(You all knew that this was going to be the title, don't act like you didn't!)
This is just the prologue, but I wanted to get this out quickly. I'll wait until I have more chapters ready.
Time to check in on the "Rescue Asagi" group.
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Dance in the Vampire Bund
Prologue
"Where are we?" Azazel asked as he looked around the large room with lots of boxes. The walls were white and dirty and the floors were covered in dirt.
"A safe house that I use to recover in case I ever get hurt." Ingrid told him. She walked over to a box and ripped the top off before pulling out a golden-colored straight sword. "Let's see, I believe..." She walked over to another box and ripped it open as several outfits came out. "Good." She grabbed one and pulled her shirt off before throwing it at Azazel. "You can use whatever you want." She said while pulling the top on.
"A body suit?" Chloe asked as she looked at what Ingrid was wearing. It was blue with a white strip pattern on the arms.
"It will keep my breasts from bouncing around everywhere." Ingrid told Chloe as she pulled it down and over her breasts. "It's really unfortunate that there's no bras that fit me properly."
"Well," Azazel chuckled softly, "are you sure you're not part-succubus? I was dating a Devil-succubus a few years ago. She had bigger breasts than you."
"Hmm," Ingrid tilted her head and shrugged, "perhaps. All I know is that my father was a fire demon and that's why I have this flame powers." She turned but paused when she saw Chloe in front of her, pointing a sword at her that looked exactly like the rapier in her hand. "Yes?"
"What is your plan?"
"I have to agree." Hotaru said as she fingered the device on her wrist. "You were on the same side as your former boss until just a little bit ago."
Ingrid sighed softly. "Very well. The truth is, I wish to speak to Edwin Black about why he abandoned me." She walked past Chloe and went to the door. "If I knew the reason why, I won't feel so bad about it."
Azazel raised an eyebrow. "You don't seem angry though."
"I am a Hell Knight and Black-Sama's personal bodyguard." Ingrid told him as she looked over her shoulder. "Regardless of my own feelings, I must bury them to do what is best for him. And right now, I just need answers."
Chloe narrowed her eyes as she saw Ingrid take a deep breath while grabbing the door handle. "What? Do you love him or something?"
"I have long accepted that any feelings I have for him will never be returned." Ingrid told them. "So long as I can be close to him, I am satisfied."
"That's..." Hotaru began, frowning softly and sighing. "I kind of understand." Ingrid looked at her and Hotaru sighed softly. "It was a previous life, but I wasn't exactly beloved by anyone back in those days. My mere existence was seen as a blight as I was only awakened to my power because a calamity was coming. But, my past life had some friends. The Senshi didn't abandon me, even if they couldn't be as close as they would have liked, it was enough for me to have them as my friends and I could always talk to them when we had time."
"You know," Azazel interrupted as he scratched his beard, "as much as I'd love to hear this story or hope that another one of you fine ladies would be willing to undress in front of me, we have one small issue," he pointed at Hotaru, "you should test that transformation item right now." He narrowed his eyes as he got serious. "If it doesn't work, I'd rather not find out if we get attacked."
"Fine." Hotaru nodded and looked at the device. "I guess I just press this button here." She pressed the gold button that was just over the back of her hand and she gasped as her body was flooded with power. Holding her left wrist up, a cocoon of energy washed over her and she felt her outfit changing.
When the energy died down, Hotaru looked around and saw a mirror on the floor and gawked at what she looked like. She knew it was going to be skin tight, but she didn't expect it to be a light black mesh bodysuit that clung to her with armored pieces over her chest, hips, crotch, forearms and her lower legs. 'Oh no, I can feel the armor doesn't cover my butt fully!' Hotaru wailed internally as she noticed that her face was covered by a helmet that looked like a motorcycle helmet.
"You look like something about of Kamen Rider or Super Sentai." Yukikaze, who had been quiet, spoke up as she looked at Hotaru. "Though, I have to admit, it makes your butt look good."
Hotaru slapped her hands over her butt and whined softly. "This isn't... Wait..." She trailed off as she realized something important. "Um..." She held her hands in front of her and gasped as a familiar object rested in her hands. "The Silence Glaive?"
"Interesting." Azazel muttered as he looked at the glaive in question. "I assume that thing shouldn't be accessible to you unless you're in your Senshi form, right?"
Hotaru nodded. "Yeah, it shouldn't be possible, but..." She trailed off as she hefted the Silence Glaive up and down, "I can actually feel a connection to my powers. It's muted, but it's there." She then spun the glaive around and tapped the ground with it. "I can't use my ultimate attack spell, but I can use my other ones. So we'll be fine."
"I'm glad you weren't there when we made our move initially, we would have been wiped out." Ingrid muttered to herself. "Either way, I want to warn you," Ingrid began as she opened the door, "there are some undesirables that roam around the Bund."
"Undesirables?" Azazel asked as everyone walked out of the safe house and were greeted with a rather stark sky that was pitch black, though Azazel could tell that the reason for it was due to heavy cloud cover. However, all of the buildings were bleached white in color with the doors and windows being dark in color. Even the streets were bleached white.
"What the hell kind of place is this?" Yukikaze asked as she looked around and winced. Even though the sky was black, everything was blinding white.
"The Bund. It has a different name, but we prefer the Bund as a name." Ingrid explained as they walked through the streets. Even though the visuals were striking and a bit disorienting, there were still people moving around in their day-to-day life, not giving them a second glance, and those that did seemed to give Ingrid a dirty look or just wanted to avoid her as best they could.
"You're popular." Yukikaze noted sarcastically. "What did you do? Kick a few puppies?"
"Something like that." Ingrid said as they turned a corner and walked towards a large structure on a hill in the distance. "That's our target."
"Nice castle, for an eyesore." Azazel muttered as he looked around. "All this white is giving me a headache."
"It used to have more colors." Ingrid said as they turned a corner, going onto a street that had a park that was empty. "We should hurry, the longer we're out, the sooner the undesirables will come."
"What do you mean by undesirables?" Hotaru asked as the group started to run and she was thankful that her new form at least gave her the ability to run like she had in her Senshi form.
"Failed experiments." Ingrid told them and she could feel their looks of surprise as they ran through the park. "When Black-sama took over the Bund twenty-five years ago, he had biologists create artificial life forms to search for those who were loyal to the previous ruler, but they ended up being failures and many of them escaped. He then brought in the Hell Knights, which I am a part of, to deal with those who were still loyal to the previous rulers."
Azazel said nothing as they walked, knowing that coups could be bloody and messy. 'It's not like I have any room to speak on rebellion or trying to overthrow an established leader.'
Hotaru was also silent as memories of her current and past life mingled together while she thought about what Ingrid said.
Chloe gave Ingrid a flat stare. "You certainly aren't a good person."
Ingrid gave her a raised eyebrow. "Good and evil are subjective. What you see as good and evil someone else might see otherwise."
"Sorry, but I must stop you right there." Azazel interrupted and had the others look at him. "While the lines can get blurry, especially as people have to sometimes make sacrifices for the greater good, good and evil aren't subjective in the slightest."
"A Fallen Angel is going to lecture someone on morals?" Chloe asked, bewilderment in her voice.
Azazel shook his head. "No, I have no room to speak on that matter, but do remember, miss Ingrid, I was created by God Himself, so I've met pure goodness and it was my mistakes that led me to becoming Fallen."
Ingrid nodded and motioned for them to follow her. "This way will be the fastest to the castle. There's a secret entrance not far from here so we can avoid problems." As they walked, they came across an empty park that had a tetherball, a slide, swings and other things that Azazel was surprised to see. "There are children in the Bund, the former rulers took inspiration from humans." Ingrid explained.
Hotaru looked around and got close to Yukikaze. "Hey, I feel like..."
"Yeah, we're being watched." Yukikaze said as they stopped suddenly. "I guess now's a good as time as ever..." She muttered to herself.
Suddenly, Ingrid swung her sword up as something crashed into it. She smirked as she saw just what she was blocking. The person in the air trying to crush her was wearing a hooded cloak, but due to their physique, it was easy to see that the person was female, as she has a large chest and blonde hair with curls. What was somewhat shocking was the large club she had in her hands. "Well, well, well, looks like you came to me this time." A black flame erupted from her arm, forcing the woman off of her as she slid back and away. "Still angry about that scar that I gave you?"
"You nearly removed my breasts, you bitch." A female voice that was familiar to Chloe spoke up as the person pulled off their hooded cloak, revealing a tall woman with long, blonde hair and striking blue eyes. She were wearing a red and black body suit that clung to her while she casually lifted her spiked club. "And you know that physical damage doesn't last long on my body."
"There's no way." Chloe whispered in surprise, before jumping away as lightning crashed down on where she had been a moment early. Azazel and Yukikaze both avoided it as well while Hotaru blocked the attack with her Silence Wall. She looked up and gasped in surprise as she saw who was floating in the air.
While the person's hair was mostly red, there were black and blue streaks in it, her green eyes were glowing brightly as she held a book in her hand and glowed with power. "I know her." Chloe whispered as she saw the witch's outfit that the girl was wearing. '...Even in another reality, she's still wearing a short skirt?' Everyone who looked up could see the girl's white panties.
Though Chloe did admit the witch's hat and the red cape looked good on her.
"There's others." Azazel said as a woman with blonde hair, generous curves, red eyes and sharp teeth walked up to them. "A vampire?" He asked no one in particular as he noticed a humanoid wolf man with blue fur behind the woman. "A werewolf working with a vampire?" He knew that on Earth that both werewolves and vampires hated each other.
"I don't know who you are." The woman said as the werewolf stood beside her. "But if you're working with the usurper, then I can only consider you my enemy. And since I don't see Black anywhere, now's the perfect time to get rid of the one who overthrew me." She snapped her fingers and suddenly a rain of light arrows slammed down on all of them from above.
Yukikaze pulled out her guns and was firing lightning magic up at the attacks while Azazel snapped his fingers and the arrows that were launched at him were met with another set of light arrows, causing explosions to fill the air and a thick cloud of dust to fill the air.
When the dust cleared, it was obvious that the attack from above had been unsuccessful.
Chloe grimaced, thankful that she had deployed several shields to block the attack, though she gasped at how badly damaged they were. 'These are all Noble Phantasms even!' Looking up, she looked to see who it was and her eyes widened as her pupils shrank in size. "N-no way."
In the air with six black feather wings coming out of his back was someone that she knew very well. Even if his hair was red with white streaks in it, even if his eyes were a lighter shade than she knew, she knew who it was as her she couldn't stop looking as he descended down while arrows of light surrounded him while pointing at them. "Miss Mina, this is our best chance to take her out."
"Of course, let's do this." The blonde vampire, Mina, said with a nod. "Finish them all!"
Chloe trembled as she looked at the man, her eyes watering. "O-on-ONII-CHAN!"
Even if they all looked somewhat different, she knew who they were.
After all, Rin and Luvia had put the cursed seal on her stomach while Shirou was her beloved big brother.
End Prologue
This is just the prologue, but I wanted to get this out quickly. I'll wait until I have more chapters ready.
Time to check in on the "Rescue Asagi" group.
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Dance in the Vampire Bund
Prologue
"Where are we?" Azazel asked as he looked around the large room with lots of boxes. The walls were white and dirty and the floors were covered in dirt.
"A safe house that I use to recover in case I ever get hurt." Ingrid told him. She walked over to a box and ripped the top off before pulling out a golden-colored straight sword. "Let's see, I believe..." She walked over to another box and ripped it open as several outfits came out. "Good." She grabbed one and pulled her shirt off before throwing it at Azazel. "You can use whatever you want." She said while pulling the top on.
"A body suit?" Chloe asked as she looked at what Ingrid was wearing. It was blue with a white strip pattern on the arms.
"It will keep my breasts from bouncing around everywhere." Ingrid told Chloe as she pulled it down and over her breasts. "It's really unfortunate that there's no bras that fit me properly."
"Well," Azazel chuckled softly, "are you sure you're not part-succubus? I was dating a Devil-succubus a few years ago. She had bigger breasts than you."
"Hmm," Ingrid tilted her head and shrugged, "perhaps. All I know is that my father was a fire demon and that's why I have this flame powers." She turned but paused when she saw Chloe in front of her, pointing a sword at her that looked exactly like the rapier in her hand. "Yes?"
"What is your plan?"
"I have to agree." Hotaru said as she fingered the device on her wrist. "You were on the same side as your former boss until just a little bit ago."
Ingrid sighed softly. "Very well. The truth is, I wish to speak to Edwin Black about why he abandoned me." She walked past Chloe and went to the door. "If I knew the reason why, I won't feel so bad about it."
Azazel raised an eyebrow. "You don't seem angry though."
"I am a Hell Knight and Black-Sama's personal bodyguard." Ingrid told him as she looked over her shoulder. "Regardless of my own feelings, I must bury them to do what is best for him. And right now, I just need answers."
Chloe narrowed her eyes as she saw Ingrid take a deep breath while grabbing the door handle. "What? Do you love him or something?"
"I have long accepted that any feelings I have for him will never be returned." Ingrid told them. "So long as I can be close to him, I am satisfied."
"That's..." Hotaru began, frowning softly and sighing. "I kind of understand." Ingrid looked at her and Hotaru sighed softly. "It was a previous life, but I wasn't exactly beloved by anyone back in those days. My mere existence was seen as a blight as I was only awakened to my power because a calamity was coming. But, my past life had some friends. The Senshi didn't abandon me, even if they couldn't be as close as they would have liked, it was enough for me to have them as my friends and I could always talk to them when we had time."
"You know," Azazel interrupted as he scratched his beard, "as much as I'd love to hear this story or hope that another one of you fine ladies would be willing to undress in front of me, we have one small issue," he pointed at Hotaru, "you should test that transformation item right now." He narrowed his eyes as he got serious. "If it doesn't work, I'd rather not find out if we get attacked."
"Fine." Hotaru nodded and looked at the device. "I guess I just press this button here." She pressed the gold button that was just over the back of her hand and she gasped as her body was flooded with power. Holding her left wrist up, a cocoon of energy washed over her and she felt her outfit changing.
When the energy died down, Hotaru looked around and saw a mirror on the floor and gawked at what she looked like. She knew it was going to be skin tight, but she didn't expect it to be a light black mesh bodysuit that clung to her with armored pieces over her chest, hips, crotch, forearms and her lower legs. 'Oh no, I can feel the armor doesn't cover my butt fully!' Hotaru wailed internally as she noticed that her face was covered by a helmet that looked like a motorcycle helmet.
"You look like something about of Kamen Rider or Super Sentai." Yukikaze, who had been quiet, spoke up as she looked at Hotaru. "Though, I have to admit, it makes your butt look good."
Hotaru slapped her hands over her butt and whined softly. "This isn't... Wait..." She trailed off as she realized something important. "Um..." She held her hands in front of her and gasped as a familiar object rested in her hands. "The Silence Glaive?"
"Interesting." Azazel muttered as he looked at the glaive in question. "I assume that thing shouldn't be accessible to you unless you're in your Senshi form, right?"
Hotaru nodded. "Yeah, it shouldn't be possible, but..." She trailed off as she hefted the Silence Glaive up and down, "I can actually feel a connection to my powers. It's muted, but it's there." She then spun the glaive around and tapped the ground with it. "I can't use my ultimate attack spell, but I can use my other ones. So we'll be fine."
"I'm glad you weren't there when we made our move initially, we would have been wiped out." Ingrid muttered to herself. "Either way, I want to warn you," Ingrid began as she opened the door, "there are some undesirables that roam around the Bund."
"Undesirables?" Azazel asked as everyone walked out of the safe house and were greeted with a rather stark sky that was pitch black, though Azazel could tell that the reason for it was due to heavy cloud cover. However, all of the buildings were bleached white in color with the doors and windows being dark in color. Even the streets were bleached white.
"What the hell kind of place is this?" Yukikaze asked as she looked around and winced. Even though the sky was black, everything was blinding white.
"The Bund. It has a different name, but we prefer the Bund as a name." Ingrid explained as they walked through the streets. Even though the visuals were striking and a bit disorienting, there were still people moving around in their day-to-day life, not giving them a second glance, and those that did seemed to give Ingrid a dirty look or just wanted to avoid her as best they could.
"You're popular." Yukikaze noted sarcastically. "What did you do? Kick a few puppies?"
"Something like that." Ingrid said as they turned a corner and walked towards a large structure on a hill in the distance. "That's our target."
"Nice castle, for an eyesore." Azazel muttered as he looked around. "All this white is giving me a headache."
"It used to have more colors." Ingrid said as they turned a corner, going onto a street that had a park that was empty. "We should hurry, the longer we're out, the sooner the undesirables will come."
"What do you mean by undesirables?" Hotaru asked as the group started to run and she was thankful that her new form at least gave her the ability to run like she had in her Senshi form.
"Failed experiments." Ingrid told them and she could feel their looks of surprise as they ran through the park. "When Black-sama took over the Bund twenty-five years ago, he had biologists create artificial life forms to search for those who were loyal to the previous ruler, but they ended up being failures and many of them escaped. He then brought in the Hell Knights, which I am a part of, to deal with those who were still loyal to the previous rulers."
Azazel said nothing as they walked, knowing that coups could be bloody and messy. 'It's not like I have any room to speak on rebellion or trying to overthrow an established leader.'
Hotaru was also silent as memories of her current and past life mingled together while she thought about what Ingrid said.
Chloe gave Ingrid a flat stare. "You certainly aren't a good person."
Ingrid gave her a raised eyebrow. "Good and evil are subjective. What you see as good and evil someone else might see otherwise."
"Sorry, but I must stop you right there." Azazel interrupted and had the others look at him. "While the lines can get blurry, especially as people have to sometimes make sacrifices for the greater good, good and evil aren't subjective in the slightest."
"A Fallen Angel is going to lecture someone on morals?" Chloe asked, bewilderment in her voice.
Azazel shook his head. "No, I have no room to speak on that matter, but do remember, miss Ingrid, I was created by God Himself, so I've met pure goodness and it was my mistakes that led me to becoming Fallen."
Ingrid nodded and motioned for them to follow her. "This way will be the fastest to the castle. There's a secret entrance not far from here so we can avoid problems." As they walked, they came across an empty park that had a tetherball, a slide, swings and other things that Azazel was surprised to see. "There are children in the Bund, the former rulers took inspiration from humans." Ingrid explained.
Hotaru looked around and got close to Yukikaze. "Hey, I feel like..."
"Yeah, we're being watched." Yukikaze said as they stopped suddenly. "I guess now's a good as time as ever..." She muttered to herself.
Suddenly, Ingrid swung her sword up as something crashed into it. She smirked as she saw just what she was blocking. The person in the air trying to crush her was wearing a hooded cloak, but due to their physique, it was easy to see that the person was female, as she has a large chest and blonde hair with curls. What was somewhat shocking was the large club she had in her hands. "Well, well, well, looks like you came to me this time." A black flame erupted from her arm, forcing the woman off of her as she slid back and away. "Still angry about that scar that I gave you?"
"You nearly removed my breasts, you bitch." A female voice that was familiar to Chloe spoke up as the person pulled off their hooded cloak, revealing a tall woman with long, blonde hair and striking blue eyes. She were wearing a red and black body suit that clung to her while she casually lifted her spiked club. "And you know that physical damage doesn't last long on my body."
"There's no way." Chloe whispered in surprise, before jumping away as lightning crashed down on where she had been a moment early. Azazel and Yukikaze both avoided it as well while Hotaru blocked the attack with her Silence Wall. She looked up and gasped in surprise as she saw who was floating in the air.
While the person's hair was mostly red, there were black and blue streaks in it, her green eyes were glowing brightly as she held a book in her hand and glowed with power. "I know her." Chloe whispered as she saw the witch's outfit that the girl was wearing. '...Even in another reality, she's still wearing a short skirt?' Everyone who looked up could see the girl's white panties.
Though Chloe did admit the witch's hat and the red cape looked good on her.
"There's others." Azazel said as a woman with blonde hair, generous curves, red eyes and sharp teeth walked up to them. "A vampire?" He asked no one in particular as he noticed a humanoid wolf man with blue fur behind the woman. "A werewolf working with a vampire?" He knew that on Earth that both werewolves and vampires hated each other.
"I don't know who you are." The woman said as the werewolf stood beside her. "But if you're working with the usurper, then I can only consider you my enemy. And since I don't see Black anywhere, now's the perfect time to get rid of the one who overthrew me." She snapped her fingers and suddenly a rain of light arrows slammed down on all of them from above.
Yukikaze pulled out her guns and was firing lightning magic up at the attacks while Azazel snapped his fingers and the arrows that were launched at him were met with another set of light arrows, causing explosions to fill the air and a thick cloud of dust to fill the air.
When the dust cleared, it was obvious that the attack from above had been unsuccessful.
Chloe grimaced, thankful that she had deployed several shields to block the attack, though she gasped at how badly damaged they were. 'These are all Noble Phantasms even!' Looking up, she looked to see who it was and her eyes widened as her pupils shrank in size. "N-no way."
In the air with six black feather wings coming out of his back was someone that she knew very well. Even if his hair was red with white streaks in it, even if his eyes were a lighter shade than she knew, she knew who it was as her she couldn't stop looking as he descended down while arrows of light surrounded him while pointing at them. "Miss Mina, this is our best chance to take her out."
"Of course, let's do this." The blonde vampire, Mina, said with a nod. "Finish them all!"
Chloe trembled as she looked at the man, her eyes watering. "O-on-ONII-CHAN!"
Even if they all looked somewhat different, she knew who they were.
After all, Rin and Luvia had put the cursed seal on her stomach while Shirou was her beloved big brother.
End Prologue