DxD: Legacy chapter 2

  The end of the school day, something that many deem is worthy of a celebration, Lukas looks forward to hanging out with his new friend and deepening their bond in sports and woman.

  Lukas shuffles around the endless sea of students going to their homes and some relaxation with their friends. As Lukas looks around the crowd and sees what seems to be Issei’s head, he notices another figure standing next to him.

  A closer look at the person next to him and it turns out to be a girl, a cute one too. Lukas smiles proudly, to the point he tears up.

  “That’s my boy… I just know being friends with him was a good idea.”

  We see our little lovebirds holding hands while walking out the school’s gate. Issei is excited, this is his first time going on a date, it feels weird, he shouldn’t be this excited about going on a date but he is.

  During the last period, Issei talked a lot with the girl, her name is Yuuma Amano, she is a transfer student from another school, she likes knitting, going on trips and spending time with her cats while being snuggled up with a blanket watching her favorite show.

  Even though Yuuma seems pretty ordinary, something about her pulls him in like a trance which he cant escape from. Issei hasn’t heard draigs voice in a while, usually in this scenario draig would’ve said something snarky or demeaning but right now is quite… too quiet.

  “hey, why are you spacing out? Come on… let’s get Ice cream.”

  There it is again, unnecessary thoughts, he is finally living the teenage dream of a girl being interested in him. Issei smiles and continues walking to the promised land.

  ***

  The couple of lovebird reach the plaza with their ice cream in hand and enjoying the scenery. Its peaceful, the sound of the fountain’s water splashing around, the trees swaying in the wind and the birds chirping making Issei feel completely at ease.

  As the finish their ice cream Yuuma stands up and dust off her skirt.

  “come on I need to show you something.”

  Issei is pulled by Yuuma, grabbing his arm, her endearing attitude makes him fall in love with her even more. As they approach the fountain, Yuuma smiles and gives him a quick peck on the cheek.

  “did you like that?”

  Issei is lost for words, his first time being kiss by girl. Issei blushes and looks away, he smiles.

  “A little.”

  Yuuma giggles, and holds something behind her back, with a playful smile.

  “well if you liked that, I have another surprise for you… turn around.”

  Issei laughs and follows along with Yuuma’s shenanigans.

  “okay, it better be good” Issei turns around, ready for Yuuma’s little surprise.

  In what seems to be time stopping he hears draigs voice say “drop now”. In pure instinct, Issei drops down, fluid like water.

  *shhhk*

  The blade barely misses issei’s heart only grazing his hair. Issei in a fluid motions kicks the sword out of Yuuma’s hand and then Yuuma’s stomach making some distance between the two of them.

  “What the fuck is wrong with you!”

  As Yuuma stands in shock, she smiles, she begins to giggle as if you told her a mildly funny dad joke.

  “hehehe, to think you’ve gotten strong enough to be able to breakthrough my enchantment.”

  “I-I was under a what?!…”

  As the realization sets in, he feels a familiar presence enter his body.

  “hey kid, almost lost you there.”

  Thanks to the spell being broken he can finally hear draig voice again, Issei never thought he would be happy to hear his voice again. Even though the reunion is endearing the main topic is still there, what was Yuuma trying to do to him.

  “Yuuma, what is the meaning of all of this?!”

  “ahh~ silly boy, I tried to kill you is that too hard to understand.”

  Her atmosphere is completely different, from being nice, friendly and outgoing…now she seems corrupted, malicious and right down crazy.

  “The fallen have deemed you as an opposing threat to our plans, so we decided to eliminate you before you cause any more trouble.”

  Confused “threat? What did I do?”

  “simple, you joined with the grimoires, meaning your on their side.”

  “Grimoire? You mean as Rias Grimoire? Wait, did you watch me during school and joining the occult club what the fuck! Draig gauntlets.”

  “Boost!”

  A green jewel appears from Issei’s left hand, and from it many metallic scales took the shape of a gauntlet that also began to grow in his right arm.

  *psh*

  Now harmed with his trusty gauntlets, Issei positions himself in a boxers pose ready for anything.

  “HAHAHA, you really think you can win against me?”

  Suddenly, Black smokes appears and surrounds Yuuma like a black cocoon in a quick second the cocoon breaks revealing Yuuma true form as a falling angel.

  A falling angel, an angel that fell from grace, describes exactly what Yuuma looks like with black wings, void like iris’ and a halo devoid of color and split right down the middle.

  Without hesitation, Issei runs toward the newly found demon and meets her with a full power punch. Yuuma responds to the sudden attack with a simple sword block.

  *clang*

  The sound that was made between the two of them was comparable to a gong. Issei continue his onslaught, the good ol’ one two punch that many knew. Yuuma continue to deflect them not carrying for the boys attempt, she giggles, she was toying with him.

  “shin kick!” *psh*

  The gauntlet on issei right hand disappears and seems to transfer to his right leg, and thanks to that she’s caught off guard, issei performs a devastating spin kick that directly hits Yuuma left side ribs.

  Yuuma is sent flying directly to a tree increasing the damage she received, due to this no longer being fun for her since she got hurt, she begins to take this more seriously. With eye blinding speed she rushes over towards issei ready for a strike. Instinctively Issei get ready to block the hit.

  “gauntlet!” *psh*

  *clang!*

  Luckily, Issei is able to take a defensive stand with his gauntlet before his head was able to see what the floor tasted like. Yuuma now furious that she aloud a lower lifeform to land a hit on her she begins her relentless attacks towards issei.

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  *hk—hk—hk*

  The constant barrage begins to take affect towards issei, his strength begins to dissipate. Yuuma kicks him in the stomach, clearly with the purpose of payback, and issei is sent flying but his able to land on his feet.

  Before issei can gather his balance, he looks up to see Yuuma ready to slice him in half.

  *clap*

  In a blink, Issei is able to catch the blade before it slices him, but the strength of the demon is too strong.

  “Aghhh!” issei brought to his knees, he is shaking barely able to hold on a second more.

  “end of the line little dragon, this is what happens when you mess with things beyond your capabilities.”

  The sword begins to slowly makes his way to cut him, a small contact made with the blade and issei forehead breaks skins that cause him to bleed and the blood drip down his face.

  “Aghhh!” *deep breaths* “RYAAAAARGH!”

  In a ‘surprising’ turn of events, Issei unleashes a mighty roar that conveniently resembles a dragons roar, the shear power of the roar is able to knock away the demon. Sadly, the power of the roar is too much for Issei’s body to handle causing him to spit blood and fall to the ground unconscious.

  *sighs* she begins to mockingly walk towards issei “you almost had me there…but it was a failed attempt to protect your miserable life” she raises her sword.

  “but don’t worry… it ends here” as she swings the blade towards Issei’s head to finally land the finishing blow.

  *kling*

  A forcefield stops her, surprise by this she can only guess what else this boy has in store for her.

  “that’s enough.” A portable opens up, its color being red, a delicate hand reaches out and none other than… Rias grimoire exists from the portal to meet the fallen angel gaze.

  “you!” the fallen angel exclaims out of pure hatred.

  “who else, now leave before things get ugly for you, which in your case it already has” rias mocks the fallen angel appearance

  “heh, you think you can defeat me by yourself, I don’t care how strong your heritage is… your nothing.”

  Rias smiles, knowing that the fallen angel’s time is over. The world around them begins to become unstable and undo.

  *confused* “what?!” realization sets in, the barrier is becoming undone meaning she needs to leave before they see her.

  “don’t think this is the last time we’ll meet, I will kill all of you… especially you, rias and that also includes your family”

  Black flog covers her figure until you can barely see the silhouette of her body and as fast as the fog came in, it dissipates taking her with it.

  Rias looks down on the bloodied up body of Issei, she stretches her hand towards his neck to check and see if he has a pulse.

  “aw…” disappointed “he’s alive.”

  ***

  Back in the club room, the place were rias and issei first met, we see heavily injured and wrapped in bandages issei laying in a comfortable couch.

  Rias comes in with a bucket of cold water and a towel and begins to wipe down issei, making sure she gets all his sweat.

  Rias begins to remove issei’s shirt and pants to properly clean him and get all of those hard to reach places. She uses extreme care while handling issei, softly wiping off the sweat, tenderly caressing each of his muscle… maybe too tenderly.

  Issei eyes begin to flutter open, the pain is unbearable, and what does he see after opening his eyes? The girl of his dreams wiping him off while being strip down to his undies.

  *he quickly sits up* “AHH!” *backlash of pain after the sudden movement* “… Oww”

  *disoriented* “Where am I?”

  Issei looks around confused on what’s going on, he isn’t sure if he’s dreaming or somehow got black out drunk and somehow got into this situation.

  “Hi, sorry for scaring you but I can explain…”

  Issei looks at Rias shocked and still not unsure if it’s a dream or not, so he only does the one thing everybody does to make sure they’re not dreaming.

  *pinches himself* “fuck. Oh shit.”

  After a quick change of almost birthday suit to day clothes, Rias and Issei sit down for a quick chat.

  “what. the. Fuck. Is going on.”

  *sighs* “it’s a long a story”

  “I have time”

  *sighs again* “well it all started back when-“

  I shall do the story telling here, there are 4 realms in total in this world: the dragon realm, the heavens, the underworld, and earth. All three of them are connected to earth, it act as the anchor for all them, and each as their guardian.

  The guardian for the dragon realm is the dragon god, underneath him is the dragon of destruction and then the heavenly dragons. The guardian of the heavenly realms is god with his four great seraphs. Finally guardian of the demonic realm is lucifer and his wife Lilith who both created the 7 seven families.

  Each faction had their own ambitions: the heavens only wished for the betterment of humanity, the devils sole goal was domination of all realms and the dragons wanted peace and silence. Due the contradicting goals of each faction lead to the Great War that led to many deaths including the deaths of lucifer and God. Now each faction are trying their best to pick up the pieces of what’s left and try to fulfill their goals… at any cost.

  “ok so that’s cool and all, but how that does that have to do with me being naked and you sensually touching me with a rag.”

  “it wasn’t sensual!” *ahem* “one of the major reasons their were so many deaths was because of the heavenly dragons destructive strength. During the great war both heavenly dragons began to fight, which cause a lot of collateral damage to both side, so the factions decided on a temporary trues to help seal the heavenly dragons in sacred gears.”

  “so wait, draig is one of the heavenly dragons?”

  “yes… many people seek to harness their power, but before they were sealed they made a pack that only the chosen one’s may use their power.”

  “so draig chose me?” *looking at his left hand* “why?”

  “I didn’t choose you, kid, destiny did.”

  “because many wish your power, they do either one of two things, either they kill you or make you join them. Yuuma was a part of the fallen angels and she was a part of the first half.”

  “and let me guess your apart of the latter half… you want me to join your faction.”

  “yes, yes I do.” Rias takes a deep breath, preparing herself for his respond. “please join our family… the devils side.”

  “nah.”

  Rias does a double take, shocked on how he rejected her offer and curious as to why.

  “why?”

  “well for starters, what’s is in it for me? Being part of political battles sounds boring.”

  “well I…uh”

  even though rias is a smart girl she always struggle with the social aspect of her life, being raised in a prestigious household back in the underworld (hell) made her stagnate in learning the crucial things in life like learning how to make friend and talk to people normally.

  She is very compassionate and caring person and with that friends usually are the results of such compassion but her going out and actually trying to make friends on her own was something she had little experience in.

  *clears throat* “we can offer you protection, from other factions, money and anything else you desire”

  “money? Aren’t you a high school student?”

  “yes, I am and my father is the principal of this school.”

  Issei is shocked, he read that the person who runs the school is the CEO and founder of W&G incorporated one of the biggest accounting and financial institutions in the world, Rias is loaded with billions of dollars.

  *ahem* “that… doesn’t interest me” he stands up and walks over to the door opening it, ready himself to leave. “if that’s all you can offer, then I don’t want to waste my time. The only things I want to do is to get stronger and fight stronger opponents.”

  Disappointed rias sulks but as soon as she hears Issei desire to fight, she gets a light bulb moment. Rias smiles and simple remarks.

  “I never said the only fights we had were political.”

  Issei stops, closes the door and goes back to the sofa were he sat upon.

  “continue.”

  “devils have come along way from the time of the great war but were still a violent species, my family wishes for a more peaceful and rational control over our people others wish for a more brutesk method.”

  Issei smiles, the news of a possible foes to take control of areas made his blood boil in excitement.

  “after the great war, many of our species got killed so many families are trying to make artificial devils to help with their ambitions. Issei Kyoka, I need your power to help us save our people not fall into ruin, I believe your power is exactly what we need to accomplish this.”

  “as long as I get to fight people I’m in!”

  “great! I shall start the preparations to make you apart of our family.” Rias inside is overjoyed she was able to find the sacred gear and also make him join their cause, after months of trying.”

  “so what do I have to do?”

  “well I need to gather some material for the subordination.”

  “subordination?”

  “yeah, you will become my pawn and a devil like me”

  “oh… I don’t want to be a devil.”

  Rias inner celebration suddenly is stopped as the sudden realization hits that issei doesn’t want to be a devil.

  “w-why not?!”

  “because I like being a human plus… my mom makes go to church every easter and at least once a month so I don’t think me being a devil is going to be a good idea.”

  “can’t you say no to going to church?”

  Issei looks at rias dumbfounded and rias looks backs wondering what she said that was so absurd, before she can ask, issei begins to laugh maniacally for a good two minutes before he can gather himself.

  “Hehe… no I can’t say no to my mom. Pft!” he continues to chuckle to himself while rias pouts.

  Rias needs Issei to be a part of the Grimoire family, and by that she needs him to be a devil. The reason for the subordination is so she can use him as her pawn in the rating game.

  “well if you cant become a devil it will make things complicated since most battles will take place in the underworld which humans can’t go to.”

  “is there no other why?”

  “there is one way.” Draig suddenly explaims.

  “you’ve been quite for a while.”

  “I was taking a nap.”

  “oh. So what can we do?”

  “its simple, instead of making issei a pawn you make his will your pawn.”

  “what?”

  Draig explains the sacred gear is more than just a weapon that contains his power, it’s a medium between him and issei. Between draig soul and issei souls there’s something that connects them both called the user will.

  The user will is an artificial soul that connect the user with draig so the user can harness the power of the sacred gear. The user will in terms of classification it functions and looks the same as issei soul.

  “in theory if rias makes the user will a pawn instead of issei’s human soul, he will be able to tap in to the devils power but temporarily so he can do whatever rias needs him to do without becoming a full devil permanently.”

  “wow, draig how do you know so much?”

  “you think its my first time seeing a user be tempted to become a devil?”

  “so what do you say issei? Still want to take up the offer?”

  As issei thinks about the fact that he can become a devil temporarily, being able to fight many opponents, being a part of rias family, fighting people, and being with rias.

  “You know what, let’s do it”

  Chapter 2 end.