Dance With the Devil

Betrayal Chapter 2

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

Wow, I really expected those reactions to this fic a LONG time ago. Oh well, for those that left, you can't complain to me when you come back and see what's going on.

Jedah smirked as Ranma reappeared in front of him and canceled his armor. "I must say, I'm impressed. To betray..." He trailed off as Ranma pointed Excalibur Betrayal at his face and he held up his hands. "Now, now, calm down."

"If you don't want me taking your head, you won't bring up what I did again, got it?" Ranma snarled, getting a nod from Jedah. "Good." He dismissed the sword and turned to leave before stopping as he saw someone in the room wearing a large brown cloak and a mask. "Who are you?"

"Don't mind this one." Jedah smirked as the masked person didn't answer. "Just prepare. After all, you told them one month and then we'll attack the Vampires." He chuckled to himself. 'To think that they're the ones who have what I need.'

Ranma waited until Jedah wasn't looking before nodding to the masked person and walking out of the room. He had someone he had to go see.

After Ranma left, Jedah shook his head. 'I don't know what you're thinking, but quite frankly, I don't care.' After all, he had things he had to focus on now more than ever.

(-)

"Hey, CC." Ranma said to the man wearing a black coat and pants, his black hair with blonde strips complimented his gold and black heterochromia eyes perfectly.

"Hello, Master." The man nodded back as he leaned against the wall. "I take it everything went well?"

"All according to plan." Ranma sighed heavily. "Trust me, I appreciate your help."

He smirked at Ranma. "So long as I get to fight worthy opponents, I'm yours to command as per my pact."

"I really think you'd be better as a woman with long green hair and a glorious ass." Ranma muttered, causing CC to blink in confusion. "Sorry, just a character from an anime I watched a few months ago."

"I have no interest in being a woman at this time, unlike a certain someone." CC smirked at Ranma.

"Yeah, yeah, not looking for another woman right now anyway." Ranma muttered as he walked past CC, the tall man following after him. "You didn't hurt Nabiki when you got her, did you?"

"She is unharmed."

"Good." Ranma nodded and jerked a thumb back at Jedah's throne room. "What do you know about Jedah's mysterious girl?" Even muffled by what she was wearing, Ranma could feel a feminine aura coming from the person under the cloak.

"I would not wish to be a Devil and face her." CC answered honestly. "Even though she is a human and her power is not as high as the stronger Devils, there is no Devil, Demon or even a Fallen Angel that could face her and walk away under their own power."

"And if there was one, it would be so badly hurt that they'd be easy pickings for anyone, huh?" Ranma asked rhetorically. "If what you say is true, then I have a pretty good idea who it is." The amount of humans that could do what CC was saying the masked woman could do was very slim.

CC smirked at him. "Tell me something, if this plan of yours works as you hope it does, what will happen to me? I care not for the end result."

Ranma grinned at the taller man. "If this works, CC, you'll be able to fight strong people for as long as you want."

The man gave him a savage grin. "Excellent."

(-)

Meanwhile, in Kuoh City...

As Asia healed Issei, who was laying on the pull-down bed that they had installed in the expanded club room, everyone was silent as they thought back to what happened.

'Master...' Lilith trembled as she sat on a couch, her head buried against her knees, Mittelt was next to her, rubbing her back and trying to help her.

"What a day." Azazel muttered as he rubbed the area on his chest that he had been stabbed. "Thankfully we're all alive."

"I can't believe he would..." Irina shook her head in dismay. "Why?"

Before Azazel could answer, there was a groaning noise as Issei slowly sat up. "Did Truck-kun hit me and send me to another world?" The brunette asked, his mind groggy. "What happened?"

"ISSEI!" Asia yelled and pounced, hugging him tightly as Koneko did the same on his opposite side. "You're okay!"

After several minutes of people hugging Issei and being grateful he was back, Azazel cleared his throat to catch everyone's attention. "Now that our brave hero is back among the land of the living, how about we go over what happened at the end?"

Kiba, shockingly, was the first to speak up. "When... When Issei was charging his attack, I swear I saw lightning crackling between him and Ranma, and then when Ranma cut it..."

"I must admit, I've never seen such a technique in all of my life." Ddrag spoke up as a gem formed on Issei's hand. "If I had known such a thing was possible, I would have practiced more caution."

"There's probably not a whole lot of people that could do something like that." Azazel commented. "Still, I'm glad that we're all okay."

"Speak for yourself." Lilith muttered.

"That reminds me," Akeno looked at Lilith. "Did you know that Ranma could do that?"

"Yeah! And where did he get that sword from? I thought Bishamon had it!" Xenovia looked at Lilith sharply.

Lilith opened her mouth to say something before her pupils shrank and her body suddenly throbbed. Falling over, she started to thrash, causing Mittelt to grab her so that she didn't hurt herself.

"Don't answer that, Lilith!" Azazel ordered her and sighed as her body relaxed. Looking at the shocked looks everyone had, he shook his head. "Did any of you pay any attention to what Ranma said when he beating on all of us?" He sighed again as none of them were showing any sort of recognition of what he was talking about. "Okay, this is why we do after-battle reports, so we can talk, discuss and learn."

Seeing Azazel's face look so serious, not to mention how quickly he was taking control of the situation reminded everyone in the room that the man may have acted goofy and was a large pervert that loved boobs, but he had led the Fallen Angels through the Great War and had centuries of combat experience on his side.

"First of all, Ranma said to me that Jedah offered him a better deal. I won't speculate on what that is." Azazel walked over to a white board that he had in the room and pulled out a marker and started writing on it. "However, there's a major clue in there, the fact that he said Jedah and not Ophis tells me that the Khaos Brigade has another faction besides Vali's and the Hero group."

"He mentioned something about Leonardo." Rias spoke up, thinking back to it. "Something about needing to thank him and his mind being messed up."

"He said that if I had boosted as much as I did against Vali that one of us would have died." Issei was still angry about that, but thanks to Ddrag he was able to focus on it. "Why did he say that?"

"And that the attack was to take Nabiki." Akeno finished.

"Okay, now that we've gotten all that out of the way," Azazel stepped back, the statements that Ranma had made on the board were written there. "First of all," Azazel looked at Rias. "With everything you told me, I don't think Ranma is actually our enemy."

"After he back-stabbed you, flattened our friends, shocked Atsuko and nearly killed Issei?!" Ravel, who had been silent this whole time, finally erupted. "You don't think he's your enemy?!"

"Oh, he's definitely our enemy if we fight him. But he's not our actual enemy." Azazel smirked at the confused looks he was getting. "Alright, calm down, lemme explain. In Kyoto Jedah did show up after your fight against Cao Cao and apparently ran into the help I had arranged to deal with the Hero Faction. Said help was Son Wukong, the first generation Monkey King who serves as the Wargod Indra's vanguard and Yu'long, one of the five Dragon Kings." He waited for the shock on all their faces to wear off. "Now then, according to the Monkey King, Jedah was cautious enough to have an item that nearly killed Yu'long."

"That's rather terrifying." Ddrag commented.

"Yes. Now, the next thing that Ranma said was that he needed to thank Leonardo, the owner of the Annihilation Maker Longinus and the obvious maker of those dolls and the hydra." Azazel grinned as everyone was nodding slowly. "But he also said that Leonardo's mind was messed up, which leads me to two possibilities."

"Neither are good, are they?" Mittelt asked, getting a shake of Azazel's head.

"Sadly not. But the first idea that comes to mind is that he's being manipulated somehow. Think Star Wars with Palpatine and Vader if you will." Azazel hoped it wasn't THAT, because the end result of that was never a good thing. "The second one, and I'm wondering if this is possible, is that Ranma's being brainwashed."

"Jedah doesn't have that ability." Lilith spoke up, causing everyone to look at her. "When he made my body and put a bunch of information in my head he put a bunch of information on himself in me as well. He claims to be a master at manipulating the soul, which is how he was able to revive when he was killed over three thousand years ago."

"Wait, what?!" Everyone gasped at the same time.

"Yeah, he's been dead, he can revive himself."

"Oh no." Azazel groaned as something just occurred to him. "Okay, this is just a theory, but I think I know what's going on. I could be completely wrong on this, but Jedah can manipulate souls, right?" Lilith nodded, having just explained that. "Now imagine for a moment, and this is just a theory I have, but imagine for a moment that there's a Sacred Gear that can manipulate emotions or the state of mind someone has."

"But Sacred Gears..." Asia started, before stopping as Azazel gave her a look.

"Can be removed and transferred at the cost of the original user's life and even then, so long as the person has at least one Sacred Gear in them they can survive it." He pointed at Kiba before anyone could say anything. "Against Sairaorg's peerage you revealed that you have the Blade Blacksmith Sacred Gear as well as your Sword Birth Sacred Gear." Kiba nodded, remembering that. "You could have either one removed from you and not die, though it's extremely painful and would likely cripple you, but it's possible."

"So what you're saying is..." Asia trailed off, her eyes widening. "No! Someone..."

"Likely Jedah found a Sacred Gear user that has the ability of mental manipulation." Rias said in a soft tone. "And then did to the user what happened to you, Asia, and extracted it for his own purposes."

"And if he can manipulate the soul like Lilith says he can," Azazel continued on, "then he probably unlocked abilities far beyond what it should be able to do normally. And that doesn't even factor in the potential Balance Breaker that he may have." Holding up his hands in a surrendering gesture, Azazel just shook his head. "Sadly, this is just theories that we have. So for now, let's go under the assumption that this is true."

"It has to be!" Kunou spoke up, catching everyone's attention. "Daddy wouldn't do this! Not without a good reason! Daddy wouldn't! He wouldn't!" Her eyes teared up. "He has to be under someone's mind control!"

"Plus..." Mittelt looked at Lilith and Atsuko, the latter of whom was leaning on the wall, watching in silence. "Ranma said that he could have killed us all at anytime. If he's under some sort of mind control..."

"Then it may not be complete at this point." Azazel nodded. "Good thing he held back."

"Held back?!" Issei yelled. "I don't know if you noticed, but he stabbed you and blasted damn near everyone with that damn Excalibur Betrayal sword beam!"

"Said sword beam can cut through a barrier being maintained by Michael, Sirzechs, Serafall and Grayfia." Azazel gave him a pointed look. "Not only that but it nearly cut Grayfia in half and almost killed her. I can testify from personal experience just how powerful and tough she is. Had Ranma wanted to, he could have used the sword beam while the sword was stuck in my chest and I would have been killed right then and there." He pointed at the room. "If he had used the true power of that sword none of you would be here right now. And that's not even going into the new power he has, that Life Giving Dragon Balance Break."

"Speaking of which," Ddrag spoke up, "I thought that Dragon had been killed ages ago."

"Huh?" Issei looked at the gem on his wrist. "What do you mean?"

"Exactly what I said." Ddrag answered. "The Dragon that was used with that Sacred Gear disappeared sometime between fifteen hundred and two thousand years ago."

"Interesting." Azazel commented. "What's so special about that Dragon?"

"Well, for one thing, that Dragon's title as the Life Stream Dragon is a bit of false advertising if you will. It doesn't have the ability to grant life or anything like that. It's an Eastern Dragon that supposedly had the ability to manipulate energy, specifically the types of power used by martial arts and Senjutsu experts."

"So Touki, huh?" Azazel mused. "But I thought that was just the ability to increase one's ability and power."

"Only the most basic levels of it." Lilith answered for Ddrag. "Sairaorg can use it but that's something anyone with enough training can do. Happosai uses his Ki, that is, life force, in such a way that he can stop Issei's punches with one finger and has used it to live over three hundred years, same with the old Amazon."

"Indeed, anyway," Ddrag continued on, "that Dragon was known as Sen when alive, from what I recall Sen was pretty laid back for a Dragon but disappeared in China awhile back. Never interacted with Sen much. And in case you're wondering, Sen liked to change genders frequently, sometimes a man, and sometimes a woman, if Ranma's new power is based on Sen, then we're in a lot of trouble. Imagine fighting Sairaorg, Kuroka, Cao Cao and Rossweisse at the same time."

"...What?" More than one person said at that moment.

"Ddrag, are you serious?" Issei asked, trembling. "And why add in Rossweisse to that?!"

"Partner, trust me on this. Do you remember what Rossweisse did at the bridge when drunk?"

"Yeah, she made a bunch of energy blasts." Issei said, looking at the blushing Valkyrie. "What's that got to do with anything?"

"One of Sen's favorite ways to fight was to bombard its enemies from a distance with everything under the sun."

"So in essence, we've got someone who's as good of a fist fighter as Sairaorg, as skilled as Cao Cao, as good as manipulating energy as Kuroka and now has the power to fire energy blasts like a drunken Valkyrie?" Azazel summarized as he shook his head. "Well... That's a pleasant thought."

"Are... Are you serious?!" Issei yelped and looked at Lilith. "Please tell me that he's joking!"

Lilith looked away, not answering.

"Don't ask her any questions about Ranma!" Mittelt snapped at Issei. "I don't want her thrashing around again because of that!"

"Anyway, so he has a Sacred Gear that has a powerful Dragon spirit in it..." Xenovia trailed off. "Ddrag, how strong was Sen?"

"Upper class at best, more likely a middle class Dragon. At full power, not a match for me, but still an annoyance to be sure."

"Coupled with a powerful cursed Holy weapon that can fire sword beams..." Kiba trailed off.

"Thankfully he only used the sword to stun us." Xenovia muttered and shook her head. 'This is starting to look pretty bleak, how do you beat someone like that? I really hope that he's being mind controlled and it actually limits his ability to fight.'

"How can a sword beam be set to stun?" Mittelt asked.

"Very carefully." Azazel commented and looked at them. "However, he also told us one last bit of important information as well, am I right, Gasper?"

The blond half-Vampire nodded. "Right. He said that in one month he'd be in Romania."

"What's in Romania?" Atsuko asked, finally speaking up.

"...My family." Gasper answered her.

"Specifically it's home to the Tepes and Vladi Vampire clans." Azazel clarified and sighed. "I was going to make an offer of peace to those clans and have them join our alliance, especially since their leader vanished awhile ago but I never got around to doing it."

"Then what are we waiting for?" Issei asked. "Next stop, Romania. Oww!" He groaned as raising his arm made him throb in pain. "Or maybe after we rest a bit more."

"We have a month." Azazel smirked at him. "And I think it's time for you guys to get some special training if you're going to fight someone like Ranma without Lilith's help." They all blinked in confusion. Grinning, Azazel turned to Rossweisse, who suddenly paled at Azazel's next words. "So, miss Rossweisse, how do you feel about visiting your old boss and having the Norse Pantheon help train everyone?"

"NNNNNNOOOOOO!" Rossweisse screamed out, not wanting to deal with that torment again.

(-)

"So you kidnapped me, huh?" Nabiki smirked at Ranma as he walked into her holding room. "And that's..." Her eyes widened as she saw the tall man behind him. "Oh... Eh heh..."

"You know me?"

"She's got near omniscience, CC." Ranma told him, getting a nod from the girl in question. "And I have no doubt she knows everyone who's stronger than Sirzechs is."

"I'm flattered, you almost make it sound like I knew what was going to happen ahead of time." Nabiki snarked at Ranma before sighing. "So, what happens next?"

"That depends, we got one month."

Nabiki looked at CC before shaking her head. "One month, huh? What's your plan then?"

Ranma gave her a nasty grin. "I've got to give a certain whiny bitch a piece of my mind."

CC shook his head. "I'd rather face him myself. He sounds like he'd be fun."

"Plus there are others that I need to meet with before the month is over." Ranma ignored CC for a moment. "Well, one person in particular."

Nabiki sighed and hung her head. "I already know who, she's in England. Are you sure you want her though?"

Ranma smirked at Nabiki. "Yeah, I do." He looked at CC. "So, do you know if the one I'm looking for is..."

"Apparently not here." CC shook his head. "This world is a bit different."

"We're in Makai, of course it is." Ranma shook his head. "Speaking of which, go have fun, don't get stung by Soul Bees, but don't wipe them out."

A massive grin covered his face. "Excellent. Can I kill whomever I want or just beat them up?"

"Only kill if you have to." Ranma waved him off as he nodded and walked out of the room and closed the door behind him. "Boy, dealing with battle maniacs..." Still, CC did listen at least. "So, Nabs..." Ranma looked at her. "Got any suggestions on dealing with that whiny bitch?"

She snorted and reached between her breasts and pulled out a folded sheet of paper. "Use that on the whiny bitch."

Unfolding it, Ranma read what was on it and grinned. "Excellent."

Nabiki shook her head, she knew what was going to happen, that's all that mattered. "So..." She caught a small object Ranma threw at her.

"Make your calls." Ranma turned to leave. "I have work to do."

Nabiki shook her head and sighed. "Before you go, lemme know if I can walk around freely or not."

"Who knows?" Ranma shrugged before stopping at the door. "Jedah has someone who interests me, can you find out who she is?"

"Why? Looking for another harem member?" Nabiki laughed at his annoyed look. "Fine, fine, whatever." After Ranma left, she sighed and slumped against the wall. "The things I have to put up with..." She looked at the thing Ranma threw at her. "...A flip phone? ...And it gets a signal in Makai? How in God's name does that happen?! OWW!" She yelled and rubbed her head. "COME ON! SERIOUSLY, MICHAEL?! GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK ALREADY! I KNOW YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE YOUR DADDY'S EYES!"

Grumbling about ungrateful Angels, she flipped the phone open and made a phone call. "About time you picked up."

"Who are you?"

Nabiki grinned at the voice. "Someone who can help you get what you want."

"You'll have to be more clear or I'm hanging up."

"Let me just say that if you want to get the two things you want most in life, you'll listen."

There was a pause, as if the person on the other end was contemplating what was being said. "Talk, if you can't convince me in one minute, I'm hanging up and blocking this number."

"Head to England, there's someone there you need to meet."

"England's not as small as you think it is. Where am I going and who am I looking for?"

"In a few days there will be a commotion at a fancy London restaurant, look for a redhead with a strong and focused aura and bring that artifact you have from Egypt."

"How do you... You know what? Never-mind, how many days?"

"Three days, you best hurry." Nabiki smirked as she closed the phone. "Okay, now then..." There was a lot to do in the next month.

(-)

The next day on Earth...

"I can't believe you got us a month off so easily." Rias muttered at Azazel as they boarded the train that would take them to the Norse pantheon of Valhalla.

The Fallen Angel leader simply smirked at her. "Yes, well, have fun, don't piss off Freya by calling her old or anything." He shivered, remembering the one time he saw someone actually insinuate that the Valkyrie leader was even remotely not as sexy as the younger Valkyries were.

"Um..." Everyone looked at each other in confusion.

"Don't ask," Azazel answered their confused looks. "Listen, just get to Valhalla, Odin already knows your coming, he'll have some people ready to meet you by the train station."

The teens nodded and Issei blinked as he felt something on his head. "Um..."

"Oh joy, the old perv is going to join us." Koneko grumbled, getting a grin from Happosai.

"I haven't been to Europe before, besides, dragon boy needs to work on his aura synchronization still."

Issei sighed and hung his head. "This is going to be like with Tannin, isn't it?"

"Unlikely," Ddrag spoke up, "that was to help you get into shape and pull out my power, this is to help you further your progress. You'll be worked hard but it's Valhalla, the Norse take pride in having the best fighters in the Moonlight World."

"Yep." Azazel nodded. "Now I'd come with, but I have to go see Sirzechs, update him on some stuff and plan our next move." He looked at the person next to him. "Are you sure you're not going to go with?"

"Yes, I'm sure." Lilith nodded and looked at Issei. "Listen to me. Keep your schedule if you can, if you can't, then at least spend time in the same bed and none of the rest of you interfere. If I hear that any of you were trying to interfere, I'm going to use my wings, turn them into tentacles and tentacle rape you until you pass out."

Everyone sweat-dropped heavily.

"Oh, and just so you know, Gasper and Kiba aren't exempt from it either."

"NOOOO!" Gasper cried out and ran onto the train. "I'M A GOOD BOY!"

"Someone has GOT to help him get over that." Lilith muttered.

After several minutes of saying goodbye and waving everyone off, Lilith shook her head. "Think they'll be okay?" Sending Atsuko and Mittelt with them wasn't a bad idea, she just felt kind of lonely at home all alone now.

"Yeah, I do." Azazel answered and was silent as they watched the train disappear. "Want me to take you somewhere?" Azazel asked, causing her to look at him. "If I know where to go, I'll give you a lift. I figure you want to talk to someone about all of this, don't worry, I'll make sure that Kunou and Ravel are taken care of."

"I'd like to head to Nerima." Lilith wanted to be with some people that she knew, not in a place that was mostly empty and would remind her of Ranma.

"Sure." Azazel smiled and put a hand on her shoulder as the two disappeared in a flash of light.

(-)

A few hours later the group was pulling off the train with their luggage and met a group of three women, one was a petite woman with red hair in twin braids and a small chest, one was a medium sized woman with modest breasts and long blonde hair, the final one was tall with large breasts and short brown hair and a really muscular body. The three were wearing matching light blue business suits "Ah, you must be the Red Dragon Emperor and friends." The blonde smiled at them. "Welcome, my name is Hilda and these are my companions, Olga," she gestured to the redhead, "and Helga." The blonde nodded. "If you'll follow us, we'll..." She trailed off. "Rossweisse? Is that you?"

The silver-haired Valkyrie let out a yeep and ducked behind Akeno.

"Well, well, the lonely Valkyrie." Olga laughed and slapped her leg. "I heard that you were abandoned by Lord Odin, did you come crawling back to him and hope he'll take you back?"

"Indeed," Helga smirked as she saw Rossweisse start to tear up. "Are you still a virgin? Even after you've been gone?"

"It's not my fault!" Rossweisse yelled out, tears in her eyes. "I'm busy being a teacher these days and I have to help Rias out and there was the Rating Game and..."

"ENOUGH!" Issei yelled, Boosted Gear forming on his left hand, much to everyone's shock. "I don't care what your problem with Rossweisse is, but stop tormenting her just because she doesn't have a lover. That's not cool and I don't want to hear it while I'm here."

"Issei..." Rossweisse gasped softly as he defended her. She started to tear up and looked away so that others wouldn't see her crying over this. "Thank you."

"I see..." Hilda nodded. "Very well, I guess dealing with an angry Dragon isn't a good idea. Follow us then."

(-)

After getting to Valhalla, the three Valkyries led them to a large door. "Lord Odin waits for you inside." Opening it up, the group looked on as they saw the place was mostly empty, other than Odin sitting on a throne at the end of a large mess-hall styled room, a few other Valkyries and Gods around him, talking and a few people in front of him.

"Wait a second!" Issei's eyes widened. "VALI?!"

"Hmm?" The White Dragon Emperor turned to see Issei, Rias and a few others he recognized. "Ah, it's you." He smirked at Issei. "Don't know how you knew I was here, but if you're looking, OWW!" He yelled as a rather beautiful Valkyrie with long blonde hair, an impressive bust and a toned body belted the back of his head, with an actual belt.

"Mind your manners, Vali." She said.

"Yes, MOM!" Vali bit out sarcastically. "I swear, Freya, you're just an annoying o..." He trailed off and started to sweat and tremble as the room was filled with an aura of doom.

"If you even HINT that I'm old, I will do things to you that will make your dead Great Grandfather shit his pants." The leader of the Valkyries had a calm look on her face while a blue aura filled the whole room.

"Not old! Not old!" Vali yelled, shaking his head and waving his arms. "You could go and get any guy you wanted."

"Damn right!" She smirked as the aura of doom dissipated.

"That was terrifying." More than one person gasped out. It felt like their throats were being stepped on and all the air was being cut off and she didn't even do anything.

"EEEEEK!" Freya suddenly squealed in fright and put her hand on her ass. "Who dares to grab my butt?!"

"GWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Happosai yelled as he landed on Odin's hat. "Oooh! Silk panties!" He rubbed his face on them.

Glaring and snarling, the oppressive aura of doom flooded the room again and even Odin was starting to sweat, sure she wasn't glaring at him, but that didn't make it any less terrifying.

Happosai grinned at the Valkyrie. "You really shouldn't glare, if you do, you'll get a bunch of wrinkles on your face and you can't stand to have anymore."

"Why you..." growled Odin.

"And this is supposed to be a Viking paradise!?" yelled Happosai. "Where's the free food? Free liquor? Hot serving wenches?"

Odin's snarl faded. Yeah, where were the hot serving wenches?

"You... You... YOU!" The blue aura of doom changed to a red aura of terror that had everyone diving out of the area as the air itself cracked. "I'LL KILL YOU, YOU GNOME!"

"BWAHAHAHA!" Happosai jumped off of Odin and ran for it.

"GET BACK HERE!" Freya yelled as she ran after Happosai, crashing through the door to the side as Happosai ran through it.

Everyone was silent for several minutes, only able to hear crashes, explosions, yells and laughter from down the hallway.

"So this is why Azazel said not to call her old." Akeno muttered, wincing at another explosion.

Odin shook his head. "Well then, how about we get you kids some rooms set up and we'll talk about training for tomorrow?"

"Wait!" Issei pointed at Vali. "What are you doing here anyway?"

"Visiting friends." Vali rolled his eyes at Issei's dumbfounded expression. "Even I have friends. Besides, Hell has no authority here."

"Enough." Odin commanded as he stood up. "I'm doing this as a favor to Azazel, so you kids are here as guests." He gave Vali a look. "And listen, Butt Dragon Emperor," he smirked as Vali twitched and they heard Albion cry out in dismay, "get along with the Breast Dragon Emperor," his smirk increased as he heard Ddrag cry out in dismay, "because you're going to be living together for the next month."

"WAAAAAH!" Both Heavenly Sky Dragons cried out at their embarrassing nicknames.

Odin shook his head and looked at the group before smirking as he saw someone familiar. "Ah, Rossweisse," the Valkyrie stiffened as she stood straight up, "you're looking pretty good."

"Um, hi Lord Odin..." Rossweisse was sweating heavily as she remembered what she had said when she had become a Devil, how she would tell him to take his lecherous attitude and shove it along with his mean teasing. Now that she was here, she was finding it hard to do that, sure he might laugh it off, but still, she was too nervous to say anything.

"Good to see you, anyway," Odin addressed the whole group and ignored the large crash that was heard from the hallway, "welcome to Valhalla, you're going to be working your asses off for the next month." He grinned at them. "You best get ready, we have rooms set up for you." The Norse God looked at one of the Valkyries off to the side. "Bryun, please escort them to their rooms. Take the day to relax and explore, because tomorrow there won't be any mercy."

Rossweisse sighed, she knew it wasn't that bad, Odin liked to scare newbies whenever they showed up. "Lord Odin, please tell them the truth." Sure, the training was harsh, but bearable.

"Bah! Let me have some fun." Odin grumbled as he sat back down. "Whatever, you'll be run ragged, but you'll have plenty of time to sleep and relax. However, seeing as I am very old, I'm going to appoint trainers for all of you."

"So that's why you asked me to show up today." Vali muttered and looked at Issei before shaking his head. "Fine, whatever." He could put up with it, after all, he wanted to see Issei's new powers for himself. After hearing Cao Cao bitch about some sort of zomboobies and Issei unlocking more of his actual power, he was curious. Plus he had seen the footage of that Ratings Game and after seeing Issei's form, he had gotten really excited.

His thoughts were cut off as he heard a loud squealing sound running down the hallway. "...Oh no... I forgot..." Vali groused and slapped his forehead.

"YEEEEEE!" A cute blonde in a blue witch outfit ran into the room, her eyes sparkling as she rushed across the room and pounced on Issei, knocking him to the floor. "OHMYGOSHITSYOUISAWYOUREPISODEWITHTHESATANRANGERSANDLEVIATANANDITWASSOAWESOMEANDIWANTYOURAUTOGRAPHONMYBODYPILLOWOFYOUANDONMYCAPEANDYEEEE!"

Blinking several times, Issei tried to figure out what she was saying. "Um... Wait, there are body pillows of me?!"

"HOW COME WE WEREN'T TOLD?!" Akeno, Koneko, Asia and strangely enough Irina all yelled at the same time.

La Fey blinked and looked up. "Oh, there are others here. I'm sorry. I was just checking on Lord Vali when I heard that Issei was here."

"Can we get back to the body pillow?" Issei asked. Was he supposed to get paid for that? Did Rias give permission... Since she always said he needed permission?

Wait! Was he a sex symbol now? BOO-YAH! Harem Kings had to be sex symbols! That was how they got a harem!

Damn, but if he wasn't getting money for it, was being poor a deal breaker!?

Vali rubbed his forehead. For some reason he felt like this was going to get thrown in his face as being his fault, and he wasn't sure how or why.

Odin clapped his hands. "Alright, alright, go get to your rooms and relax." He was finding this amusing, but he was certain they wanted to put stuff away by now.

An explosion from the hallway had the entire room shake and caused everyone to fall off their feet. "GET BACK HERE AND DIE!"

"Oh come on!" Happosai's voice was heard. "Your tits aren't that saggy."

"JUST DIE ALREADY!"

Vali and Odin both looked at the hallway door in shock. If Freya hadn't killed the gnome that had stolen her panties and called her old by now, he was seriously impressive.

(-)

As she got into her designated room, Rias stopped as she heard a throat clearing behind her. Turning she saw Akeno, Koneko and Asia standing at the door. "Can I help you?"

"I think we've put this off long enough." Akeno commented, her arms crossed under her breasts and an utterly serious look on her face. "Considering that we've let you, Xenovia and Issei enjoy a month of uninterrupted time at night, the three of us had to have a chat together."

"We want in." Koneko said, giving Rias an annoyed look. "None of us want to be left behind."

Asia nodded at Rias, who sighed. "We love him too! It's not just you!"

Rias closed her eyes and took a deep breath before slowly letting it out to fight off the rising wave of jealousy she was starting to feel. "Assuming that I'm okay with it, how do I know you won't use that to simply..."

"Please stop." Akeno interrupted her. "None of us are going to steal Issei away from you. We just want you to share him a bit more."

"I suppose I haven't been too fair to you." Rias said softly. "I can't let you three try to do anything while we're here. After this situation is taken care of and we're back home..." She looked to the side and shook her head. "Fine. But only when we get home, okay?" She looked at them out of the corner of her eye.

"That's fine." Asia said, getting a nod from Koneko.

"So long as you don't hog all the man meat I'm okay with it." Koneko answered.

"But don't think you get to hog Issei during free time." Akeno answered her. "We want to have some time with him without people spying on us."

"Only way I'll allow that," Rias looked at them sharply, "is if you promise me, right here, right now, that none of you will try to bed him. You do that, and I'll tell him to take you on dates personally."

"Fine." Akeno nodded, knowing that was probably the best they could get from Rias. "You won't stop us when we get back then?"

"Provided we get out of this, no, I won't." It was a huge concession from her, and they knew it.

After the three left, Rias walked over to her bed and flopped down on it. "How does mom handle dad having a harem and not being jealous every time he's with one of the other women?"

(-)

Meanwhile in Hell...

Azazel appeared in the designated meeting room and quickly noted that there was more people than he originally intended there to be there. "Sirzechs, Serafall, Grayfia," he nodded at all three of them. "I only asked to talk with Sirzechs, so why are you two here?"

"I was wanting to go over some of the details on some contracts since some of the numbers aren't adding up." She frowned as she looked at the sheets in her hands. "Namely it seems like we're losing resources somehow."

"Let me see..." Sirzechs looked over the data himself and tapped his chin. "This is interesting. It might be something as simple as a misplaced number or someone accidentally forgetting to cross some t's or dot some i's. I'll have some of my people look into it though."

"Thank you." She smiled at him.

"So, Azazel," Sirzechs looked at him. "What brings you here on such short notice? I hear that you sent Rias, Issei and the others to Valhalla to get training from the Norse."

Azazel sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Bad news, I'm afraid. It seems that Ranma has joined the Khaos Brigade."

"What?!" Both Sirzechs and Serafall gasped at the same time.

"No...No way!" Serafall shook her head. "Why would he do that?"

"No idea." Azazel shook his head. "For now we're operating under the assumption that he's under some sort of mind control. Or he met this world's version of Palpatine and fell to the dark side."

Both Sirzechs and Serafall gave him blank looks.

"...Wait." Azazel looked at both of them. "You two haven't seen Star Wars?" They both shook their heads. "You poor deprived Devils. That's it! Cancel all meetings tomorrow. We're going to spend a day and watch the Star Wars saga together. Actually, we'll watch it at the Gremory household, that way your wife, kid and parents can watch it with us."

The two Devil Kings looked at each other in confusion but nodded.

(-)

The next day at the Gremory household...

"So why are we taking the day off?" Venelana asked Azazel, who merely grinned at her. Behind her, her husband, son, daughter-in-law, grandson and Serafall were setting up chairs.

Grayfia winced as one of the twins kicked. She was never more thankful that there was a bathroom nearby, because she had been running to the restroom more often than she enjoyed these days.

"It's come to my attention that none of you have seen Star Wars." Azazel answered her. "So to rectify this, I have the Blu-ray specials. I'd rather have the Laserdisks, but they never made Laserdisks for some of the movies." He grumbled something about definitive ways to watch a movie and defunct technology before putting the first movie in.

"Wait!" Serafall frowned as she looked at the open case. "Why episode four first? Shouldn't we start at the beginning?"

"We are." Azazel smirked at her. "Trust me, this is the best way to watch the movies." With that, he hit play and sat back to watch with everyone.

(-)

"Your father's lightsaber." A snapping sound was heard and the Devils all blinked in surprise at the weapon in question.

"That looks familiar." Sirzechs muttered.

"Where do you think the inspiration for those energy light swords came from?" Azazel smirked.

(-)

Serafall tilted her head. "Jedi Mind Trick?"

"Man, those Stormtroopers..." Azazel chuckled, he knew the truth behind the troopers that the Empire employed, but no need to spoil that surprise, not yet.

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"Your powers have grown weak, old man."

"You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

"I like the old guy." Millicus smiled brightly.

(-)

"NO!" Millicus cried out as he watched Vader's lightsaber cut Obi Wan through the neck.

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"Use the Force Luke."

"BOOM!" Millicus threw his hands up in the air as the Death Star exploded.

"That... That was really good." Sirzechs had to give it to the people who made this movie, those space battles were really well done.

As the credits started to roll, Azazel chuckled. "Well, time to watch the greatest movie ever made."

(-)

"No... *I* am your father."

"WHAT?!" Everyone yelled at the same time, shocked at hearing that.

Azazel kept quiet when some of them turned to look at him. "Shh! Keep watching."

(-)

"That was a downer ending." Sirzechs said and looked as his wife got up and walked to the bathroom. "How about a break?"

"Sure, I'll get episode two set up next then."

"Wait!" Serafall looked at him. "Why episode two now? Why not one?"

"Well, for one thing, episode one wasn't that good over-all and is almost completely self-contained. A second reason is that this is actually a story-telling trope. Start in the present, get to a point that makes everyone go 'huh?' and then flash back to the past to explain everything."

"Oh..." Serafall nodded, she was enjoying these movies. The action, the music and the special effects were really good. Especially considering how old these movies seemed to be.

(-)

Meanwhile on Earth...

Ranma, now in England as he walked towards his destination, closed his eyes as he thought back to everything that had happened when he entered that flying island over Nepal.

Remember when Star Wars was good? Machette Order FTW.

BTW, for those of you who think Jedah can just do what he wants, think again, even if he has Ophis under control, he's not stupid enough to try and force her to do anything she doesn't want to, even with what he's doing to her. Plus making unnecessary moves might draw the attention of Indra, Hades or Shiva and Jedah can't win a fight against them as he is now. Plus, do you really think Rivezim is a team player? Jedah might be powerful, but he's cautious, he still has plans he wants to see through first.