Hwllo, it is I, thy iNsANe oNE of PonyGrim! I'm still trying to salvage this plot without having to do an entire rewrite (and kinda failing) but . . . let's just see how this ends . . .

Coal's POV:

About a week had passed since the incident with the music sheets and the "Guardian Angel". Kaoru had still not heard from any of the band members and something kept him back from telling Hikaru the truth. Coal and Zach seemed fine and life went on as it was before. The winter dance was approaching and the entire club were busy planning.

At the moment they had transformed the club room into a tropical paradise. The six band members were in the dressing rooms preparing for the day. Raitoningu, Akuma, and Zach had taken off their shirts and turned their backs to Akairo, Theo, and Coal revealing something that looked like black abstract wing-like tattoos.

The wings on Raitoningu's back were slightly more defined then any of the others, the wings made of feathers jagged like lightning bolts centered around his spine. On the back of the collar of his neck was a small basic tattoo of a large cat with its back turned and head turned to the side.

On Akuma's back were abstract wings slightly similar to Raitoningu's only smudged and appeared to look like swirlier smoke was rising from the wings. On the back of the collar was another abstract tattoo in shape of a hawk about to go in for a dive.

Lastly, on Zach's back were his own pair of wings, only the feathers looked different. His feathers were well defined, shorter, and fatter, taking on the impression of leaves. His abstract collar tattoo depicted a coyote's head.

Akairo, Theo, and Coal set to work spreading a cold skin coloured cream-like substance on their backs, covering the wings and animals. They let it dry covering the tattoos like concealer and leaving their backs empty.

After rubbing some skin coloured cream on Raitoningu, Akuma, and Zach's backs they positioned themselves in their designated hosting positions. Afterwards Akairo, Theo, and himself were positioned next to the refreshments stand in their normal school uniform while the other three were dressed in the same Bali themed clothes as the rest of the host club.

"Where's Haruhi? She's late." Hikaru commented impatiently as they exited from the dressing rooms.

Theo stood near the tree watching a large green snake slither towards him. Theo reached out his hand to the branch making his arm like a bridge allowing the snake to coil itself around his arm to his neck where it rested comfortably. Theo pet its head calmly as Akairo checked the guitars and piano to make sure they were in tune.

The host got quickly got into position as the door opened to reveal the missing honor student. Coal pretty much tuned out of the conversation after that ignoring Haruhi as she pulled out a calender out of nowhere. Despite the extreme heating in the room a chill ran through him as he turned away from the conversation. He walked towards two doors that had a dark aura radiating from it and leaned against one, ignoring the other as it cracked open.

"You seem familiar to the ways of dark magic." A slightly creepy dark voice came from the crack. Coal turned his head to see a hooded figure with a cat puppet on its hand. "Greetings, I believe you are the crow?"

Coal nodded, "I'm Umehito Nekozawa," The hooded figure introduced himself, "President of Ouran's Black Magic Club."

"I'm surprised a school like Ouran would have a Black Magic Club." Coal said was he watched the room fill with yellow marshmallow dresses.

They continued to chat and Nekozawa offered him his own Beelzenef puppet if he joined the club, which he sadly had to deny because of the Host Club.

Their conversation was interrupted as Akairo motioned for him to come over to start playing music. Coal pushed off the door and straightened himself. "I'm afraid I must go now.

"It's been a pleasure to talk with you Shinpitekina-"

"Please, call me Coal." He interrupted before he could finish, "It's fine." he turned his head back to the wigged Black Magic Club member, "And may I call you Neko?"

Nekowaza smiled, "Of course, Coal."

Coal gave him a small smile before he turned back to the host club and walked to the guitars where he did a test of the strings before playing. He mostly played some cheerful tropical songs while the others hosted.

Some girls were crowded around Akairo curiously, "Akairo, why aren't you in costume like the other hosts?" one girl asked.

"It would be unsightly for me to reveal so much skin before such innocent maidens," Akairo said gently, looking away stoically.

The girls around him turned red as Akairo continued to hold his poise looking away with a slight blush.

"Why do you have a snake around your neck? Aren't you scared?" a brown haired girl asked his brother.

Theo pet the snake gently, "He just likes me, I guess." he said with an I-don't-give-some-flying-fudge tone.

"You're so brave Theo!"

Coal watched as a girl with short brown hair approached Haruhi, "You are cuter than I heard. I decided. I'll let you be my favourite!"

A "wha?" came from most of the host club as the girl kinda glomped Haruhi.

~Time Skip~

After taking showers and washing the cream-like substance off the other three band members joined Theo and Akairo as they sat in the corner doing something on paper. After seeing that his band-mates were doing fine he turned towards the dark door and slipped inside unnoticed.

He closed the door and stood there letting his eyes adjust to the darkness and his senses heighten. There was the presence of somebody closing in and he opened his eyes to see his cloaked friend with a candle.

He was silent observing this surroundings with the dim candle light in front. His friend's wig revealed to be more greenish then at first glance and he seemed more at ease in the dark atmosphere. There was dark furniture with black velvet cushioning. Truthfully it was similar to the host club with darker furniture, less lighting, and the spread of Dark Magic items around the room. Skeletons, glass bottles, charms, jars of animal body parts, multiple herbs and spices, etc.

Nekozawa gestured to the couches and sat down comfortably. Coal relaxed, finding more comfort in the dark.

"So Neko, what do you specialize in with Black Magic?" Coal asked as she took a skull made out of some sort of crystal, staring into the empty dark eyes.

"Curses, Beelzenef dolls, a little dabbling in potions," He listed off, stroking said puppet fondly. "For example, misfortune and sorrow follows those whose name is written on the back of this Beelzenef doll!" He held up a wooden version of his beloved hand puppet proudly.

Coal couldn't help but smile slightly as he felt some minor Black Magic radiate from the small wooden totem. "You've got a talent, not many can get that much Black Magic focused into a single totem like that." He put the skull down and crossed his legs, leaning on his right elbow. "Do you have an animal companion?"

Nekozawa's Beelzenef clasped it's hands as he thought about the question. "Not yet, I have yet to find the right animal that aligns with me."

Nekozawa looked at him slightly seriously, "And what about you? What do you specialize in? Do you have an animal companion yet?" he asked enthusiastically, leaning in towards him.

Coal turned his head away unintentionally and hummed, "I work with curses and poison more so. In terms of elemental, I specialize in fire." he paused and let Nekozawa soak it in, "I do have an animal companion," he turned to the other Black Magic used mischievously, "Would you like to see her?"

Nekozawa looked like Tamaki if Haruhi called him "daddy" and embraced her girly side. (So in other words . . . speechless and excited) He closed his eyes and let himself slip away from the physical plain, letting all physical contact slip away. (I cannot tell you how many times I do this when I can't go to sleep, it's kinda weird and awesome at the same time) He felt like he was suspended in air, like a roller-coaster stuck on an upside-down loop or a planetarium. Letting himself go he pushed off an invisible wall and glided through 'space' calling out silently without speaking. A long slender black feather glided past him and his journey came to a stop.

When he opened his eyes he found himself inches away from Nekozawa's face, his eyes widened as he drew he head back and looked to the left where a small lamp-side table sat with black melted candles were lit on top of skulls. There, sitting patiently, was a black crow.

Coal pointed to the crow silently pleased and motioned it to come forward. It landed on one of his legs rubbed it's head against his propped hand affectionately. Coal looked to Nekozawa who watched them, mouth agape. "This here is my animal companion, Night." The crow spread her wings out letting him see her full wingspan.

The crow, or Night, was slightly larger than the average crow. Her deep black feathers were a slender and silky. Her eyes were an unnatural wolf-like golden yellow that reflected the dim candlelight in the darkness.

"Night is strong enough to have a human form too." Coal whispered leaning closer to her senpai. She looked at the crow silently asking the bird.

There was a flurry of black feathers, when it finally cleared it revealed a girl a little shorter than Coal with long long hair. It was tied back in two thin loose pigtails in the back with messy bangs and wolfish golden yellow eyes. She was wearing a (Okay, I know nothing about fashion so . . . I just looked up a bunch of pictures to see what kind of neckline and that stuff so it's most likely a bundle of random fashion terms or something . . .) backless, high neck dress, with a high low skirt that reached was at her knees lowest. The dress was a smooth light black silk with silver borders, the sleeves started at her elbows dropping down revealing her shoulders and biceps, holding the sleeves up were silver arm bracelets engraved with a red pattern of a feather. Silver and red feathers were embroidered in a floating action over the shirt which hang limply at her legs. She had on long black short heeled boots with silver buckles and no makeup or other jewelry, not counting the two silver arm bracelets holding up the elbow sleeves. (Well I probably messed that up . . . if you want to see the picture I'm talking about look up "crow anime girl nightshade" and it should appear, just keep in mind that there's no white feathers and it's silver instead of gold)

The girl, crow, Night, sat next to Coal obediently. Although to two of them didn't speak it was clear to Nekozawa that there was some unspoken communication between them. Night bowed to the two of them, "Greetings, it's been a while since I've been in my human form in front of another Black Magic user." her voice was silky and light while having a certain icy and protective air underneath.

Coal looked at the time candles and frowned, "It's time for Night and I to go now, Neko."

He saw the time and sighed, "Club activities are over by now," he looked at the two of them and offered a small smile, "May I offer you a ride back to your home?"

Night stood up and bowed with Coal as they brushed themselves off, "No worries, we'll get home alright. Thank you for the offer though senpai." she said gratefully.

Coal turned towards him before they left the dark room, "Thank you for your hospitality, I'm looking forward to talking to you again."

Just a filler . . . sorry, just needed a nice cooling period. Now there are a few reasons I did this the way I did and I'm sorry it's so boring.

A) I needed to introduce Nekozawa (not just because I wub him)

B) A relationship between him (Neko) and the band needed to be formed

C) Night and the concept of "magical animal companions" needed to be introduced

D) I needed to show you guys a little more of how deep we're getting into this angel, magic, sn'uff

E) I feel like we needed to cool

Alright, sorry that this was pretty boring, just a filler. To be fair about Night, I already had the idea in my head, her outfit was unclear. Anyway, the dance is coming up soon so that means . . . winter! And . . . snow! :D *hint hint*

Bai!

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P.S.

Thank you guest readers and readers with accounts for reviewing! I just got a flame from one of my (many) stories on hiatus so I needed that pick-me-up! ^-^