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When flames rise – Chapter 3
A monster and its purpose.
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Last time
"Well, that was rather…"
The figure looked at where the stray had stood before being killed.
Not even ashes remained.
"… interesting…"
The figure walked back into the shadows, activated a magical circle, and disappeared with a flash.
==X==X==
Rias Gremory was sitting by her desk, in the Occult Research club.
She was one of the schools 'two Onee-samas' and the president of the Occult Research club.
Her body was ridiculous. Just stupidly mature. D+ cups, perfect hips, no extra fat, and beautiful face. How did people not notice that something was off.
Well because anime logic and because she's a devil. A pure blooded one by that and her brother is one of the four current leaders of hell, also known as the for Maous. He was the Maou with the title Lucifer and was considered one of two Super Devils.
She, like her brother, got the Power of Destruction (PoD for short) from her mother, Venelana Gremory, formerly Bael.
The big difference between her and her brother's Power of Destruction was that he was a master in using it and looked like a total badass while doing so and she… she could fire balls of it… many balls… that's it.
What her Gremory power is… eh…. Let's worry about that later.
Because she was currently waiting for a certain white haired girl to arrive from a spying mission.
It was lunch at Kuoh Academy and Sona had come to visit her.
She had told Rias about the two new students and their hidden power and that they were at least high Mid-tier (aka stronger than Rias and Sona themselves).
She had sent Koneko to see to check it for herself, not that she didn't trust Sona's Raim senses, but she would also see what her [Rook] could sense in them.
Kiba was waiting with her in the room, while Akeno was preparing tea, because she was always preparing tea when she didn't have to do anything else.
Well Rias was bored and just waited and waited and waited and waited and Koneko entered the room and waited and oh wait what!
The little girl was shaking and looked like she was about to cry.
"Koneko! What did they do to you!?"
Rias was more than ready to confront both of the intruders and absolutely annihilate (read: not even touch) them with her Power of Destruction.
The little girl sat down on one of the couches and breathed heavily. Kiba gave her a piece of chocolate that helped her immensely to calm down.
"… No… Nothing like that…"
Rias blinked and started thinking who or what could have scared Koneko like that.
"… They just sat there… menacingly…"
… Why did that sound so familiar?
Rias looked at her [Rook] with disbelieve in her eyes. How could someone sit menacingly?… Ok stupid question, but how was it enough to scar the life out of Koneko?
The nekomata answered the unasked question.
"… Their life force… Blue girl… strong… boy… strong… angry… dead… monster…"
What?
The boy is a strong angry monster that isn't alive?
Ok, Koneko was quite possibly overwhelmed by the two and is now really confused.
That Rias understood.
The two new students are certainly strong, and she should be really careful around them.
That didn't really reach Rias.
She needed to decide what to do with the two of them.
A small, but rather intelligent part of her mind told her to inform her brother about the situation.
But Rias was too prideful.
An even smaller and way stupider part tried convincing her that she could face them head on and kill both of them.
But Rias wasn't bloodthirsty.
Another part suggested her to ignore them and just let them do their thing.
But Rias didn't want to do that.
And another part just spoke one word: 'recruit'.
But Rias… Rias was stupid enough to think she could actually pull that off.
That was going to cost her.
==X==X==
Well until now school was useless except for the fact that he got the attention of the devils thanks to it.
A rather bad thing actually, but it could evolve into something really nice and give him a purpose.
Yes, a purpose…
Something he had been searching for all the time.
Dante had gone out again and was watching the devils. Looking how they reacted to Issei.
Issei didn't care.
He was sitting on his bed and… waiting. He wasn't waiting for Tiamat to return from observing her territory to eat dinner with him. He wasn't waiting for Dante to return and report about the situation.
He waited for something. Something he had been waiting for his entire life.
Without it he would stay lonely.
There was a locked door.
His entire life he had been alone. He had locked his heart away. The doors were still unmovable. But that wasn't the only thing holding him back from interacting with people.
A monster stood in front of the door.
He would hurt them.
There was a man in front of the monster.
He would hurt or even kill them. He was sure of that. He didn't trust himself.
The man in the basement.
He could take a life without hesitation.
There was a pistol on his head.
Issei looked at his hands.
At his bloody hands.
They took so many lives.
They could… They would go on.
He wasn't strong enough to stop the monster.
He could only restrict it, but for how long?
One day his purpose would come from the monster.
The trigger was pulled.
He would be the monster.
The monster would have a purpose.
The monster would be the purpose.
"Lord Issei?"
He snapped out of it.
Turning his head he looked at Dante who had a shocked expression. He had returned the moment he felt Issei's energy act up.
Issei looked at the mirror.
There was a boy in the mirror.
A lonely boy.
Tears rolling down his cheeks, but no emotions
The boy looked down at his hands.
There was blood on them.
His own.
He had started bleeding from gripping his hands to hard.
He looked back into the boys eyes.
The eyes that have seen thousands of people die through those hands.
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Kiba.
There was no better option.
Kiba would be the one who would spy the two new students.
Rias had decided that.
Why not Akeno?
Akeno was a really bad spy and because she was a girl, 'Mio' could get jealous and not even God knows what would happen if 'Mio' and Akeno engage in 'combat'.
Why not Koneko?
Rias looked at Koneko who was mumbling to herself and nibbling a cookie. Still shaking.
Why not Rias herself?
First off, she would never admit it, but she also sucks at spying. And second off, she would never admit it, but she was way too prideful.
Kiba.
Yes, Kiba.
The guy who was followed by fangirls was definitely the perfect choice for this job.
It was decided.
Rias Gremory would send her knight, Kiba Yuuto, to spy on two apex predators, who they knew nothing about with probably unimaginable power.
…
Yeah…
That didn't really sound motivating…
Not that Rias cared. Her mind was set on one thing and one thing only: 'recruit.'
Risks? Many!
Consequence? Even more!
Care? God damnit Rias!
She was Rias Gremory and she wanted an apex predator as her [Pawn]!
Or [Knight] or [Rook] or [Bishop]…
Who cares!? Time to call the blond guy!
"Kiba!"
Her knight jumped from his seat. Rias had totally forgotten that he was already in the room.
He turned to her, his typical smile on the lips.
"What is it Rias?"
She pridefully smiled back.
"You are going to spy on two people."
Kiba blinked once. Twice. Realized that the 'two people' could literally be anyone and stiffened. He had a suspicion.
"And those… 'two people' are?"
"Issei Hyoudou and his girlfriend Mio Hiryuu."
Kiba having heard what Koneko had muttered about those two individuals went pale. His suspicion had been correct, and he wasn't happy about it.
"… Are you sure that's a good idea Rias?"
Rias blinked being too concentrated on fantasizing what kind of powers Issei and Mio had to realize that she was basically sending Kiba into a suicide mission.
"Uh… Yeah… ?"
Kiba just sweat dropped and left the room. Mentally preparing himself for his probable death.
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Well Issei found out one thing about devils.
They really, really sucked at spying.
To be fair, spying on Issei was borderline impossible, because anybody who looked at him would immediately turn away once he looked in their general direction.
There was a five meter radius that nobody, except Tiamat, entered without exiting right afterwards and another ten meter radius where nobody, again except Tiamat, would stop walking.
There were a lot of rumors about him, but they never went above him being a delinquent that robbed people for fun. No one suspected him to have already killed somebody.
Back to the devils.
One of them was a blond boy that looked like the ideal handsome boy. Short blond hair, light blue eyes, always smiling, and always behaving very handsome.
The other one was a whitehaired girl with blue-green eyes.
The boy had a problem with fangirls. They were literally swarming him and did actually a pretty good job, by just being in their general area and never directly looking at them.
The girl though… She just stared at both Issei and Tiamat and if either one of them would look at her, she would turn her head away and… just stood there waiting for them to forget about her.
So Issei locked eyes with her and just started straight into the girls soul.
Not literally, but Momo felt like he was stripping her naked and after ten seconds top, she ran off.
Best spy ever. Would hire again.
The blond went slightly pale when he noticed his comrade devil leaving and almost fainted when Issei's head jerked into his direction.
The blond made the wise decision to not make eye contact with Issei, he would have probably failed at one moment or another, but then the one that Issei had stared down came back.
Issei's head jerked back into her direction and she visibly shuttered when his eyes hit her.
She averted his gaze the best she could and walked straight to them gaining a lot of attention from everyone that saw this act of bravery.
She stood there two meters away from the two dragons while being impaled by Issei's eyes.
"T-The student council pre-president w-wants to *gulp* speak with you…"
Issei stood up, prompting the girl to jump back and everyone to stare at him.
He send his gaze over the crowd and they all continued whatever they had done before staring at Issei.
Then he looked back at the girl and she immediately headed to the student council office.
Issei and Tiamat followed.
Reaching the door the white haired girl knocked on the door and waited while Issei was stilling focusing on her and Tiamat had clinched to Issei's arm with a smile on her lips.
"Come in!"
At those words, the white haired girl opened the door and let Issei and Tiamat inside. The student council room wasn't anything special. A room like all the others in the academy with a bunch of tables facing the wall for the members of the council and one desk for the president opposite to the door facing the middle of the room, where there were two couches facing each other with a desk between them.
Issei noticed one thing about the student council, he didn't point it out nor did he show any reaction to the discovery.
It consisted purely of female students.
If Issei would actually talk and had some emotions he would question how much of a feminist Sona was, but that wasn't Issei, so he just ignored the detail and sat down on one of the couches, Tiamat immediately taking the spot beside him and then he looked Sona Sitir straight in the eye.
The president visibly flinched when his eyes met hers and had a hard time keeping her monotone look and voice.
"Greetings, you already know who I am, do you know why I brought you here?"
Tiamat gave Sona a smug smile.
"We can only guess, heiress of the Sitir clan."
Sona's eyes widened at that.
"I want to know what you two are doing on devil territory."
Tiamat smile grew a little bit.
"Devil territory?"
Sona blinked in slight confusion. 'Mio' knew something that Sona didn't, and she was using this knowledge against her.
"Yes, devil territory."
"And when did Issei hand it over?"
That caused everyone in the student council room to abruptly turn their eyes to Issei. He owned the territory!?
Issei didn't react, he knew what Tiamat was going for and he would allow it.
"What do you mean by that?"
Sona was now frowning while she was moving her gaze from Tiamat to Issei and back.
"Just that he owns this territory for seventeen years."
Sona's frown deepened.
"And how so?"
Tiamat's smile now showed teeth.
"It's his birthplace…"
Sona rose an eyebrow. How did that make this his territory? A lot of people are born in Kuoh and that didn't mean that they owned the town. Before she could ask any questions, Tiamat continued.
"… and a Dragon's birthplace is always its first territory."
Everybody froze.
A Dragon in Kuoh!?
This territory was supposed to be unused and was claimed by the devils five years ago. How did they miss a Dragon!?
She needed to inform her sister! As much as she hated it, she was not on the level to deal with such a problem.
"Before you go over all your documents and contact whoever your lawyer is, we want to have a talk with all the devils after school, because we don't have any time left."
The ball rang almost on queue.
Sona nodded. She had no other option.
"Meet us after school in the old school building."
With a nod Tiamat left herself.
Sona noticed that the hole time Issei sat there… emotionlessly…
Her face morphed into an expression of shock.
She had heard only about one dragon that didn't show emotions.
It would explain how they haven't notice him.
It would explain why he seemed so powerful.
It would mean that they're in deep shit.
"President everything alright?"
She looked at Momo who was standing in front all the other members who had stood up after seeing Sona's expression.
"This Issei… he might be… he probably is… related to the Ouroboros Dragon."
A shiver went through the spines of all members of Sona's peerage.
It would make sense, but it was scary to think about.
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"WHAT!?"
Rias couldn't believe what she had just heard. Sona had called Rias to the student council room right after the first afternoon class and now Sona was telling her something that she just didn't want to believe.
"Yes Rias. Two dragons, one probably related to THE Ouroboros Dragon and the other of unknown origin. Both of them are coming to us after classes, because the one that's related to THE Ouroboros Dragon was born here. And you know what that means."
The red head still shocked nodded.
"And their coming today!"
The way she said that last word wasn't very Sona-like, and it made Rias go pale.
"So your saying…"
Rias looked her friend straight in the eye.
"… we're fucked."
Sona didn't expect that kind of response from Rias but ignored it for a moment.
"Yes, we are indeed fucked… I think we should call our siblings."
"Eh… Are you sure about that?"
Sona facepalmed. Rias never liked her brother interfering.
"Rias we're dealing with the spawn of the most powerful being in the world. I think that you should know that we stand not the slightest of changes against the two and if we somehow do, what do you think the Ouroboros Dragon would do if we attacked them?"
Rias eyes widened in realization.
"…"
She didn't know how to argue against that.
"Exactly, I'm going to inform or siblings, but I'm going to tell them that they should not act before they speak."
"I wouldn't do that."
Both of them froze and a new figure emerged from the shadows. The figure was completely hidden in the shadow of its hood, except for the boots, but the voice revealed that it was male.
Rias and Sona went into fighting positions.
"Who are you and what do you want."
"Oh, I'm just checking what the devils are doing on my masters territory."
The two heiresses paled when hearing the man's words.
"I don't mean any harm, but you were informed that we don't want you to inform anybody before the meeting… Is that clear?"
Shivers ran down the devils spines.
It took a while for Sona to answer.
"Yes… Yes, we understand."
With that the figure reemerged into the shadows and Sona felt his presence disappear.
The two devils looked at each other and both agreed on one thing.
"We're fucked."
"We're fucked."
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Sona and Rias were standing behind the president desk in the Occult Research Club.
Their peerages were scattered around the room surrounding the couch in the middle of the room that was facing the two heiresses.
The air was tense they were waiting for Akeno to bring the two guest in.
Nobody spoke a word all eyes were locked on the door and silence had swallowed them all.
*Knock*
*Knock*
Everyone in the room felt a shiver down their spines. The dragons have arrived.
The door opened revealing Akeno followed by Issei and 'Mio'. Tiamat was smiling, while Issei still didn't show any emotion or expression on his face.
Issei's eyes wandered around the room.
The short girl with white hair and golden-hazel eyes was the first one.
She visibly twitched when his gaze hit her, and her face was slowly drained of colors the longer he looked at her.
Next was the blond one with all those fangirls.
He stiffened when issei looked at him. He had his eyes closed and his genuine smile quickly turned visibly fake and he had a hard time maintaining it.
Then there was the really bad spy girl.
She instinctively looked away when their eyes met and her eyes started to search the room while he looked at her, trying to find something else to focus on.
Next up Akeno.
The girl shifted uncomfortably in place while he stared her done and… and was she blushing?
Next! Rias.
The red head tried to look back at him, but immediately failed. A slightly shameful look appeared in her eyes.
Right next to her was Sona.
Sona held two seconds until looking away, but she started sweating bullets afterwards.
Next to her was a girl with black hair that reached her knees and hazel eyes. She focused on a point on the ground in front of Issei and didn't move in the slightest
Before he could inspect the other devils in the room Rias cleared her throat gaining his attention.
"Would you please sit down."
Issei complies without hesitation. Tiamat scans the couch with her eyes before joining him. She was the first to speak.
"Before you two make any stupid mistakes later along the line I will inform you that Issei is fine with you being here and doing whatever you like as long as you don't try to limit what he can do and as long as you don't annoy him."
Sona and Rias blinked multiple times. Both hadn't expected such a generous offer. Rias looked at Issei and frowned slightly.
"Is that really alright?"
Issei just nodded in response.
Silence consumed the room once more until Tiamat disturbed it.
"Is there anything else you feel necessary to talk about."
Sona shook her head and Rias hesitated for a bit until asking a rather… risky question.
"Who exactly are you if I may ask?"
Tiamat send a questioning look to Issei, who just refocused his dead eyes on her.
She saw this as a 'Yes'.
"I'm Tiamat the Dragon Queen and Chaos Karma Dragon…"
Every devil in the room went pale by the name drop.
"… and this is the current generations Phoenix."
She poke Issei's shoulder, no reaction.
Rias went a little paler by the mention of 'Phoenix'.
Nobody said a word.
This time Sona was the one to break the silence.
"The current generations Phoenix? I thought he was a Dragon, and that the Phoenix is immortal?"
Tiamat just tilted her head and gave her an awkward look.
"Well… its complicated and I don't really have the time to explain everything to you, just trust me that he's a dragon and yes he is in fact immortal."
And with that the two dragons left again. Leaving behind a bunch of confused devils.
Rias was the first to talk after the dragons had left.
"Well… at least no Ouroboros Dragon spawn."
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First A/N:
Chapter three baby. And you can see I tried my hand in comedy… probably a stupid decision.
I'm proud of the monster scene, it (probably) is my best scene yet and I could use the twist on my version of [Presence]. You see my [Presence] doesn't activate when you want it to activate. It activate when special requirements are met.
Gonna say this is my best chapter this far.
Second A/N:
Don't really got anything to say. Hope you enjoyed the story, I slightly changed the interactions with the devils and made it longer, but nothing TOO mayor. The monster scene is still almost identical, and I hope you like it!
Anyways, REVIEW just do it and say WHY my story sucks because it certainly does suck.
Ok thanks
See ya in the next one!
