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Level One: Tutorial and...a Transfer!?
2018 AD, Albany OR
"Thank you, Mrs. Orsborn, for giving us a tour of your school," a man that had hair that was blood red with green eyes said to Mrs. Orsborn who was a blonde woman who carried herself in a professional manner while a silver-haired maid walked behind them her eyes on the male as if watching for any kind of signal telling her that he needed something, as Mrs. Orsborn replied, "No, thank you for choosing our school for your foreign exchange program. Though you don't look Japanese, if you don't mind me asking, Lucifer-san"
The man known as Lucifer told Mrs. Orsborn, "Please just call me, Sirzechs, and I don't mind, truth be told I am not Japanese, it's just that my father owns an academy in Japan, but has a problem with a few students, but can't expel them without a really good reason, that and the academy in question has only been co-ed for almost two years now, so if he expels the students then the girls of the school may end up making false accusations just to make sure that the school is back to being all-female again, so my lovely wife suggested that he do a foreign exchange program and put the problem students in it."
"I hope you are not planning to give us this student, Sirzechs," Mrs. Orsborn said after hearing that statement. Sirzechs shook his head and said, "No, we are not, we are sending those students to Albany Options, your school is getting one of our students who has Asperger's Syndrome, since we have heard about your excellent program for such students." unbeknownst to the blonde principal, Sirzechs Lucifer was the ruler of the Underworld and had sensed someone at the school they were touring had a very powerful Sacred Gear and he wanted to secure the wielder for two reasons, one of which was to get his younger sister, Rias Gremory, out of her arranged marriage, and the other was so that he could have the wielder reincarnated as a Devil, so he was searching for the wielder using his senses while talking about the exchange program when Mrs. Orsborn said, "We have a student who is more than qualified for this program, he may have Asperger's Syndrome, but he's actually overcome many of the social challenges that are associated with it...ah! There he is now, let me call him over! Alexandre!" Sirzechs looked to see a tall, well-built, young teenager with brown hair that had streaks of red in it, and one brown eye and one emerald green eye which confused the Satan, but he knew that this kid was the wielder he was looking for, so he introduced himself, "Hello there, Alexandre, my name is Sirzechs Lucifer, and I wish to ask if you wanted to participate in a foreign exchange program?"
"I'm, Alexandre Christian Oeder, but you can call me Alex if you want to, and sure, the classes are way too easy for me, but I'm simply here for learning social skills, and making friends. Where is your school located! Lucifer, huh? What you fancy yourself the devil, or are you Satan here for my mortal soul?" Alex said in a knowing tone that Sirzechs and his maid who was his wife picked up on while Mrs. Orsborn chastised Alex for being rude to the school's guests though Sirzechs said that he was used to getting such a question about his last name as well as the jokes that came with it, but on the inside Sirzechs was shocked that the teenager in front of them knew of the Supernatural and was able to pick up on his race and title that fast, and that made him wonder if he would be a valuable ally, or a dangerous enemy. After regaining his composure he said that the school was located in Karakura Town which was in Japan, and Sirzechs could have sworn that he saw a dangerous glint in Alex's eyes after hearing that and smiling devilishly which made Sirzechs a bit scared even though he was a Devil.
After the tour Sirzechs and his maid/wife left the school and headed back to their hotel, with the maid asking, "Master Lucifer, are you sure about letting that teenager, Alexandre, in the same school as Mistress Gremory, your sister?"
Sirzechs said to her in an uncharacteristically serious tone that the maid had only seen twice in her life, once was during the Great War where his predecessor along with the other Satans died, and during the Devil Civil War where he became the Lucifer, "I'm sure about this, Grayfia. We need more Sacred Gear users and that teen was most definitely one, he might just be this generation's Sekiryuutei if his hair and heterochromatic eyes were anything to go by, but just in case, I'll ask Sona to keep an eye on him, and give me a detailed report of his supernatural encounters."
While Sirzechs and Grayfia were talking about Alex, he was talking to Ddraig and a man with black and gold hair, a goatee and dressed in gray sweatpants and a gray sweatshirt, while playing the Pokemon Trading Card Game, with Alex saying, "So Azazel, Sirzechs and Grayfia are in town." the man known as Azazel gave Alex a confused look and asked, "Really? Where and when did you see him?"
"He was at my school, talking about some sort of foreign exchange program for the school Zeoticus Gremory owns, he was surprised when I called him out on his race, of course in a way only those in the know would get. By the way, I use all four of my Team Plasma's Crobat's abilities," Alex said as he drew four cards from the top of his deck then he said, "Now I place my Virbank City Gym out." Azazel just sighed as he knew exactly what Alex was planning by playing that stadium card which added 20 damage to any Pokemon that got poisoned and that combined with his Crobat's Ultra Toxic Fang which does 40 damage, plus 40 more poison damage under normal circumstances he knew that he was finished and that he would lose, again, and said after the match, "Geez, Alex, you know that I hate all of the decks you make...then again it's my fault that I unofficially declared you my rival in this game, anyway moving on to the topic of Sirzechs's business in town and this foreign exchange program, did you get an offer as the American student to go to the school?" Alex nodded and said, "Yeah, I did. Also I think he is guessing that I am the Sekiryuutei of this generation. Oh, speaking of that, how's Vali doing? He's still not moping about how one-sided our last spar went is he?"
"Oh, Vali's fine, he immediately went after Bikou and beat the shit out of him after you left, also Raynare says hello and that you're more than welcome to make her your personal slave...don't know why my daughter wants a master/slave relationship with you, but whatever you have my blessing to have her," Azazel says as the two males pull out their 3DSs and Alex turns on Pokemon Ultra Sun and Azazel turns on Pokemon Ultra Moon so that they can battle each other. Azazel having a team that consists of Dawn Wings Necrozma holding the Ultranecrozmium-Z, Honchkrow with a Focus Sash, Pheromosa with a Muscle Band, Shiny Metagross (the event for the release of Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire) holding its Mega Stone, Porygon-Z with a Wise Glasses, and a Kecleon holding an Expert Belt. Alex's team consisted of a Shiny Mewtwo holding the Mewtwonite Y, a Shiny Yveltal holding a Big Root, a Dusk Form Lycanroc holding its Z-crystal, a Shiny Ursaring holding a Muscle Band, a Shiny Giratina holding the Gresious Orb, and a Shiny Silvally holding the Ice Memory, making it an Ice-type. Alex and Azazel met a couple years back, at the Pokemon World Championships where the two were competitors in both the card game and the video game portions of it, of course Alex won and Azazel was the runner-up, though after all the pictures, signatures, and the rest of the stuff that comes with placing, Alex told Azazel that he knew about the Supernatural and that he knew that Azazel was the leader of the Fallen Angels, and that led Azazel to move to Albany, Oregon as he had declared Alex as his Pokemon Rival.
2018 AD, Karakura Town, Japan
Sona Sitri, who was the heiress to the Sitri Clan of Devils, had just been called by the Satan, Lucifer to her surprise and delight as it was not her sis-con of an older sister who was the Satan, Leviathan, and when she heard that Sirzechs may have found this generation's Sekiryuutei she had a look of shock as no one knew who he was since he, or she, had been either hiding from the Supernatural, or hadn't awakened the Boosted Gear yet, which one she didn't know and also she didn't want to speculate on it either. When she asked him if he was going to be on the exchange program Sirzechs had said to her, "Yeah, he is, but when we met he called Grayfia and I out on our race in a way that didn't expose the Supernatural to the principal guiding us around the school, thus I decided to call you to ask if you would keep an eye on him and report any interactions he has with the supernatural, whether he knows what they are, or not."
Hearing about how Alex had known about Sirzechs being the current Lucifer suggested, to her at least, that he has awakened his Sacred Gear, and if Sirzechs was correct about Alex being this generation's Sekiryuutei, meant that he was able to learn more about the supernatural from the dragon himself which was a disturbing thought, so she agreed to do that after which the conversation ended and they hung up.
2018 AD, Portland, Oregon
After Sirzechs had gotten the exchange papers signed and approved by both the Japanese government and the American government, Alex and the student he was being exchanged for had gone out to get their passports and were about to meet up at the airport in Portland, of course Azazel had talked to Alex's parents saying that he had a piece of property in Karakura Town and was willing to let Alex live there for the duration of his schooling at Kuoh Academy with the promise that he would stay with Alex. Of course Alex's stepfather was a bit skeptical about Azazel and asked him how he knew Alex to which he asked if he had a World Championship deck from the year that Alex both participated in and won the event that was from the runner-up, which Alex's dad had a realization and said, "You were the guy that Alex had nothing but compliments for since you gave him a challenge!?"
"Yeah, that's me, the name's Azazel Grigori, and your kid is quite the strategist. I'm also the guy he mainly plays at the Pokemon League here in town after school, though that's mainly because I feel like I have to beat him after that World Championship loss I suffered at both the TCG, and the video games portion of it." Azazel said while introducing himself to the Burns family.
While Alex was waiting for the plane that would drop off his replacement and take him to Japan he decided to play around with his abilities and go to the Instant Dungeon Fallout to rack up some extra cash for his stay in Japan and complete the quest, Getting Started, so he mentally brought up the menu screen and brought up the ID section which displayed three options: Fallout, Tutorial, and Sanctuary. Curious about the second option, he selected that one and suddenly time around him stopped as the world around him slowly transformed into a castle-like structure and after the transformation was complete a strange Medival British voice sounded throughout the room he was in saying, "Hail, brave adventurer, you stand in the once great hall of the Knights of the Round Table! Right now though this sacred place is home to abominations created by the evil witch Morgana and her son, Mordred! Your quest is to rid the hall of these creatures and of the evil mother and son!" Once the voice was done speaking a notification popped up saying that a new objective had appeared which was grab the starting chest and begin the tutorial. Shrugging his shoulders at the easiness of the objective Alex looked around the room he was in for the chest and spotted it about ten feet to his right then walked over to it where his female In-game helper popped up and then explained how to open the chest and then gave him the key to the chest so that he could open it and get the starting equipment which was a suit of studded leather armor, an average shortsword, 10 health potions, and a map of the dungeon.
"Now that you have some equipment; it's time for you to learn how to equip your armor and weapons. First you need to bring up your menu..." the In-game helper said before Alex brought up the menu then allowed her to continue, "Now let's put on your new armor. From the menu bring up the equipment section..." the woman paused so that Alex could follow the instructions, bringing up the specified section before she explained the section and the next step, "Now this is the equipment section, which is different from the inventory section of the menu in the fact that you can only equip yourself with armor, weapons, and jewelery as well as check the bonuses that you have from the equipment you have currently equipped to you, please note that the Boosted Gear does not count as equipment in regards to the equipment slot or the maximum amount of weapons you can have equipped to you at one time, the same applies to your Zanpakuto when you receive it as both are an ability that you have. Anyway, to put your armor on you need to select your chest from the equipment slot." Alex does so then selecting the only option that came up. After doing so he received 5 EXP points and then the helper said to equip his sword, though the woman asked whether he was right-handed, left-handed, or ambidextrous, to which Alex chose right-handed allowing the woman to say that now all weapons will be equipped to his right hand automatically when doing so.
Sometime later the equipment and equipping tutorial was done with Alex now wearing the leather armor over his regular clothes which consisted of a grayish-brown t-shirt with the words Star Wars written like the old Atari logo and underneath that was written 'May the Force be with you!', blue jeans, white socks, and brown Romeo-style work shoes and holding the shortsword in his right hand. After swinging it around a few times to get used to the weight Alex went out of the room and ran into a very hideous looking creature that resembled a Feral Ghoul from the Fallout Series and briefly wondered if Morgana had used some sort of irradiation spell on innocent people turning them into the creatures that were now roaming the halls, but pushed those thoughts aside as he noticed that it hadn't noticed him yet though the In-game helper told him in his mind to cast Observe on the creature, which he did and saw its 'Profile' which read:
Undead Villager
Level: 1
HP: 10/10
Description: Just as the name implies, it's an undead villager that had his eternal rest interrupted by Morgana's necromancy. Basically it's weak to anything you can throw at it...yeah it sucks ass and is basically cannon fodder.
After reading the poor sap's profile, Alex decided to put it out of its misery and after sneaking up on it kicked its legs out causing it to fall on its ass and then stomped on its head crushing it and causing brain matter to go everywhere as well as stain his shoes. After several hours of rekilling the poor villagers that Morgana raised from the dead and looting their remains, finding mainly a few copper coins which were at least worth their weight in US Dollars if not more due to the age he was in, Alex finally found himself facing off against Morgana and Mordred the former saying in a condescending tone, "So you're the one that fool Arthur sent to kill me and my son, huh? Well, you'll die here and I'll send your head to Arthur as a present before I kill him!"
"I see. Well I won't die without a fight, you bitch of a witch!" Alex said before snickering at the terrible rhyme he had made while readying his blade and summoning the Boosted Gear as a precaution seeing as how he was fighting both a very powerful witch, and the knight who killed King Arthur even if it was a tutorial he knew that he was going to be in for one hell of a fight. Mordred made the first move by rushing towards Alex and making a large sweeping motion that he was able to parry causing the tratiorous knight to stumble backwards while getting a large gash across the face which went across both his eyes damaging them beyond repair which caused a message to pop-up saying, "Mordred is now completely blind! Mordred HP -50, WIS-1, Effect: Blind (the sufferer cannot see and suffers a -50% accuracy loss, unless they have the skill Blind fighting), Bleeding (The sufferer takes 10 points of damage for 60 seconds)" Mordred howled in pain as he put his free hand up to his eyes while swinging his sword wildly as Morgana threw a fireball at Alex, though it hit Mordred's sword causing it to melt and burn his sword hand reducing his HP by another 50 points while he bled out from his now destroyed eyes causing Morgana to glare at Alex and curse him for daring to hurt her son and ruin his eyesight to which Alex simply replied that it wouldn't matter if either one, or both of them could see or not as they were both going to die. Mordred after hearing that made a very stupid move and tried to charge at Alex attempting to burn him with the scorching hot metal slag that was once a sword but ended up running the wrong way and attacked Morgana instead burning her midriff as she launched a fire ball resulting in the two bosses to burn to death screaming curses at the Once and Future King and Camelot as a whole.
Out of that whole dungeon Alex earned a total of 500 EXP points which brought him up to level four and left him with 50/250 to level five as well as netting him 1,000 gold pieces which when placed in a bag weighed about 5kg or 11lbs, meaning that he earned several thousand dollars in gold just from the weight of it, possibly a bit more due to the era of the gold's minting. Alex also received the legendary Sword in the Stone from King Arthur which had the ability of being able to heal any allies it strikes while still being able to harm enemies. King Arthur also gave Alex Mordred's place on the Round Table.
2018 AD, Karakura Town, Japan
As Alex arrived at Azazel's house in Karakura, a round Shoji Door appeared in the skys above the town out of which emerged a short raven-haired girl with violet eyes and wore a black kimono with a katana on her hip as she looked over the city and said, "My captain had said that there were devils in this town, but for the imoutos of two Satans to be in the same town and several Fallen Angels as well just spells trouble and may reignite the Great War." The girl closed her eyes and said, "I can't let that happen. I'll contact my captain and ask if I should keep an eye on the two factions in addition to my primary mission to protect this town from Hollows."
Whew, finally got this chapter done! So, Alex and Azazel play Pokemon together, and Raynare wants to be in a master/slave relationship with Alex, much to his annoyance as he is not into that kind of stuff, and Sirzechs is a wee bit cautious about Alex, yet he's desperate to get Rias out of her arranged marriage with Riser that he is willing to have Alex be a foreign exchange student and hope that Rias convinces him to become a part of her Peerage, and Sona is going to be keeping tabs on him, what can possibly go wrong there? Until next time, stay cool and don't be a dick!