Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Rosario Vampire. I am merely twisting the creators vision into my own dream. If the supernatural, sexuality, or violence is offensive to you, then you should not read this.
Chapter 30
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The sound of a whistle carried across the festival.
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Heads looked up and ears listened. A Student Police patrol started running towards the distress call. One of the pair pulled his own whistle.
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Tsukune was having a good evening with his friends. Suddenly he heard the sharp note of a whistle.
"No!' He protested. "Quiet," He barked as he listened for where the alarm was coming from.
"Ruby, get help!" Tsukune yelled as he took off at a run.
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All around the festival, members of the Student Police heard the distress call and responded.
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Akira used Rikka Kaki to protect Aimi as she summoned help. Matsumoto had shifted to his youkai form. His skin was brick red while his hair, eyes and lips were black. He had fangs protruding from his mouth and a crown of horns on his head. His body was bulging with hard muscle as he wielded his iron pike. He had to protect Aimi.
The thugs from Fairy Tale tried to press in. One of them was tackled to the ground by something that resembled a cross between a badger and a human. The two tumbled over on the ground for a moment before the thug was sent flying. The badger-man leapt back to help ward Aimi.
Aimi continued to blow her whistle. A second whistle joined hers, adding power to the call. The second whistle belonged to a boy holding two shinais. The boy was raining blows on any thug that tried to approach.
"Kill them!" Keito screamed. "Kill them all!"
"Stand!" Akira cried. "We have to stand!"
The three students were out numbered and were going to be over powered. It was only a mater of time. The only hope the Student Police members had was that enough people would come, and soon.
"We can't lose now," Keito insisted. "If we fail we're worse then dead. Kill them!"
Akira was pressed by three thugs, but he couldn't retreat. Aimi was still pinned to the ground and injured. He fought desperately. Suddenly one of the thugs in front of him disappeared.
"Yes!" Akira cheered.
Tsukune saw Sheezu on the ground and the others hard pressed to protect her. The rush of Youki that had given him speed became flood within him. He started tearing into the thugs. In an instant the student had gone from hopeless to hopeful.
"No!" Keito cried. She tried to aim her webbing at Tsukune, but caught a face full of thug before she could attack.
One of the downed thugs wasn't out all the way. He made his way to two of his comrades and pulled things from their pockets.
"Hold them," The thug yelled as he started setting something up.
Tsukune knew that whatever the thug was doing it would be bad for him and his friends. He wanted to stop him, but if her did his companions would be in danger. Tsukune fought with grim determination.
Two more patrol pairs arrived. They joined the fray, with one of them going to Aimi to help her. The thugs, cocky and careless at first were now ready to fight seriously and looked ready to kill.
A bright oval of light exploded into existence beyond the fight. Tsukune felt his heart sink as more thugs arrived. The fight had just taken a turn for the worse. He reached for his wrist.
"Tetsu Odari, Wake." Tsukune brough forth his iron weapon. "Guard." He could no longer avid causing injury, but he prayed that he wouldn't have to kill.
The melee was starting to shift. The Student police were being crowded together. The five fighters made a small ring defending Aimi and the student trying to help her. The students couldn't leave and it wouldn't be long before Tsukune would be forced to start killing. His youki was boiling within him, resonating with his storming emotions.
"Tsukune?" Kurumu cried out. "We're here."
Tsukune risked a quick look around as the thug in front of him was taken down by a spear of ice through the shoulder. Mizore, Kurumu, Moka, and Yukari had arrived with a group of ten Student Police members. His heart cheered, the fight had shifted in his favor again.
"Everyone," Tsukune called. "Fight!" He matched his own words and tried to push forward. He had to close that gate somehow. "Yukari," He yelled. "How do I close that?" He gestured to the glowing oval that was spewing monster thugs.
"I have to get to it to tell," The little witch answered.
"Alright," Tsukune said firmly.
"Heads up," Kurumu cried out. She dropped Kokoa into the fray.
The little vampire started laying into the thugs with her familiar in the form of a giant mace. The Student police were still out numbered, and the odds were getting worse. Tsukune needed to do something. A flash of pink in the corner of his eyes gave him an idea.
It was a gamble to take his attention away from the thugs for even a moment. Tsukune risked opening himself to attack as he reached for Moka. The gamble paid off. Moka was unsealed and her inner power was unleashed on the thugs. That made the difference. The student police were able to hold their own and protect themselves and Aimi while Moka and Tsukune pressed to attack.
Tsukune pressed forward using Flash Step. Moka summoned her Shroud. Mizore and Kurumu joined Yukari and Kokoa as a second offensive force. The thugs from Fairy Tale started loosing ground.
The injured Keito was pressed back towards the gate. The thugs set themselves to defend. Suddenly the gate started spewing out what looked like a steam of bones. Keito started to laugh madly, making Tsukune fearful of what the bones meant.
Tsukune and Moka were fighting hard. So was everybody else. It was not the strength of the Fairy Tail members that made the fight difficult, it was their numbers. The thugs were all strong part-animal types with tough bodies and natural weapons, like claws, fangs, and in a few cases some kind of stinger. The Student Police were armed with bamboo training swords and their own natural abilities. Even if nobody had been a monster, it was still teenagers fighting adults, and the teenagers were outnumbered at about three-to-one. The fighting Tsukune/Moka fanclub team, Mizore, Kokoa, Kurumu, and Yukari, were able to help take a lot of pressure off the Student Police, but they only made the battle to protect the students an even match.
Tsukune and Moka were a separate fight on the same battle field. Their fighting ability was restricted by the close proximity of the other students. Even Inner Moka was aware of the need to protect the less capable students. Moka had more skill then Tsukune, but he had raw power to match hers and Tetsu Odari in his hands. The iron rod became a potential weakness when three thugs came at Tsukune in a rush. Strong and heavy, they threatened to force Tsukune down.
"Dance," Tsukune said to Tetsu Odari.
The rod became a flexable whip and the thugs overbalanced. A boar-headed thug nearly smashed his face into Tsukune, but the young man tilted his head safely out of the way. Before the boar-headed thug could recover he squealed in surprise and pain. Tsukune had buried fangs into his opponent's neck. He swallowed blood and spat out a chunk of flesh. Boar-head fell back, clutching at the bloody gape in the side of his neck.
"Guard," Tsukune held his rod once more and pressed his attack.
The bones had finished coming through the gate. They had made up a huge pile that shifted and rose up into two large shapes. Gashadokuros; giant skeletons made up of the bones of the victims of death by starvation. Without fear or pain, they were giant monsters that knew only anger and hunger. Behind them the gate started to expand. Flashes of lightning-like energy slashed outward as the hole threw to another place grew larger.
Another wave of Thugs emerged from the gate. With them came a man in a sky blue suit. The man had tanned skin, narrow eyes, and long, black, oily hair. He stood taller then the thugs and moved with confidence. Tsukune recognized him as the boss of the Fairy Tail gang even before he approached Keito.
"You failed," The man said. It was just a statement of fact, not a question or an accusation. He spoke with almost no emotion as he stepped up to the injured spider woman. "I will make an example of you later, if you live that long." He turned his back on her and turned to face the fighting.
"Forth Brach!" The man barked out. "Kill them. Kill the students and any other witnesses."
The Gashadokuro started to move forward along with the newly arrived thugs. Moak and Tsukune were forced back to help defend the other students. Things were getting desperate. Someone from the Student Police realized they were in trouble and started blowing their whistle again. Surrounded, the students could not retreat, they could only stand and defend, and hope for aid.
Help arrived in an unexpected way. Ruby arrived by air with a score of students running to keep up, a mix of class officers and Student Police. Tsukune gave a cheer as the reinforcements gave the embattled students a chance to pull back. The dynamics of the battle suddenly shifted. Tsukune realized he was no longer being pressed back. The Thugs were turning defensive.
"No!" An angry yell came from the man from Fairy Tail.
The gate was changing. It was shrinking down, becoming smaller as it darkened, resembling a black storm cloud filled with lightning. No more thugs would be emerging from the gate.
"The Board Chairmain," Ruby explained. "He is taking control of their rift. He said he was going to bring help."
Tsukune only nodded. He had little wind left to spare on talking. The thugs were no longer attacking him. They had other concerns to worry over. Instead the Gashadokuro were now a problem.
The giant skeletons were strong and fast. Tsukune was confident that he could escape them, but then they would be free to attack the other students. He was not going to let that happen.
Moka was faced by the other Gashadokuro. It was withstanding her kicks while she was avoiding its blows. It was a hard to say if there could ever be a winner, the two appeared so closely matched.
"I see," The man said, his body swelling as it transformed. "I will have to take a hand after all." He became a shaggy ogre three meters tall.
"I don't think you will have the time," A new voice said.
Tsukune felt a rush of hope. The man's head whipped around in surprise. Out of the dark vortex of the gate stepped a tall man in a long duster. From behind him bounded a huge wolf and a nearly as large black cat. At his side walked a woman of grace and beauty dressed in burgundy and black leather with hair like a river of night.
"Who are you?" The man-turned-ogre demanded as he turned to sace the new threat.
The wolf and the cat launched themselves onto the Gashadokuro facing Tsukune. The began to tear it apart as it tried helplessly to defend itself from their lightning quick attacks. Tsukune moved to support Moka.
"I have the honor of introducing Her Ladyship of Tara Hemonoira of the Black Blood," Brone said calmly. "And I am Brone Gray Longclaw, Lord of the Sutherland Cairns and Coast." A ferial grin lit up his face as an unearthly blue-black glow came from his body.
"Darling," Lady Tara purred. "I am going to play a little."
"Have fun dear," Brone said, never taking his burning eyes off the enemy as she kissed him lightly on the cheek.
The two opponents advanced on each other. The ogre massed nearly twice that of the man, but its didn't mater. The fight was one sided from the beginning. Every attack the ogre launched was stopped short by the dark energy that surrounded the man. Brone caught one of the ogre's arms and threw a punch of his own. The upper arm of the ogre shattered, making the limb useless.
Tsukune was only peripherally aware of Lord Brone's fight. His attention was focused on the Gashadokuro in front of him and Moka. Tetsu Odari was a whip in his hands that he used with precision. Each crack of the whip shattered pieces of the giant skeleton. Moka launched surgical blows that broke bones before leaping out of the way of a counter attack. The two of them wore down the monster a piece at a time.
The battle had taken its final turn. Fairy Tale was cut off from aid, support, or retreat. The students, battered and bleeding, had held their line and reinforcements had joined them. The giant monsters were being reduced to ruined bits. The Fairy Tail boss was out matched by a man that was taking him apart while smiling. And a vampire was randomly ripping and biting body parts off of monstrous thugs while singing out in perverse delight.
"Awww, what a cute little thing," Lady Tara's voice sounded as someone screamed.. "You're girlfriend is going to miss it."
"I'm sorry," She said a moment later. "I thought you were done with that arm."
Before Tsukune realized it, the battle was over. He stood, breathing hard, as he looked around the battle field. Brone stood over the remains of the shaggy ogre embracing Lady Tara, both of them had blood on their hands and faces. Students stood, knelt, or lay on the ground in tired groups. Sakura was in her half cat form, grooming herself while the huge wolf gnawed on a bone. The fight was over and every one of the students were alive.
Tsukune, with his youki still burning hot, embraced Moka. Over her soulder he saw his other friends, including Ruby, standing in a group and breathing hard. He smiled warmly towards them, wincing as Moka bit into his neck. He held her close and enjoyed her arms around him.
"Thank you, everybody," Tsukune said. "Thank you." He looked to see Akira comforting the wounded Aimi. "Good work, Lieutenant. I am proud of you all," He spoke to the assembled students. "We did it. We did it!"
The students cheered.
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Help arrived from the school for dealing with the aftermath. Tsukune helped keep the injured students comfortable, giving what aid he could, until they could be transported to the hospital annex. Moka, with her seal restored, was never far from him. Mizore provided ice for cold packs. Kurumu had retrieved bandages and blankets and helped Tsukune and Moka. Yukari and Ruby provided magically imbued ointment for application to the wounded.
Staff from the hospital annex triaged the wounded while staff from the Board Chairman's office rounded up the surviving thugs from Fairy tail. The wounded were transported to the hospital, but Tsukune didn't know what happened to the thugs. When the last of the wounded were transported away, Tsukune dismissed the rest of the Student Police.
"Well done, boy," The Board Chairman said, suddenly at Tsukune's side.
"Ehh?" Tsukune gave a jump and turned to face the man in white. "Board Chairman."
"I did not expect Fairy Tail to move on this scale so soon." The Board Chairman made a show of looking around the torn up area. "You and your friends did very well." He clapped Tsukune on the shoulder and flashed a grin that was somewhere between friendly and maniacal. "I think a reward will be in order."
"Sir?" Tsukune was worried. At Youkai Akademy a reward could be something nice to a monster, but deadly to humans.
"Take care of your friends, boy," The Board Chairman said. "I will send for you when I your reward is ready." The Board Chairman moved off to talk to Lord Brone and Lady Tara.
Tsukune recognized that he had been dismissed, and was not going to question it. He gathered with the girls of the Newspaper Club and shared a tired smile with them. Together they headed for the dorms.