The Crucifix of a fool

by trustkind

"Be kind and compassionate to others, judging them not by their nature or by the sins of their ancestors. But by their soul and actions." He smiled and patted my head. "Remember that, my son."

1. Chapter 1

(Disclaimers: I do not own High School DXD or anything that seems familiar to any of you. All I own is my O.C.s

A.N.: This is a short chapter because the next chapter is going to be longer than this. Anyway please give me your honest opinion of the story.)

Somewhere in a scorched earth

'Each year, the Sons of Lilith escapes from Hell and wander the earth while shackling the Souls of the Innocent for their own amusement and pleasure. The Innocent Souls weep for the Suffering of Hell on Earth and the loss of Paradise, yet their cries are neither heard nor answered.'

I took my first step on the land of a village, now scorched with hellfire as the smell of brimstone waft through the air while the intense heat that came from the Lake of Fire could still be felt.

I dangerously narrowed my eyes at the grey humanoid demons with sharp elongated claws of bones, disfigured maws, and hundreds of sharp and broken bones that were protruding from various parts of their bodies.

'The Sons of Lilith are Demon Servants of the True Satan. They are also similar to the Stray Devils that betrayed their masters and wander around the earth, but the only difference is that they're more ruthless, stronger and their Dark Souls cloud their judgment. They will only operate if there is a Demon nearby to command them.'

I took out my Crucifix Dagger from its scabbard as mystical chains erupted from the ground and attached itself to my dagger's handle while wrapping itself around my right arm. I could feel the eyes of each and every demon on me, smirking as I could feel their malice and hunger for human flesh.

'The Devils or the Four Great Satans as they call themselves are ignorant of their true Master, but I couldn't care less about those Devils. They could rot in their holes for unwillingly turning humans and the heroes of old to their own slaves.'

The demons ran towards me causing me to swing the chains left to right at the first demon causing it stumble backwards as I followed up by swinging the chain to the left, knocking the Demon back to the ground. I look around me and notice that the demons were surrounding me causing me to spin 360 degrees as the chains burst in grey flames and incinerated the demons surrounding me to ashes while knocking back the lucky ones.

'The Flames of Vengeance, it is not meant to scald the flesh…it chars the soul.'

I watched as the demons on the ground trashed around and roared in agony as their souls are slowly, but painfully being consumed by the holyl flames. I continued to watch as seconds later, their bodies turned to nothing but ashes.

I then heard a roar of a beast from a distance causing me to glance behind me to see a demon raising its claw ready to strike me down. In the last second, I withdraw my chains and use the dagger to parry the claw before quickly decapitating it as the dagger sliced through the demonic flesh like a knife through butter. I dodged another claw strike from another demon and sliced it in half with a single slash.

I looked around me and felt the rage and fury of the Lake of fire burn within the demons as their eyes were wrathfully locked on me. Unfazed by their rage, I was about to unleash my next assault until I felt a droplet of water touch my cheek, which caused me to glance up into the sky.

My eyes widened slightly as I finally noticed that blue spiritual tears from a hundred Soul Orbs rained down onto the earth. And as the tears soak away the demonic blood from my clothes, I could feel their sorrow and pain.'

'These Souls…they wail for vengeance.'

I tightly clenched my dagger as a white light shined brightly causing the demons to run towards me, ready to kill and maim my flesh and rip out my soul.

I narrowed my eyes at them. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places and this is the condemnation, that light is to come into the world, and men is to loved darkness rather than light, because of their deeds were evil, but the transgressors will be altogether destroyed. The posterity of the wicked will be cut off!"

I immediately raised the Crucifix shaped dagger as it ignites with a brilliant retina searing flash, which caused me to look away. White Flames radiates from the dagger as the Demons running towards me shriek as they're instantly vaporized.

I look at the final Demon to see that it was large with a body mass of a professional body builder wielding a giant broadsword. It let out a terrifying roar before leaping up into the air, ready to slam his sword at me. I dash backwards to dodge the sword, but as the blade made contact with the ground. The ground exploded with corrupted energy which sent me flying backwards as I felt my chest tore open.

As I fell back to the scorched earth and landed on my back, I look at my chest to see my ribs and other internal organs being exposed to the world. I grunted as grey flames immediately covered my chest before slowly healing it as I could feel my skin knit back together.

I look up in the sky and felt the anger and hatred of the Souls.

'The Souls seek Vengeance against their Slaver and killer. So Vengeance they shall receive.'

I slowly stood back up and raised my dagger up to the air as the chains burned with brilliant grey flames causing the souls orbs that are chained to this scorched earth to be absorbed as the grey flames shine brightly causing me to dash towards the Demon.

The Demon growled as it sent a wave corrupted energy from its sword slash causing me to raise my dagger and cut the wave in half before swinging my chain dagger at the Demon causing the chains to latch onto it as I pulled it closer to my feet with a hard knockdown.

I then turned around and swing the Demon up into the air before slamming it to the ground as the chains withdraw towards me causing me to summon five light swords that immediately impaled the Demon's elbows, knees and chest.

I approached the Demon and watched it roar as the light started to poison it. Once I was standing over it. It struggled to get free, but failed pitifully. Narrowing my eyes at it, I felt the sorrow, hate, pain and desire of the souls against it.

"You are guilty." I said coldly as I threw my chain dagger at its chest causing the souls absorb by it to create a painfully bluish flame that attacked and burned the Demon's Dark and Corrupted Soul, slowly and painfully.

I watch as the Demon's body is slowly reduced to ashes causing me to withdraw the chain as the Souls that were absorbed by the grey flames were slowly released while the shackles that held them to the earth, shatters to spiritual pieces.

I smiled at them before detaching the chain from my dagger causing the chain to burn brightly as it disappeared along with the wind. I sheathed my dagger to its Crucifix scabbard and knelt down and prayed to absolve these souls.

"O God, Whose attribute it is always to have mercy and to spare. I humbly present my prayers to Thee for the soul of Thy servants. which Thou has this day called out of this world, beseeching Thee not to deliver it into the hands of the enemy, nor to forget it forever, but to command Thy Holy Angels to receive it, and to bear it into paradise, that as it has believed and hoped in Thee it may be delivered from the pains of hell and inherit eternal life through Christ our Lord. Amen."

I watch as one by one the soul orbs slowly ascended into Heaven, but a single orb stayed behind. I stared at the orb as it then flash a bright blue light revealing a young girl with her left arm missing.

I gave her a sad smile as I soon felt a wave of guilt hit me. I then knelt down to her level and placed a hand on top of her head. "I'm sorry young one…I was too late to save any of you." I said in an apologetic tone.

The young girl smiled brightly before embracing me. I smiled bitterly before rubbing the back of her head causing her to slowly fade back to her orb form before ascending into Heaven with the rest of the souls.

I watch them in the sky for a moment before summoning a magic circle below my feet to teleport me back home.

…

My Land

I appeared in a forest with a small clearing and a lake. In the middle of the clearing and right next to the lake is a cabin with a watermill and a fenced area next to it. Inside the fenced area is a flock of sheep while roaming around the clearings are chickens and cows. In the back of the cabin you can see a small vine and vegetable farm with fruit trees growing and surrounding it.

I smiled. 'Home sweet home…' I thought as I entered my cabin to see a young girl eating my leftover cheese and chicken at the table.

I observed and noticed that she had an emotionless expression with black hair and eyes and a pale complexion. She wore a black and violet gothic dress which caused me to question her choice of clothing.

"Hello, young one. Are you lost?" I asked the child kindly, which caused her to look at me before giving me a weird and creepy smile.

Her smile sent a small shiver down my spine and I finally sense the vast amount of energy within her yet I sense no hostility from her.

"Descendant of my first friend, how are you?" The child politely asked me with a monotonous voice, which caused me to ponder on who she is.

As seconds gone by, my eyes widened for a moment as I finally realized who this child is.

"Ophis? Why are you here?"

"Milk…" She simply stated, ignoring my question while tilting her head to the side.

I stared at her and sighed before eventually giving her a small and kind smile.

'Ophis is the Dragon god known as the Ouroboros Dragon and the Infinite Dragon god. She is the friend of my ancestor and one of the most powerful Dragons in existence.'

I walk towards my kitchen cabinet and took a bottle of fresh cow milk and poured it in a wooden cup before walking back and handing it over to Ophis.

I watch as she drank the milk and hummed in pleasure, she then place the cup on the table before staring at me with a milk mustache.

"I need your help…" She said as I gave her a nod and took a handkerchief out of my pocket and wiped the milk off of her upper lip.

"Continue." I said as she gave me a nod.

"The Silence has been taken from me." Ophis said to me as I rubbed the back of my head in confusion.

'The Dimensional Gap is the gap that exists between the five worlds Earth, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and the Underworld. It is considered a void world. It is also the birthplace of Ophis.'

"Who took the Dimensional Gap from you? Actually the real question is what kind of entity was able to take away your home from you?" I asked her since I find it almost impossible take away the Dimensional Gap from the Ouroboros Dragon.

"The Dream." She answered before I heard her stomach grumble causing me to sigh as I took a cookie jar from the shelf before placing it in front of Ophis.

'This is a problem then. The Dream is the Great Red also known as the Apocalypse Dragon, the True Red Dragon god Emperor, True Dragon, and the Dragon of Dragons. It is the dragon recorded in the Apocalypse.' I thought as I watch her slowly eat the cookies.

"I need your help to take back the Silence from the Dream." She said while eating a cookie.

"If you need help, you could have asked someone stronger. So why did you only seek me?"

"The power of Angelum Ultionem and my first friend is significant enough to defeat the Dream." Ophis answered.

"I won't help you." I simply replied causing my ancestor's first dragon friend to frown.

"Why?" She asked.

"I'm not strong enough to defeat the Dream and I still don't know how to fully control my powers." I stated.

Ophis then reached into the empty jar and this cause her frown to deepen when she realized that there aren't any cookies left in the jar. I took the jar and got her another jar of cookies as I saw her lips twitch into a small smile.

"You're a kind and generous soul, Lumen. Luminous would be proud of you…" Ophis said as I saw her eyes slowly turned sorrowful. "I miss him…"

'Luminous Crucis…my ancestor and the first White Witch…' I let out a sigh.

"Ophis, I would like to help you, but I still don't have full control of my powers.'

Ophis then manifested her power into a form of a snake. "I could help you increase and control your power."

I took a few steps back and shake my head while giving her a nervous smile. "No, your snakes would just kill me in the process, Ophis. You have to understand that I'm just human, so you just have to have the patience to wait for me to gain full control of my abilities."

Ophis gave me a long look before giving me an understanding nod. "I will wait for you to control your powers, but I have to inform you that I have created a Brigade with its sole purpose is to make everyone swear an oath to aid me in defeating the Great Red."

I rub the back of my head. "Are you going to make me join your brigade?"

She nodded. "Yes." She then summoned a magic circle in her palm showing multiple descendants of Legends and Saints. " I need you to recruit these people…" Ophis said as she touched my forehead giving me information about all of their whereabouts, which instantly gave me a headache.

I rubbed my forehead as I saw Ophis turn her back on me. "Farewell, Lumen." A teleportation circle appeared below her feet before she suddenly disappeared in a violet flash.

Once she was gone, I headed towards the bathroom to wash my face. In the mirror I could see a young man with black hair that barely reaches the tips of his shoulder. He has a brown eye on the right and a red eye on the left with the symbol of a black crucifix in place of his pupil. His complexion is white and he wore a damage hooded black long sleeves clergy shirt, stretchable black slacks and black shoes.

I look at the damage shirt and place my hand over it causing a bright light to shine as the shirt slowly fixed itself. After fixing my shirt, I took it off and placed on my shepherd robe before tending the flock. 'Don't blame me, but this feels really comfortable.'

….

A day later…

Mystical Forest

Its morning and I'm in the middle of a mystical forest in England to search for the Descendant of the Notorious Traitor of Legends. I continued to walk aimlessly on a single path until I saw a bright blue light at the corner of my eye.

I looked at the bright blue light and saw that it was a young fairy. As I gazed at her, she playfully floated around me. Seeing her enjoy my presence, I gave her a kind smile and she smiled back.

Knowing that I was lost and have no idea where was I going, I decided to ask the young fairy a question.

"Hello, little one. Do you think you can direct me to the abode of the Homunculus, who lives here?" I asked the young fairy as she happily nodded and summoned a magic marker that showed me a small blue trail.

'If I remember correctly fairies love milk, the creamier kind.' I summoned a miniature wooden cup and took my bottle of milk out of my dimensional pocket before placing a couple of droplets of creamy milk into the small wooden cup and handing it to the fairy as a sign of appreciation for her help.

The fairy gave me a bright smile before drinking the milk. After a few gulps, the fairy handed me back the small wooden cup and gave me a wave of farewell. This caused me to wave back at her and as the fairy saw this, she floated away while I stored both items back inside my dimensional pocket before following the trail.

As I followed the blue magic trail, the forest grew darker causing me to sheath my dagger. The sheathed crucifix dagger emitted a bright white glow that was strong enough to illuminate the area and light up the path ahead of me.

I continued to follow the trail and after a few minutes of walking, I encountered an obstacle in my path, which was a huge wall of sharp and jagged thorns. Yet I didn't felt intimidated by this since this an obstacle that needs little to no effort to overcome.

I placed my left hand against the wall of thorns and pushed, allowing the thorns to puncture the skin of my palm and draw blood.

"He restoreth my soul, he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake." I recited a verse and my blood soon spread and covered the entire wall of thorns before glowing brightly as the wall of thorns turned into a wall of Flax.

I stared at the puncture wounds in my palm as small grey flames burst out of the wound and healed it.

'Blood magic, I will never get used to having my blood as a catalyst for a simple spell.'

Walking pass the wall, I came into a small clearing filled with dead trees, a small broken shack, and a farm. I frowned slightly at the poorly unkempt house, and lazy farm.

'He must not like working.' I presumed as I approached the door, but before I was able to knock.

A sword immediately pierced through the wooden door and stabbed me in the chest before quickly being torn out. This caused me to stumble backwards as a painful and throbbing sensation that felt like lightning came from my now inflicted wound. But as soon as the pain came, it quickly disappeared.

Hearing the wooden door creak open, I saw a person inside a thick red and white armor with a dual grey horned helmet wielding an ornate, sparkling white silver sword adorned with splendid decorations.

I looked at his visor and saw emerald green eyes. "State your reasons for trespassing on my land, stranger!" The knight demanded with a feminine yet slightly masculine voice while pointing his sword at me.

The flames surrounded my wound as I felt it slowly heal, allowing me to stand back up. I cautiously took a step backwards with my dagger still sheathed.

"I'm here to ask for your aid Descendant of Mordred." I answered his question as I could hear him laugh behind his helmet.

"If you know my Ancestor then you will also know my answer." He said as he went to sword stance causing me to remain in place with a determined look. We stared at each other in silence untill the Descendant of Mordred began to speak.

"It seems that you are not leaving, if so then I offer you a proposal, but first state your name, stranger."

I could sense sincerity in his voice, so I complied. "My name is Lumen Crucis, the Descendant of Luminous Crucis also known as the First White Witch. What about yours?"

He stared at me in silence before speaking. "My name is Mordred II Pendragon, the Descendant of Mordred Pendragon also known as the Knight of Treachery…" He said as he pointed his sword at me. "The arrangement is that I will aid you only if you defeat me in combat, but if you lose then you will be my eternal servant." He said in a cold tone, telling me that he was serious. "So, will you comply with my agreement?"

I nodded as I saw him relax and extend his hand. I smiled at this gesture and walk towards him to shake his hand, but as soon as we grip each other's hand. He clench mine rather hard and launch a knee to my stomach causing me to spit out saliva as he then stabs me with his sword or Clarent before kicking me off it. I look up and saw him preparing to bring down his sword at me.

'The Descendant of Treachery indeed….'

I rolled backwards to my feet to dodge the slash as I then sent a quick side kick to his face, but he block it with his sword and knock me back with the flat end of Clarent.

I quickly unsheathed my Dagger causing a trail of chains to erupt from the ground, but when Mordred saw this he dash towards me ready bash my head. I block the sword strike and kick him back, swinging my chain dagger upward, which launched him into the air.

I then threw my chain dagger at him, but he recovered and grabbed the chain before yanking himself towards me and kicking me to the ground. I kick myself up and noticed that he was still holding the chains.

'He's fast…'

I gave him a smirk as flames burned around the chains causing him to let go of it and hold Clarent with both hands. I then notice his sword shinned blood red as he projected multiple slashes of condensed energy towards me causing me to immediately withdraw my chain dagger as it then formed a shield that shielded me from the energy slashes.

'Also strong…' I thought as I felt myself being push back by an inch.

The chains then wrap itself around my hand causing me to look up and see Mordred already an inch near me as he then stabs me with his sword, Clarent. I gave him a smirk and I saw Mordred's panicked green eyes through his visor causing me to hold his wrists and drive the sword deeper.

I then launched a grey flamed straight punch to his helmet causing him to stumble backwards as he let go of his sword. I then did a back flip kick sending him up into the air along with me as I felt grey flames formed around my right feet causing me to launch my chain dagger to the ground behind Mordred and pulled myself towards him. I gave Mordred a flying kick to his stomach and heard him grunt in pain as the momentum of the kick sent him straight to the ground with enough force to form a small crater.

I landed on my feet before finally noticing the pain in my chest. I look at the sword that was plunged into my chest before holding the handle and pulling the sword out of my chest as I suddenly felt a surge of pain that cause me to kneel down and vomit blood. A few seconds later, the flames appeared to heal my wounds.

I stood up and was met by a steel clad fist to the face that sent me crashing through a tree. I grunted and look up to see Mordred with Clarent, emitting enormous and destructive amount of energy.

'Well, I guess he passed the test…' I thought as I summoned a small and unnoticeable magic circle above his head. He raised Clarent as the sky grew dark signaling me that he was enraged causing me to start the spell.

"Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep." I chanted as the magic circle glowed with light causing Mordred to look up as feathers fell on his face causing the massive amount of energy to disappear from his sword as he fell backwards, asleep.

I sighed as I sat next to the sleeping Mordred and waited for him to awaken. After a few minutes, he woke up and I saw the surprise and confusion in his eyes.

I gave him a smile. "I won, so I expect you to keep your word." I said as Mordred stared at the ground in defeat before removing his helmet to reveal a young beautiful blonde woman with emerald green eyes and her hair tied into a ponytail.

I stared at her in surprise as she let out a sigh before narrowing her eyes at me. "Yeah, surprising isn't!? The last Descendant of Mordred Pendragon is a female, right!?" She asked annoyed as she stared back at the ground. "I can't help you…" She said a little depressed causing me to give her a confused look.

"Why not?"

"I'm bound and cursed to this place by my ancestors…if I leave this place then I will rot and die. And besides you don't need a dying Homunculus to help you…" She said in sorrow causing me to give her a look of sympathy before smiling at her since I know she could help me in something.

She noticed this and gave me a nasty glare. "What are you smiling at, you rotten fool!" She yelled harshly as I placed my hand on her head and patted it while still continuing to smile, this caused her to slap my hand away as I notice her face heating up either from anger or embarrassment.

"Actually, you can help me because I need your aid to let me help you." I said as she gave me a confused look. "I'll free you from this curse and turn your body to one of a human, but you will still have your powers, skills and abilities. The only difference is that you will be aging like a human and have the same weakness as one." I explained as I saw a small spark of hope in her eyes, but that turned into a deadly glare. "What do you want in return…?" I heard her mutter as I hummed in confusion.

"I'm asking you on what do you want in return?! Do you want power, lust, a slave or sexual intercourse!?" She said in frustrated anger as I could only give her a sympathetic look causing her to yell in frustration.

I place my hands on her shoulder and look into her eyes as I could see the wanting of freedom and the relief of sorrow in her soul. "Sit up straight, Mordred and relax." I said as she focused her eyes on mine before complying.

"Do you have faith in my God, Mordred?" I ask her as she gave me a small nod.

'Well, this is going to be easy then.' I thought as I dipped my finger in ground and place a sign of the cross in her forehead.

"Now close your eyes and lower your pulse." I said as she obeyed and relaxed her breathing.

I then summoned a large magic circle below her that cause a grey magic barrier to cover her before I chanted the spell.

"Heal her, O Lord and she shall be healed. Save her and she shall be saved. Have mercy upon her, O LORD for she is weak. O LORD, heal her for her bones are vexed. For You have given her a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down, and a time to build up. Father, I ask you first to forgive her for her sins and cleanse her from any area where she has allowed the devil to enter her life. I renounce any involvement with the works of darkness. In the name of Jesus, I now cancel every curse, and Father, I ask you to forgive the people who have spoken them against her. I thank you that those curses will no longer operate against her. In Jesus' name, they are broken right now, by the power of Almighty God. I cancel every evil that was spoken against her and I ask you to cover her and her descendants with your protection according to your Word, Amen."

As I chanted this incantation, my left eye shined bright red and a pillar of bright light came from Heaven. The pillar enveloped the magic barrier in light and after a few moments the light disappeared.

I knelt down and panted heavily as I immediately felt exhausted from the spell. 'I despise this feeling, but if I have to free someone from their torment then so be it.' I thought as I slowly stood to my feet.

I close my right eye and focus the sight of my left eye at Mordred. As I focus my sight on her, I could see her soul which is now flowing with the natural life span of a normal human, but the only difference is that she now has her own freewill and I may have given her a large amount of years to live on.

"It is done, Mordred. You may open your eyes, now."

Mordred opened her eyes and stood up while moving her gauntlets as I saw the frown and disappointment in her face. "I don't feel different." Mordred said as her tone was one of irritation and annoyance.

I sighed at her. 'Why is she so negative? And it's only natural to feel the same…I only lifted her curse and molded her soul and body to a human one. It's not like I gave her a new body.' I thought as I went towards the exit of the clearance while motioning Mordred to follow.

Once I was outside, I notice that Mordred is still at the exit. I motioned for her to follow me outside, but I saw a huge amount of hesitation and fear in her eyes. I gave her a kind and reassuring look causing her to stare at me for a few seconds before she eventually nodded.

As she took her first step out of the old clearing, she closed her eyes and waited for something to happen, but nothing came. I look at her as she opened her to see joy in them. This caused me to smile at her as she turned to face me before kneeling down in front of me like a knight. "Thank you…" She said as her voice quivered.

I knelt down and lifted her chin to see a tear forming in her left eye. I smiled at her and wipe away the tear from her eye.

"Thank yourself for you're the one that decided to choose your own path." I took out an onyx colored crucifix necklace from my dimensional pocket and placed it on Mordred's hands. "You have your own freewill and it is up to you to decide on what you will do with it." I said as I gave her one last smile before teleporting away since I already freed a tormented soul from her prison, I need not more than her joy.

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