Life in Kuoh
Memory
Nine Year Ago
An eight-year-old Lance had woke up near a pit, and he immediately jumped up with a strained expression on his face, while placing his hand on his forehead.
"Argh, why does my head hurt?"
Lance had asked himself, but stopped as he sensed a presence coming from behind him and saw a man around the same physical age as Elaine with silver hair, red eyes and wearing noble Magician's robs. He later looked at the man with an annoyed look on his face, while he clicked his tongue out of annoyance.
"Why am I not surprised? I let my guard down thinking that you were actually being nice for once."
Lance declared. The silver-haired man had smirked and shrugged his shoulders with a smirk on his face, he then looked towards Lance with a nonchalant expression on his face.
"I thought that Galahad and Chris would've told you about me spiking their drinks and then bringing them to some random place when they were younger."
The magician had stated, much to Lance's annoyance.
"Alright, what kind of sick joke are you playing now Xander?!"
Lance had shouted as he pointed an accusing finger towards him with an angered expression on his face, Xander smirked slightly and held up his hand.
"I'm your grandfather, so I would like to be referred to as such you annoying little brat."
Xander then flicked his finger firing off a small blast of pure magical power, which made contact with Lance's forehead and the force had sent him descending down the depths of the pit. As Lance continued to descend towards the bottom of the pit, he held his hand towards the ground and a magic circle had appeared in the palm of his hands.
And a powerful gust of wind had appeared from the magic circle and then that same burst of wind had soon cushioned his fall. After regaining his balance, Lance had stood up on his own two feet and looked towards the very stop of the pit with an angered look on his face. The person he was glaring at was Xander who was looking down at him.
"Go to hell old man! Why am I even down here?!"
"I was bored so I decided to throw you down there, but don't worry I didn't leave you down there alone."
After hearing that from him, Lance had made a very suspicious look on his face and he started to hear the hiss of a snake coming from behind him. He turned his head hesitantly, and he looked only to see a large nine-headed Hydra glaring at him with a very ferocious look on his face. Lance then summoned Secace in his hand had made an irritated look on his face.
"I hope that bastard dies in a fire one day soon."
Lance channeled Secace's demonic power while channeling it around its blade and he started charging towards the Hydra with a confident expression on his face.
"Hey, Lance snap out of it!"
After hearing the sound of Issei's voice calling out to him, Lance had immediately snapped out of his trance and he turned his head towards him with a slightly confused look on his face.
"Oh, I must've dazed for a while."
"You've been dazed since we left my parent's house, what were you thinking about?"
Issei had asked him with a dumbfounded look on his face.
"An unnecessary situation that I was involving an old bastard and a pit with a hydra."
At Lance's response, Issei had looked at him with a more confused look on his face before sighing slightly. Lance then looked towards him with a wondering look on his face.
"So, did your parents explain why they had my uncle seal away your Sacred Gear?"
"Yea, though i really don't hate or blame them for it. They were just trying to save me from fighting against this generation's Vanishing Dragon, who supposedly the strongest one past, present and future. And besides, I've been getting real acquainted with Ddraig since unlocking my Boost Gear. You know despite all of the stories that I've heard about the Heavenly Dragons being insanely powerful and terrifying dragons…but Ddraig really isn't all that terrifying."
[My personality has changed since then because I've spent the remaining part of my existence being trapped inside of the Boosted Gear being swapped from host to host. Though it's not that I'm not happy with my current life.]
Ddraig had suddenly got in the middle of their conversation talking so both of them could hear him.
"I've always wondered what the Welsh Dragon was like…you sound a lot nicer than what I thought."
Lance had stated with a slightly surprised tone.
[You're the one known as Lancelot, it's odd that you're the Descendant of both Lancelot and Merlin…though, you do remind me of someone from the past.]
"Really, who would that be?"
Before Ddraig could respond to what Lance had asked him, both of him and Issei started hearing the voices of two familiar people their age.
"So Van, how're your requests going?"
"Same as always, people wanting me to help them exercise or some girls wanting me to be their boyfriend or some Kendoist wanting me to practice with them."
Kiba started laughing slightly at what Vance had just said, he later sensed two people walking towards both of them. Kiba turned around and saw both Lance and Issei waving towards them with his usual refreshing smile.
"Oh, hello Lance-Kun and Ise-Kun."
"Hey, you're Rias-Senpai's Knights Kiba and Van."
Issei had stated with a slight look of surprise on his face.
"You're Lancelot the new transfer student and you're the King of the Perverts, Issei Hyoudou."
Issei had glared towards Van with a slightly irked look on his face, due to what he had said and Lance had begun to laugh slightly earning him a glare from Issei.
"Why's he called the King of the Perverts anyway?"
Lance had inquired as he directed his finger towards him.
"That's because he's the only one who hangs around the school's registered perverts and he's quite popular with some of the girls who he saved from the Perverted Duos 'advances'."
"We've been friends with each other since we were in Middle School. They're good guys, but sometimes they go over the top."
"Yea, that's Ise-kun alright the 'Hard worker with a Heart of Gold' and he's in love with R…."
Before Lance could finish his sentence, Issei had directed his fist towards Lance who narrowly dodged his fist with a playful smirk on his face and began to laugh out loud.
"If you saying anything else and I'll kill you!"
Issei had declared with an annoyed look on his face.
"If you don't admit it, you'll never be able to approach her."
"Seriously, don't you ever get nervous?"
"What're you talking about?"
Lance looked towards Van who stared back at him with a slightly confused expression on his face, with Kiba listening in with a curious expression on his face.
"Yesterday you were in the in front of two High-Class Devils, two Queens and two Knights who were standing right next to you…but you were composed the entire time."
"I really didn't have anything to be terrified of, since I knew that you guys wouldn't recklessly attack someone who was currently unarmed or could be potentially dangerous. Besides, I've been in way worse situations than that."
"I suppose that's a reasonable explanation, but…oh no."
Van narrowed his eyes out of annoyance as he noticed that they were walking through the school gate without noticing. All four of them looked up and saw that all four of them were being stared at by the girls who were in the courtyard who was looking at them with predatory gazes.
[KYAAAAAH! OUR KUOH PRINCE, THE COLD PRINCE, OUR SAVIOR AND THE KNIGHTLY TRANSFER ALL ARE TOGETHER!]
Kiba started laughing nervously, while Van sighed out of irritation, Issei made a slightly embarrassed expression and Lance only laughed with an extremely amused expression on his face.
"Is it always like this?"
Lance had asked, as he began to laugh at himself.
"Unfortunately…the only reason that I go here, is because of the education and for the fact that my King and her Peerage goes to the same school."
Van had answered, with an expressionless look on his face.
"Is he always this moody?"
Lance asked Kiba, with a curious look on his face.
"Actually, this is him on a good day."
"Really?"
At that moment, Van had sent a cold glare towards Kiba, Issei, and Van with all three of them laughing with an amused look on their face. Van clicked his tongue out of annoyance and started walking towards the inside of the school.
"I don't need this, I'm going to my class!"
"Hahaha, come on Van our class won't start for a while. Later Ise-Kun, Lance-Kun."
Kiba followed after Van who was making an annoyed expression on his face. Both Lance and Issei started walking inside of the school building, Lance started walking through a different hallway.
"Where are you going, Lance?"
"I'm going to check out the classroom that I had reserved so I could start my club."
"Right, the 'Knights of Chivalry' are you really going to take this seriously because if you don't Kaichou isn't going to…."
"What makes you think I'm not going to take being the President of a Club seriously?"
"Because I've known you since we were kids and it'd be rare for you to take anything seriously."
"That was a seriously low blow, now you've truly crushed my spirit."
Lance started making a faux depressed expression, with Issei looking at him with a blank expression on his face.
Once they made it to the classroom, Lance opened the classroom door with a key that he was given and walked inside along with Issei who followed behind him.
As both of them were walking into the classroom they started looking around, noticing that the classroom was twice as large as a normal sized one. Though they noticed that the classroom was slightly cluttered, with dust covering the floors along with the single teacher's desk that was inside of the room.
"I guess, I know why no one wanted to use this classroom…it'd be too much trouble just to clean it."
"Just watch me work my magic."
Lance started rubbing his hands together and he held his hand out with several magic circles appearing on the walls and floors of the classroom. And several small green lights started spreading around the entire classroom, once the lights vanished the entire classroom was as good as new.
"Wow, that magic looks pretty useful."
"Yea, it comes in handy when I didn't feel like cleaning my room."
"You really are lazy for a supposed dedicated Knight of the Du Lac family."
Lance looked towards Issei with his eyes slightly narrowed, with Issei looking back at him with a blank expression on his face.
"I'm not lazy, I just take do things at my own pace sometimes. We should probably get to class, or else we'll be late."
"Alright."
Both of them walked outside of the classroom, Lance then locked the door to the classroom and both of them started walking down the hallway. Lance then reached into his pocket, while wearing a slight smirk on his face and threw something into the air.
"Here catch."
Issei reached his hand outwards and caught a small badge in his hand which was in the shape of a shield with wings and a sword. Issei looked at it with a slightly confused expression on his face, and he looked towards Lance.
"What's this for?"
"Welcome to the 'Knights of Chivalry', Issei Hyoudou…or should I say Vice-President."
Lance had said without the slightest bit of hesitation.
"What!? When did I agree to join your club?!"
"Oh, come on being apart of my club isn't going to be bad and besides you'll have something to do after school."
Lance then looked back and noticed that Issei was giving him a slightly blank look on his face, Lance then smirked mischievously and added.
"You might also get closer to Rias-Senpai since her club is after school too."
After Lance had said that Issei's demeanor completely changed with his face turning bright red, he then placed the badge on his shirt collar and responded coolly.
"I guess, I can stick around in your club for a while."
"That's the spirit, by the way, it's nice to see that after all these years…you're still a horrible liar."
Issei glared towards Lance with an irritated expression on his face, as they continued walking towards their homeroom class.
"Don't make me knock you out with my Boosted Gear!"
"Hahaha, you'll have to catch me to do that Ise-Kun. And even after all of these years…I'm still faster than you."
Issei's glare that was directed at him had intensified as Lance continued to act nonchalantly, once they had walked into the classroom. Both Motohama and Matsuda approached Issei with an angered look on their face, without any warning they aimed their fists forward towards Issei's face. With him effortlessly dodging both of their attacks, with a slightly annoyed look on his face.
"What're you two doing?"
"Why were you hanging out with those two bastards?!"
"We just happened to run into them, and then we just started talking."
Both of them only looked away with a slightly annoyed expression on their face as Issei started explaining what happened. Lance had walked passed them with an uncaring expression on his face and took a seat at his desk. As he was sitting down in his seat, he turned his head and noticed that there was a first-year student looking into their classroom before he ran away with a nervous expression on his face.
"I wonder who that was."
"Who're you talking about?"
Lance looked and noticed that Issei was taking the seat next to him, with a slightly wondering expression on his face.
"There was another student, possibly a first-year standing at the door…but they ran away after I looked towards them."
"A nervous first-year student…it's probably Haru from the school's Karate Club, he's a pretty talented and he's quick on his feet. But…."
Issei had started off but stopped with a slight sigh escaping his lips.
"But what?"
"A couple of days ago, I heard some of the first years in the Karate Club talking about how the senior members along with the Club President won't allow any of the younger members of the Club to let any of them practice in the clubroom. And those juniors had some bruises on their on their faces, when confronted about it. The Club President just said that it was an accident during practice."
"Why won't anybody do anything about it?"
"Well for on the Club President apparently has two sides, he's the athletic popular overall good student and behind the doors of the Karate Club, he's brutal to the other junior members. And unless one of the junior members steps up and says something they can't do anything."
Lance then started making a slightly irked expression on his face at what Issei had just informed him of. As soon as school was over for the day, both Lance and Issei started heading towards the 'Knight of Chivalry' club room. Once they got there, they saw a small, not that was left on the door.
"Looks like we got our first request."
"What's it say?"
Lance started reading the request that was left in front of their door, with Issei leaning to read it:
To: The Knights of Chivalry
From: Junior of the Karate Club
Request Description: I just can't take it anymore…I'm tired of the seniors in the Karate Club bossing around all of us freshmen in the club and I'm sick of it. So can you please come by and get them to stop terrorizing the Freshmen of the Karate Club? If you don't come I understand, I'll just find some other way to deal with it.
"Looks like we just got permission to intervene, do you know where the Karate Club is?"
"Yea, just follow me."
Both Issei and Lance started heading towards the location of the Karate Club, with Lance placing the request inside of his pocket.
The Karate Club
Inside of the Karate Club, one of the senior members was wearing a white Karate uniform with a black belt threw one of the junior members on the ground with an overconfident smirk on his face.
"Hahaha! What's this, I thought that you little bastards wanted to be more involved in the Club."
"Looks like we were right, Karate truly is only for the strong not the weak."
The Karate Club President later walked towards them, which was a muscular 3rd year with dark colored hair and light colored eyes wearing a black belt around his waist. He looked towards them and shrugged both of his shoulders with an overconfident smirk n his face.
"Why don't you brats just quite? We really don't need weaklings like you in our Club."
"This Club is for everyone in the school Souta-Senpai!"
Souta turned his attention towards another junior member of the Karate Club, which was a first-year with silver hair, light gray eye, wearing the Karate uniform with a green belt instead of a white one. Souta looked towards the junior with one of his eyebrows rising.
"What was that Haru?"
"I said that this Club is for everyone in school and not just for you guys!"
[Hahahahahaha!]
There were several senior members within the clubroom starting to laugh at what Haru had just said, Souta then looked towards him with a smirk on his face.
"Haru, listen just because you have a green belt doesn't mean that you can take on a black belt like me. I'm also bigger and tougher than you could ever be brat."
"That's not true, my grandfather always told me that strength doesn't matter in Karate and its used for self-defense not beating down on smaller students!"
"Hahaha! If you have the guts to stand up to me, then you have the guts to take this punch!"
Souta pulled his fist back and threw it forward towards Haru's face, he then closed his eyes as Souta's fist was speeding towards him. But he started opening his eyes slightly as he didn't feel the impact.
"You're a typical bully, going after smaller targets since you're too scared to pick on someone your own size."
"Well, that's one rumor that's been proven."
Haru then opened his eyes and saw Lance gripping Souta's wrist, with Issei standing next to him with his hands in his pocket.
"Oh, so it's the King of the Perverts and the new transfer."
Issei sent a glare towards Souta for that taunt directed towards him, as he snatched his hand away from Lance with an angered expression on his face. Lance then looked towards the senior members of the Karate Club, he cleared his throat and called out.
"Alright, I've been told by one of the junior members of the Karate Club that you seniors have been bullying the junior members! And we've come to settle this here and now!"
The senior members of the Club started looking towards Lance with a blank expression on their face, Issei then sighed slightly and looked towards him.
"Lance, I really don't think this is the right way to approach this."
Issei had stated to Lance.
"It's not really that difficult of a…."
"Lance? Hey is your name Lancelot?"
Souta had asked with a slightly annoyed look on his face.
"Yea, why?"
At Lance's question, Souta looked towards him with an angered expression on his face, while simultaneously clenching his fist tightly.
"You're that little bastard who beat up my little brother ten years ago!"
Lance looked towards Souta with a confused expression on his face, but he later started remembering him slightly by his face.
"Oh right, I remember that was the guys who were bullying my friends. And I can see where he got the attitude from."
Souta continued glaring towards Lance with an angered expression on his face, he then directed his attention towards the other senior members who started surrounding both Lance and Issei. Issei then sighed slightly as he started noticing what they were doing.
"Why do I always end up getting into fights when I'm around you?"
"Because we're great pals."
"Oh, right."
As the seniors were all preparing to charge towards both of them until they were stopped after hearing a familiar voice.
"What's going here?"
Everyone turned around and saw the Student Council President Sona and her Vice-President Tsubaki standing inside of the Karate Clubroom. Souta turned towards her and started putting a fake smile on his face along with scratching the back of his head.
"Oh, Souna-San and Tsubaki-San what're you two doing here?"
"I was just walking out of the Student Council Room with Tsubaki until I noticed both Lance-Kun and Hyoudou-Kun heading towards in this direction in a hurry. Out of curiosity, I decided to follow them, and I waked in to find 3rd years ganging up on two second-year students. Would you mind explaining this Souta-San?"
Souta started tensing up a bit at Sona's cold glare, he then laughed nervously and answered.
"Well, it's all in fun both Lance and Issei stopped by so we decided to…."
"We've heard the rumors about you bullying the junior members of this club, we were just coming to confront you about it. But it seems, the rumors were actually true after all…the popular student is truly just a coward who bullies those who can't defend themselves."
Souta's fake expression later fell in a more irritated one, he then looked towards them and sighed slightly.
"So what're you going to do? Remove me from being the club's president…ha fat chance of that, this club will just fall apart without me."
"Then how about we make this more interesting?"
Everyone looked towards Lance with a confused expression on their face at his suggestion, Souta then looked towards him with a slightly irritated expression on his face.
"What're you talking about?"
"A fight between your club's President and Vice-President against me and my Vice-President. If you win, we'll turn the other way and just ignore what your club's doing. And if we win, you'll stop bullying the juniors and allow them to practice freely."
Everyone looked towards Lance with a confused expression on their face including the juniors who were caught in the middle of it.
"Hahahaha! What do you think two little bastards like you can do against, two of the strongest people in this club?!"
Lance looked towards Souta with a nonchalant expression on his face, as he continued laughing at Lance's answer. Issei then walked towards Lance and whispered.
{Are you sure about this? We weren't actually training to fight against normal Humans.}
{This is the best option, these guys believe that just because they're bigger and stronger that they're better than the juniors here. And besides its not like we're going to kill them.}
"Fine, we'll both destroy your two bastards!"
Sona then sighed at the choice that Souta had chosen, then she directed their attention towards her.
"Fine then, I'll be a the one who observer for this fight. Do you all agree?"
[Yea]
Minutes later, everyone started sitting in the stands while both Issei and a 3rd years who was twice as big as were both standing in the middle of the mat covered ring. Issei looked up as the young man in front of him towered over him, the 3rd year looked down at him with an overconfident expression on his face.
"The First Match is with Issei vs. Jirou."
"I've seen you around Kuoh Hyoudou and I've got to say you're quite…pathetic."
"What?"
Issei then looked towards the Jirou with a slightly irritated expression on his face by what he young man had just told him.
"You always hang around those three idiotic perverts and waist your time helping two out idiotic fangirls, what a waste of time."
Issei narrowed his eyes towards Jirou as he continued making fun of his friends in front of his face, once Sona called for the match to beginning Jirou aimed his attack forward towards Issei's face. Issei moved out of the dodging Jirou's attacks effortlessly, Jirou continued aiming his attacks towards Issei who continued dodging his attacks.
"Would you be still you little bastard?!"
"Do you want to know something?"
Jirou clenched his fist and punched forward aiming towards Issei who stood in place, as Jirou's fist was close to hitting Issei in his face. He reached his hands out and deflected Jirou's attack, he reached his foot forward knocking Jirou off balance and knocked Jirou down on his back. Everyone looked at Issei with a shocked expression on their face, except for Lance, Sona and Tsubaki. Issei looked towards him and answered.
"Those three may be perverts, but those guys are my best friends and I actually like helping out Katase-Chan and Murayama-Chan with their problems. And anyone who belittles them, they'll have to answer to me…got me."
Jirou looked at Issei with a slightly scared expression on their face, at what he had just done while Souta started clenching his teeth out of irritation.
"Match One goes to Issei! Next, is Lance and Souta!"
Both Issei and Jirou left the ring for Lance and Souta to both step on the mats, with Lance making a calm expression while Souta mad an irritated expression. Once Sona called for the match to begin Souta charged towards Lance with a barrage of attacks, Lance started dodging each of the attacks with a wondering expression on his face.
"Hmmm, his attacks are perfect along with his form…but he's way too focused on strength and power."
As Souta was launching his next attack forward, he intercepted his attack and instantly knocked him off his balance. Souta quickly regained his balance and charged towards Lance with an angered expression on his face. Lance stepped forward into Souta's space, he placed him in a joint lock and threw him over his shoulder. But before Souta's head hit the ground, Lance held him up by his shirt collar.
"Are you done yet?"
Souta stared at Lance with a look of disbelief, he then regained his balance and stood up with a blank expression on his face. He then sighed and started mumbling.
"…you win."
Souta had said in a ghost-like tone.
"I'm sorry, I couldn't here that."
Lance had inquired further with a slight smirk on his face.
"You win."
"I'm sorry, what?"
"I SAID YOU WIN YOU ANNOYING BASTARD! GOD ARE YOU THIS INSUFFERABLE?!"
Lance started chuckling at the expression that Souta was making, he then smirked and reached his hand out towards him.
"So you'll stop picking on the juniors because as their senior you should be the one who's trying to pick them up not the one who tries to keep them down…and besides, you're a pretty good Martial Artist."
Souta looked towards Lance with a slightly embarrassed expression on his face, but he smirked and reached his hand out forward and shook Lance's hand.
"Yea, I'm a man of my word though I'd like it if you'd stop by once in a while…I've never fought someone like you."
"Sure thing."
Both of them started smirking at each other, with Souta turning towards the juniors and he bowed his head out of forgiveness.
"I'm sorry for trying to keep you guys down, if you want to hit me for penance then I won't…."
"No, I decided to join the Karate Club because you were apart of it Souta-Senpai."
"Yea, same here I always believed that Souta-Senpai was good at heart."
Souta started making a look of disbelief over what he was hearing from the juniors that he used to belittle, but he smirked and stood up with a proud expression on his face.
"Alright, why don't we get to practicing?!"
[Right, Souta-Senpai!]
Haru who was among the juniors who were cheering, he then turned his head towards Lance who was holding the request sent to his club with a smirk on his face. Haru smirked and mouthed 'Thank You', after getting the message Lance turned around and started walking outside along with Issei, Sona, and Tsubaki.
"I've got to say I'm impressed, you two were able to change their way of thinking with fighting and words."
"I'm pretty sure that it's just a guy thing."
Both Lance and Issei were both slightly hurt by what Tsubaki had just said, but they smirked and continued walking forward.
"Well, it probably wouldn't have worked if Souta was truly cruel…though if you care that committed to Martial Arts then you're bound to be a nice guy."
"It's just like Lance to change the way people think with his actions."
"Well, the same thing can be said about you Ise-Kun you've always been someone who'd help out anyone who was in need and that's one of the reasons why people are naturally attracted to you. Well, that and the fact that you're the possessor of the Boosted Gear."
Both Sona and Tsubaki made a shocked expression on their face by what they had just heard.
"B-Boosted Gear? I knew Hyoudou-Kun was stronger than the average human, but I didn't sense a Sacred Gear from him."
"Well, that's courtesy of my uncle who's the current head of the Ambrosius Family. Though that was…."
BEEP BEEP
Just as Lance was about to finish his sentence, he was stopped by his phone started to go off and he pulled his phone out. He then looked forward with a slight smirk on his face.
"Sorry, got an emergency to deal with…come on Ise-Kun!"
"Hey, hold up!"
Lance started running down the hallway with Issei following him, Sona looked towards them as they were running down the hallway. She then looked towards Tsubaki and she asked.
"So, is the surprise at their door?"
"Yes, a little welcome for the 'Knights of Chivalry' from the Student Council."
In front of the Knight of Chivalry Clubroom was a handmade wooden request box with 'KOC Request Box' carved on it.
A/N: And there goes Chapter Three for the Magic Knight, nothing much happened in this chapter just a simple showing of what Lance's life is in Kuoh and as a President of his own club. Well, not much to say about this chapter. Next chapter, the real story starts.
Lancelot Harem: Yumi, Jeanne, Irina, Xenovia, Le Fay, Sona, Serafall, Rossweisse, Yasaka, Valarie, Seekvaira, Kuroka, Lavinia.
Issei Harem: Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Asia, Ravel, Tsubasa, Aika, Isabel, Katase, Murayama, Mira, Kunou, Karlamine, Xuelan, Kiyome