Chapter 1: The Immortal's Death
To all who knew him, Issei Hyoudou is a strange boy. He almost never talked to anyone and when he did it was quiet and precise. He always had a bored look on his face. He never spoke a word and never showed any emotion. He basically kept to himself. He had moved to town recently about six months prior, he had not approached anyone, and any who approached him were ignored.
He was about 5'8. He had brown hair with a small ponytail in the back and light brown eyes. His clothing consisted of the Kuoh academy uniform which is a black blazer with white trim over an unbuttoned white dress shirt. He wore a red T-shirt under, black jeans, and sneakers.
Every day after school, he would walk to the bridge that led to his neighborhood and would sit on the edge. Just staring off into space. After an hour or so he would get up and walk home.
One day at school, he was walking through the halls ignoring the Perverted Duo's non-stop rambling.
The Perverted Duo were two students in Issei's class who were very outspoken in their perversity. Matsuda, a former jock, was bald and a self-proclaimed Lolicon. Motohama had dark brown hair and wore glasses.
It was said that Motohama is able to measure a girl's three sizes just by looking at her. Together they are the Perverted Duo. They would peep on girls, go on panty raids, and together had sexually harassed about every girl in a five-mile radius. They had dubbed Issei as their friend because of all of the attention his silence gained from the opposite sex. They thought that if they were near him girls would start to notice them as well. It didn't help at all. It had backfired causing everyone to believe that Issei was a pervert as well. Which the result was that it didn't help Issei's reputation. Not that he cared of course.
On this particular occasion, the two were loudly discussing the new Eroge that they had brought. This was causing many students male and female alike to glare at them. Not that the two noticed that is. As Issei continued to walk trying to ignore the perverts. Then, he saw a flash of red out of the corner of his eye. He turned and saw a beautiful young woman by the name of Rias Gremory. Walking alongside her is her best friend Akeno Himejima. They are best known as the Two Great Ladies. They were walking by the trio heading in the opposite direction of them.
Every time he saw her, he felt something weird emanating from her. He got the same feeling from several other students throughout the school as well. Strangely almost all were female with a few exceptions.
Rias turned slightly and give Issei a slight smile, but frowned when Issei responded with his usual bored expression.
She faltered ever so slightly in her steps as if surprised that someone hadn't immediately fallen to their knees from her smile. It was so slight that no normal person could have noticed it. However, Issei did notice this action. Nevertheless, she continued walking leaving behind two drooling perverts and one bored looking boy.
Issei turned to keep walking and heading to his next class when the prevents awakened their perverted haze.
Motohama adjusted his glasses and peered in Rias's direction a bit of blood leaking from his nose.
"Her three sizes are Bust 99, Wrist 58, and Hips 90! She is the perfect woman!"
"I know she is so hot and polite to everyone!" His friend responded.
"Best of all, she smiled at me!" Motohama screamed.
"No, she smiled at me," his bald comrade replied.
This started an argument between the perverts and Issei used this as his chance to get away.
He walked down the hallway watching the weirdness of the school pass by. He saw Koneko Toujou, a small white-haired hair from the first year, who had been dubbed the School Mascot. He avoided the drooling fangirls chasing Kiba Yuuto, who had been given the title the handsome prince.
'Seriously,' thought Issei, 'what is with all of the titles and nicknames in this school?'
Issei made it to class just as the bell rang, he was sliding into his seat. As he sat he noticed that somehow the Perverted Duo had arrived to class before him. This greatly confused him as he was sure that he had left them behind. He shrugged it off and proceeded to zone out.
The teacher never called on him, because the one time he thought Issei wasn't paying attention and asked him to do a problem on the board. Issei did it completely correct. Making the teacher look like a fool.
Issei didn't even need to go to school. He had taken this class several times already. The only reason that even decided to attend this school in the first place is that he have no other choice of closer to his home schools. He was starting to wonder if he should drop out of his class and do his duties more actively.
At the end of the day, Issei left school trekking towards the bridge. Seeming not to notice the four figures watching him from one of the windows of the school.
"He interests you, doesn't he, Rias?" Asked the girl with short black hair, glasses, and violet eyes.
"Yes, he does Sona," Rias answered.
"I sense something powerful inside of him! I, too, am curious about our Kouhai," Stated the girl with long black hair, heterochromatic eyes, and glasses.
"Ufufufufu, are you sure that is the only reason you are interested in him, Tsubaki?" Giggled the voluptuous girl with long black hair is done up in a ponytail.
"Sh-shut up Akeno! Th-that's not it and you know it!" Stammered the blushing Tsubaki.
"Ufufufufu"
"Akeno, leave her alone," commanded Rias.
"Yes, Buchou"
"Well Rias, we shall have to see who gets him first, now won't we?"
"I suppose we shall Sona."
Unknown to the four girls, Issei did, in fact, know that they were watching him. He just simply doesn't care.
He walked to the bridge and sat on the railing with his feet dangling over the edge. This bridge was a well-known spot for suicides. The height, rushing water, and rocks below would kill almost anything. There had been 22 suicides and 4 attempted suicides. Issei was the second, third, and fourth attempts. The first had been a depressed stockbroker who been pulled to safety in time.
Issei wants to die, but he can't die from normal means. He has been alive for over 2486 years. He has no idea why he cannot die, otherwise, he would have been able to do something about it. He has dedicated years of study, exploration, and research to find what is keeping him alive and how to kill himself to no avail. He has been forced to watch everyone he has ever known, loved, or cared about in the slightest wither away, while he remained the same. He has fallen in love multiple times and gotten married about at least a few times. After the death of his latest wife, he grew detached and searched for a way to end his suffering and join his loved ones.
He has lived for far too long and fights too many wars. He's permanently stuck in the body of a teenager. His body won't let him die. Any injury he receives is fully healed. Each time has gotten faster than the last wound. His body builds a boosting healing factor, every time he encounters one. He could get his neck broken and get right back up like its nothing. In fact, he has his used to purposely walk into danger in the hopes that he will be killed.
During his past, he wasn't alone nor the latest or first person to achieve this Curse of Immortality. He joined those who were like him, however, it didn't last very long that none of them couldn't achieve death. As a result, Issei and some of them leave their own comrades to search far and wide to achieve their lifelong dream.
He sighed and swung his legs back around to the bridge so that he could stand. He proceeded to start on his way back home. He was reaching the end of the bridge when he hears a voice behind him.
"Uh-um, are you Issei Hyoudou?" The voice stammered out.
Issei turned around to look at the speaker. She was a girl at around 16-17 years old. She wore a dark red jacket with the letter "P" embroidered in gold, a white undershirt, a red bow, and a green skirt with a thin white stripe around the lower end of it. She had long black hair that fell to her hips and had beautiful violet eyes. She was quite pretty, he noted.
"I am," he replied.
"W-will you please g-go out with me?" She stuttered out, bowing her head.
He was somewhat surprised and was about to decline her offer when he realized that he was sensing something strange about her. The vibes he felt off of her felt like nothing he had ever felt before, it felt like something that was one so bright but had since been stained. He also felt her malevolent intent barely restrained. If she thought she might be able to kill him, who was he to deny her chance.
"Okay," he said in his monotone voice.
"R-really?" she asked.
"Yes," he said.
"That's great," she said. "Can you meet me in that park on Sunday?" she asked.
"Sure," he said as he turned and walked away leaving the girl standing there.
Unbeknownst to the girl and Issei, they were being watched from behind a tree by a small white haired girl.
"I must inform Buchou about this."
Sunday rolled along with Issei as he walked to the park. Along the way, he was given a flyer with a cool symbol, which he put it in his pocket. He arrived at the fountain. Within seconds later, Yuuma ran up to him. She was wearing a short black dress with a small light purple jacket on top. Issei had to admit that she looked quite cute.
By the end of the date, the sun was setting as they got back to the fountain that they first met up at.
She took a few steps ahead of him and whirled to face him.
"Hey, Ise-kun?"
"What is it, Yumma?"
"Can… can you do me a favor to celebrate our first date?"
"Sure"
Her killing intent was filling the air and was pathetic at the very least, but it's practically surrounding him as he speaks.
"Will you die for me?"
'Yes! Now to act it out.'
"Sorry, Yuuma. There must be something wrong with my ears. Could you say that again?"
Yumma leaned over to him, in a way that made his heart race for a moment. "Would you die for me?" She said it again, her beautiful face transforming into a cruel smirk.
Her clothes shredded and reformed as a black leather outfit barely covering her more sensitive areas. Two black wings burst from her back. She grew taller and her face gained an ugly smile.
"If it's any consolation," her voice was cold, not like the soft voice he had heard before. "I had fun on our date. It was like playing house with a little kid."
'Only I allowed it so, whatever you are.'
A spear of light formed in her hands which she threw at Issei. It stabbed through Issei's heart. Issei fell to the ground blood pouring out of him.
He could hear Yuuma's voice again, but it was so faint he wasn't sure if he was imagining it or not. "Sorry about this, but you were a threat to us. If you really want to blame someone, don't blame me. Blame God for placing a Sacred Gear inside you."
The sound of flapping wings, and then he heard nothing. Just the calming waters of the fountain.
'Finally, I can join my loved ones. I hope they still remember me.'
He loses consciousness and died with a smile on his face.
Just for your information is that this isn't a parallel universe to the Legend Resurgence. Instead this is a based on playing the Assassin's creed Odyssey where I just finished the Atlantis mission(s) finding out that the player (name having trouble spelling) have managed to find a way to lived forever and the anime Strike the Blood.
Furthermore, this fanfic is inspired by the Immortal's Pain and First Flame. As well as this fanfic have the potential to be a crossover or multi crossover.
Before setting his life age, I wanted to make him as old when he became a knight but it was cancel because the Odyssey game which I wanted Issei to at least lived and fought during that time period and the weapon he have isn't consider knight era.
The Curse of Immortality is more than the title as you may know that allows anyone who processed to truly lived forever, but I'm keeping how Issei got it in the first place a secret. The same goes for others like him, but they basically formed a faction in the way. This faction, which I'm currently have no name for them, is very secretive. So secret that none of the supernatural factions know about them at all. Neither does this faction. Its member will be OC or other characters from different anime that have the ability to live forever.
Almost forgot, the Curse of Immortality will have a mark on them so they be identify to be wielder of the Curse of Immortality.
Could you, the readers do me a favor or two?
The first is to make a suggestion or suggestions or vote for that to have Rias saved him or His Curse of Immortality saved Issei. And the second is will be make suggestions of who should be in the faction that only have Curse of Immortality's wielders.
Thank you and Have a nice day.😁