I'M BACK!

That's right, fuckers. I'm back from the dead!

I have an announcement. I will be trying my goddamned best to keep to a consistent schedule. But I'm in the last half of my last year of high school and have gotten fucking slammed by school work.

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REVIEW REPLIES!

Harrison Aldrich Emrys: That is quite simply because he's had time to get used to his girls. And he's also at like the peak of his hormonal imbalances. Plus I personally think Lady Phenex is hot

Hahaminato: It's a mysssstterrryyyyy~ Nah. Just "regular" combat training. And also lessons on how to be a good wife.

HanableKing28: That's something I've noticed with most of these reviews. I think people sort of live out a sort of power-fantasy with my Naruto so when he isn't in control of the situation, people flip. But I hope you do!

Zentari2238: I apologise. But do you know how hard it is to write? How much brainage it takes to make the words go? I'm trying mah best here.

TheliteraryJourneyman: Oh yeah. Naruto will get revenge on Serena somehow. He's not gonna just take it and forget

Hashirama 1710: Yes!

Z-Breezy: The…first chapter? Is that what you mean? I mean. That was over a year ago dude.

Naga986: Distrustful Slut is a bit far in my opinion….But I also know all her reasoning so that's unfair xP and exceedingly wary is how you should feel. But I know you likely don't feel wary in the way I intended XD

PhantomSnow13: Its confirmed. But can change. Though hopefully it doesn't XD

Mnorsyafiq92: Congratulations and welcome to the World of DxD where everyone is stupid, and the plot is retarded.

Gold Testament: Indeed there will be!

Perseus99: OMG I FUCKING LOVE YOU! I'm so glad you got what I was going for. I legitimately almost cried when I first read your review!

Hakusa Sagane: I LOVE YOU AS WELL! I have such awesome readers! T^T

JDS62: What I love even more is that it still did it in your review XD

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AND NOW ONTO THE STORRYYYYYY

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Zeoticus walked into their families study hall to find a sight which was familiar but still terrifying. Walking up to his wife, he could easily hear the powerful tapping of her fingernails against the polished wood of the desk, the sound echoing in the room while her narrowed eyes glowed acidic purple beneath her furrowed brow.

"Venelana. What puzzle is troubling you?" He asked cautiously while approaching her.

"A difficult one."

"Then why not just leave it till later?"

"Because our son gave this to me. And I don't even get a chance at forgiveness until I figure it out."

"Ah…..Perhaps Grayfia could-"

"He doesn't trust her anymore. Pretty much everyone we have contact with is 'Blacklisted' so to say" Venelana growled.

"Listen…If he's really trying this hard to distance himself. Perhaps we should just…give him the space he wants?" His wife stills and an eerie silence fills the study hall.

"You want me to just give up on one of our children? Just say 'oh it's too hard' and never talk to them again?"

"Now I never said such a thing. You're taking my words and twisting them Venelana." Zeoticus defended himself.

"Well that's what it sounded like to me. And why aren't you trying to do anything? Do you not care about our own son?"

"Of course I do!" He replies hotly with a glare of his own before exhaling and straightening his back again "But I spent a lot of his childhood in my office, at meetings, or simply just with Rias. Believe me, I'm certain my own father is turning in his grave over how things have ended up. But I can admit to myself that he really doesn't need us anymore. Do I wish I could have done things differently? Absolutely. But he's trying to push us away for a reason Venelana. We hurt him."

"But we can fix that! I'm working to fix that." She glares heatedly. Her hands tightened into fist and her knuckles an ash white on her already pale skin.

"Are you? I can't even tell if that's a real language. And who's to say he won't just go back on his word?"

"He's a Gremor-"

"As are we. And yet here we are. I'm not saying not to try. Just…don't expect things to turn out perfectly" Venelana huffed and turned back to glare at the paper.

Right as Zeoticus expected her to blow up in anger (a trait he noticed his daughter inherited from her) she opened her mouth.

"I don't agree with anything you said. But you are right about needing a break. I'll be talking to Serena if you need me." She says in a clipped tone before teleporting away.

This left Zeoticus to sigh and hold his head in his palm. Massaging his temples with his thumb and middle finger.

"And that still somehow went better than expected…"

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"This is going worse than expected…" Issei muttered to himself while flexing his gauntleted hand and kneeling down.

"Just don't die trying to cop a feel, perv." Koneko deadpanned while kicking a rock forward to block the stray blast of black and red fire.

Issei looked towards the glowing red form of Rias as she raged, her destructive aura flaring around her and eating away at the rocks and grass in her immediate vicinity. He coughed and spluttered as Koneko kicked off, flying towards her King at high speeds.

"Issei-san. Please be careful." Asia begged from besides him, getting a soft smile from the teen.

"Of course Asia-chan. Because if I'm not careful I'll never get to touch oppai again!" The poor ex-nun fell over dramatically and sighed as Issei stood tall, proudly, with his un-gauntleted fist clenched and fire in his eyes.

"Please be serious!" She whined as anime tears fell from her eyes.

Issei then felt a sense of dread wash over his body, tensing all his muscles at once and sending alarms blaring in his mind as he whirled to face Rias, the green gems in his gauntlet glowing a bright green as another stray blast approached him. Fear gripped him in a vice hold and refused to let go as he stared down his inevitable doom. Unbidden, Akeno's words on how to defend against the volatile magic played back in his head, drowning out the roaring pumping of his blood in his ears and the erratic sounds of combat ahead of him.

"Buchou's Power of Destruction is dangerous to fight against. Dodge if possible. If you can't dodge, don't block with your body. Use your magic."

He desperately reached out for the core of magic in his gut, beginning to claw out the small and stubborn energy to shield him. But like always, even with the help of his boosted gear, it was slow and sluggish. Pushing back against his wishes and seemingly refusing to do anything but sit in its home and do nothing.

"Do you wish to be stronger?"

"H-huh? Who are you?" Issei asked mentally in confusion.

"I am the being which resides in that gauntlet of yours. The Red Dragon of Domination! The Red Dragon Emperor! But you…Issei Hyoudou, you can call me Ddraig." The name of the dragon struck a chord within Issei. A sense of power carried in the few syllables that Issei had never before experienced.

"Ddraig? Wait! You live in my gauntlet!" He asked in shock, his vision suddenly swimming only to be met with flames which swirled and flickered as high as four or five stories.

"This gauntlet houses my soul and power. Tell me Issei Hyoudou! Do you desire power? Power to beat your enemies? Power to survive this stray blast of magic?"

'He doesn't sound too happy about my current situation.' Issei thought to himself nervously.

"Y-Yes! I want power to do those things!"

"Remember this Issei Hyoudou. I shall grant you power whenever you wish. But if it is more than what your body can handle. You must trade something of equal value. Understand?"

"Crystal clear Ddraig…sir."

"We will work on that." Issei gulps at the warning in the dragons tone "Now go! Take my power and survive! Teach the world that neither I nor any wielder of my power will ever fall to a Princess throwing a hissy fit!" A gargantuan roar met Issei's ears, making them feel as if they were going to burst. The giant flames dispersed like they had never existed and for a mere moment, Issei could see Ddraig in all his glory. And then he found himself staring down the energy blast again.

Suddenly, the red energy of Ddraig swirled to life. The volatile, potent, energy colliding with and meeting his own abysmal magic core and substantially increasing its size in an instant. Like a container about to burst, the magic took the path of least resistance down his arm, initially just going to burst out of his palm with no direction to go. But of course, Issei had help. Hearing the furious roar of the Red Dragon Emperor in his head, the teen could feel the dragon forcing his magic into a hemi-sphere shaped dome around him and Asia.

Striking the dome of hardened magic, the stray blast couldn't hold its form and splattered around the shield like water. Fizzling away by the time it reached the end of the shield or creating small, finger sized, holes in the ground. Seemingly sensing the pulse of power used to create the shield, Rias whirled on Issei and growled, launching forward.

"That Monster is not cool! He is not someone to be envied! He's a murderer! A disgrace of a Gremory!" She shouted crazily, her aura flaring sporadically as she met the shield with a punch which was so sloppy she nearly broke her own hand.

"You spoilt, upstart, Princess!" Ddraig roared in Issei's head loud enough to make him wince "You know nothing of the world! Nothing of your own kind or its history! And you dare to attack me!?" The teen refrained from commenting that he was the one being attacked to instead focus on keeping the shield up as Rias launched a barrage of attacks at it"Well let me teach you a lesson! Perhaps this will teach you to attack your superiors!"

Issei felt the power flowing through him suddenly quadruple, a large burst of it leaving his palm and sending his hemi-sphere shield hurtling above the ground with the crack of a gunshot. Impacting Rias and picking her up off the ground before hurtling all the way across the field and past the rest of her peerage. Crushing her against the hard face of a small plateau before exploding with enough force to make a crater as wide as a bus.

When the smoke cleared, they could all get a look at Rias, buried into the rock as she was. Despite the situation, Issei couldn't help the perverted grin and nosebleed at seeing Rias wearing practically nothing. Almost everything was gone except a bit of the left side of her skirt and a tiny strip of her shirt which covered her left nipple. Right as a giggle began to leave his lips, a dark red aura pulsed from rias, destroying the rock around her and freeing her. In an action that was soundless (and really shouldn't be soundless, Issei thought idly), black leathery wings popped out of her back, spreading wide open to show every inch of them as she growled. Throwing her head back and screaming, a massive aura coalesced around the enraged King and cratered the ground beneath her, lifting stones into the air and very quickly eating away at them until not even dust was left. Koneko and Kiba were blown back, both flipping to land on their feet and sliding back while lifting their arms to protect their face. Akeno was forced to fly further away to avoid the flickering and fluctuating edges of the aura and the wind it picked up. Her worried gaze stuck on her oldest friend as her high-pitched scream picked up in intensity.

"Perv." Koneko accused Issei getting an incredulous look from him.

"W-what? I attacked her! For once this had nothing to do with her oppai!"

Koneko just gave him a dry look before turning back "Next time try to actually knock her out."

"Hey! That's not fair! I've done- nggk!" his body suddenly froze up.

"And that's it. That was your freebie. That amount of power was far too much for your body. If you wish for that power again. You must sacrifice something." Ddraig said before falling silent, Issei's magic plummeting to nothing as every nerve in his body lit up in pain.

"Issei-san!" Asia yelled out in worry, running over.

The small girl stood behind him, her hands lighting up green as she began trying to heal him. Meanwhile, Rias' aura began to condense as her screams suddenly began to deepen and warp. The energy condensing until it fit against her form, glowing bright before shattering outward. Shimmering red glitter flying out, not destroying anything (thankfully) as it passed over them and the clearing. When they deemed it safe to open their eyes. They were met with a whole new look on Rias that none of them had ever seen before.

The girl in question levitated above the ground, her red hair now black from the very roots to just short of the tips of her hair, which were the same red as her hair normally is. The black gently fading into the red. Her eyes, previously a blue-green now glowed a dark red which made all of them tense up. Sticking out of her hair were two simple, slightly curved, horns. Starting out black and fading into red, much like her hair. Both the hair and horns occasionally sporting the small flickering of PoD off them, which seemed to do no harm to her. Her wings were still a deep black and appeared to have a leathery texture, but now appeared to be tattered with PoD flickering along the edges of every hole and tear. Her hands, which were wide open, appeared to be covered in the same material as her horns, with the same colour scheme, that formed sharp claws.

With a roar of power, the five Devil-hybrids were once again buffeted by a large gust of wind. Asia having to pause her healing to hold Issei's weight to stop him from falling over. The first thing Issei realized was that Rias was right in front of him. The explosion from her kick-off and the feeling of her magic pulsing slammed into his consciousness soon after as her claws inched ever closer.

And suddenly it was gone, her overwhelming aura, her mysteriously potent magic, her new look. It all disappeared in a small flash of light, her eyes rolling up and her body going limp as she impacted Issei, making him yell out in pain as her body bowled him and Asia over, leaving him lying on his back with Asia underneath his legs, whining in pain, and an unconscious, naked, Rias lying across his chest and stomach. His now elbow-length gauntlet disappearing in a flash of light.

"What the fuck…" he muttered, soon blacking out to the pain.

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FUCKEN DONEZO!

I know that Naruto didn't appear in this chap. And I also know that I'll be flamed for that. But I really wanted to write out these scenes and didn't want to bog the chap down with a (fairly mundane) scene with Naruto in it.

Anyway, I hope you guys did enjoy this chap and I'm looking forward to seeing all the reviews. Until next time!

Adios!