Hi, welcome to my story, High School DxD: Blade. I'm FirebirdArcher21 and I'm writing this to tell you that if you've read this story before, then please reread it again as I've changed a few things here and there. Anyway, you will notice that I have set it up in the form of Volumes and Chapters, well it is mainly for me to keep track of where I am in my story. Disclaimer: I do not own High School DxD nor any of its characters, this is done for my own personal pleasure and not for profit.

High School DxD: Blade

Volume 1: Mercenary of the Fallen Light

"Please! Avenge my husband!" The feminine voice of the injured pink haired, green-eyed woman sitting up on the hospital table pleaded. She looked like she was in her late 30s to early 40s. Her right arm was in a cast, her right eye and forehead was covered in bandage and her left leg was also in a cast. "The members of my Peerage are either dead or too injured to fight at the moment. I have no one to ask but you!"

She was speaking to a man who stood in the shadow of the hospital room. The shadows of his long hair covered his face. He wore black clothing and carried something long on his back. He was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.

"That bitch of a Queen killed him. He was innocent and in accordance to Devil Law, a devil who killed their master must killed on sight." That was what the first lady told the man. He can feel the thick hatred building up in her. "I know now I don't have the power to beat her in the state I'm in…but please! You've got to understand!" she was begged.

The man stood there in silence as if contemplating. She first heard of this man from her father's reports and at first she thought why would someone want to live like that. No sense of loyalty, no sense of communal gain and certainly no sense of pride but now she was desperate, her family was too busy with their own problems and her Peerage's strength has literally been sliced apart. She saw him removing himself from the wall and placed his hands in his pockets.

"Contract accepted." He answered her.

-x-x-

Life 1: Meeting a Fallen Sword

-x-x-

Of the things Kaoru Akechi looked forward to, she always looked forward to school. The times to waste with her friends were irreplaceable to her. But she soon was to leave that, as this would be her final year. She checked herself in the mirror, looking straight into the usual light green eyes and brown hair that tied to a long ponytail that reached her hips. She wore her normal school attire, consisting of a white shirt under a white-coloured blazer with black accents and red skirt. Tied around the collar was a black ribbon.

The school she attended was called the Manade Academy. A fairly new school, which was originally, an all girls school until two years ago. The school is the sister school to the Kuoh Academy which was in the neighbouring town. The school itself prides on its cultural diversity since many foreign students would come and study there.

"Hi yeah! Kaoru!" She heard and turned around to see a young girl about the same age as her coming towards her. She was a Caucasian with long red hair and green eyes. Like Kaoru, she wore the regulated school uniform, but didn't wear the ribbon and had the top two buttons opened.

"So that's Christie-senpai…"

"She is certainly beautiful as the rumors say…"

"Such a sexy fox…wouldn't mind a round with her…"

Of course, Christie heard all that but paid them no attention. She always was proud of her body but she had a nasty habit of dumping her boyfriend as soon as they don't live up to her standards.

"Hi Christie-san," Kaoru greeted back.

"Hey, hey, you got anything planned for tonight?" Christie wrapped her arm around Kaoru's arm when she reached her. Christie was smiling with her eyes closed.

"Depending on the club activities, I should be free," Kaoru answered.

"Stop there! Pervert!"

Both girls heard and both turned around to see a young man being chased by two girls. The young man in question was younger than Kaoru and Christie, and was medium built. His had long white hair tied to a short ponytail and silver eyes. He wore the male school uniform that consisted of white-coloured blazer like Kaoru and Christie over a white shirt and black tie. He also wore black trousers.

"I'm telling you it was an accident!" he stated.

"I'm not going to believe anything a pervert says!" one of the girls retorted. The girl had black hair tied into pigtails and the other girl had short dark blue hair that made her look like a tomboy.

The young man went and hid behind Christie and Kaoru, "Argh! Christie-senpai, Buchou! Please help me!"

Kaoru sighed and stopped the other two girls, "Please wait, Reina-san, Akane-san. What happened here? What did Keisuke-kun do again?"

"The pervert groped me!" The girl with the pigtails, Reina, angrily answered.

"And his face was buried in my chest," the short hair girl, Akane, followed.

Kaoru and Christie's eyes went wide in surprised. And looked at Kei-kun, who first name is actually Keisuke.

"I'm telling you it was an accident." Keisuke repeated. "Reina-san dropped her phone and I wanted to give it back but I tripped and fell onto you two."

"Liar, like I would drop my phone," Reina said back.

Keisuke simply took out a pink cell-phone and answered, "Here."

"Where did you get that!?" Reina asked in confusion. It looked like steam came out from her ears.

Keisuke sighed and closed his eyes, "I told you, didn't I? You dropped your phone and I wanted to give it back to you but I tripped and one thing lead to another."

Kaoru smiled, "See, it was all a misunderstanding."

Reina's face was red, she stomped and quickly snatched the phone from Keisuke's hand. "Fine! I'll admit that this was an accident, but if that happens again I will not be so forgiving." She said before herself and Akane walked into the school building.

"Hey, thanks Buchou."

She turned around and looked at Keisuke and smiled again. "Your welcome."

"So it turns out the young man can be a leech, too," Christie said as she placed her arm over Keisuke shoulder. "The same kind of problems keep on happening again and again, many guys would be thanking their lucky stars for something like that. Especially if the victim is me." She grinned.

"Its not like I wanted it to happen again!" Keisuke defended. "I just get stuck in the most unbelievable of situations."

-x-x-

Keisuke arrived at his classroom on time and placed his bag beside his seat. He sighed, he could tell today was going to be a long day.

"Kei-kun."

He looked to his left. He saw a young girl, shoulder length black hair with bangs and blue eyes walking up to him. She was about 5 '4', shorter than Keisuke by about 4 inches. She smiled at him.

"Nanase-san." Keisuke replied.

She stomped on his shoe.

"OW!" Keisuke grabbed his foot as he hopped.

"How many times do I have to tell you?! Please call me Saya-chan." She was red faced. Keisuke could tell she was unhappy with how formal he is with her.

But why would she want him to be so personal? Sure they were close but he didn't think he would have the right to call something like that. Well, just make her happy.

"Sorry, Saya-chan." Keisuke apologized.

Saya smiled. "There not that hard is it?" Keisuke sat down into his chair. "So what's wrong? You seemed a bit out there just now."

"Nothing really. Just didn't have much sleep that's all." Keisuke yawned.

"You haven't been doing ecchi things have you?" Saya questioned, her eyes squinted.

"No, no, no! I've not been doing so!" Keisuke denying.

At that moment, the door slid open and in came the homeroom teacher. A tall, European man, who had a noticeable muscular built under his suit. He had black spiky hair and goatee and his eyes were blue. He wore a brown two piece suit, light green shirt and darker green tie.

"Okay everyone, please take your seat," the teacher said. The students sat down in their respective places.

-x-x-

"That's!"

Keisuke heard the gasp of one of his classmates. He doesn't understand what was so surprising that would cause the boys in his class to act like that. He turned around to see a girl with long magenta hair and blue eyes wearing the Manade Academy school uniform. She stood at average height of 5 '6' and had an atmosphere of elegance around.

"Serena-san," Keisuke greeted, confused as to why she was here usually

"It is! That's Serena Aves from class 2-A! The school's top beauty!"

"Such beauty! Such elegance! Such impressive tits!"

"Please go out with me!"

'Shut up!' Keisuke thought, their voices were making his head turn. 'How do these people live?' that's great coming from the guy sexually harasses girls by accident.

Serena only smiled, seemingly not noticing the lewd comments about her. She made her way to Keisuke.

"Yo, Keisuke-kun. I'm just here to remind you that we have a club meeting at the end of today. Don't be late, okay?" She smiled.

Keisuke nodded. "Sure thing, I need to finish something first before then."

"See you later," She turned around and left the classroom.

As soon as she left, Keisuke could feel a massive build up of killing intent around him. He made a light chuckle as he scratch his head as he turned to the group of boys. This somehow always happens to him. He doesn't know how anyone could deal with it. How does he stop getting glared at by the guys?

"If I remember right. Keisuke is part of the Expedition Club. You know…the one with all the hotties."

"Yeah, I heard not many people are allowed to join the club and he is the only male member of the club."

"They're so fucking lucky!"

"Keisuke-san!" He heard a growl. The boy who sat next to him grabbed his collar and said. "Could you please tell us how you got into a club like that?!"

"Yeah!"

Keisuke could only make a weak chuckle and said, "Well, you need to have a special something."

"Then tell us what that thing is!" the other boy practically roared.

"I don't think you would understand." He replied. 'Plus if they knew what the Expedition Club really was, I doubt they would wanna join.'

-x-x-

When Keisuke arrived in the classroom, which was their clubroom, he was surprised everyone was all seated for a meeting. Serena sat down by the main desk, with his homeroom teacher, Xarin Fucile, and the Club President, Kaoru Akechi, standing on either sides of the table while Christie sat by the many school desks around.

"Sorry I'm late." Keisuke said as he moved towards his usual seat beside Christie. "I've just finished this afternoon's contract."

"Don't worry, we were just getting started." Serena said.

"Like the devil you are, you're doing quite well for yourself." Christie-senpai said as Keisuke sat down next to her.

With that said, everyone here is a devil, mostly reincarnated devils with one pure-blooded devils, and one half devils. Everyone here is in service to their Master, the high-class devil, Serena Aves, real name Serena Asmoday. And the members of the club are her servants, including the club-advisor, Xarin who is a middle-class devil. While Kaoru was seen as the Club President, in reality the leader was Serena.

The way the servants are set up are simply like chess and each member represents a piece. Serena Asmoday is the King, the one who makes the decision, strategies and is the leader. Kaoru Akechi is the Queen, the most powerful piece on the board. Xarin Fucile is a Rook, a piece that specializes in superhuman strength and endurance. Christina Aenslid, also known as Christie, is a Bishop, one that excels in magic. And Keisuke Ryuudou is a Pawn, the front men, who has the ability to 'Promote' when they reaches the enemy line.

"Lets get down to real business then, looks like we are going to be quite busy over the next few nights," Serena said, her hands placed under her chin.

"Huh, but I wanted to go shopping!" Christie complained.

"Christie!" Kaoru whispered, asking her to stop.

"We have been given orders for a stray devil extermination, but this one is weird. On usual terms there were only one stray devil but it seems the whole peerage went mad and killed their master." Serena said.

"What? That's rare…" Kaoru said, tapping her chin. It is true that it was rare for a whole Peerage to simply kill their master.

"We've found out where at least one of them might be," Xarin added. "It appears to be in the abandoned mansion in the woods."

"Now that doesn't sound cliché," Keisuke rolled his eyes.

Serena stood up, "We'll be departing tonight."

-x-x-

A young man appeared in front of an abandoned mansion and looked at it with a scrutiny. Quite clichéd, he thought before he began walking towards the house. He felt the aura of three Devils in the house. This would leave him at a disadvantage for sure since its three against one.

No matter, he would still have to fight.

-x-x-

With a slow push, he opened the door, creaking loudly as it let its only guest in.

The young man looked around, noting the that lights dimmed, the furniture wrapped under clothes and that it was very dusty made it clear that they weren't here very long. He summoned his weapon to his side, a katana placed within its white sheath.

He focused his hearing, heightened his senses, searching any signs that the stray devils were here. He felt a spike of demonic energy in the upper floors. He continued forward slowly, like a predator stalking its prey.

Once he had reach a door on the third floor, he could voices from within the room. His free hand hovered over the handle. He opened the door, leading him to the balcony within a large theatre room. He looked down and saw three figures talking amongst themselves, 2 male and 1 female.

Sanosuke unsheathed his sword slowly. The plan was to use the element of surprise against them. With one foot on the bannister, he jumped over and aimed slash the closest man in front of him, but he saw that the second man drew his own sword and blocked the attack.

Not bad.

The young man jumped back and faced his three opponents.

"I don't know how you got in here without us knowing, but you've made a grave mistake." The one with the sword exclaimed.

This time the woman spoke. "Not much of a talker, are you?"

Again no response.

Its not like he didn't like talking, but he was carefully looking over each of his targets one by one. He only needs to-

Another presence? 6 more coming.

It seemed as though the devils in this room felt it as well.

"Kojiro, you and Jacob meet our guests outside. I'll handle him." The woman said.

"What?! Nina, he's mine!" The swordsman, Kojiro, argued.

Nina said no more than, "I'm hungry."

Kojiro cursed, no choice then. "Fine do as you wish! Jacob!"

-x-x-

"A little further and we'll be there in 15 minutes." Xarin said as he pushed another branch away. He was the other members of the Peerage to the mansion.

They've been doing this for about an hour now. 'The man who decided to have a mansion in the middle of the woods must have been lonely man.' Keisuke thought. Most likely by now the said man might be dead or moved away, he certainly hoped for the latter. He hated to think what would have happened if the person saw his houses raided by monsters. But what he didn't understand was that, why did that Peerage killed their own master? It didn't seem to make sense. He had to agree with Buchou there. It was a rare case.

Suddenly a needle was thrown to the floor before them, between Xarin's legs.

"Oh, you broke through my barrier, I'm impressed." They looked above to see a young man with pale white skin, long black hair tied to a ponytail. What he wore was a simple Japanese kimono with shoulder and thigh armour. In his hand was long Japanese katana, known as a nodachi. Beside him was a grey werewolf that was almost twice his size. Both were standing on a high branch of a tree.

"Its not like you even had one up!" Keisuke answered back. "Or was it that your 'impressive' barrier was so weak that we could've easily walk though it?"

"Keisuke, shh!" Kaoru turned to the silver haired young man.

"Kojiro, former Knight of Densdria Aim, and Jacob, the former Pawn of the same Peerage." Serena identified, she was given the names and faces of the stray devil. She saw them jumping down from the tree and landing in front of them.

"My, my , its just one after another with you…I left Nina to take care of another intruder inside, I doubt he would last long," Kojiro said.

"Another intruder?" Serena whispered. Did someone else knew about the Stray Devils?

"So there were more of you. I'm sorry but you're gonna have to let us pass through," Kaoru spoke, her voice serious. "If we let this continue, you'll end up killing more people."

Kojiro couldn't help but laugh out loud. The Peerage was confused as to why he was laughing insanely.

"This is great! I have never laughed this much before!" He looked towards them again. "We are devils! We are the very thing that humanity fears, the very thing that they believed to be down right evil! Why should a couple of meat bags mean anything to you? Stop acting like you're some hero!"

"So you're saying that the humans should just become food for your freedom?" Keisuke questioned.

"I don't really care about those worthless meat bags. We are devils, so what's wrong with killing a few human here and there? But this place is off limits to people like you. Let me tell you this, I won't let you disturb our precious peace," Kojiro answered. "Lets dance children."

Even though he said that, none of Serena's servants are not sword user.. The closest man they to a swordsman is Xarin who carries a horse-cleaver.

"If you want, I'll take you on," Xarin answered as he took out his zanbatou as a white gauntlet appeared on his left arm, covering most of his arm but left the fingers opened with a green jewel on the back. "I'm pretty sure I'm enough for you."

Kojiro was unimpressed and chuckled. "I'm not going to stoop so low as to fight with a giant gorilla. You don't even know the elegance of a sword fight since you're carrying that oversize piece of scrap metal. Ah, if only she didn't had to set that man as her prey, I would have loved to fight him."

A vein appeared on Xarin's forehead. "Gorilla, you say…Scrap Metal, you say" He growled, eyes closed before he opened them. "Now you're asking for a serious ass-kicking." He took his battle stance with the tip of his horse-cleaver in the ground.

"For a teacher, you sure like to swear," Keisuke muttered under his breath. "Stop there, Sensei. I'll take him on," Keisuke said before a black light enveloped his arm to produce silver coloured short spear, wrapping itself at the upper part of the handle, up to the blade, were two serpents as part of its design. He took a stance as he pointed the weapon at the Kojiro who held his nodachi at ready. "Normally, I prefer a bit more of a sane opponent, but some things can't be helped. Serena Asmoday's Pawn, Keisuke Asmoday, at your service."

"I'll take the wolf, Keisuke-kun," Xarin said as he stepped forward. He pointed his weapon at Jacob who held his brandished his claws. "I am Serena Asmoday's Rook, Xarin Fucile."

"Former Knight of Densdria Aim, Kojiro, maeru," Kojiro charged at Lucius at lightning speed.

Kojiro brought down his blade onto Keisuke who blocked it with his spear.

"I underestimated you, you're stronger than you look." Kojiro complimented.

Keisuke smirked, "If I let myself fall to an attack like that, I would have no pride as a member of the Asmoday." He pushed the blade off. He then came and brought down his spear at Kojiro who dodged it. Kojiro then blocked the thrust with his sword.

The werewolf howled and leaped at Xarin who only rolled under the attack. The werewolf came again with its claws, only for Xarin to block it with his cleaver before he roundhouse kicked the arm away. He used the momentum for him to knock the wolf away with the side of his horse-cleaver.

-x-x-

They've entered the Halloween styled manor. Inside the house, all of the furniture was completely covered by white sheets. The group continued walking, going in deeper and deeper into the house to where they felt the Devil inside was residing.

"It stinks…" Kaoru closed her nostrils. Suddenly a horrible stench bathed the air around them.

"Damn, it reeks of blood," Christie agreed.

Serena hushed them. "Quiet, do you hear that?" her voice was almost like a whisper.

The girls then focused, trying to hear what their Master heard. They suddenly heard a faint sound that kept repeating over and over. Then the faint noise became louder and louder, sounding more and more like sword clashes. They looked at each other and nodded, they ran towards the source of the sound, to where the Devil was.

-x-x-

Keisuke thrust his spear many times at Kojiro's head, each one dodged with ease before Keisuke swung it at the samurai but Kojiro back flipped away from the spear.

Keisuke rested his spear on his shoulder. "You know for a stray devil, you seem to be very calm about this."

"Well, well, why would you say so?" Kojiro asked.

Jacob was in a worse state than Kojiro, his body had cut wounds from the leg up, right arm bent at an unnatural angle. Jacob leaped away from a slash by Xarin.

"Because you were smiling the whole way throughout this fight, you either are too confident in your abilities or you have a plan." Keisuke explained.

"Well then, I would to see whether which of your theories are right," Kojiro retorted.

He took a stance with his sword close to this face as he pointed the sword at Keisuke who held out his left arm as black light began enveloping his arm.

They were about to move but both heard a howl of pain. Kojiro looked to see Jacob on the ground, lying in a pool of the werewolf's own blood. He cursed, "Damn…now its two on one." He dropped his stance as he looked towards Keisuke. "I'm sorry but we'll settle this another time." He disappeared into a purple magic circle that appeared right under him.

"Hey wait!" Keisuke said.

-x-x-

When they reached the door, the blunt clash of metal was at its loudest. With a simple nod to each other, Serena opened the door and walked inside

What they saw surprised them.

They saw two beings clashing blades against one another; one was in essence a monster, a giant centaur-like spider with the upper body of a half-naked woman. The woman's face was not even close to looking like a human's, the eyes turned completely light green, her jaws split at the chin with saliva dripping from the mouth. She had six legs, each of them were sharp from what they tell as she used them to block her opponent's sword. This monster was known throughout Japan as a Jurougumo. The other was a normal young man of medium built, same age as most of Serena's Peerage, wearing a black t-shirt under an open thin black leather overcoat with grey accents around the collar. Around his shoulders were grey shoulder pads. He wore black leather trousers and black boots. A white scabbard was strapped around his waist and the sword he held was a black bladed katana with a golden hilt and white handle. His long black hair was kept roughly and his eyes were golden brown.

"Hey, hey. What do we have here?" Christie asked, slightly annoyed that someone is stealing the spotlight. "He's not bad on the eyes, though."

Kaoru turned to her master, "Serena-san, it appears we have an unexpected predicament upon us. What shall we do?"

Serena continued watching the fight with interest. "For now, let's see what happens."

The swordsman parried the strike from the spider.

"You're skills are impressive, but I doubt you can even bet me when I'm in this form," the Jurougumo boasted.

But the black swordsman said nothing, instead he charged straight at the bigger opponent.

The Jurougumo thrusts one of its legs at him. The swordsman spun to the side of the limb and continued charging until he got to the main body. He sliced off the leg at the base. The Jurougumo howled back in pain as blood began to flow from the wound before she jumped away.

"Damn you, damn you!" she cursed and began shooting out spider webs at him.

The swordsman in response ran, dodging each shot as he ran around her. He charged his blade with a layer of light energy and resumed his charged towards her. He threw a crescent wave of light energy at the Jurougumo, slicing through the web, the web itself appears to have burnt as that happened, before cutting off two more legs of the spider's many appendages. The spider collapsed from the lack of support at the front.

The swordsman leaped high. His blade drenched with the power of light and he roared as he descended upon her. He brought his sword down the left shoulder, the blade lodging itself into the shoulder, before he continued pushing down, driving the blade into the body and making a bigger wound. Blood sprayed everywhere as the Jurougumo howled in pain. The swordsman pulled his sword out and jumped back. Once he landed, he threw the blood off his sword before placing it back into its scabbard.

The group gasped at how easily the Jurougumo was taken out, especially Serena, who was also impressed with the level of skill. When Serena looked into the swordsman's eyes, the eyes seem to no hold no fear, no anger, no satisfaction. Just sadness. Not the type of sadness that creates tears but the type that just hold dissatisfaction and disappointment. She would like to know more about this swordsman.

"Just who the fuck are you?!" They heard the Jurougumo struggled to say. "Tell me so I curse your name in hell!"

The swordsman faced his body towards the dying devil and answered back with only seven simple syllables.

"Sanosuke Kiriya."

-x-End-x-