Pride and Accomplishment (Part 2)
In Headmaster Tenmai Mikogami's office stood Johhny Blaze, The Ghost Rider. He stood at about six-foot two-inches tall. "I understand why you are hear." the headmaster said to his guest in english. The headmaster pointed to some of his subordinates watching over the room, "Put out a signal, get all the students in the school." he sighed, "This is not how I wanted things to start off. Ruby," he called, "Assist our guest." Ruby, the witch, nodded. "Now. I hope you don't mind, but I've asked my assistant to help you out on your...bounty. Mr. Blaze."
"Yeah, well...If you think it's necessary, but I usually do things on my own." Johnny said while rubbing the back of his head. "Quick question, do you have any water?" Ruby came over with a pitcher of water and poured him a glass. Johnny nodded and took the whole pitcher off the tray, "Ari-gato." Ruby cringed at the forced use of Japanese. "Ahhh..." Johnny smacked his lips, "I don't mind help or anything. But I want you to realize that I can't understand her moon speak."
The Headmaster held his chin and frowned, "I'm sorry Mr. Blaze, but I don't think I have--"
"Stop him!" a voice cried out as several doors were kicked open. Finally the door to the Headmaster's office was kicked open with Ben Reilly running in while several faculty members tried to stop him.
"Headmaster, headmaster, headmaster!" he yelled out before shaking the adults off him, "Sorry for bursting in like this." Well...I suppose there is ONE person who can help. The Headmaster grinned. "Hey! I need to know what you know about this 'Phantom Assailant'." Ben said with quotes, "And furthermore, I am letting you know ahead of time that whatever you are gonna do to the guy is too nice. If I catch him I'm sending his ass to the Ghost Rider!"
"Ahem." Ruby coughed into her hand to gain Ben's attention.
Ben smiled and waved, "Oh hey Ruby!" Ruby pointed to Johnny and Ben cocked an eyebrow in confusion before looking at the other 'human' in the room. "Oh JESUS!" Ben shouted out as he jumped back in surprise, "Oh...What's up, Blaze?" Ben gave a devil horn to try and have Johnny realize who he was.
Johnny himself cocked an eyebrow in confusion, "Wait, kid, are you...Spider-Man?"
"Under new management." Ben smiled, "I'm uh...I'm his brother, Ben." Ben held out his hand to shake Johnny's but the older man only nodded.
"Right, right. You're the clone, yeah?"
Ben grumbled, "I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that."
The Headmaster chuckled, "Well, I suppose I said no typical student could deal with them. But Mr. Reilly and the Newspaper Club are anything but typical." he smiled, "If you do not mind, Mr. Blaze, Mr. Reilly can assist you."
"Well I was going anyways and uh...I kinda know where they are." Ben gave a cocky smile.
"It's the Dungeon, right?" Johnny asked, causing Ben to slump his shoulders, "C'mon, kid. This isn't my first rodeo." Johnny turned to walk out the door and Ben began to follow. The Headmaster nodded and Ruby followed behind them.
"Oh, Mr. Blaze," the Headmaster called out. Johnny stopped and turned his head, "I must ask that you know the rules. We have a bit of an agreement. You may take care of those you were chasing, but if you...have issues with the faculty I ask you leave that to me."
Johnny gave some thought to what the headmaster said, "Don't worry...we have an agreement." he scratched the back of his head while giving a smirk to The Headmaster "We have an agreement to only kill really bad people. And these monsters have killed dozens of people. They will face penance...and it will be at our hands." As Blaze said as he pointed to himself. With that, Blaze as well as Ben and Ruby walked out of the room.
Moka and Kokoa walked down the dark stairway. There was little lighting so Kokoa had her bat familiar, Kou, go up ahead of them. "Kou's ultrasonic radar is detecting live entities." Kokoa explained as her bat flew forward. Kou suddenly made a squeaking sound, like he was alerting his master, "Quick sis, put out the lantern. This is probably that Phantom Assailant. We'll have to watch our backs." Moka nodded and put out the lantern and the two relied on what little lighting was left by candles. Moka felt around the walls and cringed as she felt how slimy they felt. Kokoa looked to her sister and saw her more serious expression, Ah, that's a perfect look for big sis. "Kou, weapon form!" her familiar transformed itself into a bat with spikes all over the barrel and it landed in Moka's hands, much to her surprise.
"Kyaa!" Moka cried out as the weight of the weapon nearly made her fall over. Moka gulped as she took in what she was holding, "T-This is a-"
"It's a battle sis!" Kokoa interrupted, "You'll attack them by surprise with this and I'll have your back!" Kokoa held her face and smiled at the thought of seeing her sister fight again, "C'mon hurry! I can hear the enemy's footsteps! Kill them while you have the chance!" Kokoa squealed.
"K-Kill them? With...this?" Moka looked the bat up and down and gulped. She got into a ready stance as she began to hear footsteps. They sounded as if they were walking pretty fast. Moka slowly walked around the corner and swung the bat as soon as she saw what looked to be a person, "HIIIYAAAAH!" she cried out as she swung. There was a collision and a cry of pain.
"Yeah, way to go sis!" Kokoa jumped up and down with joy. Moka may have hit someone, but it wasn't one of the assailants. No, instead she hit Tsukune across his face. "Eh..." Kokoa stopped cheering when she realized who her sister had struck, "That voice was kinda...familiar." Kokoa quickly turned on the lantern Moka turned off earlier and both gulped at the sight of Tsukune lying on the floor.
"M-Moka..." he coughed out as blood trickled from his head.
"AAAAAHHHH!" Moka screamed out, "TSUKUNE ARE YOU OKAY?!" What a swing! Holy hell, we should join the baseball club. 'Inner' Moka joked. Moka dropped the bat and collapsed to her knees, "Tsukune I'm so sorry!" she cried.
Tsukune's head spun for a little bit, Oh wow. Tsukune thought, his vision trying to readjust, That was one hell of a hit. I'm...I'm pretty sure that if I didn't have Moka's blood still in me I'd have a concussion or be dead. Tsukune rubbed his head and laughed, "Ahaha...I think I'm alright." he slowly got up from the small pool of blood on the ground and began to wipe whatever blood was dripping down to his face. "It's my fault really, I got worried because of what Ben was saying and decided to follow you." he smiled, "But I'm glad you two are okay."
"Oh, Tsukune." Moka smiled as she clasped her hands. Oh Christ, you're gonna make me sick!
Kokoa clenched her teeth in anger and balled her fists, "Why? Why did you have to come?" she asked. Her fists clenched tighter and her knuckles started turning white, "I had things just right. I thought she'd finally come around down here! Then you showed up and big sis goes back to being a weak little girl!" she shouted, "It's definitely your fault! You and that Loser's Club is making my sister a complete failure!"
"Kokoa, that's enough!" Moka said sternly, "You don't understand how--"
"Even though I really loved you." Kokoa interrupted causing Moka to gasp, "The way you became so strong, so beautiful." Kokoa smiled, "You were my ideal, I was so proud of you! But the wimpy big sister you've become is somebody I could never look up to!!!" Kokoa yelled out, sounding almost like a spoiled child.
Moka and Tsukune both sighed, "You know Kokoa," Moka started, "It's not that I..." she stopped mid sentence and held her head in pain. Tsukune looked at her to see what was wrong, but then jolted his head to the side when he heard someone walking towards them. Someone BIG.
Tsukune quickly got on his feet and dashed to Kokoa, "WATCH OUT!" he shouted as he shoulder rammed the vampire out of the way.
"Hey! What the fuck is wrong with--" before Kokoa could finish she saw a massive fist slam into Tsukune's back. The resulting force shot him passed Kokoa and slammed into a wall causing it to crater. Kokoa looked on in surprise, when she looked back she saw what the fist belonged too, a large Minotaur. Oh crap! It's the enemy!
"TSUKUNE!!" Moka yelled out. Tsukune was unconscious against the wall with blood splattered all over. No way... Kokoa thought. I wasn't paying attention. When did this guy sneak up on us? How did he sneak up? No, she looked over to Tsukune, he...he saved me? That weak looking man saved me, a vampire?
Kokoa held her head as she felt like she was having an existential crisis, "I'm a fraud, a disgrace to vampire kind." as she was sulking Kokoa didn't see the Minotaur coming back for her.
"KOKOA, LOOK OUT!!" Moka warned. Before she could react, Kokoa was slammed by the Minotaur with a punch just as strong as the one that hit Tsukune. "KOKOA!" Moka shouted as she saw her sister get knocked down. Moka felt her head throb again and before she knew it she was knocked unconscious by an unknown assailant.
Kokoa looked up and saw a skinny man wearing a dark green and white horizontal striped shirt wielding a knife in his hand. He had messy hair and goatee. No way, another enemy? Kokoa thought with a groan, How? I couldn't even feel his presence. They're too strong and fast to be normal guys. Just who the hell are they? "...this guy will be just right for the boss." the man with the striped shirt said. He had a deeper voice but sounded tired. "The boss won't really care for the brat. So you can have her." he smiled to the Minotaur who just laughed in response. The man left with both Moka and Tsukune and the Minotaur approached Kokoa, pulling a sword that was stuck in the stone wall. Why? How? How did it turn out this way!? Kokoa thought as tears started to well up, I just wanted to see my big sis to get stronger...but I'm just... Tears dropped from Kokoa's eyes and wet the ground beneath her, "Big sis..." she cried, "Big sis!"
"Well, well." a female voice called out and two pairs of footsteps were heard approaching Kokoa and the Minotaur. "I told you so. You know, I don't know if it's because your a vampire or what, but kids shouldn't be causing so much trouble." Kokoa looked up to see Kurumu and Mizore.
"No!" Kokoa shouted as the two walked up and faced the Minotaur, "It's hopeless you hear! He's no ordinary criminal! He's too much for monsters like you!" the Minotaur tilted its head in curiosity, "You're too weak! Fall back or you'll be killed!" The Minotaur raised his arm and went for a downward slice with the greatsword and Kurumu expertly dodged. As the minster was trying to load up another swing both Kurumu and Mizore got up in its face. Both struck the creature and he flew backwarda with great force knocking him unconscious immediately. Kokoa could only look on in shock
Kurumu looked back and smirked, "Who's weak?" she asked, "We've tried hard to not let anyone see that, it was supposed to be for silencing your big sister some day."
"We underwent anti-Inner-Moka training." Mizore added, "It was pretty fun, like being in a Shounen Battle Manga."
"Vampires aren't the only strong ones!" Kurumu boasted with a wide smile, "Being conceited only causes pain and suffering."
Deeper in the dungeon Tsukune and Moka lie captured by the enemy, the "Phantom Assailants." The skinny man from ealier rubbed his neck and looked up at the ceiling as the group heard loud crashes and from upstairs. "Getting nnoiiisy up there." another skinny man said he had long black hair a striped button up and a vest to go over it, "It's because you were too violent." he took a long puff from a cigarette he was smoking before blowing out the smoke, "Don't tell me they found us already? Haha. Oh well, guess we'll just have to kill our uninvited guests."
About an hour later...
Tsukune groaned when he opened his eyes, Where...where am I? Tsukune looked at the walls covered in stained blood, dust and cobwebs. This is so weird. My body aches all over. What's going on? "Oh, you're waking up?" a raspy voice asked, "You're a lot tougher than you look. Though your body is probably aching." Tsukune looked up in surprise to two men, a skinny man with a striped shirt and a slightly less skinny man with shoulder length black hair and a black vest. The man puffed on a cigarette, "Well, even if you're awake you'll be dead soon anyways."
"W-Who are you!?" Tsukune recoiled in pain. Looking to he side he saw Moka lying on the floor unconscious, "MOKA!" Tsukune swallowed a lump in his throat and looked around the room more, No...he thought, It's not just me and Moka, but other students too. Tsukune remembered what Yukari had said earlier and he had a moment of realization, "Y-Your the Phantom Assailants!"
The man in front of Tsukune didn't seem to amused by the name, "Phantom Assailants?" he asked, "Who's that? Don't lump us together with weird villains, kid." he took another drag from his cigarette and kicked a metal briefcase across the floor to Tsukune, "We're thieves, and first rate ones at that. See, these are the results we achieve." the man opened the case to show Tsukune stacks and stacks of cash with blood covering both the case and the money. What the? Tsukune thought, There's blood all over it, how did they steal it? "Pretty great right?" the man smiled, "Swiped it from a transportation truck. It was a big heist and we had a bunch of people on our tails." the man exclaimed.
"Some more troublesome than others." the other man mumbled.
Tsukune gulped, These guys...they're real criminals. We don't have any experience against this! We were searching for a killer not this! Tsukune continued to look around and then back to the bloodstained case, At this rate we'll get killed too! We have to get out of here, maybe we can get help.
Back at the school it was becoming quite hectic. An alarm was ringing throughout the school. The alarm was loud like a air raid horn. There was a clicking over the intercom for throughout the school, "This is an emergency! This is an emergency! A group of thieves have infiltrated Yokai Academy. They have assaulted multiple students and are now in hiding! For the safety of all students you are to return to your classrooms and await further instructions! I repeat--" The message started again as the students returned to their classes, some taking it seriously as they saw some of their friends with cuts on them. Others huffed in annoyance and just treated it as the teachers overreacting.
"What an annoyance." a boy said as he and his friends walked to class and ran into the young witch Yukari, "Watch it brat! Yer goin' the wrong way!"
"Rude." Yukari muttered as she got up from the ground and dusted herself off. Looking around she couldn't find anyone, no Tsukune, Ben, even Kurumu or Mizore. "I don't like this. They could be in trouble." Yukari flailed her arms in the air in frustration, "Dammit what can I do!?"
"Huh, Yukari?" Yukari turned around to see Ruby with Ben and a tall older man.
"Ruby! Ben!" Yukari dove forward and gave Ruby a big hug, "I think my friends are in trouble! Ben, we have to save them!" Ruby seemed confused, "Moka and Kokoa went to search for the Phantom Assailants, I think the others followed!" Ruby turned to Ben with a frown because she realized he was keeping information from her. Ben only rubbed his head nervously.
Ruby sighed, but smiled all the same as she clutched Yukari's shoulder, "Not to worry Yukari. It's because of you, Tsukune and the others that I'm safe. I'll help save them no matter what!" Yukari kept looking back at the man she didn't recognize, and even Ruby could tell Yukari didn't feel comfortable.
"Don't worry," Ben spoke up, "He's scary, but he's chill. He won't hurt you." the man nodded to the witch and the group headed towards the dungeons.
Kurumu, Mizore and Kokoa continued to walk deeper into the dungeons with just the small lantern as their means of sight. "This dungeon is complicated like a maze. It doesn't help that we're in a hurry too." Kurumu complained as she tried to lead the group, "We can't let an issue like getting lost deter us, we have to find the others." Behind them, hiding in the shadows was a bug like creature that watched their every movement. That creature was the other half of a shikigami, which projected the location of the trio so that the 'Phantom Assailants' could keep an eye on them from where they were holding out with the teens.
"Kaa...this is pretty bad boss." the skinny man with the striped shirt said.
The smoking man groaned in annoyance, "You were too careless and some others followed you here. They are probably friends of that kid." he scratched his chin nervously, "You're telling me those brats were able to defeat the Minotaur guarding the upper level?"
"Seems that way." the other man replied. Tsukune looked on at the projection and swallowed a lump in his throat, Kurumu, Mizore and Kokoa? No! They'll be in trouble! "Should I kill them?" the man asked, "After all, it'd be fun."
"Stop that," his boss said strictly, "If you go you'll leave a mess."
"Well what else are we supposed to do," the man snickered, "I mean you have gynophobia right? You haven't even touched that girl we kidnapped.
The boss took another drag from his cigarette, "What are you talking about? I just have no interest in women. I can kill them if I want." he groaned as he stood up to walk over to Tsukune.
"W-What are you doing?" Tsukune asked as the boss held his hand in front of his face.
"My ability." the man said before a bright light flashed blinding Tsukune for a few seconds. When Tsukune's eye sight returned he looked in front of him but what he didn't see the man. It...It's me! Tsukune thought in astonishment. "Surprised?" the man asked with a smile, "My face looks exactly like yours, right? I can copy a face with my right hand and transfer that look to another face with my left. Think of it as a copy and paste feature." he explained, "When I'm in a bind I just kidnap someone nearby and then copy their faces and escape. With this nobody figures out our true identity. So we're never caught." Tsukune gasped, "Of course the most useful part of power would be assassination." the man smiled, "Just copy the face of a friend of your target, get in close and-" the man clapped loudly in front of Tsukune's face making him jump a little, "easy kill."
Tsukune stared at the projection with wide eyes, "Don't tell me...you're gonna to use my face to..." the man only smiled. He smacked Tsukune's face a couple of times before leaving the room to take care of Tsukune's friends, "NO!" Tsukune shouted before he was socked in his jaw by the other man.
"Shut up, runt. Just sit back and watch the show." Tsukune watched the projection as 'he' met up with the girls.
"No!" Tsukune shouted out from behind the bars, praying, hoping somebody would hear him, "Don't be tricked by him!" Tsukune only recieved another punch to his jaw.
"Just shut up and watch your friends get murdered." the man said with a smile. He grabbed Tsukune's face and forced him to watch as his friends were fooled by the faker. Tsukune watched as Kurumu got closer, and closer and...practically made the man bleed out from her boob hug. The skinny man sighed as he saw his boss lie on the ground with a shocked expression.
"W-What happened?" Tsukune asked.
"Well, it's like I said, the boss is really bad with girls." the skinny man sighed, "He acts all tough, but if he comes face to face with a girl he gets all red. Basically he's just like a kid." the man slumped his shoulders and let out what Tsukune believed to be the longest sigh in existence. So that means...they're safe! Thank you Kurumu, I'm so glad you're there! Tsukune continued to watch as he saw Yukari, Ruby and even Ben show up. YES! Doubly saved! C'mon Ben, show him what your made of! Ben didn't react the way Tsukune thought. Instead Ben just stood around and seemed to...laugh. Even when the faker shoulder rammed Ruby all he did was laugh. Ben, now is not the time to be screwing around!
After a series of events the faker was down on the ground. The girls and Ben circled around him and by the sounds of it they had figured out he wasn't who he said he was. Ben threw his hands in the air, apparently he figured it out immediately but waited for everybody else...because apparently he was being a dick about it. "Haha..." Tsukune laughed, "Hahahaha! They did it! They realized he was a fake! As expected of Yukari! (And Ben, even though he didn't say anything)" he mumbled. Tsukune smiled brightly, "It's going to be okay now. Everything should be alright since everyone is there!"
The skinny man frowned and he slowly approached Tsukune and reached for his knife at his hip. "You...Do you really think the boss would lose to those girls, all because his identity was revealed? Don't you underestimate him!" he shouted as he lunged forward with his knife to stab Tsukune. Tsukune froze in terror because he didn't think he was actually going to be attacked. Before the man could harm Tsukune he was shoved to the side when Moka got up and shoulder rammed the man.
Hell yeah! Way to not take things lying down! her other cheered mentally. "Tsukune...are you alright?"
"MOKA!?" Tsukune shouted out in surprise. "You finally woke up!"
"I've been awake the whole time, Tsukune." Moka explained, "I was just waiting for the right moment." Moka gave a determined face and pointed to her rosario, "Now's our chance to turn the tables, take my rosario off now!"
"Okay! I'm coming!" Tsukune reached his hand out to grab the rosario but stopped when he felt something in his back. Tsukune looked back, as did Moka, to see the skinny man have another arm stretch out from his back and stab Tsukune with the knife.
"Don't...get ahead of yourselves." the man grunted as he slowly got up with more arms being visible from her person, "Are plan was to kill you all from the start." he pulled the knife out of Tsukune's back and Tsukune fell forward, "See that? One down already." as the man stood up he began to transform into his true form.
"Tsukune!" Moka cried out, "No, Tsukune! Please!"
The man laughed, "It's no use!" his voice sounded more monsterish, "I cut all his vital points. He can't be saved anymore." Moka looked up to see the grotesque creature the man really was: a Tsuchigumo (an earth spider). He had grown out an abdomen like a spider did and four extra arms that were striped like his shirt. His head even changed shape slightly so that his jaw split to have four mandibles to allow for his spider fangs to protrude. You know, if we had 50 yen for everytime we had to fend off a spider monster while at this school, we'd have 100 yen. Which isn't a lot, but it's still weird that it happened twice. Suddenly Moka felt something grip her leg. When she looked down she saw one of the extra arms had gotten hold of her and while another tossed Tsukune, "See this? I have six arms. You wonder why I have so many?" he reached out and grabbed Moka's arms and legs and held her in the air, "I use four for grabbing and two for cutting!" Moka cried out in fear, "Where should I start?" the man reached out, knife in hand and began to slide the blade across her thigh and have it go up.
Behind him, Tsukune began to rise from the ground, his eyes red as the vampiric blood began to flow through him. One of his beads broke and he took a step forward to confront the spider monster when he suddenly felt a boney hand on his shoulder. He turned to be faced to face with the scariest creature he ever encountered. Tsukune stared at the Ghost Rider and his hellish figure. Tsukune in his transformed state may not have a lot of sense, but he knew what fear was, "Your friends are that way." the rider said as he pointed in the general direction of where Tsukune's friends were. Tsukune looked to Moka, "I'll take care of this." the rider assured and something about his stare told Tsukune to leave or suffer consequences.
The man laughed as he inched closer and closer to Moka's underwear before he heard what sounded to be an engine revving. Before he and Moka knew what happened his four arms holding Moka were cut off by a flaming chainsaw. "AAAAAAAAAGHHHH!!!" the spider cried out as he looked at his now stumps, "What the fuck? WHAT THE FUUUUUCK!?!"
Moka looked up in horror, "Y-You..." the Rider glanced at her and she felt her heart sink to her stomach. The engine of the chainsaw was still on. Looking at it Moka thought it looked like a normal chainsaw used for sawing up logs, but it had been...hellified. Fire was coming from the chain and the engine looked like a large metal skull with the blade coming out the mouth. The handle looked like a rifle stock with skull etched in the side.
The man was still seething in pain at the loss of his arms as he looked at, "You skeleton ASSHOLE!" he shouted out, "I don't give a damn what you are, I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!!" the spider ran forward and began using his remaining two arms to stab the Rider repeatedly. "Ha ha! HOW'S THAT FEEL, HUH!?!" he finally finished by stabbing the Rider where his stomach would be. The Rider looked down, unamused.
"You realize that I'm just a skeleton, right?" using his free left arm the Rider reached for the back of his belt to pull out a sawed off double barrel shotgun the glowed a hellish red as fire surrounded the barrels. "Besides," he poured energy into the gun and the whole thing began to catch fire, "It seems you brought knives to a gun fight." the Rider fired at one of the spider's legs, causing him to collapse. He screamed in pain but figured he could get one kill out of this, so he cocked his arm back to throw his knife at Moka who was still on the ground watching the ordeal. The Rider quickly lifted his arm and shot off the spider's arm with a single blast.
"AAAAAAAGH!" he cried, "Please...have mercy." tears streamed down his face as the Rider approached him. The Rider crouched so his face was next to the spider's. He didn't do anything and let the flames from his skull singe the man's hair slightly.
"No." he whispered, sending whatever hope the spider had plummeting out of the sky. The Rider shot his right arm forward and impaled the spider through his stomach with the chainsaw and lifted him up. The Rider stared directly into the spider's eyes, "Look into my eyes..." he recited, "Your soul is STAINED by the blood of the innocent. Men, women, children, it doesn't matter to you...Now you must pay penance. Feel. Their. Pain!" the spider screamed and squirmed only getting impaled more through the chainsaw. After about thirty seconds the body finally stopped flailing. The Rider nodded before revving the chainsaw and cut through the spider. The creature was split into two and his body burned before turning to ash.
"Um..." Moka said meekly as the Rider quickly turned to her. She gulped as he approached her and kneeled. The Rider then hovered his hand over Moka's leg as his flames turned blue and covered Moka's injuries. After a few seconds she was healed and never felt a thing. "Y-Your one of the good guys...right?" she asked.
The Rider stood up and looked at the chainsaw and the blood he cause to splatter across the room, "Good, bad. I'm the one who brings penance to those that deserve it." he looked at Moka one last time as she got to her feet, "Let's go, I have another to deal with."
To be continued...
~Omake~
Easter (kind of) Special!
Yukari, Tsukune, Mizore and Kurumu stood out in the forest. They had cameras set up for making a film of some sort, with a banner between the trees that said "Join Newspaper Club." Because it is the start of the new school year new students will be entering the academy. Which means that soon the Newspaper Club will have to sit outside with a stall to promote their club on Club Day to try and get new members. But instead of sitting out and giving the same speech over and over Yukari thought it best to film a commercial to promote the club. The two stars? 'Inner' Moka and Ben Reilly, some of the most well known members. Moka for being bodacious, and Ben for being American.
However there was a catch. "Okay, I'm here for this stupid commercial." Moka said as she walked onto the 'stage' for the shoot. She was in her 'Inner' form but instead of the school uniform she was wearing a bunny outfit leotard with nylon stockings, black high heals and black bunny ears. Never before have I felt so humiliated. How the hell did I even get into this? Ben beat you in a trivia contest which led to you having to deal with the winner's terms. Her 'Outer' self reminded. Oh yeah. That asshole! Why'd he pick stupid trivia? He has an IQ of 250! Because your prideful self said 'I can beat you in anything, Reilly, and don't forget that!' To which he challenged you to 'anything' which you lost. Moka grumbled.
"Okay!" Yukari shouted. She had her regular outfit on, but she also wore shades and a sash that read 'Director' across it. "Where's bunny number 2!?" she shouted out.
"Bunny number 2?" Moka asked.
"I'm here!" Ben shouted out as he ran, and stumbled, out in the same outfit that Moka was wearing. "Not to worry guys, I'm actually on time today." he laughed.
Moka stared in disbelief, "W-What the fuck?" Ben gave a two fingered salute and Moka's face showed only more confusion, "Are you...crossdressing again?"
"No...?" Ben said with a questioning tone, "I mean, I can't really wear what I did last year because I got too big. Also I'm not wearing makeup. Just the outfit."
"So, yes. You are?"
"Yeah I guess so." Ben said as he slumped his shoulders.
"Quiet!" Yukari shouted, "Lights!" she pointed to Tsukune, "Camera!" she pointed to Kurumu and Mizore, "ACTION!" Ben spoke the lines he was supposed to as if he had feeling, while Moka lazily spoke her lines in resentment. "CUT! Again! Take 2!" this continued several more times and each time Yukari would cut because SOMETHING was wrong. "CUT! BREAK!" she rubbed her temples in frustration, "God people, freaking amateur hour out here.
Moka and Ben stood and stretched. Moka pulled her leotard out slightly to air out her cleavage, "Why is it so hot? It's spring right?" she complained while sweat dripped down her forehead.
"Maybe it's monster global warming." Ben laughed. Ben groaned and decided to joke around to aleve tension, "Hey guys, look!" Ben lifted up one of his legs so it was high in the air, "Does this pose make me look erotic?" he asked as he rested his head against his leg while balancing in high heels. Tsukune got a chuckle out of Ben's antics while Moka kept trying to cool herself. Ben finally relaxed and went to talk to Moka but stopped when he saw her airing out her cleavage again he stopped. He didn't know what it was, but her skin glistening with sweat as it went down to her boobs...he could only stop and stare.
"Okay, LET'S START!" Yukari shouted after she took a bite out of a sandwich, "ACTION." Silence. It lasted for about 30 seconds, "CUT!" Yukaro groaned, "Ben, you missed your cue!"
"Hey." Moka said sternly causing Ben to jerk up in reaction, "Are you focused or what? You've been staring at my chest for five minutes." Ben knew he was being called out. He quickly tried to come up for an excuse and his mind essentially spun a wheel of excuses to use. Unfortunately when the wheel was done spinning it landed in the middle of 'Tell Her You Wanted to Try New Things' and 'Blame Puberty'.
"Um...Uh...I hear masturbation is cool, I may try that later." Ben realized what he said and could only stare at Moka with an expression that said 'I'm an idiot.'
"..."
"..."
"...Ben." Moka finally said with a stern tone.
Ben threw up his hand to stop Moka, "Hold on, I get you're upset but uh...C-Can I get a head start at least?"
Moka squinted, "Start running, bitch." Ben nodded and took off his heels. He then quickly webbed Moka's feet to her heels and took off like a bolt of lightning. Moka grinned and chuckled slightly, "It's rabbit season." she said quietly before dashing off herself, showing to be more than competent enough to run in heels.
"Run, run, run, run." Ben repeated.
"Oh BE~ENNNN" Moka called out as she quickly caught up to the human. Ben could only let out a girly scream as he tried to speed up, but was quickly within arms reach of Moka.
"How the hell did you catch up!?! You're in heels!" he complained.
Moka laughed, "I trained in combat heels until I moved out!"
"Oh Christ." Before Ben knew it Moka dove forward and tackled him. The two rolled along the ground as Moka held one arm back and used her other arm to pull Ben's head to the side, "WAIT, I'M SCARED OF NEEDLES!" before Ben knew it Moka sunk her teeth into his neck and began drinking his blood. Ben's body tensed up for a little bit, but eventually he relaxed.
Moka finally let go and licked her lips, "Ahhhhhh. That's better. I was feeling a little dehydrated." she said in english. Moka helped Ben up and the two found shade under a tree.
"Wait, so you aren't mad?" Ben asked.
Moka laughed, "Ben, I'll be honest. You can be a complete moron at times. I thought you were just trying to make a joke." Ben only rubbed his head nervously, "But I get it. You're a boy, boys like boobs. Just don't give me cancer with that x-ray vision, okay Superman?"
Ben chuckled, "Yeah, my bad."
Moka adjusted herself picking at the leotard, "Goddammit. How do you deal with skin tight suits? I can already feel a rash coming on." she complained as she tried to adjust the leggings of her inner thigh.
"Oh, it's easy. You just don't wear underwear."
"You're kidding right?"
"Well, if you feel really uncomfortable about it you can wear a thong."
"So...you wear a thong under your suit?" Moka asked.
"...No."
"Oh."
"Yeah." a long silenced passed,
"So. Do you think they'll need us for the shoot?" Moka asked.
"Pfft. Who cares! I got what I wanted. Way I see it, we save their lives eight-of-ten times they can do the shoot on their own." Ben laughed. "Wanna watch a horror flick? It's pretty gruesome."
Moka rolled her eyes, "If it gets me out of that shoot, sure." Ben helped her up and the two walked to Ben's dorm, "So what movie?"
"You ever watch Evil Dead?"
"You should know the answer to that question."
A/N: Okay, that's another chapter out! Next chapter should be the end of the Phantom Assailants, so I hope you guys are ready!
I hope you guys are enjoying quarantine. Remember to actually get some fresh air from time to time, open a window, go get groceries, that sort of thing. Wash your hands and stay safe.
Real Quick Reviews: Resident Evil 3 remake. It's pretty good. More action than 2, but in terms of how it stacks up? Well, it's what happens when you let the B team make a mainline game. I hope that the main team is at least focusing on RE8 now.
Okay, remember to Favorite, Follow and Review. PM for questions and have a nice day!