Normal: Dialogue, Narrations
Italics: Thoughts
Bold: A/N, Quotes
(A/N: All the images or gifs used do not belong to me, they belong to the respective owners)
Previously we saw the Issei and his friends come back home from their trip to Kyoto, Issei explains everything that had happened there from their journey, what all places they visited, their infamous encounter with the hero faction, Yasaka joining the family along with Kunou and many more things. While initially shocked that Issei became a father, Issei told them that she is his adopted daughter, much to their relief. They then begin talking about what needs to be done next with Sona coming up with the school festival event, that was when a small secret came out which forced Issei to run away for a while at least till Sona's anger died out. He, along with Kiba and Gasper then visit an arcade and have some lunch at a mall, they then go back home after their fun where he first gets back at Chara for exposing the said secret, he then explains to Sona why he did that prank, to which she understood the reasoning, she then tells him that they were spying on him as a way to apologize for her actions. The next day everyone gets to work with all the preparations for the school festival, The ORC begins to work on the Maid Café while the others were working on the animatronics for the Five Nights at Freddy event. Issei along with Flowey were working on the animatronics. Irina suddenly shows up, much to their surprise and anger, when asked what she wanted, she only wanted to repair a once broken friendship to which Issei responded that she needed to work on that, he also told her that he would never forgive her past self for what she did, Issei also told her that she needed to earn that friendship if she wanted to. Irina on hearing this left, with hope in her mind and heart that she can be friends once again like she once was, Issei and Flowey then went on to work on the animatronics, which had to be completed in a weeks time. Fortunately for the duo, an experienced inventor had shown up, Azazel who had worked on several artificial sacred gears was willing to help the duo in creating the animatronics for the event, to which Issei and Flowey happily took the option to help.
The rating game between the heirs of Bael and Gremory families, Rias and Saiaorg has been decided first followed with the rating game between the heirs of Sitri and Agares family, Sona and Seekwaria. Issei and his team were present during the press conference between the Gremory and Bael family members. Although the Gremory family had an advantage given that they remember the past timeline, Saiaorg Bael is still a powerhouse, he must not be underestimated given that he would easily destroy them if he managed to merge with Regulas forming his balance breaker. As the press conference was going on regular questions were asked regarding on how they will win against the odds, to which they both responded with the same thing that the plan was something they have to wait till the rating game goes on.
Meanwhile another press conference was going on with the members of the Agares peerage and Sitri peerage, the members of the Agares Peerage is sitting on one side while the members of the Sitri peerage were sitting on the other side. Just like the Bael and Gremory kings were asked the same things were asked on the Agares as well as Sitri kings, with how they will win the match. Sona knew that the main threat to her in the rating game against the Alivian, Seekvaria's queen, he needed to be dealt with otherwise things might go south for Sona and her peerage. They knew that for the sake of their dreams they needed to win the rating game.
The next day
The Agares Stadium 10:30 AM
The teams had come to battle against each other, the battle was against the heirs of Bael and Gremory family that being Saiaorg and Rias. The teams had taken the opposite areas of the stadium. The rating game will be decided on a dice game, the announcers were on the broadcasting area were Naud Gaumin and Azazel and another special guest was coming to the rating game.
Naud: I thank you all for coming to the rating game between Saiaorg Bael and Rias Gremory, we have the governor general of fallen angels Azazel. We also have a guest coming from the monster faction that will comment on the rating game.
The crowd cheered when they heard that the monster faction was also joining for this rating game. That was when a robotic monster had shown up, he had black hair with a long fringe that seems to cover his right eye, pale "skin" and visible metal segments below and above his left eye.
He has a pink chest piece, a narrow metallic waist with a box contraption, and black shoulder pads above his segmented arms, which end in gloves. The chest piece has what appear to be a speaker and some knob or gauge, while the waist has two parts that seem to act as a locking mechanism that holds his "heart-shaped core," as they both lose white pixels during his "heart-to-heart" attack. His long black-clad legs end in pink high-heeled boots.
???: Well Naud Darling, you've got quite the crowd.
Naud: Indeed we have, entertainment star Mettaton, so are you ready for this Mettaton
Mettaton: Indeed we are, are you guys ready for thisssssss?
The crowd cheers in response, Mettaton had a smile from his robotic mouth, he knew what he needed to do.
Mettaton: So let's get ready to rumble Darlinggggg
The dice is then rolled to the number three, the teams were on discussion on who to send against the rating game, Rias Gremory just like last time had sent Kiba for the battle while Saiaorg Bael had sent Beruka to the field.
Mettaton: So it looks like Lady Rias has sent her knight Yuuto Kiba as the one fighting while Saiaorg Bael sent his knight Beruka to fight against him, give them a round of Applause Ladies and Gentlemen!!!!!!!!
The crowd cheers when these two knights head towards the dome to begin their fighting. Issei and his team along with Sona and her peerage watch this fight closely. They are then joined by King Asgore and Queen Toriel, they also were interested in watching the rating game. After greeting each other they watch the game closely.
They fight in a grassy field. Although Beruka and his Pale Horse familiar are able to keep Kiba off his game for a time, Kiba is able to use his new balance breaker; Glory Drag Trooper, to summon Holy Sword Knights to flank Beruka and his duplicates. This overwhelmed Saiaorg's knight
Kiba: That was my balance breaker Glory Drag trooper, an old friend of mine helped me make this, that was a good fight indeed Beruka
The match ended with Kiba's victory, Rias had mentally thanked him for winning.
Mettaton: That was an overwhelming victory for Kiba, we never saw him use Glory Drag trooper before this is definitely knew, give him a round of applause
The crowd cheers on Kiba's victory, Mettaton then asks Azazel.
Mettaton: Lord Azazel what do you think about this matchup
Azazel: Well, Kiba did have the advantage and he was holding back, I saw his expression he held back against the knight. He seemed to be enjoying the fight rather than fighting all out.
The dice for the second match rolls 10, Rias sends her Rook Koneko along with her knight Xenovia given that Rosswiese is not part of her peerage this time. They both were sent to deal with the Gandonma and Liban, Xenovia knew that Liban had the sacred gear Gravity Jail that can pin down his opponent, so she quickly deals with the Knight, unfortunately Gandonma gets in the way forcing Koneko to fight him, Gandonma transforms into his Golem form to fight against Koneko, Koneko was forced to use her Nekoshou Level 2, to fight against the rook. This gives Xenovia enough time to deal with Liban eliminating him despite him using his sacred gear before it was too late. The duo then end up fighting the Golem, with Koneko being severly injured from fighting the Golem. But she manages to create a weak spot in him allowing Xenovia to use her holy sword to take him down. Thus securing the win for the Gremory but with the loss of Koneko.
Mettaton: What a spectacular double team battle between them, even thought the loss of Koneko Darling took place, Xenovia won for her team defeating the duo of Gandonma and Liban. Give them a round of applause.
The crowd cheers when the duo win against the Bael team. That was when Naud says.
Naud: We will continue this fight after a short break.
Back with Issei and the others
Issei: Things are going so well so far
Raynare: I have a feeling that they can win this Ise
Issei: I would not be so sure about this Ray
Asgore: Why do you think that Issei?
Issei: It is because of two people the queen Kuisha Abadonn as well as the king himself Saiaorg Bael, not to mention there is tremendous power coming out from his pawn.
Toriel: I sense it too
Flowey: Do you think it could be a sacred gear user?
Issei: It might, I have seen him somewhere, could it be
Chara: What did you find out?
Issei: The pawn is the sacred gear himself, the Regulus Nemea, one of the thirteen Longinus.
Everyone had their mouth agape, a Longinus user in the opposing team meant disaster for the Gremory team, Chara in particular was worried for Kiba, while she did not care for the Gremory team except Gasper, she did have small feelings for the knight.
Asgore: With that the Gremory team is at a disadvantage then, I just hope they can win this through.
Issei: Doubt it, I fought against Saiaorg once and he gave me a run for my money, when I was in my balance breaker in the previous timeline, only a miracle can make them win.
Asgore knew that Issei spoke from experience, he wanted to see how this goes given that things are not looking good for the Gremory Team.
Back with Rias and her team
Rias: We cannot lose anymore guys, we know their abilities and weakness, most likely Akeno you will be facing against Kuishaa Abadon and her hole Ability.
Akeno:Oh-
Rias: And before you say anything Akeno, no sex jokes please, there is a time and place for everything, now is not the time
Akeno: Aw man
*Play Boopkins singing It's been a long day*
Kiba: So what's the plan President
Rias: Since we do not have Issei and Rosswiese with us like last time, and we lost Koneko, we need to play our cards very carefully, if any of us goes down it is going to be a problem for us, we still have Regulas and Saiaorg to deal with.
Gasper: So what's the plan?
Rias: Since Akeno will be facing against Kuisha, Akeno will need to avoid using your magical ability against her, she can easily eliminate you by turning your own holy lightning against you.
Akeno: Got is president
The number rolled this time was nine, so the one fighting were as expected Akeno and Kuisha. This time however Akeno relied on hand to hand combat which she had learnt during her training at the Gremory estate. She began her fight with Kuisha who was barely able to dodge the hybrid's attacks, she wanted Kuisha to be vulnerable so that she can use Holy Lightning on her, which worked given the situation, Kuisha ended up being defeated by Akeno's well timed Holy Lightning.
Akeno: It was a risk but it was so worth it.
Rias and the others sighed in relief, that was one major player down, two more to go. That was when the number that was rolled was 8, resulting in Gasper and Xenovia deciding to fight against Misteeta and Ladora, the fight was pretty much the same however this time Xenovia is the one to get eliminated given that Misteeta managed to seal her powers away using her sacred gear Trick Vanish, however Gasper who had unlocked his soul trait that being Integrity managed to deal with Ladora, despite being in his dragon form Integrity soul allowed Gasper used his soul to create bullets and projectiles managing to pierce Ladon's skin, Misteeta although she managed to eliminate Xenovia, Gasper transformed into his Vampire form overwhelming her and managing to defeat her.
Rias: This is bad, first Koneko, now Xenovia, she is the only one who could theoretically damage Saiaorg, now only Akeno is my hope for the damage against him.
Kiba: Don't worry president we can defeat him
Rias: I hope so Kiba, I hope so.
Kiba also felt a little bit weak, given that how badly Saiaorg crushed him in the previous timeline, he could feel like the team pressure is pretty much on him, their morale is dependent on him.
Kiba: So this is how Issei felt back then huh, the pressure was on him back then, Heh Ironic
Rias then had to make a plan for dealing with Saiaorg, that was when the dice rolled to 12, she sent both Gasper and Akeno to fight against the one who will be sent against none other than Saiaorg who decides to send himself to fight. The duo knew that he is a powerhouse, Akeno used her lightning against him but it does nothing. Saiaorg then lunges at the hybrid as well as the vampire evading his attack, Akeno is damaged very badly, but Gasper stops him using his sacred gear it only stops for a while before Gasper loses his concentration and Saiaorg is released. Akeno on seeing this, uses Holy Lightning on Saiaorg, which hits him damaging him but not enough. He notices Gasper and lunges at him and gives him a severe gut punch dealing several damage to him making him cough up blood. Gasper used his soul bullets damaging him, but it is not enough to put the behemoth down. Saiaorg then says
Saiaorg: You did well Vampire, but now it is time to end this.
Saiaorg gives several round house kicks to the Vampire taking him out from the battle effectively, he then focuses on Akeno, before she could use her holy lightning, Saiaorg grabs her by the face and smashes her down a wall nearby making her unable to battle eliminating her from the fight.
Saiaorg then uses the Phenex tear, he and Rias received to heal himself up, the match was given to Saiaorg Bael as the victor. Mettaton then announces from the stadium
Mettaton: What a dramatic victory for the heir of Bael, no wonder he was able to defeat the Princess of Thunder and the holder of Forbidden Balor View, he is known to be immensly durable. A round of applause from the prince of Bael
The crowd cheers for Saiaorg, who raises his hand up in victory. Rias was in a fix, since now only she and Kiba remain. Kiba on the other hand had to fight against him given that he is the only piece left. The chances are looking pretty slim for the Gremory team. That was when Naud announced from the stadium.
Naud: Oh this just came in from our folks, the people want a battle royale, it would be between the remaining members of the Bael peerage and the Gremory Peerage. This would be fun what do you think Mettaton.
Mettaton: Indeed it is Naud darling, this would make this match quite interesting, what do you think Azazel?
Azazel: Well that pawn is something Saiaorg never used, even once, he seemed like some sort of trump card, besides Rias is really in a fix if she cannot take down Saiaorg, she will lose this match as well as her dream of becoming number 1
Mettaton: You got that right, so without further ado let us begin.
The contestants began their fight against Saiaorg and his pawn. Saiaorg then screams.
Saiaorg: Do it now, Regulus.
Regulus then takes off his mask and transforms into a golden lion with a golden mane
Regulus then proceeds to fight against Rias Gremory, while Kiba is left alone to deal with Saiaorg, Saiaorg easily dispatches of the knight with relative ease given that he was exhausted in fighting two battles back to back, he tried to use his bravery armor but was unable to keep up with the knight. Eventually the knight was overwhelmed by the Saiaorg Bael resulting in his elimination
Rias: Kiba Noooooo!!!!!
Regulus: Worry about yourself Lady Gremory.
Regulus lunges at Rias Gremory who tried to use her move Extinguished star on him, but the charge time was too long, long enough for the lion to use it's claws to easily damage him causing severe bleeding, Rias tried to use the Phenex tear on herself but it only delayed the inevitable, Saiaorg on seeing Rias still fighting feels pitiful for his cousin and uses a throat chop knocking her out of the fight, thus securing the win for Saiaorg Bael and his team.
Mettaton: The winner of this match is Saiaorg Bael, the victor of the rating game is Saiaorg Bael.
A huge round of applause and cheers were sounding out there, Issei and his team were not surprised with the outcome, because they only won because Issei was there with them back then. Chara went to the infirmary to check on Kiba, which was not unnoticed by the others. They all did not stop her because most of them knew that Chara had feelings for the knight. Mettaton then announced that the next match was between Sona and Seekwaria which will happen two days later.
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2 days later
Agares Stadium, 2:30 PM
Mettaton: Welcome back darlings for the second match of the Rookies four, that being Sona vs Seekwaria, despite the numbers being low on the other end, I have heard that the team is quite the power house, what do you think Azazel?
Azazel: Honestly, this match could go either way both the kings are not known for their immense demonic power of even strength but intelligence, the one that outsmarts the other will win.
Mettaton: I see, oh here are the contestants, Sona and Seekwaria along with their peerages
(A/N: I know the rating game between these two was scramble flag but we barely have any information between the match and who defeated whom, so there are changes because of that)
The peerages then come in for their rating game. Saji in particular was excited for the match up against Alivian who can change into a eastern dragon form. They began their fight with Ruroko facing against Bafeal Furkas, given that She should have the speed advantage, she would win against her.
But Bafeal proved to be too much for the Sitri Knight, she managed to overwhelm her on several locations, Ruroko could not keep up with the Agares Knight and was eventually eliminated by her.
Sona was surprised she assumed the knight would give her the least of the problems, but now she needed to be dealt with before it is too late.
Issei and the others were surprised, given that they never saw the Agares peerage in action was something else, it was a three man team and they were certainly strong to hold the position of being in the Rookies four, but they did not know that they were this strong, even the ones that were expecting the knight of Sitri to win were the ones shocked that she had lost with relative ease.
Sona on the other hand needed a plan to deal with the knight before they can regroup and take her and her team out. That was when an announcement had happened courtesy of Mettaton.
Mettaton: Since our viewers liked the battle royale match between the Gremory and Bael family, this was by popular vote that the battle royale is to be taken place between the two peerages.
The Audience cheered on this, Issei and the others only sighed as Mettaton knew how to rile up the audience for battle.
Issei: That Mettaton surely knows how to bring an audience together eh
Frisk: Yeah, back when I was at the underground he made me do those weird poses, to increase his shows ratings on Television. Thankfully I was able to get out alive with the upgrade Dr Alphys gave to me.
Flowey: I followed Frisk, honestly I never knew you were such a good dancer.
Frisk: I don't even know how I did all this
Frisk said the last sentence embarrased. That was when Issei decided to speak up with Chara
Issei: Say Chara, how was your visit to Kiba
Chara: Honestly, he kind of looked down, he felt like he was the one leading the team, or acting as the moral compass. As a result he felt depressed that he lost the match against Kiba, it was as if he felt like he failed us.
Chara looked down, after all she had feelings for the knight, Issei did not know what to say given that Kiba was now in his position back then he was the morale boost for Team Gremory now that role was taken up by Kiba. Issei told Chara to give comfort to the knight as much as she could, to which she had agreed.
Asgore on watching this asked what had happened as to why Chara is so much concerned about that man. Issei told him that he would inform him in private to which he agreed.
Back with Sona and her peerage
Sona was confused that her whole peerage minus Ruroko will be facing against Seekwaria and her peerage, earlier she had told that to split up the trio so that they will not be able to work together. With a numerical advantage she should have the win, plus Saji has been telling her that he has unlocked a trump card, which might just let her win against the Agares Peerage.
Sona: Alright everyone we need to win this at least to win my dream, our first priority is to isolate the trio into different areas, Saji you should hold of Alivian while I deal with Seekwaria, the others deal with Bafael Furkas.
Everyone agrees to the plan on dealing with the opposing team, they began their fighting, the members of the Sitri peerage easily overwhelm the knight of Agares Family and take her out before she could assist the team in any way.
With Saji
Saji transforms into his Vitra promotion to deal with the Seekwaria's Queen, who was able to tank the attacks from the evil dragon. Saji tried to deal damage to the dragon but he was too strong to take a hit from the evil dragon. Saji and Vitra tried to use Vitra flames on him, which damaged the suit with relative ease. Alivian shrugged off the flames from his suit and responded.
Alivian: Not bad Genshiro, but you will have to do a lot better if you need to damage me
Saji in response lunged at Alivian who was easily dodging or sidestepping his attacks with zero to little effort, he then gave a fist punch to the Dragon who merely shrugged it off with only a few bones broken, having enough Alivian then went on the offensive punching Saji so hard that it dazed him for a while, but he recovered from the attack and once again went on the offensive in an attempt to try and defeat Alivian for his master.
With Sona
Sona was having difficulty against Seekwaria given that she could manipulate time itself for a short while, Sona tried using her water serpents to damage her but she just slowed down the serpents and sidestepped him, that was when she heard the news that her knight had been eliminated. Knowing that she has no choice, she finally decides to give the command for Alivian to transform into his dragon form.
Seekwaria: Alivian
Alivian: Yes my lady?
Seekwaria: Do it
Alivian: Very well my lady
Alivian then starts to shift into his dragon form, he transforms into an Eastern Dragon which towered most of the people present in the arena.
(A/N: This is the best I got for his draconic form)
Alivian who was before focused on Saji was now looking at the rest of the Sitri Peerage, he used his fire breath and Draconic Aura in the form of bullets eliminating most of the Sitri peerage even Tsubaki's mirror alice could not take the heat and bullets combined force resulting in her elimination except Momo, on seeing that one had survived, Alivian immediately went on to attack her, Saji rushed to her, but was engulfed in a fiery breath
Sona: SAJIIII!!!!!!!!, NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
That was when all of a sudden a man standing in black dragon armor was seen, Momo was completely unarmed mush to her shock
(A/N: Ignore Walburga)
Saji: Looks like it did work, this is my balance breaker Malebolge Vitra Promotion
Vitra: You did it host, you managed to unlock your balance breaker, your desire to protect someone you care about pushed you to what you needed to do
The crowd cheered when they looked at this new armor, Mettaton in particular had stars in his eyes, even though he is a robot.
Mettaton: We have two amazing surprises, first an eastern dragon and now a new balance breaker, things are starting to heat up.
Azazel: Looks like you did it huh, Saji
Saji then looked behind and told Momo
Saji: Just sit back, watch the show and relax babe, I will finish this beast for you.
Momo could only blush when Saji said that, Saji then began fighting the eastern dragon, who had a smile on his face, he then began fighting the dragons, Saji used his tentacles to dodge or counter most of Alivian's aura bullets as well as turning several of them to ash for those he could not dodge. He then charged at the dragon at speeds faster than that of sound breaking the Dragon's jaw.
The Dragon recoiled and tried to bind Saji, but he used that to his advantage by draining the strength of the Dragon and transferring it to Sona, who was now able to get the upper hand on Seekwaria. The later was unable to control time for much longer as she was getting overwhelmed by exhaustion, any more than Seekwaria would lose.
Saji on seeing the situation now turn to his favor began his onslaught against the eastern dragon, he kept sapping his strength away making him unable to maintain his strength for much longer, when he was turning back to his human form, Saji took this chance to deal a well timed punch to his stomach eliminating him from the fight.
Seekwaria on seeing that her queen was eliminated started to lose hope for winning, she had already lost to Diodara and now Sona, she felt like she had to face against the trio on her own accord.
Seekwaria: No I cannot lose, not like this.
Sona: It is time to end this, Hydro strorm
A water vortex had surrounded the Agares heir engulfing her, the water current was strong enough to deal severe cuts and bruises to her. Seekwaria being exhausted could not take any more damage and retired
Mettaton: Seekwaria Agares has retired, the winner of this match is Sona Sitri, it was a spectacular performance from both the teams. Give them a round of applause everyone!!!!!
The crowd cheered in response, they were more than satisfied at how the match went out to be, even Issei and his team were cheering for him, the one that was the most happiest was Issei, not only did his friend achieve balance breaker so early, but also managed to protect the woman of his life. They all decided to celebrate the victory.
*Scene Break*
(A/N: Bang that's it for this chapter, the next one will be the end of this arc as well as the school festival which was taking place)
Please let me know in the comments on how to improve and I will catch y'all later
PEACE!!!!!!