Devils of the Void NEW

Ren, boy reincarnated into the world of Highschool DXD and a Servant to Rias Gremory. however, things are not what they appear to be as more worlds begin to converge and new mysteries unfold.

And I'm back with more of my crazy imagination for you lot to enjoy!

Chapter 16

Almost as soon as we clashed, sword to claws, I knew I was in trouble. Ophelia was insanely strong, strong enough to push me back with ease and her speed was unreal. Combine enough strength to numb my arms after just one or two hits and enough speed to worry Kiba and you've got an extremely dangerous opponent.

"Whats this, your speed and strength don't even compare to before," said Ophelia, "I wonder what happened? well it hardly matters."

She vanished in a burst of speed, looping around me faster than my eyes could follow, before slamming into my torso. I let out a hiss of pain as I felt her teeth sink into my arm, before my arm suddenly grew spiked armour and forced her off, but not before she took a chunk out of me. I growled and went on the offensive, my glowing blade leaving trails in the air as it cut through the air at speeds most couldn't follow. The snake-like Awakened Being had no trouble dodging however, even as she chewed on the chunk of flesh she had taken out of me.

"Strange, your not very tasty," she said, spitting out her mouthful.

I paused for a second, not sure whether to be insulted or not, before bringing my sword up, just in time to block Ophelias tail before it could slam into my ribs. still sent me flying through the small shed that held the stairs and off the roof. I fell a short distance before plunging into a swimming pool on the lower roof. I broke the surface with a gasp, only to be forced back under by a clawed hand. As I struggled against her grip a small part of my mind was registering the fact that this was going remarkably like Clares battle with the snake bitch in the Manga, the main difference was that I didn't have anything like the Quicksword up my sleeve.

"Sorry, if you were anyone else I'd leave you alone," said Ophelia as she watched me struggle under her hand disinterestedly, "But I'm so hungry I can hardly stand it! Id prefer to eat them while you were still alive, but that doesn't seem possible. To think, a powerful fighter like you dying by drowning. Its actually a little sad."

I could feel my mind starting to shut down as my vision began to darken. Being a Devil makes you immune to a lot, but drowning is not one of them, especially for a fire type like myself. Suddenly Ophelia's head broke the surface above my head, making me gasp and lose precious air. a second later, she pulled back and a faint scream reached my ears as her grip on my neck slackened.

"NO, WHY ME?!" she screamed, "ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS KILL MY BROTHERS MURDERER! WHY DID I BECOME A MONSTER?! THIS IS ALL HIS FAULT, THAT DAMNED HAYDEN TENNO!"

My eyes shot open and a gout of fire shot up, blasting Ophelia away as I rose from the water, flames surrounding me and turning the liquid to steam.

"Whats this?" muttered the Awakened One, looking at the charred stump that used to be her arm, "My right arms gone?"

she looked back to me, only to see me with my head down, my eyes shaded.

"What was that?" I whispered, "What do you know about Hayden Tenno?"

"What's it to you," growled the Awakened One, "Its your fault, if it weren't for you this wouldn't have happened!"

"Hayden Tenno," I said, "Thats my Fathers name. what do you know about him?"

Ophelia recoiled at that before a hissing laugh began to emerge from her throat.

"So you're that murdering bastards son eh?" she asked, "In that case, I'll kill you and make him suffer the same loss I have!"

She charged, only to slam into the side of the pool as I vanished.

"I wouldn't bother," I said from my position floating above the pool, "He vanished when I was just a kid. I doubt he even remembers me after all this time. But I remember him. I remember what he put my mother through. Now tell me what you know about Hayden Tenno!"

"Lets see you make me!" roared Ophelia, shooting towards me, "I'll kill you here and now, son of the Stalker!"

I flipped back in the air, dodging the charge.

"Fine, if you wont tell me, I'll just have to make you talk!" I yelled, fire erupting from me as I summoned my Pheonix gear to me. I flew down, sword ready to cleave the snake monster in half. Before I could strike though, she spun and struck out with a clawed hand, catching my wrist and forcing me to drop my sword. the blade skittered away as I dove for it, only for my snake like opponent to flick it off the roof with her tail. I scowled as I watched the weapon spin towards the ground, before turning back to Ophelia and clenching my fists. I was in trouble now. See, the way the magic worked is that, if I willingly gave up my sword, say throw it, I could summon it back in an instant. If I was disarmed though it took a little time for the magic to get a lock on the sword, especially if it was out of my line of sight. Time I really didn't have when faced with this bitch. I growled and raised my hands, parts of the armour on my gauntlets shooting forwards to form a pair of short blades on my knuckles. Even if I had lost my sword, there was no way I was giving up, not until she told me everything she knew about Hayden Tenno!

My boots fired, sending me shooting forwards once more, flaming blades held at the ready. The snake like woman dodged, coiling around me as she struck out with her remaining arm. fire shot from my shoulders as I went into a spin, deflecting her strike and countering, scoring a cut down her tail that was immediately cauterized by the heat of the flame. Ophilia let out a roar of pain, before spinning and slamming into me, carrying me back and off the roof, hurtling towards the ground at insane speeds. I struck out at her, my arms blades scoring off the metal like skin on her arms and the fire I summoned doing little as I tried desperately to escape. While it was unlikely the fall would kill me, It would still injure me badly and that was a state I really couldn't risk in this fight

"GODS DAMN IT!" I yelled in my head as the ground got closer, "I can't die here! I need more power, more heat!"

Inside my soul, the container that held the Pheonix Gear began to glow. My eyes snapped open as a blast of power suddenly shot through me, heralding a massive blast of fire that forced Ophilia to release me as the leaves on the trees below were blasted off and the grass yellowed under the massive heat of the fire.

"What in the hell?!" hissed Ophelia, lowering her arm from where it had been covering her face, "Where did all this power come from?"

A Sacred Gear responds to the feelings of its master, in other words the stronger those feelings are the more powerful the Sacred Gear becomes.

The orb of fire began to clear, revealing the second state of the Phoenix Gear. It had mostly kept the same red and gold colouration as its first state, only it now resembled the bird it was named for, with the gears arms and legs resembled a birds talons, were coloured gold with red highlights, before turning fully red at the elbows and knees, while the breastplate was red with gold edging. The upper part of my head was covered by a bird-like mask that went back to cover the back of my head and left my lower face uncovered that was coloured mostly red with gold highlights and eyes. finally, the entire thing was covered in a tattered black cloak with a white feather collar and a flaming red inside that flapped in an unfelt wind.

"What the hell are you?!" demanded Ophelia as I floated silently above her.

I didn't answer, only raised my hands and threw my cloak wide. All around me in the air, small sparks appeared before expanding into a large flock of birds made of fire. The flaming Avians circled me, before I threw my hand out towards snake bitch below me and sent them flying at her like missiles.

"Oh Fuck," she said and vanished, just barely dodging the birds as they hit and exploded, engulfing several trees in flames.

She reappeared half way up the building, only to be forced to block as I appeared in front of her and lashed out with the green energy swords that appeared in my hands. Ophilia backpedaled as I struck out, blocking and deflecting my strikes as she was put on the defencive for the first time since the fight began. With a final strike, Ophelia was sent flying up the building to land back in the swimming pool, only for me to shoot up above the roofs edge. I spread my arms once more, my cloak snapping open as golden lines began to flow through it, glowing like molten lava, as tongues of flame shooting from the edge of my cloak before I shot forwards like a meteorite, slamming into the roof in a massive fiery blast.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" demanded Ophelia as she skidded to a stop, her body smoking and covered in burns, her other arm completely burnt off.

"I am Ren Tenno, the Rook of Rias Gremory and the holder of the Zero Void Sacred Gear," I said, my cloak blowing in the wind, "I am the son of Hayden Tenno and I'm the one who's gonna beat you until you tell me what you know!"

"You're going to beat me?!" she hissed, "I'd like to see you try!"

She shot forwards, the blades on her back and shoulders extended forwards, only for them to be shattered as I shot past her, energy blades once more in hand, carving deep furrows in her tail, easily dodging around her as she writhed in agony. I landed lightly on the other side of her and turned to face her, the blades in my hands thrumming with a low, subaudible hum.

"I can keep cutting you up all night," I said, "How long will it be until you tell me what I want to know?"

Ophilia glared at me before she smirked and her dead was sucked into her body. Her body bulged all along its length before her human torso appeared at the end of her tail.

"Lets play a game," she said, "You're clearly a lot stronger than I first thought, so I'll make you a deal. I've focused everything that remains of my human self into my tail, making it my weak point. If you can reach me then you win and I will tell you everything I know about Hayden Tenno. But, if you die before you reach me the I win and I get to eat you and anyone else I desire, starting with that bitch my master kidnapped. Doesn't that sound fun?"

I growled at the mention of Yuri and brought up my swords.

"Shut up and bring it."

Ophelia's torso grew blades and charged, intending to skewer me right off the bat. I just scoffed and shot forwards, my blades blurring as the atom thin edges went to work, cutting through her with little resistance.

"Your so foolish," said Ophelia as she watched me, "You could have just ignored me and struck right here."

Before she could say anything else though, a pair of green blades crossed over her neck from behind.

"You didn't actually think I'd be stupid enough to go from the start did you?" I asked, "Please, I know I need to live through this. Now, it looks like I win so tell me everything you know about Hayden Tenno."

Ophelia's shocked face melted into a sad smile.

"Hayden Tenno was an old friend of my Fathers," she said, "I think that they used to be Hunting partners or something, although I never got the details. Thats thats why it was so shocking for him to come to our house one night with these...invisible things that tore everyone to shreds. For some reason though, he left me alive. I remember him saying something about having a plan for me in the future."

I was completely frozen at the story. I had few memories of my father, but I do remember that he was a good man, full of laughter and always willing to play with me, even if he was busy with something. To hear that he may very well have been a Hunter at one point and had apparently got himself possessed by a Demon was rather unnerving, not to mention the fact that I had my suspicions as to which Demon it was.

"His eyes, were they yellow?" I asked.

"Yes, they were," said Ophelia, "You should really finish me off you know. If you don't, I'll regenerate and kill you."

I nodded and with a twitch of my blade, stabbed her through the chest.

"I leave my will to you," she said as she coughed up blood, "Make sure you stop the Yellow Eyed man so that no one else has to live through what I did."

She went limp as the last of her life vanished. I released her, allowing her body to fall into the swimming pool, before incinerating it with a snap of my fingers, whispering a prayer to the dead as I turned away from the burning pyre.

"I don't think you have to worry Ophelia," I muttered as I walked away, "The Winchesters are on the case. Although, from the sound of things, I might just get a crack at Yellow Eyes myself…"

So yeah, I made some changes. Now Hayden is Yellow Eyes meatsuit! That should be fun. Anyway, time for me to head out. Please review!