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 here we go with another chapter of DotVN and the start of the end of the Voban Arc. hope you like it!

Chapter 17

As I walked away from the burning pyre, my mind whirled, hopping from one thought to another with no rhyme or reason. Why had my father changed so much that he would murder and entire family? what was this Shadow creature that threatened the world and held sway over him? What other fucked up crossovers would I encounter. Eventually I shook my head, dispelling the thoughts.

"I can think on this later," I muttered, "For now I need to find the others."

My cloak extended, the lines once more lighting up, before I shot into the sky, leaving a flaming trail in my wake. As I flew through the city, the weather took a turn for the worse, the wind picking up and ain beginning to fall as lightning began to flash in the clouds.

"What the hell, where did this come from?" I muttered, "Is this Vobans doing?"

I looked down, my vision enhanced by the mask that covered my face, and saw flashes of sparks as Liliana and Erica went at it with gusto. I moved closer, just in time to see Liliana save Yuri from a large road sign that had been picked up by the storm.

"Thank you," said the Himi-Miko.

"I have done nothing to earn your gratitude," said Liliana, looking away with a blush, "A-anyway, I am a proud knight and I will not betray my master!"

she shot forwards at Erica who just stood there with a faint grin on her face.

"The top draw of your dresser," said the blond Knight, causing her silver haired counterpart to freeze, "How wonderfully lyrical and girly of you."

"N-no, y-you didn't!" stuttered Liliana, backing away slightly with a bright blush on her cheeks.

"Oh I don't understand how he can be so cold!" said Erica, clearly quoting, "And yet my heart continues to beat for him so, Is this love?"

"KYAAA!" screamed Liliana in embarrassment.

Up in the sky I had cracked up as soon as Erica started quoting and finally lost control at Lilianas reaction.

"Ohoh, that's too much!" I laughed, rolling around around in mid air laughing hard enough to bring tears to my eyes as Erica continued.

"Oh I cannot stop my feelings I cannot carry on!"

"STOP IIITT!" yelled Liliana, shooting forwards with her sword, only to stop and inch from Ericas face, "How the heck do you know about that? how di how did how did you know about the novel I wrote?"

"Im willing to make a little deal with you," said Erica, not in the least bit concerned with the sword hovering an inch from her face, "If you promise to treasure our friendship from now on, I'll promise to forget about that notebook of yours."

"Well, I could always kill you to stop you from telling others, you realise that right?"

"I wouldn't be so rash if I were you. see if I die then people would start going over my will and actually that novel just happens to be in it."

Liliana finally lowered her sword, the weapon vanishing along with the blue glow that surrounded her.

"Oh Lily I can't thank you enough!" exclaimed Erica, "Im so very glad you decided to help me out!"

"Grrr, Erica Blandelli!"

That was too much for what little self control I had left and I fell out of the sky to land next to Godou and Yuri, much to their surprise, and immediately started rolling around laughing my devilish ass off.

"GYHAHA! And you call yourself a Knight! What kind of a knight blackmails another? oh this is way too much!"

Godou blinked.

"Eh, what exactly is going on?"

I waved a hand and got to my feet, holding my aching sides.

"Nothing for you to worry about Godou," I said, "Those two were just sorting out some issues between them."

"Wait, Ren?" asked Godou, "Where did you get that armour?"

"I'll explain later," I said, "Suffice to say that I have something called a Sacred Gear and this is the evolved form of my most powerful armour."

"I see," said the King, "Hey Yuri, tell Erica what your sixth sense found. I bet that she'd understand more about what you saw than I did."

"I guess you right," said Yuri, looked down slightly.

"Hey, whats up?" I asked, "Worried that your power might give us the wrong information?"

"What?" asked the Hime-Miko, a shocked look on her face.

"Things like a sixth sense cannot be completely relied upon for accurate information," I said, "Although thats mainly because prophecy is a rather iffy art at the best of times and your power is much like it. it doesn't take a mind reader to guess that that's what you're worried about."

"Yes, I am worried," said Yuri, "If I am wrong about this then we will all be in danger."

"Hey, don't worry," I said, raising her chin with a finger, "I won't let anything happen to you, or any of the others. Even if I have to fight Voban myself, nothing will happen."

I turned back to the others as Erica and Liliana approached with Godou, missing the blush on Yuris cheeks.

"Hahaha, Find those insolent fools!" shouted Voban to the pack of wolves that surrounded him, "Hunt them down without mercy! Tonight is a good night! hounds, hunt my pray ruthlessly and bring them back to me!"

"That won't be necessary."

Voban looked to the side to see us standing at the edge of the area.

"I've been waiting for you Campione," said the Duke, grinning ferally, before frowning as he noticed Liliana standing with us, "Oh, whats wrong Kranjcar? it seems you stand with our enemies."

"Liliana Kranjcar henceforth tenders the resignation of her post!" exclaimed the Knight.

"Is that so?" questioned the Duke.

"I wont let you touch Yuri or anyone else here ever again old man," said Godou, "You're through."

"Showing concern for the commoners I see," said Voban, "Those are hardly proper motions for a King. How Naive."

"Then I guess I'm Naive," said Godou, "But at least I have friends to help me out. Go on, stand there above everyone else and ramble about your greatness."

"You have quite the bark boy, but lets see what your really made of," growled the Duke as he began to glow green and transform into his wolf form once more, "Show me the power that cornered Salvatore!"

He roared, the shockwaves causing a wind that tugged at our clothes.

"Heh, well isnt that scary?" I asked, ignoring Godou and Erica as they kissed, as well as the glow that preceded the use of Godus Authority, "So, your writing a novel?"

Liliana turned bright red at that and shuffled her feet.

"Y-yes, what of it?" she asked, looking away.

"Thats great!" I exclaimed, causing her to look at me in shock, "I've always wanted to write a novel, but I suck at coming up with anything original. The best I can do is write fanfics."

"I-I see," said Liliana, clearly not used to people react like I was.

"If you have a talent for it and have written something then you should be proud of your achievement, not embarrassed to the point that she can use it for blackmail material."

I jerked my thumb at Erica who didn't look at all apologetic.

Liliana went pink and stuttered a reply. Before she could though, Godou and Voban reappeared.

"I see, Words of Power that slice through my Authority," said the Duke, now back in human form, "That's quite an impudent ace up your sleeve."

He turned, revealing a small cut on his head that quickly healed up, before waving a hand and summoning a large number of undead.

"Let us see if your Words of Power work on any of my Authorities other than that of Apollo. Begin!"

the line of Undead mages opened fire with several different types of attack, only for them to be engulfed in a wave of fire as I took to the sky and unleashed a hail of fireballs that consumed the attacks fired by the undead, Erica and Liliana deflecting those I missed.

"We shall protect you Godou," said Erica, "After all, that is our primary goal."

"Do you have a plan?" asked Liliana.

"Well, we've sealed Apollos Authority, but that still leaves two more," I said, my eyes black under my mask as I scanned the Duke, "Although it won't give me the details, my Gatekeepers Eyes are picking up an additional two powers, in addition the dead servant. All we need to do is hold out till daybreak."

"Oh, confident aren't we?" asked Voban, "You do realise that my servants possess skills at your level?"

"But they can only follow your orders exactly," said Erica, "They can't respond to the situation at hand."

"Insolence," growled Voban, "Go forth."

he held out a hand the the zombie warriors moved to engage us, only to be engulfed in fire.

"They are also extremely flammable," I said, a smirk visible on my face.

Unfortunately, Voban just summoned more. from there, the fight devolved into a brawl, with Erica Liliana and I destroying servant after servant. however, as easy as they were to take down, Voban just summoned more and they didn't get tired. We on the other hand were flesh and blood, and already tired from the previous battles we had fought today. Even so, we were more than a match and Yuri quickly came up with a solution.

"Godou, you must reforge the sword!" she shouted, "Apollo and Osiris have very similar Authorities. I'm sure it will work!"

"I'm surprised Yuri would ask me to do something so crazy," said the King, "But here goes."

He closed his eyes and his sword blade transformed into energy, although it was clearly not working right.

"Just as I thought, an Authority like that has restrictions on it," said Voban.

"Yuri, Godou doesn't have enough knowledge about Osiris!" I shouted as I launched another barrage of flaming projectiles at the Servants, "It wasn't wrong to have him recreate that oversized glowing tool of his!"

Despite the situation, Yuris face burned red at the innuendo and Godou let out a startled squeak of protest.

"But he lacks the knowledge needed!" I continued, ignoring their reactions.

"Then, what are we supposed to do?" asked Yuri, getting her blush under control.

"You need to give him the knowledge," I said.

"Wha- but...?"

"Gods damn it girl, we can't hold them of forever, just kiss the man already!" I yelled, slicing yet another servant in two with my energy blades and doing my best to ignore the twinge in my chest that accompanied the words. Issei was the harem obsessed pervert, not me! And I was dating Koneko damn it!

I shook my head and turned my attention back to the fight, incinerating another phalanx of undead soldiers with a wave of fire, before spinning and slicing another in half, ignoring the encroaching exhaustion and ache that accompanied magical exhaustion.

"Gods damn it, hurry up!" I thought, "I don't know how much longer I can keep this up without collapsing!"

"Hehehe, You shall become one of my Dead Servants Liliana Kranjcar," said Voban, "And the Diablo Rosa will be there to keep you company."

"Oh shut up you creepy old man!" I yelled, blasting the Dead Servants that surrounded the two Knights to dust, "You talk way too much!"

"And you shall join them too, Rook in Flaming Armour," said the Campione, looking up at me.

"HAH! not on your life!" I shouted, "I'll kill you myself if I have to!"

A bright light caught my attention and I turned to see Yuri and Godou locked at the lips.

"Well, it seems that I may not have to," I said with a grin, once more ignoring the pang in my chest.

This time the golden world formed around us, rather than simple teleporting Godou and his target into the pocket space. As it did, I touched down and collapsed to my knees in exhaustion.

"Holy cow, I'm tired," I gasped.

"Sounds like you need more training," said Erica.

I just glared at her before turning my attention to the fight going on as Godou created a tornado of golden swords that stabbed through the Dukes servants, rendering them inert. A second later, the world dissolved.

"Phew, its finally over," I sighed, "Nice work Yuri, you did it!"

Yuri blushed at my praise, before stepping back from Godou.

"T-thanks Ren," she stuttered, before turning to Godou and bowing, "I apologize for that."

"Not now," said Godou, dropping into a stance, "The Authority of Osiris still hasn't been completely sealed."

As soon as he finished talking, a massive gust of wind hit him and sent him flying into a nearby wall.

"Godou!" yelled Yuri in worry."

"Heheh," chuckled Voban, "You've sealed two of my Authorities. Well now I summon the Marques of Wind, Master of Rain and Duke of Thunder!"

Three spectral men appeared behind the Duke.

"But those are...l no, not good!" said Yuri, clenching her hands.

"Weather deatys," said Erica, moving beside the Hime-Miko alongside Liliana.

"I must say, this fights been quite a bit more stimulating than I was expecting," said Voban as the three spiritual beings were absorbed into him .

I got to my feet and sighed.

"Well, I was hoping not to have to use this, but I guess I have no choice," I said, stepping in front of the three girls.

"Oh, you plan to fight me alone?" asked Voban, "You, a Low Class Devil would face me, a Campione alone?"

"Who said anything about alone?" I asked, holding out my hand, "And besides, as a holder of a Longinus Class Sacred Gear, I think I can at least face you on equal footing. now then, lets get started. Balance Breaker!"

Blue energy erupted from my hand, swirling around me before exploding outwards, covering the area with dust. A second later, the dust was blown away to reveal my Zero Gear as the green energy saber of the armour activated in my hand.

"And now the real battle starts," I said with a grin, "And I just have to hope that Koneko lets me live for having to use it."

Nothings changed, keep on rolling.