Highschool DxD Fanfiction/ Chapter 1
Furorem POV.
I remember all too well. The blood, plastered to the walls, the metallic scent in the air. With the year being 1393 AD, in such a war ridden time, the crimson sight should have been familiar to me. But something about it being my own parents seemed to weigh more heavily than most other peoples…
"Hey Furo!" A voice snapped me back to 2016. My name is Furorem. Furo for short, I have chocolate brown hair, crimson red eyes, I'm about 6.1 feet tall and I'm a devil, but not the normal kind.
"Huh?" I said temporarily forgetting my surroundings.
"You dozed off again. I thought you'd slipped into a coma or something." The girl joked.
"Aww. Were you worried about me?"
She snorted, "Yeah, I was worried that I'd have to finish packing by myself. Now move your butt, your sat on my clothes box." This was Sarah, my girlfriend. We were currently packing her stuff up to move in together. Since they were both 17 now, that was allowed. Of course, she didn't know that I was a devil, or that I haven't been 17 for the past 623 years. In the eyes of a mortal's ignorance though, I was a normal looking teen. This was new for me. Falling in love was one of the many things I swore never to do again since I became a devil. I seriously hoped that the sudden change of pace in life would loosen immortality's grip on me, and after living with such evil, tainted blood pumping through me, all I wanted was to die a natural death with Sarah.
When walking out of the door, we passed Sarah's lazy step-father. "Good riddance to bad rubbish I say." He says under his breath, not taking his eyes off the screen of the small TV. I stop in my tracks. Sarah turns around to face me and says, "He's not worth it Furo, don't bother wasting your energy on such a pig."
For a moment, my face is expressionless, eventually, I smile at her, "Don't worry, I was just thinking of saying my goodbyes to your mother, I never did get a chance to before." She smiles at this, knowing how much her mum liked me.
"OK then. I'll be putting this last box in the back of the van." She said with a sweet smile. As soon as she walked out, my face turned into one of absolute hatred. I stormed over to Sarah's step-father and punched him, straight into the bottom left side of his jaw. He flew off the side of his couch and screeched in pain while curled into a ball, holding the bottom half of his greasy mouth. "OWW!" he moaned through his hands, "what the fuck kid?! How the hell are you so strong?" I walked over to his flailing body and picked him up by his collar. "You… don't… get to talk to Sarah like that." I say through clenched teeth, ignoring his question. I throw him back down and walk out of the front door. I put a smile back on and we set off driving to our new home. We have mindless, back and forth conversations on the way there, until she says, "Thank you."
I look at her, confused, "For what?"
"For dealing with my step-father like that, you have no idea how long I've wanted to do that to him." she says with a delightful sigh at the end. I start to feel guilty, knowing that she knew I was lying to her the whole time, "I'm sorry that I lied to you like that, I just can't stand that guy." And it was true, but I need to control my temper more. I tell myself. Even if he was an arsehole, using my powers to boost my strength and inflict more pain isn't fair to a mortal.
We were just about to round the corner to our new street, I could see Sarah's excitement because she was leaning forward in her seat. Suddenly, the air changed and I felt the presence of another devil two miles or so down the road… no, it was one mile, or rather, it was on the same street! I stop the moving truck and look in the direction of the fast moving devil, but what I saw instead was a giant, centaur looking man barrelling towards them. Oh no. I think to myself. It must be a stray. A devil who has murdered their master and gone rogue. Then, there was another devil, moving even faster than the stray. All of a sudden, the stray devil had a huge gash going from his right shoulder all the way to his left hip. He stumbles and falls, and I catch a glimpse of the second devil as a young kid, probably about 16 years old with blonde hair and a sleek, black sword. A girl appears then, wearing what looks like an old fashioned priest outfit, and fires two quick bolts of lightning at the downed monster. But no matter how much the duo damaged him, the stray refused to tear his eyes off of the truck. Without warning, he roars and spits a ball of lava at me and Sarah, who I noticed isn't moving due to being paralysed by fear. I quickly push her out of the truck and cover her as the vehicle exploded behind me. I checked her over, to make sure she was okay. She didn't look harmed, just a couple of bruises. "Thanks" she says, seemingly out of breath, then her eyes zero in on something on my forearm and widen. "Furo… your arm!" she says in alarm. I look at where she was pointing, and sure enough, there was a large blob of molten metal starting to harden. I tear it off, leaving a gaping hole in my sleeve. Suddenly, I sense another two devils, coming at me and Sarah from either side. "Listen closely Sarah." I say getting her attention while standing back up. "I want you to run to those office buildings and hide… okay?"
"What about you?" she asks, worried.
"Don't worry about me. I won't be of any help hidden away. Just trust me not to die, okay?"
She waits a couple of seconds, deciding whether or not they had time to argue about it. "But, what are you going to do? You can't fight one of those things!" For reasons I don't think I'll ever be able to explain, I told her. I told her everything I could have in the short amount of time we had. She covered her mouth and I could see tears welling in her eyes. I immediately felt bad and hung my head in shame. How could I have kept something like this from her? It was probably my power which attracted them here in the first place. I then felt her hand cup and lift my cheeks. She gave me a deep kiss and said, "Promise me you won't die."
"I promise. I love you, Sarah."
"I love you too, Furo." She gave me one last kiss and ran for the buildings.
I turn to face the direction of the other two strays, just in time to see them turn the corners. They both glare at me until Big Ugly No.1 starts charging at me. I break into a sprint towards the monster, tapping into my powers along the way. I start to feel the rage coursing through my body, I suddenly go even faster, more determined not to let anything happen to Sarah. Big Ugly No.1 swings for me and I dodge by just an inch, this then allowed me to vault off of his knee and elbow the stray straight into the chin, where I heard a satisfying "CRUNCH!" to which the stray stumbled back in agony. I didn't stop there though; I quickly ran up his arm that was stuck in the concrete from his early attempt of crushing me and dealt a deadly flurry of strikes to his face, my rage powers making me hit him so hard and so fast that after 10 seconds of senseless beating, the front of his once toughened face was now nothing but blood and mismatched skin. He collapsed to the floor and I looked at his friend, who seemed to be in a state of shock. Big Ugly No.2 then did the smart thing, he turned and ran.
Rias' POV.
Having joined the battle late, along with: Asia, Koneko, and Issei. It came as quite a shock to see that while her Queen and her Knight were beating down one stray, there was an unfamiliar devil down the street fighting two. I watched as he finished with the first one and had a small staring contest with the other, before it ran away with its tail between its legs. The stranger wasn't finished however, he ran, easily outpacing the stray and jumped on its back. Nobody could have guessed what happened next, he sprinted across its back, jumped off its shoulders and tore its head clean off. We all watched in sheer amazement of this man, who wasn't much older than us, take down two strays in a shorter amount of time than it took two of my best fighters to kill just one.
While we watched him just stand there for a while, head now discarded, we saw him jerk his head up quickly, and then look towards the side street to his right, just as another stray barrelled straight into him and sent him flying into the wall of a building. We then all heard a scream and saw a girl run out of the same building to check on the stranger. Without realising, my team and I were already running to help the man as well, but when we were at least 20 meters away from him, we were suddenly surrounded by another 7 strays out for blood. I did a quick headcount.
"Hey guys? I count 10 strays that we've seen so far, including the dead ones." I inform.
"10 strays? I thought one was bad enough. How come they've teamed up?" Issei says.
"It could have something to do with that devil over there."
"Yes, there is something different about him." Akeno summed up.
"Hey President, what are your orders?" Kiba asked.
I thought for a moment. "Make a path to the new guy, when we're there I want Asia to heal him. There is no way we can survive without him at full strength."
"You got it Lady Rias." Asia said, ready to do her part.
Before I could give the order to charge, we all heard a shriek and a painful sound of cracking bones. We all viewed in horror, the mangled corpse of the girl that had previously rushed out of the building fall to the ground from the giant hand of a stray.
"NO! SARAH!" We heard the man yell, as he fell back to his arms and knees as he cried. As he did so, we could see a tinge of red light glowing around his body.
The street was bathed in silence. Nothing could be heard but the sounds of the unknown devil's cries. After a while, the crying died down. But the sounds themselves were enough to put the team in a depressed mood. Once he'd finished entirely, there was a minute of complete silence, where not even the strays wanted to make a noise, in fear of what they had just done.
The next noise is what shocked everyone though.
"HaHaHa… *Sigh…"
