I Do not Own DXD or MHA, that belongs to its respective creators and my OC belongs to me... somewhat... he is Very Dabi-like... I guess you can probably say it is OOC Dabi or something.

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So some of you may actually follow my other story Gamer Scrolls or the newer one I made in RWBY. Well I am not stopping those however from the last time I posted life has been pretty tough and has effectively beaten the motivation out of me for those stories. I am going to continue them, but as of right now they will be on a temporary hiatus until I get the desire to continue them. I am going to be doing this story for the forseeable future. I do apologize to those who were looking forward to the next chapters, but I wouldn't want to disappoint you with subpar work... even though my feeling of writing these things is completely on me making a playlist and mostly improv-ing a lot of the chapters XD. Me being motivated to do them and not makes my writing very different from each other.

Right, to get into this story... Well I am gonna have this one take place with a very familiar knight that we know and some love while others hate, Kiba! I am tossing our protagonist for the story into the Holy Sword Project! This will give him an in with the canon group when the two meet again, but I am also changing something else here as well... limited Gamer's Mind for the main guy... this story will get dark and he may suffer from mental issues because of this. Limited Gamer's Body as well... he can get scars, but a stab in the heart won't kill him perse and he can sleep to heal injuries, you will see why.

If these don't mesh with you then I would like to warn you against reading this as I don't want to have someone get uncomfortable from these things, or finding out they don't like the limitations for the story. This will get dark at points and because of that I would, again, like to warn you against that. Our guy will eventually become pretty overpowered like all gamer stories, but I may do a slow burn with it since I would like to make him feel human for a bit, regardless of powers lol. Dabi-like OC.

With that all out of the way I would like to welcome you to Burning Brighter: A Gamer Story!

Prologue: What I Became

'I don't know why all this happened... we were just kids with big dreams and pure hearts. We would have taken on the world for them if they asked, just to be cool, or something childish like that... almost makes you cringe when you look back on the decisions you made as you grew. I remember all mine and though I cringe at a lot of them... I can't help but smile at some. After I was 6 it all took a dramatic turn, but I still like to look back to before then and find something to keep me sane... somewhat.'

Flashback

I opened my eyes to see a familiar cieling above me and got out of my bed to see many others getting up as well in my room, well, our room. The place was very modest and well furnished, well to me at the time... in reality it was a shit hole, but it was my shithole with my family that I grew with and will always hold close.

Stepping onto the hardwood floor I grabbed my shoes and put them on. Isaiah and I are supposed to help the orderlies on the kitchen today for lunch, but we have time to hang out and play with the rest before it's time for that. I looked to my left and then found that Isaiah was walking over to me, he had a big smile on his face, to which I returned to him.

"Goodmorning Luca! You snored again last night." He said and gave small giggles at the last part.

"Sh-shut up Isaiah! I bet you just want to mess with me again..." I remember turning away embarrassed as hell. The things we worry about as kids right? Looking back my reactions were definitely fuel for the fire... I wish I can go back to that.

It was while we were making lunch with the orderlies that we ended up hearing the head nun of the place talking to a priest. They apparently wanted to take a great many of us from the orphanage "to serve God" as they put it, made it sound reeeeaaaalllllly nice too. I remember them coming over and selecting us all one at a time. Old man that did it went by the name Valper Galilei, looked like a nice old priest as well. We were so happy to be able to be adopted, even if it was for a few special circumstances and ultimately serving the Church and Big G upstairs. Never felt so great in my life.

Little did we know it was all for naught. We were taken to this research facility where they were gonna train us to weild holy swords and make us the greatest hands of God that ever will be. Said they wanted to make us heroes so we can weild Excalibur and become the next great King of Briton... at least they told me that. I was so excited and I put on a brave face while we went through the tests they did. It hurt a lot and the men stationed around the place weren't the friendliest, but there was a few who talked to us and gave us extra sweets if we were good and went through them all without fussing. They were our favorites at the time.

Soon though... the experiments got bad, then went from bad to worse, ultimately ending in very... invasive experiments. My current scars cover them up, but the phantom pains are still there. I think I may have gotten PTSD when it comes to needles from all of that shit, but I still trudged through it. Always having my friends there... especially Isaiah. The other kids were supportive and friendly, but Isaiah was my very first friend and to me that was special. We would always talk about how we were gonna be superheroes for the Church and the adventures we would go on. Sadly though... we never got to have any...

It was later that year when we were finally being brought to a location in the facility and we were all walking through a hallway that was poorly lit at the time. We were on our way to the final test and some guy in exorcist attire came to the troup and pulled me aside, said he had some things to tell me and I would get to observe the final test and participate later. I waved goodbye to the rest of the group... little did I know it would be the last time I ever got to do that to them.

The Exorcist brought me to some room where I was to stand with him and Valper on the other side of a viewing window. The man gave me such a fake smile it hurt, but my naive self believed it and I went to him. "Grandpa Valper!" I had ran and hugged him and he gave me a soft embrace too. Two faced son of a bitch he was didn't feel an ounce of remorse or guilt.

"Luca~. It is great to see you. Are you ready for your final test?" He asked me in such an overly soft voice that looking back on it maKES ME SICK!

I nodded to him and he smiled to me. I was so hyped on anticipation... I was gonna be a hero of the Church with Isaiah after all... the day couldn't get any better and I was practically vibrating on my feet. He had laughed and ruffled my hair and then clicked a button to let me see what the other side of the glass held. Nothing. It was an empty room with holes in the walls and ceiling. This was a gas Chamber, but I was an idiot and was looking curiously at it. I thought it was a find it game or some sort of puzzle and didn't notice Valper getting discomforted by this point. "Where are they?"

I had looked to him curiously and he just smiled at me and ruffled my hair. "Don't worry Luca, your test will show up soon. You stay here and I'll be back with Matteo here to fetch you. I want to see what is wrong. Would you mind staying here and waiting patiently? No running off or you might fail your last BIG test." I just nodded to him like it was Gospel as he and the exorcist left the room and I was left alone inside.

It was around 6 hours later before I finally was fetched by Matteo and he had this air to him that made me not want to go to him. Like I was being stared at by a creature that wanted to harm me. His hair was a mess and there was a lot of red on his shirt. Shoulda trusted my sixth sense and stayed away, but hindsight is 20/20. He gave me a sneer and then spoke. "Follow me boy. I don't have all night."

'It's nighttime? I must have been here for awhile, but at least I can still get to take my test! I can't wait to tell Isaiah about it! It is gonna be sooooo cool! I am the coolest so of course I get a super special test to myself and since it took so long to make it has to be the most special test EVER!' All of my childlike wonder and hype made me fall hook line and sinker. What I saw... it will stay with me forever... no matter how much I try to forget.

"Wh-what is this?!" My eyes found corpses of all my friends. All of them were in disheveled looks and some didn't even have full heads, while some had wholes going through them the size of golf balls.

&%#&&$( $( $^&(^%

I scanned there forms and seen all the damage. Caved in chest cavity.

#*(*&(*^%(*^ %^$&(

Brains blown out. Some with crooked necks.

$*^%&^#*&^*# $^ ERrOR PreRequistes reached

Some of them look like they just went to sleep, but are having the worst nightmare ever.

Special trait being selected

But worst of all...

Trait selected: Cremation- Player can naturally produce flames that gain heat the more emotion they put into them. Emotion utilized: Anger.

The thing that made me become more distraught.

Alert: Player experiencing raw emotion too powerful for system to handle. Hot flashes are in effect, anger intensifying... Developing skill: Undying fury- Player's will and anger too strong to succumb to injuries. Player must be killed with decapitation, blood loss, poisons, etc. Will live far beyond years allowed in current state.

My best friend... wasn't with them. This made me think the worst.

Alert: Player levels of rage becoming too much of a danger to them on initial awakening. One time use of "auto pilot" enabled.

"What's happening to the kid?!" I heard them, but their voices were so far away. I screamed and felt burning pain beyond anything I felt in my life, and then the world turned blue. I blacked out.

I don't know what happened, truly in that moment. I woke up and I couldn't feel my body. I looked at myself to see nasty burning scars all around my body and in some places I was falling apart, or it looked like I was, but checking it out I found it was one big scar as well. I looked a mess, but I couldn't feel anything. I looked around to see the whole building was just burned away... even the bodies of my friends. They were all gone. I must have stood there for what felt like hours and then I broke down. I fell to my knees and cried... screaming, begging, pleading God to tell me why this had happened. I never got an answer. Hysteria took hold and I thought it was just a bad dream and I could wake up from this... no luck.

At some point I had calmed down enough for some knowledge to be implanted in my head immediately and I seen a screen pop up in my vision.

Level up x9

Stat points allocated to stats with auto level up feature to better save host in auto pilot mode.

Name: Luca

Race: Human

Age: 7

Lvl: 10

Health: 1,040/1,040

Mana: Locked

Stamina: 300/300

Str: 15

Vit: 52

Dex: 13

Int: 10

Wis: 10

Lck: 5

Stat Points: 0

Skills:

Gamer's Mind LVL Max: Immunity to mental attacks from outside sources. Doesn't help Player with personal problems.

Gamer's Body LVL Max: Have the body of a game character! Fatal attacks won't kill immediately, but reaching 0 hitpoints will kill you. Sleeping recovers all status ailments, HP, SP, and Mana.

Cremation LVL Max: Harness the flames of your soul... the unbridled emotion that lies within. Anger is a powerful tool to make your flames burn bright and all things to turn to ash. Note: Cremation damages player when used. Health will go down the more it is used, but will give 50% of health from slain enemies to player.

Undying Will LVL Max: Player's will and anger is too strong to succumb to injuries. Player must be killed with decapitation, blood loss, poisons, etc. Will live far beyond years allowed in current state. Find out more as you live to see any benefits that are hidden.

Vitality has reached lvl 50... assigning perk.

Bear's Endurance: Player gains double the health for every level up of vitality.

I had no idea what I was looking at when I was this little. I never played a videogame and I was too young for to really grasp it. I was also too distraught at the time as well from all that happened. Walking through the wreckage I was able to find out what it is they were doing though eventually and it made me so angry. Valper killed my friends and to find out that the man I looked up to as a Grandfather would do such a thing... it destroyed me.

Later on I would find out that he had gotten away with all of this. He wasn't killed or imprisoned... instead he was excommunicated and the Church uses the damn research! I was done... I had no words for any of this, but I knew one thing. I was gonna break the commandment of never killing in cold blood. For all of my friends I was gonna avenge them. Valper was gonna die and after I figured out my powers I knew I was gonna burn that bastard in a sea of fire so he can get a taste of hell when I send him there myself.

Flashback End

I clenched my hand as the memories faded and looked on to the city I found myself near. I was standing at an abandoned shrine looking over the City of Kuoh. I found out one of the people I need to hunt named Freed Sellzan was in this place. Bastard Sigurd experiment has been following Valper for awhile and I bet he know where he is too. Through the years I haven't been exactly stagnant in my training either.

"System. Show skills related to combat... exclude Cremation and Undying Will." Turns out it is very receptive to my words. Took me awhile to figure it out, but...

Unarmed fighting lvl 46: The art of punching, kicking, grabbing, etc. Become the best street fighter you can be as you power through this awesome skill!

Blade fighting lvl 89: Swords, axes, daggers, knives... all these and more will dance in your hands as you slice and dice your enemies to bits!

Stealth Lvl 58: Blend into the shadows, disappear into the crowd, let the surroundings hide you as your prescence disappears.

I looked through those and narrowed my eyes at them. "They can be better, but this is what I get for starting late in this shit. These damn exorcists are getting weaker all the time though so I shouldn't complain." I clenched my fists as I felt something approaching me. It smelled like rancid meat and it's voice sounded gutteral.

"Kukukukukukuku... a human found it's way to my shrine. What are you doing out here all alone and with such a well cooked smell to you? Oh it doesn't matter... I'm GONNA EAT YOU ALI-"

"Shut the hell up." I turned my head to him and he seemed to stop as I narrowed my eyes at him. Damn right he did... my powers made a mess of me. Bright Cyan blue eyes stare at this damned abomination, piercings adorning my face and most of it seems to be burnt really badly. No matter what I do the scars won't go away and when I use my powers I re burn them... thankfully my pain receptors died long ago and the scar tissue overtook them. I can still feel in parts of my body, but the ones touched by flames are long gone and numb entirely.

While it was shaken I got a good look at the thing in front of me. It's neck was elongated and it had arms that were way too long for it's body. The fingers looked like they were corkscrewed on the hand and all ended in claws for ripping anything caught by it to pieces. It looked like it was starved because I can see it's ribs and count them and it's skin looked like spoiled milk, with cottage cheese mixed in. I knew what this thing was, a stray Devil. I killed plenty of them in my time as payment for information. The Devil house I deal with, Gamigin, told me about Valper's followers and after that I went on my own. Bastards told me I had to join their peerage for anymore "sensitive information". Bullshit... guys just wanted me bad and when I destroyed the summoning circle for their house they weren't too pleased. Haven't seen them for a long time.

"Look at you... you're disgusting. You smell vile and your body looks like it is gonna fall apart." He got angry and then hissed at me as I raised my hand in front of me. "At least be good fuel for my flames if you are gonna stay here." I then unleashed a devastating wave of blue flames on the bastard and he went up in smoke.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHGHHGHGG!" His silouhette in the flames flailed wildly as he was suffering in the heat. After about 20 seconds I stopped it and sure enough all that was left was a crumbling body that was being blown to the wind.

Level UP

My eyes went to the window. "Stats."

Name: Luca

Race: Human

Age: 17

Lvl: 61

Health: 2,700/2,700

Mana: Locked

Stamina: 1300/1300

Str: 40

Vit: 130

Dex: 97

Int: 45

Wis: 43

Lck: 12

Stat Points: 5

"Well guess that thing was useful for something. I'll save those points for a bit. I can always build up some now since levels are a lot more sparing now." I turned around and looked over the city of Kuoh once more. "Let's see... the Devils control Kuoh and it is apparently some 'friendly' ones... if there ever was a Devil like that. The Gremory and Sitri heiresses own this place and should stay outta my way... although I could make contact with them as well. Possibly get them to help me look for this crazy bastard, or send me to clean up what I find. Course I would have to find their summoning circles here as well, and that can take a lot of time... I'm talking to myself again, dammit." I began walking down the trail towards the city and grit my teeth a bit.

"First kill Valper... therapy for all of my problems later. I swear sometimes I wonder if I am gonna get hauled off to a looney bin." I looked at my hand which had burns on it and seen the cooked flesh on my arms. "Then again a doctor may just put me in the ICU with wounds like this. No need to rush into things, unless I get a supernatural shrink. Pfft... like that even exists."

Pulling my hood on my cloak up I made my way into the city. Most people who end up seeing my face end up concerned or give a shriek. I promptly ignore them as I am far too used to this now. Japanese is a bit broken, but I can at least get by. The System made a language skill for it and it is currently level 56 so I can understand and read most things. The more I interact with the language the more it levels as well so I ain't as loss as I was beforehand. At this point though I need to find a place to lay low.

Turning my head I notice a guy recording me with a camera and he gets my face in the shot. I glare at him and he then runs off. Stupid bald kid... he had a shit ton of porn in his hands too. Japan is so fuckin weird to where THAT is a social norm here. I ended up making my way to the park. "Guess I'll hobo it up for awhile. Gonna be a hell of a time here. Wonder if some shop will give me pity food. I got money yeah, but every city has one that will just shovel a meal to me for my 'crippling injuries'."

Kuoh Academy, Next Day

The students of the school were beginning to file in as the day was starting. The morning was a beautiful one with clear blue skies and a pretty sunrise. A woman with long red hair was walking onto the grounds and drawing all the eyes of the nearby students. Her figure was superb from her breasts that threatened to come our of her blouse, all the way to her hourglass figure that was capped off with a nice round ass and long legs with milky skin. A literal pinnacle of beauty and lust, Rias Gremory, one of the heads of the devil territory and little sister to the maou Sirzchs Lucifer.

Behind her was her Queen of the peerage, Akeno Himejima. The girl had raven black hair tied into a ponytail that went went down her back and was tied off with a ribbon. Her chest was bigger than Rias's and it drew just as much attention from boys and girls alike.

As they walked they both seen a sight that they were not expecting. The perverted trio was actually ignoring all the women and weren't trying to ogle them like the rest. This no doubt caught their attention and as they passed them by their senses were able to pick up on the conversation.

"I'm telling you dude! It was a damn monster!" The bald one, Matsuda, told the two others. They weren't paying much mind to it as they were walking past at first. "It looked like it was decaying and trying to hide it's face from everybody! It had this freaky cloak and it's eyes were this otherworldy color!" Now they were paying a bit more attention. It sounded like a stray devil possibly that got bold and got caught. Kuoh always had a stray devil problem beyond the norm.

"No way man. You probably dreamed it up." Said a kid with chestnut hair, Issei Hyoudou. He is a student Rias has been keeping an eye on as a potential recruit lately.

"Yeah maybe you started hallucinating from Withdrawals of lack of titty." Matohma, a glasses wearing guy with the creepiest smile. Apparently he can look at a woman and tell her sizes with just a glance, which just shows how far he is in their antics.

"No way! I even got a video of the thing walking by!" Now their attention was truly captured and they glanced over to see the video that Matsuda was showing them. They could hear the shrieks of people passing by the cloaked figure in the video and then when the figure turned to the camera Rias was appalled to say the least. It looked more like a human that went through a terrible accident.

As her and Akeno kept walking they began to talk. "Akeno. Did you see the face of that human in the video?"

"I did Buchou. The poor boy looked like he is visibly scarred forever. I wonder what kind of trouble and pain he went through for something like that, ufufufufu." Akeno giggled at her statement as her sadist side came out to play for a moment. "Myyyy he sure can take it can he?"

"It certainly seems like something happened. It has me curious to say the least." Rias said as she mused in thought about what she seen. "Akeno... send out your familiar to search for this person around Kuoh. With injuries like that it is unlikely they got far, and I will do the same."

"You want me to stop spying on Issei?" She asked.

"Yes. I have Koneko for that and she should be fine handling it. I would like you to get Kiba to help you out with this as well. I wanna know what is going on. That guy's eyes... there's something about them. He looks broken somewhat and I want to keep tabs on new outliers in our territory."

"As you wish, Buchou. I will get it done at once and I'll tell Kiba later at lunch as well. Perhaps you can see about getting a copy of that video, maybe Sona can help you." Akeno helpfully adds as she continues to walk with Rias.

Kuoh, Evening

I saw the posts about me online around here and from what I gathered I'm trending apparently. Some people are going as far as to say I am an escaped mental hospital patient and others are saying Yakuza hitman. Ouch to both man.

As I was walking from the park to check around the city I was taking in most of the sights. I have some of my face covered up mostly now so I have less people shouting when they see me. I'll settle for weird looks instead... less noise. As I was walking I seen some kid with white hair staring at what looks like a large funnel cake in a window. Even though she has an emotionless face on I can see that she is practically drooling to get some of that. Well I got a little money I can spare for her.

I began to walk towards her and she seemed to sense my approach as her eyes look towards me. She looks fidgety and I raise my hands in surrender to placate anything. "Easy kid... I just saw you staring daggers at the window. Thought I might help you out and buy you one." I reached into my pocket and she followed my hands as I dug out a bit of money. I then held it out to her so she can grab it. She looked up at me a bit skeptical. "Just take the damn money, I got shit to do and that photo won't fill your stomach." She narrowed her eyes and then softened them when she took the money.

"Thank you." She deadpans and I raised an eyebrow at that.

"Well how about that? You speak Italian perfectly... funny I was speaking Japanese though." I smirked behind the mask around my mouth. "Worst you'll do is think I'm crazy if I am wrong, but do you know about the Supernatural?" At this she narrows her gaze again towards me and then she sniffs the air and then scrunches her nose.

"You smell like burning meat." She says as she seems to tense as if ready for a fight.

"Not by choice. Well then that confirms it for me somewhat. I am looking for somebody and you may be able to point me in the right direction. I'll buy you a second one of the cakes if you help." She seems to stop and debate it for a moment and then she looks back in my eyes with an emotionless stare.

"What do you need help with?" She stands there still tensed. "Koneko." I raise an eyebrow at that and she sighs. "My name stupid."

"Oh... Luca. Anyway I am looking for a guy named Freed Sellzan and last I checked the bastard was in Kuoh. You know any of the Devils here? I can probably make a contract with them or something for information. Last Devil I dealt with sent me stray hunting for information, so I can do that for these guys I guess." She seemed hesitant for a moment, but then she eventually reaches into her bag and hands me a paper with a summoning circle on it. I smiled behind my mask and reached for it, but she stopped me and then looked to her hand with money in it. I clicked my tongue and then gave her the money for a second cake and she smiled a bit as she handed me the flyer and ran inside the sweet shop.

I looked back at her and then at the flyer and then smirked. "Sweet tooths for devil deals... seems like a fair trade. Doubt it will get me far with whoever comes out of this one." I say as I pocket the flyer and then head off to find a secluded spot to use the flyer.

"Time to summon me a devil. Freed Selzan... your days are numbered."