Draconis: Sorry man, no masks allowed.
Neishin: What the hell man? ! You let the Dragon of Truth do it!
Ryuushin: Huh? No he didn't. I was never in these things as Dragon.
Neishin:...Oh. Can you at least blur my face?
Draconis: Sure, whatever.
Neishin: One beer then. (sets mask to the side.)
Draconis: Yo.
Yukari: What the? Who is that?
Draconis: Nobody, now let's get started. I'll address the poll at the end of the chapter. Also, if you notice, Kenshin doesn't have a memory problem in this chapter, that's because I decided to scrap that idea after realizing I had nothing for it. The last chapter has already been edited to reflect this.
Dragon of the Elements.
Chapter 50
Dragons of a Similar Scale.
Draconis: Begin!
(start)
Dimensional Gap.
"Uuwwwaaa..." Issei yawned. "Have I been sleeping?"
"Not exactly..." Ddraig said.
"Ddraig? Where are we?" Issei looked around seeing red spiky formations around him. "Are we in a desert or something?"
"No..." Ddraig said .
Issei was confused as he went to get up, only to realize that he couldn't. "Wh-Why can't I get up? !"
"Because you don't have a body partner." Ddraig said.
"Oh, I don't have a body..." Issei said. "...Wait! I don't have a body? !"
"Yes, your body was destroyed by Samael's curse. You're just a soul at this moment, stored into the Scale Mail." Ddraig said.
"How can this be? ! If I don't have a body, I can't have sex with Irina, Seekvaira, Kuroka or anyone eeeellllssssseee! !" Issei wailed.
"Seriously...?" Ddraig said. "Dammit, now I owe Kenshin a Dragon Apple."
"How would you give it to him?" Issei asked.
"He'd just ask Tannin for it in my name." Ddraig said.
"So, I'm just a suit of armor now? How am I supposed to enjoy Oppai like this? ! My hands are going to be freezing!" Issei griped.
"Partner..." Ddraig said.
"Man, there's still so much I haven't done! I haven't become the Harem King...I haven't done anything with Kazumi-San, Chachamaru-San, or Sextum-San, nor have I got to see Yasaka-San's breasts ag-!"
"PARTNER! !" Ddraig said, the Sekiryuutei having finally lost patience.
"W-What?" Issei said.
"You're going to be fine, let me explain." Ddraig said.
"Ok..." Issei said.
"We are currently on the back of Great Red." Ddraig said. "You, I, and Ophis. Kenshin was here until four days ago."
"He...had to...leave me...with Great Red..." The two heard Ophis say as she punched Great Red.
"You know that's doing nothing right?" Great Red asked.
"Shut up..." Ophis said.
"Yes, Great Red just happened to appear after Kenshin perished." Ddraig said.
"Kenshin died?" Issei said, shock in his voice. "Who killed him?"
"That homunculus king with the Tsurugi no Kami." Ddraig said. "However that was not the last person he fought."
"Huh...I see..." Issei said. "So what's going on? Is Kenshin alive?"
"Yes. He went to Makai." Ddraig said. "Ophis and Great Red prioritized creating Kenshin's new body because Ophis was more familiar with it. They are now creating a new body for you."
"Aah, sweet." Issei said. "I owe Ophis one, not really sure what I could do for Great Red to repay him though. So why did Kenshin not go back to Chief and the others first?"
"He couldn't use the elemental power at that moment without the spirits to help regulate it." Ddraig said. "Also, he said he kept hearing someone calling out for help. It's been four days since he left though, seven since you two died."
"Seven? ! Shit everyone must be worried! If it was something he felt he needed to do then fine, but I gotta get back quick!" Issei said.
"Relax, you're not gonna come back any faster by panicking." Ddraig said. "Also, it wouldn't surprise me if Kenshin has come back. Time runs about like it does for Mundus Magicus."
"So a week there for a day back home?" Issei wondered. "Yeah, It would be great if Kenshin took care of things and went back."
"You know, I can hear you two over there." Ophis said.
"Ah, sorry." Issei said. "Didn't you return home?"
"This is home." Ophis said.
"I meant, didn't you return to the human world or the Underworld?" Issei said.
"You said, and Kenshin more or less agreed that we should go home together, so I'm waiting on you." Ophis stated blandly. "Then Kenshin had to go and run off to Makai with that Bomb Queen woman."
"Bomb Queen...you mean Raiser's Queen? What was she doing here?" Issei asked.
"I have no idea, she said she was patrolling around the Phenex Castle grounds when she suddenly found herself here. She had been looking for a way back when she ran out of energy and ended up here by chance. Kenshin said he intended to take her back home, but then he heard someone calling for help, specifically from his Queen, the kitsune Tamamo and he said he had to leave. He offered to let the Bomb Queen stay here until you woke up, but she decided to go with him. Saying she owed him a debt."
"I see..." Issei said. "Uhm, can I leave like this?"
"You're borrowing Great Red's power, so for now your life is tethered to his." Ddraig said.
"Shit..." Issei cursed. "Ophis, I don't mean to bother you, but could you check if my body is done?"
"Fine." Ophis said. She walked over to a pulsating lump of flesh and put her hand on it. "Not yet."
"Am I just missing some organs or something?" Issei asked.
"You say that so casually." Ophis said.
"Well I'd just like an estimate of how much time I got." Issei said.
"Well, you don't have any skin either so...do with that what you will." Ophis said. "However the organs and muscles are almost done, and skin doesn't take that long."
"Yggh." Issei grunted in disgust. "Sorry I asked. So, Ddraig...how am I still here? Wasn't there a summoning anyway?"
"Yes, but only your Evil Pieces went through." Ddraig said.
"Wh-What? ! But then what am I? ! Those were the things that were making me a Devil to start with!" Issei griped. "I can't even use the Crimson form or the Triana forms without those!"
"Relax, your Master, the Gremory girl that's madly in love with Kenshin likely has them." Ddraig said. "Hell you were just having a dream that you were helping them out with communication through your Evil Pieces."
"OK, so...how am I not dead, dead." Issei said.
"The past wielders of the Boosted Gear absorbed the curse for you, while I placed your soul in the armor." Ddraig said. "Even the past wielder of Divine Dividing helped."
"Seriously? So I'm here thanks to the Senpais?" Issei asked. "..."
"I understand how you must feel, so could you listen to their last words?" Ddraig asked.
"Sure." Issei said
"Pochi Pochi, Zoom Zoom, Iyaaannn!" Issei heard multiple voices say.
"Butts are also wonderful, current Sekiryuutei."
"Tell that to Vali! !" Issei snapped. "Wait...a thought occurs...could that be why he's interested in Miyuki-San? I mean her chest isn't much to look at, but those legs and that waist...damn!"
While on their way to assist in the evacuation Miyuki furrowed her brow. "What is it?" Yukari asked.
"I have no idea why, but when Issei gets back, I'm gonna have the sudden urge to kick him in the ass." Miyuki said.
Yukari sweatdropped. "Uhm...OK?"
Issei shivered. "My 'someone's going to hurt me for being perverted' senses are tingling."
"Hahahahaha." Ddraig laughed.
(break)
With Sirzechs.
Sirzechs, his peerage, Azazel, The Heavenly Joker, Dulio Gesualdo, and the unnamed possessor of Canis Lykaon walked through the realm of the dead to meet with Hades. The group arrived at a ritual area where Hades was waiting.
Sirzechs stepped forward. "Lord Hades, it's been some time, I am Satan Lucifer from the Underworld, Sirzechs. I apologize for the sudden visit."
"Fafafa...well well, the bosses from the underworld, and two Longinus wielders. I certainly didn't expect this." Hades said. "I hear the fake angel over there can control the weather of the world with his gear."
"Hello there, my name is Dulio Gesulado, I am the Brave Saints' Joker." Dulio introduced.
"Indeed." Hades said. "Your peerage, the fallen angel governor, The Brave Saints Joker and a wild card. Don't you think that is a bit overkill for an old bag of bones like me?" Hades asked.
"That's how much of a potential threat you are old man." Azazel drawled.
"Hmn...I suppose." Hades said. "Though it'd be nice to sit here and drink tea with you and discuss things. I feel like that's not what you're here for."
"You'd be right." Sirzechs said. "What were your reapers doing in the Glaysa Labolas territory, where we were conducting promotions tests?"
"I heard that your sister, her groom to be and Azazel-Dono over there were trying to contact the Uroboros Dragon Ophis. All the factions are thinking of having an alliance after all, the relationship between factions will crumble if there was a treasonous action like that, so I wished to know what was going through the peace loving Azazel's head at the time." Hades explained. "I instructed my underlings to issue a warning, nothing more. If you lost lives then I apologize, if you wish for atonement, then tell me what it is you want, I will grant any request other than my life.
"This mother fucker..." Azazel thought. "He's acting as if what Pluto was telling me was a joke!"
"I see, but that's not all, I've also heard a rumor that casts you in a very bad light. That you are in fact assisting the Khaos Brigade's Old Satan Faction and Hero Faction, the latter of which made use of Samael. If this is true, then your actions are even more treasonous that the supposed actions of Azazel here. We may all be standing at different levels, but we all agreed that Samael was never to be released. I don't wish to question your innocence, but for confirmation, allow us to look at the seal binding Samael." Sirzechs said.
Hades let out a sigh. "This is idiotic, I don't have time to be accused of such things."
"Fine then, then do this for us. Remain here with us until the calamity in the Underworld is taken care of." Sirzechs said. "After all, you are being accused. So prove your innocence another way by remaining here."
"..." Hades, who had been walking away stopped and turned to Sirzechs. "Interesting...very well...I will accept on one condition boy..."
"Being?" Sirzechs asked.
"Your true form, show it to me." Hades said.
"..." Sirzechs went silent, before turning to Grayfia and nodding. "Go."
Grayfia nodded. "Everyone, we're headed to the front lines. Our job in escorting Sirzechs-Sama is over." Sirzechs' peerage disappeared.
"Fine, it's a cheap price to keep you here, all things considered." Sirzechs said. "Azazel, you and your bodyguard back away. You too Dulio." He said as he removed his shirt.
"..." Azazel and Dulio nod and do as asked.
"Hrn!" Sirzechs grunted as his body started to turn red, his power emitting from his body.
"!" Azazel looked around as the area started to shake.
Meanwhile with Kenshin, Alma, Erubetie and Granberia, Kenshin suddenly stopped proceeding. "Ara? What is it Kenshin-Chan?" Alma asked curiously.
Kenshin took out the four pawn pieces in his pocket, they were glowing. "..." He focused on them.
"What is it?" Granberia asked.
"Sirzechs" Kenshin said. "He's...releasing a lot of power..."
"Yeah and?" Alma asked.
"Alma, His power is greater than mine far greater, to think a guy like that can get stronger." Kenshin said
"Yes, but you can't use the elements right now, at the very least not their full power." Erubetie said.
"Yeah...but at the same time, I'm not certain I could beat him even if I could, but still..." Kenshin let a small smirk appear on his face. "I can't deny that the prospect of fighting such a man one day is exciting."
"Heh." Granberia mirrored his smirk
Back with Sirzechs. Everything around him was reduced to nothing, not even dust was left behind. A deep red aura surrounded him. "In this form, the power of destruction spreads forward without my command. Without any barrier or field, most things will return to nothingness." Sirzechs said. "Fortunately this shrine is well built so it will last longer."
"Holy crap...this level of power...it completely dwarfs the former Lucifer!" Azazel thought.
"Fafafafa...what are you exactly? You've greatly surpassed the previous Lucifer, no, it wouldn't be too much to say you've completely dwarfed the ranking of Satan." Hades said.
"That is what I would like to know." Sirzechs said. "In any case, the current me can eliminate you."
"Fafafa, that doesn't sound like a joke." Hades laughed.
Suddenly a teleportation circle flared to life between the two and the Vali team emerged from it, attacking the reapers relentlessly with Gogmagog and Fenrir at their side, though Vali himself wasn't with them. Hades turned to Azazel. "Was this your doing?"
"Hrm, nope, they're acting on their own." Azazel responded coyly. Which was true, the Vali Team had appeared all on their own accord.
"Grrh!" Hades growled.
"Now you can't leave here." Sirzechs said. "If you leave here, we will overrun the Realm of the Dead, so choose...stay here and fight us and maybe half of your reapers and you die, or leave, and lose the Realm of the Dead to us."
"Tch, I'd rather not have to owe that arrogant Shinigami a favor...so..." Hades thought.
Sirzechs went on. "The hostility you've directed at my sister, her servant and my brother in law will require your death, so prepare yourself, I will not hold back nor hesitate."
"Don't forget you old bag of bones, I'm pissed at you too. It's my own personal hatred, but I will say this. Don't ever make my assistant or my students cry!" Azazel shouts pointing a spear of light at him.
(break)
With Kenshin.
Kenshin and his group proceeded toward the battlefield when they were joined by Yasaka. "Ah! Yasaka-Sama I was wondering when you were showing up."
"I was on my way out of my door when you four came." Yasaka said. "Come on. We've got work to do."
"Hey Kenshin-Sama, why aren't you with Issei-Sama and the others? !" Kunou, who was on Yasaka's back said.
"I made a decision. To go to Makai and help the Youkai fight homunculi or to come here." Kenshin said.
"So you were helping us? I-I'm sorry for berating you then." Kunou said.
"Hahaha, it's quite alright." Kenshin said.
They arrived on the battlefield and found two of the Bandersnatches. "There they are." Yasaka said.
"Alright ladies and me as the gentleman, it's time to work for a living." Kenshin said. "Yasaka-Sama, take the one on the right, We'll handle the one of the left."
"Right!" Yasaka said. "Don't forget the Kyoto Youkai are here too. If you need to tag out do so."
"We'll keep it in mind!" Granberia said as they split up from Yasaka who proceeded to transform into her fox form.
"Alright ladies." Kenshin said with a growing smirk as he used Serene Conqueror to agro the Bandersnatch onto him. He was pushed on the back by Erubetie. "What is it?"
"I think one of us should head into the city to assist with the evacuation, and seeing as you're underpowered at the moment, it should be you." Erubetie said.
Kenshin's expression became deflated. "Really?"
"She has a point Kenshin-Chan. At this moment you're not the King who reincarnated us." Alma said.
"There will be other battles." Granberia said. "We are fighting a war back home after all."
"Erg...fine." Kenshin said. "But before I go, Erubetie, permission to promote granted, I may not presently be your King, but for whatever reason I still need to give you permission."
"Right." Erubetie nodded. Kenshin nodded back and left. "Promotion: Knight."
Her slime extended outward quickly and held the Bandersnatch to the ground as it tried to pursue Kenshin. "You know, I think the spirits totally like him, even if some of them won't admit it right now." Alma giggled.
"I think so too, Undine couldn't believe her ears when I told her who brought me back." Erubetie said.
"Seems we weren't the only one's recently resurrected." Granberia said, tapping Ares against her shoulder plate. "Salamander told me he was dead. Anyway, shall we get started?"
"Sure." Alma said.
"Slime Partisan!" Erubetie shouts as several partisan spears created from her slime shot forward and stabbed into the Bandersnatch.
"Blaze!" Granberia said as she held Ares at the ready, flames licking up and down it. "Vaporizing Rebellion Sword! !" She charged forward cutting multiple stars into the Bandersnatch's body.
"Shamshir." Alma said extending her hand as a violet burst of wind cut into the beasts shoulder.
Meanwhile Kenshin was well into the Capitol City, Lilith. "Hm?" He looked down and saw a bus full of people being protected by the Sitri peerage. He flew in to give them a hand when he saw Sona was knocked to the ground. A giant man was about to stomp on her back. "Touki!" Kenshin exclaimed as he picked up speed.
"? !" Heracles, who was about to stomp on Sona's back was confused when she disappeared. "What the? !"
"Are you alright?" Kenshin asked, concern showing in his eyes.
"Y-Yes..." Sona said. She peeled her eyes. "...K...Kenshin?" She asked.
"Yeah." Kenshin said. "What's going on here? Why are you getting into a fight with the Hero Faction?
"That bus has people in it, we're protecting it from the Hero Faction." Sona said.
"I see. So they're in on this, lovely." Kenshin said with an eye roll.
"Where have you been?" Sona asked.
"Makai. The Youkai needed help, I provided it. I'll explain later." Kenshin said.
"Why does your signature feel...off?" Sona asked.
"It's actually some sort of wonky seal, it kicked my evil pieces out." Kenshin said. "Next thing I knew, I was a demon again."
"Oh." Sona said. "Well, thank you for the assist, but we can..."
"Nah, I wanna punch that big guy, Heracles was it?" Kenshin said. "I owe him a fist to the face after what he did to Yukari and Miyuki in Kyoto and there's the whole stomping on your back thing. See ya."
"Wai-!" Sona said. "Haa..." She sighed. "What's so special about me that's making him mad at that Heracles character?"
"Hahaha, so you defeated one of the Five Dragon Kings even though you're inexp-!" Heracles was cut off as he was punched into a building by Kenshin.
"? !" Georg and Jeanne both let out a gasp.
"Hey, I was going to take him!" Yukari snapped.
The hooded Kenshin took out a smoke, lit it, inhaled and exhaled. "Haa...my bad Yukari, I just had to get this quiver in my body to stop, and that seems to have done it." He said. "Alright, now that it's settled, I need to go." Kenshin took off.
"Was that...who I thought it was?" Rias asked with wide eyes.
"Yes, but it's strange." Tamamo said.
"What is?" Kazumi asked.
"Kenshin's body is giving off the same feeling as it did back when he was a Youkai." Tamamo said.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Yukari asked.
"It means Kenshin's not a Devil anymore, he's a Youkai." Tamamo said.
The conversation would have continued has Heracles not come out of the building Kenshin had slugged him into. "Grh? ! Where the hell is the bastard who hit me?"
"Sorry, but he's busy." Yukari said drawing her swords. "But I'm available to kick several shades of shit out of you." She said assuming Elemental Overdrive.
"Haa!" Georg shouts, firing off a huge fireball at Yukari.
"I don't think so!" Kiba said cutting it to pieces with Gram while his Dragon Knight troopers carried Saji and Tsubaki away from the battlefield.
"Tell me you gigantic stack of crap, where is Neishin right now?" Yukari said.
"Neishin is with our leader, not that you'll get to him!" Heracles shouts firing a missile at Yukari's head
"Of course I will, because you won't stall me here" Yukari said, cutting the missile into four pieces. "Hmph...missile indeed." She said with a smirk.
"I'm sorry we couldn't be of more help." Tsubaki said to Kiba.
"It's quite alright. We have some pretty big axes to grind with these three, and what they were just doing to you, Saji-kun and Sona-kaichou just added onto that." Kiba said. "So take a breather and get healed."
A red hue appeared on Tsubaki's face as she nodded. "Very well..." She said closing her eyes. "Good luck."
Kiba nodded and turned to the three Hero Faction members as Xenovia stepped forward. "I heard what happened to Issei and Kenshin, I've also had Durandal reforged again. It would be bad if I didn't go for a test run with it."
"I've received something good from Heaven too!" Irina said taking out a familiar feeling sword.
"A holy demonic sword? So the researchers in Heaven finally completed it huh?" Evangeline asked.
"Yeah, I owe this person some payback for Kyoto." Irina said pointing her sword at Jeanne.
"Ara, then might I join in?" Akeno said as multiple sets of black wings shot out of her back as two bracelets on her wrists glew
"Fine Fine." Yukari said.
"So many numbers against us. And that fallen angel woman seems to know about 'that' did Siegfried use it before he died? Oh well, it doesn't matter. Balance Break!" Jeanne announced going into her Balance Breaker.
"Come on then." Yukari said gesturing her swords to herself a couple of times as a dragon made of swords appeared behind her.
Xenovia stepped forward. "This Ex Durandal has the abilities of all seven Excaliburs, if I were to master it, I would obtain an even greater power."
"Yes, if she were to master it, it would be enough to even take on Cao Cao's Balance Breaker." Kiba thought.
"Though, I am dumb so even though I gained new techniques. I won't be able to use them. So it should just be enough with destructive powers." Xenovia said as she slashed her sword downward, creating a large crater.
"..." Kiba stared at Xenovia in disappointment. Something that was not lost on the bluenette.
"Kiba, you thought I was just a power idiot just now didn't you? Even if I am, the one who should specialize in techniques should be enough with only you." Xenovia said. "Even then we're allies with a few jacks of all trades in Kenshin and his sisters."
"Gaah! We won't always be able to rely on them though! I seriously need to talk to Chief about raising another technique type!" Kiba thought.
"A man who goes through the most hardship. Yuuto Kiba..." Koneko said.
"I kinda feel sorry for you kid, I really do." Evangeline stated.
"Th...Thanks." Kiba said with a sweatdrop.
"In any case, I'll join in, Hikari, come with me, I want to observe your use of Magia Erebea first hand." Evangeline said.
"Right." Hikari said.
"Huu huu huu! Come on then follow me!" Jeanne said as she and her dragon took off toward the roofs.
"Oh no you don't!" Hikari shouts flying at it, a dark aura surrounding her. A clash between her and the dragon caused an explosion of flames.
"She's acclimating well and using the Incendium Gehennae spell, but better not let her get ahead of me." Evangeline said taking off with Akeno, Xenovia and Irina.
Kiba turned to Georg. "So, what is it you're doing here exactly?"
"More or less sight seeing." Georg said. "We wanted to see how far Leonardo's monsters could go. We were quite surprised when the biggest one was brought back to us on the edge of death. Kenshin Kuroshi must have really did a number on it with his Juggernaut Drive." Georg stated. "Other than that, we just wanted to look around."
"Then where's Cao Cao?" Tamamo said.
"Somewhere else. Anyway. I saw that bus with the Sitri group on it and wanted to challenge Vritra." Georg said. "We even threatened to destroy the bus if he refused."
Kiba glared, but Yukari snorted. "Kenshin was right, your organization is a pathetic sham."
"Only in the eyes of Devils." Georg replied.
"No, she's right. Even amongst the a gathering of heroes, there is scum amongst them." Everyone looked over seeing a golden furred lion carrying none other than Sairaorg.
"Sairarorg!" Rias said.
"Glad to see you could make it, and I was pleasantly surprised to see Kenshin here as well. Using Touki no less!" Sairaorg laughed.
"Ah yes, according to our reports from Neishin, Kenshin Kuroshi had been stirring up trouble in Makai for about a month now." Georg said. "Of course he played it off as if he was dead to provoke you I gather." He glanced at Yukari and Miyuki.
"Makai? !/A month? !" Tamamo and Rias both shout.
"Yes. Time flows oddly between there and here. A day here for a week there. Odd because a day in Mundus Magicus, Kenshin's former homeworld, equates to two days in Makai." Georg stated.
"Oh...that explains it I guess..." Rias said with a pondering look.
"Gaahh..." Yukari grunted and passed Miyuki a couple hundred yen notes.
"Hehehe." Miyuki giggled coyly and stashed them away.
"According to Neishin it was quite fortunate because the Youkai Revolution was losing a lot of ground to Forbesii-Dono's armies." Georg said.
"Tch! So the ceasefire ended." Tamamo scowled.
"Also according to Neishin's report, the Dragon Knight Granberia, Slime Queen Erubetie and Succubus Queen Alma Elma all lost their lives in that assault." Georg said
"? !" Tamamo's eyes went wide with shock and dread.
"But, were apparently revived, I'm guess before he returned to being a demon, he added the three of them into his peerage." Georg said.
"He's right, there are three extra names added into my database. I would have mentioned it sooner, but we needed to focus on our task at hand." Chachamaru said.
"Your database updates when Kenshin makes an addition to his peerage?" Kazumi asked.
"Yes." Chachamaru said. "In fact, they're in battle right now against one of the Bandersnatch."
"She's right." Kazumi said looking at the screens from one of her droids.
Heracles who had been relatively silent turned to Sairaorg. "Ah, I know you. You're that talentless next heir to the Bael clan, who was born without the power of destruction. I hear you can fight only with your body and nothing else, hahaha! This is the first I'm hearing of such an unreasonable devil!" Heracles laughed.
"..." Sairaorg looked over at him. "Hn...how strange..."
"My power?" Heracles said. "It is gre-"
"No, how is it you're still standing after one punch from Kenshin Kuroshi's fists? The elements themselves hurt, but with Touki they should have blown a hole clean through you." Sairaorg said crossing his arms.
"Kenshin doesn't have the ability to use the elements right now." Yukari said. "He's been in Makai for a month, but didn't see fit to reunite with the spirits."
"Huh, that's unfortunate." Sairaorg said with a shrug. "I guess he's just been grinding it out with his Touki then."
"Hee? I had heard that you got into a slugfest with the Sekiryuutei and the Dragon of the Elements. What a loser." Heracles said.
"Are you just going to talk?" Sairaorg said sliding into a stance and using Touki. "At least when Kenshin talks trash it can be interesting, but you...no."
"If I remember correctly, the hero whose soul I have inherited defeated the spirit of your Sacred Gear. So it should be good for me to take you out, to honor his legacy." Heracles said with a smirk.
"Not going to use it. Won't need it." Sairaorg said.
"Is that right? ! Well come on then!" Heracles shouts grabbing Sairaorg's arms and begins an explosive attack barrage.
"Hn, so this is it?" Sairaorg said.
"Saira-!" Kiba went to shout when Yukari held her arm out. "Yukari-San?"
"It's OK." Yukari said.
Proving her right, Sairaorg emerged without a scratch after Heracles exploded the ground in front of him. "...Is that all?" Sairaorg said with a semi bored expression.
"Don't underestimate me you shitty devil!" Heracles said.
"Underestimate what?" Sairaorg said walking toward him slowly. "I had hoped for a challenge from you, being the inheritor of the original Heracles' soul, but it seems my expectations have been betrayed yet again."
"!" Heracles' eyes widened as Sairaorg appears right in front of him.
"Now it's my turn." Sairaorg said.
"! !" Heracles doubles over as Sairaorg punches him in the stomach while a force shot out of his back, destroying a wall behind him.
"These attacks of yours, cannot defeat me." Sairaorg said pulling his fist out while Heracles knelt down and start to spit up globs of blood.
"Grrh! Don't screw with me! You damn shitty devil! You can't use demonic power, you don't use your Sacred Gear, with one normal punch...!" Heracles invoked his own Balance Breaker and shot a missile right at Sairaorg's face.
"Hmph!" Sairaorg batted it away casually. Yukari sprung up and slashed it to bits.
"Grrrrrhh!" Heracles growled and fired countless barrages of missiles at the Bael heir.
"..." Sairaorg batted them all away and they were blocked or outright destroyed by Yukari, Miyuki, Tamamo, Chachamaru and Rossweisse.
"That's impressive Rossweisse, did you learn those magics from home?" Miyuki asked.
"Yes, I focused on the defensive attributes of the Rook piece during my training mainly." Rossweisse said. "I mean, what good is a magic cannon if it gets taken out?" She asked.
"Good point." Tamamo said.
Sextum checked on the children they were defending. "Are you all OK?"
"Uh huh, thanks big sis." They all said.
"Hmhmhm." Sextum laughed calmly to herself.
"Do your best Lion-San! Like you did against Oppai Dragon and Lust Dragon!" The children cheered.
"Heh." Sairaorg gave them a two fingered salute before turning back to Heracles. "You know it's quite nice, being cheered on by children, isn't it Hyoudou Issei." Sairaorg said.
"Don't get so cocky because you're being cheered on!" Heracles said. "Guhh!" He grunted as Sairaorg started attacking him relentlessly.
"Those who can't even get cheers from children shouldn't call themselves a hero!" Sairaorg said.
"What is...this punch? !" Heracles exclaimed.
Sairaorg let up as Heracles looked up at him with a despairing look. He took out a pistol injection device and a vial of Phoenix Tears, but he hesitated to use them. "What's wrong? If you use that, you could recover and get stronger couldn't you?"
"? !" Kiba looked over at Sairaorg. "O-Oi! If he uses that, there's no telling how strong he'll get!"
"...D...Daaaammmmnnn Yooouu! !" Heracles roared throwing the two items on the ground and charging Sairaorg madly.
"I see...you've regained your pride as a hero." Sairaorg said blocking his fist with his left arm while his right was coated in Touki. "Go down with this punch."
"Guh...!" Heracles was lifted off the ground with Sairaorg's punch before falling in defeat.
Meanwhile Akeno struck Jeanne's dragon with her holy lightning while Hikari flew past her, focusing dark flames into her fist. "Dark Flame Profusion!" She shouts as the flames explode out of her fist and strike the dragon, making it recoil. Irina meanwhile made a beeline for Jeanne herself who had went into the Chaos Drive.
Evangeline waved her hands around and brought them together. Suddenly the sword dragon slammed down onto a roof. "Xenovia! It's all ready for you!" Evangeline said.
"Right." Xenovia said slashing Ex Durandal downward, unleashing it's full might on the sword dragon.
"Damn you!" Jeanne shouts as she was driven back by Irina.
"Sorry I'm not such east prey this time!" Irina said as she twisted her sword and slashed, pushing Jeanne back.
Evangeline watched this with an approving nod, until he felt a burst of power from below. "Hm?" She looked down to see Gasper facing down Georg. Suddenly the area where the Gremory and Kuroshi peerage was obscured in darkness. "Whoa, hey Hikari I gotta step out for a moment!"
"Fine! I've got this!" Hikari said punching the sword dragon right on the nose.
Evangeline flew down toward the darkness, but what stunned when it repelled her. "The hell? ! I'm being kept out? !" She narrowed her eyes. "...You didn't know did you? That Issei got taken out? Haa...I get it now...you're angry. This wouldn't be the first time a student of mine flew off into a fit of rage."
In the dark void everyone looked around, except for Gasper looked around. "Everything gone..?" Yukari said.
"Yeah, my cameras are even going through interference right now." Kazumi said.
The sound of a vial being dropped was heard as Gasper walked forward. "Lets see you get out of this...you piece of filth."
"!" Georg stepped back hesitantly.
"So, his power was released by heard about the deaths of the Sekiryuutei and Kenshin, though he should know now that Kenshin is alive." Sairaorg said.
"Did...Gasper's family kick him out, not because of the Forbidden Balor View, but because they...feared him?" Rias asked with wide eyes.
"Wh-What is this? ! This isn't magic, this isn't a Sacred Gear, how did you break my magic circle? !" Georg exclaimed.
"We are inside an extension of my body, your magic...has been devoured." Gasper said as numerous red eyes opened and glared at Georg. "Your magic, your Sacred Gear...it's all useless here..."
"No...No that can't be! !" Georg shouts, firing off every attack he could think of, but they were all blocked by the eyes, and devoured in darkness.
"Ku...! My magics and my mist really are useless...screw this!" Georg said turning and running away.
Ryuuga stabbed into his right leg, knocking him down. He turned and saw Yukari, who had thrown the blade into his leg. "You..."
"This is a battlefield." Yukari said crossing her arms with an impassive gaze. "You dare try and step onto the field of battle with such pitiful resolve? You're pathetic!" She shouts.
"Yes, he is..." Gasper said.
"Shut up! You're both nothing but the pets of your betters! Mere beasts that exist only to serve, never fit to call themselves my bett-!" Georg shouts angrily.
"SILENCE! !" Gasper roared.
"!" Georg was shocked still.
"...We're pets? Then you're pet food." Gasper said as the darkness began to cover Georg...devouring him. "...As a hero you were just a pathetic piece of shit...now you're less than that."
"Gasper..." Rias said.
"Hnn..." Gasper's knees buckled as the darkness receded. Evangeline flew down and caught him as he fell forward. "Nnn...?"
"You managed to burn it out." Evangeline said. "That's good, the next step is controlling your power after ingesting Virgin's blood."
"Haan...thanks." Gasper said.
"Hey!" Hikari shouts from above. "You coward!"
Jeanne had grabbed a child and was now holding him hostage. "Huhuhu, you're all fighting me four and five against one at times. Who is the real coward here?"
"This is a battle, you chose to fight us despite this." Akeno said with a glare.
"Yeah, now let the kid go and take your beating!" Irina shouts.
The child himself didn't look at all scared. Something that Xenovia and Jeanne noticed. "The child's brave I'll give him that." Xenovia thought.
"Hmm? You don't seem scared boy, you know what kind of situation you're in right?" Jeanne said.
"Yes, but it won't matter, because the Oppai Dragon will be here soon." He said.
"Huhuhu, sorry to say, but he won't be. He's dead." Jeanne said.
"He's not, he came to me in a dream, and I was even saved by the Lust Dragon earlier, even though he was sick." The lad said.
"Sick?" Hikari asked.
"He said this while smiling widely. 'Don't ya know the hero is always late?'" The lad said. "That's why I'm not scared...he'll come." He raises his hand and starts drawing a circle, suddenly the Oppai Dragon starts to play.
"!" Everyone looks up and a tear in space rips open high in the sky.
"..." Kenshin, who had long since taken his hood down looks up. "Hn, looks like something's coming, but what?" He ducked under an attack from an Old Satan supporter and stabbed them in the throat.
"Ara?" Alma said looking at the sky. "What's going on up there?"
"Not sure." Granberia said stabbing the Bandersnatch in the chest and driving it to the ground. "Erubetie!"
"Right." Erubetie said covering the beast in her slime and restraining it. "Whenever you're ready Yasaka-San."
"Give me a moment!" Yasaka said.
Kenshin meanwhile turned to the family he was protecting. "Hey, come on time to go!"
"R-Right, thank you Kuroshi-Sama!" The parents said.
"Thanks Lust Dragon!" The children said.
"Yeah Yeah Yeah, just go!" Kenshin said.
A communication circle came up next to his face. "Kenshin, we need some help over here!" Grayfia said.
"What's the problem?" Kenshin asked.
"The Jabberwocky, the largest of these beasts is forcing us back. We could use a fresh body to distract it." Grayfia said.
"Alright, I'm on my way. My friends are tying up one of the Bandersnatch at the moment and if they leave it'll just get back up." Kenshin said.
Kenshin jumped into the air and took off. He found the Jabberwocky and used Serene Conqueror on it while shouting. "Hey you Six Eyed Jackass! Eyes up here!"
"!" The Jabberwocky focused on him.
"Yo partner, need a hand? You don't exactly have the luxury of asking the spirits for help right now." Yuurei said.
"No." Kenshin said shaking his head. "There's too many people around that can't be pulled back."
"Erg...alright." Yuurei said with a disappointed tone.
Kenshin took out his naginata and started spinning it, he was about to attack when a gigantic red fist roared by him. "What the fuck? !" He said seeing a gigantic armored red dragon next to him. Ophis moved next to him.
"Stand back." Ophis said.
"What, why?" Kenshin said.
"Just do it." Ophis said.
"..." Kenshin moved back, only for Ophis to stab her hand through his stomach. "Wh-at...?" He said.
"Relax, it's a gift from Great Red." Ophis said.
"Uuurrraaaahhh! !" Kenshin roared as a tendril shot out of his back and the Black Dragon of Destruction appeared underneath him and grew to the size of the red dragon next to him. Yuurei's armor coated the dragon at the next moment.
"Oh bad ass!" Yuurei said. "Tell Huge Red I said thanks!"
"It's Great Red!" Kenshin snapped at Yuurei.
"Oi Kenshin, you made it! Did you take care of what you needed to take care of? !" Issei asked.
"Wha? !" Kenshin said with a shocked look. "Issei? ! What the hell man? ! You're huge! By the way, no I haven't!"
"Ah, well what are you doin' here?" Issei shouts. "This is a power up from Great Red, you've received it too. We're the same size."
"I'll explain later, first we need to deal with this." Kenshin said as he slashed Kuroi Jigoku outward, transforming it into Zanryuu. "What's the play here?"
"Well, let's just try to brute force it to start." Issei said. "Get those elements ready."
"Can't use them." Kenshin said.
"What? !" Issei shouts.
"Relax, that doesn't mean I'm entirely useless." Kenshin said.
"Yeah titty dragon." Yuurei said through the dragon itself.
"Yuurei, this increase in size must have had a proportional increase in power because we can mold more of it, try and create more than one of those lances." Kenshin said tossing Zanryuu to him
"Right." Yuurei said. Several lances appear in his hands. "Sweet!"
"Alright, on your mark." Kenshin said to Issei.
"Kenshin, Issei, if this thing gets past us and into the city, there will be casualties." Ddraig said.
"I know, we can't lose here." Issei said.
"I've been fighting in a war, I know about this sort of thing." Kenshin said. "We'll kick this thing in the ass and carry on."
"If it moves it dies, if it dies, you move on." Yuurei said with a smirk.
Issei fired off a bunch of Dragon Shots while Yuurei and Kenshin lobbed the Destruction Lances at the Jabberwocky. They went off engulfing the beast in a massive blaze, but when the dust cleared, it was still standing, wounded, but standing. "!" Issei and Kenshin's eyes widened as it gathered up a dangerous amount of flames.
"Shit! We need to get ready to counter!" Issei said.
"No, I have this!" Kenshin said jumping out of Yuurei's armor and hovering above the Black Dragon of Destruction as it moved forward.
"Kenshin, what are you doing? !" Issei said. "That thing's still building up strength!"
"Relax!" Kenshin said as he and Yuurei flew at the Jabberwocky.
As soon as it exhaled it's great flame, Kenshin's left eye glew brightly. "Yume Shouheki!" (A/N: Dream Barrier.)
A gigantic barrier flared to life in between them blocking the attack. "Get ready!" Kenshin grunted.
"Right!" Yuurei said taking out another couple of lances and ramming them through the barrier and into the Jabberwocky's mouth.
The two jumped back and Yuurei detonated the lances in the beast's mouth. "Tag out!" Kenshin said turning to Issei while his left eye bled.
"Right!" Issei shouts flying forward and punching the Jabberwocky in the face.
The Jabberwocky was undaunted by the punch and it's eyes started glowing. Kenshin turned to Issei. "Fly up!"
Issei nodded and the two flew upward making the Jabberwocky's eyes followed them. "Split up, now!"
Kenshin and Issei split apart as lasers fired out of the Jabberwocky's eyes and detonated in the air. "Whew...good thing we didn't let that hit anywhere." Issei said.
"Yeah no kidding." Kenshin said.
"Oi." Ddraig said.
"Yuurei's Obituary, You Blast 'em We Past 'em." Yuurei said.
"Ugh..." Kenshin facepalmed. "What is it Ddraig?"
"Great Red has an attack in mind that can defeat this monster, but it's risky." Ddraig said. "You'll have to get that thing in the air. It's received enough damage that it should work."
"Leave it to me." Kenshin said. "Just get the attack ready. Yuurei, let's go do something profoundly stupid."
"As long as it's with you partner." Yuurei said with a swoony voice.
"Ugh..." Kenshin facepalmed again. "Alright, Iseei Get that attack ready, I'll run distraction."
"Right!" Issei watched as Kenshin flew ahead of him. "So what's the attack?"
"The forbidden attack, Longinus Smasher." Ddraig said.
"E-Eh? Didn't one of the Senpais use that to blast Shalba to hell and back?" Issei asked.
"Yes, and with Great Red's power we should be able to obliterate that thing." Ddraig said. "Just wait until Kenshin is clear."
"Right." Issei said.
Meanwhile while they were talking, Kenshin had a communication circle come up next to him. "Kenshin, what's the plan, and who is that dragon? An ally of yours?" Grayfia asked.
"Issei, the dragon I'm fighting alongside has an attack that will wreck that thing." Kenshin said.
"Issei's back as well? Oh that's good. So what are you doing?" Grayfia asked.
"Issei has an attack that can defeat that thing, but we need to get the beast in the air. It must have a wide radius of attack." Kenshin said.
"Ah, I see. That's simple to understand." Grayfia said. "Will you be needing any assistance?"
"Any help would be greatly appreciated." Kenshin said.
"Very well. Souji, cut off one of it's legs!" Grayfia ordered
"Yes ma'am." Souji, a samurai took off toward the monster and in a second, the Jabberwocky's fore leg was cut off. It started to grow back as a massive magic circle appeared underneath.
"Now, everyone! !" Grayfia ordered as they started blasting it from underneath with magic, forcing it upward.
"Now!" Kenshin said as he flew above the Jabberwocky and Yuurei stabbed two lances into it's shoulders.
"Your ass is coming with us!" Yuurei shouts.
The Black Dragon of Destruction flaps it's wings and starts flying upward, using the lances to put the Jabberwocky in range, facing Issei.
"Alright Yuurei, on three." Kenshin said grabbing the tendril in his neck.
"One!" Yuurei said.
"Two." Ophis said grabbing Kenshin's wrist.
"Three!" Kenshin said as the Longinus Smasher fired at the same time as Kenshin ripped the tendril out and started taking off. "Shitshitshitshitshitshit!" Kenshin cursed. Ophis brought out her own set of wings and helped lower them to the ground safely. "Whew..." Kenshin sighed. "Thanks."
Ophis then punched him in the face. "That's for leaving me with Great Red."
"I'm sorry, but I wanted someone to be there that Issei knew." Kenshin said rubbing his nose.
"That's no excuse." Ophis said.
"Aaaiiigghhh..." Kenshin said rubbing his temples.
"In any case, you did manage to keep your promise in the end so..." Ophis reached over and set her hand on his nose. "There, I've healed you."
"Thanks." Kenshin said. He picked her up and placed her on his back. "Here."
"..." Ophis set her chin on his shoulder and looked forward. "Comfortable..." She said.
Kenshin jumped until he got up to Issei who was in his Balance Breaker. "Issei, how's the new body treating you?"
"Fine actually." Issei shrugged.
Kenshin nodded and they took off back for Lilith. Kenshin got in touch with Alma. "Alma, how is everything going?"
"The Kyoto Youkai are handling that beast we tied down. We're on our way into the capitol." Alma said. "What about you?"
"Some dude named Issei and I just took out the big one that the Lucifer group was fighting." Kenshin said.
"Ara? So these things can be defeated by us." Alma said.
"Yeah you just need wholesale destruction to prevent them from regenerating." Kenshin said. "Erubetie! Do me a favor and pass that on!"
"Yes Kenshin." Erubetie said.
Kenshin and Issei looked up as Great Red started to leave, saying something that shocked Issei and Ddraig. "Zoom Zoom Iyaan...Zoom Zoom Iyaan..."
"N-No way, even Great Red's saying it? !" Issei blanched.
"I heard nothing! I am omitting that from my brain right now!" Ddraig wailed.
"Pffttt! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! !" Kenshin laughed. "Oh man! No way, the Red Dragon God Emperor's doing it now!"
"Zoom Zoom Iyaann..." Ophis said.
"Oh god I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" Kenshin laughed with tears in his eyes. "This! This is the best thing ever!"
"Shut the hell up Kenshin! !" Issei shouts as the three flew toward Lilith.
"West..." Ophis said.
"?" Kenshin and Issei both looked at her curiously.
"The ones known as Shidou Irina and Asia Argento are there." Ophis said.
"Oh!" Issei said. "Right I need to get there quick, come on Kenshin!"
"Yeah Yeah." Kenshin said.
"There's still trouble." Issei said. "Ddraig says there's still Old Satan members causing trouble or maybe it's the Hero Faction."
"Alright." Kenshin shrugged. "I definitely saw Hero Faction cronies fighting Sona's peerage, even saved her so maybe they're still not dealt with.
The two flew toward the west end of Lilith and landed. "Everyone, I'm back!"
"?" The Gremory and Kuroshi peerages looked at him oddly.
"Maybe they don't recognize you." Ddraig suggested.
Issei took off his helmet and everyone let out a gasp. "Issei!"
"Yeah, and look who I found running around." Issei said pushing the now hoodless Kenshin forward.
"Running around? I just helped you and the Lucifer group wipe out the Jabberwocky!" Kenshin snapped comically.
Everyone crowded around them, except for Evangeline and Jeanne who the former kept an eye on. "Issei-San! Issei-San! Issei-San!" Asia cried out, embracing him.
"I'm not crying at all, I knew the man I chose wouldn't die!" Xenovia shouts at Irina with tears flowing down her face.
"As if! You're obviously crying, I'll do it without holding back!" She said embracing Issei's side.
"I-It's good to have you back, Issei..." Sextum said wiping her eyes. "...Aw what the hell!" She embracing his other side.
"I'm amazed to see you back, you have a body under all that armor right?" Rossweisse asked.
"Yeah, a lot of things happened in the dimensional gap and I have a regular body now." Issei said. "I figured that would be obvious with my face and all."
"Oh! S-Sorry." Rossweisse said.
"Yeah and apparently the same thing happened with Kenshin here, he was just first." Issei said pointing at Kenshin.
"Gee, sorry Ophis just knows me better." Kenshin rolled his eyes.
(Smack!)
Kenshin and Issei turned to Saji who was crying. "You jackasses, I heard you both died so I..." He kept crying.
"Kenshin-kun." Kenshin turned to Tsubaki. "I would like to thank you for saving Sona-Kaichou."
"Well, I wasn't about to let that hulkish bastard stomp on her." Kenshin said with a grin.
Sona, standing next to Tsubaki, had her face flush a bit at his expression. "Yes, well...thank you again." She said adjusting her glasses.
"Hey Kenshin, thanks for freeing me up earlier so I could come here." Sairaorg said.
"Yeah Yeah..." Kenshin said. "Eh?" He said as Akeno hugged his arm. "Wha?"
"Please don't leave me again, I don't want to be in a world without you again." Akeno said, tears in her eyes.
"Sure thing." Kenshin said with a grin.
"Onii-Chan, it's great to have you back!" Miyuki said slapping him on the back.
"Please try not to do that again will you..." Hikari sighed.
"Hey Kenshin, where have you been exactly?" Kazumi asked.
"..." Chachamaru stared at him with an analytical gaze.
"Kenshin." Kenshin turned to Rias who was staring at him with tears flowing down her face. She stepped forward and embraced him. "I'm...I'm so glad you've returned...you and Issei both."
"..." Kenshin embraced her. "I'm sorry it took me so long getting back, but a promise is a promise isn't it?" He asked with a smile.
"Yes...thank you." Rias said stepping back, wiping her eyes with a smile.
"So what's been up?" Kazumi asked.
"Hang on." Kenshin said disappearing and reappearing with the devil child and an unconscious Jeanne. "She was trying to get away." Kenshin said.
"I was about to handle that." Issei said.
"Good, you can carry her." Kenshin said passing Jeanne off to Issei.
"So you can't use the elements?" Yukari asked.
"Nope. At least not very effectively." Kenshin said.
"A month ago, I arrived in Makai and helped beat away an army of the Demon King's homunculus forces. A week after that we were attacked again. Then after that attack we liberated one of the Lesser Demon Queens, the Ant Demon Queen I believe." Kenshin said.
"She was stuck in Grangold deep in Homunculus territory, how did you pull it off?" Tamamo said with wide eyes.
"That will have to wait for later." Kenshin said. "In the second attack we were attacked by another homunculus force led by a masked man. Akatama-San tells me the guy got the drop on me and applied a seal to me that basically took all the devil mana out of my system, when it wasn't present the evil pieces left my body." He said holding out his pieces. "I've tried putting them back, but the seal just kicks them out again."
"..." Yukari stared at him. "After this will you allow me to look at your seal?"
"Sure." Kenshin nodded. "Anyway, we're still on the clock here so have your reunion with Issei here and let's be on our way."
As everyone did so, Kenshin looked around. When his eyes landed back on Rias he noticed a figure behind her wielding a claymore. "Get down!" He shoved her away and was slashed down the chest for his trouble. "Guuhh!"
"Good reaction there, Kenshin."
"? !" Yukari turned and slashed at his neck. "Neishin!"
"Heheheh." Neishin dragonified his arm and caught the blade.
"You...Luka..." Kenshin growled. "Traitor!" He shouts punching Neishin in the face with enough force to crack his mask. He jumped back and took to the sky.
"Luka? !" Tamamo said with wide eyes.
"You know, I'm actually kind of glad you've defied death again." Luka called out, the sunlight revealing purple hair and cat ears as well as red eyes while the rest of him resembled Kenshin greatly, shocking everyone except Tamamo. "Because if you hadn't, then Forbesii would have taken something he promised to me. Your head, Kenshin!" He said with a wide smirk.
"So that's why you were calling yourself Neishin, you betrayed the Revolution! A Revolution I might add, that you helped start!" Tamamo shouts.
"Do forgive me, but my freedom from him comes first and foremost." Luka said pointing at Kenshin.
"Grh!" Kenshin growled. "You coward, you couldn't face me like a man so you go running to Forbesii."
"You had something that I lacked, so I needed to get it, now it seems...I have something that you now lack." Luka said with a smirk.
"Was it worth it though? Was it worth betraying the woman you loved, who loved you?" Kenshin asked. "Ask yourself that if you do leave here."
"...Oh, I will leave here...count on that." Luka said extending his hand, shooting a large fireball at him.
"Rrgh!" Yukari stepped in front of him and batted it skyward. "You bastard...I said I'd kill you, and I SHALL!" The Scale Mail that she was wearing shattered and the jewels sunk into her skin. Her clothes burning off until a makeshift top and shorts were all that remained as her hair burned brightly.
"You're kidding..." Kenshin said with wide eyes. "Yukari can already use the Vessel?"
"You're finished!" Yukari shouts taking off at a blistering pace and punching him in the stomach
"Hahahaha..." Luka laughed the blow off. "Are you really going to fight me Yukari?"
"Onii-Chan!" Miyuki said running up to him.
"Grh...something's wrong." Kenshin said. "I can't heal."
"So you came back by borrowing Ophis' power and using Great Red's flesh...truly the power to attract the strong is remarkable." A voice said from below Luka as he fought Yukari. Everyone looked on ahead finding Cao Cao.
"Cao Cao!" Issei growled. "Chief, I'll be needing those pieces back, then Kenshin needs to be healed somehow. I know the feeling of what he was struck with all too well. That sword's probably got Samael's blood on it."
"Just enough for one use!" Luka quipped. "Not that I'll need it here."
"Fuck you!" Issei and Yukari shout as the latter slashes him away.
"Right." Rias said holding out the pieces that then levitated toward him. "Don't you go dying on us again, either of you."
"I ain't got any plans on dying today." Kenshin said.
"Same here." Issei said.
Rias nodded as the pieces sunk into Issei's chest. Issei felt a rush of power. "Besides, how am I to become the Harem King and the Ultimate Pawn if I'm dead!" He stepped forward. "Cao Cao, I'll be your opponent."
Before either could move a creepy, deathlike aura washed over the area. Suddenly, the Ultimate class Reaper, Pluto landed next to Cao Cao. Cao Cao sighed in response. "What brings you here?"
"Lord Hades still wants to capture Ophis. That is all I'm here for." Pluto said.
"Grhh..." Kenshin forced himself upward. "Not, on my watch. You aren't taking Ophis without going through me!"
"...?" Ophis glanced at Kenshin. "Is this his way of making up for leaving me with Great Red, or would he have done this regardless?" Ophis wondered.
"Stand down Kuroshi Kenshin, you're in no shape to fight here."
"Vali!" Miyuki said as the Hakuryuukou appeared next to Kenshin in his Balance Breaker.
"Hakuryuukou. I hear you sent Fenrir to fight Lord Hades, the fang that can kill gods truly is a terrifying prospect." Pluto mused.
"We captured Fenrir for these occasions." Vali said. He turned to Kenshin. "Kenshin, you've been cursed by Samael, but thankfully you're strong demonically so you should be able to pull through rather easily and there isn't that much of the curse in your system yet." He glanced at Koneko. "You, Kuroka's sister. You can use Senjutsu to work it through his body. Trace it, guide it to his stomach and out his mouth."
"So, Vali Lucifer are you going to fight me?" Pluto asked.
"I am." Vali said.
"Interesting. I have no idea what will happen if I fight against you, who is both the Hakuryuukou and the true descendant of Lucifer himself." Pluto mused.
"Indeed, now I shall show you the other side of the Juggernaut Drive, in which I have sealed off the thoughts of the past possessors of Divine Dividing." Vali said as his wings started to glow brightly.
"I, who shall awaken, Am the Hakuryuukou who will take down the law into the darkness. I walk down the road of domination with infinite destruction by piercing through the imaginary dream. I shall become a pure emperor of White Dragon, and I shall have you obey the silvery white illusions and the perfect evil ways!"
"Juggernaut Overdrive! !"
"!" Kenshin and everyone else, except Miyuki stared in shock as the aura around Vali seemed to crush anything and everything around him, cars, rubble, anything.
"Emperio Juggernaut Overdrive." Vali said. "An enhanced version of the Juggernaut Drive that only I can use. You shall taste this power with your own body!"
"!" Pluto charged forward and slashed at Vali. He pulled back a broken scythe for his troubles. Vali extended his hand forward and Pluto started levitating against his will.
"Compression Divider!"
"Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide! Divide!"
Pluto's body got smaller and smaller, as if being compressed "Something like this! Such a power like this!" Pluto yelled out in agony
"Perish." Vali said, no mercy in his voice.
"Holy shit..." Kenshin said.
Vali returned to his normal Balance Breaker form and hunched over panting heavily. Miyuki approached him and pat him on the back. "You did great." She said.
"Heh, of course I did, who do you take me for?" Vali asked.
"Hahaha, of course of course." Miyuki said.
"Kulh..." Kenshin said as Koneko forced up a black blob from his throat.
"It just keeps coming." Koneko said.
Three new presences appeared. They approached Kenshin. "Ara? Kenshin-Chan, what's wrong?" Alma asked.
"Dragon Eater's Venom. I'm having Koneko here take it out with Senjutsu, but it's taking awhile." Kenshin said.
"..." Erubetie moved down next to him and set her hand on his head. "The venom's spreading through your blood stream, via this slash wound here." She set her hand on the wound. "I can slip my slime inside and grab it all before it spreads any further."
"Do it." Kenshin said. "Deposit it into my stomach so it can be worked out by Koneko."
"Very well." Erubetie said as her slime slid inside Kenshin's wound and went to work.
"Grh..." Kenshin grunted.
"!" Alma looked up into the sky where Yukari and Luka were still fighting. "I...Is that?"
"...Yes. It's Luka." Tamamo said walking forward. "He betrayed us."
"Are you joking? ! He and Lady Alipheese were so close!" Granberia shouts angrily about to take off after him.
"Granberia don't. Those two are moving faster than you could react right now." Tamamo said. "You may have remarkable Elemental Swordsmanship, but wind magic has always been a weakness of yours."
"Krrh..." Granberia glowered.
Meanwhile Luka and Yukari put some distance between each other, both were panting lightly. "Haa...haaa...haahahahaha! I'm impressed! Underneath all the brother lust and ridiculous flaming hair, there's a real warrior within you." Luka said with a smirk.
"And underneath all that insufferable smarm is a dead man!" Yukari shouts.
"Yukari...you, Kenshin, Tamamo, and the shinso are the only people alive who could fathom the amount of dead men behind me." Luka said readying his sword.
"Grh!" Yukari appeared in front of him, swinging her swords wildly. "Eighteenfold Rakshasa!" Yukari called out. While one sword slashed in the regular motion. The other slashed in the reverse.
"Grh!" Luka grunted, receiving wounds all over his body.
"Haa!" Yukari shouts as she punches him in the chest, sending him flying backward. Luka stabilized himself and looked around.
"Twin Heavenly Demon Revival!"
Luka looked up as not one, but two Yukaris slashed down at him taking him to the ground. Luka sprung back up as one of the Yukaris reverted into a substitution stencil and shot down to him. He raised his sword in defense and shoved Yukari back who landed on the ground. Luka and Yukari lunged toward each other and got into a blindingly fast sword duel, neither one giving an inch. "So what is it Yukari? Kenshin died so you trained your little heart out, blaming yourself all the way for Kenshin dying? Trying to pick up the weight her carried?" Luka capped this question by opening a wound on her cheek.
"That's no concern for a future cadaver like you!" Yukari shouts flipping one of her swords along her arm and punching at his stomach.
"Nice try!" Luka said. "You should probably know that my specs are made so I can deal with the Vessel of the Elements, which Forbesii observed while Kenshin fought the Leader of the Old Satan Faction!"
"? !" Vali glanced at Kenshin. "He what? !" Vali thought.
"All your power was just handed to you, you never had to train for it!" Yukari shouts. "It's not really your power!"
"That maybe so, but power is power! Who cares how you get it? !" Luka said pushing Yukari back before slashing her through a building.
Yukari sprung back out and the two clashed blades a powerful force exploding between them.
Cao Cao and Issei stopped their own fight and looked over. "Hn..." Cao Cao said. "She's beginning to use Touki in that form?" He thought.
"Whoa! Go Yukari go!" Issei thought.
Luka reeled his head back and headbutted Yukari before twisting his blade to put both of them toward the ground and rammed the butt of his claymore into Yukari's stomach and shoving her back.
"Grh!" Yukari growled and rushed forward, returning his headbutt with one of her own. She used his broken guard to landed a furious barrage of punches and sent him flying to the ground with a Katensho. Luka sat up as Yukari hovered over him. "That didn't seem to do a whole lot of damage, but damn did it feel good!" Yukari said.
"Oh ho ho? Is that pride I'm hearing?" Luka asked. "I guess you do have some semblance of your own will?"
"This coming from the guy who takes his cues from the Demon King?" Yukari drawled. "Besides, in case you haven't noticed, I've got you on the ropes."
"And I appreciate the effort, but...you aren't ever going to beat me with that form." Luka said.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean? !" Yukari snapped.
"I assume you know what using the Vessel of the Elements means, right?" Luka asked. "You take in the pure essence of the elements and even I can see that your body is feeling the effects, how much muscle tissue do you have left anyway?"
"..." Yukari scowled.
"So with all that filling your body, how could anything else make you stronger, I've noticed you've been using Touki to give yourself an edge, but here's the thing, it's not giving you an edge at all. You're just burning up your inferior life force and it's actually making you weaker."
"? !" Yukari looked at her hands in disbelief.
"You see, without sufficient training, you can't hope to combine the elements and your own lifeforce together effectively. It can be done sure, but not at your level, and the worst part of it is, that form you're using isn't even new. Watch." Luka said as an aura of touki surrounded him. "Look at me I'm Yukari!" He returned to normal. "See anyone with elemental training with their touki unlocked can do it."
"...That was a terrible impression." Yukari glowered.
"But not inaccurate." Luka quipped with a coy smirk. "Hell, I bet now that your body is sufficiently weakened you can't even hit me, not that you could to begin with."
"? !" Yukari scowled. "What do you call the past few minutes? !"
Luka closed his eyes. "Pity."
"Rrgh!" Yukari charged forward and slashed her swords at him. However Luka dodged him at every turn. "What the hell? !"
"You're green." Luka said.
"I'm as well trained as-" Yukari was cut off.
"No not in battle you idiot. With that form." Luka said. "Where as Kenshin is adept with the Vessel of the Elements you're a novice. Hell Kenshin could even add Touki into his Vessel of the Elements, but he's just not stupid enough to try. Now...how about you come on down here, and stop wasting my time."
"..." Yukari lowered herself to the ground and canceled out the Vessel of the Elements, her body quivering in both pain and despair.
"Jeez, I can't tell what's more broken. Kenshin's body or your spirit." Luka said.
"Just move...the hell...on..." Yukari snarled bitterly.
"Whoa! Spirit it is. Serious sister way to kill the mood." Luka said. "But...you need to be taken out." He lunged for her slashing his sword downward.
"RRGH! !" A fist punched Luka back. Yukari looked over wide eyed as she saw Kenshin holding her against him, an angry glare on his face.
Luka caught himself and glared at Kenshin. "That wasn't very nice."
"Neither is killing our sister." Kenshin said with a scowl.
"Our? !" Hikari, Miyuki and Yukari all said.
"Heh, you wanna tell them or should I?" Luka asked with a cocky smirk.
"Remember how I said in the past that my soul was split in half at age ten, remained that way until I became a Devil?" Kenshin asked. "Meet my lesser half."
"Right now you're the lesser Kenshin." Luka said with a growing smirk.
"Maybe, I certainly don't have the bones to take you right now." Kenshin said, he smirked in return. "Good thing I'm not alone. Granberia..."
"Yes?" Granberia asked with a growing smirk of her own.
"Drive him back." Kenshin said.
"With pleasure." Granberia jumped forward, flames licking up and down her blade. "Bloody Fissure Thunder Thrust: Gale!"
"? !" Luka barely dodged the stab from Granberia. He clashed blades against her, but it was clear that the Dragonkin had the upper hand as she charged forward and planted him through a building.
"You see Luka, you're only at a level where you can handle the Vessel, you aren't on a level of elemental power that can be called the Vessel." Kenshin said. "If Yukari had more experience with the Balance Breaker she would have eaten you alive. Your specs are good, but not good enough."
"Krh!" Luka thought with a growl. "He's right! Forbesii didn't spec me enough to handle
Granberia leaped into the air and flew back down at Luka. "Demon Skull Beheading: Blaze!"
"Grh!" Luka raised his claymore to block, but his knees buckled as the flames from Granberia's Ares exploded outward. Granberia sprung off of him and stabbed her sword in the ground and crossed her arms under her chest.
"You can be given all the power you want, but it's worthless if you do not train with it." Granberia said. "You're going to pay for betraying Lady Alipheese."
"Grh..." Luka scowled.
Suddenly slime erupted beneath Luka's feet forcing him skyward. "I'm sorry Granberia, but I'm joining in." Erubetie said appearing next to Granberia.
Granberia closed her eyes. "Go right ahead, I won't say anything against it."
Erubetie nodded and extended her hand at Luka. "Slime Bullets!"
"!" Luka veered out of the way as Erubetie kept firing at him.
"I won't let you escape." Erubetie said extending both hands forward. "Melt Storm!"
"!" Luka's eyes widened as a large wave of slime roared toward him. "Hrn!" He slashed it in half.
"You're up Tamamo." Erubetie said.
"? !" Luka turned as Tamamo appeared behind him. "Shi-!"
"Nine Moons!" Tamamo said swinging each of her nine tails into Luka's body sending him crashing to the ground.
Luka looked up and found Alma, who wrapped her tail around his throat. Contrast to what she usually acted like, she had an enraged look on her face. "How could you? We were your friends, when you had nothing!" She slammed her fist into his face sending him tumbling painfully across the ground.
"Gaahhh..." Luka growled.
Kenshin walked up to him. "Had enough?"
Luka glared hotly into his eyes. "Screw you!" Luka shouts.
"You seem to be doing a fine job of that yourself." Kenshin said. "You were too cowardly to face me like a man, and now look where it got you."
"He says as he orders the Four Heavenly Knights of Makai to beat the stuffing out of me." Luka said.
"The difference is, I'm not going to finish you." Kenshin said. "Leave, go train, and I'll go get my power back, when the time is right, we'll have it out."
"...Fine, but..." Luka thrust his hand into Kenshin's abdomen. "I'm taking something extra." He said with a smirk.
"Guh? !" Kenshin gasped as a cold feeling washed over him. "Seishin...Boido...!"
"Yeeesss..." Luka said. "Usually you'd die from what I'm about to do, but we're both essentially the same person, so it shouldn't matter." He said pulling back his hand, clutching a black orb. "Tata for now." He said as he vanished.
"Yuurei, you still there?" Kenshin thought.
"..." No answer.
"Kuh..." Kenshin grunted. "I see, he took Yuurei."
Kenshin walked over to where Issei had just finished fighting Cao Cao. (A/N: Same as Canon, I'm sorry I just don't feel like writing it out if nothing changes)
"So you received the curse as well, did you Cao Cao?" Vali asked, approaching Cao Cao.
"Curse?" Kenshin said approaching them. "Cao Cao's part dragon now?"
"His eye that replaced the one you cut out was something know as Medusa's eye." Vali said. "He's part snake, but it applies to Samael's curse."
Kenshin nodded. "So, this is the end for you then?"
"It's strange." Cao Cao said. "When Truth Idea failed. It was because the Sekiryuutei answered it with silence. It works by sucking the ambition of the holder out and stacks it against the opponents. It can be used to wipe the opponent out or a blessing to the opponent to capture their hearts. The Sekiryuutei answered with silence and the will of the deceased God of the Bible chose to see his dream over mine."
"So the Almighty chose the unknown then." Kenshin said. "In any case, your organization is finished. Jeanne and Heracles have been captured."
"While Siegfried is dead." Vali said.
"Hrn..." The two turned to find Georg walking toward Cao Cao.
"Whoa..." Kenshin said. Georg was missing one of his eyes and his arms.
Cao Cao's breathing became laboured. "Georg..."
"Let us return, Cao Cao." Georg said.
"So this is how the Strongest Human meets his end." Vali said.
"Tell me Kenshin Kuroshi..." Cao Cao said. "We once argued over the meaning of the word Hero...tell me...what is a hero...to you?"
"..." Kenshin stared at him. "A hero to me, would be someone who is revered and beloved by the people he or she protects. Anyone can be a hero, no matter their race. Case in point Issei there is a hero to the devil children, he's their hero."
"Then...I don't suppose I can be called that after all...all I ever did, was pursue my own dream..." Cao Cao said.
Georg activated a teleportation circle. Issei and Sairaorg moved to pursue, but Kenshin held his arm out. "Don't." Kenshin said.
"Taking mercy upon me?" Cao Cao asked.
"You're already going to die, the only reason Vali and I can resist Samael's curse was because we have a lot of demonic power, you don't have that." Kenshin said.
"...Too true...so long then...Vali, Kenshin." Cao Cao said as he and Georg disappeared.
Kenshin, Vali, Issei and Sairaorg walked back to everyone. "You let Luka get away?" Granberia asked.
"We need to have it out by ourselves." Kenshin said.
"Vali." Vali turned to find his team behind him. "We caused our rampage in the Realm of the Dead." Arthur said.
"I see, good. Pluto is dead as well." Vali said.
Kenshin turned to Issei. "Is something wrong?"
"Ddraig put on this whole sappy speech like he was about to die, but he's fallen asleep." Issei grumbled.
"Well I can kinda see why, he used a lot of power to revive you I'm sure." Kenshin said. "Let him sleep."
"Yeah Yeah." Issei said.
"Yuuto Kiba, when the time comes for the Heavenly Dragons to have it out again, I'll be looking for a fight from you as well." Arthur said.
"Any time you're ready Arthur-kun." Kiba said.
"Be careful you two, while many will fear you now, some will now becoming after you. That's what it means to come into contact with the Sekiryuushintei and the Dragon God." Vali said.
"Hey Vali, don't be so quick to bolt. I have a proposition for you." Kenshin said.
"Hm?" Vali said. "I need to ask you something as well, but it can wait."
"Fine then." Kenshin nodded.
Kenshin noticed Yukari looking down at the ground and approached her. "Is everything alright?"
"...I let him get the better of me...and he wasn't even that well trained." Yukari muttered.
"Luka?" Kenshin asked. "Yukari, can I tell you something?"
"What is it?" Yukari said.
"When we went back in time, Luka and I were rejoined as one for the time, remember?" Kenshin asked.
"Yeah?" Yukari asked.
"We trained together a lot, so he probably was pretty well intimately aware of how you fight." Kenshin said. "So don't get so down. He was just a bad opponent for you."
"...I guess..." Yukari said. "...Thank you..." She said moving close to him wrapping her arms around his torso. "You came back..."
Kenshin smiled and pet her head softly. "It's OK...let it out."
"Later." Yukari said as she pulled away. "Let's at least get back first."
"..." Kenshin watched as she walked away. He felt someone grabbing his hand and looked down to see Ophis. "How are you feeling?" He asked.
"I'm OK, still weakened, but I'll live." Ophis said.
"That's good." Kenshin said. "Now then, let's head home Ophis, you, Issei and I together."
"Yes." Ophis said smiling up at him.
"..." Kenshin grinned and pet her head. "Here." He picked her up and set her on his shoulder as they walked.
"Comfy..." Ophis said moving her legs around his head. Not even a few minutes later he felt Ophis' cheek against the top of his head followed by a shallow breathing.
"...How adorable..." Kenshin thought with a fond smile.
(break)
A day later.
"You were removed from your post as Governor of the Fallen Angels? !" Hikari said what everyone was thinking as Azazel leaned back in his chair.
"Well yeah, I told you I was taking on a lot of risk having Ophis meet with Kenshin and Issei face to face." Azazel said. "I've basically been downgraded."
"Kenshin." Granberia said as he, and the four Heavenly Knights stood off to the side. "We can't stay here very long. We need to get back to Makai soon."
"I know Granberia. I plan on heading out tomorrow, but there's things I need to take care of here in the meantime. If you like you, Erubetie, Alma and Tamamo can all head back. I won't be far behind." Kenshin said.
"We'll at least stay for the meeting with this Trinity Alliance." Erubetie said.
"Do as you wish." Kenshin nodded.
"By the way, the Mid Class Devil promotion exams have come back." Azazel said.
"Eh? ! Really? !" Issei said.
"Yeah, Akeno, Kiba, Tamamo, Evangeline, Issei. You've all passed." Azazel said.
"Alright!" Issei said pumping his fist.
"It's an honor." Kiba and Akeno both said.
"Sweet/Cool..." Tamamo and Evangeline said.
"Pfft." Azazel snickered. "Alright, Sirzechs would have announced that himself, but he's busy summoning the council for a damage assessment meeting and the meeting was requested by someone in this room." He glanced at Kenshin. "I'm guessing you aren't sticking around are you?"
Everyone turned to him as well. Kenshin stepped forward. "Love to, but can't." Kenshin said. "I have a war to get back to in Makai. This was always the plan. I assume my peerage is ready to leave with me?" Kenshin asked.
"Whenever you are." Yukari said.
"Yup." Evangeline said.
"Glad you asked for help this time." Miyuki and Hikari both said while Chachamaru and Kazumi nodded.
"So you were off fighting in a war when you revived?" Ravel asked. "Hey! Wait where is Yubelluna?"
"Yubelluna is just fine." Kenshin said. "She with Demon Queen Aliph...screw it she's with Alice."
"It is kind of a mouthful and we are among friends." Tamamo said with a sweatdrop.
"Alice?" Everyone except those from Makai asked.
"The Demon Queen." Kenshin clarified. "The Commander of the Youkai Revolution and Leader of the entire Youkai Faction. She's a direct descendant of the Dark Goddess herself."
"So then why did she send you to ask for help? Surely your talents are better suited for the battlefield." Tamamo asked.
"Well, I suppose I should introduce myself formally." Kenshin said. "I am Kenshin Tsuki Kuroshi. Former Devil and Vice Commander of the Youkai Revolution."
(chapter end)
Draconis: This one...was kind of all over the place.
Kenshin: No kidding.
Issei: Whoa! Kenshin you're a leader in an army? !
Kenshin: Yup.
Draconis: Alright, the poll results are in and you have voted to have my scrap the idea. So there you go. Thanks for voting, I'll just write something else for my one shot collection.
Kenshin: Sooo..
Draconis: Next chapter begins the Makai Civil War arc. See you all then.
Draconis678 out.