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Dance With the Devil

Rating Game Arc

Prologue

Walking to school with Ravel, Ranma fought back a yawn. "This past week has sucked." He grumbled while looking exhausted.

The blonde girl smiled at him. "I don't know if it's because Lilith somehow got surrounded by a crystal cocoon six days ago and you can't see or feel her and you miss her or if it's something else."

Ranma opened his mouth before closing it. "You know, it's probably both. Part of her soul is bonded with me after all." He had felt really drained ever since that cocoon appeared in his room. "Didn't know succubi were basically butterflies."

Ravel giggled at that. "Maybe that means the rest of your peerage will go through... This..." Her giggling trailed off as she went pale. "Wait, when caterpillers go through this process, their bodies turn into liquid as they transform."

Ranma shook his head as they turned a corner. "I doubt that. Nabiki said that this is normal for succubi and that it keeps them safe while they sleep and transform."

"...What about you though?" Ravel asked and Ranma gave her a confused look. "Aren't you soul-bonded with her? Shouldn't you be going through something similar?"

Ranma opened his mouth with a finger extended before a confused look came to his face and he lowered his finger. "...I have no clue. I think we're going to have to talk to Nabiki over this." He saw Issei and Koneko walking to school and waved them down. "Hey! Issei! Koneko!"

"Hey!" Issei called out as he and Koneko ran over to them.

"Sup?" The small catgirl nodded at Ranma. "Lilith still out?"

"Annoyingly so, yes." Ranma told her. "How about you two? Anything happening at your place?" The two shook their heads. "Irina's still gone?"

"Yeah." Issei sighed softly. "I'm worried. I know she came out of the whole thing just fine, but I'm worried since I haven't seen her."

Ravel and Koneko glared at each other for a few moments before huffing and looking away.

"You two really need to get along." Issei shook his head.

"I don't hate her, yo." Koneko said and stuck her tongue out at Ravel. "She's a chicken, I'm a cat, and I like extra spicy chicken."

Ravel growled and was about to say something when Ranma put his hand on her shoulder. "Ranma?"

"Normally it's kind of fun watching you two snipe at each other, but I'm tired." Ranma shook his head. "Anyway, I'm sure that Irina's fine. You can ask Azazel about it." Issei nodded and Koneko tugged on Issei's sleeve.

"Yes?" Issei turned to her, only to get a kiss on the cheek.

"Love you, Senpai." Koneko smiled and ran off. "See you at the club room."

"She's gotten more expressive and open since you took her virginity." Ranma commented, a smile on his face. "You two haven't..."

"Too risky." Issei shook his head. "Though..." He looked around and saw a few people walking towards them. He leaned in and whispered. "Not to say that she's completely innocent. That tongue of hers..."

"If it's anything like Kuroka's, I can imagine." Ranma whispered back while Ravel blushed and shook her head. "Anyway, let's get going before someone overhears us."

"Right." Issei and Ravel both nodded and the three went into the school yard.

(-)

"There you are." Aika Kiryuu smirked as she saw Issei and Ranma walk into their classroom. "Did you hear the rumors?"

"The ones about the possessed chocolate randomly melting and becoming so hot that people got third degree burns when they ate it?" Ranma asked. "If so, I can say that it was just the spirits of vengeful cocoa beans." Both Aika and Issei gave him a weird look. "What? Plants have spirits too."

"Oh." Aika and Issei both gave him a flat look of confusion.

Ranma tilted his head. "If that's not it, then what?"

"Well, apparently one of the teachers is expecting." Aika said, getting a nod from Ranma and Issei. "Another teacher is apparently a magical girl."

"What?" Ranma asked, his voice tight and his pupils shrinking. "Is that true?"

Aika shrugged helplessly. "I dunno, but apparently miss Rossweisse can't be anything but a magical girl after she destroyed all the gym equipment with ease."

Ranma let out a sigh of relief. "Oh thank the Abyss!" He ignored the way people looked at him funny. "Trust me, most magical girls are annoying to deal with." It was hard to blame them, most of them were pretty open-minded when they started out, but by the time he met them, they had dealt with so much bad stuff that they assumed anything demonic was evil. "I thought an actual magical girl was a teacher."

"Technically," Issei began, "wouldn't any girl with magic be a magical girl?" He rubbed the back of his head as both Ranma and Aika gave him a stunned look. "I mean..."

"No, no that's actually a good point." Ranma shook his head. "Kind of weird when you think about it."

"And there's some people who think Irina and Lilith were secret lovers and ran off together." Aika said, getting look of amusement from Ranma while Issei had a confused look on his face. "Well, hard to blame anyone for believing that one, the two stopped coming to school at around the same time after all."

"Irina would be back in a day and begging me to take Lilith back." Ranma shook his head while chuckling. The mere thought of Irina and Lilith being lovers was hilarious. Considering that one was a succubus-turned-Devil and the other one was a human-turned-Angel. "Actually..." Ranma trailed off as he walked to his desk. "Is it any different than me? Hmm..."

It was something to think about at least.

(-)

Elsewhere...

"Alright," Azazel, who was in the clubroom, nodded to the screen while he talked to the person on the other end. "I'll keep it a surprise from them, Michael."

The leader of Heaven smiled at his Fallen brother. "Thank you. I'm sure that it will be a nice surprise. Anyway, I have stuff to do."

"Of course." Azazel nodded to him. "Say hi to Metatron for me." After getting a nod from Michael, the screen turned off and Azazel leaned back in his chair and stroked his chin beard. "Well, today will be interesting."

"What will be interesting?" Rossweisse asked as she walked into the club with some papers. Azazel gave her a smirk and raised an eyebrow. "I, um, have to fill out paperwork still for all the equipment that I broke."

"Yeah, you'll have to do that..." Azazel's smirk grew wider, "Miss Magical Girl."

Rossweisse started to whine about how it wasn't fair and that she had been doped up on too much coffee when she did it. Azazel just continued to chuckle and grin.

'She really is cute when she's flustered.' Azazel thought to himself. If she could choose either Ranma or Issei, either of them would be really lucky to have her with them.

Still, he was looking forward to what was going to happen later that day.

End Prologue

Sorry for the MASSIVE delay on this, I was writing ahead to ensure that I had PLENTY to post when I finally started posting again. Delays should only be a few days at a time now.