I decided to do a second chapter of this first.
I can finally go off and do Neko now.

Hope you like this one.

Once I mentioned the word Excalibur the atmosphere darkened but more importantly it had a centre, the more appropriate term in this case would be 'Eye' for a potential storm. The only boy is Rias Gremory's peerage looked to have a shadow casted over the top half of his face just hiding his eyes from my vision but I could tell he was annoyed by the word. If he is taking it this badly then he could be a survivor of the experiment from years ago. If so then it may be better to get Xenovia and Irina to leave now seen as their Excaliburs are on their person.

Deciding to do just that, as Rias' Queen was pouring cups of tea I spoke up.

"Xeno, Iri-chan, shouldn't you two be leaving now?"

I asked them this cheerfully but they both looked at me like I was stupid or had a death wish.

"Ise-kun, we can't leave you here with all these devils. You might not think they are bad but we do."

Xenovia didn't stay seated though, she got up and left during Irina's speech.

"Ya know Iri-chan, you say it like i'm gonna listen to your opinion. You know i'm not gonna do that."

I replied back to her again still in my cheery tone as I picked up my cup of tea and started to sip from it. Irina then breathed a deep sigh of annoyance before getting up and quickly following after to Xenovia and try and find her, hopefully they'll think about getting groceries or starting to find clues about why we are here.

As Rias' queen made tea for Rias and Grayfia I picked up my legs and patted my boots with my hands cleaning them off everything and then onto the sofa I was sat on so I was now in a crossed leg position. While continuing to drink my tea, I cast my gaze at her servants. The boy had to be her knight, I could tell by the way he held himself alone, it was samurai-ish, modern age samurai. The petite girl here in the room, she had to be a nekomata the subtle hints gave it away and then there was the hair-clips of a cat. That classification would mean a Rook or a Bishop maybe, her size would probably make her a rook. Then there was the blonde haired girl here that seemed to know me and if my memory is correct I know her too, she would be Asia Argento I believe. She was a girl that was kicked out of the church for healing a devil, that was something I tried to deal with myself but my rank and experience stopped me from getting anywhere. I remember speaking to her once or twice before she was 'let go', almost like they were firing her from a job.

The final one would be the Queen, a half blood like myself although she is the tainted side compared to me. We are opposites in a way. My holy is pure whereas hers is tainted. My dragon side is the embodiment of power where her devil side is the embodiment of greed. I guess she found it to be a shame that the Evil Piece did not take away the Fallen Angel half, to vital a part for devils to get rid of. A potential Holy User as a servant is a good find for Devils.

Then it's the master herself, Rias Gremory. Good specs but terrible application by the looks of it, possibly from family being overprotective or burden because her brother is seen to be a prodigy. Other than that she is hot, a body to die for and breasts I just want to place my face between. Then there is her hair, a lovely crimson which is a part of the colour I love so much. Red, the colour of intense things, Love, Lust, Blood and Passion.

"Exorcist-san, could you please get on with why you are here?"

Rias Gremory's voice breaks me from my musing and back to the room itself.

"Please Gremory-san, use my name. I am Hyoudou Issei."

"Alright then Hyoudou-san, why are you here?"

"That's easy. Three of the Excaliburs are here, some idiots allowed them to get taken. I was forced to come and collect them."

I answered her like the topic was nothing, it wasn't nothing really. It was a big problem, the Excalibur is a symbol to us and one of 5 Holy Swords and the only one to be broke but still able to be used. Even for the other factions the Excaliburs are a thing to talk about. This isn't exactly a light topic.

"And the other three?"

"Three? There are four others."

"Isn't Excalibur Ruler missing?"

"No … Should it be?!"

I gasped at her playfully surprising her and the other devils. Exorcists aren't exactly well know for being friendly people, not even to other Exorcists. The job kinda dulls it but not for me, I think the Dragon and Angel aspect masks that and allows me to be playful.

"You saw Ruler in action a few moments ago. The two girls earlier hold Destruction and Mimic while the cheap ass exorcist holding Blessing is on standby 'just in case I fail'."

"And pray tell why you might fail?"

"Oh … that would be Kokabiel. Supposedly he stole him, I'm guessing he wants to kill you and Sitri. Gabriel-nee called him a warmonger."

Yet again I said something important like it was nothing. The moment I mentioned Kokabiel, Grayfia seemed to shift slightly and even more so when I said Gabriel.

"Kokabiel? Are you sure, Hyoudou-san?"

Grayfia was the one to ask me in a rather worried expression.

"Yeah, I have no reason to lie but I don't see why you are worried. I'm telling you this so you will stay away, although the idiots there do seem to think you might be working with Kokabiel which is pretty ridiculous. Do what you will with the information, you now know what may happen. If you value your lives then please stay out of our way. Kokabiel will happily kill you on sight, my two exorcists probably will as well."

"And you, Hyoudou-san?"

"Maybe the male devils here..." I was then interrupted by a yawn which came from my own mouth. "...I may not. Do you want me to kill them?"

"No."

Rias answered me rather sternly completely pushing my lazy reply and expression aside.

"Then I won't. That should conclude everything, I think. You know there are 3 exorcists, missing Excaliburs, Kokabiel, to stay away and me. Yeah, I think i'm done here."

I jumped off the sofa by pressing my legs downwards propelling my body upwards into the air giving me room to stretch out my feet and allow them to slide down against the edge of the sofa and quickly connect with the wooden flooring beneath me.

"Wait Hyoudou-san, you never explained to us about yourself."

I didn't? They saw that I could use magic, they know i'm a happy guy … I wonder what else they would like to know.

"What is there for you to know? I didn't think you Devils wanted to know anything about us other than we wield bad things."

I speak to her calmly and easily, ending my sentence like I was talking to a child. My tone wasn't one to which I was being mean, it's just my way of speech but they don't really know me so her annoyance showed up on her face.

"Those two girls before were human but you aren't. What are you?"

I let out a slight angered grunt at her saying that I wasn't human, I am a human even if it's only just now. I turned to my side and looked at Grayfia who continued to wear a passive expression, one that I felt like would only change if I was to bring up 6 months ago.

"Grayfia-chan, your sisters senses are pretty shoddy."

"It's not her fault you mask yourself, Hyoudou-san."

"That certainly is true, Grayfia-chan."

She was right but the thing is that I just mask my Dragon and Angel side so only my Human side should be seen unless I failed at that and mask it all making some extremely strange concoction. And that actually sounds like it would be true, I can believe myself somehow doing that.

"Ok then, how about this? What if I said I have a sacred gear that caused a problem 6 months back and that messes with being a human?"

"You have a sacred gear?"

Grayfia's interest was piqued, she was starting to wonder if I was the culprit to which she would be spot on but the others didn't seem to fully understand my words. That must have been why Rias asked me about a Sacred Gear.

"Not saying yes but i'm not saying no, try and force it out if ya want."

I then brought up my left hand with my palm facing upwards towards the ceiling. Rias was rather hesitant to my proposal but who wouldn't be, you should never get close to your enemy unless you are going for the kill or perhaps stealing from them. Its two choices but ones that you'll rarely have to come to make.

She took a hold of my left hand in both of hers and started to flush her demonic power into the room and into my body. I had her here, she was never going to bring out my Boosted Gear. Thanks to my standard form being dual gauntlets, she'd need to do both hands at once but first they'd have to get past the barrier that is set from my angel side. That's one her powers could not surpass, she may have Gremory's enhanced magical prowess but she barely has any experience. I can both out-gun her and outsmart her, my whole time here will be played by my rules … well, unless the Sitri girl decides to intervene but she is too smart for her own good I think.

Our supernatural sides resonated and caused my holy aura to leak out and blow back her demonic power. The sudden demonic presence in the whole of my body caused my body to get violent, my aura surrounded me in a golden colour blowing Rias back harmlessly and making my body sprout 6 pristine white wings and a beautiful gold halo to appear above my head. Rias and her peerage all stepped back in surprise, i'd be their first angel. Their expressions were priceless, to young devils Angels are beings they been told about only. Us Angels tend to stay in heaven and only descend to Earth to deal with dire things but as both a human and a Angel, I am their tool for such things.

I turned to look at the girl who I thought to be Asia, she looked at me in amazement. Her aura, her presence and her whole being told me that she was the girl I tried to help out all of those years ago.

"Asia-chan, it's a pleasure to meet you again. I apologize for not being to help you but, you couldn't really hope for a better family in devil terms at least."

Asia brought both of her hands to her chest and balled them together tightly as she closed her eyes tightly while wearing a happy expression.

"Hai Hyoudou-sama. Your words are plenty, I was honoured that you tried to help me and even spent time talking to me. I'm happy to know that the one person I considered a friend is an Angel."

As she opened her eyes again, I could see her tear up but not from sadness. No, the girl was experiencing pure happiness or bliss. Her expression alone causes my heart to tighten, not being able to help her is the only regret I have in my life. Being an angel, being extremely lucky and having the Boosted Gear has got me far in the church, really far but they all came to naught when it came to helping one poor little girl who held so much faith she did something wrong.

She was scorned for something she was brought into the world to do. Healing people was her life and she did it without reservation, it was her nature to just help people. That led to her undoing but it was in no way her fault either. We are taught to know what devils are like and what their aura feels like so why didn't she know, that's because she wasn't taught and I know that she wasn't. All she was needed for was healing people so they never bothered going further, we manipulated her for it. This instance and the Holy Sword project shows that we, the church, can be just as awful as the Devils and Fallen Angels. It's sickening.

With these thoughts swimming around in my mind, my mood had changed but I couldn't afford for Asia to know that so there was only one thing I could do and that was smile. Hide behind a fake smile was the only option I had. I allowed my 6 feathered wings to return back into my body as my halo started to fade away from everyone's vision. I turned on my heel and walked to the door, I had my left hand on the door handle for a few seconds before noticing that I was tapping my thumb against the brass. I turned around and looked at Grayfia as I felt compelled to tell her something.

"Neither you nor the Crimson Satan needs to worry. On my honour as an angel, I won't let Rias Gremory and her peerage get hurt. Good day to you all."

I turned back to the door and opened it quickly, closing it behind me not wanting to hear a reply and walked out of the building. I walked along the cobble-path holding a slight shiver at my spine, it was a familiar feeling but to my body alone almost like it was purely instinctual. By the time it got too much for my interest, I turned around to see if I was being followed or watched and when I did a man of similar height was standing there right in front of me. I'm annoyed to think it but he was a good looking guy, short silver hair, slightly taller than me but I could see that I was slightly buffer meaning I was stronger physically even if he was part supernatural like me to which he was. I could feel a sinister presence within him, at this I could also hear Ddraig waking up.

['Seems like the White-one has found us Aibou.']

The white-one huh? My eternal rival, I wonder if he is up to standard for me. I wonder if he is a nosey chap or one who likes to fight. This means that the shiver was an instinctual warning, to make myself ready for potential combat.

'Ddraig, how strong am I compared to him?'

I kept my eyes peeled on my eternal rival as I spoke to Ddraig but the appearance of the devils didn't distract me at all, even with Grayfia still being there and that the Sitri girl had appeared with her peerage in tow.

[Honestly, I'm unsure but what I can tell is that he, like you, has begun dealing with the curse but to what extent I don't know. Considering that smile on his face, I would say he asked Albion the same thing.]

Looking at him I cant help but feel strange about all this. Our power levels are similar and our ages are similar from what I can see but why have I found him now? My powers as Sekiryuutei has been known to be awakened for a number of years now but not one word has hit my ears about the Hakuryuukou but here he is standing before me at approximately the same power level. This is a problem, a big problem. Those devils might not be safe if we started something here plus it would give my secret away, I don't think I wanna deal with Grayfia right now.

"You here for a fight, white-one?"

I lowered my voice an octave so that hopefully only my rival could hear me, it was something that made his smug smile just widen.

"Not to the death. Albion says that you are as strong as me but also slightly different. Unlike you i'm not really hiding any part of me but I can still tell your power. You are stronger physically but I've got you beat on the magic side. So what do you say red-one, let's fight?"

He put a mild, mocking type of emphasis when he called me the 'red-one'. I felt uneasy about the whole thing, it felt like an evil plot of some sort.

['Aibou, I found out why he has higher magic reserves than you.']

'What's that Ddraig?'

['He is a Lucifer.']

A Lucifer? Didn't think I'd find one of them, especially not as my destined rival. That just puts a burden on me. My rival is a descendant of the Morning Star and the holder of Divine Dividing, it really is a good job that Michael gave me Ascalon.

['Aibou, I know you don't really care for your father after not knowing him but your father was a top angel. Cassiel wasn't someone to fight blindly.']

'I know, you keep telling me that. Either way, he wasn't as great as the Morning Star but i'm not really too bothered about that right now. I want to get out of this without showing you but i'll have to if I want to get away relatively un-injured.'

['That is true Aibou. Let's just risk the fight for now and only go into Balance Breaker if need be.']

I took several steps back away from my rival while he watched me with a keen, observing eye. Getting a decent distance away, I unsheathed my katana allowing it to be free from it's prison and exert it's own presence of my pure holy magic sending it gushing through the school grounds as I harmlessly cut through the air with my blade. Twirling it round within my right hand, I grip a hold of the handle tightly as the tip of my blade is facing the floor and I plunge it into the ground allowing it to disperse my magic caging the school within a barrier of pure holy light in the form of a dome giving off a slight golden glow.

Bringing the sword back up, the blade was no longer there but was now acting as the entire barrier. I placed it back into it's scabbard and the pressure built up around it locking it into place while I took those few seconds to nod at my rival saying that I was ready.

[VANISHING DRAGON BALANCE BREAKER]

Both Ddraig and I grunted in sync as our rival entered his Balance Breaker and was wrapped in a white glow before his body was enveloped by a set of scale mail that was white in colour with deep blue jewels at the shoulders, knees and a large one in the centre of his chest. Out of his back sprung a set of wings which was a scaled straight ridge with blue glass-likes panes extending from it taking a wing form.

I breathed in allowing my chest to ride up before dropping back down again when I exhaled and pushed the right side of my body backwards so I faced my rival left side on while flexing out both of my hands.

"Ruling Slayer!"

My emerald eyes flashed along with my words and two swords flashed into existence taking their place in my hands. Excalibur Ruler took the form of a broadsword with a golden circular guard that looked like a crown, in my left hand. In my right hand appeared Ascalon, a golden pommel on the bottom of sleek black handle which connected to a golden hilt that took the form of four dragon claws which spiked downwards to nearly a quarter the length of the blade, the blade itself started off thin with most of the centre being shiny purple that was almost jewel-like and as the blade continued on a thin golden buffer separated the jewel-like purple from the silver steel of the blade itself. Starting from the very end of the claws were three curved indents that just passed the middle of the blade.

Both blades howled out silently furiously flaring out their aura as they synced with my own instincts and focused on our enemy and rival who was my enemy in two forms, Devil and Albion. The aura of both of my blades caused my rival to make his own grunt in anger as his dragon, Albion made it's voice known to the world.

[Vali, your rival is even more interesting than you expected. An angel, a dragon and the wielder of Ascalon. We may just have our work cut out for each other.]

"..And that's just what makes fighting so appealing."

His smug smile turned to a slightly lustful one, it held a want, an extreme want to taste my blades or just the fight itself.

I allowed my body to go slightly top heavy, making my body start to drop forwards waiting for the perfect angle to shoot myself towards my rival, Vali. A brief second passed before my body fell to the appropriate level and I pushed off with my feet coupled with my 6 wings shooting out of my back to propel me towards Vali. I lead with Ruler across my body and Ascalon behind me in attempt to make him deal with Ruler giving me a free gap for Ascalon but it was easy to see and Vali dodged rather than take it. As I flew past him, I felt his magic build up. I skidded to a halt and flip my body round before seeing his magic coming towards me and I jumped away narrowly dodging his block of white dragon magic.

"Come on red-one, fight me in hand to hand."

Vali shouted out to me from across the school's courtyard, it was an obvious taunt but it was a taunt that let out my secret. It wasn't a direct give-away but with what I did to Sirzechs, Grayfia would know what he was talking about.

The grounds were quiet as I slowly dropped down to the ground. As my feet took the burden of my bodies weight from my wings, I felt my wings stretch themselves. They knew I wasn't going to back out of it and so did I, i'm reluctant to show it off but I have no choice here. I will have to whether I want to or not.

"Fine white-one, let's have a proper fight."

I tightened my grip on my swords as I dismissed them balling my hands into a fist as an emerald green aura took form around my body as I was letting my dragon side slowly unseal itself.

'Ddraig, let's do it. Dragon/Angel mode.'

['You got it Aibou, let's teach the white-one whose boss!']

The pressure built up as my pent-up dragonic power was now bursting at the seems feeling ecstatic that it was finally going to be used. The Emerald aura intensifies and fluctuates out around my body like a searing flame ready to burn anything in it's vicinity to a crisp.

[WELSH DRAGON BALANCE BREAKER]

The battle between the dragon's begin rather early. Vali and Issei will have a much closer relationship this time around.
Issei's power isn't so much luck and raw emotion this time around, they are wielders on somewhat equal terms.
It's a battle of the ages to Vali and something he will savour with every fibre of his being if he has to.
This also means that Vali will get a bit more screen time and that does not mean Issei joining the Khaos Brigade, there ain't a chance of that.
There are just more instances for Vali to appear in front of Issei whether it's to fight, spar or just 'hang out'.

The second point i guess would be Issei and how laid-back he is. That's just who he is, a dire situation isn't going to completely change that.
The start of the fight shows that Issei got a bit serious but once he figures out what he will do watch the attitude just roll on back.
It's almost akin to psychological warfare but it is completely unintentional from Issei.

I'm off to Neko now, Ciao.