Dance With the Devil
Shake Up Chapter Epilogue
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: Ranma's used his Queen piece on Lilith, Bishop on Mittelt, Rook on Atsuko and Nabiki has a Pawn piece. Meaning he has both Knights, a Rook, a Bishop and seven Pawn pieces left.
OBSERVER01: Of course she is, she's got a thing for Heroes and Knights like in the old stories.
TheB: You're thinking of Mermaid Saga, one of Rumiko Takahashi's earliest works. It's not so bad if you've seen InuYasha, but it's still disturbing and dark (and I love it!).
aliesterus: Unintentional, I assure you.
Nabiki shook her head partly in amusement and partly in exasperation. "So you literally went straight to Hell, helped out someone who you seem to barely tolerate at times, had wild monkey sex..."
"It was rather tame, no wires or airborne sex." Lilith groused in annoyance.
"And I don't mind Issei, he's one of the few guys I'd call a friend." Ranma shot back at her.
"And then you had to stop a diplomatic crisis when Lilith couldn't control herself around Lord Lucifer's son?!" Nabiki gave Lilith a look that expressed how much she couldn't believe the succubus would try something like that.
"To be fair, the kid is really cute." Ranma said in her defense.
"You're REALLY not helping your reputation of being someone who's into young-looking people right now." Nabiki grumbled at him.
"The situation got resolved, why are you so grumpy?" Lilith muttered, causing Nabiki to glare at her.
"Because I'd rather not be on Lord Sirzechs's shit list, okay?"
"I'd normally be surprised that you're showing him so much respect, but he is a ruler of Hell, so..." Ranma shrugged at her. "Look, it ain't like I don't respect the guy, okay?" The Devil King really was powerful, Ranma could respect that and from what he could gather from the maids and Millicas he was a really good guy too. Ranma just didn't fear the guy.
"I guess that's just like you, huh?" Nabiki grumbled to herself mostly.
"Hey! I'm back!" Atsuko cried out as she walked in, her bike over her shoulder. "Nothing much happened, though I think I ran over an army of gingerbread men somewhere along the way."
"That sweets Devil isn't back is he?" Lilith asked, getting a shake from Atsuko.
"Nah, didn't see or sense him." Atsuko tapped her chin. "Oh right! They were army toys! Someone had moving army toys that could talk and fight without a controller and they were all fighting a bunch of moving and talking monster toys and I ran them all over."
Everyone sweat-dropped as they listened.
"What DO you get into when no one's looking?" Nabiki asked in amusement.
"You'd be surprised at the weird things in the world that aren't supernatural." Ranma answered her, even though he found this one to be rather silly.
After putting her bike away, Atsuko gave Ranma an upset look. "It was my turn last night, you were gone!"
"Issei was going to die if we didn't help him out." Lilith pointed out.
"Oh, in that case it's okay." Atsuko smiled, no longer upset.
"Sometimes I wonder if she's just naturally cheerful or simple." Lilith shook her head in amusement.
Atsuko just giggled.
(-)
The next day...
"Hey man!" Matsuda waved to Issei as he walked into class followed by Asia and Xenovia. "Where you been the last few days?"
"Dealing with some personal issues." Issei answered as he walked over to his desk and slumped into it. "I'm just glad it's all done with now."
Motohama walked up to them and grinned. "Yo! I heard the best rumor! We're getting a new teacher! And she's a total hottie!" Both Matsuda and Issei looked at him in interest. "I caught a glimpse of her earlier, she's kind of tall and has white hair and oh man, those tits!"
"That sounds..." Issei trailed off as the door opened and a familiar face walked in. "Thought so."
"Hello, class," the new teacher spoke up and smiled at them. "My name is Rossweisse, and I'm your new teacher starting today."
"Oh man!" Matsuda openly drooled as he saw Rossweisse. Sure, she wasn't wearing anything overly sexual, but the way she filled out that brown business suit made her look incredible!
"You guys can drool over her, she's still single." Issei muttered to them and sighed, knowing how much of a sore spot that was with the Valkyrie.
Behind Issei, Lilith grinned and turned to look at Ranma. The instant she turned around an eraser hit her between the eyes. "Master!" She whined.
"No."
(-)
Meanwhile...
"Sorry that we wasted your time, Kuroka." Arthur Pendragon said as a tear in reality became visible. "I was so sure that it was something important."
"Not your fault, nya." Kuroka smiled at the blonde man and looked at the ring that was connected to a chain around her neck. "How was any of us supposed to know it was a trinket by Bastet to let you communicate with cats more freely?" Letting it go, it bounced on her breasts before settling in-between them, the chain around her neck keeping it from falling to the ground. She was surprised it wasn't a Holy artifact, but she wasn't complaining about it.
"Well, she is a cat Goddess." Bikou answered and looked around the campsite. "Didn't we leave the little missus here?"
"It has been about a week." Arthur commented. "Perhaps Ophis returned her to her home?"
"Well, whatever." Kuroka didn't dislike Akane, it was a lot of fun to train her, but if Ophis had no more use for her, that was that. "Hey, Arthur, can you take me to your sister? I need some clean clothes."
"I swear, you really need to learn to clean your own clothes."
"Nya?" Kuroka gave him an annoyed look. "I could always run around naked." Her eyes widened and she gasped. "Oh no! Arthur's a giant pervert!"
The man sighed heavily. "No, I'm not. And if you hint that my ancestor was actually a woman who knocked her sister up with a magic penis and was later killed by her daughter again I will stab you."
Kuroka stuck her tongue out.
(-)
A few days later...
"Well, congrats to everyone," Azazel smiled at the group as they sat around in the club room. "The whole school competition was a big hit this year."
"Juggling?" Issei looked at Ranma, who shrugged.
"Hey, if I did anything else it would have been boring."
"But... Martial Arts Juggling?" Xenovia asked, getting another shrug from Ranma. "I mean, I watched it, and I STILL don't know where you pulled the flaming chainsaw, the bowl of fruit, the katana and the motorcycle from."
"Ancient Martial Arts secret." Ranma intoned, pitching his voice up in a mockery of old martial arts masters.
"I was more concerned when Master started juggling Rossweisse." Lilith muttered.
"That was the most terrifying thing I've ever been a part of both as a Valkyrie and as a freshly minted Devil!" The silver-haired woman said, trembling. "HOW DID YOU NOT NOTICE ME?!"
"I was trying not to drop the flaming chainsaw into the active motorcycle and you stumbled into my arms." Ranma said, sweating as Rossweisse started yelling at him some more. "You need to get laid." He watched in amazement as she stopped yelling and slumped down, a blue aura of despair surrounding her.
"It's not my fault I can't get a guy, I just want to be loved too, but nooo! No one wants to spend time with me, they keep saying I'm a buzzkill and Lord Odin kept mocking me saying that I will never get a guy and I just want to have a boyfriend to go on a date with, maybe hold hands and do a few other things, it's not like I want to be a virgin at my age, WAAAAAH!"
"Ouch, Master, that was harsh." Lilith smirked at him.
"Anyway..." Azazel spoke up to try and get the topic off the lonely woman. "Nabiki, my boys in the tech lab think they have a prototype that should help your Balance Breaker out."
"About time." She muttered. "So where is it?"
"Well, they built two versions, one for testing and one that they'll attach to you. You're going to have to spend a few hours with them." He smirked when Nabiki shrugged. "Anyway, most of you are going to Kyoto next week, and as one of your chaperones." Azazel looked at Rossweisse, who was still whimpering, "as is Rossweisse, we'll be making sure that you don't get into trouble."
Ranma scoffed at that. "You could bring an army and we'd still end up getting into trouble."
Azazel laughed, not doubting that.
(-)
Meanwhile...
"Interesting..." Jedah smirked as he looked at the latest thing that Akane had created. Reaching down, he couldn't believe it. "You can even make replica Sacred Gears like Boosted Gear, huh?"
Akane said nothing, her eyes lifeless as Jedah's hypnotic spell held sway over her completely.
"Interesting." A new male voice was heard. Walking into the room, a man a little under six feet in height with silver hair done up in a braided ponytail and wearing a silver robe with several accessories on it looked at the replica of Boosted Gear. "But without a Dragon's soul in it, it's useless."
"Indeed." Jedah grinned at the newcomer and looked at Akane. "I wonder what other Sacred Gears you can replicate with this cauldron."
"I thought her Sacred Gear was unsuitable for direct combat." The other man said, causing Jedah to laugh at him.
"Because going into combat with a cauldron is such a smart idea." He smirked. "No, alchemists and the like aren't direct combatants, they've always made things that are useful for combat, but they, themselves aren't useful in a fight. Unless you want her to make some dangerous food or something."
"I don't..." The man trailed off and pointed at Akane, causing Jedah to turn and gape at the horrible blob of tentacled flesh, teeth and screaming.
"GRAAAAAR!" The thing lunged at the two of them, trying to eat them.
"I THOUGHT YOU SAID SHE WOULDN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT A DIRECT ORDER!" The man screamed as he blasted one of the tentacles that had grabbed his chest. His eyes bugged out when a tentacle grabbed him between the legs. "BAD TOUCH! BAD TOUCH!"
Jedah pulled a scythe out of thin air and sliced the creature in half, stopping the impromptu rampage. "She must have taken me saying "make some dangerous food" as an order and... OH FUCK ME!"
Akane held up five more of the monsters, who were all grinning at Jedah.
"GRAAAAAAR!"
Bad news I'm afraid, I won't be posting anymore chapters to this story for the rest of the month. Reason is, I'm getting caught up on what I have written already, so I'm taking some time to get more written so that I don't need to delay longer than I have to.
See you in the next arc when we go to Kyoto.
Before I go, Innortal liked the cut scene so much that he and I did a quick Omake for it.
"What the heck happened to my room?!" Rias gaped as she looked at her room. "Where's my lego set?!"
"Maybe it's in the closet?" Issei suggested and walked over to the closet.
"You probably shouldn't..." Akeno trailed off, wincing as a tentacle came out of the closet, wrapped around him and pulled him inside. The closet shook for several moments before Issei popped out of it, still wrapped in the tentacle.
"AHHHH!" screamed Issei, as the tentacle slammed him into the floor, ceiling, and floor again.
"My GUNDAM models," Rias whimpered.
"I don't see your signed posters either," Akeno muttered, shaking her head sadly.
"SOMEONE HELP ME!" cried Issei, as the tentacle pulled him inside the closet.
"Not now, Issei," sighed Rias, wiping her eyes.
"We have to work through her great loss."
"AHHHH!" cried Issei, as the tentacle pulled him out of the closet again, a blue dress now covering him.
"And my clothes!" cried Rias. "I knew where everything was!"
"..." went Akeno, making no sound or movement. Frankly, she was glad someone else had picked up those things. She had seen some underwear last month ... from when Rias first started Junior High.
She hadn't fit them in years.
"PLEASE HELP!" begged Issei, as he exited the closet, now covered in the wedding gown Rias would have been forced to wear if she had to marry Riser.
"We are helping, Issei," Akeno said, hugging a crying Rias. "We will help her as much as possible, for as long as it takes."