Chapter 25
Disclaimer: I do not own High school DxD or Fairy Tail they are property of Ichiei Ishibumi and Hiro Masima respectively.
Scythe of Doom: I really like the idea of your review on chapter 20 (sorry for only answering now) and I am happy you like Aplha Grayfia.
Guest-Questioner(from chapter 4): (Once again sorry for the long wait) I hope you like the fight Rias has in this chapter.
Godz1llex: Thank you.
"Prepare yourself for you will feel the wrath of Katerea Leviathan, descendant of the original Leviathan," Katerea screamed in rage.
"I will settle this, you can just sit back and relax," Azazel said to other faction leaders and before they had a chance to object he spread out his twelve jet black wings and took flight.
He hovered at the same level as Katerea was.
"You are foolish to believe you can take me on alone, but since you insulted me I will take my sweet time in disposing of you," Katerea said with venom in her voice.
"I hope you have more power than you had last time I saw you in battle, that will mean I can test something out," Azazel calmly stated.
"Enough chit chat," Katerea said before pulling out a sceptre which had claw like head. She created multiple streams of dark energy which looked like some malformed and decaying eels.
Azazel calmly dodged all of the incoming streams with minimal effort, and blocking one by just raising his hand.
"You call this the wrath of Katerea Leviathan?" Azazel asked in a disappointed tone after he obliterated one of the ell like streams with minimal effort.
"I'm just getting warmed up," Katerea said. She spun her sceptre and the streams of darkness formed high in the sky above Azazel. The streams started to twirl around one another before merging into one large stream.
Azazel raised his arm in the air and formed a barrier above him which easily absorbed the attack.
"If you are just going to try and tickle me like this I'm just going to find a more powerful foe. Maybe one of those mages might put up more of a fight," Azazel mused with a cocky grin.
"I must admit, I didn't expect a filthy Fallen Angel like yourself would push me to use the gift I was give," Katerea said with a straight face.
"Gift you say, sounds interesting, who gave it to you?" Azazel said, his researcher side and his thirst for knowledge egging him on to find the answer.
"Ophis, the Infinite Dragon God, has given me some of her power to use if needed," Katerea laughed like a maniac. Azazel was silently looking at her.
"You regret your choices now?" Katerea asked believing she now had Azazel scared.
"No, not at all I'm just thinking about how well my toy will do against the power of the Infinite Dragon God," Azazel replied with a thoughtful look.
With Xenovia, Kiba and Asia
At this moment with Xenovia, Kiba and Asia they were running to where the most magicians were.
"Stay close together, they have the numbers advantage. Watch each other's backs," Kiba said to his group.
They rounded another corner only to spot a certain brunette slashing at the magicians with a sword. Just as they saw her they also saw a magician getting behind her and powering up an attack while she was preoccupied with the ones in front of her.
Xenovia quickly dashed to her side and deflected the blast with Durandal.
"Don't worry I got your back Irina," Xenovia said when Irina glanced behind her to see who it was that deflected the blow.
"Xenovia, I'm so happy to see you," Irina replied with a smile.
"We can catch up later, right now let's take care of these idiots," Xenovia said with a wicked grin which Irina returned.
"Seems like those two can handle things here, let's find another place that needs help," Kiba said to which Asia agreed and the two of them quickly made their way to another spot.
With Rias and Issei
Issei and Rias had just arrived at the room where Gasper and Koneko were held captive. Gasper was tied up and displayed on some sort of a alter while Koneko was tied up and seemed to be unconscious.
"Release them this instant," Rias demanded the gathered magicians.
"We will release them once we are done with them. Get them," the supposed leader of the group ordered the rest of them to attack the two devils.
"Issei you get Gasper, I'll deal with these idiots," Rias said in an angered tone.
Rias tried to blast them with an attack but for some reason nothing happened.
"Magic won't work here. That brats power prevents all magic from having an effect," one of the magician said with a devious grin as he drew his sword. The rest of his allies also drew various weapons.
"This will be more trouble than I thought," Rias said.
"Done worry, we can do it together Rias," Issei reassured her as he dropped into a fighting stance.
Rias had a smile on her face as she dropped into a similar stance to Issei.
"You take the right I'll take the left," Rias said and dashed towards the nearest magician. She quickly used an open palm to guide the blade of the magician's sword to pass her harmlessly while using her other open palm to deliver a powerful thrust into the magician's stomach.
Issei followed her lead soon after punching one magician in the face while sweeping his leg to trip another one.
The two fought in tandem like a well-oiled machine, every so often deflecting or blocking a blow for the other. They had effectively taken out about half of the magicians before they started to feel the fatigue of fighting hand-to-weapon set tin.
"We will have to thank Natsu for putting us through that torturous training when we are done here," Rias commented as they jumped back to give themselves some form of a breather.
"Yeah, he insisted we learn how to fight without magic. At the time I didn't understand why but now I'm very happy he was so persistent," Issei replied while taking deep breaths.
The magicians began advancing once again, this time with a bit more coordination from their leader.
"Cover each other's backs and don't let these devil scums land a hit," the leader called out. He had yet to join the fray and opted to just give out commands
The doors suddenly flew open and a magician flew across the room and barrelled into the remaining group that Issei and Rias had yet to defeat.
"Where did that come from?" Issei asked and turned to look at the door. What he saw had him shivering in fear.
"Where the hell are the strong magicians?" a very angry demon Natsu said as he walked past the door.
"Not so long ago even a novice magician would have been able to take out at least five of you weakling," Natsu continued his rant as he vanished from sight, not even bothering to look at where he threw the magician that had just taken out the reaming foes that Issei and Rias had left.
"I guess we will have to thank him later?" Rias asked in a confused tone.
"We could have taken those guys out no problem, they were on their last legs," Issei grumbled.
"Anyway, there is one more eyesore here, I will deal with him while you get Gasper and Koneko," Rias instructed Issei while she slowly made her way to the leader of the magicians group.
The leader slowly backed away with a frightened look but was unable to escape sine the only exit was behind Rias.
Issei made his way to Gasper and Koneko and untied them.
"Gasper you need to control your power, the magicians said that your power is preventing us from using magic," Issei said, he was unaware of how far the effects of the magic cancelling reached but he knew that they needed every advantage they could get.
"But I can't," Gasper replied and lowered his head in self-pity.
"Remember what Azazel said, if you drink Dragon blood you will be able to control your power," Issei said as he remembered when Azazel interrupted their training session.
"But I don't want to drink any blood," Gasper said.
"This is potentially a life and death situation, we need you Gasper. You can drink some of my blood," Issei insisted since he wanted to help his friends out.
"Life and death… Okay I'll do it," Gasper said after a short moment. He bit into Issei's arm and drank some of his blood.
Rias felt her magic coming back to her and began to flare her aura.
"As a leader you must be willing to join the fray when your subordinates are fighting. This is a lesson I learned sot too long ago. You are a coward and I will show you no mercy," Rias said as she blasted the poor leader with a massive amount of her Power of Destruction.
She didn't stay long enough for the dust to settle and walked to Issei, Gasper and Koneko.
"Let's go find Wendy or Asia and get these two healed up," Rias said as she picked Koneko up and walked out of the building. Issei quickly followed supporting Gasper with his shoulder.
They left the room as the dust from Rias' attack settled and all that could be seen is a hole in the wall where there once was a magician group leader.
"Do you know what they used your power for?" Rias asked Gasper as they moved towards where they saw lightning flicker.
"They said something about a time barrier around the school and that with my power only they will be able to come in with teleportation," Gasper explained what he could remember from their plan.
With Akeno and Wendy
The two girls were sending multiple blasts of lightning and wind at the magicians that were surrounding them.
"I know these magicians are weak but where do they all come from?" Akeno said as she electrocuted three magicians who thought it would be beneficial to group up and attack as one.
"If this goes on much longer I will have no magic power left," Wendy replied and it was visible that she was beginning to feel the exhaustion of using her magic for a long time.
"Take a break, I don't feel exhausted at all so I will hold them off for a while," Akeno replied while continuing to bombard the area with lightning.
"How can you still have this much magic?" Wendy asked as she slumped down in exhaustion to rest for a while.
"I don't really know, it might be that I am one of Natsu's mates that he marked. He said that I will get a minor boost in power," Akeno speculated. She was also curious as to why her reserves were seemingly endless and made a mental note to ask Natsu later.
"Wendy we need your help," the two girls heard Rias' voice from behind them. The turned around to see Gasper leaning on Issei's shoulder while Koneko was being carried by Rias.
"Quick lay them down here," Wendy ordered and indicated to an open and flat area next to her.
"Issei, Rias help me out with these magicians, they seem to appear out of nowhere," Akeno called to them as the placed the two devils where Wendy indicated.
"Heal Gasper first, he should be able to destroy the teleportation circles they use since they somehow managed to use his power to create them," Rias informed Wendy before heading to help Akeno out.
Wendy took a breath before starting to heal Gasper, after he was done she began healing Koneko but after she was healed enough to wake up Wendy stopped and nearly toppled over.
Before she hit the ground however Natsu appeared behind her and caught her. He looked down to her tired face with a smile.
"I'm proud of you," Natsu told her before creating a sphere of wind in his hand.
"Consume this and your power will be restored," Natsu instructed her. Wendy looked at him with a confused expression.
"The magic Eossinth and I taught you also comes with the ability to consume your element to replenish your magic reserves," Natsu explained.
Wendy gained some understanding and began to inhale the sphere that Natsu had created.
"This is so cool and it tastes great," Wendy smiled as she felt her magic return.
She stood up and launched an attack at a group of mages. The power behind the attack was double that of any attack she had ever been able to perform.
"The power increase is because I gave you some of my wind," Natsu explained when he saw the confused expression on Wendy's face.
Gasper managed to channel his power into a point a few meters in front of him. A magic circle formed on this one point and it began to suck all the other teleportation circles into it. The magicians that used to appear all over the place now only came out of the one point.
"Destroy that circle and they should not be able to teleport in anymore," Gasper said with a strained expression since he was using the largest amount of his power he ever used.
Akeno and Wendy combined their attacks. A hurricane of lightning and wind barrelled down on the circle and obliterated it.
As the attack died down the group felt a spike in magic power from where the leaders of the Three Factions were.
"The fun is about to start," Natsu said with a massive grin.
The group quickly made their way back to the faction leaders.
Back with Azazel and Katerea
"Now feast your eyes on the power of the Infinity Dragon God," Katerea called out as she crushed a dark purple orb she pulled out of somewhere.
As she crushed the orb dark purple snake like things came out and surrounded Katerea. Katerea absorbed the snakes and began laughing like a maniac one again.
"Now this is a power I can test it out against," Azazel said softly with a grin and pulled out a small golden knife that looked more like a lance with a purple crystal on the butt end.
"This is a personal project of my own. Through my research on the Divine Dividing and other dragon based sacred gears, as well as a pact I made with the Dragon King Fafnir, I was able to develop this. It is still inferior to the real deal though," Azazel lectured all those who would listen.
"What do you mean?" Michael called out after hearing his rambling.
I have managed to create my own artificial sacred gear, Down Fall Dragon Spear. And now for my final surprise. Balance Break," Azazel said with a smug grin.
The small golden lance-sword began to glow before bursting into golden lights. The lights began to glow all around Azazel and once the light died down Azazel donned a full body golden dragon armour with purple jewels that covers his body. It had impressive golden shoulder guards and a lace that had two sharp points on the edge.
"Now let me test this out," Azazel said as his wings disappeared.
"Time to die Fallen Angel scum," Katerea yelled as she launched the largest stream of darkness that could easily engulf an entire school bus.
Once the stream died down everyone looked at where Azazel once hovered and saw nothing.
"Hah he was completely obliterated. That is what he deserves for insulting me and defying me," Katerea laughed.
"I wouldn't be so quick to make assumptions," Azazel said as he appeared behind her.
Katerea was shocked by him still being alive and from what it looked like, completely untouched.
"Now it's time for you to die," Azazel said as he levelled his spear.
There you go, Chapter 25. Hope you enjoyed and thank you for everyone who has been leaving reviews, favourites and follows. Be prepared for another battle filled chapter next time. I hope you guys liked the fight Issei and Rias had. I know one of my readers expressed a desire for Rias to be more involved in the fighting and I hope I have delivered in this chapter. Thanks for sticking with me thus far, feel free to leave a review on this mini milestone chapter of 25. I made a poll so that I can start gathering ideas for a next story, this poll is for a Fairy Tail story. The poll is at www .strawpoll .me/20829066 (remove spaces) and will be up for at least a week. If you have any crossover requests feel free to leave a review. I will be answering review questions in the chapters as they come up like I started doing in this chapter. See ya next time.
