Draconis: Get ya Black Wing Rack here!
Kenshin: Huh? Where the hell did you get a dismembered Fallen Angel wing?
Draconis: Some dude with white hair with white dragon wings handed it to me and said to cook it.
Ddraig: White wings...hmm sounds like you had a run in with Albion's partner.
Kenshin: Is it done?
Draconis: Dunno, wanna taste test it?
Kenshin: Sure (hacks off a few sections) Yup. Done...real meaty too.
Draconis: Funny thing is, doesn't Albion's partner get this wing during the events this chapter will be covering? (points at the cooking wing.)
Ddraig: You're the author, so you're doing a little sequence breaking? So what.
Draconis: (shrugs) I feel like I'm playing Super Metroid now, which all I own of it is a copy of the game.
Kokabiel: (walks up) ...What the fuck? ! How did you get my wing? !
Kenshin: (munch munch)
Draconis: Albion's partner.
Kokabiel: (mutters a curse) (turns to Kenshin) You! You're eating my wing!
Kenshin: Yeah...explain to me why I should give a fuck. (munch munch)
Kokabiel: You! Y-You're cannibalizing part of me!
Kenshin: Laws of Nature, survival of the fittest, don't act like you wouldn't be doing it if it was my wing or my tail he was cooking. (munch munch)
Kokabiel: (slumps) Well...you're not wrong.
Kenshin: (munch munch)
Kokabiel: Stop that!
Draconis: Anyway...
Dragon of the Elements
Chapter 9
A Desire for War
Draconis: Begin!
Kenshin: (munch munch)
(start)
Kenshin arrived at Kuoh Academy to find it encased in a barrier. "The hell? Is that the student council?"
"Yes, we've formed this barrier around the academy, if all goes well, it should contain the damage." Kenshin turned to find Sona behind him.
"...How the fuck did you beat me here? I was even using Sylph." Kenshin said.
"Teleportation magic." Sona answered.
"...Oh." Kenshin said. "Well let me go in there, I'll cause some ruckus and interfere with their plans."
"Not yet, we'll wait for Rias and the rest of her peerage. They should be here...right about...now." Sona said as Rias' teleportation circle flared to life in between them.
Rias looked up at the barrier. "I see you did as I asked, thank you Sona, this will help."
"Yes, but I can't say it will hold if the situation changes." Sona said.
"I don't know if this will hold well at all no offense, but we have to assume they have all of the Excaliburs except for the one in Xenovia's possession not to mention a Fallen Angel leader in there as well." Kenshin said.
Tsubaki appeared behind them all. Issei took control and turned to her. "FukuKaichou, how is Irina doing?"
"She's alright, she's resting...thanks you Argento-San." Tsubaki said.
"Thank goodness." Asia said with a relieved smile.
"Where the hell's Xenovia?" Issei wondered.
Kenshin resumed control and closed his eyes. "...I believe both she and Kiba are on their way or are already inside. They'll be there to fight alongside us."
"Rias, we still have a little time, call your brother." Sona said.
"In that case why don't you call your sister?" Rias asked.
"Sirzechs-Sama will surely come to help you." Sona countered.
"I already contacted Sirzechs-Sama." Akeno said.
"Akeno! I didn't ask you to do that!" Rias reprimanded.
"Rias, I know you don't wish to trouble your brother, but our enemy is one of the Fallen Angel's leaders." Akeno explained. "Sirzechs-Sama said he's sending someone and I'm sure he's prepared to come here himself if necessary.
"..." Kenshin glanced past Akeno.
"Is something wrong Kenshin-kun?" Akeno asked with a smile.
"...No, It's nothing." Kenshin said. "...Why the hell do I feel the elements over there? A few kilometers away?" He thought.
Rias who had been reading his mind, glanced in the same direction. "...Well in any case, what's done is done. We'll have to accept their help. But if nothing is done in the meantime everything will surely fall apart."
"So let's get in there already." Kenshin said.
They walked into Kuoh's main building. "Issei. While Kenshin fights I want you to boost your power and use your transfer ability to share it with everyone." Rias said.
"So...basically what Kenshin and I have been doing then?" Issei asked.
"Yes." Rias nodded. "Unlike our battle with Raiser, lives will be on the line. So be careful when transferring."
"No deaths will occur on this job." Kenshin said. "I'll make sure of that."
"Promotion: Queen!" Issei calls out.
The group of six walk outside and see magic welling up a short distance away. "What's that?" Asia asked with a sliver of fear in her voice.
"Our doom if we fail." Kenshin said.
"That Valiper has been dying to fuse the Excaliburs together." Everyone looked up to see Kokabiel sitting in a floating throne on a pedestal. "So, whose coming to save you? Will it be Sirzechs or Serafall?"
Kenshin readied his naginata and took out his cards. "Sorry to disappoint you, ya sad excuse for a holy goth, but..." He trailed off with a smirk.
"In place of my brother and Leviathan-Sama, we have come." Rias finished.
Kokabiel snapped his fingers, calling a large spear of light which he flung into the gymnasium and destroyed it. "What a bore, but...I guess we'll have some laughs...I could always grind out a good duel against Ragnarok's heir."
"Well then are you gonna sit there, or are we gonna fight?" Kenshin said with a wide smirk.
"Heheheh, oh I love how eager you are!" Kokabiel shouts.
"Oh man..." Issei said.
"Scared partner?" Ddraig asked.
"That's the biggest spear of light I've ever seen! He's way out of our league! I don't even think Kenshin can beat him right now!"
"Hahaha, you bet he is. He fought God alongside the Great Satans after all." Ddraig said.
"Can we beat him?" Issei asked.
"Well if worst comes to worst, I'll hack off most of the Dragon of the Elements' body and beat him myself." Ddraig said.
"That won't happen, everything eventually gives when you go at it enough." Kenshin thought. "Issei, get ready!"
"Right! Boosted Gear!" Issei shouts.
"Boost!"
"Know your place Elemental Dragon Emperor, you first have to get by my servants and my pets." Kokabiel said as a bolt of lightning tore open the earth and a giant three headed dog climbed out flanked by numerous black winged angels.
"Cerberus? !" Rias said.
"Isn't he supposed to be on our side? !" Kenshin shouts. "He's the gatekeeper to hell! And why the hell are there two of them? !"
"Hell's...Gatekeeper? !" Asia said.
"Kuh!" Kenshin took to the skies as the fallen angels flew after him. "I don't have any time fore you idiots! Card Equip Undine! Serene Conqueror!"
"! !" All of the Fallen Angels froze and teleported away.
"Hm? !" Kokabiel stared at it in mild surprise.
"Heh, don't send your flunkies after me, they can't handle me." Kenshin said with with a smirk. "Each one of them was weaker than the Fallen Angel Raynare."
"Funny guy..." Kokabiel said with a smirk.
"Issei, don't bother with trying to transfer to me, save it for Akeno-San or Rias." Kenshin thought. "I can handle myself."
Kenshin flew back down to where Asia was and stood in front of her. "Don't worry Asia. We'll handle that mutt."
"Boost!"
"Almost there!" Issei said
Akeno froze one of the Cerberus' fire breath and Rias struck it with her magic as Koneko came in and kicked one of it's heads. "Have another!" Akeno shouts striking it with lightning.
"Kurimuzonhariken! !" Kenshin shouts throwing his flaming naginata at the two of them.
"Damn, if only I was stronger. I could help out instead of relying on you to carry us, Kenshin!" Issei said.
"Boost!"
"One more!" Issei shouts.
"Don't worry about it, I'm used to this." Kenshin thought.
"Aaaah? !" Kenshin turned around and grabbed Asia, jumping out of the way of another Cerberus' fire breath. "Th-Thanks Kenshin-San!" Asia said.
"Three of them?" Kenshin said. "Jeez...alright Asia, go hide somewhere, I'll draw this thing away." He said taking off.
"Kenshin-San!" Asia shouted after him.
"Try not to take damage, I'll lose my boosts." Issei said.
"I know." Kenshin thought as he sprung over a claw swipe.
The next moment, one of it's heads was cut off. "Hm?" Kenshin glanced over as someone landed next to him. "I was beginning to wonder if you were gonna show up, Xenovia." Kenshin said as they sliced the Cerberus in two killing it.
"It just took me awhile to get here." Xenovia said. "By the way, that Sona person mentioned that Fallen Angels appeared outside the barrier as I was going in. Did you have anything to do with that?"
"Heh, they're putting as much distance as they can between me and them." Kenshin said with a smirk.
(break)
Meanwhile.
"So this is the place that Kenshin has been spending his days since coming back from the past? I gotta say I'm actually a little jealous." Yukari said as she hopped across the rooftops of Kuoh. "...Hm?"
The fallen angels that Kenshin had frightened off were coming right at her. "Those must be those Fallen Angel things Sirzechs told me about." Yukari said. "Whelp, gotta say fun didn't take long to get here." She unsheathed her nodachi and her kodachi and held them in front of her.
"Who the hell is that? !" One of them said, taking notice of her.
"I don't know, but get her! She can't be worse than the Elemental Dragon Emperor!" Another shouted.
"Heh!" Yukari smirked as flames encased her kodachi as she stabbed it at them. "Hellfire Flash!" The flames surrounding her kodachi shot out of the dragon shaped tsuba's open mouth engulfing half of them in fire. "Shippuzan!" She shouts slashing her nodachi at them as a violent burst of wind sliced the 'on fire' bunch to pieces.
"Get her!" One ordered as they all called on their spears of light and threw them at her.
Yukari was engulfed in smoke as the spears exploded in light. "Hah! We got her!"
"...Sorry, but...this Elemental Dragon Emperor isn't the only person capable of using elemental magic." Yukari said emerging from the smoke unscathed, smirking widely. "And by the way...Serene Conqueror!"
"! ! Sh-She's not kidding! It's another Elemental Dragon Emperor! !" They all said as twenty of them were able to warp away.
"How unlucky for you all." Yukari said to the thirty that remained. "You get to feel the fury of my Katensho!" She shouts as she slashed both of her blades alongside one another, firing off a large arcing blast of fire that vaporized all thirty fallen angels. "Haah...very weak. With Gnome you can tank the hits from those spears, but I'm not a devil so I'm not hurt nearly as bad." She cracked her neck from one side to another. "Try to overwhelm me with numbers...how foolish. I didn't even have to really use the elements." She continued on her path. "Now, let's get moving to where Kenshin is."
(break)
Back with Rias, Kenshin and the others.
"Damn, Xenovia is cleanin' house." Kenshin said as he watched Xenovia cleave another Cerberus. "I'm impressed."
"Of course, these demons can't stand up to a holy sword." Akeno said.
"I hate to admit it, but I'm glad she came." Rias said.
"Hm?" Kenshin said as Issei's Boosted Gear glew with a strange insignia.
"It's letting my partner know his power has doubled up enough to be useful in battle." Ddraig said.
"I didn't know you could let me know things like that, I've just been assuming till now." Issei said.
"Yours and the Dragon of the Elements' Sacred Gears are growing every day. I just gave you what you needed." Ddraig said.
"Alright Issei, I'll fly us in." Kenshin thought.
"Got it!" Issei said.
"Rias, Akeno-San!" Kenshin shouts flying toward them pointing at the Boosted Gear.
The two nodded as Kenshin and Issei switched for a moment. "Boosted Gear: Gift! !" Issei shouts.
"Transfer!"
"Aaaahnn!" Rias and Akeno cried out as their power increases.
Kenshin landed on the ground near Xenovia. "That's an impressive ability, Hyoudou Issei." Xenovia said.
"Ain't it?" Kenshin and Issei answered.
"Alright Akeno, let's do this." Rias said.
"Yes, let's." Akeno said raising her hand. "Thunder, shake the earth!"
"Haaaahhhh! !" Rias yelled summoning her own magic.
"!" Kenshin looked over to see Asia staring down the last Cerberus in fright. "Asia!"
Before it could get to her, swords erupted from the earth and ran it through, immobilizing it. Kiba landed in front of Asia. "Are you OK?" He asked.
"Hai, thank you!" Asia said.
"Damn I'm glad to see ya Kiba!" Kenshin said with a relieved tone.
"Yuuto." Rias said. She turned to Akeno. "Alright, let's finish it off."
"Hai, Chief." Akeno said as she struck the Cerberus down after her lightning passed through Rias' magic circle.
"That's all." Kenshin said.
"Heheheheh, that was quite a good show." Kokabiel said from his throne.
"...Haaahh!" Rias yelled firing off a blast of her magic right at him.
"Rias, hang on!" Kenshin shouts.
"Too late." Kokabiel said deflecting it away from himself, making a large crater in the school grounds.
"!" Everyone looked at it with varying levels of shock.
"So, the Crimson Dragon Emperor's power can make you this much more powerful huh?" Kokabiel said. "How interesting, how very interesting!"
"Tch, Issei continue boosting." Kenshin thought. "Now it's for either Rias or me."
"Heheheheheh, it's complete, it's finally complete!"
"!" Everyone except Kokabiel turned to Valiper who watched with near rabid excitement as the large magic circle he had created spiked and formed a single blade.
"Oh, shit!" Kiba cursed.
"Hm?" Yukari said still approaching Kuoh Academy. "So it's definitely there."
"..." From an even greater distance, a white haired young man dressed in black watched with an slightly interested gaze.
"For the fusion of the holy swords, I will take the energy that will be released Valiper Galilei. That was our deal." Kokabiel said.
"Of course." Valiper said with a smirk.
"You put all of that power into an earth breaker spell? !" Rias said in shock.
"No way...you mean Kuoh will really vanish? !" Issei said as Kenshin's tail held up a mirror.
Valiper turned to them. "You better get out now, before it's too late. This city will be razed to the ground in twenty or so minutes."
"If you want to stop it, you'll have to defeat me." Kokabiel said rising up from his throne and casting it away.
"Tch!" Kenshin growled.
"Then we will defeat you!" Rias said charging at him, firing off her destructive magic.
"Hrn!" Kokabiel said catching it and condensing it into a ball as well as lightning fired at him from Akeno. He combined the two balls of energy together and threw the conflagration of magic at Rias.
"Chief!" Akeno said moving in front of Rias forming a barrier.
"Tch!" Kenshin appeared in front of Akeno. "Card Cancel!" He shouts moving Sylph's card into it's slot as quickly as possible.
The conflagration of magic collided against Kenshin's blade which was now spinning rapidly.
"Hahahahahahaha! Come on you fool! You really think you can protect them? !" Kokabiel cackled.
"I don't think I can, I know it! !" Kenshin roared as his blade started grinding the magic away and condensing around it.
"Hm? !" Kokabiel said.
"Kenshin-kun! Don't overdo it!" Akeno warned.
"Hahaha! This isn't enough to do me in Akeno-San! Don't worry!" Kenshin said with a wide smirk as the magic fully condensed around his blade. He took a breath and turned to them with a smile. "Are you two alright?"
"Yes." Rias said.
"I apologize, even with Issei-kun's boost I couldn't..." Akeno was cut off by Kenshin shaking his head.
"Don't worry about it. This asshole is obviously stronger than we thought." Kenshin said. He turned back to Kokabiel. "You're gonna pay for that you bastard, I won't let you get away with trying to hurt Rias and Akeno-San!" He said charging after Kokabiel.
"..." Akeno watched this and smiled. "Those two are quite the pair of men." She said as she landed on the ground with Rias.
"Are you OK?" Asia asked running up to them.
"We aren't going to last until Sirzechs-Sama's help arrives at this rate." Akeno said.
"Destructive Thunder Cannon!" Kenshin roared throwing his spinning blade at Kokabiel.
Kokabiel batted the attack skyward. "Fool."
"Card Equip Sylph!" Kenshin shouts.
"!" Kokabiel looked back down to see Kenshin still charging him.
"Senkoudanken!" Kenshin shouts punching right at his face.
Kokabiel dodged to left and flew away from him in that direction. Kenshin caught his blade as it fell, Rias and Akeno's magic having faded from it. "What's the matter, don't want me to muss up that pale face?"
"Hmph, let's see if you can!" Kokabiel said summoning up two blades of light.
"That's what I'm talkin' about!" Kenshin said diving into the fray.
Meanwhile, Kiba approached Valiper. "Valiper Galilei...I am a survivor of the Holy Sword Project, but in truth you killed me."
"Hmmm?" Valiper said.
"I was only able to live on by becoming a devil, and now, I've come to kill you to avenge the others! !" Kiba shouts charging Valiper.
"Hn!" Kokabiel threw Kenshin off of his blades and converted one of them to a large spear and sent it at Kiba.
"Oh shit!" Kenshin said. "Kiba look out! !"
(boom!)
"Yuuto!" Rias shouted in worry.
"Hmph. He managed to avoid a direct hit...quick little fucker." Kokabiel said.
"Bastard! !" Kenshin shouts slashing at Kokabiel's face only to be blocked.
"You fool, you may have his power, but you have nowhere close to the mastery that Ragnarok had!" Kokabiel cackled. "You're going to die!"
"I decide when I die!" Kenshin yelled. "Sylph, Gnome, Undine, Salamander, I need more power! I need to be able to use one more of you!" Kenshin thought.
"Keep going, we're working on it!" Salamander said.
"Freed, come here and grab this blade." Valiper said.
"Got it!" Freed said leaping forward and grabbing the newly made Excalibur. "So...whose next...huh? !" Freed said with his usual crazed smirk.
Kiba struggled to his feet. "I did hear about a subject on the loose, to think he had become a devil..." Kiba glared up at Valiper who approached him. "I should thank you, thanks to your contributions, the project finally succeeded."
"Succeeded?" Kiba snarled.
"Yes, your power by themselves were not enough to wield a Holy Sword." Valiper said with a crazed smirk. "That led me to a simple solution. To take the power out of them and accumulate it. Then I found out a way to crystallize it."
"!" Kiba's eyes went wide with anger.
Valiper held out a crystal in his fingertips. "This is the last one, from those subjects, the section you were in."
"Neeyaaahahahahaha! They died cause they couldn't handle the power!" Freed cackled.
"You pieces of shit..." Kenshin snarled as he dueled Kokabiel.
"Heheheh, worry about yourself youngling Kuroshi." Kokabiel said with a smirk.
Koneko and Kiba dodged out of the way of Freed's slash. "Guess that means I'm made of something awesome then huh? !" Freed yelled.
"!" Xenovia got a good look at the crystal. "That looks like the crystal that Irina put into her body when she was blessed to wield Excalibur Mimic...It was to give her the power she lacked?"
"Oh really? Those damn hypocrites...they shun me as a heretic, but continue using my research." Valiper said. "Then again, if Michael were involved then he was probably able to remove this without killing the subject."
"There wasn't...any need to kill us then?" Kiba said getting back to his feet, glaring daggers at Valiper. "So then why? !"
"You were research materials that had outlived your purpose, what else was I supposed to do?" Valiper said.
"Tch...this bastard...he reminds me so much of that Consul from Megalo..." Kenshin thought. "The man who led that metropolis to try and extract information out of me...in the most brutal ways possible."
"We believed we were serving the Lord..." Kiba said his body quivering with rage. "We bore excruciating pain to achieve that, but in the end...we were only research materials? !"
"Unbelievable..." Asia said, almost too stunned to speak.
"Yuuto..." Rias said in a sympathetic tone.
"Go ahead and take it." Valiper said tossing the crystal to Kiba. "We've got the ability to mass produce more refined crystals anyway."
Kiba knelt down and picked up the crystal gingerly. "...My...My friends..." He said as the moments of their deaths replayed in his mind.
At the same moment, Kenshin was knocked to the ground by Kokabiel and landed on his feet. "Rrgh!" He threw his blade at Valiper only to have it knocked back to him by Freed.
"Hmm? Why are you attacking me? This has nothing to do with you." Valiper said noticing Kenshin glaring ruefully at him.
"People like you piss me off." Kenshin said. "It's people like you that caused my own suffering...and it's people like you..." Issei's voice combined with his at this point. "That deserve the worst deaths possible! Know this you bastard, if he doesn't kill you...I will." He said.
"Valiper Galilei...just how many lives were wasted to this extent...to sate your greed?" Kiba asked getting back to his feet.
"Hm?" Kenshin watched as ethereal blue flames gathered around Kiba. "Those are...souls." He said.
"There's a lot of forces at work right now...it's probably not too much to assume that this is possible." Akeno said as the flames became humanoid spirits. "They were released by Yuuto's heart."
"...I've...I've always...wondered...if...I deserved to be the only survivor." Kiba said with his head bowed as he was surrounded by the other test subjects he had befriended. "Many of them had dreams grander than my own. Most of them wanted to survive more than I did...did...did I deserve to live in peace?"
"..." Kenshin narrowed his eyes at Kiba. "...It seems we're more alike than I thought...Yuuto."
A solemn singing filled the area as Kiba started looking around wide eyed. He felt a tug on his sleeve and looked down to see a small girl. The spirits lost form and spiraled around him.
"Don't worry...if we all come together...open your heart...I'm not scared, even if God doesn't exist...even if God isn't watching...our hearts will always be..."
Kiba closed his eyes, with tears streaming down his face. "As one..."
Rias and Akeno smiled. Koneko watched with her usual expression, but said. "It's...so warm..."
"Thank goodness..." Asia said holding her hands together, crying.
"Dammit, I can't hold back my tears!" Issei said wiping his eyes.
"That knight has reached his peak." Ddraig said.
"Huh?" Kenshin thought.
"When a Sacred Gear users hopes and dreams change to such a degree that they flow against the flows of the world, the Sacred Gear changes with him, and unlocks the Balance Breaker." Ddraig said.
"Oh?" Kokabiel said.
Kenshin smiled at Kiba as the spirits of his friends condensed around him. "Is your heart finally clear, Yuuto?" He asked.
"...Yes...my friends, they didn't want me to exact vengeance for them." Kiba said walking toward Valiper. "They never did...thanks for your offer to kill him for me Kenshin, but I must slay this evil before me by myself."
"I understand." Kenshin nodded. "It was rude of me to intrude on your quest anyway."
Kiba summoned a sword in front of him and grabbed it. "Freed!" Valiper shouts.
"Coming!" Freed said hopping in between him and Kiba.
"Hmph, you fool...you should have stayed dead." Valiper said with a smirk.
"Kiba! !" Issei shouts taking control of Kenshin for a moment. "Wreck Freed and that Excalibur! Don't let your friends' souls go to waste!"
"Issei-kun..." Kiba said.
"Do it, Yuuto." Rias said. "You're a part of my family, an Excalibur, fused though it maybe should be no match for you."
"Go for it, Yuuto-kun!" Akeno said.
"You can do it." Koneko said.
"Kiba-San!" Asia cheered on for him.
"Yuuto." Kenshin said. "Show these fuckers what happens when you cross the wrong person too many times."
"Aaah! Enough with the blabbering! I wanna kill you and get some satisfaction out of it!" Freed said.
"Hmph..." Kiba lined his sword up. "I'll become a blade...with my friends' souls and I as one...let us fulfil our regrets and dreams of those days." He said raising his sword skyward as it was wrapped in black and white energy. "I'll become a sword for Chief Rias and my allies! Sword Birth!"
The light died down to reveal a white blade with a section of black in the middle. "Behold, the Sword of the Betrayer, a blade that has both holy and unholy properties.
"A holy and unholy blade?" Rias said, surprised by what Kiba had said.
"The Crimson Dragon Emperor told us that it's Kiba's Balance Breaker." Kenshin said walking over to her.
A holy demonic sword? ! Impossible, two opposing forces like that coming together, that's absurd." Valiper said.
"It's more possible than you think, I can sense it." Kenshin said. "He's not lying."
Xenovia walked alongside Kiba as they approached Freed. "Rias Gremory's Knight. Do we still stand as allies?"
"I hope so." Kiba said.
"Then let us destroy that Excalibur." Xenovia said.
"Are you sure you want to do that?" Kiba asked.
"It's not a true Excalibur anymore." Xenovia said. "It is an anomalous sword. It needs to be destroyed." She stabbed Excalibur Destruction into the ground and held her hand out to her right. "Petra, Basilius, Dionysus, and Mary, the holy mother. Please hear my voice." She said as a white magic circle appeared next to her, pushing out a large blue sword with a golden edge. "In the name of the Saint that rests within this blade, I will unleash...the holy sword Durandal!"
"The holy sword...Durandal?" Kiba asked.
"It's an Excalibur-class holy sword said to split anything in this world." Xenovia explained.
"Impossible! My research never produced anyone capable of wielding Durandal!" Valiper seethed.
"Unlike Irina and him. I'm all natural." Xenovia remarked with a smirk.
"Flawless aptitude? ! You're a natural holy sword user? !" Valiper said.
"That's right, and this thing runs through anything it slashes, I can barely control it myself." Xenovia said.
"Isn't that kinda cheap? !" Freed said slashing his Excalibur at Xenovia, it turning into a whip which Xenovia easily shattered.
"That is not a complete Excalibur, it's no match for Durandal!" Xenovia said slashing down at Freed from above.
"I don't want to hear about your pathetic power balance!" Freed said as Kiba appeared behind him and slashed downward. Freed raised his blade to block, but it was cut in two, and Freed moved out of the way of the slash, escaping by a hair. "It broke? ! I'm losing to these shits? ! Gah? !" Freed said as a blue light shot out of his shoulder and he fell unconscious.
Kokabiel threw a spear threw Valiper as he was about to say something. "You were a very capable man Valiper, but I no longer need you anymore I'll complete the seal array's fueling with my own power."
"So we're into friendly fire now?" Kenshin asked.
"What's going on here, Kokabiel?" Rias said.
"I'm done watching. Crimson Dragon Emperor." Kokabiel said.
"What do you want? !" Issei snapped.
"Maximize the Boosted Gear and give it's power to someone." Kokabiel said. "I don't care who, and then you Elemental Dragon Emperor. You fight me with that person at your side."
"You're giving us a chance? ! You must be joking!" Rias shouts.
"No you're the only clown here, you really think you can beat me?" Kokabiel said with a smirk.
"Issei, give it to Rias. I'll be able to handle myself just fine without it." Kenshin thought. "Prepare the next one for me."
"Alright." Issei said.
Kenshin grabbed Rias' hand. "So it's me huh?" Rias asked. "Alright."
"...To be honest...I don't know if we're going to be able to take him down." Kenshin whispered to her. "I can still only use two elements...I need three."
"Then why don't you take the boost?" Rias asked.
"Because there's no guarantee that the boost would unlock it." Kenshin said. "At least with you, I've got a capable ally."
After enough boosts were accumulated. Issei took over. "Here you go Chief, now you and Kenshin kick that guy's ass! Boosted Gear: Gift!"
"Transfer!"
Wind whipped around Rias and Kenshin as well as Rias' crimson aura. "Heh, that's the way." Kenshin said with a smirk. "Let's go, Rias!" Kenshin said taking off after Kokabiel.
"Hahahahahahaha! That's some fine magical power, the power of an Ultimate Class Devil!" Kokabiel said.
Kenshin collided against Kokabiel's holy swords and was turned around by the force of the collision. "Heh." Kenshin smirked.
"Begone!" Rias shouts, firing two large spheres of crimson magic.
"Heh! That's it, Sister of a Satan!" Kokabiel said throwing Kenshin to the side.
"Haaaaahhhh! !" Rias roared out, firing more magic at him before collapsing to one knee.
"Haaah!" Kokabiel batted it toward Kenshin .
"!" Kenshin crossed his arms in front of him to defend.
"Kenshin! !" Rias screamed as the attack hit.
"Haah...haaah...haaahh...haaahhh..." Kenshin emerged from the smoke, his arms going slack and his body wounded heavily. . "Damn...it..." He cursed using his youki to close the major wounds.
"Hahahahahaha! Did you really think that would work? !" Kokabiel cackled. "Now...sick him you twenty who came back...he's ripe for the picking now."
The twenty Fallen Angels that had escaped from Yukari earlier surrounded Kenshin and charged at him with their spears in hand.
"Kenshin we have to...!" Issei said.
"I can't!" Kenshin thought. "My body won't move, it's still recovering from Rias' amped up attack!"
"KENSHIN! ! ISSEI! !" Everyone yelled.
Suddenly the fallen angels all stopped, much to everyone's shock. "!" Kokabiel scowled. "What are you doing? ! Kill him!"
"We can't find him sir!" One of them said.
"He should be right at the center!" Kokabiel berated.
"He's not there!"
"..." Kenshin looked around wide eyed, still where he was previously. "This feeling...it's! !"
"Haaah! !" The fallen angels all exploded outward and laid on the ground dead.
"...! !" Kenshin stared at the young woman in front of him.
"Whoa! Kenshin isn't that one of the girls from your album? !" Issei asked.
"Hmhmhmhm...every time you get yourself in hot water...it seems I always have to be the one to pull you out...Kenshin." She said.
"Yukari? !" Kenshin shouts. "When...h-how? !"
"A man by the name of Sirzechs Lucifer brought me to this world. He sent me to help you." Yukari said. "And it seems I arrived right on time."
"Hah...Hah...yeah no kidding." Kenshin said with a relieved smile as they landed on the ground.
Yukari placed her hand on Kenshin's shoulder and charged some of her youki into him. "There, you shouldn't feel so exhausted now."
"Excuse me, are you friend or foe?" Rias asked cautiously as she and the others approached them.
"She's an ally." Kenshin said. "I can vouch for her, since she's my sister and all."
"So...you're the help Sirzechs sent huh?" Kokabiel said with narrowed eyes.
"You must be this Kokabiel that has Sirzechs so worried." Yukari said. "I'm Yukari Kuroshi Tsuki and I'm this idiot's twin sister." She turned back to Rias. "Are there any clerics around?"
"Over here!" Asia said running up to her and Kenshin.
"Close any remaining wounds on Kenshin's person." Yukari said. "Kenshin, why aren't you using the spirits all at once?"
"Because I can't." Kenshin said. "I can only use two at a time right now, some weird ass restriction."
"That sucks." Yukari said. "Alright, one of you...OK I guess I don't have to say anything." She said seeing Akeno flying upward and attacking Kokabiel with lightning.
Kokabiel shielded himself with his wings. "Do you really think you can beat me? Wielder of Barakiel's power." Kokabiel mocked.
"Do not...associate me...with that name! !" Akeno yelled, increasing the force of her lightning.
"Barakiel?" Kenshin said.
"He's another leader of the Fallen Angels same as Kokabiel." Xenovia answered. "He controls lightning."
Akeno lowered her hand panting heavily. "Hahahahaha! I can't believe you actually defected to the devils, you've sure got an interesting peerage and ally. The Crimson Dragon Emperor, a remnant of the Holy Sword Project, the Dragon of the Elements, and Barakiel's very own daughter! It seems you like to collect trash just like your brother Sirzechs."
"Akeno-San's the daughter of a Fallen Angel?" Kenshin said with narrowed eyes.
"..." Yukari narrowed her eyes. "Kenshin, before I attack. Here." She said handing off the black nodachi in her possession. "This should be returned to you."
"Kuroi Jigoku." Kenshin said taking hold of the blade. "Hnn!" He grunted. "What's this sensation? ! I feel like my magic just became stronger!" He thought.
"I saw you attacking him earlier, stand down." Yukari said. "You won't be able to harm him."
"Tch..." Rias bowed her head, glaring at the ground.
Yukari nodded and unsheathed her swords flying up to Kokabiel's level. "I can sense the power rolling off of you." She said.
"Hahahaha, and yet you try to attack me huh?" Kokabiel said with a smirk.
"I do, after all...I'm not restricted like Kenshin is." Yukari said as the four elements spiraled around her.
"!" Kokabiel stared, surprised at her.
"The four elements...but...Kenshin I thought you were the only one who could use them." Xenovia said.
"Heh...well you see...being an elementalist is more common back home." Kenshin said with a slight smirk. "It's becoming a master of the Yonseirei's power that's rare."
"Heheheheheheheheh...come on then! Show me your power!" Kokabiel said. "Just try to kill me!"
Yukari charged in at him. "Lightning Sword Flash!"
"Hrrnnn!" Kokabiel slashed his sword at Yukari's throat. Yukari stopped and changed direction, taking his back.
"Serene Demon Sword!" Yukari called out slashing at Kokabiel's waist.
"Hn? !" Kokabiel narrowly avoided being bisected and stabbed his sword at Yukari's stomach.
"Hah!" Yukari said kicking the sword upward.
"What? !" Kokabiel said.
"That light weaponry shit doesn't work as well on demons as it does on devils!" Yukari shouts as she chased down Kokabiel who flew backward. "Death Sword Chaos Star!" Yukari shouts, trying to cut a star into Kokabiel's flesh, only to be deterred at every strike by Kokabiel's blades. On the final downward swing, she let her momentum carry her into a spin and slashed her sword downward. "Earth Rumbling Decapitation!"
"Krh!" Kokabiel grunted as he was sent flying into the ground.
"Wow..." Rias said. "So that's the power you'll eventually have, Kenshin?"
"Yeah." Kenshin nodded. He raised his hand getting Yukari's attention. He pointed at Kokabiel and then spun his finger around his right temple.
"Use an illusion to distract him. Got it." Yukari said landing a distance away from the crater she put Kokabiel in and focused on him. "He seems to hate Sirzechs so..."
Kokabiel rounded on Yukari only to find Sirzechs. "Sirzechs Lucifer, you've come at last!"
"? !" Rias looked around. "...What?"
"Hehehehehehehehe." Kenshin snickered. "Yukari's quite the gifted illusionist. Sirzechs isn't actually here."
"Come on, Kokabiel. You wanted me, so here I am." 'Sirzechs' said with a smirk
"Gladly!" Kokabiel shouts chasing after him, clashing blades against 'him'. "Come on, use your destruction magic!"
"You aren't worth the effort in doing that!" 'Sirzechs' said.
"Heheheheh, he's so rage blinded right now" Yukari thought as she slashed her nodachi against Kokabiel's light swords to go along with the illusion.
"Alright...I'm ready." Kenshin said taking off toward Kokabiel with Kuroi Jigoku in hand as well as his naginata. "Serene Demon Sword!" Kenshin shouts slashing his blades into Kokabiel's back.
"Aaargh!" Kokabiel grunted as he rounded on Kenshin and slashed at him only for him to disappear. "Rrraagghh! Where did you go Elemental Dragon Emperor? !"
"Heh." Kenshin patted Yukari on the back. "Nice work."
"Heheheh, I know right?" Yukari said with a grin as Kokabiel searched frantically for either of them.
"Alright, let's fuck this asshole up." Kenshin said taking off toward Kokabiel.
"Feel free to jump in!" Yukari said to the others.
"Right!" Kiba said taking off with them.
"I need your help." Xenovia said to Koneko. "Can you fly me up there?"
"Alright." Koneko said grabbing hold of Xenovia and flying her up.
"Asia, you and I should heal Akeno." Rias said as her Queen landed next to her.
"Tch...that bastard..." Akeno seethed.
"Grah!" Kokabiel shouts as Kenshin punched him in the face.
"Sword Birth!" Kiba called out summoning ten swords around Kokabiel.
Kokabiel surrounded himself with his wings to defend, feeling the attack coming in. When he unshielded himself he was cut across the cheek by Yukari. "Damn you! !" He roared firing off a blast of holy magic at her.
Xenovia and Koneko moved in front of her blocking it with Durandal. Yukari nodded to them. "Thanks."
"Don't mention it." Xenovia said as Koneko nodded back.
"That's it! If I can't find you I'll just attack everywhere! !" Kokabiel shouts firing spears into the sky.
Kenshin watched as they came back down. "Yukari, disable it now! He'll just keep doing this!"
"Right!" Yukari replied canceling the illusion.
"So...it's that newcomer doing this..." Kokabiel thought.
"Kazerin! Kaze no Tate!" Kenshin shouts blowing the spears away with his wind magic.
Kokabiel landed on the ground with them. He glanced at Xenovia. "You know...it's funny..I'm surprised that you're fighting after losing your master."
"What?" Xenovia said.
"What are you going on about, Kokabiel? !" Rias shouts.
"What do you mean I've lost my master? !" Xenovia yelled.
"Whoops, I wasn't supposed to tell." Kokabiel said with a shrug.
"Answer me, Kokabiel! !" Xenovia demanded.
Kokabiel cackled madly. "Oh, I almost forgot that I'm starting a war, so there's no need to keep secrets! In the Great War of the Three Factions, the previous Four Great Satans died, but so to did God himself! !"
"? ! !" Everyone's eyes went wide with shock.
"I...It can't be..." Xenovia whispered.
"God is..." Rias trailed off.
"All this time people have been worshiping nothing at all?" Kenshin said.
"You're crazy! Such a thing has never happened before!" Rias shouts.
"The Great War brought an end to all the Satans and many high class devils." Kokabiel said. "Just as well, most lower angels and Fallen Angels also died, Pure Angels could no longer reproduce and there are very few pure blooded devils left."
"There's...There's no way!" Asia said.
"All three factions now rely on humans to survive. The leaders of the three factions concealed his death to make sure humans who still believed survive." Kokabiel said.
"Liar...you're lying!" Xenovia said falling to her knees.
"None of that matters to me though. What pisses me off, is that after the deaths of the Satans and God. We decided that further war was meaningless!" Kokabiel shouts. "I couldn't stand it, they told us to lower our raised fists? ! We would have won if we kept fighting! That asshole Azazel even said that there'd never be another war, unbelievable! !"
"If...If the Lord is gone, where does his love come from then? !" Asia asked.
"The leader of the angels, Michael must be doing a good job." Kokabiel said with a smirk.
"Archangel Michael is standing in for the Lord?" Xenovia said. "Then..."
"As long as the system itself is in place that God himself left. Prayers, Blessings and Exorcisms will work to some extent." Kokabiel said.
Kenshin turned and caught Asia as she fainted. "..."
"Damn...I can't blame her...I'm surprised I haven't lost it myself." Xenovia said.
Kenshin set her down and raised his blade. "I've heard enough...you can quit talking now as a matter o fact. You can do us the favor of dying!" Kenshin shouts rushing Kokabiel.
Kokabiel guarded himself with his swords. To his surprise however Kuroi Jigoku cut through them like butter and he was forced to retreat. "...That blade...I recognize that blade."
"What about it?" Kenshin said with narrowed eyes.
"That blade used to belong to Ragnarok Kuroshi, with it, he was able to battle entire armies of Fallen Angels." Kokabiel said. "It is the Holy Canceler, the Nodachi of Black Hell!"
"Heh! Then I should be able to kill you just fine with it then!" Kenshin shouts.
Kokabiel vanished from his sight. "!" Kenshin was thrown to the left by the Fallen Angel leader. He lost his grip on the blade as he crashed into a building.
"Kuh...What happened?" Kenshin asked.
"I'm sorry Kenshin-Chan, but that's all your body can handle!" Sylph said.
"Dammit! Not now! I can't run out of power now!" Kenshin thought jumping out of the building, landing next to Yukari.
"Are you OK?" Yukari asked.
"I'm fine...I just...ran out of spirit power." Kenshin answered.
"Any other takers?" Kokabiel said.
"Take this! !" Rias shouts, firing another blast of her destruction magic at him.
"You're not boosted, you can't hurt me with this! !" Kokabiel said deflecting it toward Kenshin and Yukari.
"Shit!" Kenshin said as they both jumped out of the way, but at the same time saw one of Kokabiel's spears roaring right toward them. "Oh no! !" He thought.
"Kenshin! !" Yukari thought pushing him out of the way.
"! ! !" Kenshin watched as the spear tore through her chest. Her body hit the ground and she spat out blood. "YUKARI! !" He yelled.
"!" Everyone turned to her. Rias rushed toward her. "Oh no! She's fading fast! She's...She's not going to make it!"
"..." Kenshin watched the life slowly leaving her body. "That...That...Bastard! !" He thought.
Kiba looked at Kenshin's face, seeing his teeth grinding together, a furious scowl on his face. "...He can't hold it back...and I don't blame him..." He thought.
Kenshin turned to Kokabiel. "Oh ho? She gave her life to save yours...well I'll leave her corpse behind so Sirzechs will have something to bury." Kokabiel said with a callous smirk.
"You'll...pay for this..." Kenshin seethed.
"Hmm?" Kokabiel said.
"You'll pay...YOU'LL PAY! !" Kenshin roared. "Issei, whatever boosts you have accumulated, Transfer them to me now! !" He thought.
"R-Right!" Issei said. "Boosted Gear: Gift!"
"Transfer!"
"Hahahahaha! You'll make me pay huh? Well then let's see it!" Kokabiel said.
Kenshin extended his hand as all but one card disappeared into him. A ball of flames condensed in his hand. "You have a desire for war? ! Well congratulations, you just found one!" Kenshin said firing the ball of flame at Kokabiel's face.
"Hrn!" Kokabiel raised his swords to block it. "Grn! How did he get so powerful all of the sudden? !" He was driven back by the orb and it exploded.
Kenshin lowered his hand. "Rias." Kenshin said.
"H-Hai? !" Rias said.
"Keep Yukari's body safe." Kenshin said tossing her his evil piece set. "I'll be awhile...I'm going to make this bastard pay for what he's done...making a mockery out of all of us...threatening everyone's lives...and killing my sister...he won't escape my wrath." Kenshin said walking forward.
"Is that three elements I see around him?" Xenovia asked.
"His Sacred Gear must have responded to his built up frustration and fury." Rias said. "...I'm sorry Kenshin..." She said.
"It's OK." Kenshin said. "It's not you I'm mad at and I'll make him pay for referring to you all as trash as well. You're far from it..and after that...I'll resurrect Yukari."
"..." Akeno watched him go with a smile on her face. "Good luck Kenshin-kun." "I'm sorry Rias...but it seems I have..." She let her thoughts trail off.
Kenshin extended his hand calling Kuroi Jigoku toward him. It sprung into the air and Kenshin caught it, slashing downward leveling a section of earth to his left as Kokabiel came out of the smoke. "Hahahahaha, look who got stronger! Come on then!" He said throwing a light spear at Kenshin's head.
"..." Kenshin fired another fireball making it go off prematurely. When the smoke cleared then, he wasn't there.
"!" Kokabiel turned around sensing Kenshin behind him.
Kenshin responded by grabbing Kokabiel's arm. "Now I have you." He said as he slashed his arm clean off.
"Aaaarrrgghhh! !" Kokabiel growled out in pain as he jumped back. Kenshin dropped the arm and gave chase after him. "You wretch, you think a lost arm will stall me? !" Kokabiel shouts as he grows his arm back and slashes a light sword at Kenshin's neck only to have his blade destroyed by Kenshin's Kuroi Jigoku. Kokabiel flew backward as Kenshin slashed at his neck.
"?" Kenshin stared questioningly as Kokabiel formed a single spear increased its size. Knowing Rias and the others were behind him. Kenshin took to the sky.
"That's right, stay right there...when this goes off, I'd rather not have it near me." Kokabiel said. "Hrrrngh!"
The spear whizzed by Kenshin who didn't move to avoid. "Missed." Kenshin said. He glanced backward as it detonated against the shield the student council set up. "Good, it stood."
"S-Such a huge explosion..." Xenovia said.
"It's been too long since I last fought...I can't control those so well anymore...I won't miss this time." Kokabiel said as he generated another one of the same size.
"He can make more of those big spears? !" Akeno said.
Kenshin disappeared and reappeared behind Kokabiel. "!" Kokabiel rounded on him in shock. "What in the? ! I completely lost sight of him just now! That wasn't some kind of teleportation spell or magic infused speed. It was just that...pure speed!"
Kenshin slashed at him, making Kokabiel fly away to avoid as earth was kicked up in the wake of the slash. He tried to slow himself down to get a good lock to throw his spear. He couldn't find Kenshin so he took the skies. He was thrown into one of the school buildings by Kenshin. "The exact same thing I did to him earlier? !" Kokabiel thought.
"Why are you getting weaker?" Kenshin asked as he slashed down at him. Kokabiel drove his elbow into Kenshin's sword arm to divert it. He turned around as he flew away from Kenshin and saw him coming from the left. Kokabiel spun his lance and knocked it against Kenshin's sword arm as he slashed at the Fallen Angel Leader.
"It's hard to follow them." Koneko said.
Kenshin slashed his naginata against the lance, jumping back as Kokabiel stabbed at his head. "You won't escape!" Kokabiel shouts creating smaller spears to fire at Kenshin, but it was too late as by the time he fired them. Kenshin had already vanished. Kokabiel turned around and was kicked to the ground. Kenshin raised his hand and fired a large fireball at Kokabiel.
"Useless!" Kokabiel shouts, stabbing the fireball making it go off prematurely. "!" His eyes widened with shock as Kenshin emerged from the smoke slashing his sword at his face. Kokabiel flew back, just barely avoiding having his face cut deeply by Kuroi Jigoku. He landed and stabbed his lance at Kenshin only to have it blocked by Kenshin's naginata. "What? ! Not with the Holy Canceler, but with just a normal blade? ! Impossible! !" Kenshin batted the lance upward as flames spiraled around Kuroi Jigoku.
"Die...Katensho!" Kenshin shouts slashing Kuroi Jigoku upward as flames exploded from the blade, engulfing Kokabiel.
"Nnnngggrrraahhhh! !" Kokabiel roared.
Kenshin stared for a moment before walking back while looking at his slightly burned hand. "Hrrn." He said charging a seconds amount of his youki to heal the wound. "Seems just saying Katensho, or Heavenly Fire Strike can hurt me, I guess Kuroi Jigoku can only cancel so much. Well it's minimal so it's not that big a deal."
"Where...do you think...you're going? !" Kenshin glanced back to see Kokabiel.
"!" Everyone looked on astonished to see a deep diagonal gash going down the Fallen Angel Leader's left.
"I'm going to resurrect my sister. You're too weak to continue this battle. Maybe if you weren't pouring all your power into that seal array you'd probably have been able to beat me." Kenshin said. "You've been getting weaker and weaker since we started. In the shape you're in...a child could beat you."
"Fool...you think I'll let you get away with cutting me? !" Kokabiel shouts.
"It doesn't matter if you'll let me or not. Besides...if you want to fight someone. Fight that person." Kenshin said pointing upward.
"Hm? !" Kokabiel said looking up as a white light destroyed the barrier. It died down to reveal a person wearing a white version of the Scale Mail with blue orbs affixed to it.
"Damn...I can't stop shaking!" Issei shouts.
"The Vanishing Dragon? !" Kokabiel shouts.
The person came down and tore off one of Kokabiel's ten wings. "These are like the filthy wings of a crow." He said.
"The Vanishing Dragon?" Kenshin said
"Has the Red One's power transference drawn you here as well as the Dragon of the Elements' rampage?" Kokabiel growled.
"Azazel's wings are much darker." The White Dragon said. "Like an eternal void."
"What are you after? !" Kokabiel said.
"There isn't any need for a man who has fallen below ground to have wings. Wouldn't you agree?" The White Dragon asked.
Kokabiel roared and took the skies created another spear and making it bigger and bigger. "!" Kenshin stared at it. "It's bigger than the one he was using against me!" Kenshin shouts. "Did I underestimate him slightly?"
"No, he took some of his magic back is all." The White Dragon answered.
"Dieee! !" Kokabiel shouts throwing the spear at the White Dragon who responded by raising his hand.
"Divide!"
"? !" Kenshin watched as the spear shrunk down to nothing. "How in the? !"
"I am Albion, my Sacred Gear is Divine Dividing." 'Albion' said. "Every ten seconds, I can halve the power of whatever I touch and give it to myself."
Kenshin held up a mirror. "Halves the power of whomever he touches? !" Issei said.
"So the opposite of what the Boosted Gear does." Kenshin said. "You get a double power boost every ten seconds and you have to avoid getting hit and you can give it to someone else."
'Albion tackled Kokabiel. "Grrruaaahh? !" Kokabiel said spitting up blood.
"You overstepped your boundaries." 'Albion' said. "Azazel asked me to bring you in at all costs."
"AZAZEL! ! !" Kokabiel roared as 'Albion' drove him into the ground, in the center of his magic circle formation. It rose up to the sky and disintegrated
"I have some questions for that rouge exorcist as well." 'Albion' said flying over to collect Freed.
"Take him, he's all yours." Kenshin said.
"Ignoring me White One, having your host talk for you?" Ddraig said.
Albion turned to Kenshin. "Your host is also the Elemental Dragon? That's not very fair."
"No, my host's physical body was destroyed, but before it was. The Dragon of the Elements took my partner's soul into his body and was reincarnated into a devil." Ddraig said. "That said, now isn't exactly the best time for us to meet again."
"That's fine, we are destined to meet eventually, and the Elemental Dragon has returned. It'll be just like the old days between the two of us and Ragnarok." Albion said. "As for their union...that can be temporarily dissolved."
"? !" Kenshin stared at him in shock. "Excuse me? !"
"I can have my body back? !" Issei shouts.
"Well, see you later Ddraig." Albion said.
"Adios, Albion." Ddraig said.
Albion and his host took off with Kokabiel and Freed in tow. Kenshin meanwhile walked back toward Rias. "It's almost time to cancel again." Salamander said.
"Not yet...let me revive Yukari first." Kenshin thought.
Kenshin knelt down next to Yukari. "...That makes two times now..." He said with a solemn tone.
"Huh?" Rias said.
"Two times I've watched her die." Kenshin said.
"Well, you have a way to bring her back." Rias said placing her hand on his shoulder.
Kenshin laid his hand over hers. "Thank you." He took his evil piece set and opened it. He looked over his pieces. "...You were always at my side Yukari...like a Knight protecting her King." Kenshin said. "So that's what you'll continue to be."
Rias laid her hand over his and pressed it against Yukari's body. "Repeat after me." Kenshin nodded.
"I command thee, Yukari Kuroshi Tsuki, on my name Kenshin Tsuki Kuroshi. Become my servant and once more return thy soul to this land and become a Devil." Kenshin and Rias said. "Thou shall lead a new life with great joy as my Knight!"
They removed their hands and watched the piece sink into Yukari's body, her wounds healing. "...Hnnn?" Yukari stirred. "Kenshin?"
"H..Hey..." Kenshin said with a smile a single tear falling from his left eye. "Welcome back."
"How...?" Yukari asked.
"I reincarnated you as a devil...I'll explain it all later." Kenshin said embracing her. "Just for now...let me hold you in my arms like this."
"..." Yukari closed her eyes. "I'm sorry, but...Sirzechs told me if you got yourself killed, that was it...you were dead for good...I've already lost you twice...I won't lose you a third time."
"Yeah." Kenshin said. "I understand."
"..." Rias smiled at them. "Alright everyone, let's get moving, and let Sona know everything's alright...I think everyone is tired. Xenovia-San you can rest in our building."
"I appreciate and accept the offer." Xenovia said.
Kenshin fell to the ground unconscious. "Hey! Kenshin!" Yukari shouts. "What hap-"
"It's OK." Rias said. "It's just a side effect of using the abilities of Salamander. He's just unconscious and needs rest, he'll live."
"I see." Yukari said with a sigh. "What a relief."
(break)
The next morning.
Kenshin, Rias and Yukari sat on the couch with Xenovia sitting across from them. "...So...you want to become a Devil?" Kenshin asked.
"Yes." Xenovia said.
"...But...why?" Rias asked.
"Well, with God dead, I've really got nothing tying me down to the faith anymore. That's all I had." Xenovia said. "And with the Excaliburs destroyed, I'll probably be excommunicated anyway. I already handed Excalibur Destruction to Irina to return to them."
"Well..." Kenshin said.
"I'll I want to know is which one of you is stronger." Xenovia said pointing at Kenshin and Rias.
"Oh well that would have to be..." Rias said.
"It's her." Kenshin said pointing at Rias.
"Huh? !" Rias and Yukari both said.
"Look I might be able to get really inventive with the spirits, and I can use three of them now, but Rias has the better handle of her power overall." Kenshin said. "No amount of on the fly planning is going to help me when a wave of pure obliteration is coming right at me."
Rias leaned over to whisper in his ear. "I'm trying to give you another servant."
"She asked whose stronger, I just gave my honest opinion." Kenshin whispered back.
"Well honestly I think you're stronger overall, unlike me you're an up front fighter" Rias said.
"Well thanks, but I'm not in the shop for servants right now, I'll be fine with just Yukari." Kenshin said.
"Any idea what they're whispering about?" Xenovia asked Yukari.
"I dunno, probably peerage king stuff." Yukari shrugged.
"Alright, fine I'll reincarnate you. I'll be able to further complete my set." Rias said.
One ceremony later Xenovia stood up and flapped her devil wings. "Hm..."
"Welcome to the family." Kenshin said.
"Thank you." Xenovia said.
"Come back later. I'll get your paperwork sorted out to attend Kuoh Academy, come to think of it I'll have to do the same for Yukari-San." Rias said.
"OK." Xenovia said. She turned to Kenshin as he, Rias and Yukari stood up. "Well, I'll see you around, Kenshin-kun." She said in a somewhat bubbly voice.
Kenshin stared at her. "The face doesn't match the tone." Kenshin said.
"Damn, I was trying to be more like Irina, but I can't get it right." Xenovia said stroking her chin.
"Do what comes naturally. It won't sound so strained." Kenshin said
"That said are you sure about this. Kenshin and I used to be demons, so we know what it's like to be ostracized by humans, but you didn't have to do this." Yukari said.
"With God dead my life is as good as over...but should I really have sided with the Devils who used to be my enemy?" Xenovia wondered.
"Too late to second guess now." Kenshin sniped with a grin. What happened next made Kenshin laugh as Xenovia went to ask the Lord for answers, something ingrained into her personality. She immediately grabbed her head in pain. "Can't be doin' that, you'll just hurt yourself." "By the way, what happened to Irina?"
Xenovia looked out the window. "She returned to headquarters, she was far more faithful than I was."
"Telling her the one her faith was going toward is dead...yeah that'd probably be devastating." Kenshin said. "Now that you know this, you'd be labeled as a heretic...so in a way you did have to do this."
"Yes." Xenovia said. "I'll have to apologize for what I said to Asia Argento soon...and you were right about me."
"About what I said?" Kenshin asked. "So...you went through some of the same shit huh? That's something I wouldn't know anything about. I grew used to the masses wanting to burn or bury me alive...I never knew how it felt on the other end of the spectrum. Eh...maybe I'll tell you the story some time."
"Could I ask you for a favor?" Xenovia asked.
"Shoot." Kenshin said.
"That blade of yours, the Holy Canceler" Xenovia said. "As the user of the Holy Sword Durandal, I'd like to spar against you some time."
"Heh, I'm always up for a spar." Kenshin said.
"You know...if I knew Kuroi Jigoku was gonna be so effective, I woulda kept it for myself." Yukari sniped with a grin.
"Alright, if you need me I'll be walking around town." Xenovia said leaving the room.
"Alright, I'll go out and hand out some fliers for myself." Kenshin said.
"Um...actually Kenshin, can I speak with you?" Yukari asked.
"Hm?" Kenshin said. "What's up?"
"Have you seen Sheena?" Yukari asked.
"Yeah actually, I met her a week or so ago." Kenshin nodded.
Yukari nodded. "I see."
"She...mentioned things going roughly back home." Kenshin said. "What did she mean by that?"
"?" Rias looked over at Kenshin.
"Well...she's not wrong." Yukari said with a sigh.
"..." Kenshin said nothing.
"Kenshin...you're not going to like hearing this." Yukari said.
"Go ahead and say it." Kenshin said.
"...Kenshin...Hottan has won." Yukari said.
"!" Kenshin felt his body freeze up.
"Hottan?" Rias asked. "Who is that?"
"Hottan is the man responsible for almost all of Kenshin's past suffering." Yukari said.
"..." Rias looked over at Kenshin. "...Kenshin..." She thought placing her hand on his shoulder.
"...Wh...What do you mean...he won?" Kenshin said.
"...That's just it...he...he..." Yukari bowed her head taking a breath. "When you disappeared. It sent shockwaves throughout the mage community back home. With our organization now fully defunct with it's last remaining leader gone. The leaders of the Empire and the Confederacy slowly got more aggressive in their attempts to make war. With you not around to stand as a constant threat to them it became all too easy."
"I'm sorry to interrupt, but why would Kenshin be the one stopping them from going to war? From what he told me, the entire world wanted him dead." Rias said.
"He didn't want anyone getting caught in the middle of a war...like our family was...when it all truly started." Yukari said bowing her head slightly.
"Is...Mundus Magicus still there?" Kenshin asked. "And...where the hell are the Crimson Wings? What happened to Mom, to Miyuki...to...to Negi?"
"Well...that's the hard part." Yukari said. "Rakan-San has vanished off the face of the earth...Mom and Miyuki are OK...but...Eishun, Albireo and Negi are dead."
"Aaah? !" Kenshin stared at her, shocked still.
"Kenshin?" Rias said.
Kenshin slumped back in his seat. "...Dead...?"
"...Well...I don't know about Negi, but yes...Eishun and Albireo are both gone." Yukari said. "I'm just assuming because no one's been able to find her since she united the world against Hottan."
"Negi did?" Kenshin asked.
"Um...sorry again, but..who is Negi?" Rias asked.
"Let's just say, she was someone who I was very close to." Kenshin said. (1 )
"Yeah." Yukari said. "Anyway...when Hottan finally made his move. Negi, Mom, Miyuki myself and the girls at the school we were going to who knew about magic stood against him with the Crimson Wings. We called ourselves the White Wings."
"What happened?" Kenshin asked.
"Well...we were able to repel him for a time and saved the world." Yukari said. "From there Negi united the world and used the intel our organization gathered to ensure the mana never ran out by terraforming the planet Mundus Magicus sat on...This is going into effect even now, but Hottan hasn't bothered to stop it."
"Planet?" Rias asked.
"In our dimension, our homeworld is on an alternate plane of existence on the planet Mars." Kenshin said.
"So...you two are Martians?" Rias asked.
"...Heheheheh." Kenshin chuckled softly. "Thanks Rias, I really needed that."
"We both did actually." Yukari said with a small smile.
"So...what's going on now?" Kenshin asked.
"Hottan's slowly winning the war against us...he's receiving help from the Sixteenth Maou of Makai, Forbesii." Yukari said. "Whose somehow learned how to manufacture an army."
"..." Kenshin glowered. "If only I could have moved after I had Dad use the Crimson Dragon's Fist on him. I'd have found his core and destroyed it."
"When I came here, I was about to bite the big one myself." Yukari said. "Sirzechs must have looked in, because he warped me out of there."
"I see. I owe him my gratitude then...as well as..." Kenshin was cut off.
"He had no idea what would happen after he brought you here Kenshin." Yukari said.
"...I know...but..." Kenshin said before getting up. "Knowing what happened because he brought me here is just frustrating...and there's nothing I can do about it."
"I know." Yukari said.
"..." Kenshin turned to Yukari. "When I first met Sirzechs, he told me my soul was splitting in half when he warped me here and that half returned home. When I was reincarnated he said my soul restored itself back in whole and that the same should have happened to the half that returned home."
"Then your other half must have returned to where it was with a whole soul." Yukari said. "Even then, he must be laying low."
"..." Kenshin closed his eyes and nodded. "I see. Well...thanks Yukari...I had been wondering what has been going on at home while I've been here, even though it was nothing good, it's better than knowing nothing at all."
"Of course." Yukari said with a nod.
"...I'm sorry to hear about all this. It must have been hard for you." Rias said.
"Well, there's nothing really that can be done about it. I've asked Sirzechs to send me back, but then he told me Kenshin was here...that I should wait until things have settled down. Stuff like that." Yukari said. "By the way, who are you?"
"Oh, right I never introduced myself. I'm Rias Gremory, nice to meet you." Rias said.
"Oh, so you're his sister." Yukari said.
"Hm?" Kenshin said as the mark on his hand glew. "Tonight huh?"
"Being summoned?" Rias asked.
"Just letting me know when." Kenshin said. "Yukari, you're going with me on this."
"Need help taking care of something?" Yukari asked.
"No, you're going to be shadowing me on my next few summons." Kenshin said. "So you can learn how to work as a devil."
"Hai hai." Yukari said waving her hand. "Man...it bites though...I can't use the spirits anymore."
"Huh?" Kenshin said. "Why not?"
"They just won't respond." Yukari said with a slight pout.
"Hand her one of your cards." Undine said.
"Here." Kenshin said handing her his Undine card. "Say Card Equip: Undine."
"Card Equip: Undine." Yukari said.
"Hm?" Kenshin said as the card vanished. "How many fingers am I holding up?" Kenshin asked holding his middle finger up.
"Yeah fuck you too." Yukari said.
"What? That's not fair, when I use that card I go blind!" Kenshin shouts.
"Hmhmhmhmhm." Rias giggled at Kenshin.
"Haha." Yukari laughed at him.
"She's also not an idiot who puts himself in deadly situations constantly." Salamander said. "So she doesn't have to deal with our penalties."
"I've been doing better!" Kenshin thought. "Besides wouldn't it be more logical to not penalize me for that?"
"You've done well with them. Keep it up and we'll lift them." Undine said "You'll be better for it."
"Yeah I guess." Kenshin said.
(break)
Later that Day
Nighttime.
Kenshin and Aza were playing a game together while Yukari sat back and watched. "So...this is fulfilling a request for someone who summoned you?" She asked with disinterest in her voice.
"Requests have a wide range of things. Just a few days ago I was asked to help someone hunt some deer." Kenshin said.
"Haha! I win again!" Aza laughed.
"Dammit..." Kenshin said. "Eh good game old man."
"I've trained day and night to beat you boya." Aza said. "Not my fault you've been skipping out."
"Sorry Aza-ossan, I've just been really busy." Kenshin said. "Though I gotta say old man, you spent a fortune." He said looking around. "You must have a nice nest egg stored away."
"No kidding." Yukari said.
"Yeah, these are brand new and really expensive." Issei said from the nearby mirror.
"Well our trip to the arcade got me hooked." Aza said.
"Damn, and you even collected the older consoles too." Issei said as Kenshin looked over at the collection Aza had amassed.
"Well some people call me a fanatic when it comes to my collections." Aza said with a wide grin.
"...Funny...I've heard something like that said about someone before." Kenshin said as he was beaten again. "Ah dammit!"
"Hahahahaha, he wrecked your shit!" Yukari laughed.
"Well how about another game, boya..." Aza said as he got to his feet. "Or should I say, the Elemental Dragon Emperor?"
"!" Kenshin was immediately on his feet as Aza uncased ten black angel wings. "? !"
"Oh...shit..." Yukari said.
"I am Azazel, Leader of the Fallen Angels." Azazel introduced with a small smirk..
"..." Kenshin's hand hovered over his Kuroi Jigoku's hilt. "If you wanna try and take the spirits or Issei's Boosted Gear. I've got one thing to say..."
Azazel's expression didn't change. "Oh?"
"...Bring it on." Kenshin said with a small smirk of his own.
(chapter end)
Draconis: Well that's that.
Kenshin: Seriously? I gotta fight another one of these guys?"
Azazel: (whispers into Kenshin's ear)
Kenshin: Oh. OK then.
Draconis: Now onto my one Footnote. This story does have a slight crossover with Mahou Sensei Negima, as that's the universe where my OC's Kenshin and Yukari are originally from. The Footnote refers to how I referred to the main character of Negima, Negi as a girl who is otherwise a male canonically. In my other story Negi is genderbent and around the same age as Kenshin. Just so we're clear and I don't get a review saying. 'If you're referring to Negi from Negima, Negi's a guy.'
Issei: Genderbent?
Draconis: Imagine like...Yuuto Kiba as a girl. Basically the same gist.
Issei: Nn...? Oh...Oh...damn Kiba's got some huge boobs!
Kiba: (smacks Issei over the head with Sword of the Betrayer, knocking him unconscious) Did you have to do that?
Draconis: Only way he was gonna get it. Anyway for now the crossover will remain slight as I may mention characters or elements from the series from time to time.
Alright, now that, that's done. I'll see you all later.
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