Rosario Vampire Fan Fiction ❯ Two Guys, A Vampire, and a Monster Academy ❯ Punishment and Revelations ( Chapter 13 )

Two Guys, a Vampire, and a Monster Academy

Now that’s a record: Two new chapters in one day?

Feels nice to finally have that hurdle behind me. Oh and before I forget:

Disclaimer: I do not own Rosario + Vampire storyline, background, characters and similar media. Anything that sounds familiar to the readers is more then likely not mine, but originated from a source that I do not remember clearly. I may not be able to own my OC in this fiction.

Chapter 13: Punishment and Revelations

“Bakas (idiots)!!” Ginei Morioka at his Newspaper Club. Clearly today was not one of his better days. “You’re saying that not only did you start something with the Public Safety Commission, but you actually beat one of them up?!”

“To be fair, it was in self defense-” Lou began, the ache in his back still ever present.

“It still doesn’t change the fact at how deep in shit we’re all in!!!” Gin interrupted a he pointed at the flow chart drawn upon the black board. “Didn’t I say that getting involved against them would be trouble or did that just flow out of your empty heads?! The Public Safety Commission is a violent gang formed at the very heart of Japan’s monster population, rotten all the way up to Kuyou at the top! They have the power to do whatever they please and they will do whatever they want!”

The werewolf then grabbed Moka’s shoulders and brought her body closer to his own. “I don’t know what I’ll do if my beloved Moka-san got hurt because of you idiots and your crusade against them!”

“Actually it was Moka-san that did the fighting.” Kurumu corrected.

“And let’s not forget about a certain Horn Dog’s inability to warn us about bad blood between them and us in the first place.” Lou, miraculously, crossed the distance between him and Gin and with fluid motion, grabbed and twisted the werewolf’s ear. The pain was enough to release the pink headed vampire from his grasp.

“Itai (ow)! I said that I was sorry, you didn’t have to twist it THAT hard!!” Gin pleaded.

“Actually that’s just the pain doin’ that.” Lou hissed, freed Gin’s ear from his grasp as he rubbed his back to rid himself the pain as best as possible.

“Gomen ne (I’m sorry) Lou-kun, I did my best with my magic ~Desu.” Yukari was almost in tears as she saw her beloved American in pain while Moka could only look on and recall how Lou protected her.

“It’s alright, I’ll manage, somehow- OW!” Lou yelped from the sudden pain that forced him to lean against the podium gently.

“And you wouldn’t be in this mess if you didn’t- ITAI!!” Gin was interrupted once more when Lou used his left hand to twist the werewolf’s ear.

“And again, you not tellin’ us got us here in the fuckin’ first place.” Lou then released Gin before he turned his attention towards the pinkette vampire. “And I know that look Pinkie. Don’t blame yourself, I did what I thought was for the best of us. Fuck, you’d do it too if you were in my shoes.”

“Lou-kun.” Moka was emotionally touched by the American’s words, a reaction that caused pinches of jealousy within Tsukune.

“Besides, by my count it was suppose to be Couz’s turn to be horribly wounded protectin’ yah.” Lou half joked, the moment completely ruined.

“And how come Moka-san likes you more than me, what’s wrong with you?!” Gin exploded in jealousy.

“Because you’re a super perv’ and I ain’t- OW! Watch the wound!” Lou scolded as the werewolf dragged the American towards the door frame.

“That’s it, I’m taking you to the Commission so that you’ll fess up to everything and they give you the death penalty!” Gin growled, only to be punched in the face by Lou.

“Back stabbin’ cock bite!” Lou cursed just as the door slid open to reveal Kuyou and his posse.

“It’s far too late for that, Newspaper Club.” Kuyou smirked.

“What the fuck do you want now, Dot Brow-”

“It’s Kuyou!”

“Not with them brows.”

The manager of the Public Safety Commission cleared his throat, and his frustration, before he continued. “You have raised your hand against the Public Safety Commission, you are prepared to face judgement, are you not?”

“Would you take ‘no’ for an answer?”

“It was just a quarrel, was it not?” Gin, surprisingly, defended. “That shouldn’t be a big enough reason to shut down the Newspaper Club.”

“...A quarrel..? Silence!” Kuyou demanded before he turned his attention towards both Lou and Moka. “Akashiya Moka, McCorray Louis-”

“It’s Louis McCorray-” Lou corrected.

Kuyou growled in frustration before he continued. “You two are charged with assault against Kaito, a Public Safety Commission officer and inflicting wounds upon her. It would be wise to come with us, preferably without resistance.”

“For the record, it was in self defense.” Lou noted.

“If we go, will you leave the rest of the Newspaper Club alone?” Moka offered, much to the surprise of Tsukune.

“Nani (what)?! But it was Kaito who attacked us! Please let Moka-san go-”

“Aono Tsukune, you are coming with us as well.” Kuyou interrupted as bokken swords were aimed at the surprised Tsukune.

“Great, what now?” Lou groaned in annoyance.

“Naze (why)?!” Kurumu cried out. “Why are you involving Tsukune-kun!?”

“Onegai (please), I’m the one that did it! Please leave Tsukune go!” Moka pleaded.

“Nothing but simpletons....do you not know of this boy’s secret? Or that of his American cousin?” Kuyou teased, which grabbed the attention of the Newspaper Club. “They’re both suspected of being human!”

‘Crap!’ The same curse flowed through the minds of the cousins.

“That’s impossible! There’s no way there could be a human at the academy!” Kurumu exclaimed.

“Y-yeah!” Lou stumbled in this attempt to take advantage of the situation. “What proof do you have that both of us are even human? I demand that we see our accuser at once!”

“We don’t have time for such foolishness, bring them in.” Kuyou ordered.

“Yamete (stop it)! That’s not true! Let them go!” The succubus attempted to free the cousins but she was prevented by a burst of strong supernatural aura that erupted from Kuyou.

“Move.” The police manager ordered. All of the members of the Newspaper Club felt the sudden gush of supernatural aura, all but Lou who was confused by the reaction of his cohorts.

“What? What did I miss?” Lou asked in a dumbfounded fashion. This reaction caught Kuyou’s attention, he arched an eyebrow in interest before he spoke once again.

“As if we haven’t tried to shut down this club last year. Each and every one of you are nothing more than hooligans who can’t learn from past mistakes.” Kuyou teased before he turned back to his posse. “Let’s go.”

The cousins and Moka were lead deep into the headquarters of the Public Safety Commission, deep into what was considered the dungeon level of the complex. The minds of the trio were occupied in how their secret was blown and how they can escape this predicament. Their thoughts numerously interrupted by the pleas and demands of the prisoners of the cells to be released.

“How dare you falsely throw me into this cell you bastard!!” One imprisoned student roared as one hand transformed into an enormous claw, aimed at a seemingly defenseless Kuyou. “Release me Kuyou!”

Suddenly the student was enveloped by flames. Flames emitted by the Public Safety Commission manager. “You low class monster, was this ALL that you plan to do with the likes of me?” Kuyou then maneuvered his leg through the bars of the cells and stepped upon the now burned monster. “We are the protectors of the peace at this academy, the sacred keepers of justice. Those who turn against us are those who turn against this very academy, such evildoers must be purged in the name of justice. To make the academy a beautiful place for those who obey the law.”

The Public Safety Commission manager then turned towards the cousins. “Now then, why don’t you two show your true forms just like this infidel of peace and order here? As monsters, it should be easy so it’s time to stop pretending. Reveal your true forms, if that is even possible.”

“Yeah, um, Dot Brow-” Lou began.

“It’s Kuyou!”

“Whatever. You see, the truth is that we’re very low class monsters, Tsukune and I. I mean we’re so low class that this,” The American waved his arms to present his body. “Is our true form. I know, surprising right? I doubt that many monsters would know of our kind, what with how we aren’t that much different from humans.” Kuyou ignored much of the Foreign Exchange Student, but instead focused upon the gold band upon Lou’s right hand. He could not help but think back to how only he was the only one of the accursed Newspaper Club to not be affected by his aura. If Louis McCorray is indeed a monster, then he would be a valuable, powerful ally to the Public Safety Commission. If human, then he would have to interrogate this boy to learn the secrets as to how a mere human could even ignore the aura of a powerful supernatural monster such as himself. Either way, he will get answers. “It’s just an honest mistake, everyone does it now and then so if you could-”

Kuyou snapped his fingers and Lou soon found his arms restrained. “Hey! What the fuck?!” Then the manager slipped off the American’s ring, much to the former owner’s displeasure. “Give that back you Hitler wanna be!”

“Now that you are without your seal, it should be EASY to transform into your true self.” The statement from Kuyou caused shock and surprise amongst the trio. “We are not as ignorant as you portray us, we know that the removal of Akashiya’s rosario releases her true self so it should only be logical that a ring such as this performs the same function.” Upon closer inspection, the manager found that the inner circumference of the ring had three sets of symbols: a pictogram of a seven-armed candelabrum, a hexagram, the monogram of an ‘X’ superimposed upon the letter P, a geometric cross, a pictogram of a crescent moon and five pointed star, and three interlocked rings. “Now why don’t you reveal your true selves since there are no longer any barriers to overcome?”

Naturally, there was no transformations from either of the cousins. “Do yo enjoy wasting my time?!” Kuyou roared as he kicked Tsukune in the stomach with such force that he crashed into one of the cell bars.

“Tsukune!” Moka cried out.

“Fucker!” Lou cursed as Tsukune crawled back onto his feet.

“What? Is your true form that revolting, such a sight of embarrassment before all these monsters before us?” Then Kuyou smirked. “Or is it because you CAN’T? That because you both are human?” He then grabbed a handful of Tsukune’s hair and slammed his head against the cell bar.

“Yamete!” Moka cried out as she rushed towards Tsukune’s side. “Stop hurting Tsukune like that, he’s-” However her please were interrupted by a swift kick to the stomach by Kuyou.

“You little fuck- oof!” Lou spat out saliva and some blood when one of the Public Safety Commission officers punched him in the stomach.

“This isn’t what we promised Kuyou.” The trio turned towards the familiar voice of Hitomi Ishigami as she stepped forth from the shadows of the already dimly lit dungeon chamber. “What will you do if they really did die?”

“Yeah! Listen to reason!” Lou pleaded.

“It should be me to kill them, and how will I if you take it too far and they expire before I ever get my hands upon them? They took everything away from me: my position, my honor, they even cut my hair. I’m the one who has the right to kill them! I won’t be satisfied until I skin them alive, dismember them, and bash their skulls in with rocks!” Ishigami declared.

“On second thought,” Lou began. “Don’t listen to her.”

Some time has past and the cousins along with Moka found their broken bodies upon a pile of refuse in the corner of some forgotten basement-like room within the headquarters of the Public Safety Commission. Alone with Kuyou and Ishigami.

“It looks like the two of you really are human.” Ishigami sneered as she crouched before the cousins. “Which means that I can have my revenge by killing you before the entire school.” The gorgon then forced the cousins to look at her. “You haven’t forgotten me, have you? The moment the fangs of my snakes pierced your skin, tasted your blood, I realized what you two really are. You may lie to the other monsters, but the taste of human flesh never changes. It’s almost dishonorable for humans to do what you two did to me!”

“Yeah, well we’re not exactly thrilled to see yah too either.” Lou countered.

“Ishigami,” Kuyou ordered. “Move.” He emphasized his demand with a flare of his aura. “Now that we have undeniable proof that Louis and Tsukune are human, we now have justification for destroying the Newspaper Club once and for all. The whole useless lot will be killed according to Academy Law, my duty as manager of the Public Safety Commission, as guardian of peace and order.”

“Did we not have a deal?” Ishigami defended. “I should at least kill these three.”

“I don’t think so.” And with a wave of aura akin to an inferno, Kuyou fired a blast meant to incinerate the cousins. However, he soon discovered that the pinkette vampire tossed a wrench into his desires. “Accursed woman.”

“Pinkie?” Lou barely spoke as both he and Tsukune looked up to Moka.

“Onegai, take off my rosario.” The vampire asked the cousins.

“Moka-san?” Tsukune breathed.

“Daijoobu (its alright), even if everyone else knows that you both are human, I will still protect you. You’re both precious to me.” Moka declared with tears in her eyes.

“Don’t have to tell me twice.” Lou then reached out for Moka’s rosario, only to be halted by Kuyou’s hand.

“I am not that gullible.” With the cousins in hand, Kuyou flung them away from the pinkette vampire and thus prevented the release of Moka’s true form. He then turned back towards her. “Foolish woman, do you not know what you are doing? By knowingly aiding those humans, you have declared yourself a traitor to all monsters. An act of treason against the academy, more than enough to warrant the death penalty! You deserve no less then to share in their fate as I burn you all into cinders, leaving no evidence that none of you ever existed!” Within the palm of his hand, a fire ball was conjured. “Die!”

However, the fireball was prevented by the sudden appearance of an ice wall that stood between Kuyou’s deadly blow and the vampire. Before he could react, vines erupted from the ground and bound his arms and prevented their use.

“You two can’t rely upon Moka all the time you know.” Kurumu smirked as not only the succubus, but Yukari and Mizore appeared. Using all the strength that she could, Moka rushed towards the three monster girls as the little witch tended to the cousin’s wounds. “You just can’t keep out of trouble, can yah?”

“Kurumu-chan! Arigato (thank you)!” Moka thanked the succubus.

“As much as I appreciate the calvary charge earlier,” Lou began as he pulled himself up. “I think its high time that we leave before-”

“Did you really think that such childish pranks will be enough to stop me?!” Kuyou roared, realizing that the vines were a mere illusion.

“...that happened.” Lou concluded as Kuyou unleashed another wave of his inferno aura at the group, with only the American unaffected. “What, what’s going on?”

“You mean you’re not feeling that ~Desu?!” Yukari exclaimed as she braced herself from Kuyou’s assault.

“I’ll turn you all into ashes!” Kuyou readied another fire ball and prepared to incinerate the Newspaper Club in one swift stroke.

“You guys have really turned this into an awesome mess, you know that?”Gin stepped into view, which gave pause to Kuyou’s assault.

“Dooshite (why)?” Kurumu asked the werewolf. “Didn’t you say-”

“We’ll talk later.” Gin interrupted. “If you guys are willing to take it this far, then there’s nothing I can really do. Let’s just end this quickly and get it over with.”

“Yes, let’s get this over with.” Kuyou smirked. “So convenient that the entire Newspaper Club is gathered here for their own funeral. But to think that you are all insane enough to bare your fangs against I, the guardian of justice of Monster Academy-”

“Oh, would you just shut the fuck up about that shit?!” Lou exclaimed despite the pain throughout his body. “Trust me when I say that you ain’t foolin’ nobody, not with that track record of yours!”

“And I wouldn’t have to risk my life if you guy’s weren’t here.” Gin stated before he dashed towards Kuyou, transforming into his werewolf form in mid stride.

“Wait, what?” Before either Kuyou nor the rest of the Newspaper Club could react, Gin strode past the manager of the Public Safety Commission and delivered a barrage of strikes in a single stride. That moment alone showcased the embodiment of speed that was the werewolf.

Gin then walked back towards the Newspaper Club, reverted back into his human form as Kuyou fell upon the ground. “Justice or not, you’ll pay if you try to put a hand upon my Newspaper Club! Remember that, fool.”

“Gin-sempai-” Kurumu, Yukari, and Mizore began when the succubus and yuki onna soon found that their breasts were fondled by the very werewolf that saved them.

“As my reward for saving you guys-” Gin never finished when the three monster girls assaulted the perverted werewolf for his actions.

“That’s our sempai for us.” Tsukune chuckled.

“Uber perv’- Wait, where’s Ishigami?” Lou asked, the question that roused the attention of many of the Newspaper Club. Before the American could receive his answer, Kuyou returned to his feet and ready to continue this contest of strength between monsters. “Aw shit, he’s back!!”

“Everyone, get down!” Gin cautioned the group as Kuyou transformed into his true form, that of an inflamed nine-tailed fox, a Youko.

“Snow White, I think an ice wall would be terribly appropriate right about now!” Lou advised. The yuki onna nodded as she conjured an ice wall between the Newspaper Club and Kuyou’s true form.

“That won’t stop him for long!” Gin warned. “Kuyou’s a Youko, a race of monsters whose highest ranked elders are often mistaken for gods! They’re one of Japan’s most powerful monsters!”

“Oi, when we pick a fight, we really do pick ‘em.” Lou groaned in annoyance as the ice wall Mizore conjured began to melt away.

“I can only do so much, this hot supernatural aura is holding me back.” Mizore reported to the group.

“Aono Tsukune, McCorray Louis, you both truly are humans.” Kuyou growled. “We must kill all humans who know of this monster-only academy, that is academy law! Your presence alone threatens our secret to the humans! Why must you protect such dangerous people, Newspaper Club? How far must you defy me, defy academy law, before you are satisfied?! All of you shall be burned by this Kuyou, the administrator of this academy’s justice!”

“Oh shut up!” Lou complained. “You’re evil, we get it! Yah don’t need to pound it into our heads!” He then turned towards his cousin. “Couz’, wipe that look off your face.”

“Hai, we’re all here to protect you and Lou by our free will. Everything will be fine.” Moka reassured the guilt ridden Tsukune.

“She’s right, also the both of you are wounded so you should let us protect you.” Kurumu added as she braced herself before the cousins.

“We’ll tend to your wounds once we’ve settled this ~Desu.” Yukari promised.

“You two are precious to us as friends, and as more, so let us handle this.” Mizore then readied herself against Kuyou.

“That’s touching Snow White, but if you can barely stand with living flame thrower here then it’s best that you get the fuck outta here.” Lou advised.

“Lou?” Mizore questioned.

“Look, Couz’ and I feel bad enough as burdens to yah guys as is, but it wouldn’t be really fair for yah to go into a fight that you’re just not able to give it your all. There’s fightin’ bravely and then there’s throwin’ your life away and I really don’t feel like being responsible for somethin’ like that.” Mizore felt touched by the American’s words.

“How can somebody so young be more suave then me? You’re ruining my reputation.” Gin complained in jest.

“No, your perversion is ruining your reputation.” Lou corrected.

“Whatever, it doesn’t matter. Neither does what your true form is, nor if you’re a monster or not. All that matters is that you’re our friend, a precious one at that.” Gin stated, words that even touched the monster girls.

“You’re just sayin’ that to earn brownie points with the girls, aren’t yah?” Lou accused, unaffected by the werewolf’s proclamation.

“Um, let’s just get this over with shall we?” Gin covered, now that his ulterior motive was revealed by the American.

“Arigato....minasan (everyone)...” Tsukune thanked the Newspaper Club for their willingness to defend his cousin and himself.

“Thank ‘em once we get the fuck outta this.” Lou advised his cousin.

“Kisama (bastards)! Not only do you know their true forms as humans, but you pretend as if you know nothing?!” Kuyou growled as his anger and frustration bubbled. “Each and everyone of you is scum, beyond even the hope of redemption!”

Gin then noticed that Kuyou had prepared an attack against the group. “Mizore! Ready that ice wall!” Almost by reflex, the yuki onna conjured another ice wall between them and Kuyou’s attack.

“Hazy Rolling Flame!” Kuyou announced and a wheel of fire lanced towards the group and vaporized Mizore’s ice wall, only to reveal that Gin had absorbed the impact.

“Gin-sempai!” The Newspaper Club were shocked that the werewolf had protected them, even when he ordered Mizore to create the ice wall.

“Guess it wasn’t as bad as I thought,” Gin groaned in pain. “Still hurts though. But at least not as bad if that ice-” The werewolf then collapsed from the pain and heat of the attack.

“Why did he do that ~Desu?!” Yukari asked out loud. “He didn’t have to block it himself ~Desu!”

“It’s because of us,” Tsukune was on the verge of tears, even if the group had declared that they would protect him and Lou he was not prepared to see a friend fall to save them. “Gin-sempai is like this because of us-”

“Oi! Don’t you dare loose hope on me now!” Lou interrupted. “I’m sure that we’ll get out of this SOMEHOW!”

“Hehehehehe, so much for the werewolf and their legendary speed.” Kuyou cackled as his body morphed into a more humanoid form of a Youko. “And with one down, I will show that even together you have no hope of prevaling against me!”

“What’s with that form?” Mizore asked.

“That’s a Youko’s finely tuned battle form ~Desu!” Yukari warned.

“What the fuck is he? Freeza from Dragonball Z?” Lou asked rhetorically.

“Well, even though I did watch that show, this form- STOP THAT!” Kuyou corrected himself before he gave the group a threatening look. “Now then, who wishes to die next?”

“Would ‘no’ be an acceptable answer?” The American’s inquiry was answered by a sudden burst of inflamed supernatural aura that surrounded Kuyou along with a silent yet annoyed look upon the Youko’s face. “Guess not.”

Mere moments had past and the cousins could look upon the fallen forms of the Newspaper Club around them. Mere moments did the dismal battle already turned bleak. Neither the cousins could move as the monster girls that had so valiantly declared their defense had fallen in a span of time that was just under an eye blink.

“Oh yes, we are OFFICIALLY fucked.” Lou noted.

“Your comrades really are marvelous, aren’t they?” Kuyou teased. “Isn’t it great that they sacrificed themselves just to save two humans?” A fire ball emerged from the Youko’s claws as he slowly approached the pinkette vampire. “Now suffer as you both watch helplessly as I incinerate these traitor monsters.”

“Yamete!!” Tsukune cried out in desperation. “We lost! We’ll apologize to you for everything! I’ll confess everything to the school and accept any official punishment you give me! Onegai, just don’t hurt them!” The monster girls were shocked by the words that flowed from Tsukune’s lips. “They’re my friends, my precious friends! Wether they’re monsters or humans, each and every one of them is precious to me, so please spare them!” He then collapsed to the ground and onto his knees.

To which Lou slapped his cousin swiftly and painfully in the face. “Are you fuckin’ insane?! There is no fuckin’ way Dot Brow here will take the deal! He wants to get rid of the Newspaper Club no matter the cost, mind you that he’s under the delusion that he’s the guardian angel of the entire school! He’s co-co for coca puffs! There’s no way he’ll take it honestly!”

“Actually that admiral human has touched my heart, so much so that I will take up his offer.” Kuyou declared to the shock of the still conscious Newspaper Club. “For your courage, I will spare them and punish only you.”

“Say wha? Really?”

“Iie.” Kuyou smirked. “The absurdity of friendship between human and monster disgusts me. Now watch as I burn your ‘precious friends’ to ashes!” A fire ball was lunched in the direction of the Pinkette Vampire. An explosion erupted, but as the dust settled, the Youko met with a strange sight: A badly burned Tsukune was cradled by his American cousin who was unaffected by the fire ball beyond the singed uniform shirt and jacket. “I-impossible! How could a mere human...?!”

Lou was occupied with far more immediate, important concerns as he shook his cousin in a desperate attempt to keep him alive. “You fucking dick! Don’t you dare die on me! Don’t you fucking dare!”

“Tsukune!” Moka cried out as she rushed towards his side.

“Arigato.....Lou-kun....Moka-san....I couldn’t-” Tsukune reached out towards the pinkette vampire’s face, only to fall midway and unlatched the rosario. Moka screamed in sorrow as she transformed into her true, inner self.

“Wh-what’s going on?” Kurumu struggled to her knees. “What happened to Tsukune? What happened to my Destined One?!”

Inner Moka opened her eyes and surveyed the scene, to find that Tsukune was badly burned. However, she was surprised to see that Lou, unburned by Koyou’s attack. It was not the act of crying that shocked her, rather it was because his tears were of blood. “Louis?”

“.......You....” Lou handed Tsukune’s body to Inner Moka. “.....Fucking....” He stood up with horrible rage in his eyes, he no longer minded the pain that coursed through his body from Kuyou’s fists and kicks. “Basta- eh?”Lou then felt his body pulse with unknown energy, an aura powerful enough to push the monster girls away a full meter and to force Kuyou to brace himself. “......that was new....” Then his body contorted from another pulse of supernatural energy, this time it was a high pressure effect as the monsters around Lou felt a massive weight upon their bodies. Even Kuyou in his battle form had difficulty upon both of his digitigrade legs.

“What the fuck’s happening to me?!” Lou roared in unfamiliar pain as the pulses of supernatural energy rocked his body and punished those of his friends and in greater frequency. Inner Moka sensed that Tsukune’s near death body could not take any more of these strange pulses of aura. In desperation, she injected her blood into Tsukune’s neck. Moments later, the monsters were flung to the far sides of the room as an explosion of light and heat enveloped their senses.

Once they regained their senses, the Newspaper Club and Kuyou discovered a crater in the middle of the room filled with magma. In the center of the crater was a magma pillar almost the same size as a human, the same size as Lou.

“What happened to Lou-kun ~Desu?!” Yukari asked as she rejoined Inner Moka and the others.

“And what caused that?” Mizore shielded her body from the radiant heat of the crater as she pointed at the strange pillar.

“Im-impossible! That bitch said that he was-” Before Kuyou could continue, ice crystals emerged from the magma pillar, fractured the surface of the cooling molten rock. A moment later it shattered, the ice and rock both burned to ash as it revealed the occupant within. This being wore ornate, almost heavenly designed ice armor upon his shins, chest, forearms and shoulders. It had eight golden wings of light: four upon the back, two emerged from the shoulders and two from the hips. However these wings were not physically attached to the body, rather they flowed into transparency into the body where the wings joints would be located. From its head flowed a crimson inferno of fire where hair would have emerged, crowned with three sets of horns: One pair that grew from the forehead and swept backwards, a second pair that emerged from the back of the skull and swept forward, and a third pair that spiraled upwards from either side of the beings head. Above its head was an angelic halo. The skin above the collar bone was burned red as if of the fire that emerged from the skull while the skin below the collar bone was pale blue as if it suffered from frost bite.

The being slowly opened its eyes to reveal a blinding glow in place of the Sclera or the “whites” of the eye that surround square irises. “Whoh? What the fuck just happened?” The Newspaper Club knew that the being was Lou.

“Lou-kun?” Kurumu question, causing the now transformed American to turn towards the succubus.

“Pamela? What’s going- what the?” Lou then noticed the strange changes to his body. First was the ice armor. “What the fuck?” Then he noticed the angelic wings of light. “What the fuck?!” Then his new demonic horns that grew out of his head. “What the hell?” And finally the halo that floated above his head.

“It would appear that the charges of you being human were false, Louis.” Inner Moka smirked.

“Totally!” Lou took one more look over of his body. “Though it still doesn’t explain why I never changed before.”

“....A fallen angel...?” The Newspaper Club then turned their attention back to Kuyou. “Funakoo (impossible)!!! You don’t exist! You are nothing more than mere myth and fairy tale!”

“Well I’m STANDIN’ right here aren’t I?” Lou countered. “And speakin’ of which, I think it’s high time that I test out this new body of- Xena?” Inner Moka stepped before the transformed Lou, handed the comatose Tsukune into his arms.

“Before you do, I want to exchange a few ‘words’ with our little host here.” Inner Moka hissed with venom, eager for the chance to fight the Youko.

“Alright, ladies first.” Lou offered. Inner Moka walked towards Kuyou and it was at that time that the American noticed familiar puncture marks. “Xena what the hell?! Couz’ is hurt enough already and yet you still took a sip of his blood-”

“No, it was the opposite.”

“Eh?” Lou held a confused look upon his face just before he gently lowered Tskune to the ground. Kuyou sneered as the vampire approached him.

“Just because you are a vampire does not guarantee victory. To me, even a vampire is still the same as scum!” Kuyou teased.

“I think I understand ~Desu.” Yukari spoke. “Vampire Blood, especially pure vampire blood, it should be enough to save Tsukune. After all, the healing properties of the blood is powerful enough to make them immortal ~Desu.”

“Then it’ll save Tsukune-kun?” Mizore questioned.

“I just can’t help but think that there are side effects to all this.” Lou stated in a worried tone.

“There are three.” Inner Moka answered as she delivered a swift kick to the Youko. “There is a low probability of success, so Tsukune can still die.” Kuyou was knocked back, but not enough to knock him out as Inner Moka was pushed back almost too easily by his aura. “The second is that I injected too much blood into Tsukune and inevitably weakened me.”

“Not exactly the most intelligent choice you’ve made.”

“It was all for Tsukune’s sake.” Inner Moka corrected.

“Point.”

“So foolish, to try to face me when you are weakened yourself?” Kuyou taunted as he struck attacks against a visibly weakened and tired vampire. “You were weak because you were drunk with friendship with a human! Now pay for your stupidity in flames! Hazy Rolling Flame!!”

Inner Moka raised her arms to guard herself, but the fire wheel never came as Lou used his ice gauntlets to block the attack. Amazingly, it froze solid the fire wheel. “Whoh, that’s a neat trick.” He pulled his arm away, the action itself severed the frozen fire wheel from the gauntlet and shattered the otherwise deadly attack into tiny shards of inflamed ice. “That’s neat too.”

“I did not need your aid.” Inner Moka hissed in annoyance.

“Yeah, since you were doing SUCH a good job of it just now.” Lou teased. “Either way, it’s my turn.” Inner Moka shrugged as she stepped away from the angry fallen angel. He then marched towards Kuyou.

“Alright, Dot Brow, just because I have this halo here-” The moment Lou pulled the shining halo from above his head, it miraculously transformed into an ornate, heavenly designed broadsword that would not look too out of place in a video game nor anime. “Whoh, that’s cool.” The moment he let go of the broadsword, it transformed back into the halo and settled above his head. “Now that’s cool too.” The transformed American played with the halo for a moment or two before he shook his head and returned his attention back upon Kuyou. “Anyway, as I was sayin’: Just because I have this halo here doesn’t mean I’m gonna be a saint and forgive yah for what you did to each and every one of us. I’m gonna make you fuckin’ pay for each offense with these fists!”

“Don’t let your newfound power confuse you!” Kuyou spat. “I am still more powerful than you-ITAI!!” The moment the Youko punched the icy breast plate, the skin of his entire fist froze solid. When he pulled away, the skin shattered into fiery ice shards. “Funakoo! What ARE you?!”

“Pretty much your worse fuckin’ nightmare.” And with those words, Lou delivered a swift kick to Koyou’s stomach, the skin froze before it shattered into inferno ice shards when he moved away to deliver a painful elbow slam atop the Youko’s skull. He then grabbed one of the manager’s tails and used it as leverage to slam the once powerful monster into the ground repeatedly.

Kuyou quickly got up from the ground and attempted to deliver a swift kick, which was blocked by one of Lou’s wings which burned the skin to a now shocked and surprised Youko. The American then delivered another kick that sent Kuyou into a wall. He struggled to get back upon his feet and was visibly exhausted while Lou stood without any visible signs of sweat, but rather more energetic then before the duel started.

“Funakoo! How can I, a proud and powerful Youko, be so beaten so easily? Tire so easily by some....some novice?!” Kuyou exclaimed.

“Is it that much of a mystery, mortal Dai’mon?” Lou then spoke in a deepened, flanged voice that even sent chills down Inner Moka’s spine. He then unsheathed his broadsword and aimed it at Kuyou’s neck. “It is because of your pride! The very evil that I feed upon! The more pride you hold, the stronger I am and the weaker you become! You have lost this fight before you even threw the first punch, fool!”

“Sugoi (wow)! That is so cool ~Desu!” Yukari exclaimed, which broke Lou’s concentration.

“Wait, wha? Did something happen? What did I say?” Lou then discovered the broad sword within his hand. “I don’t remember pullin’ this thing out...?”

“Do you think I will submit even IF you have the upper hand?” Kuyou spat. “I will never willingly submit to scum like you so you might as well end this!”

“Duly noted, but it’s not up to me. It’s Tsukune’s turn, right Couz’?” Lou looked back at the comatose and burnt form of his cousin. This caused a moment of confusion amongst the monster girls until an aura flowed from Tsukune’s body, a rather familiar and vampiric aura as he stood upon his feet. His eyes opened to reveal the crimson, slit-like irises of a vampire. “By the way Xena, you said that there were three problems. What was number three?”

“There is a chance that Tsukune will assimilate all of my vapiric powers, but even then it’s just an estimation.” Inner Moka confessed. “There is no, clear way of what the transfusion would do to his human body.”

“I see.” Lou then approached Tsukune. “Well then Couz’,” The American then slapped the palm of his cousin. “Knock yourself out, tiger.” He wasn’t able to pat Tsukune on the back before he lanced towards Kuyou, fist connected to jaw as the Youko’s body found itself aloft in the air.

Tsukune then quickly caught up with the in-flight frame of Kuyou and performed a round house kick that slammed the Yokou into the wall. He then delivered a furry of punches into Kuyou’s torso before he slammed the manager’s body into the ground akin to a rag doll before he delivered a final blow with a swift slam of his ankle into Kuyou’s head and knocked him out cold. Quickly afterwards Tsukune collapsed.

“I didn’t mean literally!” Lou scolded as the rest of the Newspaper Club rushed towards the fallen human’s side.

“Tsukune’s fine. His body must have spent my blood’s full supernatural energy.” Inner Moka advised. “Along with his wounds healed, he should awake as normal.”

“‘Should’?” Lou cocked an eyebrow.

“Nothing more should come of it once he awakens.” Inner Moka answered as Yukari helped Gin up and onto his feet.

“Well so long as Couz’ is okay in the long run.” Lou noted as the silver headed vampire took Tsukune in her arms. She then turned back to the comatose Youko.

“Sore dewa (well)?” Inner Moka teased. “You don’t have a problem with Tsukune attending this school any more do you?”

The Newspaper Club dragged themselves out of the headquarters of the Public Safety Commission with the crescent moon high in the sky.

“Now how are we gonna explain all of this back at the infirmary?” Gin questioned the group.

“And how the fuck do I change back? I mean look at this!” Lou showed the Newspaper Club his new body. “How the fuck am I suppose to explain this to my folks?!”

“A fallen angel ~Desu....” Yukari gasped in awe. “Sugoi!”

“But would that make his own family....?” Mizore began to ask.

“Oh no! He’s adopted!” Kurumu explained while she gave Inner Moka the evil eye.

“But that don’t make them any less family.” Lou then sighed as he leaned his forehead against the palm of his hand. “With my luck, I’m probably the son of Satan-”

“Actually you’re my brother.” The new voice spoke and caused much of the Newspaper Club to jump away from shock and surprise. “And it’s ha-Shay’tan.” The voice corrected, who revealed himself as a lightly tanned individual with ash blonde hair and wore a deep blue business suit. In his hand was a blue rose.

“Don’t scare us like that- wait what?” Lou performed a double take.

“It’s my title at the Court of Nibbana. Allow me to introduce myself.” ha-Shay’tan then performed a polite bow with the blue rose still in hand. “I am Adar Iblis, your younger brother Louis.”

“You’re my brother?” Lou questioned. “But what are you doing up here? As Lucifer, shouldn’t you be in-”

“Actually, YOU’RE Lucifer.” Adar Iblis corrected. “Or at least under the tongue of Romanus. In the language of She’ol and up to much of sapient life before the time of Nimrud and the ziqqurat Bavel, your name was Hel’el.”

“Wait, I’M Lucifer? The leader of the Angel Revolt?”

“No, but you did inspire it, brother.” Adar Iblis corrected.

“Wait, what revolt are you two talking about?” Gin asked, barely able to keep up due to the pressure that pounded his skull.

“The War in Heaven,” Yukari began. “In Catholic Tradition, it’s suppose to be a conflict between the Christian God and Lucifer with about a third of the angels who fought against the rest of heaven. The cause varies if I remember correctly. ~Desu.”

“That is so.” Adar Iblis nodded. “With the exemption of my brother. He only inspired the rebellion after he was cast down from Elysion and into what would be called Tartaros.”

“Let me guess: For refusing God’s order to bow down to humans?”

“Well it was but one final act in a long series that distant you from the boss, brother. It did not suit you that the Ash’a- I mean humans were designed in the image of the boss with mere apes and monkeys and fodder, but to be declared Yazata to all other sapient races over even the Mal’akh- my apologies, I mean angels who were crafted from the purest form of light? You could not control your anger and your pride and thus you attempted a strike upon the divine architect. Naturally, you lost.”

“Swell.” Lou rolled his eyes. “So then why am I given bail?”

“Well, you could not be imprisoned in that icy tomb within Tartaros for eternity, despite your past actions against the supreme deity. In time, you were forgiven for your offense and given this new form as a way to redeem yourself in an honest life.” Adar Iblis explained. “After all, what mother could hate their own child?”

“Wait, I thought god’s a guy?” Lou scratched his head.

“Who gave you that idea?” Adar Iblis questioned.

“Apparently there’s a pope in Rome that has some explanin’ to do.” Lou fumed.

“So does this make you an angel, or a devil?” Inner Moka questioned Adar Iblis.

“Neither.” He answered. “I am but a D’jinn.”

“So I’m a D’jinn as well? But I thought I was-”

“You were an angel, or Mal’akh in the She’ol tongue. Now, you and the other fallen Mal’akh are refered to as Dru’j.”

“Then how are we even related if we’re two different-” Lou began.

“It’s complicated, but trust in my words when I say that we are brothers.” The D’jinn concluded. Lou simply shrugged in defeat.

“So then how do we fit in?” Mizore asked.

“Allow me to explain. Before my brother’s insurrection, there were four great beings created by the deity: Mal’akh, D’jinn such as myself, Dai’mon, and Ash’a. It loosely translates in your tongues to Angels, Monsters, and Humans. Out of all those sapients, only Mal’akh were not given the gift of free will due to the amount of power they commanded. After the war, the rebel angels were cast down to Tartaros to dwell with their ‘inspiration’ and from the collection of sins by d’jinn, monsters, and humans whose d’kia, or shades were sent as punishment for the sins they committed in the realm of the living, were disfigure into Dru’j. The ‘fallen angels’ if you will, who beget wicked offspring who evolved into your collective culture’s concept of demons.

“The monsters, who were jealous and envious of the position both humans and angels had before the deity and refused to aid either side. For this affront, though they were gifted with great supernatural abilities, the monsters were also cursed with strong weaknesses that humans could easily exploit. Not only that, monsters were also given a great difficulty to perform good wills and made it even more difficult to redeem themselves and gain salvation into Elysion. However, only one group of monsters had the common sense to aid heaven and afterwards were given the task to guard and police those condemned into Tartaros: Ahu’ra or what your culture would call Oni.”

“That’s an interesting story and all, but that doesn’t exactly help my current predicament.” Lou began. “Not to mention that you kinda failed to mention your part in the whole thing-”

“Catch.” The d’jinn flicked a gold band towards Lou’s direction. The American caught the ring and the moment the metal touched his flesh, his Dru’j features whispered away and left a more human frame. “That ring, like that vampire’s rosario, is a seal that holds in check your abilities. Though you were reborn as an Ash’a, your soul is that of both Mal’akh and Dru’j. Thus they followed you into this reincarnation. However you must keep close that ring.”

“Why is that?”

“If you are in your unreleased form for longer than it takes the sun to touch the sky the next day, you will.....pop.”

“Pop?”

“As in explode.”

“Good to know.”

“As for MY contribution. Though my love for you as my brother is great, it did not overpower my reason that warned me of the deity’s absolute victory. And now I must go, the duties I have briefly abandoned to finally meet you once more have forced me to leave. Till we meet again.” And thus Adar Iblis disappeared in a flash of light and smokeless fire, to leave the Newspaper Club alone with their devices.

“Well that was just fuckin’ weird.” Above the group observed an old foe from issues past.

“An interesting turn of events.” Hitomi Ishigami sneered. “Interesting indeed....”

Now that’s an interesting turn of events? But really, how many of you have seen THAT coming? Let’s see a show of hands now.

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