Summary- (A re-edit of my story Highschool DxD Almost a Hero)Ichiro Lucifer, a stray devil who has been hiding for about a couple of weeks. Found hiding out in an abandon church confused at why he's so hurt the devils talk to him and after learning the sad truth of his past he is reincarnated as the pawn of Serafall Leviathan. What adventures will he join the Student Council and Occult Research Club in?
Life 1 New Master
[Prologue]
"My friend, do you fly away now? To a world that abhors you and I? All that awaits you is a somber morrow… no matter where the winds may blow"
Angels are good, devils are evil, fallens are corrupted, and humans are the innocent…just tools for the other three goals. These are what the Christian bible use to describe the four main species. But who created these rules? Who created the morals for good or evil? God? What does he know? What gives him the right to?
Various species break their Oaths, their Honor, their Promises, and even their Morals for something beyond themselves or simply for themselves all the time. Specially four species of the six.
An angel may rid of their Oath to God of the Bible; but they shall become one of the fallen. Cast out of Heaven least they taint it with their Sin. The only things they may keep are what remains of their Honor; their identity; and what remains of the light in their souls.
A fallen may betray their Honor; but they lose one of the few things they have left after leaving God's Good Graces. They also lose their chance of ever returning to Heaven; to have those Gates closed to them once more. Not even a cleansing will have mercy on their souls.
A devil may break their Promises; but they shall become a stray. Lost to the wind and casted to oblivion by even their own race who they pledged allegiance to not so long ago.
A human may ignore their Morals; but their Humanity crushes them for it, one way or another. Whether they regret doing so or not. They are unable to ignore their morals and come out unscathed.
Either way, if any species break their Word for their being…they pay for it. Yet it is so easy to forget.
Easy to forget an Oath in a moment of Temptation.
Easy to forget Honor in a moment of Apathy.
Easy to forget Promises in a moment of Greed.
Easy to forget Morals in a moment of Rage.
How could you fault them in forgetting the time when they all Promised, Sworn an Oath, in both Honor and Morale, to an Entity since centuries upon centuries has passed since the Sacred Day of a Unified Oath.
You couldn't, really, especially since the most of the Original Oath Bearers had long since passed away.
However…
I'm just a monster…what do I know.
[Rias and Her Peerage]
"Stay up" Rias said with a smile shaking Issei who was falling asleep while they were walking. The portal wasn't working so her and her peerage had to walk to her destination.
"I'm sorry I'm not used to being up this early" Issei said with a groan. It was currently two a.m. and the whole group was walking to an abandon church.
"Why do we all have to go this early to take a stray devil down?" Kiba asked his master. It was then everyone noticed Rias's face getting serious.
"This stray devil is a special circumstance" Rias said. "Sirzechs believes he was abused by his master…and he possesses a sacred gear with the Chaos dragon inside of it" she added.
[Kaos the Chaos Dragon?] Everyone looked at Issei's hand to see Ddraig was talking.
"Do you know him?" Issei asked.
[There are only two dragons I intensely dislike. The first one Albion and the second one that bastard Kaos] Ddraig said.
"Why what did he do?" Issei asked him.
[Kaos, unlike all the other dragons has a special ability to steal other dragon's abilities by ingesting their blood at the cost of a portion of his life span. During one of my fights with Albion, that asshole snuck behind me and bit me to steal some of my blood and the ability to double his strength] Ddraig explained. [He also tried to steal Albion's powers but Albion used some special remedy that I forgot making Kaos lose his powers for a short period of time] Ddraig said.
"Well if you remembered that would be a good thing to know" Issei said with a frown to the dragon in his sacred gear causing Rias and Akeno to giggle. The Church then came into view and they could make out four shapes.
Rias instantly recognized them. The first one was her brother with long red hair and blue-green eyes which was like a "male version of herself". The second one was Serafall Leviathan in her magic girl cosplay uniform with purple eyes and black hair in two twin tails and with a wand in her hands, the third one was Ajuka Beelzebub a young man with light blue eyes and green hair that is slicked back, and the fourth one was someone Rias never expected.
"Emperor?" Rias questioned as she looked at the man who looked to be the same age as Sirzechs and Ajuka with a graceful face who has grey hair and grey eyes. His name is really Diehauser Belial but people call him emperor because he is the champion of the rating games.
"What are you doing here?" Rias asked Diehauser curious at why he was involved in my case.
"The stray devil is the grandson of the original Satan and I was the one who led his former master to him and I'm here because I take full responsibility for my actions" Diehauser explained to Rias.
Rias then turned to Issei and realized he was confused not knowing who anybody is. "Issei, this is my brother Sirzechs Lucifer, one of the four great Satans. Ajuka Beelzebub, another of the four great Satans and creator of the evil piece systems. And Serafall Leviathan, Sona Sitri's older sister and another one of the four Great Satans" Rias explained to her new pawn.
"Wait what?" Issei asked shocked that Serafall was the older sister of Sona considering Sona was taller and Serafall had a childlike smile on her face.
"Well shall we go in" Sirzechs said. He then opened the door to the large abandon church and stepped inside with the other members of the group following.
"This isn't creepy" Issei said sarcastically looking at all the broken furniture and crosses laid all over the floor. His mind then flashed to Viser, the first stray devil he ever fought and he started to tense up not knowing if this stray devil would look like that.
"Ichiro Lucifer, come out" Sirzechs commanding a serious expression forming on his usually calm face. The room was silent except for scattered foot prints they heard.
Then they heard one word being whispered. 'Attack" and suddenly two dogs jumped at the group. They were black with red eyes except one was more bulky like a pit bull and the second was smaller and gray furred like a wolf.
"I got it" Serafall said happily like a child and stuck her staff forward. The two dogs were then frozen in place before bursting into pieces. The pieces then turned into black smoke and disappeared.
'Did he really expect an attack like that to work on us?' Issei thought.
"I was just making sure you were the real deal" a boy said before walking toward the group. The whole group let out a gasp at what stepped out. It was a young boy about 5'6 with messy spiky silver hair covered with dirt and matching emotionless gold eyes. Despite the emotionless expression they still looked beautiful. He had on ragged clothing and broken hand cuffs around both wrists.
But the worst part was the burning cross mark right in the middle of his face. You could see holy water burns all over his arms and faces. There was also the dirt he was covered in that is in his hair, face, and any part of his skin showing through the ripped and tattered clothing.
Rias also noticed the whip marks on his legs and arms that had small trickles of blood flowing from them. 'This boy…looks like he been through…Hell" Rias thought holding back tears. She then looked at Koneko to see she was just as shocked as them. Rias remembered when she was found the day after the death of her master but this boy was worse.
"Some fallen angels came here a few days ago and tried to get me to join their cause" the boy said still sounding emotionless and full of hate.
"Were they the ones that did this to you?" Sirzechs asked the boy but to his surprise the boy started to laugh.
"So easy to blame it on a different race because you don't want to blame your own race for being this sadistic and cruel" the boy, Ichiro Lucifer said with a smile that looked hateful and full of malice.
"He's not trying to blame it on anybody he just wants to-"Rias hushed Issei to get him to stop talking.
"Then tell me what happened" Sirzechs said to the boy trying to hear his side.
"Are you sure you really want to hear it?" the boy said. "You'll probably regret it afterwards" he added.
"Please we really want to know" Serafall said for the first time having a serious expression on her boy then let out an exaggerated sigh before he started to tell them his story.
[The boy's past told from his Point of View]
I lived in an orphanage where I was constantly picked on for being smaller and weaker. I was treated like an outcast due to my gold eyes and most of the other kids hated me except one who was like me. This was when she showed up.
Amelia Zagan, a beautiful young woman with long golden blonde hair and the perfect light green eyes. I was happy when she adopted me and when she turned me into her devil servant I was happy. The reason she chose me was because she found out I was a descendant of the original Satan and with no other ties to anyone I would be perfect as a servant.
When I met her other two servants Alexis her queen a beautiful young girl with light blue hair and gold eyes her queen and her rook, Maya a petite girl with shoulder length dark blue hair and grey eyes a nekomata I was happy and we quickly became friends.
After about a month of being her servant I soon learned she was different than what I imagined. She was psychotic and a sociopath who loved to put us through pain and torment. She would cut us, burn us with crosses, hand cuff us or when bored pour holy water on us and watch us burn.
Her Queen, Alexis Bael was the only one able to keep her under control. She would make sure Amelia didn't go too far with her "fun".
When Amelia found out I had the "Chaos Edge" sacred gear things got worse. The sacred gear has a unique ability that whoever you kill with it you gain their powers at the cost of a little bit of my life. After Amelia found out I had this unique ability she started forcing me to kill fallen angels, angels, and stray devils with it so I could gain their powers but Alexis was there to stop her from overworking me.
About two years after I became her servant Alexis died from a stray exorcist attack. This made Amelia lose it blaming me and Maya for not protecting her. Despite the fact that she had sent Alexis to try and steal a holy sword from the Church by herself.
She started torturing me and Maya even more and forcing us to do even more dangerous jobs. My final week with her was the worst of all the years combined.
Amelia tried to force me to kill Maya so I would gain her senjutsu, youjutsu, and Touki abilities because Maya disobeyed her for letting a fallen angel go free tired of all the senseless killing.
I refused her so Amelia chained me to a wall and tortured me for six days and six nights; burning me with crosses and holy water, beating me with a whip, and using her fire magic to do even more damage. The last few days were the worse. Burned with chains, crosses, holy water baths, you name it she tried it. Hell even Maya was begging me to just kill her to make Amelia happy.
My final day I woke up to see Amelia had a light sword to Maya's neck. She said either I killed her or she would.
I begged her to stop but with a smile Amelia chopped off her head and made me watch. Itwas through this anger I activated my darkness heritage and in rage I killed her. Irony…she wanted me to use the sacred gear and she became its victim.
[Abandon Church back to 3rd person Point of view]
"Darkness heritage?" Diehauser questioned and now it was Sirzechs turn to explain something.
"The Darkness is a being that is around the same age as God. Ichiro is the grandson of the being" Sirzechs explained.
'Shit how strong is he?' Issei thought.
"If you're going to kill me just do it already" Ichiro said looked at them with his cold gaze. Ajuka then held up a strange device that scanned Ichiro.
"He is a total of eight pawns and a mutation pawn piece" Ajuka said to everyone. Everyone began looking at each other realizing none of them had that Rias had already used up her pawn pieces. "You can't use any other pieces on him otherwise they would overlap with his current pieces" Ajuka explained to Rias.
"Well we just can't kill him" Issei said, still shaking from what the boy had told them.
"Oh me, me, me, me" Serafall said in a childlike tone. "I still have all my pawns and the mutation one Ajuka gave me" Serfall said happily. "Now hold still" Serfall said about to insert the pieces in Ichiro but he slapped her hand away.
"If you think I'm going to become a servant again you're-"but Ichiro was cut off by Diehauser knocking him out to the confusion of everyone.
"I'll talk to him" Diehauser said. He closed his eyes and started to talk to Ichiro through his unconsciousness.
[Ichiro's Mind]
{You're a fool boy take the deal] Diehauser could see Ichiro with his arms crossed and a smile on his face talking to a dragon that looked like Ddraig except it was black and purple.
'That must be the dragon" Diehauser thought. He was then shocked to see another Ichiro on the ground curled into a ball.
"Stop" Diehauser then revealed himself to the two Ichiro's and dragons. "Two personalities" Diehauser thought seeing the two Ichiro's.
"And who are you?" the Ichiro with a sadistic and psychotic smile on his face said to Diehauser.
"I'm the one who gave your master to you" Diehauser said causing everyone to look at him interest.
"Why would you do that?" the sad looking Ichiro curled on the floor asked Diehauser. He speaks almost like he is whispering.
"I never expected her to do such things to you and I take full responsibility for the pain and harm she caused you" Diehauser said to the two Ichiro's and the dragon. "But I believe you should take Serafall as your master, she is kinder and won't try to hurt you" Diehauser added.
The Ichiro standing up smile then grew wider "and what do you plan to give us to compensate for our past" Ichiro asked him with a smile.
"I am prepared to compensate with five million bloodstones" Diehauser said.
"Deal" the Ichiro standing up said. Diehauser then nodded before leaving his mind.
[The Abandoned Church]
Diehauser opened his eyes to see the group over him. "I over did it on the hit so he'll be unconscious for a while but he changed his mind" Diehauser said to Serafall.
"YAY" Serafall said jumping up. She then held the pieces to Ichiro's chest.
"I wish to reincarnate Ichiro Lucifer as my mutation pawn. May he rise up and be reincarnated as a servant of Serafall Leviathan".
After Serafall finished the ancient chant the pieces were absorbed into Ichiro's unconscious body and she picked up his body happily. "Yay I got my cute new servant" Serafall said throwing him in midair and catching him repeatedly.
"I'm going to get him enrolled into Kuoh Academy with my So-tan, and I'll pleasure him however he wants" Serafall said to the embarrassment of everyone else.
Issei wasn't even paying attention to her talk as he was watching her breasts bounce up and down as she tossed Ichiro in the air.
"There's one thing you should know" Diehauser said causing Serafall to stop throwing Ichiro and the air as she held him in her arms.
"He has two personalities" Diehauser said to the shock of everyone. "One most like created so he could cope with killing his former master. I recommend putting a block on it so he doesn't get out of hand" Diehauser said. A portal then appeared and he was gone with Sirzechs, and Beelzebub.
"Where do you plan to stay?" Rias asked Serafall who was currently back to throwing Ichiro up and down in the air.
"Oh you're right my sister is probably asleep right now… I'll just pick a hotel and stay there for the night with my new pawn" Serafall said still throwing him in the air.
"Nonsense, one of the four great Satans staying at a hotel" Rias said with a smile. "You can stay in my house until you get Ichiro permanent residence" Rias added.
"Alright" Serafall said still throwing Ichiro in the air like a rag doll.
'Wow she's playing with him like a toy' Issei thought watching the cosplaying devil throw him up and down in the air. After a few minutes of spinning him around and when she finally calmed down the group left and went back to their homes with Serfall and Ichiro in Rias's manor.
[Issei's and Ichiro's Dream]
Issei opened his eyes and was confused to see he was in a black and red room. "Ok what gives?" he said outloud to himself. The last thing he remembered was falling asleep next to Rias but now he was here.
Issei started to walk but then he noticed Ddraig, Kaos, and Ichiro standing in front of him. "Hey where the Hell am I?" he said to the two dragons angrily.
"I assume this is your new host" Kaos said in a annoyed tone as he looked at Issei.
"Sadly" Ddraig said receiving a glare from Issei. "We were just talking about how it's time" Ddraig said.
"Time for what?" Issei asked them putting his hands through his spiky brown hair.
"Time for you two to visit the dragon tomb. Where you will meet the gifts the former boosted gear user left you" Ddraig said.
"Dragon tomb? Gifts?" Issei was confused about the whole situation so he turned to Ichiro but was surprised that he looked perfectly healed; all the bruises, scars, and burn marks gone from his face, and healthy looking. But other than that Issei was surprised that his face looked softer and less sadistic and crazy.
"The dragon tomb is a place where the former users of ours' and Albion's sacred gear left us a present. We will have to complete a maze and then go through a challenge but after that we get the gift they left us" Ichiro explained.
'What the Hell is going on with him?' Ichiro though surprised that his voice was softer and kinder too.
"So when can we go?" Issei asked.
"In a few days, for now we want you two to get a little stronger to face whatever the challenge is" Kaos said. "What?" he asked feeling the hostility Ddraig was giving him.
"So how did you die?" Ddraig asked him.
"I got in a fight with the three fractions. They killed Albion before I could steal his ability like yours" Kaos said with a smirk causing Ddraig to growl at him.
"Can you two fight some other time I want to go back to bed" Issei said angrily. The two dragons eyes flashed and the room with black as Issei and Ichiro went back to sleep.
Author Note- In the original story I made the main character a servant of Rias Gremory and took out Issei but I decided to try something more original and make him a servant of Serafall. Do you think it was good? Write me a review to tell me what you think.