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The Evil Dragon and the Neko part two!
She had decided.
Kuroka had decided enough was enough.
She wasn't going to allow Orochi to try anything. So, while the others went to the party, she had tailed them secretly in her Princess form. But when she saw the snake that was going to Koneko's form, she knew that Orochi was by.
Hiding from others, seemed simple.
Hiding from Kuroka, was a whole lot more difficult.
She turned back to her normal form and used her Senjutsu. She searched around the area, and it was difficult, she wasn't going to lie. Orochi had hidden herself very well, but even then, Kuroka was an expert in Senjutsu that could be said that she also could be considered a master in her own right as well.
So with her ears twitching and her body shaking, she continued looking, until she finally found the place that she was needing to go. She felt the faint aura of a Dragon, two in fact, so she walked closer. Even if they were powerful, they didn't feel, as powerful as they should be. In fact, Kuroka thought that even with their normal levels of power, they were a good High Class Devil power, but nothing more than that at all.
Kuroka went to that location, and she came across a grinning Gren, and a happy Orochi. She twirled around at the sight of Kuroka, and then gave off a wink towards the Nekomata that tightened her eyes upon her.
"My, it seems you've come back, I'm so happy Kuroka-chan~"
"...Orochi, it seems you're doing well."
"Hey! I'm here too you bitch!"
Gren complained angrily, but Kuroka ignored him and had her attention solely on Orochi.
"Orochi, you think I'd let you take my Imouto like that away from Mako-chan and the others? You've got another thing coming. Especially if you're going to use her as a battery or something stupid like that. You've got some nerve, haven't you bitch?"
Orochi seemed to be pleasantly happy at that moment, and twirled her fingers around happily.
"That's right, I've got nerve~ Shall I sing the Hannah Montana song about it? I like it."
"No, thanks."
Kuroka growled angrily, jumping upwards to meet them. Gren went to take an aggressive step forward, but Orochi put her hand out, saying "Remember who's in charge Gren-chan." making him back away with annoyance.
"But, why are you denying us Kuroka-chan? We're not going to kill your darling Imouto. I even gave her an offer she couldn't refuse~ This is her choice after all, so what's going on with you exactly~ Why do you loo so down in the dumps~? Wouldn't you do the same thing? To snatch away Koneko-chan in the dead of night to take her away from that annoying bitch Rias-chan? Wouldn't you do that?"
Kuroka at first was going to deny it…
But honestly, she probably would want to be with her younger sister again like that, if it wasn't for him…
For Makoto.
He, and he alone, is the reason why she wouldn't do that.
"She's got Mako-chan, she loves Mako-chan, I'm hardly going to split them apart now."
Orochi showed a genuinely surprised face.
"That's adorable~ So, that's how it is? Well, the lord being disturbed by people like you girls, nah. He doesn't need it. He has his family, that's all he needs~"
"He needs people like you huh? People that would go against his wishes. You know, for calling someone your lord, you truly don't grasp what it means to have a leader, do you?"
"Well, maybe so. But didn't you kill your former Master?" Kuroka felt a pang inside of her. "That's right, how did that story go again? You killed your former Master, and then abandoned your Imouto with the Devils for her to be killed. Couldn't that also be considered a dirty move by you my Neko-chan~? And you're speaking as if we're the dirty ones. We never abandoned the lord, we were forced to leave and be separate, that wasn't our choices. And now, unlike you, I'm bringing our family back together on Apep's orders. So, wouldn't it be fine if you don't get in my way or anything like that?"
Kuroka felt another pang inside of her heart.
It hurt, because it was the truth.
She hated that about Orochi and the others.
They could take the truth, and use that in a very hurtful way.
And Orochi in particular, like the venom she secreted, she also could be very poisonous with her words and her ways. Even though she seemed like a cheerful young girl, she wasn't anything like that when it came to things she wanted.
"S-Shut up, what you say and what happened are different things! I did that to protect Shirone you bitch!"
"Protecting her? Or yourself?" Kuroka's eyes narrowed. "You know, you went on a tangent about myself, and how we're doing dirty methods, we're doing it to punish the people who ever thought of hurting us. We were treated like animals, they forced us to fight in their wars, they caused us to nearly go insane, and you think we want this to happen? We would give anything to have it go back to the way it was before. Were we all lived together, and just be with one another. But those disgusting bastards took us away from our lives and we were treated as weapons! Well, weapons fire back sometimes, don't they?"
Kuroka's eyes narrowed even more, as Orochi stuck out her tongue once brushing her tongue over her teeth. The oozy liquid brushed over her tongue, and licked over her lips, as if she had just put on lipstick.
She then blew a kiss towards Kuroka who narrowed her eyes even more.
"Go on, give me a kiss Kuroka-chan, a kiss you'll never wake from hahahaha. Or, did you forget, as soon as my poison is in your system, you'll be dead within twenty four hours. Though maybe you might be able to be saved, but the damage to your lifeforce would be extreme."
"...You've always had a disgusting power."
Kuroka growled out, showing her anger on her face, she didn't even hold back for a second. She didn't like this person, in fact she hated her, and didn't want her around either. That, was one of the driving forces that Kuroka appeared now, so she could put a stop to this.
"No more disgusting as the power hungry Nekomata that even she abandoned a long time ago. I mean, are you even here for anything other than your own self value? You don't care about your Imouto, you abandoned her. We'll never abandon our lord, and saviour, unlike you, who abandoned your family. Though if you want to prove yourself to us, why don't you follow me now and I'll let Shirone-chan go? I don't care which one it is, either Nekomata is fine because you've both got fine Senjutsu. So, why don't you come with us now, and we can start using your powers to weaken our seals. So, what do you say?"
Kuroka looked on, and felt...torn.
If she went, she could protect Koneko for the moment.
However, she didn't know if she could trust Orochi to keep her word on leaving Koneko alone.
She didn't know if she could even trust Gren not to attack her younger sister and just take her anyway.
What was there to say that she wouldn't take her younger sister as well for two of them being together?
It made sense in Kuroka's eyes, though she was worried if she she didn't do anything now, then she was sure that Koneko was going to be captured. And now that she was closer, the fleeting power she felt, wasn't as evident, and she felt the power stronger than before.
She didn't think she'd be able to take both of them.
But in the end, even if she had abandoned Koneko, she loved her, and knew she'd be happy with Makoto, so Kuroka went to say "Fine..." but then a ruffling could be heard, and coming from down below.
Standing there, was Koneko, who's eyes went up towards her.
The Nekomata's shared a look between the two of them.
Kuroka could make out the hate and anger for her from Koneko, and she didn't blame her.
"...Onee-sama."
The voice sounded distant, and cold.
Kuroka inhaled a small breath then raised her head to the sky.
"Well, it's been a long time, Shrione."
At that moment, Koneko felt her heart stop, and Kuroka felt a pang of hurt deep within herself as well.
"Makoto!" No answer. "H-Hey! Makoto!" Once more, he didn't answer. "Oi, don't ignore Onii-chan here!"
Makoto, who was rushing towards the elevator looked behind him, and saw Ise, along with Rias coming after him.
He looked between each of them, then bowed his head.
"I'm sorry, but I've got to go and find Koneko-chan. I don't have any evidence, but I have a feeling that something's wrong with her."
Rias raised a hand to her chin and stroked it a single time in thought.
"I see...well, Koneko has been acting differently for the past few days. So I can understand why she...okay, Makoto. Ise. Lets go and see if Koneko is alright."
""Yes Buchou!""
The three of them walked to the elevator, and got inside. Rias hit the button to go lower, as Makoto took out his phone. Ise gave Makoto a curious look.
"Are you thinking of ringing her?"
"Tried, didn't work."
"Then what are you doing?"
"Making safety measures. I'm not going in stupid after all. Better to make plans and not need them than need them and have no plans, you know?"
He responded fast, Ise didn't know what Makoto was talking about.
While riding down, Makoto had a question for Ise.
"By the way, how did you see me go anyway?"
"Haha, it's because you're my Otouto, I'm always watching out for you. Besides, whenever you go out on your own, you seem to become hurt, and I wont let anything happen to you. Even if I have to give my entire body to Ddraig, even if I have to lay down my life."
Makoto looked towards Ise, and while frowning about the going out and getting hurt part, he smiled at the part where he said that he wouldn't let anything happen to Makoto. Even if he wasn't his true brother, even if they weren't even the same species before turning into a Devil, Makoto didn't care, and enjoyed the fact that he was treated so kindly by the man before him.
Ise, truly was a brother Makoto was proud to have.
And apparently, Rias also looked extremely happy right now.
"Awwww, Ise, if you wanted to get me into bed, you've said the right things. You are a good Onii-sama, though if you said that to just get me into bed then..."
"N-No, I meant every word of it!"
Rias leaned closer, and gave Ise a kiss.
Ise's mind was blown with a simple kiss, and was glad to be alive.
"Good boy, I'm glad. You keep being a good man for my future Otouto here, and I'll show you these puppies." She cups her breasts, and shows a larger than life smile. "See, these Ise? All yours, if you be a good boy from now on~"
"Y-Yes Buchou!"
Makoto looked on weirdly, and looked towards the open world of forest.
He wished that Koneko would be alright.
The elevator arrived on the first floor. After Makoto, Ise and Rias stepped out, they described Koneko to nearby Devils and asked if she had passed by.
Having discovered that Koneko had been seen by various people going outside, Rias hurriedly called forth a bat familiar and sent it out into the sky. They then waited in front of the fountain that stood outside the hotel until the bat returned.
"Don't worry bro, we'll get your loli back for you soon~"
Ise tried to lift Makoto's spirits, but he felt something different.
"I, don't want Koneko-chan to be hurt, Onii-chan. I don't want to show a weak side anymore to anyone of my friends. I already lost Iri-chan once before, and I couldn't save Asia-chan either, I don't want anything bad to happen to Koneko-chan because I wasn't able to save her...I don't want to fail Koneko-chan."
"Hey, we don't even know anything is up."
"Yes, you're right...but, why does it feel like deep inside of my heart, that there is something wrong? I, don't want anything to happen to Koneko-chan and if I can help it, I'll freeze anyone that tries to get in her way."
Ise didn't have the answers.
Neither did Rias.
Even Rias felt something was off with this.
She didn't want to admit that there could be something else entirely that was wrong. And if she was right, then she knew that it was dangerous.
After a little while Rias' bat returned.
"It seems it found her. The forest? So she's gone to the forest surrounding the hotel? And what's that...a girl with eight ponytails..."
"Eight...no, that's that girl that tried to hurt Koneko-chan that time! Hey Buchou's familiar, take me to Koneko-chan!"
The bat flapped its wings, and did what Makoto asked.
Makoto rushed through the forest, Rias looking towards them.
"Ise, lets go."
"Yes, Buchou!"
Rias and Ise started running after the bat and Makoto followed as well.
After they left the familiar places behind, Rias, Makoto and Ise ran through the forest in the dark night. Makoto was ahead of them, and Rias could tell that he truly was worried for Koneko. In a sense, that made her happy.
Not because Koneko was in danger, but because Makoto seemed to care so much that he was chasing after her, she knew that he truly did love Koneko and would always protect her no matter what.
After a few minutes of running, Makoto stopped, and hid behind a tree. His eyes went towards the girl before them, Koneko, and then Orochi, Gren and even Kuroka. His eyes wandered to Kuroka, wondering "What is she doing here?" in his own head, of course he didn't get an answer.
Ise and Rias rocked up a half a minute later, with the four there not speaking. They hid near Makoto, and watched on, seeing Orochi was smiling and that Kuroka was frowning, the same as Gren and Koneko but for different reasons.
"It's been a while, hasn't it?"
Koneko looked disturbed by the girls appearance.
"...Kuroka-nee-sama. Why are you even with them…? Are they are allies as well?"
Kuroka's eyes turned darker than before, and she scoffed.
"Don't be silly Shirone, I am too cool to work with them."
Koneko didn't appreciate the jokingness of Kuroka's tone.
"...Always making jokes, even now. And you deny, being with them?"
"I deny it because I wouldn't work with losers~"
Orochi's eyes slit between the two of them.
"Ara, it's a reunion between Onee-sama and Imouto! I wish I had a real Imouto, but Koneko-chan, you've come as you promised. I'm glad. I'm so happy right now, I'll sing you an opera that you wont forget~"
Makoto looked on, and shared a look with Rias, and Ise, but they didn't understand what was going on either.
"...I came so you wouldn't hurt him. ...And I don't need an opera."
Koneko muttered the ending part, but the girl heard her loud and clear.
"Ara, yes, that's right. Love is such a beautiful thing~ But, I can sing pretty well, because I'm a pop sensation~" She opened her arms wide, and seemed to be going on a tangent. "Love is beautiful between two souls! To come back to the Dragon's like us, you're a good girl Koneko-chan, I'm proud. Now, why don't you come over to me, and we'll be going together."
"Hah! As if you'll be taking my darling Imouto, I'll be taking her nyaaa~"
Kuroka finished off with a smile. Makoto wondered about Kuroka now. He didn't know everything about her, but he had gotten to know her with the month they spent together while training, and still didn't know what she was doing.
"...Even if you're here, I wont go with you Onee-sama, I'd rather go with the Dragon girl to keep Mako-kun safe."
"To keep me safe?"
Makoto said a little loudly, walking out. Ise looked on, freaking out, and so was Rias as well.
But Makoto moved towards Koneko and looked on curiously.
"Koneko-chan, what do you mean "Keep Mako-kun safe?" exactly? What are you keeping me safe from exactly?"
Koneko didn't answer, she couldn't. She looked away shyly, as Gren looked towards the forest.
"You might as well come out, you can't fool a Dragon's nose. Hyoudou Issei, and Rias Gremory, both of your stenches are foul enough than anything else. So, why don't you come out now, and save yourself the embarrassment of trying to hide? We knew you were there all along, even that Onee-san cat did as well."
Gren's words coaxed Ise and Rias out of their hiding places. The pair stood near Makoto, who still was trying to get through to Koneko. But she wasn't answering, she was even shaking which upset Makoto even more.
"You damn Dragon, hows your boss that wants my Otouto anyway?"
"Aah, he's recovering nicely. He was hurt quite a bit from the attacks, and wounded him harsh. But what's this? Have you grown into a better Sekiryuutei than before?"
"More like weirdo perverted Sekiryuutei~"
Kuroka sang out, Makoto's eyes went towards the Nekomata before him, unsure of what Kuroka was doing. He didn't know if he should say anything, he didn't want to get either himself, or her, in more trouble than ever.
"That's the Sekiryuutei...yes, I've seen you before. Hey, it's me, pop sensation Orochi! You've heard of me, right? I mean, everyday young life, Junes~"
Ise's eyes clasped upon the young girl who twirled, and his eyes twinkled at the girls sight.
"Yes! Everyday young life, Junes~" Makoto, Koneko, Kuroka and Rias looked at Ise with a flabbergasted expression, he seemed to be getting happier though. "I thought it was you last time, but now this confirms it! With curves that even Buchou would have trouble keeping up with! Breasts that just wont quit, and your amazing singing talents as well! And your dancing skills are top notch! I'm so super fucking happy to meet you! Haha, I'm sorry for being weird, but you're the amazing girl with huge oppai who wears sexy clothes while dancing! I know who you are pop sensation!"
Orochi nodded happily while everyone else gave him a WTF expression.
"Finally, someone who knows me. I'm glad, you may have a signed autograph later on of me because you're a nice fan. I mean, geez. Lately everyone's been getting me down with their weirdness and saying they didn't know me, but since you do, you can become a Friend of Orochi-chan, it gives special perks~ It's an exclusive club, which means I wont kill you even if you get in our way~"
"Shit, that means we're fucking dead…I don't even know who this bitch is, and I'm terrified..."
Rias murmured to Koneko and Makoto, while Kuroka rolled her eyes.
But to mess with Rias, she showed a toothy grin like Princess would.
Rias' eyes turned suspicious on Kuroka, but Kuroka snickered, and winked towards her, making her feel fear deep within her core.
Ise though couldn't contain his excitement, and clapped his hands together happily.
"Really!? From the best pop sensation!? And even to become a Friend of Orochi-chan?! That's the best!"
"Fufu, yes that's right. If you're a good boy, I'll definitely give you a sighed photo of myself, I'm sure that you'll enjoy it."
"Yes, yes! Thank you Orochi-chan!"
"Ise!" Rias snapped, gaining more anger than before. "Don't forget, she is the enemy, stop trying to flirt with her."
Rias looked annoyed with Ise, and Ise looked apologetic at the same time.
"Buchou, I'm sorry! But that's Orochi-chan-"
"Why are you here?" Makoto cut off Ise, and looked directly at Orochi. "Is this another attempt at me? Or an attack on the powers inside? Though there's only two of you so it seems unlikely. And your leader isn't here as well."
Koneko noticed that Makoto said "Only the two of you." and she knew he must be referring to Gren and Orochi. Yet, he didn't refer to Kuroka as an enemy. She, didn't quite understand why that was honestly.
"No, I didn't come here to cause a war or anything. My leader-sama, we're not even here for you this time. There's another person we're here for." Her eyes went towards Koneko. "That girl, right there. She's going to be coming back with us, we need a good battery, and she's going to be my battery, and the rest of us."
"H-Hey, what did you just say!? Using Koneko-chan as a battery?! How fucking dare you!?"
Makoto's anger was reaching breaking point.
He could handle a lot of things, but when someone threatened someone he cared about, he wasn't going to hold back.
"Oh, that's just because I want to have her my lord. Don't worry, we'll come back for you. But didn't Apep-chan already say that he wanted to have that girl with us as well? Or did he not mention it? Either way, it doesn't matter much. Because you see, Koneko-chan has already agreed to come with us."
Koneko looked ashamed as Makoto, Rias, and Ise looked towards her, baffled.
"Koneko-chan…"
"Koneko, is she speaking truth?"
"Koneko-chan, is she?"
Koneko didn't answer them and began walking forward. Rias went to take a step, but Makoto stepped up, and got between them. Kuroka looked on, and her eyes turned kind, even if her face looked mischievous.
"You're not taking her."
Orochi cocks her head, while Gren shows a blood thirsty smile.
"Sorry my lord, but this time, you aren't exactly with a Maou or Dragon King right now. The best you've got is a weak Sekiryuutei to defend you. Heheheh, if that's the case, then I'm going to have to live happily for a while!"
"I don't need anyone to defend me Gren, I'll do that myself just fine thank you."
Gren laughed at Makoto's words.
"I'm glad to be alive at a time like this. To hear that from you my lord, but, do you want to make Orochi and myself your opponents? We're quite dangerous. Even with our powers mostly sealed, we aren't anything to laugh at."
"I'll make every faction my enemy if it means I can protect Koneko-chan!"
Koneko gasped, while Kuroka didn't show it, but she was smiling on the inside.
"...Mako-kun I..."
Koneko didn't know what to say, she didn't even know if she could say anything anymore. She felt so unsure, so lost. She was afraid to lose him, and she was afraid she'd never see him again, but she didn't want to lose him.
"I said that I wouldn't even care if every faction was my opponent, you're not taking Koneko-chan! Do you hear me!?"
"Yeah, you're not taking our comrade you bastard, and Orochi-chan who's adorable!"
Makoto gave Ise a half WTF face, and a half kind face.
Kuroka looked on between them, and rolled her eyes. Orochi on the other hand waved her fingers in the air, and a chance went through the forest. Like colour seemed to drain from the area a little bit. Orochi's eyes shined happily, and the men and women before her knew that she had just done something.
"Do you think a little change in space like this is enough to hold someone like me nyaaa~?"
Kuroka gave a playful smile, but her eyes were radiating her anger.
"You're troublesome Kuroka-chan, maybe I should just, kill you?" Orochi showed a daring smile, Kuroka showing one right back. "Ararara~ You're so cute~ Are you going to stand against me, who killed her Master, and wounded her Imouto's heart?"
Kuroka glared on, while Makoto felt sorry for Kuroka at that moment. But it didn't change the fact that she was here, and she was doing something that she shouldn't be doing. Makoto had to find out one way or another what the hell was going on exactly.
"...Buchou, what's going on? Why does it feel like we're in a different area yet we're not?"
"It's because that girl there, your damn pop sensation can control space. And from the way Kuroka is speaking, it seems like she might be able to do it. Well, if it is Kuroka, she probably could do it as well, and I have a feeling she's Princess."
"D-Don't be silly, Princess isn't Kuroka-san there, we'd know."
Makoto defended without even realizing it. When he did, he saw Kuroka giving him a secret wink, but he gave her a hard stare, wanting to know why she was there, and if Vali knew, and other things of that nature.
"Don't be so sure, she'd do it to torture me-"
"Why would I want to torture you?" Rias gasped at the realization Kuroka heard her. "Don't look so shocked, I have large cat ears, they aren't just an accessory or anything like that, you know? I can hear what you're saying you weirdo."
Rias narrowed her eyes at Kuroka, and wouldn't back down.
"...Shut up, you stupid cat."
"Nyaaaaaaaa~"
Kuroka growled in a low voice, something Rias recognized immediately.
Rias felt like her heart had been taken at that moment. She placed a hand over her heart, and looked worried on what was going on. She even felt her body shaking slightly at the sight that was before her. Somehow she thought that she would be attacked by Kuroka, and her eyes, looked like Princesses.
"Shit...she is Princess, I don't give a shit what anyone else thinks, she's an evil shit...she's fucking terrifying..."
Kuroka snorted, making Rias feeling scared right now.
Kuroka then turned back to Orochi with a grin.
"I wont be sealed in here for long nyaaa~ I'll even take you out~"
"Then what are you going to do? Gonna take your Imouto? You know, the one you abandoned~"
"Hey!" Makoto yelled back towards Orochi, making the girl turn back towards her. "You don't even know what happened, so don't speak about her like that. Until you have all the facts, you can't make judgements on people!"
Koneko still wondered why Makoto was trying to be kind towards Kuroka, it just didn't make sense to her.
"Well, lord, don't worry about such things. I have all the facts that I need. And one of them is that Koneko-chan agreed to come. So come on Koneko-chan, be a good kitten and come to me now. If you don't, you know what's going to happen, don't you Koneko-chan?"
Orochi showed a menacing aura, and so did Gren. Their Dragon auras surrounded their forms completely. Even Ise felt chills from them. Makoto on the other had his eyes glaring towards them and wouldn't stop either. Kuroka was the same, summoning her aura around her body, and wouldn't allow it to drop.
However, Koneko stepped forward.
"I understand, I'll go."
"Koneko! You can't just go with them and do as you please!"
"Geez, make it sound less like you own her bitch."
Kuroka muttered out towards Rias who glared right back.
Koneko looked towards them all once more, and then towards Makoto who kept getting in front of her.
"Mako-kun...you can stop protecting me now. You keep protecting me, and you don't have too anymore. This time, I'll protect you."
"Why would I ever do something like that? I'll never stop! But, what are they talking about…? What is this deal Koneko-chan?"
Koneko didn't answer, she didn't want to answer.
Rias went to move forward, but Orochi spat out some poison towards her.
"Shit Buchou!"
Ise grabbed Rias, and pulled her backwards. The poison hit the ground and while it wasn't as dissolving as Apep's water, the poison was corrosive, and did scorch the ground. Rias grimaced, as did Ise.
"What the fuck Orochi!?"
Rias yelled at the young woman who twirled her hair around happily.
Makoto on the other hand kept his eyes on Koneko and wouldn't let his gaze drop.
"Koneko-chan...tell me, what deal have you made?"
Koneko's body felt like it was going to take off into the sky. Yet she felt her heart weighing her down, unable to take the look that she was getting from Makoto right now. She, wanted to be with Makoto, and now, she thought that it would be easier if he didn't come, she wished he didn't come, so she could do this, so she could protect him.
"...It's no good Mako-kun. I understand Onee-sama's power, she's got power that rivals an Ultimate Class Devil. And those two up there...they were right, they are strong, stronger than us. Last time, we had a Maou-sama, and Dragon King with us. We don't have any of those, so I'll go with them so I can..."
She didn't finish and moved forward.
But once again, Makoto got in front of her, and wouldn't allow her to advance.
"I'm not going to let you go with them Koneko-chan! Even if there was a hundred of them! There's absolutely no way!"
"You know, you shouldn't have to worry lord." Orochi grinned. "She wont be treated badly, and she wont die. We'll just be using her essence, her Senjutsu for ourselves. It's really thanks to you that we got the idea in the first place. She unlocked her powers, because of you. We sensed it, and came up with the idea that she could be useful to us. So don't worry lord, we'll take care of the precious Nekomata-chan there. It might hurt, but that's fine for restoration, isn't it?"
"No, you're wrong! Koneko-chan's power wasn't unlocked so you could use it! And how dare you think it is fine to hurt her for your own deeds? You know, a few people have told me lately about you guys, and I understand what you are, and I even understand some of our history together, and I feel sorry for you all."
"That's perfect, then why don't you just come with us-"
"But what you're doing, is wrong!" Makoto yelled out, giving a protective stance of Koneko. "You hate the world right? I get why. If they truly did do that to make you go crazy and become a tool, then that's wrong! But, don't you see, that's what you're trying to do with Koneko-chan as well is equally as wrong!? And even hurting others to bring me with you back at the factions meeting...no matter which me it is, no part of me would ever condone such actions. Evil Dragon or not."
"Evil what…?"
Ise drew a blank face, as did Rias.
Koneko's eyes widened with realization.
"Mako-kun is..."
"My lord." Orochi cut her off. "I understand. These movements, we don't wanna do them. We didn't ever want to hurt others. Even if we're Evil Dragon's, we never wanted to cause mayhem, we wanted to live in peace, harmony. But then they decided to take us away and use us for their games, and their wars which we held no part of. After that, we were stained in blood, so we need to repay those who hurt us, the ones that caused our lives to be destroyed. They ruined us! And if we have to hurt innocents to get what we want, then so be it. Because, we were innocent once, my lord. And soon again, we will be."
Makoto didn't understand what she was talking about at the end.
But he could feel her deep emotions. How she was showing her tears through her eyes, how they ran down her face. And also, how her body was quaking. Makoto was slowly beginning to understand her a little more.
Orochi might have seemed evil, and perhaps to an extension, she was.
But in all truth, all she wanted was to be innocent again.
How she was going to achieve that, or how they were going to do whatever plan they were going to do, Makoto didn't understand.
But he also understood that what they were doing was wrong, so he defiantly stood before them.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you take Koneko-chan. Even if you've made a deal with her. I simply wont let you do this to her, never."
"But, Mako-kun-"
"No Koneko-chan!" He turned towards her, looking on with tears ragging his eyes, and Koneko's own heart felt hurt as well. "Tell me, what did she promise you?" Koneko didn't say anything, but her body shook, Kuroka looked down sadly and Makoto noticed that out of the corner of his eye. He moved closer. "Koneko-chan, tell me. What did she promise you? What did she say to you for you to sneak around like this?"
"Mako-kun, that's..."
Koneko's lips parted to say something...but, she couldn't anymore.
She felt her heart pounding with nervousness, with fear.
Makoto crossed the distance, placing his hands on Koneko's shoulder.
"Koneko-chan, tell me, what did she say to you? What burdens have you silently been keeping?"
Koneko's eyes began leaking tears, and she trembled hard. Makoto bent down towards her, so their eyes could meet one another. Her eyes continued to leak tears, as Makoto's fingers brushed under her eyes and across her cheeks as well.
"...She threatened me." Makoto's anger grew at that very statement. "...She told me, if I didn't go with her, then she'd hurt you...she told me, that she'd come for you, and hurt you...if I didn't go...and Mako-kun's been through enough already...he's been through too much already with losing an eye, being stabbed, beaten and obliterated down to his core...if they get Mako-kun, bad things are going to happen...you're going to be lost...and too many people depend on Mako-kun...no one depends on me..."
"What kind of crap is that Koneko-chan?!"
Koneko stiffened, as Makoto's eyes looked right at her.
"...Mako-kun I..."
"I depend on you!" Koneko felt shaken with those words. "Koneko-chan, you told me that you're going to become my Rook, well you are!" Rias looked at Ise, but he shook his hand, basically telling her to let it go, making Rias lower her eyes sadly. "I can't lose you Koneko-chan, I need you in my life! Don't go with her for me! She threatened to take me, what's new? They're going to do that regardless if you went with them or not Koneko-chan! And if they come for me, I'll deal with it! I did last time, and I'll do it again! It doesn't matter what they want to do, they aren't going to do it! And to threaten you when you've got a wounded heart...no, it is unforgivable. I wont let you go Koneko-chan, because I can't be without you Koneko-chan. Why would you think I ever could be? One of my two Rook's, is Koneko-chan."
"Mako-kun...Mako-kun..."
Koneko couldn't control the heart felt words leaking out of her mouth, and even the tears that came from her heart and soul.
Makoto embraced Koneko tightly, petting the back of the young girls head.
"Don't ever say you'll leave Koneko-chan, because I wont let you go ever. I'll never let you go Koneko-chan, so that's why, you have to stay with me. Even if she threatens you, I'll never let her take you, I'll never let anyone take you Koneko-chan, because..." Makoto's cheeks went red as Koneko's did as well. "...Because, I cherish Koneko-chan, and, I love you, Koneko-chan, don't ever disappear."
Koneko's eyes overwhelmed with tears, while Ise's eyes widened, to hear Makoto say something so intimate right now. He didn't expect it. In some ways, he admired that Makoto could establish his true emotions while he hesitated with Rias.
"Mako-kun...I love Mako-kun, I always want to be with Mako-kun, I even want to become Mako-kun's bride and have Mako-kun's children as well!"
""Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh?! You say that hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!?""
Rias and Kuroka couldn't believe it and Makoto was left blushing, the same as Ise to hear that for Makoto.
"Yes, because...I want to be with Mako-kun always, I want to be a family, with Mako-kun, as his peerage member...and his wife as well. Even if I am small, I'll grow and grow and become Mako-kun's wife as well. The best wife I can...even if it is a little early, I want to be Mako-kun's girlfriend at least!"
Kuroka's eyes almost popped out of her comedic like, but Koneko looked super serious. Makoto understood her feelings, and placed a hand on the side of her face, and leaned towards her. His lips and her own met one another, into a serene and beautiful kiss. Even in the middle of everything going on, they still shared their love for one another.
"Koneko-chan, will you become my girlfriend? The only condition is, stay with me always."
Koneko cried even harder, but the tears were for the right reasons this time, for happy reasons.
"Y-Yes, I'll be Mako-kun's girlfriend, and I'll always stay beside him, as his Rook, as his girlfriend!"
Rias looked towards herself, and then Ise.
"Well, looks like I have to find another Rook, can't stand between true love you know Ise?"
"Y-Yes, I didn't think Koneko-chan would say such things..."
"Well, Makoto has been beside her since the beginning, and brought out feelings I never could. He brought Koneko's love out, when I brought her to him. I'm okay with this though. If Koneko wants to become his Rook, I can't stand between their love. Besides, he is a lolicon, so he needs Queen loli herself with him."
"I'm not a..." He looked towards Koneko who held an annoyed face, so Makoto stiffened his body. "I-I mean, yes, I am a lolicon."
Koneko nodded strongly.
"I thought that was the case all along...my boyfriend, and future husband is a lolicon."
Koneko said it shyly, yet with resolution as well while Makoto wished she didn't say that he was a lolicon so strongly.
Kuroka couldn't hide her surprise at everything that had been going down until now.
"Shit Shirone, who knew you had found such a man to declare as your future husband. Fufu, you're even ahead of me nyaaaa~"
Koneko didn't even want to know what that meant.
Orochi, having listened to it (and was highly interested as well being one of the reasons she didn't even bother to attack due to being caught in the romance of it all, she was that kind of girl) tapped her foot on the tree branch she was on.
"So, that's sweet. The Neko-chan might be becoming the lords future bride that's cute. But that's not why we're here. Koneko-chan, we made a deal, are you going against it?"
"I'm taking the deal, and ripping it apart, I'm staying with Mako-kun!"
Orochi showed a fearless smile on her purple poisoned lips.
"Then die."
With those cruel words, Gren jumped forward fast going towards Ise. Makoto noticed it and went to move, but Orochi wagged her finger and shot her hair towards him like a whip would, so he jumped away with Koneko, to defend her, which cracked the ground with such a strong force.
"Aaaah!"
Gren made it to the baffled Ise who tried to defend himself but couldn't, and tackled Ise with his Dragon claw showing itself dangerously for the young man, and threw him a fair distance away faster than Ise's eyes could see.
"Ise!"
"Haha, don't worry, I'll be taking care of him! I've always wanted to fight the Sekiryuutei in any era! I heard he repelled the strongest Hakuryuukou, well that's going to be fun. I wonder if he could repel the weakened me!?"
Gren grinned out, and rushed away towards Ise who was plummeting backwards.
Rias gasped, looking between Makoto, and the others, and the place Ise went, and was torn on what to do.
But Makoto looked at Koneko, who nodded, so his eyes turned back to Rias.
"Rias-sama, go and support Onii-chan, I've got this Orochi with Koneko-chan."
"What about Kuroka?"
Rias looked accusingly towards Kuroka, but Kuroka just grinned.
"She...isn't on their side." Makoto explained as best as he could. "Don't ask me how, but I believe her when she says she's not on their side. For now, we have to believe that. Even she, wouldn't hurt her Imouto. I know about family ties, Kuroka-san might be a lot of things, but a family hurter on intention, isn't one of them. She might be a naughty cat..." His eyes went towards Kuroka in a trusting way. "But, I happen to like naughty cats."
Kuroka's cheeks turned slightly red, as Rias sighed at the situation.
"...Alright, I'm going to go and support Ise. Please, don't die, whatever you do!"
Makoto nodded, and Rias flew off to go and see if she can be of assistance to Ise, somehow.
Flying through the forest, Ise tried to steady himself, only for Gren to appear with wild eyes, and slapped him with his Dragon claw showing, and hit him through a tree. Ise's body skidded across the ground and he winced in pain.
"What's wrong Sekiryuutei? The people like you in the past weren't this weak."
Ise gritted his teeth, and got off the ground though felt the pain from the slap. Even a slap from a Dragon, wasn't a good idea. He stood up, with a cut on his cheek, and from that, blood came down his face.
"E-Even if you try anything with me, I'll show you my fist! I wont let you take my Otouto away you know!? I need to pay you back as well! You came after my Otouto once, and even hurt him to the point that he nearly died! You even targeted our friends as well! I wont forgive you, so Boosted Gear!"
Though Ise summoned his Sacred Gear, the jewel inside didn't shine, and showed a blackish aura around it.
[…Partner, the Sacred Gear won't move.]
"What do you mean, Ddraig!? Why is it like this at such a crucial time!?"
Ise thought back to the Sacred Gear while Gren slowly moved closer.
[The Sacred Gear has entered an ambiguous state.]
"Ambiguous!? Why had it become like that?"
[With that training, you reached a crossroad. I think the Sacred Gear will change with one more push, but I don't know whether that change will be a normal power-up, or Balance Breaker.]
"In other words, my Sacred Gear has stopped before a crossroads, and is wavering between a normal power-up and Balance Breaker?"
[If you put it simply, yes. In a situation where the choices have multiplied, the Boosted Gear's own system is confused on which option to follow.]
"So both the normal power-up and Balance Breaker look good to it?"
[Yeah. If it does a normal power-up, you may be able to achieve victory in a flash, but if a dramatic change isn't born inside you, you won't be able to attain Balance Breaker. But remember this. Right now, you only have a chance to attain Balance Breaker. The rest depends on you.]
"Hey, Ddraig. Is it bad if I go for the power-up and leave Balance Breaker for next time?"
[You won't be able to grasp this state again whenever you want. It may be months or years before the chance comes again.]
"Well, your conversation with Ddraig was nice, huh. Hey Ddraig, remember when we last met? I remember, I killed a former host of yours, right? Because your host went mad, and then I had to butcher them as well."
"W-Wait?! You heard what we said?!"
Ise picked up on that, and Gren chuckled, making it towards the young man.
"That's right, I could hear it. You're going to be gaining Balance Breaker? Please do, I want to fight a good opponent. If not, then I'll just kill you." Gren raised his hand, and slapped Ise across the face, his body hit a tree, Gren yawned. "Boring. Come on, show me something worth all the trouble. Show me something that I can use."
Ise slowly got off the ground, and balled his hand into a fist.
"Even if I can't use the Boosted Gear, I'll hit you harder than ever!"
Ise ran towards Gren with his hand balled into a fist. Gren just stood there, and allowed the punch to hit him...and it did no real damage. Ise's hand dug into Gren's scaly face, but nothing happened. No bruise, no blood came out, no nothing.
"Really? You're going to attack me with a simple attack like that?"
Gren balled his own fist, and then embedded it into Ise's stomach.
"Gwaaaaaaaaaah!"
Blood erupted out of his mouth, spitting all over the ground. The shockwave of the fist blew away the areas ground as well, fracturing it. Ise was sure that either his rib broke or something else did because he felt a deep pain inside of him.
While hunching over, Gren's eyes went towards Ise, and he smirked.
"Such a pathetic existence. Why did Ddraig go to you anyway? What did God have in store for you? Haha, did you know, that you've been called the Weakest Host in History? While Vali is praised as the strongest? It must be bad for you, huh."
Gren twisted his hand in Ise's stomach, and a Dragon aura appeared. Using that aura, he blasted it while his fist embedded in Ise's torso, making Ise cry out and be flung away from him, slamming his body towards a nearby tree, and broke it down.
He fell to the ground as Rias arrived. She gasped at the sight, and turned her eyes angrily towards Gren. The young man continued walking towards the downed Ise, and balled his fist, showing his Dragon skin quite well.
"Did you know, out of the strength of the Evil Dragon's like us, mine is the highest? As in physical that is. I can hit harder than the rest of them. Though maybe I might be considered one of the weaker ones right now due to them having scary abilities. Like that Orochi back there, she can poison even your soul. If you even get infected, then it's game over."
Ise looked up, and his hand went to his stomach. He wasn't burned, but he did feel sick from the attack he gained from Gren. He went to stand, but his legs were wobbly. Even with the training from Tannin, he didn't think that he would be able to get through this…
But then it clicked in his head about Makoto, and how he could be used once more, and taken...and that fuelled his fires.
His body slowly lifted off the ground, trying his best to make sure that he didn't lose to this person.
"N-No...M-Makoto..."
Gren nodded his head with a toothy grin.
"Yes, that's right. Since he's here, and there's no one around, we'll take him, that neko, and even the other as well, and there's nothing you can do about it. You couldn't even face me like this, without your Boosted Gear, you're nothing Hyoudou Issei, and you'll die, nothing. Maybe, we'll harvest that Longinus of yours. If it is in the hands of a capable person, they'd use it to their full potential. After all, doubling 1 only makes 2. And doubling 1000, makes 2000, do you know which I'm talking about right now?"
He made it towards the downed Ise, and went to strike, but suddenly a blast came from the left, and hit Gren.
"Don't touch my Ise!"
Rias, her powers being full of POD looked on angrily.
Gren looked on with a bit of scratches on his scales.
"Impressive, so you aren't a weakling after all."
Turning from Ise, his eyes set on Rias who glared on.
"Look, I told you, don't touch my Ise. He might not be the strongest, but he's my Ise! And I wont allow anything bad to happen to him! So, why don't you just disappear you piece of shit!?"
Rias put her hands outwards, and her powers condensed down to softball shaped POD's. Though it didn't hold the same power as her usual attacks, there were more of them, and they were shot forward towards Gren rapidly.
Gren walked forward, and each of the softball POD's came for him. Using his hand full of Dragon aura, he slapped away the blasts again and again, leaving small scratches on his Dragon scales, annoying Rias.
"Maybe I should just obliterate you maybe? I wouldn't mind doing that just to you. You kind of piss me off anyway."
"Why do I piss you off!? I don't even know you that well you shit! If anything, you piss me off for trying to take Makoto away from us all! And even now targeting Koneko?! Why don't you go for Princess!? She's a twisted cow! And yet, she's still...you bastard!"
Rias growled angrily, as he came closer. She placed a barrier up but Gren tightened his fist, and using his great strength, broke through it, Ise's eyes widened in shock.
"No! Leave her alone!"
Ise ran forward towards Gren as he made it in front of Rias.
Rias allowed a multiple waves of her POD to erupt forth, but Gren tightened his defence, and it washed over him like water. Though it did leave small scratches, giving credit where it was due since she was actually damaging him slightly, it wasn't enough to stop him completely.
"Is this it!?"
His thunderous hands clapped together, and the pulse from that knocked Rias down onto the ground. Ise continued running and got behind Gren, tightening his fist once more, only for Gren to side step, and karate chop Ise's neck from behind, Ise's eyes bulging outwards, and he fell forward towards the ground.
Though he caught the young man's collar, lifting up him upwards once more and stared into his eyes.
"Are you kidding me right now?"
Rias, looking on, got off the ground, and pulled out a knife. While looking angry, she turned the knife on Gren and stabbed towards his neck.
"Fucking die you shit!"
Rias' knife went down, but his scales were harder than she thought, and her knife bounced off his scales and stabbed into the ground, making Rias cringe with fear, the man tossed Ise to the side, and looked towards Rias with a WTF face.
"What the hell are you doing? And where did you get that knife from?"
"Don't talk to me you shit! And leave my Ise alone!"
Rias went to put her hands out, Gren grabbed her hands, and lifted her up. With a swing, he tossed her at Ise. The boy stopped in his tracks, and grabbed ahold of her body, and skidded across the ground while standing up.
They came to a stop, and Rias looked on.
"You're okay, my Ise?"
"Y-Yes Buchou, I'm okay."
Rias stood up, and looked towards Gren who advanced once more.
"Maou-sama, don't you quit!?"
"I'll quit when you're dead!"
Rias saw Gren move towards her at a blinding speed. She fully was going to attack him, but he was faster than she thought, and appeared in front of her. She gasped, and saw his fist going towards her, and she couldn't do anything…
But Ise got in the way, and received the blow, his blood coming out of his mouth, and he fell down to the floor.
"Ise!"
Rias cried, her tears falling down.
Gren took a few steps back, and smirked.
"This is weak. How could you even drive back Vali exactly? Why would Chelia leave the lord with you? You couldn't protect them then and you can't protect him now. You allowed him to turn into a Devil you stupid shit."
Ise didn't like it, but he felt what he said, and took it to heart.
He remembered when he heard Makoto died, he didn't like it. He remembered when Rias was in a bind, he didn't like it. Those times, he couldn't do anything about it. And right now, he felt because of how powerful Gren was, he couldn't do anything, and knew Makoto was in danger, along with Koneko and even Rias as well, and he was there, once again, unable to do anything.
"Y-You might know Makoto, I don't understand how...you say he's family, what family would do this!?"
Ise got off the ground on trembling legs, but Gren swatted him away once more while grinning.
"What family wouldn't protect their own family? We're bringing back family, you couldn't even defend yours. And if he dies...well, Chelia left him with the wrong person. You see, you're a talentless loser, and we Evil Dragon's are a new age coming, and you're not apart of that. That's why, I'll take your Boosted Gear here and now for our plans."
Ise looked on with a tremble.
He couldn't use his Sacred Gear, he couldn't win. He felt like all of his efforts, weren't going to work at all. He didn't believe he could win in the first place, and felt, afraid. He didn't believe that he could do anything for Makoto at this point and couldn't help the tears of regret fall from his face.
"He's wrong Ise!"
Rias shouted, causing Ise's eyes to snap towards her.
"Buchou..."
"He doesn't know what he's saying! I don't get it either, but Makoto was left with you, for a reason! You have enough power inside of you, you can protect him just as much as he does you! You came for me when Riser took me! You gave me hope when hope seemed far away! Ise, I know you can do this, and I'm going to be right with you!"
Ise's eyes flicked upon Rias, and saw her determination. Her eyes looked so confident...and then something clicked with what she said.
"Buchou. I think I understand a little what I was lacking in myself to attain Balance Breaker. I'm probably going to need Buchou's power in order to attain Balance Breaker."
"…I understand! If you're fine with me, I'll lend you my power! So, what do I need to do?"
Rias nodded even though she looked confused. Ise made up his mind, took a big gulp, and spoke.
"Please let me poke your breasts!"
At Ise's request, Rias became speechless and Gren gave a WTF face. However, after thinking a little, she spoke with a look of determination.
"…I understand. If I can realise your wish with that…"
"R-Really!? I can poke them!? I can really press on Buchou's nipples with my fingers!? It's really okay!?"
Rias pulled down her dress and exposed her bared front with trembling hands, summoning her breasts. Ise's nose bled while Gren looked confused by what was going on.
"...What the hell is going on? Why is she showing her breasts...is this the way Ddraig's host powers up?"
"Shut up! I need this! We all can't be battle freaks!"
Ise yelled back, Rias looking on with embarrassment.
"Well, she just whipped out her tits, and you're becoming horny in the middle of a battlefield...I don't know whether to pity you or laugh at you."
Ise ground his teeth angrily, and turned to Rias. He looks between the pair of breasts before him.
"B-Buchou! W-What should I do?! Which one should I poke first!?"
Rias rolled her eyes.
"I'm showing my breasts to a stranger, and you're asking which one you want to poke!? I really don't care which one! Do both if you want! I really want this over with already! Just do it now! I'm embarrassed right now! Please, just hurry up you idiot! My nipples are cold!"
Ise shed tears at her answer, and went for it. He aimed both his index fingers at each of Rias' breasts. Gren looked on and felt sorry for Rias at this time.
"Geez, you have the worst kind of Pawn."
"Ngh..."
Rias didn't know what to say as a response, sensing genuine sympathy from Gren and Ise felt like crying even more than before..
Then, after gulping, Ise suddenly moved forward his fingers as they aimed at the breasts, and pushed them deep. His fingers were wrapped around by her breasts, making Gren look disgusted, and Rias felt her cheeks reddening.
"…Iyan."
Rias let her voice leak out slightly, and because of that, inside Ise, something revolutionary burst open. It spread. Something vast took over his mind. Within the tears that wouldn't stop, he saw it. The beginning of universe.
[You attained it. You really managed to attain it!]
Ddraig laughed inside him and let out an innocent cry.
[Welsh Dragon Balance Breaker!]
The light returned to the jewel, and on the contrary began to emit a huge mass of red aura that it didn't have until now. The aura wrapped around his entire body, and Gren looked on with perplexity and confusion.
"Well, it is Balance Breaker so I should be happy...but, I feel kind of sad right now...especially for that woman. I hate her less now, and hate you more. Subjecting a woman to such a sight, no wonder she turns to the drink."
Rias nods her head again and again in sadness.
"Thank you for understanding my plight."
Gren bowed his head sorry for what Rias had to go through.
Then aura which covered his body changed into armour, and clad itself on him.
"Balance Breaker, [Boosted Gear Scale Mail]! It's been achieved here by poking my master's breasts!"
"You shouldn't be proud of that."
Gren admitted, as Rias fell down to the ground and sighs.
"Shut up! Because, I'm gonna kick the living shit out of you! And I'll show you why it is not alright for you to attack my King and my Otouto!"
Ise, in his new form, gets into a fighting style, while Gren chuckles, allowing his scales to overtake his body, his eyes narrowing dangerously.
"Alright, show me what you've got, Sekiryuutei. Boost for me, and I'll show you overwhelming strength!"
Rias watched as the battle between Dragon's begun.
At the same time, Makoto and Koneko looked towards Orochi who grinned down towards them. Kuroka turned her head to the side, seeing the pair readying themselves. She even saw Koneko's hands gaining blue energy like Senjutsu flourishing around her.
She also witnessed how Makoto was standing before Koneko, protecting her. Even during a fight, it seemed like she was going to be protected by Makoto. And because of that, she felt oddly happy right now.
"My lord, doing something like this, then I suppose that I'll have to fight with you as well. Even then, I wish it didn't come to this. I'd prefer if we didn't fight."
"We don't have to fight. You're the one who is fighting us, we don't have to do this."
"That's right, because we need her my lord. We didn't have to fight, but I've got no choice. So, if you want to survive, I suggest trying your best against me. But don't worry about me because I'm a girl, I can take anything thrown at me and give it back to you ten folds!"
Said the young woman who readied her body. Even her hair was swaying around happily.
"If that's how it is, then I'll show my strong side too!"
"Sorry but that's too bad!"
Orochi's hair looked as if it was coming alive, and shot forward. Like tentacles, the hair slammed towards Makoto and Koneko, it was as if they had a will of their own or they were controlled by her thoughts, either way it seemed amazing for her to actually be able to control them with such fine control.
"Mako-kun!"
The pair jumped into the air, and avoided the hair only for Orochi's mouth to light up with flames.
"Shit! Sacred Gear!"
Makoto summoned his Sacred Gear to his side, and formed it into a gun like shape. The boy put it forward, and the girl opened her mouth. From that instance, flames erupted and ice also erupted as well from their powers.
Colliding in the middle, Makoto and Orochi's powers created a torrent of a struggle between the two of them. Koneko looked on as did Kuroka, seeing how hot and cold the powers were colliding with one another.
But then, Koneko's eyes went towards Orochi, seeing how her hand was slowly turning into a poison vapour.
"Mako-kun! Be careful, her powers can even poison peoples powers!"
"W-What!?"
Orochi smirked as she ran her hand through her own flames.
The poison aura travelled up the flames and went to Makoto's ice, and as Koneko said, infected it. He saw that the ice was breaking down like a disease would do that to a human's body, and it decayed, allowing her flames to continue towards Makoto's body.
"Defend!"
Using what magic he knew from Rossweisse, he put his hand outwards, and formed a barrier to defend himself. But even then, Orochi's poison fire also infected Makoto's barrier when clashing, so it broke it down and then using the intense flames, the barrier broke away, so Makoto jumped away, but managed to get his body hit by the flames, slamming him into a tree.
"Sorry for the burning, I just had to, you know?"
Makoto glared towards her, feeling the new sensations on her body.
He felt the pain of the fire burning him. It wasn't a joke. These flames were of a true Dragon. Even with his training with Tiamat, he still felt the heat. Though thanks to that training, Makoto was able to avoid the worst case scenario from the burning. And even if she looked human, she had flames of a Dragon and they were hot.
"Hehehe, that's cute Koneko-chan even studied my powers, and can give a good description. Good thing you didn't have an open wound my lord. If you did, my poison would have creeped inside, and even infected your lifeforce, your soul, and even God's can't escape that, you know?"
Kuroka looked on as Koneko got to Makoto's side, and helped the boy up to his feet.
"Mako-kun, are you okay…?"
Makoto nodded his head, as he brought out his replica Excalibur. He held the sword tightly in his palm, and shifted his Sacred Gear to a sword form so he was dual wielding. He also allowed his aura to surround him strongly.
"Yes, Koneko-chan. I'm fine, thank you. We've got to pull together now, okay? We can't hold back now."
Koneko nodded her head, and got closer. Her fingers touched his Excalibur replica, and unknown to Orochi, it gave off a small glow.
Orochi looked on and grinned.
"Then my lord, lets fight!"
Orochi coated her hands with the poison aura, and jumped towards him. Makoto swung his Excalibur replica around and then stabbed the ground. From the stab, Destruction's power activated, and sent a wave of holy towards her body.
Orochi avoided the wave easily, as Koneko threw a sphere of Senjutsu towards the young woman. Orochi giggled, putting her hand outwards, and her poison aura hit the Senjutsu. With that single action, the poison aura infected her Senjutsu and it was obliterated easily.
"..."
Koneko looked grim at the situation, unsure of how they were going to deal with her.
Orochi was going to smirk, but then Makoto swung his sword of ice in a cross slash, and a wave of X shaped ice came forth. Orochi's hair gained a life of its own, and crumbled the ice before her by wrapping them around the ice, and crushed them easily.
"That's cute my lord! I'm so happy right now! Yes, this fight is good! Even though I'd prefer other methods, even someone like me likes to fight sometimes, so show me the best kind of fight, alright!? I wont hold back at all! It has to be the best ever! You know!?"
Orochi leapt towards the boy, and swiped her claw towards him which was coated in poison. Makoto dodged the attack, sending the Destruction power of Excalibur towards her face. Orochi allowed her hair to dance around her, and wrapped around the sword, blocking the swords movements, and then turned it to the side, as the holy aura was released, sending it through the forest and cut down a few trees.
However, while doing that, Makoto's ice blade went for the young woman's body once more from below.
"I see! That's good!"
Orochi didn't miss a beat, and brought her long leg upwards, parrying the boys sword by allowing her Dragon scales to appear on her leg, his ice couldn't even freeze the girls scales because the poison she naturally secrets coated the area, making it impossible.
"So, in addition to your hands, it can be generated anywhere, can it?"
Orochi nodded while smiling.
"That's right, that's how it is~ If you want to know more, why don't you come back with me~? Or , you could give me a kiss~ My kiss of death~"
Makoto resisted that, and swung his sword of ice for her hair. She retracted, allowing the blade of holy to be released, and he spun around, shards of sharp ice going right for his form, but the young girl allowed her poison to infect and break the ice upon contact.
"Sorry, I don't give up so easily!"
Makoto didn't give up though and did a complicated number of slashes towards the young girl. Orochi either avoided them or used her poison to break them down all together, and she was...confused.
Her eyes went around the area, and saw Kuroka stood there, she didn't seem to be moving.
She looked for Koneko...but she couldn't find her.
"Hey, that's weird. Where has your nekomata friend gone~?"
Makoto gave a smile as his eyes glowed.
"I don't know, I can't see her, but my eyes can see you~"
From his eyes, beams erupted forward and were sent towards her. The beams weren't bad, it was a good movement from him. Even Orochi couldn't deny that it looked to be quite the strong wave of power from his eyes.
"This wont be enough for me my lord! You have to show me better than that if you want me to obey your commands!"
Orochi did a back flip, avoiding the beams then opened her mouth and unleashed a hard sea of flames.
Kuroka, who was also in the path, didn't realize it as she even was searching for Koneko. But then Makoto rushed towards her, and grabbed her body, lifting her upwards, and jumped out of the way of the flames.
"W-What are you doing Mako-chan?"
Kuroka wondered aloud, as Makoto rushed to the side.
"It's because you were in the path of the fire dummy! But, why are you here?"
Kuroka turned her head, she didn't answer what he wanted to know.
"That doesn't make a difference, I came here for Shirone you know?"
"You came here...for her? Or to protect her?"
It was only a guess, and while he didn't know everything, he knew that there was something Kuroka wasn't saying. Orochi's flames followed them as they continued running, burning through trees, and turned them to ashes, which was very frightening for Makoto, but he kept the young nekomata in his arms and wouldn't let her down, he was going to protect her.
"...That doesn't matter nyaaa. You aren't going to believe me anyway nyaaa."
Makoto stood his ground and turned his sword towards the young woman. His eyes tightened upon her, and stabbed into the ground. Ice formed around him, and then shot out of the ground in spires, and those spires headed towards the self proclaimed pop sensation.
She continued her flames for the ice that came for her. Her hand coated in poison, and she went to touch her flames, when suddenly she felt a sharp pain to the back of her head, making her eyes bulge outwards.
Kuroka's eyes opened wide as well, seeing Koneko's form shimmer in and out of existence. And then she fully appeared, allowing her Senjutsu to slam against Orochi's back, sending the Senjutsu right through the girls body and into her body.
Orochi's eyes widened as she cried "Aaaah!" when the ice came up towards her. The spire went for her body, and using what knowledge she had, she used her hair like a whip. She looked confident as her hair neared the ice…
But then the hair went through the ice as if it wasn't there.
"Where!? Where has it gone!?"
Orochi looked around, only for her body to feel weird.
Her feet, felt cold.
Colder than before.
Her eyes went downwards, to see the ice wrapping around her body starting from the bottom. Her eyes widened even more, realizing what happened.
Makoto, used Excalibur Transparency to turn Koneko invisible and Koneko hid her presence even more by erasing it with Senjutsu. While that happened, she got to a safe place, and readied her Senjutsu. As she was doing that, he had drawn her attention away from Koneko and towards him, and fought him.
After that, Koneko managed to get in a safe spot, she saw her opportunity to hit her, and sent as much Senjutsu into her as much as she could. Surprising Orochi even more, Makoto had used Transparency once more on his own attack once Koneko revealed herself, and rather have the ice spires be the main attack, Makoto's freezing power from below was what was the deciding factor.
All in all, she was tricked.
She couldn't believe it as the ice came over her form, and froze her. An outer-layer of ice came around her. She was trapped in ice, and Makoto smiled at the sight, glad that his plan with Koneko had succeeded.
"Mako-kun, your plan worked. As always, Mako-kun, you're very intelligent."
Makoto rubbed the back of his head shyly.
"No, it was a basic idea, you pulled it off Koneko-chan. Thank..." His eyes went towards the ice, seeing that it was slowly melting. "Koneko-chan!"
Kuroka's eyes snapped towards it, seeing Orochi break out of the ice, and lunge for Koneko. Makoto dashed, but she saw that he wasn't going to get there in time, even with Rapidly added to his speed, so she shot off a magical bullet that went for Orochi.
Rather than be damaged, Orochi swung her fist at the bullet, her poison aura infected the bullet, and broke it away, allowing Koneko to get away as Makoto came closer to the young woman's body and tightened his fist.
"Have this!"
His fist went towards her, but the young woman's body coated with poison once more. Makoto had to pull his hand backwards, and he jumped backwards, standing before Koneko to protect the young Nekomata from harm.
Koneko though, didn't understand...why?
Why did Kuroka even try and save her?
Kuroka abandoned her, yet she just tried to save her.
Was it because of the fact that she wanted to take her herself? Or was it something else entirely? Koneko didn't understand, and she didn't think she wanted to understand either. All she knew was the fact that Kuroka saved her, and Koneko didn't understand why she did something like that.
Orochi grinned at the sight, and looked towards the three of them.
"I liked your plan leader-sama, using such tactics. I expected no less from you. That's why, I also used my poison to break through your ice. Don't forget, I can secrete my poison from any place on my body, even from my mouth. Before your ice could freeze me, I gave your ice a kiss, and allowed my poison to seep in. So, I am glad that you managed to at least trick me enough. I can see why Gren had some trouble with you and you've gotten stronger since then?"
"That's right, I've been training since then and I wont allow any of you to beat me."
Orochi tilted her head to the side, showing an adoring smile.
"That's nice, I like that my lord~ Should I offer you a melody from the heart? I wouldn't mind having such a thing sung, you know?"
"No offence, but I don't want you to sing to me or anything. Why do you keep wanting to sing? What's going on with that exactly?"
Orochi pouted, her eyes then going to Kuroka who held a Senjutsu sphere in her hand.
"My, is Onee-sama also becoming involved?"
"Hmph, I just don't like you nyaaa~"
Kuroka played it cool, but behind her eyes, Makoto looked and saw that the young girl also looked regretful as well. Seeing that, Makoto was sure that Kuroka was trying to help in her own way, but her personality and the person she wanted Koneko to believe she was, shined through.
"Awww, and I thought we would be super best friends? Or maybe something else~ Even then, Kuroka-chan, you are cute. Becoming involved. Well, I'm alright with that, why don't you come at me and show me your strength as well~?"
Kuroka smirked, and allowed her body to swarm around her.
"If that's what you want, I can't say that I didn't warn you nyaaaa~ I'll show you the powers of a Nekoshou, that's gonna mess you up. You're not even going to be able to recover nyaaa~ Even with your Dragon scales~"
Seeing how Kuroka's power was rising, Koneko's body stiffened more and more. She felt fear deep within her, she felt scared on seeing Kuroka's power.
Even if she had come to terms with her own Senjutsu, seeing Kuroka's powers once more, reminded her of when she heard the stories of Kuroka's power being the reason she became so drunk with power, and how it frightened her.
Makoto also saw Koneko looking apprehensive, and even scared.
He didn't like seeing Koneko in such a state, he couldn't take it.
He never wanted her to be scared like that ever.
His eyes then went towards Kuroka who stiffened.
"Are you going to help us Kuroka-san?"
Koneko couldn't believe that he even suggested that Kuroka would help them.
"Mako-kun, she wont help, she's only here for her own motives."
Koneko strongly denied that she would ever do anything for the pair, but Makoto saw Kuroka's eyes and how she was truly trying to do her best, even though she was being judged from all sides, and even remembering how she healed his stamina with Senjutsu, stayed with him this whole time even when she didn't have to.
"...No, Koneko-chan, I think there's more going on than what is being said. I know that you two have a bad history, and there will have to be talks in the future, but Kuroka-san can help us out. If she's an Ultimate Class being, then she can also help us out with this as well."
Koneko looked towards Kuroka and saw that she was smirking.
But surprisingly, Kuroka raised her eyebrows, and showed a dirty smile on her face.
"Well, I suppose it would be fine if we worked together, wouldn't it?"
Koneko couldn't believe that her 'power hungry' sister was even suggesting to work with others, least of all them.
"...You're going to betray us, aren't you?"
"Ararara, so suspicious Shirone, don't act like that, it is fine. I'll support you from now, okay?"
Koneko didn't trust her, but Makoto did and took up a stance. His eyes, and the young girls eyes went towards the enemy girl as well. Orochi looked between all of them, and her grin widened more than before.
"Alright then, show me your determinations and I'll show you mine as well."
Her eyes sparkled and the others came together. Even though Koneko was distrustful of Kuroka, right now she didn't have a choice. If they were going to survive, then they had to work together, even if it wasn't something she necessarily wanted.
Back with Ise, and the others. The Sekiryuutei wore the power around him, and the area around him crumbled. Gren's eyes turned wild, and couldn't contain his grin. He was smiling and his eyes were shining at the same time.
"So, this is your Balance Breaker, I've seen it before. I tore through it before. And I'll do it again, you know?"
"Then try!"
Ise pushed forward, with his new Balance Breaker on, and dashed at the young man. The man stood there, seeing Ise's fist, and brought up his own. Meeting one another in the middle, their fists collided with one another's. And the area was blown apart, even Rias had a hard time standing up properly.
"D-Damn, what power..."
Rias muttered to herself, unsure of what was going to happen now.
Ise's armour gained a few cracks from Gren's overwhelming strength, and even a scratch appeared on Gren's scales as well. He also saw that Gren's body didn't appear to be shaking like his own was, and he didn't quite get why it was.
Gren held an excited expression on his face, and then pushed forward with his strength, shocking Ise.
"W-What..."
Ise felt himself being slowly pushed back, and Gren gave a wild smile.
"I see, so you thought that as soon as you gained Balance Breaker, you'd be all powerful? Don't fuck around junior. Did you know, the reason why I was repelled last time was because of a Dragon King mixed with the lords intelligence and friends? Who have you got? Rias there? She doesn't understand how she could involve herself in a fight like this, and you couldn't protect her if she did, that's why she's standing down. You on the other hand, interest me rather greatly, and now that you've worn the power of the Red Dragon inside you, I'm happy, I'm very happy! Just show me your power already you shit!"
He couldn't hide it anymore, and sent a volley of fists towards Ise. His strength was fantastic, and he couldn't believe it either. But the Dragon armour that Ise wore protected his body for the most part. Even if they broke through the armour, Ise could take this much from Gren at close range.
"Come on!"
Ise pushed backwards with his fist. As it came closer, Gren raised his fist to block.
[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]
Ise boosted a few times thanks to his Balance Breaker, pushing past Gren's blocking arm and hit Gren in the face. Gren's body bent slightly backwards, and his eyes furrowed upon the young man before him.
From his mouth, a small trickle of blood came out, and he wiped it away happily.
"Good, show me more of your power!"
Gren gave a pulse from his body and increased his strength, sending it right towards Ise's body. Ise ignited the boosters on his back, and avoided it, delivering a kick towards Gren. Gren ducked the kick, and got behind Ise's body, and tightened his fist sending it right towards Ise's middle back.
[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]
"Hah!"
Ise allowed his body to avoid the hit by igniting a few boosts and increased his speed, almost to the point that the Dragon male was surprised by such a thing. He then turned towards Gren and thrust his fist forward towards Gren.
"Exciting! I'm excited!"
Gren thrust his own fist at Ise, and collided it once more. Their impacts were different this time, because of Ise's stored power, which allowed them to fight a little more evenly this time. Their fists pushed against one another, while Ise's other hand opened.
From his hand, the Dragon Shot was being formed. Gren could see it, and merely didn't care at all. He saw it was fun and decided to take it on, so he pushed away from Ise, and got into a defensive style.
"Go ahead, put your all into it."
Ise looked confused.
"Y-You want me to attack you?"
Gren shrugged.
"If I can't even tank a newly awakened Balance Breaker powered shot from you, I have no business being an Evil Dragon. So go ahead, shoot me. I don't care. Lets see who is better at this. Me, or you, and when we see, we'll be seeing a lot more, wont we?"
Ise didn't get what he was talking about, and thought he was crazy.
So he boosted a number of times, and had it be with the Dragon shot he formed. The young man stood there, looking as if he wasn't going to move at all. That was confusing to Ise, but he didn't stop, and held his hand out.
"Then have it! Dragon Shot!"
Ise thrust his fist forward, and sent the demonic power enhanced by the Boosted Gear quite a bit. Gren looked on with his smirk dancing on his face and readied himself. His feet firmly planted in the ground, Gren's body and the Dragon Shot met one another in a blazing glory.
The Dragon Shot and Gren's body struggled with one another. Blood seeped from the scales of the Dragon's arms, but even that didn't seem to deter Gren. If anything, it excited him even more. He couldn't even contain his excitement right now, he was too happy.
"Yes! Yes! This is it! This is the kind of power I like to see!"
Gren's arms swung out, and the power of Ise's Dragon Shot disappeared. Ise panted due to the usage of the Boosted Gear on his stamina, and could see the blood dripping from Gren's arms.
He truly tanked it. He didn't even try and avoid it and even Ise, when boosting to the highest he could do, couldn't break through his Dragon scales.
"That's good, Hyoudou Issei. You damaged my arms a bit, I'm proud. Now you are a good fight. But I also proved I'm a strong Evil Dragon. That's what we are, you know? Maybe you find it flamboyant or something, but we Evil Dragon's aren't anything to laugh at, even with our powers sealed. If I had full access to my powers, you'd be crushed under my thumb." Gren got into a fighting stance. "So, why don't we continue?"
Despite his injuries, Ise saw Gren was still ready to fight, and it surprised him immensely. He wasn't even backing down. He didn't get how that was possible.
Even Ise panted from the fight, and knew that he wouldn't be able to continue on forever. Even using this new Balance Breaker was difficult, even with the new training he had. He still felt himself tiring extremely.
But he saw Rias, and knew he couldn't give up, no matter what else happened, he wouldn't give up for her and to protect Makoto and the others, he couldn't give up now.
"Sure, lets throw down!"
Ise didn't hold back and drew closer to the young man by igniting the boosters on his back.
He crossed the distance within an instance, making Gren smile wildly, and opened his mouth wild. Ise knew what he was doing so he threw his arms into an X shape, and blocked the assault of flames that came out of his mouth.
"D-Damn it! It's so hot!"
"Yes, even in your armour, you feel the burns, right?"
Gren grinned, and punched through his own flames for Ise's face. At the last second, Ise drew his leg up, slamming it into Gren's side, knocking his fist off balance, and then Ise saw his chance, so he rammed his fist into Gren's torso, even boosting it a few times.
His fist embedded into Gren's torso, and he spat out a little blood. But he still held a smile on his face.
"Nice, Sekiryuutei! Very nice!"
Gren slammed a fist into Ise's chest, and blew him backwards.
Ise didn't stop though and came at Gren again and again with fists which Gren matched.
Rias knew she couldn't become involved with their kind of fight, but still went through it anyway. Their fists came together again and again. And his armour was blown off each time Gren reached his body. But he repaired it with his will and continued onwards for everyone that he loved and cared for, he couldn't hold himself back so he could keep his loved ones safe.
"Hah! Too slow!"
Gren's body avoided a fist thrown at him by Ise, and jumped up, grabbing the man's face, and then embedded his knee into the face of Ise. Thankfully, he wore the mask which was blown away, exposing his face, and before he could land a horrible blow, Ise announced "Ascalon!" which came out of his gauntlet, and sent a stabbing motion towards the young man.
Because it was a Dragon slayer, even Gren looked nervous, so he moved backwards, receiving a small cut on his body. He felt his body trembling slightly, but he still looked so excited right now even with the cut.
"Ascalon, it isn't Gram but it isn't bad either. Between them, Gram's probably superior due to the firepower it has, but Ascalon is dangerous in its own right as well. I didn't give you enough credit Hyoudou Issei. You at least have an image of how to fight. And exposing the Dragon's weaknesses as well. But you know, you're also weak to Dragon slaying objects as well!"
Gren pushed off the ground so Ise glared.
"Ddraig! Transfer the power to Ascalon!"
[Transfer!]
Ise's sword gained more power thanks to his Sacred Gear, and stabbed forward. But Gren used his good battle experience, and pushed the blade to the side, then grabbed Ise's arm, twisting it towards him, and Ise could see what he was doing.
"No!"
Ise forced the sword back into his gauntlet. But before he fully could, the sword scratched himself, causing Ise's body to shake. It drained him and with his already drained power, Ise wasn't sure if he would be able to hold on.
"Ise!"
Rias cried, trying to intervene, but Gren turned towards her, and shot out "Piss off redhead!" with a fireball hurdling towards her, slamming against her body and caused her to hit a tree, making her cry out in pain.
"Buchou!"
He looked at Gren's face mixed with his anger and hurt at what he did to Rias, and he could see a dirty smirk was on his lips.
"Thanks for giving yourself more power, you just took the full power of it. Heh, using a weapon you have no business using. If you have a weapon that can be used against you, you've got no business using it in the first place. It is the same as thinking you can win just because you attained Balance Breaker. I was fighting before you were even a twinkle in your grandparents eyes. That's right, I'm a lot older than I look, and I've fought countless battles, did you think I didn't know about your tricks? I have killed a Sekiryuutei before, and I'm about to do the same to you!"
Gren raised his hand towards the desperate looking Ise. He felt his body worn down from the assault before he got from Gren, a flash of light came down from the sky, and knocked Gren away from Ise's body and he saw the change around him, the barrier had been destroyed.
"Sorry for being late, it seems like we had a hard time locating this area."
"Nyahahaha, this is Vali's rival huh? Well, I guess he's fine."
Standing before them, was a man with a sword giving off a holy aura, and another man wielding a staff in his hand and was riding a golden cloud. Gren looked towards them, and snickered at the sights.
"Seems like Vali's little friends have come by huh. Where's your leader? Wait, I know, she's with the lord. Damn, and we thought that you'd not find this place...well, it doesn't matter, we got what we came for anyway."
No one understood what that meant, and only looked on as Gren smirked wildly.
At the same time, Makoto, Kuroka, and Koneko stood before the young woman and readied themselves for the fight. Makoto twirled his twin blades in his hands, and Kuroka summoned her Senjutsu and Youjutsu together in her palms, Koneko also allowed her Senjutsu to flourish around her fingertips.
Orochi looked on between all of them, and smacked her lips together a single time, ready to devour at any second.
"Ara, so we're fighting three on one? That's not fair, I haven't even done anything. You're such a brutal grouping!"
"We'll show you how brutal we can be!"
Kuroka yelled back, while Koneko's eyes lowered towards the ground.
"Yes, that's right, you're very scary, aren't you? Hahaha, I'm not exactly worried though. Even with all of you, just one single scratch that breaks the skin can do it, even a kiss from me. As long as it gets inside of your body somewhere, from any orifice, then it is going to be the most scary."
Makoto placed a hand over his heart, and looked upon her.
"You know, it doesn't have to go down this way. Why do you have to take your revenge?"
"Because, we have to make them all pay my lord. The ones that hurt us, the ones that came for us, and made us like this. There's no use trying to change our minds, we've been working on this for years. We haven't had a chance to come back for a while yet, but we've been biding our time, waiting for what is to come. So, I'm sorry my lord, we have to fight, and if you don't want to get hurt, then please don't fight me either."
"Yeah, but I have to get involved, because you threatened Koneko-chan. You even threatened to do such things to her, to use her as a battery. She is no tool for you to use. I don't understand why you would even do something like this."
"Yeah, don't worry about it either. But if you aren't going to get out of my way…." Her eyes turned darker, and sharpened even more. "Then lets dance!"
Orochi didn't waste anytime and neither did Kuroka. Using her Senjutsu and Youjutsu together, she allowed them to combine into a circle and sent that off. Like a halo would look, the blue energy like flame came close to the young woman.
But Orochi's eyes became slitted, and from her mouth, poison was spat out. The poison landed on the Senjutsu and Youjutsu powers, and infected it. Sliding inside, the powers mixed together, and then like the infection, killed it off leaving only one which destabilized, turning it to nothingness as it was going to touch the young woman.
"Well, that was cute. Who's next?"
"Me!"
Makoto jumped up, and did a double swipe. Releasing holy energy, and ice at the same time, the cross slash attack towards Orochi. The ice, and holy energy seemingly worked in tandem with one another.
Orochi spat some purple poison onto it, but Makoto was smarter this time.
"Cocoon!"
He forced the ice to bend forward, and became like a shell for the holy wave, and rather than the holy wave be poisoned, the ice was, and melted down into nothingness. But the holy wave powered by Destruction Excalibur got closer to the young woman who widened her eyes.
"W-Whoa!"
Orochi crossed her arms, and her Dragon scales appeared. She blocked the holy aura, but some scratches appeared on her arms, and then Makoto's body went towards her, and did a double sword slash towards Orochi's body.
Since the swords went for her upper body, she did a back flip and landed on the ground, only for Koneko to be right on her, sending a volley of Senjutsu spheres right towards her body, making her body twitch.
"My oh my! This is getting good! I haven't had a good fight like this in a while!"
Orochi coated her entire body in poison and outstretched her arms outwards, infecting the spheres of Senjutsu and broke them down, leaving her Senjutsu into nothingness at all. She then went right for Koneko, her hands turning to poison aura. Even her Dragon like claws protruded forward, and Koneko grimaced.
"..."
Koneko didn't know what to say, and had to avoid the left and right swipes of the claws. The claws cut through the trees, and the places it cut began bubbling, and seemingly began the infection which soon killed it from the inside out.
"Ararara, didn't I say that I would be coming here and coming to get you? But I get it, you don't want to fight me. Though I'm sorry, I'm going to have to fight you even harder than before, so sorry about this!"
The young woman neared Koneko's form, and her claw went for Koneko's face. Makoto knew if Koneko was going to be pierced, then she would be infected, and killed off. But he nearly wasn't so fast to even get near her form…
Making the decision, Makoto held his ice blade tightly, and concentrated. Expanding outwards, the ice began to glow even more. He then stabbed the ground, and a field expanded from that.
He announced "Time Freeze!" and the area around him slowed down.
It didn't stop completely for the people that are stronger, like Kuroka and Orochi, but it did slow down for them.
"What...the...hell..."
Kuroka could barely move her body, it was like she was stuck in mud...no, it was something else entirely. She felt her entire body being slowed down somehow. The time freeze of Makoto's even made her movements sluggish.
"I'm...going...slow..."
Orochi looked to be the same, and couldn't allow this to slow her down. But try as she might, she couldn't get through it somehow. She couldn't even move as fast as she could before. She saw Koneko had been completely stopped however, like she was frozen in time.
Makoto took off running and used Excalibur Rapidly to increase his speed. As he ran, he could see that the time freeze was slowly going away, so he picked up the pace, and knew he wouldn't be able to land a desevive blow upon the young woman, so he got towards Koneko, and his arm shifted from his normal human looking one, to a Dragon arm, just as the freezing time ended, revealing himself to be defending her, and Orochi's claw came into contact with Makoto's Dragon arm...but it didn't pierce.
The claw left scratches, but nothing that broke the skin, leaving him safe from harm. Kuroka and Orochi both looked on as Makoto noticed that, seeing that she couldn't break his Dragons skin, so he balled his fist, and punched her right in the face, blowing her backwards with Rook's strength added to the attack, and ended her getting blown away.
"Aaaaaaaaah!"
Orochi cried out as her body went through a tree nearby, and smashed apart the ground, creating a crater for her body. Kuroka looked on as Makoto began to pant, guessing that he couldn't do that technique repeatedly.
Koneko looked upon Makoto's Dragonized arm, and then towards his face. She saw that shame hung on his eyes, but then Koneko took his hand, his Dragon hand, and looked at the arm. She ran her fingers over the scaly Dragon arm.
She then adopted a large smile on her face, and said while blushing
"It suits Mako-kun the best, the strong Dragon protector."
In his tiredness, Makoto's eyes cast upon the young girl, and saw her smile, and showed one right back.
"K-Koneko-chan..."
Koneko continued to smile.
"I had my suspicions a while ago...but, this confirmed it, Mako-kun is a Dragon...please don't worry Mako-kun, you're still the same Mako-kun to me. The man that I love."
Makoto smiled towards her, and she did the same, their hands being connected together.
Orochi whined as she got up from the punching. On her cheek, she felt pain throbbing.
"My, I got punched by a Dragon. So even the lord can make a Dragon arm appear too. That's interesting."
Despite the drain from the time freeze, Makoto stood tall, and walked forward, with his Dragon arm equipped and his fist at the ready along with his eyes as well as his swords. He wasn't going to hold back.
Kuroka looked towards Makoto as he made a battle stance, and Orochi did the same thing. She could see the tiredness in him, and what Vali would do if something was to happen to Makoto as well, so she allowed her aura to grow around her.
Kuroka was right on the woman and sent of several Senjutsu and Youjutsu circles right towards the young woman.
"Even your poison would have to have a point where you can't use it anymore!"
Kuroka shot those circles right at Orochi. Orochi clicked her tongue in annoyance, and allowed her body to move like a snake, and ran her fingers through her own long hair. From her fingertips, her poison laced together with her long hair, and she shot the tentacle like hair outwards.
"Well, that's a good reasoning, but even then, would it matter? If you can't reach my limit, what makes you think you can defeat me exactly? I don't have to be super powerful, I only have to hit you once. And I'll hit you that once soon enough, don't you get it?"
The eight strands wrapped around the attacks of Kuroka's, infecting the powers that were sent towards her. But by doing so, she left herself open to Makoto's attack.
He came from the side, and held fire in one hand, and ice in the other. He put his hands together, and combined their powers together.
"Koneko-chan, I need your help please! I want to test something!"
"Yes, Mako-kun! I'm coming!"
Koneko even came towards him, and wrapped her Senjutsu around his sphere, adding to the strength of the power.
All together, they had mixed a perfect sphere of fire, ice, and even Senjutsu. It looked like a glimmering orb that was before them, even Orochi looked slightly nervous at the sight of the power. But neither of them cared, and readied themselves.
""Fiery Ice Senjutsu Wave!""
Combining their powers, Makoto and Koneko set off their powers together. Orochi looked and murmured "Shit." as she breathed in some of her flames. She then exhaled a sea of her flames, that burned down all trees it came across.
The powers collided in the middle, and unlike before with Makoto's ice. This was different. She saw that Makoto's ice was slowly covering the fire, while the fire was breaking down her flames together with the Senjutsu.
"I don't think so!"
With a mouth full of fire, Orochi allowed her palm to coat with her poison, and touched her fire. Sending the aura through the flames, she was sure it was going to infect the ice...but, that didn't happen. Just before it could reach, Koneko surprised Kuroka by spreading her Senjutsu outwards, and wrapped it around Makoto's ice.
Orochi realized only too late when the Senjutsu took the power of the poison, and eroded away, but the ice remained and continued freezing her flames. Orochi looked on with annoyance at that, and crunched her teeth together angrily.
Kuroka jumped beside Makoto and slapped him on the butt, making him gasp.
"Well done Mako-chan nyaaa~ Seems like you've discovered a weakness of hers~ Even though my Youjutsu and Senjutsu were mixed powers, by taking one, she crushed the other power with her hair strength. You're quite clever Mako-chan, I'm happy nyaaaa~"
Indeed, they knew what could happen and not.
She could, only infect one type of power at a time with a single attack. If the powers were duel or more, then only one of them would be infected. And now they knew that, they knew that working together, and that's what Kuroka did.
Kuroka threw her hand outwards, and combined her technique of Senjutsu and Youjutsu outwards. She shot it towards the powers of fire from Makoto, and the ice as well, and clashed together. Because their powers were together, Orochi's flames were overcome, and embedded into the young woman's body, flinging her backwards, hitting a tree and made her cry out.
"Ouchy, that hurt..."
Orochi pouted out, rubbing the back of her head.
Makoto stepped forward with his duel blades.
"You can't run anymore. We have your secret fixed out, we know what your tricks are."
Orochi began laughing at what Makoto said, as she slowly stood up.
"Is that it huh. You know everything about me huh. Well, it doesn't matter now, does it? I've still got some cool techniques, so don't worry about me. We're about to rock and roll baby!"
Orochi's eyes and body quaked as her skin began to be coated in her poison. Slowly, with her body coated in the oozy substance, she had become dangerous, more so than before. They couldn't afford to get hit, it just wouldn't work at all.
Orochi's eyes went towards all three of them, then her hands went downwards. From her hands, a sphere of poisonous aura gathered. The aura then turned into a liquid sphere, then it split into two. She held them both in her hands, and twirled around.
"Move!"
Noticing what was going to happen, Makoto and the rest jumped as a number of spheres shot out towards them from the spheres that she held. Even though they were small, the spheres slowly eroded away anything that it came into contact with. The ground, the trees, the leaves, and everything else. They didn't like their chances and even though it wasn't like Apep's dissolving ability which could melt things instantly, this was in respects deadlier than his as it had long lasting effects if it got into your system.
Makoto didn't miss a beat, and brought out his swords. He charged for Orochi, and did a few slashes for the young woman. Orochi used her expert fighting skills and her body which moved like a snake and avoided all of the attacks.
"My, you're good my lord! Your swordsmanship isn't bad for someone who's been training for a little while, but I'm sorry!"
Orochi's poison coated body came at the young boy once more, slicing and dicing her way through the area. Makoto raised his ice blade, and blocked her claw, but the poison form of hers began to erode away the ice sword, and Makoto sensed a sharp cry from the Sacred Gear, Makoto mentally apologizing to his Sacred Gear.
"Freeze!"
Activating his power, Makoto's Sacred Gear glowed, and from that, the ice grew on the poison as well. Orochi surprised herself when she saw that it actually was freezing. Makoto poured his power into it, and was beginning to freeze her armour of poison.
But she then punched Makoto in the face faster than he could react. Though just before her fist came into contact with his skin, he used the Rook trait to increase his defence, even then she was quite strong and he went flying through the trees.
Makoto twirled in the air, and got on the ground, but he felt the poison burning away at his face. He cried "Aaah!" due to the pain he was receiving, though he didn't stop, and used his Sacred Gear to freeze his cheek, and the poison around it. Since it was only a bit, he could freeze this much, and then he punched it, causing it to shatter.
Makoto felt the burn of poison on his face, and while it did hurt, he didn't bleed. And it didn't go into his system either. He breathed out, seeing Orochi walking closer towards him, her poison oozing from her form.
"Wow, I was sure that I was going to poison you then. That would have been bad, I would have had to suck it out of you. But you're safe, I'm relieved!"
Makoto made a stance once more.
"Then lets do this!"
Once more, Makoto, and Orochi charged for one another, and blasted and attacked one another again and again. Makoto used his Dragon arm to block the poisonous ooze though it did burn, but not as much as Makoto's normal skin.
But it was easy to tell Makoto was growing in his tiredness. He had already been exhausted, and then some. But even then, he didn't give up because he knew that he wouldn't be able to give up either.
Koneko wanted to jump in, but she couldn't touch Orochi's body right now. Even if she tried, the poison would erode her skin and end up becoming a liability.
Even then, Koneko didn't give up, and went towards Kuroka.
"Ara, Shirone. What's going on?"
"We have to help Mako-kun right now, if you're here, help me."
To ask Kuroka, she knew Koneko was desperate.
Koneko never would want to fight with Kuroka. But for Makoto, she was willing to work with her so she could protect Makoto. That, made Kuroka hope that maybe, just maybe, she would be able to get through to her, and they could rekindle their relationships with one another.
"Alright Shirone, lets do this."
Koneko saw Kuroka place her hand out, and she cringed.
She didn't want to touch her...but, for Makoto, she did. She put their hands together, and their Senjutsu powers began to mix together. Two Nekomata's combining their powers together, and flourished beautifully.
Koneko didn't know how to feel about this. But for Makoto, to protect him, that's what she was going to do. Kuroka then added some demonic power to the front of the attack to fool Orochi's poison powers.
Seeing Makoto was about to be attacked, the pair shot their powers right towards the girl. Orochi sensed something was going on, and turned her head to see the attack, so she spread out her poison, but Kuroka's demonic power was encompassed by the powers, and it burned away, revealing the Senjutsu which slammed against her. Makoto saw with his eyes that her armour of poison disappeared as well when the attack landed, and blew her away.
Makoto panted, and jumped to the girls, and smiled.
"Thank you, both of you."
Kuroka raised her head.
"Look, we caught her off guard once, but we're not gonna be able to do that again. You're nearly exhausted Mako-chan and well, this bitch is tough. We're only going to be able to win is if we can deliver a devastating blow towards her."
"Yes...you're right, that's why we have to get close to her. She can only attack one type of power at a time. Even her armour poison thing could do the same. While she was dealing with your demonic power, she couldn't infect your Senjutsu and received the large blow. We have to use that against her, so I was thinking..."
Before Makoto could say it, Orochi came back, and was panting. Kuroka looked towards Makoto, and understood what was going on in his head, and even Koneko did as well. The three of them made a stance, as Koneko walked closer to Makoto, and used her Senjutsu to slowly restore some stamina that he had lost. It wasn't going to heal him completely, but she knew this is what she needed to do for this.
"I must admit, you're not bad, but I don't mind either, let us go and fight, hey!"
Orochi made a stance with her poison armour returned.
"That's it! I'm taking you down here and now!"
Kuroka's hands lit up with her two powers in tandem, and from that, she allowed both of her powers to be shot out. She used demonic power, and also Senjutsu mixed with Youjutsu as well. The young woman called Orochi turned towards the powers coming for her, and grinned.
"Have at thee!"
She grinned wildly, and turned her large spheres towards Kuroka's attacks. She threw them towards Kuroka's powers, and like before, since it was only two powers, the demonic power, and the Youjutsu began to dissolve, but from the power, Senjutsu was still there, and was sent right towards the young woman.
Kuroka smirked, believing that she would have gotten her, but Orochi showed her Dragon arm, and swatted away the power of Senjutsu. Kuroka's eyes broadened, but Orochi showed her dirty smile, and bared her fangs.
"You're first!"
Makoto, and Koneko looked on towards her, and saw her move forward swiftly like a snake slithering on the ground while Koneko continued restoring as much stamina as she could do.
Kuroka pulled back, and shot numerous attacks towards Orochi, but Orochi avoided them easily, she didn't even bother taking them down with her poison.
"Have this!"
Kuroka waved her fingers around, and the ground beneath her turned to mud, quick sand almost which seemed to be sinking in most of the ground around her. Makoto guessed it was some kind of technique from her Youjutsu or Senjutsu abilities.
Orochi though grinned, and ran her poison through the mud. From that, the poison spread around the ground, and from that, it seemed to be changing, and broke it down. The mud began to stiffen once more, like it was turning into the ground again.
"H-How is she..."
"I've infected the ground in the area." She revealed with a smile. "And I am going to infect you!"
The young woman rushed towards Kuroka, who raised multiple barriers. Orochi swung her claws, and with a mixture of her poison and claws, cleaved through them. Kuroka made some powers dance around and shot them towards her, but Orochi moved like a snake and avoided all of the attacks.
Makoto looked towards Koneko who lowered her eyes.
Makoto then raised his Sacred Gear, and allowed it to glow. Using nearly all of his stamina, Makoto stabbed the ground and a field began growing around him. It spread out as Makoto announced "Time Freeze!" once more, and the area was doused in the area.
Makoto then was propelled by his legs, and rushed towards the girls. But seeing how close Orochi was, and how little strength he had left, he could only get in the way of her with his Dragon arm, and time unfroze, her mouth being open, and bit down.
"Ngh…"
Her fangs were sharp, and even pierced through his scales of a Dragon. Kuroka couldn't believe that he had just done that, defended her from the attack. She didn't let it go though, and from close range, she shot a blast of demonic power with one hand, her poison armour reacted and broke it down, but while it was doing that, she gathered Senjutsu in her other palm, shoving it right into the young girls stomach.
"Aaaah!"
Because of the blast, her teeth unhooked from Makoto's arm, though he felt dizzy already, he tightened his hand, slamming it into the young girls face, and sent her hurdling downwards into the ground, creating a very sizeable crater.
Makoto panted, while Kuroka looked on towards him.
"...Why would you do that for me…?"
"Heh...don't worry about it. Besides, you have to be Koneko-chan's Onee-chan."
Kuroka's body began to quake silently. She watched Koneko walk over towards Makoto and held onto his form. Makoto panted, and held back onto her form as well, seeing Orochi's body twitching.
She stood up on shaky legs, and looked towards them. The poison around her had disappeared, and she was panting hard. But even then she didn't give up and magical powers danced between her fingers…
But then, the space changed around them, and a demonic wave slammed against the young girl. Orochi hit the ground, as a woman in armour came down from the sky. Makoto and the others looked on…
"Vali-chan...bout time."
Vali looked towards Makoto, and chuckled softly.
"Don't say that. I was busy fighting enemies that these people left outside. I came as fast as I could, they have strong underlings. But it seems like you managed to fight these people off very well."
"Onii-chan..."
"I've sent some allies to help him, he'll be fine...and ugh, that Rias..."
"Haha, I don't like her much either~" Koneko gave Kuroka a dry look. "...What Shirone?"
Koneko shook her head in annoyance, as Orochi panted hard. She looked towards them all, seeing Vali's armour and the others. She laughed awkwardly towards them all, Vali's eyes tightening on the form.
Since it was four on one now, and one of them was Vali, it was a very frightening experience.
"My, I feel so tired...this is the limits of my current power huh..."
"This is the end for you."
Kuroka dangerously threatened, Orochi giggling awkwardly.
"Well, that wouldn't be good. I don't exactly want to die here or anything. But it seems you aren't going to let me go...but, I'm still going to go..."
"You're not going anywhere!"
Vali extended her wings of light, and flew towards Orochi. She cringed, and held her hands up in defence...but, then suddenly, a barrier separated them between the pair. Vali placed a hand on the barrier and activated her Sacred Gear.
[Divide!]
Even when it did divide, Vali still couldn't get through the barrier which seemed to replicate once more. And then, in a dazzling light, a young girl appeared. Her hair resembled a trees leaves, and it was long and green. Even her eyes looked red as well. Her body wasn't bad either, she beat Irina and Xenovia in the breast department, and came close to Kuroka's bust size.
"Shit, are all the female Dragon's all fucking babes…?"
Kuroka looked jealously towards her, but she waved her fingers around.
"...Are you the descendant from Ladon perhaps? I've heard rumours of his barriers, and you yourself control barriers."
Vali growled out, the young girl nodded her head.
"Yes, I have to confess, that's how it is. I am his child. And I'm sorry, but I'm going to be taking this girl back with me. I've already collected Gren. Your comrades tried to stop me, but it seems like they couldn't get through my barriers, like you."
"Hmph, running away from a fight with me?"
"No, because this isn't my fight to begin with. I'm merely collecting my family." She picks up Orochi and cradles the young girl in her arms. "Don't worry Orochi-chan, you did amazing this day. You almost got the lord back, you did great for a sealed Dragon." Orochi smiled, as Vali took down barriers, but the girl made them faster than Vali could take them down, which impressed Vali immensely. "Don't worry Hakuryuukou, we're not here to fight this day. But in the future, when we've gained our powers back...not one of you will know what we've accomplished because you'll be dead." That threat shook Koneko and Kuroka, while Makoto and Vali looked on. Her eyes went towards Makoto, and she adopted a wide smile to the serious face she had before. "Aaah, the lord is there? Hello, it's been many years since I've seen your face. I'm glad, I'm so happy right now. Though please come back soon to us, family wouldn't want you to disappear, you know?"
"Wait, don't go! I need to ask you about my Otou-sama! Hey, please tell me...is he alive…?"
The young girl tilted her head to the side.
"Crom-tou-san huh...eh, he shouldn't be dead at least."
Then, the young girl activated a circle and disappeared, making Vali growl angrily.
"Damn barrier witch."
"At least we managed to beat Orochi back..."
"Yes, but she bit your arm, Mako-chan. Aren't you, going to be...infected."
Makoto waved a hand at Kuroka.
"No, I'm..." Suddenly, the colour from Makoto's face drained. "Gwaaaah!" From his mouth, a bit of blood was spat out, and he fell forward, but Vali caught him in her arms. "I-I feel...m-my insides...t-they're..."
"Shit..."
"M-Mako-kun!? D-Don't die!"
Koneko cried out with tears falling from her eyes like buckets of rain pouring downwards, as Kuroka looked on, tears within her eyes as well.
From that simple action of saving her, Makoto got poisoned, even his soul and life force was poisoned as well, and before her, he was dying.
Koneko shook the boy, but he wasn't responding, pain was on his face, and he felt sick inside, he felt his organs were on fire. If he didn't get magical help soon, Makoto was going to die, and Kuroka felt, pain inside of her.
Koneko looked towards Kuroka….but, she was already gone. Tears fell from Koneko's eyes, and she muttered "Typical." and turned back to Makoto, not realizing that Kuroka looked on from afar, hiding herself.
"...I'll save Mako-chan, definitely."
She decided for herself, and went off by herself.
End chapter!
So, we got quite a bit going in this chapter. We saw Makoto and Koneko confessing their feelings, and now are in a proper relationship. Orochi and Gren proved to be quite hard. Ise, Rias, Makoto, Kuroka and Koneko surely had a hard time against them. Ise awakened Balance Breaker, and Makoto's group managed to repel them enough for Vali and her group to shop up to help out. And Makoto's been poisoned by saving Kuroka's life! What's going to happen next!? We also got another member of the Evil Dragon group, there aren't much more now. So far, we've got Apep, Orochi, Gren, and this new girl who's name shall be revealed in the future. Of course we have Makoto and Chelia as well.
For those wondering about Makoto's own Balance Breaker, he'll be achieving it soon enough. I've got the perfect moment in mind for when he's going to achieve it, and what kind of powers it is going to have. It's going to be quite lively, that's all I can say about that. This wasn't the time but if you guys know of the next arc, then you'll know exactly when he's going to awaken it, and why.
Next chapter is going to be a cool down chapter from the fighting as we've got Sona's fight coming up soon. Also, a lemon between three people coming in next chapter! Makoto is if course one, but the other two are...shall be revealed next chapter!
Well, until next time, thanks for reading!
Issei; Rias, Yura, Aika, Bennia, Jeanne, Walburga, Xenovia, Le Fay, Mittelt, Reya, Mira, Katase, Murayama. (WIP)
Makoto; Serafall, Yumi, Millicas (fem), Irina, Gabriel, Asia, Koneko, Kuroka, Rossweisse, Gasper (fem), Kalawarner, Ravel, Kunou, Tiamat, Akeno, Vali (fem), Sona, Elmenhilde, Ophis, Katerea.
