(Hey guys, I'm back again! Now on to the reviews!
SOularbiter97- You'll just have to find! And thanks for giving me the idea on a familiar. I'm still contemplating whether or not but if I do, I'm not sure what to make it be.
jcd1295- Like I said in the previous chapter, the Devil Bringer and Devil Trigger won't be making an appearance for a while. They most definitely will be in it but not soon.
Anyways now that that's done, on to the story!)
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Chapter 6: I Get Some Weird Clients and Some New Weapons.
"What's up guys?" Nero announced as he entered the club room. As he got in, he noticed one of the girls' clothes hanging on a clothesline. "I'm not even going to ask, just going to ignore it." He then sat on the couch and heard humming coming from the shower. Koneko then walked into the room.
"Nice job on restraining yourself." She said.
"You know me well enough by now to know I'm not going to do anything weird just because there's a girl's clothes laying on a clothesline."
"True enough." Asia then emerged from the shower wearing a towel.
"Oh hello Nero, Koneko." Asia said. "I'm sorry I had to use the shower here, but it won't be for much longer."
"There's no need to say sorry, you're not being a burden." Nero said.
"Okay. The president said she would find me a place to stay before she went to school." Shortly after, everyone else arrived to the clubroom.
"You want me to do early morning training?" Nero asked Rias.
"Yes. Your fight with the Fallen Angels made it clear that we need to get you at your peak condition as fast as possible." She said.
"All right then."
"I'll come by and pick you up in the morning. Does five sound good?"
"Yeah, that sounds fine. Well, I'm off to pass out flyers." He then made his way to the door.
"Okay, see you soon." Nero then left the room. "So Asia."
"Yes?" She replied.
"Let's continue our talk about your housing arrangements." The next morning, Nero wakes up at five and starts to get ready for his training. He then hears his doorbell and opens his door to see Rias.
"Good morning Nero. Are you ready?" She asked.
"Yep, let's go." He then proceeded to run while Rias rode a bike alongside him.
"Good work. Keep it up!"
"Yes ma'am!" After running to the park in the city, he continued on to do some stretches with Rias pushing down on him.
"In the Underworld, strength is just as or even more important than intelligence, so we have to make you stronger in both aspects."
"I'll try my hardest!" He then went on to do push ups while Rias sat on his back.
"Remember that the more powerful you are means that you can accomplish more than you already are."
"I thinks that goes without saying." After a few minutes, Rias started looking around the park.
"I wonder what's keeping her?" Rias asked no one in particular.
"Who?" Nero asked while still doing his push ups. Rias then looked forward and he followed her gaze to see Asia approaching the two of them.
"Hey guys! I'm sorry I'm late! I promise it won't happen again!" Asia said. She then tripped and fell onto the ground. "Oh I really am no good at running and talking at the same time." Rias and Nero just stared on in disbelief. After Asia got up, she handed Nero a cup and poured coffee out of a thermos.
"Here you go Nero."
"Thanks Asia."
"So why exactly are you here Asia?"
"The president told me to come here and meet you two."
"Really? Why would you do that?" After he asked, he looked over to Rias and noticed a distant look on her face. "Pres?" She then got out of her thoughts.
"I'm sorry?"
"You alright? You don't normally space out like that."
"I'm fine. Now that we have everyone here, we should get going."
"Get going where?"
"To your house, of course." They then left the park on the way to Nero's house. When they got there, Nero noticed two stacks of boxes.
"Wait, why are these boxes here?"
"I'm sorry, but they're all of my things." Asia said.
"Wait, this is all of your stuff Asia? Well, why is it here?"
"Well, as of today, Asia is going to be moving in with you Nero." Rias said
"What?" Nero asked.
"It's very kind of you to let me stay here."
"When I asked Asia where she would like to stay, the first place she said was your place."
"Wait, hold up. I never said she could stay here."
"Are you saying she can't?" Asia's face started to turn sad.
"No, not at all! Just next time, can you ask before you do something like this? I would have been able to have prepared a room for her if you warned me this was happening."
"Okay. I'm sorry to have sprung this on you." Rias apologized.
"It's fine. Would you help me bring these boxes in and help set up a room for her?"
"Of course." As they were bringing the boxes, Rias started looking around the house.
"Nero, how did you get this house?" She asked.
"Well when I was a baby, I was dropped off at an orphanage. The reason I got my name was because I was wrapped in a black blanket. I was raised there until I was 16. When I was dropped at the orphanage, there was an envelope that said to not open it until I was 16. In it was a letter that gave me the address to this house and the code to a bank account that gave me enough money to be set for life. After that I went to Kuoh Academy and here we are now."
"Did the will say who your parents were?"
"No, just what I told you was in it."
"Are there any secrets in this house?"
"Only one. There's this locked room that no matter how much I tried, I could never get it open."
"Would you like to try again? Maybe we could get it open. You know what they say, two minds are better than one."
"True. Alright let's try it." He then led her to the locked door.
"This is it?"
"Yep. Alright, let's give it a try." He then proceeded to turn the door knob. When his hand touched it, a magic circle appeared in front of the door. "Okay, that never happened before." Asia then arrived.
"What's going on?" She asked.
"Well, we were trying to open this door, but this happened." Nero said gesturing to the door. Rias then walked up to the door.
"Strange. All magic circles have the crest of their house, but this one doesn't have one." After she said this, the magic circle disappeared and the door opened. Inside it was nothing but a table with a glass display, a coat rack with a long black coat with a red interior that has a leather strap that goes across the back with rose designs for the coat buttons and clasp, and a belt that has leather straps that wrap around what appears to be the thigh with a rose belt buckle. Everyone entered the room and Rias and Asia looked around to see if there was anything else while Nero approached the table.
"Wow." Inside of the display case was a double barrel revolver with intricate carvings along the barrels, the cylinder, and the area around the trigger. There is also a blue rose carved into the area before the barrels begin on both sides. It also consisted of a wooden grip, ports on the tips of the barrels, and targeting sights. He then opened the case and took the gun. Under it is a note.
[This weapon's name is the Blue Rose. It has been heavily modified to be extraordinarily powerful. It also has been magically enhanced to never run out of ammunition. Use it with care Nero.]
Rias then came over to him.
"Why do you have a gun?" She asks.
"It was in this display case. Apparently, it was put here for me to find."
"What do you mean?" He then picks up the note and hands it to her.
"At the end it's specifically addressed to me." Rias then read the letter.
"You're right. But who would leave you a gun?"
"I'm not sure. There's also a coat and belt over there." He went over to the coat rack and picked up the coat. He then took off his Academy jacket and put on the coat, rolling up the sleeves to his forearm, and put on the belt and wrapped the straps around his thighs. "Well how do I look?"
"You look great. It really suits you." Rias said. Asia then came over.
"You look really cool Nero!" She said with a beaming smile.
"Thanks guys. Hey Pres, do you think you could find me someplace to train with this thing?" He asked gesturing to the Blue Rose.
"Of shouldn't be hard to find you somewhere to practice."
"Now let's finish up getting Asia her room." They then left the room to finish. Later that afternoon, Rias brought Nero to an abandoned building for him to practice using Blue Rose. Right after she showed him the building, he rushed in and immediately started practicing. Rias, not wanting to interrupt him, left very shortly after.
"He sure doesn't waste time in getting to work. He must really want to live up to his promise." She said while walking back to her house.
The next day, after school was let out, Nero and Asia were walking back from handing out flyers.
"You must be exhausted." He said.
"No it's fine if, anything I'm wide awake considering how nice everyone was. Especially two boys named Matsuda and Motohama."
"Hold on, they didn't do anything weird did they?"
"No but they did want to invite me to something called a devil's threeway?"
"No matter what promise me you absolutely won't go do that."
"Okay, I promise." Soon after, they arrived at the club room. After they went inside, Nero approached Rias sitting at her desk. She seemed to be lost in thought again.
"Hey Asia and I got back. Pres, you all right?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I must have spaced out. It's been one of those days. Asia I think it's time that you make your first pact."
"What?" Asia asked.
"Well, you jump to a potential client and, as she said, make a pact with them. But don't you think you're rushing things a bit? Asia's still brand new. She hasn't even been a Devil for a week."
"Don't worry about her she's going to be great. When it comes to magic powers, she's got almost as much as I do." Akeno says holding a tray with tea on it.
"Wow, really?" Nero asked.
"I couldn't agree more. I didn't make her my Bishop for nothing."
"Also, congratulations on that. Being a Bishop is impressive." Kiba says.
"Thank you Kiba." Asia said.
"Asia's not ready to be making a pact yet. She doesn't know her way around town yet." Nero thought. Asia had a nervous expression on her face.
"Asia is everything okay?" Rias asked.
"Yes I'm fine. Just nervous that's all."
"Pres."
"Yes Nero?"
"I think it would be better if I went in Asia's place."
"Really?" Asia asked.
"Yeah. You don't know your way around town yet so it would be better if you went out to go do pacts when you do." After that, Nero left the club room to get to the client.
"Good thing I went instead. These summons can have unexpected and dangerous people calling you. Case and point, that summon where I first met Freed. Good thing I brought Blue Rose. May not be the best shot but at least I know how to use it now. Good thing I spent the rest of the day practicing shooting. That reminds me, I have to thank Rias for the place she let me use to practice." He then arrived at a door with the number 206 and is purple with flowers on it. A deep voice then comes through the door.
"Door's open come on in."
"That voice does not fit the image of what I thought was behind this door." Nero said quietly. The door then opened to reveal a man massively tall and built man wearing a clearly female outfit.
"What's going on? I'm Mil-tan." The man says striking a pose.
"This is really happening."
"Nice to meet you. Are you the one who summoned a Devil from the Gremory clan?"
"You know it! I have a wish I want you to grant! Look here I want you to turn me into a magical fairy princess!"
"Yeah I can't do that."
"Let's be real here."
"Look there's nothing I can do."
"Please give me magic powers, I want to be beautiful."
"Trust me when I say you're beautiful enough already." Mil-tan then starts crying.
"But I want to be like a fairy!"
"Quiet! You don't want to wake the neighbours do you? All right, we can work things out."
"Great! While we do we can paint our nails and gossip!"
"Yeah whatever." "I'm so going to regret this." Mil-tan then ran inside.
"While we do, we should watch Magical Milky Girl!"
"Just end it now. Take me outside and end my suffering." A few hours later, Nero was walking back to the clubroom.
"Well that was a waste, I didn't even get a pact." His phone then started ringing. He answered.
"Congratulations." It was Rias. "I just got word that you finished the job. How did it go?"
"Really, really weird." He then continued to explain what happened to her.
"So in the end, you didn't make a pact."
"No I was just subjected to watching a bunch of anime."
"Well I'm disappointed to hear that."
"I'm sorry. I'll try not to disappoint you again." With that he ended the phone call. For the rest of the night, he practiced how to use the Blue Rose at the place Rias let him use. The next day, he faked feeling nauseous to get some sleep in. After a half hour he woke up and looked to his left to see Rias sleeping next to him naked with her wings out, causing him to blush.
"Holy shit! So this is now the second time this has happened. I hope this doesn't become a regular thing." Rias then started to stir and woke up.
"Hi there Nero."
"Hey. This isn't going to happen often right?"
"No, it isn't. I did this because I was feeling tired so I came here to take a quick nap. All the other beds were taken and you were still asleep so I joined you. Oh my wings are out." She then made her wings vanish. "Are you okay, your face is red?" She then put her hand on his cheek.
"Yeah I'm fine. Quick question. Why are you naked? As far as I know you're not healing me."
"I'm sorry but I can't sleep without being naked. So I have a proposition."
"Oh no what is it?" He said sarcastically.
"I want you to go out and make a pact right now. If you do I will do anything you want within reason." Nero took a few moments to think it over."
"Sure. Deal." After that, she got dressed and they headed to the club room. Akeno then made a magic circle in the middle of the room.
"Is it necessary for both of us to go?"
"Not really but there's nothing wrong with having a professional at your side."
"Well I can't argue with that."
"Good luck Nero!" Asia called out.
"Thanks Asia."
"Get ready guys, I'm sending you now." Akeno said before Nero and Rias vanished. They then appeared in a room that has many things that represent Japanese culture.
"This is an interesting place. If you count interesting as a place with a lot of Japanese stuff." He then noticed a person sitting in a chair wearing samurai armor.
"You're the Devils right?" The person asked revealing the person to be a girl.
"Well I didn't see that one coming. So you're a girl?" Nero said.
"Yes. I'm Susan. I'm an exchange student from America and I love Japanese culture."
"Well that explains this room and what you're wearing."
"This area's really scarey at night so I wear this samurai armor to scare everything bad away."
"Well I can say it would at least confuse them."
"Thank you. I'm so glad you're a nice Devil. If you weren't, I would have to take my blade and cut you open like sushi!" She said while actually drawing her blade and sounding crazed.
"Take it easy!" After the situation was defused, they all sat down to discuss the terms of the pact.
"So tell me, what can we do for you today?"
"Well I lost my notebook at school and I'm too scared to go get it by myself."
"Seriously?"
"You don't understand, it's super scary out there!"
"Not nearly as much as you are." Nero and Susan then walked to her school. She then started freaking out when a fly flew by her.
"What is it?!"
"I'm sorry. Like I said, it's really scary out here at night."
"Like I said earlier, not as scary as you." Soon after that, they retrieved the notebook and returned to her room.
"Thank you very much!" Susan said while bowing.
"No problem. See you another time." Nero said as Rias was making a magic circle for the two of them to leave.
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah what is it?"
"I hate to be a bother but there's one more thing I need you to do."
"Can we do two requests?" Nero asks Rias.
"Of course. We'd be glad to help." Susan then went on to tell the two of them her request. "So, tell me about this guy."
"Is it just me or am I the only one who thought it could go in this direction?"
"I really like him but I'm shy. I don't really know how to talk to him."
"So you want us to make him fall in love with you."
"No no, I don't want that. I want him to love me on his own."
"So have you tried being direct and telling him how you feel?"
"No I couldn't! I wouldn't even know where to start!"
"How about a letter?" Nero suggests.
"A love letter?"
"Not a bad idea. That just might work. Writing down what you feel can be a great way to express yourself." Rias said.
"All right then! I'll give a try!" She then went on to write the letter. "Should I compare him to a summer's day? Oh this is going to be perfect!"
"Wouldn't you rather write something that's more I don't know original?" Nero asks.
"I think it's great. It doesn't matter how you form it but the feeling you get across."
"That does make sense."
"It's hard. To say how you truly feel about someone. It's so hard but it feels good when you finally do."
"I agree."
"Finished!" Susan said while having a bow in her hands with the letter attached to an arrow.
"Wait that's how you're going to send it?!" A while afterwards, the three of them waited in a park.
"After that I'm now confident this isn't going to end well."
"It looks like he's here." A man dressed up in knight armor was approaching them.
"What the hell?! You shot him right in the fucking head!"
"Yeah, sorry I have really good aim. I thought of other ways to send it but the arrow seemed the best way."
"Well he looks pissed."
"I've read your letter and I have to say not bad. To think that I could be caught off guard like this."
"I'm so happy!"
"I could swear I'm going just a tad bit insane."
"If you'll have me, I would be honored to be your knight in shining armor." After that, the pact was completed and Nero and Rias returned to the club room.
"Those two sure were a match made in armor."
"Yeah I guess you could say that."
"So what do you think?"
"About what?"
"About being with the person you love more than anything."
"I think that would be amazing. Trust me, I've been in a shitty relationship so I can say that it would be great to have my life like that. I wish I could meet someone like…"
"Like who?"
"Uh nevermind. I'm pretty emotionally damaged so don't take what I say into account."
"No it's fine. I'm happy you gave me an honest answer. Anyway, now that you've held up your end of the bargain, I will hold up mine. So, what do you want me to do?"
"Hmmm…." He thought it over for a few moments. "How about you teach me how to fly." Rias had a look of surprise on her face. "What's wrong? Do you not want to?"
"No it's just most guys would probably have me do something lewd."
"What do you take me for, a pervert?"
"Of course not. Now let's get you started on flying." They headed out into a secluded area."First bring out your wings."
"Alright." Within a few seconds, his wings unfurled from his back.
"Now I want you to feel the muscles in the wings and try to move them." After a few moments of intense concentration, his wings gently moved. After a few minutes, he was able to move them freely.
"Great. Now flap your wings until you get off the ground." Within seconds, Nero was flapping his wings and was in the air at a good height.
"Now I want you to focus on a direction and fly in it." As Nero tried this, his wings went out of control having him shot across the sky.
"AHHHH! Help!" Rias however was too busy laughing. "I'm so happy you're having a good time now can you please help?!" Rias' laughter then died down.
"I'm sorry Nero. I'm coming." She then flew up into the air to help but as she did, Nero crashed into her, sending both of them to the ground.
"Ugh. Sorry about that Pres."
"It's okay." Rias said next to him. Nero then started laughing at the event, causing Rias to join in.
After a few hours, Nero got the hang of flying. He then landed on the ground.
"Nicely done. You really learn fast."
"Thanks. Well I got to get going. See you tomorrow." Nero then made his way to leave.
"Nero wait."
"Yeah?" Rias then hugged him, causing a blush to appear on both their faces and a smile to appear on Rias'.
"Thank you for today. It was fun."
"Of course no problem." Rias then let go and Nero made his way home. In the window of the clubroom, Akeno was watching them when they hugged.
"Could she really be into him?" She thought.
After school the next day, Nero went up to Kiba.
"Hey Kiba. Can I have a word with you?"
"Of course. What do you need?"
"Can you help me get a sword?"
"Why?"
"When I fought with the Fallen Angels, I noticed I can't fight with my fists for my life. So I guessed I could try my hand in swordfighting. So will you help?"
"Of course. Anything for a friend." Nero and Kiba then headed for his house. After they got there, Kiba led him into his basement which had multiple tables that had blades, hilts, and handles for swords. "Pick which ones you like." Nero then looked at the blades. One caught his eye. A blade that has a base that curves outward and a flat outcrop near the tip of the blade.
"I'll take this one."
"All right." Nero then moved on to the hilts in which another caught his eye. The hilt was ornately decorated and was circular in shape with a motorcycle-like handlebar attached to it.
"That one."
"Interesting. No problem." He then went to the handles and picked out one that was longer than any of the others.
"And this."
"Now do you have any specifics for the blade? Like colors, any additons to what it can do, or any cosmetics?" Nero then took a good minute to think this through.
"I would like it to be red."
"Anything else?"
"Yeah, can you add a vine pattern?"
"No problem. Any other specifics?"
"Can you make it more powerful?"
"How so?"
"I'm not sure. Do you think you can make it a fire blade? I can't really use magic so do you think you could incorporate it into the blade itself?"
"That's unusual but I'll do my best. This'll take a while so why don't you head up into the living room."
"Alright." Nero proceeded to do so. After seven hours, Kiba came up from his workshop and woke Nero.
"It's finished." The blade now had what appeared to be exhausts near the base with a red piece over it covered in a metallic pattern, the handle now seemed to split into two sections with the top being smaller. "Twist the smaller portion, there's a surprise for you," As Nero did, a revving sound of a motorcycle was made and the exhausts had smoke come out of them. The blade also seemed to heat up.
"Wow! What did you do?"
"I installed a motorcycle-like gear shift where every twist of the handle will spray a flammable propellent onto the blade, making it be able to catch fire and do more damage than a normal attack would."
"Did you name that technique?"
"No I hadn't thought of a name. Can you think up one?"
"How about….. Exceed?"
"That fits nicely."
"What about the blade? Have you named her yet?"
"I thought I would leave that up to you." Nero looked down at the sword in his hands, thinking of a name.
"The Red Queen."
(And that's it! So Nero finally has his signature weapons and signature coat! He will only be wearing the coat during a fight. Anyways, leave a review telling me what you thought of the chapter. Until the next one. See you!)
Chapter 7: I Fight In Dodgeball and Go to the Familiar Forest.