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The next couple of chapters are just wrap-up chapters.

Chapter 24

Ranma and Lilith both had to look away as Jedah was sucked into the Well of Lost Souls and the portal closed with a bright flash. "I hope he can't get out of that." Ranma muttered, though he wondered about the name Jedah had called out. 'Who's Azrael?' He shook his head and made the scythe disappear. He could figure it out later, right now he had other things to worry about.

Namely the two girls making their way to him and Lilith.

"You're... Valerie, right?" Ranma asked as he looked at the Vampire, who nodded and blushed.

"Yes, I'm Valerie and..." She squirmed in place. "Thank you for freeing me from Jedah's control, but I'm sorry, I REALLY need to use the bathroom! I've needed to go for months but haven't been able to since he put me under his mind control and I can't hold it!"

Ranma sweat-dropped and looked at Lilith, who nodded and grabbed Valerie before disappearing. "Poor girl." He really hoped that there wasn't any complications from not being able to go to the bathroom for months.

"Well, since everything worked out, I should, owowowowowow!" Bennia yelled in pain as Ranma grabbed her hair on the back of her head and pulled. "That hurts! Owwie!"

Ranma gave her a stern look and she whimpered. "You're coming with me. We're going to where Issei and Vali are. You will then explain to all of us why you were working for Jedah and then we'll decide what to do to you."

Bennia sweat-dropped. "Don't you mean "with me" instead of to me?"

"I know what I said." Ranma said as he yanked on her hair, getting her to cry out as she was pulled off balance and fell on her butt. "Now hurry up. If you try and flee, I'll hunt you down and feed you to tentacle monsters."

"YEEK!" Bennia cried out as she got to her feet and ran after Ranma. "That was mean! You were nicer when you were working with Jedah."

Ranma gave her a tired expression. "I've been raped in my female form, tentacled when I was in succubus mode and just fought someone who tried to reset reality. Of course I'm not in a good mood."

"...When you put it that way..." Bennia nodded. "Okay! I'll be a good girl. Just, um..." She poked her fingers together as the two walked over the desert sands. "Please don't tell Lord Hades that I was helping Jedah under my own free will. I don't want to work for him, but he, well..."

"Extremely powerful Greek god, right?" Ranma asked and Bennia nodded. "Fine, if he shows up and asks, I'll tell him that you were under Jedah's mind control." Ranma blinked as he felt Bennia hugging him from behind. "...Seriously, I'm not happy with you."

"No, but thank you." Bennia let go and grinned. "Onwards!" She ran in front of Ranma and started to walk with her legs fully extended. "One-two-one-two!"

"What is this? The military?" Ranma sweat-dropped but followed after her as they made their way to where Issei and Vali were at.

After all, she didn't seem like a bad sort.

(-)

Elsewhere...

Lilith waited outside of the bathroom for Valerie to finish her business. After nearly fifteen minutes, Valerie walked out of the bathroom, a relieved look on her face. "Are you sure you're okay? You were crying in pain a little bit ago."

Valerie nodded. "I still hurt, but..." She shook her head. "I'll take a bit of pain from flushing so much out over holding it in for so long."

"I bet." Lilith nodded as she scratched the back of her head. "Anyway, it looks like things have settled down here, so we should..."

"HEY!" Lilith and Valerie looked down the hallway as Atsuko, in her NK-SGD outfit, ran up to them. "You're alive!" Atsuko yelled happily as she glomped Lilith, who had to spin around a couple of times to deal with the momentum. "Oh my gosh! You're okay! What happened? Your boobs are bigger, why do you have green in your hair? Oh wow, one of your eyes is green now."

Lilith giggled and shut up Atsuko by kissing her on the lips. Atsuko's eyes widened and she relaxed into the kiss. After a few moments, Lilith broke the kiss and smiled at the blushing and panting girl. "Okay, to answer your questions, I'm fine. Lilith faced Morrigan and won, merging together into me. My boobs did get bigger, yes. The green is from Morrigan after all." She let go of Atsuko, who stepped back but looked at her in confusion. "I'm both Lilith and Morrigan, I have both of their memories, but I'm not either of them at the same time." She shrugged, causing her boobs to jiggle. "So why are you in that outfit?"

"Less embarrassing that running around with no pants on." Atsuko told her.

"...I like seeing you with no pants on though." Lilith told her and Atsuko blushed and giggled. "Anyway, are things calming down?"

Atsuko nodded and gestured to one of the windows. "Thankfully, whatever forces that Jedah had here were mostly wrapped up by the time Asia and I got back, so I've been helping finding stragglers and people who got hurt."

"I guess when you have the Norse All-Father, several Satan-class Devils and Fallen Angel leaders around, whatever problems in the area would be taken care of easily." Lilith muttered and looked at Valerie. "So what about you?"

Valerie looked at Lilith sleepily. "...Can I get back to you after I sleep for a few hours?" Lilith nodded and Valerie smiled before slumping down and passing out. Had Lilith not caught her, she would have hit the floor hard.

"Let's get her to a bed." Lilith said as she picked up the half-Vampire and carried her bridal style while Atsuko led Lilith to the make-shift infirmary.

(-)

Meanwhile...

Vali looked up as Ranma and Bennia walked up to him and Issei. "There, you're back, I can leave the idiot now."

"Well, hold on." Ranma stopped him and looked at Bennia. "Don't you have something to say? Like why you were working for Jedah?"

Bennia sighed and lowered her head. "Lord Hades was going to try and destroy all the other supernatural factions on the planet while working with some other Gods like Angra Mainyu."

"The Persian God of evil?" Vali grimaced, getting a nod from Bennia. "Lovely. Met him once, total asshole."

"Even worse than your grandfather?" Issei asked as he pushed himself to his feet.

Vali laughed. It was an empty, hollow laugh. "I wouldn't say worse, but they did get along." He smirked at Issei's shocked expression. "Where do you think I met him?" Vali shook his head to clear his thoughts and looked at Bennia. "And Hades is pretty xenophobic towards other pantheons, so why is he working with Angra Mainyu?"

"Well..." Bennia looked troubled and lowered her head. "They want to destroy all the other Pantheons and then divide the world up after that. Lord Jedah was going to revive God," she missed the grimaces of pain Vali, Issei and Ranma all felt as they staggered from hearing that name, "and put His soul into a new body and use the power of his artifical Boosted Gear to increase His power and rewind time to when humans were first born."

"That's a lovely thought." Ranma grimaced as a thought came to him. "Crap, if Jedah has those two Sacred Gears, he might still be able to get out of the Well of Lost Souls, wouldn't he?" He looked at Bennia as she started giggling. "What's so funny?"

"Well..." She smiled and spun around twice before holding her hands out, shocking all three Devils as she held both the Replica Boosted Gear and the Replica Divine Dividing. "When he went flying into the vortex, I went in, grabbed the Sacred Gears and got out."

"How did you not get sucked in?" Vali asked. "Even Gods can't escape from there."

"Reaper privilege!" Bennia grinned at him. "I can go into Cocytus and pull people out." She shivered and rubbed her arms. "Still leaves us cold down to our cores, it's never fun."

"Lovely." Ranma muttered as Vali started to walk away. "Where are you going?"

"I have no reason to hang around." Vali said while waving over his shoulder. He did stop and look back at Ranma and then at Issei. "...I'll say this, Issei, it'll be fun to face you in the future. Same with you, Ranma." His Sacred Gear's wings formed on his back and he took off at high speed.

Ranma shook his head and grabbed Bennia. "Come on, let's go." Wings popped out of his back as Issei nodded and the same happened to him.

"What will happen to me?" Bennia asked and Ranma shrugged.

"We'll see, I have no clue."

The group took off into the air, towards where the portal was. Thankfully Bennia knew its location and was able to guide them to it.

(-)

Elsewhere...

Indra sighed as Asia finished healing his wound. "Can't believe that I have to thank a Devil." He stood up and rubbed where his wound was before looking at Asia, who smiled up at him nervously. "...It seems that the one in charge of your pantheon was a lot more powerful than I gave him credit for if those artifacts he left behind are so effective."

Asia smiled and walked off. Turning a corner, she bumped into someone. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see, oh!" She gasped, her eyes going wide, "Xenovia!" She was surprised that Xenovia was changed into her schoolgirl outfit, but otherwise she looked fine, if a bit flush and sweaty.

The blue haired girl smiled at Asia. "Hey, sorry I wasn't around to help during the crisis, I was..." She looked away, blushing, "dealing with a problem that Lilith left for me." She had been stuck in a continuous loop of orgasms for nearly thirty minutes before she finally started to calm down. "Anyway, how did your match go?"

"Got interrupted." Asia told her and fidgeted in place. "I'm sorry. But when I was leaving the area, I left Excalibur Nightmare behind and now someone might have stolen it and..."

"Oh, is that all?" Xenovia asked and held out her hand and concentrated. Before Asia could ask what was going on, a glow appeared in her hand before Excalibur Nightmare formed in her outstretched hand. "See? I have it back."

"...How did you do that?"

Xenovia smiled as she pulled out her Ex-Durandal and opened one of the cartridge slots before shifting the Excalibur Nightmare and putting it back in the sword. "Yohko taught me how to recall my weapons. When she found out that I have several Excalibur fragments in this sword and that I could take them out and give them to people, she thought to teach me how to recall them in case they get lost."

"Neat!" Asia smiled brightly.

(-)

It took more than an hour later to finish cleaning up the mess as various leaders had to converse with each other, families that had gotten lost in the shuffle found each other and various groups meeting up together.

"I not surprised that you two are okay." Ranma said as he and Lilith walked up to Vasco and Cologne, who were finishing talks with Ajuka Beelzebub. "Ah, hello there, uh..."

The green-haired Devil smirked at Ranma. "Have you forgotten me already? And after I was Satan Green in that episode of Satan Rangers meets Mahou Shoujo Levia-tan?"

Ranma sweat-dropped heavily. "Sorry, I forgot who you were... Ajuka Beelzebub, right?" The Devil nodded, chuckling.

"Don't worry, I'm not offended, we've not interacted much. No, these two were informing me about a certain someone that has to be retrieved." Ajuka nodded at another Devil that walked by. "If you'll excuse me, I need to go."

Ranma nodded and watched as Ajuka walked off while catching up to the Devil that passed them and started talking. "Must be a secretary or something." Ranma muttered and looked at Cologne and Vasco. "Man, it's too bad that everything was interrupted, huh?"

Cologne chuckled with a wistful smile on her face. "Oh, but that's fine, the chance to be young again, even if for a short period of time, I can't complain about it."

Vasco chuckled and nodded. "It feels amazing to be young again, but I'm glad it's only for a short while. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy not feeling my bones pop every time I lift my arm or having the aches and pains that come with age, but I've had a good life."

Ranma nodded and pulled out a thin vial. "Well, I was going to offer this to one of you, but since neither of you want it..." He trailed off and popped the cork off of it. "Last chance to stay young." They both shook their heads and he nodded. "Well, okay then..." He started to tilt the vial to pour out the contents.

"Ranma, my boy! What are you doing?!" A powerful slap to his back had Ranma stumble forward, the vial slipping from his hands as it flew forward.

Cologne's eyes widened in surprise. "HapposARUGH!" She gagged as the vial flew forward and into her mouth in such a way that it went straight for the back of her throat and before she could react, the contents drained out and down her throat. Quickly, she pulled the vial out and coughed in surprise.

Ranma had a shocked expression on his face as he looked at Cologne. "Uh, congrats?"

Cologne growled as she started to glow, her eyes gleaming with malice. "HAPPOSAI NO BAKA!" She yelled and chased after the tiny grandmaster of Anything Goes.

"Well, that wasn't what I expected." Vasco chuckled in amusement. "Things sure aren't dull, that's for sure."

Ranma just nodded and hoped that Issei was having an easier time than he was.

(-)

In the infirmary...

"Issei!" Rias called out as she got into the infirmary where Issei was at. "Are you okay?"

"I'm sore, extremely tired and drained..." Issei said as he sat up and smiled. "But what about you?" His smile faded away as he looked at her in concern. "How long did you know about..."

"Only a couple of days." Rias said with a blush. "I was going to wait a couple of weeks and take another test to make sure that it wasn't a false positive, but..." She put her hands over her stomach. "There's a life growing in here, Issei. One that we made together." Her eyes teared up as she suddenly hugged him. "I'm so happy."

"Yeah." Issei smiled as he hugged her back. "I mean, I was expecting to be a father, but not for a bit longer and..."

"AHHH!" A new voice shocked Rias and Issei and they both looked at the door where Irina, Asia, Xenovia, Koneko and Akeno were standing. Asia had a shocked expression on her face while the other girls looked on in confusion and jealousy.

"You're pregnant?!" Asia yelped in surprise. Rias blushed and nodded. "Moooouuuu! No fair!" She pouted. "I wanted to have Issei's first baby!"

"But I was the first one to get engaged!" Xenovia protested. "I promised my mom that I'd get knocked up during the honeymoon!"

"And I'm his wife!" Irina yelled in protest. "How come I'm not already pregnant?"

"Ara ara..." Akeno felt her eyes twitching. "If Rias is pregnant, then I won't be able to do hardcore BDSM on her." She sighed and shook her head. "Oh well, I guess I can practice my shibari and wax skills."

Koneko just pouted. "Issei-senpai gets to put a baby in you and all he can do is use my butt until I get bigger. Not fair."

Rias turned her head to look at Issei and smiled at him. "If you think this is bad, wait until I tell my parents and brother."

Issei just chuckled nervously.

End Chapter 24

There's still more chapters to go for this arc.