Hello there! I have been to post for a while now, due to school and generally other inconveniences in my life. I'll try to post when ever i can. The idea for this story just came to mind randomly. Also the first chapter is always short, it's more of a introduction
There are several things you should note about the story.
1. Issei will not have the boosted gear. (I believe that the Wild Card ability is enough for him, and is most likely stronger and more versatile than the boosted gear.)
2. Issei isn't going to be a pawn to Rias. (He will be replaced by someone who is a boosted gear wielder)
3. This story will not have harem, so please zip your pants up. ( "Just because it's DXD" thing is bullshit in my mind and limits people to a particular genre, which isn't the purpose of this website. Besides i'm tired of seeing harem stories left and right)
4. My first language isn't English, so you may see some mistakes here and there.
5. I'm a bit new at writing.
6. Have a nice day.
The sunlight shines through the gaps of the curtains and hits boy's closed eyes. An alarm goes off, the sound of a girl begging for the individual to get up. The boy wakes up with a groan, turns off the alarm and precedes to grabs his head. The brown -haired boy gets out of the bed and puts on his clothes, a school uniform. This boy is student from Kuou academy, a formerly an all-girls and has built up quite a reputation. He is part of the perverted trio, a group of individuals whose lust matched by none. He is known as the incarnation of lust itself. He is Issei Hyoudou.
After getting dressed Issei calmly walks down the stairs leading to the kitchen, he notices that the house is empty, devoid of his parents. 'Where have gone? They are usually here at this time, could have they gone somewhere, they haven't even left any food.'
Issei looks at the clock near him. "Ah crap! I'm going to be late? Only like five minutes."
With that statement Issei begins to rush near the door, putting on his shoes and grabbing his school bag. He rushes out the door, quickly lock it behind him. Issei then puts on a mad dash toward the school.
'Don't want to be late again or else I'm going to be punished again.' A shiver went down his spine as he remembered what happened to him the last he was late… it was not a good day.
When he reached the gates of Kuou academy, he noticed something weird about it. The air around was literally a purple color, he thinks he might even saw a bit of purple lighting sparking around the buildings. The clouds are dark and the buildings themselves look extremely ominous. The biggest thing difference was the fountain. The fountain had a statue, a statue of the great lady of Kuou, a noble devil in the human world…Rias Gremory.
'Who did this… that statue is amazing! Although the school is little to creepy for my taste, it's not even Halloween sheesh! 'It appears that Issei is completely oblivious to the fact that school has changed.
Issei walks through the gate with new found energy… of seeing the statue of the great lady. He opens the door and is greeted by students but something is not right. They're all faceless and colorless the only thing there is the uniform, body shape and hair.
"Look everyone it's the beast!" One the faceless student says with a monotone voice. Every single gray figures look at Issei as if all of them looking at him with disgust
'Alright, something is seriously wrong here!' He simply ignores them and tries to get out of the school but is blocked by some "students".
"You disgust me! Get out of my face you pervert! Incarnation of lust!" The insults were just pouring and pouring; it was too much for Issei to handle. He rushed down a hall with a yell, pushing anyone in the way. After a couple of minutes running in the school, Issei stops kneeling against the wall with slumped shoulders. His face is red from the running and… from the crying.
"Like what you done with the place?" A voice rings out at the end of the hallway. This one didn't belong to a faceless student. It sounded similar to Issei's but it is distorted.
"Who are y-you? What are you talking about? I didn't do anything!" his voice was still raspy from the crying.
The end of the hallway suddenly lights up with a blinding light… the only thing slightly visible is a shape of a person. That shape similarly looked like Issei.
"Oh really? What have you been doing for most of your life?" The stranger asks in a mocking tone.
"I've done nothing wrong! I don't deserve this!" Issei starts ruining at the figure; a sudden gust of wind pushes him. He fly's to the ground and struggles get up.
"Oh! I get it! What's wrong about respecting women's bodies?" As he finishes his sentence more wind hits him and he falls down to the ground again.
"Respect?! That's not respect! You literally want to get their hands on them! Your mindset is self-destructive, look at what has done to you! You have become a pathetic excuse of a human being!" The figures voice takes on a desperate tone, the light is slowly fading.
"Please… at least listen to what I have to say" Before the light can fade the figure goes into a classroom, leaving his identity to Issei unknown.
With much thought Issei follows the mysterious figure. He opens the classroom door and is stunned by what he is seeing. The mysterious figure is another him but with golden eyes, the real Issei slowly but surely leans next to wall in the classroom. A minute of silence passes…seeming like an eternity.
"Can you explain to me what's going on?" Finally the silence is broken by the normal Issei.
"This is your palace… it represents what you view a place as, since it takes form as Kuou academy it represents how you Kuou academy, a place where you don't belong." The "Issei" answers with calm tone.
"No… that's not right I don't see Kuou like this..."He pauses for a bit and looks at his doubles face.
"What are you then?" After Issei finished his sentence, the creature stands up straight giving out the aura of confidence.
"I'm your shadow… the true self." The shadow looks at Issei, scan his body language anticipate his reactions. The real Issei's body stiffens, he takes a deep breath.
"N-no that can't be…" Issei pauses for a moment and looks at the shadow straight at the eyes.
"If you're really me then tell me something that only I know…no one else, not even my family." The shadow simply nods in response.
"In truth your desire to get a harem isn't as shallow as sounds, in saying this you are just saying you want to be loved, appreciated. What you truly seek is companionship. Yet your lecherous hobby is not only making you go farther from this goal, but also is making you into outcast of society. Your parents barely take you seriously, your friends…you don't have real bonds with them, the only reason you friends with is because you share shallow interests. And that retched excuse of why you're a pervert, I mean really… you know the real reason of why you're doing this. Almost all your childhood friends either are gone or despise you, with the exception of those two. That's why you're doing this to yourself, to take the pain away. Yet your actions consequences are creating more pain, you're heading on a downward spiral. Those were all the thoughts that were at some point circulating through your head and know this because. .You. And I…don't want go down with you!" The shadow said the last part while taping at Issei chest, in response Issei clenches his hand in to a fist and takes a deep breath.
"Alright you can s-stop, I get it. You're me, just pl-please stop." As Issei says this shadow backs away from Issei, now they're arm's length away from each other
"All of this will only stop if you stop." A moments silence passes between them. But that moment was enough for Issei to think of something say.
"I'm scared, alright? I don't what going to happen to me after trying to change and it's going to be even harder if people don't accept me, which lets b-be honest is probably going to h-happen. I don't want to deal with all of this, yet at the same time my only relief is the thing that's getting me into this mess...Oh the irony of this whole situation." Issei pauses for a long moment and then continues.
"Well the o-only thing that I can do is stop at this point. And try to see what future holds; try to respond the best way I can." After this short monologue, The Boy understands what the thing in front of him is.
"I guess you really are me, part of me at the very least, hidden deep within my consciousness." The shadow smiles and nods in response.
"Thank you…Thank you for understanding and accepting me." Issei's shadow slowly starts vanishing from the boys eyes and disappears with a flash. The only that was left in place was a strange tall figure before that disappeared.
"I'm Thou… And thou art I..."
"Thou hast started a path to self-understanding…"
"It will bring thee closer to renewal…"
"With the Fool Arcana thou shall granted a path of infinite potential…"
"And be blessed when creating Personas of that Arcana…"
Suddenly everything started to crumble around the boy and he took it as a sign, that he should probably get out there. Running through the hallways he spots the faceless students and as he runs past them, they all disappear into nothingness. After he breaks through the front door of the school, he turns around sees his palace completely crumble into small pieces. The boy takes a breath fresh and is startled by the sound of the school gates crashing in to the ground.
Issei turns around and sees that the only thing still standing is statue of one of the great ladies, emanating a familiar dark energy. Strangely there is a conveniently placed sledge hammer next to it. The boy looks at the sky and ponders slightly before looking at the ground and taking a deep breath, he knew what he had to do. Of course he understood that having a palace is a bad thing for his heart, so the next course of actions was rather justified, although he felt awful about it. Issei takes the sledgehammer into his hands; it was surprisingly light given the tool he was holding.
"I'm sorry…nothing personal." He proceeds to smash the statue, completely breaking it. The statue disappears into the air and so does what's left of his palace. Issei feels relieved, as though a huge weight has been taken of his back. The boy feels slightly light, he is losing consciousness. He doesn't have very much time in this place. Issei falls to the ground
The sunlight hits his brown eyes stirring him awake, looking around the surroundings he spots that he is in his room, in the normal world most likely. The silence of the room is cut short by the sound of a sound of his alarm ringing.
"Wake up! Or I'll kiss you!~" Unaware of his actions Issei smashes the alarm, breaking it and slightly electrocuting his arm. He gets with groan of pain and holds his hand, and then proceeds grab his head.
'Damn! This is one hell of a headache!' Issei gets up from his bed and immediately leans next to a nearby wall. The boy puts on some pants and looks at his wardrobe pondering slightly,
'Maybe I can skip school for today; I think they will let me, after all I look like crap.' And he was right…he did look like crap, he had bags under is eyes, his skin looked paler than normal, his postures also showed signs of some sort of exhaustion. Issei evert to the exit of his room as he hears footsteps near the door. The door opens revealing his mother on the other side. Issei's mom face changes to worried one as soon she spots the boy in his current condition.
"Issei are you okay?" Issei's moms quickly rushes to his son, but is stopped by Issei raising his hands.
"I'm somewhat fine... Can I skip school for today? Don't worry I'll do my homework and everything, just need bit of a nap." The mother narrows her eyes for a moment and then nods.
"Before you go sleep, there was letter in the mail. It's addressed to you." Issei's eyes get filled with eyes and curiosity, who would send a letter to him? Who writes uses letters in this age, well except old people.
"Did you open it?" he hoped the answer would be no, that his parents could respect his privacy.
"No we didn't, your father wanted to. He thought it was a love letter." They both shared a bit of chuckle. Though both of Issei's parents wanted him to get a girlfriend and stop being a shameless pervert, the father wanted for him to find love more than change. Maybe he understood what love really is, to not have to change for your partner. After all he does have happy family and good marriage, so he may know more than a few things about love.
The boy and his mother head down the stairs to the kitchen.
"Good morning son! Oh...what happened to you?" A man greeted Issei downtairs. The man is Issei's father, a cheery middle aged salary man who may be as perverted as Issei. That made Issei wonder, even if his grandfather didn't teach him the "wonders" of oppai, would he be normal teenager or would his father turn him into one. But even though his father is a pervert, he wants issei to find love, so turning him into a pervert would be counterintuitive, wouldn't?
"I'll like to find out myself, anyway i heard that a letter came to me." Issei scratches the back of his head. What even happened to him? Was that palace-thing a dream? No...it could have been, it wasn't something Issei's mind could just dream up (Or can, since it was literally Issei's mind that made the palace).
"Oh! The letter!" Issei's father went to near kitchen counter and picked up a letter. The mother narrows her eyes at the father.
"And i swear i didn't open it!" The mother simply sighed in responce. Issei's father gave the letter to Issei. Issei looked at the back of tge envilope to see if it was opened and smiles approval that it wasn't.
The boy opens the letter and narrows his eyes at the contents that are in the letter.
It was all a illegible gibberish and a pen. How in the world would a pen fit inside the envilope? It was flat! The envilope was flat! The pen is also unique as well, it had blue engravings of flower, branches and chains.
Looking at peace of paper Issei spot the only thing that is readable "Sign here". Suddently the gibberish writing starts glowing in blue color, the letters start rearanging themselves.
'Dear Trickster
I'm writing this letter to you in hopes that you would signs this contract. The day of ruin is nearing and you have awakened, your eyes are now capable of seeing the truth of the world around you. By signing this contract most of the services of the Velvet Room will be open to you, the rest will open in time. But only onto the condition that must agree upon. All of your actions have consiquences.
Sign here...
Hopefully you Benefactor
'What is a Velvet Room? Sound like a V.I.P room in a club. But what why someone give me access to a club, i'm a minor. Maybe it's something else, i mean the letter literally just dechypered itself. Wait a minute awakening...is it related to the whole palace and shadow thing?' Issei waited for a moment with pen in hand, thinking if should sign this or not.
"What is it?... Is something wrong" A worried voice brings him back from his zone out state.
'Should i tell them? I don't want to make them worry. They're already worriedfor me just because of the state i'm in, i don't want them to worry about me more jusy because several what are pretty much supernatural events are happening to me' Issei looks to his parents and smiles.
"Yeah, everything is alright i even got a pen as gift." Issei waves the pen, hoping it would distract them.
"Oh my! That's one beautiful pen, who sent this to you?" Both of the parents examine the engravings of the writing tool.
"The name of the sender is inked out, they didn't what their name to be known, maybe i have a secret admirer, now excuse me i going to go to sleep." Issei hoped they would take the bait. Issei father was about to say something before being pulled by the arm by his wife.
After Issei goes to his room he closes the door and immediately sits near his desk. Taking the pen that he assumed was gifted to him he wrote his name and last name. As soon as he finished the letter bursts into blue flames, Thankfully the pen was still there in his hand. In the place of the letter was a blue key. The boy puts the key in his pocket, saving the key for later investigation as he simply doesn't have the energy to deal with this 'Supernatural Shit'.
Issei takes a deep breath and takes a long gaze to the roof and finally decided to lie on his bed. It only took a couple of minutes for sleep to take him.