[Brace yourself for a FILLER. I thought this would be the perfect time to do something like this, just before I do the whole battles in the next few chapters, so hope you like it.]

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[FastTrack 2003]

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Grayfia walks through the citadel of Lucifaad, wearing her maid outfit, she goes straight towards the large bedroom where her husband, Klaus Lucifer still stuck in bed and Grayfia comes in to wake him up. After that long night, Klaus slept deeply and had no idea that Grayfia got out of bed, perform her normal duties across the palace and returns to still find her husband still sleeping at the job.

Grayfia sighs and approaches the side of the bed to whisper "Lucifer… Lucifer…" She ends up giving him a pinch to the side of his face to finally get his attention "Klaus Lucifer, Get, Up."

Klaus groans and waves his right hand out to Grayfia and she grabs it. He replies "Hey… I'm awake, I'm awake."

Grayfia stands up straight and looks down at him with both hands on her hips "And don't fall back to sleep. This is your fault for staying up so late, so you should be blaming yourself." She then turns away from him and walks over to the window curtains to open up widely to let the light in.

Klaus turns away from the light and faces the other way "Alright… I'm up!" He tries to raise his body up with his right hand, while his left arm went completely numb and had to try moving it around to get control over it.

"You've got a busy day to go." Grayfia looks back to him "So please get up."

"But the bed is so cosy." Klaus said, moves the covers off of him and starts sitting up on the bed. He rubs his face with his right hand and got Grayfia to come over to help grab his left hand to help massage his left arm to feel control over it again. "Thanks…"

Grayfia massages his arm and remains with a straight face when tending to her naked husband, who decides not to wear any clothes in bed. She shows no embarrassment or blushing when sitting there next to her naked husband.

Grayfia replies "Everytime you play poker with your friends, you always drink up late and get groggy. You do this everytime."

Klaus groans and turns his eyes to her "Your one to talk, Miss Queen of Annihilation that can't handle her liquor." He finally controls his left hand and moves it to touch the side of Grayfia's face. Grayfia would stop him by pinching his hand to bring his hand close to his own. "Ow, ow! Hey!"

"Stop complaining."

Klaus fights back with a pinch on her right hand. She pulls her hand back and ends up smacking his arm, forced the two to slap one another until Klaus finally moves up off the bed, grabs Grayfia and pulls her onto the bed with him laying on top of her. His arms remain around her waist and his face closer against her, but his eyes remain half close, still feeling tired and Grayfia just lies there looking back at him.

Grayfia replies "I have already prepared a bath for you. You better get in there, or else you'll be laying in a cold bath and I am not heating it back up."

Klaus kisses her and finally moves off of bed "Alright." Then goes walking towards the door, but Grayfia quickly stops him by grabbing his arm.

"Perhaps you should at least walk with some clothes on?" Grayfia lowers her eyes down at the back of his body then back to his head and continues to remain with a straight face to Klaus.

Klaus turns his head to the side and smiles a bit "I bet you had something to do with my missing shorts?"

"Maybe." Grayfia turns away and walks back to the bed to pick up the white robes that was left there "Please put them on before you leave." She then takes her leave from the room.

After going out of his room with something to wear, he goes straight to the bathroom, drops his robes on the floor and climbs into a golden, wide square-like hot tub. He lies back on the corner of the tub, spreads his legs out, his arms leaning on the sides of it, sighing deeply from the hot water that satisfies him and makes him so much better now. While he remains in there, he looks to the left to find Grayfia coming into the bathroom, locks the door behind her and comes walking straight towards him.

"Do you find the water pleasing?" Grayfia asks

"It's perfectly adequate, Grayfia." Klaus looks up at the ceiling and starts moving his hands back into the water to splash his face a few times. After that, he leans his hands against the side again and looks to Grayfia "What's my schedule for today?"

"The other lords have attend the meeting in the throne room." Grayfia replies "I've told them that you will be running late, so they will take this time to enjoy lunch without us."

"Such a shame."

"They expect you to arrive at 1:30 PM."

"What?" Klaus looks back to her "But it's only eleven AM."

"I know." Grayfia begins to get his full attention when she moves her hands to her chest, unbuttons the top of her outfit and pulls it down to expose her body to him. Klaus stares and watches her, while she ignores him and neatly putting her outfit on the basket nearby on the table. She brings his full attention when he realises that Grayfia was wearing a white swimwear underneath that outfit of hers. The swimwear was white with some golden rings attach to the outfit to hold it in place, with two of them holding the side of the bottom of the swimwear and another at the front for the top and back.

"You look delicious." Klaus replies with a smile on his face

"It has been too long since the two of us…" Grayfia comes into the bath and comes closer to Klaus to press the front of her body against his "I want this…"

"Well, well… Someone's being naughty and I don't even have to do anything." Klaus leans back against the side and watches her rubbing her body against his.

Grayfia moves back and forth with her body going underwater until it reaches her neck and rises up until her breasts was close of touching Klaus' chin. While she begins doing this, her face starts to blush in red and grabs a hold of his erection that was starting to press against her body.

Klaus exhales from the nose when she grips his manhood and feels her hand slowly stroking it for a while before going much faster. Klaus remains where he was with a few slight groaning and will not be long before he could feel the climax coming. As he was feeling close of ejaculating underwater, Grayfia suddenly stops that from happening and moves her hand away from him.

"W-What? What are you doing?" Klaus asks and looks surprise.

"Not yet." Grayfia replies and kisses Klaus for a bit. She soon grabs onto his manhood again with her left hand, slowly moves her body up, pulls her bottom wear to the side and drives his manhood inside of her to give her some moaning pleasures from it. She moves her chest away from Klaus', keeps her hands against his shoulders and slowly takes her time on pleasuring herself with his manhood straight inside of her.

Klaus had his mind on her breasts, fixated on them when they continue bouncing in front of him and finally had enough with her swimwear. He place his right finger on the ring of the front of her top and pulls it back to help pull her top off to expose her breasts. He grabs a hold the both of them, groping them a while and playing around with her nipples to make her feel arouse. Grayfia would make him feel much better when she finally presses her body against his and presses his face between her breasts. Klaus enjoys himself when continues to play with her breasts, but soon to use his tongue against her nipples to give her something to moan more about. He held both her breasts together to suck on both of her nipples, while Grayfia just holds onto him, looks up at the ceiling and continues to moan from the sensitive of her breasts. As her desire for him completes, she stops with her slow pace on riding his manhood and goes much faster, which will take Klaus a few minutes for his climax to happen. As he felt it close of ejaculation, he would end up giving her a bite on one of her nipples.

Grayfia moans and left her mouth open for a bit, while also leaving her tongue out when feeling him ejaculating inside of her. She moves her body away from Klaus, moves her hands back underwater to grab the back of his legs and made Klaus lean forward to grip on her ass to keep his manhood inside of her. He thrusts a few times to make sure he ejects as much inside of her. While her expression remains the same, Klaus did not want to give Grayfia a few moments of breathing, so he wraps his arms around her waist, moves away from the side of the bath and starts kissing Grayfia in the middle of the bath. He now remains in control over her, continued thrusting inside of her and kissing her, while she tries to at least try to breathe from her nose.

Grayfia finally pulls his head back and inhales deeply before responding "You don't fuck around, do you?"

"What can I say? I'm thirst for you and you feel the same for me. Just say it."

"I'm not going to say it." Grayfia replies

Klaus smiles and touches the side of her face "Guess I have to force you to say it."

"We've been together for hundreds of years. You'll never bring me to submission."

"Says the woman who's wearing a bikini under a maid outfit."

So Klaus goes on again to pleasure Grayfia and rides her again until he ejaculates a second time, but will be a while before he reach his second climax for her. Grayfia just keeps her arms and legs around his body, allowed him to pleasure her body and let him crush her insides with his manhood, as well as over flooding her insides. Grayfia cannot admit that he was right and everytime she desires of him, her body loses control and her mind cannot stop her body from desiring Klaus.

After the second climax, both switches positions, with Grayfia coming to the side of the bath, both hands against the side and have Klaus to grab her ass again to drive his still thick manhood back inside of her again. She gasps a little and looks to the side with one eye towards Klaus. She looks forward and continues to moan for him, enjoying the pleasure of his manhood driving deep inside of her. She would end up feeling the heat and desire to touch herself because of Klaus, especially her breasts that forces her to start groping them herself with just one hand playing one roughly and the other holding against the side. Klaus makes sure to make the desire for her body to be put to a hold when he decides to grab both her arms, pulls her arms back, as well as her body and continues ramming his manhood inside of her until he reach his climax.

Grayfia howls to this amusement, while her breasts still needs to be touch and Klaus would eventually assist her in that matter. While he remains holding her arms, he eventually lets go of her to grab her breasts and pulls the back of her body against his chest. He kisses the side of her neck, continues to ram inside of her and whispers in her ear "Tell me you love this."

Grayfia hesitates to answer that, she bites the bottom of her lip to keep her mouth close, but ends up and tries to respond. "I so do."

"You're such a naughty maid… That's my queen."

"You're… One to talk."

"And that's your fault."

"No –" Grayfia looks up at the ceiling and gasps when feeling him reach his climax. She exhales deeply when feeling it flowing through her body and when Klaus was done playing with her breasts, she remains pressing her back against his chest and moves her hands back to hold both his shoulder and the side of his head.

Klaus wraps his arms just under her breasts and looks at her with a smile on his face and made her smile too. As the two breathe a little heavy, Klaus moves closer to press his mouth against hers and moves one hand to touch her breast. Grayfia remains where she is and continues kissing Klaus, but in the end, it had to be Klaus who decides to stop and finally give the two the chance to finally breathe.

But Grayfia refuse and has already submit herself to Klaus. She whispers to him "M-More please…" And made Klaus smirk. He had to kiss her some more until she decides to stop.

At the end of all of this, both of them moves out of the bath, snuggled up together and allow Grayfia to help dry herself and Klaus. After she was done cleaning the front of his body, she presses her naked body against his, kisses him for a little bit and moves her hand around his manhood again that still remains harden for her.

"My dear, you still desire for me." Klaus responds

"I can't stop you from doing more things to me." Grayfia moves her hands up to touch his chest and softly kisses him "But we have jobs to do and this must come later."

"And ignore this beautiful maid that's still hot and naked in front of me?" Klaus kisses her cheek and finally takes off the towel to wrap it only around Grayfia. "You should show your softer side more often."

"Come on." Grayfia turns back and walks out of the bathroom and goes to the bedroom to change clothes.

Klaus sighs deeply when staring down at her swaying hips "No man but me will see that gorgeous body of hers."

Grayfia stops at the door and looks back with a smile on her face "Love you too darling." Then turns around and finally departs

Klaus turns to the right to grab another towel to cover himself and goes with her to the bedroom. As the two begin getting dress quickly, Klaus stares back at Grayfia from behind to watch her put her underwear on and putting on her maid outfit again.

Grayfia notices that she was being watch by a dirty Lucifer, but she replies and continues putting her clothes on "Liking the view over there?"

Klaus smiles and comes closer to her to touch both sides of her waist to make her stop "You know, maybe after I am done here, you could always put on something real nice for me later tonight."

"Like a sexy outfit?"

Klaus hesitates for a few times but finally replies "Yeah."

Grayfia looks back to him, touches the side of his face and replies "I've already been satisfied thanks to you, so you won't be getting any of that softer side of me anytime soon." She then moves her hand down his chest that he fail to button up his shirt, but she will be the one to help button his shirt up.

Klaus moves his hands off of her and lowers his eyes down at her cleavage, while she remains button his shirt. He asks "Remind me how I fell in love with you."

"You wanted a power grab, so you got me. In the end, I dominated you and made you what you are today." She looks back to his face as soon as she was done fixing his shirt. She place her hands on her hips and replies "An emperor."

"What do you mean you dominated me? I was the one who got you into submission first."

"Right… You keep telling yourself that." Grayfia taps twice on the side of his cheek and turns away to continue dressing herself up.

"Come back to me when you are done with your duties." Klaus ends up giving her a smack from behind before he leaves. Grayfia stops and looks back to him, tries to keep with a straight face when he leaves the room, but she looks away and smiles a little.

And so after that, Klaus finally departs from the room and finally made it to the meeting through a quick teleportation. Grayfia leaves the room to perform her duties in the palace, but in truth, she goes to relax in her private spa by herself and has already finish everything that needs to be done for the day. Klaus had to attend the meeting without her, found the rest of the powerful nobles inside the throne room, all took a seat and would have to stand up when Klaus enters the room. He walks over to his throne, sits down and made the others sit back down.

After one hour of that boring meeting, which was mostly family affairs and deciding who is in perfect position to assist on some of the events that will be happening in the underworld. With the meeting finally put to an end, Klaus finally departs out of the room and would soon be met with Zeoticus Gremory, who wishes to speak to him one on one.

"Lord Lucifer." Zeoticus calls out to him and made him stop to look back towards him.

"Lord Gremory." Klaus looks forward and the two begin walking together down the corridor.

"I see you've recovered well during that hangover at poker." Zeoticus said "I guess you were alright drinking that whole bottle during your victory was alright."

"Not really… That one bottle of wine was a mistake."

"You beat Marius with those bottles he took from Earth. I heard they are over hundred years old." Zeoticus replies "Or was it two hundred years old?"

Klaus sighs "Can't believe one knocked me out. By the way, how is your lovely wife going these days? How is your son Noctis?"

"He's doing quite well at school, in fact, he's performing much well with his destructive powers. He's surprised me."

"Better be careful, or else he might overpower you and be good enough to lead the Gremory family. With him in power, you and your wife can finally get the chance to be alone together."

"I'm alone with her most of the time." Zeoticus laughs "But wouldn't that be an amazing sight, my son that will one day take the mantle of responsibility and become the head leader of the family. But we are talking about a couple of decades before that'll ever happen."

"We'll remain as rulers over our family." Klaus replies "We can't allow our new generation to overtake us just yet."

"Of course."

"By the way, you still planning that procedure on merging the powerful houses together?" Klaus asks

"There was an idea for a merge between the Phenex and the Gremory together. But if you had a daughter, we could merge our houses together." Zeoticus replies "My son and perhaps your future daughter."

Klaus laughs "Yeah that be the day… Wait, you have a lovely daughter, right? Why not match her with my son?"

Zeoticus stops and got the two to stop "Marius. You want Marius with my daughter Rias?"

"Problem with that?"

"Well, he's over centuries old and Rias is…"

"It's not the first time this has happened. You mentioned a merge between Phenex and Gremory. Why not have your daughter with the son of the Phenex Clan?"

"I thought about that, but my daughter has been refusing his hand in marriage because of what he is. She does not like him, but I did hear she's been quite the fan of Marius."

"Is that right?" Klaus looks forward and continues walking with Zeoticus "I should remind him that he has a fan."

"Well, you always have Vali. How is Vali Lucifer?"

"Azazel said he's watching over him, so I have no problem with him around here."

"The boy is very interesting." Zeoticus replies "He'll be useful to you when he gets older. Does he still have a claim to the throne?"

"No. The claim over the throne will depend if Marius desires to accept the responsibilities on ruling this world. Problem about that is that he needs to be on Earth."

"Ah, here comes your bride." Zeoticus stops when looking to the distance. He and Klaus stops when Grayfia comes towards them and has Venelana walking beside her "The two evil queens."

"I can handle my queen, but of yours?" Klaus looks to him and he just smirks. He comes up to Grayfia for a hug, but she ends up refusing his comfort when she is working.

Zeoticus approaches Venelana and kisses her softly, then looks back to Klaus "Will you be attending to my party?"

"If there's going to be fine wine and good entertainment, I'll be there."

Zeoticus stops and bows in respect to him "We'll be seeing you later tonight then. Come, my love."

Venelana bows also and replies "We'll be seeing you soon." She then walks away with Zeoticus.

While Klaus watches them leave, Grayfia pinches the side of his face to get his attention back at her. She replies "You seriously going to drink again? Have you not learned your damn lesson?"

Klaus looks back to her "You could always drink with me."

"And get drunk enough to fall asleep for a few hours while you go play with my body?" Grayfia crosses her arms

". . . . ." Klaus acts calm and replies with a straight face "No."

Grayfia rolls her eyes, lowers her arms down and walks away from him "You're a bad liar."

Klaus follows and replies "You so love it. I remember a time you were fake sleeping." He smiles and sighs "Now that was amazing."

". . . . ." Grayfia stops for a moment, tempted to pinch him again for that comment, but she decides to let that slide and kept walking. "By the way, I've heard that Marius Lucifer is making a trip to Japan soon. Perhaps you should go see him before he goes after the Wheel of Shadows."

"Guess that's something to do before the party. Will you be accompany me there?"

"Sure."

And so the two would end up taking their leave from the palace and travel to Marius' mansion. When they arrive at the mansion, both are met with the main maid of the household and bows towards Klaus when entering the room. The maid, who wears a different type of maid outfit like the others, her clothing that emphasizes sex appeal. Her outfit was short length down to her leggings, only reaching halfway to her thighs and shows to leave the side of it expose to show more of her skin, as well as showing some cleavage. She also wears long heel boots and thigh stockings that connects to her garter belt. She lets her purple hair down past her shoulders and has orange eyes.

"Welcome, Lord Lucifer."

"Is my son Marius available?"

"Of course. He's decided to train with his fighters before returning to Earth."

"Is he still hunting the Darkness?"

"No. I've heard he's going after the Wheel of Shadow."

"Ah, so he's finally going after Azrael. That'll give the angels something to talk about."

In the underground fighting arena, Marius was the same as always, except instead of having women around him all the time, he had men that will follow him in many battles over the ages. Marius was having a fight with four members of his inner circle, such as Alistair, Kazuya, Akira and Ramiel.

Kazuya and Alistair both look almost the same as they are in the present, except with a little difference with their hair. Kazuya appears as a young, handsome man in his late twenties with golden blonde hair and gold eyes. His uniform was an indigo pants with a sleeveless shirt, brown shoes, gauntlets and a belt.

As for Alistair, he appears in the same age as Kazuya, in his mid-twenties, black long hair put to a ponytail and blue eyes. He wears a black outfit an assassin would wear, except he wears no headgear to hide his head or face. He wears a black sleeveless shirt with black pants, a brown leather belt, and black jacket over his shirt and black boots. On this day he still wields one of the legendary weapons, Blood Sword. A katana blade with gold on both the guard and back of it, while the blade itself remains glowing with red of blood from the fallen. It is unknown of what kind of demon that remains inside the sword, but many have their own theories, while those who know the truth, keeps it to themselves and hopes that this certain demon remains inside the sword.

The next was the rook; Akira Kurogane. He is much older than both Kazuya and Alistair, as he was born in the 1800s, while Kazuya and Alistair join his ranks in the 1900s, but Kazuya was still younger than the both of them. Akira is a lean, muscular young man of average height with a slightly tan skin tone, messy red hair with two braids going down in front of his ears and dark red eyes. His main outfit consists of a black sleeveless, opened waistcoat and always expose his bare chest that has a scar on his abs. He also has dark brown boots and a black leather pants. On his back he carries a glaive, a three-edged throwing blade that ignites in red flames when he throws it and triggers an explosion on impact.

Finally there was the bishop and he join Marius' team a few years before Kazuya. His name is Ramiel. He is a fallen angel that has a set of four wings (eight together) and is usually a shady character to the other members. He is seen always wearing a blue featureless mask without opens for eyes or a mouth, a black full-body suit with blue features, mostly on his arms where and shows to have golden gauntlets that reach to his elbows, with a spike at the end of it that extends past his elbows from the back.

During the confrontation between Marius and all of his warriors, Ramiel stays at the back and spreads his arms wide to create angelic spears in front of him to send them straight at him. Marius was in his battle armour, avoids some of the attacks by flying through the air, but as soon as he lands, Ramiel attack from underneath his feet with a symbol that triggers a massive explosion that consumes him in flames. The other three remain nearby, but they spread out and wait until Marius clears the smoke, he just remains in there until he finally spreads his blue flaming wings, flaps them only once to clear the smoke away from him. As soon as he did that, he spots Alistair charging straight at him.

"Pitiful." Marius mutters and attacks with a demonic blast that suddenly vaporise the target. He was surprise, but he should have saw this coming, as he was fighting a professional assassin. "Hmn, illusions again, huh?" He then crouches down to hit the ground with a blast of his fire, creates a flaming circle on the ground around him, then stands up straight and spins around with his wings to hit the real Alistair.

Alistair was an expert at illusions and stealth, he creates illusions of himself to blind his enemy, while also turn invisible for a brief moment and attack on the right time. As soon as Marius ignites the ground, he jumps up and could only block the incoming wings with his sword, which sends him collapsing to the ground.

Akira comes charging in and Marius grabs his incoming punch, which he expects for him to do and quickly grabs his second punch that was coming. Kazuya came in from behind with both swords ready to strike Marius in the back. Marius had to let go of one of Akira's hands so he could move his left hand behind him, create a flaming spear that stretch further than his body and was enough to block the incoming swings. With one hand available, Akira was so close of grabbing his glaive to attack, but Marius fires back on Akira with his right hand that was still holding against Akira's left hand. Marius fires a blast to send Akira away from him, with him away, Marius quickly turns around, grabs his spear with both hands, blocks two incoming swings from Kazuya and spins the other way, while ducking down to trip Kazuya onto the floor. Marius looks back at the others to make sure they do not attack him from behind, while also lunging his spear at only a quarter through Kazuya's chest to eliminate Kazuya from the battle. All Marius has to do is drive his blade through their bodies and he can decide to eliminate them, so he decides to let Kazuya take little damage as possible.

"You're good." Marius replies and looks back down at Kazuya that remains on the floor with his hands against the flaming spear, which ends up burning his hands. "Almost got me." He then sends the flames of the spear through his right arm, aims it towards Ramiel that was in the distance, who was preparing some incantation and fires a shot straight towards him.

Akira sacrifices himself to take the incoming fireball and consumes himself in flames, but the flames did not harm him, however, this just made him much powerful than before. His ability allows him to absorb energy-based attacks or magical projectiles, absorbs much of the power and redirect it back at the attacker, namely Marius. After absorbing that power, he charges in with his own flaming fist that bright in red, while Marius charges straight at him with a blue flaming fist to counter. The moment the two contact their fists, both create a shockwave and a blast of fire from both colour, but Marius stood his ground, while Akira was sliding backwards.

"Damn! How long does it take to bring this bastard down!?" Akira replies

Kazuya rises up off the ground, his hand against the injury he took and takes a couple of steps back to stay out of the fight. While he breathes heavily and sweating, he thought to himself "Feels like we've been fighting him for an hour…"

Marius removes his wings and comes straight at Akira with quick speed, but Akira loses sight of him when he decides to appear behind Akira to attack. Marius jumps up to lay a right knee in the back of his neck, sent him to the floor and triggers a bright symbol that suddenly appears on his back. As the symbol fades away, the same symbol appears around Marius, bigger and strong enough to hold him for the moment. The white symbol remains around his waist and holds him at bay, thanks to Ramiel that uses Akira as a trap card.

"At last, the spell is ready to test it on him." Ramiel replies

Marius turns his head to the left and looks with one eye towards Ramiel "New spell?"

"I'll never reveal all my secrets to you, Marius Lucifer."

Alistair comes in to support by charging in with both hands to his sword and going straight to the stab through the chest. Marius looks back at Alistair, his eyes ignite in blue flames and pretty soon, he ignites the area around him in blue flames that stops Alistair from getting closer, but did take a few burns on his hands. Alistair had to look away from the flashing flames that surrounds Marius, and with no way of getting through there without getting burnt, he decides to retreat and drag Akira out of the attack.

Marius goes after Ramiel next, but while Ramiel stands there with his right hand aiming towards Marius, he lifts his left arm, twist his left hand and brings out magical chains from underneath Marius to hold him. The chains was a special design, similar to Chisato's magical chains and manage to put out the fire, while holding him for the brief moment.

While Marius remains stuck, the area begins to go dark when Ramiel was generating ten light bluish energy points around himself, then when ready, he says the phrase "A thousand-hand white heaven spear." Then they fire straight towards the target, resulting in an exceedingly and devastating explosion.

While the blast consumes Marius, Klaus approaches Ramiel from behind and applauds at this exciting display of power to the Nephilim. He stands next to Ramiel and replies "Your magic surely puts up quite the show."

Ramiel turns towards Klaus, places his right hand against his chest and bows in respect towards him "Thank you, Lord Lucifer."

"But you do realise he isn't dead, right?" Grayfia replies

Ramiel stands straight and looks back at the blast that continues to remain in the area for a few more seconds "I know. If this proves worth the research, then I'll be sure to attack my enemies with much greater power."

"Looking forward to that."

When the blast was finally lowering down, Marius can be seen, still inside the blast, but was able to protect himself from most of the damage and had to resort to going into full-body armour. Just as he walks out, he removes the armour and comes walking out towards him. While he was not in a good shape when he took off the armour, Ramiel did use his magic to help heal his body and regain some of his power that was lost during the one and a half hour fight.

"Hello Marius."

"Father." Marius nods to him then looks to Grayfia "Grayfia."

"Hello Marius."

Marius looks back to Ramiel and replies "Nicely done. I wasn't sure if I had to go into full state, you sure do know how to surprise me."

"You used an incantation of White Magic on Marius, while using a double sealing technique to trap Marius and give you find to finish the incantation." Klaus responds

"It's something I'll be looking forward into using it on the Darkness, or any other individual." Ramiel replies "Marius allowed himself to be the test subject, so that next time I'll be full prepare to attack with its full potential."

Marius taps on his shoulder and walks past him "Well, you did good." He then looks back to the other members of his group and saw them approaching them "You all did well. Lasted much longer."

"To be honest, you could've easily defeated us long ago." Akira replies

"That's true. At least you have the chance to go all out and attack me with everything you got. This way is better, and you could also gain much strength when fighting someone like me."

"Although if you want real power, you could always try and challenge me." Klaus replies with a sinister smile on his face

"Yeah… I'll pass on that offer." Kazuya speaks first

"Are you here to offer a challenge?" Marius looks to Klaus and soon decides to show his blue aura around his body.

Klaus looks back at him, tempted to challenge his son to another battle and was even ready to snap his fingers to make this fight official. Marius did notice his right hand was ready to snap, but Klaus moves his fingers away, turns to the side and replies "Perhaps another time. Maybe if you beat me at another game of cards, I might consider that."

Marius sighs and his aura vanishes. He crosses his arms and asks "Bringing that up, huh."

"Do you really think it's a good time to fight?" Klaus asks "Your maid said you'll be fighting the Wheel of Shadows."

"Don't worry." Marius looks back to Klaus then to Ramiel that walks away from the two and approaches the others for some healing "Anything goes wrong, I'll just use my trump card on him."

"Fighting at full-powered state does cause more damage to the world than you realise." Klaus said "Not that many people alive have seen you in that state..." He then smirks and continues "And I happen to be one of them."

"Sure. So is there a reason why you're here and watching me?"

"Is there a problem of greeting my son? It's been a while."

"Hmm, since when do you care of coming down here in my home?" Marius walks past him and looks at his peerage that begins to leave the arena.

"I've heard you caused a little slipup in Moscow."

Marius looks back to Klaus and the two walk together out of the fighting grounds with Grayfia following from behind. Marius replies "I almost cornered the Darkness somewhere in Moscow. He escaped…" He looks forward and continues "He must've had help from someone."

"How can you be sure?"

"There was only a few people who knew I was going to Moscow. The Darkness felt me coming and he bolted." Marius sighs deeply and looks back to Klaus "I followed him down to Kazakhstan, but I lost the trace of him. He's moving around somewhere, probably went east or somewhere else."

"You believe someone down here giving him some information?"

"Perhaps. Or perhaps it's Kokabiel. He's been shady for a long time."

"Azazel is taking care of that problem, so you don't have to worry about Kokabiel. What you should focus on is Azrael, but as for the Darkness, I'll be looking into his sudden disappearance and find out if anyone is in league with him."

"Be sure not to waste any time on it. I'm going after Azrael." Marius looks forward and continues walking, while Klaus stops and watches him leave.

"We'll be sure to throw you a party when you defeat Azrael. Come back alive."

Marius just raise his right hand up for a moment and lowers it when leaving. Both Klaus and Grayfia departs from this place, returning to the palace and getting something to eat together. With the three powerful lords out of the mansion, the four peerages decide to hang out, but Ramiel decides to return to the library to study, since that is always what he wants to do around here.

"Back to reading again?" Akira asks "Haven't you read all of the books in there?"

"I haven't completed my research." Ramiel replies when walking up the stairs "You three do whatever you want."

The three watches him go up the stairs and Kazuya looks to the two and asks "Has any of you seen his face under that mask?"

Akira looks to Kazuya "Some say that behind that mask is another mask. Pretty weird huh?"

The three laugh at that joke for a brief moment and Alistair replies "We've all seen him without the mask. I can't really remember the last time he actually took that thing off."

"Could always just sneak into his bedroom and see for yourself."

"I've already tried that." Akira replies "He sleeps with that damn thing on."

Kazuya sighs and turns back, while the others follow beside him. "So what do you guys want to do now? Since Marius is out for a while, we can do whatever we want."

"I was planning on travelling to Kyoto and maybe find myself a hot Kitsune."

"Still trying to impress the ladies over there, huh?" Alistair asks

"What can I say, I'm into that. You guys lived for a long time like me, how come you both don't have any wives?"

"I prefer to keep to myself and not bring that someone into my life." Alistair replies and lowers his eyes down at the handle of his blade that remains on the side of his waist

"Has that blade been causing problems?" Kazuya asks

"The blade can be satisfied when I drive this through the bodies of my enemies. I hope we return to Earth again and kill more of Marius' enemies."

"I… See. What about you Kazuya?" Akira wraps one arm around the back of his neck, leans closer and smiles to Kazuya "Where's your special lady?"

"I haven't found her yet."

"Just be sure not to fall for a human. The last time I did that, I caused so much damage during that time and…" Akira looks forward with a straight face, but turns to sad for a brief moment "We all know the story."

"At least you're moving on from your mistakes." Kazuya replies

"Yeah. You are better off finding some cute devil to be with."

"You think so?"

"Yeah, but if I find her so attractive, I'm coming for her first."

Kazuya pushes Akira off of him "Oh get lost!"

Alistair smiles and watches the two argue for a bit when they move through the mansion. As they move together, they decide to get some drinks to relax and ask for a maid to deliver them the drinks they ask for. They also went ahead and broke through Marius' secret stash to steal some special drinks that he keeps hiding from them and went ahead to take at least one of them for themselves.

Back at the palace, Klaus finally sat back and got to eat lunch, but the food he got on his large rectangular table was enough for dinner. Grayfia serves him the plate, pours him a drink and refuse to give him any wine for this lunch. Once she was done, she stands back away from him and waits for him to be done eating.

"Aren't you going to eat?" Klaus replies

"I've already ate. You think it was necessary to let Marius go after Azrael and not the Darkness?"

"The Darkness is not our concern, but what I am most concern about is the fallout from Angelus. She dislikes that we've been claiming some powerful artefacts lately."

"Can you blame her?"

"She trusts Marius and his decision on what to do with the weapons. The Wheel of Shadows will be placed in the Realm of the Dead, the Blood Sword remains with Alistair, however, he better make sure he doesn't do anything rash."

"The mean the one that lies inside that sword of his?"

"Yes. I am also concern about my brother. He hasn't much appearance lately, but there have been talks that he too is seeking these weapons out to oppose me."

"Should've killed him when you had the chance."

"Would you kill your brother?" Klaus looks back to Grayfia

Grayfia hesitates to answer that, but gives him an answer "If he was threatening my family, I'd kill him without a second thought."

"Wow… Scary." Klaus looks forward and cuts up his food on his plate.

"Speaking of family, what were you and Lord Gremory discussing about? Is he still discussing about possible arrange marriage again?"

"Yeah. He had this idea that perhaps we could merge the Lucifer and Gremory together. That would make a powerful power couple."

"You want Marius and Rias together?"

"Or maybe someone else…" Klaus turns his head to the side and have one eye towards Grayfia's belly.

Grayfia crosses her arms and asks "What are you looking at?'

Klaus looks forward and smiles "Nothing."

"You can't force these people into marriage you know."

"You sure? I asked you to be my bride and that was easy."

"That was… Different." Grayfia turns her head away from him

"I think that Marius should consider a deal of bringing Rias Gremory to his position as queen."

"Did you ask him about this?" She looks back to Klaus

"Perhaps maybe later I'll ask him to consider it, if he actually decides to see Rias Gremory. But there's also a reason why he doesn't choose a queen."

"They wanted something from him and they died because of it." Grayfia said

"He'll change his mind. Perhaps when there is a ruler I can finally take a break and slack off." Klaus laughs and takes a drink, but soon places it down when he begins coughing.

Grayfia sighs and comes up to Klaus to his side "What's the matter? Can't eat properly?"

"Oh shut up and bring me some good wine."

"You're not getting any wine and there's no way I'll let you slack off. Not on my watch."

Klaus sighs "Well you're no fun."

"No fun? I had sex with you in the bathroom not too long ago."

"And that was amazing."

Grayfia sighs in disgusts and decides to take her leave from the room "You can't eat while I'm here. I'll be returning to my duties, Lord Lucifer."

Klaus looks back to her and calls out "Be sure you wear something great for the party tonight. Right now, you still look more delicious than the food here."

"Mhmmm..." Grayfia just keeps walking

Meanwhile, Marius has his fight with Azrael near Japan. Marius' power alone could withstand the power of time that Azrael possess, so for the time being, Marius confronts Azrael in Japan and trigger a fight that could cause a certain earthquake in the area. While the fight prove difficult for the both of them, Marius was still victorious when finally incinerating the whole area in flames and cause the Wheel of Shadows to go on the defensive. Since he could no longer use his true gifts to destroy the Nephilim, it would eventually end in his defeat and his death at the hands of Marius Lucifer. His death and destruction would also cause trouble in the human world, with both of them using incredible power, Marius was the one who did more trouble and ends in an earthquake that would cause problems in Japan.

However, before Azrael would perish at the hands of the Nephilim, he did say a few words to Marius and would end up ignoring it in the future ahead of him. "You will find your end, Marius Lucifer. While you revel in the spoils of your battles, another shall rise from the heavens and claim their power. You will lose everyone around you and fail to claim what you truly desire. Your enemy will come for you and you shall prove to be inferior to this new shadow."

After that, Marius summons a flaming spear and impales him the neck. The spear soon explodes and incinerates his body, but as soon as he could no longer breathe anymore, the shadows that surrounds his body begins to evaporate into the artefact that falls off his body.

"And that's that." Marius crouches down to take the Wheel of Shadows and departs from this place before more problems happen.

He returns to find his peerage already at the party, but only Kazuya and Akira was together, while Ramiel and Alistair was both somewhere separately. It will not be long before Klaus and Grayfia arrives at the party too. Klaus wore his proper black suit and silver tie, while Grayfia wore a long, iris-coloured dress with some white at the front and bottom of her dress. She wore long gloves that reach past her shoulder and expose the top of her shoulders and top of her breasts to show some of her cleavage.

The two walk together through the party and was met with many supernatural beings that bow in respect for the two, since they are the lords of this world. They would find Zeoticus and Venelana together, decided to meet them first before entering long conversation with other friends.

While Akira was drinking beside Kazuya and tries to search for any particular woman he would find attractive. He would find the perfect woman and nudges Kazuya with his left elbow to call him "Hey. Hot vampire girl at your three o'clock."

Kazuya looks to his right to find the vampire, Amelia Carmilla standing nearby with her mother. Kazuya replies "You idiot. That's Amelia Carmilla."

"Yikes… Not getting close to that. But she's got that look that –"

"You're into strong, bad and feisty girls, aren't you?"

"Maybe."

"Then go find a yandere. Let me know when she brings you to submission." Kazuya smirks and looks away when drinking his glass of wine.

"You're not even bothered to even search for someone." Akira replies "Just a soldier that loves doing battles. Although, I can't wait to fight my next opponent."

"If you try to hit on Amelia then you'll find yourself in defeat and be torn to shreds." Kazuya looks back to Akira then looks to the side and notices Marius entering the place.

As soon as Marius saw Carmilla, he went straight towards her to greet her first. She exhales from her nose when she spots him approaching her, she turns her eyes away then looks back to him.

"Lady Carmilla. I should've known you would show up here again."

"Hello again, Marius. I'm surprise you still remember me."

"It's been almost a year, right? How have you been?"

"It's the same boring thing back home at my kingdom." Carmilla turns to the side and notice her daughter Amelia took her leave to make it just for the two of them to discuss.

"Not sure you keep attending to these parties, you won't get any chance of sucking the blood out of anyone here." Marius replies

Carmilla looks back to him and responds "If I feel the need to suck on anything, Marius… You'll be the first to know."

Marius scoffs and replies with a smirk on his face "W-What?"

"You know exactly what I said." Carmilla walks past him and Marius would soon to follow beside her.

"Haven't changed a bit."

"I can say the same to you. How many times have you continued to follow Angelus' wishes and protect humanity?"

"I know you care about humanity." Marius replies "You sure do love the blood that's pumping in their bodies."

"I stopped drinking that blood a long time ago. It may be a lustful desire to taste such blood, but in time, you wish to have better taste."

"I know. Drink the same wine and you're bound to want to throw it out the window and try something else."

"Hmm, did you really do that?"

"On an occasion."

"Sooo, I've heard you still don't have a queen in your ranks." Carmilla stops and looks back to Marius

"And a vacant spot for a bishop, a rook and a dozen pawns. Why did you bring that up all the sudden? You interested?"

"Can't say I do. But you probably wouldn't know what to do with me if you had me." Carmilla looks forward and takes a few steps away from him.

Marius watches her and replies "You'll have one step closer from tasting the blood of a Nephilim." And ends up making her stop to look back at him.

Carmilla stares back at Marius and her eyes slowly looks down at his neck, feeling the blood that is coursing through his veins. It was a blood that she had never taste for a very long time, but still keeps her body and fangs in control. Carmilla replies "Don't toy with me, Marius Lucifer. You are cute, but not that cute."

"Well, judging by the dress your wearing, you sure do know how to show off your assets to bring the boys to your yard."

". . . ." Carmilla looks forward and continues to walk away from him.

Meanwhile, Klaus and Grayfia was close to dancing room and notice that Klaus has taken his third drink right now. Before he could drink his third drink, he did offer it to Grayfia and she rejects it.

"You know I can't drink."

"I know." Klaus drinks her glass quickly, places it back on the tray from a servant that stood next to them and walks away. "Can't hold your liquor."

"But you definitely enjoy my drunken madness, don't you?"

"Thought you would've handled your liquor by now."

"Can you at least not get into another mess again?" Grayfia asks "It's annoying that I have to clean up your mess."

"Oh? Would you before that I pay more attention towards you and that gorgeous dress you're wearing?" Klaus smiles and wraps his right hand around her waist to press the side of her body against his. While she sighs and looks away from him with a disappointing look, Klaus touches the side of her face with his left hand and make her look back to him "How about before I get drunk and piss you off, how about we have a little nice dance together?"

"Hmmmm, as long as you remain on your best behaviour?"

"I'm always on my best behaviour when I'm out in public. You of all people should know that." Klaus moves his left hand away from her face and lowers it down to offer her hand to him.

Grayfia looks at his hand and takes it. With Klaus putting the drinks away, he finally takes his wife to the dance floor. They move in the middle, Klaus turns to Grayfia, placed his right hand under her left arm and his left hand holding onto her right hand. The two dance together with many others that was surrounding them, but gave them space to move around. As Klaus steps away from Grayfia with only one hand holding against hers, she spins around and is pull back to press the back of her body against his chest, while he moves his other hand around her belly to keep her here for the moment. Afterwards, she moves away from him, turns to face Klaus and he ends up lifting her up in the air for a moment with both hands grabbing her waist. When Grayfia lands back on the ground, Klaus holds one of her hands and keeps the other one around her waist to keep her close and continues dancing until the music finally ends. The people nearby applaud to the dancers, while Klaus smiles to his wife and ends up kissing her hand to make her smile.

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[That's all for this chapter. I know there should've been much more with this, but after redoing a couple of parts three times well this is all I could do and think of. This was mostly about Klaus and also about Marius' previous peerages and will probably be mentioned or perhaps another future filler will show more about them. More from this side story will probably be added later on in other chapters, so I hope you liked this side story.]