Chapter 135: Hallucinations
"Oh my god..." Adrian repeated, seeing the sight beneath the tree; there was a naked, sickly pale Asia covered in cuts, on her belly in the dirt, with a familiar silver haired boy on top of her, thrusting into her with slow yet hard thrusts.
"Adrian..." she moaned, "...he's hurting me..." Adrians' rage was sent through the roof as he recognized the boy,
VALI!! He thought to himself, and with an alarming speed he brought the bridge of his foot to the assailants face, sending him into the air, and as he descended Adrian caught him by the throat, pinning him to the tree, his head tilted down so his hair was hiding his face, "You fucking pig!!" Adrian roared, "First you take my ex girlfriend Blizy out of spite towards me, then you attack the damn Leaders Summit, threaten mine and Isseis' family, and now you go and assault Asia?! Do you have a fucking death wish?!!" The boy laughed wickedly, tilted his head up, and to Adrians' shock and horror, it wasn't Vali at all. He had the silver hair and pale skin to match Vali, but his eyes were pure white, and his face was shaped like another boy he knew, "ISSEI?!!" Adrian released the demonic Issei, who stayed pinned to the tree before cackling at Adrian, and sank into the tree like a stone in water.
"Adrian..." The Devil Virus turned, seeing the naked bloodied Asia was now standing, but her blonde hair was now silver, her skin was paler than before, and her eyes were white like Isseis', "Why did you abandon me Adrian? Why did you leave me behind with that creep ISSEI?!!" She then lunged for Adrian, who raised his arms up in an X to shield himself, only for Asia to dissolve into smoke on impact, leaving Adrian heaving for air out of fright,
"This isn't real..." gasped Adrian, "...it has to be an illusion or hallucination of some kind!" Then he heard another evil laugh, and turned to see another semi-familiar face, "Damon?!"
"Pretty damn close," said the corrupted Damon, whose skin like the others was paler than normal, eyes were white, and his snow white hair had turned silver in addition to having cuts and bruises across his skin. Adrian then noticed that his outfit was slightly torn as well, the green knight in one hand, and to Adrians' heartbreaking horror, in his Devil Bringer arm he was dragging a petite body; the body of Koneko. She was deathly pale like the other corrupted friends he had seen so far, same silver hair as well, and when Damon released her, he saw that she also had white eyes. Koneko was mostly naked save for her school uniform shirt, open, but what caught Adrians' attention was that Konekos arms and entire lower half looked as though they were mauled off by an animal.
"Koneko..." said Adrian with morose. That quickly turned to fright when Koneko blinked, her white eyes turning towards the Devil Virus,
"You really shouldn't have left," she said in her blank tone, "since you have, everything has gone to hell." Adrian then heard a rustling through the grass, and something quick dashed for Koneko, latching onto her trailing insides, and feasting on her blood,
"Gasper?" The creature looked up from its' bloody meal, and sure enough, despite the white eyes and other corrupted traits, it was certainly Gasper, dressed in a ragged skirt. Upon seeing Adrian he tilted his bloodied maw, contemplating, then he launched himself at Adrian, only to dissolve into smoke as he flew and vanished from sight. The corrupted Damon laughed evilly as Adrian clutched both sides of his head, "This isn't real..." Adrian repeated to himself, "...this isn't real..."
"Oh! This isn't real?" Adrian looked to his right, seeing a corrupted Kiba with half his face seemingly melted off right down to his skull, "I'll tell you what isn't real: I, Rias' first knight, running off and becoming a stray, yet fully intending on returning, yet you, the one she entrusted with her heart and heyman, has no intention of returning. In fact, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you actually like being a stray."
"Of course he likes it..." said another familiar voice. A figure appeared next to Kiba, and it was revealed to be a corrupted Wesker, with no sunglasses, revealing that instead of his signature red or corrupted white eyes, his eye sockets were filled with nothing but blood, "...even a blind man can see it."
"Ha!" A female voice then called out, appearing on Adrians' left, and it was revealed to be a one armed corrupted Xenovia, "If I had known he would enjoy being a stray this much, I would have taken more than just his nose in our duel." Another female figure then appeared next to Xenovia, in turn appearing as a corrupted Irina,
"Maybe now you all wouldn't mind if I took the head of the one who turned my beloved Issei to Devil-dom!" She said angrily. Adrian shook his head, already having enough, formed his Whipfist, then swung it around himself and catching all his friends corrupted counterparts, forcing them to dissolve into smoke on impact.
"Just what kind of nightmare is this crap?" He asked himself, not expecting an answer, but recieved one regardless.
"The kind he wants you to have..." said yet another female voice. Adrian turned back to the tree, and quickly turned away out of shock, seeing a corrupted Katrina, completely flayed of flesh from the neck down and pinned to the tree by large jagged splinters entering her hands and feet, staring at him with her white eyes.
"And the kind you're recieving!" Adrian looked at where the corrupted Damon once stood, seeing a corrupted Akeno in a shredded kimono, her fingernails dripping with blood, "Like my handiwork?" She asked Adrian, gesturing to the corrupted Katrina, "I did it thinking of you," she finished with a seductive purr.
"I don't have time for this madness," said Adrian bluntly, walking straight through her and causing to dissapate, only to here a new voice behind him; a low gruff voice he heard just recently,
"If you think this is bad..." Adrian turned back around, seeing a corrupted Thatan stsnding where Akeno once stood, complete with dented armor, one of his left mandables missing, and his right eye hanging from his socket, "...what's ahead will be absolute torture for you..." He then dissolved into smoke, with the corrupted Katrina sinking into the tree like Issei had before her. Adrian turned back to where he was intending on walking, only to see the evil Asia clone walking out of the darkness, and she wasn't alone; she was flanking three more young ladies, all with pale skin, all naked, all covered in cuts with white eyes and silver hair, but the similarities stopped there, and Adrian recognized all of them,
"Llarya...Pennie...Rias...!" Adrian gasped, a tear rolling down his face as he saw the corrupted copies of all four women he loved.
"You left us behind Adrian..." said Asia.
"You didn't even say goodbye to me..." said Llarya.
"You completely denied me even when your heart was saying you wanted me..." said Pennie.
"You left to fulfill your own selfish desire for vengeance..." said Rias, "...and now look what has happened to us." Adrian sank to his knees, hands on his head as he began to grow dizzy, his mind shattering and heart breaking all at the same time as all those he cared for reappeared around him, chastizing him, mocking him, tearing him down piece by piece until finally they abruptly stopped, vanishing as two more figures appeared; a boy his age with a shaved (possibly bald) head, electric blue eyes and dressed in a Kuoh Academy boys uniform, and a woman in her forties with dark hair greying on the sideburns and kind green eyes, yet both her and the boy held a certain sadness to them, and Adrians' heart sank further,
"Calvin...? Mom...?"
"Why, Adrian? Why didn't you start chasing Zeus when he killed me?" Asked Calvin, a large bloodspot appearing on the front of his uniform, making him look down, then back up at Adrian before completely decomposing amd turning into dust.
"Had you have persued him then," began Victoria, "I could still be alive..." then to add to Adrians' broken heart, she spontaneously combusted, quickly consumed ny flame, "...I would never have burned..." The fire then dispersed, and she fell to the ground, dissolving into ash, yet her voice could still be heard all around himself, "...I would never have died...you little bastard." Adrian slumped down, tears streaming down his shadowed face as he let quiet sobs escape his throat. Then Adrian heard the voice,
"Alright Slender, I think he's had enough." Adrian then saw Zeus materialize in front of him, yet he had yet to move from his slumped position, "Now I don't know what kind of trip my associate sent you down, but from my angle, it looked like a bad one."
"Zeus what the fuck was all that?" Adrian asked numbly.
"I asked my faceless friend to make you nice and docile for me," said Zeus, kneeling down so he would be close to eye level with the Devil Virus, "and it seems to me that it worked," he added, placing a hand on Adrians head and tustle his hair through his hood. Zeus was then surprised when Adrian snapped a hand up and gripped Zeus' hand with a bonecrushing grip, keeping the mutated devil in a kneel and making him wince as Adrian rose to his feet, his eyes glowing orange and his teeth growing razor sharp,
"It didn't work," he stated, his voice turning dark and gravelly, "it didn't make me docile you dipshit..." then to Zeus' own shock, a thick bone shell began to spread over Adrians' flesh, resembling an exoskeleton, complete with a skull over Adrians' enraged face as he shouted at his absolute volume, "IT PISSED ME OFF!!!" He then threw Zeus with a newfound strength, and the false god was sent crashing through the trees and leaving an unbelievably large trench in the earth. Zeus barely had time to stand and brush off the dirt as he saw Adrian soaring for him, teeth bared, Blacklight claws extended and encased in the same bone shell as the rest of Adrians' body, giving him a more fierce appearance, making Zeus chuckle to himself as he extended his own claws, letting red and violet electricity course between each razor digit,
"Okay...Stray Devil vs. Devil God...this should be interesting..."
