Chapter 4 Vengeance or Forgiveness?
Alrighty. IM BACK! missed me? yeah you guys did...right?
Anyway, you guys filled in the poll(thank you) and a majority voted for...A
So I did that.
And now...
Review time!
Frozenisthebestever: I made him join her peerage so A: I sort of want to follow the normal storyline of the original series, B: This way, I can further develop their friendship(and feelings) between each other(There will be more people in the harem, further information will come about that) and C: Just like I said in chapter 2, because of his lack of magical power, he needed to became a devil and I liked Rias peerage more than Sona's or somebody's else peerage. Besides, the fact that he can species only gives him limited power seeing he has to drawn that power from the ring and the ring doesn't have an infinite amount of magical power stored inside. Quite a lot yes but not infinite. With his new demonic powers, he can replenish the rings power and make it even stronger. I also may give Issei much later on in the story his own peerage if you, and the rest of my readers, like that idea more than somebody's else peerage but I don't know about that yet myself.
Laserbr0: Maybe :). They will definitely have a serious relationship later on in the story but for know, it's just Rias trying to get to "know" his cute servant more while Issei is have a slight idea of what she is trying to pull off but he still will always gets embarrassed when their "private" parts are starting to play a role. He also is quite a gentlemen who respects his female friends and other female characters and wouldn't try to do any perverted actions(Im sorry for all of you who loves the canon pervert).
OechsnerC: You will find out now.
Deltadragon373: You will see.
Cboylan: Thanks and don't worry about Issei and Rias moments, those will certainly come by more often :).
MrKristoffer1994: One trip to hell coming right up...or not? Who knows?
Justin D: PPFFFT What an enormous amount of idea's and information I must say! They are going to hurt indeed, a lot. As for Asia, I have an idea planned for her but you will find out about her later on. Just a spoiler: I WON'T be including Asia in Rias peerage nor will she have a really big impact on the story, atleast in her own way. I never really like her character in the series, seeing how her powers are rarely any useful and she always shows up and messes up when Issei and Rias are having a "moment" so yeah don't expect some goody moments between Issei and Asia. I do however like it if you, and other people of course too, come up with an idea for her replacement: No OC please. The crossovers also: I haven't actually watched all those shows so before I can even put them in my story, I'll be busy for a few months searching up information and trying to find out how I'm going to fit them into my story. The other idea's for familiars, I like them. I was also thinking about Tiamat but giving him more than 1, I haven't thought about that before so Im not sure if Im gonna but if you guys would like to see that happen, I can certainly try.
R0ck3tFiRe: I'm looking forward to that scene too. I'm gonna try and make it awesome as I have it in my mind so sit tight.
NinjaFang1331: Thank you very much.
Alright, onto the story:
"P-Please go out with me."
The girl in front of him went silent after she had said what she wanted to say. She wanted for answer and waited with hope in her.
Issei, meanwhile, couldn't progress the situation: A Fallen Angel, disguised as a normal high school girl and whose presence is familiar to him, asked him out on a date and she was hopefully waiting for an answer.
"Uuhh." Was all Issei could say before the girl in front of him started to have tears in her eyes.
"Y-You don't want to..?" She started to say.
She looked at him with eyes that within a second could burst out into tears when suddenly from behind her, a gust of wind brought forth the scent of the little girl. Issei hadn't payed attention to her scent until now because his brain just couldn't, once again, figured what was going on. But once he smelled only the tiniest part of her scent, his eyes widened and were filled with fire. It smelled like strawberry but deep within that scent there was another scent that he recognized all too well: The scent of feathers. And they smelled exactly as the one he smelled ten years ago.
"You." Issei while preparing himself for whats come next.
"W-What?" The little girl was startled when the boy in front of her started to get angry.
"You can drop the act. I already know who you are." Issei said with pure hatred in his voice.
The girl looked confused for a second but then started to laugh, hard, and while she did she transformed. She grew in height and so did you bust. Her school clothes shredded. Now she was wearing black, straps around and under her big, developed breasts, a belt piece held around her hips by three thin straps, gloves that ran up her arms, shoulder guards on her shoulders with three large spikes sprouting from her right shoulder, and black thigh-high heel boots. Her eyes became more violently and her voice became more mature while she kept on laughing. From her back, two black feathered wings appeared which made her fly a little up into air. The stopped a little above Issei and started talking.
"Oh my, the big boy figured me out. What should I do now?" She said while trying to sound scared.
Issei wasn't surprised by her new appearance and looked up to her from below.
"So I was right, you were there ten years ago."
The Fallen Angel just laughed while summoning a light spear in her right hand.
"Good job, big boy. Then you probably know why Im here, don't you?"
Issei just stared up at her with only anger on his face.
"To finish the job from ten years ago."
"My, you are smart. I'm starting to like you, you know but orders are orders so goodbye big boy." She said while throw her light spear at him.
Issei just merely stood still when the light spear pierced his stomach and fell backwards.
"Ooh? So easy? And here I'm thinking you were a little stronger n..." The Fallen Angel suddenly stopped talking when the body in front of her just disappeared without any trace.
"What the..." She began before suddenly she was hit from behind and was sent towards the ground. She impacted with a loud crash and felt dizzy for a few seconds before she felt another danger coming flying towards her. She quickly flapped her wings and not even an second later, Issei came crashing down with his fist into the ground, making the ground around him shake heavily.
Meanwhile at the Occult Research Club, the impact of the punch was felt too.
The windows were shaking in it's place and just barely didn't break, the walls shivered and the violently flew open while two people came into the clubroom. The first one was Kiba and the other was Koneko, shortly behind him. Inside the clubroom, Rias and Akeno looked up towards the two coming in while asking:
"What is going on?"
"Issei is in trouble." Kiba said to them.
They all felt the power that was spread throughout the city. It was strong and felt very powerful.
"We need to go, now!" Rias said while preparing a teleportation circle.
Everybody agreed and went over to the circle, to disappear two seconds later.
Raynare, the name of the Fallen Angel who was fighting Issei, looked with horror in her eyes to the damage Issei had done to the street and the houses which were close by. In the street there was a big hole, almost eight meters deep, while the houses nearby where all almost destroyed by the small earthquake Issei had caused by impacting with the street. Lucky, nobody was home so nobody was hurt but the damage was immense.
'How in the world is he okay and did he managed to survive my spear?' She thought. What she didn't know was that Issei had quickly used his "Ring of Modification" to turn himself into an "Nekomata" and cast an illusion spell on himself while quickly evading the light spear.
Issei meanwhile was frustrated that he had missed her when he tried to hit her from above. From the deep hole he was standing in, he looked up the Fallen Angel above him while has hair had taken a white color and two cat ears were visible from his head. If he wasn't looking so angry, he could be really cute.
"Is this how your gonna play it, you bitch?! Just flying high, hoping that I can't you there?!"
Raynare just chuckled and threw two more light light spears at him. Issei simply dodged it and jumped up high towards her, trying to hit her into the face. She quickly flapped her wings, making her fly out of the way but what she couldn't counter where the blue flames Issei had summoned. They hit her right on and she fell to the ground with a loud crash. Down below she didn't move.
Issei landed next to her to see the Fallen Angel not moving.
"I did it." He said to himself. "I beat her. I finally avenged y..." More he couldn't say when suddenly a light spear pierced his stomach. He was to distracted by the fact that he had thought he had won that he didn't noticed that Raynare was still alive. The spear piercing his stomach made Issei cough up blood and he fell onto his knees, having a look of shock on his face.
"Rule number one after you have beat your opponent: Always make sure that they are indeed defeated. As you can see, I'm not." Raynare spitted at him, making Issei look up to her while she just laughed above him. Issei couldn't see well, he knew he was dying. Because he is now permanently a devil, light was his one weakness. Because of that the spear burned inside of him.
He looked at Raynare while she summoned another light spear. She had decided that she would torture him, to enjoy her victory even more. She let the side of her spear slide against the side of Issei's right cheek, leaving behind a small, burning cut. She kept on making small parts of cuts on his face, arms, legs and his chest. It was horrible to look at: Issei on his knees while bleeding from the big hole in his stomach and all kinds of small wounds all around his body while Raynare was just laughing and enjoying herself. Lucky for Issei, she had decided that she would stop torturing him for now. She leaned down towards Issei's face to get a closer look at the boy in front her. It was almost impossible for him to be alive right now seeing how he was a devil and that he had taken so many light attacks but here he was, still alive and with faint, burning eyes looking towards her.
"Sadly, all good things must come to end, so I will claim my prize now and sent you to your death. This is my revenge for hunting you for more then ten years meanwhile all being punished and shunned by my people for failing a simple task. But no more, never again." Raynare spitted once again in Issei's face before taking her eyes of his face and looked to his left hand where his "Ring of Modification" was flashing around, trying to maintain his "Nekomata Form". Sadly, Issei's energy was vastly decreasing so his white hair, which was covered in blood, turned back to his normal brown hair and his tail and cat ears disappeared. His ring stopped flashing and went silent. The ring on his right hand was still flashing hard.
"I'll be taking this now, thank you very much." Raynare said while reaching out for his left hand.
Suddenly a massive surge of power hit her from her right side and was sent flying away before quickly flapping her wings and regaining her balance. She looked to where the massive surge of power came from and saw four people now standing closely to Issei: A boy with a charming face held his sword towards her while firmly standing in front of Issei, ready to protect him until his last breath. Next to him, a small, white haired girl held a big chunk of stone in her tiny hands, ready to throw her out of the sky. A girl with long black hair and was wearing a traditional miko, held her both hands in front of her and from it, small parts of electricity crackled into each other. She had a look of disgust and hatred on her face. The three of them already looked intimidating enough but were no where near the crimson haired girl who held Issei into her arms. From her, a deep, dark color of crimson red was erupting up and down while she slowly breathed in and out while having a look on her face that only could mean one thing: Pure anger and hatred towards the floating Fallen Angel in the sky.
Raynare gulped from the massive waves of power coming from the girl. She instantly knew she was at a disadvantage and quickly tried to fly away. They four of them wouldn't let her go that easy: Kiba had summoned a flaming sword and threw it towards her while Koneko threw her big rock and Akeno quickly send forward some thunder. Raynare managed to evade the big rock but felt the burning sword hit her left leg for only a small second before a small cut was visibly while her left black thigh-high heel went up in flames. The thunder from Akeno partly hit her right wing but managed to stay in the air and quickly flew away, trying to ignore the burning feeling on her left leg and her right wing. After two seconds, she was out of eyesight and went to her base of operation.
Meanwhile, Issei was dreaming again. Only it was not really a dream you would expect.
Issei found himself in a room that was totally empty. There was nothing and all the walls were white.
"What is this?" He asked himself.
("In a place you shouldn't be.") A deep voice said to him.
Suddenly, the room lit up into big flames and the white room disappeared. Issei looked around to only see flames everywhere he looked. Then suddenly, a grim shadow appeared in front of him and the shadow took form of himself. The doppelganger in front of him was covered in dark flames while his pupils were red, as red as blood.
"Who are you?" Issei asked his doppelganger, scared of his sudden appearance.
("Me? I'm you.") The, in black flames enveloped Issei said with a voice, similar to his own.
"And how does that work, if I'm standing right in front of you?" Issei asked him.
The doppelganger looked like he was thinking before answering Issei's question.
("That's a good question.") He just said.
Issei looked at him like he was insane.
"That's you conclusion?" He asked his doppelganger.
("Yes.") He said.
"Unbelievable." Issei sighed.
He then looked around again.
"So what is this place?" He asked.
The doppelganger also looked around while saying:
("A place in your mind.") He answered. ("But we won't be here for long.") He added.
Issei looked back at him.
"What, why?"
The doppelganger sighed and closed his eyes.
("You will wake up soon so I wanted to talk to you before I disappear again.")
"Wake up?" Issei asked. "You mean I am still alive?"
The doppelganger sighed again.
("Yes, I just said we are in your mind. Of course you aren't dead yet. You are close though.")
"How didn't I die from all the light attacks? I thought the light was the devils one weakness?" Issei asked with confusion in his voice.
("You are right but don't forget: you are also The Red Dragon Emperor and a dragon doesn't have a weakness against light. Apparently, the little dragon in your gear helped you to stay alive by taking small amounts of damage from the light attacks. That's how you were able to stay alive. This will however effect him to, so when you wake up you won't be able to contact him for a long time.") The doppelganger concluded.
Issei looked at him with confusion. He looked at his left arm when normally his gauntlet would appear. He mumbled a small "thank you" towards the dragon, promising he will make it up for him once he has the chance.
"Okay, what do you want from me then and seriously, who are you?" Issei asked him while looking back at his doppelganger.
He was silent for a few moments but then started speaking again.
("I have been following you around for a while now, ever since you became stronger. But you know, this isn't your full power yet, by far not. I could help you get stronger.") He finished.
"But?" Issei asked.
("But what?") His doppelganger asked.
"You say that, right now, I haven't even reached a little of my full power but I consider myself already pretty strong and besides, getting a offer like this always has a backside." Issei said calmly.
It went silent for a couple of seconds before his doppelganger started laughing a bit and began talking again.
("HAHAHA, I should have expected that myself was able to figure me out.") He kept on laughing for a few moments until he was only chuckling. ("Alright yes there is a backside to this but I already know your not gonna like this.") He said.
"And what would that be?" Issei asked, scared of the answer.
His doppelganger stared at him with cold, red eyes.
("Nothing special really, you just have to abandon your friends. Forever.") He said with a maniacal smile.
Issei said nothing. He was dumbfounded with his answer.
"I will never, under any circumstances, abandon those who I call friends and/or family!" He yelled.
Suddenly, a loud gong was heard from the inside of Issei's head. He clutched his head while falling to his knees and having a hard time to breath.
("Hmmm, it would seem that you are waking up. Well, no matter. I will be staying here, observing you. Think about my offer. Goodbye Issei.") His doppelganger lastly spoke. He vanished into dark flames while Issei lost his consciousness and fell to the ground.
Rias was scared. That emotion was for sure. But what else did she feel? She didn't know and she didn't care.
It has been a day since she and her peerage members saved Issei from that horrible Fallen Angel. She would never forgive him for what she did to her cute servant, to her Issei.
Both teens were laying down in a big bed in the old school building. They have been laying there since yesterday evening. Issei's body was wrapped up in parts of cloth to stop the bleeding from his many wounds. He did wore pants though. Every hour, she, Akeno or Kiba would change them. Most of the bleeding had stopped and the hole in his stomach was almost gone.
Still, Rias was scared. Issei hasn't made any signs of life. She could hear his heartbeat but it was slow and hadn't changed at all since last night. Still, she wouldn't give up. Rias laid next to the boy in her birthday suit on his right, desperately trying to heal him. What was new in this situation was that Akeno was also laying in the bed next to Issei on his lift while also being in her birthday suit. Rias would have been very upset if this was just an every day situation. But sadly, it was not so Akeno offered to help too and together they healed Issei for the entire night and until the night after that fell. Kiba would come in now and then to give both girls something to eat and/or drink. Healing the boy next to them, required a lot of power and caused some hunger but both girls didn't care about that. It was nothing compared to the pain Issei had been in.
Rias just sighed and tried to sleep again.
It was morning.
Issei had slowly opened his eyes towards the ceiling while feeling like he had died and come back to life again which he probably almost had done.
Issei didn't knew the room he was in. It was dark and because he was so weak, his brain and his senses couldn't function very well. He turned his head right to suddenly stop and turn red at the beautiful he had: Rias was laying next to him, wearing completely nothing while holding on to his right arm very tightly. He didn't noticed that his arm was wrapped up in cloth because he only had eye for Rias. She had, once again, enveloped her perfectly, curved breasts around his arm, taking it captive once again.
'Well, just like last time, only now I feel like crap.' Issei thought sarcastically.
He then felt something moving on his left and when turned his head, he stared at the beautiful and calmly face of Akeno while she, just as Rias, held his left arm captive with her arms and, slightly larger then Rias's, breasts while she softly breathed in and out. She looked like she was happy with this and didn't show any signs of her being comfortable.
'Well, that is new. So not like last time.' Issei thought again sarcastically.
Issei knew it wouldn't work to try and release his arms from the clingy girls and just leaned his backwards again, staring up to the roof.
('You just have to abandon your friends. Forever.') He heard once again in his mind, remembering what had happened while he was unconscious.
He breathed out as if he had been underwater for over an hour, waking the girls in the process.
"Issei?"
"Issei?"
He heard his name twice while he looking back to see that both girls had awoken from their sleep and were now staring at him with tears in their eyes.
"Uhh, hello." He awkwardly said.
Both girls launched themselves towards him to grab him and hug him tightly. In the process of doing that they yelled his name and all three teens fell off the bed.
"Issei!"
"Issei!"
Rias and Akeno were both crying in his chest, happy to see their fellow member to be still alive.
Issei meanwhile, had landed on his back, onto the cold, hard floor below him. He was still weak but he ignored the pain and threw both his arms around the two girls, crying on his chest.
"Don't cry you two. I'm still alive so there is no reason to be sad." He said to them.
While hoping that they would cease their crying, the opposite was true. They started crying even harder, happy to hear his voice again.
Issei just sighed and held both girls tightly around his chest.
Minutes went by before Rias and Akeno started to regain their senses and ceased their crying.
"Don't you DARE, do that to me again!" Rias yelled in his face to which Issei raised an eyebrow.
"Do want to you again?" He asked confused.
Rias increased the strength of her hug which made Issei grasp for breath.
"Getting into a fight like that and becoming so wounded!" She yelled again.
Issei was silent but then let out a bug sigh and pushed Rias a little backwards so he could see her teary face.
"I'm sorry." Was all he said in an all serious tone.
"G-Good." Rias mumbled.
Issei smiled and turned his attention to the black haired girl on his left who was looking at him with an equally teary face.
"Anything you want to yell at me for something I did wrong?" He asked.
Akeno just slowly moved her head left and right.
"No. I'm just happy that your still alive." She said to him. She then focused her head to somewhere else while saying.
"I will kill that bitch for hurting my cute junior." Akeno said with an angry voice. She cared a lot about Issei although she was still a bit scared of him. While trying to heal him, Akeno thought about him a lot and would do anything to help him.
"Speaking of that cute junior." Issei said which made both girls focus on him again. "He is not saying you two are heavy but he would recommend you two to get off of him because he is slowly suffocating." Issei finished, still reaching for air.
Both girls realized in a second what he meant and quickly jumped off of him and helped him sat down on the couch.
"Thank you, you two. Without you, I wouldn't be here." He thanked both girls who had sat down next to him, Rias on his right and Akeno on his left.
They both blushed a bit when he thanked them but Rias quickly shaked it off.
"Of course, I can't let my cute servant die because of a mean Fallen Angel." Rias said with fire in her eyes. Akeno just nodded and held onto his arm, giving him some extra warmth. Rias on the other side saw that and quickly did the same. Both girls started at each other while there eyes gave each other a clear message: "Bring it on."
Issei saw it happen and just sighed. He then heard a noise, coming from his left and saw Koneko, Kiba, Sona and Tsubaki come in.
Koneko and Kiba both had happy expressions on their faces while Sona and Tsubaki both had a small smile on their face.
"So Red Dragon Emperor, your still alive after all." Sona said to him while frowning at the sight of the two girls who were clinging on him like their lives depended on it.
"It would seem so. Oh and please cut that crap with "Red Dragon Emperor". I have a name, you know." Issei said while sighing.
Sona just snickered.
"Very well, Hyoudou Issei."
"Whatever."
"Now then, since you have recovered enough strength...could you explain what happened two days ago?" Sona asked with a serious expression.
Everyone looked at Issei while he just stared down. His power started to leak out a bit again but that was quickly resolved by Rias and Akeno who increased their grip on the boy's arm.
"It started normally. I was watching the water flow beneath the bridge that was close to my home until she showed up. She had disguised herself as a girl from my age and asked me out." Issei stopped because he could feel Rias next to him suddenly get angry. He placed his right hand on one of her legs which calmed her down immanently.
'That worked?' Issei thought with a bit confusion. Rias meanwhile enjoyed Issei's hand on her thigh.
Issei started talking again.
"I was a bit shocked by her sudden appearance but when I felt her presence, I knew she was familiar. She was there...when my parents where killed. She could have also been there when the people in the mountains were killed. I got angry which startled her but after that, she started to laugh and transformed herself to her normal appearance and then she attacked me. We fought a little but I managed to knock her out of the sky. I thought I was victorious but in that moment I thought I had won, she stabbed me in the stomach and I couldn't do anything anymore. She then proceeded to tortured me a little. After she had her fun, she reached out for the "Ring of Modification". More I can't remember, the rest was blurry for me after that point."
Everybody was silent in the room when he finished. Then Rias started to speak.
"We saved you. When she tried to take your ring, I blew her away with my power and we quickly formed a defensive line around you. We managed to hurt her a little but she still escaped."
Issei looked at her while smiling.
"Thank you, Rias. And of course you guy's too for helping me." He also said while looking towards Akeno, Koneko and Kiba.
"Don't sweat it, we came to help our fellow member." Kiba said.
"...No problem." Koneko softly said.
Akeno just smiled and held close to his left arm.
Sona was silent while Issei had talked but then spoke up again.
"I see. So ultimately they were after your ring?"
"I guess so."
Sona was silent but then looked towards Rias.
"Do you think we should tell him now or after he has recovered more of his power?" She asked.
"Uhh..."
"Tell me what?" Issei asked with a certain undertone.
"While you were asleep, I asked Sona and her peerage if maybe they could find out where the Fallen Angel has felt to." Rias said with a small voice.
"And?" Issei asked.
It was silent.
"And?" Issei asked again, more demanding this time.
"They did." Rias said.
Suddenly Issei jumped up and flared his power. It wasn't as strong as when he did when Sona asked him about his parents but it was still almost as strong. His eyes were burning with determination.
"Where?!"
"I will not tell you. You are still to weak." Sona said to him, also flaring her power.
Issei didn't care nor did he feel her power.
"Where?!" He asked again with dominion in his voice and flaring his power even more.
Sona now was having problems with firmly standing on her feet. She thought she about to faint and that applied to everyone else in the room.
Suddenly two arms appeared from behind Issei's back and closed around him. It was Rias.
"At the abandoned church." She said to him.
Issei looked backwards to see Rias, almost crying, clinging onto his back. That gave him back his normal conscious. He stopped flaring and stared at the ground. It went silent once again until Issei spoke again.
"I'm sorry."
"It doesn't matter Iss..." Rias started but was suddenly pushed back when six wings appeared from Issei's back.
"This is something I must do alone." She heard him say when he suddenly flew up and punched his way through the roof.
Everyone looked to the hole with surprised faces. It was silent for a few moments before Rias started speaking.
"Quickly Akeno, get dressed and stand by. Kiba, Koneko get ready too. He can't do this alone, not in this state! And besides, if a devil of my peerage enters the ground of a place of God, he could start another war."
Akeno quickly got up and ran over to her clothes. Rias did the same on her side.
"I will an eye out any other suspicious activities." Sona said while leaving.
Rias just nodded and quickly dressed up.
'Why Issei...' She thought.
Issei was flying. He was flying high in the sky and flying towards the church.
In his eyes were full of fire when he saw it. A rather small church on top of the hill which was covered in vines came in eyesight and he increased his pace.
Landing in front of the doors of the church, he was out of breath and was trying to regain it.
'I'm not fully recovered yet.' He thought somewhere in the back of his head but he didn't care. He kicked the doors open and walked in. Inside, it was just a mess as if was outside: broken walls and statues, benches were pilled up in a messy way and the altar at the end of the church wasn't as clean as it should be. He shivered at the site of the cross.
'This place is not fit for devils like me.' He thought.
The doors behind him suddenly closed with a loud of sound and from behind the altar, three figures appeared.
Two of them were Fallen Angels but the other one was a human.
The first Fallen Angel was a tall woman with brown eyes and long, navy blue hair that covered her right eye. She had a big bust and whore a maroon, trenchcoat-like top with a wide collar, a matching miniskirt, and black heeled shoes. The trenchcoat top was open at her chest exposing her big bust. From her back, of course, were two, all too familiar, black feathered wings.
The second Fallen Angel was a little girl with blonde hair styled into twintails and she had blue eyes. She wore a Gothic Lolita attire, which consisted of a black Lolita dress with white frills, a large black bow on the front, and a green jewel embedded on the collar, white thigh-high socks, and black shoes. She also wore a large black bow on top of her hair.
Where as the tall, blue haired woman stared at him with cold, serious eyes, the little blonde looked at him with joyful expression.
"So." The blue haired woman said. "You are the one who was defeated by Raynare but it would seem that you survived."
Issei scraped the end of hos nose and answered:
"So it would seem."
"Then why did come here? You have a death wise?" She asked.
"No, not for me. For that "Raynare" you are talking about. And now, that I think about, I remember you two scents too, what would mean that you were there too." Issei said with cold eyes.
"Well, your not incorrect." The blond girl now said with a high voice. "But I don't think you alone can fight us and win." She said with a laugh.
"I think I'm enough." Issei said without backing away.
"Ugh, can I just kill this devil-scum already?!" The human to the left of the two Fallen Angels asked.
"And who are you?" Issei asked focusing his eyes on him.
He was dressed as a priest and whore the traditional clerical clothing. He had short white hair and red eyes. He was laughing hard while his look, pointy tongue was wobbling around.
"My name is Freed Sellzen, at your service devil-scum." He said with a smile that could say that he looked forward to killing him.
"I have no interest in a random exorcist. My business is with those two lady's of there and someone down that hole, underneath the altar." Issei had already noticed that there something underneath the altar so he just said it outloud.
"Mmmh, maybe you have no business with me but I have business with you. I have a certain hobby that you could help me with." Freed said with a maniacal smile.
"And what would that be?" Issei asked, irritated by this idiot.
"Killing devils and chopping them into small pieces!" Freed yelled while he grabbed a gun and a sword handle from which a sword appeared. It was made out of light and brought some shivers onto Issei's back.
"Guess I will have to kill you too." He said while taking a fighters position.
It was silent for a few seconds before the action began. Freed was the first one to jump into action. He sprinted forwards towards Issei and lifted his swords upwards, trying to chop Issei in two. Issei merely stepped back. After Freed missed, Issei jumped forward again and punched Freed in the face, making him fly towards the altar, breaking it when he impacted.
"That's hurts!" Could be heard when he flew into the wall at the back of the church.
Having taken down one of the three in mere seconds, Issei looked towards the two Fallen Angels who had readied some light spears and threw them to him. Issei sprinted forwards, dodging the spears in the process. With the last one, he wasn't so lucky. The spear made an shallow cut in his right-upper arm. It burned but he ignored it. He jumped up and tried to punch the tall, blue haired woman. Before he could, she grabbed a yellow spear from her back, that had two sharp ends and slashed at him. He dodged it barely but had no time to rest since the blond girl was coming at her with a pink spear and was aiming it towards his stomach. He kicked the spear away, did a quick spin and gave an elbow hit to her face, which made her scream in pain and she quickly retreated back to her senior Fallen Angel.
"That hurts you know!" The little girl yelled.
"Mittelt, don't be such a cry baby." The tall woman sighed.
"I'm not a cry baby, it just hurts, Kalawarner!" The now named Mittelt yelled.
Kalawarner, which was the name of the tall woman, just sighed and focused her eyes on Issei who was breathing heavily.
"Tired already? Didn't have enough rest before you came here?" She asked.
Issei just started at her.
"Maybe, but then won't stop me from killing you." He said while starting to flare his power. Inside the church it became a few temperatures warmer when he did that.
"Oh? So you still have some power then? Good. Take this!" Kalawarner yelled trowing her yellow spear at him while summoning a light spear and trowing it shortly behind her other spear.
From Issei's left arm, a green flash was seen before suddenly his whole arm was covered in a red gauntlet. He grabbed the spear out of the air and slashed the light spear in two with the other spear.
[Boost!] Was heard through the church.
Both Kalawarner and Mittelt became suddenly scared with this action.
"How the...? Y-You are the RED DRAGON EMPEROR?! Mittelt yelled.
"Impossible..." Kalawarner mumbled, still thinking about how her spear was simply grabbed from the air without any effort.
"Don't be too surprised just yet." Issei said with a grim.
His ring on his right hand flashed and a second later, a identical gauntlet was on his right arm.
[Boost!]
"Now, let's fight shall we?" Issei said while he unfolded his devil wings and jumped into the air, rushing towards the two Fallen Angels who were trembling in fear.
In less then a second he was in front of them and he punched Mittelt to the left and punched Kalawarner to the impacted hard against the walls of the church. They fell on the ground, grabbing their stomach, the place where they were punched. Issei floated in the air, looking to the two Fallen Angels on the ground.
"I should punish you more. But my father and mother would not want that. He said while aiming his left gauntlet to Mittelt and his right to Kalawarner.
[Boost!]
[Boost!]
Was heard two more times before on each gauntlet, a small red orb appeared.
"Dragon shot!" Issei yelled. Both orbs exploded and from it, two beams of red energy was shot towards the two Fallen Angels. Both of them screamed for a second before the beams impacted and disintegrated them both and the walls behind them until only a few feathers remained and a huge hole on both sides of the church.
Issei sighed. 'Two more down, one more to go.' He thought while landing in front of the broken altar. He looked at the back of the church to see if that idiot Freed was still laying around but he was nowhere to be seen. Issei didn't feel his presence anymore.
'Must have felt. No matter, he is not the problem.' Issei thought.
Issei walked back to the hole in the ground and saw a small stairway, leading down underneath the church. He could fell some holy energy coming from it. Nonetheless, he walked down the stairs and prepared himself for what was coming next.
Rias and her peerage teleported in a small open spot, only a few meters from the church. A shiver went down everybody's back: standing so close to the grounds of a place that belongs to the followers of God, was not the best place to be for a devil. When they arrived they could see smoking coming from the church, meaning a fight had been going on.
"Quickly, follow me. We must help Is..." Rias was then rudely interrupted.
"You are going nowhere." A voice said.
Suddenly from out of the bushes, twenty people, who were wearing robes, surrounded the four devils and all of them pulled their light swords and aimed them towards the devils. From above, a figure appeared. It was a middle-aged-looking man with short black hair and dark blue eyes. He was wearing a pale gray trench coat over a white dress shirt with a matching ascot, black pants and shoes, a pair of black gloves, and a black fedora. He had his black feathered wings unfolded and was looking towards the young devils.
"Rias Gremory, I welcome you to our trap. My name is Dohnaseek and we have been waiting for you." The man who called himself Dohnaseek said.
Rias looked up to the Fallen Angel while crossing her arms underneath her breasts.
"Greetings Fallen Angel and to which pleasure may we receive this welcome?" She asked.
Dohnaseek snorted.
"We have been waiting for you and your peerage to show ever since that boy went in."
"So Issei is already inside?" Rias asked with a bit of fear in her voice.
"Of course, he is now being dealt with by my companies while we are gonna have some of our own fun." Dohnaseek summoned a light spear and threw it towards Rias. That action was apparently a signal for the rest of his people because all of them charged at once towards the devil. Kiba had already summoned a sword when they were surrounded and was now busy fighting off three exorcists at the same time. Koneko meanwhile was dodging swords left and right and was hitting hard in the west flank of the group. Akeno had changed herself again in her miko and was flying out of reach from the swords and was raining thunder upon the exorcists. Rias was busy fighting some exorcists with her "Power of Destruction". She killed four of in one hit and then focused her vision on the Fallen Angel who was creeping up behind Akeno. She quickly flew up herself and launched a big beam of energy towards Dohnaseek who hit the beam head on and was blown away from Akeno. She turned around to look to her friend.
"Thank you Rias." Was all she said before laughing again while raining down thunder on the exorcists.
'Atleast she is having fun.' Rias thought. She looked towards where Dohnaseek should be and saw him flying towards her with two light spears.
"Bring it on." She softly muttered.
Issei meanwhile was at the end of the stairway and was in a big room that was lighted by torches on each pillar in the room. In the middle of the room stood a total amount of thirty robbed figures facing the end of the room. At the end of the room, there was a large green cross and next to it, stood the woman he hated the most en who slaughtered his parents: Raynare. She was covered in a green light while the robbed figure were chanting. Issei didn't understand first but it would seem that she was healing. He could see the small burn mark on her right wing, made by Akeno, suddenly disappear and became completely healed again.
'It would seem that the cross has some sort of healing abilities.' Issei thought.
A moment later, he stepped out of the shadows where he was hiding and started yelling.
"Hey you, what about a rematch!" He yelled.
Everyone looked behind him to see the young boy standing there. He was still breathing a bit faster then that he would normally did but he payed no attention to that. Instead, he focused his view to the other side of the room. There, the Fallen Angel had turned around and was laughing hard.
"Ow, look who is here: the boy who ran away from his parents. It would seem that Mittelt and Kalawarner weren't strong enough to beat you...no matter." She teased him while walking away from the cross. All the exorcists made way for her and stood silently by. Raynare stopped a five meters away from Issei who had an angry expression on his face.
"Don't make me more angry that I already am. You will regret it." He slowly said.
Raynare just laughed.
"HAHAHAHA, it would do me a big pleasure to make you more angry because then it will end just like last time. Speaking of which, you healing quite well. Did that Gremory-bitch do all that by herself? Impressive." She continued to tease him.
Now Issei became really angry. The fact that she was murderer of his parents was one think but to also disrespect his friend and master, was the drop that spilled the bucket.
He charged at her with incredible speed and punched her right in her face, breaking her nose in the progress. She screamed and impacted against the stairs that would lead up to the cross. Two exorcists freed themselves from the group and tried to pick the Fallen Angel. She just hissed at them.
"Don't help me. Do your job!" She yelled.
At that, all the exorcists started another chant. Suddenly, the ring on his left hand started flashing and so did the cross on the end of the room. Issei looked at his ring but then suddenly felt even more weak then he already was. He fell on his knees while looking towards Raynare and the cross. The cross once again became green and so did Raynare. The bleeding of her nose stopped and went back into her nose that was suddenly fixed.
"Quite a useful cross isn't it?" She asked while laughing. "It can disable your "Ring of Modification" powers and absorb it. It then transforms it into healing magic and gives it to me. Quite useful if I say so myself." She said while still laughing. She then summoned a light spear in her right hand.
"Well then, let's finish this once and for all shall we?" She asked with a smirk on her face.
Issei vision went blurry because of the magic that was drained from him but he will not let it end just like last time.
With the remaining power he had left, he slowly stood up which surprised Raynare.
"Oh you can still stand? No matter, it's not like you can do anyth...KAAGH" She tried to speak further but her throat was being choked together by a red gauntlet which lifted her up. She tried to free herself be aiming the spear downwards but her right hand was then grabbed by another gauntlet and her spear disappeared.
"Like I said, don't make me more angry that I already am or you will regret it." Issei whispered. He then threw Raynare towards the cross and she impacted hard against it. The cross didn't break but a large scar could be seen from top left to down right. Issei then focused himself towards the exorcists who had pulled out their swords and aimed it towards him. Issei jumped forwards and hit a exorcists in the stomach, sending him flying towards two others. He then punched a sword away from another one and gave him a upper-cut. Issei jumped forward again and gave a roadhouse kick towards one exorcist in from of him. Issei kept on punching exorcists until no one remained either alive or by conscious. Raynare meanwhile recovered from the throw and was holding onto her throat. She saw how her followers were beaten up one by one and knew she was going to be in a disadvantage and made a run for the stairs. She made it in time and ran up the stairs in no time only to see what had happened to the church: two big holes were on either side of her while a few feathers were laying around. At the back of the church, the wall was crumbled and Freed was nowhere to be seen. She quickly shaked her head at would could have happened and ran for the doors. Sadly for her, after having taken only a few steps, a red beam of energy erupted in front of her which made her tumble back a bit. The beam vanished and revealed a large hole from which Issei flew up with his six devil wings. He also still had his two gauntlets out. Raynare couldn't believe the sight of it.
"Just...JUST WHAT ARE YOU?!" She screamed.
Issei didn't say anything until he lifted up his right arm and said:
"Your end." From the gauntlet, a small beam of energy shot towards her and pierced her stomach. She coughed up blood and held both of her hands in front of the hole, hoping that the bleeding would stop a bit. She fell onto her knees and looked up to see that Issei had landed in front of her. He grabbed her hair and lifted her head up to his height.
"I told you, that you would regret it." He whispered. His face showed no emotions yet his eyes were burning with hatred, sadness and pain.
Raynare started to cry.
"Please...don't...kill...me." She begged for her life.
Issei pulled her face closer to his.
"Funny. My parents probably begged for their life too and you know what you did? You slaughtered them without even feeling a little bit sorry, for taking away the parents of only a seven year old boy." His voice made the hairs on her neck stand right up.
"I...didn't...kill...them...because...I...wanted...to...I...was...ordered..." Raynare said in between trying to maintain her breath.
"Oh? But the fact remains that you killed them and that's enough for me. After you, I will go after the one who ordered you and one after him and the one after him if needed. My parents death must be resolved." Issei said while making another small orb in his left gauntlet, ready to blast off Raynare's face.
"Issei, wait!" Was suddenly heard through the church. Issei turned his head to see Rias standing there with Akeno, Kiba and Koneko behind her.
"What do you mean "wait", Rias? You want her dead, almost as much as I do." Issei said with a calm tone which frightened everyone. They knew this wasn't the Issei they had know for now. His hazel eyes were now emotionless and he looked at the four devils as if he didn't know him.
"Issei, hold up for a moment and listen to what I have to say. We have discovered some thing." Rias begged. "Let her go...for now."
Issei looked at her for a few moments before he suddenly let go of the Fallen Angel. She landed on her stomach which made her cough up even more blood. Issei looked down towards Rias.
"What did you discover?" He asked.
"When we came after you, we were ambushed by one of her comrades." She pointed to the Fallen Angel. "He attacked us with twenty exorcists but we beat them all and captured the Fallen Angel. We interrogated him and discovered that these four went out to kill your parents and you not by there own accords. But by order of Kokabiel."
Issei didn't flinch at her explanation but became curious at the name "Kokabiel".
"Why did Kokabiel me dead and my parents?" He asked.
"Apparently for your rings. The "Ring of Modification would help him greatly in starting another war and the "Ring of the Red Dragon of Domination" would also proof useful. Having the same powers as the "Red Dragon Emperor" could be a decisive factor in winning the war." Rias explained.
Issei looked towards his rings and then to the Fallen Angel on the ground.
"Is this true?" He asked with a cold undertone.
Raynare looked up and nodded while having fear in her eyes.
Issei looked at her for a second.
"I don't believe you." He then said.
"What?! Issei?!" Rias yelled.
"Hold on Rias, I won't kill her just yet." Issei then said.
"What?" Rias and the rest of her peerage were confused. What did he mean by that.
Issei then let the gauntlet on his right arm disappear so only his ring remained. He aimed his hand towards her.
"The Red Dragon of Dominion commands you, answer my questions with nothing but the truth and decide your fate." Issei then said with a commanding tone. His ring flashed a deep green light and vanished after a second.
Raynare eyes became emotionless and stared up towards Issei.
"I will answer every question you ask me, oh Red One." She said with no emotion.
Rias and her peerage became more and more confused at this. Why did Raynare suddenly became so obedient?
"Is it true that Kokabiel gave you and your fellow companions the order to kill me and my parents?"
"Yes."
"It is also true that after you killed my parents and me, you would take my rings to Kokabiel so he could use them to start another war?"
"Yes."
Rias and her peerage saw the Issei was convinced and sighed in relief but didn't expect that Issei would ask one last question.
"When you killed my parents, did you feel any remorse for killing and taking away the lives of the parents of a seven year old boy that would be alone for almost ten years, isolating himself from the world so no one would find him? Or didn't you feel anything?"
It went silent. Rias and the rest were confused and so was Raynare. She looked at Issei with curious eyes. Why did he ask that question?
"...I hated you." The answer came. Everyone looked back to Raynare who, for some reason, had tears in her eyes.
"I hated you. I couldn't finish my mission and my life became hell because of your escape. I started questioned everyone and everything. Sometimes, things were good and other times, things were bad. My life was ruined because of you. But an other part in myself awakened. I started to feeling sad and sorry for everything I had done to every person I had killed, every person I had tortured and to every person I made life a living hell. I cried for the first time when I killed someone, three years ago. I also started to remember things. How I never was the person I am now. Instead of a killing maniac, I was kind hearted. I was someone who would everyone if they needed it. But Kokabiel wouldn't let me. He altered everything in myself and I became what I am now. When he discovered that I had regained my memories again, he altered them again and I was back to being a killing machine. But still, in the back of my head, the kind hearted me remained, calling out for help. When I heard the news that you appeared again, the kind hearted me cried, knowing that I would kill you and if that happened, I would never regained myself back."
She catched her breath before saying one last thing.
"When I asked you out, two day's ago, a part of me meant it." She softly said before reaching her limit and her head fell on the ground. She was dead.
It was silent. Nobody moved nor did anyone say anything. Rias and her peerage had parts of tears in everyone's eyes. They were touched by the story even though it was one of a Fallen Angel, one of their enemy's.
They looked towards Issei who was standing above the corpse of the now dead Fallen Angel. He kneeled down and lifted up her face. He could see a faint smile on her face. That did it for him. He started crying. He didn't know why but he cried. She had spoken the truth and he was touched by it. Even she murdered his parents, she did it without feelings. It wasn't her who killed his parents. It was a monster. But that monster wasn't Raynare...but Kokabiel.
He stopped crying and softly mumbled.
"Rias."
Rias heard it and quickly came over and embraced him into a hug.
"Are you alright?" She quickly asked, worried about his state.
Issei ignored her question.
"Rias. She deserves a second chance. Could you revive her?" He asked.
Rias was shocked by this. She put her hands on Issei's face and started into his hazel eyes which showed pain, hatred but mostly sadness.
"Are you sure? Even though she could your parents?" She asked him.
Issei slowly nodded.
"Please." Was all he could say.
Rias then embraced him into another hug and they sat like that for a minute before Rias stoop up and gave her answer.
"I can and I will."
They had placed Raynare's body in the middle of the church, her hands on top of her stomach, covering the small hole that was made by Issei. Rias stood above the corpse of the girl, placing a bishop piece on her chest.
She started a chant and underneath Raynare's body a red magic circle appeared.
"I, Rias Gremory, hereby order you: Heed me Raynare. Bring you soul back to this world and become my servant demon. You shall become my bishop and use this newly given life to restore you name in this world."
The chest piece disappeared into her chest which gave a small flash of light. The wounds on her body healed and she started breathing once again. She smiled.
"Thank you, Rias." Rias turned around to see Issei smiling at him like he usually does.
"Finally, your happy again." She said with a sigh. She walked up to him and looked at him with somewhat angry but mostly relieved eyes.
"You will still have some explaining to do about what happened here." She said to him while frowning.
Issei gave off an awkward smile and looked around to search for help. Kiba just stood by while snickering, Koneko had no emotion on her face and avoided Issei's eyes and Akeno was chuckling in her hand.
Issei just sighed and looked back towards Rias.
"Yes, President." He then answered, defeated and betrayed by his fellow members.
Rias smiled and placed a hand on his cheek.
"I guess I have to come up with a punishment." She said. She already had a punishment in mind and was looking forward to it already.
"Yes, President." Issei answered again, not happy about the near future.
Well shiver me timbers, that was a lot. Things are going to be a lot different from now on, seeing how Raynare has joined the gang.
My longest chapter ever made and I have to get help from you guys(Thank you again).
I really enjoyed writing the chapter although I sometimes had to rewrite things like a billion times(maybe five or six idk).
I said in the poll that I would be posting this tomorrow...but here in my country, it already is tomorrow(Most of my readers are from the US so this is for them so yeah.)
Alright with that said, I'm taking off and I will see you at the next chapter. BYE!
-KnownUnknowed OUT!