Episode II
"Kenny's New Life"
Kenny was awaken by his alarm clock.
"Hmmm…" Opening his eyes, Kenny found himself staring at the ceiling of his bedroom and in the comfort of his bed once again. He then reached over and turned off the clock, as he just lays there, trying to understand what was happening to him. This was the second time this as happen and this attack left him more question than answers.
Looking over to his right, he saw the sword leaning against the bed. Reaching over to it, Kenny placed the tip of his fingers on it, then traced them down the handle. "What am I going to do with you?" He asked it, even though it wasn't going to respond. Letting out a deep sigh, he closed his eyes and rolled over to his left side and wrapped his arms around a big, soft, and warm pillow, and just laid there.
…Wait a second.
Snapping his eyes open, Kenny saw his arm on a curvy and lumping form underneath the cover, with red locks of hair sticking out. Grabbing the cover's corner, he got on his knees and threw the covers off the figure. He was absolutely shocked to the core to find a sleeping and stark naked Rias Gremory.
With his eyes already glued to her peacefully sleeping, prefect hourglass form, Kenny reached over to his left and grabbed the sword, trying not to wake her.
Grasping the scabbard and brought it over to him, he grabbed the handle and pulled an inch of it out, creating a clink.
Rias cracked her eyes open and moaned, awoken by the sound. Kenny reacted by jumping off the bed, landing on the flood.
SHING!
Pulling out the rest of the sword, he pointed the tip of the blade at her face when she quickly sat up without even covering herself, startled. Rias at first looked stunned as she stared at the sharp edge with wide eyes, obviously surprised by the hostility she was given. She ran her eyes down the blade, to his arm and then looked at Kenny in the eyes. "Oh, it's just you," she said casually in her beautiful voice. "Good morning."
"'Good morning' my ass!" He retorted, making her jump a little. "What the hell are you doing here? In my bed? And butt naked?!"
All Rias did was yawn and stretched her arms up, not even bothered by the fact that there was a sword not too far from her or that she was displaying her body to him. "There is no reason for hostility, Kenny," she said, smiling, "I'm not going to hurt you."
"Oh really?" Kenny asked, not believing her. "How can I be sure of that?"
"Take a look at your chest." Raising an eyebrow, he did that and saw that there was no wounds on him. No holes in his chest, just like the night before yesterday.
And nothing to covering 'Private Kenny' down there.
Quickly grabbing his school bag, Kenny covered his private area with it, while not taking the sword away from the beauty. "Where the fuck have my clothes gone, Rias," he demanded, his face red with embarrassment.
"Sorry, I had to remove them in order to heal you." She explained. "You were critical conduction, but thankfully you don't die that easily, so I spent the whole night healing you. The only way I could heal you was by embracing you while we were naked. I was able to do it because we're from the same peerage."
That was enough for Kenny to lower the sword, even if most of what she was saying didn't make sense to him. "You healed me?" Rias nodded. Kenny sighed and lower the sword completely before sheathing it. "I'm sorry. I've been have a very bad week lately and see you last night didn't really exactly paint a good picture for you at first, even though you saved my life."
"It's okay." She sat the edge of the bed with her legs crossed. "I'm again very sorry I wasn't able to come to your side when you needed help." Rias then got up from the bed and walked up to him. Even though she was older, she was more than an inch shorter than Kenny. He stiffens when her small, soft, and warm hand rested on his chest. "You've had to fight alone one time and died, and then I almost lead you to your death," she said a surprising sorrowful tone.
Kenny looked down at her, stunned by what she said. Was Rias the one who asked him to come to the school? Deciding to save the questions for later, he placed a hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry about it. You couldn't have known that would have been attacked," he said trying to comfort her. "Why don't you stay for breakfast?"
Rias looked at him with watery eyes before blinking them clean and nodded. The two of them turned around and picked up their clothing. As Kenny puts on his pants, he looked at her as she slipped on her panties, while blushing hard when he saw a clear view of her womanhood, causing him to look away. Kenny shook his head to try and clear all thoughts of her pussy, he started thinking. There was something off about her. Rias didn't feel like Yuuma and that other guy. She felt warm and welcoming, and like he was familiar with her in some way.
"Can you help me with my bra, Kenny?" He snapped out his thoughts and saw her trying to attach the back of her bra. Kenny gulped as he approached her and grabbed the two ends and locked them together. She said her thanks before bending over again, giving a clear view of her ass again. Kenny couldn't help stare before quickly looking away, and instead went over to the bed and put the sword on the bed. Rias smiled to herself, knowing that he stared at her, before grabbing something.
"Here." Kenny looked back to see Rias, still only in her underwear, holding out to him a red silk kendo shinai bag. "This belongs a friend of mines," she said with a smile. He glanced between her and the bag, before taking it from her. "I want you to use it to hide the sword in, that way you can take it to school with you."
"Rias hold on." Kenny spoke up. "What's this all about? And on top of that, who are you? You're not normal, considering what you told that Fallen Angel last night. But unlike him, you didn't kill me and take the sword. Why? What are you?" He wasn't trying to be rude or anything to Rias, but too many things were happening in the span of two to three days now. Kenny just wanted to know why and how Rias was involved in all of this.
The redhead approached him and places a hand on his cheek. "I understand you3 dilemma, but I promise that I will tell you everything soon," she assured him with sincerity. "But for now we have school. However, I will tell you this; my name is Rias Gremory. I'm a Devil. About two days ago, I became your Master. Nice to meet you Kenny Kurosawa."
"What?" Kenny asked dumbfound.
"Yo, Kenny!" yelled voice on the other side of the door, making Kenny jump. "Are you awake, yet? It's still a school day!"
"Oh shit," Kenny hissed before saying, "I'll be right there, I'm just getting my things together." He turned back to Rias. "You get dressed while I make some breakfast." He didn't wait for a response as he quickly opened the door and left the room. Rias looked on with wide eyes before shrugging and going back to dressing herself. But as she was putting on her shoes, Rias saw the sword on the bed.
Walking over to it, she placed a hand on the black scabbard and felt the smoothness of the wood. Rias then grabbed the sword and pulled the blade out. Raising the sword, she gazes at her reflection as she remembered the nights she saved him. Both times, she played it safe and just sheathed the sword before she did anything else to him. Deciding to take the risk now, she took her left thumb and pressed against the tip of the blade. Rias flinched, as the sharp end poked into her skin easily, making her bleed.
Taking her thumb anyway, Rias looked at it as a drop of blood came out. "Normally a human weapon would be ineffective against a Devil, unless it was blessed. But it would also would have burned me." She looked down at the sword in her hand. "So why aren't you?"
Kenny was too busy making pancake to notice the fact he was shirtless. But it wasn't just the food that was on his mind.
Rias Gremory, the beautiful girl he met a couple of days ago, was a Devil.
What does that even mean? What does she mean by being his master? These were only a few of the questions floating around in his mind. When the pancakes were done, Kenny got out three plates from the cabinet and set them on the countertop, before placing a stack of three pancakes on each of them. Grabbing all three, with two in one hand and one in the other, he walked over to the table and step them out.
"Where's your shirt?"
Kenny turned around to see his younger sister, Karen Kurosawa. She had shorter black hair with blue eyes and a petite form, even for her age of thirteen. Due to her going to a middle school not far from Kuoh Academy, she wore a different uniform.
"Oh…well, you see." Kenny scratched the back of his head as he tried to come up with an excuse. "I've woken up late and I had to get breakfast ready for my little sister."
"And why is there a third plate out," Karen asked pointing to Rias' plate.
"It extras," he said quickly.
Karen stared at him, make him rather uncomfortable. She then suddenly grew a mischievous smirk. "You got laid, didn't you?"
Kenny's eyes shot wide and his face turned red. "KAREN!" He exclaimed with a sharp look. "That's not something someone your age should say out loud!"
"So you did," she asked with her hands on her hips, leaving Kenny dumbfound and lost in words. He was about to tell her a made up story, hope she'd believe it, when he was intruded by another.
"I assure you I didn't do anything bad to your brother." Looking towards the stairs, they were surprised to see Rias, fully dress in her uniform, with a red shirt in hand. "You see, I was out last night doing something important when it got late and I had to go home. It was really dark and I didn't feel safe, as my home was about half-a-mile away, so I called you big brother and asked him if I could spend the night at his house. He was generous enough to come get me himself and bring me to your home, where I spent the night. Although I was grateful, I promised nothing happened."
Karen scanned the smiling red-haired beauty, as Kenny stood by and glanced between the two nervously. Hoping that his sister would buy the story. Karen was rather protective of her brother when it came to women taking an interest in her brother. Kenny was at times protective of his sister, too, but learnt to let her deal with things, knowing that he's not going to be around to protect her forever.
"Okay."
Kenny snapped his head at Karen so fast it could have caused whiplash, eyes bulging out his sockets. "HUH! THAT'S IT!"
"What?" Karen pouted as she looked away from him with her arms crossed. "You did the right thing and helped a friend in need. I know that you're a teenager was hormones and shit, but I know that you always try and be the perfect gentleman."
Kenny looked down at his sister, so amazed by her maturity that he couldn't help but form a smile.
"Besides; her boobs are magically huge, huh?" She said with a mischievous look, nudging his arm.
"KAREN!"
"Man that was embarrassing," Kenny murmured. The two were now on our way to the school, walking together side by side. Rias carry her schoolbag with both hands, while Kenny had his schoolbag in his right hand with the left hand grasping the sling of the shinai bag that was on his back, which had the sword was inside.
"I thought she were charming," Rias then complimented.
"Yeah, you would think that; knowing you were enjoying the show we gave," he complained with a joking smirk, making her giggle.
"I thought it was fun."
"Because you the Devil."
Rias laughed at that before looking at Kenny with curiosity and suddenly asked; "So where are your parents?"
Kenny stopped in his tracks.
She stopped too, and looked back at him, only to gasp when she saw him with his hair shadowing over his eyes. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I-I was just trying to get to know you better, a-a-and well, I didn't see any adults and just thought to that..." She claims down, takes a breath, and bowed. "I'm so sorry, Kenny. Please forgive."
Kenny was stunned look how sincere she was being and how fast she wanted to correct herself. He placed a hand on her shoulder, causing her to look up at me. "No, it's ok." He said with a gentle smile. "You didn't know and you were just curious."
Rias looked at him with watery in her eyes, before whipping them away. "Still, I do apologize," she said with a sad smile before they started walking again.
"Our parents aren't around anymore." Kenny said out of the blue. "My father was an American and my mother was Japanese. They died in a car crash one night when I was only seven years old and when Karen was only two. But luckily we still had our grandfather. After the accident, he took us in and we've been living with him for years…until he passed away just five months ago. With the money my parents and grandpa left behind, I was able to rent the house and be able to prove for me and Karen for a good while unit I can find a job."
"Well, I'm glad you still have a family around to make you happy." She smiled at him. They continued to walk onwards in silence before she spoke again. "So, is that sword like a family heirloom or something?"
"Mmm?" Kenny looked at her before realizing what she meant. "Oh no, it's not. It came to me by blue light."
"A blue light?" Rias asked, intrigued by the sword's origins.
"Yep, it was the night when I was attacked by other Fallen Angel. After being chased around by her, I managed to get away from her and made my way to the school. After entering, I asked how I could have saved people from her and then a blue light appeared in front of me. When I touched it a black sphere formed inside it, forming into the sword in a flash of light."
Rias hummed while looking down with a thinking look. "That's strange indeed," she proclaimed with a hand on her chin. "I don't think I've ever heard of anything like that happening. Did anything else happen, Kenny?"
He thought about it for a second before remembering something. "I remember hearing a voice before fighting the Fallen."
"A voice?"
"Yes." Kenny conformed as the main gate of the school was ten feet away from away from them. "It was an old and wise male voice that told me to let the sword be my guide and my heart to guide its blade, as well as to 'trust not what you see, but what you feel'."
Rias looked at him with wide eyes. "How peculiar. It most have come from the sword itself."
"That's I thought, but it was enough to get me to fight back, so I didn't really think too much about it." Kenny scratched the back of his head, as they enter the school yard. Almost all of the boys looked at him in anger for walking with Rias and some of the girls were still negative at him about what happen on his first day with crashing into her. Kenny didn't pay much attention to them as they continued on to the front door.
Entering the main school building, Rias stopped and turned to Kenny. "I'll see you later then, Kenny."
"What?" He said, slightly indigent. "I thought you said you were going to explain everything?"
"Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about that." She reassured him. "You remember where the old schoolhouse?" Kenny nodded. "After school ends, head there and we'll be waiting."
Kenny wanted to protest, but sighed and said, "Alright—wait, others?"
She smiled. "You'll see. Bye Kenny." Rias gave him a wave and walked away. He watched her leave before going on too.
Rias walked up the stairs to her class, with much on her mind. Her thoughts were drifting from Kenny to his sword to that quote 'Trust not what you see, but what you feel'. Kenny Kurosawa was a sweet and determined boy, who as a lot of potential to show.
The same could be said for the ordinary looking katana sword he's now carrying with him. At first, she thought it was a Holy Sword, with it was able to cut through both of those Fallen Angels. But when he was a Devil, he didn't get burnt or destroyed by it, telling her that the sword was something else entirely.
And then the quote. "Trust not what you see, but you feel," she whisper to herself, trying to remember where she heard it from.
"Is that why you're so sure about him?" Rias looked up from her thoughts as she reached the top of the stairs, and spotted the owner of the voice leaning a pillar on the second floor. It was a young bespectacled woman, who was also a student, in her late teens, like Rias, but with a slimmer figure and being smaller than the redhead. Her black hair was in a short bob cut and had violet eyes. "Hello again, Rias. Good to see you," she said with a small smile.
Rias smiled and walked over. "It's good to see you, Sona." She walked over the railing and leaned on them.
"Never seen you take on anyone so impulsively," Sona commented. "What makes this one so special?"
"I don't know." She said trustfully. "When I first talked to him, it was like talking to someone who saw me as an equal. I found myself enjoying it." She then turned around and looked upward with her back on the railing. "But if I was to be completely honest, I would have to say when I was watching him fight with his ex-girlfriend." Rias remembered she was in her bed when she heard the fight and ran out into the rain and hid behind a tree. "As I watched him, I could see a, fierce determination in his eyes as nothing I even seen before. His fighting was like looking at a samurai warrior. His slashes were graceful. His blocks were almost perfect." She hugged her elbows when she remembered Kenny furiously slashing down on Yuuma's to the point where it broke. "I really did think he was going to kill her….But then when Yuuma changed back and told him a fake story, I could see the conflict in him in his eyes. And when he told her to leave, I knew that Kenny was a strong but caring individual. A righteous warrior, who was to be feared by his enemies and to be up looked up to by those who he protests. So when I saw him stabbed, I wanted to give him a second chance."
Sona looked at her friend feeling stunned. She never heard Rias go that deep when talking about someone, so much so she thought her redhead friend may have lost herself in the moment. Was this Kenny Kurosawa the real deal? And if so, she regrets not taking him for herself. "I see."
The bell for the end of school finally rang.
"Well, it's about time." Kenny said, picking up the shinai bag and putting his right arm through the sling. "All there is to do now is get to the old schoolhouse." Getting up from his seat, he made his way to the door, but stop when two male classmates suddenly got up from their chairs and stood in his way.
"Hold it Kurosawa," said the first one. He was shaven bald with big egg ears. "We got questions for you, you bastard." The last part made Kenny narrow his eyes at them.
"Approximately three days ago," said the other one, who had dark hair and glasses, "You ran into Rias Gremory; one of the Great Ladies of Kuoh." He pushed up his glasses, making them reflex light off the lenses. "[B99-W58-H90 cm]." Kenny raised a brow, wonder what he meant by the numbers. "This action made you the most unpopular in the whole school, even below us. However, on the same day, in your first period, you were assigned a seat next to the Second Great Lady; Akeno Himejima. [B102-W60-H89 cm]. You didn't know each, yet she gave you a seat next to her, a wave, and a smile. Then next, you were approached by one Koneko Toujou. [B67-W57-H73 cm]. And then today, you were seen walking and talking to school with Gremory."
Kenny didn't back away from the guy, even though his face was now so close to him that he could smell him. He also noticed the other one in the background looked like he was going to blow a casket. "And your problem is?"
"EXPLAIN YOUSELF, KUROSAWA," baldy screamed out loud, pushing aside the glass wearer and getting in Kenny's face, causing everyone to look at the three. "How is it that you, the new guy, was able to fucking score with three of the most wanted chicks in the whole school! We've been here the longest and we've never even got laid, damn it!"
What. The. Fuck?
"Okay, first off; who are you two anyway?" Kenny asked indigently, not hiding his annoyance. To his surprise, they grinned make maniacs as lecherous expressions formed on their faces.
"I am the Perverted Baldy and the Sexual Harassing Paparazzi…MATSUDA!" The bald one proclaimed with a pose.
"And I am the Perverted Glasses and the Three-size Scouter…MOTOHAMA!" The glasses one did his own posed too.
"AND TOGETHER WE MAKE…THE PERVY DUO!" They both posed dramatically before pointing at Kenny. "Now tell us how we can get chicks too!"
All Kenny could do was look at them in disbelief. These guys cannot be serious. Hearing whispers, he looked around to see almost every girl in the class whispering to each other while looking at the 'Pervy Duo' in disgust. Hoping it was all some kind of sick joke, Kenny looked back at the two, who were still pointing at him. "Look, you two," he said in annoyance, pinching the bridge of his nose, "I don't know what the hell you want from me, but I need to be somewhere. So if you would kindly—"
"No way man, you're not getting out of this so easily!" Matsuda exclaimed. "Come on, help a brother out! All we want is to know is how to get babes with giant jugs in our pants by getting those babes within three days, like you!"
"Huh?"
"If my research is correct," Motohama said, pushing his glasses up, "then when you tackled Rias on the first day, her friends show a great interest in you. If we ourselves could use this technique, then we could start our own harem." Then to Kenny's surprise they got down on their hands and knees and place their heads on the floor.
"Please teach us this technique!"
'Holy crap, they're serious.' Kenny got down on one knee and asked as casually as he could, "you guys really want to know?"
The two lifted their heads and nodded. Big mistake as he grabbed them by the collars, earning a frightful look on them.
"You should stop peeping on women for one thing." He said in a threatening tone. "I've been hearing rumors about the two of you and I just have to say that it makes me sick that you would transfer to a school just to peep on girls. You should be treating girls with respect and not as little play things. I have no techniques for you two, other than to get a life." He hissed the last part before grabbing their head and slammed them together.
Kenny stood up as they fell down, and stepped over their unconscious bodies and made his way to the door. But before he could even touch the handle, all the girls squealed like fangirls.
"Did you see him take care of those two?"
"He looked so cool! Finally, a boy teaches those two a lesson."
"I LOVE YOU, KENNY KUROSAWA!"
'What the hell just happened?' Kenny looked at all of them with disbelief as the girl population gone from hating him to liking him. He opened the door as was about to walk out when the opposite side of the gender spoke their minds.
"Damn it, why! Now all the girls in school want to get in his pants."
"Now we have another prince to compete with."
"Go die, Kurosawa!"
SLAM!
The sound of the door was heard by everyone around when Kenny furiously slammed it. 'This school's insane.'
Kenny sighed and walked down the hallway towards the back exit when he was approached by someone. "Are you Kenny Kurosawa?" asked a handsome young man with short blonde hair, gray eyes, and a mole under his left eye.
"Yes, who're you," Kenny asked with annoyance in his tone.
"Forgive me," the guy said with a bow. "I'm Yuuto Kiba. I was ordered by Rias Gremory to come and see if you in any trouble. By your tone, I say that you are."
Kenny's shape looked softened, feeling guilty for letting his frustration on Kiba when he didn't do anything to upset him. "I'm apologies for my rudeness." He bowed with sincerity. "I've been having a bad first week lately, and I just had an unfortunate run-in with these two perverts."
"It's okay," Kiba said with a kind smile. "I've heard all about your misfortunes, so don't worry too much about. Come on, we better not keep the President waiting." He turned around and walked ahead of him.
"President?"
"Rias."
"Oh."
The two walked side-by-side as they made their way through the school. As they went on, Kenny noticed that many girls starting to gossip to each other, something to do with him be bi-curious, but ignored them.
As they stepped out of the building and onto the dirt field, Kenny started to notice Kiba was taking quick glances at something behind him. He soon realized that it was the shinai bag on his back. Whenever the other boy looked at it, Kiba seemed to be lost in his own little world, but there was something that seemed to be bothering him too, as he would frown.
"Hey," Kenny said, bringing him back to reality. "You okay?"
Kiba blinked at him before shake his head. "Yes! I'm fine, I sorry if it made you uncomfortable," he said, denying it himself. Kenny knew there was something up with him, but didn't press the question any further and focused on the old building that was just a head.
Walking up to the doors, Kenny stopped and look up at the building, before following Kiba inside.
Entering the building was like entering a haunted house. It was dark inside, with no light other than the sunlight shining through the windows, but it was rather clean, which strikes Kenny as strange. You think that a place like this would have some bugs, spider webs, and dust in some places but he's yet to see one. Following Kiba, the two walked up to the second floor and further into the building. When they got to the second floor, Kenny stopped and looked down both ends of the clean corridor and everything seemed…normal.
But when he looked back down the left end, Kenny saw a door that was heavily locked, with chains on the hands and police taps exiting it off, with a sign that said; Do Not ENTER!
"I wouldn't go in there if I were you." Kenny snapped his head to the right to see Kiba looking at him over his shoulder. "President is this way." Taking one last glance at the door, Kenny followed Kiba down the corridor.
They came up to another door, but unlike the other one, this one wasn't chained up. It did have a sign, but was over the door, and it said; [Occult Research Club]
"President, he here," Kiba announced to the door.
"Come in." Rias voice came from behind the door.
So they did, and Kenny was shocked when he walked into the old classroom.
It was completely dark, with window curtains closed and only lit candle to provide light, giving the room a creepy feeling. There were no tables and chairs, only weird signs and words all over the place. On the floor, on the chalkboard, and the ceilings. Stepping further into the room, Kenny found himself standing over a larger magic-designed circle drawn out on the floor at the center of the room that took up most of the space.
'What is this place,' Kenny asked in his thoughts. Looking at the far end of the room, he saw that there were a couple of sofas that were facing each other with a carpet underneath them, a desk between the two, and one big office desk behind. Kenny then noticed that someone was sitting on one of the sofas.
"Koneko?" Said girl, who was eating a chocolate treat on a stick, halted and looked at him.
"Oh? You know her?" Kida asked.
"More like she knows," Kenny said. "She's the one who told me to come to the school last night." He glanced back at her as she stared expression back at him for a second before going back to eating her chocolate. 'Not much of a talker, huh?' Kenny then heard the sound of flowing water hitting a hard floor. Looking over towards it, he was bewildered to find a bathtub with the shower curtain closing off a section of the room.
With the silhouette of a vixen girl through curtain.
"Why is there a shower in a classroom," he asked out loud to no one. The shower stopped and a pair of wet feet stepped out of the bathtub and onto a towel.
"For you, President," surprising said another voice from behind the curtain. It belonged to a girl, but Kenny could tell it wasn't Rias'.
"Thank you Akeno." That was Rias.
'Wait, Akeno? The same girl from my first period class?'
"What's with the blush?" Kenny looked over in the direction of the voice and saw Koneko. Remembering what she asked, he placed a hand on his cheek and realized how warm they were.
The curtain opened to reveal one the 'Two Great Ladies of Kuoh'.
"So you're here." Akeno said, now on the other side of the curtains. "It's good to see you again." Kenny was blushing like crazy as the bombshell of a woman walks up to him, making him look away to hide his blush. "It's okay, I wouldn't bite," she said, in her sweet voice, with her eyes closed with a smile on her face. "You're the new guy, right? It's nice to officially meet you." She bowed to him.
"Likewise." Kenny returned bowed. "I'm sorry I never got the chance to introduce myself."
"Ara ara, you're so polite," Akeno giggled before opening her eyes. "Well then, let fix that. I'm Akeno Himejima and I'm the vice-president."
"I'm Kenny. Kenny Kurosawa." Kenny said as his face turned less red. He then remembered that she and Koneko were with Rias the night that Dohnaseek attacked him.
The curtains opened and a fully Rias step out with a towel in hand, whipping her long hair. "Sorry to keep you waiting, Kenny," she said. "I didn't have time to wash after leaving your place, so I hope I didn't keep you long."
Kenny raised a hand. "No, it's okay, you find," he assured her.
Rias then moved to the front of the office desk and leaned against it with her arms crossed, as everyone else sat down on one of the sofas. Kenny found himself alone on the couch to her right, Koneko and Kiba on the other one, with the sword between his right hand and shoulder while leaning against his right shoulder. "Now that everyone's here, I'd like to officially welcome you to the Occult Research Club, Kenny Kurosawa," she proclaims. "But you should know that the name of the club is just a front. It's supposed to look like some sort of hobby. I'll be frank with you, Kenny, and get right to the point; everyone in this room are Devils."
"…Cool."
Everyone in the room eyes widened as they looked at him. Even Akeno, who was passing some tea to him. "You're not surprised by the fact that we're Devils?" She asked curiously.
"To be honest: it was a little obvious," Kenny replied truthfully as he grabbed the cup from her. "Rias said she's a Devil herself, so when I saw you and Koneko last night I idea that you were no different. And the Devil part…well…my girlfriend turned out to be a Fallen Angel and attack me. If that's true, then who's to say that other biblical figures aren't real?" He took a sip of the tea. "This is really good tea by the way."
Akeno smiled brightly. "Why thank you."
Kenny leaned back and place the bagged sword in his lap before crossing his arms, with the cup in his left hand. "So what exactly is a Fallen Angel?"
Rias started to explain. "The Fallen Angels are Angels who originally were from heaven. They serve the God like any other Angel. However, they were cast out and fallen to hell due to their evil intention and their wicked actions." She places a hand on her right chest. "We, the Devil, have been at war with them for millenniums. Fighting for control over the Underworld, or Hell as you call it. The Underworld is split into two areas, one for the Devils, and one for the Fallen Angels. We Devils make pacts with humans for a price in order to obtain power and to increase our strength, whereas the Fallen Angels take control of humans to eliminate us. Moreover, the Angels of God have been tasked with the goal to wipe out both our factions making the situation a three-way standoff. It's been like this sense since ancient times." Rias then wears a proud smile. "Hope that answers your questions.''
Kenny didn't reply, only looked down at his cup while trying to process everything that's been said to him. Devils, Angels and Fallens lock in a war for centuries? It's almost unbelievable. But if it was all true, why was he brought into it all? Why did they want him? These other questions made him grip his cup tighter.
"Is everything okay?" He looked up to see Rias and everyone looking worriedly at him. Kenny didn't respond and just placed his cup of tea on the table, before grabbing the shinai bag.
"In all honest, I'm confused," he said contemplatively before pulled the sheathed sword out of the bag. Setting the bag on the sofa, Kenny looked down at the sword in his hands. "I can understand that there's a war happening right under my nose. You learn something every day, right? But why am I suddenly the target of the Fallen Angels?"
Rias grabs a small piece of paper from her desk and throws it on the table.
Kenny was shocked to see a phone of him and Yuuma. "Wait, how did you get this," he said, bewildered, picking it up. "When I looked at my phone to present it the police, it didn't have her in the photos I took of her."
"We have the ability to erase ourselves from a person's memory." Rias explained, causing Kenny to look flabbergasted at her. "After she killed you, Yuuma erased everyone else who was around her that night, memories and all records of her existence were gone in an instant."
"So that's why the news were so confusing." The news yesterday told of a terrorist going around shooting and hunting a student—guess who—and killed a police officer. The news then went to him exploding the gas station, saying that the cause was a spark of lightning.
"We also played a helping hand that night," Kiba spoke up. "Yuuma tried to make you a public enemy and put all that happen that night on you, even though you did blow up the gas station. To make you a wanted criminal. Luckily, we went out and planted new memories; to make it seem like a random shooting and smoke related explosion."
Kenny frowned as he thought about why she would try to frame him. "She must have tried to get me thrown in jail so that she could corner me in a cell. If she's able to implant new memories, then it's likely she'd be able to slip in and the guards would have remembered her as one of them," he said with a hand on his chin. "And if the cops didn't catch me, she must have thought that I'd be on the run, making me a target that she could confront without attracting any more attention to herself."
"My, my." Rias said with an impressed look. "Aren't you the thinker."
"But that doesn't answer some of my questions," Kenny said standing up. "Why did she attack me? What did she even have to gain from killing me? And if everything that's been happening was true, then how am I still alive?"
Rias stared at him for a second before she answered. "To start with the first question; it was her mission."
Kenny raised an eyebrow. "Mission?"
"That's correct. She went a date with you in order to find out if you had a dangerous artifact within you." Rias answered. "Once she verified it, she tried to kill you, but luckily you're hard to kill."
—(Flashback)—
"Sorry, Kenny, but you're a danger to us and our plans, so we had to get rid of you." She raises her spear. "If you have anyone to blame, then blame God for put the Sacred Gear inside you."
—(End flashback)—
"So that's what she meant by that," Kenny said before a picking up the sword. "So if the she was after this, then I could still be a target."
"Oh, that's not the Sacred Gear."
"…what?"
"Yeah, that sword is not the Sacred Gear," Rias said with an amused looked.
Kenny glanced between the sword and Rias. He then remembered the night Dohnaseek went after him. He said that it wasn't the power inside of him, that there was another power. "Then what the hell is this," he exclaimed.
"We're not sure to be honest. It's not a Sacred Gear, we know that, but it's not a holy weapon. The night that you were attacked, I felt a righteous aura flowing off it, but when I touched the blade this morning it didn't damage me like a Holy Sword. If it were a weapon of the church, it would have burnt me badly." Kenny looked at her with amazement and looked down at the sword in both his hands. "This is unlike any sword that I've ever seen or heard of, but whatever it is, it was able to protect you and harm Yuuma. Meaning there's more to it than we could ever know."
"But if this sword is not the Sacred Gear, then what is a Sacred Gear," Kenny asked.
"It's basically a very irregular, but overwhelming power that's bestowed in certain humans," Akeno speaks as she sits down. "Most of them were found in people whose names are remembered throughout all of time, using their powers to make them legends. The Gears are found within a person's body, so you can say that with the Gear comes the fame."
"Precisely," Rias picked up after her. "Most of the Sacred Gears have functions that are only usable in the human society. However, there are exceptional Gears out there that are so unstable that they become a threat to those on both sides of the Underworld."
Kenny looked at her with wide eyes. "Wow."
"Would you like to see it?" He nods. "Then please hold up your left hand." Following her instructions, Kenny held out his left arm outwards. "Now, close your eyes and imagine the strongest thing that comes to mind."
"Strongest thing…" Kenny whispers as his mind worked in overdrive. What could be the most powerful thing that was at the top of his head? Son Goku was the first thing that came to mind, but then there was Superman and One-Punch Man. The Hydrogen Bomb. Dark Souls Bosses! Doom-Guy even! "Damn it," he said, bending over like a failure. "There's too many things that are strong."
Rias crosses her arms. "Well, there must be something that's holding you back. Something on your mind, even?"
"Actually, there's one question you haven't answered," Kenny said looking up at her. "How may I still alive? You've talked about that night I was attacked, but you never told me how I lived." He stood straight. "What did you do to me Rias?"
Rias looked at him for a second before grabbing something from the right side of her desk and held it up. "Do you remember this," she asked, holding up the flyer that he saw the day of the date. "You threw it away. If you hadn't and if you'd died farther away from the school, it would have summoned me to you."
'Summoned,' Kenny thought.
"However, since you were about to find your way back to the school, all I had to do was walk out the door and see you there. That's what happened that night. Like I told you, I was watching you fight and when you were killed. I saved you before Yuuma could do any more damage, but it was too late, you were dying. So I decide to cash in my promise."
"Your promise?"
"Remember, before you met Yuuma," Rias continued with her smile growing bigger. "We both promised each other that we would make it up to one another. I decide to repay my debt by helping you. On that night, Kenny, I revived you and made you into an honorary member of the House of Rias Gremory—daughter of the Satan, Zeoticous Gremory."
FLAP!
Two black bat-like wings appeared from her back.
"Which you are now my Devil servant, Kenny Kurosawa."
FLAP! FLAP! FLAP! FLAP!
Everyone around him stood up and wings like hers started appearing from their backs, making Kenny's jaw to drop and eyes to widen.
"Everyone," Rias said. "Please introduce yourselves."
Kiba smiled at Kenny. "My name is Kiba Yuuto. I'm second year. And I'm a Devil too. Nice to meet you."
Koneko bows her head. "I'm Koneko Toujou. First year. Pleased to make your acquaintance. I'm a Devil too."
Akeno bowed her head very politely. "My name is Akeno Himejima, I'm a third year like you. I'm also the vice-president of the Occult Research Club. Nice to meet you. Even though I'm like, I'm also a Devil." She ended with a giggle.
Kenny looked at them in amazement at first, but then felt himself lean forward.
FLAP!
Looking over his should, he was further amazed when he saw that he had wings of his own.
"Welcome to the party," Rias said, assumed by his bewilderment. "How do you feel?"
"How am I supposed to feel," he asked with genuine curiosity. "I've been turned into a creature of Hell and yet I don't feel any different."
"That's good, now we can get down to business." Rias, after concealing her wings, went behind her desk and lower herself down. "The way this works is we grant powers to humans for a price that we both agree on, and seal the deal with a pact. It used to be that people would draw circles to summon us, but that got too complicated." She stood back up and walked over to the table and sets down a white bag, filled with something. "To make things easier, we make personal house calls and deliveries by handing out flyers."
"I see," Kenny said, kneeing down and opening the bag, where he found staking of flyers in it.
"Normally we'd have a messenger demon make the deliveries, but as the new servant, I thought it would be best to have you do it so that you could learn from all this."
Kenny looks up at her. "So what do I get for doing this?"
"Well," Rias then whisper in his seductively. "You could have servants of your own."
Kenny closed his eyes while blushing not looking at her. "T-that's not what I mean." Kenny stood up and face completely with a serious expression. "What do I get by being your servant? Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to you for bringing me back, but I never wanted to be reborn as a Devil, let alone your servant. So what happens to me if I sat with you?"
"Well, what do you want?"
Kenny opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. Looking down at his feet, he tried to think of something, but nothing came to mind about what he wanted. Kenny looked up at her and saw how sincere she was being with him. In truth, he never knew what he wanted to do with himself, even when he was a kid. There were so many things that it was a little overwhelming. But now, his selection became broader. Now he was a servant to this girl in front of him and he doesn't even know why he's even going along with her.
"I…"
Rias, looking at the young man in front of her with sympathy, sighed and placed a hand on his shoulder. "I get; you feel cheated for being able to live again. You feel as though your individual freedom is lost to me, but I assure you it's not. You may be my servant, but you're still you own personally."
Kenny looks away before looking at her again and nods.
She nods in return, but then points up a finger. "But you'll have to call me President."
"Huh! Why?"
"Since the school is an active territory of mine, it's fitting to call me President." Rias responded. "And also because of the Occult Research Club, everyone calls me that anyway."
"Find," Kenny said with a pout. "So where do we start."
"Start with the flyers."
"…huh?"
"The first step that we should take is getting you to hand out flyers," Rias explained. "Since you can't summon you Sacred Gear for now, the best course of action is to take it easy." She grabs the bag from the table and hands it to him. "I'll need you to carry out these tonight. These will be the first of your batch this week."
"Where the rest," Kenny asked while taking the bag.
Rias smirk and point behind him. Looking over his shoulder, his blank expression turned to that of horror. Behind him was Koneko with seven large boxes in front of her.
"WHAT THE FUCK!"
—("One Week later")—
It was another beautiful Wednesday afternoon as Kenny walked into the clubhouse with a box in hand. "What a day," he groaned as he walked up the stairs. "I can't believe I finally emptied the last box, and it only took a full week."
True to his word, Kenny has been going out at night on a bike to deliver the flyers to the designated house to deliver them in the mail box. Luckily Rias give him a device to help him where to go. In the day time, he's been handing them out at places like the shopping district. It wasn't easy, as rude people and sometimes dog in the backyards have made the experience even more troubling.
Kenny walks into the room. "I'm back."
Rias looks up from her desk and smiles when she saw him. "You here, that's good," she said before rising from her desk. "I need you to do one more job for you today. You see, Koneko is double booked with two summon requests and can't do both of them. Normally one of the others would have done it, but I'd like for you to take one. This'll be your first one and it'll help Koneko."
Said girl was sitting on the sofas eating a Popsicle. "That'd be super rad," she said, bowing her head.
"Thanks are not necessary." Kenny bowed his head to her. "I always open to help a friend." Even though he didn't know them that well, he still consider them friends.
Rias and Kenny walked over to the large circle drawn on the floor and stood two feet from it, where Akeno was standing in its center. She held out her arms and closed her eyes. Then circle suddenly glowed bright red and shine into the room. "This magic circle is a transportation circle," Rias said, looking down at the circle as Kenny looked in wonder. "Give me your palm, please."
Kenny obeyed and gave her his left hand. Rias grasped it with her left hand and trace a circle on it. Then a symbol was tattooed on his palm.
"This is the mark of my family," Rias informed him as he looked at it. "It will allow you to be teleported to the client's location, where you'll just do everything I've taught you to do." She looked at Akeno. "Is it ready?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Okay Kenny, stand in the middle and make me proud."
"Right." Kenny fastened the sling of the shinai bag and walked to the circle as Akeno step to Rias' side. Taking a deep breath, he let himself be engulfed by red light.
POOF!
Kenny opened his eyes to find he was still in the same room. "What the hell?"
Rias sighed and rubbed the side of her head in disappointment and, for some reason, it hurt Kenny to see her like that. "I must have forgotten," she said. "In order to make the jump, you must be at a set level of power. Your level of power is too low, Kenny, so the circle not going to activate."
"So what now?" Kenny stepped outside the circle.
"Oh, there's another way. A way that you know very well."
"Son of a bitch!" Shouted Kenny as he rode down the street on his bike as fast as he could. "Before you know it, I'll be known as the 'Bicycle Devil'!" Kenny peddles down the street whiling glancing at the device in his hand.
After about five minutes of riding, he comes to the destination. Looking up, was surprised to see it was a warehouse.
Getting off his bike and kicking down the kickstand, Kenny approaches the structure. As he got closer, he could hear something coming from the inside. And it was loud.
"Excuse me!" He calls out to the inside while knocking. "I'm the Devil you summon?" There was no answer. Only the strange noise continued as the outside was quiet. Wanting to know what the sound is, he places his ear against the metal door. Kenny's eyes wide as he quickly pulled away. "Bagpipes?"
The music continues and Kenny frowned. He didn't come all the way out here to be ignored by a Bagpipe player. He's not going to disappoint Rias. Placing his hands against one of the doors, he pushed it open. However, when he stepped inside, Kenny immediately covered his ears as the ear-bleeding, loud, music echoed in the shell. Looking around, he saw that the shell was lit up by stage lights and had a nothing else in it.
Expect from a man.
In the middle of the floor was a big, muscular man with a white skin-tight T-shirt and blue jeans, with a cat head-shaped belt buckle, and black boots. He had red hair that borders on beings orange, with the top part of his hair gone, the back tied up in a ponytail, and a beard and mustache. Under his left armpit was the Bagpipe that was being heard, as he played it blissfully.
The man seemed oblivious to the fact that Kenny was inside and continues to play his instrument. Kenny, even with the pain in his ears, moved towards the man. Powering though the increasing pain in his ears as he approached the man. Stopping only a few feet from him, Kenny seemed to have finally got the man's attention as he opened his eyes and looked down at him.
He played the last verse of the song before coming to a halt. "By th' lokk oan yer face ah say ye lik' th' pipes, wee laddie?" He said with a heave Scottish accent. He played some more on the bagpipes, making Kenny cover his ears again.
Kenny took one hand off his ear and held it up. The big man stopped playing completely. "Um," Kenny start, starting to feel unsure of himself, "are you Mr. Scotts?"
"Aye, whit it tae ye," Mr. Scotts said defensively.
"Well, I'm a Devil and I'm here to fulfill your request," Kenny announced with a smile on his lips. The man only raises an eyebrow at him, make the already unnerving boy even more uncertain.
"Ye," he questioned. "Yer th' de'il ah summoned?" Kenny nods and a silent atmosphere fills the warehouse. Then all of a sudden Mr. Scotts started to laugh. He laughed so hard that he was holding his side with his free hand and bending over, as Kenny looked at him with a sour expression. "Ye?" Mr. Scotts stopped laughing enough to speak. "A de'il? Ye couldnae even bygae as some tween werewolf or vampire." He laughed again, causing Kenny to form a frown. His laughing, then slowly came to a halt as he calmed down. "Okay, seriously, where Koneko?"
"She can't be here."
"Whit!?"
"Yeah," Kenny responded with a calmer look. "She was double booked tonight and she asked if I could fill in for her."
"Urr ye kidding me?" Mr. Scotts bent down to his level, but then his eyes widen before narrowing them as he dragged the pupils to the left. "Och. Noo ah ken. She's likelie git booked by one o' thaim freak shows."
"What," Kenny asked, not know what he's talking about.
"Aye." He informs him. "She's pure weel-kent with some th' older men, 'n' twa o' her clients are freaks, ah tell ye. Yin o' thaim mak's her cosplay 'n' has her rescue him, lik' some kind o' princess." He shudders that the thought of the other one. "Th' ither yin, wi' th' face like a skelped erse, dresses up lik' a Magic Lassie 'n' tries tae play fairy 'n' tries tae get Koneko tae give him princess powers."
Shuddering at the thought of seeing that kind of guy in person, Kenny shook his head to clear the thoughts and focus back on the task at hand. "So what do you have Koneko do?"
A smile spreads on his lip. "We fight!"
"What?"
"Ye heard me, ye wee worm," Mr. Scotts said, pointing a finger at Kenny. "Fur th' bygane year, ah bin comin' tae this god forsaken land oan business trips. Dealing wi' th' rude bassa at th' affice. After a solid day, all a'm waantin' is blow aff some steam, 'n' that lassie helps me by giein' me ty' best fights o' meh life."
Kenny looked at him like he's crazy, and who could blame him. How is Koneko, a little firth-year, supposed to fight this man?
Mr. Scotts then got in his face and grinned. "And noo, laddie, if ye th' filler, then its aboout time tae shaw me whit ye git. Ye Gommy, Naff, Doaty, feartie, Long-Emo-Haired—" Kenny just stood there, trying to keep his cool "—Butter-Knife-Carrying, Jessie, Oaf-Looking, Soft-built, Mim-Moothed—" his eyes twisted "—Sniveling, Worm-Eyed—" his teeth gritted "—Tiny-Balls—" fist clenched hard "—Vile-Stoochie, Wastes-Of-A-Devil!"
Mr. Scotts brought his fist back, Kenny readied himself, and the man shot his fist forward towards his face.
POW!
To the big man's surprise, Kenny caught the fist in his right hand. His legs were spread apart, with one foot back a little as his feet dig into the dirt floor, as the impact and strength behind the fist was enough to force him back a foot.
Kenny glared at the client, who had a worried look, and grab his extended arm and threw him over his shoulder with all his might. Thanks to the fighting training, he reserved from his grandpa, he was able to bring the hulk of a man on his back with a loud booming thud.
Mr. Scotts looked up at him with wide eyes, as Kenny looked down at him with a smirk and arms crossed. He then started laughing. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Ye guid, laddie. Bit tis gonna' tae tak' mair than that tae—" He was interrupted by a snapping sound and looked down to see the blowstick and two of the drones of the Bagpipes were broken in half.
Kenny blinked. "Uh oh."
"Ye've dane it noo." Said Mr. Scotts as he turned his head towards him. Kicking the bagpipes away, he stood back up and glared at the smaller young man. "A'm gonna' turn yer ass intae fertilizer!"
He lifted his fists up in the air and brings them down, but Kenny jumped backwards as they slammed on the ground. Kenny then rushed forward and deliver a right punch into his left cheek, making the client stumble back a few. He runs at him again and jumps to bring a kick to his chest, but Mr. Scotts suddenly grabs his leg and swings around. Let go of him, Kenny was sent into the metal wall of the warehouse, making a dent impression of himself into it.
Groaning in pain, he fell out of the dent and on his stomach with a thud. Looking up, Kenny saw Mr. Scotts coming towards him and takes the shinai bag off and step it aside. Standing back up, he walks towards the Scottish man and the two started to circle around each other. After two rotations, Kenny charged at him and dodges a swing to his head, crouches down and jumps into the air to deliver a right hook into Mr. Scotts' chin. He didn't let up and started to repeatedly punch the man in the stomach before jumping back. Holding his stomach with one hand and his chin with the other, Mr. Scotts looks at the boy with an impressed smirk.
The two look at one another before charging again. The large fist of the foreigner sails past Kenny's head as he dodges it. Kenny's kick met nothing but to air as Mr. Scotts jumps back. Suddenly, before Kenny could even react, he cries out in pain when he was suddenly head-butted.
POW!
A fist collides with his left cheek.
POW!
Then his right cheek.
POW!
Then a foot kicked him in the chest and he was sent flying backwards on his back. Opening his eyes, he saw Mr. Scotts looking down at him. Kenny quickly rolled on his stomach and gets on his hands and knees, despite all the pain he felt, and stood back up. He turned around to face him and put his fist up, ready to fight again.
Panting from the pain that created exhaustion, Kenny said, "you're tuff, I'll give you that."
"Years o' severing in Scootlund's military kin mak' even th' littlest wee jimmies intae killers." The Scotsman said panting himself. "Ye'll hae tae dae better than that."
He then charged at Kenny and threw a left punch, but Kenny blocked it and delivered a punch of his own into his chest. Unaffected by the punch, the man tries to kick his right side, but Kenny grabs his foot and kicked Mr. Scotts in the stomach.
And his left leg come off.
One his last leg, Mr. Scotts hooped back with his arms circling arm as he tried to balance himself. Kenny looks at him in confusion and surprised as he glances at what was in his hand. It prosthetic leg with a dress shoe on it.
"Woah!" Mr. Scotts finally loses his balance and backwards. He closes his eyes and waited for the impact.
But it never came.
Opening one of his eyes, Mr. Scotts opened both of them in surprise when he saw Kenny holding one of his arms, preventing him from falling over. Kenny pulled back and brought him back up. "Are you okay?"
"Aye," Mr. Scotts said, panting while holding on to Kenny's shoulder for support. "A'm fine." Kenny then holds out to him the prosthetic. Glancing between the leg and him, Mr. Scotts then grabbed the leg and let go of the teen to sit down.
"Why didn't you tell me you had a fake leg?" The question was not too much out of the blue, but it was enough to stop the grown man stop for a second, before proceeding to put back on his leg. Kenny looked down at the man with a sympatric look, as the man crosses his legs and looks down.
"One time." Mr. Scotts looking down at his leg, clenching it with one hand. "A'm bin in combat only one time. A grenade gaed aff a foot 'n' a hauf awa' and th' next thing Ah ken A'm legless." He then brings his hands close to his face. "Ah bin training tae fight fur mah land ever seen ah wis a lad. And in yin seicont, mah cawin in life wis taken." He clenched his fist before releasing them, lowering his shoulders, and sighing. "Th' worst pairt is, Ah still have some fight left in me."
Kenny looked down at the veteran with a sad and sympathetic look. All this crazy man was was a man who wanted to severe his country and never got the chance to fully complete that. It started to make sense to him soon. All he wanted was to have chances to fight again, without being seen as incapable.
Before Kenny could cheer him up, Mr. Scotts stands up again. "A've bin selfish." He walks over to his bagpipes and picks it up and throw it on his should. "Ah shuid be going. A'm going back tae Scootlund th'morra." He walks over to the doors and places a hand on one.
"Mr. Scotts!" Looking back over his shoulder, he saw Kenny standing three feet from of him. He bows his head. "Please contact us again. I'll be honored to service you again."
The man looked at the boy in surprise before a kind hearted smile formed. "A'd lik' tak', laddie," he said before exiting the warehouse.
Kenny looks at the door for two second before sighing. He then walks over to where he set the shinai bag and grabbed it, pulled out the handle of the sword to make sure it was still there, and then put it back in. A job well… "Oh shit!" He ran to the doors and throws them open. "MR. SCOTTS!"
He looked the area, but saw nothing. Mr. Scotts didn't even sigh the pact with him. He made have succeeded in helped a hero, but Kenny failed the mission.
He failed Rias.
Deciding to walk back rather than ride, Kenny trekked along the sidewalk while rolling the bike with him to his left. It was already eleven thirty and he still had thirty minutes of walking left. But he didn't mind, as he was lost in his own thoughts, with one question plaguing his head; how does he keep failing?
'I don't know it keeps happening,' he said in his head as gloom colored his face, with his eyes looking down at his feet. 'Grandpa away told me that the goal of success is a path of failure.' He shakes his head lightly. 'Yet my past failures caused more trouble for me. I couldn't kill Yuuma when I had the chance, and she ended up almost killing me. I nearly lost my life again to Dohnaseek. Even when I had the sword at my side.' Kenny stopped to look up at the moon. 'But does it hurt me now?' Remembering the disappointed expression on Rias' face made his heart tighten. 'Why does see her like that make my heart hurt? She brought me back to life because of a promise, and I'm failing her…' He sighs and continues on. 'I must be pretty useless to her.'
A chill suddenly ran down his spine and his hand started to shake. His eye widened for a bit before he narrowed them. Letting the bike fall, he took the shinai bag off and pulled the sword and scabbard out. "You people just can't leave me alone, can you?" He turned around to face the Fallen Angel and threw the shinai bag aside.
"What a surprise." The Fallen Angel turned out to be a tall and buxom woman with long, navy blue hair and obscured her right eye and brown eyes. Her attire consisted of a violet, trench coat-like top with a wide collar, a matching miniskirt, and black heeled shoes with a gold neckless around her neck. Kenny tried to keep his blushing under control as the trench coat top was open at her chest, giving him a view of her breast and cleavage. "You not what I thought, but you the one I was sent to find," she said. "My name is Kalawarner and I have orders to destroy you and take that sword." She gazed at him with a cold and dark look. "This is truly unusual."
"I can't imagine why," Kenny said caustically.
"Why are you still alive?" She demanded before opening her wings with a flat, causing Kenny to grab the handle. "You should have been taken care of by now. How is it that a mere sword like could protect you?" Kalawarner conjures a Light Spear and throws it at him.
Kenny unsheathed the sword as he slashed diagonally upwards.
CLASH!
Deflecting the spear easily, he lets go of the scabbard and Kalawarner get a good look at the mark Rias gave him.
"Is that the Gremory family crest?" She looked at him in shock as he got into a fighting stance.
A sudden discomfort hit him, causing him to grit his teeth. "Damn. I'm still sore from Mr. Scotts," he said to himself.
"So it's all true, that sword is powerful and capable of hurting us." Kalawarner said in amusement. "My my, isn't this interesting. The fact that you're a member of the Gremory household makes it all the more important to destroy you and take the sword!" She raised up in the air and throws another Light Spear.
Kenny deflected it.
BAM!
His mouth gaped open and his eyes widened as he felt Kalawarner's heels dig into his stomach when she suddenly flew at him and kick him. Not letting go of the sword, he was sent a few meters back and landed hard on his back. Grunting in pain, he raised his upper body and glared at the Fallen Angel. "Even with my training and new found straight, I'm still weaker than them," he said panting.
"That's right, boy," Kalawarner said haughtily with a smirk. "There's no hope in fight us. You were only reborn a week ago, whereas we were born as what we are. Now make this easy on both of us and die like a man."
Kenny quickly got to his feet. "Never!" He exclaimed with a glare. "I'm not losing to you freaks again!"
Her smirk disappeared into a scowl. "So be it." Kalawarner made another Light Spear and darted at him through the air.
He had to think fast. Even with the sword, he couldn't defend himself from her much longer. If only he could call out that Sacred Gear, then he may have a fighting chance. But Rias didn't tell him what to do after he thought of the strongest thing.
[Quick. Run you left hand along the blade.]
"What?" Kenny's head snaps to the sword in his hand as it glows silver. 'That voice?' He member the voice when he fought Yuuma. Deciding to do what it said, Kenny holds out the sword in front of him and places his left palm on the side of the blade near the handguard.
"Time to end you, Kenny Kurosawa!"
"RAAAHH!" He quickly runs his hand across the sword.
A green light shines on his hand as his wings sprouted out. Kalawarner stop in midair and looked in horror before she was pushed back by a powerful gust of wind that came from Kenny. Kenny watched in amazement as an emerald green jewel appeared on the back of his hand before a red fingerless gauntlet formed under it with yellow accents.
Wasting no time, he grabs the sword with both hands.
WA-SHHHH!
Suddenly, a red aura blazed like fire off him, as he flies across the street straight at Kalawarner.
SLICE!
He slashed upwards across her body.
The buxom Fallen Angel screamed out in pain as Kenny passes her, as blood gushed out of the gash wound that went from her left hip to her right shoulder. Her clothes did not survive as they cut in half and fell right off her body.
Kenny landed on the ground as Kalawarner lands hard on the ground. Standing up straight, he turns around and looks at her with a determined look, his arms to his sides with the glowing sword in his right hand and the Sacred Gear on his left, and wings spread out.
Despite the fact she was in pain, bleeding, and naked, Kalawarner stood back on her feet. Turning back towards him, her glare fell into a horrified look when she noticed the Sacred Gear on him. "Is that…the Sacred Gear," she asked, trembling before gritting her teeth. "I've got better things to do. I'll let someone else deal with you." And with that, she darted off into the air.
"So this is a Sacred Gear?"
Kenny was now back in the Occult Research clubhouse, standing before Rias' desk as she was sitting at it, her elbows on the desk, fingers together, with her head on top of them. He still had his sword in his right hand and placed the shinai bag and scabbard on the table behind him.
"Yes," she said with a smile. "Congratulations on summoning. Now all that's left for you to do, Kenny, is to learn how to activate and deactivate in. Without the help of your sword."
Kenny looked at it as it disappeared. "There we go."
"I'm so proud of you Kenny," praised Akeno as she was standing to his right.
"But the situation with the Fallen Angels is getting more troubling," Rias suddenly said seriously. "Not only do they know you're still alive, have the sword with you, but now have the Gear ready to use."
"So what do we do?"
Rias crossed her arms and closed her eyes. "I know it was an accident, but I don't want you to get carried away for now on, just because you have the Sacred Gear and the sword. Don't fight alone, it's disrespectful to the rest of us."
Kenny looked down in shame, before looking back up at her. "I can't promise that." Before Rias could say anything he continued. "I can't promise that because there'll be times where I have no other opinions, but to fight back, alone. They're after me, so they'll come at me when I'm at my most vulnerable, and when that time comes I'll have to be ready to strike back. I wouldn't let these people hurt another soul, not when I have the power to stop them." He closes his eyes and tits his head down slightly. "But, if that's what you wish, I'll try not to go at them alone, if it can be helped." Not waiting for Rias' response, Kenny turns around and grabs the scabbard and sheathed the sword grabbing the shinai bag and slipping the sword inside it.
"And Rias." He turned back to her. "The officer that died the night Yuuma attacked, is his family one of our contact?"
"No, not that I know of."
"I want you to have his family on the list of potential contacts then." He said with that fierce look in his eyes. "I want to be making up for my failure tonight, and I want it to be the family of that officer. I was the reason he's dead, and I need to take responsibility."
He then walked out the room
No one stopped him as he walked towards the door and exited the room. Rias was a little surprised by what Kenny said. Although she was frustrated by the fact he'll fight them if they come after him, she rather touched by him wanting to see the officer's family.
"Quite the pure heart he has, even when being exaggerated to." Rias looked at Akeno, who was staring at the door. "He's still new, why do you have to be so hard on him?"
"I not trying to be," Rias countered, "I'm just don't want him to put himself in danger willing by over estimating himself." She then bit her thumbnail. "Push, I will not let those Angel rejects take my new favorite servant from me."
"…It's still strange though," Kiba spoke up rubbing his chin. "Usually you'll have to think of the strongest thing you could think of and then tried and mimic it. He just swiped his hand on his sword and that activated it."
"Yes, that is strange." Rias stood up from her chair and walked around to the front of her desk and sat on it with her legs crossed, arms crossed and place a hand under her chin. "A sword of unknown origins, with the power to harm and possibly kill a Fallen Angel and Devil like Holy Sword, yet without burning him. Communicate with him telepathically. And now it was able to activate the Sacred Gear?"
"…Maybe…it has something to do with Kurosawa," Koneko said.
"Maybe. But without the sword here now, we can't examine it." Rias though for a second. "I'll see if I can't get Sona to that a look at it."
"Maybe it could tell him what it is," Akeno joked, but half of it was saying she was serious. If the sword can talk to Kenny, then it's possible that it can tell him more about itself.
Rias looked at her before turning her head away, hoping to find answers soon.
Kenny was in his room wearing only a white tank top and boxes. On his bed with his legs crossed, he stared down at the sword laying in front of him, out of its scabbard with the moon light slightly reflecting off it.
"Okay," he said. "I know you can talk, so please…talk?"
It did nothing.
"You came to me about a week ago, in a place called Kuoh Academy. You came to me when my girlfriend—who turned out to be a Fallen Angel—tried to kill me. You speak to me; saying to let me guide you and to trust my heart. Now my heart is telling me that what I want to know; you can answer?" Kenny then bows and touches his head to the bed. "So please, great sword of power, I want to know more about you."
The sword does nothing.
Kenny sighed and rolled over on his back, looking up at the ceiling. "This was not going to work." He places his hand on his stomach. Questioning his sanity by talking to an inanimate object. He closes his eyes and lets out a sigh.
"I just want to know you."
There was nothing but silence in the room unit, unknown to Kenny, the sword's blade started to glow a bright silver again. Then the light began to retreat inwards, getting smaller as it compressed into the center of the blade. It then lifted off the sword and floated in the air.
Kenny felt the light hit his eyelids and cracked them open. His eyes shot open when he saw the light above his sword and turned around and fell back on his rear, pushing himself until his back was against the headrest of his bed. Trying to distance himself from it.
The silver light, then started to expand and getting brighter, making Kenny shelled his eyes from it. A second later, the light died down.
He lowers his arms and opened his eyes, before gasping in shock. "W-who…are y-you?"
"…They call me Jack."
To Be Continued…
{Playing Shine by Mr. Big}
[Instrumentals] The opening fades into the inside of a dark room with the moonlight coming from the window. The light moves against the wall, turning the areas that became covered by it a light blue. As it gradually shifts, it soon reveals the handle of the Sword, as the weapon leans up against the wall. The light then touches the unsheathed blade, causing it to reflect and shine off the metal.
[I never really feel quite right] Kenny, wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans, was out at night standing in an open plain with a few trees behind him. His hair flying in the wind and his hands in his jean's pockets as he looks upwards, the green grass under and around him flowing against the wind as well.
[And I don't know why, all I know is something's wrong] The scene stays like this for a moment, before switching to present a close up of his face. Showing an expression that tells the viewer he was deep in thoughts, as his black eyes weren't focused and his lips were parted a small bit.
[Every time I look at you, you seem so alive] High up on a white balcony in the night time, Rias stands there in a white sundress, with her arms on the railing as she leaned on it while looking up at the moon. She face carries a bright smile as her vixen figure is seen slightly through the dress as it and her elegant crimson hair flies in the wind gracefully while glowing into moonlight.
[Tell me how do you do it, walk me through it] The scene changes to show different images. The first was of Akeno as she smiles sweetly at the viewer in a lovely kimono, holding an umbrella in her arms with her in a bun. The next image is of Kiba as he stands in a gym, wearing Kendo equipment and the mask tucked under his armpit, giving the camera his charming smile, while in the background were many girls smiling at him back with hearts in their eyes.
[I'm following every footstep] Koneko's next shown, sitting on the sofa in the clubhouse with a piece of chocolate in her mouth, looking at the viewer blankly as she holds up her hand in a peace sign. The final image shows Asia in her nun outfit, brushing a few stray hairs behind her right as she smiles brightly, while standing in the park with the playground behind her.
[Maybe on your own you take a conscious step] Returning back to Rias, the camera shows her up close from the left side, with twinkling stars shining in the background. Her bright expression turned to a sad look as her gaze fell. She placed a hand on her left breast and sighs with her eyes closed.
[Do you wanna give it up? All that I want…] Her eyes opened, but only half way. Showing that she's hurt in some way and sadden about something. The camera then shows the left side of her, before Rias turns her head to the left and a surprised expression appeared on her face.
[Is for you to SHINE~] The scene changes to a white surrounding and the camera moves upwards, showing Kenny in his average school uniform, with his back facing the camera, the Sword in his right hand, and the scabbard in his left as his long black hair flows in the wind.
[SHINE~ down on me] The camera zoomed out to show Rias, now naked, staring at Kenny's back with her right shoulder facing the viewer and her head turned towards him.
[SHINE on this life that's burning out] A side angled view, and Kenny now is seen facing Samurai Jack, whose ghost stands a few feet from him. The camera focused on Kenny face for a movement, before switching over to Jack's. The samurai gives him a smile and disappears. Kenny lets out a sigh with his eyes closed, as he was now standing on a cliff as the sky turns orange in the afternoon.
[SHINE~] Rias, now fully dressed in her usual school uniform, walked up to his right and places a hand on his shoulder. Kenny looks at her as she gives him a smile, then Akeno comes up and stand with him too. Then Asia, Kiba, and Koneko.
[SHINE~ down on me] Kenny smiles fondly at them for a moment, before his expression quickly turned serious and he faces forward. The others do the same, readying themselves for battle.
[SHINE on this life that's burning out] The scene changes to show their backs and zooms out to revival Aku's towering silhouette before them, with the setting sun behind his head.
[SHINE~] The image then changes into a watercolor-like painting. Then everything fades out, as the song comes to an end.
And that is the end of the second redo episode of "The Red Dragon Samurai". Please Favorite, Follow, and Review please. And if you don't have anything nice to say, then don't be a douche at it. Just walk away.
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