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Post by soulknight18 on May 21, 2013 23:51:59 GMT -5
Erupting from the flames came a pair of giant leathery wings, casting a great shadow over the students, then came the smashing claws that shattered with ground, then a thrashing tail that swept trees and soil. And finally, as the fames died down, the head appeared, with eyes still as blue as before but full of rage and fury. His horns were long and sharp and his scales were glimmering emerald green. His stood before Tsukune and the girls like Titan, towering over them like an angry mountain.
"You said that I was the one that didnt understand, vampire..."he said in a deep growl, adressing to moka, then, with out warning destroys the metal spider that he thought was imprisoning the human by snatching it up with his powerful claws and crushing it in one hand. "But it is YOU, that has failed to understand!" He then opened his mouth wide, a bright light eminating deep in his throat, indication that he was about to breath fire down upon them and just before he fires his blast.
Tsukune rushes out infront of the girls with his arms out wide and shouts at the top of his lungs, "STOOOOP!!"
the volume of his voice reached the ears of the Al's and instantly closed his mouth, gulping back down the flames. "W-What? Why are you telling me to stop?" he asked, looking down at Tsukune witha confused expression, infact, as he looked down at the human boy, all the anger seemed to have instantly sap from his eyes.
"Please Al, Im begging you! There my friends I promise!" he pleaded with the dragon, looking both brave and desperate.
"But...they were hurting you, you said it yourself as that over developed succubus and small witch tortured you."
"That werent really hurting me...well, they kinda were actually, but they didnt mean it!"
"Hey! What do you mean by 'over developed!?'" kurumu interjected, looking insulted some how.
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Post by Danielle on May 22, 2013 0:13:17 GMT -5
Yukari nearly laughed, hearing Kurumu. "He means those big, dumb melons of yours." she said.
Mizore moved over to Tsukune's side. "He's telling the truth, Al. We're his friends. If we only cared about him as a meal or someone to have babies with, we wouldn't have fought so hard to protect him. If we only cared about him as a means to an end, we could have just found someone -anyone- else. That doesn't mean we don't want to have Tsukune's beautiful babies, or that Moka doesn't drink his blood from time to time. But there's more than that. My mother never froze my father, and I don't intend to freeze him should I win his heart." She smiled a bit. Halfway through he speech, she'd started pressing her chest up against Tsukune's arm as she talked.
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Post by soulknight18 on May 22, 2013 1:38:16 GMT -5
Kurumu was too busy stretching out yukari's cheeks as the conversation proceeded.
Al, still unsure. lowered his head down towards both Tsukune and Mizore his giant, beautiful blue eyes gazing into their's as he asked, "You swear...?"
Tsukune stepped forward one step and said with small smile and a confident face, "I would never lie about them being my friends, I concider them all precious too me, in every way."
the dragon glanced at Moka, who had a small blush on her face, but her demeanor tried to hide it, then he glanced at the succubus and witch, whom were still fighting trivially. Finally, he looked at Mizore, peering deep into her pearly eyes, seeing not a single waverying or unsure doubt in her gaze...."Beautiful..." al muttered.
Tsukune noticed him say something and said, "What was that? I thought you said something."
Al shifted his attention and said, "Oh-uh...I said...I believe you."
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Post by Danielle on May 22, 2013 1:49:53 GMT -5
Mizore blushed slightly since she heard him, but said nothing. "Now... Please, return to your human form... It's against the rules to reveal your true form."
Moka nodded. "You might as well know... Tsukune is a human who came here by accident. Nobody can know that he's human because I'm sure you can figure the uproar this would cause. Actually, it already did. Luckily, we were still able to keep Tsukune's secret. But, we'd appreciate if you kept this secret as well."
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Post by soulknight18 on May 22, 2013 2:24:38 GMT -5
"ohhh...that answers my question then...wait, turn back into my human form? I already am in...my..." Al's rage left him temporarly absent of his judgement, but now that he's mood has settled, he realized that he had turned into a dragon without even noticing. after a silent moment, looking at his claw to confirm that mizore was right, Al flipped out and cried, "I blew my cover!!! AW SCALES, d-did anyone else see me?! Did the school notice? Ah, drak, the old council will have my tail for this!" He frantically spun in circles, his heavy legs pounding against the earth, causing it to almost shake with every stomp.
"Just change back, Al! No one else noticed, the fight moved out so far into the forest, i doubt anyone could see us right now." Tsukune tried to calm him down.
The dragon quickly complied and in a swift burst of flame, Al was once again in his human form, even his clothes looked new, as if they were never torn or cut from the fight.
Kururmu, breaking away from her fight with the witch, saw the whole little moment Al had and looked completely stunned...then instantly bursted out laughing.
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Post by Danielle on May 22, 2013 13:35:10 GMT -5
Yukari started laughing too, seeing how he had flipped out. She had always thought of dragons as all powerful, but he was just a teen like them. "We should head back..." she said, smiling.
Moka nodded, reattaching the Rosario. Mizore went back to being quiet, taking out a new lollipop from the pocket of her sweatshirt.
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Post by soulknight18 on May 22, 2013 15:43:04 GMT -5
"Hold on everyone." Tsukune said before they returned back, he turned to Al and asked, "Why did you want me out in here in the first place? You wanted to know if I was human right? Why did want to know so bad?"
Al, hesitated to answer, "I...was confused."
"About what?"
Al scratches the back of his head, "I was under the impression that humans werent allowed at the Yokay academy. When i noticed you, I thought the rules have changed and wanted to makes sure before i ended up looking like an idiot later."
Tsukune couldnt help but chuckle at that answer, such a simple intentions ended up turning into a huge scene. "But..." he then turned to his other friends, "Why did you guys look so surprised to see a dragon? are they rare?"
Kurumu answerd first, "well...not really rare, more like...extinct."
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Post by Danielle on May 22, 2013 17:24:51 GMT -5
Mizore nodded and Yukari explained. "We thought that there weren't any dragons left... But, it's hard to see how that could be possible... I mean, even Moka's attacks hardly did anything."
"But.. it's interesting... Last night, I had a dream.. a memory, really... When I was little, I found a book about dragons. I remembered my mom reading it to me. And, I think it was just foreshadowing meeting you today."
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Post by soulknight18 on May 22, 2013 19:17:04 GMT -5
(really Dani? did you have to make it that blunt obvious? XP)
"Its because...well...we decided to hide." Al admitted.
"hide?" Tsukune repeated
Kurumu looked confused "from what? yer dragons. what could cause you guys to go run and hide."
Al, with an unsure look on his face, he raises his finger and points directly at Tsukune, "Humans. They were the reason."
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Post by Danielle on May 22, 2013 19:40:17 GMT -5
(maybe. ) "Why did you have to hide from humans?" Yukari asked, not understanding how humans could be a threat to dragons. Mizore had been about to ask the same thing.
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Post by soulknight18 on May 22, 2013 22:03:06 GMT -5
Al was hesitant to answer, he had already revealed his true appearance, he was telling too much...
Tsukune notice his reluctancy and said encouragingly, "Al. Its alright, you can trust us."
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Post by Danielle on May 22, 2013 22:19:09 GMT -5
"Please, Al?" Mizore asked, looking at him with curious purple-and-blue eyes. Yukari was curious to know, too.
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Post by soulknight18 on May 23, 2013 2:40:28 GMT -5
Kurumu listened in intently as well, leaning over near tsukune as they all stared at him anticipatingly.
Al however noticed only Mizore's pleading gaze and cleared his throat as he finally explained, "Because...a sacred oath was broken, many years ago."
"an oath?" tsukune repeated.
"Many centuries ago, Dragons were once the gaurdians of all creatures. We swore an oath to never harm unless threatened. And through this single promise, we made strong bonds with some of the greatest species on this planet, the humans being one of them. The humans one of the most valued because of their promising potential and relating ethics. We helped them build empires and craft tools and precious items and in return we were given their trust and friendship...but this powerful alliance was broken when a rogue dragon named, Azazel. He despised the humans and found them revolting, he believed that dragons were the superior race of all and sought to have everything else grovel at his claws. Somehow, he manged to gather dosens of dragons to join his cause, either through intimidation or shareing notions. Some of them you may know from ancient lore, Azhi Dahaka, Fafnir, Nidhogg, Apophis. With his band of rogues, he declared war, by attacking every human capital of every nation...our order, The Old Council, tried to aid the humans...but during the devestation, they concidered us all traitors and retaliated by hunting us all down. Azazel and his followers were finally slain by the underestimated strength of the human armies...but our order decided that we needed to dissapear completely. Because of Azazel, all dragons were seen as monsters and any reasoning with them at the time wouldve been pointless. So we hid ourselves from the world until we became nothing more than myth and superstition."
Tsukune seemed blown away by the story, but one last question remained, "So why are you here now?"
"Our order finaly decided that the waiting was over, and wanted to see if humanity was ready to accept our existance once again and listen to reason. First, they wanted one dragon to evaluate how the other races, who aparrantly followed the same example and went into hiding from the human public as well and to see how they were progressing. For a second i thought I saw hope for our future when I saw you...a human sharing a class full of monsters. But...im left with the impression that the rest of the school isnt even aware of what you really are..."
Tsukune shook his head reluctantly, "I'm afraid not..."
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Post by Danielle on May 23, 2013 13:14:46 GMT -5
"But, we know what he is." Mizore pointed out. "And, we don't hate him at all."
Yukari nodded. "Yea..! All of us actually used to hate humans... But, Tsukune's a good guy. I'm sure once people get to see that humans are nice, they might start to accept them."
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Post by soulknight18 on May 23, 2013 14:17:46 GMT -5
"im not worried about monsters accepting humans..."Al corrected, "Im worried about if the HUMANS will accept the monsters. When humans believed that dragons couldnt be trusted, they deemed all the other races as maliscious aswell. Witch hunts, excorsisms, many races suffered under humanity's veangence because of Azazel's betrayl."
"But i accept them!" Tsukune defended, "I love my friends here. Moka, Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore, i care about all of them."
Al smirked for a moment, "That is undeniably true, I can see great compassion in your eyes. But you are only one human, s singular person can learn to accept, but what of an entire mass? how would they react then? that is why I'm here, to assess if all of humanity is ready to acknowledge us as friends once more."
"Kay...but that doesnt explain why you have to hide from the monster society." kurumu stated, "Why hide your form from yokai academy?"
"You think humans were the only ones that despised dragons after Azazel's attack, "Many races blamed the dragons for the human's retaliation, and they had every right to feel disdain for us. I sent to see of what the monsters regarded us." Al explained, but his eyes glanced at all of them, seeing what their answer may be.
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Post by Danielle on May 23, 2013 14:51:30 GMT -5
Yukari nodded, understanding. "But.. I'm sure if we all work together, then we could get everyone to understand." she said. "Just, a little at a time..."
"I think that might work." Mizore agreed. "Just kind of slowly get humans used to knowing that we exist. I mean, I'm sure there's bound to be a few that won't like it... we can't force everyone to accept us. But, if we can get the majority to accept us, then.. wouldn't that be okay?"
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Post by soulknight18 on May 23, 2013 15:08:19 GMT -5
Al nodded, agreeing with that logic. However, their conversation was interrupted by the faint ringing of the school's bells. knowing exactly what the bell meant, they all had grim, pale looks on their faces.
"Did we just miss the entire period?" Al asked in disbelief.
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Post by Danielle on May 23, 2013 22:59:10 GMT -5
Yukari nodded. "Come on, we gotta run!" she said, already speeding back.
Mizore was right behind her, dragging Tsukune behind her. "Come on!"
Moka was right behind them. "Wait for me!!" she called after them.
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Post by soulknight18 on May 23, 2013 23:42:26 GMT -5
Kurumu took off in the air as fast as her wings could carry her while Al wasnt too far behind.
Eventually they made it back to class but missed an entire period worth of study, putting Kurumu even further behind in her academics, as well as hindering Tsukune's grades as well. As for Al, he was brought to the dean to discuss his enrollment.
It wasnt until when school was finally over for the day that he met up with the others.
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Post by Danielle on May 24, 2013 2:29:15 GMT -5
"Hi, Al!" Yukari called out when she saw him, waving to him. Mizore smiled and waved, staying quiet.
"Hiii!" Moka called out, waving to him with her usual big, happy smile. As he came closer, she asked "What did the dean want to talk to you about?"
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