Well I'm back and the Cayman Islands were awesome. Enjoy the chapter! Sorry about the late update but I'm trying to improve my writing which means I'm quintuple checking my work and rereading a lot and writing and editing and deleting and all that good stuff.
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Tsukune stood rooted in place while he processed what Tamel and Uven had just told him. One of his friends was his key, the one person who could control him, but who was it?
"Hey." Fingers snapped in Tsukune's face, bringing him out of his thoughts. Tamel was standing in front of him. "Do you wanna learn about your abilities or not?"
Tsukune shook his head, clearing his mind. "Yes please master."
"Good. This is gonna take quite some time before you're ready to go into the real world to put theory into practice. Uven here is gonna teach you about your energies, which differ from both elemental and youki energies. I'll be back in a bit."
With that, Tamel faded away and Uven took his place.
Sighing, Uven started. "Well now that he's gone, the first thing I guess we should start with is..."
The Chairman's Office
The Chairman was reviewing some documents for the school. Looking up, he smiled and called out to his assistant. She arrived amid a flurry of black raven's feathers.
"You called master?" Touju Ruby asked as she smoothed down her skirt. Teleportation was a messy business and always left her clothes out of order.
"Indeed I did. A guest will be here shortly. I need everyone to leave this floor until I personally give permission for them to come back. They have five minutes to clear the floor."
Ruby bowed. This was a strange request, but the Chairman had a tendency of making such requests of her and she learned not to question nor inquire as to the reasoning behind them, for she was usually left more confused by his explanation than she had been before.
Green light emanated from the jewel on her wand as she initiated her transportation magic. Raven's feathers engulfed her and when they fell to the floor, she was gone and they faded into nothingness.
Sighing, the Chairman stood. He turned and looked out the window that overlooked the school grounds. Little time remained before his visitor would arrive, and he didn't want the school to get ripped apart by the sheer force of his power if it wasn't controlled yet. With a light jingle, the Chairman's Rosary of Judgement slid out of his sleeve into his hand. Raising it, the Chairman pressed it against the middle of the window. With a flash of golden light, arcane symbols appeared on the window and wall. After a second, they faded just as quickly as they appeared. Nodding, the Chairman slipped the Rosary back into his sleeve and turned on his heel and walked around the room, his mind going through every conceivable possible scenario that could possibly occur when his visitor arrived.
A rumble coursed through the ground and made the entire school shake slightly. Whipping around, the Chairman spun around and looked out the window. Dark storm clouds slowly moved towards the school, sending students running for cover as they expected rain. The Chairman quickly moved to an intercom on his desk and pressed a button, transmitting his voice over the entire school.
"All students are to report to their dorm rooms immediately and are to remain there until further notice. I repeat, all students are to return to their rooms immediately and stay there until further notice."
As he released the button for the intercom, he hoped that it would get the students inside quickly enough to protect them. Despite everything he let happen in the school, they were his students and he would not allow any outside force to harm them.
Newspaper Club Room
The intercom crackled for a second before the Chairman's voice came through. "All students are to report to their dorm rooms immediately and are to remain there until further notice. I repeat, all students are to return to their rooms immediately and stay there until further notice."
The members of the newspaper club looked up from the layout they were working on. The Chairman rarely made announcements over the school speaker system. Gin looked up from behind his magazine, his face serious. The only other times he could remember the Chairman speaking over the intercom was when a pair of murderers snuck into the school and once when he was a freshman when a student was going on a rampage. He stood up, solemn and called out to everyone in the room.
"OK guys lets go. Clean up and move to your dorms. We can finish tomorrow." He walked over to the window, noting the moving clouds and feeling the small tremors beneath his feet. His animal side was warning him that something was coming. Something powerful. Something quite... violent. Gin's fight or flight instinct was sending adrenaline coursing through him, making him very nervous.
Gin turned and saw that the girls in the club were taking their time cleaning up. Only half of the materials were away and the layout was still sitting on the table. Looking at Moka, Gin noticed the rosario on her chest was pulsing red. Inner Moka must also be aware of the danger that is on its way here, Gin thought to himself.
Will you move it please? Remember you aren't the only one in this body. Inner Moka told her outer personality, trying to get her to move with a little more haste.
Why are you so anxious to get out of here? Its not like anything is going to happen here. The Chairman wouldn't let it. Outer Moka replied to her stoic personality.
I know he wouldn't but I have a bad feeling about this anyways... Ura Moka relied to herself.
They were mostly finished cleaning up the materials when Gin interrupted them. "Alright, that's fine get back to the dorms. Go!"
Kurumu looked at him quizzically. "What are you getting all worked up for?"
Gin shook his head then started pushing them out of the room. "Just trust me. The Chairman has rarely told us to go to our rooms over the intercom. Remember the last time he made an important announcement like this? It was when those murderers were on the school grounds so why don't we all go back to our rooms?"
Moka nodded. "I think we should go. Ura-chan is getting edgy as well."
I am not!
Yukari and Kurumu reluctantly acquiesced. As they made their way to the dorm rooms, Gin looked up at the sky again, his instincts still warning him of danger.
What is happening now? he wondered.
The Chairman's Room
The Chairman sat at his desk, arms resting on the desk with his fingers interlaced as he waited for his guest to arrive. Minutes ago, he felt the last of the students and teachers leave the main school and go to their rooms. This was all thanks to the barrier he created. It was linked to him so he was able to feel the presence of any creature in the main school and living quarters, but not outside the grounds.
The smile faded away from the Chairman's face as he felt the overwhelming power of his visitor approach. So vast was the power that it was impossible to determine where he was approaching from. A massive shockwave suddenly erupted from the sky, signalling that the visitor had just entered into Yokai Academy space. The Chairman whipped around in his chair in time to see purple tinted energy left over from the shockwave fading out of the sky.
"Long time no see Mikogami." A voice emanated from a darkened chair where a figure sat.
The Chairman turned slowly, his smile back on his face where it usually rested. "Ah, such a pleasure to entertain one such as yourself. I was unsure as to whether it would be you or your partner that would be honoring me with a visit."
The figure stood and stepped forwards toward the Chairman's desk. "You do realize what you're dealing with now, don't you?"
The Chairman nodded. He had witnessed what Tsukune had done to Kuyou and had been almost certain he knew what the boy was. Seeing the man in front of him confirmed his suspicions.
The man nodded. "Good. Keep an eye on him and his friends. One of them is his key and if she were to get hurt then, well, you might have to get a new school. And I'm pretty sure those don't exactly come cheap." A grin spread across the visitor's face, giving him an insane appearance.
Shock gripped the Chairman as he listened to his visitor. "He already has his key? You're sure?"
Sighing, the visitor replied, "Yes yes I'm sure. Fuck, you and my parter. Always doubting me. Nobody knows what he is better than I do. Now, anyways, you need to do some things to make sure he doesn't rip someone apart. He's gonna need some personal training time at least for 30 minutes a day in that interesting room you have. And let him get used to that power before you send him off into dangerous situations."
"Well, not everything is under my control you know," the Chairman countered with his eerie grin growing on his face as plans and machinations started to form in his mind. "Things happen that I can't always control. You know this as well as anyone. I can try to shelter him, but it will only be a matter of time before they start to move in earnest and we both know what they will choose to do and with whom they will side with."
"That much is true. But no shit like sending him into another Witch's Knoll. Or I will be quite, upset, lets say." With this implied threat, the visitor let some of his power leak out of control, causing a tremor that would easily register as a level 6 earthquake. The walls of the school screamed as they attempted to withstand the might of the one standing before the Chairman. Hundreds of yards away, the students in their rooms cowered and shook with fright as a power smothered them.
The Chairman stood before his visitor, his smile diminishing slightly as he withstood the power of the man in front of him. The energy and power washed over and around him and pressed on him from all sides before suddenly disappearing. The Chairman released a breath he didn't realize he had been holding. Grinning, the man before him leaned over the Chairman's desk.
"Are we clear?" he asked.
"Very much so." The Chairman replied, managing to keep his voice steady. Even he was shaken up by the power that the man released. "Though there is something I cannot control and I would hope you don't take it out on me."
The man cocked his head to the side. "Depends what it is, obviously."
The Chairman sighed, turning to face the window. "The whole point of this school is to teach young monsters that humans aren't as evil as they have been brought up to believe. To show them that they need to coexist. And that its possible. As such, I brought him into this school to show them that humans are more accepting."
"Whoops. Guess it was a bad time to choose him then." The man said, laughing.
"Quite." The Chairman replied dryly before continuing, "Anyways, I send them on their own little trips into the human world, to get them to experience the way they live, how they interact with each other. But our laws prevent us from harming humans, no matter what they do to us, upon punishment of death. So if a human or group of humans attacks either Tsukune or any of his friends, there truly is nothing I can do to help them. If I deny them their requests to go out as a club, they will need an explanation. Do you see the predicament this puts me in?" He asked, turning towards the man standing in his office.
Nodding, the visitor tilted his head down, thinking. He replied slowly, taking his time to carefully say exactly what he wanted to say. "I understand. Situations like that are essential to a child's growth, both mental and physical. He will have to learn how to control his abilities and protect himself and his key. Since he is my champion, and as such my responsibility, I guess there is one scenario we can both agree will have multiple... benefits." He said, grinning as he got to the end of his statement.
The Chairman looked back at him. "I don't like your ideas. They never end well. This is gonna be just as bad, isn't it?"
Laughing silently, the man raised his hand and shook a finger at the Chairman. "No no no, this isn't gonna be too horrible old man. It's a way for him to learn to control his emotions, a way for him to make his choice with the world. And, a way to discover who his key is." He said the last part with a very evil grin, full of dark intentions.
The Chairman turned sharply. "NO!" He said forcefully. "Absolutely not. I am not going to even come close to risking that."
The man shook his head. "You don't really have a choice. Besides, would you prefer it to be in a controlled scenario, or out somewhere randomly, where you have no hope of controlling the situation, and he would expose everything?"
The Chairman's smile was gone. He knew what the man was saying was right. He couldn't deny it. The only way for them to safely determine who his key was and to force him to choose his fate would be through whatever plan this person was thinking up.
Sighing, the Chairman turned to his visitor. "Alright. Your argument makes sense so we will go with it. What is this idea you're considering, Tamel?"
Well there we go. Little shorter than the others but I figured that this was as good as ending point as any. Plus its a cliffhanger and teaser :) Oh tormenting your aching souls is so much fun! Anyways, R&R. Also, if you are interested, I have started a new story called The Fall, a Left 4 Dead inspired fanfic and I would love to have you guys go read it and give me some reviews. I'm on the second chapter now so there isn't much but it would be great if you read it!