Chapter 148: Strays vs. Sitris
All of Adrians' friends and the House Sitri Devils charged at each other, save for Adrian and Sona, who kept a serious glare at each other,
"You really left me with no choice Adrian..." She didn't have a chance to say more as a repulser shot hit her, sending her skidding across the ground, the blast originating from Katrina, weilding Sektors gauntlets,
"Go, Adrian! Run! Kill Zeus!" Jason, who had just forced back a girl with blue hair, tossed Adrian a set of keys,
"Take my car! It should get you through the city faster!" Adrian nodded relunctantly, but before he dashed for the vehicle, he called out to his friends,
"No killing! Wound and disable, but don't kill!" He then hopped into the drivers seat, and sped the Hummer away from the fight, heading towards the city and hopefully towards Liberty Island. Sona picked herself off the ground, her shirt slightly torn and revealing her pink lace bra underneath, and with a furious unfurling of her wings, she shot into the air, chasing after him.
As Sona flew off, Cleo was now fighting one of Sitri House members; a girl in a Kuoh Academy uniform with reddish brown hair weilding a katana, who was attempting to send the sword through the assassin, only for the Egyptian girl to be one step ahead with her hidden blades, blocking and parrying as best she could. As this fight transpired, Loup Garou had just risen from the rubble that was the hotel room, rubbing his head as he saw Thatan approaching him,
"And for a moment I was concerned I would have to join someone elses fight," said the Elite, only to recieve a flying tackle from the humanoid wolf as a response, sending the rwo rolling to the ground until they both found their footing, rising up with one using razor claws and the other using sheer strength to attack each other. As the two larger creatures began to tussle, Llarya and Pennie had what they assumed were the Sitri bishops back behind a magic circle acting as a shield, with Pennie firing a Plasma Repeater at the circle as Llarya held one of her war axes, keeping her eyes closed and murmuring as if she were focusing,
"Llarya, what are you doing?" Asked Pennie, but her question was quickly answered when Llaryas' axe blade was encased in dark energy, mimicing Rias' power, then she swung her weapon towards the magic circle, sending the energy in the form of a wave towards them, shattering the magic circle and sending the two bishops back. Pennie looked at Llarya, silently wishing for an explanation,
"In the year Adrian was gone I learned secrets of my people, one of which was how to temper darkness."
"Huh..." said Pennie in thought, "...it looks a lot like Rias' power a bit." Before the two could discuss the matter more, they both jumped back into the fray, battling the two Sitri bishops. As they bounded, Jason was busy having a fast paced swing-and-miss fight against a blue haired girl, presumably Sonas' other bishop, and Jason was slowly winning, kicking the girl back with a solid foot to her abdomen and delivering a solid punch to the girls jaw, making her stumble. The girl gasped for air, looking at the older boy in shock,
"I can't believe you would strike a girl like that!" Jason responded with a second punch, nailing her right in the nose, causing her to clutch it while stepping backwards.
"Normally I wouldn't make a habit of smacking around women, but considering someone I care for, especially my special lady friend, is in trouble, I'm not going to shy away from it..." Jason then swung his shotgun forward from off his back, pumping it so there was a shell in the chamber, "...especially blue haired bitches trying to use the pity act to get me off guard." Jasons' opponent lowered her hand, revealing she wasn't as hurt as she let on,
"So rude!" She then charged for him again, leaping into the air, expecting him to fire his gun, but instead he waited for her to dive down at him, flipped his gun around and used it like a bat, shattering the weapon and making her soar backwards, landing roughly against the ground. Jason held what was left of the broken gun in his hands,
"Now if only Adrian didn't say 'no killing,'" he said to himself. Right as the blue haired girl was picking herself up, James rolled out of the way from a swipe of a black sythe with purple skull decorations, being held by a flying, petite, pale skinned girl with long dark purple hair in a light blue dress, a black and white jester hood tipped with an emerald, black elbow length gloves with gold neon designs and gems, and finally two sleepy golden eyes peeking out from behind a white skull mask.
"James Marston..." she said from behind her mask, making James stare at her intently,
"Have we met?" Asked the young cowboy, keeping his revovler at the ready as she vanished from sight, reappearing behing him,
"No," she answered, "but I have heard of the boy who escaped death thrice from my father, Orcus."
"Never heard of him," said James, swinging his gun towards her, only to pass straight through an afterimage, the girl vanishing from sight.
"Maybe not..." she said, reappearing in front of him, "...but with you dodging death from the cliff, your brothers gun, and even the faceless one, you can imagine how pissed my father was." James held his gun up, ready to fire despite Adrians' request,
"Who are you? What are you?" The girl landed on her feet, and twirled her sythe, grinning beneath her mask,
"My name is Bennia, and I am a half grim reaper, and a knight in service of Sona Sitri." She then dashed for the temporally displaced cowboy, causing him to dodge and roll out of the way once again. As James rolled, Damon had his Devil Bringer arm up to block an attack from Sagi, who was attempting to stick the extra long tongue of his Absorption Line Sacred Gear on Damon, and was sucessful in attaching it to Damons' Devil Bringer arm, greedily absorbing the white haired devils power and strength, forcing him to a knee before he grabbed the Green Knight off his back and severing the tongue. Sagi stepped back, but was pleased with what he managed to take from Damon,
"You know, I am actually kind of glad you and Adrian turned stray," he said to him, "because now everyone here can see for themselves that I am a better Devil than you will ever be!" Sagi then tried to bring a fist down on Damons' head, but the hunter caught the attack in his normal hand, while the other was gripping the hilt of his grandfathers sword Yamato,
"Under normal circumstances...you just might be...if this was strictly the DxD universe..." Damon then crushed Sagis' fist, making him kneel with a whimper as Damon rose to his feet, unsheating Yamato, his eyes flaring red and surrounding himself in the green aura that was his Devil Trigger, "...but this is FanFiction bitch!" He then swung the blade at Sagis' midsection, with the Sitri pawn just barely dodging, and yanking his injured hand away so he can dodge the Devil Trigger onslaught. As Sagi was now trying to escape Damon with his life, Katrina was using her Blades of Exile to block and counter Tsubakis' naginata, just barely managing to keep the Sitri queen piece from slashing at her. Soon the two locked blades, trying to force each other back, but were set in a deadlock,
"I honestly can't believe you, of all people, would betray Rias like you have," she scolded Katrina, the war goddess shoved the Sitri queen back, breaking the deadlock,
"Who betrayed who, exactly?" Asked Katrina, swinging her blades on their chains and casting them at Tsabaki, who lifted her naginata up and allowed the chains to wrap around where the blade connects to the hilt, "I lost my love, Adrian lost his mother, and Rias failed to do anything about it! So we did something! We went out to find Zeus and make him pay!"
"By making a sex tape? By having Damon be part of it? Attempting to send that tape to the ORC?"
"I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT UNTIL YOU TOLD US!!" Katrina then summoned Sektors' gauntlets, sending a pair of repulsor blasts at the Sitri queen, only for her to create a large rectangular mirror in front of herself, acting as a shield, until it shattered, and to Katrinas' shock the blasts were sent straight back at her, more powerful than what she initially sent. The force sent Katrina flying, covering her in cuts, her dress getting torn close to the bottom, tearing holes in her leggings, and snapping the right shoulder strap, revealing her right breast. As she went flying, Jason looked to her, seeing her land roughly on the ground, and quickly grabbed his opponent, judo flipped her onto the ground and brought the bridge of his foot against the side of her head, knocking her unconcious as the Saint dashed for the Goddess of War...
As the fighting progressed between the two groups, Adrian was speeding through the emptied streets of New York in Jasons' Hummer, reaching Times Square surprisingly quick, knowing he should be getting close to the harbor, but was he reached the middle of the intersection, a car was smashed onto the ground on its' roof in front of the Hummer, causing both vehicles to collide and for Adrian to spin out of control, and start to roll. It rolled and rolled until it finally crashed agaisnt a fire hydrant, sending a geyser into the air before falling like rain around the now upside down vehicle, with Adrian crawling out of, blood trickling down the side of his face, his shirt torn open to reveal his boneshell torso, and shaking as he was trying to control his inner stray. He looked up, seeing Sona in the air, standing on the head of a familiar giant water serpent,
"Adrian Michaels! This stunt ends now!"
"Sona..." growled Adrian, his one eye squeezed closed as he was barely able to control his inner stray much more, "...as Weskers' girlfriend...I must insist...you stand aside...before you get hurt!" Sona leapt down from the water serpent, landing in front of Adrian and grabbing his arms,
"Adrian! Just stop! Return to your master! Return to Rias! Or you will turn into a selfish evil monster!" Adrians' eye opened, and she was shocked to see his fierce green eye now firey orange, and his voice to turn demonic,
"Too late..."
