On a dark cave, various mysterious holographic figures were in circle around a big blue flame, the figures all of them were dressed in hooded robes, all of them stood straightly and didn´t moved, akin to statues. In the very center, the big flame started to dim until finally, an elder man dressed in ceremonial robes appeared.
"I´ve called you here because, a contingency needs your attention."
The black haired elder devil stated, this man had ¾´s of his face covered in white bandages, the only thing that could be seen was his left eye which was of a common raven blue color, the figure leaned into a walking cane which he held with certain strength.
"The Gremory Mansion was secretly assaulted in the absence of Grayfia Lucifudge and Rias Gremory and her peerage whom attended the Azazel Cup´s match between Issei Hyoudou and Cao Cao, right now both leaders of the Gremory Family; Venelana and Zeoticus were heavily wounded."
As the elder reported to the members of the group, before the elder nine different holographic shades were solemnly glancing at him unmoving.
"The last location reported is in the Underworld´s badlands, find the boy and bring him back to the family. We shall do our part in mediating the situation and giving you free reign of action. Dispatch as soon as possible, in ten minutes."
The elder once again was consumed in a blue flame that grew in height, before it dissapeared, leaving only nine shades that soon became physical, one of them walked slowly towards the middle and rose his hand.
A snap was heard, and the nine figures disappeared from the cave.
A Hero´s Point of View
My queen and the strongest queen of the underworld uneasily paced forward and back from the hospital level we were, with us was Rias and her peerage also, after I ended my battle with Cao Cao it was all over the news and one of the few surviving servants of the Gremory Mansion assault apparently managed to tell us that angelic figures somehow came, ransacked the mansion and mortally wounded Rias´s parents and kidnapped Millicas.
I felt angered, but who could have done it.
Michael and Shemhazai denied their implications in the attack, which left only a few of our enemies left, and the Khaos Brigade was as silent as the ambience grew unsettling.
Finally one of Sirzechs´s remaining servants appeared, Grayfia with an expecting face almost screamed at him to tell him her child was alright, but he shook his head, perhaps denying the fact that it wouldn´t be done. Her legs felt weak, and she was about to collide into the surface but I embraced her, as she cried in my shoulder.
"We cannot allow this to flow further into the notice of all society."
A figure spoke and I turned around, in a corner of the passage of many doctors and nurses, three different elders dressed in their ceremonial robes were discussing something very heatedly, the brown haired one was Rias´s ancestor Zekram Bael, of the three elders who formed the council he was the utmost reasonable. Not the other two though, a black haired elder whom looked like a walking mummy and a white bearded and bald elder whom stood with his arms crossed and listening to the interaction.
"This will get us nowhere."
Vali my friend and rival white-dragon emperor whose back leaned into a nearby wall commented rather dryly and glanced around the room.
"Whatever is happening, crying and arguing about it won´t solve anything."
He stated which made me shake in slight discomfort, but it was the way he was and I wasn´t going to change him.
I felt something tinging in my chest, which made my left hand move towards it.
Partner
Ddraig´s voice called me and I spoke with him in my thoughts, amused that he was making conversation at all.
Are you alright?
I don´t know Ddraig, the truth is that I feel something bad, as if an impending doom. Something bad is approaching towards us, and I don´t feel powerful enough to counter it.
You have me, whatever it is, we´ll conquer and dominate as we have always done.
I hope you´re right
I looked into the far horizon as a doctor came out and informed to Grayfia and Rias the state of Lord and Lady Gremory, meanwhile I was thinking about my parents at home. They must be either dining or just waiting for me to come home with the girls.
I chuckled in my thoughts as I remembered the words my dad said when I brought all those girls in the house.
My hand clutched my head as I felt the tell-tale of a big headache, groaning, my head felt as if it was split in half.
´What is this?´
I thought rather estranged as I rose my head to see Rias hanging her head down and Grayfia just standing there agape.
"Rias…"
I called to her and approached to her, she seemed rather unresponsive, the first thing I could think about was hugging her, she started to sob into my shoulders as everybody else seemed tense.
A new enemy has stricken home while we were so occupied, we don´t know anything about this new threat, nobody can track Millicas, and the only people whom apparently knew about the incident are unconscious and fighting for their lives.
This sucks.
"Hyoudou-san."
One of the old coots called me and I turned around, I don´t know but whenever i´m nearby him I feel a chill, an incoming instinct that screamed at me to run. As he approached to me, with his walking cane aiding his walk. Many glanced at the elder man, escorted closely by a healthier white-bearded and pink-eyed devil whom glanced at me, meanwhile Zekram was gone already from the room.
"For such a young devil boy to advance so far in our ranks in the span of a year. No doubt you have such blood in you, such untampered potential and not exactly in the right path…"
His eye was fixated on me, I could only look at him, in slight fright and also respect as his cane lightly approached and rested on my left shin for only a tiny margin of a moment before he turned away and continued his path.
"That´s disappointing."
He shrugged and continued his path lead out by the white bearded devil whom paced slowly to go at the pace of his elder friend.
"I´m right where i´m supposed to be! My friends and my family are all here, i´ll protect them from harm and give them my all as I know they have given such to me.
I won´t allow an old coot, I don´t care how honored and venerated he should be by me, stomp on all of my efforts and the friendships and relationships i´ve built for the sake of just attracting my attention, many widened their eyes and Rias also did, she was about to scold me for talking like that to an elder however the turned his head slightly and I felt a far stronger and insane chill, which made my body stand still as he gazed at me.
I felt his glare with both eyes.
"I see…"
He closed his eyes and started to chuckle, as he continued his path…as both started to retreat I felt his evil wicked laugh in my ears only as my eyes widened.
"Issei, you shouldn´t have done that."
Rias corrected me and I chuckled and scratched the back of my head.
"Sorry Rias, I just…I just felt the need to defend you all from that old coot anyway."
A chuckle echoed through the room and turned around to glance at Vali smirking and chuckling at my antics.
Nine figures in a nonagon formation rushed through the badlands, all of them were running and didn´t looked to be tired at all, all of the figures had their hoods off, revealing in each of them a set of different masks. In the front and center was a snake masked figure, to the figure´s left was a rat masked figure, to his right a chameleon masked figure, behind the rat-masked agent was a crow masked figure, behind chameleon a turtle masked figure ran forward.
Behind and flanking crow is ant and behind turtle is spider.
Flanking ant being the last chain of the nonagon is octopus and to octopus´s right is dragon.
Snake has long black hair that reached to his coccyx, his arms were slim and didn´t looked to be clinging close to the robe´s long-sleeves, from underneath his neck you could see the pale white skin, through the mask´s eyes, snake-like yellow eyes peered through and looked at the world.
Rat has instead curvy blonde hair, he had muscles but not overly bulging, he looked to be physically athetic and conditioned for resistance and speed rather than strength, his lightly-tanned skin worked wonders and looked healthy overall, not pale, a pair of royal blue pupils looked forward, analizying any possible movements in his peripheral vision with obsession from time to time.
Chameleon wears a shaggy spiky white-haired long mane tied in a ponytail, such main arrived all the way to his ankles, the figure had a mesomorph body, which meant he was muscled and bulky, his body oriented for stronger punches and resisting punches, not built for speed, and also looked to have amazing stamina. Of a darker tanned skin than rat, one could easily see a white beard coming off the mask.
Crow has no hair, instead one could easily see the white cranium, with no muscle or skin at all, one sees the bone from miles away, wondering, if such a being is only an illusion or if really a person whose only complexion was made of bones really existed, his feet hover above the surface, and instead of running, he just flies forward, as if akin to a superhero, but didn´t lied on his stomach as he glided the air, instead he just stood as he just propelled himself evading the laws of physics and standing still.
Turtle has no hair but instead, one could see the black reptilian scale skin on his head, his body was mesomorph and bulky, made for strength and wilderness rather than refined techniques or flexibility. Through his mask, one could see a pair of light purple eyes glancing at the front and a few moments turning to his sides.
Ant´s bald head shows no signs of hair at all, meanwhile his skin is creamy and healthy clear, not tanned but alas creamy. His body is ectomorph, which meant he wasn´t bulkier nor his skin clung tightly to his body, alas he looked healthy. His most defining trait was the prominent dark-blue haired beard that protruded from underneath his mask. The figure´s orange irises danced around constantly.
Spider has long straight pink hair with only a tiny mass of hair in ponytail and the other portion left free, the body overall didn´t looked manly at all, instead it looked feminine and with grace, the figure has creamy skin almost bordering pale, but alas it looked healthy. The figure´s cerulean blue eyes constantly stayed focused on her front, but from time to time, the figure would turn its head behind to glance at Dragon.
Octopus has a long spiky-haired mane of green hair in a high-ponytail, the figure´s body was also not bulky but alas with a curved figure, easily defining a feminine shape. The tanned skin was a strange but not exactly unwelcomed variation. The figure´s rosy-red eyes danced along to the sides and the front.
Dragon has a middle-length mane of straight brown hair tied in a low-ponytail, simple and not attracting attention, the figure had pale tanned skin, and from the dragon´s mask, a pair of crimson sclerae eyes glanced at the world with a simple pale-white reptilian-like-pupil, nothing else, they glared still, unmoving.
The figure exhaled in a certain frequency to emit a whistle, emitted in a very high-frequency that it was almost unheard off, soon Octopus reappeared by snake´s side as the nonagon´s shape was shifted and finally dragon was alone to flank everybody from the back, as he reopened his eyes and his 360 degree vision was put into exercise.
As they moved, in the vision of Dragon, close to them and surrounding all the space they took in their nonagon was a circular barrier, which was of 360 degrees upwards and below the earth, approaching his right arm to his chest tapping his finger in a pattern, the vibrations and tones emitted in high-frequency heard around by his operatives around the nonagon´s space.
The Special Assassination and Tactical Squad of the Devil Faction, Codenamed Devil Black Ops, or Dark Side; are the elite of the devil faction and the darkest and meanest devils of all the underworld without any mercy to their enemies. No one has heard of the elusive group due to the fact that they are supposed to be secret. Their group created by the three honorable elders of the Devil Faction with the task of ´removing high-profile targets´ of the map, which meant that any high-profile threat that could prove a political disadvantage to destroy, it was their task to get rid of such enemies.
Devils from High-Class to Low-Class were given missions that were ranked from simple special-contracts and special assignments that ranged from Low to borderline high-class; never did they settle into Ultimate-Class or Super-Class missions, those were all in charge of the Devil Black Ops, a group formed of nine king-less devils whom lost their lords each in different situations, and due to their high-potential and power, they were given the choice to be transferred to another devil´s peerage or to be part of the group.
Few were given the chance to have that choice, others were just shoved forcefully to other peerages, in a way, their group of nine, was blessed to be taken in by the elders and given the opportunity to show their potential. As he sensed a disturbance in his barrier, he saw to flying figures and focuse don them, as their shape distinguished them as dragons, after getting read on their magical signature he started to tap his fingers erratically.
Soon the eight other agents dissapeared into the very surface, as if they were consumed by it or rather, merged with it as he continued to run through the plains of the underworld alone, as the magic around the figure gave him a read on the being, and after inhaling sharply, he managed to get inside the person´s mind.
´Tannin.´
Dragon thought as above the air, the Dragon King was flying, after training his son Bova Tannin for his rating game against Rias Gremory, which was no easy enemy at all. Tanning closed his eyes and sharply opened his eyes, turning downwards and glancing at a running figure through the plains of the underworld at speed that most devils never moved at.
He hovered above the air and glanced at his son.
"Bova, go to Lilith and inform Issei or anybody of the DxD group about suspicious activity nearing the badlands."
Tannin stated to his son whom nodded and flew away, leaving the dragon king glancing at the running figure, with at least Ultimate borderline Super-devil speed, a speed only a few would replicate, one of such beings were Sirzechs Gremory.
The dragon king opened its eyes and with a strong flap of its wings gained advantage in distance and descended on the surface before the figure that came to an abrupt stop, the figure whom stopped and rose his head towards the dragon king whom glanced at him sternly.
"Why the rush? There is no, emergency, is there?"
The dragon king asked to the figure whom pondered on the dragon king, he knew that even though he could best most of the four great satans in combat, even Sirzechs himself although with too much effort, Tannin is a dragon; a milestone above the common three supernatural races and most supernatural races. Dragons were wild, fought wild, had times more stamina and strength than a common devil, even if he were to face it with his other eight comrades, he would easily defeat them.
"Blaze Meteor Dragon King of Dragon Mountain, Ultimate Classed devil with strength and powers above Super-Tier due to the amalgamation of your devil evil piece with your inherent draconic DNA. Tannin, it´s an honor to meet you."
The figure spoke in an altered mechanical voice as the Dragon King was now more wary than usual, the figure knew about him, in fact, he knew more than the usual. In the few fights Tannin has had, he has never actually fought in his prime-level, which meant he usually only started to get warmed up when already the enemy was defeated. A huge disappointment, to the dragon however the figure looked mysterious and shrouding in that mask and those robes, that brown hair gave him a strange yet also familiar vibe.
"You´ve heard of me, could I know who I am facing now?"
The gigantic dragon asked to the figure whom nodded slightly and in respect spoke.
"Riptar at your service Tannin-sama."
He stated politely to the surprised dragon whom glanced at him, as the reinforcements arrived the young man instead fidgeted slightly.
"I have a few questions for you, you wouldn´t mind if I take some of your time would you?"
The gigantic dragon spoke to the figure whom shook its head.
"I apologize but that cannot happen Tannin-sama."
He apologized politely, and around the great dragon eight other figures appeared, ready to attack the dragon whom was getting ready for attacking but the brown-haired male rose his head.
"I believe we could use your help Blaze Meteor Dragon King Tannin, the only condition…is to maintain this a secret and not inform anything to no one."
He stated to the dragon whom chuckled and opened its maw.
"You don´t look exactly friendly either, and from the outwards appearance you have. I don´t trust you."
The dragon commented as the figure nodded and started to hover in the air and ascend slowly towards his face, to confront him face to face, as the dragon king glanced at the figure. Once they were face to face, the dragon king saw the figure approach his right hand to his mask and soon a unlock-like mechanical sound echoed, and the figure removed its mask.
"I assure you, I can be of trust."
The figure assured to the Dragon King whose face was one of utter shock and surprise, staying agape at the figure, whom finally once again wore the mask and his hands, the dragon king blinked once again and spoke.
"What is it?"
The dragon king asked to the masked young boy whom had the signature of a Ultimate-Class devil bordering super-devil; a formidable foe would have been.
"Millicas Gremory was kidnapped, we might use a hand in silently raiding the place…we believe he´s going to be held somewhere fortified."
The figure stated as it turned around and spoke.
"One more thing, our mission is super-classed, therefore; please Lord Tannin, do not have mercy with the enemy, for as they had no mercy when they attacked the Gremory Mansion."
At this the dragon king´s eyes dulled and the dragon king nodded. Descending, the young man before he touched the surface he spoke.
"And do please, Lord Tannin, do maintain my secret between us or my life would be at risk."
Once that was done, he turned to the eight figures and snapped his fingers, they all started to run at the same speed, the dragon king also started to fly at their speed; surprised that such individuals had the level of the four great satan. In a way he was relieved to know they weren´t enemies, the face of the boy that was revealed to him earlier stated such. His face, spoke of no aggression, instead it spoke of passivity and calmness, and the overall aura he exuded transmitted such, a calm individual.
Octopus and Spider broke formation as they were now by Dragon´s sides, the figures started to speak silently.
"Can we trust him?"
The dragon whom was near could hear the conversation between the three, meanwhile Dragon looked forward not worrying, as his barrier was reactivated as they rushed towards the location that the elder indicated them. He had a bad feeling overall, after all; one cannot trust Elder Yashagoro if they ran through the Dark Side as long as he has, something was going on, so the friendly people he gets involved in this the better.
Dragon could only ponder on what was coming, he has managed to read about Project Mogul and he gripped the necklace around his neck hard, he would die a thousand times before the necklace and his eyes go to the hands of anyone at all, he would protect the last thing he had of himself close until he ceases his breath.
"Being a supernatural means to endure; people live their reality bound to what they accept as correct and true, they define their reality around those that are with them. Merely effigies, their reality might be an illusion. Sometimes, having allies at your side…is basic survival for a supernatural."
Dragon lectured slowly and ceased the speech, before he grunted, a cramp on his left leg was felt, he knew it was almost time, but he had to resist it; until he ends the mission he can be back at home and continue his treatment.
"You are wise."
Tannin commented our loud towards him, as he nodded and continued his trek, as he extended the range of his barrier a few more miles, he finally felt it.
Jumping as high as he could, surprising even the dragon king; he did two hand-seals as he fell down on the surface and slammed both of his palms on the surface, their front turned blurred before it finally revealed an abandoned military fort dating from the days of the Great War, unused and decommissioned.
Kneeling down, all the agents neared him and created a octagon around him, Tannin outside though glanced at them as he closed his eyes and finally touched the surface, sending a pulse of magic, his barrier extended and finally he covered the whole military fort, zooming in he stared at the entrance, fallen angel and devil guards, a rogue faction, interesting.
With his right-hand´s index and middle finger only, he started to indicate whom was going to go all out in the front.
Snake
Chameleon
Ant
Tannin
As he blew out, an holographic projection of the whole military fort appeared and finally four different colored circles appeared, in two pairs they were going to infiltrate the front and the back of the base, obvious places of attack, the purpose was to create a distraction. Meanwhile, Crow, Rat and Turtle were going to infiltrate the peak building, where they were after-informed by Yashagoro they kept Millicas, which was the prison cells.
He wasn´t foolish, Yashagoro´s informants could´ve been led astray in purpose and this could also be one of that old bastard´s ridiculous in-mission tests, the man was just that mental anyway.
After al the agents were all gone except for Spider, Octopuss, Dragon and Tannin himself, he had an opportunity to speak aloud.
"We´re going to infiltrate into the base, and instead of going to the prison cells, we´re going to the main offices. The base is formed of three buildings overall apart from the vast fields that are there, a prison cell building, the dormitories and the main office building where the archives are laid. We´ll be going there."
He gestured to the other two whom nodded at him and finally turned to the Dragon King and bowed.
"We appreciate your guts Lord Tannin."
The young man bowed, without using his altered voice on the Dragon king whom nodded and afterwards flew away, and started to ransack the whole place, it was time for action not inaction.
Snapping his fingers, the three submerged themselves in the surface and navigated in the very earth towards the building.
Issei Hyoudou´s P.O.V.
We were informed by Bova Tannin that there was some suspicious activity going on the Underworld´s Badlands, which were the border between the Devil Section of the Underworld and the Grim Reaper´s zone, a toletation Zone where there´s nothing.
Bova informed us that there´s an abandoned devil military decommissioned base that apparently since the Great War hasn´t been used and was almost nonexistent, none of the actual Devil Lords actually remembered the decommissioning of that base at all nor using it in the Civil war at all, which meant that something fishy was going on.
All the DxD group was summoned, from heaven, the fallen angels and even devil ourselves; Vali´s Group and Cao Cao´s group were with me, my peerage also had my company, as did Rias´s. Some of the Fallen Angel special Corps of Slash Dog and Dulio´s own team.
We´re coming Millicas, just a little more and we´ll be there.
I could see Grayfia´s and Rias´s worried faces, how wouldn´t they, they are all worried for their family member and Sirzechs´s living legacy, why wouldn´t they be concerned.
Ascending from the surface and without wearing their robes, Spider had a big Odachi sword strapped to her back, wearing standard Dark Side uniform, which was composed of a black sleeveless vest with blade and projectile-proof material, black cargo tactical pants that changed color whenever the user willed it, black combat boots and her signature mask.
Octopus instead wore spiked gloves, strapped around her hip was a special black cloth with a crimson red sewn kanji.
Dragon was however the one whom was different; from underneath his vest a unique thin connection went towards a special and unique box on his hip, nobody knew what it was, and he never bothered to inform nobody about it. On his left hip a katana was strapped, and overall his vest was unzipped, revealing a red sleeveless shirt that clung close to his body, on his abdomen one could see something bulging.
Nodding, there was a flight of stairs and a passage to their right, indicating spider to check the alley the female jumped and soon her hands were somehow pasted on the wall before merging with the ceiling and disappearing.
Octopus tightened its fists and Dragon walked the stairs, before turning around and swinging his right arm, a big white spike was shot towards a figure that was in the upper level guarding, the spike pierced through the guard´s neck whom gargled as blood was spilled on the wall and floor, before he descended to the floor, octopus appeared and carried the body before it made any sound, and left it on a corner silently.
She glanced at Dragon whom was carelessly walking the walls of the building upwards, she shrugged and started to walk the stairs in a silent matter, it seems that the agent has aced it up a little, then perhaps she´ll do some pestering for him to teach her more of his secret skills.
The building was only of three floors, the second floor was empty and consisted only of the wide archives that were empty, therefore the offices were in the third uppermost floor.
A loud maniac laugh was heard from the main office as a black haired pale-skinned fallen angel smirked, Azazel was truly a pussy to leave him in conquered territory, getting in and out of Cocytus was child´s play, and recently with the death of Sirzechs, Serafall and Azazel, after sealing Trihexa and the death of Rizevim Livan Lucifer proved to be rather uneventful.
Such was the end of the Khaos Brigade with the master plan, ha, they were fools.
A very interested party simply managed to get Kokabiel out of Cocytus without nobody knowing, giving him a letter, tons of men and a game plan. Kidnap Sirzechs´s son, kill him, deliver his body bag with a personal message from one fo the Seraphs in heaven, and the alliance will break, returning the times to the uneasy ceasefire and with no Azazel to promote peace and the new generation actually unknown to war, it was ecstatic to know of it.
Tragically the cost of kidnapping young Millicas was too high, yet his contractor also had a back up plan for him to stop and get a breather and wait for more men, as he waits and enjoys some good quality time with Millicas Gremory.
The boy at the moment was glaring at him with tears, his ankles and wrists were tied and his mouth taped, the boy was as good as submitted. With some expert sealing, the boy cannot use his magic therefore he was led useless to escape.
Whomever removed the main three from the game, he had to thank them for it.
"It is all beautiful. A dream come true."
He got up from the old leather office chair and stared at the boy whom glared at him.
"Oh, where are my manners? ·chuckle· I forgot to introduce myself."
He approached to the boy and caressed his face, the boy flinched and turned away, yet he forcefully gripped the boy´s chin and smirked.
"I´m Kokabiel, a former acquaintance of your father; we fought a few times during the great war. And I actually expected him to come for you but, oh, he´s dead."
With a mirthful and mocking laugh the boy hung his head and cried as the Fallen Angel Cadre mockingly laughed about the boy´s misery as he continued his speech.
"You see boy, the factions right now are experiencing peace. Peace is vermin and venomous, it tends to mediate, to alleviate and to sedate the pain. If I kill you, then I shall be killed by your family, which in turn your family will be murdered by my comrades and followers; triggering the cycle of War, Hatred and Death. That´s what I desire!"
He extended his arms and opened them.
"You know, when you die and I deliver your body; I´ll enjoy it, so much."
The smirk on the man´s face was evident, Millicas could only close his eyes and even though it ached in his head, he prayed for whatever being existed to take him out of such hell.
"I´ll enjoy playing with you boy."
Approaching to the boy whom tried to struggle but he couldn´t, the boy´s clothes were torn, leaving him only in his pants, his torso and feet were naked. Taking a leather whip with some spikes on it, the Fallen Angel smirked as the spikes glowered in golden pure holy energy.
Removing the tape from the boy´s mouth, the boy could only glare at him.
"You´ll pay when my brother Issei arri-."
Smack!
A rude smash was done to the boy´s face, as his head collided gruesomely with the surface, echoing through the whole room. With a smirk on his face, he re-taped the boy´s lips and prepared to scourge the boy into physical torture.
Minutes Later
The three agents neared to the main hallway towards the main office until two devils rushed towards them, Both spider and octopus rushed towards the two devils, meanwhile Dragon walked towards the main door and heard insane laughs in the room, and something akin to groans.
Dragon leaned his forehead to the door and glanced through the door, a fallen angel with a considerable signature of light and below him a boy with a weak and dim signature of a devil, perhaps a young devil whom has just received supernatural training, he felt a weak presence of power of destruction confirming it was a Gremory, therefore it´s Millicas.
Commander
Through the commlink, Snake was communicating with him.
"What is it?"
He asked to the operative whom afterwards answered.
The antiterrorist DxD group is here, Tannin is with them and apparently informed them about us. They are approaching and after destroying everyone around, the dragon king is defensive, the DxD group are getting near. Your orders sir.
He groaned, the whole DxD group was going to be here, including the red dragon emperor´s peerage, which his queen was none other than an angered mother Grayfia Lucifudge, known for her Ice Powers which rivalled Serafall, but even then; he already surpassed the female sitri long ago. He could only sigh, he really wanted to befriend the dragon king Tannin, perhaps even seek out training from the man since he knew that only through him he could finally access something beyond the Super Devil state.
"Apply order 44, the red dragon is mine…"
With the order clear, the commlink was ceased and he did two hand-seals, kicking the door and blowing air, a powerful and violent gust of wind went towards Kokabiel whose body was littered in cuts.
"Who dares!?"
Before the fallen angel could even blink, right at his front a figure spun slightly and with a hard kick to his stomach, the wall was destroyed and Kokabiel´s body pierced through the wall, sending the fallen angel repulsing through the air until he descended into the very surface.
Approaching to the wounded boy, whom was almost unconscious, he removed the tape and the binds, touching the boy, he closed his eyes and whispered.
"Mirror Heaven, Earth Change, Underworld Heal…"
He stated and Millicas body was recuperated through full health, the boy fell unconscious and he could only sigh, carrying the boy on his back in a piggy-back style, he jumped as he backflipped and millions of light-spears were thrown towards him, all the light-spears were repelled by an invisible barrier summoned around the brown haired agent.
Rushing towards the Fallen Angel fast with his sword, the Fallen Angel did so, but at an inferior speed and tried to swung at him, but the agent easily jumped with a front flip and swinging his arms, five middle-heighted white projectiles pierced through the male fallen angel as he spun and the fallen angel almost didn´t managed to parry the sword strikes.
"Is that all you got!?"
Kokabiel mocked the male whom instead just extended his arm and a powerful beam of Power of Destruction attacked the fallen angel surprising him, it was in none-lethal dose therefore it only repulsed him slightly and created a gaping-hoel through his clothes and managed to wound his body with cuts.
"Interesting variation of the power of destruction. You must be a bael then."
The fallen angel spoke to the male whom rushed towards him and with a clap of his hands, a gigantic fire wave was fired towards the fallen angel whom screamed and rushed towards the wave of fire coating himself with light as he went through the wave of fire and parried through the sword-strike of the agent, but his body couldn´t move anymore as he tried to but he couldn´t.
"Illusory Binding success."
The agent commented and approached towards Kokabiel glancing at him towards the eye again before he fell unconscious, he glared at the fallen angel, taking him by the hair and dragging him towards the entrance; perhaps this way he´ll be able to stop the fighting, though he´ll enjoy some with his brother first. He closed his eyes and afterwards a clone of himself was formed.
The agent retreated to toy with the Red Dragon Emperor, after all, he has heard rumors about his strength.
Blaze Meteor Dragon Tannin roared as Six Black Ops agents managed to subdue the gigantic Dragon King with a special sealing chains technique known by turtle; all the six were facing the members of the DxD group as Tannin tried to free himself of the chains by yanking or even using his flames but it was useless.
Snake whom talked indicated with his index and middle finger of his right hand towards the front.
"Supress…"
Then he made a scissor cutting motion with both fingers and spoke he last order and his left arm with opened palm gestured to the male Hyoudou.
"And limitate."
With those orders all the members rushed towards the DxD anti-terrotist group, and they were giving them quite the fight, Around Issei four walls made of water formed as he tried to go against them and push against them but he couldn´t.
Turning into Balance Breaker, Issei broke the walls and was about to rush to save Rias and all of his peerage but when he was about to use the booster of the knight to rush fast towards where his friends were, a strong kick received him in his head and repulsed him away, kneeling down in the surface was a Dragon masked agent, glancing directly to the Hyoudou. In his Scale Mail form of the Boosted Gear he was taken away; meanwhile Issei got up.
Issei Hyoudo´s P.O.V.
Did someone get the license plate of that train?
I felt perhaps the strongest kick I was ever given, something akin to when I fought with Sirzechs, but with a little more punch, just enough to tumble me down. Getting up, and glancing at the figure standing, dragon masked I chuckled at the Irony, meanwhile Ddraig inside of me spoke.
Partner, be wary. I can feel an intense power signature coming off from him, but he´s good at surpressing his presence, he´s easily on Lucifer´s level.
On Sirzechs´s level, someone like him; interesting.
I closed my eyes and soon my body glowed crimson red.
CARDINAL CRIMSON PROMOTION ACTIVATE!
I rushed towards the Dragon masked agent with Ascalon in my hand, the figure instead with grace sidestepped the rushed swings I did with his left arm behind him and only his right hand parrying with a katana like sword that I somehow felt familiar with, yet why.
Was he playing with me?
SMACK!
I was furiously punched by the guy´s left hand, which packed power, my head even was pushed to the side and I felt dizzy, then came a combo with his right elbow but I managed to block it, and I smirked, then I felt cold and so much pain, I even coughed and glanced at my abdomen, it was already pierced, so fast that I didn´t even saw it.
Partner, you have to retreat now.
Ddraig alerted me as I jumped away and looked at the oozing substance from my being, a holy sword.
How?
Partner, that is the Kusanagi no Tsurugi, the holy sword that Susanoo took out from Yamata-no-Orochi´s insides. The sword is told to cut through anything and posses a lethal poison that according to the wielder´s orders can be injected through the enemy´s body whenever his body is pierced.
Alright Ddraig, you take care of the poison, I take care of the guy.
As I glanced at my front a gigantic wave of flames was going against me, holy shit these flames are gotter than even Riser´s. Fuck!
Soon from his right arm white wyverns appeared.
DIVIDE
DIVIDE
DIVIDE
DIVIDE
The incoming flames were divided, yet they continued to still be intense.
The flames dissapeared as if they were just unexistant and instead both wyverns were slashed at by the male dragon masked agent, their bodies cut in half and soon a loud voice boomed.
DIVIDING WYVERN FAIRY SEALED!
Sealed!
What the hell does that mean!?
I rushed towards the man and tried to go close-quarters with him, I tried to punch him in the face but he easily blocks my punch and the figure chuckled.
.
´Foolish little brother, your Boosted Gear tricks are yesterday´s news. Your over-dependence on it will be your doom.´
The agent thought with a chuckle.
Before I could even react, I felt a strike on my abdomen, as I coughed blood, my scale male dissapeared and then I felt something piercing on my very left lung, before I was kicked away upwards and finally with a strong strike on my sternum my back collided with the surface.
It seems I'll have to use it, to face once again another enemy which pits me to use it, well. Can´t have everybody expecting they got me.
I closed my eyes tightly and focused all of my energy into myself, it is time I use it.
A gigantic wave of pure power resonated through all of the Underworld´s badlands.
DIABOLOS DRAGON GOD MODE ACTIVATE!
´Full High-level and borderline Ultimate-level, you have to use deification to reach that level. Pitiful…´
The dragon agent stated as the wings of the armor of the red dragon emperor glowered black-red, he shrugged as ddraig´s voice boomed from the sacred gear.
INFINITY BLASTER!
A powerful black-red blast was fired towards him as he easily slammed both of his hands into the surface and a gigantic and thick wall of rock appeared.
´Earth Spell: Babylon Wall.´
The wall absorbed the blast and the Hyoudo just glazed at the wall in shock.
Partner…
Approaching to the wall easily, the dragon masked agent spun slightly and kicked the wall, and soon a black-red-brown even more powerful blast was returned towards the Hyoudou whom widened his eyes and opened its maw, expelling flames, both techniques were soon met.
Jumping towards the wall´s top, he glanced at the red dragon emperor trying to fight his technique, he shrugged and rushed fast towards the young dragon emperor and kicked him in the face, surprising him and his technique was cancelled and the blast managed to strike Issei and make him scream.
´Don´t expect your enemies to just watch in fascination as their attacks collide, middle ranged can easily change their battle style close quarters.´
He thought in another good lesson towards the now red dragon emperor of the Gremory Family Issei coughed tons of blood due to the attack, meanwhile he wasn´t even scrapped at all. Sensing a nearby magic spell, he jumped away and spun around, white spikes were shot towards his three incoming enemies; three females.
A valkirye, A blonde haired female expert in fire magic and a blue haired female wearing the durandal with traces of Excalibur.
´Interesting team, an expert valkirye magician, a female phenex and a female holy-sword user, very interesting indeed.´
"One by one…"
With a cocky come-forth motion he smirked at the three females whom stood between his way towards the red dragon emperor´s recuperating body, the blue haired holy-sword user gave a step forward and secured her hold on the sword.
"I´ll protect my beloved at all costs, with this holy sword I shall praise his name by defeating you."
She stated and he remained unfaced, he however nodded and wore his own Katana, as he knelt down slightly, soon a curved white spike protruded from his right elbow, a white straight blade protruded from his palm, and another curved white blade protruded from his embow, then on his knees two more protruded upwards, then on his back, for each one of his vertebral spikes, two from each protruded upwards, on his chest curved white blades protruded and through his vest.
All the blades were stained in blood as the female glanced with interest at the man, meanwhile soon a loud chuckle was heard, it was none other than snake.
"You´re dead girl, DEAD!"
As the agent chuckled, he continued his battle as the girl gulped and glanced at the figure.
Rushing towards the holy sword user, the dragon agent did the first strike but the girl parried, but he surprised her by using his left hand to pierce her right elbow causing her to gasp, she did a step back and with his left elbow he tried to use the curved blade on her but she parried it with her sword, only for him to pierce her abdomen and some section of her chest with his blade.
Kicking her, she was repulsed away as she cried all through until she fell, the figure just stood there and glanced at her. Getting up, her blade started to glow golden with holy energy and she did a war cry and a golden beam of holy energy was shot towards the figure whom did a frontal finger stab to the air before smirking and rushing towards the beam of holy energy, he started to spin around, swinging his blade at speeds that none could detect except but Tannin whom was interested in the figure fighting.
Tannin P.O.V.
Watching that interesting teenager fight has been an overall surprise for me. The boy mastered Issei quite easily, using the boy´s own weaknesses against him, the boy which lacked enough speed was used against him, his powerful attacks were easily parried and blocked with clever spells and returned back to him, his boosted gear´s added abilities sealed, his diabolos dragon god cannon rendered useless before a massive powerful earth spell such as the Babylon Wall.
Now, watching the boy spin around, those white spikes were expanded, apparently they were resilient to holy energy. He was swinging his blade upwards, downwards, side-upwards, side-downwards so many times each time to block a very specific spot on his body that could be attacked, the kusanagi building a barrier around any other blank points to protect him.
Now I have no doubt that no-one in the DxD group except for the Satans and Myself could defeat that man, whomever he was, he was a killing machine through and through.
Could he be?
No, he couldn´t we would´ve already know.
There´s something fishy about that boy, we must investigate about him.
I saw the blue haired female sword-user pull one last trick, a intense cross-like beam that shot once against the male, but the boy easily continued to spin and soon his whole rotation created a golden barrier around him of the holy energy fired by the female.
The female wheezed tiredly, using almost all of her magic to enhance her holy abilities, the figure ceased to spun and rushed against the girl whom tried to parry his golden glowing sword´s strikes, but he was faster than her, and each time she parried from one side he pierced with on another, when finally he kicked her in the abdomen.
"Zero."
And I saw as he jumped and six different tiny swords made of the light of the technique she used against him where all shot and pierced through the female´s body and finally through her chest, Kusanagi pierced through and finally, she fell to the surface, her durandal left in the surface and the kusangi piercing through her chest.
I roared in anger.
"Xenovia!"
Ravel Phenex screamed and rushed towards the gaping blue haired female whom was almost unconscious, and her body left like swiss cheese.
"Xenovia…"
Rossweisse glanced with shock towards the female, distracted, her enemy appeared at her front that fast shocking her as he gripped her neck and he slammed her strongly on the surface, placing his left blade-less hand above her moth, she gasped as all of her body´s oxygen was being removed, she tried to gasp air but she couldn´t, falling unconscious due to the loss of oxygen he straightened himself and dusted himself off.
His uniform already filled with holes due to the use of his abilities.
"Y-you…YOU MONSTER!"
The blonde haired female Phenex screamed as her body was engulfed in flames, about to rush towards the dragon masked agent, she was stopped however when Issei was at her front, an arm preventing her from going.
"It´s alright Ravel, I´ll take care of him."
Issei Hyoudo stated to the female as he glared at the dragon masked agent, as all his gems glowered he glared.
CERO
Soon his whole armor glowered and from it divided and produced a dragon, not any dragon but the manifestation of Ddraig outside his sacred gear, both the dragon and the boosted gear user glared at the figure whom glanced at them.
"Alright Ddraig, LET´S GO!"
Issei and Ddraig rushed towards the agent as he nodded and stood in guard position with his sword, he was facing a male devil and a pure-blooded dragon. There was only one way to do so.
Rushing towards both, Ddraig expelled the flames from his mouth, ready to use the combination with Issei, he however glanced as the figure easily jumped, Ddraig´s flames were redirected towards him as he threw his blade towards Issei.
The flames dissipated as Ddraig gave him a strong punch in the gut, causing him to cough blood and for pain like never before in his life to spread to his body.
´Shit, shit, SHIT!´
SACRED GEAR CANCELLER!
RESET!
Ddraig was about to speak towards Issei but before he could he was taken back into the sacred gear and soon a humanized Issei without sacred gear was sitting down.
BOOSTED GEAR SEAL!
Coughing blood into the surface the Dragon Masked Agent approached to the male and gripped him by his hair and rose him to his height. Issei´s brown eyes glanced at his enemy, never in his life has he been defeated so pathetically after achieving the Diabolus Dragon God form, never has he been rendered so useless with his peerage in tow.
The young man however spitted to the agent in the mask, which caused the young man to rebelliously chuckle.
To the elder male it was funny though, instead he slammed him in the surface before rising him again, his left hand´s fingers glowed with tiny light brown candle flames on each finger.
"I´m sorry Otouto."
Before the boy could even process such words in his head the fingers were slammed into his abdomen and the boy screamed out loud, the dragon masked agent finally freed his grip of the young boy as he touched one of his hands and approached it to his necklace.
´This is the only way Issei, if there was another one…I would´ve done so.´
He thought as he finally nodded, having enough contact with the necklace, the agent jumped away due to the power of destruction being fired against him by an awakened Rias Gremory, which meant she was angered and power of destruction was surrounding her, holding onto a crimson holy red sword, an ethereal red wyvern hovered around her and rushed towards the female causing her to cry and gasp as she was shaping into the Balance Breaker Scale Male of the Boosted Gear.
´Not enough time.´
He rose his hand and rotated his index finger around as all the agents nodded and he dissipated as the female rushed against him before she roared in anger in the air, for the fact that she didn´t get a shot against the male agent.
Dragon´s P.O.V.
I returned to both Kokabiel´s body and the unconscious form of Millicas Gremory, I would´ve liked to give him but alas I need him for something very important, therefore i´ll deliver him soon, just not today. As I carried Millicas in a piggy-back style, and gripped Kokabiel´s hair with my right hand two other agents appeared Spider and Octopus, before I could greet them, I could barely only lift my mask a little before I vomited my last food with some brown splotches on it, blood.
Shit, shit.
As my shirt was starting to get wet, constant beeps were heard from the box in my side as my legs started to grow weak.
Fuck, fuck; I was careless and allowed my almost perfect battling to be nigh-interrupted by some nailed punch by the Red Dragon Emperor, it´s going to cost me quite bad.
"Haru!"
Both females spoke out loud in concern as I was wheezing, my labored breath was imitated by my immensely bleeding abdomen.
"A…aw…away…"
I stated as both females nodded and soon a magical circle appeared underneath us, we were all taken, in exception of Kokabiel, whom was glanced by the DxD group surprised about it.
On a common apartment in the poorest district of Lilith where no high-classed devils would ever tread, a magical circle appeared, a white-furred wolf with crimson red lines artistically traced along it was sleeping on the thighs of a young girl, probably of ten or eleven with crimson red hair but with streaks of silver in it, making it quite beautiful and unique, the girl was dressed in a black sleeveless shirt tightly hung to her body, a pair of white short-shorts and a pair of green flip-flops.
She rose up, which managed to make the wolf also perk up when they heard two masked females rushing forward with a brown haired man towards a room, the wolf followed and the girl did so too.
"What happened?"
The girl asked to the green haired girl whom removed her mask as Octopus removed her mask also and with no care used her swords to tear away the man´s clothes, his abdomen was painted purple, also one could see many needle wounds on his abdomen, on certain sections.
Removing the straps and the needles, she removed it, and cursed when clear liquid started to leak out.
"Shit, I need the bags girl. Now!"
She ordered to the green haired girl whom nodded and went to retrieve the equipment necessary for the fluid absorption back.
Peritoneal Dialysis, is a very complex process that is substitute for renal transplant, for the man lying at their bed who fights for his life however, such thing isn´t a choice since his ailment isn´t affected by something biological or that mortals have, he faces full multi-organical failure due to an evil-piece stuck in his body that, as long as it is either removed or re-activated by his lord, he´ll die a tragic death.
All that they knew is that he had hope, and the hope was deposited on that red-haired boy they took; and the fallen angel they have contained safely for questioning.
The punch from Ddraig caused literally the catheter to pierce through all of his peritoneum and traumatize his duodenum and the pylorical portion of his stomach.
The man blinked as he groaned, as the female´s pierced his abdomen once again, he closed his eyes as the dialysis fluid was removed from his abdomen, purifying his body. Finally the bags were attached to a nearby pole with wheels, a sad whining wolf approached to him and licked his cheek. He smiled.
"Sorry for worrying you Shira-chan. I had a battle with my little brother and Ddraig whom apparently managed to manifest from his sacred gear. That was, surprising at least."
He groaned as the young red haired girl pouted and crossed her arms.
"I hate Baka-ani for kicking Ani-koi."
The girl stated her feelings out loud as the brown haired boy chuckled at the girl and gestured her to come forward to the bed, the girl nodded and jumped and leaped, descending on the bed as the male started to tickle her, the girl was laughing.
"Bwahaha, ani-koi…stop…pweaseee."
The girl tried but it was all futile, as both agent females were chatting outside the room, finally the bickering between sibling stopped when the masked male caressed the face of the young girl whom now was calm, approaching her slim and slightly tiny hands, she removed the male´s mask to see his face again.
She was greeted by the sincere and affectionate glance of the brown haired and crimson eyed male, whom closed his eyes and soon she was greeted by his normal and yet entrancing pupil-less purple eyes.
"Please, don´t hate Issei for what he´s done…he…he´s only a victim of this all."
The boy expressed as he lied in the bed and sighed, placing the mask by the bedside table and glanced at the ceiling.
"What are you going to do now Issei?"
He wondered out loud, as he got up and walked, dragging his drainage system alongside him with his pole, as he came out. Both females approached to him.
"You shouldn´t be out at this hour."
The female still with her spiked gloves commented to him as he shook his head.
"It´s alright, It´s nothing. I´ll be better soon enough Delilah."
He commented towards the green haired female whom pouted and crossed her arms, meanwhile he glanced at the pink haired girl, whom glanced at him on the eyes. She however cried in happiness, closed her eyes and approached both of her hands to her face and wore a big smile.
"Mou, don´t look like that at me."
She swayed her hips from side to side, as the male sighed and smiled, finally walking forward, the red haired girl with silver streaks appeared and spoke at the girl.
"Oi! Don´t look at Ani-chan like that, He´s mine! Mine!"
She stated to the pink haired girl whom glanced at her with a murderous glare and smirked at her.
"Perhaps I should cook some pepper-head for dinner…it´ll be taaaasty."
The pink haired female´s obsessed eyes glared at the female whom did a step back, before the Green haired girl stood between them.
"Aiko please, don´t traumatize the girl."
This caused the female straighten herself and laugh lightly and scratching the back of her head.
"Sorry, tehe."
She stuck out her tongue goofily with a smile before choosing instead to cook dinner, meanwhile the now named Haru approached to the guest bd where Millicas was lying asleep, he did a hand-seal and placed his right hand on the boy´s head, this might be the only way he could summon her back from her realm of feigned sealed-death.
As he finally found it, a white ectoplasm-like gas came out of the boy´s head slightly as he glanced at the piece of memory presence, there was the presence of Serafall Sitri, finally taking it towards a wide room, he sealed it in a special containment glass and finally he glanced at the green haired girl.
Going towards the containment room, a naked fallen angel in only his pants had chains wrapped around his wrists and forearms, such chains were embedded to the ceiling, the male´s body was left hanging with his feet dangling and his toes barely in contact with the surface at all.
Kokabiel although perhaps oblivious was the reason Issei Hyoudo got involved with the surpernatural at all in the first place, sending that fallen angel girl Raynare towards him to murder him, also the Gremory Girl whose approach wasn´t exactly a very innocent and good intention one, even though she was going to marry the red dragon emperor now, the truth is however that such union would lead to chaos.
Without Issei clearing that contradiction, he´ll always lead a double faux life full of lies and deceit; he must clear those thorns away.
He cursed and glanced at his dialysis machine, his slightly bloated belly considered perhaps adult fat. His abdominal perimeter of 101cm once he removes all of his clothing is perhaps the payback of all the constant dialysis towards his abdomen done to purify his body and the slower his metabolism was getting in certain aspects and of the less constant pattern of eating he has.
"There´s someone I have to talk to."
He stated with a groan, knowing that the encounter won´t be exactly a pleasant one.
"Who?"
She asked as he took out his sword and threw it as if it were akin to a boomerang, the fallen angel was decapitated and his arms cut off cleanly.
"Someone´s making clever moves, and the only one who can know is ´She who holds all answers´."
After the dialysis mechanism was done, he yanked away the catheter gently and parched his wound before finally nodding and fading away akin to a ghost.
The female could only groan.
Issei Hyoudou´s P.O.V.
Haru-Ani-sama!
I glanced at a taller version of myself but with a more passive face and glancing at the sunset, his common brown eyes glanced at the skies.
"I want to play."
I spoke towards him and he turned around smiling at me and nodding, he wore a smile, before however some strange circle appeared on his ear, wait, is that a magical circle. Soon his smile morphed into a grim face before a sad frown, as the magical circle was gone he approached to me and caressed my cheek.
"I´m sorry Issei-otouto, I´ll play with you later. Meanwhile…I challenge you to solve this."
He gave me a special and unique word-puzzle-like cylinder, you rotate each of the slots to find the magical word that will open it.
"Inside, there is something special, if you solve it; you might find a treasure. If you try to break it in half to find out what´s inside, whatever is inside will be also destroyed. I´ll help you with advice when I come back."
I shook my head at the memories, did I had an elder sibling. But, mother and father confessed to me that they
Have tried so many times to have babies and the only one that was born was I.
Why now am I getting these memories?
Haru…what does that mean?
Why do I feel strange?
Because memories were placed into your mind
Ddraig?
I felt the flames and in between the sea, was him, the great red dragon emperor whom glanced at me with slight concern and also perhaps compassion.
"What do you mean that memories were placed in my mind?"
I asked to the gigantic dragon whom closed his eyes and did a short nod.
Whatever happened out there, it managed to reveal many things now. Since i´m a third-person floating around what you are, your very existence. I saw it, the process of your brain assimilating the memories, and things had more sense now. It seems your memories were altered in a way to forget about important events of your life.
Soon the fires slightly dissipated and a child version of myself with a birthday hat stood, I had a wide smile.
Ani-chan, you bought it!?
The younger version of myself stated happily as not so far away from him stood a slightly taller young boy, a few years older than me, with longer brown hair and smiling at me, he carried a big gift box for me. The younger version of myself rushed towards him as he placed the box gently in the surface and hugged him tightly.
How?
How could I have missed so many important things about myself and be clueless about it?
Who was he?
My elder brother, I have an elder brother, I had one family member that wasn´t at home.
Someone I forgot about.
Haru Hyoudou
Ddraig stated glancing at Issei deeply, the red dragon emperor now got memories of his previous user before Issei, finally the last piece of the puzzle that ate him out finally was solved. Now he had his memories back, unpleasant ones rather. Now, he rather felt good being held by Issei and it was all thanks to the boy´s elder sibling.
"How do you know him?"
I asked to the big dragon whom grimaced and sighed afterwards, soon an afterimage of a big man, dressed only in black tactical pants, barefoot and with an insane grin, his hair was black with crimson red streaks, draconic pupils and emerald green eyes, on his back ten crimson red angel wings glowed brightly.
What I am about to tell you is about my previous user, your upperclassman by one generation.
I listened intently to Ddraig´s explanation about the past user of Ddraig before me.
This is Balthazar, Balthazar the Wicked. He was my previous user, he was a jewish boy whom unlike most jewish people his family was rather poor and therefore were scorned by their own brothers and sisters in faith. When he was seven, his parents on the way home from the synagogue were murdered, and he activated his sacred gear.
Archangel Uriel approached to him and promised him solace from his loneliness if he fought in the name of god.
And he trained to be the best user of the Sacred Gear, but he lacked something.
The will to make friendships, the will to open up to people. Each time he killed someone, the last traces of humanity he had were starting to fade away and he started to enjoy killing people, in the most gruesome ways possible, using…using me for those ends. Each and every kill he crafted was more insane than the last one.
I wanted out.
The after image of Balthazar started to chuckle out loud, his creepy high-pitched laughed caused shivers of fear to be coursed through my body.
Balthazar somehow managed to contact the soul of the past users without my consentment and found a way to enslave me, to free my of my own free will of the sacred gear and hypnotize me. Hypnotize me to obey his orders, his very own will…to grow as insane as he was and enjoy as he enjoyed. He embedded me fully in his beliefs and his own warped vision of the world.
As the insane angel was soon covered in a crimson red hue, as the hue around him took the shape of a evilly-chuckling dragon.
A mission he was assigned went wrong and he murdered a devil prince, a very important high-class child, that caused the underworld and heaven to break the ceasefire and enter to a war. Paired with it, also the Fallen Angels whom were also attacked in between the cross-fire also got involved, re-sparking the Great War.
Many got their dreams come true.
Soon the after image of Kokabiel with a wide smirk as he chuckled lowly.
Heaven was with its hands tied, and the system wasn´t exactly in their side either, and killing balthazar would be something hard. Therefore, Michael agreed with the underworld to murder Balthazar and end it all and leave the next red dragon emperor be free of the factions.
They agreed and therefore, Balthazar had a mission in Okinawa.
Issei gasped and he remembered what happened…
"What´s happening?"
The Hyoudou Family in a mall at Okinawa, during the visit of Grandfather Juzo, young Issei gripped his elder brother´s hands tighter as he gained a cold face and glanced at his parents, soon however his grandfather glanced his elder brother.
"Mother, Father, Juzi-jiji…take Issei to safety. I´ll see what´s going on."
He stated to the three whom gasped, Issei was about to protest and the elder man nodded before he gave the boy a special and unique ring.
"Take her blessing with you, she has protected the Hyoudou for centuries, it is her time to protect you."
With a nod, the boy wore the ring and ran away as the Hyoudou Family walked out of the mall, he wanted to be with his brother. He had a bad feeling of what was going to happen.
"Ani-chan!"
I gasped and caressed my forearms, it felt so real; stuff of nightmares.
"What happened?"
I was supposed to be resealed for a century, that was supposed to be the plan discussed by the factions. After all, I grew insane and somebody managed to hypnotize and fully access the sacred gear enough to even warp it´s very programming. And I was willing to accept that fate.
Ddraig commented deeply before shrugging and speaking out.
That same dragon masked agent, although younger fought against my user and defeated him, sealed me inside a ceremonial teapot.
He groaned, perhaps the utmost shaming and perhaps even embarrassing aspect, being reduced to be sealed in something as a teapot.
Your grandfather, grandparents and yourself died; the whole mall collapsed in you, but somehow I don´t know you survived. Your elder brother sealed me inside you and made me promise to be by your side and protect you…be what he couldn´t anymore be, I accepted and he was gone…then I forgot about him somehow.
Until today.
Soon at the side of Haru Hyoudou´s afterimage appeared the afterimage of that Dragon masked agent, then one approached to the other and now were both in the other, it all made now sense.
I felt sad, and my tears cascaded. After many years it all makes sense, why did I felt something amiss when Grandfather Juzo died so suddenly without any explanation. Why did I felt so alone? Why was there a lonely bedroom besides mine with nothing in it…why? Why so many things.
Like a puzzle my memories were reshaping and now it all made sense, why I didn´t remembered many things about my past except key things that appeared each time as my friendship with Irina.
I could only tighten my fists, I need to speak with my elder brother. A man to man conversation, I need to know why? Why did he walked away? Why did it all happened in such a way.
Why?
Why did he gave me Ddraig?
Your brother believed in you, he bestowed me upon you to protect you, because he knew how harsh life could be. You might remember progressively, but your brother was never comprehended by children of his generation, he sought out something not many could give him. And therefore he staid alone most of the time, mostly only to his family. He didn´t wanted you to suffer from loneliness and therefore he put you in me to watch over you, for if you ever had the need to be protected, you would be.
Haru-Ani-Chan, you believed in me and yet I never remembered about you or your sacrifice, mother and father probably are just as oblivious of your existence as I was. Why did you ran away from home?
You should glance at your right hand.
I turned towards my right hand and glanced at a ring, identical to the one Juzo-Jii gave to Haru in Okinawa that day. Soon the gem in the ring glowed and soon attached to my arm, was a house-dog heighted chinese dragon, dark-blue scales in color and orange eyes, on its right frontal leg it held a crystal ball with the color of the gem of my ring.
Tsukuyomi
Ddraig pronounced surprised as I glanced at the dragon nuzzlings its head on the boy´s cheek.
"What is this?"
Surprised about the sudden affectionate gesture, as the Dragon emperor could only chuckle.
You should wake up for now, people are getting concerned about you.
Ddraig pronounced to the boy whom nodded and soon opened its eyes to the real world.
I groaned and soon many got up, the first one to say my name in concern and embrace me was Rias, my future fiancée. I accepted the affectionate gesture and returned the embrace.
Partner, I would advise you to take a good rest and not fight. Your sacred gear´s powers have been sealed.
Ddraig pronounced causing all the girls around to be surprised and shocked at the notion of having my sacred gear sealed.
"What do you mean?"
I asked to the glowing green light on my hand whom after a silent moment explained.
That agent sealed your sacred gear, and I can´t undo the seal. Is a strong one and personal brand of runes crafted by him, in a very strong and ancient written-only language. I´m surprised a former mortal knows of such language anyway, I´ll have to cut off your hopes of battling anytime soon partner, but, that doesn´t means I cant protect you in other ways.
The threat was echoed enough for the females not to try anything to betray the brown-haired young man, he was still Ddraig and could easily get out and protect Issei and show the girls the power of color red.
"Then it means we´ll have to meet again with that Dragon masked Agent."
Rias stated crossing her arms, I could only grimace as everyone was already having hostile thoughts against my elder brother, can´t blame them. He mopped the floor with us, and what was worse is that he was playing with us all along.
I might be stupid but I know my brother is far more skillful than what he showed, therefore it meant that he had tricks up his sleeve more than a few flashy spells and some close-combat abilities. If from the memories I got from the mock sword battles he had with grandfather Juzo were something, I knew he was more powerful than he let on.
Dragon´s P.O.V.
Of all places they could´ve chosen to seal a person like her, a sunny and infinite desert was fitting. Life spins and gives many twists and turns, many know of such a notion. At first, Millicas´s attempt seemed a generalized attempt, but the clever plan of doing it on a Rating Game, having strong men to subdue Venelana and Zeoticus Gremory and akin to that knowing about old decommissioned Devil Forts that even the old satan faction didn´t knew about.
Someone was playing a God-Modded Chess War Strategy, and only one person could have the hints about such a thing. Or at least enough hints, my first suspicion was with her faction, her brothers and family.
So Funny it is that in the end they allowed her to rot in this place with no darkness for her to sustain, perhaps it was all karma working on the princess of Chaos.
As I calmly walked the desert I found a woman sitting, glancing at the infinite desert. Thankfully I wore my hood therefore it made my face unseen.
"You arrived!"
She cheerfully stated earning my raised eyebrow, certainly a strange first impression, I expected her to be a femme fatale, not this weird thing.
"Who Are you?"
She asked sternly towards me not getting up whatsoever, meanwhile I took out my kusanagi katana with the blade bandaged and leaned it on the female´s neck.
"I´m death."
I pronounced sternly as the female glanced at me and an awkward silence permeated around us, before she started to laugh heartily, it was not a mocking laugh but rather a laugh at something funny said, akin to a joke.
"You´re a funny one boy, who are you?"
As she ended her laughs I could only chuckle inwardly, certainly I managed to undo the tension usually primordial gods have around them with a good joke.
Even super-devils cannot attempt at enraging primordial beings, they are on a tier similar to heavenly dragons turned to other factions, they always had that extra mile of power enough to bring us down.
"Haru Hyoudou, I have a few questions for you…Nyx."
Unknown Realm
Infinite Desert
A black haired female glanced with a raised eyebrow at the male, they certainly have a resemblance, the same brown hair and brown eyes, the only difference is that this boy was tons of times more powerful and he had a passive and peaceful visage, the passive ones were usually the strongest ones.
"Are you something of Issei Hyoudou? That red dragon emperor boy?"
She asked to the male whom stood passively and he did his question.
"What are the intentions of your faction by kidnapping Millicas Gremory?"
He asked to her rather sternly and directly, with no respect nor even asking anything else but clearly the matters how they were, as the holy sword was slightly pushed into the female´s skin, she glanced at him sternly.
"What are you talking about? I don't even know who Millicas Gremory is? Who is he? Was he a war victim, did he died bloodily…did he-."
She resisted the urge to flinch as the sword was yanked only slightly and a single drop of stained a revealed piece of the golden glowing blade, the glow however was something beyond common holy glowing swords of heaven, even those of archangels. As the essence of her being bled out of her body and hovered in a black ectoplasm-like gas out of her body, she flinched, how did he managed to hurt her.
His stern glance towards her spoke that he wanted information.
"What do I gain in return for what you desire?"
She asked, the truth is that even though a few months and weeks have been since she was sealed by Apollon and the Greek gods, and here she got to now something quite near to her. Despair and Insanity, she was just a few more weeks to finally turn insane and loose whatever conscious she had over herself.
"Primordial gods tend to trick gods and mortals alike; give me the information and I shall give it value."
She flinched, the boy was lever, perhaps more than his aloof and stupid younger brother, she had to give him that.
"Someone took Kokabiel out of Cocytus and managed to get him rogue men and enough resources and informations on how and when to move."
Nyx chuckled and spoke, typical of Erebus and her brothers to craft more clever and long-term plans, Hades truly was advancing his plans.
"My brother Erebus perhaps could´ve done it, under the orders of Hades himself, or perhaps of his own free will."
She shrugged and Issei could only flinch, he was back to square one, although he could press some more.
"Where are they hiding?"
He asked to the female whom mirthly laughed out loud.
"Do you really believe you can take on all Grim Reapers? You Hyoudou must be really insane…I like that."
She licked her lips towards the young man whom blinked and glared at her.
"Even if I were to tell you, they change their locations. You might just be marching on another trap."
He flinched, it seems that truly he´s trapped. In between the sword and the wall; now he´ll have to answer his actions to the headquarters, actions done out of his will to aid his brother.
Removing his sword, the wound healed and he kept the sword in its scabbard and shrugged, turning away.
"You have all I know, if you are truly an honorable man. What is the price you put at it?"
She asked to the male whom groaned, he knew that he was far too merciful for his own good; he blinked and turned around, slamming his right palm surprisingly in the abdomen of the female, as she groaned, she fell butt-first towards the sand and she tore her blouse to reveal a giantic seal, written in Aramean language, Norse Runes and many other runes of other languages and dialects, she glared at him as he spoke.
"Call it an insurance policy for me enough and your own chance at redemption, Nyx, Princess of Chaos…through that seal you´re bound to me…you can access to your primordial being characteristics if I don´t will it. I´ll take you out of here, with the only instance that now your loyalty shall be shifted to the Devil Faction; it is either that, or rot in here forever; loose your sanity, loose your self-conscious as you slowly warp your own reality to this hellish seal forever. You have five seconds to choose."
As he did a step and a magical circle appeared underneath him, the female groaned inwardly and just when he was about to disappear, she ran towards him and they teleported away from the hellish prison she was subjected to.
Dragon´s House
"Twenty."
The pink haired girl stated to the green haired girl whom just threw her cards to the table.
"Twenty one."
She stated sternly as she got up and started to dance.
"Now you got to sleep outside like a dog."
Chuckling evilly, the pink haired girl was in bra and panties, the green haired one was dressed in her Dark Side agent garments, for the heck of it the former is at home and certainly whatever decency she has lost by exhibiting it to Haru anyway. The latter however was more regal and she had her boyfriend wiating for her, she stayed merely for being polite and perhaps because she was interested in anything that Dragon might teach her also. Though Snake, her boyfriend was lenient on letting her stay too much time with the Hyoudou.
As a teleportation circle appeared, both females turned around and they glanced at the figure appearing, it was Haru and a black haired female with elf-like pointed ears, wearing a frilly dress with a corset-jumper skirt. Anything else she looked normal and seemed normal.
"Whose she?"
Aiko asked surprised that another woman was brought home by her beloved Haru, only for him to shrug and explain.
"Meet Nyx, primordial goddess of Darkness and daughter of Chaos, sister of Erebus. She knew little information about whom caused Kokabiel to return and Millicas to be kidnapped, I offered her an exchange to be set free but with her primordial essence sealed and only unsealed whenever I willed it to. Her loyalty is now with us, therefore treat her nice please Delilah, Aiko, Natsumi, Shiranui."
He commented to everybody in his house as the females nodded, Aiko however grunted.
"Nice to meet you."
She did a peace sign to the females as cute black stars shone as she did her introduction, however it was short lived until Aiko got up.
"Don´t touch my Haru or you die. Natsumi and Shiranui are the underdogs here, I have the final say in everything. Do you understand?"
She had a kind smile and tilted her head to the side.
"Ha, as if you have such authority when you pussy out of most choices Aiko."
Delilah mocked to the female whom turned at her.
"Somebody wants to die today."
She stated with a smirk to the woman whom shivered and crossed her arms and laughed rather awkwardly.
"Let´s leave it like that."
She excused herself and the male just shrugged and approached to the table.
"Has Millicas woken up?
Both females shook their heads and Haru sighed.
"This will take a long time."