Once again, hello my fellow readers.
This chapter took a while for me to write since to be honest it was pretty long and sufferable to the point where I was literally drowning in scenarios that made me want to think twice of writing about, since I didn't want to do it half assed or come off on a whim. But I didn't want it to be deluded to the point of where I write things out and they are just bleak because they lack character or feelings. I wanted the same feel that Supernatural had when they expressed their emotions and same goes for Highschool DXD but since Highschool DXD was less emotional than Supernatural I have to balance the feel between the two since one has more drama than the other.
As its stands, Highschool DXD lacks the actually character feeling that you can compare to, sure there's the tragic pasts of the characters but think about it: They are kids doing grown up stuff like murdering people and not thinking twice, they may be devils but it doesn't give them the excuse of belittling people. Yeah they have family and they always watch out for one another and they practically dot on each other to make sure they are feeling well about the situation at hand but you can tell that when it comes to shit hits the fan situations that they try their best to stay together, but to the expense of their own they would do anything to not lose that person. And we all have seen the reaction of Rias when she witnessed the death of Issei when he "Supposedly" got killed by Loki's son. It's like how the hell did she even be stable enough to face the death of at least one of her precious loved ones if she can't handle the real life problems when it all too becomes real by what killing herself just to vent out her anger, sadness, regret?
What Highschool DXD lacks is the realistic side of reality and that's why it was so damn hard for me to fix or at least counteract this problem since it's not to be a dramatic show but also to me they're so blunt about these things and to me I see it this way: It's like they see a dead body (First season when they teleported to Issei where they first encountered Freed Sellzen) or a mass murder of their own get killed (Meeting of the Big 3) and all they do is watch and let it slide over them because they are too prideful (Like they act like seasoned warriors, but in truth they see most people like tools to their disposal and they grow attached to the person (when Rias tricks Issei to become her servant) like one would to an object). In the Supernatural side the two brothers at least check on one another to get a reaction out of the people they kill to make sure they're stable enough to keep on hunting (But they're Hunters so it wouldn't matter if they're stable or not, just...Stabler), it has the drama of making the show be more...Human, for the lack of word. So what I'm proposing is that things will get real by normal standards or a little more drama to touch on the borderline of true family and the Highschool DXD characters gets exposed to more fear and what happens when you think that love and the "affection" of family can solve problems.
"It's time for the children to stop acting like they could handle the problems or it's just another tragic tale of children wanting to play god, because if they follow that path then this tale will become another story of the Lord Of The Flies" the characters will know that it's not just the monsters that they have to worry about… But the people that hide behind their masks and hide in plain sight and wait to show their true colors when all hope is lost.
Let the true horrors begin.
Note: I don't not own any of the Supernatural series or Highschool DXD.
Dean Talking "..."
Dean side comments (...)
DeanThinking '...'
Draig Talking [...]
Draig Thinking ['...']
The Lucky Few
Chapter 3
Time Skip: (8 Years Later)
Destination: Tokyo, Japan The New Gallows
The shallow waters reflect the full moon's figure as it's light shined over the the city with a watchful presence. It did this again and again like any other time, but tonight was different, the streets were less busy and more silent than any other night. Usually a hobo or homeless would walk down these streets to either search of warmth from a fire, scavenge for food, or find their own makeshift homes.
They now live in these hoovervilles on the outskirts of the city since the dickhead fuckbuddy politicians decided to close down the shelters in the residency due to them "manifesting" the city. Bunch of douchebags if you would ask anyone, but nothing can be done for them except give them what they need and pray for their health.
Next to the hooverville on the opposite site of their camp is one building that stands out, a small warehouse that looks old enough to be considered a relic that looked like it could house three families. Nobody goes near the place because of it's local legend of being haunted and recent missing of one of their own in the past few days.
Their numbers start to thin out so they try to contact local law enforcement to help find their missing family or friend, but even corruption has spread to the enforcers of justice for they just ignore their pleas for help and turn a blind eye.
For three months they've been desperate and afraid, every night inside their makeshift homes they hear voices that sound inhuman while the unlucky ones get taken as they scream but it only lasts for a moment until absolute silence.
"Gwough, Gwough, Gwough, Gwough"
The horrible sound of someone coughing while they're gasping for air, it sounded like an elderly dying woman giving out their last dying breath in a hacking fit. Immediately the living souls within the area froze as the sound echoed inside theirs heads to their quaking hearts. All breathing and brain function cease as the next sound was emitted from outside their huts.
Two homeless individuals both females in their 40's held hands as they saw a shadow stretched under their metal door and stay there as if it knew they were inside. One of the women put a hand on her mouth to stifle her breathing, while the other clutched her chest as if thinking the creature can hear her heartbeat which who knows it probably could.
The thing outside their door stayed there for what felt like an eternity as if playing with them until one of the women gave in or made the first noise. Both of them were at the end of their limit as they clutched even tighter with both their hands as they turned purple from lack of air. Tears ran down their cheeks as their heads start to get light from lack of oxygen but both managed to hold on until the shadow in front of the door moved on, as it shuffled to the next unfortunate shack.
Both women breath out slowly from their noses as five seconds pass….
"AGHH!"
A scream came behind their backs as the lady with a hand on her mouth takes in a sharp intake of breath which was the first of two mistake. One it startled the other which caused her to yelp making enough noise to be heard from the outside. Second they were on the verge of losing consciousness with the rush of adrenaline pushed them to the edge.
In their hazed minds they saw the front of their door break open to darkness even with the moon out and the only thing they saw before they passed out was bloodshot lazy cat slit eyes as it enveloped them in complete utter darkness.
"AAGH..."
(2 Hours Ago)
"GROWLL!"
"OH, Come On! I just fed you an hour ago!"
A teenager about 5'11' with a lean athletic build said as he held a hand over his empty stomach while he walked out of a police station like a free man. The teen has Crew Cut brown hair, with light sharp brown eyes that unnoticeably glances around his surroundings every so often, he wears a red shirt under a black coat making his appearance look like some badass thug.
But it wasn't his good looks (Or maybe it was) that got him inside the police station, but his impulsive action that landed him in the slammer. It happened a while ago when three guys that were too fugly for their own good were picking a fight with a 12 year old and his mom, and things almost went deep south when one of the monkeys grabbed the mom and knocked the shit out of the kid. Then along came him the good samaritan that crossed paths and after three painful beatings later the cops showed up and had the balls to arrest the three including one Issei Hyoudou for being a "associate" (whatever the hell that means)
After an hour being cuffed to the bench he got released due to at least one good detective and eye witnesses, including the three idiots themselves sprouting outrageous shit like "Tell the demon we're sorry!" or "Protect us or he'll come back to eat my soul!" even "You reap what you sow!" and his favorite "I'm terribly sorry for being a disgraceful shitbag of society!" Funny thing is that he didn't even try to (Well… Maybe a little) give them a taste of fear. In the past and currently (as it seems) he excelled putting fear into people and others alike.
After that cluster fuck he left being thanked by only the detective, and the mother and her son for saving them which he just shrugged off afterwards, he saw the kid beam at him when he came in saving them from the jerkatellies, he's a tough kid tough so it didn't bother Issei even though it did feel nice to be thanked.
[Well That's Because You Act Like Some Knight In Shining Armour Which Is Bound To Woe Those Around You Even If It Wasn't Intentional]
Issei shook his head 'Naw, it's just duty to help those when in need'
The voice boomed again with a snort [Sure Duty… It Doesn't Say In The Duty Description To Be Nice To Others, Just Get The Job Done]
Issei just shrugged at the speculation 'Just trying to not make enemies'
The voice echoed with what Issei could tell an imaginary eye roll [Just Like Kicking Thugs Asses Won't Make You A Blimp On The Radar. You Heard Them When They Whispered What You Did When You Set Foot In The Place] Issei frowned but conceded, he knew he was risking it by getting caught by the police half the reason because he happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and he also needed to get inside to hear anything about a case he's been following for the past week. He got wind of missing reports in smalls parts of Tokyo, not much to take a second look at when there's thousands of missing people everywhere in this time and age. But it wasn't the missing that interested him…. In this week's 'Weekly Bazeet' somewhere an article was written stating 3 male missing people mysteriously vanishing with no breaking and entering, no signs of struggling, or even threats or signs of being blackmailed, to top it off what even made the whole thing suspicious is that all three people left within the same hour like it was planned for no reason whatsoever.
After some digging Issei had a chat with one of his contacts to 'reinvestigate' the recent magician's act and found out that there was one witness: A 6 year old boy. After 'interviewing' the young kid, they found out the boy was awake when his dad left them. The boy saw his dad leave through the front door as he watched from the kitchen. What happened is the his dad opened the door and what he saw made the 6 year old pass out from shock: A pair of yellow eyes that burned as they etched into the kid's mind.
From the description the face was undetermined so all they had to run on was the 'eye discretion' (Ha. Pun) but it was enough for him and the tenant in his head to deduce several suspects: Either it was a wisp, mummy, vampire, yokai, werewolf, or goul. Both discussed the possibilities until two remained: Either a vampire or wisp.
That spread out a few lines which could explain reports such as a wisp could possess a defenceless person (when they are at their most vulnerable) or even when they're sleeping, different for a vampire for they need eye contact for a good while to actually "influence" the person. So from there they dug a bit deeper on the last known locations of the victims which came up scratch because one of the victims worked at home while the other two worked on opposite sides of town in office buildings. Which made it more frustrating since the three never had contact with any place, no friends that could be associated or linked to one another, hell even no individual that can relate.
So both accused were more than a shot-in-the-dark so instead of looking in the disappearance Issei investigated into motive behind them. After a few days he got a whiff that could be a possible lead. The thing is it's not the husbands but wives that had something.
During separate time's all three wives received a pamphlet when they felt their husbands weren't fulfilling enough, the pamphlet itself wasn't enough for anyone to even take a second glance, it even disappeared after a while.
At least his contact got a sketch of the paper from one of the widows, (Yes, usually in these types of situations the husband is most likely dead, but you can hope) from the design it looks like the average sigil glyphics that psychics or devil worshippers would use. Except when he research (A.K.A using the internet) nothing popped up so he instead of searching for demonic sigils he used business symbols and one close to the same design for a box company that renovated a couple decades ago at the edge of the city, they shut down from bankruptcy, leaving the place empty for about 12 years.
Issei was going to find more information in archives from the public library but that went least when the 3 stooges got in his field of view (A power he achieved for spotting an asshole by eye contact) During the time he was detained and waiting, he overheard a few off duty talk about a few more missing people go missing, except it's homeless so to them it's normal for anyone to ignore but the place they disappeared is extremely close to an abandoned warehouse.
So coincidence? Unfucking Likely
After his release of miscommunication they let him off with a light warning (Yeah, fuck them too) Issei walked back to his rented apartment that was his for the last 3 months for his studying and training at a university. Apparently they wanted him by his performance in most sports since he's good at the physical side and his grades can be labeled average for him to attend. Well, more accurately he was good at more than one sport that labeled him a 'Sport Prodigy' but since he had to choose only one Issei went to basic with either Kendo or Judo, he's qualified for either that will grant him a scholarship. So for the time, Issei is attending here during the summer to progress in his training and studying. It was also the perfect opportunity to get into the city and chase down some unwanted individual.
He walked inside a showy hotel that looks more a privately owned suite, on the fourth floor to room 41D and opened the door with a blank magnetic key card. Issei walked in as the sensor lights flickered on which ignited a lamp in the hallway that lead to 3 rooms. The one straight ahead lead to a king sized bed that has one window and closet, the two rooms on the left and right are the bathroom that has a sonnet attached, then the kitchen with one table plus fridge that extended to a living room that had a great view of the city, that also attached to the bedroom.
Issei walked in his bedroom to see a couple items such as a sports bag at the foot of his bed, along with a shinai on top of the bag. He directly went to his closet to find a black bag at the bottom, that was secured with a built in switch lock. Issei opened the lock and dug through his bag. He pulled out a brown leather thick book that had some papers sticking out, along with a belt holster that was equipped with two daggers on the left and right with some other unmentionables in smaller pouches. He looped the belt on his waist with a click and continued to dig in his bag when he saw an artifact that made Issei think over but pushed it aside along with a loaded one piece. After being satisfied with what he had he put back all the things he didn't want to take inside the bag and locked up everything as he headed out again. This time before he left, he picked out some fruit from the kitchen for a quick snack as he walked out avoiding the camera's as best as he could by taking the stairs and leaving by the broken emergency back door.
The only 16 year old walked the streets of Japan during after curfew hours, which Issei would give you the finger or concussion if any stranger asked him about it. After an hour, he reached the base of the homeless shacks and proceeded down the edges of the homes to get to the abandoned warehouse.
Every shack he saw was made of old wood or rusted metal panels put together in a crude mitch matched way but it was brilliantly made to closely replicate a small living space. Issei saw the building across the hoovervilles so he moved inside the camps silently as he could to not be spotted.
As he stalked in the shadow of the shacks he heard a noise that was foreign to him. It was an old cough that sounded more like someone dying. At instinct Hyoudou reached to his belt hip to take out a dagger that was 16 inches long with a very thin width. The blades surface was smooth and sharp enough to cut phonebooks in half. The knife itself was ebony colored to the handle which the grip was covered in a leather wrap that had five crystal clear beads.
Hyoudou held the knife in front of him, as he glided shack to shack while crouching, to make himself a smaller target, and also a low profile. Issei would have never squatted in these types of situations even if it meant a higher chance of decapitation, til there was that one time on a hunt where he got hit in the face with a green slime that burned his clothes that made a big impression on him. The thing stuck to his face and he thought he was going to die the most embarrassing way by suffocating on flubber when it detached from his face and ran off before he could kill it.
Back to him, Issei silently crept along yet another shack he saw about two more shacks until he reached the warehouse when he was stopped dead in his tracks as a cloaked figure wisped past him. It vanished issei unfroze to look around to see it disappear around the homes, Issei relaxed his muscles as he decided to follow Stevie Wonder to wherever hideout, shelter, graveyard, or underground loft (yes he's been to one of those) it may go.
The teen swiftly followed it while taking cover in shadows. The silent assassin tailed the creature until he saw it move to the ocean shoreline where it was nothing but rocks covering the ground and not even close to the abandoned box house! He saw the figure blend into the shadows as it once again disappeared behind a couple of boulders that went along the coastline. Issei walked cautiously on the rock reef trying to get the lead on the guy. After crawling on the rocks wobbling to catch up with the caped crusader and peaking over the bolder he saw nothing.
The thing vanished like a ghost, he looked everywhere but found that there was nothing, not even tracks. Issei twirled around in a circle as if expecting the creature to wave his hands in the air and say 'I'm over here' Sighing he walked further down the coastline away from the city and homeless shelters, he didn't go far when he was stopped by a ripe, clinging, vinegar stench that invaded his nose nearly making him lose consciousness if not for his past experience to withstand such smell that involved month's worth of bread and fiber. But still the smell was enough to make the steeled bodied masculine warrior hide his nose in his jacket's sleeve. As he daringly moved onward his eye caught sight of a small iron lid which he saw up close said sewer captioned on the top. The moon's natural light beamed down on the manhole as the clouds moved past like a divine sighting.
'My spidey sense is tingling!'
[Isn't That Just Your Common Sense? Well, The Only Difference Between The Two Is One Of Them Doesn't Work And The Other Is A Superpower]
Issei rolled his eyes at the light jab while thinking, 'Dumbass, a spidey sense is a superpower Ddraig'
Ddraig corrected [No, I Was Talking About Your Common Sense]
Issei's only response was a scoff but he knew he played into that one and thought of a way to say something back but nothing came to mind at the moment.
Ddraig [Don't Think About It Too Hard Partner. You'll Just Hurt Your That Thing You Call A Brain]
He open the sewer lid with his knife, while thinking with an annoyed face, 'If only I can find a way to hurt you, you just wait, the first thing I will going to hurt is your god damn pride!'
Ddraig only made a smug remark [And In The Process Yours As Well, Since We're One And The Same. Until Then, I'll Settle For Making Your Life As Miserable As Possible]
Issei sighed again as he placed the lid on the ranged sized rocks, but the sigh wasn't one of defeat but one of resignation that he knew wouldn't or couldn't do anything to the ancient monstrosity known as the Great Red Dragon.
As he moved back to look down the hole to find it completely dark and the smell erupting in his face 10 fold. Issei fell backwards as if he was physically struck by the stench, he held his nose as his snot leaked from his nose from the bitter smell and his eyes teared up like he cutting up an onion or eating a California Ghost Pepper.
Not able to take it anymore, he reached out mentally and somehow in a strangled voice, 'Ddraig, a little help here!' Replying to his request Issei felt his nose clear up as well as his eyes healing from the acid wave. His senses turned sharper as his eyes can now pick out the small details such as ants crawling on the rocks to flies buzzing above a dead fish carcass.
Gaining resistance to the smell, he proceed down the sewer line by taking the built in ladder. As he ascended into darkness his eyes turned from his normal light brown color to a light lime glow. Issei's vision changed from a normal colored eyesight to black and grey as he landed on the floor that ran both ways down the tunnel. He only saw that both sides curved and vanish to wherever the hell it goes to. The floor issei stood on was the only walkway that stretched out by 2 meter cemented path that borderlined on the actual sewer waste which took over the rest of the tunnel. This was the only walkway going either forward or backward, so right now Issei would just flip a coin to decide which way to turn, but then again why let fate decide when you have a second opinion.
Ddraig, [Go Right, Poindexter]
Issei 'Thanks, scaly nipples'
Ddraig only gruffed as Issei walked in the said direction, after he advanced some time in the direction he felt the air move a bit faster like a draft coming from which could've been a exit or opening of a sort. After walking for 10 minutes he came in contact with a small shoulder wide passageway around the corner that branched out to two different lanes. For some reason it reminded Issei of a catacomb labyrinth that would lead to the center of a evil lair.
Issei, 'If I was an evil minded monster I would use this place as my lair'
Ddraig [Thanks For Pointing That Out Captain Obvious]
Issei ignored the sarcasm as he stepped closer to inspect the diverted path, he looked to see… Wouldn't you know, pipes running along the side of the small space which split off in different directions and even the pathways split off going left and right. The air flowed through the narrow path and he would bet his money that it would take him to 's lair.
The only thing to do now is enter this typical small narrowed size space that would drive clasper phobic people up the walls and regular movie viewers yelling at the screen, 'Dumb Bitch! Don't Go In There! There's Monster's Inside!'
[MOVE IT YOU SCAREDY CAT!]
Issei shifted (jumped out his shoes) while his heart skipped a few beats then flatlined, but he recovered swiftly by shrugged it off and answered cooly (Not Convincing) as he entered, 'Not scared, just preparing for surprises' if Ddraig could make facial expressions this one would read, "Bullshit" all over it.
Issei continued forward following the air as it moved him to wherever it may go. As he moved one with the drift, going around corners light started to shine in the passageway making Issei turned off his 'night vision' eyes when it was bright enough to see normally.
'Ok, that's not at all creepy' Issei remarked when he saw thick cobwebs cover one pathway entirely like a den of spiders were blocking it off on purpose. Moved to the next corner to find it lead to a room as big as a Gym with a medium height ceiling all cemented. The only problem was that not that it didn't have any other doors but instead it was filled with the most creepiest thing that even made the small space look heavenly: Spiderwebs running along the ceiling like decoration overhead lights at a high school dance or like string strung out a tapestry.
Carefully observing his surroundings, he moved slowly across the slightly webbed floor like stepping on glass barefooted. There was a hole that cracked the ceiling from either a past quake or from age, the gap opened up to the night's sky but the moon was currently covered by some clouds so it wasn't enough to see most of the room. Issei could hear the ocean's waves if he concentrated hard enough, also the draft moved out into open air making the smell of absolute death evade from the room so Issei turn off his nose resistance it returned by a normal sense. Once his regula nose 'returned' he noticed the place smelled like two things: Old and smelly feet.
After looking around nothing seemed off other than the creepy cider webs until he moved closer to one of the walls on the opposite side of the room. In his head he knew what to expect when he saw a lump sticking on the spider's web but he always verified to be sure it was real…..'Ddraig...I don't think we're fighting a vampire….or a wisp' Ddraig [What Gave You That Impression?] He asked rhetorically but his voice gave away a little.
They both knew.
The moon's light illuminated the room enough to see the cocooned web human that was the 'lump' they were inspecting. It's brilliance illuminated the walls enough to see more lumps packed together across the room like strung up meat or flies caught on a fly swap, everywhere Issei now he he saw webbed up bodies from all sizes sprawl across remaking a scene from the movie Jeepers Creepers when the guy saw all the human bodies stitched up across the walls except this one had webbs.
Issei thoughts were calm and collective since this wasn't one of the worst things he ever saw, but instead he felt rage for the repulsive creature that did this to people which most likely half were innocent when they died.
As he walked around the encased graveyard he stumbled across an area which wasn't covered with a corpse and not to mention wind could be heard breezing through the thick web. Using his ebony weapon one of the beads lit up with a blue color as he hacked and slashed through the threads, cutting out a door. He used his jacket sleeve to push away the unwanted webbing, letting the rest fall to the ground as he brushed the remaining gossamer aside and stepped into the hidden room.
The room was a boiler room at one point from the looks of it, from all the pipes interconnecting to machines and the enormous heater lying cold dead in the far center. In front of him he saw seven slump figures stood chained along the walls on high pipes but enough to let some of them to touch their feet on the ground. Issei moved towards them looking at their faces to see all their mouths covered with a web that acted like tape. Everyone was passed out, tired, or dead so Issei had to touch their necks to see if they were alive. A soft pulse was felt from all of them which brought him much relief. As he checked the last person a rattling sound made his head turn back to his left to see one of the victims hazily opening their eyes. A woman in her early or late 40's with dirty black hair with grey eyes look around to see where she was til her eyes met Issei which caused her to struggle violently. Hyoudou ran up to the woman while talking in a low soft but stern voice, "Hey! Hey Mrs! Calm down, I'm not here to hurt you." After a few moments she calmed, 'Wow, that's was actually quick'
Ddraig [Must Be Your Tone Or Something]
Issei could only shrug his head in agreement half believing it himself before quickly saying 'Or my good looks'
Issei, "Mrs I going to cut the tape off, so don't freak out when I pull my knife. Ok?" She trembled a little but nodded hesitantly. Issei worked fast by shaving off the spiderweb since he didn't want to risk directly cutting it, nicking this woman face since he didn't know how strong the string was. The woman went dead still when Issei took out his blade but she didn't struggle so he worked fast on it only for only 10 strokes before he reached the surface of her skin, he set the blade back in his holster then plucked off the web like a bandaid. The elder lady took in a deep breath like she was drinking in the air. After she calmed down she spit out some cobwebs that got in her mouth.
Issei, "What happened?" The woman stuttering slightly answered, "W-w-we were h-hiding f-f-from that t-t-t-Thing! In our s-shack w-when it t-took us." The woman eye's widen as she spoke panicking, "Oh god! W-where's Kotami?" Issei put a reassuring hand on her shoulder quickly deescalated the situation, "She's here don't worry, you have to stay calm. Panicking won't help." Issei watched as she calmed down a little and took it as a sign as he looked over the chains to see them wrapped around her wrists chaffing slightly making her bleed, the end of the chain was looped back to the pipe that kept them all standing, and a keypad that looked brand new was the lock keeping her up.
Issei went to his utility belt behind him a smaller sized pocket holster to pull out a small chisel and a very thin looking wire. Stretching his arms to get closer to the lock he started to picking at the lock twisting and turning until he felt the gears inside move slightly. 'It's all in the tumblers' he quoted as he twisted the lock open. Taking off the chain he uncurled the bonds from the elderly woman causing her to instantly fall to the ground from the numbness in her legs and arms. The teenager set her down gently, "Alright just stay here while I free the other's it won't take too long."
As walked to the next one over to his left, he felt his senses go haywire. At the same time the sound of a thread being plucked rebounded the area, then the sound of the thread plucking started repeating itself going faster and faster like a choir of instruments vibrating off the walls. Issei slowly turned around and like a magician he conjured up his ebony blade in his left hand as he dropped his pick locks next to the fallen woman, while his right hand hovered over his right knife holster like it was a mexican standoff.
Right in the doorway stood the hooded figure tall and proudly as their yellow cat bloodshot eyes stared right at him.
Issei could feel the intensity of the creatures eyes size him up as it was judging him inch by inch, head to toe, skin to blood, flesh to organs, pound by pound.
What only took seconds felt like hours until the thing decided to speak in surprisingly feminine voice, "It's way past your bedtime."
Still not moving from the spot Issei smirked and replied, "I was a little lost."
One of her eyes turned pitch black by her pupils as they dilated like some freaky alien Sci-Fi movie shit as she questioned in a soothing voice, "If you're lost, I can help you find your way back."
Issei shrugged his shoulders, "Not from around here."
The woman spoke in the same soothing honey silk voice, "You too? Oh, you poor thing left out here with a bunch of Animals."
She stressed out as she looked down at the woman giving her a eye full of hate and towards all the people, while the woman just froze from the glare.
Issei not missing a beat, "Better hanging out there with the Bugs."
The woman's eyes narrowed and she tried to take the front approach dropping the act, "So the church decided to send their bellboys to do the grown up's work, typical of those hypocrites."
Issei shook his head again, "No, it's just lil ol me, sugar."
Her eyes turned sadistically gleeful when he said that, "So you're telling me that you came down here all by yourself?"
Issei faked by bashfully scratching the back of his head with his free hand, "Well, I didn't know what I was getting myself into til now. But it look like I all I needed to do was get some bug spray to get rid of you." That's when she closed her eyes and lowered her head like she was bowing until two human hands came out her dark cloak and pushed back the hood to show her face. Undernight that cover was an astounding beauty that had fair white skin with snow white hair. Her face modeled one of the beauties you would have a wet dream about from her soft pale luscious heart shaped face down to her double D cleavage. For a moment, he was caught off guard by her beauty but rebounded when he reminded himself where he was.
Issei quipped, "So princess Elsa, wanna to let us go?"
She only smirked as she floated backwards as if inviting him to follow which he wouldn't be a gentleman if he kept a lady waiting. As he walked out without turning his head he spoke softly, "Miss, I don't know how long I can hold her off, but you need to make a choice either by not interfering and free those here or be afraid and run."
As he moved to to the door he heard her respond, "Boy, you think better than an old woman like me would rather save myself than think about saving others. For shame, you gotta have more faith in your elders."
Issei just smiled as he left the boiler room back into the lion's den.
The beauty still floating went towards the entry Issei walked in from and turned back to him when he was halfway in the room, "I can't believe you came in through that way." She crinkled her nose in disgust, "Even I won't go through there."
Issei held the ebony dagger in offence as he studied his opponent as she continued talking, "Interesting place this is, back when it was operational these use to be one of the smaller sewages that connected to Tokyo's main exit power plants to throw awake human filth. Til that one eventful day in 2011 when the tsunami hit and utterly destroyed most of the underground lines, this one was to believed to be caved in from the flooding. But no, it just stood firm as when I happened to stumble across it when I first crossed this world by sea." She stopped her history 101 talk to see Issei hadn't moved an inch from his spot. She continued, "And soon this place became my new home and for me to start fresh."
Issei then asked his share of questions, "Why are you targeting females when you clearly have something against men?"
She clapped her hands together like she was happily surprised, "You figured that out? Impressive detective work on your part, so I'll enlighten you. Those pigs are just my meals when I get hungry but the woman are my carriers. You see, I've been expecting soon, so I need hosts to carry on my children and by the smell of it those ladies seem ripe enough to be implanted with."
Issei made a sour face in the inside 'Blah, nasty. Forcible impregnation by an insect.' Issei could only imagine when the eggs hatch and they start eating the inside of both woman.
Squishing that thought he said with a fake smile, "Congratulations."
She nodded her head, "Gracias."
Back to his interrogation, "How did you take them?"
She only responded by shuffling around her coat to pull out one of those flyers that were described by the housewives. "I actually stumbled upon these summonings a while ago when I was scouting the area. Fascinating thing made by devils, I experimented on it and made a few tweeks here and there to make it instead send out to discharge a small portion of my magic for me to track back, like one of the human inventions, a GPS I believe it was called? No matter, when it 'reconnects' back to me I stalk the individual until I make eye contact with the scum and when I do I take them I leave in the night through their sewers."
Every piece of the puzzle fell into place as she talked on and all of it came together explaining most of the…
Issei stared into her eyes as they once again dilated except this time they seemed more like she was giving him a good blissful feeling and she asked in a very hypnotizing voice, "You feel tired don't you?" Issei's felt heavy as he nodded his head sluggishly and she spoke to him very sweetly, "Then why don't you just sleep there on the ground and I'll come over and sooth your troubles away." The ground did started to look like a soft bed enough to lay down and take a few moments to rest so Issei got to his knees as he touched the cold but welcoming floor…
Ddraig [Stay Awake You Buffoon!]
The voice in his head boomed across his head like a cannon being shot as he jolted himself up and quickly got back on his feet, watching as she looked at him with a mild shock expression on her face before it returned to her most sweet innocent one, "You are strong enough to resist my mystic magic? Well I have to say that you probably one of the youngest one's that ever got past my defences so quickly."
He pinched the inside of his cheek to keep himself awake as he gained back his footing and before things went down he asked her the million dollar question, "What are you?" A grin that nearly split her beautiful face took over as her black's eyes changed back to her 'normal' cat slit orbs as she answered, "In ancient Peruvian times in Southern America the people use to worship spiders." (something moved from behind her cloak) "They use to believe that they had mystic powers which was true to a certain detail," (8 white shelled spike grew out of her back) "I was picked to be a queen in a noble house of Devils." (A hairy white bottom of a spider's end grew out her cloak as big as a minivan) "The men of the group were disgusting by doing obscene things to the women around me so I ended up killing them all and I took delight as I drank from their puss clear vital organs dry to their bones. It was my first time so I was a little clumsy but I got the hang of it after my 20th victim." (Her 8 white legs touched and lifted her off the ground, the legs moved out 5 meters apart from each other and the size of just one leg alone was roughly half as long as a school bus) She stood at full height which nearly was as tall as a basketball hoop as she looked down at him confidently in her frightening but beautiful form that reminded him of something deadly but enticing, "Does that answer your question exorcist?"
Issei looked at her one and just chuckled as he rested his right hand on his hip near the handle of his other weapon. Issei, "So, Charlette (Pun) your MO was to find unloyal men and suck the juice out of them (Ha) while you build your army of super spiders...Well...That gotta be the most top 20 villain scheme I've heard so far this week. (Not even close to most horrifying thing he ever heard of) But before we get all sticky and drained (He heard Ddraig grumble about only he would make jokes in a serious situation) I have to ask. Why go after some middle classed men while you have homeless that are out in the open? Couldn't you just snag them without worrying?"
As cold as it sounded, he was curious of why go after the unloyal instead of the unimportant since they were more exposed for her to take. Her grin for once turned into a sneer as she scuttled around the floor tapping each time one of her legs came in contact with the cement. "I couldn't get to those rats when they stuck together watching each other's back if something were to happen." Her psychotic grin returned, "Then as luck would have it, they moved right next door and now I don't have to worry about venturing out there making complicated plan. It was all too easy: Make them separate by adding fear into their base by making some noises and taking some of the more braver ones in the night by the time they tried to warn others they just waved them off, it was more alluring to take the ones that put up a fight as I took them and they taste so much better when they blood gallops out their bodies as I taste their sweet luxurious nectors on their Skin."
'Wow, we dealing with Hannibal Lecture on our hands.'
As she said it with a soothing tone as if she was tasting her own words. She then looked at Issei with a hungry gaze, "Now that I introduced myself you can call me Arana or the white spider as I trap you in my webs and feast on your flesh as I pick my teeth with your BONES!" She yelled as she propelled herself at Issei with a blinding speed with two of her legs stretched forward to impale him, at instinct Issei rolled to his left as the woman passed him, while the bead on ebony blade glowed blue like the deep ocean.
As the was rolling he scanned and played out the most tactful ways to cut off one of her legs then get a close strike to her head. As his knee touched the ground he pushed off it the ground running behind she-spider getting close to her right hind leg. The distance between them was extremely close as he swung his knife when he neared her. Without warning her leg bent inward in an impossible flexible way then it 'flicked' back at him if if ws was a mosquito.
Issei twisted his body left to feel the spear leg skim across his jacket as is struck pass hitting air, rolling backwards as he saw the leg on the opposite side pierce at him in his projected roll. So he pushed both his hands on the ground and flipped backwards into the air acrobatically, the leg stinger didn't slow down as it just twisted upwards straight at his chest.
For any regular human they would be skewered right then and there if they were normal and inexperienced, but to Issei it was just a warmup exercise as he reached by cutting down at the onslaught with his ebony dagger a hard as he could. It was met with resistance when the two clashed making a clanging sound.
Her leg pushed him back to Earth as he skidded across the room to the wall with such force that it shook his bones. His right side of his body crushed a small remain of a human lump as he hit that it would most definitely leave a bruise, as he pushed himself up her tried to move himself up into a defencive position only to feel resistance on his hand. He looked back to see his hand had made contact with the web, sticking to him like glue.
He growled, as he cut the web off him, only to see that his dagger slid off the cobwebs leaving no cut or visible incision on mesh. The spider mistress seeing his predicament only smile, "You see, my webs are a special kind that can't be cut forcefully only divine weapons that can cut through mountains can only break my threads, even I have a hard time getting through, and that's not to mention my shell has been hardened by the pressure of the rocks thousands of feet in the ground making even the sharpest blades be shattered when struck, so you see that pathetic weapon won't be cutting through anything unless I intentionally make my webs weaker."
Issei frowned as he heard her explanation but his grin returned when he held his knife back to the web, "Then I guess it's time to turn up the heat." One of the beads color green shined for a moment then conglomerated with the blue color turning both into a fluorescent purple, sparks ignited from the edge of the knife then he buzzed cut through the webs like an electric chain saw. With no problems he gashed through the web like butter as it separated from his hand cleanly, he looked at his palm to see no webs attached to him which he better much expected.
The Spider Woman's face changed to shock but went expressionless as she saw his display, "I may have underestimated you, it seems like I have been foolish to think that would stop you." She lifted herself up high into the air at least 10 meters and behind her but curled in aiming the pointed end at Issei and fired a fucking spider web at him. Issei dodged it like a bullet. "You Can Shoot Webs Out Your Ass! That Not Fair! I Thought Only Spider Man Could Do Something Like That!" (He doesn't read too much comic books) She only responded by spitting out more at a faster rate, Issei was a blur moving fast but barely missing by a hairs breath and it looked like she was just playing with him.
After 5 minutes of playing the game of stick-to-death-dodgeball Issei was getting a little winded but he had a plan and for him to execute it he had to move her in the right position. Another fastball passed his shoulder as he twisted his body once more routinely out of the way to the left looking at her as she fired off another spitball at his head at least the speed of a professionally pitcher, quicker than the blink of an eye he crouched and rolled as another spitwad came at him.
'Now Ddraig!'
A green light erupted from his left hand, it died down his hand turned into a red gauntlet with a green gem implanted in the center back of his hand, along with sharp pointed fingers, it's overall appearance looked close to what a dragon's hand would look like. A deep powerful voice yelled out, "BOOST!" as he grabbed one of his encased pockets on his belt that had slots in it which made it look like a CD container on his belt and at the same time he touched his next item the same powerful voice yelled out "TRANSFER!" for a fraction of a second he held the item in his hand it turned a burning white beam of light, then he swung the object like a frisbee and it disappeared from the speed it traveled.
A whistling sound vibrated in the air the second he let go, in that second Issei saw her eyes go wide then 2 slits on both side open on the side of regular eyes to reveal smaller pupil less beads like ones you would find on a regular spider, she threw her body to her right as something pierced her right cheek drawing a thin line of red blood, she couldn't stop herself in mid flight as her head hit the wall that was unoccupied with no body.
'Ha, nobody there' Issei thought idly.
[Lame] was the only response he received.
Already in motion Issei was within arms distance while she was still in her daze from the intense headbutting as the wall she hit cracked from impact. He swung at the first unsuspecting front right leg with ebony blade which one of the beads shined hot bright red and he met with opposition but he pushed through with all his might and cut off the leg cleany in a messy way.
He heard her cry in pain as she snapped out of her daze. Issei was already making headway at cutting off her middle limb when immense pain erupted on his ribs as he went sailing to the center of the room, he rolled unceremonial on the ground until he recovered quickly then took a skipping halt on his feet while crouching.
Issei saw a flat deep purple sigil floating in front of her pointing finger aiming directly at him, "You!... Your little pendejo! Do you have any idea how painful it is to grow that back?!" She growled at him as he said casually, "No but.." He looked over at the fallen leg as is twitched every so often, "..Duct tape could make it look new. (Issei Shrugs) Just a thought." He said cheekily (Issei law: Duct Tape can fix anything)
His solution was quickly shot down (Literally) as she fired huge bolts of purple lightning at him. "BOOST!" Issei lept out of the way as it hit the ground and destroyed the floor he was sat on, he turned to see nothing left but a crater that could fit a golf cart, smoking and smoldered. Just as he landed on his touched the ground more shocking attacks blasted at him which made him once more again dodge the attacks except this time it could completely annihilate speed of the blasts between were only a second slower than her sticky balls probably because they took longer to cast, it was enough time to dodge better but it still more dangerous if he got hit. "BOOST!" He saw her eyes widen from his third BOOST, he took off like a bullet pushing his feet off the ground making rubble explode around him from such velocity, even the queen barely saw him disappear and reappear in front of her quicker than she could say, "Red Drago.."
The teen grinned 'Not The sharpest tool in the shed' Although her normal eyes couldn't see him the extra ones could, making her react accordingly by blocking the strike with her only front leg, she leaned back from his strength and striked her spiderleg at his torso, but he naturally countered by flipping backwards and landing on his feet as she continued to push by attacking her front leg forward, her middle left leg swinging sideways like a baseball bat and using both her hands palmed at Issei to summon more lighting for a nice touch.
'No going back or going forward. So, onward and upward'
Lightning struck, leg's pierced in the matter of seconds faster than the speed of mach 1, dust once again exploded and her leg's swept across only to feel nothing tear itself on, her battle honed instincts out of reflex made her aim the lightning skywards as Issei came sailing down. 'Shit!' He thought when the lightning came at him like a raging bull.
"BOOST!" His gauntlet yelled same as time seemed to slow down around him to where he could be thinking almost as fast as the speed of light with a little adrenaline to clear out the useless thoughts, right now his mind processed as fast as a supercomputer (Ddraig only says that it doesn't seem to do him any good because he's still an idiot. That jerk) Two solutions came to mind: The first was risky but the second was overkill that it could most possible make the place collapse in on itself, plus the second would take too long to install., so he had to made do with the first option but it would also kill him the instant he fails. Issei just smirked at the face of death or this case electrocution.
'What's life without a little risk' As he held his weapon in front of him with the flat side facing the shockwave. Just before it made contact with his knife the two beads took a deep luminescent purple as lightning made contact with the knife. The hairs on the back of neck stood up, even goosebumps were prickling all over his body. Then he pushed the electricity to the left and like a beam of light the lightning veered to the walls cutting all in its path and destroying a good portion all the way up to the roof making it look like someone tried to dig trenches in the wall.
Issei flew down like a righteous fury smithing the wicked witch as she yet again was in one on the short end, she slept with her three good spear legs to her right like a side dash, it was moot since Issei's blade cut across her stomach to make her gash out good dose of blood, she then took chance by clawing his left shoulder on his way down, but his jacket served it's purpose by taking the hit as it shredded the fabric instead of skin as he went down past her waist directly to her center leg taking it at the base of her body, in that second after she hit the wall again this time clutching to the wall with her legs as her hands covered her stomach while it bleed lightly, oozing down her white lower insecticidal body and to the floor like a broken faucet.
Her face twisted in anger baring her teeth (Well pinchers...Two big pincers in her cheeks and thousands of smaller one's inside her mouth where her gums should be...Issei silently pities the person she tongue kisses) Then she made sounds like she was coughing up her guts like an 80 year old man with lung cancer.
Not once flinching Issei watched with unblinking eyes as she removed her right hand that still held bits of his jacket mixed with her blood, the spider stretched out her long slender fingers out to palm Issei once again he thought with lightning but no instead he felt a tug on his jacket as she pushed her hand to the left like she was pushing something. For a second he was at a loss when he did move in air and hit the wall with enough force to break anyones bones and cracked the wall behind the webbs. He was smashed into a body which he was lucky wasn't still juicy but instead bones, but his shoulder took most the damage when he hit which made him feel beat like a pinata, along with his head stuck to the cannoned webb's with enough force to skewer his vision nearly making him backout.
His eyes fogging in and out but he could see her move on the wall to avoid the ruined ground in her state as she crawled her way to him on the walls while...Surprise, surprise talking villain-like monogue in anger, "YOU FUCKING RUNT! I WILL IMPLANT MY CHILDREN IN YOU WHILE I FLAY OFF YOUR SKIN AND BURN YOUR MOST PRECIOUS PARTS TILL THE YOUR BONES SNAP FROM THE HEAT!"
"BOOST!" Issei's eye came back into focus in an instant 'Sorry I'm too handsome to be a baby momma' He acted in his dilemma by using his free foot and push off the wall with his enhanced strength. Hedid get off the dead body but the web still stuck to him and his hair like inseparable elastic gum. One wall away from him he heard the woman spider rant in her hauntly snarky tone, "It's no use dragon, your strength is useless against my web's. Not only are they strong but can act like an elastic substance that can bend any way you can move and not break, now stop struggling and DIE!"
Issei kept kicking, pushing, and failing to remove himself from this 'sticky situation' so he made a small growl in his throat and said in frustration, "Fuck it, time to even the playing field." With his free hand he grabbed the climatic weapon as his gauntlet yelled "TRANSFER!" His knife turned bright red to the point it looked like pasty blood, on the edge of the knife it ignited into a spark of fire that spewed flames like a blowtorch. Issei dug his knife down at the web and like a fuse the flames ate away the mesh at a successful rate as it climbed towards the rest of the wall away from him miraculously. The knife's light reset to it's original state, Issei turned his attention back to his own predicament taking his knife as close as he would allow to his hair as the bead turned purple while he cut away from the threads and promptly fell as he carved himself out not including his shoe as it still was stuck in the wall.
Issei twirled on his hand like he was street dancing as another one of her spitballs came at him as he hopped off the ground into the decimated ground in a crouch pose. The Arana chick roared monstrous loud enough to shake the ground as she pointed both her palms at him while her bug but sprayedwebs at him, he took cover in another crater after that one was once again ground leveled into a deeper hole, she went frenzy hitting everything that moved while she was screaming, "THOSE WERE MINE! I COLLECTED THOSE FOOD BAGS TO FEED ME AND MY CHILDREN! NOT EVEN DRAGON FLAME CAN SCORCH MY WEBS! YOU BASTARD, DAMN YOU AND THAT BLADE OF YOURS!" As she rampaged on, Hyoudou heard the familiar "BOOST!" and disappeared from his spot to flash in the far right. She projected her attack at him, but before it could hit he vanished once again to flash on the opposite side as her attacks destroyed the walls.
At this rate while he was playing Marco Polo his lungs were burning like he ran a mile but it still made his legs feel like he was on fire and that recent Transfer took all the extra power all out of him leaving him 'normal.' "BOOST!" He took shelter as attacks flew overhead going half the speed she originally possessed and he could plainly tell half the room was on fire filling the room with smoke and the smell of burnt fiberglass. "BOOST!" Issei's arm yelled as lightning passed his head giving away his position. The floor was completely decimated and uprooted with every spot having been completely remodeled with holes the size of SUV's, the wall on the other hand were on their last straw from holding the room from caving in as the fire pressed on.
The non-human was moving to the sewage passage since it wasn't blocked by fire yet as she 'conveniently' was backing her way to the exit more likely to escape. As she closed the distance to the pathway she yelled at him, "DIE LIKE THE RAT YOU ARE RED DRAGON!" Her magic sigil pointed slanted up as a huge shockwave of purple lightning turning a little black as it hit the roof causing the whole room to shudder followed by the "Crack" as the roof caming crashing down like fire and brimstone. 'Oh, Shit!' The teenager thought as he ran fast enough to see the room fall around him at a slower speed as he moved toward the spider dodging the debris. He saw her eyes lock on him as she smirked as she readied another dual assault only this time Issei had nowhere to go except forward. On his last last resort he thoughts were of using 'that' since this place was coming down might as well make the most of it. It was proven unnecessary when a fallen debris which turned out to be a fiery corpse came falling with righteous fury connected with her head throwing her aim way off to his right on to damage the ground further. The distraction worked well in Issei's favor as he jumped in the air higher than her coming in like Michael Jordan as the voice on his arm yelled once more "BOOST!" face to face with the white haired hispanic as he slashed his trusted monster cutting blade across her eyes on the left side making her go half blind. She screamed horribly like metal was rubbing against metal when she violently like an animal coated her hand in lightning at his back as he came back down and this time she got him good.
Issei grinded his teeth hard enough to draw blood when his back felt it was on fire. Weakly he fell to the ground next to the exit as ladywebs moved around clutching her face saying things in Spanish that would make her parents take her to church as her dad spanks her with a belt.
Hyoudou stood up seething in pain as he limped to the sewage exit with enough strength to get inside and grab onto the pipes for support.
[Move Partner, We Need To Go For Now] Ddraig told him in a soft voice that also hinted a tinge of seriousness. Taking the order Issei dragged himself forward when he felt a tug on his back making him stop and whirl back to see Spider bitch extended her fingers out to him, but with his enhanced vision plus fire this time he could see silver wires connect with her fingers running towards him connecting to his back.
The bitch even when she was clutching her face still had to nerve to smile sadistically as she squealed in delight like an eight year old girl on christmas. She pulled back her hand causing the youth to tumble back out to the subsiding building 'That explains how she used the force' he grabbed onto the pipes with both hands as "BOOST!" as the strength run through his veins. The silver wires pulled his skin like fish hooks refusing to let up their catch as she tried to draw in Issei by pulling with her unnatural state as she slowly walked towards Issei to not make the threads loosen. The only reason she wasn't blasting him was that it could destroy the path so he would have to make a choice that would make him the idiot of the century, he "BOOST!" once more and pulled so hard he heard his jacket rip and felt his skin peal off making his body biometrically cause him to nearly pass out from shock as he threw up blood mixed with pile.
[PARTNER!]
Gasping in pain he moved forward like zombie, behind him he heard more pieces of the roof fall followed by the bitch screaming in pain. Issei worked his way through the labyrinth with Ddraig guidance, he stopped a couple of times and Boosted 4 times as he was told around 4 or 5 more Boosts then his power would reset. His back bled half the blood it did a minute ago still made him trip all over the place as he kept reaching out to support himself.
As he moved to the next turnoff a scream that sounded awfully familiar came behind him followed by the sounds of clicking and coughing. 'Doesn't that bitch just die already!' Still moving he turned back to see two white hairy legs reaching around the corner of the walls which made him just move faster. The chase continued as he ignored his pain and started running corner to corner swiftly as he could.
Then a smell he would most welcome flared in his nostrils as he saw the sewage walkway down the last walkway. He ran fast as he heard a crash behind that made him turn his head to see a deranged white haired hispanic woman. She screamed at him as he moved along the walls sideways to fit her ginormous ass and crawl at him as she hissed out, "EXERCISSSSST!"
Issei reached the end of the lane but before he left he took out another star and with abnormal speed threw it at the white haired crazy and this time he managed to land a hit and cut off her left ear. That pissed her off to the end as she shot like a bullet forward when he turned the corner, she erupted out the narrow aisle. Electricity hummed in the air directly at the one who inflicted pain on her.
To her surprise she couldn't see him til she felt the abrupt numbness on her back, Arana looked back to she the man stabbing her back literally. All her strength left her when she attempted pathetically to throw him off but her body refused to respond to her.
Stumbling around like a drunk she hit the rails on the walkway making her lower half fall in the sewer covering her in shit, but she somehow clung on the remaining rail like a lifeline as she gritted out her last words, "I-I-I a-am a-a-an A Cl-Class S-S-Stray D-Devil, I….c-can't l-l-lo-lose t-t-t-to s-some p-p-priest's b-Bitch!"
The only answer she got was for Issei to reach into his utility belt while putting his knife away to take out a flask and square shaped silver box. The teen uncapped the flask and drank from it with small sips as he breathed in the foul air, he looked down at the latina as she tried to move out the water's sewage waste. Issei then threw out the flasks liquid at her like a blessing, spraying her body with the drink, he emptied the rest on top of her head putting the item away as he used a tricked he learned a while back by opening the square box which turned out to be a lighter with his pants. Before he ended it, he said to her, "First don't insult my baby." He patted his weapon. "Second don't mess with my hair." he touched his sticky webs in disdain, "Thirdly..." He lifted the lightner over her, "..I'm not with the church." He dropped the box on her head setting her ablaze, she screamed in agony for a long while until her voice died as her legs curled up and in, like a dead spider would do.
Issei looked down at his feet to see the tip of one of her legs in the ground, he bent over (no longer feeling the pain) to pluck out the white object, he glanced at it interestingly as he put the item in a small drop pouch next to his star holding pocket.
A voice that sound like teeth grinding roared in anger [YOU IDIOT! You Know What You've Done?!]
Issei winced from the dragon's outrage as he spoke out loud, "Calm down, there wasn't anyway for me to escape when she held me so I…"
[Not That Precisely! But Yes, Shame On You For Not Thinking Smarter! But I'm Talking About Setting The Bitch On Fire!]
Issei confusingly talked to Ddraig like answering a question from a teacher, "Because we had to get rid of the evidence?" Ddraig impatiently yelled [GAH! This Place Was Left To Shit(Good One) The Waste Polluted Itself So Much You Can Taste The Methane Gas!]
Issei froze as he looked down to see the charcoaled body's fire run off the bitch onto the human waste making a blazing trail of fire as it spread like lighter fluid, a very small noise that resembled air getting suck in until it whined like a bottle of hairspray throw into a pit of fire.
One thought came to mind as he "BOOST!" one more time as he Quicksilvered back to the room of fire 'Son Of A B..' Sparks flew in the aim as a fiery explosion rocketed the old sewage line, the fire ran inside the small passageway following the drifting fresh air. Issei following his trail of blood down to the room of death at the speed of mach 1. He made it in less than 10 seconds with the fire breathing down his neck as he turned each corner. He reached the room as it was still burning and crumbling, at his superhuman speed he would just go straight into the torture room on the unleveled ground while jumping around the debris that got in his.
A piece of cake.
He moved around falling part of the ceiling the size of a toolbox and managed to avoid the flames from eating away the rest of his sock. When he crossed halfway across the room he saw one of the pamphlets the feminist had float on the ground as one side had the sigils and the other side read in bold captions as caught fire as he continued to run, 'Your Wish Will Be Granted' He ran dead sprint when the saw the opening of the room and that was when a rock the size of an elephant decided to fall right in front of the untouched room. It would've been easier to punch the rock to smithereens but then it would also allow the fire to enter and kill all inside with him.
So in favor of staying alive Issei did the one thing he always wanted to do since MTV Age Of Rock Music Videos: He got on his knees and electric slide. It was the most fulfilling move he's ever done as he felt the rock barely touch his cheek as his gauntlet now of all times vanished from sight. Time resumed as he rolled on the ground as the other room exploded the roof with a big bang.
The teen kept rolling until he skidded to a stop at the other side of the wall painfull, not enough to actually bruise but still painful enough. Issei clutched his head as he tried to keep the room from spinning, while he sluggishly tried to sit up. Groaning as he moved up, at the end of his feet with dizzy eyes he thought he saw was seven scared individuals huddled together looking at him spooked. Moaning again in pain he felt all over his body, he managed by not slipping to sit up and stare at the rock barricade the door as small fumes slithered around the room.
Taking in a deep breath he looked back to the hostages he said, "You guys good?" One man that was in his blue stripped pajamas stood up waving his hands in the air but couldn't say anything, so Issei sighing stood up walked over to him and took the web covering his mouth in a fast motion tore off the web like a bandaid along with some of his facial hair, "WHAT THE FUCK?!"
Issei sighed again this was going to take a while.
After an hour of removing the web's from the other mouths and finding another hidden door that wasn't blocked (since Issei wasn't willing to expose his monstrous strength) they were walking down another dark lane with this one to have no split offs. The few made a small torch with one of their clothes to light the way (Issei wouldn't have minded since he can see in the dark) by that hour he was answering some questions form the first woman he saved, "..And that was when I followed it to it's lair to find you all." Issei cover story was on a half whim, even so he made them promise to not tell the authorities his face which they all agreed to repay back their savior. The woman Kio talked to him, "You're saying that while you were trying to find a spot on the beach in the middle of the night you saw something in the dark and followed it here and beat that thing by setting the place on fire?" The sceptical elder asked the the young deviant whose only response from him was a shrug like, 'What? You expect something else?" and then he looked at her with a look that said 'Deal with it' She raised her eyebrow at him to question him more but his face said it all that he didn't give a shit what they think.
Issei's turn, he asked Kio, "How did you manage to break them out of the locks?" She looked over at Issei mischievously and said, "What you think you're the only one that knows how to pick locks?" Issei was a bit impressed because when she returned them they weren't broken like he would always use them. Then she said, "You were also doing a good job at it, if you were a beginner." Looking annoyed he asked, "What's that suppose to mean?" She smiled again, "No offence to the one who taught you but I was surprised that you even got the first one unlocked. You need a better teacher if you want to actually keep using those tools." His pride right then took a major blow that cracked his body like glass. In a hurt tone he said, "Well in his defence, he was good at it and it got him out of situations so it wasn't important or anything to learn on a different scale when I already master it." Keeping the image of the former glory (himself) teacher in high regards, since he didn't want to come off as someone half assing somethings and moving on once you learned all you can about the skill.
The woman still smiled at him and didn't pester any longer when their guild (Shaved face pajama man courtesy of yours truly) yelled in a whisper like they were trying to stay hidden, "I see light." Everyone looked ahead to see a dead end with a ladder built into the wall that went up to a covered top. The only thing they was was the moon's radiance shining down through four holes. Their guild took it upon himself by passing the torch to the other male occupant as he climbed up the iron ladder and started pushing the lid with his hands, then forearm and saw that none of those were working he started to hit the top with no success of even moving it even slightly.
After a few minutes with him 'trying' to even make the lid shift Issei had enough, walking under their 'trying hero' he said in a bored voice, "You done knocking some sense into that there arm of yours?" The man stopped hitting to look down at the teenager with inflamed eyes, "Keep your voice down! There could be more of those things around!" Again he whispered in a shout. Issei huffed as he yanked the guy's blue pajamas hard enough to almost drop his pant, smartly he dropped to the ground holding his sleepwear with a glare a the teen as he was going to yell at the brat but Issei's annoyed look sent to guy's tongue on hold. Issei climbed up the ladder as his left hand touched the lid and tried to push and conclude that it was stuck probably due to old age or a block on the other side. Well it looked like he was going to have to show his other side, if he wanted it to open.
The man now angry yelled in his whispers again, "Don't you think I already tried? I told you…" Issei cocked his left hand back and punched the top which exploded into the sky leaving nothing but the view of the night. The moon shined down on Issei's figure making him look like some divine godsend form above except this divine godsent wore a black ruined jacket, smells like smoke, has cobwebbed hair, and was missing a shoe.
Issei looked as the right of them for the better word: Gawked at him like he grew a tail. All he did was raise an eyebrow then looked at their 'guild' to see a priceless look on his face like he was some kind of alien.
Issei said in dry sarcastic voice, "Oh I'm sorry. Did I make too much noise?"
"Clang" He turned his head back in time to catch a glimpse of the lid falling next to the manhole.
Afterwards Issei had to physically push them out the tunnel one by one as some broke out of their awed filled state. Out they came in view of the so called 'haunted' warehouse standing between the city and homeless shacks. Before everyone went their respectful ways Issei gave them a friendly advice of not sprouting out crazy things of spiders or superhuman teens if they don't want visit a psychiatric ward or better yet he told them to forget this night ever happened, before was turning away the woman Kio spoke out, "Thank you for saving us." Issei felt gratitude and was going to say something until he got cut off by her when she said, "Even if you look like some Justin Bieber wannabe." Issei heart bled, while his image broke into a million pieces as he died a little bit in the inside. Hastily returning a snarked face as he used his defence mechanism that was sarcasm, "Well unfortunately Prince Charming was busy tonight so you had to get me instead, sorry for the inconvenience." The elder giggled as did everyone when they turned to go back home. After a while Issei walked out, but felt eyes on his back so he choose to ignore it, the elderly woman was going to yell at him to seek immediate medical attention when she saw the state his back was in, when before her eyes his back grew air bubbles and moved around his back like rats under sheets while at the same time his cuts closed but the blood stayed where it was until his back steamed like a hot iron melting away the dried blood.
Kio continued to stare at him with wonder even after his figure vanished behind a few shacks until her friend called out to her making Kio snap out of it but looking back one last time to give the strange boy a grateful look and returned back to her home.
Issei's body burned like he stepped into a hot spring for about twenty minutes until it finally passed leaving him red and hot, also a bit prickly cold like light frostbite nibbling at his skin.
That's when his tenant decided to talk out loud [Issei..] Ddraig spoke in his collectively calm [Your Going Have To Explain A Certain Action You Did Without Second Thoughts That Would Have Most Likely Gotten You Killed Tonight] His voice then dripped a little in the end with venom.
Issei shrugged his shoulders in a carefree manner as he answered out loud but still in the clear, "I picked the quickest course of action that required a quick getaway, so I choose the easy way."
That's when Ddraig erupted [Exactly! You Choose Easy Over Safety! You Could Have Endangered Yourself To More Harm And Died Painfully More Ways Then One If It Wasn't For Me! There Were Other Options At First Like Going Into Balance..]
Issei snapped yelling in a normal voice, "You know damn well that's not how it works! I would've 'reset' completely go into that or she would right now have my head on a silver webbed plater!"
Ddraig still pushed on [What About Your Other Weapons Or Star When You Got Caught In That Thread! Not Peeling Yourself Off It Like A GodDamn Orange!]
Issei, "And how?! I was a puppet! She was taking me in as she watched me so I couldn't do anything fancy, otherwise she would've just said screw it and bug zapped me outright killing me!"
Ddraig [You're Doing It Again! You're Making It Look Like Your Life Is SO Meaningless That You Choose The Lowest Possibility Like You Want TO Die Or Something! Like That Year When You Sold Your Soul!]
Issei gritted his teeth as he calmly answered back, "That's not true! I love living too much, the only reason was because I didn't have any weapon that could've happen to help improve the situation. The ones I had just aren't good enough."
Ddraig then said in a unreadable tone [Is That What I Am? A Defective Weapon? A Tool That Doesn't Serve It's Purpose?]
Issei groaned as he clutched his head as an upcoming headache grew, "Ddraig that's not what I meant and we talked about this, I don't see you as a tool more than me seeing people as more monsters to kill."
Ddraig tched [But Issei, That's Just It! We Talked Not Using Me As A Tool Anymore. But Not About You Thinking Yourself As One!]
Issei shook his head in denial before saying in an loathful voice, "The day that happens, when I go back to hell and be at mercy to another manipulative bastard only gaining for their selfish reasons."
Ddraig silently worrying over the thick headed host, sighing said [Alright If That's What You Think Then I Have Nothing More To Say. I Going To Sleep]
Ddraigs presence left him leaving Issei to wander down the empty streets of Japan to cool (Both mentally and physically) pretty soon, the teenager got bored of looking at the same buildings, "I need a drink."
Yes! I did it. I went and wrote an entire three Post-It's worth of one chapter (Yes that's what I write out my chapter on. Some write on notebooks, some write on notepads, some write on little memo pads, and I just happen to write my chapters on Post-It's) I was saying that I was sceptical about the relationship both Ddraig and Issei would have, Or did I? Anyway, they were to have a strong bond between the two since they were always together for the past decade doing things together trying to build a strong base to go on. It just became natural that Ddraig would look out for his host since he wasn't just an interesting one but also one that has been to other places and done things that would be humanly impossible. Plus how he would do anything for his family, that took the cake when Ddraig would realize how much family means to him and how it would effect Ddraig later on to how he would also treat his own kind.
There are situations that needed to be covered in this going Arc but this is just the awesome intro you guys needed so the next chapter will go into his background persona along with a surprise for the next chapters to come. I need to still edit some smaller things that don't take up too much space in the story so I will do my utmost best to not get side tracked because I'm still psyched about one of the chapters that will blow your mind out of the water. Also if one would kindly explain the Beta Reader to me since I'm still a little slow on it, plus I'll need some volunteers that would take the time out of their day to help me with the main plot and soon be chapters. This time you will agree with me when you said that Dean or Issei had it coming, so I just hope to hear from you all the next oncoming chapters so I will take my leave and give my fair share of writer's intuition.
Sayonara until then,
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