Chapter 2: Chaos

"Talking."

'Thinking.'

Locations

Noises

Issei and Shemhazai looked down on the hundreds of devils that had decimated the Southern Sector, both releasing their auras in order to draw attention from the shattered defensive line.

"I'll take the brown-haired man, his aura reeks of the sea. You should focus on the other, he seems more dangerous. The others will try and focus on me since I have less wings, but don't worry about that. I can handle multiple enemies at once, even if they are stronger than me." Issei began intensifying his red aura, the light causing the majority of tension to be focused directly on him.

Shemhazai watched as Issei began releasing a ghostly heat from his person, his wings being tinted slightly red from it.

The devils that had been on the ground were flying into the air around the two fallen, the pressure of auras was being felt across multiple sectors of the Grigori.

The devil that Issei had picked flew up to face him, what shocked Issei the most was that the devil possessed 12 wings.

"It would be great to know whom I would be fighting against on this infamous day," spoke the devil. Issei regained himself, his opponent was immensely powerful.

Issei then realized why his opponent's aura reeked of the sea, this was a descendant of a Satan. Issei had to remain calm.

"I am Issei he who pierces through the light of God." Issei then expanded his wings out as his aura was beginning to reach its peak. His red aura was now shining a superior red, this caused some devils to turn away from the intensity of light that was radiating from Issei.

"I see why father wanted to end your kind as soon as possible. If the fallen angels are capable of producing being with special traits that use their power to a certain extent like this, then I can see why. I truly envy your kind, such a sin. We Leviathans are so, but my clan would rather have you all dead!" finished the now known descendant of Leviathan.

The realization of what was now going on what apparent to Issei.

"Shemhazai."

"Yes?"

"We are fucked."

"That we are, no going back now."

Issei and Shemhazai stood back-to-back, putting all their trust into each other.

And that began the start of the battle.

Issei and Shemhazai both took towards the strongest devils in the enemy forces, the enemy force caught off guard by the direct assault.

Issei went straight after the Leviathan with a light spear in his hand.

The Leviathan responded by putting up a defensive magic circle, he then ordered his troops to attack. Issei saw this and aimed his spear forwards as he began to spin.

Upon contact with the magic circle Issei pierced right through it much to the shock of the Leviathan. Issei then punched him right in the stomach which sent the devil flying backwards.

This angered the Leviathan who began to summon large amounts of water, this forcing Issei to intervene against his opponent.

Issei summoned another spear and aimed towards the Leviathans magic circle. Before he could launch his attack, the devil army began to attack him, causing him to dissipate his spear.

He summoned two swords of light and stopped the two devils who had attempted to flank him. Using his wings, he managed to stop the few that tried to from attacking him from the rear. Issei then quickly lowered one of his arms and used the momentum to cut through the devils around him, this causing the blood to go everywhere.

Issei then turned his attention back to the Leviathan, his look intensifying as a large amount of water had begun to descend upon him. The pressure forcing him to the ground, yet the water vaporizing immediately upon reaching his aura.

As the attack began to weaken Issei stood up and summoned a light spear after throwing his swords into two oncoming devil soldiers.

Issei immediately took back to the skies and began to clash with the Leviathan, both men preventing the other from landing attacks.

As Issei was dealing with his fight, Shemhazai was dealing a different nightmare. His opponent was a member from the Lucifuge house.

Shemhazai was impressed as he battled the devil, using the full extent of his powers to rain down light spears upon his enemies. He took a different approach than Issei as he used distance to constantly rain down magic attacks.

"What grand power you Cadres have, whilst falling to sin you still retain your holy abilities. We devils however created our own!" the devil then launched an immense amount of demonic power at Shemhazai.

Shemhazai quickly put-up multiple barriers to defend himself, the attacks being halted upon contact.

This however was a diversion for the weaker devils to launch surprise attacks on his flanks, Shemhazai immediately shielded himself with is wings. He was under heavy bombardment from all sides, but he began noticing something.

Every few attacks a small gap of time would appear where there were no attacks, he decided to use this to his advantage.

After waiting a few seconds, he shot out multiple light spears in all directions. These killing most of the devils around him in haste. The remaining soldiers responded by flying above him, Shemhazai saw it coming and used his defensive magic circles to redirect the attacks from the Lucifuge devil.

This sent the attacks directly up causing all who were in the area to get caught within in.

The Lucifuge devil immediately stopped firing as he witnessed what he had done, this opportunity allowing Shemhazai to send a large volley of light spears his way.

The Lucifuge almost being impaled if not putting up a defense moments before the spears reached him.

"You made me kill my own men! YOU BASTARD!" he quickly took to a higher position and began raining down even stronger attacks than before.

Shemhazai dodged them. As he was doing so, he noticed how the devil soldiers began retreating from their positions. This gave him a little breathing space before he could develop a plan to fight against the Lucifuge devil.

Issei on the other hand was having the time of his life as he began to slice through the devil soldiers who had launched attacks towards him. None making contact due to the sheer heat and holy power being released from his aura which had acted as a barrier by nullifying the magic.

The Leviathan had temporarily retreated as he directed him soldiers to attack Issei, this being a way to study Issei as he fought.

Issei now being covered in the blood of his enemies as he kept dismembering them with a combination of his light swords and wings.

Issei ducked under a swing meant for his head and retaliated by bringing his sword up and piercing through the devil's stomach, leaning forward into his ear Issei spoke.

"Ash to Ash, you will all burn." Issei then used his powers to incinerate the devil completely, this act shocking the remaining devil soldiers. Issei began laughing.

"Hehehe, HAHAHAHA!" this catching the attention of the Leviathan.

"You send these amateurs against me so that you can watch me fight? For a Leviathan you are quite cowardly in my opinion." Issei's taunt infuriating the devil.

"All forces retreat, I'll fight him alone!" shouted the Leviathan. His men quickly began to retreat as he descended to the ground to face Issei.

An intense stare down began between the two. The tension of the entire battlefield began to change as the Leviathan began to glow.

Issei jumped back to gain more distance from his opponent. The leviathans figure then began to grow into that of a sea serpent of mass scale.

Issei watched as the large serpent began to charge an attack from its mouth, the aura growing exponentially.

Issei began focusing the remaining amount of power into his wings, the aura radiating off them scorching the area around him.

Issei then leaned slightly forward as he fixed his stance in order to launch himself upward, summoning two swords of light that also radiated the same amount of power his wings were.

"I either stop you here or you surrender now, MAKE YOUR CHOICE LEVIATHAN!" shouted out Issei as the ground began to shake from the aura he was releasing.

The Leviathan now increasing his power that was being focused into his mouth, the aura shining brilliantly before being launched directly at Issei.

Issei launched himself upward directly at the attack, spinning unbelievably quick his figure appeared as a red circle. He used this to cut directly through the attack, splitting it in half so that it wouldn't hit the Grigori.

Once he was able to get through the beam Issei cut through the side of the serpent's mouth, rendering its jaw useless as the beam stopped.

The moment after Issei cut through the serpent's it began transforming back into his normal form.

This however wasn't a good thing as Issei's red aura vanished. Issei was now exhausted from burning through his power, this caused him to fall out the sky. Issei ended up crashing into the ground badly, leaving a crater in his spot.

The Leviathan then flew over to him, the devil bleeding intensely from the wound which stretched from the front of his mouth to his ear.

The Leviathan then picked him up by the collar and brought him close to his face, Issei not having any energy left was defenseless against his enemy.

"YOU BASTARD! HOW DARE YOU CUT MY FACE!" the Leviathan then threw Issei onto the ground.

"URHT!" Issei was now vulnerable. The Leviathan walked over and stomped his boot into Issei's chest, causing the teen cry out in pain.

"KEEP CRYING! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU FOR THIS!" shouted the devil. He then moved his palm over Issei's stomach and fired a magic attack. The blast carving right through his stomach, this caused Issei to hurl up a large amount of blood.

The Leviathan then aimed his hand directly at Issei's face, a magic attack charging in his palm.

"Filthy creature."

Before he could fire the attack, he was stopped by Azazel who cut off his arm with a sword of light. The Leviathan reeled back in anguish as he was then stabbed through the back by Kokabeil's light spear.

His body being disintegrated by the lethal blow.

Issei watched on as they all landed near him, but he couldn't hear what they were saying. His wound was lethal, and he was bleeding out quickly.

His vision began to blur as time went on, the last thing he saw was Azazel reaching for his head. Then his vision went black.

"Mmmm," groaned Issei as he began to awake from his sleep. There was pain coming from his abdomen. He began to open his eyes as he tried to wake up.

The first thing he saw was the ceiling of the infirmary, the bright lights almost blinding him.

He turned his head to his left, there sat his mother who was sleeping in a chair next to his bed. She was resting on the table next to his bed.

"Mom?" spoke Issei as he tried to sit up. The pain from his abdomen stopping him halfway.

"Egh." The noise from Issei began to wake up his mom.

"Issei! Your awake!" His mother then lunged at him and put him into a hug. That did hurt him slightly, but he endured it to not worry her.

She was crying tears of relief, Issei hugged her back regardless of the pain.

"What's going on with you?" asked Issei in a soft tone. His mom tried to stop her crying, but to no avail.

"You've been asleep for 3 days. I wasn't able to see you for 18 hours after Azazel had brought you into the infirmary." His mother's crying becoming more serious.

"You almost died!" Azza tightened her grip around Issei.

Issei looked down at his mother, still fixating on what he just heard.

'I almost fucking died.' The thought repeated itself in his mind. He could have been killed during battle; everything would have been over for him.

As the two sat there a few guests had walked in unaware to them.

"Hey kid." It was Azazel, with him were Shemhazai and Baraqiel. Issei looked up a to his father, a grim expression was across his face.

"How close?" asked Issei who didn't bother with eye contact. Azazel knew what he meant by 'how close'.

"If we didn't intervene then 1 second, your surgery was barely enough to keep you alive."

Issei lowered his head and placed his chin onto his mother's head. The three Cadres looked at him, Shemhazai had an upset expression across his face.

Azazel walked up to the other side of Issei's bed.

"You did well son, I'm proud of you. You and Shemhazai were able to hold the line from collapsing long enough for us to launch a full-scale counterattack. The devil army was defeated after we killed most of the leaders that were present on the battlefield."

Issei smiled slightly, the others in the room confused by this.

Issei moved his mom away from him. She looked at him worriedly as he got up without looking at anyone.

"You ok kid?" asked Azazel as Issei began to walk towards the door of his room. Issei stopped as he put his hand on the doorknob, a dark expression placed was across his face.

"I have something important to do, don't worry about me." Issei then turned the knob and walked out the room, everyone inside bewildered by this.

"Calm your mind so that your energy may flow easily." Spoke Issei to himself, he had returned to his spot outside the Grigori.

A few days had past since he left the infirmary. The Grand Offensive had been postponed due to the devil surprise attack, now the Cadres were replanning the assault on Lucifaad. From what Issei was told they were considering his critiques from the original plan.

His wound had healed to an extent, but it still bothered him occasionally. He hoped that it wouldn't affect him after some time, healing magic could only do so much.

He was currently meditating in his spot, the ability to let his aura work in the way he did took time and patience. Aura control was the way he found out that he could intensify the amount of light, heat and holy aura his aura released.

He found that out after he began his training with his father, he was given advice in order to get stronger and this was the outcome. During one of his hunts as a training session he came across a high-class eastern dragon. He used his spinning technique to slice the dragon from the mouth all the way to the end of its body, splitting the creature into two pieces.

No one had seen him use it before, in fact Shemhazai was the only other person to know about it. Issei didn't know what had been spoken after he fell unconscious; all he could do was wait.

'Increase the output subconsciously, do that any your body will use less energy.'

Issei kept focusing on his spot, his body slowly being encased by his red aura. The surrounding area not being affected by it. Issei then began focusing his aura into the light intensity aspect, the surrounding area slowly burning as he increased it.

Issei then released his 8 wings, the aura encasing them immediately.

As he sat there someone flew over to him, landing a few feet away from him with a basket in hand.

Issei detected the aura right away, he decided to keep focusing. Azazel sat down in front of him and placed the basket in between them. He then took out a piece of bread and slice of cooked meat, Issei decided to speak.

"Are you just planning on eating in front of me?"

"I came to speak with you about something, but you seemed occupied. So, I decided to make something to eat while you meditate." Issei shook his head.

"You're lucky I'm trying something difficult that doesn't require my direct attention, now what is it?" asked Issei who was now letting his mind focus subconsciously.

"Our new offensive will take place soon, sadly we lost a good deal of officers during the attack. I need you to lead a battalion of soldiers for us," said Azazel as he took out a cup and poured water in it.

"Why should I lead? There are more experienced people than me you know?"

"I had a talk with Shemhazai after we stabilized you after the battle, he told me about how you were able to identify certain elements of a battle and make the more favorable outcomes happen. Not everyone can do that you know and believe me when I say that your mother wasn't happy. She threatened to kill me if you were hurt like that again. But I can deal with that a different time, so are you in agreement?"

"Sure dad," answered Issei as he increased his aura again.

Azazel smiled as he used the heat being released of Issei to toast his bread, much to Issei's annoyance.

Alright that is chapter 2, and damn I was disappointed that I couldn't write the fight scene better. Fight scenes are the 2nd most difficult things for me to write and damnit are they hard. If I can picture it clearly without thinking of something else then I can do something decent. But I was focused on future parts for King of Destruction. Anyways I had to make sure that Issei didn't win against the Leviathan, if I did then I would be giving him plot armor and it wouldn't make sense power scale wise.

Tell me what you think of the second chapter and soon we will be getting into the Grand Offensive. And what about Issei's title as 'He who pierces the light of God' I thought it was pretty cool. I do read all reviews to each story as well; I don't respond to some if I can't think of one or I can't due to them being guest or having pm off.

Thanks for reading and I'll put the next out soon hopefully.