I gotta admit, I got more entertainment hearing your idea's as to why the f**k that thing was in the comments than I have reading other stories on this site since my last post of this story.
However I'd like thank everyone who gave their opinions and the Internet Cookie goes to...
A Guest... A Freaking Guest who doesn't even have an account had the closest accurate guess.
Here's his/her comment so you can recognize yourself.
"Well, the smart-ass in me wants to say the Nuckelavee-thing was a horrific abomination of nature, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be taken seriously. If I had to guess, I'd say it would have to do with one of the factions, possibly an experiment gone wrong.
It's too bad this story doesn't get updated too often, I have to say I'm really enjoying it."
So yes, it does have something to do with the Factions... Except replace 'Gone Wrong' with 'Gone too far'
We will find out what the creature is n this chapter, and there will be a little fluff to go along with it.
Enjoy.
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Regrettably, I didn't sleep. I just found myself staring at the Creature on my phone.
I called Murayama and Katase and told them to come to my place as we have an un-identified creature on the loose, and I asked Koneko to come to my house tomorrow as well... And I had to tell her I'd have a box full of M&M's for her to keep whatever was seen and spoken of at my house a secret from the other devils for now.
Thankfully Koneko is easy to bribe with candy so long as it's nothing too extreme.
So right now it was nine in the morning, I had Bacon Egg and Cheese Sandwiches set on a platter in the middle of the table, with said box of M&M's where Koneko was going to sit at and all my guest's for the evening had arrived saved for Koneko and the two humans.
"Kuroka please." I said trying to stay as calm as possible as Yasaka and Misha stared angrily in my direction, while Rouge was blushing and Kunou was, thankfully, sleeping on the couch, "Put a shirt on, we have guests coming."
"I don't want to nya..." Kuroka said as she sat her chin on my head, while her bare breast's were wrapped around my head.
"I'll let you sleep in the nude with me tonight." I offered just wanting to get this phase over with, because after last night I really want as much help with this thing as I can get.
"Deal." Kuroka said running out of the room and running back in with her clothes on.
"Finally." Misha whispered as there was a knock on the door.
"Come in!" I shouted, and soon enough Murayama and Katase walked into the house and sat at the table.
"What's got you so spooked anyway?" Murayama asked as she sat down, "A midnight text isn't something I'd normally expect from a man I just met."
"What were you doing up at Midnight anyway?" Katase asked.
I closed my eyes in thought, "Well the answer is something I can really only give my allies." I admitted, "Sorry but I don't want this kind of thing to get too spread out."
Murayama and Katase looked at each other and began whispering to each other for a moment before looking at me, "We'll do whatever we can to help you." Murayama said, "Well, except anything perverted."
"Fair enough." I said shrugging, "But we need to wait for one last person before I explain everything."
"Who?" Katase asked.
"I'm here." Koneko said pushing my door open and walking (read gravitating) to the box of candy and her sister, "That explains the bribe." She added opening one of the packs of M&M's.
"K-Koneko!?" Murayama cried out standing up in shock, "W-Why are you here?"
"She's my little sister, why wouldn't she be here?" Kuroka asked, with Koneko backing it up by letting her ears and tail pop free.
The kendo girls were silent for a moment before Katase spoke up.
"S-she's even cuter with those ears." Katase whispered loudly, "We've got no chance."
"Oi..." I muttered creating the party so I could pulled everyone into my Sanctuary, Yasaka waking up Kunou so she could join as well. This got the now expecting jump of surprise form Murayama and Katase before Koneko just told them to say yes and I warped everyone to my Sanctuary.
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After I had explained my Gamer ability to Murayama and Katase, as well as deal with their whining about how its not fair, which I placated by telling them they were actually thrice the Level of the average person to stroke their egos, I gave Kunou some spare funds and told her to go pick up a pair of katana for me to later enhance and give to Murayama and Katase later on and began the meeting.
"Alright ladies and..." I paused looking around the couches, "Not to self, get some male allies, I'm outnumbered. Anyway, ladies, the reason I organized this meeting is because last night while on Patrol for the Devil in charge of this town, as admittedly she's been a bit lax lately, I encounter a creature that was beyond bizarre."
"Unnatural." Koneko added, "Even among the Factions it's unnatural."
"From what I could gather of the creature." I continued, "Which isn't much and my Gamer ability couldn't even discern it's very name, I can conclude that its way higher a level than 25, not a Stray Devil as it shrugged off a shot from Executioner, but it can regenerate and melt into blood for a quick escape."
Koneko went wide eyed, "R- My King think's its dead." She muttered.
"Tell her it's not, something like that doesn't just heal and die." I said, the last thing we need is for Rias to go lax on this thing, "Here's a picture of it, and if you've got a weak stomach don't look." I said sliding my phone to the middle of the table.
Yasaka was the first to grab and and actually recoiled at the sight of the creature, "As much as I want to say it's Nuckelavee, it doesn't drink fresh water. And this thing has it's head half submerged."
Misha was the next to look and actually turned green, "I never thought I'd find blood unappetizing." She said passing it along quickly.
Rouge blinked at the photo once before pushing it quickly along to Murayama and Katase, both of whom paled before turning green and throwing the phone a Kuroka.
"I-it can't be..." Kuroka said with a gasp as she dropped the phone, "I thought he would have died by now."
All heads turned to Kuroka, "Kuroka..." I said calmly, "You know what that thing is?"
"I know who it used to be." Kuroka admittedly curling up into a ball, "His name was Marcus... He was my former master's, Alexander Naberius, Knight... He used to be a human before Naberius found him... If unique."
"How can someone go from human to... That?" Katase asked scared.
"Id have to tell you Alexander's past before I get to that." Kuroka said, "Alexander, according to Marcus when he was still human anyway, was once a fairly nice Devil, however his daughter, Alice Naberius, was born sickly and weak. Alexander would do anything to help his daughter, so Marcus, bless his kind heart, offered to let Alexander experiment on him so Alice to gain his unique ability."
"What was Marcus's ability?" Yasaka asked.
"Alexander never figured out how Marcus was born with it, but something in his blood caused his body to develop resistances faster than any other creature." Kuroka said, "To prove it he stuck his hand in Holy Water, pulled it out, and did so every day for a week. On the seventh day when he stuck his hand in the Holy Water it barely looked red, he had developed a natural resistance to Holy Energy just by getting hurt by it."
"That would explain why Executioner did next to nothing." I muttered.
"Soon Alexander had developed a synthetic version of Marcus's ability and injected it into Alice, then helped her heal with Phoenix Tears. Pretty soon she was warding off illness and slowly getting better... Then she ran away." Kuroka said.
"Come again?" Rouge said cleaning out her ear with her pinky, "She was getting better and she just ran away? I don't get it."
"According to the letter she left, she was feeling sorry that her father was spending so much money trying to heal her because she kept getting sick." Kuroka said, "So she ran away, hoping that her father wouldn't chase after her... What happened instead makes me wish he did chase after her."
"Sis..." Koneko started realizing where this was going.
"After Alice ran, Alexander began to further his experiments, looking for a way to enhance Marcus's ability, Shirone, you know her as Koneko, and I knew Marcus for about a week before he vanished, sure enough other Members of his Peerage stopped showing up after he started to study my Senjutsu... His Queen, his Rooks, His other Bishop... They vanished and then I overheard him say he was going to experiment on my sister." Kuroka finished.
The room was silent for a while.
"Fuck." I finally muttered, "Naberius managed to power up Marcus alright, he can regenerate now, but it's not perfect that's for sure... It's twisted."
"He's got resistance to The Power of Destruction now too." Koneko added.
"Well that's great." I muttered, "Still, Alexander must have given him a last order involving Alice... Seeing as Marcus moaned her name before he fled."
"I guess Alexander still wanted to find his daughter after all." Kuroka said, "Though I'm scared of what he would have done to her."
"Kuroka." Yasaka said catching our attention, "What abilities did Naberius's Peerage have? We may just find the others out there if we keep look for them, and we'll need to stop them."
Kuroka nodded, still shivering, honestly feeling sorry for the girl I stood up and lifted her up before sitting under her, resting her on my lap. This got Kuroka to stop shivering at least.
"I-I can't remember their names, I never spoke with them much." Kuroka admitted, "but I can remember the other Bishop specialized in magic to boost everyone's combat power, one of his Rooks was a demigod son of Ares, strong but reckless, his Queen was a Magicians experiment in merging a human with a Slimes DNA, she was mostly human but her bones were rather bendy, and his other Rook... I never actually met her, she was mute and seemed to hate everyone."
"That other Bishop may need to be the first target." Misha said, "Combat enhancers are almost as dangerous as healers."
"Right." I said nodding before looking at Murayama and Katase, "You two will need to start coming with me to train, starting tomorrow, if we're going to have any chance of stopping those experiments... And clearing Kuroka's name."
I saw Kuroka's ear twitch as I said that, a smile sparkle of hope appearing in her eyes.
"Dismissed... As soon an Kunou gets back." I said standing up, "Feel free to wander the place, I gotta go put this together." I added holding up the three parts of the Void's Grasp Gauntlet.
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It took a while, but I managed to put the gauntlet together, a gauntlet made of golden rings around the fingers to avoid hindering flexibility, with tips that points straight, metal plates around the middle of the palm and back, with black leather visible beneath the metal. Plus the gauntlet was designed to fit on either the left or right hand.
[Relic Complete!]
[Void's Grasp Gauntlet]
[Made to hold that which one cannot hold, this Gauntlet will allow the hand it's held with to hold anything without pain. Lava, Light Spears, even attacks from weapons will not harm the hand that wears this gauntlet, just make sure it doesn't touch your arm. It won't, however, allow you to wield Demonic/Holy weapons that haven't chosen you.]
"Well at least Muramasa wasn't picky about it's user." I muttered putting the Gauntlet on my right hand, one thing I learned about Muramasa from Sona (We had a talk about it after Rias learned what the sword was), Muramasa was perhaps the easiest Demonic Sword to use, it didn't care who held it, Muramasa just wanted blood and it'll drive it's user to suicide if it has no choice for it's blood, "Still, at least it's not too cheap. I mean how unfair would it be if I only needed to wear this to use something like Excalibur."
Shaking my head I went back to the main room of my Sanctuary where I took the two Katana Kunou bought, as well as noticing she bought herself some toys, and sent everyone back to the real world.
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I hope you all enjoyed this chapter.
And FYI people, I never saw the Resident Evil Movies, the most I've seen of them is a clip on Youtube of Nemesis eliminating S.T.A.R.S. Members with a minigun (Seriously why the hell is that thing called a Mini-Gun? That is not MINI), though I can understand why everyone was thinking that, I kinda pulled a lot of Resident Evil references in that chapter.
But yeah, we now know what the hell the creature was, and that there are four more things out there similar to it...
Beware!