Man I still can't fully grasp the Bishop form, I can't seem to charge enough power in time to create a powerful enough blast." Said Issei to Kiba.
"That could cause some Issues if a large attack is needed plus we can't just have you stand around while you charge." Replied Kiba.
In Front of them were Xenovia and Rossweisse sparing in an artificial dimension. "Yeah I have to master the Bishop form if I want to unlock the queen form." Rook and Knight are easy enough, but I'm still not too good when it comes to magic besides Heart's Song or Fire." Said Issei.
"I overheard your conversation. Why not instead of building up power to attack, you use it to boost the others." Said Ravel.
"Yeah that's it." Said both Kiba and Issei.
"Yeah we can use my boosts as a distraction, the others would want to stop me from gathering energy putting their attention on me, but they don't want to get too close due to their fear that I might fire." Said Issei.
"However it will be most effective on the first go so we have to make the transfer count." Said Kiba.
"Alright man, let's get back to training." Said Issei as he was preparing to continue his sparingly with Kiba."
"Oh sorry Issei but that's enough for today we have to look presentable for tomorrow we have a press conference." Said Rias.
"Wait wait does that mean." Started Issei.
"Yeah, you're going to be on TV tomorrow.
The next day the Gremory Peerage we're getting prepped for the conference. The girls were getting makeup applied on them while Issei, Kiba, Gasper and Shin were sitting around a table.
"Hey Gasper, are you going to use your girls uniform for the conference?" Asked Kiba
"Um, maybe I don't know. I think I will be wired now after all this time though it won't be any less scary." Said the crossdressing half vampires.
On another couch sat Issei with Shin in his arms and Koneko laying across his Lap. Issei noticed Shin was starting to get hungry so he was going to grab a bottle from the baby bag that Raynare had. "Hey Koneko can I get up?" Issei asked the girls on his lap.
"Unless we're talking about your junk then no." Said Koneko.
"Wow Koneko you're really feisty lately." Said Akeno.
"Yeah could It be because of a certain Phenex." Added Rias.
Koneko only pouted to think about Ravel. "Well I just want to get Shin a bottle he's getting hungry." Said Issei.
Koneko put her hand up and the bottle began to float to her hand. "Well it seems your training with Kuroka is paying off." Said Kiba.
"Well what I want to know is why Ravel made you so upset." Said Issei.
"Get a clue Casanova, cuntucky fried chickens in love with you." Said Koneko.
"Is that what this is about, Koneko you don't have to worry no matter what happens you'll always be my little kitten." Said Issei patting Koneko's head.
Issei began to feed Shin as the door opened and a man called for everyone to get ready. Rias and her peerage began to exit the room when they were met with Saji and the girls of Sona's Peerage.
"Hey it's been a while." Said Saji.
"Saji." Nodded Rias.
"Hey man, how's it hanging?" Saji asked Issei.
"Everything's fine." Said Issei.
"And how's the little guy doing?" Said Saji, seeing the baby in Issei's arms.
"Oh he's doing great, just watch your fingers." Said Issei as Saji went to feel Shin's tiny hand.
As Issei warned, Shin grabbed Sajins finger. "Ow ow ow." Said Saji, having his finger crushed by the baby.
"Yeah that's what I was trying to warn you about, he is really strong for a baby, he is half dragon after all." Said Issei.
"Wow if his strength is anything to say about how strong your kids will be I don't want to babysit the rest of your kids." Said Saji as everyone laughed and the girls blushed.
"Oh I didn't ask but why are you guys here too?" Asked Issei.
"Oh right we also have a Rating game the same day as you, but it seems no one knows since you're fighting for Rias, you are big talk in the underworld and around school." Sighed Saji.
Issei chuckled as he wrapped an arm around his fellow pawn. "Hey don't forget I might be fighting for Rias now but I'm also a pawn of Sitri and you're my fellow black dragon right." Said Issei
"Yeah you're right." Replied Saji with a laugh.
"Hey Saji, it's time to go. Sona is waiting." Spoke Momo as they began to walk to their conference.
"Now everyone, let's welcome the Gremory Peerage." Spoke to an elder who stood at a podium and beside him sat Sairaorg and his Peerage.
As the Gremory Peerage entered, the Camera began to flash as they walked to take their seats.
"Now we will have a few words from each King about the upcoming Rating game. Please hold your comments after the conference, Sir Bael." Said the man.
"I only have one thing to say, I intend to face the Gremory Peerage with everything I have." Said Sairaorg.
"Lady Gremory." Spoke to the elder.
"I'm so Honored to be fighting against the Beal Family and hope that it's an interesting match, although he is concerned with top ranking amongst the young devils I have no intention of Losing, In fact I plan to win." Spoke Rias confidently.
"Thank you very much, next we will open up the floor for questions from the press, any questions." Spoke to the man.
"Yes I have a question for the Rising star the Song Dragon." Spoke to a reporter woman.
"That child In your hands, is he a relative or young sibling, there have been multiple reports stating that you have been seen with their baby every once in a while." Said the woman.
"Yes, well this child Is my son." Said Issei looking out to the reporters.
The camera began to chutter and take pictures. "If he is your son, who is the mother?" Asked the woman.
"My son's mother is Raynare Azazel, the Niece of the Governor General of Gregory and a fellow Pawn of Rias." Replied Issei.
The cameras now pointed at Raynare who smiled Awkwardly at the attention. "What Is your relationship with Princess Rias and are you dating anyone else?" Asked a man.
Rias stood to answer this question. "Well you see, Issei is mine and a few other boyfriends." Said Rias as the rest of Issei's Girlfriends stood up.
The conference continues with the majority of the questions going to Isseis. "Well that conference was quite interesting." Said Sairaorg.
"Yeah it's not fun when the whole conference was only about me. We were supposed to talk about the Rating game now, my Carrier and love life." Said Issei exhausted.
Later that night Issei was in the bath when someone came in. "Oh Kiba you're here I was thinking…" However, he was cut off when he felt something pressing against his back.
After quickly rinsing his head he turned to Notice Rias was in the bathroom with him. "Hey look, we're finally alone." Said Rias as she sat next to Issei.
"Yeah it seems so." Said Issei.
"You're always surrounded so I never get to have alone time with you." Said Rias as she straddled Issei.
"You know being here in the steam is really romantic." Stated the girl as she began to push Issei down.
Rias suddenly began to tongue kiss Issei. Issei responded by holding her by the waist. "What's gotten into you today Rias." Said Issei.
"Raynare always gets to go all the way but we only get teased." Said Rias.
"Last time we were so close but we got interrupted." Said Rias.
"Well then I guess it's only fair." Said Issei as he began to explore the girls body with his hands.
After a passionate hour Issei carried Rias out of the bathroom and took her room trying his best to avoid the others of the house.
"It seems you and Prez enjoyed yourselves last night." Laughed Kiba
"Don't remind me, I was practically jumping when I entered my room." Said Issei hiding his face in his hands from embarrassment.
"Yeah well it sounds like a win to me though." Said Kiba.
"Man, why do the girls have to be so aggressive?" Said Issei
"Well at least you can actually talk to the girls. I can't even help Ravel with her problem, I'm so useless." Said Gasper.
"He isn't aware of what we are talking about, is he?" Whispered Issei to Kiba.
Kiba just smiled as a response. "Hey pal stop with all that self loathing, let me set you some ground rules, you are a man of the Gremory Peerage. Now repeat after me." Said Issei raising a finger.
"Rule one, a real man always protects those he cares for." Said Issei raising a fingers.
"Um, a real man protects." Stuttered Gasper
"Rule two, a real man will always stand tall no matter the situation." Stated Issei raising to fingers
"A man stands tall no matter the situation." Stated Gasper a little more confident.
"And finally rule three, no matter what happens never give up." Finish Issei
"No matter what happens, don't give up, ever" stated Gasper with his eyes shut tight and chin high.
"Good now, don't push yourself too much, take baby steps." Said Issei
"Right." Replied Gasper with confidence.
At that moment Rias and the rest of the girls walked in. Issei gave her a smile but she avoided his eyes with a large red blush. After everyone took their seats they began reviewing what they were going to do for the upcoming Rating game. After receiving their plans for the event they began to continue working on the festivities.
When in the middle of the coffee table Infront of Ravel a red magic circle appeared and Lady Phenex appeared as a small hologram. "Hello there Ravel are Rias and Issei around." Asked the woman.
"Yes we're right here." Said Issei as he stood Infront of the magic circle.
"Oh Issei, I just wanted to ask you a favor." Said Lady Phenex.
"Yes Lady Phenex, what do you need?" Asked Issei.
"I just want you to take care of my daughter and hopefully soon we get some good news." Said Lady Phenex.
Ravel blushed at the woman's words. "Yes ma'am I'll take care of your daughter." Said Issei.
Ravel's face grew redder as Issei answered the request. "That's all I wanted from you, now Ravel please be good, follow Rias's example and study hard." Said the girl's mother.
After Lady Phenex finished the call everyone went back to working on their stall. "Hey guys I have some work I have to do with Azazel to prepare for the Rating game." Said Issei.
"Yup and we have a lot of work to do before we begin." Said Azazel.
"We'll see you guys in a bit." Said Issei as Azazel teleported them away.
In Azazel lab Issei looked around, seeing all the relics scattered around the room. "Alright in this box I have the rings you asked for as well as the individual blueprints of the form that the rings will take." Said Azazel.
"Thanks, let's get started then." Replied Issei.
For the rest of the night Azazel and Issei experimented with multiple artificial gears. As they worked through the night suddenly the light in the lab turned on as a voice spoke. "Hey old man, I'm home, what do you want for dinner?" Spoke to a silver haired woman.
"Yo Vali, how's it going?" Said Issei as he held an arm guard made of black and red dragon scales.
"I-Issei w-what are you doing here." Asked the flustered girl.
"Oh just working on a little project with Azazel." Said Issei.
"Yup and so far things are going well." Said Azazel as he was creating what looked like a shin guard.
"Well what are you making?" Asked Vali.
"Well we're making Artificial Sacred gears, sort of for Kiba and Xenovia we're making armor since they are sword fighters. For the magic users like Rias, Akeno, Raynare, Kaliwarner, Mittelt and Asia were making rings that can help focus their power. For fighter types like Koneko and Rossweisse, a pair of gauntlets, I'm still trying to figure out what we can make for Gasper." Said Issei.
"Why not reinforce the girl's uniform with your dragon scales." Said Azazel.
"Hey that might work, his power isn't easy to control without my blood but protection can help a lot." Said Issei.
"But isn't all that cheating?" Asked Vali.
"Well usually yes however Sairaorg nulled the power usage rule." Said Issei as he held a ring and what looked like a jumbled up chain.
"Hmm interesting, how long do you plan to be here?" Asked Vali.
"Oh I'm going to be coming here right after class." Replied Issei.
Vali began to blush at the thought of living under that same roof as Issei for a week. Azazel was quick to notice and planned on using that information for some entertainment.
"Alright, Reynares gear is finished with 10 more to go." Said Issei stretching.
"How exactly are you making Artificial Sacred gears?" Vali asked.
"Oh right, well remember how I took Divine Dividing, well it was possible due to my will power, so I put my aura and power into a failed Ring Azazel gave me as a contract and It had an interesting effect. When Raynare put it on it turned into a Double Critical however it didn't have a true physical form so it fell apart, and that's why we're building the gears here in the lab using my scales." Said Issei as he pulled a glowing scale off his wing.
"My scales are constantly ignited kinda like the wings of the Phenex families, but they turn completely solid when cooled," said Issei as he tipped his scale in water causing a lot of steam.
Fulling the scale out of the water it was a black one and red scale. "Yeah Issei's scales are quite durable." Said Azazel as he used magic to shape the scales.
"Can I help?" Asked Vali shyly.
"Yeah I don't see why not." Replied Issei.
"Yeah here you can work on this." Said Azazel, passing the girl a leather armor base.
"Just infused the leather with scales." Said the man as he worked on enfusing tma chain with magic gems."
"Well kids that's enough for today." Said Azazel.
"Alright then, time to rest." Said Issei stretching to unstiffen his muscles.
Across the room Vali stared at the boy in a daze. In her distraction she didn't notice her father standing besides her. "So has the white dragon fallen in love with her Rival." Whispered the man to his adopted daughter.
"D-dad no that's not it." Stuttered the new nervous Vali.
"Haha don't worry, I approve of Issei anyways just go for it." Said Azazel.
"Yes I agree the wielder of Ddraig would be a good mate for you partner." Spoke Albion.
"Albion not you too, I know you're getting along with Ddraig but this." Said Vali with a redend face.
For the rest of the week Issei would go through his usual routine; he would wake up early, train with his peerage before school. After school he would go to Azazel's lab to work on the Sacred gears.
The week was coming to an end and Issei gathered all the gears and headed to school to join the ORC before they head to the Ageas Stadium in the underworld.
Issei entered the Clubroom with a box. Inside were his friends working on their haunted house. "Everyone, I'm finished." Said Issei as he placed the box on the small coffee table.
"Oh Issei you've been going with Azazel all week so we were wondering what you were up to and Kiba and Raynare didn't want to say what you had planned." Said Akeno.
"Well you will all love what we've made." Said Issei as he opened the box revealing a bunch of jewelry.
"Jewelry is what you were really making." Said Koneko with squinted eyes.
"Hey trust me it's more than just jewelry now everyone comes here each is made specifically for each of you, First Rias." Said Issei as he pulled out a red and black ring.
A moment later everyone had their gears, Akeno and Raynare had black rings with red lines, Mittelt and Kaliwarner had pure black rings, Asia had a silver ring, Koneko and Rossweisse had red rings. Xenovia and Kiba each wore a necklace, Kibas was a sword that resembled his balance breaker and Xenovias was a black and red cross.
"Um, what about me?'' asked Gasper.
"Oh I made something special for you too but to not have confusion, Raynare do as before." Said Issei.
Raynare nodded and stood Infront of the others putting magic into the ring, suddenly her hand began to glow and on her hand appeared a black and purple hand peice.
"Wait Issei is that what I think it is?" Asked Rias.
"Well kinda we were planning on making Artificial Sacred gears but we made these artifacts instead, they're all made from my scales." Said Issei.
Everyone was left with wide eyes as they each stared at their artifacts. "Alright then give them a try." Said Issei
At that everyone summoned there artifacts, Akeno had a similar handpiece to Raynare however it was all black.
Rias's hand chains are more simple, only having a red gem on the back of her hand and over her ring finger.
Kaliwarner and Mittelt had a full wrist wrapped net half way to their forearm with a single chain connected to the ring on their middle fingers.
Last of the magic users was Asia hers was silver vine that ran from her thumb to her index finger.
Koneko's and Rossweisse's Artifacts were red metal gauntlets with exhaust for extra punching power.
"Alright now that you guys have seen your artifacts, Kiba, Xenovia let me show you how to activate yours." Said Issei before explain.
Kiba and Xenovia grabbed the pendants and channeled their power into them. After a moment Kiba and Xenovia were covered in two sets of Armors. Kiba had metal boots, gauntlets, a chest plate and was now wearing brown pants and a blue hoodie.
Xenovia now wore a black scales and leather short dress with thigh high steel toed boots and metal arm guards.
"Wow you look great too." Said Irina seeing her friends wardrobe change.
"Yeah you guys look cool." Said Asia.
"Ok ok now Gasper, I wasn't sure what I can make to help with your power but Azazel and I came up with something you can feel comfortable in and will protect you." Said Issei as he pulled something out of the box.
In his hands he held a girls uniform similar to the one Gasper was currently wearing. "It doesn't seem like much but we infused it with dragon scale fibers, it is stronger than steel but flexible and Azazel added a special feature but put it on to try it out." Spoke the dragon to his underclassmen.
After Gasper changed into the new uniforms Issei told him to do just like the others did. Suddenly the uniform changed from the girls uniform to the boys uniform. "Now whenever you want to wear the boys uniform you can change it between genders." Said Issei proud of himself
"Alright then now that we're all ready let's get going." Said Rias now pumped for the game.
"Yeah!!" yelled everyone in anticipation.
