Challenging fight, survival for peace
Hey everyone it has been a while right? Yea to long, to be honest, I almost had this chapter done and all that, but with the coronavirus happening things have been hell for everyone, and I think everyone can agree with me on that.
Now before I start I have to say a few things I wish have to say, the first is that I hope with everything that has been happening that every one health and being careful with everything happening, and that they do not do something that will cause themself to get the virus, cause it already happened last weekend, leading to major shit to happen, so yea wanted to say that.
Next, I want to say that it a while for me to adjust to everything happening, hell I still am adjusting to how things are now, but I honestly can't say anything bad about that, since many people might have it worse than others, myself included, so just stay safe, and be careful, and I know we will make it through this.
Other than that, I do not own anything related to High school DxD, or any other sort of subject from any other media and such, with this all said enjoy.
"Talk"
'Thoughts'
[Ddraig speak/thought]
{Albion speak/thought}
(Vitra speaks/thoughts)
*Location/time change*
(Flashback)
"Aah!" Issei called out, as he was punched in the face by Vali, before quickly throwing a vicious right hook to the right side of Vali's face, dazing Vali, only for Issei to vanish in the next second to dodge a fireball from Crom, which almost hit Vali, butVali managed to get out of the attacks pathway at the last second.
As this happened Issei was watching closely, as he studied how his opponents attack before his eyes widen and he bends back to avoid a slash coming at him from Apophis, then spins his body to the right to avoid another attack from Grendel, then went in and charge at Grendel and with all of his strength punch him in the eye, leading to Grendel to scream in pain, but it also made room for Issei to get sucker-punched by Vali, causing some distance to be made between the Evil Dragons and Vali so that they were a bit away from Issei who recovered immediately.
"Heh, so this is how you all want to do things, well then, I hope that you don't mind for me to change, into something more comfortable, for this fight," Issei spoke up after getting a moment to catch his breath, which confused his opponents until they saw the green gems of his armor glow a bit.
[Saber Mode!]Called out Ddraig, as Issei's armor transformed into its saber transformation.
"Now you bastards are done for!" Issei called out, as Ascalon appeared in his right hand, then gram in his left, and finally, Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi being held by his mouth, but the next surprise came when multiple swords appeared behind him floating around him in a circle formation, from what could be seen the swords were the missing pieces of Excalibur, Destruction, Mimic, Nightmare, Rapidly, Blessing, Transparency, after that there were the demon swords Nothung, Tyrfing, Dáinsleif, Balmung, and finally after that, there was a sword that no one saw before, a sword that was called Murasame.
"This will be the greatest battle that ever been seen, too bad that everyone that could watch is fighting at the moment, but I guess seeing the conclusion of the fight is just as good to most people," Crom commented with a smirk on his face, as Issei charged and began to strike at him Ascalon, but with incredible speed, Crom managed to dodge the strike, though what happened next was a surprise, since the other swords Issei had behind him moved and strike Crom, causing slashes to appear on his body, leading to him roaring out in pain.
While Crom was in pain Issei was trying to attack Grendel, who was avoiding Issei's attacks since he honestly did not believe he could survive the onslaught of attacks he, Issei, could produce, but it was all for naught since no matter what he did Grendel could not avoid the tiny scratches that Issei caused to appear on his body, then in a split second Vali appeared in an exposed spot that Issei left wide open, for Vali to punch him knocking him, Issei, to the ground, before he flipped landing on the ground as his armor glowed for a second.
[Archer Mode!]Ddraig called out again, as Issei's armor changed into its archer form with Tauropolos appearing in his hands.
"Let's see how you handle this, Fire Dragon Arrow style!" Issei shouted, as his arrows were covered with fire at the tip of it, before launching it at high speed, leading to the arrow stabbing itself into Apophis' left eye, causing the dragon to roar in agony.
Though with that task done Issei started to move around and tried to do his best to get some cover so that he can take out his opponents from afar, but from the results of what was happening it seemed impossible for it to work.
"This is not going to work, only for a surprise attack would this work, but in this case...Ddraig we are going to have to go in strong, so change it the armor to Nordic." Issei told Ddraig, who complied with what Issei said, leading to the armor glowing for a second.
[Nordic Mode!]Ddraig exclaimed with a roar, as the armor changed once again, leaving it to turn into its nordic form with the copy of Mjolnir in his hands, to only smack Grendel in his head when he was going to attack him, Issei, from behind.
"Alright, I am getting sick of this shit," Issei muttered before he lifted Mjolnir making a storm cloud appear from the sky before lightning came down and struck not only his opponents but those that were attacking the meeting room, eliminating many of their forces, but the damage did only so little against the dragons, all they got was being a little dazed, but soon he realized something was wrong, and that was Vali, he did not know where Vali was, making the situation that much dangerous.
"White Dragon's Susanoo's Blaze Sword!" A voice that could only be Vali's called out, making Issei look up and saw Vali using Susanoo, as his sword was covered with his white Dragon Slaying magic, mixed with the power of Amaterasu coming down ready to slash him, Issei, apart.
'Fuck you Vali!' Issei thought with a hint of anger appearing in his eyes, as he moved away as fast as he could away from the sword slash, though it was all for naught since it lead to him being scratched around the chest area of his armor.
'Ddraig armor change now!' Issei called out in his mind, which is a second he called out to Ddraig his armor started to glow once more.
[Biblical mode] Ddraig called out, as the armor changed again, becoming the form that he had that represents the three factions that he was apart of.
"Holy Spear, Demonic Wave," Issei muttered out loud, as light spears, and waves of demonic energy appeared and strike at all of his opponents, but they somewhat avoided all the attacks, or more accurately Vali did, everyone else that was not on Issei's side was injured or hurt to the point where the attacks hit everyone that was foe, leading to a smoke cloud to be formed, blinding everyone, and once it was clear the results were simple, the opposing side was depleted with the evil dragons and Vali being the only ones left, all while everyone that was apart of the meeting were injured for the most part, and they were about ready to help Issei, but that soon changed when an explosion hit them, leaving Issei, who was just floating in the air, to turn around and have a horrified look appear on his face if his helmet did not cover it at all.
'Vali's grandfather is here!' Issei called out mentally, but before he could do something he was punched in the face, sending him to the ground, and when he looked to see who punched him, it was Vali, who was blaring out his power, then the next thing that happened darkness.
Unbearable pain and explosions were all Issei knew what was happening around him, since he could hear screams, to prove it was the fact that everything in his body was sore and hurt, and as soon as Issei got up from the ground he saw destruction, from the distance he could see something shocking, it was Azazel fighting Rizevim, but as Issei tried to get up he just winces and falls back to the ground, until he saw Vali was aiming beams of light at random locations in a savage manner, causing something in Issei to snap, leading to Issei starting to stand up slowly, until after two full minutes he was standing on his two feet, something Vali noticed and growled at him.
"One more, one more time Ddraig, give me enough power to finish this battle, so we can have peace..." Issei muttered, as he finally took notice of what his armor looked like, the right-handed side of his armor was gone hand to the arm was gone, the armor to his left leg was also gone as well, and finally, there were holes around the chest and stomach area that were gone.
[I can only help you this last time, the drain from changing armor was a bit much for me to keep up with, especially with how long each change happened, so you have to make this last one count.] Ddraig told Issei, who nodded his head at what Ddraig said.
"I will win, there is nothing left to do except to break my limits again and do my best to finish them all off," Issei claimed with a voice filled with confidence, causing Ddraig to chuckle in amusement.
[Very well then, change! Lancer mode] Ddraig called out again, leaving Issei's armor to change again, to its lancer mode, though when the transformation was done Issei felt as if his body was forcing itself to fall.
'I don't have a lot of energy to stay in this form for a long time, heck I do not have enough to transform again, and this is a form I only know the basics of.' Issei thought with a small growl escaping his mouth before he relaxed his body, and looked around with his Sharingan eyes to observe the area as fast as he could so he can finish this fight as fast as possible.
Then within a blink of an eye, something happened, and that something was Grendel getting impaled through his chest, and the proof was the gaping hole that was there, leaving those that we're watching to look at what happened in shock, the next thing that happened to the body was that it was soon set on fire from the inside out, causing the ones that were human to feel queasy, while those of the supernatural to wince, all except the last two evil dragons, Vali, and his grandfather Rizevim, who looked like he was enjoying what was happening around him.
The next thing to happen was Issei appearing in front of Apophis and before the dragon could do anything he was stabbed in his one good eye, then within a second Apophis exploded into a burst of flames, leaving nothing except an agonizing roar of pain and suffering.
"There now only three big threats left to go, the only problem is that one of them is someone I can't kill, another is a dragon that can match me in power, and the last one is someone that I have no information about, meaning if I am not careful in what I do next I will die, and this battleground will be my grave," Issei muttered under his breath, as he was focusing his attention on Vali and Crom, he didn't have to worry about Rizevim at the moment, but he could not help but shiver at the thought about letting his guard fall for a single second, and with great reluctance, he turns his head to look to where Azazel was fighting Rizevim, and his eyes widen when he saw that Azazel was being beaten down as if he was some regular civilian fighting against a martial arts master.
Though as Issei saw this Crom came and charged at him, but luckily for Issei he noticed this at the last second and used his spear as a way to defend himself, and managed to stop Crom and hold him in place, as he did this he could not help but look at Vali, who was just looking at the fight between Azazel and Rizevim, which honestly confused Issei when he saw that Vali looked unresponsive, a nagging thought in his mind appeared the second later, which was how did Azazel and Rizevim start fighting in the first place.
*A few minutes ago with Azazel*
"It is not that bad, to be honest, just some grunts, the only problem was the ones Issei are fighting, who would just finish us off, but the fact that Vali is there makes me worried, well that is until I knew you were here...Rizevim..." Azazel spoke to himself for a moment as he analyzes the situation that was around him until he just called out the one name that ruined Vali's life, the one Devil that he hated more than anything in the world.
While nothing happened for a few moments, it soon changed when Rizevim appeared behind Azazel with a disturbing grin on his face, to which Azazel turned around and glared at the man with hatred in his eyes.
"What's the matter crow? Mad that I took Vali away from you all? Or is it my amazing presence that has you annoyed?" Rizevim questioned in a childish like way, which honestly creeps the hell out of Azazel when he heard it.
'I forgot how childish he is, he is even more creepy than when Searfall does it, but then again she can be serious and act like a child at the same time, this guy he literally does not care about anything, not even his son and grandson, which is what makes me mad, he cares for nothing, but something that interests him.' Azazel thought with a small grimace if Rizevim noticed it then he was not showing it, he just kept his disgusting look of childish amusement on his face.
"You know what it is all the above, you sick freak, and I am going to kick your ass for everything that you have done, then I am going to stop whatever it is you have planned," Azazel told Rizevim, as he raised his artificial sacred gear, but it did not matter since Rizevim still had the same look on his face.
"Meh, it does not matter honestly dead or alive my plan will be done, all that is needed is the time since that is honestly all I need, and it can't be stopped since by the time you find out where what I am doing is at, then well it will be too late," Rizevim stated with an eye-roll, causing Azazel to look at him with wide eyes since he did not think that Rizevim would be thinking ahead like he is at the moment until a sudden thought entered his mind.
"Then I guess you don't mind if you were killed, but that is the kinda thing that you want us to believe when in actuality you want to live to see the result of what you are doing," Azazel spoke, as he donned his armor, before it disappeared the second that it appeared, shocking the Fallen angel before a knowing look appeared on his face as he looked at Rizevim, to see him smirking at Azazel.
"Sorry, but I can't have you having anything you can use to cheat in this fight," Rizevim told Azazel, who just looked at him for a second, before making a light spear appear in his hands, before getting in a standard stance of fight that all Fallen Angels use when fighting.
"I don't need any sacred gear to kick your ass," Azazel stated, before charging at the devil with a burst of speed that mildly surprise Rizevim when this happened and barely dodge in time from the spear that was going to attack him, but he did by moving to the side, but then he had to lower himself since Azazel made another spear and was using to stab Rizevim in the gut, only to fail due to said dodge from before.
"You will have to do better than that Aza-Kun!" Rizevim called out, causing Azazel to twitch at what he said, before charging at the devil who was Vali's grandfather, but to Azazel's surprise Rizevim made two swords from his demonic energy and used it to clash against his two spears made from light, but the biggest surprise was the fact that the sword was not destroyed when the two different energies clashed against each other.
'How strong is he to make his demonic energy become immune to holy energy?' Azazel wonders in his mind, as he clashed with Rizevim once more, but once again the guy blocked with his weapons, which annoyed Azazel every time it happened, the fight was honestly going in a pattern with what the two were doing from beginning to end.
It was a strike, then a block to counter it, if Azazel used any kicks or elbows, or anything of the sort Rizevim would use the same thing just to counter but put a bit more power into it, causing Azazel to be a bit sore as the result of his actions, but it did not matter to Azazel in the end, but by gaining some distance Azazel decided to do something new, by making hundreds of light spears behind him and launch them at Rizevim, who used his swords to make the spears go to different directions when they were close to hitting him, but there was something that made Rizevim worry if only a tiny bit, and that was the fact that more spears keep appearing and were coming down faster within every second, which was causing Rizevim to put some more effort into this fight he was in, but soon he froze when he was struck in the back, causing Rizevim to freeze, and slowly turn his head to see Azazel behind him, but as he looked at what ws in front of him he saw a bunch of light spears about to hit him, leaving little room in what to do, but then an explosion of power came off him and destroyed not only the light spears, but it also blew Azazel away as well.
'Well, that worked somewhat.' Azazel thought before using his wings to straighten himself in the air before he looked forward and saw that Rizevim was taking a deep breath, before he sent a childish glare towards Azazel, causing the Fallen Angel to give him a blank look, but on the inside, he was happy since his attack made Rizevim twitch in pain here and there every time he did something that made he moved his body in a way that caused pain to appear from his back, but then from the distance, there was a loud explosion, which came from Issei's fight.
"Well it looks like the last of the evil dragons are going to disappear, eh, I expected this to be honest," Rizevim commented with a shrug of his shoulders, causing Azazel to look at him with wide eyes.
"Wait, so you came here knowing that all of this would happen, but came here anyway, for some unknown reason that I do not think anyone will understand you came here anyway," Azazel stated in shock, but all he got as a response was Rizevim looking at him as if he was stupid.
"No, I did this to give you all false hope, after all, one reason is that no matter what happens I will win, and the second thing I will accomplish a selfish goal of mine, which let me tell you Vali will be the one doing all of the killings, leading to the breaking his mind so he can finally come down to my level if only a bit," Rizevim claimed with an insane look that appeared on his face, which made Azazel look at Rizevim in horror when he heard what Rizevim said, and growled at him before he charged at the descendent of Lucifer.
This lead to another fight between the two which was becoming more deadly with every second, as the two stop caring about pain and how many cuts would be inflicted to themselves, it was in honest words a blood bath with how much blood that was coming out of the two, they honestly ignored everything around them, from Issei changing forms to the second to last evil dragon being slain, but the battle between the two was something that could be described as simple when it came to the damage being inflicted since if one did a cut, the other caused a gash, a punch was countered by a kick, elbow, knee, the honest result at the moment was when the two backed away from each other in the air before they blast concentrated orbs of the energy they used and blast it at each other, leading to a massive explosion, before they charged at each other once more, only for Azazel to pause for a moment, as if something was stopping him from moving, leading to Rizevimto start beating down on Azazel, showing no mercy in any of his attacks, which is what exactly what Issei saw.
*Present time with Issei*
'Shit this is not the time to give up or complain about anything, I need to hurry up and take care of these two so I can help Azazel, even if it could lead to the death of me.' Issei thought with a sigh before he took a deep breath, and concentrated gathering energy around him, which is something that every one that is apart of the supernatural noticed, and looked at Issei with wide eyes, but Azazel was screaming at Issei to stop, but it was too late since Issei started to gain an eyeshadow around his eyes, before opening them to show that his pupils were now cross-shaped showing that he was now mixing up the power of his transformation with sage mode, but then a second later he grabbed his chest in pain as an unbearable pain appeared, as dragon scales were forming around the everywhere on his body, but it got worse since it felt as if the scales were being peeled off, before reforming back onto his body over, and over again.
[What the hell were you thinking, using Sage mode in this form, you never truly did this in a fight, especially in your balance breaker, with this income of power I don't even know if you will live or die within a few minutes, to make matters worse your skin/scales are getting ripped and repaired at a rapid pace there is honestly no telling if this will affect you during your fight or not, hell I am not even sure if you can hold all these forms together at the same time if you do anything.] Ddraig claimed in a shocked yet raged filled voice, that soon showed his surprise and astonishment to how this was working out so far, and knew for a fact that this was all possible due to Issei's will.
"Then it will be up to you to hold the armor up since I barely can hold this up for so long, maybe if it was sage mode and my True Infinite Dream Red Dragon Hybrid form, then maybe, but in this case not really, I wish I could go god mode on them, but that won't be ready for a while now, so this is all I could come up with, so this leads to what I said before Ddraig I need you to keep the armor intact, otherwise it is game over, make the power lower something, anything cause we are dead if the armor is not going to stay on, I mean we could win without it, but I do not play luck or risk at the moment.' Issei replied to Ddraig mentally, causing the red dragon to huff at what Issei said to him.
[Even with my help there is not going to be a lot of time, so I suggest that you hurry and beat these two and fast.] Ddraig told Issei, who mentally nodded his head in agreement before he felt a small lift of stress leave his body, and within a blink of an eye, he disappeared and appeared in front of Crom, and punched him in the snout, to then spin his spear as fast as he could to block the breath of fire coming at him, to then fall to the ground when he was punched by Vali, who decided to join the fight.
Issei stood up, and looked at the sky and glared at Vali and Crom, wondering how he should fight against these two and beat them as fast as possible, then after taking one deep breath, he dashed at his opponents and delivered an uppercut to Vali, before flipping backward and kicking Vali in the head, before allowing his reflexes to force his body to move and evade a claw strike from Crom, before appearing above him and punching him in the head with all the power he could produce and knocked the dragon from what he could see out, but that is honestly a guess if he was going, to be honest, then within an instant, he turned his body away from an attack that was going to cut him in half.
"This is going to be longer than I thought it would," Issei muttered, before he winced a bit, as his armor disappeared from his body leaving him in his transformed state.
[I said you needed to beat them fast, not my fault this happened.] Ddraig claimed, causing Issei to mentally scream inside of his head, causing Ddraig to wine when he heard that scream before Issei was punched in the face by Vali leading to him being fling away from Vali due to the strike, and he came to realized that Vali's hits now hurt bad, something that should not be happening unless he was very low on power, given the fact that at this point Vali was almost as strong as Hades surprisingly.
"Ok now, this is going to suck." Issei groaned out as he landed on the ground before he rolled to the side to avoid a stomp to the face before he started to go into hand to hand combat with Vali.
*With Azazel and Rizevim*
"Ugh!" Azazel called out, as he was punched in the gut, spitting out a bit of blood in the process, before turning his body to avoid a punch from Rizevim, who left himself wide open when he went punch Azazel, to which Azazel gave him a nasty uppercut in retaliation for almost hitting him.
"What's wrong can't keep up?" Rizevim mocked, causing Azazel to growl, before he punched the devil in the face, before making a spear of light so he can stab him, but that was put to a stop when a shield of demonic energy was made blocking the attack, leading to both items to be destroyed from the collision, while also pushing both of them away from each other.
'I need to end this, if not then I need to make sure that he won't be as strong as he is now, so everyone else can get him, doesn't matter if I am alive or dead in the end.' Azazel thought within his mind, with narrowed eyes before he disappeared and appeared behind Rizevim with an orb of light magic within his right hand, before he fires it at Vali's grandfather, who looked at the attack with wide eyes, while also realizing that he could not avoid it in time, so he coated his body with demonic energy to try and hopefully survive the attack.
An explosion was what happened next, there was smoke covering both Azazel and Rizevim, though when the smoke cleared it revealed that Rizevim was not harmed by Azazel's attack, but there was something off about what happened, to Rizevim a large part of his mind was telling him that Azazel would not be able to fight anymore since he was low on energy, but there was this small part of his mind telling him that it felt as if Azazel did not put his all into the attack he used.
"That was a weak attack, what are tired already?" Rizevim mocked trying and failing to hide the feeling that there was something wrong, but his eyes soon widen when he saw something behind Azazel, that caused him to look at the fallen angel in fear since behind Azazel was a giant light spear.
"Heh, if you think that was me getting tired, then you have another thing coming if I am going to lose this fight I am going to take you with me!" Azazel called out as he threw his light spear at Rizevim, who tried to block the attack with his demonic energy, but it was not something that was helping him since the only thing that he is doing is buying himself a bit more time, since the light spear was easily destroying all of the demonic energy that Rizevim is using to shield himself.
This lead to a battle of if Rizevim can last long enough till the last bit of power the light spear was used up, or will the light spear outlast Rizevim to the point that the devil will have no energy left to fight back, leaving Azazel, even his state, the ability to kill Rizevim, but both the fallen and devil knew that if the light spear fails to do the job then Azazel would have no energy left to fight back since the light spear was made from Azazel using a large number of his magical reserves, that shows that Azazel was betting everything he had into this one attack.
Then an explosion was all that happened next, which caught the attention of everyone, especially Issei and Vali, who stop fighting to look at the location of where the explosion happened, and what they saw made fear grip their hearts, especially Vali's since something in his mind snapped at seeing what happened, and what happened was a bloody Azazel falling to the ground, while still in the air was a blood-covered Rizevim, who looked ready to pass out, but even though Issei wanted to kill that devil, he didn't and instead flew as fast as he could to reach Azazel before he crashed into the ground, all while Vali just floated there with wide eyes, and then once again an explosion happened that caused mass destruction everywhere in the battlefield.
*A few hours later*
A groan was all that escaped Issei's lips, then it was seeing a light that blinded him, causing him to close his eyes and groan in displeasure, it took a few tries but in a bit, Issei finally opens his eyes fully, and he saw that he was back home in his bed, but there was one thing that in his mind at the moment, a simple question, but it was one question that was very important, and that was, what happened?
"I see that you are awake." A voice spoke up, causing Issei to turn his head for a bit, and saw that it was Asia, which made sense after all that has happened it was obvious why Asia was in his room.
"What happened?" A tired, yet dry response came from Issei, causing him to grimace since his voice sounded like it has not been used in a long time, causing him to wonder how long he has been out, but seeing a depressed, and worried look on Asia's face, well it just made Issei want to comfort her since it was obvious that she was not in pain in any way, but she was hurt since someone she was close to was hurt as well.
"I am going, to be honest, what I am going to tell you is big, so brace yourself," Asia started with a look that was telling Issei to listen to what she was saying, and nodded his head, before doing what she said, then giving her a look to tell her that he was ready, causing her to sigh. "Azazel is in critical condition, the fight he had with Vali's grandfather was devastating his reserves are very low and it will take a long time to heal, anyone close to Vali is shocked about what has happened since it all went onto the news, till from what we guess an explosion happened, we thought you all won, but no, Vali is gone, his grandfather, as we know is crippled, and finally Crom is missing from the battlefield, other than that everyone and thing that attack you all are gone, but that is only the mass effect of bad news, the personal one is Raynare, she was...broken, I honestly do not know what to do about that, but the good news is that everyone is going to work together now, but that is the only good news." Asia finished saying what she knew to Issei everything she knew, and it made Issei grimace a bit when he heard all this, but the thing that bothered him is that all that Asia said what stuff the knew, and it leads to some thoughts on what could of happen in the shadows.
"I...Thank you for telling me this, but I need some time to think about everything." Was all Issei could say, to which Asia nodded her head and left his room, causing something in his gut to twist, as if something bad was going to happen.
*Unknown location*
"It is almost time..." A voice spoke.
To be continued...
There we go, another chapter is done, hopefully, it will not take over three months to finish another one of these, but I will try my best, anyway other than this I wish you all luck with how things are now, and I hope you are all careful, other than this until next time everyone.
Complete Harem- Irina (Main girl), Raynare, Kuroka, Asia, Xenovia, Serafall, Gabriel, Penemue, Rossweisse, Yasaka, Artemis, Akeno, Koneko, Ophis, Ravel, Amaterasu, Le fay, Aphrodite, Tiamat, Murayama, Gaia, Bennia, Tsubasa, Elmenhilde Karnstein, Kiyome Abe, Tomoe, Sona, Jeanne
Void
