Demon Duke Org

Chapter 9

Leader's Summit

It was now the day after Zen-Aku received Ascalon, he and Asia had already arrived in the clubroom to await the rest of the peerage to wait for the leader's summit to begin, they were to all go there and give a report on the incident with Kokabiel, and staying to help guard the leaders. When the others arrived, it was first Gasper, who then just narrowed his eyes at the duke org before proceeding to sit on the couch and play a video game, then came in Kiba who greeted him with a small nod and went to sit on the other couch to wait for the others to get here as well. Then came in Koneko, she was munching on some sweets, cookies he thinks, and just walked in before moving to the couch to sit with Gasper, next came Xenovia and Irina, they walked in chatting to each other before going over to drag Asia into the conversation as well.

After that is where Rias and Akeno came in, when Rias saw that Zen-Aku was already in the room, she scowled at him with more anger than she ever did before, before it was just her mom he was dating, now he hurt her friend's feelings, so now that scowl had more hate than ever. Akeno though, she only saw him and bowed her head in shame, now feeling more guilty than ever before, she hated herself for what she's done to her father now, the grief that he must have gone through alone because of what she did, she just felt shame at having that pointed out to her.

The other peerage members saw this but didn't say anything on it, instead it was just Rias that spoke in a calm and cool voice, "in your opinion Zen-Aku, can Gasper safely go to the meeting without his power disrupting the peace talks," she didn't want to leave the boy here after all.

Zen-Aku took but a second to respond, "yes, the boy can go to the meeting with full control over his power," after he left the shrine last night, he went back to the school and continued to train with the boy, throwing rocks of various size at him and he stopped enough to qualify as control.

"Good, than we can show up in full force without leaving anyone out," Rias stated while leaning on her desk and crossing her arms over her chest, "Zen-Aku, I want you to go ahead and head to the meeting room, make sure that everyone is there and no hostilities when we do enter."

Zen-Aku rose an eyebrow, was she truly that upset at what he said to Akeno, or was she true in her reasoning, either way he might as well since he's not likely going to be of any use here at the moment, so he left the clubroom and went ahead to the school before finding the meeting room. He entered it without a second thought and saw the four head leaders of the three factions in there, Sirzechs, who was glaring at him for dating his mother, Serafall, who was glaring at him for fighting her sister Sona apparently, Michael was there, as was the fallen leader Azazel as well.

Though also in the room was Sona and Tsubaki, who were also acting as reporters and guards, Sona had a bandage on her cheek from where she lost in the training spar against him the other day while Tsubaki had bandages on her arms from Saji's binding, they were a bit too tight. Vali was also in the room on the side of the fallen angels, Zen-Aku could tell because his dragon was pulsing only a little bit similar to when he appeared after Kokabiel was defeated, to be honest, the duke org thought he looked like a cliché screamo emo dork, kids today and their music. The last one was on the side of the angels, it was a woman with a voluptuous figure and curly blonde hair, her face befit that of an angel, so he could only assume that this was a fellow leader class angel like Michael, though he couldn't remember any female angels that high up from his readings.

"Awe, welcome Zen-Aku the duke org, I'm pleased that you could make it," Azazel was the first one to speak up, he looked to be smug and at the same time as if he was carefree about everything, the only response he got was a grunt as the duke org moved to lean against a wall.

After a while a knock came and Rias asked, "may we come in," and entered without waiting for a reply from anyone, they all filed in, Rias, then Akeno, Kiba, Koneko, Gasper, Xenovia, Irina, and finally Asia, all wearing their school attire as they entered the room to see everyone else there.

Though when Xenovia and Irina entered they gasped, "lady Gabriel," to the blonde haired woman, she waved to them with a bright smile from behind her brother Michael, who smiled pleasantly to them as well, at least that solves the mystery as to who the woman was, and her character.

"Everyone's here, this is my sister Rias and her retainers, and they are the ones who fought against Kokabiel in the surprise attack a few days ago," Sirzechs informed the other leaders as if they didn't already know, though it sounded a bit better when coming from the mouth of a king.

"That is a rather impressive feat, I thank each one of you for your hard work," Michael said as if his thanks were to mean anything to devils, or at all to anyone else there other than those that worshiped his god or his own belief, though it was probably better than no gratitude.

"Once again I apologize, it seems one of my boy's caused you a bit of trouble," Azazel said with an aura of cockiness about him with his left hand on his cheek in an uncaring manner, and there was no amount of remorse to that apology, sounded more like he was doing a chore than anything.

"Now that all the participants are represented, let this summit commence," Sirzechs declared with authority, though it was hard to imagine him as such since the duke org saw the baby pictures, that was a fun morning, getting to get a laugh at the expense of the devil king was fun.

The next little while was boring, as they played the full fight with Kokabiel and how he ended up beaten and dead, "the rest of the details regarding the incident between Kokabiel and my household can be found in my official report," Rias stated officially once the video was done playing.

"As a witness, I Sona Sitri confirm the veracity of the report given by lady Gremory," Sona reported after, as if she actually did anything other than put up a barrier, she never actually witnessed the fight herself either, though she saw the aftermath when Zen-Aku killed him.

"That will be all, thank you very much," Sirzechs said, not even looking that the girls who gave their reports, choosing instead to keep his dignified aura about him and not praise his sister to show favoritism, though it would seem that Serafall doesn't have that hang up when she turned.

"Great job ladies, you make me so proud Sona," Serafall told her sister, who blushed as she returned to her position, she was obviously to obsessed with her sister, were all satan class devils like that, the duke org could already feel a headache coming along just thinking it.

"Perhaps the governor general of the fallen angels would like to share his opinion of their report," Lucifer offered, he held no ill feelings in the tone, he sounded more curious about what his opinion about the incident, though it was clear that Azazel himself had little opinion on the subject.

"Kokabiel went rogue and therefore my thoughts on the incident are irrelevant," came Azazel's reply, it was a reply of fact, Kokabiel may have been his subordinate, but said underling's actions were by his own choice, this was a simple man with a simple code, though a lazy one.

"So, he acted entirely on his own," Michael questioned, he didn't sound unconvinced at all, it almost sounded like he was hoping that was the case, probably to further the peace they wanted along, though for a long lasting peace, plots needed to be brought to light sooner rather than later.

"Well he never had my permission if that's what you're asking, but something tells me that damn fool wouldn't have tried to destroy the whole town if he knew I was staying here, I've grown quite fond of this quaint little place," the fallen said with a smile, though nobody knew he was staying here.

"Try and stay on topic if you please," Sirzechs asked, that was good, keep the focus away from himself actually allowing the fallen angel's leader to stay in the town, Sirzechs must have had knowledge on that fact, no way was he a leader and didn't know about it at all.

"I sent the white dragon emperor in to resolve the issue, but the culprit was already dealt with by the scary wolf monster over there, he won't bother you again," Azazel replied while pointing to said scary wolf monster who just rose an eyebrow at the name, could have used any other name.

"What I find most troubling about the attack itself is his motivation, it seems he was rather unsatisfied with the status quo," Michael admitted, that would do it for most people who had a taste for war and death and loved to take part in it, just fight from one fight to the next and the next.

"Yeah, the war ending halfway through really stuck in his craw, what he wanted was perpetual combat, and in this late stage in the game I have no interest in a war," Azazel said, he obviously wanted something though, that much was clear, perhaps he studies various artifacts, who knows.

"The seeds of discontent," Serafall thought out loud, that would sum up a lot of the skirmishes that keep happening, though discontent was the wrong word, more like a desire or passion to keep the fighting going, a never ending war that would let you kill to your heart's content.

"That behavior isn't exclusive to my faction," Azazel said and making her pout, it was true though, in any standoff, you had more than one person in each faction that hated it and wanted war, either that or wanted to fight as many different beings as possible and war was the best way.

"Again, I ask that we stay focused at the matter at hand, after all that is why we've convened here," Sirzechs stated again, wrong though, they convened here to talk of peace and hopefully come to a peaceful resolution, pointing out everyone's faults gets it all out into the open to help.

"Spare the verbosity, won't you, let's just make peace and be done with it," Azazel said finally, everyone else seemed to gasp, "that is why we're here isn't it, our perpetual three-way stalemate is getting rather old and hardly doing this world any favors, I assume we're all in agreement on that."

"God and the devil king are gone, both of our war generals have been annihilated," Michael stated as fact to help this point, those that are former members of the church seemed even more downcast at having Michael of all beings say that, Gabriel herself looked to frown as well.

"We have a… complication, once again it's not even our three powers, but these forces are equal if not more destructive, they are the red and white dragon emperors, so I'd like to hear their thoughts," Azazel asked for their thoughts on the matter at hand, though he did have a point.

"What I want is to fight someone who is as strong as me," Vali stated, he gave yet another cliché answer, has this guy studied every cliché villain in history to figure out how to act, or did it only seem that way to Zen-Aku, only thing missing is a want for destruction for the sake of destruction.

"Yes, but you can still find a lot of powerful opponents without having a war," Azazel commented, he obviously knew something, something that he didn't feel like sharing with the rest of the people here, so he turned to the duke org for his thoughts, "and you red dragon emperor, thoughts."

"By now all of you have heard the rumor about me and Venelana, mother to Sirzechs, right," Zen-Aku asked and everyone nodded, "they're true and I only wish to be left alone with her, peace between the faction is meaningless to me, however for her comfort certain things have to come. My duke status transferred to the devils for one thing, the other is certainty that certain people aren't in any danger, and the fastest way to do that is to make peace, so as you said, let's make peace and be done with it," Zen-Aku stated as well, though his demands were still to be expected.

"Well, I think that about sums everything up, everyone wants peace, or can get what they want quicker with peace rather than a war, so unless anyone has any other questions, let's make it official," Azazel suggested, only for the duke org to step forward to speak shocking a few.

"First off, Michael, Gabriel, I want to know why Asia was forced out of the church like she was, even dead she still loves God more than anyone I've met, I've bore witness to that love myself every night, so I want you to explain to me why you forced her out," Zen-Aku ordered the angels.

"After God was destroyed, only the system remained, the only thing we had to keep the faith was our power to administer divine protection, mercy, and miracles, even with me as the center the church is barely functioning right now, there was a need to avoid anything that could negatively affect our system. The faith of the believers is the reason those of us in heaven exist, and a threat to the system is a threat to our survival, therefore anything that could negatively affect it had to be removed," Michael explained, though that caused the duke org to narrow his eyes at the angels.

Xenovia made to speak, but the duke org beat her to it, "which is why Xenovia and Irina suffered Asia's fate once they found out the truth, for fear of telling about God being dead," Michael nodded, "then I ask that you allow them to pray again, without the pain brought on by it."

The leaders in the room gasped at that, as well as Sona and Tsubaki who never heard the duke org talk like that about anyone, Vali even seemed surprised at his rival for asking such a thing, Michael and Gabriel though, they smiled, "it will take some reworking, but I'm sure that we can allow that."

"Oh right, I've heard of her, wasn't one of my underlings responsible for trying to take away that power of hers," Azazel asked, he obviously wasn't responsible, if he was, then he would have been involved directly or sent someone stronger to deal with it instead of who was there.

"Yes, though Raynare didn't really get to carry out her plan, I imagine that her underlying goal was to gain rank and power to get close to someone, at first I thought it was Kokabiel, but now I'm not so sure," Zen-Aku guessed as he eyed the fallen leader with a hint of suspicion.

"Naturally I take full responsibility, so to atone, I will satisfy you in a way that only I can," Azazel said calmly and looked the duke org in the eyes, and when those eyes locked both eyes narrowed, as did the eyes of many others as well, because they noticed something was amiss as well.

"Where is Gasper," Zen-Aku asked as he turned back to look at where the half-vampire was supposed to be and saw that he was gone, everyone was about to begin panicking when time froze all around them, "damn someone must have taken him when all of us were distracted."

A rocking came from outside and when they looked they found people coming out of magic circles upside down, "they're magicians," Serafall said as they started blasting the place, "and they're so rude, I'm a real life magic girl and they're flat out ignoring me," she said again with a pout.

"This power must be because of the half vampire boy, he must have been coerced into creating balance breaker conditions for them," Azazel stated, that also means that they had a traitor in their mitts who helped them draw their focus to them and any attention away from the target.

A lot of magic was being shot at the leader's guards, making them disappear, "our guards are disappearing, teleportation magic, that could only meant that someone is connected to the gate within this barrier," Michael surmised while he saw all of their escorts and guards disappear.

"Unfortunately, our magical transport troops are all completely sealed off from us," Grayfia pointed out, this was making the situation seem troublesome, however Zen-Aku knew of a way to get to Gasper that didn't require any magic, though he hasn't used the power in a while.

"We have been cornered, their timing along with their use of Lady Gremory's Bishop could not have been more perfect," Michael stated as Zen-Aku turned and began to walk away, they all turned to him and where he was walking, "where are you going Red Dragon Emperor?"

Zen-Aku stopped and turned his head back to look at them, "to get pretty boy back," before looking forward again and began walking, his body began to shimmer in a purple glow before two streams of lightning came from the sides and suddenly he vanished with a whizzing sound.

Everyone stared at the area that he left at in shock, none more so than Sirzechs, Rias never mentioned that the duke org had this power, and his mother never said that he had his own ways to teleport, but it was Azazel that voiced the question, "did anyone know that he could do that?"

Old School Building

Zen-Aku appeared in a reverse of how he disappeared, lighting coming from the sides in Gasper's room and from a purple glow, the shimmering form of the duke org came into view before it faded and said being was there walking forward, towards a group of magicians holding Gasper. How they held him was in an intricate golden triangle that pinned him with his arms and legs out, causing him pain and forcing activation of his sacred gear, it looked painful given how much he was screaming and writhing in agony at having his power forcibly used.

"What, how did he teleport in here," one magician in dark robes asked in surprise before trying to use magic to shoot beams of magic at him, the duke org dodged each one of them easily by a simple move of his head and sometimes had to move his torso so that it didn't get hit as well. They began to increase the number of their shots though so now he had to actually do something far beyond wearing them down, so instead he jumped with a single burst of speed and swiped swiftly with his crescent blade and in an instant slit the throats of all those that had trapped Gasper.

The magic circle dissipated and let Gasper drop down to the ground, he struggled to get up to his feet, and then looked around him at all the carnage, "you've been holding back in our training haven't you," he asked to the duke org who silently nodded, "maybe my training is just a waste."

Zen-Aku put the blade of his crescent blade on the chin of the half-vampire, "it wasn't a waste, and if you ever let me see that weakness in you again, I'm going to truly take the life that you seem so eager to throw away," he took the blade away from him, "how'd they get you anyway?"

Gasper seemed to be a bit embarrassed by that and bowed his head while fiddling with his fingers, "well, you see, since you've unblocked certain aspects of myself, I've gotten certain things about a vampire back that I didn't know I had, instincts that disgusted me before."

The duke org just deadpanned to the boy, "you've gotten a bloodlust now, don't you," the vampire shyly nodded, this was either very bad or very good, now there was a risk of him going out of control and wanting to drink everyone's blood, they'll have to work on the control for that too. "Fine, we'll circle back to that," he commented before turning away from the boy and put his crescent blade away, "first we really should get out of here and meet with the others, but first you have to seal up this power that has frozen everyone except those of higher power and a few others."

"I'll try," Gasper took a deep breath, closed his eyes and concentrated, looking deep inside himself to find what it might be that controls his power, it would either be a lever or a button, maybe a valve, when Zen-Aku proposed the method, he didn't ask what exactly he used to control the it. After a little while, Gasper opened his eyes and a yellow light shined around the edge of them with a myriad of different colors shining in them before the world around them went from a purple tint to regular, other than the barrier around the meeting that gave everything an almost red tint.

"Good, we can get started on the counterattack," Zen-Aku stated before an explosion drew their attention outside, when they looked out the window they saw that it was from Azazel fighting with someone, from her appearance it would have to be Katerea Leviathan, a devil king descendant. Not long after him and Venelana got together she noticed that he didn't know near as much as he should, so on some of the dates they had study sessions to make up for his lack of knowledge on the devil world, former devil kings and their descendants were the subject they had gone over. "Not bad in an attack to have a descendant on their side, but with all three great powers here, we shouldn't have to worry too much, and everyone else is able to fight now as well," he brought forth a magic circle and from it came his familiar, "get on and ride for everyone else, I'll follow."

Gasper looked at the beast as it growled a bit, Gasper growled back at it before reluctantly getting on, as soon as he grasped the fur of the beast, it was off sprinting towards the battle to make sure the vampire stayed safe, you could hear him yelling on the way out, "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

Zen-Aku looked around the room a bit before going to a random body on the ground and kicked her stomach, she gasped in pain from the strike and looked up at him with horror before he kneeled down and clutched her throat in a tight grasp, "tell me who the traitor is, only chance."

The grip he had on her throat wasn't tight enough to hamper her speech, so she should be able to say at least his name before he got mad, she knew now that he was strong enough to cause her real pain if she didn't answer him, which is why she said, "Vali," before he snapped her neck.

The duke org tossed the body aside, no longer caring about it since he got the information he required, he looked back outside and stared at where Vali was currently waiting just above the fighting as well, he knew that the white dragon was just waiting for a chance to strike out. So he walked while suppressing his energy and presence to the point where there was nothing there as he walked back to the battlefield, when there he saw that almost every one of the attacking forces have been taken out, it reminded him of when the rangers took on the org's own fodder.

There wasn't a lot of time before Vali made his move, so he waited until the boy was about to strike, which was not long after Azazel had defeated Katerea Leviathan, which also cost the fallen angel his arm to take her out, the attack was about to reach the fallen angel leader when he acted. The blue lightning was blocked by Zen-Aku's crescent blade before the duke org shot his own lightning for the dragon, which was quickly dodged, Azazel only looked back and commented with a small smile on his face, "damn I let my guard down, must be losing my edge, bad Vali."

"Sorry Azazel, things look more interesting on this side," Vali said in his full white dragon emperor armor, it was too bulky and reminded the duke org too much of the red ranger's battlizer armor, but with white as the main color instead of red, he was a simple guy with a simple taste after all.

"I can understand, but there's something I'd like to ask you," Azazel said, "you know Shemhazai my vice governor general, well he's recently informed me of a faction that has been gathering the dangerous elements and members of the three great powers, what were they called, oh yes the Chaos Brigade."

"Chaos sounds accurate, whoever's in charge must be strong, but why would anyone gather such dangerous people together," Serafall asked next to Sirzechs and Grayfia on the ground, they looked worried but at the same time tried not to show it, they failed if only by a small margin.

"So, I bet I can guess who's leading you, has to be Ophis the Ouroboros dragon right," Azazel guessed, well, it wasn't really a guess from where the duke org was looking, it was more like a seemingly smart guess because he had people working on who was leading it for quite some time.

"Ophis, it can't be, the infinite dragon god, a dragon so strong even God was afraid of him," Rias commented with wide eyes, it was clear that she was a bit afraid at the prospect of possibly having to go up against someone such as Ophis, but chances are they wouldn't have to do that.

"Yes it is true I have sided with Ophis, but believe me neither one of us has the slightest interest in world domination, we're just a group that formed in order for us to use our power and that's all," Vali stated, that was probably the purest motivation that the duke org had ever heard.

"Well that makes more sense, conspiring with Katerea seemed a little beneath you, but even so, both of you had devil titles stolen so I wasn't sure," Azazel revealed, so that was the big reveal, it was clear that they were hiding something but being a devil king's descendant was a bit much.

"My name is Vali Lucifer, I am a direct descendant of one of the dead devil kings, my mother was human so I'm a half blood. My father was the grandson of the former great devil king Lucifer," Vali revealed himself, though that means that he has a bit of a weakness if his mother was alive.

"Of course, half human there's no way we could have known," Sirzechs stated it out as fact, not as anything up for debate, and they were right, they don't keep track of humans, why would they, they only keep track of their own kind and other powerful supernatural forces, oh the irony.

"While you have the blood of a real devil king, since you are also human, you just happen to be possessed by the vanishing dragon, so basically your very existence is a joke," Azazel theorized with also a snarky joke, now wasn't the time though, this guy was too dangerous to joke with.

"I would go with Miracle personally, but to each their own," Vali said as he revealed his four pairs of devil wings, making his total pairs of wings, both devil and dragon, to be five pairs, ten wings in total, everyone was amazed at how many wings he had, Zen-Aku just narrowed his eyes.

"I have a feeling this one will be the best white dragon emperor the world has ever known, past present and future," Azazel commented as Vali made his wings disappear and left his glowing white dragon wings, they still shown with power despite the power he already used up in the fight.

"Zen-Aku, I have a question for you, you have yet to use Ddraig as much as possible, in fact I think that you've used it only sparingly from time to time, so I have to ask why you think that you can get by without it," Vali asked the duke org, he was genuinely curious about his answer.

"Not that difficult to understand, my power is not something to take lightly, even amongst itself, so up till now I've had little use of something that could boost my power to such levels, and it is only when I feel necessary to give myself a boost that I do," was his simple answer.

Vali was silent for a moment before he spoke up again, "fate can be cruel, I am the strongest dragon, and I carry with me the blood of the devil king, but you think you are strong enough without the sacred gear, only using it sparingly, as a fellow dragon I think I despise you for that. As a fellow devil though I respect your strength, but it's so disappointing, it's so disappointing it's funny, even though we are rival sacred gears you and I are as far apart as the sky to the earth, no, even more than that, all because you don't use all your power," Vali stated like he was stating fact.

"So you wish for me to use the sacred gear to its fullest potential in every fight, I may not look it but I have my own set of rules that I follow, I will use the boost when necessary, but only that, I should get by with my own power, not a dragons," Zen-Aku stated, which made Vali madder.

"Then if I were to kill your daughter before your eyes, would you hunt me down with every power you have," the suggestion was a cheap knock against him, and he knew it, "or how about I kill that bitch you're dating, or better yet steal her, show her the difference between a wolf and a dragon. Surely you should be able to act on that tragic fate, once I defeat you here I'll kill that girl, she'll probably thank me after she sees how different the power of a wolf is when compared to a dragon, yes let's do that," Vali offered, that was going to be his last mistake, thinking he could.

Zen-Aku put his crescent blade in firing mode and sent a crescent wave at Vali who dodged it while the duke org shadow phased behind him to strike at his wings, the white dragon didn't let him and instead flew down to the ground, followed closely by the duke org to cut down the dragon. Vali dodged the next swipe of the blade, but couldn't dodge the follow up back kick, so he had to block it, it was heavier than expected, but the attack didn't end there, bouncing back from the recoil of the blocked kick, Zen-Aku spun and swiped up with his blade, hitting the blue of the wings. That saved the white dragon as the wings were pure energy and as such successfully blocked the strike, which is where the duke org aimed a left jab at his opponent's face, it connected and forced Vali to ride with the force of the hit and raise his right leg up to kick his side.

Zen-Aku grabbed the leg and backed up, stretching the leg out before kicking at the other leg with his right foot to knock Vali down, but the white dragon rolled away before that and got out of the grapple and backed up a few feet before Albion's voice called out 'divide' and some power. The duke org felt weaker but didn't let it affect him and moved to attack again, this time beginning his attack with a roundhouse kick to Vali's sternum before that was countered with both his wings flapping in front of him for a distraction and a right cross was thrown by the white dragon. That was ducked under while Zen-Aku brought his crescent blade in for a swipe, another divide was uttered and the duke org flinched a bit as his power was drained and the swipe blocked with the wings again and a jab was sent his way, then another jab and another cross, all connected.

This time it was Zen-Aku that backed up and got some distance and let the boosted gear boost his power a few times silently as Vali rose up into the sky and created two white orbs filled with magic, he threw both at the same time, one headed for Asia and the other for Rias, but hers missed. The duke org had to shadow phase to Asia to block hers from connecting, Vali used that moment kneed him in the gut hard while he was blinded by the light after blocking the attack, then came another kick with another divide, and then another divide, and then two balls of lightning. This time he aimed for the duke org himself and the resulting force from the attack sent him back, rolling until Vali blocked the path by planting his foot into Zen-Aku's chest, so he took out his dagger flute and stabbed it into the white dragon's leg before trying to stab his crescent blade up.

Vali let him stab up his crescent blade before grabbing hold of it and twisting it, everyone was watching in horror as Vali took Zen-Aku's own crescent blade and stabbed down with it, impaling the duke org in the gut with the blade, "told you that the dragon would win," Vali pushed on the blade. The duke org didn't give the man the satisfaction of hearing a grunt as he pulled the dagger out of Vali's leg and stabbed it into his side, at least the white dragon had the wherewithal to push the blade in deeper and make the grip on the dagger loosen, "that earned her some more pain."

Vali rose and pulled the dagger out before kicking Zen-Aku in the face, the duke org just glared at him as he rose his hands to try and free his blade, but the white dragon wasn't done, he brought forth some more magic and continued to blast at him for some time with his magic some more. Afterward he ripped out the crescent blade himself and kicked the duke org over to where he was on his stomach before implanting the blade back through his back and pinning him to the ground, then stabbed the dagger flute into Zen-Aku's hands through the backs and into the dirt, to pin them.

Zen-Aku couldn't help the grunt of pain now, he couldn't move, Vali had divided his power too much now, he was nothing more than a human in the skin of a wolf monster, he could only look up when he heard a scream and saw Vali stalking towards Asia with the rest of the club around her. The white dragon was saying something, his mumbled voice coming in through his ears like a clogged up drain, he tried to rise, to find some form of strength in his muscles to raise up from his position, even with his own blade pinning him to the ground, but he could find the strength to rise.

The amount of magic attacks and stab wounds, combined with the dividing power of the white dragon took their tole on him more than he would care to admit, and he hated it, hated that now he's going to fail to protect his daughter, and to protect Venelana, "IS THIS ALL YOU CAN DO?"

White void

In a blank white void he appeared, as if he wasn't just in a battle that ended with him dying, and all around him there was nothing but white, going on as far as the eye could see, until there wasn't because with a shining golden light, the god of the wildzords himself appeared, Animus. "Is that all you could do when faced against the white one Zen-Aku," he asked the duke org who could only growl at him in defiance, while he still knew that Animus was a divine being, that didn't mean he had love for the being, "I know your code, and it is your code that has ended you."

"I know, but it is all that I have left in the end, my code has kept me alive and level headed without becoming overconsumed with power, it has not only protected me but others as well, isn't that what you wanted when you sent me to this realm, to protect people from me," he asked back.

"Yes, but to also give you a chance you never had before, a chance to have happiness in a place far from the reach of the rangers, but I have not come here today to tell you how badly you have failed, which you haven't," the dry look Zen-Aku gave him said otherwise though. "I have called you here to give you a gift," he said as seven columns of yellow light shown between the two, each illuminating different objects, though the last seemed to have a person inside of it though, "each of these individuals have a message for their fellow wolf, along with the gift."

"You know my policy about using weapons, I must use my own, it is how I have dealt with enemies till not," Zen-Aku stated as a fact because that is what he believes, using another's weapons is equal to not being able to do it and requires another to do it for you, it is wrong.

"I understand your concern duke org, however these weapons will attach to your very soul, you will call upon them as if you would your own crescent blade, because they will be your own, over time they may adapt slightly to you, perhaps change color, but they will be yours, and yours alone." Animus stated and would have put a hand on his shoulder, if he was actually there and not a glowing form in the sky, "I ask that you amend some of your code, for if you do not, you may not live to see your new daughter grow up, will not ever see Venelana again," he sighed and nodded.

The first column disappeared to reveal a long double ended lance, a double-bladed lance that is close in height to the Zen-Aku himself, it looked to be able to split into a pair of trident-like sai blades, the size of escrima sticks the message played out on a video screen above the weapon. "Hey there, I'm Billy, the Blue Ninja Ranger, I commanded the wolf zord for a while, I learned a lot from my time as a Power Ranger, but the advice that I want to give to you is this: not every personal weapon can get the job done alone, you need others to help you out, like the Power Lance."

The message cut off as the next column disappeared like the first, it opened to reveal a black lance, this one didn't look like it could come apart though, just a straight lance that had a hard blunt tip on one end and a crescent moon shaped blade on the other, another message played. "HI, I'm Carlos, the Black Space Ranger, this here is the Lunar Lance, it helped me out of some tight spaces when I was in trouble, along with helping to watch my friends backs and keep them away from us, I hope that it comes in handy for you just as much, be safe and be well."

The third column opened to reveal a pair of daggers, these had a black handle with a straight spine and a curved edge to it, but in the center of the blade between the spine and the edge was a yellow background with a golden weaving like lightning striking whatever the daggers cut. "My name is Maya, the Yellow Lost Galaxy Ranger, I had the honor of fighting beside the yellow wolf galactebeast, and these are the Delta Daggers, you may have noticed the lightning pattern on the blades, that is because for me the main element was lightning, so you will have that power."

The Fourth column opened afterwards to reveal a staff, this wasn't a spear or lance, it was just a staff, the main grip for the pole was a shining silver while the head of the staff was a fancy design of artwork that had a blue jewel a third of the way up and a crescent moon between two wings. "I am the Gatekeeper, I hold the power of the shining moon and so does my staff, use the power to accumulate moonlight into an attack, a shield, or even for support such as healing, I give this to you in hopes that you may redeem yourself as Animus hopes that you one day might."

The fifth column do open was what held the smallest item, it was what looked like a growl phone, Merrick's growl phone, but it was different, while the other looked like a silver wolf, this looked like a purple wolf, it was open so he could see the orange enter and the three claw marks in it. "Sup dude, name's RJ, now usually I don't accept requests from strange mythical beings unless their on the up and up, but Animus seemed like a cool dude, anyway, I possess the courage of the wolf, and this is my wolf morpher that you can use to upgrade your fighting skill to explosive levels."

The sixth column opened this time and revealed a black wolf's head looking gun that looked quite powerful, the main color was black, but it did have a bit of white around the edges of the barrel above where the trigger was, and it seemed to have red eyes as well, they followed you around. "Hi, I'm Dillon, just for the record, those aren't eyes, yes I know they look like eyes but they are actually optic sensors that form a link directly into your brain, just look where you wish to shoot and the sensors will do the rest, it's called the Rocket Blaster, now go use it to kick some ass."

There seemed to be a pause before Animus was to reveal the seventh column, "this gift is something different, it is not to be used as a servant but an individual being, he has shown desire to redeem himself as well and as such I have allowed him to come to that world to find it there."

The seventh column opened up to finally reveal… that goddamn armor that looked like a power ranger he had first seen when him and Asia first moved into their new home, only this time it was alive and moving from being cramped in the column for so long, though it might have been longer. One look was all Zen-Aku sent Animus because it was obvious that even he wanted to have some fun and as such influenced Rias into making an armor just like this thing right here as well, the wolf warrior looked around before spotting him and approached, "I am Koragg the wolf warrior."

"Zen-Aku," was all he said as an introduction and the warrior nodded, apparently he preferred short introductions as well and asked, "do you know what we'll be walking into once we are out of this white void," he asked the being and got a confirming nod in return, at least he knew that much. Though he wasn't too keen on using foreign weapons that he hasn't used before, but the daggers and wolf morpher he will know how to use, and Koragg seems to know what to do with his weapons, but he was sure that given time he will learn how to properly wield his new arsenal.

"Yes I can," the question wasn't meant for Koragg, but he answered anyways before stepping to the side and stuck out his hand before the chant of, "Uthra Norqua Ozarro," was heard from him and a purple magic circle appeared before them, they stepped onto it and they seeped into it.

At Kuoh

It was almost as if a blink had past and he was right back to where he was, pinned to the ground with his own crescent blade through his back and into the ground while his dagger flute was forcing his hands to remain pinned to the ground as well, his blood was being lost at a fast pace. His senses were returning to him at a fast pace though, he could now hear Asia screaming, begging for him to get up and save her from the white dragon, who was creeping upon her and the other members of the peerage with a ball of magic in his hands, the three powers doing nothing. That just made him angrier as he used the power of the Gatekeeper's staff to make a false moon to shine upon everything, it helped as he forced himself to rise and take his blade out from the dirt to where he could lean back while on his knees, he still needed to get his hands free.

Luckily a hand came into view and ripped the blade from of his hands, Zen-Aku growled up at the figure before it came into view as Koragg, "I see that the Gatekeeper gave you her staff, use it well to heal while I hold off that white dragon," the wolf warrior suggested as he stepped forward.

Vali sensed something behind him and turned to see the duke org on his knees trying to heal thanks to a staff that summoned a fake moon and a knight standing before him, ready to face the white dragon, "you should be dead," he said to Zen-Aku, "and you're about to join him," Koragg.

Koragg charged while summoning his sword and shield and then drawing his sword, Vali stayed where he was and got ready for the attack, he didn't expect Koragg to jump into the air and give him a kick to the sternum, it was heavier than Zen-Aku's was so it knocked him back a bit. The white dragon rolled with the force quickly got back up, only to meet the edge of a shield to his face, Koragg then turned with the recoiling force and swiped up with his wolf saber and cut a large gash in Vali's armor, along with cutting into his skin deep enough to make blood gush out.

Vali used a magic ball of blue lightning and sent it for Koragg, who only brought up his shield to take the brunt of the attack and then replaced it with his wolf saber to try for a swipe, but the white dragon used his wings as a shield to block the attack, but didn't notice the shield opening. It revealed a red orb that flashed before his signature wolf attack was unleashed and slammed into the white dragon, with great force, tearing a few holes in his armor that forced him to retreat a greater distance by going for the skies to wait for his armor to repair itself magically.

"You're good," Vali stated with a huff, he was almost out of both magic and Albion was almost at his limit as well, "but I'm better," his sacred gear divided again, but this time Koragg had an ace up his sleeve, he sensed the magical link established when he first made contact with Vali. So with his shield active still he used his energy absorption to drain the link itself so that nothing remained, it was the perfect counter to the white dragon that divides and takes power for himself, it severed the connection and as such Vali got nothing and Koragg was unaffected.

"My turn, wolf attack," the wolf knight thrust his shield upwards and sent another blast for Vali again, only for him to dodge by descending down, not aware that he was directly under Zen-Aku, who was well enough to for his own attack to start, so he along with Koragg charged him together.

"Crescent blade, crescent wave," Zen-Aku called out and was able to hit Vali in the back with the power as he descended, the duke org turned and ran for his new partner who brought his shield up and let him jump off of it like a springboard and soar to Vali with a spinning corkscrew motion. Yet his blade was still in firing mode, so when he stabbed into Vali's side, the same place his dagger had gone in, he called out, "crescent shot," and his more resent addition to his power arsenal was shot from the tip and tore a hole through the dragon's stomach, earning a yell of pain.

Yet the battle was not over, so as they both fell to the ground, Zen-Aku shadow phased away as Koragg took his place as the primary attacker and jumped high into the air with his wolf saber charging up dark magic, "behold the power of the master," he struck with a blazing sword. It was filled with dark magic and he swung it to the right from his left and in front of his shield, the strike struck Vali's stomach and sliced it clean through, the only thing holding his stomach together now was the white armor he had on, but he still wasn't done since he tried to get back up.

Which is why Zen-Aku was charging in again with his crescent blade ready to kill the boy once and for all, he jumped up into the air and just as he was about to bring the blade down upon Vali to finish him, the barrier around the leader's summit and in dropped a man in red armor wielding a staff. He blocked the duke org's strike just in time to save Vali from death for now, he had enough strength to push him away and stand over Vali, "well don't you look terrible Vali, I can't believe you let two wolves beet you like that, you're lucky we still need you to fight the northern earth gods."

Azazel finally stepped forward and spoke, "well look who it is, Bikou, a descendant of the victorious fighting Buddha, the trickster monkey from the saiyuki legends, I never expected you to become a member of the Chaos Brigade, hell must have frozen over," he commented offhandedly.

"I'd love to stay and chat Azazel, but we have places to be," Bikou jumped up and twirled his staff in the air before slamming an end into the ground and a pitch black circle was around them, they were lowered and soon disappeared, escaping into nothingness and leaving the battlefield.

Koragg approached where Zen-Aku was and rested a hand on his shoulder, "I do not know your relation with this Vali, but I don't like him, he held no honor in his heart, from the way he fought I could tell," he stated and the duke org looked back and gave a confirming nod to the statement.

"Zen-Aku," they heard Asia yell as she, along with the rest of the peerage, ran up and jumped on him, giving him a huge hug as she buried her head into his chest, "I'm so glad you're safe, please never scare me like that again," she asked as she hugged him as tight as she could, "okay papa."

The duke org only widened his eyes at being called that, and Koragg gave a deep chuckle from the 'look' on his face, and the rest of the peerage laughed at him as well, but the moment was broken by Serafall of all people that asked with drool on her face, "who is this gorgeous wizard?"

For some reason, Koragg felt shiver go up his spine at the way she said that and turned to face the devil king, thankful that he either didn't have a face or it was hidden behind his helmet, "I am Koragg, the knight wolf, I have been sent here by the powers of my world, the same as Zen-Aku."

Everyone looked confused at that, "it appears that a divine being, known to us as Animus, has sent me here to live a life with a second chance, hopefully to find something that would help redeem me from the sins I have committed in the past, Koragg for the same exact reason."

Rias seemed to be in thought about something before she gained one of her infamous mischievous smirks, Koragg even had a bad feeling about it, "so what you're saying is that this Koragg is your brother and he's going to be staying with you and Asia from now on, is that it?"

That was essentially how Koragg got roped into become the legal brother to Rouki Argento and the uncle to Asia Argento, "yay, now that where you'll be staying is settled, expect to be seeing a lot more of me, my dear wolf knight," Serafall stated, clearly she had a huge crush on the wizard.

Soon, all three powers had a joint operation to repair the school, and that in of itself was a big accomplishment, "finally a joint effort between all of us, it looks like we really have achieved peace this time, doesn't it," Rias stated before asking her queen and knight who nodded.

The leaders were gathered together and seemed to be having a discussion, "apologies Azazel, Katerea was one of our internal issues," Sirzechs said, apologized to the fallen leader, mainly because he almost felt bad for the man losing an arm in his fight against her, too bad though.

Azazel waved him off and said, "Vali from our side caused problems as well, and it was my mistake not to nip that in the bud a long time ago, and you know what, I think I'll stay here for a little while, I can't believe how much I like this place, I'm tired now, I'm going home," Azazel told them. He told them before disappearing into the woods on his way back to wherever it was that he was staying as his subordinates also left after finishing to repair the school as well, soon the other powers left and the only ones there were those that lived in the town, or will be living there.

The next day

"And so, starting from this day forward, I have become the adviser for the Occult Research Club," Azazel said to all the devils in the club, as well as Sona and Tsubaki, Koragg was there as well since he had nothing better to do today, and it was a good chance to look at what he will be doing. He had very little things to do and as such could only help out where he could, he had his own way of traveling so he might like to form devil based contracts himself, perhaps see if his, 'brother' will be needing a knight with some skills soon, but that was for later, now back to the present.

Rias rose an eyebrow at the man claiming to be their new adviser for the club, "wait… you can't be serious," a fallen angel leader being the new advisor for a devil club seems a bit beneath his station to be honest, but that was only one of the problems that this little move will be causing.

"Oh, but I am, I asked Sirzechs and everything, he told me I should talk with Serafall's little sister about it," Azazel informed them in an amused kind of way, and as one everyone in the peerage turned Sona's way, and at the mention of Serafall, Koragg got that shiver to go up his spine again.

Sona at least had the decency to look away as she explained, "look, I didn't have much of a choice, if I didn't agree with it my sister threatened the worst, that she would come instead," so basically threw them under the bus so that she could leave quickly with her aid, "I'll leave you to it."

They couldn't really do much about it now, though there was a side of Zen-Aku that wanted to make things difficult for Azazel out of sheer spite, but chose instead to settle with noticing that he had a new arm when the last was cut off, "didn't you cut off your left arm," he asked the 'advisor'.

"Oh, my new friend here is the omnipotent arm I made during all my sacred gear research," Azazel said as his arm turned into an extended android fingers, a drill, "I've always wanted to equip something like this and I'm so glad I did," it LAUNCHED from his arm like a rocket now. "Now understand that Sirzechs had one condition for me," he continued as the rocket arm bounced off the walls before returning to its master's arm again, "I cannot stay here unless I provide a gift to you, so as long as I'm around I will help you develop your immature sacred gears. The mysterious boosted gear with unpredictable evolution, the holy devil sword, and forbidden Balor View, I can use the research I've done to evolve them all on an individual level, understand, from now on you can call me mister Azazel, okay," Azazel offered but that wasn't happening.

Zen-Aku had to bring something up though, "it sounds like you're planning on taking over their training, and I have yet to be notified of a change in trainers, so I believe you are mistaken if you think you can train them far better than I can," his pride has been wounded if the man thought that.

"Oh now true, I don't think I can train them better, but I'll just be helping to fine tune some of their skills and powers with my research, so keep on beat, I mean train them as much as you always do, just so long as you are aware that I will be there to help," he said back cheekily.

"You still need to sharpen up on your skills as well, especially with your new weapons and power," Koragg spoke up as well, "so after you train them I will be training with you, for I also must keep my skills and power up as well, and you seem to be the only one that can help me with that."

This time Zen-Aku looked back with a much better mood as he looked back to his new 'brother', "now that I am fine with," he walked up to the wolf knight and if he could, he would smirk, as would Koragg, because afterwards the two crashed through the window intent on starting now.

"Hey," Rias exclaimed as she rushed to the window along with everyone else and watched them continue to train by beating each other again and again, "will you two cut it out, there is still school going on you know," they didn't hear or care right now, "I SAID TO KNOCK IT OFF!"