KingVessel: For those of you who think that the title sounds familiar, I just rewatched Brave a while before writing this chapter.

Chapter 17: I Have Fought For My Own Hand!

An hour after the Rating Game, an impromptu party was held at the Gremory Estate in the Underworld. The Gremory Heiress herself was the star of the party, much to her annoyance as she just wanted to go to sleep in the nearest bed.

"Congratulations on the victory, Lady Rias." Lord Phenex commended as he approached a fully healed Rias Gremory. "It was an excellent battle."

"Ah, thank you, Lord Phenex." Rias awkwardly replied to the man who would have become her father-in-law. 'He seems oddly happy that his son lost.'

"I agree as well." Zeoticus Gremory approached along with his wife. "You were amazing out there. You and your Peerage."

"...thank you, Father." Rias stiffly replied, creating an awkward atmosphere that Rias gladly ignored by focusing on the Sitri teleportation glyph that had just appeared.

"Ria-" Sona Sitri spoke, only to be interrupted by Issei rushed forward without waiting for the summoned water to disappear.

"Rias-senpai!" A drenched Issei Hyoudou glomped Rias and spun about. "You were so awesome! The ORC was great too! I'm so glad I can take recordings back and show the others!"

Rias simply smiled indulgently as Issei completely ignored the important figures surrounding him as he swung her about a bit more before letting her down. "Thank you, Ise-kun. We truly couldn't have won without your help."

"No problem!" Issei gave a thumbs up. He then noticed his drenched state and then snapped his fingers while his other hand grabbed Rias's shoulder. The water soaking them promptly turned to steam as a heat haze cloaked them for an instant. After that was done, he then noticed his audience. "Oh! Yo, what's up! I am Issei Hyoudou. The current host of the Red Dragon of Domination: Ddraig."

Eyes widened from members of both Clans as they beheld this strange Human in a new light as Issei bowed respectfully to them.

"A pleasure to meet you." Zeoticus actually bowed a bit, surprising Rias. "I'm Rias's father, Zeoticus Gremory. This is my wife, Venelana."

"And I am-" Lord Phenex's introduction was cut off as the doors opened to reveal Sirzechs Lucifer and Grayfia Gremory nee Lucifuge.

"Ah! You're here, Issei Hyoudou." Sirzechs proclaimed with a smile as he strode towards Issei purposefully. As soon as he reached him, the took the boy's hand and shook it in gratitude. "Thank you very much for all you've done for my sister and her Peerage. I Swear by my Name and Title to repay this favor no matter what."

"L-Lord Lucifer!" One of the nearby Phenex servants spoke out against this. "F-For this lowly human, you would offer such a reward?"

"Of course, I would." Sirzechs bluntly replied as he turned to face the servant. "Even if he is a Human, not only is he just the Red Dragon Emperor, he aided my dear little sister where I couldn't and even helped her in awakening a Bloodline Prowess I didn't even know our Clan had! To not reward all that would be utterly shameful."

"...in that case, do you mind if I think about it?" Issei spoke up, taking back the attention. "I wouldn't want to waste such a huge favor, after all."

"Of course." Sirzechs chuckled as he released Issei's hand and raised his own to ruffle Rias's hair, smiling wider as the girl became flustered and unsuccessfully tried to pry his hand off her head. "Ponder on it as long as you like, Issei Hyoudou."

"B-Brother!" Rias whined as Sirzechs took his hand off to search his robes and bring out a talisman. "Wait. Isn't that-"

"Indeed." Sirzechs looked down on the talisman with some relief. "Thankfully, it seems that my interference didn't become necessary in the slightes-"

"Brother! You haven't fully recovered yet!"

The doors slammed open again, revealing a bandaged Riser Phenex who was failing to be dragged back by Ravel Phenex.

"Rias!" Riser exclaimed as he stomped over to her, still panting heavily. "I just heard about our engagement being completely annulled! I accept that some of the Humans of your school are at least worthy some attention, but we're still of higher class! I am willing to wait until you graduate, but you can't just-"

"Even so, that's no good." Issei cut in, crossing his arms as {Boosted Gear} manifested in order to intimidate him a bit, which in turn gained everyone's attention. "Even if you're both nobility... Even if I'm a commoner even by Human standards, someone as self-centered as you who hasn't thought about her feelings at all... As Rias's friend, I don't think you would ever be able to bring her happiness."

As Rias gasped and blushed, Issei stepped forward to glare right into Riser's eyes, uncaring of Ravel stepping between them with her arms stretched out. "Barring the obvious support of her Peerage, I, myself, refuse to hand Rias Gremory over to you! Go have a change of heart if you want her to love you back!"

There was a resounding silence as everyone gawked at the Human after his bold declaration.

"Hyoudou-kun..." Sona muttered. "Are you aware... of just how your words... might become interpreted...?!"

Rias blinked slowly before a look of sudden eureka passed over her face. She then stepped forward to Issei's side, causing everyone's attention to focus on her now. "Riser... I will not marry you. And it is because..."

With a suddenly wide smile, Rias grabbed Issei's hand, interlocking their fingers and raising it up high. "I'm going to marry him, instead!"

Sirzechs and Grayfia gaped.

Zeoticus and Venelana Gremory gaped.

Lord and Lady Phenex gaped.

Various servants and family members gaped.

The freshly arrived Peerages of both Rias and Riser gaped.

Ravel gaped, with her jaw dropping and her cheeks reddening from the bold declaration.

Issei? Well...

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[File 'She wants to marry me?!' has been found.]

[File 'Did she just shout that before her parents, brother and ex-fiancé?!' has been found.]

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[File 'Issei's Harem Plan' has noted a modification.]

[Brain activity at 31.8% and decreasing.]

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Ironically, Riser had the exact same reaction to this, although with some differences.

Sona was the first to snap out of it. "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!"

"You annulled the engagement just to declare your own marriage announcement?!" Ravel yelled in shock.

"Well..." Lady Phenex said wryly. "Now I know why she fought so hard to win."

"Hahahahaha!" Sirzechs burst into laughter. "This is straight out of a romantic comedy!"

Grayfia sighed. "This isn't a laughing matter, Milord."

"What is your opinion on this, Darling?" Venelana inquired of her husband only to find him blank-faced with his soul trying to escape through his mouth. With a chuckle, she mercilessly shoved it back in. "You've passed out from the shock. Maybe you'll think again about picking a fiancé for our daughter without considering her feelings."

"And with that said," Rias swiped the talisman from Sirzechs's hand and with Issei still holding hands with her, she rushed towards the nearby balcony. "I am now taking my leave! Akeno, you and the others return to the clubhouse!"

As the uproar increased behind them, Lords Gremory and Phenex moved to the balcony to look at watch as a griffin manifested from Sirzechs's talisman and swiftly carried the couple away.

"Lord Phenex, I must apologize for how this all turned out." Zeoticus stated remorsefully as he watched the slowly disappearing form of his daughter fly further away from her home. "It's my fault for enabling such a scenario that my daughter felt pushed into the corner."

"Lord Gremory. I had thought that this would have been a good match between fellow Pureblood Devils, but alas, too much was asked of both parties." Lord Phenex sighed. "Both of us already have Pureblood grandchildren, but still, we craved more, greedy Devils that we are. Or perhaps it was because of the hell we truly witnessed back during the Great Biblical War..."

"...no. I too overburdened my daughter with my own desires." Zeoticus admitted in defeat. "She may have been interested in that small Asian country but it was still my insistence that eventually drove her to live there away from her own home. If not the Red Dragon Emperor's aid, how much more would my little princess have hated me?"

"Issei Hyoudou, was it? I want to thank him as well. My son needed a good loss, especially from someone he was coveting." Lord Phenex smiled ruefully as he watched his only daughter fuss over his despondent son. "Riser tends to overestimate the talents of our Clan along with his own, so I'm sure he learned quite the lesson from today. The Phoenix is infinite, not absolute. If he has at least learnt that, that would be enough, Lord Gremory."

"Lord Phenex..."

"Your daughter chose quite the audacious fellow to exchange allegiances with." Lord Phenex changed subjects rapidly. "No matter the host the Welsh Dragon chooses, they all treasure their allies as fiercely a dragon would treasure it's hoard. On the off chance Rias lost, a phoenix would have ended being devoured by the dragon."

"The Red Dragon of Domination... I never imagined that my daughter would have run into them of all things..." Zeoticus worried about his memories of some of the previous hosts as well as the Dragons themselves. "News of the Vanishing Dragon's activity has already reached us afar... I'm worried... My daughter has fallen for someone who is not guaranteed to have a peaceful death."

"R-Rias-senpai." Issei questioned as he watched the castle rapidly disappear from the increasing distance, before a portal appeared into what looked like a tunnel of empty space, allowing the griffin to fly through it. "What was all that-"

"AAAAAAAAHHH! Sorry! I'm so sorry!" Rias wailed, releasing the reins to cover her embarrassed face from Issei's view as he hastened to grab them. "I'll explain later, so please forgive me! I just wanted to get back at Riser with how annoying he was being about the whole marriage thing..."

"Why, though?" Issei questioned. "Why did you go so far?"

Rias's eye peeked out from between her fingers to look at Issei's face. "You were pretty cool back then... And I just went 'well, here's one pervert I wouldn't mind marrying!' Now, I've done it..."

"Rias..." Issei muttered.

"Besides, other than the fact that I really wasn't lying much," Rias looked at Issei, causing the young man to blush. "I didn't just want to beat Riser. I wanted a complete victory!"

A dark, teeth baring grin crossed Rias's face. "Just as his Pride demanded that he completely dominated me, my Greed demanded that I completely take everything away I wanted from him. His winning streak and his relationship with me. He wants to own me and my Peerage? Let him try to show his face before me again!"

As Rias burst into an evil cackle, Issei smiled wryly. 'Ah. What a way to be reminded that this hot girl with me is an actual Devil.'

"...well, I've done it." Rias sighed in relief, leaning against Issei's chest. "My engagement's finally done with. I couldn't have done it without you, Ise-kun."

"It's alright, Rias-senpai." Issei replied with a wide grin. "You worked so hard for to win your freedom, so don't disacknowledge your own efforts, okay?"

"...Ise-kun, do you know why I never wanted to kiss you when we had sex before?" Rias blushed shyly, as her eyes shifted to and fro from him. "Girls in your country care a lot about 'First Kisses', right?"

"Uh, yeah. But why're you...?" Issei trailed off as Rias gently cupped his face and brought her lips to his. It started off as a slow, soft kiss, their lips only just barely touching and no more.

Yet the kiss left Rias's heart exploding in her chest, a rush of love bubbling up within her and urging her to wrap her arms around his neck, conveying her feelings for him with naught but a gesture.

Issei reciprocated, hugging her close and tight enough to steal more of her breath away. After a while, he pulled back to breathe, barely noting the brief string of liquid connecting their lips. "Wow."

"I'm glad you feel that way, Ise." Rias leaned forward, pressing her breasts against Issei's chest. "Would you like my virginity, too?"

Issei blinked, then hurriedly urged the griffin to fly faster!

"Looks like my husband learned something important from today's fiasco." Venelana commented as she shared a table with Lady Phenex.

"Which fiasco do you mean?" Lady Phenex replied, taking a sip of wine. "Is the part where your daughter unquestionably defeated my son? Or the part where she took the chance to announce an engagement of her own choice right in his face?"

"Oh, Rias was rather halfhearted about that." Venelana chuckled. "I know my daughter too well to think she was completely serious about that engagement. Still, there was some genuinity in there so I'll definitely capitalize on that when she returns for the upcoming summer."

Lady Phenex gave a wry smile from the evil chuckles that escaped from her friend's lips. "Speaking of which, this {Gamory} your daughter utilized, is it really...?"

"Indeed." Venelana answered after gaining her composure. "My husband truly has no knowledge of that ability in our Clan's records. Therefore, Rias is truly the first generation user of that Bloodline Prowess."

"You must be annoyed." Lady Phenex took another sip of wine. "After fighting so fiercely to annul her engagement, as the possessor of two separate Bloodline Prowesses, her suitors are going to double in amount and persistence."

"Well, it's a good thing that she has the Red Dragon Emperor as her fiancé, isn't it?" Venelana tilted her wine glass suggestively. "He'll be quite the effective bulwark against them."

"That boy didn't accept the proposal." Lady Phenex cautiously warned.

"Nobody heard a 'No', either." Venelana shot back. "Besides, when word gets out, and it will get out, nobody will believe that he would say 'No' either."

"True..." Lady Phenex acquiesced. "So what do you think they're doing now?"

Venelana shook her head in disappointment, as if questioning why she had asked a question with an immensely obvious answer. "My daughter just annulled her engagement, viciously shot down her persistent ex-fiancé and flew off with his supposed 'replacement'. What do you think they're doing now, especially as she's not required to save her virginity anymore?"

Meanwhile, back in the ORC clubhouse, the two teenagers in question had just finished their baths and sat anxiously on the side of Rias's king-sized bed.

'I'm getting nervous?!' Issei mentally shrieked. 'This isn't the first time I've gone ahead to sleep with virgins, so why...?'

"Hey, Ise-kun?" Rias gently touched his hand, gaining Issei's attention back. "Are you nervous?"

Unable to trust himself in speaking, Issei nodded with a gulp.

"I feel very excited as well..." Rias spoke, her voice nearly a whisper. "Because I'm about to have my 'first time' with someone I truly care about..."

"Rias..." Issei muttered as he gently cupped her cheek, kissing her again. "...take it off."

"Yes~" Rias slowly shrugged off her bathrobe, with Issei's help, displaying her voluptuous body to him.

"So big..." Issei took Rias's boobs and caressed it, causing the girl to moan as he teased her nipples. "They feel so right in my hand."

As Rias shuddered under his touch, Issei pulled her onto his laps, causing her back to rest against his chest as he teased her entrance with his fingers.

Rias's voice gradually changed from the shy moans into familiar throaty gasps, her nipples getting harder while her pussy started to drip even more.

Issei only got more excited by her reactions, licking every part of her skin he could reach while enjoying the moans that escaped her.

It wasn't long until it was Rias herself who lost patience, pushing Issei down so that she could straddle him.

"Lets finally do this~" Rias moaned, gaining a groan from Issei as she idly rolled her hips, grinding her core against his oppressed shaft. She rose up, adjusted it and slowly sank down, flinching a bit as she finally rested on his pelvis, Issei's cock completely sheathed in her.

"Are you okay?" Issei asked, gingerly rubbing a thumb over her thigh. "If it hurts too much, I can pull you off."

"Just... Can I hold your hand?" After a nod from him, Rias grasped his hand and started to slowly move, sending shocks of pleasure running through the both of them. "Ah~ It feels even greater than Akeno described it~!"

At first, Issei thought he was content to let Rias take the lead, clutching one of her swaying breasts as she bounced on his crotch. However, her pussy sucked Issei's cock so hard he soon lost control of his hips, often meeting Rias with thrusts of his own.

"Ah~!" Rias gasped as she fell forward, her second orgasm causing her to limply hug Issei and smother him with her breasts as he took control and started pistoning his hips upwards, causing to gasp sharply from how deep he was going into her. "Please slow it down a little~!"

"Sorry, Rias!" Issei moved even harder, his back arching off the bed from how roughly he was thrusting into her from below. "I'm almost there!"

With a sharp gasp, Issei buried himself balls-deep inside of Rias, his hips buckling back-and-forth as he shot rope after rope of cum deep inside of her.

With another sweet, orgasmic cry, Rias climaxed with him, the foreign sensation of getting creampied pushing her over the edge again.

Squirts of liquid escaped around his cock, wetting his pelvis and making Issei buck his hips some more, grinding his pelvis against hers with a deep moan of satisfaction.

With a sigh, Issei collapsed, letting Rias rest over him. "Sorry if I was a bit too rough on you."

"I don't mind it... That was great..." Rias muttered as she locked eyes with him from above and gently cupped his cheeks. "I... wanna do more... I don't want tonight to end yet-!"

Issei flipped them over, causing Rias to squeak as she was now the bottom. "You want more? I'll gladly give you more."

With a sharp grunt, he thrusted into Rias again, causing her to moan and weakly grasp her sheets as he started to pound into her again, without the tiniest loss of energy from before.

Loud smacks of flesh echoed as his pelvis bumped against hers, the sound rising in volume as he got into it, the bed roughly rocking under them from the movement.

Seeing his hands at both sides of her head to hold himself up, Rias gripped them tightly, soft moans muted as he leaned down and kissed her lovingly on the lips, not quite slowing down as he kept making love to her.

Pulling back from her lips, Issei now grabbed her hips and shoved even further into Rias, earning throaty screams from how his cock now kept knocking against her cervix.

Her lithe legs buckled and shook, drips of cum and honey leaking from her folds and dripping onto the bed between their legs. Issei's hands dug into her waist tight enough to nearly bruise, his hips bucking with passionate vigor as he made a mess of the redhead's trembling insides.

''Aaaaaah~!'' With a wail of orgasmic pleasure, Rias came again, her whole body jerking and seizing in the heat of the moment.

Issei himself growled as he slammed in deep and blew his load past her cervix, his hot seed splattering across her insides and pumping into her womb.

Rias felt each spurt in intimate detail, eliciting stumbled gasps from her lips each time she felt his heat fill her womb, the sensation pushing her higher and deeper into her orgasmic daze.

"What are you resting for, Rias?" Issei's voice snapped her out of it, feeling her body being shifted until she was flat on her front. "I'm not satisfied, yet."

Rias's eyes widened as she heard his words and felt his still hard cock insert into her ass, it's slickness easily providing needed lubrication.

'Oh... dear...' Rias gasped as her arms were pulled back while he started thrusting into her without preamble. 'He's insatiable~ Maybe a harem... might be necessary after all...'

Her cries of pleasure would resound thought the night for at least two more hours.

Bidding Koneko and Yuuto a good night - well, technically morning, considering it was just a few hours to sunrise and thankfully, nobody had school to deal with later - Akeno headed up to Rias's room, wondering how far she and Issei had gone as she currently wasn't hearing any sounds.

As soon as the door opened, her nose was assaulted by a strong, familiar smell. As expected, it made her flush, or, more likely, it was the sight in front of her.

Laying down on the bed with a dopey smile was Rias, her pussy and asshole leaking trails of sperm along with copious amounts of the viscous liquid on her face and between her breasts.

And standing at the door right before Akeno was the cause of it all, Issei himself, still naked, still giving off immense amounts of musk and still having a very erect cock. "Hey, Akeno. Welcome back."

"You ran her exhausted~" Akeno licked her lips as she entered the room and closed the door behind her, her eyes fixated on his cock still slathered with various fluids. "And you still aren't satisfied?"

"Well, we kinda riled each other up." Issei replied sheepishly, placing a hand on Akeno's shoulder and effortlessly pushing her down to her knees, bringing her face close to his cock with his intentions clear. "Still, it's no fun to fuck a girl who isn't awake to enjoy it with you."

"I see~" Akeno breathed in his musk and gingerly licked at his cock. He rewarded her by shoving it into her mouth and down her throat, proceeding to facefuck her hard and fast.

Several hours later in the afternoon, Rias sat with Issei and Asia before the Hyoudou parents as if she hadn't woken up and joined in a four hours long threesome with her {Queen} and the Dragon Emperor just a few hours ago.

"-well, that about sums it up." Rias finalized with a pleased smile on her face. "It looks like I'm also going to be living with the Hyoudou household from now on. I hope that my ignorance is not too much of a bother to you both, Father, Mother."

As soon as she'd gotten out of her sexual daze, Rias had gone ahead to manipulate Issei's parents into letting her move in.

Once, again, she relied only on her persuasion skills without the tiniest bit of magic because why not.

"Oh, I couldn't be happier!" Miki Hyoudou cheerily accepted Rias into her family. "With Asia-chan, Yuuma-chan and now, Rias-chan, I now have three daughters!"

"You said it, Honey!" Gorou Hyoudou comically wiped his eyes free of tears. "It's every man's dream to be surrounded by pretty ladies!"

Still feeling some exhaustion, Issei weakly chuckled from the kitchen as he helped Asia and Raynare prepare dinner, the latter in a maid costume that Issei had discovered a while ago.

"Auugh..." Asia muttered despondently. "With Rias moving in, Ise won't look at me much, especially as I'm the least developed one here..."

"Don't worry about that, Asia." Raynare washed her hands and suddenly shoved up into Asia's shirt from behind, slipping under her bra to fondle her chest directly. "Do you seriously believe that the pervert's gonna ditch you just because you've got smaller boobs? Look at that tent he's sporting."

'Little me can still go?!' Issei flinched and tried to hide away his erection, even Asia's embarrassed moans made it even harder. 'Hell. I thought it would be heavenly to have these hot chicks with me but it's hell in situations where I can't act on it!'

"Ise?" Rias called from the kitchen entrance. "After you're done, I'd like to take a bath... Want to help me wash my back?"

"Yes, I do!"

"What?! No!" Asia shouted in shock before she glomped one of Issei's arms. "You already had him all night before, along with the whole morning! At least wait a whole day before desiring him again!"

"Oh?" Rias hugged his other arm, smirking down on Asia. "Asia, are you declaring war on me?"

"Ah..." Raynare muttered as Asia and Rias started to release their battle auras, the nun's emerald light with specks of crimson flames clashing against the Devil's blackish red miasma. Looking back, the parents were still animatedly talking with each other and completely ignoring the impending danger.

Raynare then locked eyes with Issei, who mouthed to her. ^Help me!^

The Fallen Angel blinked before smirking as she mouthed back her reply. ^I don't feel like it.^

^You bitch!^

Soon enough, the loud crashes that would be clearly heard from outside the house would later become a common staple of Issei Hyoudou's bizarre daily life.

Under the moonlight of the African Savannah, two figures idled about a ruined landscape which had a massive dead creature which resembled a wild elephant with scales.

A teleportation glyph suddenly appeared, revealing a Monkey Youkai decked out in Chinese armor. "Yo! Check out what I heard about!"

"What is it, Bikou?" A beautiful Nekoshou with a voluptuous figure, long black hair with split bangs, and hazel-gold eyes with cat-like pupils, laid on one of the creature's tusks. "Does it involve the both of us?"

"Yup!" Bikou grinned. "That {King} your little sister's with won her battle against Riser Phenex! Guess you don't have to pay the Phenex Clan a little night visit, Kuroka."

"Ah? That's too bad~ I really wanted to know what if phoenixes tasted like chicken~" Kuroka slumped forward, uncaring of her large breasts nearly spilling out of her loose black kimono as she slowly dragged her claws across the tusk and left long gouges in their wake. "I guess Shirone-chan doesn't need me to intervene. We could've had some nice Yuri Yuri sis action~!"

As Kuroka squealed and writhed, the silver haired figure at the very top of the corpse turned to face Bikou. "And? How does that news concern me?"

Bikou's grin grew wider. "The Red Dragon Emperor was confirmed to have helped out the Gremory Peerage in some manner, Vali."

"The Welsh Dragon of this era is active?" Vali Lucifer gaped before gaining a smile of his own. He stood up from his seat, letting his figure bask in the moonlight as a pair of white wings of with eight 'feathers' of sapphire energy burst out from his back. "Excellent."

KingVessel: And thus, Season 1 is over! Plus, Vali makes his cameo! Please review!