Contract 1- Imaginary friend
"Oh man, I overslept!" Said a male teen with spiky brown hair and eyes, who was wearing some kind school uniform consisting of a long-sleeved, button-down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, matching black pants, and brown dress shoes. This young man was Issei Hyoudou, the oldest sibling of the Hyoudou household.
"Ise-nii! Let's go! We're gonna be late for school!" Shouts a female voice. Said voice came from a young girl in her teens, she had long shoulder hair that she kept in a ponytail and even bangs, she was wearing a female variant of the school uniform, which consisted of a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, a black shoulder cape and matching button-down corset, and a magenta skirt with white accents. This was the female sibling of the Hyoudou household. Satsuki Hyoudou.
"Coming! Just a minute!" Replied the oldest Hyoudou sibling, who was putting on the school's black blazer with white accents over a white.
"You're still getting your uniform on? What were you even doing this morning, Issei?" Asks another male voice, said voice belonged to a teen of average height if not a little shorter than Issei but as tall as Satsuki, unlike his brother though he kept his darker brown haired laced and straight splitting perfectly down the middle, he was also wearing the same uniform as Issei, this was the younger male Hyoudou sibling and Satsuki's brother. Daito Hyoudou.
"Sorry Daito! I overslept." Replies Issei as he comes down the stairs while awkwardly rubbing the back of his head.
"Again? You can't keep doing this, Ise-nii! Have you even had breakfast yet?" Asked Satsuki, concerned.
"Nope! But I'm fine, Satsuki. I can operate until lunch." Says Issei with a not-so-reassuring smile.
"I'll take your word for it, but don't let me catch you oversleeping again!" Scolds Satsuki, her raised fist promising pain. Issei shrinks back slightly, his smile wavering.
"Sometimes I wonder who is really the oldest sibling." Says Daito with a sigh as the trio sibling leaves for school.
The three siblings made their way across town and eventually made it to their school, Kuoh Academy.
Kuoh Academy used to be an all girls school before transitioning to co-ed less than a decade ago. As such it boasts a mostly female student base. While many boys begged their parents to enroll them at the academy in hopes of getting a girl, the Hyoudou parents, Miki and Gorou, had enrolled Issei his first year due to the superior private education at Kuoh. Satsuki and Daito had joined him this year for their first year. Inside Kuoh there are many famous and infamous people and groups.
One of them was a beautiful young girl of voluptuous figure and intense and long red hair with clear blue eyes wearing the female uniform. This was the ever beautiful and mysterious Rias Gremory.
The other was also another beautiful young girl with long black hair tied in a ponytail with a yellow ribbon and purple eyes. She was Akeno Himejima, a close friend of Rias known for her elegant yet kind and sisterly behavior and aura.
They also met other figures such as the blond haired school prince Yuuto Kiba who with his good looks and knightly mannerisms had almost girl in the school to their feet, they also met the hated perverted duo of Motohama and Matsuda(no one ever bothered remembering their full names) who used every opportunity to leech at girls, to the ice cold Sona Shitori and her watchful and mighty student council.
In comparison, the three siblings didn't share this recognition. Sure, Satsuki may be the star of the martial arts club, but she isn't widely recognised by most of the school. Same with her brothers, the three of them are just like any other student. The three siblings then parted ways to go to their classes.
"I have martial arts practice so I'll be home late." Said Satsuki.
"I have airsoft practice after school." So it's the same deal for me.
"Very well, Take care, both of you." Said Issei as he walked towards his class
As Issei walked to his homeroom he bumped slightly into someone, said someone turned out to be a petit, white-haired student with hazel eyes. Her name was Koneko Toujou, also known as the school's mascot because of her cute mannerisms. Because of this Issei had heard some people talking about her before, though he had never really met her.
"Sorry, I didn't see you." He says.
"It's fine." She replies in a monotone. Issei walks off but Koneko keeps staring at him with a blank look as he goes. "Hmm, I'll have to tell Buchou later about him."
The school day came and went without much fanfare. It was almost the end of the day, classes were wrapping up, and people were getting ready to leave. Issei packs his bag and leaves class. He's passing the gym when a familiar voice pipes up.
"Yo, Issei, creep crew at nine o clock." Issei looks and sees Matsuda and Motohama, knelt outside one of the gym locker rooms, peeking through a crack. Issei sighs. "Want me to take care of them?" Asks the voice.
"No, I'll get them, maybe I can get them to leave without the kendo club beating them up." He says back.
"But partner, that isn't the kendo club locker room, it's the martial arts club locker room."
Issei's eyes widened before turning into a hostile gaze. "You know what, I changed my mind, let 'em have it." He says in a hostile tone.
"On it!" Issei's shadow seems to extend towards the two boys, making turns to get right behind them. Once it reaches them, a black arm with slight claws peaks out of the shadow before tickling the boys' legs
"Coochie Coochie Coo!" The shadow said while tickling their legs and feet.
The boys unable to contain it anymore let out a boisterous fit of giggles.
"Do you guys hear that?" A martial arts club member said from the other side of the wall as the shadow hand disappeared.
As soon as the two guys noticed this they realized that shit had just hit the fan, and they had to get the hell out of there.
"Look what we have here girls." A female voice said, both boys turned their heads and saw the martials club members staring down at the boys with Satsuki Hyoudou leading them. The girls had an expression that could be described as a combination of indignity and killing intent. "A pair soon to be boxing bags."
"G-Girls we can explain!" Matsuda and Motohama said before the girls lay hell upon them. Issei, on the other hand, had the sense to leave before he could possibly be associated with the two.
The young teen was on his way to his home, although unaware by most if one looked closely it would appear that said boy had two shadows and he was talking with one of them.
"He he he, that was pretty great, you should have seen the look on their faces. Thanks for letting me deal with them." Laughed the voice.
"No problem, nobody peeks on my sister and gets away with it." Issei looks at his feet for a moment. "Hey, Vice."
"Yeah?"
"Are we gonna talk about the package?"
"Package? What package? There is no package!"
"You know what I mean, Vice. I know you don't like it but we have to open it."
"But why? It feels so wrong, and I know we both had that same nightmare last night. And besides, we spent like all morning trying to open the thing and it wouldn't budge. I say we just forget it."
"But the note says it is something we need."
"What could we possibly need? Especially something in that secure of a box, with that threatening of an aura."
"I don't know, but I will find out."
"Jeez, and you call me stubborn."
"Well, now we see where you got that from." Issei steps in the front door of his house. "I'm home!" He shouts, mostly on reflex as he knows nobody else is home. Satsuki is at her club meeting, Daito is at the airsoft range, and his parents are at work. He has the house to himself and a mysterious package to unlock. He discards his bag and goes to his room. Sitting on his carpet is a rectangular metal container, it has no clear openings or ways to open it and no seams to force open.
Issei's shadow expands again. This time, a figure emerges from it. Their skin is almost like armor and is pitch black except for blue lines along the ridges of their body, but the most notable part is the face. They have long pointed ears, ridged white hair-like streaks on top, large blue eyes, and a blue facemask with a crooked grin drawn on the front. His figure is translucent and from the waist down he trails off into a ghost-like wisp. "So, what do we do?" Asks Vice.
"I dunno, I tried prying it open, I tried breaking it open, I tried yelling at it, I even threw it out the second story window." Issei touches the surface of the box again, its powerful aura felt clearly by both the room's inhabitants.
"Well! we tried, I say we call it a day. Hey! On the way in I saw a note from your mom. You're out of milk, let's go grab that!"
Issei sighs "Why are you so hesitant on this, Vice. You love crazy stuff like this."
"Yeah, but this drifts from crazy to creepy. I mean, an unmarked metal box arrives for you with no clear way to open it. Not to mention the presence of the damn thing. This has "bomb" written all over it." Vice said while making an explosion sign with his hands.
"You gotta stop reading all that clickbait news stuff, it's making you paranoid. Why would anyone send us a bomb?"
"I don't know, maybe someone found out about me and wants me gone. I don't know if there are more like me out there, maybe they aren't as nice and charming and handsome as me!"
Issei looks at Vice with the most deadpan of looks. "Really?"
"I mean, it's not like it's going to magically open." Vice says as he leans over on the box. Suddenly, the top of the box shifts, "Yipes!" The top shifts outwards from the middle, an internal platform raises itself up, presenting a strange device.
"Huh, well, that worked." Says Issei, still half in shock. Issei looks to the corner, a small pile of dented tools piled up. "Guess we didn't need to raid dad's old tools." Issei grabs the device, or rather, devices from the box. One is bigger, it is mainly purple with light blue and bright red accents. It looks like a belt buckle of some sort, a bulky one at that. It has a white screen facing upwards and an empty slot. If looked at from the front, the red accents resembled a 5 and 0. The other device was cylindrical, it had a rounded top and a square base. It was also purple, with blue parts on the top and base and a bright red design of a T-rex on the face of it. It sort of looked like a weird stamp. "What the hell is this thing?" says Issei as he flips both devices around. They have no branding of any sort, nor any buttons besides one on the top of the stamp. Issei fingers the button before pressing down on it.
Rex!
A strange feeling shoots through Issei, it's not uncomfortable, just unfamiliar. Vice floats up around to face Issei. "W-what was that?" Asks Vice.
"I-I don't know." Replies Issei, looking down at the stamp with slight wonder. But then he remembers something Vice said. "Wait, what was that about milk?"
"Hm? Oh, yeah, your mom left a note, we're out and you need to go get some."
Issei then jumps up in surprise. "Oh man, I totally forgot! Mom's gonna kill me!" Issei grabs his bag, haphazardly throwing the devices into it before exiting the room.
"I told ya to get the milk first. but NOOOO. we had to open the eerie mysterious package first." Vice said in a mocking manner
"You sound like my mom, Vice. Now let's go." He said as Vice followed close.
Issei was now riding on his bike back from the convenience store, since it was far from his home the sun was now setting down when he was getting back home. "Dammit, I'm gonna be late. Mom's probably already home by now."
"It just had to be your luck that the only convenience store opened at this time was away from our area." Vice said.
"I'll take a shortcut through the park."
"I don't know Issei. Something tells me we shouldn't."
"C'mon, you big baby, what's the worst that could happen?"
"Oh come on man! Don't say those words together like that. You should know to never tempt fate!"
"Vice, this isn't a tv show, we'll be fine." Issei takes the shortcut. The park is empty, so he was going at a decent speed. Suddenly, Issei feels a presence. It is similar to the one he felt when he pressed the stamp, but this one was more malicious. Issei stops his bike.
"Vice, you feel that."
"You mean the thing that's making chills go down my ghostly spine? Yeah, I feel it. Cause we're about to mess with something we shouldn't"
Issei dismounts his bike, walking towards the presence. It's coming from the bushes nearby. As he walks over, he hears a growling noise. "Is it, like, a dog?"
"What sort of dogs have you been hearing? That is a wolf at least. Or someone is doing it in the bushes"
Issei ignores Vice's innuendo and inches closer to the bushes, when suddenly something jumps out at him. Issei struggles with it before throwing it away from him. He gets to his feet and looks at his attacker. Its body is mostly black, with white, bone-like armor on its upper body.
"What the hell?" The creature charges again. Issei jukes it to the side, letting its lunge miss. The creature turns and grapples Issei again.
"What are you!?" Issei shouts, the creature only responds by growling. Issei pushes the thing off, but another figure jumps him from behind. He looks to see another of the same creature, with 3 more coming out from the bushes.
"How many of them are there?" Issei throws the one on his back off and kicks it in the chest. He backs away, the 5 monsters circling him like sharks. "Dammit, what do I do?"
"Don't worry Issei! I got ya!" Issei's shadow expands and Vice's arm rises again and trips up one of the monsters. Issei takes the opportunity and runs past the downed creature. The monsters give chase.
Issei runs as fast as his legs can take him, but the monsters behind him don't seem to be tiring. One of the monsters catches up and trips Issei. He tumbles down but regains his footing, but the monsters are upon him again. Issei shouts and punches one of the creatures in the head, making it stumble but not fall. Another runs up from behind him and he turns and kicks it. Two grab him by the arms and hold him still while another tackles him and knocks him back down. Issei rolls and his bag falls off. The device tumbles out of the bag, the monsters taking notice of it and backing up slightly. Issei notices this, "What the?" He grabs the device.
"Are they scared of it?" He holds it towards the monsters, it stops them for a moment, but then one runs forwards and punches Issei back. Issei tumbles, but in the confusion the bigger device hits his waist. A belt shoots out from the device and wraps around his waist. Issei recovers and discovers the item now attached to him.
"What the hell? It's a belt?" Issei looks at the stamp-like device, "Then what does this do? Maybe if I…" Issei said before pressing the bottom at the top.
Rex!
Suddenly, the bottom of the stamp begins flashing, as does the screen of the belt. "Does it want me to… Place it here?" Issei thought out loud before doing so and pressed the stamps bottom against the screen, energy bursting from the contact.
C'mon! R-R-R-Rex! C'mon! R-R-R-Rex!
A giant version of the stamp appears above Issei."What the hell!" He braces himself but Vice flies out and catches it.
"I got it buddy don't worry" Vice says, his voice slightly strained and his body clearly struggling to keep it up.
The empty slot on the belt begins to flash. "I put it… Here?" Issei inserts the stamp in the slot, it locks in place. "What next?"
"Could you hurry it up? Those guys are gaining on us."
"What?" Issei turns, in the process his hand knocks the stamp sideways, the assembly moving like a lever and turning the screen to face forwards.
Buddy up!
"Oh no!" The stamp above begins falling. Issei holds his arms up to protect himself, but when it lands on him he phases through it.
"What the?" The fluid in the stamp molds around him, solidifying into an outer shell.
Ohing! Shoning! Rolling! Going! Kamen Rider! Revi! Vice! ReVice!
The stamp burst, extra bits of armor flying out towards the floating form of Vice "What!?" The armor parts combine onto him, attaching onto his arms, legs, chest, and a helmet slipping over his head. Vice falls out of the air as his form becomes more solid. "AAAAAAAHHH-OOF!" Vice hits the ground next to Issei, who is now wearing a full suit of armor. The armor is mostly pink, with a blue secondary and a purple undersuit. His helmet sports big red eyes and a toothy grin on its face. Vice on the other hand has sparse armor on his lower legs, thighs, shoulders, wrists, and a patch on his chest with a T-Rex emblazoned on it, a similar symbol on Issei's left pec armor. His helmet is almost cartoony, looking like it is stitched together to resemble a T-Rex. He also has a pink scarf and a tail out his back.
"Oww," Vice rubs his head as he stands up, "wait a minute," he looks himself over, grabbing his leg "I'm physical, I have legs! And a tail too, for some reason?" He shouts excitedly, trying to jump in joy but losing balance and tumbling over again.
"What is this?" Ask Issei as he looks over his own suit. His thoughts are interrupted as one of the monsters lunges at him "Ah!" Issei shouts in surprise and punches on instinct. Unlike his previous strikes, this one sends the monster flying backwards, seeming to actually hurt it.
"Woah." Issei looks back at his fist. The other monsters begin charging Issei, but Vice runs forwards and grabs two of them.
"Oh no you don't!" Vice holds one and delivers two blows to its stomach before punching it in the face. The other one charges him but he grabs it around the neck before flipping it away. Issei delivers a powerful side kick to the head of one of them, before shifting back and spin kicking another.
"Damn, these guys can take a beating!" Says Issei. Another monster jumps at him and knocks him down. He quickly recovers but something is knocked off the side of his belt, it's another stamp like device. It hits the ground and a spiral of red energy comes out the top, forming into an ax with a gun barrel in the handle. Issei takes notice of it and grabs it off the ground, quickly slashing the incoming monster. The monster falls backwards before combusting, leaving nothing behind. "Huh," Issei looks down at the ax, "that works."
"Hey, dude, a little help here!" He looks over to see Vice getting swarmed by the other four monsters.
The stamp on the handle of the ax begins flashing. "Again?" Issei takes the stamp off, then the screen on the head of the ax begins flashing. "Here?" Issei taps the screen with the stamp, a mark similar to his helmet being left on the screen.
Stamp by!
Energy gathers on the blade of the ax. Issei gets into a proper stance. "Vice! Duck!"
"What did you say?" Ask Vice as he looks up to see Issei swing the ax forwards.
Ohing slash!
Curved waves of blue energy fly off the blade. "Yikes!" Vice hits the deck just in time as the slashes cut right through the four monsters, making them explode. Vice looks back at Issei
"That was close. Warn me better next time!" He complains.
"Oh, get over it, you big baby. And besides, it got them all." Suddenly, a rumbling sound begins approaching. The two tense up and look towards the source. From the treeline comes another figure, this one charging right at them!
They dodge out of the way. Looking at the attacker, it's obvious they're stronger than the other monsters. Its upper body looks like the head of an elephant, but blocky and yellow. It has a trunk and tusk on its chest, with the "ears" being arms that had no hands. What really stuck out was the green legs and face which poked out from the top of the elephant's head. Vice looks at Issei with the best deadpan he can manage with his unmoving face, "What did I tell you about tempting fate!"
"You can nag me later, we have a big problem here." Issei said as he lunged towards the monster
Yeah, elephant size problem." Vice replied to which Issei eyerolled inside his helmet. "Not the time for bad puns."
The monster charges at the pair. Both roll out of the way. Issei runs forwards and jump kicks the monster, then uses the momentum to spin and kick again with the other leg. He lands and delivers a solid punch to the monster's chest before slashing with the ax in the other hand. The monster stumbles back before roaring and rushing towards Issei. Issei jumps and boosts himself off the monster's trunk, flipping over it and delivering a kick to its back.
"Hey hey! Leave some for me!" Vice shouts as he runs by and scoops the monster up. He puts the monster on its feet before punching it twice across the chest and then jumping and hammering his fist on its shoulders. The monster falls backwards but quickly recovers. It roars in anger and plunges its arms into the ground before pulling upwards and sending shockwaves of energy at the two. Issei jumps high over the blast while Vice dodges past it, charging the monster and hitting a powerful right hook across its face. Issei falls down towards the monster and delivers a falling kick before launching off.
The stamp begins to flash again. "Huh?" Issei flips the lever mechanism again, the screen rotates up as a standby sound begins to play.
"What is it doing now?" Issei pondered before noticing a bunch of power flowing towards his left leg. "I think it's time to finish this." He says.
"Couldn't agree more, pal!" Replies Vice as a similar energy flows to his right leg as well. The two fighters settle into ready stances as the monster regains its bearings. Issei flicks the lever back.
Rex! Stamping Finish!
Both of them jump forwards, pink energy covering Issei's leg and blue covering Vice's. They fly towards the monster in a double kick, the '5' and '0' symbols on their respective boots glowing brightly as they smash directly into it. The monster reels in pain as they hit it before they both fly past it and land in prone stances. The monster makes one final shout before falling forwards and exploding in a large blast. Issei stands up and removes the stamp from the belt
Vice feels his presence shifting and looks down "Hmm? What's going on?" He sees his armor begin to glow before disappearing as he gets pulled back into Issei "WOOAAAH!" He looks himself over again. "Danggit! Back to ghost mode?"
"It seems that only you can become physical through this belt." Issei said before looking at the belt and the stamp directly, thousands of questions flowing through his mind. Suddenly the belt begins to… Ring? Issei takes it off as the screen projects out a video. A man with his face covered by a gas mask comes into view.
"Hello, Issei Hyoudou, Vice." Issei is surprised that the man knows about Vice, but considering what the belt could do, maybe he shouldn't be. "You can call me Noah for now. I'm sure you have lots of questions, and in due time I will be the one to answer them, but right now all you need to know is that you and everyone around you are in great danger by no fault of your own."
Issei's eyes widened at the implication. Great danger? Did that mean his family? His friends? The whole town? The man, Noah apparently, looked down, a hint of sorrow apparent in his mannerisms.
"I wish there was another way, but currently you are the only one who can stop the imminent threat. The enemy you face are demons, creatures that lie in the soul of every human being, embodying parts of their desires, emotions, and most intimate thoughts. But someone is forcefully unleashing these demons from people and letting them run amok. But that's where you can help." The man looks up, despite having his eyes hidden, Issei can tell he is looking straight at him.
"You've always wondered what Vice is, well I have the answer. Vice is a fully grown demon, a manifestation of your emotions and desires in its most complete state. Unlike the incomplete demons that are at large." At this revelation Issei's eyes widened. Vice is a demon? Vice seemed to share his surprise, as his usually boisterous friend simply floats silently besides him with rapt attention.
"This device, the Revice Driver was created by me to allow you to use the power you and Vice share to fight back against this threat. If I could, I would be there to help you in person, but unfortunately this threat is more widespread than just Kuoh." Noah then brings up a map of Japan beside him, red dots popping up all over it "Demons have been mysteriously appearing all over Japan as of late. While I can deal with the scattered ones, there have been a large amount of signals near your location. I fear that the demons can sense you and Vice's power and are after it. So I have sent you this belt so you can defend yourself." The map then disappears, with Noah pointing at them.
"I may not have a clear answer to why, but you and your demon are exceptionally strong. Your life is about to change, Issei. I'll keep in contact and continue to support you. In the meantime, gather your allies, hone your strength, for this is the start of something bigger than any of us." And with that, the video ends and the screen shuts off, leaving Issei and Vice to process what they've just been told.
Vice looks down at his translucent hands, "I'm… A demon?" He begins to shake slightly before forming his hands into rocker horns and pointing them to the sky "That's totally wicked!" Vice begins rambling on about how cool it is that he's a demon. Meanwhile, Issei is still in total shock. Demon outbreak? His family was in danger? Only he can save them? Issei looks at the Revice driver, a burning determination in his eyes. So be it. Even if it is hard. Even if he gets hurt. Issei will protect his family. But first, he had to get chewed out by mom for being late, and maybe get a new carton of milk.
However unknown to them someone watched the fight.
"Buchou." Says a monotone voice.
A red haired girl looks at the speaker. "Ah, Koneko, do you have something to report?"
Koneko nods. "Followed Issei in school like you asked, I got a scent from him."
"What was it?"
"He smelled like a dragon," Rias smiles at this, "but also something else." Rias raises an eyebrow.
"What else did he smell like?"
"I don't know, unfamiliar smell. Sorta like a human, but different, bigger." Responds Koneko.
Rias turns to her left. "Different? Akeno, are you sure he's human?" She asks.
Akeno nods, "Yes, scans showed no irregularities besides the sacred gear. He's a normal human otherwise."
Rias looks down in thought before turning to Koneko. "You and Kiba continue to keep an eye on him. We'll begin setting up a proper introduction soon." Koneko nods before leaving the room. Rias mutters under her breath while fiddling with a red chess piece. "Issei Hyoudou, I wonder what kind of person you are?"
AN: Hello everyone, to a new fic! I didn't expect this to come out so soon. Special thanks to itspowertime for co-authoring this chapter with me to help the writing go way smoother. So as you can all see, this is a Revice fic. The idea originally was just to have post canon Vice be transported to DXD, but as we expanded upon it, it changed into a full fusion AU rather than a character insert. Fair warning before we continue, this will not have a Harem, I enjoy DXD for the over the top action, not for the horny. Issei will also act differently from canon. I figured that with the responsibilities of being an older brother, Issei would not go towards the path of perverseness. Also, rules from both DXD and Revice will be altered, while most will stay at least mostly identical, there will be divergence from the source material for the sake of story. We're really excited to share this with you and hope we can get the next chapter out soon. Until then, Rate, Review, and enjoy yourselves.