Now, let's resume our adventure. Truth to be told, this is the first conventional fight scene I've ever written so far in all of my fanfics, here, at fictionpress, even in the small journals back home, and this might also be the reason why this chapter is so short in comparison. If anything, I tried my best! Thank you for reading until here! I hope you enjoy!

EDIT: As for chapter 60, I'm starting to get a hang on fight scenes, if still a little clanky. I'm... I'm still trying to do my best!

DxD does not belongs to me, thank you!

And now... Aria-san playing guitar on the mountain!

"And he we go~...!" *SOLO RIFT* "Nemesis, oh Nemesis~! Why can't you stop putting your finger in the toaster~? This is really..."

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"Oh my Maoh... THIS IS A NON-SEQUITUR!"

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x~~X - And back with the normal scheduled program! - X~~x

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And here we are. The gym, a podium-like place were he hold general meetings and... Do sports. This is the place Hellsing-san told us to be, yet, not a single shadow of her. A vampire-ninja, that should be annoying...

I'm on Gremory's left side, with Akabane hugging my arm in the same direction. The redhead was pretty confident, with her arms crossed in a challenging manner and grinning widely, and this is scaring me. I don't know if she has a trump card under her breasts or just faking just so she could hide her shaken persona. None of them were actually good signs. She began tapping her foot on the ground...

"Oiii~, ninja~! We're here~!" She screamed, looking upwards. I scanned the place for any blind spots around. She is a ninja. She's a stealthy type, she will approach us with maximum caution and then hit us the moment we hesitate, she will...

*CRASH!*

"Yahoo! You called, here I am!" Or just burst out of the ceiling. I'm not kidding, she literally exploded the ceiling and jumped out of the hole she made herself, free-falling. The moment her feet tapped the floor, she jumped backwards, and made a gymnastic show in front of us, flipping, making risky movements, turning and flipping around until she reached the podium. In a final jump, she launched herself and landed on the higher ground, and finally strike a Sailor-moon pose on it, as a explosion of fireworks bursted behind her. "Annabelle Hellsing... Is in the house, believe it!"

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"Bravo! Bravo! Again! Again!" And both my dear companions started to clap, as Hellsing shot kisses for us, like a true Hollywood star. Gremory was the most lively of the two, clapping and screaming like a true fangirl. Me? I'm clapping too. What can I say? That was freaking awesome. "Ahahahahah! Oh my Maoh! That was awesome!"

"Thank you. Thank you! You're all lovely people! I love you all!"

"Yeah, that was pretty cool. But..." After a while, I nudged on Gremory's side. She shot her eyes to me, pretty much saying wordlessly that I was bugging her. I sighed, and pointed the forgotten subject, AKA Ana Hellsing. "... I guess we have business to attend, I guess."

"Oh, yeah! Yeah! Ninja, we have business with you!" And Gremory pointed her index finger at the ninja at the higher ground like a true attorney. The other one just smiled, and jumped down, to then low herself on the ground area, on the same level as us.

"Yeah, ainou, ainou. King stuff, peerage stuff. Actually, I was going to talk about that." Hellsing said, cracking her pointer finger with her thumb. Huh, maybe she was a ghoul too. "Like I said before, I want to be around powerful people, and in return, you want me into your peerage. Sounds fair, right?"

"Right!" Rhetorical questions should be rhetorical. But never is never with little Gremory.

"However, I don't know about my part of the deal." She clapped her hands, and cracked her middle finger the same manner she did with the pointer one. "Let's have a little game, a play for the keeps, shall we?"

"Huh?! What kind of game?!"

"Me... Versus your own peerage in a game of Cat'n'mouse. If you capture me before the closing time, I'm all yours, dear Gremory." She smiled smugly, while I looked at Gremory. I don't know what to say about her expression right now. Is this desperation? Doubt? Tranquility? I dunno, but it is scaring me. "But, of course, it won't be easy. After all, I'm a ninja."

"Huhuhuh! Okay! We agree with your terms!" And now she used 'we' like a true dictator. I'm feeling uncomfortable, and by the grip on my arm, Akabane is also kinda hesitant about that. Oh, well, time to go with the flow. "State thy conditions, bloodclot."

"Gremory... Don't say that."

"What? I'm just..."

"Ever... Again..."

Geez, Gremory...

"Very well, here's my conditions. You can't harm me, and I can't harm you. Also, I know this might sound obvious, but no killing techniques. Now...!" And before we knew it, the vampire ninja in front of us picked up a coin out of her pocket and flipped it in thin air. "The moment this coin hits the floor, the game starts, deal?!"

"Deal!" And Gremory shouted, stomping hard on the floor. I prepared myself as well, leaning a little bit forward. Akabane, on the other hand, jumped and hugged me from behind, clutching her arms and legs on me. Oh, dear...

"Okay...! Here..."

"We...!"

*TLIN!*

"G-...!"

*BAM!*

"And... Body slam, sucker!"

Everything went so fast. The moment the coin hit the floor, Gremory disappeared from where she was, leaving a red blur behind, and before I knew it, she body-slammed the vampire before she could react. With that, Hellsing eject out of her square-one and crashed first-face against a wall, with Gremory oozing steam from her left side and feet...

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WHAT?!

"Woohoo! Like a bloody storm! Burning like a bloody slam! I shall carve my lineage that flows through my veins!" And Gremory turned around and smiled, striking a silly, but somehow manly, pose, the hole in the wall and the body in there still behind her. I was left speechless. Did Gremory, Gremory of all people, just body-slammed that vampire?! Unbelievable. Soon, Hellsing-San emerged from the crater Gremory made out of her and gasped a little.

"Tch... What the hell, Gremory... That wasn't... Part of our deal..." She said in between breaths. Suddenly, the king stopped hopping left and right and stood in one place, again pointing a finger at her bloodsucker enemy.

"Huh~... Looks who's talking!"

"Wha...?!"

"I knew since the beginning you wouldn't play fair, Ninja." Surprisingly enough, the vampire in front of us dropped her smile to gasp in surprise. I was just as surprised as Akabane. "If not, so why would you put traps on the holes on the floor? Why would you distract us with the coin and the show if not to arm some kind of booby-trap on us? Why?"

"Tch... Why you...?!"

"The next thing you're gonna say is:'Good job in discovering my trick, but can you dodge it?!'."

"Good job in discovering my trick, but can you dod-... WHAT THE...?!" I'm surprised, really surprised. Hellsing was surprised as well, stunned by how accurate Gremory has become. But after it, she snapped out of it and, in a true stealthy move, pulled a small string out of the small hole-passages in between the wood of the floor. That pull revealed a true web of strings, more and more of them being revealed under our feet, as the strings surrounded us, probably trying to wrap us in it's trap.

Suddenly, Akabane took action, and jumping out of my back, she flew through the air, filled her lungs with air and blew a true hellfire out of her mouth, forming and circle of flames around us and burning the strings of the trap.

"Nice, try, but I always have a backup plan!" The ninja said. *SNAP!* the sound of cords being ripped apart echoed through the place, as I saw a bunch of boxes falling down on Gremory, all of them held together by a now burning cord. What the hell?!

"Huh... Using the strings to hold another set holding these boxes, so that you could have a second chance on us is very clever." Gremory said. I took a glance around, and she was right, there were burned strings visible in one corner, next to the curtain wheel. Everything is going so fast, this is insane! "Too bad! For a Gremory, backup-plans are just one more nuisance until victory!"

And Gremory positioned her palms against each other in front of her chest. Out of nowhere, black veils of energy began to dance in between the two hands, as she grinned under the dark light of her power. Suddenly, the mood around me got cold, and in my sight, the only light I could see was coming from Gremory's palm.

She aimed her sight up above, and launched a true sphere of sick black fire, hitting the falling boxes and exploding them like a true devilish firework, reducing the storage cubes into black ashes, and then, to nothing. All the lights came back, and she tried to stand on foot, supporting a hand on her knee and breathing deeply.

"Oh, my. The power of the destruction. Bael clan's signature move. I'd never thought I'll be seeing it and not regretting after. I guess hit&run with a Gremory is not a good idea after all." After that horror show, Hellsing looked at us and sighed a laugh. If she has another backup-plan or is admitting defeat, I don't know. Gremory is still regaining her breath, while Akabane went back to hug me from behind. "Well, sorry, but I guess my only choice now is a 'run&run', madams!"

And out of nowhere, the vampire-ninja pulled a great and large blanket out of her pocket, and circled herself with it, the white piece of cloth covering her entire body. The moment not a single bit of her image could be seen, the blanket turned around one more time, and then fell flat on the floor like there was no one there to begin with. It took me a few seconds to realize that she'd escape!

"Hahahah! No use running away, ninja!" Gremory said, filling her lungs with air and dashing to a random door out of gym. "I'll get you! You'll be mine!"

And now, only me and Akabane in the gym. I was too shocked to do anything.

How can I say?

I'm shocked.

I mean, two whole days with her, and she gave me nothing but annoyance, names, stories, pains in the ass and overall problems over problems. Now, she just showed in front of me that other side of her. Meticulous, powerful, determinate, smart and just plain ingenious. What the...

"Gremory sure is cool, right my dear wife?" Snapping me out of that state of complete lethargy, the fox girl in my back smiled and said next to my ear. Although I hate to admi, I have to say it.

"Yeah... She's cool. Really cool, in fact." I sighed miserably. I judged her wrong... Again. This is really, really uncool. Now, I'm the least impressive person on the group. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't care less in being labeled as 'the weakest', my permanent title since I was in kindergarten, but to think I thought Gremory was something worst than me... I feel like trash. "Say... Akabane... Am I cool?"

*KISS!*

"Wha...?" Instead of an answer, she gave me a kiss. A kiss right on the cheek. Huh, that was... Unexpected but welcomed.

"Aw... What? Doubting yourself, my cute little wife?" And now she pinched me right there.

"Kinda."

"Don't be like that, Ichijou-darling. I think you're cool too. Someway, somehow, anyhow, in some very average, common level, but cool nonetheless."

"Geez, thanks."

"Don't mention it. You're a devil, darling. If you wish to be cool, just say something stupid out loud. It always works for your kind, really." She smiled again, and that sentence actually caught me by surprise. Yeah, what kind of powers devils have? I already have my sacred gear, but anything else is a mystery to me. I wonder... I wonder if I can do like Gremory... "Welp, not wasting time here! We have a ninja to catch! Now, honey, activate you sacred gear and move out!"

"What? But...!"

"Don't worry, I have an idea." And before I could finish my sentence, she tapped me in the head, and smiled once more. She took a deep breath, inhaled and exhaled, and suddenly my body felt like new. Oh, wow. I feel stronger now. "I'll use my senjutsu to fill you with some stamina. After all, a connection between husband and wife should be enough for me to transfer energy to you. We're fusioned now, Ichijou-chan."

"I still don't know what this senjutsu thing is, but thanks Akabane." She tightened the grip around my waist and neck, and I could hear her giggling a little. I know she'll want something in return later, but, for now, let's show that ninja how cool we are! "I got the reference too, by the way."

"Well, it goes with the mood, right? Now, all we need is a frog."

"Later. Come forth, Boosted Gear!" I extended my arm and a show of light covered my hand soon after. There it is, the gauntlet of the dragon emperor.

[DRAGON BOOSTER!]

"Okay, let's go!"

[BOOST!]

Yeah. Short chapter. I'm sorry. Next chapter, things are gonna be longer and more action packed. Let's put the comedy down for now. We're gonna kick some ass!

Thank your for reading! Stay golden~!