A/N: Hello everybody, it's me again. Remember how I said I was rewriting stuff? Well that's this. I got far enough into Volume 18 to learn a little about why the Shidou family left Japan in the first place (along with the name of Irina's father, thank the great Chichigami, and Ishibumi Ichiei-sensei) and needless to say... my first attempt literally ended up being so off of what established canon was that I physically cringed. You'll notice the first part of this chapter will be very similar to the prologue of the original, and that's because most of the stuff in it still works. It's AFTER the first chapter of the original story that everything stopped working and just became... Ugh. You'll just have to see when you read what kind of changes I'm making. Enjoy the chapter!

(Speech): Past wielders of the Boosted Gear.

[Speech]: Ddraig/Boosted Gear speaking out loud/Boosting

[Speech]: Ddraig talking to Issei

"Rin's a girl!?" A young Issei Hyoudou asks his mother in surprise.

"You didn't realise that already?" The woman sighed. "You can be a little too much like your father at times... Yes, Irina Shidou is a girl." She tells the seven year old boy. "Now go to sleep, Ise."

"Alright..." The little boy surrendered. "But tomorrow I'm gonna go see Rin and tell her that I know she's a girl, then we can play heroes at the park again!" He announced as he walked up the stairs into his room.

As Issei slept, he dreamed about a dragon... Red with green eyes, but when he woke the next morning, he didn't remember any part of the dream.

"You seem excited Ise." An older man said happily as he sipped coffee from a mug.

"I'm gonna go see Rin as soon as I finish eating, Tou-san!" Issei replies happily as he begins quickly eating.

"Well have fun." Issei's father smiles.

Moments later, the brunette child rushes out the door and hurries to the house of his only friend. What he sees in front of the house makes him stop. "M-moving trucks..?" He gulps as he approaches nervously. "Rin?" Issei says in a horrified voice as he sees his friend loading boxes.

"Ise!" The young girl runs up to her friend and hugs him tightly. "Ise, I don't want to go..." She sobs.

"Irina!" An older woman, the girl's mother, walks up sternly. "You are coming with us whether you want to or not." The Shidou matriarch says.

"Dear, we can at least let her have another day with her friend..." A man walks up and sighs. "Ise, make sure you and Irina have a lot of fun today." He smiles at the shellshocked boy.

The words didn't reach the boy, he was busy with another conversation...

'I... no... Rin is my only friend... I... I can't go through that loneliness again...' Issei thought to himself, his breath hitching. 'I can't let them take Rin...' Unknown to the boy, his thoughts had awakened a dark force.

(Do you want the power to stop them from taking what is yours?) A strange myriad of voices seemed to speak from deep within his mind. Slowly, a green gem emerged from the flesh of Issei's left hand, shortly followed by bright red armor in the shape of a gauntlet.

Irina's father seemed to notice this, and his face paled.

'I... I would do anything to keep Rin here...' Issei answered the strange voices.

(Good, then repeat after us...)

"I, as the one who will awaken..." Issei began speaking in a dark voice, causing Irina's father to begin to panic.

"No, stop!" The man yelled, rushing to his daughter and her friend.

"As the heavenly dragon that has stolen the concept of domination from god..." Issei continued, his eyes staring blankly at the panicked face of the older man next to him.

"Ise?" Irina asks, slightly scared, "Ise, please stop this..."

"I find mirth in the infinite..." The boy continued.

'I must stop the activation of the Juggernaut Drive!' Irina's father thought, "Issei, please listen to me..."

"And I feel grief for the dream..." The boy looked at the man, showing his attention. 'I don't care what you say! I won't let you take MY Rin away from me!' Issei thinks angrily. "I shall become the true Sekiryuutei..."

"IRINA CAN STAY WITH YOU!" The man shouts loudly, breaking the young Issei out of his trance.

"R-really?" Issei asks with tears in his eyes. "Really, really?"

"Yes, if it means so much to you, and to Irina, then she may stay with you here in Kuoh." The older man smiles warmly. 'To think, Issei had one of the Longinus... the Boosted Gear, no less... truly, the world is a surprising place...' He watched as the Boosted Gear disappeared from Issei's arm. "On one condition." He looked at the two seriously. "Issei, always remain who you are, and get strong so that you can protect my daughter." He stood up.

"Tou-san..." Irina cried tears of joy. "Thank you so much Otou-san..." She ran up and gave her father a hug.

"Wait..." Issei came to a sudden realisation as he had forgotten what his mother had told him the night before. "RIN IS A GIRL?!"

The Shidou family, along with the addition of a pale Issei, sat in silence. Until...

"Issei-san, do you know what the gauntlet on your arm is?" Touji Shidou, Irina's father, asked seriously. Usually the man was silly and enjoyed watching his daughter and her friend play 'heroes' and often joked to his daughter, the man asking the question though was serious and calm.

"Gant let?" Issei asked, confused at the new word.

"The thing on your left hand." Irina's mother said, quick to help the child understand.

"Oh..." Issei's eyes widened in understanding before he grinned at Touji, "Nope!"

The Exorcist/Pastor sighed as he looked Issei in the eyes. "The thing on your left arm is what's known as a Sacred Gear." He paused to make sure the child was following the story. "Many, many years ago, the god that appears in the Bible, the one that my family worships, created these Sacred Gears to protect the weak and feeble humans like you and me." Issei nodded that he understood enough for the pastor to continue. "One day, a war broke out between Angels, Fallen Angels, and Devils," He continued, "The war lasted for a very long time until two dragons started a fight in the middle of it."

"Dragons!?" Issei asked excitedly, he loved Dragons. They were big and cool and breathed fire!

"Yes, this next part is very important, okay?" The older man said slowly. Issei nodded again. "The two dragons destroyed everything in their path, so the Angels, Fallen Angels, and the Devils teamed up to defeat the dragons. Only when the bosses of the three groups worked together, were they able to harm the dragons."

"Did they lose?" Irina asked worriedly.

Her father smiled at her. "No, when they were on the edge of defeat, and the dragons were weakened, God put the two dragons into Sacred Gears." The Shidou patriarch pointed at Issei's armored left arm. "One of the dragons became that Sacred Gear on your arm Issei."

"Whoa... so my arm is a dragon?!" Issei asked.

"Not really, but you can say that for now." Touji smiled at the young boy, "I wish I could stay here to teach you more, but..." A tear dripped from his eyes as he remembered his apprentice. "... I have to leave. Issei, I will trust Irina's life to you, if you swear to me that you will live to protect her, then I think I can feel okay with leaving her here with you." He knelt down and spoke to the boy.

"Touji, I-" Irina's mother began to protest but was silenced quickly with a look from her husband.

"I would do anything in my power to protect our daughter, and being with the inheritor of a dragon, while not the safest place, it's so much better than anything we can do for her." He tells his wife sadly.

"But-" She begins before being cut off by Issei this time.

"Irina's Okaa-san, I promise on my life to protect Irina with my life, so long as she can stay here with me. She's... my only friend and I don't... I don't want to be alone again..." Issei says with tears streaming from his eyes. "I know I'm not strong now, but I will work every single day so my friend won't ever get hurt, so I can fight for her and protect her!" Issei says loudly, causing Irina to blush. "Even if I have to die, I will protect her with my dying breath." Issei says while staring at the older woman.

[BOOST!]

The crimson gauntlet cried out as the gem set in it glowed brightly. "I will use all the power this arm can give me to make sure Rin doesn't have to be hurt ever again!"

"I-" The woman seems to deflate, "I suppose with such a display, and with the support of my husband, I cannot deny Irina if she wishes to stay here in Kuoh." She says defeated.

"Yay! Ise, I can stay with you and we can play every day!" Irina ran up behind Issei and quickly hugged him, tears of joy streaming down her face.

"Yeah, but Irina's Otou-san, I just have one question." Issei asked the pastor sheepishly. "How do I turn my arm back to normal?"

A/N: And here we see the first divergence from the first story. Irina's mom is mean instead of her father while I change the Juggernaut Drive Chant yet again, also Irina's family is leaving her in Kuoh due to story reasons even though her mother is highly against it. Don't ask me to write another super protagonist monologue again anytime soon because I'm not too sure where the hell the one I put in this prologue emerged from. My mind is a labyrinth that not even I can navigate at times... Well that got heavy and psychological really quickly, let's go look at pictures of baby seals, those always help...

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