sword dragon and the phoenix -chapter – 23- the trickster and the gate
This chapter will cover episodes 4-5 of dxd born
as well as the second yuyu hakusho movie with both events happening at the same time
but with twists of my own that will tie it into the coming crossover chapter
Shirou pov
It was after the battle with Loki, we talked with our fallen angel advisor, and he said to me "since Thor got his original hammer back you don't need to complete your copy of it but since Thor doesn't feel like letting his original hammer any time soon, we are going to need your copy. How far along did you manage to get it." I said to him, "it was mostly done, I was working on a few more enchantments to make it usable without Thor's gloves and belt but didn't complete them and the structure wasn't complete enough to make more than maybe three hits max without breaking. I would still need to repair it after even one hit."
It was as I was talking to Loki, Yusuke said to Ravel and I "we have another problem, I need to head back to earth to help solve an issue the spirit world is flooding, and I need to head back. Kuwabara called me with an emergency message with Boton out of the picture and the others will need my help." Azazel then said "I have a feeling our two problems are connected, whoever did this likely planned it the same time the devils in the area were away. I will send you back to earth and be aware you will have no back up if things go badly." Then he said to me "try and get as much done with that hammer in one day, we are only that much time until Loki gets free." I then went back to my meditation chamber to work on the hammer and knew I had to try and save some energy for battle. before Yusuke left, Shirou handed him a box and said "give this to Hiei, it was a weapon I made while trying to make the two hammers I made, there are instructions on how to use it inside the box."
Issei pov
After Shirou left, we talked to the devil council about intercepting Loki before he could return. due to the fact we had to defeat Loki in a way without killing him with the ideal method being sealing him away and not letting him get the chance to escape to the ship of the dead, we had our work cut out for us and with the devil council only being able to sent a very limited number of people with Ravel's peerage minus Shirou and Yusuke and Sona included along with Rias' peerage and Irina and finally one of Odin's demigod daughters would be helping us. Then finally we also got the news, somebody was messing with magical communications throughout north America as well.
We soon arrived at the area Loki was sealed in and prepared to battle. As Loki appeared he soon summoned a Squid monster, serval wolf monsters and several different monsters from Norse legend that our new Valkyrie friend and Halsin named off. with many dragons among them. We had to at minimum force Loki and his army out of the underworld and at best find a way to secure him. Before we started to battle, Ravel, Rias and Sona promoted all the existing pawns to queens. Ravel's knight Jan soon started to attack the kraken in a made rage and I remembered that Shirou told me her getting used to the Modern world training involved watching terrible movies with Kraken's replacing proper Greek monsters. Many of the other members of our group had to help against the large squid and many of the other monsters while I prepared to fight Loki himself. But first we had to make our way through hordes of zombies.
But we were soon able to burn through and Saji was able to hold Loki while I was working my way to him. but the god soon used a massive magic attack on everybody and after it failed, we had to use some tears to recover for the next attack. But it was before he could Shirou teleported into the battlefield and said "Odin helped me get this hear and a dwarf aid in getting the hammer ready enough for battle. but the catch it is still too heavy for anyone but Issei to use and Issei would need a few boosts to use it himself. But before I could reach the hammer, I took a major bite from one of the wolves and knew I was in danger as I passed out.
Shirou pov
It was when Issei passed out, Koneko and Halsin and I each took turns trying to use the hammer to no luck. It was after that Koneko's sister and then a boy named Arthur came out and then looked on Mordred and Jan to say "I was wondering where those worthless cousins of mine ended up. It turns out they became devils, but I don't have the time to talk or fight now. but I will use my blade to claim Garm for my own.
It was while that happened Ravel ate my extra spicy curry to make herself cry on Issei enough to heal him so the boy could rejoin the fight. after that he boosted over and over enough to use and slam the massive hammer into the god. When the hammer him, the god said, "oh well I can't end the world this way but if any of you want to another chance to face me, come to my ship of nails on the frozen edge of the nine worlds if not you can face me on the fields of Ragnarök." After that, we started to clean up the mess of remaining monsters and did it with ease it was after that Odin showed up and gave me the Orphic hammer and I said to him, "I could use a way to get my younger peerage member now, I have a feeling things aren't going well for him." then Odin looked on and said "they very much aren't a very evil Yokai is trying to unleash the netherworld on Tokyo. I will get you there as soon as possible but there's normally a lag with these things."
Issei pov
With that we saw Shirou go on rainbow path Odin in tow and hoped we would see them soon. A few minutes later we teleported everyone back to the Gregory family home and gave a report to the three faction leaders about what was happening and what was coming. That Loki was intending to start Ragnarök the traditional way.
After that we headed back to the human world on the train and hoped by the time we got back it wouldn't be destroyed, but my brother said with the magical communication blackout spreading, we couldn't get back any faster. On the way back home, we had to work on makeup homework and study for the coming tests. But Thankfully Akeno helped me in exchange for a date after the world is safe. I did remember part of what the trio of leaders said about the end of the battle and that Loki would have to wait a few months before the ship could leave port and attack, so as long as Shirou and Yusuke could do his parts, we would be safe for a few months.
Yusuke pov
As I arrived at Genkai's shrine looking ragged, Kuwabara asked "why do you look so tired?" I replied with Loki is out and trying to wage war on the underworld." With that the fox boy gasped and said, "I can understand why nobody else is dealing with the issue on earth." I then replied "until Loki is down, we have no backup, I do have one bottle of phoenix tears but that's about all the support we have. So, what are we facing?" it was then the fox boy said, "the spirit world is flooded, we found Boton very hurt and with the spirit world down, the soul society are too busy to provide any assistance in this problem." Then Kuwabara said to me "I saved this girl Hinageshi from some Yokai, she claims to be a spirit guide." Then Genkai said "the spirit world being underwater is a sign of the balance between world broken."
It was then Hinageshi explained about the worlds of Japanese Buddhist afterlife, she said "there's the soul society, where people have to battle for their afterlives and its close to the asura realm, then there's the spirit world and that's close to heaven, after that is hell a place of punishment and recycling, then there's earth the realm for humans, then Hueco Mundo the hallow world is close to the animal realm, the is the demon world is the realm of exiled yokai and finally is the nether realm, it used to be another realm of punishment but over a thousand years ago in the blood war it was discarded after its ruler tried to join the enemy."
I then asked, "how is the nether realm returning and causing this imbalance?" I replied, Genkai replied with "likely Yakumo its ruler is using the chaos between Loki being free and whatever is going on among the Greek and Egyptian factions to attack." After that the young girl in shrine maiden garb that was Hinageshi said "so now the way to save the spirit world is to recharge five elemental sites in time."
But on the way to the earth site, we discovered it was under the power of the netherworld. We then headed to the next site, only to discover we were beat to it, and it was turned. But at the third spot, we made it just in time to meet an enemy. That enemy soon revealed himself to be Yakumo, and he soundly defeated me and took out the next site. But thankfully we left me alive, since the man felt me on no real treat.
The next site, we found Kurama about to turn the site to our side, but Kurama met a bat yokai that seemed like one of his ex-girlfriends and she took out the site. After that we arrived at the final site to see Kuwabara in battle and he had faced a copycat yokai, but Kuwabara used a trick to drain the enemy's power and leave him weak to a physical attack. But as that fight was done, Yakumo was the final site. With that the only way to win would be to defeat Yakumo before it was too late, thankfully the mist was preventing normal people from noticing but its things reached the critical stage it would be too late as well. Thankfully after that battle, we had some time to recover before Yakumo could make his next move.
But I soon found out that the next move was to attack Boton and steal what was leaving her in a weakened state, it was the power sphere of the netherworld, and he managed to steal it after leaving me and the others at the shrine defeated. I was just hoping the rest of my peerage or at least Shirou could arrive soon but the time displacement between the underworld and the human world was making things event harder. It was while I was sulking over the defeat, I thought about the box Shirou left and used my whistle to call Hiei. Then when he came, I handed him the box and said, "big brother Shirou made this and said you should have it." it was then he opened the box and said, "this a nice holy sword, not my usual style but I will take it and try it out, your brother is a good sword maker." After that I heard Kurama on a phone, and he blushed and said, "that was my girlfriend." Then he blushed and showed us a picture of a tomboyish girl with white hair with a single red highlight, her name is Towa Higarashi and she's a hanyou, with her father being a dog yokai." With that I decided to leave him alone.
Not long after that, I gathered the team together to prepare to face Yakumo and the first person we faced was a female bat yokai and not long into the battle, we figured this yokai was copying Kuruma's old girlfriend and was quickly killed. With that we ran to face the next general and he started by trying to control our shortest team member and mentioned trying to make him attack Yukina but as that happened, Shirou's blade glowed and then exploded, and a silver dragon came out of it and destroyed the yokai as I remembered that the dragon within Shirou was a dragon of justice and wouldn't stand for such acts. Said dragon then went inside Hiei's hand and he asked me "what did that sword do to me and how do I undo it?" I replied, "you would have to ask Shirou himself, he didn't tell me."
After that he had to rest and said he would meet up with the rest of us soon. It wasn't much longer that our group made it to the place that Yakumo was planning to revive the netherworld, and I saw him in a new more powerful form. I then tried to fight him over and over until my other friends joined but kept failing. But after my more failed shot, a rainbow seemed shotting at the temple and as it got closer, a I noticed it was Shirou in full armor, and he was holding a hammer. Then said hammer came down and crushed Yakumo's head in one shot.
After that, from he looked wiped out and then came a fox woman from the shadow. But as Kurama saw this fox woman he said, "this person is much stronger than Yaksha." Said woman then spoke up to us with an accent that sounded old and lusty "my name is Tamamo Vitch Koyanskaya and you kids ruined my plans, but I can try again soon and have no need to face a worn out dragon, a yokai blooded pawn, a bastard son of a yuki-onna and welp of a fox yokai would be no fun to kill now. none of you have the strength to even provide me a little entertainment. If that damned so called emperor did have my tails, I wouldn't have to use filth like that. With that she vanished into mist. With both Kurama and Hiei seemed to let out a breath and Kurama said, "that woman couldn't be Tamamo no Mae and if she was, we just dodged a bullet." It wasn't long before the city went back to normal with humans blaming all the damage on earthquakes.
Issei pov
It was a few days after we got back home, I had a date with Akeno not long into said date, we ran into Shirou with Jan who were also on a date. But not long after that, we ran into and old man with a beard and a patch over him eye. Said man was revealed to be Odin and he told us "Loki moved to the ship of nails and is preparing for Ragnarök if you want to face him, I can arrange travel. But that's months away." then he turned to Shirou and said, "there's someone watching you and if what my elf student told me is right the person watching is aligned with your brother and he will soon call you to aid him and when you do bring that fiddle your in-laws gave you."
Chapter end
Next chapter Ichigo and Shirou will team up to face the armies of zombies and the armies of the two emperors and stop them from destroying new Rome
After that Shirou will have to deal with the present his brother gave and have to deal with his new family and dark plots around it
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