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Chapter 7

It was a mellow day in Kuoh City, the sun was bright, the birds were chirping, Irina was listening to music in her earbuds while running on the sidewalk as cars raced by.

When she saw someone familiar, she smiled and pulled the earbuds out of her ears. "Hey, Asia..." Irina said as she ran up to the blonde girl, who was looking up at some birds, or at least, that's what Irina thought, since there were birds in that general direction. "What are you doing out here?"

"Huh?" Asia blinked and looked at her friend. "Oh, sorry, I was just walking and was lost in thought." She smiled as Irina stopped running right next to her.

"Is there something wrong?" Irina asked and Asia sighed softly. "Come on, you can tell me."

"Well..." Asia fidgeted and nodded. "Lately, I've been having some nightmares. It feels like there's another me in my dreams and I'm not sure what it means. I thought I was possessed by a Shade or something and went to Lilith to ask her to take a look. She didn't see any signs of possession, so I'm stumped."

Irina frowned as she heard that. "Why didn't you tell any of us you thought you were possessed?"

"...If I was wrong, I didn't want to worry anyone." Asia said and the next thing she knew, Irina was hugging her tightly. "Irina?"

"Don't think we would get upset!" Irina yelled while hugging her. "I'm upset that you tried to keep it a secret!"

"I'm sorry." Asia said softly.

Irina nodded and let go of the hug. "Good. Because if you do that again, I... I..."

"Huh?" Asia asked.

"I'll tell Akeno to give you a spanking!" Irina's face went red as she realized what she had said and knew just where such a suggestion would lead to.

Asia's face was likewise as red, because she knew that Akeno would enjoy doing that to her. Plus Asia knew about the bondage stuff that Akeno had and was worried that her friend would bring that out to use on her.

'But then again,' a voice that was Asia's, but slightly different, echoed in her head, 'it might be fun, to be completely at her mercy, huh? You'd probably love it if she tied you up, paddled your ass until it was red, put a studded plug up your ass and ate you out before putting a strap-on on and taking you just like Issei did, huh?'

Irina blinked a few times as Asia's face got redder and redder and she started letting out weird noises. "Asia, are you okay?"

"A...A...Aaaahhh!" Asia screamed suddenly and fell onto her butt before blinking a few times. "AHH! Sorry! I just, um..."

"What?" Irina asked as she helped Asia to her feet. "What?"

"...I fantasized about Akeno doing things to me." Asia said in a voice just above a whisper and Irina's face turned as red as Asia's face was.

"...Oh. I can see why you would react that way then." Irina said while giggling nervously. The two laughed and walked towards a nearby street bench and sat down on it. "But, seriously," Irina gave Asia a stern look, "I don't want to hear about you holding stuff in, okay?"

Asia nodded and blinked in confusion. "Irina? Do you hear music?"

"...Music?" Irina asked and shook her head. "No, I don't hear anything."

"It sounds like someone's singing a song," Asia closed her eyes as she listened to it, "I swear, I've never heard of before, but..." Asia stood up and started walking off. "For some reason, I know this song, I know I've heard it," she opened her eyes as she started to walk faster and faster, "it sounds so familiar to me." As she said that, she started to run towards the source of the music.

"Asia?" Irina got up and scrambled after her. "Asia, wait! I don't hear anything!" What was terrifying to Irina was that Asia's face looked like she wasn't even paying attention to what was going on around her.

Something about this didn't feel right to her, but she didn't know what it was. She reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone and made a call. "Hello? Xenovia? Are you busy? If not, can you get Akeno, Issei and Yukiko and meet up with me? I'm currently chasing after Asia, who said she heard some sort of music and I can't hear anything. We're currently heading to the park on the North side of town. Okay, good, thanks."

If someone was trying to hurt Asia, she wouldn't let them, not without a fight at least, and she wasn't going to do it alone.

(-)

Meanwhile...

Entering the upper levels of Heaven, the angel known as Cassiel took a deep breath before nodding and entering. "Lady Gabriel," Cassiel knelt in front of Gabriel, who looked at her in concern. "I bring some bad news from Earth."

"What is it?" The blonde Seraph asked with concern in her voice and on her face.

Cassiel looked up at Gabriel and continued, "while I was in the human world, a stray Devil was causing problems. I was asked by a Devil to assist since the stray Devil was capturing children and feasting on them."

"How horrible." Gabriel said with shock on her face.

"Unfortunately, the stray Devil realized that we were chasing it and has possessed a young child and there's a powerful seal on the child, I'm asking for help as I do not wish to harm the child." Cassiel said and held up an orb, which glowed and showed a small boy writhing on the ground. "Currently, the child is in a sealing area to keep him safe, but we do not know how long it will last. While killing the child would free them from the control, I'm sure that you could make the stray devil come out and then it could get purged."

"Of course." Gabriel nodded at Cassiel, "such a thing, I'm glad that you can work together with a Devil to stop the stray Devil from harming more people, but it is troubling that this had to happen."

Cassiel nodded. "I know where the location is, I'll take us both there." Gabriel nodded and both of them disappeared in a flash of white light.

(-)

On Earth...

Gabriel blinked as she took in her surroundings, they were in a warehouse with pipes, lumber and chains all over the place. She ignored that as she saw a young-looking child surrounded by a circle that was glowing red, his head bowed as he was on his knees while his left hand was around his stomach and his right hand was on the floor, supporting him. "Hold on, I'll help you." She ran over to the boy and ignored the others as she knelt down and put her hands on the boy. "It will be okay soon."

The boy looked up at her, his green eyes looking at her with hope. "Big sis... Do you mean it?"

Gabriel smiled and nodded. "Yes, things will be better. Now hold on, this might hurt a little." The boy looked at her, smiled and snapped his left hand and the next thing Gabriel knew, a powerful magic sigil formed under her. "What?" She gasped as black tendrils came out of the sigil, wrapping around her legs, arms and neck, pulling hard, pulling her arms down and her neck back.

Gabriel gasped and tried to call up her power to stop it, but to her shock, she couldn't use her magic. 'This is...'

"A curious thing, a seal that stops Angel movements when your enemies needed you captured and restrained without killing you." The boy said as he stood up. "But for the Angel of Destruction such as yourself, even this wouldn't be enough. However, this one enhanced the power, so," he watched Gabriel sink into the sigil and crouched while smiling at her, "you'll be our guest."

"Guest?" Gabriel gasped out while the boy patted her on the head.

"Just sleep now." He said as she closed her eyes and disappeared into the sigil, which disappeared. "When you come to, your fate will be decided."

"That was..." Cassiel frowned in concern, "surprisingly easy, Puck, I thought it would be harder."

Puck grinned and held up his right index finger as he slowly turned away from her. "You underestimate one of the tricksters of the Fae," he grinned and pulled his right hand to his face while he cupped his chin, "plans such as these are child's play. Besides," he looked back at her with an amused grin on his face, "games are only more fun when they get past the opening plays."

(-)

In Makai...

Cologne was taking a basket of laundry to the laundry room when she closed her eyes. "I do hope, mister," she turned to look at the person behind her, who was a dark-haired man with reddish-brown skin, "that you aren't here to cause trouble."

"Perhaps I am," the man told her, "I am known as Raven."

"Cologne," the young-looking woman said as she put the basket down. "What are you doing here?"

"Mostly?" Raven asked as he flexed the fingers on his right hand, "just keeping you occupied." He said as the windows all opened and dozens upon dozens of black ravens flew into the hallway, cawing loudly and darkening the hallway, making it hard to see. Raven raised an eyebrow as suddenly the ravens that had been attacking Cologne were silenced and in her hands. "Rather impressive."

"Oh, this is nothing." Cologne smiled and narrowed her eyes at him as she held the Ravens, which suddenly burst apart, falling into a bunch of feathers that disappeared as soon as they touched the carpets. "I thank you for making that easy to clean."

"For someone so docile, you're a lot more capable than I thought."

"...Docile." Cologne smiled while closing her eyes. "Ohohohohohohoho..." She opened her eyes and Raven jerked at the intensity in them. "I've been called many things, but docile? Not even when I was a child was I called that."

(-)

The windows on the outside of the castle suddenly exploded outwards as Cologne, who had her hands on Raven's throat, drove him out of the building.

Raven merely raised an eyebrow and his body turned to mist, which allowed Cologne to pass right through him. She flipped and landed on her feet as the mist went to the ground and swirled back into Raven's body. "Rather impressive, I'd say." Raven said as he reassessed Cologne.

The young woman smirked at him. "I thank you for the compliment, so, what are you? A vampire?"

The very sky itself seemed to darken as Raven narrowed his eyes. "A useless blood sucker? Do not confuse a member of the Fae for one of those things."

"A Fae, huh?" Cologne mused and mentally grimaced. "I've heard stories about you from the lord of this castle."

Raven said something in a language that Cologne had never heard of when the ground shifted, she jumped off of the ground just as a hand came out of it. While in mid-air, she turned and saw a hand coming out of the castle. She put her hands on the hand and used it to push herself up and off of the hand while positioning herself to being upside down. "...Interesting, did you know that your underwear is on display?"

Cologne smirked as she threw her arms forward, launching things at Raven, who merely let the objects hit him. Cologne's smirk slowly died down as Raven showed no injuries or even a reaction to the things that hit him. "What are you?"

"I told you, panty-flasher, I'm a Fae." Raven calmly said as he pulled out a wooden stake that had slammed into his chest and threw it to the side, where it clanged on the ground.

"...Ranma wasn't lying when he said your type was more terrifying that we knew."

"As I said," Raven said as the sky was filled with numerous ravens, so many that the sky itself was blacked out, "I'm simply here to keep you occupied."

"Occupied for what?" Cologne asked before rushing at Raven yet again.

(-)

Elsewhere in the castle..

Koneko was sitting in the nursery, watching her nephews when she felt something. Her ears popped out of her head, as did her two tails from her backside as she spun around to face someone in an orange-colored cloak that had, to her surprise, two cat ears on the hood. "You're..?"

"Who we are is not important." The person said and growled at her. "Where is she?! The black one! The one who sentenced all of us to death!"

Koneko didn't know what they were talking about but when she heard her nephews starting to squirm and cry, she hissed at the person in front of her. "You're upsetting my nephews, leave."

The person growled and rushed at Koneko, who jumped at the other person, tackling them in mid-air. "Get..." Koneko growled as she grabbed the other person by their shoulders, spun around three times and threw them at the door. "OUT!" Koneko blinked in surprise as she was still holding onto the cloak and the person that was under the cloak stood up, covered in dust.

The person coughed and stood up. They had pale skin, silver eyes that were slitted, short hair that was mostly white with an orange diamond pattern on the top. Their body was short and petite, though obviously feminine. They were wearing a black vest over their chest and black panties that looked like they were a size too small for how big their hips and thighs were, bandages covered the person's hands, arms, legs and feet.

But what surprised Koneko the most was the fact that this person had two tails coming out of her back and cat ears on her head. "Nekoshou?" She muttered and threw the cloak away.

The Nekoshou growled at her. "You're not our target." Her body glowed as orbs formed around her. Koneko lunged at the door, before jumping to the side as the attack slammed into the ground, sending out a splash of energy in all directions.

Koneko growled as she realized some of that attack had gotten close to her nephews. "BITCH!" She screamed, an aura of Senjutsu covering her, as she launched herself at the nekoshou, tackling her into the air and slamming several fists into the Nekoshou's body. "Leave my nephews out of this." The Nekoshou's silver eyes glared at her as two large hands of pure energy grabbed Koneko's arms.

"FINE!" She screamed as a pole of energy formed in her hands. "We didn't want to do this to you, but since you won't get out of our way..." She slammed the pole into Koneko's stomach, causing the other Nekoshou to grunt in pain.

"That all you got?" Koneko asked before she was smacked on the left side of her face, causing her head to snap that way before she was smacked on the right side of her face, causing her head to jerk in that direction. "Guess so." Koneko muttered before her aura exploded, making the hands that were grabbing her shatter and she dove down, slamming the other Nekoshou's head into the ground, before running forward while dragging her opponent's head on the ground, leaving a trail of destruction in her wake. As she got to the stairs, Koneko ran down the stairs, tearing them up and getting lots of thunks as she raced for the door. "Get OUT!" She yelled and threw her opponent out of the door.

Her opponent hit the ground and bounced before rolling to a stop.

Koneko walked forward slowly. When her opponent started to dissolve, she frowned in confusion, only to feel the hairs on the back of her neck stand up as she ducked out of the way as a large hand swiped where her body had been a moment ago. Spinning and sliding, she stared as she saw the Nekoshou she had seen dissolve just standing there, looking unharmed. "Ghost?"

"Something like that." Her opponent said before rushing at Koneko, who jumped at her. The two traded blows before Koneko landed a strike on her opponent's jaw, sending her flying away.

Even though she had struck her opponent hard enough to knock her away, Koneko hadn't escaped without a few taking a few hits herself, which was evident as she rubbed her lip, where a small cut had formed and was bleeding. "Not bad. Most people can't injure me." She put her hands on her ears as her opponent suddenly let out a loud scream. "What are you...d.o.i.n.g.?" Koneko gasped and looked down as she was no longer on the ground, but instead being lifted into the air as a spike came out of the ground and was impaling her through her stomach and out of her back. "Gah! HURTS!" Koneko screamed, her eyes screwing shut from the pain.

The Nekoshou stood up and created an axe out of pure energy. "If you had just not gotten involved, you could have lived, you aren't the target of our revenge." She jumped at Koneko, who was still impaled on the spike, before several explosions hit in the back, causing her fall down, while several explosions hit the pillar that was holding up Koneko, causing it to crumble apart. Before Koneko could even fall to the ground, she was grabbed by someone.

"Who?" Koneko opened her eyes and saw Ravel holding her.

Ravel smiled at her. "Not bad for a crispy, fried cunt, huh?" Koneko winced as Ravel put her down and pulled out some Phoenix Tears. "Hold on, this'll fix you up in an instant." Koneko sighed as the tears were dropped onto her gaping wound, healing her in an instant.

"How did you find me?"

"It wasn't hard when you destroy the hallway while running at high speeds." Ravel said and nodded towards where the other Nekoshou was. "Especially since your sister's pissed."

"Huh?" Koneko turned to see Kuroka growling and glowing. "...Big sis?"

"You..." Kuroka roared as she grabbed the Nekoshou by the throat and lifted her up before slamming her down into the ground. "You attacked my sons! You hurt my sister! You're dead!"

Suddenly the Nekoshou in her hands disappeared before reappearing a few feet away, giggling. "Dead? That's hilarious." A dangerous aura surrounded her as the air vibrated. "When you're responsible for us being like this in the first place!"

"Just who are you?" Kuroka asked as her aura surrounded her and focused into her hands. "I want to know who I'm about to kill."

The Nekoshou let out a roar as a pillar of power escaped from her. "We are the souls of every Nekomata that was killed because of you, Kuroka!"

"What?" Kuroka gasped in surprise, as did Koneko and Ravel.

"DIE!" The Nekoshou screamed and lunged at Kuroka.

End Chapter 7

Told you the plot kicked back in.

How many of you saw this twist coming?