Big Changes In Life
"Issei Hyoudou" - Talking
'Issei Hyoudou'- Thought
[ Issei Hyoudou ] - Inanis
It's been three years since that night that I had the dream that would forever change my life. I'm now nine years old, and my draconic features have kicked in exactly as Inanis said they would. I've sprouted wings covered in black scales, the leathery like substance is a grey color. My wings were pretty good size boasting a three to four-meter wingspan. My tail has also come in its covered in hard black scales and strong enough to crush metal. My teeth grew into sharp hard fangs, the same thing with my fingernails they grew into sharp, durable claws. My eyes have changed as well, they still boasted their bright violet color, but they now possess reptilian like pupils. It wasn't just a physical change either it significantly boosted my sight allowing me to see much farther and more precise than I ever could.
That was just the beginning of all the changes I went through, that was all of the external changes. I had a host of internal changes to be able to hand my power that started growing with my age correctly. To begin with my muscle, skin, and tissue density increased multiple times over providing with draconic like strength and speed. My nose changed as well my sense of scent has increased dramatically you could put me in a room with several people, and I could identify them just by smell alone, I can also smell pheromones released by people allowing me to identify peoples moods quickly.
My lungs also increased in size allowing me to be able to handle breathing fire like a dragon, although I'm not sure how that makes it work, it makes no sense to me it's just what my father explained to me, so I just accepted it. My sense of hearing increased as well I can listen to a whisper from across a noisy room, and perceive what they are saying. All these changes were internal, so nothing with these changed my external appearance. My mental capacity has rapidly increased much faster and further than other children my age allowing my perception to increase, basically allowing me to see and register things moving at super fast speeds.
It was currently 8:30 AM. My father and I are currently training, I now had my draconic features outgoing making myself as strong as I possibly can while my father was currently in his dragon form. It looked very similar to Inanis the black dragon emperor, which makes sense since he is our ancestor.
The main difference was their size and some coloration differences. My father was much smaller, along with his aura. His color was different as well he was still black and spiky, but he didn't emit the black like smoke like Inanis, plus his eyes were nowhere near the same color as Inanis and mine. His eyes were brown compared to our violet eyes so vibrant that they practically glowed.
I've been training ever since that night I discovered all this crazy stuff. I started with basic physical and mental exercises. The physical training to gain speed and strength as well as durability and stamina, while the mental was to sharpen my focus and mind better to control my magical, and sacred gear power.
I've only been sparing against my father for a couple of months, saying it was a one-sided beat down was almost a laughable understatement. He clearly took it easy on me, I was still proud of myself though because I forced him to take a full dragon form to challenge me appropriately.
Which that in itself is amazing due to my comparatively young age, I was only 9 years old able to push a full-grown adult dragon to use their dragon form to fight me. My father told me that I was a prodigy for as strong as I am, I tried my hardest not to let it get to my head.
We've been training for a while now we started at 8:30 AM, it was currently 10:48 AM. I was bruised, my clothes tattered and burnt. 'Damn he certainly isn't taking it easy today, old coot' I thought to myself as I raised myself from a crater formed under me after being slammed into the ground by my fathers thick, scaly tail. It felt like I got hit by a metal wall moving at high speeds, to put it simply. It hurt like a bitch.
"whats wrong Issei don't tell me that's all you can do after all our training" my father said with a deep, gruff voice. He'd say things like this to motivate me since anger was a strong emotion that provides a significant power boost to dragons. Although it never worked since I knew he meant well for me, that doesn't mean I'm going to give up easily though.
"Hell no!" I yelled at my father, promptly providing a mighty flap with my wings lifting me off the ground with quick speeds. I decided to put everything I had into one last attack hoping to do something to him even a scratch or a burn would satisfy me at this point. I rarely do any damage to my father in his dragon form, the power gap is just too high.
I thrust my hands together in front of me keeping them together while flying through the air dogging my father's fire blasts. A dense black aura formed around me, smothering me in pure darkness. This piqued my father's interest as he stopped firing blasts at me to observe this new strategy I was attempting. My aura started moving from my body to rapidly condense in front of my hands, forming a hyperdense basketball size ball of pure black with a bright violet core. This was my devil power of Extinction, I rarely used it since it was extremely powerful, as well as very dangerous. It exhausted me just using it due to how hard it is to control.
"TAKE THIS!" I shouted at my father as a massive black blast with a bright glowing violet color emitting from the center of the explosion rocketed towards my father at alarmingly high speeds. His eyes widened at this size and speed of the blast, it was much stronger then what I usually released. Unable to block he quickly raised his arm to promptly deflect my blast, leaving his scales scratched and burnt.
This immediately made me ecstatic that I was able to accomplish my goal of damaging him in his dragon form, which I've never done up until now. Quickly after my little victory dance, I did in my head I fell out of the sky hitting the ground with a hard thud, panting trying to catch my breath after using all of my power in that final attack. My father quickly reverted back to his human form deactivating the barrier we had up, keeping the rest of the town safe.
He didn't voice it, but I could tell he was impressed by performance and determination to keep going instead of giving up. My father smiled picked me up to take me back home after I hid my draconic features to make me appear more human, which is a nifty trick my father taught me.
My father reached the house with me in his arms, he walked inside to lay me on the couch allowing me to rest properly. Once I regained my consciousness I realized where I was I quickly looked at my phone showing it was 11:18 AM.
"Issei aren't you suppose to visit Akeno with your father and me at 12:00? You need to hurry up and get ready" she said smiling, looking at me laying on the couch.
"Oh shoot" I shot up ignoring my sore body, promptly running up the stairs grabbing some clothes that at least made me look half decent. I took a quick shower washing off all of the fatigue I built up during training, I was still sore though. After I finished, I quickly dried off by igniting my aura in a quick burst evaporating any water that was left on my body. I put on my clothes which consisted of black jeans a white T-shirt and a leather jacket.
"Mother, Father, I'm ready now!" I shouted making my way downstairs seeing my parents ready sitting on the couch by me.
"huh, oh ok let's go honey" my mother said looking over at me from the television which had her complete attention.
Along the drive there I was thinking about the new friend a made a year after I started my training. My mother was upset that I secluded myself from other children, she said I should try and make more friends even though I never really cared for having friends after Irina moved. However, my mother intervened in my social life telling me about her friend from high school, Shuri Himejima.
She had a child, a little girl named Akeno Himejima who was one year older then me making her 10. My mother introduced me to Shuri, her husband Baraqiel, and her daughter Akeno. At first, I wasn't all that interested in making friends with her, but I ended up liking her a lot. She was kind, sweet, friendly, caring, funny, playful. She was a lot like Irina in a way. She was average in her height, though she looked short to me because I was unnaturally tall for my age due to my heritage. She had long black hair, and pretty violet eyes like me albeit not as bright as mine.
I looked up as I noticed the car stopped. 'looks like we're here' I thought to myself as I looked out the window seeing stairs leading through some trees up to a shrine at the top of the hill. I found it annoying that every time we went over to visit her, we would have to trek up the long stairway, it was hard or tiring if course just tedious.
Once we reached the top of the stair what appeared before me was a shrine that had a woman with long black hair, and brown eyes wearing what appears to be a white T-shirt with black shorts on. She was brushing Akeno's hair as the young girl sat on Shuri's lap humming a song in a happy tune kicking her legs with her eyes closed and a bright smile widespread across her face. "Oh, Akeno looks who's here to say hi," Shuri said it soft tone in Akeno's eye.
Akeno's eyes shot open looking at the stair leading down to the road. She spotted my family, and I step off the last stair, I had a smile on my face as I saw Akeno smile brighten upon detecting me.
"Issei!" She shouted in glee jumping off of her mothers lap running towards me with her arms spread open ready to tackle me into a hug. Which is exactly what she did. I fell on the ground landing on my butt with her hugging me giggling and smiling at my arrival.
"You may be older than me, but you act just like a little girl," I said with a smile on my face as I rubbed her head ruffling her hair.
"Meanie! you haven't visited me in forever" she pouted playfully hitting me, our parents laughing at our childish like nature. "So Shuri how have you been doing, it's been a while," my mother asked Shuri after she stopped giggling at our display.
"I'm doing well just like always. How are you two doing it's been a while" Shuri asked both of my parents. My mother laughed slightly at her remark, reminiscing about how my mother used to be a trouble maker when she was younger.
After a while of chatting they invited us into their house, my parents joined her inside while me and Akeno when to go play in the forest behind her house. We were playing by a river throwing rocks into the river while we talked about how we've been doing. My parent sat inside their home talking about the same thing except instead of throwing rocks into a river they were drinking tea. Although Baraqiel was distracted from the others conversation
'Weird, I sense a strong draconic and demonic power coming from that boy, yet nothing from his parents...maybe he has a dragon sacred gear, but that wouldn't explain his demonic mix though' Baraqiel thought to himself. He came to his conclusion that my parents must be devils and Issei must wield a sacred gear. However, my father took notice of his behavior and deduced what he was thinking about.
"Baraqiel, I'm aware you noticed our son, you should know that I know what you are as well," my father said in a stern voice with a serious expression on his face. This surprised Baraqiel, to say the least, that my father was able to see through his confusion with such ease.
"Our son is a devil dragon hybrid, being 75% dragon and 25% devil. I am a full-blooded dragon while my wife is a 50/50 devil dragon hybrid. Issei also holds the black dragon emperor's sacred gear" my father stated which shocked both Shuri and Baraqiel.
"I don't care that you and your daughter are fallen angels, so long as both of you have good intentions and don't harm my son" My father concluded to the still shocked fallen angle sitting across from him. Baraqiel could only nod due to not being able to form any words in his mouth from the shock. He let go of the serious expression to replace it with an amused one due to the fallen angles reaction handling all the information.
My father wasn't worried about them having ill intent due to him not being able to sense and malice or deceit. However, he just wanted to lay some ground rules seeing how attached, and caring Akeno is to his son.
"You don't have to worry about that sweetie if Akeno is anything like her mother I'm sure she will be a kind girl," My mother said to my father putting a hand on his shoulder trying to lessen the nervousness in the air.
"I know honey, I just wanted to say my opinion is seeing that a bond is already forming between the two" My father spoke chuckling slightly at how Baraqiel and Shuri reacted to his words. "I'm sure those young children will become close," Shuri said laughing.
Meanwhile, Akeno and I walked upon a little clearing in the forest we were leaning against a tree resting from playing all day while looking up to the blue sky watching the puffy white clouds fly over us. Laughing and pointing at clouds that look like something.
'This is nice, it's so peaceful' I thought to myself feeling the gentle evening breeze cool me from the direct sunlight. Akeno looked over to me, but instead of happiness her eyes were filled with concern, and worry. She sat up only to look away from me, I was confused as to her sudden mood change. Before I could ask anything, she spoke up.
"Issei what do you think of me?" she asked me continuing to look away. I wasn't sure why she was asking this, but I didn't like seeing her sad.
"I think you're awesome, and I really like you Akeno." I responded hoping to cheer her up, but her only response was a bittersweet smile.
"What if I lied to you about something that made me extremely different from other children?" she asked her voice getting slightly shaky turning to me, allowing me to see tears boarder her violet eyes. I was perplexed at this point, and that's all I could really respond with too... a confused look. She stood to slowly remove her shirt while facing away from me, the next thing that happened shocked me to say the lease.
On her back were too soft, black, feathery fallen angel wings, which now that I think about it her father did smell a little like a crow although not near as bad. Her violet eyes met mine, she could tell that this was surprising to me.
"See...I have black wings, you must think I'm a freak now...right?" she said quietly staring into my wide violet eyes. When I snapped out of my shock by the discovery that Akeno was supernatural it was quickly replaced with awe and amazement, I've never seen any other wings besides my family's.
I reached out to touch them running my hand through the black feathers that were equal in darkness to my scales, they were so soft and gorgeous. "I didn't know you had wings Akeno, their so soft and the make you even more beautiful than you already are" I responded to her still in awe. She was surprised by the answer, she expected me to be freaked out.
"But I'm different and weird, normally kids don't have wings" she managed to choke out. Her statement caught my attention, I could only smirk at her response to me. I put my hands on her shoulders gently to calm her down.
"Listen Akeno, don't judge yourself as weird because you have something different. Judge it as being unique. Your wings are Beautiful and soft, besides you and I aren't all that different." I said ending it in slight amusement. Her sad expression changed to that of a confused one.
Her look of confusion only grew when I removed my hands from her and proceeded to remove my shirt as she did. I closed my eyes as I could hear a gasp come from Akeno as I released my draconic features. Allowing my black scaly wings and tail to emerge, my claws and teeth to sharpen. When I opened my eyes, they had a reptilian slit-like pupil. Akeno couldn't help but be shocked, but she wasn't scared or weirded out. I put my hand back on her shoulder, albeit more carefully so I wouldn't accidentally cut or scratch her.
"See Akeno you're not that different from me, so please don't judge yourself to be a freak or monster, I think your wings are soft and beautiful just like their owner," I said in a soft, cheerful tone with a smile on my face. Akeno looked on at me with shock and awe, a blush quickly flushing her cheeks. I looked away back to the sky keeping my hand on her shoulder. I stretched my large wings and long tail, I'm not allowed to have them out at the house because I might knock something over and break it.
Akeno looked up at me with the look of contemplation in her eyes, as if she was thinking about something deeply. Her cheeks were continuing to flush red. I turned back to her giving a warm smile. Before I could react, she grabbed my cheeks and quickly pulled me towards her. The only thing I could do was widen my eyes as she slammed her lips upon mine, it was soft and warm. I reciprocated what little I could, she didn't kiss for very long. She smelled like lavender, it was lovely. As she pulled away, she hugged me slightly crying.
"Hey, why are you crying?" I asked stroking her hair, she wasn't crying very much, but I could hear it none the less. "B-Because, I was so scared that you'd think I'm a freak for having wings" she choked out between her light cries.
"B-But you said I was beautiful, and you showed me your wings as well," she said looking up at me, our violet eyes meeting. Akeno was smiling brightly, it made me happy seeing her like this. Such a kind soul deserved happiness.
Akeno folded her wings and concealed them, proceeding to put her shirt back on. I did that same concealing my draconic appearance making myself appear like an average human. My eyes brightened as I turned to Akeno.
"Hey Akeno, do you want to see a cool trick?" I asked her in a childish excitement full of glee. Akeno showed a look of interest as she turned back to me, she nodded with a smile on her face.
I turn to face towards the center of the clearing and sharply inhaled filling my lungs, promptly igniting the air in my lungs into a deep black flame. I released all the air with a deep, loud roar. Spewing a black flame out of my mouth, the flames floated through the orange evening sky forming a butterfly that violet highlights. Akeno's eyes widened in awe as she looked at the black a violet flame butterfly in the air.
"That's...beautiful," she said softly staring at the flames dissipated into the sky. I turned my gaze from my art to look at her. She was beautiful, her dark black hair, her pearly white skin, and her violet eyes glistening in the evening sunlight. She turned to me and gave me a warm smile, which made my cheeks slightly flush pink.
"Come on let's go back to the shrine," Akeno said grabbing my hand pulling me through the forest path leading back to her family's house. She was so cheerful and happy now, I couldn't help but smile at her. Once we reached her house I noticed that my parent's scent wasn't there anymore, I assumed they have left without me. Akeno ran up to the door opening it to see her father and mother in the kitchen cooking some kind of soup and talking. She ran in to hug her parents who caught Shuri off guard.
"Mommy! I showed Issei my wings, and he showed me he as well" she blurted out which caught her parent's attention. They were surprised that their daughter showed me her wings since she was really insecure about them. They turned to me standing in the entryway to the kitchen. They were interested when she said I showed her my wings, but they didn't ask, they were smiling and happy seeing how happy Akeno was assuming that it went well.
"Oh, Issei as you can see your parent have already gone home. They said you should stay the night here seeing as it's so late" Shuri said turning back to the soup she was making. 'It isn't that lat - holy shit' I thought to myself as I looked towards the clock realizing that it was 6:45 PM.
'Akeno and I were out there for 5 to 6 hours!' I thought to myself which shocked me it barely felt like an hour and a half. I didn't mind staying here; however, I just didn't want to intrude. Akeno smiled brightly upon hearing that I would be staying the night, she promptly dragged me to the living room to watch Tv with me and talk about things.
It's 9:03 PM Baraqiel left to do something for work while Akeno, Shuri, and I were playing monopoly. Shuri was winning as Akeno had her cheeks puffed that she had to pay me for landing on my property. It was like a typical family night having fun playing games and listening to the Tv running in the background. That was until my nose caught a scent of 3 unfamiliar men I was confused as to where the smell was coming from, it seemed like it was coming from everywhere at once.
I instantly flinched and jumped up as I felt an extreme intent to kill directed at everyone in the room. When I jumped up, it knocked over the board game feeling shift in air pressure to my right as well as my instincts screaming to move.
However, it was to late a light spear flew through the window pricing my side. I hissed and growled in pain, it wasn't deadly, but my demonic heritage was reacting violently with the sudden burst of light boiling my blood in agony. Shuri and Akeno quickly ran towards me Shuri pulled me behind her trying to shield the children from the covered men that had entered her house, they were fallen, angels.
"Who are you, what do you want" Shuri shouted shielding Akeno and I. The men laughed and went on about how she was manipulated by a fallen angel and wasn't savable, so they were going to execute her and Akeno.
Hearing this, I. Was. Pissed. Ignoring the pain in my side, I stood up my draconic features emerging at rapid speeds. My shirt ripped at my back as my wings and tails shot out, my eyes slitting and my claws and teeth sharping ready to draw blood. "LIKE HELL I LET THAT HAPPEN!" I shouted forward at the men.
With one flap of my wings, I shot forward to the men catching them off guard due to my speed. I stopped in front of the first man before he could even move my sharp claws were dug into his gut as I ripped it to the side promptly gutting the man with a violent ripping and cutting sound, along with the man's blood-curdling scream.
His intestines were now hanging out of his gut, blood everywhere gushing from his stomach covering the floor and my hand. He died quickly and painfully shocking the other two men. They rushed to both sides of me the left one throwing a punch that I caught and quickly returned knocking him out with a bone shattering crunch, implying his nose and jaw were shattered by my blow.
The one to my right formed a light weapon that appeared to be a club swinging it and hitting the side of my head what knocked me against a wall unable to lift myself off the ground. My head was pounding, ears ringing. I was about to pass out due to the blow of light to my head. The last thing I remember seeing and hearing was Shuri' screams as she tried to protect a crying Akeno.
... I woke up to a collapsed shrine, everything was destroyed and burnt to the ground. I was dazed trying to remember what happened and how long I was out. [Issei! Can you hear me] Inanis shouted startling me and grabbing my full attention.
'yeah...what happened to Akeno and Shuri? how long was I out?' I asked Inanis mentally in a confused and panicked tone.
[You were attacked by fallen angles, Shuri died defending Akeno. Akeno's where about and status are currently unknown, I hate to say but she most likely died as well. Your body is already recovered from your recent injuries due to your unique physiology] Inanis spoke in a serious tone. My face quickly morphed into panic as I stumbled upon Shuri's bloody body in ruins, but Akeno's was nowhere to be found.
I started shouting her name hoping to hear something anything, but I heard and found nothing her presence was completely gone even from my enhanced senses. So many emotions rushed me at once that I didn't know what to do. 'I couldn't protect them, this is my fault, I could've done more' I thought to myself.
[ISSEI!]Inanis shouted snapping me out of my dazed thought. I then felt a surge of power coming from my house. It was on par with my fathers. [Who ever attacked this place is attacking your parents now, I suggest we hurry] Inanis spoke with worry lacing his voice, he was worried for his descendants.
I nodded in panic and anger as I flapped my wings giving me a surge of speed flying to my house in the starry night sky. 'Akeno I'm so sorry' I said in my head over and over again. I blamed myself for failing them.
[Akeno was a kind girl she wouldn't have blamed you Issei] Inanis spoke is a gentle tone. I knew he was right, but I couldn't get this dread out of my gut. As I flew I realized the gravity of the situation, this power was slightly below that of my father. There's no way id be able to beat whoever that is, but that won't keep me from trying.
When I reached my house, I saw it lit ablaze and my dead mother being held by my deceased father both filled with holes implying that they were hit with a barrage of light spears. My eyes burst with tears running to my parents, being replaced with nothing but hate, rage, and anger as I stared at a fallen angel with five sets of wings, making ten total wings. He was laughing maniacally at my arrival seeing my dead parents and destroyed home.
I summoned my sacred gear which took the form of two spiky metal gauntlets reaching up to my elbow with purple gems on them. The gauntlets emitted a black mist around them, my black and violet aura glowed around me. The black mist emitted from my gauntlets condensed into a black scythe emitting a black fog.
Kokabiel just laughed at my display. "Oh my did I anger the little lizard? For a young boy that's quite some power you have, there seems I was correct to take you out early" He said while laughing with his red eyes stared a hole into me.
I just screamed in anger and rage as I dashed into the air with my scythe slashing down at him with a powerful swing. However, this was easily blocked by Kokabiel with a light sword, shortly after he kicked me in the gut forcing the air out of my lungs as I coughed up blood from his kick. I was then slammed into the ground by a powerful ax kick. I looked up at his blood craving smile, blood pouring from my mouth.
"Who are you? Why are you doing this?" I weakly shouted into the air at him wondering why anyone would do this, we didn't do anything to him. He merely laughed at my question.
"Alright boy I will answer you even though your about to die." he said in a violent tone, laced with a strong killing intent "Your a prodigy and are extremely strong for your age, if I let you grow up you could be a serious threat to our plans" He said which only enraged me further.
"What about Akeno? She had nothing to do with this" I yelled at him angrily, looking up at him from the ground.
"She was a filthy half breed, she deserved to die," he said raising his hand into the air forming a light spear. My anger was at an all-time high my eyes started glowing pure bright violet, and I surged with a substantial boost in power.
Kokabiel was intrigued by the display I was putting on. I raised my hands together facing them towards Kokabiel, my black and violet aura formed into a highly dense ball in front of my hands, it was my power of Extinction.
Kokabiel was shocked to this power that was all but thought to be lost. "DIE!" I yelled my voice shifted into the sound of a dragon's roar. The ball of extinction that was in my hand shot forward at Kokabiel at incredible speeds.
Kokabiel raised his arms in defense, the ball hit his forearms. Upon contact, a massive black and violet explosion shook the ground with the sheer force. I was standing in the carter that formed from Kokabiel's ax kick, panting exhausted as all of my power, and rage was in that attack. When the smoke cleared I seen Kokabiel with his clothes tattered and burnt, he was sneering in pain as one set of his wings or two wings was utterly burnt off of his body.
"Damnit boy that hurt, that hurt a lot! I was right to kill you now" he shouted as he threw a massive light spear at me almost the size of a house. All I could do was dive on the ground and cover my head at the incoming blast which knocked me senseless I was unable to move or do anything my skin was bruised and burnt, my clothes almost wholly tore off me except my jeans.
I was laying there for what felt like hours as my ears ringing and my head spinning, the last thing I remember seeing was a red glow and a man that looked to be in his twenties, he had crimson blood red hair while wearing a fancy grey and golden armor boasting giant spiky shoulder pads. After spotting him, I promptly looked up at the man as he stared at me with his blue eyes.
"Hello child, my name is Sirzechs, what's yours?" he asked in a noble friendly voice, kneeling down to me.
"...Issei" I muttered out, I was seriously hurt and barely holding on to life feeling nothing but anger towards that fallen angel.
"Hello, Issei, what would you say if I could give you a second chance at life and power able to defeat that fallen angel," he asks providing some healing magic to me, even if it wasn't very effective due to my magic resistance. I was surprised by his offer but quickly nodded unable to say anything, the man only smiled at my response.
"Very well, I will give you the chance and power to kill that fallen angle in return I ask you serve my sister in here peerage," he said as he pulled out eight crimson colored pawn pieces six of them boasting a green hue to it. Shortly after some little chant he said and a bright glowing crimson light coming from the chest pieces, I felt a massive surge of power run through my veins as I passed out shortly afterward.
"I think I found a good servant for you my dear Rias" Sirzechs said to himself with a smile plastered across his face looking at the young devil dragon.
OK, that's another chapter done. Once again leave me some criticism and ideas I'm more than open to it.
So Issei is going to be really strong in this story able to fight Sirzechs for a while before he loses.
The harem will be all the main characters excluding Kiba and Gasper.
Inanis will also become more talkative the longer they co-exist together.
Chapters will probably come out slower after this point. However, I have no intentions to leave this unfinished, most chapters either come out during the weekend or in the middle of the week like Wednesday.
Thank you all for the read I sincerely appreciate it :D
