Prologue

Warning Note: The following is a work inspired by another fanfiction called "Highschool DxD: Rise of the Solar God", written by Warriorman199456. If you have by chance read his stories, know that I am not plagiarizing, although it is true that I am using characters that are not mine. At least 1/5 of this story's cast belong to Warriorman19945 or Ishibumi. The rest are purely my characters. While Warriorman199456 has green-lighted this story as a part of his canon, the rest of you who have read Rise of the Solar God before hand are free to interpretate my story however you like.

If you are NOT familiar with Warriorman's work however, don't worry. You do not need to have read his story to know what is going on. You just need to be at least relatively familiar with the light novels. That said, if you have read my story before reading Rise of the Solar God, then please be kind enough to send some of your credit to him. He's at least partially responsible for inspiring me so much.

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Third Heaven

A young girl ran through the fields of Third Heaven to meet up with her family. At least, those of that had remained pure and truthful to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. With a wide smile on her pretty little face with her long braided peanut hair rocking back and forth as she ran across the breathtaking fields.

She had been playing in the Far North Lake with a dozen other kids, but she had began to feel lonely about an hour or so into the game of splashing and playful drowning, and now she wanted to be with her family members once again. Well, them and Lady Gabriel, accompanied by the charming Master Jophiel.

The thought of once again playing another entertaining game of riddles and just overall having fun increased the girl's excitement ten folds. Although she slowed down a bit so to not wear herself out, her running posture never wavered. If only she had the beautiful wings of Lady Gabriel and Master Jophiel's skills to fly, she would've gotten much faster than on her two tiny feet.

Recognizing the small curves of the tiny hills, each with a small lake on it, the little girl's face lit up as she calculated the distance left. It wasn't much, a quarter mile away, just behind the three hundred feet tall hill spreading over her front view.

Somewhere nearby, she heard the light thumping of feet hitting the ground. Someone close to her vicinity was running, nervously fast. The sounds become more and more evident, prompting the little girl to halt her movements and turn around. To her right, a boy with slightly curly black hair and green eyes was running in her direction. At first a bit shocked, her eyes widened and she nearly gasped, before she recognized the boy as Dean- one of her many siblings.

Raising her hand to wave at him, she smiled kindly. Her act of affection was only returned with a disturbing reaction. The joy of meeting one of her brothers sooner than expected was replaced by a huge bundle of confusion…and slight fear, as well. The look on Dean's face, was not only surprising, but it greatly disturbed her as well. And his posture as well. He was running as well as staggering. His breathing was way faster than normal, even for someone that was running. There were also many bruises on his arms and legs. Its as if he has been running for an hour without stopping. Possibly even longer.

The little girl remained frozen and had an close urge-call to run away as her brother got nearer her, before finally appearing a foot away from her and grabbing her almost violently by the shoulders. Her lips quivered, almost letting out a yelp.

"SARAH!" he exclaimed, his voice so distraught and his eyes so worried and nervous, it made said girl genuinely tremble in shock and fear. "Where the hell were you?! Half the garden is searching for you and at least thirty others! Me and Auntie have been out here for at least three hours looking for you!"

"W-What…W-Why would you be looking for me?" she asked in timid confusion and fear. Her legs had began to shake uncontrollably from the unfamiliar panic and distraught in her brother's soft glare. His tone was so scary it made her tear up. "D-Dean, is something going on? I don't understand what you are saying at all…*sob*I-I"

"Never mind. Where are the other kids?" he asked, his chest still heaving. He cocked his head up and looked across the fields to scan for anyone else in their vicinity. He turned towards her once again, with a soft glare. "Sarah, were there other kids with you? You have to tell me-"

"A-At the Far North Lake!" she cried.

"What?"

"At the Far North Lake…" she repeated with small sob. Her eyes were already reddening with the glistening tears. The way her brother was holding her scared her, because it reminded her of her dark past as a human on Earth. It was that type of situation, that type of atmosphere that she wanted always to avoid. To have someone older than her, someone wiser, be this distraught and panicked, so much so that they did not care a bit for what she was feeling and only worried for her physical well-being. "Me and several other kids were playing there...we played 'Shark' for an hour, before I got bored and I-I decided to head back…"

"What about the other kids?"

"Some left, some stayed."

"How many?"

"I DON'T KNOW!" she finally let it out. Since the second he grabbed her violently and looked at her intently, he had been creeping her out and she didn't like it at all. Nothing about what he was saying felt good. The opposite actually. She violently pushed him off of her. "I DON'T KNOW! I DON'T KNOW! I DON'T KNOW!…"

Her irrational behavior seem to have temporarily broken Dean out of whatever distraughtful thoughts were blinding him, as he began to realize that perhaps he hadn't approached his little sister in the proper way. Dean of all people should've known the painful memories this could bring Sarah. But considering the current situation, no one could really blame him. No one would or even should care to blame him. The safety of those younger than him, not just his sister, was an important factor that needed to be confirmed on 100%.

"Shhh...Sarah, calm down." he told her, this time more calmly. For a moment he bit back the sheer nervousness he was feeling. His emotional weakness was what likely scared her most. He had to appear at least a little calm. He should've been perfectly aware by this point, children work best when their supervisors are calm. This made Dean feel stupid, on top of being extremely worried and a bit angry with his sister.

As a compensation, he calmly closed the gap between them and gently wrapped his hands around her sobbing form. She had really calmed down a bit, but her crying never stopped. She shuddered, as if she was struggling to decide whether or not to push him off once again and run away or return the hug. Eventually, Sarah decided on the latter. A moment later, she even buried her head in his shoulder.

"You're scaring me, Dean…" she mumbled meekly, underneath her buried face. His fingers went to her hair and gently stroke it.

"I'm sorry, Sarah, I'm really sorry. Please, calm down."

And she did, after quite a while. When the last of her tears were dropped, they put a little space between each other and gazed at one another, faces mere inches away. Her eyes were a little red and puffy, still wet. His appeared calm. After a few moments of silence, she raised the question:

"Dean, is something wrong? I've never seen you this distraught since…" her words trailed off and she bit her lip. She blinked once to stop another flow of tears from breaking out. Instead, she firmly set her sights on him. "Can you tell me what's going on? You seem extremely worried."

"I will, but let's get to Main Garden first. Once we're there I will tell you the whole story." he whispered. He took her hand and got up, prompting her to do so as well. "Now, we really need to hurry. You still have energy to run, no?"

She reluctantly nodded her head. She didn't feel tired at all, at least not physically. But she was still pretty shook.

"Okay…" he licked his lips and turned towards the hill that stood tall on the horizon. Or rather, to its left, where there trailed a small but vaguely visible pathway that likely led directly to the Main Garden. Sarah noticed it as well. Dean pointed it out to her, too, so it wasn't easy to miss it. "Here, do you see it? That path there will take us directly to the Main Garden. Now, Sarah, I want you to follow stay close behind me and never for a moment stop."

"B-But what if I need t-to…pee or poop." she asked with slight embarrassment.

"You'll manage till we get to the main group. Now, let's go." he concluded the conversation firmly.

With a stiff posture he began running towards the wide hill. Closely following behind, with a more sloppy posture, Sarah tip-toed on her feet like a princess. Although she fell on her knees quite a lot, the worst she got were some nasty bruises, but she could manage with them just fine. Half way through their worryingsome journey, they heard something that made Dean's blood freeze. He stopped suddenly.

All around them, the booming sound of heavenly horns being blown could be clearly heard. Sarah didn't think she had heard quite anything like that. It sounded like a hundred battle horns being blown at the same time, yet there was something explicitly…divine and terrifying about them. As if they were giving a warning for an oncoming disaster.

When the soundly chorus was over, everything felt deathly silent. It became so quiet, Sarah almost wondered if she had gone deaf from the 'horn-attack'. When she looked at her brother, her stomach wrenched. Never had she seen someone so astonishingly stiff and worryingly frozen in place. A cold breeze swooned across and made the two siblings shiver. A gigantic shadow spread over the ground and suddenly the world of Third Heaven became much darker.

A bright lighting bolt tore through the sky above, followed by an earth-shattering thunder and Sarah yelped, covering her ears. Her brother shuddered once, before looking up. Sarah followed his gaze shortly after. What she saw made her eyes widen. Clouds of thick black gathered into a giant chaotic storm. Inside of it, ominous lightening and waves of flame raged.

"No, no, no, no…!" she heard the scared voice of her brother. Sarah slowly turned to look at him. Never had he seen someone's face contort between half-hearted calmness to utter fear and dread so quickly and openly. Dean was openly shivering now, his pupils twitching. It was like he was staring Death itself. For the second time.

"D-Dean…" she called out to him, meekly.

He glanced at her, the emotions on his face bordering with terror. In a flash, he shot forward and grabbed her hand. Sarah yelped in shock and slight pain at his tight grip on her wrist. With a violent tug, he began running while dragging her alongside him.

"DEAN STOP, YOU'RE HURTING ME!" she exclaimed, tears threatening to form once again.

"We gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go…" he mumbled repeatedly like a madman.

"DEAN, STOP IT!"

He turned towards her and shouted at her face.

"WE GOTTA GO, SARAH OR ELSE WE'RE GOING TO DI-"

BAM!

Something large and heat-covered crashed a few feet away from them, right behind her brother. The ground crunched painfully as it was shattered beneath the force of the meteorite-like object. The force pushed her onto the ground and the resulting explosion blinded her and then everything went pitch black.

End Notes: Well, this is it for the Prologue folks. Hope you liked it. I probably could've written twenty more paragraphs, but I quite literally felt disinterested halfway through so I deleted the part. This part wasn't even the actual beginning to the story. It was more or less…an introduction you could say, to the type of world we will be exploring. I've kept info on what is going on in this chapter as vague as possible, since I want this information to be fully presented to you in the next chapter in a more polished way.

That said, I am also going to address some things that would be best clarified here, in the note:

The year in which the events are going to be set, at least in the beginning, is 1457, a few years after the sacking of Constantinople by the ottomans. The little girl known as Sarah and her family lived in Constantinople and were all slaughtered by the ottomans when the city walls were breached. She along with those of her family that were truthfully devoted to Christ and God passed onto Third Heaven, the place in DxDverse where all the kind-natured humans' souls pass on after they die. While to their fellow human brethren on Earth they are essentially like ghosts, to the rest of the Supernatural World they are just as physical. Some of them, at least.

I didn't really think of any specific characteristics for the two siblings. You can imagine Sarah as a 11-year old cute af loli with brown hair. Her brother Dean is much older, but still quite young. Not older than 19. Except for his bright green eyes and curly black hair he isn't really anything special. An averagely built guy.

Slight Sneak Peak for future chapters: Sarah is well and alive…for now. You will re-meet her a bit later on, through the direct POV of one of the main characters.

(I have posted a picture of how I imagine this portion of Third Heaven to look. Go to my account "antythedramaturge" if you wish to see it.)