Eternal Life. Black Dog and White Phoenix
Part 1
On a certain place of the Underworld (Devil Side), a kid was waiting inside a hospital.
This kid, who was 6 years old, had light blue hair and silver eyes, wearing butler clothing. Despite wearing such outfit, this kid was a noble. He was a human, but at the same time a Devil from the [Extra Demon] Lucifuge clan. His name was Silverage Erklight.
Alongside him was a man with dark blue hair who was wearing a business suit: Silverage's father, Silver Erklight. On his arms was a little kid: Silverage's 2 years old half-brother, Goldentime Erklight.
After spending hours waiting on that place, a nurse finally came with them.
"Silver Erklight, your wife is waiting for your family to come."
Silver was married, despite having children from different mothers. The reason was because of Devil's low birth rate, meaning they put a lot of effort on just having the first child. When they wanted a second one, Silver and another woman (under his wife's authorization) had the second child.
Silver and Silverage came to the room, and two Devils were on it. One of them was a white haired man with a powerful look: leader of the Seven [Great Satan], Lucifer. The other one was a silvery grey haired woman: Silver's wife and Silverage's mother, Age Lucifuge.
"Age, why did you call us?"
"Silver, she gave birth already. It is a girl."
Hearing those words, Silver's face was filled with bright. Lucifer stood up and got close to them.
"It's time for Silverage to meet the girl he'll be linked to."
With just those words, the little Silverage followed his father and mother to where Lucifer led them into. It was a room with white haired women inside. One of them was Lucifer's daughter, Lilin Lucifer. The other one was Lilin's daughter, Lavenus Lucifer. On her hands, Lavenus was holding a just born baby, her daughter.
"Silverage, there's something important you need to know."
Silverage turned his face towards his mother, who was wiping tears of happiness on her eyes.
"The Lucifuge clan has served the Lucifer clan for generations. Since immemorial times, Lucifuge Rofocale-ojiisama has served Lucifer-sama. Because of that, Ojii-sama's descendants have served Lucifer-sama's descendants. Like me, since I have the duty to serve Lavenus."
Lucifer is served by Lucifuge Rofocale, who is his right hand and closest friend. Because of that, Lucifer's family (Lilith, Lilin, Sirius, Price, Lavenus) has been served by Lucifuge's family. This is something that has remained since immemorial times, a tradition that is going to be kept until the Judgment Day.
"And now you, Silverage, as the next bearer of the blood of Lucifuge, have the duty to serve and protect this girl."
Lavenus showed her daughter to Silverage. He was set to serve and protect this girl until the day of his death. That was the fate of a Lucifuge.
"And what is going to be her name?"
Lucifer asked that to his granddaughter, and she put on a complicated expression.
"Ossan, I want to name her Ram."
"That's a beautiful name, Lavenus. Why do you look so troubled?"
"It's because this girl didn't inherited the ability of our clan, the immunity to light."
Light immunity is the special ability of the Lucifer clan, which they possess thanks to being descendants from the Devil King and the goddess Venus.
"So she's just like Price despite being a pure Devil…"
Lucifer seemed somewhat disappointed that neither his grandson nor his great-granddaughter inherited his ability. Originally, he believed it was because Price is a half-human hybrid, but since this girl is a pure Devil, it was unlikely that that was the cause.
"Also, I don't want her to use the Lucifer surname."
"What do you mean, Lavenus-san?"
Age, who looked worried about the sudden words of her master, asked on a worried tone. Lavenus, who kept her troubled look, explained them the situation.
"The father of this girl is an only son. He doesn't have cousins either. This girl is the only descendant from his clan. I want her to inherit his surname."
Because the Lucifer clan was the most important one on the Underworld, it didn't matter if the Lucifer parent was the mother, the kid would still inherit the Lucifer surname.
"I understand your reasons, Lavenus. You don't have to worry about that. I'm sure Leinhart will be happy to hear this."
Despite it was unexpected, Lucifer didn't protest at Lavenus' request, seeing it as prove of her love for Leinhart.
"But, what clan is Leinhart from?"
Silver, who hasn't met Leinhart, asked such question. Everyone on the room was giggling at his question, which was answered by Lilin.
"He's a Phenex."
After that, Age followed up.
"So this girl won't be Ram Lucifer, but Ram Phenex. Remember it well, Silverage."
After hearing her name, Silverage kept his look on the just born girl.
The story of how the girl Silverage would serve and protect for his whole life, Ram Phenex, got her name. This was how they met.
Part 2
"Come on Ram, we have to go back home… so the sun set already, huh."
Around the 6:00 PM, on the mountains of the Phenex territory, two kids were walking their way home.
On one hand, a 10 years old boy wearing a butler outfit: Silverage Erklight. On the other hand, a 4 years old girl wearing a pure white dress: Ram Phenex.
"So dark, Ram-chan is scared!"
Ram, who was hiding her face behind her hair, started crying after saying that. Silverage, seeing her crying, got close to her to comfort her.
"Don't cry, Ram; Silverage is here to protect you."
Ram, who discovered her face after hearing those words, hugged Silverage with teary eyes.
"Ram-chan is going to be protected by Sil-kun."
While Silverage kept hugging her to comfort her, he wasn't calm either. Some reports about a Stray Devil terrorising this zone has been going around, so Silverage was worried something would happen to Ram if said Stray Devil appeared.
"Now, we should be heading back home."
After saying just that, Silverage led Ram down the mountain.
It was already 9:00 PM by the time they reached the base of the mountain. There, Silverage heard something. It was… laughter. He knew what was happening: it was the rumoured Stray Devil.
"Come out from wherever you are, Stray Devil."
What appeared was no less than a werewolf, who looked at Ram and Silverage with killing intent.
"My name is Wolframy, and I was Marg Bael's Rook before killing that bastard."
Marg Bael was the heir of the Bael clan. It was said that he was the ideal heir of the Great King because of his mastery over the Power of Destruction. However, because of his extremely racist and conservative aptitude, he got killed by his Rook Wolframy. Since then, his younger sister, Seila Bael, became the heir.
"Now then, that girl must be Ram Phenex, heir of the Phenex clan. It is true when they say she's a White Phoenix."
"What do you want with her?"
"Noble Devils have abused reincarnated Devils like me because of their racism. We're treated like we were just soulless chess pieces, and I won't stand that anymore. I'm going to kill the heirs of the 72 Pillars to see if they like suffering like we have!"
Wolframy started running towards Silverage and Ram, showing his sharp teeth and claws, with the goal of kill them.
"No, Ram-chan won't allow that!"
Balls of fire were launched by Ram, with them hitting Wolframy on many places. However, because he is a Rook, he was able to stand the attacks.
Wolframy leaped on their direction, slashing them with his claws. Ram soon healed those injuries with her immortality, but Silverage wasn't that lucky.
Silverage, who felt to the ground because of the attack, launched a demonic energy ball towards Wolframy's face. However, because of his trait, it was futile.
"Hah, that's all you can do kid? In that case, I think you won't be able to interfere with me."
Wolframy kicked Silverage, distancing him from Ram to be able to attack her directly.
"Then, White Phoenix, what do you think of this!"
Wolframy slashed Ram again, and again, and again, and again. Ram kept regenerating from her injuries, but Silverage knew she had a limit, so he had the obligation to save her.
Since he was just a kid, he couldn't stop thinking "how can I save her?", as his power should be no match for someone who was able to kill a High-class Devil like Marg.
"How?" was all he could think seeing the situation. Getting more and more desperate, his heart started beating intensely. His heart was beating so hard that he thought other people would hear it too.
Suddenly, he was struck with an even more intense and harder beat. He lost the sensation in his body and his consciousness blurred for a moment, but he returned to his original state immediately. It was then that it happened.
"Ryaaahhh!"
Wolframy was hit by a black blade. This blade came from the head of a huge red eyed dog. And this black dog, it came out of Silverage's shadow.
"What, the aura coming from that dog, it's so weird and dark… what the hell did you do?"
Wolframy looked at Silverage with hatred, but he didn't answer his question as he didn't know either.
"Haha, you're so funny."
The black dog, that hid its blade, started licking Ram. It was clear to Silverage that, whatever this dog was, it was a friend.
As if ignoring Wolframy's presence, the black dog came close to Silverage, putting its head on position fitted to pat it. Because of that, Silverage started patting the dog. While doing so, a name came to Silverage's head.
"You are… the Dog God of the Black Blade, [Canis Lykaon]."
Upon hearing that name, Wolframy started trembling in fear.
"[Canis Lykaon]…?! That's the [Longinus] that takes the form of the Inugami and Lycaon, [Canis Lykaon]?!"
The words [Longinus], Inugami and Lycaon were unknown to Silverage, but if Wolframy feared them that much, then he had to take advantage out of it.
"Then, Dog God, go after him."
After hearing the words from its master, the black Dog God slashed towards Wolframy once again.
"Uuuhh!"
The Dog God covered its body in blades, and started moving at high speed around the place to attack Wolframy. With fast and clean movements, the Dog God was able to severely hurt Wolframy on a short time.
"No, I won't take this anymore!"
Wolframy started running away, being scared by the great power of [Canis Lykaon].
"Thanks for saving us, Dog God."
The black dog didn't answer; instead it got close to him to lick his injury. Once it finished doing that, the Dog God stood alongside Silverage, just staring emptily at the moon.
"You… saved me."
Ram, who looked at Silverage with eyes filled with bright, started running towards him, jumping to hug him at eye level.
"Ram-chan loves Sil-kun!"
With just those words, Ram kissed Silverage's cheek, who was shocked by such reaction.
The black dog stopped looking at the moon, and walked to a certain place.
"The Dog God must be leading us home… I like it."
Silverage, who carried Ram on his arms, followed [Canis Lykaon], who led them towards the Phenex house.
The story of how the Silverage's [Sacred Gear], [Canis Lykaon], awoke to save Ram. This was how they felt in love.
Part 3
A boy, who was 12 years old, wearing noble clothing was walking inside one of the corridors of the Phenex house. He used to be known as Silverage Erklight, but now, he wanted to be known as Silverage Lucifuge.
These last two years were filled with many events to Silverage.
He was able to meet the Governor General of Grigori, Azazel, who was interested on him because he owned one of the [Longinus], [Canis Lykaon]. As such, he started training to use the power to kill gods he owned, leading him to be called strangely strong for his age.
Because of those reasons, Silverage started gaining traction on the Underworld, so he decided to go by his mother's surname instead.
Despite originally being considered just a burst of happiness, Ram kept the idea of loving Silverage, calling him her boyfriend and the like. Silverage, not rejecting her love, started calling her by names like "sweetie" or "honey".
The reason he walked was because of an important talk he and a certain person needed to hold.
"I'm here, Lord Phenex. Sorry for made you wait."
"You don't need to be so formal, Silverage. You can call me by my first name."
"As you wish, Leinhart-san."
Leinhart Phenex is Ram's father and the current head of the Phenex clan. He and Silverage gathered to talk about Ram.
"As you should know, my daughter seems to be in love with you. No matter what, she insists that she loves you."
"Yes, I know those circumstances."
"For that, I want you to correspond to her."
"What do you mean by that, Leinhart-san?"
"I want you to marry my daughter."
Silverage was shocked after hearing Leinhart's words. He believed Leinhart was going to forbid him meeting Ram, but in fact, he was asking him to marry her.
"Wh-Why would I do?"
"Ram… is a Lucifer. You're a Lucifuge. It's your duty to take care of her."
"Yes, I know that, but that doesn't mean I have to marry her."
"Can I ask you some things?"
The flow of the conversation was cut by those sudden words. Silverage didn't quite understand what Leinhart meant, but he knew that he couldn't decline.
"Sure, you can ask me anything."
"Do you love Ram? Would you like to see her with another man? Will you be able to keep her safer than anyone else?"
Silverage started pondering over the words of Leinhart. Ram was important to him, no matter what he did, he found it hard to imagine his future without her.
"I… will be able to keep her safe. No matter what goes after her, I'm going to train harder to use the full power of my [Canis Lykaon] to protect her."
"… What about my other questions?"
Despite Silverage wanted to avoid the main topic of this conversation, Leinhart insisted on his first questions. After putting deep thought on it, Silverage gave his final answer.
"No… I wouldn't like that. I want to be the one who'll be with her forever. I want to protect her, I want to help her, I want to be there for her… I think I love her."
Silverage blushed, noticing he just said he loved a 6 years old girl. If he wasn't a kid himself, it would have made him look like a paedophile, or at least that was what he thought.
"Very well, you're now engaged to my daughter."
As soon as he said those words, a door from a side of the room opened. From it, two light haired people came out.
One of them was Leinhart's daughter: the heir of the Phenex clan, Ram Phenex. She was dressed on Japanese clothing, which was a gift from her friend Seila Bael.
And with her, Silverage's cousin: the heir of the Lucifuge clan, Hilbert Lucifuge. Hilbert was some years older than Silverage, and was assigned to guard Price Lucifer. Hilbert, after getting close to Leinhart and Silverage, spoke his news.
"The sealing is done, now this girl can live a normal life as a Phenex."
Leinhart showed a slim smile on his face upon hearing those words. As a Lucifer, Ram was born with immense demonic power, but that wouldn't allow her to live a life as a Phenex. For that, Hilbert took Ram with the Three Magician Kings, who used their abilities to seal the excess of demonic power on her.
"Well, I'll give my news too. Ram, you're Silverage's fiancée now."
After hearing that, Ram started running with tears of joy on her eyes. She arrived to where Silverage was and hugged him with all her strength.
"I love you so much, my fiancé!"
"Yes, I love you too, sweetie."
Silverage and Ram just hugged each other. Hilbert and Leinhart left the place, knowing it was for the better for them to be alone for a while.
The story of how the Ram's demonic powers were sealed the day Silverage spoke out a loud his true feelings. This was how they got engaged.
Part 4
Present day, on a special place of the Underworld, a man and a girl were dressed very formally.
The man is wearing a white tuxedo, while the girl is wearing a red dress. The reason for their clothes was the event they were in. The 23 years old man with a white tuxedo: Silverage Lucifuge. The 16 years old girl with a red dress: Ram Phenex. This is their wedding.
The ceremony has been going for some time already, so the next part of the ceremony is the vows. The one to start is Silverage Lucifuge.
"Ram, I know I have made you angry many times. Either because of my recklessness or my battle maniac tendencies, you seem to be annoyed by those of aspects of mine. However, even with that, you have been able to accept me as I am, and that is something very important to me. Ever since you were born, I promised that I'll protect you my whole life. And now, not as your guard, but as your husband, I'm going to keep that promise. Now, I'm sure I love you sweetie."
With tears on her eyes, it is Ram Phenex's turn to speak.
"Silverage, you have always been there for me. Even when a werewolf attacked me, or even when the inheritor of the Blue Dragon did it, you were there to protect me. But I promise that, as your wife, I won't be a burden to you anymore. I'm going to be able to protect myself, to fight by myself even if you aren't there. However, I don't want you to stop taking care of me, after all… Ram-chan loves Sil-kun."
Silverage starts crying after those final words from Ram.
"Sil-kun… you haven't called me like that since a long time ago."
Once the rest of the ceremony was over, the minister announced the end of the wedding.
"And now, I pronounce you husband and wife, you may kiss the bride."
Silverage and Ram kiss each other with passion. It was then, the moment they have been waiting for so many years: the moment they became family.
"Congratulations Silverage, you're welcome to the Phenex family."
The one who said that was Ham, who has the rest of Ram's peerage behind him.
"Yeah, I think I have to change my name now. I was Silverage Erklight, and now I'm Phenex, but I don't want to abandon my mother's surname… Silverage Lucifuge Phenex… sounds good to me."
Because he never legally changed his name from Silverage Erklight to Silverage Lucifuge, he was meant to change his name to Silverage Phenex after marrying Ram. However, because he didn't want to abandon the fact he's from the Lucifuge family, he decided to use that as his middle name.
"And where are you going for your honeymoon?"
María asks that to the just married couple.
"I want to go to Angel Falls; I heard it's a beautiful place on a country named Venezuela."
"Weren't you from there María?"
Jin, who heard the name of Venezuela, wonders if that is the place María Hernández, whose name clearly showed either Latin American or Spaniard heritage, came from.
"No, I'm from Guatemala."
"All those countries to the south of mine sound the same to me."
Jin came from the United States, and he had never gone out of his country before, seeing it as the beast place in the world to live in.
"Son of a…"
María mutters something, but it wasn't clear to the rest of the group. However, they could catch the point.
"Whatever, I hope you two enjoy your time on Venezuela."
"Thanks, Rito."
After Ram said just those words, she and Silverage leave the place.
"Excuse me; did she just call you Rito? Are you Rito Yuma by any chance?"
A man who looks like Silverage but isn't Silverage asks that to Rito, who looks confused by the visit of this unknown man.
"Errr, yes, that's my name. Who are you?"
"I'm Hilbert Lucifuge, heir of the Lucifuge clan and Silverage's cousin."
Rito is shocked upon hearing Hilbert's identity. He is considered a strong Devil, strong enough to be an Ultimate-class. If a battle between him and Silverage happened, the result would be uncertain.
"I'm amazed you defeated my cousin, despite he was clearly holding back. Even my master is interested in you now."
"Your master? Who could that be?"
"He's right there."
Hilbert points towards the bar, where Price Lucifer, alongside his Queen Magnus Belial, are drinking some wine. Since Hilbert is a Lucifuge, it's clear who his master is.
"… What is Price doing here?"
When Rito asks that on a worried tone, Rina answers him with a shocking truth.
"Because he is Ram's uncle. He came here to see her."
Rito, Haruka, María and Jin are shocked upon hearing that. Ham, Mint, Xie and Ellice aren't, as they already knew it.
"Price is Ram's uncle?! Then, the whole time, the reason she wanted to defeat him was-"
"Because of that. Ram wants to prove that, even after the thing my dad did to her, she can defeat her own bloodline."
Ellice explains that, as she was present when Ram's demonic power was sealed.
"Just what did your father-"
"Hilbert, come over here! I want you to try this out!"
Price shouts that, holding a glass with an odd coloured liquid on it. It's pretty obvious he's drunk.
"Excuse me, but I have things to do. It was a pleasure to meet you, Rito-dono."
Hilbert leaves the place to be with his master, while Rito was left without being able to finish his question.
"By the way, I think we should introduce the new members to Leinhart-sama."
"Good idea, Rina-san."
Xie agreed with Rina's idea, so they go to see what the head of the Phenex clan, Leinhart Phenex, is doing.
However, Rito couldn't stop wondering about what Caspar did to Ram, and if it was related to the seal on her back.
