Alright, so I have a new one for you guys. So, I have been looking at quite a few HP/Highschool DxD crossovers and I'm seeing a pattern. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad pattern and some of these are quite good (if you want I can give some recommendations on a few that I'm reading right now, should you want them) but I wanted to take my own spin on this. So far, I've seen Harry being a descendant of a Devil house and having his own peerage, Harry being a Piece to Rias's peerage, Harry being a Nephilim, Harry being an Angel, Harry is the second coming of God (literally), Harry as an all-powerful wizard just doing his thing, and there are a few others but you get the picture. Then I had the brilliant idea that follows: why not make Harry a second generation Fallen Angel? I mean, no one has done it before and I'm not seeing an influx of these of this specific type. Just looking at the listings right now for all ratings and English there's none of this type! So why not kick off a trend, eh?
One of the things I love and hate about this anime is how cliché it is in the first season; however, it does get better in later seasons, especially for Issei. Don't get me wrong, he's not necessarily a bad character, but sometimes he can really be grating; especially when he's talking about building his harem.
When will this take place? This will start before episode 101 (season 1, episode 1) and continue from there. As for HP timeline, it'll start post Battle of Hogwarts. I should also note that dates have been shifted in order for Harry to be 17 almost 18 by the time DxD starts.
Rating: T+ to M for obvious reasons pertaining to the DxD series.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except my laptop and my copy of MS Word. Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling and all those she allows to use the property. High School DxD belongs to Ichiei Ishibumi and those that publish the manga and anime. Although, I technically own this idea. See the foreword for the full disclaimer.
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"Talking."
'Thinking.'
{Music suggestion}
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Kuoh, Japan. Noon. Kuoh Academy. September 14, 2009.
Harry James Potter. Now depending on who hears the name one of two reactions will be prominent. The first being absolute disdain towards Harry as he killed many Death Eaters as well as those enthralled minions who bought into Voldemort's promise of a better Pureblood future. The second of awe and borderline reverence. There was a reason for all of that. The first was in the prophecy that Voldemort heard of eventually that he would be defeated by the 'power that he knew not.' Well, that power was the power of being the child of two Fallen Angels.
Soon after he had gone into the wild and gone solo for a while after both Hermione and Ron abandoned him during the Horcrux hunt, he had learned from a mysterious stranger that his parents were more than they let in on. After trekking to another Gringotts location, one that didn't want his head on a platter in France, he discovered letters from his parents left for him (something that the branch had to pry from the London branch's hands) explaining everything. They were Fallen Angels.
In their letters, they explained that they knew that Voldemort would kill them one way or another and that their priority was Harry and Harry alone. They used a ritual that would siphon all of their latent angelic abilities to forge a shield to not only deflect the Killing Curse, but also protect Harry as he grew up and until he could take care of and defend himself. They also explained how thousands of years ago they were created as Angels of Heaven. They had arguments with their peers about if they should be helping humanity directly at all or not. They had maddened Michael and they were cast out as Fallen, however, due to a lack of physical rebellion they weren't thrown out, more escorted to the gates and told to never return. For thousands of years they traveled the world and helped those they could, gave advice to those that needed it. But eventually they became tired of it all so they called in a favor that an old friend in Heaven owed them. They asked to be reincarnated into humans. This old friend agreed but on the stipulation that their powers and memories be sealed but only to become available to them once more in their deepest time of need, that time was when they were under attack by Voldemort at their cottage in Godric's Hollow.
Somehow, even as they were born into two different families with different backgrounds they still found each other and still fell in love with each other once again. Their story went as everyone knew the lives of James and Lily Potter, however, their end was of something more divine. Harry's life sucked, however, he always knew he was never normal. The funny thing was that even though he was born of two Fallen, he was a pure Angel for a time as he had yet to commit a sin.
After he had died and made it to Limbo, or the train station, it was revealed to him by Dumbledore about everything going on with Tommy and gave him the last critical information to defeat him, well more or less the whole thing about Nagini having the final Horcrux inside her. After Dumbledore left he was greeted by Gabriel, as in the angel, and yes, she is a chick. A very beautiful, busty chick. She had revealed to him his angelic heritage and how she was good friends with James and Lily when they were in Heaven and when they had come back to her with a favor she had accepted to reincarnate them under Michael's nose. She figured two of her friends deserved happiness, even if it was only temporary. She also revealed that she was an honorary godmother who couldn't directly interfere, but kept many other Angels, Fallen, and Devils from discovering him allowing him a mostly normal time away from the supernatural world that they belonged to. She told him that when he woke up he wouldn't be human anymore physically and his angelic powers would awaken.
She was right, as when Harry woke up he was in the arms of Hagrid. From there the final duel took place after he revealed the six gray wings from his back he struck at Voldemort and his followers with light based weapons and weaponized feathers. To say what he did was overkill would be an understatement. Voldemort resembled a porcupine due to the number of light spears in his body. The holy light had rendered his dark soul into nothingness, casting it to hell where he belonged. As for his followers in his Inner Circle, those that had joined Voldemort and had caused pain and misery for everyone were killed with light spears or sharp feathers through their bodies. In the end, only Draco's mother Narcissa, Draco himself, and the werewolves forcefully enthralled by Fenrir Greyback lived to tell the tale. Those that were low level were arrested by vigilant students or fled and were now wanted with bounties on their heads.
Harry's friends, of whom he still had some like Luna Lovegood, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and Gabrielle Delacour still kept in touch telling him through email about their time after the Battle. Many went back to school either at Hogwarts itself or at other, not destroyed institutions; or they went straight into a job like Ron did. As for Harry? He went his own way, traveling the world as a supernatural bounty hunter and freelance paranormal investigator. Right now, he was in Kuoh, Japan attending muggle high school as a foreign exchange student from England. Why? Well, because he did need an education. Just because he had angelic, albeit Fallen, powers that didn't give him the knowledge that a student would have gained; and Hogwarts was utterly terrible for anything not related to magic learning. There was a reason he chose Kuoh though as it was on the complete other side of the globe.
The Wizarding World viewed him as either a savior or a powerful being, not a human, that needed to be corralled and collared; he would never get any rest trying to attempt to live a normal life by dodging legal issues, fangirls attempting to get in his pants to become the next Mrs. Potter, or those willing to kill him either because he was a 'dark creature' or because he killed their master and/or relative who was a slave to Voldemort. The International Confederation of Wizards listed him as a war hero and as he did nothing wrong according to their charter they wouldn't go after him for anything he did during the year Voldemort ran amok. As mainland Europe was still too close for comfort and America, Canada, and Mexico were a simple long-term portkey away from a hitwizard team or a snatcher squad that would get him in another kangaroo court session like the one before fifth year or just kill him, he decided to head to the other side of the world. Japan to be more specific.
Japan existed in a strange legal state in the magical world, they had no true laws and magic was chalked up to be a strange phenomenon that some muggles obsessed over (see: Occult Clubs). Therefore, the powers that be decided to just roll with it. And it worked for them.
Harry currently stood on the top of the school's roof standing on the ledge of the steel railing that discouraged students from jumping off of it while doing his best impression of a tightrope walker as he carefully balanced himself as he took steps along the railing. He hummed a tune as he walked along it, the only onlooker being the pervert Issei. Harry only raised an eyebrow before turning ninety degrees so he was facing the sheer drop off the building, and stepped off of it with his wry Marauder grin.
Issei stood up and screamed out the window, but was both shocked and humiliated when he saw that Harry didn't go splat on the ground, but walking from around the corner without a scratch on him. He laughed while walking the other way at Issei looking like a moron, he was such an easy target. It was NOT hard to mess with that kid.
As he walked around the corner he closed his eyes as the light got blindingly bright. When it faded he felt two very soft orbs being pressed into his face and two arms wrapped around his waist tightly. He opened his eyes to see the enormous bosom of-, "Aunt Gabriel," Harry greeted, his voice slightly muffled by her chesticles.
"Oh, Harry-chan," she greeted sweetly and innocently, "I've missed you so much!"
"It's only been a month," he replied. "And would you please let me go, it's hard to breathe."
"Oops! Sorry," she apologized with a smile as she released him. As she did her chest jiggled unrestrained as angels tended to not wear any underwear (at least in Heaven) under her conservative yet slightly erotic gown.
"Auntie, not that I'm not happy to see you, but why did you just teleport me to the Gates of Heaven?" Harry asked as he tried to ignore the figure of the ditzy, sexually built angel in front of him.
"Stop calling me auntie," she cutely pouted, "it makes me feel old."
"In all fairness haven't you been around since the dawn of time?" Harry jested, but he quickly added as he saw her eyes dangerously narrow, "However, you don't look a day over twenty-five."
She perked up at the addition that he made and smiled once more. "Thank you for the complement, Harry-chan!" she beamed. "But I called you here for a favor."
"Ok…?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Do you know who Azazel is, correct?"
"Who in the supernatural world doesn't? He's the leader of the Fallen, or at least the largest faction of it," Harry replied.
"There's a man under his command who has severed ties named Dohnaseek. Among him are three other Fallen but there's one named Raynare."
"The last name sounds familiar for some reason."
"She's… an old friend. She, your mother, and I used to all be friends before they both fell. Your mother and I used to meet in private in the human world and have tea on a regular basis, of course before she was reincarnated. Raynare, on the other hand, kept her distance from me," Gabriel replied sadly.
"Not that I don't appreciate a little backstory, what do you want me to do exactly?"
She sighed, "Raynare has fallen in with a bad crowd. From what Michael has told me, they intend on collecting several Sacred Gears from humans, extracting them. Killing them. I want you to bring her to back to me before she kills an innocent."
"Do you know where she is?"
She shook her head in the negative. "No, all I know is that she is in the Kuoh area. She is hidden from our view."
"How could that be? I thought the most powerful angels in Heaven could see almost anything if they directed their attention towards it?"
"As you may have noticed, Kuoh is currently under devil influence, meaning that we cannot see into their territory using divine powers without alerting them to our presence. I think she is hiding out in a church abandoned by the Church."
Harry sighed, "I'll see what I can do."
"That's all I ask of you," Gabriel replied as she hugged him one more time.
There was a bit of an awkward silence to which Harry only said, "I should go."
"Don't be a stranger!" she replied with a wave as he leaned backward off the cloud they were standing on.
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It had been several days since Harry met with Gabriel and he had little success. There were very few churches in Kuoh or the surrounding area due to Christianity being a minority of the religious population, something that you could learn from various websites sponsored by both the Japanese government as well as several others like the CIA Factbook (1). In Kuoh itself there was one active Christian church with a fair-sized congregation. He had spoken to the minister after a service to get other addresses of former churches that had closed. Harry had explained that he was interested in architecture and wanted to take photos of the church matter how old or run down they might have been. The minister appreciated that the structures would be preserved in photo form and wrote down at least a dozen addresses.
The process of going to each church was a painstaking process as he had to approach using non-supernatural means in order to keep his cover. The city metro, or trains if you prefer as they're all the same thing in technicality, made for a long trip from church to church. Deep ding o how far it was from the station would depend on how many he was able to scope out daily.
On the fourth day after visiting the single active congregation Harry felt a rise in supernatural power. First, there was a spike in corrupted angelic power followed by a spike in devilish power no more than a few minutes afterward. He cut his expedition trip short and investigated the site to find thin deep pitting in the concrete around a fountain used in the area by high school students to confess their love for another. He felt the residual energy of that used by a Fallen. In the same place, he felt a massive amount of power that radiated from Devils also.
'Minimal amounts of Fallen power followed by massive amounts of Devil power?' he asked himself.
He looked closer to the pitting on the ground and saw some still wet, but drying blood. It was freshly spilled. It seemed as though someone cleaned up the scene, but missed some spots as the velocity and spatter suggested that something impacted the victim at high speeds. Looking at the scene as a whole, he started to piece together what might have happened.
Someone was attacked by a Fallen, which was off since Azazel wanted to keep the peace to not start another supernatural war meaning that it must've been someone with Dohnaseek, and that person was left to die. Based on the fact that the massive amounts of Devil power arrived after a significant amount of time passed meant that a Devil had resurrected whoever was attacked. There were only two big Devil crews in town, that being the Gremory and Sarafell families (primarily the heirs of the families), both of which went to Kuoh High, meaning he just had to watch their peerages to see who was now a 'regular' in their group. That would reveal the who. As for the why, that was a completely different story. Why would a Fallen kill a human for no absolute reason? They were no threat to them unless they were a wizard who had powerful magic or the chosen of one of the pantheons (2). If the latter was the case, then Gabriel would have mentioned that someone with a Higher Being's blessing in the area. Which meant that the human had some other kind of trait that made him a threat. But what?
'A Sacred Gear?' he thought as he cocked his head at the scene. That would certainly make sense. Only humans could obtain and wield Sacred Gears as they were distributed by God in some kind of higher logic that he couldn't comprehend. Devils could only wield them if they were resurrected humans. Pureblood Devils had magic that was specific to their family that only their family could wield. There was a similar scenario for allies of Angels, but that only applied if they were Sainted. And reaching the status of Sainthood was no easy task, it took hard work from the human and acknowledgment from Heaven itself where a high-ranking Angel would vouch for them. It was a fascinating process of dedication. But unlike the Devil peerage (Evil Piece) system, there were few Saints. Rumors that he had overheard during his last visit to Heaven suggested that they were trying to come up with their own system for Sainting humans, especially those with Sacred Gears (3). Something about preparing for the worst in the case of another war.
But back to the point. What kind of Sacred Gear would cause this Fallen in particular to kill a human? Sure, there were a lot of Sacred Gears that could kill humans, Angels, Fallen, or Devils quite easily. But most humans were completely unaware that they even had one let alone how to access them. It had to be something that could easily jeopardize whatever plan that they had in motion to react to a non-threat. Now said threat was now a reincarnated Devil. This got more interesting and more complicated as he speculated more on the newly discovered information. For now, though, he would have to watch and wait (and continue to investigate where he left off) and act when the time was right.
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A few days later.
The days had passed uneventfully with no major spikes in supernatural activity. Harry had investigated all but two churches as he still had to keep up appearances of a high school student. He still personally hated math with a passion, especially trigonometry. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division? Useful. A mass majority of trig? None unless you're going to become a math major (4).
School life for Harry was a bit of a double-edged sword and had a love/hate relationship with it. On one hand, he liked being another face in the crowd to have a borderline normal school life. There weren't any crazy life or death adventures that could cause the end of the world by the hand of a megalomaniac (Voldemort), just going to class daily and doing homework and talking to people his age. It was boring most of the time, but after having a pretty crappy childhood and every year of school at Hogwarts always had one or more life threatening events it was almost a pleasure for normal life events.
As for how he hated school life? Well, as a foreign exchange student who did have an appealing physical appearance that the Perverted Trio, Issei and his group of friends, called a 'damned bishi'. He actually had to go online to find out what a 'bishi' even was. Well, he understood why they disliked him now as apparently bishi was the shorted form of bi-shoujo (which is a term that can apply to both sexes but is more commonly associated with males) who are incredibly beautiful people who always attract the opposite sex even if they don't want it personally. He always got attention from the opposite sex where girls would constantly come up to him and start to hit on him. Don't get him wrong, he didn't mind the attention one bit; but some could get a little… clingy and stalkery. He was lucky that most of the girls that fawned over him were quite pretty. He mostly thought that most of them were interested in him because of his English accent and foreign appearance, which for most might have been the case. Then again, he didn't know the hearts of these girls and they could just be out to jump him (sexually, of course).
Harry had his suspicions on who the new Devil was. The day immediately after Harry had investigated the fountain site, Issei had been collected by Kiba after class. Rias didn't have anyone summoned to her exclusive little clubhouse unless they interested her. The Occult Club, Rias Gremory's club, is one of those clubs that you can't join no matter how much you beg or plead. After talking a bit with some of the older students, those that had been there their entire school career from Year 1, and many had approached Rias to join her club (as there were two cute girls inside of it as well as the 'queen' herself) but each time she turned down every request to join her club. She approached someone when she wanted them to and there had been only one person to join since boys were allowed at the school: Kiba. The fact she sent one of her club members to collect an unsociable (see: pervert) individual such as Issei to her club after school cemented him as the reincarnated Devil that he suspected. After all, he had an off feeling about him today.
He watched Issei from afar for the last few days to observe his behavior. He still went on about how he was going to create a harem for himself, but this time he seemed much more motivated to do so. Like someone had just promised him the Kingdom of Heaven and all of his desires within. Harry had heard him say such things before, primarily how he was going to be surrounded by beautiful women one day and that no 'damn bishi' was going to stop him. He always just laughed it off since it was the ramblings of a hormonal, horny teen who was ignored by girls who pined after attractive guys and found him too perverted for them. But there was something different this time, and not the whole Devil thing; but something else, something… even more powerful. However, that would have to be something he would file away for later.
He went through his normal routine and went home for the day. Later on, during the night he felt something… off. There was no other way to describe it. Harry made his way to an apartment complex in Devil territory in Kuoh. He carefully walked up the steps to the second story and saw an open door. It was then the smell of blood and other bodily fluids hit his nose. He carefully approached the apartment and the smell of urine, defecation, and blood grew all the stronger (5). The entire area unnerved him in every sense of the word. He looked in the room and what he saw sickened him. The entire apartment (see: room) was filled with splattered blood all over the place. You know the phrase 'all the' followed by some noun? This room was filled with all the blood. Well, not literally, but you would be fooled if you saw the room for the first time.
Lying on the floor inside was the decapitated body of a very overweight young man. But such a death could not cause the widespread splatter that he saw. No, this man had been sadistically tortured before he was decapitated. Harry didn't venture that far in, but he could tell that the wounds oozed light energy, as in Angelic light. The wounds of such weapons used were very distinctive; they were mostly clean and burned that which was unholy. As this man was a human, it didn't burn him. No, it slashed and pierced him just like any other weapon would to flesh. And it wasn't the corrupted energy that a Fallen had, as it had a more tearing-like wound pattern. Think of it this way: Angelic light was like a scalpel, Fallen light was like a rusty chainsaw. This meant one of two things: either Michael had put a hit squad out for some unknown reason, or there were Exorcists in play. But the thing was, Exorcists moved only when the Church told them to, whose leaders were spoken to by Angels. Meaning, that Rogue Exorcists were in the area hunting down innocent humans. After all, they still had the weapons that the Church had granted them which used Holy Angelic light. But why?
Harry looked around and saw a leaflet of paper that gave off a slight aura of Devil power. He picked it up and saw a runic drawing that originated with the House of Gremory. Reading it further it was the standard Devil contract, you would offer up something in return for something that you wanted. And it had been used recently, as in within the last few days. The dots finally connected for him. This man was murdered by a Rogue Exorcist because he had a Devil contract and used it. But there was something else. The Exorcist came back to the scene of the crime to try and kill something else. There was a Devil presence and the spiritual burning of a transport circle in the floor of the apartment, once for arriving and one more for leaving; there were also light bullet impact sites that were relatively fresh. So well after the murder, a Devil from the House of Gremory came and was attacked by the Exorcist. Based on the fact that there wasn't a Devil body as well (or the entire complex burned down), the Devil escaped.
This wasn't good, things were escalating and he was still no closer to finding out where the rogue Fallen base was, although he did have it narrowed down to two locations. Tomorrow was a Saturday which meant that he could scout both without many distractions. He left the apartment and made sure to use his magic to ensure that no one would know he was here. As this was Devil territory and this murder had been committed by someone using supernatural means, that would mean a cleaner from one of the families would come to clean the scene of the crime. Once he was done he walked once more into the night attempting to figure out what to do when the time came.
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That Saturday. Late afternoon.
Harry had just finished his scouting of the second to last church on the list when he felt another spike of Fallen power. It wasn't like the other two times where it was slightly subtle. No, this was a lot larger. For once Harry didn't care about subtlety, he apparated as close as he could to the disturbance as he could without being seen. He walked to get closer, but only caught the end of what was happening. Raynare had a blonde-haired nun wrapped in her wings and whispered, but Harry was still able to catch it.
"That's a good girl. After the ritual tonight, you will be released from your worries and sorrows," she said in a sickly-sweet tone. Harry knew the kind, especially after he had to suffer through his fifth year with Umbridge. She then looked at Issei, who just so happened to be in a fountain, and said tauntingly, "Goodbye, Issei-kun."
Issei tried to get up but looked like a drunken monkey doing so. "No! Asia!" he shouted in vain as Asia, the nun, said a goodbye and disappeared in a puff of black feathers. Harry could feel for a split second, that Harry could have sworn that she looked right at him. Harry walked out of sight, but he could tell that Issei's master would be there soon to collect him, if from what he knew was true.
He had to prepare for anything that might happen. If Raynare came with him and abandoned her quest, then Harry could use her strength to assist him. However, if she continued to do this 'ritual' she spoke of and continued to side with Dohnaseek she would have to be terminated, much to Gabriel's displeasure.
There were few things that could kill a divine being, Fallen or not. Your standard means of killing (guns, knives, swords, ICBMs) wouldn't harm an Angel or Fallen (or at least kill them for good). However, weapons blessed by the big man himself or cursed by the original Lucifer could harm any of the divine beings (or Devils). Of course, using weapons like Weapons of Light were preferred choices for both Angels and Fallen as they could generate the light themselves so long as they had the strength. The stronger a Fallen or Angel was, the more wings they had (in pairs); the more wings they had, the more power that they could throw around before they became tired and completely vulnerable to pretty much anything.
Harry arrived at his apartment a short time later and went to his bedroom to open his chest. The chest looked like a chest used for pirate treasure with the iron bandings on the chest's top with an intricate looking iron lock that lacked the hole for a key. Instead, it had a depressed area in the shape of a thumb. He knelt down and pressed his thumb into it. He felt the pricking of his thumb and the chest opened. To the average person, this was an old chest, maybe an heirloom, but inside was a different story. He stepped inside and climbed down a ladder into an expansive, mansion-like area. Inside this chest was everything that Harry needed to live comfortably, hence his reason for renting such a cheap and small apartment, he didn't need any extra space other than what his chest needed to sit in. 'May God ever bless magic,' Harry thought.
Harry walked into the dedicated compartment (see: room) to storing weapons. Inside was what would make a weapons nut wet with envy. There were organized racks of weapons where one rack was pistols, another was shotguns, rifles, sniper/designated marksman rifles, and finally light machine guns. But in the middle of these weapon racks was a rack specifically for melee weapons, primarily swords. On each holder was each blade with its scabbard right below it. There were many types of blades from all around the world ranging from the single edged katana to the double-edged Viking blades and those similar to in the Western world. The one weapon that Harry was the proudest to own was the Sword of Gryffindor, one of the few weapons that the Goblins allowed Harry to keep considering his… lineage.
Harry picked up the ancient blade and examined it once more like he always did before using it. While it was never needed due to the Goblin forged steel that it was made of, he did it out of habit as regular weapons eventually deteriorated over time and needed to be repaired. Such a process allowed Harry to appreciate the Goblin made steel. Many of the weapons that he had inside this armory he had used on many different jobs that he had taken, but this one would have to be completed with the Sword of Gryffindor due to its unique ability to take in whatever made it stronger to empower it further. A prime example of this was when Harry slayed the Basilisk during second year, in which the extremely lethal, caustic venom imbued the blade. The same happened when he channeled his Light into it, it was absorbed just like the poison was.
The blade glowed slightly as the Light emanated from it ever so softly. He sheathed the blade and slung it over his back in a way that would be reminiscent of Aragorn in Lord of the Rings. Harry picked out a single pistol and holstered it in the rear of his pants. Harry knew that if Dohnaseek's Fallen had a single Exorcist working for them, then there were more than likely much more that they had working for them as well. While the Sword of Gryffindor was imbued with both Light and hyper-lethal venom, he wanted some extra insurance just in case. After all, humans could be killed by anything.
Harry emerged from his trunk and immediately apparated to the final church on the list of churches, but walked the last quarter mile in order to not immediately alert the Fallen inside. He arrived well before sunset and started scouting the church's parameters looking for weaknesses or traps. What he found were several 'tripwire' wards that would alert the one who cast it. There were no other wards than that. This told him that the Fallen and priests inside were extremely cocky thinking that they could deal with whatever crossed (6).
Harry must've lost track of time examining the wards because the next thing he knew it was sundown and felt the arrival of many Devils. Two used transportation circles to appear inside the wards where the last three appeared on the outside and walked inside once the Fallen were occupied by the two. Taking a wild guess, he was willing to bet money that Rias and her queen were acting as the distraction due to their sheer power. After all, anyone who was anyone in the supernatural world knew that Rias inherited the Power of Destruction, the house Gremory inherited power, a power that was ranked one of the most powerful offensive powers in the Underworld (the best contender for best defense is that of the Phenix family (7)).
Harry saw a Devil rune array appear in a sphere which roughly read as 'contain'. It was then he saw his opportunity and make his way towards the church entrance. Inside he saw Rias' rook Kiba fighting a Light sword wielding man wearing Exorcist attire, and he was keeping pace without missing a beat. None of the four noticed him, the three Devils as they had their backs to him and the single Exorcist as he was apparently caught up in the heat of battle. Issei summoned his Sacred Gear, a gauntlet of sorts, and ran at the Exorcist, punching him in the face causing him to fly into the wall in a heap. The Exorcist said something about 'shitty Devils' and threw a divine form of a flashbang grenade on the ground. Harry already had his eyes closed and stuck out his arm, clotheslining the Exorcist.
"And where do you think you're going?" Harry asked, looking down at the laid-out priest.
The priest groaned in pain and spat out, "Yet another shitty Devil?"
"Potter-san?" Kiba asked.
"I'd rather not kill someone in cold blood. Pick up your sword," Harry ordered. "We'll settle this like gentlemen. A duel, if you will." Harry then kicked the priest so that he flew a dozen feet back.
He got up and spat out blood. "You'll regret that, Devil," the crazed priest said as he drew one sword hilt that materialized a blade of Light.
Harry only laughed, "I'm no Devil." Harry drew the Sword of Gryffindor and summoned the other Light blade to his other hand. He pointed both towards the ground but flourished them in a taunt. The priest then ran at Harry, attempting to run him through. Harry only parried the blade aside and returned a probing stab of his own, something that the priest was able to barely dodge. Harry flipped the Light blade into a reverse grip and blocked a strike, literally pushing the priest back causing him to lose ground. He struck with the Sword of Gryffindor, to which the priest parried, but his blade was immediately struck with the now upwards Light sword mere milliseconds after. Harry then struck the now scared defending priest with both blades at once, following up with one blade after the other, following that up with a backhanded strike that caused the Light blade the priest held to be thrown from his grasp. Harry then ended the fight by striking with a scissor strike at the priest's waist (8). The priest looked down and saw that his blood was gushing out of his body. He then realized the sheer difference in skill, and the caustic, hyper-lethal poison now coursing through his bloodstream. "All too easy."
The deranged priest fell backward on the ground, his eyes watching the ceiling. Harry then walked away from the Exorcist, allowing him to bleed out. Issei then shouted, "I thought you were going to kill him!"
"He'll be dead shortly. The poison imbued in this blade is from the deadly Basilisk, the King of Serpents," Harry replied dismissively. "Come, there are more pressing things to attend to. Maybe he has just enough time to beg God for forgiveness for his sins," Harry said as he walked towards the altar.
"I follow the law of the Church. All shitty Devils must die!" the priest shouted, obviously in pain.
"Yes, but they said nothing about brutally murdering those that consort with them. You could have led them away to save their souls, but instead you elected to murder them, condemning their souls forever." Harry continued to walk away. "It wouldn't surprise me if this was the reason that the Church disavowed you and your little gaggle of Exorcist buddies I know that are nearby."
The three Devils followed Harry after giving the barely clinging to life psychotic priest a single look. They approached the altar and Kiba asked, "Potter-san, why are you here?"
"And what the hell was that, you damn bishi?" Issei asked, still clearly annoyed that he had been one-upped.
"To answer your questions in order: I have my own reasons for being here that result in the result in the defeat of this splinter cell of Fallen, and actually learning how to fight, Issei-san. If you applied yourself rather than obsessing over women then maybe girls wouldn't be so repulsed by you," Harry jabbed right as Koneko threw the alter aside revealing a trap-door leading downwards into the basement.
"I'm not that bad…" Issei stated, "right?" He looked to Koneko.
"Hentai," was her only reply before she walked down the steps following their new, temporary companion.
Kiba walked up to Issei and said, "He's not wrong, you know." Kiba too walked down the stairs.
Issei too walked down the stairs muttering under his breath, "Damn bishies not understanding why harems are great."
They walked down the stairs and through a small archway to reveal a large chamber that was high enough to easily fit a twenty-five-foot Christmas tree and still have some room to spare. At the end on the very top of a set of stairs tied to a cross in chains was a blonde-haired girl with European features dressed in conservative undergarments reminiscent of a night gown.
"Issei-kun?" the girl asked, delirious from whatever she was being put through.
"Asia!" Issei shouted out. He started to run, but Harry reached out with his hand keeping him from running any further. "What are you-?" he asked before he was interrupted.
"Let me handle this my way first. If it doesn't work we'll use yours, savvy?" Harry asked, emulating a certain fictional on-screen pirate. Issei reluctantly nodded. Harry took a few steps forward and kept his sword at his side, the tip pointed downwards. "Hey!" Harry shouted, getting the attention of Raynare, "We need to have a talk!"
The Fallen turned from the nun and looked at Harry. She looked to Harry and said, "So the Gremory bitch managed to add another little Devil to her Peerage. And what's with the getup?" She then paused for a moment, feeling none of the Devil power that Devils had that was completely incompatible with Fallen or Angels alike. No, it felt… familiar. "You're not-."
"I'm glad you found that out before throwing spears at me. I was personally going for the Blade Runner look, the one that Harrison Ford's character uses. The two of us need to have a little chat. Aunt Gabby wants you to stop."
Her eyes widened in shock. "She doesn't care about me. After all, this church is outside Heaven's jurisdiction."
"True, but there are loopholes, as I'm sure you're aware of, by sending in a third party," Harry revealed. The Devils' eyes widened as this finally hit them as well, well, for different reasons, however. Their classmate wasn't a Devil and was talking to a Fallen like it was nothing; that, and he just name dropped someone named Gabby that both of them knew, and Harry called aunt. It was Kiba (followed by Koneko) who figured it out (Issei was totally lost). Heaven had been the first clue, followed by the Church having no jurisdiction here anymore (specifically this church in particular), and Gabby being the last.
Kiba's eyes widened as he asked, "You mean-?"
But Harry cut him off, still keeping his attention on Raynare. "She's sent me with an ultimatum: abandon this quest and this group and she'll welcome you back, all sins forgiven. But if you continue down this path and do what you're planning to this night you will be labeled as a lost cause and I have been requested to reluctantly terminate you. Hopefully, you choose the former, she's already lost one good friend this century."
Raynare's eyes seemed to widen in realization, after all, there were only three Fallen that Gabriel loved even after their fall. That being Lillian, James, and Raynare. "So, James or Lillian are-?"
"Both passed around seventeen years ago," Harry replied. "You're all she has left, at least outside of Heaven, that is." Harry took a few steps towards her, the priests in her employ slowly approaching as well, their hands already holding their weapons. "She doesn't want to lose another close friend. You doing what you're doing already is tearing her up inside." He stood firm, watching the priests closely in the corner of his eye. "You still have time to walk away. She's willing to welcome you back with open arms. All you have to do is walk away now."
Raynare stood conflicted. On the one hand, she had her orders from Dohnaseek, on the other, she had an old friend from before her fall that was willing to welcome her back with open arms and all she had to do was walk away. The Devils carefully watching her saw her conflict of interest and didn't act immediately. Issei wanted to fight the girl that killed him, that used his own hormones against him for a reason unknown still to him. The priests didn't know what to do; they knew that they had to kill the Devils, but the one that they had sworn themselves to hadn't told them to attack. The nun next to Raynare was just as confused but was relieved that she wasn't tortured anymore.
"If I walk away from this and let the girl go, I can go back to Heaven? I'll be welcomed back?" Raynare asked hopefully, her voice weak with shock.
"Yes," Harry nodded, "but only if you let that girl go."
Raynare looked over her options carefully. Finally, she decided. "I'll do it. I'll go back." She then ignited a Light spear and severed the chains that held the nun in place. The nun was freed, but before she could offer her thanks, a hand reached into her chest, but it was not Raynare's.
The group, sans the priests, looked on in horror to see Dohnaseek's hand inside Asia's chest, the area around it glowing. "Raynare, I am so disappointed in you," he chastised. "Giving up on our goal this far into the plan? I'm insulted." He then ripped his hand away revealing the Twilight Healing, one of the many powerful Sacred Gears. He lifted it up to his eyesight and began to admire the ring form of the Gear. "And to think you were this close to gaining my full trust and you decided to betray me. But you know what they say, you just can't find good help these days." Asia fell to the ground in a heap, her eyes barely open. Harry and Raynare knew that she would die if her Gear wasn't returned within two minutes, oddly the same amount of time that most people can stay underwater before they start to drown. "And now? You will die for your betrayal."
Dohnaseek summoned a sword made of Holy Light and lunged at Raynare, however, she was able to quickly summon a Light spear of her own to defend herself. Seeing this as the time to act, the Devils attacked the priests. Harry pulled out his pistol, your average, run of the mill Springfield Armory XD(M) .45 caliber pistol that he had obtained not too long after he left England. It had served him well many times before, well, when he decided to use it. It was unmodified in the sense of magic, other than it could not be ripped away from his grasp using the Expeliarmus spell and it had that akin to a magic bio lock that would only allow him to use it as it was meant to (someone who got their hands on it could still club him or anyone else to death).
The first priest charged Harry with his sword, only for Harry to parry it and fire a round into his stomach, ending his role in the fight immediately. Koneko and Kiba charged in to make a path for Issei who had a thing for the Asia girl. Four priests surrounded Harry, he swung around and fired three shots, hitting each of them in the head, and decapitated the fourth all within one fluid motion. It was a ballet of death of a level that these priests had never seen before. Eventually, they were thinned out to the point where Issei could charge up the stairs and confront the two Fallen currently fighting at the apex of the structure. Taking this moment of opportunity, Issei grabbed Asia and ran with her quickly weakening state up into the main portion of the church; but Dohnaseek didn't care, after all, he already had the Twilight Healing, the girl was no longer required. A few priests tried to stop him, but Koneko and Kiba made sure to block their attempts.
Harry felt one other Fallen appear upstairs, but his current goal was Raynare as per the request given to him. Issei should be able to take care of himself long enough for his master to step in. Taking his moment to act, he jumped into the so-far two-man fray and made it a threesome. Dohnaseek made a motion to strike, but Harry stepped in and blocked the strike. "Might I cut in?" Harry jested.
Dohnaseek pressed against him harder but was unable to do so. "How is this possible, you're just another pathetic, lowly human?" he shouted with annoyance.
"Who ever said I was human?" Harry replied cryptically. He then allowed himself to reveal his ashen-gray wings. But it wasn't the fact that they were ashen and not black or pure white, but the fact that he had two sets of them, meaning that he was twice as powerful as any Fallen with one set; both Raynare and Dohnaseek only had one set. Harry turned his gaze towards the very scantily clad Raynare behind him and said, "If you want to sit this one out, you can."
"How is this possible?" Dohnaseek asked, still straining to push against his newly revealed opponent.
Harry got an impish grin, one that those that knew him knew that there was a prank on the way. "When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much they make love and a baby is born nine months later," Harry joked.
"QUIT PLAYING WITH ME!" he shouted as he tried for another slash which Harry sidestepped.
"No playing here, just the truth," Harry admitted.
It was then that Raynare put two and two together. "You mean you're-?" she asked.
"Bingo," confirmed Harry.
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO DRIBBLING ON ABOUT?!" Dohnaseek shouted in frustration that no matter what he did, either Harry blocked, deflected, or dodged anything that he threw at him. This much younger man was toying with him.
"Aww, he doesn't get it," taunted Harry. "Maybe we should end this now?" It was then Dohnaseek realized that he needed to think quick, if he didn't he would die here.
Harry started to actually fight back. He used lightning quick strikes while using his wings as feints to further disorient the much older, experienced Fallen Angel. Before Dohnaseek knew it strikes were coming from everywhere at once. He tried in vain to defend himself, but kept getting cut everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. It was like the old Chinese execution method of a Death by 1000 Paper Cuts. They came so quickly and so relentlessly that he was unable to use Twilight Healing to heal his wounds. Harry wouldn't allow him to heal. It was finally when Harry severed the hand that currently wore Twilight Healing when Dohnaseek knew that it was all over, that it was the end of the line. Harry caught the hand and promptly removed the ring that was Twilight Healing and held the ring in the palm of his hand, letting the removed hand fall away.
Dohnaseek fell to the ground grabbing his stump of a hand with his other hand. He backs up until his back is at the foot of the cross that was used as the catalyst of the initial Sacred Gear removal ritual. Harry turned to see that the two Devils were mopping up the remaining priests. Harry turned to the now disarmed Fallen and commented, "I believe we're done here." Harry turned to leave. "Do with him what you will," he addressed Raynare. "Meet up with me when you're done dealing with him. After all, he was the one that led you down this path."
Harry walked away from the two Fallen and past the bodies of the priests. He saw that the Devils were no longer in the chamber. He climbed the stairs and walked into the main place of worship to see the Devils surrounding one of Raynare's former allies, the one who wasn't a Lolita. "You shouldn't have insulted my subject," Rias said towards the Fallen on the ground. The Fallen looked up in fear as Rias generated an orb on her fingertip, showing that this was just a fraction of her Power of Destruction. The Fallen screamed in both horror and pain until it was drowned out by the roaring power of the Power of Destruction. There was a flash of blackness that caused everyone, including Harry, to close their eyes. When they were able to see again all there was on the floor was a pile of black feathers.
"Looks like this is all taken care of," Harry broke the silence. The Devils turned to look at him and got in fighting stances. Harry looked at what they were looking at and saw that his ashen wings were still out. "Ah, I forgot those were left out." He folded them behind his back and held his hands up in a defensive fashion, "Let's be rational here, we're all friends here." He got a slight glare at that. "Ok, allies of convenience with a similar end goal."
"What do you want, Fallen?" Kiba spat.
Harry reached slowly inside his coat and pulled out the Twilight Healing, showing it to the Devils. "I believe this belongs to the young lady there." Issei snatched the ring from Harry's hand and put it on Asia's middle finger on her left hand. However, it did nothing as she had already passed on. If there was one thing that being exposed to Death's trio of artifacts did, he was able to feel the passing of those recently deceased.
"President, I'm so sorry. You and the others came to help me, after everything I said, a-and yet, I… couldn't protect Asia," Issei said as he started to break down, tears running down his face.
"That's alright," Rias comforted him. "You just haven't had enough experience at being a devil. Nobody blames you."
"But… but I…" he stammered.
"This is unprecedented, but it's worth a try." Rias then pulled a white bishop out of her pocket and held it in her hand. "Do you think this is?"
"A chess piece," Issei answered as if he had been presented the most obvious question in the universe.
"To be exact, it is a bishop," Akeno explained.
"Akeno-san…?"
"A bishop's power is to back up the other devils in the household. Her healing abilities will come in handy as a clergyman," Rias added.
Issei then asked in shock, "President, you don't mean…?"
"I'm going to try bringing this Sister back as a devil," she explained.
"GabeN won't like it, but it's technically none of my business so long as you keep away from my meal ticket," Harry quipped. "What?" he asked innocently when he got several looks.
Issei and Akeno laid Asia out on the floor. Rias then summoned the family circle that was unique to her family line. She then started to chant, "In the name of Rias Gremory, I command thee, Asia Argento, that thy soul return again to this earth, and that thou become my servant devil. Rejoice thou in thy new life, as my clergyman!"
The bishop laying on top of her heart glowed red and sank into her chest, causing all of her to glow red for a moment before subsiding. "President, is Asia…?" Issei asked, unsure about what he was seeing exactly.
"Keep quiet," Rias ordered. Asia's hands glowed green for but a moment before she started twitching and opened her eyes.
"Asia?"
"Huh?" the young blonde asked.
"President!" Issei exclaimed in happiness as Asia sat up.
"I only brought her back because I wanted her power, which can even heal devils," Rias exclaimed.
Harry only chuckled, "Right, and I'm John Constantine, the demon hunter."
Rias shot Harry a glare once more. She then addressed Issei once more as she turned away, "From here on, you protect her. You are the senior devil, after all."
"Issei-san? U-um, am I…?" Asia unsurely asked.
All Issei could do was hug her and reply, "Come on, let's go home, Asia."
The rest of the Devils, even Harry included, looked at the touching scene. It was then the sound of heels coming up cement stairs were heard. "I assume you're done?" Harry asked without looking.
"Dohnaseek is no more," a familiar voice to Issei replied. He turned to look and saw Raynare, the woman that killed him no more than three days earlier.
He got up to defend Asia and summoned his Sacred Gear, but Rias acted first and stretched an arm in front of him, almost as if she was reading Harry's mind. "President?"
"If you act now you'll singlehandedly start a war with Heaven. She's Heaven's problem now," Harry replied. "I'm only still here to ensure her safe arrival at the Gates."
"He's right, Issei. As she has been claimed by Heaven, any unprovoked action against her will be interpreted as an act of war," Rias explained further.
He looked angry, as Harry had expected him to be (mainly because of the whole 'she killed me' thing, but as he was quite hot headed as well). "But she killed me!" he exclaimed.
"And she will be punished accordingly by both Gabriel and Michael appropriately," Harry added. "Chances are she won't be let out of Heaven without an escort to ensure she doesn't do anything they disapprove of. Assuming she's let out anytime during your lifetime, that is." He got an uneasy look from Raynare. "I don't know their minds or what your punishment will be," Harry shrugged. He was about to say something else when he paused, "Something's off."
{Constantine 2014 theme (9)}
Harry walked over to where Freed's body had once been, only to see a void. He knelt down and touched the ground with his first and middle fingers and his thumb. He scraped against it as if touching a liquid and lifted his fingers up to eye level before rubbing them together. There was unseen magic that was used, and it felt… wrong. There was no other way of saying it. It was like that used by Cthulhu and his ilk, that being someone from outside this dimensional plane.
"What is it?" Rias asked for everyone.
Harry only stood up and smoothed out his trenchcoat-like jacket out. "I don't know, and I don't like it," he replied as he walked back over to Raynare.
Harry then extended his wings and wrapped them around both him and Raynare. It was then Asia asked, "Umm, who are you?"
Harry only got a wry grin and replied, "My name is Harry Potter. I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and arrogance. I'll drive your demons away, kick them in the bollocks, and spit on them when they're down. Leaving only a nod, and a wink, and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone because let's be honest, who'd be crazy enough to walk it with me?" It was with that he disappeared in a whirl of ashen feathers.
There was absolute silence until Kiba asked, "Wait, did he just quote John Constantine?"
To be continued…?
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And there we go, another pilot set up and knocked down. That was a bit different, wasn't it? Well before I go into my normal after pilot things I do have some numbered notes this time around.
1. This is 100% true. Christianity is considered to be 1.5% of the entire population as of 7/12/17 according to the CIA Factbook. Quite a fun site to explore when looking for information on other countries.
2. It is considered canon that there are different pantheons in the DxD universe of which are in charge of different regions and those that worship the appropriate deities in the religion.
3. This is a hinting at the Brave Saints system that is implemented later in the series as a counter to the Evil Piece system.
4. This is my exact feeling on math in the higher-level math classes. Math is important, but not everyone needs to know trig, calc, or other super-complex math courses. Sure, they should be available, but you shouldn't be forced to take those specifically.
5. This happens to you when you die, as disgusting as it sounds. Since your higher brain functions fail to continue function, your muscles just release. And what muscles control bodily functions? Those. You want to know if someone's dead, just take a whiff, you'll know almost instantly.
6. After watching the anime once more with the scene where Mitelit confronts Rias and Akeno I always wondered how they knew; wards made absolute sense and it fits with the universe as well.
7. This would make sense in-universe as well. It would make sense why on a power level (and not a sexual one on the part of Raiser) that Rias would be arranged to be married to Raiser Phenix. They would have children with the possibility of being completely unstoppable super soldiers.
8. This entire fight sequence was inspired by the one that's in the "Return" cinematic from Star Wars: The Old Republic where the master of Satele Shan fights Darth Malgus. (YouTube) watch?v=mm4JEZudf0c.
9. (YouTube) watch?v=Yyt4hmiBEO0.
So, what do I want to accomplish with this fic? Well, the first of which is what if Raynare could have been saved? Then what if Harry was thrown into the mix with his heritage as well? These were things that popped into my head as I read many other stories that are HP/DxD crossovers. I can guess there may be a few of you who might ask who I will pair Harry up with. First and foremost, I, like in many of my other fics, am going to stay away from a harem.
"But Phil, DxD is a harem anime; how could you not want a harem in a harem anime?" I can hear you ask. Well, Harry has no reason to really have a harem. I mean, Issei gets one later due to actually becoming a King in the whole Evil Piece system allowing him to have a Peerage of his own which can be filled with as many women as he desires. You could argue him getting the "early access" or "beta" version of the Brave Saints system would be an ample opportunity to create a harem, but once again I really don't see the logical reasoning to have one. If this were a devil!Harry fic then it would make sense for him to have a harem, something that I might explore in the future. But that is neither here or now.
For a pairing? I don't know. Perhaps maybe Rosweisse? Maybe even Raynare? Perhaps Gabriel as she's a technically non-blood aunt? Irena? I don't honestly know. I mean, maybe I can dig back into the HP characters and maybe implement Luna as she's a lovable oddball that would fit right in with all these other oddballs. At this point I'm going to just run with what I have as thinking of a romance subplot is always fine so long as it works with the plot idea and doesn't detract from it. That's my philosophy on it at least.
But that's all I have this time around for this pilot as this one has been sitting around on my hard drive since November of 2016 so that's about eight months there. Yeah, sometimes I sit on these for a while. You are free to see that as either good or bad, it's your opinion. But yeah, tell me what you think. Do you think this fresh take on the HP/DxD crossover is something to look forward to? What do you think works? What doesn't? Have a suggestion for a pairing? How do you think I can tastefully (and I stress "tastefully") implement a harem without it feeling forced or clichéd? Let me know in the review section down below.
That's all I have for now and hopefully, I'll see you guys all next time!