Daredevil
Note: This isn't a reboot of Devil of the Apocalypse, rather it's the story that takes place during the Canon of DXD while DOTA acts as the prequel. You can read the explanation about the bottom of the author note. So don't worry your little heads. This story still take place in Universe 11255573. If you don't know the reference, read my other story A Fragile Heart to understand it. Also the next chapter of both stories will up sometime after new years. Speaking of new years, happy holidays and a happy new year. Also note: There are future spoils for DOTA in this story so please if you don't want to be spoiled, don't read this, if you do it own your own discrete. Also Beta wanted and I don't own anything from DxD.
"Someone is Talking"
'Someone in Thought'
"Speaking in flashback, through magic circle or Dream"
[Heavenly Dragon or spirit of a Sacred Gear speaks]
{Horsemen of the Apocalypse Speak}
"Someone is speaking in chant, using a special skill or technique, or speaking in a power up form."
Prologue: Convergence of Fate
The underworld. The homeworld of the devils and fallen angels. A world where the landmass is greater compare to the human world, lack of oceans and the sky dyed in deep violet purple. Within that violet sky floated an artificial full moon, indicating that it's nightfall. The moonlight let out bright shine throughout the one of the many forests occupied under the current devil society, where a teleportation circle emerged.
A mysterious young man materialized from the teleportation circle dressed in a full-length black cloak like coat, pair of matching colored gloves, and long black boots and his face was completely sealed under the hood of his coat. The mysterious black coat man held a bouquet of flowers as he walked on a trail that lead him out of the silent forest.
The young man took in a deep breath as he stepped out of the forest. In front of his horizons was a large castle in ruins. The castle was wrecked with multiple large holes on the walls and judging by the tall green grass throughout the courtyard and vines sticking around the walls of the castle, it has been cleared that the castle has been deserted for a long time. The young man made his way through the tall grass and into gate of the castle.
He took in one last sigh and stepped in the entrance hall of the castle. He pulled out a flower out of the bouquet placed down on the ground before walking into the dusty parlor room and repeated the same process. He walked out the parlor and headed up the grand staircase while dropping another flower into one of the staircase.
For every room and wing he stepped in, or what left of them, the black coat young man dropped a single flower. After making sure all of the rooms on all of the wings each had a flower, the young hooded man came back to the grand staircase, where he stood in front of large door. He tightened his grip on the remaining bouquet of flowers as he used his other hand to open the door that lead him to the large ballroom.
The young hooded man raised his head up to the ceiling, where he saw large gaping hole right in the center of the room. Through that hole was the perfect view of the artificial moon. The light of the moon dawned down through the hole directly at a large pile of debris . The young man approached the large pile of debris and climbed right at the top of it. From there he looked around the ballroom and envisioned the entire room engulfed with flames. The debris he stood on was no more and he stood back on the ground. In front of him laid a young unconscious boy with unkempt black hair crushed under a large crystal chandelier.
"Ah... huh...?" The young black haired boy opened his sapphire blue eyes to the smell of smoke and sound of roaring fire. At first the young boy turned out to be weary and not entirely awake till he let out a terrible cough. He came to his senses and realized the ballroom will burn down the ground. He tried to get up from the ground, but couldn't since he stuck under the chandelier. He tried crawling out from it, but he lacked the strength in his hands to do so.
"Oh? You're alive?" The black haired boy and the hooded young man heard footsteps heading toward the ballroom, leisurely, like they were in no rush at all. The young hooded man turned around to see a mysterious feeble and scrawny looking old man heading inside the ballroom. The old man was pale as death, and had broad, hunched shoulders and a crooked back. He was bald and had menacing red eyes. He wore a white shirt with a white and black coat with a red inner lining on top, white pair gloves, black pants, and calf-high black boots.
"So you survived after all. I would have sworn that I annihilated everyone in this estate." The old man chuckled.
"Annihilated?" The black haired boy asked. "W-What is that supposed to mean?"
"You don't remember?" The old man put his hand underneath his chin. "Hmm... maybe the debris must have knock your memories when it hit you." The old man shrugged his shoulders like he didn't care anymore. "Oh well. I have everything I needed from this household."
The mysterious albino old man took out a rusty golden ring from his pocket. The black hair boy widened his eyes, recognizing rusty golden ring in the old man's hand. "T-That ring! That's my mother ring! Why do you have her ring?"
"Oh? You do recognized it." The old man put the rusty golden ring on his index finger and the ring began to glow a radiant white aura. It spread throughout the old man's body and the black hair boy shield eyes till the light faded away. By the time he put he opened his eyes, he was left stupefied. The scrawny old man in front of him was no more.
"No... Way..." The black hair teen couldn't believe what he looking at.
The albino man in front of him now looked in his early twenties and had a vigor and muscular body that was two and half meters tall. His crooked back was straightened up, his bald head was now filled with shoulder length white hair. The young boy couldn't believed that the handsome young man in front of him used to appear as an ugly, old hunched back man before putting on the ring.
The crooked posture of the old man began to straightened itself. The weak scrawny body soon drastically changed into more of vigor and muscular. The strains of long white hair soon grew out from the old man's bald head.
"Ah... It took me centuries to locate it, but I finally have it! The Seal of Solomon is finally mine!" The younger man laughed in delight as he raised the hand that had rusty golden ring on. "It's finally mine!" The white haired man raised his gaze up to the ceilings cracks forming and parts of the ceiling collapsing on the ground. "Oh look at the time. It appears that I won't have time to explain my dastardly plan to you. Well tell your parents thank you for keeping my ring safe in the after life."
"Wait... Don't..." The black hair boy reached his hand toward the mysterious man, who vanished away within the flames. "...Go..."
The young hooded man closed his eyes before chucks of the ceiling collapsed on top of boy in front of him and opened them again to see the scenery around him drastically changed. He now stood in the middle of a wasteland with the young boy from before on the ground and looked up in the cloudy sky, where he saw sparks of red lightning.
"H-Huh...?" The young black haired boy regain conscious and got up from the ground. The young boy looked up in the sky looking confused, lost, and terrified. He quivered as the sound of thunder got louder and the bolts of red lightning struck straight towards the ground. The young boy cringed as the one large lightning bolt touched to the ground and the entire wasteland was coated in deep black smoke.
{Dante Pruflas...} The young black hair boy widened his eyes to hear a voice through the smoke calling his name. The young boy gasped in the sight in front of him as the smoke cleared up. In front of him stood a large mystical creature, a horse to be specific. The large horse was dressed head to toe in dream armor with golden accents and a trail of fiery red flames on its back. The beast he saw was a large horse that stood 30 meters tall. From the tip of its head to its hoof, aside from its mouth, the horse was dressed in fiery red metallic medieval armor with gold accents. There also a trail of fire that came from the back of the head of the horse to all the way to the horse's back and ends at the end of its tail.
"W-Who are you...?" The young boy asked. "A-And how do you know my name?"
{I... Am... War...} The large horse breathed out ruby colored fire from his nostrils. {I've been watching you... Dante Pruflas...}
The young boy stumbled back and swallowed his saliva. "What do you want from me?"
{I'm... here for... you...!}
The young hooded man closed eyes once more and opened them to see that he was back to the burned out ballroom and standing on top of the debris. He sat down on the debris and reminisced on everything he just envisioned.
"You're doing this again." A young girl's voice chimed in his head. The young hooded figure raised his gaze to the exit door and saw a young petite girl with short fiery red hair and matching eyes dressed in black Gothic Lolita clothing. She made an unpleasant frown on her face as she put her hands on her hips. "You do this very year. You come here dressed up in get up and do what? Put a flowers everywhere and sit that pile of rubble and mope around?"
The hooded figure stand back up and took off his hood to reveal his spiky, unkempt black hair and beautiful, yet enraged sapphire blue eyes. "Damn it Guerra. Can't you see I'm trying to have a moment of mourning."
"Pffft!" The fiery redhead girl known as Guerra rolled her eyes. "I get that you're trying to mourn your parents' death, but do you really have to do this in a typical Batman cliche fashion? You know normal people usually just show their respect to dead love ones at their graves, not at the place they were killed."
The black haired young man sighed as put his hand on his forehead. "I don't have the patience to deal with you right now. Can't you just go already and leave me in peace?"
"Believe me. I don't want to be here as much as you do, but thanks to the pact we have, I'm bound to you to matter what if you like it or not." Guerra reminded.
The black haired man skidded off the pile of debris and walked up to the short redhead girl and patted her on the head, much to her annoyance. "That's right. Ever the incident that occurred that night, you've been by my side whenever I needed you. Thank you. I've greatly appreciate it."
Guerra's cheeks reddened as she jerked the young man's hand off her head. "Spot that! I'm not some little kid you know!"
The black haired man chuckled. "Alright. If you say so."
A teleportation circle emerged in the ballroom. Both Guerra and the black haired young man turned toward it as abeautiful and attractive young woman with a voluptuous figure in her late teens appeared from the magic circle. The young woman long, wavy fiery orange hair and light green eyes. She wore light pink and white fancy school uniform that exposed her cleavage, a pair of black pantyhose, and white high heel shoes.
"Greeting Dante-sama." The young orange haired woman kneel down in front of the young man named Dante and Guerra. "Sorry to disturb you my king on this important day, but I have very important news regarding the next target."
"Oh? What's that Bernadette?" Dante asked.
"We were able to locate the destination of our target." The young woman named Bernadette informed. "It's located in small suburban town in Japan called Kuoh Town; however, there is some slight complications that you should know about before we peruse it."
"Complications? Like what?"
"Kuoh Town is under the jurisdiction of couple of high class devils." Bernadette explained. "Rias Gremory and Sona Sitri to exact."
Dante eyes widened. He was well aware of who those girls were. "I wound find it troublesome in acquiring our target if either one of them found out that we're stealing something from their territory."
"But that's in case we're caught." Guerra pointed out. "We'll be fine as long we stay under their radar and acquired our target in discreet. Plus it doesn't seemed neither one of them or any of the girls are aware of the existence of our target."
Guerra had a good point. As long he and his peerage remained vigilant and remain covert in Kuoh Town, he wouldn't need to have a confrontation with neither girls or their servants. Plus there was also the fact that none of them knew what exactly reside under their territory. Or that what Guerra at least assumed. Dante knew for fact that neither girl were that oblivious compare to other high nobles he know of.
"I wish that was case, but it seemed that both girls have been aware of our target." Bernadette added. "But that's not the half of it. I found out that the Grigori have became aware of our target's existence as well. Last I checked one of them has already made a contact with it."
Dante narrowed his eyes and put his hand on top of his chin. 'Damn. Talk about bad timing. Didn't think that other people will picked up the presence of my target the same time as I did. No matter. As long as neither of the girls or the Grigori nabbed what's rightfully mine, it will alright."
"So what's our next move my king?" Bernadette asked.
"Contact everyone else and tell them what I'm going to tell you." Dante informed her. "We're not letting anything to get in the way of claiming our objective. Even if we have confront the fallen angels and younger siblings of the great Maous."
~Daredevil~
"Will you die for me?"
It all began a few days ago.
After being beaten up by the girl's Kendo team for crime he hasn't even committed yet, Issei Hyoudou, Kuoh Academy's infamous pervert and member of the Perverted Trio, was asked out by a mysterious high school girl named Yuuma Amano. At first the young pervert couldn't believe a beautiful girl like Yuuma would asked him out of all people. He first thought she was either put up to this by her friends or something, but after being assured by Yuuma multiple times, Issei couldn't help to but to feel like luckiest man his life. He wished for a beautiful girlfriend and now it finally happened.
Ever since that day Issei has done nothing but bragged about to all his friends and family. None of them couldn't believe this even when he introduced her to them. Both his friends and parents reaction were so priceless that Issei literally couldn't help it but to take pictures of their faces on his phone.
By the time the weekend arrived after Yuuma asked Issei out, the couple decided to have their first date. Early that morning Issei had everything planned out to make this date leave a good impression on Yuuma.
Before he left home and head to the place he and Yuuma agreed to met, he made sure he brushed his thoroughly, made sure his clothes were properly ironed and cleaned, and even a condom just in case. No one can tell what will happen after all.
After making sure everything was complete, Issei arrived the dating spot three hours early with the anticipation. It can't be helped. Before meeting Yuuma, he was nothing more than a guy born to be unpopular with girls.
But ever since he met her, he became a guy with a girlfriend. The world around him changed. He doesn't know how to explain this, but he felt peace in his heart. He wanted to screamed in the sky saying "I finally did it! I finally have a girlfriend!"
While he tried to keep himself calm, a woman dressed in a red dressed with fake wings walked up to him. She held a leaflet in one of her hands and bag in her other. She passed the leaflet to him and walked away.
Issei cocked his head, confused what's the meaning of the occult symbol on the leaflet and put on the back of his pocket. He checked his watch and noticed the time. Yuuma should be coming any minute now.
"Looke out!"
"Huh?" Issei raised his head up and widened in eyes in shock as a large gray Siberian husky rushed directly at him. "Oh crap!" Without even thinking, Issei quickly crossed his arms to shield himself and embraced himself for impact. "Guah!" In an instant Issei got speared into the ground and got his face licked to death by the Siberian husky.
"Amarok no!" A young middle school girl with short fiery red hair and matching eyes walked to Issei and the Siberian husky. She grabbed the collar of the dog and pulled it off from Issei. "Bad girl! Sorry! Are you alright Oniisama?"
"Y-Yeah... I'm fine." Issei replied.
"Again I'm sorry." The young redhead girl put her hand out and Issei accepted it. She helped pulled Issei back up on his feet. "I don't know what came over my dog. Asena is usually well behaved."
"Woof!" Asena barked happily.
"It's alright." Issei assured her as he wiped off Asena's saliva off his face. "She didn't mean to do harm right?"
Asena nodded her head as if she understood what Issei just said.
The redhead girl's face reddened a bit as she looked a bit guilty. "Again we're sorry to bumping into you like this. We're be on our way."
The young redhead girl bowed her head and walked away with her dog. Issei smiled as he watched the girl and her dog go on their way. He continued wipe the rest of the clothes and off around his pockets and realized something. They were gone. Everything he had in his pockets were gone.
'But how?' Issei wondered.
Then it hit him. The memories of the mysterious short fiery redhead girl and her dog flashed into Issei mind. In an instant Issei began running directly straight at direction where Asena and her master went. In matter of seconds, Issei caught up to the girl and the dog.
"You! Stop your thief!" The redhead girl cringed from hearing Issei's voice. Without even turning around, she knew immediately that Issei was on her trail and quickly got on top of her dog like a horse.
"Giddy up!" Asena stood up on her hind legs like the horse before riding off. The fiery redhead girl fell off from Asena as she stood up and land on the ground. "Hey wait you stupid dog!" The fiery redhead girl reached her hand out as she watched her dog ran into the distance.
"You!" The fiery redhead girl's body winced as she felt a hand on her shoulder. She slowly turned head around and noticed the enraged young man she pickpocket not that long ago.
"A-Ah... hey there." She let out sheepish chuckle as she scratched the back of her head. She took out Issei's wallet and cellphone out from her pocket. "I'm guessing you want these back?"
She handed Issei his stuff back and he put them back into his pocket. "Thanks and all, but you still took my stuff. Give me one reason why I shouldn't report you to the authorities?"
"Don't you have to date to go to?" The fiery redhead girl asked.
"Date! Ah shoot!" Issei took out his phone out and noticed the time. "Crap! Yuuma must have arrived already at the spot!"
Issei put cellphone back into his pocket and was ready to sprint. But before he could make a run for it, the young fiery redhead girl tugged his shirt. "Wait Onii-sama, don't forget this!"
She handed back the leaflet back to Issei. He looked at it and noticed the change in occult symbol. He was about the question if she gave him the wrong one, but since he didn't had time to ask any questions, he put the leaflet in his back pocket and ran back at the spot.
By the time he arrived back, Yuuma was already there and Issei himself was out of breath and his armpits were covered in sweat.
"A-Ah! Yuuma-chan! Sorry I'm late!" Issei apologized as he tried to catch his breath. "Did I make you wait?"
Yuuma shook her head to the side while she took out a water bottle from her purse. "Don't worry, I also just got here. Here." She passed the water bottle to him and Issei accepted it. He opened it and quaffed the whole thing down in one swoop.
"So are ready?" Issei asked, passing back to the empty water bottle back to Yuuma.
"Ready as I ever be." Yuuma said as she clasped her hand with Issei.
Issei blushed as he and Yuuma began to walk around the shopping district while holding each other's hand. He felt completely touched by this that he was about the burst into tears. He tried to calm himself down and not panicked as they head to the clothing store.
They spent an hour in the clothing stores, trying out outfits and looking at decorations for their room. then they went to lunch at a family restaurant. Issei couldn't help but to be filled just by looking at Yuuma eat her chocolate parfait alone. They then watched a movie in the theater, where the two continued to hold hand there, and after the movie, they continued to hold hands as they take a stroll to the park.
As they continued to stroll in the park, Issei felt he understood what its like to being a real teenager going a real date. he felt alive for the first time in his life. He mentally thanked his mother for giving birth to him and assured his father in his mind that he'll continue to his family line.
By the time he finished his train of thoughts, he and Yuuma arrived to water fountain, where she let's go of his hand. Issei was confused, unsure why she let go of his hand, till it hit him.
'W-Wait? Is this the climax of our date? A-Are we going to kiss?' Issei pondered. 'Or maybe...'
His face flushed red as his erotic thoughts danced in his mind. There was no sign of people in the park and Yuuma continued to stare at the water fountain, so Issei felt relieved that no one is seeing his face.
"It sure was fun today." Yuuma said without taking her eyes off the fountain. She turned around and smiled at her boyfriend.
'Kuu! Damn, she's cute.' Issei gulped down his saliva his throat. Yuuma looked even more beautiful under the orange light of the sunset. It was giving off a good atmosphere.
"Hey, Ise-kun."
"What is it, Yuuma-chan?"
"There is something I want to do to celebrate our first date. Can you listen to my wish?"
Issei's body tense up. 'This is it! This must be it!'
"W-What is the w-wish you want?"Issei stuttered as his heart raced. He felt like slapping himself after hearing the tone of his deep voice, but much to his surprise, Yuuma simply continue to shine her bright smile.
"Will you die for me?"
'...Eh? What was that?' Issei blinked in surprised. "...Eh? That is...huh, sorry, can you repeat that again? I think there's something wrong with my ears."
He must have heard it wrong, or he thought. He had reassured himself that he heard right. But...
"Will you die for me?"She repeated clearly while laughing.
"W-What?" Her words didn't make any sense to him. He was about to laugh it off and remark on his girlfriend's sense of humor till...
*FLAP*
Black wings appear from her back.
She then starts to flap her wings. The black feathers float in the air and then drop down to his feet.
'What is that?' Issei gasped in disbelief. He always thought of Yuuma as an angel, but there was no way that can't be true. Was he really being prank all this time?
Yuuma flapped her wings as her innocent eyes turn cold and heartless. "It was fun. The short time I spent with you. It was like playing house with a little child." Her voice sounded very cold and Her tone is was more mature like an adult. Her mouth formed a cold smile.
*BUZZ*
The sound of static vibrated in the air. It was coming from Yuuma's hand and a sparks of pink lightning generated from her hand. It began to take shape of a glowing spear.
Issei became stupefied. He couldn't believe that Yuuma created that glowing spear of light.
The the next thing he knew, felt a gentle breeze crossed his face as heard a nasty noise that followed after it. He sensed his stomach being grazed and looked down and saw the spear that Yuuma had in her hands piercing through his stomach.
'She threw it at me... When did she...' Issei pondered as his eyes darkened. The pink spear of light disappeared from his stomach, leaving a huge hole where the spear use to be. Blood gushed out from the hole and Issei began to feel dizzy as his eyesight became blurry.
He collapsed on the ground and the blood from his stomach spread all over the floor. Issei heard the sound of his footsteps heading his away as everything fade into black.
"Sorry. You were a threat to us, so we decided to get rid of you early. If you want to hold a grudge, then hate the God who put the Sacred Gear inside you." A small voice vaguely reached into his ear. It was Yuuma.
'...Sacred, what...?' Issei couldn't properly hear what Yuuma just said. He wanted asked her something, but with the dying state he was in, he couldn't. He heard Yuuma's footstep walking away from him while at the same time his conscious began to fade in the black.
'Shit... T-This can't be happening... This can't be r-real...' am I really going to die like this?' Everything that happened in his life flashed in his eyes from everything from childhood to his death. He thought of his friends and wondered if they were shocked to hear about his death. Will they cry for him after hearing about his death? Probably not.
Then he saw his parents. Through his life he hadn't done anything to them pleased them yet. It was probably too late for him now.
He mustered all the remaining strength he had and put his hand on his stomach and saw his palm covered his blood before everything turned black.
~Daredevil~
The leaflet that Issei held in the back of his pocket enveloped in a fiery red light as it flew out of Issei's back pocket and into the air. It soon transformed into a teleportation circle where a familiar young man with unkempt spiky jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes and a young petite girl with short fiery red hair appeared.
"Unbelievable. I still can't believe those fallen angel try to dispose of him." The fiery red hair girl said as she walked up to the dying Issei. She crouched down and poked the soon to be corpse. "Hey Dante, you're better do something. He's going to die any second now."
"On it Guerra." Dante said as he summoned a magic circle on the palm of his left hand. "Oh by the way good job on switching the leaflets. If you hadn't done that, Rias Gremory would have gotten her hands on the Boosted Gear."
"Tee hee~ You're welcome." Guerra winked and stuck out her tongue as she pulled out Issei's original leaflet. She tore the paper into two and laughed. "This is really yet? This was too easy. I suspected more of a challenge coming from both fallen angels and the sister of a great Maou."
"They would have if they known that this boy possess the Boosted Gear." Dante said. "Well to the victor go the spoils."
Dante put his left hand out as fiery red light enveloped from the magic circle on his palm. Guerra also enveloped in fiery red aura as her body began to fade. The fiery red light took shaped of a large broadsword as Guerra's body became transparent enough to become a ghost. Guerra vanished away into thin air as Dante swung materialized fiery red bladed broad sword into the air.
"Today's really not your day Issei Hyoudou." Dante said, walking up to the dying body of Issei Hyoudou while twirling the hilt of his sword with his fingers. He stopped twirling his sword and pointed the tip of the blade directly bleeding young man. "You know if I hadn't switched the leaflets, you could have an interesting life as a servant of the Gremory Household. I apologized for ruining your opportunity for life time, but what I'm going to do is for the greater good. Even though what I'm going to do is unethical, but I guarantee your sacrifice won't go in vain. Your memories will live on within me."
The blade of the sword emitted a mysterious bright aura as Dante slowly pushed the tip of the blade into Issei's chest. Dante dug his blade down into Issei's body and slowly pulled it back up.
"Gene Slicer! Gene Splicer!" Dante muttered as beam of red light emerged from Issei's chest, enveloping both men in the process.
~Daredevil~
"What's taking so long? Did something really happened?" Rias Gremory couldn't help sighed as tapped her finger on the dining table. She stare out through the window of her bedroom as her buxom black haired queen Akeno walked up to her with a cup of tea in her hands.
"Ara? What's wrong Rias?" Her queen asked as she put the cup of tea down on dining table.
"It's about Issei Hyoudou." Rias said, picking up the cup of tea. She blew on her tea before taking a sip.
"Oh you mean on the boy from our school that's been being stalked by the fallen angels?" Akeno remembered. "Weren't you supposed to keep an eye on him? Isn't he on a "date" with the fallen angel right now?"
"He is." Rias replied, putting the cup of tea down. "I know I should been keeping an eye on him, but I sent my familiar to give him an occult leaflet to summon me if that fallen angel does anything conspicuous. After all we can't let the fallen angels know we're on to them. We not yet at least."
"So it's safe to assume yet that the fallen angel hadn't done anything to him yet?" Akeno said, taking a seat next to her crimson haired king.
"Afraid so." Rias sighed before taking another sip of her tea. "It's probably either an ordinary date or Issei Hyoudou disposed of the leaflet."
"It's not an ordinary date." Akeno responded defensively. Rias turn to Akeno and noticed the pessimism in her amethyst eyes. "There have been multiple spotting of other fallen angels in the town and that girl, Yuuma Asano, has made contact with all them. It safe to assume she's in cahoots with them, or better yet the ringmaster of all this."
"That's a pretty interesting assumption Akeno." Rias remarked. "Well we shouldn't sit here and wait anymore. We better go keep an eye on Issei Hyoudou ourselves. Best case scenario Issei Hyoudou must have disposed of the-" Before Rias could even complete her sentence she looked down at her cup and noticed the tea quivering. "W-What the?" She dropped her cup into the floor as the floor began to shake. "An earthquake!?"
Both girls became flabbergasted. This wasn't any ordinary earthquake. The mansion they lived in was built to withstand all sort of natural disasters. If it were an ordinary earthquake the mansion wouldn't have moved at all. The earthquake stopped a few seconds later and the two girls were left shock and confused into what could have caused the earthquake.
~Daredevil~
"Is is finally over?" It was moments after her "date" with Issei Hyoudou. Yuuma was inside in an abandoned church with her black wings spread out when she experience a terrible earthquake that nearly made the abandoned church collapse. For a moment she could understand what caused this earthquake and the first thing that came to her mind was Issei.
"No it can't be." She shook her head to the side in denial. There was no way that perverted loser had something to do with it.
"What did you Raynare?" Yuuma turned her head to the stage, where she noticed a middle aged man dressed in a pale violet trenchcoat over a white dress shirt with a matching ascot, black pants and shoes, and a black fedora. He looked rather enraged at her.
"Oh put a lip on it Dohnaseek." Yuuma, or rather Raynare, chastised. "I'm not responsible for causing this earthquake."
"Is that so?" Dohnaseek doubted Raynare's word. He known Raynare ever since she was nothing more than a child. He could tell whether or not Raynare was telling the truth or not. As far as he can tell by the look of her face, Raynare knew something about the sudden earthquake and since she just came back on a "date" with the boy the governor assigned them, Dohnaseek wouldn't surprise of the sudden earthquake must have something to do with the young boy. "So tell me Raynare, how was your date with that kid?"
"Argh, that waste of time." Raynare complained. "It's was like I was babysitting some little kid. I was just glad I decided to get rid for once for and all."
"You did what!?" Dohnaseek exclaimed. "We're assigned by the governor himself to observe that boy, not kill him! What would happen if governor or the Cadre found out about this!?"
"Don't worry your ugly little head Dohnaseek." Raynare said, rolling her eyes. "I'll take responsible for this and just say that I had no choice to to eliminate that boy. Just trust me on this. I was doing society as a whole as a favor to eliminate him. By the way have the preparation for the Sacred Gear removal has been set?"
"Almost." Dohnaseek said after a cough. "We'll be prepare by the time the nun arrives."
"Good." Raynare said. "As soon we take that nun's Sacred Gear, we'll shall have our revenge on those who mocked us and make our way to the top!"
~Daredevil~
"Ah... Huh...? Yuuma-chan?" Issei woke up standing alone in the park where he was with Yuuma not that long ago. It was already night time and Issei felt as sort of confusion. He could only remember vaguely that happened by the time they reached the fountain. He remembered that Yuuma wanted to tell him her greatest desire, but everything after that felt hazy to him.
"Oh god. Why does my head hurt?" Issei put his hand on forehead as he felt a strong throbbing headache he never felt before on his life. Not only his head throbbed. but he felt his body completely sore and fatigued. Just trying moving his hand felt like a difficult challenge alone, yet alone standing on his own two feet. He tried take his few steps, which he walked wobbly and nearly tripped on the ground.
'That was close one.' Issei thought after catching his balance. 'Baby steps. I need to take baby steps.'
He let a sigh as he looked the lonely park one last time and tried to remember anything which came no valid. With his body aching and his mind dizzy, he couldn't think straight. He decided let go for now and head back home. As he staggered his way back home, Issei could hear the echoes of redhead girl he met today giggling his mind. At first he was imagining this, but unaware to him, Guerra appeared from behind undetected.
"Phase one complete~." Guerra chimed. "Let's phase two commence."
Alright everyone who's fans of Devil of the Apocalypse. Everyone must be wondering why I'm writing this even though I haven't even finished the first arc of DOTA. Well I can explain into two simple reasons. 1) Time consumption: One of the reason why I'm writing Daredevil is because I already want to get to the canon, but didn't want to because I want to developed Dante's character and his peerage too, but after writing the current chapter and realizing I won't have time to reach the canon till further down the line, so I decided to make DOTA the prequel while making Daredevil the main story. 2) Revision: I'm currently revising all the chapters of DOTA by retconning some scenes and adding news one while cleaning up my grammar.
Spoiler alert: Throughout the Daredevil story, there is going to be a lot of spoilers regarding DOTA by revealing future storylines, reveal of the rest of Dante's peerage, and all of the power and abilities he and his peerage possessed.
Speaking about all the powers and abilities, the profile Dante is below. This time his profile is completed with all his powers and abilities and even his peerage members.
Name: Dante Pruflas
Nickname: Daredevil, Horseman of War
Race: Pure-Blood Devil
Household: Pruflas (Father)/Leonard (Mother)
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Occupation: King, High-Class Devil
Family:
Bellincione Pruflas (Father) (Deceased)
Bella Leonard (Mother) (Deceased)
Affiliation: 72 Pillars, Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Eyes: sapphire blue
Hair Color: Black
Appearance: Dante has the appearance of a young eighteen year old bishounen with dark jet-black hair and dark sapphire blue eyes. He's slightly pale due to being born somewhat frail. A better appearance is Noctis Lucis Caelum.
Personality: Prior to the attack of mysterious man, Dante was a self-conscious and shy child due to lack of demonic energy compare to those of a high-class. He rarely speak to people unless its his parents, but after the death of his parents, Dante is currently felt with rage and desire vengeance on the man who his parent's life and is willing to do almost anything to get stronger to the point to use others for his personal gain. Due to this, Dante currently believes to himself that he isn't a "Good Person" who only obsession in his life is to seek revenge. Despite this dark side of Dante, Dante has a good heart and cares deeply for his comrades since they're willing to help his cause to avenge his parents.
Like: His parents, integrity, developed female bodies, coffee, sweets and people with potential.
Dislikes: Arrogance, The man who attacked his family, feeling powerless, spicy food, and undeveloped female bodies.
Background: Both Dante's parents both come from two different Extra Demon Clans of Pruflas (Father) and Leonard (Mother), who both left their households in interest of the Rating Game, where the two meet in their first match and feel in love with one another and got married. Centuries later, Dante was born, possessing both family traits, but with low demonic energy. Despite this setback, Dante's parent raised him with love and affection through his childhood till he turned thirteen, where the mysterious man appeared and killed Dante's parents and stole his mother's ring, the seal of Solomon. On verge on death himself, Dante is soon by the Apocalyptic Horseman of War, who offered Dante power in return he'll retrieve the ring back at all cost, which Dante agrees to.
Skill & Abilities: Though born with both traits of his parent's respective household, Dante demonic energy is below average, but after making a pact with the Apocalyptic Horseman of War Guerra, his demonic powers were greatly enhanced.
Pruflas's Traits:
The Mark of Cain: This is Dante's signature trait from the House of Pruflas. Originally from the Caim household from the 72 Pillars, the Mark of Cain was eventually handed down to the Extra Demons after member of the Caim household married off to the first head of Pruflas Clan. During the Great War between the Biblical Factions, the house of Caim became extincted and the Mark of Cain became the Signature power to the Pruflas household.
The Mark of Cain is basically a DxD's version of Kagune from Tokyo Ghoul. Dante can manipulate his demonic energy to form predatory organs like claws, wings, and even armor (which would be consider as a Kakuja) if he could correspond with the right amount demonic energy.
Healing Factor: Before claiming the Mark of Cain as the signature trait, the Pruflas Clan were known for possessing a powerful healing factor that help them recovered from critical and lethal . During his birth, Dante was born weak and frail, which lead to his healing factor to activate constantly 24/7 to keep him alive, but after his pact with the Horseman of War and his power raised exceptionally, his healing factor only activate during time when he's injured in battle.
Leonard's trait:
Incubus Magic: The house of Leonard were known for being grand-master of the nocturnal orgies of demons (which you can look up.) Their power come from lust itself like those of an Incubus and Succubus and possess their Physiology which involve Sexual Inducement, Hypnosis, Lust empowerment, illusion manipulation, and etc.Whenever Dante his Incubus magic, the color of his eyes turned fiery red.
Equipment:
Sword of War: A mysterious and magical sword that possess the spirit of Apocalyptic Horseman of War Guerra. The Sword of War basically possessed the combined abilities of all legendary swords of mythology and have the ability to change shape and elements similar to Sword Birth and Blade Blacksmith. The sword of war is also a powerful conduct of magic and being one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Guerra's power is channeled from the deity of Apocalypse, the Great Red, though she possessed 1/4 portion of the Great Red with the remaining 3/4 is divided equally by the other four Horsemen.
Note: There will a separate profile page on all the skills and abilities the Sword of War possess. But I'll mention the two abilities listed on on today's chapter. The default form of the sword is the Incursio from Akame ga Kill.
Gene Slicer: This skill grants Dante the use to remove or separate parts any form of matter or energy into two separate forms whether be physically, spiritually, mentally, or magically. Dante can use this skill to remove seals and curses to the point of removing soul and powers from person's body.
Gene Splicer: This skill is the opposite of Gene Slicer. Unlike Gene Slicer, that separate all forms of matter, Gene Splicer fuses or combines two different forms of matter and energy into one. Dante use this skill to absorb the magic attacks and combine it to his blade.
Here's the list of the full peerage with their physical appearance model (Note: if the position is N/A means that they are free pieces who identity won't be reveal till further down in the story):
King: Dante Pruflas
Queen (Mutation): Bernadette Fafnersbane (Tiziana Ferrari from Freezing)
Bishop: Aisha Ishtar (Silent Magician LV4/LV8 form from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card game)
Bishop: Melia Oakwood (Tiffania Westwood from Familiar of Zero)
Knight: Cid Rodriguez Du Lac (Naofumi Iwatani from Rise of the Shield Hero/Tate Yuusha no Nariagari)
Knight: N/A
Rook: Penthesilea (Sophitia Alexandra from Soul Calibur)
Rook: Amarok (Kalus Von Reinherz from Kekkai Sensen/Blood Blockade Battlefront)
Pawn: N/A
Pawn (Value of 3): Eve (Zest from Shinmai Maou no Testament)
Pawn (Value of 4): Timothy Woodman (Genos from One Punch Man)
Also for the appearance of Guerra, the Apocalyptic Horseman of War, her character appearance is base off from Mea Kurosaki.
Now off to the preview of the next chapter:
Ever since his date with Yuuma, Issei has felt completely different person on the inside and out and everyone around him noticed this as well and neither one of them can't figure it out at all. After having mysterious dreams of mysterious black hair boy, Issei encounter with Dohanseek, where both men ended up having a turn for the worse as the Dohanseek tries to kill Issei.
Next time in Daredevil: Memories of Another
Issei Hyoudou: W-What's happening to me?