Issei absorbed the final person's life force, the golden energy vanishing as it connected with the gauntlet. He had torn through all of them without remorse, nothing left to kill. This hunger, this lust to destroy was all that mattered now. He didn't care anymore, Issei only wanted to destroy and eat the essence of all living things on Earth. Turning, he sidestepped a fist that tried to hit him before he grabbed it and sent electrical bolts into the flesh.

The creature that attacked him bellowed in pain, Issei let go before leaping into the air, forcing gravity to keep him aloft. The creature was a dragon, a large one at that. The dragon got up; Issei flew next to the beast's leg and punched it. The resounding crunch of bone braking filled the church, as did the roar of the dragon. Issei turned to the dragon's head and slowly walked towards it, his sacred gear glowing brightly with power.

Before he could get another hit in, Issei was blasted into the wall by some unseen force. His body repaired itself as he got up from the rubble, next to the wounded dragon was another dragon, a female of the species that was on all fours.

"So, you're the person that calls himself 'Golden King of Terror', you aren't that terrifying." She growled, Issei hissed before sending a stream of gravity beams at her.

Before she could do anything more, Issei turned and snarled as a female figure stepped from the shadows.

"You!"

The woman smiled before throwing a light spear at him, Issei blocked it with his shield before he sped at her. She would die; she started this and made him a monster. Now her creation would kill her. Time slowed as Issei watched Raynare's face contort in utter fear, he grinned evilly before he punched her head from her shoulders. The headless corpse dropped to the floor as the head flew through the air before landing with a bloody thump on the ruined church floor.

The church was completely silent, then Issei started screaming and holding his head. The most painful sound that only he could hear was hurting him so much and he couldn't do a thing about it. The sound stopped when a pair of soft lips kissed his own, as the world went black.


Issei looked around and found Janet next to him, what had happened?

"So, this is how it ends?" Issei looked up and saw Ghidorah, the three headed hydra was massive.

"Why did Issei enter this bloodlust, Ghidorah?!" Janet growled at the golden dragon, who chuckled evilly.

"That 'bloodlust' as you call it is what I have entered so many times. It's called Insanity, Buné, my insanity. The same insanity that came because of the Big Bang, I'm not completely sane as I may seem. The only reason that I'm even at this level of sanity is because of an anchor, his anchor is you." He hissed, the two devils looked at each other then back at the dragon.

"I'm Issei's anchor? How?"

"Easy, you control his ability to enter this insanity and you are the only thing that can stop him from breaking completely from the stress. Now, I need to remove this world's memory of me and my powers completely and thanks to you, I can." Ghidorah grinned.

Janet looked at the Dragon before asking "If you make everyone forget then you will have no power in this world, people won't fear you!"

Ghidorahs eyes flashed in amusement "You misunderstand me, Buné, in this world, I am nothing more than a movie character. So, I will remove the memory of everyone that knows the full extent of my abilities except for you two and have them only remembered the basics."

"And they are what?" Issei asked, getting a sinking feeling in his stomach.

"That you wield a sacred gear called "Celestial Rage" and it carries the 'Golden King of Terror'. That's all they will know, you and Buné will remember it all as you two will send the signal from your bodies and around the world. I am letting you retain your memories because if you forget then I will never escape this blasted prison!" Ghidorah snarled the last bit, Issei and Janet gulped.

"Now, let's finish this shall we?"


When Issei returned to the world of the living, he found himself in Janet's lap as she was brushing his hair with her fingers. Groaning as he sat up, he looked to his right and saw two huge dragons, one was helping the other.

"Looks like Hyoudou has returned to the living world, I am Tannin and this is Tiamat." The dragon, clearly male, said.

Issei could only nod in the dragons direction before he started feeling light headed, Janet moved his head back to her lap. He clearly was still weak from his bloodlust, all he wanted to do now was sleep but he couldn't. He let himself lay there as he began to wonder why his life just became so hard…

"Ise," Janet whispered in his ear, "I won't let you fall, we are in this together and I need you."

Issei gave her a small smile before he whispered back "I won't leave, Janet, I promise."


The past four months of training himself was unimaginable, but it wasn't like going insane. The reason why he went insane in the first place was because of previous forgotten memories of bullying he had suffered until he met Janet. The memories started after Irina had moved away, children at the park would call him a freak or something along those lines. It got worse as he got older, he had to endure physical beatings from the bullies and no one would help him. He was unable to do anything until his friend saved him and those memories were just under the memory of Raynare's Will you die for me.

But now, here he was, standing in front of his girlfriend, Janet Buné as the person of his anger glared at him. Riser Phenex had not only just insinuated that he could get a marriage contract to the final heir of Buné but that he could beat the 'Golden King of Terror' because he was a weakling. The fact of this matter was that the House of Phenex and the House of Buné had many marriage contracts in the past before the Great War. With Janet being the last of her line, Riser could force her into a marriage contract and get way with it scott free.

The ORC was quiet, they remembered what had happened at the church only months before and didn't want a repeat.

"You disgusting prick," Issei spat "How dare you think you can do whatever you want because you're a Phenex!"

Riser snorted before looking away from him "Not like you could stop me, your nothing but a low class devil. Beneath my notice, even if you're a [Queen] that has a glittery sacred gear that probably isn't even worth mentioning-"

Issei punched the devil into the wall, the golden gauntlet was sparkling and crackling with electricity, the three red gems were so bright that they looked like miniature red suns. Riser was grunting in pain as he got up from the floor, his body twitching from electric sparks sending spasms of pain through him. His healing factor wasn't working and it showed.

Ghidorah spat "You are beneath my notice, Devil. You haven't seen true power or insanity as I have, both of the Heavenly Dragons pale in comparison to me!"

Issei glared at Riser as he lowered his gear, Janet had placed a hand on his shoulder. Katie and Kathrine had killing intent rolling off of them, they may have forgotten who lived in the newly named 'Celestial Rage' but they would not let Riser take Janet from them.

Riser straightened before smirking "Then how about this, Rias and Buné face my entire peerage in a [Rating Game]? If I win then both Rias and Janet marry me, if I lose then the marriage is off."

Grayfia spoke up "This can be done, as the marriage contract to Rias Gremory has the clause that if she beat Riser Phenex in a [Rating Game] the marriage will be called off."

"So, I think 10 days of training will be enough for you both." And with that, Riser Phenex vanished in a transportation circle with the crest of Phenex on it.

Issei looked at Janet before he sighed in defeat. More training, oh joy! He was getting slightly tired of training against his fellow peerage members, now he got to see what the Gremory peerage had.


The first few days of training were fine for the peerage of Janet, who had a new [Bishop]; Kuroka the ex-SS stray class Devil. It had been several weeks before Issei went insane that Kuroka had stumbled upon Janet and Issei, the nekomata was terrifed as she had Stray Devil hunters after her. In an act of complete desperation, she had begged Janet to make her one of peerage. Janet followed through and Kuroka became the first [Bishop] to have three [Mutant Bishop] pieces, as her first two evil pieces had fused to her soul because of her first [Kings] experiments. When the Stray Devil Hunters tried to hurt Kuroka, Janet and Issei blocked them from even trying, telling them if they even touch a hair on the Nekomata's head, they would pay.

The training for the Gremory peerage was downright time wasting, Ghidorah had never shouted so much at the heir of Gremory until the first day of training. It was now official, Riser knew that he could easily beat the Gremory peerage thus the 10 days.

Janet had taken Rias aside and told her that if she wanted to win then she would have to train like the Buné peerage did. So the next day had Janet training Rias, Issei was training Akeno and Kiba, Katie and Kathrine were to train their fellow [Rook] Koneko and finally Kuroka would train Asia, Rias' new [Bishop].

Akeno's natural affinity with lightning helped her when Issei had her go all out with her powers, Kiba was all speed and nothing else, making it so he is defeated by a very powerful attack, shown when Issei clotheslined the [Knight] of Gremory. Akeno was stubborn however as she refused to use her fallen angel heritage, making her a real threat to any Devil but she wouldn't because of her past. It took Ghidorah insulting her until she cracked, Issei was glad he was able to deflect any type of plasma because when Akeno snapped, she hit him with the biggest Holy bolt of plasma that she could muster.

By the time the tenth day was done, Issei was proud of what he had done. The Gremory peerage was brought up to a level that they could be a threat to the Phenex peerage. Grayfia had arrived the next day and transported them to the arena, which seemed like Riser had gone all out to make it so they were crippled. It was the Kuoh Academy, of course it was.

"You all know the plan, now let's win this!" Rias said as everyone agreed before going to their places.

Issei and Akeno had the air, being the most powerful pieces in the game, it was their job to warn and make it so the opposing team couldn't get into their territory. The [Rooks] of Buné had the job of protecting the [Bishops], though it was mostly Asia as she was the healer of the group. Koneko and Kiba were working together and had taken the Gym, the [Rooks] and [Bishops] had the forest and the [Kings] were to stay behind and instruct the others. Simple and effective, to a point that is.

Issei had been floating in the air with Akeno for only a few minutes before Grayfia announced to retirement of Risers [Rook] and 3 [Pawns]. Kiba and Koneko got out just as he crushed the gym via gravity before his senses went off and he created a shield that blocked an explosion from ending Kiba and Koneko early.

"So, you're the boy that Riser has told me about…interesting, he said you could only control lightning. He was wrong" Yubelluna, the Bomb Queen, said with a raised eyebrow.

"There are some things that no one should control, yet some seek to have it anyway." Issei said, looking at the purple haired devil before he grinned "Yet, some are just too foolish to realize that power is not even need, only their will. Akeno!"

Akeno raised her hands and multiple bolts of holy lightning rained down, Riser's [Queen] manage to dodge most of them but a few hit her regardless. Issei rushed forward and punched the woman in the gut, she coughed up blood as a result but he wasn't finished. His punch was timed so that he could get an accurate read on his opponent's gravity before he affected it, she was sent flying back and crashed into the earth.

He thought that was enough to retire the [Queen] but she had Phenex tears on her and used them, grinning at him.

"Looks like you failed, little [Queen] of Buné" She giggled.

Issei wasn't finished yet, he sent Gravity Beams at her as he let Akeno charge up for another destructive storm of holy lightning. Yubelluna dodged his attacks, but he kept sending them at her. He had learned how to absorb cosmic and solar rays and transform them into energy that he could use, since this alternate dimension was made of cosmic energy, he could constantly recharge.

"I'm ready!" Akeno called out, the only warning Issei got before the sky opened up with holy energy and this time, Yubelluna wouldn't escape.

Issei forced Riser's [Queen] pieces gravity so that she would be a sitting duck on the ground, the Holy Lightning struck true and the opposing piece retired. The problem was Issei heard that every other piece besides him, Akeno, Rias, Janet and Riser. He and Akeno looked at each other before transporting themselves to where their [Kings] were, finding the two fighting Riser, who was laughing.

"You think that this will do any good? Let me show you how it's done!" Riser made a massive fire ball and sent it at the two [Kings].

Issei put himself in the path of the fire, much to the surprise of everyone but Janet. The fire went out and revealed the form of Issei standing, panting heavily as he had used his sacred gear to block the fire and the force behind the attack was extreme. The glowing metal was smoking slightly, Riser raised his eyebrow.

Issei hissed before he spat "I will not allow you to harm my [King] and girlfriend!"

Riser snorted "Your about to retire anyway, you've failed, can you see that?"

The Phenex gathered his flame once again and threw it at Issei, who stood his ground as the ball of fire exploded.

"[BALANCE BREAKER!]"

"[MONSTER X: GHIDORAH MAIL!]"

The smoked cleared and Issei had vanished, it was the sound of electricity that drew everyone's attention towards the air.

Floating in the air was a humanoid beast, black skin covered in bone white armor. Four glowing red eyes glared at Riser as a long forked tail swished back and forth slowly. The power that flowed off of it was intoxicating and utterly alien, the monster's thin tongue slithered out of the black toothed mouth before the creature spoke.

"You've made a massive mistake by threating my [King], Riser! Now, you must bear with the consequences!"


Credit for the name of Ghidorahs sacred gear, Celestial Rage, goes to Thunder Dragon.