Chapter 58: Zeus and his Gifts

Zeus lifted Calvin into the air on his blade, shocking all devils, and making Katrina scream. Adrians' eyes finally shot open, and he leaned up, seeing Calvin impaled on Zeus' blade, and in a flash of red and violet, he absorbed Calvins' life energy, throwing him through his barrier, shattering it like glass and sending him sliding across the field to his friends. Calvins' blue skinned form dissappeared, and almost all his friends rushed to his sides, seeing the massive wound in his abdomen.

"ASIA! WE NEED A MEDIC OVER HERE!" Shouted Damon. "ASIA?!" He turned around, quickly reminded that she was unconscious. Damon rolled his eyes, stomped over to her, grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her eratically, "ASIA WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!" He then delivered a slap to each cheek as he continued his attempt to rouse her from her unwilling slumber.

"Knock it off Damon!" Shouted Wesker, still clutching the hole in his abdomen, "She's not going to wake up anytime soon I already tried to wake her!" He then moved one hand to look at his wound, seeing intestines in his hand. He placed his hand back on the wound firmly, trying to keep himself alive. Only Adrian and Katrina refused to move, with Adrian staring at Zeus in clear cut fear, while Katrina was barely keeping her rage under control, her Blades of Exhile already in her hands.

"How is that possible...?" Adrian asked himself, then he shouted at Zeus, "HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!!" A white whipfist snagged the collar of Adrians shirt collar, and yanked him forward, seeing the whipfist came from Zeus. When Adrian was close enough, he morphed his arm back to normal and grabbed Adrian by the throat, lifting him into the air with ease.

"You really want to know, Adrian? Ol' buddy ol' pal? The one who told Kessler to escape in the first place? The one who paired up with Alex Mercer in order to try and kill his best friend?" Adrian stared down at him, trying to breath, until Zeus dropped him, allowing the Devil Virus to catch his breath. "When Kessler went back in time, you and Mercer fought me to try stopping me from following him, and you almost won, until Mercer decided to absorb me, thinking that my power, added onto his, would be enough to kill you. But it backfired...because basically what I did to Mercer, is what he did to Heller." Adrian narrowed his eyes,

"What did he do?" Zeus rolled his eyes,

"Honestly! He still hasn't told you? Where the hell is he?" He asked, turning around, scanning the field, "I'll make sure he gives you the answers you want...or at least you think you want..."

"He's not here anymore..." said Adrian, standing up, dusting himself off as his neck healed, "Kokabiel killed him before I could get answers. Answers to how he was still alive after Heller absorbed him, what he was doing in Kuoh Town, and how he got mixed up with Kessler in the first place." Zeus turned back around, stunned by what Adrian said.

"Mercer really told you nothing?" Adrian shook his head, and sighed, "Okay...I guess I will have to be the one to explain it to you..." Zeus' body then began to pulse, much like Adrians before he shapeshifts, yet what should have been black and red was now white and red. In an instant, Zeus was no longer in front of him, instead it was a black man with a rigid military-esque posture, a man Adrian was too familiar with, and he stepped back in horror,

"H-H-Heller?! James fucking Heller?!! No...NO!!!"

"I'm afraid so Adrian," said Zeus, impersonating Hellers' voice as well as his appearance. "That day you and Heller fought Mercer, and I absorbed him, it wasn't a victory...not for us anyway. With Mercer inside me, it was only a matter of time..." Zeus then changed form once again, shifting into Adrians deceased foe, Alex Mercer, shifting his voice as well, "...before I took over Heller from the inside out. Once I did, I did everything I could to find a way to beat you. Instead, we both came face to face with a bigger problem..." Zeus reverted to his normal form, using his own voice, "...that problem being me." Zeus gave Adrian a dead serious look, "You and Mercer decided I was too big a threat, and when the time came, Mercer took his chance to absorb me, but I took over his body. I don't know how I did it, but it worked. I took over Alex Mercers body, gained his powers, merged them with my own, and it didn't stop there..." He then morphed once again, this time into someone familiar to Katrina, and she dropped to her knees as she saw a man in a bamboo hat, radiating electricity.

"Lord Raiden?!"

"When Zeus was absorbed by Mercer, and Zeus took over, he became almost unstoppable," Zeus said, imitating Raiden, "So it came down to me..." he morphed once more, this time revealing himself as a crimson haired man, one that made Adrian do a double take between him and Rias, seeing the hair color matched, and Rias screamed, "...and I, Sirzechs Lucifer, in order to stop his rampage!" Zeus reverted back to his normal form once more, "But shockingly, not even the Devil King and Thunder God were a match for me! Once they got too close, all I had to do was absorb them, and it was history for them." Zeus then shifted his arms into monstrous white claws, radiating red and violet electricity, far more powerful than before, and now sprouted ten white devil wings from his back. "With the powers of Mercer, Raiden and Lucifer in my veins, I can take what I want, when I want. Except for Katrinas' love of course," he added, turning to the Goddess of War, "That I know I won't be getting back. But that's okay," he turned back to Adrian, "Because Kessler thought he was preparing me for something...what an idiot!" He then charged up his power more and more, almost at an alarming scale, and roared into the sky, "THERE IS NOTHING! MORE POWERFUL!! THAN ME!!!" He then paused after his tyranical shout, when a new voice spoke.

"Is that so?" A bright blue light appeared high above them, shattered the barrier made by the student council, surprising everyone close by, and look closer at the light, seeing what looked like a more armored version of Adrians' Balance Breaker, but was white, had glowing blue wings and yellow eyes. Upon first glance, both Issei and Adrian shivered, a cold chill crawling up their spines. Adrian figured out who it was instantly,

"It's Albion!" He gasped.

"Oh great, just what I needed right now," said Zeus, "The White Ass-Dragon!" He then readied his electricity, readying a lightning vortex, until the mysterious figure raised a single hand up, with a deep voice, almost like Penglog and Ddraig boomed,

"Divide!"The power that made up Zeus' lightning vortex dissappeared, as did the electricity eminating from his body. Zeus cursed loudly, while the others looked to the White Dragon curiously, specifically Adrian,

"What was...?"

"Divine Dividing," Penglog quickly answered, "Allows the user to half his enemies power every ten seconds, and add it to his own. So basically the polar opposite of Isseis' Boosted Gear."

"Noted," said Adrian, keeping an eye on both Zeus and the White Dragon.

"You think you're so clever dividing my power," Zeus said the the White Dragon, "But I'm afraid your Divine Dividing doesn't work on my Biomass!" He then fired off a Tendril Barrage, aiming to kill everyone in sight, but the White Dragon dashed around each and every one of them quickly, slamming his elbow into Zeus' torso with sickening crack,

"Kessler already warned me about you, so when Azazel ordered me to dispatch Kokabiel, I prepared for the worst, even if that meant using all my power!" The White Dragon Emperor then flew around, flailing Zeus like a rag doll at a speed that seemed faster than light. Zeus cried out on the final descent,

"FUCK YOU VALI!!!"

BOOM!

The White Dragon slammed Zeus into the ground, creating a massive crater, and when the smoke cleared, Albion already had Zeus by his collar,

"I'm afraid it's over for you," he said, to which Zeus simply smiled,

"With me...it's never over!" He then tried to grab the White Dragons face, until Adrian shouted,

"Don't let Zeus touch you!" To which the White Dragon launched the evil conduit backwards. Zeus grinned upon recieving his freedom, held up his hands up towards the athletic field lights and absorbed their energy, giving him enough power to create a magic circle underneath himself, and dissappear. The White Dragon swore under his breath, while Ddraig spoke to him through Isseis arm.

"Are you just going to ignore us, white one?" The White Dragon turned to Issei and Adrian, and his wings glowed as the dragon voice spoke once again,

"You're still alive, red one? Of course the bone one is still alive..."

"Fuck you mate," Penglog said plainly.

"I think it would be best if you two tended to your wounded and dying," said the White Dragon, "while you still have a chance." The two turned to Wesker and Calvin, and they saw Wesker was beggining to turn pale from the loss of blood, and Calvin was laying on the ground, and to everyones surprise, still alive...