AN: So this is more of something I put together because I was bored and in need of a distraction. I have been working on my other stories, but I like to play around with other things sometimes too. This is one such thing.
Basically I looked at the first story I ever wrote, it's on my Seagate account, and it is really bad. It is a Naruto/ Highschool DxD crossover and is somewhat of a mess. Ten Tailed Wolf. It is a hodgepodge of different ideas and different writing styles. Some of which were influenced by other writers and stories in the Highschool DxD fandom at the time. So yeah, not the best.
But still, despite that there are some interesting original ideas in the story. So I thought why not, I'll have a go at re-writing/ rebranding it. But since I have fallen out of love with the Naruto fandom, for many reasons, I decided to cross it with something else using similar ideas. Considering it featured an OC Naruto this was pretty easy. Which is why I have decided on the Seven Deadly Sins, a very fin series that takes place in my home country Britain, and which has some cool characters and interesting plotlines.
So yeah, that's how we got here. Not sure if anything will come of this, it depends on interest. That said I was surprised by how few crossovers there are between these two universes.
Hope you enjoy and leave a review etc.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Seven Deadly Sins or Highschool DxD.
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(In Kuoh)
Looking up at the austere academy building in front of him, he couldn't help but let out sigh. He wasn't all that fond of humans in general, save perhaps for using them as target practice. Annoying, overly hormonal teenagers though, they were often many times worse. This, he knew, was not going to be a pleasant experience.
Already a part of him was starting to regret his decision to come here.
Still, he had made his decision, formulated his plan, and now he had to follow through with it. No matter how annoying it would be.
Closing his eyes at that thought, he let out another sigh. He had to be patient. He would only be here intermittently over the next month or so, it wasn't like he would actually be a proper student here.
With that assuring thought, he opened his eyes again, forced a charming smile onto his face and strode through the waiting gates and into the academy's grounds.
Kuoh Academy, the school of the rich and privileged, and the only private school in the small mountain town of Kuoh.
The school, he knew, was once a prestigious all-girls private school until a few years ago when it was abruptly made into a co-ed school for seemingly no reason.
The school was well known for its high grades, numerous sports teams and clubs. Truly it was a school for the best and brightest to go to so as to hone their talents and prepare themselves for later life.
Nodding to a few of the teenagers who turned to look at him as he entered the main campus building, all of them smiling and waving at him, greeting him like he was a close friend, his smile turned slightly more cynical.
The school was also a sham.
It was an outpost for devils, one of the man earth based recruitment grounds, for the young Heirs and Heiresses of the Underworld's noble families, to use to fill out their Peerages.
That was the reason why the school was touted to be so successful, after all it was a way to attract the best and brightest, those with the most potential and gather them all under one roof. The school's fame and acclaim was the perfect bait for a trap. It was also for this same reason that it had become co-ed. It was a way to expand their recruitment pools.
"Hey buddy, long time no see! Did you catch the baseball game last night?" A dark haired teen called out to him. A bright smile on his face as he rushed up to his side.
"Ah, afraid not. I've been busy, you know." He replied, a fake smile on his face as he met the overly friendly boy's gaze for a moment.
"Yeah, yeah totally. Well, I'll catch you around later bud." The teen nodded, his eyes slightly glazed now as he quickly veered away from him.
His smile sharpened at this, as he watched the teen go for a moment, before he pressed on. His gaze surveying the corridors as a couple of guys in Kuoh uniforms, complete with blazers and ties, smiled and called out greetings to him, even as a couple of girls in skirts and what looked like half capes/ corsets- he honestly wasn't sure, batted their eyelashes at him, and called out greetings.
Humans, he thought, they truly were a simple minded, stupid species. Their lives were short and more often than not futile. Ninety nine percent of them often ended up amounting to nothing. Instead they just went through the familiar societal steps expected of them; they went to school, got a job, got married, reproduced, and then died.
They were like mayflies, only with a few extra steps.
You could slaughter millions of them, and there would likely be no repercussions for the world at large or the higher beings that called the planet home. In fact Gaia would probably be better off all things considered.
Still, it really didn't matter. Humans were inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Just like ants mattered little to humans, so too did humans matter little to the beings above them.
That said, he didn't indiscriminately kill them like some of his kin did, because honestly, there was no point. All it would achieve would be to rile up those that found the humans amusing, or used them as cattle, who gained things from humanity's faith. Randomly killing and slaughtering them, would be more trouble than it was worth.
He let out another sigh at that. He was getting a bit too cynical and irritable, and he had only been walking amongst humans for less than a day now. Their kind always tended to bring out the worst in him. Not that that was their fault, no it was more a personal issue he had. One which revolved around humanity, and his general disdain for them. A secret that centred around his strongly guarded origins.
'Why am I here again?' He thought to himself, as he forced another smile and made small talk with a couple of girls that accosted him in the hallway. Apparently the human girls here were as the humans say 'thirsty'.
He hadn't seen such desperation in many years. Was there truly such a dearth of reasonably attractive and passable men in this school? Or maybe it wa because he had been a bit too zealous when he had created his hypnotic glamour.
Either way, after a kind smile and a few soft words promising to eat lunch with them later, he bade goodbye to the girls. His smile still lingering for a while after as he watched them go.
Maybe he had been a bit harsh on humanity before, he thought as he watched the bevy of teens walk away. Sure they were mostly useless and superfluous. But the same could be said about lots of animals and species in this world, and yet they were kept around for one of the same reasons he tolerated humans. They were amusing sometimes. In small doses.
"Hey, hey wait up!" A gangly, short haired boy shouted as he ran up to him. A smile on his pointed, buck-toothed face as he screeched to a stop in front of him.
"What is it?" He asked, his smile fading as he saw the teen smile up at him. He could see the recognition in teen's gaze as he sidled up to him, and made to throw an arm around his shoulders conspiratorially.
Fortunately a harsh glare, and quick flash of hypnosis quickly put paid to that notion though.
He would tolerate their presence, and would even interact with them on a friendly basis when he had to. But he drew the line at allowing them to randomly initiate contact with him.
"Ah yeah, sorry about that, I keep forgetting you're not a fan of physical contact. But yeah, I've just been told by Issei, who was told by that stupid pretty boy, Kiba, that apparently the super sexy and bodaciously hot Rias Gremory wants you to come to the Occult Research Club for a meeting." The teen cried joyously, almost hyperventilating as he started talking about Gremory. With him then quickly going off on a ramble about how 'hot' and 'sexy' she was.
Ignoring this, he instead smiled slightly at the familiar name.
'So they have finally noticed.' He thought, an amused smile on his face as he waved the teen away. He had been here for less than half an hour, and already they had clocked on to the irregularity of his presence.
In a way it was disappointing. He had been expecting them to catch on to him a lot quicker. After all, surely the Gremory Heiress, one of the two devil's in charge of this outpost, along with the Sitri Heiress, should have had a better reaction time. Especially considering the fact he hadn't even tried to hide his presence here or what he was doing with his hypnotic glamour.
Still, in the end her poor reaction time didn't matter. What did matter was that he had her attention, and that he had been 'summoned' to meet with her. It was almost amusing really.
With that in mind, he forced another smile onto his face and started to make his way down the corridor. His dark eyes flickering back and forth as he tried to spot this 'pretty boy' Kiba, his senses spreading out as he quickly locked onto the location of every devil in the school.
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(Earlier in the Student Council room)
"You know, I'm surprised you haven't made your move on Hyoudou yet." Sona Shitori, a girl with short black hair and violet, bespectacled eyes said, as she looked up at the two girls, who at that moment were sitting before her desk in the Student Council room, even as both of them flinched almost minutely at her question.
Watching as the two before her digested her words, a smile spread across Sona's usually stoic face.
Usually she would hold back on acting in such a frivolous way when she was acting in her role as the President of Kuoh Academy's Student Council.
Right now though, she was more than happy to let some of her true emotions out. After all, she wasn't currently talking in her role as Sona Shitori, the Student Council President, but was instead speaking as Sona Sitri the Heiress to the Sitri Clan, which was one of the remaining 72 pillars of the Underworld. Furthermore she was also talking to one of her oldest friends and allies.
"What do you mean, Sona?" Akeno Himejima finally asked with a polite smile on her almost flawlessly beautiful face, her violet eyes twinkling slightly as she brought one of her pale hands up to cover her smile in a coy way.
The girl was a perfect Japanese beautiful, Sona noted with a hint of jealousy, her eyes trailing down Akeno's lithe form only to then rest of her very busty chest. But despite her beautiful outer appearance, there was something also ugly and twisted within the girl.
It was hidden beneath her veneer of politeness and propriety, but Sona was good at reading people, it had always been a skill of hers, and it was because of that skill that she knew there was something rotten deep inside Akeno. Something to do with her mysterious origins. Origins that were known only to the Gremory Clan.
Still, the girl was amiable enough and was almost fanatical in her loyalty toward her master, Rias, and that was enough for her to place her trust in the girl too. Rias might be flighty, idealistic and entirely unreliable, but she was at least a good judge of character.
With that thought in mind, Sona dragged her attention away from the smiling Akeno, and instead looked over at her fellow Heiress, and co-governor of Kuoh, Rias Gremory.
Like Akeno, the other girl was beautiful. Only her features were far more european. With the most noticeable thing about her being her long crimson hair that went all the way down to the back of her thighs and her unusual greenish blue eyes.
The girl was annoyingly pretty, what with her pale, flawless skin, perfectly balanced facial features and oversized bust. Honestly, it annoyed Sona a little bit just how attractive the other two girls were. It almost made her feel plain in comparison.
Fortunately for her ego though, with Kuoh now being co-ed, she only needed to walk down the halls with Tsubaki and a couple of other girls from her peerage and self esteemed would be swiftly restored by all the gawking idiot boys that now infested the hallways of her school. It was one of the few things, in her mind, that they were good for.
"I mean what I just said, Akeno." Sona replied with a slight smile. She wouldn't allow Akeno to deflect for her master. "There were two from the current crop of new students that we have identified between us as potentially having Sacred Gears. I've already contacted and recruited one of the two, the one I found. Yet despite that, we're one month into the term and you still haven't made a move on the one you wanted… my question is why? Especially considering what is coming up."
A few moments passed as both Rias and Akeno shared looks, before with a sigh the red head finally caved into Sona's questioning look. "My plans for Issei are already in progress. Koneko has been following him, and has noticed that there has been a fallen angel lurking around the area recently, and seemingly tailing Issei too. I believe they too have picked up on his Sacred Gear and are planning to move in on him. If all goes to plan I will be able to step in and save him at the last moment, or if I am not in time, at least reincarnate him before his soul passes on."
Sona nodded at that. It was a simple, and very reactive plan. One that was not really her personal style as it left too much up to chance, but at the same time if Rias played it well it could work. Still, it was not something that she would have done. Which was why she had approached her target directly, and then persuaded and manipulated him the traditional way through lies and promises of what he could gain by willingly giving up his humanity. It was far more elegant than engineering or allowing a confrontation with a fallen angel to take place. There were too many things that could go wrong with a plan like that.
"Quite a cold plan you have there, especially for a Gremory." Sona finally replied after a few moments of thought. "By doing it this way you will gain his loyalty, but my question is why? Why not just approach him now instead of waiting for him to be attacked?"
"It may be cold but it is necessary, I don't have much time left and need as much help as I can get. To do that I need his immediate loyalty. As for the why, Issei is… well Issei is an idiot." Rias replied after a few moments, deliberately ignoring the question over why she had waited so long to act, as she instead focused on the questions around her approach.
At Sona's raised eyebrow Rias sighed before continuing. "Well I will tell you the information I've been able to gather on him."
With that said, Rias turned to Akeno, only to find the dark haired beauty already holding out a couple of sheets of paper.
"Hyoudou Issei," Rias began to speak as she looked over the papers before her.
Looking across the desk, Sona used her ability to read upside down to see that the sheets contained only basic information and a picture of the boy in question.
"A seventeen year old boy who's currently enrolled at Kuoh Academy. A mediocre student at best, who only just barely made the cut-off point for the entrance exam last year, and even then that was only due to the Academy lowering its standards for male students in an effort to bolster its male population after having recently turned co-ed from an all-girls school." Rias pressed, oblivious to Sona's attempts to read her notes.
Sona hid a smile at Rias's words. That wasn't the reason why the grades had been lowered. It had been specifically done to get some of the more athletic and physically powerful students into the school to bolster their soon to be joint sports teams. On top of which, it also helped with expanding the pool of potential recruits with both brains and brawn.
"While athletically he's about average for a student who's not a member of a sports club, he has no history of serious injury or illness. Despite his lack of ability he is renowned across Kuoh Academy as a member of the Perverted Trio, a group of three boys who continually attempt to peek on the female population of the school whenever they can. In short he is generally below average across the board." Rias finished before looking at Sona who simply gave her a wave to continue.
The boy might have been below average, but Sona knew that he had been earmarked by Rias as a potential Sacred Gear wielder, just as she had noticed and recruited her new peerage member, Saji. As such there had to be more to the boy than that, otherwise why would she have specifically laid claim to him.
"Well other than that, Issei should have been nothing more than an ordinary, if troublesome student." Rias continued after realising the Sitri heir wanted to hear more. "That was at least until sometime a few weeks ago, when we were able to discover he potentially had a Sacred Gear. Honestly it was pure luck that we found out about it in the first place, the boy's magical presence was so small that he was almost invisible. In fact it was only because Akeno happened to bump into him when he was being chased by the Kendo club that she was able to notice it in the first place."
Sona nodded at that. She had heard all this before back when Rias had first come to her to stake a claim on the boy. It was a common courtesy, one which she had followed when she staked her claim to Saji.
"While that was enough to catch my initial interest, I wasn't willing to risk an Evil Piece on him right away, not until I had at least identified what kind of Sacred Gear he possessed. With the abysmal amount of magical power he seems to have in him, it would have had to be a powerful Sacred Gear to make him a worthwhile investment. But unfortunately the very same lack of magical presence that caused us not to notice him for so long was also preventing us from properly identifying the Sacred Gear." Rias pressed on, expanding on her reasoning now.
"That boy has the most abysmal magic reserves I have ever heard of. I have seen a newborn toddler with more magic than him." Rias then grumbled as she put the page down, and then looked up at Sona. "He's dim, average in athletics and has woeful magical potential. I'll be honest, I almost considered the possibility that I'd made a mistake."
"Ok, so that partly explains why you prevaricated so much. But what changed to make you want to go through with this new plan to add him into your peerage?" Sona questioned curiously, honestly intrigued by the boy. After all she had written him off quite soon after she had first sensed him. "If you still failed to identify his Sacred Gears then why has he suddenly become important?"
"His scent," Rias said with a victorious smile, "While we couldn't identify his Sacred Gear through magic, we got lucky and discovered that his Sacred Gear was producing a distinctly unique scent."
Sona frowned in confusion at this. She honestly wasn't aware Sacred Gears even had scents. She had certainly never been able to sniff one out.
Then again, she mused, her gaze on the excited looking Rias. Neither she, nor any of her peerage, had sense on a par with those Koneko, a Rook in Rias's peerage, had.
"It was all thanks to Koneko actually." Akeno added in, lending credence to her previous thoughts. "Soon after the term started she began to notice the scent of a supernatural creature on the school grounds that didn't belong to any of the devils here, or their familiars. She eventually traced the scent and found that it leads to Issei."
"What kind of scent are we talking about?" Sona asked, wondering what the big deal is and what she could have missed.
"A Dragon," Rias answered and though she tried to hide it, there was a tone of smug satisfaction in her voice, "Hyoudou Issei is completely, one hundred percent human, but yet has the scent of a Dragon."
"Ah I see now, that's what has gotten you so excited. You think he might have either the Boosted Gear or Divine Dividing, do you really think he has a Longinus?" Sona asked, uncertaintly. Rias's claims sounded dubious to her. There was a lot of suposicion, guess work and extreme leaps of logic at play here. It sounded more like Rias was hoping that this was the case, than actually knowing it. Surely it wasn't possible to just stumble across a Longinus by happenstance, nobody was that lucky, not even Rias. "Well at least that explains why you have decided to act. But why the complex plan? Why not just talk to him and convince him?"
"I don't have any real connection to him, the best way I can recruit him quickly is through saving his life. This will both create a sense of loyalty for me in him and make him more open to my offer?" Rias replied earnestly. She honestly sounded like she had thought through every other option.
Again Sona found herself raising an eyebrow. Saji had been almostly embarrassingly easy to recruit, she had just had to mention that he could potentially become strong enough to have a harem, and he had practically been frothing at the mouth.
Considering Issei's proclivities and his general idiocy, he should have been even more simple to convince.
Unless, Sona narrowed her eyes. Unless Rias was putting him in this situation so she could see how he would react, and whether or not he would reveal that he indeed had a powerful Sacred Gear. Maybe she was gambling, and using this as a way to test him before she recruited him?
Again, she wasn't sure what to think. "And if he finds out you set him up to die?"
"Then I will explain it was an accident to him and ask his forgiveness. Though, if he ever did find out I suspect he would have already bonded with my peerage, so I doubt he would leave, even if he could." Rias replied.
There was uncertainty in her tone though, Sona noticed, and she looked conflicted too.
Seeing this expression, Sona quickly decided to change the topic, hopefully saving her friend from wallowing in her guilt.
However, before she could say anything else, or broach another topic she was interrupted by the door to her room opening and Tsubaki, the Queen of her Peerage entering at a brisk pace. Her long black hair flowing behind her, and her sharp eyes focussed unerringly on Sona as several more of her Peerage; Momo, Reya and Tomoe, quickly filtered in behind her.
"Tsubaki?" Sona asked sharply, her violet eyes glinting as she looked imperiously over her spectacles at the girl. all her previous amusement and levity absent now, as she instead took on the mantle of a leader. "What is the meaning of this?"
"We have a problem, President." Tsubaki replied quickly. "We've detected a supernatural intruder on the campus."
"What?!" Sona shot back sharply. She could see both Rias and Akeno reacting similarly, both of them looked startled, serious and worried, all at once. "Have you determined what they are? Devil, fallen, angel, youkai? I need details!"
"We've identified the intruder as a foreign teenager, perhaps eighteen, in a Kuoh school uniform. He has grey hair, dark eyes, an athletic build and northern european features. His species is unknown, as is his Faction. We don't know why he is here, or what he is looking to do. At present all that he has done, that we know of, is use hypnosis to trick the student populace into believing he is a student at Kuoh." Tsubaki quickly rattled off the details, her hands already moving through the air as she crafted a magic circle with the Sitri family crest in the centre.
Focussing on the circle, Sona quickly recognised the spell her Queen was casting as a scrying spell. It was a limited spell in most circumstances, and usually easily blocked, but considering this was their territory and had their wards and protections on it, it was an ideal spell for this occasion.
"Tsubasa and Saji are currently keeping an eye on him from a distance." Reya took up the report. "The Gremory Peerage is also mobilsing, Koneko has moved to follow, and Kiba should be on his way here."
Rias nodded at that, a thankful smile on her face. "Good, how do you want to approach this Sona?"
Sona's eyes narrowed slightly at the question. Her mind was already racing, as she went over her options.
There was an intruder in the school, one of unknown origin and ability. Already both of their Peerages were acting autonomously and were moving out to find him and watch him.
It was a muted first response considering he was trespassing, but unfortunately a necessary one too. After all they weren't sure of his loyalties, or his power, then the last thing they wanted to do was attack a potential ally, or antagonise a very powerful individual. She did not blame her Peerage for not making that call.
"Tsubaki?" Sona asked, her gaze now on her dark haired Queen as she finished her spell, her magic circle shimmering and becoming mirror like as she did so. "Can you get me eyes on him?"
"Yes." Tsubaki nodded, her fingers flickering through the air and the mirror like surface shimmering, before it settled on the image of one of the school's busy hallways.
The image specifically, coming to rest on a tall, athletic looking man of around eighteen. With the man in question having quite a powerful build, short messy grey hair and odd eyes with reddish black irises. More than that, the man seemed to walk with absolute confidence and surety, a smile on his face as he moved through the hallways greeting the other students like they were old friends.
At the sight of him, Sona let out a slight sigh. One of part relief, and part irritation. "It's fine." She said after a few moments, her usually strict voice taking on a slightly tired tone. "I recognise him. He is an annoyance. But not dangerous, or at least not to me, and by association, not to you either."
Her Peerage seemed to relax slightly at this. Tsubaki, Rias and Akeno though, all frowned.
"Forgive me President, but I don't recognise him." Tsubaki said carefully.
"No, I guess you wouldn't." Sona smiled weakly, her eyes shifting back to the man as he continued to walk through the halls. Behind him she could see a white haired girl with amber eyes following after him. Koneko, Rias's pet Nekoshou. "I don't really know him either, I've only met him a couple of times and even then, this was years ago, back before you became my Queen."
Tsubaki nodded at this, but still looked concerned.
"Tsubaki, can you send a message to the others and get them to stop trailing him. So long as he's not prokoled, he's relatively harmless. Once he's finished messing about, I'm sure he'll come to speak to me and tell me just why he is here." Sona sighed. She was already rubbing her temples in irritation.
"How do you know this man, Sona?" Rias asked sharply. Unlike the others in the room, both Rias and Akeno were still tense. "I don't recognise him, and considering we grew up together and attended the same tutoring in etiquette, history and politics back in the Underworld, I fail to see why that should be."
Sona smiled wryly at this. "That's because he is friends with my sister, and occasionally visits the manor with her to see my parents. I've only met him around half a dozen or so times, but well, he sticks in the memory."
Rias frowned at this.
Tsubaki meanwhile, lifted her hand and created another much smaller magic circle, a communication spell. With her then speaking into this one, as she called Saji and Tsubasa back to the Council Chambers.
Seeing Rias's scowl, a slightly amused smile played around Sona's lips. She shouldn't be so entertained, but the fact that she knew something that the other girls didn't, did tickle her somewhat. Rias was a good friend of hers, but she was also an aggravating one too. She was always so lucky when it came to getting new Peerage members, and inheriting immensely strong powers. Everything seemed to come easier to Rias, than it did to her.
"Sona, who is he? How does he know the Leviathan as well as you claim?" Rias pressed.
Sona could see that the suspense was killing her.
So too could Akeno by the looks of it as, now that it had been confirmed that they weren't in immediate danger, the violet eyed Queen had a hand up to her mouth stifling a slight giggle.
For a moment Sona was tempted not to tell her. It would have been so delicious to watch the redhead scrabbling about and embarrassing herself as she tried to find out who he was. But alas sense and conscience prevailed in the end. They might be devils, but they were far more civilised than the devils and demons of the bygone past. She shouldn't delight in tormenting others for no reason, especially not a friend.
"His name is Estarossa, and the reason you probably don't recognise him is because this is not his natural form. He is using a slight glamour to change his appearance to look younger, and pass unnoticed." Sona finally revealed, tapping the frame of her glasses as she did so. "Luckily my glasses are enchanted to allow me to see through glamours, so his little trick doesn't trick my mind."
Looking back up at Rias now, Sona was not surprised to see the pale, almost frightened look on the redhead's face.
For all that she had had good interactions with Estarossa previously, others tended to just know of him from his legend, and the tales people tell of his many exploits and feats.
Glancing around at the others, she could see that both Akeno and Tsubaki also looked quite nervous and scared.
The others meanwhile, just looked confused.
"Erm President, who is Estarossa?" Momo asked, no doubt asking the question that was on most of her companions' minds.
"He's a demon." Rias said bluntly, speaking over Sona before she could give a more thorough explanation. "And a member of the Ten Commandments, the demon generals that led the armies of the Underworld in the Great War against the Heavens and the Grigori, the First Holy War."
"The ten commandments?" Reya frowned in confusion. "Isn't that something to do with Mose and the bible?"
Sona had to hold a sigh back at that. Most of these girls had only been members of her Peerage for less than a year, as such most of their training had revolved around magic, combat and basic general knowledge about the supernatural world and the natural enemies they have up here on the surface. None of them had been down the Underworld yet, and thus she had neglected their education when it came to the hierarchy of the Underworld, the politics, the big names, and the ancient history of her culture.
"That is true, Mose was contacted by 'the one above', and wrote down his words as the ten commandments." Tsubaki spoke up now. She had been in Sona's peerage for the longest, and thus was more educated on the supernatural world than the others. "But the Underworld knows the Ten Commandments as a name for something else."
"They were the four Demon Princes; Lucifer, Leviathan, Asmodeus, and Beezlebub's answer to the Archangels. The Ten Commandments as we know them, were an elite group of incredibly powerful warriors and generals that was formed during the peak of the Great War. Ten Greater Demons, to match the ten remaining Archangels that led the forces of Heaven." Akeno took up the story. An oddly haunted note in her voice as she spoke. "Some of them were original demons from the Seventy Two Pillar Clans, who were then elevated to Greater Demons by the Demon Princes. They were not all born demons though, some of them belonged to other Factions and were seduced to Demonhood by one or other of the four Satans."
"Wait, so some of them were reincarnated devils?" Reya asked in confusion.
"Sort of." Rias replied with a frown on her face. "The Evil Piece system we have today was based on the original ritual that created the Ten Commandements, but it is far weaker and far more simplistic. The ritual that created them was, well, far more complex, and as far as I know not possible anymore. More than that they were born, or reborn in some cases, as demons, the progenitors of the devil race. They were created to stand against the Archangels, some of the greatest and most powerful beings in existence. It is impossible to compare a reincarnated devil with a member of the Ten Commandments. Hell they were second only in power to the Satans, and some of them were rumoured to even be on a par with the original Satans."
"Okay, so then this Estarossa guy is one of these Ten Commandments?" Reya frowned.
"Yes, one of the more powerful members." Rias nodded. She still looked pale.
"As such he is ancient, even by the standards of devils. He is also unpredictable, capricious and immensely powerful." Sona finished. There was a lot more that she could say about him. Such as the fact his origins before becoming one of the Ten Commandments were unknown. That or the complex position he and his fellows hold in the political system within the Underworld. She could spend hours talking about everything he has done, and everything he represents, and still wouldn't have scratched the surface.
She didn't want to do that though. She had other things she needed to do.
"And that is also why I know him. He is friends with my sister, and trust me when I tell you that he won't cause any trouble, so long as he isn't provoked." Sona pressed on. She wanted to make sure they all knew that very important fact. "Now, if there isn't anything else, I need to contact my sister and find out just why her partner in crime is in Kuoh."
"Yes." Rias suddenly nodded, a resolute expression on her face as she stood up. "And I need to have a talk with him about wandering around my territory without first asking me for permission."
Sona internally winced at her words. "Please remember Rias, don't provoke him."
She really did not want Rias acting out here. Estarossa was one of the more mellow of the Ten Commandments, but he was still one of the most powerful beings in the Underworld.
"I know, I'm not an idiot, Sona." Rias shot back, her jaw tightening as she swept over to the door. "I'll speak to you later Sona. Akeno, can you ask Kiba to extend Estarossa my invitation to the clubroom."
"If you're sure." Akeno said worriedly. Worrying her bottom lip as she stood up and followed after Rias as she left the room.
Watching them go, Sona couldn't help but wince. She really hoped they didn't do anything stupid. The last thing she wanted was for the town to be destroyed, and for her to have to relocate, because Rias annoyed Estarossa.
More importantly than that however, she also really didn't want to see Rias's brother, Sirzechs Lucifer, and Estarossa, duking it out over this. The two were already infamously at odds with each other, and the last thing anyone needed was for them to get in a fight and destroy the entire of Japan by accident.
"You think Lady Leviathan has something to do with this?" Tsubaki asked into the silence that followed Rias and Akeno's departure.
"I'm almost certain." Sona replied through gritted teeth, her eyes once again on the young form of Estarossa as someone she recognised as Matsuda, a perverted member of Issei Hyoudou's friendship group, walking up to talk to the immensely powerful Greater Demon. "The two of them are like fire and more fire, they both bring out the best and worst in one another."
This was not a good start to the week. it wasn't even nine o'clock in the morning, and she could already feel a migraine coming on.
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AN: So what do you think, I have decided to mash elements of the Seven Deadly Sins universe into Highschool DxD universe. With the main character being, in my opinion one of the most interesting characters in the Seven Deadly Sins storyline, Estarossa.
Please tell me what you think, and I hope you all have a good weekend.
Catch you later.
Greed720.