Ranma ½ Dance with the Devil

[Nanya]

Chapter 16

"Alright, Crom, here I come! Double... Balance Break!"

Ranma was engulfed in a light that, when it faded, left him engulfed in the same scale mail armor that Jedah had used against him, Issei and Vali. There was a difference though, where Jedah's armor had looked something like a tiger, Ranma's armor looked more like a tie-dye shirt as the faded blue and orange were in a swirling pattern on his body.

Crom grinned as his golden eye glowed brightly while large wings erupted from his back. "Bring it!" He yelled while glowing brightly.

"I will!" Ranma returned while his body was encased in a purple glow.

Gabriel, Puck, Miko, Yaku and Fubuki, along with the remaining Devils and Fallen Angels, as the remaining pure Angels were either dead, unconscious or Fallen, watched as a black and gold streak of light took off into the air, only to be matched by a purple streak as they flew through the air and crashed against each other in a high speed duel.

"Impressive," Puck nodded as he hovered in the air near Gabriel, "to think that one would fight so hard for someone who doesn't share his bed." He smirked at the blonde Angel. "I wonder how hard he would fight for one of his women." Gabriel didn't say anything as she watched the fight continue on.

Seeing gouts of golden and blue flame, along with white and black lightning fill the sky, Miko sweat-dropped as she looked at Fubuki and Yaku. "Are we SURE that there's a barrier up to stop anyone from seeing this?"

"I hope so." Fubuki muttered, because the last thing they needed was to try and clean up THIS mess after what happened back in Tokyo.

In the air, Ranma grimaced as Crom punched him in the face so hard that it shattered half of his helmet. "That hurt."

"Boost."

Crom grinned as his left hand was engulfed in black lightning while he punched at Ranma, who flew up, but the electrical energy suddenly burst out and flew up at him as well.

"Divide."

When the attack hit Ranma, the power was reduced, which allowed Ranma to fly down, using gravity to increase his speed as he drove his feet into Crom's stomach. The Evil Dragon grunted as he was driven down before his eyes gleamed and he grabbed Ranma's legs, twisting in the air and slamming his opponent into the ground while flapping his wings to stay in the air.

Through his cracked helmet, Ranma smirked at Crom. "Hey, Crom!" He yelled as he got to his feet. "You forgot something." Crom looked at him in confusion as Ranma's wings flashed behind him.

"Divide."

Crom Cruach grunted as he felt his power start to bleed out of him. He suddenly grinned and laughed before cupping his hands to the side where black and gold energy pooled together as energy charged up.

"Oh crap." Ranma muttered as Crom's entire body was glowing gold and black.

"Boost."

The increase to his stats was very thankful as it allowed him to increase his speed to escape what was going to happen next.

"HA!" Crom yelled as he snapped his arms forward and Ranma was forced to dodge as a giant gold and black beam of energy slammed into where he had just been.

"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU DOING SOMETHING THAT CRAZY FOR?!" Ranma yelled at Crom, who merely grinned at him while his eyes glowed. "You seriously watched THAT anime?"

"It had Dragon in the title!" Crom yelled back at him. "I was curious. I can't help it that I'd love to face those warriors in battle!"

Ranma was grimacing mentally. 'Okay, even with half his power drained, this guy's still stronger than me.' He knew he was completely outmatched. He knew, even with this powerful Sacred Gear he was using that he would only be able to match Crom.

The grin that came to his face matched that of Crom's grin. "It's too bad that I have to fight you like this." Ranma said as he shook his arms. "It's been fun, but I've got someone important to me to save."

Suddenly the sky was filled with points of light that caused everyone to look around in confusion.

"Enough already." An annoyed voice said as the sound of feathers was heard, revealing Shemhazai. Around him were dozens of other Fallen Angels. "If you wanted to fight, you should have done it in a rural area or in Hell." He said to Ranma and looked at Crom Cruach. "Surely even a battle maniac like you knows that this fight is over."

A crackle of lightning caused Crom to look up to see Baraqiel hovering in the air.

"What the hell?" Puck said as footsteps were heard and he turned to see Azazel walking towards him. "Wait! This one said..."

"Mentors were not allowed to go with Ranma." Azazel nodded. "Indeed, but neither Shemhazai nor Baraqiel are Ranma's mentors, they're my allies, I simply followed along with them." His joking mood was completely gone as he glared at the Fae. "Now, I'm sure that you're plenty powerful, but is it worth trying to keep this fight going when this is risking spilling out into the general populace?"

Puck looked around and shrugged. "Ah well, this one had his fun." He snapped his fingers and the chains that were holding up Gabriel disappeared, allowing her to fall to her knees as Ranma, who dismissed the Balance Break, ran over to her. "It has been fun, goodbye." He said before disappearing.

Crom chuckled as he flapped his wings and landed on the ground. "That was fun, I'll have to do it again some time."

Ranma looked back at him. "Come to Makai, there's some wastelands that we can pick this fight up later."

Crom just grinned and nodded before disappearing in a black flash of light.

Ranma pulled off his shirt and gave it to Gabriel, who smiled as she put it on. "I can't imagine that was easy on you."

"It wasn't." Gabriel said as she rolled her shoulders and winced. "Being drained of my power really hurts too." She looked at the various Fallen and Devils that were being rounded up. "What about them?"

"We'll take them into custody." Azazel said and looked at one of the Fallen, who was naked and bound by Miko's tentacles. "Her as well, though..."

"I have to ask her something." Gabriel said as she looked at Cassiel. "Was this everything you wanted?" She asked while looking at someone she had considered a friend with a sad expression. "Why did you not talk to me? I would have listened."

"Would you?" Cassiel yelled, her freshly darkened wings shaking behind her, "Heaven could hardly afford to lose any more Angels and you..." She trembled in anger. "You went and got into a relationship with someone who is a Devil! How could you betray us like that?!"

Miko looked at Ranma, who nodded and she let Cassiel go, causing the freshly Fallen Angel to land on her ass loudly.

"That's enough of that." Azazel said before nodding to Shemhazai. "We'll get these ones out of here and clean up. You kids should get home." He smirked, "it's past your bed time anyway."

"Asshole." Fubuki muttered, but didn't argue as she, Miko and Yaku all left after Ranma, who picked up Gabriel and was carrying her out of the area in a bridal carry.

Shemhazai raised an eyebrow and looked at Azazel, who was looking at Gabriel whistfully. "...She fell for him, didn't she?"

"Maybe." Azazel said with a shrug. "Alright, let's get this place cleaned up before people find out what happened."

The other Fallen Angels all agreed and the clean-up began.

End Chapter 16

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Wrapping up this story real soon.

 

[Nanya]

Chapter 17

It was several hours later that found Ranma walking out of the bathroom at his old place in Kuoh while he ran a towel over his head.

"Do you always walk around in a white tanktop and pants or are we just special?" Fubuki asked while grinning at him while she was laying on the couch, reading some manga. Yaku and Miko were sitting on some chairs and watching television before looking up to see Ranma walk down the stairs.

"Well, I could walk out here naked, since my parents aren't in town, but I'm not in the mood to get laid."

Fubuki smirked at him as she sat up. "Why not? The three of us could show you a hell of a good time."

Ranma rolled his eyes. "I'm not into casual flings. Don't have anything against them, but if I'm going to fuck anyone, I'd rather be able to go back to them more than once."

"Well, aren't you romantic?" Fubuki's smirk turned into a grin. "Well, if that's the case, if you don't mind, I'd like to make a request."

"I'm not fucking you in your Shikima form." Ranma answered, causing Fubuki to face-fault off of the couch. "That looks like it hurt."

Fubuki growled as she pulled the manga off of her face and stood up. "No! I was thinking about having you hire me as a long term ninja retainer." She stood a bit more straight as she presented herself to him. "One, I only use my Shikima form when I need to kill someone. Two, I'm curious about the larger world of the supernatural and according to Miko, you've got connections to China and Europe."

"I was thinking of heading to South America or Africa in a few years." Ranma mused. "They've got to have their own legends and gods there too, right? Even if they're all dead for whatever reason, I like to learn about that stuff. Besides, who knows what lives down there?"

"And that's what I mean." Fubuki said with a grin on her face. "Besides, you're the king of Makai, you need a bodyguard. No matter how strong you are, you need someone who can take out threats that you can't see."

Ranma cupped his chin in thought and nodded. "Not a bad proposal, but I have one question for you." Fubuki tilted her head and nodded. "Are you any good at cleaning?" He chuckled at her confused look. "We need maids to clean the castle and take care of stuff around the place. If you're serious about being a retainer..."

"I'm no maid." Fubuki gave Ranma a flat look. "Though I am better at cleaning than Miko is."

"And I tried so hard." Miko said with tears coming out of her eyes. "It's not my fault that I'm bad at cleaning."

"Would you rather wear a suit and tie and be a butler?" Ranma asked with a smirk as Fubuki glared at him. "Relax, you don't have to be a maid, but we'll need to talk to Lilith about your role. Bodyguard isn't a bad idea."

Fubuki grinned and Ranma looked at Yaku, who shook her head. "Nah, I don't want anything. I mean, unless you know how to control werewolf transformations."

Ranma shook his head. "Nope, sorry, not something I've personally come across. I suggest you go to the school in the morning and ask to meet with a few people. Rias Gremory might know, or the student body president, her name's Sona, she might know, and I know that Azazel would know better than anyone about that stuff. Why?"

"I have my reasons." Yaku said.

Fubuki smirked at her friend. "She's a werewolf that can only transform when there's a full moon and she's horny."

"HEY!" Yaku yelled as she got up from her chair and jumped at Fubuki, who grinned and grabbed Yaku out of the air, drove her feet upwards into Yaku's stomach, knocking the air out of the green-haired girl and then slamming her onto the ground, face-first while pinning Yaku down. "Oww! Just because you don't have boobs doesn't mean you can just abuse mine and YEOW!" Yaku cried out as Fubuki slapped her ass hard. "That hurt, Fubuki!"

"As you can see," Fubuki grinned at Ranma, "I'm pretty quick on my feet."

Ranma shrugged as Fubuki got off of Yaku, who got to her knees and cradled her boobs in her arms. "Alright, we'll talk to Lilith and figure out what to do with you. And, you?" He looked at Miko. "I can somewhat understand Fubuki, but why are you still here?"

Miko blushed lightly and looked away, muttering something.

"I didn't catch that and I can hear your heart beating." Ranma told her, causing her to look at him in confusion. "I'm a Devil, did you forget? Supernatural hearing, I can hear people having conversations from blocks away, so, what did you say?"

Miko took a deep breath and slowly let it out. "Fine, I want to join your group. What do you call it? A peerage or something?" Ranma gave her a flat stare.

"What?"

Miko groaned and hung her head. "Dad isn't happy about the fact that I left to help you out and told me that the only way he'd forgive me is if I had a kid and..."

"You do," Ranma interrupted her, emphasizing the second word, "realize that I can knock you up without needing to turn you into a Devil, right?" Miko gave him a confused look and he twitched. "...Did you think that Kuroka and Yasaka were part of my peerage?"

"...They aren't?" Miko asked, a dumbfounded look on her face. "But Kuroka's a Devil and Yasaka's your wife and..."

Ranma hung his head and shook it. "Look, if you want to have a kid with me, I won't say no, not right now, but you don't need to be turned into a Devil for that."

"Oh," Miko chuckled and rubbed the back of her head. "I guess I never bothered asking, my bad."

"Told you that you were thinking too hard." Yaku said as she shook her head. "Stupid ditz."

Miko had an angry expression on her face. "Hey!" Tentacles slid out from her back. "Let's see you, oww!" She yelled and rubbed her head, looking up at Ranma, who gave her a dirty look. "What?"

"I don't want to clean the mess up that you two would make if you got into a sexcraft battle here." Ranma told them and turned around. "If you'll excuse me, I need to check on Gabriel."

After Ranma left, Yaku gave Fubuki a dirty look. "Did you have to be so rough? Urgh, I know that you wanted to help us sell that you're a good ninja, and you are, but you didn't need to be so rough. My poor boobs are hurting."

"Aww, lemme kiss them and make it better." Fubuki said as she pulled Yaku's shirt up, letting her very large breasts flop out before she started licking and kissing them.

Miko stared before squirming. "Didn't Ranma say something about a training room in the back?" She gulped at the looks her friends gave her. "Oh come on, just because I have tentacles and a dick and..."

"Well, better you than some random asshole." Fubuki said as she and Yaku went over to Miko, grabbed her and dragged her to the dojo. "Besides, what you did to that Angel was hot, do it to me."

"And me!" Yaku grinned.

Miko sighed and hung her head as she was dragged into the dojo where her friends stripped naked and she joined them a moment later.

Besides, her dick was hard and she needed to get off.

(---)

Ranma paused as he walked to the guest room where Gabriel was. "Asmodues?" The mini-girl was looking somewhat thoughtful. "What are you doing here?"

"Making sure no one tries to hurt my sister." She answered Ranma while not looking at him. "Despite how things ended up, my brothers and sisters, even though we ended up at war with each other, I did love them."

"I'm... Kind of surprised that you still felt that way about them." Ranma answered her.

"I know, I'm weird." She smiled as she looked at him. "The biggest ball of horny the universe has ever seen, joined with three of my brothers and a bunch of selfish humans, waged war on my former family and yet I didn't want any real harm to come to them. If we hadn't been in a war, I probably would have had a rivalry with Azazel for having large harems." She shook her head. "Or maybe I would have ended up in his bed? I don't have a problem with that thought." Asmodues paused and nodded as she turned in mid-air to fully face Ranma. "Enough of me, I wonder though, do you love her?" Ranma blinked in confusion. "Gabriel I mean." She floated over to Ranma and patted him on the forehead. "I know that you have a lot of lust, but..." The tanned Devil smiled as she floated backwards. "You have a heart full of love for those who are closest to you. Don't fight your feelings. If she has them for you, embrace them."

"...Why tell me this?" Ranma asked her.

"Because I want her to be happy." Asmodues said softly. "I know you wouldn't do anything to make her Fall, but I doubt you would have fought so hard for someone you didn't truly care about."

She floated off, leaving Ranma to think about what she said.

(---)

In the guest room...

Gabriel, in a robe, smiled as she talked to Michael over an audio connection, which was indicated by a magic circle by Gabriel's ear. "I thank you for your concern, but right now I cannot return to Heaven. The time I spent chained up seems to have drained me of a significant portion of my strength. Thankfully being freed has allowed for it to return, but I think it will take all day."

"If you are certain that you are safe, I can arrange for young Irina to come and bring you home."

Gabriel closed her eyes and nodded. "Should my powers not be recovered to sufficient levels by dawn's first light, then I shall give her a call. There's a couple of things that I must do here first."

"I see, and what of the Angels who betrayed us?"

Gabriel's face was sad. "They are either dead or have Fallen. ...I fear we may need to have Lilith give another boost to Father's system to create new Angels. I... One of the betrayers was Cassiel, someone whom I was considering to be my backup in case something happened to me."

"...I see." Michael said with a soft sigh. "That is most unfortunate. Is she dead?"

"No, she was... Well, she became a Fallen and Azazel took her."

"I guess I shall have to give our brother a call."

There was a knocking at the door and Gabriel nodded. "I must go now, Lord Michael, I shall return to Heaven in the morning."

"Of course." Michael said as the connection ended and the magic circle ended.

"Come in." Gabriel said as the door opened and revealed Ranma, who looked in. "Hello."

"Hi." Ranma said as he walked into the room. "How are you feeling?"

"Better." Gabriel said as she rolled her shoulder. She walked over to the bed and sat down on it, patting the area next to her. "Please, join me. I wish to talk." Ranma nodded and sat down next to her. "Thank you," she smiled at him, "for saving me."

Ranma waved her off. "You don't need to thank me."

"Yes, I do." Gabriel said with a nod. "Father always instructed us to be thankful to those who deserve it." She smiled softly before her visage became sad. "I realize something. When I was captured, I was worrried that I was going to become a Fallen... When you were fighting, I could only worry about you. But at the same time..."

"Yes?" Ranma asked as he put a hand on her shoulder. "What?"

Gabriel sighed again. "Thinking about what Cassiel said to me. About how I was betraying Heaven for courting you. Maybe she was right? Maybe I put my own feelings ahead of my duty?"

"Maybe." Ranma nodded as he looked at the wall while Gabriel looked at him. "But is it wrong to want personal happiness? I understand duty and honor. There was something my magic teacher told me. He told me that if duty and happiness interfere with each other, you need to figure it out. Sometimes the right thing to do is follow your duty, but if it's too heavy..." He trailed off and shook his head. "So I've lived my life that way. Do my duty when I have to, but never let it consume me to the point I feel nothing but disgust towards it."

"...I wish I could be that free." Gabriel said softly. "But maybe..."

"Maybe the reason that this happened the way it did..." Ranma trailed off as he speculated, "well, maybe it's because there was no communication?" He looked at Gabriel, who was confused. "Maybe the reason that this happened was because we weren't as open about it as we could have been." He smiled at her and cupped her cheek before leaning in and kissing her on the lips softly, which she returned.

After breaking the kiss, Gabriel was blushing hard. "M...Maybe I should call all the Angels of Heaven together and make an announcement?"

Ranma nodded as he lowered his hand. "Yeah. Let them know that we're dating. Ask them what they think. If they have concerns about you being able to do your job..."

"Yes." Gabriel nodded and hugged Ranma, closing her eyes and sighing happily as he hugged her back. "Thank you."

"You don't need to thank me." Ranma chuckled softly. "I really do like you, Gabriel, I..." Ranma trailed off and the two let go of the hug as they felt a build-up of power and the two looked up as two people appeared in the room. "Puck and... Who's that?" The second person was short, about the height of Koneko, but covered in a hooded cloak.

"That one does not have a name." Puck said with a smile on his face. "And Puck was listening in and may have used magic to send the big boss of the white wings a video of what was going on in this room. Or not, who knows?"

Gabriel frowned at him. "Please, why are you here?"

"Well, first of all..." A black sword appeared in his hands and he held it out for Ranma to take. "Puck forgot to return this."

Ranma took the sword from him. "...Thanks?" He said while dismissing it into his subspace pocket.

"Secondly, Puck has to leave this one with you." Puck smiled and slapped the person on their back, causing them to stumble forward while the cloak was pulled off of them, revealing a young-looking person with white hair that had orange stripes in it while wearing a vest over their chest and black panties.

What drew Ranma and Gabriel's attention though, was that this person had cat ears and two tails.

"Who?"

The girl suddenly threw herself to her hands and knees and bowed her head. "Please forgive me!"

Ranma was confused and looked at Puck for more information. "What's going on?"

"See, this one was created..." Puck said while walking up to the Nekoshou and putting his food on her back. "From all the souls of the cat people that were exteriminated by Devils and thus she tried to get revenge and..."

"I almost harmed your children!" The nekoshou cried out. "In my pursuit of revenge!"

"Well, after that debacle," Puck continued to speak as though she hadn't interrupted him, "Puck decided to tie up loose ends, summoned at Cat Sith to send all the souls to the next life, but to this one's shock," he grinded his foot against her backside, "one soul remained, but with the memory of what she did."

Ranma sighed heavily. "You know, I'm VERY tempted, right now, to ask Gabriel to purge the remaining soul in that body. After hearing what you tried to do to my family and..." He paused as he felt Gabriel give his hand a squeeze. "What?"

Gabriel smiled at him. "Perhaps you should give her a chance to earn her forgiveness?"

The Nekoshou was looking at Ranma with tears in her eyes while trembling. "Please... I just want to live. I have the feelings of everyone who was exteriminated and all of them just wanted to live."

Ranma looked at her and sighed, his shoulders slumping. "Fine, I won't have you purged... Jackie."

"Jackie?" The other three in the room asked at the same time.

Ranma shrugged. "I don't know, that was the first name that popped into my head. But if she wants to earn everyone's forgiveness..." A slow grin came to his face. "Fine, you will work for me, as a maid, in a tiny mini-skirt."

"...Why?" Gabriel asked and Ranma shrugged.

"Mostly because it would be more embarrassing for her." Though, that was only the biggest reason.

He did have one more reason.

After all, she was a petite girl with a large butt.

A sudden realization came to Ranma as he mentally sighed when he realized what he thought. 'I am never going to get away from that lolicon label, am I?'

Gabriel looked at Puck. "I have a question for you, if you would answer for me."

"This one sees no problem with answering." Puck said as he leaned back. "What is it?"

"How come you were able to hold me in that spell?" She asked him. "Even if you are strong, I should have been able to escape it by the time Ranma came to save me."

"Well, for one, your powers were being drained." Puck said while holding up a finger. He held up a second finger. "The second reason is that I, like all Fae, can enhance any spell or magical item beyond what it could normally do." He smiled at her. "A spell that could hold a mid-level white winged could be easily enhanced to hold you and your greatest rival of the bat wings."

"I see..." Gabriel said.

"This also includes those Sacred Gears that your creator made." Puck told her, causing both her and Ranma to gasp in surprise. "Queen Mab told me that she wanted her daughter, Alfea, to have one of the god-slaying Sacred Gears. With a Fae's natural ability to enhance magical items, even Lord Oberon would have been defeated with ease." Puck floated upwards. "Well, it's time for this one to go. I did enjoy our time together."

"Let's not meet again." Ranma told him and Puck laughed before disappearing.

Gabriel knelt down next to the newly named Jackie and helped her to stand up before smiling at her. "Welcome, young one, you will have to earn forgiveness from those you have wronged, but I am certain that you will obtain it if you wish for it in earnest."

Jackie nodded while trembling and hugged Gabriel, who was surprised, but she smiled and patted Jackie on the back to soothe her.

End Chapter 17

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Oh hey, this is technically the last chapter. Time to wrap this all up.

...In a 5 part epilogue.

 

[Nanya]

Time for the epilogues!

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Epilogue

In Makai...

Nabiki looked to the side as she saw a blinking red light floating in the air. Smirking, she pressed it, causing a screen to appear in front of her, revealing her older self. "I was wondering when you'd call back."

"I knew you'd realize that I'd call you again." Her future self chuckled. "And I want to congratulate you."

"Before you do, can I ask you how you mastered your Balance Break." Nabiki interrupted. "I can't see any possible way to control it without some sort of device."

"That's true." Her future self said with a nod. "It's impossible to control that level of omniscience with the human brain alone. But there are devices that exist in the universe that can help you control it." She winked at her younger self. "That's all I'll say on that. As for why I'm calling, it's because you avoided our timeline."

"I assume that it has something to do with what you wouldn't let Irina say?" Nabiki asked and her future self nodded and sighed. "Alright, what happened?"

"Well, when Irina fell from Heaven, there was a Rating Game just like in your timeline." Nabiki nodded as her future self continued. "Well, when Miko showed up during the Rating Game, she didn't hold back and used her tentacles on Irina and Ranma both."

"Because Irina was a Fallen, there was no reason for any morals in Miko's mind to stop her from getting raped that day." Nabiki surmised and her future self nodded.

"Yeah, well, Ranma wasn't happy about that after his Sacred Gear activated and he fucked Miko to death by absorbing everything from her."

Nabiki gawked in surprise. "...That didn't happen here. Ranma stopped after one round. I have the video."

"I have the video from my timeline." Nabiki's future self said as she scratched the side of her head. "Well, because that took so long, Issei made his way to the Well of Lost Souls where Jedah was waiting for him and then Issei found out that Rias was pregnant with his child."

"Issei activated his Mastered level of Balance Break when Jedah tried that here." Nabiki saw the troubled look on her future self's face. "...What?"

"It was his Juggernaut drive and he nearly killed Jedah during their fight. But he started puking blood when Ranma and Vali both showed up to stop him. Jedah took the time to escape with his injuries, taking Valerie and Bennia with him."

"I guess Lilith took longer with Morrigan or they didn't fuse."

"They did fuse." Her future self told Nabiki. "But it took awhile for it to happen."

"Lovely." Nabiki grimaced as she thought about that kind of mess. "So, what happened after that? Since we're not on the same timeline, I assume it's okay to talk about."

Her future self nodded. "Well, a month after the Rating Game debacle, Issei and Ranma got a lead on Jedah and went out to face him..." Future Nabiki trailed off and sighed heavily. "During that time, King Sekima, in his rage over losing his daughter, found the Heart of the Shikima realm."

"...Wait, what?"

"It's a powerful item." Future Nabiki answered. "Anyone who has it can do things that even most of the Gods of this world couldn't do. But he used it to create Shikima tentacles to attack everywhere in the world at the same time. Earth, every pantheon, Hell and even Heaven."

"No..." Nabiki gasped with wide eyes. "He..."

"Gabriel, Raphael, Metatron, Uriel, Raguel, Sandalphon, Raziel, Remiel and Sariel were all captured and violated by tentacles. Only Michael avoided it and only because Gabriel, even after Falling, helped her brother escape." Future Nabiki said softly while Nabiki had her hands over her mouth in shock. "In the end, Heaven was devastated, Michael is all that's left of any pure Angels, the Moonlit World is completely known by the average person and then..." She sighed heavily and ran a hand through her hair. "After the Shikima realm was destroyed, and by destroyed, I mean completely destroyed, there wasn't a single Shikima left alive after that and the Heart of the Shikima realm was destroyed as well. After that was done, then the Fae showed up and took Asia back to their realm and Issei's been trying for years to find a way to their world to save her ever since."

It took several minutes to process what her future self had said. "That..."

"Well, if that's it, I'll just..."

"Wait!" Nabiki snapped her head up. "When you said "no spoilers" to Irina, what were you talking about?"

"...Asia." Future Nabiki said softly. "If Issei hadn't been there, I would have told you to take care of her. I'm glad that everything is okay in your timeline. Well, mostly okay."

Nabiki raised an eyebrow.

Future Nabiki chuckled. "There was a few moments of downtime in our timeline when it happened... But you haven't gone to Tatewaki-chan's wedding yet, have you?"

"...He's getting married?" Nabiki blinked a few times. "...To who?"

Future Nabiki just winked. "You'll be getting an invite soon, the after-wedding party is pretty fun too. Anyway, I won't see you anymore. You'll figure out how to master your Balance Break soon enough."

And upon saying that, the screen turned off.

Nabiki walked over to a chair and slumped into it. "That's insane. ...How could Irina becoming a Fallen cause such a chain of events?"

This wasn't a mental burden that she could handle on her own. Calling up her Balance Break, she called someone whom she could talk to about all of this.

(-)

In Hell...

Sitting at a table, Azazel looked at Shemhazai, who was looking over some papers, seriously. "So, what are we going to do with all of them?"

"I recommend a century of punishment before parole." Shemhazai said calmly. "While it ultimately didn't come to anything horrible, what they were planning on doing isn't something we can just ignore."

"I agree." Azazel nodded as a small screen appeared in front of him, flashing. "Well, someone needs to talk it seems." He pushed the button and raised an eyebrow as Nabiki appeared on screen. "So, Miss Tendo, what do I have the honor of this call?"

"I'll get back to you later." Shemhazai said as he walked out of the room.

Azazel looked confused as Nabiki had a troubled look on her face. "What happened?"

"What would you do if you discovered an alternate timeline where everything went to Hell in a handbasket and it's all because of one thing and you only avoided it because your future self from that timeline stopped it from happening?"

Azazel raised an eyebrow. "...This is why it's not a good idea to know the future." He shook his head as he smoothed out his features. "Anyway, what happened?"

When Nabiki told him, he lightly bit his lip. "To think that Miss Irina would be the catalyst for so much."

"I assume you're not telling Issei?"

"Of course not." Azazel shook his head as he leaned back in his seat. "Neither him nor Irina need to know, that will only cause problems in the long run. But as for what you learned, Miss Tendo." A gleam came to his eyes, "the future that you were shown isn't the same as the future we have here. If anything, you just need to remember what you were told and strive to always ensure things are better in this one." Nabiki nodded, looking relieved. "Besides, aren't you and Mr. Saotome supposed to get married soon?"

"As soon as I graduate high school." Nabiki told him. "Daddy promised to wait that long. But I have to have a child as soon as possible."

Azazel chuckled upon hearing that. "With how he can control his fertility, that won't be a problem. But what are your plans after high school?"

"I'm going to take over Las Vegas." Nabiki said and Azazel stared stupidly. "By that, I mean, I'll be the shadow government that controls Vegas. It's a place of debauchery and sin anyway, it would be easy for Demons, Devils, Fallen and more to live freely among humans. I'll make sure to police them properly too."

"And the regular humans?" Azazel asked and Nabiki shrugged.

"They'll be the public facing part of the city. I won't control any of that, just think of it as the supernatural living openly and freely, like in Kyoto. I'm putting plans in place," Nabiki said while looking to the side, "and my Sacred Gear's a huge help in that regard. In case you're wondering, my police force..." She grinned and looked back at Azazel. "Magical girls and Devil Hunters often don't have a lot of good options after school because they often have to focus on saving the world. Why not give them a job reigning in anyone who gets uppity?"

"...That's actually a good plan." Azazel nodded. "I assume that you'll have mandatory check points for any supernatural?"

"I'll have stuff set up ahead of time to know who's who." Nabiki told him. "Anyway, thanks for the talk, that helped."

Azazel smiled and nodded. "Of course, I'm always willing to talk." Nabiki nodded and the screen turned off, leaving Azazel alone. "...I think I need to go for a walk myself."

Finding out that they had been a hair's breadth from literal Armageddon was not something that he enjoyed thinking about.

End Part 1

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So, yeah, back when future Nabiki made the call originally, I was going to mention that something happened to Asia but stopped myself. This arc was supposed to be "Evil Empress Asia", but my mind went "I can NOT write that" and then I came up with the Fae.

 

[Nanya]

Part 2

Meanwhile, in Uminari City...

Lilith smiled as she got up from the couch. "Thank you for having me these past few hours, Miss Lindy."

The older woman smiled at her. "Oh please, you're one of Fate's friends. Besides, it's been fun talking to you and learning so much about Earth that I didn't know before."

There was a loud crying heard from the back and Amy, a young woman with brown hair and purple eyes, walked out with two children in each of her arms. "They're only a couple of months old and they have such lungs on them." Amy looked absolutely exhausted. "I'm sorry, I don't..."

Lilith smiled as she held out her arms and took one of them from Amy, gently rocking and holding the baby, who was still crying. "My goodness, you can scream." An idea came to her as her wings extended from her back and grabbed the baby she was given. Both Amy and Lindy looked alarmed, but settled down when the baby she was holding started to calm down and the screaming lessened. Lilith extended her other wing to the other baby and took it, rocking both in a way that caused them to finally quiet down. "Thank you." Amy smiled in relief as she walked over to a chair and slumped down in it. "I never thought that twins would be so hard to deal with."

"Don't worry about it." Lilith said while giggling. "I'm actually cheating, I'm using magic to soothe these two so they calm down. If they get hungry or have a dirty diaper, they're going to scream again." She smiled as Arf, looking like an eight-year old redheaded girl, walked in. "Things sure have changed, huh? The last time I saw you, you were were bigger than me and I was the midget."

Arf grinned at her as she watched Lilith gently rock the twins in her wings. "Yeah, but being Fate's familiar, this is easier on her. It uses a lot less magic."

"You should convince Fate to let me help support you." Lilith said as she extended her wings and handed the twins back to Amy, who smiled as they slept peacefully. "I've got enough magic power in me these days that I could support you and Hayate's Wolkenritter and I wouldn't feel it."

"Do you really?" Lindy asked and Lilith nodded.

"Yeah, it was several months ago, but I fused with the other portion of my soul and gained so much power..." She trailed off and shook her head. "Well, let's just say that it's a lot, okay?"

Which was an understatement, after all, even the four Great Seraphs could only get God's system running enough to keep Heaven from collapsing and she had, after fusing with Morrigan, been able to reboot it enough to put in new rules for Angels. The only reason that she hadn't put in some sort of way for new Angels to be created was because she wasn't sure how Heaven's faithful would have taken it. 'Plus there might be a lot more Fallen if that was the case.'

Suddenly the television lit up and Lindy frowned in confusion as she saw a female face on the screen that she didn't recognize. "Yes? Who is this?" The woman was dressed as some sort of nurse.

The woman gave her a nervous smile. "I apologize, Miss Harloawn, but as you are the legal guardian of one Fate Testarossa, I have to inform you that miss Testarossa was badly injured on a mission."

"What?!" Arf and Lilith gasped in surprise while Lindy looked grim.

"Please tell me that she's alive." Lindy asked and the woman nodded.

"Yes, currently she is in surgery so that she can recover from what happened." The nurse informed her.

"I'll be in as soon as possible." Lindy said as the nurse informed them of where the hospital was at and where Fate could be found before the screen turned off. "Dammit, even with the fastest ship, it would take us around three hours to get there."

Suddenly Lilith was in front of her while holding Arf's hand. "I need you to picture the front of the building." Lindy looked confused and Lilith shook her head. "Just picture it, if I know where I'm going, I can get us there." She looked at Amy and gave her an apologetic smile. "Sorry, I can only take a couple of people with me."

"It's fine, just get there." Amy said with a nod.

"Alright," Lindy pictured the building in her mind. "If you think you can..."

Lindy, Lilith and Arf disappeared in a flash of gray light.

(---)

On Crannagan...

"...get there with... What the hell?!" Lindy gasped as she, Arf and Lilith appeared in front of the hospital in question.

Lilith smiled at her. "I told you, I gained a lot of power, doing a blind teleport with just your surface thoughts was a bit risky, so I made sure to aim off to the side to adjust for any variances."

Arf ignored them and was already running inside, followed by Lindy and Fate.

After getting to the receptionist, who the three recognized as the one who called them and getting over the shock of seeing them so fast, they were ushered to the waiting room. "Miss Fate is currently in surgery, you'll have to wait out here with her."

"Huh?" A new voice spoke up and the three looked over to see Hayate and Vita, who had some bandages on her body and a lot less hair, sitting in the waiting area. "Miss Lindy! Miss Arf! Lilith! How did you three get here so fast? Aren't you on Earth?"

"Apparently," Lindy said as she walked over to Hayate and gave her a quick hug, "Miss Lilith is really good at teleportation magic."

"To go all the way across the universe that fast though?" Vita asked, before shaking her head. "The doctors just finished fixing me up." She said, motioning to the bandages that they could see. "Signum's currently getting her broken legs fixed and Fate..." She shook her head.

"What happened?" Lindy asked and Vita sighed.

"We were tracking down a criminal scientist, Jail Scagiletti, and when we thought we had found him, but instead there was this woman," Vita frowned in confusion, "she was... Really strong, like stronger than Fate, Signum and myself combined. I don't know her name, she had these purple eyes and long black hair, wore this white dress and complained about us getting in the way of her business. We were going to ask her some questions and she said that we needed to mind our own business." Vita grimaced in pain, "sorry, it still hurts." The others nodded in understanding and Vita continued. "I don't know what she did, but she used some sort of really powerful magic when we fought, she ended up giving me a bunch of smaller injuries that made it impossible for me to get back up. It felt like she cut a bunch of my nerves all at once. I blacked out for a bit, and when I came to, I saw that she had broken both of Signum's legs and ripped Fate's left arm off."

"What?!"

Vita nodded with a haunted look in her eyes. "She then came over to me, chopped my pigtails off before stabbing Signum in the legs. Said something about keeping them as trophies and left."

"Did you get a name?" Lindy asked.

"Melo-something." Vita grimaced and shook her head. "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention to her when Signum and Fate both needed help and I had to call in an emergency rescue crew."

"No, it's fine." Hayate reassured and hugged Vita. "I'm just glad that Vita-chan, Fate-chan and Signum-san all made it back alive. We'll get you all healed up and figure out who this person is."

"Does Nanoha know that her girlfriend is missing an arm?" Lilith asked and Hayate and Vita shook their heads.

"We should probably tell her." Lilith said and grimaced. "Ah, sorry, I need to use the restroom. Where is it?"

"I'll take you." A nurse who walked in at that moment said with a smile. "Follow me."

Lilith nodded and followed after the nurse.

"Despite being visibly pregnant, that teleportation didn't slow her down." Lindy muttered and shook her head. "Vita, I need to know if there was anything else you can remember."

Vita grimaced as she thought back to the fight. "That magic felt evil and horrible. It felt like death itself. And I know what that feels like. It was like..." She trailed off, trembling, "like when I was absorbed back into the Book of Darkness. Just being near it, it felt horrid."

Neither Lindy nor Hayate had anything more to say, so they just sat quietly as they waited for word to get back from the nurses.

It was several minutes later, after Lilith had returned from the restroom that found a nurse walking into the waiting room. "Miss Yagami?" The nurse said softly as she walked past the others who were waiting for word on their loved ones. Mentlaly, the nurse sighed and hoped that everyone got good news. "A word please?"

Hayate nodded and stood up and walked with the nurse to the side so they could talk. "Yes?" She asked softly.

"Your relative, Signum, will be okay." The nurse smiled as Hayate sighed in relief. "Both of her legs were broken, but thanks to our efforts, there were no complications. She'll be unable to walk on them for a few months, as any further healing magic could actually cause complications."

Hayate nodded and personally wished that healing magic worked like it did in video games, where it could be used to fully heal and recover anyone, but she knew that there were complications to overusing healing magic. "That's good. I'm sure that she isn't happy."

The nurse chuckled softly. "Quite. She's currently sleeping, but she'll probably wake up soon." Her demeanor changed and she looked at Lindy. "Miss Harloawn, could you come here, please?" Lindy nodded and walked over to them. "Your daughter, miss Fate, should be mostly okay now. We were able to stop the bleeding from her arm, it was severed just below the shoulder joint." Lindy nodded, "so she has a stump of an arm right now, it's bandaged up so that it can heal, and there are options for her. We can discuss them at a later time."

"Fate-chan won't be able to be an enforcer anymore, huh?" Hayate asked and the nurse shook her head.

"Unless you know someone who can perform a literal miracle with healing..." The nurse shook her head. "Anyway, if you want to see her, she's in a room recovering."

Lindy nodded and looked at Vita, Arf and Lilith to follow them.

(---)

In a well-lit room, Fate was sitting on her bed and looking at the wrapped up, and slightly bloody, stump of where her left arm used to be. "So weird." She murmured and moved what was left of her arm. "I swear, I can feel my fingers and hand still."

"It's called phantom limb syndrome." A voice had Fate looking at the door and she smiled as she saw Lindy, Arf and Lilith, much to her surprise, walking in with a nurse. The nurse smiled at her. "It's common for people who have lost a limb to think that it's still there."

Fate nodded and waved with her right hand. "Hello, mother, Arf, Lilith. How did you three get here so fast?"

"We had help." Lindy said with a soft smile. "Are you okay?"

"I will be." Fate said and sighed softly, hugging Arf as the small dog girl crawled into her bed to hug her. "Thank you."

There was a beeping and the nurse looked at the pager that had been clipped to her belt. "If you need anything, just call." The nurse said and left to check on what was important.

"...They still use pagers even on alien worlds?" Lilith asked dumbfoundedly. "I'm glad you're alive."

"Me too." Fate sighed softly. "I guess that I have to retire, huh?"

"Well, there are options." Lindy said as she sat down on a chair next to Fate's bed and gently put her hand on Fate's shoulder. "You'll be okay."

Fate nodded and looked at Lilith. "You're looking good," Lilith smiled at her, "you're about... What? Five or six months along now?"

"About that." Lilith nodded as she rubbed her belly. "The little one likes to kick every so often, but it's not too bad just yet. But, Fate, if you want, I know someone who chopped his own arm off and got it replaced with a cybernetic arm, complete with a rocket punch, if you want. Then there's no problem with you staying as an Enforcer."

Fate giggled and nodded. "Well, if that's possible, I suppose it wouldn't be too bad. I certainly hope that this doesn't become a habit though."

"A Fate with two robo arms would be cool though." Lilith mused as she tapped her chin. "She'd be like that guy in the fighting game where they rip people's heads off."

Fate sweat-dropped heavily. "I'm not that violent, am I?"

"Nah." Arf smiled at Fate. "You're a good person."

Fate smiled and rubbed Arf's back. "Well, Lilith, if that can be arranged, I wouldn't mind it. It would certainly be better than not having an arm."

"Though, a one-armed swordswoman Fate would be cool too." Lilith mused and everyone sweat-dropped. "Ah, sorry, I was playing several fighting games over the past few weeks, so that's on my mind."

Fate was going to answer when a screen appeared in front of Lilith, who blinked and pushed the call answer button.

"Ah, there you are." Nabiki said as she appeared on screen. "We were trying to get ahold of you for a bit now."

"Uh..." Lilith tilted her head in confusion. "What do you mean?"

"Well, specifically, we were trying to get ahold of Fate, but I knew that you were going to be in Kuoh and..." Nabiki paused. "How DID you get across the universe?"

"Blind teleport based on memories that Miss Lindy had that carried me, Arf and Lindy across the universe." Lilith answered back.

Nabiki groaned. "Figures that you'd do something like that, anyway, I'm going to finish playing this game of call operator and let you talk."

The screen went dark for a moment before Issei appeared on screen. "Oh, hey, Lilith, is that Fate girl there?"

Lilith nodded and pointed to the side before adjusting the screen so Fate could see Issei.

"Oh damn, what happened?" Issei gasped as he saw her arm. "Do you still have your arm?" Fate shook her head and Issei snapped his fingers. "If you did, I'd get you some Phoenix Tears, that could fix your arm right up."

"It could?" Fate asked in surprise and Issei nodded.

"Yeah, I've seen people have their arms cut off and they had no problem with their arm, other than being weak for a couple of days after being reattached." Issei said and shook his head. "No, wait! That's not why I called, I met someone who wanted to talk to you."

"Oh?" Fate asked as she sat up. "Who?"

Issei stepped off to the side and a few moments later, someone that had Fate, Lindy and Arf gasping in surprise appeared on the screen.

"...Hello, Fate." Precia Testarossa said with a sad look on her face. "It's... Been far too long."

"...Mother." Fate said, her pupils shrinking from the shock.

End Part 2

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Sequel hooks ahoy! I do plan on doing sequels to this after all.

 

[tech27ss]

thanks for story Nanya

 

[Nanya]

Hey, no problem. It's not completely over yet.

And maybe it's time to answer the giant elephant in the room.

How did Precia and Alicia end up where they were?

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Part 3

Lilith was tempted, very tempted, to teleport across the universe just for the sole purpose of slamming the woman on the other side of that screen into the ground for what she had done to Fate all those years ago. She held back.

But just barely.

Fate, for her part, had hundreds of questions running through her head all at once. Namely, how was Precia alive, why did she look so young and why was she back?

And yet, she couldn't form the words that were running through her mind. It was so shocking to see her mother after seven years that she couldn't even think straight. "I..."

"Hey!" A new voice spoke up that caught people's attention, especially since she sounded so much like Fate, just younger, "mom! I wanna see too!"

Suddenly a little girl, who couldn't be older than eight, appeared on screen. She had red eyes and blonde hair done up in twin pigtails. "Oh!" The girl's eyes sparkled as she saw Fate. "You're my little sister? But you're so big!"

"...Sis...ter?" Fate blinked a few times in confusion as her brain tried to reboot.

"Uh huh." The girl nodded while smiling happily. "I asked mom to gimme a younger sister and now I finally get to meet you." She pouted in such an adorable way that Fate, Arf, Lilith and Lindy all wanted to smother her in a hug. "It's too bad I didn't get to see you in diapers." Her eyes widened and she giggled, rubbing the back of her head. "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot! My name's Alicia Testarossa!"

"A...Alicia?" Fate stuttered as she looked at the young girl. "But... You're... How?"

"That... Is actually a good question." Lindy said as she looked at Precia and Alicia. "I hope you do realize that this is rather unheard of, someone falling into Dimensional Space tends to not come out of it."

"Believe me, I know." Precia said as she closed her eyes. "I suppose that it's fair to explain what happened to me after I saw you last, Fate."

Fate just silently nodded her head.

*Flashback*

Precia smiled as she held Alicia's capsule. "Soon, soon we'll be in Al Hazard, and then..." There was a loud roar and Precia looked around in confusion, which turned into fear and surprise as a Dragon, a literal Dragon of crimson red, larger than any creature she had ever seen, even bigger than most spaceships, was heading towards her and Alicia. Even though it looked like it was going to fly past them, a body that size would send them tumbling through the dimensional rift with ease. "No, you..." Precia growled as she tried to focus on her magic, only to start coughing as blood came out of her mouth. "Dammit, not now, I'm so close."

Before she could recover, the giant Dragon was upon her and she could only stare in horror as the thing's wings flapped, sending waves of pressure towards the two of them, sending them flying through Dimensional Space. "A...Alicia!" Precia ignored the Dragon, transformed her staff into a whip and used it to latch onto Alicia's capsule and pull herself towards it. Grabbing it, she squeezed her eyes shut. "Even if there's nothing here, we'll be..."

Whatever more she was going to say was cut off as dimensional space seemed to get bright as she was coming out of it.

(---)

When Precia felt that she wasn't moving anymore, she opened her eyes and looked around to see a place of wonder and beauty. There was nature everywhere, the sky was a crystal blue, the temperature was perfect, and she saw a large building in the distance that had moss growing over it. "D...Did we finally make it? Al Hazard?"

"Interesting." A male voice spoke up and Precia stiffened and turned around, seeing a tall, regal looking man walking towards her. "It has been ages since I last saw any humans before this year." He stopped just before them and Precia felt an immense urge to kneel in front of him. "And yet, in this past year, there were humans, a Demon and a Vampire that came to the Realm of the Fae. What brings you this world?"

"I..." Precia tried to speak before she started to cough. She fell to her knees while putting her hand over her mouth as blood came out of it.

"That will be enough of that." The man said and suddenly green energy seemed to seep up from the ground surrounding Precia, who gasped in surprise as she felt her body suddenly feel lighter and healthier than it had been in years. "I would rather you be able to speak easily rather than die because of some disease."

Precia gasped and panted, staring at the ground with wide eyes. She looked up at the man, who was looking at her casually. "You... Cured me?"

"I merely rewound the effects of time on your body until whatever you had affected you and removed it from you." He said casually. "Now, answer my question. What brings you to the Realm of the Fae?"

"I..." Precia slowly stood up. "I was trying to enter the Dimensional Rift, to find Al Hazard to have a chance to save my daughter."

"Al..." The man tilted his head. "Ah yes, this place was known as Al Hazard before I removed it from where it was and turned it into the Fae Realm." He said with a nod, causing Precia to gawk at him. "And that girl in the tube is your daughter?" He asked and Precia nodded. "I see." He said and turned to walk away.

"Wait!" Precia ran around him and fell to her knees. "Please! I don't care what happens to me, but please! If you can save my daughter, I beg of you!"

"And why should I, Oberon, the Lord of the Fae, help you any further?"

Precia felt tears filling her eyes. "Please! I beg of you. I do not care what you do to me, but please." She bowed and put her head on the ground. "If you can save me, Lord Oberon, can you please save my daughter and fix what happened to her?"

Precia didn't know how long she stayed like that. She knew that Oberon wasn't moving and she was trembling, worrying that he would refuse to help her.

"Mom?" A voice that had Precia gasping as she looked up to see Alicia walking out of the tube, staggering towards her. "Wh...where are we?"

"A...Alicia!" Precia scrambled to her feet as she rushed to where her daughter was and hugged her. "My Alicia! You're alive!"

"For as long as you and your daughter are here," Oberon said, causing Precia to look at him with tears falling out of her eyes, "you are to be my servants. Now come, I have work for you."

"Y, yes milord." Precia said as she got up and followed after him.

*End Flashback...*

"Lord Oberon and Lady Titania weren't bad." Alicia said as Precia finished up the story. "Puck was funny, but most of the rest of the Fae liked to play pranks and some of them hurt me or mom."

"Should have done more to your mom." Arf muttered under her breath, getting a pinch on the cheek from Fate.

"I..." Fate began, unsure what to say next.

"Huh?" Alicia gasped in surprise as she realized something. "Why is my little sister missing an arm?!"

"What?" Precia asked and gasped as she saw the bandaged stump that Fate had for a left arm. "Fate, what happened?" Precia had a look of genuine concern on her face. "Are you okay?"

Arf growled and stood on the bed between Fate and Precia on the screen. "Don't think I forgot how you tied Fate up and whipped her when she was nine!"

"Wait, what?" Alicia asked in surprise and looked at Precia, who had a look of total regret on her face. "Mother? Did you?" Precia gave a small nod while looking down. "...That's why you never talked about my little sister? That's why you said that you were a bad mother to her? And is that why you kept crying at night while asking her to forgive you?"

Precia hugged her left arm and looked away. "Nothing I can say or do can undo the damage that I did. I was an absolute monster, Alicia. I should have been a mother for Fate, and I wasn't."

"M...Mother?" Fate asked softly and Precia shook her head.

"D, don't!" Precia screwed her eyes shut as tears formed in her eyes. "I don't deserve to be called something so wonderful from you! Not after what I did to you. After I rejected you. How?" She looked at Fate, tears falling from her eyes. "Even now! You call me mother! After all I did to you! How can you call me that?"

"Because, you're still my mother." Fate said softly. "I... I gave up on the thought of ever being a family, and..."

Lilith suddenly coughed and put her hand on Fate's right shoulder. "Fate, I love you, you're a good girl, you don't need to..." Fate shook her head and Lilith sighed. "Alright, but I think that we might need to end this call, because I don't think any of us can think clearly." She looked at Precia and Alicia. "Can you put that guy, Issei back on the line?"

"Ah," Precia nodded and called for Issei to talk. "We'll be going now."

"Bye bye, little sister." Alicia smiled and waved. "I hope to see you in person soon."

Fate smiled as the two left the screen and Issei came back on.

"You wanted to speak to me again?" Issei asked.

"Could you please keep those two where you live for a few days?" Lindy asked him and Issei looked confused. "You have to understand, Precia Testarossa is in a... Complicated situation and we need to bring her in for questions for things that happened a long time ago."

"...You make it sound like she's a criminal." Issei said and Lindy nodded. "She is?"

"Yes." Lindy told him. She looked at Fate, who was looking troubled and sighed softly. "It's not so cut and dry, just keep her where you are so we can bring her in for questions, okay?"

Issei nodded and then blinked. "Oh! Um, say, miss Fate..." The blonde looked at him in confusion. "This might sound weird, but maybe Asia can heal your arm?"

"You think that she can?" Fate asked and Issei nodded.

"Yeah! Well, maybe. But even if she can't, Azazel could get you a cool replacement arm." Issei smiled at her. "And, by the way, I'll keep your mom and sister safe, miss Fate."

Fate smiled and nodded as the screen turned off.

"Fate..." Lindy began and Fate turned and hugged her adopted mother, suddenly sobbing and bawling into Lindy's chest as Lindy hugged her back, letting her poor girl cry out all the pain that had returned to her. "It's okay, I'm here for you."

Fate just cried.

As strong as she was, seeing Precia again opened old wounds that made her emotions bubble up and burst forth.

Lilith got on the bed and hugged Fate from behind while Arf hugged her master as well.

No matter what else would happen, the three wouldn't let Fate deal with this alone.

(---)

It was a few days later that found Gabriel standing in front of the remaining Angels in Heaven. Even Angels that had been on long-term missions had returned to Heaven for this announcement.

Gabriel looked at Michael, Raphael and Uriel, who all nodded and she turned to face the crowd. "Hello and thank you all for coming today. I have an announcement to make. As almost all of you know, recently the rules for Angels in regards to romance and the ability to do the greatest gift our Father gave humanity, the ability to have a family, was bestowed upon us without the worry of us becoming Fallen. In fact," she smiled as she saw a few Angels in the crowd, "some of you have already been blessed with bringing new life into this world and I am very happy for you. Others have fallen in love and gotten married, though you have not been blessed yet, I am sure that you will in due time." Her smile faltered slightly. "It is because of this that I call you all here. Recently, I, myself, have found someone that I have been courting for several months." There were gasps and murmurs among the crowd for those who didn't know and Gabriel waited a bit before holding up a hand to quiet them all down. "I wished to keep it quiet as I was unsure of my feelings and wished to explore them before making an announcement. Sadly, for me, my plan failed as some Angels discovered that I was courting Ranma Saotome, a Devil." She closed her eyes and looked down while several Angels gasped in surprise. "The Angels that objected to my courtship teamed up with Fallen Angels, Devils and an outside source of power to trick and capture me. I was told that I was betraying Heaven and my station with my courtship."

Gabriel closed her eyes before looking up and opening them, "I want to deny what was said, but I cannot deny what I am doing may not only put my standing among our followers at risk, but I may be acting too selfish and unbecoming of a Seraph. The reason I called you all here was to ask you if you think this is right. I do not wish to have another situation where our loyal followers decide that I have stepped out of line. If you are worried that I would place my feelings above my duty..." She trailed off and looked sad. "If that is the case, I will place duty over my own personal feelings. But, please, speak up now if you have concerns."

There were murmurs as the various Angels spoke among themselves and Gabriel didn't let it show, but she was feeling nervous and wondered if her courtship with Ranma would be rejected by everyone.

"I can only speak for myself." A voice that Gabriel recognized as Irina's spoke up. "But, I see no problem with your courtship of a Devil." Irina said with a smile. "I, myself, am married to a Devil. My childhood friend and the Red Dragon Emperor, Issei Hyuudou. If being with Ranma makes you happy, Lady Gabriel, I see no reason why you shouldn't pursue this. After all, did not you and Lord Michael, Lord Uriel and Lord Raphael place a rule upon all Angels that while we can marry and have children, we must not forget that it is our role to spread God's love, mercy and wisdom to the masses?"

There were more murmurs and Gabriel smiled softly. "Yes, I will never forget that. It is important that even if we can do things to never overindulge, for that, even in the pursuit of life and love, can lead to sin."

"Then I," a male voice spoke up and Gabriel recognized him as Dulio, "have no problems with this courtship either." He smiled at her. "Maybe it's because I am a former human, but I feel that if Lady Gabriel can find love in her personal life, then I think it's fine. If there's any Angels I am certain would never overindulge and put her feelings and emotions over her duty, it is our four Great Seraphs. And this goes for Lord Michael, Lord Raphael and Lord Uriel as well. If any of you find someone to fall in love with and marry, I shall support you as well."

"There's one thing I disagree with." Raphael said with a stern expression on his face while everyone looked at him in confusion. "If you, Lady Gabriel, think that you would fall prey to overindulgence or being unable to do your job as a Seraph, then you are not fit to be one of us." Gabriel looked shocked and Raphael continued before anyone could say anything. "In all the time that we've been alive, only Lord Michael can say that they have been a shining example of what an Angel should be. Even if you end up like Angel Irina and marrying a Devil, I have no doubt that you would be fine."

"I'm fine with it." Sandalphon yelled from somewhere in the crowd.

Gabriel smiled and lowered her head, tears falling from her eyes. "Thank you, all of you. I am truly humbled and blessed to hear this. Please, if any of you feel that I am falling off the path of righteousness, do not hesitate to let me know."

Even though Gabriel knew that any potential romance with Ranma wasn't going to happen quickly, she was at least thankful that it seemed that none of the remaining Angels were against the idea of her and a Devil courting and possibly marrying.

End Part 3

 

[Nanya]

Part 4

It was mid-morning when Azazel, dressed in an over-coat, found himself in front of the Hyuudou house, knocking on the door. He smiled as he heard a pitter-patter of feet before the door opened up to reveal a young girl with blonde hair and red eyes who was wearing a cute dress. "Hello, is Issei here?" She nodded and he chuckled. "I don't think I got your name, are you someone's cousin?"

"...I don't know if mom ever had any siblings." The girl said as she giggled softly. "My name is Alicia Testarossa."

"Ah," Azazel nodded. "I heard that Issei had two guests living with him, I didn't realize one of them was cute as a million puppies." The Fallen Angel bit back a laugh as the girl blushed shyly while turning away.

"Alicia, who is..." Azazel looked up as he saw a woman with long, dark hair, walking towards them. The features she had with the blonde girl was obvious, beyond the eye color. "Oh, a visitor?"

Azazel nodded and smiled. "My name is Azazel, I was here to discuss something with Issei, Rias and the others who live here, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see such a young woman visiting here at the same time."

The woman smiled and chuckled. "Oh dear, you're a charmer. But I'm fairly old, I'm afraid."

"Old is a relative term." Azazel chuckled as he walked in, took his shoes off before taking his coat off and hanging it up. "From where I'm standing, you're still quite young."

"Oh my," the woman said with a smile, "it's been a long time since anyone spoke to me like this."

"Well, that's a shame." Azazel said with a smile as he fought the urge to compare her to that cute green-haired alien he had met back during the treaty signing awhile ago. Really, it didn't make any sense to him. Even the longest-lived couples in Hell constantly liked to flirt with each other, even if it wasn't as often compared to when they were younger.

And these women, who weren't even a century old, were very good looking, and it didn't make a lot of sense to him why none of them weren't getting hit on by everyone around them.

"Where are my manners?" The woman asked with a smile. "My name is Precia Testarossa, Alicia's mother." The blonde girl ran up to Precia and hugged her, smiling brightly.

"Hey, who was at the door?" A female voice spoke up and Xenovia stuck her head into the entryway. "Oh, Azazel. We're glad you could come over, something weird happened last night."

"Yeah, Issei said something about light strings." Azazel said as he nodded to Precia while walking past her. "So what was..." Azazel trailed off as he saw what looked like a demented disco laser show going on in another room, which included a bright blue thread running out to Xenovia, who smiled nervously. "...What happened?"

"That's the thing, none of us know." Xenovia said as she led Azazel, Precia and Alicia, who both followed after and they went into the spare room where Issei was touching the strings and they were glowing and running to one of the girls in the room. "It's not harmful at least."

"So you say," Azazel said dryly. "Oi, Issei, what did you do?"

"I have no clue." Issei told him. "I wake up and things are going silly."

"I see that, but what happened before this?"

Issei scratched his head. "I'm not sure, I had a weird dream where Rias, Akeno, Xenovia, Irina, Asia, Yukiko, Koneko and even Gasper were all naked and glowing."

"AHHH!" Gasper, who was sitting on a chair in the corner, suddenly screamed. "Why was I naked in your dream?!"

"I dunno." Issei told him. "It wasn't even a good naked sexy dream, everyone's bodies were covered in glowing light like I was watching some anime that just liked to tease but never show the good stuff."

"Um," Asia raised her left arm, which Azazel noted was completely covered by the black wrap, "this is kind of my fault." That caught everyone's attention. "I woke up around three this morning and felt this tickling sensation in my magic, so I thought I'd try something and then suddenly there's a bunch of string lights coming from Issei to all of us and I'm not sure what it is."

"That's a good..." Azazel began but was interrupted.

"My, it looks something like a mana string from familiar to master." Precia said as she looked at them. "But none of you are drawing on magic from Mr. Hyuudou, so I can only assume that you are all really close to him emotionally." Precia smiled nervously. "I assume that familiars don't work the same way for you?" They shook their heads and she nodded. "I see, well, where I'm from, we make contracts with animals typically, it allows them to gain intelligence and power, in exchange, we get someone who can help us with various tasks. Sometimes..." Precia trailed off as the image of a sandy-colored cat and a red wolf pup entered her mind, "we do so because the animal is dying and we wish to give them another chance. Other times it's because we have specific tasks for our familiar and once the contract is done, both part ways, though this usually leads to the death of the familiar."

"That sounds so sad." Asia said and Precia nodded.

"Yes. Typically older mages who aren't as physically able as they used to be, or are really busy, have familiars, since they consume a lot of magical power to sustain. If the mage's health is too weak, the familiar will cancel the contract to spare their master's life. It's usually completely consensual on everyone's part."

An image of a busty, young woman with sandy-colored hair, cat ears and a tail appeared in Precia's mind.

"...Usually."

"So did I accidentally turn everyone into Issei's familiar?" Asia asked, a shocked expression on her face. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do that!"

"Unlikely." Azazel said with a chuckle. "Hmm, I wonder... Issei, could you please..." He looked at the bright yellow colored light. "Could you focus on that light and only that one, I want to see what happens."

Issei nodded and looked at the light strand that Azazel had mentioned and, to the surprise of Azazel, reached up and grabbed it, squeezing it.

"Yeek!" Asia jumped, her face turning a bright red. "Um, Issei, not right now."

Issei looked shocked as he let go of the light strand and shook his head. "Ah, no, I didn't say or think anything, so I don't know what she's talking about. All I felt was really happy."

Asia was still blushing as she fidgeted. "That is, I felt your desires and..."

"Interesting," Azazel muttered, "it seems like Issei's general lust for Asia made her feel like he was desiring her at that moment."

Alicia looked confused as the others seemed to nod in agreement. She grabbed her mother's shirt and gave it a tug. "Mom, what are they talking about?"

Precia smiled at her. "I'm not sure, but it has something to do with those lights. I'm guessing it has something to do with how Mr. Hyuudou is so close to those ladies."

Alicia nodded in understanding. Her mother had told her that normally good boys and girls only dated one person at a time, but since Issei and the others weren't human, human rules didn't apply to them.

"This might be forward of me," Precia spoke up, "but perhaps whatever mystery is bothering you, the answer might be right in front of you," she gestured to the other strands, "maybe try grabbing all of them at the same time?"

Issei looked up and frowned, "but they're all spread apart, should I..." He reached up with his right hand and, to his shock, the strands all pooled together on his palm and glowed white.

Rias, Akeno, Xenovia, Yukiko, Asia, Irina, Koneko and even Gasper all gasped in surprise.

"Huh?" Issei gasped in shock. "I can feel them, it's like, I'm here and there," he pointed to Irina, "and there," he pointed to Koneko, "and there," he pointed to Gasper, "and here at the same time." A confused look crossed his face, "while I can feel everyone, it... Well, I feel Xenovia really clear, like I can read her mind and..." He trailed off and gave Xenovia a bewildered look, "why would you think about what kinds of things you can do with light fixtures?"

The blue-haired Devil blushed and looked away, "it was a stray thought, I heard about how light fixtures could be used and it got me thinking how they could be used and..."

"Oh pooh," Irina pouted while looking sullen, "I can't feel Issei or Xenovia anywhere near as clearly as they can feel each other."

Azazel closed his eyes and cupped his chin while thinking about what he heard. "This is just a thought, but Issei did go through that aura synchronization training with Rias and Xenovia, plus with Rias giving birth to Ikusu..." He trailed off as he thought a bit more. "I think I get it." He chuckled while opening his eyes. "Issei, you've played dating sims and visual novels before, right?"

"Well, who hasn't?" Issei asked and Azazel chuckled while some of the others nodded.

"Well, congrats, because your life just became a dating sim visual novel." Azazel laughed at the looks he got. "Alright, hear me out. Thanks to miss Asia's little incident with her newly awakened Fae magic, we can see how close, for a lack of a better term, you are with each of them."

"Wait!" Gasper's eyes widened in surprise. "Does that mean that Issei would have to want me the same way as he wants his girls?" He looked at Yukiko and when she blushed, he felt himself turning red. "I-if there's a good reason, then..."

"ACK!" Issei found himself falling over. "H-hey!" He yelled and got to his feet. "Gasper! What the heck, man?! You know that I want to help you be more of a man! So why..?"

"W-well," Gasper poked his fingers together cutely, "Yukiko used to be a guy, and..."

The blonde in question blushed and shook her head. "N-no! Issei hasn't even kissed me, Gasper. I'm still not used to being a girl."

"Ara ara," Akeno had a tight smile on her face, "but you did try to seduce Issei back before turning into a girl completely, Yukiko, so..."

The blonde was looking flustered. "I was confused on my feelings and I didn't want to be alone, okay?! You know that I would rather have forced myself to live as a girl rather than be alone."

Akeno's smile fell from her face and she got up, walked over to Yukiko and hugged her. "I'm sorry, that was uncalled for from me." Yukiko nodded her head against Akeno's large bust.

"It's okay." Yukiko said softly.

"Before this soap opera gets more crazy," Azazel spoke up, "I highly doubt that Issei swings that way, Gasper, so you'll be fine if you aren't interested in romance with him, but there are more to relationships than simply romance and love." He then gave Issei a calculating look. "In fact, Issei, that's something you should be working on. You were able to unlock your golden armor form due to you and Xenovia completing your aura synchronization training and I bet that you'll be able to fully master your Balance Break if you are able to bring everyone's threads up to the same level you have Xenovia's at." He suddenly chuckled. "The best and true ending for this visual novel is the harem ending, so make sure to build up everyone's relationship."

"Too bad there's no guide online for this." Issei said softly but nodded, "yeah, I can do that."

"Good," Azazel nodded and turned around, "alright, I'll leave, have fun." He walked out of the room, grabbed his coat and put it on before pausing and turning back to look at everyone. "Oh, Miss Precia, I was told that Lilith, Hayate and your daughter, Fate should be back on Earth in a couple of hours." Precia looked at him and nodded, though she looked unsure about how to handle it. "And one last thing, Issei," when Issei looked at him, he smirked, "try not to turn Gasper into a girl like you did Yukiko."

"GET OUT OF HERE!" Several people yelled and Azazel left before leaving.

"And Issei," Rias gave him an upset look, "if you do find a way to turn Gasper into a girl, I'm going to put you in a chastity cage for a month."

"WHAT?!" Most everyone screamed in horror.

Alicia just looked confused while her mother blushed. "...What's that?"

"Just think of it as a way to punish a naughty husband or boyfriend." Precia told her daughter and Alicia nodded.

"Adults are weird." The small blonde said to herself.

(---)

Suzuka smiled as she watched Nanoha pace back and forth. "Nanoha-chan, you're going to put a hole in the floor." She sighed when Nanoha didn't respond and looked at the others that were at the train station, waiting. "So, Ranma..."

"Hmm?" Ranma looked up from whatever book he was reading.

"What's that?" She asked and pointed at the book.

"Ancient martial arts." Ranma said as he closed it. "And some other stuff, ah, there's Asia and Issei... Oh, Gasper came with them?" He stood up and waved his friend over. "Oh?" Ranma blinked in surprise as an older woman with dark hair, who was wearing jeans and a dark sweater, and a young girl with blonde hair who was wearing a blue tanktop and a pleated skirt, followed after them. "You had... Issei, why is there a little girl who looks exactly like a small version of Fate?"

"Well, apparently she's Fate's big sister or something." Issei said with a helpless shrug.

"...Wait, big sister?" Ranma asked and looked at the little girl and then at the woman. "...You're Fate's mother?" The woman jerked in surprise and nodded, looking unsure and sad.

"My name is Precia Testarossa," the woman said and motioned towards her daughter, "and this is my daughter, Alicia Testarossa."

Ranma's eyes widened in surprise. "...Ooooooooh..." He said while dragging the word out. "Does Lilith know that you're going to be here?" When she shook her head, he sighed. "Alright, I'll keep her in check, because otherwise..." He trailed off as he felt a rising surge of magic and turned around to see Nanoha taking several deep breaths. "Hey, calm down."

"I'm trying," Nanoha told him as she glared at Precia before taking several more deep breaths and letting them out. "I apologize, but the memories of what you did to Fate-chan came back to me and I got upset."

"I deserve that much." Precia said with a nod. "I can't ask that you forgive me, I know I'm beyond redemption, but at least let me meet with Fate before you decide what to do with me."

Alicia frowned and hugged Precia. "You're not beyond redemption, mom. You did some bad things, so what?"

"...It was more than just a few bad things, Alicia." Precia said softly. "I was a monster. I..."

"No!" Alicia shook her head. "Mom! Just because you were bad in the past doesn't mean you're bad now, right?"

"Please, Miss Testarossa." Asia smiled as she walked in front of the older woman. "Even if you did things in the past that you truly regret now, the fact that you feel remorse and see that you were in the wrong proves that you aren't a monster."

Precia smiled at her. "Thank you."

When the announcer spoke up about a train arriving, the group moved towards the train, though Precia stayed towards the back of the group.

After the train came to a stop, the group waited until Signum, who was using crutches to get off the train, stepped out, followed by Hayate, who was followed by Vita, who was followed by Lilith, who was being helped by Arf, who was followed by Lindy and finally Fate, who was wearing a long-sleeved coat that went down to her knees.

Seeing Fate, Nanoha sighed in relief and ran up to her girlfriend. "Fate-chan!" She smiled and gripped her right hand. "Are you okay?"

Fate smiled and nodded. "Other than the obvious, yes." The jacket sleeve swayed in the breeze to emphasize her point. "I'm sure I'll be fine."

Ranma walked up to Lilith and gave her a quick kiss while hugging her. "I hope it wasn't too bad."

"It wasn't," Lilith said while the wind made her hair shift around, "so where is..." She looked over Ranma's shoulder and saw Precia and tensed up.

Ranma grabbed her. "No. I know you want to hurt her, but no." He sighed at the look Lilith gave him. "I know, I know what she did, but you can't do what you want to do to her."

Lilith protested. "Master, you know..." Ranma nodded and she looked confused. "But then..."

"It's not our place to do that." Ranma told her. "It's Fate's, and you know it." Lilith grumbled but nodded. "Just be a good girl."

Lilith gave him an annoyed look. "Fine, but only because you asked me to. She acts up, I'm going to gut her."

Ranma sighed as he let go of her and nodded. "Fine, I can accept that much. We should take this elsewhere though, and..." He trailed off as he realized there was one more person, a man with long blond hair and was wearing a green suit, standing near them. "Wait, who's that?"

Lilith grinned and stepped back and put her hands on the person's shoulder. "Master! I know it's been a long time, but don't you recognize Yuuno?"

Ranma gawked in shock. "Wait, the last time I saw him, he had short hair, didn't have glasses and wasn't so tall."

Yuuno chuckled and pushed his glasses up. "Sadly I developed a stigmatism in my eyes and I need glasses to see properly."

"Well, you're looking good." Ranma smiled at him.

"Get this," Lilith grinned and patted Yuuno on the back, "he dated Suzuka a few years ago."

Yuuno blushed at the look he got from Ranma. "We went on a like three dates over the course of a few months."

"Mostly because we don't live on the same planet." Suzuka said as she walked up to them. "Hello, Yuuno-kun, it's been awhile."

Yuuno nodded while smiling at the purple-haired girl. "Yeah, but this is a large group."

Issei looked at Gasper. "Hey, buddy, can you stop time for a bit for everyone around us?"

The blonde boy nodded, his eyes flashing and suddenly everyone but the group was standing still. "There, does that help?"

"...You can stop time?" Yuuno asked, surprised. "That's really impressive."

"Among other things." Lindy said. "So, why did you stop time?"

"So I can get us out of here without people seeing the teleportation flash." Ranma said as a large magic circle formed under his feet, extending outwards to surround everyone in the group. "I got a place near here that we can talk and no one will notice us disappearing."

"Alright, that works for me." Lindy said as the group disappeared in a flash of black light.

Around them, time started up again and no one noticed that they had disappeared.

(---)

Appearing in a living room, Hayate looked around in confusion. "Big brother, where are we?"

"Where I used to live when I was in Kuoh." Ranma told her as she helped Signum sit on the couch. "My parents live here now."

Issei smiled at Gasper. "Thanks, Gasper." The blonde gave him a smile back.

Asia went over to Signum. "I know that I can heal your legs, is it okay if I do this first?"

"It's fine." Fate said with a smile as Nanoha helped her remove her coat.

"Oh, we have guests?" A woman's voice was heard as someone walked in. "I wish I had... Ranma!" Her eyes lit up. "Why didn't you tell me you were coming?"

Ranma chuckled and rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry, mom. I didn't mean to forget."

"Big brother's mother?" Hayate blinked in surprise before smiling brightly and running over to Nodoka. "Hello, mother." She bowed to the surprised woman. "Big brother should have told me more about you."

"...Ranma, did you adopt another sibling into the family?" Nodoka asked.

Ranma laughed. "Ah, sort of." He walked over to Nodoka and the two of them and Hayate walked off as he explained things to Nodoka.

Signum looked at Asia as she knelt in front of her and a green glow was coming out of her hands. "Look, you don't need to do this."

Asia shook her head. "No, it's fine. This level of injury will be fixed up before you know it."

"Ah, but healing magic shouldn't..." Signum trailed off as she felt her legs and feet started feeling better. "...What?"

"What?" Asia asked in confusion.

"Healing magic can be bad for a person if it's over-used." Nanoha told Asia. "There's a limit to it since it just speeds up our body's natural regeneration."

Asia frowned in confusion. "...I don't do that when I use my healing power."

"That's because your Sacred Gear undoes the damage that someone had." Lilith told her. "At least that's what I think, I'm not sure. But it's a miracle-class healing, if you ever unlock your Balance Break, you'll probably have such powerful healing that no one could ever hurt you since any damage will be undone right away."

Signum, Nanoha and Fate all stared in shock.

Vita, who had been quiet, found herself grumbling in annoyance. "Why the heck couldn't we find someone like this earlier?"

"Sacred Gears are hardly known to anyone who doesn't have them." Lilith told her. "Trust me, do you have any idea how easy Genma's training would have been with Asia around?"

"Or how much more insane it could have been." Issei shook his head. "And didn't Ranma go over this before, Lilith? Besides, if you could perform miracle-level healing to off-set the worst of training, what would happen when someone decided to train their bodies until their bodies shut down at the worst moment?"

"Yeah, I probably wouldn't have learned my lesson about training too hard if I had Asia around." Nanoha admitted while rubbing the back of her head.

Arf jumped up and down. "Please, if it's so good, can it fix Fate's arm?"

"Well," Asia smiled nervously, "I've never had to restore someone's arm from scratch, so I don't..."

"You should be able to." A voice that she recognized as Raven's voice entered her mind. "Don't worry, I'm still at your house, but I can see what's going on. You know that black glove? Focus your magic and let it flow, turn into your Fae form and use your Sacred Gear. Just relax and focus, as for the spell, just think about what you want, the words will come to you naturally, tell your lover to slap or kiss you if you go out of control. When you're done, just will the power back to your hand, okay?" Raven paused for a moment before continuing. "This is really simple, since this is just enhancing what you could already do. I'll teach you some really fancy stuff later."

Asia nodded and looked at her right hand. "Issei, I'm going to use my Fae magic, if I start acting crazy, please slap me and get me back to normal." She blushed at the looks she got. "I didn't mean on my face, but if the first slap doesn't work, then try kissing me."

"Oooooh!" Lilith and Issei both said in understanding.

It was easy to understand, after all, Asia did have a rather large butt for her size.

Signum got up and walked around, before realizing something important as she felt around her thighs. "...You fixed my thighs as well?"

Asia just smiled at her. "Well, it was an injury that was there, it wasn't hard to fix." She then looked at her right hand as it glowed black and the black wrap that was around her hand expanded, quickly covering her arm, looping over her shoulders, down her left arm and hand, up her neck to just under her skull and down her body. Her hair and eyes changed color and the feel of her changed. "I... I'm still me." She said, her voice was slightly different as well, more sultry than before. "It's okay, I'm not feeling crazy."

"...What is this feeling?" Signum asked.

"That's a Fae." Alicia spoke up. "I lived with them for awhile, they all feel like that."

Asia nodded and walked up to Fate and put her hands on Fate's left shoulder. "Alright, just hold still, I've never tried this with this much power in me." Asia closed her eyes and chanted something in a language that only Lilith, Alicia and Precia had heard before.

A bright green light flooded the room, and to everyone's shock, new bones started to grow out of the stump of Fate's left arm down to where her elbow would be, before joints formed there and more bones grew outwards, ending with Fate's hand, looking like a skeleton hand. Fate could only stare in absolute disbelief. When tendons, ligaments and other fibers started to grow over it, she was slightly disgusted by the blood sheen that was covering it, especially as she could see blood vessels growing and covering her arm as more muscles were growing around it before it finally stopped with a layer of outer skin and fingernails over her hand.

Other than being very pink and soft to the touch, Fate could feel her arm as though it was never missing in the first place. "This is... Incredible."

"And so fast." Lindy said in shock. "If there is such a thing as miracles, we just witnessed one." She then looked at Precia. "As much as you'd like to talk to Fate, I need to talk to you."

Precia sighed and nodded. "Of course. I'm in no position to make demands."

"I'm coming with." Yuuno said, "for someone to go into the Dimensional Rift and come out alive, even going to a new realm, I have to document it."

Lindy gave a small smile and nodded, "I have no issue with that."

Alicia walked up to Fate and smiled. "Hello, little sister."

Fate looked at Alicia, smiled back and then hugged her. "Hello, big sister. I'm glad to finally meet you." Her smile increased as Alicia hugged her back.

Sure, there were other things that needed to be taken care of, but for now, she could just enjoy being with her big sister.

There was a loud smacking sound and everyone looked at where Asia, who was back to normal, was jumping up and down while putting her hands on her butt. "Oww, oww, oww!"

Issei looked apologetic. "I'm sorry, but you said to slap your ass as hard as I could."

Asia nodded as she rubbed her butt. "Y-yeah..." She blushed and whispered something so soft only Issei heard it. "I kind of liked it."

"...Oh my." Issei said in surprise.

End Part 4

 

[Nanya]

Final chapter!

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Part 5

Ranma took a deep breath of the cool morning air as he, Lilith, who was more than seven months pregnant, Atsuko, and Yohko, all walked to Kuoh academy. "So, what was the final decision with Fate's mom anyway?"

Lilith smiled at him. "Fate told me last night, apparently because Fate already took the blame for what happened when she was nine and did her time and Precia being listed as legally dead, they won't make her stay in prison, but she's been put on a heavy limiter and will likely have to live with that for the rest of her life."

"It's probably fine." Yohko said and motioned ahead as Alicia, Gasper, Koneko and Ophis were walking to school. "I'm surprised that she was admitted to school."

"Blame Azazel." Ranma told her. "I think Fate and Precia both want Alicia to live a normal life on Earth and not have to worry about the crap that caused her death in the first place. Besides, she's a good girl."

The four of them fell into comfortable silence as they walked to the school. When they got to the gates, they were greeted by Sona, who smiled upon seeing them. "Hello, brother."

Ranma laughed as he heard that. "You've wanted to say that for awhile, huh?"

"I'm just glad that you followed up on your promise to finish your education." Sona said with a nod.

Lilith smirked and elbowed Ranma. "Master, you should seduce your sister."

Sona groaned and lowered her head. "Please..."

Ranma gave Lilith a confused look. "But Hayate isn't here." He smirked as she gave him a glowering look. "Besides, even if Sona's really sexy, I don't think she'd be up for it."

Lilith's glowering look changed to one of amusement. "Shows what you know, master." She pointed at Sona, whose face was bright red as she turned around and walked stiffly into the school. "Though you know that if you do seduce Sona, that Serafall's going to want to join in, right?"

Ranma just sighed and shook his head. "Some days I just wonder, who's worse, you or your mother."

"My mom." Lilith answered.

"Her mom." Both Atsuko and Yohko answered at the same time.

Ranma shrugged and the four walked into the school to continue their education.

Besides, it was nice to get away from Makai and not be the Demon King for a few hours after all.

(---)

Elsewhere in the Universe...

In a darkened laboratory, where there were several tubes full of liquid and human-shaped naked bodies, the only major source of light was the large terminal near the back of the room where two people stood in front of it. One of them was a fairly tall man with long, purple hair, yellow eyes and was wearing a blue suit with a lab coat over it stood in front of a computer monitor. Next to him was a woman of similar height that looked very similar to him, other than being obviously female and was wearing a purple and white secretery outfit.

"Jail Scagiletti?" A female voice spoke up, causing the man in question to look at the newcomer with a raised eyebrow. The woman had dark hair, purple eyes and wore a bloody white dress as she walked towards him while ignoring the bodies around her.

"You have me at a disadvantage." Jail said as he looked at her. "May I have your name?"

The woman smirked at him. "My name is Melinoe," she glanced at the woman next to Jail and then dismissed her, "I hear you're really good with cloning."

Jail chuckled. "If there's some genetic material, I can clone anyone, why do you ask?"

Melinoe held up a severed arm. "I recently came across this arm of a powerful mage. If you could clone her, and you can make as many as you want, but I want one for an experiment of my own."

Jail nodded, he didn't know who she was or why she had a severed arm, but he was curious about this woman and the arm. "May I ask what your experiment is?"

"It depends if you believe in Devils, Gods and the supernatural or not." Melinoe told him.

Jail chuckled at her. "A man of science that has magic all around him? How could I not believe in something like the supernatural?"

Melinoe's grin increased. "Good. As for what I want to do, my father was creating Super Devils using the mother of all Devils and Monsters on our world. But I wonder... How strong would a Super Devil be if I had a base of an incredibly strong mage?" Her eye twitched as she remembered the blonde woman being able to actually hurt her, a Goddess!

That blonde losing her arm was a natural price to pay after all.

Jail's eyes seemed to gleam in delight. "It will take a few years, even if I artificially age the clone."

"Don't worry about any problems associated with that." Melinoe told him. "After you're done with the cloning, I'll use that "Devil Reincarnation" thing that Devils have to fix any damages that will come to her as a result of it. Meaning you can speed up the process to make them... Appropriately aged in less time."

And if everything worked out right, she would have the means to make multiple super powerful Super Devils by simply cloning powerful mages.

After all, it was easier to control a clone than to brainwash powerful people.

End Epilogue

End Fae Arc

End Dance with the Devil

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Obvious sequel hook is obvious.

I promise I'll get to it, I just need to go back and re-watch StrikerS and a few other series to reacclimate myself with them fully.