Dance With the Devil

Calm Chapter 5

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

Okay, so... Sorry about yesterday. I forgot it was time to update.

"Well..." A gruff male voice spoke as the door behind him opened up. "I was wondering if you had died back in Europe, ya little shit."

"Son Wukong." A younger, but far more tired voice, answered before the person stumbled in and fell to their knees in front of the first generation Monkey King. "Please, I need help."

Sighing, Wukong turned to look at the person more fully. "Cao Cao, what are you doing? Get up."

"I..." Cao Cao felt himself trembling as he stood up. "I can't even lift my spear anymore. Leonardo's gone, Georg's dead, most of the Hero Faction has abandoned me. Only Jeanne, Heracles, and Siegfried remain."

"I heard that you lost your strength a few weeks ago." Son Wukong muttered softly. "So what happened?"

Cao Cao growled heavily. "That... That bastard Jedah! He brought Ranma Saotome into the Khaos Brigade and then he did this to me!"

"So you finally ran into someone that you couldn't just beat with your spear, huh?" Wukong smirked at him.

Cao Cao glared at the Monkey King. "Had it been an actual fight, I could have won easily! But he set a trap for us! He poisoned most of us and then he did something to me and stripped me of all my strength!"

The next thing Cao Cao knew, he was flying across the room and planted into the wall. "GUH!"

"IDIOT!" Wukong yelled at him. "I told you before you went and formed your Hero Faction that there were people out there who you couldn't defeat, that your attitude and arrogance would catch up to you. And what happened? You went and pissed off an actual Hero, tormented his wife and tried to keep him from saving her." Huffing, he turned his back to Cao Cao. "There are very few rules in the Moonlight World, Cao Cao. When it comes to revenge, typically it's between two people and no one else. Add into the fact that you messed with a man's wife..." He smirked to himself. "Let's just say that this is well deserved."

"A little dispor..." Cao Cao shut up when he saw Son Wukong's hand start to glow.

"You're an idiot." He sighed and turned to look at Cao Cao again. "But one with a useful Sacred Gear. What did Ranma do to you?"

"That bastard..." Cao Cao growled. "He was disguised as a girl at a diner we went to, put a spell up to keep anyone from noticing what was going on, pinned me down and then put something on my back and called it the ultimate weakness moxibustion or something."

"Ah, that thing." Wukong took a drag of his pipe before blowing it out slowly. "My memory's a bit fuzzy, but I do remember how it's administered and if I think about it enough I could probably fix you." He smirked when Cao Cao's eyes lit up. "But even so, I'm not going to help you."

"What?! But Indra needs me!" Cao Cao yelled. "You can't just abandon me when I come crawling to you for help!"

Wukong sighed and shook his head. "Things aren't that simple, boy. If you want my help, you're going to need to do something first."

"...What?" Cao Cao knew that the Moonlight World ran on exchanges, even among allies one had to give something in order to get something. It was just a matter of who had what position in the exchange.

And without his strength, Cao Cao knew he was in the worst position of this exchange.

"You're going to need to get that Ranma boy to give me the go-ahead to cure you. Meaning you'll probably need his forgiveness for what you did to his wife." Wukong had a serious look on his face as Cao Cao paled. "If you asked Indra, he'd tell you the same thing."

"...Where is the boss anyway?"

"Visiting his kids." Wukong grinned at Cao Cao's shocked look. "Surprised the piss out of me too. Tell you what? Why don't you and I go visit him?"

"Leaving without us?" Heracles asked as he, Jeanne and Siegfried walked into the room.

"And do we really need to see Saotome?" Siegfried grimaced at the thought of dealing with him again.

"Is there a Plan B?" Jeanne asked.

Wukong snorted. "You can look to find a cure on your own, but the information of that pressure point is very obscure. Even martial arts masters that have lived for centuries don't know this pressure point. I'm surprised Saotome came across it. So your options are either come with me and get Saotome to forgive you or look for the cure on your own."

Cao Cao sighed. "Fine, we'll go with you."

Wukong chuckled. "Good boy, you might be someone respectable in the future yet." A whirlwind surrounded the five of them before they disappeared.

(-)

Back in Kuoh City...

Yawning as he walked towards school, Issei rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. "Daytime comes too early."

Next to him, Koneko gave him a dirty look. "Only because you were busy with Rias and Akeno so late last night." She scoffed as Issei started to grin and giggle perversely. "Hmph! Ever since you and Ranma-sempai had that threesome with Rossweisse, you've been having them constantly."

"That was a week ago." Issei giggled softly as he remembered that.

"Issei..." On his other side, Asia gave him a look of despair. "Are you going to forget about me?" The petite blonde pouted heavily. "If you want, you can just use me as a sex toy, I won't care."

The next thing she knew, Issei was in front of her, hugging her to him. "Asia, never say that!" He admonished her. "I would never, EVER use you as a sex toy."

"Issei..." Asia smiled and buried her face into his chest, her face red. Sure, she could still smell the other girls Issei was sleeping with, their scent was all over him, but she could tolerate it if Issei didn't leave her behind.

"I couldn't leave you behind, Asia." Issei said to her softly. "I'm still trying to get used to the changes in my life. It's a little overwhelming and with everything else I'm going through I don't want to hurt you by accident."

"Issei..." Asia looked up and smiled at him. "Thank you."

Koneko gave him an annoyed look. "So does this mean that you don't care if you hurt the others?"

"That's not what I meant!" Issei yelped as he let go of Asia and looked at Koneko. "Come on, Koneko, you know..."

The petite girl sighed in annoyance. "Sorry, just been getting irritated lately. Even if I can't hear you anymore, I can still smell you and the others."

"...Should I tone it down?" Issei asked and wondered why he suddenly felt the urge to see if it snowed in Hell again.

Koneko thought about it for a moment. "If you tone it down, I could get to sleep easier... I just hate how I start feeling all weird and I don't..."

"Um, Koneko..." Asia spoke up, her face turning red slowly. "...Do you, um..." She got close and whispered so others wouldn't hear her, "do you masturbate at night?"

Koneko blinked a few times and slowly shook her head. "Why? Should I?"

Both Issei and Asia sweat-dropped upon hearing that. "It might help." Asia said to her softly.

"Wait!" Issei's eyes almost popped out of his skull as he realized what Asia was implying. "Asia... You... Do YOU?!"

Asia's face was bright red and she nodded slowly. "Just with my fingers..." She buried her face into her hands. "I'm such a dirty girl!"

Issei had a small blush come to his face as he started to giggle. "I wouldn't mind watching you masturbate."

"ISSEI!" Asia screamed, her face so red steam started to shoot out of her ears while she buried her face in her hands. "...You would?"

"...Yes!" Issei yelled in delight.

"Are you trying to turn Asia into an exhibitionist?" Xenovia asked as she, Yohko and Ranma walked up to the group, causing the three to scream in shock. "...What?"

"DON'T SNEAK UP ON US!" Asia, Koneko and Issei all yelled at the same time, causing the three to get blown off of their feet in surprise.

"We didn't sneak up on you." Yohko grumbled as she got up. "What's this about masturbation and watching people doing it?"

"Nothing!" Asia blushed hard and looked away, squirming.

Issei rubbed the back of his head and chuckled nervously while looking at Xenovia. In the past week, the group dynamic had changed somewhat, with Xenovia getting up early every day and heading over to Ranma's place to spar with Yohko every morning. The two girls, one being an Exorcist and one being a Devil Hunter when they were human and both using swords, had bonded over fighting, swords, fighting things that went bump in the night and not having much of a love life while human.

Issei didn't mind it and Yohko seemed to be a lot better off than she was after becoming a Devil at least.

But if he had to voice a complaint it was that he hadn't slept with Xenovia much, either sexually or not, in the past week and he was starting to miss her scent and touch.

Still, from what Xenovia had said, Yohko was more than a worthy sparring partner.

"So, work up a sweat this morning, yo?" Koneko asked Xenovia, who nodded at her.

"Yeah." Xenovia gave Yohko a look of pure admiration. "I've hardly met anyone who's as good as you are with the sword."

"When they get freed from the curse they're under, you can thank my grandmother for training me so hard." Yohko smiled at her. "So, shall we?"

"Yeah, let's get..." Xenovia trailed off, her face turning pale as she saw two people turn the corner and walk towards them.

The first was a woman with blue eyes, fair skin and light blonde hair. She had a nun outfit with red trim and white crosses on the edges.

The second person caught everyone's eye at just how MASSIVE he was. He was at least two meters in height, which allowed him to tower over the rest of the group, but he was incredibly muscular, even his priest garments couldn't hide how incredibly buff the man was. Issei took one look at the man's arm and gulped at how ripped it was. He didn't think professional weight lifters could get as muscular as that man was.

What made it more shocking was just how OLD the man was. His face was wrinkled and scarred and what hair he had on his face and head was white and thin. And despite the look of his body, the man's face and aura were really calm and pleasant.

"Hello, Xenovia..." The woman said softly as the two came up to the group. "It's been awhile."

"Ah heh heh... Griselda..." Xenovia trembled and took a step back. "It's been a long time."

"Yes... It has." She nodded, smiling pleasantly, before her smile disappeared and a severely angry look came across her face. "XENOVIA, YOU IDIOT!" She yelled and tackled Xenovia to the ground, causing the blue-haired Devil to cry out shock. "First you go off to fight against Kokabiel with your friend, then you have a crisis of faith and throw everything away that I taught you, and I find out from Irina that you're in an pre-marital relations with a man?!" Griselda yelled while sitting on Xenovia's chest and pinching Xenovia's cheeks with her fingers. "I thought I raised you better than that!"

"Please forgive Griselda," the old man smiled at the group apologetically. "She's been really worried about her daughter since finding out that she became a Devil."

"DAUGHTER?!" Everyone but Ranma and Asia yelled in shock.

"But they don't look anything alike!" Issei protested loudly.

"Probably adopted daughter or legal guardian." Ranma replied calmly. "So an Angel is Xenovia's mother? Hoo boy."

"I'm surprised you can tell so easily." The old man said, laughing softly.

"She feels like Irina, so I'm guessing she's another Brave Saint?" Ranma asked, getting a nod from the old man while they watched Griselda, who was now off of Xenovia, chewing her out. "I'm surprised she isn't trying to spank her daughter."

"Even Griselda has some restraint in that regard." The old man chuckled softly.

"GRANDFATHER!" Asia suddenly squealed as her eyes lit up and she jumped at the old man, laughing as he caught her and spun around. "It's been so long! I almost forgot what you looked like!"

Hugging the incredibly tiny girl, at least compared to him, the old man smiled happily. "Yes, yes it has. When I heard you were being excommunicated from the Church, I rushed back to Rome to try and stop the decision, but I was too late."

"It's okay, grandfather." Asia smiled at him. "I'm sure that you did your best."

"So... For those of us who have no clue who you are..." Yohko spoke up. "Can you introduce yourself?"

"Oh my, how rude of me." The man smiled and put Asia down. "My name is Vasco Strada, the highest ranking member of the Vatican after the Pope, and my companion is Griselda Quarta, Xenovia Quarta's legal guardian and Lady Gabriel's Queen."

"And you never bothered calling me to tell me that you got engaged!" Griselda had a very upset look on her face. "And you know that you should only have sex with the express purposes of having babies!"

"...Can I at least say that I really do want to have Issei's babies and am only practicing so that it's really enjoyable to both of us?" Xenovia asked, gulping at the look she was given.

Ranma sighed softly. "Well, good luck, Xenovia, I don't want to be late for school. Sona would probably use it as a reason to hound my ass."

"...Oh yeah, you do have school, don't you?" Griselda giggled nervously. "Sorry about that, Xenovia, you go to school, I'll scold you more later."

Xenovia gulped as she got up and ran off.

"AND REMEMBER!" the woman called after the running girl, "NO FORNICATING AT SCHOOL!"

Ranma chuckled as he walked away. He doubted Issei would even know what that word meant.

(-)

Meanwhile in Nerima...

"Where the heck are we?" Jeanne asked as she looked around. "Is this where Indra is?"

"Yep." Son Wukong said as he walked up to the front door and knocked. "A word of warning for ya." The old monkey grinned at them. "This place is quite weird. I stopped by for a few days and got caught up in some sort of food race." He shrugged at the looks of disbelief he got. "It was interesting, the French kid with the deformed lips won when he ate everyone else's food."

"I don't really want to know." Cao Cao grumbled, not really interested in childish games. Plus it sounded stupid.

Wukong shrugged and turned back to the door of the mansion. "I can't say the boss will be in, he does have some responsibilities here after all." He pressed the doorbell and waited for an answer.

A few moments later, the door opened and a short, stubby man in a ninja outfit opened the door. "Yes?"

"Ah, Igor, is the boss in?" Wukong grinned at the little man.

"My name's Sasuke."

"BAH!" Wukong snorted and waved him off. "If I say your name is Igor, your name is Igor. So, Igor, is the boss in?"

The ninja sighed and hung his head. "No... He's at the school today." He knew it would be impossible to convince the first generation Monkey King to call him anything but Igor. He had tried, but was completely ignored. Even the patriarch of the clan had gotten in on it.

"So what?" Heracles scoffed. "We sit and wait for Indra?"

"Yep." Son Wukong grinned at the large man. "Unless you want to go exploring the city?"

"Might as well." Jeanne said as she and Heracles turned to leave. "Though I doubt there will be anything unusual in this town."

Heracles shrugged and followed after her.

"I think I'll stay here." Seigfried said and looked at Cao Cao, who walked over to a couch and sat down. "Cao Cao, what are..."

"Shut up." The weakened leader of the Hero Faction muttered and slumped against the couch. "...Why can't you just..."

"I told you, dumbfuck." Son Wukong grinned at Cao Cao. "There are people and beings in this world that you won't be able to beat with your skill and spear alone. One of the most dangerous things you can do when you get to a high enough level is to assume that no one below you can do anything to you." He gave Cao Cao an annoying smirk. "Why do you think that the Creator God gave you humans the ability to have Sacred Gears but none of the rest of us?"

Cao Cao was silent.

(-)

"So..." Jeanne looked at Heracles. "This is where?"

"Hell if I know." Heracles scoffed and frowned as he saw something unusual. "Hold on. Mr. Green Turtle?" He saw a pond with a sign saying it was a turtle's home. "I swear I saw something..." His eyes widened as a large crocodile or alligator, Heracles wasn't sure, suddenly lunged out of the water at him. "The hell?!" He yelled and grabbed the creature by the snout and let out a squawk of surprise as it curled around him and pulled him into the water.

Jeanne blinked several times, stunned stupidly. "That happened." She watched at the water bubbled before exploding outwards while the alligator or crocodile, Jeanne wasn't sure which, was sent flying through the air and it landed on the walk-way twitching and badly hurt. "You okay?" She asked as Heracles crawled out of the water.

"Yeah, that thing tried to take a bite out of my arm." Heracles grinned and walked up to the creature before grabbing it by its jaws. "So I think I'll take a prize for myself."

"I wouldn't do that." Sasuke said as he landed in front of them. "While I have no doubt that Mr. Green Turtle hurt you, if you do what you're trying to do, Mistress Kodachi will be... Very upset."

Heracles scoffed. "What do I care if your mistress is upset?"

"...Doesn't Indra live here?" Jeanne asked, causing Heracles to stop and pale as he realized that. "If this Kodachi person has Indra's favor... Then..."

"...You got lucky, croc." Heracles let go of Mr. Green Turtle and walked away. "Come on, Jeanne." He left with the blonde shrugging and following after him.

Sasuke sighed as he watched them leave and went to check on Mr. Green Turtle. "Mistress Kodachi is going to be so upset if he's permanently harmed." He doubted it would go well for those two, after all, ever since their father had returned home, both of the Kuno siblings had started to demonstrate unusual abilities.

Sasuke shuddered, not out of fear for the two idiots who tried to harm Mr. Green Turtle, but because he had been on the receiving end of those powers.

(-)

"That was unusual." Jeanne muttered as she and Heracles left the Kuno estate. "Who keeps one of those things as a pet anyway?"

"Obviously someone close to Indra." Heracles scoffed, wondering why Indra put up with such nonsense. "Anyway, let's just see what this town has to offer." He was sure it wasn't anything too unusual.

(-)

An hour later...

Heracles twitched, his body covered in bruises, dirt and his outfit was torn and dirtied in various places. "Martial... Arts... Track and Field? The FUCK?!" Who knew that Nerima had such a dangerous group of students just wandering around?

Jeanne had a hand over her mouth as she failed to hold back her laughter. "If Cao Cao could see you now... Bwahahahahahaha! You got beat up by middle schoolers!"

"Shut up! There was a lot of them! And I didn't use my Sacred Gear, okay?" Heracles huffed in annoyance, causing Jeanne to laugh even more at him.

"Oooh! Little Azusa sees a Jacque!"

Jeanne blinked as she felt someone rush by, touch her and she suddenly felt a bit lighter. "What the... HEY!" She yelled in anger as she saw her rapier in the hands of a short girl in a pink skater's outfit with long, flowing brown hair. "That's my rapier!"

"Nah uh!" The girl stuck her tongue out at Jeanne. "Jacque is little Azusa's now!"

Jeanne had a strained smile grace her face, her eyebrows twitching while Heracles snickered at her. "Do you often go around taking swords that don't belong to you?"

"Huh? But Jacque belongs to little Azusa. Therefore, I didn't steal anything. It's mine." The girl gave her a confused look. "OWW!" She screamed as someone came up from behind her and belted her on the back of the head. "Mouuu! Mikado! So mean!"

A teenaged boy with short, brown hair sighed and took the rapier from Azusa before walking over to Jeanne. "I do believe this is yours." He smiled at her while handing it over and ignoring how Azusa was hitting him over and over on the back of his head. He had plenty of experience in ignoring that.

"Why yes, thank you." She nodded to him and took it back before sheathing it. "You seem to have experience with her."

"Alas!" He sighed and shook his head while ignoring Azusa's whining. "While she is an amazing skating partner, her other traits leave a lot to be desired. Much unlike you." Jeanne looked at him in confusion. "You're quite the comely woman. May I have your name?"

"Jeanne." The blonde felt somewhat queazy saying that to him. Like she was being near someone who hadn't taken a shower in a month. 'Or when I was in England and making a mess everywhere thanks to Saotome.' She mentally growled and couldn't wait to get a shot at Ranma and his redheaded slut that smashed her through the trees again.

"Nah uh!" Suddenly the girl was in Jeanne's face. "You're not cute enough for a French name! You can be named Kimiko! Not Jeanne! Little Azusa says French names are for cute things and URGH!" Her eyes bugged out and she bit her tongue as the boy she was with punched her on the top of her head really hard.

"My apologies, again." The boy smiled pleasantly at her. "My name is Mikado Senzanin and that's Azusa Shiratori."

What happened next had both Jeanne and Heracles stunned stupid as Mikado was suddenly next to Jeanne and bending her backwards with one hand on her sword arm and one hand in the middle of her back. "Um, excuse me?" Jeanne could feel herself twitching. "What are you doing?"

"I am on a mission, you see. One granted to me by God, to claim the lips of one thousand different women. And you, my fair mademoiselle are lucky number one thousand." Mikado smiled before leaning in and planting his lips on Jeanne's, causing her eyes to bug out as she trembled. The kiss didn't last long, which Jeanne was thankful for, as Mikado pulled back, a satisfied look on his face. "At last! My quest is complete! Now, I think I shall move on to my next goal! To have SEX with a thousand different women!"

Jeanne felt her eyebrows twitching in annoyance as she stood tall. "You know, being French, I'm used to slimy weasles trying to hit on me, or foreigners jeering at me and attempting to rape me, and I've always dealt with them the same way." Mikado looked at her in confusion as she snapped her fingers while a crazed, angry grin came to her face.

"GAAAAAAAHHH!" Mikado suddenly screamed as a sword erupted from the ground and stabbed him...

...in his balls...

...causing blood to splatter everywhere as he fell back, screaming and grabbing his crotch.

"It looks like you won't be fulfilling your life goals anymore." Jeanne said sweetly as she turned to leave. "Though if you get to a hospital quickly enough, they might be able to save your junk."

As they walked away from the screaming idiot and the girl who was freaking out at the blood, Heracles turned to Jeanne and gave her an amused grin. "A bit much, don't you think?"

Jeanne merely shrugged and grinned at him. "He reminds me of the bastard that first tried to rape me, before my Sacred Gear activated, so, no, it wasn't."

"Ah." Heracles nodded in understanding. After several minutes of walking, Heracles turned to Jeanne. "Seeing what you did to him reminded me of something that Cao Cao said back in Kyoto." Jeanne looked back at him in confusion. "When that Valkyrie was drunk and blasted the bridge, he said 'if swords come out of there, I'm leaving' and then you just did that..."

"What? I'm supposed to create circles in the air and fire tons of swords at my enemies?" Jeanne raised an eyebrow.

"Think you can beat that robot girl otherwise? She already proved she can ignore your Holy Sword Dragon."

Jeanne was silent as she contemplated that. Tapping her chin, she nodded and grinned. "Might be fun to practice that."

(-)

Back at the Kuno mansion...

Seigfried raised an eyebrow as he walked into an open room. "Lots of trophies. Kendo championships?" Even if it was just high school awards, it was still somewhat impressive. "So this... Tatewaki Kuno has some skill with the sword?"

"Yes." Seigfried turned to see the small ninja behind him. "Master Tatewaki is good with a sword, especially after his father started to train him seriously. Before he was, shall we say, too stubborn to admit defeat?"

Seigfried chuckled at that. "I wouldn't mind sparring with him." After all, facing new opponents was the best way to keep improving your skills. "Igor, was it?"

"Sasuke." The ninja corrected.

"Igor, do you know when he'll return?"

Sasuke sighed, he just knew that everyone was going to call him Igor before this was over. "After school." Seigfried nodded and walked around the room, looking at the trophies and other things. "If you'll excuse me." Sasuke bowed and left.

(-)

Meanwhile...

"Aloha! De Grand Kahuna of Furinkan High speaking!" The principal grinned as he leaned back in his chair and crossed his legs on the top of his desk. "Who be de bruddah callin'?"

"Boss, you really don't need to be like that." Son Wukong's voice sounded amused over the phone, causing the Principal to grin.

"I like playing games with these brats. Most of them are just pathetic, other than my son, there's only a few that barely catch my eye and one of them is because this voodoo wannabe somehow showed up with a girl that could turn into an Ashura one day."

"...Didn't you..."

"I thought so too!" The Principal shook his head while grinning while he continued to speak on the phone. "Get this, one of the Ashuras escaped to China and drowned in a pool a long time ago, then this brat falls in, now whenever she gets wet with cold water, she turns into an Ashura."

"...So what did you do to her?"

"Might be fun to use her against Shiva. Then again, she is fairly pretty too..."

"Indra, are you seriously thinking about having more kids?"

"Hey! That ungrateful bastard Zeus has HOW many kids of his running around?" Indra countered Wukong. "Anyway, other than that kid, there's this one kid, Hibiki, real dumb musclehead, but a natural at brawling, though he needs some sort of talisman on him to keep him from getting lost. Idiot took it off one day in the shower and somehow ended up in Somalia for a week."

"...How?"

"Apparently it's a spatial warping curse that was bestowed upon his ancestors when they pissed off Tsukiyomi." Indra shrugged, he could have removed it, but messing with other Gods wasn't always smart, even if he was much stronger than the Japanese Gods. "Other than them, most everyone at this school is nothing to write home about. I did have to belt out some punishment to the math club."

"What did they do?"

"Somehow created a formula that they said proves that Aliens, Gods and Demons don't exist." Indra smirked at the thud he heard from Son Wukong on the other side of the phone. "Yeah, don't ask me how they came to that conclusion either. Anyway, it's been taken care of."

(-)

"Praise Indra! Our Lord and Savior!"

Yuka sighed as she heard the math club ramble on about Hindu Gods. "They need help."

Hiroshi, Daisuki and Sayuri all nodded in agreement and went back to eating lunch.

(-)

Back in Kuoh after school...

Azazel smiled at the club as everyone got settled in. "Well, congrats to everyone who got caught up on their homework." He chuckled at the dirty looks he got from them. "Not my fault you need to play cloak and dagger games. It's one of the downsides of being part of the Moonlight World, you all know that."

"I'm surprised Aika didn't show up." Asia said, pouting softly, getting a shrug from Koneko.

"She said she didn't want to really be part of this." Koneko answered. "Probably for the best."

"Indeed, plus she'd probably have a ton of questions for these two." Azazel grinned as he opened the door and two people who were in the hallway stepped inside.

"ACK!" Xenovia jumped behind Akeno and hid as she saw Griselda Quarta and Vasco Strada enter the room. "I knew that we shouldn't have covered up those windows!" She glared at the things that were put in front of the windows to keep the illumination in the room down for everyone.

Griselda rolled her eyes. "Despite what you think, I'm here on official Heavenly business." She cleared her throat and stood straight. "Issei Hyuudou, Ranma Saotome, Nabiki Tendo and Mittelt you four are invited to come to Heaven this weekend." She sighed at the looks of shock from most everyone she was getting. "I'm here on orders of Lord Michael to invite you. Nabiki Tendo, I'm sure that you want to see your sister again." Nabiki's eyes widened and Griselda nodded. "Yes, we've fixed the damage to your sister's mind. Ranma Saotome, you are invited because Leonardo wished to speak with you. As for you, Mittelt, Miss Irina put in a good word for you, so we're letting you come home."

The Fallen Angel turned Devil could only stare in absolute shock. "I...I can come back?"

Griselda gave her a gentle smile. "After all the stories that Irina told us, how can we not let you come back to visit? Lord Michael wishes to speak to the Red Dragon Emperor about something. Oh! And one last thing." She pointed at Yohko, who blinked in surprise. "The curse that's engulfed your family, we've figured out how to fix it. We have to do some more work to make sure it works right, but we should be able to cure them soon."

"A bunch of Devils going to Heaven." Nabiki muttered, laughing softly. "I guess that's the equivalent of "go to hell" from Humans, huh?"

"You know it." Griselda grinned at her.

"I didn't get to ask this morning." Asia spoke up. "But why are you here, grandfather?"

"Ah, I wanted to check up on you, Xenovia and Irina, to see how you were all doing and since Griselda was ordered to come here as well, it worked out for the both of us." He smiled at her.

"I'm surprised that you have a grandchild." Azazel laughed at the old man. "No offense, but I thought you took your vow of chastity seriously."

"I did, I do and I have." Vasco nodded at Azazel. "No, I was merely already old when I first met young Asia, and she just took to calling me grandfather." He smiled happily at the memory. "As I don't have children of my own, hearing that makes me feel much better."

Azazel shook his head and patted the old man on his back. "Well, either way, I'm glad that you're not an enemy anymore."

Vasco grinned, even as he towered over Azazel. "I never had any animosity for either your side or the Devils, it was just war. Though I must give that Kokabiel brat some thanks, he was the most interesting fight I had."

"That sounds like an interesting story." Ranma asked, before turning his head to the side as Mittelt stood up suddenly. "What's wrong?"

"Wait! YOU'RE the guy that beat Lord Kokabiel down back when the Nazis were causing problems in Europe?!" Mittelt gaped at Vasco, who merely nodded. "Um, wow... Never thought I'd meet someone who could do that and live to tell the tale."

"Well, I would say that my incredible physique, plus being able to use Durandal's full abilities helped out quite a bit." Vasco smiled at her. "After all, I am the one who gave it to Xenovia."

"What's with all these old people being so awesome?" Ranma muttered, thinking about Vasco, Cologne and Happosai. 'Speaking of which, where is the old perv?'

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"GAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Zeus, leader of the Greek Gods, laughed as he, Odin and Happosai shared a drink while talking about the finer points of the dancer girls on stage.

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'I'm sure he's not getting into any trouble that he can't handle.' Ranma thought to himself.

Across the room, Griselda was looking at Xenovia with an expectant look on her face. "Well?"

"...Well what?" Xenovia asked as she looked like she wanted to be anywhere else but where she was at that moment.

"Don't you "well what" me, young lady." Griselda huffed in a mix of anger and annoyance. "Having premarital relations with a man, even if it is the Red Dragon Emperor, abandoning your faith and becoming a Devil after finding out God is dead, and worst of all, never bothering to call or contact me over any of it." Griselda sighed and gave Xenovia a sad look. "Did I really mean so little to you?"

"Mom..." Xenovia rubbed her forehead. "No, you didn't mean so little to me. Yes, I should have waited with Issei, but we did get engaged, so I don't have any remorse there."

"And what if he just wanted to have sex with you and dump you afterwords?"

"Hey!" Issei yelled in frustration. Both Xenovia and Griselda looked at him with a mixture of surprise and interest. "First of all, I was a virgin too until Xenovia decided to get it on with me." Issei never thought that what Raynare did to him counted, mostly because he tried to blank out that night as best he could. "Secondly, if I want to be a Harem King, why would I just use and leave a lover?"

Griselda narrowed her eyes at Issei. "Tell me something, why do you like Xenovia? Is it because she became a wanton woman and gave you her purity?"

"Uh..." Issei looked at Ranma, who sighed.

"She basically said that Xenovia became a slut and let you take her virginity." Ranma answered.

"...HEY!" Xenovia and Issei yelled at the same time.

"...Let me?" asked Issei. "She talked me into it."

Xenovia blushed. "I was dedicated to achieving the goal I had set for myself."

Griselda rolled her eyes. "Anyway, what your friend said but not quite, even if the sentiment is accurate." She turned back to Xenovia. "Even if he wouldn't abandon you after having sex, why did you abandon your faith and become a Devil? A singular crisis of faith shouldn't have..."

"It wasn't just one crisis of faith, mother." Xenovia gave Griselda a sad look. "But rather it was a bunch of crisis of faith at the same time. The ex-Priest Valper and his Holy Sword Project, the Seigfried cloning experiments, finding out God is dead, and finding out the results of the Holy Sword Project..." Xenovia slumped and looked down. "I could not... In good faith, remain part of such an organization. I always felt that the Vatican and by extension Heaven, were mostly peerless. I... Just lost all faith and after Kokabiel was dealt with, I felt that I was alone, that everything you taught me was a lie, that everything I knew was worthless. I was messed up, I couldn't tell Irina that God was dead, she was more religious than me. And I didn't know what to do." Xenovia looked up, tears creeping to the corners of her eyes. "Forgive me, mother, but I couldn't..." She was stopped as Griselda pulled her into a hug.

"Stupid, stubborn, straight-forward muscle-headed girl." Griselda sighed softly. "I'm not mad that you became a Devil, I'm glad that you're still alive. I'm just disappointed a bit." She tightened her hug and shook her head. "But that doesn't matter, does it?" Letting go of the hug, she stepped back and looked Xenovia over. "I want you to know that you could have called me and talked to me over your concerns."

Xenovia gave her a small smile. "Thank you."

Griselda gave her an evil grin and Xenovia gulped. "Yes, but you deserve a good old Catholic punishment for everything you did." Xenovia started to sweat heavily. "And you know I have no problem doling out the punishment in front of everyone."

"If you're talking about spanking her." Lilith spoke up, "I did that shortly after she became a Devil."

"Yes, but this is mother privilege." Griselda smirked at the succubus. "Well?" She looked at Xenovia, who was sweating and gulping at that look.

"Could you not?" Issei asked, causing Griselda to look at him. "I mean, don't get me wrong, seeing Xenovia bent over and her ass jiggling from the spanking would be insanely hot, but I don't think that needs to happen."

Griselda sighed as she looked at Xenovia's hopeful face. "Fine, but I get to criticize her life choices."

"Fair enough." Both Issei and Xenovia said at the same time.

"So you're engaged..." Griselda changed the subject. "While I do agree that the Red Dragon Emperor is a good choice, I don't completely approve."

"HUH?!" Xenovia gaped at her. "Why not?"

"Mostly because you've been sleeping with a man without marrying him and you aren't pregnant yet." Griselda huffed. "What's the point of marriage and copulation if you don't bring children into the world?"

"Well, I was kind of not wanting to have kids while I'm in high school." Issei pointed out, causing Griselda to huff and cross her arms over her chest. "I'm going to marry her after we graduate high school anyway."

"In that case," Vasco Strada spoke up, smiling widely, "I'd be honored if I could be the priest at your wedding." He chuckled at the looks he was getting. "I might be old, but I would love to be the priest for your wedding."

"Wouldn't that be bad for us?" Rias asked Vasco as she thought about it while relaxing in her chair. "I mean, that would be a blessing from Heaven and I doubt you'd want to do a Satanic wedding."

"If Lord Michael can make it so that Xenovia and Asia can pray without causing them pain, I'm sure that he can make it so that I can do a proper wedding for Devils with Heaven's blessing and not cause any of your problems." Vasco smiled at the Gremory Heiress.

"If that's the case, sure, I don't have a problem with it." Issei shrugged and caught a glance at Xenovia as her face lit up in happiness and she blushed. "And, Griselda... If I promise that I get Xenovia pregnant within the first year of marriage, will you be okay with it?"

"..." Griselda was silent, thinking about it, before she nodded. "If you can guarantee that, then yes." Issei nodded and she clapped her hands together. "In that case, you have my full blessing to get married!"

Lilith snorted, she could make sure that those two were pregnant before the honeymoon was over if they wanted her help. 'Wait, I can make that my wedding gift! And I don't have to pay for it!'

Looking at them, Rias sighed softly. While she was happy for Xenovia, part of her wondered what it meant for her going forward.

Well, this is fun. WHEE!