Black Dragon and White Kitten
Chapter 12
Astaroth Games
Hiei was in a very messed up situation now, he knew all the guys in class hated him, but this was just ridiculous, especially when all this started with a surprise transfer student, one Irina Shidou, and she transferred into his class, that alone wasn't enough though. "Hello everyone, my name is Irina Shidou, it's a pleasure," Irina announced as she stood at the front of the classroom in the standard Kuoh academy female uniform with a silver cross hanging around her neck. "Oh, hi Issei, I didn't see you there," Irina greeted joyfully with a small wave, then she saw Hiei and glared at him, "bastard demon, hope you rot in hell," that was when everyone turned to look at who she was glaring at and saw Hiei as impassive as ever.
"Hello loon, as crazy as ever I see," Hiei commented dryly, although, he guessed that loon was better for Xenovia and nut was better for Irina since her hair also matched, but oh well, he didn't care enough to change it.
"Hey, why is my future baby momma talking to your dumb ass, and why does Hiei call her loon, why does he give these strange nicknames," Matsuda questioned, first part to Issei and the last part to Hiei.
"We've known each other forever, we were childhood friends, so we go way back," she stated as referring to Issei, "but that little demon is a degenerate who deserves to rot in the bowls of hell for everything he's done to me, he should be strung up in the streets."
That was basically how Hiei found himself in the current situation he found himself in, being chased all over the school by all the boys in class because the loon swayed all of them to her favor, the girls not doing anything because they were mesmerized by his dodging moves.
Later on, in the clubroom is where he found everyone after escaping the mob of teenagers, "looks like you had a safe trip," Xenovia stated while she and Asia were in front of Irina and everyone one else aside from the king and queen were on a couch.
"I didn't think we would see you again so soon," Asia commented, Hiei looked around and saw that Gasper and Issei was on one couch while Koneko and Kiba was on the other, Gasper and Issei looking at the scene while Kiba read a book and Koneko eating a lollipop.
"I know right, I missed you, oh come here," Irina exclaimed before grabbing both girls up in a tight hug before they both jumped away leaving Irina to wonder why, "what's the matter?"
"Sorry, it's just the cross hanging from around your neck, it hurts us," Xenovia reminded the loon with a wave of her hand and Asia had a hand on her cheek, Hiei walked past them and headed for the window and ignored Irina's glare at him.
The door then opened and in came Rias and Akeno to greet the people, "great you've already gathered, welcome Irina, have you had a good first day of school," she asked the girl.
"Yes, thank you so much Rias, everyone's so nice I'm really happy to be here," Irina exclaimed as she spun around a little bit in a grand gesture before finishing it off with a bow at the end as thanks for the concern.
At this moment Azazel came in through a magic circle and said, "I figured I'd come and say hello to the new transfer student too, after all she's here since Michael thinks we're not strong enough so he's bolstering our numbers against the Chaos Brigade."
"Hey, we did work pretty well together, even if it was mostly her holding the others back while everyone else attacked Hiei, sorry again man," Kiba stated as Akeno came and stood beside him and Hiei just grunted that he heard the other knight.
"Now that I'm here you guys don't have to worry about a thing, as a reincarnated angel I'll protect you with lord Michael's blessing, amen" Irina stated happily as she revealed her wings and halo while doing a stupid looking pose.
"I still can't believe you're an angel now, how did that even happen," Xenovia asked, that was information that Hiei actually wanted to know as well, he never read on anything in regard to such a thing.
"With God dead and all, there's no way for new angels to be born, so they have to be made kind of like the fallen angels and devils do," Azazel informed before sending her wings and halo away.
"This is how it works, a high-level angel is ranked as a king, the king commands his brave saint, which ranges between queen to ace and everything between," Irina informed them.
"I get it, while we're based on chess pieces you guys are like a deck of cards," Kiba surmised, Hiei had no idea what the deck of cards was, he played chess before and that was it, he'd been invited to play cards during the dark tournament, but he denied the invite.
"A whole house of cards to choose from, which one did you get assigned," Asia asked, that was where Hiei tuned out the rest of the conversation, he didn't need to listen to information that was useless to him, and this was useless.
That night
"I wanted to thank you, I'm happy to be here, you know I used to think of devils as my sworn enemies, so I hunted them mercilessly and I would have killed you all," Irina said happily and clearly missing Gasper's scared face.
"I really hope this stays in past tense," Gasper asked himself, they were all sitting around the coffee table as they were having a party for welcoming Irina and possibly Rossweisse as well since she's been left behind by Odin when he visited.
"But that's over, lord Michael said we should put the past behind us and work together for a better future, which is great because I'd much rather be friends with you anyway, I'm honored to represent the church here, let's make our communities proud," Irina finished with a bow while everyone clapped.
"It's nice to see youthful idealism, our sides have been fighting each other for too long, some still won't approve though, but you kids put that aside to stop a pissy god's rampage, it was an excellent demonstration on what's possible if we work as one. I want to thank you all for what you represent, and even after getting turned on one another, it all worked out in the end, but the real travesty was that there weren't any fallen angels around to make my team look good," Azazel said while sipping on a glass of bourbon.
"Not true, there was a fallen angel, been one for a while now, and she fought united with a devil," Akeno mentioned, Hiei was also sipping on a glass of bourbon, he was much older then many others here, so he could drink whatever he wanted.
Azazel nodded his head in acknowledgment, he already knew that, but just wanted to hear her say it, "on that note, good news Issei and Hiei, I had some business to take care of back in the underworld, found out that you have become quite the celebrities there."
"It does make sense, Issei used Mjolnir to crush Loki and save all of hell, and that was after Hiei fought him on even ground, no wonder they're famous," Xenovia explained, and when you put it like that, it was easy to see why they were celebrities.
"You'd think so wouldn't you, they made a documentary to showcase both of our hero's greatest hits, and then it went hell viral," Azazel said before snapping his fingers and showing them the film on the big screen, what came next was just plain embarrassing. Issei's half of the video was all about how he always powered up through something breast related, Hiei's half was just frightening to see, it was all of his power on full display and turned creepy when they saw him slaughtering the magicians to a messed-up theme. "The fans love it when Issei makes heroic exclamations about boobies, you are now known as the breast dragon emperor, the kids love you most of all, they sing songs around their school yards called the grabbing dragon. Hiei's more infamous, he's now the nightmare that plagues the minds of everyone in the underworld, he's literally the new boogieman, parents are even keeping knowledge of him from their kids in fear of them being too terrified to leave the house, already a few cases of insanity from the legend."
"Hn, I'm fine with that, being known as a nightmare isn't really something new to me," Hiei commented uninterestingly, the others just looked at him as Koneko was on his lap eating a lollipop, they looked at him as if he was crazy with being okay with it.
The next few days flew by, Diodora Astaroth has been sending Asia love letters and the like constantly, even sending her quite a few different items, he sent what Rias referred to as 'the works': tickets, invites, stuffed animals, car keys, and chocolates. There was also a sports festival going on, Hiei refused to participate, he was told it was mandatory, but he just used his jagan to get rid of the issue, so he was free from doing something as such a waste of his skills.
After a few more days, something else happened "a rating game," Kiba asked Rias who set at her desk while the rest of the peerage set on the couches with Hiei sitting on the window sill and Koneko sitting in front of him in a similar position on the sill.
"That's right, more specifically it's a tournament designed to test and rank the power of the next generation of devils, it was supposed to be held during the summer break, but then Loki attacked and you all know how that ended up," Rias informed.
"If this game is meant to rank us, does this mean we're going against Sairaorg," Issei asked, of course, more than likely they will face him in the finals as long as Hiei is on the same team as Rias Gremory.
"You know Sairaorg is favored to win the championship right, and for a good reason since he is on a whole other level, fortunately for us we aren't set to fight him in the first round, we are actually fighting Diodora Astaroth," Rias announced, earning gasps from Issei and Asia.
After Sairaorg's first match
The club was all watching Sairaorg's battle against Zephyrdor and watched as Zephyrdor got demolished by Sairaorg single handedly, "flawless victory, they say he's the strongest devil in the rating game," Kiba informed.
"Zephyrdor's power is ranked almost as highly, he's done quite well stepping in as a substitute what with the first heir to his house dying in an accident," Rias told them before a green magic circle appeared, "Astaroth."
Out came said man himself before saying, "salutations everyone, how lovely to see you all again," thus came a small exchange of sitting where the servants of Rias standing behind her in front of the window and Diodora was in front of her on the other couch. "Shall we proceed to business, I would like to a bishop trade lady Gremory," he suggested, as he showed the pictures of two bishops, what a fool, who would willingly give up power such as the twilight healing for bishops that pale in comparison, he was wasting time here.
"No, I don't want him to come for me," and there was the fool Gasper who couldn't read a situation such as this one, why would someone want a boy with a gender crisis when he could have a nun that had twilight healing and a naïve mind.
"You want to trade for Asia you mean," Rias said while narrowing her eyes a little bit, how pathetic for someone to think they could take someone so easily, he has absolutely no tact or finesse if he thinks this plan of his would work.
Diodora chuckled a little bit, "am I really that transparent, but I can assure you that it is an even trade, both are hardworking and will serve you well," not at all remembering that she is a Gremory who are known for cherishing their servants.
Rias put her hand up to stop him, "I'll stop you there, your offer is rejected, Asia is not only a valued member of my peerage, but she is also the little sister I never had, and using a roster trade to try and get the woman who turned down your marriage proposal shows me that you're not only uncouth, but have no idea what she wants," Rias told him.
"How very disappointing," Diodora said before standing, "you didn't find my offer acceptable today, but I won't let that dissuade me," he said before walking up to Asia and taking a knee before her and taking her hand. "Our meeting and reunion were predestined, even if all the forces in the underworld stood in our way, I would do anything necessary to overcome them all, I'll never give up, I love you Asia," he finished with placing a kiss on the back of her hand lovingly.
That was all Issei could take before going up to the man that was kneeling before Asia and grabbing his shoulder while ordering, "get your damn hands off of her," in quite the frustrated manner, Hiei had to agree that he was about to kill the annoying man.
Diodora smacked Issei's hand away with a very nasty glare before erecting himself while dusting his shoulder, "base born should know their place," he then put his left hand to pinch his nose, "I can't stand being touched by a filthy dragon such as yourself, revolting."
Everyone then heard a slap sound all across the room and saw that Asia had actually slapped him, she looked to be on the verge of tears at having one of her friends spoke to like that, "I refuse to let you talk to my friend that way."
The smile returned to the creeps lips, "yes I understand, my apologies," he said before pointing to Issei, "this isn't over red dragon emperor, we'll pick up where we left off in our next rating game, and once I've defeated him I hope you'll accept my love darling."
"You ain't gonna beat me, Dildo-raw Ass-to-mouth, I'll show you the kind of badass power this filthy dragon's got, and I'm going to jump start your face," Issei exclaimed before Diodora left, this rating game coming up would be just wonderful.
That night
Hiei was piggybacking Koneko along the road while Issei rode beside him, they had a joint contract, and the only way that Hiei was going to let that happen without him by her side was over his dead and broken corps, so he went with them. "That was one of the weirder packs I've done so far, but at least he wasn't handsy," Issei called over to them from on his bike, deciding to strike up a conversation was better then the awkward silence they currently had.
"It doesn't seem normal for a guy that age to own that many puppets," Koneko commented in monotone, in truth, their client creeped her out, and add the pervert to the mix, the only reason she was able to stomach such a thought was Hiei was with her.
"Sorry it's so late, even though I've been able to jump through magic circles for a while, everyone seems more comfortable with me swinging by on my bike," Issei commented and noticed something, "dude, what's got you in a mood, usually you'd say not to talk to Koneko."
"The creeper gives me a strong sense of danger, I don't like that energy he had, and the mental block he had was far stronger then what anyone else has, it was like a dragon bound in an infinite loop was blocking me," Hiei described, the feeling was very strange.
"Don't worry about it, we'll win, with all of us working together, there's no way we can lose, and I know we never see eye to eye, but you're right about that creep, and as much as I hate to admit this, and believe me, I really hate to admit it. I'd rather have you steel one of my harem girls then him, and yes, I know that Koneko already knows about our discussion, the others don't, I know that because Xenovia tried to hump me the other day in the storage unit, along with Asia. However, I say we put all of my attempts to steal Koneko away on hold, I need to focus on Asia and who's stealing her, after that we can go back to business as usual, truce," Issei asked as he stuck out his hand while the other rested on his bike to guide it.
Hiei thought for a moment, for him to admit that means he understands that this isn't the time to be arguing amongst themselves, "how about a different deal, I kill Ashtaroth and you leave me and Koneko alone, you can have the rest," he offered.
"Kill one threat and give in to another who doesn't ask for anything other than for a peaceful life, I think you should take the deal, you'll never win me over to your side anyways, might as well take it," Koneko gave her two cense in.
Issei thought about it himself, give up Koneko and get rid of two threats to his future harem in one swoop with one killing the other, he'd get the rest of the girls while Hiei only gets one, Issei didn't like giving one up but Hiei's better then Diodora, "deal."
When they got back to the house they found a sight that made Koneko want to tear out Hiei's eyes if he looked, he didn't and kept his eyes closed the entire time, 'what are you doing, is this actually needed to keep up appearances,' Hiei asked them mentally. Currently, Xenovia, Asia, and Akeno wore a see through miko attire, a very short, and very see through miko attire, and he knew the only reason Koneko didn't scratch his eyes out right now was because he refused to look at them, he was so smart.
'Yes, if we didn't surprise him every now and then with something like this, he might get suspicious,' Akeno thought as she stood in front of them and said, "he's back, welcome home Issei," in a flirty way, Hiei just stood there with his eyes closed and hands in pockets.
"Hey, that outfit, what's going on," Issei asked, it was like all his brain power shut down when the girls did something like this, can't really blame him since Hiei's brain would shut down if that happened with his love doing something like that with him.
"What's the matter, don't you like it," Akeno asked as she turned around and shown just how short he skirt actually was, it showed off a pair of black panties she had on under the red skirt of the outfit.
"Welcome home Issei, we put these on for you," Asia said less nervously then one would think, and there was an undertone of sensual, maybe seductive in an innocent way, she was playing to her strengths, good for her.
"Yes, welcome home, Issei," Xenovia went for a more confident look for her pose, her voice was soft compared to its usual tone, Hiei was really thankful he had his eyes closed, Koneko would have clawed them out by now if he hadn't.
"Am I dreaming," Issei asked as he rubbed the back of his head, the girls that were all around him leaned in close and you could tell he was close to losing a lot of blood any moment now.
"It was actually all my idea," the voice of Irina said before she came into view and held her hands together, "we wanted to show you how much we appreciated you, but of course, as an angel, I didn't expect things to get this extreme."
Akeno was practically in the same spot as Issei, "should it just be a fragrant display of new bile flesh, or should we make it a touching moment to cherish," she asked as she moved her hips a little bit.
That was just about everything Kuroka could take before she got Koneko and pulled her to the side and whispered, "are you really going to let them show you up like that, get in there and show them how you seduce your man," with a smirk. Koneko blushed as red as a tomato before the words sunk in, Kuroka wanted her to show them all what Hiei was like when he was being seduced, and for her sister to show off her own seduction skills, all for her own sick entertainment. Koneko was about to reply to her before Kuroka started to whisper again, "if you do and show me what skills you have, I'll teach you how to do body modification to grow bigger tits," that sealed the deal for Koneko, not because Hiei cared or anything, but because she wanted breasts.
"Fine," Koneko stated before leaving the room for a few minutes and while she was gone, Hiei was remaining as stoic as ever, he chose not to try and maneuver through them with his eyes closed, so he just waited until they were done so he could move. What he did not expect was for them to all grow quiet and then have someone brush against his legs, he looked down and turned his face blank at the sight he saw, he could hear nothing either, mainly because everyone else went quiet at the sight before them. Koneko was in front of him in nothing but a very thin, white, string bikini with her Nekomata form out in full display, she slowly stood from her position on all fours to whisper into his ear, "strawberries and whip cream," was all she said. After that she licked his cheek before kneeling back on all fours and started off to their room, he went straight for the kitchen as if it was nothing, when he was gone Koneko looked back to all of them and said, "I win devil seduction," before continuing on her way.
Hiei came from within the kitchen with strawberries and whip cream and didn't even regard anyone else in the room until he was about to enter their room, that was when he turned to them, "disturb us and I'll feed each of you your reproductive organs," before going in. Nobody said anything else, they all knew that Koneko just won with that little stunt, even Issei didn't say anything about what just happened, she just out seduced Rias and Akeno both, it seemed that they all just shut down at the same time while Kuroka was laughing.
The next day after transporting to the field
The land all around the group was filled with a rough and rocky terrain, and the feel of it felt nothing like what it was during the game against Riser, it felt so off that it was suspicious, "is this where they expect us to fight," Kiba asked while looking confused.
"How strange, the referee should have announced our arrival by now," Rias commented to the group, and she was right, Hiei checked and the announcement came after the team showed up, something wasn't right.
"What if there's been some kind of problem," Gasper asked in a fearful voice, there has been some kind of problem, this was a trap, Hiei wordlessly unsheathed his sword and held is to his right side with that hand and scanned the area.
Just then, all around them, magic circles belonging to the old satan faction formed and out came numerous devils from it, "those devils are loyal to the old satan faction of the chaos brigade," Rias informed the group.
Everyone else summoned their weapons, readied their magic, or went full Nekomata for a fight with them, "to the despicable usurpers in the false royal house of Gremory, we're here to take back what's ours," a lieutenant, if Hiei guessed right, said.
Then they heard a slight yell and turned to see Asia get magically raised by Diodora, "greetings, Asia Argento will be coming with me," he said with a happy smile as he grabbed her left leg and held her upside down.
"I demand an explanation," Rias demanded, even though it was pretty obvious, Diodora sided with the old satan faction and the chaos brigade for more power, that must be why Hiei couldn't get into his mind, Ophis of the chaos brigade gave him some of her power.
"These devils from the chaos brigade have come to murder each last one of you, is that sufficient enough," he said while gesturing around him and a cruel smile on his lips with his eyes holding satisfaction.
"So, you've allied yourself with lowly criminals," Akeno accused, criminals they may be, but lowly isn't the right term, Hiei thought of them more as a rebellion thinking they were in the right, but their leaders weren't strong, so they were in the wrong.
"You traitorous dog, first you defiled the sanctity of the rating game which alone deserves death, and second you laid your filthy hands on Asia," Rias stated as she began to raise her magic power, Hiei cracked his neck in preparation for the fight.
"Well if you want to do something about it, you'll have to fight through all my friends, and while you're busy doing that I'll take my time getting to know this little creature, biblically, how's that sound dragon." Diodora said before snapping his fingers to signal for all of the gathered devils to fire at the enemy peerage while he teleported away.
They all dodged out of the way, for Hiei, he phased out of sight and chopped up as many devils in that burst of speed as he could, which was a quarter of full number that had gathered at the sight of the battle, this was going to take forever that way. Hiei looked over when he heard Issei shout out Asia's name and found that Diodora was gone and Xenovia was on the ground with both her own holy sword and Ascalon, a holy sword the pervert got from Michael before the leader's summit.
Then a magic circle appeared from behind the group, and out came Odin and he looked just as old as ever, and an old pervert since he came out and lifted Akeno's skirt to see her panties, "hmmm, that's a sweet piece, these sweet cheeks alone were a good reason to tag along."
"Lord Odin, what are you doing here," Rias asked in shock, even though it was obvious at this point, until just now Hiei thought that Diodora hijacked the teleportation signal or something, but with Odin showing up when he did, they knew of the ambush and let it happen.
"We discovered that Diodora Astaroth has been making deals behind everyone's backs for a while," Odin said before he yelled, "hear men, I am the great all father of the Norse gods, whoever can take my head will become a warrior of legend." All the devils that were attacking them began again and aimed for Odin before he erected a barrier, "that brat Azazel's plan was brilliant in it's sheer simplicity, lure them in and take them all out in one fell swoop."
After Odin's shield expanded and took the devils out, Odin turned to them, and before Akeno could ask something, Hiei marched up to the Norse god and tugged his beard so that his face was level with Hiei's, "do not ever use me as bait again. Next time you do I'll roast you and every single leader of your factions over a darkness flame so hot that you'll beg for someone to cut it off to save you from the pain, do I make myself clear," his eyes were not joking, the glare alone was enough to force Odin to nod dumbly. Hiei let go of the man's beard and began walking in the direction of the castle, when he noticed that only Koneko was following him, he turned to the others and said, "are you coming to save Asia or are you going to stand there like fools."
That got them all out of their shock at Hiei just openly threatening a god before they all started to run for the castle in the distance to rescue Asia when Azazel's voice rang through their ears, "you alive," he asked as if not for sure about that fact.
"If you make it out of that battle alive, know that you leaders are going to find out why I was feared enough to be the only one sent away to a parallel world," Hiei told him and you could almost feel everyone, and that means everyone, gulp at the implications.
"You can gripe at me all you want later, they're all over the game field and swarming around the VIP room, the old satan faction is launching a full-scale attack fortunately we have a contingency plan," Azazel informed. "We sprung ambushes all over the area, the fools walked right into our trap, I had to leave you all in the dark or risk Astaroth being aware of our plan," that wasn't a very good excuse, especially since Azazel knew of Hiei's telepathy.
"You knew of my telepathy and yet you chose to leave us in the dark and risk one of us getting seriously injured, or worse, getting one of us killed, you're just lucky I have more pressing matters to attend to," Hiei growled out.
"As the strategist of this battle I will take full responsibility, if you still want to take your anger out on me when this battle is finished then my life is yours as payment," Azazel offered.
"You're still a dick," Koneko stated in monotone, and the rest of the peerage knew what Hiei meant when he said one of us, he meant Koneko could have gotten killed or seriously injured, then they'd have a very pissed off fire demon on their hands.
"The point is, stay hidden until this battle's over, just let the rest of us deal with the terrorist scumbags, and the battle area is huge so I'm pretty far away from you kids," Azazel ordered, he clearly didn't know the situation well.
"You're a fool blonde crow, the nun has been taken by creeper so we're going to get her back, and don't bother talking any further, this conversation's over," Hiei said before he forced the connection to be broke as they ran even harder to get to the castle.
It didn't take long for the peerage to make it to or inside the castle, as they entered the castle they were greeted with the sight of thirteen cloaked figures blocking their path to Asia. "I knew you would follow me, that's why I put together this little welcome party, now it's time to play our game, and since today's rating game has been cancelled we'll play my game instead, should you refuse to play or lose, Asia will become mine." Diodora's voice rang throughout the hall they were in before two doors opened, one on the left, the other on the right, "you'll have to fight two separate battles simultaneously, on the right path two rooks and eight pawns await. The battle on the left will be against my queen and bishops, you can split your forces any way you see fit," his voice quite after that, probably didn't see the point continuing a conversation with those he saw as inferior.
Hiei began to walk to the right, that was the one that had the two rooks and eight pawns, who were all promoted to queen more then likely, so they'd have far more power then the other fighters, that's what he wanted and so he began to head in that direction. Rias would have stopped him, but this would have been a time saver, her most powerful piece versus two rooks and eight pawns, they didn't stand a chance in hell at defeating him, so she moved on, "Koneko, you go with Hiei, the rest of us will take on the queen and bishops."
Hiei and Koneko were teleported to an open hall where the voice of Diodora came in, "by the way, my pawns have already been promoted to queen, I like to hedge my bets," this was just sad, he showed his hand before the ending battle, how pathetic.
Hiei casually walked through them, literally, every one of them fell to his sword when they tried to attack, none of them even saw him draw his sword each time he was attacked before slicing them in half and walking past the corps to the next victim. Koneko went with a different approach, she used her own rook strength versus theirs, so it didn't last long since she also had senjutsu as an additional power boost, she tore through them like they were made of paper, the ripping sounds echoed through the hall.
They waited for the others to get done with their opponents before moving on, it was troubling dealing with a queen who was constantly healed by two bishops, then Issei revealed a pervert's power, something about talking to breasts. Hiei ignored that part and waited for the other group to get done with their fights before him and Koneko were on their way to a different hall then the previous ones, it was more domed shape and as soon as they entered, he felt the energy of that Freed guy, wonderful.
"Yo, yo, yo, long time no see suckers, I'm hard to kill, that's a fact, as you can see I'm totally alive and kicking, and after our last encounter I was scooped up by that whack job Vali, to make a long story short, the chaos brigade recruited the psycho ex-priest standing in front of you," he explained.
"Is that why you're here as Diodora's knight," Rias asked, no that wasn't it, Hiei and Koneko could sense something else, two other people have been killed, they must be the knights that were left out of the fight.
"His knight, hahahahaha, I ate them both, they were finger licking good," Freed exclaimed before laughing like a mad man and beginning to transform into a beast that was just utterly disgusting to look at, even Hiei had to agree to that tidbit. "Since everyone's here, let me share a bit of gossip with you, it's a tasty secret about Diodora's household, you know all those pretty young girls you just beat up, every one of them was a well-respected nun before Diodora got his greasy mitts on them. A couple of them were even saints, Diodora the explorer loves bringing passionate, holy women down to the depths of hell with smiles and sweet talk, that's how the freak gets off, and now I'll tell you a little story. Once upon a time, there was a spoiled, high born devil brat, he saw a woman that was pretty as a peach, blonde, petite, I'm talking totally his type, but the woman was a guarded treasure of the church, so he knew there was no way he could kidnap her and get away with it. So, the clever devil brat came up with a plan, if the people of the church saw her heal an agent of hell like him, then they would excommunicate her, so he took a chance, and once she hit rock bottom of despair over the church's betrayal. He'd snatch the girl up when she was at her lowest and make her his completely, ravaging both body and soul, a man's gotta have a vice, and Diodora breaking the wills of little, young girls like her more then anything else," Freed explained.
Issei was about to reply with a loud roar of some kind when Kiba placed a hand on his shoulder, "you should save those feelings of rage for your upcoming battle against Astaroth, I'll face Freed, let me put a stop to his filthy talk," he said before going forward.
"Look what we have here, it's the pretty boy knight who used his scary sword to cut me down the last time we met, but no hard feelings, I got this bodacious body upgrade because of you," Freed said before launching at Kiba. "The super, invincible, mutated, monster Freed is coming to get you mister puny twerp, you want to throw down, I'll throw down Nancy," after that came a dash of speed from Kiba before he appeared behind Freed before the monster fell into a pile of pieces.
"Diodora, come out you douche hole, you hear me," Issei ordered before the curtain rose from across the room, behind it stood Diodora himself with Asia bound behind him in weird vines that seemed stronger then what they seemed.
"What took you guys so long huh, you should have seen her face when I told her the particulars of my plan, her expression was absolutely priceless," Diodora said from his throne at the base of her bonds. "I never get tired of it, my favorite is the moment when a woman of faith and conviction gives into fate and despair, however dear Asia still clings to hope, she still has her dear friends, especially you red dragon emperor, of course he remembers the fallen angel Raynare. After that maniacal bitch had killed poor little Asia, I had planned to off Raynare and give Asia an evil piece, and I mean literally and euphemistically, but I was caught off guard when the red dragon emperor interfered in my plan. I made the mistake of waiting and thinking that a pawn only worth one piece would die instantly, and then to add insult to injury, Rias comes to snatch Asia into her own peerage," he explained. "But don't worry, I've forgiven you, after all being a part of your club is the reason she's gotten her hopes up so high, she'll drop into the deepest despair imaginable once I kill her friends in front of her very eyes. Asia still is a virgin isn't she, I wouldn't want anyone's sloppy seconds, I would rather enjoy the idea of stealing her away from you though, our own custom version of promonocyte. Just the mere thought of taking Asia as she calls out your name is absolutely delicious," Diodora antagonized before Issei had all he could take of the man with a death wish and went straight into balance breaker and began making his way to the man. "Nice armor, the lights are a cute touch, but I have snake direct from Ophis, supposedly so venomous, it's bite is rumored to be an instant kill," Diodora stated just before Issei slammed his armored fist into the gut of Diodora who coughed up blood from the impact.
Issei threw him off his throne where Hiei stood in waiting, he grabbed the devil by his hair and wordlessly walked toward Koneko before taking his sword form his sheath and handing it to her, "what I'm about to do has no honor in it," before walking away. Diodora was screaming about how he was superior in every way, until on the last sentence he began to scream, nobody stopped Hiei, they knew what he was doing, he was going against his honor and torturing him, the screams were not pleasant to hear. While the others listened to the screams, Issei used his balance breaker to amp up his dress break to where the containment vines exploded and released the girl where she fell on top of him naked before she raised up and Rias gave her some clothes. The others came and had words of their own with her, welcoming her back and all that, Koneko hugged her, though, she did so carefully while holding Hiei's sword in her hands. That was when Hiei came back with a bloody smock, the others didn't even ask where he found it, they were just focused on the fact that he was now taking that and bloody gloves off, "I forgot how much fun torture was," he said with a little satisfaction in his voice.
"Why did you give Koneko your sword if you were torturing someone," Asia asked as the others stood around her and were wondering the same thing, at least, those that didn't understand honor didn't understand it.
"What I just did, I couldn't be a warrior for, my sword is a representation of me being a warrior, so the only choice I had to save my honor as a warrior was to give Koneko my sword and for a brief moment, give up my honor," Hiei informed, there were few he'd do that for.
"Before we leave, I'd like to say a little prayer," Asia stated before going to the small rise that held the throne and the bonds that she was just freed from, Hiei didn't really mind, he just walked over to Koneko and got his sword back. Asia kneeled down and began to pray all innocent like, a second of prayer and a light shown down from out of nowhere and enveloped her it felt strange, and when it started to die down, Asia was gone, leaving nothing in her place.
A green magic circle appeared above where Asia just disappeared, on the ceiling, "I think that's quite enough of this nonsense, dear little sister of the despicable and fake devil king, I am the one and true descendant of the great devil Beelzebub, I am Shalba Beelzebub."
"What do you want," Rias asked with a voice full of hate and a glare to match, "you know what, it doesn't matter who you are or what you want, you will still suffer for what you did to Asia," she said as her power soared.
"Little sister of the imposter Sirzechs, nothing personal but I think I'll kill you," Shalba stated as he showed a mark symbolizing infinity on the hand that he brought up, but before either party could move with their power, they were stopped by someone.
"Asia, Asia, where did you run off to, come on, let's go home, if you hide form me we won't be able to leave, you're so silly Asia, now come on out, please, enough already," Issei said shakily as he wandered around, he has clearly lost his grip on reality. "I beat up those guys who were bullying you by the way, I don't wanna play anymore, come on, please Asia, can we go home, we're supposed to do the three-legged race in the sports festival, we need to practice," that was all Rias could take before she hugged him from behind.
"I SWEAR I'LL KILL YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE, I'LL CUT YOU PIECE BY PIECE UNTIL YOU SCREAM FOR MERCY," Xenovia screamed as she summoned forth both Durandal and Ascalon to attack Shalba directly, only for him to put up a barrier before blasting her back. "Bring Asia back now, please, she's one of my best friends, she was so gentle, and unbelievably kind, ASIA," she cried out while Hiei glared at Shalba, he was signing his own death warrant, but Hiei hung back, this kill was all Issei's, the fire demon has already killed his.
"Interesting, the princes of the Gremory household has horrible taste, if the red filth would like to know where that girl went, I sent her far beyond our reality into the dimensional gap, the exposure has consumed her flesh by now, simply put, the bitch is dead," Shalba informed.
Issei began walking forward, swaying a bit, but walking before the boosted gear appeared on his right arm, "Rias Gremory, if you'd rather not die, you should leave this place immediately, as for you devil, the one that calls himself Shalba. You made a poor decision, and now you must pay," Ddraig growled out before Issei's body exploded in every direction with power pouring off him in waves and destroying the structure they were in, they were about to get crushed if they didn't leave.
Hiei didn't even turn back to look at them, he grabbed Koneko and shot out of there with his wings taking him as high as they could before the structure finally gave way and out came a red beast reminiscent of a dragon, but looked quite more feral, Issei's lost control. With his power able to multiply unlimited times, Hiei knew he wouldn't be able to stop him, not at all, he just watched as Issei not only fought Shalba, but utterly destroyed him with more power then Hiei had ever seen him pull out from anything breast related. The others got out of there before the final blow though, they made two magic circles, one for the others to land on and one to act as a barrier between the monster power unleashed and them, Kiba, Rias and Akeno were all forced to sustain the barrier.
"What can we do, anyone know how we can make Issei change back to normal," Xenovia asked with Gasper by her side before being joined by Koneko to make sure her friend was alright.
"I had a feeling it was the juggernaut drive," Vali said from behind as he stepped through a portal behind them, "I sensed a change in Issei's power, I wanted to see what it was, it looks like your servant had an incomplete transformation. In that incomplete state, there's a chance he'll go back naturally, but if not, he'll use up his life force until he dies, either way, you should be worried since his life is most certainly in danger."
Biko came through during the explanation, then came the sight of Arthur, an ally of Vali's holding the form of Asia, so they were just returning to the dimensional gap, but why would they go there Hiei wondered. "We happen to cross paths with her while we were moving through the dimensional gap, that is one lucky girl, she would've been exposed to the void if it weren't for us, a body can't withstand that amount of pressure and will usually dissipate into nothingness," Biko informed.
Rias opened her wings to go down, "if we tell him that Asia's safe, Issei should be able to gain control over himself, and I'm going alone," she said before taking off in a burst of power, Hiei just watched, he didn't want to save the pervert. In fact, he'd prefer his life force just drained out of him quickly but knew what might happen if that was the case, his sacred gear could go into someone far worse then what he was, at least the pervert wasn't so evil that he would bend everyone to his will, only girls.
"Vali, please, I'm begging you to do whatever you can to save Rias and Issei, can you with the power of the white dragon emperor, do you think you're strong enough," Akeno asked, she obviously thought the same thing.
"What about the nightmare over there, he's just standing there and doing nothing, while I'm being asked to take on an incomplete juggernaut drive," Vali asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Unlike you and the pervert, I don't have a trump card such as that to play, if he's going to be saved then the only thing that can be done is have you help him, now stop whining and do it," Hiei ordered before Vali just decided to do it and help them out.
It took a little while, but eventually, Issei got control back and they made sure that Asia was fine and safe so that he wouldn't go into a berserker rampage again, it was then that they were introduced to the dragon of dragons, the true red dragon god emperor, great red. He was by far the biggest dragon that Hiei had ever seen, and it wasn't just the size that they could see, not for Hiei at least, he could see great red's power, it was far stronger then the power he ever felt from any being in existence, other power paled in comparison. "Great red, it's been a while," a girl's voice was heard, the group turned and saw a little girl in a gothic Lolita outfit with the only thing covering her nipples being black tape, she pointed to the dragon, "one day, one day soon I'm going to obtain my silence." She remained there until great red left through another portal, then Ophis looked over to where Hiei was and noticed his aura, and asked him, "you don't belong here, what realm do you belong to, I know it isn't this one."
"I belong to a realm with three worlds, spirit, demon, and living, what do you now of it," Hiei asked with hit eyes narrowed there was really no reason for her to know of anything other then this realm, so how in any world would she know of his.
"Awe, that would be King Enma's realm, but I sense that you were a demon, so the demon world then, give me a second," Ophis said before waving her hand and a purple mist came into view before it changed to see Koenma in his office stamping papers.
Koenma looked up at a random time before going back to his papers for a moment before freezing and raising his head slowly to look into a purple mist outlined window, "Ophis, I do believe that you were told to not contact this realm again since the last time."
"Koenma, I was meaning to reach your father, not his weaker and far less impressive son, why isn't he in the head office instead of you," Ophis asked and Hiei held back the look of complete and utter shock he had on his face that they knew each other.
"As proof that I'm able to handle things, he's put me in charge of the head office while he only oversees what I've done and if it needs correcting, now why have you called, you dragon gods never come out of that gap of yours," Koenma asked with a rigid back.
"I found one of yours," Ophis said before turning the mist window so that Koenma could see what she's talking about, the toddler looked bug eyed at seeing Hiei there, even more so looking at the girl close to his height clinging onto him.
"Hiei, you ended up there, of course you did, your luck is just about as good as Kuwabara is at being smart, or Botan is at acting, how the hell did you survive this long there though," Koenma nearly shouted and even stick his head through the window.
"What's the situation like in demon world," Hiei asked, he didn't want to talk about how he survived, didn't even want to think about anything in that regard, he didn't need to know how anyways, but he should have known the reason, Hiei was a survivor.
"Better, Mukuro somehow got word that you were alive and working on a way to get to her to give her what she was promised, though, she's still mad at the spirit defense force for attempting their little stunt, but now you can return home," Koenma stated.
"Koneko, call Kuroka, we're going home," Hiei ordered and the Nekomata called her sister right away and relayed the situation and waited for her to arrive, Ophis looked a little mad that Kuroka lied to her, and was tempted to end her right there.
"Uh, Hiei, I'm sorry but are trying to bring two other girls back with you, I'm not sure that's a good idea," Koenma said uncertainly, it was true that Hiei needed to get home right away, but for Hiei to bring others might not be a good idea.
"Koneko is mine, she and her sister are coming with me or I'm never stepping foot in that portal and never coming back," Hiei said calmly, but you could tell he was angry over the toddler trying to separate them, and Koenma knew what the threat means, so he nodded.
"Just in time," Kuroka said as she stepped out of a magic circle to see that they were ready to leave, she turned to Ophis, "I'm sorry about this Ophis, but my sister needs me, I can't leave her over there being the only Nekomata," Ophis sighed but nodded.
Koneko turned to the rest of the peerage just as they made it over to where they were, Rias was the first to hug her, she squeezed her so tight that Koneko thought she was a rook for a second, almost broke her back, and she needed that. Akeno came next, her hug was gentler, and didn't cause her near as much pain as Rias did, she left a note in Koneko's hands though, it was tips for a few things her and Hiei could try while in demon world. Gasper was next and cried into her shoulder begging her not to go, but the vampire knew she had to, even though it wasn't what some of them wanted, they knew she would go wherever Hiei went to. Then came the other two girls, Asia and Xenovia, they also gave a tear filled, heartfelt goodbye, they knew that she didn't want to leave her friends, but her love was going, so she was going to be sure that she went with him. Kiba came last, he just patted her on the head and gave a friendly smile, he saw her as a little sister, just like he saw Asia and Xenovia as sisters, but he knew that he had to let her go as well, Issei didn't get a goodbye.
Hiei was the next that everyone said goodbye to, first came Rias after she was done with Koneko, gave him the same hug, but also shoved her breasts in his face, this he got annoyed by but decided to let it pass, one time won't hurt. Akeno came next again, now her hug was even more forced as she spun him around and around while his face was forced into her breasts, again he put up with it because this was the last of their meetings. Asia and Xenovia gave him a goodbye as well, not as heartfelt crying as with Koneko, but a few tears and he just let it happen so that they would hurry it up and wouldn't make as much noise when they leave them. Kiba came up and gave him a handshake instead of a long heartfelt or tearful goodbye, Issei and Gasper didn't get any goodbyes from him, the two hated Hiei, and Hiei hated the two of them, so no reason to say goodbye to those two.
Hiei, Koneko, and Kuroka was about to walk through an extended portal to spirit world when they turned to look back at them, Koneko and Kuroka waved bye, Kuroka more flashed then Koneko's, and Hiei just looked back at them. When they were done with the goodbyes, the three finally walked through the portal so they could serve their new master, Mukuro would just be ecstatic about having not only Hiei, but knowledge of other worlds and two Nekomata in her army.