Chapter 5: The Attack
AUTHORS NOTES WILL BE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE CHAPTER.
After the forest exploded, derbis was sent flying in every direction. Lots of windows in the building were smashed and pieces of wood came at me like I was the last person on the losing dodgeball team.
"W-what the hell just happened?!"
I asked everyone.
"How should I know, this area is supposed to be protected."
Rias said with worry. Not long afterwards Azazel came running out.
"What's all the commotion about?"
He asked before noticing the massive explosion.
"What the hell happened here?"
"I don't know, We were all just waking up and all of a sudden we hear an explosion."
Akeno informed him. I had decided that we should probably check out the massive crater that was just formed but we suddenly heard a maniacal laugh.
"Ahahahahaha"
All of our attentions were turned towards where we thought the laugh was coming from.
"Who goes there? Show yourself!"
Rias shouted at the voice behind the smoke.
"Ah, Little miss gremory. How lovely to see you this fine day."
The voice said sarcastically. After he said it the swing of a sword could be heard and the smoke was cut away, revealing the evil doer. He was a tall slim man with spikey held back hair and a circus looking sort of suit. What was interesting about him was that he wore a smiling mask that covered his whole face.
"Good evening, former governor of the fallen angels. I didn't expect to see you here."
He then turned his attention towards us.
"And last but not least, the rest of the Gremory group. Along with the legendary Sekiryuutei, Issei Hyoudou."
I wasn't surprised that he knew I was was the Sekiryuutei but how did he know my name?
"Hey, you! What business do you have he-"
"Abababab, introductions haven't finished yet."
The evil clown interuppted Azazel to introduce himself
"Now allow me to introduce myself. You may call me Mazus Dukes!"
He spread his arms out on each side of him as if he was expecting some sort of reaction. Instead Azazel repeated himself.
"I'll say it again, what business do you have here?"
"My my, tough crowd. Have no fear former governor, I am not here to cause trouble."
"Says the guy who just blew up our forest!"
I shouted at him. The way this guy talked really annoyed me so I just blurted that out.
"Oh yes, about that. Well, I am just one for making an entrance"
So he did it just cause he wanted to look cool? Now I'm even more annoyed.
"Also, do you realise how long it took to get a blessing to enter this area from my good new friend Sirzechs? That was quite the pain."
So he's obviously been planning to attack us for some time now. Hearing her brothers name Rias spoke up.
"Just what did you do to my brother!"
"Oh, I did absoultely nothing to dear Sirzechs. I just put on an act so that I could have the Gremory blessing and be able to break into here."
Rias was getting angry, her crimson aura started to surround her body.
"My brother is not that stupid. He would've easily seen through your act!"
Mazus just laughed.
"Looks like someone's angry. Trust me dollface, I am much to good at what I do to let that happen."
I had had enough so I summoned my boosted gear and pointed it at him.
"I have had it up to here with you! If you aren't here to fight, then why are you here!"
Mazus heaved a sigh.
"You guys are just no fun, are you. Alright then, the reason I came here today was for two things. First, to tell you my plan. Second, to have a fight with the Sekiryuutei."
[Boost!]
Everyone reacted diferently.
"A fight with Ise?"
"Why do you want that?"
Rias and Akeno asked surpisingly
[Boost!]
"W-why did he come to fight Ise?"
"…He's bound to have something up his sleeves"
Asia and Koneko reacted too
[Boost!]
"I'm sure he's no match for Ise."
"I agree, Ise can kick his ass"
Kiba and Xenovia gave words of encouagement. And then there was my reaction.
"That's fine by me, I've been wanting to fight you ever since showed up."
I said as I summoned my Boosted Gear Scale Mail armour.
[Boost!]
"I'll tell you what, If you can manage to scratch me within 5 minutes. I'll leave immediately without question."
[Boost!]
That gave me even more confidence.
"Sounds easy enough."
"However. Should you fail to scratch me within 5 minutes, then I'll take it upon myself to take something important from you."
Crap! I don't know what it is but something important is riding on my shoulders. I'll have to be careful.
"So what do you say, Sekiryuutei. Will you accept my challenge?"
I looked back at my friends who nodded in my direction.
[Explosion!]
"With pleasure!"
I shouted as I thrusted myself towards him.
"Eat this bitch!"
I threw a punch at him as hard as I could and it landed right on his face.
"Looks like you're all talk and no bite."
I said as I deactivated my armour. But just as I was about to bring my fist down…
"Don't tell me that was suppose to hurt. I'm quite disappointed."
I lowered my fist and sure enough, not a single scratch was on him.
"Time is ticking my boy."
He said as he clicked his knuckles by only clenching his fists. Damn it, this guy is so much stronger than he looks. I reactivated my scail mail and went in for another hit.
"This time, I'll make sure to bash your face in!"
[Mode Change!]
[Welsh Dragonic Rook!]
I flew towards him faster than ever before and used every ounce of my rook ability to slam my fist into his face again. Almost immediately after, Mazus sent his own fist into my face. Which destroyed some of my armour and sent my flying backwards extremely fast. I ragdolled on the ground for ages until a standing tree finally stopped me.
"Ghak!"
I coughed out blood from the impact.
"Ise!"
"Ise! Are you okay!?"
Asia and Rias were concerned. Don't worry ladies, I think I've proven before that it'll take more than that to take me down. As I got up, Mazus made his way over to me.
"only 3 minutes left my boy. I will be taking something from you if you lose, you know."
Ugh this cocky bastard. I wanna see him pay but there's nothing I can do. As he made his way over to me I summoned and charged up a small dragon shot. Mazus seemed to stop in his tracks.
"I've had enough of you. Time to pay! Dragon Shot!"
I punched the small red orb and sent a massive dragon shot towards him at breakneck speed.
"Ha! Try to dodge that, asshole."
The dragon shot went barrelling towards him and it looked like my shot was successful. Sure I may have caused even more destruction here but at least I got him. Or so I thought
"How interesting, that was actually a close one. But your time is almost up."
Damn it! Just how quick is this guy. I checked my surrondings but I couldn't see him.
"Up here, my boy."
I looked up and sure enough, he was flying. This bastard can do anything. But still, I'm just as good at ariel battles as I am at grounded battles. I handled the flying to Ddraig and flew up towards Mazus as fast as I could as I prepared another almighty punch. I doubted that I had any more time left to do another attack so this one had to succeed.
"Suck on this!"
I punched him in the abdomen this time with all I had. But since I'd learned from before, I had multiple other punches ready. My next fist went to his face and then his face again and then his abdomen and then his chest until I hear the one word I never wanted to hear.
[Reset!]
My armour disappeared before me but before I fell, Mazus grabbed me by the throat.
"Looks like both of your time limits are up. And not a single scratch is on me."
Mazus then added insult to injury by clencing his hand into a fist.
"Now I think it's only fair that a get to land one more hit, don't you agree."
I knew this was going to hurt so I braced myself as Mazus sent his fist into my face which made shoot down to the ground. I hit said ground with a massive thud and a big dust explosion. When I hit the ground, the pain caused me to cough up a considerable amount of blood and I couldn't move my body. When the dust cleared I noticed that the impact made the ground under me crack.
"""""Ise!""""""
All the girls shouted. Mazus floated down to the ground.
"Now, as you agreed, I shall be taking something important from you. But first, allow me to tell you my plan."
We all showed our battle faces towards him as he told us his plan.
"I plan to annihilate the Underworld, the Human world, and Heaven with 3 separate bombs that I like to call Chrome Bombs. I am in the middle of preparing them at my underworld headquarters as we speak. I came here today because I know that the Sekiryuutei and his companions are the only ones who can stop me. However, I'm in a bit a a pickle, so to speak. Many of my minions as well as my own dear companions are very unwell and as a result, the development of my Chrome Bombs have been slowed."
"Get to the point! Why are you telling us this?"
Rias shouted at him.
"Well you see my dear…"
"…That's were my prize comes in."
All of a sudden, he flicked his fingers and all of us went blind.
"W-what the?!"
"I can't see anything!"
"Me either. What is he doing?"
Akeno, Kiba and Xenovia as well as everyone else panicked. I could hear the sound of someone moving but I could see so I thought it was one of us just stumbling around.
"AH!"
Just then, I heard someone yelp. Definitely sounded familiar. Then all of a sudden, our vision came back and when I looked back at Mazus, he was holding Asia in his arm.
"ASIA! You let her go you asshole!"
I shouted angrily.
"Actually, I have the right to take her. I did say I was going to take something important from you if I won, didn't i?"
That bastard is actually planning on taking Asia away. No! I won't let him.
"You'd better give her back if you know what's good for you."
Rias said as a dangerous crimson aura surrounded her. Everyone else also got prepared to fight. Mazus however just laughed.
"I don't think you want to do that. I do have your precious friend here you know."
As much as we didn't want to admit it, he was right. If we did attack at full force then we would undoubtedly harm poor Asia in the process. After lowering our weapons, Mazus summoned a magic circle behind him.
"Well, it's been fun Sekiryuutei. I hope to see you all very soon."
"ISE!"
Asia cried out to me and with one final maniacal laugh, Mazus disappeared, taking Asia with him. Knowing that I failed to protect her once again, I fell to my knees and starting weeping
"Ise?"
Rias attempted to talk to me but I was too in despair to care about anything.
"A-sia"
"Huh?"
Rias didn't hear what I said.
"Please..come back."
Then I lifted my head up into the air and shouted
"ASIAAAAAAAAAA!"
PART 2
I, Rias Gremory, attempted to calm Ise but to no avail. After the incident, Ise locked himself in his room. I know that everytime something happens to Asia, he always blames himself for not being able to protect her. Just like the incident with Diodora Asteroth and Shalba Beelzebub.
"Ise?"
I knocked at his door but got no reply. I gave up and walked downstairs. The first person I saw was Koneko who was sitting on the sofa with a sad experssion.
"Koneko? Are you okay?"
Koneko took a short period of time to reply as always .
"…..I don't like it when Ise is sad. It makes me sad. I want to make him happy."
I sat next to Koneko and assured her.
"We all want to get him to get better as well. I'm sure that he will soon and when he does. I know he will do everything in his power to save Asia and bring her back to us."
Koneko nodded in agreement so I got up and made my way to the kitched and found Akeno making some tea. Akeno noticed my entance and spoke.
"I hope poor Asia is okay. Who knows whats happening to her."
"We have to get her back at all costs. She's an important member of the team as well as an important friend. And it seems that she's also an anchor for Ise."
Kiba's said as he became visible from behind the corner.
"Mazus took Asia because of her [Twilight Healing] ability. I assume he wants her to heal someone or something that will go on to cause mass destruction in the future."
Kiba and Akeno raised their heads as I continued.
"But if I know Asia at all, then she'd never help a pathetic man like him in a million years. I know that where ever she is, she's waiting paitiently for us to save her. Which means we need to find her as quickly as possible."
Kiba and Akeno nodded in agreement. Akeno handed me a cup of tea and I drank it while thinking about where Mazus could've taken Asia. I knew it was somewhere in the underworld because Mazus said himself that he was taking her to his 'Underworld headquarters' which I couldn't tell if he meant to say that or it was just a slip of the tongue. Either way, we now had a lead. All of a sudden, I had a thought. After quickly thinking about it I informed Akeno of my decision.
"Akeno, I am going to talk with my brother about this. It's a long shot but if Mazus meet him then I'm absolutely sure that he knows something that will help us."
"Then I'll take care of things here while you're gone."
I smiled at her. I know I can always count on Akeno to take my place while I'm gone.
"One more thing, if Ise comes out of his room while I'm gone then please inform me."
"Understood."
And with that I waved off Akeno and Kiba and summoned a magic circle to transport me to my underworld home where my family lives. When I arrived I saw Grayfia, my brothers wife, standing outside the door.
"Ah, Lady Rias, Sirzechs has been expecting you."
"Is that so?"
I said with impatience
"Please take me to him."
"As you wish."
Grayfia led me through the many hallways of the Gremory household to a room that my brother was waiting for me in. He greeted me with a stretch
"Hello Rias, I've been waiting for you."
"So I've heard."
I spat out. I was not happy with that fact that he let someone like Mazus trick him like he did.
"I assume you've come here to talk about Mazus Dukes, am I right?"
He admitted to knowing about him the whole time. That made me even more angry
"Yes I am. How could you, Sirzechs, let someone like that loose in the underworld! Because of your ignorance, one of my [Bishop]'s have been taken."
I shouted at him angrily.
"Calm down, it's not like I did it on purpose. Jeez, lighten up will you."
"Ahem!"
Grayfia warned him with a fake cough which made him jump.
"Y-yes your right. In all seriousness, of course I knew his motive all along. But the fact is, I'm too busy right now to deal with it. So I thought that you and the Sekiryuutei could handle it."
"But shouldn't the king of the underworld be able to get rid of someone like that with a flick of their hand?"
I argued with my brother. It would only make sense if it took less than a few seconds to finish him off.
"You have clearly underestimated his power then. He's a lot stronger than he looks."
Well that was true. He beat Ise without putting any effort into it.
"Even so, I'm sure you want to get your [Bishop] back. And I can tell you where she is."
PART 3
I arrived back at the mansion in the forest with news straight from Sirzechs about Asia's whereabouts. When I returned, Akeno greeted me with her usual smile.
"Welcome back president, how did it go with your brother."
"As good as I'd hoped."
I told her with confidence.
"Go get everyone and bring them to the VIP room upstairs. I'll go and get Ise myself."
"As you wish."
Akeno replied gleefully as she made her way to the courtyard where Kiba and Xenovia were having a mock battle. I passed the couch from earlier and noticed that Koneko wasn't there anymore. How odd. She's usually always sitting on the couch. Unless…Theorising, I made my way up to Ise's room to see if my Hypothesis was true. I charged in without knocking and sure enough, I was right. Ise and Koneko were together in the same bed. Their lips, inches away from each other.
"Ahem!"
I pretended to cough loudly. They both jumped at the realisation that they'd been caught.
"Oh, h-hey Rias what's up?"
Ise said as he scratched the back of his head and smiled pathetically. Koneko just looked at me and said nothing.
"Well, looks like you're fine after all aren't you Ise."
I said, frowning with my eyes closed. Ise didn't reply for a couple seconds
"…I'm sorry Rias."
Was that all he could come up with? I heaved a sigh
"Well, if anything at least your okay now. And just in time too. I found out where Mazus took Asia."
Hearing me say that both of them put their serious faces on.
"Where did they take Asia?"
Ise said with an already roaring flame in his eyes.
"Meet me in the VIP room. I'll explain everything to everyone there."
PART 4
After Koneko left my room and I got ready, I, Issei Hyoudou, made my way to the VIP room located in the highest floor of the mansion. When I arrived, Azazel closed the door behind me and Rias started the meeting.
"As you all know, my talk with my brother went as planned and we now have a vague idea on where Asia is located. Mazus and some companions of his were spotted by the Sitri household carrying a large box big enough to fit a human. They were also spotted walking into a building built into the rocks not too far away from the Sitri household. So basically, Asia has been taken to a place near there. I have already contacted Sona and she, along with her peerage, will be aiding us in rescuing her. Does everyone understand?"
Rias finished talking and asked everyone. We all nodded.
"Good, the raid on Mazus' headquarters and Operation rescue Asia will begin at the break of dawn tomorrow. Is that clear?"
"Yes Rias!"
We all shouted. Rias then dissmised everyone and we all went about doing our own things…
…Everyone except for me that is.
"Don't worry Asia! I will save you! No matter what!"
I shouted as the magic circle teleported me away.
AUTHORS NOTES: Thank you for reading Chapter 5 of my High School DxD fanfiction. Fun Fact: this is the first chapter of mine that starts off an actual plot and has some decent action in it. Now before I get into things just know that I'm going to ramble on for a bit here so bare with me. Firstly, about my OC character, Kyron, in the first couple of chapters some of you were thinking that he was going to steal Ise's harem or at least try but in actual fact. Kyron is not even a main character. Kyron is a definite side character and will only barely be in every chapter I make. I have no plans to change that until the very final chapter. The only reason I made him was to introduce his scared gear [Calculus Fire]. Other than that, he's about as important as a potato. Secondly, according to a few people I sometimes get the boosted gear abilities wrong. I have made an effort to check the wiki-I mean remember them by re-reading the official LN's. But if I do make another mistake, please inform me as I want this fanfic to be as loyal as possible to the LN's (without any of the honorifics).
Thirdly, just before I finished writing this I realised that I accidentally made almost half the chapter from Rias' perspective. That was not intentional but I'm actually glad I did. I will try to make it just about Ise as much as I can in the future but to be honest it felt nice having a big change for a bit. Lastly, I also realised after finishing this that appearences by the characters Gasper, Rossweisse, Ophis, Ravel and Irina have been very rare. Especially Gasper. So in the future I will try my best to include everyone as much as possible so that everyone's favorite characters can be in it. Anyway, enough rambling! Now, about the chapter! A new enemy has made himself known to the gremory group and his name is Mazus Dukes. After seeing how strong he is, will Ise actually be able to defeat him? And will the operation to rescue Asia from his clutches be successful? Find out on the next episode of Dragon Ball Z! Nah I'm kidding, see you guys in the next chapter.
