Hello everyone! I hope that you had a great Christmas and New Year. Mine was great, so great that I had a little fallback with posting this chapter. I'm sorry that I didn't keep my promise to give you this before the holidays, but it's here and that's what's important.
Short info, this story has a new cover with Izuna on it, made by my friend that I'm grateful to. Salute to you, if you finally have time to read it and not only to search for character description!
As always, great thanks to everyone following, favoriting and reviewing, you're awesome!
Beted by myself.
{Albion out-loud / telepathically}
[Ddraig out-loud / telepathically]
(Electric and others)
With the red light dying out around them, Rias' group with Kiyome looked around their new surrounding. They appeared at the outskirts of the Familiar Forest as planned, and it looked rather gloomy. Trees without leaves, mixed with slowly setting sun casting long shadows and silence around them resulted with highly uninviting aura.
"I can't wait to get my familiar! It's gonna be some cute and busty girl. She'll be calling me "Master", do whatever I ask her for, and be busty and..." Stepping out from the group, excited Issei started listing his requirements for a familiar, but then suddenly stopped. "Wait, what familiar I want? Maybe one similar to Buchou's? Or maybe sexy fire sprite lady? Shy monster girl? Or-"
"Or maybe you would think about their combat efficiency rather than their look? Like you didn't have enough women around you lately." Septimus butted into his monologue.
"I want a cute girl! If you prefer something that looks like a Stand from JoJo, that's your problem! Besides, if I try, I can find a beauty that is also powerful! So stick to your own business!" Shouting in defiance, Issei turned to the group with his hands raised up and burning eyes, ready to defend from any logical or not arguments. His perverted mind wouldn't allow him to miss a chance like that, even if the lady his future familiar would end up totally useless.
"Listen, idiot! What-" His brother closed in on him, preparing to explain to brunet how his choice of familiar would project on him, and how weak one would end up being a laughingstock. Even if he'd have to go manually through defenses. But before he could start, something interrupted him.
"Gotta catch 'em all! I'm the-" From above the someone unexpectedly shouted a catchphrase and tried to introduce himself. Keyword, tried because his interruption was in turn interrupted by two fireballs hitting the branch he was standing on.
Back at the ground, both Hyoudous had their right hands aiming up with magic circles summoned, looking as mysterious person jumped frantically on a different bough before the flames got to him. At the same time rest of the peerage following teenagers tracks instinctively readied to defend themselves.
"Could you kindly stay out when someone is about to have an argume-, discussion, I mean?!" Issei shouted, preparing another fiery orb.
Getting a better look at the newcomer, the group finally noticed that the one who discerned that he was a scruffy man with a reversely put cap, trying to put off embers that got on his shorts. Recognizing him, Kiba and Koneko rushed to the Dragon and Nekomata, forcibly lowering their hands.
"Wait, he's not an enemy."
"Koneko's right. He's the Familiar Master, a professional in catching them. I know that after yesterday we're all jumpy, but he'll be our guide. You can relax."
With their colleague's assurance, Issei and Septimus dropped their battle attitude. As they gave eccentric man better look, specifically his clothes, Septimus facepalmed while Issei stared with a deadpan expression.
"Our guide is some... hobo Ash Ketchum? Seriously?" Issei said seemingly without emotion. However, deep inside he felt his childhood memories crumble just by looking at the man before him. Like when to meet your hero, only to find he's the worst kind of scumbag.
"At least we know now what happens when you don't 'catch 'em all'." Septimus besides sobbed broken up.
Not sure what to do, Kiba looked at Koneko for help, only to get an indifferent shrug. He remembered his King comparing the Familiar Master to some anime character when they met him for the first time, but he didn't know what it was all about.
Kiyome as the only one who wasn't part of the peerage stared surprised at the scene.
"Do they do that often?"
"Yes." Came tired choral answer from Devils.
As Knight patted brothers' backs awkwardly trying to cheer them up, Zatouji coughed and struck a pose on his spot. "Alright! I am the Familiar Master, Zato-!"
Exactly at this moment, a green magical circle appeared next to the Gremory group, effectively drawing everyone's attention. Before the light died down, an angry black-haired Fallen Angel rushed out of it with a menacing face. Raynare, as it obviously was her, in a second reached depressed brothers and grabbed the weeping one.
"What was that redhead talking about?! Why am I joining this stupid club?! I don't want to spend any more time than necessary with you, I have my own life too!" She shook around the Nekomata and screamed into his face, without getting any reaction other than silent crying.
The mentioned redhead wasn't sure if she should feel hurt about her club being called stupid, but she knew one thing. If she let them, they'd probably create another absurd situation ending with her getting more paperwork and migraine, and that was the last what she wanted. When Kiba instinctively reached to the sword when the Fallen closed in, Rias gave him a sign to calm down and sighed. The King didn't know how to deal with her Pawn and Bishop, so hoping that they would get better by themselves, she turned to the easier problem with a wide smile.
"Raynare-san, yours and Mittelt-san's memberships were a request from Azazel to help you acclimatize in the school and its supernatural part. Also, as a part of the Occult Research Club, we can sometimes skip classes or go on trips under the cover of club activities."
Seeing her reaction, Rias already knew that her negotiation was successful and her smile gained more devilish trait. At the mention of skipping classes, Raynare with her eyes shining immediately dropped Septimus and turned to the princess.
"Why you didn't start with that from the beginning? If Azazel-sama asked of this, it'll be a pleasure to be part of your wonderful club. By the way, how often can I use this excuse?"
With Raynare now shaking Rias' hand instead, Koneko looked at the Fallen Angel with distaste. "I hate fakes."
Akeno, on the other hand, giggled bemusedly as a certain thought appeared in her mind. "It is said that strong beings are always distinctive and leaders of Three Factions seem to prove that. If so, I can't wait to see how high our two members will reach in the future."
Her seductively ended sentence seemed to wake Hyoudous up, as Issei stopped staring blankly and looked around searching for the beauty that showed in his mind. His brother did the same, but instead of a beautiful lady, Queen's words created an image of a spider having him tied and preparing to eat him. Shaking the remnants of their dreams, they finally noticed uninvited guest.
"...Can I finally finish my introduction? Hello, the Familiar Master, Zatouji here..." From up above came pitiful voice of forgotten familiar master. Not only he was interrupted two times, but then he was left standing in his pose without anyone caring.
"... Who's this loser?" Raynare shot without any mercy.
"Image of how a Pokemon masters end. Our guide here." Issei answered while trying not to look at him.
"Do we really need him? We have Hiccup here, isn't she enough?" Septimus pointed at 3rd-year with curls, who involuntary hiccuped angrily at the nickname.
"Stop calling me that*hic*! And I'm here to help you with taking care of your familiars after you form a contract with them. When it comes to catching them, Zatouji-san is a renowned expert who knows the forest like no one else." Issei found her little hiccough rather cute and wonderful, as it made her breasts bounce to his delight. It also made two older Devils remember to tease her about this later.
Zatouji lightened up at the praise, regaining some of his pride. Jumping off, he fixed his cap and skimmed over the group.
"So you want familiars to contract?! Tell me then what do you seek! The one that can take anything and remain intact? The one that can kill with its reek?"
His speech, or more precisely poor rhymes, elicited a pained scowl on Septimus' face. But before he could say anything, Issei rushed with his answer.
"I want a girl familiar, the cuter the better!"
There wasn't much of a reaction, as everyone except Zatouji expected exactly that kind of answer. However, no one knew what familiar Septimus wanted, so their eyes turned on him with curiosity.
"I don't know." Came short reply. "I'll decide when I'll see one that will be the one."
"That's actually a rather vague answer for yourself, Sep-san. You don't have any requirements for your future familiar?" Blond Knight asked, finding it quite strange. For what he knew his teammate, he thought that he'd have a list ready, or at least something funny. Like 'I want a black one' or 'It has to be some cat'.
"None. So I'll just go and fly around till I find something. If Hiccup is just here to help after we get one, then I think I can get by without the help of Hobo Ketchum." Grinning, he shrugged and released his cat attributes. In the next second shadows gathered around his body, only to quickly disperse with Septimus gone.
"Aaaand he's gone with another dramatic departure." Issei sighed. "Alright, so where I can find my pretty familiar?"
Taking a deep breath, middle-aged man in shorts started his lecture. "Another newbie! You want foremost strong familiars, one that complements your own abilities, not-"
"Don't care. It has to be a cute girl. If she is strong, that's good, but cute is more important." And of course, he was again interrupted by Issei sporting deadly serious face.
Back with the observing group, Rias raised her hand. "How about we check the female ones first as Ise-kun wants? If we don't find any fitting, we'll check those best suited for his abilities."
"As expected of Buchou, she always has the best ideas!" Issei nodded energetically on that, with his words causing small blush and content smile to appear on redhead's face.
"Hmm, I think there is one here that fit every demand. Beautiful, strong and is a Dragon, so should be perfectly compatible with this half-one." The Familiar Master mussed, surprising Issei with recognizing what he was. "But it will be extremely hard to tame Dragon King of Tiamat's calibe-"
{"NO!"}
"Can I at least once say something without being interrupted?!"
Issei's, and surprisingly out of nowhere Albion's, loud deny finally was too much of disruptions for Zatouji.
{I'm sorry, weird man, but Tiamat and my grandson just... shouldn't meet anytime soon. She and his second grandfather have some history together.} Dragon's voice echoed from teenager's chest, filling both with dread.
Both old Dragons were sure that Tiamat was still mad at Ddraig, about what neither he or Albion remembered, and was killing his every host. And if she'd sense similar energy signature to Red Dragon Emperor's, there was a high possibility that she'd kill him before he could explain who he was. Or that she'd still try to kill him even then.
"And who are you and his other grandfather?" Zatouji asked curiously, previously taking the Reincarnated Devil before him for normal Dragon Hybrid. Rare, but not to the extent to gain enough attention of Dragon King to be hunted by her.
As most Dragons, Albion was not the one to let a chance to flaunt his fame get by. As he started with his booming voice, Issei offhandedly noticed that it was loud enough to cause girl's big assets to wobble a little. At least if they had something to wobble, Issei corrected himself when his eyes landed on Koneko. When small Rook felt on herself someone's pitiful gaze a thought of kicking someone really hard pooped up in her head.
{Heed my words carefully then, catcher of beasts! I am known as Albion, the White Dragon Emperor, the Vanishing Dragon and the White Dragon of Supremacy! As for his other grandfather, he is my eternal rival, the Red Dragon Emperor, Y Ddraig Goch!} After introducing himself, white Dragon retreated his presence, leaving only enough to listen.
Zatouji listened with wide-eyes glued to the Issei, who in turn had his own locked on the bouncing spectacle. At first, he took the kid for just a pervert, who wanted nothing else but someone with boobs to answer his every order. But now hearing legendary Dragon's words, everything made sense. If he was even partly as strong as these two, he didn't need more power! He was, or had the potential to be, a fucking killing machine, so why give a fuck!
At least that's what the Familiar Master thought. Not that he knew that his first idea about Issei was almost spot-on one.
When thunderous voice silenced down, busty Beast Tamer run over and pressed her assets to half-breed's back. Wrapping her arms around him, Kiyome spoke with professional pride. "Before you even think about catching him and turning into a familiar, Zatouji-san, know that the only one that will tame this Dragon is me!"
Said Dragon just stood in his place with his face melted into a perverted grin and thin blood trail falling from his nose. Others' reactions were:
"Ara ara." Akeno giggled a little and licked her lips.
"Kiyome! Leave my servant!" Rias raised her voice slightly jealous and tried to get her classmate off the Pawn.
"..." Kiba stood, smiling uncertainly without a word.
"... Get a room." Koneko muttered, still wanting to kick something.
"..." Zatouji just like Kiba stayed silent. However, it was because he didn't want to give any wrong ideas to the Beast Tamer or be interrupted yet another time.
"This is fucking hilarious!" Thought both Raynare and watching it through Issei's mind Septimus.
DxD
"So... where do we go first?"
With Zatouji leading the group through the forest, they moved undisturbed by its locators, giving them time to talk. Before Raynare asked her question, the main one talking was Rias explaining to Kiyome how she wouldn't allow for her servant to be tamed, with Akeno adding her few cents about their King's possessiveness.
Eyeing the Familiar Master, who through the whole way was weirdly silent, Issei scratched his head. "I'm not sure. He said about a lake and water spirits, but that's all. Anyway, leaving aside that you're still with us, how did you even got here? Shouldn't this place be a secret only known to Devils with how easy it'd be to ambush someone here?"
Fallen Angel turned her head the other way, clearly not wanting to meet brown eyes looking at her. "I asked Elaine about coordinates. As much as I hate it, I and Mittelt are now your... assistants. There shouldn't be problems with me being here if I say that it was to help you."
At that, Issei grinned much like his brother. "Don't you mean help Sep? From what Zaz said he got you while I have Mittelt."
"Shut up! You don't need to remind me!" Raynare finally turned to him, red with annoyance. As he finally could see her face, Issei noticed that she was nervously chewing her lips trying to say something. "How...? *cough* How you and your idiot brother cope with being Devils now?"
There were many things that could be said of brown haired Hyoudou. He was so perverted, that sight of boobs clouded his mind and resulted in him dying. He was somewhat dense with woman's, he was told that many times and knew that himself. Not to the point when a girl would literally throw herself at him and he'd still didn't take a hint, but nonetheless dense. But staring at his childhood friend now, one glance was enough for him to understand what she was trying to do. She felt guilty of what happened to them and now tried to say 'sorry', as clumsy as it came out.
"It's weird, but not in a bad way. Actually, I think it will turn into something fun. And I'm sure that Sep is of the same mind. So just as he told me right after the Church action, don't try to sulk about what happened. You did what you did because you were controlled. No one is blaming you of anything. Maybe except your scheme with Asia, but if you apologize to her I'm sure she'll forgive you."
As he ended little cheering-up speech, Issei spread his arms to give Raynare warm, friendly hug. The girl at first was reluctant, but seeing that Issei wasn't going to give up, she embraced him. Feeling some of the guilt that Fallen didn't want to admit was there melt, she tightened the hug. Meanwhile, listening to it all from the sidelines group released simultaneous sigh at the cozy scene before them.
"For the record, I blame her for being a cretin to get into this situation in the first place." A jolly voice sounded jokingly in brunet's head.
"Shut up, you're ruining the moment." Issei tiredly scolded his brother, simultaneously getting the image of Septimus running after some scent and brimming with happiness.
"We're here!" Familiar Master's voice broke the mood completely, gaining everyone's attention. Leaving with a small smile and lighter heart, Raynare turned with the rest to see a small lake. "This place is where water spirits reside. If we're lucky, you will have a chance to form a contract with an Undine."
"But aren't Undines...?" Kiyome wanted to say something, but Zatouji shook slightly his head with a small glint in his eye, stopping her.
"Are they females? If yes, where are they?!" Issei asked with excitement, causing flicker in older man's eyes to become more noticeable.
"Oh, they are. Just wait a minute and see for yourself."
Standing there, through Issei's mind rushed images of various scenes depicting water spirits that were among his adult collection. As he stared eagerly at lake's mirror, he didn't notice his senior taking a step back, like she expected something to happen. When the surface started to bubble and steam raised, Issei closed almost to the edge of the water, waiting for the girl of his dreams to appear.
POOF
In a cloud of smoke, mere centimeters from Dragon's face, an Undine appeared. However, where he expected a pretty woman with soft bust was a mountain of meat two times his size, with a face that looked like hammered from a stone. However, 'she' had breast, even if they were unnoticeable among all that muscles.
"WAAAAAA?!" Issei shouted, landing on his back and crawling as far from the monster that showed up before him. "What the fuck is this?!"
"An Undine. As I don't know what you think is cute, I brought you to the one that filled all your other requests. It's a female, she's strong and has big breasts."
"Don't fuck with me! You know perfectly well that this is the exact opposite of 'cute'! And don't call that thing a female!"
Right then, stopping Issei from throwing some epithets about what he thought that the creature in the water was, an animal that looked like a giant fusion of lion and wolf hurried before them. The beast was taller than them, with claws and teeth like swords, but it looked like it was running away in panic.
"... That's the first time I saw a Lydian King so terrified." Voiced astonished Zatouji.
"Come back here, you pussy! I'm not gonna bite you!" From where the giant feline appeared, known to all voice echoed, followed by a mix of black and white. Seeing his friends, Septimus stopped running and waved happily. "What's up, how's your hunt? I have to tell that mine was- What the fuck is this?!"
"An Undine. And apparently, it's a girl." Issei answered when male Nekomata shouted at the sight of a water spirit.
"No fuck!"
DxD
Issei was completely exhausted. Even worse, he felt like that time when he went with his sisters to the mall on a Christmas shopping a few years ago, that ended with him sleeping it off for two days. When Septimus ran off after his pray and Zatouji became serious under the threat of being burnt alive and then thrown to that Undine, they visited few promising candidates. But all of them lacked something.
First was a pack of Harpies. They were fast, great at scouting and setting traps during a battle, even somewhat cute. When Issei introduced himself as a Devil looking for a familiar, all of them went nuts, clawing at him and screaming with their high voices to pick them. But as he slipped that he was actually part Dragon, they became even worse, flying around and running while screaming that some monster wanted to roast them. Birdbrains. Besides, Kiyome said that because of the evolution to increase their proficiency in flying their bodies almost never developed breasts bigger than A cup. Fuck you, evolution!
Next was their fiery cousins, Furies. Less cute, more for predatory sexiness, surrounded in flaming dresses and with large assets, they won Issei's perverted side at first sight. However, when he tried to form a contract with one of them, she listed her demands. Which consisted mostly of situations with the contractor being subject to weird punishments, sadistic plays and him testing even weirder devices. And the list was long. Out of concern for his safety, Issei had to refuse them and go back to searching. Also, back with the group, watching it all Akeno was becoming quite jealous and yellow sparks cracked between her fingers. Too dangerous!
Another, a girl with an elvish face, long ears, big, deer eyes, and shining hair. The definition of cuteness and girlishness. But shortly after 'she' turned out to be a trap. Denied!
When he found shape-shifting Slime that could take any form, Issei thought that he'd finally hit the jackpot. Then Septimus showed up again, this time chasing after a Hydra, that trampled over the poor Slime and killed it. He was going make him pay for that later!
And so on, with more of candidates failing.
"That's useless, I give up. Maybe I am not destined to meet my perfect familiar. Or should I ask Ela to make me one." Issei whined on Rias' lap. When the moon started its journey through the sky they decided to take a break on the top of a small hill. Issei immediately accepted when redhead beauty offered him her thighs as a lap pillow, showing her domination over the new competition. But even the softness under his head couldn't bring him happiness now.
"Shh, shh. It's alright Ise-kun. We will look more in a moment. Now rest." Rias softly hushed to his ear, weaving fingers through his hair.
"Having a picnic party without me? You're awful." From near shadows walked Septimus swaying his tails happily and heading under some random tree. "Where's food?"
"Hey, Sep." Came Issei's lifeless greetings. "We don't have food. Or familiars."
"Sucks to be you. Oi, Kone-neko, do you have any sweets that you want to share?"
Koneko glared coldly at him, hiding a pack of candies behind her backs. "I don't, they're mine." As she gave him a more careful look, small Devil asked. "...You're too happy. That's suspicious."
"Love you too. And of course I'm happy, I found my perfect familiar! It's a long story, but she saved me from a pack of Furies chasing after my tails. By pranking them. She shots little stars too. And the best, she gets my jokes! Nisa, they're the band I told you about." At his words, a small girl in orange dress pooped up from hair between his cat ears.
And the word 'small' was not saying that she looked young. Actually, her body build was like any girl in her late teens. 'Small' was for her height, that was roughly fifteen centimeters, for she was a Pixie. She had flowing hair matching her dress, elvish ears sticking out and almond eyes with orange irises.
"Yoha! I'm Nisa, nice to meet you. Sepi told me a little about you. Hiccup, Bondage Predator, Unconfirmed Weeb and the rest." Little fairy flew up with a butterfly-like wing and pointed respectively on Kiyome, Akeno, and Rias, finishing with a twirl in the air.
"Oh no, there's two of them now!" Raynare groaned painfully, followed by angry hiccup from blonde Beast Tamer and sighs from both female Devils.
"*hic*Please don't call me that awful name! I'm Kiyome Abe, nice to meet you. I thought that your kind is almost impossible to catch, how did Septimus manage to do this?"
Making another twirl, Nisa landed on Nekomata's head. "He didn't catch me, he asked me to become his familiar. I agreed, but only if he allows me to pet his ears whenever I want in addition to the standard familiar agreement. Now we just need to seal the deal with the ceremony."
"..." Issei stared in silence at his brother and his new familiar, slowly rising from the ground. Then they heard quiet crying sounds from him as he started walking numbly. "He got a fairy. Cute flying Pixie. And I got nothing. Buchou, I give up. I won't find anything that beats her."
"Ise-kun, watch out! You're-" Kiba raised, trying to stop brunet before he reached sharp fall of the hill.
"Too late." Koneko said as Issei already lost his footing.
"WAAAAAA~~AA!"
CRASH
...
SNAP
...
SPLASH
"IYAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"'IYA'?"
Walking up to the edge that Issei fell off of and listening to the sounds of him crashing down it, the group repeated the last sound that didn't seem to fit in. Following the track of broken branches and young trees, they arrived at a small hot spring. And there was Issei, fully soaked, with his face buried between a pair of breasts. As for the owner of a said pair, she was...
"A Lamia? Huh, I didn't know that there were any here."
The screaming girl seemed to be around their age and like Zatouji said, was a Lamia. With red scales covering part of her face, as well as long snake tail and pointy ears and bright hair reaching down her spine all the same color.
"Pervert! Molester! Deviant! Peeping Tom! Help! Help!" Snake girl kept screaming as she wrapped Issei in her tail and started throwing the teen around.
"It doesn't look like she needs any help." Akeno noted, watching as their Pawn coursed through the air and underwater with an idiotic grin on his face.
"Good job with that swing. Now throw him and let's see how far this pervert can fly." Koneko cheered for the red girl.
Meanwhile, still smiling Issei was sure that he wanted this Lamia as his familiar. The softness and volume of her boobs mixed with her beauty were enough, but the strength she displayed should satisfy his grandfathers and Sep. Cute, strong, big chested and with her being reptilian while he was Dragon Hybrid, there should be perfect compatibility between them. Accepted!
"I think-" He stopped when his head went underwater. "- that I've found-" Another quick dip. "- my familiar!"
Hearing this, Septimus grinned and bowed theatrically to Kiyome. "Could you do the honors?"
"What are you talking about?" The blonde tilted her head.
"She a Lamia, and Issei is what he is. That alone should be enough to convince her."
Seeing realization dawning on the older girl's face, Bishop's grin only widened. The busty Beast Tamer rushed to the edge of the lake and got the attention of raging redhead.
"Sorry, Lamia-san! Can you please calm down for a second and stop swinging around my friend's brother?!" When Lamia listened, although still having Issei coiled in her tail, Kiyome went on. "Thank you. My name is Abe Kiyome, what's yours?"
"Miia."
"Alright, Miia-san. We're sorry that our friend interrupted your bathe, but we're actually looking for a familiar for him. Unfortunately, as he is part Dragon he had some problems with that..." Hearing Kiyome 'accidentally' drop that Issei was a Dragon, Miia's mood did a 180-degree turn. She blushed madly and started shaking as she stared at him, unconsciously tightening her grip and cutting out air supply for him.
"A-a-aa-a DRAGON?! I'm sorry, I didn't know, Dragon-sama! If y-you're looking f-for a familiar m-maybe you c-could consider m-me?" With her blush intensifying and painting her face the same shade of red as her scales, Lamia stuttered through her embarrassment. As she couldn't look Issei in the eyes at her last words, to his delight she pushed his head where it first landed. Right into her bosom.
"What's going on here?" Raynare voice thoughts of almost everyone gathered except for both monster experts and black-haired Nekomata.
"You see, Dra-" Zatouji started explaining.
{Dragons, as the apex of all creation, are feared and respected by all creatures, just as it should be. However, with most reptilian species that respect is even stronger to the point that some weaker ones worship us like gods. This young lady reaction is normal, or I'd even say quite shy compared to some other cases.} Albion's voice sounded from Septimus' chest, once again stopping the middle-aged man in the shorts.
"What old lizard said. Basically, in reptilian world Dragons are celebrities and this situation here is like your favorite actor or pop star showing up when you bathe while looking for a partner to next show. More or less." Teenage whose chest served as spirit's speaker finished explaining what was happening.
[I approve of her being Issei's familiar. Little snake does have potential.] Ddraig added his comment to the discussion.
"You like her because she is red!"
Meanwhile, between being drowned, crashed and now suffocated by a pair of boobs, Issei finally passed out. But even as his consciousness drifted away he still only thought about two orbs serving as his pillows, their softness and springiness. The last sound before the darkness swallowed him up completely was Miia's scared scream.
"Help! He stopped breathing! I didn't mean that! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
DxD
After five minutes of resuscitation followed by small electroshock from Akeno, they managed to bring Issei back from Oppailand. There was an argument who should be the one doing this, between Miia who said it was her fault and her responsibility, Rias saying that Issei was her servant, Kiyome who apparently as Tennis Club President had CPR certificate and Akeno saying she wanted a taste of her underclassman. The argument ended when Septimus got bored of they squabble and without asking anyone started artificially pump air into Issei's lungs with magic. The first thing that his brother did after waking up and hearing what happened, was punching him hard in the jaw for that. Then followed with another one for that poor shape-shifting slime, knocking him out.
Because of that, they had to wake up him in turn. This time there was no quarrels as Raynare morphed her light into a bucket and poured water on him, chuckling darkly. Following the binding ceremony and a lecture from Beast Tamer how to properly take care of their new partners, Gremory party left the forest with two new members. One was happily mumbling about being bound to her 'Ise-sama' and other sat on her master's head.
The club room surprisingly wasn't empty, Izuna was there still reading. After quick goodbyes and grabbing their sister before she got her hands on either familiar, everyone back went to their homes. Coming from a magic circle, three Hyoudous sneaked through the house to not wake anyone.
DxD
(WAKE UP, DARLING. WAKE UP AND YOUR SWEETHEART WILL GIVE YOU A DELICIOUS TREAT. HERSELF...)
The seductively low voice came from Issei's alarm, sneaking into pervert's ears. Lazily moving his hand, he dropped where he thought the alarm was.
"Daaaarling..."
Soft voice moaning next to his ear, even softer sensation under his hand. There was something familiar in this scene to Issei. Opening his eyes, there was his new familiar partly coiled around him and laying reversely face-to-face. And his hand was squeezing her naked breast over his head. Gulping nervously, Issei took a second to calm down. Pushing away thoughts how even she got here or ended in such position, teenager whispered to himself.
"Calm down, calm down. You've been in this situation, now the universe is giving you a second chance to do it right. She shows up in your bed, naked, is your familiar and treats you like a superstar. Don't freak out, play it right, wake her with a kiss, let the hormones do the rest..."
Nearing to her sleeping face, Issei felt his heart beat like crazy. He was about to have his first kiss. Not counting that one accidental with that chestnut-haired boy from Exorcist family, but let's forget that ever happened. This was here and now, his chance to start building his harem. With his lips about to meet her, his eyes closed and ready for this sensation on his lips...
THUD
Opening their eyes in panic, both Issei and Miia, who was faking her sleep, stared at another redhead that landed on them from the ceiling, interrupting what was about to happen. Rias without waiting started unbuttoning her school uniform and stared at her Pawn with eyes filled with desperation.
"Issei, please, take my virginity!"
X-MAS OMAKE
"Can't you fly this shit faster?!"
"I'm already pushing it to its limits and over them with my powers! How is that time-bender working there?!"
"It works, that's all I can say! I don't know for how long, so fly those sleigh faster!"
Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh, two brothers were doing Santa's job, arguing all the way. Issei and Septimus in Santa outfits, although the second one was black instead of red, flew through the blizzard. Issei stood in the front, shining red while holding the reigns and pouring all his power and aura through them. The result was Santa's sleigh flying two times over their normal speed, with a giant blaze coming out of its back. Behind him, next to the giant sack was Septimus, surrounded by numerous magic circles shining angry red, powering clunky looking piece of machinery. It was, in fact, a device that slowed time around the vehicle. Thanks to that device Santa Clause could travel around the world and give presents to every kid there within 24 hours. And now he wasn't doing this, because...
"We wouldn't be here, freezing our asses out, if you didn't knock out the Santa Clause!" Issei shouted, taking a sharp turn to avoid the particularly nasty looking cloud.
"It's not my fault! What was I supposed to do when I saw someone sneaking in our house without any lights?!" Balancing himself after the dangerous maneuver, his brother kept summoning more circles around.
"You've put THE fucking Santa Clause into a coma! And because of you, Christmas is a week too late!"
The reason why this situation came into existence was that in Christmas Eve Septimus, walking down to the kitchen for a night snack, stumbled upon an unknown person in the darkness. That led him to in a matter of seconds summon dozen magic circles, couple talismans, scribe few lines of runes and cast a pack of curses, the magical one mixed with insults, then throw it all at the burglar. The results, half of the household woken up by an explosion, large hole in his mother's favorite carpet and an unconscious Santa on the floor.
For the first three days Septimus and Issei, who was blackmailed into this by a threat to his precious collection, tried in vain to wake Father Christmas up. When this didn't work, they left him to get better by himself and decided to give gifts by themselves, even if little late. They've spent another two days trying to start the vehicle that was on their roof. After that, what came at the price of a few burns, there was one last day to learn how to drive that thing, full of crashes, cursing and near-death experiences. But finally, on the seventh day, they rushed in the most iconic sleigh in the world to give presents to every child.
"Ok, I've got this! It should hold for at least an hour!" Nekomata shouted as all the circles suddenly turned green.
"Perfect! We're over the next town, so do your job!" Issei shouted back slowing down a little.
"Ho ho ho and Merry Christmas, this Devil here is about to carpet-bomb your town with presents!" Shouting this, he summoned hundreds of small circles and turned the sack, letting the presents to fall in the air and be caught by the circles. Not surprised with the sack miraculously filling itself, Septimus watched as his 'missiles' slowly coursed to their targets. "Done! To the next town, Issei Santa!"
Here we go, this chapter is unfortunately without KYS (Know Your Sin) page, but I couldn't decide who to introduce closer here. We're off here to the start of Phenex arc, of course with some twists that I planned. Little sneak-a-peak, there's gonna be parachutes, the different training session for the Peerage and other crazy things.
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