Xerozzuro, Darth56 and GUIDix.
Let's say I had an Idea.
Eternity
Chapter 1: The Eternity Star
His name was Issei Hyoudou, a boy who, on the outside, was completely normal. In fact, everything about him was normal, he was nothing special. His spiky brown hair, pointy cat ears, tail, and chestnut-brown eyes gave him a slightly bored persona.
Issei Hyoudou was a completely normal citizen of planet Nararaka, a planet located in the Chorren star formation, or the 'Milky way' as it is known in other planets.
The planet itself is beautiful, a tropical paradise. Rainforest, beaches, and colorful wildlife are some of the many joys of this masterful planet, all found on one outstretched continent that remains unbroken. Wildlife and Human-like races fill the continent with life, the same life that fills the oceans surrounding the continent.
Issei Hyoudou looked like a typical human child, but on this planet, he was a Chulelon, the cat-like race that inhabited all this planet's land and waters.
To the Chulelons, sex played an extremely vital role in their society, and is used as a form of social ranking. Highly successful individuals often have many spouses, while ordinary citizens are only permitted to have one.
The Chulelon social rankings are odd though, behind those sexual rankings, are rankings that show power. There are those who are born with the ability to use magic by gathering from the eternity star, then there are those who can't use any magic whatsoever.
Then there are those who are born with the energy of the Eternity star inside of them. So far, only one person in all Chulelon history has had such power.
Until now.
Issei Hyoudou looked up at the Eternity star, or sun, that hung above him. shining energy down onto the planet he called his home. He always felt a tingle of power while basking in the sun's rays, it was soothing for him. He had just been let out of his high school for completing all his lessons and classes, he vaguely remembered reading about magic from the sun and what amazing things it could do, or what horrors it could bring.
He remembered reading about how a child was born with the power of the Eternity star inside of him, and under such beautiful power, fell into corruption and was destroyed by it.
Or at least, that's what he had read.
Issei looked away from the star and began to walk away, it was almost time for Issei to face his destiny. The destiny that every student meets once they graduated out of school.
The Colosseum. A fight between all the new graduates to see who was the strongest. And the reward for winning? That's right, a lot of women.
Issei looked down at his right hand, purple energy arched between his fingers like lightning. As far as he knew, based on analyzing others, he was the only one that had this strange energy. There was nothing like it, or even close to it, in any of the books he had read at his school.
Issei began to walk through the lively streets towards the Colosseum that was his destiny, conversations halted, and eyes followed him. Men with multiple spouses fell silent as Issei walked past them, a wickedly dark aura falling out and around him.
"It's him. The boy born with light inside him." A man in the crowd whispered.
"By Ophis herself, it's him! The prophesied child!" Another man yelled out
Issei continued to walk through the streets, ignoring the crowd's yells at him. He couldn't quite understand why, but anger began to rise in his chest, a burning fire that grew as he walked and heard the chants. He moved through the streets until he could see the place of his destination, screams and roars of chants and cheers came from the Colosseum. It wasn't difficult to know what the screams were for: the fall of another student.
And he was next to battle.
He wasn't worried about being late at all, the Chulelon's were excellent strategists, and he knew that as soon as he walked through the tunnel leading to the field, his match would have started.
"And the next match of today will be Issei Hyoudou, son of two brave warriors who will be missed, and Melbourne Dzeko." The announcer called out, as soon as the two walked onto the field.
Issei looked across the field at his opponent, a silver haired boy dressed in a suit. Issei snickered, this boy dressed like an idiot, it was a fight, sometimes even to the death, not a business meeting. But how he dressed was no reason for Issei to underestimate him.
Not like underestimating would be an issue for out protagonist.
"Kick his ass son!" a random man in the crowd yelled out.
Issei's averted his eyes up to the man who yelled, his eyes pierced through the man and forced him to sit. He wondered if his father would have said the same things for him. He moved his gaze again, thinking of how useless it was to have such thoughts.
"Let the match begin!" The announcer yelled in excitement, the crowd roaring their approval. The crowd made it hard to hear, but the noise was loud.
A crack of air erupted from across the arena, followed by a burst of wind. Issei looked towards the noise, the boy who was once across from him was no longer there. He blocked out the sound of the crowd and listened intently to his surroundings. His sharp ears twitched as he heard a sharp sound to his right, he raised his right hand instantly and blocked a hard punch to the head.
Wind exploded around the two, dust flew up into the air, and then Issei saw a shimmer of light coating the inside of the arena. A distortion of his field of vision, and he was sure it was a barrier to stop the on-lookers from getting injured or killed.
The crowd fell silent for a moment, and time slowed for Issei in that moment. Issei spun around, raised his right foot, and delivered a fatal kick to the head. Air exploded behind Issei and sent the boy spiraling away to the other side of the arena, causing him to collide with the magic barrier, a loud explosion shaking the whole arena rung out at his collision.
The boy Issei was fighting was too obvious, Issei knew what his intentions were; he wanted Issei to use his magic, then it would be easy to form a course of action against him.
"If you want to keep charging at me to land a hit on me, you are wasting your time and energy. Unless, of course, you want me to pummel you into the dirt." Issei called out, the crowd fell silent at the extreme menace and hatred in his voice.
Issei knew he was, by far, the most experienced one in the arena when it came to magic. Hell, maybe even in the entirety of the planet. He read all nine of the forbidden Black Books, and for it he had tremendous insight and knowledge on magic. But the down side was the chance of the corruption he had read about.
"You think you are so good, don't you?" The boy said, standing. "I am going to make you regret fighting me."
"Regret fighting you? Why? Wasn't this battle a random assigned battle? Oh well." Issei responded, he was going to end this. He was bored, so magic would be the quickest way to end this battle.
'Yes, you will be my champion! Rend the flesh of my foes! A champion to wade through the entrails of my foes!'
Issei's eyes went sharp, a purple liquid gushed into them, moving like boiling clouds. Issei was calm when he first walked onto the battleground, but now, an ethereal calm unlike anything he had ever felt washed over him and gave him insight on a course of action.
'This world has forgotten me, but deep in the black Pitts in their brains, I am still there. Make them remember, but when they remember, this world shall cease to be.'
Issei couldn't understand the voices he had started hearing since he read the books. The books on their own were hard to read, written in an old language. His species current language was a mix of shapes, such as triangles and circles, and lines.
Issei raised both his hands at the boy, magic power erupted out of Issei and the crowd gasped and fell silent. Issei's surroundings fell dark, and he fell into that darkness.
'Well, well. Look at you. Only sixteen and you've experienced both shades of madness. Wonderful. You seem fulfilled at your choices. Full of fill. Bursting at the seams. Seamless. Now to the meat of your endeavor, Issei. The crux of the situation. The reason for you existing, and the likely cause of your death.'
"What do you mean?" Issei called out, surprisingly calm.
'It's time, time for you to destroy. You will be accomplishing what the last you couldn't. You'll be altering the course of events, breaking the cycle, if you will. A fly in the ointment. A new cause for a different effect. We're going to change things. No… things are going to be different this time. You'll be my champion. You'll grow strong. You'll grow to be me. Or you'll die trying. I love that about you.'
"Oh, I get it. I went insane from reading those books."
'Not quite. I am the life within those books, I am the gardener of men, the seeker of secrets and guardian of knowledge. I am everywhere, and I am nowhere. You know me, I am the blemish on your subconscious, I'm your best friend. Or am I?'
"So, you are an existence that knows all?"
'Observant, aren't you? Yes, I can see everything, I exist at all planes in time at the same time. But I talk to you because your future is black, and that intrigues me. Why is that? Well, it's best you not ask.'
"So, if you know everything, what are those multiple colored clouds in the night sky? I have always felt something strange from them when they come and splatter-paint the night sky."
'Oh? Seen them, have you? Of course, you have, I was only joking. Those clouds have always been here, but they are not OF here. It's called the Dimensional Gap. A rip in all of space and time that connects every dimension, in every time period. You'll see that sometimes stars get drawn into it like flies to honey. Or rotting flesh. Ever wonder why flies like both? It's best you don't ask. Now go. Fulfill your prophecy.'
The darkness around Issei began to clear out, and he was standing in the Colosseum again. The cluster of rainbow colored clouds swirled and spiraled above like ink. Issei could feel something deep within the clouds watching him, waiting for him. Across the arena the boy now stood and began to back away from Issei as the pressure began to rise.
'The hardest part… is letting go.'
Issei crossed his arms as far as he could, his face void of any emotions. His fingers began to strain as if he was summoning something, and as they did, purple lightning arched off him and between his fingers.
'Let go.'
Issei pulled his arms away from the crossed position and held them out as if he was trying to say 'Behold, my power.' Purple energy arched out of the ground and spun around him as black shadows began to float off him, burning as they went. Purple energy sparked out of his blackened aura and shot towards the boy, reducing him to a spasming mess. The boy's body fell to the floor, his muscles still wriggling in a horrid mess as smoke fizzed off his body, filling the arena with a repugnant stench of burnt flesh.
The crowd roared with joy, brutally shouting curses for the lack of blood and throwing praise at the electrocution. However, certain high-ranking officials in his society noticed the power from a time long lost, and Issei heard their chants more than anyone else.
"It's him!"
"The prophesied child!"
"The power of the Black Books dwells in him!"
"Go! Get him!"
In a second flat, dozens of cloaked figures jumped down from the crowd, wearing long coats with a feudal shirt that came second to their armor and pants that were tied at the ends by greaves. They each wore a worn-down straw Kasa and held dual Katanas.
A simple look at the men and Issei knew who they were, and it struck a string of fear in his heart. They were the warriors who had fallen from grace. They were not silent nor elegant, but they moved with the precision of a predatory cat that waste no movements. The warriors once fought for an honorable cause, but certain unspeakable circumstances have pushed them to abandon their people, only to return as things lower than even the poor class of Chulelon.
They were ruthless weapons. The elite warriors of the Culelon race. Drop one in a battlefield, and watch hundreds die.
Issei began to think as fast as his abilities permitted him to, and figured running was the best way to survive. Issei turned and looked at the way he came in, there was a single soldier. His Katanas extended at his side. If he could escape and head to the out-landing territories, he could escape the Fallen Grace Warriors. They wouldn't dare follow him into hostile lands.
Or so he hoped.
Issei began to sprint to the soldier, as he did so, the soldier positioned his swords in an x-position at his chest. Issei summoned his power to his hands and launched a single blast of energy at the warrior. However, Issei was greatly disappointed at his attack when the soldier threw his sword up and deflected Issei's power back at him.
Issei was moving closer and closer, and his time was slowly running out. As he approached time slowed around him, but the soldier's eyes were intently following him with no fluctuation. The warrior swung, a strike that would have easily chopped Issei in two if time hadn't slowed. Issei used his momentum to swing himself above the warrior, and midflight, Issei snapped his index finger and thumb together next to the soldier's ear.
An explosion of wind erupted from Issei's thumb snap and halted his pursuers in their tracks. Dust exploded up into the air and concealed his escape. The soldier who took the brunt of the blast from point-blank range was less fortunate, blood poured form the soldiers nose, mouth, ears and eyes. Issei, without thinking, took the dual Katanas from the man and used the dust to hide his escape for only a few split seconds.
As he ran from the arena, he took an immediate left-hand hook and began to head for the Land of The Great Mire, the territory of secretive assassins who always kept peace instead of raging war, if these soldiers intruded and attacked, it would be a very bloody war.
Issei sprinted as fast as he could, the swords at his side extended outward away from him. He didn't have to look back for him to determine that the soldiers were fresh on his trail. Only when he began to enter the countryside did the soldiers start to thin, but he knew better than to assume they halted their progressions.
He ran through trees and low foliage, briars smacking him and cutting his face as he went. The trees and plants began to change the further he went, and eventually he reached a straight drop-off. To his left was a water fall and below him was a stream with sand surrounding its skirts that curved out of his view and into a further away ravine. The water was far too shallow for him to fall to it safely.
Cracks and swings of blades forced his attention back behind him. A dozen men stood tall in front of him, and dozens more perched in the tree tops around him. Issei looked around, looking for something that could aid him in his escape, but everything he saw was too far for him to reach without being countered.
Issei extended his swords out like wings and jumped, facing his enemies as he fell, only for one to run and jump after him, swords angled down, read to spear him to the ground when they landed. Panic came to him as he realized how this was going to end, he was going to be killed by the warrior who had fallen from grace. And his body would break the warriors fall.
Only one would die in the fall.
Panic took over Issei, and without thinking, he raised both his swords to the warrior. Time seemed to slow around him, his arms began to glow, and the sun grew brighter, Issei closed his eyes and began to accept what was going to happen.
But now he knew they both would die.
In the distance, a bright golden light erupted form the dead of a forest and shot up the sky, piercing through the very heavens and leaving a tear in the sky. Clouds of every color began to pour out, only to be sucked back in with tremendous force. A gush of wind exploded out from the stream of pure energy and uprooted trees in the area, and bent others farther out into strange angles. The waves being produced from the ocean began to act strangely, now moving in reverse to their normal movements and spiraling like sea monsters further out. Rain began to fall in a strange angle from the sky and spiraled around the golden beam as if the whole planets gravitational pull had been altered from the tremendous power.
Beyond the reach of Chulelon range, far above the sky, the bright gold beam of energy hit one of Nararaka's seven moons, completely shattering it and leaving only a crescent remaining. In the void above, the moon exploded with extreme intensity, shooting asteroids and particles away like a supernova. The golden beam kept going though, striking another planet that one being destroyed completely, but the beam of energy showed no signs of stopping.
And suddenly, as soon as the energy had come, it had went. Pulling the wind it had pushed out back in and slinging trees that were already damaged across the land.
When Issei opened his eyes, the warrior was gone. Trees slung past him from above as visible winds slung across the land with unbridled intensity. Rain spiraled around him as well, and before he knew it, he landed in a stream of water that was moving so fast he couldn't swim fast enough to keep up. The stream took him further and further down its path and further into the horrible weather that had come from almost nowhere.
And he couldn't help but ask, what happened to the warrior?
Soon, Issei heard the gushing of water ahead as if moving strangely, and sure enough, within his vision, a whirlpool was in front of him, and its center was darker than any black he had seen before. His senses kicked into hyperdrive as he tried to kick and swim away with all his might, but his efforts proved useless, and his powers seemed to be neglected here for some reason. He noted duly to himself that the water here was thick, almost like a syrup but thinner.
Issei got pulled in further, and the whirlpool pulled him to the darkest depths he had ever reached before.
When he opened his eyes, his mind played tricks on him. He was floating in a chilling darkness. The hair in his nose began to stiffen, threating to break if disturbed. His movements were slowed, as if trapped in honey, and the only thing he saw was the twinkle of a million distant stars.
'They will follow you. The Aramusha. They won't stop until they have your head.'
Issei listened intently, unable to speak. His thought trailed off to what had happened while he was falling. He closed his eyes as his arms and weapons began to glow gold, and everything went black. But why was rain falling in a spiral around him, and why were trees flying around above him? Something was wrong, horribly wrong. It wasn't right to lose time from the mind like that.
Issei's body began to glow the same bright gold as before, and only then did it become apparent that he was moving. He was moving very fast. Gold flakes burning like fire swirled off him and went dark in the space around him, trailing behind him.
Issei's eyes changed to a bright gold with a black-hole for a center, a gold as bright as the sun that was once at his back. A swiveled marking formed on his right hand, glowing a multitude of assorted colors before it stopped and absorbed into his hand. As the symbol faded into his hand, he felt his power spike and began to increase as time went.
Now, he moved as a giant ball of golden fire through the void, heading straight for a planet that looked almost exactly like his own, except cut oddly and suffered by some form of trauma.
As he began to enter the atmosphere of the planet, he saw many forms of buildings, some looked similar to the buildings he had on his planet.
In the distance, there was a giant animal looking at him intently as he flew across the sky, almost looking ethereal and transparent with nine tails swaying behind it.
Issei felt his eyes began to grow heavy, but he fought his sleep for long enough to fly over the rest of the land in his sight. Once he was over the ocean he began to increase in speed and his vision began to go black as he saw the next large stretch of land coming into view impossibly out. However, he began to fly higher and higher, heading back out into the void. This time, the gold flakes left a large trail of assorted colored clouds behind him.
'My home. Earth. Surely, you've heard of it? The legends, the curses. Foolishness about it being hidden behind a mist of blood-red clouds. A bright shining monument to your world. An exact replica. The planet was supposed to symbolize a road to a brighter future, not just for the world… but for all who came to its forests. A chance for all life in the universe to begin again.'
The sun began to rise and warm him, the planet below him now was now of no concern to him. Now, his attention was on the sun that he was heading straight towards with no signs of missing it.
'The only issue was, it never lived to its promises. Greed and war froze it in a state of permeance, like a flashbulb going off. Aliens like you were forgotten, and that worked in reverse. Getting to earth isn't the hard part though, the hard part is letting go of everything you previously were.'
Issei couldn't control the heat from the sun, the impossible cold making matters worse for him. He closed his eyes and let the current take him.
"Now, now, we can't just let someone as interesting as you die. No, no! You entered this domain and completely shook up both the supernatural world, as well as the mortal realm! I think you and I were destined to meet. I'll be honest, I need your help. I've been forming a party to kill a certain intruder in my home, but none of them could hold a candle to your power."
Issei opened his eyes suddenly and lunged up reaching for his weapons, only to realize they were gone.
Kneeling in front of him was a girl with long black hair and violet eyes wearing a very… questionable attire.
"Hmm. Where are you from, and why did you fall from the sky?" the girl asked.
"I fell in a hole while running." Issei answered simply.
"Yeah, okay. Makes sense. Better question, how did you survive?"
"I wanted to see the scenery, you know, I heard the women were beautiful here." Issei said, jokingly.
"Where are you from?" the girl asked once more.
"Uhh, Nararaka?" Issei replied.
"Where are you from?" the girl repeated.
"Nararaka." Issei repeated, beginning to get annoyed.
"Okay, so you don't want to talk about it." the girl said once again. "Whatever."
Issei contemplated jumping into the sun himself at that point. But, looking around he saw that the area he was at was filled by the assorted clouds. This place was also a void, and things began to form in his head questions and some interesting inquiries.
"What if I told you, you could start over. On a new planet of course." the girl said, pulling Issei from his thoughts. "The planet you just flew through."
"Then take me. What's left for me anywhere else?" Issei asked rhetorically.
"What happened to your planet?"
"What planet?" Issei mocked.
"Okay."
"What's you name?" Issei asked.
"That's for a different time." she replied. "Speaking of time, I will drop you a thousand years in the past."
"What?!"
Without warning, the girl lunged at Issei, tackling and pinning him down. She leaned in close to him and planted her lips onto his.
It was odd, something she thought she would have never done. Simply because there was no need for such things, it was odd for her. She only hoped that her plan would work and completely remove her from his memories.
She released after what felt like a good minute and looked down at him. He was asleep, and to her relief, that meant her plan had worked.
"You. Sending us back a thousand years would cause issues. Have you ever wondered why there wasn't a Red Dragon Emperor this time around? Sending us back would mean there would be two in each timeline."
The girl grabbed Issei's body and stomped on the cloud at her feet. The clouds opened and below them, was an outstretch of land forged by a multitude of islands.
"Ddraig? Well, well, well. Your most powerful host yet. Well, guess I can't send you back now! Well, regardless, goodbye!" the girl said, dropping Issei to the islands below.
Inside a room in an abandoned schools house, a group of four sat on couches around a table, two were hard into a game of chess. The two involved in the chess game was a red-haired girl with light blue eyes, and a black-haired girl with violet eyes. The other two were a white-haired girl who is intently eating away at a tray of assorted candies, and a boy who was sitting in silence.
"Ara, I lost again…" The raven-haired girl, "You're as good as you usually are, Rias."
"Well, Akeno, you always make these games interesting." The red-haired girl, named Rias, replied. "Humph, tonight has been boring."
She was right, it was one in the morning and so far, no member in their group had received a single request, nothing had been brought to their attention, tonight was simply, and utterly, boring!
The TV that they had bought only recently, mainly for the use of the white-haired girl who was stuffing her face full of chocolates, flicked to a news channel after giving an abrupt and extremely annoying emergency dial tone.
'Mysterious object flew over Kyoto, Japan roughly and hour ago. Hundreds of streaming services tired to capture the phenomenon but failed as the appearance of the object was so extremely fast and unpredictable. However, several civilian sources have managed to record videos of the object.'
The female news reporter flashed off the screen as a video of the strange object began to play in questionably good audio and visuals.
'Fifty-eight minutes ago, an object flew across the sky, too small to be a space rock and shining as bright as the sun itself, says reporters. Apparently, the object was bright enough to light the entire surrounding areas and even make the moon seem to shine brighter. The distance of the object form the surface of Earth is currently unknown, but we can say it was fairly close.'
"Well. Maybe that would explain the sudden flux of energy from the north?" Akeno mumbled, loud enough for everyone to hear.
'The object was last seen flying over Kyoto and over the Pacific Ocean. We currently have confirmed reports, I repeat: confirmed reports of two landings in the Nevada Desert in America. We also have confirmed images that the two objects were from the object and were the only things that the object dropped before whizzing back into space, heading towards the sun, as reports claimed.
"Aww, why did we miss all the fun?" Akeno said, as soon as she finished a loud crack of sound exploded from outside. The sound of trees bending and breaking filled the midnight silence.
"What was that?" Akeno asked aloud, shocked by the sudden blast.
"Something feels wrong, something familiar and powerful." Koneko added. Her eyes widened slightly, it reminded her of herself.
"Now that I think about it, the power is the same as the power that came from the north. Ohhh, it so strong!" Akeno exclaimed, a heavy blush forcing its way onto her lips as she grinned.
"Yeah, I feel it too." Kiba said, agreeing with Akeno.
"Well, tonight just got interesting." Rias said, standing and heading to a set of double-doors at one end of the room.
She turned back to the group,
"Let's go."
Issei laid in a crater that he could only assume was formed by himself. Surrounding the crater was darkness, pitch black, vision obscuring. But for him, there were other ways to see.
He closed his eyes and listened, laying still with one deep breath. Air shifted around him unnaturally, magic fluxes filled the darkness and when he narrowed it down and made his analysis acute, he was sure there were only four people in the darkness.
He opened his sharp, bright eyes and peered deep into the surrounding darkness. Wherever he was, which was unknown to him, everything around him was different. Magic pulsed through the earth below in thick wires, and he felt the magic in himself rejecting it. His tail and ears were gone, something he should have noticed when he first woke up. But that shouldn't affect him much in battle, after all, he still had another set of ears.
He lost his thought about the darkness. Why did he have two sets of ears? He remembered that each set had a specific use, but he couldn't remember them. He averted his gaze to the starry sky above, planets and solar systems blazed with life and shed light onto the ground below. The moon was beautiful, full and low.
And in that moment, he knew for sure he wasn't dreaming, he was on another planet. But why couldn't he remember how he got here? He remembered falling in the whirlpool and traveling through space, but his vision halted after his rise to the sun.
In the epitome of his silence he began to hear more, and more, four individual heartbeats. Soft, but loud, low but apparent, nonetheless. One heartbeat in the crowd beat faster than the others as if worried, but each were unique.
Three females and one male. The first thing to cross Issei's mind was the male, he was clearly strong to have three spouses. He was his target, but then came a question.
Would the females attack him?
"As you were born into this world, something else was born. You began your life and it begins a journey towards you; moving slowly and never stopping. Wherever you go, whatever path you take, it always follows. Never faster, never slower. Always coming. You will run, it will walk. You will rest, it will not." Issei said, standing and trying to take a step forward and falling instantly.
His right leg was broken at the ankle. As he fell, he could feel the meat inside his ankle grind against the bone and he grit his teeth in pain.
"Who are you?" A male voice called out from the shadows. The voice was soft, almost feminine to an extent.
"My name is Issei." He responded
"What do you want?" A female voice called out, more demanding. That peaked Issei's curiosity, it was a change, something he was not accustomed to hearing on his planet.
He thought long and hard about his answer. It was strange for him to answer such things, it typically was never a matter of what he wanted, but what his superiors wanted of him. He searched his brain and psyche for an answer that would be profound enough to demand attention whilst achieve what he truly, deeply wanted.
"A drink. And perhaps some food?" He said, after a pause that took far longer than it should have been. Of course, he couldn't see them, but it didn't take a genius for someone to tell their expressions changed from battle ready, to utter disbelief.
"W-what?!" The group of four exclaimed all together.
"Yeah. Oh, and could you also help me? It appears my fragile little leg bone has broken."
Chapter 1: The Eternity Star
The group of four sat on a couch across from Issei, watching as he drank water from a silver cup and ate food from a silver plate. The whole occurrence to them was strange, a boy, who seemingly fell from the sky, wreaks of hidden pain and sorrow, and bore a smile and facial expression of love and trust. He didn't seem strong magically at all, but something about his personality proved that rue to be false.
Just as soon as Issei sat his silverware down gently onto his plate, he was almost instantly bombarded by questions.
"Who are you really?" The red-haired girl asked. Issei stared at her quizzically, not questioning her question, that would be insane! But questioning if he should be honest.
New world, new rules, new limits, blah blah blah.
"I'm Issei Hyoudou." He replied, as if the answer was obvious.
"Okay, can I ask you a few questions?" The girl asked again.
"I thought you were already asking me questions." Issei said, looking at her with piercing eyes
"Well- You're right. Was that you that flew across the night sky as a ball of golden fire?" The red-haired girl asked.
"Yes."
The eyes of everyone went wide, and Issei mimicked the notion in mockery.
"Why did you fall from the sky?"
"Well? I was running away from a group of people trying to kill me and jumped off the side of a cliff with a waterfall falling from it. When I landed I was carried away to a black-hole of sorts. Then I was falling. But, I can't remember what happened during my fall, my vision just came back to me suddenly."
"Well, that's certainly strange-"
"Oh! And, I was saved by a girl in black stripper clothes wearing tape stripes to cover her nipples! She saved me from heading head first into the sun. After, she told me she would let me live another life on this world, before knocking me out and dropping me through the rainbow-colored clouds." Issei said childishly, trying to seem friendly, even though it is not anywhere close to how he would normally speak.
"You fell from the Dimensional Gap? Do you know anything about us?" The red-haired girl asked, continuing.
"No, but from slight observation and analysis, applied with the rules to which I am accustomed to, the male is the strongest of the group as indicated by his number of spouses." Issei said, pointing between the male and everyone else.
The blonde boy coughed and stifled a laugh in his fist, then flexed his muscles and nodded jokingly.
"Well, Issei, you are wrong there. I am the strongest in the peerage, I am the King." The red-haired girl asked.
"Females can be kings, noted." Issei said.
The red-head deadpanned, how different was this boy?
"Well, that's not entirely correct. Only in the world of devils is it possible." The red-haired girl added.
"Devils? Hmm, it sounds familiar. Analysis; do you plan to take me to hell?" Issei asked, looking at the girl.
"Wha—? No, I did not have the intentions to." She replied, the group beside her all listened and watched quizzically, unsure how to react.
"I think I should ask some questions now, some of them have been answered, but some remain. What are your names?" Issei asked.
"I'm Rias." The red-haired girl responded.
"I'm Akeno." The black-haired girl responded.
"I'm Koneko." The white-haired girl said. Issei narrowed his eyes slightly, something odd came to his attention, he could quite determine what it was though.
"I'm Kiba." The blonde boy said.
"Okay, where am I?" Issei asked
"You are in Kuoh, Japan." Rias replied
"Japan? Hmm…" Issei questioned. "Alright, and what do I do about my broken leg?"
"Well, if you became a Devil, we could heal it through sleep." Rias explained.
"A Devil? What does that imply?"
"Well, your power would be increased exponentially. You would gain the ability to fly, and you would naturally be more resilient and resistant to almost everything." Rias explained.
"Sounds good. What's the flip side?" Issei asked.
"Well, you would have to serve under me. But, I promise you would be treated equally here, I treat my peerage like family here." Rias assured him, gaining the nods of everyone in the room.
"Hmm, join with a group of people I have never met on a planet that isn't my own. Sounds… I accept" Issei agreed,
"Okay then, let me welcome you as my new pawn." Rias said, summoning red pieces that looked like game board pieces.
"A pawn? I will be a pawn?" Issei asked
"Yes, but it's not all that bad-"
"Are pawns powerful?" Issei interrupted. Rias looked at him shocked, he really knew nothing, maybe he wasn't from this world.
"They can be the most powerful, yes." Rias said, holding a single piece to his chest. Much to her surprise, nothing happened. In a fit of shock, she held all eight she had up to his chest.
Everyone in the room looked at the red pieces, all of them equally shocked when the pieces began to tremble and change in a tantrum of red light. They all watched as each pawn piece mutated one by one and went into him.
Each of them looked at Issei, each of them thinking the same thing: just what exactly was Issei?
"I don't feel any different." Issei said once the red glow cleared.
"You won't feel any different, but you will see a difference. You're a Devil now, like all of us." Rias said, everyone stood, and for some reason, Issei did too. Wings sprouted from each of their backs. Issei turned and looked back.
"Hmm, I imagined that wings would be a little higher up." Issei said, looking at everyone's wings.
"Well, anything you want to say now that you're a devil?" Rias questioned
"When can I test my strength against new opponents?" Issei asked, looking at Rias.
"Well, we have a rating game coming up within a week. I know, that's not a lot of time for training, but that's the best we can mana—" Rias started, but never finished as a ring of fire with a bird in it formed on the floor to his right.
The flames in the circle grew larger and larger, and when they dispersed, a group of sixteen stood. One male in front of a group of females. Issei looked at him in idle curiosity, a man with fifteen spouses was more than formidable.
"You must be very strong to have so many women following you." Issei said, looking at the man, who began to move to the backing up group of his new-found friends.
"Huh, that's right. Now shut up before I squash you like a bug." The blond-haired man said.
Something inside brought him back to the arena, his real personality almost pushed to the surface. He looked away to restrain himself from attacking the man.
"Ah, Rias, my love. I look forward to our game, and I look forward to having you as my own." The blonde-haired boy said.
"There is no way that's ever going to happen, Riser!" Rias said, avoiding his glare.
The blonde came forward and began to grab at Rias, and as soon as he did Koneko, Kiba and Akeno jumped in his way.
"Tch. And what are you doing boy?" Riser asked, turning to face Issei.
"Oh? Me? I'm not interested." Issei said simply,
"Well, you are the smart one." Riser said, turning away from him.
Issei stood and limped his way over to the fifteen girls that came with Riser, looking at each one as if studying. None of them said anything to him, his eyes changed to the bright gold with a black center. None of the girls dared talk to him as the power weeping from his eyes were on a level that was surreal to them.
Issei stopped and stared a single girl down. This girl was beautiful and had long, blonde hair that was tied into twin-tails with large, drill-like curls and blue ribbons keeping them in place. The front of her hair has several bangs hanging over her forehead, with a V-shape fringe hanging over the bridge of her nose. She was dressed in a light purple dress with dark purple accents and a blue bow at the front. At the back, three feather-like extensions mimicking a bird's tail protrude from the dress, which really gave her a bird-like appearance.
Issei looked at her, then turned and looked at Riser.
"Stop staring at me, pervert." The blonde girl said.
"I'm the pervert? Your brother is your master." Issei said, looking at the girl with bleak eyes filled with burning rage. A hand grabbed Issei's shoulder and he was sent flying across the room. Koneko caught him in mid-flight.
The swiveled black mark formed on Issei's right hand and the power spiked in the room, the smile on Risers face faded as Issei looked at him. Issei raised his right hand, a small red orb throwing black energy off it formed in his palm. However, he lowered his hand and cleared his emotions.
Issei stared at Riser with the intensity of fate itself, a warrior versus a bird.
"Aww, that wasn't nice." Issei said. His body began to glow slightly, small golden flakes beginning to burn coldly off him.
The swiveled black mark formed on Issei's right hand and the power spiked in the room, the smile on Risers face faded as Issei looked at him. Issei raised his right hand, a small red orb throwing black energy off it formed in his palm.
"Gah! This isn't over Rias, my love. You will be mine." Riser said, leaving the room in a flash of gold flames.
Issei turned and looked at Koneko, who stared into his eyes.
"You're like me." Koneko said, looking at Issei. She saw, hidden in his eyes, regret and sorrow, misery and loss beyond anything she had ever seen.
"I assure you, I'm not." Issei said staring back at her as the symbol on his hand vanished.
End of Chapter 1: The Eternity Star
Let's say I had an Idea and redid it for the sake of the story. I will not sit here and cry about how bad I did by apologizing and saying I will make it better and never do it.
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Dedicated to Xerozzuro, Darth56 and GUIDix.