Here is the start to the new story, hope you guys enjoy.
Thousands of years ago there was a war that was called 'The Great War'. It was a war between the Angel, Fallen Angels and the Devils, a war so great that it resulted in the deaths of the 'Seven Princes of Hell' and the Biblical God along with many, many others. The deaths of the Princes and God sent the three factions into disarray, even the Fallen Angels whose leader, Azazel, backed out even though he was still alive. This left the heart-wrenched devils and angels to duke it out once more.
The Devils and Fallen Angels returned to their separate parts of the Underworld as the angels returned to heaven. From there both the Devils and Angels struggled with what to do next. The Angels came together and concluded that the Archangel Michael was to do his best taking over as God while the Devils were at odds with each other. The Devils split themselves down the middle making the Old-Maou faction and the Anti-Maou faction. The Old-Maou faction thought that as they were direct blood descendants of the recently passed Princes, Sometimes known as Maous, that they should rule but the Anti-Maou faction did not see it the same way. Ajuka Astaroth came up with the Evil Piece system, a way to regain their population by reincarnating other beings into devils. Falbium Glasya-Labolas, Sirzechs Gremory and Serafall Sitri joined together with Ajuka Beelzebub to form the Anti-Maou Faction, These four devils were said to be insanely strong with power equal or maybe even superior to the original 7. One thing was evident though, these four were stronger than the blood descendants.
Their views clashed for nearly a hundred years before peaceful matters weren't the way to go and after finishing the war with the other three factions, they went at war with themselves starting the 'Maou Civil War'. The respective family of each figurehead joined in completely along with the remnants of their legions. Then the other Pillar Families and even most of the Extra clans joined in siding with their favoured side although two Pillar clans didn't involve themselves in this new war. The Bael clan who held the rank of Great King and the Zagan Clan who also held the rank of Great King, both decided against joining the Civil war as it could lead to their destruction. The Bael clan held the 'Power of Destruction' and the Zagan clan had the 'King Blades' that controlled life.
These two sides fought as the Bael and Zagan clan watched on, giving their support to both sides whoever needed it when they could give it. During this time there was many events, the disappearance of Lucifer and the traitor of Lucifuge were the most famous and important. The son of Lucifer, Rizevim Livan Lucifer, just up and left the Civil War, some said he didn't care but other said he was concerned for his wife. With his disappearance came the fall of the Lucifuge clan although it wasn't the beginning. In the midst of the Civil War was love, something which sprouted from Sirzechs Gremory of the Anti-Maou Faction and Grayfia Lucifuge of the Old-Maou faction. Grayfia then swapped her allegiances from Lucifuge to Gremory and joined the Anti-Maou Faction, that was the downfall and the disappearance of Lucifer was the metaphorical end to the Extra Demon clan.
With a new strong fighter on the Anti-Maou side and the loss of Lucifer of the Old-Maou side started to turn the tide, showing a win for the Anti-Maou side but the Old-Maou side was reluctant to give up and pushed forward. They brought the balance back and pushed their opponents back and caught innocents as they went along. This development was starting to turn the favour of the Bael and the Zagan clan, the war that was raging on was now starting to affect their territories and the ones surrounding theirs. For them, it was getting too close for comfort so they decided to try and stop it. Along with a few elite guards, the current Lords of each clan went to each side to try and stop it. Bael went to the Anti-Maou due to a tie with Gremory and Zagan went to Old-Maou as they held ties with Mammon.
The next day a video went live being shown to the whole of the Underworld, even the Fallen Angels witnessed it. The video was of the descendant of Mammon holding a severed Golden dragon's head by the horn and the challenge went like this.
"Niren Zagan, you half-breed scum, just like your pathetic father. Show yourself before we destroy you and the beautiful Lady of Zagan too."
The video then cut off for the whole Underworld leaving it in complete shock which lasted for a few seconds before rising a stage higher. A surge of intense holy power radiated through the whole of the Underworld as a the ferocious sound of a dragon's roar permeated through the thick musky air of the Underworld. Seconds later and an enormous Golden Dragon took to the skies with a pair of scarlet eyes fixed down on a single location far off into the distance.
When the dragon landed, the very land beneath it shook from it's weight. It roared out with a gust of wind as warning that it wasn't going to hold back and that it did not. That dragon scorched the land around it completely and more, devils that were fleeing were caught in it's wrath and were pitted against it's Holy Dragon Flames. The earth would then quake again every few seconds as the dragon would bring it's giant clawed feet off the ground and violently stomping down on the devils beneath it with no remorse. With adrenaline filling it's system it felt nothing of the attacks coming it's way whether it was magic or blade. None of the devils there survived the dragon's wrath, they were all flattened to the likes of paper or burnt to cinders resulting in charred land that had craters dotted around it.
To signal it's victory the dragon raised it's head towards the murky purple sky and opened it's large jaw wide and bellowed into the sky a eerie laugh that seemed to fuse together with a roar of emotional pain. When the ear-piercing raw subsided, the dragon dropped it's head and closed it's scarlet red eyes. The dragon then started to shrink as it noticed 5 strong but extremely relaxed presences that it knew all to well.
What came from the shrinking was a man just passing 6 foot with long golden hair that reached the back of his knees and spiked out at the top in three segments, all to the right. One was up and to the right and then the other two rested on either side of his right eye. The ends of the man's hair was scarlet in colour, contrasting remarkably well with the gold. His eyes were the same as the ends of his hair, scarlet and gave out a constant look of lust due to the colour alone. His facial features were soft but perpetually inviting. He was dressed in a long-sleeved black t-shirt with two golden rings running diagonally from left to right, the first from atop his left shoulder to halfway down on the right side and the second just above the hip on the left side only to be cut off by the end of the t-shirt. His jeans lay snugly to his leg and were black in colour with a slight purple tint and rested down atop his high tops that were the same in colour but with a single stripe of gold down the back. He finished his look off by having a pair of yellow shades hanging on the neckline of his shirt and a golden belt securing his pants while being long enough for the end of the belt to fall just above his knee, adorning the golden belt was a buckle that was black in colour and shaped like a roaring dragon.
The man standing in the centre of the scorched land was Niren Zagan, son of a Celestial Dragon and Lady Zagan. His parents were both strong fighters but compared to him they looked weak, he inherited their knowledge and comfortability in combat and used it to his advantage from an early stage becoming as strong as he could be. While having the powers of Holy and Demonic, his body was completely split to hold the powers. His dragon form held the ability to use Holy flames and resisted demonic powers but couldn't use them, his devil form could use demonic powers of Wind and Lightning along with resisting holy magic but couldn't use them. In either form though, he was weak to dragon slaying powers and as of that day, he was Lord Zagan.
The five devils that watched the battle and transformation looked at him with solemn smiles and outstretched arms. Niren Zagan accepted and joined the fight to quell the Old-Maou forces for what they did to his father as Mammon seemed to have left after making the video, much to Niren's disappointment.
With Niren now on their side and combining with Sirzechs, they started to dominate whether Niren was in his dragon form or not. Sirzechs and his new lover Grayfia conquered the left battlefields with Niren and Serafall dominating the right. Falbium and Ajuka kept the central locations under control and picked off the stragglers with ease as they planned their next moves. These 6 beings spent all their time together dealing with what to do next and even enjoyed the own spot of down time where Sirzechs and Grayfia went off to the barracks for alone time as Serafall got frisky Niren on the training grounds. Love sprouted and developed for both couples. Sirzechs and Grayfia grew closer by the day both on and off the battlefield while Niren and Serafall grew closer on the battlefield as Serafall proved herself to Niren more and more, that she will help him enact his revenge on Mammon.
The war continued to wage on and with each passing battle came a lowered percentage saying that the Old-Maou faction could win, after the next few years the percentage made their chances luck-based only and they knew that so they decided to act on it, either having their last fight or creating the boost they need to get back up into the war. A transmission came through to the whole Underworld once again showing an area that was only well known to Mammon and their close associates meaning as a Zagan, Niren knew exactly where it was. Niren already knew that it was another challenge to him so he waited for his five close friends to become engrossed on the video before silently leaving, sprinting straight to the battlegrounds.
With his advanced knowledge of wind magic and enhancement magic, he increased his speed fourfold reaching the battleground as the recording was still going on meeting with Mammon face to face. The camera then panned out as the descendant of Leviathan joined Mammon's side and numerous other devils gathered around them readying their magic to attack Niren. The Golden and Scarlet haired man listlessly glanced around the area looking slightly disappointed before summoning a silver double headed spear with spearheads that looked like scimitar blades.
Anyone who watched what happened next would call what Niren did a 'beautiful terror'. His vicious acts were performed expertly and fluidly, he never stopped not to think next or choose the best target next. He systematically went from one devil to the next attacking them relentlessly. He used the spear for things other than just a weapon, he would twirl it round in his hand taking the brunt of some magic, slash at his enemies with it, stab at the enemies with it. He would stab it into the ground and use it as a stationary pole for spinning kicks. He even transitioned back and forth between using it and martial arts by throwing it up into the air in a spin, kicking and punching his enemies as it came back down only to always catch it in his hands and move straight on. His simple, fast and fluid movements made it look like an art, he used the grace he learnt from dancing to bob and weave between attacks.
The whole time Niren kept away from Mammon so to not attack him first. He whittled down every single enemy until it was just Mammon left. Niren left Mammon no time to repent as he swung his spear severing Mammon's body in two using wind magic to throw his legs aside and drop his torso and head down. Niren span the spear in his hand as he slowly moved it above is head before abruptly stopping the spin and bringing the spear straight down cutting the head and torso of Mammon in half. He then dropped to his knees with a sigh of relief as the camera that watched the one-sided massacre just ticked on.
That battle spelt two things, a win for Niren which meant he didn't have to fight any more but additionally was the end to the Civil War as the remaining descendants ran away leaving the Underworld behind leaving the aftermath to us. At the end of it, even more Pillar clans were destroyed and reduced to very little. The Pillars that remained were very scarce and were to be discredited in the new system meaning that they would become Extra Demon clans, one of those devils was Roygun Belphegor the descendant of Belphegor, one of the Seven Princes.
With that war now over, the Underworld could calm down and relax for the most part as there was a possible attack from the Fallen Angels and then whatever dangers in the Human world. Then out of the 6 of us, only 5 became a Maou as Serafall and Grayfia had a match to see who'd get the position. Sirzechs became Sirzechs Lucifer, Ajuka became Ajuka Beelzebub, Falbium became Falbium Asmodeus and Niren became Niren Satan. Serafall and Grayfia fought for the position of Leviathan which was a match that lasted nearly two hours with Serafall coming out on top scoring an accidental near fatal wound. Despite there being the position of Mammon and Belphegor left, Grayfia decided to not take one and took a place beside Sirzechs.
As the new Lucifer, Sirzechs was overall ruler of the Underworld, he even joked at becoming a Supreme Overlord. This meant he had the most pull and executive power. As the new Satan, Niren ruled over the Judicial system acquiring the role of Supreme Arbiter which he joked towards Sirzechs saying he had a cooler sounding moniker. As the new Asmodeus, Falbium oversaw the military affairs of the Underworld and controlled it's armies. As the new Leviathan, Serafall's job was to control foreign affairs and create allies for the devils. And as the new Beelzebub, Ajuka was to handle the scientific research and development which he was very happy for.
Ajuka and Falbium were the first to get to work in their respective fields. The other 3 Maous and Grayfia settled into their new lives together before starting their own work to which Niren forewent dealing with his work and went to help out Ajuka in creating the 'Evil Pieces' to quicken the process of the devil population.
As the years passed on, the 5 Maous got very comfortable in their positions and helped the Underworld to prosper once again in life. With the creation of the Evil Pieces was new everything as more people meant new things to the plate. Then the the 5 Maous started on creating the strongest peerages possible with each Maou having to have a legendary beast. Sirzechs acquired Bahamut the 'Glowing Fish of the Deep Sea'. Serafall acquired Behemoth the 'Magical Beast King of the Earth'. Ajuka acquired Falak the 'King Snake of the Realm of the Dead'. Falbium acquired Kuyutha the 'Blue Holy Bull' and Niren acquired Byakko the 'Divine White Tiger of the East'. While Niren's Byakko didn't rival the others in size, it more than rivalled their powers. Sirzechs and Niren were the only two to need a full peerage and decided between themselves to get another legendary creature. Sirzechs acquired Surtr Second the 'Clone of the Flame Giant' where Niren acquired Tiamat the 'Chaos Karma Dragon King'.
The two men had become best friends over the years and in the process built up a repertoire of bets between each other and one of them was to build the strongest peerage ever. They would have a match against each other using the Rating Game system created especially for the Evil Pieces and create an event for the people of the Underworld. Where Sirzechs went with straight out quality, Niren went for quantity but for Niren it was more to help out with his job as Satan. He could send a specific piece to apprehend certain outlaws and as such, the Underworld started to call his peerage the 'Band of Misfits' while naming him the King of diversity. The name itself wasn't in bad stead either as his peerage was a selection of different races.
Niren was quick to show his place as Satan and was not one to care for status in the face of justice. He dealt with everyone fairly, one of his most famous albeit small was when he fined Ajuka for doing some rather questionable experiments. No one escaped from him either, not at the start and not in the current day, that was proven when he caught the SS-class devil 'Stray Cat' which prompted him to take in her and her sister into the Zagan clan and made the stray devil his Bishop to which she took two pieces. He also beat off the Noble devils who asked for the execution of her and anything Nekomata which made Niren angry, very angry. He berated the Nobles for what they wanted as the extent was too grand and then placed down a law that anyone to treat a Neko poorly through discrimination alone was to be dealt with.
Then on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Sirzechs and Grayfia, Niren and Serafall got married. An occasion which turned into an event by itself grabbing the attention of every devil still alive and in the Underworld. It also had some special guests on Niren's side, he was a dragon after all.
Here is the newest story of mine but one that will be updated sporadically, when i have time outside of other things and my two stories that are on the front.
This story came to mind with the politics of the Underworld, since getting the idea for Extra Demons and enveloping on that in 'Neko' i have been wanting to do more and go into more detail at a bigger point so i decided to make a Maou story with an OC Pillar Devil. Zagan as a whole is built of ideas from Magi and Ars Goetia, a bit of a strange crossover. The reason for him being part dragon isn't so as for him to be a really strong character but it's more for his status and relationships. He is part dragon because Satan has been referred to as a dragon but also for Ophis, like said in the pairing section. This story will have a personal relationship with Ophis in the future. Like the three known Super Devils, Niren is that as well not even counting his dragon side as they are two different entities and he has a special power just like the other and is something similar to Rizevim's.
This story won't follow the Canon completely as why would it? There will be the standard Maou involved points but there will also be an instance or two when Niren steps in to deal with things. Because of all this, he will be strong, very strong as he can rival Sirzechs, Azazel and Michael. For the time being, this story will be rated 'T' until i get into the part i have set specifically for the lemon which will turn it up to an 'M'.
Lastly i just want to mention 'redwarrioroflight' and 'Gunman' as for the Maou specific details. Props to those guys and their stories and seriously good themselves, check them out when you can!
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