Deity's Annihilation

*This is the second time I have to write this as my other data corrupted, so if it's not fully up to standard, I apologise, I'm super pissed*

*Oh my F*CKING GOD! Twice! My Microsoft word key ran out and I have been writing with the fanfiction page, and it is really sensitive, so this counts the third time I have to rewrite paragraphs upon paragraphs of words.*

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Xerzo LotCN: Okay, this one's long! I was originally planning to time skip to the fight, but your comment made me re-think that, in a good way, and I'm not sure about Raiser's peerage joining his harem, but maybe one becoming his lover (Rias will always be his Love) and yes, Issei won't hold back on him. Sirzechs will also have heard of him and know of him, but not personally as he knew Revous, his father, and he will have more forms, think of it kind of like Erza's re-quip from Fairy Tail, but Elemental, and his Juggernaut Drive will be terrifying. And yes, Asia is dead, Hannai is her replacement. One question though. Who is Asortha? You mean Diadora?

Anyway, now that that is done, apology time. I have been under the weather for the past two weeks with tonsillitis, and haven't been myself. I severely apologise for the lack of update, and I will try my best to make it up to everyone here. Also, if someone knows a free way to write these fanfics, then please tell, because when my Microsoft activation key ran out, I have been using the fanfiction editor to write, and its pretty buggy to say the least.

Anyways, here's the next! Enjoy!

"Talking"

'Thinking'

[Svarkova Talking to Issei]

[Svarkova Talking Out Loud]

{Mode Change}

Chapter 11

Our main protagonist opened his eyes to witness his magnificent mindscape. It was all amazing, from the flat plains to the treacherous mountains, from the threateningly dark thunder clouds, to the tranquil orbs of floating water, teeming with wildlife.

A Dragon appeared before him, looming over his body. Its' pitch black scales seeming to absorb all surrounding light, yet, contrasted to this, its' pale blue eyes seemed to radiate a cool, yet warm light, and adding a threatening look to the beast.

But, of course, to the said teen, he was more than happy to see the Dragon. All of a sudden, a fire was lit in his eyes, and determination burned throughout his core, all the way to his soul.

"Okay Scarlett, get ready, because I plan to go all out in this battle, and I expect you to do the same!" He shouted, with determination overflowing from his voice. The said Dragon, just smiled back, and held her head high, rivalling his will power.

[Let's do this my Ise. Show me how much you want to win. Show me your resolve!] Svarkova boomed, shaking the landscape, yet not even fazing the teen.

"Balance Breaker, Elemental Armour!" [Balance Breaker, Elemental Armour!]

{Mode Change, Raging Fire Opposer!}

And thus, The battle Begun!

-Line Break-

About 3 days later, only 11 or so hours in real time, have passed since they have begun fighting. The teen stood in his Raging Fire mode, his lags shaking, his heart rate surging and his breath heavy. The Dragon before him hadn't had so much as a scratch, yet she was pleased with his progress and will power. You could tell he was ready to drop, but he was willing to go on, to get stronger and protect those he love. It made her happy to see him so strong, physically and mentally.

Svarkova lowered her head till she was at his height and give him a content smile. [I think that should do it for today Ise, your friends will be waiting for your return.]

Once Issei heard this, he disengaged his armour and breathed a sigh of relief. "Thanks for today Scarlett, I shall return in two days or so for more training."

He teleported out, and the Behemoth was left alone. She remained looking at where the teen was moments ago, before grunting in satisfaction and took off in one smooth motion to the mountains to fly about the land.

-Line Break-

The said teen was sat still in a clearing in the mountains. He suddenly opened his eyes and in took a sharp breath, filling up his lungs once more. while he steadied his breathing, he studied the surroundings. The sky was on the other side of the sky and was close to setting. He stood up, dusted off his clothes, stretched out his stiffness and began back down his path to the Estate.

Once he caught view of the Estate, he was amazed all over again. The sheer size of it is incredible and the grounds were massive. He looked down at the grounds and did an overview of the land. At a battle ground type area, were two beautiful ladies floating in the air, flinging off magical bursts and firing off lightning. There was a third beauty on the ground with blue hair, who was over watching this match.

Rias and Akeno were battling against each other to improve their magical abilities and try to gain more control over their respective powers of Destruction and Lightning. Hannai had joined them earlier after a tough training session with Koneko. Rias and Akeno began to help her use Devil magic, and maybe implement her Fallen Angel powers into her attacks as she was now a Devil-Fallen hybrid. Once this was starting to be talked about, Akeno left for a short while with a scowl on her face and venom in her eyes, until they had finished their battle.

On a nearby running track, were two figures, One, of a handsome, teen boy with blond hair and the other, a small, teen girl with white hair, running around the track with weights around their body's.

Kiba and Koneko have been running on the track for the last twenty-five minutes and feel like their bodies have turned to slush. Koneko, after her training with Hannai in the woods, joined Kiba for Speed and stamina training as Issei had suggested. They had shadow boxed side by side for about two hours with weights on, before deciding to do laps around the race track.

While their limbs felt like they had lava running through their veins and their hearts pumping so hard it was all they could hear, or the fact that their legs felt like they could fall off at any point, they kept going. They were only motivated by one thing at this point.

Issei.

While Koneko might not know Issei very well, she was amazed and stunned by all his actions, from his love of Rias to his devotion to protect his friends, even her, who he barely knows, yet he stands up for them without hesitation. When she was abandoned by her sister, she felt like no one in the world was good anymore. Then Rias came along, and she brought so much happiness into her life. And it killed Koneko to see Rias unhappy with her arranged marriage. So when Issei came, Koneko felt so relieved for her master and friend. She finally had a chance to escape the horrible life her parents foolishly set for her. He was her knight in shining armour, and Koneko felt so warm inside when ever he was in the same room as him.

Kiba was almost broken when he died along with his friends, but Rias saved him, and he made a vow to protect everyone he loved, and thus created the knightly persona. He was so angry when he knew he couldn't help his saviour. He then met Issei and liked the boy from the get-go; kind, selfless, loving, innocent and loyal to a fault. Rias fell in love with Issei and Kiba was overcome with joy. Finally, his master can find happiness once more. All they had to do now was beat Riaser, the immortal Phenex, in battle. No pressure, right?

They looked up at the mountainous path and caught sight of the boy. The slowed their run and were about to call for him, before they felt something.

Koneko, instinctively using her nekomata powers, felt it first. "...Something's wrong. Ise!" They took off their heavy armour and sped to the boy, with koneko being slightly faster than previously, not that she noticed in this situation.

Issei started shaking and swaying. His head got light and his eyes started to droop. He was mid fall when he felt his momentum stop and looked to his saviour. Kiba stood over him with a worried look on his face. Issei blacked out.

"Bouchou! Akeno-san! Hannai-san!" The said three looked over to the commotion, before Rias saw what had happened and flew over as fast as she could.

"ISE!" She screamed in mid air.

When she arrived and checked his body, Koneko spoke up. "...He passed out from exhaustion, nothing serious Bouchou." Rias sighed in relief and started to address the group.

"I will take Issei to his room. I shall meet you later for dinner if I don't fall asleep. Good night everyone! Great work today!"

With that concluded, Rias set up a magical circle and teleported them to their room. Rias lay him down under the covers, check he was comfortable and started to get undressed.

"...no" He started mumbling in his sleep. Rias looked over. "...please don't, I don't want that power... please don't... let me save them... I won't use the Drive... please...help..." Rias ran to his side and got under the covers with the sleeping teen. She held him close to her and tears formed in her eyes.

"I'm here Ise. I will always be here." She comforted him in his sleep. He wrapped his arms around her back and pulled her into his chest, burying his head into her hair and clutching her strongly, yet gently. He whimpered in his sleep, before sighing in relief at the proxemics of Rias. She held him and didn't let go. Her eyes got tired and she eventually drifted off.

-Line Break-

Rias woke up in Issei's arms, with looking deep into her eyes, loving every second of it. Rias leaned up and kissed him lightly on the lips, and Issei returned the action, before Rias remembered the previous night. She suddenly sat up and looked at Issei worriedly.

"Ise, what happened yesterday? You disappeared and when you returned you collapsed from exhaustion." She asked her lover and Pawn.

Issei looked thoughtful for a moment before looking back at her. "I was just training with Scarlett, don't worry Rias. I spent more than 3 days worth of time fighting in my mind, really takes its toll on you!" He joked lightly.

Rias looked at him disapprovingly, before hugging him firmly.

"Don't push yourself like that again. I don't know what I'd do if I'd lost you"

Issei hugged her back with equal passion. "I won't leave Rias. Never.

Rias broke from his grasp. "Do you remember if you dreamed last night Ise? You started to speak while you were unconscious."

Issei rubbed his head. "Not that I can remember. Just flashes of red and other colours, mainly black and blue and red. What was I saying?"

"Nothing important Ise." She hugged Issei, but felt horrible about lying to him, but he didn't need the added pressure. She made a mental note to ask Svarkova about this 'Drive'.

-Line Break-

After getting showered and dressed, the two met the rest down stairs. The second his foot touched the ground floor, he was bombarded with hugs from Akeno, Hannai, Koneko and Kiba. Issei, to say the least, was flustered.

"Hey guys, what I miss?"

Hannai scolded him. "Don't do things like that Ise!"

Koneko looked stoic as always, but her eyes held worry. She felt something inside him. Something not right. "...Don't do that Issei-senpai."

Akeno looked seductively. "Next time that happens, I may have to rest with him for him to heal up, ufufufu!"

Kiba punched him lightly on the arm. "Hey man, that's not cool to scare all of us like that."

Rias looked on in amusement. Even in rough times, her friends and peerage always know how to cheer her up.

Issei just chuckled at their show of affection. "Okay everyone, I'm fine, sorry to make everyone worry. Let's get back to training."

They all looked at him like he was stupid. Akeno spoke first. "I don't think so. You need to rest."

Hannai spoke after. "You passed out Ise, you should stay here for today."

Koneko next. "...You shouldn't push yourself too hard."

Kiba, second last. "Take it easy Ise-kun, we have plenty of time. Listen to the girls."

Finally, Rias. "You are going to bed Ise, I'm not letting you push yourself to the brink of death."

Issei looked at them seriously, his joking side gone. "Listen everyone, I'm fine, honestly. We need all the time we can get. I can rest after the match when we have won. I'm not resting until then. If you want to stop me, you should find out how to pacify a raging Dragon. Not fun.

"Besides, mostly today, I shall be helping you guys, I'm not to go back to Scarlett till tomorrow."

The group looked at him sceptically, but eventually they agreed to let him help with the training.

"Okay then," Rias began, moving to the kitchen, "But I shall make the breakfast this morning for everyone."

Rias made a good Eastern breakfast for the group, and after that, everyone was set for training.

Issei faced his comrades and went over the plan for the day.

"Today, everyone will do a 5 kilometre run, myself included, and then we shall begin the individual training. I shall work with Koneko first, to improve her speed and reactions. Koneko, I shall equip my Thunder mode and you shall try and hit me. I will work with Hannai next to improve her implementation of Holy magic into her attacks, and basic strength training to get her up to standards. Then I will work with Akeno to make you more accurate with your lightning, to save energy and make the attacks more potent. I will work with Kiba next, and this shall be hard Kiba. You shall attack me for about 2 minutes with everything you have as I dodge, then I shall attack you for 4 minutes as you try to dodge all my attacks. I won't hold back. Rias, I shall work with you to make your attacks more controlled, to save energy and to avoid exhaustion."

With that done, they all went for the lap.

-Line Break-

After the lap, which left everyone tired and panting, they began their separate training, as they had the day before till it's their turn with Issei to train.

Koneko and Issei were first. The task was this, Koneko needed only hit Issei once as he dodges in his Cataclysmic Thunder Mode and she wears heavy armour.

Easy enough in theory. In practice, however...

Koneko didn't agree.

After about 2 and a half hours, the Nekomata was still yet to hit Issei. She was dripping with sweat, her arms felt like rocks have been tied to her hands and her head was spinning slightly. But she still kept her hands up and went for Issei. He constantly gave her encouraging words and you could see he didn't like tormenting his friends, but he had to train them to the best of their abilities.

He ended the training and Koneko fell on her bottom, lying on the ground, trying to catch her breath. Issei sat beside her and took his bottle of water from the side of the field, lay down beside her, and handed it to her. She tried to raise her weak hand, but failed to do so. He sat up, held her back and lifted her up slightly, opened her mouth and poured the water in slowly. When her mouth was full, he let her swallow, before repeating.

Koneko, on the other hand, was furiously blushing the whole time, yet could do nothing to stop it. Infact, if she thought more about it, she never really wanted it to stop. She loved Issei's help and his warmth around her, and his constant caring for her and the peerage. But the fact that she knew that He and Rias were in love, hurt her heart so much it pained her to even think about the prospect about losing him.

After a short while, Koneko regained her strength and they hobbled back to the others.

-Line Break-

After Koneko's training, she went to get a short bath and a rest till her energy comes back. Meanwhile, Issei and Hannai began their training. They were in a magical suppression field that blocks all magical blasts from exiting. Akeno set it up, with a seductive wink to Issei. He trained her to be able to implement her holy magic into her new attacks, which is a cross between her birth-right aqua magic and her now added holy magic. She hadn't had a grasp of devil magic yet, but she wasn't too displeased about that.

After about 3 hours of training, she was left in a panting mess with her magical reserves drained. She never felt this exhausted before. Yet, in a way, she liked it. It showed she was trying to improve, and Issei being there made it that much sweeter. Yet, the same as Koneko, she couldn't bear to think of the possibility of him not being her lover. Even after such a short time, she felt like her soul was reaching out to him every time he was near. She knew he belonged to Rias, but that didn't make the pain less. If anything, the fallen angel side in her wanted her to try to take him for herself. If she was with him for a short amount of time, privately...

She quickly dispersed the thoughts, the side that loves Issei would never let her Fallen side pull something like that. She may be a bit selfish, but she would never do something that would ruin Issei's much needed happiness after being alone for so long.

He helped her up and he led her to the main training area and got everyone's attention. He told them they would take a break and go get some food and a bath, then meet in the theatre in the estate for a movie to calm their nerves.

Issei was dragged into the girls bath again, but he didn't look flustered or embarrassed this time, only thoughtful. Even with four beautiful women showing off their bodies, or developing bodies for Koneko, he barely glanced at them. This wasn't because he thought they weren't amazing, but he couldn't get a thought out of his head. He had it circling around his brain since he had woken up.

'What would he give to protect the ones he loved? Everything? His mind? His...control? What would happen if he lost control?'

He felt a power deep within him, pulling him closer to temptation. He knew, without a doubt, that he would give anything for his friends and family, as he couldn't in the past with his parents.

Koneko felt this spike in negative energy. It was stronger than anything she had ever felt. It was growing by the second, growing to the point where you could basically see it in the air it was so thick. It filled her whole being with so much dread. She started shaking and shivering, and her core filled with so much fear. She managed to raise her eyes to Issei, and her heart almost snapped In her chest at the sight.

His eyes were filled with sadness and worry, as if his worries and fears caused this massive spike in impure energy. His eyes caught hers and he gasped in fear. The other girls could now feel his power leaking, as well as seeing the pain in his eyes. They followed his gaze to Koneko and say she was in a state of disarray. She looked at him with pain, and desperation in her eyes. But laced with something out of her control.

Fear.

Everyone could see it. Koneko struggled to catch her breath as Issei's spike grew two-fold at the sight of his friend in pain. This caused her to be in more discomfort, and her to start whimpering. He tried to calm his power, but to no avail. He reached out to Koneko, but all of her instincts were screaming at her to move away, and her body did so.

When Issei saw Koneko back away from him, his eyes were replaced with fear and pain, and he pulled his hand back to him. His mind started to fill with more negative thoughts, increasing his aura. He noticed what he was doing to the room, and saw all the girls instinctively back up. He winced at this sight, and more thought were drawn into his mind.

'Do they fear me? Should they? Why can't I stop? I just want to protect them! Please! Why?! Why?! WHYWHYWHYWHYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!' His negative thoughts built up over time with his powerful Sacred Gear and his loss of parents and friends, combined with a dreadful power in his family.

He backed up a step, before his eyes set on the ground and his own silver aura formed around him.

"...I-I'm Sorry." He whispered loud enough for everyone to hear, before the silver wisps around him formed around his back and morphed the colour of his eyes to a deep silver. His wings extended and he shot into the sky through the bath roof. A couple of drops of tears fell from the hole in the roof before everything sunk in for the girls.

Rias was the first to act and scrambled under the hole in the roof.

"Ise..." She whispered. She failed him. She told him she would help him get better and protect him. Now he was gone, and she had done nothing to help him. She brushed off his sleep talking thing like it was nothing. It all made sense now. "ISE!" She screamed out into the gap in the roof, clutching her chest.

Hannai rushed over to where Rias was and looked into the sky with a worried and pained look on her face. He helped her so much, yet she knew nothing of what he was going through to help his friends. While he may have not spoke the words himself, you could feel it in the aura, hidden by the malice and insanity.

Akeno fell to her knees in the water, not knowing what to do. He helped her master so much, and the whole group with the training, yet she couldn't help him in his time of need.

Then, Koneko.

Once she had got over the shock and dread, her entire being filled with sorrow, guilt, pain and many more emotions. She felt his energy from the start of his spike, she could have stopped it or at least tried to contain it. And what did she do? She pushed him away further and made him feel like a freak. Her mind wanted tom help him, as much as she tried, her body was against the idea and held her back. She felt like this was all her fault.

Kiba rushed in, after feeling the burst of dark energy and came with his sword drawn. He assessed the situation and Hannai filled him in on the basics. He felt bad as well. He thought of himself as someone who knew Issei best, yet after seeing this, he knew that he knew nothing of what Issei was feeling. He could have talked to him more, yet he remained oblivious to it.

Koneko stood on shaky legs. Everyone's gaze was on her.

"T-This is my fault. I-I pushed him away. I felt the power surge, but could do nothing. I-I-I'm so sorry Rias." She broke into tears at the last part and fell back to her knees. Rias simply crawled to her and held her close to her, as Koneko held to her as tight as she could.

"T-This wasn't just your fault, we're all to blame." They both cried into each others arms.

All they could do was train for the match for Issei's sake, and try to look for him. None of them would be able to sleep peacefully without Issei safe.

They let this happen. And they sure as Hell wouldn't let him suffer it by himself.

I'm sorry this isn't longer, I had this idea just as I was writing it and didn't plan for it. I'm not sure what I'll write about next. Also, don't worry, I'm not dead, I'm just super busy at the minute and can't find time to write.

I also apologise to my Beta, Praise Helix, for not ruining this by them first. I just wanted to get this chapter out as fast as I could to try to make up for the lost time.

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