Knock! Knock!

Two knocks come from my door forcing me to get off of my bed. I had got home early from school thanks to the car with Raynare because I wasn't told about what was happening with club today. The days I am in the club room are also the days Raynare is there, this started last week when she took up post as my manager from Azazel and has landed me a model gig which I don't want but still it's easy money.

Opening the door I see Kiba, I was a little confused to him being there.

"Why are you in my house Kiba?"

"Did Buchou or Ise-kun not tell you? We are having club here today, your mother asked me to come and get you."

Okaa-san did? That can only mean one thing, one terrible thing.

"Did okaa-san have photo albums?"

"I believe so."

"Was there a black one?"

Kiba just nodded his head with a smile. I'm truly fucked, I don't wanna go down there.

"Your mother said you'd be reluctant so she told me to tell you that she has made hot chocolate for you. She has also brought out the whipped cream and marshmallows."

Damn that conniving woman, she knows I can't resist hot chocolate and whipped cream but to add marshmallows into the mix? That's … that's devilish, she has also done it in front of Rias and the others. They'll know my weakness but I … I just can't resist.

I stepped out of my room quietly and closed the door before running off through the house, jumping down the stairs and straight to the hot chocolate which was in my personal extra large mug with a bag of marshmallows and a new can of whipped cream next to it. It looked incredible, both my ears and tail came out from just seeing it.

"To hell with it!"

I shouted out loud and started to drink the hot chocolate after making it sweeter. I felt like I was in heaven, it was pure bliss. I span around on my stool happily as I chugged down the hot chocolate occasionally biting through the marshmallows. Soft, chocolatey and fluffy, the three best things on the planet.

...Wait! I forgot about one vital thing. The photo album.

I looked around the room until I saw it. Koneko, Rias, Raynare and even Akeno were staring at the black photo album with flushed cheeks. It's possible that my life is over, my kitten form is on display and even worse i'm playing around in some of them and probably even snoozing.

As I looked at them, I could feel the hate and betrayal rise up in me. Koneko should know herself about what it means to be seen in that form. It doesn't look like she even bothered to stop them. Forcing my ears and tail away, I took out my phone and called Azazel.

"Yo Azazel, you need an extra pair of hands today?"

"What's got your panties in a twist?"

Annoyed? That's an understatement.

"Do you or not?"

"No … Why?"

"Betrayal."

I snapped my phone shut and put it back in my pocket. I finished off the rest of my hot chocolate and got up.

"Okaa-san, i'm going out."

"Why? What about the club meeting?"

"Is showing private pictures a club meeting? I don't think so, especially to people who are only friends at best."

I gave up on saying anything more and walked out of the house and just started to walk.

Half an hour or so later I found myself at the abandoned church, in the centre just in front of the shrine was a priest and a man I know.

"So it's you Silver Moon. I heard they turned you."

The man who spoke was Kokabiel, a cadre in Grigori. A Fallen Angel known for his cunning and want to fight. Not a Fallen angel I want to see as a devil, in this type of situation not even Azazel could save me.

"They did. The Gremory heiress killed me to turn me despite the fact that I declined to even talk to her."

I may dislike Kokabiel but I do hold respect for him. I'd read that he threw himself into a fight to save some Fallen Angels from some devils. While I don't think he did it heroically, the reason doesn't really matter to me.

"Oho, so she is here. What about the Sitri heiress? I've heard rumours of her being here too, is it?"

"Yes, sir. Sona Sitri is here also, although where I am unsure."

"Freed. Go and see what you can find."

The priest called Freed didn't answer, he just left the church whistling a happy tune. I could hear the swords under his jacket cling about, I could feel the holy energy radiating off them. They were all strong ones too, not like the Light swords that are standard for priests.

"Why are you here Kokabiel?"

"Why else would I come to a shitty town like this?"

To kill some devils huh?

"Am I involved in this?"

"Only if you want to be. I want a war between the three factions not just a straight up murder."

I agree, it would probably end up like that. I don't know if I could even damage this guy. I feel slightly troubled.

"How are you going to go about it?"

"That's for you to wait and see, but first why don't I give you something to remember me by?"

'Huh? What could he mean by that?'

Out of nowhere appeared a long stick made out of light, it was strong. I could feel my skin burning, It had to be as strong as all of the swords that the priest had. He took a step towards me and the room froze, the temperature dropped rapidly and I wasn't able to move. I could feel my body shaking from the light stick in his hand, my shaking become worse as he got closer. As he did, the end of the stick morphed. It morphed into a 'K' the size of my chest.

I backed away in fear but my back was met with the wall of the church. I had no way out, the only thing I could do was persevere or push it but that would probably mean my death. The 'K' wasn't even touching my t-shirt and it had been burnt away, my skin was turning red from the heat and I could already feel the pain.

Then it hit me, the excruciating pain. He lightly placed the stick against my chest and it immediately started to burn, the pressing continued from there. The pressure slowly got harder and stronger until it completely burnt through and I could feel the holy energy inside my body burning into my insides. I bit down onto my lip trying to bare with the pain and ended up causing more as I pierced my own lip with my teeth causing blood to trickle out of my mouth.

Kokabiel saw it and took the stick away from me. He took a step back and looked at his handiwork as my legs gave way, my body dropping to the floor. My hearing was going funny, my eyesight was blurring but I could see for definite one thing before they gave out. Laughing. Kokabiel was laughing.

I wake up to a familiar ceiling, the ceiling to my room at home. I look down to my chest and see both Rias and Raynare lying on either side of me. Naked, all three of us were naked. Underneath the heads of Rias and Raynare was a lot of white bandaging. After blinking a few times, I realised I still had my glasses on so I looked to the corner of my vision and it was now night-time of the same day. I've been out for hours and they are going to want answers, answers I can't give them … not here in Raynare's case.

I took my right hand from in between myself and Raynare and brought it to her head and lightly placed it there starting to stroke her soft, silky raven hair. Looking at her sleeping so soundly took my mind away what transpired earlier, I could feel the small burden on my heart start to fade. Even though she saw my kitten form without permission, looking at her like this makes me feel like it doesn't matter. Right now I can see her in a vulnerable state and she looked happy too.

Rias on the other hand was another story. I didn't want her here not now, not for club and not ever. I closed my eyes and focused on my body, a thin layer of ice formed around my body where Rias was touching in her shameless state. When the ice formed, I pushed her away slowly and took the blanket from under my pillow and spread it over Raynare and myself. Instinctively, Raynare started to snuggle up to me against my chest. A small pain arises from the touch but I could bear it, for this anyway.

With the sound of the ice shattering came a voice that was now behind me. A voice I had never liked.

"Gin-kun, are you okay?"

I didn't answer her, I just looked down to Raynare sleeping and slowly wrapped my arms around her bringing her even closer.

"I know you are up, answer me Gin."

"Leave."

"What? Why?"

"You bring me into a life I didn't want, you made me become something I despised. You even killed me to do so. Then you try to make it all better by tempting me with food and drink. Today, you come to my house and look at photos of me without even asking me if it's ok. There is a limit for my tolerance and today, you've sailed past the final line. Get out and do it now before Gremory has to start preparing for a funeral."

I waver as I speak, I was trying to keep my voice down so I didn't wake the beauty in my arms. Luckily I didn't and she continued to sleep peacefully. A few seconds of silence pass before Rias finally leaves my room and teleports off to wherever she went. Seeing that it was pretty late I decided to just go straight to sleep.

At lunch the next day in school, I was alone with Asahi as Raynare had gone off to try and befriend some of the girls in the class. It wasn't going great but she was getting there.

"They saw the pictures, what you going to do about it?"

"Not that sure. I'll just have to blank the girls, Koneko especially."

"What does your kitten form look like anyway?"

"A little different. I have icy blue tufts at the end of my tail, ears, paws and also a fluffy clump in between my front two legs. The rest of my fur is silver and my eyes are of course hazel."

"You are ok with telling?"

"Telling, yes but I would allow you to see my kitten form because I trust you."

A fox-like smirk arises on his face as he looks towards me.

"Anyway, does the Governor know why Kokabiel is here and what he wants?"

"He has no clue but expects him to want to kill Gremory and Sitri. He was waiting to hear from you before he did anything though, Azazel had heard that the Excaliburs had gone missing."

That would explain the high holy energy I felt yesterday coming from that priest, if I remember correctly I saw that there was only 3.

"There was a priest with Kokabiel, he was called Freed. I could feel strong holy energy from swords under his jacket, i'm pretty sure there were 3 of them. He said he wanted to start a war between the three factions, it makes sense too. A Fallen Angel kills two sisters of the Maou using the Excalibur of Heaven. It's sure to cause a war between Devils and Fallen Angels, probably even spark the Angels to do something but I highly doubt a three-way war."

"That's true. Also, Azazel had caught wind of two exorcists coming here to retrieve the Excaliburs. They might have more to go on, why don't we join them?"

"Would two exorcists really go along with that? I'm part devil and you are a Fallen."

"We should be fine. We are descendants of Amaterasu and Tsukiyomi, we have divinity. It may only be basic but it'll go through to them plus we can play on the Youkai side as well. We do have your story of hating the devils plus we are looking for Kokabiel ourselves. Even if it's not pretty we can come to an agreement."

"I see your point. There is meant to be a meeting at club today but i'll think i'll skip it and do some investigating, you up for it?"

"You bet'cha ass I am. Azazel has given me time off to patrol around because he is too busy doing his manga. There is also a chance of 'him' arriving, even with the two exorcists Azazel doesn't think we can take Kokabiel."

Him? That seems a little hasty but he loves to fight, he might wait for him to get better. That'd be safer for everyone.

"I see. Little Kusacchi might take to you after feeling your determination to fight a much stronger opponent."

"Ohh, that'd be great. He has been mumbling a lot recently, all incoherent stuff though. You know that 'Second Star' will be the same, right?"

"Course not, i'm dependable unlike you."

"Is that so … probably is."

His lip curled up before we both burst out laughing.

At the end of the school day, I was waiting in the small clearing behind the old school building with Asahi waiting for the time to come.

"When they inevitably come out here to fight, can I borrow Kusacchi?"

Asahi went to reply quickly but stopped as he looked slightly in thought, Kusacchi was probably talking to him. That proved to be true when Asahi eyes drooped slightly. Asahi then threw towards me a golden ring with an onyx black jewel encrusted onto it.

"If you ever need to use him then you can summon him. Just make sure i'm not at the time and it'll be good."

"So he is letting me use him?"

"Funnily enough, he is calling me a trashy descendant and I should get to unlocking my powers as 'Amaterasu'."

"Does he not know that Fallen Angels aren't allowed in heaven?"

"Apparently, that doesn't matter."

It doesn't matter? That means his power will work like mine but when the sun is out which is always out in Heaven, according to Azazel there is some kind of magic system God created to cause night time.

"Then you could teleport there Asacchi. I can teleport to my shrine whenever because it's got an eternal moon and no sun. With yours being in heaven, the sun is eternal. As long there is a sun there at that point in time, you can teleport there. You have skill with fire magic, you are just a little rusty."

"I can do that? That means we can teleport anywhere around the world easily without exhausting our magic."

"That's true, just don't try the Underworld. It has neither sun or moon."

It just makes it even worse that we are from there, it's kinda ironic I think. We are the descendants of divine gods but we are devil and fallen angel, a traitor to them yet we don't have a limit on our powers and thanks to that i'm not bothered by holy things. The weapons do burn like hell though.

A loud racket starts to form behind us and the sound of metal clanging echoes through the old building. We didn't have to wait long for the devils and the two exorcists to come out. When they did, the two exorcists that were nuns stared at us. I looked back to Asahi and bumped knuckles before taking my place in the clearing next to Kiba.

As I looked to the two exorcists, I could see that they were both young girls around our age. One girl with blue hair and a muscular physique and a brown haired girl of Japanese descent. The brown haired girl was someone I had seen before but she would only vaguely know me.

"Yo Irina, you've grown up well."

I hinted towards her now feminine body, she used to dress up like a boy and seemed rather boyish at that. I did only know her for a week though.

"Who are you?"

"Does a silver cat with icy blue tufts mean anything to you?"

"Gin? The stray cat that Issei-kun's Okaa-san picked up a week before I left?"

She remembers me, that's good.

"That's right. I hope you don't mind me joining Kiba in this fight."

"Why? You are a Neko, why side with these devils?"

"I'm not siding with anyone, I work for Grigori. We know that Kokabiel is the one behind this and is going against Azazel's orders. Azazel wants me and Asahi to stop him if we can, i'm taking this opportunity to see whether you two are strong enough to consider working with."

"You are Silver Moon?! I've heard about you from the church, isn't Asahi known as the Golden Sun?"

She really does know me and Asahi at that. Who would of known?

"That's us. As they start their fight tell me what you know?"

Kiba and the blue haired girl didn't even wait for me to finish as they started their fight. Small shock-waves surging out from the girl's sword in each collision.

"You two are existences that the Fallen Angel Governor went to great lengths to keep safe. He requisitioned the church to keep you two out of our radar, we aren't allowed to hurt you two. If we do then the Fallen Angels will go to war with us. The last Male Nekoshou and Descendant of Tsukiyomi the Shinto Moon God, Tsukiyomi Gin. One of few Male Kyuubi and Descendant of Amaterasu the Shinto Sun God, Amaterasu Asahi."

We really are well known. It's a shame Azazel didn't go far enough to say that to the devils, probably because of the kill on sight order for all Nekoshou. At least i'm safe from the church and possibly heaven. If only I could have anticipated Rias killing me, I would have been safe then.

"Now that's over with, we can start our own fight. Asahi! Is he ready?"

"Of course! He is looking forward to a fight against one of the 7 Excaliburs."

I smirked and saw Irina summon a Katana to her hands. I raised my left hand with the gold ring up into the air and it started to shine.

"Come to me, Ame-no-Murakamo-no-Tsurugi."

The shining in my left hand exploded taking the form of a Katana. A long and sleek black blade with a golden hilt appeared in my left hand. I could feel the power surge around my body and my small amount of divinity react with the blade itself. Our souls were combining in a bright golden light.

'Oh, so this is what it's like to be with King Tsukiyomi. This cold, eerie warmth is great.'

It seems like the Kusanagi doesn't really enjoy the warmth given off by Asahi. I wonder if it's about the interest in fighting or the personality difference between us.

The golden light died down and my body was now wrapped in a small and thin layer of white divinity. I could feel that it wasn't as strong as it could be, must only be fully activated when i'm wielding 'Second Star'.

Looking at Irina in front of me, I could see her staring at the blade. I looked over to the blue-haired girl who was doing the same thing while easily keeping Kiba at bay. Kiba seemed to be getting angrier by the second, he could even attack me at any time now. Right now, i'm not a devil. The divinity has destroyed that part for now, i'll probably revert back after this battle.

With a small flick of the blade, Irina's attention was brought back and she got ready to spar.

"Whenever you want, Irina."

A small nod on her part and our little spar begun. With Kusacchi's help I easily kept up with her strikes and parried her away with a simple flick of the wrist. The Kusanagi was an obscenely strong sword and remarkably easy for me to wield, probably due to my heritage. Might see me as his uncle.

I slowly increased the strength of each parry until one was enough to cause her to stumble and I thrusted the sword towards her and narrowly missed her neck on purpose and shredded a few strands of her head. Turning the blade slightly, I placed the cold black blade on top of her shoulder with the edge lightly pressing into her neck.

"I win."

She gulped as I kept the edge against her neck. I smiled lightly and allowed Kusacchi to go back to Asahi.

'Kid, learn how to fight with a sword. I don't like being used like those pansy rapiers.'

It would seem that I hurt the Kusanagi's feelings. Who thought that was possible?

Irina took a sigh of relief and kept her eyes on me, her eyes looked at me in wonder. It was slightly weird, I haven't been looked at this way before. To get away from her gaze, I turned towards Kiba's fight but he was on the ground and the blue-haired girl was putting her sword back into it's white cloth sheathe.

With the two fights finished, both Asahi and the blue haired girl came over to me and Irina. The blue-haired girl then introduced herself as Xenovia and the wielder of Excalibur Destruction. Irina was the wielder of Excalibur Mimic. We then walked off so we could talk somewhere else.

We arrived nearly an hour later at the family restaurant and took a table while waiting for someone to come and take our order. The person who came to take our order was Raynare and she was not happy to see me with two other girls. The girls were also not happy to see Raynare as they could tell that she was a Fallen.

"Gin-kun, what's the meaning of this?"

"Ohh, jealous are we?"

Her face blushed along with my tease.

"They are gonna help us subdue Kokabiel. We are going to work out some angles."

Thankfully, Raynare's jealousy was easily quelled and we got to our ordering. Our order was massive, these girls ordered enough for a few days. The church must be pretty light on their meals of bread and soup. I wonder how many slices of a loaf they get per meal.

"Well the only thing I can think of is if we do win and subdue him then we get Kokabiel to deal with and we'll happily allow you to take the Excaliburs. That fair enough to you?"

The two girls looked between each other and just simply nodded.

"Yeah, that sounds good."

An easy meeting for a ridiculously hard job. As they say, how hard could it be?


Here is the start to the Excalibur arc and the disappearance of both Gina and Kiba from the Gremory group.
Gin's disappearance is allowed compared to Kiba's but the end result probably has Kiba in the better light.
Gin's way of trying to defeat Kokabiel will not be the nicest but that doesn't bother him in the slightest.

Ciao-nya.