A sixteen year old teen yawned as he got out of bed, standing a five foot eight; his scruffy medium hair reached down just past his eyebrows and was black aside from the ends of his bangs which were a vibrant red. A pair of slim framed oval glasses sat on his nose, allowing his sky blue eyes to observe his surroundings before getting ready for the day.

He had a slim build and quickly got dressed in a the male version of the Kuoh school uniform, fastening his tie as he entered the kitchen to see a middle aged raven haired British man, his father, pouring himself a cup of tea while he tried to read the Japanese newspaper.

"Dad…I thought you said that we were to lay low" He asked, while English was his first language, his mother had insisted for him to learn Japanese for when they visited her family so he could use both fluently.

The redhead Japanese woman, finished up with the tradition breakfast she was making and turned with it to look annoyed at her husband upon seeing the teapot floating in the air pouring into the cup before settling back down onto the table

"Dear…" She spoke dangerous, causing his father to look up curiously before gulping at the sight of his wife angry at him

"Sorry…Force of habit" He replied before turning to his son as the teen sat down at the table, pouring his own cup normally as he gave a sarcastic look to his father as his mother spoke up

"You better eat up quickly, Merlin-kun; don't want to be late to school"

Merlin nodded as he started to work his way through his food before taking a large swig of his tea before he got up heading to the door before remembering about his bag, turning he pointed his hand over to the bag that sat on the table as he spoke

"I'm going" The bag flew into his hand from the table as he noticed the stern look his mother gave him as he shrugged his shoulder in silent response before leaving the house.

He stretched his arms above his head as he winced slightly, the training with his father always made him feel sore but was all for a good reason if what his father had said about there families being against his birth which was the primary reason they'd decided to settle down in Kuoh.

He started walking the half an hour journey towards the school, not seeing many people around he recalled one of his fathers lessons as he walked

'Mana dwells in everything…its just that we're more attuned to it then others and you've got even more then I did at your age…Maybe you were meant for more…'

He didn't notice the blonde haired beauty walking around the corner till it was too late, both colliding and falling onto there backsides as Merlin shook his head, speaking as he picked himself back up

"Sorry…"

She quickly returned to her senses as she picked herself up, green eyes looking around the floor to make sure she'd not dropped anything as she brushed down her uniform, Merlin remember seeing her in the third year class, Reina Phens he thought her name was. She was one of the top contenders for trying to take one of the idol roles from Rias Gremory and Akeno Himejima, with her hourglass figure thanks to the uniform seemed to stand out even more, her long blonde locks reached down to her ample chest and was held in a plait with a red ribbon.

"You should be…Pervert" She retorted as she walked off, Merlin's eyes falling onto the ruby chess piece that she'd probably left on the floor. Picking it up between his thumb and forefinger he twisted the Bishop piece in his fingers as he wondered about it, assuming Reina'd dropped it as he continued walking, slipping the expensive looking piece into his inside blazer pocket. He made a mental note to return it to her next time he saw her, deciding it was for the best that he avoided making her mood any worse.

He kept walking, soon noticing groups of girls and a few groups of guys walking towards the school chatting over the interesting things they'd done over the weekend as they reached the gates. Pushing his glasses up his nose he headed indoors as he passed Sona Shitori, head of the School Council, and her deputy, Tsubaki Shinra, not noticing the folded piece of paper slipped into his bag.

Merlin entered the classroom, mentally sneering at seeing the perverted trio talking in there usual manner a small part of him wishing he could just incinerate there 'collections' as they referred to it. He took a calming breathe as he sat down at his desk and prepared for the lesson, the teacher soon entering to start it as he started to hand out the results from there last test.

"Tsunagi-san…perfect score" The teacher spoke handing Merlin the sheet as he looked over it, a small smile on his face as he put it into his bag, Hyodo huffed annoyed at the teacher's comment about him

"Typical smartass"

Merlin glared back at the pervert causing him to shrink in his seat, he'd become to be known as one of the smartest students of his year but he assumed he'd become good at taking in information after all the lessons with his parents as he grew up. He turned back to look at the front as the teacher started the day's lessons.

….

When school ended that day he packed his things away before starting to walk home, entering the empty park as a usual shortcut home, wondering what the eerie feeling was as a spear of light came out from his left. Merlin reacted on instinct as he made a sweeping motion with his left arm over his feet and up his left side, the ground rising to form a makeshift shield which he soon dropped to see a black winged woman walk out of the trees, clapping her hands as she spoke

"Impressive mage…but it's your time to die"

Merlin's eyes narrowed in annoyance as he built up the mana into his hands as he spoke "I don't think so…"

Throwing both hands towards her, he quietly chanted a few words before a large bolt of lightning shot out, the winged woman taking to the air to dodge it as two of the trees behind her burst into flames. She prepared another spear of light into her hands, quickly throwing it as Merlin dodged it before firing another bolt of lightning back at her, missing as she swooped under it.

Merlin looked around as he dodged another of her spears, wondering why no one across the roads from the park were reacting to the unusual fight as his eyes widened as he whispered

"Illusion bubble…" It made sense to him that whoever this winged woman was, she was hiding what was going on in the park with an illusion as he turned his focus back onto her as he prepared one of the few complex mana spells he had learnt as he started to chant, the Fallen Angel noticing sparks of lightning appearing around his hands as she aimed to kill him before he could finish it.

Merlin pointed his open palm towards her as she'd just thrown the spear as he roared "Raging Dragon Bolt"

The lightning attack shot from out of his hand, soon taking the form of a dragon's head as it opened its jaws and bite down onto the Fallen. Her screams of agony soon dying with his attack as her charred and burnt body fell to the ground dead from the pure power of the attack.

Merlin coughed up blood as he looked down to see the spear in his left side, dropping to one knee as he reached into his schoolbag in the hopes of finding a healing tonic he'd stored in there as he pulled out the folded bit of paper with one hand while his other looked through the rest of it to find it missing.

'Damn it…' He thought, collapsing onto his side as his body weakened from the injury the spear had caused as a blue magical circle formed onto the ground near him.

….

When he awoke he found himself lying on a sofa in a room which he didn't recognize, sitting up to find that he wasn't the only one in the room as Reina and Sona arguing over something as the former spoke

"What am I suppose to do now I've lost a Bishop piece?"

"You should have kept a better eye on your Evil Pieces, Phenex" Sona responded coldly as Merlin looked down at himself, feeling something different about his mana…something darker which seemed to be coating the other people in the room as well, his eyes widened in surprised. He never could sense other people's mana reserves and he was sure he'd died at that park even if he had taken out the winged woman.

"I'm taking him in my peerage, Sitri" Reina spoke as Sona quickly retorted

"You can't while he has my Rook piece inside of him…so we'll share him" Reina seemed more annoyed as Merlin reached over for his glasses from off the floor, putting them on as he finally noticed that he was without clothes and under a thin blanket as he quickly mumbled a few magical words and his school clothes appeared on his frame before standing up to see the others in the room, which seemed to be the other members of the school council, looking surprised as he asked

"What's going on?" His voice stopped the two as they turned to see Merlin standing there looking curiously at them with his arms crossed in front of him.

"Nice to see you're awake, Tsunagi-san" Sona spoke as she signaled to where he'd been sitting as she added

"Please take a seat and we'll explain it as best we can" Merlin sitting down the two third years took a seat on the sofa opposite him as Reina started to speak up first.

"You're a devil and my servant…" Sona quickly sighed, shaking her head as she started over

"I revived you after that Fallen Angel killed you…but I must say I'm impressed you was able to kill her too…anyway I revived you as my Rook but you were carrying Reina's Bishop as well which somehow got included into your revival"

"That means that you're technically both of our servants" Reina spoke up as Merlin giving a nod as he now understood what the darker feeling to his mana was as he spoke up

"You're both devils as well and I assume that the student council is your servants, Sitri-san"

"That's right" Sona spoke up, figuring that he'd woken while they were arguing as he continued "So where is your peerage Phenex-san?"

"You'll meet them soon" Reina replied as she took an appraising look of him and just from the energy inside him she could tell he'd make a good Bishop for her as she spoke

"You were revived by using a system we devils call the Evil Pieces…Are you aware of Chess?"

Merlin nodded as she continued "Well a High Class Devil is considered the King of the set we can each have a Queen, two of each Bishops, Knights and Rooks and eight pawns…Sitri revived you as a Rook but something went wrong because of my Bishop you picked up from earlier"

"It means that you're classed as a Rook in my peerage and a Bishop in Phenex's but both of there inferred boosts are applied to you" Sona spoke reading his face as he took all the information in as Reina spoke up

"Bishops have increased magical power while Rooks are strong defensively and offensively"

"Why did you revive me?" He asked, he understood that he would be a good Bishop from his natural skill with mana but why a Rook outside of making him more resistant to hits as he prepared his complex spells.

"You've got something called a Sacred Gear…It's a weapon that gives the user special abilities, they've shown up before in legendary figures in history like King Arthur and Maid Marian"

'I guess that explains why I've got stronger mana then my father' He thought as Reina spoke up

"You should be able to manifest it if you focus on a strong mental image"

"We can try and call it tomorrow…feel free to head home now and avoid any other fallen Angels that come after you…I'll send one of the council to come collect you tomorrow" Sona added as Merlin nodded standing up as he spoke

"Alright then…Phenex-sempai, Sitri-sempai, have a good evening"

Walking back home now he found it odd how quickly his life could change as he turned his attention to what he was going to say to his parents as he thought

'Can't just walk in and say "hey…I'm a devil now"… may as well tell them the long story and see how they react…father probably won't mind, mother on the other hand will probably want to know why I was using mana out in plain sight or why I forgot to keep up my footwork'

…

When he entered his house he found his parents were sitting at the table with serious looks on there faces as his mother started first

"Why are you late young man?" Merlin took a calming breathe as he answered

"I got attacked by a Fallen Angel" Both parents froze at that as his mother's blue eyes roamed his body for injuries before spotting the blood and hole in his clothes as she rushed over to check for a wound finding nothing as he spoke

"I was revived by a devil…but things seem complicated from there"

"Sit down then, son and tell us from the beginning" His father spoke seriously, pouring a cup of tea for Merlin as he sat down opposite both of them as he started to reel off what had happened by the end of it his father was chuckling to himself before his mother knocked him as she spoke

"It's not funny that he's stuck between two devils"

"I'm sorry, dear" He replied before turning thoughtful as he thought over what Merlin had said about him having a Sacred Gear.

"I guess you were meant for more if whatever Sacred Gear inside you is helping your skills"

"Tomorrow I'll find out what it is although they both seem to be having trouble deciding about how I'm being shared" Merlin replied as he drained the rest of his cup as a knock on the door alerted them to a visitor.

"I'll answer it" Merlin spoke as he stood up, his mother nodding while moving near the door to the hallway to listen in as her husband shook his head with a silent sigh.

Merlin took a few moments to fix his appearance, making sure the blood and hole in his uniform wasn't visible as he opened the door as he spoke "Hello?"

A look of confusion appeared on his face as he saw Reina standing there with her suitcase in tow as she spoke "Good so I found the right place…please bring in my suitcase while I talk to your parents, Merlin"

'What the...' He thought as she walked past him without a care as Merlin took a moment to wonder how she knew where he lived; guessing that Sitri-sempai had something to do with it being as she was the school council president but then that didn't explain why Reina was ready to move into his home and had yet not even told him about it beforehand.

He sighed as he easily lifted the suitcase inside, guessing his new found strength had come from becoming a devil before closing the door and going to see what was going on with his parents and Reina.

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Author's Notes

ShadowUzumaki39 gave me this great idea and figured I should at least put up what I've come up with for a start of it to see what people thought. Merlin's Sacred Gear comes from a tweaked version of D. Gray man's Cross Marian's Judgement. Do need to come up with some sort of peerage for Reina if I continue this so any and all ideas will be accepted and most probably worked in in some manner and need to decide on when this starts within the canon although thinking of probably sticking him from before the Rias vs Raiser Rating Game.