"It was fun Church! Come by any time!"
You give off a small pitiful wave towards a group of girls along with the two leaders of the club, Murayama and Katase. The kendo club. You were on fair equal and friendly terms with just about most clubs since you were just there to grab photos and all. It was Tuesday now, and ever since Saturday, you were just miserable. But that didn't really slow down your job. You've met up with the kendo club on Tuesday to get some photos and just now, you got photos from the board game club.
"Yeah. Sure." You tell Murayama and Katase.
But since you were done with what you needed to, you let out an exhausted sigh as you walked off. You reach into your school bag to grab your small notepad to draw a checkmark right next to the board game club. Up next was the Occult Research club. You could either stop by now to get a few photos or just do it tomorrow.
It didn't take long to find where the club was supposed to be. They had their own building for fucks sake. All the other clubs were mostly still in the actual school with the minor exceptions of the sports like clubs being outside or in the gym. And the building itself. It looked a bit ran down.
"Man this place is a dump." You complain to yourself.
You walked up to the front door to the supposed Occult Research Club. And just from standing at the front door, it just gave off a weird vibe. The kind of vibe where it just yells a bunch of crap was going to be happening. This just felt sketchy. You didn't even know what this club even does. It had researched in the name and cult. Not exactly the best winning combo of words.
"Yo, what do you want?"
You just turn around to see no one. Then you just slightly look down to see that same small girl on Friday. White hair and yellow eyes.
"You're the chick who punched Tucker." You obviously point out.
"What's it to you? Gonna try the same thing?" The girl with white hair somewhat threatens.
"Chill out, I'm not some freak like him." You defuse. "I'm here to take photos of the club here."
The girl just gives you a suspicious look. That was to be expected really. When you hang out with a moron like Tucker, it was bound that some people would think you're like him or his perverted three other idiots.
The girl finally seems to somewhat believe you, just walking past you, and opens the front door. Great. That just means she's a part of whatever the Occult Club was. God if all the people in this club were going to be weird and talk in a monotone voice like her, you were going to smash your head against a wall.
"Your name. It's Koneko, right?" You ask the girl, need to get some sort of conversation going, or else you were going to lose your mind.
The girl nods. Guess that was the girl that decked the shit out of Tucker. Kinda scary how she sent him flying at least several feet. If all the girls here in Japan are nut cases, maybe just keeping to yourself wasn't a bad plan.
Koneko eventually leads you to what seems like a living room, mostly lit by candles. Honestly. Taking pictures in a place like this with terrible lighting, kinda made you slightly gag. You didn't obviously bring any sort of lights with you to school, at this point, taking the pictures outside might just be better.
"Got a problem?" Koneko asks you with that same monotone voice.
"Yeah. Are there actual lights in this place that aren't candles?" You immediately ask.
"Don't like fire?" Koneko asks you.
"The fuck? No. If I'm gonna be taking photos of this club, I need better lighting than candles." You shoot back.
Koneko then opens up another door that leads into what looked like an office and you were met with two people sitting by the window, playing a game of chess. Both of them were girls, one with red hair and blue eyes, and the other had black hair and purple eyes. Both of them had set their eyes on you and Koneko immediately. Alright. Time to get this crap over with.
"I'm looking for the head of the club stationed here. I'm with the student council to help get photos of clubs." You explain yourself.
"Oh. So you must be Y/N Church then." The girl with red hair points out. "Souna told me that you were going to stop by sometime this week, didn't expect it to be this early."
Great... friends with Souna... if that motherfucker is going around giving away your personal information to everyone, you were willing to dropkick her.
"Yeah, just wanted to get this week's pictures done as soon as I could. That's all." You reply as you dig your hand into your school bag for your small notepad and pen. "I just to ask a few questions and we can get the pictures started if everyone is here."
"We're still waiting on two members for the club." The girl with red hair informs you and motions her hand across from her where the black hair girl once was sitting. "Take a seat."
"Uh. Sure..." You hesitantly say as you do take a seat across from the redhead. "Anyways, I need some of your names."
The girl with black hair seemed to have left the room for some reason. Leaving you with Koneko and this redhead. You just placed your school bag on the floor and your camera bag on the table, carefully too to not knock over the chess pieces. And now you just have your notepad and pen in hand.
"Of course. My name is Rias Gremory. I'm the president of the Occult Research Club." Rias finally introduces. "And I'm guessing you already know Koneko?"
"Met? I watched her punch a jackass I know into a wall." You say with some disbelief as you remember Friday's encounter with her. "But yeah. I already got her name. She a part of this club of yours?"
Tucker wouldn't stop complaining about the bruises he got from Koneko. Seriously. That small chick could probably break your spine in two if you pissed her off.
"Yep." Koneko only answers with.
"Right....well, what exactly does your club do?" You ask next after writing down their names and roles in the club.
"As the name implies. We, the Occult Research Club, to research the supernatural." Rias explains to you.
What? How does that even work? Research ghosts or something? Talk to spirits at night? That doesn't sound like something that a school would approve to even be a club.
"Uhhhh...... right...." You only manage to get out as you just tap your pen against your notepad. "Gonna have to specify that more."
"We look into old legends, myths, or superstitions and find out if they're real or not. We even look into supernatural creatures like Youkai for example." Rias attempts to explain again.
What's next? They're going to look for bigfoot? Hunt down the Tasmanian devil? Catch the roadrunner? Seriously. How does a school approve of something like this?! And even give them this big ass place for their club!
"The fuck is a youkai?" You immediately ask.
Rias just blinks from your sudden vulgarity. Souna warned her about you're attitude and behavior. Just wasn't expecting it so suddenly.
"It's a type of Japanese spirit to put it simply." Rias explains cautiously, knowing that you're not from Japan.
Right.....You just jot down the basics of what she just explained on your notepad. You had to supply Souna with basic details about club activities, a roster, and how they run the club. It's basically setting up for a yearbook or something along those lines.
The door to the office opens up and that black-haired girl walks back in with a tray of cups and a pot of tea. She places down a cup down in front of Rias.
"Tea?" The black-haired girl asks you.
"I'll pass." You reply, waving her off.
"This is the vice president of the club, Akeno Himejima." Rias introduces her friend.
"Welcome~" Akeno says with a wink.
"Yo." You greet back.
The sounds of the door in the other room opening up can be heard by everyone in the room. Guess that's just the rest of the club members for this weird club just got here. You and Rias stand up, she leads you, Akeno, and Koneko back to the main room. There was a tiny bit of surprise that Issei was there, and there was someone else with him. Another guy you actually recognized. Kiba Yuuto. You shared a single class with him and only hear girls in your classes talk about him.
"Church?!" Issei calls out with some shock as he runs up to you. "Dude! I've been looking all over for you!"
"What why?" You ask as you take a step back from him, kind of invading some personal space.
"It's about the weekend! You remember her right!" He asks out of some desperation.
"Who? Serafall or that girl you were with?" You ask again out of some confusion.
"So you do remember her?!" He yells out.
"Uhhh....yeah?" You say cautiously. "I'll be honest. I forget names for people I don't really care for within a few hours."
"That's a bit rude." Kiba suddenly speaks up.
You shrug at that comment and just write down both Issei and Kiba's names on your notepad and then put the pad and pen back into the bag. Then you open up your camera bag and take out your camera next, turning to Rias as well.
"So is this everyone in your club?" You ask Rias.
"What's going on?" Issei asks out of confusion now.
"Doing my job. I'm here to take photos of clubs." You bluntly tell him. "You are a part of this club right?"
"What? No?" Issei replies with some hesitance.
"Then why the fuck is he here?" You ask with some annoyance as you turn towards Rias.
Rias's brow slightly firms, but she quickly calms down. She has to keep reminding herself of the lack of patience and anger issues Souna warned her about. It was really taking her some resolve to keep herself from having a bit of a fit towards you. Souna did call this, both your and Rias's personalities heavily clash.
"Issei here was going to be offered a position to join our club." Rias explains herself.
"I am?" Issei adds with a raised eyebrow.
Rias nods while giving the perv a push she needed, a small seductive smirk towards him. It was enough for him to see that he started to nod quickly with some weird look on his face.
"Whatever. You got any actual lights inside here? Because the candle lighting sucks." You deadpan. "Unless you prefer to take the group picture in front of the building."
"That sounds like a wonderful idea." Rias agrees.
"Alright. This should be done within half an hour if we're lucky. Let's go." You tell everyone in the Occult Research Club as you leave the room.
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"Come on dude! You have to tell us the details!"
You let out an annoyed groan. After taking the photos of the Occult Research Club outside their building, you went straight home, but both Tucker and Caboose happened to be waiting for you at the front gates. So that meant that you were walking home with them.
"Why do you even care?!" You almost shout at Tucker.
"Because you got to hang out with one of the hottest chicks in the whole school! Who doesn't know who Rias Gremory is?" Tucker asks you, then looks over at a Caboose. "Caboose, you at least heard of her right?"
"No. Unless they think they can be Church's best friend, then that would make me angry." Caboose only says.
"Why the fuck did I even bother asking you." Tucker deadpans.
Even if you were technically the most social one out of the three, you never even heard of Rias Gremory until meeting her. Not much to say about her, except she has this pompous bitch like aura around her. You didn't comment on it considering that you didn't want to entirely start a fight when doing work.
"Not much to even say about her. We talked about her geeky club and that's it." You explain to them.
"Wait, she has a club? What is it?" Tucker asks.
"Some dumb club called the Occult Research Club." You lazily tell him.
"Oracle resonant?" Caboose asks as he tilts his head.
"No dumbass." Tucker insults. "The fuck even is that club anyway? I never heard of it."
"I don't know, it's a club that does research on supernatural shit." You give the lazy summation.
"What like ghosts and stuff?" Tucker asks.
"Maybe a republican." Caboose adds in.
"What? No....maybe?" You reply.
You didn't pry for details on what exactly the club researches. After the youkai thing, you immediately didn't care. Everything after that was boring. Way too geeky and weird for your tastes.
"Well who else was in the club?" Tucker asks, really trying to pry for as much info as possible.
"Uhh......remember that kid who punched the shit out of you on Friday?" You ask Tucker.
"Koneko? Yeah, I remember. I still have a bruise on my back because of her!" Tucker complains.
"Well, she's in that club. There's some other chick that had black hair.....I don't really remember the name." You say as you try to remember her name.
You weren't lying to Issei back when you told him you really couldn't be bothered to remember the names of people you didn't really care for.
"What did she look like?" Tucker continues to ask.
"I don't know. Black hair with a ponytail. Purple eyes I think. That's all I can remember." You tell him with an annoyed sigh.
"Oh...that sounds like Akeno!" Caboose suddenly chimes in.
"Yeah, I think that was her name." You confirm.
"Wait! As in THE Akeno Himejima?!" Tucker asks as he rushes in front of you. "You're telling me that the two of the hottest chicks in school are in the same club! And you got to hang out with them?!"
Tucker was shaking you for a good few seconds before you outright headbutt him. Making you both stagger away from each other.
"Son of a bitch!" You complain as you rub your head.
"W T Fuck! Why'd you do that!" Tucker also complains.
"Because you're an idiot!" You reply to Tucker with a groan.
After that fiasco, the three of you continue your walk home. Tucker kept asking who else was in the club, in which you finally got to inform him of Kiba and Issei also being in that club. He was suppressed with Issei since Tucker and Issei were close friends and all, but Tucker got pretty pissed with the mention of Kiba. As for Caboose. It was kinda weird for him to explain how he even knew Akeno. Apparently, she was a third-year and happened to run into Caboose and they just happened to just exchange a few words. That's it. Eventually, Tucker and Caboose reach their stop and had to go in a different direction.
"Bye Church!" Caboose waves to you.
You didn't reply to Caboose but you gave a small wave as well. Just as Tucker and Caboose left, you were about to walk down your street until you were immediately met with the sight of a short girl with brown hair and orange eyes. She had some school uniform of some sort. Guess she went to some other school.
"Your Y/N Church right?" The girl asks you with a somewhat nervous tone.
You glance to your side where Tucker and Caboose went. They were still there, only a few meters away. They just happened to hide behind a bush since Tucker mainly was wanting to know why a girl approached you instead of him. As for Caboose. Tucker just mainly had to hold him down to make them both unnoticeable.
"Uhh....yeah? Why?" You hesitantly answer.
"Oh! Good...." The girl says with a relieved sigh. "Are you....seeing anyone right now?"
That's sudden. First, this chick knows your name. And now she's asking if you're single. With another glance over towards Tucker and Caboose, you can see Tucker practically foaming out the mouth from what's going on.
"No." You only reply with.
"Awesome!" The girl somewhat cheers but she quickly composed herself. "Since your not seeing anyone. I was wondering if you wanted to go out with me?"
You could hear a quiet thud. That was defiantly Tucker. As for what just happened. You couldn't help but feel on edge. Ever since the Serafall ordeal on Saturday. You couldn't help but feel cautious to see how this chick even acts. You let out an annoyed sigh as you rub your head. Seriously. Why are people here fucking weird.
"Not interested." You let out.
The girl twitched from you rejecting her. What? Did she actually think you'd say yes?
"Oh.....why's that?" The girl asks nervously.
"Are you kidding me?" You say with a slight scoff. "I've never seen you in my life. Yet you know my name and happen to be where I walk home."
You reach into your pocket and take out your cell phone. The girl was slightly shivering and was confused by what you were doing.
"What are you-" The girl attempts to say but you cut her off.
"Calling the cops." You deadpan.
"Hold on, that's-" The girl attempts to defuse but you stop her again.
"What do you want lady. You know my name, you know the route I use to go home, you probably know my address. It's too convenient." You point out. "You clearly want something if you've been stalking me."
You hold out your phone with the police ready to be called. A bit extreme to call the cops but really, it's too convenient. You may be an asshole. But you're now a paranoid asshole ever since you first encountered someone like Serafall.
As for the girl. Her bangs now covered her eyes and she seemed to stop shaking.
"Your too fucking smart for your own good." The girl suddenly says in a threatening tone.
"The fuck?" You only say.
The girl looks up at you. Her eyes now have a more threatening look to them. As if she had just found her pray. That being you of course.
"Do me a favor you shit." The girl says with hostility. "Die!"
You didn't know how to process what just happened. Because all of a sudden the look of the girl suddenly changed. From her brown hair and orange eyes to yellow hair and blue eyes. And these jet black wings sprout from her back. Just. What the actual fuck is going on!
She creates a glowing spear out of thin air and tosses it at you. It moved so fast that you didn't have any time to react as it flew right into your chest. You coughed up blood and fell on your knees. Your vision was a bit hazy now but you could tell something else was wrong. The sky was different. It was all purple instead of the usual blue and orange sunset. Not to mention all the sounds of cars were gone too. Your eyes fall back down to the flying girl who clapped her black wings, giving down a condescending smirk toward you.
"That won't kill you. But you'll be hurting a lot more bleeding out, later!" The blonde girl teases cynically.
She gives off a wave before her jet-black wings cover her entire body. And just like that, she disappears, and the sky shifts back to normal. You painfully cough up more blood and fall back onto the concrete. Your vision and hearing getting hazy. But you could recognize people shouting your name.
"CHURCH?! SOMEONE HELP!"
"WAKE UP CHURCH!!"
"WAIT? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING- FUCK IT! CALL AN AMBULANCE NOW!"
You could barely see the silhouettes of three people. One of them being a lot shorter than the other two. Two males and one female. You roll to the side had to look up at the sky as your consciousness slowly drifts off, the last of your sight is a distant bird flying high in the sky. And then. Nothing.
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You can fairly hear the sounds of beeping. It was getting a bit annoying really but what does that matter. You're slowly opening your eyes to see a white ceiling. You slightly just turn your head to the side, a bunch of bits of equipment were on the side of the bed you laid on. You saw a few bags of IV hooked up to you. Meaning only thing. You were in the hospital.
You could hear some snoring to the side, and when you look over to your left, there were both Tucker and Caboose fast asleep on the guest chairs. Just what the hell happened?
"Oh. Your awake."
You look over to the door to the hospital room you were in. There stood Koneko with a chocolate bar in her hands. What the hell was she doing here?
"The hell happened?" You ask as you try to move from your bed slightly, only for some sharp pain to arise around your chest and stomach.
"Someone attacked you. I happened to be walking home when I saw Caboose and that pervo loser call an ambulance." Koneko explained to you.
"Fuck that hurts...." You hiss in some pain as you shift yourself in your bed. "How bad was it?"
"Your alive right?" Koneko asks sarcastically.
"No shit short stick. I'm asking how bad was the injury." You retort, your patience already thinned out.
That somewhat irritated Koneko. But she calmed herself down knowing about the fact that you literally just woken up from an injury.
"It was only a slight cut onto your lung and punctured a few ribs. Whoever attacked you barely missed your heart." Koneko tells you.
You let out an exhausted sigh and lean back onto the bed again. It's not exactly a great week at all. First dealing with all the work for the Student Council, then with Serafall and your father, and now this.
"Man...fuck me..." You groan as you look up at the ceiling.
"Not even in your dreams." Koneko deadpans.
"It's a figure of speech!" You almost shout at her.
You let out a painful cough while Koneko gives you a dead stare. A sound of a phone vibrating can be heard coming from the small white-haired girl herself. Koneko takes out her cell phone to check the message she received, then closes it to look up at you again.
"I have to go." Koneko says as she was about to leave. "Get well soon."
"Yeah.....thanks." You reply.
"I forgot. Souna said she was coming to visit tomorrow after school with her sister to give you the homework," Koneko adds in. "Good night."
You give off a wave towards Koneko while she finally leaves. Talking to her is just as mentally exhausting as if you were talking to Souna. Then it hit you from what Koneko just added in before she left. Did she say Souna and her sister?
"Oh son of a bi-"
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Chapter 3 complete! Along with the first fallen angel encounter. I'm gonna put this out right now and say no, you are not being put into Rias's peerage. Really just because the whole personality clashing is the main reason. That and Rias is kind of a bitch.
Anyways, I plan to release up to chapter 5 or 6 till I go back to focus on Konosuba. I've been rewatching Accel World and DxD so that's where my motivations been going to. Accel World may just be alright, but its soundtrack and the dual avatar designs are fucking awesome. As for DxD. It's just alright. I just like the side characters more than the main cast.
Either way, any feedback is appreciated. Thanks for reading!