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Chapter 230

Tanaka met up with Ross at the edge of the dance floor. The other man gave the police lieutenant a look that spoke of frustration and confusion. It was a feeling they both shared.

"Find your daughter?" Ross asked.

"Yes, Thank you," Tanaka answered dryly. "Her boyfriend is looking after her. How is your son?"

"Heh," Ross smirked. "Jessie is loving life. Seems he impressed a couple of young ladies, and now they are all over him."

Tanaka just shook his head and sighed. He would never understand women of any age. For the moment however he put that aside. He had work to do... somehow.

"Did you find him?" Tanaka asked Ross.

"Aono?" Ross questioned. "Easy." He hitched a thumb towards the dance floor. "Just look for the biggest mess and the hottest girls."

"You know," Tanaka said as he looked where the other man gestured. "How accurate that sounds is something I find disturbing."

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Shuzen Issa was a patient man. With his long life, he could afford to be. With the politics, plotting, and intrigue that was a part of his life, he had to be. He was exercising that patience as he watched how his daughter and the others acted in the wake of the attack. Moka was acting much as her mother had, so many years ago, with a sense of purpose and focused calm. It was strange watching the girl's hair ripple through shades of pink and silver as she tried to focus with all the energy she had pulled in from Tsukune. The way her eyes were changing between green and red as her expressions shifted was a little confusing, but didn't seem to indicate any problems yet.

The witches approached Tsukune once it looked like he was more settled. Tsukune talked with them briefly. He then laid a hand on the shoulder of each of them. The power that flowed out of him and into the witches left them looking momentarily drunk. Issa was impressed. The ability to share power at will was one that spoke of discipline. The fact he had so much to share, after all that had happened, ether spoke of incredible depth of power, or a suicidal carelessness.

The Kitsune spoke with the young man for a moment before hurrying off. She was back in her human form, but her damaged clothing was sufficient to cover her decently. It was then that Issa was distracted by his other daughter.

"Father," Kokoa said in a nervous voice as she approached her father. "I found this..."

Issa looked to see what Kokoa had to show him. He was surprised to see his youngest daughter holding Moka's rosario seal. Adding to that surprise was the fact that it was intact, indicating that Moka had intentionally removed it herself.

"Does this mean my real sister is permanently back now?" Kokoa asked.

"Perhaps," Issa said as he accepted the Rosario from her. He looked back to the dance floor. Now he had even more to think about.

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"I think it is time you spoke with me," Lieutenant Tanaka said as he approached Tsukune with Ross following close behind.

"Lieutenant," Tsukune recognized the man. "I hope that your daughter is safe." His voice was polite, but tight, almost strained.

"She is," Tanaka said. "Her boyfriend looked after her."

"Yes," Tsukune gave a small nod. There was a touch of relief in his expression. "Ken should have proven more than able to protect her."

"You knew what he is then?" Tanaka asked, caught between his roles of father and police officer.

"Yes, well..." Tsukune shrugged. "I knew he was youkai. I did not know what kind until last fall."

"And these..." The lieutenant gestured to the bodies on the floor, some obviously not human.

"Members of Fairy Tail," Tsukune said. "All of them were youkai."

"Is Fairy Tail the name of the organization I have been investigating?" Lieutenant Tanaka asked. He was sure that it was, but he was testing Tsukune now.

"Yes," Tsukune gave a nod. "They are an international gang of youkai that want to enslave and kill humans."

"Why didn't you tell us this before?" Ross demanded.

"It would have caused more harm than good," Tsukune answered. "And that is even if you would have believed me."

"How can there be a... a..." Lieutenant Tanaka tried to ask a question he was having trouble believing.

"How can there be a whole criminal organization of monsters out of old stories?" Tsukune asked.

"Yes," Ito said with a sour twist to his mouth.

"Because most of those old stories are based on true events," The answer came from a young man dressed as a monk. "Isn't that it Tsukune?"

"Lieutenant Tanaka," Tsukune said. "This is Watanabe Kota." He made a gesture. "And these are some of my other friends.

Tanaka and Ross looked to see Tsukune's friends. Kota was the short one. One was tall and thin, dressed like a swordsman, and moved with the confidence that said it wasn't just a costume. A young man in a tuxedo was holding table leg on his shoulder, with the heavy end bloody and starting to splinter.

With the three young men were three young women. Tanaka recognized the one dressed like a showgirl as one of his daughter's friends. The other two, dressed in old fashion kimonos he did not know.

"Are they all..." Ross began.

"No," Tsukune cut him off. "My friends come from different backgrounds."

"I know it all sound very strange, Mr. Tanaka," Aiko said as she moved to stand with Rina. "I had trouble believing it at first too."

"Are you..." Ross blinked.

"I am human," Aiko said. "But not all of my friends are. I was fortunate enough to learn who else I am sharing my world with."

"That is something for another time," Lieutenant Tanaka said with a shake of his head and a wave of his hand. He turned his attention back to Tsukune, wanting to get back to what was important.

"Mr. Aono," Lieutenant Tanaka spoke in his official voice. "Please explain to me what is it that actually happened here."

"I once told you that the organization you were investigating, Fairy Tail, were terrorists," Tsukune explained. "That is what they are. They hate human and all that we represent. They want to work their way into positions of power so that they can have the money and connections to destroy the human world. Fear and terror and death give them opportunities to get stronger. Having everybody afraid and distrusting of each other make it that much easier for them to cause more problems, and to hurt everybody they hate that much more."

"At a guess," Tsukune gestured to the ballroom. "Tonight was going to be some kind of public attack. I don't know if they were going to try to demand a ransom, or if they just wanted enough blood and pain to make everybody afraid for their families. What I do know is that they attacked the masquerade tonight not expecting to run up against youkai that did not support them. Youkai that have been working hard to keep Fairy Tail from reaching its goals."

"They didn't expect a bunch of lowly human ready to fight back ether," Rin said with a smirk.

"They forgot why youkai started hiding from humans in the first place," Kota added.

"And why is that?" Ross asked.

"Because our greatest strength in in our minds," Kota answered. "Youkai can be stronger and faster than we are, but we are more dangerous. We adapt. We make tools, weapons that make up for our lack of physical ability."

"We learn better ways to fight," Nagi said as he caressed the handle of his sword absentmindedly. "Not just them, but each other as well."

"When those old stories were first recorded," Kota explained. "They were a history of real places and events. In most of those stories there was some kind of conflict between humans and youkai. But as we grew stronger, the stories became fewer."

"Because people stopped believing in monsters anymore," Ross said almost out of reflex.

"Because youkai got better about hiding from humans," Tsukune corrected. "Fairy Tail wants to change that by breaking human civilization, making it impossible for humans to stand up for themselves against them."

"But where did they all come from?" Lieutenant Tanaka asked. "How did all of these... these..."

"Youkai," Tsukune supplied.

"How did this many come to Japan to try something like this?" The lieutenant demanded.

"They were already here," Tsukune answered. "Or most of them anyway. Japan is full of youkai. Just look at our history. The first Emperor of Japan was said to be descended from Amaterasu Omikami."

"That is just a story," Ross complained.

"Is it?" Tsukune challenged. "Or was there some ancient and powerful youkai back then that helped him to power because she thought a bunch of warlords tearing up Japan was a bad thing?" He reached up to touch the magatama bead he wore around his neck. He felt a little disturbed when he didn't feel the hard lump under his shirt, but continued on anyway.

"Japan has had people living here, human and youkai for thousands of years, maybe tens of thousands. People, animals, even plants. All that life, all that feeling and loving and dying. Maybe it was the very land of Japan herself that chose the first emperor. I don't know," Tsukune gave a small shake of his head. "But youkai have always been here. Right now there are youkai all over Japan, living, working, raising families. They just want a normal life. Fairy Tail would ruin everything for everybody, all out of some greedy desire for power."

"Youkai," Ross shook his head in disbelief. "Monsters..." He turned to Tsukune's friends. "And what are you?"

"Engineering student," Koka said with a grin. He pulled out one of his taser batons and made it crackle with electricity.

"Business major," Nagi said with a bow of his head.

"I want to be a superhero," Rin said. "And get all the girls."

Rina gave him an elbow in the ribs.

"Him," Ross pointed to Rin and grinned. "I can understand."

"Master," Ruby said as she came up to him.

"We did it, Tsukune," Yukari said as she followed.

"Well done you two," Tsukune said.

"Captain," Inari was the next to return to his side. "Everybody is waiting for orders."

"Thank you Inari," Tsukune replied. "Kurumu," He called as he turned to where she waited near by. "Do you think you can help me?"

"Anything for you Tsukune," Kurumu smiled.

"Always," Mizore added.

"Aiko," Tsukune said as he turned to her. "If we can just keep everybody calm and work together a little we can manage this."

"Scary masks," Lieutenant Tanaka said slowly.

"What's that?" Ross questioned.

"Scary masks," Tanaka said, more firmly this time. "That will be the official story." He looked to Tsukune. "Terrorists in scary masks. Athletic and capable young men and women."

"Some off duty police," Tsukune said, catching on, as he pulled out his identification. "And some student volunteers."

"What are you talking about?" Rin asked.

"The cover story," Tsukune gave his friend a dark grin. "You are about to become a hero."

"I am?" Rin blinked.

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"Moka," Issa said as he approached his daughter. She was standing back, watching her young man talking with the others. Issa decided that it would be a good time to talk with her.

"Father," Moka said in a cautious tone.

"I am sorry your festivities did not go as planned," Issa offered.

"It is unfortunate," Moka nodded. "But these things have a way of happening."

"Moka," Issa said with some warmth in his voice. "I want you to know that I am proud of you. You are welcome to return home at any time."

"Thank you father," Moka gave him a tiny smile. "But we have made a new home."

"You and your... young man," Issa said.

"Not yet," Moka's smile grew. "But someday."

"Hmmm," Issa mused. "I am glad to hear that, I think. After things settle down, perhaps we can all sit down together. I think I would like to get to know your Aono Tsukune."

"That would be nice," Moka said.

"Before I go," Issa held out the rosario. "You should know, now that you have removed this, it will never work the same as before."

"Thank you, Father," Moka accepted the rosario from his hand. "But we will not be needing it to be the same as before." Her hair ripped to pink and her eyes red as she gave her father a bright smile. "We do not need to hide from our feelings anymore." She quickly gave her father a hug.

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(A/N: Thank you for the reviews.. This will be the last update for the weekend. I apologize for the way this story has wandered around so much.