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Chapter 1
A lonely boy was walking down on the streets of a city which he saved more than once since he came here. His name is Shinji Ikari, he is the pilot of a robot, which in truth is nothing else than an angel with an armor on it to control said being, though what this things are is a very big secret in NERV, an organization which fights against angels, beings who want to destroy the planet and humanity, at least to an extent. How ironic, fight fire with fire, and this is what humanity exactly does. But even though the fact that this robots, or more specifically EVA's, were a big secret he found out quite easily because nobody would think that he knew how to hack into anything nor that he was one of the best programmers in the world, and because of this little secret and one or two other he now knows everything he would want to know about this so called NERV, but this secrets or for another time.
Right now he is taking a walk to clear his head and to organize his thoughts, in just a few weeks his life changed so much that it seems to him that it isn't even his life anymore or that he lives in a dream, or something like that, everything is strange to him right now, he is still trying to get used to this new life she got without asking for it. His thoughts went to the NERV personal, if guessed correctly half of them were mildly eccentric, there cases of being extremely eccentric too in some cases.
To him people were strange, he tried, he really tried to connect with them, but as a result to some events in his past he just gave up to try anymore and the fact that he was afraid to get hurt also played a major role in this. So he isolated himself in his own world and just watched others, like a god would watch from his throne his underlings and he waited till someone would come and save him from his eternal loneliness, from this eternal pain which he was companion, a companion whom he hated. He even put on a mask to hide his pain and his true self. His thoughts suddenly wondered towards the few women in his life towards whom he felt some kind of attraction or something like this. "Misato, Rei…they were so…"How were they? Different? Strange? Did he love them? Did he like them? What did he feel for them in truth? So many questions and not a single answer for them. And there was also the fact that the EVA 01 which he was piloting felt somehow incomplete, the scientist told him that I was because he didn't have a high enough synchronization rate with it, but he knew that it was otherwise, it needed something else though he didn't knew what.
While he these thoughts were plaguing his mind he didn't noticed the strange look the people he passed were giving him because he was walking alone so early in the morning, also because he was mumbling to himself. Neither did he notice that somebody was watching him from a nearby restaurants terrace, he had a smug grin on his face. This boy whom he was watching had done so many things, things which many thought to be impossible in the other realms, realms which were outside of human understanding. In those realms he was already becoming a legend like no other, and it was just the beginning of everything to come. He had killed angels! He had slaughtered the agents of the One God. It was high time to repay this boy for the services he didn't even know that he was rendering.
Suddenly Shinji was brought back to reality by a chill which went down his spine. He stopped in his tracks and looked around, and saw that he was in some kind of antiquary. There were lots of old things, strange but curios thing. Like ancient looking books, beautiful swords and so many other things which looked to be from different eras or out of some fiction. Suddenly he felt somebody behind him and when he turned around he saw and old man.
'Hello' He said sheepishly.
The old man gave him a bright smile, or was it a grin? He couldn't place it at all.
'You are life will change from now.' The old man replied him. Anybody who fought like this boy is fighting against The True Enemy deserved a reward, or in this case rewards. Yes, this boy's life will change after this meeting for the good. The only problem was how to give him the rewards to attract the least amount of attention. "Now the only thing is to make my move?" He asked rhetorically.
There it was again, that prickly chill that came when he knew somebody was talking about him. Shinji had no illusions about himself, on the outside he was a small timid boy, but on the inside he was a fierce fighter, some would say that his true self was a devil when he was fighting, it was clearly visible when he was fighting, though even he was fighting so ruthlessly even his true self was somewhat timid but above all else pure and innocent, in a twisted way but pure and innocent nonetheless. But it doesn't meter if he had his mask or not the only reason he received any attention wasn't due to himself as a person but the fact he was a pilot, a pilot who was able to kill angels with a far bigger efficiency than the two other children, Asuka and Rei.
"My life sucks." he bemoaned clearly to himself but it didn't stop the old man from hearing it and it brought a smirk onto his aged face.
"Don't say that my boy. But to help you out, because I can clearly see that you have a lot on your shoulders, to fight those angels and even kill them is something extraordinary so I want you to choose three things from this shop. Think about them as gifts and I don't accept no as answer. You deserve far more than you have right now or I can give you." The old man said to Shinji.
Shinji saw in the old man's pale blue eyes that it didn't matter what he said he couldn't change his mind so he just accepted his offer and looked around the shop trying to find three cheap things, though it was pretty hard because it was an antiquary and everything had quite a big price on it. For some reasons he suddenly remembered that his unit, EVA 01 was incomplete somehow and as this thought went through his mind he felt some kind of attraction towards the back of the shop. He went with this attraction until he stopped in front of a guitar case which was leaned onto the wall. Without thinking his hand grabbed the guitar case and pulled towards himself. He was surprised by this but something in the back of his mind told him to not pay too much attention to it, and he listened to it because whenever he didn't listened to this little voice something bad happened to him.
As soon as the guitar case was safely in his hands another train of thoughts went through his mind, this one was about his pain, his loneliness. He felt himself attracted once again, this time he walked to a bookshelf which was full of old books, very old books by the look of it. But not only books were on the shelves, there were scrolls too. His free hand, without thinking like earlier, grabbed two scrolls from the shelves which near each other. He looked at the scrolls in his hand and saw that they were very old, the paper was yellow and looked like it would disintegrate at any moment, one had a dark red margins and the other dark blue.
Seeing that he had three things he turned around and went back to where the old man was standing. He put down the things which he chose on a table near him and then looked at the old man who had huge grin on his face, and he waited for him to speak.
"Interesting choices young man, I have to say that I'm quite surprised and also pleased with what you chose. But enough of chit chat lets what future did you made for yourself." He old man said amused seeing Shinji's look.
Shinji nodded and not knowing what to say or do anymore. Today wasn't his day at all, at least until now. So he did what the old man said to him. Firstly he opened guitar case and was shocked by what he saw. In the guitar case was a bastard sword and two guns. The sword had black hilt, at the of which was the most beautiful ruby he ever saw, the hilt continued with a skull, if guessed correctly it was a feline skull with two sapphires as eyes, the blade, which was double edge came out of the of the skull and it was blood red. As a whole the sword looked majestic and deathly.
The guns were similar, they looked like those which the police uses, only the barrel was much longer at least with 5 or 6 inches. One of the guns was blood red and had blue woman, whom had bat like wings and a devil like tail wearing a jeans, if he had to guess and bikini top, wither right hand pointing to the front, the other one was dark blue and had a blood red woman, looking like the earlier one.
Again, like before, he grabbed the hilt of the sword without thinking and suddenly a vast amount of knowledge invaded his mind, for a few seconds his felt like his mind will blow up from so much information, but after those few seconds have past everything returned to normal, except his new knowledge on sword wielding, more specifically wielding this sword. He now knew tricks and techniques which he only saw in games and movies, he felt better than ever somehow. He couldn't explain this feeling but it surely was an incredible one. Looking at the blade he felt mesmerized by it, the blade was so beautiful, for him it, no she became even more beautiful than before. And the fact the blade was a sentient in a way was only the cherry on top of the cake. Such a wonderful weapon, such a beauty, also her was Soul Breaker, Shinji was trembling with excitement to try it out in a real fight, but sadly it has to wait for an unknown amount of time, so with a sad smile he said three words.
"Soul Breaker return" And with those three words the Soul Breaker disappeared from his hands and reappeared around his on a silver chain and obviously at a much smaller size, for somebody who didn't knew what it was it looked like a little sword on a chain.
After this his attention turned towards to the twin pistols and this time he consciously took them out of the case. The same thing happened as before, a huge amount of information invaded his mind teaching him how to use the guns and other things related to them. After the new knowledge has settled he found out the names of the guns, the red one was Fury and the blue one was Serenity. They also didn't need ammunition because thanks to demonic magic it didn't run out of bullets and also like Soul Breaker they were sentient in a way.
"Fury, Serenity return" With the same commend the two pistols disappeared like the sword, but unlike the sword they appeared as bracelets on his wrists, a simple chain like bracelet each in their own original color, Fury a blood red bracelet and Serenity a dark blue one.
"It seems that you are full of surprises Shinji Ikari, I can't wait to see what you will become in the future." The old man said seeing what he was doing.
Shinji looked at him for a few seconds before he smiled sheepishly at him.
"I didn't quite get your name sir." He asked the old man.
"Oh, sorry young one, it seems I forgot. My name Reficul Angelus, but you can call me Reficul. So now let's see this scroll here, Shinji-kun." The old man, now identified as Reficul answered while unrolling the scroll with blue margin, while he read the scroll his eyes widened. "Read this for yourself and after that read this out loud when you get home and now I think we should see what the last scroll has to offer." Reficul pointed out for him after he unrolled the scroll, after that he rolled it back up and handed it to him. He put it away in one of his pockets.
The old man unrolled the second scroll too and his eyes widened again seeing what was written in it. Shinji couldn't see what was in it because the Reficul hold it so that he couldn't see. "Boy, I don't know what to say anymore. Even I, somebody who has seen so many things in my life, am shocked by the things you have chosen. But anyway, read this scroll out loud and we will talk after it about a few things." The old man said handing him the scroll.
Shinji was confused by his words but he took the scroll from him nonetheless and started to read it out loud. At first he was surprised that he understood the language in which the scroll was written but then he remembered that he 'learned' it from his weapons.
"Be the spirits of wind, water, and earth I, Ikari Shinji, am thereby entering into a pact with she who dwells in the depths of abyss, she who is neither good nor evil and she walks between light and darkness, she embraces chaos. Come unto me and answer my bidding, you one of the white and black, I summon thee Akira!" He read aloud and the last part shouted.
For a few seconds nothing happened, there was complete silence after that Shinji heard a tearing sound behind him, similar to the one a AT field makes when it is ripped apart by him. When he looked behind himself he saw something that he only saw in fiction movies or animes, there behind him, it seemed to him that a hole was appearing in the air. He was looking at it stunned as it was becoming bigger and bigger until it was as big as him, then out of it appeared a crimson red leg with a paw, it looked to be a feline's leg, after it came a second, a head was the next thing which came out, on the top of the head were a pair of elongated and pointy ears, it's eyes were sky blue with slitted pupils, like a cats, and small elongated fangs were poking out of its mouth. Shinji was now sure that this was some kind of feline. The remaining part of the creature's body just assured his suspicions after it came out, though it was evident long before, doesn't matter.
After the big cat came out of rip in the air, said rip closed like it was never there. Now in front of him was sitting a big cat, it reached until his waist, maybe a little higher and was looking at him intently, or maybe it was just sizing up his/her new prey. He didn't know, but he knew that the silence was getting awkward so he did the best thing he knew.
"Hi." He said to the cat with a small smile on his face.
The cat look alike just looked at him and blinked a few times. Its bushy tail was swishing behind it on the floor lazily.
"Hi to you too human." The cat replied making Shinji's eyes to widen in surprise that the cat talked.
He look to his right where the old man was standing in silence and looking at was happening in front of him. Seeing him look at him the old man shrugged his shoulders. Shinji turned back to the big cat.
"Are you Akira? The one whom I wanted to summon, more or less?" He asked and murmured the last part.
"Yes, I am. But who are you? I only know you're name." The cat replied in a warm and kind voice.
Before Shinji could speak the old man replied for him.
"He is the slayer of the True Enemy's agents, he is the angel slayer." The old man said.
Shinji sighted because he didn't really kill those angels because his unit killed them. But he was confused when he saw the Akira's eyes widen like dinner plates. She seemed to look at him in a new light, even her tail started to swish more animated, it looked like she was excited to him and the next words she spoke made him to freeze in his place because of surprise.
"If you are the angel slayer then I am happy to be in pact with you from this day onward till the day one of us dies." She said and bowed her head the best she could with her body.
"What can I say? I accept you as and the pact Akira, but know this that I'm not what you see and I hope you won't regret finishing the pact." He said after a few seconds of silence in a very serious tone.
"I know you better than you think Shinji-kun, I can see through you're mask easily." Akira replied with what seemed a smirk.
Shinji sighed in defeat hearing this.
"It seems that my mask wasn't as good as I thought, but it doesn't anymore because I'm going to get rid of it. Anyway back to business, now that I summoned you and I guess correctly you will always be with me" He got nod at this. "We will always know where the other is." Another nod "Than is there any way you can make yourself invisible or something so others can't see you when we are outside the house?" He asked.
"I'm only visible to those whom I want to be or you order me to be so there is no problem, I also can appear by your side whenever you wish if by any chance we get separated." She assured him.
Shinji sighted again but this time in relief. He turned back to the old man.
"Now think it's time to end this little game Lucifer. I thank you for this wonderful gifts, I will make good use of them. And before you ask how I know who you are, it was quite simple; there were two pretty big signs. The first one was you're name read backwards and the second came from the knowledge I gained from my new weapons. Now tell me what else do you want to tell me?" He didn't show any sign of fear even though he was speaking with the lord of hell himself, it was strange to see somebody to not shake in fear after finding out who he is but it was true because he was standing in front of Lucifer with hands in his pockets of the pants and in a relaxed position, almost a defiant one.
Seeing this Akira knew that Shinji will be somebody very powerful in the near future and that she made the right choice completing the pact with him. Lucifer on the other hand barely could hold back an insane laughter, it was so long since somebody stood in front of him like this human boy, nowadays nobody dares do defy him, but this human does and now he is sure that he made the right choice when he gave him those three gifts.
"It's good to know that you are this perceptive young one and you are right I'm Lucifer, the fallen angel. As for what I want to tell you, is that you should be on high guard from now on because the True Enemy will send his assassins after you, because not only did you kill his agents but you now also keep gaining new allies and powerful weapons against his army." The fallen said to Shinji in an amused voice.
Shinji looked at him for a few seconds on confusion, after which his confusion transformed in anger.
"Let him send his assassins because it will only fuel my fury, and believe me when I say that I some problem with misplaced aggression so maybe I will be able release some stress on his little pets." Shinji replied in a cold voice and with dead eyes, also when he finished a wicked smile appeared on his lips, a smile which sent a cold shiver down on even Lucifer's spine. "I think I should go now if you don't have anything else for me Lucifer, goodbye." He said and he was already walking towards the door, with Akira closely behind him.
"Goodbye young one but we will see each other soon enough. And I can't wait to see how far you will rise in power future god slayer." He said after Shinji left the shop. Seconds later he faded out of existence and so did the shop too leaving everything in its original state, an old barber shop.
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For a few hours he wondered around the city without any kind of purpose. While he was walking he talked with Akira threw their mental link which he decided to use after some people looked at him strangely when he talked to the thin air around him. Doing so he found out curios things about his new partner, like she can change her size from a pocket size to as big as his Unit 01, another interesting thing was that she could heal wounds and even fight if necessary, though she is more like a support than anything in combat, but powerful enough to fight of quite powerful enemies if necessary. Also he was trying to wrap his mind around the things which happened to him this morning; something which was became easier thanks to the actual knowledge and examples which were literally dumped into his mind by three sentient weapons. He was already feeling tired after all this.
When he got tired of walking aimlessly he headed to the apartment where he lived with Misato and Asuka and let's not forget Misato's little warm water penguin pet Pen-Pen. During their little walk Akira changed her size so that she fit inside the pocket over Shinji's heart on his white button up shirt. Arriving to the front door of the apartment he opened the door and walked inside without making any sound.
"I'm home." He called put while he was taking of his shoes. He didn't get any answers, but wasn't surprised because his flat mate/ guardian was at NERV working and will get home only late in the night so he has plenty of time till then.
"Akira you can change back to your original form for now and when you meet Pen-Pen try not to eat him, 'kay?" He said petting Akira's head which poking out of his pocket and in response he got her to purr.
"As you wish master." She replied and jump out of his pocket changing back in mid-air.
"I already told you to call me Shinji and I'm going to make lunch for three and also I should make some dinner too, but why should I? Whatever I will just make it." He mused the last part to himself while entering the kitchen closely followed by Akira.
When he entered the kitchen he saw Pen-Pen inside siting near his plate and waiting probably for food. As soon as the kitchen door opened the little penguin looked in his direction, for a few seconds looking at him after whom he looked behind him and Shinji saw how he had frozen in place and he guessed that he noticed Akira behind him. For a few seconds nothing happened and there was deadly silence.
"Hello Pen-Pen, sorry for not making you food yet I will make right now so please wait a few more minutes, And while you wait you should get to know my new partner Akira. Akira this is Pen-Pen, Pen-Pen this is Akira and worry she won't eat you." When he finished he walked to the fridge and started to make food.
While he was making food the two companions started to know each other and somehow they seemed to understand each other's language. An hour latter Shinji finished both lunch and dinner. He put every body's food on plates, when he asked Akira that where want's she to eat his answer was that she hoped on a chair at the table, action which was mimicked by Pen-Pen too and so got to eat with them at a table, and to his surprise they eat very civilized, more civilized than someone.
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At the NERV headquarters Captain Katsuragi sneezed once and as a result she spilled some coffee from her mug on a console, but luckily nothing happened. 'Somebody must be talking about me. It must be Shinji.' She thought.
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When they finished their meal they went to each other's room. After Shinji entered his room and flopped onto his bed while Akira lied down next to the bed and looked up to him waiting for what was coming next. For a few minutes Shinji was just lying on the bed with his eyes closed and Akira thought that he was sleeping but then suddenly he sat up on his bed and took out a scroll from his pants pockets.
"Now let's see is in this scroll." He said while unrolling the scroll and started to read where Lucifer told him to read.
While he read that part Akira's eyes widened seeing the scroll. She knew exactly what that scroll was but she will wait to see what will happen. Her new master/partner was getting more and more interesting to be around. She can see and feel the latent potential in him, the bloodlust buried deep inside him and the huge amount of hatred in him which are waiting for the right moment to come out. A smile made its way onto her lips, a ferocious smile.
While Akira was thinking about his potential, Shinji read the scroll and found out that it will unlock his ancestral powers which he got from his ancestral mother but at the same will destroy any blood connection with her. He didn't knew who his ancestral mother was, but had a guess though he wasn't sure enough in it so let it slide for the moment. He couldn't read anything else on the scroll because it was unreadable. He looked down at Akira and asked her a question.
"What do you say Akira, should I read the next part and do what is in this scroll or shouldn't I?" His voice was low.
Akira looked at him surprised for a few seconds before answering.
"Do it ma- Shinji-kun. Believe me you won't regret it in the long run and if things will get too much for you I'll always be here for you, just like Unit 01 will always protect you thanks to your mother who gave her a consciousness and emotions. The two of us will always be by your side no matter what." She replied in a warm and kind voice, he was at first surprised by her words and mostly by her voice but moments later he smiled too her, a genuine smile, something he didn't show other people for at least eleven years now.
"All right Akira and thank you." He said as he looked back at the scroll and doing so missed Akira's blush seeing his smile and words not that he could see it anyway because of her blood red fur.
"By the power of light and darkness I hereby renounce my humanity and protection of the ancient law. I cut my ties with the ancient goddess turned demoness and embrace my roots. Heed my plead ruler of hell and heed my plead ruler of abyss and grant me my wish because I will fulfill your wishes as sacrifice even if it means death to me, that I vow to you, a vow of blood." When he finished the last word everything went black around and he fell onto the bed unconscious while a pitch black cocoon formed around him which won't disappear for many more hours.
On the side of the bed Akira was looking at was happening to her new master with awe because it was unheard of a human to gain such powers in such a short time. Even if she knew what that scroll will do it was still something unheard about. She now was sure that her master will rock the realms to their core. And with those thoughts she went to sleep beside her master or maybe future partner who knows what will come anymore.
The next morning came too fast for some and too slow for others. While for Misato Katsuragi it came too fast because she only got home around midnight and because of this couldn't sleep more than eight hours, for another person, or better said demoness it came way too slow. Akira couldn't really sleep at night because she was excited to see what changes will come to her new master after renouncing his humanity. Her excitement could be clearly seen by her tails movement behind her. She knew that her master's rebirth is very close, only a few more seconds.
And true to her predicament a few seconds later the cocoon which was hiding Shinji's broke like glass and disappeared into nothingness. Shinji slowly opened his eyes, got up and wobbled out of his room not even noticing Akira near his bed because of the fact that the world around him was still spinning around, but even so his target was clear and so he made his way into the bathroom and somehow managed to not trip on anything. When he got into the bathroom he somehow looked into the mirror and instantly came back to reality full force. He looked into the mirror intently but couldn't find himself in it only a teenager who was around 5'7" tall, only one or too inch taller than him, he had silver hair with black tips and red streaks in it, two fangs were poking out of his mouth, his body was lithe because of the well-developed muscle on his body, not like a body builder's more like an athlete's muscles. But aside from this he looked exactly like him, then suddenly his memories from yesterday came back to him. He almost fell to the ground because of its suddenness but managed to remain on his feet. Deciding that he couldn't do anything about it anymore because he decided to cut his ties with whoever was his ancestral mother he got undressed and got into the shower.
Meanwhile in his room Akira was shell shocked by his appearance, if she had to guess she would have said that he looked like the most handsome devil she had ever saw, and ever more shocking was the fact that he looked very similar to the lord of abyss, lord Hild himself. She will have to find out why is he looking so similar to her lord Hild, but that can wait for another time because right the most interesting part will begin. Meeting his friends and co-workers, she can't wait to see their faces when they will see her master. And with these thoughts she slowly made her way into the kitchen.
In another room, another occupant was slowly waking up, though her body was screaming to her otherwise. She slowly sat up in her bed and started to rub her bloodshot brown eyes to get the last remnant of sleepiness out of them. But sadly it was in wane because seconds later she fell back and slept for another half an hour.
Fifteen minutes after he went in Shinji came out of the bathroom with only a towel around his waist and made his way into his room to put on some clean clothes. Once inside his room he opened his closet to find only variations of his school uniform. Looking at them he decided that he won't wear them anymore, not even at school. He had enough of that annoying uniform and because he decided to get rid of his mask it was time to change his wardrobe too. And so he searched at the bottom till he found a pretty big box. He took it out and put it on his bed, when he opened it a smirk appeared on his face. In the box were some clothes which he bought a week ago when he went with his friends to shopping and somehow Hikari managed to make him buy these clothes, how she managed he doesn't know even today but he will have to thank her when he will see her next time.
And so he put on his new clothes, and when he finished he stopped of the mirror built inside his closet door. He was very pleased with what he saw. He was wearing a dark blue body shirt, his silver chain with his sword was clearly visible, black jeans, steel toed combat boots and also a blood red trench coat, it was a slightly frightening and intimidating sight even for him if had to be honest, but he loved it nonetheless. After making sure that everything was in order he walked out of his room and made his way into the kitchen to make breakfast for everyone.
