"Master!" Akitsu, along with Antonio's other Sekirei and everyone else had dropped down from the broken window and made their way towards Antonio, who's aura had dissipated and was on his knees breathing hard.
"Well I must say, that power would be one best suited for being a member of the fallen faction." Said Azazel as he had seen Akitsu putting his arm over her neck.
"This is no time for your jokes." Said Rias causing Azazel to shrug his shoulders.
"Well forgive me for trying to lighten the mood."
"I apologize." Said Sirzechs, causing all eyes to be on him. "I should've not allowed the duel between you and Riser to happen. Though you had helped the Red Dragon Emperor, you had nothing to do with the supernatural. You deserved to be left out of our affairs instead of being dragged into it."
"Niisan.." Said Rias
"On behalf of myself, I would like to sincerely apologize." Said Sirzechs. Antonio then looked towards Akitsu who then removed his arm from her neck and allowed him to stand on his own.
"I know I had no prior affiliation with any Devils, Angels or Fallen." Antonio then had turned to see Asia. "I always tell myself be helpful to others, but I always dive head first to help without thinking of the possible consequences that would have followed." Antonio then turned his head to see Akitsu on one side and Juusa on the other. "I could've put the ones I love dearly in danger just by my act alone. I need to stop contradicting myself…" Said Antonio in response to Sirzechs. "If anything were to happen to any one of them, I don't think I could look at myself the same…." After Antonio had spoken, silence filled the air, Chiho had looked at Antonio's broken expression at the mere thought of losing his loved ones, including her.
"Either way." Rias decided to break the silence. "I truly appreciate that you helped when you did. Though humans aren't allowed to be in the affairs of Devils, it isn't out of the ordinary if they ask for help if it isn't a political matter." Said Rias as she approached Antonio. "If Devils can befriend and be peaceful with Humans, then so should the three factions." Rias turned to her brother. "Right?"
"You are absolutely right." Said Sirzechs. Rias then had stuck out her hand to Antonio, which in turn Antonio slowly placed his hand in hers, performing a handshake. "Though there will be some Devils who disagree, I feel that the fighting between the three has been going on for long enough." As Rias and Antonio stopped shaking hands, she pulled her hand away and slowly stepped back.
"I wish that we could've met under way better circumstances than this." Said Rias. "I'm sorry you have to spend part of your birthday like this." Though I'm curious." Said Rias peeking Antonio's curiosity. "In the underworld, your group of ladies went toe to toe, pushed back Riser's peerage. Who are they? They clearly aren't human." Issei had looked to see Kazehana's chest and couldn't help but have a dirty thought start to form but stopped he could hear Koneko cracking her knuckles.
"I do believe a greeting from us is in order." Said Miya.
"My name is Musubi! Nice to meet you" Said Musubi in her usual cheerful tone of voice. "These are Juusa, Kaho, Akitsu, Kagari." Yume then had stepped forward to be side by side with Miya.
"My name is Yume." Rias had then towards Yume then had turned to see Musubi off in her own world.
"Are you two twins?" Asked Rias curiously.
"About that." Replied Yume. "It's just that we…"
"My name is Miya." Interrupted Miya as she then had bowed in respect. "To respond to your statement, we are not humans, similar, but not humans."
"What does that even mean, are you saying that you guys are aliens?" Asked Koneko.
"What she meant to say is that, we aren't human, but Sekirei!" Said Musubi. Before anyone could ask Musubi their question they wanted to ask. Azazel's ears picked up a faint whistling sound that grew louder and louder by each second. Rias then had noticed that Azazel brought himself to be infront of everyone and flung his right arm in the air, conjuring up his golden defensive barrier.
"What are you d.." Asked Rias as she had seen the barrier materialize over everyone but what had shocked her next was yellow arrows of light with two light purple rings had started to rapidly attack the barrier, one after another causing a grayish smoke to happen as soon as the arrows of light struck Azazel's barrier. "What's going on?!"
"Hmmph well it seems as if we have new visitors to this party." Said Azazel. Chiho had immediately grabbed onto Antonio's arm as Azazel's barrier faded away while they were under the protection of the grayish smoke.
"W-What the hell is going on!?" Said Issei as the grayish smoke finally subsided, had seen blacked feathered wing angels, white wing Angels and Devils surrounding them all. "Why are there other Devils, Angels and Fallen here?"
"They're most likely here to stop the peace treaty." Replied Azazel.
"W-Why would they want to do that?" Asked Asia.
"Simple, they don't want the war to end. Like a person who watches their favorite TV show, they don't want it to end.
"So they're like warheads?" Asked Antonio as he could feel Chiho's body shaking in his arms from being scared.
"Bingo." Said Azazel as he along with everyone else seen rouge Devils, Angels, and Fallen surrounding them all.
*I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE MENTIONED ANIME NOR ITS CHARACTERS*
Speech: "Home is where the heart is."
Thoughts: 'Can i really go through with this?'
Whispering: "I will do anything and everything I can do to help."
Chapter 10: Birth Of A New King: Part 2
"I don't suppose they would just wanna talk about things?" Said Akeno in a sarcastic tone of voice as electricity was visible outside her body. Koneko's cat white cat ears emerged while her cracked her knuckles at the sight of a rogue Devil charging at her.
"Hmmph." Koneko dashed at the rouge Devil who had its arm stuck out which Koneko simply tilted her head to the left, squatted down then immediately punched the Devil in the stomach with so much force that the rouge Devil was sent flying to a nearby tree. One after another, rouge Devil and Fallen started charging in towards the Occult Research club which they responded by simply repelling them.
"Damn is there no end to these guys!?" Asked Issei as he kicked a Fallen away from him while Xenovia swung Durandal downwards then brought it back up then to horizontally block an attack.
"Seriously, this is getting annoying how they keep getting back up!" Rias then had extended her arms outward towards the sky, unleashing her power Devil magic in the form of a crimson red beam out of her magic circle towards some of the rouge Angels then moved her arms horizontally to the right. As little red orbs could be seen, they had suddenly turned to explosions.
'Got them.' Rias thought to herself as she had seen the result in her attack which thought to have reduced the Angels to nothing. 'What the hell?' You could only imagine Rias's surprise when she had seen the rogue angels were protected by a goldish diamond shaped barrier while having their hands in a triangle symbol. As the rogue Angels made their barriers fade away, their bodies were suddenly enveloped in a goldish light, bring energy back to the Fallen and Devils that were beaten by Issei and the others.
"Buchou!" Issei had seen that a defeated rogue Devil Koneko had sent flying had rapidly dashed towards Rias and as soon as her name was called she looked down to see the Devil.
'Shit!' Rias's wings had emerged from her back as she leaned backwards to try and get away from the thrusting attack. Next thing Rias knew before she could defend herself, Musubi had grabbed the rouge Devil's hand with her left hand.
"Haaaa!" Musubi brought her closed, right fist and slammed it into the Devil's face. If that wasn't enough, Musubi slammed the attacking Devil in the ground with so much force that she caused a crater. One after another, Rias's peerage received assistance from Antonio's Sekirei, Kazehana with Akeno, Juusa and Kaho with Kiba and Xenovia and Kagari with Koneko. As the enraged rouge Devils descended down quickly from the sky, they felt icicles pierce their bodies due to Akitsu's Icicle Rain attack.
"Brace yourself everyone." Said Yume in a sweet tone of voice. Not knowing what she meant except for Antonio and Miya, everybody had braced themselves as Yume stepped forward and slowly breathed in than out. Suddenly her hair started to flow with the wind as she got into her stance and pulled her right fist back.
"What is she doing?" Asked Sirzechs. Seconds later with her eyes closed, pinkish energy started to surround Yume as she clenched her fist. Sparks of electricity started to crackle as she slowly opened her eyes while the pinkish energ started to gather in her hands. As she fully opened her eyes to reveal her yin-yang form, everyone could feel a large amount of energy gather up.
'This should fix things!' Yume thought to herself as she then extended her arm outwards, sending a powerful photon beam towards the rogue Angels in the sky which caused everyone to cover their eyes with their arms, but before they were able to put up their barrier, a beam of blue and white light was streaming across the sky at a high, striking and killing every rouge Angel before Yume's photon beam could do any real damage. After the explosion due to Yume's beam of light, Everybody could feel their clothes flowing with the raging wind.
'That's insane!' Rias thought to herself. Miya hadn't the need to cover her face due to the shockwave that resulted from Yume's photon break attack, but underneath the smokescreen, she sensed a nasty presence that caused her eyes to shift form. As Musubi and the others coughed due to her inhaling the smoke from Yume's attack she had seen that the rogue enemies were gone.
"Ara, does that mean we won?" Asked Musubi curiously.
"Sheesh, fighting opponents who wouldn't just stay down was getting kind of boring." Koneko said. As Rias's peerage, along with the Sekirei turned their back and headed towards Antonio and the others, Rias had noticed that Azazel's attention was elsewhere.
"What's wrong?" Asked Rias. Deep Down, she had a feeling that she shouldn't have asked that question at the sight of Azazel smirking.
"I had a feeling that those rogues couldn't have slipped inside the barrier by themselves." Said Azazel "Though I didn't expect for you to show up." Suddenly everybody had looked up to where Azazel was looking and when they did, their eyes had widen. "White Dragon Emperor." Everybody had seen the White Dragon Emperor in his balance breaker form, with his white wings with eight blue energy feathers and goldenish eyes.
'So that's who you was warning me about.' Said Issei.
"The other Heavenly Dragon, Albion. Otherwise known as the Vanishing Dragon were as I'm know as the Welsh Dragon."
'Didn't you mention before that you guys were eternal rivals or something?' Asked Issei.
"The battles between us two were fought during the war with the three factions. It was so ferocious that the three sides banded together and tried to stop us and in response, we tried killing the three faction leaders at the time which resulted in us losing our physical bodies and having us placed in Sacred Gears that were worn by humans for all of time."
'That's crazy..' Replied Issei.
"So care to explain why you have 'graced' us with your presence?" Said Azazel in a uncaring tone of voice.
"Simple." Said Vali in his balance breaker form as he turned to Issei. "Issei Hyoudou."
[Play Song: For Me, Live On - High School DXD Theme]
"Yeah what is it?" Replied Issei
"Hmmph. You are suppose to be my eternal rival, but when I look at you, I don't even sense that your power is anywhere near the level of mines." Said Vali taunting Issei. "Word spreads around fast in the underworld. That a mere human had to help you to save your woman from the clutches of Rizer Phoenix."
"You got a point there?" Said an annoyed Issei as the green orb on his boosted gear started to glow.
"I do, I feel that you need to get stronger. Even as a reincarnated Devil with the possession of a Sacred Gear that holds the other Heavenly Dragon, you are weak." Said Vali in his normal tone of voice. "You're so weak it's not even funny. Well it does give me a good chuckle." At this point Rias and the others had noticed Issei's Boosted Gear. "You are probably the weakest host the Boosted Gear has found."
"You may say that now, but Issei Hyoudou has a lot of potential." Said Ddraig out of the Boosted Gear. "He may not be the strongest, but he has something you will never have and that's heart!"
"D-Ddraig.." Whispered Issei.
"Hmmph, you never used to be so fond of humans. You always hated the thought of being connected with humans." Said Albion to the Welsh Dragon.
"Doesn't matter." Said Vali as he then turned his head towards Antonio who still held onto Chiho. "You, you are quite something."
"What makes you assume that?" Said Antonio.
"That power you have is exactly of that of the legend passed down, I don't think there isn't a supernatural being who doesn't know it." Replied Vali. "A mere, single human, gifted with powers from 'outsiders' protected that entire race while being cloaked in a radiant white aura." Vali had then pointed his finger towards Antonio, causing everybody to look back at him. "I wish to fight you."
"Are you kidding!" Said Rias "Riser was one thing but.."
"Don't you dare compare me to that insignificant excuse for a Devil!" Rias was taken back by Vali's sudden outburst. "My name is Vali Lucifer, I'm a descendant of the previous generation's Maou Lucifer who died." Said Vali shocking nearly everyone who thought they knew everything about Devils as they had seen Vali's eight devil wings emerge.
'My goodness…' Sirzechs thought to himself.
"With my Divine Dividing plus my being a descendant of the original satan, Lucifer, I could easily be one of the strongest beings there is."
"It's true." Said Azazel causing eyes to fall on him. "Throughout history and possessors of the Divine Dividing Sacred Gear, he is the strongest through all of history."
"I have no reason to fight with you!" Said Antonio.
[Song END]
"Is that so?" Asked Vali. "Well then how about I start off by giving you a reason to fight me? I could get you anger by slaughter those most precious to you." Said Vali. When Antonio heard this, he could feeling a rapid beating deep in his chest.
"A-Antonio?" Chiho had let go of Antonio at the sight of his hair covering his eyes but then was protected by Akitsu.
"They say if you kill someone most precious to them, they become an avenger." Said Vali "How about I end your mother's life? Any death I would grant her would be better than her current, boring life on earth." Antonio could feel the rapid beating growing harder as he was grinding his teeth. "The same goes for you Issei, If I kill your parents, will their death give you enough power to fight me? I'm tempted to test that theory out so we can fight on equal grounds."
"No! How can you be so cruel!" Asked Asia with tears in forming in her eyes. At this time Miya jerked her head up then turned it to her left to see Antonio slowly walking forward.
"Don't think you are just allowed to say whatever you want!" Said Antonio as the sudden flashbacks of his childhood appeared with his mom smiling warmly towards him. "I swear if you were to lay fingers on anybody I love." Everybody had then seen white aura suddenly circle around Antonio on the ground. "I swear I'll break every bone in your body!" Yelled out Antonio as his eyes suddenly shifted from Crimson to all gold as his White Aura enveloped him and shadowed his body. Vali had then turned to Issei who had just lowered his head, grinding his teeth and clenching his fist even tighter.
"Oh Issei.." Said Rias softly
"Don't think I'll just sit Idly by and let you take anything away from me!" Said Issei as the ground beneath him star times crumbling away.
"Welsh Dragon, Overbooster!" Sparked of red and purplish electricity had started to surround Issei as then his whole body was enveloped in a crimson light, when the light faded away, Issei had donned his Balance Breaker with green Aura spewing from him.
"Nobody threatens the people I care about, I don't give a damn who they are!" Said Issei as he clenched his fists together.
"His Balance Breaker?!" Said a totally stunned Rias.
"Though this is the first time you transformed, this state won't last but five minutes until you completely perfect the link between us." Said Ddraig.
'That's fine!' Said Issei. Vali had stated at the two combatants and had started to break out into laughter. "What the hell is so funny!?"
"This is the thrill I've been looking for! I've fought many opponents even when the odds seemed to be against me, but this shall be one at the top of my list that excites me the most." Said Vali.
"I don't see anything funny about a double helping of ass-kicking!" Said Issei as Antonio stood next to him. Out of the three nobody had moved as silence filled the air.
"Now, shall we get started?" Asked Vali, right after that he had seen Issei and Antonio launching themselves toward Vali who had simply responded to this action by simply sticking his hand out open palm.
"Reflect!" Vali conjured up a blueish barrier due to one of Divine Dividing's abilities that pushed back both Issei's and Antonio's attack. He then grabbed them both by the neck and took off in the sky.
"Antonio!" Chiho had seen Vali spin around at a very high rate of speed before letting go of both of his opponents, letting them plummet to the ground. A few seconds later, everybody had seen the trio turn into streams of light in the sky as the two clashed with Vali.
"Issei!" Rias tried to step in the middle but was stopped by Sirzechs. "What are you doing!? I have to do something!"
"Their auras are getting past their limits, if you were to get any closer, you'll be scorched to death." Replied Sirzechs.
"I can't just sit here and do nothing can I?" Asked Rias as she had just looked at the ensuing battle.
"Beyond weak!" Said Vali as he dodged Issei's punch with ease, flipped him around and slammed his foot into his stomach with so much force that blood was thought to emit from Issei's helmet.
"Issei!"
"Ouch. I-I'm alright Buchou!" Rias had seen Issei plummet to the ground while Antonio was charging in with his arm cocked back, causing Vali to raise his arm up towards him in response.
"Divide!" As soon as Antonio's punch connected with Vali's fluctuating barrier, he could feel some of his strength being sapped out of his body.
'T-The hell?' Antonio thought to himself.
"That is another one of my abilities, Divide." Said Vali causing Antonio's golden eyes to look him in his. "It halves the power of anything that physical comes into contact with it." Antonio had then seen his blue energy feathers expel out excess energy. "With this, I can always be at my full potential!" Said Vali as he punched Antonio back into the peace treaty building, destroying the wall itself in the process.
"Antonio-sama!" Musubi had seen that Vali had charged after him. As Vali was zooming towards the building, he had suddenly seen Issei pop up in front of him.
"Boost!"
"Haaaa!" Issei had landed a clean uppercut to Vali's chin, then with a three hundred sixty degree turn, he slammed his tail into Vali, sending him flying in the same direction. When Vali opened his eyes he had seen Antonio leaning back to where the bottom of his feet were upwards and when he timed it right, he then suddenly pushed his slammed his feet in Vali's stomach with so much force that he shot through the ceiling.
"Ouch, that had to sting." Chimed in Azazel as he had suddenly seen Vali shooting up from the ceiling of the building. As Antonio jumped after him, Vali had already recovered and was waiting for him. Antonio had seen Vali simply tilting his head to avoid his punch and lowered himself and punched Antonio with extreme force, out of the corner of his eye he had seen Issei coming towards them, so he grabbed Antonio by the ankle, spun around and tossed Antonio which made him crash into Issei. While Vali was in the sky, he had seen the pair crash into the ground, but as they were trying to recovering can he snapped his fingers, causing multiple blue magic circles to appear to his left and right.
"Now then." Issei and Antonio had looked up to the sky to see multiple blue magic circles to the left and right of Vali.
[Play Song: XYZ - Rika Matsumoto]
"Let's have some real fun!" Then out of every single magic circle, beams shot down towards Issei and Antonio who had split up to dodge the raining shower of magic blasts.
'Shit, there's starting to get to be too many of them.' Issei thought to himself.
"Try to think of this as your training, avoiding the magic blasts like how you tried to avoid your comrades beating." Said Ddraig with a light hearted chuckle.
'Do you seriously think this is the time to be joking around?' Replied Issei. Antonio was then dodging Vali's magical blasts by performing acrobatically flips one after another but as soon as he landed on the ground he had to quickly guard himself from a blast that caused a small shockwave that caused dust to kick up off the ground beneath him.
'Hmmph.' Vali had seen the dust cloud had concealed him but was surprised to see when the dust has settled he wasn't fazed by the attack at all. Vali had seen flown down towards Antonio with his arm cocked back, and as soon as Vali's and Antonio's fist met, the shock wave from it caused the ground beneath Antonio to crack and break. Vali had backed away at the sight of Issei flying in trying to get a kick in. The three had then suddenly became colorful streams of light, moving at unbelievable speeds as Vali clashed with Issei and Antonio. As Vali was eyeing Antonio, he managed to catch a glimpse of when his Aura had revealed bits of his face that had a yellow markings on his face with his ears a bit pointed .
"Antonio-sama…" Musubi had seen that Issei was knocked away from Antonio and Vali due to Vali's tail and plummeted into the ground. As Vali and Antonio were exchanging punches and kicks as they were descending to the ground, they had instantly locked hands, intertwining their fingers together.
[Song END]
The force that Antonio and Vali was creating was enough to make sparks of electricity flow around them as bits of the ground beneath them started to levitate upwards all around them.
"You sure have entertained me thoroughly." Said Vali. As Issei got up and tried to move forward, he had felt that his Balance Breaker armor dissipate from his body.
"What gives?" Asked Issei.
"The time limit is up." Replied Ddraig.
"Well couldn't you just.."
"Absolutely not. The strain it'll have on your body will be immense until you perfect the link and truly unleash the power of Balance Breaker." Said Ddraig as he interrupted Issei. "No exceptions."
"No way…" Issei said to himself, he then suddenly heard Rias landing and walking up behind him placing her hand on his shoulder. Then they both had looked out to see Vali and Antonio still in their struggle.
"Hehehe, you've been more than I've expected." Said Vali as he slowly started to twist Antonio's hands to the sides and head butted him. "I feel that you have even more hidden power." Said Vali as he levitated in the sky. "They say that a person who experiences a cataclysmic event shall awaken a power beyond belief." Vali slowly turned his head to Chiho and underneath his helmet smirked manically.
"You bastard…"
[Play Song: For Me, Live On - High School DxD OST]
Sudden images flashed in Antonio's head, but this time he could suddenly make out the bloody girls face clearer.
"Kanzaki-kun!" Kazehana had seen Antonio's white aura dissipating from his body and had seen Antonio grabbing the side of his head.
"Now." Antonio and everyone had seen Vali slowly rising up his right arm and making his fingers flex. "Let's spice things up!" As soon as he snapped his fingers which the sound from it could heard as it echoed inside the barrier. Behind everyone, a sudden beam of violet light made its way to the group from a thought to be defeated Rogue Devil.
'Shit!' Yume thought to herself as she along with Akitsu had turned their bodies to see the beam heading their way but to no avail, the beam had suddenly pierced the right side of the blonde haired girl.
'Ehh? W-What is..' Antonio's eyes had started to widen at the sight of someone close to him falling down face first towards the ground in slow motion until her body hit the floor, causing everybody around her to slowly gasp at the sudden sight.
"Chiho!"
[Song END]
Beyond The Wings Of Fate
Antonio then had immediately went over to Chiho's body, kneeled down and turned it over so she would be facing him and just as his visions were, the girl with hair covering her face and blood running down her head, was none other than Chiho. Antonio moved her hair from her face to see her eyes which had motioned themselves to look at Antonio's Crimson eyes.
"A-Antonio?" Chiho had seen Antonio had lifted her body up a bit off the ground and was staring into his alluring Crimson eyes. "I'm sorry. S-Seems as if I got in the way again.." Said Chiho which caused Antonio to bite the bottom part of his lip as he could feel the blood from Chiho soaking his pants. "I d-didn't mean to.."
"P-Please stop." Replied Antonio
"Eh?"
"It's because, because of me you are like this! You wouldn't have gotten like this if I didn't even come here." Replied Antonio. "I said I would protect my family, not put them in danger. What kind of man am I if I can't keep my promise." Chiho had seen tears forming in his alluring eyes and had felt a teardrop hit her cheek.
'Master..'
"I never intended to allow any of you to get hurt. I ever wanted to be the reason why any of you got injured, now…" Antonio had stopped as he felt Chiho's hand grasp his face.
"Such beautiful eyes shouldn't allow tears to fall down your face." Interrupted Chiho. Antonio had suddenly looked down to see a box on Chiho which caused him to gasp. As she looked to where her boyfriend was looking, she suddenly reached for her gift. "I know this isn't a good time but, but I wanted to give you this as quickly as possible." Said Chiho as she had given Antonio the box.
"C-Chiho I…"
"H-Happy Birthday… Antonio." Said Chiho with a warm smile with a tear running down her left eye and blood running down her forehead.
"Vali you monster!" Yelled Issei, at this point, Asia had summoned her own Sacred Gear, twilight healing and walked over to Antonio and Chiho but stopped as she along with everyone else had hugged Chiho tightly With his hair shadowing his face.
"Let this be the stepping stone for you gaining a new power." Said Vali.
Antonio's Subconscious
"I sworn I would've kept my promise." Said Antonio "Just look where that got me."
"You should know something. Hate me for saying it but what happened now is in the past." Said _, causing Antonio to jerk his head up. "The past you lost will never come back. I myself have made so many mistakes… Mistakes that cost the lives of the ones I truly cared about. One cannot twindle on the past, only move forward and not make the same mistakes later on in life."
"It's my fault she's…" Said Antonio as the sudden Image of Chiho flashed in his mind. "I always wanted to be someone who helps others."
"I'm curious, tell me why is the reason you feel the need to want to help others, is it because you feel the need to or want to?" Asked _. When Antonio was asked this, a sudden flashback of his mother Mizuki kneeled down and hugged him tightly with tears flowing from her eyes. He always wanted to help others so they would never have to cry like he remembered his mother doing. "There isn't anything wrong with helping others but remember to not lose yourself."
"..."
"Be yourself because an original is worth more than a copy." Said _. Asia had hovered her hands over Chiho's wound, allowing the green light of Twilight Healing to try and heal her injured as Akeno sat her up against the end of a tree.
"Chiho-chan…" As Yume tried to step forward she had seen Miya frozen in time as she had seen Antonio's hair levitating upwards, growing a bit in length slowly and had seen it flash to white and back to black with yellow marking slowing showing up on Antonio's face with the broken debris from the group levitating around him
"It's OK to be angry, but it's not ok to let your anger cloud your judgement of what's right to do." Said _.
"Is that what you thought to yourself when you saved the Sekirei before?" Replied Antonio, receiving a head nod.
"You show a lot of promise and I know that your Sekirei will not hold it against you, how would you have known that was going to happen to her. Don't blame yourself for it. Learn and move on." Said _ "You show promise, hehe, you are my descendant alright.. But."
"But what?" Replied Antonio
"There isn't anything more I can teach or tell you." Said _. "You have a loving support system who will guide you if you ever astray from your original self." Said _ "But before I leave for good, there's three things I wish to leave with you."
"Three?" Replied Antonio in a curious tone of voice. Vali had seen white aura surrounding his body.
"Yep, the first thing is that, the Ashikabi Of Fate is only a title, my original name is Matsuro Kirigaya." Antonio had then noticed he stuck out his fist to him. "The second is that you truly earned the title of the new Ashikabi Of Fate, your ladies truly appreciate you. So don't be afraid to depend on them."
"What's the third?" Asked Antonio as he had seen Matsuro smiling underneath his Aura.
"It's time for me to bestow to you all of my powers." Replied Matsuro. "Stand by your Sekirei and Queen and use this power wisely." Said Matsuro as he waited for Antonio to fist bump with him.
"Ok." Replied Antonio as he nodded. He then stuck out his arm, connecting his fist with Matsuro's.
"Let's just end this no…" Vali and everybody else had seen Antonio slowly rising up from the ground. Miya had seen the white aura collecting up behind him in the shape of an orb and his body slowly became enveloped in a white light.
[Play Song: Braveheart - Ayumi Miyazaki]
"I'm never." Little white orbs of light flowed from Antonio's hair as it grew a bit in length. "Ever going to forgive you Vali!" Antonio cracked his knuckles as Vali observed his face to see yellow markings similar to Yusei's satellite marking was visible upon his face. The last thing Vali had seen before his whole body was engulfed was his eyes shift from Crimson to Golden colors like Naruto's Rikkudo Sennin eye color with the slit in his eyes getting thinner and sparks of electricity surging through his pupil. Antonio rose his arms above his head as he crossed them together but as soon as he brought them back down to his side, the white aura that had enveloped him dispersed and the orb of aura behind him had changed into a Sekirei Symbol.
"A-Antonio-sama?" Musubi, along with everybody had seen his whole outfit changed to that of a shrine priest m, a white with black stripe top, similar to Musubi's with his black combat type gloves, black pants with his black shoes. His ears were a bit pointed like a half breeded elf's. His white hair was spiky on top and went down to his shoulders. What everybody had noticed was that a black Sekirei Symbol formed on the back of his white top as the debris slowly fell to the ground
"W-What is that, the aura that's radiating off of him is like that of royalty.." Said Rias.
"Hahahaha! This is great, I knew you had even more power." Said Vali as he raised his arm, summoning a big magic circle above him. Antonio had opened the gift Chiho gave to him and seen it was a pendant. He opened it up to see a picture of them when they went to the amusement park together.
'Be yourself, because an original is worth more than a copy.' Antonio had then closed his eyes and unhooked the pendant. 'What happened is in the past, now you must look forward.' He then wrapped the pendant around his neck and hooked it back together. 'To the future and face the challenges that are in the now!' Vali had fired off a magic blast that rushed towards Antonio who had only replied by simply sticking out his hand.
"What the.." After the smoke had cleared, he, along with everyone else including Asia who was still healing Chiho had seen that with his palm opened, Antonio had conjured up a goldish barrier. "Seems you are full of surprises." Said Vali "Show me more!" Antonio didn't say anything as he had seen Vali flying towards him. As soon as Vali's fist met with Antonio's face, the force of the punch was enough to cause a deep spider web crack in the ground. Though Vali's punch had enough force to send Antonio flying away, he had seen Antonio slowly turning his head while Vali's fist was still connected to his jaw.
"Haa!" Antonio pushed away Vali's fist and with his arm, jumped up and connected his foot to Vali's stomach. Vali sent two jabs with his left then right which Antonio effortlessly dodged and sent two right punches and left in his face then roundhouse kicked him in his side, making him skid away from him. As Vali skidded away from him, even he couldn't believe that a 'human' was making him breathe hard. As Antonio leaned forward and dashed towards Vali, causing everyone to cover their eyes due to the shockwave from Antonio launch. As Antonio was heading towards Vali, he simply raised his arm but was shocked that he disappeared.
"An afterimage?!" He looked back but before he could turn his head back, Antonio had punched him in his jaw with enough force that his helmet had a crack on it. As Vali was sent flying, Antonio had chased after him by disappearing in a flash of light and kicked him in the air. Miya had seen Antonio kicking Vali in the air in all sorts of directions and seen the calm expression on his face as he did so.
'The hero who saved the Sekirei from a long time ago, has returned.' Miya thought to herself. 'Hehe, since I'm the queen of the Sekirei, it's only fair to assume that form makes him the King of Sekirei. Since we're married.'
"Haaaaaa!" Antonio had clasped his hands together and slammed them down on Vali, causing him to plummet down to the ground fast which has managed to recover from before hitting the ground. As Antonio was descending downwards Vali had extended his arm outwards.
"Divide!" Antonio's fist had met with Vali's barrier, the collision had emitted sparks of electricity as Antonio's fist is struggling to break through. "You must've forgotten that my Divide ability halves your power and adds it to my own!" Said Vali as they once again interlocked fingers as they struggled once more.
"If you want my power, then take it!" Both of Antonio's fists were enveloped in a white light and grew harsher.
"Guess you won't learn." Replied Vali. "Divide!" At first Vali thought that everything was going smoothly as he drained his energy and released the excess amount through his energy feathers. "Eh, what the hell is this?"
"The Energy you are absorbing from him is starting to hit your limit, any more and it'll do actual damage to your body." Said Albion as the blue energy that was flowing out of Vali's his feathers turned to red, letting him know that he was in the danger zone. Next thing Vali knew, Antonio yanked him forward and thrusted his knee into his stomach, punched him in the left side of his helmet then the right. Then finally headbutted him with enough force to shatter his helmet, revealing his face.
"Haaaaaa!" Antonio cocked his right arm back, allowing his fist to be coated in a white light. He then slammed his fist right into the blue jewel which to everyone's surprise had shattered Vali's Scale Mail armor. Musubi had seen the back of Antonio and couldn't form any words as she was just in pure… Amazement.
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"So that's it?" Asked Issei. Vali had his head hung down, having his hair shadowing his face while Antonio stood with his arms to his side and hair flowing gently with the breeze.
[Play Song: Saikyou No Sonzai - High School DxD Theme]
"Hehehehe… Hahahaha!" Vali had suddenly raised his head and broke out into laughter, which caused Antonio to grip his fist tighter. "This is what I've been looking for! Such a thrilling fight that gets my blood flowing!" Antonio was shocked that he had automatically assumed his Balance Breaker form once more.
"You just might be worthy enough to face it. Juggernaut Drive that is!" Said Vali as he levitated towards the sky.
"Vali, I extremely advise against it! If you were to use it here it could.."
"I, who am about to awaken, am the Heavenly Dragon who has taken the principles of supremacy from God." Vali didn't listen as he had already spreaded his wings and legs, raising his right arm high as he was being surrounded in blue aura.
"W-What's this massive power coming from him all of a sudden!?" Asked Issei as everyone felt the wind pick up all of a sudden, including Asia who was nearly done with her healing.
"It's the Juggernaut Drive." Replied Azazel causing heads to turn to him. "It's a ability where the two Heavenly Dragons sealed in the Divine Dividing and Boosted Gear have their seals temporarily removed. Think of it as a double edge sword triumph card. Let's leave that for another time." Miya had seen Antonio's white hair flowing with the seemingly raging winds but had noticed that his lips were muttering a phrase. As her eyes widen, she had seen two golden rectangles place themselves on Antonio's back in the form of a 'V' shape underneath his Sekirei Symbol. As Asia was healing Chiho, she slowly opened her eyes and closed them again to see Vali in the sky, and a person on the ground but couldn't make them out due to the raging winds.
"I envy the 'Infinite' and I pursue the 'dream'." Vali was then slowly consumed in his blue aura. Before anything can continue, the barrier keeping them inside had mysteriously had a gap letting anyone from the outside come in, even Sitri's servants were in disbelief. "Oi, what are you doing here Bikou?" Asked Vali as the barrier had slowly sta
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"Why I came to get you of course, we've been assigned to a mission." Said Bikou as he then turned to Antonio and grinned. "Sorry to interrupt your guys play date but we have somewhere to be." Bikou had then tapped the send of his pole on the ground, causing them to suddenly vanish.
"Kanzaki-kun?" Antonio had looked over his shoulder then turned around to see that his Sekirei and everyone else slowly approach him.
"Minna I… Gah!" A sudden, deep heartbeat rang through out his chest causing him to miss a step as he tried to walk forward, luckily Musubi caught him. "A-Asia-San, is Chiho ok?" Asked Antonio, receiving a head nod from Asia as they all looked back to the tree she was leaning against to see that she had slowly gotten up and made her way to the group.
"A-Antonio?"
"I want to apologize, not only to you Chiho, but to everyone." Said Antonio as he lowered his head as Chiho slowly made her way towards him. "I'm sorry for ever putting you and the others at risk, I'm sorry for even allowing what happened to you happen. I should've been more concerned about your and the others safety instead of being so caught up in anger." Said Antonio with tears slowly rolling down his face.
"Darling~."
"Chiho, I'm so…" Antonio was interrupted as he had felt Chiho hushing his words with a warmful hug.
"Please don't apologize, if you really look at it, If I didn't come along, none of this would've happened and you wouldn't be blaming yourself." Said Chiho. "I'm sorry for being such a burden to you. I wish I could do more to help." She had then felt Antonio placing his hands on her shoulder.
"You were never a burden! I would never feel that way about you, not now, not ever." Said Antonio as he gazed upon Chiho's eyes.
"Yay, happy ending!" Said Musubi as she glomped onto Antonio's back, allowing her breasts to rub up against his back, causing an immediate blush to rise to his face while Kazehana pouted.
"No fair Musubi-chan." Said Kazehana as she wined. When Azazel had pretended to cough twice, he gathered everyone's attention.
"I admit, today has been full of surprises and once the barrier is lifted the day wouldn't have been over at all yet." Said Azazel "While we finish things up here, let's get you all back home." Issei had then walked over to Antonio.
"Happy birthday again." Said Issei. "I hope we manage to compete against each other in the All-Star Battle Games." Antonio nodded.
"Yeah." Replied Antonio. As Antonio was talking with Rias and the others, Chiho had seen that Antonio was wearing the pendant she had gotten him and she had immediately knew that she made the right choice with the gift.
Kanzaki Residence
"Haihane this is the second time you are going through my stuff!" Yelled Benitsubasa.
"And I thought I told you that if you don't want me peeking inside your closet, actually close it all the way. Besides I didn't think you were into role-playing." Replied Haihane before she chuckled. "Thinking of giving Antonio some birthday, cosplay love?"
"Shut the hell up!" Replied Benitsubasa as her cheeks became pink. Outside the Kanzaki Residence, Momoyo and Wanko had just gotten out of the taxi that had taken them from their home to Antonio's and walked up the walkway.
"No time to get nervous now Onee-san." Said Wanko as she was holding her gift from her, and the others.
"Baka! Whose nervous!" Asked Momoyo with a slight blush on her face.
"Hehe, if you aren't nervous then knock on the door." Replied Wanko.
"W-Wait a minute, I have to see if my hair is ok, fix my clothes, and.." By this point Wanko had taken it upon herself to knock on the door three times, causing her to blush mildly.
"Don't worry your clothes are fine!" Said Wanko as she had observed Momoyo wearing clothes she wouldn't never have worn before, which was a casual blue dress with a black strap going around her stomach, also with cheetah print around the collar and down towards the bottom of the dress and boot heels.
"I swear I'll get you back later doggie." Momoyo said to herself. She had gasped few seconds later at the sight of the front door opening.
"Hey Wanko, Momoyo!" Said Antonio.
"Hehe, happy birthday!" Said Wanko "Doesn't Onee-san look extra cute today?" Asked Wanko, causing Momoyo to pop a vein on the side of her head.
"I never thought I would see the day that she would be in a dress." Replied Antonio
"D-Does that mean it doesn't look good on me?" Asked Momoyo softly.
"Not at all, you look very beautiful in it!" Said Antonio with a warm smile, causing steam to escape her ears.
"T-T-Thank you." Replied Momoyo with her face as red as a cherry.
"Well don't just stand outside, come on in." Said Antonio as Wanko and Momoyo accepted his invitation inside his home.
"Oh wow what a lovely home you have!" Said Wanko. "Oh by the way here!" Wanko had handed a gift from her and the rest of the Kawakami group he was associated with. When he opened up her gift, he moved some paper around to see it was a photo frame.
"A Photo frame?" Antonio picked it up then turned it around to see the picture of them when they were all kids together. "Hehe, thanks Wanko, I like it."
"Hontōni?" Asked Wanko, receiving a head nod from Antonio. He then had seen Momoyo extending the box she held onto outwards towards him, sporting a blush as she shyly looked away from him.
"Arigato Momo-chan." Said Antonio as he went to open his gift. Momoyo had then felt Wanko nudging her in the side which she proceeded to hit her on top of her head which caused her dog ears to emerge as she kneeled down and rubbed her head.
"I-I wanted to give you something nice so I didn't know what to pick at first until it hit me." Said Momoyo as Antonio looked upon his gift to see it was a pair of new glasses since his original pair was broken during the fight with Riser. As soon as he tried on the pair of the all black glasses he couldn't help but to smile. "I-If you hate it I.."
"I love it.."
"Ehh?" Momoyo said in a confused tone of voice.
"Not only was I needing another pair of glasses, but I've always wanted to get an all black pair. I love the fact how the black part of the lens holder doesn't touch the top part of the actual lenses." Said Antonio as Momoyo was fidgeting while sporting a blush on her cheeks. "I love this. Thank you. Besides.."
"KYAAA!" Momoyo had then suddenly felt Antonio bringing her in for a warm hug which caused her face to turn red.
"There isn't anything that I would hate that comes from you." Said Antonio causing even more steam to escape from Momoyo's ears as he face turns deep red.
"Awwwn, look at that. Onee-sama is blushing." Teased Wanko. As Momoyo as lecturing Wanko as the reasons why she was going to get a seriously stern talking to when they get home while still being hugged up with Antonio, Kuu had walked up to Wanko and started to softly rub Wanko's dog ears which made her wag her tail. As Kuu laughed, Miya poked her head in the front foyer and had a smile on her face.
"Hehe. It's great to see my family here." Said Miya as she had slowly begun to run her stomach then walk back into the kitchen. "Im starting to get hungry, maybe Ill get fix food for everyone."
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