Dance With the Devil
Nerima Arc Epilogue
Disclaimer: I own none of the series involved.
Armiture: Yes, Bishamon is from Darkstalkers canon. As for Shampoo's maces, guess that's just my experience from the Ranma 1/2 fandom as they've always been called bonbouri in the fandom. Oh, and Akane's Sacred Gear isn't Lame, but it is Useless right now. For one, she can't control it and for two, it's too quirky. This becomes important later, that is all I will say on it.
"So this is the place?" Ranma looked at the large building that Akiko brought him, Nuku and Lilith to. "Looks kind of like an old-style warehouse."
"Because that's what it was before we refurbished it." Akiko smirked as she unlocked it and they went inside. "But, as you can see... I added some changes."
"Wow!" Ranma looked at the first floor. "This is almost entirely set up to be a perfect training area!"
"Indeed, you said you needed space to practice in peace, so that's what I looked for. There's showers and bathrooms in the back, along with an exit outside, a computer lab..." She gave him a strict glare. "If I'm paying for this I expect you three to keep your grades up. If any of you start failing I'm pulling funding."
The three bowed their heads and agreed.
"Anyway, upstairs there are bedrooms, a full-sized bathroom and just before the stairs is a fully functional kitchen."
"Wait, how big IS this place?" Ranma asked in surprise.
"Hmm, you could store a fleet of buses in here if we just left the outer walls intact."
The three sweat-dropped as they heard that.
"Anyway, you three have school in the morning and you better be on time!" She sighed as her cell phone rang. "If you'll excuse me."
After she left, Lilith looked at Ranma as he carried his backpack full of clothes to the back stairway. "Master, are you sure it was a good idea to remove the seal on Mittelt right after we left Nerima?" Sure it had been two weeks since the announcement and today was Sunday, but still, she wondered why he let her go so early.
"She didn't attack us, did she?" Ranma smirked before sighing. "I should have let her go only a couple days after catching her, dunno why I didn't."
"Because Master's a lolicon." Lilith teased, getting a glare from him. "Well fine, anyway, let's go upstairs and check everything out, Nuku!" The two raced off and Ranma chuckled.
(-)
Later that night Ranma was standing in the middle of the training area on his head with his eyes closed as he meditated.
"What are you doing on your head like that?" A familiar and shocking voice caused Ranma's eyes to snap open and he flopped over to his side in surprise.
"Mittelt?!" He stared in shock. "What are you..." He trailed off as three black feathers fell from her hand.
"I went back to our base, all I found were black feathers everywhere. I grabbed some and teleported back to Nerima and asked Nabiki to look at them." She sighed as she slumped down to the floor. "Devils killed them. I know it's a possibility, but Raynare was really strong, but she had to deal with that Gremory bitch." Mittelt started laughing as she put her hand on her face and pushed her head up. "Of course it wasn't just her, that boy, you know, the Sacred Gear user I told you about? Turns out he's got a Longinus Sacred Gear. The power to kill Gods is in the hands of the Devils... And you know what the worst part is?" Her laughter got even louder as she continued to talk. "We drove him there! Raynare killed that kid and Gremory revived him, now she's got someone who could give the Devils a serious edge if the war starts up again."
"...Why are you telling me this? I'm technically a Devil."
"You don't have loyalty to anyone in Hell. If shit goes down you and Lilith can escape to Makai with anyone you want." Mittelt chuckled and trembled. "But the worst part is... None of our bosses or allies showed up to help Raynare out. Were we abandoned by everyone?"
"Were you?"
"I DON'T KNOW!" She screamed and lunged for him, tackling him to the ground and burying her face into his chest. "WHY?!" She stopped laughing and started crying loudly.
"Mittelt?"
"Why can't you be like a normal Devil? Huh?! Why did you have to be nice to me?!" She screamed while pounding on his chest lightly.
"Considering that I sealed your powers..."
"You could have humiliated me at school, forced me to do all sorts of depraved things with everyone there, you could have killed me instead of letting me go, you could have used some succubus sex magic and made me a mindless sex slave!"
Ranma almost told her that there wasn't any sort of succubus magic that could do that, but decided against it.
"And then I find out that everyone I knew is dead, the Devils have a freaking Longinus user in their midst and he's a freaking Dragon!" Her body shook while tears flowed freely out of her eyes.
Ranma gulped at that, Dragons were supposedly among the most powerful beings in reality. "Seriously?"
Mittelt nodded at that. "Turns out that kid, Issei? Nabiki found out he's got the soul of the Red Dragon Emperor in him." She started laughing hysterically. "No wonder Raynare got killed, if he woke up even a sliver of that thing's power she wouldn't stand a chance against him."
"So now what?"
"Just hold me." She whimpered and sighed as he wrapped his arms around her.
"Just a question." He asked after a few minutes of silence. "How did you get Nabiki to help you out?"
"You left the protection field up at the Tendo home, I crashed hard when I flew over that place, damn near broke a few bones." She pouted. "Guess I'm still an enemy, huh?"
"I guess... But only if you want to be."
Mittelt buried her face into Ranma's chest and started laughing again. "There! See? That's what I mean, you're too nice to be a Devil. If you had stayed a Hanyou I would have asked you to make me your wife or slave or whatever after that first night we spent together."
"Uh..." Ranma blushed softly. "I don't like my women as sex slaves, even if Lilith wouldn't mind it." It would have made his life easier if he had broken a few of them completely though.
Mittelt pushed off of Ranma suddenly and stood up. "You know, for a Devil, you aren't bad."
"I'd rather be considered a Hanyou or human."
She smiled at him and offered her hand to him. "Very well then, allow me to offer my support to you."
"...Huh?"
"I'm saying I'll join your group."
"Are you sure you don't have Stockholm Syndrome?"
Mittelt snorted at that. "Maybe, but none of our bosses bothered to show up to help Raynare and the others out and I know there's at least one near here. So if we're that expendable to them, fuck 'em! If I'm being tossed out as a Fallen Angel and I can't get back into Heaven, what are my options? I hate Devils, but... You're not bad, so..."
Ranma took her hand and stood up. "You do realize that this is permanent and you can't take it back if you regret it later."
"I won't." She blinked as a Bishop materialized in front of her. "So this..."
"Yada yada, become my Bishop and serve me, yada yada." Ranma waved his hands, getting a laugh from Mittelt. "I'm not one for formalities."
"Fine." She put the piece on her chest and closed her eyes as it entered into her. Focusing for a moment, black bat-like wings appeared out of her back. "Well, this might take some getting used to."
Ranma shrugged at that. "If you'd rather, you could still use your Fallen Angel wings."
"Maybe later."
"HA!" Lilith yelled, surprising both of them as she ran down the stairs and grinned at the former Fallen Angel. "I KNEW you'd eventually become a Devil, you slut!" Lilith grinned as she got close to Mittelt.
"HEY! That was really hard for me!" The blonde's eyes started to water. "It really was!"
"I bet, but this isn't." The next thing Mittelt knew, Lilith's lips were on hers. Her eyes widened for a few moments until Lilith broke the kiss. "There. Now we're friends."
"You whore!" Mittelt growled, a red aura erupting around her. "How dare you kiss me?!" A snap of her wrist and a pink spear of energy appeared in hands. "Uh... What?"
"...I take it that shouldn't happen?" Ranma asked, getting a nod from Mittelt.
"Yeah, this is a spear of light, but that..."
"Eh, so what if it should be impossible? We turned an android catgirl into a cyborg catgirl, Master needs a seal to keep his new powers in check and you can use Fallen Angel powers still. Who cares?"
"You know..." Mittelt smiled as she dismissed the spear. "You're right, who the fuck cares? Let's just do things our way."
"Now you're thinking like a Demon!"
Ranma smiled, glad they were getting along.
"But don't kiss me like that again."
"Okay, I'll kiss you when Master's training your ass."
"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEAN!"
"HA! You didn't deny it!"
"THAT'S IT, WHORE!"
"NYAAA!" Lilith blew a raspberry as Mittelt chased her around the training area.
Ranma sighed, well, he guessed this was progress.
(-)
The next day...
Issei Hyoudou, a teenager with messy brown hair in a short rat-tail was looking around class in confusion at the commotion. "Okay, so what's going on?"
"Dude! You didn't hear?!" A boy with his hair cut so short that it might as well have been shaved off completely. "We got some new transfer students. Four of 'em."
"Really? At this time of year?" And so soon after Asia had reincarnated into a Devil? Issei wondered just what was going on.
"I should note that all four are being transferred into this class." A boy with glasses and shaggy brown hair said to them.
Before Issei could say anything more, the teacher walked in. "Alright class, settle down, we have four new students."
Walking in, Issei noted the guy in the front was around average height, but the only thing that was really interesting about him was the black hair tied up into a braided pigtail and his blue eyes. The short girl with purple hair and red eyes was next, she didn't have much of a chest, though Issei could appreciate her legs, they were probably the thickest pair he had ever seen on a girl, especially one so short. The other short girl was a blonde with blue eyes and she was a lot more average looking, though very cute, in comparison to the blonde.
The last girl though.
"Woah mama!" Issei and the two boys next to him were openly drooling at the tall girl, well, tall for a Japanese girl at least with dark red hair, green eyes and...
"Those are some big gazongas!" Issei cried out, getting disgusted looks from many of his female classmates.
"Would you four introduce yourselves?"
"Name's Ranma Saotome."
"Lilith Aensland." The purple haired girl winked at the trio of boys, causing the one with really short hair to scream out in joy.
"Mittelt Keller, I hope to learn about Japanese culture while I'm here." She smiled pleasantly.
"I'm Atsuko Natsume." The last girl smiled at the class. "Pleasure to meet you."
That's it for the Nerima arc. Now we're in Kuoh City, I wonder what kind of insanity that we'll get here.
Find out next time on Dance With the Devil DxD
And yes, Mittelt gets to stay. I've hardly seen any fic that lets her stick around for any reason. Hilariously enough, when I put her as a Bishop, I hadn't looked for those DxD cards that have characters listed as what pieces they would be if they were Devils (for the ones who aren't listed) and it turns out that Mittelt is listed as a Bishop on them.
Omake by Innortal
"So you guys never explored the world?" Ranma asked.
Mittelt shook her head, even as she roasted the marshmallow over the fire ... and let her mental voice of 'Burn, Sinner!' play a few times.
Ah, the good ole days. "Raynare was in charge, always spending our funds on alcohol or some rundown church.
"One time, she wasted half our budget to get a life-like strap-on, professionally done, matched her skin tone, had a warmer, everything."
"... I know I'm probably going to regret this ... but why?"
"I think to mess with the victims she was going after," Mittelt shrugged. "I didn't ask, and thankfully, she would never tell."