Judan: Okay onto chapter eighteen! I never thought that we'd reach this far… truly we're almost to the half way point!
Slayer: What is the halfway point?
Judan: Um… next chapter actually.
Neos: So what this story will have… thirty eight chapters or something?
Judan: Yes and while it may seem shorter than some others, just remember it will probably have over four hundred thousand words.
Rodrick: There is also the fact that once we beat Xilo what then? I mean he's pretty much set up to be the ultimate villain in this story. Seeing how he's already killed pretty much any other major villain in canon.
Jeanne: That's true… but we also have Hades left over, but he's also being bullied at the moment.
Shadow: You have a point there… but I guess we can always do an epilogue or something.
Judan: Two actually making this story about forty chapters long. But we're getting ahead of ourselves here, that's still a long ways off.
Neos: True enough, now as always we like to thank all of you for your support and giving this story a chance. Also for accepting some of our blunders we have made.
Judan: Yes but do not fret once we have a chance we will repost this story with a newer fixed version.
Shadow: His plan is to get all of you to read this story twice basically. Slayer over there is also planning the same thing.
Judan/Slayer: HEY! Don't give away our secrets!
Rodrick: But you've admitted to trying to do that before though…
Jeanne: Is it always like this around here?
Shadow: Unfortunately yes, still as the guest this time around how about you do the disclaimer?
Jeanne: Alright… Now then we here at the Dark Guard productions own nothing but OC's and reality building concepts. Everything else as always belongs to their respective owners. Now without further ado…
Everyone: Here's the story!
Official pairings: Sorted in order of importance… Revisions will be made based on story progression.
Rodrick: Ophis, Shirone, Sona, Vali, Lefay, Bennia, Grayfia…
Issei: Chirno, Ravel, Kiryuu, Irina, Raynare, Rias, Xenovia, Akeno, Kuroka, Rossweisse, Kalawarner…
Red: Mittelt, secret…
Ryu: Sakuya,Rosalia, Fai'es, Reya, Tomoe…
Allen: Asia, Kiyome, Gabriel…
Kuros: Masamune, Kuyari…
Walker: Jeanne…
Jing: Li, Lunona…
Character sheet… Invalid no fights present to draw data from…
As a side note if you want to see someone's stats just ask in a review. If you want to know history, ask for an encyclopedia Omake of that person.
Hello= Regular talk
[Hello]= Kuros
{Hello}= Ddraig
(Hello)= other sacred gears
'Hello'Masamune
'Hello'Murasame
Hello= Thoughts/talking to inner spirits
(J/N)= Judan Notes
(S/N)= Slayer notes
Chapter Eighteen: A long Time coming.
The Void King (S/N you know you keep accidentally changing the name right?) (J/N Ah crap…)
Sighing in relief as we finally made it back to the clubroom I knocked on the door. After a few moments Akeno answered it and saw all of us. Well except Tsuyara who had said her time was up and left while wishing us good luck.
"It looks like quite a few of you have gone through the wringer, but who's that girl on your back?"
Being a bit impatient while also trying not to sound rude I answered her. "She's a reaper that we found battling corpse puppets, now where's Asia we need her assistance right now." Thankfully she seemed to sense my urgency, and turned around to direct me to my bishop. Said bishop was currently just talking to Ravel on the couch. However upon seeing us she stood up right away.
"What happened? All of you look like you've been beaten up by someone!"
Next to her Ravel nodded her head in agreement. "I must agree with Asia here, especially when it comes to Chirno and that girl on your back Booker San." Looking back at all of us, I could see where Asia was coming from. Although me, Ophis, and Shirone weren't injured in the slightest. We were in fact just covered in blood and gore and other bodily fluids. None of which were actually our own, but as expected of Ophis. As soon as she actually looked at herself there was a small glow over her.
When it was gone Ophis was all nice and clean. Shaking my head at her cheapness I turned to Asia to explain the situation, although everyone else listened. When I was done, Ravel was the first to act.
"What are we waiting for then?! We need to get to Issei right away!" She then tried to run past me. But I put a hand on her head before she could leave. "Hey what's the holdup we need to get to Issei!"
Shaking my head I gently moved her back in front of me. "Ravel patience here, for now we need Asia to heal Chirno and Bennia. Then we need to move everyone back to the house. Because unfortunately I don't think this place is safe anymore."
That's when Rias finally spoke up. "Why do you think this place isn't safe? My brother put up wards around here so I'm sure this place is quite protected." Looking back at her I shook my head before answering her question.
"Well to be honest I don't think he ever expected you to be facing people like this. At least not for a long while, so the wards on the building aren't as strong as they could be. My place on the other hand was designed to basically survive a nuclear apocalypse. Okay that's an exaggeration but you get the idea." Thankfully Rias decided to take my words at face value and nodded her head with a sigh.
"Alright then I'll trust your judgment on this. After all you haven't led us astray yet, so I guess you deserve a little bit of trust." Smiling I nodded my head appreciatively before going over to one of the couches. I then put Bennia down on it as Shimi put Chirno down next to her.
I then turned to Asia. "Okay do your stuff so we can get going." She nodded her head before walking next to me; taking a deep breath she began her work as green light enveloped her hands. Thankfully Chirno wasn't too badly hurt and Asia was able to quickly fix her up. Bennia however took a bit longer but she finally woke up during the process.
"Ahh… That was a good nap." Then looking around she waved at us. "Hi!~ I can only guess that we've finally arrived?" I nodded my head but before I could say anything else she saw Ophis. "Um… am I'm still dreaming? Because the infinity dragon is in this room? Speaking of which I had this weird dream where I said yes to being someone's girlfriend, but I was actually going to prank them a bit first. Unfortunately it ended before I could do anything, which was sad because I had this…"
At that point I interrupted her. "That wasn't a dream, well besides the whole pranking part. And this here is actually Ophis; also I don't really appreciate being pranked." Blinking for a bit she then turned red before looking away.
"Oh… well sorry… I must've been half asleep or something when I agreed to that. Not that you're not attractive though! But I only just met you and I really don't know you. Although you are nice and seem smart, but…"
I had to once again interrupt her as she started rambling. "Bennia that's fine, just calm down for the moment. I agree with you, besides we need to focus on the town before we do anything else." The reaper girl sighed in relief and nodded her head right when Asia finished.
"All done now.~ Okay now let's get back to Issei, he's the one who really needs healing." At her words everyone nodded their heads, except for Bennia who looked a bit confused.
"Uh… who's Issei again? Oh! Isn't he the one who you told me needed a lot of medical attention? Hopefully he doesn't die that would mean more work for me, and also I don't want to take him to the afterlife right now." Everyone just stared at her and she looked around at us confused. "What? When it comes to afterlife business it's either I saw him die first. Or I found his ghost first."
Shaking my head I patted her own before speaking. "You might want to leave any talk of death until after we're done with this mess. After all none of us either wants to die, or wants to see any of us die." She laughed sheepishly at that but nodded in agreement before speaking.
"Yeah sorry about that… but talk like that pretty much comes with the territory of being a reaper." Patting her head again I was about to make my way out when Rias spoke up.
"Oh no! I almost forgot about Gasper!" Next to her Akeno giggled, although it was a bit strained.
I on the other hand could only question her. "Do you mean that kids ghost movie? Gasper the friendly ghost?"
Bennia exclaimed surprise at my question. "But we put him into the underworld years ago!" We all looked at her for a few seconds before turning back to Rias. She just looked at all of us drily before answering plainly.
"No… I mean my other bishop Gasper Vladi, he's a Dhampire, who is pretty much afraid of his own shadow. Now if what you said is true about this place isn't safe, than I need to go and get him." She then left through a side door which I hadn't noticed was there before.
Where did that come from? Any more thoughts on the matter were interrupted as Ravel talked to Akeno.
"So… we actually have another bishop? Why didn't he help you guys out during the rating game, besides the whole I'm afraid of my own shadow thing."
Akeno sighed before explaining. "Truthfully he has a sacred gear called forbidden balor view. Unfortunately he can't control it very well and keeps freezing people. You see what it does is alter the perception of the person making it seem as if he's frozen time. It was decided that until Rias could handle him, that it would be best to keep him sealed off in a room. Although because of his personality Gasper Kun really likes the idea of being alone in the dark. You see despite being immune to the sun he still hates it… along with drinking blood for some reason."
I could only stare at her with a frown on my face, when Rias came back in dragging a cardboard box. Looking at it I then looked back to Rias who was grimacing. So breathing out I asked the question which no one seemed to want to ask.
"Gasper's in that box isn't he?" Rias nodded her head and I slapped my forehead. "This is really disappointing… also I have to ask why you didn't come to me for help. After all we do have someone who specializes in Chronomancy. Plus I'm sure I could get Azazel to help out, he is an expert in sacred gears." Rias looked away shamefully making me just sigh. "Okay fine I see how it is, seriously you're pride is rather bad Rias. Let's just go now; Issei still needs some major healing."
With that I left without waiting for an answer although Shirone was now next to the box. And as we continued to leave the building, she would actually kick the box every so often.
Every time she did so I could hear some yells of terror coming from it. "Koneko please stop kicking my box! It scares me and I know you're doing it on purpose!" That's when, with evil grins of their own Bennia and Ophis joined Shirone. Now next to me on my right was Jing who was looking back at them.
"You know despite just meeting her I have to say those three are already acting like sisters." Behind him Red sighed before speaking up.
"Yep… that's just what we needed three pranksters in our group. Although Shirone isn't very much of one, I think she just likes picking on Gasper for some reason." Nodding in agreement as we turned to watch them walk down the stairs, we noticed that Mittelt was looking very frustrated as she held onto Fay's hand. She was standing behind them with her right eye twitching.
More than likely the slow descent had something to do with it. Eventually after ten minutes we were able to finally get everyone down to the ground. Although Rias was now as red as her hair with embarrassment. Letting out another sigh I began to start moving when I received a call on my phone. Grabbing it I looked to see Allen calling me. So naturally curious to see why he was calling me I answered.
"Hello?"
"Hi Rodrick, It's me Allen although you probably already knew that. Anyways I wanted to let you know that I'm here with your old group now. Plus I picked up someone new, are you familiar with Kiyome Abe by any chance?" Thinking about it I wracked my brain for that name, eventually I remembered that she was actually on the tennis team.
So I answered him positively. "Yeah she's a senior and a member of the tennis club. And since you're asking I can only assume that you somehow ran into her?"
"Yeah apparently she's a beast tamer or something like that, I actually met her trying to tame a Lendopo Diren with a yeti." In the background I heard a familiar voice say Yuki Onna before Allen yelled back at it. "It's a yeti and that's final!" He then sighed before talking to me again. "Sorry about that but we are currently in disagreement about what one of her monsters are. Anyways just wanted to let you know what happened. Also just in case you weren't aware corpse puppets are in town now."
Nodding subconsciously I spoke up. "Yeah I noticed, me and Shirone even ran into the one controlling them. A lich named Razor, we found him attacking a reaper named Bennia. She's now with us, but still I wouldn't worry too much if I were you. After all with your sword of exorcism you could probably destroy Razor in one hit."
"Yeah you're probably right although I'd prefer to use that as a last resort, now I got to go I can smell another corpse puppet nearby."
"Alright talk to you later." And with that he hung up the phone as I sighed and turned to Rias. "Did you know that Kiyome Abe was a beast trainer?"
Blinking she nodded her head. "Yeah she doesn't like us devils very much though. Still I thought you already knew that, after all you knew about the rest of us." At her reasoning I just shrugged, after all it wasn't like it was her fault that I didn't know. With that I turned around to begin walking again, after all we still had a ways to go before we're back safe at my house.
Unfortunately it was just my luck that we were attacked. It was quite sudden to… as we all exited the school grounds dozens of corpse puppets jumped out at us. However there were five people that were unique compared to them. Three of them I even recognized.
"It's time to get you back for giving me this scar and ruining my chance of getting a husband!"
"Again I apologize for my mistress's conduct." Yep two of them were Lunona and Fai'es Although I did see a horizontal scar across Lunona's stomach.
'Now's your chance to apologize for what you did to that poor girl!' Groaning I decided to ignore Masamune for now and look at the other two. One was obviously Arthur who made me depressed just by looking at him; another was a rather beautiful blonde haired girl who I didn't recognize.
The last one however was someone who made me angry. Because based on how Ophis and Lefay described him I knew it was Walker. So with a growl I got out Masamune and pointed her at him. And although I didn't see his face my action seemed to surprise him based on his tone.
Although he somehow managed to sound condescending. "So you really do have the weaker sword? I must say that is quite interesting, you have to tell me how you have that blade." I only narrowed my eyes on him causing Walker to sigh. "I see that you're going to be difficult, still we'll offer you this last chance to surrender."
'No! They can't surrender I still need to chop Masamune into bits!' At the voice which spoke up Masamune spoke up as well.
'Murasame… you haven't changed a bit have you? Still as unrefined as ever I see.' This made Murasame growl as Walker unsheathed him.
'Well… you sound just as condescending as ever bitch!' Now that got me even angrier but before I could say anything Kuros manifested the Dragon Gear and shouted at him.
[Take that back! She's a wonderful lady who is about a billion times better than you! You're just an ugly blade while she's elegant and beautiful!]
'Aww… you know just what to say to make me special don't you Kuro Kun?~' At the two interacting voices Murasame spoke up confused.
'Just what the hell am I hearing? You're a bloody sword Masamune you can't have a love life!' That's when with a bright light Masamune turned into her human form. Although I saw that Masarune was being held in her hands.
'You were saying?' At that point everyone became quiet until Lunona spoke up.
"Wow that baby is cute!~" As one we turned to her. "What? It's the truth! Plus this isn't the first time I've seen something like this so don't give me those looks! Sheesh I've been to many different worlds before and have seen many different things. This is actually one of the more normal things I've seen." Upon hearing her reasoning Masamune spoke up cheerfully.
'Thank you for that then. Now I do believe that Rodrick here has something to say to you.' Sighing knowing that Masamune wouldn't let this go I spoke to Lunona.
"I'm sorry for giving you that scar, I was just defending myself at the time but I do apologize."
At my words Lunona teared up before speaking. "Oh apology accepted after all I was trying to kill you." With that she smiled while looking at Fai'es. "Fai'es we're going I got what I wanted." She then turned to leave when the blonde hair girl yelled at her.
"Really?! You can't just leave like this; master Xilo still has plans for you!"
Lunona turned to her with a smile. "Oh yes I know that. But I can't hurt someone as nice as Rodrick, that'd be just wrong! Plus I only supported him because he was my big brother, I'm sure he'll understand."
At this point even Fai'es spoke up in confusion. "Mistress… just what was the point of helping him in the first place then? After all if you decided to just lay low then you wouldn't have fought Booker, and then you wouldn't have ever gotten that scar in the first place." The Darkwraith actually paused at that.
She then started tearing up again as she spoke. "You're right! I'm such an idiot!" She then fell to her knees while she kept on crying. The rest of us could only just stare at her until Jing in what seemed like a moment of insanity approached her.
"Hey it's alright; after all you didn't know what would happen. You just wanted to help your brother after all." At his words Lunona turned around and flung herself at him crying into his shirt as he turned to Li. "A little help here?" Li just shook her head with a smirk.
"Sorry but you brought this on yourself."
That's when Murasame seemed to snap. 'Okay that's it! Let's just kill them all and get this over with. Including those traitorous bitches Lunona and Fai'es!' With a sigh Walker rubbed the back of his head before speaking.
"I guess you're right… although I'm loathed to do so, but traitors must be dealt with." He then turned to the blonde girl. "Do you think you could call for some back up while I hold these guys off for a bit? After all our forces strength has just been cut off, thanks to the insanity that is Lunona. Really this almost makes me wish that I brought Dust instead… almost…" The girl nodded her head before jumping back and creating what looked like a purple magic circle.
Narrowing my eyes I quickly took out my left pistol and shot at her. But much to my frustration Walker deflected my bullet with Murasame. He then looked at me and although I couldn't see his face, I could feel anger coming from him.
"Your fight is with me, so I suggest not trying to do that again unless you want to die in the process." At his words I couldn't help but notice that Walker must've had feelings for the girl.
Too bad for him, I need to kill the both of them. And with that thought Masamune turned back into a sword, while Masarune also disappeared back into my mindscape. Though how that worked I still didn't truly understand, and I doubt I ever really would.
With a sigh I turned to the others. "Alright then here's how it's going to go. I'll handle Walker here; Ophis please take care of Arthur he deserves to rest. But don't destroy his holy swords we'll need them later. Jing I'll need you to handle the blonde girl… uh Jing?" Looking back over to him I saw that he was still trying to get Lunona off of him. Sighing I turned to Rias instead.
"Okay while he and Li help protect her. I need you along Akeno to handle the blonde girl. Bennia you can handle the puppets, everyone else get Asia to Issei."
They nodded their heads as Fai'es got out her snake sword. "I will also help protect my mistress, because while she is quite frankly insane I still care for her." At her words I couldn't help but snort a bit.
That's a bit of an understatement.
'I don't think she's insane, really I believe that she just wants to settle down and have a family. That's not so bad is it?' Shaking my head I prepared to fight Walker as he slowly walked towards me. Luckily since those who left lived in my house, they could use the keys I created to teleport back home. Well besides Gasper but he was one extra tag along so it was doable. Plus he was in a box…
My thoughts on the matter were interrupted, as my enemy crossed the distance between us and struck at me. Easily seeing the attack coming, I blocked his horizontal slash and gritted my teeth at his strength. And with that the fight began.
Hahaha… I'm going to kill you in your sleep!-The Line Break-
Pushing my opponent back I quickly turned my pistol on him and fired. As expected he blocked the bullet with ease before striking out at me again. At that point I didn't really know what I was thinking as I blocked with my pistol. And with that my left pistol was cut to ribbons. So with a grimace I jumped back, glad that my sacred gear protected my hand, yet upset at the loss of my gun.
I guess I overestimated the strength of the gun.
'Yes but it is quite understandable, you've never had to deal with something like Murasame. But for some reason I can tell that he isn't quite into this fight. It's strange really… you should be careful I think they're just trying to distract you from something.'
I frowned at her words, because I didn't really think there was anything to distract me from. After all I could probably deal with Walker, especially if he's holding back. Red was probably in the house already, so everyone there will be safe. And Allen was with the others; although I did wish Raynare and Freed would show up to help.
Shaking my head I turned back to my opponent, I still couldn't see his face but I could see his eyes. They looked like Xilo's and it kind of creeped me out, but when I noticed them blink I tightened my grip on Masamune and swung at him as he swung at me. Our blades met in the middle and we pushed against each other. However finding ourselves evenly matched in strength we both backed up before swinging again.
This time we didn't do the strength contest and only pulled our swords back. But not a millisecond later we swung again only for the others blade to stop our attack. And despite the situation I couldn't help but smile viciously. My dragon side was starting to show, and with each blocked or dodged blow I couldn't help but find myself enjoying the fight. It had been to long since I fought someone on even ground.
Still that part of me was slightly drowned out by my need for vengeance. After all he killed Lefay's older brother. In doing so Lefay is no longer as cheerful or happy as she once was. Not to mention Arthur was a good friend of mine, despite being a tad overprotective of Lefay. So trying to calm myself I blocked another attack one handed, only to aim a straight jab at Walker. His eyes widened a bit as I hit his face; I then proceeded to continue my attack by stomping on his foot.
With that I pinned it to the ground as I elbowed him in the stomach. He coughed a bit but then he sent a knife hand at my right shoulder. Much to my shock his hand stabbed right through it making me grit my teeth in pain. As he pulled back his hand I stepped off his foot and slashed at him with Masamune. He jumped back but I still managed to leave cut from his right shoulder, to the bottom left of his abdomen.
Not letting up I took out one my throwing knives and tossed it at him. Knowing that he'd just cut it up, I ran forward as he did so. So as planned I jumped up while kneeing his face. While my attack did connect, he recovered before I could do anything else and grabbed my leg. He then flipped me over himself making it so my face hit asphalt.
Thank you dragon resistance! Still that hurt… Indeed if it weren't for that I'd be missing my front teeth, and would probably have a broken nose. Still I rolled over as I sensed an attack and jumped up to my feet. He had swung down at my position leaving him open. So I swung at him with Masamune. However thanks to my shoulder my attack lost half its power through the swing.
Because of that Walker was able to dodge before my attack even reached him. This led to him counterattacking as he thrusted Murasame at me. Doing what I could I tried to dodge but I was still cut badly across my left side.
Still it could've been worse and I jumped back before he could do anything else. I was breathing heavily now, and was bleeding from my right shoulder and left side. Still despite being on the losing end at the moment, I couldn't help but admire just how good this guy was. In fact though it might seem as if he's done more damage, and he has. The fact is that we've been pretty much trading blow for blow. The only issue was how he hurt my shoulder, which was when things started going in his favor.
It was a lucky shot, yet sometimes luck is really the only thing someone needs to win. Taking in another gulp of air I placed my left hand on my injured shoulder. Now a few options… at this point it's been a pure sword battle, but if I start using magic. Even to slightly heal my wounds he'll start using magic. That probably won't be good since it'll more than likely be Abyssal magic. Sorry shoulder it seems as if you'll have to keep on bleeding.
It was actually for those very reasons that I haven't used senjutsu or my balance breaker yet. By keeping it to swords only I managed to keep damage to the area at a minimal. Not to mention I didn't want to hurt any of my friends by using too much destructive power. Looking around me I saw that for the most part everyone was doing fairly well. Although I had to say that Akeno and Rias could've been doing better.
But based on what the blonde girl was doing I couldn't blame them too much. She was fighting very well, and I saw that the girl actually had blade blacksmith. In other words she had Kiba's sacred gear, only she created holy swords and not demonic ones. Still if I had known that I would've told them to get Lunona off of Jing, so he could fight her.
Speaking of which… Lunona was now just fighting off the endless amounts of corpse puppets, which were attacking us. With that I realized that there must be a lich nearby helping to control them all. Still I believed that between Li, Bennia, Lunona, and Fai'es that we shouldn't have too much to worry about them. Although I still found it strange that Lunona and Fai'es were helping us. But I figured it was a onetime deal and they'd leave after this was over.
Ophis on the other hand was fighting but she was hesitant to destroy Arthur. I couldn't fault her though he was one of her first friends. So knowing that I'd probably have to be the one to do the deed, I turned to Walker intent on finishing him. Charging forward I slashed at him still holding Masamune in my right hand. But as I expected he blocked the attack with ease. At that point I smirked as I unleashed my sacred gears claws and swiped at him.
My smirk grew as I made three deep slashes horizontally across his front. But I didn't stop there as I swiftly turned three sixty degrees, while lashing out with both claw and sword. He blocked both attacks before slashing out at me. However I was done being nice and grabbed Murasame with the dragon gear.
I saw his eyes widen before I pulled him in close, at that moment I was about to finish him off when he let out a wave of black energy. I was sent flying and into the wall surrounding the school.
Well… it would seem as if magic is now on the table… Getting up I rubbed the back of my head. However as the hair on my neck stood up, I rolled to the side as a black ball of energy slammed into the wall I was just in front of. Looking back at Walker I had to quickly raise Masamune to block his downwards slash. As I did so my shoulder flared up in pain but I held on until he jumped back.
While doing so he brought his left palm up to face me and a red glow encompassed it. Knowing that it probably wasn't a good thing I started moving to the left. And not a moment too soon, since he fired off a continuous stream of red lightning at me. Having had enough of the one sided magic show, I shot off a white lightning bolt at him with my left hand. Seeing it coming he dodged my spell, and that's when things started becoming a bit destructive…
As he landed he stabbed Murasame into the floor before clapping his hands together. At that point I felt a shift in his energy, as four dark purple magic circles appeared around him.
"Sorry but I think I've had enough of you." With those words, the circles glowed before firing off four purple beams of energy at me. Not expecting such a thing, I was only able to create a small shimmering shield in front of me. But as one may have guessed it didn't hold out very well.
Within a moment it shattered and I was hit by the beams. Although weakened I was blown back through the school's wall. But despite the situation of lying there bleeding, and feeling some pretty bad burns my thoughts were elsewhere.
Sona's not going to be happy about the damage to the school.
[Really? Is that all you can think about right now! You were just hit with pure abyssal energy! Man you really need to sort out your priorities kid…] Groaning I slowly stood up using Masamune as a crutch. However when I looked back at Walker I saw him missing. That's when Fai'es yelled out to me.
"Lord Booker above you!" Though I would question her on the lord Booker part later, I did take what she said to heart and looked up. I saw Walker standing on a different magic circle with his hands still clasped together. Unfortunately he also had about ten magic circles surrounding that one. Again I couldn't see his face but his eyes told me how he felt.
Plus he apparently wasn't above mocking me. "Goodbye and good riddance to you and Masamune!" With that large balls of pure energy formed underneath the circles, and shot at me at high speeds.
Again my thoughts were different than one might expect. You know this really escalated quickly… Hey Kuros are you ready? All I got was a smug feeling from him as I brought up the dragon gear.
"Dragon gear Balance breaker… Birth of the true dragon!" With that I transformed as soon as the attacks hit me. Around me I could hear the shouts of worry from everyone, although Ophis' voice was the clearest to me. I knew I'd have to make it up to her later. Unfortunately I was still in a lot of pain as the attacks collided on me. Still I survived and out of the smoke I roared before taking to the sky.
I was too fast and Walker wasn't able to do anything as I flipped forward, and hit him with my tail. It slammed onto him with the force of three freight train, and he crashed into the ground below. Interesting enough… he landed in the same crater he just created from his last attack. So basically the fall was even longer than it could've been.
Landing on the edge of the fairly large crater I looked at his broken and mangled body. However I narrowed my eyes on it as his body distorted and faded away. Knowing that he just ended an illusion I sniffed around before swinging my tail to the left. I grinned with satisfaction as I hit him sending him rolling across the ground. I then turned and walked up to him as he tried to stand up. However I just stomped on him with my left paw as hard as I could. He yelled out in pain as I heard, and felt his bones shatter.
From beyond his screams came another voice. "Walker!" Turning to the voice I saw the blonde haired girl try to come and help him. However she was stopped as Fai'es cut her off, behind her Rias and Akeno were panting heavily. "Get out of my way you traitor!" Fai'es didn't say anything as she struck at her with her snake sword.
With that I turned to Walker before speaking. "I'm surprised that you have someone like her caring for you. After all you've done, I'm surprised anyone could care for you." Despite his position he laughed bitterly before speaking.
"I don't see why you're so surprised; we both fight for what we believe is right. I myself am a soldier and I fight for my general, as for Jeanne I saved her from a terrible fate. And I will admit that she's grown on me. Still if you think you've won you're wrong, I won't die like this. I can't die like this!" With those words he actually glowed purple before I actually felt him start lifting my paw off of him.
Growling I opened up my mouth before jumping up and breathing black and white fire on him. However as soon as I stopped I landed and watched carefully. But as the smoke cleared I saw him looking normally again. He was also completely healed, and a purple version of Hermit's shield was around him. However he was breathing heavily and slouched over a bit.
Whatever he did must've taken a lot of energy. I need to finish this now! For Lefay and Arthur! With those thoughts I crouched down and channeled Masamune's cutting power. I then created three white spheres in front of me. But with just a thought I launched them at the shield. I could tell that he was surprised as the shield around him shattered. But I was then on him in a second swiping at him with my left.
In his surprise my attack connected and sent him flying. This finally made his hood drop from his face.
Good I can see what he looks like before killing him. At least that was what I thought as I walked over to him, but as he slowly stood up I noticed something. There was also this nagging feeling in the back of my mind. As if an old memory was trying to resurface, but I ignored it as I walked forward.
I was just five yards away when it happened. He had stood up and turned to face me with however he had sheathed Murasame. Holding out his hand a different one edged sword appeared in his hand. But as I saw his face I ignored the sword… that's when the memory went straight to the forefront of my mind. It made me stop and freeze in place; however I couldn't completely process it as Walker noticed my condition. With that he leapt forward and slashed at me multiple times before stopping behind me.
The affect was instant as blood literally gushed out of dozens of slashed over my body. With that I was forced out of balance breaker and fell foreward onto my front. And as Walker walked towards me to finish me off I lost consciousness.
Hahaha… I'm going to kill you in your sleep!-The Line Break-
The Infinite Dragon
When I felt it I simply couldn't believe it… but as I looked over to see for myself I saw Rodrick fall down in a bloody mess. I didn't know if I was imagining it or it was simply an illusion. I just wouldn't believe what I saw, because for me Rodrick has always been this pillar of strength. I always felt as if he could beat everyone bar me and Red. But as I saw him fall and Walker started making his way to him… I realized I wasn't imagining anything.
So focused on making my way over to him, I didn't pay attention to Walker as I teleported to my mates location. Then with a large burst of magic I sent Walker flying as I knelt next to Rodrick. As I picked him up in my arms I just held him as I tried to start healing him. However it didn't take long for me to realize it wasn't working.
At that point I felt something start growing inside me. I didn't know what it was but it hurt… it hurt more than when Kuros told us the truth. It even hurt more than when Yuloto almost killed me. The feeling made my breath become erratic and I felt tears coming down my face. As my chest tightened and the feeling grew, I brought Rodrick closer to me as I rested my cheek on the top of his head.
What should I do? What should I do?! That's when I heard a voice that made the feeling I had turn to rage.
"That won't do much good for him dragon whore." Looking up I saw Walker, his left arm hung loosely and blood was dripping down his face obscuring it. He was also bleeding heavily from his left side.
"I guess my attack did more damage to you than I expected…" At my words he sniffed before pointing his sword at me. It was three feet long and had one edge; it was also straight and was violet in color. The handle was eight inches long and wrapped in leather bandages. The guard was a simple guard usually seen on katanas. However I could feel a lot of strange energy coming from it. At that point I realized what he did. "You put Nether energy inside him didn't you?"
He seemed to smile at my question before nodding and answering me. "Yes I did… you see we saw how he saved you with that void dragon form of his. So we knew he had a strong connection to the void, so we decided to get rid of him first. This way he won't be able to heal you, we also know that you can't use your void energy. Else Yuloto's attack would've failed on you. After all you do have infinite energy."
Not for the first time I found myself cursing Kuros. After all he could've taught me how to use my power; so I could've saved Rodrick right now. So biting my bottom lip I tried to figure out what I should do next. If I don't do anything… Rodrick will… he'll… With those thoughts the feeling from before came back. I hated that feeling, it felt as if my entire chest was on fire. It also made my back feel cold and made me shiver despite the feeling of fire.
"It would seem as if you really do care for him." Again my anger grew as I looked back up at him. "You're shaking in worry and fear, while your anger keeps rising against me. I can tell that you don't know how to deal with these feelings… being overcome with fear for another's life. But don't worry you'll be joining him soon enough!" That's when he ran towards me and slashed down.
It was sudden and I had Rodrick in my arms, I couldn't dodge so I just closed my eyes waiting for the blow. That's when I heard the sound of metal hitting metal. But Walker's tone of surprise is what really startled me.
"Impossible…" Opening my eyes I saw to my surprise Arthur blocking Walker with Caliburn. At that point I became as shocked as Walker as Arthur pushed him back. However as Arthur turned to look at me I saw that he was still as dead as ever.
But his eyes seemed to hold some life as he spoke. "O…Ophis, sa-save Ro…Rodri-rick." He then turned back and charged Walker, who while blocking him spoke in panic.
"This isn't possible! I turned you into a corpse puppet myself! Just how do you have free will?! How can you fight me when you're literally a puppet!" Arthur made no answer as he kept fighting. As for me I forcibly tore my gaze from the fight and turned to Rodrick. Thinking quickly I put my forehead to his and entered his mindscape. I knew the only one who could help me save him was Kuros. Looking around I saw a panicked Kuros in dragon form, flying around destroying what looked like purple glowing vines.
[This isn't good! The amount of chaotic energy in that sword was unbelievable. No doubt it was created to just kill beings of the Void!] Next to him I saw Masamune comforting Masarune as she cried. On her face was a look of pure panic though so she wasn't making any headway in the regard.
Shaking my head I turned to Kuros and yelled at him. "Old timer!" He paused in his movement to look at me.
[Good you're here! Listen there's not much time, and I can't really talk and destroy these things at the same time.]
I nodded my head and spoke up. "I get that so what can I do to help? I'm not about to let Rodrick die after all!" Kuros nodded his head before landing in front of me. He then put a single claw to my forehead before speaking.
[Okay so while I don't have time for proper instruction. I can transfer some knowledge of basic void manipulation to you. It'll hurt… but after words you should be able to do for Rodrick, what he did for you back in the familiar forest. Unfortunately that will only stall the spread of chaotic energy. Because unlike you he doesn't have infinite energy. But it should be enough to keep him alive for the time being.]
Taking in a deep breath I spoke. "Then give it to me. I'll endure anything for him… for the one who's given me so much." Kuros nodded his great head before closing his eyes. A glow then came from the tip of his claw and I took another breath. Eventually the glow transferred to me and I felt it. Horrible almost blinding pain as knowledge forcibly entered my head. I don't even know what he was thinking, but I felt hundreds of years of knowledge come into my mind.
I gritted my teeth as I thought about the pain I was feeling before. This is nothing compared to that! For Rodrick I'll deal with this pain any day! Eventually the pain stopped and I dropped to my knees panting. It was strange… it was a new feeling but I felt exhausted, I didn't even feel this way after I woke up from Yuloto's attack. I'm experiencing quite a bit of new things today aren't I?
Chuckling blithely I looked up at Kuros. "Okay now what?" He opened his eyes before speaking sternly to me.
[Leave his mind and transfer void energy into his body. It'll be best to have as much contact with him as possible; it'll help with the transfer. But be warned I don't know what affect this will have on him, your power is much more potent than his. Plus the amount of chaotic energy in him will be impossible to completely purge. Be warned that this will change him, in what way I don't know.]
Looking down at my feet I nodded my head before leaving. Was I worried about what he said? Of course I was! But I wasn't about to do nothing, after all it would kill him. So back in my physical body I lifted my head from his. Looking back for just a moment I still saw Arthur fighting Walker. I couldn't help but smile before turning back to my mate. Then thinking upon Kuros' words I focused my energy and kissed him.
What he said as much contact as possible! And I didn't want to just strip down right now and well you know… Seriously this was the next best thing. Still as I transferred my energy I felt something trying to push it out of him. I instinctively knew it was the nether or chaotic energy inside him. So I pushed harder and sent more energy into his body.
Please… just please don't die… With those thoughts the feeling from before returned again, and tears flowed down from my eyes onto his face. However hope started replacing that feeling, as I felt the nether energy start giving way to my power. Along with that I hoped I poured as much power as I dared into him. But as I continued I started to feel tired again. It didn't take me long to know that turning my power into void energy, was taking a lot out of me.
But I persevered until I felt only a little bit of nether energy inside of him. But as I relaxed it flared up and mixed up with my power I put inside him. In panic I sent more power into him than I intended to. But thankfully instead of him exploding all three energies quieted down. With that I stopped kissing him and brought him closer to me in a hug.
This is strange… I feel my power inside of him, along with void and nether… I hope this doesn't affect him badly. Shaking my head from those thoughts, I looked down at his wounds and decided to fix them up as best as I could. However much to my immense frustration, I noticed that my healing magic was slow going. But what's more I seemed to be missing quite a bit of energy. Exactly one fourth of it and that is quite a bit considering well… I have infinite energy.
Eventually I was able to heal his worse wounds and his breathing went back to normal. At that point I felt immense relief, and smiled while resting my cheek on his head again.
Thank the Void that I was able to save him… However I was startled out of my thoughts as I heard Walker yell out in anger.
"That's it! You're no longer worth my time! Die once and for all!" I quickly turned back and saw Walker get out Murasame, while making his other sword disappear. Arthur seeing the sword did something unexpected as Walker swung at him. He tossed both Caliburn and the Excalibur ruler towards me as he was cut multiple times across his middle. His top half then fell down as his legs kept standing. At that moment the feeling from before returned but not as strongly.
But it disappeared as he spoke to me. "Oph-is… give my sw…swords to Le- Lef…Lefay. Te.. tell her I l-o-v-e h…e…r…" His mouth stopped moving as he finally died, and more tears came to my eyes as I laid Rodrick on the ground. I then picked up the swords he threw to me, and put them into a storage dimension before glaring at Walker.
His expression was unreadable as he turned to that Jeanne girl. "Jeanne the operation was a failure and no backup has arrived yet. We must retreat for now." He got a yes sir as anger flared up inside me.
"You think you can just come here, do what you did and just leave?!" He looked back at me with a smirk.
"Would you be surprised if I said yes?" At that point I felt something inside me break, whether it was from mental exhaustion, emotional exhaustion, or even physical it didn't matter. Anger and hate just flowed into me and I roared, and I mean actually roared. At that point I didn't know what happened next, I could feel power coming from me and I charged forward. I was in front of him instantly holding a strange sword.
I didn't really notice it until I swung at him, however despite looking surprised he managed to block me with Murasame. But the force of my blow sent him flying. But I was again on him in a second. I was completely livid at this point and I wasn't in control of my actions. So every one of my swings while strong were also sloppy, thanks to this Walker was able to keep up with me.
But I was slowly pushing him back, and I could see sweat pouring from his face mixing in with blood. Instinctually I pointed my left index finger at him, and shot off a bolt of black lightning. It was a direct hit and it went right through him. However it also sent him flying and he rolled across the ground. Again I charged forward as he stood up with a hard look in his eyes.
But this time as I swung at him, my sword passed through him harmlessly and he disappeared. It was only then that the feeling of rage disappeared. But it left a feeling of failure as I fell to my knees, with the sword clattering against the ground as it dropped from my hand. I was breathing heavily as I felt out his energy; it was gone along with Jeanne's. Tears fell from my eyes in frustration as I tightened my hands into fists.
"I'm sorry that I failed you… Arthur, Lefay, and… and Rodrick…" That's when I felt someone's hand on my shoulder. Looking back I saw that it was actually Rias who was smiling at me sadly. At that point I didn't know what came over me but I tackled her in a hug crying. Surprisingly Rias just returned the hug rubbing my back.
She was even trying to comfort me with reassuring words. "It's going to be fine, you didn't fail them. After all you saved Rodrick's life, and you can do what your friend asked you to do and give the holy swords to his sister." I must admit that what said to me did help and I could myself calming down.
Eventually my tears stopped as the others approached us. "He's not going to die anytime soon so you don't have to worry." Sniffling I looked at Bennia as she smiled at me. "I'm a reaper so I know these things, also I can put your friend's soul to rest if you want." Wiping my eyes of my kimono's sleeve I nodded my head. She smiled before going over to Arthur's body. We then all watched as she closed her eyes and took a breath before speaking again.
"With the power of death at hand… I command your soul to go in piece now. To your after life to rest and watch over those you love." We then saw a blue spirit rise from his body. Immediately I saw that it was Arthur, and he nodded at us with a smile before fading away. Bennia then slouched over letting out a large breath. "Ugh… doing that always tires me out." Smiling I let myself out of Rias' hug before walking up to her. She looked at me and before Bennia could say anything I hugged her tightly.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" After a few moments she hugged me back before speaking cheerfully.
"You're welcome, but I must thank you also. This is the first time someone's thanked me for doing this." Giggling I let her go before nodding my head to her, and turned back to the sword I summoned. Looking at it I frowned, it was three and a half feet long with a seven inch handle. It had a curved cross guard, and the first four inches of the handle were made of black leather. The last three were made of what looked like polished silver going into the pommel.
The pommel itself was an egg shaped purple crystal inside a silver cage. The blade itself was the same polished silver and only two inches wide. It also narrowed at the end. However there were strange glowing purple runes, running up the middle of the blade. Walking over to it I picked it up and swung it a bit.
That's when I turned to Lunona who was looking at it in intrigue. "Do you know what this thing is?"
She looked at me with a smile before nodding her head. "Yes in fact I do believe it's your sword." I looked at him blankly an she laughed at my look. "Oh it's not like that! That sword is a physical representation of your power! All Elder dragons have a special weapon, for example during the war I saw Maxos use a staff as his weapon. It was really simple looking though, but it was enough to completely eradicate Ur'totho. Or grand taker for those who don't understand abyssal, he was also the ninth Darkwraith"
I couldn't help but blink in surprise as I looked back at my sword. So this is my power? But I don't feel anything from it. Shaking my head, I created a sheathe with a leather strap for it with just a thought. Putting it away I then used the strap to put it over my back. Taking a breath I then went back to Rodrick who was still sleeping.
"I think we should get Rodrick back to the house. We can discuss what to do next over there." My words held no room for argument and I went to pick Rodrick up with Shimi. As she came out I sent a mental command, and she nodded her head before swallowing Rodrick.
Behind me Akeno spoke up in concern. "Umm… is he going okay like that?" I turned to her in confusion.
"Yeah… why wouldn't he be?" At my words every looked at me in exasperation. "What? What did I do wrong?" Instead of answering me, everyone but Bennia shook their heads at me before starting to move.
As they passed me Bennia put a hand on my shoulder. "You know I think there are some pretty good pranks we can pull using your snake." Looking at her I couldn't help but nod my head in thought.
"That's true… but I think we should worry about that later, we need to get Rodrick back to safety." She nodded resolutely and then we both took off after the others.
Character sheet… Invalid no fights present to draw data from…
As a side note if you want to see someone's stats just ask in a review. If you want to know history, ask for an encyclopedia Omake of that person.
Judan: Well there we have it.
Ophis: I'm going to hurt you for what you did to Rodrick!
Judan: Whoa! He'll be fine I swear!
Arthur: The only time I'll be here and I can already tell this is a violent place.
Slayer: Oh it most definitely is. Still good job acting like a zombie. You make it seem so natural!~
Arthur: I'm not sure whether that is a complement or an insult.
Shadow: You never quite know when it comes to Slayer, or even Neos for that matter…
Modaga: Yes but they are so youthful!
Shadow: What are you doing here!
Modaga: I'm back from vacation!
Ophis: Oh great… anyways let's get to talking about the chapter, which is actually a bit shorter than usual.
Shadow: Yes but quite a few things happened this time around. Rodrick saw something that made him hesitate. Thus allowing Walker to severely wound him with that Nether blade.
Modaga: Then Ophis was finally given some power of the Void thanks to the un-youthful Kuros. After that she saved Rodrick, but what about the missing part of her power. Well that will have to come later.
Slayer: We also got to see Rias bond with Ophis a bit. A nice little touch but Walker escaped along with Jeanne.
Judan: Yeah but Arthur broke through the spell that bound him, more on how he did that later. Still they now have Caliburn and Excalibur ruler, plus Lunona broke down thanks to insanity.
Arthur: She is a strange one… What put that idea into your head anyways?
Judan: I'm not so sure… Still let's end this now, it's getting pretty late after all. So as our guest would you care to end this?
Arthur: No I don't want to.
Judan: Uh…
Arthur: Just kidding, sorry but I wanted more lines.
Slayer: You got them now end this.
Arthur: Alright… Now this has been a Dark Guard production now signing off!
Everyone: Goodbye!
Ophis: I'm still hurting you for this.
Judan: Why!
Ophis: Because… (Fires a snake)
Judan: Ahhh! (Explosion)
Slayer: No my house!