Once I had left the throne room, Ravel teleported the four of us to Raiser's castle. Rather than back inside the castle like we had teleported out of, we had teleported into the rear garden of the castle where Raiser's peerage were going toe to toe with Rias' in what I could only guess at being a training method. Learn by doing. Once there, both Asahi and Raynare went to join in with the training, Asahi to just troll with his Sacred Gear which I was surprised to see that he had unlocked and Raynare who was probably going to piss off Issei by flaunting the Boosted Gear at him. Ravel took one of the remaining two empty seats near Rias and Raiser, the one on Raiser's side leaving me to take the seat on Rias' side much to her small joy.

After wriggling about to get myself comfortable on the chair, I pulled my legs up onto the chair and crossed them while letting my ears and tail to spring out. I then breathed in for a few seconds before breathing out and creating a bubble around me completely infused with my own Ki. As I started to cut the devil blood cells and taint off from my body I could feel the difference straight away, I felt a little sick and the aura I was giving off was showing the change. The black and purple aura floating up off my bubble was the representation of the devil side leaving me, the pale and sickly shades of white was my Nekoshou side and the slight sickness I was feeling from loss of half of my blood in a split second. The sickly shades slowly brightened and turned pure as small billows of steam started to filter out from like skin, much like the smoke you'd see after wounding a Phoenix. It was slow in its release in comparison but it worked like a charm, despite the lack of blood I wasn't feeling sick any more with no loss of strength. The Phoenixes regeneration boost was doing like I had expected, keeping my body in check while I secluded the devil blood.

I pumped the devil portion away from my vitals and away from their production sacs, leaving them stranded and nowhere to go. My Nekoshou blood cells slowly started to take notice of the loss of the devil portion and started to pump out more to make up for it. The pure blood cells started to take over, refilling my body and overwhelming the devil taint. I felt my breath hitch as the last of the devil portion was eradicated by my Nekoshou blood, the three black bangs in my hair faded back into the original silver but kept the newer length that came with being a devil. The black light that had occupied my body for around a month had slowly dissipated and was replaced by a simple clear one.

The bubble that covered me was then sucked back into my body. I opened my hands up and pointed my palms towards the sky and started to concentrate, with little hassle my ki started to form in small bubbles that danced around in my hand happy to be alive. A simple flex of my hand and the bubbles collected around it completely bringing a dense white light to it.

Back to how I was.

"Tsukiyomi-kun … why don't I sense Devil in you anymore?"

"Because I deleted it. I never wanted to be a devil and thanks to the regeneration boost from Ravel's two Rook pieces I didn't have to concentrate on keeping my life in check while I secluded and destroyed the blood."

"And what of the Rook Pieces?"

"No need to worry about that, they are fine. The piece given simply serves as your power boost and the link to your King, other than that nothing. The devil bit only comes into play right at the start, if Ravel was to release me or I am killed for some reason then they would regain the Demonic energy as they re-attach themselves to her."

I drop my legs down from the chair and push myself up onto my feet after answering Raiser's questions.

"Can I fight your Rooks separately from that or should I join in with them?"

"Isabella! Xuelan! Come here!"

It would seem like Raiser chose the first option as he shouted out to his two Rooks who quickly left the fray and came over to us, eyeing me up curiously.

""Yes Raiser-sama!""

They both spoke up in unison after stopping a few feet away from Raiser. As they stood there I took in the two forms of the girls. The first was Isabella, a taller than average girl who had plenty of muscle on her underneath the leather jacket she wore. Xuelan was about average in height, maybe a little under that. She wore very little in comparison, a blue cheongsam that revealed her cleavage and a pair of .

"Azazel had already told me that Tsukiyomi-kun is stronger than he looks. Both of you fight him and don't hold back. If he is to protect Ravel then he can't be weak. You understand?"

They both responded with sharp nods. They then sent a quick glance towards me before walking off to a small portion of the garden that was not currently occupied.

"You show 'em Gin-sama."

"I plan to, Ravel."

Sending a quick glance Ravel's way I slowly walk off towards the two Rooks who took into their own stances. Their Ki was off, they were going to attack before I stopped and got into my own stance. I felt my ears twitch as I saw the blades of grass shake as the feet of the Rook Xuelan slowly started to heat up with flames that sparked into life.

I continued my slow approach to them, I would guess I was atleast 10 metres away from them before they came at me and come at me they did. A telephone punch came in from my left side, while easy to deal with and counter I was preoccupied by the incoming kick to my right. I brought out a clone where i stood then jumped back dashing round to the right in an arc to get behind Xuelan. I could only create one clone with a body that could replicate a body in reaction so as their punch and kick hit my clone the three reacted as they normally would and i took the time to strike, hunkering myself down opening my left hand and thrusting it straight up into Xuelan's back that was now parallel to the ground due to her balance for her kick.

While it wasn't strong enough to take her off her feet, it did what it needed to. It ruined her balance completely forcing her to arch her back more as her kicking momentum made her continue on as my clone dismissed itself once I acted. Xuelan's foot was then planted at near full force into Isabella's stomach as she was still following through with her punch. I retracted my arm, created a thin sheet of ice behind me and used it to slide backwards and the ice shattered after being used.

"Karlamine!"

As soon as I heard Raiser's voice, I summoned Europa, a sword of silver ice, while bringing my arm up into the air bending it over so Europa summoned protecting my back and clashing with the flaming sword from the knight which just attacked me at Raiser's orders.

'Guardian … Can you hear me?'

'I can, whoever you are.'

'I am Second Star, Guardian. While you haven't increased enough to fully wield the Total Eclipse, with my help you can wield me.'

'That's great news. Looking forward to working with you, I'll bring you out in a sec.'

I wiggled Europa slightly as our blades still crossed to find a strange sense of blade there within the controlled flames. Using my body as momentum, I span my top half round while bringing Europa upwards in a quick flicking motion. Unsettling the girl behind me, I moved quickly in the time I had free.

Skating backwards away from her and the now uprigth Rooks, I stopped and let Europa disappear again as I felt Second Star bringing itself to the surface from the Lunar Gear.

"Eclipse in the form of the unbreakable Holy-Divine blade. Appear, Second Star."

Within my left hand appeared a long brown, curved scabbard that was custom fit for a Katana. The base of the scabbard was covered in a golden metal that ran up the top of the scabbard, curving off just as it hit the centre point. Three small golden circular plates fit themselves on either side of the bottom of the scabbard.

As the Knight and two Rooks looked to the scabbard that was currently empty of its blade, it breathed. A small but sharp gust of wind, enough to cause my t-shirt to flutter passed out from the scabbard. An exceptionally long white ribbon blinked into existence just down from the throat of the scabbard, wrapping itself around it haphazardly multiple times throwing off the two ends loosely making the two red beads that occupied the end threads to clack together before fluttering back down and lightly flapping in the light breeze.

My right hand was pulled towards the throat of the scabbard in my left hand. It stopped and hovered slightly just before as the sword materialized itself into view. The grip was a pure white with several gold studs jutting upwards, the pommel was covered in a gold metal just like the bottom of the scabbard. The hilt of the sword was also a gold metal, it curved round in a blocky oval shape. 4 circular holes bit into it at where the corners would be if it was a rectangle.

A soft click came as I took the grip within my right hand, the blade pushed itself from the small inside lock. In one swift motion, I pulled the blade free from its scabbard. It's silver blade glistened in the dim light of the Underworld as it glowed in a faint silver glow that radiated a heavy Holy-Divine aura. Bring the sword down with a small flick, a wave of wind gushed out from the blade sending a gust perilously close to a gale throughout the area. One which brought a small amount of fatigue to my body.

'Guardian, after today i'll start to teach you in wielding a sword. Without the full Total Eclipse, it would be tiring for you to use me any other way. I am but a sword, nothing else.'

I'm sure a sword has told me that same thing before.

'Alright SS, i'm in your care from now on. The scabbard is sturdy enough to utilize yes?'

'Correct Guardian. To put it simply, it's a blunt version of me.'

Ahh two indestructable weapons, that's nice to know.

I decided to take the fight to them as I envoked my Youjutsuu causing my body to blur slightly, making my approach seem slower than it was. Keeping my body down low, I went to the knight first who also charged at me with both hands on her sword. Her sword came down first, I raised the scabbard up and intersected it while bringing Second Star up just after slicing straight through her chestplate showing the chest wraps beneath it. The cut was clean and precise, like there was no resistance at all. A knife through butter.

When Karlamine looked down to see it for herself her eyes widen considerably threatening to pop out. Her only instinct came into play and she quickly pushed down with her blade and I decided to comply pushing my Rook strength into it giving the momentum she needed to propel herself back away from me as this was just a spar.

'Hot.'

Staying where I was hunkered down I cast my eyes to the right to see Xuelan coming at me, a few metres away with her limbs covered in flames. Looking just past her I could see Isabella following just after. I had no time to move so I encased my body in ice and readied small range teleportation being 'Freeze Frame' into play just as Xuelan foot cracked down onto the ice.

Their tactic made sense. Have the speed disorientate so the tank could charge its blow or in this case get to me to release her attack.

Once Xuelan's foot hit the ice it cracked, the ice shattered to the ground causing me to teleport away out of their reach halting the attack.

'~Gin-sama, Onii-sama is going to send the rest of his peerage after you too. Show them not to mess with you.~'

'~Sure thing, Ravel.~'

I'm just gonna tire out doing all this if I cant kill them, well the magic will come into play now and I don't really wanna deal with that.

While keeping my grip tight on the scabbard and Second Star, I loosened my thumb and index finger just enough to make a crescent shape with my hands. My divinity kicked in and took over my body, my headphones coming on first creating holes for my cat ears to poke out of. Ice wings created themselves from scratch behind me similar to that of the Phoenix wings rather than encasing themselves around devil wings. Ice formed sharp boots around my feet and finally the tigers took form around my lower arms securing my grip on both sword and scabbard.

Standing my body up from the hunkered position now that I had some distance from the now increasing group, I used the time they were looking to give me as time to look them over. 2 Rooks, 2 Knights, 1 Bishop, 1 Queen and 8 Pawns. 12 close combat fighters and 2 magic users although the Queen looks like she could hold her own for enough time to allow others to take her spot.

Out of the Pawns I could see no-one dangerous. They were all below par, they were strong enough to deal damage but thanks to the Rook defences and now my armour it's doubtful they'll do much. The two catgirls will be quick but nothing too fast, the two chainsaw-wielding twins look pathetic and stupid so disabling the chainsaws will rid me of them. The three maids look even worse than them, perhaps they are a trio of fighters to make up for that individual weakness. Finally is the girl called Mira who beat Issei with the stick back at the original meeting. That stick might prove to be the worst thing here depending on how thick the enchantment is on it but I can't really get much of an idea from here.

The only trouble is the Queen thanks to the explosive bomb magic she has otherwise I would be ok just bobbing and weaving. Even in a normal fight I don't think i'd win unless I was already close when we started or we were inside. This will also mean I can't stay in close combat for too long as I could be hit with magic. They have past teamwork behind them so they can understand subtle hints, hopefully I can catch onto them. Either that or trying to read their bodies while fighting.

I'm sorry Ravel but your Gin-sama isn't good enough to beat a whole peerage of this level. Too many damn variables, in a spar at least. Allow me to kill and I could win but I doubt that's 90% yet.

'Guardian, if you so wish the gust of wind can be created each time you unsheathe me.'

'Ahh I see. Thanks.'

I put myself into a stance ready to run with my right shoudler forward and sheathed Second Star back up on my left side. As I pushed off from my position I unsheathed it again sending the large gust of wind their way giving me the same feeling of fatigue as before. I charged towards the newer knight first, if I remember correctly her name was Siris. Keeping the scabbard out to my side, I slashed straight in front of me and got the same result as I did with Karlamine except it wasn't armour here. Second Star sliced straight through the Zweihander that Siris held in front of her as a guard.

I was slightly surprised by its power to just cut through it but I carried on spinning my body round planting the scabbard straight into her right side. I felt my right ear twitch and I brought Second Star up quicker and felt the steel collide with the flame sword of Karlamine. I felt the magic swirling around me and quickly encased myself in ice once again just to be thrown out several seconds later back over near where I started skidding on the grass due to the speed the ice was broken after being made.

Quickly moved my head to look at either side, the right side was completely free but a little torn up. The left side held Raiser, Ravel, Rias and the peerages of the two latter Rs. I moved my gaze back to Raiser's peerage, the two knights coming at me first with Siris sporting an identical copy of the previous Zweihander. The rest of the peerage was following behind, the Bishop kept her distance and the Queen was now flying in the air.

I shifted into a reverse grip on Second Star and swiped forwards.

"Summon Swords: Interceptor."

As the silver wave of pure Holy-Divine energy streaks towards Raiser's peerage 4 phantom swords appear into view just above my head circling around ready to take their target. Both the Queen and Bishop tried to block the wave with their own magic but it just cut straight through it carrying on even when they all dodged it smashing against the barrier placed on the walls to the castle, struggling for only a second before the silver wave cut right through and off into the surrounding forest presumably until it's found something to become its prey.

It was relentless but I could feel my energy drain slightly when it drove through the magic and the wall itself. Several seconds of complete silence passed before I felt another bigger drain of magic as an explosion sounded off in the distance and a number of trees were thrown up into the air just at the edge of my sight.

I could hear Raiser whistle in admiration from the side, at the explosion.

Shaking my head, I brought myself back to the spar. They were surrounding me, of course leaving my left side free as there were already people there and not that I could really dodge that way anyway unless I wanna fall into someone. I could either attack or 'Freeze Frame' once again but they'd probably expect that so the faster enemies will be kept back so I should attack and hurt the heavier hitters to save me some steam at least.

I felt my ears twitch in response to their movements.

'1, 2 and 3.'

I brought Second Star back in front of me and slotted it straight down into the ground while pushing my magic into it. The Pheonix magic circle taking form around me in a soft blue light as large icicles shoot up from each inch of the circle piercing through the ones that were inside and blocking off the others by shooting high up into the air nearly 3 metres tall.

"Stop!"

Hearing Raiser's call to halt I released Second Star from the ground slowly causing the iciles to start their slow retreat into the ground putting whoever they pierced back down on the ground slowly.

Three bodies were placed down on the ground, Isabella and the two creepy chainsaw twins. Looking at them I felt no shred of sympathy in my body, they were devils after all and I haven't spoken to them so all is fair. Once I sheathed Second Star I dismissed it back into the Lunar Gear, after that I forced my Tsukiyomi armour and divinity away allowing the devil auras around me to get close again.

Once my aura completely passed Raiser looked to me from his stationary position in the chair, Asia had run into view briefly as she went to heal the three girls and from what I heard, it was on her own accord.

"So you are stronger than my whole peerage and you hadn't used the Vorpal Blade? I see, if only you were a girl."

My ears twitched as my body shuddered in reply to his strange thought, good job I ain't.

"Stronger in actual combat, give me the chance to kill and i'll win. My effectiveness drops by a bit when it comes to sparring, if you aint Cadre-level then you aren't an efficient enough opponent."

"Cadre-level? Which one in particular?"

"I spent around 4 years being personally trained by Barakiel, he is the Fallen Angel's Battlemaster. He taught me his 'Elemental Iaido' technique but I can only effectively use Ice."

"You ever beat him?"

I scoffed a little at Raiser's dumb question.

"Of course I haven't. The guys a monster in combat, I only ever got him serious once and he took me out in a single second. I was feeling the repurcussions for nearly a week. Speaking of weeks, he puts one week worth of training and knowledge into one single day. At least I slept well afterwards."

"So that's where your stamina comes from."

I bobbed my head from side to side.

"You are kinda right. My stamina was higher than a devil's anyway thanks to being a Nekoshou but his training definitely increased it. If I couldn't run at full speed for 5 hours non-stop then I couldn't fight efficiently. Ultimate slave driver."

"Neh~~~ Gin-nya, why didn't BaraBara-kun teach me?"

I let out a loud but deep sigh at Asahi's voice.

"That reason should be painfully obvious. Probably couldn't stand to be around you plus I was picked as the top recruit and the person that the Vorpal Blade chose."

"Mou~~~ But I have Kusacchi."

"And you'll probably never get proper sword training if you don't call it by its proper name or it's proper shortened name at least. It's THE Kusanagi."

"But Kusacchi is a cuter name."

I'm done. No more for today, i'm starting to get tired.

I ran my left hand through my hair as I let my body slouch. A high-pitched Nyaa comes out from my mouth as I yawn, the yawn that followed went along the same lines.

"Raynare, come and pick me up."

Raynare and Asahi were the only two who understood what I was going on about. I couldn't be bothered moving myself and when I got to this point, I wouldn't be moved until someone came to get me and i'd turn into my kitten form.

Raynare then came over to me, slotted her hands under my armpits and then hugged me loosely. Finding it to be a sufficient amount of room to transform, I did. A small silver flash enveloped us briefly as my body shrunk, Raynare's arm came together bringing my form up to her chest area and I appeared out of the flash in my kitten form. Just a silver kitten with icy blue tufts at the tips of my ear and tail with hazel eyes.

As she turned us around to effectively show the others but in turn to enter the castle so I can sleep inside, she started to pet me and happy that made me.

"Nyaaaah~~."

Amidst the low levels of anger that were coming into play I could briefly hear Asahi chuckling to himself over my purring.

I had planned for this story when i wrote the original one.
While the original was asked for by Storylover213, this is completely off my back.
When i got to the Raiser arc along with the Gin Manga put into place this was a potential thing.
After learning what he did during the meeting when Raiser won he would have made Rias trade off Gin so she couldn't do something to him behind his back.

This whole turn of events is to turn it all into the Phoenix's favour. They are really the only ones gaining from this in truth.
This change though means that I've altered Gin's style. The lack of Demonic powers will mean he will use more of a variety of Ice moves.
I showed that through using Freeze Frame. There is also the part on Second Star. The alternate name for the Lunar Gear is the 'Left Hand of God'.
Meaning the sword is unlocked easier for non-devils, therefore Gin can summon it here at this level but he still needs training to wield it properly.

This will also change future events that have already happened in Neko and the Moon. For one, Lambda won't be here at all.
There will be something to take his place but it won't be the style Lambda did.

Before i go i wanna do a small shoutout to EternityDragon2610 for putting up with my crazy the past few weeks and sifting through my constant ideas with me. You've been a great help buddy. :D

Ciao-nya!