Dance With the Devil

Kyoto Chapter 4

Disclaimer: I own none of the series involved, for if I did there would be a lot more sex.

Review answer time:

Vld: Because Issei never gets laid in canon until later, so it's an "impossible" situation. I just wanted to do the joke again anyway.

Vespasian25: I don't think Rias will kill him, be pissed off and not want to deal with him for a bit? More likely.

TheB: Yeah, it is really powerful, of course, Nabiki's is as well. They aren't normal Sacred Gears after all.

Kaiya Azure: Rossweisse knows about the curse, it's not something that gets brought up constantly though. As for how one can drown, I still don't know. Jusenkyo is weird. I mean, it's been there long enough to have a Sabertooth Tiger drown in the pools (not kidding either).

OBSERVER01: Well, it'll surely help.

Standing on top of a telephone pole, Ranma looked at Bikou, who was standing on top of the next telephone pole over. "So, tell me something, where's Vali?"

Bikou chuckled as he stood on one leg, his staff held across his shoulders. "Visiting some family of his. I won't say who though." When Ranma shrugged, Bikou tilted his head. "Tell me something, why did you make that challenge back in Kuoh?"

Ranma grinned at him. "Blame Vali, he got me excited."

"How kinky." Bikou grinned as they lunged at each other.

"Just for the fight," Ranma spoke as they exchanged punches before landing, "any areas I should avoid?"

"Such as?"

"Dragonball jokes?"

"...Yeah, may want to avoid those," Bikou stated. "Brings up some bad family issues."

Ranma blinked. "I'm sensing a running theme for your group... and the area here in general."

(-)

Victor let out a grunt as he got punched by Atsuko and slid back several feet, his weight being so heavy that he tore up the street while he slid. Grinning, he ran at Atsuko and punched at her, only to hit air as she jumped away from him.

"Guess I don't need to hold back against you, huh?" Atsuko asked no one in particular and rushed in, hitting Victor in the stomach so hard that the air itself shook from the blow.

As he was lifted off his feet and sent flying, Victor blindly reached down and grabbed Atsuko before he got too far away. Grinning at the surprised girl, the bolts on his head seemed to flash for a moment before raw electrical power raced down his arms and entered Atsuko's body, causing the cyborg to scream out in pain as her whole body was flooded with electricity. This lasted for a few moments before Victor crashed into and through several trees and landed on his back when he let go of Atsuko, causing her to land hard on the ground, flopping around and jerking as her body spasmed in pain.

Victor stood up and walked over to the downed girl as she twitched and tried to get to her feet. "Victor is sorry, but Victor must beat you to get what Victor wants."

"Thanks for your consideration." Atsuko managed to get out through gritted teeth as she pushed herself away from him. 'Note to self, cyborg body is weak to electricity, have to work on that.'

Victor then grabbed Atsuko and picked her up before jumping into the air and slamming her onto her back on the ground and creating a crater.

"...Oww." Atsuko muttered and kicked up, smashing Victor and causing him to fly backwards where he landed on his butt. Standing up, the cyborg shook her head. "Thanks for slamming me though, it got me good and loose."

Victor grunted as he got up. "You're very strong." If it wasn't for certain things, he would enjoy this.

(-)

"Hey!" Mittelt yelped as she flew away from Tarou. "How can you fly? Those wings are too tiny for your frame! MEEP!" She yelped as she ducked under a gout of flame from the tentacled Minotaur's mouth. "AND HOW ARE YOU BREATHING FIRE?!" She yelled as she threw several pitch-black spears at Tarou, only to watch as his tentacles knocked them away or got pierced to prevent them from hitting Tarou. "Dammit!" She growled and yelped as several tentacles, far more than before rushed up at her. "Ha! You'll never..." She trailed off and her face turned blue as she felt one wrap around her ankle. "...I knew that I shouldn't have watched Legend of the Overfiend before coming to Kyoto." She whimpered as she was pulled rapidly towards Tarou, who punched her body and caused her eyes to bug out before the tentacle loosened and she was sent flying.

"Hurr hurr hurr..." Tarou grunted and grinned. 'That was for my eye, you little bitch!'

Groaning as she landed hard on her back, Mittelt got to her knees before putting a hand to her mouth and expelling the contents of her stomach.

After a few moments, she coughed and looked up as a shadow formed over her, she only had a moment to realize what was going on as tentacles snaked around her ankles and lifting her up into the air, upside down and causing the skirt she was wearing to fall down, exposing her panties and Mittelt's face turned scarlet in response. "EEEK! YOU PERVERT!" To make it worse she was wearing her sexy panties too, they didn't cover very much.

Seeing Tarou pull an arm back, Mittelt wasn't sure she was thankful he wasn't trying to do something perverted with her or not.

(-)

Bishamon slashed down at Lilith, who jumped backwards and retaliated with several energy bats at the armor, who quickly parried them with Excalibur Betrayal. "Oh dear, I guess..." The spirit of Kimiko Tendo grinned as the sword started to glow black. "I can't hold back. I was intending to deal with you right away."

"Well then..." Lilith crossed her arms and snapped her fingers as her body seemed to glow. "DEMONIC LIGHTNING STORM!" Throwing her arms to the side, she let out a yell as lightning crashed down all around her and Bishamon, crashing into the armor and forcing it to its knees. "The hell? That should have been enough to put you down."

"Normally you'd be right." Bishamon said, its aura having dissipated, before it stood back up and its aura flared back to life. "But the combined Holy, Youki and Cursed aura that Excalibur Betrayal gives me grants me some heavy resistances."

"Well, poop." Lilith muttered as she dropped to her knees. "Try this then!"

Bishamon looked down as several shadow tendrils came out of the ground and wrapped themselves around it. A burst of its aura and the tendrils dissipated. "Nice try. Now..." The sword started to glow black and Bishamon swung it horizontally, sending a powerful crescent arc of energy out at Lilith, who took off to the air and sent a ball of fire back at the armor. Sneering, the armor swung the sword upwards and an energy wave bisected the fireball and rushed up to Lilith, who had a surprised look on her face as the the energy wave crashed into her and exploded.

(-)

Meanwhile...

Kunou, being watched over by Asia, gave Issei an annoyed look after he used a technique he called "Boobylingual" to apparently read his opponent's breasts' minds 'who knew boobs had minds?' she thought to herself, and then he followed it up by stripping all of them naked. Sure, his armor was cool as heck and made him look really strong, but to use such a perverted technique?

In the air, Azazel, using his Downfall Dragon Balance Breaker, was going toe-to-toe with the guy who introduced himself as Cao Cao. "What is it that you want, anyway?" The Fallen Angel leader asked as his bident of light parried the True Longinus. 'To think that the person with the strongest Longinus would appear here. Not to mention Dimension Lost and Annihilation Maker? How the hell did those three Longinus get into one group's hands?'

"Think about it, Azazel." Cao Cao said as he held his spear behind him, the tip pointing to the ground. "Dragons, Gods, Devils, Demons, Angels, Fallen Angels and everything in between, they have incredible powers yet it's always the humans who are the Heroes in the stories. It's kind of embarrassing, really. So I wanted to know, just how far can I go as a weak human fighting among the Gods. Surely you can understand that."

Before Azazel could retort, an orange sigil opened up in the sky and a huge golem-like creature that looked like a gargoyle appeared, dropping out of the sky and landing in the water, which only came up half-way up its legs.

"Gogmagog?!" Azazel gasped in shock. "That was created by the Ancient Gods as a weapon of mass destruction, but I heard it was abandoned in the Dimensional Gap. What is it doing here?"

"Yoo hoo!" A cute blonde girl in a blue witch's outfit cheerfully announced herself as she flew in on a broom from another orange sigil. "Hi! I'm Le Fay Pendragon, Arthur's sister." She waved at everyone before flying over to Cao Cao. "As for you," she coughed to clear her throat and lowered her voice a couple of octaves while putting her fingers to her forehead, "you shouldn't interfere, Cao Cao, Issei is mine to defeat." She smiled at him. "That was my Vali impression, pretty good, huh?" She asked as her voice went back to normal. "Anyway, Goggy woggy, can you smash those annoying Annihilation Maker dolls, please?"

The creature's eyes seemed to light up before it threw both of its hands up in the air and brought them down, destroying not only the mass-produced golems, but also the bridge most everyone was on.

'I'm glad we're shunted off from reality.' Azazel thought to himself. 'This would be a pain to fix.' He turned his head to the side and gaped. 'What is she doing here?'

Grabbing onto one of the segments of the bridge, Issei pulled himself up and blinked as the cute blonde from earlier flew up to him. "Um, hi."

"Oh my gosh! It's the Red Dragon Emperor! I'm a HUGE fan of your show! Can I shake your hand?"

Issei blinked, dumbfounded and raised his right hand to her.

"YEEE!" Le Fay squealed as she squeezed his hand and shook it. "If you ever need someone to teach you magic, give me a call."

"...I don't even know your number."

She winked at him. "Don't worry, I gave you my card." Not understanding, Issei looked at his right hand and stared at the card in it. "So, if you ever want to advance your magic studies, give me a call, okay?"

"Uh huh..." Issei nodded as he pulled himself up and turned around. "Is everyone... Huh? Rossweisse?"

Stumbling towards the bridge, the drunk Valkyrie glared at everyone. "I was, hic, trynna take a freakin nap... AND NONE OF YOU WILL SHUT UP!" She screamed before the sky was filled with many, many magic circles.

Looking at that, Cao Cao raised an eyebrow. "If swords come flying out of there, I'm out of here."

Letting out a yell, the entire area was bombarded with magical attacks, causing Issei, Cao Cao, Le Fay and others to quickly vacate as her attacks demolished the bridge.

"Well, this is entertaining." Cao Cao grinned as Rossweisse flopped onto her back, passing out from being drunk. As a shadow came over him, Cao Cao looked up and saw Gogmagog raising its arms to crush him. "Oh yeah, I better deal with you, huh?" Pointing his spear at the creature, he grinned as it extended towards the golem. "Got...What the fuck?" His spear seemed to go into a hole in space before popping out the backside of the golem.

"Now, now, I'd ask you not to do that." A new voice spoke up as a black sigil appeared over Gogmagog and the creature disappeared as it washed over the golem's body.

Retracting the True Longinus, Cao Cao looked backwards and up as a blade appeared out of thin air and cut a hole in space. "Oh, it's you."

Looking up, Issei could only stare as a tall blue-skinned Devil with a purple outfit stepped out of the hole. "What's going on?"

"I'm terribly sorry." The tall Devil smirked and bowed. "My name is Jedah Dohma, one of the three rulers of Makai."

"What?!" Azazel stared in shock. 'If this Jedah guy is one of the rulers of Makai, that means he's probably in the Satan-class of Devils.'

"Now that introductions are out of the way." Jedah shrugged. "I regret to inform you, Cao Cao, that the plan is no longer necessary. Ophis has what she needs now and you won't need to do what you originally planned on doing."

"Well, that's disappointing." Cao Cao groused in annoyance. "And to think we wasted all that time."

"And for that, I'm terribly sorry, I had completely forgotten you were here in Kyoto until just now," Jedah said before his eyes lit up. "I've got it! Let's play a game then..."

"A game?" Issei narrowed his eyes at the flying Devil. "What kind of game?"

"Perhaps you've heard of Soul Bees?" Jedah grinned at the looks of shock he was getting. "I'm thinking of releasing a couple dozen into the city tonight."

"Are you where Kokabiel got them from?" Azazel asked, getting a shrug from Jedah.

"Perhaps, but that fool never knew how to properly use the tools around him. Even when he stumbled into Makai four years ago, he thought he could take over, such a pathetic fool." Jedah said dismissively, causing Issei, Kiba, Xenovia, Asia and even Azazel to get a bit worried. Jedah was seemingly dismissing Kokabiel as a threat and a fool, which made them wonder just how strong he truly was. "As for the leader of the Youkai..." A grin covered his face. "Well, I'm sure that the Hero faction would be willing to face off against your best fighters who aren't dealing with the Soul Bees. The winner gets to decide what to do with her."

Cao Cao snorted. "I'm in no mood to play with children if there's nothing else of interest. The only reason we captured her was to draw out Great Red."

Jedah smirked. "Maybe you should use the power of the Ley Lines, cause her to go berserk and kill her to prove yourselves?"

"Hmm... That..." Cao Cao grinned. "Could be fun."

"You can't!" Kunou yelled up, tears in her eyes. "If you do that, it'll cause serious damage to mother and kill her after only a little while!"

"Well then," Jedah smiled at the little fox girl. "You best not waste time. At ten tonight, the Nijo Castle is your destination. Of course," he narrowed his eyes at the group, "if any of the great alliance shows up more than ten minutes early, I can't guarantee that I won't do something horrible to her."

"Well, you heard him." Cao Cao smirked as he walked back into the mist. "I think we'll continue our fight then, don't you?"

"Wait!" Azazel yelled as the mist picked up.

"See you at ten." Cao Cao grinned as the mist washed over the battlefield.

(-)

Meanwhile...

"Not bad." Bikou grinned as he panted and wiped a trickle of blood coming out of his mouth. "I can see how you gave Vali a hard time."

"Yeah, same to you." Ranma grinned. This fight was everything he wanted, the opponent was fast, skilled, tough and strong. "You live up to your title. Also, next time you see Vali, you need to let him know that I won our last fight." Bikou blinked in confusion. "He used Divide on me," Ranma smirked at the Monkey King, "the terms were to not use Divide."

Bikou laughed before grimacing. "Hmm, must have busted a rib or three. Of course, you're not any better off, are you?"

"I heal quickly." Ranma retorted, though he was pretty much in the same boat at this point. "Tell me, why did the Khaos Brigade kidnap Yasaka?"

"Couldn't tell you." Bikou responded. "That's Cao Cao, not me, I wanted to fight you and..." He blinked as an orange sigil appeared. "Le Fay?"

"Yoohoo!" She grinned as she flew into the area. "Sorry to say, Bikou, but Jedah said we have to go now."

Ranma sighed in annoyance. "I'm not finished yet."

Bikou smirked. "I bet more than a few women have said that to you."

"Oh dear!" Le Fay blushed at that. "Speaking like that around a lady. Anyway, bye bye, and Ranma Saotome, next time we meet I wanna learn your icy-fire magic, okay? I'll teach you some of my magic if you do." She waved as she grabbed Bikou and disappeared.

Ranma grumbled, he was winning too! Then again, he was certain that Bikou was holding back against him. "Next time then, Bikou, Le Fay."

(-)

Groaning from where she was on the street, Mittelt looked at her handiwork and gawked at what she saw. 'Note to self, master this damn power already!' She screamed to herself as she thought back to what happened.

*Flash*

As Tarou punched forward, Mittelt, in desperation, threw her hands out and sent a pink spear at his right shoulder, as well as a pitch-black spear. "...Ooops." She gulped as the two connected at his left shoulder at the same time...

...And at the same place no less.

The resulting explosion sent her flying several blocks away.

*End Flash*

"Did I kill him?" Mittelt asked no one in particular as she stood up. "...I hope no one was hurt by that!" The hill they were fighting on was completely missing, several pipes had burst, spraying water everywhere and power lines were down, touching the water, electrifying it. "Hoo boy! I *REALLY* hope that no one was around when I did that."

When a giant fist broke through the ground, she jumped back and gawked as she saw Tarou pulling himself out of the ground...

...Except that he was missing his left shoulder and arm...And wing...And half his tentacles...And some of his face.

"HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?!"

Tarou was panting before letting out a massive bellow and the missing parts of his body regrew.

"...That was impressive." Mittelt muttered and watched as Tarou slowly shrank and returned to his human form. "Okay, how?"

"Heh..." Tarou panted heavily. "Ruinous Animal Control, my Sacred Gear, if not for my cursed form it would be useless. Make an animal larger or smaller or enhance their abilities..." Cursing, he fell to his knees and groaned.

"Makes sense, though where does the fire come from?"

Before Tarou could answer, Bishamon crashed down next to him, its arms removed, though they were held by the spirits around its shoulders, along with Excalibur Betrayal. "Well, that hurt." Bishamon muttered and looked up at Lilith, who had blood running down her left leg and right arm, both of them hanging loosely in the air. "Shall we call this a draw?"

"Fuck you." Lilith muttered, her right eye screwed shut.

"No thanks, I don't have those parts anymore." A hole in reality opened up behind the armor. "Sorry, I'd love to fight you some more, but I think it's time to..." Bishamon was cut off as lightning crashed into it, sending it flying into the hole. Tarou jumped in after the armor.

Groaning, Lilith fell to the ground and was caught by Mittelt. "Thanks, love you." She kissed the Fallen Angel on the lips for a moment. "Can we find Master and call Asia? I need healing."

"Yeah." Mittelt nodded and looked back at the hill. "How are we supposed to explain this one?"

"I don't know, maybe there's something to unmake this damage somewhere?" Lilith looked around. "Where's Atsuko?"

(-)

Atsuko let out a scream as she was being flooded by lightning. That hurt, but the worst part of all of this was, in her opinion, was that Victor was grabbing her by his ass and holding her in place. 'HOW THE HELL CAN HE DO THIS?!' She mentally screamed before Victor threw her away.

Victor took a stumbling step forward. "Victor not..." A hole in space opened up and Tarou leaned his head out. "What?"

"We're done here. I'm out of strength, Bishamon needs to be repaired and Bikou ran off."

Victor grumbled and walked towards the hole. "Victor finish this later."

Atsuko panted and glared at the spot where he was at a moment ago as the hole disappeared. "Dammit." She muttered and looked up as Ranma came over to her. "You were facing the Monkey King, how are you not hurting?"

"Five broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder that I put back into place, a few bruised organs and other small injuries." Ranma said to her. "Bikou had more than a few injuries himself." He helped Atsuko up. "Come on, we need to get Asia for some healing." He looked at the destroyed hill and sweat-dropped heavily. "And talk to Mittelt about not over-doing it."

Atsuko nodded as she saw Mittelt flying over to them with Lilith in her arms.

(-)

Back at the hotel...

Ranma sighed as Asia healed him, Mittelt, Asia and Atsuko as they sat in Issei's hotel room, thankful for the near-privacy, standing next to the door was Azazel, who listened to what happened in concern.

"You seriously destroyed that hill?" Azazel asked and sighed as Ranma nodded. "Dammit, did you at least ward the area to keep people from investigating?"

Ranma gave him a flat look. "No, we had a pitched fight with a giant monster, the Monkey King, a possessed armor and Frankenstein's monster where anyone could see it. Of course we warded the area!"

"No need for sarcasm." The older man muttered as he made a note to make sure that the hill was fixed up.

"Are you okay now?" Asia asked, getting a nod from Ranma. "That's good. I'm sorry that you got hurt."

"Meh, don't be. Just wish you were around when I was training." He then thought about it and shook his head. "On second thought, I'm glad you weren't. Knowing my old man, he would have taken it as an incentive to push the training to the point of nearly killing me every day and have you heal me right afterwords."

Azazel shook his head as they sat in Issei's room. "How did you get in here without anyone seeing you anyway?"

Ranma smirked at him. "My old man's a lot of things, but he's a damn good martial artist and developed some really dangerous skills, one of them can make me go invisible. I just made sure to include the others."

"I bled all the way up here!" Lilith giggled as her injuries faded away. "Thanks, Asia, I owe you."

"Oh, no, it's fine." The blonde girl blushed. "I'm just glad you're okay."

"I dunno if we'll see those four again tonight." Ranma said to Azazel. "Apparently Mittelt blew away most of Tarou's cursed body when she blew up the hill."

"I don't get how a Sacred Gear can do that." Mittelt muttered. "I mean, he added octopus tentacles to his monster form, how does that..."

"Ocotopi can regenerate lost limbs completely." Atsuko replied. "Much like Starfish can, except that their tentacles can't grow into new octopi, his Sacred Gear must have enhanced the octopus curse."

"And he said it would have been useless without his cursed form." Mittelt frowned before her eyes widened. "Wait, you don't think that..."

"Probably," Azazel nodded, "it might be another Irregular Sacred Gear." Probably related to Lucifer or Beelzebub, now that he thought about it, those two were the most closely associated with animals after all. "Anyway, Mittelt, I don't recommend you ever mix your Holy and Devil powers like that again. We don't need an anti-matter explosion going off each time you do." The blonde girl blushed hard. "On the other hand, congrats on surviving said explosion."

"So, what's going on with Yasaka?" Ranma asked Azazel.

"Apparently she's the prize for tonight's game." Azazel shook his head. "I don't want to play their game, but if we show up too early, apparently Jedah Dohma will kill her."

"Jedah?!" Lilith gasped out. "What's he doing with the Khaos Brigade?!"

"You know him?" Azazel raised an eyebrow.

"Of course I do." Lilith threw her arm to the side. "He's the reason I have this body in the first place!"

Ranma sighed as everyone looked at her in confusion. "Alright, I guess since the bag's open..." He pointed at Lilith. "She was originally half of the soul of Morrigan Aensland. Eight years ago, Jedah apparently took her soul and molded a body for it, and named it Lilith."

"So that's what you meant when you said that your father didn't know that you were alive, or that you didn't have any power with Makai." Azazel cupped his chin as he thought about it. "Wait, can half a soul even survive?"

Lilith shrugged. "I'm still alive, so apparently." She sighed heavily. "I've known... I've known for the past eight years that one day Morrigan and I will face off for one final time..."

"What will happen then?" Mittelt asked.

"We'll fight for control over our soul." Lilith sighed. "I mean, yeah, I'm a Devil now, but when we fought in Kuoh, I could still feel the pull, my soul wanted to merge with hers. If that happens... One of three things will happen."

"You'll be the dominant part, Morrigan will or the souls will merge into a new entity that's neither of you." Azazel spoke up, getting a nod from Lilith. "Yeesh, I don't know what to say about that."

"Lilith..." Mittelt said softly, causing the succubus to look at her. "If you fight Morrigan and lose, I'll never forgive you." She looked away blushing. "I mean, you're the only girl that has boobs that aren't bigger than mine in the group, I don't want to be the smallest one."

"We're getting off track." Ranma said, "what's this game?"

"Jedah plans on releasing a couple dozen Soul Bees into Kyoto at ten tonight." Azazel didn't like this, from what he had heard, they were basically Locusts and then there was that ability to multiply if they injected themselves into a body. "So we've got to have a strike force to deal with them, get people to Nijo castle to fight the Hero Faction and there are other problems as well."

Ranma sighed and nodded. "Lovely. And Kunou has to have several of the Youkai mages in the area helping out with my plan in case things go South."

"Um," Asia raised her hand, "what is your plan?"

Ranma smirked at her. "That's a secret."

"Master needs to stop reading those Light Novels." Lilith muttered in annoyance.

"Anyway, are you sure your plan will work? Because if not, I've got someone I can call." Azazel was going to make the call anyway.

Ranma grinned at the Governor General. "Don't underestimate me. We'll save Yasaka, I guarantee it."

Azazel nodded at him. "Alright, why don't you all go get some rest for a few hours, okay? Meet back here at eight, we'll discuss what we're going to do then."

The teens nodded and left the room, leaving Azazel to himself. "Hopefully we won't have to deal with any other members of the Khaos Brigade getting involved."

Anti-matter explosions are fun, aren't they? Also, yes, Octopi CAN regenerate like Starfish can.

And Innortal keeps pumping out Omakes.

"Does that pole extend like the cartoon?" asked Ranma.

Bikou smirked as he commanded his staff to do such.

"MOOOOO!"

Blinking, the duo turned ... and winced, spotting the Minotaur-like fighter on the ground, clutching its crotch.

"You'd be surprised how often that seems to happen around here," Ranma commented.