Back Home With Big Changes

"Issei Hyoudou" - Talking

'Issei Hyoudou'- Thought

"Issei Hyoudou" - Communication circle/phone

[ Issei Hyoudou ] - Inanis

Its been a few years since that fateful night, the night that my parents died. I assumed Akeno died as well although I couldn't say for sure, I could only hope which is something I do every single day.

The only reason I'm alive right now is due to a man named Sirzechs, which Inanis explained that he was the current devil king when I awoke. Inanis answered a lot of my questions I gained from the whole ordeal. He explained to me that I was given a second life becoming a devil servant for a woman named Rias Gremory, which is Sirzechs younger sister. He told me he would introduce me to her when I was ready.

I'm not in any rush to meet her I'm grateful I've been given a second chance to get my revenge, I'm just not too excited about being a slave. Sirzechs told me not to worry about is saying she wasn't like most devils, I could only hope that was true. Its been 3 years, which would make me 12.

A lot has changed in my last few years. I've been going through intensive training with Sirzechs and his wife, Grayfia Lucifage. I just caller her Fia for short. Sirzechs has been pushing my physical prowess to its max every day leaving me exhausted 90 percent of the time. Grayfia helped me manifest my magic, I had more than a typical dragon, but that didn't mean I had a lot. Dragons rely on aura more than magic, so we didn't need any.

Also due to Sirzechs wielding the Power of Destruction he was able to help me immensely with my Power of Extinction due to how similar they are. I was now able to manifest and use it for a decent amount of time at least five to ten minutes before I pass out which is a vast improvement from one attack.

The amount of magical power I have in total has increased as well due to Grayfia's expert magic control. I'm also learning how to use my sacred gear in my mindscape with Inanis and some old fallen angle dude named Azazel who is a fallen angel. I have a hatred for the fallen angles now after what they've done to me. I try my best to hold it in because I'm aware not every fallen angel is the same, but sometimes it just slips out.

My sacred gear training is petty well overall. I've learned some practical use for it, such as storing my things into the void which I can summon back later. I've also managed to gain a form of teleportation for my personal self. It isn't instant, and I can only appear where shadows are located, but barriers cant black me no matter how strong they are so It has its ups and downs.

I've also grown better at manifesting shadows. The scythe I formed when attacking Kokabiel at the time was involuntary. I somehow pulled it off while enraged. Now I can shape it with my will as well as other weapons such as swords, axes, maces, and practically any other weapons I could think of. I've learned how solidify the shadow itself making it possible to make spikes shoot out from the shadows which are pretty damn sharp. Sharp enough to kill a person with easy, which is all I really need it to do. I've also managed to unlock my balance breaker, but I can only use it for 3 hours, an hour and a half when under intense fighting.

I learned that Kokabiel was acting independently from the Grigori order, so I just needed to focus my revenge on him and his little group which consisted of Raynare, Mittelt, Dohnaseek, Kalawarner, and a number or roughed exorcist.

Kokabiel was the leader of their small rabble with Raynare being second in command. I don't know anything about them aside from their names as well as my own assumption that they are working somewhere in my home town Kuoh. It would only make sense if they were working there or close to there, they said I was dangerous to their plans so their plans must involve that town somehow.

I can't wait till I find that fallen bastard I'm going to rip him limb from limb when I see him for hurting my loved ones. I clench my fist, and my body shakes in rage at just the thought of the bastard. I've been living in the underworld in secret in the territory of a dragon where I learned about my own culture and heritage and what it means to be a dragon.

The territory was under control by the dragon king Tannin. It boasts a lot of dragon apples they were pretty tasty and filling, then again that's expected for them to be delicious and nutritious for well a dragon. I've trained a little with Tannin, and he's pretty strong even if I can keep up with him, but he packs one hell of a punch. I usually can't spar with him though since he often is busy.

The dragons in the territory treat me like an equal. I learned that even a hybrid will be considered a full dragon as long as they have the aura of a dragon. They taught me how to use my fire affinity and use my aura to a much more efficient level. Sirzechs, Azazel, and Grayfia are the only ones who know of my stay in the underworld.

I've taken a job as a mercenary being sent on stray devil hunts, take care of a bad master and practically everything you could think of so long as I was paid well. Seeing that I can take hits from a decently powered Sirzechs and fight with Grayfia fairly evenly proves I'm stronger than most people in the underworld.

I was told it took eight pawn pieces six of them being mutation pieces to turn me into a servant. Which in its own already proved I was mighty, then the pieces themselves gave me a power boost as well as made my potential much farther. Inanis told me that I could possibly one day be as strong Sirzechs, he also said that would take hundreds of years to master my powers, but I chose to ignore that part.

I was currently laying in a thick tree branch in Tannin's territory looking at the sky thinking about the future, I want to go look for those fallen angels, but Sirzechs and Azazel said I wasn't ready. As much as it annoyed me, I knew I wasn't prepared. I was strong enough, but I'd lose my cool during the fight and start acting sloppy which would most likely end up getting me killed.

I heard a loud flapping sound heading towards me with the wind rushing by. I looked around to see a friend I've made in Tannin's territory. His name was Brumo he was a light blue dragon with a white underbelly and ice colored eyes. Brumo was an ice affinity drake, my exact opposite. He was also very proud of himself and his ice affinity.

We met because he wanted to prove that his ice was stronger then my black and violet void flames, so he challenged me to a spar. We fought for a while, and I beat him fairly quickly he wasn't weak by any means, but training with the strongest queen, the leader of the Grigori, a super devil, and a dragon king have its obvious perks.

We kept running into each other after that and often spar together. He says I'm a hurdle that he must surpass and I like his determination, so we got along natural.

'I wonder what he wants this time' I sighed hoping to get some quiet alone time as I stood up to look towards the ice drake flying towards me with a stupid grin on his face. [Probably to rechallenge you, I admire his determination, but it can get a little annoying be challenged every week] Inanis spoke. I just mentally agreed as I unfurled my wings to meet him halfway.

I've gotten a lot better at flying since I didn't have to hide my draconic feature all the time, now that I think of it I've gotten better at using all my draconic features. I leap off the branch flapping my wings sending me towards the dragon giving him a slight wave. We stopped once we reached each other hovering in mid-air, Brumo grew a shit eating grin on his face.

"Today is the day I defeat you!" he declared with confidence. I gave a light chuckle at his devotion and assuredness that victory was his.

"Alright, I'll humor you, where do you want to meet this time for your beating?" I asked with a smug grin teasing him about the fact that he hasn't won a single fight against me yet. My statement only caused him to scowl at me in annoyance at my jab at his pride.

"The same place as last time, same time too" Brumo stated pointing a claw towards before turning and flying off back where he came from. I could only sigh and nodded at his declaration to fight me.

'You think he'd learn a little more humility after so many losses' I mentally stated to myself flying back down to my branch. [You would think so] Inanis spoke with a slight chuckle. Inanis has been talking more recently as we started getting closer as friends. I liked it, it always gave me someone to talk to. 'Whelp time to goof around till the fight' I thought as I proceeded to fly towards town.

It's now 6:30 PM, I'm standing in clearing in the middle of nowhere, it had trees shattered throughout, grass burnt in random places, and craters dotting against the landscape.

This is where our spars regularly went down. We chose to do it in the middle of a random forest so we wouldn't bother any settlements, plus I'm not even supposed to be down in the underworld. Good thing the underworld is so big we have plenty of space to smack each other around, and I doubt people would appreciate dragons fighting over their homes with ice and fire.

I looked to the sky slightly orange tinted sky sensing the presence of my self proclaimed rival. I don't mind fighting him, a matter of fact it helps me out by testing new techniques on my fellow dragon. It also seems to make him pretty happy, so I don't think I'd mind if I had again out of it or not. I smiled upon his landing in the decimated clearing.

His ice colored eyes staring at me with keen anticipation for the upcoming fight, I can't say I'm not a little excited either because he's been bragging a lot to how he was training much harder than usual to face me. While his arrogance and bravado did get on my nerves as I generally hated overly confident people. I knew he meant well, plus he seemed to still be on the younger side.

I never asked his age; however Tannin the dragon king was around 15-20 meters tall. Brumo was only about 5 meters tall. All though now that I think of it their size difference may be due to their title. Tannin was significantly smaller compared to Inanis, he was around 50 to 60 meters tall. Brumo also acts a little childish, so I'm just going to assume he's on the younger size until I ask sometimes.

"Are you ready Issei?" Brumo said confidently well spreading his wings to prepare for a dart of speed. I only nodded in response as I did the same action tightening my leg muscles like tightly coiled springs waiting to deliver a powerful thrust against the ground to propel me forward. My hands widened with my claws ready to lacerate him to take Brumo down.

"BEGIN" we shouted in unison both dashing forward kicking copious amounts of dust up into the air from the burst of speed. Even if he was a lower classed dragon with our aura based powers, claws, durable scales, sharpened senses, and raw physical strength and speed even the weakest dragons can go toe to toe with high-class devils.

Once we were within reach of each other Brumo slashed his claws at me, unfortunately for him, I was significantly stronger them him in every aspect. I maneuvered under his hand to barely dodge his claws using as minimal required stamina to avoid the attack, following with a quick, strong punch to his white underbelly loosening his scales causing him to roar out in pain.

Losing his balance from the wind being forced out of his lungs his flight was put to an end causing him to plummet to the grown. Not letting him have the chance to properly regain his lost composure I inhaled sharply building up my void flames in my lungs. Waiting to burst out of my mouth to strike at my intended target with a burning power. Seeing a blue light shine from the dust cloud I released my black flames from my lungs, spewing out from my gaped maw at a rapid speed.

The dust cloud suddenly dissipated as Brumo released an ice blast from his mouth as well. Our attacks collided with each other with a massive violent explosion that shook the ground beneath us. Our elements being exact opposites makes our blast react more fiercely with each other.

Brumo dashed at me through the smoke with his dragon maw wide intending to bite me. Once he was close to biting me, I moved in a burst of speed out of harm's way. I dashed towards his left-wing slashing down upon them with my sharp claws slicing through the sky blue leather wing rendering him unable to fly for the moment.

He fell from the sky his back facing the ground as he roared towards me charging another ice blast directed to me. Before he could release his ice attack, I dashed down after him sharply planting my foot in his gut, the same place his scales were damaged from my punch starting our match. His scales already being weakened allowing me to plant my foot with even greater force since the scales didn't get in my way. He roared in pain as he spits up blood slamming back into the ground with my own force added it formed another crater in our damaged battleground.

As the dust cleared from where he landed I Brumo struggling to get back up from my attacks. I put a decent amount of power into my last kick that was already hitting his broken scales, making it an even more efficient attack. Good thing his scales will shed and grow back or I would've left him with a permeant weak spot.

"I'm ending this" I stated, raising my hand forming a ball of black roaring fire flaring ready to be released. Brumo only grunted in response as he hoisted himself off the grown from his crater, glaring at me flying above him ready to attack. He put all his power left in him into one last ice blast which was twice the strength of his previous attack.

I narrowed my eyes 'He has more power left then I thought, guess he really did improve even if I wasn't really trying his improvement was worth admiration' I thought to myself as I pumped more power into my ball of flames about my raised arm. My flames tripled in size making my attack slightly smaller than my challenger. We released our blasts in sync with each other, our attacks roaring with intensity as they flew towards each other.

I grinned as I noticed as a flaw within his attack, giving me the knowledge of my now assured victory. While his attack was impressive in its size, it was lacking in density causing my blast to penetrate his attack causing it to dissipate into the air completely.

My smirk grew as I saw Brumo's eyes widen at shock at how his attack's power was quickly negated by my own. When my blast reached Brumo, he was consumed in a black explosion which shook the area slightly flinging rocks up and the promptly disintegrating them before they can even leave the blast zone.

Once the blast was over, I waited for the smoke to dissipate after a few minutes. After the smoke was gone, I see Brumo laying in the even more prominent crater covered in burns, bruises, and scratches. He will be fine his wings will heal with time so he'll be able to fly again, and his scales will shed and replace them.

Thankfully I was left uninjured my scales on my tails and wings took no damage. Brumo was conscious he just needed rest which made me relax a little, I didn't want to injure him too severely.

"It seems your still conscious, good," I stated with a slight smile. "I'm going back to my cave take it easy before heading back home," I said looking down at him, he only nodded and smiled slightly at my concern for him even if I didn't show it often. Promptly after his nod, I started flying away towards my cave which was more furnished then it actually sounds.

Hosting a master bedroom, a fireplace with a soft red divan in front of the fire a few meters away with a coffee table between the two. A Tv hanging about the fireplace connected to the underworlds Tv channel, it also boasted a decent sized kitchen with all the required utensils needed to cook.

The floor was still stone though since my skin was much thicker and harder, I didn't feel the need for a soft rug. Sirzechs installed all of this for me which I was very grateful for his gifts. It was late, so I decided to have the leftover boar I killed and cooked last night and promptly going to sleep after I finished eating.

- MindScape -

I was there standing in the void looking upon the endless darkness, thinking about how to progress next as I hung out with Inanis after our sparing session. [Your body has improved nicely, you certainly are the strongest hosts I have ever had] Inanis spoke with approval at my physical and magical prowess. I smiled upon his appraisal at me nodding with the satisfaction of my powers.

[Still you can go farther, you could possibly reach the top ten someday. Sirzechs is around the fifth or sixth spot I believe] Inanis said looking at me. "I don't know about making it that far but your right I may be able to fight Sirzechs for a little bit, but it still ends up being a one sided beat down," I said sighing realizing how far I still have to go to be truly strong.

Inanis looked upon the void [I appear to be time for you to awaken, be prepared Issei you have a busy day tomorrow with your training] Inanis spoke. I don't know if I'll ever get used to how he sounds, his voice is filled with power that demands respect. I closed my eyes.

- Real world -

I reopened my eyes laying on my soft bed looking up to the ceiling. I didn't want to get up, but I didn't have much choice due to my schedule today. [Get up kid, you got stuff to do] Inanis spoke mentally to me. "I know I know, you don't have to remind me ya old man," I said while stretching pushing a yawn out of my mouth. I rose from my large, soft, maroon bed.

I walked over to my laundry basket grabbing some clean clothes to wear for the day. My outfit was consisting of some black combat boots, black cargo pants, and a white T-shirt. My shirt covered with my leather jacket with a built-in white hood and a red dragon design on the back.

I promptly walked out of my cave flying to the top of a mountain to begin my morning training. Spreading my wings, I took off flying at high speeds my hair ruffling due to the high rates of speed. I reached the top of the mountain, landing I stretched so I wouldn't pull any muscles including my dragon tail and wings, I also removed my leather jacket resting it on a rock.

I prepared for my 10 miles run around the lake at the top of this mountain to maintain my stamina at proper levels, it took around 15 minutes. After that, I started to do push ups and sit ups. I did about 300 one-armed push-ups and 600 sit-ups. Even if it doesn't increase my strength that much it at least kept me from losing what I've currently got.

After that workout, I had a thin layer of sweat covering my body causing my white shirt to stick to my body. "Hey, Inanis, how do you think I'd pair up against Kokabiel currently," I asked while looking at the sky laying down taking a break. [You're currently around the same level as Azazel. You would win, but that doesn't mean it would be easy, Kokabiel while insane is a fighting genius] Inanis responded.

As much as I didn't like it I knew he was right, Kokabiel was anything but stupid. My biggest problem with my fight against him would be his experience against me. It's getting close to time to train the others properly. I grabbed my jacket and took off soaring through the sky soon after spotting my cave entrance as it wasn't very far away. Gliding down before the opening I entered into my home.

Once I arrived home, I walked to the kitchen looking into my fridge seeing what I have available. "What do you think I should have for breakfast Inanis," I asked aloud since for once I could physically talk to him without getting looks that were clearly questioning my sanity. [Something high in protein should suffice] Inanis said answering my question. "That's what I was thinking too," I said as I grabbed the ingredients to make a cheese omelet as well as some salmon.

I made my breakfast, which is much too large for the average person. However, my dragon body does need its fuel to operate correctly. I sat down at the table after finishing cooking which was within my vision of the Tv which I had turned on which was playing a show called Miracle Levia-tan, which happened to be one of the most popular shows that aired on the station. It wasn't a bad show, but I don't really see what's so special about it, besides staring one of the Four Great Satans.

The Satan was Serafall Leviathan, formally part of the Sitri family before inheriting the Satans status after the original Satans demise. Well from what I was thought anyways.

Sirzechs told me that the original Four Great Satans along with THE Lucifer were either killed in a great war that involved all three sides decimating each side horribly, the original satans were either killed in the war or banished after their honor would've driven devils to extinction.

I honestly don't care about all those politics I respect power and a person's character, which is how the dragons work honoring actions, power, and their publicly given titles.

I finished up my breakfast picking up the plates washing them in the kitchen sink. A crimson red communication circle appeared next to might right ear. 'Probably Sirzechs asking if I'm ready' I mentally noted as I answered the red communication circle.

"Issei?" Sirzechs noble voice rang through the circle. 'Called it' "Yes Zechs? Is it that time already?" I asked with a downcast tone due to the fact that our sparing always getting my ass beat. "Yes it is time for another spar Issei, don't disappoint me," he said in an amused voice at my dreadful tone.

I sighed as the communication circle dissipated from my ear shortly after a red glow emitted from my living room, a crimson red circle appearing on the floor. Sirzechs emerging from the circle smiling at me with his blue eyes.

"Are you ready to go?" Sirzechs asked me with his normally calm voice. I slouched down "Yeah because I love getting my ass handed to me," I said in a highly sarcastic tone scratching the back of my head. Sirzechs lightly chuckled at my comment and display.

"Don't be too hard on your self now, your only twelve years old yet can give me light injuries, considering most people in this world cant injure me at all only proves what a prodigy you are?" Sirzechs said to me in a reassuring tone. He wasn't wrong, and I'm proud of that fact, but he still ends up beating me six feet under. I sighed and walked towards him as a teleportation circle formed beneath us taking us to our training field.

We arrived at a clearing far from civilization while he would have customarily trained me by his home, or more like palace, but my exitance is still a secret in the underworld at least outside of the dragon's territory. I am to spar with Sirzechs for either half an hour or until either one of us is defeated.

He prepared a bottle of phoenix tears to heal the loser, at least that's what he says. Its actually for me after I get beaten so I can continue training. Sirzechs put up a barrier that allowed us to go all out without being detected.

"Ready Issei?" The crimson haired man asked. I only smiled and answered his question by summoning my two black gauntlets, their violet gems glowing brightly. With one phrase my power drastically increased. "Balance Break," I said in an ominous tone. Sirzechs smiled upon me saying this phrase as a blood crimson hue formed around him.

[VOID DRAGON, BALANCE BREAKER]

My body was engulfed in pure black shadows as my armor morphed around me, the power was so intense it cracked the ground beneath me. The shadows dissipated from my body revealing myself clad in a black dragon armor. My gauntlets extended all the way up to my shoulders, forming spiky black pauldrons on each side. My gauntlets themselves changed to be sharper than before. My chest was covered with a deep black breastplate with a giant shining violet gem in the middle. My back had my black dragon scaled wings protruding from the armor with a jet propeller between my two appendages. My black dragon scaled tail also emerging from behind me. My legs were covered in black plated armor being smooth on my inner thighs, but turning sharp and pointed as it reached my outer thighs. My feet were covered with black dragon plated greaves. My head was covered by a black helm that resembled a dragon, my eyes were replaced with glowing violet gems, two white tusks sticking out of the helmet's nose area, the neck had several spikes running down as it reaches the jet on my back. My aura was pure darkness with traces of a bright violet color.

Sirzechs grinned wildly at my display of power as he formed his Power of Destruction into a mesh around his body. "BEGIN!" Sirzechs shouted prompting us to launch towards each other. A wispy black scythe formed in my hands as I jumped above him aiming for a powerful horizontal strike upon his head.

To my shock, he caught my attack with his hand raised above his head. He grinned as my shock grew yet again as his destructive armor ate away at my shadow scythe.

"Don't you think its a little dangerous to be this close to me?" he asked me with a sly look in his eye. My eyes widened as I noticed his power of destruction started to eat away at my gauntlets, quickly jumping away. Inanis was repairing the armor, I looked down to see if the gauntlets were ready again.

When I looked back up Sirzechs was no longer in front of me, I lost him until I felt a surge of power from behind me. I quickly spun around coating my right hand in thick, dense black shadows, catching his heel as he ax kicked at me from above.

The sheer force of the ace kick shattered the ground beneath me, planting my feet underneath the destroyed rocks. "Don't take your eyes off your opponent" he stated, pointing out my fatal error.

I growled deeply as I sent a blast of black flames from my hand causing him to backflip away from me. He looked into my glowing violet eyes as formed a sphere of Destruction and launched it to me. I wasn't able to dodge it due to its size, and I also wasn't able to use my Extinction powers since having two highly destructive power clash would cause a massive explosion that would kill us both.

I did the only thing I could do I stuck out both of my hands forming a black hole between us that adsorbed his attack. Promptly after that, his attack was spit back at him at even high speeds. The black hole shrunk until it no longer existed, Sirzechs raised his arms in defense as his own attack engulfed him in a crimson explosion throwing the dust into the are covering him.

As the smoke dissipated, it revealed Sirzechs utterly unfazed by his own blast. 'Damnit' I mentally said, hoping it would've done something. [What did you expect? You hit him with his own power that he has been mastering for centuries] Inanis said spoke.

I was hoping for anything to happen to him, but he was utterly unfazed by it. While my breathing was labored, absorbing that strong of an attack and directing it back at it took a decent amount of concentration. Typically casting a black hole wouldn't have done anything to me, but such a powerful attack was hard to contain.

I flapped my wing dashing at him with a bolt of speed. Sirzechs threw small spheres of destruction towards me, which I barely dodged. I closed the space between us nailing a powerful hit on his cheek turning his head slightly leaving small cuts from my sharp metallic knuckles.

He smiled at the strength and ferocity of my hit a little blood ran down the cuts, shortly after his expression of proudness towards me he planted an upper-cut in my solar plexus. His punch shattered through my thick black armor planting directly into my body destroying a few ribs and causing me to vomit up a decent amount of blood. Falling to the ground as I struggled to catch my breath.

My armor dispelled from my body and my aura dissipated as I struggled to even move. Sirzechs smiled as he dispersed his destructive armor, he smiled because I lasted longer than typical showing signs of my improvement.

I usually only lasted around one to three minutes against him, but this time I lasted approximately six. He kneeled down to me pulling out the Phoenix tear he had before dripping it on my body. My eyes shot open as my body was healed instantly. I looked to Sirzechs as he smiled at me.

"You did better than normal this time Issei, your definitely improving," He said with a calm voice and a bright smile seeing his apprentice grow in power. "Yeah I'm glad I'm still growing, but I still have a long ways to go. So no way am I close to finished" I stated clenching my fist in determination to one day beat him.

His smiled widened at my words. "Well its time I take you home so you can rest for your magical training with Grayfia," Sirzechs said as he pulled me up to my feet, creating a teleportation circle beneath us which took me to my cave.

I quickly laid down to rest on my soft couch, sighing in exhaustion as those Phoenix tears don't regenerate lost stamina. Sirzechs chuckled at my display. "Well take care until or next training secession," the crimson haired man said as he waved toward me disappearing through another circle. I sighed looking up to the clock, it was 11:30 AM, Grayfia will arrive at 12, so I have exactly thirty minutes to rest seeing as she is so punctual.

Its been a little over twenty minutes now, I've been meditating hoping to improve my magic skills by myself. I don't really have a problem casting my Extinction powers when I have my magic ready, I have a problem drawing my magic forth from my pool of magic. That and my magical reserves aren't precisely big themselves either. Not to mention that I have a hard time increasing my magic reserves.

For a devil, I have minimal magic reserves around the average low-class range, granite that's a pretty decent amount for dragons. Most dragons I'm aware of have almost no magical reserves, so I'm glad that I have any at all.

Most of my power comes from my aura which is how I ignite my void flames, it's also how I can control my draconic features sheathing them and releasing them with my will. Although I can't change my entire body from a human to a dragon with my aura as the high-class dragons can. At least I can't yet, I don't know if I'll ever be able to control my aura enough to do that. I don't even know if I have enough aura to do that, I'd imagine it's pretty costly.

A bright silver shine broke me out of my thoughts about magical power and aura base powers. Looking over at the silver light there was a sliver transportation circle on the floor. Fia's color is silver so that must be her showing up for my training. 'I wonder how she covers up her absence from her maid job' I thought to myself. I have never been good at meditation, my mind tends to wander.

The shining silver light dies down its intensity revealing girl around her early to mid-20s, she had a buxom figure in a tight maid outfit. Her hair was a solid silver color along with her eyes. She is around 5,8 in height shorter than my 5,11. This was Grayfia, also known as the strongest queen. Although I just called her Fia. She turned to see me and her usually emotionless face grew the ever so small smile seeing me in a meditation position on my own accord.

"I see you're already practicing," She said returning back to her expressionless face. I nodded in confirmation. "I'm at least trying although I'm not doing very good, you know that my mind tends to wander Fia," I said slightly displeased that I had such a hard time learning to do magic. "That's alright, the fact that your a dragon and can still use magic is incredible in its own right," she said as she walked towards me. She moved across from me on the floor, she placed a mat down to sit on, so she didn't have to sit on the hard cave floor.

"Ok, let us see how fast you can draw out your magic as of now," she said as she held her hands out letting her magic quickly flow through her forming a light blue beach ball sized sphere of magic, the color was due to her affinity with ice magic. She drew her magic out of her within a second. "Now that you've seen a reminder, please try a draw out your magic," she said as she let her magic flow back through her.

'Man she makes this look easy' I said to myself, receiving a scoff from Inanis. [Do you expect a race with little to no magical prowess to be able to wield it easily? The only reason you can even use it is because of your devil side from your mother] Inanis spoke reminding me once again about that fact. I am happy that I can use it at all though because of my Power of Extinction which is very strong.

I raise my hand holding them out in front of me mimicking Fia's demonstration. It took me around 5 seconds to draw out a deep black ball with a violet hue releasing a black misty like aura around the size of a baseball. Just like Fia's magic my magic was affiliated with my affinity for shadow powers, void powers, and Extinction powers.

"While you have improved at drawing out your magic five seconds is still to slow, five seconds in a battle could determine a life or death situation" Grayfia spoke with a serious tone. "Not everyone can be as good with magic as you Fia," I said as I let the magic flow back within my body.

My training with Fia is pretty dull considering I can't do much to actually increase my magic reserves itself. Most of my training goes into manipulating my magic and how fast I can draw it out for use. Unfortunately, Fia can't help me with my void flames since it is an aura based attack.

Fia and I basically rinsed and repeated the process of drawing my magic out and holding it for a little while before letting it flow back within me. We did this for around an hour. It was boring, but I did improve a little improving by around a second or two.

"Well Fia its been around an hour, I suppose you'll be heading back to your maidly duties?" I asked the silver-haired queen as she stood up. "Yes that is correct I can't be out too long, or they will start asking where I'm going, and you're a secret down here so that would lead to complications" she spoke as a silver transportation circle formed underneath her. I waved to her as she faded from thin air teleporting back to the Gremory castle I assumed.

We started around 12:00 PM Azazel said he will pick me up around 1:00 PM however I know how relaxed he is so I'm not really sure when he will show up. He is instead too lax for the Governor General of the Grigori faction. The Grigori is the fallen angel faction.

To be honest, I hate going there to train, so we train in the mountains here. I know not all fallen angels are the same but I can't help but not trust them. They took everything from me. I clenched my fist at the thought of it. I shook my head to shake me out of those thoughts.

'Now what to do until Azazel shows up' I thought to myself, I can't go far because for all I know he could show up earlier then what I expected. He really was a wild card, then again since its something to do with a sacred gear he'll probably show sooner than normal.

In order to get him to teach me how to properly use my sacred gear I agreed to allow him to run a few experiments on it as well as take notes of its capabilities, he never did anything to unsafe though at least not dangerous enough to kill me or critically injure me. I decided I'd just watch Tv till he arrives.

Its been around half an hour since I started watching TV, I don't even know what I'm watching I'm kinda just surfing through channels. A flash of light went off behind me, Azazel arrived judging by his scent. My dragon nose picked up his scent which is how I knew it was him, he smelled of Sake, and cologne which oddly enough didn't smell bad the combination was pleasantly surprising.

"How's it going dragon boy" Azazel spoke with a tone laced with excitement at being able to research the rare black dragon emperors gear. He practically gets a hard-on from my sacred gear as he tries to figure out how a non-human is able to wield a sacred gear.

I turned my head to see a tall man in a black suit, he was around 6,2 being slightly taller than me. He has a black goatee his hair was black except his bangs which were golden in color. He had a note pad in hand along with a pen.

He was wearing a wide grin on his face eager to start his research. "Hey Azazel," I said as I stood going to grab my leather jacket releasing my dragon wings and tail preparing to fly to our training area. If there are any fallen angles I like besides Akeno, if she is even alive is Baraqiel and Azazel. Their both good people.

Azazel and I exit my cave I spread my winds stretching to a little before the flight. Azazel released his twelve jet black wings from his back. We both took off heading to the mountain for my sacred gear training. It basically consisted of me doing gymnastics, and attacking things such as trees or rocks with my abilities while in my balance breaker armor. Azazel would give pointers to what I could do to be more effective while taking notes on my powers.

We reached the mountain landing I activated my balance breaker. Currently, I could use it around 3 hours outside of combat and an hour and a half while in intense fighting. Azazel was also interested in my void flames, primarily how I somehow managed to merged my fire aura affinity with my sacred gear to produce black void flames that burned everything they touched and don't stop until I will it. It's very similar to one of the Shinto god's fires.

Azazel and I have been training for around two hours now. He said he had something to do so he left, however, I stayed for another 2 hours in my balance break state which is one hour longer than original which proves to me that I'm getting stronger in every aspect of my abilities. I deactivated my balance breaker, so I still had some energy to fly back to my cave.

The sky was now orange as the sun was setting. On my way home I started thinking about something important to me. 'Hey Inanis, do you think I'm strong enough to hunt down fallen angles to gain info on Kokabiel during my stray devil missions' I asked mentally. Inanis was quite in thought for a moment before providing me with an answer.

[You're more than strong enough, the question is how will you hide this from the others] Inanis asked me which I wasn't sure how to answer to be completely honest. 'I'm not sure, but if I'm strong enough, then I'm going to start my hunt because I'm tired of waiting' I said mentally.

[I understand partner I will support you no matter what happens] Inanis spoke this was the first time he called me partner, it made me happy. I finally reached my cave entrance. I removed my jacket and grabbed some clean clothes as I threw my current attire in the laundry basket. I needed a shower to think about my next move.

Once I finished I knew what I was going to do, I'm going to do anything to avenge my loved ones no matter what. I had a quick snack before going to bed. Staring at the ceiling with thoughts running through my mind at what I'm going to do when I find Kokabiel and everyone associated with him. 'They will suffer' was my last thought before falling asleep.

-Time skip 5 years-

Its been 5 years making me 17 and I've grown a lot since then. All of my powers have increased significantly becoming much more powerful and more efficient, consuming less stamina while still doing more damage. My magic control is much better only slightly worse then Grayfia. My shadow and void manipulation have become much stronger, being more efficient and being able to summon them faster.

My teleportation has increased as well, I can now teleport much faster now although it's still not instantaneous. I can maintain my Balance Breaker for a month now. Its power has increased significantly, and my armor is considerably stronger. Even Sirzechs Power of Destruction can't entirely destroy my armor now, although it's still perilous to stay around it for too long.

Currently, I'm in the human world at night time in my home town of Kuoh at an abandoned warehouse at the outskirts of town. I've taken a contract to dispose of a stray devil out here that has been killing passing by humans. It was currently night the sky surroundings being lit alight by the bright full moon.

'Weird I don't smell any strays. However, I smell a large amount of blood at varying ages. Some of it smelt old probably from the dead humans. However, some of it smells fresh like it was spilled only seconds ago' I thought to myself trying to analyze my best way to approach this.

The smell was coming from the roof strongest, so I assumed there was a hole in it, I'll enter from there. I flapped my black wings flying to the roof seeing the hole just as I guessed. When I reached the hole the foul stench of a crow reached my senses, causing me to scowl in hatred.

'Fallen Angles' I thought with a low growl, my face glaring into the building looking for the damn crow. My hatred for fallen angles grew significantly as I grew older. I swore I would make the one who took my parents and Akeno away from me, will suffer greatly before having a slow torturous death.

I jumped in the abandoned warehouse landing on a metal beam covered in rust. The building was dark and cold, the only light coming from the hole in the ceiling. The concrete floor was stained a crimson hue being covered in the blood of humans. Looking down I caught a fallen angel next to my target, the stray I was hunting was already dead. The fallen angel was laughing at the bleeding stray bleeding out of a hole formed in its stomach. Blood trickling from its mouth as its eyes turned lifeless.

The fallen angel turned to leave before getting hit by a black blast nailing him in the back knocking him to the ground shedding his clothes and burning his back. He was bleeding from his sever back burns. I jumped off the beam doing a superhero landing in the center of the light cracking the ground beneath me as I spread my wings as far as possible, waving my tail around in a threatening display.

The fallen angel that was howling and grunting in pain turned to see me wearing my combat boots, black jeans, white T-shirt, and a leather jacket. I had my white hood on with a black mask covering my nose and up leaving my mouth revealed to be seen. The black mask had a white X on my right eye. In my hand was a black wispy shadow scythe, in the other was black chains wrapped around my arm.

"W-who is you" the fallen angle shouted turning over to back away from me shaking in fear at my ice cold, ominous black aura. It felt like an omen of death and destruction. The fallen angel was reeling under the presence due to its promise of painful demise. My violet eyes glowing brightly staring a hole straight through him.

"I go by a few names, one of them being The Reaper" I stated my smile was curving up into a blood-chilling smile showing my sharp fangs. The fallen's eyes widened at my identity. The name Reaper shocked fear in many as it was known that the person bearing that name was responsible for killing several SS class strays.

The fallen realizing he was severely outclassed stood up shakily, he flapped his wings lifting him off the ground. He raised them to flap again, but I quickly formed a deep black violet ball with my Power of Extinction. Blasting at him before he could flap his wings again, my Extinction sphere came in direct contact with his right wing completely erasing it leaving no trace but a few black feathers.

He was screaming in pure agony blood falling from his missing wing. I walked forwards to him with a sadistic smile on my face, not much made me happier then seeing these evil bastards suffer. I planted my boot firmly on what little remained of his profusely bleeding wing.

I stomped on it, twisting my foot in place causing him to roar out in severe pain. The fallen angle reached out to attempt to grab anything to drag himself away from my clutches. I lifted my foot up from his back, causing the fallen's cries of pain to be replaced by light sobbing as tears fell down his face.

The black chains shot from my arm wrapping around his torso pulling him up to face me. I forced him in a kneeling position on his knees my chains digging into him forcing his arms by his sides. "Alright fallen, I have some questions for you," I said with a sharp voice.

He was looking towards the ground his hair covering his eyes. 'Huh, guess he's already given up, normally they put up more of a fight' I thought to myself. "Do you happen to know where the fallen angel known as Raynare is holding up?" I asked, which caught his attention.

"And why the hell would I tell you," He said with a sneer on his face, his voiced laced with aggression. His eyes are glaring daggers at me through his draped hair. "Because if you don't I'll give you a prolonged, painful death, but if you speak I'll spare you," I said in response resting my scythe on my right shoulder. I obviously lied, if he spoke I would give him a quick death, but he won't be leaving here alive no matter what he does.

He looked away from me to a dark corner of the warehouse pondering his options. "Fine I'll speak," he said begrudgingly. "She is held up in an abandoned church here in town with her group, she is waiting for a nun with a sacred gear to arrive in order to steal it and use it to gain power for herself." He continued saying looking towards the ground.

"What is her sacred gear," I asked staring down at him flaring my aura as a threat that if he didn't tell me there would be consequences. "I don't know what her gear is, all I know is it's strong," he said his voice shaking in a panic knowing that if I didn't believe him, he would be tortured. I only nodded as I backed away from him, raising my scythe as he has outlived his usefulness. "W-Wait, I told you everything, you said you'd spare me!" He shouted with a mix of anger, fear, and panic as he was about to be decapitated.

"I lied" I bluntly stated, his face turning to pure fear. "However I will make your death quick and painless" I spoke. Promptly swiping my scythe through his neck, his head rolling off his shoulders on the floor his body slouching down limp and lifeless. Blood spilling all over the floor.

I heard the doors get kicked down from behind me. Turning my head slightly I seen four new figures enter the warehouse. A handsome young male with short blond hair and blueish grey eyes. His face was scowling at me with aggression. He was wearing wrist and ankle guards wielding a small European short sword. He wasn't too tall around 5,8. He smelled of freshly forged metal, he must use sword birth, or maybe blade blacksmith. He is weak barely stronger than the fallen angel.

One of the other was a short girl around 15 maybe 16 with a petite build. She was short being only 4,8. She had hazel colored eyes and white hair. She was wearing two boxing gloves with kittens on the knuckles of the gloves. She also had a kitten-shaped hair clip in her hair. Her face was expressionless, her gaze focused on me but glanced at the headless fallen angle behind me every once in a while. Her fists were raised ready to fight. She smelled like a cat, perhaps she was a Nekomata of some kind. She wasn't showing her ears or tail though, the weirdest thing about it was her aura felt like it was forcefully suppressing a side of her. Perhaps she disliked her other powers. She also wasn't a threat to me.

Looking over to the next person I flinched instinctively at her. What appeared was a girl around the age of 18 and was around 5,6. She had a buxom figure, she was very gifted. Her hair was long and black tied up into a ponytail with an orange ribbon. Her eyes were violet like mine although not as bright. She looked exactly like Akeno except older, it caused me to freeze for a little in shock at her reveal. She was smiling with her hands covered in yellow electricity. She smelled like lavender, just like Akeno did. I shook my head moving to the next and last person to analyze.

In the center of them was a beautiful girl, they were all pretty excluding them male, but this one was in a league of her own. She looked around 18 standing around 5,8 in height. She had crimson red hair and blue eyes, she looked a lot like Sirzechs except in a female form. She also smelled similar to him, she smelt like destruction and roses. Her skin was pearly white skin was beautiful in the moonlight. She was stronger than the others but still far too weak to prove a challenge to me.

'This must be Rias Gremory, my master' I thought to myself, its not time for me to meet her though. I'll be moving back to my old house in a couple of days to go to the high school she attends. [You should hide your identity until then, it would be better to meet her chosen pawn for the first time in a decent situation, one without you being covered in blood] Inanis spoke to me. I only nodded in agreement.

I turned to the new people showing hostility, preparing my self in a defensive manner. 'Wait if that's Rias then this must be my fellow peerage members, this would be a good way to summon up how they work together' I thought to myself a smile tugging at my lips.

The redhead stepped forward raising a hand pointing it to me with her other on her hip. "Who are you to be able to kill a high-class stray and a fallen angel?" She asked me in a demanding tone, thinking she was stronger than me. I laughed a little at her arrogance, but I couldn't exactly blame her being a high-class devil with the Power of Destruction she certainly had potential.

"That's none of your business," I said "However we will meet again on better terms, Rias," I said turning away from her letting her face my dragon wings and tail. "You're not going anywhere until we know if your a threat, KIBA!" she yelled pointing to me.

As annoying as this might be she was doing the right thing by making sure the people in her territory was safe. "Right!" the blond-haired boy, now known as Kiba darted to me with a reasonably good speed. He struck at my shoulder hoping to disable my ability to fight back as well, but when his sword made contact with me his sword shattered into several small fragments.

They all had their eyes widen in shock at the fact that his sword shattered just by hitting me. I smiled as I promptly whipped my hard scaled tail hitting him in the ribs crushing his ribs and sending him into the warehouse walls, he was laying on the floor grunting in pain as he gripped his side.

Rias scowled, clearly upset at her servant's injury. "I will give you a identity just to quench your thirst for info about me for now, I am known as the Reaper, but we will meet on better terms soon," I said turning my head to slightly glaring at her. My aura flaring around me as a threat covering the room in darkness with small sparks of bright glowing violet.

She seemed to take the hint a lowered her aura, as I did in response. 'She must not know of my title seeing as she isn't scared, either that or she's got some big balls' I thought to myself. Her servants rushing over to Kiba's aid. "I'll be taking my leave now," I said as I flapped my wings flying through the hole in the ceiling returning to the underworld as they could only watch in confusion.

I returned to the underworld landing in front of my cave seeing most of my stuff in boxes, basically everything excluding my bed. Tomorrow I'll be moving into my old house, then a couple of days after that I'll be attending Rias's school. I laid down in bed falling asleep.

I opened my eyes, looking at a completely different room, it was my old room completely furnished with a desk, bookshelf, and a dresser at the foot of my bed. 'Huh, Sirzechs must have moved me and all my stuff here overnight' I thought a little creeped out that he just appeared and moved me in the middle of the night. I got up and put on some gym shorts and a baggy T-shirt. I walked downstairs to feel a strong presence of nostalgia. Sirzechs rebuilt my house to the exact detail which was once again creepy. I still appreciated by all of this though.

I went down to my couch and turned on the TV to watch standard stuff that I was used to. "I wonder if the same things I watched were still on," I thought aloud to myself as I surfed through the channels. "My life is going to be hectic isn't it Inanis" I spoke in an exasperated tone. [Indeed, in only two days you'll be at the same school as Rias Gremory, and you'll have to be prepared for several possibilities] Inanis spoke

"Yeah, I'm excited. Finally, my life will have a change of pace," I said with a smile anticipating what the soon future will hold for me.

This chapter is FINALLY COMPLETE with a good 9,800 words passing my last 5k which I'm delighted with.

Once again leave suggestions as I'll start working on the other chapters hoping to keep them around this length.

Also just so we have a good gauge on his power now since the time skip. Issei can fight against an almost full powered Sirzechs I'd say around his 70% however he would still definitely loose.

The harem will include Rias and Akeno (main two) Koneko, Asia, Irina, and Xenovia.