Chapter 3: meeting of devils and dragons.

"Talking."

"Internal talking"

{phone or hologram}

(Flashback)

["Ddraig or albion talking"]

["Ddraig or albion talking to partner internally"]

Part 1

POV Issei

"So this mission has been a major clusterfuck, first I fight a man eating exhibitionist centaur devil, then I get roped into a "date" with a an overconfident crow that has really poor fashion sense, and now I'm summoning an devil."

"so you were the one who called me?

The light died down and issei could see the woman standing there and the first thing that came to his mind was.

"Crimson… wow… so… beautiful."

the woman that now stands before issei is a young blue eyed beautiful woman with a rather curvaceous body with large breasts, a slender waist and long beautiful legs, but the part of this beautiful woman that stands out the most is her hair, it is a shade of red darker that strawberry blonde, It matches the crimson color of blood it is so radiant.

"Nice to meet you Issei my name is Rias Gremory, can I call you Ise?"

Issei shakes his head side to side to clear his mind, he turns to see the fallen angel had left during the summoning.

"oh, come on."

Issei rubs his head both to quell the oncoming headache and adjust after the light show

"Call me whatever… but next time… can you dim the lights on the summoning circle."

The comment surprises and slightly embarrasses Rias since she gains a tint of red to her cheeks.

/COUGH/

"Oh… I see… sorry."

Issei throws his hand behind his head and turns his head towards the sky.

"it's good, but now my only lead on the crows just flew the coup."

Rias looks a tinge surprised at the comment wondering why the mysterious hunter would require information about the fallen angels, but she puts on a serious face now, this man was in her territory and didn't know who or what he is.

"Issei, I came alone because I wanted to know who you are, I know you aren't a normal human since you battled viser and that fallen angel woman just now, just what are you doing in my territory."

Issei lifts his head up and looks at the crimson haired woman with a joking shocked expression on his face.

"Wait… you were… STALKING ME?!"

/BLUSH/

The girl's face matched her hair.

"I WAS NOT STALKING YOU!"

"…PFFT…HAHAHAHA!"

Issei gut laughs at how quickly this devil princess blushed at the joke.

"HAHA…haha… OH MAN!... ha ha… oh… you got so red so fast."

Rias tries to compose herself.

"Ahem…, as I was saying, my name is Rias Gremory from the House of Gremory and I am the devil in charge of this town, you've been causing a little chaos, so I came to see what you are."

Issei looks blankly at her before he just smirks and shrugs.

"Heh… you want the long or short version of the story."

"Long version."

"Not a problem, but can you call the backup you have hiding over there, and over there."

As issei points to the left and right of rias, she gains a look of surprise, but it leaves as quickly as it came, and simply holds up her right hand making a come-on gesture.

"Not quite so alone were you princess?"

Issei comments as two other women walk out of the tree lines that surround the fountain, a young girl with short white hair with golden eyes and a older looking girl with long black hair with purple eyes.

"yes… this is my queen akeno and rook koneko…sorry I had no idea if I could…"

"trust me or not, its all fine princess at least you are trying to be diplomatic unlike that fallen angel."

Rias and her friends are shocked at issei voice still maintaining the joking tone as before but also how reasonable he sounds, but they are dragged from their thoughts as issei continues to speak.

"I wanted your peerage members here to hear me clearly just so I don't need repeat anything."

Issei voice takes a more serious tone as he looks straight at rias and her peerage members.

"My name is issei hyoudou, and I am a knight for the sacred order of the gears."

That single sentence shocks rias and akeno to their cores.

"WHAT?!"

But for rias it lasts only a moment before…

"I'VE WANTED TO MEET ONE OF YOU FOR YEARS!"

Her fangirl side comes out.

"WHAT SCHOOL DO YOU BELONG TO?! DOES YOUR MEDALLION REALLY SENSE DEVILS AND MAGIC, IS IT TRUE YOUR ORDER HAS BEEN AROUND FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS AND THAT THERE IS ACTUAL SAMURAI FROM THE TAIKA ERA THAT TEACHES YOU GUYS?! AND THAT…"

Rias asks a myriad of questions to Issei losing the cautious attitude and mindset she had moments ago and got very close to issei's face.

/BLUSH/

Which causes issei's face to go red due to this very beautiful devil princess getting close enough to hug him.

The involuntary action didn't go unnoticed by the queen and rook both surprised by it and how the president is acting right now.

"ufufu, Rias you might need to calm down, you're making issei nervous."

The comment from her queen shocks rias back to earth and she realizes how close she got to issei.

"Ahh…"

/BLUSH/

Rias backs up from issei and tries to regain her composure and make the color die in her cheeks.

"…"

"… do you want me to answer any of those questions you just asked or…?"

"… if it's no trouble."

"…ok… I'm from the school of the dragon, my dragon medallion does hum in the presence of unknown magic and unfamiliar magic beings and yes, the order has been active for over two thousand years, and my master is the taika era samurai you spoke of."

/SPARKLE/

Rias becomes so happy you could see stars in her eyes.

"…buchou…please."

Seeing her master acting so giddy was kind of embarrassing for the young rook.

Rias's mind snaps to attention… again… for the third time.

/COUGH/

"… sorry."

Issei composes himself and manages to regain the serious attitude he had before the fangirling started.

"I wouldn't worry about it princess… but let's get back to why you're here."

"…yes let's."

Rias finally managed to calm down enough to talk.

"I didn't move to this town to start trouble with you devils nor did I come here to hurt any of you, I'm here on a mission there is a sacred gear user that was connected to the church and she got into some trouble, and is headed towards kuoh, I'm here to save her from whoever attempts to capture her, and thanks to getting attacked by that fallen I now know it was them who are behind this."

The news shocks and surprises rias and her peerage, the fallen kidnapped a holy sacred gear user that is extreme.

"Who is this sacred gear user."

"She is a nun named Asia, she was a very important holy woman, her sacred gear heals injury regardless of severity, she was exiled days ago for healing a male devil."

All three devil women eyes slightly bulge at the news a sacred gear that could even heal devils is incredibly unusual, but one thing sticks out like a sore thumb.

"Who was the devil this "Asia" healed was his name ever given?"

Issei shakes his head side to side.

"I don't know his name, but I know the rest of the details he had a single wound on his chest like he was attacked, but no exorcists or hunters were near the church nor was there any signs of a fight between that devil against angels or fallen angels near that church within 10 kilometers."

The full story is even more shocking to the devils, Rias trying to piece together what happened and starts to think out loud.

"I haven't heard of any attack on devils in the underworld by fallen angels, so either that devil was hurt and traveled thousand of meters to the church or…"

"Or the devil hurt himself to get Asia exiled from the church, a holy woman is untouchable to devils without starting a conflict but an exiled nun is a different story."

Rias thinks on what issei just said it is the only explanation that makes sense.

"Issei if this is true why would the fallen angels be involved?"

"I have thought of that, the best explanation I can think of is that they both made a deal but plan to backstab one another the crow king has a thing for sacred gears and the one Asia possesses is rare so the crows must plan to either steal it or steal her and the devil must plan to kill the angels and resurrect Asia as a devil."

Rias goes silent thinks on what she was told and concludes what she needs to do.

"issei, me and my peerage will not try to stop you but I want you to know we can't help you in this, we hope you save this girl but that is all we can do unless the fallen force our hand in the matter."

Issei nods his head at her.

"That is all I need from you Rias-san thank you, so if there is no other issue, I bid you good night."

Issei turns to walk away from the group of devils and retrieve the shopping bags from his "date".

"Actually, issei there was another thing I wished to discuss with you..."

Issei holds up a finger and speaks.

"You want me in your peerage."

Rias eyes widen at the sudden answer.

"Last time I met with a high-class devil girl, she wanted me in her peerage when she got her evil pieces when she got older, and I will tell you what I told her…"

Issei turns back to look at Rias.

"I can't become the servant of a devil it goes against my order's doctrine, sorry, but I have to refuse you."

Rias can't hide the look of disappointment that washed over face.

"I… see… thank you though Ise."

"…no problem, see ya around."

Issei walks to the shopping bags, collects them and finally leaves the park while waving bye to the devils while still facing forward.

"well, if you're going to get found out get it out of the way first and try to keep moving forward, that's what master Senshi always said."

["your master's teachings are very direct but are admittedly very wise partner"]

"Just like the man himself."

Part 2

POV Rias

The young high-class watches the dragon knight leave she can't hide the disappointment at not gaining a strong new peerage member but she respects issei's decision and has to hope he changes his mind.

"Buchou, who was he… and why did you get so… giddy while he said he was some kind of "knight" and what is the sacred order of the gears and the school of the dragon?"

Rias is ripped from her thought when koneko speaks aloud.

"Ufufu, koneko didn't lady venelana tell you about the sacred order of the gears."

"No akeno-senpai I don't remember her saying about that.

Before the queen could answer the question rias turns to koneko with stars shining in her eyes.

"Koneko! The order of gears has long been talked about in the underworld, its this order of humans that have existed for over two millennia, they are sacred gear users trained and honed to be powerful enough to fight devils, angels and fallen angels, but they mostly hunt monsters, there has even been times high class devils have teamed up with members to deal with dangerous spirits or monsters!..."

The eyes of the cute white hair rook widen incredibly at the level of excitement her master is showing for this order.

"… and there are so many unknown aspects of them, there are these schools that trains them, Okita-san told me about how a member from the school of the wolf hunted this wild hakken{1} that was killing people in kyoto before he was reincarnated, and that…"

Still surprised koneko looks to Akeno to see if this was normal.

/NOD/

It was… it very much was.

"There are ten schools that devils know about and the medallion they wear…"

"RIAS!"

The sudden shout from Akeno snapped Rias out her fangirl mode back to normal.

/BLUSH/

And it led to a very heavy blush that washed over Rias's face.

/COUGH/

"Anyway, koneko the scared order of gears are protectors for both worlds they have saved humans from wicked creatures and have protected innocent devils from devil hunters, but they maintain this neutrality and don't come to the aid of any faction."

The young rook nods her head in understanding.

"Got it but are we really going to allow him to stay here, what if he attacks us?"

But her master simply smiles and says to put her mind at ease.

"If he wanted to, he would have tried to attack me the second I appeared, and the information he shared, nothing there felt made up or false, he must trust us enough to tell us about the exiled nun."

"Yes, I agree with rias, he seemed like he meant no harm towards us and seemed more interested in talking to us."

Both the King and Queen give their opinions on the Gears Knight and his personality.

"If you say buchou and akeno-senpai… but I wonder who the injured devil was that nun healed?"

That is the one question that has been eating away at Rias's mind, she can't think anyone she knows who would do something like that, it must have been a devil from house she doesn't interact with much.

"I don't know koneko, I'll tell my brother about it, but without knowing who that devil is I don't think much could be done right now, however the mystery of this devil will have to wait, I know that issei won't put people in danger but the fallen are another story, if they become a threat, we take them out no questions."

"Yes rias."

"Yes buchou."

Rias smiles at the dedication of her cute servants, and knows that when push comes to shove, they'll push back harder.

"Now my cute servants, first thing we need to do is bring Yuuto up to speed about the fallen and issei, then we make plans in case the fallen try to attack us."

The queen and rook both nod there heads as Rias activates the magic circle to take them back to the clubroom, but before they even vanish…

"so, rias and koneko, did either of you think issei was cute too."

/BLUSH/BLUSH/

It causes both Rias and Koneko to blush.

"Akeno… please control yourself."

"Ufufu."

The magic circle finally activates sending the blushing devil back to her clubroom.

Afterword

Sorry about the false update, I decided to rework somethings about the story, when I first thought of the story I had ideas of using elements from dmc, the witcher and demon slayer, but it originally had too much of the story trying to be devil may cry so I made the creative decision to try push more towards the witcher and demon slayer aspects (with actually helped me in being more passionate and creative about the story), so there is a small rewrite to the first two chapters that help push it to more reflect that, the name of the sacred order of gears came from the order of the sword of dmc 4 but it is like the witcher schools or demon slayer corps being monster hunters that sometimes come up against devils, angels and fallen angels when humans are threatened, there are ten schools and two were named in this chapter, the school issei belongs to the school of the dragon, and the school of the wolf, be prepared to see the other schools soon with members of the schools making appearances.

{1} hakken – a Japanese werewolf that migrated from Europe, in this story they are 5'6 tall with white fur with glowing red eyes.