Dance With the Devil
Shake Up Chapter 9
Disclaimer: I own none of the series involved, for if I did there would be a lot less cock-blocking going on.
To answer some reviews:
Mr. Haziq: A Shade is a type of ghost, yes. In mythology they're ghosts that exist in the underworld.
aliesterus: So basically the Great Will of the Macro Cosmos from Excel Saga?
TheB: Yep. Sadly villains like that are hard to do right as we've seen with Aizen in Bleach or Naraku in InuYasha and they dominate the story.
Crazed Horse: I tried to not have one character dominate the story, because that's boring.
Also, this chapter was originally part of the previous chapter, but I wanted to focus on the previous bit first.
Meanwhile in the hallway...
"Master..." Lilith smiled at him. "Why'd you make them squeeze my butt?"
"You complaining?" Ranma asked, getting a shake from Lilith. "Anyway, we should see if there's a spare bedroom or something, you're looking tired."
Lilith grinned at him. "If you don't get me some place private, I'm going to just feed on you right here."
"I'd request that you don't." A familiar female voice spoke up and both Ranma and Lilith turned to see Grayfia walking towards them with a young boy with red hair and red eyes, wearing a suit with short pants and a woman who wore a casual white dress with black trim who had purple eyes with short, flaxen colored hair. "It would be such a pain to clean up." Grayfia continued.
"Hello." The young boy smiled and bowed to them. "Are you new members of Rias's peerage?"
"Ah, no." Ranma rubbed the back of his head. "Rias came and got us because she needed some help though."
"Oh?" The woman with flaxen colored hair and, Ranma couldn't help but noticed, incredible breasts smiled at him. "That was nice of you to help my daughter out."
"Wait, what? Daughter?" Lilith stared at the woman. "Okay, no, no way. I've heard of MILFs before but you look like you're Rias's sister, not her mother."
The woman giggled at Lilith. "Oh dear, you'll make me blush."
"My apologies." Grayfia curtsied towards the two. "This is Lady Venelana Gremory, the lady of the House of Gremory and this young man is her grandson, Millicas Gremory."
"Hello." Millicas smiled and waved.
"Wait, GRANDMOTHER?!" Lilith twitched heavily. "I know that Devils age slowly, but wow!" She smiled at Venelana, "I hope you didn't stop at just two kids."
Venelana laughed with her hand over her mouth. "Oh goodness, you sure do know how to flatter a woman."
"I am a succubus." Lilith said as if that explained everything.
"OH!" Venelana's eyes widened. "You're the two that helped fight off the Khaos Brigade back on Earth when they tried to hurt my son and daughter-in-law?"
"I didn't really do that much." Lilith muttered. "Master, here, however, fought off a giant flying Minotaur."
"That's so cool!" Millicas yelled in glee.
"Keep your voice down." Grayfia said sternly.
"Sorry, mom." Millicas apologized to Grayfia, causing Ranma to give Grayfia a strange look.
"Right now I'm a maid, not your mother." She said in a tired tone, as if she had had this conversation many times before. "Anyway, Lady Venelana, Young Millicas, this is Ranma Saotome and his succubus servant Lilith Aensland."
"You're the one who saved young Ravel and Riser Phenix?" Venelana said, causing Ranma to blink in surprise. "From what Lady Phenix told me, her daughter wouldn't stop talking about how brave you were. Grayfia, perhaps we should call Lady Phenix and let her know that her daughter's savior is here?"
"That might not be a bad idea, if you'll excuse me." She bowed and turned to walk off.
"Hey, Grayfia." Lilith spoke up, causing the maid to stop and turn. "Congrats, by the way." Grayfia, Millicas and Venelana gave Lilith a confused look. "I mean on the twins that are on the way, also, can I have a spare bedroom, I am *REALLY* hungry right now and unless you want the little guy to get a crash course on where babies come from, I suggest you help me out."
Ranma just sweat-dropped. "My apologies."
Venelana shook her head in amusement and motioned to a maid. "Please make sure that our guests find a spare room and make sure that no one goes inside until they come out."
"Yes ma'am." The maid bowed and led Ranma and Lilith away.
"Grayfia, please make a doctor's appointment to have yourself looked over." Venelana looked at her daughter-in-law. "If you are, in fact, expecting more children, I will have to adjust your workload."
"Even if I am expecting, it has yet to be two months, so I am not showing." Grayfia knew that she would have to have most of her duties relieved during the pregnancy and at least the first year after giving birth if she was, it wasn't something she enjoyed, but it was understandable. "Also, I shall have to talk to Lord Sirzechs about this."
"Of course." Venelana smiled at her. "Go do that but make sure to call Lady Phenix as well and invite her and her daughter over today."
"Yes, milady." Grayfia bowed and left.
"Grandma, what's going on?" Millicas asked his grandmother, who knelt down and smiled at him.
"Well, if what that nice girl said is true, you're going to be a big brother soon." She smiled as his eyes lit up. "And that means you have to help your mother out more."
"Of course!" He nodded, happiness written all over his face.
"Excellent. Now then," she got up and walked into the room that Issei and the rest were at. "Hello, everyone."
"Mother?" Rias stared, surprised she was there. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Venelana smiled gently. "But I think all of you need to get cleaned up. And I'd like it if you stayed until noon tomorrow."
"But we have school." Rias protested, sighing as her mother had already told her that she had called ahead of time. "Very well."
"Missing an extra day won't hurt you that much." Besides, she wanted to make sure that there was no negative side-effects of whatever Issei had gone through. It wouldn't do if the boy Rias had chosen over her fiance was suffering any nasty side-effects after all.
(-)
Meanwhile on Earth...
"So Ranma and Lilith went to Hell to help Issei out?" Atsuko asked, getting a nod from Mittelt as they walked to school. "...No fair!" She pouted, causing Mittelt to give her a weird look. "It was my turn with Ranma in bed tonight!"
Mittelt face-faulted, flashing her white and green striped panties at anyone who was walking behind them.
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Back in Hell...
It was hours later when Ranma, damp from taking a shower, finally emerged from the guest room, Lilith was still on the bed, sleeping with a large grin on her face. "Hey." He waved at the two maids who were standing guard and blushing hard. "Sorry you had to watch the door and listen to that."
"It's... Quite alright." One with brown hair said. "Thankfully no one tried to enter while you were, ahem, preoccupied."
"If I might ask." The maid with blonde hair done in a long, loose ponytail spoke up next. "Do you need new clothes? Those may be dirty from..."
"Nah, used a self-cleaning spell on them while I showered, same with the room, other than the sheets being ruffled it shouldn't be hard to clean up." Ranma blinked at the astonished looks the maids gave him. "What?"
"I hate to speak ill of Rias-sama, but could you teach that spell to her? Her room is..." The brown haired one hesitated for a moment. "A bit of a disaster. She's a bit of a hoarder and never cleans up after herself."
"Huh, would have never thought she was like that." Ranma muttered. "Well, if it's okay I'd..."
"Oh there you are." Venelana said as she came from around a corner. "If you're done and cleaned up, I'd like you to follow me." For some reason, Ranma found himself following without complaining, he wasn't sure why, but just chalked it up to some sort of overwhelming charisma or something like that. As they came upon the dining room, Venelana turned to him. "I'd like to thank you, for helping both of my daughters and my son out." She bowed to him and Ranma rubbed the back of his head and tried not to look too much down the woman's exposed cleavage. "If you keep doing what you're doing," she said as she straightened herself out, "you'll be regarded as a hero by most people in Hell."
"I don't know why." Ranma shrugged. "I'm not a hero-type person." Sure, he'd save people if they were in trouble, but it wasn't like he found villains to stop constantly or something.
"Really?" Venelana smiled as she opened the dining room doors. "You should tell that to her."
Ranma blinked and looked inside as he saw a girl in a purple dress he hadn't seen in awhile and an older looking woman in a brown dress with her. "Ah, you're Ravel, right?"
The blonde girl smiled brightly as she stood up. "Why yes, I'm glad you remembered me."
"So this is the one who saved your life." Lady Phenix smiled pleasantly. "I must thank you, both as a mother and as the Lady of the Clan Phenix, for saving my youngest children's lives."
"I didn't even know who they were." Ranma answered her, feeling uncomfortable. He wasn't used to all this praise he was getting. "I just wanted to kill those as...err...jerkwagons for what they pulled a few years ago. Saving a cute girl and a couple of others was just a side benefit."
Ravel's face turned red as the flames she could conjure up.
"Indeed," Lady Phenix smiled at him. "You know, I was thinking about having my daughter go to school in the human world, but after what happened on Earth, you can imagine that I'm justifiably nervous about letting her go back. Perhaps if she had a bodyguard, but I doubt that anyone I could assign her would be comfortable for her."
For some reason, Ranma felt like he was walking into a trap. "I suppose she'd have to learn how to be around humans, you Devils take contracts and fulfill wishes, right?"
"Yes, but alas, after the events last time she went to the human world, I just don't know. I could ask Rias Gremory to put her up at her current residence, but my daughter... Isn't the most enamored with the current Red Dragon Emperor."
"I can't imagine why..." Ranma muttered, remembering what Issei did to Ravel's older brother.
"I don't suppose that you... Would happen to know someone who's strong enough to fight off nasty Devil Hunters, protect my little girl and have a room or two to spare, would you?"
Ranma sighed, now he saw what the woman was trying to do. "If you want her to move in with me, I don't have a problem with it. But you should know that my place is pretty spartan. It used to be a big warehouse that was modified so we could live in it."
Lady Phenix just smiled at him. "Don't worry about that."
"Mother..." Ravel said, her face flushed. "Please don't go over-board."
Ranma rubbed his head, this was going to be a pain, wasn't it? Lady Phenix nodded at him. "Now I hear that there's a trip to Kyoto for your school coming up in a week or two?"
"Sounds about right, supposed to last a couple of days or something." Ranma nodded to her.
"Very well," she smiled at him, "thank you."
"Now then!" Venelana clapped her hands, startling Ranma. "Why don't you two go for a walk and get to know each other a bit more while we talk?"
After Ranma and Ravel were outside, he looked at the blushing girl and sighed. "Why do I have a feeling that your mother would engage us if she thought she could get away with it?"
Ravel blushed more and looked down. "I mean, mom probably would."
Ranma sighed, if Lilith was here, she'd be making some crude remarks and would probably scare the girl off. "So, what's it like being in a Devil family?" Listening to her talk about how she grew up and her elder brothers, Ranma chuckled. "Must be nice, having siblings I mean."
"Not really." Ravel grumbled. "Some days I wish they'd disappear, but I still love them, you know?"
"Only child, I wouldn't know exactly."
"Oh." Ravel nodded. "Well, my father's harem was nice to grow up around."
"...Wait, your dad has a harem?"
Ravel nodded to him. "Yes. Most high class and Ultimate class Devils have harems of some sort, except for the four Devil Kings."
"So they don't have harems, huh? Wonder why, is there anything against them being in one?" Ranma asked, curious, causing Ravel to blink.
"Hmm, I don't know exactly, but I can't imagine any of them willing to play second fiddle to anyone." Ravel shrugged at his question. "Though I suppose there's loopholes for everything, huh?"
"I guess." Ranma shrugged and frowned as a thought came to him. "I was wondering something."
"Hmm? What?"
Ranma gestured around to the area. "How come Hell isn't all fire and brimstone? I swear I'm in the forested areas of Japan or something."
Ravel blinked a few times. "What do you mean, fire and brimstone?" When Ranma explained what humans thought of when they thought of Hell the young blonde twitched heavily. "That's stupid! Sure, I'd have no problem living in that kind of Hell, same with the rest of my clan, but others wouldn't be as lucky."
"I'm actually glad." Ranma answered her as he looked around and smiled at the trees and mountains in the distance.
"Can I ask what you plan for the future?" Ravel looked at him, wondering what went through his mind at times.
"Mostly I want to get stronger, get as good as I can get. I'm aiming to become known as the Master."
Ravel hadn't heard of that title, but it sounded impressive. "Um... Hey, if you ever become a Devil, I wouldn't mind, um... Becoming part of your peerage." Ranma stared at her as she blushed. "You saved my life, if you asked me to, I would be yours forever."
Sighing, Ranma rubbed his forehead and wondered why she didn't know exactly that he was a Devil. It would be easy to show her that he was a Devil, very easy, but that wasn't something he felt he could do, not yet at least. "Is this some sort of marriage proposal?"
Ravel looked down and kicked the ground. "If you'd rather not have me, that's fine."
Ranma was silent for some time before gently putting his hand on her shoulder. "I never said that, Ravel, but I don't want you making a life-time decision so quickly, okay?" She looked up at him, blinking. "I don't mind if you feel gratitude towards me, but I don't want you giving up your future by jumping head first into the first thing that you think is good, okay?"
"Uh huh..."
"Hey, I just remembered," Ranma snapped his fingers, "you were hurt pretty badly back on Earth, are you okay now?"
Ravel nodded at him. "Uh huh. After I got back, I visited the doctor and had a full body check-up. Got a completely clean bill of health!"
"That's good." Ranma smiled at her.
(-)
Not far away, watching the two silently, Venelana and Lady Phenix smiled to each other and closed the window they had opened to spy on the two. "It's almost a shame that we can't engage them right now." Lady Phenix sighed.
"True, perhaps I could adopt him into the Gremory household." Venelana tapped her chin. "Though I doubt he'd fit in with high class society very well for some reason."
"Probably not."
"I'm curious though." Venelana looked at Lady Phenix seriously. "Is there a reason that you're in favor of this? He is part-Demon. Surely the old farts would be against this."
"I think it's time to start changing the way things are done in Hell." Lady Phenix stated to Venelana. "Obviously drastic changes would cause too much strife, but the whole adherence to being pure blood will only cause problems down the line. Besides," she smiled and looked out as she saw Ravel laughing at something Ranma had told her, "I think the time for political marriages should come to an end."
"...I agree." Venelana nodded at that.
(-)
It was getting close to evening when Lilith found herself wandering around the hallway. The sheer amount of maids was rather impressive if she did say so herself. 'Must... Resist... Urge to seduce the maid staff.' She was sure Rias wouldn't approve and she knew Ranma wouldn't approve of it either. 'Gah, I swear, those two are so damn alike that it's not funny.'
"Hello." A familiar voice spoke up as she turned the corner.
"Ah, you're... Millicas, right?" She looked at the young boy, who smiled at her.
"Uh huh." He nodded. "Thank you for helping Rias-onee-chan out."
"Well, I guess we're friends, friends help each other out, right?" Lilith winked at him as he giggled. 'GAH! He's so cute! I want to hug him!'
"Do you want to walk with me? Everyone's busy right now."
Lilith shrugged and held her hand out. "Lead the way." As Millicas took her hand, she followed after him and looked around in amazement at the place. "This is pretty fancy." Lilith wondered just how rich the Gremory clan was if they had such fancy carpets and maids from one end of the hallway to the other end.
"Really?" Millicas asked her. "Is it fancy?"
"Well, yeah." Lilith nodded and gestured towards the maids that stood at the walls. "Most people, if they have maids at all, don't have this many." Unless they were royalty or eccentric old rich guys. She remembered hearing about one who had his maids flip pancakes from the kitchen across dozens of skillets until they dropped it on his head.
"Okay!" Millicas smiled at her.
"Say, Millicas..." Lilith trailed off as he looked up at her. "You say Rias is your big sister, but I know that her mother is your grandmother, so I'm a little confused."
"Oh!" Millicas smiled at her. "Rias-onee-chan isn't my real big sister, she's my aunt, but I've seen her as my big sister ever since I was little."
"Uh huh... Wait!" Lilith's eyes widened. "You're Sirzechs's son?" Millicas nodded and Lilith started sweating. "Please don't tell me that your dad's going to show up and try to vaporize me for being near you."
"Why would he do that?" The redheaded boy asked curiously. "Dad's a nice guy. Or do you think all Devils are evil?"
Seeing him pout, Lilith shook her head frantically. "No! No! I'm a Demon, kid, my dad is, err, was, one of the rulers of Makai. It's just... Um... Last time I met a cute kid with a really powerful parent... Things didn't go well for me."
Millicas looked at her in confusion. "Oh, okay. Wait, your dad was the ruler of Makai? What happened? Did he retire?"
"No, he's no longer with us." Lilith couldn't really be sad, she never knew her father anyway.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be." Lilith waved him off. "I didn't really know him." Heck, he didn't even know that she was alive, but her situation was complicated and no one needed to know. "If you want some advice though, make sure you treasure the moments you have with your parents and grandparents. You never know when they'll be gone and you won't get to see them again."
"Okay!" He smiled brightly at her. "Do you have moments you treasure?" Millicas asked.
"Not as many as I want," Lilith sighed. Hell, she didn't know if even Morrigan had any.
"Well, my dad is awesome." Millicas threw his hands in the air. "He's one of the rulers of Hell, he even has a TV show, he united Hell after a long war and everything."
"Sounds like you really love him." Lilith smiled as Millicas nodded.
"Yeah. When I get older I'm going to make a peerage like what dad has."
She couldn't take it anymore, this kid was just too cute. "HNNNGH!" Lilith suddenly knelt down and hugged Millicas to her. "You're so cute and I want to take you home with me and corrupt you!"
"AHEM!" An annoyed female voice said from behind Lilith.
"I said I want to, I didn't say I would." Lilith said in annoyance as she let go of the hug and stood up, turning around to face an annoyed Grayfia. "Your son is too cute for his own good."
"We should talk." Grayfia said in a tone that had Lilith stepping back.
"Uh heh heh..." Lilith sweat-dropped heavily. There was a real oppressive aura in the air and the succubus gulped. "After thinking about it... Bye."
An explosion of bats filled the air, causing the maids, Grayfia and Millicas to cover their faces while Lilith ran, stark naked, down the hallway.
"Get back here." Grayfia ran after her.
"You're pregnant with twins!" Lilith shot back.
"I haven't begun to show yet!" Grayfia shot back as she sped up after Lilith, who turned a corner and ran past Issei, who was coming out of the bathroom.
Issei blinked as he saw Lilith, butt naked, running past him, followed by Grayfia, who had a very upset look on her face, and then Millicas, who waved at him. "...I must be dreaming still."
It took a moment before he blinked. If this was a dream, then ... he was awake in a dream...
And if he was awake in a dream ... he could control how it went...
He looked around. No shades, no versions of his friends there to encourage him...
"YES!" he cheered. Now he could live the dream! "Where are the girls!?" he looked quickly. He had to move before something woke him up!
(-)
Meanwhile, outside...
"Really?" Ravel was giggling at a story that Ranma told her. "A village of mermaids tried to eat you?"
"Hey, they were scary! Tried to feed me their scales or something, saying I'd become immortal if I survived." Ranma shook his head. "But if you don't survive you turn into a horrible monster that needs to die."
"So what happened next?" Ravel was really curious.
"Lilith came out of nowhere, dive-bombing the old woman that tried to feed me the scale and then blew up the rest."
"MASTER!" Lilith's voice was heard. Ranma and Ravel turned to see a stark naked Lilith running to them her arms outstretched and then she jumped into his shadow, disappearing.
"...Kind of like that, just with more explosions and flying bodies." Ranma pointed out, getting a laugh from Ravel.
"Excuse me," Grayfia panted softly as she came out. "I need to speak to Lilith in private."
Ranma sighed heavily. "What did she do this time?"
"I did nothing! I swear!" Lilith's voice came from Ranma's shadow.
Grayfia gave the shadow a glare. "You said you wished to corrupt my son."
"I NEVER SAID I'D DO IT!" Lilith's voice yelled back, causing Ranma to sigh. "Master?"
"Just be quiet." Ranma said to Lilith before looking at Grayfia. "She was probably joking, as poor of a taste as her jokes can be sometimes."
"Not a joke I can over-look." Grayfia said, causing the air to get tense.
Ranma sighed heavily. "Lilith..."
"I WASN'T GOING TO DO IT! I SWEAR! I JUST HUGGED HIM AND SAID I WISHED I COULD TAKE HIM HOME WITH ME!"
Ranma rubbed his forehead. "You and your weakness for cute kids." Looking at Grayfia, he sighed and then turned to Ravel. "Would you excuse me, I need to placate another angry parent."
Ravel nodded as Ranma asked Grayfia to find them a private room to talk and walked off. "...Saved my life, fought a giant flying monster and cares about his subordinate?" She smiled to herself. He was like the perfect knight or hero from all her stories that she read when she was younger!
Yes, this was a good plan. She'd start with moving into his place, get friendly with him and those around him, and then she'd work her way into his heart.
His pants could come soon afterwards.
Shaking a blush off her face, she saw a familiar form running on an upper walkway, muttering some names.
"Right," she muttered, before heading towards her room. She needed to do something for the guy who smashed her perverted brother in his ...danger zone.
"I think I have a slutty cousin," she muttered. Seemed like the guy running around without pants on might appreciate that.
(-)
After a long hour and a half of talking, Ranma had gotten Grayfia to calm down long enough to accept an apology from Lilith as well as accepting that Lilith didn't mean anything by it and that she was just over-come with how cute Millicas was.
Thankfully Grayfia, once she understood that it was an inherit trait almost all succubi had to deal with, was far more forgiving, comparing it to some of the creatures of Hell. "Still, shouldn't you keep it under control?"
"It's easier for me to stop breathing than for me to stop being a sexual deviant." Lilith, now out of Ranma's shadow and fully clothed, shot back. "Heck, why don't we ask birds to stop flying or whales to walk on the land while we're at it."
"I get it." Grayfia said tiredly. "Is it really that bad?"
Lilith looked at the older gorgeous Devil and smirked. "Tell me, how many days did your husband have you servicing him after the whole event at Kuoh?"
"Um... Almost a week." Grayfia's cheeks were tinged pink. "I don't..."
"I was in my succubus form, I wasn't even trying to influence anyone and look what happened." Lilith sighed and grumbled. "Think I don't know that my way of thinking is messed up compared to everyone else? I NEED sex to survive. Well, I, personally don't, but my species in general does."
"Which makes me wonder why they're going extinct." Ranma muttered, causing Lilith to groan.
"Because the current generation of succubi in Makai are all morons that only care about pleasure and don't think about the survival of the species!" Lilith groused in annoyance. "And since we can go "nope, not going to have your kids" at any time we want, they live for about three hundred years, keel over and die and leave nothing behind!" She snarled in annoyance. "When I have kids, and I'm going to have a lot of them, they're all going to live as humans, all of them, and find someone to love and have kids with so that all of them won't be as fucking stupid as the current crop of succubi are!"
"...I had no idea." Grayfia spoke up, causing Lilith to look at her in confusion. "I thought you were just a deviant for the sake of being one."
"I'm that too!" Lilith grinned as Ranma groaned in dismay. "But, yeah, things aren't always as simple as you think and yet are less complicated than we make them out to be."
"So long as you don't try to corrupt my son, I'll forgive you." Grayfia said as she stood up. "And I mean that too."
"Duly noted." Lilith nodded as Grayfia left and sighed. "I like her."
"No." Ranma said flatly. "You are not going to try to steal her away from her husband."
"Of course not." Lilith smiled as Ranma sighed in relief. "You are." She giggled as Ranma face-faulted.
"Are you trying to set me up for Issei's dream?" Ranma growled.
"Of course not," Lilith waved off. "He only seeks to be a harem master or king or whatever. I don't even think he's truly considered what comes after female tits. No, I want you to become..." Lilith paused for dramatic effect, "a Sex God!" she declared.
"...No."
"Too late, some of the succubi already have a shrine to you!" she chirped causing Ranma to zap her forehead with a mild Youki blast. "Owwie!"
(-)
An hour later...
"Lord Gremory, Lady Gremory," one of the maids in the house bowed to the two as she entered the living room. "Lord Lucifer has graced the Gremory estate with his presence today."
"Oh?" Zeoticus Gremory, a man who wore a white suit with black lining, scratched his red goatee, before nodding. "I wonder what Sirzechs is here for, he usually announces his visits ahead of time." Getting up, he and Venelana followed after the maid.
It didn't take them very long to come across Sirzechs, who was being greeted by Millicas and Grayfia. "Hello," Sirzechs smiled at them, "I hear that you have a few guests here today, particularly one that I'm interested in seeing."
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Later...
"Yo." Ranma waved as he and Lilith walked out of the house and into the yard where Sirzechs was. "You said you wanted to see me?"
Sirzechs nodded to Ranma. "Yes, would you please sit?" He asked and motioned for them to sit across from him at the small outdoor table, Grayfia right behind him. Ranma and Lilith both took a seat. "I hear that you saved Issei's life."
"All I did was make a mess of the room he was in with chalk." Ranma replied. "Lilith was the one who saved his life."
"Indeed," he nodded to Ranma. "I think it's time we had a talk about that King piece that you have." His tone became serious, causing both Ranma and Lilith to straighten up unconsciously.
"Should we be talking out in the open like this then?" Ranma asked, "wouldn't it be better to be in a private room with wards put up to prevent anyone from spying on us?"
"My, aren't you paranoid?" Sirzechs said, a gentle smile coming to his face. "No, there are no maids or anyone from the Gremory household other than Grayfia in the area."
"Oh."
"Sorry," Lilith bowed to him, "but we've dealt with people coming after our lives many times before, we have anti-scrying, anti-teleportation, alarm wards and many others around our current house, not having them around is... A little nerve-wracking."
"Understandable." Sirzechs nodded to her. "Let me ask you something, Ranma, what do you know about the King Piece?"
"Not that much." He rubbed the back of his head. "Apparently it lets me become a Devil and I can use other pieces with it or something."
"There was some discussion among myself and Lord Beelzebub, as well as Lord Asmodeus and Lady Leviathan, if we should allow you to keep the King's Piece." Sirzechs paused for a moment. "Tell me something, why did you become a Devil?"
Ranma sighed. "To be honest, I wasn't thinking ahead at the time. Nabiki explained that she was worried over her life and wanted someone to help her. She said if the King's piece worked and it turned me into a Devil that she could join my peerage and if hunters showed up..."
"I see..." Sirzechs nodded. "And from what Azazel told me, you have not only Nabiki, but also Mittelt, Lilith and Atsuko?" Ranma nodded. "Alright, then, Ranma Saotome, what are your plans?"
"Other than becoming the next Master, not much."
Sirzechs shook his head. "I should have clarified, I mean what are your plans involving the King's Piece you have?"
"Huh?" Ranma blinked in confusion. "Nothing. In fact, I kind of hate the fact that it gives me such a power boost." Sirzechs raised an eyebrow. "Nabiki wasn't sure what it did exactly."
"Not a surprise." Sirzechs nodded at him. "There are only nine King pieces officially known."
"Officially?" Lilith asked, narrowing her eyes, "that makes me think there are more."
"You'd have to ask Lord Beelzebub, but even so, the King Pieces are dangerous."
"So what's going to happen to me then? I can't imagine that it'll go over well with Devils that I bypassed all the normal steps to become a King."
"Indeed. That's why we aren't going to reveal it." Sirzechs said, much to their shock. "Your involvement against the White Dragon Emperor officially doesn't exist."
Ranma shrugged, he didn't care about that.
"Excuse me." Lilith said after glancing to the side for a moment. "I need to use the restroom." She got up and left the three behind.
"Revealing that you're a Devil wouldn't be a problem under most circumstances, but that would have people question who your King was and..." Sirzechs trailed off as Ranma nodded. "Devil Politics are never fun."
"Makai politics are a lot more fun." Ranma grinned at Sirzechs. "According to Lilith the only rule that matters is whatever the strongest person says. If they say 'jump at nine', you do that."
Sirzechs laughed at that. "Truly, Demons are a different breed from Devils." There were plenty of similarities, of course. "Anyway, I'd like you to..."
"AAAAH!" A female voice was heard yelling, causing the Devil King to stand as Lilith walked out from behind a pillar, a familiar blonde girl being held up by her. "Lemme go! Lemme go!" She kicked her legs, hoping that Lilith's hold on her dress wouldn't tear it.
"Found the spy!" Lilith grinned and dropped her on her ass.
Sirzechs sighed heavily. "This is lovely. What is the youngest daughter of the Phenix family doing here?"
"Ah!" The girl blushed as she stood up and bowed deeply to Sirzechs. "Lord Lucifer, my apologies, my mother announced that we were to head home soon and I wished to find Ranma to tell him goodbye when I stumbled across your conversation."
"And how much did you hear?" Sirzechs asked.
"Um, since Ranma said he had a peerage?" She said, her voice tiny as she poked her fingers together. "I didn't even know he was a high ranking Devil."
"I'm not." Ranma sighed. "Now what?"
"I suggest a good spanking!" Lilith grinned. "Naughty girls who eavesdrop on adult conversations deserve to be spanked!"
"Naughty girls who joke about things they shouldn't around parents also deserve to be spanked." Grayfia said, causing Lilith to step back, grimacing.
"Fair enough!"
Sirzechs sighed and looked at Ravel. "Considering that this is a secret I would rather not get out, I would be well within my rights to erase your memory of what happened."
"I'm sorry." She whimpered, shivering and knowing he could do it and get away with it. "I just wanted to say goodbye, that's all."
Ranma drummed his fingers on the table for a few moments before a thought came to him. "Sirzechs, um... Lord Sirzechs, right?" The Devil looked at him and nodded. "I'd rather you not erase the memory of a member of my peerage." Sirzechs raised an eyebrow as Ravel stood up straight, her eyes wide and face flushed. "Didn't you say you wanted to be part of my peerage if I became a Devil?"
Ravel nodded rapidly. "Uh huh! I knew that someone like you would quickly become a King, you're too good to not become one. If I had known you were a King sooner I would have requested mother trade me to your peerage... Um, if you have an open Bishop that is."
Sirzechs sighed and sat back down. "Ravel Phenix, I cannot state this clear enough, you must keep this a secret. Should this get out in any way, shape or form, you will be punished over it."
"You mean..?"
"Think of it like a test." Sirzechs told her. "As for you, Ranma. The only reason that Lord Beezlebub did not come after you right away to remove that piece is because I wanted to know more about you."
"So you just trust me with this powerful thing in me?"
"No." Sirzechs shook his head. "However, if you are going to face the Khaos Brigade personally, you may need it. So this is my order to you." He gave Ranma a serious look and let his power leak out to emphasize it. "So long as you do not use the power of the King's piece for personal gain and use it wisely, you may keep it. However, should you be found to abuse its power, I swear, as one of the four Devil Kings, that you will be imprisoned in the depths of Cocytus for more than a century." He looked at Ravel Phenix, who was sweating lightly. "As for you, miss Phenix, do remember that him being a Devil is not well-known at this time." He stood up and bowed to them, the oppressive aura dissipating. "If you'll excuse me, I must be going."
"Oh!" Lilith's eyes widened as she just remembered something. "Did your wife tell you that she's expecting twins?"
Sirzechs blinked and looked at Grayfia, who's face was lightly pink. "...When did you find out?"
"Today, but I haven't had a doctor examine me yet, so..."
"Still, this is wonderful news! I shall announce it to all of Hell." Sirzechs took a pose and was about to run off before Grayfia pinched his cheek to stop him. "Grayfia!" He practically pouted at her. "I want to announce it!"
"At least wait until I've confirmed with a doctor, okay?" She said as they walked back into the house.
"...You know, I didn't expect the Devil King to be like this." Ranma muttered, getting a nod from Lilith and Ravel. "So... Ravel, now that you know, what will you do?"
"I want to be part of your peerage." She said and bowed to him. "While the only way for me to do so right now would be to have mother trade me to you and with the desire of Lord Lucifer to keep that a secret, that's impossible, I still wish to be a part of your peerage."
"And you're okay with Master having several lovers already?" Lilith asked, getting a nod from Ravel.
"It's very common for Kings to have harems." Ravel righted herself and looked at Lilith.
Lilith grinned at her. "I like her. And she's what? Fourteen?" Ravel nodded. "Master!"
Ranma sighed and reached out before flicking Lilith on the forehead so hard that she was knocked on her ass.
"Owwie!" Lilith whined and rubbed her forehead, tears in her eyes. "Master's so mean!"
"Um... I hope you don't want me to call you Master as well..." Ravel trailed off as Ranma shook his head. "Okay, no offense, but I'd rather call you by your name."
"Especially when you're in bed with him and he's causing you to see stars from orgasming too hard." Lilith laughed, before yelping as a Youki bolt hit her butt. "Owwie!"
Ranma shook his head and looked at Ravel, who was blushing. "Anyway," he cleared his throat, "didn't you say you were leaving?"
"AH!" Her eyes widened. "Yes!" She stood up, as did Ranma. "Thank you for spending time with me and, um... I might be moving in with you soon."
"I look forward to it." Ranma smiled at her.
Blushing, Ravel ran off.
Lilith got up and giggled. "If she could get away with it, Master, she would have had you push her over the table and mount her from behind."
"Not everyone's a degenerate like you." Ranma muttered.
"...That sounds fun!" Lilith flopped over the table. "Take me! Let's dirty the outdoor table!"
Ranma rolled his eyes and walked back into the house.
"MASTER! THAT'S NOT FAIR!"
Hmm, I need an omake and a cut scene.
Let's do the cut scene first.
I was planning on adding this, but decided against it, I had no idea what to do with it, but I didn't want to delete it forever, so here! Deleted scene!
"Mind if I see her room?"
The two maids looked at each other.
(-)
"...What's the appropriate way for Devils to swear?" Ranma asked as he saw Rias's room. He didn't know where the redhead was, but calling her room a disaster was an insult to disasters. He had seen less of a mess after he accidentally blew up a fireworks bin when he was twelve.
And that had exploded and fell into a bakery for crying out loud!
"Now that I think about it, why were those two buildings next to each other?" Ranma asked himself.
"Um..." One of the maids spoke up. "Are you sure you don't need help?"
Ranma blinked and looked at the half-full garbage bag in his hands. "...Where did that come from?" He shrugged and continued to work. "I'm just picking up the smaller things on the floor. Is that a Star Wars Lego set spread across the floor?"
"I think he has a cleaning compulsion." One of the maids whispered.
Less than thirty minutes later, the entire room was spotless. It would need a good dusting and scrubbing, but all the junk Rias had accumulated, both as souvenirs and as payments for jobs she had done was off the counters, floor, bed, chairs and shelves and put into several garbage bags. All of her dirty clothes that had been hidden under the bed or under junk was in a hamper.
"Well, there you go. None of this stuff is garbage, so where should I put it?"
"We'll take care of that." The blonde haired maid bowed to him. "And we'll tell Lady Venelana that you cleaned Rias's room so you can be compensated. But, um, that was very fast."
Ranma shrugged at her. "I didn't clean the closet, and I'm afraid to. Who knows what kind of monsters Hell has hidden in there."
The two maids laughed as they called some other maids to help them move the bags of stuff to the storage warehouses.
It's canon that Ranma's a neat freak. One time he broke into Hinako's apartment, saw how messy it was and cleaned it up before doing anything else.
Now for the Omake by Innortal
"I wouldn't go in ther~re!" Lilith sang.
Rias narrowed her eyes. "Why?" she asked, opening the door.
"WHOSE MY NAUGHTY PREGNANT MAID!?"
"I'M A NAUGHTY MAID, MASTER!"
"MY EYES!" cried Rias.
"I tried to warn her," Lilith sighed.