Possible Love?
"Issei Hyoudou" - Talking
'Issei Hyoudou'- Thought
"Issei Hyoudou" - Communication circle/phone
*Sounds*
[ Issei Hyoudou ] - Inanis
"Oh, where are my manners. My name is Asia Argento."
The girl now identified as Asia said as she shook my hand with a friendly smile. She definitely wasn't Japanese, she must be a foreigner. Her attire consisted of a dark teal nun outfit with light blue accents, a white veil over her head with light blue accents, a brown satchel slung on her right hip, and brown boots with black straps in an X-shaped pattern. She also wore a silver cross necklace around her neck.
I'll definitely have to avoid touching her necklace or that satchel, the cross is evident as to why I can't touch, but I don't know what she has in that satchel that could be dangerous to me.
Asia seemed to be an innocent, shy, and kind type of person, which makes it extremely weird that she was associated with the damn fallen angels. That's not the only thing strange about her though. When I look at her, I feel something within me screaming at me to protect the girl.
"I- I don't mean to be selfish, b-but could you perhaps help me," She asked nervously with a soft, gentle voice, stuttering over her words as she tried to talk. Her question shook me out of my thought. I looked at the nun as she pulled her white veil back over her shining blond hair.
"Yeah, what do you need help with," I asked putting a smile on. "Y- you see I'm new here and I can't seem to find a church I'm supposed to go to. My friends are waiting for me there, and I'm already running a little late, so I was wondering if you knew the way" She explained as I listened to her situation.
'Nailed it' I mentally said to myself, there's no way this isn't the nun that the fallen angel was talking about, I proceeded to do a little happy dance in my head. "Yeah that shouldn't be a problem, although I only know of one church around here and last I checked it was abandoned" I stated looking down to the girl as she was relatively short compared to me, she was standing only around 5,1 while I was around 6,2.
"Well, it's worth a shot right?" She said with a hopeful attitude. I nodded in response as I waved at her to follow me.
'Hey, Inanis what was that earlier, that feeling. It felt like something was screaming at me to protect that girl' I mentally asked Inanis so Asia wouldn't think I was going insane by talking to myself.
[She must have an affinity for dragons. She naturally attracts our kind, especially you since you are 75% dragon and wield a dragon type sacred gear] Inanis answered in his normal deep gruff voice. 'Weird' I mentally spoke to myself as I scratched the back of my neck. I was shocked by the sound of a young child crying.
I turned my head to look at the child making the sound, seeing him on the ground holding a slightly bloodied knee as it seems he ripped some skin off of it from falling. To my surprise, I heard a light gasp from my left, shortly after seeing the nun Asia running into my field of vision to the crying boy.
I walked up behind the nun who was looking at the boys light wound. "There now, big boys shouldn't cry" Asia spoke softly as she rubbed the boys head. She closed her eyes as two silver rings appeared on both of her hand's middle finger.
The ring had a green jewel embedded into it on top. Her hands hovered closely above the knee of the kid as her hands started emitting a green glow, the kid's knee wound started closing starting from the ends as it slowly closed down on the center.
My eyes narrowed slightly at the sight of this, knowing that I now had guaranteed proof that this was the nun I was looking for. "There, all better now," The kneeling nun said tilting her head slightly with a smile as she looked at the boy.
His mother rushed over to look at her son's knees. Upon seeing that the wound was gone entirely, her expression shifted from worry to confusion and slight fright. She grabbed her son's hand and proceeded to pull him away from us. Which was a normal reaction, not like you see something like that every day of your life.
Asia stood up from her kneel and turned to me with a slight tinge of pink on her cheeks. "S- sorry about that, but when I see someone who's hurt, I just want to help" She spoke looking down as if she has done something wrong, which in itself was weird as I don't know why she would feel bad about helping a child.
"Oh its no problem, in fact, that's quite the nifty power you have there" I spoke pointing to her silver rings as the faded away from her hands. "Thank you, it's a gift I received from God so I could help people like I always wanted" She spoke. However contrary to her words her expression spoke a completely different tone.
After saying those words, her face held a bittersweet smile as I saw sadness deep within her emerald eyes. 'There is definitely more to this then what is being presented to me' I mentally said to myself as I decided not to prod, gaining such information would hold no benefits to my ultimate goal, plus it's not my business to poke in others emotional matters.
"Hey, there it is," Asia said with a slightly excited tone lacing her voice. Her eyes widening and her face forming a smile upon the church coming into sight. "Thank goodness I found it," She said. When I saw the church, I tensed slightly as a feeling of dread weighed heavily on me.
These feelings were my devil side's instincts telling me to leave immediately. "Here let me thank you properly, would it be a problem for you to come inside?" Asia asked me with an innocent smile on her face, she obviously couldn't tell I was involved with the supernatural, which is a good thing.
I flinched slightly at her question and tensed up, even more, stumbling back slightly confusing the girl."Sorry, but I can't, I have people to meet pretty soon, so I need to get going" I spoke, I didn't lie as I did need to meet my peerage members, but it was mostly an excuse not to enter the house of God.
"O-oh that's ok, guess I should go to. Thank you again for helping find my way Mr...uh" Asia said looking at me curiously as she didn't know my name.
"Oh sorry, my name is Issei Hyoudou, and you are very welcome," I said giving her a warm smile with a slight bow.
"M-meeting you here was a blessing that I won't forget, if you ever get bored or lonely I'll be up at the church" She spoke smiling at me. "Got it, well I'll see you later," I said as I turned waving and jogging away.
I was jogging back on the path of the ORC room while thinking about my encounter with the nun. Now knowing where the fallen are actually located at as well as their goals, I could adequately inform Rias. I'm pretty sure she will be able to take action as the fallen are a rouge group and don't have any affiliation with the Grigori, at least not anymore.
The only problem was the fact that I don't know if she will want to start a fight with a cadre class fallen angel, rouge or not. That wasn't the only thing on my mind at the moment though, that nun Asia Argento was also occupying a decent amount of my thoughts.
An innocent and sweet girl like her shouldn't be with the likes of fallen angels. I doubt that she is aware of them wanting to extract her twilight Healing, and if she does I doubt she knows the consequences of such an action.
I'll have to handle this delicately as I don't want that girl to die. Maybe it was the girl's affinity for dragons that told me that, or perhaps it was more and more profound than just that, but that doesn't matter, what I do know is that a girl like her doesn't deserve what they plan to put her through.
I have plenty of time to plan this out anyways as the ritual to remove a sacred gear is very length taking weeks to properly prepare at best. I shook my head shaking the thought out of my mind as I reached the school grounds proceeding to walk to the nature covered old school building.
As I walked down the path, I saw Kiba ahead of me in his casual clothing. Which consisted of a white, neat, button-up T-shirt. His legs covered in sleek black jeans while wearing black sneakers. Seems that even when school isn't active, he still tries to dress nicely, something to be expected of a knight.
I yelled his name causing him to turn to me as I gave him a wave. Kiba smiled at the sight and waved back. I continued to jog up to him slowing down to a walk once I reached where he was at, my breathing slightly labored as I had a very thin line of sweat on my body. button-up T-shirt
"My, been working out have we?" Kiba asked noticing my appearance. I nodded as I pulled out a water bottle from my pocket, drinking the water down to about half its original full amount. "Yeah although it's nothing new, this is a mountingly routine for me," I said nodding as I tightened the lid back on the bottle of water.
I looked over to Kiba to see him observing me as if he has just noticed something about me. "What?" I asked him confused tiling my head to the side slightly as I tried to figure out why he was staring at me. Kiba shook his head slightly as he heard me.
"Oh nothing I just never thought I'd see you wearing clothes like this" Kiba spoke referencing my way more casual clothing that the two girls picked out for me. I looked down at m apparel realizing what he meant, as I usually wore entirely covering clothes.
"Yeah, Rias and Akeno took me shopping yesterday. How do I look" I asked the blond knight with a smile and slight blush remembering yesterday and all the seductive words she spoke. "Well they certainly know what to pick, these clothes show off your muscled physique," Kiba said answering my question.
I smiled at his response as he complimented my appearance, although I don't know if the girls picked this for me because it looked good or if it revealed more of my body. Probably the latter knowing Akeno, not that it matters though as I like it.
Kiba and I continued to walk to the club room with a comfortable silence in the air. Upon entering the old building, we made our way to a set of wooden double doors which we proceeded to open. Upon Kiba and I entering at the same time the sight of the two beauties Rias, and Akeno having a conversation by Rias's fancy wooden desk.
Along with those two sat the cute petite girl Koneko on the couch eating sweets as per usual. Kiba walked and sat beside her pulling out a book and started reading half way into the reasonably thick book. I released my dragon tail and wings like usual to get more comfortable, as it always felt better allowing my features to be released instead of holding them in all the time.
I walked over two the two girls to report to Rias about my discovery with Asia as well as the fallen angel's plans to extract her sacred gear. Upon reaching them, they both looked up at me giving me a warm smile. "Why hello Issei how have you been?" Akeno asked me with her usual smile.
"I've been fine thank you," I said, I was about to ask Akeno how she was doing as well, but I was interrupted by Rias. "I see you're wearing the clothing we picked out for you, I'm glad you like them" Rias spoke with an ever so slight red tinge to her cheeks.
"Yeah I like them a lot, they are really comfortable for my morning training," I said as I rubbed the back of my neck. Akeno grew a mischievous expression with a lustful look in her eyes. "My my so is that why my sweet Issei smells so manly" Akeno spoke licking her lips as she ran a finger down my muscled chest.
My face turned a crimson color that could only be matched by Rias's hair. Rias gained a jealous look as she saw her friend acting this way to her love interest and the fact that she called me hers, even if they didn't plan on competing she couldn't help it. Akeno gave a wink as she lifted her finger from my chest. I regained my composure as I turned to Rias to speak.
"I need to report something to you" I spoke my tone now more serious which caught the surprise of the peerage members as they haven't seen me very serious often in the time we've been together in the peerage. "Very well, let's hear what you have" Rias spoke the entire peerage's attention now on me as I stood in front of Rias's desk.
"I've gained knowledge of a certain group of rouge fallen angels working within the town of Kuoh, they are scheming to steal a sacred gear from a nun that I assume has been excommunicated from the church," I spoke surprising the rest of my peerage members at the reveal, but they were mainly astonished at the fact that I knew this as they didn't have any idea of the groups activity.
Rias leaned back in her chair putting her hand up to her chin. "That certainly would explain the increase of fallen angel activity here. More importantly, how did you get this information" Rias question me as it was indeed surprising that their newest member was able to find this out.
"When we first me there was a dead fallen with me, before killing him I interrogated him for the knowledge. However, I didn't think it would be worthy of your attention until the excommunicated nun arrived." I answered her, her eyes narrowed slightly at me not in distrust but in curiosity.
"That all adds up, but why would you think it wasn't worthy of my attention until now" She spoke probing me for more answers. "Well, the first reason was that if the nun arrived, they would have to perform a lengthy ritual to extract it, which means they would all gather at once so we could eliminate their activities with one attack" I spoke, surprising the others at my cunning idea.
"The other was a bit of a selfish reason" I continued looking down slightly. This especially caught the attention of the peerage as they were not expecting me to have ulterior motives behind this. They all listened closely to me as I prepared to speak. "You see, the leader of this group is the same person who took Akeno's mother, as well as my parents," I said sorrowfully, causing the group's eyes to widen.
Akeno was mainly affected by this as her eyes were wide and her mouth slightly gaping, tears of sorrow and rage threatening to expel from her eyes. Before the group could say anything, I opened my mouth continuing to say more. "I figured if we waited for the nun to show up their leader my come out of the shadows and I could avenge our parents" I spoke softly looking down.
I was expecting a thorough scolding for hiding this knowledge for almost a month. My eyes widened slightly as instead of a scolding I felt two fort arms wrap around me embracing me with warmth. My arm was also enveloped in warmth by a different presence.
I opened my eyes to see Rias and Akeno both hugging onto me, Rias had her arms wrapped around my waist as she rested her head in my shoulder, Akeno her my arm in between her breasts and her forehead resting on my arm with her eyes closed and a bittersweet smile on her face. "You're not going to scold me for hiding this from you," I asked softly, my voice echoed with a surprising melody.
"Of course not, I'm proud of you in fact," Rias spoke which surprised me even more. "You not only came to us letting us know of your problems instead of running off alone, but you also devised a plan that would change this whole situation to give us the advantage. How could I not be proud of you" Rias spoke looking up at me.
"That was a pretty good plan," Kiba said reconfirming what Rias said. "Indeed," Koneko said in her usual monotone voice, although this time she wore a slight smile. Rias and Akeno separated themselves from me. Everyone took their natural positions so we could officially talk about this as a group.
I laid down on the couch to the right side of the room. My wings folded up and my tail running over the edge of the sofa draping down the armrest as it rested on the floor. Kiba and Koneko sat on the couch on the left side of the room. Rias was sitting on the edge of her desk with Akeno to her left hand.
"Alright so how much do we know about this group of fallen angels," Kiba asked breaking the silence. "The fallen angel I interrogated said they had a group of 4 fallen angels counting himself, along with several stray exorcists," I said looking over to Kiba.
"Who is leading the group, I'm sorry for asking, but we all need to know as much as possible before doing anything" Rias spoke with an apologetic voice, she knew that by asking who lead them she would be indirectly asking who killed Akeno's mother and my parents.
She didn't want to ask that as she knew it was a sensitive topic for us. "It's fine don't worry about it, the fallen angel who is leading them is a cadre class by the name of Kokabiel," I said with a deep draconic growl being added to that bastards name, as it angered me just thinking about him.
Upon hearing the name of their leader my peerage members eyes widened in shock that such a threat was near them. "The fallen angel leader Kokabiel, how are we suppose to beat him," Akeno asked wide-eyed. "I can handle him as long as you can handle his grunts" I spoke which wasn't a lie.
"Are you sure, he is a Cadre after all" Kiba asked nervously as he looked at me with a worrying gaze. He didn't want his friend getting hurt by taking on more then he could handle. "Power wise I'm a decent amount stronger than him, the only real problem I will have is that Kokabiel is a fighting genius, and he will no doubt be well experienced," I said looking back to the ceiling.
"Then we will attack them tonight since they are not with the Grigori there won't be any problems with that" Rias said with confidence. I flinched slightly at her words as I was hoping to wait longer. "May I suggest we wait, Kokabiel will most likely show up during the ritual if at all, and I'd like to kill that sick fuck" I said with anger lacing my tone as I reached the end of my sentence.
"That's exactly why I don't want to wait," Rias said shaking her head, which surprised Akeno and I. "As much as I want to help you two with your vengeance, killing a fallen angel leader isn't that simple, rouge or not," Rias said making a true statement. don't
I started thinking of ways to convince her to wait when one great idea revealed itself. "What if we wait for that nun to die in the ritual then take the sacred gear from the fallen angels, we could put the gear back in her and then get a new servant along with a sacred gear," I said pointing out how to get a valuable ally. I used the fact that the devils are naturally greed against her.
I did, however, feel bad that I was using that sweet girl like this, yet she wouldn't be dead permanently. "And what is her sacred gear," Rias asked me with curiosity, she was surprised by my idea but knew why I honestly thought of it.
"Her sacred gear is called Twilight Healing, it can heal any injury no matter the race of the injured person be it human, devil, fallen, or an angel" I spoke looking at Rias with hopeful eyes, hoping that she would agree. Rias looked at me with interest she knew I didn't like the idea of letting her die like that, but she also knew I didn't like letting innocent people die.
"Alright I will oblige with your request Issei," Rias said looking at me. A smile grew slightly on my face as I gave her a slight nod. "Thank you, Rias," I said. Rias smiled at me, she felt warm making me happy.
"Do we know why Kokabiel is doing this" Kiba asked glancing to everyone in the room one by one, they all had the same expression of confusion and thought as they had no idea what he could be planning, everyone but me.
"Issei you look like you have some knowledge on his plan, mind explaining," Koneko asked narrowing her eyes, as she was the least trusting of me. "Yeah I might know a little albeit very little" I spoke nodding slightly catching the eyes of others. "Well what is it then," Akeno asked her voice on edge waiting for my answer.
"Well, I can't say for sure as I don't really have any evidence to what it could be," I said confusing the others slightly as earlier I just said I might know what it is. "However, before he left he told me that he killed my parents because we could end up interrupting his plans, implying that whatever he is doing now is BIG" I finished leaving the others even more worried at the fact that Kokabiel could've been planning this for almost 10 years. Meaning whatever this was is something bigger than just this town.
"Well if we are going to be waiting for a while to exact this attack why don't we train harder to prepare for it," Kiba asked Rias. "That's an excellent idea Kiba, it usually takes a few weeks to properly remove a sacred gear which means we could get around two weeks of training in before executing our attack" Rias spoke happily with Kiba's idea.
"Why don't we go spar right now" Rias suggested.
"Right!"The other peerage members said aloud in unison.
Everyone got up to follow Rias and Akeno who lead us behind the old school building to a clearing so we could adequately train. Once reaching outside we all lined up to start our first training session. "Alright everyone, we will be sparing with each other every other day starting today," Rias shouted standing in front of us as a commander would stand in front of his army at attention.
"Akeno and I will spar together, Koneko and Kiba will both spar against Issei, seeing as he is significantly stronger then most I think this will keep it from being a one sided beat down, for the most part anyways," Rias said mumbling that last part to herself. She knew full well that I could destroy all the devils here even if they all teamed up on me at once with relative ease.
"Akeno and I will go first" Rias stated turning to her Queen as they both walked to opposite sides of the fair-sized clearing. Kiba, Koneko, and I went to the edge of the clearing to watch the two girls fight. "Who do you think will win," I asked turning to the two peerage members to my right as I laid in the grass. The green grass felt gentle against my muscled body as well as my wings and tail.
"I'm not sure who will win, Rias has stronger magic, but it's more costly to use, while Akeno as less powerful magic that's less straining to use, and they both have similar magic reserves, so it's hard to know," Kiba said analyzing the two contenders.
Rias's eyes changed color from a beautiful blue to a fierce crimson color, along with the area surrounding her. On the other side, Akeno's body started to glow a bright yellow. Once the glowing died down, it revealed her clothes that had changed into a traditional Miko attire, consisting of a white haori with red accents, a red hakama, and a pair of zōri with white tabi. Her arms lining with yellow electricity.
Both girls glanced at me, giving me a signal which I understood completely. I stood up and raised my arm into the air. "BEGIN" I shouted as I fired a small blast into the air, upon the blast exploding both girls released their wings flying into the air.
Akeno raised her hand yellow lightning building up at the tip of her fingers as they condensed into a sphere. Rias took notice at the fact that her attack needs to charge. Rias flung forward releasing a quick blast of Destruction magic. Akeno's eyes narrowed slightly at the black and red blast flying at her.
She quickly shifted her position to dodge Rias's attack and smiled at her friend and current opponent. "TAKE THIS" Akeno shouted flinger her hand forward her index finger extended pointing directly at Rias. A bright flash erupted from her hand as a fast bolt of lighting flew at Rias. The blast was far to quick to dodge, so Rias raised her hands to form a crimson barrier in front of her.
Her barrier managed to handle Akeno's attack but not without managing to receive some cracks to its defense. As the fight continued I closely observed a few problems with their display. Both had a relatively high magic reserve although it definitely could be better.
Rias's main problem wasn't the control of her power as she had reasonable relative control. However, I noticed that she was lacking creation with her moves. She restrained herself to simple massive blasts that were costly and powerful, however useless if it didn't land on the intended target.
She could've filled that barrier with Destruction magic which would have entirely negated Akeno's attack. She also could do something besides a massive blast, perhaps a beam, or maybe a lot of smaller blasts making them hard to dodge.
Akeno also had a few problems with her moves. For such talented magic use, she restrained herself to only lighting. It was a waste of her potential to only use one type of magic when you could be very effective and efficient with most forms of magic. She had an ever so slightly larger magical reserve the Rias which is a huge compliment to her potential with magic as Rias's magical reserved was by no means small.
She could be effective with lightning, ice, and fire albeit maybe not as good as she is with her lightning magic. I also noticed that she isn't using her fallen powers. She could imbue her lighting with a holy element which would be extremely dangerous to Rias. Instead of using her holy element she was forcefully repressing he fallen side deep within her being.
I knew she hated her fallen side, but I didn't realize it was this bad. Then again I can't blame her for hating it either, because of her fallen angel side her own family killed her mother and tried to kill her. Non the less that they were aided by other fallen angels.
If she imbued her magic with a holy element, she would have won this fight before it even started. I would've been able to withstand it because I'm highly resistant to magic by being a dragon, but even with my magical resistant, I wouldn't be able to go completely unfazed. Other devils would be destroyed entirely by her ability.
Once the fight ended, it was declared as a draw, as neither girls were able to knock the other out.
The ground was littered with dents, cracks, and craters. The two girls wobbled over to the sidelines by us bystanders. Once reaching us the both laid down on the grass in exhaustion. They both had their clothes torn, their bodies bruised and burnt.
"...That... was... a.. good fight... Akeno" Rias said panting in between her words, her chest heaving up and down with each labored breath.
"...You too" Akeno spoke similarly to Rias with pants between her words. Her chest was heaving with her breaths as well. We gave the girls a little while to regain their lost stamina.
Once they did Koneko and Kiba moved to one side of the clearing together. I moved to the opposite side. My black scaled tail hitting the ground kicking up dust, my wings spread to their full length, and my slitted eyed staring holes into my opponents.
Their primal fear kicking into an even greater extent than last time as they now knew they were facing a descendent of a heavenly dragon. Rias raised her arm preparing to start the match, however before she could she heard her name being called to the side.
Everyone turned to see the student council president or better known to us as Sona Sitri. Sona was being followed by her draconic pawn Saji Genshirou, along with her Queen Tsubaki Shinra. They were donning the student outfit, which I got in trouble often for not wearing.
Kuoh Academy boys' uniforms consists of a black blazer with white accents over a white, long-sleeved button-down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, matching black pants, and brown dress shoes. Kuoh Academy girls' uniform consists of a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, a black shoulder cape and matching button-down corset, and a magenta skirt with white accents.
"What's going on here Rias, I felt your power rise and came to see what's going on" Sona spoke her voice calm and intelligent. She looked over at the scene of our sparing secession, as well as Rias's and Akeno's previous destruction done to the field.
"Not much we were just sparing," Rias said nonchalantly to her fellow high-class devil. "Would you mind if we joined in the viewing?" Sona asked Rias, who looked surprised at her requested.
"And why would you want to watch, I hope you aren't trying to gain an advantage on us during rating games" Rias spoke with a smug look. 'Rating Game, the hell is that' I thought to myself as the continued talking.
"No that's not it, I was hoping that Saji here would learn a little by watching a fellow dragon in battle" Sona spoke confusing Rias. "Wait he's a dragon," Rias asked very surprised, her expression was one of shock along with the rest of her peerage, as compared to me Saji was extremely weak.
"Not exactly, he wields a dragon type sacred gear called the Absorption Line, I hoped that by watching an actual dragon he may learn something," Sona said to her friend. Everyone's expression changed back to normal after hearing that.
Saji looked around his grey eyes meeting my violet slitted eyes. He waved at me with an expression of awe as this is the first time he has seen my draconic features. I sweat dropped at his appearance and gave him a wave back.
"I don't see why not," Rias said shrugging at her friend's request. She also wanted her peer to see how powerful her new piece and her friends love interest is, although that last part was more a secret to satisfy herself than anything. Sona, Tsubaki, and Saji all walked over to Rias and Akeno to observe the fight.
Rias raised her hand again, Kiba and Koneko getting back a readying position as I did the same inflicting my primal fear back into them. "BEGIN" Rias shouted as she blasted a red bolt into the air.
Upon the blast exploding Koneko charged first with Kiba forming a sword behind her. Koneko relying on her physical capabilities like a true rook threw a punch at my stomach. I extended my arm and caught her fist, upon contact a loud thud echoed across the clearing, dust kicking up behind both of us.
Even if her physical strength was lacking compared to my own, I could still tell that her punch had a lot of power packed into it, especially for her petite frame.
Glancing behind her I noticed Kiba was gone, upon hearing the ruffling of clothing behind me I turned to glance at the blond knight behind me who dawned a double-edged sword in his hands. The sword had golden entrustments along the hilt and pommel. He raised the sword above his head preparing for a substantial hit.
Koneko tried to remove her fist from my palm only for me to clam my hand down on hers preventing her from moving. Kiba shouted as he swung the blade down hoping to strike by back with a powerful blow. However, my tail interrupted his attack with a bash of its own.
Kiba's swords shattered upon contact with my hard scales, the force of my counteractive tail swing knocked him off balance. Before the knight could recover my tail wrapped itself around Kiba's torso and arms, clamping itself down tightly on his body.
My tail continued to contract around the knight crushing his body, causing the knight to grunt out its pain as he gritted his teeth. Koneko's eyes were wide at seeing the blond Knight being constricted by my tail like an anaconda.
Taking her surprise to my advantage, I quickly moved my hand to clamp down onto her wrist with a steel grip. I lifted the petite rook up into the air before promptly slamming her back down into the ground, kicking up dust and cracking the ground beneath the impact area.
Koneko's eyes widened even more as she coughed out spit from her mouth from the sure force and pain she took. I lifted the petite rook off the ground her body almost limp. I kneed her in the stomach, forcing what remaining air in her lungs out as she coughed up blood from the impact.
I flung Koneko to the spectators so they could tend to the rook. She hit the ground curled up in a ball her hands covering the impact point of my knee as her mouth drops of blood running out. The spectators quickly rushed to Koneko's side providing her with healing magic.
They were surprised to see how easily I dispatched of the rook. My tail still constricting Kiba while moving the blond Knight in front of me lifting him to be eye level with me. Kiba looked in my eyes with a fierce passion for winning this fight, or at the very least injure me.
I clenched my fist slamming it into his solar plexus forcing the air out of his lungs as he coughed out spit mixed with a little blood. My tail loosened around him allowing Kiba to fall to his knees as he gripped his stomach, his teeth gritting against each other in pain.
He looked up at me from to see my draconic eyes staring down at him sharply. His body started to shake from the fear of facing a dragon along with the pain coursing through his stomach.
"That's enough" Rias shouted at us causing me and Kiba to glance at her. My gaze instantly softened as I reached a hand out to Kiba. "That was a good fight, if I didn't hear you behind me, you would've landed a powerful hit" I spoke letting Kiba grab my hand helping him up, his primal fear vanished as if it wasn't even there.
"Thanks but even if I did hit you the sword would've broken like normal, I have a long ways to go to beat you," Kiba said slightly downcast as I slung his arm over my shoulder helping him up.
"True but think about it, if it were someone else, they would either be severely injured or possibly killed," I said giving Kiba some form of reassurance that he did well. Carrying him to the others, Kiba gained a slight smile at my words. I laid him down on the grass next to Koneko, who was now sitting up after being healed.
The two quickly started to heal the injured knight. While they were tending to Kiba's injuries, I turned my gaze over to Koneko. "You did really well too, you have a small frame but maintain a lot of power, that punch you threw had a lot of strength in it" I spoke trying to raise her confidence. She wasn't the type to take losing well as she often hated being weak, and I doubt a Pawn beating her a rook helped with that at all.
"...Thanks" She mumbled quietly looking away. I think she knew I exaggerated how she did, she knew I was way stronger than her. I sighed as I knew that was the best I was gonna get from her, at least for now. I turned my attention over to Sona, Tsubaki, and Saji. They gazed at me with an impressed look, Saji more awe struck then impressed.
"So what did you guys think," I asked looking at the trio. Sona regained her focus and put on a serious expression, she pressed her glasses up her nose causing her glasses to glint in the sunlight. "Well while that was an impressive display of your strength, I'm not sure that a beat down would count as training," Sona said sharply and coldly gazing at me, her words causing me to sweatdrop in the realization.
"I have to agree with Sona on this one" Rias said following up on her comment, my gaze turned to her. "While your display was quite impressive, injuring the others may hurt their training more then help them, please avoid from being so brutal in the future" Rias said as she stood facing after finishing the healing of Kiba, which didn't take as long as Koneko as he didn't have as many injuries as she did.
I sweatdropped at her words scratching the back of my neck. I knew she was right, I went a little harder on them then I should've. "Sorry, I'll refrain from that again" I spoke giving Rias a slight bow.
"Well I appreciate it, now I think its about time we get back to the club room, as its almost time to start our contracts tonight" Rias spoke as she started walking to the club room. I helped Kiba and Koneko up and proceeded to follow her after giving the Sona and her group and wave.
Upon re-entering the club room, the scene was, as usual, Rias and her desk with Akeno by her side. I was laying on the couch on the right side of the room, as usual, allowing my draconic features out. For whatever reason, the other peerage members dubbed this couch the title of The Dragons Bed, probably because I laid in it time I was here.
Kiba was off on a current contract, and Koneko was discussing something with Rias, Akeno was just listening in saying something every once and a while. "Issei" I heard Akeno call, prompting me to lean my head back hanging off the armrest looking at the upside down. Akeno giggled slightly at the sight.
"Koneko seems to be double booked, would you mind helping her out," Rias asked me looking into my eyes. She could tell I really didn't want to as I know her contracts normally consist of her dressing up in a costume for someone. "Yeah sure" I answered deciding to help her against my better judgment. Rias smiled at my acceptance.
"Thank you Issei," She said. I set myself up and stood up walking over to the corner of the room where the shadows are most prominent. "Thank you" I heard Koneko quietly speak behind me. Turning to her my eyes caught her looking at the wooden floor, her cheeks tinged with a slight red color.
"Its no problem," I said shrugging it off as I turned back walking to the corner of the room. Upon reaching the edge of the room, the shadows engulfed me and pulled me down into them, causing me to vanish entirely within the shadows.
I appeared in a dark ally way outside the house the contract was located at. It was currently night out the sky being lit by the moon. The shadows that once swarmed my figure slowly dissipated revealing me. I was in the center of a neighborhood, what stood in front of me was just an average house. On the outside the house was like every other, however, on a deeper level, something about the house just felt wrong and evil.
I walked in the yard following the concrete path leading up to the front entrance. Reaching the front porch I rang the doorbell waiting for an answer, yet no answer came. I stood there for around a minute before deciding I was tired of waiting. I grabbed the doorknob and turned it opening the door.
'Strange, it's unlocked, doesn't seem very safe' I thought to myself. Seeing as it was night time I expected the door to be locked. Upon looking in the house, I was met with a hallway void of any light illuminating except one room at the end of the hall.
"Hello, anyone here?" I asked my voice leaving a slight echo through the hall. I took a step forward to enter the house, only to stumble backwards at a sudden sensation through my body.
'What the fuck?' I thought to myself as my body started to tense up giving me an ominous sensation of dread just like the church emitted when I saw it. Something was defiantly wrong here, this isn't an ordinary house.
The air reeked of the foul odor of blood and a body. I walked in deciding to investigate the situation, shutting the door behind me. I walked down the hallway. Upon turning into the only illuminated room, my foot stepped in a red crimson sticky substance.
'Blood' I thought to myself as I kneeled down to the ground dipping my finger in the substance to observe it. Standing back up I walked a little farther in only to see a dead man hanging on the wall in a crucifix position. His body was severed in several pieces as blood was splattered everywhere. Under the hanging man was a sentence written in what I presumed to be the dead man's blood.
"Punish the wicked" a young male voice calmly spoke behind me with an ominous tone. Turning to look to where the voice came from revealed a young man with white hair sitting on a couch in front of the candles that illuminated the room. "Wise advice to head from a holy man," the man said standing and turning to me revealing his facial features.
The man wore a creepy smile being complimented my his red beady eyes. The man wore a clerical outfit black in color with golden highlights, the outfit draped down almost touching the floor. His chest was covered with a white undershirt as a cross draped down from his neck.
The man reeked of blood along with the rest of the room. Just from his appearance and his scent I could tell he was a psychotic killer, utterly void of any sanity left. "You just walked into the wrong house my friend," The man said giving a shrug as he slowly walked around the couch he was sitting on, stopping right as he got around it. I could sense his strong killing intent directed to be prompting me to let out a low pitch growl.
"Freed Sellzen at your service" The now named figure spoke giving a bow to me. My wings spread and tail hit the floor to try and threaten him with a primal fear although it didn't work on him, probably due to his pure insanity. "And you must be the pussy ass devil who this holy priest is gonna exorcize" Freed spoke his tone becoming excited as he did a little happy dance.
"So I assume your the one who did this then," I said pointing over to the dead man, who must've been the summoner I was supposed to meet. My eyes narrowed as my claws sharpened. Freed was slowly walking to me as I stood my ground. "Yep, summoning you was proof that he's done being human. END OF THE LINE SINNER" Freed spoke shouting the last phrase as he turned to face the dead boy. His voice erupting in maniacal laughter.
"Even so, that's a bit excessive don't you think," I asked. The dude's body was in literal pieces and nailed to a wall. "Oh please don't lecture me, bitch, your just a filthy hybrid of a dragon and a devil!" The insane priest said as he reached into his coat pulling out a sword of light and a gun.
"First I'm gonna cut out your vial heart, then with my righteous gun I'm going to blow a hole in your wicked demon face," He said wearing a creepy smile as he pointed the sword at me while licking the barrel of the white gun. "HOW DOES THAT SOUND SHITY DEVIL!" He shouted as he dashed forward at me rearing his sword-bearing arm back. I ducked under the blade as he slashed it at me.
"KERBLAM!" Freed shouted as he quickly turned around firing the gun at me. I raised my hand to block the light bullet coming from the gun. Freed's eyes were widened with shock at the display, he gritted his teeth losing his evil twisted smile.
"How did you do that you little shit, no devil should be able to withstand holy power?" Freed spat out at me as his face changed to anger. "You already mentioned it yourself, I'm part dragon, and dragons have high resistance to physical attacks and magical attacks," I said calmly readying my claws to rip this twisted priest apart.
"Shut it you fucking filthy hybrid!" the priest spoke, his voice heavily laced with frustration and anger. He charged at me once again, with surprising speed for an average human.
Still far to slow to hit me as I merely sidestepped his attack causing the blade to slam against the wooden floor, wedging itself into the wood. Freed struggled to pull the sword from the ground, his teeth gritted, and his hands tightened around the blade as he pulled even harder than before letting grunts out of his mouth.
Before he could pull the sword out I slammed my tail into his ribs, loud cracking sounds echoed through the house. The priest flew away from the still stuck blade as he slammed into the wall, denting the wall as he cracked the wooden frame upon impact.
The priest now slumped against the wall as he started coughing a large amount of blood and bile. I readied my claws preparing to dash forwards and deal the final blow to the sick, insane man. However, before I could strike Freed down, I was interrupted by a feminine scream behind me. Both I and Freed's gaze turned to the sounds, seeing the same small nun I helped this morning.
She was looking on in horror at the sight of the dead summoner, slowly backing up until she fell down trembling in fear. "Asia help me kill this shitty devil!" Freed demanded grunting in pain as he tried to get back up only to fall over on his knees. Asia turned to her superior to see me standing there as we locked eyes.
"...I-Issei, you're a devil?" She asked, her soft voice filled with confusion, sorrow, and fear. "A-Asia, I-I..." I tried to speak only to choke on my words as she stared into my slitted eyes.
I felt a sharp pain hit the side of my head as I was distracted looking at Asia. My vision was blurred but looking back up I managed to see Freed standing there no longer holding his weapons. Instead, he held a cross in his hand leading me to believe he punched me with the cross.
"You may be resistant to the holy magical bullets and blade, but your still nothing compared to this cross, you shitty devil," Freed spoke laughing manically as he proceeded to hit me again, my vision, even more, blurred them before. My head throbbing in pain, I gripped the side of my head where I was hit at.
"I-Issei, you're a devil?" Asia asked me again, tears boarding her eyes, her voice was filled with shock. "Yes...I didn't want to lie to you Asia, I swear I didn't. That's why I decided it was best for us not to see each other again" I said as I turned away. I just met this girl and yet I felt so close to her.
Perhaps it was her dragon affinity, I don't care either way. I felt horrible for lying to her. "Not that this isn't heartwarming, but you two have no business being together as the fallen angels have forbidden contact between us" Freed spoke as he re-summoned his blade of light, putting it against my neck. I couldn't even move, my body was paralyzed from the sudden strikes of the cross, my devil side screaming in pain.
Freed reared back the sword ready to decapitate me until Asia jumped in between the priest and me, causing Freed to cancel his swing. Asia stood in between us with tears in her eyes and her arms spread out wide to try and shield me. "...Asia" I muttered looking up from behind her. Freed's expression switched to the of exasperation. "You've got to be kidding me with this shit" Freed spoke clearly annoyed by Asia's actions. "Please don't I beg you from mercy" Asia begged Freed still protecting me from her.
"ENOUGH OF THIS BULLSHIT" Freed shouted as he hit her with his gun, knocking her down. Asia was reeling in pain as he grabbed her pulling her up to him. He slammed her hands on the wall pinning her there with his light sword. "Why shouldn't an upstanding priest do what he wants with a girl like you" Freed spoke as he stuck the barrel of his gun under the skirt, as he groped her.
Asia was whining with fear and discomfort as the priest continued his sexual assault on her. My eyes filled with rage as my aura flared, the black aura surrounding me as my hatred for this sick bitch built up.
"LET HER GO" I shouted out, my voice sounded as if it was mimicked by a second that sounded like Inanis. My eyes were now pure violet, my wings spread out wide, and my tail slamming on everything behind me. Freed started to shake under my presence as it seems the primal fear finally broke through to him.
Freed was speechless as he wobbled backwards. I dash forwards leaving a black trail behind me. My fist plummeted right into his solar plexus, he coughed up large amounts of blood from his mouth. Freed fell to the floor gripping his stomach in the severe pain. Freed gritted his teeth in pain.
A portal opened up above him as Freed looked up to it with a wide smile. "Looks like the fallen are here, Light Spears are on the menu, shitty devil!" Freed spoke confidently laughing manically as he stumbled trying to stand up. I gritted my teeth in anger, I knew taking them all on now would fuck up my plan. I turned to Asia attempting to pick her up to take her with me.
"L-leave me behind, if you take me they will follow you" She spoke looking at me with a bittersweet smile. "I can't leave you to this sick fucker" I said as my instincts screamed at me to protect her. "D-Don't worry I'll be fine, and I will come to see you again ok," She said with a smile.
My movement stuttered for a moment as I heard what she said. Ignoring my instincts I ran without her, jumping through the window shattering the glass and running into the ally way. Shadows quickly gathered on my body as they pulled me in teleporting back to the ORC.
Back in the ORC room, the peerage was panicking slightly as Akeno and Rias tried to set up a teleportation circle to my location hastily. After a few minutes into my contract I took for Koneko, Rias felt a strong adverse reaction from my evil pieces, signaling that I was in a place with some form of holy energy.
Akeno was hastily trying to activate a transportation circle with Rias at her side, both wore an anxious expression. Kiba and Koneko were behind the two girls anxious, ready to jump through and attack.
"I-It won't connect, something is blocking it," Akeno said panicked as a cold sweat ran down her forehead. "What do you mean it won't connect, if we don't get there he could be exorcized" Rias spoke shakily her voice was smothered with fear for her Pawn. Kiba and Koneko were both silent but worried for their friend just like the others.
The shadows in the room started shifting grabbing everyone's attention. Everyone was staring at the shadows as the pooled up into a puddle of pure darkness. The shadows formed into a figure, my figure. The shadows dissipated back into nothingness reveling me, my eyes still pure violet and a black aura around me.
The peerage's eyes widened upon seeing me gripping my temples in pain. My eyes stopped glowing their violet color as my overwhelming aura dissipated. Akeno caught me as I stumbled to them, my breathing slightly labored. The sharp burning pain from the cross still blurring my vision.
My fellow peerage members carried me to my couch laying me down on it as I see a blurred Akeno and Rias start providing healing magic to my head. I could hear their voices trying to call out to me.
However, I couldn't understand them as my ears were filled with a loud ring as if an explosion went off near me. After a few minutes of healing me, my vision returned to normal along with my hearing.
"Explain to me what happen to you this instant" Rias demanded as she stared at me with a worried gaze. Akeno and the rest wore the same gaze as Rias, their expressions were filled with concern for me. I sat up feeling guilty for making them worry about me.
I looked at Rias as I explained everything about what happened. About Freed, Asia, how I got injured, every single detail. "I'm sorry I made you all worry about me" I spoke looking at everyone with an apologetic gaze. Rias and Akeno both hugged me tightly as I apologized to them.
"Don't apologize to us, you had no way of knowing it was a trap" Akeno spoke as Rias nodded agreeing with her. "Looks like we will have to move our attack to tomorrow as well if they prepared the ritual ahead of time, we have a lot less time" Rias spoke, everyone nodding with her in agreement. To my surprise Koneko walked forward to me slowly, she was looking down with a guilted expression.
"...I'm sorry, if I didn't get overbooked, then this wouldn't have happened to you," Koneko said bowing slightly to me, which surprised me as I never expected for her to feel bad about something. "Don't worry about it, if I didn't go then you would've got put in the same situation, so I'm glad I went instead of you," I said softly with a smile looking at her as I reached my hand up patting her head.
No one else heard it, but with my enhanced senses, I could hear her purring slightly as my hand touched her head, a blush forming on her cheeks. I removed my hand to her disappointment as I stood up, feeling fine after the two girls healing.
"Well if you guys don't mind I think I'm going to go home to rest up after today" I spoke looking at everyone to see if they minded or not. "Good, Akeno and I will be accompanying you there as well" Rias spoke as Akeno nodded with her, surprising me at their words.
"What do you mean," I asked the two as a slight blush formed on my face, Kiba giggling at my embarrassed state. "Being hit with a cross is dangerous, so we are going to make sure you stay in good condition" Akeno spoke smiling at me, justifying their reason. Although for some reason I doubt they would've taken no for an answer anyways, so I just let it happen.
One the way home with the two girls following me, we decided to walk so the girls would know how to find my house if they needed me any other time. Akeno already knew where it was from childhood, but Rias didn't know anything about where I lived. I looked up to the starts thinking about the recent events with the insane priest, and Asia.
I need to save her, and Rias pointed out earlier that if they have prepared the ritual earlier then we would have far less time then what we initially thought. I cursed myself for overthinking such a simple detail. I decided to let go of those thoughts as it wouldn't do anything but make me anxious for that sweet girl.
I let out a sigh as my mind switched to the two girls behind me. They said they were going to stay the night which generally wouldn't phase me, but they were different. A blush formed on my face at the thought of the two remaining in my house. Unannounced to me Rias had a blush on her face about the same thing as Akeno whispered to her teasing her.
Akeno had a blush on her face, but for a far different reason. Her eyes were filled with lust as she licked her lips thinking of things she could do. Rias and I didn't notice as we were both lost in thought about what is to come.
"Here we are," I said coming to a stop, turning to my house walking down the concrete pathway. Rias looked to my house, it wasn't as lavish as what she's used to, but it wasn't cheap by any means. "Come on in," I said to the two ladies opening the door for them.
"Go ahead and sit on the couch or something while I make us dinner" I spoke to the two girls while pointing to the living room.
"Nonsense you go take a shower me, and Rias can make dinner," Akeno said as she started pushing me away from the kitchen. Rias only smiled and nodded at her friend's suggestion. "Uh, alright then," I said confused at their behavior but accepted it anyway.
I walked up the stairs to take a shower, it would be a long one this time, so I could hopefully relax from earlier. Back in the kitchen, the two guests talked to each other about what I would like for dinner.
Rias walked over to the fridge. Her mouth gapped upon how much food I managed to fit in the refrigerator for its size. "Well, I suppose you would have to learn how to stuff as much food possible in a fridge when you have an appetite like his" Rias said sighing as she rubbed the bridge of her nose.
Akeno giggled at her friend as she walked over to look into the fridge as well. "Well, what do you think he would like to have," Akeno asked as she scanned the fridge and its contents. The insides of the refrigerator contained primarily meats that were high in protein as well as a few fruits and vegetables.
"Well... he's a dragon so we should make a lot of meat," Rias said curiously, as she was unsure if that was a good choice. Akeno smiled as she reached in a grabbed a large amount of beef. "Well since he likes meat and is a dragon we should probably get started," Akeno said as she grabbed the tools needed. Rias smiled and joined her, as they both noticed something in the drawer which made them grow a wide smile.
I stepped out of the shower drying off very quickly by increasing my internal body temperature with a build-up of flames in my lungs. Drying me fast enough for light steam to leave the surface of my body.
I grabbed a white T-shirt and shorts to wear, the white T-shirt was a tad small, so it clung to my skin fairly tight showing off my physique. On the contrary, my shorts were somewhat lose around my waist, not enough to slide down or sag but lose enough to feel very comfortable.
I walked out of the bathroom the be met with a delicious fragrance, my enhanced senses being able to identify the ingredients. Well-marbled chuck beef stew meat, russet potatoes, large onions, parsnips, black peppers, fresh parsley, and some Worcestershire sauce.
I made my way down the stairs the fragrance getting stronger the farther I got. Upon entering the kitchen, I was met by Rias and Akeno wearing my two favorite aprons. They were black in appearance with big white letters on them Akeno's saying "Kitchen's Bitch" and Rias's saying "Bad Ass."
Both the girls turned to me with a broad smile, my cheeks flushed red at the fact that they found my aprons. "Welcome back Issei, I hope you enjoy" Rias spoke showing me a LOT of pot roast. "It looks great, although you really didn't have to do this, I could've-" I was saying but got interrupted as Akeno shoved a spoon in my mouth.
My cheeks flushed red at the idea of her feeding me. "Nonsense, we did this because we wanted to be helpful and nice" Akeno spoke with a big smile leaning over in front of me. My gaze shifted away from her trying to not stare at her assets.
We all sat down at the table, I let the girls get as much as they wanted so I could promptly consume as much as I wanted without worrying if they had enough. After they grabbed as much as they wished to, I proceeded to eat the rest of the food with ease.
"...Where does it all go" Rias muttered to Akeno as they watched me inhale large amounts of food. "I'm... not sure" Akeno responded to her crimson-haired friend. After dinner, I grabbed the dishes to wash them, much to the girl's pleas to allow them to clean a mess they made, though it fell on deaf ears as I did it myself. The girls were still sitting at the table as I washed the dishes a few feet away, they were talking about the Asia situation.
"So what's your opinion on this Asia situation," Akeno asked me. I thought about it for a few moments as the current situation was very confusing and conflicting with me. One on hand we now came to the conclusion that they probably prepared the ritual ahead of time, meaning they could have killed Asia already.
However, on the off chance, they didn't do that we would be ruining our opportunity to cut the head off the organization in one attack.
After a decent amount of thought as the girls looked at me pondering what I was thinking, I came to an answer. "I think we should go ahead and attack, it wouldn't be right to let an innocent girl like her die" I spoke surprising the other two.
"You do realize that kinda defeats the possibility of a new servant right?" Rias said pointing out the fact that if we attack tomorrow night, we most likely won't get a new servant if we were wrong about this prediction of them preparing ahead of time. "Yeah... I know." I spoke looking downcast knowing that they may back out of helping this.
"Don't worry, we will still help you, isn't that right Akeno" Rias spoke with a smile turning to her friend. "Indeed, we wouldn't abandoned family" Akeno agreed with Rias. I smiled at their reassurance, our conversation ended there as we came to an agreement, prompting them to go to the living room as I finished the dishes.
Finishing up I walked into the living room to see the two girls sitting on the couch watching Netflix. Upon walking in, I looked at the time to see it was pretty late. "Hey don't you think we should all get to bed," I asked the two grabbing their attention. They looked at the clock to check the time themselves, being slightly surprised at the time.
"Yes, I do agree we should go to bed" Rias spoke standing up stretching. "Ok then, Rias you can sleep on the bed in my room, Akeno you can have the guest room, I'll sleep on the couch" I spoke, both girls looking at me with a displeased expression at my suggestion. "Yeah no, I won't take your bed as a guest" Rias said crossing her arms as she tried to reject my sleeping arrangements.
"Yeah I figured you'd reject, but your compliance isn't a factor in this" I spoke as I grabbed Rias's wrist dragging her up to my room. Akeno giggled at the display of her friend putting up some resistance against me, but she couldn't do anything to resist my enhanced draconic strength. Reaching the stairs, Rias stopped struggling as I slung her over my shoulder carrying her up to my room.
I put her on the floor in my room and then promptly left. I guess she stopped trying to reject the idea of my sleeping on the couch as she didn't leave my room. Walking back down to the living room I was met by an empty room signaling that Akeno already managed to find the guest room and went to sleep. I walked over to the large couch and pulled out a folding bed, which was really big for a folding bed.
Laying down on the bed after gathering up some spare blankets and pillows I covered up as I allowed my draconic features so spread out as I closed my eyes entering my mindscape to train with Inanis.
(Rias's POV)
I laid there in Issei's bed staring at the ceiling of his room. His bed and pillows were very soft, they had his smell stained on them. My cheeks flushed red at all this. My thoughts were everywhere about this, I was in his house, at night, on his bed.
My cheeks blushed even redder at the realization of everything. 'This may seem weird, but I can't stand it anymore' I thought to myself getting up from his bed. I walked over to his door, preparing to walk downstairs and lay on the folding bed with Issei. I was interrupted before I could open the door by hearing soft footsteps in the hallways.
I opened the door slowly looking around only to lock eyes with my friend Akeno walking through the hallway quietly. I was about to speak before she covered my mouth with her hand as she shushed me.
"Be quiet, remember he's a dragon so he can hear better" Akeno whispered into my ear very quietly. I nodded at her which prompted her to removed her hand from my mouth as she gave me her natural smile. "What are you doing out here" I whispered back to her, raising an eyebrow to her.
"I didn't want to sleep by myself anymore, so I was going to join Issei" Akeno whispered to be. My eyes widened in surprise at leaning we were both about to go do the same thing. Akeno read right through me as a grin grew on her face.
"You were going to as well right, why don't you join me? We did promise to share him after all" Akeno whispered to me with a giggle and a grin covering her face. My cheeks redden at her word. I nodded slowly at her question, I still wondered if doing this was really ok or if it was too much.
Akeno didn't seem to have the same questions as I did, as she quickly grabbed my wrist and pulled her with me slowly down to the living room. Upon entering the living room, we saw Issei on a large pull out bed, his wings underneath him being spread out and his tail hanging off the side of the bed.
He was sprawled out across the mattress, his muscled arms outstretched across the bed. His shirt was messed up being pulled up slightly, showing a glimpse of his well-defined abs. Akeno walked closer to his left side, signaling me to go to his right. I walked over slowly as not to make any noise to wake him, waking up a sleeping dragon is never a good idea.
Akeno crawled into the bed using his outstretched arms as pillows as we laid on the leathery part of his wings, which was surprisingly smooth. My blushed intensified as he unconsciously wrapped his arms around both me and Akeno.
His body was extremely warm way warmer than an average person, perhaps that was a side effect of being a fire dragon. My eyes fluttered slightly as I felt a sudden wave of comfort and safety hit me, I could tell Akeno felt the same as her somewhat surprised gaze met mine for the same reason. We both shortly after fell asleep with his comforting presence.
-Issei's MindScape-
I opened my eyes to be met with a beautiful scene. I was standing on top of a mountain so tall that it was above the clouds. The clouds beneath the peak formed a fluffy white blanket covering the actual ground. However, for being so high, it was pleasantly warm with a slight breeze keeping it from being to warm.
What was the weirdest about this whole ordeal was that I was aware this was a dream. Usually, I wouldn't know it was a dream until I awoke back in the real world. "Rias?" I heard a feminine voice call out from behind me, the voice laced with confusion. Turning around my eyes widened as I saw a confused Akeno staring at me.
"Akeno?" I said just as confused if not more so then my friend. "What are you doing here, I thought this was a dream," She said looking around at her surrounding. "Well, it is...I think" I said back to her, just as confused as her. We started walking around the mountain top looking for something that could explain where we are and what's going on.
We turned around a corner to be shocked by the sight of a massive black scaled European styled spiky dragon. The dragon was laying with its eyes shut as it slept on the mountain. Akeno and I were terrified as waking a sleeping dragon hybrid was one thing but waking an actual dragon was a whole other. Akeno and I started to walk past him as slowly and quietly as possible.
[Do not worry small ones, I will not hurt you] A deep voice grumbled out. Akeno and I looked to the dragon to see its bright violet eyes staring at us. The dragon raised his neck and head up still facing us, its eyes widened slightly upon getting a closer look at Akeno and me, who were utterly silent under his presence.
[How did you get here] the dragon asked us as he examined us, examining us to a better degree than before. We stumbled backwards in a little panic of confronting an actual dragon. "W-we don't know how we got here, we don't even know where here is," I said looking to Akeno then back to the dragon.
[Hmm, allow me to explain. This is Issei's mindscape where he trains with me at night. I am Inanis, the Heavenly Black Dragon Emperor] The now Identified black dragon spoke to Akeno and I. My eyes widened in shock at the reveal of his identity and where we are.
"Um, sorry Mr. Inanis but do you know how we got here," Akeno asked the Black Dragon Emperor. Inanis let out a deep grumble as smoke puffed out of his nostrils. [I'm unsure, but I have a few ideas. First let me ask you, what were you doing before falling asleep] Inanis asked us as he looked around for something.
"We decided to sleep with Issei in his bed" Akeno spoke to Inanis. The dragon laughed slightly at our answer, smoke rising out of his mouth as he laughed. [Well then, I can't imagine what he will think when he hears how you got here] Inanis spoke confusing the both Akeno and I. "What do you mean, How did we get here" Akeno asked Inanis again.
[Well I believe you two sleeping together and having mutual feelings allowed you to slip in here] Inanis spoke chuckling again. "Mutual...feelings," I muttered to myself as Akeno, and I turned facing each other realizing what he meant. Before either of us could speak a word about it, a loud explosion erupted in the sky painting its color violet and black.
Looking beneath the blast was a figure in black, spiky, plated armor, embedded with violet jewels on its hands and chest.
(Issei's POV)
After firing off my blast of Extinction, causing a massive explosion. I dissipated my armor turning to fly to Inanis to get advice from him on how I could improve further. Once I reached the top of the mountain my eyes widened in confusion seeing Rias and Akeno up there with the Black Dragon Emperor.
Flapping my wings, I flew up to the top of the mountain reaching the three. "What the hell are you guys doing here, how did you get here," I asked upon landing in front of the three. Rias grew a large blush, Akeno grew a blush as well but much smaller then Rias's.
"W-well you see, Akeno and I got lonely and decided to sleep with you" Rias muttered stuttering out her words. My face grew warm and red in her words. "So out in the real world you guys are in bed with me," I asked them, which they only nodded to me.
"H-He also said that because of our feelings to you we managed to slip in your MindScape" Rias said as her face flushed a crimson color only rivaled by her hair as Akeno giggled at her display with her own blush.
"W-What do you mean by that," I ask stuttering slightly as my face grew to that of shock. "She means we love you silly" Akeno stated as Rias's hair turned an even redder color, which kinda surprised me as I didn't think that would be possible.
"So you...BOTH of you like me" I asked the two in amazement and shock at the reveal. A silence so tense filled the air, it was so thick that you could cut it with a knife.
[Well I'll let you three have your moment] Inanis spoke chuckling at us. Inanis flapped his wings causing a short, powerful burst of wind as he flew off into the clouds. The awkward silence returned after he left. Akeno may have kept up a convincing façade on the outside, but inside I could tell that she was extremely nervous about what's happening. "S-so... how do you feel...about this" Rias asked choking on her words as she spoke with extreme amounts of anxiousness. It went silent again as I was thinking about what to do. I really wanted to take both of them as my mates if they would allow it, but I wasn't sure if they actually liked me for me.
I knew they were both honest people, and mean well, but a dragons aura can affect people who aren't even aware of it. I looked at both of them preparing myself to speak. "Do you guys know about how a dragon aura affects people, right?" I asked the two. Both the girls looked on at me in confusion at the wonder of where I was going with this. They both nodded at my question.
"Then, you guys like me for me right...you don't just like me for my power?" I asked the girls, surprising them with my question. I wanted to believe them, but I've experienced it so much that I needed confirmation. I didn't like that I had to have authorization about it as I knew it was selfish, but I couldn't help it.
"It's not because of your aura. I don't know how to explain it to you, but I didn't like you until a little while ago, so I can defiantly say it isn't your aura" Rias said as Akeno nodded agreeing with her.
I grew a slight smile on my face upon hearing this. "W-well then if you two don't mind sharing, and will have me, I would be honored to be with you" I spoke happily with a smile, my feelings of nervousness and dread vanished instantly.
Both girls expressions changed to one of great joy as the tackled onto me. The two girls were hugging onto me tightly gripping my clothing. I only responded by smiling as I looked down at the two, my arms wrapped around them. Both of the girls had tears of joy boarding their eyes. I rubbed their heads and looked to the sky. "Well, it looks like its time to wake up" I spoke looking back down to the two girls.
"We'll see you in the morning then" The two girls spoke in sync as our vision faded to darkness.
Well thats another one done, although I'm not to happy with the confession part as its my first time writing one.
Just for justification Non of Issei's harem members will like him cuz of his aura, although that may be what sparks it like Xenovia, but they will actually like him on a deeper level than just that.
Next chapter I will try and explain a few things about the MindScape as well as Issei's training inside it.
Remember to leave your suggestions for future chapters and thanks for the read :D
