A/N: AHHHHHHHHH

I'm sorry for not updating for so long. I've been sitting on most of this chapter for quite a while now and while I wanted to make it much longer I also just wanted to get something out there, considering it's been over a year since the last chapter. Anyways, I'll talk more at the end of the chapter, toodle-oo

[] - Ddraig speaking

{} - Murayama's Sacred Gear

Flashback

Katase Yui - Current Perspective/Narrator

Katase Yui slowly rubbed the sleep from her eyes as she sat up in her bed. Brushing the pink hair from her face, she stretched her arms upwards. Her muscles still ached from the night before. Swinging her legs over the side of the bed, she sat on the edge for a few moments. Finally gathering the mental strength to stand, Yui stumbled her way over to the dresser.

Yui grabbed a skirt from the top drawer, slipping it up her legs. Her fingers searched for the zipper, catching hold of it and quickly pulling it up. Yui grabbed a fresh white shirt from the next drawer, slowly sliding it over her shoulders. After buttoning up, Yui slipped her ribbon around her collar and looked around for the next item while tying it. Spotting her corset, she took a deep breath in before buttoning it up. While it may have been loose for a corset, that didn't mean it wasn't tight. Grabbing her shoulder cape, she walked out of her room.

Stepping into the hallway, Yui's eyes widened, seeing that Kaori's door was already open. "Morning Yui," Kaori's voice called out to her from the living room. The brunette was standing by the stove, pan in hand, and an apron covering the front of her uniform. "Want anything?" she asked.

"I'm alright, I was thinking about stopping by a convenience store on the way to school for something small." Yui swung the door to the fridge open, taking a second to scan its contents before grabbing a carton of juice. "I'm not hungry enough to eat an actual meal right now anyways."

Kaori nodded in agreement. "I can't say I blame you either," she said, "I couldn't sleep very well after how that last contract went." Kaori grabbed a plate from the cupboard overhead and slid the contents of the pan onto it.

"Really? I think that's the first time I've ever heard of you not being able to sleep, you're usually out like a rock," Yui plopped herself down on the couch facing Kaori, "Do anything productive with your time?" she asked.

Kaori shook her head, "I just kinda ended up tossing and turning all night." Kaori grabbed a fork and knife from a drawer before going to sit down next to Yui. "I take it you slept okay?"

Yui nodded, "I was out as soon as my head touched the pillow."

"Lucky…" Kaori muttered under her breath.

Hyoudou Issei woke up pinned to his bed. Looking over to his left, Kuroka was under his arm, snuggling into his chest. Raynare lay to his right, latched onto his arm with her legs entangled with his. Finally, on top of him, the mess of dirty blonde hair that was Mittelt completed the wall of bodies trapping Issei. Issei let his head fall back onto the pillow, accepting his fate.

Rias Gremory stretched as she sat up in her bed. Reaching over to the bedside table, she grabbed her phone to check the time. She groaned, before reluctantly lifting herself out of her bed. Sunlight peeked through her window, showcasing her smooth body to the world. Rias opened a drawer to grab some underwear, allowing her thoughts to wander to the events of last night as she did so. Stray exorcists and fallen weren't uncommon by any margin. Setting up their base in the territory of two high-class devils, however, was. Butchering their clientele, on the other hand, now that was borderline insane. Obviously Rias would have to tell Sona, she didn't want Sona's new pawn put in the same situation as her new pawns.

Rias's thoughts drifted towards her two newest pieces as she put her uniform on. An encounter with an exorcist of any kind isn't something any devil should have to experience, especially not a brand new pair of devils. Rias herself had to admit, out of all the things she'd seen as the caretaker of Kuoh, last night was easily one of the most gruesome sights during the time. The exorcist must have been a stray, even the church wouldn't go as far as slaughtering innocent people just for summoning a devil. What really surprised her, however, was the Holy Maiden.

"I'll have to thank Issei again today," Rias thought to herself, "I hope the nun didn't end up being too much trouble for him." Rias walked out of her room into her hallway, "She seemed way too innocent to be involved in an exorcism, especially one where the summoner was cut open. That innocence is pretty cute though, I can't blame the girls for getting attached," Rias stopped walking in the middle of her hallway. "Yui and Kaori did seem awfully concerned with someone they'd just met, they didn't know her already, did they?" Rias sighed to herself as she continued on, "Those two are going to end up more trouble than they're worth, aren't they?" Rias gained a slight smile as she stopped at her kitchen counter, picking up her phone, "The lengths I'll go for family."

Sona Sitri put her phone down. Grabbing her towel with both hands, she started drying the water from her hair.

"We knew about the fallen but they've got exorcists with them too," Sona spoke aloud, "If they're attacking Rias's clients then it won't be long before one of ours gets hit too." Sona put the towel down and reached for her uniform.

"Should I alert the rest of the peerage Sona-sama?" a second voice called out from behind the bathroom door.

"Go ahead and let everyone know, I don't want Saji going on any requests right now either," Sona replied.

"Anything else Sona-sama?"

"No Tsubaki, that's all."

Sona listened to her Queen's footsteps as she walked away. "I'm trusting you on this one Rias"

Asia Argento slowly rubbed her eyes, before lifting herself off her bed. She hadn't slept that well since she last left the Vatican, when did Kuoh's Church finally get beds?

Asia's eyes snapped open as she quickly whipped her head around the unfamiliar room. This wasn't the church.

Asia's eyes widened as the memories of the previous flooded her mind.

Asia's eyes grew in terror as she looked into the room before her. Her hand shot it's way to her mouth, too late to contain the scream she had just let loose.

"Ahh, Asia-chan, my assistant. Are you done improving the barrier?" The warm voice of Father Freed reached her ears, but she couldn't bring herself to reply to his question.

"Th-this is…" Asia took a step back into the doorway as she finally brought herself to talk.

Father Freed's eyes traced Asia's till he reached what she was looking at. Recognition began to fill his eyes as he stared at the strewn up body. "Oh right, I forgot you were a beginner. Our job is to kill the worthless people who've been enchanted by devils."

"N-no way…" Asia was sure this wasn't right. Father Freed turned back to look at Asia but unlike every time she had interacted with him, the warmth of his eyes was gone. The chilling cold of his gaze shook Asia to her very core. Her eyes quickly left Father Freed as she looked to the other side of the room, her eyes widening one again in horror.

"Kaori-san, Yui-san?"

The bloodied forms of Asia's newest friends Murayama Kaori and Katase Yui lay in the center of Asia's sight. Kaori's shirt was cut open in the front, showing the wound that stained her white shirt crimson red. A pale yellow light coming from the dark gauntlet on her hand had weaved its way through the air to clot the bleeding cut on her torso and the small hole in her leg.

"Oh, do you three know each other?" Freed's voice grew closer to Asia as he spoke, "Asia-chan, I didn't think you'd make friends with Devils." Asia heard Freed step behind her, she could feel his breath on her neck as he continued to speak, "Unfortunately Asia-chan, Devils and Humans aren't compatible." Freed's face came into Asia's view as he leaned his head around her side, "Not to mention we can't live without the protection of the Fallen Angels." Freed's whispers sent a shiver down Asia's spine.

"This isn't right," Asia muttered, before taking the most dangerous action of her life. Asia ran forward, placing herself between Father Freed and her only two friends.

Freed sighed, "Are you serious?"

Asia's eyes began to fill with tears, though she wasn't sure if it was from the sadness of seeing her friends butchered, or the fear that the same may happen to her. "Father Freed," she called out, "Please forgive these two!" Asia could feel the wet trails of the tears that had begun to roll down her cheeks. "Let them go please!"

"Pleased? Maybe. If it helps your conscience or whatnot, I wasn't gonna kill them yet. I was just gonna rape them a bit."

Asia stumbled back a step, putting more distance between her and Freed. "E-even if they're Devils, God wouldn't forgive you for such a deed!"

Freed groaned, taking a step towards Asia. "Don't give me that crap!" He yelled, slashing his sword down. Asia felt cold air hit her bare chest as her clothes were cut open down the front. "They're Devils Asia-chan," Freed took another step forward, licking his lips, "plus if you wanted to join us, you should've just said something." Asia tried to cover her chest as Freed took another step towards her.

"Asia!" She could hear Kaori's voice call out from behind her, but her eyes were locked onto the man in front of her.

"The Fallen Angel told me not to hurt you, but I think you need a little punishment for trying to defend Devils." Freed grabbed Asia and threw her against the wall, sticking his sword through her clothes, pinning her there.

"Stop It!" Asia could hear Yui's voice shouting out, as a blade passed by Freed Asia's vision went dark. She heard the more voices, as she fell to the ground. She winced as blows were administered to her stomach in the shape of a boot.

Asia looked up, seeing Issei's kind face smiling at her. He was talking, but she couldn't hear him. Issei reached a hand out to her forehead and with that, Asia's vision returned to darkness

Asia lifted her hand to her face, feeling the wet trails left by the tears she didn't know she shed. Swinging her legs over the side of the bed she layed on, she looked around the room and stood up. Making her way over to the door, Asia's heart pounded. "What happened after I passed out?" was all she could ask herself. Slowly reaching for the handle to the door, she could only pray that nothing bad had happened to her only friends. She'd already seen Yui and Kaori cut open, and couldn't do anything about it. If they'd been hurt any worse, or if Issei had been hurt, Asia didn't know what she'd do. Her healing could only do so much, even for a miracle, and she'd seen too many people suffer from her supposed blessing. The cursed rings on her hands only seemed to bring pain, despite what they seemed to do.

Opening the door, Asia was blinded by the sight of the risen sun through windows covering the wall of the hallway, overlooking a small courtyard. "It's beautiful," Asia muttered, gazing out of the window, "Where am I?" Taking a step out into the hallway, she jumped slightly as a clattering sound came from beyond the staircase to her left. Hesitating for a second, she decided to follow the noise.

Kalawarner cursed herself out. Dropping pans, that's just a rookie move. She'd wanted to surprise everyone with Breakfast, but following that noise, she doubted the surprise would last. Knowing Issei, he'd probably slept through the entire thing, but Ray was definitely awake after that much noise. The stairs behind her began to creak, only furthering Kala's suspicions. Putting down what she was doing, Kala turned to apologize to whoever she'd awoken.

"Sorry about that noise, I'm not used to Issei's kitchen layout," Kala explained, as she turned to face the stairway. Only she didn't see Raynare, or Mittelt, or even Kuroka for that matter. A mop of blonde hair clung to the wet face of Kala's visitor. As the girl looked down and began to mumble things under her breath, Kala finally remembered. This was the nun Issei had brought back unconscious the night before. "The poor girl must be terrified," Kala thought to herself, reminding herself to smack Issei the next time she saw him. He'd barely explained what had happened the night before, but from what she could gather, it was gruesome. "To leave a girl knocked out, not even leaving her a note after she'd gone through something so terrible. Issei really is the worst sometimes. I guess that leaves me with damage control, again."

Walking up to the girl, Kala knelt down next to her, placing a hand gently on her shoulder.

"Asia-chan was it?" The nun's face looked up towards Kala's, showing her swollen red eyes. "I'm a friend of Issei's, he brought you back to his house late last night." The nun's shoulder's loosened a bit. Kala slowly brought Asia into a hug, "You're safe here, everything's going to be fine" Kala could feel the wetness growing on her chest, where the nun's face was cushioned. Kala could hear a soft sniffling sound as she began to brush the girl's hair from her face, letting her continue to cry.

"Thank You" The nun continued to cry, "Thank you so much...I was so scared…"

Kala sat there with Asia, gently rubbing her back as she cried out all her fears.

Himejima Akeno hung up her phone. Looking at the time, she stepped outside the shrine she resided in. Overlooking the city, Akeno relished the feeling of the wind flowing through her hair. Allowing her wings to spread out from her back, she allowed herself to be caught by the wind, aiding in her lift off the ground.

Akeno looked through the trees as she flew by them, looking for a building that should be completely off-limits for her. Rias's instructions had been somewhat vague, but the abandoned church was a relatively easy guess as to where to start. Just as her eyes began to catch a glimpse of the dirtied tower of the church, a more interesting sight caught her eye.

"So Sasiel and her whole squad were wiped? That's fuckin' rough, they were some of our best," A man with raven black hair leaned against a tree, speaking to the man across from him, wearing a hat that covered most of his head.

"Completely gone, the most that was left was some limbs, and a fuck ton of blood," the hat-wearing man replied.

The first man spit to the ground, "What kinda monster can even do something like that? The boogieman or something?"

"Sasiel got what was coming to her if you ask me," a third figure emerged from behind a tree. Vile black wings sprout from her back, polluting the very air around them. "She acted like she was better than all of us, I'm just upset that we lost so much manpower because of her incompetence."

Akeno silently lowered herself to just above the ground the three stood on, a grim smile growing on her face as her fingers crackled with electricity, the smell of ozone filling the air.

To hikers, the mountains were as quiet as ever. But within the forests, horrifying screams were caught within a barrier, not giving the Queen's victims the chance to even be heard.

A/N: I am guilty of many crimes. Neglecting to work on my story. Sitting on a mostly completed chapter while still not working on it. Not even looking at my inbox to see your PMs and Reviews until months have passed. I have committed many grave sins, and I can only hope that you can forgive me. Originally I was gonna have this chapter be a lot longer but I decided to save most of it for the next chapter and instead just published a much shorter chapter in the sake of updating the story. With that out of the way I really quickly wanted to talk about the Harem. My plan was never to have every person I listed in the Harem as a fully-fledged character with multiple interactions with Issei. Many of the characters were planned to be more of flings or previous relationships. Several people were concerned that the Harem was growing too large and while I talked privately with all of them, I just wanted to let everybody know that not everybody previously listed will be a major character. At this point in the story, you should likely be starting to get a sense of who you're following (even though I haven't been great at developing in the previous chapters). Considering how much trouble it caused, I likely won't be listing the active Harem in the Author's Note anymore, however, feel free to ask me about anything in PM/Review form. I'll probably see it at some point. Again I'm sorry for not updating for so long, it's been a weird year but I'm really happy to be back. I'd like to think that my writing has improved since I've been gone but only time will tell. Anyways, that's all for this time. Thank you for your continued support of my story, and thank you for taking the time out of your days to talk to me

With Love,

- Phenex-chan