Red Savior's Advent
Author's Note:
Despite having success in Death & Rebirth, I decided to delete the story for some personal reasons that I don't want to you to pry on. instead I decide to use the elements of Death & Rebirth and decided to use this in Hero's Advent. So forgive me anyone who was eager to read the next chapter of Death & Rebirth, I'm sorry, but I hope you enjoy this new story. I don't own anything related to Ichiei Ishibumi or anything mythological.
Life 00: New Life (Literally)
My name is Issei Hyoudou, the former Sekiryuutei and Pawn of Rias Gremory. The reason why I refer myself as the former because I've already died and moved on to the after life.
It all happened after my promotion exam to become middle class devil. I was in the hotel along with my friends and girlfriend from the Occult Research Club. Though it seems that it was nothing more than a group of high school students enjoying themselves after taking a stressful test, which it originally was, there more to it than it appears.
Azazel-Sensei, the supervisor of our club and governor of a fallen angel organization known as the Grigori, secretly brought Ophis, a leader of a terrorist organization known as the Khaos Brigade, to my home without informing the core members of the Allied Faction, along with team members lead by Vali Lucifer, the great grandchild of the original Maou Lucifer and also the current generation's Hakuryuukou.
Together we were ambushed by the Khaos Brigade's Hero Faction leader Cao Cao, descendant of the original Cao Cao from the Three Kingdoms and possessor of the strongest Sacred Gear, True Longinus. Cao Cao made a deal with Hades to capture Ophis and used the power of the ultimate dragon slayer , Samael to steal Ophis's power. Despite our efforts to stop Cao Cao, were easily defeated by that man's immense skills and end having the destruction of the Xenovia's Durandal EX, Vali recieving Samael's curse, and Ophis losing majority of her powers.
Cao Cao treated soon after and we were dealt with the Grim Reapers of Hades. We calculated a plan to escape the fake dimension that Cao Cao trapped us in and were almost freed till Shalba Beelzebub, leader of the Old Maou Faction and descendant of the original Maou Beelzebub, appeared with Hero Faction member Leonardo, who possess a high tier Longinus called Annihilation Maker, and forced him to release Balance Breaker along with kidnapping Ophis.
I stayed behind to chase after Shalba while everyone else escapes the fake dimension. I found Shalba overpowered him easily, although I was poison with an arrow of Samael's curse. I tried my best to stay to stay awake from sleeping away to my death, however the curse got to me and now I'm dead.
To make matter worse is that I died a virgin. Damn it! I wanted to at least had sex with Rias and Akeno-san once before I died! I just recently started a relationship with Rias! I can't experience a life of having a girlfriend! Now I'm dead I can't have sex! I can't make children with Xenovia! I can't feel the breast of none of the girls in the Occult Research Club! Shit! Being dead sucks!
Argh, how could fate be so cruel!
[Umm... Partner? Can you hear me?]
Ddraig...? Is that you? Did my memories per chance became zombified within the darkest depth of Boosted Gear and you're communicating with nothing more but a fragment of my real self.
[No Ise, you're not dead it. You're alive.]
Alive...?
For a minute there I didn't believe what Ddraig was saying till I opened my eyes. The darkness I've been staring at was nothing more but my close eyelids and the first thing I saw through my eyes was unfamiliar gray ceiling.
"I'm alive...?" I murmured, sounding completely weary and shock.
I slowly moved my haggard hand and placed it on my cheek. I quickly gave myself a slap so hard that I could hear the sound echo in the room.
"Ow..." I groaned, rubbing my sore cheek that I just slapped.
Shit! That hurts!
Wait a minute... that hurts... Wait, I'm alive! I truly alive! Ddraig, we did it! We defeat Shalba and came back home in time to remove the curse in time before it could kill me.
[Partner about that...]
Before Ddraig had a chance to say something, something came into my mind.
"Ddraig, where am I?"
I slowly lifted my back off from the bed and checked around the room I was in. It was completely dark. The only lights in the room out from the thin space between the door and its frame, plus sunlight coming out through window near by my bed.
I can clearly tell that I'm not in the underworld. The light of the sun is a weakness to the devils and I clearly tell that I'm not at home in my bedroom. The ceiling was completely different and the room was smaller than the old I share with Rias and Asia.
And there was something odd about myself. Since I became a devil, I had the ability to see in the dark, yet parts of the room is so pitch black that I can't see so clearly without squinting my eyes or approaching it closer to get a better view.
Plus there was something else.
I-I feel completely fine... Like if nothing really happen to me at all. I don't feel fatigued or pain in my body. For matter of fact I feel completely refresh after getting some rest.
Ddraig, can you elaborate on this?
[Yeah about that Partner...]
The door opened before the awkward sounding Ddraig could even say anything to me. There stood an old looking maid, looking completely shock to see me and dropped the bowl of water in her hands. She looked completely flabbergasted as she cupped her mouth. Her eyes started to tear up as if she was suddenly relieved to see me or something.
"You're awake," she murmured. She slowly approached me by the bed and touched my check. "Oh Lugh, you're truly awake."
She quickly rushed out from my room and shouted out: "He's alive! The young prince is alive!"
Young prince? What is she talking about?
[Ise, there something I need to show you.]
The Boosted Gear materialized in to my left arm. The index finger of the Boosted Gear pointed directly to the drawer with a mirror above it.
[Go see the reflection of your window.] Ddraig requested in a serious tone.
Reflection?
I got off from the bed and head to the drawer. At first I didn't understood what Ddraig was saying to me about my reflection till I see what I was looking at through the mirror.
What I see through a mirror wasn't what I suspected to see. Instead of seeing my reflection, I see the reflection of a young handsome man around my age with messy black hair and beautiful jaded eyes. His skin is slightly tanned and his body is slender. Why do why see a reflection of this man instead of myself unless...
I slowly placed my hand on top of the mirror, where the reflection also did the same thing. I still didn't believe it and thought the mirror was magical mirror that was playing tricks with me. So I decided to yank a piece of hair from my head. There I brought that single hair right to my face to see that the hair I just yank was completely charcoal black.
I immediately flinched at the spot, shock to the fact that I'm no longer exactly in my own body. I slowly staggered backwards, trying my best to calm myself down on what just occurred.
Ddraig, what the hell happen to my body?
[I don't know,] Ddraig confessed, also sounding unsure how I ended up in a different body. [One moment I'm witnessing your death of Samael's curse and the next I knew both our souls were transferred to this body, where you have complete control.]
S-S-So you have no clue how I ended up in this body then?
[No, but I have a feeling that the original owner of this body was supposed to be your successor.]
Successor? Ah, that's right. When owner of a Sacred Gear dies, the Sacred Gear goes immediately to the next random person. But if this body is my successor, where the hell is he? And why am I in control of his body!?
As I asked myself multiple questions inside of my head, the old maid rushed back in. She seemed to be out of breathe but that doesn't stop her from dragging me out of my bedroom.
"H-Hey," I said, pulling arm away from the old maid. "Where exactly are we going?"
The maid stopped for a moment to catch her breathe. "We're going to see your great grandfather."
"Great grandfather?"
"Yes," the maid said, looking a bit concern. "What's wrong my prince? Don't you remember your great grandson of Irish deity Lugh?"
Well again sorry for anyone who was looking forward to read more of Death & Rebirth, but majority of elements of this story have Death & Rebirth reference, which I will reveal down road of each chapter. If you think Rei, the amnesia kid with the Boosted Gear, was the descendant of Lugh in Death & Rebirth, then no. He was descendant of Amaterasu. I chose Lugh for multiple reasons, one reason is due to being a Hero, Great King and God, which Vali is descendant of a evilness being. The other reason Lugh is within the Top Ten strongest beings in the world.
The Ten strongest beings stated by the author Ichiei Ishibumi are stated to be (in no particular order): Ophis, Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Śakra, Thor, Typhon (Or Fenrir), Hades, Aten, and Lugh.
"Great Red isn't included because it is a creature who basically doesn't fight (I get many claim that this isn't true!), and it is the ranking before Ophis and Fenrir lost their powers. What you will have to pay attention to are the Hindu mythology which hasn't appeared in the series yet. Well, those who know about their mythology know it, but the Hindu Gods all have cheat-like abilities,"
-Ichiei Ishibumi
When I looked over these Mythological figures, I was surprise how many Hindu Gods were on the Top Ten list and decided to change it, but I won't say which are the Top Ten strongest beings till the future chapters (This also applies to A Second Chance.)
Oh if you want to get a better picture of what Issei's new vessel exactly looks like it's the picture on the cover. It's name Jason Todd Ongoing Petition. He's the second robin sidekick of Batman, who was later killed by the Joker, but later brought back from the dead and became the Red Hood.
Oh for all those A Second Chance Fans out there, The first 500 words of the next chapter of A Second Chance has been written and hopefully the next chapter will be published sometime next week or the week after that.
Well the prologue is over, now it's time for the preview of the next chapter:
Masquerade...Suspicion...Confession...Judgement...
Next time in Red Savior's Advent: Deception
Issei: I'm not the person you think I am.
