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Chapter 6

"So Falbium went home," Azazel looked at Ranma, "and you're here for how long?"

"Probably just a day or so." Ranma mused and looked over at Issei, who was sitting with Rias, cuddling and rubbing his hand on her belly, "just a question, what kind of wedding are you two having?"

"I want a Japanese-style wedding." Rias perked up, smiling at him. "It may not be as popular even among Devils, but I really like Japanese culture, so..."

Serafall, who was playing dice with Leonardo, Lillie, Ophis and Gasper, nodded as she heard that. "It's always nice to have whatever wedding you want." She looked at Ranma and blushed. "I was hoping to have a European-style wedding myself."

"Well, I guess we should probably have that in a couple of weeks, since you probably want to have it before you start to show." Serafall nodded, blushing as she rubbed her still flat stomach.

"One thing," Issei looked at Ranma, "you're going to have a lot of kids, it seems, how are you going to support them all?"

"Oh, I'm filthy rich." Ranma told him and Issei gawked. "Before you ask, it's a recent development. After getting to Makai, we went to the lands of the other dead rulers and even Demitri's home and there's a LOT of expensive stuff there."

"Surprised that they weren't stolen by other Demons." Akeno mused and Ranma shook his head.

"Most Demons don't really care for wealth and riches." Ranma shrugged. "Most of them just want to be left alone in their territory. It's when other Demons encroach on their territory or try to force them to do something that it becomes a problem."

"You make it sound like most Demons are animals." Akeno said with an amused look on her face.

"Sort of." Ranma admitted to her. "They're quite intelligent and most of them can hold conversations beyond what to eat, kill and breed. But it's an extreme survival of the fittest mentality there and if you want to rule, you have to be strong. So for most of Makai, wealth and the like means nothing to them."

"Meaning you just get to come in like a thief and take it?" Issei asked, confusion evident in his face and voice.

"The dead aren't going to use it." Ranma shrugged, "what about you? I imagine that Rias's family is supporting you for now?"

Issei nodded, "yeah, after I get out of school, I'll be working to support Rias so I don't have to rely on her family. They told me that I don't have to, but it's not right to just mooch off of them."

"And that's why I love you." Rias smiled and kissed him on the cheek, getting a small blush from Issei.

Ranma was about to say something when a noise caught his attention and he looked at the door as it opened and someone walked in.

"Sorry, I'm still getting used to living in this place." The girl smiled and blinked. "AH!" Her eyes went white and blank as she pointed at Ranma. "What are you doing here?"

"Bennia, is that you?" Ranma asked in shock. "What are YOU doing here?"

"Hee hee..." She stuck her tongue out and rubbed the back of her head. "I'm a Devil now."

"More specifically," Azazel spoke up, "the whole situation with Hades was causing headaches and we couldn't just give Bennia back to Hades but because of Jedah's known ability to brainwash people, we couldn't hold her for committing crimes like we normally could. Thankfully, as Issei is a new King, he needed to fill his peerage out and he made the offer and she accepted."

"I bet Hades wasn't happy about that." Ranma mused and smiled at Bennia. "Well, congrats, Bennia, I hope things work out for you."

"I hope my dad is okay." Bennia mused.

"Oh, he will be." Azazel told her and she perked up. "I only found out this morning, but apparently Indra, Shiva and Odin were putting pressure on the Greeks to deal with Hades. Since Bennia told us all about his plans, our options were limited, since he hadn't acted any of them out, our hands were tied." Azazel shrugged. "That said, for some reason those three gods decided to put pressure on Zeus and he agreed that Hades needed to be punished for what he was planning. The others in his little group have been rounded up and imprisoned as well."

Issei sighed softly and looked at his left hand. "...I still can't get that power I had against Jedah. I can't even remember how I did it."

A multi-colored gem appeared on his wrist and started to flash. "Don't worry about it, partner, I can't figure out how you did it either."

"Considering that most everything is calming down," Rias smiled at him, "I don't think that there's a need to rush and figure out how to master your Balance Break."

"It's not that." Issei said softly as images of Jedah flashed through his mind, "both Jedah and Vali's grandfather had no problem pissing off a lot of people. Heck, Jedah had a way to counter Ophis!" He looked at the Dragon, who looked at him with a disgusted face, "sorry."

"It's fine, I just hate remembering him."

"And Vali's grandfather was strong enough to keep Jedah in line." Issei continued, "plus there was talk of something called Trihexa..?"

"Beast of the Apocalypse," Azazel clarified, "Father sealed it away, but the ordeal weakened Him enough where Asmodeus, Lucifer, Leviathan and Beezlebub were able to kill Him in a final showdown."

"There was something about another world," Ranma told Azazel, "that Trihexa came from."

"And what if other beings over there are that strong?" Issei asked. "From what I've been told, many Devils from the older generation all love to fight and cause destruction. If Vali's grandfather was a Super Devil..."

"Scary thought." Serafall said as she looked uncharacteristically somber. "Even your Balance Break wouldn't be enough to deal with something that strong."

"But when I was using that Mastered form..." Issei squeezed his left hand into a fist, "I had so much power that I couldn't comprehend it."

"And Nabiki was a dead end, she said something about not being able to comprehend it herself when she looked it up." Azazel sighed softly. "The only thing she got was that it's different for each wielder and they have to overcome their weakness."

"Question!" A female voice broke into the conversation and everyone looked at Asmodeus. "What are you all talking about? What's a Balance Break? And why does the voice in that gem sound familiar?"

"Issei is this generation's Red Dragon Emperor." Azazel said and Asmodeus's eyes widened in surprise. "And you don't know... OH!" His eyes widened in surprise. "I almost forgot. Balance Breaks came around only sometimes after your final battle against Father. Basically," he gestured to Issei, who stood up and called up Boosted Gear, "this is their normal form."

"And this..." Issei was engulfed in a red flame as he was covered in a Dragonic armor. "Is my Balance Break."

"So those Sacred Gears that Father made could do something like this?" Asmodeus mused as wings appeared on her back and she floated over to Issei, circling him with a contemplative expression on her face. "This looks like you were able to borrow a lot of power from the Dragon inside of you."

"You figured it out that quickly?" Azazel asked in amusement. "Yeah, that's about it. There's more to it than just that, but for Issei, that's true."

Asmodeus floated up and landed on Issei's head and sat cross-legged while crossing her arms over her chest and closing her eyes. "Hmm... This form is more than powerful enough. Anything stronger could probably destroy the planet by accident."

"Sounds about right." Ranma mused, "but Issei, can't you use a Holy version?"

"Right." Issei nodded and let loose a long, drawn-out breath before his body changed colors from red to gold. "This is the Holy Dragon form."

Asmodeus's eyes snapped open and she jumped off of Issei, pointing at him with a trembling finger. "How... How did you do that?! That wasn't your power! That wasn't D'draig's power! That was power from somewhere else!" Issei pointed towards Xenovia, who waved with Asmodeus looked at her.

"How in the bloody abyss did you do that?!" Asmodeus started flying in circles as she tried to comprehend what happened. "You literally took power from a girl? And it powered up the Dragon?"

"If it helps," Xenovia waved at Asmodeus, "I can use the Holy Sword Durandall."

Asmodeus tilted her head, lifted it up and started doing something with her left hand, as though she were pointing out various things in front of her. "Nope!" She shook her head. "That still doesn't make sense."

"Well, I can use D'draig's power too." Xenovia said. "I should have used it against Lilith, but I wanted to know how good I was without using it."

Asmodeus gave her an exasperated look and then looked at Issei. "Please explain!"

"Well, the two of us went through an aura synchronization process..." Issei explained, "where we tried to meld our auras and the result was this. Now I can do it freely."

Asmodeus scrunched her face up. "But to do something like that, you'd have to not only have your auras in synch, but they'd have to basically meld together."

"Wait, you know how to do this?" Issei asked as he reverted back to his normal state.

Asmodeus gave him a flat stare. "I'm one of the oldest Angels before I became a Devil, I've seen lots of shit in my day." She pointed at him. "When you used that Mastered form, what were you thinking?"

Issei blinked a few times and cupped his hand under his chin. "...I wasn't, I was just so pissed because he tried to use Rias and my child against me."

Asmodeus pulled out a tiny paper fan and smacked Issei on the head. "You dummy! You can't figure it out because you're being dumb!" She spun and pointed at Azazel. "And you! I can't believe you didn't figure it out already! You were smarter than me and were so obsessed with these Sacred Gears!"

"What?" Issei asked sarcastically, "did you figure it out?"

Asmodeus crossed her arms and closed her eyes with an annoyed expression on her face. "Considering that you got a stronger Balance Break by synchronizing with that girl, why didn't you do the same thing with your Dragon?"

If music had been playing, there would have been a record scratch as Asmodeus stared at Issei.

"Wait..." Azazel's pupils shrank. "...Of course, something that was never done before, it would have to be the key for Issei to unlock his Mastered Balance Break."

"But..." Issei looked at his left hand. "Aren't we completely in synch?"

"I dunno." D'draig answered him. "She makes a good point though, if you doing that with Xenovia allowed you her Holy power, then if you and I were able to synchronize like that, you'd be able to obtain that form again."

"That was..." Akeno muttered softly, "how did you figure that out so fast?"

Azazel shook his head. "Asmodeus was actually more terrifying than the other three Great Devil Kings to face on the battlefield. Barqiel and Kokabiel fought him at the same time but he was adapting to how they fought so fast that even when I joined in, the best we managed to do was drive him off."

"You mean "her"?" Rias asked.

"I was a man when we fought." Asmodeus told her. "Besides, you can call me male or female, I don't care." She narrowed her eyes and pointed an angry finger at Issei's left hand "However!" She yelled in anger, "I can't forgive your Dragon!"

"What did I do?" D'draig asked in confusion.

"When your fight with Albion came over where the war was happening!" Asmodeus screamed in frustration. "There was this cute Fallen Angel that I had bent over a tree stump and I had prepped and was about to ride for hours when your stupid fight crashed through the area and I had to get blue balled until you two stupid lizards were dealt with!"

Everyone sweat-dropped heavily.

"I'm sure that there were plenty of cute girls for you..." Issei trailed off as Asmodeus gave him a bewildered look. "...What?"

"I never said I was going to fuck a girl." Asmodeus told him and she rolled her eyes at his disgusted face. "If it moves and has a hole, I'll shove my dick in it. Boy, girl, male, female, beast, monster, doesn't matter to me."

"...You were bending guys over and..."

"Banging their cute butts, yes." Asmodeus nodded with a pleased expression on her face.

"...I'm suddenly reminded of a girl with a dick deciding to do that to me." Issei grumbled and Asmodeus perked up.

"Why didn't I think of that? Being a girl with a dick means I'd get the best of both worlds!" Suddenly her eyes teared up. "Oh no! The chance to have introduced so many different levels of perversion into the world! All gone! Waaaah!"

Ranma sighed and slumped. "Great, she's as bad as Lilith is. ...Which makes sense, she is Lilith's mom, I guess."

He just hoped things were going well in Heaven.

(-)

In Heaven...

Lilith stared at the gears as she and Nabiki stood in the highest level of Heaven. "This is..." She whispered as she touched the slowly moving gears. "This is why they call what humans get a Sacred Gear?" She giggled softly. "Alright," she looked up at Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael were standing around the system and she nodded, "I can give this thing a strong jolt to get it going, but I can't do what your Father did for it. While I could create Angels for you, they would be tainted and not what you need."

"That's fair." Michael said to her, "do know that I do not fully trust you. Not because of what you are or who you are related to, but..."

"I know, I'm not exactly super trustworthy." Lilith told him as she put her hand above the gears and started to glow brightly. "Nabiki, keep an eye on this while I work."

"Right." Nabiki nodded and had her Sacred Gear running data over the screen. "Keep going."

"Just let me know when I screw up." Lilith said as she focused on the system God left behind. 'If it was just powering this up, I could do it, no problem, but I need to change some of the laws of reality, I don't want to break it.'

Nabiki pursed her lips. 'What you're doing won't create new Sacred Gears, but it will allow for miracles again.'

It was nearly ten minutes later when Lilith stopped glowing and stood up, panting and sweating. "Th...there..." She smiled as the gears were moving at a much faster speed than before, but they were moving. She looked up at the four leaders of Heaven as they came over. "So, let's go over what I did for you."

"Of course." Michael smiled at her. "I... I don't feel any corruption or darkness, for that, I thank you."

Lilith nodded at him. "Alright, so I can tell you that you can't create new Sacred Gears with this, but the artificial Sacred Gears can enter this and become real ones once the user dies and they'll go through the same process than normal Sacred Gears have. You can't create new Angels with this, so you still need the Brave Saint thing." They nodded and Lilith continued on. "So, speaking of which, you can create miracles again. I couldn't get the highest level of ones, but miracles can happen again." She smirked at their shocked expressions. "The atheists are going to be so pissed when they can't explain things with science and logic." Lilith stretched her arms and winced as she felt some tightness in her back. "Okay, so, this next one is important because I changed some rules." She shook her head at the frowns she got. "Don't worry, it's nothing bad. The first thing is that, unless a Devil says His name in vain, we can say God without pain."

"That's..." Michael began but trailed off at the savage grin on her face. "...What did you do?"

"I made it so that if ANYONE says His name in vain, they get super painful headaches as a punishment."

Lilith wasn't about to tell them that if they said "God" during sex that it wouldn't count as blasphemy and wouldn't trigger the headaches, but that wasn't important.

"So..." Lilith clapped her hands. "This next one is important. Angels can have sexual relations with anyone without becoming Fallen."

"What?!" The four leaders said in shock.

"Okay, that's only partially true." Lilith admitted. "There's rules that I put in place to keep it in line with what you teach your followers. Angels can only have sexual relations with people that they marry and only for the purposes of procreation. Actually, before I begin, can we get Irina in here, since this matters to her too."

Raphael nodded and disappeared before reappearing with Irina.

"Okay," Lilith smiled, "as I said, Irina, you can now have sex with Issei even on Earth without becoming a Fallen." Irina gasped and Lilith held up a hand. "But there's some rules here. One, you have to be married, which you are, and you can only have sexual relations with your spouse for the purposes of having children and not pleasure." Lilith nodded at the surprised look that Irina gave her. "Trust me! That was hard for me to put there! Two, Angels can only marry if both parties are in love with each other. Should an Angel have a spouse, they cannot take another spouse. The Angel's spouse cannot take another spouse or lover while married or it will cause the Angel to become Fallen. However, there is one loophole. Should the Angel fall in love with someone who has a harem, the leader of the harem must marry the Angel. In regards to that..." She gave Irina a smirk, "while sexual relations must be for the purposes of procreation, if the Angel marries someone who has a harem, then he or she can obtain pleasure from the co-spouses, but only if the spouse they married is in the same room as them."

"Uh..." Irina scratched her head. "That was..."

"Basically you can have lesbian sex with Xenovia and Asia, but only if Issei's there partaking in it as well." Lilith cut her off, causing Irina's face to turn redder than Rias Gremory's hair while she put her hands on her cheeks. "Despite this, there's one rule that all Angels must understand, even with the new changes..." She gave Irina a grin, "no self-indulgent pleasure."

"You mean..." Irina began while still blushing hard.

"Even if you're with Issei and he's having fun with one of the other girls, you may not touch yourself for the purposes of pleasure." Lilith explained to her. "Don't worry about positions and what-not, so long as it's all for the purposes of procreation, there's no worry about Falling. But, again, both parties have to love each other." She looked at Nabiki, "that was about it, right?"

"Yes."

"I see..." Michael coughed softly. "If that's..."

"Oh!" Lilith's eyes widened in surprise. "I almost forgot! The other dimension room that you guys set up? You can still use it. I re-wrote the rules of that room while charging the system up. In there, so long as you're married, you can do ANYTHING you want with your spouse, even if it's just for pure pleasure. But you have to be married and when you're done, you'll need to go through a super-long purification ritual."

Michael sweat-dropped heavily. "Thank you, Lilith. Irina, if you would, please return Lilith and Nabiki to Earth."

"Of course, Lord Michael." The Angel smiled as she walked over to the two and they all disappeared in a flash of light.

"Well, this was interesting." Michael said and shook his head. "Still..." A small smile came to his face. "I'm glad that it worked out."

"I was against it," Uriel said as he looked at Gabriel, "why did you agree, sister?"

A scythe formed in Gabriel's hands. "...Our brother, Azrael, didn't die." She missed the looks of shock from her brothers as she looked at the scythe in her hands. "This was his, he lost it. And he had children." She looked up at Michael, "remember that boy, Ranma?" Michael nodded, wondering why she brought his name up. "He is Azrael's descendant."

"That's..." Michael furrowed his brow, "how did I not notice before? He looks like our lost brother, but with Japanese features."

"From what I know, he is heading to Kyoto in a few days to speak to the Shinto faction." Gabriel told Michael, "I request permission to go with to discover what truly happened to our brother."

"Will you be okay?" Raphael asked and Gabriel smiled as she looked at him. "Gabriel?"

"I will, I was able to deal with my anguish, I just want to close the book on what happened to him is all and know for sure."

"Of course." Michael smiled at her. "But I request that you undergo some purification rituals, sister, before-hand. Just as a precaution."

Gabriel nodded in agreement. "Very well."

End Chapter 6

There are methods to my madness. And they will tie together.