Demon Duke Org

Chapter 3

Job, Games, and Training

Zen-Aku woke up fine the next morning, he was on the couch as usual and on the love seat on the other side of the coffee table was Asia asleep, Rias was in the shower going by the noise of running water that he was hearing, he softly got out of his 'bed' and walked over to the sink. Taking each piece of armor and washing it clean, this was his routine the entire time he was here and would probably be so for the next house as well, when he heard rustling, he knew that Asia had woken up and made it to the kitchen, "good morning Zen-Aku, or should I call you father."

That was another thing, the girls in the club have all unanimously decided to start teasing him regarding that he is now her father essentially, "I think you should just call me Zen-Aku in private and father in public, I'm not, nor will I ever be, use to you calling me father, or dad, or papa."

"Alright, Zen-Aku," Asia looked a little downcast at that, but he does not do fatherhood, he doesn't do friends, and the only reason he's going along with this is that he doesn't want to have to be on the run, just live alone and peacefully away from everyone, just play along for now.

"Good, you both are up," Rias said as she came into the kitchen with only a towel covering her form, "after you both shower and get ready we'll move your stuff into your new home," she went to the fridge and got some milk, then a glass to pour it into, "and I took the liberty to shop too."

Zen-Aku looked up from his armor at that and turned to her, it was obvious what she did, "let me guess, you got me more clothes to wear than just my armor, didn't you," she smiled, confirming her actions, "fine, did you at least pick a good request for our debut into the 'human underworld'."

He said with quotes around 'human underworld', that was the only thing they could call it and not beat around the bush, "yes, the Bratva is in town today, they've requested assistance with a job that would have more than one casualty more than likely, they already set up a meeting point." She handed him a slip of paper with an address on it, the place was close to the edge of town, as expected, "the meeting is set for eight tonight, I don't know when you'll make it back so be safe and don't get into any funny business, don't need you getting hurt."

"I'll be fine, probably just be a small hit using me instead of their own guys to make sure that their casualties are at a minimum, or essentially non-existent, most I'll face are some guns and possibly one or two knife to sword specialists," Zen-Aku guessed as he finished with is armor.

"You seem to know a lot about what this 'human underworld' would entail for work, is there a reason for that," Asia asked innocently with a tilt of her head, of course the duke org kept the fact that it brought up some memories for him hidden and they had no idea about it.

"Devils are only seen as dark creatures but the fact that you don't deal in this type of work is proof that you're not, but my kind is quite different, no matter the breed or context, my kind are always made for the dark, we instinctively know more than you do concerning this subject," he said.

"Well that is quite interesting to know," Rias said as she finished off her milk, "by the way, I need you to know something," Zen-Aku raised an eyebrow at her, barely able to be seen through the mask, "because you're the Red Dragon Emperor I'm not sure if the status transfer will be granted. Let me give you the reason as why before you start growling," he was about to growl, but decided she should at least tell him why before he did, "the red dragon is one of the two heavenly dragons, they interrupted the great war and everyone had to unite to stop them and seal them. The sacred gear that you have hold's its soul, so it would be a huge advantage for us if you're a devil, more so if you're a devil servant under someone rather than on your own, but we also need to keep you happy so you don't turn on us, so it's a roll of the dice on your request results."

Now Zen-Aku growled, being this Red Dragon Emperor is sounding it'll be more of a hassle then needed, if only he didn't have to be a devil and could be just a duke org, only in his dreams, "fine, but I have yet to ask when the results will be in, I've yet to hear anything about its status."

Rias sighed, hoping to avoid this particular conversation, "in truth, your case would be determined by a committee of devil elders, a council of judges to judge if your kind are on par with a duke devil, and after that the final decision will be left up to the four satans, two I know personally."

"I know that one is your brother, this Sirzechs Lucifer, formerly Gremory, but what about the other one that you know, how do you think these two would decide," he asked in hope of getting some information, it wasn't every day that you learn of a possible satan to help your cause.

"She's… eccentric, she's the satan in charge of foreign affairs and does quite well at it considering she's also a huge sis-con like my brother who tries to come off cool, but Serafall doesn't let her rank go to her head, in fact she's a bit childish and cheerful, bringing smiles to everyone. She's actually the older sister of Sona Shitori, you might not have known this but her real name is Sona Sitri, the next head of the Sitri clan since Serafall is now the satan Leviathan," Rias informed and he nodded his head in acknowledgment and to show he was listening. "Serafall will more than likely view this as a good opportunity to keep the Boosted Gear in our hands so to keep you happy would vote yes, my brother on the other hand is far more unpredictable in his voting, he could say such a dangerous element needs to be watched or agree with Serafall."

"So either way you look at it I only have one almost vote for yes, and even that is an if because she's too unpredictable herself, right," Zen-Aku asked and got a regrettable nod in confirmation, "not to mention you have no idea how the others will vote, meaning it'll still be a coin toss."

"True, and after all is said and done it will take about two to three months before we get the results back, in that time to make a good name for yourself, you should complete as many pacts as you can, alright," Rias said with a bright smile, he left the room to prepare for tonight.

That night

Zen-Aku was in the club room ready to go through the portal as soon as it was set up, this would be their first glimpse as to what it's like in the true back alleys, dark corners, and the true underground of the human world, first step to that was to go through the Bratva, figuratively. It should be relatively easy to complete this job, more than likely start him out on something light and then let him work his way up into more dangerous jobs, that would at least get his blood pumping and give him some good exorcise and help train up his skills.

He really needed it too, today he got a glimpse at what his life will be like for a while, it wasn't at all what he wanted or liked, it was helping Rias and Asia move into his and Asia's new house, it was so noisy, they couldn't do anything in silence and always had to talk or make loud noises. The house wasn't anything special, just a generic house that looked a lot like Issei's, but a little bit bigger with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, two lavatories, a state of the art kitchen, standard living room with newest model television, basement, and finally an attic. After everything was moved and the rooms were reorganized just the way they wanted, his room at least which was the master bedroom, he got to see just what was in the walk-in closet that held what Rias bought, it was all black with dark gray or navy blue mixed in as well. There were business suits for official meetings, two tuxes, more casual clothing such as a few t-shirts, black cargo pants, shorts, jeans, and sweatpants, his footwear consisted of two pairs of dress shoes, one black and one brown, three sets of sneakers, and five pairs of black boots.

Then came a little surprise for him, Rias actually made several copies of his armor and had them put in a secret back panel of the closet, though there were also a few other armors that he was sure she put in just to mess with him, for instance, one looked like a knight-ranger highbrid (Koragg). One was like a black and gold lion based armor (Daishi), he didn't know how he was supposed to feel about that, maybe she decided to add that as a little bit of dog vs cat humor, or canine and feline humor as it were, but regardless it wasn't really a good joke at all. Then there was the one that looked like a black knight starting to go bald (Zeltrax), though it came with a shield like the wolf-knight armor did, it didn't look like a good design though and it looked like it had an ax with this one, as well as a sword, but he preferred his own weapon. The final armor was different compared to the others, this one held a shark as the base animal design with a serrated-like sword as its main weapon with the body armor taking the form of a ninja based warrior as the basic design (Vexacus), he didn't like this one either.

Zen-Aku asked Rias about that and she said that it was probably nice to have different armor to put on, instead of relying on the same set every time, he should change up and that way they could throw their enemies off balance with different styles of armor that might help him. He responded with a scoff, if he wanted something like that then he would have made it himself, he didn't tell her this of course, just scoffed and began walking away to finish rearranging his room to his liking, it was full of black and dark gray, though there was some silver as well.

"The circle's ready Zen-Aku," Rias broke him out of his thoughts, he focused on why he was here, for a job, "do me proud and make a good pact with the Bratva, let them know what the house of Gremory is all about," as if he would do that, stepping through he changed into his human form.

The room he found himself in was well lit, door and windows covered up and not letting any light in or out to ensure the secrecy of the place and meeting, finely furnished surroundings and a man sitting on a chair was what met him, that and a good dozen men with guns trained on him. He put his hands up and spoke clearly, "my name is Zen-Aku, I came here on behalf of Rias Gremory, I have a meeting with the Bratva boss in charge of the group, you requested someone to help with a job," a man stepped out from behind one of the lamps covering him.

He was relatively small compared to the others in the room, but he presented himself as though he was taller than them, "forgive the show of aggression, they have been on edge since they heard you were coming," his accent was heavy, but said as clearly as one might expect. "My name is Anatoly Knyazev, I'm the Pakhan of the Solntsevskaya Bratva, meaning I'm like the godfather if that helps any," he walked over to the duke org and stretched out his hand to shake, Zen-Aku took it while watching the others in the room.

"Why would the Bratva send a godfather to meet with a devil when a considerably lower ranking official would do," Zen-Aku stated as the Russian mobster led him to a set of seats for them to sit down and talk, he followed and set in one while making sure to keep track of everyone else.

"Awe, you misunderstand something, or have been misinformed, we did not come just to meet with you, this job that we require of you is no small thing, I was sent to lead what was to happen and it was left to my discretion as to who I use while we're here," Anatoly stated from his seat.

"Then this job requires at least a dozen men to get done while having an overseer to make sure it goes off smoothly, what exactly would this job entail that you would rather someone like me do it instead of your own men," the duke org asked leaning back a bit in his chair.

The Russian sighed as he also leaned back, "you see, the Bratva is a brotherhood, a family, and anyone who betrays their family needs to be punished severely, that is what needs to happen, a ten person group betrayed the rest of the brotherhood and has defected here, Kuoh, Japan. Did so in hopes of staying off the grid long enough to get their bearings and probably help figure out what to do next, we were originally going to kill them and the expected result was going to be minimal casualties on our side, all on theirs."

"Now you don't have to though, because you've heard of the introducing of deals that are fine with black market dealings and something like me taking the brunt of the attack and attacking in return will leave your side with no casualties, correct," Zen-Aku asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, you are correct, but we do have our reason for using you as well, there may be need to use you more in the future, there might also be a need to give your name and give references to others, so this will let us see how well you do, as a stepping stone you might say." Anatoly stated as he looked to a window as if looking out it, "normally we would call someone in America who owes me a favor, but we're not on speaking terms as of late so the only option of keeping the lives of my brothers safe is you and what you might be able to do."

"Then the only thing left to do is discuss payment," now was just business, no more information gathering about his client or his target, "for a usual fee, my group would usually suggest a modest payment in money or an item of equal value to the job that is to be done, your offer?"

The Russian smiled at the duke org before motioning with his hands and one of the Bratva grunts brought in a long case, long enough to fit a sword inside, and when the grunt put it on the table between them and opened it up, that's what it was, a sword that gave off a holy feeling from it. "This is a holy sword that my people have acquired, it was once stolen from the Vatican and through numerous back market deals found its way to my care, I know not of the legend that it is from, but as you can no doubt feel, it is undoubtedly an authentic sword," Anatoly informed.

Zen-Aku could feel the holy aura coming from it, no doubt that it was a holy sword, and if they could send it back to the Vatican somehow, that might help to foster good relations with the church, "this will be sufficient payment for what you require, where are they, I'll finish it alone."

"Are you sure you do not wish to have backup, it would be more useful if you had more people to watch your back," the duke org just shook his head and stood from his seat, "if you're that sure, here is the location, just know that pride can be ones own downfall as well," he stuck out a piece of paper. Zen-Aku took the offered piece of paper and didn't even wait for anything and just left via the door, he took a quick glance at the location and realized he knew the place, a warehouse on the other side of town, not very secret warehouse either, everyone knew it was a shady place.

When he got to the location he saw the place, it was a long building with windows close to the ceiling, an industrial size door, and now had a light coming from those usually dark windows, this was going to be easy, he just snuck in through the back without a sound and crept through it. He didn't make a sound as he weaved his way through the numerous hallways in the large building until he came to the main area for loading and unloading various goods, he immediately shadow phased over everything and appeared on the rafter looking down at what he saw.

It was the people that defected from the Bratva sitting around with their guns at ready in case the other group made their move, some were eating, some were playing cards, but they all looked ready to jump into a fight at a ready's notice, but too little too late as the saying goes. With a burst of shadow phasing he arrived in between the two playing cards and while they were shocked and before giving them time to react, took his claws and slashed at one's throat and before slamming his foot into the throat of the other one and crushing his wind pipe. He shadow phased again back to the railings as the others went to check on the two he just took out, none of them were covering the other's backs, just gathered around the dead men, so he took advantage of that and phased to stand behind one of them, looking over his shoulder.

When the man in front of him finally turned he jumped from being scared before he realized he didn't even recognize the duke org, he already had an upward palm strike to his throat and with a quick circling around, a hard knee to the right spot on his back where his spine snapped. Zen-Aku jerked the man in front of him and let him get riddled with bullets before using his human shield to approach the other men taking his right hand and coming under the left arm of the dead shield to grab the barrel, he swung it around and as the corpse dropped, so did the other guy. Since he did get a swift trigger imbedded into his temple and everything, but the guy didn't drop all the way because the duke org jerked the gun again and made the barrel slam into the opposing guys crotch where he let a girly scream, and as he hunched over was met with a hand.

The hand clutched at his face before vaulting over him and with a quick pull, snapped his neck killing the man, by now the others had reloaded though so their response was obvious to begin shooting again, but now Zen-Aku had another meat shield that took the attacks. He moved the body as they shot and with a quick shove had the dead body fly into two more defectors and making them tumble to the ground, the other four standing out of ammo and decided to go fist to fist until the other two got up to make it six against one.

Two approached him and one tried to kick him while the other one went for a jab, Zen-Aku just grabbed the leg and used it to block the jab from the other guy before taking his own leg and kicking away the other man and making him fly backwards into a crate that he got lodged in. He swept the leg out form under the guy whose leg he'd been holding and made him fall on his back before taking his clawed hand and slamming it through his throat, killing him and making the other two leap into action and lunge at him to throw him off balance. It didn't work since all he did in response was to charge back at them and at the last second, went right under their tackle and flip them over himself and land on their backs, he was about to pounce on them when the two he threw the dead body on before lunged at him. He kicked away the one on the right and grabbed the one on the left in headlock before slamming it on a metal beam that was close by, the recoil allowed him to lifting up the body with ease and slam him over his head and his back into the metal beam again, this time breaking his back.

The last two was ready with weapons, one on the left had a chain while the other had a large knife, Zen-Aku just stood there as the one on the left swung the chain at him and when the duke org brought up his arm to block it wrapped around it and the Russian traitor pulled. It didn't have the desired effect though, instead when the other man charged with the knife, he was met with a chain blocking the blade before the body attached to the chain came crashing into the him, the chain entangled them within its twisted form. Zen-Aku pulled again and this time both men were sent soaring into the air and over the rafter and hung from the other side, the chain entangled in such a way that it dug into their throats and squeezed the air from their lungs until they finally stopped struggling and hung there dead.

The last one left alive was crawling out of the crate he was still in, but when he didn't hear anything he looked up and saw that everyone else was dead, or close to it from blood loss, he soon turned pale himself at realizing what was about to happen, he was going to be killed. He scrambled to his feet and tried to flee, but the duke org was faster and grabbed the back of the coward's neck, with but a toss he was flung through the air and into his hanging fellow traitors, he quickly got up and tried to escape again, but this time he got a kick back to the hanging meat. This time he just began to rise slowly until he was standing fully and looking at the amber eyes of his soon-to-be murderer, Zen-Aku just bent down and picked up the knife that the other guy was carrying and tossed it in the air before catching it at the handle, he did that two more times. Then without warning through it straight and hit the coward in between his eyes and killed him instantly, everyone was dead now and his mission was complete, he didn't have to stay in this dreadful place any longer, so he left with his shadow phasing power and headed back.

It didn't take him long and when he arrived back, he was met with everyone looking at him wide eyed as if he just did the impossible, "my friend, you just executed ten people without taking much time at all, I think you just set a new record," Anatoly stated in shock from his seat.

"I'm not one to waste time on things," Zen-Aku stated as he walked calmly to where the case was and opened it to make sure of the contents before closing it to look at the Russian, "why are you paying me with this anyways, surely you have actual money that you can afford to pay in."

"True, but for what you have done, the symbolic nature is just as powerful, plus we have no use for the sword, we can't use it and the only reason we held onto it was to find someone who can send it to the right area of the Vatican, something we don't have contacts in," was his reply.

"Then I'm done now, I'll take my leave and let you go home," he picked up the case and began walking to the exit, he stopped when he was about to leave and looked back, his amber eyes accented by the moon, "be sure to spread the word, Zen-Aku is ready for work," with that he left.

A few days later

To say that Rias was happy was quite the understatement, apparently there were two good things to come out of this little arrangement, Asia was a natural at making pacts, apparently helping out someone else and then having Rias along to make sure things went okay for another request. Rias was also delighted to know that the job that Zen-Aku went on would lead to more jobs that would then lead to even more jobs, but this first job resulting in a nice form of a peace offering to the church had her bouncing form her seat, almost ran up to him to hug him to death, she didn't. This resulted in praise from everyone, and a bit of mention of irony from Koneko at how they obtained a holy sword straight from the Russian mob, though the only one not in the know was Kiba, Rias told them all not to mention this to him, apparently he had a past with them.

Every now and again though, Rias began staring out the window or in a random direction and looked to be lost in thought, so lost in thought that she often stared blankly at the same spot for hours at a time, a few times he thought about asking Akeno why that was, but decided against it. School life for Asia was going well, and when the subject of parents came up, she told the story she was instructed to, her mom died when she was young and her dad, Rouki Argento, moved to Japan to further her education and for him to continue working, he works from home.

Speaking of school, Issei's friends, secret crushes, and parents all received a letter from him and now, from the depths of their own idiotic minds, have come up with a theory that he has been kidnapped and is being dragged along, forced to do whatever his captor has ordered him to do. They were now all dead set on finding out what happened to him, even going so far as to try and set traps for anyone who might want to kidnap them just so they might have a chance to see him again, while the boy's parents were going through the police, but with no such luck on that end.

For now though, everyone was gathered in the club when Rias popped a creature into existence, it was a pink ball with cat ears and bat wings, a pointed arrow tail and pincers for hands, "this is my familiar Zen-Aku, I believe you two have met each other, back when you were Issei."

The bat turned into the girl that he remembered seeing that gave Issei the flyer, "I've got one too of course," Akeno mentioned before summoning her creature on the floor with a square circle, it was a green and short thing that looked like a walking cactus, it seems they're starting a mission.

"This is Shiro," Koneko stated while holding a white cat and he noticed how everyone else was just staring at what was about to happen, they looked disappointed when they realized that all they were going to get was him nodding on so that Kiba could introduce his own familiar.

"Kiba, you can show yours now," Rias started before there was a knock on the club doors, "come in," was called and entered the school council president, Sona Shitori, also known as Sona Sitri, along with the rest of her peerage, they were all eyeing the one monster in the room wearily.

"So that you're caught up Asia," the mentioned girl squeaked, "the one in the middle is Sona Shitori, the student body president, and the girl with the glasses behind her is Tsubaki Shira, and if I'm not mistaken, the others are members of the student council," Zen-Aku informed.

"Hello Sona, what can I do for you," Rias asked, as politely as she could of course, childhood friends and all that, but they were all interrupting something that she felt long overdue with Zen-Aku, and Asia really needed the help to cover for her lack of combat experience.

"Nothing, I just wanted to congratulate you on increasing the number of your servants and to introduce my news member," Sona casually mentioned while still eyeing the duke org that was once human, "Saji Genshirou, my pawn," Sona introduced the pawn with pride in her voice.

"This is my pawn, Zen-Aku," cue a little growl form the mentioned duke org, " and my bishop Asia Argento," Rias introduced with pride on each of her pieces, though she did notice how the duke org still growled at being a pawn but didn't seem to mention anything, maybe he was learning.

"Ha, I think you hurt dog breath's feelings when you called him a pawn, but let me tell you some news, you and your gaggle of slutty sluts don't deserve to be in the same room as distinguished devils like the Sitri's," Saji stated as if he was any better then a flea to the duke org.

"I suggest you stop talking," Zen-Aku said as he channeled some of his org energy and brought out his crescent blade and appeared behind Saji with the blade at his throat, "I'm not in the mood to handle small boasting form someone not worthy of my time," he appeared where he was before.

"Awe, he's mad, and thinks I'm afraid of him, not even gay prince charming over there can protect you from me, I took up four pawn pieces bro," Saji boasted arrogantly, but then he obviously didn't know how many pieces the duke org had taken, though neither did said duke org.

"You might wanna check your power rating, in truth Zen-Aku took up eight pawn pieces, two of which turned from regular pawns to mutation pieces, I'm sorry if this puts you in a bind," Rias said in a not really sorry kind of way, the look on the kid's face was priceless, just that funny.

"My apologies, he's young, I hope you'll forgive his youthful naivete, newbies don't always appreciate the finer points of civility, do they," Sona said calmly, "though when last we spoke you failed to mention just how much power it took to reincarnate someone such as this duke org."

"My apologies for that, I wasn't sure how to tell you exactly, but it seemed like it finally came about when your pawn unknowingly insulted my pawn," Rias said in another not really sorry tone, though if you payed attention there was an underlining hint of some sympathy there.

Sona looked expectedly at Saji and he moved to hold out his hand, to Asia for her to shake, which led him to enthusiastically get in her face, "hey, you sure you're not an angel, cause I'm pretty sure you just fell down from heaven," he was actually flirting using that line, what an idiot.

Though Zen-Aku was having none of that as he appeared behind him again and put a hand on his shoulder and began to squeeze, "if you're going to be hitting on her, at least do so when we're not about to discuss business," he let go of the vice grip and the boy had to rub the pain from it.

Despite knowing how many pawns Zen-Aku took, Saji still had his pride and refused to back down from a fellow pawn, "and what's it to you bitch face, I bet you're still on flyer duty, I don't do lame shit like that because I'm part of the team, getting a familiar and everything, bitch."

That is when it must have dawned on Sona about something, as did Rias, Zen-Aku saw both looks and knew what was about to happen, "wait a minute," everyone looked to him, "let me see if I can guess this correctly, the familiar process has a number restriction doesn't it."

"I wouldn't say number restriction, but the familiar master only takes people once a month, and by that I mean a peerage of course, no more than one at a time," Sona informed and it was obvious what was going to have to happen for them to be able to get one.

"In that case, why don't we have a friendly little contest to sort this whole thing out," Sona raised an eyebrow at what Rias could possibly be implying, "I don't mean a rating game, we'd never get permission for that, I mean settle this the high school way, with sports."

"Might as well, beats doing nothing all day, and since it is mainly involving me, Asia, and Saji, why don't the three of us all have a little two on one sports match, any sport he chooses" Zen-Aku stated as he began walking past the crowd that was in the room, "but be prepared to lose."

A day later

Zen-Aku was in the gym, he was in somewhat comfortable attire for light workouts, namely a black tracksuit, apparently the boy didn't want to fight just two on one, so it turned out that it became a peerage versus peerage dodge-ball match, and everyone was getting ready for it. "They outnumber us by two people so I've asked the extras to be a referees," Rias said before looking at Zen-Aku, "I don't know if you remember but to play, you grab a ball, aim it at the Sitri team and hit them right in the face," she was tossing a yellow and black ball to Kiba.

"Asia picked it up in no time, I'm sure you can do it too," Kiba commented as said bishop was stretching with Akeno by the queen bending the bishop forward to the floor and touching her feet, Zen-Aku just leaned against the stage with his arms crossed and watched as the others stretched.

"I don't need any lessons on how to play a child's game, I'm more insulted that the other pawn refused a challenge of a one on one fight to try and give him the bigger advantage, such a sad excuse for a man," Zen-Aku's insult to Saji didn't go unnoticed by the Sitri air though.

"Ready to rock and Roll," Sona asked as the opposing team came into view of everyone, all dressed in gym gear looking as intimidating as an apple pie, to Zen-Aku at least, no doubt the others will view them as a real challenge and but the duke org doubted he had to try.

They all got ready and in position for a game of dodge-ball, a blue haired girl on the other team had the ball, in an instant, she threw it and made it go straight for Koneko, only for Zen-Aku to grab it out of the air with one hand, he wasn't going to just wait for the ball to come to him. No, he was going to make sure nobody had a chance to attack him and completely show why they shouldn't mess with a duke org, the girl was so surprised that someone caught the ball that she didn't see the ball collide with her face and send her several feet back.

Tsubaki had the ball now and she threw it at Rias to get a head start, thing was, it was magically enhanced, so when the ball was again intercepted by the duke org, he gained a lot more respect from the Sitri team than he realized before he began to decimate the other team. Rias and her peerage tried as hard as they could to get a ball through catching it or grabbing a ball lying somewhere, but they were beaten to it by Zen-Aku who literally just stole it right from in front of it before decimating the entire Sitri team, it was a complete slaughter. When magic was introduced it became worse, magic was flying around everywhere and the only thing anyone on the Gremory team could do was watch as the duke org became a one man army catching ball after ball until the other team was just utterly defeated. He showed so much ferocity that Akeno was licking her lips with a blush on her face, Koneko was starting to get scared of what was going on, Asia was cuddling with her and off to the side, Kiba stared on wide eyed a the animosity, Rias, while impressed, was more concerned for the other team. The very last strike was after Sona sent a magically enhanced ball trying to strike at Zen-Aku's nuts, this turned out to be a big mistake as in the next minute, the duke org just held the ball in his hands and with a mighty throw, Saji was the one that was hit with a shot to the balls.

"A deal's a deal Sona, since we beat you, we get first pick at the familiars," Rias stated while the rest of the student council was leaving the gym, they were filled with bruises and sore spots from the utter humiliating pounding that they had just gone through, some sporting black eyes.

"As much as I hate to lose, I know when to admit it, but you should learn control," Sona admitted before turning to the duke org who showed no regret. "although, if this had been a rating game and not us just fooling around, there's no way you could have beat me," she said with confidence.

"You really think so, well I guess we won't know for sure until we actually play the game, but it'll be a while until we have to worry about that," Rias said back with some of her own confidence, this just showed her again how right she was in making Zen-Aku her pawn.

"Don't be so sure Rias, you never know what's coming up," Sona stated as she began to walk away to her peerage and leave so that Rias's peerage could celebrate, but she was sure to keep an eye on that duke org form here on out, that monster was a real brute here, and in combat.

Familiar forest

A few days later and they were all in the familiar forest, "who wants me," a man's voice shouted, they all looked up in a tree and saw a guy in brown cargo shorts, white tank top, and a blue backwards hat with red hair sticking out from the whole in the supposed to be back. "The master of the familiar, aka, Zatouji, if you've come to find familiars galore, you've come at the right time, that's for sure, the full moon is out to help you decide and I'll be the one to act as your guide," the guide almost recoiled at seeing Zen-Aku though, what a wimp.

"If you can't tell, Zatouji's way obsessed with making things rhyme," Akeno mentioned to the two new devils on the block, this was going to be more trouble than it was worth in Zen-Aku's opinion, but as long as he gets some possible added strength from this, it'll be a bit more bearable.

"Now how can I help you, tell me all your wants and desires, a strong one, a fast one, one that likes to set fires," Zatouji said in a rhythmic way, "perhaps a savage one that overpowers your foes and lets you ravage your bitch whores," that was obviously towards the duke org.

"I do not need something so disgraceful, what I require is a familiar that is good for support, power is not my issue but if I have to one, I'll need on that can have healing properties or possibly a riding affinity," Zen-Aku asked, that way some of his own power could be saved.

" That does makes sense, but I'd like one really cute and fun to be around," Asia mentioned since Zen-Aku got to tell what he wanted, she figured she'd give it a go, there was no harm in asking for something and see if they had one, and to be honest this was fun for her.

"Fun, done and done," Zatouji obviously liked the female population more than anyone else, given how Zen-Aku was not answered, they began walking and came across a lake that held a kind of power, "this lake is awesome, righteous and right, at the bottom you'll find magical sprites."

"Hm, as I recall, sprites are water creatures, one's that are able to breath in both water and air, sometimes even fly," the duke org said and everyone turned to him, "huh, Issei had an extensive knowledge of any type of creature he thought might be sexy, some of it is quite useful."

"Here we go, looks like a sprite is about to show," Zatouji said, the lake began to light up in the center, a beefy looking creature came out and gave a man's scream, "take a look, that's off the hook, undines water sprites, with megawatt power, a familiar like that would make your enemies cower."

"I'm both appalled and intrigued at how different the sprite is compared to what the boy has seen, or that the fact that a sprite could be a male, but I'm not going to judge him," Zen-Aku stated again, only this time got one shock of a lifetime when the familiar master decided to speak.

"Not he, sorry but this he's a she," Zatouji informed and the duke org just stood there for a second before turning to walk away, the familiar master quickly catching up to him and then ahead of the group, that thing being a woman is not at all what he saw, what a place this was.

They continued walking after that, "that sprite back there, she had really kind eyes, even though she's tough on the outside, I can tell she has a good heart," Asia commented, as they all walked, there was one thing you couldn't say about Asia, she doesn't know how to insult anyone.

Zatouji stopped before he spoke, "oh my, look high," they did and saw a small and blue dragon-like creature there, "cute but dangerous too, when they get angry, they have the power to shoot a lightning that's blue," the other looked amazed at what they were seeing.

"Hey, that type of dragon is really rare, isn't it, I think this is the first time I've ever seen one," Rias commented as well, it wasn't every day that you see a dragon of any sort so of course they would be a little amazed, but to Zen-Aku it just looked to be a waste to him.

"Do it now if you want this one claimed, once these dragons grow up, they can no longer be tamed," Zatouji advised wisely, still being annoying about it, but to be honest about it, this creature might just fit with Asia a lot more than it would with the others, she needs combat help.

"Zen-Aku, since you possess the power of the red dragon emperor, that sprite might turn out to be a pretty good fit," Akeno suggested, clearly she didn't remember what he said about wanting something that he could ride or be used as support only, he doesn't need the small power.

"Actually I think it would be a better fit for Asia since she needs the power boost more than I do, and as I said, I just need one for support," Zen-Aku said and began to walk away, but stopped when he heard Asia scream, he turned and saw a slime covering her and starting to fall on the others.

Zen-Aku honestly didn't know what to do, the perverted slime was eating away at their clothes, but only the girl's clothes, it got on Kiba's eyes and tried to go for his own, but with a swipe of his crescent blade, it was obliterated in an instant, but he knew he couldn't do the same with all of it. So he turned and listened to the screams of the girls as the clime fell on them and ate away at their clothes as Zatouji explained the slime, "eating off clothes is the random power of this weird slime, fun for a while but in the end, a complete and utter waste of time," that is so true.

Eventually the others got free and with a loud crack of thunder, the blue dragon from before got the slime off of Asia, with a quick shot of destruction, lightning, and brute strength, the slime was gone and a moment later, "you can turn back around Zen-Aku, we're fully clothed." He did so and saw that it was true, "aw, the sprite dragon used his blue lightning too," the sprite dragon flew around a few times before landing on Asia's shoulder, he heard Koneko mutter that the blue dragon was dope, but at least Asia got a familiar.

"Sprite dragons don't attack unless they believed their loved ones are in trouble, which in the familiar world mean that dragon and lovely lady should be together on the double," Zatouji stated while thinking out loud, which is good since this meant that now they could get the duke org one.

Asia began the spell, "in the name of Asia Argento and devils everywhere, I command you to accept this pact to be my familiar forever," when it was done the light died down and the sprite dragon was officially the ex-nun's familiar, and flue up to its new master's arms.

Zen-Aku began walking in a random direction to begin searching for his own familiar, Zatouji saw the direction he was headed in and paled instantly, "you don't want to head that way my man, that way is a dragon that takes the life out of every man, do you want to die my friend."

Zen-Aku looked back and saw the fear on the man's face, then looked at the direction he was headed for, until now he had been able to fight off any enemy that was before him, someone less experienced would go on with such a streak and test their luck, but the duke org knew better. So he turned back around and walked up to the familiar master, "then what do you suggest in way of," that was as far as he got as a loud howl brought their attention to a large wolf on a cliff, it was quite large, main body was pale blue and mane was white with a star on its face. Thought, that wasn't what drew Zen-Aku's attention, what drew his attention was the goldish-brown horn that protruded from its forehead, almost as if it was a duke org himself, but in a full wolf form, oh, and he was now charging for the duke org now, wonderful.

"That there is a direwolf, wonderful creatures of immense size and stamina, too bad that they have a temper that is fowl making you wanna head for the hills with an ah," Zatouji said as the wolf got closer until eventually it looked like it was going to ruthlessly attack them.

Just as the direwolf was about to stab Zen-Aku, the duke org himself landed a huge right hook on the beast and sent him slamming against a tree trunk, the wolf got back up and charged his horn with some kind of black lightning, and bowed his head to aim the horn before it shot out. The duke org put his hand in front of his face as if absorbing power from his own horn before shooting out his hand and from it came his own purple org lightning, the two lightnings met and exploded around the area, but when the smoke cleared neither was harmed. So the direwolf charged for the duke org and they both humped up to deliver a mighty blow to the other, but since Zen-Aku was faster, his blow landed first on the side of the direwolf's head and sent it crashing back down to the ground creating spiderweb cracks in the ground.

"Do you yield yet," Zen-Aku asked the direwolf as it laid on the ground and struggled to get back up until it stood fully on shaky legs, but with a glare from the duke org and the wolf's head bowed in submission to the one that beat it, and getting the rest of the club to become more impressed.

"Never thought I'd see the day when a direwolf was beaten, I thought for sure we may have about to have been eaten," Zatouji stated while scratching his head, not every day that someone is able to beat a direwolf into submission with just two blows, usually takes a lot more.

Zen-Aku began to perform the ritual, the green squares spun in place under the wolf, "in the name of Zen-Aku the duke org and devils everywhere, I command you to accept this pact to be my familiar forever," the glowing squares glowed one more time before coating the wolf and fading.

"Good, now you guys have familiars, a sprite dragon and a direwolf," Rias said happily to her servants as Asia held her sprite dragon and Zen-Aku pet his direwolf on the side of his mane, "let's head back to the club, we still have things to go over on how to summon them there."

"Very well, but after that is done we will need to start on some training, I've been putting this off for too long," Zen-Aku stated as he rose and walked to the others with the direwolf following him, "I don't know how well I'll be able to teach you since I've never done so, but I'll at least try."

He began walking, with the rest following him, until they were in a clearing and they teleported home where they were taught how to summon their familiars from the forest they just came from, it was a simple spell that anyone could use once they get a grasp on the concept of magic.

A day later

They were all in the clearing behind the clubhouse and Zen-Aku was facing the gathered peerage like he was a general commanding troupes, they were all in their P.E. gear, except for Zen-Aku, he was in his armor like usual and about to start teaching them how to properly fight, but first. "In order to fully grasp what each of you can do, I want each of you to attack me with your full ability, whether it is with a sword or with magic, hold nothing back and attack as if you're trying to kill me, because I'll be doing the same, first up is Kiba, after that will be Koneko, Akeno, then Rias." Ordinarily Rias would argue against such a thing, but the duke org already had a talk with her, the best way to get a grasp on someone's power is to have them try and kill you, and the best way to gain experience for combat is to have someone try to kill you, she couldn't argue back.

Kiba stepped forward while the others got back several feet and watched, Kiba pulled out a sword from nowhere and got into a stance, it was full of holes that he must have failed to notice, but Zen-Aku did which was the boy's first mistake, you should never let your enemy know your flaws. Kiba rushed forward intent on a head on strike at top speed to throw the duke org off balance, that was another mistake, because now he knew the direction the boy was coming from, and with already seeing his speed, it was easy to time it to catch his blade, which is what he did. Ignoring the gasps of shock from the stands, and the moment of shock for Kiba, Zen-Aku brought the sword to his right side with a jerk, then continuing the momentum turning it into a spin, he brought his leg up and axe-kicked the blonde boy into the ground forming an imprint. The boy bounced though and when he was at the apex of the bounce, brought the same foot and harshly kicked the knight to the side of the field where he was stopped by a slamming his back into a tree, Asia then rushed to heal the downed peerage member.

"Remember this," the Gremory peerage heard the duke org begin harshly, "in every training you treat it as a real fight, he let a moment's hesitation get the better of him, don't let it happen to you," they all gulped as they just stood there frozen in shock, "Koneko, get over here."

Koneko got to the other side of the field as quick as she could, remembering what he said just moments before she got into her own fighting stance, fists held to her face and eyes focused, yet he wasn't getting in any fighting stance, yet full of openings, and still she was hesitant to attack. Eventually her impatience finally won and she attacked with all the fight she could muster, first was a right jab that he stepped out of the way of, then he leaned back to avoid the follow-up haymaker, she used the force of that to spin herself into a roundhouse kick that he ducked under. In the instant he ducked he brought his left fist up and planted it into her stomach before bringing up his right fist and delivering a right cross to her left cheek while following through with that momentum and turning it to a spin kick against the side of her head, making her ears ring more. She wasn't out yet though, but just as she brought up her fists he landed an uppercut on her jaw that sent her into the air some, he side kicked her before chopping the side of her neck hard and making her crash to the ground, then finally he grabbed hold of her and tossed her to the others.

"You're holding back while fighting," Zen-Aku voiced plainly while crossing his arms over his armored chest, "that is both insulting to me as a warrior and your trainer, I don't care what baggage you might have before you come before me, it's gone when you fight, Akeno is next."

Akeno licked her lips as she walked to the place the others started from, unlike the other two who specialize in close to mid-range fighting, Akeno was more long range, so more than likely she wasn't going to move too much from her spot, only use barriers as a defense against him. Judging by her posture it was true, she had a pleasant smile on her face while staring at him, from what he knew of her sadist side, she more than likely got off on watching him beat her fellow peerage members, yet she was ready to any well trained or seasoned warrior. So when she all of a sudden brought her hand up and lightning shot from just summoned magic circles, he was ready and dodged with expert grace by jumping to the side before running for her, she continued to fire more until he was about half-way to her before she changed things up. She summoned many different magic circles around him and simultaneously shot lightning from them all, however he was expecting that so he shadow phased to right in front of her, but the circles were still locked on, so they automatically turned and shot their lightning. He phased away and she enacted a barrier just in time to block the lightning, but because she had to focus there so briefly, he used that time to land a heavy right leg kick to her back before quickly moving back a little and letting the lightning strike her, shocking her system. After the strike swung his left leg and landed a heavy kick to her stomach, while she was hunched over he vaulted over her hunched form, his back rolling against her own, when he was on her right side he did a perfect side kick, sending her flying back to where Rias was.

Rias stood there with a shocked look, he got around Akeno's defenses and made it look so easy, then beat her using her own attack to do it, "never rely solely on magic when in a fight," she heard the duke org himself say, yet that was her and Akeno's strongest point, "Rias."

Despite her nervousness about it, she cautiously walked to the other side like the others, already trying to strategies a plan, he was experienced enough to find a way to counter each one of their moves because they'd let him see them beforehand, she was able to piece that together. Saw straight through Kiba's speed from having previously seen it when they took out that stray devil, knew that Koneko would have an advantage if she didn't attack first yet knew she would grow too impatient and make the first move, which he was able to capitalize on. With Akeno not able to faring any better, what was she able to do when she fights just like her friend, though he's not able to use her own magic against her like that, from the way he was able to take them on from only seeing their magic and abilities once was worrying. What was less worrying was the fact that she never showed him her magic, so the duke org knew nothing about what she was capable of, that brought a little smirk to her face, though it faded when she saw stand nonchalantly while barely facing her, as if she wasn't worth facing.

That pissed her off and bit and made her attack first, inadvertently falling right into his trap, she brought forth her power and outstretched her arms while doing so, destruction surged at her center before shooting out like a wave over to where he was, making his shadow phasing useless. It would be obvious to anyone after seeing it enough that his shadow phasing, while extremely impressive, isn't able to go through a wall of energy or a wall at all, just increases his speed out in the open while also making him unable to pinpoint, block the effectiveness of that and he's done. Sadly that also was part of her trap to do that, because while it did block his use of phasing it also blocked her view of him and let him do what he wanted, which is essentially just using his own org energy pumped into his feet and jump high into the air, with a faded moon at his back. It was close to dark out now as they chose to do this after school and close to when night was almost here since nobody would be at the school then, so the sight before Rias when he jumped and showed himself was both beautiful and terrifying at the same time. She was able not to show it though and acted instantly with a few shots of destruction, only to be surprised yet again when the duke org dodged out of the way in midair, then finally pulling something out, it was his dagger flute, he threw it expertly and it grazed her cheek as it landed behind her. She was so shocked that she turned around and when she turned back after realizing her mistake right away, only to see amber eyes staring back at her, she jumped back to get some distance, only to feel pain in her ankles, it was only then that she realized what the duke org did. He tethered his energy to his flute dagger and with it attached at the time he threw it, all he had to do was startle her and send her back to the dagger at the right time for him to concentrate enough to basically move the blade to cut at both her ankles, stopping her in her tracks.

Rias only had enough time to look up at him before she was met with a knee to the face, automatically knocking her out and making him victorious in a four to one gauntlet match, Zen-Aku just sighed at the lack of true fighting experience they had, "we have a long way to go."

A/N: The voting is coming along nicely, so far the rankings are, 1. Venalana-4 votes, 2. Serafall-2 votes, 3. Gabriel-1 vote, 4(putting her at number four because technically this is love interest voting but thought i should give her something for those votes). Tiamat-two votes for a big sister role, still not sure if i'm actually going to do that yet, 5. Ophis-0 points. Remember that you have until valentine's day to cast your votes, please do so by posting a review or PM me. Guest stars are Anatoly from CW's Arrow, and Ranga from That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime. Throwbacks to other seasons of Power Rangers were a nice little shout out to them, but let me know if you want him in one just for the fun of it once in a while.