Chapter 14: Devils to the Rescue
SLAP!
Adrians head was sent to the side as Rias slapped him,
"Let me try one more time, if I say don't, you DON'T. You have to forget about Asia. You are a member of the Gremory Family now ," she said, trying to make herself clear. Adrian only turned back to her, his bruise already healing,
"And I say I don't care whose 'family' this is. She is my friend, and I'm going to save her. If it's that big of a deal, if I'm that much of a burden, then release me, because I'll be damned if I let those fallen fucktards have her."
"I'm afraid I can't do that," said Rias.
"Of course not," scoffed Adrian, rolling his eyes and turning his back, "I'm one of your pawns, your foot soldiers, one of your most important pieces...oh wait I forgot, I'm not THAT important, I'm a fucking pawn in someone elses game!"
"That's enough Adrian!" Scolded Rias, yet Adrian refused to face her.
"...let me put it to you this way," said Adrian, still refusing to face the president, "If the roles were reversed, if you were a person from the church, captured by fallen angels, and Asia was the one ordering me not to go save you, I'd still be going to save you, because you are my friend, and I care for you, just like I care for Asia. So I'm still going, like it or not." Rias turned Adrian around, removing his hood,
"Adrian, pawns are more important than you think. In this game of ours, when the pawn moves far enough into enemy territory, it can be promoted to any other piece besides the king." Adrian grew curious,
"Go on..."
"It will only work if the master declares the place enemy territory. Say for example, the fallen ones church." Adrian nodded, and Akeno entered the room, followed by Wesker, and she quickly whispered something to Rias, "Something has come up, Akeno and I have to step out for a moment." Adrian bowed respectfully,
"As you wish...master."
"Now remember," Rias added, "Even if one is promoted, no matter the rank, a single devil can not stand up to a fallen one." Both she and Akeno dissappeared into a red rune placed on the floor, and Adrian straightened up,
"We'll see," he said to himself, and began to approach the door,
"Going out?" asked Kiba.
"Yep, and unless you want to get skull-fucked with my fist, I suggest you stay out of my way," said Adrian.
"You're gonna get yourself killed," said Kiba in response.
"Been there, done that," said Adrian, "Trust me had you of seen me in New York, you wouldn't want to fuck with me." Adrian heard the clink of a sword, and turned around, seeing Kiba attach his sword and sheath to his belt,
"I'm coming too...weren't you listening to the president? She said once you go inside that church you would be promoted! BUT she also said you wouldn't be able to do it on your own." Adrian smirked,
"I figured I wouldn't be alone," he gestured to Katrina, "She's the Goddess of War, and I know she'd refuse to back down from a challenge," he moved his hand towards Calvin, "He'd go because Katrinas going, and I know he wants to prove himself," he turned now to Damon, "He'd go because it'd be fun," turned to Wesker, "He has a score to settle with Raynare," he turns to Issei, "...okay I really couldn't think of a reason why you'd want to come Issei, sorry." Issei rolled his eyes,
"Because you're my friend, and that's what friends do!" Adrian nodded, liking the answer, "Plus it could make me one step closer to becoming the Harem King!" Issei struck a pose, and Adrian brought a palm to his face,
"'Harem King?' Seriously? Wh-why, or actualy WHAT the fuck has that got to do with what's going on right now, Issei? Please, by all means, explain that to me," said Adrian, already annoyed with the pervert.
"I actually want to see that become a reality," said Damon, raising his hand, "just to see how it plays out."
"Oh for fucks sake!" Shouted Katrina, going up to Issei and pulling down her shirt and bra, causing Issei's nose to bleed, and his eyes to pop, "Come with us, and you can stare at these...while I'm in bed with Calvin," she turned to the conduit, seeing his wide eyed reaction, "Do you have a problem with being my first?" She asked, sliding her bra and shirt back into place,
"Well, no, but...I don't know if I want Issei to be in the same room, jerking off, as we do the deed for the first time."
"What makes you so sure he'd be jerking off?" Asked Katrina. Issei looked fairly disappointed at that question,
"Because when a person sees two people fucking in the same room, three things happen, either they sit and jerk off, leave, or join in," answered Calvin. Katrina scoffed,
"Like anyone would join in on us having sex. In fact, who, besides you, would willingly have sex with me?"
"I'd be down for Eiffel Towering a girl, so long as I got the ass end," said Damon, raising his hands in mock surrender, "There I said it!"
"What's Eiffel Towering?" Asked Issei.
"It's where there's a guy on each end of the girl, double teaming her, and they're holding hands up top," Damon holds his hands up high, showing what he meant.
"Do they necessarily have to hold hands?" Asked Katrina, showing interest. Calvin gave her a hurt look, and Damon raised his hands,
"Hey now whoa whoa whoa, I'm not offering the D that easily." Wesker, Kiba and Koneko, stuck in the middle of the conversation, simply shook their heads, until they all saw Adrian had several veins popping up on his head, ready to blow, and they quickly hid behind the nearest couch. Finally, Adrians head comically inflated to five times its normal size as he shouted at the group,
"WOULD YOU ALL SHUT UP AND HELP ME FUCKING SAVE ASIA?!!" Issei, Calvin, Katrina and Damon were all pale as ghosts after Adrians outburst, with Wesker, Kiba and Koneko still retaining their normal color as they exited from behind the couch.
"If all that is said and done," said Kiba, clearing his throat, "I believe all of us are going."
"Koneko as well?" Asked Adrian, still impatient.
"There's nothing else going on," she said blandly.
"Good. Now. Lets. GO!" Said Adrian, finally heading out the door.
Sometime later...
The group of devils (plus one fallen angel) now stood outside the chruch, armed and dangerous,
"Can you feel that?" Asked Issei, clearly nervous.
"There must be a ton of prisets in there!" Said Kiba excitedly.
"Glad we got the backup," said Calvin.
"Well, we're all friends now," said Wesker.
"Not all of us," said Katrina, glaring at the fallen angel. Koneko then went straight to the door,
"No need to be sneaky, they know we're here," she said, and kicked the door open. Inside they saw they church was empty, and the building was mostly falling apart, the only light being the moonlight shining through the stained glass window.
"What, a, shit hole," commented Calvin.
"Ditto," said Damon.
"What were you all expecting, a damn palace? We're FALLEN angels. FALLEN. It's part of the name for a reason. If we were TRUE angels, this place would have been far nicer," snarked Wesker. The sound of clapping could be heard, and in walked Freed Sellzen,
"So! We meet again! Glad you could make it! Bet I'm a sight for sore eyes, huh?"
"Get out of our way you horny hobgoblin!" Said Wesker, standing between Sellzen and the others. Freed sighed, sounded exasperated,
"What's this?! First Asia, now you, Allen? Is everyone in our order just turning to devil worshipping nowadays?!" Adrian stepped forward, joining Wesker,
"Just tell us where Asia is, and I'll make sure you don't get shot in the dick...again." Sellzen frowned, and understandably so,
"Oh right, you mean that dirty devil loving whore of a sister," he said, gaining his smile back, and earning glares all around," all you have to do is go down to the basement, she's right underneath the alter we are currently standing on!"
"Figured that's where she was being kept," said Wesker, "You all go on ahead, I'll deal with this bastard."
"Mind if I tag along?" Asked Damon, "I never really got a chance to kick his ass yet." Wesker shrugged,
"Feel free. The rest of you go on ahead." The rest did so, but not before Adrian shot Sellzen a quick glare,
"If you're somehow still here and alive when I get back, I'll tear you in half myself." The other devils left for downstairs, and both Damon and Wesker stood their ground against Sellzen.
"Alright, so which one of you cock sucklers is going first?" Damon stepped forward,
"I call first dibs." Sellzen growled,
"Of course it'd be you! The man who has to brag about shooting someone below the belt!" Sellzen withdrew his sword and gun, ready for a fight, ready for murder. "Any last words before I castrate you?!" He screamed. Damon wore his cocky grin,
"Yeah, Promotion: Knight!" A red knight piece appeared over Damon, and a pair of devil wings sprouted from his back, and he dashed for Sellzen, the Green Knight revved up and ready to strike, and strike it did! The two clashed blades all over the room, with Sellzen showing that he is far faster than he appears, as he dodges overhead, low, and side slashes from Damon, and briefly the two began to shoot each other, with Sellzen attempting to get a cheap shot in by surprise when they locked blades, only for Damon to dish a flip kick to the priest, and reveal Black Dahlia in his grip, and the two opened fire, with Damon shooting Sellzens bullets out of the air like he did two days before.
"Oh now how is that fair?!" Whined Sellzen. He looked to Wesker, "And how could you betray the God you swore to serve? In exchange for a bunch of lowlife devil scum?!" Wesker waved off Damon, who put away his sword and gun,
"I didn't join the fallen ones to serve a God I don't fully believe in, I joined because I wanted to bring good to my name despite having rage in my heart. But now, I know I couldn't bring good by serving angels who fell," he removed his glasses, revealing his red, slit pupil eyes, "It's by fighting alongside devils who rise! Promotion: Rook!" A red rook piece appeared over Wesker, and to Sellzens shock, devil wings sprouted from his back as well! He threw his glasses at Sellzen, who caught them, only for Wesker to charge at him, fist raised, and increasimg in strength with every passing second.
"Yeah, I'm fucked," Sellzen stated, and recieved a punch so powerful it launched the mad priest up and into the alter, splintering it, at an angle that didn't look like he should have survived. Both Damon and Wesker folded their wings, and Wesker placed his glasses back on his face.
"Nice hook," commented Damon. Sellzen slowly stood up, now holding two light swords,
"You bastard!" He dove for the two, only to recieve a hailstorm of bullets from the two, shooting the swords out of his hands, and several bullets entering his torso. He landed on his feet, impressing both Damon and Wesker.
"I'll be damned," he coughed, "If I let a couple of rookie devils get the best of Freed Sellzen! You may have won the battle," he reached into his coat, "but not the war! So long devil scum!" He threw a small black orb at the ground, and a bright white light shined in the room, temporarily blinding the two. Once they were able to see again, Sellzen was gone.
"Adrian is gonna be SO pissed off when he finds out Freed got away," said Damon.
"On the plus side," added Wesker, "That means Adrian gets to rip him in half another day." Damon nodded,
"True true."
Meanwhile...
Adrian and his cadre of devil friends make their way down, down, and down still, into a large cavernous room, where several priests, armed similarly to Sellzen, were waiting, and atop of a large stone alter, stood Raynare,
"C'mon in devils! Glad you could join the party, but I'm afraid you're all too late!" Adrian then saw Asia, dressed in a sheer white gown, and chained to a large cross.
"Adrian, you came!" Called Asia weakly.
"Don't worry Asia, I'm here!" Adrian called back, only to see Raynares light spear heading straight for him. He brought a hand back, morphing into his shell armor, and bringing out his Sacred Gear, and swatted the light spear away, forcing it to detonate in the group of priests.
"I'm not fucking around!" Adrian was about to start swinging until he saw a pair flaming blades slice a pathway straight to the alter.
"Don't worry about these guys," said Katrina, "Just go get Asia!"
Fighting then broke out between all the devils and the priests, with the devils slowly winning. Adrian made a beeline for Raynare and Asia, with only three masked priests standing in his way,
"Get out of my way you Jesus frea-!"
WHAM!
Adrian was left skidding across the ground after one of the priests backhanded him. Adrian made his way back up on his feet, rubbing his sore jaw, and he stared back at the priests...and something clicked,
Freakishly tall, strong, and fast? It can't be. He then looked, and saw two normal priests trying to sneak up on him, Only one way to find out. He grabbed one, and punched straight through his stomach, absorbing and shifting into him. Then he grabbed the second, and began to spin, and once they both stopped, both of them walked around dizzily. Everyone stopped fighting to look at the two, and everyone realized that the two were completely identical. Both priests looked at each other and yelped, and they yelped even louder when the three larger priests began to approach them,
"Attack him!" Yelled the one on the left, pointing to the other priest, "He's the devil scum!" The second priest stammered,
"Wh-what?! No! Kill him! HE'S the devil trash!" And the priest pointed back,
Please don't let it be what I think it is, Adrian thought, but his fears were confirmed when the larger priests went straight for the priest on the left, hitting him with an uppercut that launched him into the wall, and the priest morphed back into Adrian, rubbing his jaw. Raynare laughed,
"Like my juggernaut priests?" Asked Raynare, "They were leftovers from the Blacklight Viral Outbreak in New York, and with some good advice from a reliable source, I managed to make them into my personal bodyguards!"
Reliable source?' Wondered Adrian.
"Now go get him boys!" Commanded Raynare, and the three priests charged at Adrian, but luckily, a flaming blade colldied into one, and a shockwave sent a second backwards, leaving the third for Adrian, who managed to keep him back with a flip kick to the jaw. The three priests lined back up, and Adrian landed on his feet, joined by Katrina and Calvin.
"Three on one sounds a little bit like bullshit, wouldn't you agree?" Calvin asked Adrian.
"Very much like bullshit," agreed Adrian with a smirk.
"So let's cut the bullshit and get on with it!" Shouted Katrina, and the three charged against the juggernaut priests, with the larger bodied priests gaining the upper hand. The three smaller devils were pushed against the wall, with both Adrian and Katrina getting a similar idea, and began to plant their feet against the wall, and they both leapt over the priests, leading them away from the wall. Calvin however was still pressed against the wall, and forced into a crouch.
Katrina locked her blades with her priests fists, and he was slowly forcing her back,
"Adrian, just what the hell are these things?!"
"Specially engineered super soldiers," said Adrian, morphing his arms into their muscle mass state, and slugging his priest in the face, sending it stumbling, only for Calvin to land next to Adrian, rubbing his chest on impact,
"'Specially engineered?!' For what?!" Adrian turned to his conduit friend, and shouted,
"FOR ME!!" Calvin was then dragged back by his priest, and Adrian was sucker punched by his own. Katrina lashed at her priest, making him block, but then she decided to slash at his legs from underneath him, causing him to fall on his side, and she crashed her blades into the earth, slicing him in half at the waist. Adrian kept fighting as hard as he could, forcing his priest to block, and moving as fast as he could, dashed around behind the juggernaut priest, locked his arms around the larger priests waist, leaned back, and hit him with a German suplex, feeling his neck snap in the process. Calvin was still having trouble with his priest, to the point of being lifted up by his throat, until everything began to slow down from his point of view,
I could use my one power on him, he thought to himself, but if I do, it might make the others a little tense. But if I don't use it, I'll either die, or have to be rescued, and be reduced to the weakest link. His priest began to raise his free hand and form a fist. Fuck it! He grabbed the priests masked face, and an electrical current flowed from the priests head and into Calvin, his blue electricity briefly flashing red, and the priest released him, falling onto its back, no longer breathing.
"Nice move," said Adrian, impressed with Calvins seemingly new ability.
"Yes, quite," said Raynare, making a careful observation, "but I'm afraid this reunion is at an end, as is the ritual." Asia began to scream in pain as the etchings on the cross she's chained to began to glow green.
"So that's it then!" Said Kiba, finally understanding, "They're going to take her Sacred Gear!"
"That's right," said Wesker, climbing down the stairs with Damon, "Raynare said something about Asia being the one piece she needed for her plan, and now I get it...Raynare wanted the Twilight Healing, the Sacred Gear in Asia's possesion!"
"What happens when they take her Sacred Gear?" Asked Issei.
"Taking someone else's Sacred Gear is taking their life," explained Wesker sadly, and everyone bore witness to a pair of green rings floating away from Asia, the life in her eyes seeming to float away with them, and she slumped against the cross.
"They killed her..." murmured Adrian, suddenly finding himself right in front of her, chains broken away yet he couldn't remember how. Did he do that? He didn't know. He could only cradle Asia in his arms, her form now lifeless, and in his own mind, he is the one to blame.
