Training the Gremory

Walking up a very large mountain, while carrying a large amount of baggage on his back was Issei, who didn't look like he wasn't having very much trouble. Suddenly walking passed him carrying the same amount of luggage was Lance who also had Asia riding on his back. As he was walking up towards the peak of the mountain, Asia had looked at him with a concerned expression.

"Nii-San, I'm sorry that you have to carry me."

Asia had stated to him, only to have him shake his head in disagreement.

"Nah, it's alright I really don't mind. You really don't have to be a physical fighter, you're more of a Support and a Wizard-Type."

Lance had responded, as he looked at her with a smirk on his face. They then looked and noticed Kiba running passed them with a cool expression on his face, while he carried some herbs in his hand along with Van.

"Buchou, we gathered some herbs. Let's use it for the meal tonight."

After hearing him say that, Rias had nodded her head in agreement and they continued to run up towards the top of the mountain, suddenly Lance, Issei and Asia had made a shocked expression on their face by what they had just saw. Koneko was walking passed each of them carrying the more luggage than any of them combined, while a making a near emotionless look on her face.

"…See you later."

Koneko said to them in with a monotone voice, while she continued to walk passed them.

"She certainly is a Rook."

Issei had stated to himself in a slight whisper, but loud enough for both Lance and Asia to here him.

After making it to the top, there was a mansion that rested on the peak of the mountain, which belonged to the Gremory Clan and everyone had went inside to put their belongings inside. The girls had went upstairs to change into their jerseys, while the boys had already gotten dressed in the same jersey as them in the changing room downstairs. Once they had finished Rias who was wearing a red colored jersey had looked towards Lance with a curious expression on her face.

"Okay, Lance how're we going to start this?"

Rias had asked, as she looked towards Lance.

"Well, since I can't be in two places at once. I called someone to…."

FLASH!

Suddenly a light blue magic circle had appeared outside of the mansion, which had a very unique symbol and single obscured image had appeared in the middle of it. One of them had looked stepped outside of it, revealing himself to be Chris and after recognizing him from the picture that she was given, Asia had made a smile on her face. After seeing him come from outside of the magic circle, Lance had looked towards him with a slight smirk on his face.

"Hello, Uncle. Now that you're here we can…."

Lance had started to explain, but was stopped as Chris had waved his hand.

"Lance, I should probably warn you that…."

"Lance-Kun!"

Another voice had came from the magic circle and shot from behind him, and almost immediately tackled Lance to the ground in a hug. Once he had regained his senses, he had looked towards him and saw that it was Jeanne who was smiling brightly towards him.

"Ouch, Jeanne-Chan what're you doing here?"

Lance had asked, reeling slightly as the back of his head had hit the ground, but after hearing him ask that Jeanne had pouted slightly.

"Muu~ don't me so mean."

Jeanne responded back, as she continued to pout at him. Lance then looked towards Chris for an answer of what she was doing here.

"The only thing that I said was that I was coming to see see, and without any warning she had immediately jump in without thinking for a second."

After she had finally gotten off of Lance, Jeanne had looked towards the others and smiled brightly, while waving her hands towards them.

"Hello Devil-Chans, my name is Jeanne D'Arc carrier of the spirit of the Maiden of Orleans, Joan of Arch."

Jeanne had introduced herself with a cheerful smile, which had caused most of them to look at her with a shocked look after finding out about her heritage.

"Hello, Jeanne."

Rias had greeted her along with the rest of the members of her peerage, after seeing how much she was getting acquainted with them, Lance had smiled slightly.

"Well, since Jeanne-Chan is here I guess we can just add this as part of the training."

"By the way, why does he look like…?"

Before she could finish Lance covered her mouth, and whispered in a low tone so no one else could hear 'We'll talk about it later'. Jeanne only nodded in agreement, Lance then stood up and looked towards Issei.

"Alright, let's get started with your training Ise. As for the rest of you, my Uncle Chris will be in charge of you're training…since he's a better teacher than I am hence why he's called the 'Greatest Teacher' and fair warning he's also called the 'Ultimate Drill Sargent."

"That's just a name your my brother gave me, just to annoy me. …I actually miss it, well lets get this started."

Balance Breaker Training with Issei

Within the deeper parts of the forest, both Lance and Issei were training inside of a specially made barrier. Issei was charging towards Lance with his Boosted Gear activated and he had aimed his fist forward. Lance dodged the attack by moving his head to the left and he kneed Issei in the stomach with enough force to send him flying backwards. Issei gasped for air, as he regained his balance and looked towards Lance, while holding his stomach.

"He's seriously not holding back, it's a good thing that Rias-Senpai had reincarnated into Devil yesterday."

[Attempting to achieve Balance Breaker is difficult enough, especially who awakened their Sacred Gear as early as you did.]

Ddraig had explained to him.

"You're correct as always Ddraig. If his Sacred Gear had awakened years ago, then he would've achieved Balance Breaker a lot earlier. So, the shortcut training is going to entail to me keep pushing and pushing you towards her absolute limitation to the point where your both physically and mentally exhausted. So, do you still want to continue?"

"Yes!"

Issei had called out, as he continued to charge towards Lance with his fist pulled back and he started punching forward towards Lance's face several times. Lance had started to block each of his attacks by using both of his forearms in front of his face.

[Boost]

After hearing that signal, Issei had stepped back away from him and fired off a large Dragon Shot towards Lance, upon seeing how close it was to hitting him. Lance had summoned Secace and slashed the attack in half, once the split attack had passed by him it had created a medium sized crater behind him.

"It's a good thing that we're fighting in this specially created barrier."

Lance stated he then prepared his sword and charged towards Issei, with him preparing his Boosted Gear for a counteract his attack.

Sword Training with Kiba and Van

In front of the Gremory Mansion, Kiba was standing in front of Jeanne with both of their wielding a wooden practice swords in their hands. Suddenly both of them had charged towards each other and started slashing at each other with great precision and sword techniques. To the normal eye their movements couldn't be followed, Kiba had made an impressed expression on his face.

"Hahaha, nice technique Jeanne-San."

"Oh, you haven't seen anything yet Yuu-Kun."

After complementing their sword techniques, they had continued their battle of the swords, with their skilled sword techniques. Van had looked towards the battle with a slightly interested expression on his face, he then smirked slightly.

"She is capable of keeping up with Kiba and the way that she uses her sword and the way that she moves…it's almost like she's dancing."

Van had stated, which Chris who was sitting next to him could fully understand his shock.

"Jeanne may be just a Human, but as a Knightess she was trained since she was a child to be capable of matching Devils in combat and she is highly talented when it comes to wielding a sword…due to her unique sword style, she is known as the Sword Dancer. She was also trained along with Yumi under the teaching of the former Paladin by the name of Naomi Shirogane, who was known as the Sword Queen. Jeanne was orphaned as a child and Yumi was practically raised in the orphanage since birth, they looked up to her as both a mentor and as a mother. More than anyone, they were most affected by her death."

Chris had explained, with a slightly saddened look on their face.

"I know the feeling of losing someone important…it's not a good feeling."

Van had made a slightly saddened look on his face as a memory began to play over in his hand.

"Well, I'm pretty sure that you're tired of just watching, so why not just practice with me?"

Van looked towards Chris with a confused expression on his face as he stood up in front of him with a fighting position.

"You really don't seems like the fighting…."

At that moment, Van had looked forward as Chris' fist had already appeared in front of his face and he immediately jumped back out of instinct. He then looked towards Chris with a slightly shocked expression on his face, but he smirked and summoned a sword in his hand.

"And here I thought all Magicians hates getting physical."

"There's a whole world out there that you've haven't seen."

Chris had stated, as he started his own personal training with Van, which he had continued to block most of his attacks with magical barriers.

Asia's Demonic Power training

One Hour Later

Outside Chris was in front of Asia who was holding her hand out, while wearing a slightly unknowing expression on her face.

"Okay, Asia. You have to gather the demonic power by gathering the aura that covers her entire body, then concentrate and feel the way of demonic power."

As did as he had explained and started concentrating towards her hand, a mass of green demonic power started to gather around her hand. And it finally formed into a large mass of green demonic power that took the shape of a softball, Asia then looked forward with a bright smile on her face.

"I did it!"

Chris had smiled at her enthusiasm and he started to pet her head without knowing, while wearing a smile on his face. Asia had smiled brightly towards him, after realizing what he had just did, Chris looked away with a slightly embarrassed look on his face. Asia looked towards him and noticed the pained expression that was on his face.

"Tou-San, what was my mom like?"

Asia had asked, with a look of curiosity on her face and Chris had began to look towards the sky.

"In a few words, she was just like you. She was kind to everyone that she knew and those she didn't and despite being an Exorcist, she never held any hatred towards Devils. She could also be a bit playful at times normally has so much that she usually forgets that she was on missions, but Griselda always kept her on track. She had this talent that draws people towards her and just understanding them, even dragons."

"dragons?"

"This one time when we were on a mission together, when we were just kids. All of us were suddenly attacked by this dragon."

Many Years ago

Exiting from the forest, there was a sixteen year old Galahad stretching his arms out with a slightly exhausted look on his face. Standing next to him was Kaito, Chris, Mikoto, Touji, Griselda and Angela. The seven of them had started to sit down on the ground with all of them letting out a breath of relief.

"Man, I can't wait to go home and just go to sleep."

Galahad had stated, as he let out a long yawn and rubbing his eyes tiredly.

"You're one lazy person, brother."

Chris responded as he sent him a deadpanned look on his face.

"Hey, after what we just dealt with I…."

CRASH!

The seven teens had heard a large noise coming from the trees coming from behind them, after noticing a loud breaking noise coming from behind them all seven of them had jumped up. They had stared blankly as a dragon with dark gray skin had began to charge towards them. Touji had looked towards it with a look of wary on his face.

"This isn't good, I don't think that can fight against this thing in our current condition."

Touji had stated worriedly.

"Stand back guys! I'll just cleave this thing in half with this!"

Galahad had declared confidently, as he summoned an ornate double-edged broadsword with both gold and blue designs, along with a double-handed hilt. The sword in his hand had released a powerful holy aura.

"I'll join in."

Kaito had said to him as he held his hand out, he summoned a European sword with a reddish purple grip, a golden hilt with stylized crosses at the edge of the guard, but it released a weaker holy aura compared to Galahad's holy sword. After seeing both of them preparing to attack the dragon, Angela had held her hand out and had stopped them from attacking the dragon. Upon seeing that Griselda had looked towards her with a confused expression on her face.

"Angela what're you doing?"

"Let me handle this?"

"Are you crazy, I know you don't like harming animals but this isn't a…."

"Just trust me, alright."

Angela then started walking towards the dragon with a smile on her face, while both Galahad and Kaito were still preparing to attack. Once Angela stepped in front of the dragon it started growling towards her, but Angela held her hand out.

"It's alright, I'm not going to hurt you."

Angela placed her hand on the dragon's head and started petting it comfortably, the dragon then started calming down. Both Galahad and Kaito lowered their weapons with a slightly calmed expression on their face, and Chris' expression softened.

"Man, she can sure knows how to almost give a guy a heart attack."

"That's our Angela, you sure are a lucky guy Chris."

"I-I don't know what you're talking about?"

"Really~ then how come you always get nervous when you're alone with her?"

At Mikoto's question, Chris started blushing slightly out of embarrassment and then Angela looked towards both him and Galahad.

"Chris-Kun, Gala-Kun there's something stuck in its back."

Galahad then narrowed his eyes towards the dragon's back and saw something sticking out of its back, him along with Chris jumped onto its back. Both of them looked and noticed that there was a sword stuck in its back, Galahad then placed his hand on the hilt.

"Come on out."

Galahad unstuck the sword from the dragon's back and it jumped slightly from the pain, with Chris placing his hand on the dragon's back with its wound starting to heal. Once they were done, they jumped off of its back and the dragon started flapping its wings. It flew into the sky, and started flying away from them with Angela waving towards it.

"Okay, now don't start any trouble!"

Angela had called out towards the ground, as it continued to fly out in the distance.

"…Angela."

"Yes, Griselda-Cha…."

When Angela turned towards Griselda with a smile on her face, but once she did Griselda started squishing her face with a slightly creepy smile on her face.

"Now, why don't have a little chat Angela?"

"Waah! What huwts Gwiselda-Chan!"

Both Chris and Asia were sitting down laughing together, Asia then looked towards Chris and hugged him suddenly. Chris then made a slightly shocked expression on his face, as Asia placed her head on his chest and she looked up at him with a bright smile.

"I'm happy that I had a wonderful mother and a father like you."

"And I'm lucky to have a daughter just like you."

Chris smiled and started petting Asia on her head comfortably, and he wrapped his arms around her.

Dinner Time

Everyone were sitting down at the table and they began eating extravagant food that had the spices both Kiba and Van had gathered, with the meat being boar meat and fish. Issei smiled with a bright smile on his face and he commented.

"This is really delicious!"

"Ara ara. We still have more food left so eat as much as you want."

"Akeno-San, you are the best! I even want you as my wife!"

"Ufufu, you are embarrassing me."

Akeno smiled while placing her hand on her cheek, Asia then made a slightly sulking expression.

"…I also made this soup."

Issei then started tasting the soup that Asia had made and he smiled towards her, with an enthusiastic expression on her face.

"It's good Asia! It's the best! Give me another one!"

"It is!? I'm so glad…. Then now I can become Ise-San's…."

"Hmmm? I couldn't hear the last part. What was that?"

"N-No, it's nothing!"

"Hey, who made this fish…it's delicious."

"That was me."

Van then looked towards Lance with a slightly shocked expression on his face, as took ate another piece of the fish.

"…You're kidding right?"

"He's not lying Van-Kun, Lance-Kun always cooked for the children who lives in the orphanage…he's truly the Greatest Big Brother in the world."

"That's good, but what happened with his arms."

Once Lance's arms were arm wrappings, Lance then smiled slightly with a nervous expression on his face and he started laughing slightly.

"Well, I was sparring with Koneko-Chan."

"But, aren't you supposed to be…."

"Lance, has this thing were he can't fight seriously against anyone that he sees as cute."

"…It's not my fault that she's adorable."

Lance mumbled as he continued eating his food, Rias then looked towards Issei as she placed her chopsticks on the table.

"I would like to thank you both for what you're doing for us, especially since you must be seriously busy with the Ambrosius Family Christian-Sama."

"It's no issue, I'm actually obligated to help you. Well, there's just one thing that you need to always remember…and that's just having Pride won't allow you to win against Raiser Phenex, who's more experience. Potential wise, both you and your Peerage surpasses him…especially since he mainly only picked his Peerage based off only their appearance instead of their abilities. But that doesn't change the fact that he'll still be a dangerous opponent, so you'll just have to his own overconfidence against him."

"Chris-San, how do you know this much about the Underworld?"

"Oh, that's because Christian-Sama made a contract with the current Maou Beelzebub-Sama. He's actually one of the most popular Magicians who made a pact with a Devil."

Issei then made a slightly shocked expression on his face by what Rias had just answered, he then looked towards Chris.

"My reasons for making a pack with Ajuka is mine and along with the current Maous own agenda, of getting rid of two people. Well, it's time for you all to get to bed and I'll clean everything up."

Everyone then looked towards them with a blank expression on their face at him beginning to treat them like kids despite being in their teens, Chris stared back at them with an emotionless yet cold expression on his face. Chris then started surrounding himself with dense and high amount of magical power, which started sending a cold sensation down their spines.

[Good Night!]

Each and everyone of them started running away with a fearful expression on their face, Chris smirked slightly and sat down while sitting down while picking up a cup of coffee.

"Even after all these years, I still have no way to stand up against that man."

Chris placed the coffee cup on the table and sighed slightly out of irritation and he started cleaning up the rest of the dishes.

Inside of Lance's assigned room within the Gremory Mansion, he was lying down in his bed under the sheets with a slightly bored expression on his face and he started looking up.

"What do I do? Achieving Balance Breaker isn't an easy task so…."

Lance had begun to think about how he could get Issei to achieve his Balance Breaker in the amount of time that they had left, but he was stopped as he heard a familiar voice coming from the door to his room.

[Lance-Kun can I come in?]

"Yea, sure thing Jeanne-Chan."

As Lance was still lying down in his bed continuing the original thought that was going through his mind, he then heard Jeanne walking into his room and then he heard her lock the door behind him. After hearing her lock the door behind her, he had sat up with a questioning look on his face.

"Jeanne-Chan, why did you….?"

At that moment, Lance had spit take slightly at what he had just saw. Jeanne was leaning against the door of his bedroom wearing nothing but a light blue bra and panties that shows off her body and her curves.

"W-What're you doing?!"

Lance had wondered out loud.

"I really didn't bring anything to sleep in…."

"W-Well, you can't just sleep in here like that."

"Okay~"

Jeanne then smirked with a sultry expression and reached for the bras' hook, and Lance then waved his hand with an embarrassed expression on his face.

"Wh-What're you doing?"

"What? You said that I couldn't wear this, so I'm not."

"Argh, whatever you can sleep in here but keep your underwear on."

Jeanne smiled with a victorious smile on her face, she then got into the bed under the sheets next to Lance and lied down on his chest. Lance blushed slightly, with Jeanne looking up at him.

"So about the Yumi Lookalike, Yuu-Kun."

"Yea, I really don't know about that. As far as I know both of them said they were both orphaned with no siblings or parents, but they look too similar to just ignore it."

"Yes, by the way Yumi-Chan was just promoted to Arch-Knight."

After hearing that from Jeanne, Lance had made an ecstatic expression on his face and he smiled.

"Really, that's amazing."

"Well, she has been in the Order longer than we have and she is called the 'Sword Princess'."

"I'll have to congratulate her later, but she probably won't be happy when she finds out that you snuck here without her."

"Yes, I don't care about that at the moment…as long as I can be with my Lance-Kun."

Jeanne smiled as she placed her head down on Lance's chest and instantly fell asleep with Lance looking at her with a blush on his face.

Three Faction Study Time

The Next Day

Sitting down in the living room were the entire Occult Research Club, along with Chris drinking coffee, with Lance and Jeanne sitting down with the others. Rias was sitting down as Kiba sat down and looked towards Issei while asking.

"Our greatest enemy. The Angels who're led by God. What is the name given to the Highest Rank Angels? Also the ones among them?"

"This is easy, our parents went over this with us when we were kids. The highest ranked and strongest Angels are called the Four Great Seraph who're also on par with the Four Maou. The members are the Archangel Michael, Raphael, Uriel and Gabr…."

At that moment, Chris then interrupted Issei by spit taking while the coffee was still in his mouth and Lance looked towards him with a slightly confused expression on his face.

"That was out of character of you, are you alright?"

"Are you alright, Tou-San?"

"Y-Yea, just a bit of a slip up. Wh-Why don't you all go to the Maou next?"

"Okay, Next is our "Maou"-Sama. What are the names of the "Four Maou-Sama"?"

"Right, I would happy to actually meet them eventually. Lucifer-Sama, Beelzebub-Sama, Asmodeus-Sama and lastly Leviathan-Sama."

"Then next, I will ask you to say the names of the leaders of the Fallen Angels."

"The main group of the Fallen Angel is called "Grigori". The name of the Governor is Azazel and the name of the Vice-governor is Shemhazai. I know completely up to here. And the name of the leaders are Armaros…Barakiel…Tamiel…Barakiel…Tamiel…Sahariel…Penemue…and Kokabiel."

Rias then nodded her head in approval, Asia then stood up in front of everyone with a slightly embarrassed expression on her face.

"Then now, I, Asia Argento will explain about the basics of the exorcists. From the place I used to belonged to, there were two types of exorcists. The first type are the ones that appears in films and novels. The father reads a section of the book, then he uses the holy water to get rid of the Devil from the person's body. They exorcists on the 'surface'. So the exorcist on the 'behind' are the ones that is a threat to us."

"Ise, you also have met him before, but the greatest threat to Devils' are Exorcists who received the divine protection from a God or the Fallen Angels. We have been fighting against them for a very long time behind the scene. They come to destroy us with the power of light received from the Angels, and with their physical bodies that they trained to the uttermost limits."

"Now I will talk about the traits of holy water and the Bible. First of all, the holy water. It will be very terrible if a Devil touches it."

"That's true, so you can't touch it as well, Asia. Your skin will get harmed."

"Sob, that's right…I can't touch the holy water anymore…."

Asia then sobbed slightly then she moved onto the bible.

"Next is the Bible. I have been reading it every day since I was a child. But I'm in trouble now because it gives me a pain in the head even if I only read a sentence of it."

"You are a Devil."

"You are a Devil after all."

"…A Devil."

"Ufufu, Devil's receive intense damage."

"Sob, I can't read the Bible any more!"

Again, Asia started crying as soon as she realized that she couldn't even read the bible anymore.

"However, this is my favorite phrase… Oh God. Please forgive a…!"

At that moment, Chris appeared behind her covered her mouth with a slightly worried sigh and he removed his hand.

"You're exactly like your, she had this habit of reciting passages and phrases whenever she was depressed."

"Right, I can't recite that phrase."

Chris looked at the saddened expression on her face and started patting her on her back comfortably.

"Alright, Devil-Sans now I'll explain the Chivalric Order."

Lance sweatdropped slightly at Jeanne's childish and cheerful personality, she then started her explanation of the Chivalric Order.

"Now Knights are similar to Exorcists, we also receive Divine Protection from God and we go through intense and extensive training to increase our physical abilities be and we work on unlocking the power within ourselves."

"Power within yourselves?"

"It's like this."

Lance then stood stood up in front of them, he breathed outwards and a green aura started overflowing from his entire body him.

"Lance-Kun is an example of the training that we go through to fight against the Supernatural, we work on being able to freely tap into the life-force that flowing through our body to further increase our abilities. We Knights and Knightess are also armed with special magically enhanced weaponry that were created through alchemy and blessed by the Church…called Magic Arks. And as Human, we also have members who are armed with Holy Swords, Demon Swords or Sacred Gears which I have possess."

"You're a Sacred Gear user?"

"Yep, Blades Blacksmith…I can create holy sword with different properties."

"That's the opposite of Kiba's Sword Birth."

Van had stated with a slightly shocked look on his face.

"And that's the end of Jeanne-Sensei's Lesson."

Everyone then started to sweatdrop at Jeanne's child-like tone and playful expression, Rias then looked towards Chris with a question on her mind.

"Christian-Sama…?"

"Chris is just fine, so what do you want to know?"

"I'm sorry, I was just curious about the incident that had led the deaths of the Paladin."

Chris' expression fell slightly along with Lance slightly, but both only sighed and Chris had sat down in front of them.

"It started a couple of years ago, both Lance and Issei would've been twelve or thirteen at the time, it first started after Kaito and Mikoto had retired. It first started after one of the Paladin, Lionel also known as 'The Lion King' who was the possessor on of the Longinus, Regulus Nemea. He went on assignment alone against a packed of High-Ranking Demons and was suddenly blindsided by a pack of High-Level Demons and High-Tier Demon. After that, little by little it seemed that more and more High-Ranking Knights and the Arch-Knights were being killed in combat."

"They were targeting the High-Ranked Knights and Paladin, but why?"

"The Paladin and Head Paladins are Humans who're known as Heroes among the Order for their strength and dedication, losing them would mean that the young Knights would not only lose their Heroes they would also lose their moral…we couldn't even find their bodies so we would give them a proper burial. But the full incident is something that you guys should hear, so you should continue with your training."

They only nodded in agreement to what Chris had said, and they restated their training for the upcoming Rating Game.

Balance Breaker Training with Issei

Four Days later

Issei was sent flying by Lance who had Secace in his hand, he then regained his footing while covered in sweat and breathing heavily. He looked forward towards Lance, as three magic circles appeared behind him each of them were launched forward towards Issei releasing fire, ice and lightning attacks towards him all at once. Issei jumped out of the way with whatever strength was left in his legs, he held his hand out as the Boosted Gear sounded again.

[Boost]

Despite having his power boosted again, Issei was too exhausted to focus straight and he stood up with his fist clenched. More and more magic circle started appearing behind Lance, each of them started firing off a fire, ice, wind and lightning attack towards.

The only thing that Issei could do was dodge each of the attack, while gathering more power into his Boosted Gear. After hearing the fifth Boost from his Sacred Gear, Issei changed his possession and started rushing towards Lance.

"Let's go, Boosted Gear!"

[Explosion]

Issei then released the stored power that was inside of his Boosted Gear and was surrounded with an overflowing red aura. He appeared in front of Lance, while sending out a barrage of attacks towards him with Lance effortless dodging each of the attacks. Issei then clicked his tongue out of frustration and held his hand out while gathering demonic power around his hand.

"Dragon Shot!"

Issei held his hand out and fired off a massive red shot towards him, Lance then held Secace out and opened up a tear in space with Issei's attack vanishing inside of it. Issei made a shocked expression on his face, he looked forward as Lance suddenly vanished. Lance then appeared in front of Issei, he then kicked Issei backwards sending him crashing into a tree and he spat out blood from his mouth.

"Dammit, I'm not getting anywhere with this…."

Issei looked forward as Lance started walking toward him with a serious expression on his face, and Secace clenched in his hand.

"This'll be the final push, if this doesn't work then I don't know what will."

Lance's eyes glowed green while becoming sharper, and a powerful green aura started being released from Lance's entire body. Issei looked towards him with a slightly terrified expression on his face as he felt fear going through his body, but Issei still stood up while clenching his left arm.

Strategy Training with Rias and Akeno

Rias was sitting down in front of Chris while going through several documents in her hands intently along with Akeno who was sitting down next to her, Chris then looked towards her and stated.

"Raiser thinks that only Akeno can stand against his servants, but that's not true each of your peerage members carry the ability to stand against his Peerage members."

"This is the record that Raiser has at the official 'Rating Game'. He fought ten times and won eight matches. He lost two of the match on purpose as kindness to one of the households he is close to. In reality he won all of his matches. He already became a candidate to obtain a title in the official game."

"Yes, but he's too overconfident in his own abilities and looks down on Low-Class Devils that'll end up being his own downfall. There's also the issue with his Queen."

"Arara, I'll will be the one who'll fight against Yubelluna also known as 'The Bomb Queen' since we're both Queens."

"There's also a slightly problem that'll you'll have to deal with and that's…."

They were suddenly stopped as they heard a massive explosion, everyone else then turned their heads and saw a bright red blast being shot into the air.

"W-What was that?!"

Everyone then headed towards the location of the explosion, once they got there they were shocked by what they had saw. The trees were all knocked down with the ground being scorched and Issei was unconscious on the ground. With Lance sitting down on the ground holding his side and breathing heavily slightly, with blood dripping from his mouth.

"Ise-San, Nii-San!"

"I'm alright, but you might want to heal him first Asia."

Asia then went over and started healing Issei's injuries with her Sacred Gear, with its green light covering his body while Chris walked over towards Lance along with Jeanne who made a worried expression.

"Lance-Kun are you alright?!"

"Well, I think one, two probably four of my ribs may've been fractured from that last punch. If I wasn't in War God mode and a that barrier at the lasts second, then some of my ribs probably would've been shattered."

"Lance what happened exactly?"

"Well…."

Ten Minutes Earlier

Lance was walking towards Issei with a serious expression on his face, while releasing a menacing aura from his entire body. Issei placed his hand on his left hand with a fearful expression on his face, with his hand beginning to shake.

"This is the feeling of absolute terror, the feeling of being unable to fight against someone who's stronger than your are. This is the path that everyone eventually face and that's the future that's in front of you as the Welsh Dragon being faced against several opponents each one being stronger than the last. And the end result of that will be someone important to your eventually dying, because you aren't strong enough to do anything just like what happened with Asia."

Issei looked towards Lance with a slightly angered expression on his face, with the jewel on his Boosted Gear beginning to blink with a green and Issei started clenching his fist as he remembered what happened that night.

"You're going to experience the feeling of helpless after the game if you lose to Raiser Phenex, then you'll lose Rias to a pompous douchebag who's possibly overcompensating the fact that he never had any actual friends with a bunch of girls."

Lance looked forward and noticed Issei beginning to clench his teeth out of frustration while his Boosted Gear started shining brightly, but he still wouldn't step forward

"Come on! Why're you just sitting there cowering in front of a Knight, you're supposed to be the Red Dragon Emperor someone who'd just laugh at every single adversary in front of them and stand up against them! If you're truly someone deserving of that title then stand up!"

Issei gritted his teeth and shook away every bit of his fear, he then rushed towards Lance with a renewed determination in his eyes.

"Oryaaaaaaah!"

[Welsh Dragon Balance Breaker]

A powerful red light started being released from Issei's Boosted Gear, as his eyes were glowing with a bright green light. A massive red flame-like light then surrounded his entire body, once the light had vanished Issei had donned a red Dragon armor with green jewels on his body and two magic thrusters on his back. Lance then looked towards him with an amazed expression on his face, but he then realized that Issei wasn't stopping.

"Crap, I may've overdid it!"

Lance then started created a large number of magical barrier in front of Issei, but he only broke through them while continuing with his attack. As he was coming towards him, Lance started releasing a more denser aura from his entire body and created a more durable barrier. Once Issei's fist smashed into Lance's stomach, he started spitting blood out from his mouth.

"And, I'm pretty sure you know that rest of it."

"Lance-Kun, how did you know that would work?"

"Because, it's just who he is…being able to succeed his own limitations to protect what's important to him and that was reason enough for him to unlock his Balance Breaker."

He then looked and noticed that Asia was finished healing Issei's injuries, she then went over and started healing Lance's injuries. Once she was finished Lance jumped up with a rejuvenated smile on his face, he then felt his side and sighed out of relief.

"That's a useful Sacred Gear, if it wasn't for you I'd probably wouldn't be able to move for a while."

At Lance praise, she started blushing out of embarrassment and he looked and saw Issei standing back up with a slightly confused expression on his face.

"Wh-What happened?"

Issei had asked with a wondering look on his face.

"Well, besides almost breaking a few of my ribs you've finally achieved Balance Breaker…and that's Step One completed."

"S-Step One?"

"Yep, there's still more things that you'll need to take down a Phenex that's if you're willing to do it."

"Of course."

"Alright, then let's have a chat with Ddraig."

A/N: And there goes Chapter Seven of the Magic Knight, the Gremory started their training for the upcoming battle for the Rating Game against Raiser Phenex. Issei started his own training with Lance to achieve his Balance Breaker form. Along with Chris showing up with Jeanne tagging along with him, he started his training with the rest of the Occult Research members. Both Lance and Jeanne had a slight moment and at the end of the chapter Issei had finally obtained his Balance Breaker.

Lancelot's Harem: Yumi, Jeanne, Irina, Xenovia, Le Fay, Sona, Serafall, Rossweisse, Yasaka, Valarie, Seekvaira, Kuroka, Lavinia, Yuuma, Griselda.

Issei's Harem: Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Asia, Ravel, Tsubasa, Aika, Isabel, Katase, Murayama, Mira, Kunou, Karlamine, Xuelan, Kiyome.