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A/N: This is going to be one of the longer chapters and it goes into detail about Justin and Scarlets' past and abilities, I only used the one being as an example as all of the "guardians" as I have named them will be making appearances and having their own unique pasts and abilities shown, there is no action or fight scene in this chapter unfortunately it is all plot exposition and character development. It would really help me a bunch if you guys could give me your thoughts on the fight scenes that I have written up to this point as I want to make them as best I can so if any of you have advice or can point out something I am doing wrong that would a great help

Other than that enjoy the chapter

Chapter 5

New Discoveries

Occult Research Club

"What is this person? One minute he was wielding a holy sword made from flames and felt as strong as a Mid-Class devil the next his power spikes, there's that pillar of light and now the swords gone and his appearance and power have changed, it's now at High class - Low Ultimate class level, what the hell is this person?"

Looking around the club room I can see that my little display had crushed any notion that they can defeat me, to be honest I think Issei might have shit himself a little, now to deal with a stuck up little Ojou-chan, "Well Rias, still think you can take me down? You have got 5 minutes to work out a peaceful solution because as we speak my partner has probably felt me use this and is chomping at the bit to get here, class ends in 3 minutes and she will be here in a minute and half after so make your decision.

Rias looks around at the her servants and friends, "If we fight him here, we will most likely all die and if his partner is as strong as he is then I shudder to think what they would do, I said game over to him thinking that he was just a weak human but now…" I look into the cold red eyes of this "man" in front of me and for the first time in my life I feel real fear, "Alright you have made your point we will stand down as long as you extend the same courtesy"

My eyebrows go up after hearing that statement, 'She still has her pride even after I showed her that I far outclass her? 'Hmmm quite the interesting female you have stumbled upon "Justin" I like her she reminds me of the women of my family back home and when can I stop calling you that stupid name?' "Hey Vladimir long time no speak." 'Calling me by proper name then "Justin" please just call me Shin after being called that for so long it feels better than my own name.' "You hypocrite you let Nevada call you by your real name all the time." 'Ok I was trying to be polite, I hate it when anybody else calls me that name, that privilege is reserved for my mate only got it gaki?

That last part ticked me off so much I swear I felt a tick mark probably appeared on my forehead, however, I don't have the luxury to argue with Shin he is way more stubborn than I am "stupid old vampire stick in the mud" 'I heard that!' "You were meant to!" Blocking any more conversation with him out I release my synchronisation with him, although I will probably get an earful later tonight for calling him out for such a trivial matter as using him for intimidation purposes.

As my power and appearance went back to normal the members of the Occult Research Club visibly relaxed apart from Rias who is still frowning and is still staring at me like I am so kind of world-class puzzle she can't figure out,' Technically I am, although I am still debating whether or not to tell this person what me and Scarlet actually are, there are too many things that could happen, too many variables to consider' I look up at Rias and I could feel another powerful entity approaching us at high-speed, "My partner has arrived it seems." Not a second after I said that the doors to the room were blasted open and standing where the doors used to be is a very pissed off red-head and she was ready for a fight.

Scarlet stood there with a feral grin on her face and a snarl escaping her lips and I could tell that most of the devils around me were back to shitting their underwear, she is imposing, frightening even in this state. Her eyes have changed from a gentle chocolate-brown colour to a cobalt blue with a black slit running down the middle, her hair has grown longer and wilder as well as changing colour from fiery red to a deep black. But the most intimating features that Scarlet now shows are her fangs and claws that look like they could rip to pieces even the toughest of opponents, what's really scary for me anyway is that I know this is just a basic change like me using Shins strength in the fight with Raynare, this is only the barest amount of changes that Scarlet and her Guardian Nevada were capable of.

To their credit, however, Kiba, Akeno and Koneko reacted quickly once they swallowed their fear and looked ready to fight to the death, while that would be interesting in its own right, we didn't come here to fight, "Enough stand down all of you!" Looking over at Rias, it is obvious she has snapped and is pissed beyond measure, 'Ha that's to be expected you two are humiliating her and backing her into a corner, frankly I was wondering when she was going to snap.' "Really Shin a little warning might have helped". 'Now why would I do that, this is much more interesting don't you agree.'

I had to agree this was interesting, however, it had gone on long enough, I motioned to Scarlet to stand down and she complied although if her expression is anything to go by, I am in for some punishment later as she walks over and stands beside me I can feel her aura coming off of her and it confirms my fears, 'Yep she is seriously pissed'

Rias is looking at both us and looks like she is barely containing her rage and just says it bluntly as bluntly as possible while giving us a glare that could probably kill, "Explain, who you are and what you are, now and no bullshit." I look at Scarlet and telepathically ask her 'Should we tell her?' without looking at me she answers back, 'Do we have a choice, devils can tell when you are lying so there is no point in trying to deceive them.'

I look at Rias and motion to the chairs, "You had best sit down then as it is a bit of a long story." As the club members sat down on the chair opposite us I try to figure out where to begin. "I suppose I should start by telling you that our names aren't Justin Rhodes or Scarlet Johnston, my name is actually Deacon McGrath and I am not from America, I am actually from Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom as is Scarlet and her real name is Yuki Sekai her mother was Japanese and her father was an English businessman that abandoned them after learning that her mother was pregnant. As for what we are, it is difficult to explain but I will try my best."

I look up and I can see that I have the groups' undivided attention and that Rias has forgotten about her anger in turn for having her curiosity satisfied, I continue, "The best way that I can describe us is by comparing us to those TV psychics, ghost hunters and exorcists that can see and communicate with spirits. We are like that, we were born with a connection to the spirit world or Purgatory if you want to use the biblical name, and in my case I was born premature and very weak, to the point that the doctors didn't think I would live past a week. Now picture that Purgatory is just a pitch black wasteland that you can't see two feet in front of your face, it is a place where you sent to wait for judgement and repent or do whatever you want to do while you are waiting your judgment, when I was born something happened to Purgatory, a small light barely shinning appeared in that dark and cold place and the spirits that inhabit the place saw it and grew curious, crowding around it, the light was dwindling and about to go out when a particularly strong and frankly suicidal spirit jumped into the light and as he did so chains made of the same light wrapped around him and pulled him into the light and he disappeared."

"That was how I got the first of the spirits that are currently co-habitating my mind and my soul, that spirits name was Vladimir Sofka and he was a vampire from Western Russia. He saved my life.

Two things usually happen whenever a dead spirit inhabits a human body, either the body rots from the inside because a live body cannot host a dead soul or the spirit turns into an insane demon and the body turns into a monstrosity. That didn't happen to me, instead of dying or becoming a monster, my body adapted to Vladimir's' presence and even granted me his abilities in order to save my life, that took a lot out of him, however, and he slept for a long time after that. Since then I have a total of 13 spirits currently in me and Scarlet has 10 in her and as I have demonstrated we can use their powers and abilities as well as the fact that our bodies change to become more like them.

The entire club was silent as I finished explaining what we are until Rias asked "So what do you call yourselves then seeing as you aren't human nor any of the Three Faction or any other Faction" I look up at her in surprise as I have never really thought about it, "How about you call us Spiritualists? Does that sound good or is it too corny?" Rias actually gave a light-hearted laugh at that and said that it sounded good but then Issei spoke up, "So how come you are using fake names?"

I look at over at him and I see him visibly cringe, I don't even have to look in a mirror to know that my expression is filled with pain and sorrow and even Scarlet is looking down with a depressing aura rolling off of her in waves, "I will tell you that now and please if it is the same to you, please call us Justin and Scarlet, you are going to find out why we abandoned our names and past now."

Flashback

Northern Ireland, 3 years ago

It all began after I first met Scarlet or as she was called back then Yuki, we met through friends, it was a miracle in it's own right because if I hadn't met her that day I might not be alive and talking right now. When I first met Yuki I was suffering from severe depression and had already made plans to end my life, I couldn't find a reason to live and I had given up on my average, boring life. That all changed from the moment that I met her, from the beginning I felt as if there was something drawing me to her and within an hour of meeting each other and through the efforts of one of her friends we ended up making out. Something happened when we kissed for the first time, I felt life coming back to me and then I heard voices in my mind, familiar ones that I hadn't heard since I was a child, back then I thought they were imaginary friends like every child has but they were real. It was the same for Yuki in fact her guardians had been active since she was eleven years old.

After that we started dating, that is when all of my guardian's made themselves known, after all of them had woke up, they began to change my weak and sickly body to help me better protect the people I held dear to my heart. After two years of dating, Yuki and I were very happy and content with our lives, we finally found our reason to live and our guardians also formed relationships with each other as well and changes being made to our bodies had some very nice outcomes both in public and in private matters.

One set of changes were complete from my first guardian, Vladimir Sofka or Shin as he prefers to be called, my body had changed from the sickly and weak one that I had to a lean and toned one and all of the illnesses that I had been born with and had struggled with my entire life were gone, I was now a vampire and could freely switch between my human and vampire forms at will. It happened for Yuki as well her body changed to become more muscled and lean from her guardian Nevada a half Lycanthrope from the same age and country as Shin and strangely enough she and Shin both started out as the most bitter of enemies became lovers and mates as time went on.

The incident that made us flee our home and leave behind everything that we ever knew happened one year ago in our home town of Portavogie.

It had started off as a normal day for us; we planned to go out for dinner at a fancy restaurant in the city of Belfast to celebrate both Yukis' birthday and us finally passing our GCSE's and deciding to move to a new school to do our A levels. Everything was going great, we even picked up presents for our parents as a way of saying sorry for putting up with us being annoying assholes for the past couple of months however reality was a way of knocking you down in the worst possible way

From the outside my house is quiet and peaceful, the lights are on and can be seen through the windows as me and Yuki walk through the front door, however, something was wrong, we both felt chills creeping up our spines and there was a foul metallic odour coming from the kitchen. As we walked through to the kitchen my heart snapped in two, the kitchen was a horrifying scene, body parts ,blood, guts littered the floor and the kitchen table and there nailed to wall was my family, my father, his girlfriend, my younger sister, her boyfriend and even the family pets were nailed to wall. I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing, my body and mind refused to accept what my eyes were showing me, I felt something break inside of me then, something just snapped and I turned round I saw the people responsible for butchering my family.

Three people stood in the hallway of my house covered in my families blood and had the most disgusting grins on their faces as they looked upon me and Yuki, "More rats to kill then, you devil worshippers are just coming out of the fucking woodwork aren't you, this whole town is one big cesspool of heretics and it needs to be cleansed.

My eyes narrowed after hearing what the bastard in the middle had said, he was wearing a priests outfit but what really caught my attention was the fact that the other two had black wings coming out of their backs, they were defiantly not human. "I will ask this only once, are you the ones that are responsible for this? The priest in the middle answered again while the other two just sneered at me like I was the dirt beneath their boots, "Hahahahaha of course, it is my job to kill all those make deals with the devil and you know what I enjoy it, there is no pleasure greater than hearing the sounds of people in pain begging you to spare them hahahahaha, those women in there were the best I have had in a long time especially the young one, she kept calling out for the tall and older men to save her and she kept calling a name out, Deacon I think it was, ahahahaha oh she died very nicely after I slit her throat and made the others watch.

My sister… My younger sister…My sister that I always butted heads with… The one that always protected me and looked after me when I was sickly and weak… "Bastard… I am going to tear you limb from bloody limb!" I felt my heartbeat speed up to become nearly uncountable my vision turned red as I felt the power flood into my body I was enrage and I was going to kill those bastards even if I died in the process… I leapt at the bastards that murdered my family and that is when it all when blank…

Looking up at Rias and the others while I finished telling them about my past I can see a multitude of reactions and expressions on their faces, Rias and Akeno looked shocked and enraged, Issei was looking at me with pity, Kiba looked with understanding and kindness which really bothered me and even Koneko looked pissed off although she didn't show it on her face, the gleam in her eyes told me all I needed to know.

"Even to this day I am haunted by nightmares of what happened and what I did for revenge, I can't remember most of it but I do get images of things that I did…Tearing the wings off the back of one of the fallen angels, biting the priests throat and ripping it out, those kinds of things haunt my dreams. After the incident we were changed, going back and trying to live our normal lives again didn't feel right, not that I was possible, everybody that we ever knew treated us differently after that, like we were fragile pieces of glass that might break at any moment. I hated feeling that and seeing the pity in their eyes made it even worse, so we did the only thing that seemed like a good idea. We called Scarlet's mother and asked her if we could move back to her home country, luckily she agreed and set up everything for us, our house, our false names and papers, everything.

I am waiting what seems like an eternity waiting for their reactions to horrific tale that I had just told them, waiting to see how they would react. Rias has got up and is slowly walking towards us with her head down, 'What is she doing?' she has stopped a few meters from us. She grabs me by my collar and pulls me toward her into one of the warmest hugs I have ever received, for the first time in a long time I let a few tears fall down my face, my shoulders and heart feel lighter now as if I had been carrying a great weight this whole time and looking over at Scarlet who is also in a hug it is obvious, we had needed this for a long time, someone to say that we have done enough and we could relax.

After crying openly for what felt like hours Rias pulled away," Gomen'nasai, I really am sorry for how we have been treating you two up to this point, if I had known…" I held my hand up to stop her, "Its alright, we haven't exactly been open and honest either so lets just start over, a blank slate, that sound good?" Rias just nods and wipes away her tears, "If it is all the same to you Rias-san could you please just call us by our false names, as far as we are concerned our old lives are gone as are our old names besides I have gotten quite used to being called Justin Rhodes, how about you Scarlet?" She looks over at me and laughs even while holding back a new onslaught of tears, "Yea it's the same for me too." Rias just nods and then her face changes and becomes serious again.

"After hearing your story and seeing your abilities first hand I would like to extend both of you the offer to become members of my peerage and be reincarnated as devils. I look at her blankly, it is obvious to me the reasons why she would want us in her peerage, we are already powerful as it is and if she adds us to her peerage then she in turn will also become more powerful and her popularity and influence with her peers will improve as well. After working this out I stand up and face Rias, "Why exactly would you think that we would accept such a deal, we already proved that we are as strong as you maybe even stronger and what exactly would we get out of it, it seems to me that you would be reaping the most benefit if we accepted.

Rias just smirks at me and that kinda pisses me off a little, "As I said to you before Rhodes-san you are in the middle of devil territory, it is not only me that will be wanting to recruit you but also the other clan heir that holds territory in this town as well and if want Issei-kun said is correct and that you fought with the fallen angel that killed him then you have also gained the attention of the fallen angels and they will most likely kill you in retaliation or decide that you are a threat to be eliminated. If you accept my offer, you will be protected from retaliation and you will also have something that they took from you, a family.

The Gremory clan pride themselves on the kindness that they treat their servants, we treat them like equals, my own brother who married his own Queen piece is a prime example of that and as for myself I think of my servants as both my friends and as an extended part of my family. I am shocked, not only at her offer but also her reasoning and her logic behind offering us this deal. She has me convinced however…

"While you may have convinced both me and Scarlet on taking this deal, you have more than us to convince you know, several of the spirits within me and Scarlet are against becoming devils so you are going have to convince them. Rias looks confused," How am I meant to do that exactly?" Now it was my turn to smirk "Simple you talk to them." I look at my partner and smile; I don't even have to tell her what I am going to do next. She already knows and is preparing to do the same thing herself

Reformation

Mine and Scarlet's bodies start to glow with a white light and from the light several humanoid shapes split from us and begin to walk into the empty spaces of the club room and form a line in front us and facing the devils as the light dies down, the figures are revealed and every devil including Rias has their jaws just about hitting the floor.

"Well this is interesting."

A/N: Ok guys this has been a long chapter so I am going to cut it in half as I think that too much exposition can get boring and the next chapter will show off some of Justin's and Scarlet's spirits as well as continue the canon story-line.