Yokai Acadamey was not by any definition a normal school. The school existed in a pocket dimension that kept it separate from the human world, because this school did not teach humans. It taught monsters, of all kinds, on how to peacefully co-exist with humans. The school had done well over the past several hundred years, slowly but surely making progress in molding young monsters to peacefully exist alongside the humans who outnumbered the entire monster populations ten to one. But things had grown more interesting last year, when a certain teen named Dante Price, a Timelord and human hybrid, had shown up at the beginning of last year. He befriended Moka Akashiya, a vampire, Kurumu Kurono, a succubus, Mizore Shirayuki, a snow woman, and Yukari Sendo, a witch, before a new party had arrived under his own power. The new party was also a universe jumper, a vampire named Connor, who had fled from his universe after a failed war with the gods of myth in his world, and had escaped their wrath after stealing a cloak made from the souls of Kronos, the titian of time, and Ouranos, the sky and therefore space itself. Connor was a tense but eventually trustworthy ally, befriending Dante and his group while becoming the boyfriend of Kurumu.
They had a few minor adventures along the way, befriending another witch named Ruby Tendo and a werewolf named Gin Morioka, who on occasion joined in or helped with their various adventures. The year had been eventful, eventually ending with a small orginization of monsters, calling themselves Anti-Thesis, attempted to take down the barrier around the school and expose monsters to humankind, causing the two to go to war.
Their plans were foiled by Dante and his friends, but the event meant the school was closed for the remainder of the year, meaning the group was forced to say goodbye and go their separate ways. At least, until the new school year started...
Yokai Academy, bus stop
The first thing that came to mind when one thought school for monsters was most likely not a scene that looked like it had been taken straight from a cheesy monster movie. There was a stereotypical forest with bent branches, dark shadows, and the occasional crow cawing to the left, a dangerous cliff overlooking a massive lake to the right, and a path through the forest heading towards the school in the distance, all complete with a pumpkin on top of a scarecrow body and the schools name written in kanji on a wooden sign. A tunnel cut through the side of a small hill was where the new arrivals that insisted on coming by bus would come through. Aside from the wind and crows, everything was silent.
VWOOORP VWOOOORP VROOOOORP
The wheezing, groaning sound was heard as a blue police box flickered in and out of existence before settling, turning solid and still before the door opened with a loud creak.
"Ah...good to be back." Dante Price sighed as he stepped out, closing the door behind him. "Let's see, eleven months, three weeks, and two days later since I arrived the first time. Oh, even arrived right on the minute, not bad." He said as he checked his watch. "Well, time to get going, don't want to be late on the first day." Dante pulled out and pointed a sonic screwdriver at the box, turning it on and making the object flicker in and out again before vanishing. He then walked down the trail into the woods, remembering how it had been the first time he had walked down this path. All that was missing was a bike and...
"WATCH OUT!" The sound of tires skidding against the dirt came from behind him.
'Speak of the devil.' Dante thought before casually flipping up and back, avoiding a collision with a girl on a bike while also grabbing the girl's shirt and pulling her off the bike. The now riderless bike wobbled before crashing to the ground and stopping, the back wheel still turning as Dante landed lightly on the ground.
"You all right?" He asked while letting go of the girls shirt as she looked at him. She was about a foot shorter then him, red hair done up in twin pigtails, green eyes, pale skin, and the school uniform of a plaid skirt, knee high socks, a white shirt under a green vest. 'Oh goodie, it's her.' Dante knew exactly who this was, and he was not looking forward to dealing with her. The look of anger that twisted her otherwise cute face just increased the feeling.
"Get away from me you prev!" She smashed a fist into his chest and sent the larger teen soaring back and through a few trees before he was out of her sight. The girl didn't waste anytime grabbing her bike and getting out of dodge. A few seconds later, Dante walked from the woods while picking wood chips off his shirt and out of his hair.
"That could've gone better. Wait, what I'm saying, it was her. That was the best way it could've gone." Dante's musing was interrupted by a loud ripping sound to his right. Looking in that direction, there was a void that seemed to rip through the fabric of reality. Out of the void stepped a teen before it was sealed behind him.
"You really had to take that way Connor, you couldn't have just come in the TARDIS with me?"
"This ways more familiar. Plus I always get the feeling your TARDIS doesn't like my cloak being inside her." The now revealed vampire said, adjusting his sunglasses before grunting. He pressed a hand to his temple.
"Hey, you ok?"
"Yeah. Just those two messing with my head again. Shall we get going?" Connor said, dropping his hand to his side.
"Let's, I want to see everyone again." And with that, the two universe jumpers walked down the path side by side, both anxious to get to the school for similar reasons.
Headmasters office
The headmaster was sitting in his office filling out the paperwork load that came with the new school year. He was rather looking forwards to this morning, since two rather interesting young men would be returning to his school for another year, and while last year things had been loud, it had been good for the normal routine of the school to be mixed up a little.
CRACKLE
He was interrupted by his work as the sound of electricity and a small tendril of the same energy appearing in the middle of the room. It happened twice more, but the headmaster didn't even bother looking up since he had been expecting it. There was a buzz/crackle followed by a flash of light and two pairs of feet hitting the ground. He looked up then, his eyes their normal, glowing white dots hidden in shadow.
"Ah, welcome back Professor Song. It's a pleasure to see you again, but I wasn't aware you were bringing company with you this year." River Song had asked him at the end of last year if she'd be able to come back and keep teaching her archeology class next year and he had approved it.
"Headmaster, it's good to see you again as well." River Song smiled while bowing her head slightly. "Yes, I'm sorry for not notifying you, but I'm afraid I didn't have time to send a note or any sort of warning ahead, I hope that's not a problem."
"Not at all." The headmaster reassured while looking over the person River had brought with her. The first thing he noticed was they were male, but he could only tell that due to his general build, thin and about as tall as River, beyond that he couldn't pick out many details since they had a zipped-up, black hoodie on with the hood up, casting their entire face in shadow. He did however pick out glowing silver eyes. The clothes were black jeans, the hint of a black shirt poking out from under the hoodie, and tennis shoes. He noticed a hint of leather poking out from the sleeve of his right arm, but didn't comment on it. "Can I inquire who it is you brought with you?"
Courtyard at the front of the school
Students were milling through the courtyard, the newer students looking around the place while the older ones were greeting friends they hadn't seen over the summer. The loud sounds of talking, laughing, and walking was heard while several of them would stop side let to stare at one person in particular. The pink haired, green eyed vampire Moka Akashiya, who also happened to be one of the most beautiful and desirable girls in the entire school. Sadly she was completely oblivious to the various looks of awe and lust sent her way from the males(and even a few females). The girl next to her, the child genius/witch Yukari Sendo, was not.
"Hehehe, you're getting a lot of looks Moka." Yukari giggled slightly, getting the older girls attention. "But considering how you look I'm not surprised." The girl was also rather clingy, as shown when she took the opportunity to hug the older girl. The vampire blushed in embarrassment since they were making a scene.
"Yukari, let go." She tried to gently push off the girl but no such luck.
"Moka, Yukari!" Both girls looked towards the third cheerful female voice to see a waving and smiling Kurumu, who also had her own small following of fanboys.
"Kurumu! It's good to see you again!" Moka waved back happily while Yukari's cheeks puffed out childish and she snapped her fingers.
"Darn, I was hoping milk jugs wouldn't be around this year."
"What was that you little brat!?"
"Did I stutter!?" The two girls butted heads, literally with Kurumu bending over and the Yukari standing up on her tiptoes. Moka sweat dropped while playing peacemaker, again.
"You two never change." The last member of the females took that moment to pop over Kurumu's shoulders. "Can't you stop arguing and be quite sometimes?" Mizore asked, sucking on her customary lollipop.
"Mizore!" Moka hugged the snow woman while getting a kinda hug back from the shyer and less touchy feely girl.
"Looks like the gangs all here then, all we need are the guys." Yukari noted, looking around hopefully. She wanted to see Dante and Connor again, Dante because she could actually have an intelligent conversation with and Connor was the big brother figure. Mizore and Moka were both Dante's girlfriends (much to the jealousy and envy of the older students) and Connor was Kurumu's "desitined one", the one she was supposed to spend the rest of her life with. So all of them were rather anxious to see them again.
"My ears are ringing, somebody talking about me?!" The shout cut through the loud background noise.
The mass of students stopped talking at the shout before some of them started moving out of the way, parting like water to make a path from the girls to the gates where Dante and Connor were currently walking in from. Dante had his hands in his pockets, a smile on his face, and looked completely at ease as he walked. Connor's head was pointed straight ahead but his eyes were looking every and anywhere they could, but his body language showed he wasn't unduly tense.
"Dante!" Moka and Yukari were the most enthusiastic responses as they both ran towards the teen, Yukari getting there first despite her shorter legs and tackling him with a hug.
"Hey there Yukari. Have you gotten bigger?" The teen asked after hugging her, pushing her back slightly so he could compare her height to what he remembered. "Yeah, you're a few inches taller at least."
"Yep! 6 inches since last year!" The witch puffed out her chest proudly. "It's good to see you again, how have you been?"
"Oh, I've kept busy."
"Really? What did you do over the summer?"
Dante smiled. "Oh, a little of this, a little of that." His coy answer was met with a pout from Yukari before he turned his attention to the other girl who had greeted him, his smile widening. "Moka."
The girl looked radiant with happiness but also slightly unsure of how to proceed until Dante held out his arms. "Well, come on, I don't bite. Well, not often anyways." That was all the prompting she needed. The pinkette tackle hugged Dante as well, pulling him close and applying enough pressure in the hug to crush a normal human into a pulp. Dante, however, was not normal, and hugged back just as hard. The newer students were all wondering who the hell was hugging one of the most attractive girls they had ever seen and how they'd like to beat the crap out of him for doing so. The older students knew better and settled for just watching them with jealousy in their eyes.
"I missed you." Dante said quietly, his chin resting on Moka's shoulder.
"I missed you too." Was the whispered response. He also felt her nose brush against his neck, followed by some sniffing sounds. Dante chuckled, rolling his eyes before pulling back and losing his collar.
"Go ahead." Some things just never changed.
Moka's eyes lit up before she bit into Dante's neck, the fangs her race was known for peircing the skin easily. It felt almost painless, just two needles being stuck into his neck before she started drinking his blood. A half minute later, she pulled away while kicking her lips, her face slightly pink.
"Still tasty?" Dante asked cheekily as he readjusted his collar, making the blush deepen on Moka's face deepen before he felt two arms slip around his neck and a cold breeze go across the back of his neck.
"Hello Dante." Mizore said in a slightly shy tone. What happened next was Dante pushing her arms, turning, then pulling Mizore towards him into a deep kiss. The purple haired girl melted into it and kissed back with just as much vigor as him. The new students shifted from jealously to outright disbelief at the scene, but the two really didn't care right now. They pulled away when the need for breath prompted them to.
"Hello Mizore. Miss me?" The dark skinned teen asked.
Mizore blushed and looked away. "Every day."
"We'll, I'm back for a new school year. And I'm not going anywhere for now." He got a nod in response and hugged Mizore closely. Connor watched all of this from the background with a slight smile at the touching scene. Heartless and cold he may be, even he could appreciate something like this.
"Connor!" At least until he was suddenly hugged by the big breasted, blue haired girl he had gotten a headache looking at. For some reason he felt like he should've known her, but he didn't have any memories of ever seeing her before today. Now that she was touching him though, the mild headache grew stronger as his sense of smell was assaulted with some overpowering odor that smelled delicious. He grunted and stepped out of the embrace while pressing a hand to his right temple.
Dante noticed the interaction and narrowed his eyes. Seemed those two hadn't given him back his memories yet, and Connor's action had made Kurumu concerned and hurt that her destined one hadn't hugged her back or even shown any sign that he knew her.
"Connor, what's wrong?" She asked, the hurt in her voice clearly heard.
"Who...are you?" Connor managed to force that much through the headache that now felt like someone was tearing his head in half, or a dam that was holding back an increasing amount of pressure and starting to crack under it. He pressed both hands to his temples as a futile attempt to alleviate the pain. The crowd of students was starting to shift restlessly and whispering could be heard in the air.
"Kurumu, kiss him!" Dante told her, getting the bluenette's attention. If they didn't do something, Connor would soon be on the ground in pain while his mind started cracking under the strain of trying to access memories he didn't have yet. They needed to give him a shock that would force the mental barrier holding them back to shatter like glass. "Just do it, now!"
Experience had taught the group that when Dante told them to do something, it was a good idea to do it. When he shouted at them to do something, it was important they do exactly what he said before something very, very bad happened. So with that in mind, Kurumu did what Dante said, lifted Connor's face in both hands, and pressed her lips to his.
SNAP!
Connor felt something break in his mind when soft lips were pressed against his and he suddenly had memories flood back into his mind, taking their rightful place in it and settling. It was like suddenly finding an old possession you had treasured for years but also lost not hat long ago. He remembered Kurumu, everything regarding her. Her likes, dislikes, loves, hates, fears, everything. The mental shock was startling but also welcome as he stepped away to try and sort through the entire jumble. He breathed heavily and everything sounded muffled through his ears at the moment, eye sight blurry and unclear. He felt something touch his hand and looked up, seeing the face of the person he had just remembered.
"Connor?" Kurumu said hopefully as she saw some recognition in his eyes. Her respone was being pulled in and given a sudden and savage kiss that took her breath away. Her shock faded and she closed her eyes, putting her arms around his neck while he held her waist.
Dante sighed as the scene took place. "Ok, that's one problem already taken care of."
"Um, what was that?" Yukari asked, not entirely sure what had just happened. Mizore and Moka felt the same as Kurumu and Connor separated.
"I'll explain later," Dante promised, checking the time. "In the meantime, we need to get to get to home room don't we? It's the first day of school, and we don't want to be late."
"Let's go then!" Yukari said while grabbing him and Moka, pulling them along. Mizore followed silently while taking Dante's free hand, and they were followed by the now very happy Kurumu and Connor when they noticed their friends leaving.
Rooftop over the school entrance
The same figure River had brought with her watched the entire courtyard in a kneeling position, right knee on the ground, arms resting on his left leg, and hood still up while his silver eyes watched everything. He wasn't seen because nobody ever bothered to look up and spot him. He also now had a sheathed sword resting on te ground next to him. The hilt was black and long enough to grab with both hands, the sheath pitch black and inscribed with silver lines that flowed and twisted around it. The figure had seen the entire interaction between Dante, Connor, and the rest of their little group. Now that he had found them, he wanted to see what they were made off.
He lifted his right hand and snapped his fingers, the sound loud in the air before a small twister formed around the group in question.
Dante's group
The group had just started walking towards the entrance halls when the wind had started picking up quickly, kicking up dust and rocks as a mini twister formered around them, forcing them to cover their eyes and stop as the violent winds howled around them.
"Wha- where did this come from!?" Yukari demanded, covering her eyes with one arm while her other hand kept her hat from flying off. They couldn't see or get through the violent winds but despite how strong they were, they weren't strong enough to lift any of them, just stop them.
Rooftop
Once the twister was formed, the figure held his hands like he was framing a shot and slowly moved them outwards, his creation doing the same and growing wider and wider, forcing the student body to back away from it and Dante's group in the dead center. Once the area where no students were was large enough, he dropped and shot his arms out like a conductor signaling for silence. The twister heeded his wishes and dissolved, leaving a fifty feet of clear space on all sides of the group he wanted. He grabbed the sword resting next to him, stood, and jumped forty feet into the air before flipping, falling towards the ground he had cleared.
Group
"Well that was interesting." Dante commented as the group looked around at each other and the space. Everyone's hair was in dissarry aside from Dante's, whose hair was too short to even get messed up, and the students that had been forced to back away looked the same, with messed up clothes.
"What was that?" Moka was trying to comb her hair back in place with her fingers and get out a tangle. Her answer was the loud sound of feet hitting gravel, drawing everyone's attention. The figure had landed in a kneel like the one he had been in on the rooftop, head bowed so they couldn't see his eyes and hood still up. His sword was pressed against the ground point first.
"I'm guessing that was his work." Connor narrowed his eyes at the unknown as they got up, then opened his eyes. The silver color was startling in the darkness that kept the rest of his head out of view. Kurumu, Mizore, and Yukari all got into makeshift fighting stances while Dante and Connor watched and Moka shrunk into herself, disliking violence.
"Who are you?" Kurumu demanded. The silver eyes flickered towards her and looked her over, looking more curious then malicious. "What do you want?"
The figure lifted his right hand, pointed at the group, then himself, then held up his index finger.
"He wants to fight us one on one." Dante translated out loud. He also had a nagging feeling he should know this person, but like so many other things, the answer wouldn't come to him. The figure nodded his head. "All right...who do you want to challange first?"
Looking the group over again, he lifted his sword to his right side and stabbed it into the ground, the sheath going 6 inches through the compacted dirt. He left it go and took two steps forwards before pointing at Yukari. The witch was surprised before her face turned confident.
"Ok then." She took out her wand, a heart shaped tip with a small red crystal set in the center of it, and some tarot cards before she walked forwards. "What are the rules?"
"Knocked out or surrender. No killing blows." Those were the first words he said, but the tone was male, and sounder like he was in his later teens. They couldn't see his mouth move from the shadows. Yukari nodded.
"I'll accept those rules!"
"Tch." Kurumu scoffed. "It's probably just a first year wanting some glory. Even Yukari can't lose against him."
"I wouldn't be so sure." Dante commented as the two fighters got ready. Or rather, Yukari got ready, the teen she was facing crossed his arms, apparently letting her take the first move. He got the feeling this would be tougher then it looked.
Yukari threw up her tarot cards then waved her wand, a glowing trail highlighting its path before the light went into the cards. A similar glow came from them before they started twisting around Yukari, then shot towards her oppentent in a steam of enchanted paper.
"Those tarot cards are enchanted to cut through a inch of reinforced steel, so good luck blocking them!" Yukari shouted as they approached, expecting the black dressed teen to either jump away from them or attempt to dodge.
He did neither. He simply stood there watching them approach at high speed without moving a muscle. The cards were five feet from him when the unexpected happened. All the cards suddenly stopped dead in mid air, simply hovering like they had lost any speed they possessed.
"What the-?!" Yukari's jaw dropped along with that of every other student in the yard at the sight. The teen looked at the ground and the cards fluttered to the ground and rested their, all their power gone. His look was condescending and bored as he brought his attention to Yukari again. "Ok, well try this then!" She quickly pulled out her signature spell, which allowed her to conjure heavy wash pans, bath tubs, or other heavy object that would knock out lower level monsters with ease above their heads and drop them on it. This time she summoned a copper wash pan that dropped towards the teen's head.
CLANG
"Ha! Take...that?" Yukari's triumphant shout turned to a confused one. The reason being the wash pan had stopped a good foot above the teens head and was still there, perfectly balanced before it slowly tilted and fell to his left. He looked down at it, then Yukari, then back again. He still hadn't uncrossed his arms or even touched the sheathed sword in the ground to do anything.
He brought his attention back to Yukari and he couldn't even look bored. It was a deadpan stare he regarded Yukari with. It made the witch bow her head with a dark, depressed cloud over her head. Those were her strongest spells. If didn't even touch this guy then she was flat out of luck.
"I surrender." She moaned before turning around and walking back to the group.
"Don't feel bad about it." Dante rubbed the top of her head. Or the back of her head since the top was pointed at him with her looking at the ground. "You put in a good effort and that's what's important."
"I still feel worthless." Yukari mumbled, even if Dante's compliment perked her up slightly. Dante brought his attention back to her opponent.
"Who's next?"
This time he didn't hesitate, the teen pointed at Kurumu, having decided on what order he would go. The bluenette was a bit surprised she was going second, but that was replaced by confidence as she stepped forwards. Connor grabbed her hand to get her attention.
"Be careful. Something about that guy doesn't feel right."
Kurumu nodded and Conner let her go so she could keep walking forwards. Once she was ten feet from the group, she lifted her hands and changed into her true monster form. Two bat like wings sprouted from her shoulder blades, a triangular tipped tail snakes it's way out from under her skirt, and her fingernails lengthened into razor sharp, two foot long claws.
The silver eyes gave the look that he was impressed with the form and Kurumu used that meet his eyes and enact her power. Succubi had the special power to create illusions in the mind of their opponents, and the older they were, the stronger their powers. The oldest could bewitch and bend an entire town to their wills. Since Kurumu was younger, she couldn't do that, but if she had eye contact with her target she could use some very effective illusions.
The teen felt something tingle before he wasn't seeing one Kurumu, he was seeing ten, each looking solid like the original.
'Illusions, just like River said.' The teen closed his eyes to make his hood complete darkness without the eyes to show anything. Against something like that, a normal for dependent on eyesight would be in trouble.
He wasn't dependent on eyesight.
Kurumu noticed the teen close his eyes and smirked before flapping her wings to take flight. She climbed up twenty feet before going into a dive, claws hissing as the air was almost cut by them. Inside her illusion it would sound like all ten of her had taken flight and were flying around him, leaving him wide open to an attack from the real one, which she intended to take.
"Take this!" Once she was in range, she stabbed at the right shoulder with the intent of piercing and disabling it. What happened was her hand was grabbed and she was suddenly pulled to the side, up, then slammed into the ground hard enough to make a crater and knock out her breath.
'Wh-what?!' That wasn't possible, he shouldn't have been able to find her, he was still in her illusion, and looking at him, his eyes still closed. The only one who had done something like this before was...Dante. She didn't get a chance to realize she was in way out of her depth before the teen drew a finger tip across her throat.
"Dead." He said simply, opening his eyes again to show silver and...boredom. That made Kurumu shiver. If he was able to handle this much and be bored, she wasn't sure she wanted to see him when he was serious. She swallowed, her mouth suddenly dry.
"I surrender." She said. She was pulled up by the arm he still had a grip on and helped her stand.
"Good try." He said, and the compliment sounded genuine but Kurumu had already started walking away in a daze, and didn't hear. He shrugged and pointed at Mizore while Connor checked his girlfriend over. "Next."
Mizore narrowed her eyes and rolled her sucker in her mouth. 'This guy...is good.' He hadn't even moved from his sword, still two steps away from it despite the fact he had negated Kurumu's attack and used her own speed against her for that slam. Yukari's tarot cards had just been stopped without him moving, so she guessed she'd need some her stronger long range attacks to make a dent. With that in mind she stepped out and approached him. Once she was away from the group she unleashed her own form.
Frost creeped across her purple hair and the temperature in the air plummeted as claws of ice started growing from inside her hoodie sleeves. The teen breathed out white mist, showing that he was actually alive and breathed like everyone else. He shivered slightly.
"Cold...interesting."
"That's the least of your problems." Mizore crossed both arms while the ice on the tips of her claws grew longer and thinner. "Take this." She swung her arms, sending out ten kunai-like icicles at high speed. 'Those kunai are all denser and faster that Yukari's tarot cards, he shouldn't be able to just stop them.'
Seeing the projectiles, the teen snapped out his right hand and bent the fingers into a claw shape. All the kunai stopped a few inches from his hand, just like Yukari's tarot cards. He then slowly made a fist, the ice cracking before they broke like crystal, hovering in midair. He opened his fist and the slushy like substance that had been the weaponry fell to the ground. All eyes watching widened at the sudden display of power, Mizore's eyes among them. Dante's eyes stayed normal, yet Connor's narrowed.
"Opps. I showed my hand too early. Oh well." He lowered his hand and Mizore got the distinct feeling he was smiling, and his silver eyes danced with amusement. "What else do you have?"
Mizore got her wits back and thought up what she knew. Apparently ranged weaponry was completely useless against him, so she'd had to get up close and personal. With that in mind, she charged at him, the teen letting his arms drop loosely to both side in preparation.
Mizore started with a slash to the chest but was blocked as he hit her upper arm, stopping the limb in place and keeping the claws away from him. She tried to stab with her left but he tilted himself out of the way before dropping, hooking his right foot behind her left knee and pulling forwards so she dropped to a kneel. He then braced his hands and kicked with his other leg at her face, moving fast. Mizore barely had time to get her ice claws up to block and when she did, they shattered like her kunai had while she went soaring backwards from the force behind the attack.
"Whoa there!" Dante caught his girlfriend before she hit the ground and was sent skidding back from the sheer speed she gotten from the kicks force. "You ok?" He asked, looking her over. Mizore winced as she felt a stab of pain.
"My left wrist..." Dante quickly took the limb and gently looked over the wrist. He pressed against it lightly with his thumb and Mizore hissed.
"Ok, the ice took most of the attack but your wrist is fractured slightly. Nothing that can't heal with time, you are not, however, going to be able to keep fighting."
"Sorry." They looked at the teen as he got up. "I didn't mean to do that." He did sound a bit ashamed and Dante was going absolutly nuts trying to figure out who the hell this was. His abilites, his stance, voice, everything was so damn familiar, yet he couldn't think of a name!
He grunted and set Mizore on her feet.
"I'll heal that in a minute. I take it you want to fight Moka too?" He asked, jerking his thumb at the pink haired vampire. He got a nod in response and sighed. Well, he was going to have to run into at some point, might as well do it now. He walked over to the girl, who looked uncomfortable.
"We're going to need her." He said and Moka nodded. "Ok then, ready?" Another nod was his response so Dante grabbed the rosary from Moka's choker and gave it a firm pull. It came off with a CLINK!
Suddenly, a burst of energy came from the pinkette. The sky darkened to blood red, and a swarm of bats descended from above and around Moka. The area around them became ten degrees cooler, making them shiver. The bats completely covered Moka's skin and clothing leaving nothing but a silhouette in the darkness. Then, one by one, the bats swarmed away to reveal not the gorgeous pinkette that we had begun with, but a silver haired, red slit eyed, bigger...asseted full blooded vampire. The power rolling off the true form of Moka made all those who hadn't felt it shiver in awe and a bit of fear. Inner Moka looked at her hands then at Dante. She smirked slightly.
"Dante. It's been too long." She said, her voice deeper and more mature then her outer persona's.
"Ura, good to see you again." The hybrid smiled at seeing the other and more sexual half of his girlfriend while pocketing the rosario for the time being. "You know what's going on?"
"Yes I do." She looked around Dante at the one who had challanged her to a fight, silver eyes meeting red in a direct contest. Inner expected the stranger to look away after a few seconds but he just kept his gaze without a hint of fear or unease. She smiled slightly before saying to Dante, "He may give me a decent warm-up. But before I go..." She grabbed the back of Dante's head and pulled him into a deep kiss for a few seconds pulling away. She licked her lips hungrily. "...it's been too long since we did that as well." She then turned and walked towards the center, hips swaying slightly.
The teen tilted his head and cracked his neck. This one he had looked forwards to testing the limits of her strength. A full blooded vampire vs him, that was worth doing.
"You're very strong. Are you a newer student?" Inner asked, stopping thirty feet away from him.
"You could say that. I'm curious to see if full blooded vampires are really are strong as they say they are or if you're all just blowing hot air." There was a collective gasp at the blatant insult of one of the strongest races of monsters in their world. The silver haired fighters eyes narrowed while her vampire pride instantly came to a boil. Her fists clenched.
"Insolent whelp," She snarled before crouching. She vanished and the ground under her feet cratered from her anger enhanced strength while everyone looked up, the teen included. The vampire was now forty or fifty feet in the air and was starting to fall while spinning to build up power. The teen braced his feet and lifted his right hand slightly as Moka came down faster and faster. She extended her left leg in preparation for a super charged axe kick. "Know your place!" She shouted, bring down her left leg while the teen shot up his right hand to block.
There was a explosion of dust, wind, and monster power from the point of impact that forced the students with a front row seat to cover their eyes as the ground cracked and shook. Connor and Dante didn't bother while the others did.
"That was stupid of him." Connor said. Making Inner Moka anger when she was at full power then taking a axe kick with that much force behind it was suicide.
"No," Connor looked at Dante who had his eyes narrowed. "He purposely goaded her so she would do that. He wanted to try himself against that power."
The dust settled surprisingly quick to show a scene that made many jaws hit the ground and eyes bug out. Not because Moka had missed, she had hit her oppenent dead on. No, the shocking part was something else entirely.
"He...caught it!?" Yukari shouted. The teen had sunk about a foot into the ground but otherwise he was perfectly fine! Moka's heel was in his palm and his arm completely intact, he wasn't even looking up anymore. He was bowing his head, and he was not reduced to the bloody smashed stain on the ground he was supposed to be after an attack like that! Inner Moka had the widest eyes and a expression of pure shock on her face.
"What are you?"
"Honestly... some days I wonder that myself." The teen looked up and the slightest bit of light made it easy for Moka to see a slight smirk on his face. "By the way, you shouldn't do an axe kick in that kind of skirt, unless there's some side of you nobody else knows about, Ms. Panty flash."
Moka's visage turned from shock to outrage. "You dare to look?!" Nobody noticed or particularly cared she was still being held up by her heel in an absurd position.
The teen snorted. "Please, I have seen much worse with my girlfriends. Or better actually."
Moka chose to take that a an insult and attempted to bring down her free leg to hit him in the head, until she was blow by a sudden and unexplained shockwave. She hit the ground and stopped with a snarl before looking up. Her red eyes widened when he was right in front of her again. She lunged and attempted a punch to the head but he grabbed the fist, twisted, and slammed her into the ground like he had Kurumu, but with much more force and a larger crater resulted from it. She snarled and tried to get up but was stopped when a foot was put on her throat.
"Yield." She ignored the command and attempted to push him off but stopped when she noticed his eyes. They had changed, silver before but now pure white with a black pupil in the center. They also made her feel very small suddenly, like a ant facing a giant. His hood prevented anyone but Moka from seeing the change.
"Yield." The teen said, with a hint of a growl hidden behind it. The pressure on her throat increased ever so slightly. Inner Moka forciably swallowed her pride and snarled.
"I...yield."
The eyes shifted back to silver and the foot lifted, allowing Moka to start getting up. She stopped when a hand was extended into her field of view. She traced it back to the owner, the teen, but he just kept it extended. Her pride was already swallowed, so she slowly grabbed it and was pulled up.
"You're very strong," the teen said respectfully. "I'm sorry for the insult earlier, but I wanted to see just how strong you of your kind was. It's safe to say you are the strongest race out there."
Moka considered the fighter and his words before speaking. "You're a curious one. What's your name?"
"Ah, ah, ah. Spoilers. You'll to wait just like everyone else." He said playfully and Moka grunted, annoyed. "Now..." He turned and looked directly at Dante. "I challange you."
Ok, Dante had a bit of a reputation at the school. As in, he was the strongest student on campus. There was no dispute(this year yet) on this claim, and now what everyone was now assuming was a first year student was challenging the greatest fighter at the school on his first day. Everyone shifted their shocked gaze to Dante who had his face blank. Then his lip twitched.
He had heard what the teen had said to Moka. And he now knew exactly who it was he was looking at.
'The others never stood a chance.' He thought while out loud, he began to chuckle. "You've gotten cocky, haven't you?"
"I'm confident I can give you a good fight, nothing more, nothing less." The mysterious teen replied, making Dante laugh again.
"Let's put that to the test then." He walked onto the field and Inner Moka walked off, wondering like everyone else why Dante suddenly looked so very cheerful. "Swords?" He asked.
"No cutting or killing, but sure. Where's yours?"
Dante held out his right hand, thumb down. "Right here." A black dot appeared in the sky and grew larger at an alarming rate before being grabbed by Dante just before it hit the ground. The black dot turned out to be a black sword that had a two prong hilt that was outlined in gold. Between the blade was a small blue gem that seemed to be glowing and emanating a dark aura of energy. And then there was the tip of the hilt which had the head of what looked like a demon.
"Hhmm, haven't seen that in a while." The teen held out his left hand in a similar way to Dante's. The sheathed sword he had stabbed into the ground before his fight with Yukari suddenly pulled itself free and flew into his hand, which let him graba the middle of the sheath. He grabbed the hilt with his right hand and slowly drew the blade, showing it was a light green and double sided. The entire blade seemed to give off the faintest of glows. "Stalemate?" He asked while dropping the sheath and holding the sword in both hands, right foot forwards.
"Stalemate." Dante mirrored the grip and stance, both waiting for the other to make a move. Nobody dared to move or even breath as the two fighters seemed to be frozen. Then they both unfroze explosively.
The two teens vanished before reappearing with a massive CLANG and shockwave of wind tearing through the air as their swords collided. Dante twisted his blade and stabbed at the chest but his oppenent danced away, twirling around the blade and swinging at the extended shoulder, smacking it with the flat of his blade. Dante winced before kicking at the left thigh of his foe, making him grunt as Dante hit the muscle so it gave out from under him. The hybrid suddenly jumped back before a shockwave with the teen at the center exploded outwards, giving him a breather. Dante swung his sword so the wind was forced to go around him and kick up a cloud of dust into the crowds collective eyes. As a result, nobody saw Dante's smile grow wider.
The wind stopped, then reversed direction back towards the teen, drawing the dust with it. Once it was thinned enough so everyone could see, they saw the dust that was riding with the wind was flowing like water towards his fist and swirling around it in a ball. The silver eyes narrowed slightly.
"Block this. Ha!" He thrust his fist out, a visible ten foot wide shcokwave of air exploding and rushing the distance between Dante and it's point of origin in a mere second before it collided with Dante. He was lifted off the ground and thrown backwards at highspeed. The student body barely able to get put of the way in time as he flew through the space they had occupied and smashed through the courtyard's wall.
"Dante!" Yukari cried as the stone and dust was kicked up again. A second later Dante's black sword swiped through the dust, the wind from the swipe forcing it to clear. Other then some minor bruises and a scratch on his neck that was bleeding slightly, he looked fine. In fact, he was still smiling.
Dante blurred and reappeared back in the improvised circle of the ring. "What, no name this time?" He asked
"It helps me concentrate, but no, it's not needed every time I want to use that attack." The response was punctuated by the teen holding out his left palm. "And this skill you should remember."
The student body turned towards the sound of shifting rock to see the debris that had resulted from Dante crashing through the wall was now lifting up and floating in mid-air.
"What the hell is his power?!" Kurumu demanded. It was all over the place with this guy, he had enough super strength to take a vampire's kick, his speed was insane, he fired out strange shock waves, now he could manipulate objects from a distance? What gives?!
The teen slashed his hand down and the rocks rushed towards Dante, who quickly and effectively sliced through the stone with his sword nothing but a black blur. Once he did, he spun on heel and pointed the sword just as his silver eyed opponent appeared out of no where, Dante's sword tip disappearing into the shadows of his hood at throat level while his own sword tip was a half inch away from Dante's Adam Apple. Everyone drew a breath in shock.
"Stalemate..." Inner Moka said out loud, red eyes wide like everyone else's. Neither swords moved and their gazes stayed locked between Dante and his foe, Dante's face now blank.
He suddenly smiled again, teeth showing through the dark skin of his face. "Hello Tobias."
The teen's hand twitched before he lifted it to grasp his hood, throwing it back and showing his face for the first time. His hair was black and looked to be in mess from the hood and his movements, the back the longest, the middle stopping below his ears, and the front cut shorter with bangs above his eyebrows. His skin color was white, his face slightly tanned and angular, and he was smirking in a way similar to Inner Moka, confident mixed with amusement, with a touch of happiness thrown in. He was also good-looking and many of the female students developed various levels of blushes before Tobias spoke up.
"Hello brother." They waited for a second before they both broke out laughing, both stabbing their swords into the ground, then took a step forwards and hugging. The students needed a moment for what Tobias had just said to sink in. Once it did, the reaction was loud and unanimous.
"WWWWWWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT!?" The entire Earth seemed to shake from the force of the disbelieving shouts.
