Chapter 89: Tragedy
"Today has been full of surprises," said Vali, "but at least it's not boring."
"Try laying a finger on Rias, or any of the girls, AND I WILL DESTROY YOU TO WHERE YOU WON'T BE REBORN AGAIN!!!" Screamed Issei. The Red Dragon then charged at Vali with a speed that caught him off guard, catching him in the stomach with a hard punch.
Where did this speed come from? Vali wondered. Issei charged at him again,
"This is for Rias and her mammoth plush melons!!!"
"Divide!" Shouted Ddraig, halfing Valis' power as Issei punched him in the chest, forcing him to cough out blood. Issei gripped both sides of Valis' head,
"This is for Akenos' huge honkers!!!" Issei headbutted Vali so hard their helmets shattered, leaving the White Dragon shocked at the power Issei was displaying, and Issei kept going, "This is for Katrinas' goddess worthy gazongas!!!" Katrina looked down at her own chest at Isseis' words,
"'Goddess worthy,' huh?"
"This is to make sure Asia keeps on growing!!!" Damons' laughter increased in pitch at Isseis' rant,
"Oh shit my sides are starting to hurt from laughing so hard!" He laughed, yet no one heard him as Issei kept attacking Vali,
"This is for Xenovias' killer tatas!!!" Damon fell on his back, unable to stop laughing as he now had to whipe tears from his eyes, "And this is for Konekos' poor itty bitty titties!!!" Damon finally, and abruptly, stopped laughing, "You can't devide them!!! The only thing left would be lonely nipples!!!" Damon leaned up from off the ground, smile gone, and glaring at Issei as he landed one final uppercut on Vali,
"Leave...Koneko...OUT OF THIS!!! YOU FIEND!!!" Shouted Damon.
"Oh sure, now you get all pissy," Adrian snarked at Damon, clearly unhappy about Issei starting his perverse rant with the Devil Virus' girlfriend rather than his own. Both Vali and Issei landed on the ground, the first mentioned landed on his stomach, slowly dragging himself to his feet, while Issei landed on a knee, his power almost completely drained.
"Interesting...this is fascinating!!" Breathed Vali.
"How is that bastard still standing?" Katrina wondered aloud.
"Alright...think you can handle something stronger...?" Vali asked Issei, not waiting for an answer, "...it's the Juggernaut!"
"Forget it Vali," said Albion, "that is not the best option for this situation." Vali tried to defend himself agaisnt Albion as Issei limped towards him, while Adrian stepped in the Red Dragons' way,
"Take a breather Issei, I got it from here." Issei relunctantly nodded, and his armor vanished, falling limp in Adrians' arms as he dragged him over to the group, "Watch him, it's my turn to take on Val-!" Adrian stopped himself as his hunter sense spiked, causing him to look up at the top of the magic dome over the school, "Who or what the fuck is that?" The dome then cracked and shattered, with a figure landing between Vali and the group. He was a young chinese man with short black hair, dressed in ancient chinese armor and carried a staff in his hands.
"Bikou, what are you doing here?" Vali asked the newcomer as he rose to his feet.
"We're finally going to fight the northern earth gods," said the man, "so I was sent to find you and bring you back."
"I see...about time," said Vali, as if waiting for those news to come around.
"Wait a second, wait a second, who the hell is this?" Damon asked, gesturing to the man with the staff, "Was he actually from the show?" He turned to his invisible wall, "Or is he just another damn OC, Scarecrow?"
"Damon, quit talking to your imaginary friends!" Yelled Katrina, "Focus on the matter at hand!"
"That's Bikou," said Azazel, answering Damons' initial question, "descendant of the victorious fighting Buddha."
"Wait, the Trickster Monkey from the Son Goku legend?" Asked Adrian, making sure he understood who they were up against.
"He's related to Goku?" Asked Issei.
"The Saiyan?!" Damon shouted, expressing genuine concern for once.
"I'm not sure what a Saiyan is, so I'm going to assume not," Bikou said to Damon, who sighed in relief,
"I was worried for a second, because if we were up against a Saiyan we would be fucking toast...unless it was Raditz, then we'll be fine."
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!!" Katrina shouted at the Devil Hunter, who merely brushed off Katrinas' shouting.
"Nothing to worry about," said Damon, his cocky grin returning.
"I have to say Bikou, I never would have expected you to become a member of the Khaos Brigade," said Azazel, "Hell must have frozen over...on the other hand, the White Dragon and Son Goku do look good together."
"I bet they fucking do," Damon quipped, lightly chuckling to himself. To his surprise, Bikou started laughing louder than him,
"Well charm and beauty do run in my family, so I look good with just about anybody! Until next time, my friends," Bikou then performed some strange dance, ending with him twirling his staff in the air, and jamming the end into the ground, creating a shadow-like portal, "Miss Blizy, are you coming with us?" The masked girl relunctantly began to walk to the portal, but not before she stopped by Adrian,
"You know, a part of me wishes things had gone differently," she said, "but I can at least leave you with this..." Blizy then faced Adrian, gripped his coat with both hands, and planted her lips to his, leaving his eyes wide open with shock, but as he felt one of her hands slip inside his coat, he didn't pull away. She then broke the kiss, leaving him staring after her as she walked onto the portal, sinking in with Vali and Bikou,
"The next time we meet, Adrian, Issei, you two better be prepared to make the fight interesting..." Adrian could only nod as the three vanished from sight. Rias rushed to Adrian, giving him a tight hug out of relief,
"So glad you're alright! I thought the Bloodtox..."
"Well it didn't," said Adrian, "Blizy wouldn't know how to truly kill me even if she tried. But, on the plus side..." Adrian reached into his coat, withdrawing three syringes, "...we now have something to even the odds against Zeus the next time he shows his mug." The others joined Adrian and Rias' sides, seeing the needles in the Devil Virus' hand, with Damons' eyes widening,
"Is that...?"
"Whitelight, in it's purest form," confirmed Adrian.
"So that'a what the smooch was about," said Damon, "she didn't want Vali to notice!"
Soon, the three armies, angel, devil and fallen angel, had returned to the school, using their magic to repair the damages done by Vali, Katerea and the magicians.
"Finally, a joint effort between all of us," said Rias.
"It looks like we really have a chance for peace this time, doesn't it?" said Akeno. Katrina nodded,
"Sometimes the best war is the one that's never fought...maybe that's why I was made into the Goddess of War," she thought aloud to herself.
"Apologies Azazel," Sirzechs said, "Katerea was one of our internal issues."
"Vali from our side caused problems as well, and it was my fault for not nipping that bud a long time ago," said Azazel, indirectly apologizing. Adrian decided to walk away from the group as Issei approached Michael, but was soon followed by Damon,
"Yo, A! Where are you going?"
"Just going to head over some place else, clear my head. Why don't you stay here with Koneko and Gasper, I'm sure they'd like your company right now." Damon looked nervously at the two, taking a deep breath as he remembered how badly he scared them at the ORC.
"Nah, I think I'm just going to head home," said Damon, "maybe have some rum or something..."
"It's barely sunrise," Adrian pointed out.
"Your point?" Damon then created a magic circle, not wanting to hear anything more as he walked through. Adrian saw that Azazel and his army had teleported off as well, soon enough Michael and his army vanished into bright yellow light. Adrian saw Asia running to Issei, hugging him tightly,
"I love you!" She said loudly, right before kissing him on the mouth. Adrian smiled, but something felt off in his chest, like someone he cared for was in distress. He turned towards the general direction of where he home is, and that's when he felt it; a pain in his chest he only felt when he was in New York, when Alex Mercer destroyed one of his controlled hives. What made things worse? He could see a faint pillar of smoke in the distance. Without saying a word to the others, he ran as fast as he could, and in merely a few seconds, he arrived home, only to see his house up in flames.
"No..." he murmured to himself, right as the flaming front doors burst from their hinges with a familiar creature dragging a seemingly unconcious Victoria from the fire. "Mom!" Adrian rushed to her side, barely hearing her breathing, turning to the creature he knew to be one of his Brawlers, "Thank you Comet, you did good boy, you did-!" He stopped, seeing Comet was not really listening, and was shocked when it fell onto its side, the life leaving its body. Adrian returned his attention to his mother, seeing she barely cracked open her eyes,
"A...Adrian?" The Devil Virus looked down at his mother,
"It's okay mom, I'm here," he said, attempting to comfort her as she raised a hand to Adrians' cheek, gently carressing it.
"Adrian...I love...y..." Victoria stopped speaking, closed her eyes, and her breathing ceased. Adrian began to shake, not believing what was happening as tears began to stream down his face. He then felt a prescense, causing him to look up, seeing a barely visible figure standing in the fire, and with the lift of his hand, vanished into a flash of red and violet electricity.
"Zeus..." Adrian muttered to himself, his rage increasing to an unbelievable height, yet he did nothing as his mother was still in his arms...
