For a few moments, the fireman and the Gremory household members eyed each other, wondering who would make the first move. For now it looked like it would have to be made by the fire man, seeing as how the group was just standing there, a little nervous, but nonetheless ready to fight.

"Dammit. We can't even see him clearly. Those flames are covering up his face and other parts of his body." cursed Issei

"Identify yourself fire man." demanded Rias. "Along with your intentions, unless you are prepared to fight the entire Gremory household."

The only thing the fire man let out was a smirk upon hearing that, making everyone in the group get a bit angry, seeing they were being highly underestimated. Then, to everyone's confusion, he displayed eight fingers.

"What's he doing?" asked Yuuto

"one- two- three- four- five- six- seven... eight... EIGHT! He knows there are eight of us!" cried Issei. "That means-"

Suddenly the fireman leaped over the entire group and over the semi trailer they were hiding behind not too long ago, making them gasp as they knew who his target was now.

"ASIA!" cried Issei

The enemy quickly came back down and now stood in front of Asia, who was still hiding behind the semi trailer. Seeing they were eye to eye, Asia couldn't help, but scream, fearing that her last moments would be spent burning in hellfire.

"DAMN YOU!" shouted Issei.

"BOOST!" roared Issei's sacred gear.

Already, Issei charged in there with nothing, but blind fury driving him. The moment he got close enough to punch the enemy, he charged his arm back and let him have it, but to his shock, his fist simply passed right through him, causing nothing but flames to drift away as the fireman had disappeared.

"Did I get him?" asked Issei a bit confused

"He's gone!" said Xenovia.

As she stood there, staring in all directions ahead of her, small embers began to form from behind her before the fire man's full body was revealed once more.

"What? How did he?" questioned Rias.

"I've got him!" shouted Yuuto.

Again, after being attacked for the second time, he simply disappeared, leaving a trail of flames behind.

"Again?!" asked Yuuto

Once more, he reappeared on top of the excavator. This time he called them out when he used his fingers to tell them 'bring it on'

The group nodded in reply and looked back at the mysterious man.

"Gasper!" cried Rias

The bishop knew what to do, and proceeded by staring directly at the fireman, who now only remained frozen in place.

"IT WORKED!" cheered Issei

"Yuuto! Xenovia! You know what to do!" said Rias.

"RIGHT!" they both replied

The two swordsmen ran at the man, side-by-side before both jumping and crossing over one another, ready to strike down the foe. At last they swung their weapons at him before landing a few feet away.

"THEY DID IT!" said Asia, who was now beside Issei.

"Look!" pointed Akeno

The group stared at the fire man, who still remained in place, but this time he was letting out quick breaths, making it look like he was severely damaged. Pretty soon he fell on one knee and hand, beginning to cough out little pieces of ember.

Everyone appeared a bit proud of themselves, seeing as how they had taken him down without even having to use their full power, so without wasting anymore time, they made their way to the excavator he was on and looked up at him.

"I hope you understand now that it was a mistake to think you could take us all on." said Rias. "Any last words before you are faced with judgment."

The man simply kept coughing out ember while still remaining invisible due to the flames covering him, butt wasn't long before he got back up.

"WHAT?!" shouted Rias in her head. "How? He was struck by a hybrid sword and another Holy one. Yet he just stood back up..."

"I'm sorry!" cried Gasper. "I couldn't focus any longer and let go before they striked him."

"Then why is he-" but Rias was cut off when the fire man began to make a disgusting noise with his throat before spitting out some saliva.

"HE WAS CHOKING ON HIS OWN SALIVA?!" thought Rias, feeling a little angry

Before they had anytime to think of another plan, large fifty foot tall flames surrounded everyone, creating a large cage like structure about a five hundred feet in diameter.

"What's he planning now?!" said Yuuto

"President, I'm scared." said Gasper

"Stay close, Gasper!" replied Rias

"What the hell's going on?!" shouted Issei

"He's surrounded us in hell fire!" said Rias. "And just by looking at them, they're not getting any further. They're closing in on us!

"My, my. We're in trouble here aren't we?" asked Akeno.

"Come on everyone, let's just fly out of here!" ordered Rias. "We have no choice. We're out of options, and he's practically indestructible until we can find a weakness!"

As bad as it sounded, they knew they had no choice, so after a few quick thoughts, they all spread their wings and began to take flight. Those who still didn't know how to fly were carried by those who did.

The fire man then let out a quick 'Hmpf', seeing that his opponents were running away, and just as they were on the verge of escape, a massive vortex formed above them, also made from hellfire.

"Be careful!" shouted Rias, causing everyone to stop and descend.

"What do we do now?" asked Xenovia

Rias thought long and hard, looking for ways to escape, but in the end, could simply not come up with anything.

"We have no choice!" she informed. "We have to fight."

"Now that's what I'm talking about." said Issei, who was charging his power glove. "BOOST!"

"Be careful everyone!" shouted Rias, not wanting to lose any of her comrades. "He's more dangerous than I anticipated."

Issei went in there again, fists ready, but still a bit too blind to realize that actual hand-to-hand combat wasn't going to do anything. Just like before, his punches only went right through, leaving the fire man a bit confused, even though it couldn't be seen. Eventually, the foe got bored and grabbed Issei's arm, neck, and used his leg to sweep him to the ground, yet surprisingly, he didn't take the chance to finish him off.

Xenovia jumped in next and began to swing her blade at him, but the fire man dodged her oncoming attacks with perfect agility. Soon Yuuto came from behind with his sword and began striking, and even then the attacks were being dodged.

"How does he have this kind of agility? We're both going at him!" said Yuuto

"Let's just try and get him from different angles!" replied Xenovia

The both of them then carried out their attack, with Xenovia swinging from above and Yuuto from below, but just as they thought it would work, the man disappeared, making them both accidentally hit the each others blades. Soon they were attacked with Xenovia getting sweeped to the ground and Yuuto receiving a kick that the fire man delivered by spinning on one hand and bringing his foot across his face. Oddly enough, he didn't kill them either.

By now, Issei had gotten up again with more sense than to just throw mindless attacks. This time, instead of attacking, he began to charge his boosted gear.

Sure enough, the enemy was staring at Issei again, but before doing anything, a bolt of lighting went right through his stomach, making him a bit uneasy for a quick second. He then turned around and looked in the air to see Akeno, who was smiling at him with the most devious intentions at mind.

"My, my. Do you really plan on killing us?" she asked

All he really did was stare at her without even replying.

"A quiet one are you? That's quite a shame, though I'll admit you are very hot. Why don't I put you out?" she replied.

A magic circle then formed on top of the foe before releasing a massive amount of water on top of him. Unlike other attacks, this actually managed to drench him and put out a few of the flames on his body, thanks to Akeno enhancing the water with magic. For a second it almost appeared that the group would catch a glimpse of the fire man, to recognize him in case they ever ran into him again, but just as the water stopped coming, he let out a loud roar that caused an uprise of flames throughout his body, making himself practically invisible once more.

This time he smirked, seeing the attack wasn't affective at all.

"My, my. Did you really think that was all I had to offer?" she asked

In response, he only tilted his head. Wondering what she meant by that.

Again, another bolt of lighting hit the ground, especially the areas covered in water, and rather than the water being vaporized by the bolt's immense heat, it sent waves of electricity all around and actually hit the foe.

"How's that?" asked Akeno

Not even a quick cry of pain came from him. Instead he just stood there as flames began to repair small pieces of his body that came off when Akeno struck him.

Not to long after, a semi trailer came flying at him from behind, literally removing everything above his ankles, but was soon rebuilt from flame in time to turn around and spot Koneko, who just barely finished throwing another semi-trailer. This time the flames around him deepened their color into a darker shade of red, making the small area of the trailer that came into contact with him practically vaporize as it left a hole through it.

"Oh my god." said Issei

"Issei! Focus!" said Rias

"Right!" he replied

"BOOST!" shouted the sacred gear

It might have not been noticed, by the fire man himself, but while he was being distracted by the rest of the team, Issei had been charging up his energy to it's full potential before transferring it all to Rias, so she could hopefully put an end to the fight.

"Now! Let's put a stop to this, shall we?" said Rias

The red head put her hands out in front of her, forming a small magic circle.

He was just about to move out of the way, but was soon frozen in place. It was a little confusing at first until they all stared at Gasper, who had apparently frozen the fireman right where he stood.

"Gasper!" cried Issei. "Good work!"

"I can't keep it up for long. Please get him now!" he begged nervously

"Right!" said Rias. "Take this!" she cried, letting a massive dark red blast charge out of the circle to consume the fire man.

The blast, being fully charged thanks to Issei, continued to go past the fire man and through the walls of fire.

"We got him!" said Xenovia

"Hell yeah!" cheered Issei

"...Hold on." said Yuuto, with a serious tone

"What is it?" asked Issei

"The walls are still up." cut in Koneko

"W-What?" asked Gasper

To their horror, they saw a group of embers building up into the same spot they thought the fire man had died. Even after such a blast, all he did was scratch his shoulder and face them without saying a word.

"Dammit." growled Issei, feeling the heat. "HOW IS HE STILL ALIVE?!"

"President! The walls are getting closer and it's beginning to get hotter." said Asia

"They're right." thought Rias. "How is he alive? I wiped his entire body clean out of view and somehow he's still standing there. Almost like if nothing happened. He doesn't even look the least bit exhausted. He can't end us here can he?"

The group suddenly stopped when they saw the fire man approaching them, already building flames that spun around his body. This caused them to get right next to one another, ready to fight again if they had to, but judging by the coughing affects the flames were having on them, it wouldn't be long before someone collapsed.

"No." thought Rias "This isn't over. Not yet."