Chapter 1: Cruel Beginnings

Thousands of years ago, heaven and the underworld were ravaged by what is now known as the 'great war', the angels, fallen angels and devil waged a three-way war that nearly brought the three biblical factions to the brink of collapse. However, after countless years of battle, a ceasefire was proposed between the leaders of the three factions after the loss of the God of the bible and the 4 Great Maou.

With severe losses on all sides, the factions agreed to the proposal and ceased all battles between each other, but this did nothing to resolve the disdain and high tensions between the races thousands of years later.

In terms of losses, all factions suffered greatly and diverted their efforts to rebuilding their numbers, the devils however ended up in a civil war for the power gap that was left following the deaths of the 4 Great Maou, this caused the devils to split onto 2 separate groups, the Old Satan Faction (OSF) and the New Satan Faction (NSF).

After years of fighting, the NSF claimed victory and became the citizens and leadership of the Devils. The devils numbers dwindled to dangerous numbers following the war, which is when it became an expectation for families to produce numerous offspring, especially from between the 33 remaining families of the original 72 Pillar families.

One such house is the house of Gremory. And as of current time, Venelena Gremory, wife of the house of Gremory's current head, Zeoticus Gremory, had just given birth to two children. Usually giving birth to a single child is rare due to the dismal pregnancy rates of devils, so having twins is considered a miracle, but for those present at the birth, there was a different setting.

One of the children, was a crying baby girl, with crimson red hair and blue/green eyes, the second child caused everyone in the room to show expressions of shock. The silent baby boy had silvery/grey hair and eyes of the same colour, everyone present for the birth was shocked, the child held no resemblance to the mother and had none of the Gremory's characteristics such as the crimson hair or eye colours usually seen among blood members of the house.

It was because of these, his treatment and love from his 'family' was decided and he was quickly ignored in favour of his sister the only person who paid any attention to the boy was the head maid Grayfia Lucifuge, she was the 'wife' of the family's oldest son and current Maou, Sirzechs Lucifer.

She walked over to the child, completely unnoticed by everybody present as they doted on the small red-haired girl, and proceeded to lift him from his cradle, smiling down on him softly as the child opened his eyes and gazed up at beautiful figure looking at him with kindness on her usually stoic visage.

The resemblance between the two was uncanny and anyone who saw him would assume he was her own child and not that of the Gremory's. Grayfia was pleasantly surprised to see the child had the same hair and eye colour as she did, it surprised her even more when she felt an immediate connection between herself and the small child.

The child smiled up at her bringing a feeling of something to the normally emotionless woman's heart.

She knew from then that she would have a strong bond with the child in her arms, what she didn't know was just how strong that bond would be in the future. "Grayfia, you should come look at Rias, she is a true Gremory unlike that child in your arms." Spat Zeoticus, visibly angered that the child held no similarity to his honourable and great house, his view shared by the rest of the party that was present except for Grayfia who was smitten with the silver haired child already, and Venelena as she harboured a strong motherly love for her new child, much to the disdain of everyone else.

"Lord Zeoticus, there are already several people attending to Lady Rias, surely your new son should be given the same?" questioned Grayfia coolly, her stoic mask once again returning as she looked at the crowd around the small heiress.

"Does he not also deserve a name?" she pushed, trying to bring sense to those present who clearly disliked the child for no reason other than looking different.

"Bring him here Grayfia." Spoke Venelena softly, her arms waiting to receive her son, a warm smile on her face as she looked at the child in Grayfia's affectionate hold. Grayfia allowed a small smile to flash across her face as she handed the child to the only other person who would love him unconditionally for the years to come.

"what do you think of Keiji, Grayfia?" Venelena asked brightly, ignoring the glares she was receiving from Sirzechs and Zeoticus for asking the maid what name she liked.

Grayfia reached down and gently stroked the smiling child's cheek, "I think it's a wonderful name Lady Venelena." Grayfia replied with a smile as both herself and Venelena looked upon the silver haired child lovingly.

"Come Grayfia, there are matters to attend to." Sirzechs announced, Grayfia nodded in acknowledgement, leaning down she kissed the child on the fore head as he lay in Venelena's, Zeoticus and Sirzechs watched with disgust, both wondering how she could have any affection for the unsightly child.

Sirzechs reached for Grayfia's wrist to pull her away from the child but she swiftly moved her arm from his reach and glared at him, "look after him Ven-chan." Grayfia whispered in Venelena's ear, who nodded in understanding.

They both knew that the child would have a tough life ahead of him and that they would have to prepare him for the world. Grayfia glanced at the child one more time before heading to stand beside Sirzechs who's anger towards the silver haired maid could be felt by anyone in the room.

Sirzechs continued to glare at the maid who simply stood beside him before looking away and transporting both of them from the room via magic circle.

Venelena looked up from her bed to see Zeoticus fawning over Rias and paying not a scrap of attention to his son. She shook her head and looked down at her beautiful son, after a few minutes of simply enjoying the sight of her now sleeping child in her arms she said to him softly, "don't worry my little devil, no matter what happens, you already have 2 people who love you, you little charmer."

"Venelena you should be paying more attention to your child, it is unbecoming of a Mother to ignore their child." Zeoticus declared to Venelena until she snapped her head up to him, her eyes flashing dangerously between her usual purple and crimson, causing Zeoticus' mouth to go dry, "My child is in my arms Zeoticus, and don't you think of saying a thing against him or I'll make you regret it."

Zeoticus sneered at his wife before exiting the room as fast as he could with Rias in his arms. Venelena glared at the door for a few more seconds before releasing a sigh, her eyes returning to their usual purple as she averted her gaze to Keiji who brought the smile back to her face as fast as it left, her mind contemplating what she can do for her son to keep his life as happy as possible with Zeoticus and Sirzechs clearly against him.