Anything you recognise isn't mine.
Isane, Ile, Nel, Marion and Burent
Isane thought that she felt a tiny bit of skin leave her nose as she leant back extremely far, dodging the swing of a chainsaw, swung by one of Riser's Pawns. The brunette host of Ddraig, with the Boosted Gear on her arm, then had to pull a backward somersault to dodge a swing from the other Pawn. When she landed on her feet, she heard the Red Dragon Emperor call out ["Boost!"].
'Second Boost.' Isane thought, as she jumped over the twin chainsaw-wielders and landed in front of the maid-girls, who both sent waves of water-magic at him. 'But I need to keep going! And not get hit, either!'
Isane whirled around, and dashed momentarily away from Ile and Nel, the two chainsaw-wielders, while Ddraig called out ["Boost!"].
'Third time.' Isane thought. 'Once I get to five... what did Elsha teach me about elemental magics and their counters? Oh yeah, Lightning beats Water.'
Ile ran at Isane, thrusting her chainsaw out and attempting to run her through with the mechanical saw, but Isane jumped onto a part of the chainsaw that didn't have the deadly blade-thing spinning at incredible speeds, and used that as a platform to jump into the air, while flicking her heel at the back of Ile's head to send her to the ground and disorientate her for a bit.
Landing on the ground, Isane swivelled around Nel, dodged the water-blasts of Marion and Burent, the two maids, and grinned.
["Boost!"] Ddraig called, for the fourth time. Isane rolled in between Ile and Nel, in order to confuse them into accidentally hitting each other with their chainsaws (and injuring them, though unfortunately, no vital organs or blood vessels were hit) and jumped back up, swinging around to face them.
["Boost!"] Ddraig called, and the Boosted Gear's green jewel glowed. In her right hand, Isane created a whip, about forty centimetres long, made entirely out of lightning.
["Transfer!"] Ddraig shouted, and Isane saw the whip instantly grow, thanks to the power of the Boosted Gear, to a length of just over three metres, and small little offshoots of electricity bounced from the whip. Grinning, Isane swung the whip at Marion, and caught her full in the face, knocking the green-wearing maid down to the ground. Burent, the blue-wearing maid, met a similar fate, while Isane hit them again once each, for good measure, while using her gauntlet-clad arm to block the chainsaws of Ile and Nel.
When the two maids got back to their feet, pissed off to every degree possible, they tried, in tandem, to create a huge bubble of water around Isane that would drown her, and surely retire from the match.
However, they only managed to create a bit of water above Isane's head, before that shuddered, and expired.
"What the hell?!" Marion shouted, backing away from Isane
"Why won't our ultimate drowning technique work?!" Burent cried, doing the same
"Because your bodies are currently full of magical lightning, which overpowers the water magic, stopping you from using it." Isane replied, as she kicked Ile in the chest, sending her back, and punched Nel in the face with her whip-clad hand, sending her back as well. "In short, you're basically like the ultra-conservative priests that refuse to progress with the growing world, according to Roxas: Useless Pieces of Fucking Shit."
Before Ile and Nel could get up, Isane rushed at Marion and Burent, and before they could do anything like cast a magic-circle shield, thanks to Isane making the five metres run towards them in less than a twentieth of a second, and crashing his fist against Marion's face with far more than enough force to send her flying. Marion had been enveloped in a blue light, and had disappeared before she hit a tree, which, had they not been fighting in a Rating Game, been easily enough to kill her.
Burent met a similar fate, seconds later.
"Whoo!" Isane rolled her shoulder. "Motherfucker, those weights that Roxas removed from us last night really did a job!"
["We can agree on that, Partner."] Ddraig remarked. ["Even if you were being trained by that host-murdering bastard, I must begrudgingly admit that thanks to him, you've grown far stronger than even Elsha or Belzard grew, within six months of unlocking my Gear."]
"Thanks, I guess?" Isane remarked. "That's weirdly nice of you to- fuck!"
Isane let out a shout of pain as, by instinct, she jerked her arm away from Ile, who had picked up her chainsaw and rushed at Isane, swinging it angrily. Had Isane not moved her arm, it would very likely have been removed from her body. However, she just suffered a light gash, which oozed blood.
"Motherfucker!" Isane growled, turning to Ile, who tried to stab her in the chest with her chainsaw. However, Isane was far too quick for her, raising her fist and crashing it down on the top of her head, retiring her instantly.
"ILE!" Nel shouted, rushing at Isane while seeming to coat her chainsaw in fire. However, this was no problem to Isane, who just reached forward and grabbed the chainsaw with her Boosted Gear-covered hand.
The chainsaw, rev as it might, didn't even scratch the Red Dragon Emperor's Gauntlet, which Nel found out, all too late, as Isane's non-Boosted Gear-clad fist came out to meet Nel's face. It turned out that, Boosted Gear-on-hand or no Boosted Gear-on-hand, Isane's fist on its own was far more than enough to retire the Low-Class Devil.
"Four of Lord Riser's Pawns have been retired." Grayfia's voice called, all around everyone.
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Back in the booth, Roxas smiled to himself as he watched Isane Transfer the Boosted Gear's power to a whip made of magical lightning, and use that whip to deal with her opponents.
'Man.' Roxas thought. 'I wonder where she picked up that trick? I can remember Elsha doing something like that during our spars together.'
Right as he had that thought, Roxas looked down at the floor, suddenly remembering the day that he ended up indirectly killing Elsha with his Power of Destruction. The silver-haired Nephalem felt tears begin to well up in his eyes, and he wiped them away before anyone could see them.
Whispering something to Millicas to get him to get off his lap, Roxas left the room, muttering something to Sirzechs about needing fresh air. Once he was outside the booth, and in the hallway, the second-oldest man alive to currently carry the name of Gremory took a number of deep breaths, in an attempt to calm himself.
"Fucking hell, Roxas!" Roxas growled to himself. "Don't think about that!"
"Think about what?" A female voice asked. Roxas jumped, and looked to see Fianna walking out of the door, and looking at Roxas with her warm, dark blue eyes. "Hang on a minute, don't tell me, Roxas. I think I know what you're thinking about."
"You were always the smartest of the Satans." Roxas replied. "Aside from Ajuka."
"Hmm." Fianna replied. "Anyway, let me guess. Was it Elsha?"
"Yeah..." Roxas replied, leaning against the wall and looking up at the ceiling, which was a pleasant-looking orange colour. He sighed. "Sorry, Fia. You must hate hearing me talk about that day."
"Oh, no, I don't hate it at all." Fianna replied, walking towards Roxas. "You must have heard it from me at least five hundred times, but it wasn't your fault. Well, not entirely, but you know what I mean." The blonde Satan sighed, herself. "I still can't believe how Venelana just glossed over the entire workings of how to control the Power of Destruction when she taught you how to use it. I mean, she did with Sirzechs, but why not with you?"
"Maybe she thought I'd inherit Dad's control of it?" Roxas asked. Fianna shrugged.
"There's infinite possible reasons." She replied. "Lucifer knows. But Roxas, what I said those centuries ago still stands." Though Roxas was leaning himself against the wall, she still found a way to sneak her arms around his body, and hug him close to her. "If you just want to talk to me about what happened, or you just need support, you know where to find me. My doors are always open, Roxas. If you actually want to get some pointers from me about using your Power of Destruction, I'll be happy to do the best I can. Though I don't know everything about it, and I doubt I'll have enough time to go over every detail, given my duties as a Satan."
"Thanks." Roxas replied. "But no thanks on the teaching me how to use Power of Destruction thing. I actually sealed my ability to use it."
"Oh?" Fianna raised an eyebrow. "I see. I understand, Roxas. Even without your Power, you're still an extremely powerful young man, as much as you are handsome~"
"Heh, thanks." Roxas replied. "I get that a lot. Not least from a certain someone you know."
"Oh, I know." Fianna replied. "You should have heard Sera when we talked to each other after her talk with Yasaka in Kyoto. It took an age and a half to get her to stop ranting and raving about how mean a godson you were, never allowing her a chance, even after all the times she tried to make sure that you were safe at all times." She looked up at Roxas. "Her words, not mine. But I imagine she was referring to the times she snuck into bed with you."
"Yeah." Roxas replied. "I bet she was. You'd never go as far as to sneak into my bed, naked as all fucking hell, unannounced as all fucking hell."
"True, I never did, but I was certainly tempted to, one time." Fianna replied. When Roxas looked confused, she smiled. "It was after... you know." She quickly continued. "Anyway, you'd fallen asleep, doubtlessly under deep emotional stress from what had transpired. I snuck into your bedroom to check up on you, and I decided to give you a little massage~" The Devil that was known as the Goddess of the Infernal Storm gave Roxas a seductive wink, as well as a small, playful smile.
"Hnn." The silverette Nephalem replied. "Thanks."
"No problem." Fianna replied. "And well, since you're certainly my type of man, there's a chance I could ease your tensions in a rather different way." Fianna shifted her mouth closer to Roxas' ear, and spoke in more of a whisper than normal speech. "Only if you're interested, of course." Fianna proceeded to slowly lick Roxas' ear, while moving her hand over his chest. "Mhmmm~ so many things I'd love to do with you, Roxas. You wouldn't regret a second of it, I assure you."
"Heheh." Roxas replied, shuddering slightly, but otherwise offering no reaction. Fianna would have to try a lot harder than that if she wanted to get any serious reaction out of him by flirting alone. "I'll consider it, thanks."
"Good." Fianna delivered Roxas a small kiss to the cheek. "Now. Let's get back in that booth. They'll be worrying about us soon enough."
"Yea." Roxas replied, walking back into the booth, with Fianna following, while the two Devils returned to their seats, and Millicas returning to his spot on Roxas' knee.
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Koneko and Isabela
Koneko ducked down to the right, dodging Isabela's haymaker, lifted herself back up to her full height, which, admittedly, was rather unformidable, and raised her foot before delivering a harsh kick to the stomach of the oncoming Isabela, forcing her to stumble for a second, leaving the masked Rook open to a quick punch to the face, making her stumble backwards a bit more.
"Motherfucker, you're strong." Isabela muttered, as something that looked like blue fire was gathered in Koneko's right hand. "You're certainly better than I anticipated, Rook of Rias Gremory!"
"...Shut up." Koneko replied, dashing at Isabela faster than a normal Rook would've been able to, and sinking her fist into her stomach while she talked. The blue-flame-like-substance also impacted Isabela, causing her to cry out in pain far more than a normal punch like that would have done, even to a Rook like her.
"Wh-what the hell?!" Isabella growled, coughing up blood. "A punch like that from a midget like you shouldn't have done that much damage to me!" She coughed up some more blood as Koneko walked towards her.
"...I disrupted your ki flow with that last punch, making you lot weaker." Koneko replied, cracking her knuckles. "It's only because you were a Rook that stopped you from being retired on the spot."
Isabela tried to punch Koneko again, but the white-haired Nekomata, seeing her punch coming, caught her fist and crushed it in one hand.
"...And one more thing." Koneko said, coldly, as Isabela was forced to her knees from such pain. "...Don't call me a midget."
One punch later, Isabela had fallen to the ground completely, knocked out. She was enveloped in a blue light, and retired from the game.
"One of Lord Riser's Rooks has been retired." Grayfia stated.
"...Are you okay, Isane?" Koneko asked, turning around and looking at Isane, who was lightly clutching her arm. "You're injured."
"I'm fine." Isane replied, as Koneko walked over, Senjutsu glowing in her hands.
"...I'll heal you." She stated. "Kuroka taught me how to heal using Senjutsu."
"Cute."
Isane and Koneko both heard the mocking remark, as well as the sound of displaced air coming from right above them. Someone was firing an attack at them.
Purely by instinct, they both got away from that spot as soon as possible, and looked up, at the same time, at the person who had just attacked them.
The person was a busty woman with long, wavy purple hair that fell all the way down to her back, and matching purple eyes. At the front, the right side of her hair fell over her breast and covered her right eye, while the left side fell near to the top of her skirt. Her attire was a dress consisting of a navy-blue tunic top, with gold accents and a pale blue skirt with open sides, and black shoes over matching thigh-high stockings with garter belts. The top of her dress revealed much of her cleavage, and was held with a gold choker with blue and red jewels.
Over this, she wore a white overcoat with black and gold accents and matching pauldrons. For accessories, she wore a black headband with a red-orange jewel over her forehead to keep her long hair in place, and wielded a staff-like sceptre. For cosmetics, she wore purple lipstick, matching her eyes and hair. Extending from her back were four Devil wings, and extending from her back was a single tail, that ended in the shape of a heart, a Succubus tail.
Evidently, Riser had a Devil/Sex Demon Hybrid for a Queen.
"Hey, you two!" Isane and Koneko looked up, and saw Mirajane, in her 'Satan Soul: Ala' form, flying towards the woman on six Devil wings.
"Hey, Mira." Koneko replied. "Take care of that slut for us." Mirajane gave a demonic grin.
"Gladly." Rias' Queen replied, gathering lightning in her hands and looking at the woman, who, given the demonic power that oozed from her body, she could only assume was Riser's Queen.
Mirajane and Yubelluna
"Show me what you got, Bomb Queen Yubelluna." Mirajane challenged Yubelluna, the lightning in her hands intensifying.
"Gladly, Satan Soul Mirajane Strauss." Yubelluna replied, waving her staff and creating several magic-circles around Mirajane, that sent large explosive spells at her, from multiple angles. However, one of those angles didn't include right beneath Mirajane, so that was where she went, easily evading the attack that would have dealt her severe damage.
Grinning at Yubelluna, who thought, judging by the look on her face, that she had easily dealt with her King's fiancé's Queen, Mira flew forward and sunk her fist into her stomach, causing her to groan loudly in pain and fly upwards.
On the offensive now, Mira extended her hands upwards and let fly a huge mixture of lightning and ice, sending it straight at Yubelluna, who could only destroy the ice-shards that flew at her. She was unable to do anything about the lightning, which impacted her and caused her to cry out in pain.
"Having fun, bitch?" Mirajane's grin became slightly more demonic, while she flew at Yubelluna with great speed, headbutting her and kicking her down to the ground. "I certainly am." Rias' white-haired Queen laughed, as she blasted Riser's purple-haired Queen with a devastatingly fast hailstorm, opening a great number of wounds that drew blood from the Devil/Sex Demon Hybrid.
["Mirajane!"] Rias called, concerned. ["You okay?"]
The sound of her King's voice caused Mirajane to jolt out of her demonic trance for a second, and remember exactly where she was, and how she'd gotten there.
That included the extensive meditation she'd done with Valian, to keep her from going out of control.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Mirajane replied. "Sorry, Rias. I almost- uugh!"
As Mirajane had been talking with Rias, the bloodied and bruised Yubelluna, pissed-off to every degree possible at being beaten and humiliated in such a manner, flew at Mirajane, casting a number of explosion spells that flew at her. Every single one made their mark, causing Mira to let out her own shout of agony and fly backwards.
As Mira righted herself in the air, she saw Yubelluna reaching into a pocket-dimension with her left hand, and pulling out a three-pronged spear, a trident.
"You're powerful, I'll give you that, Mirajane Strauss." Yubelluna growled, infusing her trident with demonic power, and pointing it at her, along with her sceptre. "But this ends now! You and your red-haired King will fall before Lord Riser!"
"Oh, shut up!" Mirajane, legitimately annoyed (which was something INCREDIBLY hard to do, as Mirajane was an extremely caring, sisterly-type person that saw everyone, no matter who, as someone that should be treated with kindness), shouted, flying towards Yubelluna, demonic power and killing intent oozing from her body. "You do know that Rias has already promised herself to someone else?"
"Bullshit!" Yubelluna replied, pointing both her trident and sceptre at Mira and beginning to fire explosion spells from both of them, in a manner similar to dual-wielding assault-rifles, directly at her. "Whoever they are, I'm sure that Lord Riser will overpower them and take them down, with his loyal, beloved Quen at his side, just as he will take Rias in marriage!"
This was such a ludicrous statement to Mirajane, who created sheilds out of sand on her hands that easily took every explosion-spell that was fired at her, that she was forced to laugh, when she made it to Yubelluna.
"That's the stupidest thing that I've ever heard in my life!" She shouted, as she grabbed onto Yubelluna's trident when she tried to stab her, and forced it away from her. "Imogen beat your dear King without suffering a scratch, without using her dragon-powers, and without even needing a shower afterwards, so I've heard! What makes you think that Riser, or anyone else in his cabal of whores, could beat Roxas Gremory?"
Yubelluna would have spouted out some bullshit answer, but Mira extended her other hand out towards Yubelluna's face, and let fly a large amount of sand that entered Yubelluna's eyes, causing her to drop both sceptre and trident and rub her eyes hard, from the agony.
Meanwhile, Mira noticed a bulge in her top, and reached into it (Yubelluna was too busy rubbing at her eyes to try and stop her) and pulled something out: a small vial of Phoenix Tears.
"Hey!" Yubelluna shouted, as she, though her eyes streamed, was able to see, as she grabbed at Mirajane. "That's mine!"
"Correction." Mirajane replied, as she placed it in her sundress. "That WAS yours." Switching into her default Satan Soul form, she raised her scale-covered hands and delivered a two-fisted blow from above, hitting Yubelluna's head with such strength that she flew into the ground, with enough force to cause an immense shockwave.
Mirajane also swore that Yubelluna's head had a huge dent in it, thanks to the blow she had dealt.
"Lord Riser's Queen has been retired." Grayfia stated, as Mirajane descended to the ground, just as Koneko finished healing Isane.
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Back at Roxas' house, Palutena, Akeno, Valian, Akasha, Kuroka and Tobio (who had been invited by his second-cousin Akeno) were gathered around the 110-inch TV, and watching the Rating Game between Rias and Riser.
Valian, who had just taken a sip of Pepsi, grinned at Mirajane's fight against Yubelluna.
"Hehehe." She chuckled. "Nice one to Mirajane, blinding Riser's Queen like that, taking her Phoenix Tears, and dealing the finishing blow like that."
"I swear I saw a dent in Riser's Queen's head when she went down." Tobio remarked.
"Me too." Valian replied. "Though..." She sighed. "She didn't have to leave herself open like that, while she was talking to Rias, I can only assume. If I ever get to meet up with her again, I'll have to make sure to instil a disclipline in her to not do it again."
"That does sound very you, Valian." Palutena remarked, as she accepted a drink from Asia.
Akeno, Akasha, Kuroka and Tobio were fast to agree with Roxas' wife.
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"What the fuck?!" Riser shouted, slamming his fist against a table in anger, and igniting it by accident. As the table burned, he turned to his remaining servants: Xuelan, his Rook, Ravel Phenex, his younger sister and first Bishop, Mihae, his second Bishop, Karlamine and Siris, his two Knights, and Ni and Li, his two Pawns.
Xuelan was a well-endowed young woman of Chinese descent with shoulder-length black hair and blue-green eyes. Her hair had two Chinese-style buns on both sides of her head, while the front featured bangs that formed a slight V-shape across her forehead. Her outfit consisted of a navy blue qipao with gold accents, a white sash around her stomach, and black, low-heeled shoes. The qipao was open at the chest area, giving view to Xuelan's breasts and cleavage. She also wore black armguards over her forearms, and didn't seem to wear any undergarments.
Ravel was a beautiful young girl with dark blue eyes. She had long blonde hair tied into twin tails with large, drill-like curls and blue ribbons keeping them in place. The front of her hair had several bangs hanging over her forehead, with a V-shaped fringe hanging over the bridge of her nose. She wore the same dress as her mother, but it was smaller, to go along with how baby-sized she was.
Mihae was a young girl with light brown eyes, who wore a kimono with a colour pattern of purple, orange and pink, with her black hair tied on opposite sides.
Karlamine was a young woman with light brown hair and green eyes. Her outfit consisted of a full set of silver armour, with black accents that seemed to be a cross between a European knight's and a Japanese samurai, and wore a headband that went across her hair and forehead. She carried a broadsword in one hand, and had a dagger (which had a gold hilt and bandages on the handle) strapped behind her hip. The broadsword was slung on her left hip, and featured a red jewel on the pommel and had bandages across the handle (presumably for grip).
Siris was tall, with long black hair with a dark blue tint, and brown eyes. Her hair featured five thin ponytails going around her head, which were held up by a golden hair accessory on top of her head. Her outfit consisted of a white top with black accents that was modelled after a Chinese cheongsam, red shorts, and armoured knee-high boots with matching gauntlets. Her top featured a diamond shape on the chest area, giving view to her cleavage. She carried a giant Zweihänder in her hands.
Ni and Li seemed to be twins. They were two young girls, appearing to be in their teens. Being twins, they sported similar appearances, with the only major difference being that Ni had red eyes and blue hair, whereas Li had blue eyes and red hair. Also, Ni tied her hair in a ponytail, while Li had hers in a braid with a pink bow tied at the end. Both of them had light brown cat-ears with black stripes. They also wore piercings on their ears, with Li having two gold earrings on her left ear and Ni having blue-coloured ones on her right. Similarly, both of them have a fang sticking out of their mouths, with Ni having hers to her left, and Li having hers on her right, and thus mirroring each other. They were the same height as each other.
"What's the matter, brother?" Ravel asked.
"My glorious peerage is getting beaten by a bunch of weaklings, that's why, Ravel!" Riser snapped at his younger sister in reply. "My fiancé can't be this strong, because I'll never be able to make her submit to me as my new Queen!" He sighed. "Xuelan, Mihae, Karlamine, Siris, Ni, Li, you're to go out and deal with the rest of Rias' peerage! Overpower them with numbers and destroy them!"
The six servants did as they were ordered, and left, leaving Riser and Ravel alone together.
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"...You okay, Mira?" Koneko asked, looking up as Mira, panting slightly, landed on the ground.
"Yea, I'm okay." Mirajane replied. "Just need a little bit of healing, that's all."
"Well, I'll heal you." Koneko replied, stepping forward.
"No, no. I'll do it myself." Mirajane replied, holding a hand up to stop Koneko. "I'm okay, thanks Koneko."
"Hey!" A loud, female voice shouted. Isane, Koneko and Mirajane all turned around, and saw six more of Riser's servants walking out into the yard, including two swordswomen and two Nekomata. "It stinks of Gremory filth out here!"
"Then your burnt KFC of a master shouldn't have agreed to the Rating Game with Rias Gremory!" Isane shouted back. "But that wouldn't have done, now would it?!"
"Shut up!" The girl in the qiapo shouted. "Mihae, deal with that annoying bitch! She doesn't even look good enough for Riser!"
"...I'll deal with the two Nekomata." Koneko muttered, jumping into the air, while Mirajane took to the air herself, in order to heal.
As Isane found herself confronted by the girl in the kimono, she felt a rush of wind move past her, and the grinding sound of metal on metal.
She looked up, and saw Kiba, who had just arrived, clashing with the woman with the Zweihänder, while jumping into the air to dodge the slash of the woman in armour.
Isane looked back at Mihae, and reactivated her Boosted Gear, expecting to hear the voice of Ddraig, boosting her power. However, the voice she heard instead was very different.
["Hey, hello? Can you hear me, Isane?"]
'Elsha?' Isane thought, while dodging a magical attack from Mihae. 'That you?'
["Oh, thank God, you can hear me."] Elsha replied. ["I've been trying for ages. Anyway, Isane, it's time. Are you ready?"]
'Ready for what?' Isane mentally replied. 'I'm kinda in the middle of something.'
["Ready for your Balance Breaker, of course!"] Elsha spoke, in reply. ["We talked about your Balance Breaker, didn't we?"]
'Oh, yeah.' Isane replied. 'Sorry.'
["Oh, it's okay."] Elsha replied. ["Don't worry. I'll help you activate it from in here. I'll just need about half a minute to activate it, though."]
Almost immediately, a red aura began to cover Isane, while she dodged Mihae's next magical attack. She continued to dodge, for another minute, until Elsha called again.
["It's done!"] the Second-Strongest Host of Ddraig called. ["Go for it, Isane!"]
"Alright!" Isane cried, raising her gauntlet-clad arm to the sky. "Balance... BREAKER!"
The red aura around Isane intensified to an incredible degree, before it became overcome by a deep green light, that caused everyone who looked at it to have to cover their eyes.
Once the light cleared, Isane found herself covered in a red Dragonic armour. On the armour, there were green jewels set into it, contrasting perfectly with the red colour. Four Dragon wings emerged from the back of Isane's armour, which, though it looked very heavy, still seemed to accentuate Isane's rather generous curves, for her age.
["Welsh Dragon, Balance Breaker!"] Ddraig called. ["Scale Mail!"]
Kiba, Karlamine and Siris
From the depths of his Sacred Gear, Kiba pulled out a new sword, compared to any of the ones that he usually used in a combative situation.
This sword was closer to a long-handled dagger than a sword, as though the handle was long enough for Kiba to grip comfortably with two hands, the blade was barely half a metre long. It was a sword that Kiba had created, that had the ability to telekinetically control other swords within the vicinity. Case and point being Karlamine's sword and dagger, and Siris' Zweihänder.
"Are you serious?" Siris blinked, and scoffed at Kiba. "Do you really think a knife like that will be able to go up against our blades?" She asked, as she rushed at Kiba, swinging her Zweihänder at Rias' Knight.
"No, I don't." Kiba replied, jumping up into the air and flying over Siris' head. "Because it's not meant to." He landed on the ground, and swung the sword to the side.
As Karlamine swung at Kiba, before her sword got anywhere near him, she found her sword swinging violently to the side, in the same direction that Kiba had swung his sword, surprising her so much that she momentarily lost balance.
However, she regained it after a second, and swung at Kiba again, forcing him to use his sword to block the attack, and push her away with such force that Karlamine had to jump into the air and land on the ground.
When she did, Kiba swung his sword upwards, and just like he wished, Karlamine's sword flew upward with such strength and to such heights that Riser's first Knight found herself dangling a couple of feet in the air, hanging onto her sword.
Kiba forced down a chuckle, as the image did look quite comical, and swung his sword to the side, and that final swing was enough to force Karlamine's sword from her hand and send her sprawling onto the ground. When she looked up at Kiba, and tried to hurriedly pull a dagger from behind her hip (which Kiba sent flying with a flick of his sword), she looked up into his face.
"Wh-what the fuck kind of sword was that?!" She shouted. "That's no sword a Knight should wield!"
"Maybe not." Kiba replied. "But it's a sword that I want to wield."
Jumping backwards to get out of the way of Siris' sideways swing, Kiba swung his sword to the side, and sent Siris spinning in a full circle thanks to it. As Siris span, she accidentally let go of her sword, which went flying straight into Karlamine's head, instantly retiring her.
"KARLAMINE!" Siris shouted, before turning to Kiba. "You dick!" She shouted, picking up her Zweihänder and rushing at Rias' blonde Knight.
However, Kiba had pulled out his Sword of Betrayer, which was the name that he had given to his Holy Demonic Sword Balance Breaker, and slashed at Siris, causing a deep enough wound in her body to instantly retire her, thanks to that, along with the Holy portion of his Holy Demonic Sword.
"Two of Lord Riser's Knights have been retired."
Isane and Mihae
"Come at me!" Isane shouted, instantly beginning to charge up her power with the Boosted Gear.
["Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!"] Ddraig shouted, as Mihae created a large wave of ice out of magic, and flung it at Isane. However, the ice just shattered on Isane's armour, eliciting a laugh from the current host of Ddraig.
"Is that all you've got?" She asked, grinning underneath her armour. "That's honestly pretty pathetic."
"Shut up!" Mihae shouted, creating a huge sphere of boiling water and flinging it at Isane, who transferred her Boosted-up power to her legs, and ran through the sphere of water, with said sphere of boiling water being entirely ineffective against her armour. She tried to punch Mihae when he got to her, but Mihae teleported away behind Isane, and conjured up a large dragon, made out of pure demonic energy.
["Boost x10!"] Ddraig shouted. Isane Transferred the Boosted power to her fist, and punched her way through the Dragon that Mihae created, while rushing towards the aforementioned Mihae, grabbing her by the head, and throwing her into the ground.
"F-fuck..." Mihae groaned, pulling herself to her feet and beginning to heal herself via magic. "How can you be that strong?!" She shouted. "You've only been reincarnated by Rias for a month! Yet you're-"
"Because I've been training for over five times that long!" Isane replied, grabbing Mihae off the ground, flying up into the air and piledriving Riser's unfortunate Bishop into the ground. "I feel like I could kick the world's ass, if I wanted to!"
Isane looked down onto the ground, and saw that Mihae looked like she had just been brutalized in the worst possible way. But only for a second, as she was enveloped in a blue light, and disappeared instantly.
"One of Lord Riser's Bishops has been reti-"
"Yeah, we get it, Grayfia!" Isane muttered.
Koneko, Xuelan, Ni and Li
Koneko, her cat-ears and tail still out, clashed at the same time with Ni and Li, Riser's two Nekomata Pawns. Their attacks, though weak, were perfectly co-ordinated, and caught the daughter of Fujimai off-guard, on a few occasions.
Hey, you try blocking a fast one-two punch from one annoyingly 'nya'y Nekomata while dodging a mid-air kick from the other one! It's hard work!
Add onto the fact that Xuelan, the Rook that had ordered Mihae to attack Isane, was also firing firey shots from her legs at Koneko whenever she could, things weren't looking very good for her.
'Shit...' Koneko thought. 'I gotta overpower these two pussies. And fast.'
Jumping backward and landing on the ground, and ducking under a fireball fired by Xuelan, Koneko focused Senjutsu into her hands, and flung it at Ni and Li, who she could tell from a mile off didn't have the proficiency in Senjutsu that she had, let alone the proficiency that someone like her sister had, and flung them at Ni and Li, who dodged.
Deciding to go for Ni first, Koneko rushed towards her, letting fly a punch that Ni idly sidestepped, while jumping into the air and kicking Koneko in the head, stunning her for a second. That second being long enough for Koneko to get hit in the back by a fireball from Xuelan.
"Fuck...!" Koneko hissed, narrowly dodging another fireball while panting. "This is getting really tiring." She muttered. She summoned as much of her strength as she could, and launched herself at Ni, and this time, her punch made its mark, in Ni's face.
With her flying backward, Koneko instantly turned to Li, who was sliding towards her, trying to get the metaphorical high-ground by, ironically, taking the low route.
However, Koneko was ready for her. Focusing Senjutsu into her leg, she stamped downwards onto Li's stomach, using the Senjutsu on her leg to stop her ki flow, like she'd done with Isabela.
However, Li wouldn't be able to find out the implications of what Koneko had done, as her stamp was more than enough to render her unconscious, meaning that she was retired.
Leaning backwards far enough to watch a fireball whizz over her head, Koneko righted herself and rushed at Ni, who was just getting to her feet, and realising that she had no twin to back her up.
"Not so tough on your own, are you?" Koneko hissed, grabbing Ni by her ponytail and flinging her into the ground. "Weak pussy."
Koneko kicked Ni in the head, instantly retiring her, before she turned around, feeling a second wind coming, and dashed at Xuelan, determined to end this fight so she could heal herself up.
Koneko jumped into the air, far out of Xuelan's leg-reach, and threw a Senjutsu-powered punch that narrowly missed Xuelan, thanks to her ducking out of the way. However, she had made the rookie mistake in dodging into the metaphorical path of Koneko's other fist, which Rias' diminutive Rook took full advantage of, hitting Xuelan in the face with a brutal hook with her left hand, sending her flying into the ground.
"Fuck!" Xuelan shouted as she tried to get up, but when she saw Koneko, Senjutsu flying from her body, her pupils turning into more cat-like pupils, and glaring so hard at Xuelan...
She wished she'd worn the brown pants. Or any pants at all, really.
"...Suck it." Koneko hissed, as she delivered one final blow to Xuelan, ending her match.
"Two of Lord Riser's Pawns and one of his Rooks are retired." Grayfia announced.
BOOM!
Koneko whirled around. Before her very eyes, she saw two large pillars of fire bursting from the top of the New School Building, and Riser and Ravel Phenex emerging from said pillars.
As this happened, Koneko heard another, slightly less loud BOOM! Whirling around again, she saw Rias bursting from the roof of the Old School Building, and evidently calling Mirajane to her aid, judging by how Mirajane, still in her 'Satan Soul: Ala' form, flew up to her.
"RAVEL!" Riser shouted, his dark blue eyes on both Mirajane and Rias. "Take care of Rias' scummy servants on the ground! I'll deal with my future bride and her Queen!"
Kiba and Isane (still in her Balance Breaker form) rushed to the aid of Koneko, who was easily the most tired out of the three of them, and watched together as Ravel Phenex descended down to the ground before them, a pair of fireballs in her hand.
Rias, Mirajane and Riser
"Alright, Riser!" Rias shouted, flying towards Riser, two balls of her Power of Destruction in hand. "You're the only thing left standing between me and freedom! Prepare yourself, for we'll easily defeat you!"
Riser laughed, loudly and mockingly.
"We'll see about that, Rias." Riser replied, smirking at Rias, who growled, and let fly both blasts of her Power of Destruction. The first attack missed, but her second attack made its mark, and blew Riser's whole left arm off. He merely laughed as it reformed, in a swirl of fire.
"Is that all you can do, Rias?" He asked. "Your brother may be stronger than my older sister, but that doesn't make you any more likely to beat me! And once I have, I'll make sure to show you just how amazing I can be in bed!"
"NEVER!" Rias roared, letting fly a bigger blast of Power of Destruction, that hit Riser's face. "YOU BABY-DICKED LITTLE FUCK! ONCE I AND MY PEERAGE BEAT YOU AND WIN THIS RATING GAME, I'M SLEEPING WITH ROXAS! EVEN IF HE HAS A HAREM, I KNOW THAT HE ACTUALLY TREATS ME DECENTLY!"
"Don't talk trash!" Riser shouted, spreading a pair of flaming wings and accelerating towards Rias. "You'd stoop so low as to have sex with your own nephew over me, your future husband?! Why?! And besides, how do you plan to beat my immortal flames"
"FUCK YOU, THAT'S HOW!" Rias and Mirajane both shouted, at the exact same time. Rias let out another blast of Power of Destruction that took out Riser's legs, while Mirajane created a huge storm of hail that battered and bruised Riser beyond recognition, delivering a coup de grace with an ice-spike straight to the chest.
However, all of that was for not, as a second later, Riser was back to normal.
"Attack me from two different angles? How low of you, darling." He remarked, creating a fireball of his own. "Now come on!" He threw the fireball directly at Rias, followed by two larger ones. Rias managed to block the first one easily enough, but narrowly blocked the second and outright failed to block the third, which caused her to stumble backwards a bit.
She retaliated in kind, but Riser just extended his hand out and took the blast of Destruction straight to the hand, and though his entire arm was vaporized in a second, in another second, it was back.
"I think I've had enough of this little game." He remarked, throwing a punch at Rias, which connected with her face, and sent her flying to the side, and landing on the ground, a burnt bruise on her cheek. The third Heir to the Phenex Clan snapped his fingers, and created a huge ball of fire that would surely destroy her body, had it hit her. "And I think it's time for you to know your place, Rias!" He threw the fireball at Rias, who widened her eyes, sure that this was it.
However, in the corner of her mind, she remembered something that Roxas had talked to her about, during their discussion of tactics.
Knowing that now, of all times, would be the perfect time to do it, as this was the example that Roxas had given, Rias closed her eyes and poured all her thoughts into doing what she wished to do, and fractions of a second before Riser's fireball impacted her...
"One of Lady Rias' Rooks has been retired."
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Kuroka, who had been sniffling with happiness at how far her darling little sister Shirone had come, gave a sigh of slight sadness as Koneko was retired from the game thanks to Rias' Castling.
"Don't feel that bad, Kuroka." Akeno placed a hand on Kuroka's shoulder. "Your little sister's fought the most out of anyone in Rias' peerage this entire match. Feel proud of her."
"I am, I am!" Kuroka replied. "It's just... I talked to her last night. She really wanted to not get retired in her first Rating Game as a member of my mate's aunt's peerage."
"Well, some things just can't be helped." Tobio replied, looking at Isane, clad in Balance Breaker Armour. "And it's quite impressive to see Isane holding out in that Balance Breaker of hers for that long. The first time I remember going into Balance Breaker, I definitely didn't last that long. Only a minute or so at most before collapsing, I recall Sae telling me."
"Fair enough." Valian replied. "I lasted half an hour in my armour before conking out, first time I got into it."
"Stop it, the two of you!" Palutena sighed, sounding slightly exasperated as her eyes were glued to the screen like they would be to Roxas' ass, if he was here. "You're not the average American citizen, so stop flexing on everyone!"
Everyone laughed.
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Minutes earlier...
Kiba, Koneko, Isane and Ravel
Isane flew into the air and attempted to fire a huge blast of demonic energy at Ravel, but she was forced to fly to the side and cancel the attack as Ravel flung a fireball in her direction. However, that didn't stop her from firing a Boosted shot of demonic energy at the fifth Phenex child, even if it missed.
"Everyone!" Kiba shouted, dashing out of the way of Ravel, moving behind her, and attempting to attack her with his Sword of Betrayer, but being blocked by a magic-circle shield. "Keep moving! Go in a circle!"
"R-Right!" Isane replied from her point in the air, using the thrusters on her back to fly in a wide circle around Ravel, not far enough away to not be able to attack her accurately, but far enough away for Ravel to not have very much of a chance of getting a devastatingly strong hit in on her.
Koneko, while on the ground, was running on the ground, and rolling out of the way of fireballs that, though small, were easily enough to melt the stone that she ran on. While she ran, she gathered blasts of Senjutsu up in her hands, and fired them at Ravel, who used magical shields to deflect the blasts, or stop them entirely.
"Hah... ha... ha..." Koneko panted, as she ran. "I'm not sure I can take much more of this!"
"Just keep going, Koneko!" Kiba shouted, creating an ice-sword to freeze the fireball that Ravel shot down at him, and switching to his usual sword. Spreading his Devil wings, he flew up at speed and slashed at Ravel, cutting her arm and leg off with two fast slashes. However, once he landed on the ground, they had already returned to Ravel's body in a flash of fire.
"You idiot pretty-boy!" Ravel shouted condescendingly down at the three peerage members. "Our Flaming Regeneration has won our Clan many a-Rating Game, and my brother will easily win this one as well!"
"Yeah, keep talking, you burnt seagull!" Isane shouted, firing another demonic shot at Ravel, which hit her so hard in the shoulder that it blew her arm off. However, it regenerated in an instant, as Isane's power kept Boosting.
"Excuse me?!" Ravel shouted back at Isane, creating another fireball, and flinging it at Isane, though it did very little to damage her armour. "Who are you to call me something like that?! It's Ravel Phenex to you!"
"More like Ravel Sucks Dicks!" Isane yelled back, as Kiba made to recreate his Sword of Betrayer. However, something happened that stopped that particular occurance from happening. That something happening to be Koneko disappearing... and Rias appearing in her place!
Seconds later, they heard the fateful announcement from Grayfia.
"One of Lady Rias' Rooks has been retired."
"Rias!" Kiba rushed over to Rias. "What happened?
"Castling." Rias replied. "I just switched places with Koneko, to get out of the way of an attack from Riser." She sighed, as Ravel tried to fire a fireball down at her, but got interupted by Isane. "I don't feel good about it."
"It's alright, Rias." Kiba helped Rias up. "You're not going to give up, are you?"
"Never!" Rias stood up herself, and let a crimson-coloured killing intent ooze from her body. "Let's blow our opponents away!"
"Fuck yeah!" Kiba and Isane both shouted, as Kiba finshed on the Sword of Betrayer, spread his wings, and swung at Ravel. However, his swing was blocked, while Rias flew above Ravel and fired upon her with her Power of Destruction, blowing up her head.
For the one second that Ravel remained headless, her body fell through the air towards the ground. However, when her head regenerated, she caught herself on her fiery wings, and flew back up into the air.
"Okay, now I'm mad!" Ravel flew upwards towards Rias. "Come on, Rias! I'll defeat you myself- AAAGH!"
Ravel had created a huge fireball, and intended fully to send it towards Rias, but she was distracted by Kiba flying up underneath her, and slashing at her legs, cutting off Ravel's leg... which did not regenerate.
"Now, Rias!" Kiba shouted, as he faced down Ravel, who turned around in mid-air, and tried to attack Kiba. Rias fired a powerful blast of Power of Destruction at Ravel, which impacted her in the back, and instantly forced her to retire, in a haze of blue light.
"One of Lord Riser's Bishops has been Retired." Grayfia spoke. "Lord Riser has no peerage members left, compared to Lady Rias' four."
"Mirajane!" Rias called to her Queen, who, for the past minute or so, had had to hold off and fend for herself against Riser in her Ala form. Almost instantly, Mirajane dodged another fireball from Riser, and flew over to Rias, panting hard.
"You okay?" Mirajane, who had numerous burns and scars on her face, asked, pulling out the vial of Phoenix Tears. "You want these?"
"No, you take them, Mira." Rias replied, snapping her fingers and letting a calm, green aura overcome her. "I can... heal myself."
"Ha!" Riser flew over to Rias and her peerage, and floated before them. "Do it! Heal yourselves to the best of your ability! Though my little sister was a total weakling who got retired by you from total fluke, you can never hope to compare to my immortal strength and demonic flames!"
"We'll see about that, Riser!" Rias shouted, as Mirajane drunk the Phoenix Tears and she finished healing herself. "Come on, everyone!" She shouted, flying forward. "It's time to end this!"
Oh, shit. This Rating Game with Riser is getting to be real schwifty~ Now time to take off your pants and your panties... shit on the floor...
Okay, I'll stop.
Anyway, this is now the tenth chapter of Nephalem of Gremory! The Rating Game between Rias and Riser has begun, and fuck me, Rias is doing a lot better than she really has any right to. Must be Roxas' influence on her. Speaking of Roxas, he had a little heart-to-heart with Fianna, and now, in the words of Rias, it's time to fucking end this!
Also, before I forget, the peerage-poll has been closed, and Roxas... is getting a peerage. 58 votes to 21. And before anyone says anything, yes. I do have a plan for Roxas' peerage. If you want to guess who'll be in his peerage, just guess in a review or something. I'll reveal the peerage members as they come.
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Preview of Next Chapter:
"I couldn't be happier, Roxas." Rias smiled at her nephew, as she got up from the desk and walked towards her nephew. "Though there is something else that I'd like to do."
Seeya!