"So….whats up with your voice? Is it the mask? Or a spell?"

"My voice is altered by this mask"

"Ah, ok"

They were both in his room, this is where he would stay. He said he didn't need a bed as he had a place to sleep.

He was currently standing in the center of the room, his book was floating between his arms. The pages were flipping back and forth.

"No offence, but you look like you've been around for a while"

"Indeed, I have been alive for thousands of years"

"So uh, you wouldn't happen to know anything about the Aspects?"

The book closed and was grabbed from the air.

"The Aspects? As in, the dragons?"

"Yes"

"I know of them, I have researched them and studied them"

"Great, uh, someone is currently using their power"

The book fell from his hand.

"The Amulet is real?"

"I thought you would have known that"

"I know of the legends and the tales, I never confirmed if it was real"

"Oh its real, I got my ass kicked by its wielder"

"You came into contact with it and survived?"

"Yup"

"Hah…...ha ha ha ha!" the being began to laugh.

Pierce could feel someone approaching the door.

"Someone is coming"

The laughing stopped, Pierce assumed he would vanish or something, nope.

He turned into a fancy black box and fell to the floor. Pierce placed the box on a shelf.

Sona walked in. "Pierce, what are you doing in here?"

"Nothing"

"I felt something…..strange, in this room"

He must have lost his hold on his aura when talking about the aspects.

"Just me"

"First the strong holy aura, then something weird and dark"

Sona spotted the black box on the shelf.

"What is that?"

"What?"

"That box"

'Oh shit' he had only one way to hide this. 'Sorry buddy' he didn't know if this would work or not.

Pierce touched the box and moved it to his pocket dimension.

"What box?"

"Pierce"

"Yes?"

"Show me the box, Pierce"

"Sorry, can't do that"

"Pierce, show me the box"

"Dad said I can't"

"You are terrible at lying"

"Fine, I cant show you because it will kill you"

"What?"

"The power in the box is dangerous, it could kill you"

"And not you?"

"Im immune to its effects because Im a Fallen Angel"

"I don't believe you"

"Then I will do this as many times as I have to"

He used his speed to get close to her and place a hand on her shoulder.

*flash*

Sona found herself in the living room, Pierce was not there.

"Nya~ that's strange, I thought only Pierce could do that"

"Yeah, he did that to me"

"Why would he do that?"

"He's hiding something again"

"He's always hiding something"

"Yeah but this time its something dangerous"

XX

Pierce sighed and locked his door, then summoned the box.

"She's gone"

"That was unpleasant"

"Sorry, I panicked"

"Please put me on the floor"

Pierce placed the box down, it shifted back into his body.

"Thats a neat trick"

"A very useful one"

"So, about the aspects"

"Ah, yes"

XXX Sona XXX

Sona will get to the bottom of Pierce's shenanigans.

She would need some help though, so she gathered up everyone else.

Herself, Hoka, Tokah, Kuroka, Tiamat, Shia, Aria, and Red.

He cant fight off all of them, especially Red.

"Ok, why are we here?"

"Pierce is hiding things from us, dangerous things"

"He's always hiding things"

"Yes, I know, but I felt something ominous and creepy coming from his room, along with a very strong holy aura from another time"

"What do you want us to do?"

"I want you to help me make him talk"

"You know he won't give in"

"The one who gets him to talk can sleep with him for three days"

They all looked at each other. """""""We're in"""""""

"Thought so"

He was probably going to make her regret her actions, but she really needed to know.

XX Pierce XX

"If I had to guess, Sona is probably going to talk everyone else into trying to make me talk"

"That sounds troublesome"

"Yeah, but they won't get anything from me, but I suggest you hide somewhere"

"I can do that" he turned into a box again, but this time it had a series of runes and markings on it.

It then floated into his hand.

"Place me in a drawer"

Pierce opened the drawer on his side table and placed the box inside.

It closed itself, runic black chains surrounded it and turned invisible.

[can you hear me?]

His voice spoke out in his mind.

'Yeah'

[good, it worked. Now you can speak to me while I hide]

'Isnt it a bit uncomfortable being a box?'

[i am not the box itself, i'm inside the box]

'How does that work?'

[well, I shrink myself down and enter the box]

'Wont it get boring?'

[the inside of the box is like a room, i've got plenty of books and scrolls to study]

'Ah, well have fun'

His presence melted away into his head.

Pierce just hoped that he wasn't poking around in his head and reading his thoughts.

There was a knock on his door. He sensed that Red and Tiamat were there

Oh yeah, that dumbass temple. The most sacred place for any dragon.

The caretaker of the temple was blessed by the Aspects themselves to protect the place. She was strict about how a dragon should be, and if she sees Red with him, she might lose the title of dragon.

XXXXX

A bit later, Pierce, with Great Red and Tiamat, teleported to a frozen mountain.

Pierce looked around. "Ah, yes, a beautiful temple" he said while looking at the barren snow and ice covered mountain.

"Its hidden by a spell only dragons can see through"

He was led through a barrier, the temple was now visible.

"Woah, i'm sad that I can't say this place sucks"

He bumped into a frozen (in fear) Red. she was staring at a woman who was walking towards them.

"It's been a long time, Nyxondra" said a black haired woman with a red dress that was underneath a purple vest.

'You there, Doc?'

[yes]

'Does the name 'Nyxondra' ring any bells?'

[no, i've never heard that name]

'Think you can do some research?'

[sure]

His presence faded.

"Right…" replied Red with a glare.

"Is that how you should greet your mother?" asked the woman.

Wait just afucking second, mother?

"And who's that… thing?"

"Oi!-"

Red stopped him from saying anything.

"That's none of your business" said Great Red "It's not like you care about me"

"Considering that you left your own family and threw the name of your dead aunt, just because you want to deny your true blood" replied her mother.

"I'm not like him!"

"It's true that you're more like that pathetic excuse of a man that was your father" said the woman with disgust "I should have killed him at sight, and not letting him touch me" she then sighed before adding "If only you were like your brother. At least, he's a true dragon"

"Do you really think that I care about that?" asked Red as she crossed her arms "The Black Dragons aren't my family"

"What a disappointment of a bastard daughter you are" said the woman with venom in her voice "Your grandfather would be disappointed on what you've become"

"How could you-" Pierce was interrupted by an oppressive force of power that exceeded Red by a decent margin. He stopped speaking, but stayed on his feet.

"Lady Onyxia" called someone who was approaching them "What can I do for you?"

Another woman came out, Pierce didn't exactly care who she was. But gave a questioning look to Red.

"She's the caretaker" the dragon whispered.

He looked to see her looking at them with disgust before walking away.

"I don't suggest talking to her unless you want to be banished and thrown off the mountain"

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Later, everyone arrived at a long table with two ranges of chairs, and one in the middle of the two ranges. And to Pierce's annoyance, Vali was sitting in the middle one, as he's the boss here. And behind him were Arthur by his right and the caretaker of the temple by his left. He looked in front of him and saw those who were in Kyoto with Great Red's mother sitting next to them as well as a strange light purple skinned elf in a green robe, an elf in a yellow robe, a man in a suit of red armor, and a woman in a set of blue armor with runes on it.

He sat and looked that in the range he sat in were Sirzechs and the other Maous, Michael and the other Archangels, His father with both Baraqiel and Penemue, Odin was also there with some Valkyries.

"Well then, let's begin" said Vali before looking at both parties "We are here to evade a war that could drive humanity to near extinction"

'Thinks he's so special just because he has a fancy necklace' what Pierce didn't realise was he actually mumbled that outloud.

He was thumped over the head by Tiamat who also pointed to the caretaker who was glaring at him.

Sirzech and some of the others tried to defend him, they were interrupted by the explanation of the murders and disappearances and how it's related to the destruction of the statue in Kyoto.

The suffocated children were the prey of the Ittan-momen, the people who had their lower half cut were the prey of the Teke-Teke, those who lacked their head and blood were the prey of the Gashadokuro, the deaths by scissors stabs were the prey of the Kuchisake-onna, and there were others that couldn't be known since a lot of spirits and evil creatures that entered the city.

Pierce had no idea what any of those things were, and if he was being honest, he didn't care unless he had to fight them.

Vali sighed before turning his head to see someone walking in.

"Well, it seems like the Hunter became the Criminal" mused the old man.

"And you are?" asked Azazel.

The old man chuckled and said "I'm Kel'Thusad, and I wish to propose an alliance with the Youkai"

'Hey Doc, you got anything on 'Kel'Thusad?'

[Kel'Thusad? That arrogant bastard is still alive?]

'I'll take that as a yes'

"Why should we accept?" asked Yasaka.

"Because I can free someone who is one of the greatest ally you can get" answered Kel'Khusad with a smirk "I'm talking about the Oni god, Shouten Doji"

'He's saying something about allyig with the Yokai and freeing a god'

[He what!?]

'Woah, calm down'

"You can't do that!" yelled Sirzechs as he got up "No one should free her!"

"Can you really do that?" asked Yasaka.

"I know so many spells, that no one can be compared to me" stated the old man "Well, there's another one, but his knowledge isn't like mine"

'I think he is talking about you now, he called you 'not as smart' as him'

[that old bastard should be dead, I knew him back when he was a mage. He also became a Necromancer, last I heard he died but no one knew how or why]

'Well, he's alive'

"So, what are the results?" asked Vali.

Yasaka looked at the death goddess who nodded to her "We would like to regain control over the entire north of Japan and having every church being removed from those places"

"And you're ready to forgive the incident?"

Yasaka nodded.

"Very well" sighed Vali "By the Treaty of the Two Alliances, the north of Japan will fall to the hand of the Youkai faction, if there's any objection… say it now"

"Yeah! I think-agh!?" he suddenly felt like his soul was being ripped from his body.

His father jumped up. "Wait! Please let him live! He's-"

Pierce couldnt hear anything now, his vision was fading as well.

Everything stopped, he fell to the ground coughing and heaving in oxygen.

[are you ok?]

'I almost had my soul removed'

[ah, yes, I could see having my soul ripped out being unpleasant…...if I had one]

XXXXXXXXXXX

As everyone was exiting the temple, Pierce noticed that both Tiamat and Great Red were not there, he began to walk around until he found them kneeling in front of the caretaker of the temple and saw something going out of their bodies.

"From this day on, you shall not be considered as Dragons, but pathetic and lusty lizards that serves a human" stated the caretaker of the temple with a harsh tone "all your privileges in this place will be removed and now, you shall never gaze upon this place, nor you, nor any of your decedents"

"Thats a bit harsh-"

He was suddenly back where they were before they entered the temple.

"What the hell?" He saw Tiamat and Red with miserable expressions.

"Please, just take us home"

"Ok"

And so he did, then he went to his room.

'What the fuck just happened?'