New story is now here!
It is pretty much just a separate route that alters a hell of a lot of things.
I will have an A/N at the end of the 3rd chapter to explain things.

Shine!

It was the day of the Rating Game itself. I was currently in my room with around 5 hours left to go until I needed to be in the Club room and the crest for Gremory lit up on my hand calling me for a contract. I was a little intrigued that it got through at all, I thought she had stopped contracts for these ten days so it must be someone of higher or equal to her. That fact by itself intrigued me the most, the thought of who it could be but also the dreading feeling of which devil it might be.

After the first few flashes I let it connect with my magic starting up the process to teleport me to where ever I was being called to.

The room I teleported into had a thick demonic feel to it, even before I had actually appeared into it. The floor was tiled, the walls were made out of stone and marble pillars ran along the side walls as support for the ceiling. In the room with me was 16 devils and when I teleported into the room completely, it was 16 devils I had seen before.

The devil who had called me was Raiser Phoenix.

"You finally arrived Tsukiyomi Gin."

I slowly lifted my head to look at Raiser, just over the frame of my glasses.

"We are to be fighting soon. Why did you call me here?"

"To ensure my win."

I see. My powers have already become knowledge to him, he wont know to what extent but he must be frightened to do this. Let's see what his play is.

"You want to strike a deal? Lay out your terms, Raiser."

"Firstly would be which King you serve under. I'd have Rias trade you to Ravel, my younger sister. I'm sure you know who she is and i'm also aware of your view on devils. In the Phoenix clan we do things differently, we get our Pieces at 12 but can only properly use them once we reach 18. That means during those 6 years, we do our studies and learn how to be a great King. This means that she can't order you about until she reaches 18 or unless you think what she said or thinks is appropriate. From what I saw during our meeting, I think she'd just pamper you and show you off. The only order you will have to follow is if she has a uniform for peerage members, like if she wants you to be her personal Butler."

Now this is starting to feel like what a Phoenix is like. I remember that Azazel said that the Phoenix clan is stricter on their children than any other so they can fully utilize their 'Immortality'. I wouldn't have guessed it was that way though. It certainly does sound appealing though. Actually, Ravel would still be Raiser's Bishop so does that mean I would still have to abide Raiser? I'll ask.

"Before you get onto the second part. The part with Ravel I wanna ask about. Even if she is under the age your clan has selected, i'd have to listen to your orders in that respect. The loophole there makes your clan's restriction pointless then."

"That is true Tsukiyomi-kun but Ravel will be leaving my peerage afterwards. I will have no power over you."

I nodded my head to him, that covers that. Now onto his second point.

"Secondly, I have already spoken to the Fallen Angel Governor for my sister in the case you accept. He was very stern and thorough in finding out everything he could about the deal i'm offering. As long as you come back to Ravel every night, you are practically free unless you decide to indulge Ravel of one of her requests. You also have free access to your accumulated funds unlike with Rias. This means you can continue your exploits in the Anime/Manga world along with your position in Grigori which if you do join Ravel then she cannot inquire about your job with Grigori and the Fallen Angels. In return to this, we get some degree of safety from the Fallen Angels."

Hmm … This is starting to sound too good without any real holes to pick at. The only problem so far is the coming here at night, that means i'd have to leave the Hyoudou household. That's kinda obvious but there is just Okaa-sama and Otou-sama. Wonder how they'd deal with it, Raiser might get Rias to deal with it for me. That could be good.

This does mean I can at least still attend school with Asahi, it would also mean he wont have to watch over me anymore but if he wanted to he may have to become a devil. He seems like the kinda person to do so, it's even in the manga so once Ravel sees him she might try and get him to join.

"That's it for the terms Tsukiyomi-kun. I would like to offer you a small apology for the meeting itself and how it went. Originally the wedding was only supposed to happen after Rias had finished her education, college included, but the Nobles aren't as patient. They said that we could have had multiple kids within the time it takes for her education to finish so they sped up the date to now. I had got ahead of myself for the most part and I'm not used to being ignored so your lack of acknowledgement put me out of sorts."

Not a real apology but i'll take it I guess. Though what he said sounds pretty plausible but it could just be an excuse though from his tone I doubt that it's an excuse. I'm tempted to actually believe him. His tone wasn't smug like it was during the meeting, his aura itself is giving off some discomfort that corresponds with being embarrassed and truthful.

If he got ahead of himself then why would he be such a womaniser? ...Wait, could he actually have an innocent reason for being a womaniser? It can certainly play into account. A peerage of different types allows him to gain knowledge of how to react then it puts him in good stead?

Am I actually trying to justify him? Does it really matter … this actually sounds like a good deal. Gotta make the best out of this shitty life anyway.

"And Ravel is willing to use up both of her Rooks for me?"

"Very much so, Tsukiyomi-kun."

Hmm … well, why wouldn't she be actually. Putting me into facts i'm the last male Nekoshou, the strongest variant, the wielder of the Lunar Gear which is on terms with the 13 Longinus and i'm a descendant of Tsukiyomi the Moon God. Taking both pieces will mean i'm worth 10 pieces making me her strongest piece. I would rather take the Queen piece for all the enhancements but i'm content with the Physical enhancements.

This is pretty lenient terms anyway, it's kinda like a curfew in all honesty plus i've got till she is 18 so I have another 3 years. Plenty of time to do whatever I want plus I can make a foothold into the entertainment industry. I will have also got through puberty by then and matured to two-tails.

Honestly, this works more in my favour than what's just been laid out. Ravel is still young and naïve thanks to her somewhat sheltered life. I don't know the extent of that but she'll definitely be naïve if Rias is anything to go by for Nobles. I can try and influence her in anyway as long as im discreet about it.

This also looks to be an all-round good agreement really. Raiser gets the girl he wants, Ravel gets the guy she wants, I get at least a decent life now that Rias flipped turned it upside down. I also get that revenge on Rias by making sure this marriage goes through while breaking free from her grasp, actually i'd be stupid to even consider saying no. Even if it is at the end just a deal with a devil, I have already been forced into dealing with them. Why play if I don't have the cards I want?

"Raiser Phoenix … You have yourself a deal. During the engagement party … if anything arises could I deal with it?"

"You think something would happen during it?"

"Yes I do. The Pawn, the Sekiryuutei, his family took me in when I was orphaned for obviosu reasons, he is a simple individual. Rias has displayed her dislike for this engagement so he will try to stop it even after failing the Rating Game and from what I have heard of the current Lucifer then he'll probably give him a way to try. I have lived with him for years and he has pissed me off ever since, it would be a great opportunity for me to beat him around."

"Of course, if you want to fight him then you can. During the Rating Game you can do whatever, just have fun."

"Thank you. I will see you all later then."

Once I received a nod in response from Raiser, I started up my magic circle and teleported to the club room with a few hours left to spare.

…

The Rating Game had begun, my designated part was simple. Take out who I could, that was literally my order from Rias so once the order to start came I just walked into the centre of the school grounds and sat down like I had no care in the world. I did let my ears and tail out so I could survey the surroundings. I didn't have to do anything so I could just improve my use of Senjutsuu by reading the area and seeing if I could hone in on people, probably couldn't but I would gave it a go.

Each piece fell, one by one. 3 Pawns, 1 Rook, 3 Pawns, 1 Rook, 1 Rook, 1 Queen, 2 Pawns, 1 Rook, 2 Knights, 1 Bishop and 1 Knight. That of which brought it all to the endgame and a constant badgering in my ear to do something, something which I annoyed completely for my own interests in continuing to scout out the area. If asked, I would say I couldn't take out any so I saved myself the hassle of getting hurt by not doing a thing. It wouldn't work with anyone but why the hell not use it?

Then fell the piece that signalled the end of the game. 1 Pawn. From there, Rias resigned before Issei could even retire. Rias' and Asia's calls came into my ears for help, something I neglected once again to give them and because of that we lost … they lost. I won. We won.

The next two days passed quietly. My lack of desire to do a thing was understood but something that was hoped to not come into play. I bared with the collar throughout the match and had it taken off by Lucifer who had spotted it through the game. He had reprimanded his sister on it. That felt good.

The others were slightly wary of me, all but Issei and Koneko. Koneko was like she always was, stoic but full of silent understanding. Issei was unconscious from the beatings he took. Rias reviewed the Rating Game frustrated, seeing where she went wrong with tactics or places for her peerage to grow.

The second day we had moved into the Underworld, into the Gremory castle ahead of the engagement party. The first anchor of her to Raiser and the place where I could break free from Rias and the Occult Research Club. My place in the castle was unwanted, surprising seen as Lord Gremory was the one who willingly married his daughter off. The servants stared at me blankly, they were a little reluctant to do anything for me not that I even asked them. I didn't even join them for meals. I spent my time in the grounds feeding slowly off the nutrients in the ground, catching the odd demonic rat when I could be bothered for actual food.

Then the party came on the night of the third day. I actually dressed up, if you could call it that. I just wore a silver buttoned shirt with a black tie, black skinny jeans and black canvas shoes. The only dressing up was really the shirt and tie, I was tempted to wear my beanie but I decided against that in the end. I took my place near the front stage, finding a seat off to the side and bringing it to near the middle and sitting down on it as the devils in the room went around and conversed. I spent the night writing autographs and silently answering questions on why I didn't do anything for Rias against Raiser, I just glared at them and they left.

Bang!

The doors to the ballroom that we were all in burst open and answered the thought I had from the beginning, something I spoke to with Raiser during the terms. Issei barging in recklessly. I surprised the people around me as I stood up from the chair and walked out just to the end of the crowd.

"Rias Gremory's virginity is mine you Yakitori scum!"

I was actually surprised at that, it wasn't what I had expected but now after hearing it i'm unhappy with not thinking it of being a possibility.

As the nobles spoke out amongst themselves in slight but understandable disgust, Lucifer stepped out from the crowd.

"It's an event that I organized."

I felt pissed just looking at him. He was Lucifer, the prideful Devil. The one who represented the devil race, possibly the one you would call the face of the devils. Their poster boy. It just meant I could hold more hatred for me.

"Dragon user-kun. You have our permission. Raiser, can you show your power once more right in front of Rias and I?"

Raiser made one large smirk when those words left Lucifer's mouth. Everything played right into our hands. Raiser simply turned to me as I held a blank gaze, eliciting others to look at me as well.

"Tsukiyomi-kun has already foretold this event. He came to me and told me about this, I'm a little surprised he was right. I also promised him that he would fight in my place if it arose. Hopefully you don't mind Lucifer-sama, we didn't see the descendant of Tsukiyomi the Moon God during the Rating Game after all."

Props to Raiser for the improv here. Lucifer seemed to falter slightly hearing it.

"Yes, of course. If Tsukiyomi-kun takes your place then the fight will still be a flashy one. Well then you two, what prize do you want if you win?"

"Sirzechs-sama?!"

"What are you saying?"

Pretty valid responses really, we are really only Low-class devils here.

"They are devils, so we need to give them something fitting for it since we are asking them to do something for us. Now then, I can give you anything. A Peerage or the most beautiful woman?"

They are a little odd to say the least. Well the woman isnt an odd one there. A Peerage though is definitely too much and probably wouldnt go through.

"I ask you to give me Rias Gremory-sama back."

After Issei said his expected words all eyes fell on me. I lazily lifted my left hand and pointed at the Boosted Gear on Issei's left hand.

"I want permission to take the Boosted Gear out of his body using my Senjutsuu."

I stared straight back at Lucifer as the ballroom lit up once again. Idle chatter became full conversations, what I asked for was outrageous but certainly possible. To them it meant that Issei would be killed by the extraction and that isn't true thanks to Senjutsuu. It'll definitely put heavy strain on our bodies thanks to it being a Longinus.

"Very well then. Whoever wins will get what they want."

I simply nodded my head as the hall started to spring into life once again as everyone moved to make room. The centre of the room from the door to the very spot I was standing in was cleared to make room for our fight. Issei made some distance between us as I just moved more into the centre.

As I turned to face Issei who was now at the opposite side of the room I raised my left hand up into the air and my icy aura started to flow.

"Come, Demonic Sword of Ice. Show yourself to your master, in the form of the Vorpal Blade."

Taking form in my hand was a blade of pure ice that was dual toned, both light and dark blue. The grip was thin and cut into, the hilt took the shape of a snowflake with three spikes on each side with the centre completely empty. The demonic ice energy slowly flowed out of the blade as I faced Issei.

"You may begin."

Issei turned his gears quickly and set off straight into a run, I just dropped my arm down to by my side.

"Promotion:Queen."

Seeing him get closer, I leisurely flicked my wrist causing a small crescent of ice to shoot towards Issei. It was easily broken by his fist but it was enough to stop his movements.

I felt my eyesight being drawn to his left arm, right at the Boosted Gear but I felt compelled to look under the Gauntlet and see what's inside. That meant he had sacrificed his arm for the Balance Breaker, a cheap burst form which wont last a minute. That's just tops regardless of how strong you are during that time.

I allowed my ears and tail to come out and charged at Issei myself, slashing downwards into the gauntlet with my right and bringing my left up punching him square in the chest. Seeing him recoil, I lifted the Vorpal Blade from the gauntlet and sent the face of the blade into his side knocking him off balance.

'My Lunar Prince, allow me to assist you.'

Abiding to Lumi's wish, I jumped back from Issei instead of sending another blow his way and dropped the Vorpal Blade down to my side.

"Vorpal Shift."

I felt a burst of energy come from me as it filled the room. Her icy warmth ran over me, her thin, beautiful pasty arms wrapped themselves around my neck. She placed her head ontop of her arms around my shoulder as she placed her naked ethereal body against my back.

"Let's go, my Lunar Prince."

Her icy warmth then filled my body, I could feel her powers melting into mine. I could feel her 3 devil wings and 3 Fallen Angels wing take their place on my back, fitting like they were actually mine. They fluttered about quietly behind me.

With a small flap of each wing, we lifted off the ground. Then the speed started to flush around my body, the wings kicking in and started to flutter erratically. I felt my body disappear from everyone's view and then reappear again right at Issei's left side, before I knew it I was swinging the Vorpal Blade. As the blade of ice made a light cut into his skin, we disappeared again this time reappearing above him.

We continued this, one by one creating small cuts all over his body.

[Welsh Dragon Overbooster!]

My wings fluttered again pulling my body backwards. Issei's form was enraptured by a red light which only darkened as a set of red scale mail took form around his body. Yellow spikes jutting out of the helmet and gauntlets. Emerald jewels placed themselves over his knees and chest.

The armour itself was a little daunting, of course it was. It was a dragon's armour.

His whole being increased tenfold, that feeling and fact came as his body came barreling towards me. A single flutter of my wings and I disappeared with plenty of time and appearing once again by the doors to the ballroom. The speed though was too much for Issei, he went crashing through the window flying out into the Underworld itself.

I set my feet on the ground and slowly started to walk towards the window as Issei's presence was coming closer and closer. The set of thrusters on his back, taking the place of the wings due to his inability to fly, flaring up in red energy as they hurled his body towards me. He was going too fast for himself, he was basically a large truck barreling down a hill with no brakes.

I switched grip on the Vorpal blade allowing the blade itself to run behind my body. I lifted up my left hand allowing my Ki to take a hold of it and form a small plate barrier in front of my hand. I dug my heels in the ground and stood firm. Issei's body crashed into my small barrier and stopped dead in his tracks switching our momentum to each other, giving my wings a flutter I used the momentum to send my body spinning slowly with my back to him. My front facing the crowd as I tightened my hold on the blade and thrust it backwards plunging it straight into the armour cracking straight through and piercing Iseei's back and right through into his front breaking out of the armour.

I gave it a light thrust forwards deepening it before pulling it out straight, flicking it lightly to rid it of the blood. I felt Issei's armoured form drop to the floor with a flood, the rush of dragonic energy disappearing out of existence like it was never even there. I felt Lumi's presence leave me and her 6 wings disappeared back into my body along with the sword. Turning my head, I looked at Issei's body. He was unconscious while bleeding out.

I turned my body to him completely and knelt down, flipping his body so he was resting on his back. I turned my head again and looked at Lucifer, expecting him to do what I wanted without saying anything.

"Tsukiyomi Gin wins, the Sekiryuutei has been defeated."

I close my eyes as I turn back to Issei focusing my Ki onto the front half of my body, placing both of my hands over the Boosted Gear. Issei's Ki and mine interlocking for this process, Ddraig's irritated growl filled my head as he stirred into existence outside of Issei's mind.

['So you are Tsukiyomi Gin. You want my power for your own I assume?']

'You assume wrong Red Dragon. I am a cat forever and always, you will go to whoever my new master wants you too.'

['Your new master? Hopefully this person you choose isn't so worthless as that boy was.']

'No need to hope. All he has going for him is his libido.'

I pushed all of my concentration into the flow of Ki between our bodies, sealing up the wound that Vorpal blade caused. A vibration formed between our bodies, the sound of skin peeling filled my ears. The red, scaled gauntlet making itself become loose, no friction. It just slipped off of his hand like it was just a glove.

The connection between us dropped, I stood up holding the Boosted Gear in my hands. I could feel it brimming with power, the Welsh Dragon excited for his new owner resetting the Gear to it's original state. The gauntlet downsized. The layers of scales disappearing, the Dragon's Liberation evaporating into nothing. Returning to just a simple 'Twice Critical'.

Making a bubble form around my hands, I squished the 'Twice Critical' sending it to my dimension space.

The ballroom stayed quiet, even as I returned to my seat. I looked round the room once before falling onto Raiser, I sent a simple and plain nod his way before summoning my script for KoG and starting to read through it.

…

Rather than it just being an engagement party, it was practically the wedding too. I'm pretty sure that it was just devil custom though. After the party had finished we had all left, even Asia, for Raiser's private castle in some area of th Phoenix territory. What surprised me was that Raiser gave us, Rias' peerage, our own wing of the castle and allowed Rias to stay in her own room. He never called for her to join him in his. It only added to my small thought of innocence from before the Rating Game.

We were all called to the main chamber of the castle early the next morning. Raiser sat at his throne with his peerage surrounding him. Ravel was just off to the side by herself but not so much as to seem like she was a 3rd party in the matter that was about to come.

I stood off to the edge of our group to but right next to Koneko so I still seemed like I was a part of it. Once we had taken our places in front of Raiser, he let out an unusual smile for him. It wasn't one of cockiness, lust or greed. It was a simple, genuine smile that didn't fit what his personality had shown but fit his face perfectly.

"Rias … I will allow you to stay in the human world to finish this education you sought after, even college."

But...The way he said it left that part completely obvious for anyone who had their head on straight meaning me and Koneko.

"Only if you do two things for me. Firstly is during any holiday you return to me, only then do you need to during your time in the human world. Secondly, I want you to trade Tsukiyomi-kun to Ravel."

So that's how he is getting around this. That's actually a really smart play. Give her the freedom she wants but keeping a leash while taking away one of her things so she can have that freedom.

I felt the looks turn to me. Some knowing, some surprised. Koneko will have worked out that I had already set up something. With the glances on me, I decided to speak.

"Sounds like a good offer to me. Even if was he has done so far is kinda twisted, he has a remarkably innocent reason for it all."

"Gin … me?"

I turned to look at Koneko who stared at me with her usual stoic expression. Despite that I could see the emotion, the sadness of me leaving. I could tell that from her aura.

"If Ravel had a Mutated Rook then I would have asked for you to be traded too, Koneko … Woops … I accidentally let it out."

Her eyes widened slightly along with the rest of the groups.

"You brokered a trade, Gin?"

"Well … It's more like Raiser brokered one with me, I think. He laid out the terms and they sounded pretty sweet to me. I've already been made into this so I might as well make the most of what I can now that I can't go back. I've practically got my freedom back, for the next few years at least. No collar that electrocutes me if I think of something snide towards you. Sounds great to me. I also got to put you through the same thing you put me through, while making Issei into an actual pile of shit. I'm surprised that I never acted out before and kicked his worthless ass."

"What did I ever do to you?"

I felt my eyebrows twitch as I heard Issei reply.

"What did you do? Treated me like shit for the sole reason of me being more attractive than you. I never did you wrong, I did all the chores so you didn't have to. I never told Okaa-sama about any of your exploits. You would have been killed by the Fallen Angels years ago if it wasn't for me. I've had to put up with so much bullshit just because of you and then you go and have the Boosted Gear. No, no fucking way. So I took it from you and it will be for whoever Ravel decides it is for. I would honestly have taken it into my body straight away but I know the Vanishing Dragon, that guy is out of wack."

I shook my head annoyed as I stood still.

"So what will you do Rias? Keep your freedom but lose Gin or Keep Gin and stay here with me losing your freedom?"

It's really a one-sided question, unless you are sex crazy of course. As long as she thinks about it she can only go for the first choice because even if she decides to keep me she can't do anything with me because of retaliation from Raiser. While polygamy is allowed for men during marriage, it is not for women. Women can only experience a Harem outside of marriage unless their suitor is within their peerage I guess. Still pretty much a man's world I guess.

Looking up from Koneko who still wore her stoic expression I saw Rias and her pained expression. She must really wanna keep a hold on me, shame she had to be so twisted about trying to get me. Not that I would have indulged her at all. She was looking straight at me, deliberating her choice.

Her arms then dropped as she came to her answer. If you thought about it widely, even if she chose to keep me and lose her freedom. Raiser knew about her attachment to me and could make her trade me off to someone random in the future. I'm just lucky that here I actually had a choice for once.

"I will trade him to Ravel."

Hearing it I could feel the strength around the piece itself weaken. That was my dismissal from the Gremory group so I moved. I left the spot next to Koneko and walked over to the side of the Phoenixes and stood on Ravel's right to keep myself away from Raiser's group.

I felt a heavy weight being lifted from me as the feeling of the piece left me. The crimson demonic energy left the piece and caused it to split in two, the two halfs shook and changed colour. A bright orange broke out from the centre of each piece.

"I, Rias Gremory, trade my Rook, Tsukiyomi Gin, to Ravel Phoenix."

"I, Ravel Phoenix, gladly take your Rook, Tsukiyomi Gin."

The fiery warmth started to fill my body, it felt all in all lighter. I felt much more at home in my body. This was the regeneration trait, an added boost from the members of the Phoenix clan. You'd either get a Fire affinity or a boosted Regeneration level, of course not to the Phoenix level. My affinity was Ice so I received the Regeration boost adding to my Senjutsuu.

The Gremory crest burst into life on my right hand, the crimson energy rising off of my hand like steam as it slowly morphs like the piece did into an orange colour. The rose changed into a phoenix and the thick circular bands changed positions.

All in all, a prosperous few days.