This is finally the first chapter of the second half of Issei Hyoudou: The Guardian.
Like in the first Story, the different doubles of the multiple universe are often getting identified by the numbers of their worlds. For example Issei-01, Issei-06 etc.
The first chapter also has a large Flashback section that describes events happening before the two year skip.
Guardian Issei Hyoudou - part 2
A Universe far away from the DxD Worlds, that served as a training-ground
A young man, around 18 to 19 years old was standing on the fields around the canyon close to the small town where he was currently living.
He had been here for nearly two years now.
It was this place where he had done a good deal of his training during this time.
The canyon was actually a large impact crater. Not of a meteorrid or something, but of a powerful blast of supernatural energy.
A leftover from a battle between the Guardians and the Dark Order centuries ago that had nearly wiped out this world, after it had been targeted for destruction.
Afterwards the Guardians had helped the natives, at least the ones who had survived the destruction, to start rebuild what was left of their civilization.
Since then the elder Guardians also kept regulary contact with this world.
But the main reason Issei Hyoudou – the one from the Universe labeled DxD-01 - had been send here, to exactly this place, when he had lost control of his powers two years ago was something else.
It was that something about the different nature of this universe made it impossible for him and his friends to actively use their powers.
Or at least it did two years ago.
Over time however they and their powers slowly adapted to the different environment. While when he and his friends had first arrived here, they had practically been powerless, they had slowly, with some training, - step by step - regained them.
This ironically had made this world the ideal place to slowly relearn to use and control them... without destroying everything around in the process.
In this moment Issei send a giant blast of energy up in the air, that literally tore the sky apart.
Had the attack hit the ground, it would have instantly obliterated the entire continent and also a thousand miles of the ocean around it.
And that was not even the whole extent of his power.
"What do you say Ddraig?" he asked.
("Not bad Partner,") the Dragon sealed inside Issei´s Sacred Gear replied.
He had by now regained full control of his abilities and could use them now here just as freely as in his own world. The level of his power had also grown immensely.
Issei knew his training was nearly finished. He would probably return home in the next days.
Finally he would get to see his parents and his friends from school again. He had missed them all greatly.
Of course the ones of his friends who were part of his team had come to visit him regulary. But the others he had not seen in years.
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DxD universe 17 - Over two years `earlier´ - another world and timeline
Issei Hyoudou was dead.
He was killed by his former girlfriend Yuuma Amano - also known as the Fallen Angel Raynare... for the second time now.
It was during a confrontation where he had tried to save the former Nun Asia Argento from her. She had struck him down with a deadly throw of a lightspear without hesitation.
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Yes - a Fallen Angel, a mythological creature. Supernatural beings like that not only existed, but were also quite common in this world andi n secret taking influence of the live of many humans.
There existed a number of races and mythologies. Asgard, Olympus, the Hindu Gods and others.
But it were in first line the three so called Biblical Factions - Angels, Devils and Fallen Angels - also called the Grigori or Watchers - who had been at war with each other for many centuries, that were getting involved into the life of humanity.
Issei´s hometown Kuoh for example had for years been controlled by Devils - in it´s case from the Clans of Gremory and Sitris - without most of the human population even knowing.
The Devils in charge of the town were, quite ironically, two teenaged girst. They were the heiresses of their Clans, both siblings of one of the reigning Devil Kings, but despite that still just teenage Girls - Rias Gremory and her friend Sona Sitri.
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As Raynare had first met Issei, she had been assigned to a mission to observe him, a mission that send her right into Devil territory.
The reason was that because her leaders had found out that Issei had a Sacred Gear - a powerful supernatural weapon - sealed inside his body.
The so called Sacred Gears were creations of the Biblical God, made originaly to give the human race a better Chance to defend themselves against Supernatural Beings.
But Kokabiel, one of the Fallen Angel leaders secretly changed her orders to kill Issei instead. With the argument that his Sacred Gear was too much of a threat for him to be kept around.
To come Close to him without the Devils noticing, she had disguised herself as a teenaged human girl named Yuuma and asked him out on a date.
Issei, being known as a nearly hopeless pervert whose greatest dream was to have a harem, had gladly accepted without any hesitation in the hope to finally get a girl.
After they had spend the afternoon together, she had lured him to a lonely place in the park. There she had revealed her true self to him and killed him.
But that was not the end.
In opposite to what Raynare had thought, her plan had not been unnoticed and Issei had been resurrected by the Devils of Kuoh and turned into one of them. In particular it was Rias Gremory, the young heiress of the Gremory Family and sister of one of the current Devil Kings, who had brought him back as her Servant.
Just a few days afterwards however he met Asia Agento, who had just arrived in Kuoh and the two quickly became friends. Despite being, well - a reincarnated Devil and an excommunicated Holy Maiden.
As Issei found out however that Asia was involved with the Fallen Angels and Raynare brought her back by force, he tried to stop her. But only was easily killed by her the second time. This time for good.
What none of them had known at this point, Raynare had not simply intended to force Asia into servitude, she actually planned to remove her Sacred Gear - Twilight Healing, a power that could heal every injury nearly instantly - and keep it and it´s powers for herself.
Something she did without authorization and behind the back of most of the Grigori leaders, with the exception of Kokabiel, who had suggested the idea to her in the first place.
It was a desperate (and maybe quite crazy) attempt of her to finally gain recognation and respect by the other Fallen... and especially to gain the attention of their leader Azazel.
Asia however was then was rescued by a mysterious masked woman calling herself Mirage. Who however had interferred too late to save Issei.
He was dead for good. Rias Gremory had lost one of her Servants, Kuoh one of it´s citizens and the world the next Red Dragon Emperor - the weilder of the Boosted Gear.
At least it had been like this in this world.
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But that world and dimension was only one of many.
Like many scientific theories suggested, there were other worlds - universes - parallel to each other. Some of them completely different, others nearly identical. So much that even the same persons existed and had only made certain different decisions during their lives.
And there were also beings and people able to move between these worlds.
Some of these beings were using advanced technologies for these travels.
Others were doing it simply by their own power.
And a few were even using a mixture of both.
Some of these groups were peaceful explorers.
Others were conquerors or aggressive predators, preying on other worlds.
A few were just bored Super Beings, who were travelling between realities because they had not much else to do with their existence.
There were a few groups under them however, who were a special case. Groups whose goals and purposes even affected the Multiverse as a whole.
Two of them were two large multiversial organizations that had been at war with each other for centuries.
One was a force of destruction, a alliance of dark armies led by a group of malovent Super Beings, possessed by the fanatical goal to purge and `perfectionate´ the Multiverse through the methods of war, terror and genocide.
Including the destruction of entire worlds. Whatever they saw as flawed was being destroyed. Being it persons, societies, planets or sometimes even enire realities.
This sinister organization was known by many names. Even if only a minority of the population of the various universes even knew of it´s existence. The most known one however was the Dark Order.
The other was a group with the purpose to defend the universes from this threat and from others.
Like their enemies they were known under different names. The most common one was simply the Guardians.
And quite ironically, one of the many teams of this organization consisted of nobody else than Issei Hyoudou and his friends and associates. Another version of him from one of the many parallel worlds.
In his reality, the story had played out a little bit different.
Instead of by Rias Gremory, Issei had been resurrected by the Guardians. And while this, together with his Boosted Gear, gave him access to incredible power and even quasi immortality, he staid technically human.
After being introduced and trained by them for a few weeks, he had finally decided to join their organization for good, together with some of his friends and associates.
A group which quite ironically, through a line of events, included both Raynare and most of her Fallen Angel teammates and also Rias Gremory and her Servants.
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In the Cluster of Universes where the Three Factions, their Version of the Supernatural World, the Sacred Gears existed, the Supernatural Beings were already using Dimension travel in a limited way. By moving between their Human world, the Underworld and Heaven. Both were actually however only being pocket-dimensions attached to their main universe - and Earth.
To go further - to the true alternate realities of the Multiverse, however was something they couldn´t do. Or rather, while their races clearly possessed the necessary power and abilities, they lacked the knowledge to navigate in this endless maze of alternate universes. In most universes they were not even aware that these worlds beyond their own even existed.
The strongest Super Beings of their world - Ophis and Great Red - could have done it simply out of instinct alone. But they both mostly prefered to stay where they were.
Aside from the regular moves between the `their´ Earth and the Dimensional Gap and back, they showed no great interest to travel anywhere else. At least until now.
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DxD Universe 17 - still two years ago
A lone female figure was walking through the streets of Kuoh. She had the appearance of a young teenaged girl and was wearing a cong green coat with the hood pulled deep over her face.
This was only a safety measure to make sure nobody would recognize her. In addition she was using her mental powers to compel everyone in a ten meter radius around not to pay attention to her.
She could imagine that her counterpart from this world was currently not the most well liked person in this town right now. So she preferred not to be recognized.
Of course she was quite confident that nobody in this town were actually a threat to her. Outside of the man she was about to meet right now of course.
But she was here to avoid a conflict. Not to start one.
The codename she was currently going by was Mirage.
In truth however, she was nobody else than Raynare. But not the one from this reality - another one. She was the one who had, along with her Issei Hyoudou, joined the Guardians.
This Raynare here came to deeply regret her actions. It was one difference out of many.
In a quite ironic line of events, she and her Issei had ended up truly falling in love with each other. But sadly only after she had been killing him and his resurrection by the Guardians.
Only after she had found out that Kokabiel had only been manipulating them and set her and her team up to die from the beginning and blame the Devils for it.
After she had realized how much she had been misled and how deep she had started to sink.
In her world she had been convinced to spare Asia by a fellow Fallen Angel called Gaeriel. Who was in truth an agent of the Guardians.
And a short time later she and Asia had ended up joining Issei´s team together... and then both became Issei´s lovers, along with his old friend Irina and later Gaeriel and a few others.
This Issei had actually suddeeded in getting a harem.
She was also much - much - more powerful than the Raynare of this world. Mostly thanks to the training and the new sources of power, she had received from the Guardians. Right now she possessed eight wings - Ultimate Level - low Ultimate, but still.
And she knew there was still room for her to improve.
This world´s Raynare had been far less lucky, she knew.
She hardly felt any sympathy for her counterpart however. In opposite to her, the other Raynare was an actual follower of Kokabiel, a fanatic intentionally trying to provoke a new war with the Devils and Heaven.
Her counterpart had killed her world´s Issei twice. She cold hardly judge her for the first time, especially since she had done the same. But the second? She had killed him despite that he had been turned into a Devil, knowing that it would be another provocation for war. Knowing? - no, she was actually intending it.
Aside from that she even gave that bastard Freed permission to try to rape Asia as ´punishment´ for defying her.
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She entered a house and knocked on the door of a regular looking apartment. The person she was here to meet was waiting inside.
"Come in," a voice she knew perfectly well was saying to her.
As she entered the room, Azazel, the leader of the Fallen Angels, was sitting before her.
Of course this was not the same leader she had sworn loyalty to and who she had admired her entire life (and who she admitted she had still feelings for).
This was the Azazel of this reality. A man she had technically only met once before.
After she had (in disguise) saved this world´s Asia from her counterpart, she had contacted him. The reason she originally came here was that the Guardians had detected a breach between the Dimension. That meant most likely an intruder in their universe.
At first she had hoped it could be her missing teammate Kalawarner, who they had been looking for the last months. But now it didn´t seem like it was her at all.
"We have gotten your message," Raynare/Mirage greeted him. "Is it true?"
"Yes - someone had attacked Rias Gremory and her peerage," Azazel confirmed. "And since your counterpart, who had already killed one Devil before and her team were in this town only a short time ago, you can guess who they are suspecting."
"The Fallen Angels," Raynare-01 replied.
Issei´s death, by her hand, was months ago in her reality. Here it were only two weeks.
She had somehow feared it would come to something like this. Their mysterious intruder had obviously been hiding himself.
And now they had an attack on one of the Devil Heiresses of Kuoh. It sounded all too much like the way the Devil Hunters worked.
"How is Rias?" she asked.
"Alive. But her Queen and her Rook died defending her from the attacker," Azazel said.
"Akeno and Koneko," Raynare-01 stated.
"Yes - as you can imagine Baraquiel is devastated. Even if she had joined the enemy, Akeno was still his daughter. They bought Gremory and her Knight the time to escape."
Raynare nodded.
She wasn´t particular close to either of them in her own world. They were allies and part of Rias peerage.
Rias herself however. Their relationship was - ... well complicated.
It didn´t help that she knew that the young Devil Heiress had killed her in at least one parallel reality. And tried to in a number of more. But despite that, they had by now become something like friends.
And beside that Rias also seemed to be getting quite close to Issei in the last time. So it seemed his harem was about to get a new member.
"Do you think your mysterious `intruder´ has something to do with this?" Azazel asked her.
"Well - the chance at least is there," she answered "But you know as well as me that the Devils have enough enemies here in this world. Our people included," Raynare suggested.
"True - but there are only few who would risk a conflict with the Devil Faction like this. Kokabiel was one of them. But I have taken care of him as you have adviced me to. With the information you gave me it wasn´t too difficult. Most of his followers have also been rooted out."
"What about Khaos Brigade?"
"That is a possibility. But by my informations none of their forces should have even been close to Kuoh. And you know I have inside sources."
Raynare was more than aware of that. Vali Lucifer - the current White Dragon Emperor and Issei´s direct rival - was one of the people who managed to infiltrate that terror-organization.
"You think it could be this Erebos Empire you mentioned?"
Raynare nodded.
"It is possible."
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The Erebos Demons were an ancient demonic race that had ruled their Underworld before the current Devil Race did. Until the Devils - a hybrid race - had rebelled and overthrown them. The remaining Demons had fled to another Dimension.
But now they were returning. They had learned to travel between the Universe, had build up a new Empire and were ready to take back what was once theirs.
They were not a threat at the same level like the Dark Order, but they were a far more direct one.
The group they had met called the Devil Hunters (who were part of the reason her Issei had lost control of his powers) were their agents.
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It suddenly rung at the door.
"Were you expecting someone?" Azazel asked her drily.
Raynare/Mirage smiled.
"Lets say I brought a few friends along," she said. "I had asked them to look around a bit. Since they are not Fallen, it would be easier for them."
It were nobody else than Irina Shido and Issei´s classmate Murayama, who were both members of their team.
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Murayama for her part had accidentally got caught into a fight between them and an agent of Kobabiel and was killed during it. Issei had managed to use his new powers and bring her back.
But he had not quite been knowing how to use them back then. So the formally normal school-girl had not only inherited supernatural powers herself, but was also turned immortal.
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"Have you found out something?" Raynare asked them.
"Yes - actually we have found out a lot," Irina stated. "But you won´t like it."
Everyone was shocked a minute later, after they had heard who the assassin was.
"How did you even found out this?" Raynare asked.
"Simply-," Irina asked, "I went to this Rias and asked her."
"What?" Raynare did a double take. "You actually...?"
"As an Agent of the Church, it was easy to get an audiance with her, especially after I showed them my Holy Sword. I just needed to claim that the Church was concerned about the attack on one of the Maou´s sisters and wanted me to find out more."
"You realize that as soon as the Devils check your claims, they will find out that the Church never send an Exorcist here, even less an Holy Sword weilder and then they will be looking for an imposter... with a false Excalibur on top of that."
"I have told you it was a stupid idea," Murayama commented.
"Ladies-," Azazel spoke up, "I think we all have more pressing concerns right now... especially who this assassin seems to be."
"You are right," Raynare replied.
She was looking down in thought for a few moments.
"Lord Azazel," she finally said, "I think we can diffuse this situation. But for that we need to do something quite risky."
She looked at Irina and Murayama.
"We need to reveal ourselves to the Devils here."
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A few miles from Kuoh (DxD Universe 17)
It was in one of the neighboring towns from Kuoh.
Like they were forced to by the mysterious woman calling herself Mirage, the native Raynare and her team had left the town.
But they had not gone far. They had just got a hideout in one of the towns close by, reported what happened and waited for new orders. Official ones from the regular Grigori leaders and `real´ ones from Lord Kokabiel.
But then they had much to their shock found out a short time later that Kokabiel had been arrested by Azazel and Shemhazai and later executed.
They had gone into hiding and hoped that their connection with him would not be discovered.
Until they had suddenly been attacked.
The newcomer had wiped out her three teammates in seconds. A small consolation was that it was no her original team of Dohnaseek, Kalawarner and Mittelt, but three of Kokabiel´s personal cronies who had replaced them.
But that changed little about her own situation right now... because she was looking death in the eye.
Raynare-17 was starring in unbelieving shock and horror at the face of her attacker. It was the face of Issei Hyoudou.
"Darling it is so nice to see you again... even if it is not really you," he said to her with a grin.
"The question is, what shall I do with you now? Maybe I should just kill you? After all you have killed me as well here. Sounds fair - doesn´t it? On the other hand you look exactly lie my ex-girlfriend and I kind of miss her. So maybe I should keep you for myself instead. Decisions decisions.
Well - this disgusting Devil had escaped me. Should have known that she would trade the lives of her Servants to save her filthy skin. Typical."
This conveniently ignored of course that he had actually ambushed said Devil peerage with dealy force in the frist place and said Servants actually offered to cover for their comrades and their Master.
`What in the world is he talking about?´ she asked herself. Had he gone completely insane?
What she didn´t know was, this was the Issei Hyoudou from Universe-13, a dangerous psychpath with a hatred for Devils, Rias Gremory especially, who the Guardians had encountered before.
And who had managed to steal one of their control-devices for the dimensional portals.
"Or maybe, before you make a decision, you should talk with us first," a voice was coming from the entrance.
A figure was standing there, clad in a silvery white Dragon Scale Armor - Vali Lucifer, the White Dragon Emperor.
Standing next to him was the black haired Nekoshou Kuroka... and her sister? - the Devil Servant known as Koneko.
But Issei had killed her just a couple days ago... abd he could sense no traces of Evil Pieces in her either.
Both sisters were wearing some kind of black battle-gear he had never seen before. Behind them he could also see a man (at least it seemed to be one) in a cleak with a demonic looking mask.
"We have been trying to locate you for a while now," Vali said to him. "We have some interest in you."
"Your latest actions have made kind of an impression, you could say," the Kuroka lookalike commented.
"Who are you?" Issei-13 asked. "What do you want?"
"You can call us the Devil Hunters," Vali replied. "We want to offer you to join us."
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Kuoh Academy DxD Universe-17 - the clubroom of Rias peerage
"You are sure it was him?" Sirzechs - the current Maou with the title Lucifer - the one from Universe 17, asked his sister.
He, his wife anf Queen Grayfia and Rias, together with the surviving members of her Peerage Kiba and Gaspar were in their club-room in the school.
"Absolutely," Rias replied. "It was him. The same boy I have turned into my Pawn months ago and who had then killed by that Fallen Angel."
Sirzechs sighed. A peerage member of his sister killed, the Red Dragon Emperor on top of that, as it turned out. That had been serious. Even if it had been Issei himself who had iniciated the fight, as Azazel had assured him, with Asia Argento as witness.
Then the revelation that Kokabiel had been actively planning to start a new war for Satan knows how long and dozens of Grigori members being arrested as his accomplices.
And now this. Someone had tried to murder his little sister right here at her place and slaughtered two more of her Servants and closest friends in the process.
If it were truly the Fallen who were responsible then there would be war. Renegades or no renegades.
"But you say it yourself, he was dead," Sirzechs said aloud. "So how could he have attacked you?"
"This Fallen must have resurrected him somehow and turned him against has to be her. It has to be. Akeno and Koneko are dead because of this. Damn these Fallen Angels."
"We don´t know that for sure," Grayfia pointed out.
"We found Issei´s body, killed by a light-spear and some black feathers lying close by. Even if it had not been her, it must have bee one of her team who had killed him.
And now he is suddenly back and being turned into our enemy. Isn´t it obvious what must have happened?" Rias-17 exclaimed.
"I meant we have no proof that the same people who killed Hyoudou are also the ones responsible for him being back," Grayfia replied. "For all we know anyone could have just taken his body and somehow resurrected him. If it was even him and not just someone who looked like him."
"Grayfia has a point," Sirzechs stated. "Hyoudou´s death was weeks ago. By our Knowledge the Fallen Angels have left Kuoh right afterwards. There is no proof that there is even any connection between that group of Fallen and what happened now.
The Fallen Angels are our enemies. But we can not simply assume they are responsible for everything."
Something changed in Rias expression. Instead of angry, she now looked pained.
"I know," she said. "It is just... Akeno and Koneko are dead and I guess I just want someone to blame for it."
She still had the unwanted marriage with Raiser Phenex hanging over her head. She had heard that Raiser had actually planned to push for it to be held after the latest attack and the death of her Servants, it was decided to postpone it for now.
It surprised her a bit that Raiser actually agreed to the delay easily. During their last meeting however Lord and Lady Phenex explained to her, whatever Raiser´s shortcomings were, caring deeply about your Servants was something he understood all too well.
"Well, isn´t that interesting?" they heard a female voice from the other side of the room. "Wise words indeed. The Grigori truly have nothing to do with what happened."
They turned to the figure in a green coat who just had seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
Actually she had just been hiding her presence and walked straight through the walls.
Phasing - it was one of the special techniques she had learned from the Guardians.
It allowed her, for a few moments, to shift the molecules of her body and everything she touches out of since with the objects around her and so become virtually untouchable.
Unless you possessed a certain level of spiritual-energy control that allowed you to counter the effect. Sadly Sirzechs and the other Mao in fact possessed this ability, along with several others. Grayfia possibly as well.
As powerful as she had become under the Guardian ´s training, if Sirzechs decided to attack her, she was as good as dead.
Damn - she had not expected him or even Grayfia to be here. Had she truly underestimated how serious this situation was? Or was their presence just a coincidence?
How close to war was this world truly?
But that was only one reason more to solve it right here, Raynare-01 thought.
She lifted her hood... and Rias and her Servants recognized her instantly.
"You!" she growled. "How - how did you come in here? You dare to come...?"
"This is all your fault!" Rias-17 yelled at Raynare-01... not realizing that she was not truly the same being she knew.
She formed a ball of Destruction Energy in her right hand.
"Hold on. You got the wrong person and I can proof it," Raynare said casually.
"That is enough Rias," Sirzechs said, while pushing Rias hand down, forcing her to stop her attack. "I want to hear what she has to say."
"She will probably only tell us lies," she responded.
"This Fallen would not risk coming here all by herself if she didn´t have something important tp say, I am sure," he countered.
It seems there was a good side about Sirzechs being here after all, Raynare thought. The Devil King was generally more reasonable and level-headed than his stubborn and hot-headed sister.
But that didn´t change the fact that both he and Grayfia had activated their powers and that she was in for the fight of her life if they didn´t accept her explanation.
"Like I said, I am not the person you think I am - In more than one way," Raynare stated. "I am not who I seem to be. And I am not your enemy, despite my race. I have a suspicion who might be responsible for the attempt on your sister´s life.
"Explain-" Sirzechs said, "and whatever you say Fallen Angel, it should better be good. I want you to tell me whatever you know about the assassination attempt on my sister and I want to know how you got in here despite our wards around the school."
He gave her a stern look.
"Okay - first let me clear up Rias little theory."
Raynare now turned back into her true form and now materalized all eight of her wings.
She was still wearing a leather outfit. But this one was far more decent than her old one. Meaning it didn´t show up 90% of her body.
Her current outfit was more like the battle-gear Irina and Xenovia were wearing.
"As you can see, if I truly wanted to kill your sister, I would not have needed some kind of brainwashed assassin to do it."
Rias visibly gulped. She had been sure that all of the Fallen in her territory had been simply low-level two winged.
"And for me not being who I seem to be..." Raynare activated the small device she was wearing on her arm.
To everyone´s astonishment, a Portal was opening right in the room in front of them... and a group of people came out.
"Alright Raynare - why have you called us here?" the leader of the group, a red-headed teenage girl asked.
"We... oh," Rias Gremory-01 said as she saw who was standing in front of her.
"What is this?" Rias-17 asked as she saw her double and her companions.
A second Rias Gremory, together with a still alive Akeno, Koneko and a second Kiba had just entered the room.
This was it. All or nothing. To prevent the possibility of a war here, Raynare-01 had to do something she had originally wanted to avoid... reveal the existence of the parallel universes and the Guardians to the Devils of this world.
"You wanted to know?" she looked to Sirzechs, who had been watching the events silent, but visible surprised.
"I am sure you have heard about the theory of parallel worlds? It is true. Me and this version of your sister here are part of an organization that travels between these worlds. And we think your assassin is someone like us."
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The universe of Issei´s training - the present... now
Issei concentrated his powers. He manifested part of the powers of his Balance Breaker... and two crimson red gaunlets made out of Dragon scales appeared on his hands.
The Dragon Armor was a manifestion of Ddraig´s power, when he activated the higher Levels of his Sacred Gear.
But now he could twist and manipulate these abilities in ways he had never thought possible. His different sources of power had practcally merged into one.
He could materalize any part of his Scale Mail everywhere on his body whenever he wanted. But he could also unleash nearly all his power without need for the armor at all.
He materialized his blade, the Sword of Cronos in his Hand.
Issei knew he didn´t actually need it anymore. He could now access the same powers of time-manipulation all on his own.
He was only still using it because it was also a well crafted weapon. Otherwise he would have already returned it to the Guardian´s vault.
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For a moment Issei started to think about Kalawarner.
It was now for over two years that she was missing.
Through a malfunction of their portal-system during a dangerous mission, a few of their teammates had been accidentally transported to at that time unknown random universes - Irina, Rias, Akeno... and her.
To their luck (in the bad luck) however, they had located most of them quite quickly. All except her.
She had originally been one of Raynare´s teammates and joined them together with her.
At first she and her group had been his enemies. That however had changed very quickly, when it came out that they were being used as sacrificial pawns by the Rogue Fallen Angel leader Kokabiel and he was trying to have them assassinated and blame it on the Devils.
Issei might not have been as close to the Fallen as to most of his other teammates (what didn´t keep him from having a threesome with her and Gaeriel shortly before his appearance) - but since she was a teammate, he was still worried.
They didn´t know in what kind of world she might have ended up. Or if she was even still alive.
There was no telling what she could eventually be going through right now.
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Unknown DxD Universe (DxD Universe 19)
"Ahh yes," Kalawarner cried out.
She was lying on a bed, nacked except for the purple stockings she was still wearing, and had her legs wrapped around the body of the blacked winged man moving on top of her and her large breasts were shaking wildly with every of his moves.
"Harder - oh yes. This is so good," she moaned.
When Kalawarner had first arrived in this world two years ago, she would have hardly expected to end up in this position here.
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As it turned out, she had landed in a world quite similar to her own. But with some significant differences.
For example that here, Kokabiel had with the help of Khaos Brigade staged a successful coup, had killed Azazel and Shemhazai and replaced them.
Then he had started an attack on Kuoh and wiped out nearly all of the Devils in the town.
Since then the world she had ended up in was at war... and as much as she hated it, her race was at the wrong side.
And certainly had the wrong leader.
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She was moaning loudly whenever she felt the man´s dick pushing into her.
The Fallen grunted as he made another hard push. He was well-build, about a half head taller than her and had dark brown hair and a beard.
Finally she felt him coming inside her.
They were both breathing heavily. After a few moment it took for them both to relax, the male Fallen removed himself from her.
"It was great as always baby," he said to her.
"Of course - it is me after all." Kalawarner took a lasziv position lying on the bed while she said this.
"You know? - I am curious," she nearly purred. "So tell me, what more do you know about this plan of our leader?"
He smiled at her.
"You really are curious, aren´t you? You are a seductive little witch, like always."
"You can bet I am."
`Slut,´ she thought about herself.
There was no denying it, that was what she was. But if it meant finding out anything that could help this fucked up world she had landed in, then she gladly was one.
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Fallen Angels, especially female ones, were always creatures of passion and seduction. But they were also capable to loyalty and faithfulness - if they wanted to... if they did.
She for her part always had a number of lovers who were more or less casual. Some of these relationships, she admitted looking back, were not based on love or even pleasure... at least not only... but also for mutual benefit and come close to people who could help her own interests. Not that she didn´t enjoy at least most of it.
Kalawarner had been in this reality for around two years now. If she was honest, she would have probably been lost if it had not been for a certain person finding her, instructing her to this world and giving her a place to live.
So she had chosen to help her `benefactor´ in the way she knew best. By gathering information... by every way necessary.
Not that she could imagine him being particular happy about her `methods´ if he found out about it.
But it was her own choice.
Some time after she had arrived here and had lived herself in, she had volunteered to infiltrade this version of the Grigori.
They had found out the whereabouts of this world´s Kalawarner and then kidnapped her and put her into a magical stasis. Then she had taken her place.
The Fallen Angel she was currently having - well `relations´ with (a.k.a who was fucking her brains out), was one of Kokabiel´s close associates.
His counterpart from her reality had also been one of her sex-friends from back then.
And as it turned out, this version here also had a similar relationhip with the other Kalawarner.
So she had thought - why not?
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"You said Kokabiel and Khaos Brigade have another ally. Can you tell me more about them?"
His expression turned serious.
"Well, I have to admit I don´t know that much about them either. The boss is a bit tight-lipped when it comes to them. We only know what they are calling themselves... the Erebos."
"Erebos?" Kalawarner repeated. "Sounds interesting."
"Can you at least tell me something about them?" she asked him. "Is it a new group from the Underworld? Or maybe from one of the other Factions?"
"No. That is the strange thing," the male Fallen stated. "They don´t seem to be connected to anyone from here. Do you know something? When I had asked Lord Kokabiel the same Thing, do you know what he said?: `They are not from here.´ Can you believe it babe?" He cuckled lightly.
"Really? That is kind of mysterious isn´t it?
She grinned. In truth Kalawarned had somesuspicion what this meant. Not from here... just like herself.
"I will leave now. There are still things I have to do. I hope we can do this again soon."
With that he teleported away, leaving a few black feathers behind.
Kalawarner waited for a few minutes after he was gone. Then she formed a magic communication-circle.
"It is me," she said. "You can tell your Master that I have found out something. Not much, but it could be a start."