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Nope, nothing comes to my mind. Have a good reading!
Beted by Leragas.
{Albion out-loud / telepathically}
[Ddraig out-loud / telepathically]
(Electric and others)
"Green stripes." Issei's eyes instinctively registered and burned inside his mind the image of the young nun's underwear. He shook his head and quickly helped the poor girl get up. "Are you all right?" He was genuinely concerned about her, that fall looked really painful.
When the girl in the habit looked up and into his brown eyes, he immediately admitted that she was a real beauty. With long golden hair and fair skin, she easily fit into most straight men preferences, even if for Issei she could be a little bigger around the chest.
"Do you speak Italian?" Her shy voice was full of hope that she finally found someone in this country who could understand her.
"You could say that." The brunette gave her a vague answer. Explaining the whole deal with him being a Devil and can understand every spoken language would end up with too much of a trouble for such an early hour.
The sad look in her eyes immediately made him want to hug her and protect her, but he restrained himself. "Ano... ..I've been appointed to the church here. But I don't know Japanese that well and... ..I got lost and now I don't know how to get there. Could you please help me?" She asked timidly.
"There is one right outside of town, I can take you there. But it's been abandoned for years now. Are you sure that you're in the right town?" The teenager asked, but slowly he started to have suspicions about the purpose of her presence here.
"Y-Yes. Thank you. The Lord must have sent you here as an answer to my prayers!" A smile graced her face, making her even cuter than before.
"Not a problem. My name is Issei Hyoudou, but everyone calls me Ise. Here, let me help you." The irony of her statement didn't escape the Dragon hybrid as he smiled to the nun and took her traveling bag, ignoring the pain in his head.
"My name is Asia Argento. Thank you very much, Mr. Issei!"
"Please, just Ise."
"Okay, Mr. Ise."
"Why do I suddenly feel old?"
DxD
"I've led her close to the church. I used the excuse that I needed to rush back to school. For sure the Fallen Angels made their base there, I could smell them from a distance." After lessons, Issei sat on one of the couches in the club with the rest of members, explaining his morning adventure with the nun. She showed him her Sacred Gear when she healed a young boy and when they talked about her past in the Church. He admitted that one of his sisters was a sister too- now that was redundant.
"It's really sad that she was excommunicated, especially for something as harmless as healing a Devil but we can't help her now. Besides, the Grigori takes care of Sacred Gear users and ex-members of the Church, so she should be taken good care of there." Said Rias while she ate some chocolates.
"And don't forget that we can't make our move just yet. It's too bad that now they will know that you're alive, and by extend me too, but with that, we can't do much more until Azazel gives the go signal. I really hate all of this, but it's better than listening later after we killed someone we shouldn't or something." Septimus added is two cents from his place, also eating some sweets from the box. After some thought, he bought boxes as an apology and a welcome gift to everyone, with additional for Koneko as payment for protecting him from the sadistic Queen if she got too close.
"That's the worry for another day. I wanted to give you your first job as a Devils today, but we got an order from the Archduke to exterminate a Stray Devil that showed up here so it will be a good occasion us to show you how we fight and vice versa. Ready yourselves, we'll be going in five minutes." Their King announced, happy inside to finally see what the new members of her family were capable of. She hoped that they would be her trump card to win her freedom. Of course, she loved all her servants, both old and new, but these two had something in them that made her senses twitch, in a good way.
A few minutes later, almost everyone stood in the center of the room where a big magic circle was drawn, ready to teleport as Rias went over to the Hyoudou bros. "Give me your hands." When both of them complied she quickly wrote on each palm a small magic circle. "There, now you can use my family's teleportation circles, perform contracts and are officially recognized as part of the Gremory household. Now come, time for your first stray hunt."
"Actually, it's not our first stray hunt. We've got some of those before, am I right Sep? There were always some that caused trouble wherever we appeared." Issei spoke as he entered the circle.
"Yeah, you could say. But for once, I'm actually grateful for this, we will see how rusty you've become for these three years." Septimus followed him inside, stretching his arms and cracking his neck.
The whole group was engulfed in a red light and after a few seconds, they appeared next to an abandoned warehouse with an obscure aura around it. As the night air hit them, the two Nekomatas and one Dragon deeply inhaled and grimaced.
"Smell of blood." Said Koneko covering her nose.
"And sex." Added Issei and did the same.
Septimus stood there for a moment, sniffing around with closed eyes and clear disgust on his face. "Four fresh distinctive scents, most likely two males and two females, the females feel like Devils. With this cheap horror scenery, I don't even want to think what shit happened here."
Akeno looked surprised. "Two Strays? Archduke told us only about one."
This got her a neutral shrug from the black haired teen. "I don't know, I'm just saying I what smell here. What I know, however, is to always follow the nose, so better be on your guard."
Rias stood there, thinking about the unexpected turn of events and their next move. "Alright, everyone. If there's a risk of it being an ambush, then we have to be careful. Ise-kun, Sep-kun, if only one Stray will appear, then you will look for the second and won't allow her to hurt any of us while we fight. If the second does come out, then you both engage it while we kill the other." She explained her plan to the group.
"Hai, Buchou!" "Hai, Senpai!"
They slowly opened the doors, the foul stench making everyone recoil. Looking for any sign of the Stray Devils, they slowly moved forward. Everyone felt a wicked presence in the building circling around them in the shadows without any sound.
"I smell something disgusting. But I also smell something delicious. I wonder, is it sour, or is it sweet?"
"Stray Devil Viser, by the orders of the Archduke we're here to eliminate you for leaving your master's side and rampaging as you please." Rias states to seemingly empty space.
"BHEEHEBEHEHEH!"
An inhuman laugh echoed around them, followed shortly by loud steps. A naked, disfigured, female centaur came out of the shadows, wielding two spears that glowed with malice.
The Gremory group tensed, looking for a weakness to exploit.
"You should really be careful walking around like that, letting your boobs hang around without a bra, or else you'll end up with ugly sags." "And really, you couldn't make it more 'grim and dark'? I understand the need for mood and all, but it's not so painful to clean and remove the stench, y'know."
Except for the two Hyoudous. Everyone looked at them dumbfounded, talking like it was some sort of social meeting, not a hunt for depraved monsters.
"...Pervert." Said Koneko, reluctantly comparing her developing breasts to that of the Stray, her King and Queen.
Shaking off another weird antic of her Pawn and Bishop, Rias Gremory gave her servants orders. "That's one, Ise and Sep, stand by and search for the other. Yuuto, go!"
"Hai!" The blond Knight gripped his sword and launched towards the monster at insane speeds. For the untrained eye, it looked like he vanished, only to reappear with his sword striking at Viser's arms, only to be stopped mere inches by the giant spear. Immediately he vanished again, the second weapon impeded where his chest was a second before.
[The sword boy is fast, I give him that. His technique is not bad either, but he still has much work before him if he wants to fight in the big league.] Ddraig unexpectedly voiced his opinion in both teens' heads.
"Ddraig, what are you doing here?" Asked Issei, following Yuuto's movements as he ran around and hit the stray from different angles, every assault barely intercepted. Unconsciously, a lecherous grin spread on his face when every blocked strike made her breasts jiggle. At the same time, the Knight didn't even spare them a second glance, focused only on her weapons.
[I was bored. My host is currently sleeping and her dreams are not that interesting, so I came to you to see what you are doing.] The Red Dragon Emperor admitted without any shame.
"GYAAAAAAAAAH!"
Leaping over the swing of Viser's beastly leg, Yuuto got under her guard and with clean swipe he cut both of her arms, making the horrific woman scream. "He can do better, or he has some kind of trick that in his arsenal. Also, it's an honor to be the entertainment of a great, legendary, lazy lizard that doesn't do anything useful." Septimus, whose eyes were jumping between the fight and scanning the room for the second Stray, answered.
[Watch it, little cat! If only I had my body you would be mere seconds away from being eaten.]
"But you don't have, and with your host unable to communicate with you, the most you can do to me is be an annoying distraction. Considering that I had my share of dying for this week and I'd be happy to go without it for the next millennia or two, let me do my task and shut up." Issei had to snort at the situation, where the teenage youkai scolded the spirit of a being that made gods tremble in fear without even batting an eye.
"Arrrrrgghh!" Viser, enraged with the loss of her arms turned around, looking for her running opponent. Right then, a little figure attacked her blindside with a strength that made the monster grunt in pain. Whipping her head to her new attacker, the stray spotted Koneko still holding fist after the hit. "Die, midget!" With an ear-piercing screech, the centaur-like woman rushed at the small girl, trying to squash the girl with her overwhelming mass.
"..." Viser's words seemingly had no effect on the little Rook. Yet when the enormous paw with claws tried to hit Koneko, she met it with her own devastating punch. Her eyes cold enough to send a chill down her opponent's spine.
CRUNCH
The moment they collided bones of monstrous leg snapped with a sickening sound. "Argh! You little... Ugh!" Whatever Stray tried to say was stopped when Koneko jumped and following after first blow she punched the bigger woman in the stomach so hard that she was sent flying.
"She has a nice punch. Now, what if she used touki with it after some training, ne Sep?" Issei turned his eyes from one Nekomata to the other, to see him watching the white-haired girl with caution.
Shadows formed around Septimus' hands to disappear seconds later, and in their place was a katana and wakizashi in each hand. "...Have to remember, never joke about Koneko-chan's height. Breasts too most likely, not worth the trouble..." Muttered the youkai. "Got something on the second Stray?"
"Nothing much. I only felt little stir when that beast lost her arms."
"Me too, but at least we're sure she's here and watching us. Don't drop your guard."
"I could say the same to you."
BUMP
The stray fell back onto the ground, seemingly drained of energy.
"Ara ara, someone's been naughty." Akeno laughed while walking slowly to the fallen enemy. With magic, she changed her attire into shrine maiden and raised her hands.
"Miko!" Both Hyoudous cried happily at the sight.
BZZZZZZZZT
"GAAAAAAARRRRH!"
A giant lightning bolt hit Viser, electrocuting her and sapping the rest of her strength to fight. "And this someone needs punishment. Ohohohoho, you can take it, don't you? It will be my master who shall finish you off." Akeno blushed while she licked her lips, as she visibly enjoyed her actions.
"I fucking told you!" Shouted terrified the Septimus, taking a step back and crossing swords in a defensive gesture, his previous eagerness for the raven-haired girl's new outfit gone. "I was right! She's a sadist that gets off on this!"
"Don't worry, she's only like that when she's fighting." Rias calmed her Bishop and walked up to the pitiful pile of smoking remains and her Queen. "Akeno, stop."
"All right, I'll give you this, now I'm scared of Akeno-san too. But doesn't she reminds you of someone who could change attitudes at the drop of a pen?" Issei asked offhandedly. He paused. "Do you feel that?"
"I'm not getting orgasms torturing my prey, I just kill them. And yes, I do feel that. She'll attack soon when she'll see a chance to kill even one of them. Be ready." His answer made the Dragon hybrid gather his power, focusing it mostly on his arms and legs.
Rias stood over the half-dead monster and forwarded her hand like Naruto would use a Rasengan. "Any last words?"
Viser barely raised her head and looked the scarlet-haired girl in the eye. "Farewell, Princess." Viser smirked.
Killing intent spiked when Rias gathered her magical energy.
"There!" Both Hyoudous observing the room shouted mentally. Without hesitation, Issei burst from his place and with a speed rivaling that of Kiba, he appeared next to his master, catching something flying towards her.
Rias looked in shock at her savior. Issei's entire features changed: red or white scales were seen on his skin where the school uniform didn't cover, only stopping at the base of his neck; dragon claws where his hands were supposed to be, the sharp nails digging into the projectile that dare harm his master; his eyes were that of a reptile, brown and slitted, while they shone dangerously in the darkness; his teeth were no longer human, for they were as sharp as shark teeth.
"Oh, you have good instincts, handsome." The projectile that Issei caught was, in fact, a tentacle with black veins that pulsed. The tentacle retracted back into the darkness, where came a slender young woman with purple hair and a bloodstained face. What attracted everyone's attention was that her eyeballs were completely black, with only the pupil being red, and on her back were six tentacles like the one that attacked Rias. "I'm curious, what do you taste like?"
"Great, another man-eater. Like one cannibal is not enough." Sighed Septimus as he walking next to his brother. The shadows next to him formed a limb similar to that of their enemy and held onto the swords as he put up his headphones and played music. "Let's see how much this three years softened you up. How 'bout we play around bro? Standard rules, no offensive magic, no fire or poison breathing. Just skills." He said to the hybrid next to him and took back the swords. Adjusting his grip on the swords, Septimus switched into his Nekomata form.
"You want in too? What can an attractive girl like me do when there is so much demanded from her?" She turned to the black and white haired boy and asked with an alluring voice, licking some of the blood around her mouth.
"Sounds good. Let's play." Issei answered, giving his brother quick nod and turned to rest of the group. "Leave her to us, Buchou."
Without any other words or glance, both teens attacked the second Stray in perfect synchronization, coming at her from opposite sides. The woman just laughed and blocked it with her tentacles. "Both of you at once? I'll be sure to suck you dry... Of your blood!" She pushed them back.
"Oi, lady, stop with the sexy comments, it's not fair with that kind of look." Issei jumped back, his mind distracting him with an interesting situation involving the Devil in front of him, without his brother there.
"And you stop thinking with your dick, idiot!" Yelled at him Septimus, blocking two tentacles, with one of them touching his skin. "Argh, those shits are poisonous!" He gasped and gained distance between himself and the enemy.
"Good thing that as the grandson of one of the most poisonous Dragons this doesn't even sting." The brown haired boy again tried to get past the Stray's additional limbs and cut her down.
"Lucky bastard. Looks like little more distance will be useful in this battle." The youkai grunted under his breath. Then both swords in his hands disappeared in shadows and in their place was a long scythe of the same color. Twirling it in his hands he ran back into the fray and with wide swing, slashed one of the tentacles, cutting it clean off. "Take that, bitch! Nyahahaha!"
"You little fuck, I'll rip you apart for that!" She roared and shot two others at him which he swiftly dodged. Meanwhile, Issei got two of the tentacles in his claws and with them, he yanked the woman to himself.
"Shut up!" He roared and sent her flying with a strong headbutt, tearing off the tentacles as she flew. "Wait a moment, did you just say 'nya'?!" Issei asked with disbelief as he dropped the dead limbs.
"No." Septimus answered quickly.
"You totally did! Wait till Izuna hears about that!" The Dragon hybrid shouted through the connection with a loud laugh.
"Do that and I'll burn your porn collection."
The red-eyed woman backed down a little, keeping her remaining tentacles between her and the two Hyoudous. Seeing this, both males grinned like sharks that just smelled blood. "Enough playing around, I'll hold her down, you go for the kill." Issei's telepathic voice was cold and calculated, as he flexed his dragonified hands.
"No fun can last forever. Let's finish this slut that takes the phrase 'eating dicks' too literally." Septimus agreed. Septimus grinned, his eyes shining orange from under the white part of his hair when he twirled his weapon around and took a slow step towards the bloodied woman.
The stray leveled her limbs at her cat-like enemy, thinking that he was going to attack. However, following the movements of his weapon, she didn't see for a moment what her second opponent was doing. The little loss of the concentration at his brother's action was all that Issei needed from his enemy. Using the strength of his dragonified legs, he jumped to her tentacles. Gripping two of them and using them like chains he crashed her into a fourth wall. He pulled her high into the air again then smashed her into the hard floor.
With most of her ribs broken and two of her tentacles held by the boy turned monster, the Stray weakly stood up and aimed her last free tentacle at his face. It was a desperate attack that should've guaranteed that at least one of them be brought down with her, but Issei violently turned his head right before her limb reached him and bit deeply into it, keeping her immovable. "Now!"
At Issei's signal, Septimus moved faster than any other fighter today. Septimus ran diagonally, his feet touching the air instead of the ground. Quickly gaining speed and height, he bounced off the same invisible surface that he was running on, diving towards the stray. His head bobbing to the rhythm of the song in his earphones, his scythe trailing behind him, Septimus gave a soundless yell as he beheaded the pinned woman, who could only watch her death approaching.
SMASH
"'You could be the corpse and I could be the killer. If I could be the Devil, you could be the sinner.' Quite fit for the situation, don't you think?" Septimus sang as he rose from his landing, hanging his weapon over his shoulder. Taking off his headphones he turned to rest of their peerage that watched the whole fight from a safe distance.
As second Stray's corpse was behind him, he couldn't see, that the remaining tentacles were sucked back into the body that started swelling fast. Issei, on the other hand, noticed what was happening and quickly conjured magic circle to shield himself. "Septimus!"
Said teen immediately turned toward his brother, his scythe in a defensive position ready to block any attack. "Wha...?!"
BOOM
The swelled body exploded and astonished the male nekomata. Said nekomata could only manage to shield his face with arms before the mass of gore hit him. Not moving for few seconds, he stared at Issei, safe and clean behind his shield when he was from head to toe covered in blood. "What. The. Fucking shit?!" He yelled and looked at his clothes, taking a quick sniff. "Ugh! Unholy fuck! And here I thought that this room smelled bad!"
Rias and her group to their fortune were far enough to avoid the results of the disgusting explosion and stared speechlessly. They were impressed with the ease that the brothers defeated the Stray Devil, especially if they were holding back and were just about to praise them when unexpectedly, the said Stray's body erupted.
[You're fortunate that you cut off half of those tentacles, or her blood would be just as toxic as they were. It is an old technique, potent in battle and useful to take an enemy down even when defeated.] Ddraig spoke out, slightly startling the Devils.
"And you haven't shared this with us before because...?" Asked Issei as Septimus' perked up from checking his arm, that was burned from the previous contact with the poison.
[I recalled it only after she exploded. As I said, it's an old technique and it's been ages since the last time I saw it.] The old dragon said apologetically.
"...I'm going to kill him. I'll find his host, kill her, then do the same with the next and repeat it until I find some way to destroy his Sacred Gear." Septimus spoke with a low voice as he started leaking malicious aura that seemed to draw nearby shadows.
Regaining her composure, Rias gained everyone's attention. "Good job, especially you, Koneko-chan, Ise-kun and Sep-kun with detecting the second Stray Devil. You're free to go and see you tomorrow."
"Thank you, Buchou. See you tomorrow." Said Issei and teleported back home with Septimus.
As the light from their circle died down, Akeno walked to her King. "They're strong, insanely even, but do you think that they stand a chance against Riser?"
The crimson-haired devil turned to her friend with a sad smile. "They have to. Those two are my last hope."
DxD
Both Hyoudous appeared before their house in a red flash, one of them with an expression of pure disgust and the second looking at him with pity.
"I need a long shower, like an hour or more. Then I'll burn those clothes or my nose will kill me." Septimus said as he opened doors.
"Sep-niichan, Ise-niichan, welcome home! Ela-neechan cooked her special today!" Izuna ran towards them when they entered. With her hair curled and flying behind her, she was about to jump on her brother, but one look at Septimus stopped her in her tracks. "Yek, Onii-chan, you stink! Don't come near me."
As the girl slowly backed away from him, Septimus grinned widely seeing a perfect chance for a little payback. "What's wrong, Izu-chan? Give your Onii-chan big hug." The teen with orange eyes imitated her voice as he opened his arms and took a step in her direction.
"No~~~!" The younger girl screamed and run away, her brother following right behind her, laughing like a villain from a cheesy anime series.
Issei looked at the speeding duo as he walked inside. His legs and nose immediately guided him to the living room where Elaine and Mirana were setting the table. "Hey, Ela, Mira. We're back."
The Russian nun raised her head and smiled warmly. "It's hard to miss. Those two act together like cat and dog." She commented as they heard something crash.
"And here I thought that cheap jokes are Septimus' domain." Said the blonde older sister to her sister- who is in fact, a sister- with a soft chuckle. She fixed her hair and turned to Issei. "Dad called. It looks like Mom won't hurt Azazel. This meeting turned out to be serious and they will be back tomorrow evening."
"Great news." Issei said and looked hungrily at the food.
"IYAAAAA~~~AA!"
"MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Right then, a high pitched scream of terror from a certain white-haired girl spread throughout the household, telling everyone that her brother had seized her, which was followed by a cheerful laugh from the living room.
Writing those family parts is by far my favorite thing in this story. But at the same time I'm grateful I have only one younger brother, I wouldn't survive in a family with 5 siblings, I'd go nuts in a minute.
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