Chapter 81: Ambush
Katrina approached the main doors, retrieving her Blades of Exhile, and barely had time to raise her arms as a massive explosion blew the doors into splinters. Once the smoke cleared, the figures from outside were now before them, allowing Katrina to get a better look at them; they were all female, dressed in dark blue robes with gold trim, hoods decorated with a large eye that covered the top half of their faces, and shockingly enough, said robes were open enough to expose their cleavage.
Looks like something Issei would enjoy, Katrina mentally noted. Koneko identifed the intruders right away,
"Humans?" She stated, clearly surprised herself.
"Yes that's right," said the leader, "we are indeed human, but we are somewhat different in that we utilize magic by rebuilding the structure of devil magic..." The leader smiled, "...we are known as magicians." Katrina readied her Blades of Exhile, and the self proclaimed magician continued, "If it helps you understand a bit better, we are on the same level as what you devils call 'mid ranking devils.' It would be best if you did as you were told..." The lead magician then pointed to Gasper, hiding in his box. "...hand the half vampire over to us. We've already confirmed he's here..." Without warning, all six magicians fired orange laser-like beams aimed at Katrina and Koneko, filling the room with smoke. As the smoke slowly began to clear, a pair of flaming blades shot from the clouded area, nailing a pair of magicians in the head, and dragging them off their runes and into the smoke. Once the bodies dissappeared, one of the flaming blades returned, slicing in from the side, bisecting another pair of magicians, leaving two left, including the leader.
"What in Gods' name?!" The smoke finally cleared, and out of the smoke appeared Katrina, Blades of Exhile in her hands, bloody corpses at her feet, and a noticable absense of Koneko and Gasper.
"You may have the power of a mid ranking devil," said Katrina, "but you're dealing with a Goddess of War..." She flared her blades back up, just as more magicians filled the room.
As Katrina continued to slay more and more magicians, Koneko dashed through the clubhouse, keeping Gasper inside his box and on her shoulder, but paused to look outside the hallway windows, seeing the entire clubhouse is surrounded by magicians, most of which were simply defying gravity and standing on the bottom of their runes while suspended in midair. Gasper poked his head out of the box, looking outside as well,
"Wh-what's going on out there?" He asked with a stammer. More magicians then rounded the corner,
"There's nowhere for you to run," said the one leading them, right as another set of magicians blocked the other side of the hallway. Gasper screamed, placing his paper bag mask over his head, only for Koneko to throw the box straight into the air, leaping down the stairs and catching him in his box as she continued to leap over the railing of stair set after stair set.
Right as Koneko entered Gaspers room, sealing it with a magic circle as she does, Katrina was still cutting down magician after magician, covering herself in the blood of the invaders. Soon it was just herself and the lead magician.
"Is that the best you can do??" Katrina said, secretly enjoying the bloodlust. The feeling quickly subsided when the lead magician began to laugh.
"Hardly. This was merely childs play." Katrinas' eyes rolled back, dropping her blades as she fell to the floor, not noticing yet another magician appearing behind her, fingers aimed where the back of Katrinas' head once was...
Katrinas' eyes shot open, seeing she was now in Gaspers room, with Gasper himself pinned to a large magic square on the wall, along with Koneko, also pinned but upside down...her panties missing. Katrina tried to move, but she herself was also pinned to a magic square on the floor.
"That magic square will render all physical powers one possesses useless...even yours, Goddess of War." Katrina turned her head, seeing it was the lead magician from before, joined by even more magicians. Gasper began to whimper, Koneko kept up her blank poker face, but Katrina let loose her mind,
"You listen to me you worthless witches! You harm one hair one either of my friends and I'll-!"
"You'll what?" Interrupted the lead magician, "Stick the Soul Reaver up my twat? Rip me in half with Sektors gauntlets? Strangle me with my own insides?" The magician laughed mockingly, getting closer to Katrina, so much that she actually leaned over Katrina, noses practically touching, "You have no power here...Devil Goddess..." The magician decided to be bold, and pressed her lips to Katrinas', drawing laughs from her followers as she moaned into Katrinas' mouth, forcing her tongue inside the goddess' mouth. Her moan of pleasure then turned to a muffled scream of horror, causing her followers to stop laughing, noticing their leaders failed attempts to pull away from Katrina. A pair of extra magicians dashed to their leader, pulling as hard as they could, and with a dense rip, pulled their leader free, blood leaking from her mouth as she let out an unwilling sob. Katrina spat onto the carpet, and to the horror of everyone present, saw it was a piece of carnage, no doubt from the lead magician.
"Come near me...or my friends...and I will take more than just a piece of tongue..." she warned with a ragged breath...
Meanwhile, outside the clubhouse...
A red magic circle appeared, and out walked Damon, carrying a tall stack of pizzas,
"Hey, I'm back, sorry it took so long, they screwed up my order and trued to put olives on my-!" He abruptly stopped, seeing he wasn't in the clubhouse, and saw he was outside. "God dammit! Not again!" He looked around, trying to find the clubhouse, and quickly did so...along with the several dozen magicians surrounding it, "...God dammit...not again..." he said in a quieter voice, "...I should probably be heading over to the summit and warn everyone..." he paused, "...yeah I should go to the leaders summit...instead of just standing here talking...either to myself or you guys," he finished, briefly turning to his invisible wall. Regardless of how quiet he qas however, one of the magicians began to turn around...and seeing nothing but the night. She wasn't aware that Damon had quickly taken refuge in the nearby treeline, but she was aware of something else as she sniffed the air. She turned to one of her allies,
"Do you smell something?"
"Like what?"
"Smells like...pizza." Damon brought his free palm to his head as he was still holding onto his pizzas, and quickly made a magic circle under himself, and dropped through. The magicians ally tried to sniff the air as well,
"I can't smell anything." The first magician tried to smell the air again,
"Well...now I don't smell it anymore. When this is over do you want to get some pizza?"
Back at the leaders summit...
"God and the Devil King are gone," said Michael, "both of our origins have been annihilated." Asia hung her head, still in disbelief that her god is gone, and judging from the look on Irinas' face, she must have found out as well, to which Xenovia simply pitied her in silence.
"We have a...complication," said Azazel, "Once again it is not even our three powers, but this force is equally if not more powerful, that being Zeus," Adrian and his friends tensed as he continued, "and right now I can only think of two individuals that can stop him, that being the Red and White Dragon Emperors. So I want to hear their thoughts."
"What I want is to fight someone as strong as me," said Vali, not even having to think hard about what he wants, "and I think I may have found it in Zeus...considering the only other opponents in the room I find remotely worthy are easy winnings." Vali looked directly to Adrian and Issei as he let his words fall from his mouth, causing the Devil Virus to hold his middle finger high in the air for the Vanishing Dragon to see.
"And what about you...Red Dragon Emperor?" Issei, caught off guard, began to stammer and look around the room, unsure of what to say.
"...I'm not real great with coming up with stuff on the spot..." Issei managed to say.
"Just tell everyone what you want...WITHIN REASON!" Adrian growled, already irritated with the pervert before he even did anything. Issei still paused, unsure of what to say, which caused Adrian to roll his eyes. I'm definitely going to regret this, Adrian thought to himself. He took a deep breath, and spoke calmly to Issei, "Issei...think of it this way...if another war breaks out, you will never achieve your dream of becoming..." Adrian briefly gritted his teeth at his next words, "Harem King." Isseis' eyes widened at Adrians' words, and the Devil Virus continued through his gritted teeth, "And if there is peace, not only will it come to pass..." Adrian let his head sink, exhaled deeply, and relunctantly finished his sentence, "...I will help you become the Harem King...and get you all the girls you want...so make your choice...war or peace?" Issei already had an emmense blush on his face before he even answered.
"Peace is number one!" He shouted, pumping his fist into the air, "Peace for me please!" Then in the most serious face he could muster, he proudly stated, "I'm going to do it with Rias so hard!!!" Silent yet mixed reactions went around the room, with Kiba giving Issei a forced smile as he let an almost invisible bead of sweat roll down the side of his face,
"Hey Issei? You might want to notice her boyfriend, her brother and your girlfriend are still present." Issei froze, and without even moving he could feel Asia glaring at him with angry tears, blush, and puffed cheeks,
"Issei!! Why do you have to be like that?!" Adrians' eyes became shadowed by his hood as he let a more visible bead of sweat drop,
"Maybe I should have refrained from using the word all' in that last bit," he said, mostly to himself. As for Sirzechs...he was doing his best not to chortle out of his seat. Last but not least, Rias let loose an exasperated sigh,
"You guys are all nightmares."
Adrian grumbled, and the Red Dragon cleared his throat,
"Anyway...I'm not going to use my power unless it's to help Rias and my friends! That's just the way it is!" The others smiled at him briefly, until the doors slammed open, revealing Damon who was breathing like he had just ran a marathon, still carrying the pizzas,
"Maybe someone can help me??"
