Dragon Lord Draco here, This is Chapter 1 of Blue Warrior. It's a heavy AU where people, events, and especially the world will be different. There will be dragons and they will play a fairly sizable role. There is magic which is mostly used by exorcists, but some police or soldiers have it, but there is only so many ways to obtain it. There are Wells of magic, and all known wells are guarded by the exorcists. There are a few other ways to have magic, but it's much rarer for the person to obtain or retain magic from them. I thought this would be a good place to start the story, so that you could learn more about the world, without suffocating you with it all at once.
A man leans on a corner of a church gate in a small town. His eyes are closed behind his glasses as if in deep thought. He has silver hair and takes a breathe from the cigarette in between the pointer and middle fingers of his right hand. Currently he's wearing a black suit with the top few buttons undone and a white shirt underneath. When his phone starts to ring he opens his eyes and pulls it out and brings it to his ear pressing talk.
"Shiro Fujimoto, who is this?" the man says.
A pretentious voice sounds from the phone, "Mephisto Pheles, you and I have been assigned a job, please come to my office when you can, and do bring dear Sylvia as well, we might need her."
Shiro sighs softly before pushing off the corner of the gate and starts walking towards the church. As he stepped onto the stone path, he began idly sorting through the keys on his key chain with one hand. "Really? Another one? Isn't anyone else available? Besides, what could it be that the King of Time needs help?"
Mephisto replies smugly, "Why my dear Paladin, are you complaining? Maybe I should ask for someone else's help finding Yuri Egin..."
"Now lets not get hasty here!" Shiro quickly interrupts. He slides a key into the church's keyhole, turning it before pushing the door open and hooking the key chain back on his waist. As he stepped through the door, a burst of static was heard over the line. "I'm on my way now, I'll be there in 20 minutes at most."
"You never disappoint do you?" A soft click was heard before he was able to respond.
"Wha- he hung up!" Shiro mutters angrily to himself before walking through the door and slamming it shut.
Shiro walks down a street with immense stables on either side of the road, each labeled with a different name. Down towards one end, he finds a stable labeled Sylvia. He knocks on the door and unlocks it. "Come on out girl, we got another job, but I don't think that it will be a bad one."
A confident feminine voice echoes through Shiro's head "Really? By your standards or mine? I usually enjoy our work, even if we don't get enough thanks for it. Are you clear?"
Shiro laughs. "If even a dragon says we don't get enough thanks then you know it's not a good job. Yeah I'm clear, you know, I don't see why they wouldn't put only half doors on these stables, I'm sure any full grown dragon could force their way out if they wanted to."
The immense wooden door is slowly pushed open by a massive reptilian head. She raises her head looking at Shiro fondly with pale blue eyes as she walks out of her stable. The dragon is nine and a half feet tall at the shoulder, with semi-transparent silver scales with pale skin underneath. There are three white horns on her head, a small one on her slender snout, and two on the back of her head. There are a pair of vertical silvery frills, one on each side of her head. Her neck is of medium length and she is forty-five feet long from snout to tail, but thirty of which is her tail. She walks a bit forward before laying down beside Shiro.
"Of course we could, the stables are made out of wood. Fire dragons could easily get out. It's to prevent any passerby from becoming scared, we go over this every time."
"Yeah, yeah, okay. Moving on, we need to go to Mephisto for a briefing." Shiro checks the saddle to make sure everything is secure before climbing onto Sylvia's back. He leans to one side and then the other, pulling the straps tight around his legs. "Okay, I'm ready."
Sylvia rises to a crouch and spreads her forty-five foot wingspan carefully to ensure that her wings don't hit anything. Then, her powerful leg muscles tense before launching herself up as she flaps her wings down hard at the same time. After ten more flaps she slowly levels off and lessens the beats of her wings as she angles herself toward the top of True Cross Academy Town, or in particular, the Johann Faust Mansion.
Sylvia starts circling around the reinforced landing pad on the roof before swooping low and touching down. She exhales sharply from her nose, shaking her head before looking at Shiro. "I will be listening. Go get briefed, I'll be waiting."
Shiro starts undoing the straps holding him in the saddle while replying, "Yeah, I know. I'll see if I can send something up for you, and try not to scare anyone too bad.
Sylvia lowers herself to the ground. "I don't mean to, I'm just minding my own business and people get scared." Shiro hops to the ground, patting her side before walking to the door on the roof. He pulls out a key, unlocking it before walking into an extravagant office with a lot of anime posters and collectibles.
"Well hello there, I made tea." A man in a gaudy suit says smiling showing off his fangs. "Black or sweetened?"
"Mephisto let's get to the briefing already," Shiro replies straight faced.
Mephisto smirks. "All business? Very well then. The Vatican has evidence Yuri has been consorting with Satan, we are being sent to find Yuri, and kill her, along with killing the child of Satan."
Shiro freezes tensing up with wide eyes. "Mephisto, please tell me you are joking?" Sylvia broadcasts faintly.
"Alas, it is true. Naturally any possible new demon kings must be killed before they have the chance to kill us. I do not believe however, Yuri chose to. It is a shame, but orders are orders." Mephisto shakes his head.
"... Let's get this over with." Shiro says darkly turning for the door with his hand on the handle of Kurikara. Mephisto watches thoughtfully for a couple minutes before following.
On the roof Shiro is already mounted on Sylvia with a determined expression that briefly flickers to doubtful as Sylvia turns her head to look at him. "Having a private conversation are we? Ah, the bond between a mage and his familiar is truly unique!" Sylvia snorts spreading her wings crouching before taking off before circling around flying low and gabs Mephisto with her talons. She starts flying North.
Mephisto calls out over the wind, "Do you know where she is hiding?" Neither Shiro nor Sylvia reply.
Sylvia finally starts dropping down over a snow covered forest. Mephisto is shivering slightly while Shiro was wearing a thick coat he had pulled out of one of the saddle bags. "Get ready to Land Mephisto, after her hind legs hit the ground she will drop you, and you have three seconds to get out of the way before her forelegs hit the ground."
No sooner than Shiro finishes talking a clearing in the forest opens up in front of them, a log cabin in the middle, with a large amount of medium rank demons milling around frantically but clearly nonaggressive.
Sylvia continued gliding above the treetops, and once they cleared the trees, she dips down and lands on her hind legs. Quickly dropping Mephisto back before flapping a few more times so that he has time to roll away before landing on the ground herself. She pulls her head back before opening her jaws widely, dozens of needle sharp teeth bared as she screeches hauntingly, making the demons scatter while Mephisto hesitates looking at Sylvia.
"I'll never get used to that," Mephisto mutters before looking at the cabin. "So, shes here?"
"Either here or in a small cave not far away. Search the house but don't do anything till I talk to her or I swear I'll kill your host body. If she's not in there just follow our tracks." Shiro gets off Sylvia and starts walking into the woods, not noticing Sylvia glare at Mephisto before she followed him.
"Stay out here please Sylvia?" Shiro says right outside a cave entrance. "And let me know when Mephisto gets here. Don't let him in without my okay." He looks at his dragon. "Please? I… I need a moment with her."
Sylvia just stares at him for a moment. "I know. Now go." Shiro gives her a bitter sweet smile before walking in the cave. She curls up on the ground in front of the cave entrance blocking the way in.
As Shiro walks deeper into the cave he goes over the emotional turmoil in his heart, unknotting it all in an attempt to figure out how he feels. Then he turns a corner, and sees her, the room is well lit, from a blue flame held by one of her arms. He goes stiff and his hand falls to Kurikara. "It's true isn't it?"
She looks at him tiredly. "Please, listen to me. Hear me out, just one more time?"
Shiro looks at her for a moment, before speaking past the lump in his throat, "Go on."
She looks down at the children in her arms, one looking perfectly human, the other with a tail, pointy ears, and cloaked in blue flames that aren't burning Yuri. "I didn't ask for this. One day I was wandering in the woods, and I encountered a wolf. It was burning with the blue flames of Satan. It talked to me, and deceived me. We spent time together, it performing a partial possession on me so I could teach it about our world, without it killing anything."
She shakes her head softly. "I thought I was doing a good thing, I thought maybe he just didn't understand how Assiah worked, and maybe, once he understood, he'd call off the other demons, end this accursed war with no end. I was a fool. One day, he showed his true colors. Without warning, he impregnated me, I don't understand how, since his body is in Gehenna, but he did. He said that he'd return when they were old enough to fight."
"He said they were going to be Assiah's salvation. That they were going to finally end the exorcists, and bring about the age of demons. He told me to teach them that humans were evil, but necessary for the 'righteous demons' to save the world. But before you say anything, he wanted me to teach them that. That means that they are at least half human. It means they can be taught right and wrong."
She gives Shiro a weak smile, "If they need to be taught, then that means they might be able to be good people. They couldn't pick their father, just as I couldn't. Just as you didn't pick your past. The decisions of others brought them into this world. It isn't their fault. Please, I beg you, give them a chance at life."
Shiro stiffens and opens his mouth but before he can say a word she continued, "I do wish I hadn't decided to give Satan a second chance, but these children have done nothing wrong. I'm sure if you use your magic, you will see they have human souls, I know it's not fair of me to ask you this. Not after I broke our promise. But please, be their father, that's what I had in mind, asking you to marry me, and letting you be their father, but then the Vatican found out… it ruined everything. I'm dying."
Shiro gasped, but she didn't stop there. "Please… give them a chance… raise them for me… that's all… I… want… the one with the flames is Rin… and the youngest is..." She fell still. Shiro's world tilted before going black and white, and he saw a mass of blues and greens lifting from Yuri's body. He falls to his knees before looking at the twins, and sees that Rin is a bundle of blue violet and pink, and the younger, human one, is mostly green. And he remembers that all those colors are common in humans, while demons are typically black.
A keening mournful wail cuts through the night. "Mephisto is here, I am so sorry, I know how important she was."
"... send him in." Shiro sends back.
"If you're sure… he's on his way." Shiro reaches forward, gently closing her eyes, and brushes her bangs out of her face.
"Well… that's unexpected. She's dead, And one of the children has Satan's iconic blue flames. So, do you want to do the honors or shall I?" Mephisto says watching Shiro carefully.
"Let's make a bargain." Shiro replied, his eyes never leaving Yuri.
"Now, now, Shiro, I am strong, but even I can't bring back the dead." Mephisto smirks.
"I'm not talking about Yuri. You could seal the demon side of Rin, the one with the flames, in kurikara, couldn't you?" Shiro looks at Mephisto with dead eyes. "Seal the son of Satan's powers, allow him to live and be raised as a human. We lie to the Vatican, tell them we killed the son of Satan, and I raise the two of them. As long as they stay human, and aren't too much for me to handle, you don't touch them or say anything."
Mephisto starts laughing loudly, "Oh the irony, the paladin raising the son of Satan. That's incredible. Great work, I haven't had a laugh like that in ages. I can do it, but what do I get out of this?"
"I'll owe you. I will start trying to trust you, so long as it doesn't put Rin or… Yukio in danger. As long as nothing interferes with them, I will try to be like a friend to you." Shiro offers the sheathed Kurikara to Mephisto
"Very well," Mephisto takes the sword before partially unsheathing it and waving a hand over Rin and the inhuman features disappear and the flames swirl into the sword and sheath. Mephisto then finishes by sheathing the sword and putting a paper seal on both sides of the sheath over the seam. "That should hold for at least until he's old enough to learn how to defend himself."
"Thank you." Shiro scoops both children up gently, one in each arm. "Let's go to the cabin. See what they have that might help with these two. I trust you'll help me get all this official, as well as get me a place with staff who can be discreet?"
"Of course, why not do a little more, but so you know, their only chance if discovered is to become weapons. Mere tools for the order." Mephisto starts to the cave entrance.
Shiro follows. "Only if they are discovered, but we will both try to protect them, and get them treated as fairly as possible, right?"
"I will be honest, I don't care about their personal lives, but I will also try to ensure they are permitted one." Mephisto states bluntly.
"Thank you," Shiro replies. "Maybe I was wrong all these years, perhaps not all demons are completely evil," he mutters.
So, that's chapter one. Recap, This is a heavily altered universe. There will be magic, there will be dragons. There will be many more exorcists, with more power and more authority. Magic is well known, most demons can be seen without a temptaint, if only because they have to possess something before they are in Assiah, and the possessed item animal or person can be seen, even when. For instance, Kuro grows large, but the people won't see what an exorcist sees, they will see a perfectly normal black cat that's just really freaking big. Meanwhile exorcists will see the twin tails and the odd horns and eyes. Additionally, I'm going to need more characters, so if you want to send your OC go ahead and pm me, and I'll show you the format you should sent them in. Because there are meisters description name magic, all of which I have all set up for you to decide from or fill in, with an example included, I'll even help if you want. Well, until next time, Dragon Lord Draco signing out.
