Altenativefuturefan27: Yeah, of course. I realize that it's not exactly long…. But the next chapters will be longer.

The Dragonbard: perhaps, but if I do, the story will have to be longer than if it was one/one… I could though.

Gin no Okami: I'll keep that in mind. My Issei isn't exactly the cute servant that Rias would like though… although I suppose if I decided to make it not a harem, I could make that work…

Guest(1): kinda. It'll be explained later.

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Disclaimer: I have never, will never, at least I don't think so… own HighSchool Dxd, it is too awesome for someone that hardly updates to own….

Secluded Dragon

When I could feel or hear anything again, I was weightless. My vision was still dark, of course, but I could feel my body as if it were on fire, my heart hurt, my head hurt, places I didn't think could hurt, hurt. However, I could hear two people, female, talking. At first, I couldn't hear anything more than murmuring, but their voices became more and more clear.

"Please, Sona-san. We are friends, please, just two pieces!" The first voice said.

"Rias-san, you know I cannot allow you to gain this one. He is far, far too powerful," a second, more calculating voice responded.

"Sona-san, have you forgotten before when I allowed you to have that Black Dragon king wielder?"

"This is completely different. Before, I didn't ask for two pawn pieces from you, and I don't expect you to have to do so to me."

"Sona-san, please; what will it take for you to simply let me have this one! His cost is ten pawn pieces, please; help me!"

"… Fine, I will help you."

"Thank you so much-"

"In exchange for a favor."

"Ah-okay… what is this favor?"

"In the future, there may be an instance in which I need the services of this human. When that day comes, he shall join my team, and become my pawn. After all, he does account for two of my pawns, and thus, is my servant as much as he is yours, Rias. When that happens, he shall join my team for Rating Games."

"Of course, Sona-san. That is a small price to pay."

"Good, here, the two pawn pieces. Good luck with him."

With that, I felt a new strength filling my body, before I once again lost conscious.

I opened my eyes, and saw nothing. All around me was black darkness, and I was the only thing there. Suddenly however, I felt a rumbling noise, and looked around, trying to find the source of the noise.

[Over here, boy.] a deep voice came from my left. I turned to it, about to say something, before a noise from my right sounded.

(At last, we meet the one we are trapped within…) I heard.

"Who… who are you?" I asked, bewildered.

[Nice to finally meet you, brat. My name is Ddraig, the Crimson Dragon Emperor.]

(And I am Albion, the Vanishing Dragon.)

"Dragon?" I asked, before once again, things went dark.

This time when I opened my eyes, I was in a room that was decorated strangely. It was much more like a house than anything, as there was a small kitchen area. Looking outside, I could see the sun was still up, although going down quickly.

I sat on a comfy couch, as there were four couches in the 'Living Room' area of the place. The four couches were facing each other in a sort of cross, and I was in one of them.

Across from me sat a beautiful curly red haired girl, and she was staring at me intently. Next to her stood another beautiful girl, with long blue hair that went down to her legs in the back, as it was in a small tail. She had a kind expression, although I could almost sense a sadist feeling from her.

Next to me, on my left to be exact, sat a blond boy my age, with hair almost to his eyes. He looked like the avatar of royalty and popularity, and was staring at me intently. Next to him sat the little Kohai from this morning, or maybe yesterdays morning?

She had white short hair, and yellowish eyes. Once again, when I looked at her (she was staring at the ground and eating yogurt) a picture flashed in my head, of her with white ears poking out of her hair, and a long, cute tail.

The redhead spoke first, "Now then, Issei-san, I am going to explain some new truths to your life and the world that you most likely did not know before, stop me if anything becomes too overwhelming, okay?"

I nodded, and she continued, "First of all, that girl from earlier was something known as a Fallen Angel. We are all known as devils. You were pierced through the chest from behind with a sort of weapon only usable by an Angel or Fallen Angel, a light spear. You died."

My hands shook as my mind came to terms with that fact, and I felt concerned stares on me, but I nodded for her to continue.

"Another important thing we should get straight right now is the fact that there are other types of creatures known as Dragons in the world as well. They were believed as myths of legends, but realistically, they are real. A long time ago, a war was still being fought between the leaders of the three main factions, God for the side of heaven, a man named Azeal for the Fallen angels, and the original Maou for the devils.
The war was devastating for all sides, and during this legendary battle, two of the dragons… actually I should explain dragons first. There are many 'levels' of dragons, in these levels the dragons that occupy these levels are supposed to have nearly equal power levels. The top one consists of Big Red, a dragon of another dimension and Ophis, a dragon who stands for Infinite. The second level consists of two other powerful dragons, and the third consists of the dragon kings.

The top level of dragons can take on all factions at once, should they have joined forces. As it is, the second level of dragons can already each kill a God. Capital 'G' on God. We believe you have two dragons inside of you, of which level I do not know, but there's a chance that they are quite powerful…" Rias said, looking at me thoughtfully. The other members of the group stared also, making me uneasy.

"You wouldn't be referring to… Ddraig, the Crimson Dragon Emperor… and Albion, the Vanishing Dragon, are you…?" I asked uneasily. The look the others gave me was all I needed, and I looked at the ground, trying to keep from throwing up. My mind could barely take all this strange new knowledge.

"If I'm so… powerful… then why have I been so sick all my life? Wouldn't they grant me some sort of strength against being so sick?" I asked.

"Well you see, Ddraig and Albion are actually on a sort of Vendetta against each other… whenever they've encountered each other in the past, they've fought. During the major war, was when the Vendetta was formed, and eventually the two caused enough damage that the three major factions couldn't ignore them, and sealed them, making them each become a sort of powerful sacred gear, which is something only granted to humans by an act of God. The two became Longinous', capable of creating mass destruction. The original Longinous was the spear that killed Jesus Christ." Rias continued.

"This time however, the battle field was your body. From what I understand, the two have put aside their differences and decided to stop fighting. When this happened, many groups felt your power, including of course, our group and the Fallen Angels that attacked you."

"Speaking of which, how am I even alive?" I asked.

"Theoretically… you did die. However, I used something that devils use based off of the game of Chess to bring you back to life to serve as my servant. Now, you are my pawn of the group, and you consumed ten pawns, which is unheard of, being a testament to your power."

"Power… a few days ago, I was the weakest, if not one of the weakest, people in the world…" I said, still in bewilderment.

"Yes, and now, you have a chance to become the most powerful. Speaking of which, what spikes your emotion?" Rias asked suspiciously.

"W-well, when I was sick recently, I always had these visions of people… for example, I know that your name," I said, pointing to the short girl, "Is Koneko. You are a Nekomata, and the… I'm going to guess Rook, of the group?" Koneko gaped in surprise, and I moved on to the blond boy, "Your name s Kiba, and you have some sort of power with, I think it was spears? No, swords. Also, I think you were the knight of the group." Again, Kiba gaped in surprise, but once again, I had already moved on, "Your name is Akeno. Queen of the group, you use magic or something. I think your title was something to do with thunder and lightning?" "Lastly, your name is Rias, King of the group. You can destroy things, and I think your power had something to do with that, but I don't remember exactly…"

When I finished, all of the people were staring at me in shock and surprise, and I saw Rias's eyes narrow before she said, "Yes, you are right about most of those. I'm not going to ask how you know all of that, but another thing is that in the school, we are known as the Occult Club. Oh, and one last thing. Before we can let you know anything more than we've already let you know from faith, you have to pass a rite of passage before you can know anymore: A spar against some of us, or specifically, one against any one person."

The other club members stared at her as if she was crazy, but she held up her hand and they all stopped. I looked at the group, and shrugged, not knowing who to challenge.

"Wait, Buchou. I wish to be the tester for the test," Koneko said to Rias, who I suppose was the leader of the group.

Rias and Koneko locked eyes for a second, and I saw some sort of unspoken message go between the two before Rias nodded, and everyone began to walk outside. I lagged of course, and Koneko walked beside me, not making eye contact.

When we got outside, we were in the forest area again, and around a sandy sort of area. Koneko walked across to the other side, and I stood at the other. Rias, Akeno and Kiba all stood on the side, watching.

"So… how do I fight?" I asked.

The three watchers all sweat-dropped, and I watched, wondering why. Rias was the first to recover, and said, "Well then, try to spike your emotion and summon a gauntlet on one of your arms. Evidently, one dragon is on each side of you so on one of them at least, a gauntlet should appear."

I nodded, and thought for a moment on what spiked my emotions. Thinking earlier to my conversation with Rias, I thought that if I could defeat one of the people from my visions, no doubt I would come closer to being able to meet some more of the people from my visions. Using this, I held my arms in an X near my chest, before bringing them out and pointing both arms at Koneko, who was in a defensive stance, her emotion unreadable.

"Gaaahhhh!" I shouted, and on my arms slowly formed two… things.

On my left arm formed a red sort of armor covering over my hand, the fingertips claws. There was also a green gem on the back of my hand, and I could see a slight glow as an insignia glowed red.

On my right arm (yeah, I know the actual Divine Dividing isn't like this… but it's easier to do it like this) formed a white version of the one on my left, just unlike the red one, which went almost a fourth of the way to my elbow, this one barely went past my wrist. Also, I felt something come out of my back and break the school uniform on my back. I turned to my back to see two pure white wings, and winced a bit as my head throbbed. I slowly forced my left arms power into my back also, and sighed in relief when the wings slowly turned grey, then a bit red.

All of the club members stared in shock except Ria-Buchou, who merely raised an eyebrow. I turned my sights to Koneko, who was still in her stance.

"What do I do now?" I asked Buchou, since even though I felt stronger, I knew it was most likely a small boost.

"Concentrate. Your left side raises your power by shouting boost, while your left side can take power and add it to your own! It'll be easier to boost than to divide of course, and boosting gives more than dividing," Buchou stated, and I nodded back.

"Alright then, let's try this, BOOST!" I shouted once, and I heard a robotic voice repeat 'BOOST' before I felt my power surge. I stared at my red gauntlet, which was glowing red and had a brighter insignia on it.

"BOOST(X6)!" I repeated, raising my red gauntlet high above my head. I panted a bit, overwhelmed by the sheer amount of power I was now releasing.

In a sudden impulse, I flung myself at Koneko, and was shocked when she managed to hold her ground against me, as we struggled, our hands gripping each other as we tried to force each other back. I was even more shocked, however, when I realized that Koneko wasn't even breathing hard, which was impossible, as someone of her size couldn't hold so much strength.

"Try using Divine Dividing also!" Buchou shouted from the side. I nodded, and focused strength into my right hand, which was still gripping hers.

"DIVIDE!" I shouted once. I saw Koneko gasp a bit when a white after-image of her faded and compressed, before shooting into me. I let out a breath of air as I felt the sheer amount of power I took from Koneko flow into me, before some shot out the back of my wings.

Suddenly, Koneko's push weakened, and mine grew stronger. I pushed her back, making her stumble a few feet before regaining her balance and stance. Together, we looked at Buchou, to see what to do now.

"Issei-san, now that you've used both of your sacred gear, test it out. Punch her, Koneko, defense only. Don't dodge," Buchou said to us. I stared at her for a moment, wondering if she wanted me to kill Koneko, before shrugging and shifting my weight to my knees and spreading my feet apart a bit, horizontally. Now, with my gauntlets at my hips, I faced Koneko in what can only be described as a ready horse stance.

I charged, hands up and defending my mid area, before I reached Koneko and punched first with my right gauntlet. When I made contact to her blocking arm, I felt a small amount of shock at her strength again. It felt like punching a wall. Before she could recover, I shifted my weight a bit and used my left arm, punching under her guard at her stomach, hitting so hard a bit of dust formed a perfect circle where I hit. This entire time, I was looking into Koneko's eyes, and when I hit her first directly at her arm, she looked surprised, but now, in the split-second we matched eyes, I saw in her eyes something I wouldn't forget for a long time. Fear.

Koneko flew twenty feet backwards into a tree, completely destroying the tree before hitting the one behind it and stopping, falling to the ground in a slump. The thick, ten-foot diameter tree trunk was cracked.

Holy shit. He. Is. Strong. He's going to be strong, not OP, mind, but strong. As a SPOILER for next chapter, it involves Asia.

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7/10/12: Revised this chapter a bit, thanks to reviewers Thanathos and Crazy Sasori… thanks.