Shido and Basara were ready to begin their fight against Carl.
Basara had already summoned Brynhildr and Shido quickly summoned Sandalphon.
Carl seemed to be concentrating some kind of energy on his body. It was so intense that even Shido, who has no training to feel others aura, could feel it.
Basara dashed to Carl and tried to hit him, but Barasa's attack was stopped by what looked like a magical barrier.
Shido came from the other side and tried to hit Carl, but he was also stopped by a magical barrier.
Both Shido and Basara though about getting some distance, but they were attacked before they could react.
Carl had shot some small and thin magic bullets. Even though they were small and thin, they hurt a lot and also made cuts on their skin. Basara and Shido were forcefully shot back with that.
"I'm not as much into physical fighting like John. If you can't get over my techniques, then it's only a matter of time before both of you die."
Carl said that. Neither Basara nor Shido knew who this John was. They though it could be the other henchman, but now was not the time to be thinking about that.
Shido used Gabriel's March to power himself and Basara. Basara ran towards Carl and tried attacking while also using Banishing Shift to clear Carl's barriers.
But, instead of defending, Carl just dodged Basara's attacks.
"I won't fall for such a trick."
"So, Ken has already told you of my ability. I suppose he has also spoken about Shido's, Issei's and Ichika's."
Carl didn't answer, he just shot a big magic bullet at Basara.
Basara tried to dodge, but it felt like his legs weren't obeying him. This was probably one of Carl's abilities.
Before the shot hit Basara, a thick wall of ice appeared in front of him. The wall of ice was destroyed, but it did its job of protecting Basara.
Shido attacked Carl from the front. Obviously, Carl defended.
But, ice pillars were also attacking him from the sides and back. Shido could fell that Carl was having trouble defending. Maybe he has a limit to how much power he can defend against.
Carl decided to undo the barriers and made a sphere that protected him. Carl also used that sphere to make an impact that send both Basara and Shido deep into the forest.
Basara and Shido hit a tree and came to a stop.
"Damn, we can't seem to be able to hit him. If I had the medicine that Shella made, maybe I could overpower his barriers and that sphere."
"What does that medicine do?"
"Well, I don't know if you'll understand, but it basically unlocks the demon blood in me and allows me to get more powerful, the problem is that I would lose control."
"Unlocks? Then maybe I can help with that and I can also try to make you keep control."
"What are you going to do?"
"Just wait a bit."
Shido then raised his hand to the air and said.
"Michael!"
A big golden key appeared on his hand. Shido then got the tip of the key near Basara's chest and said.
"Unlock!"
At that moment, Basara felt the same power he felt in the fight against Leohart. But, his consciousness was fading away. Before he lost control, he heard Shido's voice again.
"Lock!"
Then, Basara's consciousness came back. Basara had his demon armor, but was still in control. When he looked at Shido, he was panting a bit.
"I guess it's easier to use Haniel's copy of Michael then the real thing. I don't know how long I'll be able to keep you in check, so let's make this quick. Release!"
The key turned into a halberd-like weapon, now he had Sandalphon on one hand and Michael on the other. Shido looked like he was ready to get back to fighting, so Basara also got ready and the both of them went to Carl.
Once Carl was on their sights, Basara rushed forward and attacked. Even though Carl used the sphere to defend himself, the ground nearby was destroyed by that attack.
Shido attacked Carl from the sides with Sandalphon-Michael combo. Both Basara and Shido felt that Carl's defenses were getting weaker.
Carl was also noticing that, so he called his strongest attack. Carl summoned a golem to help him.
The golem tried attacking Shido and Basara, but Shido used Metatron to get out the way and Basara jumped away from the attack.
Basara and Shido looked at each other in the eyes. At that moment, they made a plan.
Basara put away Brynhildr and then took it out. He used the spatial distortion created from that to send a slashing wave ate the golem. Although it didn't destroy the golem, it did significant damage.
"Solution!"
Then, Shido trusted both Sandalphon and Michael into the golem. Not only did it go through the golem, thanks to Basara damaging it earlier and Michael's ability to decompose the bond that holds molecules together, but it also hit and destroyed Carl's defensive sphere.
Before Carl had time to react, Basara had cut him in half using Brynhildr covered in Banishing Shift's aura, like the fight against Ornis.
At that moment, they had defeated Carl.
Out of nowhere, Rio showed up.
"Wow. You guys really beat him. Issei and Ichika have also defeated their opponent. I told them to head to the town west from here. Once you guys get there, I'll tell you were Ken is and we'll finish this."
She disappeared before even hearing their answer.
After a little rest, Shido and Basara headed back to the town. Basara told Shido that he had found Rio and Rinne before.
After both of them got into town, they met their friends that had come with them. They decided that they would head to the other town the next day.
The chapter is finished. Next chapter will still be SMNT X DAL (I'll make the chapter a bit sexual to practice for their solo fanfics, but there won't be any sex scenes since it would be weird for them to do it together), then the four series will get together once again.
I decided to unite Shido and Basara for this fight because of two reasons: 1) I wanted to make Basara's demon and god armor appear, I thought that the best way to do that was to use Michael's power. 2) Date A Live and Shinmai are my current favorites out of this four series (I'd say first and second place respectively, but I like the two just about the same, so they're both in first to me). Last year, when I made the first part of this fanfic the order of my favorites were Date A Live, DXD, Shinmai and IS (Shinmai and IS on the same third position), then I finished reading DXD, read Shinmai and IS and the placements changed.
Fun Fact, a while before I wrote this, the translation for volume 15 of DAL was posted on the Facebook group so I was able to see Michael's power first hand and it improved my idea for this chapter.