck, nearly singing some hairs off as I dropped down and turned invisible. I turned around to see Kuyou at the window already, his eyes scanning the surroundings, his teeth bared. "I will find you and all of your rat friends, Phantom! And you will all burn with that human boy!"
I took one final look at him as he considered burning down the woods to find me before I sunk beneath the dirt and began to fly back to the HQ.
Kuyou had been more than I had been expecting. I was actually starting to second guess myself a little about whether or not I could beat him in the end. But I forced those thoughts out of my mind. Because I may have saved Tsukune and the rest of my friends for Kuyou. But now everyone was in danger. What would happen to the Yokai Underground, now that they know a human is among us?
Sorry I haven't been updating but I have other stories and a lot of writers block in all of them. (I also was informed of the existence of 'Big Human On Campus' (A Ranma 1/2 X Rosario + Vampire story) and went to read it. And since it has like 350 thousand words by itself and I have a reading level of just 55 words a minute it took me a long while to get through, still only about half way done (Still worth you should totally read it)) Here is a moderately good fight scene to make it up to you.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to write in first person for me, since I was just trying it out as a form of style and found that it really wasn't for me, even if it does go well with this particular story, since we don't really care that much about what happens beyond the scope of Danny's knowledge.
But now it's too late to change it... well I could go back and change everything that has been written so far, but that would take time. And a vane hope that you would all forget that I was using first person before.
I am afraid that I might have made Danny seem over powered before. So I am cutting back on that. And I am making Kuyou seem like a real threat.
Sorry to everyone who has been bored with the fight sequences up until now, but have you actually watch the show? There is a running joke about how short their fights are once the Vampire comes out.
And now to admit something that will probably make you all go away. I never read the Manga... is everyone gone? Hello? I thought so.
