Dragon of the Eldritch

Disclaimer: I don't own DxD or Lovecraft.

Sona and Rias sat in a very, almost physically uncomfortable silence as Rias sat across from Sona's desk. It was an interesting dynamic of their relationship. While they both saw one another as equals, Sona often came to Rias if there was a matter that needed to be discussed. For no other reason than for Sona to stretch her legs as even she needed a break from her duties as Student President, on top of being the heiress to a Noble Devil family and managing her peerage. So when Rias came to her, it was usually a very serious, urgent matter.

"Azathoth," Sona repeated slowly. "The Queen of the Eldritch. Is here. In this very city. And was at this academy. Do I have that right?"

Rias nodded curtly. "Trust me, I am as baffled as you are, but Koneko confirmed it. And no, she doesn't know who or even what Azathoth is."

"Of course she doesn't," Sona remarked, massaging the bridge of her nose. "We were only taught about her as a formality, not because we expected her to come to this world. What did Lord Lucifer say?"

Rias shook her head. "He's alarmed and was tempted to summon me home- which I believes translates to him considering ordering a lock down on all of the Underworld," Rias remarked, absently biting her thumb. "Be prepared for your sister's reaction."

"I am already planning my escape routes," Sona answered in complete seriousness. "What I can't possibly grasp is you claiming she was on a date with one of the three perverts of Kuoh."

"The Fallen Angels were after him too," Rias reminded before scowling. "But that makes even less sense in a way. Even if his sacred gear is a Longinus, that would only give him the potential to tussle with most Great Old Ones. Enticing enough for the Fallen to look into, but the Daemon Sultana? Are we a hundred percent sure there's nothing else interesting about Issei Hyoudou?"

Sona opened her mouth before stopping. "There might be one thing," she stated hesitantly, getting a raised eyebrow. "I did a background check after YOU started taking an interest in him, just in case there were any surprises. There was one...tiny detail I recall, if only because of the nature of it."

"Well, don't keep me in suspense, Sona," Rias prompted curiously.

"The medical histories on Issei's parents revealed that there were two more pregnancies before Issei, but both were stillborn," Sona commented with an odd look in her eye.

"While tragic, that's not too surp-" Rias stopped as the thought shot through her like lightning. "Sona, are you implying that...that Issei Hyoudou might be the spawn of another Eldritch?"

"I'm saying it's possible," Sona answered tersely. "If not, we have to face the very unusual idea that an Outer God took an interest in, Sacred Gear or not, an fairly ordinary and perverted human."

"I guess the only thing we can do now is properly inform our peerages and try to avoid drawing her attention or ire," Rias decided, looking troubled and worried. "Koneko got a first hand experience of being too close to a being like Azathoth. Devils and other races are more resistant to the mental instability the Eldritch can cause, but Koneko was- I've never seen her this paranoid or on edge before, Sona."

"Rias, it wasn't your fault," Sona stated, more factually than comfortingly. Which was comforting in its own way, as Rias know it meant Sona truly believed it. "This is the equivalent of your brother suddenly showing up in front of a rank and file scout from...any other faction, really. Extremely unlikely and likely to have some side effects on their peace of mind."

Rias smiled a bit, just for a moment, before her concern returned without the guilt. "You think she'll be okay?"

"So long as she doesn't start babbling nonsensical ramblings while scribbling arcane runes," Sona stated before pausing. "She hasn't, right?"

"No, just muttering about tentacles, but, you know: Eldritch," Rias said with a shrug.

Sona shut her eyes with an almost painful force. "Wonderful, now I'm imagining one of the Pervert Trio with tentacles," she grimaced before taking a deep breath. "Speaking of which, are you sure that Issei Hyoudou is even sane after that encounter?"

Rias raised an eyebrow at Sona for that. "Sona, I wasn't about to check myself and I certainly wasn't going to risk more of my peerage being exposed to Eldritch-induced madness."

"Valid. I suppose we'll have to keep an eye out-"

They were both rather surprised when Tsubaki suddenly entered the room without knocking, an almost annoyed look on her face. "Lady Rias, one of your peerage is very insistent on speaking with you, right n-" she started to explain, grunting as Koneko rather forcefully moved her aside and walked in.

A very, very pale Koneko.

"Koneko? What's wrong?" Rias asked, furrowing a brow at the catgirl.

"Rias, they're here," Koneko stated with a deceptively calm voice.

"They?" Rias repeated. One had to be Azathoth, of course, but did she also mean...? "As in Azathoth and Issei?"

Koneko nodded as Sona tilted her head. "Can you sense them?" Sona asked, knowing that being exposed to Eldritch often made humans more attune to noticing them. It wouldn't be unexpected for it to have a similar effect on supernatural, non-Eldritch races.

"No, I mean they're walking into the school, right now," Koneko corrected flatly.

Both devil heiresses were instantly out of their chairs with wide eyes.

Meanwhile

"Oh my god! Who is that with the perv!?"

"Doesn't she know who he is?!"

"And she's so cute too!"

"How did he ever trick her into coming to school with him?!"

Issei had entered the school grounds with a rather smug grin as the mostly-female population of the school took more and more notice of him, one of the infamous perverts, practically strutting in with a cute girl smiling while handing on his arm.

But said grin turned increasingly nervous as they went. Not because of the comments he could hear them muttering about him; he was used to that. No, his unease was because he could feel Aza growing tense, her smile becoming ever more forced and plastered on, and he could somehow kind of tell the tentacles from beyond reality were getting really twitchy and sanity-killy. Despite the fact he couldn't actually see said tentacles that were getting really too close to the veil protecting these rather insulting and blissfully ignorant bags of meat-

And he promptly pushed away that literally inhuman thought. "Just relax, Aza," he whispered with a hint of scolding mixed in with pleading. "This is hardly the worse they've said about me."

"That doesn't help me, Dear~" Aza said in a pleasant tone despite clearly wanting to hiss the words out. "I don't understand what the problem with these humans is."

"Should we be talking about them as "humans" when you're trying to fit in?" Issei asked in concern.

"Oh, don't worry, I'm doing the same thing I did this morning to make sure your mother didn't notice me," Aza informed without worry.

"You mean the "they see only what you want" reality-illusion thing?"Issei asked with a quirked brow. "When do I get one of those?"

"Oh, it might be a while," Aza answered, allowing herself to calm down despite the insignificant insults around her. "Seriously, what is the problem with you being a pervert?"

"Ummm," Issei looked up with a lost expression. How did he explain this without feeling like he was shooting himself in the foot!? "Well, I peep on them, a lot, and they don't like boys seeing them naked without permission?" he tried uncertainly.

"And they care why? It is not like you have ever touched them," Aza remarked with with annoyed incomprehension.

"It's...It's a human thing, Aza. I'm not sure how to explain it," Issei answered, scratching his head. "Just don't hurt them, please?"

"Relax, Issei. I'm not going to really be here that often," Aza waved off as they reached the school building proper. "So, where's our first class, Dear?" she asked, pulling out a school schedule...one exactly the same as Issei's.

"Are you sure that won't cause any problems, just...inserting your school-girl persona into reality on paper?" Issei asked curiously.

"Oh please, I'm hardly the only one doing stuff like this," Aza assured with a rather cute snort, looking up to the second floor rails across the room. "Speak of the Yith, there they are."

"Huh?" Issei followed her vision to see three girls staring at them: The red-head beauty Rias, the Student President Sona and the School Mascot Koneko. And the look in their eyes, those fearful looks made it very plain to him that they knew. They knew who, what Aza was. "More people trying to kill me?" he asked dryly.

"Not to my knowledge, no," Aza answered, smiling brightly as she waved to them. Issei was very aware that they paled and flinched away, the smallest of the three looking like she was ready to lose her lunch. "They're Devils. Similar to the Fallen, but with a different kind of wings. They're actually enemies to the Fallen Angels and the regular Angels."

"Wow, those three? I never would have guessed," Issei said in amazement. "Are you...trying to intimidate them?" he asked curiously.

"No, not at all," Aza answered, tilting her head. "Though, I'm not to sure how to NOT be intimidating? Most mortals react like this when they learn who I am, if they don't worship the Eldritch already."

'Like a lion among puppies', Issei couldn't help making the comparison. "Aza, you mind if I try something?" he asked curiously.

"Sure, what-?" Aza stopped as Issei leaned down to kiss her on the cheek, prompting her to giggle in genuine delight.

The trio of she-devils stared at the scene in incomprehension, even as Issei put an arm around Aza and pulled her close before they walked off. And they could sense the Eldritch energy, undetectable to most humans, calming down under his affection. Issei sent one last grin in their direction, giving them a thumbs up. "Is...Is he bragging or trying to reassure us?" Sona asked with an eye twitch.

"He might be bragging, but he definitely is trying to ease our nerves," Rias said with a long sigh as she leaned on the bar. "This implies that he knows who and what she is. And still acts that way around her. And she lets him, maybe even WANTS him to. I'm not sure which part of this concerns me more."

"A perverted teenager like Issei Hyoudou has...some kind of influence over one of the greatest conceptual forces known we are aware of," Sona realized, looking up with a lost expression. "So, that date they had wasn't a cover for her..."

"...Oh hells, she's actually dating him," Rias realized with a head shake, looking over at Sona to scrutinize her form. "Well...you're still on the flat side." Sona turned to glare at her, Rias putting up her hands in surrender. "I'm just kind of surprised he hasn't convinced her to increase the minimum bust size. Or did you forget he's obsessed with boobs specifically?"

Sona stared at Rias with growing concern behind her eyes. "Don't add fuel to my worries. Also, your rook needs to go change her clothing."

Rias blinked, rounding on Koneko in worry, who blushed in shame as she tried to ignore the trail of urine down her legs. "I'm...sorry," Koneko said softly, her whole body radiating embarrassment.

Rias instant hugged her, albeit keeping their hips separated. "It's alright, Koneko. Go change, go to the club house and call in sick," Rias instructed. Koneko obeyed without protest or hesitation, walking off to some place private so she could disappear.

"It's safe to say that, what was that alias you mentioned? Aza Rabufuto? She will probably have a full document of paperwork and records that were processed, albeit with everyone not quite sure when they did it," Sona remarked with a frown. "Usually, when a King moves, their court comes with them."

Rias nodded grimly. "That's what I'm worried about."

Meanwhile

"I'm Aza Rabufuto! It is a pleasure to meet you all! Please take care of me!"

Issei had to admit, it was a very convincing performance. He had made sure Aza knew what, as a new student, she was supposed to do. Even if he was pretty sure her reality-illusion thing would take care of it for her, but in Aza's own words; 'I should learn more about being human if I'm going to be your girlfriend.'

And Aza was off to a great start.

"You lucky bastard," Motohama said, somewhere between jealous and congratulatory.

Matsuda leaned back with an envious grin. "You got a hottie and she's in the same class as us."

"Guys, you're my friends, but I will break your wanking hands if you touch her," Issei hissed, giving warning glares to both of them. The bespectacled and bald pair leaned away slightly at the threat, but didn't otherwise change their mood. Issei winced as Aza found a seat in the back, all the of the girls giving her concerned and protective looks, while shooting Issei dirty, accusatory glares.

How is it that suddenly he was the one protecting everyone?

Oh, right, his girlfriend could accidentally mind-break humans and was getting annoyed with the insults aimed in his direction.

Issei blinked as he got an idea, putting his hands together in a praying motion. 'Aza, please don't mind-flay them when they try to tell you all the reasons to break up with me,' he mentally requested before turning his attention back to the class.

'Ohhh, Isssssei~' Aza called in his mind, rather erotically. He blushed, trying to discretely look back at Aza, who was now flushed and her breathing was a tad labored. 'If you want me to keep control of myself, don't intrude into my mind without warning.'

Issei blinked as he pointedly stared ahead, trying to calm his boner. He was a hundred-and-ten percent sure that "control of herself" meant nothing about injuring these defenseless minds and everything to do with picking up where they left off before Yog blocked them both.

He didn't make the praying motion again, but hoped Aza could still hear him. 'Umm, Aza? What was that just now?' he mentally asked, trying not to sound too excited...or he might not control his own self.

'When you accepted my offer last night, I increased your mental shielding, but also made a...link? Tunnel?' Aza tried thoughtfully, absently tilting her head before sending a psionic giggle. 'We can call it a glory hole?'

'Yes ple-I mean, do you even know what that is?' Issei changed course, trying not to grin or snicker at that.

'Issei, I may not understand mortal-norms, but I am well researched into every sexual act you have looked up, watched, read, and fantasized about,' Aza informed factually.

Issei blinked, and made a very astounding effort to not look embarrassed. 'I would be very ashamed if I wasn't sure you don't care about me looking up that stuff. Still, what is this?' he asked curiously.

'Well, I don't know when your more active mental powers will come up, so I just made a link for us. It's a very private connection,' Aza explained.

'And that made you horny?' Issei questioned in confusion.

'Oh, just when you pray to me. It doesn't give me any energy like cultists do, but without my normal protection and with you right there, your mind basically slamming and prodding into my own without warning?' Aza made a point to lick her lips and, despite not looking at her, Issei was very aware of the action.

'...I will enjoy this, but later when you're not at risk of mind-raping every girl that insults me!' Issei decided, trying to do the equivalent of mentally hanging up before his perversion went into overdrive.

'Issei, I won't mind-rape them. I have to actually enter their minds for that. They just...crack when I let my true existence get too close,' Aza pointed out casually. 'And I should be able to contain myself unless the insults turn to assault.'

'Is the effect REALLY that different?' Issei asked with morbid curiosity.

'I'm not sure. I'll have to ask someone about that,' Aza mused absently and Issei could feel her properly hanging up on the conversation.

Issei shook his head fondly. He was definitely not going peeping again anytime soon. Because then the girls would attack him. And Aza would do horrible, horrible things to- 'Wait, my parents are safe from the sanity issues, right?' he called rather loudly, hoping she didn't tune him out.

'Oh yeah, Yog took care of that a week ago while we were on our date yesterday,' Aza thought in reassurance before furrowing her brow. 'Or was it she will take care of it in three weeks when I asked you out the day before? Either way, they're safe.'

'I...am disturbed by how much I already understand that,' Issei thought with a grimace.

'Don't worry, you'll get used to understanding non-euclidean thought patterns and geometry long before you start having them yourself. Oh, by the way, did I forget to tell you about the dragon in your hand?' Aza asked curiously.

'Well, I've never called it that myself, but- wait, was that NOT a dick-joke?' Issei asked, realizing she might be literal and serious.

Meanwhile

"Zech, let me go," Serafall stated in an usually flat tone.

"No."

She shuddered in rage and sisterly panic as the red headed devil held her in a full nelson. "Zech, you will let me go in the nex-!"

"No, I will not," he stated calmly, before glaring over at Ajuka. But his fellow Super Devil very calmly and pointedly didn't meet his gaze.

"RAAAAH!" Serafall all but roared, the floors and walls cracking and shuddering as she tried and failed to throw him off. "I have to go get Sona! She's there, Azathoth is there! She's not strong enough to even survive if an Outer God lets loose even a little! She's all alone and-"

"She has her peerage," Ajuka corrected calmly.

"YOU KNOW THAT DOESN'T HELP YOU BIG DUMMY!" Serafall screamed, breaking many, many windows, pictures, and vases throughout the main government building of the Devil's side of the Underworld.

"You're not helping," Sirzechs said with a frown, Ajuka merely shrugging in apology. "Sera? Sera? I need you to breathe, okay?" he instructed soothingly, Serafall taking very deep breathes- which started to freeze the wall she was facing, but he decided to ignore that for now. "Sona is fine. If The Queen of the Eldritch wasn't containing her powers properly, all of Japan would currently be slitting their guts out and eating them. She hasn't attacked any devils-"

"Your sister's kitty-!" Serafall objected.

"Was just too close when the Fallen Angels attacked Azathoth. And Koneko is fine," Sirzechs promised, leaving out the "mostly" to that statement, lest Serafall go back into a tailspin. "There is no need to storm Kuoh and snatch Sona away, lock her in the secret replica you have of her childhood room and hide there for the next century."

Serafall continued to take her calming breaths before she slacked against her fellow Satan's grip. "I still want to make her come home," she stated with a pout.

"And that is your right as a Satan and her big sister. All I ask you do it in a calm, and not overly panicked manner, potentially destroying East Asia in the process. Or cause a new Ice Age," he stated placatingly.

"Zech, I've NEVER done that," Serafall complained, just a bit insulted.

"Have you ever been this upset for Sona's safety?" he countered knowingly.

The Leviathan Satan opened her mouth before closing it. "True," she grumbled. "...Why is she there? Or anywhere near Earth?" she asked in defeat.

"I don't know, Serafall, but I promise we'll find out. But remember, please? You're one of the Great Satans, specifically the one in charge of Foreign Affairs. It would be...rather unseemly if you of all devils accidentally insulted the Daemon-Sultana in a fit of sisterly-concern," he reminded carefully.

Serafall paled. "Sona would be so mad and disappointed in me, I can't take it when she's really disappointed in her big sister," she murmured.

Sirzechs knew she was also considering the devastation and potential extinctions that could occur, but as a big brother, he understood that little siblings can spring to the mind first in the midst of such things. Especially when they were in the figurative splash zone of said calamity, to say nothing of them being at ground zero.

Sirzechs carefully pushed that thought away before he joined Serafall in panicking. "Now, I'm going to let you go, we're going to go to our nice and undamaged meeting room and we're going to figure out what to do like rational adults. Okay?"

"Okay," Serafall answered with a demure nod. Sirzechs slowly, skeptically released his hold on her and was rewarded with her not running away at the first chance she got.

"Question?" Ajuka spoke up with a raised eyebrow. "How did you know about her Little Sona Room?"

Serafall just gave him a withering look. "Dummy."

"My friend, it is very obvious you don't have younger siblings," Sirzechs said with smile and a head shake of pity.

"Right," Ajuka acknowledged calmly, very used to his friend's sister complex, yet still amazed by it sometimes. "Not to delay the room change, but have there been any attempts to contact Nodens or Yidhra that I am unaware of?"

"Yidhra herself is ever hard to track down, but at least most of her cults are polite enough to accept inquiries from us on her behalf, which get to her eventually. Falbium is arranging the search for one," Sirzechs answered with a hum. "And last anyone heard of Nodens, he was checking up on "something" in the Mediterranean."

"That's about the best we can do in terms of getting information from the more local Eldritch," Ajuka admitted before narrowing his eyes. "There hasn't been any sighting of the Crawling Chaos, has there?"

"Nothing definitive, not since the 1930s," Sirzechs admitted with a troubled scowl. "But that said, the Black Pharaoh is the Messenger of the Outer Gods, of Azathoth herself. If the Queen is here, that one is sure to follow."

"Zech, if that happens, I AM stealing Sona back and hiding her," Serafall warned stubbornly.

"You won't have to. I'll pick her up for you when I grab Rias," Sirzechs assured bluntly as they left the room.

Never seeing the smiling figure with bright eyes in the reflection of the ice.

End of Chapter

And there you go folks. And no, Aza is NOT going to be at schol all the time. Albiet, the humans will thinks she is. But Issei is currently playing MVP by keeping his protective, OP girlfriend from wrecking any of these pour souls. And he just found his first prize for being a good boyfreind: An Eldritch Glory Hole...which sounds both plausible and terrifying. But we got some more reactions from the local devils and those in the underworld. Naturally, Serzechs had to stop Serafall from doing what he also very much wanted to do. Also more hints on the relationships between the Eldritch and Supernatural communities. If any of you are wondering what 1930s is about with Nyarly: that's around last chronological settings the Crawling Chaos was placed on Earth i Lovecraft's works. Forget if that is true for Nyarly in all the Cthulhu mythos, but I figured it fitting for this to be the last confirmed sightings that the Devils know of.

Also, this fic is being posted by someone on a site called WebNovel.(Hello, TheEternalWanderer!) I don't mind, they disclaimed the story wasn't their own and everything and are just showing it over there. Besides, I find it funny- the commenters there think I and Issei would be stupid to have Issei pick anything but Outer God.(yes, I see you crimson666devil, sunschao)

I won't say what the build will be yet. Partially so you'll all see Issei choose in-story, buuut also incase I give Love Azathoth a V2 update. Not trying to get anyone's hopes up, but its something I consider off and on all the time. My life has been.. hectic lately, obviously, and Love Azathoth is already a huge CYOA. First time I updated it, I went from a handful of pages to nearly two dozen. I'm honestly a bit worried how long I'll make it with another update. XP

Still, hope you enjoyed this. Until next time!

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