Chapter 9: Forsake me

Summary: As all sides prepare for the upcoming confrontation, Heaven remains under siege by the mysterious abombination of an angel Raziel, who revealed Yahweh has planned to haze all who do not wish to join his side, meanwhile everyone begins to awaken for the training of a lifetime.

Disclaimer: I own no material in this story nor its characters

We turn our attention to a room with walls that look obsidian in nature as they glitter in the dim light green lit room, as Issei lays asleep with someone under the sheets with him.

Issei then turns on his side to face the individuals direction as he mumbles opening his eyes "Mm hey, you awake under there Rias, I know it's you" as the individual next to him whispers "Get on up Issei".

Issei then raises an eyebrow and asks in suspicion "What did you say?" and the voice suddenly distorts into several and says in a sarastic tone "Get up, don't you love me anymore?" as he jumps out the bed to a horrific sight.

He then sees that what lied in bed with him was a humanoid figure with vali's head , but with several meshes of mangled faces of creatures across the body his eyes never seen.

Too stunned to act, Issei is then attacked by tendrils rising from the maw of monster as he quickly dodges in time nearly grazed by the neck, as he unleashes his balance breaker immediately.

Issei then shouts at it saying "What the hell are you, what is this?!" as it replies in a deeper tone of voices "She is not your concern, I'd be more concerned about your parents, seeing as their bleeding in my heart" ripping open it's chest revealing a sea of wailing green souls falling through a miniature vortex of sort.

His eyes go into shock as he hears this and says slowly "What..did you just say...my parents" and the creature smiles all over and says " Yes, this is war after all and there is no winner in war, only surviv-" as it receives a blast to the face, sending it flying through a wall.

The creature then stands up and says " Hey that wasn't fair, I was talking and that hurt" and ends up being grabbed and dragged by the face throughout what now appears to be his home covered in blood & tendrils from the creature.

Issei then growls as the creature sees him in his juggernaut form, and then says to it "WHERE?!" and slams it underneath his foot and says again "WHERE!?" tossing it through another wall.

The creature then struggles to crawl and is grabbed by the fully enraged Issei as he says in a low tone "Last...chance, where" and the creature says "Issei, you've got to help me, it's spreading throughout my very being you didn't...do this to me" as Issei stares almost in realization of something.

Vali says in a weak tone "Yes, you rememeber, hurry up and get control, he's coming fast and will kill us at our current level if we don't run" as they hear a pulsating phase filled roar that causes the world around them to distort as if reality were made of a liquid for a short moment.

Issei then says in a monster like tone "R-right, Draciel..too strong, must flee" as he picks up Vali and then what was his home turns into a world of red flesh like texture everywhere as a white humanoid appears in the room before them.

They then are faced with what appears to be a man with a solid white skinned diamond scaled body and long pale hair, sporting a dragon like face to which says to the duo "Now the real fight begins, face reality my young dragonlings, face the might of the Celestial Dragon Lord of Dreams Draciel, caretaker of young master Ophis." as he unleashes a burst of white energy.

The dragon Issei then roars at him but stops upon seeing something stepping out the aura, but this was not what he expected, for what stood before him were numerous figures horribly disfigured, and much to his horror, two of these individuals he knew all too well as he uttered "M...mom...dad...what...is this?!" as he began to trembles in fear.

Draciel then says "Tell me Issei, how does it feel, knowing your parents can see the beast you really are, after all in your rage at a false visage of Vali, you slaughtered them and didn't notice, but do not fret, they are apart of me now, until I digest them that is" with a calm warm smile.

Vali then tries to speak and says "Issei, keep control, don't let him win, if you do it's over, Issei" as he is dropped and sees a raging Issei tremble with grief.

Issei then looks upon the other figures and sees that they are everyone he knows from his normal days as a mere high school teenager, then Draciel says calmly "To tell you the truth, the moment i scanned your mind, I knew killing Kuoh would give me the fight I seek, how will you act now?" as he sees Issei freeze in place.

Iseei then suddenly release a burst of pitch black energy, letting out a distorted multi-voice roar that shakes the world around them.

Vali then looks to see this development and says to himself with a growing smirk and says weakily "Issei Hyoudou, always was a showoff of something new, but if you think i'm playing second fiddle then you have me mistakened" as he reaches his hand to touch the aura, absorbing some of it allowing him to generate the same aura.

As the duo charge up in a unison battlecry, Draciel then smile and says "Hmm, the plan is working splendidly, lets see what these two got" as he watches them generate more of this newly found power.

Meanwhile

Asia is seen running & bleeding profusely through a long grey stoned corridor in terror of something in pursuit of her as she says to herself "He can't be alive, what is happening here and how did i get here, he should be dead this is not real, no way this could be real!" as she continues to flee.

Soon a raspy voice can be heard saying "Leaving so soon, we just reunited after so long Asia, don't fucking run from me!" causing her to run even faster upon hearing the words with tears leaving a trail mixed with drops of blood behind.

Asia then reaches a dead end and thinks to herself "I don't understand, i'm much stronger than back then so why isn't anything working against him now, what is this power he has?" and the voice says " Hehe I see you bitch, end of line now" as a figure comes into view from behind, revealing a man with white hair and a decorated blue coat with a white uniform underneath.

The man then lifts and unsheathes a red jagged sword and says walking slowly to her "I've waited so long to be just the two of us, you have no idea how i wanted to have my way with you after siding with the demons, now get ready to be penetrated by daddy Freed" as he rushes at her with great speed & strength.

Just as she tries to use her sacred gear to form a huge barrier, she's is then stabbed directly through the center of her chest, pinning her to the grey stoned wall in the process as Freed smiles in delight saying wildly "Yes! no one here to stop me this time" as he rips away at her clothes, leaving bits of cloth covering tiny parts of her body and shoes.

Freed then strokes a hand on her face and says loudly "Look at you, just like old times, you always were useless even to yourself, you thought you could hurt me with those stupid dragons you called, with the power bestowed to me by God negating your healing, I can even kill your precious Red dragon emperor at his best, and when i've had my fun here, i'll do just that while he watches me do what i'm about to do now, all because you are nothing but a weak traitorous slut, and you will be treated like one however long I please, any last words before we start"

As she lies helpless on the wall, she thinks to herself "He's right, everything he says is right, there's no one coming to help, I don't understand, why would God allow me to feel pain, i've done nothing but serve him faithfully and now he's going to kill us all, Issei i'm sorry you couldn't be my first, i'm sorry I can't be as strong as Rias and the others, forgive me" as she leaks blood from her eyes.

As she sees freed reaching his hand down in slow motion, her hands grabs his sword and she says lowly "If god wants me gone, so be it" as she forces herself to be cut even more by the sword and passes out.

Freed, surprised by her action says "She...fucking bitch, oh well dead or alive i'm doing what i wa-" as he hears a loud booming deep echoing voice saying "Freed selzen, you have been chosen, to test my most lethal weapon, despair and tremble in fear!" as the room begins to shake, crumble & rattle violently around him.

Freed then stares all around in fear and says "Whoever you are, you don't scare me you hear me i'm a soldier of God!" as the voice chuckles says "But oh i'm not the one who you should worry about, Rise Asia!" as Freed turns to her quickly and sees that she is healing.

Then her body is surrounded by a vanta black aura laced with red as it begins to enter her body through her face openings as Freed tries to shoot her with a pistol but the aura reflects all shots and finishes entering her body in total silence .

Asia then says in a low voice "Freed, you've taken so much from me, but I think it's time I turn things around now" as she reaches for the sword pinning her and effortlessly pulls it out her chest as she lands on her feet.

Freed stares jaw dropped and says in confusion "Impossible, you're a devil it should be killing you instantly, what's going here answer me bitch!" as she then stands up slowly with a hole in her chest and head hanging low.

Asia then starts touching her wound and freed says angrily "You...you think you can escape me, like hell i'll let you do tha-OOaaahh!" as he looks down to his gut and sees a naked Asia punching him in the gut as she asks coldly "Do i look like i'm trying to leave?"

Freed then falls to the floor in a mix of pain & shock at Asia's newfound strength as she asks "What's wrong, you don't want me anymore freed, i'm naked for the taking so why aren't getting up to get me?" as he looks up and quickly gets up and grabs her from behind.

Freed then laughs and says wearily "I don't know how you did that but don't think you've won, I'm still the superior one here so be a -AHH!" as she elbows him repeatedly and turns around to deliver a lightspeed flurry of punches and uses her left leg to kick him into the wall nearby.

Freed then stumbles on the ground bleeding profusely out his mouth and says to himself "What the hell is happening, she manage to shatter my organs entirely, Davina didn't say anything about this, where is this power coming from" as she suddenly appears in front of him and says "You're pissing me off Freed, fight back already, I want more of you, give me more" as she picks up his sword and walks over to give it to him, confusing the latter.

Freed then stares at her and asks "Asia, you are a foolish little girl, you think you're strong enough to withstand excalibur, don't make me laugh!" as he rushes at her with the sword and tries to cut her, but upon his strike, the blade shatters acrosss her body like butter, stunning the corrupted priest.

Asia then sighs and asks politely " are you ready for round 2 yet freed?" and he responds "Wh-what was that?!" and she replies "Round 2 starts now, I hope you have more weapons, because once i'm finished, you'll wish I killed you , but it'll be nothing compared to the one who truly took everything from me" as she gets into a brawler stance and Freed fires another pistol round aimed directly at her face as she smirks wickedly.

Meanwhille

We are then brought to a black colored rotting swamp forest whereYuuto wielding and Koneko breath heavily limping as they are faced with an unscathed Rose sitting indian-style who says with a chuckle "Impressive, my simple moves haven't killed you so the training seem to work, I insist you put it on now Kiba, the next round I can't promise all of your safety" as she folds her arms with a bubbily smile.

Rose then senses a dual spike of energy and quickly grabs hold of two different sword strikes from the duo Irina & Xenovia, and then says to them "Really stealth?, Fruitless" as she then tosses them far away by the sword and is bombarded by a flurry of attacks by Koneko.

Rose then stands holding Koneko's fist in place and says to her "Amazing, you're strong for someone so young, but I have to go now and plus I can tell if we continue i'll end up killing one of you like this, and it seems like your true opponents have arrived , have fun and play nice now!" as she smiles and waves to vanish in a blink of an eye.

Irina with a bruised left arm then says breathing deep " Umm, what just happened, did she just leave like that" and Xenovia replies "Seems so but something's not right, what did she mean new oppon- " but stops as she hears growling and turns to see Koneko is the source.

Yuuto concerned for his friend asks her calmly "Koneko what is it?" but gasps when he sees two figures atop a hill nearby and sees a grey haired balding n overweight man claded in a priest robe and a woman wearing a black kimono and sporting a black cat tail & ears.

The group knew them all too well as the man was Valper Galliel the corrupted bishop, and nekomata stray Kuroka as the latter looks her younger sister Koneko and meows with a killer grin.

The group stares stunned at the sight as Yuuto is the first to speak and says in anger gripping his sword "Valper, how are you here you should be dead, I killed you" as the man laughs and says "Indeed my boy you did, but God himself couldn't allow it and I have returned to you until my task in done, come with us, his holiness grants you salvation and in turn you will be reunited with your old friends, we all came to get you" smiling innocently at the group.

Irina then steps up beside Yuuto and replies "You're not real because Rose was training us so you're probably just an illusion so cut the act" with a proud smirk but then Valper starts laughing maniacally and says loudly "Illusions, my young heretic, this is the real thing, but you shouldn't worry about that, what do you think is happening to your other friends right now, pretty sure that young girl Asia Argento is being taken care of by Freed as we speak".

Upon hearing this, Yuuto then summons the destructive sword of power Gram and points towards Valper stating angrily "I don't know what you're saying but I killed you once and will do so-" but paused upon seeing several shadows form on the murky ground.

As the shadows move into form across the dirt, several naked human kids with bulging veins, dull white eyes and a metal cross implanted in their foreheads rise out the shadows, slowly shuffling in a herd around Valper as if in anticipation, petrifying them all with mixed emotions.

As this occurs, Yuuto struggles to stand shocked as he utters in defeat "I...my friends...what did you do them...what is this.." and Valper says "I did nothing, I'm simply another pawn with orders to command their movements until my task is done, i'm sure you know by now who did this, don't you?" as Xenovia replies in rage "Davina, she's behind this isn't she?!"

Valper then suddenly gets mad and shouts "DON'T EVER SAY HER NAME!, she's the savior and the true right hand of god, you aren't worthy to speak her beauty and since I can see negotations are failing, go forth my children and cease the non-believers" as they then grow red eyes and 2 rows of teeth and needle-like fingernails wailing blood-curdling shrieks deeply into the darkened sky as they go into a charge foaming at the mouth with blinding speed as he instantly is swarmed by them all at once.

One of the newly changed kids managed to reach Yuuto biting his arm as he kicks it off followed by 2 more, and then Koneko charges at Valper forming a solid punch to the face but is pushed down out the way by a faceslam by Kuroka as she says "I can't let you pass, we have unfinished business!" as she leaps away from the spot, leaving Koneko printed into the ground.

Irina with a giant holy spear and Xenovia equipped with Ex-Durandal then move to strike Valper but then a bright light suddenly flashes blinding the pair, but their eyes soon recover to a grim sight.

What stood before them was a tall pale white skinned winged figure, numerous eyes of unknown nature lining across the edges of each wing, a face with stitched eye sockets and a slim-wide length sideways mouth and shreds of blond hair.

Irina then falls to her knees and says with a broken tone "...Lord Michael? Is that you? What have they done" and Valper replies "Ah, I see Lord Raziel was able to convince you to come to the true heaven, don't worry he's still an Angel but he has ascended to the mighty status of Ophanim, the sole survivor of the onslaught on heaven" stunning her further.

Xenovia then snarls "You bastards, what kind of God would..." but then becomes horrified as she realizes what she was about to say, she then continues "God, God did this, why would he do this, I humbly served him for so long for goodness sake and now I stand here questioning him...this is madness.." as she too becomes unable to fight, causing Valper to laugh.

Irina then grows angry as she shouts at the man "I will free him, you'll see Good prevail this day!" as she moves to subdue the deformed Michael, but he simply stands in place and grabs her wings, effortlessly ripping them off her back as blood sprays from her body and the angel falls to shocked to scream in agony leaving her with silent tears as she whispers in sorrow "Michael, why? Did I make you mad again?" and falls flat to the ground as blood continues to spill out.

Yuuto, still pushing his way through the horde before him shouts "Koneko, Irina, Xenovia ahhh!" but is bitten from behind and is pile driven into the mud, receiving several shreds & gnawings on his body, forced to watch his friends lay unable to fight as he sees Michael kick Xenovia across the face as she tried to defend against it but ends up with a broken arm and is impaled quickly by a giant light spear, pinning her into a nearby rotting tree.

Koneko then struggles her way up to see Kuroka ignoring her completely watching her friends get brutalized, she then asks Kuroka "why?" and she replies "Because you aren't strong enough to do stop this, you'll watch it all happen and i'm taking you with me, it's time you came back home" as she then hears a whisper echo through the swamp as everyone stops to hear the same.

The mutated kids then scurry back to Valper in visible fear as he says "What is the meaning of this, go and finish them now my children!" but Michael says in a hoarse voice "They won't, listen to the wind, something has their undivided attention and it's coming this way" as he points to the night sky above, leaving the priest shakened in wonder.

As the scene settles, Yuuto then moves his hand around in the mud and spots a yellow glow in it an inch besides his hand and reaches for it, and to his success he finds what appears to be a single band golden ring.

He then picks it up and says to himself "Where did this come from?, This wasn't here a second ag-" but is cut off and hears an echoed tongue he is unfamiliar with as it recites "Yuuavo kiba, lat have been chouken auk avhe new mubullat goth" leaving the knight confused holding the ring.

The voice then says in clear english "This is the black speech of Mordor, you have been chosen Yuuto Kiba to be the new dark lord, slay all who lay before your might, build an army far beyond of Mordor" as he instinctively puts the ring on his hand, embuing his body with a vantablack energy causing him to holler in pain as his body is consumed in darkness.

Soon everyone standing sees this and Kuroka then gets up and trembles, causing Koneko to ask her "What's happening to Yuuto, what did you do to him" and she frantically replies "Not us, the dark lord's ring is on his hand, how did it get here?!" as she continues to watch the scene in fear.

Suddenly another black wave enters the area and consumes the others, causing Kuroka to regroup with Valper as she asks him "Why didn't you say the ring was here, do you realize what's about to happen, do you!?" and he says angrily "Shut your mouth i'm still in control of the matter, Michael end this now!" as he then sees Irina's body emerge from the black energy.

As she emerges, she's revealed to have been transformed, her body now absent of clothes and skin turned into a pink & red flesh-like texture, her hands now with three razor-sharp fingers, wings similiar to Michael's but with mouths of monstrous alien nature instead, and her face is lined with black streaks stretching from her eye sockets down to her chin, dead white eyes and an upside down cross on her forehead, and blood red hair to boot.

Valper, horrified by her appearance then says weakily "What's going on here, she should be dead" but then Michael moves to attack but before he could move, Irina appears before him as his wings blink and flicks him miles away with a simple thump of a hand.

Irina then looks at her hands and looks at sky and shrieks wildly, causing the children to shriek back as Xenovia's frame is seen emerging as well as Koneko's.

Xenovia removes herself from the tree and is revealed a change as well, blue tattooed runes covering her arms, cladded in a black suit and trenchcoat with a slimmer version pair stabbf dual Ex-Durandals embedded in the ground, and holding twin huge black pistol, and eyes with a glowing yellow Iris and black veins in her face glowing.

Valper astonished by this development then shouts "Kuroka don't just stand there do something!" as she then looks to her sister and tells Valper "Sorry but my work here is done for you" as she seals him in a barrier and says with a smirk "While I've fooled you again, I will still fight but only to see what power my sister has now" as she leaps back to koneko a few feet away from her.

Koneko's figure then too peers out to reveal her change, a non-humanoid female cat-like creature standing upright with 2 large bright red flaming tails wearing a skin tight black leathery spandex suit, wielding a giant double edged platinum battleaxe.

Kuroka then unexpectedly bows to her, appearing to have surprised the newly transformed Koneko as Kuroka says "Mother was right, you're the true heir to Madam Rose bloodline, no nekomata has achieved the status of a schrodinger in eons, my loyalty is what I give as tribute to you, will you accept this"

As she looks up to see Koneko in front of her, Kuroka is immediately slapped into a tree as Koneko says in a deep demonic tone "Mince me with that bullshit, and i'm top of it all i'm starving, i've had nothing but hardening mushrooms for 3 fucking hours here!" as she kicks Kuroka through the chest with both legs.

Irina then says in a distorted voice "yeah, when can we have some damn meat or something" licking her lips and showing her dinged yellow jagged sharp teeth grinning at the children saying "What about them, they look fresh enough!" but Xenovia steps up.

She then says holding a gun to their direction with a proud smile "Looks like meat's back on the menu girls!" as they roar in unison and advance towards the children, but soon halt as they feel an overwhelming presence arrive behind them.

They then turn to see Yuuto's form, now standing 10'6 , cladded in a caped black glistening armor, wielding a giant sword shifting from black to red, and a golden ring on his 3rd right finger glowing brightly yellow.

Yuuto then bellows an deafining booming deep voice saying "THEY ARE NOT FOR EATING!, SINCE THEY'VE BEEN DENIED FREEDOM, I GIVE THEM A NEW PURPOSE" as he raises his hand with the ring and the children are suddenly consumed by a cloud of darkness.

The children then begin to turn into older looking spirits and soon they now appear as tall dark cloaked figures cladded in black armor wielding swords lined with blades surround by a dark aura, and then Yuuto says "Rise my nazgul of retribution, bring me the head of Valper Galliel, so he may receive judgement" and the Nazgul responds with deafening screeches moving at blinding speed towards Valper, surrounding him in a circle as they hold up their swords in a robotic-like sync.

Valper then sweats profusely and begins to tear up at the sight around him with no hope of escape as Michael suddenly appears from above and fires a volley of blast, but no avail the nazgul manage to dodge it in time.

Michael is then kicked out the air by Xenovia as she fires her gun at him, but misses by an inch, then her arms begin to glow as a ethreal blue raven leaps out of her body and charges down at Michael, crushing him into the ground.

Irina then prepares for the finishing blow and unleashes a flaming sword and lifts it high above her head as she leaps down from the air aiming for the head, but then a white staff stops it causing Irina to leap away in surprise.

The staff is revealed to be wielded by a clone of Michael as he says politely "Don't think it'll be that easy child" as his counterpart gets up to fight with the clone while Xenovia regroups with Irina saying "We have to get control of our new power, otherwise we'll both become souless beast of some kind" causing Irina to nod in agreement.

Yuuto then regroups with them saying in a more settled voice "Perhaps I can be of assistance" as his Nazgul warriors arrive to fight Michael, Xenovia asks "What about Koneko?" but soon all see Kuroka go flying into a nearby rock as Koneko follows up by grabbing her by the leg and slam her around and throw her like a ragdoll leaping after her making cheetah like growls.

Irina says in confidence "She'll be fine I guess" as they turn their attention to fight Michael.

Meanwhile...

Rias then sits on her knees critically cut up and bruised as her mouth pours out mass amounts of blood as Akeno stands over covered in blood with an angry look and fists formed towards her face.

Akeno then grabs Rias by a throat as she says weakily to her "Ak...eno, stop this, you don't have to do this...aahhhhh!" as she is then electrocuted severely by Akeno, causing blood to leak out from every exit of her face as she screams in pain.

A/N: Been a while since i've uploaded, so now that the team suddenly find themselves in strange sudden situations that have brung about changes, what the new challenges will await them, and why has Akeno turned on her best friend, new chapters will answer these questions and are in process and the next two will probably be the most brutal of my works yet, until then I hope you guys enjoy this story :)