Dance With the Devil
Shake Up Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I own none of the series involved, for if I did they would be a lot more perverted.
To answer some reviews:
Mr. Haziq/tamagat: "He who wields the sword must next become the Master, seeking out the stones with a carrot-nosed dog?! Three heroes at once on a mission filled with danger, 3-2-1, time for Ravelution!"
Sorry, couldn't help myself, the Rave Master English theme song was awesome.
"So..." Azazel began after he read the reports in full. "Seems like everything matches up, I'll send these reports to Sirzechs and Michael later so they can look them over." He put all the reports he was given in a folder before looking at Ranma and sighing. "You need to take writing classes. I could barely understand that." Looking over the room, Ranma, Lilith, Mittelt, Nabiki and Atsuko were on the right couch while Rias, Akeno, Issei, Asia and Koneko were on the left couch. Gasper and Kiba were sitting on chairs across from him. The couches were pretty cramped and Azazel would have to make sure that another one was placed in the room soon.
Ranma snorted at him. "Get me a printer and I'll just type it up then."
"Told you we needed one." Mittelt grumbled as she sat down next to him. "So is that all?"
"Nope." Azazel shook his head and pointed at Ranma. "Out with it, Sirzechs has been riding my ass about this ever since the fight with Vali, so I need to know what you did." Well, whenever he could, the Devil King looked really disheveled for some reason every time they talked the past few days.
Ranma sighed and tapped his chin. "Well, the master of the guy who founded my school of martial arts gave him a gift of Evil Pieces a few hundred years ago. He forgot about them and then gave them to me. Nabiki thought she was being chased by hunters still and begged me to become a Devil through the King piece so that she could join my peerage and get protection."
"And Lilith, Mittelt and Atsuko?" Azazel asked.
"Lilith joined as my Queen, Mittelt asked me to turn her into a Devil and Atsuko is..." Ranma looked at her. "Unusual."
The girl in question just grinned. "I'm still surprised that it worked on me."
"That tells me both a lot and nothing at the same time." Azazel sighed and looked at Mittelt. "So why did you join him?"
"Because I thought you abandoned me." Mittelt groused. "The others I was with? While I was away, they all got their asses killed by Rias, and you didn't seem to care, so what was I supposed to do?"
Azazel sighed, this still raised a lot of questions and didn't give him a lot of answers. "So, that King's piece... What is your plans with it?"
"Not sure, really." Ranma answered him and tapped the arm band on his right arm. "This keeps the power from interfering with my daily life."
"What kind of person takes on a power that they have no clue what it would do?" Rias asked him.
"Someone who was actually worried for someone he cares about." Ranma shot back. "So, what's going to happen to me now?"
"Dunno. I'll let Sirzechs handle that. I suspect that it'll be kept under wraps until you get to talk to him in person." Azazel then pointed at Nabiki. "You know what I want."
"I'm not showing you my bare breasts." Nabiki shot back, smirking as Azazel face-planted into the desk while some of the people in the room to laugh at the Fallen Angel leader.
"I'm a very powerful Fallen Angel, can't I get some respect?" Azazel grumbled as he rubbed his head. "And what makes you think I wanted to see your bare breasts anyway?"
"You're God's boob lover and you developed Angel Fearing Pancakes." Nabiki shot back, causing everyone to look at her in confusion.
"Angel Fearing Pancakes?" Rias, Xenovia, Asia and Mittelt asked at the same time and turned to Azazel.
"I'm surprised you know that." Azazel laughed at her.
"Yeah, and I know that you need the egg of a Ziz." Nabiki shot back and Azazel laughed as he nodded.
"Yep. It's hard to get those eggs too! But man, they make the pancakes SO delicious that there were actually a few Angels that fell after having a bite." Azazel laughed as he remembered that. It was just after he had fallen. He had snuck into Leviathan's territory and stolen a Ziz egg to use as the base for a pancake. That's why he had named it Angel Fearing Pancakes after it caused a few pure Angels to become Fallen from just eating it.
"God's boob lover?" Issei, Ranma and Lilith asked at the same time, getting a laugh from Azazel.
"Why do you think I fell?" Azazel laughed at their dumbfounded expressions. Ignoring Koneko calling him a perv, he continued on. "Anyway, Nabiki, I'm curious, how did you see into Heaven?"
"Huh?" A few people asked and Nabiki sighed heavily.
"Still remember that?"
"Your message to Ranma told Michael to put a warning on the entrance to the seventh level of Heaven. And you got your Sacred Gear's Balance Breaker even." Azazel rubbed his chin. "Quite frankly, I had no idea you even had a Sacred Gear." Her work had helped him find some interesting artifacts and tidbits.
Mittelt frowned and looked at Nabiki. "I thought you said that your Sacred Gear was useless."
"It is." Nabiki sighed and ignored the shocked questions she was getting.
"Useless Sacred Gears?" Gasper asked in surprise. "I've never heard of that."
"Not surprised, neither have I." Azazel commented as he looked at Nabiki in confusion. "What do you mean useless?"
"Let me name the types of Sacred Gears so we're all on the same page." Nabiki pointed out. "Some Sacred Gears are like Issei's, Asia's or Vali's, that is State Change Sacred Gears. Some are like Kiba's that can create items within its limits. Some are Defensive Sacred Gears like a reflection ability. Then there's those that have elemental abilities." She looked at Gasper. "Yours is unusual as well, but it would fall under Space and Time. There are ones known as Independent Avatars that create actual living beings and Sealing type Sacred Gears."
"Yeah, those are all known." Azazel nodded at her. "I did the classifications myself, I should know."
"I didn't." Issei muttered, feeling stupid, but as he looked around he noticed that almost everyone had similar confused looks on their faces. "So what?"
Nabiki sighed at that. "Every single one of them has some combat potential. Every. Single. One." She gave him a small smirk. "Mine? It has zero combat potential."
"I suppose that makes sense." Mittelt muttered as she thought on what Nabiki told her. "Your ability only lets you search for things you know after all. Wait!" Her eyes widened as she realized something. "How did you see into Heaven then?!"
"I dunno." Nabiki admitted and shook her head. "I could ask my Sacred Gear, but I don't want to go insane again."
"Is it like Ddrag?" Issei looked at his left hand as a green gem formed on his wrist.
Nabiki laughed at that. "If it was that simple."
"So?" Azazel looked at her expectantly. "What do you mean?"
"Easier to show you..." Nabiki gulped. "God's Eye, Balance Break."
A dome surrounded everyone in an instant, stars filling the air before screens formed on all sides of them.
"What the hell?!" More than one person said in shock as they stood up and looked around in awe.
"God's Eye, can you limit what information is sent into my head?"
*NEGATIVE*
"Lovely." Nabiki grumbled as data started to fill her head. "Gunna be insane for a while after this, I bet. Anyway, God's Eye, can you tell me why my Sacred Gear is so different from others?"
*AFFIRMATIVE*
When it didn't say what it was, Nabiki hung her head and groaned. "Well, why is my Sacred Gear different from others?"
*IRREGULAR SACRED GEAR*
"What does that mean?" Azazel asked, finding this fascinating.
*NORMAL SACRED GEARS ARE DEVELOPED BY THE SYSTEM GOD LEFT BEHIND BEFORE HIS DEATH*
"Yeah, I knew that." Azazel muttered, wondering why it didn't tell him straight up.
*IRREGULAR SACRED GEARS ARE SACRED GEARS THAT ARE A RESULT OF FRAGMENTS OF GOD AND THE FOUR GREAT DEVIL KINGS THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND BEFORE THEIR UNTIMELY DEMISES*
"Wait, WHAT?!" Everyone screamed at the same time.
Azazel's pupils shrank as he realized that it meant "So you mean, the fact her Sacred Gear is called called "God's Eye" is because..."
*IT IS ACTUALLY A FRAGMENT OF GOD'S ABILITY TO SEE NEARLY EVERYTHING*
Nabiki gripped her head and groaned. "Fuck, off! OFF!" The dome and the screens all disappeared and she sighed. "Vali's living grandfather it's over."
"What?" Xenovia asked as she and others looked at Nabiki in confusion.
Taking a deep breath, Nabiki closed her eyes and gave the girl a wry smirk. "I had alien skunks all information panhandle fans of reality hitting my Dragon Balls at the same time." She groaned in dismay. "So sometimes I cat waffles randomly."
"Need help?" Lilith asked as she sweat-dropped.
"I'll be POTATOES after a few hours." Nabiki rubbed her head and groaned. "Sorry about that. Hey, that was Ple Two!"
"Did it happen like this before?"
"Bonkers!" Nabiki answered Azazel's question. "I'm guessing I still, Dragons like bananas by the way, have a bit of information overload from last time I used it, so it didn't take as apples!"
"Omniscience." Kiba spoke up, drawing everyone's attention. "Your Balance Breaker gives you Omniscience, so you know everything in reality at the same time, but you have no filter for it, huh?"
"Living Potato Dragons!"
Azazel thumbed his beard and looked at the group. "I don't think I need to say that nothing you learned leaves this room, do I make myself clear?" The teens all nodded, this was the most serious they had ever seen Azazel in their lives. "I'm guessing there are others, and if what your Sacred Gear said is true, about the Great Devil Kings leaving behind pieces."
"But you wouldn't be able to find them, would you?" Asia asked him. "From what Nabiki said her power wasn't useful for combat."
"And I would bet that other Irregular Sacred Gears would be easily overlooked since they wouldn't have obvious combat potential." Rias summarized.
"I'm confused." Xenovia spoke up. "Wouldn't her Omniscience be useful?"
"Not if she gets all the data at once." Kiba commented. "What about the basic form?"
Nabiki shook her head and looked at Ranma pleadingly.
"She can't use it like you would think." Ranma answered for Nabiki. "Nabs said that she can only find things if she knows they exist and knows what she's looking for. Like if we asked her to find something she doesn't know about, she couldn't find it."
"And even if she knows everything thanks to her Balance Breaker, without any way to filer the information, it's all meaningless." Azazel saw the problem instantly. "I'll have my guys work on a way for you to filter the information so you don't have it burning your brain out." Nabiki nodded at him in thanks.
"Question." Akeno raised her hand and looked at Nabiki. "You said your Sacred Gear can look at anything so long as you know of it and know what to look for, right?" She nodded, wondering what Akeno was getting at. "So, you could find anyone if you knew what they looked like?"
"I could see what Lord Sirzechs was up to if you want." Nabiki said, getting a giggle and nod from Akeno. Her eyes went blue as she did that.
"Really? You want to see what my brother's up to?" Rias muttered in annoyance. "He's probably just doing some paperwork or something else."
"...I'd say something else." Nabiki's face was as red as Rias's hair. "He's currently got Grayfia bent over his desk, skirt up, her underwear down and is riding her harder than racers at the Kentucky Derby. And has apparently been doing that almost non-stop since she was nearly killed. And Grayfia's complaining about him trying to get her pregnant again."
Akeno, Issei and shockingly Asia all had nosebleeds while Koneko looked away, twitching. Kiba, Gasper, Mittelt and Atsuko all had blushes on their faces as they imagined it. Lilith and Azazel had identical grins on their faces while Ranma just face-palmed, his face slightly red as well.
Rias, however, was twitching hard. "I did NOT need to know my brother's sex life! GAH! It's like finding out my parents are having sex on my bed or something!"
"Well, that's something to use for later." Azazel chuckled as he regained control of himself. He had to hand it to Sirzechs, Grayfia was a fine looking woman.
"If I knew what your parents looked like, I could tell you." Nabiki told Rias.
"Don't. You. Dare." Rias said to her peerage through gritted teeth.
"Well, as amusing as this all is." Azazel fought down the urge to laugh more. "Since we now know that there's Irregular Sacred Gears out there, I have a mission for everyone." When everyone had calmed down and looked at him calmly, he nodded. "We're going to have to keep an eye out for people with unusual abilities that don't seem to have any combat potential."
"What about your sister?" Lilith asked Nabiki, who's eyes widened as she remembered that little tidbit. "I'm pretty sure that what she does has to fall under..."
"Ophis has her!" Nabiki hissed, causing Azazel and Rias to both stiffen in shock. "She said, what... Devil's Alchemist or something? Anyway, yeah, has to be another Irregular Sacred Gear."
"Ophis, sunnva..." Azazel grumbled, wondering what that Dragon wanted and if Nabiki's sister was okay.
(-)
"AHHH!" Akane screamed as she fell off the cliff side and into the flowing river.
"She needs to learn not to jump backwards when near a cliff." Kuroka muttered as she jumped in the river after the younger girl.
(-)
"Something else you should know." Nabiki said slowly as she rubbed her forehead to try and fight off any onslaught of information. "Most Irregular Sacred Gears activate when you're young and are always on."
"That's an interesting piece of information." Azazel muttered as he looked at her. "Anyway, not much else we can do here."
"Are you serious?" Rias asked, exasperated. "We just found out about Irregular Sacred Gears and..."
"Will do absolutely nothing with this information." Azazel finished for her as he sat back in his chair. "Think about it, Princess, even if we know about this, what good does it do us? I'll contact Sirzechs and Michael later to discuss this development, of course, and then after we've had a chance to talk it over, will we make a move." He smirked at her. "Of course, nothing will happen anyway until after the big summit meeting in a month's time."
"What big summit?" Issei asked, confused.
"Well, after the whole meeting here a few days ago, the three sides have sent negotiators to hammer out the details, we'll be given a chance to look over the details before the signing, make sure that they're favorable to all sides." Azazel gave the group a small grin. "But more importantly, we're going to be having representatives from various pantheons showing up to sign as well."
"Really? Who?" Lilith asked, getting a waggling finger from Azazel.
"Not important right now, anyway, we scheduled it to happen during the summer break that starts tomorrow." Standing up, he smirked at them. "So, anyway, you're all dismissed, go have some fun after school today or something, because tomorrow..." His smirk turned almost shark-like, "you may not enjoy yourselves as much."
"As lovely as that threat is," Ranma said as he stood up, "I won't be participating in any club activities over the break." The surprised looks he got had him chuckling as he walked to the door. "No offense, Azazel, Rias, but I have something I need to take care of over the break."
"Don't forget that I'm coming with." Mittelt spoke up, getting a sigh from Lilith.
"You all suck, I have to stay here." Lilith pouted as she thought back to what Ranma told them.
*Flash*
"Anyway," Nabiki said as she looked at the other four, "I saw something really bad happening if Ranma doesn't go and deal with it. If Lilith goes with it would make a bad situation worse."
"Are you serious?" Ranma asked, getting a sigh from Nabiki as she held a finger up.
"I only remember bits of it, I saw way too much information at once and I still sometimes see bits and pieces of it." She sighed, her Sacred Gear really was useless. "Anyway, Ranma and either Atsuko or Mittelt need to go with him, figure it out."
"What do you mean that if I go with that things go very badly?" Lilith asked Nabiki as she, Nabiki and Ranma sat around the kitchen table.
Nabiki sighed heavily. "I don't have full control over seeing the future, I took a look at this though, and most of the futures I saw ends up with a couple of very important people dying and the world being engulfed in flames." She gave the succubus a wry smirk. "I kind of want to avoid that if possible."
Lilith sighed but conceded the point. "Fiiiiine." Annoyance clear in her voice. She pouted, it wasn't fair at all, though she perked up when Ranma said he'd give her exclusive one-on-one sessions until he left.
"How will I know if we're in the right area?"
"Trust me," Nabiki smirked at him, "you'll know."
*End Flash*
"What are you talking about?" Azazel asked, before shrugging as he didn't get an answer. "That's fine, Lilith did say that she has no official power to make any decisions in regards to Makai anyway, so it's unlikely that you being there will make too big of a difference."
"Hey!" Issei spoke up as an idea popped into his head. "Azazel, remember that takeout food we had when you contracted me that first time?"
"Huh? Oh yeah, it was pretty good, why?"
"Well, since this is the only time we're all together for some time, how about we stop and eat up?" Issei rubbed the back of his head at the looks he was getting. "I was thinking about it for awhile, but I've been wanting to take everyone out there, and figured now would be a good time."
"Sure, why not?" Azazel shrugged as he stood up. "Lead the way."
"Great, you're paying." Ranma smirked at the look Azazel gave him. "Aren't you the club adviser?"
"Fine, but only this once." Azazel grumbled, wondering if they knew what kind of salary he got as a teacher.
(-)
As they walked out of the building, Issei put his hands in his pants pocket and frowned before patting himself down. "Shoot! Must have left my cell back in the club room."
"Well, hurry up, we can wait." Rias smiled as he ran back into the building and shook her head. 'What am I going to do with him?'
(-)
Checking the couches where he had been sitting, Issei smiled as he found not only his cellphone but three thousand yen in the seat cushions. "Awesome!"
As he stood up, Issei looked around, wondering why everything was suddenly black.
"I wonder how much longer..." A familiar female voice said from behind him. "How much longer you can keep this farce up." Slowly turning, Issei's face was pale and his pupils small as he saw Raynare standing there in her Yuma form, her arms crossed under her breasts and the pink wrist bracelet he had gotten her on his date over her left wrist.
"Raynare, no, you're dead." Issei shook his head. "You can't hurt me."
"Oh Issei." She gave him a soft look. "You're right, I can't hurt you." Sighing, the Fallen Angel looked off to the side. "But then again, I don't need to, do I?"
"What are you talking about?" Issei growled before taking a step back as she ran up to him and grabbed his right hand.
"Silly," she giggled at him, "don't you remember what I told you? I'm sure you didn't forget."
"You raped me, tortured me, and then killed me, you think I give a damn about what you said!?" He hissed at her as he yanked his arm away.
"Oh, but Issei," she pouted and put her hand up to her lips, "I was wrong, I shouldn't have done such a mean thing to you. But you have to admit..." She smiled as her form changed, her outfit became a dominatrix-style outfit and her black wings formed behind her, "I wasn't wrong, was I?"
"Get out of my head, Raynare! You're not really here!" Issei spun and was about to leave when he felt Raynare hugging him from behind. "What are you?"
"Shhh..." She whispered to him and cupped his chin, making him turn his head to her and kissed him on the lips. "No matter what else, you know I was right." She whispered before disappearing and leaving him one last statement. "And you'll never get rid of me, ever."
The room seemed to return to normal, though Issei was standing there, panting and swallowing hard. 'Sh...No, she's dead, how could she, but I swear, it felt so real.'
With that thought in his head, he staggered out of the room.
(-)
"Hey!" Issei waved, surprised no one was angry at him. "Sorry it took so long."
"You were only gone for two minutes." Rias answered him. "Any faster and I'd swear you turned into the Flash or something." She smiled at his surprised look.
"Or in his case, the Streak." Lilith giggled, getting confused looks from everyone. "REALLY?! None of you have ever heard that song?" Everyone but Ranma shook their heads. "BAH! When summer break ends I'm going to make everyone watch it! I'll even make sure it's subbed!"
Azazel laughed as they walked off school grounds, he was sure it would be amusing.
(-)
It took over twenty minutes for the group to get to the place in question.
"Nekohanten?" Koneko blinked as she looked at the place in question. Giving Issei a flat look, she snorted. "They better not serve dead cats or something."
"Master, you don't..." Lilith began before Ranma smiled and opened the door.
"Hey! Old Ghoul! You here?"
There was a cracking sound and Ranma found himself flying across the street.
"Honestly." Cologne huffed as she stood before the open door, much to the shock of most everyone there. "No respect for your elders."
Ranma rubbed his head and laughed as he saw her. "Good to see ya! I was starting to miss this."
Cologne smirked and looked at the group of onlookers who were looking at her in surprise. "Well, I suppose if a group of Devils and a Fallen Angel of your stature want food, who am I to say no?" She shrugged and bounded inside. "Mousse! Shampoo! We got a large order coming in!"
"Is anyone else weirded out by the fact that she knew instantly that we were Devils?" Issei asked, dumbfounded.
"She's not an exorcist from the Church, so I have no clue how she would know." Xenovia answered.
"Eh." Ranma dusted himself off and walked into the place. "Something about being descended from Athena and Hercules or something, anyway, you going to come in and eat or just stand there looking stupid?"
So remember when I said I created an accidental plot point? Yeah, this was that accidental plot point that I created.