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"Lets see know, the power grid..." Rin mumbled as he walked into the maintenance room in the basement. He looked along the walk where all the switches and breakers were and saw what he had expected to see. "All the switches are down. So all I got to do is flip them back up and..." Rin started but was stopped when a long tube wrapped around his throat and pulled away from the controls.
Rin reached up and tried to pull it off from around his neck as he glanced over his shoulder to see the ghoul that had been chasing him had finally caught up and that the thing that was chocking him was the demon's tongue. "...Disgusting bastard." He groaned before the demon pulled him off his feet and throw him against a nearby wall with a loud smacking sound that echoed in the large room.
Before Rin could get up the demon was on him, grabbing his head and holding him against the wall. "I am sorry... I only do... as my master commands me to." The ghoul moaned.
Rin gasped as the air was knocked out of him, but that didn't stop his from trying to reach for his sword. He knew that if he drew his sword, then he would have the power to win.
But that plan was put on hold when a familiar voice rang through the room. "Get off of him!" Jazz shouted before swinging a bat hard enough to crack bones into the side of the demon's head, knocking it off of Rin.
Rin coughed a little before looking up at the red haired Fenton girl standing next to him with a baseball bat with the word Fenton written on the side. She looked a little nervous as she watched the demon getting back up. "Jazz... get out of here." Rin whizzed as he pulled himself to his feet.
"No, I'm not going to leave you alone to fight this thing. We'll do it together!" Jazz said stubbornly. "I'm not going to abandon you."
"Jazz..." Rin said a little surprised but he was jogged back to reality when laughter filled the room.
"You will not abandon him? You truly are a witch, aren't you? Keeping the company of demons and scum." Rin's head snapped to the back exit to the room that led to the outside of the building only to see the teacher from the Tamer class standing in the doorway.
"You, what are you doing here?" Rin asked surprised again.
Jazz glared at the teacher, tightening her grip on his bat. "Isn't it obvious, he's the one who summoned the demon." Jazz said angrily.
Rin's eyes widened and he bared his teeth as everything clicked into place. "You were behind the attacks! Your the reason Paku got hurt!" Neuhaus just grinned at the demon boy's shouts. "You bastard! Why!?"
"Why? Because I hate demons." Neuhaus said in his deep flat tones. "And so I will destroy any demon I come across and any who would call them 'friends'." Rin growled a bit and grabbed hold of his sword's hilt. "Oh, are you going to draw your sword in front of this girl?" Neuhaus said, almost laughing. "Do you really think that even someone like her could stand by after finding out what you are?"
Rin froze at those words. Sure Jazz knew that he had some demon blood in him. But she didn't know that he was the son of Satan. Just like how the Order would allow part demons but would never accept him, would Jazz also reject him if she found out the truth of his parentage?
"Rin, don't listen to him. He's just trying to distract you." Jazz said quickly.
"Well, I know one way to solve your dilemma. Ghoul, kill the girl!" Neuhaus ordered.
"No!" Rin shouted as he jumped in front of Jazz, using his sheathed sword as a shield to try to hold off the ghoul's attack. But the demon used its long arms to reach around and grab onto Rin's shirt before throwing him aside.
The Ghoul moved to crush Jazz but the girl sung an uncapped holy water grenade and splashed the blessed liquid over the demon's face. It gave a hallow of pain and reared back onto its hind legs and started batting at the air around it trying to find Jazz as it attempted to wipe the liquid from its eyes. But the demon still managed to land a hit, knocking Jazz to the side and against the wall were she slide to the ground screaming as she felt her left arm snap.
The demon started to regain its sight as its regenerative abilities repaired its eye. Rin pulled himself off the ground to see the demon moving for the injured girl. His heart stopped as her crying filled his ears. Jazz had been hurt, and he hadn't been able to protect her. He felt his anger raising as he grabbed onto the hilt of his sword.
Jazz was blinking back the tears as she tried to push herself away from the ghoul, one arm held limp and useless at her side. She looked up to see the demon towering over her with two of its four arms raised, preparing to crush her.
But before it could bring the arm down she heard a shout. "Get away from her!" Rin roared and the tip of a blade pushed out from the demon's chest. The demon wailed with pain as bright blue flames erupted over its body, it clawed feebly at the air around it as its flush burned until there was nothing left and it faded away, nothing but a pill of dust and ash.
Jazz was stunned as she looked up at the demon that now stood over her. Rin's ears had both grown out another four inches and his pupils had turned from black to a dark red. His teeth were sharper than ever and he was covered from head to the tip of his tail in bright blue flames. Two horns had appeared on his forehead over his hair, make completely from the azure flames.
Jazz had only hear about them for stories, but it was obvious what they were. "Rin... you're..." She couldn't finish her words. Rin Okumura was the son of Satan.
Rin winced at her voice and turned his head away, closing his eyes tight. He didn't want to see her expression. He was to afraid to look into her face and see fear or hatred or disgust. For her to see him and the monstrous demon, the son of Satan, a beast that should be put down. The fear of her reaction was hundred times worse that the fear of any demon. He had shown himself, and now the Vatican would find out and he would be put to death. Yukio had warned him so many times not to let anyone see his flames, but he had failed to listen. "I'm sorry Yukio. I guess I just can't watch a friend get hurt." He said a silent pray to his little brother.
But all his fear turn to surprise when he felt someone patting his head. He opened his eyes to see Jazz standing up and looking at him with a understanding expression will moving her uninjured right hand through his hair.
"It's alright, Rin. No matter what you are, you are still you." She said in a motherly voice.
Rin had to bite down on his tongue to stop himself from crying. Real men didn't cry. Not in times like this. But he did manage to squeeze out a few words. "Thank you." He said, barely more than a whisper.
"Alright, now we need to get these lights back on and get back to the others." Jazz said in a commanding voice. "Rin, I need to you reset all the..." Jazz started to instruct him on how to turn back on all the power and Rin did everything she said.
Rin was so relieved that he found it hard to concentrate on the matter at hand. Jazz had not been afraid of him. She wouldn't turn on him, just like his dad and the rest of the guys back at the church he grow up in, none of it matter to her. She was family.
Maybe having an older sister wouldn't be that bad.
It had been a while since Jazz had left to go after Rin, but the other students hadn't yet found the demon's Fatal Verse. Both Konekomaru and Renzo had reached the ends of there assigned sections of the Gospel of John and Bon was half way through the final chapter of the Gospel.
"Oh no, its almost through!" Renzo shouted as the ghoul pushed one arm all the way through the branches of their wooden barricade to pawl at them. They had already used their flash grenades and Izumo was holding onto the holy water with an iron grip, ready to throw it the moment the ghoul got through.
"Bon's almost finished, we just need a bit more time." Konekomaru said as he looked over to his friend who was deep in concentration, reciting the words from memory as he sat with his legs crossed and his brow thoroughed.
But no sooner had Konekomaru said these words than he head a thud and turned to see Shiemi had fell to the ground and her familiar had disappeared. "Oh no!" Konekomaru said as the barrier went down and the ghoul came right at them.
Renzo tried to hold it off with his k'rik but the demon just grabbed it and tossed him aside, moving in on the monk who was still chanting.
Izumo tossed the holy water grenade and it exploded in a mist that covered the demon, causing it to scream and back way as its skin began to burn and fluid poured out from holes that appeared near the stitches.
But that wasn't enough. Not in the darkness of the room. Not without them hitting its demon heart. The beast pushed itself up as it started to recover from the hit.
Izumo went over to Shiemi. "Hey, you... you've got to hang in there!" Izumo said in a panic. Everything was just to much for her.
"Izumo?" Shiemi said looking up at her with tired eyes. "You're... not your usual self today. Are you okay?"
"Am I..." Izumo's eyes widened at the words. She had always thought that Shiemi had been weak and useless, but the girl was worried about her, even as the demon was descending upon them. Shiemi still was paralyzed by fear, neither had Jazz. But Izumo had been.
The proud black haired girl bit his lip in frustration, hard enough to draw blood. Why was she so afraid. She was not going to be shown up. Not any more.
She pulled two of the summoning papers out of her pocket and using the blood from her lip she began her summonings. "I humbly appeal to the oh goddess of Inari. I entreat you not to leave my prayers unfulfilled!" She shouted.
Her twin fox familiars appeared from the slits of paper, both staring at her with angry eyes. "Girl, how dare you try to su..." One started but she cut it off.
"You will obey me!" Izumo shouted angrily and the foxes shuddered as they were bound to her will.
"Curses, she has snapped out of it." One of them grumbled.
Izumo knew that she had a twisted personality, and she was afraid that it would land her all alone. But she wasn't going to let that fear control her, not anymore. "Utter these words and shiver. And should it sway and quiver, then even the dead shall come back to life! The Tamayura Exorcism!" She chanted the prayer to bring out her familiars power and the two foxes moved forward, twisting around the ghoul and realizing petals of light to bind the ghoul and hold it still.
"Yes!" She said in triamph, but it didn't least, the ghoul was to strong for the low level spirits and they were thrown aside as the ghoul swung out its arms. "Oh no!"
The ghoul turned its attention back to Bon who was still reciting, despite all that was happening. "Bon!" Renzo shouted as the ghoul reached out to grab him.
But before its finger could close around the boy's through a massive green form rushed out of one of the walls and smashed into the demon, knocking it away from the children.
Cujo stood tall and his head brushed the roof as he position himself between the class and the ghoul. The ghost dog gave a low growl before bounding forward and onto the rot demon.
"Yay, Cujo's here, we're saved!" Renzo shouted. The ghost dog lifts the ghoul up in its jaws and swung it about, smashing the creature into the ceiling and nearby wall, nearly crushing the children as he rived about. "Oh no! Cujo's here, we're screwed!"
Cujo slammed the demon against the floor and placed his front paws on its waist before going for the demon's throat. The ghoul reached up with its four arms and tried to hold back the hell hound's massive head from ripping it to pieces but the light came on and the ghoul started to lose strength, its elbows buckling as Cujo overwhelmed it.
"This is the disciple who testifieth of these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true. I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written." Bon finished his chant and the demon's Lethal Verse was hit.
The ghoul gave a short cry as its body disappeared completely, not even leaving a pill of dirt to show that it had even been there to begin with.
"Good job Bon! Now what's going to keep the dog distracted!" Renzo said backing away from Cujo as the large dog lifted itself from the ground and turned to them. They all gulped as the demon hound took two large steps towards them before turning, flopping down on the ground and facing the door, as if standing guard. They were all took shocked to move when they heard someone running their way and Rin entered the room. "Hey! Where's the other ghoul?" Rin asked to the shock of the others.
"But... what happened to your ghoul?" Bon asked too shocked to move.
"Oh, we killed it. Did you get yours too? That's awesome." Rin said with a goofy and proud grin.
Bon ran up and clothes lined Rin, knocking him to the ground. "What the hell's wrong with you!? Do you want to get killed or something!?" Bon shouted.
"Hey, calm down..." Rin tried to say as Bon started kicking him until a finger grabbed onto one of his ears and pulled him away.
"As much as I appreciate your concern Bon, I think we've had enough violence for now." Jazz said as she pulled him away by the ear. But a second later she flinched from the pain of her broken arm and let go of him to cradle the injury.
"Jazz!? Are you okay!?" Renzo shouted as he went to check on the girl.
"I'll be fine. I think it was a clean break. It'll heal." Jazz said turning to Cujo as the other students were shocked that a broken bone counted as fine. "Cujo, are there any more hostile demons in the area? One bark for yes, two for no." The dog sniffed the air and barked twice. "Then at least we are safe for now.
"Are you alright?" Izumo asked Shiemi as she helped her up into a sitting position.
"Yes... thank you." Shiemi said as she tried to regain her focus.
Izumo looked down. "Listen, I honestly don't like you." Izumo said shocking Shiemi a little. "But you did save us today. So thanks." She added a little embarrassed. Shiemi smiled and nodded.
"What happened here?" Everyone turned to see Yukio standing in the doorway as he looked in on the completely wrecked room with Cujo sitting in the middle of it.
"Hey, Yukio, were have you been!? We had too..." Rin started angrily but his words dropped off as he saw Igor Neuhaus standing right behind Yukio. "Yukio... that man is... our enemy." Rin said seriously.
Then one of the ceiling tiles above him fell open and he was knocked forward onto his face. Turning around he saw Mephisto falling down through the hole in the ceiling, grinning at all of them. "What? Mephisto!?" Rin shouted, more than a little confused as to why the Demon King would be there.
"Well done, my young pages! Thank you for all your hard work!" Mephisto said as he grinned at all of them.
"Is that the headmaster? What is he doing here?" Bon said just as confused as Rin.
"I think I know..." Jazz grumbled with a glare at the Demon King as she connected the dots. "This was all some kind of test, wasn't it?"
"Of course." Mephisto said with a smile. "You don't think I would allow an upper-level demon to just wilts right into my school, do you?" She snapped his fingers and doors and floor boards popped open and several instructors popped out. Rin's jaw went slack as he started to understand. "Instructors with Doctor credentials, kindly tend to the wounded."
The doctor instructors moved forward and went to work. A senor teacher bring some bandages over for Jazz's arm as she started to set the bone.
"No way... don't tell me..." Bon mumbled as he twitched from the tension he had been feeling since the ghoul first attacked.
"Surprise and congratulations for completing your Exwire Exams!" Mephisto shouted proudly.
"But... what about Fenton? He wasn't here for the exam." Konekomaru asked, trying to grasp as straws that could tell him that it was all just a bad dream.
"Oh Danny is taking his only little exam." Mephisto said with a smile. "And if should be ending in... Eins... Zwei... Drei!" The building shook as a horrible noise filled the air, all the students and some of the instructors fell to there knees and clapped their hands over their ears at the horrible sound. Cujo started to bark happily at hearing his master's voice.
"What he hell was that!?" Renzo said as the noise died down, just seconds after it started.
"Was it an Earthquake?" Rin asked as he got up.
"Earthquakes doing make noise like that, dumbass!" Bon shouted at Rin as he tried to clear his head.
"The ghostly wail. It lives up to its reputation." Mephisto said, practically glowing with pleasure. Jazz could only glare. What had they done to make Danny use his ace?
And so once again, the day is saved, thanks to Cujo the OP dog!
Considering having Danny be promoted to a higher rank and have he be made a instructor for Knights so that he is made into Rin's private teacher. Mostly to just mess with Rin.