Hush, hush, It will only get worse from here...oOPS! Just ignore me

The creature bore its teeth into her neck, making her wince in pain, breathing heavily she struggled to get free but was too weak to escape its grip.
Such strong arms.
Such sharp teeth.
It hurts so much.

Kurenai's world was turning, like a tornado, she felt sick, her stomach was turning, she had the feeling her eyes would pop out, she couched some blood and desperately tried to struggle herself out of the creature's grip but to no avail.

''Stay still'' The creature spoke very calmly, yet with a frightening undertone, paralyzing Kurenai completely.

''Now tell me, Who is your master?'' The creature asked, still holding Kurenai into its grip.

Kurenai felt like her lips were sewed together, when she finally managed to open her mouth, no words came out.

''Who is your master?'' The creature asked again, more forcefully this time, gently caressing Kurenai's neck with soft hands.

After what felt like hours she had found her voice again.

''Yuina''

An empty smile formed on Kurenai's lips.

''Yuina Akagawa is my Master''

Op: 'Halloween Night' by Aya Ikeda

Episode 25: Aah! Yuina's stalker is strange! Cure Blood's blood lust!

With lot of trouble but help of her friends, Wakaba had returned all the stuff she stole the last few days, however she claimed that she 'had found the Hairy Robber and gotten all the stuff back', lying about it surprisingly easy.

However the news couldn't let go of the 'Hairy Robber' story, almost every morning they would at least mention it, to Wakaba's dismay.

As for Yuina, she was quite irritated that her friends constant worries about Yuina's inevitable transformation, however, aside from being annoyed by sunlight (which her mother didn't help with since she often asked Yuina to help her with planting or watering her flowers) and her slightly sharper teeth, but otherwise everything seemed normal, she, luckily, didn't found herself craving for blood or anything similar.

''Yuina? What do you think of these beautiful Roses?'' Yuina's mother asked her, when she had asked (or better said, forced) her daughter to help watering her various plants and flowers.

''They're great, mom'' Yuina lied with a sign, those roses made her instantly think of Onibara.

Stupid Onibara, now she couldn't even enjoy roses again.

Then she felt a lump in her throat, was she seriously complaining about something as trivial as that? Onibara had enslaved a whole world and probably worse, and she was trying to take over earth as well.

After a few days, nothing out of the ordinary happened, even though the other girls really kept an eye on Yuina and texted her quite a lot (it was quite annoying though).
However on a Wednesday night she did notice something...rather strange.

Someone was standing outside of her window, only seen as a shadow behind the closed curtains, rather reluctantly tapping on her window.
At first she though it might be Tomoko's alien friend but then she remembered he was quite a lot shorter and he was already on some distant planet by now.

''What's wrong?'' Orlok whispered, still half-asleep but was quickly alert as he flew to Yuina's side.

''Yuuuuiinnaaa'' A soft voice gushed, Yuina didn't recognize the voice and it made her shiver to her spine when she heard it.

With a quick motion she opened the window, only to see the shadow quickly ran off at surprisingly fast speed.

''Just what was that?'' Yuina asked, quite nervous.

Orlok merely shook his head with a confused and worried look on his face

''I don't know''

Things got even stranger the next day when Yuina found a letter inside her locker.

M.….
Let's m..t after...at...
….loyal...a...

What terrible handwriting, Yuina couldn't even read half of it.

''Let's meet after...'' Tomoko tried to read the letter, ''After class?''

''Hehe, Yui, seems like you have a secret admirer'' Miku grinned, pushing her elbow into Yuina's side, who signed.

''Secret Admirer? Really? That is just stupid, who would even like me?''

''Oh! I do!'' Tomoko hugged Yuina tightly, ''You're the bestest leader ever!''

''True!'' Wakaba agreed cheerfully but Yuina softly pushed Tomoko off her and told them about the mysterious shadow last night.

''Really? That's rather freaky'' Miku admitted, holding Jacky close to her.

''A vampire hunter maybe!?'' Wakaba suggested with a pale face, she then turned to Orlok, ''Um..do those e-exist in Halloween World?''

''No'' Orlok spoke, sounding completely sure.

''Do they exist here?'' He added rather softly as he looked around nervously.

''Well, I hope not''

''But what should we do about that letter?'' Zeta suddenly asked with a rather impatient undertone, trying to get the conversation back on its tracks.

But instead the conversation fell completely silent.

''Sis!''

Just after class, when the group had just exited the school, Kaori rushed to Miku, pulling her sister in for a close hug.

''I was so lonely today! Kurenai has been absent the last few days'' The younger girl added dramatically but a small smile formed on her face. ''I should visit her but she keeps insisting how contagious her cold is''

Kaori walked home together with the group, every few minutes (jokingly) asking If she could be the last cure, to which Miku responded the same every time.

''Never!''

The group didn't notice however that Wisp had floated away some time ago, previously being a ghost did help a lot, she floated around the school building, seeing the same hooded figure, wearing a rather large scarf, who she had seen following them the whole day.

Time to confront the figure.

''My, my~ Is someone stalking me and my friends?'' She asked the figure, floating closer to see its face, because of the scarf Wisp only managed to see two red eyes.

''What do you want?'' The voice, obviously feminine, didn't seem familiar to Wisp though.

''I was wondering what you want''

The figure didn't respond, hunching over a bit and fidgeting with its scarf.

''Well?~'' Wisp inched, trying to sound as sweet as possible.

However she let out a loud shriek when the figure grasped for something in the orb's direction, she floated upwards to avoid being hit by the pale hand.

''EXCUSE ME?''

Again the figure didn't respond, turning its back to Wisp and holding its hand to its mouths.
Soon after, crunching noises were heard.

''Just go away, I'm….waiting''

''Waiting for what?'' Wisp didn't even try to sound friendly this time. Was this a follower of Onibara?

In a way too quick motion the figure rushed away, Wisp didn't even have time to say anything and was left behind rather astounded.

''And you didn't tell any of us? Why?'' Orlok asked Wisp, who had just arrived at Yuina's home to tell her previous leader about the figure.

''I'm not sure'' Wisp shrugged, not nearly sounding as interested as before, ''But I told you now''

Orlok signed, turning to Yuina, who had to pause her DVD to listen to Wisp's story.

''Could it be the same one as yesterday?'' The little bat asked, as he and Yuina instantly turned around to look at the window.

''Wait, this isn't a side-effect right?'' Yuina asked with a frown.

''Being stalked? No. That is not normal''

Even she herself didn't really know (or care) where she was but it was dark, a closed off side-street perhaps?
Ah well, It didn't matter to her anyway.

In a strict rhythm, she walked through the streets, hoping to arrive at her destination soon.
She was close.
She just felt it.

Just a little more.

''La-la-la-la~'' She sang softly, quickly grabbing a fly sitting on the nearby wall and removing her scarf to reveal her pointy teeth, which she used to bite down on the small insect.

Wakaba only hadn't returned one thing yet.
Yajirushi's lucky dart.

''You can't just keep it'' Larry said simply, ''Aren't you a Pretty Cure?''

''B-But! Didn't you say that werewolves cause mischief and s-steal stuff and such?''

''True, true but we always return them afterwards!'' Larry stated with a serious expression, causing Wakaba to stare at the little dart with a pout.

''Awww...'' Wakaba gave up, finally agreeing with the two, it wasn't right and Yajirushi couldn't win any games otherwise, after all he had lost the previous game when the dart was stolen.

''Well we, werewolves, only keep stuff If we hate the person we stole it from'' Larry whispered to himself, getting a grin on his face.

Those were the good times.

The times he really missed.

The times he hoped to return to soon.

A sudden thud on the window made both Yuina and Orlok jump in fright, Wisp merely giggled at the two.

Immediately Yuina rushed to the window, opening the certain.
She saw the shadow.

''My! That's the one!'' Wisp declared gleefully, whispering into Yuina's ear.

Unlike last time, the figure didn't move, it didn't run away or anything.
It just stood there.

Hesitating If she should open the window, Yuina grasped her necklace with one hand and very slowly opened the window with the other.
However before any of them could react the figure had already entered Yuina's room at frightening fast speed, causing the girl to fall on her back rather painfully.

Alerted, Yuina almost instantly jumped up again, ready for a fight but was met with the figure on its knees bowing down to her politely.

''Mistress Yuina''

''What?'' Was all Yuina could utter, she actually was surprised she could speak at all.

The figure slowly removed its hood but kept the scarf on, still obstructing the lower side of her face.
Yuina recognized the girl.

''Kurenai Kure, your loyal servant''

''Why aren't you doing anything?'' Onibara asked with a more harsh tone than she would've liked.

''Our apologies, I was just making some improvements on-'' Sagino apologized quickly, standing in front of the big throne with Kuroneko and Karasu next to him.

''No excuses, Sagino''

''I'm sorry''

''But why don't you turn your attention at the Cures?'' Kuroneko boldly asked, having fought the 'magical warriors' quite a few times without Onibara's notice and especially since the cat-girl had noticed the girls were currently having a rather rough time, Kuroneko folded her arms with a rather casual expression.

''I have more important matters to attend to first!'' Was the demon's loud response, a small grin formed on Kuroneko's face when she noticed Onibara's voice crack a little.

''Kurobara, I presume?'' Karasu suggested calmly, stroking his golden necklace.

''Yes, my sister has to be here,'' Onibara spoke quietly, ''Somewhere''

''Whoah, Kurenai! Aren't you suppose to be sick? Kaori was very worried about you'' Yuina asked, confused at the girl, still on her knees in front of Yuina. Orlok and Wisp had hidden themselves on Yuina's lamp and stared down with the same confusion.

''I'm not sick, In fact, I feel absolutely great'' Kurenai spoke, her voice a little muffled by her scarf.

'Come on, stand up'' Yuina offered her hand but Kurenai slowly got on her feet without even touching Yuina.

''I finally gathered the courage to talk to you!'' She spoke rather proudly.

''What do you mean? What's wrong, Kurenai?'' Yuina noticed that Kurenai actually looked kinda sick, with bags under her red eyes, she looked rather pale and her dark-blonde hair was quite a mess.

Wait, red eyes?

She didn't have red eyes before, right?

''What's wrong? Nothing is wrong, mistress, I came here to tell you that my body, soul and heart will belong entirely to you, my mistress! Yuina Akagawa!''

What was she talking about?

Had she sold her soul to her or something?

That would be stupid though..

''I actually gave you a letter but I suppose you didn't get it?'' Kurenai frowned, sounding actually quite sad for a moment.

So she wrote it.

''Please, explain'' Orlok flew in front of Kurenai, startling the shorter girl quite a bit.

''Did that bat-?''

''I'm Orlok, Pleasure to meet you. Could you explain what happened between you and Yuina?'' The bat asked the girl, he sounded like he had figured out what was going on.

''Wait...You forgot, mistress?'' Kurenai seemed rather surprised and somewhat disappointed, also she seemingly had quickly accepted the concept of a talking bat.

A simple nod from Yuina caused Kurenai to inch very close to the other girl and remove her scarf, revealing two bite marks on her neck, the girl pointed at them with a small smile.

''You bit me yesterday, remember?''

''I what?!''

No.

This wasn't good.

This wasn't good at all.

''And now...I'm yours, mistress'' Despite everything, Kurenai seemed completely okay with 'belonging to someone else'

Frighteningly okay.

''No, you're not!'' Yuina grabbed Kurenai's shoulder, shaking the still smiling girl.

''You don't belong to me! I'm s-so sorry, I'm s-sorry, I'm so s-s-sorry I-''

''Mistress, calm d-''

''DON'T CALL ME 'MISTRESS'!'' Yuina snapped.

''Orlok?!'' She turned to the bat, who flinched at her sudden anger.

''A-ah! I know what happened'' He acclaimed meekly, ''Because you bit Kurenai, a normal human, she will become a vampire too and-

''WHAT!? ARE YOU SERIOUS?''

This was terrible.

She probably couldn't control herself during that time and might not be able to control herself the next time.

She had to go away as quickly as possible.

Before someone else got hurt.

''Mistress, shall I get it?'' Kurenai almost screamed into Yuina's ear, who looked at her with a puzzled expression.

''What?''

She just then noticed her cellphone was ringing, the theme-music of 'Secrets and Tears' filled the room as Kurenai grasped the phone, holding it in front of Yuina's face.

''Shall I get it, mistress?'' Kurenai repeated, more slowly this time but Yuina's only response was snatching the phone from the pale girl's hands and picking up.

''Yuina! Please h-help! Precure is in a pinch!'' Jacky's high-pitched voice cried form the other line, clearly panicked.

''We're are you?''

''We are..-'' A lot of noises were heard as Jacky's voice faded but not much later Larry's rather muffled voice returned ''Zeta, hold the phone!''

''I'm trying, Larry! It's heavy'' Was Zeta's response, sounding much closer than Larry's voice.

''Guys! Where are you!?'' Yuina had forgotten the current situation with Kurenai for a moment and replaced it with her somewhat protective, leader-instinct.

''Near Wakaba's h-'' Was all Larry managed to say before the line went dead.

Yuina clenched her necklace.
She knew what to do.

''Shall I go ahead?'' Kurenai asked, jumping out of the window agile and landing perfectly fine in in front of the door.

''Yuina?''

Yuina's mother was clearly surprised when she saw her daughter putting on her coat and rush outside ''Where are you going?''

''Gotta help a friend in need!'' Was all the answer she got.

Yuina was actually really surprised that her mother didn't stop her, it was already really late..

''''A friend in need'', eh?''

While running through the woods, followed by Kurenai, as well Orlok and Wisp floating around her head, Yuina already transformed into Cure Blood, still running.

''Pure blood lust! Defeating you is a-AAAA-'' She couldn't even finish her speech (why had she the urge to do that stupid speech anyway?) because she was grabbed from behind and roughly dragged back.

''Mistress! Watch out!'' Kurenai said worryingly, with a rather strange undertone Cure Blood didn't quite get.

''Oh my, Cure Blood, you seem really spacey tonight~'' Wisp's delightful comments didn't make Blood any less annoyed.

But then she saw just what she almost had ran into to.

A giant spider-web, tangled from various tree and Blood quickly noticed three figures stuck around somewhere in the middle of the big web.

''Leader, you're here!'' Cure Alien immediately cheered up at the sight of Cure Blood down below.

''Hehe, I knew you would come to lend a hand'' Cure Witch grinned, still trying to get out of the web but the silk was just bound around their bodies so tightly and it was so sticky, no matter what she did, nothing worked.

''It was Kuroneko again but she just left, again'' Cure Wolf, located in between them, told their leader. Wolf really didn't know goes on in that cat-girl's mind.
Not at all.

Cure Blood looked around frantically.

If there was a spiderweb, then where was the spider?

As If reading her mind, the 'spider', or better said, the Futakuchi in form of a huge spider, landed in front of her, making hissing sounds while attempting to bite Blood's head off with one of its huge mouths.

''Mistress, watch out!'' Kurenai cried, quickly jumping in front of the Cure whilst taking a protective stance, only to be pushed away by the Cure she was trying to protect.

''Stupid!'' Blood yelled at Kurenai, shoving her away just in time.

''Is that...Kurenai?'' Witch squinted her eyes a bit but quickly looked away when the Futakuchi turned it attention to the three caught in the web.

''Leader! Do something!'' Wolf cried impatiently, desperately struggling to get loose as the 'spider' approached the three.

Cure Blood didn't have to be told that twice, she took a rather high jump upwards and landed in between the two mouths, which instantly turned to her.

But just out of nowhere, It happened.

Clenching her fist till her nails bore into her palms, Blood opened her mouth and bore her teeth deeply into the Futakuchi-spider, making it cry out in an almost unbearable tone.

Filling her mouth with red liquid, not unlike what she had felt (and, then, feared) when she used her 'Blood Fang'-attack but it seemed more powerful this time.
And it was kinda salty.

Cure Blood never had experienced such literal blood lust before.

The Vampire Cure just sucked, sucked and sucked.

Till the Futakuchi fell quiet and faded away.

No blood-explosions. No glowing-lights. Nothing.

In a moment the web also disappeared, freeing the other Cures, who took quite a while to approach Cure Blood.

''Eh...Was that your new attack?'' Cure Witch asked, keeping some distance from their leader who still was licking some red from her lips.

''Tasty'' Was all she said while giving her teammates a smile, revealing her sharp teeth.

''No fair, mistress!'' Kurenai pulled Blood's arm in an almost childish manner. ''You could at least left something for me!''

The fairies exchanged some worried looks as all the girls transformed back.

''Oh leader look! You did purify it!'' Tomoko acclaimed, holding up the spider, however taking a closer look at the little insect she noticed it was barely alive, its little legs twitched rather painfully.

Tomoko couldn't help but feel sorry for it.

But the poor thing was quickly snatched from her hands by the dark-blonde who munched the spider down and, to Tomoko's...well everyone's horror, made some crunching noises.

''Eh!? She ate it!?'' Miku cried, almost jumping away from Kurenai in utter disgust.

''Tasty'' Kurenai said, smiling in the same way Yuina had done just a few moments ago.

ED: ''Delusion Disco!'' - Yoshino Nanjo (Yuina Akagawa)