Hello, and welcome to the next chapter.
ChaosJeff; She surely is yeah, she's a closet pervert. You never know, there could be. Maybe so yeah~
LoamyCoffee; Yeah, she probably would if she got half the chance. Well, we'll see what happens~
Blake2020; Thank you very! Yeah, they had quite the fight huh, some powerful attacks, among other things as well. She is yeah, we'll be seeing her sooner than you think~ He is happy with Serafall, he's glad that she's his master, with how kind and compassionate she is with him and the likes. And thanks very much!
wweTheBeast2015; Indeed!
Skull Flame; Hehe, I liked the joke~ It was yeah, he threw a wrench into their plans. Well, not alone, they couldn't fight him along, together...well, we'll have to wait and see~ Orochi's got a role to play as all of the others, as we delve deeper into the story and their backstory as well. Hehe, you'll have to read and see~ And thanks!
KobayashiSenpai; Yup, here's another too hehe~ Well, I am glad~ It was yeah, Tiamat was indeed the Sensei the whole time. She does yeah, and it seems so, good thing that she didn't want anything else there and then, poor Makoto might have died of a heart attack or something like that. It did yeah, they finished their fight, and I wont spoil it, but it is going to be quite, interesting. Before he got rescued, Gren got the crap kicked out of him. Yeah, they do have quite the backstory and their romance is coming quite close to becoming of a different nature than normal. Yeah, he'll find out eventually. Thanks, and no, not really~
Nivek Beldo; It surely was quite the action and this one is quite the action packed as well. Katerea and Serafall didn't hold anything back. Tiamat surely is quite look that, and with their combined efforts, they managed to pull off a victory. She did yeah, but she's not always going to be beating him. We did yeah, and finally the King and Queen teamed up, and we'll see a bit of that here as well. Apep just throws wrenches into things as well. Vali in the end protected Makoto, and got herself caught by the spell. Yup, we'll be seeing a new trick with Makoto this chapter as well. No problem~
TDGod; Well, I'll say that Apep and Apophis are different people. However, there could be a connection somewhere...But yeah, they are all Dragon's.
ShadowUzumaki55; It surely was quite the action chapter. And yeah, he pretty much stated that he and the others are Dragon's, even Orochi showed her Dragon side as well. Well, lets just say that they gained quite interesting genes, and what's said here, I'm pretty sure most can guess what they're supposed to be, but with a twist. They have yeah, they aimed for Makoto, but Vali defended him, saving him from a bad fate, and now is being controlled. We'll have to wait, and see~
Justin D; She surely is, she doesn't stop, does she? Yup, we'll be getting more about that in the future. It is going to do some cool things.
Cf96; Thanks!
BrownLightning; Maybe so, thanks for the input.
ProjectIceman; Indeed it does~
Anime PJ; Thanks very much! Yeah, it very much was, wasn't it? He might be powerful, but seeing that he can be beaten must have wounded his pride. And thanks! Hehe, I thought that it would be awesome to do such a thing. Serafall couldn't resist, and had to take a bite~ Yup, you were right, she was Tiamat. Yeah, Vali's sticking around because of Makoto. Yup, it's going to be able to do a few cool things.
UsagiAngelRabbit; Yup, it's going to be a ride. Well, that shall be saved for later.
Anonymous; Hello hehe~ I'm glad! Yeah, it was Tiamat after all. There is, we'll be exploring that more in the future as well. Yeah, she probably did, it looked like that anyway huh. That would be a good description. It brings out a desire, not all desires, so Vali's sense of fighting strong opponents came out, and now she literally can't think of anything else. Hehe, no, nothing like that, but Makoto's going to free her as well. Yeah, they'll be having a deep moment this chapter, among other things as well. Yeah, reference caught~
Neonlight01; He did yeah, his butt was kicked, though Orochi saved him. She was all this time, and she'll be sticking around. She'll be more tame than that. It was good huh, King and Queen working together like that. She didn't, she got a talk with Makoto, and they came to an understanding. Yup, we'll be seeing quite a bit from him now~
Absolute Mirage; Thanks very much! Glad that you liked the fights and what not! Hehe, it's going to be quite fun when we go there in the future with Tiamat and the contract. A little bit yeah, but different as well. Tiamat's in the harem, and yeah, perhaps, it would be fun~ And thanks!
Tohka123; Thanks very much! It was indeed huh, they fought quite well. There was yeah, cementing their relationship with one another. She does yeah, but with Makoto, she'll get through it. And thanks very much!
Well, with those lovely reviews out of the way, it's time to start the chapter!
Attack on the conference part 3!
Staring up at the young man floating in the sky, Makoto slowly began removing the eyepatch that he had on his face. The others watched on, wondering what he was going to do, even Apep looked quite unsure of what he was going to do as well.
Serafall smiled as the eyepatch was lifted.
She wondered what was going to happen now, since Makoto's eye was even a mystery to her. She only knew some basics, she didn't know everything that was happening, she just knew that it was going to be interesting in the fight.
Rias looked freaked out.
"Geez, what's going to happen now?"
Rias wondered aloud, as Vali sent a demonic blast at her.
She cried but before it could hit her, Ise got in the way and blocked the shot, but because of the power used behind the shot, he got knocked back hard. Rias rolled her eyes at Vali, and went to help Ise up.
"Vali!"
Ise yelled, but Makoto lowered his head.
"Onii-chan, please don't be angry at Vali-san, it isn't her fault. She's being controlled."
"Are you sure about that?!"
Makoto nodded his head in affirmation to what Ise said.
"Yes, I am sure that this is the case. It's Apep there, he's doing this."
Apep scowled at what he said, knowing that it was true. But he still didn't know what he was trying to do with the eye, and what it could be. Because it was Makoto, Apep was sure that it was going to be something different.
"What are you up too…?"
Apep demanded, but Makoto just glared as the eyepatch was removed. Upon its release, the eye itself was black, like how his old eye was. However, this eyepatch had several circles embedded in the eye. Koneko looked on and could sense that there was something weird with his eye, something about it was mysterious.
"I can see it..." Makoto looked towards Apep and then towards Gasper. "I can see it, the spell you're using, the information is going into my head...wow, that's amazing. The spell is using Gasper-sans power to force Vali-san to go into this state...so, to weaken it, all we have to do is break Gasper-sans barrier huh to weaken the spell, okay. I can do that. It wont break it entirely, since I can see the energies coming off both of you, but if I can break out Gasper-san from the dome, I can also break through to Vali-san who could fight through the veil that you've cast on her."
The man's eyes narrowed at Makoto immediately.
"...Your eye, it seems like it also has knowledge on such things. What happened? How did you receive that eye?"
"Well, Azazel-san gave me it." Makoto answered nonchalantly, seeing that Vali was moving closer towards Ise. "And I can see the spell, and know how to counteract it. Because of this eye I can identify different types of demonic power, magic and other things. It also has some other functions as well that you're not aware of."
Apep raised his hand without a care in the world.
"Even if you say that, it doesn't change a thing, lord, you're going to have to get through me to get to the Vampire girl, and I'm going to be taking you. Besides, it seems like Vali is bloodthirsty for Hyoudou Issei." Apep turned towards Vali and sneered. "Vali, how much do you want to kill Ise? How much do you hate Ise?"
In her induced state, Vali's eyes went angrily towards Ise.
"But don't you think that destiny is cruel?"
"...What are you talking about?"
Ise asked, and due to what Apep had done, how to bring out the more, aggressive side of Vali and the arrogance that normally, Vali might not have shown, Vali's eyes condescendingly went towards Ise.
"On one hand, there is the strongest existence that one can think of with a Maou plus a legendary Dragon like me, and on the other hand, there is a mere human like you which possesses a legendary Dragon as well. Say what you like, but I think that this accident of fate is cruel. Though we're rivals with the same Dragon-type Sacred Gears, the gap between the two owners is too great."
Ise pointed at myself.
Vali nodded bemusedly due to the spell.
But then, Apep just laughed.
"When I found out that the lord was with the Sekiryuutei, I will admit that I was slightly nervous..." His eyes went towards Ise, and snickered. "Boring, that's all you are. Chelia picked the wrong person to leave him with. Nothing special, ordinary Okaa-san, Otou-san and yourself, you're just a pervert that has no real direction in life. If you didn't have the Boosted Gear, then you'd be nothing, no one would care about you, no one would ever be with you, and the only reason Rias Gremory there even saved your life, was because of your Sacred Gear. Think about that the next time you want to become intimate with her, she doesn't care about you, she only cares about the Dragon inside, all Devils are the same as Fallen Angels, and the Angels. They use the powers of others for their wars, like they did us."
Ise's eyes went to the ground, realizing what Apep said, could be true.
Because of that, he doubted himself, and Makoto felt bad as well, but he had to somewhat agree with Apep, even if it does seem like a harsh reality. Though he didn't think Rias was like that. He could see why others might think like that.
"Don't you speak to my Ise like that!"
Rias yelled from the side, Apep turning his head to the side.
"Oh? Are you going to do anything? All the time, it is your peerage that outshine you. All your pieces are better than you. Even your Queen is better than you, this Vampire girl is better than you, your Knight and Rook are better than you. Your power, is worthless, you're worthless Rias Gremory, and once you're dead, everyone will be fine, nothing will change, you can't change, you're nothing to anyone." Rias' eyes began leaking tears, realizing what he said, was true to a degree. "Don't shed tears, I'll make your death quick, or rather, I'll get Vali to kill you, that would be justice, right? Once you and the Sekiryuutei are dead, I'll be taking Makoto-sama with me, we'll be led to salvation, don't worry though Rias Gremory, you'll be dead so it doesn't matter, you don't matter bitch."
Ise couldn't express it. Ise couldn't express this feeling that was born in his heart. A feeling of a degree Ise had never felt before was starting to be born within him.
"I'm going to kill you, you bastard." At that moment, Ise understood the killing intent that he could have inside. "…Just as you said, maybe Buchou wouldn't have reincarnated me into a Devil if I didn't have the Boosted Gear, maybe Buchou's peerage do shine. That's because, Buchou sends love to all of us and we work hard. It's the same as Makoto, and the others, they all work hard, and put their best efforts into everything! And when you say you're going to take my Otouto, you're stepping out of line! How dare you say that he should or shouldn't do anything!? He's my Otouto, and you're not laying a single finger on him!"
[Welsh Dragon Over Booster!]
As if responding to Ise's anger, his Sacred Gear started to release a strong bright red aura. With the ring he got from Azazel also acting on it, he equipped Booster Gear Scale Mail without having to sacrifice anything.
However, a countdown-like thing appeared on the jewel of his left arm's gauntlet. Time-wise, he didn't have even fifteen minutes. Though it was still better than the mere ten second of his incomplete Balance Breaker.
"Look, Vali. Hyoudou Issei's power went up by an incomparable amount. The plain and simple reason called rage was the trigger, but this is…Hahahaha, what a Dragon's surge. Though, if you want a true Dragon's surge, you should come for us real Dragon's, you're not a real Dragon."
[Sacred Gears simply use strong emotions as food for power. Hyoudou Issei's rage is at its genuine limit, and is turned towards you, the one called Apep. Only straightforward people can draw out the Dragon's power. Even though you're controlling my current host, I can sense excitement inside of her heart because of this, so I hate you and like you at the same time.]
Apep turned towards Vali's glowing armour, and snickered.
"Albion, you've got no reason to even speak right now. I'll be taking your hosts power eventually as well, for now, Vali. Why don't you let your deep desire to flourish and to fight against Hyoudou Issei for me? Kick the shit out of him, make him suffer for what he's done, the crime of being able to attack the lord, and keep him to themselves, it just doesn't seem right honestly."
Because of Ise, and his boosting powers, Apep knew it would be dangerous if he did that with Serafall, Tiamat or even Makoto himself. But he couldn't let that happen, he was going to be fighting the young man and women himself, while Ise was dealt with other ways, he didn't care about Rias right now, Apep didn't see her as an enemy worth noting.
Ise watched as Vali cracked her knuckles, preparing to fight.
"It is a sin that Hyoudou Issei can't even fight with Ddraig, he doesn't understand the powers that he has. Well, for the idiot who thinks of nothing but breasts all of the time, then it makes sense why he was doing that."
Makoto looked towards Vali, seeing her eyes affected by the spell, and then looked towards Ise, seeing that he was the object of Vali's fighting spirit right now. It made sense since Ise was Vali's supposed rival, so he could see why that would be happening.
"Onii-chan, please fight Vali-san for now."
"E-Eh? Alone?"
Makoto nodded seriously.
"I'm sorry, but we have to take care of Apep here. If we can break the spell, then Vali-san can be stopped. But we have to focus our efforts on here. Sera-tan's tired, so fighting would be difficult, it has to be me and Tiamat-san here. I know that I can't take Apep, but Tiamat-san and I might be able to take him. At least enough to free Gasper-san. Please, please survive until then. Myself, I am exhausted, Tiamat-san also has been using her powers quite a bit, and so has my Queen, if Tiamat-san was at full power and even Sera-tan as well who's also exhausted right now, I'd be fighting with you, but since you've wasted the least stamina, you have to fight Vali-san. Just hold on until we can break that spell."
Ise inhaled a breath, and looked towards Vali. Vali's eyes were on the young man and looked ready to fight. Makoto looked between the two of them, and hated that it had to come to this, he didn't want to see them fight, he didn't want them to fight at all.
"Wait..." Rias held up a finger. "Why didn't you ask me?"
"Erm, do you want to fight Vali-san as well?"
Rias' eyes went towards Vali who sneered at her.
Rias held a hand to her mouth and she looked like she was about to cry.
"Fuck that, I'll support Ise. Yeah, I'm confident in my powers, but I'm also confident that I'm going to perish if I fight this person, and I can't do that, it can't happen. So, allow me to support Ise during all of this."
Makoto nodded his head.
Ise looked between the two of them, knowing what he would have to do.
"Well, you are smart, smarter than me, and if you think that I can do it, then I'll have to accept it. Don't worry, I'll fight Vali as hard as I can Makoto! Just take care of that smug bastard right there, and make him pay for everything that he's done!"
Makoto nodded his head.
"Don't worry about that, I've got this one."
Makoto said it strongly, and Ise nodded his head immediately.
"Then, I'm coming for you Vali!"
Spouting an aura from the magic power jets on his back, he rushed towards Vali.
Vali covered her face with her mask, and looked ready to fight the young man, and by doing that, she easily avoided the tackle, and laughed.
"This is nothing, weakling."
"Shut up!"
Ise regained his balance in mid-air and dived again at Vali who had just dodged. He extended Ascalon from his gauntlet and unleashed an attack with his unskilled weapon. However, he couldn't manage to land a single hit with only my mere swinging slashes on Vali as she dodged with light movements.
Makoto looked on towards the fight, then turned back towards Apep, allowing the pair to fight one another.
Meanwhile, as that was going on, Yumi and the others were reeling from what was going on, and how Orochi managed to steal back Gren, it pissed all of them off. Even Irina looked ready to go and kill someone.
"Tch, these people have some interesting powers, don't they?"
Millicas stated with an annoyed face, allowing Yumi to nod her head.
"Exactly, they've got some uses for their powers, haven't they? Either way, that girl managed to take Gren away with her, and her ability was also dangerous, it looked like poison to me."
"I would have cut down the poisonous witch."
Xenovia was confident, but Irina shook her head.
"No, Xenovia. Not every powerful enemy can be dealt with just super strength and such. If it was poison, then we have to be vigilant, lets just hope that she doesn't return...though we really lost the only chance that we have to get more information for Ma-chan."
"Aah right..." Yumi muttered, hearing a lot of explosions around. "Seems like the battle is raging on. We have to go and help the others."
Yumi said it seriously, and was about to move, when magical circles appeared around them all. From the circles, magicians appeared, and Yumi along with the others ground their teeth at such a sight, becoming more pissed off.
"We don't have time for these people, we have to get to Ma-chan and the others."
Irina clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction.
Xenovia raised her blade, and showed that she wasn't going to be going down at all.
"I'll just plough through them with my power!"
Irina placed a hand on her forehead, sighing.
"Xenovia, didn't you hear what I just said?"
Xenovia responded with swinging her sword and released a mass of holy aura, crushing her enemies that were in the way.
"Seems like she wasn't listening."
Millicas appeared beside Irina and said it with a giggle.
Yumi tightened her hands on her Holy Demonic blade, and slashed outwardly, cutting through a nearby magician.
"Let's make this quick, we have to get to the others."
Irina and Millicas responded with a nod of their heads, and rushed forward, blasting and cutting their way through the enemy's.
Back with Makoto and the others, Makoto looked ready to fight.
"Apep!"
"That's me, are you going to fight me now lord? Last time, it didn't work for you. This time, it isn't going to go any smoother either. My lord, I'm going to take you back, and I am not going to lose you either, that's the last thing that I am going to do. You are coming with me."
Makoto's eyes tightened, and he shook his head.
"I'm not going anywhere with you, there's no way I'm going anywhere with you. If I do, then you're going to die, do you understand me? You've kidnapped Gasper-san and you've also controlled Vali-san as well, how dare you even assume that I would go anywhere with you!? I already beat your Gren down, I'll do the same to you!"
Makoto roared at the man, summoning his Sacred Gear to his side. Tiamat also went to his side, and bowed her head. Serafall panted, and also walked to the side of Makoto, even though she was kind of tired from the fight that she had with Katerea, she still was going to fight and help her Queen fight strongly. Koneko, also despite being exhausted, moved closer as well.
"Koneko-chan, it's too dangerous, and you're tired..."
"Mako-kun is also fighting and exhausted, I'll support you from here."
Makoto put on a complicated expression, and nodded in consent.
"Alright Koneko-chan, be careful, don't put too much stress on yourself."
Koneko inclined her head, and got into a fighting form.
Apep was mildly surprised that he said that.
"Wow, so Gren was defeated, huh. He's a battle freak that doesn't have much brain cells. Even though he is family, it just seems like we're gonna have to deal with idiots or something."
Makoto narrowed his eyes as his eyes glowed, both of them glowed.
"So, I'm going to assume that you hate Gren then?"
"Not at all. Sometimes I have to punish the idiot, but he's valuable, and family. We've got a family waiting for you my lord. You've got a place with us here, you don't have to do this, we can just leave together, and then forget that anything like this happened. You will be loved, you will be life, you shall rule this world, with us by your side! That's what we want my lord! We want you to come back to us my lord! It's alright, you don't have to be afraid or anything, you don't even have to fear what's going to happen to your friends. I promise that if you come with us, you'll-"
"You're not taking Ma-tan!"
Serafall yelled from the side, Makoto turning towards her with some confusion.
"Sera-tan..."
"I already said that Ma-tan isn't going anywhere to Katerea, and I'll say it to you as well! All of you keep trying to take Ma-tan, it isn't going to happen! There's no way that you're going to be taking Ma-tan! That's why you're going to be finished off soon!"
The man just chuckled as a response to Serafall.
"That's cute, I really like that mentality of yours, much different to the past. Remember when you used us? That's cute, you really are adorable, Serafall. But your time is now going to end, and I will make sure that you disappear."
"Then disappear!"
Serafall waved her wand right towards him and unleashed a barrage of ice blasts from circles that appeared in the sky. They took the shape of demonic heads, colliding towards the young man who just up turned his nose.
Sticking out his hand, dark water appeared, and swirled around him. It took the form of a large snake, and 'swam' around him, like it was swimming through water. The snake then shot forth for the ice, and devoured each of the ice demonic heads coming for him, Serafall surprised that he could do something like that.
"Surprised, Serafall?"
Apep smirked dangerously, Makoto looked between them and wondered the story going on there.
"You..."
"My powers aren't 100 percent, but the seal has been weakened for the time being. So I'm operating stronger than I was when I fought the lord the last time. And Serafall, you're not even at your full power, you wasted your power on the young woman known as Katerea."
"Then try this!"
Serafall waved her wand once more, and circles appeared around Apep. From the circles, ice erupted forward, and shot for him in strong bursts.
Apep snapped his fingers, and sent his snake to deal with the ice bergs heading for him.
"Burn!"
Tiamat opened her mouth and released a large fireball that headed right for him.
Because she was a Dragon King, said to be the strongest, she would have the power to face anyone and everyone that was before her, and her flames were hot, hotter than Makoto had ever seen before, even more so than Ravel's and Riser's flames.
Apep clicked his tongue and sent the snake to go and face it. The snake wrapped around the fireball heading for him, and constricted around it, using the melting power of the water to melt through the fire, putting it out, and stopped it all together.
As he was concentrated on that, Makoto had already taken off to rush the dome to save Gasper herself with Koneko supporting him from behind.
He made his Sacred Gear into a gun form, and shot forth a freezing beam towards the dome. Gasper looked down towards Makoto, and held a helpless look on her face which made Makoto mad due to what Apep had done to her.
"No!"
Before the ice could touch the dome, Apep waved his hand and sent forth a blast of darkness towards the ice. The beam and the darkness met one another, and the freezing power slowly began freezing the darkness.
"I'll stop him too!"
Koneko looked towards Apep, and had a sphere of blue Senjutsu in her palms. She launched it forward within seconds of it being formed.
"I don't think so!"
But then Apep clapped his hand to his palm, strengthening the darkness, shattering the ice, which turned into a claw, and went in front of Apep, grabbing the Senjutsu and crushed it in his palm. The claw of darkness was then sent towards Makoto in a quick burst, almost faster than the eye could see…
However, Makoto tapped into the power of the Excalibur Rapidly, and with his own enhanced speed, he managed to avoid several claws of darkness for the young boy, which cut through the ground, and headed for him.
Continuing to dodge, Makoto turned around towards the darkness, and concentrated on the gun form of his Sacred Gear, which allowed the power of freezing to be condensed. Makoto pulled the trigger, and unleashed a large beam of ice towards the darkness.
"I see, my lord, I see. That's it, yes, that's very much it!"
Apep charged the darkness into a spear, and sent it towards Makoto. The beam went through the ice, cutting through it faster than Makoto could freeze it. So, Makoto dodged to the side, however the darkness cut into his arm, making him wince.
"Fucker! Touching my Ma-tan is a no-no!"
Serafall's rage wasn't going to be quelled so easily, so she allowed her demonic power to be released. This time she didn't use ice, she just shot off blasts of demonic power right for him. Apep didn't seem that bothered, and looked towards Gasper, then placed his hand out towards her.
"Freeze."
"Waaah!"
Gasper let out a desperate cry, feeling the force of her Sacred Gear activating once more, and froze the demonic power in the sky. Apep smirked, and flew between the spaces of the demonic power, appearing on the other side, and clicked his fingers, deactivating Gasper's power, which forced the demonic power into the air, and shattered upon hitting the barrier up high.
"Stop it!"
Makoto yelled at Apep, who hummed to himself.
"What's wrong my lord?"
"Stop using Gasper-san right now! You're hurting her! Be a man and fight without using her powers forcefully!"
Gasper's eyes widened, and her eyes went towards the determined Makoto's face, who had eyes for Apep right now, eyes that weren't happy ones either. Koneko also felt worried for Gasper, and partly guilty on what was going on, she didn't want Gasper to be used like this.
"My lord, don't be such a prude. She's only a half Vampire failure, it doesn't matter if she's used or not."
"Of course it matters! It doesn't matter if she's a half Vampire or not!"
Apep just laughed as Tiamat walked closer to Makoto.
"Yes it does. Scum, that's all they are. They aren't even real people, they're between, half and half of nothing. It's the exact same case of the Fallen Angel Queen girl of Rias the idiot, they're both gross, and the same for Vali as well, halves shouldn't even be allowed to exist near us."
Gasper's eyes began shedding tears, showing how she truly was effected.
Everything he said, hit home to Gasper about her past, and her childhood, and how she was perceived by others.
But then her eyes became shocked when Makoto shouted.
"Shut your mouth right now!" Makoto yelled angrily. "There's nothing wrong with half breeds at all! Vali-san, Gasper-san and Akeno-senpai are all amazing in their own ways! Just because they're half breeds, it doesn't make a difference! What's wrong is narrow minded pricks like you who abuse others! You say I'm your lord, yet you don't do as I ask and stop this nonsense! You claim to care about me, but you're the one who blinded me and tried to kill people important to me! And now you're using Gasper-san as well! You almost killed Koneko-chan! How dare you even say half breeds are disgusting! The only disgusting person I see is you! I'm not going to let you hurt anyone of my friends anymore! I'm going to save Gasper-san, and beat that smug look right off your face!"
Gasper's eyes watered even more.
But, this time, it was because she was happy.
She was truly happy that Makoto had said that.
Her cheeks turned slightly red, and she caught herself blushing at the sight of Makoto and how he was being with her like he was, how kind he was, and how brave he was as well, wishing to emanate that braveness for herself as well.
Koneko looked on as well, feeling moved by the young boys words, and shed tears as well.
"My lord, don't be silly, we do care about you. That's why we're saving you from the oppressors right there. That Devil, among her kind have enslaved you into being a Devil, don't you understand what that means?"
Makoto's eyes narrowed angrily.
"I'm not a slave, and I'll never be a slave. Sera-tan treats me as her equal-"
"Yeah, and she's lied to you this whole time." Serafall's eyes lowered. "She hasn't done anything for you my lord, she doesn't care about you, she only cares about your power. That's all there is too it."
"No! That's a lie! Ma-tan is my cute Queen! I never used him or anything at all! I wont have you speak like that!"
Serafall jumped up, and extended her wings. She flew right towards the young man, and extended her wand. The demonic power she summoned turned into spears of ice, and she launched them off at close range.
Apep looked amused, allowing his dark water snake to appear once more, opening its mouth and devoured the spears of ice. Apep was sure that Serafall had lost it, but he saw that she was smirking right now.
"What's with the smile bitch?"
"Burn."
Serafall said it too sickly to mean anything other than a negative comment.
Apep cocked his head.
"Burn-"
DON!
From behind him, a large fireball was released, and collided with him. Tiamat's fireball. Because of the heat, even Apep's body was slightly burned. But due to being a Dragon with tough skin, it didn't burn as much as Tiamat would have wanted.
"Tiamat! You've begun annoying-"
"Fiery Ice Senjutsu Wave!"
Hearing that call, Apep's eyes turned towards Makoto who had clashed his hands together, and shot off a blast of fire and ice, a signature move of his, added to the power of Koneko who fused her Senjutsu into the mix as well.
The wave headed fast, and hard for Apep's body, so the man forced all of the black water from the snake to appear in his palm, condensed it, and turned it onto the attack.
"This is how you melt my lord."
With those cold words, he shot off a highly condensed blast of dark water, with properties to go right through the ice and fire. Because the fire wasn't strong enough, Makoto's blast was broke instantly, the ice couldn't even have time to freeze, and the attack went straight for the boy.
Makoto grit his teeth and went to move, but from the front of the attack, the shape of the black water changed into the shape of a snakes head, and it opened upwards, opening and showed the inside of the snake, heading for Makoto and Koneko.
"No! Ma-tan! Koneko-chan!"
Serafall yelled, seeing the attack going to devour Makoto.
He went to move out of the way, but darkness erupted from the ground in the shape of hands, holding him to the ground.
"W-What?!"
Makoto looked down at the ground, seeing the hands.
"Mako-kun!"
Koneko tried to get Makoto out of the hands of darkness, but she couldn't do anything either.
"I wont let you hurt Ma-tan!"
Serafall pointed her hand towards the snake, and sent out a blast of ice to freeze it.
But…
"Gasper."
"Waaaaaah!"
Unwillingly, Gasper's Sacred Gear was activated, and froze the ice in the air, stopping it from touching the snake. Serafall's eyes became heavy with rage, and turned her eyes towards Apep who smirked.
"Apep you son of a bitch! I'll get you for this!"
Serafall declared, Makoto gripping his Excalibur in one hand and the Sacred Gear in the other.
"Try this!"
Makoto, tapping into the Excalibur Destruction power, stabbed the ground and sent out a holy wave into the ground. The power of the holy wave smashed the ground apart, but he was too late, the snake had gotten there, right above them, and rather have Koneko be devoured, Makoto threw her out of the way just before she could be devoured.
"Mako-kun!"
Koneko shed tears as the snake collided into the ground, devouring Makoto's body.
"Ma-taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"
Serafall cried with heavy tears flowing out, Gasper began crying as well, Tiamat's eyes narrowing at the opponent, seeing that Makoto, was just, devoured by a snake that could melt, anything, and were worried for what was going to happen to Makoto.
Meanwhile, the battle between Ise, and Vali raged on. Vali was clearly superior to Ise in a fight, and Ise felt unsure to attack Vali because he knew that Makoto loved her. But right now, Vali wasn't really giving him much of a choice.
"Come on, come on!"
Seeming to enjoy herself, Vali fired a seemingly endless number of magic bullets. The rounds after rounds of bullets she lightly fired left heavy damage, and Ise knew that he couldn't avoid, they were going faster than he could avoid then, and pierced his armour, even though it was repairing itself slowly.
As Vali continued attacking, she resumed speaking words that, due to being controlled came out.
"Your attacks are also dull. You just plunge in. It's meaningless in that case. What a waste of a treasure. Your use of your power is also unskillful. At this rate the rival showdown between the Hakuryuukou and the Sekiryuutei will be-"
Before she could finish talking, Ise made magic power suddenly spout from the jets on his back and plunged into the barrage of bullets.
The magic bullets entirely struck various places on his body, and it hurt, but even just a single shot was fine by Ise, he knew that he had to fight Vali to get to Makoto, not wanting the boy to die.
Ise strongly clutched his left hand.
The magic bullets were shot at Ise's armour, and his armour was destroyed little by little. His face area was also hit and the mask part was also shattered.
"So you're charging? You really know nothing of combat, to go as far as repeating the same tactic. Something like that..."
Vali deployed what seemed to be a shield of light in front of her and tried to defend, but Ise had other ideas.
"Ddraaaaaig! Transfer power to the stored Ascalon!"
[Understood!]
[Transfer!]
A surge of massive power flowed into his left arm, and because Ise didn't have sword skills, he used the power of the blade inside of his gauntlet, so he could slay Dragon's more easily, even though Ise was worried about what he was going to be able to do to beat the enemy.
"D-Damn it..."
His fist destroyed her shield of light with no trouble and Ise made her face eat a sharp blow.
Whether it was because she received an unexpected blow or not, Vali's posture was violently bent.
Cracks spread from the edges of the mask on the Hakuryuukou's helmet, and part of Vali's face peeked through the crumbling portion.
Ise grasped his hand around the base of the Hakuryuukou's wings of light that were said to gush out excess power.
"Apparently the effect of your Sacred Gear comes from here. In that case, I'll just have to do this! To snap you back to Makoto's sake!"
"Makoto..."
For a brief second, Ise thought that he saw a semblance that the true Vali was in there, underneath what was going on with the spell that forced Vali to do this.
But it soon returned back to the normal controlled Vali, who held disgusted eyes for Ise.
"I'll kill you."
Vali threatened, the spell being very strong in her head.
But Ise knew that he would have to do this, and use his powers to stop Vali in anyway necessary.
[Transfer!]
Ise transferred his power to the Vanishing Dragon Scale Mail before it was in excess. At that instant, Ise was struck by the feeling that power had suddenly been removed from his body, his stamina and magical power depleted, but still, Ise didn't care, he knew what he would have to do.
"I'll raise the power you absorb and the power you emit all at once! To the extent that you can't deal with it!"
"Kuh!"
All of the Vanishing Dragon Scale Mail's jewels started to nonsensically glow white, red, blue and yellow over and over again. As it did so, the Dragon power that he had felt from her body, to the extent of being absurd, vanished. Because Ise had forced her to use the ability of her Sacred Gear, and because it had an upper limit, it broke through that limit, and made Vali's Sacred Gear go haywire.
[What a thing…! Vali, regain your posture at once! Even if you're being controlled, fight against the Sekiryuutei seriously.]
Vali reacted to Albion's voice somewhat and tried to defend by crossing her arms, though Ise closed his left fist with the power of Ascalon there, and easily barraged through Vali's defense's, which included the armour on her arms, and thrusted a blow to the abdomen, the white Scale Mail couldn't handle it and shattered due to the Dragon Slaying power.
Fresh blood flew out from Vali's mouth. She stepped back unsteadily while holding her abdomen.
As blood poured down from the edge of her mouth, Vali smiled as if in joy, even being controlled, Vali loved to fight and to fight strongly.
"…Hahaha, amazing! My Sacred Gear was blown off! So you can do it if you try! Just what I would expect, my rival-"
Ise merciless straight entered into Vali's face.
"…I made it reach and hit you. You're the only one I won't be satisfied with if my fist can't hit you. Because you upset Makoto as well a long time ago, you didn't think about it, you weren't there, and now you've got to be there! So fight through it damn it, to return to Makoto damn you!"
At that moment, Vali's eyes flickered.
Even though she was being controlled right now, the thought of Makoto being in pain caused her to fight.
"Makoto..." She clutched her head as her armour returned. "Makoto...no...I can't...Makoto..."
"Vali! Fight it for Maou-sama's sake! Makoto wants you by his side! Come on already! Don't you want to return to him too?!"
Ise's yell impacted Vali's head, and her thoughts turned to Makoto, and thoughts about him, how they were together, and how they would look at one another, smile at one another, how when Vali felt frustrated, Makoto would cure her of that, the way that she did the same thing when Makoto was sad, and depressed, and the thoughts of hurting him hurt her head more than she thought it would be.
But then a flash went through her eyes, and the veil seemed to be getting stronger, and stopped Vali's thoughts of Makoto, the spell was very strong, it hadn't even been half broken yet. So, she, while fighting her best, couldn't break through.
"Hmph, what does that matter? I'm fighting, Hyoudou Issei, and I'll be beating you, show me more than this. My opponent cannot be this weak."
Ddraig clicked his tongue angrily.
[The battle doesn't end until the host is made incapable of fighting. It's no use at this rate. You'll make no progress. It's next to impossible for you to defeat her within the limited time of the control unit, and it seems like your Otouto hasn't broken through the spell yet from his side, so running away isn't an option either, since she could hurt the other people around.]
"That's right, I have to fight until Makoto can achieve his part. He's doing his part, I've got to do mine and hold Vali back as much as I can and even win if I can. I have to do it Ddraig, I can't lose right now, I have to win."
Ise thought back to Ddraig while Vali just glared at him with a disgusted look.
[Then, what will you do? The difference in power is still wide. You could do something thanks to the control unit, but with the limited time it's out of the question. Will you surrender?]
Ise at that moment, thought about what he could do.
His eyes went across the entire area, looking towards Rias, who gave him a thumbs up.
He didn't know why she did that, but because of that and the look of her breasts, Issei's mind worked. But, he knew it could be dangerous if he tried it, even then he knew that he would have to do something, or he was going to lose, and others could be hurt because of it.
"Hey, Ddraig. The Sacred Gear responds to feelings and evolves, right? I need it to evolve right now, so I can protect my loved ones."
[Yeah, that's right, but…Why?]
Ise picked up the thing lying at his feet, a jewel of the Vanishing Dragon, which became dislodged from Vali due to Ise sending a punch at her, though the armour repaired the jewel regardless, even then Ise still felt the power of the Dragon inside of the jewel.
As far as Vali is concerned, this jewel will turn to trash as time passes, so it's inconsequential. However, there should be at least a little of the Hakuryuukou's power lodged in it, that's how Ise felt it anyway.
"I'm transmitting my image to you. Let's try it!"
Ise transmitted the thing I imagined in my brain to Ddraig who was inside him, and tried his best, and when they went through to Ddraig, he truly was stunned, yet he also laughed at the same time due to many different things that is was putting him through.
[…Partner, you've sent me quite a dangerous image. But, it's interesting! We may die, but do you have the resolve?]
"I can't die. I haven't taken Buchou's virginity yet and I have to also protect Makoto! I made it my life goal to also make sure that he was safe! If it hurts, I'll endure it! If I can just exceed this damn bitch in front of me with that while Makoto saves her, I'll make sure she's stopped here!"
[Fuhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Nice resolve! In that case, I'll also resolve myself! This isn't a notification of my character, but, I am the Red Dragon Emperor that was called a mass of power! Let's show them that we'll live and exceed them together, Partner! No! Hyoudou Issei!]
"Yeah!"
Ise declared happily, knowing that it might hurt...he simply didn't care.
He was going to do it, he was going to use the powers that he had, and use them truly strong.
He wasn't going to back down either.
"What do you intend to do?"
Vali asked that, seeming interested.
She truly didn't know, even if this was her normal mind, she wouldn't be sure about it.
"Vanishing Dragon! Albion! Vali! I'll be taking your power!"
Ise smashed the Sekiryuutei jewel that was on the back of his right hand into pieces, and drove into it the Vanishing Dragon jewel that Ise picked up before. The power, he was going to transfer it into his Sacred Gear.
A silver aura sprang forth from his right hand and wrapped around the right side of his body. A phenomenon from the jewel. Something throbbed inside Ise, just as a difficult-to-describe pain circulated throughout his body from his jewel-implanted right hand in an instant.
"Ugaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Undeniable pain erupted forth from Ise at that moment. "Nugaaaaaaaaaaaah! Ah, ah, ah, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
He hadn't felt this intense pain before.
But he remembered Makoto, and how he survived his eye being melted out of his eyesocket.
If Makoto could survive that and continue fighting, then Ise was going to do this, and Vali showed an astonished expression on her face.
"You intend to take in my power?"
[What a reckless thing to do. Ddraig, we are existences that oppose each other. That is nothing more than an act of self-destruction. Do you intend to annihilate yourself by doing such a thing?]
Albion spoke indifferently.
[Guooooooooooooooooh!] Ddraig was also leaking out agony. However, while Ddraig let out a scream, it contained laughter as well. [Albion! You're as inflexible as always! Over countless eons, we've lodged in hosts and continued to fight each other! It's a repeat of the same thing each and every time!]
[That's right, Ddraig. That is our destiny. Even if our respective hosts are different, the way we fight is the same. You raise power, I steal power. The side that skillfully uses its Sacred Gear deals the finishing blow and it ends. This is how it always has been, and always will be.]
Ddraig gave a fearless laugh at Albion's words.
[Since meeting with this host, with Hyoudou Issei, I have learned one thing! That anything is possible with determined stupidity!]
"Stupidity is fine! If I can't win with ability anyway, I'll excel through stupidity!" Ise yelled to the sky, Ddraig laughing even more. "Respond to my feeliiiiiiiiiiings!"
[Vanishing Dragon Power is taken!]
Ise's right hand was wrapped in a dazzling white light. A pure white aura surrounded his right arm, and a white gauntlet appeared there on his arm.
"…Hehehe, so this is Dividing Gear?"
Ise didn't mind that now, since he had the new power that he would need to fight against the enemy.
[Impossible! Such a thing is impossible!]
Albion let out an astonished voice.
"No, it's only a little, but it's possible. Buchou's Knight fused together holy and demonic, and produced things like Holy Demonic swords. It seems it was possible to achieve it because balance has collapsed from the non-existence of God. Well, if I borrow the words of the leader guys, it is a state where there are things like system errors or program bugs? I just utilised it a little. Because my Otouto does reckless things too, I couldn't be outshined by him, and show that my power is high and on the rise too, after all, he's also a rival of mine I want to fight too. He's a technique and I'm power, and we're gonna fight, I'm also gonna need power too."
Ise's words got through to Vali, and for a brief instant, Vali's eyes changed, and she managed to murmur "You wont ever touch my Makoto." before the veil overtook the young woman once more, Albion being shocked by what was going on.
[…So you mean you nudged the imperfections of the "Sacred Gear program" and achieved this? No, but such a thing is…Even if you think of that, to actually do it is just foolish. No one knows what will happen with the fusion of opposing powers. When that is something concerning dragons, you might die, you know? No, it would be natural for you to die.]
Albion still couldn't seem to believe it. Well, to be honest though, I was also desperate.
"Yeah, it was reckless. But, I survived."
Ddraig sighed at Ise's words.
[However, it certainly made your lifespan shorten. It's a lot even for Devils that live almost endlessly.]
"I have no intention to live for ten thousand years. But, since there are a lot of things I want to do, I'd like to live for at least a thousand years, though."
This time, Ise was ready for the fight, and couldn't hold back either, he was going to be fighting because Makoto was, and the others were, he was going to do what he could for all of this.
Back at the other fight, the others couldn't believe what was going on, Makoto had been devoured, and Serafall couldn't stop crying and neither could Koneko either. Her anger was rising, and her eyes were heartlessly on the young man known as Apep.
"Ma-tan! Ma-tan!"
Serafall yelled again and again, unable to do anything other than that.
Because she had just seen her Queen be devoured, and wasn't responding, she felt her life slowly crumbling away.
All the thoughts she had for him, all the love she had for him, all amounted to nothing now.
She couldn't protect him in the end and that tore her up inside.
"Mako-kun..."
Like Serafall, Koneko was going through quite a lot.
She saw how he saved her.
Even then, when they were fighting, he defended her, and just proved how much he cared for her.
In that regard, she felt amazing inside, she felt renewed.
But, she needed to get back to him as well.
Even then Apep huffed.
"Did you think I'd be killing the lord? Don't be recklessly silly, I wouldn't ever do something as heinous as doing that. Even then, I still enjoy the thought that for a moment, I managed to make the lord be subdued to someone like-"
FREEZE!
Before he could finish, the melting snake's body was covered in ice. From the nearest part of Apep, the snakes body froze to the tip of its head. Even the place near Apep's hand froze as the area was doused in cold energy.
SHATTER!
"As if I would be burned alive again!"
Makoto's fist tightened and demonic power surrounded it. He shot forth for Apep at close range. Apep looked surprised that he didn't even have a wound on his form, he looked as if he was prepared for it, and it didn't make sense.
"How?!"
He roared angrily, but Makoto just smirked, and pointed at his eyes.
"I've gone through some enhancements, you know?"
"Your eyes..."
"One's magical, did you forget? It can see the magical and other types of power, and they can also emit a cool laser like power which I used just as you doused me with the power, though it also drains my powers as well it is also able to cut through and or pierce a good amount of stuff which gave me the time to activate my freezing power of my Sacred Gear. My black eye especially has some interesting functions that Azazel-san added, he's quite odd." Makoto tightened his fist, and got close. "Now take this!"
Apep, because he was stunned by what was going on, didn't even realize it at all, so he received a hard punch to his face. Apep's face bent around Makoto's fist, and it twisted, Makoto punched downwards, and that forced Apep downwards as well. Then, as he hurdled towards the ground, Makoto channelled power deep within his eyes, and it began glowing.
From the eyes, a pure beam came out, and shot for Apep. The speed was unreal, and it shot right for him. Apep didn't have time to raise a barrier, and had to move his body. The beam pierced the shoulder of Apep, causing blood to come out, it even pierced the Dragon scales of Apep, but it also drained Makoto somewhat as well to use it.
"Have that."
Makoto panted hard.
His body went smashing towards the ground, even breaking the sound barrier he was going so fast, blood coming out of his wound on his shoulder.
However, Tiamat was right there with the pressure, and shot off a large ball of fire towards Apep to burn him.
"Dare strike my Makoto, I shall burn you!"
Tiamat's Dragon roar, accompanied the flames heading for him. Before he could be burned, Apep ajusted his stance, and extended his Dragon wings, flying into the sky. Tiamat though shot off several balls of flames for the young man, turning the sky into a sea of flames.
Apep was fast, but even he had difficulty in escaping the attack.
"Have this!"
Serafall waved her wand, and a wall of ice blocked the path of the young man. Apep glared, summoning his dark water, creating a shield of it around him, forming a dome and charged for the ice wall.
Because it was Serafall's power, the wall was dense and Apep growled out angrily. His dome of corrosive water began melting the ice but Tiamat's flames enclosed on him, and she amped up the power, showing how she truly was a Satan class power, and burned him harshly.
The flames surrounded the man's body, and burned the dome, being lost in the sea of flames.
"This wont beat me!"
Apep yelled from the flames, and an overwhelming darkness erupted from the area, surrounding the place Tiamat's flames had enclosed around. The darkness around the flames, and dissolved them like the water did.
Apep emerged from the area he was in beforehand, and his body was burned by Tiamat's flames. He stuck his hands outwards, and spheres of darkness erupted out of his hands. They grew bigger, and became like claws, then they shaped the shape of spears, and the spears pointed towards Serafall who glared.
"First, it is time for you to perish!"
Throwing his hands, the darkness spears shot forward towards Serafall.
"I'll burn you all!"
Tiamat inhaled a deep breath, and unleashed an overwhelming of flames towards one of the spears. What Tiamat didn't count on was the darkness expanded, and formed a barrier of it, surprising her, and blocked the flames.
"Dark Field Barrier, a special technique of mine. If you're not careful, I'll even lock you in a world that you wont escape, and I'll surely take you away from this place."
Makoto heard him release a disgusting sound with his tongue, Serafall glaring and gathered her ice around her. But Apep surrounded himself in darkness, and shot for Serafall as well.
Serafall's eyes crossed angrily.
"Celsius Cross Trigger!"
Activating her strongest technique, Serafall converted the ground and air around her into a world of ice, sending out a strong pulse of it towards Apep. Apep's darkness form and the spear of darkness were overgrown with ice, freezing it straight away.
Serafall smirked at the sight, only to be surprised when he popped out of the ice, smashing it from inside, and bared his large fangs.
"Didn't you realize that I'd know you'd do that you idiot?!"
Like a dart, he shot for Serafall, who unleashed massive ice attacks. Each attack couldn't be compared to the last with the density of the ice. But Apep placed his hand out towards Gasper, who cried "Waaaah!" once more, activating her Sacred Gear, and froze the ice in place.
Like a snake, he shot for Serafall, the woman activating barriers to block him. The man named Apep surrounded himself in dark water, and shot off like a jetstream, breaking through the barriers of the weakened Serafall. Though because of the barriers, the waters of dark disappeared from the area.
"Shit!"
Tiamat gathered flames by her mouth, but it was too late as Apep made it to Serafall with his fangs out.
BITE!
"Ngh..."
Someone ground their teeth and let out an annoyed grunt.
Serafall looked on, and standing there, she saw someone else…
Someone else had taken the blow for her, instead of allowing her to be hurt.
The person who did that, was Makoto himself.
Makoto had the man's fangs embedded in his shoulder, puncturing him deeply. Blood erupted out of his wounds, Serafall letting out a large cry when she saw that her Queen had taken the attack for her, instead of just letting it attach to her.
"M-Ma-tan!? W-Why?!"
Serafall's eyes ragged with tears, and even Gasper cried from up above as well in the dome, with Koneko holding back her rage for Apep and the others around. Tiamat's eyes narrowed as did Apep's own eyes as well, but Makoto offered Serafall a smile, all the while showing Serafall the sword of holy that had managed to cut into the side of Apep.
"Because...Sera-tans my King, it's...a Queens duty to...defend their King..."
Serafall's eyes continued to shed tears.
"Ma-tan's too nice, you can't be too nice to me, I can't allow it! Ma-tan is...Ma-tan's too good for someone like me...you always prove your love for me Ma-tan and I'm always seeing you get hurt, and it hurts my heart so much..."
Makoto smiled softly despite the pain, grabbing the back of Apep's head, and dislodged his teeth from his shoulder. Makoto then kneed the man in the stomach, adding an ice spike to his knee thanks to his Sacred Gear, cutting into the man's stomach, shocking Apep.
Makoto then proceeded to do a number of punches and kicks to the man's body which he tried to block, and managed in some cases, but by using the Excalibur Rapidly's power just a little bit, then he was able to increase his speed to get more damage into the man's body.
From his face, to his stomach and in his legs as well as all the places in between, and then for the finale one, he spun around, building momentum, landing a damaging blow to the man's face, flinging him away from Makoto's body, and right into Koneko's path.
"Hah!"
With Senjutsu surrounding her fist, Koneko jumped forward, and punched him towards the left, right in the face. The Senjutsu affected the man's body and caused him to violently shake. Even a small trickle of blood escaped his mouth, murmuring "Inconceivable..." to the impact, Koneko nodding to herself, and smiled, glad that she could help out.
"Have this!"
Tiamat opened his mouth and unleashed the ball of flames right for the man, scorching the ground at the same time. Apep placed his hands outwards, and unleashed a barrage of darkness water, hitting the flames. Little by little, the flames were dissolved by the power of Tiamat.
But that proved to be a distraction when Tiamat crossed the distance quickly, slamming a hand into the back of his head, and forced his head to smash into the ground, breaking apart the ground with such a force that even Makoto and Serafall felt the tremors.
But even then, Apep didn't seem to care, besides some blood coming out of his mouth. He allowed dark water to appear around him, and he shot forth towards Tiamat.
Even Tiamat's body wasn't impervious to the damage of the water, having to pull away from the young man before she could become injured, and he got to his feet, brushing his mouth of the blood that appeared there.
"Aah, well. That's interesting, isn't it? Tiamat, I don't even understand, someone like you, protecting the lord, when the Sekiryuutei is over there, why don't you go and fight that person as well? Don't you want to get your treasures back? You could you know, just go and burn him right away and then that will be the end of it. Haven't you been chasing the Sekiryuutei for a long time now to get the things that you want?"
Tiamat hummed to herself briefly, and grinned.
"Yes, I understand, but you don't understand that I am going to be here, and fight you. If I don't, the others might die. You have incredible power, stronger than the others, even when your powers are sealed, I'm shocked that you could have this much power. It feels like an Ultimate Class level of Devil power, or I should say Dragon power."
The man just shrugged his shoulders without a care.
"Maybe it is because I've managed to unleash some more of my power for a little while. It is true, if I couldn't do that, you'd undeniably be able to beat me in a one and one fight. But over the years, we've learned how to unleash some more of our powers. But to use all of our powers, we're going to be using the lord over there as well. Even now, with your Satan level of powers, you could probably kill me as well, though you're not using your full power?"
"If I went serious here, I could also kill people, and I've already weakened myself during this day by fighting a number of people before coming to fight you, your friend Gren being one of them. But, for the aforementioned thought before, I can't have you defeat Makoto-sama and take his body away with you, I'll have to defeat you before that could happen."
Apep got into a battle form.
"Then come and get me Tiamat, and I'll show you the meaning of pain."
Tiamat's eyes narrowed, and then she stomped on the ground, shattering it below her. From her hands, she unleashed a hard aura from her body, bombing its way towards the enemy. Apep responded by raising a dark barrier, blocking the aura, but Tiamat extended her Dragon wings, and shot forth the young man, her claws appearing and swiped for him.
Responding with an agile kick, Tiamat backed off, seeing dark water dripping off his foot, and then he came at Tiamat with a barrage of punches and kicks. Tiamat used her agileness to dodge all of the attacks, then opened her mouth at close range, releasing a large ball of flames.
Apep responded by sending his own flames at the enemy, and bombed one another's attacks, their powers going strongly.
Tiamat was stronger right now, but Apep had abilities that even Tiamat would have problems dealing with. Even with the different powers Tiamat could use, it was just a matter of simple techniques that could hold off Tiamat.
Makoto looked towards Serafall who kept crying and held a hand onto his face, brushing his cheek gently, Koneko stood nearby and held a relieved face thatc he was okay at least wasn't in a critical condition.
"Ma-tan, why did you do something like this? You got hurt because of me, it isn't right Ma-tan, you can't have something like this happen..." Serafall placed her hand towards the wounds, and summoned her ice, freezing the wounds before they could leak more blood. "You're becoming rather a bother Ma-tan, you're sacrificing yourself more than you should for someone like me..."
"You're my lover, Sera-tan." Serafall's heart skipped a beat. "I wont allow anyone to harm any of my lovers, because you're going to remain with me now Sera-tan, no matter what. I don't care about what Apep has to say, all I care about is you and your well being. Besides, if I'm going to have a big family, Sera-tan has to be apart of that as well, because she is my King, and the second girl I made love too."
Serafall showed a bright smile on her face, shedding some tears, and brushed under her own eyes.
"Okay Ma-tan, lets do this together. I'm Ma-tan's lover, and we're going to beat this man as well. Don't worry Ma-tan, leave this to Tiamat-chan and I now, since we've been able to worn down Apep some, it should be enough for you to be able to get Gasper-chan out of her predicament."
"But, you're weakened my King..."
Serafall shook her head, placing a hand on top of Makoto's head.
"Don't worry now Ma-tan, we've got this."
"A-Are you sure?"
Serafall showed a smile, and then kissed the boy on the cheek.
"Of course. Right now, Ma-tan. The fight is between us adults and this little brat. Ma-tan will be the one to take him down eventually, we know that. But right now, we're going to do what we can protect you."
"I'll also support Serafall-sama, even though I'm weakened...I wont let that beat me."
Makoto inhaled a breath, then nodded his head.
"Of course, I've got this Sera-tan! Koneko-chan!"
Serafall smiled brightly, and kissed him on the cheek, allowing her demonic power to swirl around her body. She pulled away from Makoto, and extended her Devil wings, and took to the sky towards the young man up there, Koneko doing the same thing to go and help the best she could, even if she knew that these monsters were stronger, she had to try and do something.
Apep looked on, and growled, so he placed a hand outwards once more, and large circles appeared. From the circles, more Devils and magicians appeared again like before, so Tiamat looked towards Serafall, who nodded.
"Don't worry Tiamat-chan! I've got this!"
Serafall placed her wand outwards, and from the tip, large amounts of demonic power was released. The Devils and humans tried to raise barriers, but even a weakened Serafall crushed their barriers, and broke their bodies down, killing them off easily, Makoto couldn't be more surprised by her strength, she truly was a powerhouse, as to even be weakened and fight, it was amazing.
Koneko also went forward, and took care of the stragglers. Using a mixture of hand to hand and Senjutsu, she delivered decisive impacts of their bodies, and knocked them down. Even when she panted, Koneko continued, and Makoto couldn't be more proud of the young girl for accomplishing what she had done already.
At the same time, Tiamat and Apep continued their battle in the sky, and went harder than ever, Makoto knew right now he didn't have the power to contend there, so he was going to do what he was needed for.
Makoto knew what he had to do, what kind of thing that he would have to fight for as well, so he turned his attention towards the dome.
Makoto used this time to rush towards Gasper, and changed his Sacred Gear into a sword form. Swinging the sword downwards, he released a few sharp shards of ice towards the dome, but they bounced off it.
Makoto snarled, and swung his Excalibur downwards, releasing a wave of holy energy and then Makoto swung down his icy blade, releasing a wave of ice as well, which collided with the dome, but the dome still stood strong.
"...Makoto-san, forget about me and fight and win..."
Gasper solemnly said, but Makoto shook his head, landing towards the dome, and stabbed it with his ice sword. Though as he did, the ice blade snapped due to the dome being so powerful, Gasper falling slowly into despair.
"Don't speak crap Gasper-san! I'm not leaving you here!"
Gasper gasped, as Makoto continuously swung his blades at the dome again and again, scratching the dome. But the dome still stood strong, Gasper looking on as Makoto proved his determination and strength of heart, and how he was going to fight for her.
"Makoto-san...w-why are you...why are you helping me…? We're not eve-even apart of the s-same peerage...s-so why?"
"Because Gasper-san is my friend, that's all I need to know to save you!"
Gasper was bombarded by the revelation, and felt her heart pulse increase. Something about the no deceit in his eyes, and how he truly was doing his best, it was something Gasper couldn't even deny either.
"B-But, I-I'm useless! Please forget about me! J-Just save yourself Makoto-san! Please!"
Makoto looked towards her, and offered a smile.
"Don't be silly Gasper-san, I'm not going to abandon you. I'm never going to leave you, you're important to me, and I'm definitely not going to let Apep there use you anymore, no one is ever going to use you again while I'm around, you don't even understand that, right? Is it weird that I'm kind?"
"...N-Not many people h-have been kind t-to me before..."
Gasper admitted while crying, Makoto felt sick that she felt so low and how people never said anything like that to her.
"Yeah...a while ago, before I came to highschool, I didn't have many friends either." He confessed. "My only true friend back then was Elmen-chan, who called herself Lucy for reasons I'll never know about. But she was my friend and everyone else, treated me terrible. I even used to have a lot of fights with Onii-chan, minor mostly, but one day he said to me that I wasn't his real Otouto and I should just disappear...I was really broken. I thought that I was alone, and no one loved me, and maybe he was right...but then, something happened."
"...W-What?"
Asked Gasper, as Makoto struck the dome once more, using all the power he had to break it, though he wasn't getting much further, he was doing his best.
"...I was put into a coma for about a month. I don't remember all of the details, I only remember a man beating me up. Apparently, it was really bad, and I could have died. But you know, Gasper-san, the first persons face I saw back then when I woke up, was Onii-chan's. He said he had hated me, and wished me to go away, but when I was hurt, he told me how he really felt. Onii-chan gets frustrated easily, and sometimes says things he doesn't mean, even hurtful things, but when he told me that he always wanted me to be around and how he was going to protect me, I felt loved. So, I'm going to offer the same to you, Gasper-san."
Makoto offered Gasper the best smile he could, using Excalibur Destruction to blast away at the barrier.
"Makoto-san I..."
Makoto continued to smile towards her as the battle raged on behind him.
"Please don't be scared, you don't have to worry Gasper-san, I'm here now. I'll always protect you, you can always stay with me, no matter what. Maybe I'm inadequate, but I'll do my best to show you that not all of this world is scary, it can be bright and fun, and wonderful, I'll definitely show you such a world once this is over."
Gasper's tears overflowed from her eyes.
To hear that, it was too much for Gasper, and she couldn't deny the beating of her heart, and the redness of her cheeks, and the way how manly Makoto looked while trying to save her life.
In the end, she couldn't help but cry, looking towards Makoto for salvation.
"Makoto-san...I'm scared..."
She admitted towards the young boy.
She didn't like admitting it, she didn't know what to do. She hated that she was like this, that she was being stopped like this, Makoto was brave. She could see his determination and how he was truly trying his best to save her.
But all she could do was wait to be used again.
She was sick of being used, and to hurt her friends.
She didn't want to hurt anyone ever.
Makoto offered a smile as a response.
"We all get scared Gasper-san. Just keep looking at me, and be brave. I know that you can be brave."
"B-But how do you know?"
Gasper's question was met with Makoto surrounded his fist with ice, and slammed it into the dome, causing a crack to appear. Gasper was surprised that Makoto could do that, seeing how hard the dome truly was.
Makoto jammed his ice blade into the crack, and activated his power to freeze. Because he could be inside of the thing he wanted to freeze, the power was beginning to freeze the dome, giving new hope to Gasper.
"Because I just know, Gasper-san. I know that you can do this, you are great. The strength you have inside to survive the life you've had Gasper-san, you're stronger than you realize. You can do anything you put your mind to, you don't have to be afraid anymore."
That sent a new wave of energy into Gasper, and she felt, relaxed. She couldn't understand it, but she knew that it was because of Makoto, that she was, able to get through this now, it didn't matter about anything else, she was going to fight.
Finally, Makoto's Sacred Gear managed to freeze the power of the dome and he dislodged the blade, the dome shattering because of the ice. Gasper went to fall to the ground, but Makoto caught the young girl, and wrapped a single arm around her.
Gasper's face turned beat red, and held onto the boy at the same time, looking towards Makoto.
"Makoto-san..."
Makoto continued to hold onto Gasper's body, giving her comfort.
"It's alright, you're okay now."
Gasper collapsed against him, and felt, serene right now, the very fact that Makoto was there for her, was the best, she didn't want to be let go of ever, and now, she felt her body heating up, and even laid her head on his shoulder, being able to take in everything that Makoto was and how he was truly, strong.
"Makoto-san..."
"No!" Apep yelled, forcing Tiamat away and turned to Makoto and Gasper. "You can't have! T-That's impossible!" His eyes went towards Gasper, and then smirked. "You're going back in your dome, so I can use you even more!"
Apep, shot off at a blinding speed. Makoto took up arms, and swung his sword down towards him, shooting off several shards of ice towards him, but the water of the dark shot off in arrows, breaking all of the ice.
"Damn it!"
Makoto made several barriers with his magic, and then to add to the defence, Makoto added ice to them, between the barriers, forming a barracade to protect both himself, and Gasper, but the fact that Apep was coming for him and Gasper wasn't a joke, Tiamat, Koneko and Serafall were being swormed with different beasts that Apep had summoned.
With each barrier and ice smashed, Makoto and Gasper cringed.
"Makoto-san..."
"Don't worry, I'll protect you." Makoto said it strongly, but Gasper shook her head, and took Makoto by the face. "Gasper-san? What's going on?"
Gasper didn't answer quite right away.
Peering into his eyes with her own, Gasper's Sacred Gear was activated, but nothing froze. Makoto didn't quite understand, but Gasper placed a hand on Makoto's Sacred Gear that was close by.
"Gasper-san, w-what are you doing?"
"Makoto-san is always protecting others, and is even to risk his life for myself...so, I can't idly sit around and do nothing. So..." Makoto watched as Gasper's eyes glowed, and a magical circle appeared on her hand, and on the Sacred Gear of Makoto's. "Because of Makoto-san's Sacred Gear's power, it should be able to transfer the power, and give Makoto-san a variation of the power too."
"Power…?"
Gasper showed a smile, and placed a gentle kiss on his cheek, surprising him.
"Makoto-san said he wouldn't leave me, and I wont leave Makoto-san either. I'm not strong enough to fight, but maybe this might help Makoto-sans power. Ermm, maybe I'm not adequate enough, but please allow me to help you Makoto-san!"
"B-But how are you going too…?"
"Buchou said that Sacred Gear's are driven by desire, and my desire is to help Makoto-san right now! Incidently, can I also call Makoto-san 'Mako-kun' as well?!"
Makoto didn't quite understand, but he consented, Koneko looked peeved at that moment.
"Sure, call me as you like, Gasper-san."
Gasper smiled, and the Sacred Gear of Makoto's began glowing once more.
As soon as it did, Makoto's Sacred Gear's body began changing slightly. The birds power seemed to be the same, but something, new was being add. Makoto felt a surge running through his body and wouldn't stop either.
"G-Gasper-san this is..."
It felt, painful, for both of them, but unlike how Issei's was, due to jamming it inside of the Gear, the pair were consenting and allowing their auras to flow together.
"While it might be different to me, Makoto-san also deserves this kind of power. Because, Makoto-sans...erm, I mean Mako-kun's power can freeze anything, why can't Mako-kun freeze time as well?"
Makoto's eyes widened when hearing that.
Makoto couldn't believe that Gasper was giving Makoto that kind of power.
He didn't know how, but as Gasper said, about the desire of Sacred Gear's. Perhaps miracles could occur, so he believed in it as well, allowing the Sacred Gear's to fully become synchronized and allow the power to pass over to Makoto.
Though the power would be different, Gasper's being more refined than his own, but Makoto felt it passing through him. He also felt something ancient inside of her as well, like it was watching him, and also seemed to compel Gasper to do this.
When it was done, Makoto looked towards his Sacred Gear, seeing that the eyes of the bird were glowing in a similar way to Gasper's own power. But Makoto placed a hand on the bird, and then the bird let out an orb from its mouth.
With Apep very close, Makoto pooled his power into the orb, and then allowed the power to burst form, sending a wave of time freezing power outwards, which clashed with Apep, and his movements, didn't fully stop, but were slowed down due to what happened.
Makoto's brows raised confidently, and then he turned towards Gasper.
"Gasper-san..."
She fell against him lovingly.
"Mako-kun, I'll do my best from now on to become brave."
Makoto smiled, then turned around, placing Gasper on his back. Gasper wrapped her legs around his waist, and arms around his chest, then Makoto shot forward. Due to still being under the time effects of the freezing power, his moments were sluggish, so Makoto placed Excalibur Replica outwards, and swung it downwards, shooting off a dense holy aura.
Apep tried to raise a barrier, but the holy aura clashed against him, his body taking the brunt of the attack, then Makoto placed his hands outwards, summoning some ice, and fire, placing his hands together.
Allowing the powers to combine together, mixing together, Makoto held a sphere of ice, and flames together along with a laser blast from his eyes, and took aim at Apep who was slowly breaking from the ice time freeze.
"Fiery Ice Wave!"
Makoto's powers was erupted forth, slamming against Apep's body, sending him swinging right down towards the ground, embedding him into the ground. The time stop soon stopped, and Makoto felt a large hit to his stamina.
"Damn..."
Makoto flew down to the ground, and panted, Gasper holding the boy in her arms.
"Mako-kun...a-are you alright?"
Makoto offered a tired smile.
"Y-Yeah, drained me more than I thought...but, it saved us, thank you, Gasper-san."
Makoto panted, as Apep regained his stance on the ground. He looked towards Makoto, and then he glared.
"My lord, to use the power of a half Vampire as well, are you trying to stain our lovely kind? I don't understand your reasoning's for this, could it be that you're truly trying to turn on your own kind? How could you do something like that?"
Makoto shook his head, and looked right back towards Apep angrily.
"How could you attack here, and now? All this for me? Why do you want me so badly!?"
The man began to chuckle darkly.
"Because, you're very important to me. To us. To our goal. Even attacking here would be fine. I can understand why you're displeased with this, but trust me, once this is over with, we'll be going back to the world that we're supposed to be in. now, why don't you step away from that Vampire, and we'll go back to the world that we're supposed to be in. Don't make me force you."
Makoto, despite being tired from using the time freezing power, still stood in front of Gasper in defence.
"You'll have to force me, because I'm not going to lose."
Saying it with a serious face, Makoto showed that he wasn't going to give up so easily.
Apep placed a hand on his forehead, and sighed deeply.
Meanwhile, back at the other side of the area, Rias looked on as Ise had just done the impossible, using the Divine Dividing on himself, and gained a new power. She couldn't believe it, and she was so impressed with her Pawn right now, she couldn't be anything other than happy right now.
"Ise...you've really done something like that? You've become a shining star, haven't you?"
Ise looked towards Rias who winked right back at him, confusing him a little bit.
"Buchou...t-though this hurts, I'm going to do my best, okay? I'm definitely going to blow away the enemy from you, alright!?"
"Sure, okay Ise, lets just calm down a little bit though. Okay, you've gained a new power, but what if you had died? You're my Pawn Ise, you can't put yourself at risk like this, I might have a heart attack. You already know that my heart is coming off alcohol and such, if you disappeared as well, I think that I might have to cry or something. I'd cry if you left me, don't do something so dangerous again."
Hearing that, though it could sound like scolding, Ise heard her concern, and it made him feel stronger, and better. He knew that she was worried, and he hated that he worried her like he did, but he knew what he would have to do.
Vali clapped her hands towards Ise who had acquired the power of the Dividing Gear.
"Interesting. Then, I'll also get a bit serious! If I win, I'll halve all of you and everything that surrounds you with the Hakuryuukou's power!"
Vali floated into the air and opened her arms wide. Her wings of light also grew huge.
"Halve? It's different with my power, but what do you mean by halving my surroundings?"
Ise's inquiry was met with Rias' blank stare.
Vali let out a laugh at the question Ise had.
"Ignorance is scary! It might not be bad for you to die without knowing!"
[Half Dimension!]
Surrounded by a dazzling aura along with a voice from her jewel, Vali pointed her hand at the trees spread out below her and within an instant, the thickness of the trees was halved in an instant, shocking Ise, and Rias. More of the surrounding trees were compressed and halved when Vali did it once more.
"Ise, do you understand what's going on right now? I mean, I have an idea, but you seem lost."
"Y-Yeah, Buchou. How is she doing that?"
Ise's question was met with a wink from Rias.
"That ability halves everything in his surroundings. So, think about it...ooh shit Ise, what if she uses it on my breasts? My precious boobs could be halved, and we could lose my breasts forever, could it really be like that? You don't wanna lose these precious breasts, right? I'd die if that happened."
Ise blinked…
He blinked once more…
He blinked for a third time, and his life was, being broken before his eyes.
He couldn't understand.
Rias' words that destroyed his world view from its entire base. He completely could not understand it. However, an extraordinary fury arising from the bottom of his heart suddenly ruled his entire body.
"Breasts will be halved." He muttered on the air, Rias narrowing her eyes. "Buchou's breasts will be halved."
"Yes, Ise. My boobs, they'll disappear, you don't want that right?"
He moved his head mechanically and turned his gaze towards Rias who held a complicated expression, placing her arms under her bust to showcase it even more, she knew how Ise's mind worked, and she knew that he would become, angry if something threatened her breasts, even if she felt complicated right now.
"Don't..." He had decided now, an aura around his body, frightened Rias. "Don't fuck with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! You really are threatening Buchoooooou's! Those marvelous breasts!? So you intend to halve the size of my Buchou's breeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeasts!"
[Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost!]
Voices from jewels on various places of his armour repeatedly resounded.
"Damn Ise, you'll really become so excited to do something like this...well, I can't say that I am surprised honestly. But even then you truly are a bad boy, aren't you? Becoming so excited over my breasts being halved."
Rias winked once more to Ise who raised his fist into the sky.
"I'll knock some sense into you Vali! I'll even do it for Makoto as well! But for my lovely breasts that are my Master's, I can't forgive you for anything! You're going to pay for this! For even daring to threaten her breasts!"
[Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost Boost!]
His surroundings flew off! The ground he was standing on was also greatly gouged out and changed into a crater. The windows of the old school building completely cracked, and the outer wall was collapsing. His whole body was wrapped in the greatest mass of aura it had ever had.
"Geez Ise! You've become like this because of my breasts? No wonder people tell me that you're a naughty boy...damn, what would happen if my breasts disappeared all together, you'd probably have a meltdown or something."
Rias was right in her own way, Ise did look as if he was going to be having a hard time in dealing with all of this.
He thrusted his finger at Vali. The far-off trees in the background were blown away from the force of the aftershock of thrusting that finger. Vali didn't seem all that bothered though, she was more intrigued in her fighting induced state.
"Just try to make a move on Rias Gremory! I'll thoroughly destroy you to the point where you won't be able to reincarnate agaaaaaaain! You halving maniaaaaaaaaaaaac!"
"Today is full of surprises. Who would have thought that this much power would explode because of a woman's breasts. But, it's interesting!" The Hakuryuukou flew out at Ise, but Ise could see the shot coming and flew to the side, avoiding the kick, and then kicked Vali in the side as she flew. "Fast! Have you exceeded me in speed!?"
Ise didn't know, nor did he care either. He was just pissed that Rias' breasts could be halved.
Ise caught up with Vali who was moving at the speed of light with no trouble.
"This is for Buchou's breasts!"
A hit to Vali's abdomen with his right fist. In his mind, Buchou's breasts shook, and in reality, Rias looked down at her breasts, and rolled her eyes, then looked back up at Ise, hoping that he was going to win the fight.
[Divide!]
At the same time he activated the Hakuryuukou power he had just transplanted and felt the aura covering Vali decrease sharply.
"Guha!"
Vali spat out bile from her mouth, which made Ise glad, and he continued attacking like that without interference!
"This is for Xenovia's breasts!"
A hit to the face happened, and the helmet broke. In his mind, Xenovia's breasts bounced.
"Inconceivable..."
Vali couldn't believe it and was going to launch a counterstrike, but she then felt something deep inside of her, like it was being released. Her eyes became less mystified, and looked towards Ise coming towards her.
"This is for Aika's still growing breasts!"
The jets on her back from which her wings of light originated were destroyed. In his mind, Aika's breasts grew.
"Ise, Kiryuu, really?"
Rias murmured to herself.
Ise then managed to land a kick Vali high, who grunted out angrily, and looked towards Ise, but Ise had already appeared before her.
"Finally! This is for Mittelt's breasts that would disappear if they were halveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!"
He tackled her with extreme speed. In his mind, Mittelt's breasts cried.
"Gahah!" Vali vomited blood from his extreme tackle, but Vali wiped her mouth and turned towards Ise with more annoyance. "…Interesting. Truly interesting. Even though I was being controlled, you seem to have come at me with a strong will, seems like the rival that I thought you would be turned into something different all together."
"W-Wait, you've snapped back to normal?! Is it because of my speech on breasts?"
Vali rolled her eyes, and tightened her hand.
"You truly are a one tracked minded idiot, Makoto must have broken the spell over me. Why would your breast speech even bother me…? What does bother me is that you managed to fight me like you did. Clearly, I was holding back, and now that you've managed to go this far, I might have to activate Juggernaut Drive to teach you a lesson."
Even though Ise thought he had delivered a massive amount of pain onto her, she seemed to be somewhat back to normal, she seemed calm and in control of everything. She brushed her side, and then brought a hand to her mouth once more.
[Vali! You can't do that right now! Don't be foolish!]
Albion cried out from inside of Vali's Sacred Gear, and Vali was about to challenge him, when he paused, and looked towards the side, where a war was raging. Seemingly forgetting about Ise, Vali began moving in that direction.
"W-Wait! Where are you going?!"
Vali rolled her eyes, looking towards the fight at hand.
"I'm going to go and pay back the bastard that took control over me, and also to fight beside my loves side. I thought that you'd also be concerned by your Otouto fighting a mad man. Because, didn't he also hurt your Otouto once? Though you did hold me back when I didn't have my mind, so I suppose you did well. Though in the future, I shall be fighting you without my mind being forced too, and next time, I'll definitely not hold back either."
Vali's words struck a cord within Ise, as Vali flew off. Ise looked towards Rias who smiled seductively towards him, confusing him even more.
"Erm, yes, Ise. We should go and get together with my Bishop and Rook, and the others. Wouldn't that be for the best?"
Ise flew towards her, and she held out her hands happily.
"Buchou, I-I won somehow..."
"Yes, you won very much. You won the fight. I am proud Ise, but this is no time for celebrations, we'll do that later on my Pawn. For now, we've got to go and get to your Otouto before any crazy shit happens, like you know, death or something like that?"
Ise nodded his head, and turned towards the place Makoto was, and took off, Rias following right behind him.
Back at the fight from beforehand, Makoto with Gasper hiding behind him, Serafall, Koneko and Tiamat (now having defeated their foes) all looked towards Apep who looked slightly less well for what had happened. Seemingly, it looked as if he was losing his energies.
"No...not now..."
He looked at his hands, and they shook slightly. Something seemed to be happening, and Serafall was the one who noticed it first.
"Ooh my, are you perhaps looking as if you're going through something terrible~"
Serafall sang, despite being tired herself.
Apep glared harshly.
"I wouldn't be so smug if I were you, Serafall Leviathan. Though I might be losing power, it doesn't mean I can't get it back. All I need to do is take the lord with me, and I wont be losing him to you all, there's simply no way that I'll lose him!"
Apep thrusted his hands forwards, shooting off a mass of darkness. Serafall and Makoto joined hands, and thrusted them forward, creating barriers before them, blocking the darkness coming for them, and to add fuel to the fire, Tiamat opened her mouth and shot forth a devastating wave of flames for the enemy.
Cutting through the darkness, Apep swiftly avoided the darkness, and swung his arms outwards. From the arm swing, several tendrils appeared, and was sent towards Makoto and the gang. Makoto could see all their movements due to his new eyes, grabbing his Sacred Gear, and formed it into a sword.
"Ma-tan!"
Serafall called, but Makoto smiled, and gave her a reassuring look.
Seeing that, she knew what he was going to do, and knew that he was smart enough to know what they were doing, and also his limits. Even though he looked exhausted, having had to fight two extremely difficult fights in succession did tax him, even then he looked like he had something to prove.
"Go on Ma-tan, kick some butt."
Hearing that, he replied "Yes!" and swiftly ran forward.
What she saw, surprised her.
Even though he was tired, he tapped into the power of Excalibur Rapidly, and enhanced his speed. Using his new eyes, he dodged all of the tendrils of the black water, and then managed to stab into one of them. Using his power, he froze the tendril into a tendril of ice, sending it towards Apep with a swing of his sword.
"My lord, don't be like this, you're actually trying to fight me like this? It isn't right at all." Apep merely swatted his hand to the side, smashing the ice apart and went to attack Makoto, but the boys body had been split into two. "Well, Excalibur Nightmare also has a cool power, doesn't it? Even though it isn't as strong as the original, you've brought out a power, and even I can't tell which is which either!"
Apep watched carefully, and watched the ground to see if there was any movements there.
Examining carefully, he thought he saw one of the places he could be, so he made a sphere of dissolving water, and shot it for the image. He smirked, sure that he was going to be hitting the target…
But the sphere went through the boy, it was an image.
"No! But I was sure!"
Apep looked at the ground once more, and saw that it was moving somehow, even he didn't know.
Once more, he formed a sphere of dark water, and shot it for the other one, sure that was Makoto.
But once more, the sphere was shot through the other one, like it was an image as well.
"You shit...no way, you can't be...unless..."
"Haaah!"
Makoto swung the sword of ice, and so did the image, but Apep couldn't tell which one was which. He didn't have a choice, and attacked both of the images at the same time, though before it could touch either of them, Tiamat came from behind him, having flown around, and slammed a large fire ball into his back.
"Aaagh!"
Apep let out a cry, his body's power decreasing.
"I wont let you get away this time!"
Makoto slashed forward, unleashing a harsh wave of ice towards him. It wasn't anything to laugh at either, looking as if it was going to destroy anything. Even in his weakened state, he could summon such power to even freeze the ground as his ice wave went forward.
The ice wave hit his body, sending him towards Tiamat.
"Fuck this shit!"
Apep, while flying through the air, placed his hands outwards, and shot off bullets of dark water towards Makoto. Makoto, using his new eyes, danced through each attacks, using Excalibur Rapidly to increase his speed to avoid all of them.
Tiamat tightened her hand, an aura surrounding her hand, showing an impatient look on her face as she got behind him. Unaware that she was there, Tiamat got truly behind him, that's when Apep noticed that she was there.
"Hmph, don't mess with my Makoto."
BANG!
A furious fist entered Apep's body, blood erupting out of his mouth from the impact, and his body was sent towards Serafall.
Serafall herself began gathering demonic power in her hands, showing that she wasn't messing around. Apep's eyes narrowed towards her, and allowed his body to go down to the ground, steadying himself on said ground.
"Serafall, you might be winning right now, but don't think you'll win this day. Even a Maou-sama, Katerea did her job and weakened you. I didn't account for Tiamat, and if it wasn't for her, then my lord would be with us right now."
"Yeah, yeah~ But don't think you're going to be getting my Ma-tan either~"
Serafall's demonic power spread around her, and then from unclasping her hands, she shot off a hard wave of demonic power. Apep knew that he wouldn't be able take that without receiving wounds, so he chose not to do it.
Using his Dragon wings, he extended them and flew to the side. Though Serafall waved her wand, and then demonic power split apart, sending them hurdling towards Apep, the man growled, and allowed dark water to surround him.
"If I must!"
Flowing around him with the dark water, the man shot out spheres of dark water. Because it was in spheres, and the demonic power was in bullet form, his dark water managed to surround them, and dissolve them out of existence.
When he assumed he had won, he turned to Serafall with a dirty smirk, but she winked towards him.
"You shouldn't be looking at me Apep~"
Apep didn't know what she was talking about, but then he felt waves of power coming from somewhere. The power felt, stronger than it should.
His eyes went towards the place he sensed the aura, and what he saw, made him feel sick.
Tiamat, and Makoto, stood together, and the flames and ice were mixing together. Makoto was nearly exhausted, and Tiamat was smiling softly, but Apep looked as if he was going to die at that moment in time.
The flames and ice meshed together, becoming stronger than what Makoto could do on his own. Apep's eyes narrowed dangerously towards the targets, showing that he wasn't going to be messing around either.
"M-My lord! Y-You can't do this! Wait, please reconsider! You don't have to do this!"
"Did you say that when you melted my eye? When you tried to kill Iri-chan? When you attacked the conference? I don't know what your endgame is pal, but you're not getting away, you're going to be finished off right now!"
Apep's eyes turned bright red with rage, surrounding himself with dark water. He poured his power into this, and he knew what he would have to do. The power formed a sphere before him, which looked more condensed than it ever did beforehand.
"Fine! I'll just have to snap you back into reality!"
Apep thrusted his hands forward, and shot off the dark water, the parts that dripped onto the ground and melted it away. Clearly, this power was something that could rival Ultimate Class Devils with the power he placed into it.
At the same time, Makoto along with Tiamat shot forth the Fiery Ice Wave which froze, and burnt the ground at the same time. Due to the overwhelming power, the shockwaves of the power almost knocked Gasper down, but Serafall grabbed her and held her up so she didn't fall down.
When the powers mixed in the middle, the powers created a huge wave of explosions alone. Serafall was surprised by the power Makoto released, even with Tiamat's help, she didn't think it would be so high.
The beam struggle continued and the freezing power began working, freezing faster than the water could dissolve, and the flames of Tiamat managed to burn through some part of it as well, the frozen water, she burned that.
""Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!""
Makoto and Tiamat let out a battle cry, and increased their powers, Makoto using the last of his strength, and pushed forward. The powers blended together beautifully, and broke through the attack of Apep, the young man becoming shocked.
He dropped his attacks, and forced barriers around himself, as the powers washed over him.
The wave of fire and ice continued for a few seconds, obliterating most things in its path, but then Makoto fell down towards the ground, exhausted from all of the energy that he had released until that time.
Tiamat bent down towards him, and the others looked towards the middle to see...Apep.
However, he was bleeding rather heavily. His body was covered in wounds, and though he lost nothing important, burns of fire and even frozen parts of ice, were all over his body, he looked to be in complete shock.
"Tiamat...the thing that...also my lord...to fight them together is...without our full power...if it was just the lord then we could have..."
Serafall looked on as Apep's body shook heavily.
She knew though, that if he had truly been at full power, it wouldn't have broken him down like that. Even then, she was glad that they had won the fight, as Apep looked as if he wouldn't be able to fight anymore, it is the exact same as the others as well.
Serafall's eyes went towards Apep and showed a smile.
"Hey, Apep, you lost the fight, you know? We're gonna have to take you in now and ask you questions."
As she said that, Apep's eyes began glaring. His fingers laced with what power he had left, and it turned into a single long darkness rope, and before anyone could do anything, the rope went towards Makoto's body.
Tiamat went to react, Makoto being too exhausted to do so…
But then a hand enclosed around the darkness rope, and an aura ran through the hand, breaking apart the rope. Makoto's eyes went towards the hand, and up the body, seeing a battle worn Vali being there.
"Vali-san..."
"As if I'd let anyone hurt you."
Makoto's cheeks dusted pink as Gasper rushed behind Makoto, and clung to his body, frightened by Vali's appearance, Koneko felt more livid than before, seeing Gasper as a huge problem.
"Vali-san, came to save me...yo-you're not affected by the spell…?"
"Of course not, as soon as you weakened it, I sensed you were in trouble, so I broke it and came here right away."
"T-To break it so easily, what kind of will do you have Vali?"
Apep couldn't believe it, with the timely arrival of Ise, and Rias as well. Rias confirmed the condition of her Bishop, seeing that she clung to Makoto tightly, and was just thankful that Asia and Ravel were already promised to be his Bishop's.
"Apep, you're not laying another finger on this boy, if you truly want to, I'll fight you."
"You're also worn down from your battle with the Sekiryuutei, you cannot face me."
"Maybe not! But I'm not gonna let you touch my Otouto either! You bastard!"
Ise growled out angrily, Makoto's eyes going towards Ise briefly, and smiled.
Apep looked around then began laughing.
"Pathetic Devils, you think you've truly won? We've won this day, we've discovered so much this time, and even managed to find out more about everything we need to resurrect the powers that we have inside."
"Resurrect powers? What do you mean?"
Rias asked, but Apep ignored her, standing up on shaky legs.
"It doesn't matter, for now, I have to go."
Serafall's eyes narrowed, and went to move forward, but a brilliant light came out from where they were, and a circle descended from the sky. Landing on the ground, Tiamat knew what circle this power was supposed to be.
"A Dragon's Gate..."
The purple coloured Dragon Gate, revealed the young woman known as Orochi, who stood there, and raised a wall of aura around the pair of them. She bent down towards Apep, and held him in her arms.
"Apep-chan, it seems like this was not a success, we should have waited for the others."
Makoto took note of that, to which Apep agreed.
"Yes, we should have done something of that nature." His eyes went towards everyone in the area. "You know my lord, those higher ups also are keeping secrets from you." Orochi activated a spell, which allowed their voices to be heard through all of the school. "Azazel, Michael, and the Devils, all did things to us my lord, and when you see that truth for yourself, you'll be begging to come back home to us. We're your family, we will always take care of you."
"Did...what to us?"
This time, it was Orochi who stepped forward, tears ragging her eyes.
"My lord! It wasn't even our faults! We were….we were only children." From around the school field, even though they weren't there, Azazel's, Michael's and Gabriel's along with Sirzechs' eyes turned sour. "They abused our trust, and we fought for them in their wars! We didn't even have any holds in their damn wars, but they chose to abuse us, and people said that they were our friends...it wasn't true, they didn't care about us. Be careful of Azazel, Michael and the others my lord, because they only abuse people like us….they don't care about people like us. That's why, we have to get revenge on the world. Please, please come back with us my lord. We will all look out for you, we all love you very much. You're like our leader. The one that liberated us from captivity, and brought us to salvation. All of us misused people, we held a land that we all live together happily. But then that damn Chelia came and we were..."
Makoto didn't understand what was going on, he just couldn't understand at all what was going on.
"Wait, please, I don't understand...I liberated you…? How does that work? I don't even know who you are..."
Orochi's eyes went low to the ground as the Dragon Gate allowed a shallow light to come forth.
"...Of course, you wouldn't remember. Chelia took you away from us, and we need you my lord. We all love and cherish you...please come back, we're all waiting. When you're ready, we'll be waiting for you to return, we'll definitely find love and honour together. We weren't always like this you know? We have to use underhanded methods to get what we want, we can't just go forward with the same mentality as beforehand. We have to use tricks like this, so we can be a family again. Please, let us be a family again."
And with that, Orochi and Apep disappeared all together, leaving them alone.
Makoto was left, with the others alone, contemplating what the heck had just happened, and what she truly meant.
Just...what was he?
End chapter!
So, we've come to the end of the fights, with Makoto and Ise both pulling off a victory. They managed to fight hard, and come out on top with some new powers too boot, with Dividing Gear for Ise, and Makoto has the ability to freeze time like Esdeath but it's gonna work slightly differently to how it did there, since Makoto can only use it once or twice with full stamina so he can't use it one after the other like Gasper can freeze time. Speaking of, Gasper, and Makoto had a tender moment between the two of them, and we learned a bit more about the past, seems like even the higher ups are involved with it, or maybe they weren't but seem to know something's about it, we'll find out in the future!
Next chapters gonna be a rounding off the arc, with some character moments and the rest of some good stuff.
Well, with nothing else to say, until next chapter, thanks for reading!
Issei; Rias, Yura, Aika, Bennia, Jeanne, Walburga, Xenovia, Le Fay, Mittelt, Reya, Mira, Katase, Murayama. (WIP)
Makoto; Serafall, Yumi, Millicas (fem), Irina, Gabriel, Asia, Koneko, Kuroka, Rossweisse, Gasper (fem), Kalawarner, Ravel, Kunou, Tiamat, Akeno, Vali (fem), Sona, Elmenhilde, Ophis, Katerea.
