My fans: "Come back! Come back!"
Me: "...Your a colorful bunch..."
My Fans: "What did you do?"
Me: "what I had too!"
They cooked bro... Lion King's getting cooked at the box office. Calling it here. Been also thinking of getting Shadow into the story a bit earlier than originally planned, but we can talk about that another time. Now, if you can read the following message below before reading the chapter itself, I appreciate it. There's a good reason:
So, I wanna apologize for how long this chapter took. Not to get into my personal life too much, but there was a shooting, one victim is in critical condition, been trying to get a beach house... my irl life is crazy right now. And I've been editing this on and off since. Someone suggested I use AI, and while it would be a nice tool, I'm more of a hands-on type of guy. I write with my fingertips, not code with them.
Plus, fuck that, using AI for Tails' dialog... he my boi, much like Shadow. Gotta give them the proper respect, like any Sonic or DxD character... I love these guys.
Now your also probably wondering why I'm posting this here, even though I said I was done with this website and moving to A03. While this is true, and as I mentioned before, some fics will probably get one last update with an "Continued on A03" note slapped on it. That was gonna be the case this story, but after having a good 4 month cooldown, I realized something:
This particular fanbase, for this story specifically, is something different... something that not many people get, and I'd be an idiot to throw it away. To be more specific, whenever I post, I'm guaranteed views in the hundreds in a few days as opposed to a week, which then can sometimes spike to the thousands by then; plus I'm guaranteed around 3 - 5 comments upon posting. When I hold polls or have Authors Notes, I can actually see the fanbase take the time to read them and not skip down. Even when I held that Twitter Takeover chapter, I immediately got suggestions within hours... could be because social media is a much bigger thing now and everyone is here on the internet dot com, but I also like to think it's how much love and support this particular fic had gotten, along with the community it's generated... it's something special... different compared to every other fic I've ever written.
My Bakugan: True Evil series and it's current remake? - that's a small fanbase when I first started out, which many have moved on from. It's the first fanfic I've ever written, so that's a given.
Ben 10 and a Vampire, which featured my first OC in the form of an alien/monster transformation? - as I've said many times before, that series put me on the map, but at the end of the day, it was originally adopted from someone else. I just added to it and expanded on it.
Poke A Live and Son of Westcott were both praised for being unique and inspiring, one being more true for it than the other. Both still getting consistent viewers and messages from fans.
Symbiote of Yokai and Italian Dragon Emperor are similar to each other, in fact both feature cameos in each other. They were my attempt at an expanded universe or multiverse, and they were my biggest stories before this one.
Everything else? They were, and some still are, projects I update as regularly as possible. Some were concepts or ideas I have long since abandoned, but I have used what I've learned from them for my more active works. What I'm trying to say with all of this is... you guys are a different breed. There's something here... and to be real, I don't want to let that go.
So... with all that being said, and if you'll allow me to be a hypocrite, just this once... Sonic DxD is staying, and will be updated here in addition to A03. However, this story is the only exception to the rule, everything else has been moved to AO3, and will be updated there. As I said before, unless something changes on this website and the way it's managed, I will not be posting or creating anything else here. Sonic DxD, being my passion project with a passionate fanbase to match, is going to be the ONLY exception.
I love you guys... I mean it. Again, your a different breed. For you only, this is not finished just yet. We got 2 more seasons, a Smash Mini arc, and a Frontiers film project to write. Let's do it to it!
Season 2, Chapter 2 - Things Change
During another morning the next day after Tails' timely arrival after Rias' Special Stage adventure, Issei woke up before his alarm, and his blurry vision was greeted by Rias' boobs almost in his face. To his defense, he did not try anything, and it was a still-sleeping Rias' fault as she hugged his body tighter, which nearly set Issei off into one of his perverted episodes... nearly, because he has sort gotten used to this by now. Every night or other night, Rias would make it her mission to sleep with him. And even if he did say no (which duh, of course he never did), she would find a way to caught as many Z's in his bed as possible with him in it.
And of course, she was fully naked... again...
'Don't touch the lady balls... don't touch the lady balls...' Using every drop of his willpower, Issei resisted his urges, and Rias eventually stirred and loosened her grip.
"Mmmm... Issei. Good morning." Rias wished him a good morning with a sweet smile and tone, looking very refreshed.
"Yeah, one way to put this." Issei said, mentally calming himself down. "What are you doing in my bed though? Tails said you should rest after triggering a Special Stage." He added, which of course he knew the reason why she was in bed with him, but felt the need to ask anyway.
As for him knowing about the Special Stage Rias accidentally triggered with the Chaos Emerald, when she explained what exactly happened with the Emerald to the Fox and the Hedgehog; they confirmed that she, in addition to accidentally triggering a Chaos Blast earlier, she also accidentally triggered a Chaos Control, which thankfully wrapped them to a Special Stage rather than somewhere or some-when else. Special Stages also took lots of energy to open and manage movement as one can reach very high speeds in them even if they cannot IRL, so much that even Sonic with his speed had to really learn how Special Stages operated and retry them a bunch of times just to nab any Emeralds in them, for every stage was different than the last. For that reason, Tails suggested Rias should rest...
Well... she was, but...
"I'm sorry, I couldn't sleep and just let myself in." Rias said, nonchalantly. "You were already asleep and looked so comfortable that I hated to disturb you, so I just crawled in and used you as a hug pillow."
"So you wanted me then?" Issei asked with a slight blush on his face and a smile, not fully going into pervert mode just yet. If he had a gauge in it, it was about 25% right now, so still 75% innocent. This comment was also partially a joke.
Here is where Rias rolled a bit closer. "Speaking of what I want... we still have some time, don't we? Should I use this time to further bond with my favorite servant?" She said, in a lower tone this time. It was also the way she said it, which got Issei's aforementioned gauge to jump up by 20%.
"Prez... you know I'm a dude right?" Issei said, still keeping his self-control, but having a sexy demon in his bed and nearly on top of him was not helping the situation.
"I know... and I'm willing to do anything for that dude as long as it makes you happy." Was Rias' response to that, and while that was sweet in any other situation, this made that gauge jump up to 100%.
'Anything to make me happy?! I've only heard such a powerful sentence in porn! So much cool shit fits into that!' Issei thought to himself, but before he could ask for anything, soft knocking on his bedroom door immediately killed the mood, depleting the gauge down to zero. Even Rias pushed herself more up and she for of Issei's body when this happened.
"Issei?... Are you up yet? It's almost time for your morning training." Came Asia's voice from outside the bedroom door, innocently asking if Issei was awake. Looking over at his clock, it was close to 5am, which is when they would usually get up to train Issei's powers and a general workout.
"Oh, right. I almost forgotten about your training." Rias said, her face going from playful to neutral quickly whereas Issei still had to calm down a bit... seriously, how does this chick go from a seducing mindset to a business one so fast?
2 more soft knocks, although slightly louder, banged Issei's door again. "Can you hear me? Are you still asleep?" Asia asked again the same way, but like her knocking was also slightly louder, kindly giving him privacy.
"Uh, no! I'm awake! Just need a...!" Issei was saying, but Rias took over the conversation by climbing off Issei completely and turning her body towards the door, the bedsheets falling off her to reveal her nude glory.
"Would you mind giving us a moment? We're both still in bed." Rias said to the door/Asia nonchalantly, and while Issei couldn't see Asia's reaction to hearing Rias' voice coming from his room, with how fast the former nun opened the door, it gave him a pretty good idea how she was feeling.
"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, what's up, Asia?... Sleep okay?" Issei raised his hand with a nervous smile.
"Good morning, Asia." Rias said, again nonchalantly, either not understanding the implication what the scene looks like to Aisa; or worse, she actually did understand and ignored it on purpose. Regardless, the look on Asia's face was not one Issei wanted too see, the poor girl looking upset.
"This is not what it looks like, I swear! You know how she is!" Issei tried to defend himself and trying to keep Asia calm, but all it did was reinforce her own personal feelings on the matter.
"Whatever! I'm not being left out!" Asia said in a raised voice, reaching down to the helm of her shirt to pull it off as she ran into the bedroom, and the sounds of a scuffle were heard from Sonic's spot on the roof. He didn't even bother this time... this was Issei's fight.
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The Hyoutou household was having breakfast after Asia calmed down, with Rias offering to make miso soup for everyone. This excluded Sonic of course, as when Issei checked he wasn't on the roof, so he probably went for a morning run early or maybe another circle around for a Chaos Emerald.
"This is really good."
"This is on par with mine, your a good cook, Rias."
That was Issei's dad and mom respectively, complimenting Rias' cooking.
"I've been in Japan for a few years, so I picked up on a few things." Rias said.
"Honestly never had anything this good, this miso soup rocks." Issei said, which got a smile from Rias... then in a small surge of jealousy, Asia pinched and twisted the skin of Issei's arm. She would calm down when Issei's mom also complimented Asia's help around the house as well, such as laundry and cleaning.
"Oh, by the way, Misses Hyoutou?" Rias then asked. "Would it be too much to ask if members from our club come over after school for a meeting? Our clubhouse is going through some renovations."
Issei wasn't sure why, but took 2 guesses. One reason was the recent... ahem... blast... but that had been taken care of already when it did happen, so that was out. The only other reason he could think of was Sonic's "little brother" they met the day before, as Tails did not request to stay in the roof like Sonic did. That's what Issei always assumed, that Mobians like Sonic just slept on roofs all the time, but it turned out Tails was an indoor sleeper.
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When they did get to school and went about the day, Issei found himself thinking during homeroom, looking out the window. While Asia was being complimented for having amazing hair by a group of girls, Issei was a bit distracted, thinking about things that have happened to him... and even thinking about how Rias was making a much bigger effort to sleep with him, but his thoughts were interrupted by his 2 friends Matsuda and Motohama.
"What's with the silly smile, Issei?" Matsuda asked, pulling on Issei's ear, Ironically the same ear Sonic pulls sometimes to get Issei back to reality.
"ARGH! The hells your problem?" Issei asked while rubbing the ear.
"What's our problem? There's been lots of rumors flying about you lately, so you may wanna lie low." Said Motohama.
"What rumors?" Issei felt the need to ask.
"They aren't just mere rumors... These are serious accusations, my friend! ACCUSATIONS THAT COULD HAVE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES!" Warned Motohama, getting in Issei's face while adjusting his glasses.
Matsuda: Like blackmailing Rias into moving in with you, and Akeno into a Devils 3 way!
Motohama: Or devouring Koneko's tiny, prepubescent body like a wild beast!
Matsuda: Or getting all up in Asia's busi-...!
"Okay, stop!" Issei stopped the duo from continuing. "What dumbasses would spread those rumors anyway?"
"Correction. We're those dumbasses." Motohama said with no shame, in fact no shame was on Matsuda's face either, both of them having dumb smiles about it.
Issei had to double take to make sure his Devil ears picked up on this correctly, then upon confirming the absorbed information was accurate, rightfully got rather annoyed. "Seriously?! Why the hell would do that?!"
"Cuz your hanging around Kuoh Queens Rias and Akeno, girls have been willing to talk to us more!" Matsuda said, he and Motohama having those same pervy yet victorious smiles on their faces, obviously not realizing that the girls were talking to them for information rather than actual interest in the boys themselves... or they did, but any attention was good attention. "We even told some chicks you and Kiba have been experimenting with each other."
"Do you have any idea how many hot girls are actually into that sort of thing? This is uncharted territory! A massive discovery of epic proportions!" Motohama added to the conversation. So basically, if Issei understood this right, this was mainly to try and get action. His fellow perverts saw an opportunity, then ran with it... he would have probably done something similar to be honest, but to a much much less of an extreme... and minus the rumors...
"Will you stop fucking with me?!" Issei said, mainly getting more annoyed by the Kiba rumor.
"And the 3 Stooges are at it again..." said a new female voice, who belonged to a girl who was considered to be just as perverted at the Issei and the rest of the trio, yet wasn't as ridiculed or condemned by the student body (probably because she was a girl herself). This was Aika Kiryuu, a honestly generic-looking girl that wears spectacles, has gold-colored eyes and lightly messy brunette hair tied into braids on each side.
"Asia, there are so many nicer boys here. Why are you wasting time with this jerk for a boyfriend?" Aika continued, picking up on Asia's internal feelings for Issei and stating what she felt was obvious.
"What do you mean boyfriend?!" Asia immediately started denying.
"Yeah, 'This Jerk' is not her boyfriend, okay? She's only staying with me since she's new to this country and my folks had some extra space." Issei said, as Asia let it innocently slip that she was living with Issei, which made Issei public enemy number one to another section of the school population, once again trying to set the record straight.
"Oh, please. That's the oldest excuse in the book. Your both always all over each other," Aika said in a rather sarcastic tone, being rather hyperbolic when describing this. Asia and Issei were together sometimes; mainly because they went to the same club, lived together and also even had lunch together. "The entire school agrees there's no way you both aren't bumping every night."
"BUMPING EVERY NIGHT?!" Both Matsuda and Motohama shouted, aware of the slang.
"Bumping every night?" Asia asked, innocently unaware of the slang.
"Knock it off! We're just friends! That's it!" Issei shouted while yelling, annoyed form his friends antics and now Aika's accusations. The moment after finishing his outburst however, he and Asia both got a text message from Rias' number saying 'come by the clubhouse. Your absence will be excused'. It was a short and sweet message. "You got that too?" He asked Asia while tucking his phone away.
"Mh-hm." Asia said.
"Got what?" Asked Aika.
"Oh, it's just for the club we're in. We'll be back." Asia said, giving an excuse and quickly putting her phone away as well.
"So... your seriously not together? Like, at all?" Aika said, deciding to drop the subject about what the text was about but went back to the Issei x Asia allegations... then she began to smile. "Because you were saying something about this morning about you and Issei in be..."
Before Aika could even finish the sentence, Asia immediately covered her mouth with both hands. "Aika! Stop! Don't say that stuff anymore!" The Blond Bishop whined.
"Alright, let's go. Don't wanna keep Prez waiting!" Issei then took one of Asia's wrists gently and began to lead her out the class. He figured this would probably give students the wrong idea, but what else was he supposed to do? While he did get some stares, Matsuda and Motohama then began crying with upset faces.
Matsuda and Motohama: Why is it always him?!
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Issei and Asia would arrive a few minutes later at the clubhouse. When they did so, everyone was standing outside its front doors for some reason... well, everyone that wasn't an alien humanoid animal with no clothes aside from gloves and shoes.
"So what's up, Prez? I thought the club was going through spring cleaning." Issei asked, bringing up the conversation at breakfast this morning.
"There was, thorough spring cleaning today." Rias answered, past tense. Then she opened the entrance with both hands, revealing the inside of the clubhouse was freshly cleaned and even the floors were waxed. But what also got their attention was a certain blue hedgehog, with an arm folded before and behind him with a napkin hanging on his front arm and wearing a butler outfit, his chin held up and his eyes closed with an emotionless expression.
"Demonesses and gentle devils... may I welcome you; to Casa de Hedgehog." Sonic said in a terrible French accent (which was probably on purpose), while being overly polite and proper... was mostly likely part of the joke. "Monsieur Miles Prower is in his room..." with that, he turned around and started walking away, which was unusual to see Sonic do such a thing but he was playing a character, but they followed him anyway. They got to the room Tails had requested to have.
"Master Prower..." Sonic began.
"Let them in, Sonic." Tails' voice came from inside the room, sounded like he was chuckling as he said it, probably also in on the joke. Upon hearing that, Sonic immediately tore off the costume, discarding it and both halves landed perfectly in a bin in the hallway. The character he was playing had now been dropped.
"Heh, your gonna love this..." Sonic said in his normal voice, as he began to open the door.
Inside the room, which was a plain extra room before, had been transformed into a room full of wires, computers, scanners, buttons and flashing lights, nobs, equipment, etc, etc... it was like a miniature futuristic laboratory. All the ORC Devils had jaws open and looking around impressed, even the normally stoic Koneko could not help but gaze around with wonder and fascination. One little kit Fox did all this in such a short time?
The ORC honestly felt they stepped foot into a sci-fi set.
"I'm pretty sure we just stumbled into one of those Death Star recreations." Issei said.
"This is nothing. You should see his workshop back home..." Sonic grinned, walking to where Tails was tinkering with something, enjoying the 'deer in the headlights' look on his friends faces. When they did approach Tails, he was just finishing up with something and dusting off his hands... well, gloves, but same thing.
"Thanks again for letting me stay here, Rias. I'm more of a house pet than anything." Tails joked, obviously referring to Sonic's tendency to sleep on roofs or pretty much anywhere. "I just tidied up the room a bit, and made it more homey. Hope you don't mind." He added.
Rias looked around a bit more before answering the fox. "It's quite alright. It must have taken you a whole day to build this up..." she complimented.
Tails however, immediately stared at Rias with a quizzical look, as if she said something incredibly silly. "A day?... this little lab?... Something like this only takes an hour."
Rias' jaw dropped a bit lower than it had before... an hour? Transforming one decently-sized extra room in the clubhouse into a military-grade command center... All this took an hour?! She honestly thought Sonic exaggerated the whole "programming a supercomputer with dish detergent and a toothpick" thing, and Tails didn't seem like the type to lie about something like this either if that plane was anything to go by. This kid could probably make an cyber truck engine run on sushi and sweet tea!
Some of the Devils looked around a bit. Asia and Koneko saw a glass chamber of some kind, Kiba checked out a large screen, and Akeno's interest was caught by some gadgets. Speaking of gadgets, Issei was near a workbench with the same type of Item Boxes Kuno saw.
"Damn. Sonic's brother's badass..." Curious, he picked up on, and some rings dinged out, similar to the rings Sonic tried paying with on the 'date' they once had. "Aw, shit! Sor-..." Nervous and feeling bad he messed with he assumed was Mobian money, he tried picking it up...
ZAP!
"BPPFFFFFBPPFFFFFFBPPFFFFF!" And unlike with Kuno, Tails didn't even get the chance to warn Issei of the consequences. He grabbed some of the rings fast to pick them up, and was then immediately electrocuted by their properties, falling to the ground with a thud and comically jerking slightly with excess sparks of electricity. Both Asia and Akeno did look concerned for him, Koneko was indifferent to the whole thing, and Kiba and Sonic must've thought it was funny as they smiled a bit at the scene. Rias looked more confused and intrigued at what just happened than anything, even if she did feel bad for Issei as well.
"I really gotta keep those Dummy Rings somewhere out of reach of children..." Tails said, but feeling bad for Issei and the fact this same situation now happened twice.
"Dummy Rings?" Rias asked.
"They electrocute dummies." Sonic said with a smile, which caused Akeno to cutely snort and hold her mouth at the multiple meanings of his statement, while Issei laid sideways on the floor, still sparking.
XXX
When everyone returned to their classes, the day went pretty much normal. Reading, writing, American History (why? It's not even their country), math, science, etc... pretty much what a normal high school student does... well, until gym class halfway through the day...
"Hyoudou..." the gym teacher called his name next an activity, but we don't get to see what that activity actually was as the moment he started moving...
BA-DUM!
"Nrgh! The hell...?" He asked himself in a low voice, his left arm beginning to start throbbing. It was a strong throb too, where he had to grab his arm, mainly as a natural reaction as he didn't expect it to happen.
"You alright?" The coach asked.
"Yeah... probably slept on it wrong..." Issei excused, figuring that was the case as he shook his arm. Could also be maybe Rias slept on it at some point whenever she crawled into bed with him, but he obviously couldn't tell his coach that. And even if he could, he wasn't entirely sure that was the real reason.
By the end of the school day, the ORC met up in Issei's room as Rias arranged before. While they could hold it in the actual club room now that the spring cleaning was done, she still decided to keep the original plans. Plus, it was a cozy change of location, not to say the clubhouse wasn't cozy but it was different in a good way. Additionally, Sonic and Tails were not present for this meeting, nor was one of them on their usual spot on the roof. They figured it was most likely because the 2 alien brothers had some catching up to do, assuming that's where the blue one was currently (which he was actually).
"As for this months contract numbers..." Rias announced the next topic of the meeting. "Akeno. 11."
Akeno: Hm-hm. That's right.
Rias: Koneko. 9.
Koneko was the only one who didn't respond, but did nod her head.
Rias: Kiba. 6.
Kiba: I did.
Rias: Asia. 4.
Kiba: 4 already? That's impressive.
Akeno: She's a natural at this stuff.
Asia: Awww, thank you so much!
"Annnnnd... Issei..." this is where Rias' tone slightly changed... even though it sounded identical, it wasn't entirely positive. The Pawn in question dreaded her answer, knowing what he did wrong, and she took a sip of tea before actually saying anything. "... zero."
"Ugh... I know... it's embarrassing..." said Issei while rubbing the back of his neck.
"If you don't work on getting contracts, you'll never climb the ranks." Rias said. To Issei's credit, he still got insanely good reviews. If she had to make a tier list, Issei would be near Akeno in terms of popularity (albeit for much different reasons), so it's not to say Issei wasn't trying, he just tended to not receive payment or a form of compensation for his time... it did show he enjoyed what he was doing, which was nice, but business is still business.
"I know, I know... which is why I'm gonna whoop everyone's ass starting next month! Nothing's gonna stop me from snatching first place!" Issei said, with as much gusto as he could possibly use... this gusto was completely destroyed when his mother wanted to inspire the 'Insult Research Club' as she mistakenly called it, and offered a snack and Issei's baby pictures for the same mistaken reason, busting his balls kind of on purpose.
The girls seemed to like it though, even Koneko to a small extent, mainly because this was a negative for Issei.
"Even at 5 years old, he was already playing tag, chasing after girls and their bottoms..." his mother said.
'Dear God, someone kill m-...' Issei was staying, asking to be out of this misery, but he immediately winced upon getting a headache from addressing God due to his Devil traits. Nobody noticed that however, as they were all too busy looking at Issei's childhood.
"She seems like a great mother..." Kiba said while looking through one of the albums of Issei's childhood.
"Like you'd know!" Issei said, not meaning anything by it. It's like when you'd be having a conversation with one of your friends and they'd say something about you or what's going on, then said 'like you'd know' comes out.
"Must be nice..." Kiba muttered to himself. When he turned the page of the album, his expression hardened a bit, but whether it was because of anything Issei said wasn't clear. "... Issei... this picture here..." he then asked, showing Issei the picture that got his attention. It was a picture of Issei playing a Nintendo Switch with another kid with blonde hair.
"Oh, yeah! I forgot about that kid. We'd always play games when we'd go over each others houses. You recognize him?" Issei asked, thinking of the phrase 'it's a small world', should Kiba know one of his childhood friends.
"Heh... I guess anything's possible then..." Kiba chuckled a bit darkly, his gaze not on the innocent children in the picture... rather a sword mounted on the wall in the background...