Chapter 145: Last Night on Earth
Once the three devils and the Blacklight user were inside the hotel room, Damon reclined on the bed, Katrina stood by the door, and Adrian had made Dana a cup of coffee, explaining everything that had happened to him after New York...everything,
"So Alex, posing as Heller at first, gave you the Blacklight in hopes od being his second in command or whatever?" Asked Adrian, making sure he understood.
"Yeah, that sounds correct," said Dana, using her Hunter Sense on the three Devils, " but all this talk of Devils...Angels...Gods...all that sounds insane, but the DNA doesn't lie."
"Not only that, but I also lost my Blacklight powers," said Adrian.
"That explains the missing eye," said Dana, referring to Adrians' new eyepatch, "and Zeus used the Whitelight given to you from Blizy?"
"Yeah," said Adrian, "so now I'm just a regular devil, whose master is in Japan, and we got a lunatic mutated devil ready to fire a God-Slayer weapon here in New York tomorrow, and sadly that seems like the only time we can stop him." Dana took a deep breath, and stood up,
"Is there anyway I can help?"
"Maybe you could reinfect Adrian with the Blacklight," said Damon, "give him back his strength and power so we can actually take the fight to Zeus, each of us stick a foot up his ass, and we can go home to either get our asses laid, or our asses destroyed. Either one is possible at this point." Dana gave Adrian a raised eyebrow,
"When I abandoned my master, who happens to be the Devil Kings little sister, I also broke up with her." Danas' eyes widened,
"You broke up with the Devil Kings sister?"
"Broke her damn heart even," said Adrian, "so now we are wanted by the Devil King himself, and no doubt he is going to send Sona Sitri and her group after us," Dana gave Adrian a confused look, "Sona is the next head of the House of Sitri devils, just like my ex, Rias, is the next head of House Gremory."
"Ah," said Dana, now understanding, "so not only are you up against a psycho devil god thing, but you are also trying to avoid getting taken back to the Devil King, no doubt sentenced to death."
"Meaning either way me and Damon are screwed," said Adrian.
"Wait, how is Katrina spared?" Asked Damon, looking to the ash gray goddess.
"She still has the Gremory Family crest," explained Adrian, "so if she goes back the worst Rias will do to her is give her a thousand spankings." Dana choked on her coffee,
"I'm sorry, spankings? Did I hear that right?"
"Then again, Katrina might like that too much," said Damon with a light laugh, earning a glare from the War Goddess. Adrian cleared his throat before answering Danas' question,
"Uh, with each devil house, the master sometimes has to discipline their servants. As to what that entails is up to the master, but I do know for both Rias and Sona, they choose spankings." Katrina then jerked a thumb towards Damon,
"Jackoff Johnny over here holds the record for recieving the most spankings," she said with a smug grin. Now it was Damons' turn to glare,
"I'll make sure I get a front row seat for the day Rias spanks you."
"If that day ever comes," said Adrian with a gloom filled tone. Katrina then looked to the floor as well, and Damon stood up from the bed,
"So back to my original thought, can you give Adrian back the Blacklight? Because seriously, all he needs is that damn Dress Break Technique and a pervy attitude and he would be as useful as Issei."
WHOOMP!
Damon fell back onto the bed, clutching his face as a boot was thrown at him. He looked up with a bloodied lip to see Adrian, huffing, and wearing only one of his boots,
"FUCK! YOU! DAMON!" Shouted Adrian, "In fact, just because of that statement, when I see Zeus, I'm going to kill him with my bare hands, no Blacklight needed."
"Arrogant much?" Asked Damon, standing back up, wiping the blood away, "You couldn't even beat him with the Blacklight."
"So what kind of an impact would it have if I got it back?" Asked Adrian, leaving Damon to think of an answer. Adrian then turned back to Dana, "There is one thing you can do, but it's more of a bucket list thing rather than a 'stop Zeus' thing..."
Several hours later...
Katrina was left in the hotel room by herself, with Damon gone to retrieve dinner, and Dana still gone with Adrian, doing whatever it was he wanted to get off his bucket list. Soon Katrina looked out the windows of the hotel room, seeing Adrian giving Dana a hug before she turned and began walking down the street, changing her shape and form into a man in army uniform. Adrian turned back to the hotel, made his way to the door, opened it and stepped inside, closing the door behind him.
"Adrian, where have you been?" Asked Katrina, "You've been gone for several hours." Adrian was silent, simply holding up his arm and revealing his reason; a large black crow tattoo, spreading its wings and covering the inside of his right forearm. Upon seeing the bird inked into Adrians' arm, Katrina gasped,
"You got a tattoo?!"
"It was on my bucket list," explained Adrian, "and the funny thing is me and Rias talked about getting tattoos together, mine being this crow, and hers being a butterfly." Katrinas' eyes were shadowed by her hair,
"Is there a significance to them?"
"As a matter of fact there is..." said Adrian, seating himself on the bed, "...when me and Rias first made love, when you and the other girls decided to taste..." Adrian stopped, seeing Katrina was remembering, and blushing, "...yeah...we cuddled on the bed, flipped on the radio, and The Crow and the Butterfly by Shinedown was the first song playing. And despite what the song was supposed to represent, me and Rias found a new meaning in it..." Adrian then faced Katrina, "...I'm her crow, and she's my butterfly I'm chasing." Katrina, touched by Adrians' story, let a tear fall,
"You still love her...even after everything..." Adrian nodded,
"Yeah, I do, even if I know for a fact she won't have me now." Katrina sat down next to Adrian,
"God I must have sounded like an evil bitch before, saying what I said earlier."
"When? In the desert, before Kali saved us from certain death? Or in the car the other day, when Damon sprayed ecstacy everywhere inside?" Katrina giggled at Adrians' sarcasm, and Adrian smiled at her, "Besides, we're both devils, we're supposed to be evil." Katrina looked at Adrian, and Adrian looked at Katrina, and Adrian spoke straight from his heart, "Kat, I love you, and you will always be my friend, and tonight, and tonight only..." Adrian held Katrinas' hand, "...I'm willing to love you as more than a friend." Adrian began to lean towards her, but she quickly placed a hand to his lips,
"Adrian, if we do somehow survive tomorrow, no matter what happens tonight, I want you to go back to Rias." Adrian leaned back, surprised, "I don't want to pull any more heartstrings from you that have already been pulled, and I don't want to be selfish of you." Adrian began to lean in again,
"...For our last night on Earth...be selfish of me...because I know no one else will..." Katrina then leaned forward, pressing her lips to his, and they both leaned back onto the bed...
Meanwhile...
The sun was now setting over New York, and the same sun was beginning to rise in Kuoh Town, with Adrians' house now rebuilt, far bigger and nicer than before, with several more floors added, an elevator and more, and on the top floor, in a large penthouse style room, overlooking the entire town with a large full view window, stood Rias, dressed in a white plush bathrobe, a towel wrapped around her head as she watched the sunrise in anticipation. The door to the room slowly opened and closed, and in walked Cleo, dressed in her usual assassin attire, but now had her hood down,
"Morning Rias," the Egyptian girl greeted.
"Morning Cleo," the red haired she devil greeted back.
"You're up early."
"I like watching the sunrise from time to time," said Rias, "but it was always when Adrian was around," she added sadly.
"Don't worry," said Cleo reassuringly, "I have a feeling he will be around sooner than we think."
"I hope so," said Rias, removing the towel from her head, "I was up late last night doing something special for him."
"Oh yeah? Like what?" Rias turned to Cleo, opened her bathrobe and pointed down between her legs. Cleos' eyes widened, and she unintentionally began to leak blood from her nose, but that quickly ceased when she saw what Rias was truly pointing at; right above her lower lips, right where her pubic bush could have been, was a red and black butterfly tattoo, with the surrounding skin still red from being done recently.
"That is a beautiful tattoo," commented Cleo, "did you do it yourself?"
"Yes and it was both painful and not easy," said Rias, catching Cleos' eyes that were still focused on the small inked critter between her legs, and surprised when Cleo actually knelt down to look at the inked insect closer.
"So why here? And why a butterfly?"
"It's there because it is the last place on me that any of my family members would see," explained Rias with a blush, "and for why it is a butterfly..." she chuckled, "...it's from the first song me and Adrian listened to after we made love for the first time..."
SLAM!
"Hey Rias! I brought you up some breakfa..." Issei trailed off his sentence as he entered the room, carrying a large tray with a rolled omelet, toast, and a tall glass of milk, only to see Cleo kneeling in front of a mostly nude Rias, her head looking to be a little too close to the she-devils' lower area.
"Okay I swear, this is not what it looks like!" Said the assassin, clearly embarrassed...
