Fate DXD: The Dragon-Blooded Knight and the Holy Maiden

by AnimeFan0216

Many years have pass after the Apocrypha, Sieg and Jeanne have finally reunited to be with each other, but fate has plans for them. Because of a wish that the two yearned from their hearts, the Greater Grail became active once again and accidentally grants their wishes and the two was once again separated and reborn in another world. OOC Issei. Sieg/Issei x Jeanne.

5. Act 4: The Holy Maiden of the Orleans

A/N: Alright, episode 4 and today is Christmas day so Merry Christmas everyone! Here is the chapter that introduces the story's main heroine and also one of the best waifus in Fate. Anyway, the chapter contains fanservice from her too so enjoy.

WARNING: The chapter has some obscene scenes and languages that not suitable to young readers and can be disturbing. Either skip that part or do not read.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Highschool DXD and Fate / Apocrypha or the other fate series, both works belong to their respective creators. This is a work of fiction, this doesn't relate to any existing individuals and organizations.

"talking" ""talking in unison""

"thoughts" ""thoughts in unison""

Flashbacks / dreams

*Background music/ O.S.T.*

[Ddraig talking] [Ddraig talking with telepathy]

(Albion talking) (Albion talking with telepathy)

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*OST start: Fate Apocrypha ost – Affection*

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She found herself standing in the fields of white flowers, the place is windy as flower petals are being blown by the breeze and the sky is only lit by an aurora. In front of her is a large western dragon with teal colored scales, it is currently holding a circular object that is bathe in light. She suddenly saw her right hand reach out to the dragon, she also felt her lips move but unable to hear what she was saying then the dragon lowers its head and its snout has made contact to her hand. She felt tears threatening to fall while talking to the dragon until she sees a white light.

Light envelops the dragon and what emerges beyond that was a young teenage boy about her age. The young man is handsome with his brunette hair and crimson colored eyes but what catches her attention were the horns, wings, and tail which are draconic in structure. They stared at each other that last which felt like many hours have past. While she looks at the facial feature of the young man, she felt a longing feeling to be with him and then her sight turns white.

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A pair of amethyst eyes fluttered open, she raises her body into sitting position, her long blonde hair is disheveled but still as radiant and soft as springtime sunlight. She has just awakened from a dream that she sees since her childhood but as she grows up, the dream is getting frequent and more vivid. She removes the blanket of her bed exposing her shapely thighs and legs moving her bare feet to the cold floor and about to stand. She is a beautiful girl in her late teens, wearing only a Chiffon Night Sleep shirt and a white underwear underneath, she also possesses a curvy body that shows how well she takes care of her body. She walks towards a full body mirror and looks at herself.

"That dream again… its getting frequent as I grow up. Who is that boy anyway? Why am I feeling this way? I long for him, I yearn for him… Why?" She said in a sad tone as she touched her silver cross necklace that she's wearing.

*OST end*

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Cue Opening song: Period by Chemistry

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France, Holy Academy of Exorcism

Holy Academy of Exorcism, it is a school to train church warriors or exorcists though in public it is disguised as a convent. This place is only one of the many academies which serves as an outpost to defend the territories of all the countries where Heaven has the most influence. The Academy also separates the males and the females to prevent any illicit relationships. Currently, the girl is walking through the hallway making her way to the dining area, she is now having her long hair braided and wearing her exorcist uniform that is composed of a skin-tight suit that hugs the curves of her body, black leggings, a pair of fingerless gloves and black boots. She is also wearing a white robe covering her attire, the girl is really embarrassed on her clothing because it is too erotic in her opinion especially if her body figure is considered lewd and sinful in another's perspective. Reaching the dining area, she sits on the available table and another girl approaches her and sit giving her a meal.

"Good morning, Laeticia!" The girl cheerily greeted.

"Good morning to you too, Adele. It's Jeanne now remember, being Jeanne d'arc's reincarnation. Honestly, I wonder why they have to change my name just because I resemble the Holy Maiden." The girl, Laeticia and presently Jeanne said to her friend.

"Isn't it obvious? It's not just your uncanny resemblance to the Maiden of the Orleans, it also because of your sacred gear when it is deployed." Her friend, Adele replied.

Jeanne went silent on her friend's reply, she did not know why her sacred gear manifested in that form and because of it, people within the church are calling her as the reborn Maiden of the Orleans or the reborn Jeanne d'arc. When they learned of her abilities and her potential, they treated her like a celebrity and the center of attention among her peers and place her as one of the most valued exorcist of the church. They did not place her to be a nun due to some plan that she will be married off to her fellow exorcist to bear a child that will help the church and the heaven's fighting force against evil, but to Jeanne, she just wanted to live like a normal person and pray to the lord like she usually does and maybe someday find the right person to be with. Not all the attention to her were positive, she also earned the contempt and ire of a certain descendant of Jeanne d'arc.

The door of the dining hall opens and a nun enters the room, she looks around to find someone and her eyes stops on a certain table, the table where Jeanne and Adele sat in. She walks over to the two and Jeanne notices her arrival, the female exorcist stands up and bows at the nun with respect.

"Oh, good morning sister Rosetta. What can I do for you?" Jeanne greeted the nun.

"Good morning to you too, Jeanne. Mother Beatrice asks for you to her office after your breakfast meal, it is important she said." Sister Rosetta said.

"Alright, I'll be there right away." Jeanne replied as she sits down again and begins eating her breakfast.

"I guess it's another mission again. Geez, they are really working you out. You should ask to take a break for a while, you have just finished a mission and they are giving you more." Adele complained for her friend.

"That's okay with me, Adele. Every mission I took gives me a chance to find Him." Jeanne replied as she and her friend eat their breakfast.

Outside the Head Office

After eating her meal, Jeanne went to the office without delay and currently standing in front of the door. Jeanne checks herself if her uniform is neat and presentable, she took a deep breath and then she knocks on the door and twists the doorknob opening the office door. When she enters the room, she finds out that Mother Beatrice is not alone. Mother Beatrice was talking to a priest, based on his vestment he is an envoy from the Vatican. Both of them look at her and nodded in acknowledgement.

"Excuse me, Mother Beatrice. Sister Rosetta said that you called me for something important?" Jeanne politely asked.

"Yes, my child. It is important, let me introduce you to Father Pierre. He came from here in France and became a cardinal in the Vatican. He is the one who will brief you for your task." Mother Beatrice replied.

"That's correct. Jeanne, we need your help. Your skill in battle will be helpful in the mission, aside from Dulio Guesaldo and Griselda Quarta, you are one of the strongest exorcist that the church has. The mission contains retrieval of a stolen artifacts and the destruction of those responsible for the theft, so the higher ups ordered me to send you to Vatican to brief you and two others for the mission." Father Pierre explained.

"I understand. I'll prepare my things for the journey." Jeanne affirmed as she bowed her head to the cardinal.

"Take this time to prepare and rest, you'll depart later at night after all." Mother Beatrice said.

"Thank you. I'll take my leave."

After saying her thanks, she bowed again and left the office. She walks through the halls making her way back to her room to pack her things. She has a determined expression during her walk hoping to find what she is searching for.

"I wonder if we will meet again?" She said to no one in particular as she reminisces a memory from long ago. A memory of a man who saved her from being a devil's slave; the facial feature of the man was obscured by a face mask and a hood from his black jacket, he is wearing a black leather pants with a dragon-eques design and black boots wrapped with black gaiter with several straps, and both of his arms are wearing silver gauntlets in dragon scales design. The most known feature of him was the silver greatsword, but she could not describe the sword's design due to the sword glistening under the moonlight. The man's back is facing her to cover her from a noble devil who was gritting his teeth in frustration.

"It's been four years since then… I've train myself to become strong, to be able to protect… and someday I can meet you and properly thank you for saving me and inspiring me to become what I am today." Jeanne stopped her reminiscing and increases the pace of her walk.

Back to Japan, Hyoudo residence in Kuoh town

It has been three days after the incident with the Fallen angels and stray exorcists, the four occupants of the Hyoudo household were back in their daily lives, getting up early in the morning with Asia preparing their breakfast meal while Sieg, Karna and Scathach are dressed with their attire for Kuoh Academy sitting on the chairs of the dining table waiting for Asia to finish cooking. They eat together and gave thanks for a satisfying meal.

"Hey Asia, we will submit your application form to Kuoh Academy. You are going to school just like the two here." Scathach said to Asia.

"Eh? I am grateful but why? I am just freeloading here and help you who took me in." Surprised by the warrior queen's words, Asia replied in hesitation.

"Don't worry about it, you are a part of this family now. Every teenager need to take their education while enjoying their youth. You want to make many friends right? Here is your chance." Scathach encourages Asia with a smile.

"Good for you, Asia." Sieg congratulated the ex-nun while Karna nodded to her direction.

"… T-Thank you! I will accept your offer..." Asia accepted with tears of happiness.

Kuoh Academy

Things in the academy were uneventful, it was always the same routine with some students entering school early for early club activities, listening to lessons and taking tests, going to clubs after school or some going to arcades and karaoke. Things were the same for Sieg, Karna and Scathach except for one thing, everywhere within the school vicinity they felt someone is watching them. Every corner in the school whether during classes, physical education class, and even going back home there are always watchful eyes in everything they do. One thing they are sure is that whatever is watching them, it has a devil signature on it. Sieg reached the limit of his patience and irritation took over him, he looks to the direction of the watcher and send a sharp glare laced with killing intent. The pupils of his blue eyes were reptilian like a dragon's eyes, the watcher panicked and took off flying back to its intended location.

Sieg watches the thing flying away, he caught the form of their stalker which is shaped like a bat. A familiar, they are being stalked by a devil who owns that familiar. He looked to the direction where the familiar is flying, it is to the direction of Kuoh Academy. At that point, Sieg has already know who sent the familiar; its either of the two devil heiress. Sitri is too cautious of them that she did not want anything to do with them, so that leaves one.

"…Gremory…" Sieg muttered in a cold tone.

Back in Kuoh Academy within the old school building, Rias Gremory is currently sweating in fear. The Gremory heiress has been watching every movement of Sieg, Karna and Scathach through the eyes of her familiar. She thought that it was not really necessary to watch them where they could detect them in the vicinity, so she commanded her familiar because the familiars can do a subtle surveillance and can blend in to the surroundings. But what scared Rias was that the glare he sent to her familiar, it felt to her that he is not looking to her familiar but the one beyond her familiar's eyes which is her and she can describe his stare to be frightening as if he is looking at her very soul.

Her familiar came back through the window and clings to its master like it's life depended on it, the familiar was also scared because it suddenly felt the presence of a predator which is the person it's master is interested in. Rias comforted her familiar and the other members of the O.R.C club were puzzled on what they are seeing.

"Rias, why is your familiar like that? It looks afraid and terrified by something. What happened?" Akeno, Rias Gremory's queen asked.

"SIGH… It's because I've been watching the three through my familiar." Rias sighed and told her queen.

"Rias… you should stop this now! Nothing good will come to us if we get involve with them." Akeno said in a stern tone.

"I'm still doing my job as the administrator of Kuoh… I'm just watching out for any possible threats and I cannot take their word that they will not be a threat to us!" Rias replied to her queen with authority in her voice.

"I hope so, Rias… I hope that is the only thing behind your actions." Akeno said her piece as she quietly leaves the room. Kiba and Koneko watched the interaction between King and Queen, if they were asked what they thought, they would also say the same as Akeno.

"I will definitely acquire a powerful servant and I will be free from that damn engagement!" Rias stared at the distance through the window and narrowed her eyes while it glows into crimson.

Hyoudo Residence

Within the Hyoudo household, Sieg reported his findings to Karna and his mentor Scathach about the thing that was stalking them in school. Both of them pondered on why the Gremory would do such a thing and the only conclusions that they have are either; Rias was only watching out for potential threats which is them and the second is that Gremory is into something that is not good.

"I see… so it was Gremory, I think we should not jump into conclusion. Perhaps the red-head princess is just cautious on our presence here in Kuoh." Scathach said.

"It might be Nee-san… but my instinct is telling me that she is planning something against us." Sieg stated, his inner dragon feels a threat looming on them.

"There is no point of thinking of what might be or not might be… If she truly is planning something, then I'm prepared to face it head on." Scathach replied to his student with confidence, her lust for battle is oozing from her.

"It's alright Sieg, you know how strong our mentor is… we should turn in for the night and cross that bridge when we are there." Karna said to his friend though deep inside him, he is not convinced that their mentor would just dismiss the idea that the Gremory girl is up to something.

Scathach watches her students go up the stairs, she also contemplates the odd behavior of the devil heiress. She knows that this is something more than to watch out a possible threat, she might know what the Gremory after but she can only know it from the Gremory herself. Her clairvoyance acts up and she saw a glimpse of the future.

"You better not do something stupid, heiress of the Gremory." Scathach muttered in a low voice as she makes her way towards her room.

Underworld, Devil Territory

Within the capital of Lilith, a man with crimson hair wearing a dark blue cape drape over his white noble dress is sitting within his luxurious office buried in paper works. The man's facial features resemble Rias Gremory, he is currently going over some reports on the status of the territories that they own. The door of his office opens and a beautiful woman with silver hair and red eyes enters the room, she has a light but fair complexion and wearing a French-style maid outfit. The maid is carrying a tray of tea and serves it to the crimson haired man.

"Master Sirzechs, here is your tea." The maid said to the crimson haired man that is now known as Sirzechs.

"Thank you Grayfia. You know you can call me 'honey' or 'dear' when we're alone." Sirzechs replied to his maid Grayfia in a sly tone.

"Master Sirzechs Lucifer. We are currently at work and when it is time to work, you are my master and I am your servant, your 'Queen'. It is also part of my duty to serve as a maid of the Gremory clan, we can do this when we are free. Seriously, you are too lax and almost imitate Lord Falbium Asmodeus in laziness. You are one of the leaders of the devil race, please take this seriously." Grayfia scolded his master in a stern tone.

"Okay! Okay! Calm down, Grayfia… I am taking it seriously already." Sirzechs smiled wryly while raising both his hands to placate his maid.

The crimson-haired man who appears in his late twenties is Sirzechs Lucifer, formerly Sirzechs Gremory, is one of the four great Satans that leads the devil race and holds the title of Lucifer. He is also known as the Crimson Satan and Rias Gremory's older brother, due to him being appointed as a devil king, Rias who is the next in line has to be the next heir of the Gremory clan. The silver-haired maid that is serving him is Grayfia Lucifuge, she was a former member of the Lucifuge clan now serving as Sirzechs' queen and known for her title as the Strongest Queen and the Silver-haired Maid of Annihilation.

Sirzechs continues his work which is going over on a pile of status reports, he continued reading and signing the reports until he reaches for another report. He reads the content of the report and his eyes widen in shock and narrows his eyes, Grayfia notices her master's change in behavior and then she asks.

"Sirzechs, is there something wrong?"

"Grayfia, call Serafall… we're going to move out." Sirzechs commanded.

"Why so sudden?" The silver-haired maid asked then Sirzechs faces her with a stern expression.

"We're going to Kuoh. It seems Rias and Sona are in danger." That was the only thing the Crimson Satan said as Grayfia obeyed him and calls Serafall Leviathan.

France, Large Bathroom in the Holy Academy (WARNING: Some Obscene scenes and acts of voyeurism ahead)

After her assignment for her next mission, Jeanne is currently in the large bath within the convent. Although each of their rooms have designated bathrooms, the large bath's purpose is for socializing between female members of the church, a place for them to chat and bond. The large bath has cubicles for shower and washing and a large pool in the center of the room to relax while they rinse themselves, the walls are painted white and the floor is made from white marble, and also the pool area was decorated with the statue of angels pouring water from the jar. Jeanne is in one of those cubicles taking a shower, washing her smooth skin and the rest of her curvy body with soap. After washing herself, she left the cubicle and walks towards the pool, she dips her bare feet to the water then she sits down to soak her body to the warm water.

Jeanne sighed in pleasure and relaxes her body, the warm water is taking away all the stress that accumulated to her in a day but unaware of her surroundings someone is approaching behind her. That person hugs Jeanne from behind while groping her well endowed breasts.

"~Showing that sinful body of yours in front of us! I'm so envious that I want to molest you, Jeanne. ~" A playful voice said.

"Ah! A-Adele… what are you doing!?" Jeanne moaned in surprise on her friend that is currently molesting her in the bath.

"This is what you get for having a perfectly shaped body! Take this! And this!" Adele said in mock anger as she continued her assault by fondling Jeanne's breasts.

"Aaahhhn! Adele stop! It's not like I wanted it that way, my body naturally grew like this!" That statement made Adele gained a tick mark and Jeanne's pleading for mercy was fell into deaf ears.

The other occupants were blushing madly at the scene and after a long arduous one minute of molestation, Adele stopped assaulting Jeanne and has a satisfied expression on her face while poor Jeanne was left panting at the side of the pool.

"O Lord! Forgive me for feeling satisfied of what I've done!" Adele prayed for forgiveness and repent to her sin, though her face says otherwise.

"She is not repentant at all." Were the collective thoughts of the other occupants.

After their shenanigans, they continued to bond and socialize while Jeanne kept lecturing Adele on how shameless her actions are. On the wall of a large bath, there is a horned beetle attached to the wall still and not moving as if it is watching everything happening in the bath. But there is a difference in it that will say that this is not an ordinary beetle, instead of black, its eyes are red which seems to glow and what reflects in its eyes is Jeanne in her naked glory.

"Hey Jeanne, I noticed just now… I didn't know that you have a tattoo on your back." Adele said as she took a glimpse on Jeanne's back, it was concealed by her long hair but some parts can be seen.

"Oh… this? No this not a tattoo, it's my birth mark I've always have it since I was born." Jeanne replied to her friend as she swept her long hair to the side to show the full appearance of the mark. The mark has a crown with a cross on top and three diamonds underneath, it has two pairs of wings attached to it, one small pair of wings at the top while two large pair at the bottom. These wings almost occupied Jeanne's whole back.

"Are you serious? There is no birth mark that forms an image of something and don't start me about the color. It's red! I'm more convinced if that is a tattoo." Adele commented which earned a nod from others.

"I wonder about it myself but I realized that it is no use of thinking too much about it. I tried to erase it once and my skin almost peel off." Jeanne said as she stands up and wraps her body with a towel and then walks toward the dressing area.

As if on cue, the horned beetle flies towards the same direction that Jeanne was going until it latched itself to another wall after entering the dressing area. Jeanne arrives to the shelf where her change of clothes is located. She first picks her white panty and slid her one leg and then the other and pulls it until the undergarment fits her waist and nether area, then she wears her dark blue hot pants, then she proceeds to wear her sleeveless white backless shirt with collar and black tie. After covering her private parts; she picks a black leggings and wears it to cover her smooth and shapely thighs and legs and then her brown shoes, and lastly she picks her dark blue coat and wears it over her white shirt. She finishes her dressing with tying her long blonde hair to braids with a black ribbon tied at the end. Jeanne left the large bathroom and strangely the beetle flies again as if it was following the girl.

Unknown Location (WARNING: Obscene scenes and vulgar language)

In a certain mansion somewhere in the underworld, within a dark room there is a man judging on his build and facial structure was in his late teens, sitting in a comfortable one-seater sofa and currently stark naked. His facial features were obscured by the darkness of the room but his perverted grin can be seen in his expression, below him is a young woman with pale blonde hair on her knees and also stark naked. The young woman is bobbing her head on the man's crotch and a slurping sound can be heard.

"Ah! Oh yes! That's it my slave, keep going… I'm close!" The man said and upon hearing her master's command, the woman increases the pace of her bobbing.

"Ooohh! It's coming! Swallow every last drop and don't spill it! Uoohh!" The man moaned as he releases his desire inside the woman's mouth.

The woman swallowed every pump of her master's seed until she moves her head back releasing her master's cock and then opens her mouth to show her master that she has swallowed every drop. The woman was in a daze expression and panting, meanwhile the man is still seated on the sofa and released a sigh of relief but he is still having a massive erection that is smeared with the combination of the woman's saliva and his white fluid, indicating that he is still not satisfied.

"Hehehe… that was truly a great show. Every detail of that curvaceous body and a well-endowed breast… it is truly a masterpiece and a super rare find among the female humans. Truly, a beauty that you rarely find in humans." The man said having a perverted grin on his face.

"I wonder what would be like if you are the one sucking me off? Your mouth wrapping around my cock and your beautiful face having a lewd expression in them. Hehehe… very soon enough you will become mine, my bitch for eternity… Laeticia." The man savagely expresses his dark desire to the unaware maiden then licks his lips like a predator ready to grab his prey. Apparently, he was spying on Jeanne through his familiar, the horned beetle.

The man picks a bell and rings it, as if on cue, a magic circle appeared in front of him and there emerges a male servant bowing at him awaiting his orders.

"Prepare your men. We're going to pick an addition to my peerage." The man commanded.

Back to the Holy Academy

Jeanne felt a chill on her spine and shivers and she rapidly turn around only to see nothing. She was having a feeling that there is someone watching her every move but she cannot see anything suspicious within the vicinity, she is having a foreboding feeling that something bad will happen. Her friend Adele who is currently with her to see her off, looks at her in confusion.

"Are you okay, Laeticia?" Her friend asked.

"No, it's nothing. Just my imagination I guess." The holy maiden of the Orleans smiled and assured her friend.

"Okay. You better hurry up, before you're late on the last bus." Adele reminded.

"Ah! Right. Well I'm off, take care while I'm gone, Adele." Jeanne said as she hurriedly left with the brown suitcase in hand.

"Be careful out there, Laeticia!" Adele waves her hand while she sees her friend off.

Back to Japan in Kuoh

It was already past midnight and everyone in the Hyoudo residence are sleeping soundly. Within Scathach's room, the warrior queen was sleeping until she felt an alarm coming from her runes all over the world, Scathach opens her eyes and got out on her bed. When she came out of her room she sees her two students already out of their rooms wearing their respective battle outfits.

"Leave this to us, Nee-san. I wanted to challenge a much stronger opponent, I can blow some steam this way." Sieg said while he is adjusting his gauntlets.

"We wanted to help you on your task of hunting down the shadow denizens and we are strong enough to fight this new emergence." Karna added his opinion.

"Sigh… Alright, I'll leave this to you two. I'll hold the fort here." Scathach could only sigh in defeat to her students' determination.

"I'll take the one on the borders of Italy, it's been a while since I hunted in Europe." Sieg made his choice of his target.

"Then I'll take the one in the next town, Fuyuki." Karna said and nodded in affirmation.

Both warriors pick out their stones engraved with runes and the symbols glow until both Sieg and Karna disappeared teleporting them to their intended destination.

France, currently on a journey to Italy

Jeanne manages to catch the last bus trip towards Italy, she sighed in relief and relaxes herself on her seat. She looks outside of the bus window with her hand on her chin thinking about the sensation that she just felt earlier. The feeling was familiar to her since it was the same feeling from that incident in the past, the feeling of overwhelming lust and desire towards her. The maiden shook her head and puts the thoughts at the back of her mind as she started thinking on what she might expect when she arrives in Italy or even who will be her new teammates on this retrieval operation.

The whole bus was so quiet and peaceful that one can only here the engines softly humming. Many of the passengers fell asleep due to the duration of the trip, Jeanne felt that sleep is going to take over her so she finds a comfortable position on her seat and then closes her eyes. After several hours, the bus is now almost at the border of Italy when she suddenly woke up from her sleep when she suddenly has a vision that shows a group of devils in pursuit of the bus. This is one of the skills that she is born with aside from her sacred gear, a skill of precognition which shows visions that guides her every decision, the church called it Revelation. The owners of the demonic signatures are coming to the bus where she is at, so the maiden stands up and requested the bus driver that she is getting off the bus.

After getting off the transport, Jeanne watches the bus drive off towards the border of Italy to make sure that the innocent civilians will not be drag into the upcoming battle. She sighed in relief that the bus got away safely, then she turns around wearing a determined expression as she faces her adversaries. Said adversaries has her completely surrounded weapons in hand. They disguise themselves in order for anyone to not recognize their affiliation but Jeanne knows they are devils though if these devils belong to Old Maou Faction or the current underworld government faction is unknown to her.

"What do you want, Devils?" Jeanne said in a stern voice.

"My oh my Laeticia… acting so strong now that you've become one of the top exorcist? Last I remember you were full of tears when I almost have you in my grasp before that bastard intervene." A voice familiar to the maiden said with glee. Jeanne slightly widens her eyes in surprise and felt a cold shiver on her spine but she quickly recomposed herself. A magic circle appeared in front of her and there emerges a teenage male in noble attire but his face is covered by a mask.

"So you are from the current government huh. Even if you wear that mask, I cannot be mistaken you because of that vile tongue of yours, Diodora Astaroth." The maiden said with a slight venom in her voice.

"Ahahahaha! So you did remember me! I'm so happy Laeticia! We are truly meant for each other if fate made us meet." The devil that is now known as Diodora Astaroth said with amusement.

"Or rather you are just a certified creepy stalker who has a sick desire towards us women of faith. I know that Asia Argento's excommunication was actually your plan." Jeanne retorted in a calm but cold tone.

"Well too bad though… it seems those useless Fallen angels didn't manage to secure Asia for me because of the interference of a third party, but never mind that Asia will become mine too and right now… you are my priority my precious Laeticia." Every word that the devil, Diodora, utters were starting to creep her out. If it is not because of this will result to war with the underworld, she would have exorcised him without hesitation.

Before she could make a counter argument, a magic circle appears below Jeanne and several chains emerges and binds the maiden. Jeanne felt that the chains were enhanced with demonic power and cannot be broken by sheer force.

"You cannot break the chains no matter how much you struggle. So be a good girl and become my woman. You do not belong to anywhere and anyone but me, your only purpose is to bend over and spread your legs to me like a bitch you are… pleasing me with that body of yours." Diodora said while wearing a nastier grin. Jeanne feels that she wants to puke already due to the vulgarity of the devil.

Somewhere along the borders of Italy (WARNING: Blood and gore)

At one part of Italy's borders, a battle occurred resulting to the craters and trenches that littered around the grounds. But the battle has just ended and there is only a crunching sound can be heard with a small whimper of a female in the background. Within one of the craters, one female in her late teens with auburn hair, wearing a white dress that reaches mid-thigh and an armor fitted for females over the dress and her most distinguishing feature is her pair of white wings. She is a creature of heaven called an Angel and they are currently guarding Italy where their faction has the most influence. Her face has a fearful expression and marred with tears, her body is currently trembling and could not move in fear as she watches the most traumatic and haunting sight one could ever experience.

In front of her is a hulking figure cladded in an armor made of brimstone, its exposed skin is like muscle tissue but the color is shadowy black, its face is also covered with a visor and face plate made of brimstone and its eyes were having an eerie red glow and it has a wild long hair that is comparable to a lion's mane. The creature is currently eating but what is the most disturbing site of it are the things sprawled around it. Three mutilated bodies of angels in a pool of blood, their intestines and limbs are all over the ground and their pure white wings are smeared with their own blood and their faces when they died were the expression of both terror and pain. The two bodies of the male angels are on the ground but the female one is currently being eaten by the creature, the remaining terrified angel watches in fear as the creature eats her comrade and best friend's torso down to her head.

After eating the female, it proceeds to eat the male angels. When the creature ingested its victims, a dark and vile aura emerges from its body and the amount of power the creature is having is increasing. The creature thought that it is still not enough and needed more power, so it sets its eyes to the poor trembling angel that is now more terrified than before to the point that she wets herself, thinking of being next to the creature's meal. The hulking creature picks up its sword-axe that is stained with the blood of its victims and raises it ready to strike down the female angel who lost the will to fight out of fear.

"P-P-Please… I d-don't want to die… NOOOOOO!" The angel screams in desperation hoping for someone to help her but the creature did not faze as it swings its weapon down.

CLANG!

The angel closes her eyes as she braces herself on her impending doom but the pain did not come, she wonders why she did not felt pain so she slowly opens her eyes and what she sees is a hooded figure stopping the attack of the hulking creature with a silver great sword. The angel's eyes widen in surprise at the sight of the sword, the heaven and the church were searching for it along with its new wielder. It was the holy blade, Balmung and the hooded man is definitely the Dragon-Blooded Knight, Sieg the individual who have been evasive to both Heaven and Underworld. He was wanted by heaven and the church to recruit him to their cause while in the case of the Underworld, he is wanted for a crime of killing a pillar heir.

"Go… get out of here if you don't want to die." The hooded Sieg calmly said without looking back at the angel. The female angel was surprised that the new wielder of Balmung is surprisingly young base on his voice.

The angel begins to move and flies upward, Sieg exerted more force breaking the deadlock between him and the hulking shadow beast which made the latter sent flying back but the giant beast immediately recovers its footing and assume a fighting stance.

*Cue Battle O.S.T.- Code Vein Battle Theme*

"I see. Even though you have a mind of a beast and lacks sanity, you still have the instinct of a great warrior. Come! Show me what you got, Berserker of Shadows!" Sieg's provocation made the shadow berserker angry and its exposed skin glows hot red.

ROAR!

The berserker makes an inhuman roar so loud to the point that it produces a shockwave then it crouches down and dig its feet to the ground cracking it as a result. The beast dashes forward leaving a shockwave and a sundered ground, meanwhile, Sieg did the same and his aura emerges from his body together with a light blue lightning cladding it. The Dragon-Blooded Knight dashes towards the enemy leaving a trail of blue light with a shockwave.

The two combatants clash and locks themselves in a deadlock resulting to shockwave that creates a crater, steel grinding to steel producing sparks, after the deadlock the two started attacking with their own vicious swings trading blow after blow with their blades. Every clash and parry of their weapons produces shockwaves that even made the ground crack, their swings get faster and faster until their arms blur and their swings can be only seen as streaks of blood red and light blue. The female angel watches in an amazed expression from above witnessing a great clash of power.

As their back and forth attack and parry continues, Sieg breaks the cycle as he swings an overhead slash which the shadow berserker blocks the attack with its sword-axe in horizontal position. The Dragon-Blooded Knight pushes his attack further and then twisted the hilt of Balmung activating the sword's power. Blue light manifested on the blade and extended longer acting like an extended blade for the great sword, the shadow berserker struggles to push away the attack but failed as the beam of light slowly making contact on its shoulder little by little until Sieg manages to land his attack to the enemy bisecting it halfway and a fountain of blood gushes out. The shadow beast kneels and fell limp, the eerie glow in its eyes disappear and mouth wide open.

It is done, the beast is dead and currently hissing in smoke like it is burning away, Sieg breathes a sigh and walks away from the dead beast. Unbeknownst to him, the beast is not yet dead and the hissing smoke was actually its regeneration at work, the cut portion begins to mend as muscle tissues reconnects, bones repairing and skin regenerate until no signs of cut could be seen. The angel watches in horror as she witnesses the beast's recovery.

"Watch out! It's not over yet!" The angel shouted to Sieg.

ROAR!

Sieg slightly widens his eyes after hearing the angels warning followed by a roar from the beast. He immediately turns around only to see the beast already recovered and dashing towards him in a blinding speed. Sieg holds the hilt of Balmung tightly with both hands and swings down his sword diagonally with speed faster than the beast. As the two opposition passes each other, the beast landed behind the young knight and suddenly kneels again with a large cut from its shoulder to abdomen almost splitting the berserker once again while blood gushes out like a geyser. Now the beast acquires its second death.

ROAR!

The shadow berserker did not stay dead for long as it came back to life and regenerates faster while a blood red aura emerges from it. As soon as it recovers, the beast moves in a blinding speed almost disappearing on sight and reappears in front of Sieg ready to make its vicious swing. Sieg blocks the swing with his great sword but as he makes contact, he finds the attack too strong and it manages to push him back until he is sent flying, while the knight tries to recover his footing, the berserker gives chase in great speed and with a blink of an eye the beast catches up to the knight and ends up behind him and then Sieg gets backhanded by the berserker sending him flying once again. The shadow berserker chases him again and is about to repeat what it did earlier but this time the beast kicks him hard and sent him flying upwards.

"Ugh! This thing hits hard!" Sieg thought to himself.

(I must admit, it is strong. It lacks sanity but it has a poise of a great warrior, if this thing manifested in Kuoh, then the Gremory and the Sitri peerage will be wipe out. I estimate that he is close to you and Karna in your base form. Heh! I guess this guy is more challenging than the other grunts don't you think, Partner?) Albion said to his host.

"Yeah… We will see the results of our training. Now I can also blow up some steam, it's a win-win." Sieg replied to the ancient dragon.

(Just don't let your guard down and don't rely too much on your blood armor and sacred gear. The gear is automatically working and halving the damage you take and empowering you at the same time but even a Longinus gear is not absolute.) Albion warned his charge.

"…Roger…" Sieg affirmed and starts working on recovering himself.

Unfortunately, before he could recover, the beast is upon him again in a blink of an eye ready to slam him back to the ground. Luckily, Sieg manages to block the very strong swing of a helm breaker to diminish the damage that he would take while he is plummeting down to the ground with great speed and crashes resulting to a cloud of smoke and a massive crater. But the beast is not yet done, upon landing beside the smoke, it swings the sword-axe like a baseball bat and sent Sieg flying again. The Berserker chases him and makes another swing sending him somewhere into the distance.

Back to Japan in Fuyuki town

While the battle at the borders of Italy continues, a battle is currently occurring as well in Japan, in a town named Fuyuki. It is a town located next to Kuoh and within the city, explosions keep appearing from building to building like there is a terrorist attack. People that are still awake at this time of dawn are running away in panic and did not know what is happening. Unknown to everyone, the explosions are not caused by a terrorist attack but a clash between members of the supernatural.

Karna did not expect this at all, he thought that there is only one denizen that was detected in town but suddenly another one appeared and looks like it has an ability of stealth. He is now currently engaged in battle with two denizens of shadow at the same time; one is a dark knight with purple spear that is trying to pin him down to make an opening for its companion for the finishing blow which is an assassin with a tattered cloak with a dagger held by its right hand in a reverse grip and a grotesque left arm with a huge claw.

Karna skillfully twirls his spear around parrying the purple spear that tries to pin him down and the standoff between him and the dark knight is hanging in the balance. Base on the power of his enemies, they are ranked as ultimate class but not near Karna's power, but their teamwork and cunningness makes up for it. While the hero of charity and the dark knight traded blow after blow in a fast pace swings, the assassin throws daggers at Karna to break his concentration. Karna deflected all the projectile attacks but the dark knight strikes at him, he barely blocks the attack and staggers which made him open to attacks which the assassin already noticed. The assassin dash towards Karna's back ready to stab him but the white haired hero repels it with a swing of his spear imbued with mana burst flame.

The waves of flame act like an extension of the spear's range to ensure that the enemy would back away. After repelling the threat, he continues his dance with the dark knight while thinking of a way to lure the two denizens away from the city but so far he cannot do it due to the coordination of his opposition. Karna realizes that they knew that he is luring them out of the city so they attack him aggressively not giving him a chance to move towards the city limit, instead, they are moving him deeper in the city. In this situation Karna cannot use his abilities and have to hold back, he was brought back from his reverie when the dark knight deflected his spear away then followed with hitting him with the butt of the spear to his abdomen.

"Grrk!" Karna hissed in pain and then he is sent flying towards to another building.

The two denizens are about to chase after Karna but hails of arrows made of fire rains down on them and they are forced to dodge and deflect the arrows. In another building, Karna has already switched to his bow, the Vijaya, and started dashing towards the city limits while they are distracted. The two denizens saw the fleeing form of Karna and they started giving chase to the hero of charity. Karna is already aware that he is being pursued by the enemies and while he is jumping from rooftop to rooftop, he is also aiming his bow loaded with fire arrows to the denizens while being in mid-air. He simultaneously fires his arrows to somehow deal damage to the opposition while he lures the enemy but he notices that the dark knight is the only one chasing after him.

Karna tries to detect the presence of the other denizen but when he was able to track the presence, it was already speeding towards him and the white haired hero splits his bow transforming to dual blades and intercepts the incoming attack resulting to them landing on the rooftop of the building. Karna and the shadow assassin clashes in a dance of battle, they trade blows after blows and no one seems to give the other an opening, every attempt that the assassin does were being parried by Karna with ease followed by a counterattack. Though the slight advantage was short-lived when the dark knight enters the fray and once again, the hero of charity is forced to fend both enemies at bay.

On a faraway building in a distance, a cloaked figure is watching the whole fight. The cloaked figure's hazel eyes narrowed as he observed the battle, he is discerning if who amongst them has the intention of bringing harm to the city or otherwise he will have to eliminate all combatants. The figure's appearance although his face was obscured by the hood of his dirty white tattered cloak, he is wearing a sleeveless black shirt that hugs the figure of his toned torso, black pants, steel toed black boots and red tattered overskirt, he is also wearing black fingerless gloves and steel vambraces on both arms. As he observes the situation, he came to the conclusion that the white haired teen tries to lure the two shadowy figure away from the city but those two were pinning him down. He has decided, he will help the white haired warrior to eliminate the shadowy figures. He reinforced his body with magic to the maximum and moves into action, he suddenly disappeared leaving a crack to the rooftop he was on.

The cloaked figure is currently jumping from rooftop to rooftop in a fast pace and while doing so he materialized a black bow and is being held by his left hand and then he materializes a sleek nameless sword at his right hand and then nocks it to the black bow. The nameless sword's appearance starts to alter and becomes something like an arrow, he releases the sword-like projectile and zooms through the air with great speed resulting in a sonic boom while the arrow looks like a shooting star to anyone that can see. The set target of the arrow is the shadow assassin that is about to backstab Karna, the arrow flew pass in front of the creature's face resulting in the assassin to retreat back. The shadow assassin looks toward the direction where the projectile came from only to see the cloak figure diving towards it; black bow still in his left hand and his right hand holding a black falchion with a yin-yang symbol on the guard.

The cloaked figure swings his falchion to the assassin but it evaded the attack by jumping back, upon seeing his attempt failed, the cloaked figure made a follow up attack by turning full three hundred sixty degrees and delivers a roundhouse kick towards the creature's gut. The impact causes a shockwave and the shadow assassin is sent flying away, the newcomer dismissed his black bow into a motes of light and in its place is another falchion which is the white version of the previous falchion. The two falchion that he is currently holding have similar appearance but with inverted colors and actually a set with each other, married swords in other words, the name of the black blade is Kanshou while the white one is Bakuya.

The shadow assassin manages to recover its footing and made a smooth landing, but it did not have time to catch a breath when the newcomer dashes towards it and makes a flurry of slashes with his dual blades. Both combatant's arms were a blur as they clash blades with the cloaked figure aggressively on the offensive while the assassin kept on parrying the swings. In order to break the stand still of battle, the cloaked figure does a different approach by throwing both of his weapon to the enemy. The enemy parried both swords away and dashes towards the new comer but unknown to the shadow assassin, the thrown swords are coming back like a boomerang.

Kanshou and Bakuya are not just any ordinary swords, they are noble phantasms that are attracted each other like a magnet so if one is separated to the other, the swords will find a way to reach the other. The assassin sensed an attack on both sides and dodges the attack, the swords flew past each other and once again continues the cycle of attraction. In order to pin his enemy down, the newcomer materializes another pair of Kanshou and Bakuya and throws them to the enemy again. He repeatedly conjures the married swords until there are too many swords flying around attacking the denizen in all angles, some of the swords manages to graze the enemy.

The cloaked man conjures another pair of married swords but this time he did not throw it, instead, he charges forward to the enemy with his arms reared for a cross slash. As he gets near to the distracted target, his swords morph into long swords with blades similar to the wings of an angel and fallen angel. By the time the denizen notices it was too late as the newcomer landed a cross slash and at the same time all pairs of married swords that are thrown have impaled their target. After the attack, an explosion occurs leaving no trace of the creature.

On Karna's side, he is still in a deadlock with the dark knight creature and it is proved to be a troublesome foe. He got no other choice but to use one of his noble phantasms but they are fighting in a populated area and he did not want any destruction that will result to casualties. While thinking of a plan, Karna kept his focus clashing and parrying attacks of his foe, in other's perspective, the fight is like a dance and each moves are choreographed. The dark knight made a swiping attack which Karna dodges by ducking and there he saw an opening. The hero of charity made a leg swipe disrupting his enemy's footing and then kicks it hard upwards sending the dark knight flying to the air.

Karna joins both hilts of his dual blades transforming it into a bow and nocks an energy arrow made of fire. He reinforced his arrow with mana burst overflowing it with power.

"Boost times two." Karna muttered and he felt his power doubles two times.

[BOOST!] [BOOST!] Ddraig silently announced with the Boosted gear.

"Transfer." Upon saying, the flaming aura of his projectile intensifies.

[TRANSFER!]

"Brahmastra… Kundala!"

Karna releases the arrow and it flew towards the airborne enemy with great speed, the creature can only watch as the attack hits resulting a big explosion in the sky. The explosion was so big that it cleared the clouds. Brahmastra Kundala is one of Karna's noble phantasm, a long range projectile with the power comparable to a nuclear weapon. The noble phantasm manifests as an arrow when he is using his bow but becomes a javelin when he is using his spear instead. Karna dismisses his bow and breathe a sigh of relief, he turns around facing the cloaked figure that help him against the denizens.

*Battle O.S.T. end*

"You have my gratitude for helping me eliminating threats but, who are you?" Karna addresses the newcomer.

"It's nothing to be thank about, I have been the guardian of this place for quite some time and it is my job eliminating supernatural threats. By the way, let me introduce myself." The cloak figure said as he removes the hood of his cloak revealing his short red hair with white fringe and hazel eyes brimming with determination.

"I'm Shirou Muramasa, nice to meet you."

Back to Italy border

While the battle against the denizens of shadow rages, the reborn maiden of the Orleans is staring at the Astaroth heir as he rants some nonsense with a smug grin on his face. Said devil stops his rant as he observes the captive maiden who is staring at him with a calm and calculative expression, his pride was wounded that he fails to intimidate her and make her despair. He maintains his smug expression to not show his doubt.

"You seem calm, my dear Laeticia? For a maiden who is about to be my slave, you are not showing any fear." Diodora said with a smug grin.

*Cue OST: Fate Grand Order- Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia soundtrack Track # 2 Kono tate ni Kakete (Hanging on this shield) *

"If I was as powerless as before, then I would have drowned in despair but someone came and inspired me to become stronger." Jeanne replied with a tone of conviction as her body glows in golden light.

"And now I have the power to protect myself and anyone so that there would be no other victims because of devils like you!" Upon saying those words, the glow on her body intensifies and then light exploded blinding the devils.

The light slowly subsides and the devils saw the maiden clad in her battle armor, her appearance is composed of a purple dress with slit parting her right side of the skirt exposing her shapely thigh and leg clad with black leggings and armor plated shoes, she also wears gauntlets, vambraces and couters on both arms and plackart and faulds on her abdomen and waist, and finally a metal headdress on her forehead. The magical chains that bounded her were broken and she is standing firm in front of the devils which them angry because of her stance hurt their pride.

"Sacred Gear: Sturdy Saint Activate." Jeanne said in a calm tone.

"What are you waiting for? Attack her! Killing her is of no matter, I'll just reincarnate her later!" Diodora shouted his command to his minions.

All the devil minions obeyed and unleash their most powerful demonic blast towards Jeanne who is standing still as the attacks comes. Before the attacks made contact, the maiden flip into the air dodging the attacks in the process. The devils attempt to try again by unleashing a barrage of demonic projectiles, only for Jeanne to flip sideways and then jumps up into the air again but the devils' attacks were relentless and their barrages are already aimed at her while she is mid-air. Without any option to dodge, she conjures a makeshift sword made of golden light, Jeanne has an inborn ability and affinity to use the power of light or holy powers the same as the angels and was called an angel reborn as a human. She deflects the demonic projectiles with her fast reflexes but she was not able to block all of it which made their attacks explode on her and clouded in smoke. The devils felt proud of their victory to prove their superiority but it was short-lived because Jeanne emerges from the smoke unscathed and currently charging towards the devils.

The devils activate their magic and releases a barrage of projectiles, the maiden continues to charge ahead to the hail of demonic power and with her speed and reflexes she deflects the incoming projectiles. After deflecting one projectile, another projectile was about to hit her but she simply backhanded the attack and exploded somewhere. The devils all saw what she did and all their eyes widen in shock.

"Tch! She has high magic resistance… so that's how she broke free from the chains." Diodora clicked his tongue.

Diodora fires a beam of demonic power towards Jeanne, only for the maiden to block it with her sword of light. The momentum that Jeanne have was halted and she was pushed back a little, the beam parted into two as the maiden stands firm and blocks the beam. Jeanne breaks the deadlock as she swings her arms and redirected the beam towards Diodora's minions. While the devils are disoriented, she charges towards one of the devils with light sword in hand; the devil manages to compose himself and conjures his own weapon which is a pitchfork. The two clash blades, the devil could barely block and parry Jeanne's blade dance and shortly, the maiden finds an opening and bypasses the devil's defense slicing him through the stomach.

After taking down one devil, she is once again at the receiving end of barrages of projectiles. Jeanne transforms her light sword into a light spear and skillfully twirl her weapon deflecting the projectiles then she throws her light spear like a javelin hitting another devil square to his chest. Another devil charges towards her and swings his sword only for the maiden conjures another light sword and blocks the attack. While Jeanne is engaged in combat, another devil minion sneaks behind her preparing to impale her with his pitchfork only for the maiden to move out of the way impaling his comrade instead. While the minion is in shock, Jeanne slices his weapon then stab him to the chest.

Diodora could only watch in gritted teeth as the maiden dances in the battlefield taking down his minions one by one. He called out one of his minions who are guarding him, and said minion kneels in response ready to receive orders.

"At this rate, we're going to fail. Get our trump card ready, that is the only way to stop her and break her determination." Diodora ordered his minion with a nasty grin on his face.

"As you wish, Lord Diodora." The minion responded and left the place by teleportation.

Jeanne charges towards another group of devils, one devil twirl his pitchfork like a skilled spear wielder and attempts to slash and stab the maiden only to be parried by Jeanne with skill and grace. She parries the incoming stab away making the devil staggered and swiftly dealt a killing blow by slicing the devil to the torso. Another devil charges with his spear ready to lunge towards the maiden but the female exorcist flips to the air then steps on the pitchfork using it like a foothold then jumps over the devil. After gracefully landing behind, she finds another devil wielding a sword charging towards her. She intercepted the devil's attack and clash blades for a brief moment then she kicks the devil to the gut also making her jump up to the air and started revolving mid-air slashing down the devil that she jumps over earlier. The sword wielding devil recovers from the kick and attempts to attack again only to find Jeanne dashes pass him already made her attack then the devil collapses and died.

The remaining group of devils did not move and became wary of Jeanne, they just hold up their weapons and magic circles waiting for the maiden to make the first move. The holy maiden stood up straight and started walking towards the group with an unreadable expression, her light sword in hand. The pace of her walk becomes faster and faster, she was about to sprint towards the devils but she heard Diodora once again.

"That's as far as you go, woman! Or else, someone will pay for your stubbornness!" Diodora shouted to the maiden and beside him is one of his minion holding someone a hostage. Jeanne's eyes widen in shock and halted her advance, the one who was taken hostage is her friend, Adele and currently unconscious.

*O.S.T. end*

"Adele!" Jeanne shouted and took a step forward.

"Whoa there! Laeticia dear, don't make any move or she's dead." As if on cue, his minion laid a dagger on Adele's neck ready to slit the poor girl's throat.

Jeanne gritted her teeth and obeyed the devil, she stands down and dismisses the light sword into motes of light. Seeing that he has won, Diodora wears a nasty grin and his expression and the glint in his eyes screams of perversion now that he has the maiden at the palm of his hands.

"Good girl! Now, disengage your sacred gear." Diodora commanded in a haughty tone. Jeanne obeyed reluctantly leaving her defenseless on her civilian clothes.

Diodora stared at the maiden, eyes wandering from top to bottom then wears a perverted grin. He observed her article of clothing and he can still see Jeanne's beautiful figure, at this time he realizes what the next command is.

"As expected! You're so pure and beautiful, so much that I want to taint and defile you! Now strip your clothes in front of me and don't get any ideas of retaliating." Diodora said his next command which shock the maiden. Jeanne looks at her unconscious friend and the devil minion push the dagger slightly at the girl's neck drawing a little amount of blood.

Jeanne felt helpless and despair on her current situation, her body trembles as it was now coming back to her and about to experience shame and humiliation, her chastity in danger. Gritting her teeth, she obeyed with her trembling hands she removes her blue jacket and let it fall to the ground, then she loosens her tie and proceeds to slowly unbutton her shirt. Tears are about to fall on her beautiful face her mind screaming for someone to help her and her friend. Diodora felt like he is in a field day as he watches the maiden strip, eyes wide in excitement and his grin grew wide, he is now closer to his goal and he is about to enjoy Jeanne's body. But as if fate spits on his face, it would never come to fruition.

As if granting the maiden's plea for help, something crashes between them interrupting everything due to the shockwave produces by the impact. Jeanne got out of balance and kneels down and the devils covered their faces from the wind and dust. Everyone look at the crash site and waited for the dust to subside, emerging from the crash is a cloaked figure which also has his face covered. But what did get their attention is the weapon that he is holding, a silver great sword with a golden cross on the guard, the holy blade Balmung.

"T-That's Balmung!"

"W-Wait! The devil hunter is here!?"

"I-Is that the rumored Dragon-Blooded Knight!?"

The devils reacted in fear and panic upon seeing the sword and its wielder who is the bane to their existence. Diodora's body froze and suddenly felt a phantom pain from his crotch, he is also having a flashback on the day his older brother died from the wielder of Balmung. He also remembered how he was interrupted from taking Laeticia years ago and how haunting seeing the sharp eyes of the hunter having a dangerous glint in them, how the hunter relentlessly hunting them.

Jeanne could only stare at her savior, she found him at last but once again save by him from the same devil. Before everyone could react to the newcomer, another loud crash landed not too far from them. They all look at the direction from the crash only to see a nightmarish look of the giant emitting a malicious aura. Everyone froze except to the disguised Sieg, the power emitting from the giant is stronger than the combined might of the devils but Jeanne knows that she can handle a fight with it though she will have a hard time.

"Don't move." Sieg said to the maiden without removing his sight to the enemy. Jeanne did what he said and hums in approval.

(You need to get a little serious partner. Show to everyone especially that big lump of charred flesh how strong the White Dragon Emperor really is.) Albion said to him in his mind.

"Roger that." Sieg mentally replied and flared his full power in his base form. He is now enveloped in a blue aura and clad with lightning.

Everyone in the battle field looks at the cloaked warrior in shock on how monstrous his power is; they could not tell which of the two newcomers is the monster here but the only fact here is that they are the apex predator here in this battlefield. The devils especially Diodora are now trembling in fear, they could not move because they feel that one wrong move and their dead.

*Cue Battle O.S.T.- Fate/ Stay Night Heaven's feel o.s.t. Saber Alter vs. Berserker*

ROAR!

They heard a blood-curling roar from the berserker and dashes to the direction of the devils with great speed breaking the sound barrier. Before the devils could even react, one of them got punch to the ground turning the unfortunate devil to paste, blood splattered on the crater then the beast picks the corpse up and much to their horror, the berserker eats the dead devil. After eating, the beast roars and its malicious aura flares much stronger than earlier, now Diodora and his minions are now scared of the monster and the one who was holding a hostage involuntarily let go of the girl.

"Adele!" Jeanne saw her friend free from the devils' clutches and is about to move towards her but she was halted by the Dragon-Blooded Knight's word.

"By the time we start fighting, I'll give you the signal to retrieve your friend. So please, stay still." The knight requested which Jeanne hesitantly complied.

Sieg and the berserker starts their stare off, blue reptilian eyes against burning lava eyes. The Dragon-Blooded knight raises his sword and pointed it to the enemy challenging it to come at him with all its got, and the reaction is obvious, the berserker growled at the taunt and roared. The beast crouches down the soil beneath its feet cracking and made a dash towards the knight breaking the sound barrier.

Sieg puts on a stance ready for battle, his great sword reared back with both of his hand holding it. In the blink of an eye, the berserker closes the distance and about to swing down its weapon but it senses danger and shielded the side of its face instead. The attack that the berserker barely blocks was a powerful swing came from Balmung, it was so strong that even the berserker's own weapon impacted on its face and then the beasts gets thrown back like a ragdoll.

"Now is your chance!" Sieg yelled signaling Jeanne to move, the maiden understood his plan and dashes towards her unconscious friend while donning her battle armor again.

"What the-! Don't let her get her friend back!" Diodora notices that the maiden has started to move and ordered one of his men to retrieve their hostage.

One of Diodora's men is about to retrieve Adele but Jeanne closes the distance with great speed. The minion was shock for a moment and attempted to deploy his weapon only for the maiden to severe his whole right arm with a light sword, before the minion could scream in pain, his head is already impaled by Jeanne killing him in the process. Jeanne picks up her friend and jumps away distancing themselves from the battlefield.

"Grrr! Dammit! Let's go back we're going to be killed here at this rate!" Diodora ordered is remaining minion and deployed a magic circle to teleport away.

"This is not over yet, Laeticia! One of these days you're going to be mine!" Was Diodora's dark thought before he disappears along with the remaining devils.

Meanwhile the berserker regains its footing from being thrown back and charges again to the Dragon- Blooded Knight with great vigor and fury. Sieg awaits his opponent in a calm disposition and makes a stance preparing to intercept, the beast swings its weapon down only for the knight to parry the attack away. It attempted to attack only to get the same result, this repeats again and again much faster than their previous swings until only streaks of red and blue can be seen on their swings. As their battle get heated, manages to land a fatal blow across his enemy's torso making its blood gush. Most opponents would have died at such injury but the dark beast just roars in defiance and swings its weapon again only to hit nothing but air and gouging out a portion of the land, Sieg has already got away with great speed that he can only be seen as a streak of light. After distancing himself, Sieg still clad in his aura of lightning observes his opponent especially the regenerating wound on the berserker's torso.

(Still has the power to regenerate huh. Partner, use your speed and keep giving it fatal blows and wear it down.) Albion suggested.

"Alright. Let's see how your regeneration keeps up." Sieg agreed to the dragon's strategy as he resumes attacking the hulking monster.

Sieg dashes in speed that turns him into a streak of bluish white light and circle around the shadow berserker then he starts going for the attack. With the beast's strong instinct and good reflexes, it somehow can intercept the knight's path of attack; they give brief exchanges with their weapons but only Sieg landing a blow to the beast and whenever the berserker retaliates he disengages and switches to another angle to attack. This cycle repeats for some time until the berserker landed a blow even though the attack was blocked, the sheer strength behind the pushes Sieg back and got sent flying. Sieg recomposes himself and steps on a high trench and then propels himself towards the beast.

Sieg slashes at the berserker only for it to meet the attack with a block as they pass each other, the young knight once again dashes for another attack and the beast faces the knight preparing to make his own attack. The two attacks meet and clash producing a shockwave that made some cracks to the earth, and they once again engage in an exchange of very fast swings. In the distance, Jeanne could only watch in awe as the battle unfolds, as if she is watching a battle between two battle gods with each of their weapons destroying the surroundings whenever their weapons clash. The battle was so intense that a portion of land got gouged out in every clash and both fighters tirelessly giving their relentless assault to kill each other.

The berserker swings its sword-axe down only for Sieg to meet the attack with Balmung charged with blue energy which extends the range of the blade. They are in a deadlock at first, but Sieg slowly gains an advantage pushing the beast back until the sword-axe gives away making Balmung have a full swing at the beast and got enveloped to the blue beam of energy. The beam of energy bursts through the high trenches almost making a canyon and exploded in the distance, the attack fatally damaged the beast as its flesh were charred and some missing limbs. The beast's body is twitching, struggling to stand up.

*O.S.T. end*

ROAR!

The beast bellowed a roar of defiance and engulfs in a dark aura, the charred skin and missing limbs starts to regenerate and got in an all-fours preparing to charge at the knight. Sieg's expression is calm and did not falter at the face of the monster, he closes his eyes and sighed then he raises his great sword with one hand pointing its blade to the enemy. With a flex on his weapon, Balmung lits up with blue energy once more with its wielder ready to finish the fight. In the distance, Jeanne gulps down as she watches the climax of the fight.

*Cue Battle O.S.T.- Sword Art Online Alicization Alice battle theme: She was sitting under the Osmanthus tree (last part) *

The shadow berserker propels itself towards Sieg in reckless abandon, it's fist reared back ready to bash the skull of its enemy. The beast throws the punch forward only to be blocked by the great sword, they are on a deadlock and the beast trying to break through the knight's defense but unfortunately, a metallic fist hits it square to the chin. Sieg counters the beast with a solid uppercut which made it staggers and slightly propels upward then Sieg raises Balmung overhead with both of his arms holding the hilt. He mutters the name of his sword in a quiet whisper and swings down his sword and a blue energy beam is unleashed enveloping the shadow berserker until its obliterated.

*O.S.T. end*

The aftermath is that the battlefield is covered with lots of dust cloud and debris, the female angel saw the whole battle from the sky and she can't help but shiver on such the scale of that battle. She saw from her peripheral vision that there are other people watching so she landed beside them only to see the holy maiden and the reincarnation of Jeanne d'arc there holding an unconscious female.

"Is she alright?" The angel asked the holy maiden and said maiden looks up to her and nodded.

"She was captured by the devils and used her against me but I managed to save her, thanks to him." Was Jeanne's response as both of them look at the aftermath of the battle.

Within the dust clouds stands the Dragon-Blooded Knight looking down to his enemy's remains, the shadow berserker's remaining body was only its head and torso. It was still twitching trying to regenerate itself but now it cannot do it anymore until it dies and turn to ash. The wind blows strongly which made the holy maiden and the female angel closes their eyes due to the dust and when they open their eyes, they could not see the figure of the knight anymore, only his discarded cloak being carried by the wind.

Vatican Headquarters

Jeanne arrived to the headquarters in Vatican without any problems and there she reported to the higher-ups what happened on her way. To say that the reaction of the higher-ups was split, some says make their complaints and persecute the devil that attempted to abduct their one of the best and most faithful exorcist, but the others were calm and said that they have no solid evidences that will point out the devil's deeds and it will only be denied by the accused devil and one wrong step will result to a war.

"Thank you, Jeanne for your report. You are dismissed." One of the superiors said, he sounds of an aged man full of experience and the air around him signifies of a seasoned and veteran warrior. His name is Vasco Strada.

"Yes, your excellency Strada." Jeanne responded and left the meeting room.

"So it's finally clear. This incident is connected to all our holy maidens who fell from grace and the report says that they got involved with a devil. Who could have thought that the current heir of the Astaroth devils is doing this despicable act?" Vasco Strada said in realization.

"Indeed. Back then, we almost lost Griselda Quarta to the elder Astaroth heir and now we almost lost our holy maiden Jeanne d'arc." One of the higher-ups said.

"But how were they rescued?" One of them asked in curiosity.

"Both of Griselda and Jeanne's report says that they were saved by the wielder of Balmung who named himself as Sieg the Dragon-Blooded Knight." Strada replied.

"Then we should recruit him. He will be a great asset to us."

"That's impossible though, after he finished his hunt, the knight always mysteriously vanishes in thin air like he was not there at all."

"That is enough. There is also another thing to discuss, now that the answer came to light we still cannot capture Diodora Astaroth for his transgression. He will just deny all accusations plus he is the brother of the current Beelzebub, we should just fortify our guard to all other holy maidens we have so no one would follow to the ranks of the fallen." Eminence Strada intervene.

"And also, the false judgement that we brought upon Asia Argento." Upon saying the name of the latest victim of the incident, the meeting room was covered in silence.

Back at the Hyoudou residence, Kuoh, Japan

As the climax of each battle arrives, Scathach was sitting on a sofa in the living room waiting patiently to both of her apprentices to come back. Thank goodness its weekend that this happen, no classes and students to teach. She crosses her bare shapely legs, a hand on her chin as she now assumes a thinking pose and currently thinking the thing that is bothering her mind which is her last vision on her clairvoyance. While she was thinking, the doorbell of the house rings which made her got out of thinking.

"So they're here huh." Was the only words she said as she stands up and made her way to the door even though she is meeting the visitors wearing only a white sweater.

The scantily clad warrior queen opens the door meeting three people or rather devils, based on their aura levels they ranged from the highest tier of ultimate class to the lower tier of deity class. The devils that Scathach meets are; a short female with black hair in pigtails and magenta eyes, she is wearing a magical girl outfit, the other is a silver haired female with crimson eyes wearing a French maid uniform and lastly, a crimson haired man resembling Rias Gremory wearing a white noble clothing under his battle armor with cape. The three devils are Serafall Leviathan, Grayfia Lucifuge and Sirzechs Lucifer, the devil faction's strongest.

"May we have a word with you, Lady Scathach?" Sirzechs Lucifer asked while flaring a bit of his aura. The warrior queen narrows her eyes as she has a feeling that they will have more than a word.

"So this how you would play it? Rias Gremory." She thought in irritation.

Chapter end

Act 4: The Holy Maiden of the Orleans

(Background: Fate / Apocrypha episode title screen- Jeanne's command spell)

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Credits (Cue Ending song: Desire by Garnidelia)

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AUTHOR'S NOTE:

And that's chapter 4, whoa! This is quite a progress, I managed to finish two chapters this year. Hope that I can update more than two next year. Anyway, the main heroine appears in this chapter and she was born as Laeticia, as the chapter mentioned on when she became an exorcist, the church changed her name to Jeanne d'arc due to her resemblance to the original Jeanne and the nature of her sacred gear. She might be the reincarnation of Jeanne d'arc but not by this world's Jeanne because the Jeanne in this world has descendants thus the existence of DXD Jeanne. Sieg and Jeanne's case were that they were isekai'd as many would call it.

And whoa! Our main heroine is being targeted by one and only Diodora Astaroth. The damn douchbag… I really hate his character so I will just you know. Well, he almost have Jeanne but as if I would have that. Fate will spit on him to the face and that fate is me, the author. I would never want my favorite waifu be raped by some not so important character who is a stalker and a voyeur. Heh! I really did demonized Diodora aren't I? And at the end of the chapter, Scathach meets the two siscon Devil kings, this is bad. Oh by the way, if you do not know the ost that I used in Jeanne's battle, it is from the FGO anime at episode 0 when Mash was possessed by Galahad and destroys the laser beams.

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NAME: Jeanne d'arc (true name: Laeticia Romee)

ALIAS: Holy Maiden, La Pucelle

GENDER: Female

POWER RANKING: A rank Ultimate class being

ALIGNMENT: Lawful Good

Strength: B

Agility: B

Endurance: A

Mana: A

Luck: C

NP: EX

Note: There is a reason for her NP to be in EX rank and it will be revealed in future chapters.

PERSONAL SKILLS:

Revelation- A (Precognitive ability)

Saint – B (immunity to curse and her power over holy energy)

Charisma- C

Instinct - C

PASSIVE SKILLS:

Magic Resistance – EX (sacred gear skill, can resist low tier deity class being)

NOBLE PHANTASM: (will be updated as the story progresses.)

Sacred Gear- Sturdy Saint: A

Barrier type noble phantasm

Gives an B rank physical defense and EX rank magic resistance

A rare sacred gear that specializes in defending or enduring any attacks, it manifests as a battle armor that the original Jeanne d'arc have worn.

Luminosite Eternelle- God is here with Me: A+

Barrier type noble phantasm

Details to be announced when it is revealed.

La Pucelle- The Crimson Saint: EX

Anti-Army noble phantasm

Details to be announced when it is revealed.

NOTE: We already know Jeanne's noble phantasms but I added some twist in them and that is also the reason why I changed La Pucelle from suicide type to anti- army type. One thing I could say is that La Pucelle will be not fatal for Jeanne here.

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NAME: Shadow Berserker

ALIAS: -

GENDER: -

POWER RANKING: B+++ rank Ultimate class being

ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Evil

Strength: A

Agility: A

Endurance: B

Mana: A

Luck: C

NP: -

PERSONAL SKILLS:

Battle Continuation – A

Monstrous Strength – A+

PASSIVE SKILLS:

Magic Resistance – D

Note: This enemy resembles Heracles with an armor similar to the armored titan in A.O.T.

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NAME: Shadow Knight

ALIAS: -

GENDER: -

POWER RANKING: B+ rank Ultimate class being

ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Evil

Strength: B

Agility: C

Endurance: B

Mana: D

Luck: B

NP: -

PERSONAL SKILLS:

Battle Continuation – B

Monstrous Strength – C

PASSIVE SKILLS:

Magic Resistance – D

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NAME: Shadow Assassin

ALIAS: -

GENDER: -

POWER RANKING: B rank Ultimate class being

ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Evil

Strength: D

Agility: A

Endurance: E

Mana: D

Luck: B

NP: -

PERSONAL SKILLS:

Tactics – C

Presence Concealment – A

PASSIVE SKILLS:

Magic Resistance – D

Note: This enemy resembles Hassan of cursed arm.

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