Pretty short chapter today but it leads to the end of this story.
Next chapter will be then end and it will be taken over by a new story i posted the first chapter to the other day.

"Where am I?"

I started to look around the place I was in. It was bleak and endless, nothing to see for miles and my eyes were assaulted by the colour white. The walls, the sky and the ground were all white with no other color to see; even my own clothes had been changed to a white. It was eerie and felt strange, it somewhat resembled purgatory to me but I hadn't died … at least not yet anyway.

{Sora, you are awake.}

I saw the familiar black dragon appear before me but at only half the size.

"I am. What happened and why are you that small?"

{You got angry and nearly killed Diodora Astaroth along with both Sona and Rias coupled with their respective peerages. After you regained your senses with my help your knees gave way and you collapsed while coughing up blood.}

"Then my body is…?"

Zirnitra shook his head from side to side in a playful fashion.

{It's in the best hospital in the Underworld that is a part of the Sitri clan. You were moved there after you had stopped coughing up blood which you had continued to do for a while after collapsing.}

"Then what is wrong?"

{Your anger as a male is insane and for some reason is directly link to your life force. Your life force fuels your anger and makes you angrier and angrier at the cost of your life shredding the amount of time you have left to live.}

That's crazy, how could something like that happen? Anger fuelled by life, it makes absolutely no sense to me.

"Then what can we do?"

{I only see three ways and they all have chances of early death, early being a wide range in this case.}

"The ways?"

{First off there is the one which is to end your life here and now being the simplest option. Secondly there is to just leave you and let you be enveloped by anger and possibly kill everyone and yourself in the match against Diodora.}

"…The last option?"

{That is the hardest and the one I am leaning to but it splits into two paths. The main point to it is that you have to stay as a girl for either a long time or forever. We could kill off your male side and alleviate your anger but it wouldn't get rid of it, your anger would still be fuelled by your life force but not as strongly and you won't be angered so quickly. The other side is to stay as a woman for a long period of time while I work with the spirits of the animals inside you to try and change the personality of your male side and hopefully deal with the problem. The end result will still have an anger problem but less severe.}

That's a pretty hefty thing to do.

"Any repercussions for the last idea?"

{Yeah. If we are to change your male side then your body will be under a bit of stress and you will tire easily, a normal day of school might even tire you out but you will keep your strength but no balance breaker because I will be too occupied. The best thing for you to do, if we were to start this option, is to lead a normal life and take up reading. It would be better if you read books on animals so you can learn about more animals bringing more spirits to help out.}

"That seems like the best option so what's the catch?"

Zirnitra gave me a solemn look before replying to me a moment later.

{Your male side could die in the process and possibly your whole being. It will be like a dangerous surgery that lasts for week's maybe even months plus there isn't a 100% that it will work. It is around 50/50 to honest but I am willing to take the chance to get you back to before.}

Zirnitra's voice was full of emotion, this was the first time he seemed genuinely wary of something. Even against Kokabiel he wasn't that bothered and knew we would win one way or another even as we entered Titan's wrath, he wasn't that worried but now he is. It brings everything home and how troublesome this actually is but what can I do. The first two options are out of the question, I can't afford to leave the two peerages or my own let alone Sona now that we are married. The question is which option I should take for the last way.

It doesn't really matter that much to me because either way I can still reproduce and make a child as long as I can have her blood but then it is on Sona. What me does she want? Who I am or the male body of me. I guess I'll speak to Sona first.

{When you feel your body starting to be pulled away, allow it. You'll be brought back to your world and in your female form. I'll start getting ideas together for if they choose to keep your male form plus I will explain everything to them so just rest.}

He really is a good dragon when you put his cheekiness to the side. He truly does care about me even though he jokes around a lot, it must be his way of showing his love and changing according to the moment.

I then felt myself being pulled from behind and allow my body to be pulled away as my eyes close and open a moment later. My ears were assaulted by the beeping of a monitor which showed my heart rate, it was steady at least. Looking down to my body I could only see my arms as the rest of my body was under the sheets, I shuffled in the bed until I was sitting upright against the pillows which acted as a soft wall between my back and the cold bars of the bed's headboard.

After turning my head again, I see that no-one is in my room but I could definitely hear voices of people I knew from outside the room. I didn't need to be in this hospital room any longer so I took the tube from out of my arms and ripped the pads that were connected to my chest off and sat on the edge of the bed as beat on the monitor slowed down before turning into a constant bleep. I stood up from the bed and used a little magic to change my clothes into something more decent, a pair of black running shoes, slightly baggy black jeans and a black shirt which wasn't fully buttoned exposing some of my cleavage.

I felt the blood momentarily leave my head as I used my magic and stumbled slightly before grabbing the handle on the door to support myself. I opened the door slowly to troubled faces and confused looks from the doctors; I guess that means that I was male until I woke up alone in that room. Both Sona and Rias immediately came to my side and held onto my arms to keep me up, my legs felt like jelly but they were slowly returning to me.

"Okami Sora, you should rest. We haven't got the results on your tests yet."

"It doesn't matter doc. I already know what's wrong; the only thing that'll show up on the test is a fluctuation of my magic revealing a lack of life force. There is nothing that current medicine can do and I already have a way to deal with it, I'll just return home for now."

I take a step forward and find that my body is back to normal, both Rias and Sona let go of my arms allowing me to walk away. I started to walk down the halls of the hospital so I could stand in front of it for a while before returning home and as I left I heard one thing. "…Anger." That word came from the doctor's mouth, it seemed like he knew what was happening to me, I guess he will cover some parts of the situation for Zirnitra.

I found myself on a bench in front of the hospital ten minutes after leaving my room there. I had gingerly walked past everyone before without talking to them as they looked at me eagerly while sitting in the chairs of the waiting area on the main floor of the hospital. None of them had bothered to follow me thankfully leaving me to relax and take in a cool breeze that was almost non-existent here in the underworld. From now on, I'll be leading a normal life if you disregard what is happening inside my body and the people around me. I don't think this would take me away from being able to do contracts, I can still teach my kouhai anyway so it shouldn't be too bad.

I took my necklace in my hand and started to stare at it reminding me of everything that has happened since coming to Kuoh academy. It brought everything that was missing to my life, happiness, sadness, anger, laughter and trouble. My life before was kinda lazy, I would help pops out with his smithing and when I was free I would play games or read up on animals. There were also the occasional times that I left the house to see the birds in the park making friends with them. There is also the time that bank incident which made me a local celebrity and got me my job with the police, even if I was to drop out of school now I would have a job and it would then start to take up more of my time due to not being in school anymore.

There seemed to be many things to work around this situation but nothing seemed concrete or even eye-catching to me. Not one option looked better than the others making me confused, how could I be so stumped on something that concerns my own well-being. All the choices were grim in one way or another, mainly being death with my male side dying in all of them as a definite except the last where it is a 50/50 chance of it.

'Zirnitra, if my male side was to die then would people forget that I am a boy?'

{Well you would think that they'd forget over time if you are in a females body but in this case as soon as your male side dies everyone will forget you had one even yourself. There is one problem for this whole situation.}

'What would that be?'

{Due to your illness, it seems that you are unconsciously leaking your dragon aura and dragon slayers have caught wind of it. I think that the Khaos brigade has caught wind of it as well. The situation is looking grimmer by the second, your chance of living is slim.}

'…. So …. Should I go out with a bang?'

{..Huh?! You are just going to give in and let them kill you? Both Rias and Sona will risk their lives to save you even their peerages will do the same, heck probably even their families will as well. They can protect you when things get tough.}

'That doesn't matter to me anymore. It's not like I can do anything anymore let alone lead a normal life.'

{So you are giving up?}

'I might as well … enemies are going to be coming after me and if I stay with them then they'll be in danger from the Khaos brigade because of me, Issei and my kings because they are sisters of Maous. Plus the dragon slayers may catch wind of Issei and go after him too.'

{…..Ok then. At least you intend to die fighting.}

I drop my head and look to the floor. Small dark spots appear on the floor as tears start to pour out of my eyes and trickle down my face. It's way too early to die, my life was never even great in the first place. Was I destined to die young, destined to live a life of danger?

'Yeah, I'll take as many as I can with me. It'll help the others.'

{Then I'll exert myself. If you are going then I am going with you, I'll support you in Titan's wrath. If you die while in Titan's wrath then my soul will die as well. We can then meet again in the afterlife, there are people I want to protect just like you.}

'Thanks … buddy.'

We are now back at home and inside my room lying on my bed plotting how to end this.

'How should we do it?'

{With as a big as a bang that can happen. A hero's death.}

'Then we should hit them where it hurts the most, we'll need to attack their main base or an important one.'

{Sounds like a plan, I'll get to finding it. I'll be gone for a while to do so.}

I turn my head to look at the clock on my desk, it was nearly lunch and I was home alone. The others had gone to school rather reluctantly even though I told them I would be fine. I am bored though without Zirnitra so I might as well go for the remainder of the day so I walked to my wardrobe and put on my uniform.

I am still kind of iffy with wearing girl's clothes especially the short skirts that are so popular. It's weird that girls like them so much; I mean your legs get frozen. I left the house quickly and started to walk the seemingly long road to school, I took my time walking to school as I felt my stamina start to leave me when I walked my normal pace. It looks like I was taking baby steps as it took me two feet to get up a single step even though they were small enough to skip a step.

An easy ten minute journey turned into a half an hour trek and by the time I got to school the lunch break was over and class had started again. I slowly made my way through the hallways of the school passing by classrooms belonging to the first years that had their doors open. The stairs to my year's floor were a hassle to go up as I had little stamina left, I was getting worried. If I can barely get to school without falling asleep halfway through then how am I going to fight? I wonder if that what Zirnitra meant about helping, he would look after my body leaving me to concentrate on fighting.

Once I got to my class, I slowly opened the door and walked in dragging my feet collapsing as I got to my chair. My classmates stared at me in worry, both Kiba and Saji stared at me the worst. I saw Saji take out his phone and texted someone who I found out to be Sona at the next break in between our lessons, I was berated for coming to school and was told to go to the student council room after school and to which I couldn't resist as I hadn't the ability to.

When the end of school came, I waited in the classroom until everyone else had left. Both Kiba and Saji had stayed behind to take me to the student council room and when we did I was met with many familiar and upset faces which I found myself unable to look at. I turned my head once I saw them and looked straight to the ground. Both families of Sona and Rias were here along with Sirzechs and Serafall.

I knew the reason that they are here. They want me to rest, preferably in a hospital but what good would any of that do? I would end up putting everyone else at risk; the only thing left for me is to go out blazing. I listened to each of them scold and console me but didn't take any of it in, it would be best for them to forget about me now so they don't have to deal with my death.

{Sora, I have found them.}

'That was quick, where are they?'

{The place where nothing supernatural lives. The Sahara desert.}

Here ends the penultimate chapter. The finale will be longer, hopefully breaking 6,000 words.
As my first story it got me to learn how to write better and it's allowed me to find something that i love to do.
I know my stories aren't the best but i want to thank you guys for reading my stories.
This sounds like i'm am finishing writing forever or am going to die but i definately aren't it's too fun.
Anyway, i just wanted to thank you guys here because this was the story that started my profile.
It was a serious story but it's not what people liked from me. My new story will be taking over from this and will have a lot more seriousness than my other stories. King of Black flames has a serious storyline despite the jokes.

Anyway thanks for your help, Ciao for now.