Lord Longinus

Chapter 4: Trouble

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Issei awoke with his face in a familiar position, but it was slightly unlike he remembered it. While last time they had been large, soft and firm, this time they were modestly sized, still soft, and a little bit squishy but not saggy. Opening his eyes, he saw blond locks rather than the crimson ones he was so used to. The morning daze leaving him quickly, he recalled the event of the previous evening.

After being Asia home, his mother had cooked them a nice meal and Asia had eaten as if she had t on days. After the meal was over, Issei took Asia up to his room. He offered her the bed and claimed the floor for himself. Of course she didn't like that, instead dragging Issei off the floor and onto the bed to sleep next to her. It seemed the young girl had grown quite attached to Issei in the short time they knew each other. Somehow, the pair had ended up in a compromising position through the course of the night. Not that Issei minded, in fact he enjoyed it. Despite losing the brunt of his perverseness, he still had a healthy appreciation for the female form.

Rising slowly, as not to disturb Asia, Issei changed into some sweats and defended the stairs. He was intent on finding himself a good breakfast.

About half an hour later, Asia found her way into the kitchen as well. She was stumbling slightly and looked as if she had just survived a tornado, but still beautiful. The younger girl went right over to Issei and took two pieces of his toast, sat down and began munching on them. Issei stared at her incredulously for a moment, then went back to his food. Until they had both finished, they sat in silence.

Soon enough Issei broke it. "So, how'd you sleep last night?"

"Great! I just can't believe I'm part of the Church again... But Issei, how are you involved with the church? I don't recognize you?" The fact that she didn't know how or why Issei took her back into the church only now hitting her. Honestly it caused an uneasy feeling to take root in her stomach. What if it was a lie, what if she wasn't really a part of the Church again? "You didn't lie to me did you!?"

"Of course not Asia, I have more say in what happens in the church than anybody. I'll show you soon ok, just trust me. What I will never do is lie to you." Issei smiled benevolently, something that couldn't just be faked by anyone.

That action cause Asia to calm herself down, she knew even deeper down than the uneasiness that he was telling the truth. "Ok Issei, I'll trust you. But please, show me soon! Oh, and what part in the Church am I to take?"

"I will Asia, and you'll find out when I show you. Let's go on that tour I promised you now." Issei stood up and offered her a hand.

Excitement showing on all her features, Asia immediately took the hand. She really wanted to get to now the town. But Issei stopped heras he realized something. "But first we need to fix you up a bit."

Issei snapped his fingers and Asia's bedraggled appearance became picture perfect once again. In addition her nun clothing was replaced by a beautiful white dress. Issei smiled at his work and looked up to see Asia's amazed expression.

Shock, surprise, joy and several other emotions displayed themselves plainly on Asia's face. "Ho.. How did you do that!?"

Issei looked at Asia for a moment before realizing why she was so shocked, even to the supernatural world what he had just done was considered a miracle. But he shrugged it off. "It's part of my position in the Church. It comes with a few advantages."

Offering her his arm, after snapping himself into a nice pair of dress pants and a button up, Issei began out the door. This time Asia would actually get her tour.

The tour had quickly evolved into a date of sorts. In addition to showing Asia her way around town, they went shopping, played at the arcade, went to the movies and eventually got lunch. Now they had made their way to the park and Issei had a bad feeling, but dismissed it as feelings provoked by the events that had taken place here in the past.

It was in the late afternoon, the sun shone high in the sky with hardly any clouds to block it from view and the temperature was mild. A beautiful day to visit the park with the family, yet very few even seemed like they wanted to get close. It was an odd occurrence but no reason to worry, and Issei was not in the mood to let suspicion take over.

Slowly Issei led Asia towards a special spot he had found, it was a wooden bench just inside the tree line of a pathway. It provided a bit of privacy, was very comfortable and was surrounded by beautiful scenery. The perfect place for Issei to end the tour slash date.

As they sat a comfortable silence enveloped them and they sat in it for several hours, simply enjoying each other company. Soon enough though, Issei ended the silence, it was getting late.

"So, how was your day Asia? Did you have a good time?" He knew she had, she had been praising God for every little thing that happened all day long and it was all genuine. Being God meant he knew exactly what she felt and it bothered him slightly, it felt like an invasion of her privacy. But Sanctus reassured him that it was completely alright and that sometimes being God and doing the right thing meant an invasion of privacy or a bit of violence.

Unaware of the thoughts raging inside Issei, Asia continued the conversation. "It was great! I had a lot of fun today Issei!"

A smile graced his lips and he patted her head softly. "That's good Asia, maybe we'll go again sometime."

"Really!? Can we?" An overly excited expression took root on her face.

"Yes, we can. Now let's head home, it's starting to get..." Just as he was about to finish his sentence, his earlier suspicions were proven as a spear of corrupt light pierced his abdomen. He began to cough up blood, it didn't cause him very much pain but it still damaged his body.

As soon as she saw the spear, Asia attempted to remove it and heal the wound. "Issei!"

Turning his head to see his attacker, he saw the same Fallen that had attempted to kill him. Raynare stood about five foot behind him, sneering at him. Deep in her eyes there was a sliver of doubt, but covering it was surprise at seeing him alive and anger at him. "Surprised to see me, Raynare?"

His voice was hoarse and he coughed up blood, but it still got the message across. She responded by sneering some more and speaking to Asia. "If you come with me I'll spare your little friend girly. So how about it, are you coming?"

Of course there was only one answer to Asia, and it was yes. She could never let Issei die for her, not after he had already done for her. So she walked over to the Fallen. "Yes, I'm coming."

Then she turned and spoke to Issei for what she thought was the last time. "Thanks for everything Issei, you gave me everything I could have asked for, if only for a day. I owe you everything Issei, goodbye."

Immediately after, Raynare grabbed hold of Asia and disappeared in a flurry of black feathers. At the exact same time Issei had yanked out the spear and crushed it, his anger skyrocketing. He would hunt Raynare down if it was the last thing he did.

Issei stood before the abandon church located in Kuoh. Beside him stood Rias and Akeno, the two people he trusted most out of all the supernatural beings at Kuoh. Rias because they hung out all the time and were closer than people would think from two that had only meet a few days ago. Akeno because she was usually around when Rias was, and despite the lack of a strong connection between them like he had with Rias, Issei had immediately taken a liking to the girl.

He had spent the past four hours tracking Raynare to this church, then going back and telling Rias about it. She of course wanted to come along, with her entire peerage. Issei put a stop to that immediately, he was going to do this by himself. He only wanted Rias there to back him up in case something happened. But she wanted Akeno there at the very least, and she wasn't budging. So he let her tag along, he wasn't in the mood for arguing.

It had taken him quite a while to track Raynare, she was excellent at running away and he was still learning to follow residual energy signatures. In those hours anything could have happened to Asia, and he wasn't about to let anything else start. So he was anxious to say the least.

But even as he stood there in anxiety, he marveled at the fact that neither of the Devils seemed to even notice the concentrated holy energy seeping out of himself. Despite the overwhelming power, it was completely ignored. Sanctus and Ddraig had told him that taking command of God's system would give him control over such things, but he hadn't imagined it would be to so large a degree.

He was snapped out of his thought when Rias spoke to him. "Alright Issei, you said you wanted to go in alone right but now that we're here I don't think it's a good idea. I can sense some very powerful people in there and there are lots of them, you don't have enough experience to take them all on."

Frowning slightly, Issei spoke calmly but it was laced with power from deep within. "I might not be very experienced Rias, but what I lack there I more than make up for in raw power. I'm going in alone, and that's final."

Sighing, Rias relented. She hadn't realized his power until now, and as she heard his voice a shiver ran down her spine. "Ok Issei, just be careful. We can't have you getting hurt again after all."

Issei nodded, remembering the spear wound from earlier. Though it had healed extremely quickly after removal of the spear, he didn't want to do it again. "Ok then, I'm going in. You wait for me here, I'll call if I need anything."

Nodding, both Rias and Akeno walked over to a nearby tree and leaned against. They watched solemnly as Issei walked into the abandoned church.

As Issei approached the doors, he felt the power of four Fallen and several stray priests. But only one was actually in the ground floor, the rest were all underground. Kicking in the doors, he looked up at the source of the first signal. It was a young man with silvery white hair and crazy eyes sitting in the rafters.

The man jumped from the ceiling, landing with a small thud. He grinned insanely at Issei, not in the least bit worried about him. He couldn't sense Issei's power at all. "Awwwww! I was hoping for something stronger than yooooouuuuuu! I can't even feel anything coming from you! Your not even as strong as those shitty devil-kuuuuuns! This isn't going to be fun at allllll."

Looking at the crazy priest blankly, Issei decided not to waste his time. With a bit of concentration, he formed a gold and white pair of gauntlets and boots around his limbs. Lunging forward before the priest could utter another word, Issei struck him squarely in the chin knocking him out cold.

Rising from his stance, Issei looked to the alter he could sense a stairwell behind and willed it to move aside. As it slide over, a set of stairs was revealed. Immediately he jumped down them, landing in front of a door. On the other side he could hear anguished screams so loud he was surprised he hadn't heard them before. He could also hear Asia praying to God for forgiveness and salvation, but also to see him one more time. It broke his heart.

Then rage consumed him, and he tore through the sealed doorway and into the next chamber. Inside were countless priests standing behind four Fallen, in front of them was a silver cross with Asia strapped to the front. Sickly green lines of magic covered the cross, seeming to drain something from Asia. He immediately knew what it was, and that he was already to late. Asia's time as a human was over. But he would let that time end in such a way.

Without bothering to announce himself, Issei began pummeling the priests silently. Soon enough the were all unconscious and the Fallen had no idea he was there. Looking at the four Fallen he quickly measured their worth. Raynare of course was easy, she was the strongest and certainly the least holy. The lone male was also quite simple, he was the second strongest and seemed to be enjoying each and every moment of Asia's suffering. But the other two women were different. They were of equal strength and both seemed to hate every moment that Asia suffered, they had looks of doubt, worry, sympathy and even flashes of rebellion on their faces. They didn't want to have any part in this, but they also couldn't disobey the stronger two. If he could, he would spare them.

Ending his analysis, Issei jumped at the lone male and landed on his back. Grabbing hold of his wings he tore them out, catching the others attention. He quickly thrust his fist into the male's skull and retracted it. He jumped next onto the still stunned Raynare. She put up more of a fight though. Just as he landed he was pushed back and a light spear was launched at him, one which he crushed with his left hand. Going back onto the offensive, Issei didn't even give her time to blink, let alone speak. He brought his armor clad hand up and punched her in the throat, crushing her windpipe. He knocked her aside and unconscious. He moved past the other two Fallen who had taken up defensive positions and up to the cross.

Quickly removing Asia, he spoke to the other two Fallen. "You two are free to go, I know you didn't want any of this to happen. Leave here before the Devils find you, I might be friends with them but I can't change their opinions of you so quickly."

Without even a word the two left, to where no one could know. As soon as they had left the chamber, Issei carried Asia up into the sanctuary bridal style. Once he was there he sat her down on a pew and gently woke her. "I..Issei? Is that you?"

Smiling down at her, Issei replied. "Yes, yes it is Asia. How are you feeling?"

Grimacing slightly at the pain she was once again feeling, Asia spoke her answer. "It hurts everywhere, but I'll be fine as long as your here with me."

Widening his eyes slightly at the statement, Issei began to give her an option besides imminent death. "Asia, you aren't going to make it much longer. That ritual tore your soul open and it will kill you if I don't do something. So I have an offer for you. I can resurrect you as an Angel before you die, if you so wish. But I can't heal you any other way, so it's up to you."

Shedding a few tears in both joy and pain, Asia nodded. But she was not without one question. "Issei, are you God?"

His only answer was an elated smile and a hand placed on her chest. As his hand made contact with her chest, her clothing burnt away in that place allowing skin to skin contact. A magnificent circle of pure white holy energy sprouted from his hand onto the ground, it spread all the way around the church property. An aura of Godly proportions erupted from Issei and spread throughout the town. "Asia Argento, as a firm and true believer in the Biblical God, I, Ceryx, do hereby resurrect you into my family as a child of the light. Live purely and for God's sake."

As Issei started the chant, the church grounds began to mend themselves and everything went back to it proper place. It was no longer desecrated ground, but instead a holy sanctuary.

Unknown to Issei, both Rias and Akeno had entered the room just as he had begun the chant and witnessed everything after.

As he finished the chant, Asia rose into the air and white and golden robes replaced her dress. A golden halo formed around her head and six golden wings sprouted from her back. She was not only an Angel, but an Archangel. Her faith was strong enough to give her six wings golden, and with practice she would gain another six.

Snapping her eyes open, Asia looked at Issei. A look of absolute adoration appearing and growing by the second. "I knew you'd save me, my Lord!"

"Of course I did, what kind of God would I be if I didn't. Anyway, don't start calling me "my Lord" or "Sire" like Michael did. I'm just Issei Hyoudou, unless we're in a formal setting or a different factions territory." As he said this he enveloped her in a gentle hug, providing her with a bit of support. That was also when he spotted the girls watching, he looked at them questioningly. They only looked at him curiously.

"Come on Asia, there are two people I want you to meet." With that he grabbed her hand and guided her over to Rias and Akeno. "Asia, this are Rias Gremory heiress of the Gremory and High-Class Devil. And this is her Queen, Akeno Himejima. Rias, Akeno, this is Asia Argento, newly reincarnated Archangel. And I suppose I need to reintroduce myself, I am Issei Hyoudou the God of the Bible."

Chapter End

A/n: Thank for reading and all the positive feedback. And thank you for voting in the poll. I've out up a new on for who should be in the harem, because you can't do DxD without some semblance of a harem, it just isn't right without it. Also, if you have a good idea for the harem PM me. I'm always open to ideas and constructive criticism.