The Damphir

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Italics= thoughts

Regular=speech

(Moka's POV)

As Moka finished dealing with the wizard, she turned her sights to Tsukune's unconscious form once more.

"Why?" the black haired wizard asked.

"Why what?" she replied.

"Why are you going after Tsukune? What has he done to you?" he asked loudly, from his prone position.

"He hasn't done anything to me physically. But, mentally…. that's a different story all together," Moka said, grinning sadistically, "His scent, oh how it tormented me so. I was able to brush my thirst off at first, but it grew and gnawed at me. I have nothing against Tsukune, don't get me wrong. He is a kind boy who doesn't deserve the fate he is about to receive. But, it's out of my hands now. The thirst, I can't fight it anymore. I have no doubt that I will come to regret this, but for now, all that matters is satisfying my thirst for his blood."

No sooner than those words left her mouth, did she feel one of the largest amounts of yoki in her life. It was almost seemed like her father had shown up at the scene, but that was impossible. He wouldn't come anywhere near here while her mother was in the area.

Moka looked towards the source of the yoki, and her eyes widened in shock to see that it was coming from Tsukune.

"How?" Moka asked, beginning to feel the hint of fear at his overwhelming yoki, "I didn't sense any yoki in you earlier. There isn't a monster alive that can hide their yoki from a vampire. So how? How can you have this much stored?" That was when she noticed that Tsukune's eyes were closed, and his breathing was that of someone who was asleep. "What? Impossible. He's asleep?! Then how is his body moving? Where is his yoki coming from?" she thought hurriedly.

She didn't have any more time for thought, however, because Tsukune had rushed forward and slammed his knee into her gut. The force of the impact caused Moka to gasp for breath and send spit flying from her mouth. She was reeling back from the pain the blow left her feeling, and Moka couldn't comprehend how Tsukune, the kind, good natured boy that she met earlier today, had this much strength.

"It doesn't make sense. How can he be this powerful? I would have smelled it if he was anything other than a human. None of this makes sense." Moka thought, fearfully.

She, again, didn't have time for further thought as Tsukune punched her in the gut, causing her head to whiplash forward. Tsukune in turn caught her head with his knee, causing her to fly back and land on the concrete forcefully.

As she tried to get back up, with blood dribbling from her nose, she had her head slammed back to the ground forcefully as Tsukune ground his foot into her head applying pressure as he did.

Moka struggled at first to try and lift his foot, but quickly gave up as she ran out of energy. Somehow, she ended up at angle that allowed her to see the sun setting. "The sun set? Oh, right. That wizard took longer to put down than I thought," Moka thought, peacefully, "It looks like I'm going to die because of my own hunger. Huh, a rather fitting end for me I suppose."

Tsukune picked Moka up, just to throw her back to the ground again. The force of the throw caused Moka to bounce up slightly before her body came to rest.

"Why am I so at peace with this? I should be fighting back, trying to survive. But I'm not; I'm not even trying, I'm just taking it like a bitch," Moka thought mentally, while her body gasped for each breath, "I guess it's because I honestly feel like I deserve this. I tried to take advantage of an innocent guy who was trying to help me, just so I could have a drink."

Tsukune's body put its foot on her throat and began to push, effectively choking her.

"I'm sorry mother. I'm sorry that I have to leave right after we got to be together again. And I'm sorry Kokoa, that I won't be able to keep my promise. And most of all, I'm sorry Tsukune, that I forced you to be this extreme." Moka thought, accepting her fate, "I'm sorry that I wasn't strong enough to fight my desires."

As Moka's vision started to go black, she said her final goodbyes, giving up on trying to live; only to have a white and black blur come out of nowhere and knock Tsukune off of her at the last second.

"N-no," Moka croaked out, "I-I d-deserve this. J-just let it h-happen."

"I'm afraid I can't do that Moka," the stranger said, "I can't let my son become a killer. Nor can I let my best friend's daughter die."

Around that same time, a strange glow began to emanate from the strange woman. "Sleep now Tsukune," she said, "You aren't in danger anymore." This seemed to calm him down as the blanket of yoki disappeared, and he slowly fell into his mother's arms.

The pain coupled with her exhaustion from thinking that she was going to die caught up with Moka, as her world started to fade to black. Just before she completely blacked out though, she heard her mother calling her name, appearing above her.

"Moka?" she asked worriedly, "Moka honey stay with me."

Those were the last words Moka heard before her world faded into oblivion.

(Tsukune's POV)

When Tsukune woke up on his couch, he had thought that the whole thing had been a dream of some sort. So when he sat up to see Moka on the sofa, bruised, bandaged, and unconscious, he was more than shocked. The last memory he had of Moka was her being pulled away from by Gajeel. Could he have done that to her?

No, that didn't make sense either, since Gajeel was sitting on the chair to his left.

"Oooi. How ya feeling?" Gajeel asked.

"Fine, but why is Moka look she got run over by a steam roller?" Tsukune asked, surprised that he was concerned for her well-being. Especially considering that she attacked him earlier that day.

"Don't know, your mom refuses to answer my questions," Gajeel replied.

"Wait, what does my mom have to do with this?" Tsukune asked confused.

"I think that it's high time I answered all of your questions," Tsukune's mother, Kasumi, said as she walked into the room.

"Mom, what's going on?" Tsukune asked hurriedly.

"Well, if you let me explain, then you'll know," she said, irritated as her son's impatientness, "Well, this all started when I invited my old friend, Akasha Bloodriver, and her daughter, whom you have already met, to come stay with us for a while. She had gotten into a fight with Moka's father about where Moka would live, and she ended leaving the house with Moka in tow."

"Okay, but why did Moka attack me?" Tsukune asked his mother heatedly.

"Put simply, your scent made her thirsty for you blood," she explained, "And before you ask why, the simple answer is that she is a vampire and she needs blood to survive."

"But vampires don't exist right?" Tsukune asked, looking to Gajeel to confirmation.

"Oh, so that's why she attacked Tsukune," Gajeel said coolly.

"Yes, indeed," Kasumi confirmed, "And thank you for protecting Tsukune, or at least attempting to."

"Not a problem," he said, looking over at Moka's sleeping form, "But I have to admit that she was a lot stronger than I anticipated. I used every bit of power that I had and she still crushed me."

"You know Moka," Kasumi started, "It's not polite to listen to a conversation without participating in it."

"What gave it away," Moka said, opening her eyes and sitting up, "Was it me clenching my fist?"

"Yes actually, that was exactly it," Tsukune's mother said, "You don't have to explain that you are sorry though. I searched your memories along with your mother, so we both understand how sorry you are."

"My being sorry doesn't change what I did," Moka said sadly.

"It's partly my fault for not warning you guys about how his smell would cause you to react," his mother said, "I grew so used to it, that I didn't bother to think about you guys would react. So I apologize to everyone for that."

"Well, I feel that it would be a better apology to explain what that power Tsukune showed earlier was," Moka's mother said as she walked in from the kitchen.

"Well, the answer to that isn't one that you are going to like Akasha," Kasumi said coolly.

"We'll see about that Kasumi," Akasha started, "I just saw my own daughter almost get killed so I don't think anything could piss me off any more than that."

"Okay, I warned you," Kasumi answered, "The answer you were looking for is that my son Tsukune is a Damphir."

Ok, that chapter took quite a bit longer to write than the others. So, Gajeel ended up getting a bigger part than I originally planned, but the story flowed so much better with his inclusion that I had to do it. So at this point, there are two options for this story: continue without Gajeel as a R+V exclusive story, or it could become a crossover story. I'm personally leaning more towards the second option, but whichever you guys will be the way I go. So please let me know down in the comments. Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, and hope you have a nice day.