To ARSLOTHES: Unfortunately that doesn't seem possibly my friend, but I got something better and hopefully interesting for you instead.

To desdelor97: And I shall, thank you :)

"HI" = speech

"Hi" = Thoughts

Magnum Shot = Attacks

[Alaster] = Game Data

Chapter 4 - Fallen Angel (2)

Outside the barrier it is all peaceful and quiet, with nothing much going on besides the birds and the setting sun, however inside the barrier it's a different story altogether. Inside the barrier it's a complete warzone, and in the middle of it all was Issei Hyoudou himself, as he watched the woman that had tried to kill him and the armoured man with the bow clash with each other.

It was a fierce, yet struggling battle for both sides as both tried to overpower one another with their own abilities. The armoured man firing salvo after salvo of different colour arrows at Yuuma, only for Yuuma to either block or shoot them down with her Light spears and answering back with her own projectiles that the man would shoot down himself. It's evenly drawn out between the two and it wouldn't remain that way for long.

Thinking back to the events of today Issei kinda had it planned; he dated this beautiful looking girl, brought her around Kuoh, brought her here after spending the entirety of the day shopping and stuff and now here he is, standing here watching two people duking it out against each other.

Ain't this day so well planned out?

A sudden explosion brought him out of his thoughts as the armored figure that had saved his life was sent flying into a nearby tree, his armor having signs of burnt marks and dents on it. He must have taken quite a nasty blow, but his hands movements and him getting up says otherwise. Underneath his helmet Alaster gritted his teeth in slight pain.

"I have you now!" Yuuma screamed victoriously, making Alaster look up at the Fallen angel hovering in the air. Creating another Light Spear in hand, only that it was larger in size and packed more power, she sent the projectile hurling towards Alaster. Seeing as though there was no time for him to even draw his bow, he quickly slammed a hand down onto the ground as a magic circle appeared on the ground where he slammed his hand down. A wall of crystals suddenly erupted up from the ground in front of him and it was this wall that took the full-force of the projectile, as it collided violently against the crystallic walls of his defense. He readied his bow and once the vollies ceased he collapsed the barrier and fired a Magnum Shot at the Fallen Angel. Yuuma hastefully created another light spear in hand; with the only difference that it was longer in length and launched it at the incoming attack. Both attacks collided with one another creating an explosion mid-air, and due to the nature of Alaster's attack, it created an even bigger explosion that could be felt even from ground level. The shockwaves created distorted the air around it, causing Yuuma and Alaster to shield themselves from the violent winds.

"Damn, this guys just just won't die" Yuuma cursed within her mind. She glared down below at the armoured figure who was beginning to become a constant annoyance to her as he won't just die. "But then again, there's something weird about this guy, like his aura is similar to target over in the corner, but is more stronger and potent" She gritted her teethat the sudden realisation "Don't tell me he was my intended target all along!? No, it wouldn't make sense, I need to make sure"

"Not bad!" Yuuma commended loudly to him, lowering her wings "You're the first that can keep me at a distance"

"I'm flattered" Alaster responded, lowering both his arms "But not really"

"Tell me, you are human am I right?" Yuuma asked him to which he nodded

"Yeah I am, why do you ask?" Alaster asked back, a smirk on his face. He pointed finger at himself "Don't tell you a creature like yourself is interested in a human like me?"

"Not interested" Yuuma said in disgust "But tell me this human; are you in possession of an object called a Sacred Gear?"

"Now why must she be asking me that question?" Alaster wondered. It took a minute for the gears in his head to figure it out as to why she was asking such a question "Oh that's why, don't tell me that Issei has one too!". He'll need to ask Issei about this later on.

"Yeah, I have a Sacred Gear" Alaster answered "Why you asking me that!? Does it matter if I have one or not!?"

"Then my suspicions are correct. I've been targeting the wrong one all along. Ah well, at least I can correct myself for that mistake"

"Actually it does" Yuuma merely answered back, forming another light spear in her hand "Because I have a job to do"

"And that is?"

"Killing you in order to get rid of your Sacred Gear" Yuuma answered "Thank you for confirming yourself as my real target, it gives me more reason to kill you now"

"Now ain't I flattered" Alaster sarcastically responded back "But if it's to distract you from Issei then yeah, I'm flattered all right" he thought. He rolled over to the side to avoid another of her light spears. She didn't stop there and kept creating and launching more light spears at him.

He continued dodging her attacks; having to jump over a park bench and slide under a fallen tree leaning on a rock to do so. He ducked underneath another tree; which shielded him from two fatal impalements, and notching his bow he launched several volleys of arrows, all which were blocked and dodged by Yuuma using her light spear. Having enough of this she descended down from the sky, intending on closing the gap between them. Alaster launched more arrows in desperation to keep her back to which she merely dodged them all.

Once she was in striking distance Alaster change his grip on his weapon; now holding the lower limb of the bow using both hands as if it were a sword and even swinging it like one as it made contact with Yuuma's light spear. They both struggled to overcome one another, putting all their strength in shoving each other's weapon out of the way so that they could deliver the finishing blow. After what felt like a minute to them, it was alaster that disengaged from the lock, as his weapon could not handle it any longer. As unique and powerful his weapon is, it was never meant to be used as a close quarters weapon, and thus he made the smart decision to disengage before his weapon could break under the pressure.

He then took a step back back to avoid a deadly swing from her spear that would have slit his throat if he hadn't done so. He backpedalled, dodging each and every swing of Yuuma's spear along with way back before having to roll to the side to dodge a downward slash of her spear. He stopped his roll using his left hand and using his left hand as leverage quickly got into a kneeling position, his bow at the ready. Just as he was going to pull on the bowstring, Yuuma raised her right hand up into a throwing stance, as well as channeling more energy into it making the spear extend itself, aimed at Alaster and launched it at him.

Alaster scowled in frustration as he wasn't given an opportunity to fire another arrow once more and was forced to scurry away from his position, as the spear buried impaled itself at where he use to be before exploding in a shower of light and sparks, and the resulting shockwave that came along with it sent him tumbling into the ground once more.

HP: 285 - 15 = 270

Guess this is why a majority of the Archer class are all long-range fighters and NOT close quarters specialists.

Loading another arrow onto his bowstring, as well as activating Snipe, let let the arrow soar from it's bowstring. He followed the attack up by notching another arrow and letting it loose from the bowstring as an Arrow Spray; which as soon as the arrow left the bowstring it exploded into six individual arrows that homed in on the Fallen Angel.

Yuuma seeing the incoming attacks altered the forming light weapon in her hand changing from a spear into a Light sword, and grasping the handle of her newly created sword she used it to slice the first arrow in half, the arrow now harmlessly descending into the ground. Using the sword in hand she sliced apart the second and third arrows that rocket towards her. She twirled around and destroyed another arrow, but left her back expose to two more arrows that homed in on her. Seeing them flying towards her she quickly swiveled around and bringing her left hand up she created a large Light Shield; Heater-shaped which she used to block the incoming arrows.

This left her with another opening, which Alaster exploited and fired off several more Arrow Sprays at her. She twirled and swiveled in the air, her sword leaving trails of light as it was swung in all directions, slicing apart the many arrows. Once finishing the last of these arrows with a downwards swing of her sword she then had it transformed back into a spear and sent it hurling towards him.

Alaster seeing the incoming attack launched a normal basic arrow that collided with the light spear. He was expecting both attacks to just simply explode upon impact to which they both did, however instead of a puff of cloud it was a blinding light, bright as that of a flashbang that blinded Alaster's vision.

He let out a small cry of surprise and slight pain at the brightness of the flashing light. His somewhat quick reflexes enabled him to shield himself from any more of the light however that action came at a cost.

Taking advantage of this Yuuma created a Light Billhook and aiming it at her blinded opponent she chucked it at him. The result was a sickening, gory sound of flesh being torn and shredded as the barbed head of the billhook skewered itself through Alaster's right shoulder, tearing through flesh, bone and muscle in the process before emerging from the back of his shoulder and nailing him onto a nearby tree, disabling his entire arm and making him drop his bow.

[Alaster]

HP: 305 - 80 = 225

Alaster cried out in pain, feeling the nerves in his shoulders becoming overloaded with the anguish feeling. He tried pulling the halberd out with his remaining functioning hand, but to no avail was he able to do so, it skewered him good and he can't just simple pull it out just like that or else he'd risk taking his shoulder out with it. The way that it skewered him he could literally feel the barbed parts of the head gyrating the inner flesh of his shoulder. Funny enough he had played enough games to know each and every weapon that there is, and impaling him right now he instantly realised was a fucking billhook; a tool with a sharp sickle head shape, used by the English during the Medieval Ages. the shape of the head varies with some looking like small versions of the sickle while others looking grotesque and wicked in design. And that's Medieval 2 Total War for ya.

"Like I said! How arrogantly stupid of you to just challenge me like that!" Alaster looked up from his efforts in trying to slowly and carefully pull out the weapon to see that the woman had floated down from the air, her feet nearly touching the surface of the pavement. What is making Alaster "scared" right now was the already prepared light spear in her hand

He should be genuinely be scared right now, but yet...

"You are but simply outmatched" she continued, flashing him a victorious smirk "And thus you simply payed for you arrogance with your-hey! Are you even paying attention?" Raynare questioned him, snapping him out from his gaze

"Oh I'm sorry, If I hadn't dressed so skimpy and have racks that would rival that of Shizuka Marikawa from Highschool of the Dead very own, and an ass to boot, then yeah I'm can't pay attention cause of all of that, and plus your sweating so uhh..."

"Pervert"

"Am not, I am just being honest here, that's all"

"Do me a favour and please die will you"

With that she launched the spear at him. Alaster knew that without his bow he couldn't block the incoming attack in any way. Alaster closed his eyes, expecting a quick death from the incoming spear as it closed in on him but a thunking sound said so otherwise. Opening his eyes a bit he found that the spear that was meant to kill him had missed it's mark and just simply impaled itself a few inches next to his head on his left side.

"Huh?" Alaster wondered out loud, a literal question mark floating above his head. His curiosity of why his life was spared was answered when the woman that attempted to kill him suddenly began coughing violently, grabbing his attention. Yuuma covered her mouth in an attempt to suppress her sudden coughing but to no avail was she able to and thus began coughing up green liquid in the process.

She removed her hand from her mouth to examine the green liquid on her hand "What the-?" Yuuma began, but had to cover her mouth once more. She began tilting from side to side a bit but she steadied herself.

"Oh yeah the poison" Alaster muttered in realisation and surprise "I thought that stuff wore off by now? Hmmm, maybe that's something to do with game mechanics or something like that. I'll need to read about it later"

"The P-poison" Yuuma realised "Damnit! I thought I could hold it off with my powers!". She thought she was able to hold off the effects of poison or better yet overcome it but it appears that she was unable to. She covered her mouth once more to suppress another to no avail. Scowling in anger at the thought of retreating from a mere human, she flapped both of her wings and rose up back into the air once more.

"You are lucky, human" she scowled "This poison of yours might have saved you today, but the it won't next time! Mark my words, human, I, Raynare of the Grigori shall claim the life from your worthless corpse! You will rue the day that you had made enemies of me!". With that she flew away, intending on heading back to her hideout to rest and heal.

"Ha! Coward!" Alaster taunted, feeling both relieved and glad that he didn't die, otherwise it would have been a shity short life that he had lived. A few seconds after he said that the light weapon lodged in his shoulder dissipated into specks of light. He slid down into a sitting position, leaning his back against the tree that a few seconds ago he was nailed to, nursing his right shoulder. Alaster looked up from his right shoulder to see Issei running towards him.

Oh yeah he kinda forgot that he was even here to start with.

"Oh hey Issei" Alaster greeted him. With his left hand he reached into the pocket of his jacket and pulled out a small bottle with red liquid inside. Once Issei was close he handed him the bottle "mind opening that for me?" He asked him. Issei nodded and opened the lid of the bottle. He handed it back to Alaster, who immediately began drinking the bottles contents. Once Alaster did so the pain in his shoulder began to slowly disappear, the effects of the drinki slowly beginning to kick in.

*HP Recovery - 60 seconds*

HP: 225 + 80 = 305 + 80….

He was also greeted with a blue box appearing in front of him; detailing his rewards.

[Story Quest - Act I - The Fallen Angel - Completed!]

Objective: Defeat the Fallen Angel

Rewards: 1,000 XP, 400 Yen

He mentally brought up his XP Progression Bar for his Status and found that it had increased from 25.5% up to 27%. He also mentally brought up his bank account; in which he can for some reason thanks to the latest patch and saw that it his savings have now reached up to 5,000 Yen.

….for some reason he just feels so goddamn good every time he sees the amount of Yen increase in his bank account.

Bonus Rewards:

New Item [?]

50k Yen

10k Experience (For both Profile and Status)

Oh now he has to pick his reward now, ain't that great and what's worst about this is that all three options are so tempting for him; it's either the new item that he'd been wondering for a while now ever since he got the quest to begin with, 50K Yen so that he could buy his own house (And not in Kuoh obviously) and get the fuck outta here when the time comes or 10k Experience for both his Status; so that he could level up alot and also for his Profile so that he could level up the rest of his stuff and move on to a different class, perhaps a Templar or Nightblade Class.

He can't pick right now, he'll have to think about this but for now, the current situation at hand, and that is dealing with a fucked up shoulder, that is currently repairing itself and his friend Issei running towards him with a worrisome expression on his face, and wanting answers to his questions he presume.

"Uhh sir, you're shoulder!" Issei pointed out. Thanks to the effects of the drink his shoulder was beginning to heal itself of its wound, although that doesn't mean that Alaster would be using his right arm soon enough. It'll take time for him to get his right hand moving again, but for now he'll let the potion do it's work.

"I know that Issei" Alaster said "I have eyes you know". He groaned a bit in pain as he felt his bones repair themselves. Damn that potion he crafted is strong. And it was a high level one too.

"So, since we are alone here, well hopefully we are, you wanna start asking me questions now?"

"How do you know my name?" Issei questioned him first of all "And who was that tried to kill me!? What's going on!?-"

"Hold up! You're doing the damn 20 questions shenanigans like everyone does in movies and stuff for some reason" Alaster said "Breathe, relax and one question at a time please. Oh I just remembered! And you didn't even give me a thanks for what I've done?! Goddamn it's almost like that time in christmas! Where zero fucks were given that day!"

"..."

"..."

He just had to blurt that out like the damn fool that he is, didn't he?

"...Alaster it's you isn't it?"

From under his helmet he groaned in frustration. He's tired damnit, and he wanted Issei to not know that it was him under the helmet, but what's the point of arguing about it now. Reaching up to his helmet with his functioning left hand he pulled it off, revealing himself to Issei.

"There! Happy now?" Alaster asked him

"Jesus, Alaster it is you!" Issei gasped "Holy hell why-!"

"Ok! Don't even start with those 20 questions shenanigans! Say, you know what? We'll talk about this at my house, hopefully in my home your questions shall be answered. Happy?"

"Happy"

"Alright, now take me-OW! NOT BY MY RIGHT SHOULDER YOU DUMB-ASS!"

Alaster's house, a few minutes later…

"So now that we've got back to your place, mind telling me what was all of that out there?"

Once they both arrived at his house, which thankfully was still devoid of any signs of life he directed Issei to a nearby drawer and opening it Alaster took out several more potions and having Issei open a few of them, he began consuming them one bottle at a time, and it was until his health bar was nearly full did he stop. His bed will do the rest of the healing.

"Yeah yeah I will" Alaster nodded sitting down on the sofa of his living room "Might as well start with Raynare or something like that"

"Speaking about Raynare...who was she?" Issei asked him

"You know who she is Issei; she's Raynare and she is what you call a Fallen Angel"

"Fallen Angel? As in those fallen angels from the bible?"

"The very same I'm afraid" Alaster confirmed "And they're real; one tried to kill you, and it is not the Fallen Angels that exist. As you would have figured out if Fallen Angels exist then no doubt that Demons and Angels do exist as well, and I bet ya 100% that an old man by the name of God is sitting up there in his fancy smancy chair watching the world right now"

Well he didn't lie there, Issei needed to know that part as well, there is literally no point of hiding it. His friend could only gawk in shock at the information given to him by the armoured man.

"Oh...wow...that's"

"That information difficult to take in?" Alaster raised an eyebrow. Issei nodded "Yeah it pretty is" Issei nodded. "So why was she trying to kill me?" Issei asked next "What was she trying to gain by killing someone like me?"

"Don't know" Alaster shrugged "Although I can hypothesis that she was ordered by her superiors and if my knowledge of the Fallen Angel Cadre from those boring bible studies is correct one of her superiors is Lucifer, or possibly Azazel, Penemue, Gadreel I don't know. The concluding answer is that she got her orders from someone higher up, and as for why she wants to kill you, she thought that you were in possession of something called a Sacred Gear"

"A Sacred Gear?"

"Well I don't know much about them" Alaster told him "But I do know that they are powerful artifacts that I guess installs fear into Fallen, Devils and Angels alike. It would make sense since Raynare tried to kill me"

"Sacred Gear, like what you have?"

"Eh? How did you guess?"

"Well she did try to kill you"

"Well yeah" Alaster nodded "But I'd thought you thought otherwise, anyways yeah I have a Sacred Gear, and possibly what she was looking for. I don't know why and what she'd gain just from killing me, but I don't want to find out about that at the cost of my own life thank you very much"

"I see" Issei nodded "so what now?"

"What now? Simple; act normal. Go to school, interact with the rest of your perverted kind-"

"Hey!"

"-find another love interest or something". That one made Issei shiver, although Alaster didn't notice "Anything really. School's a public place, and if someone were to do something then I'll be there to help and look out for ya"

"But how would I know if I'm safe? What if there is a Fallen Angel or a Demon? Like how would we both know if any of them aren't watching or following us. That fallen angel looked human and even blended amongst us"

"Well that's a problem" Alaster muttered "But something that I can overcome, possibly...I'll think of something that would help but it'll take time, just for now just like I don't know act normally and calm as I said"

"Alright then" Issei nodded "So what about this Sacred Gear of yours. You mentioned that you had one"

"It's nothing fancy, although it allows me to copy and mimic abilities and powers from any video game, and also interact with the world of any of these games" Alaster gave a somewhat decent briefing of his Gear's ability "And it also bring Gaming elements into real-life for me to interact with"

"Now that's just cool!" Issei suddenly got excited "Like literally any game of your choosing?"

"There's a limit to it, and I need to work hard to reduce the limitations, but yeah any game"

"Now I'm just jealous!" Issei pouted "How come you get to have one, one that sounds really cool and all"

"Well maybe cause I'm Strong~" Alaster joked whilst grinning. He literally had to use that meme to answer Issei's question. Issei snorted in response

"As if"

"Are we seriously gonna start this again?"

"Maybe" now it was Issei's turn to grin

"Shut up"

"Anyways, anything else that I should know?" Issei asked him

"I'd say that's everything I know; even I am still coming into grips with the existence of Angels and Demons around here. So yeah, that's all I have to say" He averted his gaze from Issei to look outside the living room window "Wow, already dark huh, I'd say book it Issei otherwise your parents might start spraying 20 questions on you"

"Alright then" Issei nodded as he got up from his seat "For safe measure, mind meeting me in front of the school tomorrow?"

"Sure" Alaster nodded "I don't mind"

"Sweet, say are you going to be alright? Your arm is still-"

"I'm fine Issei" Alaster waved him off "It'll heal itself in the morning all new, just don't worry, your sounding like my parents when you say that"

"Sorry about that" Issei sheepishly scratched his back

Eh, it's grand, no harm done here"

"Now what to pick here" Alaster muttered to himself as he once again look at his options for his prize. After Issei left his home Alaster just took his cornflakes, since he was still tired from the whole Raynare ordeal and simply went to bed after that. But before he could even go to bed he needs to pick his prize, and easier said than done when all three are beneficial to him.

Well at least it's not anything bible or religious related, and he wished that it was just awarded him Saint Quartz or something. He needs them for Raikou damnit! After like 5 rolls and he still didn't get her!? Lady luck sure ain't on his side this time

"Screw it, i'll do it the old fashion way" Alaster muttered, now frustrated after not being able to choose one for a while now.

"Eeny meeny miny moe, catch this bitch by her nose, if she squeals she's a pig but if she breathes she's, a Thot" his finger landed on the first option

"And you, sir Uno are the Thot of this parody of this nursery rhyme" Alaster grinned "now then, what is my prize this time, Mr Andersen?"

As soon as he clicked on it the screen disappeared from his view for a few seconds and after a few seconds it reappeared once more in front of him. The information on it was not what he expected, more like it confused him to the core.

[1st Option selected...beginning uploading prize]

[Upload: 0% - 100%]

[Estimated time: Three hours]

"What-" Anything that Alaster wanted to say, he didn't get a chance cause at that moment he felt pain so great it rivaled that of his shoulder and the sensory overload that came with it knocked him out cold.

He won't be waking up anytime soon and when Alaster does wake up tomorrow morning…

Well let's just say a surprise would be waiting for him, and for his new residential inhabitant.

END