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~| III |~

~ | Servants of Evil | ~

Meanwhile on a different dimensional plane - Hell...

In the vast cities of the Gremory Territory of the Underworld, under the fall of night - Sirzechs Lucifer, one of the Four Great Satans of the underworld, he and the other Satans spent years rebuilding the underworld after the Faction Wars. One of the pinnacles of this rebuilding was his clan's new thriving territory.

The territory of the Gremory clan, a rich and developed house - several hexagonal formed buildings could be seen all around the vast deep forested areas. If one were to visit the underworld they would mistake it as a city belonging to the human world, the perfectly lined brightened roads gleamed like a star in the black sky, without a doubt, the House of Gremory is a very wealthy and strong clan, one that rose in power during the post-war era.

Sirzechs Lucifer and his Queen, Grayfia Lucifuge, both were inside his office and only one was dealing with a headache, the handsome man of young appearance with shoulder length crimson hair, fair skin and blue-green eyes flipped through the papers on his desk.

The woman beside him – his queen Grayfia Lucifuge, was beautiful beyond all doubt, quite a bit similar to Sirzechs, she seemed young in appearance, her silver hair that reached down her back in a lovely braid; matching gleaming eyes that gleamed even in the dimly lit room. She served him tea to help soothe his headache, the position of Maou was a demanding job, one could only wonder how Lord Satan dealt with such matters as a sole ruler.

Differing from Sirzechs, Grayfia's attire was a maid's dress, showing no indication that she stood in any position of power. A blue and white outfit, mirroring the one's worn by the maids in France. A interesting choice of clothes for one of the strongest Devils in the underworld, but she wore it with a calm expression.

Sirzechs took the tea to help with the headache, what caused this headache? The demands of the House of Stolas, said Devils were very angry over their clan members being killed, along with one of the three High-Class Devils being killed by a rouge peerage member. A week had past since both nekomatas had fled capture, and the Stolas family has been very impatient on the matter.

Kuroka - a rising nekomata who's power was worth much praise, now? She's a fugitive of the underworld, she and her sister Shirone fled after the older nekomata slaughtered their master in his home. They reached the outskirts of the underworld, the Devils sent to pursue them were killed by Kuroka as evident by the unique wounds on their bodies. Search parties later mentioned a strange energy source coming from the forest, but couldn't determine it's origin due to it disappearing rapidly - strangely enough so did Shirone and Kuroka.

'They must have been taken in by the Old Satans.' He internally sighed. Shirone looked like a sweet girl, honestly he'd be more than willing to spare her if given the chance. Now she was in the hands of the descendants of Satan's Devil Lords. And to add onto that, the House of Stolas was not happy with their member's murderer escaping, so unhappy they organized a meeting with him to vocalize their anger over it.

After being silenced by Sirzech's hard glare he'd assured them that Kuroka will be found and punished for her actions - but not Shirone as there was no evidence of her involvement in the murder. Reluctantly they accepted it and thanked him for attempting to help, sometimes this job can be a real pain in the ass. But even so, he'd make sure the underworld will never perish as long as he stands as one of it's rulers.

Strays were meant to be killed once found, it's rare for one to be found and returned, usually under circumstances that would warrant a personal request from the king of the peerage the Devil ran from, or the family's request. The House of Stolas, caught up in the moment of losing one of their clansmen revoked any familiar relations with the two nekos. Sirzechs used that to gain Shirone without any political problems. He began to clear the papers from the desk and retire for the evening, this was stopped by Grayfia.

"Rias-sama's request, Lucifer-sama." Grayfia reminded him - his precious Rias-tan going alone to the human world? Granted she's been there before on some short term visits, but long-term? Comical tears were sucked up before he'd face the blunt end of his queen's wrath.

She did gain some members of her peerage, a fallen-angel, a cross-dressing dhamphir, which unfortunately had to be sealed due to his uncontrollable power and a boy from a Holy-sword project. Not bad considering how young she is, a long silence roamed in the office.

"Two more years, in two years she can go on her own to the human world." Grayfia bowed in understanding of his decision and excused herself to inform Rias of the news, she left but his mind was still in deep thought, what was that dark energy they sensed? It was there for a moment before it and the two girls disappeared, he'd need to see Ajuka on this, and on tracking Kuroka.

Back on the material plane - The Human World...

Kuroka sat overlooking the town on a large building, one of her duties as a servant of Lucifer was making sure to keep Stray-Devil activity low, the way she did that?

Killing any Stray-Devils she came across in this section - it's more of a way to claim the territory to allow Lucifer-kun's group to operate freely. He had created several markings to place around the section of the town, he made sure they looked as average as possible to avoid any suspicion.

Her mind was still processing the words Lucifer said to her and Shirone, her mind filled with thoughts on Lucifer's other servants.

- Flash Back - A week ago -

"Servants?" Kuroka asked, her head tilting cutely to the side. He nodded, well it isn't strange for High-Class Devils to have servants, it's actually very common really - she wondered who they were though.

The last beings who served under Satan directly were the Seven Devil-Lords: Beelzebub, Asmodeus, Paimon, Bilt, Astaroth, Belial, Pokuchin no Baal, all well above Super- Classed Devils, the strongest being of the seven was Beelzebub, regarded as only second to Satan himself. These seven were thought to have perished long ago with Satan during the war.

"...Where are they?" Shirone asked.

"Funny thing is-""He sent them across the world after one of them leveled our base in Europe a couple of years ago." Vali interjected the bashful Naruto.

"One of the reasons I don't gather them in one place, they don't eh... get along too well." Don't get along too well? What type of peerage didn't get along at all? Granted she hated her last master but she was on decent terms with his peerage before she killed him.

"Damn spirits ruining my base - spent two years building that place and in single hour it's gone."

"The past is the past, don't go worrying over useless things now Naruto." Vali chided the blonde, the base, as nice as it was, is gone now. He drooped his shoulders in acceptance, he was just thankful Azazel found this place for him after the incident.

"It's funny how you kept him around and sent the others away-" Vali chuckled dryly. What was she talking about?

"Well to be fair sending him out on his own would be a bit dangerous, had to keep him around, he's a bit - uh... how do I describe it?" Naruto struggled to find a proper description for the man.

"A mad dog." Vali said neutrally, uncaring about Shirone and Kuroka's growing curiosity of Naruto's servants.

"Yeah that, could you imagine him out on his own? He's like a mad dog, have to keep him on a leash or else he'll start causing trouble," The memories of the last time he let him loose came to mind. That city will never be the same again, neither will those exorcists who tried to stop him. You haven't seen real brutality until you see a man bisected several different ways by a stop sign.

"Anyway I kept him here under my watch ever since I moved in, come upstairs and I'll show you," He welcomed the two to follow him upstairs - Vali deciding to follow just for kicks.

"...Who is he?" Shirone asked, a mad dog? One of the servants of Satan was a mad dog? Like Cerberus? Naruto said nothing as he opened the door to the room, from the darkness of the room a ghastly red glow emanated from the shadows, and from the darkness metal clangs sounded off.

"Hailing from Arthurian legend, one of the Knights of the Round Table, Knight of the Lake, Sir Lancelot - Code name: Berserker."

A robust man fully clad in pitch-black armor and a rustic helmet with a thinly carved slit displaying the ghastly glow of his eyes stepped from the shadows. Towering over Kuroka and Shirone as Naruto stood off at the side of the door with Vali leaning against the wall behind the pair.

Sir Lancelot?

"Groooo-" A distorted groan echoed through the hall, he had to be at least 6'2, he stood there motionless, staring down at the two. "Yeah he doesn't talk, more of jumbled up words and what not." Lancelot's stare trailed over to Vali and the two locked eyes.

"Been awhile Berserker," Vali greeted, Berserker merely turned his gaze back down on the sisters after briefly looking at Vali. Shirone was intimidated by the dark vibes he was giving off, Kuroka wasn't doing much better - what is this? He didn't feel human at all - his power felt leaps and bounds over any human she's sensed. If anything he's on the level of a High-class Devil, Kuroka looked over to Naruto who stood right next to the knight.

"Impressed? He's not even my strongest servant heh," Naruto knocked his knuckles against Lancelot's armored chest, "But he sure is my tallest servant," Berserker stood over the 5'9 Naruto by a significant margin.

"He doesn't feel human nya, why's that?"

"A little experiment I tried out many years ago, safe to say it worked out." Naruto answered.

- Flash Back end -

He went over how the experiment involved a grail and some other stuff that was too complicated for her to understand. In all honesty trying to remember half of it made her head hurt. Anyway he told them of how he has four more servants wandering around the world.

She can only imagine who his other servants were, to have the legendary Lancelot whose skill was said to have surpassed King Arthur himself, and he's not the strongest of his servants? Where does that put her?

She sensed supernatural movement as the sun began to set - she was alone on her patrol as Vali, who was not considered a servant but still apart of the group was elsewhere and Shirone was being trained by Naruto. After said girl had accidentally one-shotted a large Stray-Devil two days ago Naruto took the opportunity to train her.

In his exact words to Shirone, 'You'll be one-shotting mountains after I get done with ya!'

"Mou this is boring, hmm what's Shirone and Lucifer-kun doing right now?" She sighed woefully.

"Khaos Brigade huh? Wonder what Ophis has to do with them? Maybe she's leading them... But for what?" He wondered, why was she working with some shadowy group, she's never shown in interest in this type of stuff. He couldn't read that girl for anything, just a probable terrorist group nothing out the ordinary. Nor any solid clues to the "End of the World".

Bah! More dead ends, he's been at this for thousands of years yet he still has no leads - where would you even hide the damn body!? It's massive! Must be in another dimension... could be actually.

He sat in the backyard overlooking Shirone's training, Shirone was in the middle of meditating on one leg while holding up a large rock that's four times the size of her body. Part of her strength training, the scene was nostalgic for him. The days of seeing Vali try her hardest to complete his training regiments for her came to his mind. Oh how she was so adorable when she mowed down her first horde of Orcs.

Speaking of our little silver haired battle hungry maiden she floated down from above, "Training?" She asked rather neutrally, retracting her divine wings once she contacted the ground.

"Just testing Shirone-chan's strength, I wanna see her limit," Same test he did with her as a child, the neko was holding up well under the training so far - maybe in the future she would get to see Shirone's full potential.

"Are you sure you wanna push her that far this early?" Vali watched along with the blonde.

"I did the same thing with you and look how you turned out." He remarked, "I'm a Sacred Gear user, she's a nekomata - I don't see the similarities."

"You're right, she could lift up the boulder while you couldn't." He snidely remarked with a playful grin, Vali popped a very annoyed tick mark. She huffed slightly and crossed her arms under her chest.

"Where's the other one? Out patrolling?" She asked and was answered by his lazy nod. "Being very cautious now, aren't you?" She questioned.

"Have to be, me being the exact opposite is what got me in this situation - that and a bunch of interference." He sighed, in hindsight he could've done a lot of things differently. Vali watched as he no doubt began wondering about useless things again. At least in her mind they were useless, Shirone let down the large rock and fell to her knees in exhaustion.

"One hour, you can hold a three hundred and fifty pound boulder for one hour, guess that'll be enough for today." He sat up and walked over to the hunched over neko, she looked up to see him offering a hand up. She took it and was helped up, Vali watched the two walk back towards the house.

"Naruto-" Vali stopped the taller blonde just as he slid open the door, he recognized that look along with that tone.

"Shirone-chan why don't you hit the showers, wouldn't want your sister smelling you like that." Shirone did as he told her, feeling her arms up a bit - damn she was going to be sore tomorrow.

"What is it?" He slid the door back leaving the two alone in the backyard. Vali turned herself to where she was completely facing him, "I have news," She said.

"News?"

"Khaos Brigade asked me to join them." The news was a bit surprising to Naruto, but then again they were gathering a bunch of supernatural beings to their little group so them trying to rope Vali in made sense.

"My little Vali-chan is growing up so fast, she's getting asked to join a shady group at such a young age." Naruto feigned a bit of sorrow. "Before you know it you'll even have your own group."

"Like yours?" Vali suppressed a shiver at the memories of Naruto's "group", it wasn't a shiver of fear - no, it was of excitement. She wasn't strong enough then but during the days of when Naruto's "servants" were together, days of sparring with legends like them never left her mind.

"Do you think you'll ever bring them together again?" She asked, he sensed the eagerness in her voice- the thrill of fighting just one of them was all too good for Vali to pass up. He rubbed his chin in thought, should he bring them back?

"I could-" He cut his words as he sensed something, that energy... "Vali did you feel that?" He asked as he stared in the direction of the setting sun. She nodded, that energy- it was a Devil's but it wasn't an ordinary Devil, it was too strong for it to be that...

Kuroka pounced from the tops of houses, she sensed a Devil's presence, nearing the source she saw a couple of red headed figures walking on the sidewalk. The two signatures were strange, they were unique... one felt like it was being suppressed in way. She wrote it off as some possible Stray-Devil trying to slip through undetected by masking their energy.

Masking her own presence she slinked in closer to get a better view of the two figures, one was a young girl who looked several years older than Shirone in a black and white sun dress with crimson hair, a fairly unique hair color now that she thought of it...

"Wow, this place is so nice!" Her eyes sparkling in amazement and wonder as she took in the surroundings, "Now now Rias-tan we can't stay in this part of the town for long," The handsome crimson haired man dressed in a very nice suit told the now named Rias.

"Aaaw! Why not?" She pouted cutely with a huff to the man as he tried not to faint from the young girl's expression. "Ahem, because we're currently in another Devil's territory and I don't want to cause any unnecessary problems with your potential neighbors." He composed himself as best as he could and was glomped by Rias as she gave an excited squeal.

During all this Kuroka froze in fear, Rias? That was a familiar name... a all too familiar name, the heiress of the Gremory clan? Than that means that man is... Sirzechs! One of the current leaders of Hell was moving his little sister in the same town as her!? She had to tell Lucifer about this, but before she could sneak away she heard Sirzechs speak once more.

"I know we're technically trespassing but if you can let it slide just this once I'd really appreciate it," He asked with a rather charming smile while looking to the direction of the rooftop she was positioned at. Kuroka didn't move a inch, he sensed her? In her shock did she slip up in her stealth? Damn it- does he know who she is? Would she have to fight her out? Like she stood a chance against him, running was the only viable option.

"Who are you to talking to nii-sama?" Rias asked while looking between him and the direction he was looking at, "I thought I sensed a Devil over there, must be part of the peerage of the King who lives here." He stated, a rather faint one - but enough to know that there was a Devil there, their stealth is to be commended nonetheless.

"Ah! Hi Devil-san!" She waved to the rooftop in a cheery smile, Kuroka breathed a short sigh of relief, from his statement he didn't know who she really was. It seems she didn't folly too much in her stealth, still though she shouldn't be so careless.

She slipped away from the two Devils, making sure to mask her presence better to avoid trailing and anymore careless mistakes.

The heiress to a prominent clan like the Gremorys moving into this town of all places? What luck...

She returned home as the sun fully set, she quickly rushed inside past Vali, who was lazing on the couch with Shirone who was snacking on

"Where's Lucifer-kun?" She hurriedly asked, "What's wrong nee-san?" Shirone asked, the look of slight fear from her sister's worried expression put her on edge. Kuroka quickly recomposed herself after seeing this, returning to a more relaxed and playful posture that Shirone was accustomed to seeing.

"Ah nothing, just wanted to ask Lucifer-kun something," She chuckled a bit forcefully, Vali cut in to answer before Shirone could get another question off, "He's upstairs with Berserker." Vali answered not even breaking eye contact with the magazine she was reading. Kuroka pounced upstairs in the direction of the room he had showed Berserker to them.

Without thought nor consideration she threw open the door, the news she had was in dire need of being heard by him. But that did nothing to prepare for her the scene she laid eyes on, the legendary knight of the round table holding up a black laced bra while Naruto sat at the desk in the corner of the room scribbling away.

"I don't know... maybe it's the fact that I lack a model but I can't get any inspiration going." He sighed as he leaned back in the chair, he didn't receive a response from Berserker. Mostly because Berserker doesn't speak - he mostly communicates in grunts and growls and what not - maybe the occasional 'Arthur!' once in awhile but that's under different circumstances. While leaning back in his chair he saw the upside down Kuroka, at least from the way he was leaning she looked upside down.

"Oh, Kuroka, I wasn't expecting you back for a couple of more hours," He stated as he leaned back up and spun the chair around to face her.

"What brings you back so- Berserker you can put the bra down now." He flatly stated to the black knight who in term simply let go of the underwear, letting it fall to the floor. Kuroka sweat dropped at the scene, this isn't what she expected to walk into.

"So why are you back early?" He asked getting the neko to focus, she explained her encounter with the Maou and his sister and their plans on moving into the town. To her surprise he didn't seem that all phased by the news.

Why?

"The heiress to the Gremory clan is planning on moving in next us? What are the odds?" He mumbled, so many places in the world to set up shop and they chose this place? Then again the prices of the houses here were quite nice to say the least.

"Y-you're taking this rather well..." She stuttered, her eyes widened in surprise as he grabbed her head - it wasn't unpleasant in anyway it was... gentle. The feel of his hands sent such chills down her spine that she relaxed and gave in to the feeling. And just like that she was on her knees and laying her head on his thighs, a lap pillow? She's heard of such gestures in the underworld but wasn't this suppose to be the other way around?

Nyaaa~ Who cares? The feeling of his touch and thighs... none of that mattered right now~

"It's not a big deal my dear little neko, as I said before as long as your by my side you'll never feel the wrath of hell." He assured her, the soothe tone and the sheer calmness in his voice combined with his petting was enough to put her at total ease...

"Besides hearing about you slipping up your stealth gives me all the reason I need to train you like your sister!" He stated in a all too eager tone aaaaand there goes her ease.

On the ethereal planes of existence, Heaven - the realm of the angels, and of God, who once sat at the highest dimensional plane above all his angels, but no longer did he sit at his exalted throne. A loss that the angels felt throughout heaven, a loss caused by someone formerly there own - Lucifer. A blacklisted name, a great being who fell from grace into the depths of hell along with a third of the angels.

In a grand marvelous white and gold building that sat in the middle of heaven, Micheal - the strongest of the archangels sat in the middle of marble room. Dead center on the floor filled with intricate seals and writing - the purpose? Upholding the system left by God, a system of miracles he enacted by gifting humans [Sacred Gears], it was tedious and at times straining but the fruits of her labors came through.

Oh yes, the greatest Seraph was indeed a woman, a dark skinned, dirty blonde with two long strands popping up from her head like curved antennas on a bug, her blue eyes matched the blue color on her outfit. A tight blue sleeveless leather top with gold trimming that exposed a bit of her curves, flat stomach and cleavage and merged down to cover her naughty bits. Below her neck and sitting above her breasts was a golden plate with two white angelic wings. At her shoulders two long metal pauldrons hung by a invisible force, down her arms traveled a string that held up her sleeves from mid bicep down into the vambrace. Her legs were only covered from her low thighs and down, leaving the rest exposed, the covered parts were angelic greaves, white plates on her knees and blue tights underneath it all.

Ever since she took over, her status and power has grown exponentially, it showed with the emergence of six more wings to add to the six she already possessed. Thus matching her predecessor before her.

Micheal was disturbed by the entrance of Raphael, a fairly tall man, tallest of the four Seraphs no less came into the room. Long blonde hair flowed down his back some of which was draped over his eye, his attire consisted of leather and clothed top with long striped sleeves, the bottom of the top dropped down to his calfs and opened up in the front to show his striped baggy pants and dress shoes.

"Micheal," He greeted with smile.

"Raphael? What brings you here, shouldn't you be tending to your angelic duties?" She questioned while still sitting in the middle of the circle.

"I've been informed of some troubling news from the Abyss." At that point Micheal turned around around rather quickly, the markings around the room dimmed and her expression of surprise and concern showed.

"What news?" She stood from the circle and approached Raphael, "Satan's spiritual body, it's been causing tremors and blots of darkness to seep out through the seals. Uriel tightened the locks on the seals but the problem still remains."

Micheal clenched her fists, Satan's spiritual mass, it should be in a state of being constantly reduced to atoms within the abyss, yet... yet it still defies their Lord's seal!?

'How could this be? Those seals that surround the abyss are forbidden level! How could something by-pass that many layers of seals and seep out?' Micheal worried, that blasted body was practically brimming with dark energy to the point where it could kill divine beings who weren't protected in some way.

But could it be that Satan is resurrecting himself back into the universe? But his soul and spirit were banished away by God. His body was sealed into abyss with the last of God's power, she detected no darkness ever since she took over as leader of heaven.

"Raphael, do you think it's possible that Satan's soul and spirit materialized back onto the material plane?" She asked, Raphael touched his chin in thought.

"Our Lord, in his final moments told us that he had banished Satan away to a inescapable fate, what he meant he never did say before he faded away. But I wouldn't be surprised if he did manage to slither his way back from his banishment, even if it's unlikely." Satan always persevered, and was too vicious to give up - one of his most terrifying qualities.

"I want all angels on full alert for any signs of him! If he is indeed back from whatever fate God sent him to I want to know about it, his existence is not tolerated after all of his crimes against creation!" She commanded with burning ferocity, the heat from such a command rivaled that of her sword. Raphael sighed and nodded before he went to inform the orders to everyone.

If Satan managed to escape God's banishment, than where could that old serpent be?

A/N: Been awhile huh? Chapter was hard as hell to write but hey better late than never.