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People speaking: "don't mess with my family"
People thinking: 'moron'
Creatures speaking: "give me your blood"
Techniques: "Bala"
I got some good reviews and some happy PMs for the last chapter and I thank all of you for your support.
Also to all those wanting a Lemon, unless someone is willing to write one for me I don't think any will be appearing in this fic since I can't write them.
Chapter 9 – The Mad Mans Return
Issei stared at the man in front of him with a mixer of shock and horror, he had remembered seeing Freed's corpse in the church after they have saved Raynare and Asia.
"How, how are you alive I saw your body in the church"
Freed chuckled at Issei's question, "It's because of my master's gift" he then placed a hand on his chest "he had brought me back to life and it made me realise that I had been wrong to worship the Biblical God and that all other deities in this world are false idols and that he was the only true god in this world"
Issei just stared at Freed and what he had said, from the corner of his eye Issei saw Saji started to stir. Freed also saw Saji waking he turned to his three lackeys that stood behind him waiting at the door for orders, "Go get the special equipment and bring it here to me!"
"Yes Sir" the trio answered in unison with a quick bow and pulled the door close behind them. After the minions left Issei brain realised just what Freed was in the Followers.
"You're their leader aren't you Freed?" Issei accused drawing Freeds attraction as well as the now awake and confused Saji.
Freed cackled but still answered "Why yes shitty devil, I am the Leader of the Followers of the True Lord"
Saji realised that they must be in the base of the Followers and that from what had been said their leader was in front of them. With narrowed eyes Saji asked "Who is this True Lord"
Freed sneered at Saji "You are unworthy of knowing his true name since you are both Heretics"
From the corner of their eyes both of the pawns glanced at each other having the same thoughts 'This guy is fanatical'
The room door suddenly reopened and in came the trio of henchmen that left earlier. The pawns saw that they had brought in two trolleys that were covered in a blanket, both of their devil instincts started to get unnerved when they looked at one of the tables.
Freed pulled the cover off one of the trolleys, on it was a metal pipe that was making them want to move away from it. Freed then placed on a pair of thick gloves and picked up the pipe, he then nodded to two of his men in a silent order which they nodded back in response and moved over to the two chained teens and then ripped their shirts open.
"I think you heretics need to be shown a lesson" he then walked over to Issei and pressed the pipe into Issei's stomach when top touched his skin, Issei let out a loud scream of agony. Saji widened in terror as he watched Issei scream while Freed grinned sadistically, when he pulled the pipe away from Issei's flesh leaving a circler burn were it had touched.
"What the hell" Issei was able to get out in panted breath, his voice filled with fear and exhaustion.
Freed let out another cackle "this pipe has been coated in holy water so I could get you to feel pain and fear" he paused and pulled the cover off the second trolley on it were several objects knifes, pipes, crowbars etc. "these are for my men to use on you but unlike mine they are not covered in holy water since I don't want you to die any time soon"
His three men each grabbed one of the objects from the table, then they and Freed moved closer to the teens, both of the teen hoped their friends would save them soon.
Back With the Other
While Issei and Saji were still unconscious
Both of the teams had arrived back to the main room of the ORC, the healers of both Peerages were using their healing magic, Asia using Twilight Healing on the larger injuries while Viser and Momo worked on the lesser injures. As they worked on the wounds Reya entered the room with Murayama and Katase both now wearing their training clothes.
Reya smiled happy that that they had all of the members of both peerages had returned safely but was confused since Issei and Saji weren't with them. Murayama and Katase were surprised with the people in the room since Reya had told them that everyone in the room were the same as her, Issei and Saji.
Reya walked over to her King "Sona-Sama welcome back but where is Issei and Saji?"
Sona looked at her Bishop in confusion "What do you mean Reya shouldn't they both be with you?"
Reya shook her head "No they were heading back to help you with both Matsuda and Motohama as well as their men"
Everyone turned to look at the King and Bishop, they then looked around and did noticed that the mentioned Pawns were not with them as well as realising that something must have happened to them.
Tomoe then noticed that her two friends from the Kendo club were also in the room, confused to why she asked "Why are both Murayama and Katase here?"
Reya explained to everyone why the Kendo members were here and that Issei promised them an exploration of what happened.
Naruto sighed in annoyances but was happy that Issei was changing from the dumbass pervert into a decent teenage devil. He looked over to the Kendo leaders, seeing their discomfort spoke to them "Girls I know this is confusing but please take a seat" the girls nodded and took the cups of tea that Akeno had made for everyone.
Rias, Sona, Akeno, Tsubaki and Naruto talked about how their teams went from Naruto meeting Touka, Rias meeting Kaneki and Akeno meeting Oda as well as Sona and Tsubaki fighting the Pervert Duo and their minions.
Once Rias and the others finished talking, the girls lead the kendo leaders into the side room to explain the devil world, as the door shut.
Reya let out a sad sigh as she sat on one of the sofas Tomoe and Tsubasa rushed over to their soft spoken friend to comfort her since she was blaming herself for the missing pawns.
As the Knight and Rook were comforting their friend, Naruto had walked towards the balcony and used Pesquisa to try and find Issei's power signature but ended his technique since there was too many energy signatures from their location at Kuoh Academy to pinpoint Issei.
He turned from the balcony to look into the room, Momo and Ruruko joined their fellow members in talking to Reya, on another sofa was Viser with Koneko since the young girl back was still hurting and Viser was checking it for any more damage than on the final sofa was Raynare with Kiba. Raynare was fidgeting with worry and Kiba's knuckles were turning white as he held his sword but he couldn't see Asia anywhere. As he released a frustrated sigh he felt someone softly place their hand on his right forearm, he turned slightly and saw it was Asia looking up at him with worry in her big green eyes.
"Is everything ok, Naruto-Nii?" she asked in a concerned voice.
Naruto smiled at her and placed his hand on her head and ruffed her hair causing her to look down with a blush. She didn't understand why she was blushing when he ruffed her hair for some reason since the familiar forest when she was held by that slime creature, her feelings for Issei were slowly disappearing and she was starting to have the same sort of feelings with Naruto and it confused her since she had only seen him as an older brother before the forest.
"Yer I'm ok Asia-Chan" he then removed his hand from her head "I'm just worried about Issei and Saji"
Asia deflated a bit at the mention of the missing Pawns as she was worried for their safety. Seeing her deflate Naruto pulled her into a hug causing her face to light up, seeing her red face Naruto released the hug and was going to ask if she was ok but before he could Rias and the others re-entered the room.
Naruto walked over to his girlfriend and the others "Rias-Chan I couldn't get a location of Issei and Saji since there to many power signatures in the town" he informed her with an apologetic tone in his voice
Rias smiled at him and gave him a quick kiss to calm both of their nerves "its ok Naruto-Kun, Sona believes that the base is located near where she and her team were fighting"
Everyone in the room stood ready to leave even if they were exhausted and out of energy since they all wanted to save their friends.
As they were about to leave Murayama and Katase quickly moved to join them, when Sona noticed them, she asked "Where do you two think you're going?"
Murayama looked at the student president with hardened eyes "we want to help save Issei-Kun and Saji" Katase nodded in agreement with her friend.
Sona shook her head at the pair, she then spoke "No you cannot come with us, even if you want to help you cannot since we don't know anything about their base or the strength they have there and no matter your strength or skill you are still only a pair of humans"
The Kendo Leaders deflated at Sona's harsh but true words, they then shock off the harsh words and looked at Sona and spoke in unison "Then make me a devil", they then looked at each other with shock but then smiled at each other.
Sona smiled at the pair "very well, I will turn you both" she summoned her left over pieces "I have been thinking of turning you both for some time now but haven't had the chance to approach either of you"
Sona then told them both to lie down on the floor, she then placed one of the pawn pieces on Murayama's chest and recited "I, Sona Sitri command under my name for thee, Murayama Yuki to become my servant and lead a new life as my Pawn!" the evil piece sunk into Murayama chest as it went in she took a sharp intake of breath.
Sona then repeated the process with Katase both of the girls felt stronger, Sona then explained the special ability of the Pawn piece. Sona turned to the others and spoke "Yuuto-San" getting Kibas attention "Could you make them some swords to fight with". She was already planning to take them to get some swords next time she visited the underworld. Kiba nodded to her with a smile and used Sword Birth to create a pair of katana that absorbed the impact of any hits. Kiba then explained the swords ability to the pair, they nodded to him in thanks.
Rias nodded to Sona in a silently asking her if they were ready Sona nodded back to show they were. "Alright people it's time for us to move, we don't know what is happening to Issei or Saji while we are waiting and standing around" Rias called out to everyone, each person nodded and soon the two peerages teleported away to Sona's previous location.
With Issei and Saji
Around the time Murayama and Katase became Devils
Issei and Saji were bleeding from various cuts across their bodies, they also had patches of dried blood from older cuts, as well as several burn marks from Freed's weapon.
Their torturers had left the room since Issei had pasted out, so Freed didn't want to continue while Issei was unconscious since he wanted to see the fear in Issei's eyes.
In Issei's Mind
Issei wondered where he was since he was standing on a grey flat rock that was floating in the middle of an empty black void.
He looked around in confusion, hoping to see if there was anyone else in this void he called out "Hello anyone there?" for what felt like an hour there was only silence to Issei's question but then he heard the sound of flapping wings turning he saw that it was coming from a large red scaled dragon that was flying towards him, when the dragon arrived it landed with a loud boom.
To Issei's surprise and shock the dragon started to speak, "So my moron of a user has finally arrived to meet me" it voice was rough and loud.
Issei's looked the giant red dragon in shock making his mind blank for a time and asked "who are you"
The dragon rolled its emerald green eyes "I'm Shenron and I hear to grant you a wish" the dragon replied back with heavy sarcasm.
Issei's brain restarted but not fast enough, so in a dumbfound voice asked back "You know Dragon Ball?"
The dragon's eye twitched and thought to himself 'why do I always get sealed within some type of idiot at least Belzard and Elsha had strength to back up their idiocy' but he still answered Issei "I've been sealed within you since birth, I've seen what you've seen so yes I know of Dragon Ball"
It was that statement that snapped Issei's brain back into place and made him realise just who the dragon was, in a quiet and awed voice Issei asked "You're the dragon with in booster gear"
Nodding the dragon replied "Correct, I am the Welsh Dragon Ddraig"
Issei's eyes widened at Ddraig answer, after getting over his shock, he asked something that was bothering him "So where are we?"
"We're inside your mindscape"
Issei looked around once more and sunk to his knees in depression at how empty it was.
Ddraig rolled his eyes again at Issei's state, he then reached forward and softly poked the pawn with one of his claws making Issei fall back on to his ass, and he also ignored his partner's cry of 'Hey'
"Listen moron what the hell, were you thinking getting captured by your enemies, that's one of the dumbest things you've done so far" Ddraig roared at him since something like this could damage the respect his name carried and Ophis forbid if Albion found out.
Issei stood up from the floor and yelled back in anger "Oy, it's not like I planned on being captured you giant dumb lizard"
After the lizard comment the pair descended into a shouting match, throwing insults at each other, mainly Issei calling Ddraig an over grown lizard and Ddraig calling Issei an idiot and a pervert.
Once they had finished shouting and had calmed down, Issei looked up and into Ddraigs eyes. "What do you think I should do about my situation" he asked his scaly partner.
Ddraig sighed in thought "Firstly you need to wake up and get out of your chains as well as do the same for the blond next to you then you need to either fight your way out which I wouldn't recommend or I would suggest trying to sneak out" he answered giving his honest opinion
Issei nodded in agreement "Alright and after we get out, I'll try and get us to the School or Naruto's house"
Ddraig nodded at that since they were the two safest locations for him to go to. "Good now that you have a plan, it is time for you to wake"
Issei then started to fade out of his mindscape.
When Issei woke up from the conversation with Ddraig and felt siring pain shoot through his body.
"Awake I see" came Saji's voice but it sounded dry and rasped.
Using a lot of will power not to feel the pain shooting through his system. Issei turned and look at Saji, he saw that the teen looked terrible with dried blood on his clothes and skin as well as some burn marks from Freed.
"You look like shit" came Issei's own dry and rasped voice.
Saji chuckled painfully "Have you looked in a mirror recently?"
Silence fall over the pair, both were starting to find it painful to talk and move. Issei feeling strength return asked "How long since they've been gone"
"About 20 or so minutes I think, they left after you fell unconscious"
Issei was shocked at that but paused and realised that meant that Saji had been awake the whole time "Wait, so you've been awake the entire time"
Saji grimly answered "Yes I have"
"But how?"
Saji face grow a sad smile "Even before I became a devil I've always had a high tolerances to pain as well as been very durable thanks to my Scared Gear" he paused in thought, as he remembered his life 2 years ago "A year ago when I was still human my family moved here to Kuoh so I could go to school but it was around that time that my parents started to argue more"
"Why were they arguing, if you down don't mind me asking?"
Saji sighed "My dad was injured and couldn't work but instead of his bosses giving him time to recover they laid him off, my mum also worked but her income wasn't enough to support us it didn't help that my dad had started drinking" Saji paused as his memories of that time were coming forward
Issei could tell were this could be going, told Saji "You don't have to tell me anymore"
Saji slightly shock him head "No its ok" he took a deep breath "due to him drinking my mums pay check would be gone faster than he started to gamble and gain mass debt, they argued about that my mum telling to sober up and get a job to repay his debts but he then smacked her across her face"
Saji frowned once more but this frown held anger "after he realised what he had done he apologized and promised he would stop drinking but not even two days later I saw him drinking again and knew it would be no time before he hit her again, luckily I found one of Sona-Sama's contracts and when she arrived I asked her to help my family" this time he smiled "the next morning I walked into the kitchen to see my parents like they were before my dad's accident, I found Sona-Sama the next day and asked her what she did, she told me she healed my dad and gave him a job at another company, I thanked her and agreed to become a devil for her"
After Saji finished, Issei nodded to blond in respect for telling him his story and his life before he was a devil. They fell back into silence after a few minutes had passed, Issei told Saji his idea for their escape Saji nodded in agreement but when they tried to break the chains they couldn't find any strength.
With the Others
While Issei and Saji were talking
The group had arrived back to Sona's last position, they all started to look around for any form of clues with Naruto using Pesquisa again to see if they were in a better location to find the missing pair.
Raynare walked up to Naruto and asked "Did you find them Naruto-Sama" she was nervous and worried about her boyfriend, soon everyone else returned to the blond's location and listened in.
"I found a large group of energy signatures to the North East of our current location and two of them felt like Issei and Saji" the large group marched in the direction, determined to get their friends back and home safe.
When they arrived at the location of the large group of signatures coming from an old office building that was about 10 floors high and they could tell it was in disrepair as the windows were broken, it had cracks running through several bricks as well as graffiti covering the brick walls.
As they observed the building they got worried that there wasn't any guards outside or patrolling around the area, when they entered the building they were on high alert since it was highly likely to be a trap.
As they moved through the corridors in the building the floor above them broke and nearly crushed them, when the dust settled Rias noticed that Naruto, Viser and Raynare were missing and she hoped were on the other side of the collapsed floor.
Kiba broke the silence that fail over the group "Buchou what do you want to do?" he felt conflicted since Issei they were his friends but at the moment it was a choice of going to look for one or the others.
Rias shaking her head hoping to clear away her anxiety of not knowing if Naruto was hurt of not answered "We continue on, the more time we waste the less likely Issei and Saji are unharmed"
Hesitating the rest of the Gremory peerage nodded since they were worried about both group, Sona and her Peerage started to move with Rias and her peerage not far behind.
'Be safe Naruto-Kun' Rias thought as she looked back at the floor made barrier.
With Naruto's Team
After the above floor caved in splitting them from everyone else, Naruto and his Peerage had started to walk through their side of the building hoping to find the others or Issei and Saji.
Unknown Location
In a room there were several TV screens, on many of the screens were Rias and Sona's team, on others were Naruto and his peerage, another had Freed and his man ordering the other remaining Followers to go and stop the intruders and on a final screen was the room were Issei and Saji were being held.
Watching the screens was a man that was lounging in a chair, he looked to be in his mid-twenties. He had pale skin and was the same height as Naruto, he had dark messy red hair, and his eyes were red with black sclera.
He was dressed in black jeans with a black shirt with thin red vertical lines, which had the top three buttons undone over the top of his shirt was a crimson red waistcoat. On his wrists were several loose arm bands, on his middle and pointer fingers of his left hand were a pair of chrome rings, on the ring on his middle finger was a circle that had a upside down triangle within it, around his neck was a tattoo that resembled stitching.
The man grinned looking at the screens and soon burst out laughing, once he had calmed down he spoke out loud "It's time for the main event to begin" he turned in his chair to look at the ones he was speaking to behind him were Kaneki, Touka and Oda they bowed and spoke in unison "As you command master"
End Notes
I know that several people have figured out who the True Lord is but if any of you don't know it will be revealed next chapter.
Also to those that hope that this 'Filler' Arc won't be long don't worry it will conclude next chapter.
Sorry for the really long wait but a lot has happen with me starting back at Uni and having no internet service for 2 months.
