Dance With the Devil
New 5 Part 1
Disclaimer: I own none of the series involved.
Review answer time!
tamagat: Shouldn't it be "molest the Morrigan" for alliteration purposes?
HolyKnight5: That will... Come into play eventually. Can't have it end too quickly, ya know?
Oh, and let's get the obligatory bad joke out of the way...
Man, it's been so long, I haven't updated in an entire year!
"Well, Katerea," Azazel smirked at her. "It's been far too long, then again, a washed up old bitch like you never was very interesting."
"Oh shut up!" She swung her staff forward and several magical beams lanced out at the Fallen Angel. "I'll crush you and then when I'm done with you I'll take out that bitch that stole my title."
Azazel held his hand up and a barrier formed in front of him, blocking the attacks. "Really? Because I don't think this is simply an inter-Devil squabble. I heard your faction was pretty much knee-capped." He smirked at her.
"Don't underestimate me!" She roared and as she cast several powerful spells that Azazel easily blocked.
"Please, is that the best you can do?" Snapping his fingers, dozens of spears formed above him before launching themselves at Katerea, who blocked all of them. "Come on now, surely you can do better." He taunted her as he raised a hand and blocked a torrent of magic that she tried to crash down on him.
(-)
"Three on one, huh?" The Armor said as it stood there glowing. "I guess it would take that many to defeat me."
"You know," Irina said as she held Excalibur Mimic in its katana form in front of her defensively, "I don't know what's worse, the fact that thing somehow has that fused Excalibur..."
"Excalibur Betrayal."
"Or the fact that the aura it's putting out is making my skin crawl." When several magic blasts from the hovering magicians forced all four to jump out of the way, she grimaced. "Well, shoot, if we don't deal with them first..."
"Allow me." A black aura surrounded the Excalibur Betrayal.
"Wait, how?!" Kiba yelped as the armor did a wide slashing arc up into the air, sending out a wave that slaughtered dozens of magicians. "I thought you said it lost it's power!" The sword started to glow red as the armor laughed at him.
"The powers of the four Excaliburs it had, yes. The power that I introduced to it? No." The armor twisted out of the way as a whip like attack came right at it.
"Then I must thank you for giving me the chance to fight against it." Irina said as she struck at the armor.
"Pathetic." The armor rushed at her, batting away her attack and kicking her in the chest, sending her crashing to the ground. "Now then." It swung the sword down and the attack was stopped by Xenovia holding Durandal.
"No you won't!" Xenovia glared at the armor. "You won't hurt my friend!"
"Xenovia..." Irina gasped and got up as she reformed her katana sword.
"Is that what they call it these days? Are you sure you weren't more when you were at the church?"
Xenovia's frowned in confusion. "What are you, ACK!" She grunted as the thing twisted its wrists, causing their swords to move down before being headbutted by the armor.
Spinning around, Bishamon parried Kiba's attack and jumped away from Irina's downwards slash. "You three work well together."
(-)
Ranma grabbed Tarou's punch and threw him into a magician before holding up a hand and creating a barrier blocking several attacks. "Nice try, ladies, but you didn't have enough postage on it, so I'll have to return to sender."
"Reflection magic?!" Several magicians gasped as they were blasted by their own attacks.
"Not bad." Tarou grinned as he got up. "Fighting them and me at the same time? I can see why you've got people interested in you."
Ranma snorted as pillars of ice flared up around magicians that got too close to him. "You aren't that good, pantyhose boy."
Tarou sneered at him. "You half-demon freak!" He held out his right hand and a mass of dark energy formed there before several snake-like tentacles wrapped around his body. "Heh heh heh heh... You're just a half-Demon freak, but me?" An insane grin covered his face as his body was covered in darkness. "I'm sure you've heard of Jusenkyo, yes?" Ranma nodded and Tarou continued to laugh. "Thanks to my benefactor I no longer need water to change into my cursed form. So much better than my human form."
"What?" Ranma watched as Tarou laughed as his form started to grow and shift. "...Oh... My..."
The beast was HUGE! Ranma figured he and four others could ride on the thing's neck no problem. It was bipedal, the upper-body was muscular and covered in thick fur, the bottom part looked like a cow's legs, on its back were a pair of white wings and lashing behind it was a tail with a snake for a head.
"...I don't believe it. A Yeti Riding a Bull Carrying a Crane and Eel spring?!" Ranma gulped and took a step back.
"MOOO!" The thing bellowed and punched at Ranma at a speed that caught him off guard, knocking him across the school yard where several magical blasts converged on him, kicking up a cloud of dust and obscuring everyone's vision.
The next thing that anyone knew, a green aura surrounded Ranma causing the dust cloud to disperse. "Not bad." Ranma tilted his head from side to side, popping his neck. "But if that's all you got, Pantyhose boy, then you're going to lose."
"MOOOOOOO!" The thing bellowed out and thrust an open palm at Ranma, a powerful black energy wave came crashing out.
"Well don't that beat all?" Ranma asked as it came crashing down on him.
(-)
Lilith hovered into the air, bats erupting from her body, leaving her nude before they circled her and reemerged with her body. Her body increased in height several inches, stopping a little under Morrigan's height, her chest, while larger than her human form, was very modest, her outfit was much like Morrigan's, a leotard that was a thong from behind, her legs were covered in purple leggings with bat designs on them. "So we finally meet." She said as two wings formed on her head and two large wings formed out of her back.
"My sister, or perhaps I should say," Morrigan narrowed her eyes at Lilith, "the other half of my soul. I don't know how you got your own body, but it's time to remerge with me."
Lilith smirked at her as she was shrouded by an intense Youki aura. "You want me to rejoin you? Too bad, I like my life! Soul Flash!"
"Soul Fist!" Two bats of energy flew at each other, slamming into each other and exploding outwards. Flapping her wings, Morrigan seemingly teleported in front of Lilith and grabbed her face before her wings transformed into a jet booster and rushed her as speeds that even Vali would have found impressive as Morrigan slammed Lilith into and through the school building...
...Several times before her shoe turned into an ax and Morrigan kicked upwards, cutting Lilith upwards from her hip to her neck, causing a spray of blood to erupt from her. "Is that all you..." She blinked as that Lilith grinned and disappeared into light particles.
The next thing she felt was a powerful kick to her back, sending her tumbling through the air. Flipping upside down, she looked at Lilith, who was grinning at her. "Okay, how?"
"The instant you let go." Lilith chuckled, her body slightly scuffed up before she flapped her wings and took off after Morrigan. When she got closer, she grinned and spread her wings wide. "Shining Blade Ripper!"
Morrigan righted herself and smirked as her wings transformed from the rocket pack back to normal and she flapped them. "Shadow Blade Ripper!"
Lilith's eyes widened as dozens upon dozens of dark blades lanced out and collided with her light blades before they exploded and kicked up a dust cloud. "How did..?" She gasped as Morrigan came crashing through the dust cloud, her wings wrapped around her arm into a spear as she aimed at Lilith's chest.
"Shadow Blade!"
"Shining Blade!" Lilith countered, her wings wrapping around her arm and forming a spear as well as she rushed forward to meet Morrigan head on.
When their attacks hit, the two grunted as the tips of their make-shift spears pressed against each other. Lilith had a grimace on her face while Morrigan grinned at her. "Tell me one thing, Lilith, did you really think you would be able to stay away from me forever?"
"I don't know, ask dad, he split your soul apart, not me."
Morrigan narrowed her eyes at Lilith. "Father's dead."
The shock Lilith felt was enough to distract her as Morrigan did a flip in mid-air and sent her crashing to the ground hard enough to leave a crater in its wake. Her spear reforming into wings, Morrigan descended to the ground. "Is that all?" She asked, disappointment in her voice.
As Morrigan's feet touched the ground, a stone fist erupted upwards, hitting her in the gut so hard that blood came out of her mouth, her eyes wide and a stupid look on her face before she was flipped up into the air before she crashed onto her back hard.
"Hardly." Lilith said as she staggered to her feet and wiped some blood off of her lips before dismissing the fist. "I still have enough energy to fist you good and hard."
Morrigan just groaned in response, both from the pain from the attack and the pain from that pun.
(-)
Kiba was finding it harder than he expected against Bishamon, even with Xenovia and Irina working together with him, the armor was seemingly dancing around their attacks, ducking, twisting and dodging at impossible angles while countering when it couldn't dodge. "Got you!" Several swords erupted from the ground, trying to skewer Bishamon when Irina and Xenovia jumped away from it.
"You sure?" Bishamon asked as it jumped away from the swords that erupted. "Nice try, but too SLOW!" The sword came swinging down and several lines of destructive energy came crashing down, tearing up the ground and damaging the school building behind them.
Letting out a yell, Kiba struck at Bishamon from above. The armor raised its sword up to parry the downward strike and only realized, a moment too late, that it was wide open as Xenovia and Irina struck its chest with a cross-cutting attack, sending the armor flying through the air and crashing into the ground.
"Did we get it?" Xenovia asked before holding up her sword to block several magic attacks.
"Not bad." Bishamon said as it stood up, the armor looking cracked and cut, but otherwise was still in good condition. "But you'd be amazed how protective an aura really is." Bishamon sneered as Excalibur Betrayal had a black aura surround it. "Now then..."
"We've got one chance, as soon as it fires at us, we'll have to take it out." Irina said as she tensed up, preparing to move, Xenovia and Kiba nodded at her.
"Excalibur Betrayal... Since it's a Holy Sword..." Bishamon's chest lit up as it turned and faced the room where the Devil Kings, Michael and their frozen friends were located. "USING IT TO DESTROY THE LEADER OF HEAVEN SEEMS APPROPRIATE! FLY EXCALIBUR!"
"NO!" Kiba, Xenovia and Irina yelled out as Bishamon brought the sword down and a black wave of pure destructive energy lanced out towards the classroom.
(-)
Tarou chuckled as he saw the smoldering ashes erupt where Ranma had taken his attack. "MOOOO!" Turning, he looked for another fight to help out in.
"Now that you've done that, I have a question for you." Ranma's voice was heard from above. Tarou's eyes widened as Ranma's face came into view, though upside down as Ranma stood on his head and bent over to look him in the eye. "You were pretty skilled, but your aura didn't tell me you could do something like that, I know that bulls, cranes and eels can't do that, though if it was an electric eel I could see you shooting lightning at me. And Yetis aren't known for being anything other than strong, scary and smelly monsters."
Mooing, Tarou attempted to slap Ranma, who jumped out of the way, causing the Minotaur to slap himself on the face. "MOOOOOFF!" The next thing he knew he was on his ass and his face was hurting.
"Hey, don't facepalm so hard, I didn't even tell a bad joke yet." Ranma grinned at Tarou, who snorted as he got up, his face marred by a red hand print on his face. "Anyway, I figure none of your animals have that and you couldn't do that before, so, what allows you to, hmm? I'm betting it has something to do with those black snakes, am I right?"
"MOO!" The large Minotaur bellowed and charged Ranma, punching at him. His eyes widened as he realized Ranma was under him and hitting him in the stomach hard and fast enough that his eyes bugged out as he was launched into the air. "MOO!" The only answer he got back was an emerald energy orb that crashed into his chest, exploding and sending the large creature tumbling through the air.
Before Ranma could comment, he was forced to dodge as several beams pierced where he had been a moment ago. "Sheesh! Are you all just waiting for a clean shot at me or something?"
"Yes." Was the unanimous answer.
Ranma sweat-dropped as he heard that. "Thank you for being honest."
"You're welcome." The magicians all said at the same time and fired more magical beams at him.
When the beams converged, they were returned to the magicians, some of whom had seen him do that before and were able to dodge out of the way.
"This doesn't make sense!" One of the women yelled in frustration. "Reflection magic is pretty high-tier!"
"Relax." One of the other women said as they hovered through the air. "I'm pretty sure that he can't keep doing that."
"MOOO!" A large fist slammed where Ranma was, breaking his reflection barrier and sending him flying across the school yard and landing, butt-first, in a basketball hoop.
"Oww, that hurt." Ranma shook his head and looked at Tarou in surprise. "Are you getting bigger?!" When the Minotaur took to the air and fire started to form in its mouth, Ranma grimaced. "You can breathe fire too, huh? Lovely." A burst of power broke the basketball hoop. Lightning danced around Ranma's right hand before he snapped it forward and sent a bolt at Tarou, who merely grunted as his body continued to get larger. "Fuck."
Tarou opened his mouth to blast at Ranma with flames when he was hit at high speeds from the side. "MOO?!"
"DIVIDE!"
Tarou let out a pained Moo as he found himself not only not increasing in size, but instead shrinking and falling to the ground on his knees.
"DIVIDE!"
"MOOO!" Tarou screamed as his cursed body returned to its normal size.
"You know..." Ranma said as he stood next to Vali, causing the armored fighter to look at him. "I don't recall asking for your help."
"Fine," Vali turned to leave.
"Never said that I wouldn't accept it, just said that I never asked for it." Ranma replied, causing Vali to look at him again. Under his armor, Vali frowned in confusion. "Just don't do something stupid and get yourself hurt."
"You too. How are you standing there?" Vali asked, since Ranma was in mid-air with him. When Ranma pointed at his feet, Vali looked down to see two tiny cube barriers under his feet. "Interesting trick."
"Not all of us can fly, you know." Ranma smirked at him. "So get going, take out those magicians, I'll deal with Pantyhose boy."
"MOOO!" Tarou bellowed as he started to grow again.
"YEAH! COME ON! GET BIGGER! I'LL BEAT YOUR ASS ANYWAY!"
Vali shook his head and took off, he wouldn't understand how that guy thought. 'Then again...' Vali's thoughts trailed off as he looked back at Ranma. "Ranma Saotome, there's something about you that's different from others, what is it?" He whispered to himself.
Dodging out of the way of an over-sized palm heading his way, Ranma shot a look at the old school building. "Dammit, Rias, Issei, what's taking you two so long?"
(-)
Lilith clapped her hands and a ball of energy formed there. "Try this! SHINE SPARK!" Throwing her hands up, the sphere got huge before she threw it at Morrigan.
"Oh nice!" The elder succubus grinned before her clothes disappeared, leaving her naked and a black wave of energy rushed out at the ball. "Shadow Dance!"
Lilith grimaced as her attack was stopped and dispersed. "That sucks."
Morrigan's bats returned to her, as did her clothing. "Come on now, that can't be all you got."
Lilith smirked at her and snapped her fingers as lightning danced around her body. "Let's see, how about this?!" Snapping her arm to the side, a glowing bat surrounded by electricity rushed out at Morrigan.
"OH YES! That's more like it!" Morrigan took to the sky and grinned as the bat followed after her. "You might be more fun than I first imagined then." She laughed and twisted out of the way of another energy shot before seemingly disappearing and slamming into Lilith's stomach, feet first, at super high speeds, sending the younger succubus crashing to the ground. "I can keep this up all..." Whatever she was going to say was cut off as her body suddenly spasmed from an electric current running through her body from her feet. "NNNNGH!" She twisted and arched her body in mid air, only to scream as the electric bat slammed into her breasts from above, causing her to light up like a Christmas tree.
"...She gets off on electrical currents running through her?" Lilith asked, twitching as she felt the rush of what felt like sexual pleasure coming from Morrigan. "Good to know, I guess."
(-)
Azazel raised an eyebrow as Katerea held up her left hand. "Snakes?" He asked as the energy surrounded her body and she laughed. The next thing that he knew, a powerful black energy wave was sent at him.
"And that's that." Katerea smirked and turned around.
"Just so we're clear, that's not that." Azazel smirked and blocked a bare-handed strike from Katerea. "You know, you're pumping out a lot more power than a typical Devil King descendant, and I wonder if maybe it has something to do with those black snakes you just absorbed."
"I don't know why I should tell you, you're going to be dead soon."
(-)
Sirzechs and Serafall were both on the floor, face down, from when Grayfia pushed them when she saw the black wave of energy coming for them. "Lord Sirzechs, Lady Serafall, are you two okay?" Grayfia's voice, incredibly pained, spoke up.
"Yes, we're fine, are you..." Sirzechs spoke as he started to get up and turned to look at his wife, who still had her arms outstretched.
Her outfit was soaked in free-flowing blood, blood was running out of her mouth, down her chin and throat as she staggered. She coughed, causing more blood to come up, and smiled him. "I'm glad."
"Grayfia!" Sirzechs quickly stood up, followed by Serafall.
"I'll deal with her, help Michael with the barrier, and you!" Serafall said to Michael. "Don't look at what I'm going to do."
"I would never look at another man's wife in any way other than in a platonic manner, but I assume you must remove her outfit to see how badly she was hurt." Michael said as he pointedly looked away.
"Yeah," Serafall said as she grabbed at Grayfia's outfit. "Don't fight, lemme SEE!" With a yell, she tore Grayfia's top completely off, leaving her bare breasts hanging out. "Sunnvabitch!" Serafall cursed loudly as she saw the extent of the damage Grayfia had taken.
The woman was practically bisected from her right shoulder down through her left breast. Serafall wasn't sure if the attack had cut the other Devil's heart apart, but she wasn't going to take any chances. "I'm not good with healing magic, but I'll do my best."
Hearing that, Sirzechs, who was facing the outside, took a chance to look over his shoulder. What he saw almost made him see red.
His wife, the mother of his son, on her knees, blood pouring out of her like she was some sort of stuffed pig, on an injury he was certain would have killed nearly anyone else. He knew Grayfia was tough, durable and wouldn't die too easily, but that injury could do it, with the blood loss and the fact that he was certain it had almost cut her in half, he knew she wouldn't last much longer. "Blast it all." He growled and glared at the magicians who were continuing to bombard their position with magical beams. "If only Asia Argento wasn't frozen."
"Indeed. I must apologize to you, Sirzechs." Michael said, his tone sad. "If I could heal your subordinate, I would."
"You're wrong about one thing." Sirzechs said as he continued to hold the barrier up. "She's my wife."
"Right now," Grayfia coughed hard, "I'm your maid."
"Now is not the time for that!" Sirzechs yelled, his voice full of anger and worry. "Reprimand me at home later if you want, but right now I'm your husband and I'm worried to death over you!"
Michael mentally sighed as he listened to that. He couldn't fully appreciate how much Sirzechs was worried, but he sympathized greatly with the other leader.
(-)
"Hmm, I missed, I was aiming at Michael, to think that I would just hit a worthless maid, oh well."
"YOU BASTARD!" Kiba, Xenovia and Irina yelled at the same time, rushing in so fast that Bishamon couldn't even see them. Even so, Bishamon parried a strike from Xenovia, only to have the armor on its right flank removed by Kiba as he passed by. Swinging at Kiba had Irina come up from behind and deeply cut across the armor's back. Taking a stumbling step forward, Bishamon turned to swing at Irina, who had already gotten out of the way.
Xenovia screamed as she came in with a downward's slice, hitting the helmet of Bishamon and shattering the face-plate covering the left side of the face, revealing a shocked expression. "Impressive." It commented as it took several steps back, parrying and protecting itself as best it could while the three continued to strike and carve off pieces of its armor. Bishamon quickly jumped back and parried while moving backwards, knowing that the fight was most likely lost.
The ghost sneered as the three kids continued to chase after it, screaming profanities at it.
(-)
"GASPER!" Issei yelled as he burst the door down, Rias right behind him. In front of them were a bunch of women with those weird hoods that made them look like they had three eyes in a line in the center of their faces. Gasper was bound to a magical barrier that looked like an ornate cross, Koneko was likewise bound, though she was upside down and her skirt was hanging upwards revealing her pink and white striped panties to him.
"Issei! Rias!" Gasper gasped out, tears coming out of his eyes, which were glowing and looked like they were cut into several slices. "You came for me."
"Of course we would." Rias smiled at him. "You're a member of my family, I'm not going to let some third-rate wannabe magic users use you like this."
"Enough!" The women pointed sword at Gasper and Koneko. "You know, you're a pathetic master. You should have had him under mind control so that you could easily control him."
"Rias! I'm sorry!" Gasper sobbed as he hung there helplessly. "This is all my fault! You should just kill me now!"
"Gasper, do you really think that will make me happy?" Rias asked and ignored his protests. "Besides," she smiled at him, "if you go out of control, I promise to punish you thoroughly and then give you lots of cuddles and love afterwords."
Gasper sniffled as he heard that. "You mean it?" Rias nodded and he smiled. "Okay!"
"Listen, Gasper." Issei spoke up as he held up his Boosted Gear. "You're a member of the Gremory family, and you can't just go and die freely like that."
"ASCALON" His Sacred Gear yelled out as a long blade erupted from just above Issei's knuckles.
"Now, Gasper, don't move." Issei put the blade on his unprotected palm and cut into his hand, drenching the blade in his blood.
"Enough! Just kill them already." One of the women yelled before Issei let out a yell and slashed down, covering Gasper's face with blood.
"Gasper, I know you don't like blood, but, dammit man! You're a man, aren't you? Why don't you show everyone what kind of man you can be?!" Issei yelled as the blood ran down Gasper's face.
The pointed eared boy stuck his tongue out and took a drop of blood into his mouth. A pulse of energy later and Koneko found herself on her feet next to Issei and Rias.
"Where did he go!?" One of the women yelled in shock, before crying out in dismay as her body was groped all over by dozens of shadow tendril hands.
"GRR! Kill their King!" One of the magicians yelled as she fired a magic blast at Rias's unprotected back.
"Watch out!" Koneko called out and Issei got in front of the blast but watched in shock as it stopped in mid-air.
"No way!" The magician who fired that yelled in shock, she yelped as more tentacle hands wrapped all over her body.
"It's no use!" Gasper's voice seemed to come from everywhere at once. The shadows against the wall suddenly all gained eyes and split apart, revealing many bats. "I can see EVERYTHING!"
The very air itself seemed to distort in colors and all the magicians found themselves frozen in time.
"Issei! Now!" Gasper cried out.
"Hell the fuck yeah!" Issei grinned as he quickly slapped each of the magicians clothes, leaving a red seal on their clothing. "Dress Break!" Snapping his fingers, the clothes exploded, leaving the women naked, other than their faces, which were still covered by their hoods, to the leering eyes of Issei. "Gasper! We did it!"
"Yeah!" Gasper cried out happily while Koneko gave Issei a flat look and Rias just sighed while facepalming.
"We can do anything when we work together! Now I need to get my hands on those jubblies!" Issei pounced for the girls only to be stopped as Rias smacked him on the top of the head.
"Down boy."
"Yes." He groaned pitifully and rubbed his aching head while Koneko just sighed and Gasper returned to his normal crossdressing form. "Gasper."
"Yes?" The half-Vampire blinked as Issei put a band around his arm. "What's this?"
"It'll help you control your Sacred Gear, okay?" Issei smiled.
"Alright, we need to hurry, let's get back out there." Rias said as the four left the room behind them.
(-)
It took only a few moments for the four to get back to the battlefield as evidenced by Issei blasting one of the magicians in the back of the head while Rias took Gasper to the classroom. Both of them gasped as they saw Grayfia's heavily injured body. The gray-haired woman looked like she was barely conscious as Serafall worked on healing her.
"Rias." Her brother's stern voice got her to snap back to reality. "Serafall's working on Grayfia, please do your part to buy us more time."
"Of course. Please watch over Gasper." Rias said as she stepped outside the barrier and created one of her own to stop the bombardment of magical blasts.
Outside, Issei and Koneko took up defensive positions and took out magicians that got too close to them and the barrier. "I wish we could get out there and kick their asses." Koneko grumbled as she picked up a rock and threw it as hard as she could at one of the magicians, taking them out.
"I know, but we need to hold a defensive position here." Issei didn't like it either, but they had to try and defend against the magicians.
"MOOO!"
Koneko and Issei both turned to the sound of the moo and stared stupidly at what they saw. They weren't sure what it was, but the thing was probably close to twice the size of the school at this point and getting larger as it swung its arms around to try and hit something, kicking up powerful gusts of winds that knocked several of the magicians through the air.
"Whatever that is, I'm glad I'm not fighting it." Issei commented when it started to breathe fire, getting a nod from Koneko.
"Ditto."
Up in the classroom, Gasper could only watch in dismay as Rias tried, several times, to stop the attacks of the magicians, only to have her barrier get broken over and over again, and Koneko and Issei were doing a good job, but he knew it was only a matter of time before they were taken out, there was that giant monster that wasn't too far away that was mooing and scaring him. "This is my fault." He sniffled. "If only I wasn't such a coward, if only I could control this blasted Sacred Gear of mine."
"Do not blame yourself." Michael spoke to the distraught half-Vampire. "While you have the power, this most certainly is not your fault."
"Yes it is!" Gasper yelled as he walked up to a destroyed window. "Issei! Rias! I... I can't stand this! I want to be a man like Issei! I want to be able to stand tall and proud! I don't want to see my friends hurt anymore!" Reaching up, he grasped at the band around his arm. "I'm going to do it! I'll fix this!"
"Gasper! No!" Rias called out, knowing that if he used his Sacred Gear again, he might actually kill himself.
"Just watch me!" Gasper pulled it off, "I'm going to be a man!" His eyes flashed brightly and the air started to distort.
"Why does my internal clock tell me that I've been out of sync with reality for almost half an hour?" Atsuko asked as she looked around, seeing others who were likewise confused.
"Because you have been." Sirzechs commented as he watched Gasper stagger around. "Asia Argento, please heal Grayfia."
The blonde gasped as she saw the bloody form of Sirzech's maid and rushed to her. "Yes!" Her hands started to glow green as she put her hands over the injured body of Grayfia, getting a nod from Serafall, who stepped back and grimaced at her bloody hands.
"What's going on?" Akeno asked.
"Nevermind that!" Rias's voice was heard. "Get out here and help us take out these magicians! There's several powerful enemies out here as well!"
"One second." Sirzechs said as he stepped forward, his eyes smoldering. "I have something I need to work out." A red sphere of energy formed in his outstretched left hand. "For preventing me from helping my wife, I am most... Displeased."
The attack he used on the magicians closest to them was similar to Rias's Power of Destruction, so anyone who had seen her power in action knew what to expect. The level of power wasn't even comparable, however.
After the attack ended there wasn't so much as a scrap of cloth left of the magicians that it had consumed.
"And that's why he's a Devil King." Akeno muttered as her outfit changed from her normal schoolgirl outfit to her Miko outfit. "Come on! Let's not waste this chance!"
"RIGHT!"
Rias suddenly grinned as an idea came to her. "Akeno, Mittelt, triple attack!"
"Got it!" The two yelled as a pink spear flew towards the center of a cluster of magicians, only to get surrounded by a red magical circle before Akeno's lightning blasted it, filling the sky with lightning and wiping out dozens of magicians while the others charged at the faceless magic users.
(-)
In the sky, Azazel smirked as he saw the magical barrier that the magicians had been using to teleport in fade away. "Well now, seems that they managed to turn off the time stop ability and disrupted the gate your side was using." Reaching into his kimono, he pulled out a dirk with a purple gem on the end. "So then, how about we get serious? I'm so bored right now, how about you?"
"What is that?" Katerea asked as Azazel started to slowly lift it up.
"Something more interesting that war, call it my hobby, if you will." He smirked at her as he held it up high, the gem in the air while the blade portion was pointing down. "This is the Downfall Dragon Spear. It's an artificial Sacred Gear developed by yours truly." He lowered it and started to glow. "Balance Break!"
(-)
On the ground, Issei saw the gem over his left hand start to glow brightly. "What's he doing?" He asked as he looked up at the sky.
(-)
The glow subsided and Azazel was covered in a golden armor that looked similar to Vali's Balance Breaker armor, except that the gems across the body were glowing purple, behind him, his wings gave it a sinister look. "Armor of the Fallen Dragon, Downfall Dragon, Another Armor." Behind his back a powerful looking bident of light was in his right hand.
Katerea gasped as she saw it. "Aren't you powerful enough already!?"
"I don't want to hear that from someone who's using that Dragon's power to enhance herself." Azazel shot back. "Now come on!"
"I'll KILL YOU!" Katerea screamed as she rushed forward, only to scream in pain as Azazel met her charge and chopped her body from her right shoulder to her left breast, causing her to scream as her aura started to fade. Ignoring Azazel's laughter, she turned and her arms bloated up. "I am not needed for what's to come, if I can take out of the three great powers, then it's worth it! I will kill myself if need be!" Suddenly her arms extended and then burst into many small tentacle arms that latched onto his left forearm. "I'll take you down with me!"
"I hate to mock your hopes and dreams, but..." Azazel stabbed his own arm at the elbow, severing it. "It doesn't seem worth it!" He said painfully, ignoring the blood loss before he threw his spear right between the eyes of Katerea, killing her. "You're still going to die." As her body disappeared, Azazel's armor disappeared, his arm still bleeding as a purple orb formed in front of him. "I'm only willing to give up an arm for you." Slapping a barrier around his stump of a left arm, he grabbed the orb with his right one. "Thank you, Fafnir. But this Artificial Sacred Gear still has a long ways to go." He gave the gem a kiss.
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"MOO!" Tarou's yell bellowed throughout the battlefield, those who hadn't been paying attention suddenly did and had to stare at the giant he had become.
"Are you sure you don't want my help?" Vali asked as the two dodged out of the way of another swing from Taro's hands.
"No, I'm fine." Ranma called back and jumped upwards, creating more barriers as stepping stones. "But I think it's time to put an end to this."
"Are you sure? Because I don't think you're going to be able to handle this."
Ranma smirked at Vali. "You said that I was in the top fifteen thousand of power, right?" Vali nodded as Ranma got above Tarou's head. "You're going to have to revise your statement after this one!"
Tarou looked around, finding it hard to see people who were about the size of gnats compared to him. 'Next time, I don't get this big, stop at about half this size maybe?' He had been able to control his size in his monster form for a long time, but this was the first time he had ever pushed himself this far.
When a blue light filled the sky, he turned to look up and stared stupidly. 'What the fuck is THAT?!'
"MOOO?!"
Ranma grinned as energy started to form. "Flames of the sun, freeze my enemies to the core while the ice of Cocyutus burns the skin off their body." A blue ball of flame formed above him, before freezing, and then an outer layer of blue fire appeared around it. "You know, pantyhose boy, this was kind of fun! Too bad for you that you faced me instead of someone else."
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"What is he doing?" Serafall asked as she felt the waves of magic coming from the rapidly expanding magic ball. She could tell that it was ice magic, but strangely, it felt like fire magic as well. When the temperature started to get rapidly colder and hotter at the same time, she tilted her head in confusion. 'Is he really mixing fire and ice magic together? But even so, to do a spell of this level...' Her thoughts trailed off as she pointed at a random magician and blasted him with an ice spear.
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Tarou opened his mouth and prepared to breathe fire at Ranma, only to scream as his left eye erupted in pain.
"Leave my boyfriend alone!" Mittelt screamed at Tarou.
"Must be nice to have people who care for you, huh?" Vali commented as he watched the ball get larger and larger. "How big is this thing going to get?" He asked himself.
"HEY! PANTYHOSE BOY!" Ranma yelled as he saw Mittelt zip away. "EAT THIS! FROZEN FIRE FALL!" Dropping his arm, the HUGE ball of fire and ice magic descended downwards, engulfing Tarou and causing him to cry out in pain.
"MOOO!" The giant Minotaur yelled as the energy consumed him. "MOOOO!" He could feel his core being frozen while the outer portion of his body felt like it was on fire. 'Oh shit, this burns, but it's so cold, but it BURNS! HOLY FUCK HOW THE HELL CAN SOMETHING BE SO COLD AND HOT AT THE SAME TIME?!' His body started to shrink as he fell.
As the ball of energy crashed into the ground, Ranma frowned, he didn't see a body as the ball of energy hit the ground. Several magicians has been caught up in the blast and were either incinerated or frozen before falling to the ground and shattering, a rather brutal way to go in Ranma's opinion, but he didn't think Tarou had died just like that.
"Impressive," Vali nodded at Ranma, "you're right, I do need to revise my statement of you." He put his hand on Ranma's shoulder. "But I'm still stronger than you."
"What are..."
"DIVIDE."
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Crashing to the ground, Morrigan groaned as her bruised and burned body started to smoke. "Let's never do that again."
Not far away, Lilith was on her knees and wobbling badly, her body covered in burn marks and bruises as well. "A..." She coughed hard, "agreed." Who would have guessed throwing two magical fireballs at each other was a bad idea? No one ever mentioned that they fed each other and became an out of control blaze instead of just blowing up upon contact.
At least the flames had been in the air, after a bit there was nothing to fuel them and they dissipated harmlessly.
Lilith slumped down and watched as someone limped over to Morrigan, picked her up and threw her over their shoulder before limping off. '...How?' She thought before she flopped onto her face, groaning in pain.
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Grunting, Bishamon was staggering backwards when several swords pierced its feet, holding it still. "Good thing that I'm a ghost, otherwise that would have hurt." The female spirit said, the aura that surrounded her from Excalibur Betrayal having been spent.
"Let's finish this." Kiba said, getting nods from Irina and Xenovia. The three gripped their swords and were about to jump in when they found their legs and arms wrapped up, causing them to stumble and fall to the ground.
"You're still alive." Bishamon said as Tarou, with Morrigan over his shoulder, limped to the armor.
"Yep, have to hand it to Ophis, sacrificing most of the power that thing gave me to escape that attack from that magic freak..." Tarou, his left eye screwed shut. "I'll have to get a replacement eye though." Grabbing the armor, he pulled it straight up and off of the swords.
Turning to the trio who were glaring at him, he smirked. "Hey, tell that magic freak that I was fighting... What was his name? Satomi or something?"
"Ranma Saotome." Kiba answered him as he struggled to get free. 'What is this stuff made of?'
"Ah yeah, that guy, anyway, tell him that the only powers my benefactor gave me was the ability to control my cursed form and those energy snakes, but the size changing and fire breathing was all mine. What was it called again?"
"Ruinous Animal Control." Bishamon supplied for him.
"Ah yes, that." Tarou chuckled and waved as a dark portal opened behind them. "Well, time to go." He gave Morrigan's butt a quick swat and squeezed it. "She's going to owe me for this one."
"Wait!" Nabiki yelled as she ran up to them. "Bishamon!"
"Hmm?" The armor, half of its face-plate missing, looked at Nabiki. "What?"
"Can you take off your helmet?"
"We don't have time for this." Tarou warned, he could sense some very dangerous powers making their way over to their location right now.
"No, it's fine." Handing Excalibur Betrayal to the ghost spirits around its shoulders, the armor undid the helmet and took it off. Shaking its head and letting the ghost hair flow freely, the revealed woman smiled at Nabiki. "You've grown to be so big in the past eight years, haven't you, Nabiki?"
"M...Mother?" Nabiki's eyes widened in shock. "H...HOW?!"
"Sorry." The ghost of Kimiko Tendo waved her hand and walked through the portal after Tarou and Morrigan. "No time to talk today. Goodbye."
"Mother... MOTHER!" Nabiki ran after them but the portal closed just as she got to it. "DAMMIT!"
To be Continued...
I tried writing Morrigan vs Lilith a few times and I just was NOT satisfied with how it went, so I had to make it mostly an off-screen fight this time. Sorry everyone, but I didn't want to give you guys a lame fight. :(
No, seriously, I tried several times and it was making me almost tear my hair out in frustration.
And who saw THAT coming with Bishamon? I had that plot twist planned for awhile now.
Same deal as last time, as this is a two parter, I'll give you the next part tomorrow and back to normal posting the day after.