MAE'R DDRAIG GOCH YN MYNNU GWEITHREDU (High School DxD - Y Ddraig Goch SI Chapter 1)
Issei Hyoudou laid on the ground dying.
"If you want to blame someone, blame God for putting that Sacred Gear inside you." A voice said from nearby.
Ah right, it was Yuuma-chan.
Yuuma Amano. His girlfriend. Or at least he thought she was?
She was the first girl that confessed to him. The first time someone confessed to him. The first time he went on a date. The first time he spent time with a girl.
He did his best didn't he? He was a gentleman. No matter how tempted he was, he kept his eyes above the chest. He tried his best to be the perfect boyfriend.
He was happy. Her smile brightened up everything. He was willing to give up on his dream to be Harem King. All for one girl who chose him.
Then all of a sudden at the end, she turned into some kind of tengu, sprouting black wings, and stabbed him with a sharp spear, made of light.
Blood was pouring too much from his stomach. He couldn't stop bleeding. Of course he can't. There was a hole the size of his fist in his stomach.
If I knew... If I knew I was gonna die today... that Yuuma was gonna kill me... I would have squeezed her boobs a few times first!
It was a silly thought. A stupid thought. But it still brought a smile to him.
At least he won't die regretting.
Everything was black now, and-
"WENT OUT LIKE A BITCH!"
"Huh?!" Issei's awareness slammed back into focus.
"And here we have him ladies and gentlemen! Our latest disappointment, Hyoudoooooou Issssssseiiiiiii!" The bombastic voice that replaced all the silence rang out and echoed all around him as if it was replacing everything.
Issei looked and couldn't not see the giant RED FUCKING DRAGON holding a microphone made of fire-No, fire shaped like a microphone, and around them was a fire shaped stadium, with fire shaped audience. Who were booing him.
"W-What!?" Issei cried out. He was dying a second ago, right?
"And of course folks, as expect, we have bafflement on first meeting. Joffery, pay the people who bet on the first meeting being 'stunted bafflement', 'meeting at first death experience', and 'dying before ever knowing the supernatural was real'. So to all of you, who played it safe, you fucking win as expected, and I hope you're ashamed on yourselves for those safe bets."
Part of the fire shaped crowd booed, and part cheered. There was a fire guy in the side wearing a cap, paying fire people, fire money.
"What the hell is going on!?" Issei finally shouted at all absurdity happening. Was this his mind hallucinating as he was dying? He heard people tend to see flashes of their life, or other stuff while dying, but never this!
"Alllright." The Red Dragon threw the fire microphone away, which didn't disappear as Issei expected. It spun in the air, and landed on the side of the fire stadium, crushing it and the fire people it fell on. The fire people were screaming in distress about the whole thing.
"D-D-Did you just kill those people!?" Where the fire people actually real living people?!
"Pfft, no. I'm just fucking around. This whole thing is my creation because I'm bored." Suddenly, all the noise was gone. The fire stadium and people were still around, but there was no sound. They all just stopped in place, as if time froze, or the illusion of them playing being 'alive' was halted. "Now then, time for intros. You are of course Hyoudou Issei. A complete disappointment." Issei flinched at that statement. It was said so casually.
"H-Hey, who are you to-" Issei tried to argue.
"You never actually acted on that Harem Dream of yours. Content to just sit back, jerk off and day dream. You didn't try to be a fishermen, or practice drawing or arts in middle school, to make those games or manga or anime you always dreamed of one day doing. You never acted on anything you're passionate about, other than goofing around with those two other idiots, since you all didn't want to put actual real effort in any of the things you care about. You didn't exercise for that Chad Handsome body you envied the handsome people who had it, and you can't flirt with a girl to save your life." The Red Dragon said, every word a knife in Issei's ego. "Truthfully, I don't care that your goal is to fuck a hundred bitches, or to 'find loooove~' or whatever. What annoys me is that you never actually went to do something about it. Talked a big game and when the time came you couldn't walk the walk."
"How is Yuuma-chan anything I could have prepared for? Even if I did all that, what was I suppose to do? Fight-"
"I'm talking about Kiryuu Aika."
"Ah... S-She's you know, kinda like one of us perverts, me and the guys, so it-"
"Completely available, gave you signals, and you deluded yourself into ignoring them. Pussy." The Red Dragon deadpanned.
"H-Hey!"
"'Oh she's a fellow pervert, so it would be like breaking the bro code', 'oh she seems more knowledgeable than I am, I don't want her to know how much of a clueless virgin I am'. Waaaah, waaaaah, waaaah!" The Red Dragon said with swinging his long neck around mockingly.
"O-Oh yeah! Then who are you! What girls have you s-slep-I mean dated?" Issei said, trying and failing to keep his composure.
"FUCKED. The word you're looking for is 'FUCKED'. And hundreds. Generations even. I've even experienced the rare generational oyakodon." The Red Dragon nodded, eye gleaming in fond memories.
"G-G-Generational oyakodon!? What? Who? How is that made? I mean, what would be involved, Lord Dragon Sir?" Issei stood at attention, like a student before a guru.
"It's when you take a woman, her twin sisters, her daughter, her mother, her grandmother and their ancestor all at the same time." The Red Dragon said with a proud nod.
"FUCKING AWESOME! Amazing! I am in awe of your greatness, Lord Master Dragon-sama Sir!" Issei pumped both fists in the air, as the dragon roared in laughter. "Um, I'm sorry, but I still don't know your name. Dragon-sama. Who are you and... what is this place? Am I... Am I dead?" Issei sudden felt that fear and urgency return.
The Red Dragon stopped laughing as he eyes Issei, then quickly moved, making Issei yelp as suddenly a large emerald eye took him his field of vision. The dragon had lowered itself to look directly at the whole of Issei.
"You want know me, boy? You want to what, who I am?" The Red Dragon spoke. Issei shook with nervousness at the dragon's sudden serious tone. "I assure you, you can still walk away. Yes, you're not dead yet, but you're dying. However you now feel no pain, you can just accept this and move on." The dragon reared his neck back, as Issei looked up at him, seeing the dragon grin, his teeth were towers.
"But if you want to continue you, if you want know me, then I'm dragging you back to life, and trust me, you're pitiful life is never gonna be the same. You'll never know peace, because from now on, you and I? We're going on an adventure, a life terrifying and great, that you will never escape from, because I'm bringing you with me, whether you want to or not. So think carefully Hyoudou Issei, let go and be in peace." The fires dimmed down, now no longer bright. Issei could only see the dragon and himself. "Oooor... Get ready to enter a world of madness. To see and experience what life in this world really is like and EVERYTHING it contains."
It felt heavy, this sudden question. This sudden expectation. The implication that the world was larger and more dangerous than he knew.
But Hyoudou Issei was many things. A pervert, a boob lover, a... He really didn't have many things going on. He remembered what the dragon had said about Issei and his dreams and that stung.
So if nothing else, he wanted to live to prove the dragon wrong. He wanted to survive.
If the world was truly dangerous and he still managed to live this long, then hopefully with the help of this dragon he can manage to accomplish more?
"I do. I want to know who you are. I want to live!"
The dragon grin widened.
"I have many names." He spoke, there was an aristocratic feel to his voice, rather than how... punkish he sounded before. "I am known as Welsh Dragon and the Dragon Emperor of Britain.
"I am the Winged Raining Scorch and the True Flame.
"I am he who is as might to withstand the Holiest Blade, with nay a mark. The unfelled even by the long arms of Samildánach and his fiery spear.
"Iam the Red Dragon Emperor of Domination, Y DDRAIG GOCH!"
The fire rose up with his speech, reaching a crescendo as he finally said his name. And Issei world was only flames and the Red Dragon, Y Ddraig Goch in front of him.
"But you can call me, Ddraig, brat." Ddraig smirked, the smirk sending an unpleasant shiver down Issei's spend. "Like many others before you, my name will soon be a curse upon your lips. That is fine."
"...What do you mean?" Issei asked warily.
"Long ago when I was finally slain by the combined might of the Three Factions, and other Pantheons, I was sealed into a weapon made by Yahweh, the God of the Bible, the Abrahamic God." Ddragi just continued ignoring Issei's question. "The weapon he sealed me in is called a Sacred Gear. Artifacts of God, that allow humans the chance to withstand the dangers of the supernatural world." Issei listened with rapid attention. "The type of Sacred Gear, I and twelve others were sealed in are called Longinus. The 13 Longinus, as they are called, as given this distinction because they have so much power that they can potentially slay gods." Issei's eyes widened. "What you have is my Longinus, the strongest Longinus of all, because I said so." Issei deadpanned. "The Boosted Gear, whose ability is to double your power, or anything really every ten seconds, and that's just the normal form."
Issei's eyes widened, "Okay, maybe he wasn't bragging for nothing."
"Now, I'm going to heal you, this is a one time death escaping boost, so don't think it will happen again. After that, that red haired devil should explain details to do you because I'm now bored."
"Wait, what? Who?"
"GO BACK TO LIFE PUNCH!"
A giant red dragon fist bursting with crimson glowing energy came at Issei's whole being like a train.
A giant pillar of crimson energy exploded from where Issei's body laid.
The Fallen Angel Raynare, who disguised herself as a human called Yuuma Amano, looked back in confusion. Then her face paled and seemed to age, form the sheer horror and comprehension of her MASSIVE FUCK UP!
Faster than Raynare had ever flew in her centuries of life, she flapped her wings and burst forward toward her hideout with the other Fallen Angels and Stray Exorcists she picked up for this mission.
SHITSHITSHITSHIT! FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!
"IT WASN'T A TWICE CRITICAL! FUUUUUCCCK!" Raynare shouted at herself.
Rias Gremory expected many things when she was felt a pull for a summoning for one Hyoudou Issei.
Maybe he wanted help getting a girlfriend? Maybe he might asked to see her breasts? That would be fun to tease him with.
Maybe he activated his Sacred Gear, whatever it was, and has question? That would be fortune thing then. And it would be nice if she recruited someone into her Peerage that she didn't feel the need to be a therapist to. She wants to do her best for her precious Peerage but she always felt out of her depth in truly helping them heal.
Rias arrived to see a giant pillar of red light and energy in front of her, knocking her back on her butt from the sheer force and power manifesting, even if it was aimed nowhere, but upward.
Finally the energy receded. Rias looked up and paled as she saw a red crimson armor. The Balance Breaker of a very familiar Sacred Gear.
Rias had grew up hearing stories about the Red Dragon and those unfortunate enough to be his wielders.
The Boosted Gear, while one of the 13 Longini, and considered one of the strongest had the unfortunate side effect of coming with a very loud and uncontrollable Heavenly Dragon.
Many theorized he wasn't actually fully sealed in the Sacred Gear, and just stuck around in it to fuck with people who end up with the Boosted Gear.
"Yo! The Gremory Brat, right?" A booming voice spoke from the armor. The green gems shined as the voice spoke. It wasn't the wielder speaking, but the dragon.
"I, uh, yes." Rias stood up and dusted herself, trying to act calm. "I am Rias Gremory, Lord Ddraig, one of the supervisors of this city, Kuoh-"
"Yeah, don't care. Wielder's Issei. Yes, that Issei. He's knocked out now, take him to your orgy house and explain the details of the supernatural stuff to him. Not just the Three Factions." He pointed out.
"Ah, right, of course. Um, it isn't an orgy-" Rias tried to say.
"Also since you're Gremory, do you know that brat that became Lucifer? Call her, I wanna see if she lives up to the hype people keep throwing about her. Welp anyways, that's all. Also you have a Fallen infestation. Thin them out, but keep the mini-bosses. My boy here needs the tutorial to level up. Ciao~." Ddarig just said, giving a mock salute, before the armor dissolved into motes of energy and red sparks, leaving Issei in that standing saluting position. His eyes was closed as he was knocked out.
Rias caught the human boy was he fell forward, wondering if maybe wishing she found some traumatized kid with a superpower, that she can get into her Peerage and maybe help, makes her a bad person.
"I need to call Akeno... I need to call everyone and ambush them in the club house, before they can find excuses to take a vacation. I am not dealing with this alone!"
AN: As best as Google Translate can tell me "Y Ddraig Goch yn mynnu gweithredu" means "The Red Dragon demands action". I changed it from the motto (according to the wiki) of "Y ddraig goch ddyry cychwyn" which means "the red dragon inspires action" supposedly.
Edit: Title edited for correct translation.
