Chapter 2

That morning, Rias and Kage both walked to school together.

"I'll see you later, Kage." Rias said, before parting ways.

"Bye, Rias." Kage said.

She turned around to wave to him. Kage couldn't help to smile, it felt like he was in bliss. The thought that he would now get to be with the girl of his dreams made him happy.

The entire day, he could only think of Rias.

"Hey Kage," Matsuda called out from behind Kage, "you wanna hang out? We can look at some nudie mags."

Kage hit him in the head. "Stop saying that, besides, I'm busy."

"You're cold." said Motohama.

Kage had a smirk on his face, he had a dirty thought in his head. "Hey, you guys, have you ever actually seen breasts? In real life?" asked Kage.

"What do you mean?" Motohama asked.

"Is this about you being with Rias? What happened between you two?" Matsuda asked.

"Yeah, you have an obligation to tell us everything that happens between Rias, you bastard." said Motohama

"Well…" Kage started.

"Hey, Kage." somebody had called out.

Kage turned to see that it was Kiba Yuuto. He was a typical ladies man, by the looks of him. Not to mention that he was adored by every girl in the school. That, of course, meant that he was envied by all the guys, except Kage, because he couldn't care less. But Matsuda and Motohama were fuming by the mere presence of him.

"Hey, Kiba. What's up?" asked Kage.

"I've been instructed by Rias to bring you with me to her." said Kiba.

"Alright, I'll see you guys later." Kage said to Matsuda and Motohama as we left with Kiba.

All of the girls watched as Kiba and Kage walked by.

"Ooh, Kiba is with Kage.", "Maybe Kage should hand out with Kiba more, instead of those perverts.", "Hopefully Kiba doesn't start hanging out with those loser friends of Kage's. I don't want their pervy-ness to rub off on my Kiba". These were a few of some of the talk that Kage expected to hear as they walked down the hallways.

As they walked through the hallways, many girls were waiving to Kiba and walking by. It was just as Kage had feared, lots of girls being around them.

Kage and Kiba approached a building at the old schoolhouse.

"Here we are, the Occult Research Club's clubhouse." Kiba said as they came up to the building.

Kiba knocked on the door and heard somebody call to come inside. They both entered the clubhouse. As Kage entered, he inspected the clubhouse, looking around to see everything in the clubhouse. As he looked around, he noticed a girl sitting on the couch.

"That's Koneko Tougou, the 'school mascot'." Kage thought to himself.

"Koneko, this is Kage." Kiba said, introducing Kage. Kage nervously waved to her.

She looked at him and hid her food away from him. Kage found that strange.

He noticed that there was a bath in the clubhouse, which was even stranger.

Whoever was showering turned off the shower and stepped out of it.

"Here you are Rias." Kage heard somebody say behind the shower curtain.

"Rias was in there? Damn, too bad I didn't get to see that." Kage thought to himself.

After drying off and getting dressed, Rias moved the curtain aside.

"Oh, hi Kage. Sorry, but since I stayed at your place last night, I didn't get to shower. Sorry to make you wait." said Rias.

"No, it's fine." said Kage.

"Ah, I guess that makes you Kage." said the girl standing next to Rias, "My name is Akeno Himejima." she said, introducing herself.

"Well, so far it seems like this club has quite a few girls. Great." Kage thought to himself.

"Well Kage, welcome to the Occult Research Club, where we are all devils." said Rias.

"All of you are devils?" Kage asked.

"That's right. We are all devils, aside from us devils, there are; fallen angels which are like that man you met last night with the black wings, and angels which I imagine you know what those are."

"Yeah, I know what those are."

"We also try to make pacts with humans to gain power, as do angels and fallen angels." said Rias, "Do you understand everything I've said?"

"Uh, yeah." Kage replied, "But why the clubhouse?"

"It's just a cover up." said Kiba.

"Ah." said Kage.

"Do you remember this girl?" Rias asked as she handed a picture to Kage.

"Yeah, this is that Yuuma chick." Kage replied.

"Well, she killed you." said Rias. Kage was surprised to hear that, but it made more sense as to why he had felt that pain in his chest that morning he had woken up so abruptly. "She killed you because you possess a Sacred Gear."

"A what?" asked Kage.

"A Sacred Gear, something that gifted people have that grant them incredible feats beyond that of normal people."

"Woah, that's pretty cool." Kage said. He suddenly realized something, "Wait, are you saying that I have one of those inside of me?"

"Yes, let's try it. Try and draw the power from the Sacred Gear. Let the power course through you and draw it from within."

"Ok." Kage said as he stood up. He focused on trying to draw it from within, but he wasn't exactly sure what he was doing, where he was drawing from, or anything about it really.

"Just focus on finding the power, Kage." said Rias.

Kage tried more and more, but couldn't draw anything.

Rias came up to him and put her hand on his chest. "Come on, feel it from within." she said.

Kage felt the heat rise on his face and a shiver down his spine. He suddenly felt a surge of energy. A red light lit up behind his glasses, and a red light shone on his right hand. It began to turn black and scaly. A bright light shone from his hand, as the light faded, they saw that his hand had turned into an armor of black scales with a red orb on the back of his hand.

"Holy shit!" Kage exclaimed.

"Yep, that's your Sacred Gear. Now, we need you to make some pacts. Here." Rias handed Kage a paper with a pentagram on it.

"What the hell is this?" asked Kage.

"It's a simplified pentagram, we use them because almost no one knows how to make one anymore." Rias explained, "It's how we get to the people who want to make pacts with us."

"Oh, is that how…" Kage started.

"Yes, as you were dying you wished that… actually, I'm a little embarrassed to say it." Rias said, blushing. "But regardless, I saved your life and revived you to be my servant, just like everyone else here. Let's show him." Rias said as wings opened up from her back.

Kage looked at the others as they all had opened up wings from their backs.

"Wait a second, does that mean…" Kage started. He looked behind him, and wings suddenly sprouted from his back. Kage began to feel a little dizzy. "So, I'm a devil that serves you now, right?"

"That's right, so do your best." Rias said, winking to him.

"Right. No problem Rias." said Kage.

"Ah, ah, you are to refer to me as president." said Rias.

"Ok, so what now Ria-President? Can I call you Prez for short?"

"Sure. Now, tell me, what do you want in your life?"

"Well," Kage gulped, "I'm a bit embarrassed."

"Oh, come on, you can tell me." said Rias, putting her finger under Kage's chin.

"Ugh..." Kage began to say as a bright light shined, then sent him to whoever had called him. Even behind his shades, the light was still somewhat blinding.

He opened his eyes and looked to see a big, burly man dressed in a tight princess-like outfit. The very sight made Kage's skin crawl.

"Finally, someone is here to fulfill my wish." said the burly man.

"Wh-what is that?" Kage asked.

"For somebody to watch this whole anime with me." the man said as he pulled out an entire collection of DVD's.

Kage gulped.

"Well, that sucked." said Kage, looking at the contract in his hand.

Kage stood up, hoping to go somewhere to shake that memory from his head. When he stood up, a bike crashed into his side. The girl riding the bike flew past him onto the ground while Kage stood there unfazed.

Kage looked over to the girl. "Are you alright?" he asked her as he helped her up.

"Yeah, I'm fine." she replied.

Kage helped her get her things together. He looked at the ground to see a headdress. "Here." He said, handing it to her.

"Thanks." she said putting it on.

When she put it on, Kage had noticed that it was the headdress for a nun. When he saw that, he took a step back.

"What's wrong?" the girl asked.

"Nothing." Kage replied.

"Well, I'm looking for the church, do you think you could help me." she asked.

"I don't think so." said Kage.

"Helping a nun and having to walk around with a girl I don't know, I don't think so." Kage thought to himself as he turned to walk away from her.

"Please." she said as she tugged on Kage's sleeve.

She looked at Kage with these puppy eyes that, for some reason, Kage couldn't ignore. It was like looking at a sad dog that'd lost its way.

"Alright, fine." Kage with a sigh. He knew that he wasn't going to like this.

"Great!" she said with excitement as she pulled a cross out from her dress, "The lord lights my path."

Kage's head throbbed in pain from, he grabbed his head with his hand as he winced in pain.

Kage noticed that her attention had turned towards a hurt boy. He watched as she healed his injury with amazement.

"There you go, you should be all fine." she said cheerfully.

A woman came calling for the boy. "Where have you been?" she asked.

"That girl helped me, she healed me." the boy said.

"Stay away from people like that." the woman said as she glared towards the girl.

Kage was upset by that, he couldn't believe that she could be so rude to somebody that helped out her son.

"Hey, go to hell." Kage said to her as she was leaving.

"Don't worry about it." the girl said. She meant well, but Kage could see that there was a pained look in her eyes.

"Thank you!" the boy called to her.

Her eyes lit up with joy at that. She smiled and waved to the boy as they left.

"Alright, let's just go." said Kage as they both headed off to the church.

"Well, here we are." said Kage when they arrived at the church.

"Thank you so much!" the girl exclaimed.

Being around the church made Kage very nervous, knowing that it was enemy territory to devils like him. "Rias will be pissed if she finds out I've been here, I should really leave." Kage thought to himself.

"I should be leaving." said Kage, trying to get away from her.

"Wait! Let me repay you in some way." said the girl.

"No, it's fine." said Kage.

"Well, I hope we see each other again." she said as Kage began to walk away.

"Yeah, sure." Kage said sarcastically.

"Well, my name is Asia Argento." she said to Kage.

"Yeah, cool." said Kage.