Chapter 1: Unexpected Guest
A/N: What's up, lovers and haters of stories? It's Scarecrow667, back from the abyss that is my break from writing. Keep in mind, this is NOT the sequel to New Devils, but more of a side quest to the main story, to better explain a character who WILL appear in the sequel. Now, without further ado, let is begin the next segment of the New Devils Saga...
The Sand Wolf.
This story begins with Rias, on the evening of the second of the final three days she and the rest of the ORC waited for Adrian, Katrina and Damon to return. The red haired she-devil was currently brushing her hair in front of a large mirror in what was supposed to be Adrians' newly rebuilt room in his new house, still waiting for her head pawn to return. She was dressed in a pink see-through night gown and nothing more, even as the door to the room was opened, and in strode Akeno, dressed in blank thong panties and a white tee shirt with a blue lightning bolt on the front. The intrusion made Rias turn around, surprised to see her queen piece enter without warning.
"Akeno, what are you doing here?"
"Oh, nothing president," she said, "I just came to see how you were doing, with how the last couple of days have been going, I figured I should check in on you." Rias sighed, setting her brush down,
"To be honest, I'm worried," said Rias, "I'm worried because with every minute Adrian and the others are gone looking for Zeus, the more I'm afraid they won't come back, even after killing him." Akeno frowned, and turned Rias away from the mirror and towards herself,
"Rias, it's okay to be worried for them, but you should at least have a little faith in them that they will," Rias stared at Akeno in surprise, "If you can't have enough faith in Adrian to come home on his own, can you at least put some faith in Katrina to drag his sweet ass home?"
"That's another thing..." said Rias, turning away from her queen, her eyes becoming shadowed by her hair, "...what if Adrian and Katrina...have...?"
"Have sex?" Asked Akeno bluntly. Rias turned to her queen, shocked at her bluntness, "So what if they do? He's single now, and is free to do whatever with whoever (within reason of course), just like you are free to do whatever with whoever." Rias gasped, and stood up with an angry blush aimed at Akeno,
"I am not going to do whatever, with whoever," she said heatedly, "I am going to stay here, legs closed, waiting for Adrian to come back. I'm not going to just jump onto the first man who rings the doorbell."
Ding-dong!
Both girls turned to Adrians' bedroom doorway, then they turned to each other, with Akeno smiling and Rias rolling her eyes as she snatched a white bathrobe off of Adrians' bed, quickly striding out. Soon the ORC president was in the foyer, descending the stairs that led to the front door, only to see Akeno had beaten her to it via magic circle. The circle was gone when she opened the door, still clad in the shirt and thong, clearly wishing to be an exhibitionist to whoever was on the other side. She then opened the door with a smile, seeing a handsome young man of Middle Eastern descent, no older than herself or Rias, with dark shoulder length hair, piercing blue eyes, dressed a tan suit jacket, slacks, white dress shirt and black tie and dress shoes, and oddly enough he had a silver sword with a vine-like hilt and runes carved into the side of the slightly curved blade. Neither of them were sure why, but the sword felt very similar to a Holy Sword.
"Hello," he greeted politely, "is this the residence of a Rias Gremory?" Akeno giggled,
"That all depends on who's asking."
"Someone who was an...acquaintance of the boy whose shirt you're wearing..." Akenos' smile dropped, and her eyebrows raised up, even more so when he brought a hand forward, up to the top of her left shoulder, and hooked his finger into the slightly burned hole in the top of the shoulder, "...I even remember when he got shot at while wearing this shirt back in New Marais." Akeno brought a hand to her mouth in shock, and Rias then stood next to her as he lowered his hand,
"You knew Calvin Hicks?" She asked him.
"I met him twice in person, and we remained pen pals afterwards, and up until a while back, he told me a great deal about this town, and you two, especially you Akeno." The Priestess of Thunder blushed,
"Oh did he now?" She asked with a grin, "How much did he say?"
"In terms of you and him, enough to make me sceptical," he admitted, he then turned to Rias, "and enough about you to make me curious." Rias stepped forward,
"And what did Calvin say about me that made you curious?" The man took a deep breath,
"That you were..." he paused to clear his throat, "...Lucifers' little sister." Rias straightened herself up,
"That would be true," confirmed Rias, drawing a soft gasp from the man, "Is there anything else he told you?"
"Mostly it was his adventures in and out of school, especially his adventures in the bedroom," he said, briefly turning an eyebrow to Akeno, who closed her eyes with a blush and a giggle, and he turned back to Rias, "but then he spoke of his encounter with a man named Kessler, and how he took the life of his unborn child right under his nose. I grew concerned, continued to write, but he never replied. So I assumed the worst and came here..." He then saw Rias casting a sad eye to the ground, and Akenos' smile had vanished, "...where is Calvin?"
Both girls were then dressed, and all three of them were on the highest hill in Kuoh Town, with the young man kneeling in front of Calvins' memorial. He let a sigh escape his lungs,
"Calvin...I'm sorry I wasn't here..." he said to the memorial, rising up and facing Rias and a teary eyed Akeno, "...it's my fault that he is dead," he told them. "Had I have come with him he might still be alive today."
"Trust us," said Rias, "there was nothing any of us could have done."
"Maybe not now," said the man, "but back in New Marais he offered me to come with him here, when he wanted to search the world for people like himself...people like us...but I refused, because I preferred to be on my own, to not get attached, but I guess that's yet another mistake I can add to my list." Rias and Akeno gave him a look of pity, and Akeno stepped forward,
"Can we make you some tea?" The man sighed, whiping a miniscule tear from his eye,
"Oolong would be nice," he said. Before long the trio were back in Adrians' house, Akeno brewing a hot pot of tea while Rias and the guest were seated at the extra long dinner table. As Akeno brought over two teacups for Rias and the guest as the red haired Princess of Ruin began to speak with the guest,
"I don't believe we ever got your name," She told him.
"Oh my goodness," he said, bringing a hand to his head, "I can't believe I was so rude not to introduce myself..." He then looked to Rias, "...you may call me Darius Zafar...or at least that's what I call myself, for honestly, I can't even remember my own name." Akeno and Rias both gave him curiously surprised looks,
"How can you not remember your own name?" Asked Akeno.
"Because I've been alive long enough to forget it," Said Darius, "but I can tell you this of myself..." he rose from his seat and spoke truly, "...I am a prince...a prince whose name is lost to time, and to a country I no longer recognize..." He then placed his hands on the table, and explained, "...you know the country as Iran...but I knew it as Persia." Both of the devil girls gasped, and Rias even shot up out of her seat,
"You're the Prince of Persia? THE Prince?!"
"The younger son of King Sharaman?" Asked Akeno, equally surprised, "That would explain the sword." Darius chuckled, undid the sword from his belt, and placed the weapon on the table,
"Well, you're partially correct," he said, "while this blade is, in fact, the Kings Sword that once belonged to Sharaman, and quite possibly the rumored inspiration for the creation of Excalibur, I am NOT his younger son...I'm his grandson." Rias and Akeno gave him another look of surprise, "The man you think I am is my father..." He then turned a somber look down to the sword, "...and the reason I am still alive after thousands of years is the first of my mistakes..."