[DxD] Reaper Ch 7 onwards

T.L

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Chapters 1 to 6 can be found here.

My poor attempt at a different take on DxD.
Comments and criticism more than welcome, and needed in my opinion.

Last time

“To make sure that no one is following us. We can be sure that magically that no one is on our tail. But by doing this, we will confuse the shit out of anyone trying to follow us”.

Just as she finished explaining her reasons Room Service arrived with their dinner.

Hearing the chime at the door she dove forwards calling out “FOOD!”.

***

Brasov


Hotel room 323

Standing in front of the bathroom impatiently, tapping her foot on the floor Bennia called out “Come on Issei, If you don’t hurry we’re going to be late and miss the train”.

“Sorry, but I can’t help it.”

“I told you not to order the Seafood Pizza, but Nooo, you wouldn’t listen would you?”.

“But your Capricciosa looked so good, and I was still hungry, how could I have known?”.

“Idiot, we are miles from a large body of water, let alone an ocean. How long do you think that seafood has been around for?”.

Flushing the toilet and, walking out of the bathroom holding his stomach Issei moaned “Don’t remind me!, Can you do anything to help?”.

Holding her nose due to the smell she replied “Wad?, Do I looded Lide a med reader?”.

***

Hall of Neutrality

Making her way to the conference room Serafall looked at her companion. “You didn't have to come as well Sirzechs, Pluto is going to have a heart attack seeing you”.

Grunting to himself Sirzechs responded “You read that cock and bull story as well Serafall. They tried to play a game, and the rug got pulled out from under their feet. I'm going to take great delight in seeing that ass kisser sweat. As we discussed, we are not going to let this slide, either way the sanctions will come into effect immediately. They know that we know that they tried something. So there has to be some form of official redress. But I am going to privately pass along a message to Hades. Something along the the lines of ‘Don't fuck with us again’”.

Serafall paused as she was about to open the door to the conference room. She looked at  Sirzechs’ expression and grinned ferally. “Oh yes that will do nicely”. Smoothing her expression into one of political diplomacy, she opened the door with a bang and entered.

***
Sitting at the long table Pluto shuffled through the paperwork in nervous anticipation. Hades had flown into a rage, when he found out that Red Dragon Emperor host had fled. Orcus was still being held in Cocytus over what had happened, allegedly being questioned, Pluto knew that there were very few questions being asked. Having to cut their losses and try and salvage a diplomatic resolution with the Devils, they had concocted a story about what had happened. He only hoped that Serafall believed what was now the official story. Hearing the door open with a bang, he looked up and broke into a nervous sweat, Serafall wasn't alone. ‘Oh shit Sirzechs came as well’ he thought. Watching the two of them take seats opposite him he took a sip of water to moisten his suddenly dry throat and collect his thoughts . Placing the glass back down he coughed slightly and began his spiel.

“Kalimere Serafall,Thank you for coming today, and Maou Sirzechs, I am pleased to see that you also have taken time to come here today as well, your presence here honors us”.

Both Serafall and Sirzechs nodded at the greeting. Having made arrangements prior to coming, Serafall took the lead in dealing with Pluto. “Thank you for contacting us Lord Pluto, how may we be of service to you today?”

“It is with some regret, that we have to inform you of one of our Reapers has gone rogue”.

“Tisk, Tisk”, Serafall clicked with her tongue shaking her head sadly, “Oh my that is a shame, It's regrettable that one has left your flock”. Shrugging her shoulders she continued blandly “But hardly worthy of our attention. Surely just a bulletin would suffice in this matter, so that we know that their actions are unsanctioned”.

“Normally that would suffice, but this situation is slightly different. The reaper in question goes by the name of Bennia”.

Thinking out loud Serafall murmured “Bennia, Bennia, where have I heard that name before”. Pulling a notebook out of her pocket she thumbed through some dog eared pages, stopping on one page in particular, Snapping her fingers she added “Oh that's right!, that is the name of the reaper who mistakenly broke the five minute rule over the Red Dragon Emperor”.

Swallowing nervously Pluto added “That is correct”.

Joining in the conversation for the first time Sirzechs added “I still don’t see how this is of any concern to us Lord Pluto”.

Looking over at Sirzechs Pluto continued “In accordance with your request in regards to the Red Dragon Emperor, Our special projects team had difficulties extracting the host from the Second ring, Bennia was brought in to help as she was the one who reaped his soul”.

“With Bennia’s assistance they managed to recover the host from the Second ring. She was put in charge of making sure that the reintegration of the host's soul and body went smoothly. At some stage after reintegration, they murdered the treating physician and went rogue”.

Shaking her head sadly Serafall “Oh dear what a nasty mess. How did they manage to kill the treating physician?”

Deciding to throw them some information Pluto continued “We don't know how she did it. What you don't know is that Bennia was a special duties operative during the war. An exploding Gerbil in a secure lab would not be beyond her capabilities”.

Nodding sagely Sirzechs interjected crossing his arms “Ahh yes, the exploding Gerbil. I assume there wasn’t much left of the lower torso?”

“No not much at all”.

Coughing loudly Serafall tried to get the conversation back on track “So what you are telling us, is that this Bennia decided to go rogue and took the Red Dragon Emperor and host with her. Correct?”

Looking at his notes Pluto agreed “Correct”.

At this Sirzechs sat back in his chair seemingly thinking about what was said. Eventually he exclaimed “Bullshit!”

Pluto’s jaw dropped at the statement, gathering up his thoughts at this blatant disregard of diplomatic nicety he stated “Excuse me Maou Sirzechs, I'm not sure I heard you correctly?”

Dropping all pretense at being diplomatic, Sirzechs reaffirmed his statement “I said, Bullshit! Pluto”.

Serafall taking her cue from Sirzechs continued “Eight weeks ago, Bennia reaped the soul of one Hyoudou Issei, three weeks ago you and I had our first meeting over this matter, two weeks ago we issued a demand for Bennia as well as Hyoudou Issei, last week your specialists told me that you were having trouble removing him from the second ring, and now you tell us that not only has he been reintegrated to his body, but managed to subvert one of your special duties operatives and escape from your domain?”. Standing up she threw her notebook onto the table with all the relevant dates highlighted, she finished with “What a load of crap”.

Standing up as well Sirzechs snapped at Pluto “We find your attempts at subverting the treaty between us to be deplorable. At this point in time we will be suspending all ties between our realms, and all access through our portals to the human realm as well. Until such time as proper redress has been made”. Leaning over the table he snarled “By the way you can pass a personal message from me to Hades as well, tell him that I said ‘Fuck You’”. With that the two of the stormed out.


***
End snippet.
 

T.L

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Romanian airport.

Sitting in a cafe at the Henri Coanda International Airport airport Bennia looked around carefully. During their bus trip from Brasov to the airport she had spotted several reapers staking out the rail and bus terminals, obviously keeping an close eye on ways out of the country, to try and catch them. Issei had mentioned that they should use some form of disguise, but she had dismissed that straight out, not only were they cumbersome to use, they would have trouble with immigration officials when they tried to leave. She had explained that they would take several flights across Europe then head to Japan via the United States.

“I still don’t understand why we can't go straight home from here?” whispered Issei.

Sighing Bennia answered “As I explained on our way here, this is the safest way to escape. Our tickets are already booked and it's just a matter now of dodging any surveillance that Hades has posted inside”.

“I'd still feel better if we were in some sort of disguise” Issei grumbled.

“Yes I agree, but unfortunately our papers only have our normal images on them, and it's too hard to explain to the officials, why we don't look like our passports”. Looking up at a large clock on the wall she stood up “Come on our flight to Milan is starting to board”.

Standing up as well Issei asked “Why are we going there rather than Rome?”

“Because flights to Heathrow and Frankfurt are boarding at the same time and I hope that the surveillance here will be focusing on them, rather than a smaller flight to Milan”.

As they walked through the departure lounge, they mingled with other passengers, hoping to keep prying eyes off them, as they passed by the gates to Heathrow, Bennia nudged Issei with her elbow and whispered “Issei don't make it obvious but see that man over by the phone?”

Scratching the side of his face, Issei peered over in the direction that had been pointed out to him “Yeah I see him” he murmured.

“That's one of the men who work in the Intelligence Department, I've worked with him before. Just keep walking, he's focused on the gate for Heathrow”.

Having been shown that there were reapers looking for them Issei became more self conscious, and started to close in on himself.

Seeing what he was doing, Bennia looped her arm through his, and began to talk about different places that they had supposedly been. “Stop that” she hissed under her breath, “You'll draw attention to yourself, just be normal. Or as normal as you can be”.

Making their way past the lookout, they arrived at their flight without any further complications. As the plane was taxiing Issei asked “Will we have any further issues?”

Closing her eyes, trying to get some sleep on the flight Bennia answered “Proberley when we get to Tokyo. That will be watched as a matter of course. But there are more people there so it will be easier to mix in with the crowds. Now get some sleep you'll need it”.


131176


Toyama Prefecture
Gremory Estate

Sitting in the study Rias was putting the finishing touches to her master plan to defeat Riser and gain her freedom. Hearing a knock on the door frame she closed her notepad and looked up to see Saji standing there. Having been training the last seven days with the rest of her peerage, she could feel through their bond the rise in power levels the young man in front of her had obtained, and his current distress.

“Saji, what’s the matter” she asked her pawn gently.

“Buchou, I'm worthless. I have been useless……since I got here.”

“Saji?”, she questioned, confused as to where this came from. He had been fitting so nicely with the others.

“I think I've gotten stronger since I came here and trained with everyone, but more than that……I felt the difference between us. If I do sword training, I realised how amazing Kiba is. When I do magic training for using my demonic-power, I realise how superior Akeno-san is, while Asia is improving her demonic-powers …..and I can't do anything …… I'm fine as long as I have my Sacred Gear! I acted tough by thinking like that”. Standing there bearing his soul to his king, Saji’s eyes began to fill with tears and he lowered his head to hid the fact.

“I'm frustrated Buchou, just frustrated. The more I train, the more I realise how weak I am. ….. I have no talent for battle at the moment. Over the past five days, I found out that, I was the weakest person here, even Asia has improved more than me”.

While he was wallowing in his despair Rias stood and made her way over to her despondent pawn. Slowly putting her arms around him she gave him a hug. Releasing him she lifted his head up and pulled him towards the couch on the wall. Sitting down she patted the seat beside her.

Sitting down beside her Saji looked at her shamefully through his tear filled eyes.

Hugging him gently again and Rias spoke to him softly “You want confidence, right? Okay, I will give you confidence. Trust me Saji your Sacred Gear is a big part of my plans. But now, you have to rest your body and mind”.

At the time Saji didn't know what she meant. Except, his Kings warmth was healing his soul, and that was enough for now.



Kouh Academy
Student Council

Sona sat at her desk with a contemplative look. Having just spoken with her sister, she had just been informed, about The Red Dragon Emperor escaping from the clutches of Hades, and here she was sitting in his hometown with pieces to spare. ‘So now we wait for them to show up’ she thought. Removing her spare evil pieces from her pocket she looked at them deep in thought, A Mutated Rook, A Knight, and 7 Pawns. ‘So Issei is on the run, with the Reaper who harvested his soul’. Twisting the Mutated Rook piece between her fingers “I finally see what you did there, nee-chan” she murmured to herself.

“What has your sister done this time?” asked a voice from behind her.

Putting the pieces away she responded “Tsubaki, when hasn’t my sister done something to vex me”. Holding up a hand she continued, “This time though, this time she is trying to be sneaky, and when my sister tries to be sneaky, bad things always happen”.
 

AoMythology

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My likey. :)

The only gripe I have is that you didn't have more Issei and Bennia, but I get that you have to establish the other characters too.
 

T.L

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#4
More stuff I'm not quite done with this chapter yet.

131176

Japan Airspace
Flight JL061

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have been cleared to land at ‘Tokyo Narita Airport’. Please make sure that your seat belt is fastened and…..”

Tuning out the generic message that he had heard several times in the last few days Issei looked over at Bennia, noticing that she was still asleep, he nudged her awake. “Hey sleepy head, time to wake up”.

Batting his arm away she tiredly mumbled “Go away Issei, let me sleep”.

Nudging her a little harder he reiterated “Come on it's time to get up, we are about to land”.

Sighing to herself, she raised her seat and checked the seat belt. “This is why I hate using transport” she grumbled softly, “You finally get to sleep, and then you have to wake up, because they want you to do something”. Running her hands over her face to try and wash the weariness away she asked “What time is it?”.

Thanking his lucky stars that she didn't hit him again, after the last two times he had to wake her he replied “I don't know. I gave up adjusting my watch in Madrid”.

Having jetted their way across Europe through several smaller airports, to make sure that they weren't being tracked, they made their way to Los Angeles from Heathrow during the afternoon, with a short stop over they made their final flight to Japan from Los Angeles.

Checking the inflight screen in front of her before closing it she commented “Quarter past eight, right on time”

Looking out the window, at the rapidly growing city below, Issei couldn't help but ask his companion “Why did you time it so that we arrived at this time?”.

“I went over the international arrivals coming into Narita Airport today, there seems to be a large amount of arrivals at this time, in case there is someone watching, the more people in the terminal the better off we will be”.

“I see” said Issei, Nodding his head in agreement. “So what do we do from here. Do we head straight for my home, or do we head somewhere else first”.

Hearing the eagerness in his voice, Bennia decided to try and tamp his enthusiasm slightly “Issei I understand that you are anxious to see your parents, but they will be under surveillance. Hades will be watching all of the places and people that you used to frequent when you were alive. We need to set up a safe house first. Once we have done that, then we can slowly head out and understand the lay of the land, so to speak”. Lapsing into silence the two of them contemplated their next move as the plane made its final descent.

“On behalf of Japan Airlines and the entire crew, I’d like to thank you for joining us on this trip and we are looking forward to seeing you on board again in the near future. Have a nice day”

Standing up Issei and Bennia made their way to the exit amid the general crush to exit the plane. Only having a few items as their carry on luggage they made through the exit and after an hour they cleared through customs with little trouble. Wandering through the arrival hall Issei spied the ticket counter for JR-East. Tugging on Bennia’s sleeve they made their way over to the counter. Purchasing two tickets for the Narita Express they then made their way down to the train station on the lower level. Boarding the train as it was about to depart they heard a shout from behind them.

“BENNIA!!, stop right there!!”.

Spinning around at the sound of her name Bennia saw an operative of Hades running towards them. ‘Dammit!’ she thought. Seeing how the train was about to depart they ran and jumped on board as the doors closed and watched as the agent banged on the doors as the train began to depart.

Taking their seats Issei cursed out loud. Causing more people who had witness what was going on to move further away from them. Losing the cover of the crowd made him realise how exposed they were, sitting on a train heading in a known direction. Looking at Bennia calmly sitting there he wondered how she could be so collected when they had been discovered.“Can we use a portal to get out of here?” he asked softly.

Looking at him horrified, she whispered “At the moment absolutely not!, and lower your voice”.

Looking around and noticing the stares that they were receiving from other passengers, he whispered back confused “Why not?, I would think that in a situation like this it would be the perfect time”.

“Because idiot, portals don't work like that. Remind me when we are safe to explain why. Right at this point in time, it can't be done”.

“So what do we do? As soon as the train stops and we get off we'll be caught”.

Reaching over and patting him on the knee she replied with a grin “Don't stress Issei, I have a plan, you'll see when we get to Chiba station in about 40 minutes”.

“The train only lets people off at Chiba though, no one can board there, and I would assume that that agent will have made contact with his HQ by now, and they will have people at all stations by now”.

“Issei don't worry, it will be fine” and with that she sat back in her seat and watched the scenery flash by.

***

“Dammit I know who I saw. I worked with her only twelve months ago” said the agent into his mobile phone. “Make sure that you have people waiting at all stations that the Narita Express stops at. From memory the last stop before Tokyo is at Chiba Station”. Looking at his watch he added “Which will be within the next forty minutes”. Pausing to listen to the person on the other end he added “I don’t care that it will take an hour just get on it”.

***

With ten minutes to go before arriving at Chiba station Bennia stood up and grabbed her bag. “Come on Issei let's go”.

Looking at her stupidly he replied “Go? Go where?”.

Reaching down she grabbed his hand and pulled him up out of his seat “Come on, we don't have time for twenty questions”.

Grabbing his bag as she pulled him to the front of the carriage, she opened a door and entered a compartment that was full of suitcases. Standing in the aisle between the racks she stood there thinking about what to do. ‘Hmmm’ she thought to herself ‘now where to go to from here. No not there that's too obvious, not there either that's too predictable’.

Standing behind her, Issei kept looking over his shoulder, to see if anyone else was about to enter the compartment. Feeling the momentum of the train shift he called out “Whatever you're going to do Bennia, it has to be soon, the train is about to stop at Chiba”.

Hearing the hurry up from Issei she nodded her head. ‘Right that will have to do’ she thought. Looking over her shoulder at Issei she stated “When the train stops I'm going to open a portal. I am aiming for the other side of the stations platforms so when we get through get out of sight straight away”.

Feeling the train coming to a halt Issei felt the carriage stop. As soon as it had Bennia open a small portal and pushed him through. Stumbling as he exited the portal he made his way straight for the escalators in front of him. Trusting that Bennia would be right behind him.

People waiting on the platform for the train going in the other direction stared at them. A black circle of nothing, that spawned people how strange they thought, some one began to yell out but was drowned out by the sound of the incoming trains horn.

Making their way through the station the two of them stepped outside of the station and made their way across the street. Hearing a shout behind them they turned, and saw a woman stumbling into a man as she moved.

Bennia heard the shout behind her and turned to look at what the commotion was. Seeing a woman stumble into a man heading for the station, she saw a phone with an earpiece drop to the ground. “Shit!” she swore “Come on Issei its another agent”. With that the two of them took off running. As they ran Bennia spied a multi deck car park, “Issei the car park” she called out as she changed her heading slightly.

***

Extricating herself from the man agent Brown picked herself up off the ground and began to give chase. As she chased the pair of fugitives, she reached for her phone, only to realize that she had dropped it in the collision with the man moments earlier. ‘No time’ she thought ‘I'll lose them if I go back and get it’. Seeing them run into a car park she tried putting on more speed to catch up.

***

Entering the car park Bennia ran straight up the ramp to the first floor, as they entered the first level, she pointed to a group of cars on the right hand side, “Over there Issei, hide between the cars, I'll take care of the agent”. As Issei complied with her instructions, Bennia moved to hide behind a concrete wall, that was part of the ramp from the ground level. Removing Scythie from storage space she checked the magic levels stored inside as a matter of habit. ‘Mmm’ she thought ‘looks like we need to do some maintenance tonight’. Drawing as far back into the shadows as she could she waited.

***

Entering the car park agent Brown reached out with her senses, trying to determine where her quarry was hiding. Taking the time to check the ground floor and finding nothing, she slowly made her way up the ramp to the first floor. As she made her way up the ramp she could feel something off to her right as she stepped off the ramp. Slowly making her way to the right side of the car park she noticed a group of cars parked together, “You might as well give yourselves up” she called out. “The other agents are on their way here as we speak”. As she called out that statement she felt a sharp pain in her back. Looking down at her chest she saw the tip of a blade protruding and a whisper behind her.

***

As she stood in the shadows Bennia heard the footfalls of the agent as she walked up the ramp. Peering from around the corner she saw the agent move towards the right hand side of the car par. Slowly and quietly she made her way behind the agent. Hearing her call out for them to give up she grinned ferally. Swinging down with Scythie she felt disappointed. There was no fun in chasing prey that was amateurish. Feeling the blade penetrate the agent, she whispered softly “No, not today little girl”. With that the agent started to struggle. As she clamped her hand over her mouth to stop any noise escaping, the agents struggles became weaker as she bled out and died. Lowering the her to the ground Bennia held her hand out and called upon her magic. “Disposal a-go-go” she called out, as the blood and corpse dissolved into a cloud of black smoke. Looking down at the smoke Bennia felt the rush of battle leave her. “Come on out Issei, it over”.

“That was quick” stated Issei as he came out from between the cars. Seeing Bennia staring at the ground he asked “ Ummm shouldn't we be getting a move on, she said that the others were on their way”.

“That was a lie. She dropped her phone, when she got tangled with that man, when she first started chasing us”.

“So what now?”.

“We have limited time, we need to get out of sight fairly quickly and lay low for a few days. So a hotel for the time being. Then we can begin to try and get in contact with the Leviathan. Perhaps we head to Kyoto. I have some contacts there that might help us”.

***

“So this is where you found Browns radio?”.

“Yes sir, according to witness’ she dropped it when she got tangled with the man standing over there by the door. Apparently she took off after two people who were running away from the station”.

“So they did get off here then”.

“It looks that way sir, but where they are now, I have no idea”.

“Hmmm, have the men spread out through the ward for the next forty eight hours, if nothing turns up by then, we will move on and bolster the stake out around Kouh”.

***
 

T.L

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I put this together from bits and pieces. comments and criticism more than welcome.

***

Chiba Washington Hotel

Waking up Issie tiredly rubbed his eyes, looking at the clock he saw that it was 11pm, feeling wide awake he thought to himself ‘Jet lag suck’s ass’’. Having travelled through several time zones in the last two days he was unsure on what to do to overcome this problem. Getting cat naps at airport terminals and on flights left his body confused as to day or night.

Deciding that he could not get any more sleep he sat up. Looking over at the other bed he saw Bennia still sleeping so he quietly crept into the living area of the small room. Opening the mini bar he grabbed a can of tea and sat down in front of the T.V. hoping that some late night drivel would lull him back to sleep.

Sitting there with the mindless images flashing in front of him, safe in the knowledge that they were as secure as can be for the moment. Issei went over in his mind as to what had happened in the last few days, justifying to himself as to what had happened had happened, and apart from the agent, who was just doing her job, that nearly all the people that had been killed, appeared to be bad people. Thinking about what happened, brought him back to the fact that he had so much to learn about being a reaper.

***
Earlier that day,

Having carefully left the carpark Bennia made her way towards the center of Chiba, looking around for a hotel she sighed in exasperation, “Where do I even start?” she muttered to herself. Pausing for a moment she slapped herself on the forehead ‘Geez I’m so stupid sometimes’ she thought, and looked over at Issei. “Hey doofus!, make yourself useful and find us a half decent hotel would you!”.

“Hey! I’ve never been here before”.

“Well you lived here in Japan didn’t you!. I don’t think that that much has changed, in the time that you have been away!”, she huffed crossing her arms across her chest.

Shaking his head Issei spied a visitor information sign. Making his way over there he saw that there was a hotel quite close by. Not five stars but good enough for their current needs. Noting the address he consulted the map. “Come on this way, it’s not far at all just a few hundred meters”.

As they quickly made their way through the streets Bennia saw a store that sold pre-paid mobile phones. Pulling up to a stop she said “Come on we need to get some things”, disappearing into the store she picked up a small basket and quickly made her way through the aisles. Some snack foods, drinks, microwave meals just to name a few. Making her way to the counter she grabbed two Mobile phones. Paying for her purchases she stuffed everything into their bags and continued on their way.

Issei leading them again asked as he looked up at the signs “Why the sudden stop, shouldn’t we take care of that later?”.

“There might not be a chance later, so it’s best to sort it out now while we have a chance. Those agent’s would know by now that something is wrong, and will be starting a search of the surrounding area”. Following him as he made his way up a small street. As they made the turn she saw a moderately sized building with the name Washington Hotel in gold emblazoned across the front of it.

Making their way to the counter Issei enquired about availability, seeing that there were rooms available in a twin share they took one. Bennia came over and spoke softly to the check in clerk and slipped her a $100US, Bowing to her she took the key and made their way up to their room.

As the elevator doors close and they were alone Issei asked “What was that about?”

“I told the clerk that I was having domestic violence issues, and that you were helping me out. What she did was note in the register that we were silent customers, and our presence here is only to be given out to the police upon request, other than that we don’t exist here”.[1] With that the doors opened and they made their way to their room.

Sitting down on the couch Issei sighed “We’re here and for the moment we’re safe”.

Setting up her security on the windows and doors Bennia replied, “...and with that NOW we’re safe”. With that she sat down beside Issei on the couch, “So I guess you are wondering what we’re going to do now?”.

“Sort of, But after everything that has happened, I have a few questions I’d like to ask”.

“Sure, knock yourself out”.

“The first one is how come we couldn’t teleport out of the train when we were discovered”.

“Well, remember that I’m not an egghead, but when you open a portal it opens a point in space for you to step through, to a point somewhere else, ok. So from what I’ve been told and seen, if you open a portal far enough in front of you and you run through, you will be running out the other side, but keep in mind that you have to allow enough time and distance for the portal to open and close behind you, which takes time”. Looking at him she asked, “still following me?, seeing him nod she continued, “Right then so what do you think would happen if you tried to open a portal when moving at 130 km/h”.

Head spinning, but understanding what she was saying he replied “I’m not sure, but something bad?”.

“Yes something very bad. Not only would you be missing a small piece of your body, from the initial portal opening having already passed through it, but when the portal opened, everything that was behind you would be transported through the portal until it closed, coming out the other side at 130 km/h”. Seeing Issei pale she placated him “Easy Issei that’s why we don’t do it. I’ve seen footage from the eggheads in class to show us why”.

Composing himself he shakily replied “Right, make sure that you reinforce that when you teach me”.

Smiling at him She chirped “Sure, I’ll even give you a demonstration if you like”.

“No, No I’m good” he replied holding out his hand in a stopping motion.

“Anything else” she asked.

Being shaken about the portal explanation and forgetting his other questions he replied “There was but I’ve forgotten. So apart from that what do we do now?”.

“So we lay low for a few days, by then we should be used to local time and the agents hopefully would have moved on. If they follow standard procedure they will be gone in about 72 hours. Once that time period has passed, I'll reach out to some of my contacts in the Youkai faction. I have some favours there that hopefully will get me in contact with the Leviathan”.

“Youkai faction???”, asked Issei

Looking startled Bennia replied “Don't you know about your own countries mythology?”

Thinking about things for a moment Issei replied “The Kojiki is real?”.

“Ahh hello, two Grim Reapers sitting here.” she deadpanned.

Thinking about the conversation for a few moments Issei face palmed. “I’m so stupid” he groused, “So they all exist?” he asked.

Nodding at his question she replied “Anything older than say a century. Yep that should cover it”. Thinking for a few moments she added quite seriously “Although stay away from anyone sprouting Jediism”.

Looking at her stupidly Issei iterated “Jediism?, don't you mean Judaism”.

Frowning at his reply she slapped her hand on the side of the couch “I know what I said Issei, stay away from those Jedists. They are like friggin Mormons, once they get in, you can't get rid of them, trust me I know!”.

Seeing her getting angry, Issei raised his hands in the air in a placating manner, “Okay, okay, I hear and obey ‘o’ wise one”.

Crossing her arms over her chest she muttered “Good see that you do”.

***
End flashback
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Notes
[1] Hotels will do this if you tell them that there is a domestic issue. It won't hide you from the police, but people enquiring will be told that there is no one there by that name.
 

T.L

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#6
Looking over to the apparently young girl in the other bed he resolved to learn as much as possible so not to be a hindrance any more. After their discussion yesterday the both of them had taken the time for a nice long shower and meal. Hitting the hay somewhere in the vicinity of 2pm, he found himself in the current predicament to being wide awake.

Deciding to put some of his training to use he called out his scythe Rory, checking over the glyphs he noticed that the storage seals had lost some potency over the last two days, charging them back up as he had been instructed, he gave her one more look over and placed her back into storage. Sighing quietly to himself he sat back into the couch and tried to mindlessly watch late night T.V. in hopes it would lull him back to sleep.

‘So boy what are you going to do now?’

Startled by the voice in his head he called out “Ddraig?”.

‘No, you have someone else lurking around in this dump you call a mind other than me?’.

Speaking softly so as not to wake Bennia he added “No but you haven't said much over the last week”.

‘You have had a lot to deal with over the last few days. I thought it best to let the girl handle everything and let you focus on what to do to escape’.

“Well that certainly made things easier, thank you”.

‘So boy I’ll ask again, what are you going to do now?’.

“What do you mean ‘Do now?’”.

‘Are you going to swap one set of servitude for another, or are you going to head out on your own?’.

Unknown to Issei at that moment Bennia was awake, due to the security spells waking her from him using his magic to change his scythe, wanting to hear what he was saying she rolled over and strained to listen to the one sided conversation.

“I’m not sure Ddraig, I want to go home so bad and see my family and let them know I’m alive. But at the same time we are being hunted, so it’s dangerous for everyone”.

Thinking about his response Ddraig decided to test his host and see what he was thinking, ‘With my power boy we have little to fear from being hunted, so why do you stall?. Take what you want and forget the rest’.

“Yes, we could do what we want with your power. If I had time to be properly trained. But we don’t, and I want to survive longer than tomorrow. Let’s face it I’m weak as a kitten and need the help of others to survive”.

Hearing his response to the silent question Bennia felt conflicted about his answer. But she decided to wait to hear the rest of his one sided discussion before acting.

‘Being a slave under a Devil is still being a slave. From where I sit there is little difference between Hades and the Devil faction’.

“No. There is a big difference, servitude under Hades would have meant that we had no choice. At least this way it’s our choice. If we don’t like the terms, we can still walk away from the Devil faction and the support and protection that they can offer”.

‘I see your point. There is also more than one faction out there out there you know”, Mused Ddraig.

“I know, but if we don’t take the devil’s offer, I won’t shop myself around like a prostitute. If we don’t like their response we’ll head out on our own. Bennia thinks that this is a good idea and so far she has been right. So we will keep following her lead. We owe her a lot for getting us out of there, possibly more than I can ever repay”, he finished softly.

Hearing his comments Bennia blushed and hid her head under the covers.

Thinking about his answers Ddraig thought about them for several moments. ‘Prideful and loyal, this one might be different’. After a while he responded to Issei’s statements ‘We will soon see’. With that he retreated back into the Boosted Gear.

Confused about the dragons statement, Issei sat there and mulled the conversation over in his head. Even after declaring his path to the prideful dragon he shrugged his shoulders and decided to just go with the flow and see what fate had install for him. Sitting there with the mindless drivel from the T.V he drifted off to sleep again.

***

Waking up the next morning Issei discovered that sleeping on a couch sitting up was not a good idea. Closing his eyes and massaging his stiff neck he soon smelt the aroma of coffee. Opening his eyes he saw Bennia standing there waving a cup of coffee under his nose.

“Morning sleepy head” she chirped happily.

Knowing she wasn’t a morning person, he instantly become wary. “What’s got you so happy this morning?” he asked, accepting the cup of coffee.

“Oh nothing much. But seeing how it’s 11am, I have managed to get lots done”.

Taking a sip of the drink he asked “Like What?”.

“Well for starters I have managed to set up both mobiles, check out a few things on the internet and even gotten in touch with my contact in the Youkai faction”.

“Well you certainly have been busy then”. Finishing the small drink he stretched his arms upwards and felt his neck and back pop.

Still standing close to him Bennia’s smile disappeared, Frowning slightly she asked in a dangerous tone “Issei!”, pausing for a moment and sniffing audibly, “You stink, go take a shower for Hades’ sake”

Standing up and taking a whiff of his under arms he moved off towards the shower. “Ugh I knew I forgot something yesterday”.

Wanting to watch some T.V, but still smelling the unwashed boy, Bennia moved off to the kitchenette, muttering about disgusting pigs.

***

Sitting in the hotel room Issei started to get frustrated. He always thought that living the life of a NEET would be easy, but after two days of sitting around going over simple spells, surfing the net with his phone and watching T.V he was bored. Having adjusted to Japan time, he was itching to get out and get to work.

Still trying to get the invisibility cloak spell to work didn’t improve his disposition at all, and having Bennia rub his nose in it, by coming and going as she pleased over the last two days made him very irritable. But he kept plugging away, slowly getting better control over his magic, with each failed attempt.

Hearing a phone ringing brought his attention back to the present. They had been waiting for Bennia’s contact to get back to them hearing the currently insufferable girl answer he listened in with interest.

“Oh, hey how’s it going?” asked Bennia as she answered the call, “Right, Right, So she’s busy at the moment?”. Listening to the voice on the other end she frowned, surprised by the answer she exclaimed “A draw? How the hell do you have a draw?”. After a longer explanation from her caller she questioned “So she is meditating at the moment and she has my number?”,a short pause then “Ok then I’ll wait for her to be in touch then, Hey listen thanks heaps for this, you’ve been a big help”. After hearing her contacts question she replied “Yeah we're square now. I’ll catch up with you later. Bye”.

Pressing the end button on the phone she placed it back down on the night stand. Standing up she made her way over to the table where Issei was working. Pulling out a chair she sat down and brought him up to speed.

“As you can assume that was my contact in the Youkai faction. They have managed to get in contact with the Leviathan, but at the moment she is busy and can’t meet with us, and won’t send anyone else in her place”.

Interested in the conversation she had he asked “What’s the big issue that one of the four leaders of the Devil society has to sort out?”.

“Well apparently the Maou Lucifer’s sister was engaged to a devil from another of the 72 Pillars, a man by the name of Riser from the Pillar Phoenix, I’ve only heard rumors about this Riser Phoenix, but from what I have heard he is a thoroughly despicable person”. Thinking about the rumors she paused for a moment.

Looking at her far away look he prodded “Bennia?”.

“Sorry I was thinking about something, Anyway apparently Riser and Rias Gremory, that’s the name of Maou Lucifer's sister…”

“Rias Gremory!!” Issei interrupted her.

“Yes Rias Gremory, do you know her?”

“No, but she was one of my Senpai at Kouh Academy. One of the great Onee-sama’s”. Smiling about better times he added “..and some of the best oppai I have ever seen on a girl” chuckling about her breasts he started to drool.

“Great Onee-sama’s” laughed Bennia

“Well yeah, that’s what every one there called her, along with her best friend Akeno Himejima”.

“Hmm a Himejima huh” thought Bennia out loud, “Tell me more about some of the popular girls in your school Issei”.

“But what about your conversation?” asked Issei.

“That can wait for a moment, I think that this is more important”.

Not seeing where she was going Issei complied “ So there was Rias Gremory, Akeno Himejima, Souna Shitori, and Tsubaki Shinra, just to name a few. There were plenty more I could go on but they were the main four along with their clubs”.

“Clubs?” she asked.

“Well yes every one had to belong to a student club, Souna Shitori is the President of the Student Council and Tsubaki Shinra was her deputy. Rias Gremory is the head of the Occult Research Club and Akeno Himejima is her deputy”.

Hearing this Bennia leaned back on her chair and wailed with laughter “Bwhahahaha Occult Research club!!!! Bwhahahaha”. Laughing so hard she fell out of the chair onto the floor, even then she couldn’t stop laughing. After about five minutes she settled down enough to sit back up on the chair. “Oh Issei, thank you that’s the greatest laugh I’ve had in decades” she said wiping a tear away.

“Decades???” asked Issei.

Pausing at what he said she immediately raised a fist under his nose “For your continued health I suggest you forget that” she threatened.

Turning pale and waving his hands around urgently Issei back peddled “Days!!, I meant Days!!”.

Calming down she motioned for him to continue with his tale.

“So anyway Gremory-san and Himejima-san both head up the Occult Research Club”, causing another fit of giggles from Bennia, Plowing on he added they also are a small club with only two other members. A boy my age by the name of Yuuto Kiba, Who the girls call The Great Price of Kouh, and a younger girl buy the name of Koneko Toujo, who is know as the Mascot of Kouh Academy. As for the student council…”.

Motioning for him to stop Bennia said “Ok Issei that's enough information, I understand the situation now”. Still giggling every now and then.

“I don’t understand. How does this fit in with what your phone conversation was about?”.

Still trying to contain her mirth Bennia replied “Because Issei, Rias Gremory is the head of her peerage, and from your information Akeno Himejima is her Queen and the other two are peerage members as well, although her disguise in the human world is absolutely hilarious. If anything that alone will be doing more than her brother's reputation and protection to stop rogues from attacking her. They’ll be too busy dying from laughter before they could raise arms towards her, as you saw with my reaction”.

“I don’t get it?”.

“A jokes not funny if you have to explain it Issei. Occult research can be a study into the supernatural. Of which she is a full card carrying member, being the Heiress to the Gremory Pillar”.

Understanding bloomed into his eyes at that and he began to giggle as well.

“Don't even bother with Souna Shitori, I can tell you that even with some more thought and styling her name slightly Japanese, She is Sona Sitri, heiress to the Pillar Sitri and the other girl is her peerage Queen, along with the other members of the Student Council. The most important thing about this Sona is that she is the sister of the current Leviathan Serafall”.

“Oh, I see”.

“Yes this Kouh Academy seems to be a front for Devils, I wonder what they are really doing apart from playing school?”.

“What do you mean ‘Playing School?’” asked Issei inquisitively.

“Oh you can bet your last dollar that these two girls have already been highly educated. Consider this will you, The Seventy two Pillars, from your point of view, have moulded themselves for the most part on 18th century European nobility. Even though for our purposes it’s the other way around. As a Lord you have an heir that is an only child, do you send this child to, in your opinion the lowly rabble of a school, or do you bring in the best available teachers that your money can buy for their education?”.

“You would want the best that you could get”.

“That is exactly my point Issei”. Thinking for a moment she added “So what do these girls and families really want?”. Thinking that she was on the right track she kept muttering to herself “Think girl think, What do they want?” Looking at Issei and stringing random thoughts together she began to understand. “They want peerage members”, she breathed, and looking at Issei’s left hand She finally understood. “They want powerful members, Sacred Gear users. That’s why Issei had the summoning pentagram in his pocket when I reaped his soul”.

Rocked by this information Issei nearly choked “So this is all a front then?”.

“Maybe, it is Issei and maybe it isn’t. But now that we have an idea on what’s possibly happening, we can make sure that it doesn’t bite us in the ass when the time comes”.

Nodding his head in agreement he asked “What else did your contact have to say?”.

“Oh right, So where was I up to?”.

“Riser Phoenix and Rias Gremory.”

“So anyway they decided to compete in a Rating game to decide if they would wed or break the engagement. Funny thing is that I’ve never heard of a Stalemate before in a rating game. The game used for its basis is called chess, and there can be a stalemate in chess, But never in a rating game, there is either a winner or loser”.

Understanding now Issei asked “So how did it happen?”.

“Well apparently one of Gremory’s pieces held a Dragon that used a technique called absorption line”.

Speaking up for the first time Ddraig offered “One of the pieces of Vritra’s soul”.

Hearing Ddraig speak up Issei questioned “Vritra?”.

“Vritra, the Black Dragon King also known as the Prison Dragon, His soul was split into pieces after his defeat by Indra, YHWH gathered the pieces and bound them into Sacred Gears. At this time I have only met four pieces of him, I don’t know how many more there are”, said Ddraig sadly.

Putting that piece of information away Bennia continued, “So anyway there was this weird three way stand-off, Where if either Riser moved or Rias and her pawn moved the other would be killed, so they declared a stalemate”.

“So how does that affect us?”.

“Well the ultimate arbitrator in this event was the Maou Leviathan. So until she sorts this mess out, we are on the back burner so to speak. But my contact assures me she has my number and does wish to speak to us”.

“So in the meantime we wait”. Said Issei frustrated that they were so close now.

“We wait”, agreed Bennia.



End

Finally managed to grind this out.
Hope that puts an interesting spin on the Rias/Riser fight.
 

T.L

Well-Known Member
#7
Chapter 8 away.

***

Chapter 8
Last time

So how does that affect us?”.

“Well the ultimate arbitrator in this event was the Maou Leviathan. So until she sorts this mess out, we are on the back burner so to speak. But my contact assures me she has my number and does wish to speak to us”.

“So in the meantime we wait”. Said Issei frustrated that they were so close now.

“We wait”, agreed Bennia.

***

Underworld Office of Foreign Affairs
Serafall Leviathan's office

Sitting in her office Serafall Leviathan looked at the mountain of paperwork sitting on her desk, feeling a moment of rage, she swept her arm across the desk depositing the whole lot onto the floor. “Mouuuu, it's not fair” she exclaimed frustrated “Why do I have to deal with this nonsense?”.

From the other side of the office a voice called out, “I wish you wouldn’t do that Serafall, it only makes more work for me to sort out. Anyway you were the one to take on the duty of arbitrator in the Gremory/Phoenix rating game”.

Sitting back in her chair she crossed her arms under her large chest and pouted petulantly “I don't care Behemoth, all these requests to declare a victor in that stupid game. I'm not sure what to do”.

Moving to clean up the mess and sort everything out Behemoth moved in front of the large desk. A tall humanoid with the head of an elephant and a rather large belly, he strained to pick up the paperwork. Giving Serafall a baleful glance as he struggled. Seeing her grin as he worked didn't improve his disposition. As he finally finished he turned to face her, only to see her spinning around in the high backed office chair. Becoming exasperated he cleared his trunk, causing a high pitched toot that caused her to stop.

Stopping the chair left her feeling dizzy, as her inner ear settled down she asked “What is it B-chan?”.

Wondering for the billionth time why her chose to become her Queen Behemoth stated “Why not try for a compromise in this issue Serafall, declare that the tie stands but a rematch is to be held when Rias Gremory has a full peerage. Anyone with half a brain can see that she pulled a rabbit out of her ass with that tie. Also let the Pillar Phoenix know, on the sly, that as well, because if we use the pieces remaining rule, she has the win, if they had half a brain they'll agree to that and train the daylights out of that whelp. That performance he displayed was disgraceful”.

Thinking about her queens idea she hummed to herself, “Sounds good B-chan, why don't you head over to the two pillar houses and let them know that that is my decision in this matter”. Seeing Behemoth slide a piece of paper in front of her she quickly read it and stamped it. “Now to more important matters” she mutered. Standing up she started to make her way out of the office.

Alarmed that she was leaving the paperwork behind Behemoth, turned around to follow her and called out “And where do you think you're going?, all this work has to be done Serafall you can't keep skipping out and leaving it to me”.

Grinning mischievously she pointed and asked “What paperwork?”.

“You know damn well what paper….” turning around Behemoth saw a clean desk in front of him with a overflowing out tray.

Whistling nonchalantly Serafall gave him a little wave and blew him a kiss. “Have a good day B-chan” and with that walked out.

***

Making her way to Sirzechs’ office Serafall looked at the note in her hand again. It simply said Bennia with a group of numbers following it, which she presumed was a phone number. Having been delivered to her from a contact in the Youkai faction she assumed that Bennia was in Japan and looking for safe haven. Knocking on the door she entered when asked.

Looking up from his mountain of paperwork Sirzechs called out “Enter” when he heard the knock on the door. Seeing Serafall enter he hoped that she could bring some mirth to his boring day. “Serafall, what brings you to the deepest pits of paperwork hell this day”.

Seeing his haggard look Serafall assumed that the pressure in regards to his sister and Hades’ little effort were starting to wear thin on the Maou. Deciding to throw him a bone in regards to his sister she said “I have handed my decision down in regards to your sister”. Seeing the look on his face she added “I managed to buy her some more time Sirzechs but that's as far a I can go. When she has a full peerage they will fight again. Until then it's still on hold”.

Feeling conflicted about the decision, Sirzechs straightened in his seat and started to respond but was cut off.

“Look, I know how you feel, but this is for the good of both houses, and Devil society in general”.

Slumping down he added “I understand, we can't have anymore dissatisfaction amongst the houses. We have enough unrest as it stands with the old satan faction. Dammit Serafall is there any chance one day you can actually bring me some good news!”.

Smiling at his attitude she responded impishly “Well I did get this message from a friend in the Youkai faction two days ago”.

Burying his head in his hands, willingly accepting the headache that came with his next statement, he groaned “Oh god, now what!”.

“Well according to my friend, someone by the name of Bennia, is looking to get in contact with me”.

Sitting back in his chair Sirzechs looked intrigued at the information “Oh really”.

“Mmm Hmmmm, and by the looks of it, they are in Japan holed up somewhere”.

“How interesting. Resourceful little bugger isn't she?”.

“Yes it appears do. So what I'm going to do is head over there, and try and sort this out, so I'll be off the grid for a few days”.

“I think that would be a good idea. I'll make sure that Falbium is brought up to speed in your work in your absence”.

Standing up she cheered “Woo hoo, holiday time”, as she left the office closing the door behind her.

Calling out to her Sirzechs yelled “Dammit Serafall, it's not a holiday”.

Hearing the side door open Sirzechs paled when Grayfia appeared.

“Slacking off again I see…”

“But, but Sera….” Whimpering at his wife stare, the Great Maou got back to work.

***

Chiba Japan
Washington Hotel

“Come on Issei you can do it” cheered Bennia

Struggling with his control, Issei gritted his teeth and kept concentrating.

Looking at her watch she called out “That's it one hour. Ok you can let go now”.

Sighing in relief, Issei released the spell that he had been holding and dropped to the floor. “One whole hour of invisibility, are you a sadist or something?”.

“I didn’t know that you were interested in my whip Issei” she quipped.

“It would probably be better that those little electric shocks, you've be giving me over the last two days”.

“Well you now know that pain is a great motivator”. Thinking about it for a moment she added tapping a finger against her chin “I wonder how motivated you'd be with a whip”.

Whimpering on the floor from where lay, Issei mumbled “I've apologized heaps Bennia, I swear I didn't hear you in the shower yesterday when I walked in”.

“Oh that!,” she replied nonchalantly “I got over that yesterday.”

“So why are you still zapping me then!” Issei demanded.

“As I said Issei, pain is a great motivator”. Taking pity on the boy she added “Look yesterday you couldn't last five minutes in the cloaking spell. Now you can last an hour whilst being zapped. I'd say that's a big improvement, wouldn't you?”.

“Yeah I suppose so”.

“Take a break, I'll head out and get us something to eat for dinner. Look on the bright side, I think you'll be able to head out tomorrow and take a look around”. As she opened the door she looked over her shoulder back at him and added “ Oh by the way Issei, I never said I didn’t like it, did I”.

“Didn’t like what”.

Smiling softly she blushed, took a deep breath and added “I never said I didn’t like you walking in while I'm in the shower”. With that she ducked her head and walked out the door.

Issei stood their stumped at her comment, he opened his mouth to say something but nothing came out. As the door closed he realized what she said and slowly closed his mouth and pumped his fist. “Yes!” he whispered.

***
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T.L

Well-Known Member
#8
More stuff,

***
Rushing from their room Bennia cursed herself ‘You stupid twit, what did you have to say that for?’ she thought, as she waited for the elevator, she stood there keeping one eye one the elevator, and the other on their room, she felt that if Issei were to come out right now she’d open a portal to escape. “Come on you hunk of junk” she voiced at the elevator giving it a kick “Hurry up”, hearing a ding she saw the doors open and made her escape.

As she made her way from the hotel she couldn’t help but keep thinking about what she had said to Issei. ‘What do I do now?, He’s become important to me and I don't want things to become awkward between us. I don't like change, but if I want more, I have to change’. Meandering around the streets for a while, she actually lost track of what she was supposed to be doing. Pausing before a shop window she took stock in her reflection in the window. Thinking about the conversations that she had had with him over the last seven weeks, especially in the last two days, the predominant thing that came to mind was he like breasts, the bigger the better. Sighing to herself about her lack of endowment, she remembered that she was actually supposed to be looking for dinner. Taking one last look in the window she mentally gathered herself together, ‘Well if I want this, I suppose I'll have to explain everything to him’. With that she set off to find something for dinner.



Slowly lowering his fist Issei stood there Bennia’s statement running through his mind over and over. Slowly making his way over to the table he pulled out a chair and sat down. The one memory above all else from the shower incident, was that her leg markings didn't stop at her waist. He remembered following them up her side to across the top of her, pausing for a moment as he savored the sight of her breast. ‘Not completely flat chested are you?, but not enormous either’. Holding his hands out he tried to picture them in his grasp, he smiled stupidly at the image, ‘Nice and pert, with no sag at all’.

After a few moments of reflection, he brought himself back to the present. “So what happens now?”, he muttered to himself. Having zero experience with the opposite gender he began to try and work out what to say or do when she returned. Standing back up he began to pace around thinking when Ddraig interrupted his musing.

“Stupid boy, calm down”.

“What do you mean calm down!”.

“Your thinking too much and it's getting noisy in here”.

“Well what am I supposed to do now?”.

“Absolutely nothing boy”, said the dragon pouring cold water on his thoughts.

“But, but, what she said?”.

“I heard what she said boy, and at this stage it means nothing. All she is doing is showing an interest. Nothing more, nothing less”.

“But she said she didn't mind me seeing her naked, she didn’t mind me seeing her oppai!”.

Inside the Boosted Gear Ddraig raised a paw to his forehead in a pretty good imitation of a face palm. A move that would become quite familiar to him over the next few months. “I'm positive he was dropped on his head as a child, more than once I think”. He muttered to himself. “Listen boy I'll only say this once. I have been hosted by males and females of your species. There is one thing I know for a fact, and that is that the females control what happens and when it happens. Don't try and do anything. Let her come to you when she is ready”.

Listening to his advice Issei cooled his jets, “So should I show some interest as well?”.

Shaking his head in disbelief Ddraig added to himself “Oh god how far I've fallen, the mighty Welsh Dragon, reduced to giving dating advice to prepubescent teenagers”.

“Well you were the one who told me to settle down, and then claimed to know about males and females” replied Issei indulgently.

“Show interest if your interested, stupid boy. But remember you told me that you have need for this woman's help. So let her set the pace and pay attention to what she does. Her gestures and comments will tell you more than anything. Now stop thinking and let me go back to sleep”.

“Ok Ddraig, thanks for the advise”.

“She’ll probably have to hit him over the head with a club, like his caveman ancestors”, muttered Ddraig as he moved back into the Boosted Gear

Miffed at that last comment about his intelligence Issei sat back down and picked up his phone, deciding to browse the internet, while he waited for Bennia to return with their dinner.



Finishing her dinner Bennia sat back in her chair and watched her companion. Seeing him cast her sidelong looks and squirm and fidget, as he ate, brought a sense of warmth to her chest. ‘At least he finds me interesting or attractive’ she thought, dispelling some of her earlier doubts. Watching him as he finished and begin to leave the table. Reaching out she touched his hand as he went to pick up his phone “Issei?” she questioned “Do you have a minute?”.

Startled by her touch, he sat back down and replied “Well it’s not like I’m going anywhere”.

“You know over the last seven weeks, I gotten to know a lot about you, pretty much your whole life story..” she trailed off.

“Well we gotta talk about something”.

“No that’s my point, what do you really know about me?”.

“Umm, well you’re a reaper, your dad’s name is Orcus, you never knew you mom. You are not a morning person, you like ice cream....” Issei continued to rattle off small details nothing major though. As he finished he sat there and actually thought about what he actually knew “Damn, I really don’t know a lot, do I?”. Looking down at his hands he finished off shamefully “I’m not really a good friend am I?”.

“Don’t feel bad Issei” she said smiling at him, “You are a lot more attentive than you give yourself credit for, and I’ve had a lot of practice and changing and avoiding subjects. There aren’t many people who know that much about me.”

“What do you mean?” asked Issei confused at her statement.

Standing up from the table she grabbed a couple of drinks from the mini bar and made her way over to the couch and patted the cushion beside her. “Come, come sit here Issei, It’s time you got to know me, who I am, what I do, and have done”.
Sitting beside her, he accepted the proffered drink, and settled into the couch looking at her.

Mustering up her courage she began “First of all we need to have a little history and fact lesson ok. So you’ll understand, This is hard for me so please understand”.

Nodding his head in agreement Issie sat their patiently wanting to know more about his friend.

Seeing him nod she began her tale. “The first thing you have to understand Issei, is about belief and faith. To gods these things go hand in hand. The more followers that believe in them the more power they have. With no belief and faith, then gods wither and lose influence, they never die mind you, but when gods lose influence they can no longer manifest themselves to affect things on the mortal plane.”

“So you know my fathers name is Orcus. He was the Roman god of the underworld, and punisher of broken oaths. When the Roman pantheon fell around 420 AD, due to the Edict of Thessalonica, they lost a lot of power. However even though they had lost a lot of power, they were still worshiped in secret, in rural areas, but even then they still struggled. My fathers final followers finally died out around 1300 AD. Not having had any offspring and becoming desperate he finally sired a child to one of his last female followers”.

Looking at him pointedly she quipped sarcastically “Yes Issei, I am that child, and I am over 700 years old”. Not letting him get a chance to interrupt, she raised her fist and shook it at him, “Now you see why I am touchy about my age, and If you give me any shit about being old, I’ll beat the living daylights out of you”.

Looking at her fist waving under his nose, Issei swallowed nervously and nodded his head. But he couldn’t help but ask “So why do you look so young?”.


Glaring at him she stated “I am actually half goddess half human. I can’t actually use any divine powers, because I have NO followers. My father “was” a god. With his help, I decided to halt my ageing at this age. WHICH MEANS I’M 16 GET IT!!!!”.

Nodding rapidly Issei wisely decided to remain silent.

Calming down she continued “I never really had much to do with my father, he was always busy working for Hades, I was raised primarily by my Nannies and Tutors until I turned 30. I think that this is where the resentment of my father started”. Shaking her head slightly she paused and took a small sip of her drink, continuing with her life story, she suddenly stood up and curtsied to Issei. Fanning herself with her hand, fluttering her eyes, and speaking in a soft husky voice she said “Oh My, Lord Issei, can you believe, I actually spent a long time on the social scene, and in Hades’ court. Oh yes the parties, the drinks, The never ending frivolity and games”. Clasping her hands in front of her chest she swayed around like she was dancing.

Seeing her act and speak like that, got a reaction from Issei, needless to say he blushed and shifted in his seat.

Grinning at his reaction she sat back down again with a heavy sigh. “They were good times, During this time my father started to become even more political. He set up an engagement for me, with another prominent family. Everything was going great in my life at this time, until I came home early one night, and found him in bed, with two other men” she deadpanned.

At hearing this Issei gaped stupidly, “Two other men?” he clarified.

“Yep, that's right” she replied flippantly taking another drink. “Don’t get me wrong Issei, Homosexuality wasn’t the stigma that it is today. It was very common between supernatural beings. Even humanity, if you study ancient history you’ll see, what I’m talking about”. Getting depressed about this part of her life she carried on in a hurry. “Unfortunately for me he had ‘NO’ interest in women, What. So. Ever. He just never told anyone in his family about his preferences. I had no desire to be tied down in an emotionless relationship, so I ended the engagement. Much to my fathers displeasure”.

Issei hearing her tone of voice reached out and patted her on the knee in a show of solidarity. “You did the right thing” he told her. “For yourself and him”.

Grateful at his kindness she laughed morosely “So I thought at the time. But unfortunately court politics came into play”.

Curious Issei asked “Court politics?”.

“Yes court politics. You see Issei, Leaders like Hades have a lot of”, pausing for a moment trying to think of something that Issei could relate too. “Groupies, for want of a better word, hangers on etc. People sitting around trying to gather political influence with Hades, hanging on for any scrap they can get. Anyway back to my story. One of my former fiancee’s partners trying to curry more favor, told people in the court, what had really happened, to cause the breakdown of my engagement. Needless to say the rumors and innuendo, were more than I could bare at the time. The hardest was, that they were better in the bedroom than I was”. Getting angry at the memory she slammed her fist down on the armrest of the couch.

‘Oh shit, oh shit’ thought Issei as he stayed very still, not wanting her anger directed at him, but also feeling sorry for her misfortune.

Not noticing Issei she carried on “So here I was an outcast from the court, with nothing to do. One of my remaining friends, suggested leaving the backstabbing machinations of the court, and find something else to do. So I headed down one day and enlisted with the military. In hindsight, probably one of the best, and worst decisions I ever made”.

Watching her face Issei noticed her eyes become unfocused as she reminisced about her past. ‘She has pretty eyes’ he noticed absently, thinking to himself.

“I can still remember boot camp, god they were hard on me. The young socialite slumming down with the mere cannon fodder. But I was determined to succeed on my own”. Looking at Issei she reiterated “You have ‘NO’ idea how hard they were on me. Any mistake I got double the normal penalty of any one else, exercise, weapons drill, magic drill, extra duty, latrine duty, you name it. They threw it at me and I took their worst and never complained once”.

Becoming excited again she perked up, grabbing Issei’s hands “But I did it Issei, I graduated, and I did it on my own. The first really hard thing I ever did in my life and I did it without my fathers help. My own blood, sweat and tears. Believe me there was a lot of that”. Realizing that she had his hands in hers she let them got like she had been burnt. “Anyway I spent the next century just doing my job. Reaping souls, just surviving basically. Looking back on it, it was perhaps some of best times of my life. My father had cut me off, because I went against his wishes. I made new friends, had true relationships, Lived my own life for a change”. She finished smiling brightly.

Listening to her story and looking at her smile, Issei fell for her right there and then.

“But the wheel turns and things don’t stay the same for ever, as much as we wish it could. There is a dark side to this world Issei”. She warned “All beings, natural and supernatural can be cruel and nasty, and the cruelest of all things is war. War eventually comes to all beings Issei, and the supernatural are no exception”. Putting her hands in her lap she clenched them into fists at her memories. “There had been fighting before, but usually in isolated pockets. But the two, no, three factions of Christianity were the worst at that time. Minor fracas turned into major battles which pulled in other factions, even if only to defend their own turf”.

“Reapers mainly focus on the transportation of souls to be judged. But Hades in his wisdom saw an opening. With a large standing force he saw a way to gain from the constant fighting. He decided that he would turn his mainly benign forces, into a force that would focus on Intelligence and covert operations. With our magic focusing on being hidden he thought that no one would catch on. Boy was he wrong.”

“So anyway sometime during the 1700’s I was transferred to Special Operations. It was there that I learned the hard lessons, from reapers that had survived the earlier attempts at Hades’ new ideas. Lessons that were paid for in blood and corpses. I lost a lot of things during that time of my life. Friends, Lovers, and most importantly my innocence”. At this point her vision started to blur due to tears at long repressed memories. Scrubbing at her eyes she stopped speaking.

Seeing her distress Issei reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder in comfort. “Hey”, he said softly “You don’t have to push yourself, If this is too much for you, we can continue tomorrow if you like”.

Giving him a weak smile in gratitude she shook her head “No I’ve come this far, I’ll keep going, just a lot of bad memories”. Picking up her drink she noticed it was empty, “But it’s a dry argument Issei, another drink would be nice, perhaps something a bit stronger than tea though”.

Issei made his way over to the mini bar and looking for something stronger noticed some beer at the rear of the fridge, grabbing one for her and another tea for himself, came back to the couch and placed the drinks on the small table in front of them.

Looking at the beer, Bennia smiled softly, “Looking to get me drunk, in my current state, and take advantage of me are you?” she questioned.

Waving his hands in front of him he squeaked “No no no, not at all. You said you wanted something stronger so I chose that”.

“Pity”, she muttered to herself, picking up the bottle and taking a long pull. Putting the bottle back down she said “Now where was I?. Ahh yes Special Ops. I won’t traumatize you with what I did during that time, needless to say I spent a lot of time spying on people, and…..”. Trailing off she thought about what she was going to say next. “Ah, yes the American CIA said it best ‘Wet Work’”.

Thinking about what she said Issei was confused “ CIA?, Wet Work?” He mumbled. Getting a stare from her, he realized what she was inferring, “Ooohhh ‘Wet Work!’”

“Yes, and let’s leave it at that”. Taking another pull from her beer she added “Something happened to me during that time Issei. I had fought in wars, and even during times of so-called peace, we still conducted missions. Something inside me broke. You see, doing what I did, after a while I got used to it. I started to enjoy it, I relished the challenge that pitted me against someone else”. Looking away from him ashamed, she finished off “That’s not normal Issei”.

Shocked at what he was hearing, Issei decided to hear her out, before commenting.

After a while she looked back, “It was at that point, someone pointed it out to my superiors. They kept an eye on me, and tried to help me out. I had been doing Special operations for so long, that I was the most senior member left. Everyone else, my friends and trainers had all passed away during our battles. My superiors pulled me back into a training division, to teach the younger generation. It was during this time I realized what had happened. It took me a long time to get over what I had become and what I had done. To be honest I still have trouble to this day. I noticed it again in the car park with that agent. I felt the rush of hunting prey, It feels good, But it’s wrong”.

Ashamed at what she was telling him she couldn’t look at his face any longer. Focusing on her hands she carried on with the last of her story. “It was during this time I made amends with my father. He had risen up to be the head of now what was now called Collections department. He got me transferred back. Just being a normal Reaper again was hard. I was constantly paranoid and very heavy handed in dealing with problems. After a long time, I began to settle down, and when I did, I was moved into special projects”.

Taking another drink from her beer she wound up her tale. “I was worried when I heard I was being transferred to special projects, that it would be the same as special operations. But I was wrong. The supernatural world had been breeding with normal humans for a long time. Normal reapers were having trouble with these augmented humans, so reapers such as myself were used to send them off to be judged. It was a cushy job. Most of my time was spent fighting against politics. Then you came along”. Draining the last of her beer, she placed the empty bottle on the table, and finished off weakly “And there you have it my 700 years in a nutshell”.

Sitting there Issei tried to comprehend everything that she had told him, struggling to come to terms with the fun loving, but serious girl that he knew, and the monster that she claimed she can be. Issei just sat there staring at her blankly.

Looking at his blank stare and fearing the worst Bennia began to pull back into her shell ‘He hates me’ she thought cringing ‘He hates the monster that I was’.

Making a life changing decision, he slid off the couch and knelt in front of the worried girl sitting on the couch. Reaching out he embraced her gently, with a comforting hug. Whispering in her ear “I believe in you Nia-chan” shortening her name for the first time. “If you say you regret what you’ve done, then I believe you. I’m here with you now, and I’m not going anywhere”.

Enjoying the hug, Bennia reached out and embraced Issei, and let her emotions go for the first time in a long time. Weeping silently on his shoulder, she sat there and enjoyed his warmth.

After a while he felt Bennia begin to pull away. Releasing his hold on her, he watched as she sat back and rubbed the tears from her eyes and cheeks. As she finished he asked softly “Are you alright?”.

Embarrassed at her state, she sniffed and said “Yeah, for the first time in a long time. I feel as if a weight has been lifted from my back”. Leaning forward, she gave him a soft kiss on the cheek, lingering for a moment she pulled away “Thanks Issei”.

Blushing at the kiss, Issei sat back on his haunches, and raised a hand to his cheek. Standing up he retook his seat on the couch. Still holding his cheek.

Watching him holding his cheek and blushing, even with her emotions being all over the place she couldn’t help but tease him “Was that your first kiss from a girl?”.

“Yes” he replied honestly, still shocked from the kiss.

Hearing the honesty in his voice she replied “Well then, you should be glad, that I was the one to give you your first kiss. Not every person gets their first kiss from a goddess you know”.

After a while and the shock wearing off Issei asked “Why did you tell me all that?”.

Blushing up a storm and after a few moments she confessed “I like you Issei, and I knew everything about you. So it was only fair that you get to know me as well”.

Hearing that she liked him Issei felt happy. “I like you too Nia-chan”.

Hearing that she shifted a little closer to him and took his hand. “Good. I’m glad that you do too. Because there was going to be trouble if you didn’t”.

Sitting there holding hands they lost themselves in conversation and the T.V for the rest of the evening.

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T.L

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Kuoh Academy

Opening her notebook, as she walked through the corridors of Kouh Academy, Serafall placed a tick next to her sister's name. ‘Embarrass Sona in front of her peerage, check’ she thought. ‘Cosplay on Jingu bridge, check’. Looking down her list of things to do, she noticed that the only thing left was to get in contact with Bennia. Well there goes what’s left of my so-called holiday. As she left the Academy proper she made her way along the path to the Occult Research club, Changing from her child like form, into her business attire and adult form, she opened a portal in front of her and stepped through, not caring in the slightest if someone saw her. Exiting at a Sitri safe house in Tokyo, she pulled out her mobile phone, and the slip of paper given to her earlier by her contact. Looking over the skyline of Tokyo, she punched the series of numbers into the phone and waited.



Walking through the Aeon Mall, Issei was just amazed, looking at the pamphlet in his hand he read aloud “350 stores, a dog run space, rock climbing, It even has a running track for god’s sake. Is there anything this place doesn’t have?” he questioned.

“Good public transport”, Bennia grouched from beside him. With Issei finally able to go out, he had heard about the Aeon Mall and wanted to see it. Traveling by public transport had taken them almost an hour to travel just under 15 Km and left her irritable and grouchy. Being woken up at 6am just made it even worse. Especially after last night’s emotional roller coaster.

It was late afternoon by the time they started to make their way back to their room after sightseeing and shopping around Chiba and the Aeon Mall, having just finished lunch, they were startled when Bennia’s phone began to ring. Pulling the phone out of her pocket she looked at the display. “Hmm a blocked number”, the last few times that a blocked number had called, she answered only to fall into a telemarketers clutches. “It better not be a telemarketer” she warned Issei, “because if it is, I’m going to find where they are, and gut the lot of them”.

“Just answer the phone Nia-chan”

Pressing the green button she greeted in English “Bennia speaking”.

Listening for a moment she looked at Issei and gave him the thumbs up.

“Good afternoon Lady Serafall”. Looking at the expectation on Issei's face she waved at him to calm down.

“No we're not busy at the moment”, pausing for a moment she added “No that won't work for us”. Thinking for a moment and looking at her watch she added “How about the main entrance to Chiba Rail station at 5.30pm”. Hearing conformation from Serafall she ended the call.

Listening to the one sided conversation, and hearing the time for their meeting, Issei was slightly confused “Why did you make it for that time and location?” he asked “Surely it would be better to get this over and done as quickly as possible”.

Unable to resist she stomped lightly on his foot and said “Don't call me Shirley”.

“But I didn't call you Shirley”.

Seeing the confused look on his face she sighed and muttered “No one appreciates the classics.” Raising her voice she continued on “Issei you have to start thinking about being sneaky. Plus you didn't hear the full conversation. Serafall either wanted to meet us at our hotel room or at her location. I want our safe house to remain just that. Safe. So that's why I suggested some where neutral”.

“But why in the rush hour?”.

Getting frustrated with his ignorance she rasped at him quietly “Have you paid no attention to what we've been doing for the last two weeks. Or have you spent your entire time perving. I want to meet in a crowded area, so that if anything goes wrong we can try and escape. Also it gives us a chance to get there early, and assess the situation and see if she is truly alone”. Thinking for a moment she added “Not that a Maou would need back up, but you never know. Don't forget, at the moment we are fugitives Issei, for all we know they could be helping Hades, in getting us to go back”.

Becoming serious, he replied just as quietly “I never thought about it like that. I just thought that the Devils would take us in with no problems”.

Deciding to head to their rendezvous with Serafall, Bennia started to head towards the bus stop, Issei followed falling into step with her. “Listen Issei, when dealing with devils, anything and everything can become political. They seem to have made it an art form, especially seeing that they deal in contracts with humans. Never ever take things at face value, when dealing with them, especially higher ranked devils”.

As they stood their waiting for the bus Issei thought about what she said for a while, and then asked “So how can we tell if they are being genuine or not?”.

“I've found over the years questioning the shit out of everything works well. It leaves you slightly paranoid, but hey, it's kept me alive so far” she finished brightly. Thinking for a moment she added “Take your school for example, If I had not questioned why two heiresses were attending a human school, would you had thought anything was suspicious?”. Not bothering to wait for an answer she continued “Of course not. It looks like two young girls getting an education, and it could just be just that. But there is something not quite right there in my opinion”.

Seeing the bus approach he tried to continue “But what if….”

“I remember reading a manga about a boy ninja”. She said cutting him off, “One of his teachers said the best thing about this sort of situation, ‘Look underneath, the underneath’. You're young, and this is new to you, but for the moment trust me, we'll talk more about this later”.

Hearing that comment he retorted “Yes Obaa-chan”. As the settled into their seats, the hit in his ribs was worth it.


Chiba Station

Standing at the main entrance, Serafall was starting to feel agitated, it was now quarter to six and Bennia hadn't shown up. Oh she knew she was there, her senses had detecting someone watching but she wasn't able to pin them down, and they vanished a few minutes ago. As she stewed she heard a soft voice from behind her.

“Good evening Lady Serafall”.

Startled as she hadn't sensed anyone behind her she spun around. Seeing a young girl in front of her wearing a cloak she responded woodenly “Good evening, …. Bennia I assume?” she asked politely.

“Yes that is correct. If you'd like to follow me, we have secured a private booth in a bar not far from here”.

Following the young girl she couldn’t help but ask “So who was I detecting, whilst you were sneaking up on me?”.

“Oh, that was Issei, he still has trouble hiding his presence from time to time. So we used that as an asset”. Pausing for a moment she added “It looks like some more zapping is required to fix that issue”.

Smirking at the girls comments she agreed “Ahh yes, the carrot and stick approach is it?”.

“No carrot just yet, but plenty of stick”. Pausing at a small door she entered, “Just inside here if you please”.

Entering the small bar they proceeded to the rear. Opening a door they entered a small room, where Issei was waiting. Standing up as they entered he bowed low to Serafall, “Serafall-sama, thank you for coming to meet us this evening”.

Offering a shorter bow she replied “Issei-san, Bennia-san. Thank you for this opportunity”.

Taking their seats Serafall got straight to the point. “You have no idea the hornets nest you two have stirred up do you?”.

Having decided earlier that afternoon to let Bennia do the talking, she replied “No not really, We’ve sort of been on the run for the last week or so”.

Grinning wolfishly at the comment Serafall decided to fill them in on what had been happening. “Well let’s see, this situation was first brought to me by my sister ….”. Filling them in on what had been happening since she she had become involved. “.... and then Sirzechs said ‘Bullshit’. I swear Pluto’s nearly fainted when he heard that. Needless to say all communication and trade between the two realms has ceased, until repatriations have been made”.

Thinking about what they had been told Bennia asked “So you figured out what Hades was planning then?”.

Sitting back in her chair Serafall replied “Not entirely, but we figured he was trying something to bypass the free ride, in regards to Sacred Gear souls, we were just pushing the five minute rule as hard as we could”.

Studying the woman in front of her Bennia caught the glimpse of someone who was much smarter than they portrayed, “So who did the summoning flyer belong to then?”.

“Rias Gremory”.

Hearing that name the two reapers shared a look, refocusing back on Serafall, Bennia continued, “Rias Gremory, the sister of the current Maou Lucifer?”.

“That’s correct, My So-tans rival”.

“Ok then. That clears up some things but it opens the door for others. Nonetheless Lady Serafall where to from here?”.

Seeing it was time to get down to the nitty gritty of their meeting Serafall leaned forward her arms flat on the table and hands clasped together “Yes” she said quite seriously, “Where to from here. The way I see it at the moment, we can offer you sanctuary and protection from Hades and his agents. But the only way for that to happen is to join a peerage. If you do that then your safety is guaranteed. None of the other factions would dare start anything over that. Outside of that things get a bit more murky. We can offer you safe haven for a short while, but that is open to interpretation by the other factions, and we won’t guarantee that something won’t happen, at this stage it’s up to you as to what you want”. She finished.

After listening to what Serafall and the Devil faction had to say and offer Bennia looked over to Issei and raised her eyebrow in question. They had decided on a set of responses earlier, a nod, shake, or shrug, so that she had some idea of what he was thinking. Seeing him shrug in response, seeing that he was noncommittal, and would follow her lead, she sat back and thought about her response. After a few moments she decided to test the waters so to speak. “Lady Serafall, could you please let me know what the situation at Kuoh Academy is?”.

Puzzled by this question, and wondering it’s meaning, Serafall cocked her head to the side and asked “What do you mean by the situation at Kuoh?”.

“After speaking to Issei, I’m interested in the situation at Kuoh Academy. Seeing how Issei, being the holder of the Boosted Gear, had a Summoning Pentagram on his person when the Fallen Angel attacked him. You see I am very curious, as to why the heiresses to two major Pillars and also being the siblings to two Maou’s are even at Kouh in the first place”.

Listening to her question, Serafall stiffened in her seat and her eyes sharpened. “Whatever makes you think that something is going on?” she asked tersely.

Speaking up for the first time, since greeting the Maou, Issei interjected at this point. “Serafall-sama, With everything that has happened to me, from the moment Yuuma set me up, to Hades’ machinations, to finding out that Gremory-san was interested in me. People only seem to be out for themselves, and what they can get out of me, I’m getting tired of people trying to use me”.

Listening to Issei very carefully, Serafall felt the pieces of the puzzle shift into place. Here was a young man and his savior feeling out whether she could be trusted or not. Having been used and set on a steep learning curve, she saw that his teacher was a sharp cookie indeed. Deciding to be upfront with them she replied honestly, “They are at Kouh primarily to look for strong Peerage members. Whether they be Sacred Gear users or not. The fact that most of their prospective members are around their ages, means that they still require an education. So Grayfia and I decided, that sending then to the Human realm would be in their best interests. Much to our combined families disgust”.

Once again, Looking at each other and getting confirmation of their suspicions, Issei nodded his head in agreement. “Very well, Lady Serafall, at this stage we request safe haven with the Devil faction in regards to our situation. We would also request if possible that we could be placed near Kouh Academy, so that we can view how peerages work, and make an informed decision as to whether to formally join or not.”

Clapping her hands in excitement Serafall stood up and formally announced “I Maou Leviathan, hereby declare that the two reapers by the names of Bennia, and Issei Hyoudou, are given safe haven under my authority”. Finishing her announcement she sat back down, “Well then now that that's over lets sort out what we’re going to do. You said that you want to observe Rias and So-tan in operation do you. Why?”.

Feeling a shiver run through his body at her declaration he asked out loud “What was that?”

Bennia decided to fill him in “That was Lady Serafall’s vow, binding the three of us until she releases it, Don’t worry I’ll explain later”.

“Anyway back to your question Serafall-sama, I think that observing Rias and Sona, would be for the best”, replied Issei. “That way we can see how Devil’s treat their peerages, how peerages interact amongst themselves, with other peerages and Humans”.

Jumping in at this stage Bennia added “With all due respect Lady Serafall, we would like to do this without their knowledge. If the two girls know that we are watching, then it would not be a true representation. Plus there is the issue of Issei being around Kuoh”.

“Huh, what issue with me at Kuoh?’.

Facepalming at his question, Bennia reached out, and gave him a soft clip to the back of his head. “You're dead you dolt. People don’t just magically reappear after they're dead and buried”.

Thinking about their requests Serafall sat their and thought about it for a short while, smiling at their interaction. “Well there is a Sitri safehouse at Kouh, that So-tan doesn’t know about. Grayfia and I use it to covertly monitor the girls from time to time, to make sure that nothing inappropriate is going on”. Grumbling softly “Unfortunately Grayfia uses it more than I do. It’s heavily warded to mask our presence, and central to everything that you’re interested in, so it should suit your needs nicely. I’ll let Grayfia know that you’re going to use it, so she doesn’t scare the shit out of you both, when she decides to check on Rias again”.

Hearing what Serafall was prepared to offer in their requests Issei whispered “Why?, Why are you giving us so much help?”.

Taking pity on the boy she replied truthfully “Because you both would make a great fit for So-tan. She has made very specific selections in building her peerage, and is missing key some key elements, things that you could both offer to strengthen her team. Things that she is either willfully ignoring or is blind to, and on top of that, she has the pieces available to keep you together”.

“Thank you Serafall-sa”

Cutting the boy off she waved her finger at him “Nuh-uh, it’s Sera-chan now!”.

“What?”. Exclaimed Issei

“It’s Sera-chan now. I help you, and In return you get to call me Sera-chan ok”.

Shrugging his shoulders he replied “Ok, …. Sera-chan”.

Throwing her arms in the air in joy “Yahoo, now there’s two people who call me Sera-chan”.

Looking at the two of them Bennia shook her head. ‘Just wait until he see how she normally dresses’ she thought. Clapping her hands together “Right, now let’s get this show on the road”.

Sitri safehouse

After their discussion with Serafall two days ago, things had moved along very quickly. They had checked out of their hotel room that evening, and relocated to the Sitri safehouse in Kuoh. The next morning Serafall had returned bearing gifts. Issei took some time getting over the shock, of her coming in her normal Miracle Levia-tan persona. She handed them, identification papers, which she assured them were authentic. Also giving each of them a Summoning Pentagram, which was keyed directly to her, to use if they got into trouble. The last thing she supplied them, was a bracelet each.

Looking at it closely Issei asked “What's this? Sera-chan”.

Beaming at him using her preferred nickname she leaned over, pushing her breasts into his arm, “It's a disguise bracelet silly”. Taking the bracelet from his hand, she leaned further across his body, a small grin on her face and sparkle in her eye, further squashing her breasts into his body. She slipped the bracelet over his hand, and said softly in his ear “I wanted henshin rod’s but Ajuka wouldn't make something like that”.

Shutting down at the sensation of her breasts, against his body, and voice and breath in his ear, Issei just sat there stunned. After a few moments blood began to trickle from his nose.

Seeing what was happening in front of her, Bennia reached over and grabbed Serafall’s collar and pulled her back, growling softly “Mine”.

Letting out a little squark as she was pulled back, she heard Bennia growl softly “Mine”. Looking at her knowingly, and quite aware of what she was doing, gave her a little smirk in challenge.

Not noticing the two females, Issei finally recovered his senses and refocused on the bracelet around his wrist. Inadvertently cutting off the squabble that was brewing he asked “So how does it work?”.

“Quite simple Ajuka tells me. It requires just a tiny amount of magic to activate. But it mainly focuses on making people forget that they have seen you. But be warned the stronger people are, the easier it is for them to override the compulsion. You will have no problems with humans, but So-tan and Rias, will both feel something's not quite right. Their peerage members are much weaker than they are, so they ‘should’ be no problems”.

Issei beamed at the bracelet, “So I could go and visit my parents and friends and they wouldn't remember that I was there”.

Hearing that Serafall became quite serious “Ummm, Issei about your parents….” she trailed off not knowing how to explain to him what had happened.

Jumping up alarmed he exclaimed “What about them?. Has something happened?. Did Hades do something?”.

Seeing him become quite agitated, Bennia placed her hand on his shoulder “Issei calm down” she soothed, “and let Lady Serafall explain”.

“Issei they are fine. Nothing has happened to them, since this situation developed, we've kept an eye on them in case Hades did try something. But you have to understand, as far as they were concerned you died. They buried their only child, and that's something that no parent ever wants to do. They couldn't take it anymore, so they put their house up for sale and moved to Okinawa”.

“Okinawa?” he exclaimed, “My parents moved to Okinawa?”.

“Yes they did. We're still keeping an eye on them, just to make sure that they are ok”.

Stunned at the news, he sat back down relieved “Oh, ok. Thanks Sera-chan, I guess”.

“That's ok Issei-kun, glad I could help”, looking at her watch she exclaimed “Is that the time, oh dear B-chan will be getting quite stressed”. Standing up she opened a portal “Well kids, I have to go, things to do, and meetings to be late for. I'll see you both later”, waving at them she stepped through and disappeared.

Sitting there Issei thought about his parents, and looked at Bennia “Okinawa?” he mumbled.

Huffing to herself about Serafall’s behaviour she looked at him, seeing him sitting there in a daze, mumbling to himself, irritated she kicked him in the leg.

“Oww, what was that for” he exclaimed.

Walking off in a huff she replied “You know what you did perv”.
 

T.L

Well-Known Member
#10
Last of chapter 8

I really need someone to rip this apart for me.
I know I'm not the best writer, and pointing out mistakes will only help me get better.

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Sitting in an open air cafe, Bennia and Issei were watching with interest the proceedings happening in front of them. A blond boy was screaming “Nooooo!! I’m going home” and trying to run away, only to be getting dragged along by a small cute white haired girl.

“It’s to help Yuuto-senpai, Genshirou-senpai” muttered the white haired girl. Just loud enough for the two reapers to hear her.

Nodding her head in their direction Bennia asked “I assume, from your descriptions, that is Koneko Tojo, but who is the other?”.

“Yes that's her, the mascot of Kuoh Academy. Dunno who the boy is though, can't recall seeing him before, but then again, I didn’t pay attention to the other boys in school. I don’t swing that way”.

“I think she called him Saji”, looking down at her phones notepad, she read out from the information Serafall had passed on to them about the two peerages. “Ahh here we go, Genshirou Saji, Rias’ pawn. Hmm it seems that he is powerful, he required four pawn pieces to be reincarnated, it also says here he is the holder of one of Vritra’s Sacred Gears. The Absorption line”.

“More powerful than me?”, Issei questioned.

“Don’t be stupid and jealous, he has just one of four pieces of Vritra’s soul, and needs four pawns. You hold the full Red Dragon Emperor, and are a Reaper to boot, It would take a lot more that that to reincarnate you”.

Watching closely as they sat down at a table near them They were joined after a few moments by two nuns. As they sat there the two nuns were praising god for their food, unintentionally causing their benefactors pain, even if they had to beg alms from devils so they could eat. Listening in on their conversation it seemed that there was unrest in the Gremory peerage at the moment. It appeared that the two nuns were actually exorcists on a mission from the church, to recover something. The brown haired one stated that “they were on a mission from god”. Bennia started giggling like crazy when she heard this.

After a while and some inane conversation between the two factions, there were joined by another blond haired boy. Checking her phone again Bennia stated “Kiba Yuuto, another of Rias’ peerage, this one’s a knight”.

Discreetly looking him over Issei said “I remember him, the pretty boy, all the girls loved him”.

Studying the newcomer she absently replied “Yes I think I can see why”.

“Not you too” groaned Issei at her comment.

“No silly, I was looking at his aura, It seems someone has placed a curse on him.I didn’t think anyone outside the Catholic Church used curses anymore, they are really old. Strange that Rias hasn’t removed it”.

Interested in this Issei asked “What is he cursed with? Good looks?”

Concentrating further she mumbled “No, it seems to be a plague type curse”. Suddenly covering her mouth she started laughing “Hahaha, A plague of girls” she gasped out, “Hahahaha, he’s plagued with fangirls for as long as he lives. Oh man, who in the Catholic Church did he piss off for that?”

“The Catholic Church, what do they have to do with curses?”

“The Catholic Church is currently the world's leading authority on curses. Especially after they wiped out most of the Pagans, and stole their knowledge”.

Hearing a chair scrape noisily across the ground from where the devil and church group were located, they looked back only to see Kiba standing there red faced, and Saji standing up holding his hands up between him and the blue haired nun.

“Now this is interesting” murmured Bennia. Watching as the red faced Kiba stormed off.

“I wonder what the problem is. He certainly didn't look very happy with the blue haired nun just then” stated Issei thoughtfully.

“No he didn’t did he. More interestingly that Saji tried to stop them from coming to blows. I wonder why?”.

“Well a brawl in a public area wouldn't look good would it?. Imagine if something like that happened and the police got involved”.

Pleased that he was starting to think about the implications of people's actions she lectured “Yes, but keep in mind that there are two opposite factions sitting there. It never takes much to get them going. Trust me I know, and for one peerage member to stand up in public, against another like that is odd. Normally those sort of things are conducted in private. Also notice how Koneko did not say or do anything to diffuse the situation”.

Listening to them make planes to get together and conduct a search later, they watched as they departed went their separate ways.

“Well that made for an interesting afternoon show. I wonder what's going on”. Deciding to poke around town for a while she stood up “Come on Issei, let’s go”.

Wandering through town Issei pointed out some local features and attractions, as dusk fell they were strolling their way through a local park. The lights marking their path as they started to make their way to a restaurant for dinner. Passing a European man sitting on a bench in the centre. He stood out to Bennia as he was wearing what seemed to be an English Admirals jacket, an odd choice she thought. As they passed him, they didn't notice him shake his head, and look at them curiously.

As they made their way to the exit, they saw Kiba running towards them, heading into the park. Standing to one side they, watched him rush past them. Pausing for a moment and curiosity getting the better of her, she looked around to see if there was anyone else nearby, not seeing anyone she reached into her subspace pocket and withdrew her Reaper mask and ‘Scythie’.

Watching her intently Issei asked “What are you doing?”.

Putting on her Reaper mask she gestured for Issei to do the same. “Come on hurry up, get your gear on. He's in a big hurry, this might be a good time to find out what's going on around here at the moment”.

Following her lead he reached into his pocket as well, pulling out several items, and dropping some on the ground, before finding his own Reaper mask and ‘Rory’. Putting on his mask, he knelt down to pick up the fallen items, he sheepishly picked up the girlie magazine that had fallen out. Desperately hoping that she didn't see it.

Seeing the magazine on the ground all she could say was “Pervert”.

Putting the offending item away he asked “What now?”.

“Come on let’s go”. With that she trotted back down the path towards the centre of the park. As they made their way towards the centre they could hear loud voices and the sharp sounds of metal striking metal. Stopping whilst still surrounded by trees and bushes, Bennia noticed a nice tall tree with a sturdy branch. Pointing to it she said softly “Up there, that's a good vantage point, whe can stay cloaked and watch proceedings”.

Nodding his head in agreement they leapt up to the tree branch, and watched the unfolding drama below.

***

Having no luck in tracking down the holy swords that were allegedly located in Kuon at the moment, Kiba made his way home. As he came to the front door of his apartment, he noticed that someone had attached a note to the door. Reading the note he crumpled in his fist and raced off. Making his way to the location specified he raced past a young couple exiting the park. Paying them scant attention, he felt his blood starting to race, with the thrill of his revenge against Freed and the Excalibur sword that he allegedly wielded.

Seeing him standing there with a sword at the ready, Kiba created his demonic sword and blocked Freed’s slash. “It’s time for you to pay Freed!”.

“Listen to the shitty devil!”. Said freed slashing at Kiba again “I hadn't realized that you missed me that much, since we last met. Isn’t your master sticking it in you any more?, Hohohoh, are you looking for a new partner?”, he taunted licking his lips.

Feeling the Aura coming from the sword Kiba realized that it WAS an Excalibur Sword that he wielded. Slashing at him again, he ignored his taunts and focused to trying to kill him.

Defending from Kiba’s frenzied assault “Mmmm, you play rough shitty devil, just how I like it, perhaps I might just keep you, instead of killing you”. Lashing out with his Excalibur he focused on it’s power, Tripling his speed, which was already quite fast he managed to slice Kiba across the chest, drawing blood. Seeing him on the defensive, he pressed his attack.

Hissing in pain Kiba jumped back from the increased pace of Freed's attack. “So It’s Excalibur rapidly I face is it?”. Watching carefully as freed pressed his attack he manage to block several thrusts from the mad priest. Lashing out to block a strike at his stomach, he felt his demonic sword shattered and disappeared. Leaping back even further, he missed being Eviscerated by mere inches.

Seeing his opponent's sword shatter and disappear, Freed began to taunt him again. “Hahaha! The way you look at my Excalibur is scary. Do you perhaps hold a grudge against it? Well I don't know what happened to you! But if you get cut by this, you can't avoid being eliminated without a trace you know? You will die, you know! You are going to die! Just die!”.

Creating two more demonic swords Kiba rushed at the crazy priest again.

Seeing this Freed exclaimed “Ahhhaa!, I see! Being able to create multiple demonic swords, you are the possessor of ‘Sword Birth’! Wow a shitty devil like you having a Sacred Gear. How disgusting!”. Standing there Freed now knew he had nothing to fear, his Excalibur could easily defeat this trash.

Seeing Freed settle into a comfortable defense, made Kiba even angrier. Lashing out at his neck, he saw Freed swing at the two swords he had created only to see then shatter again. Rolling out of the way he created two more.

Standing up in the tree Bennia watched the events below, “That kid is really in the shit now”.

“How can you tell?”

“See how Freed is now just standing there?. He has already figured out that Kiba’s swords are inferior to his Excalibur blade. He’s a nut job, who by the looks of it gets off on this sort of fighting”.

“Are we going to step in and help him?”.

Pondering that very issue herself she replied “Only if he is going to get himself killed!, Other than that a little humiliation works wonders”. Looking off towards the way they had come she finished off “Well it seems his backup his finally arrived”, then her head snapped the other way, “Oh, this is just getting better and better. Freed's backup has also shown up. Hmm a Fallen, how strange!”.

Rubbing salt into Kiba’s wounded pride, Freed just stood their breaking sword after sword. With his back towards the path that Kiba had entered from, he failed to see the other four people show up. All of a sudden he heard another voice call out.

“Stretch my line!”

Something that looked like a skinny black hand, attached to a long line left Saji’s hand and headed for Freed. On the back of his hand and covering his wrist, was a deformed looking lizard face. The line was coming from the mouth of the deformed lizard on the back of his hand.

“What a pain, Are you both looking to gang up on me?, What is this some sort of Gang Bang?”. Freed tried to knock the line away with Excalibur, but it changed direction, and headed down and attached itself to his right ankle slowly snaking around it started to curl up his leg. He tried to cut the line, but Excalibur pass straight through it, with no effect.

“You can’t cut this that easily, You piece of shit” yelled Saji. “Kiba!, he can’t escape now! Beat the shit out of him”.

The two nuns looked at the scene in front of them, and began to encircle the crazy priest. Drawing their own Excaliburs.

Kiba Seeing what they were doing yelled “Stay back, he’s mine!”. With that he started to concentrate. Demonic swords began to appear everywhere in front of him, with a sweep of his arm they began to launch themselves at Freed.

Seeing this happen Issei exclaimed “Wow just like Fate Stay Night”

“What?”

“This attack looks like either Shirou’s or Gilgamesh's attack in Fate Stay Night!. I can't remember which though”.

“Oh, Sounds good, You’ll have to show it to me sometime, Now hush and focus. Shit’s about to get interesting”.

Clicking his tongue Freed focused on the sword again, this time it began to shine a bright blue, and he swept it back and forth in front of him destroying the blades being fired at him.

As soon as he had swept his arm launching the blades at Freed, Kiba created two more, and using the speed granted by his Knight, piece charged at him once more.

Just as he was about to slash down Freed felt his right Ankle being pulled out from underneath him. Losing his balance he fell to the ground.

“As if I would let you harm my comrade” called out Saji.

Looking at the line connected to his leg, Freed also noticed the glow disappearing from Excalibur's blade. "……This is!? Shit! Are you absorbing my powers!?"

“Kiba, would you hurry up and beat this shit head. This guy is seriously dangerous if you recall” yelled Saji.

Looking at the people surrounding him and starting to worry, Freed called out in a sickening voice “Angel-chan, ….come out to play, Angel-chan, ….come out to play”.

Shaking her head Bennia commented “Someone’s been watching the classics”

All of a sudden there was a snap hiss, and a bolt of light appeared in the ground between Freed and Kiba. There was a slight whisper of wind, then a woman with black wings appeared. She had silky long black hair down to her hips and violet eyes, and was wearing a leather S&M outfit.

Up in the tree Bennia drew in a sharp breath, Knowing who was standing there in front of them, and praying that Issei wouldn’t figure it out until later. Much, much later.

“Well Freed, this looks like a fine mess you’ve got yourself into” she commented.

“Yeah, yeah fuck toy!, I was doing just fine, until this line got attached to my leg”.

Bristling at his comments, knowing full well what she had to do to escape, the first time she encountered these devils. Dissolving the line from Saji’s wrist with Holy element, it disappeared. “Oh, so you’re quite capable of beating the three devils, and two exorcist nuns surrounding you then?”

“Pfhttt, once I beat these two limp wristed fags that want my body, I’ll take these bitches, and make them submit to me just like I did you Raynare!” he sneered

“Oh really? So what are you going to do about the two reapers watching human!?”.

Instantly becoming worried, that reapers were lurking around, Freed responded “What reapers, I haven’t felt any reapers lurking around here”.

Pointing up towards their location “The two reapers standing in the tree stupid”.

Everyone looked at where she was pointing and noticed nothing there. Laughing at her freed commented “Good one you had me going there, for a moment”.

Raynare turned and looked at the tree and said “Show yourselves you pricks, these low level worms can’t see you”.

Finally getting a good look at Raynare, Issei instantly flew into a rage and dropped all pretense at being invisible.

Bennia also dropped her spell and tried to calm Issei down and get them hell out of there.

Howling in rage Issei screamed “Yuuma!!!”.



End Chapter
 

T.L

Well-Known Member
#11
Chapter 9 away,

Unprepared for the angry scream, Reynare stepped back in shock. She had only used the Yuuma persona a few times over the last few years, and none of them had anything to do with a reaper. ‘It can't be him’ she thought.

Still trying to calm Issei down Bennia struggled to keep him in the tree, and open a portal at the same time. ‘Shit!, when did he get this strong’ she thought. Turning him sideways on the branch, as they struggled, she discovered why she was having so many issues. The Boosted Gear was active. He was obviously channeling some of Ddraig’s power. ‘If he starts boosting’ she thought, ‘I'll have no hope of reigning in his anger’. Forgetting about the portal for the time being she called out to him “Issei!, you have to calm down”.

Snarling in rage at her he shouted “Calm down!, you want me to calm down after what she did to me!!!”. Trying to break the hold she had on him, he violently twisted out of her grasp, grabbing ‘Rory’ he launched out of the tree.

For a split second, she thought he was going to hit her, with his violent thrashings. Seeing him grab ‘Rory’ she did the same and landed on the ground in between him and the others.

Saji and the others looked at the developing scene in front of them in shock. Not knowing what was going on, they just stood there. Seeing the male voiced one, launch out of the tree at them, Koneko picked up Saji off the ground and retreated slightly. Squawking at the rough treatment he yelled “Hey not so rough”.

Dropping him back on the ground, Koneko watched the proceedings in front of them carefully “No time” she said bluntly “He seems to be upset with the crow. Don't want to get involved”.

Kiba and the nuns had also moved back, joining Saji and Koneko. Asia, who up until this time had been very quiet, not wanting to draw the attention of the other two nuns, started to heal Kiba’s injuries.

Landing on the ground with a thump Issei started to charge at Raynare, when he saw Bennia in front of him with her scythe drawn. “Outa the way Nia-chan” he snarled pulling up “She’s going to pay, for what she did to me”.

“Issei. Please calm down” she pleaded, “I understand what your feeling, I really do. But think for a moment. You can't do this right now, not with how things stand”.

Not caring about anything else he charged at Raynare once again, swinging ‘Rory’ back he stated “I don't care, if anything it's better this way, we don't belong to anyone at the moment. So no repercussions”.

Stepping into his path again Bennia struck out with the shaft of ‘Scythie’ attempting to knock the wind out of him but he blocked it. “You idiot, remember everything’s political”. With that she settled in to fight her love interest.

Watching the two reapers talk and begin to battle, Freed stood and looked at Raynare, who seemed to have gone very still, slapping her on the ass, he asked “All right fuck toy, how did you manage to piss of a Grim Reaper, not even I’m that stupid”.

Waken out of her stupor by the slap on the ass she replied. “I’ve never had anything to do with a reaper as Yuuma. That persona is for dealing with humans. I killed a human boy a few weeks ago as Yuuma, over a Sacred Gear. It was only Twice Critical, nothing important. But I didn’t think that he'd be reincarnated as a reaper”.

As Bennia and Issei battled, she was having trouble pulling her blows, so that she either didn’t hurt him too badly, our out right kill him. But she could feel the rush of the fight building, and her blood began to pump. Either she was going to knock him on his ass or fuck him, one or the other. When she heard the voice that she had been dreading

“BOOST!!!!”

Everyone froze, when they heard that.

‘Boost!!!!’ they all thought

“Oh shit!” said Bennia realizing that it just got much harder. Seeing Raynare and Freed standing there she yelled “What the fuck are you two still doing here you idiots. Get the hell out of here”.

Not having to be told twice, Raynare picked up Freed and flew off.

Seeing his prey flee, Issei made to give chase. Turning his back on the fight with Bennia, he started to race off.

‘Oh no you don't’ she thought, ‘You don’t get off that easy’ catching up to him she thrust ‘Scythie’ between his legs and tripped him up.

Seeing Bennia beside him Issei ignored her, focusing on the direction of travel that Yuuma was taking. So he was quite unprepared when he tripped over. reaching out he grabbed onto something. Tumbling down he finished lying on his back with Bennia straddling him. Looking up at her, he was about to read her the riot act, when she drew her arm back and punched him in the face.

Tumbling down after Issei reached out and grabbed her arm she lost her grip on ‘Scythie’ as the rolled to a stop she found she was straddling him. Still pumped after their fight, she clenched her fist, pulled back and punched him in the face. Seeing that he was stunned, she pinned his arms above his head. Looking at him for a few scant seconds she leaned down and kissed him hard.

Seeing stars behind his eyelids, Issei was unprepared when he felt something smash into his lips. Opening his mouth to protest he felt something slip into his mouth. Realizing that Bennia was kissing him he responded hungrily. Feeling her let go of his arms, and move to caress his face and run through his hair he gently embraced her and ran his hands up and down her back.

After a few minutes of kissing on the ground she began to pull away. Opening her eyes, after they seemed to have drifted closed, whilst they were kissing, she sat up and lightly tapped him on the chest. Smiling at his goofy expression she said “You're going to have to take responsibility, if you get me wound up like that again”. Pausing for a moment feeling something underneath her, she smirked and started to wiggle around in his lap. “Seems someone enjoyed that”.

Blushing at his reaction after making out, and the sensation of her grinding into him, he dropped his hands on to her ass and squeezed. “Maybe I'll will”. He replied laughing.

***

Looking over at the two reapers, who were now passionately making out on the ground Saji piped up and said “Well that's one way to end a fight”.

Not seeing what was happening due to healing Kiba, Asia replied “What do you mean Saji-san?”.

“Turn around and have a look Asia”

Having finished healing Kiba she turned around to see the girl, wiggling around on top of the boy. Embarrassed, at their display, she let out a small “eep” and blushed.

As they all watched the display they heard a male voice from behind them. “Stupid apprentice, always skipping out of his responsibilities, to play with his new toy””.

Spinning around at the voice the aligned devil and church group, saw an old man standing there unconcerned. Realizing who it was Kiba created two demonic swords and charged at him yelling “Balba Galilei”.

Having enough time, Balba created a magic circle, and raised a barrier. Unconcerned about the devil hammering away at his barrier, he looked around for Freed.

Seeing the Genocidal Bishop, both nuns pointed their swords at him. The blue haired one stated “Balba Galilei, in the name of the church you are to surrender yourself and come with us”.

Waving her away unconcerned Balba began walking around, with his barrier still raised, and Kiba hacking away at it. Pausing for a moment looking at the boy he asked “Do I know you from somewhere?”.

Stopping his hacking, seeing that he was getting nowhere he spat him “The Holy Sword project. Remember that!, I'm the only survivor”.

Recalling the project Balba replied “Oh, one of the failures? You're still alive? Well then, we will soon rectify that mistake”. Looking around he sighed “Well it seems that my apprentice isn't here so I'll take my leave”. With that the magic circle lifted off the ground and he disappeared.

Howling in rage, Kiba took off in the direction that Freed had, with the two nuns following him.

Standing there watching the three unlikely allies depart, Saji looked at Koneko and Asia “Well it looks like there's nothing left to do here but go home”. With that, a well known voice behind them put paid to that idea.

“Oh I think that there's a lot more to do here tonight, don't you Sona?”

Slowly turning around at the voice of his King Saji stammered “Buchou!, Kaichou! I can explain everything”.

***

Watching the events back in the centre of the park Bennia and Issei were still in the same position, neither of them moving, still Issei was starting to feel uncomfortable, his raging hard on was being constricted painfully by his pants, and Nia-chan wiggling every now and then wasn’t helping matters. “Umm Nia-chan?, not that I'm complaining but can I get up?”.

Looking down at him she sat there thoughtfully for a moment, “Are you going to try something like that again?” she asked.

“Like what?”.

“Not listening to me!”.

“No, I promise I'll always listen to you, when we are doing something important”.

Slowly sliding along his body she leaned down for another kiss “Good” she pecked his lips, leaning down so her lips were near his ear, she whispered “Because if we ever fight like that again, I'm either going to fuck you, or kill you, one or the other”. Finishing what she had to say she gave him another peck on the lips and stood up.

Hearing what she said Issei felt a little trickle of blood come from his nose. Standing up he attempted to readjust himself, failing he pulled his reaper cloak tightly around to hide the tightness in his pants.

Hearing a yelp from where the remaining devils were located they saw Saji bent over and Rias slapping his ass with a magic circle. Calling out “Only 90 more Saji”. Looking at the situation Bennia nudged him “Even though she's a looker, aren't you glad you won't have to put up with that punishment”.

“Yeah I don't think S&M is my thing, look at Himejima-san, she seems to be enjoying it a little too much if you ask me”.

Noticing Sona looking in their direction Bennia looked down at their wrists in interest. Noticing that her bracelet was missing “Issei!” she said urgently, “My bracelet is missing!”.

“Shit so is mine, they must have broken when we were fighting” he replied.

“Well look sharp, because here comes Sona Sitri”.

***

Wanting to get far away from Rias and her eccentric Queen as possible, Sona saw the two reapers standing on the far side of the clearing. Looking at Tsubaki she nodded in their direction, making their way towards them she noticed that they were both looking at their hands for some reason, and one of them was fairly high ranking, by the markings on her mask and legs. Standing before them she offered a short bow “Konbanwa, servants of Hades. My name is Sona Sitri, I would like to take the time to thank you for intervening in this situation tonight”. Unaware that they were fugitives and actually had done very little to assist the devil/church alliance.

Taking the lead Bennia returned her greeting, “Good evening Lady Sitri, unfortunately my partner has some bad history with that particular Fallen Angel. So in the end it all worked out, to everyone's advantage. No one was hurt and no one died” she stated, not bothering to correct her, in regards to them not belonging to Hades.

Nodding her head in agreement Sona replied, fishing for information “Well then, what brings you both here this fine evening?”.

“We were having a night out away from work. We were just about to head to a restaurant for dinner, when we felt the power being tossed around here. So I decided to take a look”. Not telling the truth, but not a complete lie either.

Not believing her for a moment Sona hummed thoughtfully to herself. “Well then don't let me hold you up”. Pausing for a moment she added “Even though our two factions don't see eye to eye at the moment. After helping us here tonight, it would remiss of me if I didn’t advise you that there is some unsavory business happening around here at the moment. I would recommend not getting any more involved than you already are”.

“Ahh, we will take that under advisement Lady Sitri, thank you for the warning”.

Nodding her head Sona replied “Well then, once again thank you, and have a pleasant evening” turning away from the two reapers she made her way back to where Rias was still spanking Saji.

“98, 99, 100”. Lowering her hand Rias released her magic. “Now then Saji what have learned this evening?”

Whimpering about his poor abused butt cheeks, Saji answered “Don’t get involved with other factions problems”.

“Excellent” she replied clapping her hands together. “I hope I won't have to reinforce this lesson, will I Saji?”.

Looking beyond Rias, he saw Akeno wriggling in place, at the thought of more spankings, waving his hands frantically he replied “No Buchou, I've learned my lesson”.

Finishing up with Saji, Rias looked over at Koneko and Asia, holding her arms out they both stepped into her embrace. Lightly hugging them both, she whispered into their hair. “I know you're both worried about Kiba, and I am too”. Pausing for a moment, just glad that they were safe she added “Don't worry, this mess will be sorted out soon”. Lightly ruffling their hair she placed a small kiss on top of Koneko’s head and released them both. Standing up straight she saw Sona and Tsubaki coming back.

Watching the two reapers departing she asked Sona “Find out anything interesting?”.

Shaking her head she replied “Not a lot, they claimed to be out relaxing for the evening and got interested in what was happening here”.

Thinking about that Rias hummed thoughtfully “How coincidental”.

“That's what I thought. Apparently the taller one has a history with the Fallen Angel, and that's why they intervened”.

Koneko at this moment remembered something about the fight and tugged at Rias’ sleeve trying to interject.

Looking at the spot where they disappeared down a path, Rias tapped a finger to her lips, after a moment she said “Yeah, I don't believe that for a moment”. Ignoring Koneko for a moment.

“Neither do I” replied Sona, “But even if our factions are at logger heads, I warned them that unsavory things were happening here at the moment. We'll see what happens on the next few days”.

Finally acknowledging Koneko’s insistent tugging at her sleeve, she asked gently “What is it Koneko?”

Speaking softly she said “Buchou, when the two reapers were fighting, I heard the male one say boost. But in a different voice”.

Looking at the snow haired girl she repeated confused “Boost?, Why would he say ‘Boost’”.

Also adding to the conversation Saji chimed in “Yes, and when he said it the female reaper got quite anxious, and told the fallen to get the hell out of here”.

Thinking about what they were told Sona took off her glasses, pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed loudly. Everyone looked at her unusual reaction, seeing how she was normally unflappable. Sighing again she looked at Tsubaki, “See Tsubaki, I told you, whenever my sister tries to be sneaky bad things happen”.

Interjecting at this point Akeno asked “What do you mean?”.

“My sister is trying to be sneaky. I can almost guarantee you, that was the holder of the Boosted Gear. Hyoudou Issei, that means the other reaper was Bennia. It all fits, a reaper with issues with fallen angels, a mysterious voice calling out Boost, and two reapers lurking around Kuoh”.

Thinking about what she said Rias asked “So what do we do about it then?”.

“At the moment? Nothing. This issue with the church and the fallen takes precedence over everything else. Once we sort that out, then we can worry about Hyoudou-san”.
 

T.L

Well-Known Member
#12
Waking up the next morning Issei had a pounding headache. After last night's mess, they had headed back to the safe house. Bennia had decided to get in contact with Serafall, in regards to what had happened, and also try and get the bracelets replaced, but she had no response. Getting up he made his way to the kitchen to see if there was anything for breakfast.

Passing the full length mirror in the hall he glanced at his reflection, stopping in shock. "Aah!" he exclaimed looking at his reflection, "What happened?".

Hearing his cry Bennia made her way into the hallway. Seeing him standing there with two black eyes, she burst out laughing. "I've heard of glass jaws, but I've never seen anyone with a glass face. Come on Issei, I didn't hit you that hard".

"I look like a Tanuki!" he exclaimed waving at his face. Pointing at her he continued "You punched me in the face!. How do I fix this?, I can't go out looking like this!".

"Come on you big baby, I'll get you an Ice pack", she said sympathetically.

Playing up on her hitting him he added "..and some breakfast?"

"Don't push your luck!" she warned.

Sitting there on the couch, with the Ice pack on his face Issei asked "So what's on the agenda for today?"

Standing at the kitchen counter finishing her breakfast she replied "Well I'm about to head out. Even though this place is set up as a safe house, there's not a lot of food here. I'll also take a look around while I'm at it. Just to see if anything is happening. With three factions in the area, tensions will be high".

"So what am I going to do?"

Making a point of sniffing she replied "Well first of all 'TAKE A SHOWER', by Hades!, do all young boy's like to stink these days". Shaking her head she continued seriously, "After that I want you to head outside and practice your scythe forms. You were pretty sloppy last night, and practice makes perfect. I won't teach you the more advanced stuff until that's right. I noticed that the fences are pretty high, so you should be hidden from prying eyes. Once you have done that and your maintenance, I want you to meditate and beginning to use your magic, just try getting a feel for it at this stage. Hopefully Ddraig will stop you from doing anything stupid!"

"Sounds like I've got a busy morning", he sighed, adjusting the ice pack.

"Well it's not like you can do anything else. The only thing we've practiced on is invisibility, and you can't just walk around. Too many people could recognize you".

"Yeah, yeah" he muttered "I died, I get it!".

"Sorry Issei, I don't mean to harp on it. If we take up the offer of becoming peerage members, I don't know how they'll get around it" she sadly replied. "I know you can't be cooped up all day. Just bare with it a little longer ok. Something will be worked out". With that she finished up what she was doing, heading out the door, she chirped brightly at him "See ya soon Tanuki!".

Making her way silently back to the park from last night, Bennia began to search for the two bracelets they dropped last night. Cursing that they were made from soft silver. 'I suppose they were thinking that we wouldn't get into a brawl, and lose them' she thought.

Heading over to where they first crossed blades she noticed a glint from the ground heading over there she found pieces of silver glinting in the sun. Scouring the area she soon found the rest, one almost complete, the other in small pieces. Putting the pieces in her pocket, she froze when a deep voice called out.

"You there, Reaper girl".

Wondering what they put in the water here in Kuoh, as it seemed everyone could see through her stealth magic. Turning around she saw no one there.

"Up here Reaper girl" the voice said amused.

Looking up in the same tree that she stood in last night she completely froze. Standing there was a Fallen Angel. But not just a normal run of the mill mook, but a very, very senior Fallen Angel, judging by the ten wings sprouting from his back. Not getting a good look at his face she wondered who it was, and by the legs hanging over his shoulder who he was carrying. As he stepped out of the tree, she nearly shat bricks, 'Oh fuck me!' she thought, dropping her invisibility cloak, and backing away, 'Kokabiel!'.

Seeing her Back away slightly Kokabiel grinned. "At least you seem to have some common sense Reaper girl". You obviously know who I am then".

"Kokabiel, The star of God, Commander of the Fallen Legion, and one of the Generals of the Fallen" she recited from memory.

"Good, Good, it's nice not to have to deal with imbeciles for a change". He smiled pleasantly, dropping the body of the brown haired nun, that Bennia saw last night, on the ground. Making his way over to the nearest bench, he motioned for her to do the same. "Come, please take a seat, I'll only need a few moments of your time". Taking a seat he seemed to be just enjoying the nice day.

Walking over at his invitation, and looking around, she took a seat beside Kokabiel.

After a few moments of enjoying the peaceful setting, he motioned to the nun on the ground "I was in the process of delivering that trash back to the Gremory".

Looking at the girl's condition, but not wanting to move she looked at him questioningly.

"Don't worry it's still alive, and mainly unharmed, my boys just had a little fun, nothing too serious, just a wake up call that's all".

Not wanting to find out what the Commander of the Fallen legion, thought was a wake up call she remained seated.

Watching her reaction testing her he exclaimed "Excellent!, you do have a brain, you'll do after all. You see Reaper girl, I have decided, that looking at the Gremory will not do too well for my constitution this morning, Why waste a perfectly good day standing in the presence of trash. So I'm going to enlist you as a messenger. Don't worry I'll compensate you for your time". Snapping his fingers another Fallen appeared with a briefcase. Passing it to her he said "One Million dollars US, just to play messenger, is sufficient for your time I think".

Accepting the case she asked "What message would you have me deliver?".

"Take my gift over there and deliver it with a message to the Gremory. Tell her that in 12 hours I am going to begin my rampage, starting right here at Kuoh Academy". Looking at her shocked expression he continued, "I'm tired of this peace, and starting my rampage by killing the sisters of Lucifer and Leviathan. You see I'm bored, after the last war, Azazel and Shamza were tired of war. They desired peace". Throwing his arms wide "Can you imagine it after all our comrades were killed, they didn't want retribution. All they wanted to do was collect Sacred Gears".

"I tried to get Michael to move, by stealing the Excalibur swords. But what did he do? He sent grunt exorcists, and holy sword wielders after us. Pathetic", he spat. "That's why I'm going to move against that waste of space Sirzechs". Lowering his arms he grinned maliciously "Killing the two Devil Heiresses with the Holy Sword Excalibur should get a response. So Reaper girl, Take that useless lump of flesh, and let the Gremory what is about to happen". Standing up he laughed out loud manically. "It's going to be glorious". With that he took flight and left.

Waiting until he had departed, Bennia placed the briefcase in her subspace pocket. 'No harm in making profit' she thought. Running over to the nun lying on the ground, checking her condition she picked her up, reapplied her invisibility cloak, and not knowing where the Occult Research Club was, took off for the safe house.
 

T.L

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#13
Standing in the backyard, Issei slowly went through the forms that he remembered being taught. Being startled by a large thump in the backyard, he spun around at the sound. Seeing Bennia becoming visible he noticed the girl being carried in her arms. "Picking up strays now are we", he quipped.

"No time for jokes Issei" she snapped, "It's one of the nun's from last night, A fallen Angel General by the name of Kokabiel caught her and did this. We need to get to Occult Research Club right now".

With that Issei made sure that the safe house was secure, coming back to the yard he saw Bennia checking the nuns vitals again. "How is she?".

"Not good, but I've seen worse. But if Rias has a healer available, she'll be fine. Now lead the way".

Making their way to Kuoh Academy, Issei made his way past the school, and headed for a wooded area at the rear. Coming up to the old School House they slowed and knocked on the front door.

Sitting at her desk Rias chewing on her thumb, worried about her knight, and not hearing anything from him over the last few days was testing her conviction. Even knowing through her bond, that he was ok, she still stressed over his absence. Looking over at Akeno, she even appeared wilted, like a flower that hadn't been watered in days. Hearing a knock at the front door Akeno perked up for a moment, until Rias shook her head.

Making her way to the front door Akeno tried to put on her best face. Opening the door she saw The two Reapers that had been in the Park the previous evening. The smaller one carrying Irina. Putting a hand to her cheek she exclaimed "Ara, Ara what do we have here?".

"We need to see Lady Gremory, Miss Himejima. We have a message for her from a Fallen Angel" stated Bennia bluntly.

Looking at the situation and knowing that Kiba had taken off, with the two nuns following she admitted the two Reapers in. "Follow me" she stated.

As they entered Issei stated, "If you have a healer on hand Himejima-san, I suggest you call them. This one is in a bad way".

"We'll see what Rias wants to do". As they entered her office, she gestured to the couch, Bennia placed the nun down at her direction, as she spoke to her King, "They claim to have a message for you, and have requested a healer for the nun Irina".

Listening to her Queen, Rias thought about what was happening, for a few seconds, and summoned Asia for the injured nun.

Hearing the name Irina, Issei perked up "Irina?" he asked "Shidou Irina?".

Looking at him interestingly Rias and Akeno replied at the same time "Yes that's her name". Rias continuing on her own asked "How did you know?".

Looking at the nun's combat suit he stated "This is Shidou Irina?. I thought she was a boy growing up".

Looking at him stupidly Bennia pointed at the comatose nun, "Issei, did your parents drop you on your head as a kid?, Can you see those?" pointing at her breasts, "Those are breasts Issei, Boobies, Oppai. And unless your friend is from Thailand, they usually only appear on girls".

Looking at the girl's breasts "Oh yes Nia-chan, I can really see that, either they are quite firm or that suit supports them very well, it looks like she's not wearing a bra."

Pinching the bridge of her nose Bennia muttered "I can't even punish him for that, I pointed it out to him". Turning her attention to Rias, she noticed a small blond girl had appeared beside her. Watching the girl hurry over to the comatose nun, a green glow appearing from her hands as she knelt beside her. Seeing the girl healing the nun, Bennia moved towards Rias and Akeno. "Good morning Lady Gremory, My name is Bennia", Gesturing to Issei, she continued, "and this is my partner, Issei Hyoudou".

Studying them both, especially Issei Rias greeted them in return, "Good morning Bennia, Issei", gesturing towards her two peerage members "This is my Queen, Akeno Himejima and my Bishop Asia Argento. Please, come sit down. Akeno tells me that you have a message for me, from a Fallen Angel no less". Taking a seat Bennia began to relate what Kokabiel had told her earlier that morning.

Finishing her message, Bennia took the time to drink some of Akeno's tea that she had supplied. "Thank you Akeno, this is lovely tea."

Issei just looked at her in amazement after what she had said "Tea!?, You just told us that Kokabiel plans on attacking Kuoh in under 12 hours!, and you're enjoying tea?"

Looking at her cup she stated "It's very good tea, Issei. You really have to take the time to enjoy good tea".

"Thank you Bennia-san" beamed Akeno with the praise of her tea.

After thinking for a few moments Rias stirred. "Akeno? Can you please get in contact with Sona and ask her to come over, also get Koneko, and Saji here, so that we can go over this again with everyone here. Moving off Akeno began making her calls. While Akeno was making her calls, Rias looked at the two reapers "Do you believe his threats?", she asked.

Thinking about the reports she had read, and her interaction with him, Bennia replied "I've never dealt with Kokabiel before, but I know a few people who have. He allegedly has a few loose screws, but isn't into making baseless threats". Standing up, and motioning to Issei to do the same, she added, "I believe it would be in your best interests to get in contact with your brother Lady Gremory".

Confused at their actions Rias asked "Are you not staying?"

Seeing the confusion on her face she decided to fill her in "Lady Gremory, at the moment Issei and I are fugitives. I have absolutely no desire to call attention to ourselves, and give our pursuers our location".

Flabbergasted at her statement she stammered "But!, But!, Kokabiel!"

"I understand your predicament Lady Gremory, I really do", she replied apologetically, "I can't jeopardize our situation either. I'm sorry, but at the moment, we can't get any more involved that we already are". With that she gave her a short bow and departed.

Seeing what had happened, Issei watched her leave. "Sorry Gremory-san", he offered bowing deeply. With that he followed Bennia out.

Making their way back to the safe house, Issei fumed angrily the entire trip. Trying to bring up the subject several times, but each time he did, Bennia just told him they would discuss it in private. Closing the door behind him, he followed her into the Kitchen. "Right!, now we are here, WHY won't you help them?", he spat.

"I never said I wouldn't help them", she replied.

"What part of, 'I'm sorry, but at the moment, we can't get any more involved that we already are', is offering to help them", he retorted confused.

Sighing she added for his benefit "At the moment", rubbing her temples, she continued tiredly, "really Issei, you need to listen to what people say, otherwise you're going to get shafted at some point".

"At the moment?, what does that mean?".

Sitting down in a chair, she placed her head in her hands, and cursed "By Hades' balls!, It means until I contact Serafall, we won't do a bloody thing!".

"Oh!, …. now I see".

With that Bennia groaned, and took out her mobile phone and started dialing.

Sighing to herself, Serafall decided that some days it didn't pay to be a Maou. Coming up with last minute solutions to people's problems, was tedious and tiresome. Two days ago they had received reports of an old Maou uprising in this area. 'Uprising my left foot', she thought. 'More like open rebellion', with the troop numbers that had been discovered, upon her arrival . Unfortunately that had led to Sirzechs and his peerage also attending, and things just got worse after that.

Things had been proceeding well until 2 hours ago. That's when her phone had started ringing, ignoring it at first, and then turning it off, she concentrated on the negotiations with the rebels. Deciding to take a break, she checked her phone. Turning it on she heard several chimes coming from it indicating missed calls and messages. As she began to check the messages it rang again. Looking at the number she saw it belong to Bennia. Pressing the answer button she chirped "Hi Bennia-chan"

"Where the hell have you been? I've been trying to call you for hours".

"Well things have been a little hectic here recently".

"Well I hope you're sitting down, we've got huge trouble here".

Becoming alarmed at this statement, Serafall stated "What's going on?"

"Kokabiel is trying to incite a war. He's going to kick it off by attacking your sister and Rias Gremory".

Stunned at what she had been told, she asked "I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you correctly".

"Kokabiel is trying to incite a war, and I don't think he's fucking around Serafall,

he plans to attack at Kuoh Academy within half an hour".

"WHAT!," she screamed.

Hearing her scream into the phone, Sirzechs looked over at his now irate and angry fellow Maou. 'Oh boy' he thought 'someone's gonna get it'. Listening to her snap out instructions, he became alarmed when she, asked the caller for assistance, and gave them the address where the undercover team was based in Kuoh. Making his way over there he gathered up Grayfia as well. Seeing her end the call he began to ask what the problem was, when Serafall just held up her hand.

Finishing her instructions and request to Bennia, Serafall dialled another number, seeing Sirzechs and Grayfia heading towards her she held up a hand making them wait, this was much more important. Hearing it pick up she identified herself with the preset codes. Getting straight to the heart of the problem she stated "Captain you're going to receive two reapers at your door. You are to assist them in any way possible, they will brief you on the situation. Recall the rest of your company straight away".

Snapping the phone closed she looked at the waiting Sirzechs, "Kokabiel has gone off his rocker and declared war against us". She said simply "His first action is to attack the girls at Kuoh". Seeing Sirzechs reaction to the news was a novel experience, she would think in hindsight, she had never seen his jaw drop so low.

Grayfia immediately withdrew her phone and began checking it, then making several calls.

Hearing the news, Sirzechs immediately signaled for his peerage, snapping orders to several of them in making haste to wrap things up here so they could head to Kuoh.

Grayfia having made several calls by this point confirmed the situation. Standing there with an irate Leviathan and Lucifer, she informed them of the situation as it stood. "I've just spoken with Akeno and she has confirmed what you have been told. At the moment the girls are making preparations to hold on as best as they can, until we arrive".

Hearing conformation from his Queen, Sirzechs began to think things through, needing to wrap things up quickly here first, was his first priority. Coming to a decision he snapped out "Serafall, get in contact with Azazel find out what he knows. Grayfia advise the others of what is happening, tell them to make preparations for war". Looking over at the village in front of them, where the rebels were waiting, he made his final decision for the moment. "Meanwhile I'll sort this mess out".

Serafall had been speaking to Azazel for several minutes, getting constant denials about the situation, she secured a promise that he would immediately head to Kuoh to try and stop his wayward General. Turning back towards the village she saw Sirzechs heading straight for it.

Standing in front of the village Sirzechs called out "Right I've had enough of this, you have ten minutes to come out and surrender or else".

A voice called out "Or else what?"

Grinning sadistically, calling forth the Power of Destruction, he replied "Or else I'll smash this village flat, With everyone in it".

Hanging up the phone Bennia looked over to Issei, Who was nervously waiting for their instructions. Whilst waiting for Serafall's call, she had been making sure that Issei's basics were up to snuff, Hammering away at his defenses, to make sure he survived the night. "Right, as you can assume that was Serafall. She has given me the address of the local undercover detachment here that manages security for Rias and Sona. She has requested our assistance, so we are ok to go".

"So where are they located?", asked Issei as he stood up, checking his gear.

"About five minutes from here, they must be good. I haven't felt a damm thing from them since we've been here". Following his example she began checking her own equipment. After a few moments of checking she headed towards the door. "Come on let's go".
 

T.L

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#14
Having linked up with local Demon security detachment they made their way to Kuoh Academy. With 10 minutes to spare until Kokabiel's attack, they frantically searched for Rias and Sona. Finally one of the soldiers located Sona, standing on the northern side of the athletics field. Following the Captain, Bennia and Issei made their way towards her.

Introducing themselves, and their credentials, which the Captain corroborated, Bennia asked "What's your plan?"

"We plan to raise a barrier to stop the Legion from assisting Kokabiel, we figured it would be pointless trying to stop him altogether. Rias and her peerage are planning to delay him as best as possible inside".

"Good Idea" stated Bennia and the captain at the same time. Continuing on the Captain asked "What setup are you using? I'll send my troops to defend your peerage as best as possible".

"Cardinal points, My Queen and promoted Pawn are to the east and west, My two Bishops and Rook are to the south".

Looking confused at the set up Bennia asked "Why a setup like that?"

"Best distribution of power 9 to the east and west and 11 to the south"

Nodding his head at that the captain ordered his troops to the locations, once he had done that he turned back to the others. "Our next wave of reinforcements will be here in 10 minutes, with the entire division a further 20 behind that". Looking towards the two Reapers he added "I assume that Serafall has given you instructions?"

Nodding her head Bennia answered "We're to protect Sona at all costs, irrespective of anything else". Seeing a mass of shapes on the horizon, she drew 'Scythie' and her mask, putting it on, looking over at Issei she added, "It's time Issei".

Nodding his head Issei drew 'Rory', his mask and summoned the Boosted Gear.

Seeing that he had been summoned Ddraig asked "So it's time is it?"

Nodding his head Issei replied "yes"

"Remember boy no more than 5~6 boosts at any time"

Looking at the barrier surrounding the Athletics field Issei stated "Too bad we couldn't pump that power into the barrier".

"Who says we can't?"

Taken aback by this Issei gaped "You mean we can!".

"Yes. When the time comes just take the hand of the girl and say Transfer".

"Well there's no time like the present", said Issei, Looking at the gathering storm of Legion troops in apprehension.

"Boost"

Hearing the call of boost Bennia spun around "What are you doing Issei?"

"Something I just found out, I'm gonna pump my power into Sona, to strengthen the barrier"

"Well be quick about it we don't have much time".

"Heh, pump your power into Sona. Sounds perverted brat".

Blushing at the comment Issei retorted "It's nothing like that".

"I'll mention it to Serafall next time I see her".

"Boost"

Not paying attention to Issei and Ddraig, Bennia and the Captain both watched the Legion. It was almost as if they were taking their time in making their way towards them. "It doesn't make any sense" stated the Captain "they have the numbers why aren't they getting on with it?".

Thinking for a few moments She replied "Looks like they are waiting for something, but what I don't know".

"Boost"

With that a few dark forms separated from the main group and headed towards them.

"Incoming" they called out.

Issei stood to the rear of the duo, halfway between Bennia and Sona, a last ditch effort. Drawing on his magic he created a barrier that surrounded him, and took a deep breath.

"Boost"

"Issei Watch out" called Bennia.

Before he knew it there was a Fallen Angel in front of him thrusting a light spear at him. Dodging to the side, Issei thrusted out and speared the Fallen with the top of 'Rory's' scythe, the spear driving straight through the Fallen's chest, pulling it back out he watched as the Fallen collapsed to the ground.

"Don't just stand there brat, finish him off".

Sickened at what he was about to do, Issei swung down and pierced the Fallen's chest with the tip of 'Rory' killing him instantly. Pulling the scythe out he looked around only to feel something crash into the side of him. Spinning around he slashed with the scythe, drawing blood of another Fallen, seeing him reel back he continued his spin and smashed the scythe into his side, seeing blood spray everywhere as the blade dug deep he yanked savagely towards himself ripping the blade out, spinning it in his hand, he slashed down killing another Fallen.

"Boost"

"How many is that?" he called out, having lost track.

"5, make your way towards the girl"

Heading back to Sona Issei watched and waited, Bennia and the captain were surrounded by corpses and it seems that only two had managed to get past them.

"Boost"

Hearing that he spun around and reached for Sona's hand. "Well here goes nothing" he said.

"Transfer"

Sona had never felt anything like this before, the power that rushed through her, she channeled into the barrier that she was projecting. Strengthening it fivefold.

"Let me know if you need another top off" Stated Issei as he made his way back to his post.

Sona nodded her head, not saying anything after feeling flushed with the power of Ddraig.

Looking at his watch the Captain called out "5 minutes to reinforcements, Do we know when the Maou's might appear?"

Shaking her head Bennia replied "Anywhere between now and when they actually arrive but I'd say no more than 15 to 20 minutes", focusing on the barrier, and seeing it stronger than before, she called out "Issei! What did you do?".

"Ddraig transferred the boosts to Sona to strengthen the barrier".

With that the legion surged forward as one heading straight for the barrier.

Seeing the Fallen start their move she gripped 'Scythie' tighter, and grimly added "Issei start boosting again, she's gonna need it".

"Boost"

The fallen had crashed into the barrier with a mighty roar, trying to bring it down with sheer numbers alone. When that didn't work they focused on the casters, Issei hacked and slashed his way through several Fallen, and it just didn't seem that it would ever end. Swinging 'Rory' around he felt another crash into his shield from behind spinning around he slashed out catching a Fallen in the arm, pulling with all his might he severed the arm from the man, hearing the Fallen scream in pain, spinning 'Rory' around he slashed again and removed his head from his shoulders.

"Boost, Time to transfer brat".

Making his way back to Sona he could see that she looked drained. There were several Fallen surrounding her, all quiet dead.

"Transfer"

Feeling another transfer of power from Issei, She looked quite relieved. Nodding her head in thanks, she stood a little straighter. Just as Issei was about to get back into the fight, several summoning circles appeared on the ground, and another fifty Devil troops appeared, launching themselves at the Fallen.

Gaining a slight reprieve for a moment Issei took stock of the battlefield. There were Fallen corpses lying everywhere but mainly centred around where Bennia and the Captain were fighting. Focusing on her fight, Issei couldn't help but gaze in amazement at the skill level and lethality she displayed, and notice that the Captain was missing. Hearing a grunt beside him drew his wool-gathering to a sudden close, Snapping around and bringing 'Rory' up into a defensive position he noticed that it was the Captain from the original detachment that they came with. Looking the man over he noticed that he was missing his left arm, just below the elbow, and that it looked black, and there was a strong charred flesh smell.

"Boost"

Rushing over to him Issei looked around for something to cover the wound, but the Captain just waved him off.

"Don't bother Issei he rumbled, Its been quarterized. That Bennia doesn't fuck around at all does she?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean when I lost this, she finished her foe, and immediately set fire to my stump, to stop me bleeding out, and then continued on her merry way".

"Will you be ok?"

Looking at him stupidly he replied "I've still got another arm, I'll be fine". Seeing a few fallen slip through he drew himself back up "Back on the clock brat".

"Boost"

Fifteen minutes after the battle started Issei was beginning to feel the strain of fighting, trying to hold his shield up, and supplying Sona with power to keep the barrier up. Taking a hit to the side he felt his shield magic fail. Twisting out of the way of the follow up strike, Issei hacked at the opponent in front of him. Seeing him drop to the ground he parried another blow to his side by chance, blindly pushing 'Rory' forward he heard a grunt, as he looked at his attacker, the first thing he noticed was 'Rory' had managed to pierce the plate armor that he was wearing, the second was the eight wings deployed from his back. Kicking the Fallen off the tip of his scythe Issei felt a grab at his foot. Looking down he saw the Fallen that had dropped earlier scrabbling at his foot, he stabbed down through his eye, piercing his brain, finally killing him.

It seemed to Issei that this day would never end, Now at the twenty minute mark from the start of the battle, He sported several burns from light spears, and slash marks from near misses with sword strikes. But still the Fallen kept coming. The Devil commanders had tightened their lines in a semi-circle around Sona, giving ground to the Fallen to maintain their defensive line. To Issei it seemed that they were almost shoulder to shoulder. When suddenly a large blue magic circle appeared in front of them.

With a mighty roar Behemoth appeared on the battlefield, lashing out and killing Fallen left and right.

A cheer went up from the Devil forces, with Behemoth on the field their chances of survival just improved. It also meant that their leaders weren't far off. Shaking his head the Captain shouted "Don't get full of yourself boys, there's still plenty to go around".

Sona called out at this point, "We must be getting somewhere the attacks on the barrier have lessened". Just as she said that, she gasped out "Ruruko".

Looking concerned the Captain called out "Sona-sama!, whats happened?"

Looking distraught She replied "Ruruko, has been injured. But more importantly the west side of the barrier has failed.

With that news the Captain added, "I'm getting reports she's ok, exhausted and slightly injured but ok".

Sona sighed in relief at the news.

"But Sona-sama, we have bigger problems"

"What now!" Issei griped.

"It appears that Azazel, has taken to the field".

With their thoughts distracted, no one saw the Fallen creeping along the barrier beside Sona until Bennia spotted him at the last minute. Leaping in the air she pushed Sona out of the way. "LOOK OUT!" she yelled.

As the rest of the group focused on the warning, none of them could get a clean strike at the Fallen due to Sona falling and Bennia being in the way.

Bennia noticed several things at the same time, She saw that the Fallen was someone of considerable power judging by the six wings sprouting from his back. Secondly she noticed the blade that he was carrying seemed to be dripping with fluid, 'Poisoned' she thought. Calling on her magic to form a shield she was just a little too late. Taking the blade in the chest she gasped as she hit the ground.

"NIA-CHAN" Issei screamed, leaping towards his fallen companion. Rearing back with 'Rory' he slashed down at the Fallen who had sneaked up on them. "BASTARD!" he screamed, as he spun his scythe around and letting it reach out to its full length, once it had, he pulled back with all his might and decapitated the Fallen, blood spurting everywhere, Issei had it splash all over his face, as the head landed at his feet, still sporting a foul grin.

With that the rest of the group exploded into action with the soldiers forming a tight circle around Sona and the wounded Bennia.

Issei managed to make his way into the centre of the defensive circle. Falling to his knees he called out "Nia-chan" reaching for her hand Issei felt tears prickle his eyes. "Why haven't you treated her wound yet!" he yelled.

Gripping his hand weakly Bennia whispered "Issei, There's nothing that can be done".

"What do you mean?"

Chuckling turned into a cough, as a small amount of blood trickled from her lips "Issei," she wheezed "the blade was poisoned and it punctured my lung".

"But but, there must be something we can do?" he cried.

Coughing as more blood trickled from her mouth she whispered "Don't despair Issei, the party's just getting started".

With that she rattled her last breath.

End chapter
 

T.L

Well-Known Member
#15
Chapter 10 away,

As Bennia was breathing her last breath another blue summoning array appeared on the ground in front of them. As the soldiers looked on they saw a rare sight, a very very pissed off Leviathan, in full armour.

To put it bluntly Serafall was pissed, after wasting two days negotiation with some pissant rebels, to show that they were better than the Old Maou faction, Kokabiel decides to throw his very own pity party. Watching Sirzechs flatten that village brought her no joy. Just grim understanding, that you can’t always get what you want. Having Sent B-chan as soon as she could, Serafall and Sirzechs, along with his peerage, followed as soon as they were able.

Being as pissed off as she was, she decided that this was no time for childish games. In her adult form and full armour she was an imposing figure, truly someone that had earned the right to be called a Maou. Teleporting as close to Sona’s magical signature as possible, she took stock of her surroundings, seeing that B-chan was in front of her having a merry time slaughtering Fallen she glanced behind, seeing that the troops had formed a circle around something on the ground, she felt a terrible unease that it was Sona on the ground.

Seeing Serafall arrive in her full glory, the Fallen paused for a moment. Not expecting to have to fight a Maou, there were unprepared for her arrival. This didn’t last long though, the senior commanders that were left whistled and called their brothers to form up. After a few moments they had complied, looking for all intents and purposes like a roman phalanx. With their formation set they began the slow march to take them towards the Maou.

Watching the Fallen form up into their well known combat phalanx, Serafall let them go. Signaling B-chan to her side, she waited until he arrived. Having combated this type of defencive attack style before she had just the trick to defeat it.

“Serafall, as far as I can tell Kokabiel has brought the entire Legion with him”.

Nodding her head, she glanced to the west. ‘Not much time now,’ she thought, ‘It’s time to pay the piper’. With that she threw her arms into the air, and calling out “Celsius Cross Trigger”. With that the entire area in front of them froze solid. Sensing that time was running out she then called out “Needle Shot” with that a mass of high pressure water needles appeared in front of her. Just as someone began to teleport in beside her, she called out “Fire”. Launching the needles towards the frozen phalanx in front of her.

The high pressure water needles travelled down range towards the frozen phalanx, shredding everything in its path. Trees, bushes, even the Fallen themselves were no match for the devastating needles, which simply shattered everything that they hit.



Azazel was having a shocker of a day. The first indication, looking back on the situation, was that Kokabiel had disappeared for a few weeks, which wasn’t unusual in itself, he often disappeared for weeks spending time with his remaining Legion. The second, also in hindsight was the theft of the Excalibur shards. He had monitored the situation with interest, to see what Michael and the church would do. But after a few weeks with nothing happening he lost interest. The third, and most alarming was the call from Serafall, he had no trouble voicing the shock and outrage that he initially responded with. Not wanting to start anything with the feisty, at the best of times, Foreign Affairs spokesperson, he assured her that he would head straight there, to try and sort out his now apparently wayward General.

After contacting his other two senior Fallen members they arranged to meet at Kuoh, and make their way to the Academy. It was no secret to anyone in a high position who was studying there, and the word had been passed around not to interfere. Grabbing Vali on his way out, he explained the situation to him as he knew it, and Vali having no love for the abrasive General, even though their goals were the same agreed to come along.

Arriving in Kuoh the three Fallen Angel Generals had no trouble sensing where the trouble was. Vali also looked in the direction of the Academy. Azazel sensing the entire remains of the legion cursed out loud “Fuck me!,” looking back at his two other Generals he asked “Can either of you two explain this!, because I sure as hell can’t”. Seeing their heads shaking in denial he continued, “Well we’re going to need prisoners from this lot to find out how he did it”.

Speaking up for the first time Baraqiel asked “What about Kokabiel?”

“Forget him, Sirzechs and Serafall are going to have his head on a pike after this. You want to try and talk them down? We have to salvage what we can. God we’re going to be making reparations for years”, replied Azazel angrily.

Vali not worried about the political effects of Kokabiel’s actions asked “So what do we do now?”

Drawing a blank Azazel looked to Shemhazai, who had been silent all this time, “What do you think?”

“I think that if things had of been slightly different we could have made good use of this. But you're right we need to salvage what we can. Perhaps a bird's eye view of what’s happening would be more beneficial, at least we can plan our next steps”. With that they agreed and vanished.

Reappearing above the Academy the four of them took in the battle below. Azazel whistled “Cardinal Point barrier, someone knows their stuff for a kid, and look at the arrangement of her peerage”, he finished in a singsong voice “someone's a bookworm”.

Baraqiel grunted at this “It would be the Sitri heiress, the Gremory has no talent for finesse”.

Giving him a knowing glance Azazel replied “Yes you’d know wouldn’t you”, Looking at the battlefield he noticed with dismay that Behemoth was already on the field and carving his way through the Legion's forces.

As they floated there and watched the battle, and discussing on the best way to intervene, without inflaming the situation, Shemhazai spoke up “Did you see that?”

“See what?” Vali replied.

“The barrier was getting weaker, when it strengthened again”.

“No, can’t say that I did”, replied Azazel now interested.

After a few minutes of watching they noticed it again, “There it goes again”, stated Shemhazai.

Azazel who had been watching the Sitri heiress, as she was the focus point for the barrier. Noticed a Reaper make his way to her and grab her hand. A few seconds later Shemhazai called out. Nodding his head he ran through some ideas on what it could be. Coming to the conclusion that it was the Boosted Gear, he looked at Vali “Looks like you wish is going to come true Vali”.

“What’s that?”

“Looks like we just found this generation's Red Dragon Emperor”, he replied smugly.

“Where?”

Azazel just smiled and pointed down to the fight below. If there was one thing Azazel knew about Vali, he was desperate to fight this generation’s Red Dragon Emperor. Just locating him should take some of the pressure that Vali had been putting on him. Putting that to one side he asked Baraqiel “Any ideas yet on how to stop this insanity?”

Grunting again at the question he replied “Two, but you're not going to like them”.

“What’s that?”

“Wait for either the barrier to fall or bring it down and protect the Devils, or just get between the two sides and force them to stop. That one is the more risky of the two. It could cause the Legion to fight harder, with us appearing on the battlefield”.

Cracking his neck Azazel started to form a plan. “Right here’s what we are going to do. I’ll bring down the barrier at it’s weakest point and cover that group. Baraqiel you and Shemhazai will protect the rest of Devils when it falls. Vali when the barrier comes down, I want you to take down Kokabiel”.

Speaking up at this Shemhazai asked, “Which groups do we prioritise?”

Thinking for a second Azazel replied, “The south and the east, I’ll take the west. With Behemoth smashing away in the north, I don’t want to risk anything, we’re already in enough trouble as it is”. With that the four of them departed to their assigned tasks.



Floating over the west Cardinal Point, Azazel smirked to himself, “A promoted Pawn to Queen, how very clever”, he murmured to himself. With that he fired a burst of magic at the girl. Smashing through her shields and throwing her into the barrier which started to dissipate moments later. Seeing the confusion in the Devil forces he landed in front of them, and threw a barrier nonchalantly around them. With his back to the Devils he raised his wings and arms and bellowed “Stand Down!! Cease and desist immediately or face me”.

Seeing their ultimate leader standing in front of them, the leading Fallen Legion troops became confused, stand down? cease and desist? Wasn’t this their final battle, as told to them by Kokabiel? Pausing they didn’t know what to do.

Seeing them pause for a moment Azazel continued on “Brothers you have been lead astray by your commander, We have not authorized this”. Stepping to one side he pointed to Ruruko laying in the dirt “Look at her brothers, you are fighting against children and their protectors. Is this the great battle that Kokabiel promised? Fighting children at their school?” Gazing around the amassed legion and not getting an answer he thundered an order to them “Return to your staging grounds at once, and await further orders”. With that mighty command the Legion lowered their arms and began to fall back to their staging areas. Seeing them leave Azazel sighed and his shoulders slumped. Looking at the Devils behind the barrier he told them “Remain here, while we try and sort this mess out. The barrier will hold against anything they could throw at you. The girl will be fine, she is just worn out”. Seeing them nod in agreement Azazel looked to the north and groaned, “Oh christ, she’s here and pissed”
 

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Seeing the Fallen shatter under her attacks Serafall felt quite vindicated, ‘Attack my sister will you,’ she thought to herself. When a voice chimed in beside her.

“Was that really necessary Serafall? I could have gotten them to stop. ….I think?”

Gritting her teeth at the comment she spun to face the new voice “Azazel! Don’t push me!” she growled out angrily. With that she made some hand gestures to B-chan and headed straight over to the encircled Devil troops, with Azazel following her.

Behemoth receiving his orders, headed off to make sure that every Fallen Legion Angel was dead. Plodding towards the mess, shaking his head, he wondered if he would ever receive a reprieve from the eternal torment that was Serafall.

Making her way through the troops, Serafall took one look at the situation in front of her and cursed softly, Seeing Issei holding Bennia’s hand, and beginning to cry, she shared a look with Sona, and nodded her head away from Issei, “What happened?” she asked softly.

Wiping her eyes that had begun to tear up at Issei’s grief, she replied to her sister’s question “When the barrier came down, I was caught unaware and with Ruruko’s pain I became distracted. A Fallen had managed to creep along the edge of the barrier undetected, Bennia saw him at the last minute and pushed me out of the way”.

Nodding her head in understanding she asked “What are you going to do now?”

“I’ll make Hyoudou-san the offer, instead of just using a piece on her”, Sona replied.

“Good, they were undecided before this, and were here watching how we treated our peerages, before making a decision on whether joining one was in their best interests”.

Looking at her sister strangely she asked “How do you know all that?”

“They are under my protection Sona-chan, It was my request that got them both here today. It is my fault that this has happened to her. Now I’ll speak to Issei-kun and make the offer on your behalf, time is running short”. She replied vehemently.

“What piece?”

“Knight” she replied without hesitation, as she made her way to where Issei was kneeling. Crouching down she placed a hand on his shoulder “Issei-kun?” she said softly.

Kneeling there holding her now limp hand, Issei felt the tears running down his cheeks, when he felt a hand on his shoulder and someone call is name. Looking up through tear filled eyes he saw Serafall beside him. “She’s gone Sera-chan, she’s gone”.

“Yes she is …. and no she isn’t” Issei-kun

“What do you mean?”

Gesturing behind her Serafall waved Sona forward. “This is my sister as you know Issei, She has Peerage pieces spare, If you want she can use a knight piece to bring her back. But we don’t have much time”.

Thinking for a few seconds, Issei lowered her hand to the ground “Do it”, he asked.

At this point Serafall looked pointedly at Azazel.

“Umm, I think I’ll go and check on Kokabiel”, responding to her look, taking the hint.

“By the way Azazel. Kokabiel's Head. Pike. Today.” she added forcefully.

“Umm, yeah” he finished walking away.

Focusing back on her sister she saw her place the Knight piece on Bennia’s chest, and remove the knife.

Standing back up Sona gently pulled Issei back away from her body. “Just to be safe”. Then closing her eyes in concentration she began her incantation.[1]

"I order, in my name Sona Sitri. You, Bennia.
I, resurrect you back to this soil as my servant, and have you reborn as a Devil.
You, my Knight, be delighted with your new life!"

Looking at the Knight piece sitting on Bennia's chest, Issei saw the magic circle appear underneath her body. He heard the incantation, but the piece remained on her chest. “Umm, Is that supposed to happen?” he asked pointing to her body.

“What do you mean?” Sona replied confused, opening her eyes.

“Umm the Knight is still sitting on her chest!”

“Shit!!!”

Issei would never ever let either of them forget, just how flustered the two sisters became at this moment.

Sona not wanting to use the Mutated Rook, due to her wanting Issei in her peerage, withdrew the seven Pawn pieces she had left and swapped them for the Knight. Trying the incantation again, but still with no success.

Serafall dove a hand into her subspace pocket digging around frantically for her wand. Cursing that it was never there when she really needed it.

After Sona’s second failed attempt at binding Bennia Issei became despondent. “Well that’s that” he muttered, starting to tear up again at the failure.

Serafall finally finding her wand, opened the end cap and several pieces fell out. “Fuck!!!” she exclaimed, “Where did it go?” Locating and picking a Knight piece up off the ground, she dashed over to Bennia’s body, grabbing Sona’s Pawns off her chest, she threw them at her. Placing her own Knight piece down on Bennia’s chest she began the incantation again.[2]

"I order, in my name Serafall Sitri. You, Bennia.
I, resurrect you back to this soil as my servant, and have you reborn as a Devil.
You, my Knight, be delighted with your new life!" [3]



Limbo

Bennia looked around, seeing that this was her first experience with Limbo. She had heard about it from other souls, that they sometimes meet kin and loved ones there. Issei’s own experience in meeting Ddraig there, was unique from the descriptions she had heard. Kicking her foot on the ground in frustration she griped “Bah what a load of crap. Meeting the souls of kin and loved ones here”. As she said that a voice called out, hearing the voice she became pissed off.

“Who in Hades name would summon me here!”

“Well father, who else would you expect!”

Orcus spun around at the voice of his daughter “Bennia!”, he exclaimed. “What are you doing here?”

“Well father, considering that this is Limbo, It’s safe to say that I’ve died”.

Considering that it was the first time that Orcus had been to Limbo, he considered his daughter's words for a short period. “Well it looks like your luck has finally run out daughter”.

“Perhaps” she said with a smile.

Snorting at her attitude he continued on “From here it’s off to Minos daughter. You should have not run away”.

Keeping the smile on her face she countered “And what stay here under your thumb. Believe me father, I have had more fun in the last few weeks, than I have had in years”.

“So here it ends then,” he sighed “A pitiful ending, for a daughter that could never do as she was told”.

Feeling a tug at her soul, she simply gave her father the finger “Nah, I don’t think so”, and with that she vanished.



Kuoh Academy

Issei watched as the Knight piece sunk into Bennia’s body. As the magic circle dissipated she gasped for breath and opened her eyes. “Nia-chan” he exclaimed happily. Feeling tears prickle his eyes again, he fell to his knees beside her, grabbing her hands and laughed happily.

Gasping for breath Bennia opened her eyes, hearing Issei’s happy shout she gave a little smirk. Looking around she saw Sona and Serafall both with relieved grins on their face, and the happy expressions in the faces of the Captain and his troops. Groaning she tried to sit up, but Issei pushed her back down again.

“Easy Nia-chan” you’ve only just come back.

“S’all right Issei, Just let me sit up please, It feels like my lungs are full of water”, With that Issei helped her sit up. “By the way Issei, my trip to Limbo was nothing like yours”, she groaned “What took so long? I had to speak to my ass hat of a father, Luckily I got the last word in for a change”.

Serafall crouched down looking at her. “You gave us quite the scare Bennia-chan”.

“What do you mean?”

“It took three attempts to resurrect you” said Serafall plainly.

“Is that why I feel like shit?”

“No it’s because you haven’t healed properly yet. Give it a few hours and you’ll be fine”.

Looking up at Sona she bowed her head “Thank you for this chance Lady Sitri, I look forward to service in your peerage”.

Laughing out loud Serafall fell over “Hahahaha, Oh that was great, Fufufufu, How formal, Fufufufu”.

Confused at Serafall’s behaviour she asked “What’s her problem?”

“I was unable to use any of my pieces Bennia-san, I am not your King”, replied Sona stiffly  at the missed opportunity.

Befuddled at her response, and seeing Issei and Sona both look towards the bellowing Serafall, she gasped “No!”

Nodding their heads at the same time they replied “Yes”.

Feeling a wave of despair course through her she muttered “By Hades’ Balls, what did I do to deserve this?!”
 

T.L

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#17
Just inside the tree line at the Athletics Track, where Asia had set up her triage area, Rias floated around her peerage, having had her own injuries healed, she was amazed that they had faced such a foe and managed to survive. As she moved from person to person, she let each one know how proud she was of their achievement at withstanding an opponent such as Kokabiel. As she came to Yuuto and Xenovia she worried for the nun, having her world destroyed by the revelation that God was dead, had shaken the exorcist quite badly. “Xenovia” she called out placing a hand on the nuns shoulder, “If you ever need a place to stay, you’re more than welcome here”. Seeing the girl nod her head she focused on Yuuto.

Pre-empting his King, Yuuto stood and then bent down on one knee “Buchou. I…… I’m Sorry, You who saved my life and I pledged my life and sword to…… I can't find the words to express my apology……"

Rias patted his cheek, and smiled softly "But you have returned. That is enough. You can't just disregard the feelings that you have for your comrades, and look because you have accepted your feelings you have obtained Balance Break, and put to rest your doubts”.

"Buchou…… I will promise you once again. I, Kiba Yuuto, will protect you and my comrades for the rest of my life as the Knight of Rias Gremory's group."

Smiling softly at her Knights proclamation she replied to his heart felt statement “Thank you Yuuto, my gallant Knight. But there is still one thing left to be done”, gathering a small amount of power in her right hand, she added “1000 smacks for misbehaviour”. Just as she was about to start Yuuto’s punishment she heard her brother roar out “What the Hell is going on here?” letting her power go, she smiled at Yuuto “Another time, I need to calm down Onii-chan”

As she made her way from the tree line she passed Saji, The poor boy had taken a beating in the fight against Kokabiel, but he kept coming back for more. Standing there for a moment she felt conflicted, and resolved to speak with her heroic Pawn once he got better. Grinning impishly, as she moved away, she thought some special healing might be in order, she had never done that with Saji and she felt that there might be more than a King/Pawn relationship there. Pausing just inside the tree line she watched her brothers peerage, Fully dressed for battle they made an imposing sight, her brother especially. Gathering her nerve she exited the tree line only to be spotted by Grayfia straight away.

Standing there Grayfia scanned the surrounding area meticulously, she spotted Rias almost immediately as she exited the tree line, speaking softly all she said was “Sirzechs”

Hearing his Queen softly mention his name, Sirzechs turned and immediately spotted his sister emerging from the tree line, signalling to MacGregor, he instructed him to head that way to render assistance to Rias’ peerage. Striding over to his sister he gathered her in a giant bear hug. “I’m so glad you're ok” he said.

“Onii-chan” complained Rias wiggling out of his embrace embarrassed, “I’m ok, along with my peerage, we’re a little beat up, but we’re fine”.

Grayfia listening to her sister-in-law, started to string bits and pieces together. Looking over at where Kokabiel was being held captive, and the surrounding battlefield. ‘It had never been about the girls’ she thought ‘this was a ruse to get Sirzechs and Serafall to move, but why? If Kokabiel wanted to start something the first thing he would do is kill Rias, but by the look of things he simply toyed with them, but who planned this?, It’s too sophisticated for Kokabiel’. As she pondered the implications of what happened here she saw Azazel appear, Once again she called out softly “Sirzechs”.

Sirzechs paused fussing over his sister at his Queens call, looking over his shoulder he saw Azazel standing beside the captive Kokabiel. Nodding his head at the alert he started to make his way over towards the fallen Angel Governor. With Grayfia beside him, she filled him in her thoughts as they walked over.
 

T.L

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#18
Bennia still sitting in the same spot, watched in confusion as the mighty Behemoth danced a jig and seemed to be celebrating, after being told that Serafall had taken on another peerage member. “What’s his issue?”

“Behemoth has been my sister’s Queen, and only peerage member for some time”, frowning at that Sona added “actually a very long time”.

“I see, no wonder he’s happy then”.

With that Sona stepped towards Bennia and Issei and bowed deeply. “I would like to thank you both for your efforts here today. Without your assistance, I believe it would be a very different result”.

Issei stood and returned her bow, “Thank you for your kind words Sona-san, I am glad that our assistance made a difference”.

Giving Issei a nod she added “I must go and check on my peerage”, looking down to Bennia she added “Welcome to the family”. With that she hurried off.

Sitting back down again Issei sat there for a short time watching Serafall and Behemoth, after awhile he asked Bennia “What did you mean, when you said had to speak to your father?”

“Issei, when you die no matter what you go to limbo, before your fate is decided. I have spoken to many people over the years, yourself included. From what I can gather, if they are lucky they may meet kin or loved one from their past as they await judgement”.

“I see. Who were you hoping to see?”

“My mother”.

Reaching out he took her hand in his.

“But I got my ass of a father instead”, she added sadly, “I gave him the bird as I was leaving though, that made me feel really good”, she finished with a smile.

Seeing her perk up again Issei smiled.

“Issei?”

“Yes Nia-chan?”

“Are you going to leave me sitting in the dirt for the rest of the day?”

Looking at her confused he replied “What do you mean?, You’ve just come back from the dead?”

Taking her hand from his, she made a fist and bonked him gently on the head “It means I’m sitting in the dirt and blood from our foes, Help me up you dolt, I don’t wanna sit in this crap”.

Scrambling to his feet, he gently helped her stand up. “Hows that?” he asked.

“Better, but I’m still very sore and weak you’re gonna have to help me for a while”.

“No problems” Issei smiled brightly.



Serafall watched Issei, as he helped Bennia over towards the remaining security detachment, Noticing that B-chan had finally stopped partying, and was standing beside her she asked “What do you think B-chan?”

“She’s an operator” he said flatly.

“Are you sure?”

“Without doubt. Those markings on her mask and body confirm it. Old school, very dangerous when provoked. I haven’t seen markings like that in a long time”.

“Do you think that there will be any issues with her?”

“Apart from the political ones?”, shaking his head he continued “No I don’t think so. As by her actions today, she knows how to follow orders”. Looking at the two of them together he added “Perhaps everything hinges on the boy”.

“Perhaps,” she hummed thoughtfully.

“What are you planning Serafall?”

“‘I’m not sure yet, but you’ll be the first to know when I figure it out”. With that she started to make her way over to the Security detachment to compliment them on a job well done.
 

T.L

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#19
Later that night after everyone had either been sent home or to the hospital, Sirzechs, Grayfia and Serafall met up at the site of Rias’ battle. Standing there impatiently Serafall asked “All right Sirzechs I’ll bite, what’s so important that we meet back here at this hour?”

“We’ve got people coming to clean this mess up, I wanted you to have a look at this, before it was disguised as an earthquake”.

“Look at what?”

Cutting in Grayfia added “Serafall, Kokabiel barely even tried anything with Rias and her peerage, more than anything he tore up a lot of dirt”.

“What do you mean” asked Serafall looking at her stupidly.

Raising an eyebrow at her look Grayfia continued “In the scheme of things Rias and her peerage were tossed around and roughed up. Hardly the statement of someone declaring war”.

“If he was serious Rias and her peerage would have been gutted like fish and strung up on crosses”, added Sirzechs “He’s done it before”.

Finally catching on to what they were saying, Serafall wandered over and had a good look at the terrain. ‘Hmm’ she thought looking at some of the craters ‘These aren’t very deep at all, I’ve seen B-chan take bigger divots playing golf’. Making her way back she said “I see what you mean”.

“I spoke with Azazel in great length earlier,” stated Sirzechs “he swears black and blue he had nothing to do with this”.

“That reminds me, Where is Kokabiel’s head?”

“I let them take him for questioning”.

“WHY?” shouted Serafall, “He started this!!”

Holding out his hands in a placating gesture he continued “Let me finish Sera-chan. After speaking with Azazel, we started to compare notes. Several thing that in hindsight are starting to paint a grim picture”.

Her temper dropping several notches, and interested she asked “Like what?”

“Let see, Individually on their own they don’t mean much, but when you step back and look at it, The nonsensical fight here today, the rebels at Lumine, theft of the Excalibur shards, Hades, Apparently Loki has flipped his lid again, and if we speak to Michael and the other factions there will be more”.

“Hmm, I see what you mean”.

“I’ll speak to Bennia in the morning, she spoke with Kokabiel before this mess started. She might have something else to add”.

“I understand that they are under your protection Serafall, but will she tell us anything that we don’t already know?” Questioned Grayfia.

Looking at her Serafall giggled quietly

“I don’t understand, what is so funny Serafall?” Grayfia responded haughtily.

“Fufufufu, Bennia has no choice but to answer truthfully, She became my Knight this afternoon”.

Stunned by the news Sirzechs asked “I thought the plan that you two cooked up, was to push her to Sona. Why the change?”

“Apparently I didn’t do my homework correctly”, sighed Serafall “Bennia was a lot stronger than I expected”.

“What do you mean?”

“From what B-chan has seen, apparently she’s an operator”.

“Still that shouldn’t be an issue” added Grayfia.

“Sona tried twice, using a Knight, and then seven Pawns. From what I can gather, It wasn’t the pieces, it was the power required to complete the spell”.

Grayfia nodded at this, It was rare, but not unheard of, for that to be an issue. “So where does that leave The Red Dragon Emperor?”.

“Issei?, he’s still a Reaper at this stage”.

“So why the girl and not the boy?” asked Sirzechs

“Bennia was resurrected, she had taken a poisoned blade through the chest, meant for So-chan”

“I see” murmured Sirzechs “So do you think the boy will follow?”

“Undoubtedly, but I don’t want to push the issue at the moment. It seems that they have become an item, so there’s no hurry”.

Nodding her head in agreement Grayfia decided to change the subject “So what do we do about the girls reaction to what happened here?”

Looking at Serafall, Sirzechs raised an eyebrow, Serafall seeing the unasked question shrugged her shoulders, putting the ball back in his court. Looking at his Queen he asked “What do you think, you seem to have something in mind?”

“I recommend that Both Girls, and their peerages assemble this evening, at the old school house. If these reports are true then they need to be brought to heel. If they think that they could take on Kokabiel and the Legion on their own, they need a reality check. Perhaps around 7pm?”

Thinking about her words, Both Maou’s agreed. Seeing the repair teams starting to move in, they headed off, so that they could get to work.
 

T.L

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#20
Bennia awoke with a groan, stretching out with her senses her body seemed to be fine, but her shoulder blades seemed to be on fire. Needing to get up, but not wanting to sit up, she rolled out of bed and landed on the floor with a thump and a loud moan. Slowly she started to push her way across the floor with her legs.

Issei had been up for the last few hours. When he had woken, he sat there for a long time just trying to reconcile what had happened last night. Having an ancient Dragon bound to your soul was a small help. Ddraig had seen this multiple times in his hosts and knew how to get them through with as little effort as possible. The Dragon had gone back to sleep almost straight away, with a warning that if Issei awoke him with incessant thinking he would scramble what was left of his brains.

Having brought Bennia home last night with Serafall’s help they put her straight to bed, as she left, she told Issei that the most important thing for her right now was sleep. The healing properties of the Evil piece would assist in repairing any damage that the poison and knife wound had caused. Looking at the clock he noticed that it was 2pm. Hearing a thump and moan from her bedroom, he stood from the table and made his way down to see what the noise was.

Walking in he couldn’t help but burst out laughing. Here she was moving across the floor like some sort of demented worm. “Well you look like you're having fun”.

“Shut up and help me up, I need to go”.

Still laughing Issei asked “Go? Go where?”

“So help me Issei, if you don’t help me up by god I’ll, Ahhh shit” she exclaimed.

“What’s wrong?” asked Issei now worried.

“I forgot I’m a devil now, I can’t use the ultimate holey one’s name any more. Anyway help me up or I’m gonna wet myself”.

Hearing that he scooped her up and kicked the bathroom door open, placing her down he made a beeline for the exit.

“And no hanging around, I don’t want you listening to me while I’m in here”. Hearing his steps fading back into the kitchen she went about her business.

Stepping out of the shower, the reason that her shoulder blades were hurting so much was now evident. Sporting two black wings she made her way to the mirror for a better look. As she examined the two new appendages she slowly began to experiment, flexing the muscles in her back or moving her shoulders didn’t seem to do anything, so by her reckoning they must be magical. Concentrating with her magic, she managed to make them appear and disappear several times. Drying herself off including her new wings, which whilst being magical were quite sensitive to touch, she left the bathroom.

Issei having retreated back to the kitchen decided to make a light meal for them both, as he worked away, he heard several noises coming from the other bedrooms. Crouching down he slowly crept down towards the supposedly unoccupied rooms. Not taking any chances he began to summon ‘Rory’, as he turned a corner in the passageway leading to the rear of the house, he ran face first into something soft, raising his hand he heard a soft feminine voice.

Grayfia awoke after getting her six hours of sleep that she needed to keep functioning. Seeing her husband snoring away she wondered, not for the first time, how he managed to sleep like the dead, and not be dead. Getting up she groaned at the pain in her back. ‘Shitty bed’ she thought grumpily. Standing up she managed to knock a lamp on the side table into the wall, She hated sleeping in her clothes, whilst she loved her outfit it was impractical for sleeping in. Sitting the lamp back in its place she opened the door and made her way to the bathroom. As she rounded the corner she collided with someone coming the other way, Seeing them raise a hand towards her chest she murmured “I’d advise you not to do that, or you might lose a hand”.

Hearing the warning Issei lowered his hand immediately, and took a large step backwards. Looking at the woman in front of him and seeing her expression, he immediately bowed deeply in apology, “Sorry, but I heard noises and came to check. I thought Nia-chan and I were the only ones here”.

Looking at the bowing boy Grayfia’s sleep addled brain took a few seconds to catch up, “You are Issei Hyoudou the current Sekiryuutei, that is correct yes”.

“Hai” replied Issei standing up straight.

Offering him a small nod she replied “Well met Hyoudou-san, My name is Grayfia, we decided to stay here last night to save another trip”.

At this the other new occupant made their way into the passageway rubbing her eyes tiredly and yawning “Mouuu, what’s all the noise?”

Looking over Grayfia’s shoulder Issei saw Serafall standing there in a Miracle Levia-tan onesie.

“Perhaps we should adjourn to the kitchen” said Grayfia wanting to get on with her day.

Making their way to the kitchen they found Bennia standing there wolfing down the meal that Issei had prepared for the both of them. Pointing at her Issei exclaimed “Hey!, My lunch!, That was supposed to be for the both of us!”

Looking up from her food she replied with a mouth full of noodles “B’f mm r’ffy h’n’ry”

“What was that?”

Swallowing her food she reiterated “But I’m really hungry”

Serafall giggled at the sight and Grayfia just sighed and moved into the kitchen proper, opening cupboards and the fridge, she started to gather the ingredients for a proper meal. Shooing them out of the kitchen so she could work, they moved to the table and sat down.

“I’m so hungry,” Bennia moaned “I could eat a horse right now”. Looking at her King she questioned “I suppose this just a healing thing?”

Nodding her head at the question, she replied “It should settle down by tomorrow. Your Devil powers are running at full tilt at the moment, healing and finishing the reincarnation”.

“How do you feel overall?”, Issei asked.

“Apart from being hungry, surprising fine. I really don’t feel too different than before”, concentrating for a moment she expanded her wings “This is about the only difference that I can see or feel at the moment”.

Surprised at the display Issei exclaimed “Hey you’ve got wings now! You’re like a transformer. Look she can walk,” and making some noises he added “Now she can fly”.

Grayfia listening to their conversation paused at the idiocy coming from the boy. Serafall just fell out of the chair laughing.

“Transformer?” Glowing red in embarrassment she stood up she bashed him on the top of his head “I’ll transform you into a mound of spare parts if you're not careful!”

“Ow that hurt!” complained Issei. As Bennia went to sit down again, Issei reached out and touched her wings, “It feels really smooth”, he muttered standing up he moved behind her still feeling the texture of her wings.

Bennia feeling his touch, was reminded just how sensitive they were, standing still she closed her eyes, and enjoyed his cool hands running down from the tips towards the centre of her back. As he reached the centre where they emerged from her back she moaned in pleasure at the light touch. Hearing a loud cough brought her out of the state of euphoria that she had slipped into. Opening her eyes, she saw Serafall and Grayfia both standing there with a knowing smirk on their faces. Embarrassed she focused and dismissed her wings and sat down quickly.

Confused at what happened, Issei just stood there, “Is everything ok?” he asked concerned.

“Yes Issei I’m fine, it’s just my wings are very sensitive at the moment”.
 

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Before he could ask anything else, Grayfia placed several plates of simple food on the table in front of them, “It’s not much” she stated “I’ll have the household send something more substantial later”.

Bennia tucked in straight away “Mmmm Good food” she said between mouthfuls.

As they ate and engaged in simple conversation, Serafall decided to raise the subject that she and Grayfia were most interested in. “Nia-chan? Could you tell us about your meeting with Kokabiel?”

Finishing her serving and half of Issei’s that she managed to steal, she sat back and related her story to the two women, on her meeting with the Fallen General. As she filled them she noticed the looks that the two shared, when she had finished she asked “Something is not right is it?”

“No, there is something strange going on. How did the Legion fight? Did they seem to be holding back or were they up for the fight?”

Thinking about the fight she replied “I’ve fought against the Legion before, they weren't pulling any punches last night”. Thinking for a moment she added “No wait, at the start, they seemed to be waiting for something”.

“What do you mean waiting for something?” Grayfia asked.

Her eyes lost focus as she recalled the fight, “When they arrived, they arrived in mass, ….not in the usual formations, ….it was almost like a mob, and then they seemed to wait, ….after a while they sent a few probing attacks, and then hit us. But nothing like their usual steam-roll Phalanx”.

When she had finished Grayfia nodded and glanced Serafall, “As I suspected, there’s something else going on here”.

From the other side of the kitchen a man’s voice rumbled in “Well then it appears that Azazel was right”.

Hearing the voice Bennia stood and bowed deeply, Looking at Issei she hissed at him “Issei manners”, Then out loud she greeted “Lord Lucifer”.

Amused at the politeness Sirzechs grinned “Please, Bennia be seated”. Looking over at Issei he added “So you're the Sekiryuutei then?”

Standing up ramrod straight and then performing a perfect bow Issei answered “Hai Maou Lucifer”.

Openly chuckling now he waved him down, and looked at his Queen and whined “Is there any left for me?”

Sighing at his behaviour she got up and headed back to the kitchen.

“After speaking with Azazel last night, I have to thank you Issei Hyoudou, for your actions”. Stated Sirzechs as he sat down.

“What do you mean?” enquired Issei tentatively.

“When he arrived last night Azazel noticed that the barrier seemed to be getting weaker and then was able to strengthen again for no apparent reason. He managed to figure out what you were doing to keep the barrier up, and stop the Legion from rolling straight through”. Offering him a short bow he added “thank you both for helping keep our siblings safe. Especially you Bennia who made the ultimate sacrifice”.

After basking in the glow of praise from one of the most powerful men on the planet Issei asked “So what happens now?”

As Grayfia returned with his food Serafall took up the commentary, “We have arranged a meeting with our sisters and their peerages for 7pm tonight, which you both will be attending. Where we will discuss the ramifications of last nights escapade”.

Thinking about what happened in the lead up to last night Bennia added “I don’t think your sister is going to be pleased to see us there Lord Lucifer”.

Finishing his meal he added, “You both can call me by my name in private, you have joined a very exclusive club Bennia as a peerage member to a Maou, But why might my sister not appreciate you being there”.

“When I delivered Kokabiel’s message to her, I told here that we couldn’t get involved with the fight at that moment, I didn’t want to cause any political unrest due to our situation at the time. It wasn’t until I contacted Serafall that we became involved”.

Grayfia and Serafall shared a glance at this information. ‘Politically savvy indeed’ they both thought.

Sirzechs leaned back in his chair and thought about what he had been told. Whilst it upset him that they didn’t offer their assistance straight away, he could see in hindsight why she did what she did, and could only help but agree that they did the right thing. Glancing at his Queen she nodded her head in agreement. Sighing to himself he answered “I don’t like it. But I agree with what you chose to do”.

Serafall continued on “With that we are going to strengthen the security detachment here, As you're now a member of my Peerage, you’ll be coming with me for a short time just to get up to speed, then you’ll be returning here, as it seems that both girls are severely lacking judgement at this stage. Azazel will be coming here as well, as part of the repatriations.

Sirzechs took over again “Issei Hyoudou, at this stage you are still under Serafall’s protection and that also now includes mine for services rendered. While we understand that you and Bennia have been through a lot, your status as a fugitive Reaper still stands. It is our hope that with some assistance from Ajuka that you’ll be able to re-attend Kuoh Academy so that you can finish your education”. Holding up his hand to stop Issei’s comments he added “We would really like someone with your capabilities at the academy, somewhere that the security detachment can’t access”

Looking to Bennia for some guidance she shrugged “It’s your choice now Issei, you can do what you want”, reaching out she took his hand “but I would hope that you stay here”.

Gripping her hand he nodded his head “I agree to your requests Maou Sirzechs”.
 

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Rias and Sona had assembled their respective peerages at the Occult Research club as requested. Sitting on the large couches, facing each other drinking Akeno’s tea Rias asked “Do you know why we have been asked to be here Sona?”

Taking a sip of her own tea Sona shook her head “No but with both of our sibling wanting to speak with us it can’t be good”

“Ha, perhaps they wish to congratulate us on a job well done. After all, we held our own against a Fallen Angel General” boasted Saji.

With that precisely at 7pm the doors opened to the room, and Sirzechs and Serafall walked in side by side, followed by Grayfia and Bennia, with Issei bringing up the rear.

Seeing the two Maou’s walk in, Rias and Sona both stood and along with their peerages bowed. Seeing the two Reapers Rias gritted her teeth in anger. As it was her club rooms Rias took the lead in creating their older siblings “Onii-sama, Serafall-sama”.

Nodding their heads they sat down on the couch at the head of the sitting area, with Rias and Akeno sitting to their right and Sona and Tsubaki sitting to their left. Their respective peerages behind them, Issei stood to one side and watched proceedings, Having been told by Bennia to keep his mouth shut, no matter what was said. This was reinforced by Grayfia later on, only much more politely, as he was an outsider.

Deciding to kick things off Sirzechs began “Rias, can you give us your statement of events from last night”.

Wondering where this was going Rias, related to the two Maou’s what had happened. When she had finished she stood there proud of her peerage and her own efforts against a vastly superior opponent.

Sona watched her friend stone faced. Listening to her friend boasting and looking at their siblings she could see that they weren't impressed at all. Wondering what was going on she sat there as Rias continued.

As she finished her statement she asked “Anyway Onii-san what are those two doing here?” Pointing to Bennia and Issei, “They refused to help, and left once they had finished delivering Kokabiel's message!”

Ignoring her Sirzechs looked at Sona “Can you give us your statement of events from last night”.

Seeing Sirzechs ignore his sister made Sona realise that this wasn't their siblings sitting in front of them, this Maou Lucifer and Leviathan, sitting in judgement. Relating her version as she knew it. Serafall cut her off once she got to where that barrier fell, explaining that they knew what happened from there.

Rias hearing Sona’s statement blistered in anger, once her friend had finished she interrupted “Onii-san what is the meaning of this?” she asked angrily “Security detachments? When we asked to study here, we made it perfectly clear that we wanted to study and find our peerage members away from the your and the family influences”. Pointing to Bennia she reiterated “Why is she here anyway?”

At that Serafall cut in coldly “It would be wise for you not to offend my Knight Rias-san. Their contributions have been just as important and valuable as anyone here”.

With that Sirzechs stood. “I find your judgement to be appalling Rias, and it is only Akeno’s efforts in trying to contact my Queen, that saves me from sending you home immediately”.

“But we won” cut in Rias anxiously.

His temper almost snapping Sirzechs Growled out “You didn’t win a damm thing Rias, you were played like a fiddle. Do you honestly think that Kokabiel was being serious? He was playing with you the entire time. We inspected the terrain last night, Kokabiel was barely using any power. When we arrived here last night we fully expected both of you and your peerages to be nailed to cross’ and eviscerated”.

Both girls and peerages paled at that statement, Rias stuttered out “B B But..”

Cutting her off he added “It wouldn’t be the first time Rias, he’s done it before, and looking at your reactions only solidifies my opinions”.

Serafall took up at this point “We both find it distressing, that neither of you contacted either of our families for assistance, especially when you had over 12 hours to do so, and that the first thing we knew about it was from someone under my protection. This shows a serious lack of judgement and immaturity, not only with your own safety but your peerages as well. Sona, whilst I am glad that you tried for hours to contact me, unfortunately my duties require me to be unavailable, you should have contacted Father who would have alerted Falbium, and none of this would have happened”.

Sirzechs visibly calmed himself and picked up when Serafall finished “Your lack of judgement has pointed out serious flaws in our security to our enemies…”

Sona cut in at this “If I may Maou Lucifer, but until this point there has only been 5 attempts in two years that I am aware of”.

Nodding at this, and not wanting to alarm the girls that the actual figure was at least ten times that, he continued “be that as it may. This debacle will mean changes. The security detachment will be doubled, there will be overseers installed, and security placed into the school”.

Rias exploded at this “Onii-san NO!”

“No Rias, your failings have caused this reaction”, He hissed “Your actions have pointed to our enemies that if they move against you, they can force us to move. That is NOT acceptable, you have no idea how far reaching the consequences of this little action will have”.

Seeing the anger bubbling under the surface Sona asked “Who will be our oversight Lucifer-sama, and the security element in the school?”.

“As part of the repatriations from the Fallen they will be sending a representative, and Hyoudou-san will be re-admitted as a second year under a new alias, to provide the extra in school security”.

Akeno stiffened at the news that a Fallen Angel would become a representative, fearing the worst.

Sona accepting that they were at fault, stood up. She bowed deeply which caused her peerage to fall to one knee. “Maou Lucifer, Maou Leviathan, I accept responsibility for my actions and accept your requirements for our continued stay in this realm”.

Nodding at her statement, they dismissed Sona and her peerage. Seeing that Rias was continuing to be stubborn, Serafall stood as well “I think I’ll have a further word with Sona”, gathering up Bennia and Issei she departed.

Seeing that they were alone as far as other houses were concerned Rias continued “Onii-chan, I can’t believe that you're doing this!”

With that Sirzechs temper snapped. Raising his arm he brought it crashing down on the couch arm, destroying it completely.

Grayfia alarmed that his temper was starting to run away called out “Sirzechs!”

Hearing his Queens call he stood and walked away from his sister, and looked out the window.

Rias who hadn’t seen this side of her brother for a while, looked on confused.

Grayfia at this moved, from her position to stand in front of Rias and her peerage, and took up the conversation. “Rias, from what we can understand, there is more going on than meets the eye at the moment. Your actions here have shown a lack of real world understanding, not everything and everyone can and will play nice”.

“But a security detachment?” she whined

“Rias there has been a security detachment here for two years and you never knew. What makes you think anything is going to change with more troops? They are professionals Rias, and yesterday over one hundred of them were killed and wounded keeping you alive”.

Rias and her peerage were shocked, over 100 killed or wounded, they had heard nothing about this. “Grayfia, No one told us any of this!”

Taking pity on the young girl she added “Sona and her peerage had it very rough Rias, whilst they were holding the barrier up, the security detachment killed and were killed in front of them, The bloodshed outside was immense. Those girls are going to need help and counselling. The two Reapers that you seem to be angry with, are the reason you are alive today. They managed to get in contact with Serafall, they fought with the troops. Issei supported Sona by keeping the barrier up and defending her and finally Bennia died taking a poisoned knife meant for Sona”.

Shamefaced Rias just nodded her head. “I understand”.

Snorting from the other side of the room, still staring into the night, Sirzechs added. “No. No you don’t. I had hoped that you never would. But it seems my wishes won't be granted”.



End




Notes

[1], Ripped from Volume 1 when Asia get reincarnated.

[2], I’m making the incantations the same for everyone. It’s a massed produced product. Ajuka can’t be bothered tailoring it to an individual's own whims and needs.

[3], Her name is still Serafall Sitri. She renounced her family when she took the mantle of Maou. As far as magic is concerned though, she is still a Sitri. Check the colour of the summoning arrays, Serafall’s is still blue, and Sirzechs’ is still red, the family colours.
For those watching the anime Grayfia’s is white, she’s not a reincarnated Devil remember.
 
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