A very different Kokabiel fight.
"Should we be going?"
"What are you talking about? Not so long ago you were thinking of letting them die but when Kokabiel randomly destroys a building easily you get worried. Let's go."
"I'm lucky that I can understand you."
I leapt off the roof first and started to walk towards the main field making Asahi catch up to me.
"Are you sure that it's luck Asacchi?"
I was answered by a swift shrug of the shoulders as Asahi catches up to me and walks next to me towards the group of devils that were facing Kokabiel, with only Kokabiel noticing our entrance. We stood in silence for nearly a minute as the whole area was in silence, the devils a little hesitant to aggravate Kokabiel.
"This is pretty boring."
Asahi just speaks up out of the blue making the devils in front of us nearly jump out of their skin before turning around to see us there.
"Combining 4 Excaliburs is a little bleak. Goes to show how shitty Kokabiel is that he was only able to beat one of the exorcists."
"That's true, even you defeated one easily without a care. Kokabiel sure is a scrub."
"Why be so nice about him?"
Asahi answered with another shrug. Our talk wasn't really a private one so everyone heard everything that we said and our disinterest in this was real. We were actually a little disappointed that Kokabiel could only get one of the two Excaliburs from the nuns that arrived.
"Now that those two are here, I can summon my pets from hell. One for the Grigori duo and one for the devils."
Kokabiel clicked his fingers and two pools of darkness appeared on the school grounds. Out from the two shadows came two large figures that grew and grew until almost ten metres in height. Three heads, three sets of vicious fangs, four clawed feet and blood red eyes, each of those things were doubled.
"Cerberus, huh?"
I said this from behind them making Issei gain a confused look which Rias dealt with.
"It's a famous creature of hell with the nickname 'Guard-dog of Hell'. They are said to protect the gates to hell at all costs and are extremely vicious."
"We have to fight those two giant dogs?!"
"We have to! We will blow them away!"
A simple clap came from my hand stopping the devils that were about to change stances, the clap also caught the attentions of the two Cerberus who stopped snarling.
"As much as I'd like to watch you get your asses handed to you, i'll deal with them both."
As I took a step forward, the moon resonated with my presence in the sky and a silver glow appeared around my body. The two Cerberus took one look at me before quickly bowing down in respect to me.
"Hounds of the night, as the current Lord of the Moon, I invoke my rights as your God and Protector. Heed to me and only me, serve me as only you can and defend my name in where you belong."
Multiple black circles started to appear around the two three-headed hounds making a large dome. The edges of each black circle turned silver and started to emit a flowing light creating multiple Lunar Eclipses.
"The two hounds of the night that were wrongfully taken by the traitor called Kokabiel, I now take you back and allow you a fruitful life of happiness and joy. The next place you'll appear is home, treasure it well and above all else, keep it safe."
I clapped once again and the beam of light that was descending down upon me exploded sending it across the school grounds and onwards for miles reacting with the magic circles and causing the dogs in a few mile radius to howl out in unison to my presence.
The sliver light took over all else as the darkness of the magic circles disappeared teleporting the two large Cerberus to my home in the Underworld and transferring over the rights making them mine. An initial tug came at my magic showing the change in ownership and I could feel the warmth of their happiness under their new and rightful master.
Out the corner of my eye I see two sources of light clash together and explode, as I turn round I see Kokabiel staring at Asahi who was holding a bow made out of orange flames.
"Asacchi, you are using the Solar Gear already? Why don't I join in with the fight?
I put my left hand out to the left and my right hand out to the right. My left arm was starting to coat in my basic silver divinity as my right arm was starting to be covered in a thick layer of ice. My left hand shone gold along with the dark blue in my right hand. Then both Kusanagi and Vorpal appeared in my hands.
With a slight bend of my legs, I jump towards the others and land next to Asahi who was standing in front of the devils with his bow. As I joined him, a large pillar of light bellowed out of the ground surging up towards the sky and bypassing the barrier that was covering the school like a dome.
When the pillar disappeared, all that was there was single sword instead of four. The 'complete' Excalibur was now there catching everyone's attention.
"Freed, get out here and take the sword."
As I saw Freed come out from the shadows I felt a brief change in wind as Kiba and Xenovia charged past me with their swords out charging straight towards Freed who was picking up the sword.
"Everyone, you can come out too."
Upon his commands were a number of 4-winged fallen angels. Nearly a dozen of them appeared around Freed and the remaining two appeared in front of Kokabiel but not before bringing out two more wings bringing them up to 6 wings. We are not in for a fun time right here.
"Buchou, take everyone to help Kiba. Help him take his revenge."
"But what about you? You and Asahi can't possibly take on two 6-wings and Kokabiel!"
"Then be fucking quick about helping Kiba!"
Asahi and I stared down our 6-winged opponents as Rias and the others reluctantly went to help out Kiba and Xenovia. Asahi readied his bow as I crossed my blades.
"If the descendants can take out my personal guards then i'll grant you your wish to fight me and tell you a secret."
"Game on, bitch."
The two bodyguards then came at us rivalling us in choice of weapon. One charged at me with two swords of pure light as the other flew around in the sky with dual light spears. Beside me, Asahi took flight with his four auburn feathered wings. I summoned my ice wings and did the same making it a sky fight.
As soon as I ascended to the skies, I was attacked by my opponent who nearly caught me off-guard. It was an eerie opponent to fight as he was wearing a black mask which covered his eyes as well so I couldn't see them. Probably a type of magic.
The fallen angel was relentless in his attacks and was constantly swinging his blades at me but I could feel his swords waver at each strike against my own swords. His swords were weak and didn't have a physical body so to keep them strong he would have to focus on them but that would take away from his battle efficiency.
As I parried my opponent away I cast a quick look over to Asahi and saw him firing his bow rapidly while having multiple mirrors dotted around his body acting like a reflective shield. I turned back to my opponent and released my ears and tail before flapping my wings and shooting towards my opponent.
I thrusted towards him with Vorpal but was parried away, I let the momentum take over spinning my body and I brought the Kusanagi upwards into the spin and hit straight into his elbow cleanly cutting off his right arm while continuing to spin.
"Gin, I need Kusacchi back."
"Fine, take him."
Kusanagi disappeared from my left hand along with my divinity and the legendary blade reappeared again at the exact point the arrows shout out of.
I turned back to my opponent and clashed swords with him again but punching into his stomach with my left hand allowing me to push him away with Vorpal. I fly after him as I activate my 'Tsukiyomi Form' bringing the tigers to both arms and slam 'Vorpal' down into my opponents lightsword breaking it and exploding sending him rocketing to the ground and a bunch of light shrapnel to fly in all directions sending a number of shards into my chest ripping apart the front of my uniform.
The shards were quick to drop off my body as my Senjutsuu covered each cut quickly turning them all into scars while starting to heal them fully.
A growl started to come from my opponent as he launched his body towards me with a flap of his 6 wings. As he came towards me he created a new sword that was stronger than his previous one. The power inside of it no longer fluctuated upon clashing with Vorpal.
As we continued to clash swords, I started to charge energy between the jaw of the tiger covering my left hand. At the next strike, I brought Vorpal down with my force surprising my opponent forcing him to do the same and lock the swords together. This gave me enough time uppercut into jaw with my left fist while allowing the built-up energy to explode.
"Celsius Calibre."
A thin white beam shot out from the tiger's jaw and pierced straight through the opposing fallen's head killing him instantly turning his lifeless body into a series of black feathers that slowly dropped to the floor. I allowed my wings to retreat back into my body and drop down to the ground, upon landing nearly everything disappears leaving me looking at Kokabiel with no weapons or armour just the tiger sculptures around my arms.
Next to me appears a panting Asahi still holding onto his bow fused with the Kusanagi. The two piles of black feathers quickly burn out of existence as Kokabiel drops into view shooting flames at the feathers. Looking up to him a smile forms on his face before he starts to laugh once again as his vision stops on my bare chest.
I looked down to it as well and saw that the 'K' was no longer there but now disfigured as the scars from the light shrapnel formed new smaller scars all over my chest.
"Kokabiel. Will you keep your promise of that secret?"
"Of course I will, it's a grand secret that is sure to get at you. What I want to know is why neither Azazel or your Kyuubi friend hasn't told you yet?"
I looked back up at him sceptically.
"What are you going on about?"
"I was surprised when I first heard about you, Silver Moon. Who would have thought that a Nekoshou would join Grigori, especially when that Nekoshou is the Descendant of Tsukiyomi. I found you very interesting, you would have been a great subordinate especially with the fact that Vorpal chose you as her master but then I had to learn one thing. That you believe in God, it may not have been on the same level as those idiots from the church but you believed in him all the same."
What the hell is he getting at? Just because I believe in God, is he really trying to say that? I don't believe in the bible but I believe in God. He created this world and the moon, something I see as important.
"The Biblical God, an existence that was so great even his name became a sort of taboo. You can't speak his name in taboo yet we go and make phrases utilizing it. It's ridiculous. Anything and everything about him was to be kept a secret. Silver Moon, what do you think would happen to the world if God died?"
That question is something else, so many things could come as a result of that. Even though the question is an interesting one, I don't like what he is insinuating.
"What are you trying to say? That God is dead?!"
"I'm not trying to say anything, I am telling you that God is dead. During the Great war, he was killed along with the Yondai-Maou. The 'All-mighty Lord' lost to scum, it's ridiculous."
"Don't fuck around Kokabiel! That can't be true."
"Can it not? Look around you Silver Moon. Has any of the prayers around you been answered? No, of course not. God is long gone. Compare now to then, there is more humans alive but even less believers than before. No head, no faith. Exorcisms only still happen because of that Seraph, Michael. He's been attending to God's system for years now but he isn't God and it shows. Look over to that Holy-demonic sword kid."
I looked over to where Kokabiel pointed and saw Kiba wielding a new sword. Black covered in white, the power of light and dark had merged together. That means its true, that would never happen on God's watch.
" In reality, Holy and demonic powers cannot merge. If the ones who rule the power of Holy and demonic powers, God and the Maou, disappear, then lots of unique phenomenons occur."
That's right, no matter how strong the successor they'll never be the same or be capable of doing the same things. Not with beings that can live for thousands of years.
"From here on out, I will start a war! I will take your heads as a gift! Even if it's only me, I will continue from where we left off! I'm going to show Sirzechs and Michael that we, the fallen-angels, are the ultimate beings!"
"Don't get ahead of yourself Kokabiel. Take their heads by all means, I don't care what happens to the Maou's kin but starting a war is something I won't forgive. Bringing in other Fallen Angels to get killed just so you can have your fix is beyond acceptable. That will not happen!"
I roared out towards Kokabiel as the moon's ray of light intensified and bared down on my body illuminating me to the world. The two tigers that were made of ice cracked and dropped to the ground as a silver aura engulfed my body and exploded whipping up a cold wind that blew through the area like a typhoon throwing Asahi away from me and unsteadying Kokabiel in the air.
"Answer to me, the Lunar Gear. The Lord's knight give me your power to obliterate my foe. Bestow upon me the power that you wield and allow me to slay our enemies using the blade forged from your very soul. Total Eclipse!"
The moon completely disappeared leaving the world in momentary darkness as I felt new power being absorbed into my body along with a new chunk of the moon. A few seconds later and the moon appeared again illuminating down on me in my new form.
My body was now covered in an assortment of black and silver. I was wearing black trousers and a black button-less shirt, just above my waist was a tall black length of cloth that was fastened around hugging the shirt to my body. Decorating the black cloth was all the phases of the moon in silver colour. Around my waist was a thin black belt which held onto two silver plates of metal that hugged onto the outside of my thighs and around my feet were a pair of knee-high armoured silver boots. Around my forearms appeared silver arm-guards that connected to the black gloves on my hands. At my shoulders came rounded silver spaulders that held onto a black cape that flowed down my back and dropped to just above my ankles. In the centre of the cape was a large silver crescent.
I kept my eyes trained on Kokabiel as I spoke.
"Asahi, go to the others and help heal them."
"You got it, Lunar Guardian."
Ending with a light chuckle, he flapped his wings twice before going off to the devils who were recovering from their own fight.
I raised my left hand and held it out in front of my body. As a silver light formed in my hand I opened it to allow the bright light to take form. What appeared in my hand was a golden hilt and pummel that sandwiched the cream wooden handle that had circular golden extrusions for grip. From the end of the hilt came silver particles that floated away causing the steel blade to form in the shape of a long katana.
Down in my right hand appeared two strands of white cloth that ended in red beads. These two strands were the start and end of one long piece of white cloth that was wrapped around the top of the bistre brown sheathe that ended in a golden swirl that started up the edge of the sheathe being followed by 3 golden dots that were on the face of the sheathe.
"Lunar surge!"
Silver light appeared around the edge of the blade as I swung it effortlessly sending out a long silver crescent that exploded inches in front of Kokabiel. I jumped from my position hundreds of meters into the air staring straight at Kokabiel through the smoke that was the result of the explosion. Allowing the top half of my body to fall forwards, I descended from the sky like a hawk after it's prey and spun counter-clockwise metres away from Kokabiel bringing the butt of the sheathe straight into Kokabiel's side causing another explosion rocketing Kokabiel to the ground.
'Guardian, the explosions are a result of your lack of experience with a sword and more importantly, the Second Star.'
Soft words filled my mind as I continued to descend towards the ground in a spinning motion.
'Focus your divinity into the blade. While tiring, it'll suppress the explosions. Good luck, Guardian.'
The soft words appear again briefly as I land feet first on the ground. I push off from the ground and towards Kokabiel, as I reach him I strike down with both sword and sheathe but Kokabiel catches them both barehanded. The sheathe fits snugly in his hand as the blade of 'Second Star' cuts into his hand.
While holding onto my weapons, I notice his wings shimmer as the morph about and take on a sharp look. A second later and all ten of his black feathered wings pierce into my chest narrowly missing all of my vital organs but each wing cleanly pierced through my body completely.
As I felt the blood creeping up into my mouth I could see Kokabiel's face contorts in anger as a trail of blood comes down from his hairline and runs along his jaw. I spat out the blood in my throat throwing it all over his face making him even more furious. His sharp wings twisted round inside my and slashed outwards cutting themselves free from my body allowing my body to drop.
I slammed into the ground forming a crater, blood was gushing out of my body and pouring out the corners of my mouth. My Senjutsuu was quick to act and repaired the internal bleeding before focusing on increasing the production rate of my blood cells because my body knew the 10 large cuts along the side of my chest would not be fixed by my Senjutsuu alone.
'Second Star … Can I end this?'
'Yes you can but not without consequence.'
'Tell me.'
'As you wish, Guardian. A simple but effective slash called "Divine Fang of the Lunar King", the attack will literally cut Kokabiel in half from the elbow down rendering him useless but the pressure formed from the attack will destroy your armour while forcing you out of your balance breaker and destroying your own arms. This is all due to your current level.'
Well, it's better than nothing. I slowly got to my feet and jumped out of the small crater formed as my Senjutsuu finally created a spirit layer over the wounds. I let go of the sheathe causing it to disappear and took 'Second Star' in both hands before slashing horizontally towards Kokabiel.
"Divine Fang .. of the Lunar King!"
As I cut forward with 'Second Star' I could feel the spiritual pressure acting in unison with the blade. The blade showed no physical attack but sent all pressure in the area towards Kokabiel and ripped through the pure essence of his body cutting him in half and disintegrating the bottom half.
My armour disappeared along with 'Second Star' as I dropped to my knees panting. The attack motion itself was enough to knock the wind out of me, the lack of breath worsened when my arms imploded from the physical strain and pressure.
"Ya still look sexy Gin-nya."
I looked to my right to see a nodding Asahi leading the devils and Xenovia towards me.
"Way to ruin .. the atmosphere Asacchi. I don't have arms now and all you say is that I still look sexy?"
"Why not? You know that we can heal them by the end of the night."
I do know that, I just don't want to do it.
"You can heal his arms?!"
That was Rias' response that I should of seen coming. She was probably affected by seeing my arms implode and having my torso torn into by Kokabiel.
"That we can Rias-chwan~. All we need to do is strip Gin completely, strip me completely and then have our Senjutsuu fluctuate. That would take 20 or so hours to do but Rias-chwan, Akeno-chwan, Kala-chwan and Ray-chwan could help out by stripping and flowing their magic around."
That's abuse to the suffix and it's very annoying, something which only Akeno took the displease of. Rias was off thinking something to notice or pay attention.
"Amaterasu-san, would Asia's twilight healing help?"
"Oh. Asiacchi would do well, have her flow out her magic while concentrating her sacred gear on his whole body. It'd definitely work. We could probably do it in 3 hours like that."
Their combined efforts aren't something I feel a good vibe from. I'm not sure I like them talking, it could turn out very problematic for me.
…
Naked, everyone here was naked. 2 guys and 5 girls, when those figures and genders come together something different comes to mind rather than what is actually going to happen. It's even worse when you are the one who is in the centre with no arms to defend yourself with and my only ally in this room is a shy pacifist so no difference is made. I find it even worse that the person who is directly in front of me is Asahi who was the happiest about being naked in this room. Both Raynare and Asia were shy about it, Kalawarnar and Akeno were acting nonchalant and finally was the pervert Rias, who spent the few minutes before hand just staring intently at my genitals.
I'm not sure whether I can say that I enjoyed the de-clothing process mainly because the girl's took to undressing really slowly and the fact that Asahi saw my interest and deciding to join in. I'm not sure if he is a major troll on my life or actually physically likes me, he seems to be way too border-ish for my liking.
Currently I was sitting in the centre of a chalk drawn magic circle as the others sat around me at the edge of the magic circle. Both myself and Asahi had our Youkai features out, me with my silver cat ears and tail and then Asahi with his auburn and gold ears and three bushy tails.
"Is Gin and his giant wang ready to start?"
What kinda way to ask is that?! Why involve my genitals into this? Just because we are all naked is not a reason for it, especially when he knows mentioning it brings their eyes directly towards it.
"Let's just start yeah? The piercing gaze of the perverted tomato is way too much."
Along with the fanged grin on Asahi's face came a sudden flow of Ki from his body and it quickly started to flow around the 7 of us in the magic circle. The white particles circled around the backs of the girls and Asahi before rising and moving to the centre like a dome before raining down on my body. As soon as the first few particles hit me, I activated my own Ki causing the white particles to double in size and speed up their movement forming a circuit. My Ki would flow into Asahi and then it would combine with his before flowing out of him and reeling in the Ki from the girls around me then going into my body.
A few minutes into the process and the areas around my shoulder started to turn into a thick blanket of white particles that were leftover from the circuit to complete the process. These particles acted as the workers as the others were the collectors. Once this happened, a crimson magic circle appeared underneath each of the three devils and their demonic energy started to flow and familiarize themselves with my body and my demonic blood-cells.
When we hit the first quarter of an hour, Raynare and Kalawarnar added their magic into the mix along with Asahi's. Their magic concentrated on the flow of the Ki and how much each particle could hold and collect in the short time it took to complete the circuit. This created a golden layer around the white particles which had already increased again in size.
Once we hit the first half hour mark Asahi and I activated our own divinity along with the summoning of Kusanagi who hovered above my head. This caused my self-healing rate due to my blood as a descendant to rapidly increase.
At the presumed halfway mark which was an hour and a half, Asia activated her twilight healing covering my body in a green bubble which became lighter with each Ki particle that passed through it into my body.
My arms then started to regenerate at the two hour mark and fully recovered just over half an hour later although it did feel a little first thing I did may not of been the best thing to do, what I did was stretch my new arms. Apparently doing that causes movement around the waist area catching people's eyes.
"Are you sure that was a smart thing to do, Gin-nya?"
"Of course."
"You want to annoy the tomato that much you 'stretch' to flaunt off the size of your package?"
"I'm not sure I want it to be called package but you are right."
"If you wanna do that then do the helicopter."
"The helicopter? Are you saying that seriously?"
"Why not? It's both funny and good exercise for your waist with the rotating motion."
I don't know whether I can fault those points. Rotation of the waist is a good way to stretch but does doing it that way make any difference? The only thing I can think of is the potential slapping of meat.
"As much as I really want to do the helicopter, I'd like to know what happened to Kokabiel."
"Kokabiel? I got 'Him' to come and collect him."
"You sure it was that easy?"
"I had to promise him a fight in the future though, but I made sure he didn't find the red one. It's a good job the Red's host is an idiotic pervert."
"That much is most definitely true."
Finally, the conclusion to the Excalibur arc is over and with it comes some things to talk about.
The Balance Breaker which isn't a Balance Breaker but 'Total Eclipse'. Both the Lunar Gear and Solar Gear have different workings inside them.
Their 'Balance Breakers' are basically a uniform and weapon unlocking, they are unlocked by learning the truth which Gin has done.
Gin has unlocked his powers as Tsukiyomi and knows all about him and now God. Asahi has to unlock his powers and then he'll unlock his version.
'Divine Fang of the Lunar King' is always going to be a fatal move but there is no overcoming the backlash, even if Gin was to master the way of the sword.
It's an attack that has ultimate damage, ultimate range and can't be stopped. The stronger the enemy the worse the feedback.
One thing that wasn't said is that if it wasn't night time then Gin would of lost his legs as well.
Well seen as this chapter came out later in the day than i wanted and family members randomly appearing at my house i, unfortunately, have to limit what i can get done by tomorrow. So i apologize to that but i'll still get some stuff for you done :D. Have a fun Christmas eve and i'll see you again tomorrow, Ciao-nya.