-Sona-

"You're calling me used goods?!"
"...What the fuck? No, I'm saying that a lot of shows, specially magical girl or shounen anime, use the same "power of friendshit" A LOT, so it ends up losing the impact and becomes just "meh."

"FriendSHIP!"

"I know what I said."

My Sister puff up her cheeks "The children love when I ask them through the tv to help me defeat the enemy!"

"... I mean it would be fine… if it wasn't almost every single mildly difficult fight. It makes you seem like you don't really have any power on your own."

"I don't use that much!"

"I've seen 30 episodes and you've used it in at least half of the fights."

"Oh so it's fine when Lizard balls do it but not me?"

"It's called Dragon ball, they used the Genki Dama very few times in the whole series compared to the number of episodes, AND the only time they truly seemed to ask everyone for "help" was in the last fight of Z and, if you want to count, the last fight of GT. So yes, they can."

Onee-sama is about to answer until she realizes something, pulls out her phone and looks up something "...You've seen like 300 episodes of a show but didn't watch 2 seasons of your own leader's show?"

Rias chooses not to respond and looks away.

..This is not how I expected this meeting would go but it's not unpleasant.

After my sister kidnapped her from wherever she was, we started talking a little bit about her. She asked what exactly I did as the president of the student council and what Onee-sama does as a Maou.

They bonded by making fun of some of the high ranking nobles while my sister tells her some of the "cool" devils from nobility.

…Then my sister started wanting to show her some of my childhood photos. I tried to stop her but she simply did not listen, saying that Rias had the "right" to see how cute I was… There was nothing that I could do. Normally I would just try to leave but Rias was here for me, so I couldn't.

Rias did not deny wanting to see it and started seeing the photos with her. But after a few minutes she looked at me, decided to help me and said that they could see it later. Then she started talking about anime with her.

And now we are here. With my sister poking her cheek while continuing to ask her about her show.

Rias is trying to not say something that she will regret while Onee-sama is, knowing her, 10% offended but 90% having fun.

Since she helped me earlier I decided to do the same for her.

"Onee-sama, Rias was going to ask you something related to youkai."

My sister decided to take the bait and stopped poking her. "Oh! Do you want to caress a fluffy fox girl tail?"

Rias was stunned for a second by the question before answering. "... I mean I wouldn't say no, but why is that the first thing you ask?"
"Because one of their leaders has 9 of them and they are gorgeous and extremely fluffy looking!"

"How did they feel?" Rias asked.

Onee-sama's head lowered a bit "I still did not managed to get her to let me feel them"

Rias seemed excited when the tails were mentioned and said "I'd imagine that it would be amazing. Koneko lets me caress her tails and they are very nice to touch, but her taking care of her youkai features is a recent thing so I believe that it's still not at her full potential fluffiness."

Now my sister seemed happy again and was about to probably start asking about it but I talked to Rias first "But that's not what you wanted to talk about, right?"

Rias seemed confused for a second before remembering "Ah right. I was going to ask if you knew someone available to teach Koneko youkai magic and touki. I want to learn as well but it's most important for her to learn." She says. "I imagined that you, the devil in charge of foreign affairs, would know someone that would be willing."

"Hm… There are high ranking devils with Yokai in their peerage but they either changed to fully use devil magic or their masters are kind of annoying to meet." Onee-sama thinks about it. "We are allies with the yokai, nothing formal, more of an agreement to not step on each other's toes."

Rias looked at me and shrugged her shoulders. She and I talked about it before and I also got interested in trying other magic systems. But I guess that's not happening soon.

"Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut" My sister started. "I could talk to Yasaka-chan, that's the west youkai leader, and see if we could do something about it!"

"Are you sure that it's not a problem?" I asked

"It's fineeeeee- I mean , if it was just up to me, there wouldn't be any problem. But since we will probably need help from outside, we have to make it in a way that is beneficial for both parties. I wouldn't mind personally owning a favor for Yasaka-chan, but some old buthead from the noble families would find a way to complain about us favouring you, and then Sirzechs and I would be upset and then Ajuka and Grayfia would have to stop us from wanting to beat those shitheads again."

"... By "beating them again" you mean that they are always succeeding in stopping you or you and My sister did really physically hit some devils that were complaining at some point?" Rias asked.

"Yes"

We talked more for a while but Onee-sama had to leave.

When she did I slumped on the sofa.

"You good?" Rias asked.

"It's fine I really lo– respect my sister… just…"

"It feels like you've been visited by a friendly hurricane?

…That's a weird comparison but "yeah.."

"Wanna take a rest?

"What do you mean?"

She pushed her skirt up a bit and patted her thighs

… I… uh… I can feel my face heating up a bit.

I think for a few more seconds before removing my glasses and just laying on the sofa with my head on her thighs.

…Soft.

"Why did you take too long to decide? It would have been really embarrassing if you took that long and then refused anyway"

…It's not my fault "that came really out of nowhere, I just didn't expect it."

"Well, Grayfia does this to me when I'm feeling… "overwhelmed" or need to calm down. I also do this to Issei and Koneko after training." She says. "Well, it also involved head patting, But you look like you might end up falling asleep if I do it.

"...Thanks"

" 'S cool. My family can be a little bit too much sometimes but I guess they are not as much as your sister"

"They are" I immediately responded and I felt her flinch.

"...What?"

"They are probably just being considerate and waiting to know more about the "new you". But I can guarantee that they are"

She didn't speak for a few seconds, probably letting the information sink in. I would have liked to be able to see her face, probably of dread, embarrassment or both, but her "assets" are in the way.

I decided to let her deal with that discovery later and moved on. "You said to me that you wanted to get stronger. But you never specified what for and how strong you wanted. Do you know now?"

"...Kind of? There is not much else to do besides keep finding new ways to get stronger. My current goal is my sisters"

"...Your goal is to surpass one of, if not, the strongest devil that ever existed and the strongest queen?"

"Why not? I mean they are the final goal that I want to surpass… though I know it's kind of far away. I do consider myself to be quite destructive, but still can't do shit against them."

" Are you aware that you will probably take a long time to do that right?"

"Nah, Imma be ultimate class before graduating high school, you'll see.

I laugh a little "Of course, and then you also become one of the maous in two years?

"Ew, no. Imagine having to deal with a lot of responsibility… and paperwork." She shudders.

"Like I have, as the president of the student council?"

"... Exactly! That sounds horrible to me. I want to become like a secret weapon of the devils that does nothing but appears from time to time"

"Like an Idol?"

"No, that sounds like I would have to appear a lot. I'll become a devil god or something."

"... Really?"

"I mean, I don't know what brings someone into godhood. But at some point I just need to get strong enough so that people can't deny my godness unless they want to be beaten."

"... No offence–"

"Offence taken."

"but I hope that you do not actually become a god."

"Hey!"

"You would be insufferable as a god. Not actually a bad person, but just irritating. I can picture the high rank devil nobility asking something from you and you saying "What makes you think that you have the right to even ask anything from me, mortal". Either as a real threat or just as a joke to mess with anyone."

She takes some seconds to answer "... Yeah, that sounds awesome actually."

"I know that you would do it. That is why I don't want it to happen"

We talked more about random things. Talked about our peerage, I told her a little about mine and she told me about hers. Until we went back to talking about her trainings

"Wait, how are you capable of learning this much in such a short time?"

"That's because I have a new secret training area." She said in a proud tone. "Because of it, and because everyone was motivated to get stronger, the results were really good, Better than what I originally expected at least."

"And what is this "secret training area" exactly?"

"It wouldn't be much of a secret if just told ya now would it?"

…I pinch her thigh a little.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you unless you want to lose your thigh privileges"

I stop. But I feel her finger poking my cheek.

" C' mon, there is no need to pout. I'll show you later."

..I am not pouting. "You can not even see me"

"I don't need to see to know that you really want to know about my super secret training area" She says smugly.

… She knows she is making me more curious on purpose. "And you can't just tell me?"

"I could, but it's way better to show you."

"...Is it really that amazing?"

"It's one of the best things that I could possibly own."

Wow… but if it is that amazing then "You… should you really tell me about it?"

"It's mine, so I can do whatever I want with it. And training with you will end up being fun."

"No, I mean are you okay with me knowing it? If it is that amazing then you should not be telling people your secrets.."

"I'm not telling "people", I'm telling you."

I can feel my face heating up again. "... Rias, this is the first time we've actually met in person."

"Yes, but My body remembers you.."

…What?!

"Wait! That came out wrong." She hastily said. "I mean that I still remember some things from before. Like, I still liked and trusted people that I had no idea who they were. Or, in Riser's case, when I met him for the first time I felt rage and disgust. The rage was from Issei's… "death" so it was "mine". But the disgust was not from something I remembered. "

"...What about me?"

"Affection, trust and a little bit of desire to annoy you."

Yes. That sounds like our relationship.

Sigh

She is too nice for her own good. She won't mind but I would. If she's willing to help me then I want to do something for her as well. "Rias do you know about Familiars?"

"Kind of? My peerage showed me theirs, but they said that they were more for helping with simple tasks or sending messages than in combat, so I just focused on myself first."

"Yes, those. Are you going to get one?"

She thinks for a few seconds "I'm not opposed to getting one. I don't really have anything that a familia would help me with so I wasn't thinking about getting one soon."

"But you will not only come to school, but you will have to deal with your part of the responsibilities as a president of a club, a devil, and one of the governors of Kuoh."

"...Oh"

"Yes, "Oh". You should get one either for support or combat."

"...What about one that can do both?"

"It's not impossible but you might not find one so easily."

"Meh, if the opportunity comes I'll try to look for one."

"That's more or less what you've been saying for years. The difference is that you wanted a "strong", "cool" and "awesome" familiar, but you never got one, even though some of your peerage has."

"A strong one would be good, but I want myself to be strong. As long as it can do support in combat and do normal day to day tasks then I would like it."

… then "Tomorrow is the full moon. The day where we can go to the Familiar Forest.

"Oh. You'll bring your peerage there?"

"I was, but I'm willing to trade the reservation in exchange for you bringing me to your "super secret training place" soon."

"You sure?"

"I'm sure."

"Well… Alright. Just that I won't be 100% sure to get out of there with a familiar."

"It is fine. As long as you are not as picky as before and actually try to look for one."

"I'll try." She says. "But I'll probably be more focused on getting one for Asia. She is progressing little by little but I would feel more confident if she had something that could fight for her."

"That is fair." Yawn. "Also, this" I used magic to open a drawer, to get a letter and give it to Rias. "Give this letter to the person in charge, so that they give it to a being named "Tiamat ". It's from my sister who asked to give it to her."

She grabs the letter. "I don't mind but why don't your sister just teleport there?"

"...She said something about "being too annoying"… " Yawn

I was about to get up before I went to sleep. But Rias started caressing my head.

"Wanna just sleep for a while? I'm free for the rest of the day."

"... I shouldn't… I have some things in the council to do..."

"Maybe just a little?" She continued.

"...Just a little then."

After she ended up letting me sleep for 2 hours before I woke up and she left.

Later she sent a selfie of me sleeping on her lap and drooling as she poked me on the cheek.

-Rias-

That was a weird, but nice, day. I went to visit a friend and got out of there with a reservation to, maybe, get a familiar.

I left the room and met who I assume to be "Tsubaki", as the only other person with glasses in her peerage.

I asked her how to get to my own building and she told me the instructions.

I didn't expect to be greeted by students who screamed when they saw me. Some who approached me asked if I was better and was coming back to school…. I ended up saying yes.

Damn, now I have to come back to school soon… I guess it will happen eventually.

But moving on from that. I got to my building and went to My place…. I could have teleported from Sona's room or when I got inside the building to my own home, but I decided to explore the old school building for a bit.

The classrooms on the first floor were kept "old" to make sure to sell the idea of being abandoned… or they just weren't cleaned for a while? Not sure.

When I explored a bit more I found a room that I couldn't open. I tried to do something equivalent to lockpicking with magic, except that I don't know lockpicking, even less magic lockpicking so I, of course, failed.

But I discovered that it required some magic to open and close the door. I analyzed the magic a bit but it ended up being a little more complicated than I can understand at the moment… So I just decided to just brute force it.

I started to use my POD on the thing and… it was repealed.

Huh.

Okay what about my Cursed POD?

I used my enhanced power on the door and it ended up working… a little bit too well because it broke the whole magic system and the door itself.

Oops?

As I am about to enter I do remember that this is probably Gasper's room that I just broke in…

Eh, I'll tell my sisters later. But since I'm already here, I might as well finally visit.

I enter the room and then hear a voice. There was a… very delicate looking person with a whole gaming setup and who was talking to the microphone.

"I'm sorry? You were talking to me? Me? Who has the most kills of the whole game? I had a kill in all of the rounds and did my part. I believe that the fault of our loss is definitely NOT me…. Yeah, Yeah, suka blyat to you too, friend."

-Chat-

On a pc screen, the streamer, Vampy-kun could be seen trying to shift the blame of losing the game onto anything or anyone that wasn't him.

"Hey chat. You know that It wasn't me right?"

'Sure'

'Dude, you just literally were rushing with an awp. I don't know how you managed to get any kills, let alone 1 for every round before dying immediately.'

'Sure'

" It's all thanks to the skills of the great ME." He humbly states. "Anyway I would have loved to continue giving you people with my presence. But I have lost enough rank— I mean, played enough for today so I'm logging out."

'Awww, Already? Maybe just one more'

'One more!'

'One more!'

'Just until you win one, or lose without blaming your teammates.'

"... Do you think that my memory is that bad and don't remember that there were at least 3 "one more" games that you guys made me play?"

'TSK'

'Damn'

'So close'

'Mission failed! we'll get him next time.'

'There were actually 5— I mean, I don't know what you're talking about.'

'Bye Vampy!'

'Bye'

'Bye'

"Yeah yeah, nice try. Anyways I'm leaving, Bye Chat!"

"Bye chat" Out of nowhere, came a voice from the same room as Vampy-kun.

He Immediately screamed "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA—" and the stream abruptly ended with the viewers being startled, confused and worried.

-Rias-

When I went to mess with Gasper. He screamed, and then in the next second he disappeared.

I tried to look around the room and couldn't see him… until I noticed that one of the boxes was shaking.

God– Satan fucking damn. I was really stopped in time.

I try to check myself to see if there is anything wrong and… nothing. I guess he really just stopped me in panic and just ran away.

…That was awesome! The Za warudo part, not the running away part.

But he really needs to train his magic senses. I didn't even try to hide my presence but he didn't feel anything, that's a problem.

I decided to approach the box and poked it with my shoe. "Hey Gasper. Nice to finally meet you in Person."

It took a while for him to respond from inside the box. "... H– H- Hello R-Rias."

For a social recluse I'd say that's pretty good. "You've been keeping up with your training?"

'Y-Yes. I've been getting better at… T-Talking to people online and freezing random objects in time for a while."

"Nice. And it seems that you're actually quite successful as a streamer huh?"

"Yes. My F-Fans are nice people that I can joke around with. Even if they know that I more or less play a character… m-most of the time…"

"Great! Then you're ready to meet the others. Including Issei and Asia for the first time right?"

"NO!"

"...why?"

"I'M NOT READY"

"Why not?"

"BECAUSE THEY WILL HATE ME!"

"And why would they?"

"I'll end up freezing them or they will hate me for being a vampire!"

"Hm… Nope, that doesn't seem like them."

…"But!"

"But?"

I waited for him to answer and he decided to stay quiet.

Sigh.

"Fine Gasper. I will not take you out today."

I could feel the relief coming out of him "Thank you"

"But you are communicating with them in messages right?"

"Y-Yes, I've spoken with all the peerage members. I-Isei and A-Asia said that they l-look forward to meeting me…"

"And do you want to meet them?"

"I… d-do."

"Then it's fine for now." I'll consider this as "progress". "Tomorrow we'll go to a forest to get some familiars to Asia and Issei. and the day after I want to train with Sona. But! " I opened the box and looked him in the eyes. "Either I bring you to them or bring them here. But you will meet them, Okay?"

He nodded, with a little bit of determination. "O-Okay."

"Good. Oh and you might want to tell your fans that you're okay. They might be thinking that you died."

"Wha.. OH FUCK!" He remembered my "cameo" on his stream and goes on social media to tell people that he's fine.

(Next day)

… Is this dude real?

"Hello! I'm Zatouji from Madara town! I'm going to become a familiar master! But for today I'm your guide! Nice to meet you. Any questions before we start?

"... Do you know about–"

"A friend of mine started the Pokemon series and I do receive royalties for my help in some areas, yes. Any other questions?"

My peerage asked some questions about some types of beings that were in the forest. He talked about some more but nothing that made me go "yes I want that". Then again, it's kind of a new responsibility so I'm not really wanting one, but who knows.

Oh. Before I forget. "Hey, do you know where Tiamat is?"

Zatouji looks at me with a serious face "... You're not wanting to make her your familiar right? Or you want to challenge the "Dragon Trials?"

"No. I was tasked with giving her a message from maou Leviathan."

Yesterday when I met my sisters, after lightly scolding me because of Gasper's broken door, they told me that I was to not actually meet Tiamat and just send Levi-tan's message to the tour guide, who I assume is Zatouji, to make him give the message to Tiamat.

Normally she responds, but apparently she got fed up a few months ago and went hibernate (or just went no contact). There is apparently a trial within Tiama's territory that I shouldn't do?

…However, I am curious about meeting her so I want to give her the message myself.

Zatouji made a relieved sigh and told me "in that case it should be fine. Other people thought that they could somehow tame her and… well. There is a reason that we have some specific rules about her."

Ookay? Don't try to enslave the powerful dragon lady, get it. "You said something about "trials"?"

"The "Dragon Trials", yes. There is almost a tradition that was made some hundreds or thousands years ago. Supposedly, if you pass the three trials you should get some kind of reward for being worthy. Many people thought that they would even get Tiamat to become the person's familiar. But none of the people who tried managed to succeed."

…Oh no. I'm getting more interested. "What are these trials?"

"Do You plan to try?"

…"I'm already here so might as well." And I do need to give her a message anyway.

"In this case." Zatouji looked at me. "If you plan to try your luck at the trials, then It shouldn't be spoiled right?"

Fair enough.

With that decided we started the tour. There are some spirits from different elements there and some different monsters from fantasy mangas and novels. They were fun to see and learn, but nothing that really called my interest. But it was fun. I imagine that this would be the equivalent of a safari zone… or a normal zoo in a fantasy world, but less fucked up and giving them more freedom.

Anyway, at some point Zatouji said that there were different routes. One of them was Tiamat's.

"Now we have to divide our groups." Zatouji said and pointed at the one that seemed more… eerie somehow. "This is the path to Tiamat's lair."

I nod and turn to my peerage. "Ok, see you guys lat—"

Akeno interrupted. "Are you sure that this is a good idea?"

…"I mean no. But if it's too much I can just give up the trial and just say that I'm here to give a message. She's an ally so I don't think she'll just kill me." I turned to Zatouji. "Were there any deaths?"

He scratches his neck "No deaths… but many people might have gotten some traumas about it."

…"See. No death." I say.

My whole peerage was kind of nervous and were exchanging glances at each other.

Hmpf. "You guys might that My ideas are crazy, but have they ever gone wrong?"

They keep quiet. But I could see Akeno's face twitching because she couldn't deny the results.

I start sending them away "Alright now go. I want to come back to see Asia AND Issei with familiars on their own and they won't get it if you just stand there."

They started to reluctantly leave but Zatouji stopped to give some advice. "Seriously, if it gets too much just give up."

I reassure him. "I know, If something happened to me, the people I cared about would be sad… and my sisters were probably going to do something drastic. So I don't want to actually cause trouble for Tiamat, the forest or you guys."

He makes a huge relief sigh. "Thank you. In the past there were many who failed the trials and their family came to complain, even if there are rules against responsibility related to the trials."

I nod to him and watch them leave.

When I couldn't see them anymore I turned, took a deep breath and started to walk in Tiamat's direction.

I went on and on into Tiamat's territory and…. Wow. I could feel her power around the whole area. Even though my sisters guaranteed that she was an ally, I was starting to have second thoughts.

I looked around and noticed that there was a lot of mist. As the mist got denser I started kind of losing sense of where I was going. I'm almost sure that I was walking in a straight line so I just kept going.

But then out of nowhere. I was in a… theater? What the fuck.

I looked around and saw that there were many students and devils waiting for something. I knew that they were students because of the clothes, and the devils because their wings were out.

At the front there were people that I knew. My peerage. My family. Levi-tan and Sona. Sirzechs, who had a Tv remote controller, smiled at me and then pressed a button. I then turned to the giant screen and… Could see myself as a kid picking my nose. Then it changed to me holding a wet blanket and crying. Then me as a baby running from Grayfia as she tried to put me in clothes.

This is the trial? Me being humiliated? It 's.. kind of shitty but.. I was expecting worse?

I looked around and the people were always looking at the screen, then looking at me, then smiling.

… I take back what I said. This is fucking annoying. I get close to the giant screen and kick it, but I do no damage.

I do it with magic. No damage

I do it with POD. No damage.

Allright fuck this. I turn my eyes Red and start releasing my cursed POD around me.

It worked. I could see "reality" being corroded. But it wasn't that I was just that strong. It was a dumb mist from before.

Burn it

I managed to "grasp" the mist and release my power on it. It was like burning dry grass.

Stupid

Easy

When all the mist disappeared, I could feel a presence from a certain direction. It was deliberately releasing its power so that I would follow, so I did.

As I went deeper I could feel the air getting denser, like I could almost drink the magic power in the air. The gravity seemed to get heavier and heavier. I could feel like a giant monster was looming over me. I felt dread.

RUN

GO BACK

I had to keep reminding myself that this was a test or I would… Fuck I don't even know. Break down crying? Scream in anger? Just bolt it in the other direction? Fuck this was a shit Idea, Why do I have to be so fucking stupid. I could just had given it to fucking not-Ash Ketchum and be done with this. But NOOO I had to be a fucking dumbass about it. I'm going to fucking die, I did nothing in this life useful and now I'm goiռɢ ȶօ ʄʊƈӄɨռɢ ɖɨɛ ʟɨӄɛ ǟռɖ ɨɖɨօȶ, ɢʀɛǟȶ ʄʊƈӄɨռɢ ʝօɮ ʀɨǟֆ, ʏօʊ աɛʀɛ ʀɛǟʟʟʏ ǟ աǟֆȶɛ օʄ ǟ ʄʊƈӄɨռɢ—-.—-.

…The pressure stopped.

…

…

That was fucking horrifying, hell damn.

I was having a mental breakdown over just the feeling of the power of someone else.

Breathe in.

Inhale

Breathe out.

Exhale

I took a few seconds to calm myself.

When I was done I got out of the Red 1 mode and started looking around in my surroundings.

I was somehow in a cave. It was really dark, which was strange because devils, more or less, have some kind of night vision.

!

I saw something moving.

I started to look for the thing and little by little my eyes started to get accustomed to this dark.

…It was a tail.

I slowly look to see the rest of it. The four limbs with very sharp claws, the giant body covered by black– no, dark blue scales. And then I finally could see the giant face of the dragon.

I just stared at it without moving.

…Can I leave the letter here?... Yeah that sounds like a good Idea.

Logically I know that I won't be attacked… that said, my whole existence is telling me to leave so….

As I contemplated leaving I saw a giant yellow eye, bigger than my whole body, opening and staring directly at me.

-Tiamat-

…How amusing.

I do admit… It's been a while since someone tried reaching me through the "trials" and I have gotten carried away.

She somehow managed to destroy my illusion mist. This is the first time someone so young and weak was capable of dealing with it with brute force. She now had my attention.

I released my power a little bit more than I normally do in the second "trial" and She still did it!

Normally I have to either throw their unconscious body at the caretaker. Very few got to the third part, and those who did, took far longer than her to recover themselves.

I could feel her slowly starting to panic. But when I looked at her she completely froze. Until she did something and, in the span of 3 seconds, I felt her fear skyrocket and then immediately lowered as her eye turned yellow.

The fear was still there, but far more controlled.

I would have guessed that this was some new devil family bloodline that I had nor heard of, if it wasn't for the fact that she is almost like a clone of the current Lucifer.

I don't remember the last time someone who was far inferior managed to stand up to me. Not a devil at least.

I Simply continued to stare at her waiting for her reaction.

"..Hello" She tries to speak clearly but I can still hear the shaking in her voice. "Maou leviathan wanted to pass a message…" She slowly raises her hand with a letter.

Oh? So my trials were not the main purpose of her visit, huh? How daring.

I use my magic to raise the letter from her hand and bring the letter in front of me. When I opened it I could read "Turn your damn phone on."

… Ah. Probably it is about time for the new rating game season or something… or not… Whatever, I hibernated enough so might as well.

I shall deal with that later. Now, I have something more interesting to do.

I simply burn the letter and The girl flinches.

I continue to stare at her, Waiting for her to do something.

"Well.." She hesitates. "T-Thank you for having me." She starts to leave.

"Little Gremory" I called her and she froze. "Are you not going to try the last trial?"

She slowly turned towards me but did not look me in the eye. "...What does it entail?"

"It involves you facing your biggest fears. Prove to me that you are worthy and you shall receive your reward."

"...Then I am so-sorry. But I will not be taking the trial."

…Hoh? "And why is that?"

"... Because I will probably fail. I almost failed to reach here…. And… I know what my fears are." She now looks directly at me. "If it is something like your other illusion, then I will probably be far more… affected by it. Not only would I fail. I would probably be extremely…"upset" and lash out. I do not want that, even if I don't think I could actually damage you."

Hmm. "Then, can you tell me what your eyes' changing colors mean? Is it related to the power that dissipates my mist?"

"It's… By changing eye colors I get stronger and am capable of this." She shows her Power of Destruction. I've seen many different versions of the Bael power, but nothing like this.

"And I assume that they also affect your mental estate, correct?"

She nods.

Hm.

"I appreciate you telling me. For passing 2 of my trials and for giving me knowledge about your powers, I shall grant you a reward."

"...Are you sure? I almost failed the second part"

"I am. Although I said it was about the third trial, I wanted for you to prove to me that you are worthy. There is no shame In knowing your limits."

She loses a great part of her fear and now I can see her eagerly waiting for me to tell her.

"Are you in need of a familiar?" I ask her.

She doesn't react at first. Until she seemed to understand what I was alluding to. And it seems… reluctant.

"Oh you do not want one? Perhaps you desire to have ME as your familiar?"

"... No offence. But I don't think having someone far stronger than me and who probably has their own duties into a familiar, is a good idea."

"HA!" Many high ranking devils would kill for the opportunity to have me and yet this little girl had the gall to reject my offer, even if I wasn't serious! I almost want to force her to have me as a familiar now... Perhaps in the future when she is far superior than her current self.

I continued. "I have some different prizes depending on the person who cleared my trials. And since you haven't cleared the last one this prize is a CHANCE to get a familiar. So follow me."

I get up and start going into the cave and feel her behind me. We get to the part of the cave where I have a magic circle in the middle of it.

I turn to her and see her face scrunching as if trying to remember something and then recognition…

I'm guessing that she recognizes that this is a summoning circle and the true origin of this specific one.

"Little one… I've now noticed that we have not properly introduced ourselves. My name is Tiamat , one of the Great Dragon Kings." Very rarely I bother to learn about other devils so this escaped my mind.

"I am Rias, heir of the Gremory house. It's a pleasure to meet you." And she bows her head.

"Likewise." I then point at the circle. "Now this is a great summoning circle. Nobody knows where this circle came to be, just a book with instructions on how to make the circle and more or less than chant on how to activate it. In the past many people tried to find the secrets of it but it has never summoned an actual familiar."

"...What happens when you activate it?"

"It starts the process of summoning something. But instead of a familiar, it comes out at random objects. Bottles of rum, some very unique blades that are meant to stab who some called "black keys" and even food. The most prominent one was a very spicy food called "mapo tofu", it has a very nice flavour so I do summon it from time to time.

"Did it ever summon a living thing?"

"There were some times that it did. However, it once summoned a weird sludge entity that seemed eerily related to one of the persian gods, however their patheon claimed that it was not them. With that, people deemed this ritual as a failure and gave up on it. I only came across this one because one mage tried to tame me, regretted it and offered this lost and almost useless knowledge in exchange for his life."

She looks at me "...And what if I fail?"

"Then I will prepare something else for you. But the Gremory are known to have some luck so maybe you manage to succeed where countless failed." Very unlikely, but why not?

"Ok. So, Um. How do I do it?"

…She seems more accustomed to me and her and I now feel her greed. Should I try to scare her to respect me again?...

Well, she was quite respectful and interesting so I shall allow it.

"You need to make a chant on your own"

"... Wait, I have to MAKE a chant?"

"Yes"

"But… I've never made one. "

"Are you good at or like poetry?"

"No and no"

"Hm… then I guess we have to pass. This ritual specifically encompasses the user's will, so each person will have a different chant."

"Can I ask for help?" She raises her phone.

… Huh. I would have said no, but knowing Lucifer and her queen. I don't doubt that they would know some things about her, more than she knows herself.

"It is worth a try."

She started using her phone to message someone

I'm not sure that someone else could create a chant of you out of nowhere—

"I got it." She says.

What? "You already have a chant?"

She nods.

"How?"

"I texted Grayfia to help me make a summoning chant, and both she and Sirzechs already had some chants that they made in the past for me but never used. So they just adapted them to "summoning"."

"...As long as it works then it's fine. Get close to the circle, start giving your magic to it and start the chant." I move away from her closer to the wall. Far way to not get in the way of the summon but close enough to kill whatever is summoned in case it's harmful.

I nod to her to let her start and she nods back.

She follows the instructions and begins.

-Rias-

Alright… Let's do this.

I started sending magic towards the circle as I began to chant.

"O crimson night, woven with the power of destruction,

flames of the underworld, dance in my wake.

Let my will shape the abyss, let my soul call forth a bond eternal.

By my will as the Crimson Princess..

I command thee, spirit of the unknown.

Heed my voice, cross the veil of darkness,

And take form beneath the scarlet moon.

With my power as the heir of destruction,

With my heart as the binding seal,

I summon thee, a companion in battle, a guardian in chaos.

Come forth, Familiar with the Crimson Ruin! "

I continued to feed my magic to the circle but I felt that I was just wasting my mana until I noticed that the circle managed to "connect" with something, I assume that it is my familiar.

As I continued, my hand suddenly felt like it was burning, like I had the back of my hand in a fucking stove. Looking at it, I could see a red tattoo… I felt that this was familiar, but I couldn't stop the ritual now.

The circle kept on eating my magic but I somehow felt that, if I continued like I was, it wouldn't be enough and I wouldn't be able to finish the ritual. So I used my Red 1 mode to increase my power. Now I could feel the connection growing faster than before.

After a few seconds of this I almost couldn't hold it anymore but I felt the moment the circle stopped accepting my magic and assumed that I had done my part. I feel so fucking tired that I ended up falling to my knees.

I looked at it again and saw that the circle was now doing some weird rainbow light show in a, well, circular motion. I also felt the cave shaking a little bit… Fuck I hope that Tiamat isn't upset if something breaks.

When the light show ended, I could see someone.

It was a White haired, red eyed woman with a red-pink ribbon tied at the side of her hair and very… "exotic" clothes, I'm not sure how to describe but she has "something" that resembles a golden bra, "something" that resemble golden panties, and a transparent piece of cloth that goes from her neck to her thighs, kind of, but it's transparent so it covers absolutely nothing.

Wait. I know he— OH SHIT! It's fucking sakura from fate!

I almost didn't recognize her because of her hair and eyes… Wait Is she her evil one from the heaven's feel route?... Am I fucked?

No. Tiamat is here. She said she wouldn't let me get killed.

Sakura(?) starts floating toward my direction but doesn't appear to be hostile so maybe I'm good?

"I assume that you are my master?"

I nod to her.

She smiles and extends her hands to what I assume is for helping me get up.

I hesitantly accept it.

When I was almost up she suddenly pulled me. Our bodies were touching. I could feel her breath on my face. That was so sudden that I didn't even react.

"May I know the name of the one who I am going to serve?" she says in a flirty tone.

… I am half embarrassed because she is really good looking, but also half terrified of maybe-evil-sakura being dangerously close to me.

"R-Rias"

She laughs and says "Well Rias, or master if you prefer." She says in a husky note, but releases her embrace to let me stand up. "I would love to get to know you more but…" She turns to a direction. "There are some… unwanted voyeurs watching us."

I look in the direction but see nothing… but I can feel that there is "something" in the air. It's probably that mist from Tiam—- oh there she is.

Tiamat releases her mist as she appears in all of her glory while Sakura(?) gets in front of me with a bow that she took from somewhere…

Tiamat starts getting into a threatening pose while Sakura(?) Starts pulling the string of her bow.

Oh nice! She's protecting me so… I guess that she's cool?

… HOLD UP! THEY ARE GETTING READY TO FIGHT!

-Issei-

"Issei please be reasonable"

"I am being reasonable. I have the perfect buddy that shares my passion!" I hug the little in my arms.

I see Senpai's brow twitching. "...Issei, release the slime NOW!"

"NO!"

I sense her charging her thunder.

BOOST!

I dodged her attack.

She tries again.

I dodged again.

I could feel that she was actually going to start trying to seriously hit me as I prepared my boost until we heard a voice.

"What the fuck is going on here?"

We all turned towards the voice and saw Rias… being bridal carried by a… Very eroticaly dressed hot woman that seems very amused by the situation.

"...Why are almost all of you naked?"

All of the girls pointed at me.

I laughed a little "I- ah, um… got a familiar" I raised the blue slime in my hands. "Can— I keep it?" I hesitantly ask.

She stares at me tiredly, then at the slime.

The slime rised a thin part of their body and waved at her.

She didn't answer but made a sigh.

…That wasn't a no!

AN: Yo. new chapter.

I was going to only have 5k characters in the chapter… But I didn't want to rush it and do it in one page just to get familiar.

I might have liked to put more of Serafall, But I felt that the meeting was about Rias and Sona, so I shouldn't force her too much. I will bring her back at another time though.

New Characters:

Tiamat - I don't really remember her in canon. So the Tiamat from this fic has the personality and powers from Tomoe/Shen from Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu (Tsukimichi). If I bring her back in human form it would look like Tomoe but with dark blue hair.

Kama - This is the familiar who Rias thought was "Sakura". From Fate grand order.

About the familiar:

I know that in canon Rias has her bat familiar who gave issei the summon. And that in the anime she somehow is an armour that Rias used? (I didn't watch all of the anime). But I wanted Rias to have something different.

My first random option was Stitch from lilo and Stitch. But I felt that I was going to want to watch all of the series to understand more of him and the universe.

But when I was randomly looking for options I ended up in the fgo's page, just said "fuck it" And made a random number generator from the first servant until the last at the time to decide a servant for me. If it was something That I couldn't do, then I would just go back to decide on the familiar.

But It fell on the servant number 321, that is, Summer Kama. So since I like kama and I believe I can make a kama character (even if it becomes more OOC).

Also, for those who know her lore or the lore of the actual god of love, know that they are kind of related to "destruction" so it would make some kind of sense for Rias to summon her. And, of course, because I ended up really liking the Idea.

She is going to be kind of nerfed, of course. But I am going to use her in important parts.

About Tiamat:

I wasn't going to add too much of Tiamat initially, because I kind of don't really remember her (I read up to the shin dxd volume 1 for now).

So since I didn't really know what to do with her (in terms of personality) I decided to do it on my own. So when I invented the "dragons trial" thing, I ended up thinking of "mist"... And then I remember Shen/Tomoe from tsukimichi (before meeting the MC) and decided that my Tiamat was going to have Tomoe's personality and powers.

I don't know if I'll make her more important or just add her from time to time but I liked making her more of a character than just a person that would go "it's dangerous to go alone, take this!".

I was going to add more of Tiamat mentioning the dragon trials. Nothing major, just her rambling some trivia. But I felt that it would be just info dumb for now so I am going to let it for another time should I bring her back.

Rias chant:

I am going to be 100% honest. I am shit at making rhymes, chants or names. So I asked gpt to make a chant for Rias to summon a servant.

There were a lot of shit options so I kind of mixed them.

If it stole the chant from someone else please tell me so that I can credit them here.

Issei's Familiar:

Yes, She is getting the slime.

To finish:

Thank you for reading another chapter and see you at the next one.