Disclaimer.

I don't own High School DxD, or any of the other copy right stuff that may be included in this story.

I don't make any money off of it and only write this for my own enjoyment.

If criticism of religion bothers you, please don't read this story. Also, why are you reading DxD, a story which makes heroes out of devils, if criticism of religion bothers you?

Summary.

Skip this page if you want to get to the actual story.

This is my first fan-fiction, and after years of reading them I finally decided to sit down and write one.

Couldn't help myself. I've got a need for high quality fan-fiction, so after reading quite a number of stories which left me feeling unsatisfied I decided to give it a go. This story just wouldn't leave my imagination and I've finished my own "season 4" in my head and have a rough idea for "Season 5" as well. It's going to be a long one folks. I'm also proof reading this on my own, so it's going to take awhile for updates. I plan on uploading them in large chunks, most likely entire seasons at a time, so you have that to look forward to. Don't ask for updates and don't email me. The more time I have to sort through my inbox, the less time I have to write. You can comment on the review section, I might even read them but don't expect a reply or shout out.

With that being said, allow me to give you a brief glimpse of what to expect and not to expect in this story.

This story will be written in third person.

I can't stand stories written in first person. I think it's author fantasy fulfillment and you might as well do a self insert if you're going to write a story in first person.

Character Descriptions...

I began this story before season 4 came out, so expect character descriptions and appearance to match that of the characters from seasons 1-3. Seriously, they totally changed the look of a lot of them. Millicas and Serafall both look completely different. As as to the rest of them? I honestly think the original artists of season 1-3 did a much better job, as the new animation looks (dare I say it?) sloppy. Akeno looks drunk all the time, and Xenovia looks a bit 'dumpy' until she takes her clothes off. It's weird.

Moving on...

This story will be written mostly from the perspective of Sona Sitri.

Audience: "WTF?"

Yeah, despite the fact that the main focus of the story is an Out of Context Character (OCC) Millicas Gremory, it will mainly be told from Sona Sitri's point of view and the focus will be on her and her relationship with (an age appropriate) Millicas Gremory, or as he's known in this story Ambrose the Dragon Slayer, who was kidnapped at a young age and has no idea of his own past. It'll work out, trust me. I'm mainly choosing this route simply because Ambrose (Millicas) will be the main driving force behind the plot and I want you, the reader, to be in on the secrets as they unfold as Sona finds out about them.

I'm also doing this because it seems a lot of OCC and Original Characters (OC) stories follow the same DxD pattern, and I'm quite frankly sick of it. A lot of OC's fill the role of Issei Hyoudou; understandable since he is the main character. But often times they wind up doing things exactly the same, making the same choices, just changing up the dialog. It's mostly 'OC is inserted into team Gremory'. There are some where the OC goes into team Sitri, but those don't tend to get finished or focus too much on team Gremory. Instead, I'm going to give more focus on the less known characters of the story. I believe it'll allow more freedom to make an interesting story since these character's personalities and backgrounds aren't clearly as defined as the Gremory Peerage. Consider it a DxD Rouge's Gallery.

Another thing that grinds my gears is when people make an OC or OCC and the character knows everyone and is liked by everyone.

Stuff like...

"Fallen Angels are attacking the Devils in Kuoh? They must have gone rouge because Azazel is my BFF and I know him too well."

Or how about...

"Look, I don't know or like you Rias Gremory, but your brother Sirzechs is my best buddy. Sorry I never mentioned it before. Why didn't he or I tell you earlier? Well… reasons."

That's not going to happen here. People don't automatically get along, and understanding is often reached through confrontation. Some people will fail to make a good impression, others will screw up and friendships will be tested and maybe even damaged beyond repair. It's all part of the plot and creates an interesting drama.

That being said, this will be mostly a drama/romance with a bit of lightheartedness and comedy sprinkled in. Now, I'm not going to cause Drama for the sake of Drama. This isn't an antsy teenage "The world is against me" story, nor is it a predictable "Downton Abbey" drama where you know something bad is going to happen when the characters have something good going on. It's more about how people grow apart, or have conflicting personalities and goals: the good guys struggle to get along and are forced to temporarily put their differences aside when the bad guys show up. Just because they managed to join forces for a moment to defeat Mr. Bad Guy, doesn't mean they become BFF's.

Audience: "It can't be a drama. What about the action? This is DxD and there's fighting in it."

Yes, fighting will be unavoidable and there will be action scenes. That being said, one common writing theme I've begun to hate is the predictable "I'm losing so badly. Let me reach deep within myself and pull out a special power I didn't know I had in order to save the day."

Yeah, that won't be happening either. It's cliche, over used, and quite frankly I'm sick of it.

Audience: "Doesn't that mean your character be over powering (OP)?"

Technically yes, but it's a boring story with out the characters struggling, so instead of struggling with fighting they're going to struggle with strategy. Figuring out what works in order to create a better future.

Both Sona and Ambrose (Millicas) will focus on preparing for future battles and training. Sona and Ambrose (Millicas) are both very strategic thinkers and like to be prepared for whatever may come their way. The struggle that they must face together is deciding how best to prepare for what's to come.

Audience: "Is it just going to be Sona and Millicas or whatever his name is? What about a harem?"

As some fan-fiction writer once stated in their description, "It wouldn't be High School DxD with out a harem."

Audience: "Yes! Tell me who's going to be in it?"

Not telling.

I will tell you who's not going to be in it. No one from Rias's peerage. It's not that I dislike the Gremory peerage it's just… well.. it's a point of both amusement and frustration when people put in an OC in DxD and then go for "the ultimate harem". At the bottom of each chapter they'll clearly state which girls are in the OC's harem. As the story goes on, chapter after chapter, more girls are "poached" from Issei and given to their own main character. Not everyone gets the object of their affections. I also believe that harems can get too big. Each new girl brings a new story and the old girls get shuffled to the background.

Don't believe me? It happens in cannon.

Asia Argento's origin story in the first season was very moving. I'll be honest, I shed a tear or two when she died in that church. But she later got shuffled to the rear of the harem queue, she became the little sister desperate to be noticed. I think the creator of the story realized this and created the whole Diodora Astaroth arc to bring her back to the front. The more girls that join the harem, the less time I have, as a writer, to bring all the girls out and hash out their characters. Because of that I'm limiting the number to between four and six. I have five in my head but one of them I'm not sure of. I would like to have six total, but at this time I'm not exactly sure who I want to bring in. Despite this uncertainty I have a very specific idea of where I want this story to go, but I'm not sure who to use to fill out two of the six roles I have in mind for this harem. So basically I have "character roles" I need fulfilled but haven't find the right DxD character to fill those roles. I'm creating this harem for more of a "role fulfillment" than "personal wish fulfillment".

Audience: "How about limes and lemons?"

Limes, yes. Lemons no. There will be sex, but no sex scenes. Kinda like when you're watching an R rated move and camera pans to the window as they're about to get busy. You'll know when they're planning on having sex, and they'll flirt and/or comment about "previous nightly activities", but no word porn. It's not that I can't write it, it's just that I don't want to. Once you start down that path, forever will it dominate your fan-fiction.

Next point…. Crossovers.

shudders

Crossovers can get very messy and can often get away from a writer. More often than not, crossovers have a tendency to turn off readers if they're unfamiliar with one of the story arcs. What's really annoying is when the crossovers don't mesh, I think I once saw a Harry Potter/Stargate SG1 cross over. (Seriously, WTF) If you're going to do a crossover please try to keep the genres similar. Bringing a vampire into another supernatural fic is fine, but let's not explore the depths of space with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, along with Vampire Hunter D.

Also, I really hate it when someone's main character looks, dresses, fights, and acts just like that other character in that anime you love or hate. Seriously, how many times have you read where "Not Naruto, but totally Naruto" is inserted into the world of any given fan-fiction arc? "Yeah, he wears orange, and has all the powers of Naruto, but trust me guys, he's my OC. Not at all like Naruto. His name is different and his hair is insert random color here. See? Totally different."

So why am I bringing up crossovers if it's not a crossover.

hangs head down in shame Cause it's not a crossover….?

Alright, there will be references to one maybe two anime's. Think of it as a homage to other works, but in realty, knowledge of these anime shows shouldn't impact your comprehension or enjoyment of the story. If you're familiar with the anime you'll have a small "I see what you did there" moment and move on. If not, you won't even notice it since I won't make stupid references like "Then he does a kamehameha wave!".

I might even go as far as to say there won't be any crossover characters but…

Okay, I'll level with you all. There is one character from another anime that I do want to bring in, she fits the role I have in mind perfectly and would be an excellent addition to the Harem. Urd, from Ah My Goddess. I need a Norn for my story, and Ambrose (Millicas) is an alchemist just like Urd (Alchemy being the study of magic and science, not Full Metal Alchemy). She also works as a great double act, playing against Sona Sitri's "Straight Man". It would definitely bring a bit of comedy to the story. Technically I could use Rossweisse, she's a Norn and if I make her an OCC she could fit the bill; however, that goes against my whole "Not poaching from team Gremory" goal. I mean, come on we've already got Odin, and Thor is mentioned in DxD. It isn't that big of a stretch to bring in the daughter of Odin, right? Right? (please agree with me, cause I really want to insert Urd)

Lastly I'd like to make a few observations on the one of the more newer types of fan-fiction, "The Gamer."

It's actually an interesting idea, and I did enjoy the manga quite a bit. It could even make an interesting anime, and an even better video game if someone did it right. That being said, it doesn't always translate well into fan-fiction. I've notice that most authors who do "The Gamer" get stuck on the grinding part. They create these dungeons, describe mob battle after mob battle, they list and keep track of all sorts of stats and skills; it gets to the point where even reading it becomes a grind. I imagine that's the reason most "Gamer" story arcs die because it turns into a grind to write.

With that in mind, I've decided to take a different approach on "The Gamer" idea and decided to incorporate elements from my all time favorite game, "The Sims 3".

Audience: "Wait, really?"

Yes really. There will be loads of Sims 3 references, it will actually add some interesting perspective to the story with out the whole "Level up" thing that happens in games. Ambrose (Millicas) even went to a school who's acronym is S.I.M.S.

Prequel:

These are interesting, but often writers create way too many OC secondary characters, or even worse OC secondary characters who then become main supportive characters. Stay on target people.

So while this story will have seven chapters (yeah, that's right, seven and I just finished writing them all at this point), it's not really a 'prequel' as the characters aren't younger. It's just 'set up', for the main parts of DxD that you all know and love.

There will also be time travel.

:: audience face palms ::

But not time travel as you know it. There will be no Sailor Moon "Meet your future Children" bullshit. The last expansion of "The Sims 3" is "Into The Future"; a game where your Sim can actually change and influence the future through actions in the present.

I took this idea and applied it.

If you've read this far, then I'm going to assume you won't mind a spoiler (that gets explained in chapter 2, so not a complete spoiler) where Ambrose (Millicas) explains his entire goal.

Ambrose (Millicas), who is unaware of his devil family ties, creates a device that travels into the future. However, when he arrives in the future he discovers that the both worlds (Earth and Underworld) have been destroyed, turned into a wasteland, and is ruled by carnivorous, mindless evil-dragons and monsters. All humans, devils, angels, fallen angels, and yōkai have been killed, so Ambrose takes it upon himself to change the future.

That's what this story is about, changing the future.

This time machine also gives him the benefit of having extra time since the seconds between when he goes to "The Future" and returns to "The Present" an infinite amount of time can happen. A lot of writers like to create a Dragonball "Hyperbolic Time Chamber" for their characters. Ambrose's time machine can not only fulfill that role, but also the "Dungeon" role of Gamer fics simply because there's a shit load of monsters and evil-dragons in the wasteland to fight and kill in the future.

However, there are rules. He can influence "the present" to change "the future", but traveling to "the past" is prohibited. The time machine jumps 500 years into the future, but always returns the traveler to the exact point and time which they left. The initial jump into "the future" will always bring him to the Summer Solstice, +500 years of insert current year here. (not doing "identify current year" bullshit). As stated, he returns to the exact point in "the present" when he left, however, when he returns to "the future" it's once again Summer Solstice +500 years of insert current year here in the future with all changes he made in "the present" applied to the timeline. So in essence, the day he arrives in the future is always the same day he arrives in the future.

Sound complicated? Let me break it down.

Say he travels to "the future", arrives on June 21st, 2518 and then goes off to kill "Super Dragon Boss X". He then hangs around till December 21st of 2520, and then returns to "the present" at the exact moment he left. Then, while in "the present", he carves a mustache on the faces of Mount Rushmore.

When he goes back to "the future" he arrives on June 21st, 2518 when "Super Dragon Boss X" is still alive and but Mount Rushmore will have mustaches on it.

Any changes he makes in "the present" applies to "the future", but changes to "the future" while in "the future" are meaningless. That is, carving faces on Mount Rushmore in the year 2518 is pointless because when he leaves and then comes back to the future all the changes he made in 2518 have been reset.

(Temporal Mechanics is a bitch)

Characters can never meet their past, present, or future selves, as you can't be in two places at the same time. When Sona goes into "The Future" then the timeline will reflect it as if she were missing during the 500 years between "Present" and Future". However, if Ambrose (Millicas) goes to the future with out Sona then she lived that entire 500 years with out him. The two futures (one where Sona goes with him and one where Sona doesn't) are completely different futures.

"The past" is set, and changing it would create a paradox in "the present". "The future" is always in motion so every time they make changes to "the present", then "the future" will be slightly changed. The entire point is that Ambrose (Millicas) and Sona have to figure out not only what happens in the future but how it happens so that they might save both worlds from destruction. They're trying to create the best possible future.

It's quite a lot, I know. So I've waited till I finished a few chapters before I actually published it. By this point I've already finished the prequel and hope to start part of the first season till I publish it. This will give you enough information so that you, the reader, can get a better sense of what the story is about and where it's going.

And with that, I hope you enjoy it.