Hello and welcome to another chapter of Shadows, Light, and Blood. I hope you enjoy and that this has met the same as or(hopefully) better quality than the previous chapters. Let's hurry along.
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Zesterios - So evil daughter? Check. Vlad Dracula the Impaler. Double Check... I have a gut feeling that akasha and vlad will work together to fight Issei... Don't know why...
Maybe you're right or maybe your not. One way to find out.*Chaotic Neutral laughter(I did it correctly this time, Happy!?*nods from characters*)*
Chapter 10
Third Person POV
Everyone watched in shock as the shadows faded from Alice and revealed two similar figures. Both had similar hairstlyes but one had black hair and the other white, crimson eyes, porcelain-like skin, doll-like features, and both had the vampire fangs the only difference between the two was the clothing they wore, Alice was wearing her gothic leather dress while beside her was a girl in her appearing a year younger wore a blood red blouse with a black half-jacket, black skinny jeans, and black running shoes.
"The family's back together again!" The man cheered.
"Mother!" The girl yelled as Alice collapsed while trying with all her might to stand.
"Akasha? You're back?" she asked wheezing in pain.
"Mother. I'm sorry." The now dubbed "Akasha" said looking down.
"It's okay, I understand. You were looking out for me. My little Jägerin." Alice reassured before coughing up some blood.
"Akasha darling, come to Vater." The man said jovially.
"What did you do to Mother?" She asked.
"Oh, just pulling your mind from her and using all her energy and power to give you your body back." He said dismissively.
"Enough small talk, come to me and bring your mother my daughter. If you do as I ask, she will be fine, if not, well she can still feel pain, can't she?" He threatened.
Akasha seemed torn, but one look to the Devils and Issei and she knew what to do. She grabbed the red bracer and put it on.
"No." She growled.
"What? Did you just tell me no?" He asked a cold edge tinting his tone.
"I won't do what you tell me. Welsh Dragon Bracer Go!"
When Issei began walking over the man's eyes went wide and he bolted teleporting away.
Issei was walking over as Alice stood and just as he got within 10 feet Fenrir came out of nowhere and snapped the reincarnation of Satan up in his jaws.
Alice felt dread fill her as Issei's body fell to the ground. Fenrir's fangs killed gods, Issei was a Devil God, but still a version of a god.
"No! Not again! Not again!" For the first time anyone else had seen Alice began to cry, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Heh, looks like I've fucked up, huh Alice?" Issei groaned out.
"Meister, don't speak like that! Don't leave me! Not again! Please, it hurts! Whether you can come back or not without you, I feel nothing but pain! Don't leave me Issei!" She was sobbing now.
Akasha, Yuuto, and Aika all felt as if their hearts were being crushed by boulders.
"Don't worry, you'll join him in Ragnarok!" Loki yelled and a golden spear stabbed through her chest.
She stood as Issei's body went limp, as if nothing had happened to her.
The others began to feel the grief but none felt worse than Alice. Her heart was shattering like glass, her body felt heavy, and every breath she took felt like she her body was full of liquid light and holy water.
She didn't speak and when she opened her mouth all that came from her was a chilling hiss.
Her eyes lifted and her tears were no longer silvery liquid, instead they were crimson, no blood left her body, and she pulled the spear from her body before tossing it aside as if it were a splinter instead of a spear loaded with the power to make nukes look like water balloons.
She began a leisurely walk toward the wolf ignoring everyone else. Seeing the woman about to attack their father Hati and Skoll jumped at her. She kicked Hati in the nose sending him flying out of sight as a eerie scarlet aura covered her. Skoll was met with some kind of force field, which when he hit it sent him flying and he knocked Loki out of the sky.
She continued on as if nothing happened and when Fenrir tried to escaped she was a blur. She grabbed the wolf by its left hind leg and grabbed it sinking her hands into the skin and ripped some of it away. Fenrir began howling and trying to get away but she held firm grabbing more of the leg and ripping more of the flesh. She soon moved on to the other leg doing the same, blood soaked the ground and she was soon covered in its blood. She continued on and when each leg was ripped apart to the bone she lifted the giant wolf and threw him back into the ground now on his back. She climbed up and when she reached his chest she summoned the blood, making it rise into the air and form claws on her hands.
"Judgement of Satan: Cold Heart." She said softly as her brand glowed its impossible black and her left eye turned obsidian black and her eyes lost all trace of light, her right eye now maroon in color.
Then with angry yell she stabbed her claws through its heart.
"Loki's turn." She stated turning to the god in question.
"What the?" He stepped back as she began walking toward him.
"You have 5 seconds Loki , you can run and if you get away, I won't tear you limb from limb, muscle by muscle, bone to bone." She said without any sign that even she heard her words.
Loki did the smart thing, he ran. Immediately noticing he couldn't teleport or open a portal, so he ran. However instead of hearing counting he heard only,"One."
She grabbed his arm and then punched a hole through his chest. Loki summed some magic and blasted her, but she merely continued grabbing his arm.
However before she could make do on her threat a giant hammer smashed into Loki and in moments he was nowhere to be seen.
"Alice, sleep." Upon hearing a smooth, calming voice spoke and she couldn't help but close her eyes, sleep overtaking her.
Before she could fall to the ground she was caught and there stood Issei healed and lowering her slowly to the ground. He sighed,"I really shouldn't have let that hit me. Good thing that Phenex girl gave me those Phenex Tears."
"Okay everyone, let's get going. Everyone time to get back." He ordered and son they teleported away.
When they arrived Issei was led to a room in which there was an empty bed which he placed Alice in. he turned to see Akasha stepping closer tentatively.
"You're staying in here?" He asked.
"Yes Lord Satan, I wish to stay with Mother until she wakes." She nodded bowing.
"Very well... Akasha, I'm sorry." He stated.
"For what?" She asked.
"When we captured you after defeating Vlad, I was ready to kill you. It was only Alice's begging for your life that made me put your essence within her own. I am sorry for not giving you a chance." He answered and left the room.
Left with this knowledge, she sat down and blinked as her mother's hand gripped her own.
A Few Days Later
After finishing up in the Underworld, and Issei subsequently gaining Rosseweisse the Valkyrie as a Rook, in exchange for providing and holding a stable living situation for the Valkyrie, the group found themselves all staying in Issei's house. Alice had woken up and the very morning they woke after getting back that the smell of delicious food woke the inhabitants. When they reached the dining room/kitchen they found Issei sitting down eating several sandwiches and cheeseburgers and Alice was cooking deftly moving around as she cooked eggs, bacon, sandwiches, and more cheeseburgers.
As each person sat down they found their breakfast placed before them. As she put down Akasha's food she placed a filled blood-bag beside the plate.
"In case you feel the need." She said kindly.
"I've went ahead and enrolled you in Kuoh. I myself will not be going as a student next time around. I will expect the best, but do not worry if it does not come to pass, humans are weird. I will be there should you need me." At this Akasha(and the others) blinked.
"Why will you not be going as a student and if not a student then what?" Rias asked.
"With Meister's help I have changed the human's memories so that I can take the place of a teacher, thus allowing Meister to create his own club so that his matters don't disturb you. Jagerin, you'll be a student so I will tell you now. No drinking from the humans of this town or I'll have to punish you. Now, everyone eat up." With that she walked off.
"A club?" Rias asked Issei.
"Yeah, the Problem Solving Committee. I felt the need to provide some separation so that we don't interfere with each other when we go out." Issei explained.
"Oh, thanks." Rias said surprised.
"Also, I don't want to be in a club with Azazel as an adviser." He laughed.
"You little..." She growled.
It wasn't long after that, Kuoh Academy started back and those aware of the supernatural were accurately aware of who Alice was. She'd taken a post as an Art and English teacher. In her first class she assigned the students a project due at the end of the month, at first there was a collective of groans, before she informed that if this project is done then she will count it as their grades for all exams, which caused them all to sit and take notes of what they needed. She explained they needed to tell a story with visual images and add dialogue in English to it. When she finished giving the details she informed that if she found the project lacking they would not be accepted, so if there was no effort put into the pieces they would take a practice exam before taking the real one and both would be added to their grade.
Meanwhile, her art class was much less demanding as she told them there was no true way to teach art,
"Art is a produce of one's imagination, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Vincent Van Gogh. They were all artists who when they created art, it wasn't something they were taught per say, the paintings they made were ones made by inspiration." She'd lectured in one such class.
It was an immediate thing and Issei had gotten many a laugh from her classes. This was due to the fact that before each class she would start by placing magic at the door which placed a ward on each student and when they were not paying attention or were hiding something she was informed who it was and she sent a piece of chock flying at terminal velocity by their head before scolding them, though he and Akasha were not exempt from this, as she would give him a silent treatment after the throwing of the projectile into his forehead and that night his food would be slightly dry or slightly burnt on purpose. Akasha would be openly scolded before having to stay behind, however she would be given a blood bag and the mother vampire would then apologize before kissing her daughter's forehead. All in all it was hilarious for the others aware of the supernatural, at his expense no less. Once, he was feared(and still is most of the time) but now he was the cause of laughter and not for the reasons he wanted them to be. On a similar note, Rosseweisse became a teacher as well and the two were easily on amicable terms after sharing methods for keeping student's attention(although, wearing tight-fitting black clothing, like Alice unconsciously did, was not Rossweisse' style). Halfway into the month Vali joined them for, in his words, "shits and giggles." This received a barking laugh and a "That's my great-great-grandson!"
However, that voice, it had disappeared and if they didn't know better then they would have thought it was Akasha, but they did know better. That left only one person. For Issei it made him shiver at the thought, but for Alice, she was simultaneously worried and hopeful.
Here we go, this is the end of the chapter, thanks for reading and(hopefully) see you next time.
Issei's harem: Alice, Xenovia, Rias, Irina, Kuroka, Ravel, Ophis,
Toshiro's Harem: Akeno, Koneko, Aika, Asia.
Here's the current rundown of Issei's peerage.
King: Satan(A. K. A. Issei), Devil God
Queen:Lucia Alice Valentine, Shinso Vampire
Bishops: Asia, Wielder of Twilight Healing, and Ravel, Phenex Devil.
Knights: Xenovia,Durandal Wielder,
Rooks: Rossweisse, Valkyrie,
Pawns: Aika Kiryu Valentine,Pure-blood Vampire[One Pawn]