I do not own Dxd, Only the oc and any 'new' sacred gear I have created.
"Speech"
'Thought'
"Powerful Entities Talking" (Such as dragons and angry gods who are shouting)
[Boost]: Ddraig
{Divide} Albion
I cross my arms slightly as I walk through the open door in front of me, Wes and Zen trailing behind me as they climb up the stairs as well.
"So, you have finally made it hn, Lucas, 'the beast'."
I glance across the roof, to see a boy in black, wearing red lensed sunglasses, short dark black hair being ruffled by the wind passing around us.
He sits in throne of broken concrete, several pieces of assorted graffiti mark the stones, each incomplete as they seem to have been torn apart in the throne's making, behind him are dozens of tvs, those old ones that are more like a box than a rectangle and weigh like fifty points, most with broken screens and deformed edges.
"Now, where are your friends?" The man grins.
"Down stairs fighting off your cronies." I scoff.
"Oh, then we have a couple minutes, then..." He smirks. "You know, I like you, Lucas."
"I don't swing that way." I remark.
"No, I mean, you have made your own strength, you don't rely on a tool or drug to get as strong as you are... and that makes you interesting..." He states while propping his head up with one hand. "So I will give you this one chance..."
"Join me, and I can make all of your dreams come true, what is it you desire? Money? Power? Women? Just join me and all of it can be yours! With your strength, we will be all but unstoppable, all of Uratama will fall to us!"
"What do I desire?" I ask.
I tilt my head to the side and scratch my jaw. "Hn... well, I want one thing..."
"Oh? And what is it that you want?"
"I want you, dead." I grin as I point forwards. "WES!"
My first three words catch him off guard for a moment, then he processes the fourth and widens his eyes as I shout Wes' name.
His hairs rise for a moment and he looks up, just as a new figure leaps on top of his throne and raises a bat to the sky, then a bolt of lightning crashes into the bat and fizzles out against it.
"Wait... what?" I whisper.
The girl above him lets out a scoff and hops down, over the boy and holds the bat over her shoulder with one hand.
"Pauline..." He gasps, before quickly regaining his composure.
"Hn, well, I expected this answer..." He shakes his head with a small smile. "Shame, a real shame..."
"Pauline... kill him."
"Whatever you say Akisame." The girl sighs as Wes walks up beside me, sparking katana in hand.
She turns to look at us with a savage grin, oh wow, you both are quite cute, how old are you again?"
"L-Lu" Wes whispers at me. "She scares me."
"Hn, well, this seems to be our final battle, it would be fitting for just a little music for this occasion, no?" Akisame asks with a grin.
A tv lights up behind him, but Pauline stomps one, sending a pebble up into the air, then smashes her bat into it with a back handed swing, sending the pebble careening through the screen of the tv. "No music! I want to hear it when their hope of beating me shatters!"
"Okay, yeah, she scares me too, Wes..." I whisper under my breath, knowing full well Wes hears me.
With a single step forwards, she charges, appears almost as a blur, raising her bat above her head with one hand, which she slams on the ground with a loud *CRACK* as Wes and I dive to the opposite sides...
A large hole, about five feet wide, is punched through the warehouse, showing the bloody battlefield about thirty feet below on the ground floor.
"Pauline, no more breaking our warehouse... you'll cripple the structural integrity."
She glares lightly behind her only to catch a foot to the stomach as Zen joins the battle, using her as a springboard to get himself back over the hole.
"You little SHIT!" She roars as she lunges forwards again, only to stop and raise her bat to shield her face as a red liquid-slash-gas squirts out of my shadow which is flowing around me like a cheap dragon ball z imitation.
Then she bats away two metal prongs that also shoot out of my shadow where they imbed into the concrete some distance away and crackle.
*CRANG*
She shifts her grip and blocks a slash from Wes' katana with the end of her bat, then swings it around, striking him in the temple and sending him rolling across the rooftop. "WES!"
I charge forwards, ducking under a swipe and sweeping one of her legs out from under her, causing her to fall backwards only to stop as she uses her bat as almost an extended limb to hit the roof behind her and spring up into a downwards swing.
I barely avoid her attack as Zen jumps in and lands a punch on the side of her face, sending her reeling.
"Zen, go after the glasses bastard, I have her handled." I say with a large frown as the girl charges at us once more.
"Right."
He runs past her as she widens her eyes and looks around, seemingly losing the black haired brawler.
"Hey bitch!" I shout with a grin as I motion at her in a 'come at me' way just as she trips and stumbles forwards, Zen's sacred gear making her feel woozy and making the world spin around her.
My elbow collides with her face and sends her rolling towards the side of the building, a shadow following along after her as it quickly coils around her arms then breaks connection with me.
"You are strong, lady." I growl. "I was forced to use my balance breaker on you..."
She quickly sits up and widens her eyes as she looks down at her hands, bat nowhere to be seen and black manacles covering her wrists and hands.
"That is shadow creation... I can basically decide what effects an item I make can have, more versatile than Wes' blade creation, and only slightly stronger than Zen's sacred gear in a one on one... I'm talking about their non-balance breaker effects by the way, I can't even imagine what Zen's is going to be, and with Wes, he will probably just be able to put twenty million enchantments on his sword, but anyways, I'm rambling now... good thing too~"
I walk up to her as she grits her teeth and starts to lunge for me, but my foot collides with her chest mid-jump and sends her flying off the roof of the building where she gets hung up by a protruding piece of rebar about ten feet down.
"The fact you didn't break out of them as soon as I put them on you basically sealed your fate... I made it so it absorbs your strength to make itself stronger, that's why you feel so weak right now."
I wink. "So, your sadistic and scary ass is going to be hanging there until someone gets you down... or you somehow climb back up here without the use of your hands."
I glance back to see Wes slowly standing up, wiping a small trail of blood out of his eye, then over to Zen who is just finishing up against Pauline's boss, a couple scratches here and there from the switchblade he is wielding, but otherwise no worse for wear.
a small smile graces my features as a group of three fucking teenagers, the youngest barely even thirteen, kicked the absolute shit out of an entire gang spanning hundreds of people.
*CRANG-*
"FUCK! DID SHE GET STRONGER?!" Wes shrieks as his sword is stopped easily by her new bat, only sinking about a centimeter into it. "HOW THE HELL DID YOU EVEN STOP THAT! I MADE THIS BLADE HOTTER THAN A ONE THOUSAND DEGREE KNIFE!"
It's safe to say, that the road around us has turned into a war zone, large cracks and craters pock the pavement, a nearby car is cut in half and smoldering... while also being upside down... it is surprising that nobody has even showed up yet, people really should have tried to stop this 'bombing'- or whatever normal people will view this as- by now but no police, no firemen, not even a bystander recording all of this nonsense!
I quickly lunge forwards, activating my sacred gear, but she simply smirks and closes her eyes, then holds out a hand in my direction, blocking my punch easily, she brings the end of her bat towards my elbow, but Wes quickly hops in, stopping the metal end cap with his blade, burning his hand badly on the back of his blade as he is forced to use it to actually stop her attack.
"RAGH!" I roar as I strike forwards with my other hand, punching her right in the face with it and causing her head to snap back.
Her eyes snap open, red pupils dilating and glowing slightly as she grits her teeth and with her hand that is still grabbing my fist, slams me right into Wes and sends us both flying.
She slowly struts over to us, dragging her bat against the ground and creating a horrible scraping sound as she does so. "I was just going to break every bone in your bodies then drop you off at a hospital, but now you've PISSED ME OFF!"
Wes and I roll out of the way as she slams her bat down, creating a literal tremor that creates a crack in the ground that EATS a parked car, the car falling down into the five-foot deep gap before the world slams itself back together, sending scrap metal spraying out of the top.
Wes flings his katana at her, but she hits it with her bat and causes it to fly off in a random direction.
The girl lets out a sigh. "Welp, it was sort of fun chasing you bastards down, but... SAYONARA FUCKERS! SAY HELLO TO THAT BITCH AKISAME FOR ME... IN HELL!"
A fist collides with her face, sending her rolling across the broken pavement where she eventually falls unmoving.
I wince up towards the white-haired bastard himself as he blows on his knuckles and lets out a small laugh. "Well, that was easy~"
The blood in my eyes is making it slightly hard to see, but I know that voice. "L-Lu?"
Lucas squats down in front of me and lets out a scoff. "You fuckers seriously were having a hard time with her? I have been sitting on my ass for most of this month, am really tired from use of my powers today, and I STILL one shot her."
Wes shakes his head slightly, ears probably still ringing from the clap of the earth smashing together. "L-Lu is that you? Why are you here?"
"Ran out of snacks~" he shrugs. "Mittelt wanted some spicy ramen so I decided to go on a bit of a snack rush... I got Milk- because I got extra spicy just to fuck with her- white cheddar popcorn- hey, did you know that fucking milk chocolate pringles are a thing? I saw them at the store and thought it was an abomination, so I didn't buy it, but hey, the world's a crazy place am I right?"
"You're all fine, right?" He asks.
"Yeah." I nod. "We're good-"
"LU!" Wes screams.
"Hn?"
He turns to look over his shoulder.
*CRANG*
He is sent flying backwards where he crashes through the brick wall of a nearby building.
*Crash*
Then has about half of it caved in on him as the building crumbles, already horribly damaged from the previous battle that had taken place here, but the Lucas shaped hole being just enough to push it past the point of no return.
"Ahhhh..." Pauline sighs as she props her bat up on her shoulders. "That was cathartic as hell~"
*Crmmmgg*
Bgm: We All Lift Together (From "Warframe")
The rubble shifts slightly, causing the girl to flinch, a tune playing from Lucas's phone, typical... that bastard is dramatic as fuck. "W-wait what the hell?! He's still alive under there?! I split the earth with that sort of force... JUST HOW HARD IS HIS FUCKING HEAD?!"
A large chunk of rock is pushed aside revealing Lucas, a blank and slightly absent expression on his face as blood pours down it from his forehead.
He stands up and immediately falls down again, his arms flailing around as he tries to regain balance, but can't.
He blinks slowly then re-opens his eyes with renewed clarity, standing up once more, but this time without falling, blood still dripping down his forehead.
"H-How the hell are you still standing?!"
His eyes shift from their blue to a nice blood red.
"Do you know the term, 'Schrödinger's Cat'?" He asks.
Pauline raises her bat and opens her mouth but it cut off.
"If you put a cat in a box with a poorly sealed vial of poison gas, then close the box... is the cat alive, or dead..." He states as he walks closer. "The cat is neither alive, nor dead in the moment, it only lives or dies... when you open the box."
"WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?!" Pauline roars. "I CAVED IN YOUR FUCKING HEAD, MAN! CRAWL YOUR ASS BACK UNDER THAT FUCKING RUBBLE AND STAY DEAD!"
"I, function much like the cat, as I had left your vision, do my wounds even exist?" Lucas asks.
His shadow forms behind him, not like a normal vine or rope like he has recently been using, but a humanoid figure that pulls out a crochet needle and slings it at her with a small vacuum following behind it, basically making a loud thunderclap as the air rushes together.
She levels her bat and tires to deflect it, and she sort of succeeds, instead of hitting her in the sternum, it skims off the bat and sinks into her shoulder.
The black form disappears, Lapis' red eyes turning back to blue as he looks over his body. "Fuck... you did a real number on me, hm?"
Pauline drops her weapon, the bat clattering to the ground as she falls to her knees and clutches her shoulder.
Lucas puts his hands in his pockets and sighs, slowly walking over to the steadily paling girl. "Shit... I broke character, didn't I? Hn... well... it might take a minute to back into the Joseph Joestar mindset..."
The girl looks down at her arm in horror, her now black veins standing out against her near snow-white skin that is slowly traveling up her neck. "W-What did you do?"
Lucas runs a hand through his hair which is now matted with blood. "Poison..."
The girl smiles slightly as she falls backwards. "That's kind of hot."
"If you're trying to seduce me into giving you the antivenom, it won't work, I don't even know how to make an antidote for that vile shit..."
She lets out a small sigh. "Yeah... I didn't think that would work..."
"You brought this on yourself, Pauline, your chance of survival is less than half of a percent... you held a grudge for what, two years? Did you even like that prick?"
"N-Nah, he was a complete b-bastard." She snorts.
"Why did you even work for him, Pauline?" Lucas asks.
"Well, he wasn't always a bastard, y'know? After I realized what was going on, I was in too deep, people were dead, some more innocent than others, and well... I already committed the crime, what's a few more corpses? A few more life sentences? You can only live through one."
Lucas shakes his head and shrugs. "You're definitely going to die... shit happens I suppose... I regret it happening in this manner though, I feel like you could have been redeemed if you kept your psychopathy in check, but... I guess this is goodbye."
He turns around and walks away, nearly tripping over a shattered brick on his way, but waves over his shoulder. "When you get to hell, tell Sirzechs to save me a spot, yeah? I don't think heaven is a possibility anymore."
He lets out a small snort. "Heh... that was edgy as fuck... what's up with me today?"
He looks back with a small sad smile, then continues on his way without looking back again, he pulls his phone out of his sleeve and turns it off.
Bgm: End
I wince as I get to my feet, Wes following after me.
"Pauline, you're a bitch, but you said you were going to leave us alive earlier, so you're not all that bad... I hope you have a good afterlife." I sigh, nursing a large scrape on my arm.
"I don't." Wes scoff. "That was the second time you hit me in the face with that bat of yours, you fucking cun-"
"OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?! LU?! ARE YOU OKAY?! DO WE NEED TO TAKE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL?! OHGODOHFUCK WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?! YOU WENT OUT FOR FUCKING SNACKS HOW ARE YOU THIS BLOODY?! Oh god I'm going to fucking-
*Thump*
"Milly?"
"…"
"Did you just... faint?"
"…"
"Milly?"
"That's probably not healthy." I mutter with a small shrug as I pick her up and put her on the couch, covering her up with a blanket as I am consumed by shadows, only for them to spit me out about a second later clean as a daisy, the black splotch below me snaking out to the garbage can where it spits out dried blood, dirt, dust, and small rocks.
Hydranoid looks up at me with some slight confusion.
"Just met... an old friend." I tell the Hydra as I sit down beside the still knocked out Milly.
She suddenly sits up with a gasp and looks around "L- oh... you're fine..."
She rubs her head. "I just had the most horrible dream."
"Mhm." I grunt.
She looks at me and narrows her eyes slightly, strand of hair swaying back and forth in front of her face as she shifts slightly. "What's wrong."
"Nothing really, just a bad day, saved my friends from being murdered... killed that person after they bitch slapped me through a building, life is just great today~"
"Your first kill?" Mittelt asks.
"Y-Yeah." I sigh.
"The first is always the worst." She mumbles as she grabs my shoulders and forces me to use her lap as a pillow, stroking my head as she does so. "It will never leave you, but it does get easier..."
"Mnn."
She smiles slightly. "It'll be okay... you're strong, you'll bounce back."
"Yeah..." I murmur. "Everything will be fine."
Well well well, looks like Lucas has killed a man... a wo-man that is! HEYOOO, so, what did you think?
Pauline's death dramatic and edgy enough? At least until Wes ruined it? I am fairly proud of this chapter as well, I think I might have some sort of split personality, but not the regular 'I am two people' more of a tree sort of situation, like, I am 'there' for all of it, but one part of me is fucking dazed a lot, playing second person in my own body while I am fixing cereal or some shit, then I get another part that tries to make everything super detailed, but it only appears during key parts of my stories- and I wish I could figure out how to get it out more often as I have thought 'I'm going to make this super detailed with things like 'her eyes slowly blink as she tilts her head, hair moving from one side of her face to the other' but I can NEVER BRING IT OUT! number 3 is writers block and procrastination and number 4 is fucking illiterate with massive sausage fingers... sometimes I hate my life.
Well, I finished this... I am going to quickly post it so I can take the good ol namp, don't expect anything from me on Wednesday~