One night after school I find myself on top of the desecrated abandoned church looking down into it as I see Rias and Kalawarnar step into my view. They both stopped in the centre of the church, Kalawarnar was looking at Rias like she was a spoilt child and Rias was facing away from her with her arms crossed. If I was to peer closely I could see Rias wearing a small pout.
"Why did you call me out here, Miss Gremory?"
Kalawarnar sounded more annoyed than anything, there wasn't a hint of anger. It almost felt like she already knew what was going to happen and why.
"You. You are being too close to my servant. I am putting up with that one crow because they are going out but I will not have you trying to hog him as well."
Ah, I get it now. She's jealous and wants to kill one off so she can get more time with me, it's a shame for her that it would result in nothing from me.
"So the little heiress is jealous that i'm taking up more of her servant's time, time which isn't directed towards her at all. Am I right?"
A second later and Kalawarnar shifted her body to the side to dodge a bolt of demonic energy that was quickly shot her way. Despite my hate of Rias, she is very good with standard magic. It all comes natural to her and she is a quick caster, she can also make small bolts of demonic energy hold a lot of power. I thinks it's a shame that she is absolutely terrible with anything higher and even her 'Power of Destruction' that she inherited from her mother.
Kalawarnar continued to effortlessly shift her body to dodge Rias' attacks.
"How can you dodge like that?! Those two crows from before weren't able to dodge an attack just from being scared."
"You've fought Gin-kun, that tells you everything."
That it should. Speed and ability to dodge is vital, being able to adapt to the battle fluidly will help you more times than pure strength will.
"You got Gin to train you?!"
Rias' voice rocketed out from her mouth, it was bloody loud and full of jealousy too.
The fact that I trained Kalawarnar and Raynare riled Rias up further than just plain hanging out with them, she was furious. She formed a large magic circle in front of her and a bolt of 'Destruction' snaked it's way towards Kalawarnar who covered the whole of her right arm in 'holy' energy and just swatted it away effortlessly like it was a fly.
Rias looked on in anger and confusion at how effortlessly Kalawarnar knocked it away, her anger grew when she saw the state of the far wall which took the re-directed attack. It was completely gone and eradicated from existence. Questions must have been running through Rias' mind at how Kalawarnar deflected it so effortlessly. The answer is simple, hit it straight on.
I taught both of them skill and technique rather than teaching them to build up their strength especially because my strength is something natural to me and not something I worked for. Speed and technique is, it's something I worked for through fencing and then building upon it. To combat an attack that eats everything in it's path you have to either dodge it or re-direct it's course. To re-direct an attack that eats all in it's path, you have to create a motion, a resistance and a magic source. The motion is the actual re-direction which was the swatting of Kalawarnar's hand, the resistance was the layer of 'holy' magic along her arm, and finally is the magic source which is magic in it's base form. Allowing that to flow will almost always give you control to re-direct it. You just have to gauge the strength of your opponent, in this case Rias can be easily dealt with.
Then Kalawarnar started to effortlessly jump out of the way of the new bolts of demonic energy that Rias attempted to rain in on Kalawarnar. All of this relentless attacking was starting to ware Rias out and Kalawarnar saw it, she closed both hands into fists and quickly flexed them out again sending holy energy to her finger tips making them glow in a bright yellow light.
She then unfurled her two black feathered wings and took to the sky as she crossed her arms over her body and flicked them outwards forming ten small and thin spears of light that pierced straight through Rias' thighs dropping her to her knees immediately. That was the one attack that I did teach them because it was based on skill.
"What … the hell was that?"
Getting over her initial lack of breath Rias shouted out towards Kalawarnar.
"That's one of Gin's personal attacks. It's based on puppetry, that was called 'Puppet Lights'. It's the ability to manipulate your magic to attack in close quarters but from a distance, due to that the body of the attack is rather frail but it's strong all the same."
"...Gin's personal attack..."
The next thing surprised me, Rias sent both of her fists covered in 'Destruction' straight into the floor of the church cracking it as she screamed out.
"I wanna learn one of Gin's personal attacks!"
Looking on from my perch, I just shook my head in disappointment. She really is just a child. Having enough of Rias' childish ways I jumped off from the roof and landed in between Rias and Kalawarnar who had just dropped back down to the ground herself.
"If you want to learn then why didn't you ask?"
"But you would of denied it."
Her tone was exactly like a child's, innocent.
"That doesn't stop you from trying to seduce me though."
Her eyes that were staring at my dropped and lost their 'puppy dog' effect, not that she could ever get it to work on me.
"Rias, did you ever think of what would result from asking to learn from me or even spar with me? No, of course you didn't. As a Nekoshou, I enjoy to fight. It's not something I will pass down."
"But i'm a devil."
"Now, for some reason, you are making excuses. Why? Is it because I would be relentless in my attacks? If so then I did so with Kalawarnar and Raynare. I taught them efficient fighting, something that is natural to Nekoshou. I taught Kalawarnar how to fluidly control her body and be able to so easily deflect your magic."
Her head dropped and her shoulders slouched, it really looked like I was telling a child off.
"Did you even think that I would see you as more mature and be worth a spot of my time? Rias, I don't treat you horribly because you are a devil but because you are pathetic. I'm kinda to the other devils because they are trying to get stronger but what about you? You aren't, like Raiser you think your power is already great. I taught Raiser otherwise and now indirectly, I just taught you as well. How can you expect me to take you seriously and for you to be worth my time if you don't try?"
I walked towards her and knelt down in front of her, this action brought her attention to my face that was close to her own.
"I heard from Issei what you talked about during the mountain training retreat. How do you expect to be treated as Rias when you don't do anything to be seen as anything other than Gremory? What does the underworld know about you other than that you are the daughter of Lord and Lady Gremory? Nothing, you can't be seen as someone other than just Gremory. You gotta work for acknowledgement, you gotta put your blood, sweat and tears into it."
Coating my right hand in Ki, I tap the underneath of her chin and her body shoots upwards to where she is standing again. After the Ki left my hand I stood up as well and looked into Rias' teal eyes that were starting to lighten up.
"Train your body, be like us grunts and do something to show that you aren't just a Gremory but that you are Rias too."
I felt like a drill sergeant as Rias stared at me with full attention. When I finished she nodded her head and ran off. Kalawarnar then came up behind me and placed a hand on my shoulder.
"You know, after saying something like that she might come to think she has a chance."
She says that then disappears herself.
With her disappearance, I started to wonder about how Rias could take it. Looking back on it now I might have performed a mighty blunder, she probably took it as a chance to be noticed properly by me and that she has a chance to be with me. If so and that is correct, then I just made the future less tolerable than I had hoped for.
Oh woe is me!
That was the second of the two smaller chapters and one towards Rias.
I wan't to make Rias a more mature character all around quickly so i'm going through this route, becoming someone the person you like likes.
Let's just say that Rias isn't a fortunate and lucky person here as she is made out to be in the Canon.
Now if i don't get the third and final chapter out later i'd miss the holiday greetings so Happy Christmas to all! I hope you all enjoy it and have fun, Ciao-nya.