Firstly thanks for all the support we broke 500 follows? Damn that means a lot and it means you guys are enjoying this so heres another chapter and if we can get to 600 i will be overjoyed.
Consensus Ad Idem Part 2
As the world exploded in green so did a city block of Kuoh as the red dragon emperor had been released once again. Issei rose to his full height clad in the crimson red armour of balance breaker. Kokabiel just cackled evilly,
"If I knew you had this much power I would have killed that Exorcist a lot earlier"
"KOKABIEL!" Issei roared his voice a distorted amalgamation of his own and Ddraig's.
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[Explosion!] Issei unleashed the power in a shockwave attack that blasted Kokabiel and the third party backwards. Issei now bleed green aura, a testament to the amount of power he was unleashing.
"Issei!" the voice called out in vain once again, little did he know that this voice was Serafall. She had wanted to come back to try and smooth things over for the awkward situation and tension she had created. She found Issei talking to a fallen angel, she began eavesdropping after all why would a fallen angel take interest in a human? Soon she was following them, After, he dropped the fallen angel home, she was wishing to try and talk to him before the current situation happened.
Her mind was racing at a hundred miles an hour but she only ever came to one conclusion a rather blatant one, Issei Hyoudou her bartender was the Red Dragon Emperor, right under her nose this whole time. Now he was going berserk and Kokabiel was the source but right now she had to focus on containment since he had gone rogue. Two seals appeared next to her as her sister and Rias along with their peerages arrived shock blatant on their faces.
"What's going on?" Rias and Sona exclaimed as they saw a scene of destruction before them.
"Now is not the time, Rias and Sona setup a barrier we need to contain their power and someone grab that exorcist and apply first aid now!" Serafall ordered her happy go lucky attitude disappearing, the two heiress were shocked they had never seen Serafall so serious. Sona regained her composure first,
"It will be done" Sona nodded and so did Rias. Kiba dashed in and grabbed the exorcist quickly lifting her away from the ensuing fight and he dashed back to where Rias, Sona along with their peerage began extending the barrier to protect the town.
"Akeno!" Kiba called out as he laid the exorcist down, Akeno nodded and quickly kneeled down and began applying healing magic. Kiba saw the exorcist eyes flickering and he knew she would be dying if aid wasn't applied, he grasped the exorcists hand and squeezed offering what little comfort he could and she squeezed back.
"Sona what is the plan? We can't exactly sit here and do nothing" Rias turned to her friend
"We have to maintain this barrier. A city block was levelled just by unleashing his power, this fight is out of our capabilities" Sona assessed as she pushed up her glasses
"How did we miss the red dragon emperor? He was here right under our noses" Sona began musing
"I don't know but after all this I want some answers" Rias declared as they continued maintaining the barrier, Sona couldn't agree more.
Meanwhile Serafall inside the barrier had opened up a magic connection with Sirzechs,
"Sirzechs, Grayfia we have a situation" she spoke seriousness evident in her tone
"I felt the power spike is it…" Sirzechs asked his tone equally no nonsense
"Yes, Rias and Sona are creating a barrier to contain damage but he is going berserk and going after Kokabiel." She explained quickly
"Kokabiel! What's he doing there?" He spoke
"I don't know but get here now!" Serafall declared and within moments two teleportation circles appeared and Sirzechs and Grayfia arrived.
"Grayfia go protect Sona and Rias, help strengthen the barrier" Sirzechs ordered as Grayfia nodded before heading off. Sirzechs eyes hardened as he saw the levelled block and the amount of power emanating from the red dragon emperor.
"It's Issei…" Serafall suddenly spoke quietly, Sirzechs eyes widened slightly as he knew that was the name of the bartender,
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am."
"Serafall you do know if he…" Sirzechs tried to state the truth,
"I know" Serafall replied full well knowing what Sirzechs was meaning, her fists clenched as nails began digging into the palm of her hand.
"I guess we will have to sit back and wait" Sirzechs deciding not to do anything as he began contemplating the gravity of the situation and how it happened.
In the Grigori
Vali had a grin on his face as he walked into Azazels office, their eyes met. Azazel who was currently dealing with the lovely problem called bureaucracy and paperwork, Azazel knew that look on Vali's face to well and knew why he was here. The shockwave of power from the red dragon emperor,
"I felt it too, you battle maniac" Azazel sighed
"Then let's go after all my rival awaits" Vali declared his grin only widening
"Alright ya battle maniac, can't catch a break around here" Azazel sighed as he left the paperwork, he and Vali began teleporting to the source of the power
With Rayanre and Kalawarner,
"What the hell was that?" Raynare shouted as she could feel the oppressive aura emanating, pushing down on her
"A dragon and not just any." Kalawarner deduced
"It's the red dragon emperor" Azazel suddenly intoned as he and Vali appeared out of a circle they had felt the power in Kuoh so Azazel decided to meet up with his operatives, Raynare gulped this was one person she didn't want to see right now.
"Lord Azazel!" the two fallen angels greeted
"Now is not the time for formalities" Azazel waved them off
"Sir we don't know how this happened, the power just suddenly released seemingly out of thin air but he must have been hiding in the town." Raynare informed
"Kokabiel probably had something to do with it" Vali added as he knew of Kokabiel going rogue
"Yeah probably is him" Azazel agreed
"Kokabiel, why would he reveal himself so openly and now? Didn't he need more time?" Raynare asked with doubt
"Apparently he had a change of plans" Azazel replied
"Come on,we have to go assess the situation" Azazel ordered as he spread his wings and flew off to the battlefield along with Vali, Raynare and Kalawarner.
"KOKABIELLLLLL!" Issei roared as he dashed forward, his fist cocked back. Kokabiel leapt backward and into the air as the ground he was previously in was caved in.
He summoned his own light spear before chucking it at the berserk Issei, an explosion followed but a crimson mass dashed out clearly unimpeded. A burst of green energy erupted from his right hand, Kokabiel masterfully dodged it a testament to his years of experience.
"Looks like I will have to take you seriously" he mused as his battle-manic grin remained, he threw out both his hands before summoning a circle of light swords and spears. Issei undeterred continued charging Kokabiel snapped his fingers and they all moved to collide with the target.
Issei was blasted backwards into the ground but he did not let up as he unleashed two bursts of green energy, Kokabiel dodged the first only to nearly be struck by the second one was it not for the timely block by his wings but otherwise he was fine. Summoning more spears, another barrage began as Issei powered through spears being deflected with his fist or glancing harmlessly off his armour.
"You are disappointingly weak" Kokabiel sighed as Issei got within striking distance of him, he summoned a light hammer, smacking Issei in the face and cracking his armour but Kokabiel found himself stabbed in the arm by Issei's tail. Kokabiel replied by smashing his fist into Issei gut before summoning dozens of light hammers to smash him to earth and Issei fell like a red comet.
A crater formed but Issei released a blood curdling scream as the chilling words rang out,
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Suddenly Kokabiel merely saw Issei as a green flash but relying on his experience he masterfully dodged an attack from behind before unleashing a storm of feathers and swords as he flew backwards. Issei however dodged most of them, seeing a weakness he dashed into Kokabiel punching him across the face before blitzing around to avoid more light spears and feathers. As red, green and yellow filled the night sky of Kuoh.
"Hmmm, so this is the red dragon emperor" Azazel commented as he absorbed the fight before him and announcing his presence.
"Azazel what are you doing here? Did you have anything to do with this?" Serafall practically interrogated, Azazel shook his head.
"Kokabiel has gone rogue, I sent Kalawarner and Raynare here to try and track him down so we could deal with him." Azazel elaborated as he gestured to his fallen angel comrades, Raynare did miss the small look sent her way by Serafall.
"Clearly, he decided to reveal himself before we could stop him" Azazel muttered in annoyance as he knew the amount of problems this was going to cause.
"What were his plans?" Sirzechs asked
"To start a war" Azazel informed
"He stole the Excalibur's and sought to use them on this territory" a soft voice added as two looked up to see the white angelic forms of Gabriel and Michael descending.
"Where is Xenovia?" Gabriel asked with worry and a frown as she could not find the exorcist
"She is being taken care of by my sister and her friends peerage. She is in good hands" Serafall informed as Gabriel relaxed visibly
"The Excalibur's were stolen why weren't we informed?" Sirzechs asked
"It was a church matter, we needed to deal with it ourselves" Michael elaborated
"What's done is done" Azazel cut in
"Church weapons, Fallen angel perpetrator and devil territory. A recipe for war" Serafall added her two cents the leaders nodded their agreement with this assessment
"Now the question is how did the red dragon emperor escaped our notice, after all if he reached balance breaker we would have known about it…" Azazel spoke accusingly as he looked at Michael and Gabriel
"He was allied with the church" Gabriel admitted, Sirzechs and Serafall were surprised how did they not know of this?
"Was?" Sirzechs asked with a cocked eyebrow
"Kokabiel killed his girlfriend, he was unable to save her… he held her in his arms crying, I had never seen someone so broken... after that he wanted out… we couldn't deny him and so he left his powers sealed and never intending to return to the supernatural" Michael explained with sadness evident, Raynare flinched dead girlfriend? Could it be? No... it wasn't possible she shook her head.
"He was a weapon to you wasn't he?" Serafall accused her words colder than the ice she could create, Michael nodded with shame
"It was wrong but we needed power with the Grigori having the white dragon emperor and devils being able to replenish quickly. We needed a bargaining chip" Michael admitted while Gabriel hung her head in shame as she clenched her fists but in her heart she believed.
"Even if he was, I care for Issei" Gabriel declared truthfully, Raynare's eyes widened and she froze, the red dragon emperor was Issei! And his girlfriend was killed by Kokabiel! Her mind was now racing as was her heart as she looked over to see Issei receive a punch from Kokabiel making her flinch slightly at the sound of it.
"Funny way of showing it..." Serafall muttered as she did not see how Gabriel cared for Issei when they used him as a weapon. Her words did not go unheard by Gabriel as they locked eyes but Azazel intervened they could not afford issues, a rogue Kokabiel and red dragon emperor were more than enough.
"*Sigh* what do we do now?" Azazel asked as he looked around for answers, Gabriel was preparing to move to help Issei but an arm stopped her, it was her brother who sent her a look.
"Let go of me he needs my help!" she struggled but Michael did not budge
"If you go you could die!" Michael shouted, tears pooled in the corners of Gabriel's eyes
"So be it, I can't leave him!" but Michael wouldn't budge
Azazel received an answer from the person he least likely expected
"We leave him be" Vali declared everyone turned to him
"If we don't let him defeat Kokabiel, he will be forever haunted by his failure and therefore he won't be able to fight me properly" Vali stated which made Azazel chuckle. Gabriel stopped struggling, Vali was right if she did not let Issei defeat Kokabiel he would be forever consumed by revenge or the inability to fulfil it, for his betterment she would not intervene. Not intervening didn't sit well with Serafall and Raynare but they agreed with Vali's thinking and getting inbeteen their fight was tantamount to more destruction.
"Always thinking about fighting Vali" the others reluctantly decided to do just what Vali suggested
Issei found himself struck to earth once lying in a crater again as Kokabiel drop kicked him. He was losing, for all of Issei's power and rage he could not defeat Kokabiel's experience and power, he was only human. He was being taunted that grin, he was enjoying this, he wasn't even breaking a sweat, it angered him, he felt like a failure, this was his opportunity for revenge but he just didn't have enough power to defeat him and avenge Irina. In this moment there was clarity and voices,
"There is a choice…" a voice whispered
"An option…" another added
"What do you have to lose… give in"
"Wipe that smirk off his face'
"Taste the full extent of power"
"Avenge her…"
Ddraigs voice of reason was lost in the torrent of voices of past users, unable to stop his partner from condemning himself to his destruction.
Issei rose to his full height before he raised his arms dozens of green orbs began appearing and circling. Vali's eyes widened
[Vali!] Alibion warned but he didn't need to say it twice
"GET BACK HE IS ACTIVAGTING JUGGERNAUT DRIVE!"
"Now it's getting interesting" Kokabiel cackled as he held his arms open, adrenaline flowing, heart racing and he licked his lips in anticipation as he felt the joy and ecstasy of battle.
"Issei don't!" Gabriel shouted as she tried to run to him but found herself stopped by her brother who restrained her.
"Now, let go of me Michael! He needs me!" she struggled but Michael dragged her away
"He won't recognize you in juggernaut drive. We have to let him burn himself out fighting Kokabiel then we can restrain him and try to bring him back if not, you know we have to do" Azazel explained as they dashed away from the battlefield
"Issei!" Gabriel called out in vain her arm desperately trying to reach for him
"Issei!" Serafall tried calling out as well on the faint hope or chance he would stop but their words fell on the deaf ears as they begrudgingly retreated.
Little did Issei known there were three women who very concerned for him.
"It's happening…" the voices spoke with excitement
"They succumb always succumb" the voices
"I, Who am about to awaken,
Am the heavenly dragon who stole the principles of domination from God
I laugh at the "Infinite" and I grieve at the "dream"
I shall become the Red Dragon of Domination
And I shall sink you to the depths of the crimson purgatory!"
"Juggernaut drive!"
The world once again exploded in green as the full might of the red dragon emperor was unleashed.
Well I am gonna leave it at this why? Because I like cliff-hangers and I am annoying like that. I made Kokabiel more powerful because A I believe he was kind of defeated pathetically B Issei is relying on rage while Kokabiel has hundreds of years of combat experience C I made different light weaponry cause Fallen angels should be able to.
Others are not intervening in the fight as what Vali said plus it would only cause more destruction if they did so plus political reasons if Sirzechs, Serafall, Gabriel or Michael intervened it would be seen as an act of war whereas if Kokabiel was defeated by the red dragon emperor who had no allegiance then well it's just someones revenge and rogue actions is it not?
Furthermore, I am thanking Johnsontaiwo57 who reminded me to "Stop adding new harem members, flesh out the ones you already have" thanks for reminding me So for now the harem is limited to three girls Raynare, Gabriel and Serafall obviously. I will be fleshing them out before even considering adding someone else.
Please review your thoughts this chapter was hard to write trying to get the scenes to flow and the pacing decent was a pain so yeah anyway until next time!
