Bigger yet again. I'm gonna continue keeping each chapter bigger so it's release will continue to stay lengthy.
"Gaius-san, who is the Khaos Brigade?"
Turning away from the window, I start to return to my seat as I see Grayfia creating a magic circle around the Sekiryuutei and the spoiled princess. I lazily plonked myself down in the chair as the other three Faction leaders just looked at me slightly unnerve at my casual demeanour towards a terrorist attack. It's not like they could get in here anyway and even if they were to wait until it dropped they would be very tired and we could teleport away anyway … I could at least, thanks to Vritra.
"The Khaos Brigade is a vastly built Terrorist Group full of many individuals that are deadly, both descendants of greats and otherwise. From what I've gathered, they have separated into at least three groups. There is the two main ones, the Hero Faction which is supposedly led by the possessor of True Longinus and the Old Satan Faction which is much weaker than the Hero Faction. The third faction is the Magician faction and that's a rather rough conclusion as all I know is that there is a sub-group faction compiled of mages who do as they wish but also serve the other main factions if asked. The time and place of this meeting has been pretty strictly kept so the perpetrator can only be on these grounds and sadly, it would seem like my father has made another blunder."
"What do you mean by another one Gaius-san?"
"Well Sirzechs, it's more like there are two problems. One for me and the other for you. Over the past week I have noticed that quite a few of my Fallen Angels dislike the fact that a Hybrid was allowed to govern over them, the fact that I am the only legitimate/possible person to take over completely eludes them so without forceful methods that I am not allowed to use I can't really find out much especially as this is pure speculation on my part. Your problem Sirzechs along with your spoiled little sisters' would be the Hakuryuukou."
Sirzechs took an angered look at another of my hate towards his sister and one which stayed along with his realisation towards what I was saying.
"You don't mean?"
"That I do Sirzechs, this generation couldn't be a worse match up for the Sekiryuutei. Vali is a descendant of Lucifer and one who hasn't slacked off, coupled with the fact that he is a battle maniac."
"You are saying that my little sister will lose Ise-kun?"
"That all depends on how serious you are about wanting me to train her and her peerage. If you want him to become strong so he can protect your little sister then I can do that but none of them will be happy with how I train them, for the most part. Everyone bar the bishops and the Neko will get harsh training treatment, one that I put my team through constantly and one of them is a human so if they can't put up with it then they are sub-par. So Sirzechs, can you promise me that if I need anything you will get it for me no questions asked and that just because I am the same age as her it doesn't mean I will take backtalk from Rias. She steps out of line once and irritates me, ill put her and her precious servants through simulated death as many times as I want to."
Looking at the remainder of Rias' peerage here, I could see the looks that they were holding. Each of them were conflicted just like Sirzechs was right now. This offer was originally for my easy going father but now that i'm the Governor, im taking up all offers that were for him meaning I will be taking up shop here in the human world for a while.
"And of course Serafall, my father has already started work on several Artificial Sacred Gears for Sona's team. When they are finished i'll personally run through them with Sona and give her basics on them strategy wise but as I know she is a smart girl so ill let her do what she wants for the most part. And seen as i'll be taking up Sirzechs offer which is already stuck in place, i'll help train anyone in her peerage if she so wants."
As Serafall smiled and nodded her head, I noticed a presence against my shield. Someone was trying to get in without permission and that person was someone who could go well with my team. Not someone I would actively go for though. I let a small smile grace my face as I allowed the person permission through inside the barrier and placed her arrival just behind me giving everyone the ability to see her.
A dark golden light appeared in the room behind me as the person in question appeared.
"So Miss Leviathan, what business do you have here?"
A slight look of shock appears on their faces at the sound of her name but it only grows when they remember that she only could have gotten in by me allowing her to do so.
The room stays silent as heels clack down against the room's floor as the Descendant of Leviathan makes her way closer to the centre of the room but the sound of her heels stop short of my own body. Seconds after the room goes silent again, I feel and see her arms drape themselves around my front and dangle harmlessly near my waist while I stay in my sitting position. I felt like adopting an interested expression but I felt that would be taken for the wrong way as for all intents and purposes I am still a teenager.
My facial expression was then forced into a change as I felt her arms move slowly against my neck as she came round to the side of my chair and dropped herself down straight onto my lap, along with an irritated bark from Sora came a slight scowl on my face. Along with this I felt Vritra stir inside me with a sigh that was somehow both perverted and disappointed. It probably has been a while since Vritra was seduced anyway.
I turned my head slowly to look at the Descendant of Leviathan, I saw her face come closer to mine and our faces then met though from my standpoint, her lips crashed against mine. While it was something I could enjoy I felt Vritra's voice echo throughout my body as he deletes whatever it was that was sent coursing through my body from the connection. The only thought that crossed my mind at that moment was to play along and see where she was going with this. Was she going to use me as a shield and help to kill the other leaders along with me afterwards or she wanted me for herself … either way I don't like being controlled even if the gain is minuscule.
But as she got off of me another thought cropped up in my mind, one which would reversed what she thought had happened. Had she stayed on my lap I would have listened to the end but now that she is giving me room to breathe i'll take advantage of it. I waited for her to make her way further into the room while I wore a blank look giving her a false hope and once she had her own sufficient birth I brought up my right hand and clicked my fingers together resulting in two magic circles to form above the Descendant of Leviathan. As the circles spun they took to my own form of Magic and became two large gears and from the hole in the centre of each gear shot a multitude of chains that wrapped themselves around the Descendants body imitating a bondage play and tightened indefinitely.
While keeping a blank look I allowed a small bit of emotion to come back to my face as I looked at the woman in question and sighed lightly.
"Such a shame. Kisses should be genuine, if they aren't genuine then don't do it at all. Poor Vritra doesn't like to be tricked like that."
[Ya know what, die in a fiery hole kid.]
"Don't be like that Vritra, I know you liked it so why don't we make it so you can have it whenever."
[...Kid. I take it back. I love ya Kiddo.]
"That's what I thought."
I clapped my hands twice and a small black flash came from the Descendant's neck, when I died down a collar appeared around her neck and looked identical to the one around Sora's neck. It was a way to show that she was now a part of my team although this particular 'collar' was to show that she was my slave of sorts.
[...Who woulda thought you'd use that collar on Katerea Leviathan. God, I love my host.]
After his initial sniffles Vritra spoke out again into the room again and letting me know her actual name. I probably would have known it if I took more care in learning the facts about the Devil's Civil War. It also seemed like Sora shared the same sentiments as I could see him wearing a happy grin and letting his tongue rest idly with his mouth open.
"Gaius-san … What just happened?"
"I've been a top exorcist for a while, not that I can be considered one any more really. While being one I was involved in the meeting which took place with the top ranked exorcist Dulio Gesualdo which was ultimately about possible ascension, of course Michael can tell you more about this at a later date but in essence it was the Angel's version of your Evil Pieces. My father is to into Sacred Gears to really bother about making his own version of these things to create Fallen Angels so I took it upon myself to create my own. I used the Evil Pieces that Shemhaza's wife had and experimented. In the end, I came up with necklaces for humanoids and collars for animals. They aren't as quick acting and sudden as the Evil Pieces but they work for being made pretty quickly to set my own special team from the Fallen Crowd."
"Then what about the collar that Katerea is wearing?"
"That's because she tried to seduce me and Vritra for her own goals and make me her slave so I used my own collar that was like the Evil Pieces, one that binded her to me completely and made her my … Vritra's slave. Just because i'm a teen, i'm not gonna be swayed by a single kiss. It's bloody kids like the Sekiryuutei who makes women think a single sway of their breasts or a sensual gaze is enough to corrupt a male's mind. Though I can play Azazel being my father that she thought it would work, that friggin' pervert annoys me even when he isn't around."
I shook my head lightly as I spoke about my idiotic and perverted father. He really does find a way to piss me off despite being on the other side of the world or in this case a different plain.
"So you have created your own 'Evil Pieces'?"
"Near enough Sirzechs. These are rather slow acting but it's also like a give and take. Once they collar or necklace is put on it is to be kept on at all times, they give Queen-like boosts to their wearers although it may be a little different as it's based off my own power and I haven't look at them properly yet outside of that they work. Over time it power sets into the wearers body and fuses a bit of my own blood with theirs, the ruby-like pendant is filled with my own blood. Unlike the Evil Pieces I don't have full reign over them and cannot enforce them by manipulating the necklace or piece in your case to get what I want. With each successful order they follow truthfully and without resistance, my blood fuses with theirs more and over time they become a Fallen Angel under my direct orders. Sora here is the only one of my team that has become a Fallen Angel, additionally they become pure Fallen Angels and Humans become 100% Fallen Angels where all others become hybrids."
"Gaius-sama!"
My name was called out accompanied by a bark which led everyone in the room to look down at Sora who was still wearing a happy grin. I turned to him with a smile.
"What's up Sora?"
"Jesse-san and the others are asking if they can come in. They wanna watch from a safe place, he says."
They wanna watch? I see, that seems like a good idea.
"Tell them that it's ok."
I stood myself up from the chair and pointed my right hand to the wall allowing chains to shoot out of it and rip out the remainder of the wall allowing us to fully see the battleground. Looking out of the barrier I had set up I could see Vali in his Balance Breaker armour staring down at the Sekiryuutei from the sky. The Sekiryuutei though just wore the red scaled gauntlet fitting the facts that said he hadn't unlocked balance breaker outside of the 10-second burst form. Just off to the side from those two was the spoilt princess herself with two other figures, the time-stopping vampire and the little Neko rook.
Feeling my four team members teleport into the room, I dropped the Gear magic surrounding Katerea. It should have been a sufficient amount of time to fully put her under my control and if she doesn't my team can just restrain her. Her will to do anything by herself should be non-existent.
A slight tug in my mind alerts me to Sirzechs who was pounding on the barrier trying to break through, even bringing his 'Power of Destruction' to his own hand to try and break through but fail. Looking at him, I felt a huge urge to piss him off but I let that urge fade away.
"Gaius, let me out now! Rias isn't safe out there."
"You think I don't know that Sirzechs. There are only two ways to save her. Try and fail to beat me in a fight or remember that I cast this barrier and can easily just transport her here into this barrier."
I turned to look at Sirzechs with my kept blank expression. As his mood softened a little I could tell from the slightly pained look on his face that he would regret his next few words to me.
"Then please can you bring her and her peerage here."
I allowed my blank expression to disappear and adopt a sadistic smirk which let Sirzechs know that he would deeply regret his decision but how much he would regret it would turn out to be rather little.
I dug my heels into the marble floor and raised my left hand up into the air. The singular motion caused a heavy presence to fill the barrier we were in and the one outside where the two heavenly dragons occupied. The sky above us changed, and darkened allowing multiple dark clouds to form and litter the sky with bright flashes of cerulean blue to light up the gaps between each black cloud. One singular large circle formed above the barrier that covered the school ground and four slight smaller circles appeared just inside the barrier before starting to spin and shake slightly as the magic burst into life and looked like it was growing out of control which added to my smirk and the dread that was now forming on Sirzechs' face.
I took a deep breathe as I readied to teleport the non-dragons into the room.
"Indigna-portation!"
I clenched my fist shut and the sky lit up in a cerulean blue as an enormous lightning bolt shot down from the sky passing through the first circle and split off into quarters with each new bolt hitting their own circle as they crashed through the barrier destroying it and splitting off into hundreds of new lighting bolts which littered the school grounds as they relentlessly attacked everywhere square inch they could.
"Ahhh, what a good show Gaius-sama."
I heard my only human member of my team, Jesse, call out from behind me in his Texas accent as he and the rest of the team applauded the lightning show. Turning round to the room itself, Rias and her two peerage members dropped down to the floor slightly burnt from the lightning and that view made me muse out loud.
"Maybe I shouldn't use that one. I coulda killed them."
Bringing more of my unneeded emotion, I said it in an exceptionally carefree tone. One which wasn't reciprocated by anyone outside of my team but it was one that was met with an angered and worried look from the spoilt princess.
"Where is Ise-kun?"
"Who?"
I honestly didn't know who this Ise-kun was … although thinking even the littlest would have told me it was obviously the Sekiryuutei. After having that fought I just waved off the array of faces that came my way. I turned back to the window as I spoke.
"As you know, Sacred Gears evolve greatly by emotion. The Sekiryuutei will of seen his two team mates and 'beloved' master 'eradicated' by a series of lightning bolts, his emotions are gonna be sky high. Knowing Vali, he will already know this and try to rile the kid up further. This is my first lessons of training to the kid, Balance Breaker."
As I uttered the term, both the Devils and Angels turned to the barrier again to watch outside the barrier. Sky blue met an Emerald Green as Dragonic energy coursed throughout the school ground which was now slowly being covered by a golden barrier which was coming from a small fluctuation of the barrier I set up earlier. The two colours crashed against each other violently as the Sekiryuutei's body was being enveloped in a crimson energy and a set of bulky red armour similar to that of Vali's.
The two Heavenly Dragons collided with each other in a bout that was inevitable both in the past and future. Though it was never a fight that would always go the Sekiryuutei's way due to the single fact of his blood being much, much weaker than Vali's. Thanks to Ascalon he has an advantage when on a plateau but when one side tips the Sekiryuutei's advantage flies out of the window and Vali was a smart enough guy to know it and he was the type to take the bull by its horns and as fast and early as he possibly could, and that moment was now.
The Sekiryuutei's dragonic energy was rapidly being drowned out by the now exploding energy that Vali was exerting. Everyone else in the barrier knew what was about to happen and that was the curse of the Heavenly Dragons, the Sekiryuutei had sated Vali's thirst for battle but the only thirst he had left was one of blood. Unfortunately it was one I couldn't allow him to have but one I will destroy after allowing him to take his ultimate form.
"I, who is about to awaken,
Am the White Dragon Emperor who will take the law down to the darkness.
I walk the road of domination with infinite destruction and by piercing through the imaginary dream.
I shall become a pure Emperor of White Dragon
And I shall have you obey the silvery-white illusions and the perfect evil ways!"
[[[[Empireo Juggernaut Over Drive!]]]]
The sky blue light exploded and crashed furiously throughout the area relentlessly digging at the two barriers I have set up. The Sekiryuutei down on the ground below was now in a crouched form recoiling from the ferocious aura that was eating at him.
Seeing that the devils in the room were upset, especially the spoilt princess who was now being held back by Sirzechs to stop her from going to her death and ultimately accomplishing nothing good … in the devil's eyes at least, I decided to use this moment in time to take action and ultimately stop the Sekiryuutei's death. Thus I took off my jacket and threw it onto the chair behind me.
Walking to the edge of this room's barrier I summoned a blood red jewel to my right hand and a violet jewel to my left hand. I looked down to them both and felt them shake slightly in anticipation and saw the light gleam off of the jewels. Apparently Sirzechs and his sister had seen me do this.
"Gaius-san, are you seriously thinking of going out there?"
I turned just my head while holding onto a smirk and looked straight at Sirzechs.
"Of course, I have two dragons that can negate effects. It's time to show the world that the Kings are not lower than the Emperors. The only way to stand against the Juggernaut Drive is something of equal standing."
Turning back to the barrier itself, I crouched down slightly and pushed off using my legs as a spring to vault up into the sky and out of the first barrier to find my body being assaulted by the Sky blue aura that was slowly shifting to a silvery-white. I clamped my hands down further onto the jewels and allowed my magic to fluctuate and react with the jewels.
"It's time. Vritra, Fafnir, let's show those idiots who are the strongest."
"I, who is about to awaken,
Am the Iridescent Dragon King who rules over life.
I will walk the road of life with divine destruction and by sentencing my enemies to their inevitable demise.
I shall become a Divine King of Iridescent Dragon
And I shall have you obey the Iridescent laws of the God Osiris!"
[{[{Breakdown the Beast – Gigantis Prison}]}]
A single ray of light shines down from the sky and illuminates my body and only that as an iridescent glow of black and gold enraptures my body that rapidly starts to shift forms. My body quickly starts to connect with the shape I have in mind and the length of my body lengthens greatly into the serpent-like shape of an Eastern Dragon spanning nearly 50 metres having the body and tail coil itself as my new head and upper body take a physical form.
The iridescent glow finally disperses revealing me in my final form. An Eastern-style dragon with two, wide open gigantic jaws and a large scaled helmet that fits around my much larger head covering my green hide. The helmet was a tight fit only allowing my now pale green eyes and sharp tusk-like teeth, the colour of the helmet was unlike the scales covering my body. Where the scales covering my new body was the iridescent colour of black and gold, the helmet was split down the middle with gold on the left and black on the right. Outside the black of the helmet was a spiked mane that alternated black on gold from spike to spike. Wings then littered themselves along my main body getting smaller little by little the closer they got to the tip of my tail which lightly tapped against the grounds. Every ten metres had a metre long divider creating 4 metre long torsos which was think in scales on the side and layered creating a number of blades out of the scales and bulky but short arms that ended in sharp claws.
I was now looking down right at Vali whose white, blue and gold armour had now become a silvery-white and bulked out extensively taking an even more dragonic looking style with even bigger claws over his hands and feet along with his wings which had now become actual dragon wings. There was slight shake of his armour, any other person and that would be out of fear but this was Vali, the biggest battle maniac I knew. That was a shake of excitement, his anticipation to fight me in my strongest Dragonic form.
I could feel my whole body lurch forward as I sent my body down towards the two heavenly dragons with my top right claw first. Instead of going along with the fight that Vali wants, I scoop Issei up and in one continuous motion throw him straight into the barrier resulting in a resounding thud which more than likely dropped his balance breaker form coupled with the fatigue that he is obviously experiencing.
[So Vali, what's with the betrayal? Did this come from my father's lack of War interest or my instatement?]
"Neither really Gaius. Doesn't matter which of you I am under, there would not be many fights my body can experience. Jumping ship can allow me to fight as much as I want to and against strong opponents like yourself right now, it's just a shame you will never get serious even now."
[You picked up on that eh? Well, I will not say no to that. I train to make people not want to fight me, if others can tell how strong I am from my aura alone then I don't have to fight. We are complete opposites in that sense. I couldn't care less about fighting.]
Slapping my tail down onto the ground sent shadows straight out pining for Vali, enough to send him running to outrun them as he sent blocks of magic straight at them only for the magic to stop in place once connecting with the shadows but in turn stopping the respective shadow it hit. The other shadows didn't care and continued on relentlessly and wrapped themselves around Vali and his armour causing black shadowy streaks along the Silvery-white armour. Through a tug of war that I was winning, my shadows started to pull Vali down to the ground inch by inch as [Divide] resounded continuously from his gauntlet. Absorption line acted straight away at the first divide and was now creating a current which was partially cancelling out Vali and Albion's divide but not completely but it was enough to continue winning this dragonic tug of war.
Vali was brought to the ground quietly outside of Albion's divide and brought straight into a pained crouch as Vali started to crank up the speed at which he divide to which I sent more and more shadows his way coupled with their own sapping ability to cancel out his divides.
[Vali, you should stop this. You know I am yet to use Vritra's flames and his Delete Field. I am also yet to tap into Fafnir's power, give it up. As you are right now you can't even beat a third of this power that is blessed by Osiris. Give up now and i'll let you leave.]
"You! Let me leave! … Sounds like something you'd do but what is the catch?"
[Good Vali, my Father did not raise you to be an idiot like the Sekiryuutei. All I ask is that you return to me in time but when you do that you and your whole team becomes my subordinates and take the collars or necklaces. That's all I ask, the necklaces wont be any different to the ones my team already has. So what do you say?]
"I can easily agree to that. Once i'm satisfied, I will return to you with my new team."
Satisfied with his answer and knowing full well that he wouldn't go back on his word I released the shadows from around him and let him teleport away if need be.
Vali nodded his head once towards me and stood up before allowing himself to teleport away. Once he had fully disappeared I let the barrier disappear around the faction leaders as I used the blessed power of Vritra to delete the field set up by the terrorists and allow the three faction's bodyguards to return.
I allowed my mind to close off from instinct and I could feel the power from 'Breakdown the Beast' stripping itself away from my along with the form I took to use it reverting my back to my human form but with my twelve crisp, black feathered wings unfurled behind me slowing my descent and the two jewels back in my hands.
As I landed I felt my strength give way slightly and my knees buckled briefly, before I could fall to the ground I was caught by my only male member on my team. I looked towards him and saw he wore his perpetual bubbly grin. I nodded my head to him and he replied in the same way before slowly helping me up to my feet. Looking up to the sky, I saw the stars illuminating the sky while the faint gold barrier slowly let itself break away.
"Isn't this gonna be fun."
This chapter took a long-ass time to write, especially with getting the design for the dragon right.
To create the BtB form i decided to take Slifer's form from Yu-gi-oh for the jaws as Slifer is Osiris after all and the Drascension for the rest of it.
I'll say now that that form is only above Vali's because of Osiris' blessing and Vali hasn't perfected it yet.
Vali's perfected will be around equal with Gaius' when he has jewels from all 5 or 6 Kings, not sure whether i should add Tannin to that mix.
Before i go over a bit more of Gaius' team i wanna talk about the necklaces that are versions of the Evil Pieces.
As i said in this chapter they aren't the same at all, the wearer will only become fallen or part fallen if they are true to Gaius.
They are pretty much as free as can be in truth but of course they are to be loyal to Gaius anyway or they wouldn't get the necklace.
Now i wanna talk about Gaius' team and the fact that Katerea's addition is now what i spoke about in the A/N of last chapter.
Here i will be writing the description of what each character looks like as it's easier this way rather than putting it into the story itself.
Terine Isantha is a flame nymph with dark skin, lustrous bright red hair, fiery red eyes and wears red glasses. She is relatively short in human form standing at just 5'3 but has an enticing figure to make up for it. She is in a relationship with Jesse and they both have very bubbly personalities. She always wears a burgundy coloured maid outfit.
Jesse Blake is the only human on Gaius' team and is an american with pale white skin. He is near enough a paler skinned version of Kiba but with slightly longer blonde hair. He stands around 5'8 and has a thin figure because he is a magic-user like his female counterpart Terine. His Sacred Gear, Book of Balance, allows him to wield both Holy and Demonic magic and with his Balance Breaker he can fuse the two together. He wears a burgundy coloured butler outfit.
Sora is an 8 year old boy whose body was more susceptible to the necklace granting him Fallen angel status much, much earlier. He dislikes being a human and can always be seen in his wolf cub form outside of battle. During battle he takes an adult wolf's form unless it's a dire situation where he uses Evolutio's balance breaker to turn into a much larger, mythological creature.
Scyrassa and Lucressia are both Snake Youkai and twins at that. They are tall girls at 6' with thin bodies and flatter chests to accompany their athletic physiques. They both have short, dark green hair and eyes though their eyes are always reptile-like with slit sclera. They wear dark green dresses and heels that are designed like scales. They are the strictly close-quarter combat fighters of the group utilizing basic senjutsuu and the venom they can inject through their fangs.
Sorry for the long A/N. I'll see you next time, Ciao.
