Second chapter. Questions should start to be answered. I will say right now, Yuuto is slightly OOC, only in that he and Akeno are boyfriend/girlfriend. Also, I forgot to mention that Casper won't be a part of Rias's group, but he will still be part of the story. And, since everyone knows the backstories of the characters, I won't go into much detail on them, except Issei because his isn't canon. I own nothing.

"Normal speaking"

Thought

[Dragon speaking internally]

"[Dragon speaking out loud]"

Enjoy,

J


Meeting Grim

Issei was asleep in his bed spread out over the covers. The sunrise was shining into the room and the light made him stir. He slowly got up and rubbed his eyes. He looked out the window and saw the cherry blossom tree outside beginning to bloom. He looked to the door to see the guy from the night before sitting in the hallway outside.

"Hey, good to see you're awake," Grim said.

"So, last night wasn't a dream?" Issei asked, still waking up. "You wanna tell me how I got from the fountain to my bed?"

"You passed out after Rias showed up through the summoning portal that was in your pocket, told you that she was devil and wanted you to join her, when you said you would she put the pawns in you, and then you passed out." He replied like it was no big deal.

"She's a devil? The pawns?" Issei asked. Grim was constantly confusing him. In stead of answering, Grim just stood up and started walking away. The house was empty beside the two of them, but he could hear food frying in the kitchen. Did he make me breakfast?

"Get up, lazy ass!" Grim yelled up the stairs, snapping Issei out of the trance the cooking bacon had on him. "We have to get to school and talk to Ms. Gremory before class starts."

Issei walked into the kitchen to see Grim sitting on his counter eating a piece of bacon and playing with a ball of fire. "Sweet trick, can you teach me?" He said, grabbing a piece for himself and scooping out some eggs from the other burner on to a plate.

"Sure, catch." Grim said, and tossed the ball to Issei.

"Woah," Issei dropped his food on the ground and put both hands in front of him to protect himself from getting burned. The ball of fire stopped right in front of his hands, and just floated for a second before it went out.

"Well, at least you could stop it," Grim said. "You'll learn to keep it going. Now grab something quick. We have to go."

"Let me clean this up first," Issei said leaning down to grab the spilled food, but was stopped when he saw a red circle glow on the floor of the other room. He stood up as Yuuto appeared with Akeno clinging to his arm. As the three exchanged greetings, only Akeno seemed to notice the mess of food turn into purple smoke and dissipate into the air, but she didn't think much of it.

"Why did you guys come here?" Grim asked, getting off the counter. "I thought we were going to meet you guys at school. I let Issei sleep in because I'm a good guy, but you guys must have been too impatient with us if you couldn't wait another 5 minutes." He walked over to the three, clearly displeased with their intrusion. "Apparently he has forgotten the part where Rias showed up practically banged him in front of us, so he has no idea what's going on."

"Awww," Akeno said and started rubbing Issei's head. "You were so cute when you told her you would do anything to protect her."

"Yeah man. You were like putty in her hands." Yuuto joked, earning him a punch in the arm from Akeno.

"We had to come because Rias was nervous about meeting you again. Since you didn't seem very friendly last night." Akeno explained to Grim. "Kind of hard to get along with a man that calls himself The King of Death, Mr. Grim Reaper." She finished, getting serious.

"I also explained that I would gladly join you guys and fight for her to protect Devils and humans from the coming war." Grim said, his expression was still serious, but not threatening. "Besides, if I was going to be hostile I would have wiped you all out, taken Issei with me to help the defenseless humans from your war, and not even helped his friends and your kind from annihilation."

"Hey, you two, calm down. Let's just be cool and go to school before we end up late." Issei broke them up, but still worried about what Akeno said about Grim being 'The King of Death.'

"Yeah, let's go," Yuuto said, reforming the portal, while keeping his girlfriend restrained from saying anything else that might upset Grim. They all stepped into the circle and were teleported into the clubroom.

"Issei!" A girl's voice cried and he was tackled to the ground by Rias as her mouth met his.

"You should probably not give him a heart attack like that. He doesn't remember meeting you last night," Akeno explaining, pulling her crimson-haired friend off of the boy.

"WHAT!?" She exclaimed. "How could he forget about what happened last night."

"He didn't forget all of last night," Grim explained. "I think Ddraig might have awoken Ophis when he said her name, and she might be affecting him."

"WHAT!?" Akeno, Rias, and Yuuto all exclaimed.

"Ophis is supposed to be dead," Rias exclaimed, still very shocked. "You mean she lives as a sacred gear in Issei? That's the power that the Fallen Angels?"

"Yeah. It is the same kind of power she had." Grim said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Great Red may be strong, but he even he couldn't kill the Infinite Dragon. Don't feel too bad, I don't think they know either."

"Wait, I have no idea what anyone is talking about. Who's Ophis?" Issei interjected. Yuuto laughed at his naïveté. The bell rang after that.

"It's fine, Issei, we will tell you what we can after school," Rias said, heading toward the door, but stopping to give him a peck on the cheek and winking at him. "See you later, my most precious servant." She said as she waved over her shoulder as the doors closed behind her.


Issei sat in his usual spot near the front of the classroom. Homeroom was about to start and everyone else was busy talking with their friends. He smiled up to Yuuto as he passed and Yuuto took his seat behind Issei. The teacher came in and everyone stood behind their seats.

"Good morning everyone!" The teacher said, and the students responded politely and sat down. "We have a new student joining our class. Everyone meet Graham Rear." She held her hand to invite the kid into the class. Grim walked in wearing jeans and a t-shirt with some band on it.

"Hey, I'm Graham." He said. Issei hadn't seen him without his cloak on, but now he could see that he was rather muscular and made Yuuto look more on par with Issei when it came to looks. He wasn't really put off, but when he turned his head he saw that the girls in his class really liked what they saw, and the two perverts were crying and quietly cursing their luck that they had no chance with any of the girls now. As if they had any chance to begin with.

"You can take the seat in the back corner," the teacher told him. Grim, or Graham as he went by to disguise himself, walked over and politely asked the little blonde girl sitting next to Issei if she could move and take the spot in the back. With stars in her eyes she shook her head in what looked like a very painful nod, got her stuff, got up, and ran to the back of the room where she started whispering with the girl she sat next to.

"Okay, or just take her seat," the teacher said, bemused, and started telling them about what was going on at school during the coming weeks. Grim leaned back to Yuuto, "Hey, why do we have to go to school?" He asked him, "We should be training, and Rias should stop ignoring me. Am I really that scary?"

Yuuto laughed, "We have to keep up appearances, and we will live forever, so it's good to have this experience. Oh, and yes, you are definitely scary to someone like her. You are a very threatening presence, and as a noble she feels like she is in a lot of danger because killing her would be a major blow to the Gremory family, and devils in general."

"Even though I've told her I am willing to join her peerage to help the devils?" Grim questioned facing back to the front.

"I missed a lot last night, but from I saw you do to that Fallen Angel I would say you are dangerous." He said. Grim glared over at him. "Hey, I trust you, I'm just defending Rias's hesitation to trust you."

"What do I have to do to prove myself to her? I thought saving you would be a good indication of my loyalty." Grim asked, more to himself than to the other two.

"Thanks for that, by the way," Issei said. He reached out his hand to get Grim to shake it.

"You don't have to thank me for anything. People with power have to protect those who have less." He said, and shook Issei's hand. "Besides, that's what friends are-". He stopped talking and looked very seriously out the window.

"What is it?" Yuuto leaned forward and asked. Without answering, Grim left the room in a flash of black. "Did you feel something?" He asked to Issei.

"No," Issei said. "Maybe we should go get Rias?"

"If she felt something, she would give us a sign," He responded, shaking his head. "He gets stranger all the time."

"You can say that again," Issei laughed. They got back to work, deciding that Grim would handle whatever he had run off to do.


A couple of things in case you missed it:

I) Ophis was defeated by Great Red and now Issei's sacred gear, more to come

II) Grim Reaper, The King of Death, go to my bio to see what his cloak looks like (it's the master cloak from Assassin's Creed 2), he has Ddraig as his sacred gear, but he also has many more secrets *POOF*

III) Koneko and Asia haven't shown up yet, but they will...soon

Questions for you:

I) Is it good so far (the dialogue, character development)?

II) Is 1k-2k words per chapter every day(ish) a good pace?

This chapter's song: Devil in My Veins by Yelawolf