Answers to reviews:
heroflow1000: I'll do it when I feel like it.
Axccel: Nobody outright said the Church killed those kids, only those who were part of the secret project. I wasn't meaning the Church as a whole. You're taking words and drawing your own conclusions. Nothing is retconned, I'm following the anime/manga and dialogue used.
Guest: He's got Rebellion and Yamato, what does he need Excalibur for?
kirbymaster800: Thanks.
Disclaimer: I do not own Devil May Cry or High School DxD. I only own the OC Drake Redgrave.
"A Devil actually put on a priest's clothes," Saji said as he and the others stood inside the was the same Church that Raynare had used as her base of operations long ago. Issei, Kiba and Saji wore clothing representing the clergy and wore fake crosses since the real ones would likely injure the Devils. But not everyone wore priest clothing as Drake remained in his usual red attire. It wasn't even his idea to don the priest clothing, so he wasn't wearing it. He'd look ridiculous.
"Not without kicking and screaming about it." Drake remarked with an eye roll at Saji's dramatics when he was refusing to put the clothing on, going on and on about what Sona will do if she finds out about this.
"Nothing will stand in the way of me and my goal," Kida said, buttoning his outfit.
"We'll be more effective if we slip into two groups," Drake told them.
"Sounds like a plan," Issei said with a nod. "We'll take the East side."
"Then Irina and I will take the South side." Xenovia said. "If you see anything at all, call the cell."
"Right. Then let's go." Drake and the Devils were about to leave, but stopped when Xenovia spoke.
"Oh wait, Hyoudou, before you go, there's something important that I forgot to let you," she said.
"Okay," Issei said in confusion.
"We appreciate being taken such good care of. So, as thanks, you should know that the White Dragon has awakened."
Issei's eyes widened as Ddraig's words echoed through his mind. "I'm saying be careful. You never know when the White One will make an unexpected appearance."
"And you, Drake." Xenovia turned to the son of Sparda. "We apologize for trying to take the Yamato away from you. We understand that Sparda as a national hero to all. For without him, we would've been wiped out or enslaved by Mundus a long time ago. We had no right to demand such a thing of you, nor try to make you an enemy of the Church."
"Just be glad I'm half-human and raised in the human world. Had I grown up to be as vain and petty as some Devils... I'd probably have stupidly declared war on the Church." Drake said with a snort, causing Xenovia's lips to twitch. "Now, let's get this show on the road. I'll take my van, soon as any of you see something call."
"Got it." Everyone nodded in agreement.
After leaving the Exorcists, Drake and the Devils of Rias and Sona's peerage headed towards the East side of Kuoh. They walked mainly in places where there weren't any people, as those were where the priests were reported murdered. Drake remained in his DMC van, slowly driving along and trying to not stick out like a sore thumb, though he was keeping an eye on his friends in case anything pops out of nowhere to attack.
'Rias is probably gonna be pissed at all of us when she finds out.' Drake thought with a sigh, knowing his girlfriend will be angry they got involved. With him, she may understand, but for her servants... well, she made it clear they were to not interfere with the business of the Exorcists, though Drake knew Rias would be watching them closely via her Familiar.
She wasn't arrogant enough to leave Holy Sword users in her town without some kind of supervision, even if it's subtle and that the Exorcists don't know about it.
"Hye Drake!" Issei's voice brought the Son of Sparda from his thoughts and he looked to the side door of the DMC van to see Issei standing there. "Kiba's got an idea of where to go."
"Right." Drake got out of the driver's seat and stepped out of the van, shutting the door behind him and locking his ride before following the Devils.
After about three minutes of walking and flowing the Knight, the Devils found themselves in front of their destination: a large abounded building on the outskirts of Kuoh. Staring at it, it took Kenny a moment before remembering that this was the same place they fought that one Stray Devil, Viser.
"This place? Where we killed Viser and those demons?" Drake asked with surprise, causing Saji to look at him in surprise.
"You guys fought a Stray Devil?" He asked.
"I do it all the time, it's the demons you want to look out for." Drake shrugged, making Saji frown in confusion.
"Aren't they the same?" He asked.
"Not the ones who serve the Demon King, Mundus." Drake said with a shake of his head. "Rather than call themselves Devils to lord them in with the rest, Mundus referred to himself and his legions as demons. And when I say demons, I meant the monstrous, horrible-looking monstrosities always depicted in folklore. Then again, demons comes in all shapes and sizes."
They walked towards the building, but stopped at that instant they felt chills in their bodies. It was killing intent, and it was aimed at them. No one made a sound, as they looked around with the greatest of caution. The only sound to be heard was the wind and the rustling of the tree's leaves.
Saji looked around, before looking upwards. That's when he saw the source of the killing intent. "Look up!" He shouted, pointing up. When they all looked up, they saw a familiar white haired boy priest falling down with a long sword.
"YOOHOOO!" Freed shouted in murderous glee.
KACHIN!
Drake quickly grabbed Rebellion and blocked Freed's slash. The white-haired boy then jumped and flipped backwards, before landing on the building. "Now, now, no need for violence, Devil boy!" Freed laughed. Drake rolled his eyes and whipped out Ebony. "Oh wait! Wait! Wait! Better listen to what others say, lad."
"Freed!" Issei exclaimed in anger at seeing the Stray Priest again.
"Oh hi! If it isn't the little midget and friends!" Freed waved, Koneko's eye twitching at the 'midget' comment. "Whoops, I mean little lady. Well, isn't this a weird reunion!? Forgive me, but I was looking forward to a little priest hunting tonight, but all I find are a bunch of Devils in costumes, save for the half-breed. Tell me, half Devil boy, is the whole red attire so bad guys can't see you bleed?" He gave the sword he had a lick.
"Okay, I've gotta kill you. You-You've clearly lost too much humanity for me to consider sparing you and you're just too disturbing to live." Drake said, shaking his head. But as he did so, his eyes narrowed on Freed's sword, able to sense a holy energy coming from it similar to Irina and Xenovia's swords.
"Your sword... it's an Excalibur, isn't it?" Drake asked.
"Boost!" Issei's Sacred Gear called as he activated it, Saji and Koneko throwing off the priest clothing to reveal their Kuoh Academy uniforms underneath.
"Oh, my, my! Five of you in one night? I'm overwhelmed by my own popularity," Freed exclaimed.
"Don't get too excited." Kida said, getting his sword ready. "I'm your only opponent." This only seemed to make Freed grin from ear to ear.
"Don't rush in, if we take him together then we-KIBA! NO!" Drake shouted.
when the blonde Knight jumped high into the air and landed onto the building. Once up there, he rushed at the psycho.
"Hi," Freed greeted him with his grinning face. Kiba let out a battle cry and rushed at him. "What's hysterical is that no matter how many brave little Devils fling themselves at me, they are no match for this sword!" He then jumped up into the air.
This surprised Kiba, and he had to land on his right hand, before using it to launch himself into a front flip. He was able to turn around in midair, before landing on his feet in a crouch.
Kiba looked up and saw Freed coming down at him with his sword raised over his head. "THANKS FOR PLAYING!"
KACHIN!
Kiba blocked the attack, causing sparks to fly off the blades, and their swords longs. "Some have called the heavenly sword of heavenly flashes the Excalibur Rapidly, but I don't! I call it the 'super-fast sword'," Freed said, before moving away from Kiba that speeds that were on par with a Knight's. The blonde was stunned for the moment, before going after him, using his Evil Piece's ability.
KACHIN! KACHIN! KACHIN!
"Wow, he's faster than Kiba." Issei said with wide eyes, in awe. Saji and Koneko nodded in agreement.
"Worst…day…ever," Koneko said, before secretly pulling out her phone and dialing.
"Aww, is someone feeling left out?" Freed taunted them, before letting his tongue hang out of his primal grin. "Don't worry, I have enough for all!"
"We need to slow him down." Drake said as he watched the fight. "Issei, charge up enough power and be ready to transfer to Kiba. Koneko and I will keep Freed busy while you, Saji, prepare your Absorption Line to hold him down."
"Are you sure?" Saji asked.
"Just be ready," Drake charges in with Rebellion as Saji holds his arm out.
"Line on!" He chanted, causing a bright purple light to come from his arm that summoned the small and black Chameleion-like lizard bracer to appear on his arm.
On the building, Kiba lands after another clash with Freed, panting in slight exhaustion. However, he was more surprised when Drake stepped in front of him, placing himself between the crazed priest and the Knight. He holds Rebellion at the ready.
"So you want to die first, huh?" The psycho asked.
"Like you could even get me close to death." Drake retorted.
"Oh, while I would love nothing more than to paint the town red with your blood and hang your guts for a necklace, someone higher up's already called dibs on killing you that even my boss won't argue against it." Freed said with a shrug, causing Drake to frown. "Oh well, least I can fight you for now!"
"Bring it, pastor boy!" Drake taunted as Rebellion glowed red due to Drake channelling his demonic power into it, then he slashed his sword, sending red energy at Freed in a move he called Drive.
"Woah!" Freed exclaimed as he avoided Drake's attacks, then jumped into the air. "Missed me!"
"Did I?" Drake leaped in the air and dropkicked Freed in the chest. However, as they descended, Freed righted himself and raised his sword.
"Die!" The crazy priest yelled with an insane gleam.
However as soon as his sword was raised high, it was caught by a thin blue line by none other than Saji, holding it in a vice grip.
"Hey! Let go! Let go! LET GO!" Freed cried like a child as he tries to pull his Excalibur away.
"Absorption Line! As long as this line is connected to you, your power will continue to be absorbed by my Sacred Gear until you lose consciousness!" Saji exclaimed.
"Now, Koneko!" cried Drake.
Koneko soon charges in and delivers a gutblow over to Freed, making the air leave his lungs and flinging him back. Drake then brought both his feet into Freed's chest, before kicking him right in the chin, forcing his mouth closed and also making him bite his own tongue in the process which made him scream in pain as blood gushed out his mouth.
"My fucking mouth!" The crazed priest exclaimed through a mouthful of blood, which he spat out.
[Boost!]
"That should be enough," Issei said, before he was suddenly lifted up. The teen looked down timidly, and saw it was Koneko that was doing the lifting.
"…Issei. Please help Kiba," she said, before the small girl threw issei up into the air with her super-human strength.
"Uooooooooo! Konekoooooooooo!" Issei yelled as he flew across the sky. He then saw that he was getting closer to Kiba and prepared himself.
Kiba saw him coming and held up his demonic-sword.
Issei managed to touch the sword as he went over Kiba's head. He then landed on the roof a few feet behind his friend and exclaimed, "Alright, Kiba, it's yours! Now fuck him up!"
Kiba closed his eyes and smiled, as there was an aura coming out of his body. So much so that there was quite an amount of magical power covering his body. "This power I've been given is a gift," he said. He opened his eyes with a new found determination. "I will use it greatly!"
This caught Freed's attention, and the white-haired boy started to get nervous when a Gremory magic circle appeared over Kiba's head. "Why can't I get this thing off?!" Freed tried to cut the line again.
"SWORD BIRTH!" Kiba called out his ability and stabbed the sword he held in the stone roof. Just like the Rating Game, blades came out from around the whole area, coming in a variety of different shapes, popping out from different places.
The direction they were popping out of were going straight towards Freed. The boy priest looked scared as they came closer to him. He then frantically swung his sword left and right, destroying any blades that came out around him.
"Hmmm. Sword Birth huh?" Then there was the voice of another person. Everyone looked in the direction of the voice, where an old man wearing priest clothes stood. "It's a Sacred Gear that can have an infinite number of powers depending on the possessor."
"Look, it's old man Valper!" Freed said, getting the man's attention and also making Kiba stiffen at the name.
"That must be the guy Xenovia was talking about." Issei said, Drake nodding in agreement.
"He's the mastermind behind the Holy-Sword project." Koneko said.
"VALPER GALILEI!" Kiba roared in rage as he glared at the old man with eyes full of hatred.
"I certainly am," Valper admitted it normally.
"Old-man! I can't run away because of this guy's weird lizard tongue!" Freed exclaimed, trying to cut the line again.
"Hmph. You still can't use the holy-sword perfectly yet. Use the 'element' I gave you more wisely. I'm researching because of that. Gather the holy element that is running throughout your body to the blade of the holy-sword. With that, you should be able to cut it."
"Yeah, yeah!" Freed did just that, and it caused the holy-sword to gather auras and started glowing. "Like this! Horyah!"
SLICE!
Saji's Sacred Gear was cut with ease, and the madman was freed from his bounds.
"Now I'll cut you all into pieces!" Freed exclaimed in bloodthirsty glee, as he jumped up at Kiba and Drake.
KACHIN!
They were all surprised when a sword blocked Freed's attack, revealing it to be Xenovia, sans her white cloak and revealing the black boysuit that fitted her form perfectly.
"Xenovia?!" Issei gasped.
"Yoohoo! Issei!" A familiar voice called to him and he looked to see Irina arrive where the others were. She then took off her white clocks, revealing the black, skin-tight clothing underneath.
"What are you doing here?" Saji asked.
"What? You called me, right?" Irina blinked at him.
"We did?" Saji frowned.
"Good to know you're paying attention." Koneko deadpanned at him while revealing her phone, making him realize she had contacted them.
"You're both traitors!" Xenovia gritted her teeth in anger as she glared at Freed and Valper. "Hear me, Freed Sellzen, and Valper Galilei! I condemned your souls in the name of our God!"
Freed glared at her. "How dare you say that?! DON'T YOU VEER CROAK THAT DISGUSTING NAME IN MY PRESENCE AGAIN!"
Kiba lunged with a roar, trying to slice Freed in half, but the crazed priest flipped back and landed beside Valper, who had his eyes on Drake with a grin which made the son of Sparda narrow his eyes.
"I must say, it is truly an honor to meet one of Sparda's bloodline... well, his only legacy I should say." Valper said with a chuckle, gaining everyone's attention.
"Can't say the same about you, you old fart." Drake retorted.
Valper chuckled then reached into his outfit. "Tell me, son of Sparda…" He pulled something out in his fist. Valper then held his fist out towards Drake. "…do you know what this symbol means?"
His hand opened, and hand from it was a neckless. With a wooden three-eyed symbol at the end. One that Drake recognized.
'That symbol! I've seen it before!' Drake thought with a frown, remembering when he saw it in that dream he once had of marrying Rias... then the dark voice that came, which still haunted him to this day.
"You and everything you love shall be destroyed, son of Sparda..."
Valper's chuckles brought him back to the present. "Confused? Allow me to elaborate. This is the symbol of a Three-Eyed Avatar, a symbol most known to belong... to Mundus."
"Mundus?!" Drake's eyes widened as did everyone else's. "You're working for him?!"
"My employers, mostly, but Mundus isn't as cut off in his prison as you believe, my boy. Over the centuries, he's managed to attain enough power to spread his influence and gain followers. Even from the Demon World, he's able to commune with his servants." Valper explained. "And soon, the legions of the Demon Emperor will come fourth into this world."
Freed laughed hysterically. "I don't know what the fuck's going on, but I'm really starting to like it! That explains who's got dibs on killing you since he can't get your daddy!"
"You're done." Valper told him,puzzling the boy priest. The old man looked at him with a smile. "All you have to do was get rid of the vermin from the Church we had tricked to come here. Easy." Valper looked at where Drake, Issei, Xenovia, and Kiba were. "But you're outnumbered. Time to pull back."
"Aww, so soon?" Freed asked, before pulling out a small ball. "That's all! SEE YA!" He threw it down, which turned out to be a flashbang.
Kiba and Xenovia jumped at them in an attempt to stop them, but it was too late.
When the ball hits the ground, it caused a large bright light that covered the whole area and blinded everyone's eyes! By the time they regained their sight, and Kiba and Xenovia landed where the two former priests used to be, Freed and Valper were gone.
"They couldn't have gotten far! Irina!" Xenovia said before she and Irian rushed off.
"I'm going after them too!" Kiba said and after the Exorcists. "I won't let you escape, Valper Galilei!"
Drake dropped down with Issei, though the brunette had a bit of a tumble. "Man, can this get any worse?" Issei groaned.
"You just jinxed it." Drake gave him a deadpanned look before he turned to see Rias and Sona standing there with their respective Queens. "Shit..."
"I can't… feel anything... besides the pain." Saji whimpered as tears fell down his face. Sona's Pawn was currently lying on the ground with his butt in the air and steam coming off it, while Sona stood behind him with her arms crossed.
"Good, that means you will think before acting next time." The short-haired King said with a firm tone before she glanced to the side where Rias was also disciplining Issei with magical spankings, "The next time you try something like this I will raise the spankings to ten thousand."
"T-There's no way I wouldn't survive that."
"Brutal." Drake commented from where he leaned against the wall, watching as Rias and Sona punished issei and Saji respectively. Standing on either side of Drake was Tsubaki and Akeno. "I'm glad I'm not them."
Akeno giggled. "Afraid to be punished like the naughty boy you are?"
Drake gave her a deadpanned look. "I would be out of here the moment someone spoke about smacking my ass as a punishment.
Akeno smirked and placed a hand on his chest as she looked at him with half-lidded eyes. "If I ever become such a naughty girl, will you spank me?"
Drake looked at her with several blinks before he removed her hand and shook his head. "...Never change, Akeno. But you can be pretty disturbing at times."
"I know." The black-haired Queen giggled.
Rias sighed as she ceased Issei's punishment and shook her head. "Why do you kids always make me worry so much?" She whirled on Drake and frowned at him. "And you, taking them out on these late night escapades."
"Oi, next time, you babysit the kids then." Drake retorted. He then grew serious. "But we have another problem. That Valper guy... I just learned he's working for servants of Mundus."
This brought out gasps of shock and horror from Rias, Akeno, Sona, and Tsubaki.
Rias quickly stood up. "Are you sure?" she asked, concerned for her boyfriend.
"Yeah. He showed me a necklace with a Three-Eyed Avatar symbol, which is Mundus' symbol." Drake explained, nodding. "Which means Kokabiel must be a servant of Mundus as well if he's wanting to free him from the Demon World. Apparently, Mundus has been gathering his strength and power over the centuries, worming his way into the minds and hearts of people, turning them into his followers so that he's still got influence in the Human World. But he still can't break through my father's seal that keeps him trapped in the Demon World, but his minions can come through the cracks."
"He'll be searching for whatever ways he can to break the seal and be free." Akeno said seriously.
"We'll need to keep a careful eye out from here on out." Rias said, everyone nodding in agreement. "Let's go home, everyone. It's been a long day..."
And I'll end it there. Let me know what you think in the reviews. Also, it seems the view stats are back to normal, though they aren't instantly going to whatever number they should be at after being frozen for so long, so most of my chapters have like 10 or 20 views each. So, if it's possible for you all to re-read my stories and get those views up and running.
Thank you.
Drake's Harem: Rias Gremory (Alpha and main girl), Akeno Himejima, Raynare, Kalawarner, Kuroka, Yubelluna, Xuelan, Karlamine, Serafall Leviathan, Gabriel, Grayfia Lucifuge, Yasaka, Kiyome Abe, Xenovia Quarta and Rossweisse.
Issei's harem: Asia Argento, Koneko Toujou, Ravel Phenex, Irina Shidou,