"Kunou! Are you okay?!" Yasaka exclaimed as she burst into Kunou's room only to let out a sigh of relief as she saw her child slowly waking up with a groan.
"Huh? Wha…what's happening?" She muttered as she rubbed her eyes before squeaking as Yasaka wrapped her in a tight hug.
"Is she okay?!" Yasaka swerved out and let off a blazing torrent of flames on instinct, her eyes widening as a silver magic crest absorbed the flames before Rossweisse gave a sigh of relief as she dismissed her crest and walked into the room.
"I'm so sorry, Rose!"
"It's of no worries. I expected that to happen." Rossweisse said with a smile, Yasaka nodding in relief as Kunou just looked confused.
"Um, what's going on?" She asked and Rossweisse giggled as Yasaka sighed with a smile.
"Don't you worry about it, sweetie. Theo is taking care of it." The ground trembled as soon as she said it, Kunou yelping as Yasaka and Rossweisse sighed.
"Yep, that's him."
At the same time:
Far Outskirts of Kuoh Town"
Earth quaked as a monstrous behemoth was sent crashing into the ground, Aži Dahāka's growling as he pulled himself out of the giant crater his form was laying in.
'Damn brat. How dare he play with me like this?'The dragon growled as his dark purple aura flooded the sky, lightning raining down and story winds rising from the ground as he flapped his wings & sore into the sky.
"Where are you going, Aži Dahāka?" Theo growled as he leapt into the sky, clapping his hands together just as Aži Dahāka traced hundreds upon hundreds of sigils in the air in front of them.
"Bombardment." He growled before the air rippled & shook as hundreds of elemental spells were sent rocketing down towards Theo, who had a feral grin on his face as he pulled his hands apart & revealed a pure white bubble in between his hands.
"Earth Shaker." Theo chanted softly as he clapped his hands together once more, the spells nearly touching his form before they were wiped from existence, Aži Dahāka's eyes widening before he wheezed as a shock wave carved through his chest.
"I told you. You're not surviving the day." Theo growled as he leapt up to the right head, the head's maw opening wide before a purple beam of gravity-warping energy shot out of its throat.
However, Theo growled as he snapped his fingers and a portal appeared below the open maw, a torrent of dark blue water from the River Cocytus shooting out of it and freezing its maw shut as the gravity beam exploded inside its mouth and crushed the head to nothing but a bloody mist.
Roaring in pain at the loss of one of his heads, Aži Dahāka's middle head roared in outrage as a gravity beam shot out from its left head, Theo frowning as he easily moved out of the way of the beam & its heavy attraction force.
Water gathered under Theo's feet with a thought before it froze in the shape of a surfboard, carrying him through the air at breakneck speeds. Aži Dahāka growled as he unleashed gravity beam after gravity beam & spell after spell only for each of them to miss as the god surfed through the air.
Flipping over a pair of fireballs that nearly clipped his chest, Theo smirked as he leapt off of his board and onto Aži Dahāka's chest, the dragon looking down before his middle head snapped back thanks to a shock wave fist to the chin.
Quickly releasing a burst of water that carried him higher into the air and just barely out of the way of Aži Dahāka's left head nearly gulping him up, Theo grinned as he held his right hand above his head and Anaklusmos appeared in his grasp & transformed into its xiphos form.
The air turned dark as storm clouds gathered above the god, Aži Dahāka growling as hundreds of his clones appeared behind his side. His royal blue aura surged outwards in the shape of a screeching kraken, though it had a surprising addition of a crown made out of blazing blue flames and a giant roaring skull in the middle of its forehead.
Blue flames roared to life around Theo as the waters from the Five Rivers of Hades fused with the flames, the temperature both plummeting and rising as fire, ice and water contorted into each other around Anaklusmos.
"With the Flames of Hades, let my enemies be burned asunder. With the Waters of The Underworld, let my foes be drowned in misery. With the Winters of Cocytus, let my opponents be frozen in despair. Roar, ANAKLUSMOS!" Theo roared as he brought the xiphos down, time coming to a still as the hundreds of Aži Dahāka opened their maws to chant spells before they along with the earth below them were reduced to nothing but atoms, a still silence hanging in the air as Theo stared at the gaping crater below him.
"Hah…damn, I was pissed." He muttered with a chuckle as he scratched the back of his head, Anaklusmos turning into its pen form as he clipped it to his shirt before frowning as he scanned the crater thoroughly.
'Artemis said that she sealed Aži Dahāka in the Forest of Maidens, so that couldn't have been him. A fake, perhaps? But how?' Theo thought with a frown before he shook his head, rolling his shoulders as his teleportation crest appeared below him and sent him travelling back to the home.
As soon as the light from the teleportation disappeared, Theo blinked at the happy squeal and the weight wrapping around his neck before he chuckled amusedly as Kunou grinned up at him.
"Hey! I thought you were out on a mission in the Underworld!"
"I was, but then we received word that there were mages attacking Kuoh, so I decided to come back & take care of the remnants."
"Wait, people were attacking Kuoh! Why didn't anyone wake me up?!" Kuoh exclaimed with a pout as she looked at Yasaka with a glare & a pout, the Kyubi just shaking her head while Rossweisse giggled.
Theo just looked amused at the daughter scolding and whining to her mother about missing an 'epic battle', but as he went to speak, the room went silent as a familiar beeping echoed through the room.
Frowning as he heard the code, Theo sighed as he activated his communication crest, watching as the familiar blue-white ice flake appeared on the back of my right hand before it glowed.
"Indra and his army has been defeated. How goes things on the other battlefields?"Gilgamesh asked and Georgios was the first to respond.
"Vasco Strada, Ewald Cristaldi and their rogue exorcists have been captured and the flames of rebellion have been quenched." Georgios' voice came through the crest and Gilgamesh hummed in acknowledgement.
"Thanatos and his army of Grim Reapers & Artificial Devils have been beaten, but Theseus left abruptly after we got a call about Kuoh Town being attacked by mages." Hassan's voice came through and Theo gave a sheepish grin at the frowns Rossweisse and Yasaka gave him.
"Theo?"Gilgamesh asked and Theo sighed before he answered.
"Yeah, sorry for just leaving. However, you'll be glad to know that the magician factions Nilrem, Hexennacht and most of the Wizards of Oz have been defeated along with a user of the Longinus Incinerate Anthem and you should be hearing word of Euclid Lucifuge being delivered to the Devils."
"Yes, Sirzechs sends his thanks for that. Well, I suppose this was a good mission all things considered. Georgios, Hassan, start with clean-up and make sure that all members of the enemy are gathered up for transfer to our prisons. Theo, are there any rogue mages alive in Kuoh?"
"None that I know of, though I might have to search again." Theo answered as he looked up at Yasaka and Rossweisse, who both shrugged helplessly.
"Okay, then. Make sure to check. We'll have a full personnel meeting where we can go over everything that happened during the battles. Dismissed." And Theo sighed as the crest on his hand disappeared, scratching the back of his head before turning to the amused trio in front of him.
"…Who wants ice cream?"
The Next Day:
Huntsmen Organization HQ:
"So, it was some sort of clone of Aži Dahāka that you fought?" Gilgamesh asked Theo as they walked towards the meeting room where the rest of the captains were waiting, Theo sighing as he nodded.
"Yes. It appears that either Rizevim or someone currently working for him has reverse-engineered the blood of the Evil Dragons & are starting to make an army of clones of them to be used."
"And where would you put this one in terms of power?" The blonde asked as they stopped in front of the meeting doors, Theo frowning before he shrugged.
"The one I fought was on the higher echelon of Satana-Class, so I suspect that most of them will be around that same level."
"Hah, that's good to hear. If we had to fight an army of Heavenly Dragon Class beings, then we'd have to kiss this world goodbye." Theo chuckled at his words as they opened the doors and walked in, Theo nodding at the seated captains as he took his seat at one end of the table.
"So, I'm guessing that everyone's battles had gone smoothly?" Gilgamesh asked as soon as he sat down on his throne, smirking as all seven captains nodded before he nodded at Theo.
"Okay, then. Theseus, give me the full report of the battle in the Netherworld." Theo nodded as he cleared his throat and stood up.
"The battle was quick and decisive, with the commander Thanatos being defeated by Issei and his lieutenants defeated by their Super Devil-Class siblings. 35% of our army was lost as casualties with a further 13% being severely injured, 10% getting minor injuries and the rest suffering no injuries apart from exhaustion. Fortunately for us, the divisions and the grim reapers under my command managed to eliminate 40% of the rebel army before the presence of Verrine and Balberith and Thanatos being defeated forced them to surrender."
"I'm guessing these 'Balberith and Verrine' are the Super Devils you spoke of earlier, correct?" Gilgamesh asked and Theo nodded, Nikola quickly writing that information down on his notepad.
"And where are they now?"
"Oh, they have decided, with Issei's permission, to stay in the Netherworld protecting their mother Lilith as well as Lady Persephone seeing as them coming up to the Human World might sent the wrong message."
"And why would they need the Red Dragon Emperor's permission?" Nikola asked with a curious frown, to which Hassan and Isaac sighed as Theo gave a sheepish chuckle.
"Well, Lilith has taken a liking to Issei and has been teasing him constantly, to which the two misunderstood her intentions and now see him as a…father of sorts."
"…Ah, I…see." Nikola nodded slowly, Theo shrugging before Gilgamesh cleared his throat as he nodded for Theo to sit down.
"Well, thank you for the report and I know that you will keep a close eye on them to make sure nothing happens. Georgios, what about you? How did things go on your end?"
"Everything went smoothly. Casualties were only at 2%, with most of our & the rebel's armies being injured in some way or form, but we managed to take down Vasco Strada without either side suffering any serious injuries. Siegfried had managed to take down Ewald Cristaldi, but he had to deliver a fatal blow to the exorcist which Asia had managed to heal with the help of Valerie."
"That's good to hear. In hindsight, I should have given Samson permission to use Last Judgement, but I see that was not needed."
"That and I would have been fighting everyone that dared to look at me, so that was maybe the right call to not give me permission." Samson said with a nod, to which Gilgamesh chuckled before he sighed with a smile.
"Well, the Battle of Mt. Kailash went stunningly. Shiva was able to defeat & vanquish Indra and with the help of Mahabali and Kathikeya, Cao Cao was able to defeat Arjuna & take back the Pashupatastra. However, everyone on the battlefield told me that they felt a pure, benevolent aura radiating from Cao Cao after he had activated Truth's Ideal."
"So, he learned to use the full extent of it now?" Theo asked with a frown, with it deepening as Gilgamesh chuckled and shook his head.
"No, he's managed to fuse his Balance Breaker with the very essence of Truth Ideal, making them one and the same. However, it appears that using this new 'form' takes too much out of him, so I will ask that you ask him to not use it unless he absolutely has to."
"Of course. Is there anything else?" Theo asked as he saw the wide smile on Gilgamesh' face, his chuckling confusing the room further and Nikola's grin & Holmes' smirk didn't help them at all.
"Yes, we've captured and secured the commander of the Khaos Brigade. As we speak, Ophis the Infinity Dragon God is kept comfortable in the halls of Shiva's castle." That shocked all those who heard it for the first time as Gilgamesh had a triumphant smirk on his face.
"Wait, how is that even possible?! I thought you said you wouldn't be able to take it on even with Shiva's help." Theo asked and Gilgamesh chuckled as he nodded.
"Indeed, I would not have, but that's the funny thing. No one had to fight it as it decided to just surrender on the condition that we are able to create the silent void of the Dimension Gap."
"…And you want me to contact the Norse Pantheon seeing as they are the leading expert on Spatial runes & magic?" Theo finished with a smirk, Gilgamesh smirking with him as he nodded.
"Yes, and if possible, can you get Hephaestus to help them?"
"If we manage to do this, we'll be getting rid of the biggest obstacle in our path, so yeah, I can definitely get him to help them."
"Hahaha! It was only a few months ago that we worried about the Khaos Brigade and now, we are finally entering the end times of this war!" Samson exclaimed with a grin, the captains nodding as Gilgamesh smirked.
"That is correct, Samson. The Khaos Brigade and their allies have terrorized the world for the past year, but from this point on, no longer shall their name be whispered in terror and despair. From this point onwards, we, as well as the fighting forces of the other pantheons, shall give it our all and we shall make sure to defeat this force of evil & finally bring peace to the realms. For the Greed of the Huntsman is everlasting."
"And the blood of our quarry is ever-flowing!" The seven captains bellowed as they stood up and saluted with their right fists held to their hearts, Gilgamesh grinning as he stood up and saluted with them.
"Get ready, gentlemen. We are reaching the final phase of our scuffle."
Unknown Location:
"So, they defeated our son, did they?" A sultry female voice spoke softly, a growl echoing before a male voice answered.
"Not they. That brat Theseus and his pet project the Red Dragon Emperor. Thinks that just because he achieved Ichor Desmos that he can now throw his weight around just like his uncle."
"Hush now, dearest husband-brother. They may have defeated Thanatos but we can get him back. First, we must show that infernal demi-god what it means to anger a Primordial."
"Indeed we must, my lovely sister-wife."
A/N: And there we are! Another short chapter!
I do apologize for this one being this short, but I've been busy with writing King of the Beasts' latest chapter aka Chapter 8(Which you can go check on the big P*tr*on that this site doesn't like.) as we are seven weeks ahead there for it and ten weeks ahead for the Unholy Wolf.
I might even try and get three chapters ahead for Arctic Trident, but that's going to take some brain power that I don't currently possess.
Anyway, next arc is going to be great because I think it was two novels long in DxD Shin and I'm adding my own twist to it.
As always, read, enjoy, review and until the next one… Ba-Bye~!