This was much longer than the first one XD. I did say that the first chapter will be quite short. Anyways, I hope this chapter will make you more interested in the story than the 1st one. Enjoy :)
For a Harem list, It will be his previous harem list along with new members, you will see ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Irina, Xenovia, Rossweisse and Gasper just stood there…not believing what Kiba said.
"I-I-I'm sorry, could you repeat that?"Rossweisse asked.
Kiba lost control and started crying, not as much as the girls, but still crying.
"Issei-kun is…..dead…..he….died fighting…..Shalba in the…..alternate dimension" Kiba was barely able to form a sentence. He couldn't control his emotions anymore. Issei was more than a fellow peerage member, he was a friend, he was a brother. Kiba was holding back his emotions for too long and now he was letting it out.
Gasper just flat out fainted on the spot.
Rossweisse slowly started breathing harder and harder as she took in what Kiba said.
Xenovia stared at the floor lifelessly. She was completely lost. It seemed as if she died standing.
Irina fell on her knees. "No….no..no…NO! I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS, KIBA IF THIS IS A JOKE I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!'
"DOES IT LOOK LIKE A JOKE TO YOU!" Kiba said in a tone which no one had ever heard from him. His tone made everyone stop and look at him. "I-I'm sorry…..I-Its too much….for me…..to….handle right now." He started sobbing and turned back to walk upstairs. Akeno, Asia, Koneko and Ravel were deeply hurt, but after seeing Kiba in such a state, they felt like he was hurt even more.
"….no…..I-I-I don't believe this…" Irina said while still kneeling down, and now she started crying as well. "Issei-kun is…not dead….he always comes back…he always does….."
Xenovia now started to form tears in her eyes while continuing to look down at the floor lifelessly. Issei was the first guy she really liked. Just being with him made her feel so much more comfortable than she had felt with anyone else. And now….he's just gone, and she wasn't even there.
Rossweisse had a soft spot in her heart for Issei. Yeah sure he was a pervert, but he was really sweet, always helped everyone and was more concerned about others than himself. Rossweisse didn't know it at the time but she was also in love with Issei. She tried to reason with herself to go and look at the cause for his death, but she was unable to think straight right now and started sobbing.
Gasper was still out cold on the floor. Asia managed to pick him up while still sobbing and took him to a room. The girls didn't want to move and all just sat the couch and crying their hearts out.
{Scene change}
Kiba was now in the hallway, sitting down. His back and head were leaning on the wall. One of his legs were stretched out and was lying flat on the ground, while the other was stretched inwards and he was resting his arm on the knee. He started remembering his memories with Issei.
"YOU GOT ASKED OUT BY 3 GIRLS?! Man I wish I could beat you up right now pretty boy."
"What's up pretty boy? Got asked out by girls again? …YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO ANSWER THAT!"
"Ehh keep it with you, I don't want to see your familiar, pretty boy"
Kiba laughed slightly at his memories while still sobbing.
"You are a pretty good fighter for a pretty boy."
"For a pretty boy, you do know how to say nice stuff!"
Kiba then recalled those memories in which he was extremely vengeful
"How can I let my friend turn into a stray devil? We will help you in your quest to avenge your family and friends!"
"Remember Kiba, we are friends, we talk to each other when we are feeling down. Isn't that what friends do?"
"We are going to destroy Excalibur and avenge Kiba's family!"
Then he remembered the time he was training with Issei
"Hey Kiba?"
"Yes Issei-kun?"
"If one of us dies, let's make a promise that the other one will work twice as hard to protect the girls."
"What are you saying Issei-kun? We are not going to die."
"I know, I don't plan on dying any time soon, and you better not die as well. I'm just saying this as we don't know what will happen in the future. I wish we did, but we don't. So let's make a promise here, if one of us dies, the other one will work twice as hard to protect the girls of the peerage of Rias Gremory, what do you say?"
"I absolutely agree, Issei-kun"
"We are the boys of the peerage, we will protect them!"
Kiba stood up from his place. "If Issei saw us right now…what would he think? He would think we have gone lower than we ever have…." He looked at the doors of Rias's room. "Since Issei isn't here, I will have to work twice as hard to protect the girls, and that is what I'm going to do."He thought to himself.
He knocked on the doors. "Rias-Buchou, I'm coming in."
He slowly pushed the doors, to see if Rias was going to do anything. However he heard no response. So he continued to push the door open until he saw Rias sitting on her bed.
Her eyes were swollen and were red, there are dark circles beneath her eyes. Her hair, which was never messy, was now really messy. In her hand were the 8 pawn pieces which belonged to Issei.
"Buchou….." Kiba started.
"Why have you come here Yuuto?" Rias said, not even glancing at her Knight.
"Buchou…I know what you are going through, I know its tough but…."
"HOW CAN YOU KNOW WHAT IM GOING THROUGH? I LOST THE MOST PRECIOUS PERSON OF MY LIFE, MY ONE REASON TO CONTINUE LIVING." Rias didn't even let Kiba finish.
"HE WAS MY BROTHER AS WELL RIAS, DON'T THINK THAT BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM, THAT OTHERS DON'T!" Kiba said in the tone which he did with Irina. This shook Rias to the core. "I-I'm extremely sorry Buchou" Kiba apologized. He then started sobbing softly.
Rias was surprised. She was going through a lot, but after seeing Kiba, it felt like it was nothing. He had seen her Knight be happy, angry, vengeful, full of bloodlust, and sad, but she has never seen him like this. He was as heartbroken as she was, and the rest of the group as well.
"Yuuto….I'm really sorry for that, I'm just…" She started, but couldn't finish as she started crying.
"No Buchou…you don't have to apologize, you are deeply hurt and rightfully so" Kiba said "But I made a promise to Issei-kun once when were training, If either of us died, we would work twice as hard to protect the girls of the group." Rias looked at her knight who was completely in tears right now. "I am not Issei-kun, I can never be Issei-kun. I will never be able to fill the hole in your hear, or the others." As he said this, he motioned the girls outside to come in. He could sense their presence for quite some time but he waited for a moment like this.
"You all were outside?" Rias asked her peerage, Ravel and Irina.
"We heard Kiba speak to you…." Rossweisse said, the other girls were still unable to talk. "I've never heard him like that before today, so I thought we should go look."
"As I said, I'm not Issei-kun, and I'm not trying to be Issei-kun either as I know I can never even come close to him, let alone replace him." Kiba said, "However I will keep my promise, I will work twice as hard to protect you all, and the first step is to stop you all from sulking forever."
"How is that going to happen, Yuuto? Issei was precious to us, we deeply cared for him even if we didn't show it. With him gone, nothing is going to be the same." Rias said.
"What would Issei-kun think if he saw us all like this?" Kiba questioned. This caused all the girls to look up at Kiba. "He would think we have fallen further than we ever have. Issei-kun would have wanted us to train harder if we lost an asset to make up for that strength. He would want us to be at our level best always, he would want us to not be distant from each other and he would want us to always be together and be a strong peerage."
"Issei would want us to take this as a new beginning.." Akeno spoke up. She was just as hurt as Rias, but she understood her fellow knight's words.
"Issei would still want us to face our challenges head on.." Xenovia spoke. She is not going to be the same without Issei, but she knows that Issei would have been disappointed in them if he saw them in such a state.
"Issei would want us to be happy.." Irina spoke. Losing her childhood friend was more than hurting her deeply. Issei and Irina always stayed together, even made a promise to always protect each other even when they were away. Irina knew that Issei would want her to still do her level best and always stay strong.
"Issei-senpai would want us work harder.." Koneko said. She obviously hated Issei for his perverted nature, but as time went along, she found Issei to be really kind and now she loved Issei as much as the other girls. Issei would keep encouraging her to go on and be stronger, he would even buy her candy just to show that he did care for her and to make her trust him.
The other girls nodded at the words said by Kiba, Akeno, Xenovia, Irina and Koneko.
"I will not be the same without him, but…I will move on, I will work on being a better king so that no one else has to die." Rias spoke up. She let out a breath of air and then said "Come on, my fellow peerage, we have some evil ass to kick!" Rias said in a confident tone.
"We will make them pay for what they did to Issei-san!" Asia, out of all, said that.
"I will burn them till their ashes are not visible!" Ravel spoke.
It seems like avenging Issei brought up their mood and they were ready to take on the people responsible for his death.
{Scene Change}
Vali's team was…..not at its best. Vali was cured of Samael's poison, but the death of his rival could not leave his mind. "That bastard died in the hands of someone other than me." He thought. He made a promise to himself that he would defeat his rival and he will be the strongest White dragon emperor known to the world. But as time went on, he grew slightly attached to Issei. Of course that didn't waver him from his goal of defeating him in a battle where they were equally matched, but he didn't want Issei to die either, at least this early.
Kuroka was not taking this much better either, she was at first skeptical of him, and after that she only wanted him to since Vali refused to have her kids. But then she grew really attached to him after she saw his kindness towards her sister. "Shirone had good taste." she thought to herself, "Wish I could have spent more time with him."
Le fay was positively in depression. She met her Idol, the Sekiryuutei, the Oppai-dragon, the person she looked up to. But then….he was gone. Although she didn't quite have 'affection' for him, she liked him as an idol. A person to look up to.
While the rest of Vali's team was not hugely affected, Bikou could see that their morale has went down, and Arthur especially could see the depression, not just in his team, but also in his dear sister.
"Damn Oppai-dragon, I didn't know you were this important." Thought Bikou.
{Scene change}{Time skip: 4 months}
A figure now woke up from his sleep at the forest.
"Huh-wha-where am I?" Said the figure in a sleepy voice.
"[You finally decided to wake up, partner]" Said a voice.
"Ddraig? What happened? Why am I in a forest? And what happened to my body?" Said the figure, now revealing himself to be Issei Hyoudou.
"[You died is what happened]" Ddraig said.
"Ok Ddraig, if I died, I wouldn't be on Earth would I? Unless this is the afterlife. If it is, then I would have expected it to be much cleaner." Issei said.
"[You died, but you were resurrected by me, Ophis and Great Red.]" Ddraig stated.
"Ok that makes much more sense." Issei said sarcastically. "Why would Great red revive me? And speaking of Ophis, where is she? Wasn't she with me in the Altered Dimension?"
"[To the first question, I have no idea. Partner, you seem to attract strong beings to yourself. While you were dying, Great Red just happened to pass by and see what was happening. He decided to come and help you for some reason. He helped rebuild your body from scratch, and so did Ophis. So now you technically have the flesh of Great Red and Ophis in you. As for the second question, Ophis decided to remain in the dimensional gap along with Great Red, for what reason? Don't ask me.]" Ddraig explained.
"My body was rebuilt from scratch? But I don't feel any different. My body seems to look like how it did before." Issei asked.
"[Great Red and Ophis were able to take the one arm you had left before your body disintegrated, and used the DNA from that hand as a base for your new body, so it looks the same. However, you are not exactly the same as before. To handle this new body Great Red and Ophis gave you, I had to turn you into a dragon, not completely but a significant part of you. You are Approximately 45% Dragon, 45% Devil and 10% human.]" Ddraig said.
"Woah…." Is all that Issei could say. He was a dragon now, Great red and Ophis gave him a new body, and….he failed to keep his promise to Rias.
"I failed, Ddraig, I failed Rias, I failed my friends, I promised them I would come back, and although I did, it was not through the dragon gate and I probably made the whole group worried. I don't sense my evil pieces in me, I guess they went through the dragon gate instead of me, honestly its probably for the best, they don't have to deal with my perverted nature.." Issei said while still lying down on the ground.
"[Partner, don't you ever say that. They all care for you deeply, I'm sure they have been looking for you for the past 4 months]" Ddraig said.
"Yeah, I guess tha- WAIT 4 MONTHS? I'VE BEEN OUT FOR 4 MONTHS!?" Issei was surprised he was out for 4 months. He probably made his parents worried like crazy. "Shit, I need to get back now."
He started to get up, he immediately noticed that he was taller by quite a bit. But before he could admire his height, he started coughing up blood like crazy.
"[Partner, you should sit down. Even with a 4 month off time your body has not gotten used to itself, I know it sounds weird when I word it like that but its true. You should sit down again. You are also now 6 foot 2 inches tall. You will need time to get accustomed to this new body of yours.]" Ddraig said.
"I see…." Was all Issei could say as he sat down to prevent himself from coughing up more blood. Unknown to him, there were 2 people looking at Issei as he was coughing up blood.
"Issei?" They both said.
As Issei looked up, he saw two familiar faces. Oh boy, it was going to be tough for him to explain what just happened.
Phew, writing a story is harder than expected. I would have wanted this chapter to be longer, but I didn't quite have the time...heh. Anyways, I hope you enjoy. Please do leave a review, constructive criticism is always appreciated :).
