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Speaking: "Ehh?"
Thinking: 'And whose fault is that?'
Oraels Sacred Gear: [My bad, partner.]
Chapter 3
Orael Valefors POV
Things could be better right now. I mean, being surrounded by a dozen or so fallen angels along with two mythical wolves isn't the worst situation I've ever been in, but it certainly ranks pretty high. Mostly because I also have a defenseless, unconscious human laying behind me that I have to protect as well. What I was most interested in at the moment though is how Björn managed to convince a bunch of fallen angels to do his dirty work.
"Fallen angels, I have a proposition for all of you!" I shouted out so that all could hear me.
A middle aged looking man wearing a violet trench coat, black pants and a black fedora partially covering his face took a step forward. "What do you want devil scum?"
"Before we begin, I shall give all of you the chance to join me! Become my minions, and I promise all of you a good, fun life of eternal servitude!"
Some of them looked at me like I was crazy while others outright laughed at my suggestion.
"I don't believe you realize the situation you're in right now, devil." The older looking man said with a pitying smirk on his face.
"Well you can't say I didn't give you the option afterwards now..." looking back and forth at all of them I thought about how I should take them all out. "What did the man from before tell you?"
"The lowly human from before told me of a very interesting story of eight sacred gears containing immense power, able to be wielded by anyone as they were not created by the God from the bible. Inside those eight sacred gears are the evil dragons, brutal creatures with enough power to rival ultimate class devils with the three strongest of them all having the power to kill even a Maou or a God. The weakest of them is sealed within the human behind you, Vritra the evil prison dragon currently classified as one of the five dragon kings." The man stated as his smirk turned into a wide grin.
"And you...the wielder of one of those three most dangerous creatures with the power to kill a God or Maou. You are the wielder of Apophis, the evil eclipse dragon of chaos and darkness."
I couldn't prevent a devilish smile from appearing on my face as he told me of all of this. I stopped containing my aura and let it rush over the park, watching all of the fallen angels shudder as they created holy spears in their hands.
"And you're not afraid?"
The older looking mans expression stiffened as he created blue holy spears in each of his hands. "He also told us that you have yet to achieve balance breaker with your sacred gear. If there were ever a time to kill you and take the sacred gear, it would be now before you can become more powerful."
'That bastard knows that I still haven't achieved balance breaker yet...this will be interesting. I know you've been itching for a fight, you ready?'
[Show no mercy, I've been waiting for this for too long.] Apophis said with the anxiousness obvious in his voice.
'It looks like you lucked out then, I wouldn't be able to hold back even if i wanted to with this many of them on top of the wolves.'
"First things first." I bit my thumb causing it to bleed slightly as I summoned a magic circle on the ground in front of me, slamming my hand down onto it. "Akuma-Jutsu: Hebi o shōkan! (summon serpent)" I shouted as a large golden serpent roughly three meters in length materialized before me. "Zurui, do me a favor and keep these gentleman busy while I take my acquaintance to safety."
"Leaving me with the dirty work eh?" My familiar/contracted mythical creature groaned while looking over at the fallen angels.
"Oh hush, it'll only be for a minute or so while I hide this guy behind a tree."
"How did you summon that thing!?" One of the fallen ones shouted while staring at the large serpent nervously.
"It's one of the perks to being part of a clan of ninjas, now please excuse me for a moment!" I shouted back as I picked up Saji and threw him over my shoulder, running for the trees next to the park. I could hear the screams of fallen angels coming from behind me as I ran into the group of trees, laying Saji down behind one of them carefully.
As I set him down and started running back towards the center of the park I looked to see how Zurui was doing. Black feathers were scattered across the ground as it looked like he was chewing on something.
"Well don't you work fast..." I stated trying not to pay attention to the scene in front of me.
"Two down boss." He said as he slithered his way back to my side, all of the fallen angels took the opportunity to back away and distance themselves from us.
"Good job, I'll handle the rest of the fallen angels. Keep Björns pets busy in the mean time, chase them off somewhere else." I said to him as he bolted towards Geri and Freki.
"Dohnaseek! This isn't such a good idea, we don't know enough about this guy to take him on!" A short blonde girl shouted to the older looking man I was talking with earlier. Her blonde hair was styled into twin short side ponytails and she had light blue eyes wearing a pink gothic lolita dress with thigh-high white socks, black shoes and a large black bow on top of her hair.
"Shut up Mittelt, we can't pass up an opportunity like this! If we kill them, we can even try and take their sacred gears for ourselves with Raynares help!" The one called Dohnaseek shouted back angrily. That poor kid is the only one thinking logically I guess.
'Is it just me or does that kid look familiar to you?'
[How am I supposed to remember? Most humans and other humanoid beings all look similar to me and it doesn't help considering all of the places we've been.]
'I dunno, I think I've seen her before...She reminds me of someone I've seen with Penemue. If Penemue is close with that girl it might cause even more trouble if we hurt her.'
[Well there's your problem, you think too much. Don't think, just kill them all and worry about the consequences afterwards.]
'That's so typical you! That mentality has gotten us into too much trouble to rely on it all the time.'
I sighed as I continued waiting there for the fallen angels to make the first move. "Are all of you going to just stand there and wait for me to kill you or would you attack me already?" I said out loud while waving my hand in a taunting manner.
Dohnaseek looked at me with an annoyed expression on his face before lifting his weapons. "Quite the mouth you have on you while still being this outnumbered, devil scum. Let's see you live an attack from my spears!" He screamed as he threw them straight at me.
"[Chaotic Shift.]" I spoke as both of my hands started radiating a black aura. I stepped to the side and held both of my hands up towards the spears, catching one in each hand as they passed by me. "I think you mean my spears?" I said with a smirk as both started to give off the black aura that was on my hands.
All of the fallen angels looked at me with shock as Dohnaseek spoke up. "How are you holding my spears, their holy properties can cause severe burns to even high class devils!" He said looking baffled.
"I thought I told you, they're my spears. Why would my own weapons hurt me?"
"That's an impressive trick, but we still overwhelm you in numbers." Dohnaseek said as he and all the others threw more holy spears and the two wolves Geri and Freki were currently in battle with Zurui as they distanced themselves further from us.
"[Shift x10]" I spoke as both spears I was holding disappeared and ten copies of the two formed floating all around me. The twenty spears in total shot forward towards the incoming spears and collided with them, the remaining ones going on to stab through two of the fallen angels who fell to the ground moments later. The remaining fallen angels were able to dodge the rest as they took to the skies and spread out.
they started raining down holy spears from the sky as I tried my best to dodge them, sprinting left to right and rolling away when needed.
[Are you going to keep running around like a chicken with its head cut off or are you going to do something about this?]
'Easy for you to say, you get to chill in the sacred gear looking pretty while I do all the dirty work.'
"Akuma-Jutsu: Mabayui bakari no kiri! (Blinding mist)" I shouted as I created two magic circles in front of my hands and a thick fog shot out of them, quickly covering the entirety of the park. "Akuma-Jutsu: Janome. (Serpents eye)" I finished as my vision increased, allowing me to see farther through the current fog.
I summoned two more magic circles in front of my hands as I created two ice daggers from them and started running around to take them out. While I'm using both Akuma-Jutsu and Chaotic Shift I can easily handle them all, but the problem is I can't maintain all of this for very long. I'll have five minutes tops to end this before my stamina is completely drained.
I spotted a fallen angel flying above and threw one of the daggers towards his two wings, stabbing holes through them as I watched him start to fall slowly towards the ground. He spotted me charging at him and created a holy spear holding it in front of him to block the incoming attack.
"[Shift]" I said as a clone appeared and ran towards the fallen angel with me. I grabbed onto the fallen angels spear with my free hand and tried stabbing at him with my ice dagger but he grabbed onto my arm with his free arm. While his hands were tied up my clone came around behind him and stabbed him in the back with its own ice dagger.
The fallen angels face contorted in pain as I ripped the spear from his hand and immediately swung at his chest, slashing it open watching him disintegrate. The clone disappeared as I continued running around, narrowly dodging a spear being thrown at me from another fallen angel as a second spear grazed by my shoulder.
"Oi, what the hell! That hurt!" I screamed as I held up the spear in my hand. "[Shift x5]" The spear from my hand disappeared and five formed floating around me before shooting off towards the two fallen angels flying above. Three of the spears stabbed through one of them causing him to disintegrate as the other fallen angel was grazed by one and dodged the last.
He tried flying away but was stopped when I threw my remaining dagger towards him. "[Shift x10]" as the dagger shot towards him it disappeared and ten copies of it started shooting towards the fallen angel. All of them stabbed through his body as I could hear him scream in pain, falling through the sky as he disintegrated in mid-air.
I continued searching for more of them as I spotted the short blonde girl Dohnaseek called Mittelt standing next to the fountain with a spear in front of her looking as if she was guarding herself.
[Take her out, shes alone now.]
'Don't be hasty, she hasn't even hinted at being hostile yet.'
[That doesn't matter, why can't we just kill her? She's the enemy and we haven't been able to have fun in too long!] Apophis shouted.
'She may not seem it but the aura shes giving off is as strong as Dohnaseeks, stronger then the rest they're with. If she isn't interested in fighting let's just take out the rest instead of having one more problem to deal with. Plus if she truly is close to Penemue then we should avoid hurting her at all costs, I don't want to deal with her when she's pissed off again.' I told Apophis as I shuddered at the thought of what that woman would do to me.
I could hear Apophis sigh as I continued looking around for more fallen angels. [This is the punishment I get for being sealed inside of someone like you. We never have fun together anymore!]
I couldn't believe what I was hearing right now...
'What the hell do you mean we don't have fun anymore!?'
[We've been doing nothing but petty missions recently!]
What about when we tried stealing from Mephisto Pheles' mansion and had to battle our way out after being found? Or when we took on the current descendent of the hero Heracles with my bare fists and won after I choked him out!'
[Yeah those times were fun but they were ages ago! When was the last time we did something fun recently!?]
'Have you already forgotten about when we broke into the Celtic god Lugh's territory in Ireland and tried stealing his spear! We almost had THE Luin of Celtchar in our grasps, and I'm already in the midst of planning another attempt at it!'
[We could've had it the first time if you didn't stop to save that annoying Nekomata! I'm the deification of chaos dammit, we should be doing things like that more often!]
'Ugh...I bet the other evil dragon hosts don't have to deal with this much whining.'
[Oh, well I see how it is! Why don't you just go talk to some of the other evil dragons then, see if I care!]
'You know what, no! We are not doing this right now, we have fallen angels and mythical creatures to slay! We're finishing this conversation later tonight!'
[Hmph.]
I stopped for a second to collect myself and calm down. Sheesh, I truly wonder what the other evil dragons are like sometimes. I know Aži Dahāka has a few screws loose and Crom Cruach has a rivalry with Apophis, but besides those two I haven't talked to the rest, only their hosts. Apophis and I argue like we're brothers but it took a long time to reach that point. I can still remember the constant battles we'd get into whenever I'd fall asleep until we both realized we had some common interests, but that story is for another time.
"There you are devil!" I heard Dohnaseek shout as he threw one of his holy spears towards me. I narrowly dodged it by rolling to the left but I only set myself up. Five fallen angels swooped down and landed all around me, surrounding me as they readied their holy spears to throw.
'I think I'm gonna try something risky.' I said to Apophis as I felt around in my pocket to make sure what I was looking for was there.
[I swear, you rely on the house of Phenex way too much at times like these.] He chastised me as I readied myself for the incoming attacks.
'You say that like it's a bad thing, we're lucky to even have this connection considering who we are.'
"Any last words?" One of the fallen angels said with a smirk as they prepared to throw their spears.
I grinned as I held my arms out to my sides, making myself a perfect target. "Let's see what those dinky things you call weapons are really made of."
They all narrowed their eyes as they threw their spears at me, all five of them piercing through my chest and stomach.
"Gah!" I shouted as my face contorted in pain and I fell to my knees. Blood started rushing out of my wounds as my vision started blurring immediately. Note to self, don't defend against a bunch of holy weapons with your body.
"Wheres that confidence now, devil!" One of them shouted as they started laughing and a few more flew down when they found us.
The fog started to dissipate and my eye sight returned to normal, signalling that my magic reserves and stamina were running low due to the damage I just took. Thankfully I could tell that the summoning I used on Zurui was still present. Dohnaseek walked up to me with a shit eating grin on his face.
"I thought you would of at least put up more of a fight than this...I have to say I'm quite disappointed." He finished as he kicked me across the face and sent me flying back a few feet as I was now on my hands and knees.
'Just a few more seconds...'
The fallen angels seemed to relax now that I was no longer able to fight back. All of them had joined the others to surround me now that the fog had dissipated.
"If you want to blame someone, blame the bastard who sealed away such a ridiculous creature inside of a sacred gear." Dohnaseek said as he created another spear in his hand, readying to throw it at me and finish this.
"Dohnaseek...there's something you should know about me before this battle ends." I said as I got back onto just my knees.
"And what would that be?" He said looking amused at my current condition.
Uncontrollable laughter left my mouth as I looked down towards the spears impaled through my body. Dohnaseek looked annoyed as he couldn't figure out why I could possibly be laughing.
"What's so funny?"
"Well you see...I don't fight fair." Magic circles appeared all around my body before chains of ice shot out of them. The chains wrapped around all of the fallen angels as one of them also wrapped around Mittelt, yanking her towards me. All of them looked shocked by my sudden attack as they tried breaking free of the chains.
"What are you doing!?" Mittelt shouted as she now laid on the ground in front of me wrapped up in one of the chains.
"This. [Shift x10]" All five of the spears that were stabbed through me disappeared before ten copies of each, fifty in total appeared surrounding all of the fallen ones.
All of them looked shocked at my sudden attack, frantically trying to break free of the chains holding them still. I smirked as I began to stand up. "I believe this is check mate."
All of the spears shot towards the fallen angels creating an absolute slaughter. None of them had a chance at dodging as the spears stabbed through all of them besides Mittelt who was currently laying in front of me with a look of terror on her face. Screams could be heard as one by one they all started to disintegrate. The chains disappeared letting them all free, but it was already too late for them.
Dohnaseek was the last one who had yet to die, laying on the ground a bloody mess as he looked at me with a spiteful grin. "E...Even if we all die here...so will you. Your injuries are far too severe!" He screamed as he started laughing.
"True, the injuries I have right now are fatal." I said as I pulled a few small vials out of my Jeans pocket. "But not after I use these life savers right here." I finished with a smile as I poured the phoenix tears all over my wounds.
The wounds immediately started to close up, stopping the blood from further staining my clothes red. Dohnaseek looked shocked as he pointed his finger frantically at me.
"P...Phoenix tears! That's not fair!" He shouted as his eyes started to close.
"I warned you Dohnaseek, I don't fight fair."
With the others all gone it was now just Mittelt and I, Zurui was still somewhere in the area taking care of Geri and Freki I can only presume. I'll admit that trick was a bit sloppy as it ended up requiring me to deplete the majority of my stamina, but at least it allowed me to take care of things quicker. Looks like I'll have to be making a phone call sometime soon to get into connect with the house of Phenex again, with those phoenix tears gone I'm running too low for comfort. I summoned my pocket dimension and rummaged my hand around inside of it to see how many vials I had left while Mittelt watched me anxiously.
"I-If you do anything to me then my subordinates from the Grigori will avenge me!" She stuttered out after finally giving up at breaking out of the chain.
"Are you sure about that? Was it the Grigori that ordered you to attack two sacred gear wielders that have shown no signs of threat or hostility until now provoked?"
She looked lost for words as she turned her head away to the side knowing I was right. I'm sure Azazel isn't too fond of me but he has no idea that I'm in Japan. He would have never given these fallen angels orders to kill Saji who hasn't even shown any signs of being an enemy. I mean the kids a regular human for satans sake, he'd sooner try kidnapping him and training him instead of having him killed. This was simply a matter of them trying to steal our sacred gears.
"What are you going to do to me then? I'm not afraid of some stupid devil." Mittelt spouted as she glared into my eyes.
"First of all my name is Orael, not 'stupid devil' and here's a quick tip kid, hiding fear from an evil dragon is pointless. We can sense even the tiniest amounts on people." I said as I grabbed her to stand her up as she couldn't on her own. She was shaking as my hands were on her and she hid her face from me. "Now it's time for your punishment for attacking me." I said in a teasing manner while grinning wickedly.
She let out a small yelp as she tried to break free of the chains again. "W-W-Wait! It wasn't my idea, it was all Dohnaseek! He told us to do it all, really!"
"Prepare yourself..." I whispered into her ear making her jump slightly as I stood behind her. "For the worst noogie you'll ever receive!" I shouted while cackling manically.
"What!? What are you doing, stop it!" She cried as the ultimate noogie began.
The next five or so minutes consisted of me practicing my bad guy laugh while Mittelt cried for me to stop.
"S-Stop treating me like a kid! This is insulting!" She shouted while receiving her punishment.
"Well...I supposed I've had my fun." I let her go and snapped my fingers, letting Mittelt free as the chains finally disappeared. She fell to the ground face red with embarrassment.
"What the hell was that for!? This is because I'm short, right? I'm not some little kid you know, don't treat me like one!"
I pulled on her ear forcing her to stand up. "Stop complaining like a little kid and I'll stop treating you like one." Ahh, teasing others is always a good form of enjoyment.
"F-Fine! I'm sorry, just stop it already!" I let go of her ear to receive one of the biggest pouts I think I've ever seen.
"Hmm...that apology didn't sound too sincere. Maybe I should contact Penemue to let her know what you've been up to recently."
Mittelt's eyes shot wide as she stared at me in disbelief. "You know Penemue-sama?"
"You could say we're friendly acquaintances."
[Hoh, friendly acquaintances eh? That's an interesting way to put it.] Apophis spoke up for her to hear from the aura of Chaotic Shift still on my hands.
"Don't start with me right now!"
[Hmph, this got boring anyways. I'm going to sleep, wake me up when something interesting happens.] He said as the aura disappeared from my hands and Chaotic Shift unsummoned itself.
"Was that who I think it is?" Mittelt said with disbelief again while now staring at me seeming captivated.
"Unfortunately..." I said with a sigh. "He's not too bad when you get to know him, he's just cranky at times. But that's not the point, so you are close with Penemue?"
"Of course, I served under her directly while I lived at the Grigori!"
"I thought as much, you looked familiar when I spotted you earlier. Don't take me sparing you personally, I owe Penemue a lot and this is my way of starting to pay her back."
"So you're going to let me go?"
"Well that was the idea, but I can't really just let you leave now that you know what I'm capable of. It'd be troubling for others to find out who I am this soon."
The color drained from her face as I finished speaking. "Wait, I have an idea!"
"Hmm? And what would that be?"
"Let me stay with you, that way you can keep an eye on me." She said with a hopeful smile on her face.
Her idea caught me off guard to say the least. I'm living in a small apartment while I'm here and I wasn't really intending on having anyone ever so much as even enter it. Sighing to myself I figured it couldn't be all that bad, at least this way I can get information on what the fallen angels are doing here and earn brownie points with Penemue for the future.
"On one condition. You have to lick my finger if you're going to be staying with me." I said as I bit my pointer finger just hard enough to draw blood.
Mittelt's face turned bright red with blush as she avoided eye contact. "W-Why do I need to lick your finger? Pervert!"
I could only sigh as I held my finger in front of her mouth. "Get your mind out of the gutter, I've made it so that when you drink my blood it will bind you to me."
"What do you mean by bind? Like you mean I'll become your servant?" She asked nervously.
"Pretty much, but don't think of it that way. It's only for safety precautions as I can command you to do whatever I want when you become bound to me. You're free to do as you please as long as you don't attack me in the future and answer any questions I ask you."
"Okay..." She muttered timidly as she licked my finger, causing a dark green aura to envelop her before fading away.
"And with that we are bound together. I have to go check on the human from earlier now."
"Thank you for sparing me Orael-sama! I promise to be the best servant ever!" She said giddily.
'Talk about a quick change in attitude...' I thought to myself as I began to walk back towards where I had hid Saji.
As I began walking a sharp pain ran through my body at the places where I had been stabbed by the spears earlier, forcing me to take a knee as I tried to fight through the sudden jolts.
Mittelt ran to my side and tried to help me up. "What's wrong? I thought that liquid you used earlier healed your wounds?" She said with a worried expression.
"Phoenix tears only heal physical wounds, the holy properties of the weapons are still poisonous to devils. Heh...in all honesty if that plan hadn't worked earlier I would have been in serious trouble."
"Will you be alright?"
"Yeah, I just need time to recover. It doesn't help I'll be going back to school after this though. I might just go back to my place instead." I muttered while looking at my current condition. My clothes were stained red and the small graze over my shoulder was still there as I couldn't waste phoenix tears on a minor injury.
Mittelt helped me walk over to where I had hid Saji behind a tree. At first I couldn't find him so I continued to look for a while longer. After a minute or so things seemed a bit off as I could've sworn I hid him right around here. I crouched down to the ground and closed my eyes, focusing on the surrounding area to see if I could pick up traces of leftover energy to see who had been around here. Balling my hand into a fist and punching the tree next to me I finally realized what had happened.
"What's wrong Orael-sama?"
"There are traces of devils being here recently..." I said angrily as I stood up. "The devils who are in this town took the human I put here while I was in the middle of that fight earlier."
"Do you have an idea to who the devils were?"
"Yes, I do. There are only two groups of devils around here and both of them attend Kuoh Academy with only one of those two groups knowing that I wasn't in school currently."
"Why would they take the human? I thought he wasn't strong?"
"He isn't, at least not yet. One of the other high class devils probably intends on reincarnating him to make him a strong part of their peerage..." I walked back towards the center of the park to see Zurui slithering towards us with both Geri and Freki beaten and battered on his back. "They have absolutely no idea who they're messing with. If she thinks she can just steal away one of my kind and turn him into a servant without consequences, she's very mistaken." I said coldly while eying over the two wolves laying unconscious before me.
"So one of the heiresses took the human away while we were busy, eh? What's the plan then boss?" Zurui said as his size shrunk considerably to the point where he was only around a foot in length now. Zurui can only maintain his size as long as I'm funneling demonic magic into him so when we're not in battle he shrinks back to his normal familiar size.
With the two wolves Geri and Freki now laying in front of me I summoned two magic circles surrounding them. "It's simple, really. We just have to get even."
Authors Notes: And with that Orael is pretty pissed off and is scheming up plans for revenge. I'll be trying to speed up the pacing for the next couple of chapters as I know many of you have read the Asia arc a million bazillion times already lol. I'll try to make it interesting and fresh while speeding things up as I have a few plans for the Riser arc that I'd like to get to soon.
