Kingdom Hearts DxD
Chapter 3
School on an Unknown World
The camera fades into a small angelic like room. In the middle is a blonde with 12 golden wings sitting in front of a marble desk. Next to this angel is one that could be described as the most beautiful women in heaven.
"Michael-sama, one of our agents sent us a recording of part of a fight between a Fallen Angel and a unknown heavily injured human that occurred in a demon's territory. He claimed the Sacred Gear used by the human and an emblem on the Fallen Angel's arm would be of importance to you." Gabriel informed as she activated some kind of magical display system.
"In whose territory did this occur?" Michael asked.
"I believe it is the territory under the jurisdiction of the Gremory clan heiress Rias Gremory." Gabriel answered.
"Feel free to start the video when you're ready." Michael said.
"Yes Michael-sama." Gabriel retorts.
Over the period of the next few minutes Michael and Gabriel saw nearly the entire battle between Jaxson and the unknown Fallen Angel Rayzel. They saw Rayzel easily deflect the fireball Jaxson launched, the technique Jaxon used to reflect Rayzel's spear of light, however the recording ends the moment that very spear of light clips a portion of her wings.
"It seems we have two potential problems." Michael mumbled as a serious look overtook his face.
"What do you mean Michael-sama?" Gabriel asks.
"Well I'm certain you recognize the seal on the Fallen Angel's left shoulder? That can only mean he is still alive. Gather all available Angels still with us that have had firsthand experience against him as well as those who have studied his actions immediately." Michael ordered.
"It shall be done, but what about the human male with the unknown sacred gear?" Gabriel inquired.
"Tell me has the Durandal and Excalibur users left for their next mission?" Michael asks in turn.
"At the moment they're gathering supplies." Gabriel answered.
"Then tell them that in addition to their current assignment they are to assess the wielder of this Sacred Gear." Michael ordered.
"It shall be done." Gabriel said.
I didn't know about this conversation until much later, but that was because I had to get used to the idea of being an amnesiac transfer student. I will apparently transfer in as a second year student at Kuoh Academy along with my "King" Rinako Seere or rather Rinako Amagi. The name change was for the sake of avoiding unwanted attention. Early the following morning, Rinako and I had snuck out of the Occult Research Club building to walk in a large circle around the neighborhood so as to again to avoid attention. At some point on our long walk we ran into Issei and Buchou, of which the four of us walked the rest of the way to school. Buchou and Rinako were standing side by side while Issei and I stood next to our respective Kings. The moment we walked through the front gate threw all of our earlier precautions out the window as the other students flocked to us as if we were celebrities. In seconds I would find out that one of us four was just that here.
"I don't believe it. That filth is still walking to school with Rias senpai." A bewildered female student said.
"Check out the girl next to her. She's like really hot." An unusually excited male student pointed out.
"I don't believe it but save for the different hair color, eye color, and difference in height she look exactly like the school's idol Rias!" a randomly shocked female student told her friends.
"She's really pretty in her own way too. I wonder if she acts like Rias senpai as well?" another random female student told her friends.
"I know right, but check out the guy next to her. He looks like so handsome." The first of many girls in my likely soon to be formed fan club points out.
"His oh so long dark brown hair, that loner atmosphere he gives off, and those eyes that seem to care little for the world around him make him look soooooo attractive." The second member of my likely soon to be formed fan club pointed out.
"I wonder if he's single." The third member of my soon to be formed fan club thought.
"Curse you handsome guys." Issei along with almost all the guys here thought for some reason fuming with jealousy and killing intent.
After overhearing several more comments that I couldn't hear or didn't really care about, Rinako and I walked into our assigned classroom. Perhaps by chance or rather by a certain red-head's design, Rinako and I were assigned to the same classroom as Issei, Kiba, and Asia. They we're all staring at us with the same amount of surprise as the other students. I don't know if that was because they were trying to sell our cover as transfer students or if they really didn't know we were assigned to this class. The teacher announced our presence and asked us to introduce ourselves moments after the bell rang. Rinako seemed unusually nervous in front of all these people so I decided to go first.
"My name is Jaxson Thomas, and as you can see I'm not Japanese." I tell the class.
"Can't you read the mood in the room? You should definitely say something more past your name and the obvious." Rinako tells me as she stomps on my foot due to on my part somehow angering her.
"I know that, however I felt a need to catch my breath before I continued speaking." I tell Rinako to reassure her, though I never actually had the intention of saying more past what I just said.
"Don't get snippy with me." Rinako said in turn as she became further annoyed by my last comment.
"Excuse me Jaxson was it? Is the other transfer student standing next to you your girlfriend?" one of the female students in the class asked.
"Ehh? No I assure you all that I don't have that kind of relationship with this person." Rinako almost pleads to the class as for some reason her cheeks turned red.
"Well there was the time that we….." I was trying to say before Rinako covered my mouth, and I'm certain you can figure out just what story I was going to tell.
"Don't you dare breathe a word." Rinako whisperers to me before removing her hand.
I will not deny the fact that I enjoyed to a degree Rinako's frantic reactions along with the reactions of the other students who got the wrong idea.
"My name is Rinako Amagi. Jaxson is a servant of my family who I had transferred here with me for my own convenience. I assure you our relationship is nothing more than that of a master and servant." Rinako tells the class.
"Oooooh, I wonder if the master/servant flag has already been set." I overhear one girl in the class mumble to her friend.
"I don't know, but something tells me getting closer to Jaxson is going to be difficult with Rinako here." The friend of that female student whispered back to her.
These last few minutes of conversation seemed to have eased some of the killing intent I sensed from the class, but unfortunately it was balanced out by the killing intent Rinako directed towards them. As school progressed for the day, I thanked the fact of the lack of a blood bath due to it being a short day today. Rinako told me she had some things to do so I decided to explore the school for a bit, but I didn't get very far before I found myself laying down on a comfortable hillside near the school's track and field. I probably would have fallen asleep there as well if I didn't suddenly feel something lick my face.
"A small dog? Or maybe a puppy?" I thought as I sat up right.
"Ruff ruff." The adorable little puppy went.
Regardless of if it was a small dog or puppy, the adorable animal had really light brown almost blond colored fur, eyes to match that fur, and white stripes as if it were a fresh coat of paint ran down the ears and tail.
"Sorry little one, but I don't have any treats to give you." I tell the puppy as I scratch her ears.
"Hmm hmm hmm." The little one adorably squealed as she literally looked at me with puppy dog eyes.
"Oh don't give me that look… fine. Though I doubt it, I'll see if I have anything for you." I tell the puppy who immediately gave me a bark of happiness in turn.
It was strange, but as I looked through all my pockets for some kind of treat to give the little one I suddenly got the feeling that something was very familiar about her. I dismissed that thought from my mind as she once again barked at me as if telling me to hurry up and find a treat for her. I knew for a fact there should have been nothing in my pockets past the items Rias gave to me, but I was still surprised to find a doggie treat in my pocket. Is it possible that Rias mixed it in with the materials she gave me by accident? Or did I simply pick it up on my way to school for some reason placing it in my pocket only to forget about it? Before I had a chance to examine the treat, the little one took it right out of my hand quickly gobbling it up.
"You're a fast girl aren't you?" I tell the puppy as I once more scratched her behind the ears.
"Ruff ruff he he he he he." The puppy barks as she wags her tail and stretches her lounge out due to happiness.
"Jaxson Thomas, I didn't think I'd find you this quickly." I heard a strong-willed female say to me as I became positive it was'nt Rinako's voice.
Sensing the hostility in this woman's voice, I almost summoned my keyblade and was about to direct it towards her when I… sensed for the lack of a better word that the owner of the voice was human.
"Dodge this!" that human female yelled.
As I sensed the oncoming attack, once more I almost drew upon my keyblade but decided to simply roll out of the way to dodge the blow. Like most normal people, I instantly became irritated at the fact someone tried to whack me with something.
"What the hell was that for?!" I yell at the owner of the voice as I immediately stand up.
"Not a bad reaction. Still you we're holding back weren't you?" the owner of the female voice asked.
"This woman has good instincts." I thought as she pointed out the very actions I had taken.
At that moment I decided it would be a good idea to actually take a detailed look at the person who just tried to attack me. The leader had black hair as long as my own, dark purple eyes, and an average breast size for a Japanese High School girl not that I really knew what that was. The girl on the left had pink hair just above shoulder length and the other girl had brown hair of a lighter colored then my own. The leader of this trio was for some reason carrying a shinai.
"While I was hanging out with my partners in crime, I saw you walk through the school gates with Rias-senpai, that Rias look-a-like, and the lecher that keeps peeping on us." The leader of this female trio explained to me.
"Lecher? Well no matter. Either way does that fact really justify you attacking me?" I point out to the leader.
I quickly glanced around the area looking for an escape route realizing the little puppy had ran off, but little did I know that I'd soon find out why she seemed familiar to me. Regardless of which I had more pressing issues to deal with at the moment.
"That's not why I attacked you." The leader tells me.
"Then what is?" I ask the leader of these girls.
"You tried to hide it, but from the way you carried yourself I could tell you've had some serious training just to learn how to use a sword. My name is Sayuri Tsunoda and I'm the captain of Kuoh Academy's kendo team." Sayuri pointed out as she introduced herself.
I was surprised that an ordinary human could tell that much about me, but was what she said true? "Ordinary" was a funny word for me use given what I am now, but it still fit the situation rater well. Even so as I examined my body after I woke up next to Rinako and before we left this morning, I noticed there were a few scars all over. Some were new and some looked as if they've been healing for a while, so her claim was certainly possible.
"I want you to join the Kendo Team. With your skills combined with my own, we'd make the ultimate power couple to bring up the skills of the lesser members. Still…. I want to see right here right now just what you can do." Sayuri said finally explaining to me her true intentions as she tossed me a spare shinai, and was completely clueless to the implications the word 'couple' in her sentence could have.
This Sayuri girl charges at me the moment I catch the shinai she threw at me. Whether or not she got careless or if it was my enhanced physical ability, I saw an opening between the grip of her weapon and its guard. Deciding to take advantage of that opening I quickly place my own weapon in that spot and yanked Sayuri's out of her hand. She tried to catch her sword but I got to it first, I spun around, and aimed both blades at what would be vital spots in the human body. Thanks to my unconventional tactic and movements I effectively ended this battle within seconds.
"Thank you for the short bit of exercise, but I'm going to leave now." I tell Sayuri as I drop both shinai and started to walk away.
"For Sayuri to be beaten so easily, it's just impossible." the pink haired girl said in shock.
"Are you alright Sayuri-senpai?" the brown haired girl asks as Sayuri was still processing her sudden defeat.
"I swear I won't take this lying down. I will beat you and make you join the Kendo Team!" Sayuri yelled due to being angered by her defeat, motivated by it, or perhaps both.
"I'll join if you can actually land a hit." I tell Sayuri though without turning around to look.
Since my chance at relaxation was abrubtly rendered mute, I decided to walk around more of the school. As I walked back inside one of the school buildings, there was Issei chatting with some bald guy and another dude with glasses.
"Hey Jason! What's up man?" Issei yelled as he noticed me walking by.
At that point Issei had walked up to me, and decided to show me a new student around the school. For some reason people gave us the same strange looks they did this morning at the front gate. It was after overhearing some of the student's comments that I realized Issei was the lecher Sayuri referred to earlier. Strange as he doesn't seem that perverted to me at all.
"Curse guys with good looks. The rest of us deserve a chance to see a girl's most important places." Issei thought as we continued to walk side by side.
Another fact that I didn't know was that Issei was having a chat about me in his mind.
"Ha ha partner. Do you decide everything on looks alone?" Ddraig asks Issei.
"Of course not, even the opai I wish to see must be wonderful before I consider anything." Issei answered.
"By the way whose the devil next to you?" Ddraig asks again.
"A human turned pawn of Buchou's cousin, but wait shouldn't you already know that?" Issei asked in turn.
"Even sealed in a Sacred Gear I need sleep. Since he was once a human, I'm assuming he had a Sacred Gear correct?" Ddraig explained.
"Yeah it's called a Keyblade." Issei tells Ddraig.
"Ha ha ha ha ha. You should be lucky that he's not your enemy." Ddraig tells Issei in turn.
"Why's that Ddraig?" Issei curiously asked.
"Even without that Sacred Gear, he's much stronger then you are now for one thing. Do you remember when the Gremory Devil told you about the 13 Longinus?" Ddraig answered then asked again.
"Yeah, they are the 13 most famous and powerful of the Sacred Gear." Issei answered.
"The Keyblade for one thing is an extremely unique Sacred Gear, but all you need to know is that depending on the user it has the potential for power close to the 13 Longinus, equal to them, or even strength that makes even them look like common Sacred Gear." Ddraig explained.
"Wow. This makes me excited. So that means all I have to do is surpass that Sacred Gear and I'll be the strongest Devil ever right Ddraig?" Issei asked.
"Well I'll certainly wish you the best of luck partner." Ddraig tells Issei.
"It's only a matter of time before I become a Harem King." Issei said not realizing he mumbled that aloud.
"Hmm, did you say something Issei?" I ask not actually hearing what he said.
"Oh don't worry about me Jaxson. Actually no forget that….. you see I'm totally freaking jealous of you man." Issei firmly tells me.
"For what reason do you have to be jealous of me?" I ask.
"You don't even have to….. no actually all you'd probably have to do is bat an eyelash, stretch out your arms, and one of this school's many beauties would fall right into your hands." Issei explained.
"That's ridiculous. It's not like I can extend my hands as you say and expect a girl to fall out of the sky." I tell Issei as I immediately rebuked his claim.
I actually extended out my arms as I said that, but little did I know how soon something like what we had just described to each other would actually occur. At the time Issei and I were simply walking by a stair case. As I did that very action we talked about a girl had actually fallen into my arms causing Issei to fume with jealousy, but that girl had slipped on the stair case instead of having fallen from the sky. The surprise of this event in combination with the weight of the girl caused me to put my weight on one knee. Not that the woman herself was very heavy of course. The girl had black hair, in a shot bob cut style, violet eye's, and a pair of red glasses. Along with Issei, a guy with short blonde hair on the aforementioned stair case, and several more of the male students were staring at me with jealousy or killing intent.
"Are you alright?" I ask the black haired girl.
"Yes and thank you. It seems the heel of my shoe broke and you can put me down now." The black haired girl answers me.
"My apologies madam." I tell the black haired girl as I carefully help her back up on two feet.
"Kaichou are you okay?" the short blonde haired guy asked the black haired girl after quickly descending the stairs.
"Yes Saji and now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do." The black haired girl tells me as she and he blonde young man presumably this Saji walks off.
"For the record I didn't think that would actually happen." I tell Issei.
Because seriously people, I did not expect that to happen. Then again if she had fallen from the sky, it would have been a classic if not cheesy start to my own manga series.
"I know, but I'm still so dam jealous." Issei said as he tried hard to hold back his slowly boiling over jealousy.
"Good thing my first day happened to be a half day." I thought.
Issei and I had decided to leave and were already about halfway between the main entrance and the school gate.
"So how is the school here?" I ask Issei.
"I wouldn't know about the scholastic advantages, but we have a seriously high hot girl count. Didn't you go to school?" Issei asks me in turn.
"Probably, but in case you have forgotten I can't remember." I answer Issei.
"Ruff ruff." Went a familiar sounding bark.
The sound of that familiar bark turned out to belong to the very same puppy that was licking my face not too long ago.
"Nice to see you again little one, but sorry I really don't have anything else to give you this time." I tell the puppy though I do take the time to scratch her behind her ears.
"Do you know this puppy Jaxson?" Issei inqured.
"I was about to take a nap on a hill side when the licking of this little one woke me up." I tell Issei.
"Hmm hmm hmm." The little puppy went as she once more literally gave me the puppy dog eyes.
"Alright I'll check my pockets again, but I doubt there is going to be anything." I tell the puppy unable to resist that sad face.
Yet again I was proven wrong with the discovery of another doggy treat in my pocket. Seriously why was there one let along two in my pocket? No matter as the little one took the treat out of my hands as quickly as she did at the hillside.
"There you are. I thought I told you when we walked here not to leave without me." Rinako said as she takes a moment to catch her breath after running up to me.
"We we're supposed to go back to the Occult Research Clubroom after class weren't we? I think I can handle taking the long way to get there." I point out to Rinako.
"Why you!" Rinako said as she stomped on my foot again.
"Any reason you did that?" I ask Rinako as I chose once more to ignore the pain.
"For talking back to me, but we can't go yet." Rinako tells me.
"Why's that?" I ask Rinako again.
"Rias just told me to tell you that we're supposed to meet her in the Student Council Room." Rinako explained.
"Did she say why?" I ask Rinako yet again.
"No actually she didn't." Rinako answered.
"Okay then. Just go ahead without me Issei." I tell the man.
"Alright then I'll see you later today or tomorrow." Issei tells me before walking off himself.
After several more minutes of walking, Rinako and I had arrived outside what I would call a very decorative or rather old wooden door.
After knocking on the door, I heard a voice that I recognized to belong to Rias say "Come in."
The two of us had followed Rias's instructions and like the Occult Research Club building, the Student Council room was lit by a series of well-placed candles. Rias was there as expected, as was a man wearing some armor that looked like her, and a little bit to my surprise as was the girl that didn't fall from the sky.
The red haired man said "You can relax. I can assure you that I mean you no harm."
It's strange. I could tell this man meant every word he said, however his very presence in the room seemed to raise the tension so much that I can't help but take a defensive stance.
"You baka! Show some respect to Sirzechs Lucifer sama." Rinako yelled as she slapped me on the back of the neck.
"Sigh….. you're the same stickler for rules and dignity as ever Rinako. He's only been a devil for less than 2 days so naturally he wouldn't know who I am, and I can have that effect on people." Sirzechs points out.
"Since you already know who we are, could you please introduce yourself?" I ask Sirzechs.
"I am Sirzechs Lucifer one of the four devils that govern the underworld and I'm also Rias's older brother. When she had told me of the creatures you described and your situation I decided to come to the human realm and hear your story myself." Sirzechs explained.
"I'm sorry to interrupt Lucifer-sama, but can I introduce myself now?" the black haired girl asked.
"You're the girl from earlier." I say with fake surprise in my voice, though it was a little rude of me not to acknowledge her presence until now.
"Yes and thank you again for your assistance earlier. My name is Sona Sitri or Shitori as I'm known here. I'm the Student Council President and heir to the Sitri family, of which is another clan of famous devils" Sona introduced.
"Like I said my sister told me your story, but could you please repeat everything for us?" Sirzechs inquired.
Sometime has passed as two lectures had gone by in this room. The first lecture about was everything I knew about the Heartless after retelling the tale of my own circumstances. The second lecture was in some more detail about the world of Devil's particularly about the 4 great Satans.
"Thank you. The truth is these things have been appearing in Heaven, Hell, and Earth causing chaos among the three great factions. We've had trouble combatting the threat they generate given how numerous they are and their resistance to our attacks. The information you have told us will save lives, however it may be necessary to form a peace treaty between the three factions to effectively combat them. A good thing one was already in the works." Sirzechs explained.
"Onii-chan, do you realize the meaning of what you said?" Rias asked surprised by her brother's last few words.
"Of course, but I never said it would be easy either. Now as for your other problems; I have some ideas as to the cause, but I'll have to ask Leviathan or Astaroth as this matter is more their field of expertise. I'm sorry I couldn't be of more immediate assistance, but I must go now." Sirzechs said as he left the room.
We were all able to breathe a little easier as with his departure the tension in the room finally returned to normal. Still what caught my attention the most was that as Sirzechs mentioned Leviathan, I couldn't help but notice Sona flinch slightly.
"For now we're tasked with data gathering on the capabilities of these Heartless as you call them. We will all be meeting later tonight in the club room to plan just how to do this." Rias informed.
The fact that I'm now alone with the heirs of three noble houses caused the tension from earlier to return. Thanks to something on a nearby table, I had an idea to once more ease the tension in the room.
"Do you fancy yourself a bit of a chess fanatic Ms. Sona?" I ask as I point out the nearby chessboard with the pieces already set up upon it.
"It is one of the few skills that I pride myself upon." Sona answered as she gave out a confident smirk.
"Then as there's nothing to do at the moment, do you mind if I request a game?" I ask Sona.
"I have no other matters to attend to address today, so why not." Sona said as she accepted my challenge.
"You have no idea what you're getting yourself into." Rinako tells me.
"It's a game of chess not a life or death battle." I tell Rinako in turn.
"Don't mind them. It's just that as smart as they are, neither of them have ever beaten me once at a chess. Go ahead and take a seat so we can begin." Sona explained.
We originally decided to make this speed chess with one minute per move, but quickly abandoned that idea as two of us got so into the match that we each had to carefully think about our next move.
"I must admit you are quite skilled at the game and the most challenging opponent I've had at it in a while." Sona tells me likely intended as a compliment.
I wondered if I was really as good as Sona claimed me to be or if I was just getting lucky the whole time. Regardless, I started this fight so I must finish it as well.
"Yeah I almost had you, but if I wasn't so focused on the left half of the board I'd have seen your trap to take my queen coming." I mumble.
"Humans have a saying: There is no use in crying over spilt milk." Sona tells me in turn.
"This may be a losing battle you're fighting, but you've gotten closer to beating Sona at chess then anyone I know ever has." Rinako points out I think in an attempt to cheer me up.
"I know you mean well Rinako, but compliments don't help my situation." I gratefully tell Rinako.
It was at that moment I remembered a certain ironic piece that I had forgotten about halfway through the game. I couldn't help but smirk when my eyes were drawn to it. My opponent was taken aback at the target of my glare as if realizing my what my intended action was; however it was too late for her to do anything. I picked up the piece that represented me, and had justly placed it at the other end of the board.
"Pawn reaches the other side of the board, then promotes to Queen, and that makes checkmate Ms. Sona." I tell Sona as my victory had been achieved.
"Bravo. This must be an ironic victory as we had both forgotten about the power of the pawn, and you can just call me Sona." Sona said as she didn't mind my slightly arrogant declaration.
"Ha ha." Rias laughed.
"This reminds me of how your broke up your engagement." Rinako notes.
"Engagement?" I curiously asked.
"She had broken off her engagement by defeating her fiancé in a game of chess, and declared she wouldn't marry anyone that couldn't prove themselves smarter than her. Wait since Jason won, doesn't that make him someone you'd consider marrying?" Rias said teasingly.
"Absolutely not. For as long as Jaxson is my pawn, I shall not allow anyone to take him away without giving equal restitution." Rinako said as she was blushing for some reason.
"One game does not make him smarter than me, but….. no never mind" Sona said, of which for some reason she was also blushing.
I'm just going to skip what happened between now and the meeting as it was uneventful, and summarize what happened at the meeting itself. Given the Heartless having an unusual resistance to some of the attacks of the three factions, the four great Satans found in necessary to come up with more efficient strategies and tactics to combat them. That is where the student council, of which I later found out to all be devil as wells and those of us among the Occult Research club come in. The Student Council will be putting up a protective barrier to prevent outside interference. While the rest of us to split into teams of two battle the Heartless all over town. Rinako and Asia will be staying outside the barrier due to the Seere family's power over space time, which allowing her to teleport herself and Asia directly to anyone's position should they encounter unexpected difficulty. I was partnered with the rook Koneko and we've already spent an hour shredding through heartless, however forget the fighting I was simply happy to have my cloak back.
"Don't push yourself Jaxson-senpai. You had only just recovered in addition to just have being turned into a devil." Koneko calmly tells me as she holds off one of the larger Heartless single handed.
"I'm just not used to the power that comes with being turned into a devil yet, but I'm fine." I said as I cut the last Soldier type Heartless near us in half.
"Weren't there supposed to be several kinds of these things?" Koneko asked.
"At the moment we appear to be only dealing with the vanguard of the proverbial Heartless invasion. The more powerful variations probably won't show up for a bit." I explain to Koneko.
The truth is I didn't know how I knew that only that I did. I was still surprised by what happened next though.
"Ruff ruff." A familiar puppy barked.
"The same puppy? How did it get inside the barrier? Or was it already inside when it was put up?" is what I thought as the little one's presence was enough to distract me from the battle at hand.
My attention was drawn back to the battle when a Big Body came running from the darkness, past myself and the puppy, and ran straight towards Koneko.
"Koneko, 6 o'clock! Attack it from the side!" I tell Koneko.
"Roger." Koneko says to me as she acknowledged my suggestion.
Koneko quickly slides behind the overweight Heartless in a Pinocchio style outfit, and defeats it wit uppercut combo. The two of us decided to take a minute to catch our breath before continuing on our route.
"Rrrrhhh rhhhhh!" the little one barked at Koneko.
"Kheeee!" Koneko hisses at the dog in turn.
"Koneko what's gotten into you? There's no reason to get mad at a puppy so calm down." I ask Koneko as she directed killing intent towards the innocent little puppy.
After regaining her composure, Koneko says "Sorry Jaxson-senpai. Strange, the only time I've ever don't that was to…. no just a coincidence."
I was going to ask the meaning behind her reaction, but the appearance of a couple of Wyvren and Defender type Heartless took precedence. The little dog had disappeared again the moment Koneko and I had dealt with the immediate threat. After an additional hour of Heartless slaying/Data Gatherin/) we had all returned to the Occult Research Club room. Buchou and Kaichou made us all write detailed reports on the fights and our strategies used. That would have been fine; however I had to re-write my own several times due to them being sticklers to high grammatical standards.
"Your new home is ready Rinako. Akeno could you please hand them their copies of the key's and directions?" Rias requests.
"Thank you Rias-san, but you don't need to go this far for us." Rinako tells Rias.
"You can drop the honorifics as we are family." Rias tells Rinako in turn.
"Then we'll be on our way." Rinako said as she and I said our goodbyes to the others.
About what I believed to have been half-way to our new home, I decided to break the silence that fell between Rinako and I.
"So do you know what this place will be like Rinako?" I curiously ask.
"No, this will be my first time seeing it myself." Rinako answered.
"Oka... oh shoot." As I come to a sudden realization.
"What is it?" Rinako curiously asks.
"I forgot my bag at the club room." I explain to Rinako.
"Couldn't you just get it tomorrow?" Rinako asks me in turn.
"Yeah, but I don't like leaving anything behind. I have a copy of the directions and a key, so go ahead without me." I tell Rinako to reassure her.
"Alright, but don't take too long." Rinako says with a little concern.
"Rinako you actually care? We must alert the masses of this revelation." I say with an amount of sarcasm that surprises even myself.
"Shut up! What kind of master would I be if I didn't look after my servants?" Rinako said as she became angered by my comment.
And so we had started to walk in opposite directions from one another. I didn't separate myself from Rinako because I forgot my bag, though I actually did forget my bag. Anyways it was because I sensed a presence following us, and I decided to deal with it worrying alerting Rinako. I decided to walk back to the very same park where my life on this world began. I walked to the middle of the biggest opening in this park and summoned my keyblade.
"Come out! I know you're there!" I yell aloud.
A girl with light blue hair, with a single green fringe, and wearing a very promiscuous black unitard dashed towards me out of nowhere holding a medieval style sword with a blue fuller and a gold styled guard.
"When did you notice?" the attacker asked as I blocked her sword.
"You slipped up about quarter of the way home." I answer as I push this attacker back.
I don't seem to like the prospect of attacking a woman, so I allow her to get some distance instead of going on the attack myself. I considered it a sound course of action as I had no idea what this woman's true strength was.
"Then it seems I need to work on my tracking skills a bit more." My attacker tells me as she once more charges at me.
"What makes you think you're leaving here at all?" as I decided to go on the attack myself.
She only responded by dropping her sword low to the ground and quickly raised it upwards in a crescent motion. While I was blocking that attack I sensed a powerful force building up in her sword, and unfortunately for me that very force was released as a powerful explosion that sent me flying through a fountain and into one of the park's bridges.
"Surprising." My attacker mumbled.
"What is?" I ask curious about her reaction.
"My Excalibur Destruction should break anything less than a high class sword instantly." She tells me.
"Then I guess my weapon is just that." I say making a witty retort.
This woman's attacks certainly had a lot of destructive power as the name of her sword so justly implied, but she also had several openings as well. Unfortunately I couldn't take advantage of these openings as again her power alone was enough to blow away all my attacks.
"I need to move faster, to think faster, and act faster!" I thought as I struggled to stay standing after blocking this woman's powerful blows.
Then it was as if god himself gave me a vision…..no a chance to turn this battle around. I saw a boy with short blue hair, wearing a dark blue suit, with the symbol for the Heartless stretched across his chest, and that boy was using a sword shaped like a bat's wing with a red trim. It was strange as I'm positive I've never met the boy, and yet something about him was so familiar. He was fighting another boy his age in what appeared to the heart of some evil fortress. An ironic choice of words as there was some kind of doorway in my vision in the shape of a heart with the colors inside changing like a kaleidoscope. Though rather than admiration of beauty, I received a sense of fear from that door.
"Just what the heck is going on?" I thought as this vision continued to play in my mind.
As the boy I couldn't see gained the upper hand in this fight, the boy with the blue hair suddenly disappeared surprising his opponent. Then that boy suddenly reappeared stopping in midair to strike at his opponent before disappearing again. This process of instantaneous high-speed attacks continued for the next few seconds.
"Can I do the same technique?" I ask myself as my vision came to an end.
When my eyes stopped viewing this strange figment of my imagination or perhaps a memory, I found myself floating in mid-air right next to one of the openings in my attacker's defense. I took the opportunity and swung my sword, but she blocked it if barely. She then turned around to attack me again, and I found myself defenseless floating in mid-air.
"I have to get out of here!" I urgently thought.
As her blade swung towards me, I found myself floating in mid-air though in a different position this time. This cycle repeated it's self for a moment or two as I slowly came to the realization I was performing the same technique I saw in my vision.
"You're very fast. Very well, I'll take it up a notch." I hear my attacker mumble.
Once this returned to a ground battle she dashed at me again, but even faster than before and now I could barely block her attacks. She used the strange power of her Excalibur Destruction, however toned it down just enough to force my Keyblade out of my hand. She raised her sword above her head and slashed down hard. Her speed was scary such that I only escaped her attack with a grazed hit. As a few drops of blood seeped onto the ground from my room, my attacker showed another genuine sign of shock.
"High and Ultimate class devils may be able to resist it to a degree, but it's impossible for there to be no reaction at all." My attacker mumbled.
"Oh so that's a holy sword then?" I ask as I recall the quick lecture Kiba gave about them to me the previous night.
"You mean you didn't realize it before?" my attacker asks in turn as if surprised by my question.
I tried that attack with the series of high speed slashes again, but they were still simple attacks so I wasn't sure how effective it would be a second time.
"Come on rather than go around her guard, there's got to be a way to go through it right?" I thought.
It was then I was filled with another vision of boy with spiky brown hair, a black jacket, red pants, and a silver keyblade was covered in a purplish glow as he bounced off of walls, spun around poles, and twirled around strange creatures in a gravity defying fashion. I know I've never met that boy, but for some reason like the other one he looked very familiar.
"Is my heart telling me to try that?" I thought.
I side stepped around my opponent and was covered in the same glow I saw in my vision. As I twirled around her, she seemed surprised once more, but then again she was not the only one. I thrust my palm outward and she was sent flying. Next I spun around a street lamp and went flying towards her like a buzz saw of some kind. She brought about great well power in order to block this attack. Now I did a gravity defying jump of a tunnel wall and flew just over her head. I grasped my keyblade with both hands and trusted down hard. Unfortunately I missed her I missed her by a hair, but the following shock wave caused by my impact with the ground pushed her to my side several feet away. It wasn't enough to knock her off her feet as she came at me with her sword once more.
"Shit!" I thought as I was unable to block or dodge this attack.
This was due to the fact that the technique I just used seemed to have drained much more energy then I expected it would.
"I told you that I look after my servants." I hear Rinako of all people yell.
Rinako's voice was a welcome site as she used her power to teleport me out of the way in the nick of time.
"And I said for you to go home without me." I tell Rinako unwilling to admit or show on my face that I was happy to see her.
"Don't get snippy with me." She said angered by my seeming lack of appreciation for her.
"I can take care of myself!" I tell at her in turn.
"If that was true, then that Fallen Angel wouldn't have thrashed you!" she yells at me again.
"I told you that I somehow got injured before that and couldn't fight at my full strength!" I yell at her again.
"Save your lovers quarrel for later. In case you haven't noticed your opponent is still here."
"Shut up! This is none of your concern and we are not lovers!" Rinako and I yelled.
"Such idiocy. I'm going to end this now."
Just as I was joined by Rinako, my attacker was joined by a girl with light brown hair in pig tails and wearing a similar outfit.
"Xenovia don't. Your orders were to test him not kill him and raze a portion of the town as collateral."
"Fine. I will leave for now."
The truth is I wasn't exactly sure what my first attacker and her partner in crime said, but their next conversation went something like this.
"What did you think Xenovia?"
"If that last attack hit, I would have lost."
Rias and Sona in addition to a few members of their respective peerage showed up moments later as they sensed the battle going on in a distance. I told them that I was attacked as I went back to school to get my bag which was sort of true. I didn't say anything about how I sensed them from a distance, but that was due to Rinako being near me. I could tell from the way she carries herself that she's had some serious training, but little to no combat experience. For me to be able to tell that with ease, it makes me wonder just how much I actually have.
"I can't believe you fought that girl without calling for help! You were just turned into one of us in addition to have spent a lot of energy in mission we had earlier, so if you weren't careful you could have gotten yourself killed." Rinako yelled at me clearly angered by my earlier actions.
"I thought you didn't really care about what happened to me?" I point out to Rinako.
"Yes well um…. It would look bad for my reputation as a king if one of the first members of my peerage were killed in a couple of days." Rinako tries to explain to me, though I could tell that was a clear half-assed excuse.
At the same time a darker conversation was taking place somewhere far away in a seemingly lifeless castle surrounded by darkness. An old man with a goatee, brownish yellow eyes, and wearing a black jacket was standing before a strange statue while chatting with the supposedly Fallen Angel known as Master Seraphim. Moments later a man with a X shaped scar on his face, dark blue hair, and wearing the same kind of cloak Jaxson was appeared from a dark portal to interrupt this conversation.
"Then we have a deal Xehanort, and this must be one of the 13 Darkness's that you told me about. On the side not I also rather like the décor of your stronghold." Master Seraphim said as he spoke to Xehanort in a calculating tone.
"Report Saix." Master Xehanort ordered.
"It is as Seraphim described to us earlier. He's here on this world." Saix informed.
"Do you wish to retake him now Xehanort? If so I can make the necessary arrangements." Master Seraphim inquired.
"No, however I do appreciate the offer. I want to let his abilities mature for a while, so leave him alone for now." Xehanort tells Saix and Master Seraphim.
Later I would learn the dark reasoning behind that man's decision, but back on Earth or at least this version of it I was exploring my masters new residence. She made it very clear that she would not throw her servant a.k.a me on the street, but she did punish me for my actions by denying me dinner. Every time I tried to sneak food she had teleported it out of my hands or me away from the food. After I while I had given up and gone to sleep. I slowly turned my head to stare out of the window of my new room as the sun started to rise.
"This could be the start to a beautiful day this Sunday morning, but I think I'll just go back to sleep." I thought as I turned my head back on my pillow.
I felt the impulse to stretch my arms a bit before I went back to dream land. I placed both hands back on my bed, but one of them landed on something soft. I checked my wounds again or at least where it was supposed to be discovering they were gone, and was replaced by a sense of deja vu.
"Did Rias talk you into this again Rinako? They were only a minor cuts and brui..." I was about to say when I realized who I was sharing a mattress with.
After removing the blanket I realized the good news was that I was wearing clothes this time, but the bad news was that there was a naked girl in my bed and it wasn't Rinako. It was a girl with brown hair so light that it could be blonde; she also had a doggy tail, floppy brown dog ears with white stripes upon them both, white highlights in her hair starting where the white stripes on her ears ended, and as she yawned her eyes were revealed to be a bright pink.
"Ruff ruff good morning." the dog girl said as she rubbed her eyes with her closed hands.
"Um hello, and good morning to you to." I tell the strange dog girl as my mind tried to grasp the current situation.
With unfortunate timing and also not initially noticing the dog girl, Rinako walks in saying "I know it's early, but get up Jaxson."
"Um, morning Rinako." Was all I could come up with to saying before Rinako noticed the dog girl's presence in the room.
"Not only do you humiliate me by touching my breasts, but you da dare bring a strange women into my home and sl sl sle sleep with her!" Rinako yelled at me as she was about to blow… actually scratch that as she blew a gasket to the moon.
Rinako's face then turned red, but I wasn't sure if it was due to her unusual habit of randomly blushing or just pure rage. Given the circumstances I guessed the latter of the two.
"Wait Rinako, it's not what you think!" I tell Rinako as she slowly approached me with a very strong amount of killing intent.
"I'll execute you!" Rinako yelled at me again as she gathered a strong demonic aura around her.
Take a few minutes to imagine a camera viewing my room in this large home from the outside. Now take some more time to imagine a small but very powerful explosion burst out from my room.
To Be Continued
Why is the man known as Xehanort interested in Jason? What was the deal he made with Seraphim? Who is the dog girl found in Jason's bed? Find out next time in "Man's Best Rook?"