A/N: Bit of a shorter chapter this time, and I have changed my style of writing on the fic now, it took a while to see what style that I was comfortable with and could make work, sorry for the trial and error that was done up to this point
Chapter 12
A storm rises
Following Ralph's directions through the dense forest, I manage to navigate my way through almost without incident, most of the familiars around me ran off as soon as soon as if they sensed me nearby, apart from one particularly brave or stupid siren who tried to enchant me over to her rock using her voice, only Ralph's timely intervention, once he realised that I was enchanted stopped me from swimming to my death, needless to say once I caught on to what she was trying to do I was less than happy.
So I decided to punish her, dipping my hand into her little miniature lake and channelling Yosuke's power through my hand I froze her lake, much to her displeasure if you count charging at me and screaming her damn head off so much that it made a banshee sound like a freaking goddess, it was that bad, all it amounted to though was one really bad headache.
As soon as she got near me I grabbed her by the throat and injected my darkness magic into her body via sinking my Black Deaths claws into her and watched with as it devoured her from the inside out, a bit grim and gory but satisfying none the less. I wonder how Scarlet is getting on with her search I know her tastes and they are a little…weird especially when it came to animals.
Rias' group
Everyone including Rias has a sweatdrop running done their foreheads at this so called "Familiar Masters" introduction of himself, I had to fight the urge to faceplam myself once I released that the guy was basically a brain dead rapper with zero talent.
"Are you freaking kidding me? We are actually gona let this guy find our familiars for us? He looks like he couldn't hit the broadside of a cow with a fucking bazooka and you want him to find our familiars, really Rias, really?"
Rias looks over her shoulder at me a slight look of irritation on her face "Be quite Scarlet, the familiar master has information on almost all the familiars contained in this dimension and their locations so while he does have his 'quirks' he is still useful to us." If that familiar master was insulted by her words then he is damn good at hiding it.
"So devils what kinds of familiars are you wanting, strong ones, magical ones?" I already knew what kind of familiar that I wanted although from my first impressions of this guy tell me that it would be impossible to rely on him to find one. This leaves me with a few choices, look for it myself and hope I find one, use my wolf senses to track one down but I don't know what their scents are like and lastly ask for help from any of my spirits that might know where one would be.
It can't hurt to ask for help from them, "Hey anybody got any ideas where to find one of the creatures called a Yatagarasu in this dimension?" "Child, I don't know why you are bothering to follow these pitiful excuses for devils or why you want such a low level creature for a familiar but then again when do you ever listen to me. Those creatures usually stay high up in the air or at their nests ask that so called master where the largest hill or mountain is and you are bound to come across one of them."
"Thanks you old snake lady you're actually being nice for once in your own insulting way." While I was getting information out of my most troublesome spirit the familiar master is still rapping or rhyming away at the other devils and since no one can seem to find a way to interrupt him I guess it is up to me. "Hey pal, where is the largest mountain or hill near here?" He doesn't look to happy that I interrupted him but if I am honest I really couldn't give a shit he was starting to get on my nerves.
"The largest hill is a few hours walk to the north but I wouldn't recommend going there, lately a bunch of wild wyverns have taken to nesting near the hill and they are attacking anything in the area to feed their young. The largest mountain that is within walking distance is near the Undine's pond so seeing as the little lady here seems to have a destination in mind we will head there."
"Little lady?! Ok he is officially on my fucking shit list for that comment, he better watch his fucking ass because I might just shove my foot up it."
As if he could hear my thoughts the master just shivered, but then again I might have released a little bit of killer intent without meaning to. As we are following the familiar master toward our destination Issei strikes up a conversation with me about a very sore subject, for both me and him.
"So what are you and Justin going to do about Raynare? She can't stay at the in the clubhouse forever can she?" As much as I hate to admit it, I am sort of jealous of Raynare not because Justin cared enough to turn her but because of the fact that he had to bite her in order to turn her, he promised that he only ever bite me.
"I think Justin is going to train her so that she can blend in and not go crazy from bloodlust, believe it or not Issei. Justin had the exact same problem once, his instincts to feed would go wild whenever he got hungry or went without eating or drinking human food for a while, in the beginning he was reluctant to give in to his instincts and feed on humans, I had to slap some sense into him just so he would quit worrying and feed off of me whenever he needed to."
Issei's jaw dropped, nearly hitting the ground and tripping him up, that nearly had me in stitches from laughing at him; his pride defiantly took a hit there if the blush on his face was any indicator once he picked himself back up.
"So you actually let him bite you Scarlet-san why?" That question was actually easy to answer and I just couldn't help to tease Issei especially since his perverted mind would take it to extremes, "That's simply Issei, being bitten by a vampire is very pleasurable especially during sex and I have a bit of a biting fetish so everybody wins."
Issei just stood there for a minute and I think I could actually hear the cogs turning in his head as he processed what I just told him. As soon as his brain actually worked out what I had just said his face turned a new shade of red and a literal waterfall of blood shot of his nose and catapulted him into a nearby tree.
That sight actually did make me burst out laughing until I was rolling around on the ground in stitches as well as the rest of the group even Koneko had a small laugh but disguised it as a cough, incredibly Issei literally bounced back and breaking the sound barrier appeared right in front on my face and started asking questions fast than a machine gun shots bullets.
"Scarlet-san you've had sex with Justin are you serious?!" I didn't think that he would be so disturbed by it and more to the point "Get out of my face you dirty little pervert!" I slap Issei right in the face and send him spiralling into the dirt with one hell of a shiner on his face, "To answer your question why the hell wouldn't I have sex with my mate its natural after all." At this point the whole group including the Familiar Master have stopped in their tracks and are staring at me.
"What?" I don't see why they are staring at me like I have suddenly grown two heads, Kiba surprisingly has a very deep red blush on his cheeks, "S…Scarlet-san you have had sex with Justin? Really?" Now I am getting annoyed is it really that hard to believe, "Has everybody brains melted or something? Yes I have had sex many times with Justin what seems to be the problem with that?"
Everybody still has a look of disbelieve on their faces well most of them Issei still has a very perverted look on his face that is seriously starting to get on my bloody nerves. "Can we keep moving I thought we were on a time limit?" Rias thankfully manages to recover enough to snap everybody out of their shock "Alright we can discuss this later, for now lets focus on getting Scarlet and Issei their familiars."
After that conversation is severely limited only Akeno and Rias up in front are actually talking and its in hushed tones, kind of suspicious if you ask me but I'm not going to pry into it, its their business not mine, the Familiar master tells us that we are near the Undine pond, so finally we can get this shit over and done with.
Issei runs to the pond, probably eager to what these water spirits look like, "hehe he is in for a shock hehe" well that is unexpected, "What do you mean Sapphire?" 'Lets just say that your humans expectations of fairies and spirits are way off when it comes to some of us, you might want to prepare yourself, its not going to be pretty hehehe'
Oh boy I have got a very bad feeling about this, the water starts bubbling on surface and everyone is staring at it in meek anticipation apart from Issei who looks like he is a few seconds from drooling into the pond, a figure breaks the surface and a torrent of water follows literally drenching our entire party in water, Rias me and Akeno are horrified, our hair just got soaked right through, this had better to be worth it otherwise someone is going to be on the receiving end of a lot of woman's wrath.
The mist from the explosion of water is starting to clear and I can just make out a figure hidden in the mist, it starts to clear even more and… oh my god I am having a relapse from my contract that looks like Mil-tan only more…more… I don't even know how to describe it but oh fucking hell that is just sooo wrong, "What's wrong with you lot, your going to make her cry."
"Her?! That thing is female oh gods make it stop my eyes can't take it anymore: Ok yea I think it is official I am scared for life, I need to go and bang my head against something anything to forget what I just saw.
Yeah that thing is the ugliest thing I have ever seen, even Mil-tan was better than that and he was horrifying enough, even my spirits are losing their lunch after seeing "her" and Issei oh poor Issei is knocked out from shock not that I can blame him, "Rias I think I speak for everyone when I say get us the fuck outta here right fucking now!"
"I totally agree with you, we are leaving. Now!" I think nearly every devil in our rag-tag group was silently thanking god for that decision even though it hurts like hell to do so. I can see a small hill cresting above the tree line I am going to guess that is where I will find what I am looking for.
"Rias I'm going to go up ahead, Issei good luck on finding a familiar." I start running toward the hill before anybody can reply. Silently I hope that Justin is having better luck than I am at the moment although knowing him and his luck, I very much doubt it.
With Justin
"What the hell did I do to deserve this!" I duck underneath another swing of this things massive tail as it tries again to take my head off of my shoulders, I don't even know what it is but it looks like a "small" dragon, I say small but this thing towers above me, and it is pissed at me for some reason, no time to think Justin, act!
Black Death, summoning my Scared Gear is a definite must against something like this besides I was getting tired of Seth's constant whining about fighting weaklings and to give him a proper challenge, "This a better challenge for you Seth?" 'Ha only you could stumble right in the middle of a wyverns feeding grounds, you are either really stupid or your luck is just that bad hahahahaha!" "Stupid fucking old dragon! SHIT!"
Rolling out of the way of a stream fire that was heading right at my head, again! I rise from my knees, I am gona need a plan to take this thing down, and charging it head on is gona be a good way to drastically lower my life expectancy to nil, "Heh hatchlings, I tell you what since you have given such good entertainment here I will help you a little." "What ever it is you are going to say, then say it! I am kind of busy staying alive here!" "Ha impatient little shit, as I was saying, I will let you unlock the next stage of your Scared Gear, you can make pure swords made up of darkness magic, Darkness Blades, they can cut and eat through anything, like that wyverns scales for example." "And you choose now to tell me this! I am going to kick your old ass after I am through with this, you fucking senile old dragon!" "Just shut up and fight already!"
"Darkness Blades!" throwing my arms out to my sides, the vile black magic erupts from my hands, and starts to form blades made out of pure darkness magic, there are no actual swords, just the outlines of them made up of magic, I can feel the power coming off of them and apparently so can the wyvern as he was backed up a little.
Grinning I shout at the overgrown lizard, "Ok pal you've had your fun, now it's my turn haha LETS DANCE!
A/N: I am going to leave it there guys, it is a shorter chapter than what I usually do, however, I wasn't that motivated to do this chapter and I had trouble figuring out what it was that I wanted to do, next chapter will be up in a week or so, happy Easter and if you haven't already, check out the new fic I just started writing, it is going to be branched off of this one and it is going to be the first of hopefully many more like it.