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The Devils in the room blinked at the question, but a few seconds later, Rias eyes widened to the size of dinner plates and she pushed herself off the desk, staring at Drake like he had just announced he was God himself.
"You... you're father's Sparda? The legendary Dark Knight himself?" Rias asked with shock, awe and disbelief.
Drake just nodded.
Issei was confused though. "I'm confused. Who's Sparda? Is he some big shot in Hell or something?"
"No, he's more than that." Akeno explained, turning to him. "Sparda is one of the most famous, most powerful, well known Devils in the history of Devil kind. I read the stories about him not long after I became a Devil myself.
"Same here." Kiba said and Koneko nodded in agreement.
Seeing her Pawn still confused, Rias continued explaining. "Sparda was the most powerful demon swordsman and the right-hand man for Dark Emperor Mundus. His skill with a sword became widely known during the Great War between the Devils, Angels and Fallen Angels. At some point, he saw the tyranny and injustice of the Dark Emperor and rebelled, fighting to save humanity. Before his rebellion, he made a pact with his students to live true to their aspirations and to carry them out. He alone defeated the hellish host, before moving on to the Emperor of Darkness himself. Sparda defeated Mundus, sealing him into a marble vault, and what was left of Mundus's armies retreated back into the Demon World."
"Hell?" Issei asked.
Rias shook her head. "This is a different world, one Mundus conquered and twisted to suit his army and himself. It's realm name was lost to time, and it's simply became known as the Demon World. Anyway, Sparda soon left the Underworld and lived a life here, in the human world. Not much is known about what he did here, except that he was once lord of a city known as Fortuna. Sparda's activities over the next two thousand years are shrouded in legend, though it is understood that for a time after defeating Mundus, he benevolently ruled over the humans before eventually vanishing."
Akeno looked at Drake. "But it appears Sparda met a human woman and had a child with her."
All Devils looked to the silent half-Devil who had his arms crossed and his eyes closed. He opened them upon feeling multiple eyes on him.
"My Dad nor my Mom went into much detail about how they met or my father's past, but my mother told me that he met her at some point, fell in love and they got married and had me." Drake said with a small smile. "My mother's name was Eva."
"So your dad's some big hotshot who can take on gods and stuff?!" Issei asked with wide eyes. "That's some wicked yet awesome shit, man! I'd love to meet him!"
Drake's smile fell. "Well you can't. He's dead. Him and my mother."
And just like that, a sober, solemn silence filled the air.
Drake's expression darkened. "It was ten years ago. I was only a child when they attacked..."
(Flashback: 10 years ago)
(Flashback)
Drake groaned from his position on the floor, his vision blurry as he saw smoke and heard several crashes. His vision then cleared up and he saw his mother, Eva run in with a frantic and worried look.
Eva was a beautiful blonde woman with fairly long, straight flaxen hair, dark-colored eyes, and a very fair complexion. She wore her bangs short and swooping off to the right side of her face. Despite having lightly colored hair, her eyebrows were noticeably darker than the rest of her hair.
She wore wore a black turtle neck dress with intricate gold patterns decorating the front torso half of the dress and also the ends of the dress. There was slits n her dress, revealing some of her décolletage, midriff, and her left leg. She also wears a pair of simple black stilettos and a black leather belt. she also wore a red shawl over her arms
"Come here!" Eva said, quickly grabbing Drake and bringing him over to the closet, before opening it and putting her son inside. "You need to hide, Drake. No matter what happens, you mustn't leave!" Eva looked around when she heard a crash and a roar. She looked at her confused and scared son before cupping his face."Don't make a sound. I promise I'll be back. I know this hard, but you must listen to me. Be a big boy…a man, huh?"
She kissed his forehead, feeling tears fall down her cheek as this was no doubt going to be the last time she ever saw or spoke with her baby boy. She pulled away and made him look at her, smiling as she looked into those blue eyes he got from his father.
"If I don't return, you must run. By yourself, alone. You must change your name. Forget your past and start a new life as someone else. A new beginning." Eva said, before closing the closet and left to try and draw the demons away.
The last thing Drake heard was his mother screaming, before he fell unconscious again.
(End flashback)
Drake took in a shaky breath as a tear slipped down his cheek. "That day... I grew to hate demons. I despised them more than anything else. All I wanted was them all dead for killing my mother. When I was old enough, trained enough, powerful enough, I hunted the very demons who attacked that night and killed them. As I grew from that small defenceless boy... I hated my father, because it was because of him those demons attacked. I refused to have anything to do with my demon side, because it reminded me of how I lost my mother. However, eventually... I came to embrace what I was and no long run from it, but use the power of my father, to try and surpass my father's power and I did."
The Devils in the room were silent as Drake took in a few shaky breaths and his fists clenched. Rias walked over and sat beside him, taking his hand which seemed to calm him down enough to continue.
"Over the next few years, I trained. I grew to harness the power I was born with, to use it for good, to use it against the demons that killed my mother. It wasn't until I heard, from the Demon Emperor himself... that my father was dead. So in response, I killed Mundus."
"Something that went unnoticed." Rias said, causing Drake to give her a confused look. "All of the supernatural world heard about the death of the Demon King. Many have come to fear the one who did it, some celebrate, others just... don't know how to react. Looks like we now know who killed Mundus a year ago."
Drake snorted. "You ain't gonna blab it to everyone, right?"
Rias smiled. "Of course not. We're friends here, aren't we?"
"Friends?" Drake raised an eyebrow and said with a teasing tone. "Since when do friends get naked and sleep in someone else's bed without their knowledge?"
Rias smirked. "I didn't see you complaining about it. You enjoyed the view, admit it."
Drake shrugged. "Be an idiot if I said I didn't."
"WHAT?!" Issei's shout caused the two to look at him to see him crying tears. "YOu saw Rias naked?! You saw her big breasts?! WHY CAN'T I HAVE THAT?!"
Koneko gave him a deadpanned look. "Disgusting pervert." She said in a monotone voice.
"What is the matter with this guy?" Drake muttered, pinching the bridge of his nose while Rias just looked amused, Akeno was giggling and Kiba was chuckling a little.
"Well, that was something." Drake said as he walked down a street towards a bar where he was going to get drunk off his head. It was a Friday, a week after meeting Rias and her peerage, and Drake had dealt with another Demon Hunting extermination job in the next city that offered a lot of money, enough that Drake was going to buy a new place for his demon hunting business. he was officially going to open up a demon hunting business, a shop, for clients to come in and hire him to kill demons.
Hey he's got nothing better to do aside from school which was boring in and out of itself. The only thing that didn't make it too utterly boring was hanging out with Rias and her peerage, even if Issei can be an annoyance but the boy was starting to grow on him. Drake told Rias that if she or her peerage needed anything, any help, then they know who to call.
Drake wandered town until he came across the first bar he saw, and he went in. It was a nice place, vastly different in atmosphere from the American bars he's visited back in the States.
"Double Jack Daniel's, on the rocks." he said to the barman once he got up to the bar. He waited, got his drink, and turned around to grab a table and sit by himself.
There was a man behind him.
He looked to be in his middle ages, maybe late 30s to early 40s, with black hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a pale grey trench coat over a white dress shirt and matching ascot, black trousers and shoes, a pair of black gloves, and a black fedora. This man wore a lot of black. The word "edge lord" came to mind given the trench coat/fedora combo.
"A lone demon come to drown his sorrows," Dohnaseek observed in what appeared to be amusement. "Gotta admit, if you're a stray, you're a damn bold one. Who's your master?"
"Don't have one, I'm a Cambion." Drake said without looking at the Fallen Angel.
"Half-Devil, huh?" Dohnaseek snorted lightly. "Well, least I won't put you out of your misery right now, but you are still a Devil."
"And I'm not here to drown my sorrows." Drake said with a roll of his eyes. "Merely here to get a drink after the stressing day I've had. Slaughtering demons can be a stressing thing yet oddly a stress relief."
"… I don't want to fraternise with the enemy, but I really want to hear that story."
"Too bad about the whole enemy thing, then. What are you drinking?"
The Fallen Angel looked surprised. "Just beer, usually."
Drake turned back to the bar. "Can I get a Corona for my friend here?" he asked.
"Uh, no, not that one," said the fallen angel awkwardly. "I'll have a Budweiser if you're buying."
Drake relayed that to the barman and handed the fallen angel his beer. "Let's call it a peace offering," he said. "No need to be aggressive in here. I'm just going to grab a table, drink, and imagine your skimpy-dressing friend in less revealing clothing than what she had on when we met a week ago." He walked off before what he'd just said had time to register and sat down at an empty table, taking his first sip of the whiskey.
A few seconds later, the Fallen Angel sat across from him. "So you ARE the one that sent Raynare into retreat, huh?"
"Got it in one." Drake nodded.
"And the one who slayed the Demon Emperor Mundus." Dohnaseek said with a tone of almost awe and he sounded impressed. "You're, what, 17? Had to be 16 when killing Mundus of all beings."
"I was." Drake nodded again.
"I'm Dohnaseek," he introduced himself.
"Drake Redrgave."
"Well, Drake Redgrave, I don't know about you, but drinking alone always has kind of depressed me. I might just hang out here with you while we're here."
"I won't stop you."
There was no spark of friendship between the two, no hint that these two people from enemy races would have any sort of relationship beyond sitting quietly in each other's presence. Yet this was still a sight that would boggle the minds of others in the supernatural world. Drake Redgrave the half-Devil and Dohnaseek the Fallen Angel had become, it would appear, drinking buddies.
Things became routine for Drake over the next few days. He would be in school hanging out with the Occult Research Club, then he'd do demon hunting after school, followed by going to the bar where he'd drink in comfortable silence with Dohnaseek. Occasionally, one of them would say something, and maybe a short conversation would be had, but it didn't go further than that. Drake wouldn't precisely say Dohnaseek was his friend, but it was better than drinking alone, and he was grateful for it.
Right now, Drake was walking home after drinking at the bar with Dohnaseek. Being a half-Devil, Drake couldn't get drunk after a couple of strong drinks. It takes a lot for that to happen, Drake would know since he experimented by drinking ten bottles of Whiskey, getting onto his tenth when he felt drunk. But hey, he didn't do anything bad... aside from sleeping with the bargirl that night. It was the night he first drank and lost his virginity.
In his eyes, he became a man at 15 years old.
His body tensed up as soon as he felt it, his hand reaching for Ebony which he kept hidden in his jacket when he went out on these contracts. Just in case he needed it.
"There is no need for violence. I mean you no harm." A smooth voice spoke up in the dark as a figure walked out into the streetlight. "Although, I am impressed one so young was able to sense me."
The person turned out to be a woman, a beautiful one at that. Brown eyes and long, navy blue hair flowing down her back. A buxom figure under a maroon trench coat-like dress top and matching mini-skirt and high-heel shoes. She also had the front of the dress open, exposing a huge amount of cleavage. She also was not wearing a bra.
Drake whistled as the woman approached, her hips swaying with every step. "Not bad, babe. You can definitely turn some heads."
"Why thank you, I do try." The woman responded, giving the hunter a seductive look. "And I must say you are quite the handsome young man, and very strong, if what Raynare and Dohnaseek have told me."
"You with those two Fallen?"
"Indeed, and I was quite curious about the boy they both spoke of. As well as the fact said boy is the slayer of Mundus and the son of Sparda himself. You sent Raynare into retreat, and became a drinking buddy of Dohnaseek's. Very impressive." The woman spoke with mirth in her eyes. "Oh, but where are my manners? I'm Kalawarner, the Fallen, and I assume you are Drake Redgrave?"
"Guilty as charged, babe," Drake answered as he turned to face the fallen. "So, what can I do for you?"
Kalawarner closed the distance between them. "I was simply curious about you and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I must say, though, I didn't think I would meet such a stud."
Drake raised an eyebrow. "Stud, huh?"
"A very strong, handsome, hot as fuck, stud. One who I'd love to have drive himself into me with all his strength and endurance. Becoming the center of his world as he erupts over and over and still want more." The sexy fallen shuddered and moaned sensually. "It's pure ecstasy." Kalawarner locked her eyes with the boy and raised her hand to gently stroke his cheek. "We can do that. Right here and now, if you want. It would be such a thrill, the risk of being caught makes it all the better."
Drake chuckled. "Well, I certainly wouldn't mind. Having a good time with gorgeous babe in the middle of the street for the world to see, it be a blast. Sadly, I already got a prior arrangement for tonight, so, I'll have to take a raincheck on the lovin'. We can have our little 'dance in the pale moonlight' another night."
Kalawarner sighed. "A pity. And I was so hoping for a grand time with someone as young and strong as you. Oh well. Perhaps next time we meet." The fallen said as she stepped away and started heading back into the night, hips swaying invitingly. "I look forward to our next meeting." Before she disappeared back into the dark, she turned and winked at the boy. "Later, Stud." She said as she vanished into the dark of night.
Drake stared at where she had been before he chuckled, shook his head and walked back in the direction of his home. "God help me, I love my life."
The next night, Drake, dressed in his usual clothing which consisted of red pants with two black belts wrapped around his right thigh, a black, leather belt, black gloves, and high, black boots. He also wore a hooded long coat with Western and Italian features, that was a deep red, almost crimson color. The coat is short-sleeved, with numerous gold-colored studs decorating the shoulders, collar, and chest, with a single zipper on the front. While underneath the coat, he is wearing what appears to be a black long-sleeved shirt, with a red vest with black clasps over it.
And sheathed across his back was Rebellion.
Drake had his hands in his coat pockets as he walked up to an abandoned building on the outskirts of town. Drake had gotten a call that a 'strange creature' was sighed around here and that people had been going missing here over the last couple of days. Since Drake knew it had to be a demon, or stray Devil even, he decided to take the job of hunting and killing it, with the payment of enough to get him that big house that's perfect for his demon hunting office, as well as buying himself and ride to drive around in.
Like the Ghostbusters.
Drake walked right up to the doors of the building and Spartan kicked them right off the hinges, sending the doors slamming right into the wall and buriying them in it. Drake walked in and announced, "Honey! I'm home!"
"Who dares enter my domain?" A sultry female voice purred from the darkness before out of said darkness appeared a young woman with a voluptuous figure, which was devoid of clothing so she was basically naked and flashing her breasts for any to hawk at. She had long black hair, and was very beautiful, downright sexy even... but her lower body was a major turn off. Her lower body was gigantic and beastly with four legs, each having sharp claws, and a snake as a tail. and her stomach featuring a cavity with teeth to devour her prey most likely.
"well, aren't you a pretty sight?" Drake asked sarcastically. "So you must be the one killing humans here."
"Who are you"? the Stray Devil narrowed her eyes at him.
"I'm your prom date, bitch." Drake smirked at her.
The Stray Devil leaned close until she was face to face but Drake didn't even blink. "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" The Stray Devil roared, her face changing. She now had piranha-like teeth, pointed ears, and black sclera in place of the usual white.
Drake just brushed a bit of saliva off his shoulder. "My name is Drake."
"Drake?" The Stray Devil blinked in confusion.
"But you can call me Drake the demon killer. Has a nice ring to it, don't you think?" Drake asked casually.
"You want to kill me?" The Stray Devil scoffed and laughed. "You can't kill me! I'm 800 years old!"
Drake scoffed. "With a lower body like that, I can only wonder how you get laid."
"Fuck you!" The Stray Devil snarled.
"Fuck you!" Drake retorted.
"FUCK YOU!" The Stray Devil raised one of her massive legs to stomp on Drake, who just leaped back and landed on a pillar in a sitting position, Rebellion leaning on his right shoulder.
"Temper, temper." Drake tutted before he jumped to avoid being smashed again and landed on his feet, then leaped and sashed the side of the Stray;s human body, causing her to roar in pain.
"YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" The Devil roared as her massive stomach teeth opened and clamped around Drake. It was silent for a moment before the teeth were forced open by Drake who had a disgusted expression.
"You lady... need a dentist and tictacs for this big hole." Drake snarked before he whipped out Ebony and fired into the mouth, causing the stray Devil to screech in pain as Drake leaped out, grabbed Ivory and fired both guns at the demon, striking multiple areas and wounding her easily. Drake landed on his feet as the stray Devil fell onto her side, groaning in pain. Drake walked up and pressed his gun against the Devil's head. "And jackpot."
BANG!
Drake blew the smoke from Ebony's barrel and holstered it and Ivory in his holsters on the back of his waist underneath his coat.
"Stray Devil Vizer! We're here to-huh?" Drake turned to see Rias and her peerage had arrived, looking surprised and shocked. Surprised at seeing him here, shocked at the dead Devil behind him. "Drake? What are you doing here?"
"My job." Drake shrugged. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, we were gong to take care of the Stray Devil behind you, take the chance to show Issei how combat works, but since you already dealt with the Stray..." Rias said with a sigh.
"Sorry." Drake said with another shrug as he walked past them. "But you can destroy the corpse."
Rias nodded and sent a blast of her Power of Destruction at the corpse, obliterating it and leaving nothing behind. Rias turned to Drake and put her hands on her lovely hips. "Staying out of trouble?"
"Trouble usually finds me." Drake smirked at her as she giggled. "Sorry for ruing the chance to show Issei how this works."
"It's no bother." Rias shook her head. "We'll just have to have him study and then show him real combat when another stray Devil pops up."
After speaking some more with Rias, Drake headed home for the night after receiving his payment for killing the Stray Devil...
And that's it for this chapter folks. I hope you all enjoyed it.
