Moka, either Inner or Outer, was terrible at deceit. It simply wasn't in her nature. For the case of Outer? She's too nice. Too sweet. Lies, half truths and misdirections simply aren't in her nature. Call it naive. Call it adorable. Call it sweetness and sugar, but she simply couldn't do it.
On the other hand Inner was on the opposite end of the spectrum, but came to much the same conclusion. Why bother lying to get what you want when there were almost certainly other means you could use to get it? Deception was, to her, a tool used by the weak to bluff the strong. And vampires were most assuredly the strong.
Which might be why, upon returning to her dorm room with this young witch, Outer Moka felt really quite terribly guilty about not being fully honest with the girl and maybe giving her the entirely wrong impression. She was pretty certain at this point there was nothing anyone could say that could keep her from laying Tsukune every single night, with their thrusting, sweaty bodies exploring - Ahem! The point was, she wasn't looking for a warning. She was looking for something she could surprise him with. That's all this was about, and she should at least be upfront about that before the conversation went any further.
"Yukari," Moka said while closing the door, "I'm sorry, I haven't been entirely -"
And then she saw the young witch rolling back and forth across her bed, hands clenched into fists that were pressing against her cheeks. All of a sudden she completely lost track of her thought process through a mixture of bafflement and daaaaaww look at the tiny witch, look at her look at her look at her!
Yukari stopped behaving like a cat getting its first taste of catnip, sprung off the bed, and was quite obviously trying to pretend that entire thing hadn't happened. She then noticed the state of the bedsheets, rapidly set about straightening them out - even straighter than Moka herself had left them - and turned back to the vampire with a purely serious expression.
Serious. Yet it made Moka want to rub her belly and call her a good girl.
"Miss Moka," Yukari began. "Have you been feeling an unusual loss of strength and energy recently? Have you suddenly become tired or distracted for no apparent reason?" How strange. Something in her tone almost made it sound like she was trying to sell some sort of pep pill or energy drink. "I have the answer!" That choice of words was not helping matters much.
<i>You should pay attention to her. She's paying more attention to what's going on than you are.</i>
"A few decades ago, there was... An incident involving a formerly well-regarded witch, who mixed magic with an interest in the human scientific method," Yukari began. "They were trying to see what might happen if they created a homunculus using a variety of different techniques."
Moka nodded. She wasn't really seeing where this was going, but okay.
"One of the monsters they created was dubbed the 'Harem Knot'," Yukari continued. "At least by the assistants working on it. According to the research notes it had the ability to bond with others on a deeply entwined emotional level." The witch winced a little. "It could... Um... Then use that connection to draw from or feed strength to those it tied itself to. When that witch's experiments were found, her laboratory was shut down and most of her homunculi were either destroyed or had their powers inhibited... But the 'Harem Knot' escaped, and nobody knows where it wound up!"
Oh, wow! That was quite the exciting short fiction concept this young witch was writing. Moka applauded a little and nodded with great enthusiasm, which made the witch blush and scratch the back of her head.
"A-Anyway, that Tsukune guy must be descended from the Harem Knot," Yukari said. Her cool seriousness giving way to her starstruck adoration a little more with each passing second. "I could tell because - Because I could see a trail connecting your power to his, when he used your vampiric powers earlier on! Or he's, um, doing something similar to it. If he is, then you have to stay away from him! You have to! It's the only way to break the spell he's put on you, that he'll put on every girl in school! He'll - He'll seduce them all and make you his playthings! Ah! That wicked, horrible man!"
By now Moka really couldn't fight it anymore. She patted this young witch on the head and smiled at her, inadvertently making her step back a little bit and sit on the bed.
"It's alright, Yukari," Moka said. "I'm sure Tsukune isn't anything like that... And even if he was, I doubt he'd use that kind of power to do something like what you're saying."
"You're only saying that because you're under his spell," Yukari sniffed. "Please, Moka! Please stay away from him until the spell breaks, and then you'll see what kind of man he really is!"
"I'm sure you're imagining things," Moka said. "Tsukune's a wonderful man, and I'm sure he's not the Harem Kn-"
Then she had wings. Great big demonic wings jutting right out of her back. Moka reached back to touch them, and found her fingernails were about as long as the fingers they were growing from. Oh, and there was also the matter of her boobs swelling up and - Mmm, she stamped her foot on the floor because it was the only way she could really express what she was feeling just now, wow! Her eyes felt funny, her lips tingled a little, her figure felt more hourglass-like than it did a minute ago and she was suffering from a hunger she'd never known before -
And Yukari was passed out on the bed with a great big smile on her cute face.
"What's going on?"
<i>It seems as though he's giving you succubus powers. Hmph. The only reason that idiot would do that is if he was in some kind of trouble. Or perhaps he is experimenting with his newfound power -
<font color= pink>Oh my god, would you, like, shut up for a second and have sex with something already?</i></font>
Moka tilted her head and raised a finger. "... And you are?" she asked, in unison with her Inner self for once.
<font color= pink><i>Um, I guess I'm your Inner succubus or something? I dunno. All I care about is that I love it when Tsukune does that thing where he bites your nipple while you're biting his neck. That's so hot.</font>
Wonderful. I didn't know when I was well off... You had better not be a permanent resident or I'll find a way to skin that boy alive, so help me.</i>
For once Moka was in absolute agreement with her Inner self. Her real Inner self. The way this new voice from her rosario kept going on and on about all the little things Tsukune liked to do in bed... Ooh, it was making her feel funny all over. Horny and hungry both at once. She really had to find him now. One way or the other!
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Was there anything quite as sweet as revenge? Well, yes. Her on a Saturday night when she was trailing for a bit of action. No trace of the shy, stern librarian's assistant then, nor could anyone guess she used to be what some people call an "Igor" in the modern day thanks to popular culture. She preferred "henchperson."
By nature, they gravitated towards the less, shall we say, stable but intelligent people in the world. They fed on intelligence without actually diminishing it. Just being in its presence wasn't enough, though. They had to actively participate in increasing that intelligence. Then they got their fix. Like vampires with blood. Like succubi and love. Increasing intelligence was what got a henchperson's belly full.
Annie's grandmother would tell her all the time about their family's history. About their rise, their downfall and the root cause of it all. The Aono family. A race of artificial freaks who didn't deserve to be called monsters in the first place.
She could see it all too clearly. Tsukune had come here for the express purpose of using his powers to take over the school. He'd immediately gone for a vampire for her strength, then after a succubus so he could freely manipulate both sexes... If not for the spells in the library preventing her from doing so she would have gutted him as soon as he was caught in the colour-draining spell.
Instead she retreated to a safe distance, flipped open her phone once out of earshot of them - just in case she accidentally broke the spell on them - and said, "I've got him," to one of her three remaining allies. "He's stuck in the library. He won't be able to move until someone breaks the spell. Got the succubus too. Which just leaves the vampire. Can you arrange a pickup?"
"I'll steal a janitor's body and be there in about ten minutes," came the answer. "Good work. Your family and ours will be returning to prominence in no time flat."
The phone went dead, and Annie allowed herself a small smirk of triumph. Versatility was the hallmark of a good henchperson, and she was the most versatile in generations. Smart, pretty, knew just enough magic to be useful without being overtly threatening, and decent enough in hand-to-hand combat for her allies to back her up. She tapped her lip and considered the situation. If this was some stupid damn story, this would probably be around about the time that -
"Hello!" said a friendly, familiar voice. Annie turned around and looked into the eyes of Tsukune's first victim. "I was wondering if you'd seen a friend of mine somewhere near here? Handsome? Charming? Completely selfless and brave?"
Oh, she's got it <i>good</i>. But... This did present a perfect opportunity... Although she would have to get the timing just right to keep the vampire from accidentally killing her in the process.
"Come with me," Annie said, slipping back into her stern assistant mode. "I think I saw them over in this aisle..."
But what Annie's brilliant scheming hadn't taken into consideration was the little witch girl standing by the entrance and watching the conversation with a scowl on her face. Otherwise, she might not have been so confident in her planning just now....
- Moka begged Yukari to help out, and the little witch couldn't say no.
- Yukari followed Moka, who remembered that Tsukune was probably going to the library.
- Yukari decides to get help from a teacher.
- Something else is going on
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