A/N: After my last chapter, I just felt like I couldn't stop writing... Which is why this is out so fast. I hope you all like it. By the way, I might just change up the name of my fic, at the request of the main character. Sorry in advance. Anyway. Read, Review, and Enjoy (I kinda need to know if my work is crap so reviews would be appreciated; however I'm NOT gonna stop writing JUST cause I don't get a lot of Reviews. I'm doing this for Asagi and her troupe... Mainly).
Disclaimer: The best one could be found in my first chapter... please look their for one.
Chapter Four: Wait A Minute, WHAT!?!
After being hounded with questions after her victory against Mao and Laharl, Overlord Asagi gathered everyone to the courtyard for an emergency meeting. Once a sizable crowd had gathered, Asagi climbed on top of the statue and declared, "Hey everyone! I've assembled you all here in order to clear a few things up, and tell you all the next course of action that will be taken, okay?"
Most of the people in attendance were upset, but understanding about the situation and started talking amongst themselves that is until one of them shouted, "BOOOOO! You suck *hic*! Get off the *hic* statue and step down as Over-!"
Asagi leapt of the statue and landed in front of the perpetrator, a Baciel, pointed one of her dual pistols at the offender's head, and said, "I'll blow you your brains out Drunkie, and force-feed them to your unborn children! So keep it up!" Suddenly as if waking up from a dream, she said, "Eh!?! Did I say something crazy just now? Sorry."
"Great… We got a schizo for an Overlord," muttered Reio disdainfully.
"Anyway, without further ado, here's the recap! Aramith, if you would," said Asagi oblivious to Reio's comment.
"But of course," said an old Prophet who appeared atop the statue Asagi was just on. He grabbed his Moonlight Staff, raised it toward the sky and chanted, "Revi, revo, revaimo! Gods rewind the clock!" Suddenly the sky's color went from a dark purple to an odd gray as the events that took place at the Coliseum seemed to be playing in reverse. This continued until Mao and Laharl were about to finish each other off, at this point Aramith chanted, "Resu, resi, resuste! Now resume the flow!" The images suddenly stopped and began to play as if they were all viewing a movie.
Thinking about how they were going to react, Asagi said, "Alright everyone! Just lay back and enjoy. All will be cleared up after this."
//Beginning of Replay//
Mao had just focused enough Mana in order for him to use his ultimate attack, Vasa Aergun. He closed his eyes for a little while, then transformed into a gigantic dark blue, almost black, demon with wings, horns, and chains on his arms and legs. "Muhahahahaha!!!" the demon bellowed before summoning up a shitload of Mana in its mouth. At the same time the meteor was closing in on Mao ever steadily increasing its speed, and decreasing the distance until impact. 1000 yards. 500 yards. 250 yards… 500 feet. 300 feet. Mao waited until the meteor was less than a hundred feet away from him before firing a bluish laser from his mouth. Seeing the blast from Mao's mouth, Laharl used his remaining strength to jump as far as he could off of the meteor. Less than three seconds later the meteor and Mao's laser collided and caused the huge explosion. Mao, who had been WAY to close to the blast, was forced out of his transformation, and crashed head-first to the ground.
//
"Woooooo!!!" yelled a couple of Laharl supporters after seeing that Laharl did INDEED beat Mao.
"Oh would you shut up!" cried Asagi. "Jeez, it's not like he even won yet. Anyway Aramith, skip to my portion would you?"
"Of course." After casting a fast forwarding spell, Aramith started the Replay once more.
//Continuation//
All that could be seen was dust as the spectators continued to yell their feelings at the combatants. This was when Asagi decided to make her move. She reached inside her pocket and pulled out a pair of Providence glasses and put them on. Suddenly she could see again, though it was a bit hazy. "Gotta love the Godly Positioning System!" she said to herself. She looked towards Flonne, Reio, and Ryuki, and after deducting that they wouldn't notice her leaving, leapt down to the battlefield and landed approximately at the same time Laharl did.
"Gack!" the blue haired Overlord screamed out upon landing hard on the ground.
A bit startled, Asagi almost ran away, and then remembered that she was the only one who could see. So she located Mao, who was unconscious, and pulled him until he was around five yards away from Laharl. "That should do it," muttered the Main Character(?) as she proceeded to walk between the two Overlords. Once directly between the two Overlords' positions, Asagi raised her hand, and with something unrecognizable, signaled for the Yoshitsuna with a red laser. "Heh, that outta do it," said the scheming girl. "What to do now… Hmm… I got it! I'll just hide, and after the blast I'll show up looking totally badass! I'll make those two my bitches, AND get back my game!"
"Huh? Who's where?" said a cautious Laharl, Laser Z blade in hand.
"Better, get out of here," said Asagi as she went to carry out her plan…
//
"So that's what those goofy glasses were for…" thought aloud Ryuki as he made his way out of the courtyard. "Anyway, I'm off to collect my winnings. So excuse me."
"Hold up, I'm coming with you!" yelled Reio as he chased after the Gladiator, with a huge question for him.
"ANYWAY, with that out of the way, everyone should understand what and how I did what I did," announced Asagi. She climbed atop the statue again. "But now the question is, what to do now?"
"You're not going to do anything cliché are you?" asked a Master Thief that was amongst the crowd of demons.
"Hey you, the goth looking whore, what's your name?"
"Uh, Y-Yui Ma'am!" said the young thief scared out of her mind.
"Well, Yui darling, screw off! You're pissing hella me off! And a flat chested tramp like you ain't got no business…" Asagi snapped out of it again. Noticing the looks about her, she blushed and said, "I-I-I just don't know what's wrong with me. I thought everything was fine, but… Anyway, the first order of business is revenge."
(Cliché) Yui muttered under her breathe.
"The way I was planning on going about this was in traditional main character fashion," continued the Overlord. "I'm not crazy enough to go back down to lvl 1, but I let all of Mao's FORMER Main Character-like vassals, go back to their respective Netherworlds. I mean, getting revenge on vassals would be boring right?" Asagi received a weak response from her crowd, but that didn't stop the determined Main Character/Overlord. "Also the baddies on this game are going to be all the FORMER Main Characters that beat me, going from most recent to the first." She mouthed Zetta angrily, as she thought of her crushing defeat and how he delayed and all but canceled her game. "Anyway, I've been in five games, so the first 'boss' will be that lying ex-coach of mine, Hero Prinny!"
"Uh technically, shouldn't Mao be first, and Hero Prinny be after Adell," said a gunner who was a part of the crowd.
Asagi went over to him and asked, "And what is you logic behind that?"
"Well, even though it's not canon, your fight with Prinny should have occurred-"
"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!" was all that was remembered by anyone in attendance as a second later the gunner was nowhere to be found, while Asagi had her huge bazooka on her shoulder with smoke coming out of it. With a slight twitch in her left eye, the Main Character announced in one breath, "The canon is not what's important gunner it's when in real-time I was beaten I mean SURE I was beaten by Hero Prinny and turned into a Prinny myself before I even became the Queen of Games but a game including that wasn't made until recently so it didn't count until now! *huff* *huff*" The young lady was out of breath, and reasonably so. She killed a demon, mouthed off at two more, and explained the logic of her plan to a demon who had no remains… She's been quite busy.
Catching her breath, Asagi concluded, "Tomorrow, the commencement of my new game Disgaea: Revenge of the Fallen shall take place. So until then, everyone who doesn't want to go on this adventure with me, I'd advise you to make yourselves useful in the plot of the story later on… Uh, that's it." Asagi headed off to Mao's room and shut the door behind her, leaving the crowd of demons to mingle amongst themselves… that is until a scream was heard followed by doors opening and an assortment of thing being thrown into the courtyard from Mao's room, including Superhero Aurum. Agitated, Asagi went back into Mao's room shouting in disgust of the creepiness of the former Overlord, and about how dirty his room was.
This caused the crowd of demons to have comedic sweat drops appear on their foreheads. They realized that the new Overlord was crazy and none of them wanted any part of this insanity of hers.
-Freshmen Homeroom Class-
After leaving Asagi's assembly, Ryuki, with Reio directly on his heels, searched the Netherworld for the bookie who screwed him over. He ended up in Homeroom after a tip from a worker Prinny, but the 'Soul Reaper' felt as though he was further from finding his prey. After a few minutes of searching, Ryuki slammed his fist into the teacher's desk, breaking it in half. "Argh, why can't I find him!?" yelled the black haired Gladiator, his voice resonating throughout the class.
"Heh, you're pissed?" began Reio. "I bet half of my paycheck of that damn fight! THEN, when my bet paid off, that damnable Asagi went and ruined everything!" The Marauder was so furious that he could probably break a fully reincarnated Baal in two. He was on the verge of tearing the classroom apart when a thought popped into his mind. He looked at his companion and asked, "Ay jerk-off, how in the Netherworld did you know that Asagi was going to win? Hell, she wasn't even a viable choice!" Ryuki, amazed by his partner's question, simply laughed out loud. This further pissed off Reio, who proceeded to grab the gladiator by his collar and lifted him off the ground. "You think his is funny? What the hell did you do, cheat? You slimy little-"
Ryuki began to laugh even harder. Seeing that Reio's anger was for real, he kicked off of Reio escaping his grip, landed a few feet away from him, and tried to straighten his composure. When he thought he was finished, Ryuki said, "Of COURSE I cheated! This IS the Netherworld we're talking about! You know, the place where everything is generally acceptable except righteousness."
Reio speedily walk over to Ryuki with his hand cocked back. As he took a swing at Ryuki, he roared, "You sonnuva-" but he stopped himself both verbally and physically as he fully took in everything. After doing so, the Marauder couldn't help but laugh; he, and everyone else who had place bets, had been duped. But that's how demons played 'fair'. After a minute or so of laughing, Reio straightened up and said, "So we're looking for that bastard bookie, right?" Ryuki nodded. "Well we might as well try to get a bill passed that'll let the Gatekeeper Prinny make a gate to wherever that bastard is."
"Ha, it's so obvious! I gotta thank that Prinny later." And thus the two set off for the School-wide Homeroom Assembly (aka Homeroom).
-The Courtyard-
After some tongue lashings from Reio and Ryuki, the duo was able to persuade the Representatives into passing the 'Locate the Bookie who gypped Ryuki' bill. Feeling kind of proud of themselves, the two of them laxly made their way toward the Dimensional Gate; that is, until Reio saw someone in black waving to them. The Marauder signaled for Ryuki to stop, and then tried to get a better look at the person. After squinting for a bit, a look of horror came to Reio's face as he began to pull Ryuki as fast as he could toward the Dimensional Gate.
Confused, Ryuki resisted and questioned, "Hey, what are you doing? Get off me!"
"No time, gotta go! Crazy-ass thief has found-"
"Hi you two!" said a cheerful young thief.
Ryuki turned to see a familiar face. "Het Yui, how ya been?"
"I've had better days." The thief shifted her feet around remembering the actions of the Overlord earlier. "Yeah, but anyway what're you two up to? Planning on ditching out and joining up with Versace? Or maybe you were planning to go see Mao? Hmmmmmm?"
At this point the thief was really close to Reio's face. The Marauder's face got a little flustered. "A-a-ay, dumb broad, leave me the hell alone would'ya? And stay away from me! Flat-chested girls like you give me the creeps!"
Ignoring his last remark, Yui got closer to Reio, their bodies touching now, and in the softest and sweetest manner she said, "Aw, what's the matter? Having a hard time admitting it? Hey, how about this…"
She whispered something into Reio's ear that caused him to have a nosebleed. Trying to cover this up, Reio pushed the girl away from him while wiping his nose. Ryuki couldn't help but laugh at the sight. He had known the two of them for years, and it's always the same. His instincts told him that they were into each other, but neither would admit it, even though Yui leads Reio on every time they encounter one another. After witnessing a verbal assault from Reio onto Yui, Ryuki separated the two of them and said, "Listen Yui, stop bothering Reio, for now. We're looking for the bookie that screwed me over."
"Aww, and here I was thinking that it was some big deal," said Yui disappointingly. "If that's all it's not a big… Hey take me with you!"
Ryuki sighed. "Yui, I don't want to have to deal with you two today. No offense but-"
"I've got news that you'll want!" interrupted the thief. This raised Ryuki's eyebrows. "First off, Asagi's going on a backwards revenge adventure starting tomorrow that'll be known as Disgaea: Revenge of the Fallen."
"The hell?! Ain't that like violating copyright or something? Is she crazy!?!" yelled Reio. "Sure, stealing, killing, and cheating are fine and dandy; but getting charged with a copyright violation… that'll ruin my image! I'll never be able to be cast in another fanfic!"
"Anyway, that's the first order of business," said Ryuki, not fazed by this new development. "What else do you have?"
"Let's see… Oh yeah, your bookie friend had like some strong looking bodyguards with him!" Yui's eyes began to sparkle. "This is the perfect chance for you two to see what I'm made-"
"It's a great chance to see if you'll die. Yui, if there's nothing else, please just stay-"
"A certain Force Knight is coming back later today, and if I the right things she'll stop talking to you!" blurted out the female thief. She had a confident look in her eye, as if she had attained victory, and judging by Ryuki's reaction she had. The male fighter was at a loss for words. His face was flustered, and all he could do was give Yui an evil stare, which was overlooked by the confident thief. "So, shall we get going?"
Defeated, Ryuki lead the way as the three of them made their way towards the Dimensional Gate. Upon arriving there, the Dimensional Prinny already aware of their situation, via a Representative, opened up a gate to 'Strongest Entrance'. Before letting them go through, the Gatekeeper asked Ryuki, "Uh dood, you think you could reincarnate me? I mean you ARE the Reaper of Souls around here, dood."
Sighing, Ryuki said, "Reaping a soul prematurely will partially destroy the soul… but is this like a full reincarnation where you start of as a child, or a partial reincarnation, where you take what you have and just transfer bodies."
"The second one, dood!" said the Gatekeeper enthusiastically. "The first one requires the Red Moon, and I totally missed that, dood."
"We'll see when I come back." The three vassals then entered through the dimensional gate.
The Gatekeeper Prinny went back to his duty, thinking about how awesome it was going to be to be reincarnated. "Maybe I'll turn into a Fist Fighter, dood! Like Master Versace! Or maybe I'll become a Masked Hero, like our hero Prinny Mask, dood!! Or maybe I'll become a Nekomata or a Succubus… dood." The Prinny's nose(?) began to bleed as he thought about how fun it would to be either one of those monster-types. "Hehehe, MAYBE I'll become a Kunoichi, dood, or or, a Magic Kni-" All of a sudden an Armor Knight emerged from the gate, beaten and battered. This caused the Prinny to go hysterical. "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, dood! W—w-w—w-what is going-" Then, Yui and Reio jumped out of the gate and landed on both sides of the Armor Knight, followed by Ryuki who calmly walked out of the gate, his Death Scythe gripped firmly in his right hand. "Ma-Ma-Ma-Masters!?! What are you doing back alrea-"
"Pick him up," commanded Ryuki in a monotone tone, and his companions complied. The Armor Knight was almost out of it and had to be held up by Reio and Yui. Looking into his victim's eyes, Ryuki said in the same tone, "Bookie, you have one more chance: pay up, or pay the price. The choice is yours."
The Armor Knight spit on Ryuki's shoes. "Ha, you think I'm scared of you three? So what, you'll kill me and I'll be reborn and I'll STILL know where the money is!"
A devilish grin appeared on Ryuki's face that sent chills down even Reio's spine. "Well, you're right about one thing, I will kill you." He reached inside of his left belt pocket and pulled out a blood red cloak. Holding it in his hand, Ryuki said to the bookie, "You know, I told Mao he should just put a Death in charge of reaping souls, but he was on bad terms with the Deaths since they wanted his 1.8 million EQ." Ryuki began to put on the cloak. "So then I told him to use a brute warrior, like Reio here, but he said that they would just genocide everyone." By this point all of Ryuki's body was covered by the cloak except for his head. "So then, being out of viable options, I said a warrior would make the best reaper of souls. We know life, we know death, and we live for both. Now I'm stuck doing this godforsaken job. So I'll ask you again," Ryuki pulled the cloak over his forehead, and his face seemed to disappear into darkness. After a few seconds went by, Ryuki said in a devilishly low raspy voice, "PaY uP, oR," he swung his scythe to the ground. "pAy ThE pRiCe."
The Armor Knight's eyes were bathed in fear, as he realized that he had pissed of the 'Soul Reaper'. The bookie tried to say something, anything, however, looking glaring into the abyss that used to be Ryuki's face had begun to drain his lifeforce from his body. He struggled to say something, but all his attempts ended in failure. Irritated that his captive had yet to say anything after several minutes, Ryuki raised his scythe into the air. "TiMe'S uP! eNjOy NoThInGnEsS!" He then slashed the bookie right down the middle. The bookie's body began disintegrating until nothing was left but a floating red sphere of light was left. Ryuki took the cloak off of his head, grabbed the sphere in his left hand and said in that monotone tone, "Yui, Reio, if your souls ever turn red or black, I'll reincarnate you then kill you myself!" The two of them nodded slowly.
(And I thought I was badass) mumbled Reio.
(Remind me not to do too many evil things) muttered Yui.
Ignoring the two of them, Ryuki slightly squeezed the soul in his hand. He hadn't felt so alive since he and Reio had fought; but that is a story for another chapter. With the bookie's soul in his hand, Ryuki contemplated letting it go where it may, but quickly rid himself of that thought. Once he began squeezing the soul again, someone cast Giga Fire on him. Unfazed by the attack, due to his cloak, Ryuki spun around and was about to annihilate the perpetrator, when he actually saw who it was. "You…" he said in a menacing way.
"Well nice to see you too," said a Force Knight. She pounded her Death's Grab fists together. "Don't destroy that soul! You're better than that."
"Coming from goodie-two-shoes like you I wouldn't be surprised," Ryuki gripped the soul tighter in his hand. "Anyway who the hell are you? It's best that you leave before I-"
"Hello, it's ME! You know, Celeste, your girlfriend!" said the demoness with her hands on her hips. "I mean I know it's been a year, but you SHOULD remember me, you jerk!"
"Huh? Celeste?"
"And what was up with that weird tone? What are you trying to be, a lame boogieman or something?" Celeste walked up and slugged Ryuki in the face. "And another thing, were you about to-" Suddenly, Ryuki dropped his scythe and hugged her tight. Seeing that he had gone to his normal self, Celeste reciprocated the hug. "Ha, I missed you too." She looked over at Reio and Yui and mouthed, (What happened with him?)
"Uh… the cloak?" said Yui awkwardly.
Celeste took notice of his cloak and then it hit her, he was in the process of reaping a soul. She softly pushed him off of her and said, "Don't destroy that poor soul. Let him make it up in his next life."
Ryuki returned to squeezing the soul. In an awkward way he said, "Red and black souls will only spawn evil beings, unless they make it to the Underworld. Sure demons are supposedly 'bad' but we're not inherently evil, and I'm not going to allow anyone to say we are… unless it's one of us!" Ryuki glared at Celeste hoping to get some sort of reaction, but she just looked and him with pity in her eyes. Seeing this, Ryuki averted his eyes and cursed himself. "Damn it, I could never beat you…"
"So you'll," began Celeste.
Ryuki threw the soul into the air, where it began to float in the direction of the Underworld. Taking of the cloak, Ryuki began head toward his quarters as he said, "Tomorrow's a big day. With Versace gone, and Asagi as the new Overlord, I'm basically a 'right hand man' again. So rest up, and be ready to go whenever she is."
"Yes sir!" Reio, Celeste, and Yui said simultaneously.
(Heh, if only more demons were dependable like them) thought Ryuki as he envisioned how Asagi's quest would end up. One thing was for sure, he didn't like the idea of taking down a bunch of Overlord-tier and higher demons. Sighing to himself Ryuki said, "I just hope Asagi is as dependable a human as they are…"
A/N: A couple of things. 1. Due to the introduction of three original characters in this chapter, this and the next chapter will have two character Bios. 2. I am REALLY debating changing the name of the story to Disgaea: Revenge of the Fallen, I believe that it would work better for some reason. 3. Asagi is based off of a combination of all of her cameos with the Soul Nomad and Prinny: CIRBTH personas sticking out the most (they were the most badass/funny in my opinion). 4. Techincally the description for my story will work for at least two more chapters... Uh... If I have anything else I'll report that in my next chapter.
Character Bio(s):
Yui
Age: 847
Class: Demon (Master Thief)
A lighted hearted demon, she is known throughout the Academy for stealing almost everything, including Mao's title of Overlord while he was sleeping (she returned it before he woke up as to not incur his wrath). She, Ryuki and Versace were all a part of Mao's first batch of vassals. Yui only places her trust in Celeste, Ryuki, and occasionally Reio. She's been known to be an delinquent, but only a marginal one (due to all her thefts). Initially competitive with Celeste, she has started to be envious of her (and has secretly been taking classes to boost her efficiency with fists). One of the most playful demons one could meet, over the last couple of years she has started to have feelings for Reio and has noticed that the psychotic demon seems to feel the same way. Thus begins their struggle. Two opposites, who hated each other with a passion, now have feelings for one another. On one side, Reio is trying his hardest to ignore and oppress these feelings; on the other, Yui keeps playing around with Reio to get him to open up… Nothing shall ever be accomplished.
Celeste
Age: 1009
Class: Demon (Force Knight)
Celeste's story is one of great mystery… who am I kidding. She was raised by angels in Celestia, and around the age of 673 graciously thanked them and descended onto Mao's Netherworld. Unused to the customs of the Academy, she was at a loss of what to do until Ryuki showed up one day. He relentless picked on her and made her do ridiculous activities like jumping off cliffs, fighting sober Baciels (which is hard to do, since they are hard to find), and stealing Roc eggs. After a couple of years of this, Ryuki told Mao's father about her and the Overlord made her his vassal. She is a renowned delinquent, only outmatched by heros, Raspberyl and her crew. One hundred years ago, Celeste and Ryuki began going out. It was around then when the reaper of souls Died and Ryuki succeeded her, and Celeste became a sword for hire. She is a kindhearted demon, due to her upbringing in Celestia, and has been known to show mercy for her marks (unless they said something that was completely unforgivable to her). An overall blissful demon, her biggest vice is if one badmouths Angels and/or Celestia.
