Chapter 1 – King Beyond Gods but not Fate
Disclaimer: I do not own Campione! And Highschool DxD as they belong to their respective owners. This is written purely for the purpose of entertainment and I do not earn any money from this fictional work.
This is the remastered version of my previous fan fiction "legend of the campione". So I hope you will like it.
Laying in the middle of a destroyed landscape was a boy. The ground was littered with corpses and a sky filled with smoke and the scent of blood. The boy stared at the sky that was dyed blood red, wondering if all of heaven wept for what he had done.
For what he had to do…
At last…
At very last, he was finally in his last moments, he could tell. He closed his eyes…
Muscles, torn
Lungs, ruptured
Limbs, pierced
Bones, cracked
Body, lain broken, unable to respond to his calling… not that he bothered anymore…
Overwhelming pain haunted his every nerve, in every inch of his body and soul, pain far beyond what he had ever felt or delivered. His monumental power, Authorities that made him the undisputed and most tyrannical King beyond… was outside his reach. Even a simple act like breathing was an excruciating torture.
Finally, Death was certain, His end was assured.
He had fallen in battle by his own shadow, finally escaping the destiny that turned into his torment and the fate that became his bane. Finally he is free from a desperate cycle of madness chaining his being to live a cursed life plagued with suffering.
Time again and again, the circumstances may vary as did the might of his multitude foes, yet the result was always the same. All the path he walked, all the foes he faced met with the same conclusion, the same ending to the tales of the King Beyond told time again and again…
Perhaps this was what a certain God of Victory felt…
There was a time though… when he entertained the thought of an equal, yet neither Gods nor their usurpers have proven capable. Each victory, he grew not only in strength but also grew weary of the repeating fate
He felt cracking a smile, Not today…
It was a curious thing, the power of Will, that is. Kings rose to usurp Gods, Gods struck them back to earth. It was a chaotic world, a world of Devil kings, Champions, Steel, Earth, and Serpents… yet all were slain by him… but who will slay him?
The Will of the World beckoned
And he fell before the weight of their response, the very monument of power that stood supreme crumbled as the World itself asserted it dominance.
He was dying, that fact gave him a feeling he hadn't felt in eons. There were time he questioned his prolonged purpose for living… He already grew beyond Gods and Kings, yet…
Promise me, my King
He let out his last breath, Ah… I remember…
He have had lost his life this day but he gained everything that had been lost to him in his life.
Oh, who would ever want to live a lonely life?
He was finally at peace.
But the strangest thing about fate and stories with happy endings is that they didn't occur to normal people and it certainly didn't for the most powerful Campione in existence, Kusunagi Godou 'The King Beyond Gods'.
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A young girl smiled, this place was so strange due to the fact that it was so welcoming for her. She had always came to this place whenever she was sad or was too embarrassed to show her face— which was a frequent occurrence considering who her older and very much doting sibling is.
But today, she just wants to be left alone for no reason at all.
Well… no reason other than the fact that her brother is playing hide-from –my-duties-and-most-importantly-my-scary-maid-wife… which was a pretty good indication of an impending disaster.
She scrunched her face. He cried so much when she was leaving him to his fate, yelling something about teenage rebellion or something… Not that she cared to listen after his recent actions.
Anyways, her… what do you call it…? Fate, instinct? Well, whatever it was had always linked this place to her, oddly enough. It was not any special place, a normal forest— as normal as being in the underworld at least. If memory didn't fail her, it didn't have any strategic importance nor was it a site of a historic event.
But something just made her feel… something here will greatly change her life as well as those around her. How did she know, she didn't have the answer.
Time passed deep hidden inside the forest near her family mansion as Rias Lilian Gremory, Heiress of the House Gremory of the remaining 72 pillar clans, spent her time relaxing or what passed as relaxing in a place where nobody can bother her including and especially her brother and parents.
People expected a lot from an Heiress, much more so due to the fact that she technically is also a Princess. While not being in line for the Rulership of the Underworld, certain expectation are… well, expected of her. Even her own parents expected her to be great enough to uphold her clan's name and prestige. Not that she would fault them that, that is their right and she was willing to play along and do her duty towards her clan.
The first born son had performed beyond expectation, heck, even beyond imagining. One of the four Supreme Rulers of the Devilkind, imagine that… her parents must be so proud…
Of course, rising to the position of 'Lucifer' also means he is removed from the succession of House Gremory, citing reasons such as concern regarding nepotism and favoritism towards the House. Not that it stopped him from nepotism and favoritism towards her specifically though… provided, of course, that it is within reason… within reason of an older brother doting his little sister…
But she digress, her brother removed from the succession means that she remained the sole legible Heir, or in this case, Heiress of one of the most prominent within the 72 pillar clans. That was a fact from the moment she was born.
It wasn't that bad though, she was spoiled rotten and there was no lacking in comfort but it's not easy either.
Everyone is watching us
She heard her father tell her Brother.
It was then that she strived harder to excel, not that she always did yet she did try harder
Whenever she failed to meet the expectation, it was a slap to her Brother and Father. She didn't express it vocally but she could see and feel how much she disappointed everyone whenever she had failed in something. She was burdened by a very big duty as an Heiress of House Gremory but significantly less compared to a Maou and if her Brother was willing to sacrifice, she was willing to do it too but the fact that not being able to be choose her future had always been whispered to her in the back of her mind.
They looked at her as Rias Lilian Gremory, the Heiress of the Gremory clan and younger sister of the current Lucifer. She didn't want to be seen as solely that Rias, she wanted to make her own identity and wanted people to acknowledge her for who she was, for her achievements, not just as some heiress of an important family. But sadly the curse of aristocratic life never leaves a person born of noble blood especially so in her case. It was not like she detested her social status and it certain was not that she hated her family. It was just that it was extremely tiring, mentally and emotionally…
A great many thoughts were in her mind when before she knew it, this place has already become an important place for her, her silent sanctuary to open up her true identity. Here she could be who she wanted to be. Here she could be Rias, a cute little girl who wanted to dance to her own tunes, disregarding the expectations of others.
"This is such a strange day." She said to herself as she rested upon the ground and closed her eyes trying to feel the wind brushing against her face, blowing her long crimson hair free.
"?" She felt something, a tickle of her soul, an itch at the back of her mind.
Something was coming and she could feel it
Suddenly, there was a large sound of an explosion.
"!"
She jumped in shock and unfortunately tripped and fell into the pond as she was startled at the sudden noise. Before she could even open her green tinted-blue eyes she was suddenly inside the pond.
She hastily swam to the surface, "That was odd." she said catching her breath.
Slowly, she got out of the pond and walked towards what she identified as the source of sound and saw… a boy seemingly no older than twenty. He scarcely resembled Okita-chan and thus she could deduce that he was an Asian. She silently gave herself a pat on the back and applauded her brilliant skills of deduction.
She looked at the boy and felt something… something primal and scary…
She also felt an inexplicable sadness… was her eye getting watery all of a sudden?
"RIAS!" Someone screamed, "Get away from that place!"
She winced when suddenly a familiar voice belonging to her dearest big brother shouted at her in alarm. A tear fell from her eyes as soon as she saw her brother and she ran up to him, tightly hugging him with her little arms and sobbing loudly all while she was completely drenched in water.
Why was she crying like this? Nothing had happen to her. Perhaps it was due to the sudden shock but no matter it was shameful for her to cry like this in front of her elder brother who probably had no idea that she was here.
"It's alright Rias. It's alright. I'm here for you." He whispered words to console her, all while giving furtive glances at the teen. "Why are you here?" It was a rhetorical question tinged oddly with some hint of panic.
He comforted her but she could feel him getting tad bit restless, "Let's check what happened here, shall we?" He motioned her not to get close and inched closer to check on man who suddenly, inexplicably arrived in the most peculiar manner.
Peeking from her brother's back, she notice something.
"Oh no…" She murmured upon seeing how badly wounded the stranger was. He looked like… like… she doesn't ever have a proper description to how bad it was… mauled, pierced, slashed, hacked… she couldn't even comprehend the fact that he was still alive.
"Well… at least he knows how to arrive with style." Her brother said jokingly to her but she could clearly see the nervous undertone in his voice, the unknown implications. The Gremory family estate was enveloped by the highest grade anti-teleportation spell that requires a magical key to be allowed entry or exit. Not to mention the thousands and thousands of countermeasures and defenses that rendered their immediate vicinity fully protected from invaders, a personal work of Ajuka Beelzebub, arguably the foremost expert in the subject.
She gazed up at him in askance, a question unsaid but heard. 'What are we going to do?'
Her brother's mood darkened a little bit for a second but he quickly smiled and looked to her.
"Come on, we need to take him to the mansion or he may die, I need to get some answers." He pointedly looked at her dripping clothes, "And you need to change out of your soaking dress else you might catch a cold."
Ok! how is the remastered version of "legend of the Campione". rate and review plz. hope you enjoyed it. Don't worry the next chapter is already done and is in beta phase so you won't have to wit for long. tnx.