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@ForgottonFuture ! (Not literally. That would just be strange)
Fallen Hearts
Raynare stepped back with a look of fear and utter revulsion on her face. The bright aura of good that literally shone off of Iris Heart caused the Fallen physical pain. She tried to shield her eyes but it didn't do any good. With a scream of raw fury she forced herself to stand firm.
"You think this changes anything? I have four other Fallen with me and four score of Exorcists! You're outnumbered!" Raynare snarled spitefully.
Issei's head whipped around from ogling Iris Heart in surprise. He didn't realize there were that many Fallen in Kuoh!
"Oh no...Plutia! Issei! Just go! I...I'll stay…" Asia lowered her head. Raynare started to look smug at Asia's admission.
Iris Heart shook her head. "We may be outnumbered. But I doubt we're outgunned. And I will not let Asia stay with you. She has been nothing but kind to me, and you clearly terrify her. So. Perish and be gone you lonesome worm." With that, Iris Heart swung her weapon, which segmented into a bladed whip, long enough to reach Raynare's face.
Quick as a flash Raynare brought a spear of light up to deflect the chain sword. The sudden speed exhibited by both Goddess and Fallen left Issei and Asia mesmerized. However chain weapons were difficult to block at the best of times. Iris Heart's innate mastery of her weapon made it a losing proposition. The tip snaked around the spear and traced a thin line across Raynare's cheek.
"Damn you…!" She grimaced as the wound briefly smoked. Raynare manifested a shorter spear in her off hand before diving at the hovering Iris Heart with both spears extended.
"No. I believe that will be your fate." Iris Heart launched herself into the air, above Raynare, and swung her weapon once more, this time aiming for the Fallen Angel's back. "What is it you even want with Asia? I doubt it is good, considering how much malice you hold in your pathetic body."
"Yeah! What the hell do you want with Asia?" Issei demanded angrily. The nun simply shrunk in on herself. Raynare twirled both spears as she twisted in midair to deflect the stroke at her back.
"The Church abandoned her. She was excommunicated for healing a Devil. We were the only ones willing to take her in!" Raynare smoothly cast her long spear at Iris Heart's torso before manifesting a new spear and taking a more guarded stance. Asia's face scrunched up painfully at having her shame laid bare.
Iris Heart's free hand shot out, and grabbed the spear before it touched her. "And yet she clearly does not want to go with you." Iris Heart hurled the spear at her foe before charging, blade aimed at the fallen's neck.
Raynare made the spear vanish before it reached her just in time to deflect the stroke at her neck. Fallen Angels lived a very long time so her skill with combat was reflected by that. Without pause Raynare shot straight into the air to get out of close range with Iris Heart. She glowered darkly at the new Goddess.
"I grow tired of this...Dohnaseek, Kalawarner, Mittelt! Get out here and help me already!" Raynare shouted angrily.
"I thought you had it handled," a dapper looking man in a fedora and trenchcoat said as he appeared beside Raynare.
"All this trouble from a newbie? Really?" A woman in a minidress, that did nothing to contain her cleavage, asked in a bored tone.
"Whatever. We'll just kill her and the Devil. If Gremory complains? Well she shouldn't have let her Devil out alone," a blonde haired Gothic lolita smirked.
Men wearing white priests robes and bearing light swords spilled out from the fallen church. Asia tried to hide behind Issei who was also shaking in his shoes.
'So Issei is a Devil? What's the difference between that and a Fallen Angel? Hmm. I am going to make these bastards scream.' Iris Heart backed up a step towards her friends before she, shot out with her blade as fast as she could, willing it to extend so she can cut down as many of the mooks as possible with one attack.
Moments before her blade could make contact a sword of light stopped the chain whip. He was white haired and surprisingly short with crazed eyes and a manic smile.
"My my what a slutty thing you are! I wonder what you would do without your legs?" He laughed.
"Dammit Freed…" Raynare facepalmed.
"Did he just…?" Issei clenched his fists in sudden fury.
Freed darted in with speed even greater than Raynare's with light sword and gun in hand. His erratic seeming movements made keeping track of him difficult. He brought his blade around for Iris Heart's lower back and thighs.
"Pay attention!" Mittelt, the Gothic Lolita, shouted as she dived at the distracted boy. Issei yelped as he frantically scrambled out of the way. He eyed the spot where she landed with trepidation. The reason? Her fist was buried to the wrist in the pavement. The Fallen slowly stood with a smirk.
"Oh man…!" Issei took a sloppy fighting stance.
Iris Heart growled as she twisted away from the attack. "I am not a slut. I am a Goddess, and you are ALL GOING TO DIE SCREAMING!" 'Let's see how powerful my magic is.' She thought as she focused her power on her sword, and her desire for this bastard and all of his fucking friends to die screaming. When her sword was glowing with share energy, she swung, aiming the attack at Freed, the mooks, the 3 Fallen that were not fighting Issei, and the church behind them.
For all of a moment Freed looked excited at her glowing sword before his face dropped. The maniac Exorcist fled the immediate area with all possible haste. Before her swing even completed he was completely out of sight. Raynare and Dohnaseek soared higher in the air but Kalawarner was too slow. Like the remaining Exorcists she was caught flat footed. From the tip of Iris Heart's chain sword a malevolently glowing purple light lashed out catching all within the radius. The humans simply ceased to live as their broken bodies flew through the air and into the shattered ruins of the church.
Kalawarner managed to raise her aura enough to blunt the worst but the attack shredded her top. She stumbled back at the sudden expenditure of energy before falling to her knees. "How...How did she do that…? How!?" The mature Fallen stared in sheer disbelief.
"She's stronger than I expected…" Raynare said to Dohnaseek.
"Our base is destroyed. What do we do now?" The dapper Fallen asked.
"The basement is still intact. The plan can still continue if we kill this damn bitch!" Raynare glared hotly at Iris Heart. Dohnaseek grinned in a bloodthirsty manner.
"Good idea!" He dropped down at Iris Heart as she finished her attack with a spear held overhead.
Meanwhile Issei was having a much rougher time than the Goddess. Mittelt was an expert at combat and he was a newbie Devil. The only reason he lasted so long is because of a red bracer that appeared on his wrist. It possessed a single glowing green jewel in the center.
"What good is a lowly Twice Critical supposed to do? It only doubles your power! Your strength is so pathetic it's worse than useless!" Mittelt taunted him as she continued to try and gut him with her spear. His shirt was torn as were his jeans. By some fluke of providence he wasn't injured but his margin for error continued to shrink.
Asia could only look on in horror.
"Asia. Help Issei! I got these bastards." She twisted out of the way of Dohnaseek's attack before swinging her blade at his neck, as she aimed a quick and powerful kick at his groin.
The Fallen had a look that clearly said he didn't like his choices. He prioritized the blade aimed to behead him as he took the tip of her high heel to the groin. Dohnaseek made a sound half between a wheeze and a sob before frantically throwing himself backwards. Raynare prevented Iris from capitalizing on his downed status by throwing herself back into the fray.
Dohnaseek wasn't exactly anxious to go back into battle with this opponent.
"Help...Issei…?" Asia gawked at Iris Heart. She was a healer not a fighter!
"Ahhh!" Issei cried out in pain as the cleansing power of Mittelt's light spear struck him across the torso. The new Devil writhed in agony as he dropped to his knees.
"Too bad. You were actually getting better but this is where it ends," Mittelt brought up her spear to finish the job.
"Yaaaaaaah!" Asia screamed as she charged the lolita Fallen. Mittelt stared at the oncoming nun with complete confusion. Her confusion was complete as Asia tried to tackle the Fallen to the ground…
...and failed miserably.
"What was that supposed to do?" Mittelt asked in genuine confusion.
"I won't let you hurt Issei!" Asia insisted stubbornly. Mittelt looked from the nun to the kneeling Devil. He kept clenching his jaw and trying to force his body to move through the pain. She shook her head before casually brushing the nun off. However a 'brush off' from Mittelt was still enough to toss Asia to the ground with stunning force. She cried out in pain as her head struck the pavement.
"I keep forgetting how fragile humans are…" Mittelt shrugged her shoulders dismissively before suddenly freezing. A subvocal growl stopped her cold. The Fallen was filled with atavistic dread as she slowly turned to Issei. His eyes were glowing strangely as the bracer on his left wrist turned into a full gauntlet. It had a pair of gold spokes pointing backwards like a 'V' near the elbow.
[Boost!]
Issei blurred forward and socked Mittelt in the jaw with enough force the Fallen actually left the ground. Before she could land, however, his other fist blazed in for a devastating hook punch to her abdomen. The Fallen opened her mouth in a wordless scream of pain as saliva flew out. Issei growled again but he didn't seem to be in the driver's seat. Mittelt would have plenty of reasons to scream soon enough.
Iris Heart moved out of the way of Reynare's charge, before ramming her blade into the angel's back as hard as she could, the goddess's face consumed by a mix of sadistic glee and protective rage. "Die you pathetic worm."
Raynare managed to shift slightly at the last moment. Rather than take her through the heart it instead exited her stomach. A fatal wound for humans but survivable for a supernatural entity. She used the last of her strength to push off of the blade and stagger away but her legs gave out quickly.
Issei's berserker rush still hadn't left his eyes as he continued to use Mittelt's face for a punching bag. With Dohnaseek and Kalawarner down all resistance was neutralized. When the Fallen stopped getting up again the boy calmed only to recoil at the sight of his bloody fists.
"What...what happened…?" Issei stammered. He turned to Asia only to see the nun rubbing her head from the sudden contact with the ground. She stared around her in bemusement at the sheer carnage. A wet cough near his feet said that his playmate was either dying or faking. The blood spatter hinted at the former.
"Plutia…?" Asia sounded so lost.
Iris Heart glared at the two fallen who were not in danger of dying. "Wait just a moment Asia." And with that, she readied her blade to remove their heads. "Any last words?" She asked them.
Dohnaseek stared back defiantly even as his companion, Kalawarner, quivered. He would not give her the satisfaction. A poisonous glare was shot at the other Fallen. The dapper Fallen scoffed.
"I would ask you to stop," a light girl's voice said. Issei turned at the sound with widened eyes.
"B-Buchou?" He stammered.
The girl who spoke had brilliant crimson hair and blue green eyes. She had a figure most girls would kill for and wore a school uniform. There was no mistaking the aura of power she gave off as it easily eclipsed the Fallen. Asia subtly moved closer to Issei to start checking his injuries without taking her eyes off the new arrival. The other thing Iris Heart would notice was how the girl felt similar to Issei.
She was a Devil.
Iris Heart frowned, clearly not amused. "Who the hell are you?" She crossed her arms, cauitous of the new arrival.
"Ah...Plutia…? This is my King, Rias Gremory," Issei introduced her.
"Thank you, Issei. I am the Ruler of this territory," Rias elaborated. She took another look around with a disgusted sigh.
"What a mess…" A young woman said as she approached from the far side. Her black hair was pulled in a high ponytail with interest shining in her violet eyes. She was taller and even more developed than Rias.
"That's Akeno. Her Queen," Issei said in an aside to Iris Heart.
"Oh dear…" Asia muttered in worry.
"Are you just going to stand there and let two of us die?" Dohnaseek found the courage to speak and gestured to the fallen forms of Raynare and Mittelt. Rias' eyes turned cold.
"I remember saying, quite clearly, you were not to operate openly in Kuoh. In the time since you arrived several people were brutally murdered by your Exorcists and Issei was almost killed by Raynare. I find I honestly couldn't care less if they died or not," Rias stated firmly with a tone so cold it left frost over the listeners.
"So that is why he was terrified of her…" Iris Heart sighed. "Let me formally introduce myself. I am Goddess Iris Heart, or, when not transformed, Plutia." With that, she dropped the transformation. As the transformation failed a dizzying sensation of exhaustion swept through her. Neptune would probably make a joke about 'overdrawn at the Share bank.' Even as she pitched forward Plutia was dimly aware of Issei somehow catching her.
"Plutia…? Plutia!" Asia's voice called from far away.
Her eyes fully closed as sleep claimed the newly born Goddess.