Capu 6

It's finally here!

For those just beginning this story and for all those following my CAPU series, let me give you a quick refresher. My profile has all these stories I've written, and many others.

Capu3 - Tsukune and the girls finish their last year of High School on Witch Hill. Tsukune/Moka/Kurumu get married in a wedding brawl & have their first babies. BIG graduation party.

Capu 4 - Tsukune and the gang first years as adults, Witch Hill grows but not without difficulties. Tsukune focuses on local politics, Moka on the business end for the family, Kurumu has her own band - The Flying Yokai. Mizore is happy to end up being a house mother, Yukari is their 'Court Witch'.

Capu 5 & 5M - The children. LOTS of children. Moka has Akemi and Kurumu has Kumiko. After a 'perverted' demon gets a hold of the boys, Moka has Azami, Mizore has Moka Jr., Ruby has Jade, Minori has Kashiro, Kurumu has Kayio, Yukari has Tsukumoka, Lucy has Kanae. Suki would have had a boy, but was killed before she gave birth. Mizore also had Tsukune Jr. and Kurumu Jr. And more kids are born from other families.

Akemi gets her 'Blood Mate', Daniel Collins (yes, from Dark Shadows)

After being abducted, Kumiko gets her destined ones - Frank and Liz, Kumiko is pregnant at the end of Capu 5M

Azami finds her Blood Mate in Chicago, Tommy. Tommy is cast into the land of Sekerei and comes home with Matsu, Haihane and Uzume and her friend, Chiho. Azami is NOT pleased.

Kashiro, Kaiyo (Incest at it's best) and Belle are together with their Raptor kids, Chi, Cho and Chin.

Hiroki, Tsukune's little brother who grows up hating yokai, and ends up as a vampire with two wives, a rabbit girl, Hama, and a Succubus, Jessica. Tsukune arranges for him to acquire a farm. Hama wants lots and lots of babies and vegetables!

At the end of Capu 5, not only has Witch Hill turned into a small city, but Tsukune also acquired the Sotoba Valley to help expand the ever growing human/Yokai population that began on Witch Hill. Human/Yokai relations world wide are being strained by the work of the Devil, who is doing his best at making chaos.

The latest piece of hate the Devil's minions sparked at the end of Capu 5M was a town in a remote section of China. The town's police were Charmed and coaxed into attacking werewolf villages up in the hills. The Werewolves killed those men and retaliated, killing humans and burning their town.

Wheew! So now, on with Capu 6.

Ch 1

In a remote part of China, Liang the Werewolf watched with a large pack of his warriors as the human town burn . Many of his warriors howled in the triumph of their own dead being avenged. As far as he was concerned, they has repaid the humans for attacking them. He knew this was not the end of it, however. While most yokai settled for eye for an eye, he had a feeling the humans would come after them again. If they came, he had to be ready. Humans were not going to get close enough to indiscriminately kill their bitches and pups again.

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Chang Sun led his armored division to the trouble spot. Smoke still rose from the town that had been attacked by Yokai. In sight of the town, he had his forces spread out, armored cars interspersed with tanks, they slowly approached the smoldering ruins.

In a field this side of the town, men in police uniforms and a couple women tended to people on the ground. He keyed his mike. "There are wounded up ahead! All medics disembark and assist. Second and fourth platoons, advance and guard the civilians. First platoon, take the left guard flank, third platoon, the right guard flank. Fifth and sixth platoons, stay in reserve. All tank squadrons, stand by and keep a sharp eye out."

Chang stood up in the hatch of his armored command vehicle, searching the area with binoculars as his men deployed. In the town, there was not a whole building standing. Burnt bodies littered the streets. Of yokai, he saw nothing. There were maybe a couple hundred people lying on the ground and only twenty or so tending to them. He watched a platoon leader talk to a couple people as they flung their arms. The platoon leader got on his radio.

"Colonel Chang, Captain Li, Second platoon here. The people are saying the wolves from the hills attacked them, they shot anyone who showed themselves and burned the entire town. When people tried to flee, they were killed. The ones here are the ones who managed to hide and did not get burned to death. The … wounded are in bad shape, multiple bad burns. The few policemen to be found, drove the wolves off and helped rescue as many as possible. We need more medical supplies!"

Chang got on the radio to HQ and got more medical supplies, doctors and nurses on the way. He also told the General what happened. A few moments later, the general came back with his orders. Get the injured on their way to the base hospital, then attack and eliminate the rebel yokai.

Soon, medical evac helicopters arrived. They landed, were filled with stretchers and took off again three and four at a time until all the injured civilians were taken away. Once that was done, he sent First platoon out to scout ahead, and got his column rolling again. It was known where the yokai in the area lived up in the hills. He planned to surround their village and make an example out of them. Leaving only Fifth platoon with their six armored vehicles to set up a refugee area and supply food and water for the thirty or so people left, including the ragged police force, they headed off to destroy the yokai who'd attacked this town.

The first kilometer of road passed through fields. As the rises became taller and they entered the hills, the road wound following the narrow valley. Up ahead, Chang saw the road going uphill.

"We're being o…" A radio transmission frantically yelled, the voice mixed with gun fire.

Chang looked ahead, his column was moving. He didn't see any sign of attack. "Who made that transmission, report!' he snapped. There was no answer, so he said, "All units, report your status!"

From the left up ahead, A rocket flew down to hit the lead armored car. The car blew up. Chang ducked by instinct. "Attack from the left!" he announced.

He'd no more than announced that when rifle fire erupted from the ridge on their right. His men deploying from the troop carriers were gunned down. Tank turrets swiveled and machine guns on the carriers spun to lay fire on the right hand ridge. Rifle fire then opened up from the left. Lit bottles of gasoline were thrown high in the air. They landed in the valley, a few hitting tanks or troop carriers. Ever bottle that landed erupted to cover the place they landed in flame.

It was a trap, Chang realized. He quickly ordered, "Sixth platoon! Attack the left ridge, Fourth, attack the right. Third and second and all tanks, retreat as you are returning fire!" He plan was to back out of the trap, spread out, then sweep forward onto those ridges.

"Colonel, Sixth platoon, we're being attacked from behind!" a voice yelled.

Chang spun to look. Six troop carriers were lined up from ridge to ridge, making a road block. By the markings, they were Fifth platoon vehicles. Their guns were pouring fire into their own men! He had tanks to destroy them, but they were stuck ahead of him. A rapid pinging of bullets bouncing off his carrier stitched their way to him. He jerked as several bullets tore through him. He fell dead into his carrier.

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Liang watched the slaughter. His warriors were performing their timing perfectly. The human soldiers were trapped. By his wolves posing as policemen, they had killed the soldiers in the rear, then stole their vehicles to come from behind. The humans in the far front were coaxed out of vehicles by half naked human form bitches who were crying on the side of the road. Once the soldiers were out, the female wolves changed to rip into the humans who thought they were more victims. They got two of the human carriers turned around, picked up the dead soldiers guns and came back down the road to shoot into the valley. The valley was ablaze with fire and screaming humans. Many tried to run back the way they came to be cut down. Some tried to fight and charge uphill. They were killed by wolves on the opposite ridge. Some threw their hands up in surrender. They were killed anyway.

Liang barked out the signal to hold. Above the smoky, burning valley, wolves looked down on the carnage, waiting. For a couple hours, the moans of dying men slowly quieted. A tank engulfed in flame blew up, sending the turret skyward to fall back into the valley and silence a few more cries of pain. As the sun set and the fires died down, a few humans crawled out of a tank and tried to sneak away. They were shot.

Once it was dark, the wolves left their guns and hunted the valley for any remaining humans. No humans survived, but much of their equipment did.

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Tsukune was set for a night alone with Moka. Kurumu was playing in Tokyo with her band, Yukari was performing scries with other witches to try and find out who it was that was causing trouble, and Mizore was stalking Moka Jr. to find out if she was trying to make babies yet with either of her two boyfriends.

Taking dinner in their room, Tsukune and pink haired Moka sat side by side, gazing lovingly at each other as they lightly played, kissing and feeding each other. Relishing this time together that had so little of as late, it was relaxing just to be together and act like teenagers.

"Moka," Tsukune whispered as he gazed into Moka's eyes.

"Tsukune," Moka answered softly, returning his loving gaze.

"Moka," Tsukune whispered as he drew closer.

"Tsukune," Moka replied in a whine, tipping her head.

They fell together and sank their fangs into each other's necks. Dinner forgotten, they drank deeply from each other as their chairs tipped back and crashed to the floor. The new position barely registered with them in their bliss. After licking each other's necks, they kissed deeply and the ripping of clothes sounded as they rolled away from the table. Panting with want and fighting to get clothes off , a few more deep kisses later, they bumped into a clothes closet. Migrating their roll over to the bed, Tsukune looked up to see the bed right above them. He tossed Moka up onto it, then dove on her. The remainder of their clothes went flying as they slowly rolled across the bed, They rolled one too many times and fell off the other side.

The door to their room crashed open. "Tsukune!" Yukari yelled as she ran in. "We got BIG trouble!"

Tsukune and Moka's frazzled heads peeked up on the other side of the bed. "WHAT!" They cried in unison, not happy with being interrupted.

Balling her fists, Yukari cried, "Fang Fang is asking for help! Humans in China and Werewolves are fighting! Two Werewolf villages were attacked, and the Werewolves burned down a human town, and they just had a fight today with the human army! China is trying to deport all yokai, and yokai and humans are dying. Fang Fang says he and his family were not moving either, and are ready destroy anyone who comes at them!"

Tsukune cast Yukari a shocked look. "This can't be happening," he said in a strained whisper.

Moka clapped her hands over her face and whined, "WHY NOW!"

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In Palestine, The demon succubus Cruella and a few of her succubi helped a troop of PLO set up the anti-aircraft missiles she had acquired from the Russian who thought he was delivering arms to India. Besides these missiles, she had acquired night vision goggles, heavy machine guns, mortars, anti-tank weapons and the spark that would light the fire, 400 straight-shot rockets to pummel Israel with. With Charm and reinforcing to the Palestinians the need to get rid of Israel, the PLO had grown in size. The weapons she delivered gave them strength.

Bringing the weaponry in under cover of illusion, she instructed that the rockets be launched from behind the protection of the anti-aircraft batteries, so when the Israeli planes came to destroy the rocket launchers, they would be shot down, forcing Israel to send troops.

The Palestinians would loose of course, but the slaughter would be glorious!

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Asleep in her suite near the UN, Bianca was awakened by a phone call. Stirring in her red silk sheets, she frowned at the phone. Grabbing it, she growled, "This BETTER be important!"

"It is," Tsukune stated. "In China, humans and yokai fighting. There's been a couple battles already."

"What?" she asked, sitting up.

"Find out what's going on, how far it's gotten and ask China to allow us to help calm the situation down," Tsukune instructed.

"It's 5:40 AM here," Bianca told him. "I'll find out as soon as I can, but it's going to take a while."

"Call me the minute you know something," Tsukune insisted.

"I will, Lord Aono."

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6:00 am in Boston, the alarm clock in Daniel and Akemi's bedroom blasted out music along with the beeping alarm. Daniel groaned into his pillow and swatted at the alarm that was above them on the headboard.

"Already?" Akemi asked in a slur as she took a swipe at the offending device. With Daniel and Akemi slapping at it, their heads still in the pillows, Daniel finally found the snooze button.

"Not fair," Akemi grumbled and turned to him to put an arm around Daniel as she buried her head in his shoulder.

"Alarm clocks should be outlawed," Daniel agreed groggily. He leaned up and kissed Akemi's head. "Morning, beautiful."

Akemi lifted her head, her pink hair frizzy and her eyes puffy from sleep. Realizing how she must look, she asked, "Me?"

Daniel cracked a crooked grin at her. "No, the other girl in bed with us," he teased.

"There better not be," she sang in warning.

Daniel kissed her and said, "Yes you, my lovely blood mate."

Akemi slid up and kissed him back. "You make me hungry," she said in a smooth growl.

Daniel leaned towards her and guided her to his neck. Akemi leaned up and kissed his neck before sinking her fangs in. Daniel petted her hair and kissed the base of her neck as she sipped from him. He enjoyed the sensations as well as knowing he was giving her something she needed. That's what blood mates did for each other. Too soon, Akemi withdrew her fangs and slowly licked his neck clean. She then gave him a long, deep kiss.

Mornings were fun with Akemi.

Akemi glanced at the clock and asked, "When's your first class?"

"Eight," Daniel said, then added with a sigh, "but I have be at school at seven thirty."

"Darn," Akemi grumbled. "My first class isn't until nine, but our team has morning 'warm ups'. I suppose I should get up too."

Reluctantly Daniel got up. "Lunch at noon in the cafeteria?" He asked. With a shrug he said, "It's not really a date but it's something."

Akemi nodded. "It's a mini-date," she told him. Bouncing up beside him, she gave him another peck and said, "I'll get breakfast, any preferences?"

Daniel looked down at her chest and smiled.

Akemi gave him a playful poke and said, "You start that and we won't be leaving this bedroom for another couple hours. Food."

"Ohhh, OK," Daniel said with an exaggerated sigh that made Akemi giggle. "Food it is," he conceded.

"Food, coming up," Akemi announced and walked out in her sheer teddy.

Daniel watched her leave, focusing on her cute red panties that showed through her matching teddy. He resisted the urge to chase after her and grab those sweet cheeks taunting him as she walked out.

"Hot stuff," he said to himself. He went to the closet to get their clothes and books out for the day.

Akemi's side of the closet was organized well into 'outfits' she was going to wear for the next four days, complete with stockings. All he had to do for her was make the bed, lay her outfit out and check her schedule on the dresser for what classes and activities she had for the day, then make sure her book bag was packed and ready to go. As usual, he wrote a little sticky note that said, 'You know I'm thinking about you', and this time slapped it on the front of her calculus book. Every day he did his best to make up little notes for her to find her and there. If he knew for sure that section she was using, he'd put it where she'd see it. It was silly, but he liked doing it.

Less organized, Daniel dragged out a pair of pants, hunted up a blue shirt and the grey vest for himself, then stuffed his own book bag. He checked to make sure there were no clothes lying around and the hamper wasn't full yet. By working together, they could get out and be on their way in an hour and be at school fifteen minutes later. Today, that wasn't really critical, but some mornings it was unless they wanted to get up earlier, which would mean less time together at night.

Daniel did not want less time with his love at night, even if all they did was cuddle together and study.

Akemi made 'the standard' breakfast. Eggs, toast, corn beef hash and orange juice. It was good, healthy and sustained Daniel all morning.

Breakfast, a few dishes, clean up and dress, and Akemi and Daniel were out the door.

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Betty Faust looked at Harold, who checked his watch. The six of them who had gathered together this morning had one goal. Stop that vampire from going to their school. Although Harold and Sam, and a couple other girls were hard core anti-monster people, Betty's main goal was to get the Aono girl away from Daniel Collins so she could have a chance at him. He was from a good, wealthy human family. Why he chose a filthy bloodsucker over a decent girl of his own race, she didn't understand. She was going to break whatever charm the vampire had on him and show Daniel what a real woman was able to do for him.

"They should be here soon," Harold said in a serious tone as if he was going into battle. "Everyone remember, we walk out calm, then yell go away and squirt Miss Pinky. Sam, you and I pull Daniel away and keep him from interfering."

Sam nodded. "You are sure just plain water will make her run?" he asked.

"Really, I don't want my ass kicked," the pony tailed red head said.

"Vampires hate water," Harold told her. "Squirt her good and she will break and run like a fuckin rabbit." The woman he'd been seeing told him exactly what to do to hurt that vampire enough to make her run away. She had explained to him the dangers of having real monsters around, helped him set up his anti-yokai web site and gave him all the sex he could possibly hope for, even the real kinky stuff. As long as he was 'helping the cause', she did anything he wanted. Anything.

"Here they come," Sam said. The girls took off the caps of their two liter bottles filled with water and screwed on the caps with holes in the ends.

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Daniel walked along, his arm entwined with Akemi's while they held hands. It was a nice day out, and being earlier, the walkway wasn't crowded with students rushing to get to class. Up ahead to the side, he note a pack coming out of the brush towards the sidewalk. Seeing Betty Faust, he did his best to ignore them. He was slowed a bit when Akemi tugged on his arm. He looked at her. Akemi was watching the group.

"Slow down, let them go by," Akemi whispered to him.

Seeing the firm, almost hard look on her face, he glanced at the group they were closing with. "Think they are up to no good?" he asked quietly.

"They waited for us to get close before they came out. I don't trust them," Akemi stated.

Daniel did slow down and looked around to see if there were any campus police around. As usual, there weren't. They stayed 'out of sight' so the students wouldn't feel 'threatened'. Whoever made up that stupid rule had to be smoking something illegal. He stopped and asked Akemi, "Why don't we just sit for a while until they go away."

"Because they aren't," Akemi stated.

Daniel turned back to see the group was now positioned across the sidewalk. The taller brown haired boy said, "Just go back to whatever hole you crawled out of. You're not wanted here!"

"Who are you to say that?" Daniel asked in return.

The other boy with wide shoulders and thick arms, who looked like he was one of the football players, pointed at him and said, "You're OK, you can move along." shifting his finger to point at Akemi, he added, "She needs to turn around and NOT come back!"

"Screw you!" Daniel snapped. "Akemi has just as much right to be here as anyone."

"Leave, or we'll MAKE you leave!" a girl Daniel didn't know shouted.

"You should think hard about what you're doing," Akemi stated.

Pulling the water bottles out the girls brandished them at Akemi. Betty shouted, "Leave or you will be sorry!"

"Knock it off!" Daniel shouted back as he stepped in front of Akemi. "What gives you the right to say who goes where?"

"We are being true to out kind, unlike you!" the taller boy snapped.

"You mean ganging up on someone to bully them around? Sorry, you're way below my standards," Daniel snapped back.

"You want your ass kicked?" The boy barked.

"Gee, what a threat from someone who needs a pack of bullies to back him up," Daniel spit at him.

"I'm calling the police," Akemi stated and pulled out her phone.

"Get'em!" the taller boy said in a growl. The whole group surged towards them.

Daniel glanced back to make sure Akemi was right behind him. He held up a hand to the advancing group. "Stop now, and no one gets hurt!" he commanded.

The girls moved to the side and squeezed their bottles. The boys charged Daniel.

Watching them, Akemi dodged back by instinct to avoid the water. The boys grabbed for Daniel, Daniel took one step towards them and kicked hard up into the football player's groin, then ducked low. The other boy kicked Daniel, catching him on the leg, making him stumble back.

"…South entrance, we need help NOW!" Akemi shouted her last words at the duty policeman. Another four streams of water were coming at her, she had to dodge low and to the side.

Unfortunately, wearing his cup, football boy wasn't wrecked like Daniel was hoping for. He did fold some, then his face reddened in anger. He lunged and punched out, catching Daniel's face with a glancing blow. Daniel spun and fell. Both boys dropped down and started beating him.

Seeing this, Akemi paused and a line of water hit her in the side of the head. Another hit her right arm on her wrist. She recoiled and tuned away, feeling the burns as she was screamed at.

"RUN BITCH!"

"GET OFF OUR CAMPUS!"

Akemi had been doing well being pleasant and ignoring the taunts she'd been getting more and more of recently. She had kept calm, and her yokai down. Now she was being burned with water and being screamed at with hate. Daniel was on the ground, being beaten by two boys for trying to defend her. She snapped.

Akemi's yoaki flared out strong and hard. The small lightning bolts coming off of her where she had been wet down all but disappeared and she burst out in a red glow. An animal yell of rage blasted out of her mouth as her eyes went red and her hair turned silver.

The of the blast of energy Akemi radiated hit everyone to stop them from coming at her. They had no more time for reaction.

In the blink of an eye, Akemi spun back to launch herself at the black haired girl holding her water bottle out. A kick from Akemi's foot landed in her chest. The girl folded around her foot, her chest crushed, her backbone broken as she flew away from the impact. She was dead before she reached the apogee of her forty foot flight. The red head behind her caught Akemi's fist square on her jaw. The girl's jaw was crushed, her head spun around to face behind her as her neck snapped. She fell dead.

The taller boy over Daniel was the next target of Akemi's rage. A kick to his face crushed his cheek bones and snapped his neck as his head flew backwards. His neck broke, and with the power of the kick, his neck muscles tore loose. His head flew back down the sidewalk.

Before the body fell, Akemi grabbed it by the shoulder and flung it away. Football boy was cocked back to hit Daniel again. Akemi hit him with a power punch to the side of his head. His skull caved in on that side. His neck broke as his head bounced off his shoulder from the impact. It did stay attached as his body flew off Daniel.

Betty Faust had felt the shock wave of what she only thought of as powerful evil. She had time to recoil back, trip and knock herself out on the sidewalk by the time football boy's corpse landed.

Akemi, red eyed, a large blackened burn on the side of her head and radiating her Yokai, glared at the last girl standing and belted out a powerful scream. Terror filled the girl. Her breath stopped, as did her heart. She got a half step back as her bladder emptied. Her heart seized, she passed out and fell to die on the sidewalk.

Panting in heavy breaths, Akemi stood over Daniel, sporting burn marks and blood splatter all over her. At her feet, Daniel had been beaten unconscious. Her yokai faded and sanity returned. Around her, bodies lay everywhere. Hurting and realizing what happened, Akemi burst out crying. Dropping to her knees, she tried to see through her tears as attempted to see how bad Daniel was hurt. She did manage to find out he was still breathing and his heart was beating when the sound of sirens came to her ears.

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At that same time, Tsukune was in Fang-Fang's palace, sitting cross legged on the floor across a hooka from Fang- Fang, who had grown an impressively long fu-Manchu mustache since the last time Tsukune had seen him. He had sent Ruby to inform Akasha of what was happening in China, and Yukari had gone to the Werewolf village to see what she could do there. He knew he had to calm things down and at least stop the fighting as soon as possible. The situation had too much potential to flare into a full blown war.

Fang-Fang nodded his head to Tsukune and said, "I understand, Lord Aono, that you are very concerned. You have a right to be. I agree, there is some entity causing the trouble. As always I will do everything I can to help find the cause, what I will not do, is let humans molest my people, or run us out of our home."

"Can I count on you to not go on the offensive?" Tsukune asked.

"If the humans do not, I will not," Fang-Fang stated. "We are protected by guards and shields from human weapons. I am doing all I can to be reasonable."

"I thank you for that," Tsukune said. He also knew that was not going to be enough. "I have people working on what is causing the havoc, not just here, but in other places also. I am only asking for patience."

"I will give you all of the patience I am capable of," Fang-Fang said sincerely.

Tsukune had to be happy with that. He knew if pressed hard, Fang-Fang's patience went only so far. He also knew Fang-Fang's family, while they held no 'official' power, held great influence over the whole area. Fang Fang traded and was generous in helping the surrounding human villages. Many people saw Fang-Fang as their champion. When the Communists set down hard rules, like the 'one child' policy, Fang-Fang ensured records showed they were complying, even though some had five or six kids. Even local human officials counted on Fang-Fang to smooth things over and supply help they could not get from the government. There had to be tens of thousands of humans, besides the ten of thousands of yokai that were loyal to Fang-Fang. If Fang-Fang were to retaliate against the Chinese government, it would be war.

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Tsukune returned home to find Moka livid. A quick toss of her silver hair and a flash of her red eyes told Tsukune something else bad had happened. He had no more than stepped back into Yukari's magic room when Moka growled, "Akemi has been attacked!"

"What?" Tsukune asked in dis-belief. "She's in college, in a good school … with Daniel."

"Yes," Moka said with a growl, "And 'Good' human students attacked her and Daniel. Jade just sent word. Akemi was doused with water and Daniel was beaten by other boys. They are still in the hospital."

Tsukune saw the basket of ointments and jars of herbs Moka had. "Why?" he asked weakly.

"I intend to find out," Moka said in a hard tone.

"I'm coming with you."

"I'm coming too," Mizore stated.

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Tsukune, Moka and Mizore flashed into being in the emergency room outside in the hall outside of Akemi's cubicle.

"No! Not water!" Akemi cried.

"I have to clean your wounds!" A nurse said firmly.

Moka ripped the curtain open. Akemi had multiple burns, the largest on being her scalp above her ear, which was blackened and missing a large patch of hair. Scrunched up against the head of the bed, Akemi was warding off the nurse who was trying to wash her wounds off. Grabbing the nurse by the back of her collar, Moka pulled her out of the room as she snapped, "She's a vampire you idiot! Water burns her!"

The nurse cried out in fear. Tsukune caught her as she fled into him. He guided her into a safe escape down the hallway. Seeing how Moka was tending to Akemi, he asked, "Where's Daniel?"

Casting him a desperate look, Akemi said, "He was taken for x-rays. They attacked us for no reason!"

Tsukune pulled the curtain most of the way shut to give Moka and Akemi privacy. Two policemen and a hospital security guard came walking quickly towards him from where the nurse had gone.

"What's going on here?" one of the policemen asked in a hard tone.

"You tell me," Tsukune stated in the same tone. "My daughter Akemi and her friend Daniel were attacked at the school. What happened?"

"Your daughter is Akemi Aono?"

"That's right."

Motioning to the side, the policeman drew himself up and said, "You need to step aside. We need to question her."

"After my wife tends to her injuries," Tsukune said firmly. "That nurse was washing her down with water, which only hurt her worse."

"Come with me, Sir," the hospital security guard said and grabbed Tsukune's arm. Tsukune grabbed his wrist and pulled his hand off. "After our daughter has been treated for her burns," Tsukune told him firmly.

"Come, or we will arrest you," the younger policeman stated.

Mizore stepped up behind the policemen, and with a finger on each of their shoulders, froze them. She pulled them back and laid them on the floor.

The hospital guard's jaw dropped. He pulled his gun. Tsukune took it away from him. "Calm down!" Tsukune stated.

The guard stepped back and raised his hands. "Hey, don't shoot!"

Irritated at him, Tsukune said, "I'm not going to shoot anyone." He bent the barrel in a 'U' shape and tossed the gun back to him. "And neither are you."

The guard caught the gun and gaped at him.

"Just stay out of our way," Tsukune told him. Turning to Mizore, he pointed to the police. "Unfreeze them."

Moka slid the curtain open and said, "Tsukune, we have to take her home, there's too many burns to treat her here." Moka then gave him the basket, scooped up Akemi in her arms and walked back through the portal.

"Holy shit," the guard said in a squeak as he watched Moka and Akemi disappear.

Tsukune watched Mizore unfreeze the men. He jerked a thumb at the portal. "We're leaving." he told her.

Mizore walked past Tsukune and disappeared. He made sure the police were awake and shivering. Once they looked at him, he said, "We're taking Akemi home to heal. I will be bringing her back. When I return, I am going to want to know why she and Daniel Collins were attacked. Which is a better place, your station or the Dean's office?"

Shivering, the one policeman said, "she… she's part… of an…. Investi…gation…. You can't … take her…"

"I am. I will have someone call the school when she's ready to return," Tsukune told him. He then turned and walked back through the portal to Yukari's magic room.

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Akemi was burned in patches all over, and she hurt. A bath with herbs in the water, and a few packs of blood did wonders for her. Akemi's biggest injury was to her pride when she saw herself in the mirror. The large patch of missing hair and her burnt scalp, along with a burn mark down her cheek and one across her forehead, made her burst out crying again. She tried to hide her face as she cried so hard she began choking. Moka and Mizore did everything they could. Moka assured her all the burns were going to be healed, but Akemi could not see past the fact she was ugly now.

Moka wanted to kill someone for doing this to her precious daughter.

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Liang got a report from a dragon that had flown out on a scouting mission. More human soldiers were coming, many more with all kinds of vehicles and helicopters. Another dragon arrived to let him know Fang-Fang was offering shelter to the wolves if they would bring with them all the human weapons they had collected. Liang had dealings with Fang-Fang, and knew he was good for his word. Fang -Fang also sent a witch who helped their injured from the battle. Next, she cast restore spells on the vehicles that were not blown apart. When she was done, she put an obscure spell in the column of vehicles

Liang had gathered.

They left three ruined troop carriers and two wrecked tanks piled up to block the road. The pack mounted up with their belongings as well as every gun and bit of ammo they could find. Heading for the safety of Fang-Fang's unofficial kingdom, they rolled along with many warriors trotting beside the line of vehicles and into the mountains.

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Detective Reynolds was given the job of investigating the crime scene at Harvard where five students had died. Arriving at the scene in a navy blue rain coat over his suit that had the many small tools of his trade inside the deep pockets of, he arrived to find the area blocked off with police cars, tape and barriers. The bodies had been picked up, but the chalk outlines showed the twisted positions of where the bodies laid, and plenty of picture has been taken.

"What a mess," he said as he looked at the walkway covered in blood. "Anyone survive?" he asked the local cop who'd been first on the scene.

"Three. A girl with burns who was crying over her badly beaten boyfriend, and another girl who'd been knocked out." pointing he said, "They got off easy. One kid got his head torn off, there were a lot of broken necks, and one girl we found fifty feet away had her whole torso crushed. Whatever happened here was brutal."

Reynolds nodded grimly. "Any names for the live ones?" he asked.

The patrolman pulled out his pad. "Daniel Collins was the beaten boy, Akemi Aono was the girl over him, she suffered some bad burns, and Betty Faust was the K-O'ed girl. She had no other injuries. Medics said probable concussion with her. Right now, they are all at the university hospital. So far, no news on them."

"Any witnesses?"

"None. We canvassed the area, some saw the carnage afterwards, but no one saw what happened."

Reynolds rubbed his head. "Security cameras?" he asked.

"No, it's against school policy."

"Great," Reynolds grumbled. Although an eye witness or two would have been great, no cameras meant no documented video. One would think security cameras would be required on a college campus. "Keep digging up any thing you can. I'm going to the hospital."

On his way back to the car, he phoned the forensics lab just to be sure they were working on it. As the detective in charge, he had to make sure that he had something to give the press that was sure to be wanting answers soon. He then called the morgue to get names and start letting families know who died and to come verify the corpse.

Any time young adults died, it was trouble. When so many died, it was going to be a media circus. He'd have to be very careful what he put out.

Detective Reynolds got to the hospital and went to find out who the doctors were taking care of these kids. Luckily, one had woken up. He went to see Betty Faust.

Betty was in her own room under observation. The dark haired girl lay on her back, staring at the ceiling. Knocking on the door, he asked, "Miss Faust?"

No reply.

"Excuse me, who are you?" A nurse asked.

Reynolds showed her his badge. "Detective Reynolds. I'd like to talk to Miss Faust if at all possible."

The nurse glanced at Betty and said, "If you can get her to talk. She's in shock, she hasn't said anything since she woke up."

"Mind if I try?" he asked.

The nurse nodded. Before he talked with the Faust girl, he asked, "If you would, Find out about where Akemi Aono and Daniel Collins are. I really need to talk to them also."

"Yes, Sir," the nurse said and went back to the nurses' station.

Reynolds went over and took a chair beside Betty. "Miss Faust, can you hear me?' he asked.

Nothing.

"Miss Faust? You're safe now. Come on, look at me, I'm right here to your left," he coaxed. He tapped her arm. "Miss Faust?"

Another nurse came into the doorway. "Detective, Daniel Collins just got out of X-ray. The Doctor said he wants to see you. This way please."

The walk to room was only down a hallway and down another. The doctor and a security guard were standing in the hallway. Seeing him coming, the Doctor asked, "Are you a cop?"

"I'm Detective Reynolds."

Pointing to him, the doctor told the guard, "You tell him what happened." The doctor then tried to hurry past.

"Whoa whoa," Reynolds said, lifting a hand up to stop the doctor. "How about you telling me first, what is happening with Mr. Collins and Miss Aono."

The doctor looked irritated, but stopped. In a crisp voice, he said, "Mr. Collins got out of X-ray. He has cracked ribs, a broken nose and multiple bruising, but nothing life threatening. As for Miss Aono, I want you to find out who stole my patient! May I go now?"

Stole a patient? "I'll find you if I have any more questions," Reynolds said. The doctor fled past him.

The guard who still had his bent gun, told Reynolds about the 'frightening' people who came, then vanished along with the pink haired girl. Reynolds listened. From the mandatory training, he knew these people were Yokai. He also knew the name Aono. They were a family of vampires who lived in Japan. Collins was another family name associated with vampires.

Wonderful, this was all he needed. "Is Mr. Collins awake?" he asked.

"I dunno," the guard said with a shake of his head.

Reynolds went in to see.

A nurse came striding up behind him. "Detective, Miss Faust is awake. She's babbling about people getting killed."

"Thank you nurse, see is you can get her to calm down and be coherent," Reynolds told her. The nurse left. He walked into Daniels room. Under the bandages, it was hard to see if either of the boy's swollen eyes were open.

"Daniel Collins? I'm Detective Reynolds, can you hear me?" he asked as he sat down by Daniel's head.

Daniel's mouth coated with cried blood moved slowly. He voice was weak. "Akemi … where is Akemi?" Daniel asked.

"Miss Aono has suffered burns. I haven't seen her yet. Can you tell me what happened?"

"They attacked us," Daniel said in his weak voice. "Two boys, Sam… and the football player. They wouldn't let us pass … then they grabbed me… the girls were squirting water at Akemi … I couldn't stop them."

"Water?" Reynolds asked. "Why water?"

"Water … hurts vampires. Akemi was screaming. I couldn't help her. Where is she?" Daniel asked.

"You just rest and I'll go find out, all right?" Reynolds offered.

"Akemi, where is she?" Daniel asked again.

The boy sounded weak and disoriented. From what he'd said though, Reynolds got an idea of what happened. Those kids had tried to fight a vampire, and the vampire fought back. No wonder it was such a mess. "I'll find Akemi Aono, you just relax and get some rest," he told Daniel.

Leaving the Collins boy, Reynolds went back to see the Faust girl. Betty Faust was awake, tears were streaming down her cheeks and she was shaking. The inspector took a seat by her. "Betty Faust? Can you tell what happened at the school?" he asked.

Betty blubbered out, "She's … terrifying! She's going to kill me!"

"She, who?" he asked firmly.

"Aono, that … Monster! She's going to kill me!"

"Why do you say that? What did she do?" he asked.

Betty burst out in a wail, "She's going to kill me!"

Firmly, Reynolds asked, "Betty! Did you attack Akemi Aono?"

"We were going to drive her away … now she's going to kill me!" Betty cried again.

Reynolds noted she wasn't even looking at him. He wasn't going to get anything useful from her in this state. Anything she said at the moment would be useless in court. He got up and left. He'd try tomorrow.

Heading up to the Administration department, Reynolds met the Campus police captain in the main office. Seeing him, the Captain handed him a request for a warrant.

"Sir, I want Akemi Aono arrested for murder," he stated.

Reynolds looked at the warrant and asked, "How did you come about that conclusion so fast?"

"Isn't it obvious?" the man asked. "Those kids were mutilated! Who else but one of those monsters could have done it? I want her picked up and thrown in jail!"

Reynolds stuffed the paper in his pocket. "I'm investigating the matter," he said.

"You mean investigating the murders."

Eyeing him sternly, Reynolds said, "Look, until I get this investigation complete and find out the facts, there will be no charges on anyone. Only AFTER I find the truth, will I give my recommendations to the DA. As. Per. Procedure. Now, if you will excuse me."

"So, you won't admit there were murders on our campus today?"

Reynolds stiffened. Glaring at him, he said, "I will admit five young people died needlessly. Until I gather all evidence and properly present it to the appropriate authorities, no one will claim anything, or they just might find themselves charged with a crime. Do you have any useful information?"

The Campus Police Captain turned and stormed out.

Reynolds shook his head. That's all he needed was some asshole going around to spread rumors. Walking over to the counter, he showed his badge and said, "I need Akemi Aono's emergency contact information."

On the local news channel, a big haired blond anchorwoman said, "Breaking news tonight! On the Harvard campus, there has been a brutal attack that left five students dead, three more have been hospitalized with severe injuries in what is suspected to be an attack by a Yokai. Police are scurrying to find the culprit…"