A few moments earlier:
With Serafall:
Kuoh Academy Main Entrance:
Serafall vs Katerea:
Katearea Leviathan envied & hated Serafall.
She hated how Serafall acted as if she was a better fit for the title of Leviathan, but envied how graceful and confident the woman was.
She hated the fact that her former best friend abandoned her as soon as Sirzechs and Ajuka declared their allegiance for the New Satan Faction, making Katerea feel as if she lost a part of her soul when she ended her friendship to appease her family.
Most of all, she hated how a woman from a lesser and inferior house was currently keeping her at bay with ease.
A bombardment of explosive fireballs Katerea sent flying at Serafall was easily smothered by a tidal wave appearing from Serafall's magic crest and surrounding the fireballs, the Satan snapping her fingers and the water prison freezing solid just as the fireballs exploded.
A muffled boom echoed through the sky as Serafall's ice suppressed the explosions, Serafall waving her hand and transforming the broken ice into spears before they all went flying at Katerea.
"Tch!" Katerea clicked her tongue as a series of magic crest appeared floating above her, each glowing brightly before blasting out a barrage of fireballs that quickly melted the spears.
"Come now, Katerea. Unlike you, I actually trained myself to be better instead of sitting on my ass."
"Hah! And yet, you're still struggling to beat me." Katerea scoffed, Serafall just frowning before she raised her hand and Katerea's eyes widened at the sight of a giant magic crest appearing below them.
"Then…let me show you." Serafall's voice boomed as she brought her hand down, a literal tsunami of water shooting upwards from the magic crest, Katerea sputtering for air as she struggled to free herself.
The water rose up high until it was nearly touching the barrier, morphing and twisting until it formed a spherical prison around the two of them.
Katerea grunted as she pulsed her demonic power out, a barrier of fire & wind appearing around her and blocking out the water trying to enter her barrier as she stared in shock at the glaring Serafall.
Katerea gritted her teeth at the sight of an icy blue aura surrounding the faker, the water not even touching her as the temperature around her plummeted rapidly until both the air & the water was nearly freezing.
'Fine, then! You want to get serious? I'll get serious!' Katerea growled in her mind as she reached into her dress, Serafall frowning as the Satan descendant pulled out a purple vial before downing it before Serafall could speak.
In an instant, Serafall narrowed her eyes as Katerea's energy spiked, watching as the woman's blazing wind barrier grew to giant proportions and evaporated the water around her, the tanned skin woman glaring at Serafall before she raised a hand.
Giant fireballs appeared from thin air surrounding the floating Serafall before exploding in a bright blaze, the woman not even looking worried as she waved a finger. A cold wind blew through the air before Katerea's eyes widened as the inferno was frozen solid, Serafall smirking before she gave her a mocking wave.
Katerea growled before she stretched arms forward, her arms lengthening before dozens of arms shot out from her own and slithered at a blistering speed towards the floating Serafall.
However, Serafall just smirked at the hands flying towards her before she blew out a tuft of air, watching in amusement as the hands were all frozen within the blink of an eye, Katerea quickly destroying the arms and jumping back before the ice could touch her.
Unfortunately for Katerea, she lost sight of Serafall and that was her downfall as the Satan appeared behind her, the descendant unable to even gasp in surprise before her entire body was frozen solid.
Making sure that she wouldn't get out, Serafall surrounded the frozen corpse in the water still around them, compressing that water to its limits and cracking the corpse before she froze the water as well.
"Rest in peace knowing that I'm taking care of the Underworld like you wanted before. Goodbye, best friend." Serafall muttered softly as she touched the clear blue ice sphere in front of her, smiling softly at the peaceful look on Katerea's face before she sighed and snapped her fingers, floating back to the ground just as her magic crest appeared under the orb and teleported it back to her castle in the Underworld.
'Perhaps it could be a feature of my new fountain.'
Serafall vs Katerea:
Winner: Serafall
Battle Time: 1 minute 13 seconds
At the same time:
Xenova & Irina VS Jeanne:
Battle BEGIN!
'Why are my opponents always trying to attack from behind?' Xenovia grumbled in her mind as she spun and destroyed a barrage of holy blades that shot out from the ground behind her, Irina appearing behind her and parrying the thrust from Jeanne.
The recinarnation of Joan of Arc cursed under her breath before she flipped back as Xenovia spun around Irina, Excalibur Destruction glowing with power as she swung it and released an explosion of Holy energy.
Easily dodging the blast of Holy Energy, she stabbed her rapier into the ground and another forest of Holy blades shot out, Xenovia scoffing as she swung Destruction and smirked as it unleashed a Holy blast that easily destroyed the blades.
Her eyes widened as the shattered fragments of the blade vanished like a mirage, barely able to lean back just as Jeanne appeared in front of her and missed stabbing her rapier through her head, though Xenovia noted how the blade was a dark gold instead of the silver it was before.
Stabbing Destruction into the ground below her, Jeanne gritted her teeth as Xenovia used it as leverage to push herself upwards and out of the way of Irina, who stabbed Mimic forward before the blade extended like a whip.
Bringing her rapier up, she let go of it once Irina's whip-sword wrapped around the blade before reaching to her side and unsheathing the rapier she had formerly, quickly parrying a barrage of whip strikes from Irina who twirled and danced as she tried to sneak a blow in.
Unfortunately, she was not facing just one opponent as Xenovia growled, Jeanne's eyes widening before she created a shield of Holy Swords around her just as a giant beam of Holy Aura crashed into her.
Gasping in pain as the force from the blow pressed her into the ground, she was thankful for the fact that most of the energy from the Holy blast was siphoned away as she pushed herself upward and off of the ground, picking up her rapier with a growl as a visible silver aura appeared around her.
"Irina, get ready. We're going for combination 2."
"Okay." Irina said with a nod as her whip-sword shrunk back into itself before morphing into a katana, both girls frowning as Jeanne glared at them.
"Balance Break: Stake Victim Dragoon." Their eyes widened at her words and quickly flashed towards her, but quickly stopped in their tracks and leapt back as a sea of blades appeared around Jeanne, unable to do nothing but watch as the swords fused and transformed into a giant silver dragon.
"I was trying to be nice and not hurt you guys since I was part of the Church before, but since you girls showed me that you're willing to kill me, let me respond in kind." Jeanne said with a cold smile as she stood on the head of her dragon before she disappeared, Xenovia quickly putting Destruction in front of her before gasping as Jeanne stabbed her rapier right through it.
"Xenovia!" Irina screamed as she saw her friend getting stabbed.
"Don't worry! She missed! Keep attacking!" Xenovia shouted back as she spun on her heel and pulled Destruction with her, Irina sighing in relief as she saw that Xenovia had moved out of the way as the blade had barely missed her and left a small cut on her sides.
"Right!" Irina nodded before she dashed towards Jeanne, who scoffed as she went with Xenovia's pulling and dodged Irina's slash, pulling her rapier out before using Destruction as a springboard as she flipped through the air.
Irina quickly zoned in on her airborne foe as she dashed towards the maiden, her katana and Jeanne's rapier nothing but silver blurs as the two slashed and parried each other's blows faster than the human eye can blink.
Otherwise occupied, Xenovia was a black blur running across Kuoh Academy's grounds as the silver dragon rampaged after her, ducking and flipping around the blades it shot at her while also using Destruction to block any blades that she couldn't avoid or send off Holy blasts that destroyed any blades that got too close to Irina's battle.
Tossing Destruction to her free hand, Xenovia reached into the golden portal that appeared next to her and spun around to face the roaring dragon as she pulled out Durandal with a graceful flourish.
With a grunt, she sailed past it, slicing off all four of its legs as Irina parried a quick barrage of stabs from Jeanne before smiling as she flipped backwards, Jeanne's eyes widening as Xenovia appeared right below her partner with a feral grin.
A stack of swords appearing under her and shooting her into the air was the only thing that saved her as Xenovia smashed both of her blades into Jeanne's previous position, the maiden watching in shock as a large arc of Holy energy carved a deep crevice into the ground.
"Dragoon! Fire all blades!" Jeanne shouted as she landed on the dragon, a white glow appearing in the back of the dragon's throat as it reared its head back before bringing it down with a deafening roar.
Xenovia's eyes widened as the massive sea of Holy blades of all shapes and sizes flooded towards them before she frowned, crossing her blades behind her as Irina used it as a platform and leapt high into the sky.
Jeanne frowned as she saw the airborne exorcist before her eyes snapped back to Xenovia's location as a gargantuan amount of Holy energy flooded the air, her eyes widening as both Durandal and Excalibur Destruction were coated in a deep blue & gold aura.
"Heeavenly Cross!" Xenovia roared as she brought her blades down, Jeanne quickly jumping far away from the dragon as a titanic arc of Holy energy towering over the dragon erased it and its sea of blades from existence, continuing its path of destruction until it crashed into the barrier walls and shook the entire Academy.
"Woah…" Irina muttered in awe with a proud smile as both she and Jeanne stared at the devastation Xenovia's attack left, the Maiden frowning before she smirked as she saw Xenovia fall to a knee while taking deep breaths.
Swinging her rapier to the side, she prepared to launch herself at the exorcist only to click her tongue as Irina landed in front of Xenovia, her Mimic already taking the form of a whip-sword as Jeanne frowned.
'Damnit, I still can't control your power output that well.' Xenovia thought in frustration as she stared at Durandal, smiling in slight amusement as the blade gave off a feeling of indignation at her trying to control her powers.
'Why didn't I train with my Balance Breaker like Cao Cao told me to? That took most of my stamina to make and I barely have enough to keep fighting the other one in a prolonged fight. Attacking the Durandal wielder would mean leaving my back open to the other one, but if I fight the other one, that will give the Durandal wielder the time needed to recover her energy and perhaps unleash another one of those attacks. Should I use it now? No, Georg told us that the most promiment after-effect of using it would put me in a braindead state. Damnit, I guess this is where I end it.' Jeanne thought with a frustrated frown before she shook her head with a sigh, drawing Xenovia's and Irina's attention before their eyes widened as the Maiden pulled out a pamphlet and her body was covered in a golden glow.
"Oh no, you don't!" Irina exclaimed as she dashed forward, swinging her arm back before whipping it forward and sending her blade sailing towards Jeanne only for her eyes to widen as her blade went right through Jeanne and stabbed into the ground behind her.
"Don't try. The pamphlets are made to help us escape without interruption so you can't hurt me, but unfortunately, that means I can't hurt you back." Jeanne said with a smile as she sheathed her rapier, Irina grumbling under her breath as she pulled her sword back while Xenovia walked to stand next to her partner while using Destruction as a crutch.
"Until we meet again, my former comrades." And with that said, Jeanne's form was obscured by a golden glow before she vanished, Xenovia sighing in disappointment before she gave Irina a thankful smile as her friend threw her arm over her shoulders and helped her walk.
"So, when were you going to tell me you created a new move without me?" Xenovia winced at Irina's words, knowing that her best friend didn't like being kept in the dark when it came to their training and as she looked down at her face, she winced once more at the sight of her friend glaring at her with a pout.
Perhaps that Azathoth fiend can figure out a way to keep her mind occupied.
Xenovia & Irina VS Jeanne:
Winner: Draw
Battle Time: 1 minute 58 seconds.
At the same time:
Akeno, Kuroka, Tsubaki, Rias and Sona VS Walburga:
Battle BEGIN!
"Argh!" Rias grunted as she created a shield of destruction energy in front of her that blocked another barrage of Holy, giving Sona a thankful smile as her friend unleashed a water dragon that engulfed the flames and barely managed to snuff them out before Sona turned the dragon to attack their opponent only to curse under her breath as a concentrated blast of flames quickly evaporated her dragon.
'You know, when I told Isa I wanted to be in on the action, I didn't mean I'd want to fight one of the Longinus Gears that is very effective in killing our species. I mean, why did he think it was a good idea to let a devil fight against Iincinerate Anthem? Although, he's going up against the wielder of the Strongest Sacred Gear in existence so I suppose he has a few screw loose up there.' Rias grumbled in her head as she glared at the giggling witch, who smiled in amusement at her glare before she waved her hand.
The cross behind her made out of purple flames pulsed before it unleashed another barrage of fireballs, Rias giving a sigh of relief as a barrage of holy lightning crashed into the fireballs and cancelled them out right before a series of youjutsu crests appeared in the air around the witch and unleashed an inferno of blazing white flames at her.
Unfortunately, Rias knew that was not enough as the purple cross transformed into a spherical barrier around the witch that easily blocked the purifying flames of Kuroka, who didn't waste any time as she traced a series of sigils in the air in front of her and Rias smirked as she saw the giant purple cube sealing the six of them away from the world.
"How good are you with throwing Gáe Bulg, Tsubaki?" Sona asked her Queen, who frowned as they looked up at the smiling Walburga floating back to the ground with the purple flames condensing back into a cross behind her.
"I will not make any promises, Lady Sona." Was Tsubaki's answer, making Sona smirk in amusement as the other girls giggled.
"That's all I ask. Be prepared to do so at any point in time since I doubt you want to get close to the Holy Flames." Tsubaki nodded as she stood back, Sona frowning before she turned to Kuroka.
"I know what you're going to ask and no, Rasengan isn't a ranged attack. I'm still struggling with that aspect."
"A death battle is the best place to perfect a new technique. Besides, how good are you at cloning magical objects other than yourself as well as controlling their movement?" Sona asked with a smile, making Kuroka frown before she grinned in recognition & nodded as Walburga spoke.
"Are you little ladies done with making a plan~?"
"Rias, Akeno, follow my lead." "Sure thing, Kaichou./ Look at you taking charge." Akeno and Rias said respectively, Sona just rolling her eyes before the Sitri crest appeared in the air in front of her.
Stretching her arms out wide, the Sitri crest grew to three times its previous size before it unleashed a giant torrent of water at Walburga, who frowned at the size of it before she smirked as she pointed at the water, Incinerate Anthem pulsing before it unleashed a torrent of flames at the jet of water.
However, that was all part of Sona's plan as she smirked and clapped her hands together, Rias gritting her teeth as she created a shield of destruction energy in front of them that barely kept the holy flames from burning them alive while the torrent of water split around the flames and surrounded the surprised Walburga in a bubble of demonic water.
"Now!" Sona barked and Walburga only had chance for her eyes to widen as a spark of blue electricity appeared in the air in front of her before she let out a visceral scream as Holy Lightning rained down on her.
"More. More. More!" Akeno hissed with a sadistic smile as she snapped her fingers over and over, Gremory crest after Gremory crest surrounding Walburga's prison as each one unleashed a stream of Holy Lightning into the water bubble.
Rias actually thought that her crazy sadistic Queen was winning until she saw that Walburga was glaring at them balefully, her arm twitching as she lifted it up slowly before bringing it down.
In an instant, all five of them were gone as Kuroka dispelled her cube and they flew to the sky, a literal sea of purple flames scorching their location and everything within a 5 metre radius of it as a severely burned & twitching Walburga glared up at them.
"Balance Break: Incinerate Antiphona Calvario." Walburga chanted and the sea of flames turned before shooting up at them.
The girls quickly created a series of barriers to protect them only to blink in shock as the flames went past them, crashing into the flying magicians above them who all screamed as the flames burned them all to ashes within seconds.
"H-Has she gone mad?" Tsubaki muttered in shock, watching as the flames turned and flew back down to the ground, the girls gasping as the flames twisted and turned until surrounding the growling Walburga was a vast army of flaming witches
"Kill them." She growled and the witches all raised their hands before Rias and Sona quickly created a multi-layered wall of destruction energy-coated demonic water that barely blocked out the multiple flamethrowers aimed at them.
Akeno was quick to snap her fingers as multiple Gremory crests appeared around her, the air sparking before thunder boomed through the sky as she unleashed a storm of lightning down onto the mages, cursing under her breath as her lightning didn't even keep the flame magicians down long enough before they regenerated and continued on fighting.
"Kuroka, Tsubaki! You two ready?!" Sona exclaimed at the two Queens, smiling in relief as they both nodded.
"You ready for this, my fellow concubine~?" Kuroka teased with a smirk, giggling as Tsubaki rolled her eyes with a smile.
"Anytime you are, my fellow concubine." Kuroka nodded as she traced her finger through the air, smirking as the Azathoth crest appeared in front of her before a layer of youjutsu sigils surrounded the crest.
"Now!" Kuroka barked, Tsubaki rearing her arm back before throwing it into the crest as hard as she could.
Her eyes, along with those of Sona, Rias and Akenon's widened as Kuroka quickly lifted the crest above the demonic energy shield and aimed it at the ground, the crest glowing brightly before it unleashed a bombardment of Gáe Bulg aimed at Walburga and her army.
The witch in question frowned before tens of thousands of magical crests appeared around her, her form flashing away as she teleported from crest to crest without stopping for a single moment while the Gáe Bulg spear barrage ripped through her Balance Breaker and snuffed the flames out with ease before the homing runes on them activated and the spears all flew after Walburga.
The witch cursed under her breath as she jumped from crest to crest, having to create a new one with every jump as the spears stabbed through her crests and completely destroyed them.
Kuroka was smirking as she held her hands apart, a grinding noise filling the air as a Rasengan formed in between her hands before she took a deep breath as she slowly forced it to twist and spin even more, gritting her teeth as she felt the orb trying to rampage and destroy everything in its path.
'Come on! Come on, you bastard! Do it for Isa!' Kuroka shouted in her mind as she felt her arm muscles trying to twist with the Rasengan, giving a visceral roar that surprised the other girls before she gasped in relief as the pressure disappeared, giving an astonished chuckle at the finished product in her hands.
"Here…Tsubaki. Just coat your hand with demonic energy….aim…and shoot. Also this should help." Kuroka said with a tired smile as she passed the orb to Tsubaki while tracing a sigil in the air in front of her, who stared in shock at the literal nuke being handed to her before she nodded as she coated her hand in demonic energy and took the spell from Kuroka.
"I got you. Take some time to rest." Akeno said with a soft smile as she helped her keep afloat, Kuroka smiling as she nodded before she closed her eyes.
"You ready?" Akeno asked Tsubaki, who frowned before she nodded as she took a deep breath before touching the sigil Kuroka had made before she passed out.
Walburga ducked and twisted around the Gáe Bulg spears trying to impale her, having forgone the option of creating more crests to teleport through and instead decided to use the flames of Incinerate Anthem to block the spears from reaching her.
The demonic energy screeched every time it came into contact with the holy energy of Incinerate Anthem's flames, Walburga grinning in victory as she looked up at the girls to gloat before hesitating as she noticed one was out cold and the other was gone.
That moment of hesitation cost her as Tsubaki appeared in a blue flash right besides one of the spears that barely nicked her, Walburga staring in horror at the spinning ball of wind, flames, demonic energy and yoki that screeched as it warped the space around it.
"Supreme Rasengan." Tsubaki chanted as she pulsed her demonic energy and watched the Rasengan cut through space like a bullet as it crashed into Walburga's chest right before the Sitri crest appeared under her as Sona teleported her back.
The girls above could only stare in shock as a dome of microscopic plasma blades completely destroyed Walburga within seconds, expanding until it nearly covered the entire area under them for the next minute before it finally began to die down, revealing the gaping crater of scorched earth & charred ground surrounding the crater.
"Why is it that the one move Isaiah teaches her is a literal magical plasma bomb?" Sona groaned into her palms as Tsubaki patted her on the back comfortably while Rias and Akeno giggled.
"Well, at least we can be thankful he taught her that or else, we'd be stuck here for days on trying to figure out ways to kill her without ending up as holy charcoal." Rias said with a shrug, Sona sighing as she nodded before she turned to where the other battles were ongoing.
"I'll take her to the leaders while you all go and help them." Tsubaki said with a smile as she had picked up Gáe Bulg and put it back in its pocket dimension, Akeno smiling in thanks as she gently handed over the sleeping Kuroka to Tsubaki before she along with Rias and Sona flew over to where they felt the heaviest concentration of Holy energy.
However if they had paid attention, they would have noticed the flickering purple ember fluttering through the air as it flew and sunk into the back of Tsubaki just as the Queen took off to place Kuroka with the rest of the leaders.
Akeno, Kuroka, Tsubaki, Rias and Sona VS Walburga:
Winner: Akeno, Kuroka, Tsubaki, Rias and Sona
Battle Time: 1 minute 53 seconds
A/N: And there we are! Another chapter, another week!
Next chapter…Issei and Saji vs Georg and Isaiah vs Cao Cao!
Or is it? You'll have to wait to find out!
As always, read, enjoy, review and until the next one…
Ba-Bye~!