Hello everyone, I know the premise of this story is insane but one of my friends made a joke about Alexander Anderson falling into the DXD universe.

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As a fan fiction Writer I thought "I can do that" But then I had to come up with a half way reasonable idea of how he would end up there.

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Since this is a crossover the start is something I like to call Uriel ex Machina.

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So the following story is brought to you by the hand Uriel of the Dresden Files

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I do not own any of these characters they are all propriety of there respective owners.

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So please enjoy the story. However if it is not your cup of tea I understand and still wish you a good day.

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Prologue: A burning flame

It is said that a soul never truly dies, that a soul will pass on into what comes next after the body has faded. But what if the soul belongs to neither monster or man, what if it is for someone in between. A mortal given into despair taking on the mantle of a monster to fight another, perhaps a second chance, perhaps a new life? Who knows these things but the ones called gods?

Adrift in a void of white the soul of a fallen paladin was adrift floating listlessly in a sea of nothing, beside him a man walked. He was a young man with dark gold hair that hung messily over his silver blue eyes and sharp cheekbones. What he wore seemed plain to any eye, a pair of jeans, old boots, a white shirt and denim jacket but there was something about him that was hideously absolute something so immovable so powerful that the nothingness of the void neither touched him nor the soul floating beside him.

The man moved with resolution and purpose, features about him that would make the deepest mortal faith seem like a child's daydream. It did not take long to find what the man was searching for, indeed his very presence would draw out the being he sought. A massive creature with scales as red as blood towering the man like a lion over a mouse. But even with this size difference any who could sense power could tell one solid fact, the towering dragon was weaker than the relatively small man before him. One had the power to destroy worlds, the other had power to unmake creation itself.

"You stray far from your place watchmen"

The man gave a humble bow that belied the strength about him "I never once strayed from my path."

The Dragon narrowed its eyes "What does The One Above All wish from this reality to send you here?"

The man tilted his head "They still think he is dead don't they?"

"He has given them no reason to think otherwise."

The man laughed "Such a strange creation, where what is darkness everywhere else is reasonable and what should be light has lost its path."

"I ask again watcher what do you wish of me" The Dragon's eyes fell upon the soul floating beside the man. There was a moment of concentration as the dragon gazed upon the events of a lifetime. "A man of conviction" The dragon said "One who fell as some of the fallen have done. Fell in despair as his own faith proved to be not enough, why have you brought him here."

"It is a gift unto him, a man who served faithfully but fell into the trap of darkness."

The Dragon stared at him "You wish to have him reborn here?"

"Not quite"

The dragon and the Watcher looked into each others eyes, thoughts connected as they communicated in a way that would have destroyed mortal minds. "I see" the Dragon said. "You ask this of me, not demand?"

"Yes"

There was silence for an undetermined amount of time "You have always been one to push the boundaries of your authority" The dragon laughed "I will do as you ask, it will be interesting to see if what you want will change him?"

"It will" the watcher said calmly.

"If you say so Light of God"

"I do Great Read"

The dragon reached out and touched the soul of the man floating beside the Watchmen, and with the power that his created a dream and from that dream he imposed it upon reality itself in accordance with the will of the Watcher.

He was bored anyway so why not?

It was dark but now cold, lonely but not oppressive, eyes opened in a black void as the watcher set beside the soul he had carried from one reality to another. "Am I in Hell?" the man asked.

"No you are not."

"Purgatory?"

"No"

"Well it sure ain't heaven so where am I?"

"What do you remember of your death?"

The man went silent "Your pierced yourself with darkness masquerading as miracle, you took upon yourself the mantle of a monster to face another."

"And I failed" the man answered "He even tried to tell me how I would fail, how I would become like him, become the same."

"Indeed even monsters can speak the truth."

"He pulled the nail out of my heart"

"In some way he returned you to human before you died it was his way of showing you the respect he felt the man your were deserved."

The man laughed bitterly "Isn't that just like him." His eyes looked far away "When did I take such a wrong turn?"

"When you placed you love of battle above duty, when you turned your battle against that creature into your reason to reason to fight. When you decided to discard who you were to become a false image. When you decided to become a sword instead of the shield you were meant to be."

The words of the Watcher were absolutely, bone chilling, and rent the air with a horrible truth, the man before him could see every image of every decision. Could see how easily he could have made the right one, how corrupt he had become in his ignorance, no not ignorance. He had turned a deaf ear with the word of God replacing it with his own assumptions in a pathetic attempt to assure his own conscience.

"You have done great good but also you are the caused of much loss, you do not belong with the prince of darkness so I have given you a different path. A path in a world where you will be changed in ways you can not yet realize.

"What do you mean?"

"That you must see for yourself"

The Watcher started fading "Consider this your purgatory, you will watch a life unfold, watch but not affect. You will come to understand this world, one so different from your own, and one day you will make a choice. I wish you luck and pray that you find your own path, Walk well Alexander Anderson.

Chapter 1: Being a voice with little influence.

The child was born to a Japanese mother and an American father, the mother was a sweet good natured women born into a wealth family. The father was a US Soldier stationed in Japan for his tour of duty, it had been something of a whirlwind romance and within two years they were married. Even as they had married she had been pregnant with their first born, a small baby boy with blond hair like his father and blue eyes that while on neither of the parents were features of the fathers family. He was a baby like any other and grew up like any other child. However he was always a quiet boy and one well behaved he had been named for this fathers historical hero the greatest general to ever walk the western lands that man was Alexander.

The five year old threw the ball up into the air and caught it as it came down, he grinned as he caught it again. Being a blonde in Japan was not a way to make friends fast, here where he lived it meant that others his age left him alone. Well if they did not want to play with him so be it, it was better this way because he had a secret. He had told no one of this secret and would never tell them, after all he was too old for imaginary friends.

Actually friend was too strong a word, it was a voice in his head that could speak clearly and would often tell him what he should be doing. That or comforting him when the loneliness got to much, the voice itself was like a mix between a kind man and a fanatic. He did his best to ignore it, saying prayers like it suggested were boring anyway and the voice was a compleat rules fanatic.

Of course it was probably right, pulling hair was wrong and taking out his anger on others was stupid. And that was all well and good, but things like praying and preparing to fight monsters. The ball fell and he missed it the darn thing bouncing away forcing him to chase after it.

He was so focused on the ball he almost ran into the girl watching him. The ball bounced against her feet and he looked up feeling quite foolish. She was his age, about his his height but there was something that was off. Different like him her hair was red was crimson red. He forced himself not to frown as the voice told him that hair like that was not natural. Her blue green eyes stared at him intent with curiosity "Hello"

He bowed politely to her "To you as well" After a beat he added "Thank you for saving my ball"

The girl moved her foot and kicked the ball back to him "I noticed you playing by yourself" her cheery smile was fun to watch. "Does that not get boring?"

Anderson shrugged "Its either that or sit around and do nothing, this is preferable."

"No one play's with you?"

He brushed back his spiky blond hair "Not really, they say if I'm around them Ill infect them with my blond hair."

The girl frowned "That's not very nice."

Agian he shrugged "Not much I can do"

*Humff* "If thats the case then I'll play with you"

"Really" excitement tinged his voice.

The girl gave a wicked grin "Sure, I'm Rias Gremory who are you?"

"A pleasure Germory-san I am Alexander, Alexander Anderson"

-(The internal Anderson)-

This truly was purgatory as the Watcher had started floating around in the back of this mind, this child's mind. Able to occasionally speak but mostly watch as the first years of life passed by. This child he was in was strong willed, despite all efforts he could not get him to pray. He could not mold him into a proper young child. Thank God in heaven he was able to instill a decent sense of right and wrong. But most likely that was the result of who this child was, the only thing he had done was speed up the process.

He looked upon this girl the child was playing with and frowned in thought, there was something off about her and it was not the hair. Pulsing through him was the pleasure, the joy this child was feeling at playing with someone his own age. Companionship was important for a child it had been his top priority for his charges when he had been in charge of the orphanage. Back in another world in a far simpler time, before he had been taken in by the Iscariot. Before he had become a regenerator, a Paladin.

The only thing he could do was leave the child be, let him have his first friend. Here in the back of this mind he could only see and hear what the child was seeing. And even that was like looking through a TV screen. Whatever had twinged his mind about this girl he decided to ignore, one he could not do anything about it and two he might be going crazy.

He still pondered the words of the Watcher "Change and a choice" What change? What choice? The years in here had made him go over his life, question the choices he had made the actions he had taken. Where they right or wrong, after he had joined the Iscariot it had became a world of Grey. But perhaps that had only been his delusion, his justification, he could still feel the bloodlust in his veins sing though his body. He could still feel the desire to fight to tear and sheard course though his mind. All the while he could not act on it, he could only ask himself hard questions, questions he was not finding answers to.

-(Outside)-

Seven years passed and Anderson grew as his body went through puberty, Rias had teased him about it for several weeks. The growing acme on his face the changes in voice, that had been when the publicity stick had smashed her with a mallet and gave him the opportunity to tease back.

She was his best friend, his only friend. The children that had shunned him in there adolescence continued to do so into preteen. He had gotten used to it, Rias had been a great at showing up randomly, sometimes several days in a row, other times there were weeks in between her visits. She had never told him where she lived or much of anything about her family. Given that she was dropped off in a Limo he could guess they were well off but pushing that issue would serve no point.

Hell, for all he knew questions like that might call in to questions there friendship and he did not want that, not in a thousand years." She had become someone he could talk to about everything, he had even shared with her a secret that not even his parents knew. He had started to notice several years ago, he had never gotten sick once in his life and as far as he had thought never been cut or scraped. That was until he watched himself getting cut as his arm caught a bramble, watched the skin open and watched it heal within moments. He had done a bit of experimenting with other things and found out that yes his cuts, his bruises they healed within moments.

Rias had taken it well, in fact she had been ecstatic with wonder and a hint of Jealousy. That had sealed it for him, a fact about her he had noticed was that the girl was a natural born leader and often found himself caught up in her scheme much to his internal voices dismay.

However to quiet that voice down he had gotten into the habit of tempering her, to not be as dangerous or as outrageous that they could have been. When they pulled pranks he reasoned her into using only non painful methods. Sneaking into places was done only at places where if they were caught it was not Illegal to be there and so on and so forth. As long as he did his best to stay somewhat on the Quote on Quote right path the voice was silent.

"Rias" he said patiently "Ignoring that fact we would have to scale a twelve stories of solid concrete, break a window, foil whatever alarms they have,and break open a three foot solid steel safe to steal the 1/100 D-Hell clear extra finish version Gundam model. Stealing in and of itself is wrong and there are other ways to get it.

Rias turned her mouth in a pout "You're no fun something Anderson"

"I can be fun" he protested "Its just that unlike me you can't heal as fast if something goes wrong."

The pout turned into a puppy dog look "Can you at least pretend to plan it with me? Your so good at this sort of thing."

That look was always hard to ignore "This is just an exercise in imagination?"

Rias gave him a look "We are twelve year olds what do you think?"

Anderson held up a hand, paused and nodded "True...tell me what you know of the building again?"

She described said building in way too much detail for his comfort, he knew this girl, she was his best friend and something of a Japanophile. He thought about it for a moment and said "Since this is just an exercise of imagination I think Teleportation would be the best bet."

Rias's smile cracked as her eyes went distant, then she slowly slipped her hand over her face and he heard her mutter under her breath "Stupid, stupid, stupid."

"Hey" he cried "I resent that you said it was imagination."

"Huh?" she grunted looking at him "Oh...oh ya sure teleportation...funny"

He blinked at that, did her voice sound...thoughtful?

It was the next morning as the TV blared in the background as he heard it "And the police are still baffled at the stunning break in at Nishimura & Asahi the spokesperson for them had this to say. "Nothing of grave importance was missing, no files were taken and no money was stolen we deeply apologize for this and even as we speak are transferring everything in the vault to a secure location." Her voice droned on but Anderson was not listening.

"No...it couldn't be...could it?"

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He did not see her again for the next week or the next several weeks for that matter, it got kind of boring just going to classes that were too easy and then doing nothing afterward. He found himself sitting at the park where they first met, there were others playing around but there mothers ushered them away from the "Yankee" hanging out at the park.

He did not see when she appeared but there was a movement out of the corner of his eye as Rias appeared beside him. She sat down gingerly as if doing so any faster would have hurt her bottom. Anderson raised an eyebrow at that, Rias noticed and smirked "Totally worth it"

He raised the eyebrows even further "Sorry I could not meet with you over these weeks I kind of got in trouble." She winced as she moved slightly "It was worth it, but the punishment besides being grounded was intense."

"What did you do?"

"Oh this and that" she answered.

He was going to ask again but thought better of it, obviously she did not want to to know what happened so he should not ask. The voice on the other hand had different ideas and was demanding that he investigate this. Like with most advise the voice gave him he ignored it "Your family uses corporal punishment?"

She shrugged "Ya kind of, but only if we really push the envelope, but enough about that" She flinched as she moved too fast "What's happened with you."

"School and boredom"

She laughed "Are classes really that easy?"

"Sometimes I feel like I went through harsher classes in a previous life, that or I'm just plain smart."

"Or arrogant Anderson-kun"

He hated when she added suffixes to his name, he did not know why be he prefered to be called by his name alone. Rias was well aware of this and only used things like Kun and San on him when she really wanted to annoy him.

"I found a fun game, you want to try?"

He shrugged "Sure why not?"

"Its called Tennis"

Two years, two years of playing her at this god forsaken game and he still had not beat her once. He was good, he was really good for his age but what Rias could do on the tennis court was beyond human. At best he had managed eight ties and that was only because in terms of raw, pure stamina a healing factor would win out.

But even given that he still had not won, not once, they were in the last stages of the game on more get hit on her end and she would win. Around six more good hits for him and he would tie them up, *thud*thud* went the ball as sweat poured off of them.

Puberty had smashed them harder with the growth stick in recent years, at fourteen he was six foot five and pretty sure he had a few more inches left in him. His body had grown lean from the constant almost religious tennis matches he played with Rias. Once his chest and shoulders had decided to put on the muscle they were missing he might not look like a spiky haired blonde stick that any wind could push over.

Rias on the other hand was filling out perfectly her body growing at a more natural pace save for her chest size. If looking at it from position of pure judgement he knew she was beautiful, and only going to grow more so. But before anything else she was his friend, he knew well that he did not harbor any romantic or budding romantic feelings for the girl. It was not that the idea was abhorrent to him or anything it was just that...she was Rias he could not see her as his girlfriend and judging from her actions she felt the same way.

That was fine really, but still the first year of tennis games after her growth started were hell, on the bright side he had gained something of a mental inoculation to big breasts. They did not phase him any more and that was most likely for this best. Rias found that hilarious that he considered it a victory for mental and spiritual control.

If there had been a chance for anything between them she might have tested his ability but since there was not, there was no reason. At last he was a step to slow and the ball passed just out of his reach leaving the match to Rias.

The girl just stood there breathless with exertion, and like the end of every game they had ever played he brought over a two water bottles and a towel. One for her to drink, one for her to pore over her head and the towel to dry up.

Now this action, from a girl this pretty even one underage attracted a lot of attention. Nothing had ever gone to far, his height and blond hair combined with the fact that this was a good part of town and well patrolled was enough to keep people at a look but don't touch distance. Rias like the born leader she was seemed to shine with the attention, revel in it almost. He never would have been as comfortable as she was, his reaction was as clam up and scowl.

"Do you mind riding to your home with me, I want to discuss something with you?"

He paused at she had, never, count that never offered to do something like that. Much like him she prefered walking to where they wanted to go. He glanced through the chainlink fences and sure enough the Limo he had seen her arrive in since they were five as there waiting . He gave her a nod and hefted their bags and gear on to his lean shoulders and together they walked to her limo.

"Come in" She said opening the door as he placed the gear in the truck.

"Said the spider to the fly" he said a perfect Scottish accent.

*Hm?*

"Nothing" he called out and closed the trunk and entered the Limo closing the door behind him.

"Agrippa-san" She called out.

"Yes Germory-sama" The man in front called out.

"Please take us to Anderson's home"

The limo started and drove off leaving behind the group of men and boy's enamored by the girl's beauty. He shook his head again, men their age should be at work or doing something productive, for once the voice in his head agreed.

The car itself was comfortable with dark leather unlike anything he had ever seen there was clearly a mini bar on the side that had been padlocked. He noted a symbol emblazoned on several place's a rose encased in several crimson circles with the rose being the same color. Perhaps it was a trick of the light but he could have sworn that it was faintly glowing, "Anderson" Rias called bringing him out of this thoughts.

"Yes?"

She pursed her lips "What are you planning on doing after you finish primary school?"

He shrugged "My parents will send me to a high school that is cheap and close but if you have to chose between the two cheap will be the option."

He had never seen the girl look nervous before "Do you know anything about Kuoh Academy?"

Frowning he racked his mind for that information, he did not have a perfect photographic memory but if he saw some information it generally stayed there. "Thats, that's all girl's school, its within walking distance from here, you have to be rich and make good grades to go there." There was something else but it took him a moment to pull it out "And the student council has a lot more power there than most other places."

She looked surprised that he knew about it "That is to be where I am going next year."

He nodded "Gonna make it hard for us to hang out" This conversation made sense now she was trying to find a way to deal with an inevitable separation or at least severe cutback in the time they spent together.

"I happen to know that they are making it co-ed just as I enter."

That paused his thoughts "And?" he asked.

"I want you to go to school with me"

"Can't afford it" he said instantly.

Rias waved her hand at his statement like she was brushing off a fly "They are doing this to try and fall in line with the national policies of equality. The first group of boy's will have a major scholarship and I can make sure your name is first on the list." She shook her head "And besides if it was not working like that my family would pay for you." Her grin was too wicked for a girl her age "Dad say's you're a good influence on me and he likes you."

That caused a blink and a frown "Have I met him?"

She waved a hand "No he spies on me sometimes" she said that as if it was a normal everyday thing.

"You would think I would notice that" he muttered.

"So will you come to school with me"

Her face was calm but the slight shift in her voice gave away how much his answer would mean to her. The voice in his head advised caution, however he often ignored what that voice said so "Sure why not."

-(Internal Anderson)-

Sometimes he wanted to tear his hair out but then again he existed without out a body so it did not work. He had watched this friendship grew between this child he was trapped in and this red haired girl. While on one hand it was great thing for this child, something about that girl set off his warning bells.

He could not be sure what it was, but he was completely sure she was more than human. The boy joked that her movements on the tennis court were inhuman. However the really funny thing was he was spot on, this girl's speed, strength, reflexes, stamina, were beyond that of a human. To anyone willing to ignore the lies of the world about the supernatural such things were obvious but so far he had not been about to determine what this girl was and it was bugging him greatly.

Still the boy trusted her completely and for the most part his judgment was sound enough, and he could not complain about the shape the tennis matches with that girl had put the boy in. At least he was doing something productive with his time rather and just drool over a girl's body. Honestly the people of this world were something else, of course in his old world he had no doubt there were very much the same people to find. It was just that his work would never have him cross paths with such people.

Oh well not like he could do anything about it all he could do was simply wait, wait for the choice the watcher said would come.

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Anderson nodded to his mother as he exited his house, Rias had just called. He glanced down at the black cellphone in his hand. It was expensive top of the line and had the same crest as Rias's family on it. She had given it to him on his fifteenth birthday saying that they really needed a better way to keep in touch.

Apparently she was coming alone this time, about six months ago Rias's had introduced him to her other best friend. One he had not known about, and from there first meeting and from Rias's guilty look the other best friend had not known about him either.

However he was not a jealous type, and despite the initial awkward meeting nothing bad had happened much to Rias's relief. Akeno Himejima was something of an enigma to him, the girl was, like Rias a knockout and still growing like both of them. In fact there was something more alluring about her than there was to Rias. Thankfully his inoculation to Rias's charms apparently worked against this girl as well. That had been a really good thing because at first the girl seemed to be in a bipolar haveing one state of prim and proper and on the other hand somewhat sadistic and seductive.

Once she had realized that he was not interested, and he was not, things had settled down to a more reliable pattern. She had began to accompany them when they hung out and over the course of several months he could safely call her and acquaintance. She was nearly as good as Rias in tennis which meant that he had yet another girl with whom he could at best tie with in the game. He had managed to tie about twenty games out of the hundreds they had played where as he had only managed to bring his tie's with Rias up to ten and that had been over the course of the thousands of games they had played over years.

But apparently she wanted to be alone with him for whatever this was, perhaps he could get some answers. It had dawned on him that both Rias and Akeno were hiding something from him, it had been the new girl's offhand comments over the course of their time together that had showed him that.

He had began to notice how on certain subjects like family and and locations of said family, they twisted words and pushed the conversion away. He was well aware that Rias was keeping things about her family from him but it had never been in his face like this before and it was becoming somewhat of an irritant.

It took him only a few minutes to reach the park where they had first met, he noted as he approached the bench that there was no one around them. That was strange, normally there were some people or children hanging around. Today there was nothing, just Rias sitting on a park bench. She was wearing the Kuoh Academy uniform even though they were two weeks away from the starting date. Perhaps she liked the uniform, he himself was wearing a grey shirt with dark slacks.

She said nothing as he sat down beside her, he waited leaning back to get more comfortable. She would talk when she wanted and he had time to wait. The silence around them felt almost unreal there should be people here but there were none. He looked around trying to find out why, it took him a little longer than it should have. But he did see it finally, the sky itself was darker than it should have been. In fact the moment he had seen Rias it had gotten darker, which was weird but not it did not surprise him as much as it should.

"I'm glad you're here" Rias finally said.

There was a tone of fear to her voice that he had never heard before as she spoke, "You called" he pointed out.

"You have been a good friend to me Anderson the best."

He frowned "This isn't a confession is it?"

Like his words had intended it made the girl laugh and some of the tension eased out of her shoulders "Of a sort" She laughed out.

"Really? I knew you would be unable to resist my stoic charm."

Her laugh echoed into the silence "Thank you Anderson"

He gave a mock bow "I live to serve"

She shook her head "You're not going to be able to calm me down completely, not with what I have to tell you?"

"And what would that be?"

"You never asked about my family or where I come from."

He nodded "I figured you would tell me when you wanted to."

Rias just stared at him "You decided this when you were five?"

"Sure"

She shook her head and stood up "What do you think about things like the supernatural?"

That was a strange question but given that he suspected they might be barriered off from the rest of the world…"Could exist" he said "Humans are quite arrogant in thinking we might be the only things out there."

She took in a deep breath "What would you do if I told you I was not human?"

Surprisingly his inner voice was silent on this question perhaps it was listening "I would first ask for proof, as you could have gone crazy."

"I see" she turned to him took in a breath and just like that from one second to the next bat like dark wings sprouted from her back snapping outward like a rubber band. "..." He held up one finger to Rias and pinched himself. Yes he was awake, he got up and walked around the girl who looked more and more nervous as he did so. After touching the wings and feeling warmth and heat of life in them he stepped back as asked her to fly a little. Her wings snapped out and she gained a foot while her body did nothing.

He went back to the bench and sat down face showing nothing, they stayed like that for an uncomfortable four minutes. Several times Rias looked like she was going to talk but thought better of it. Anderson took in a deep breath "Ok, so I can accept this." he said. "I suppose the next logical question is what are you?"

Rias nodded "I'm a devil" she said simply.

At those words the voice in his head roared up "Kill it,Kill it, Kill it." His head felt as if it had been electrocuted. He saw in his mind a series of actions, he could leap forward calling a bayonet to his hand. He knew her speed, he knew what she could do. If he stabbed her throat and brain before"

He slammed down on the voice hard with mental strength powered by horror and rage. He tolerated this voice because he had to, but it did not get to threaten his friend.

Rias seemed not to know what to make of the emotions flickering across his face, he took two ragged breaths calming his mind blocking the voice out completely. "Ok then, I since the world as I know it is obviously wrong I can accept this."

The girl let out a sigh of relief "The next question obviously is why are you telling me this?"

Rias's wings vanished as the girl sat down beside him "There reason for it, but it is not simple however to make a story that could take years to tell very short. There was a great war between the three great powers. My kind the devils, our natural opposites the angels and the ones who fell from grace the fallen." She sighed "Many, many lives on all sides were lost in that fight, including the four original Maou. In response to the loses a way of replenishment was created faster than simple sex and birth." She held up a black chess piece, a pawn to be exact "Created by Ajuka Beelzebub these pieces allow us to reincarnate humans, monsters, anything really into devils."

She looked at him eye to eye "I was given these pieces to create my peerage a group of devils to serve under me. To help further my aims and ambitions and perhaps one day become strong enough to gain pieces of their own. Akeno the girl you saw she is part of my peerage, my Queen to be exact. I have others of course, a rook, a knight, people I have gathered who needed my help and I theirs."

Anderson thought he could see where this was leading, "I will live a very long time Anderson, I have a very long path ahead of me. And...and I wish...I wish for you, my best friend to walk it with me."

She held out the pawn to him "Will you join me Alexander Anderson, forsake your humanity to become one of mine. I do not want to imagine a life where you are not there to help guide me, as you have always done."

Anderson sat there and his control slipped, the voice spoke in his head again. It was quieter with a tone of horrified depression to it "Don't do this boy, please dont."

He stared at the piece in her hand face blank as thoughts and feeling warred in his head, his best and only friend was a devil. The voice in his head which he did not listen to was begging him not to do it. He was smart enough to know that doing this would have lasting repercussions and he did not know what they were. This girl was asking him to give up everything he was, everything he would ever be to become.

"What is the purpose of that piece?"

"The pwan" she corrected "Its purpose is to protect the king, it is the weakest piece but it has the most potential."

"Who is the king?"

She looked down slightly and in a voice almost too quiet to be heard said "Me"

Anderson nodded and reaching out took the piece from her hand, the transformation was both less and more than he expected. There was no pain, no sickness, just the feeling of a great shift, the pawn in his hand vanished as power danced over his body. Changing, morphing, and creating, he knelt before Rias and his first words as a new devil were "What is your command my king."

-(Internal Anderson)-

Nothing could describe the horror, nothing could tell of the pain, what this boy had just done, it...it was beyond imagining. Beyond reason, beyond logic this child had just given up his humanity, given up what made him who he was.

A poisonous voice whispered in his ear "And yet you did the same thing, you became a monster, and you only did it fight. At least this boy is doing it for a friend."

Nothing else could be said, nothing else could be done darkness fell around him as the man fell into despair once again.

-(Three Years pass)-

"Oi come one guys let me look" the brown haired boy cried out. Bent over in front of him faces pressed against a peep hole were his down best friends Matsuda, a tall boy with short, short grey hair and the build of one who had once been an athlete. The other was a brown haired boy slightly shorter than both of the others, he wore glasses that hid his eyes completely that boy would be Motohama. The boy yelling at them to move and let him see was Issei Hyoudou, a boy of average height with brown hair and light brown eyes he had become somewhat infamous over the entire school due to his perverted antics and strange mental illness that made him shout about harems randomly.

They were so focused on their adolescent love of the female body they did not notice the rather large and imposing shadow that had fell upon them. Issei however was quite decent at detecting killing intent as he turned around slowly with an expression of horror on his face.

Over the past three years since his species change Alexander Anderson had put on five more inches bring him up to seven feet in height. A giant even among races other than japanese, his chest and shoulders had filled out giving him a lean but strong look. His spiky yellow hair and square chin still gave him a rough appearance. His face was smooth and shaved just as his king had commanded and he wore a custom made uniform of Kuoh Academy as there was nothing in his size at all.

He wore glasses now, not because he needed them but because after seeing the student council president use them to great effect he decided that flashing glasses were necessary. To make things better ever since he became what he was the voice in his head that had plagued him since childhood had stopped talking. He had almost got to the point where he did not feel the worry about it speaking up when was going about his day.

Speaking of going about his day, he felt the annoyance fill his body at what he had found. One would think that after two years of this same game playing out over and over again these three would learn.

The two who were busy leering at the girls noticed there friend had suddenly stoped speaking and as cold chill's went up their backs they knew what was behind him.

Issei gulped out "H-hello Anderson-san"

With his height, the position of the changing room and the sun Anderson looked like a large shadow with two pinpoints of light for eyes. He focused most of his gaze upon Issei the boy whom his king had gained an interest in.

The perverted trio well knew him, he was their own personal living breathing hell. From day one he had been on and stayed on their case, many times they had felt his fists, flinched at his barbed words and ran as this hell chased them down. This student had ruined most of their hiding spots, had wreaked karmic vengeance upon them for their actions. He was Alexander Anderson or as they liked to call him The Golem.

Anderson took in a deep breath as his gaze held the three in place like that of a snake "Do you ever get tired of this dance?" he said in disgust "You three find a way to look upon something you shouldn't, I beat the holy hell out of you and the cycle repeats."

Issei took a step back from him hands up "Well..Anderson-san if you getting tired of it you could always take a look yourself." he gestured at the peep hole they had just been using, Matsuda and Motohama seeing hope but eagerly nodded.

Anderson gave them his best smile, which turned their faces paler than snow "Oh really?"

The three tensed as they prepared to use their best strategy, Anderson was good but when they ran off in three different directions he could at best only catch two of them. "Oh and before you run" he said freezing them in place again, you might want to look around."

They did and there faces when from pale to nearly translucent, surrounded them on three sides was the girls of the Kendo club. The same ones they had been spying on, "Thank you very much Anderson-san" said a very pretty brown haired girl who was bouncing her Shinai bamboo sword off of her hand.

The seven foot tall blonde bowed slightly "You are very welcome" he turned and the girls parted for him as he left the three to their fate. On campus he was something of an enigma, girls never asked him to go to Karaoke or do things with him. But they all knew his name, they all respected him for what he did and what he was. He was not a romantic mark to them he was something of a guardian it was well known that if you had problems with rampant admires or creepy old men you could talk to him and it would be taken care off.

He sighed as behind him the sound of justice reached his ears what did Rias see in the boy? Because he sure saw nothing, but then again that was why she was the King and he was the pawn.

1

Students naturally made way for him as he walked, given that he was a hulking seven foot tall blonde in a japanese school it kind of made sense. Of course it meant he had never had any dates and the several times when he felt he might have been interested, the way most girl's cowered when he spoke to them was enough to make him feel that if he asked they would only say yes out of fear.

So that pretty much killed his high school dating life but that was probably for the best, he entered the main building and walked with purpose. Before he could take the turn to the stairs that would lead him to his destination.

"Anderson-san" a firm voice behind him called.

He stopped and turned knowing the voice and what it meant, flanked by her peerage Sona Sitri the current President of the student council approached him. Their personal history was interesting this girl was a childhood friend and rival of Rias and a serious tennis opponent agian one he had not known about.

Their first several interactions had been about her disapproval of his spiky hair, she had refused to believe it naturally grew that way. It was not until he had shaved it off in front of her and let her watch as his healing factor replaced it with hair the exactly same height and style that she relented in her campaign to make him cut it. Of course then she made him try a widely varied array of hair care products from earth and hell to see if they could tame it. Given that his hair was the same as it had been since he was ten it did not work.

But after that they had created something of an amicable working relationship, given they he kept the perverted trio in line, and thanks to some backroom deals between her and Rias. He was available every day to the student council for one hour with whatever they needed. Given that she had displayed a rare gundam model the day after she told him of this arrangement he had a fairly good idea of what he had been traded for but alas such was the life of a pawn.

But to make a long story short he respected her and her goals, she respected his actions and no nonsense attitude. The only hitch was that when they talked in front of the students there flashing glasses made it look like they were having a heated debate and thus rumors of their animosity ran rampant through the school.

"President" he answered.

"I am in need of your" she tilted her head up "Unique build"

He glanced at Tomoe the Knight of Sitri "More putting up signs and banners?"

The Knight of Sona gave him an apologetic look "You make things so easy"

He nodded "I see please lead the way Tomoe-san"

"Yes" she answered.

As they turned off from the main group Sona called out after him "Anderson-san"

He glanced back "It is Sona not President"

Right he always forget to do that, perhaps it was because she made everyone else around her refer to her by her title. The only boy of her group currently with her Saji gave him a withering look which he ignored. Whatever that boy imagined about him and his kings relationship was his problem not Anderson's. Seriously he had brought her a bowl of Udon once when she was over worked at hell and everybody including Rias had started making assumptions.

He could still feel phantom pain in his knee from when Koneko had kicked him after hearing it, being the rook that she was it had vaporized the bone's in his leg. (Healing factor for the win)

It had taken two top of the line lollipops, four bowls of ice cream and a laser pointer before she stopped being mad at him.

After three years of working with the Student Council he worked well with most of them, for example it only took fifteen minutes of work to get the banners hung and Tomoe to let him off. So he made his way back to the The Occult Research Club or as her peerage knew it Rias's base of operations. It was set in the old school house on campus and made a fine place to fortify and stay hidden.

He knocked loudly and several times, "Come in" Rias called.

He knocked again twice "I am dressed" she finally said.

Anderson nodded, lack of interest in a relationship aside seeing a girl like Rias naked was almost enough to make him to stand still and drool. He did not like that particular aspect of hers but no one was perfect. Still he had gotten very good at not being around when she felt like walking around in the nude.

He opened the old door to a wood paneled Victorian style room with furniture to match the theme, Rias was as she said dressed but her hair was still damp from her shower. Good he had timed it just right "Anderson your late"

"Pres" he shook his head "Sona needed my assistance" Mirth danced in Rias's eyes at the fact he called her by her name. There was a small growl from on of the couches where Koneko the Rook of Rias sat reading a book.

That phantom pain flared again but he ignored it "What did you wish to discuss?"

"Your are being quite harsh on that boy you know"

He sighed, this again "What he does is beyond the pale for one like me to look over."

His king clucked her tongue "You are so straight laced, how have you not snapped?"

"Meditation, martial arts training and selective memory loss" he answered.

She tilted her head back and laughed, the laughter was joined in by Akeno as she entered through a side door. "Buchou have I ever told you how glad I am you keep him around?"

"Not enough"

Anderson sighed and moved to sit down, he waited for a moment as a small body moved against him and Koneko sat down in his lap. The girl had started doing this two years ago and while he had not found out yet why she did it he had gotten used to it.

Rias and Akeno found this hilarious for some reason but refused to explain to him why, the girl leaned her head back against his chest and continued reading her book. "Again what did you want to talk to me about?"

His King and Queen glanced at each other in silent communion so he was being left out of some of the loop. "There are some rumors of trouble brewing" Rias said carefully "I want you to be careful Anderson your healing factor does not mean you are invincible."

Translation he had never squared off against the power of light before and had no idea how it would affect him. So that meant there were rumblings of the Angels or Fallen, interesting and given that Rias looked ready to move on Issei he wondered if that was a consequence. It was times like this were he missed the voice in his head, while being a murderous psycho it did have good insight into things like this.

"As you command my King" he said.

1

Evening was falling and with it his energy was raising, his healing ability meant that the light of day did not affect him in any meaningful way but as the light left the sky he was privy to the boost that devil kind got from it.

He stepped off his motorcycle(Another birthday present for Rias) and parked it behind some trees. He was not worried about it being stolen out here there was little to worry about from mortals. It was perhaps twenty miles out from the city one ancient land where he began his walk up a long set of stairs hewn into the mountains.

He took the stairs ten apiece and made it to the top in decent time, there was a compound built upon a well hidden place where he was going. The doors opened by themselves and he entered removing his shoes as he did so. The compound was one long courtyard with various martial arts equipment and training devices in front of a Traditional style house with its doors open. Quietly he entered the main room where in the center a woman knelt at a table with tea in her hand.

Anderson did not say anything as he walked up to the table and took his place, the woman was small even by japanese standards. She was thoroughly aged with grey hair that hung around her head and shoulders and brown eyes that saw much more than they should. She wore a red and white martial arts gi and said nothing as Anderson took his place across from her.

Closing his eyes he centered himself drawing inward, his trials after becoming what he was had been many. For one thing contracts never summoned him ever, even when Rias had tried to force him through one it never worked. Second he was horrible at magic, the "Power of Imagination" he had tried but the power he could summon just slipped through his hands like water.

He had been forced to look outside of the peerage group to find a way to help, and boy had he found help. He did not know her name as she never told him but the women he called Master had taken him in upon finding him at her door step. Of course he had to get through the various traps and monsters that had been the women's test first but with his healing factor he had managed.

There was little doubt that she knew exactly what he was but the women never mentioned it. His body began to glow in dull blue as he activated Touki(Fighting Spirit). It was only then that had master spoke "Hummff* At least it does not take you forever anymore"

"Yes Master"

The women let out a harsh laugh "You should be proud boy few have made it as far as you have an none of them in as short amount of time." This he knew as she kept reminding him "However don't think I'll pull my punch's" Anderson seriously doubted she had ever pulled a punch in her life.

Master stood up and he followed "Come on boy time for breathing"

Both moved out to the courtyard and set themselves a foot apart, hands clasped in a prayer like motion they focused, closed there eyes and began to simply breath in and out. When Master did it the very grass, flowers and trees moved and swayed with her breath. The very mountain itself was practically created by her power built carefully over the long years of her life.

Senjutsu she called it turning one's life force and the force of those around them into power and strength. It was the one thing besides Taijutsu he was good at. It was not magic, it was not like the power of devils or the light of Angels. It was a well of power based around manipulating ones charaka or life force.

Master had called him conflicted when he first met her and he had not been told why she said that, however perhaps it was because of that conflict he had been successful at this. Senjutsu was not a devil power but it worked for him, it was kind of strange really.

Over the next several hours they trained, as he had for the past three years he listened and learned as best he could. Things wound down as midnight neared, "Sit" Master told him and he did.

He also took off his shirt as she placed her small hands on his back, instantly there aura's joined and he calmed and waited. This was not part of training, this was his payment apparently she was interested in the course of his confliction. From what little she had said of it, according to his aura there was no way or reason such an anomaly existed. He was a curiosity to her and perhaps nothing more than that but as long as he got what he wanted it was fine.

It was a strangely peaceful day at Kuoh, Anderson kept an eye on Issei but the boy seemed strangely out of it today. He heard several times the boy mention a girlfriend but no one seemed to have heard of it.

Well it did not matter, he was currently carrying a stack of papers that had been signed and filed into their proper places It was a delivery from Rias to Sona and him was the go between, it was a hassle to open the door to the student council room and just before the door opened he heard Sona's voice.

"It is unacceptable that such a danger went unnoticed even for the short amount of time it was there."

The door opened and she cut off whatever she was going to say next "Anderson-san" she said ignoring her peerage who were standing at rapt attention.

"Delivery from Rias" he told her placing the pile down on the table and after a moment he added "Sona-san"

The president blinked but then a hint of a smile touched her face before disappearing behind her professional gaze. "Thank you please convey my thanks to Rias"

"Of course" he said with a bow. "I am leaving of course so it will have to wait until tomorrow."

Her glasses flashed "Not quite, something came up and we are a bit behind at the moment and are in need of assistance."

Without a word he took a place at the table and settled in, paperwork was hell.

1

So by the time he was done with that dark had fallen and he had to hoof it back home, he did not take his motorcycle to school. Sona would not have approved and it was not worth the hassle of facing her down over it. And he would lose that face off if he tried lose it horribly so better not to fight battles he could not win.

Rias and the others of her peerage were off doing something and he had not been invited, given how abysmal his magic control was and how he had not informed her of his training it made sense that if they were going into danger a pawn like him would be a liability.

The idea of that grated hard but there was little he could do about it right now. He almost did not notice the barrier fall into place, a step behind and he would have bumped into the thing. Instantly he was alert eyes searching. He was near a fountain set in a small park that many people used for their dates, he took a second to center himself and open his mind to Senjutsu.

Doing so connected him to the world in a way few creatures of darkness or divine were ever able. There was energy in the very air around one's self power just waiting to be drawn in and harnessed. It was something a stupid person might try, that power was born of emotions, the emotions of all living things. But with that power came danger few places on earth were safe to draw in this power, negative emotions were much stronger and more common than most positive emotions. Even a place like this where people attempted to find the love of their life's had seen it share of ills. Those who used Senjutsu had to balance the amount of power they could draw in with the amount of emotion and feeling they could resist. Places like Master's home were safe areas to do this but here in the middle of a city it would easily drive him mad with power.

Thankfully Senjutsu could draw on oneself as well, a wave of chakra pinged out from him like a sonar. Instantly he felt two auras one was that of stained light, a radiance crushed by shadow and bloodlust. The other, the other was like his burning darkness, but its emotions were tinged by terror, sadness and confusion.

He took off running passing the fountain that sprayed on heedless of the brewing combat, it was a surprise to see Issei was the devil he felt. Not a large one as he knew Rias was going to make her move soon but he at least thought she would tell him about it. Just by focusing on the boy he could fell the remaining pawns, all seven inside that boy holy hell what kind of power did he have worth such a price.

Several paces away from the boy however was the source of the blood lust, it was a humanoid figure who wore a trench coat and a fedora his hair was a shock of black and his intense dark blue eyes glowed with the desire for carnage. The tell tale sign of what he was however came from the black angel wings that hung on his back. This man was one of the fallen, and Issei appeared to be his target.

As he came into sight of this the man across from Issei was saying "In which case I am allowed to kill you without consequence." as he said this a spear of blue light sprang to life in his hand.

Like a smart person Issei turned and ran, of course the fallen was ready and took a moment to aim, like a bullet he hurled the spear of light at the running boy.

Anderson made it just in time, touching the spear light directly was stupid the thing was anathema to demons. But he did have a different path, Touki created an aura around the user's body increasing all stats dramatically. He appeared in the path of the spear striking it on its side and sending it spinning off course.

Issei tripped and fell expecting to feel his chest pierced by that light, the boy realized that a shadow was standing over him. And looked up in shock to see Anderson standing between him and the psycho.

"Today is a good day" the man said "Not just one dud to destroy, I get two."

With his calm demeanor Anderson stared down the fallen saying nothing "Nothing to say beast?"

"Anderson-san" Issei called out in a panic "This guy is crazy run!"

"Yes devil run, run, it would make things more interesting certainly."

Agian he said nothing in response, "You think your silence a threat child?" the fallen laughed.

"Well if that is how you want it, die in silence!" A spear of light appeared and the fallen leapt at him swinging the light around like a sword slash. He was fast, that was true but with Touki he could match it. '

He went low going under the slash dashing forward attempting to strike his opponent. However the man wielded the spear of light like it was weightless. Bringing it around and down forcing him to dive to the side. Several thrusts so fast they seemed to be on motion blurred towards him forcing him to dance out of its range. "Fast" the man muttered hurling the spear at him. He avoided it by moving left just as the fallen wanted as he dashed forward sweeping another spear at him in an arc.

Agian he dived low under the slash, lower still he dropped sweeping his leg out catching the fallen in the legs. Of course since the fallen had wings he went skyward as he lost his footing hurling another spear at him.

Great the fallen was flying now, yet another thing he was not good at, he dodged several more spears noting that Issei had made good his escape. That was good now he just had to figure out how to deal with this thing.

The fallen seemed to realize that thrown spears weren't good enough and started diving at him, fighting an opponent in three dimensions was annoying and he did not dare face him in air. That was as good as asking to get skewered he did not so much fly as take great leaps.

One dive missed, another he dodged, the next he had to avoid a thrown spear that he damn well knew was distraction for the next dive. "Stop dodging and die" the fallen growled.

This was not a way to do a battle, the fallen had all the momentum and he had no way to counter attack effectively. *Arrgh* screamed the fallen as he dove at him with twice the speed he had previously shown. It was close he avoided the blow but the shock wave of impact knocked him spinning his hand grasped the dirt and gravel that had been knocked loose and as he came to his knees flung it outward.

The fallen who had been right on his heels took a bunch of dirt directly to the eye, enraged the fallen swung blindly at him but it was inaccurate enough for Anderson to dodge once again.

It also allowed the fight to change, the fallen pawing at his eyes missed a rather heavy book thrown with inhuman force that collide with the side of his head. Issei stood there another book in his hand pulled from his discarded school back his breathing ragged as he tagged the fallen with another book right in the bread basket. The fallen crashed to the earth in a heap gasping and struggling to his feet, Anderson seized on the chance and charged. However the fallen was not helpless and spun, his arm extend the spear of light leaping to meet his opponent.

If he avoided the fallen would take flight and he would never get another chance to fight him on the ground. The only thing he could do in this situation was take a risk, and do something stupid enough to deserve punishment. He charged heedless of the spear of light agony flooded his body as he ran himself threw on the weapon much to the fallen's surprise. He bit back a scream of pain as he pushed on and getting within arms reach. One of his hands clamped down on the fallen's shoulder squeezing hard enough to break the bone.

Anger filled the fallen's eyes as he jerked up on the spear trying to simply cut him in half, but to the shock of both the fallen and Anderson the spear cracked. He could feel his healing fighting the spear trying to force his wound closed. The force of it was enough the spear of light shattered as steam billowed out from the gaping chest wound as his healing in defiance of the powers of light closed his wound.

It was in that moment the fallen made a fatal mistake, one that was understandable but fatal all the same. He stared in shock as something that he damn well knew was impossible happening before his eyes. Not even the immorality of the Phoenix clan could simply ignore the power of light's wounds something like that was inconceivable.

Anderson focused his aura to his his right hand, while his left kept the fallen from taking flight, his arm was suffused in blue light as his hand stretched out in the knife hand position "Senjutsu Style: Strike One" he howled as his hand thrust forward "Formless Spear!" With that cry he stuck at the heart of the fallen everything focused on this one attack. The fallen tried to dodge but the hand Anderson had on his shoulders was enough to hold him for the instant needed. With the force of the blow he pierced the heart of the fallen driving his arm in up to the elbow bursting out of the things back.

The fallen made a choking sound as a spear of light tried to from in his hand, Anderson leapt back as the fallen stumbled back looking down at the hole were his heart used to be. The light that had gathered to his hand dispersed in a shock wave as the fallen tried to speak. That was when Anderson stuck again, with enemies like devils and angels there was no telling when strikes at the vital organs would not work.

He used the same attack focusing his remaining power to the tips of his fingers, this time aiming for the neck. The fallen tried to take flight but without a heart that proved difficult, Anderson's strike drove through the jugular and the brain stem hand bursting out the back of the neck in a shower of blood and bone. The fallen slumped as its life faded and the body went limp sliding off Anderson's arm to the ground a lifeless heap.

And just like that it was over, he released Touki and felt fatigue wash over his body. He felt like he could fall over but refused to do so, turning he came eye to eye with Issei who was staring at him in shock. Given how blood was covering most of his arm and shoulder and the boy was watching the last of the spear wound heal before his eyes it was probably a little much for the baby devil.

He was proved right when the boy's eyes rolled back into his head and he outright fainted, Anderson sagged as the adrenaline left him feeling weak and defenseless. So that was what battle was like, "Anderson" a voice called out sharp and afraid. Rias appeared in his vision along with Akeno and Koneko in toe.

"Oh my" the Queen exclaimed at seeing him covered in blood.

"I'm fine" he breathed out and sagged, a very strong but small from pressed against him their relative sizes made it almost comical as the seven foot tall blonde leaned over for support on the girl just over four and a half feet tall. However her being a rook ment she had the strength for it "Its not my blood" he said glanced down as his chest the wound was gone so there was no reason to tell his King that he ran himself through on a spear of light.

Rias glanced at the fallen body eyes hard looking at the damage he had wrought upon it, Akeno simply looked down at the body with an expression of surprise "You did this?"

He took a few moments to breath and let his chakra and aura go back to the way they were supposed to be, yet another risk of using Senjutsu.

"Issei helped" he said "The fallen would have skewered us if he had not hit him with the books"

Rias blinked looking at the two busted school textbooks "He did that?"

"Ya it allowed me to get the strike." Her eyes flickered over the boy and Anderson noted the warmth in them. It seemed someone had a crush and it was not the passed out baby devil, her eyes turned back to the fallen's body heard again. Power, black and red spun about her hands growing and shifting as it built. The power of the Gremory clan, the power that made them a name to be wary of, the strength that gave Rias the title Crimson haired princess of Ruin, the Power of Destruction.

The orb she conjured flashed out scorching ground and stone alike, the body vanished without a trace as well as a large chunk of the earth around it. "We are at peace with the fallen" She said with a great amount of sarcasm "No sense in leaving the body"

She turned her gaze to him eyes worried "Are you sure you're alright"

"Sore, tired, but I'm fine, not a scratch"

His best friend, his King gave him an embarrassed look "I underestimated you my pawn" She curtsied slightly "I apologize"

"I can't fly, use magic or get contracts" he said dryly "You have good reason to suspect that"

She glanced back at the scorch mark her powers had left "I did but its seems you are were hiding your strength." He shrugged "I've always been good at Taijutsu, thanks to Issei's actions I was able to use it."

"True" she nodded

"So what do we do about him" Anderson asked tilting his head at Issei "I assume you were the one that turned him?"

She nodded "A fallen angel killed him and he had a contract on him so I revived him" She smirked.

"You used the rest of your pawns to do it, he must be something special."

"Indeed" Rias said with a grin "But we will let that be a surprise" she pursed her lips in thought "He shall wake up in his bed and hopefully will come us" she gave him a worried look "You should go home Anderson, Koneko will escort you."

From the look on the small girls face she was going to do that anyway with or without permission so it once again proved to him that she was indeed worthy of the position of king.

When he attempted to stand up straight Koneko's arm held him in place "Rest" she said her normally stoic face fraught with worry "we will go slow."

Given that this girl could possibly juggle cars he was in no position to argue the point and followed her instructions. What was she worried about anyway several of the others had been in danger before and she had never shown so much worry, weird."

1

There were many ways to wake up in the morning and some of them are stranger than others, for Anderson waking up with a girl was a first. He opened his eyes as his alarm beeped off incessantly. He reached out and flicked it off putting his arm back down possessively around the small form pressed against his chest.

...why was there a small from pressed against his chest?

He opened his eyes slowly, the dimly lit room was not a problem to a devil such as him, night vision was one of the perks. He was currently laying on his side with both arms around a from who looked tiny in comparison to him. Looking down he found a mop of silver white hair that belonged to a certain that belonged to a certain Rook of the Gremory peerage.

He did not freak nor make any sudden moves nor jump to any conclusions, he simply tried to remember what had happened. She had helped him home...yes, she had carried him up the stairs...yes. Then what? Oh he had offered her the guest room to spend the night in...and apparently she had decided his bed was the guest bed.

He sat up slowly gently untangling himself from the Rook, the girl made a sound of discontent and rolled onto her back still sleeping. He noted then that she was wearing one of his shirts, the thing was almost comical on her the hem of the shirt going down to past her kneecaps the sleeves to just past her elbows. He looked over his room and noted the girls uniform that had been discarded beside his bed and a single strawberry dotted bra.

Frowning at that he rubbed at his eyes and then came to the realization that he himself was in his boxers. He distinctly remembered falling into bed with his clothing on, looking again at the Rook sleeping beside him he could not help but get the feeling he was missing something.

"Alex" his mother called

"Mother?" he answered.

"Its almost time for breakfast, you're usually down by this time"

"Sorry just had a rough night I'll be down in a bit."

"Ok but hurry up while the fish is still hot"

He turned back to Koneko to wake her up but found her missing, the turned back just in time to see his door close. Hurling himself out of bed and into some pants he made it out of his room just in time to hear his mothers startled yelp. In the kitchen area the Rook of Gremory was holding a grilled fish and eating it with great relish.

His mother turned her head to him slowly looking from the girl wearing his shirt to him in his pants alone. "Alexander Anderson...who is this?"

Great, it was going to be one of those mornings.

Kouh Academy was coming up in their sights when Koneko finally spoke in a quiet voice "Are you mad at me?"

"I really should be" he answered "But strangely no"

His mother had taken it rather well after his explanation of he had gotten extra tired and on of his classmates helped him home. The fact that it was a girl under five feet tall notwithstanding she had simply smiled and said "I'm actually relieved, you weren't showing any interest in women or men I was started to think you were asexual."

Ya that had been awkward, what had been even more so was opening his bedroom door to get dressed and getting an eyeful of pale naked back and strawberry panties. He had closed the door immediately and was still expecting her to slap him for it but she seemed oddly fine.

"Can I do it again?" the Rook asked him.

"Do what?"

"Sleep with you."

He got some strange look from a passing police officer "I would prefer it if you did not, however you may do as you wish. You are a rook and I am a pawn."

"No" she said grasping his hand "You are Anderson I am Koneko"

This was something he really liked about the Gremory clan, they did not discriminate between themselves and their servants. The Rook nodded and let go of his hand "Since you liked it I think I will do it again."

He glared half heartedly at her "What makes you say that?"

"The way you hugged me all night long"

He sighed making a note to lock the window in his room, ahead of them he noticed a commotion, a large group of people were gathered in front of the academy. The much smaller population of boy's on one side and the much larger population of girls on the other. Both were starting and talking about what they were seeing walk through their middle. His king Rias Gremory was walking beside Issei Hyoudou, Rias looked like she always did, unflappable, calm and regel. Issei looked troubled and confused, but also there was a strange air of happiness around him as the boy's eyes flickered from the girls and boy's insulting him to his Kings backside.

Anderson sighed as both of them walked into the main building, following them he came in just in time to see Issei punched into by one of his so called friends who had tears streaming down his face. Not his problem, he ignored the bromance moment Issei somehow managed to turn it into to and walked up the stairs. His king was speaking with Sona-san "Its not like you to do such a thing on a whim."

Rias smiled "I guess I have a stupid little brother all to myself now."

Anderson loomed over them and Rias turned "Glad to see you are ok Anderson ."

He nodded "Like I said no scratches"

Sona blinked "If you don't mind what happened?"

*Humm?* Rias grunted "Oh right, Anderson took on and killed a Fallen"

For a second he noted that Sona's face went pale but that vanished so fast it might have been a trick of the light. "What do you mean?"

Rias's face went hard again "One of the fallen found Issei and thought him a stray, Anderson saved his life."

The president of the student council pursed her lips "Thank you for protecting a student Anderson"

He nodded "But in the future be more careful, I would be displeased if you were...injured"

With those words she turned and walked away, Rias started giggling and Koneko made a displeased little growl as she glared after the girl. "Oh don't worry kitten" Rias said petting the Rook on the head "Your are further than she is now."

The girl looked away from her king face tinged with dots of pink "I was not able to do it naked like you said."

"Oh well you were able to do it at least."

Anderson felt a light bulb go off "You told her to sleep in my bed?"

"Of course my dear friend, I'm a devil what did you expect?"

"Why?"

"My dear friend I'm a girl do you really expect a straight answer? Besides that is one question you need to figure out for yourself." she paused "Though I must say it is quite strange that you are so smart in some areas but so dense in this one."

And with that said his King turned to walk away, he started after her "The hell did that mean?"

"Why do you insist on getting a shower now Rias" Anderson asked from his spot on the couch.

"Because my new pawn is coming over for the first time dear friend and I must look my best."

Anderson ran some numbers in his head, given that you sent Kiba-san five minutes ago he will be here before you finish"

"You really should call him Kiba he hates when you call him Kiba-san" Rias scolded him.

"Its a habit King but if you order me I will change it."

"My, my Anderson mind your manners" Akeno said "Rias does not give real orders unless it is needed, and she especially will not do so to change feature of the person."

"I know that Akeno-san its called teasing"

"Really I could not tell, its hard here to differences between you serious voice and you teasing voice, and" she said somehow glaring at him with closed eyes "We are family here, you will call me Akeno are we clear."

A hint of static danced through her hair threateningly and even though he had a healing factor this women did know how to inflict pain. "As you wish Akeno" They had conversations like this every two weeks or so, it was around that time he forget to not add the san suffix.

"I still don't get why you sent Kiba so early, you could have showered first then sent him."

"Don't worry my pawn I know what I am doing."

Koneko leaned back against him eating her treat whilst ignoring the conversion, Anderson had realised that ever since this morning it had become especially hard to...well keep himself from getting hard while she was sitting on his lap. Stupid body, stupid king's machinations, and stupid mind for not figuring out what this was about.

The door opened and Kiba entered the clubhouse Issei in toe, "What is this place?" he was asking. The boy looked around "Who is that girl?" he asked before Kiba could answer the first question "She is Toujo Koneko from Year 1" the Knight answered promptly.

Issei went off into his own little space as he leered at her, that was until he looked a little further up and noticed that she was sitting on someone's lap. How he missed the seven foot tall blonde in the room was anyone's guess. While Koneko noticed him and gave the boy a nod Anderson found himself surprisingly angry that he was leering at the girl on his lap. He did his patented glasses flash which he had shamelessly stolen from Sona. The boy gulped and turned his head away, and right into sight of the running shower where Rias was still busy.

The boy started sweating and almost drooling at what little one could see through the curtains Anderson thought he heard the boy mention art. He felt like growling but refained after all his king had healed the boy and she had done it using the semi Senjutsu method of Semi Bouchujustsu.(Bedroom method) The only thing she had not done with the boy was actually have sex with him. He could not fault the boy for having his fantasy especially when he had woken up next to a naked Rias, still it made him angry to see his best friend debased so.

Koneko stiffened suddenly and it took a moment to realize why, in his anger he had lost focus, and by losing focus there was not something big hard and long pressing into the girl's backside. He closed his eyes took a breath and willed it away, which took several seconds longer than it should have but it worked.

He was about to apologize to her when he noticed the huge grin on her face, which promptly disappeared. She did not look at him nor did she make any move to get off him, after a moments thought he decided silence was his best option.

As that was happening Akeno introduced herself to the boy, she got the same response from him that he had at the shadow of Rias. Anderson rolled his eyes shaking his head, the Queen of Rias did not seem to mind.

"Sorry about the wait Issei-kun your house did not have a shower" Said his King as she stepped out of the shower thankfully fully clothed.

"I d-don't mind at all" Issie said.

"Good" She said with a radiant smile "Since everyone is here I believe introductions are in order"

"Rias-sempi I know everyone here " the boy said with a slight bow "Um" he turned to face Anderson "Thank your for saving my life"

The tall blonde shrugged saying nothing "You do well to thank him for your life, and dont worry he's that way to all the new people. So Issei I will keep this explanation concise, all of us here, including you are devils"

The boy gulped "And that dark winged man Anderson saved you from he was a Fallen angel" Rias went into a quick explanation of the three sides. "Do you understand Issei?"

"Um its a bit deep for a normal teen like me" he said with an uncomfortable air.

Rias smirked "Amano Yumma"

The looked like he had been shot as he forced his full attention on his King's words for the first time and not her chest "You havent forgotten I suppose, you did date her after all"

"That girl did exist I am sure of it" Rias said as she tossed a picture in front of him. "Of course this girl is a fallen angel just like the man who attacked you."

"But no one remember her, no one"

"Just as I used my powers on your parents she used hers on everyone else, to make them forget once her task was completed.

The boy looked on the verge of tears "What task?"

"Killing you of course" Rias said simply

1

Anderson sat there with a large frown on his face "What's wrong" Koneko asked

"That boy..after hearing all about how his entire life was changed, hearing that he had been killed reincarnated and is now a slave….is only thinking about when at some point in the future he can build his own harem of sex slaves."

"You're too harsh Anderson" Rias said as she prepared to leave "That boy may say words like that but he would never force it on an unwilling."

"I'm not so sure about that" the blonde said

"He is the worst" Koneko agreed.

"He is eccentric" Kiba said "But what he wants is hardly uncommon, look at Raiser Phenex"

The mood in the room instantly shifted down to arctic, it was surprising to both Anderson and Kiba who looked up at Rias who was emitting such a dark aura that it cowed them into silence. Anderson gave her a questioning look but the girl did not meet his gaze "Do not mention that man's name" she whispered and left the room.

Kiba was sweating "What did I say?"

Anderson shrugged "No idea but perhaps it would be wise for us to follow her advice"

"Indeed"

He stood up and nodded to both of his fellow pieces "I will be going now"

"Goodbye" the Rook said bowing to him.

Kiba did the same as he turned and exited the building, Rias was standing off to the side staring at the moon. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing of concern at the moment" she said with an air of finality.

"As you wish, I have come to in form you that I will be gone until tomorrow evening."

His king glanced at him "Why?"

"There is someone I have to meet and it will take a while, will you convey my apologies to Sona-san."

"Depends, where are you going?"

"I prefer to keep it a secret."

*Humm* "I don't like my peerage keeping secrets from me."

"You have only to order and I will tell."

She waved her hand "I know that, but I should not have to we have known eachother since we were five you should not need to keep secrets from me."

He pondered that statement and turned his back on her "I could say the same thing to you my king"

Her flinch was audible as he walked away cursing himself for letting his emotions get in the way of his better judgment. His mother already knew he was not coming home to night, given that she was the one who had pointed him towards master the women was quite understanding.

1

Thanks to the motorcycle it was only an hour to get to her compound, Master was waiting for him as she always did. "Permission to speak master" he asked bowing before her.

She raised an eyebrow at that, it was something he had never done before "Speak brat we don't have all night."

"I assume you know what I am?"

She waved a hand at that "I knew the moment you stepped on my mountain get on with it."

He proceeded to inform her of his battle with the fallen and how he turned Senjutsu into a killing tool against him. "*hummf* why are you telling me this?" Master asked with pure annoyance in her voice "Is it supposed to shock me? Make me question my teaching you boy." her harsh laugh echoed over the mountain "Boy I teach you because you are a good student and a curiosity, I care not what you do with what I show you."

Anderson waited as the women sipped some of her tea "Any student I teach is expected to have good judgement so I don't care what you did." Her brown eyes flickered to him "I am however pleased that you remembered the strength of the basics." She stood "Lets get to work and don't ever waste my time like this again, I have far too much to teach you with this short life I have left."

1

Apparently he missed out on them taking out a stray demon, given how she had done something akin to firing acid out of her nipples he felt glad to have been away at the moment. Issei looked down about finding out he was a pawn just like Anderson was. He almost felt for the boy but as he was currently being sent on yet another contract he damn well knew was going to fail his mercy was currently lacking. Koneko had been triple booked on contracts so Rias in a vain attempt to make his square body fit in a round hole sent him after one and Issei after the other.

The house was dark as he knocked only to find the door open, normally people who summoned devil's were expecting them. No one answered as he called out to them, the house even sounded empty.

He really wanted to walk away then but if he did not give at least a token effort Rias's would scold him and he really did not want to deal with that right now. As he walked down the hallway he noted the shoft light of candles flickering over the walls of the main room. As he stalked forward wondering how if anyone was there was going to take receiving a seven foot tall man in place of a four foot six girl they had tried to summon.

A scent touched his nose coppery and metallic then, one that while he had little experience with he somehow knew what it was. As intimately as a lover and as clear the night sky, blood. The floor creaked and he saw what the smell was coming from. A corpse, male possibly human but it was impossible to tell in death. Blood was all over the floor and slowly moving under his feet. Given that in this life he had never seen such a sight he should have been feeling ill but oddly enough he just narrowed his eyes and tensed his body.

"Sinners must be punished" A voice said.

Anderson turned his eyes to the from sitting on the couch, it stood up revealing a white haired young teen. "Look at the little devil come like a fly to honey, tell me monster" the boy's head tilted and his tongue stuck out "Do you fear death."

The teen was wearing the clothing of an exorcist an agent of the church, he had only seen pictures but it matched. "My name is Freed Cerose"

Anderson said nothing as the boy continued speaking even doing a little dance "I am a boy-priest, performing devil exorcisms for mankind."

He glanced from the body on the floor to the boy dancing before his eyes, "Well... say something you shitty devil or do you wish to die in silence?"

"That is a human there" Anderson said voice cold "Did you kill him?"

"Of course!" Freed said in a singsong voice "He was in league with the devil and had to be purged."

"So much for the churches mercy and forgiveness." Anderson said with a glare. For the briefest moment he felt a stirring inside him something he had not felt in three years. But it was gone the moment after it was felt and he forced himself to ignore it. "Forgiveness?" the exorcist laughed "They may teach that but" he licked his lips "I think that it's just so much easier" he reached his hands in to his coat pockets "And so much more fun to kill them in the shittest way possible."

"Surely you know of it devil, the sound of voices pleading for mercy as you take their life?"

"No" Anderson said power gathering to him "I do not"

It should not have been humanly possible how far the man tilted his head "Oh, did I make you mad?" his hands flashed out a gun in the left hand a sword of light in the other "Let me help you by making you dead. Let my sword price your heart devil and vanish before my divine justice" the man's eyes were utterly crazy as he leapt at him sword swinging. "Tokai" Anderson whispered aura springing to life around him.

He blurred under the sword avoiding it, Freed flew past him and shot at him. The bullet pierced his leg and pain similar to the spear of light flared through him. But that did not matter, his healing reacted and closed the wound, repaired the bone.

"Ohh" the boy cooed as Anderson's turned to face him "No devil so far has failed to scream for Futsumata, did I miss?"

The exorcist was ready for his move but what he was not prepared for was the speed Tokai allowed Anderson to throw his body around. He stuck the boy in the chest even as said boy leapt backward. It launched him across the room bouncing him off the wall, however the boy was tough as he landed on his feet. Blood leaked from his mouth "Oh! this really gets me in the mode for an exorcism, fight me you shitty devil.

The boy blurred forward and as Anderson tired avoid the strike he found himself bumping into a wall, shit this room was too small for someone as big as him to move effectively. The sword of light blurred down for a killing strike and he did the only thing he could do. He blocked it with his arm and moved to the right, Tokai slowed the blade slightly as the light went clean through his arm. There was a stench of quantized flesh and a flash of agony as he got out of the way his arm lopped off by the sword of light.

"Well well" the boy crowed "I love this smell" he laughed even louder "Did you sacrifice your one arm to survive devil? I hate to tell you but its useless" he did that last word in his sing song voice.

Anderson silently glared at him body tensed, they were both interrupted by a scream. Behind them staring at the body of the dead human was a girl, she was blonde, very cute even to someone like Anderson. She wore a nuns outfit and her face was pale with horror "My, my how did you break through the barrier Asia-chan" Freed asked.

"W-what is this?" the girl whispered .

"Oh my Asia this is what we do" he gestured to the body like one would to a work of art "We kill humans who have gone astray with the devils"

The girl turned her eyes to him face even paler as she looked down at his arm of the floor "No, no, no" She whispered.

"We also kill devils, we kill so that we might survive on the words of a fallen. You don't want to die do you Asia-chan?"

He raised his sword again pointing it at Anderson "Now if you resolve is ready Devil lets end your life right here?"

Before either could move the girl threw herself in front of him "No you cant"

"For real?" Freed asked "You don't know him Asia?"

"I'm begging you Father please forgive him, please let him go."

"Do you know what you are asking?"

"This" she pointed at the dead body "This can't be what God would approve of"

Those words seemed to enrage the exorcist and his sword blur, for an instant Anderson wondered if he had just killed her. Then the front of her clothing split open as naked skin spilled out into the dimply lit room "You shitty women! Do ya have worms for brains?"

He grabbed her arms and slammed her into the wall "I need to be careful so she won't get mad but someone needs punishment."

Freed roughly grabbed the girl's breast "An unsullied nun gets fucked by a priest is it just me or is that kind of hot?"

The girl screamed in pure terror, and that was when a blunt force stuck the exorcist upside the head knocking him away from the girl. "Ow, ow can't you wait your turn dev" the boy cut off his words in mid sentence staring in shock. Staining before the girl Alexander Anderson pawn of the Gremory faced him where the arm had been cut off a mass of muscle had grown back and with his good arm he had just... "Did you just hit me with you own severed arm?" the boy asked ludicrously.

Indeed Anderson held his cut off arm by the wrist, both the exorcist and the nun watched in stunned fashion as the right arm, the one that had been cut off fully grew back a fresh layer of skin covering the muscle's that were visible to the naked eye.

The exorcists looked to the regrown arm, and to the old one he had cut off mouth open "That's just not fair shitty devil"

Without a word Anderson dropped his coat on Asia covering her nakedness, his eyes boiled with rage held back by the dam of his will.

"Well, this just got even more fu" Freed started to say when Anderson blurred forward using his the arm as a club, the first strike caught the man across the chin knocking him back. The mans gun flicked out and unloaded shot after shot into his chest but he just moved forward ignoring the bullets as one does to bee stings. He struck again forcing the man down the hall, the sword of light blurred towards him but Anderson had the initiative. He swung his old arm at the man's wrist knocking the only real threat to him clean out of his opponents hand. Agian and agian he stuck his rage exploding through his will, "arr" Freed howled as he was pushed further and further back until his shoulders hit the door of the house.

Anderson howled his own rage Tokai appearing without him telling it to as he stuck the exorcist with mighty strike. The force of it blew sent the boy clean through the door and tumbling out onto the street. He rolled until he smashed back first into the concrete wall.

"I'll *gasp* kill *gasp* you *gasp* shitty devil."

Anderson kicked his teeth in with his next strike and beat the boy into unconsciousness with his old arm, after that he stood there for a moment breathing hard. He almost felt like laughing, his healing factor had just grown him a new arm, holy freaking shit.

He looked down at the broken body of the exorcist before him, he has struck down a fallen for less that what this man had done. But...he was not ready to kill a human yet and this one was down for the count.

Turning away from him he went back into the house, the girl was where she had fallen last holding his coat against her like it was the warmest blanket. She whimpered as he loomed over her glasses flickering in the candle light. As he leaned down she closed her eyes and tensed, what ever she was expected it was not him picking her up like the featherweight she was was and walking out of the house.

His skin burned as her cross pressed against him but he ignored it, this girl hard put her life on the line for him he could deal with pain. Tensing his legs he lept skyward his wings sprouting out, as he has mentioned before he could not fly very well. But he could jump, he could use the wings as a boost for such a feat.

The girl screamed at first in terror, then in delight as the feeling akin to a roller coaster hit her like a truck. He landed with a ground feeling his bones crack under the strain only to heal just as fast as he lept skyward again. It only took eight hops like this to find his destination. He landed in front of the old school building leaving a small crater and once again forcing his legs to go through the process of break and heal.

Asia looked around them face confused, he opened the doors of the Occult club house and stepped inside. Apparently Issei was currently bemoaning his current start to his King "Why Buchou? He wanted me to cosplay as a girl."

"That is where you must be wise and clever Issei-kun you have to" she trailed off as her eyes flickered over to Anderson and forze. He knew he must look a sight, white dress shirt filled with bullet holes, blood spattered everywhere. One sleeve completely missing and an arm several shades whiter than the rest of his body. Normally his healing factor kept the same skin tone but he guessed when in came to regening entire body parts it did not care as much. Oh yes and he was carrying what was obviously a blond nun whose cross was currently pressed against his bare skin and steaming as it boiled away and healed in consecutive order.

"A-Anderson what?"

"Asia!" Issei cried out rushing over them.

The girl's eyes furrowed in confusion "Issei-san?"

The boy glared at him "What did you do her!"

"..." well how the fuck could he answer that. He stepped past the boy knocking him aside by sheer weight. Gently he laid the nun on the couch, reaching under it where several blankets were stored and handing her it. "T-thank you" she whispered as she wrapped herself up self consciously.

He stepped back as Issei pushed passed him "Asia-chan are you ok?"

Anderson turned to Rias "her shirt has been cut would you mind giving her a spare one?"

His king just stared at him "What happened?" she asked again.

"Rias, please" he said "I'll tell you in a moment"

"Akeno" Rias said.

"Yes Rias" the Queen answered moving over to the Nun "Issei-kun move so I can get her dressed"

"Y-yes" the boy said flushing as the Queen picked the nun up who squeaked in surprise and carried her into the shower area. A moment later her worried voice sounded "My my who did this to you?"

Issei grabbed him by his torn shirt "What did you do to her you bastard."

"Issei" Rias snapped her voice angry. The boy flinched as this was the first time he had heard her angry voice.

Anderson sighed, and with little effort pried the boy's arms off his shirt "As you can guess the contract did not go so well."

Rias just started at him "The mark was dead when I arrived" he paused for a moment "An exorcist killed him...badly"

Rias paled "The man was waiting for me and we had a fight," he moved his head towards Asia's direction "That girl tried to save me and thats how she wound up in that state."

His king grabbed his hand holding it up, the mark of the Gremory clan glowed "Why wasn't I informed of your danger" she hissed.

"Going by what you told my it will only activate when I am in mortal danger." he shrugged "Apparently I was not close enough to death for it to work."

Her eyes flashed dangerously "What happened to the exorcist?"

Anderson shrugged "He's alive, has no teeth a concussion, two broken arms and a host of broken ribs but he's alive."

"You..you fought and exorcist and won?"

He gave her a flat look "Did you expect any less my king?"

Her mouth opened then closed several times as her eyes flickered over his shirt "You were wounded?"

He shrugged "Not bad enough that my healing could not take care of it"

Her hand traced the bullet holes in his shirt, "But these must have been blessed"

Anderson shrugged "Perhaps his bullets weren't blessed"

She shivered "You are lucky he did not have a sword of light"

He debated saying anything but decided against it "I guess" he said.

"Why did you bring her here?"

"Because it was better than leaving her in a house with a dead body and a deranged psychopath"

His king sighed "still a nun here?"

"It seems Issei knows her"

The both turned to the boy who looked deathly pale "Care to explain how?" Rias asked.

1

"I know what you said Anderson but strip and let me look at you" The pawn of Germory stared at his king in annoyance. "You did not want to look last night?"

"I trusted you enough that you would tell me if you were in danger. But now its been a day and I need to see for myself that your healing factor is woking."

Across from them Koneko was watching in with rapt attention, Anderson sighed "If you take of YOUR shirt King, I'm leaving."

"But skin on skin contact is the best way to heal injuries."

"Then thank goodness I have a healing factor"

He moved slipping off his coat, the door to the club room opened and as Anderson was in the midst of unbuttoning his shirt when Sona Striti walked into the room. "Rias I…" she trailed off of a moment as Anderson continued unabashed in striping off his shirt.

Behind him he could feel Rias wicked grin at her Rivals reaction, he did not understand why he got such a reaction from the President he did not have a six pack or anything, just washboard abs and lean muscle. "Your arm?" Sona asked instantly recovering her stutter.

He almost cursed out loud, Rias had not thought much of it but someone like Sona would wonder. "I got into a fight" he said waiving the paler arm "With an exorcist"

"What!" she asked voice hard.

Rias spoke as she touched his back hands glowing "One of the people contracted to my clan attempted to summon help as he was being murdered. We of course did not know this and Anderson was sent, he apparently beat the exorcist half to death. However he was shot doing it."

"You were shot?" Sona asked her voice harsh "Why are you just healing him now?"

Rias pursed her lips in thought, then shrugged "Anderson does not have a sacred gear, nor does he have any hereditary powers of note." she paused "He does however have an ability to heal, its limits neither I nor him know of."

She frowned turning her voice to him "The metal is still in you I can't tell how many."

Sona stepped beside her friend and rival touching his back "Fourteen pieces" she said insistently "...you were shot fourteen times"

The pawn shrugged "Does not matter, I suspect that either my body will break them down or…." he paused "You might want to step back this could be gross" the girls blinked.

"Rias do we still have the ratty old blanket that we said we would throw out but never did?"

Still confused she went to a closet and pulled it out, nodding he covered the couch and sat long ways across it. He closed his eyes and imagined what he wanted, there was silence for a moment as he body processed his command. Then fourteen points of pain lanced through him "What are you" she was cut off as a piece of metal forced its way through the skin of his back and fell onto the old blanket in a spatter of blood. The hole closed as five more pieces of metal did the same thing, it was like fourteen really large really painful zits that had to carve there way through his body before exploding. He really had to give it to the President, his King and her Rook. The three of them did not show any disgust at seeing what had happened, he stood up wrapping up the metal like a sack with the old blanket.

"It worked" he told the room.

Rias said "I'm almost afraid to ask but what worked"

Sona however answered for him eyes sparking "I see, your healing was it, it just makes you able to fight again healing injuries as fast and efficient as possible. That does not mean the best way possible. It just simply closed up the wounds and segregated the metal from your body. Most likely with small sacks of membranes but you just willed it into action in such a way that it pushed out the metal in order to fully heal.

Anderson blinked "I was just going to say that I willed the metal out but your's sounds much more plausible."

"Thank you"

"Can I get dressed now?" he asked his King "I feel like I'm a piece of meat."

Koneko and Sona both looked away sharply, Rias laughed out loud "Yes you may my pawn, make sure to throw that away and" she paused "Go check on Issei, he took our...guest out so that she could...experience the world."

He buttoned up his shirt "You sound Jealous my king"

Rias flushed at his words "I am not!"

He winked at Sona "Really now?"

The president of the student council struggled to hold back laughter as she no doubt felt it would be unbefitting of a woman of her station. "Anderson" Rias growled.

He held up his hands in surrender "Yes my king"

Picking up the now useless blanket he deposited in the trash can and waved bye to Koneko, Sona stepped beside him and he raised an eyebrow "Didn't you need to talk to Rias?"

"I do but it can wait, I will escort you all the way to the entrance."

"You do know what that will do the rumor mill Sona-san?"

The girl, the unflappable head of the Student Council leader of her own well established and strong peerage actually blushed at his comment "A-a leader l-like m-myself does not debase herself by listening to s-such b-baseless accusations.

He was missing something he knew it but damned if he could tell what "As you wish" he told her.

Behind them Rias was on the floor laughing, while Koneko was giving him look that made his right shin shrek in phantom pain. What in the nine hells was he missing about this situation?

So pawn and Rival king walked across campus to the stares of all, well this was going to give the school something to talk about for the next month or until Issei did something stupid. "You never did say what happened to your arm Anderson-san"

He glanced at her "You are not my king I do not need to answer."

Her lips pursed "Your healing factor seems to be battle based from what I understand, the healing done to your back also included skin tone as there were no marks at all of it happening. What could cost so much to heal that it ignored skin tone as a waste of energy."

"You don't need to show me your mind is powerful Sona-san everyone knows that"

They reached the gate "Is that what you think Anderson?"

He paused "It is also most likely as beautiful as you are"

1

By the time he was out of sight of the school gate Sona was still standing where she had stopped a blank expression on her face. Now why the hell had he said that? He berated himself, sure it had seemed like the right and true thing to say but surely he would know better than to be hitting on those above him. Sure they were lovely but they were above him and interest in one such as him was unlikely. He was not even like Issei in that regard, the boy had taken all of Rias's other pawns to reincarnate which put his potential at a virtually unlimited level. But this did not explain what he was missing about the actions Sona and Koneko were doing around him was it some sort of game his betters played?

He opened his phone and glanced down at it, Rias had put an app on there that allowed him to track others with the mark of the Gremory as long as he had permission. Since she had told him to go check on Issei that meant a red dot appeared on the minimap of his pone. Apparently he and what he assumed was the Nun girl were headed for that large man made pond slash fountain thing. He saw it as a large waste of money to build but from what he remembered it did look nice.

It was far enough away that it took a brisk jogging pace to get there in good time, he sensed it then an explosion of light as he burst through a barrier. The girl Aisa as on the ground while Issei was stumbling around in the fountain pond having apparently been blown into it by the explosion Anderson had felt.

Standing above Asia and watching Issei flail about in water was a fallen, the wings gave it away of course. She was a tall women dark haired, well formed and wearing what looked like stripper wear that had met a extremely zealous lawnmower.

"Next time i will hit and do you think you can heal him in time?" she was saying to Asia.

He almost got her at that moment, senjutsu could not be sensed normally it was a different power source than light or magic. Had this fallen been solely relying on her supernatural sense to defend her from surprise she would have died right then.

The fallen angel lept back with a yelp as Anderson struck at her head fingers poised in the Formless spear strike. The fallen's leap carried her over thirty feet away "Anderson-san" Issei called hope filled in his voice.

Asia stared up at him "Anderson-sama" she whispered.

"Oy" the Fallen said annoyance clear in her town "You devils keep coming up like rodents to be squashed." her head tilted "Although that was a good attack, it might have hurt me."

He did nothing but give a slight smirk as blood flared out from the fallens cheek, the girl's eyes widened in shock as she touched the warm liquid on her face "What I dodged?"

Anderson held up the tips of his fingers, each had a slight bit of blood on them, a spear of light streaked towards him and he side stepped dashing at the Fallen women. Just as fast she formed another pair of spears, she waited until he was close then threw one of them through his shoulders. He grunted and pushed forward, as she stabbed at him with the other, as with the previous fallen he ran himself through on her spear. The Nun screamed in shock and the Fallen's eye glowed with victory. Until she realized he was powering on through to get close to her, once again he almost got her. The women's reflexes were commendable as she leapt back a safe distance a spot of blood dripping over her heart.

The spear's shattered in his body as the wounds closed, the fallen watched with interest "Tall as a house" she said "Ugly as fuck and beat me almost to death with his own severed arm" She frowned "He was wrong about the ugly part your decent looking in a rugged sort of way."

"How is toothless doing" Anderson asked calmly.

"Oh he's annoyed about being toothless" Her hand blurred as she hurled another spear at him "And I'm annoyed at having to deal with his complaining."

He tilted his body to avoid the attack, even as he did so the fallen was on him her spear blurring right to left. Focusing his aura to his arm he took a risk and blocked the attack, sparks exploded as the light was stopped a centimeter away from his skin. Of course focusing Tokai to a single part of the body meant while that area it was focused became stronger the speed and strength of the body as a whole was lost.

She jerked the spear back and swung it down like a sword, he blocked it again with his arm and kicked at her knee. Even without Tokai his large body had plenty of power behind it, there was a cracking sound as the fallen screamed leaping back and hurling the spear at him.

He was not fast enough with his aura focused to his arm and the spear detonated blowing a howl the size of a basketball in his side. He hissed quietly as he was pushed back teen feet, the fallen was smiling at him "How is that devil?" her voice was sultry "Being pierced by my spear?"

The smile vanished as skin bone and muscle convulsed and twisted healing the damage and closing the hole in his side. Anderson smiled darkly "I'm a little disappointed, it looked impressive but went off so fast."

The women seemed frozen in shock "What the hell are you?"

"The pawn of Rias Gremory" he answered, his aura went back into place and he charged the fallen. She lept skyward her wings snapping out as she spun hurling several spear, no not aimed at him.

Issei cried out as on took him in the leg just as he about reached Asia, in that moment of distraction there was a glimmer of light. A spear pierced his head "Grow that back" the fallen said.

The body fell over as she glided past him, Issei face pale forced himself to his feet "Oh child, you are endlessly amusing perhaps I should have kept you longer."

It was then she noted the shock in the boy eyes and he was not looking at her, the fallen whirled, Anderson stood back up the spear of light still stuck between his eyes. There was a cracking sound as the light shattered and the boy turned to the fallen blood dripping down his face but the hole closed.

Her voice was quiet almost horrified at the sight "What the fuck are you?" she asked again.

"A very good distraction" he answered.

"What?"

It was then with her attention focused completely on him when Issei made his move, he leapt at her back doing a perfect left hook "BOOST!" came a voice from his hand as Anderson realized that Issei had used his sacred gear.

The Fallen girl was sent spinning bouncing off the water of the fountain like a stone, Anderson and Issei took position in front of Asia.

Then the water started to boil "YOU!" the women howled "YOU little brat!" Power exploded out from her "I am Raynare of the Grigori! And I will not be humiliated by a low class Twice critical and a fucking monster." She glared at both of them "I love how you both put yourselfs in front of my pet since neither of you will let her die" Around her spears formed free of her hands "I know Issei-kun can't heal so" She pointed finger like a gun and said "Vanish"

Anderson moved just fast enough to interpose himself between Issei and the attack, four spears hit im in various parts of the chest and three in his head "Vanish and be gone!" she screamed as they exploded blowing Issei back.

The light faded and to put it bluntly most of Anderson's chest and head had been blown completely apart showering the area in blood. But somehow the body still stood, Issei forced himself to his feet "Heal" he yelled "Heal damn you"

There was a cracking sound and Raynare moaned in fear as flesh and blood boiled, eyes, brain, organs reformed, bone reset and regrew and flesh covered the wounds. She made her move then dashing past the still healing Anderson "NO!" Issei cried as she tackled Aias.

"I don't want to go back" the girl cried. The fallen did not even give a parting insult as her wings engulfed herself and the girl and she vanished into a teleport.

"Asia!" Issei screamed.

There was a snap as Anderson let out a hiss and reason returned, he fell to his knees breathing hard, he could sense from Issei's cry what had happened they had failed.

1

*slap* "No means no Issei no matter how many times you ask, you must forget about her you are part of the Gremory clan now."

"Then release me and I will go on my own" the boy snarled.

Anderson simply listened to his King, he had said nothing since they had gotten back Issei was better with words from the heart.

"You wont miss a pawn like me"

"Be silent!" the King snared Anderson tuned the conservation out, he had been on the receiving end of it several times. The pawn while being the weakest piece was capable of promotion under special circumstances.

He tuned back in when she started talking about his sacred gear "I know it multiplies my power, Yu...the fallen angel told me."

Rias reached over and wiped away a tear from his eye "Remember the sacred gear moves in accordance with the users will, the stronger the will the stronger the effect."

Issei started after the girl as she moved to the side with Akeno and disappeared, Anderson almost smiled she had not given them an order. Issei turned his eyes boiling "So you're going then?" Kiba asked

"Just try and stop me" Issei whispered.

"You will be killed." the Knight said with completely certainly.

Anderson stood up popping his shoulders, Kiba blinked "You to Anderson?"

Koneko eye's bored into him "You never go against Rias."

"I never had a reason to." he answered "Besides she has recognized the church as enemy territory it is well within the rights of her pieces to remove that threat unless specially ordered not to."

Issei stared at him "Rias is much more that a pair of breasts boy remember that."

That almost brought a grin to the boy's face "Ok"

There was the sound of metal on scabbard "This is beyond reckless but that is what I Like about you Issei." Kiba said in his perfect calm "Count me in"

Koneko looked upon all of them her face blank "Are you coming to Koneko?"

The girl glanced at Anderson "I don't trust you alone, you will do something stupid."

"I wouldn't worry" Issei said "He grew like his whole head back just a few hours ago."

That brought a huge round of silence as Anderson massaged his temple "You could not have kept quiet about that could you?"

"A-N-D-E-R-S-O-N" the girl said her voice deadly.

He sighed turning his back to the lot of them "Later" he whispered and walked out into the night "We can talk about this later."

1

They stood in front of the old Church "There is a lot of killing intent coming from there" Kiba said

Issei was sweating "I am so glad you came along"

"Were friends aren't we?" The Knight started.

And he would not miss a chance to strike a blow against the forces that dove him to the Gremory Anderson thought but did not say.

"Koneko?" he asked.

The girl stepped in front him and kicked the door to splinters "Thank you" He said walking into the darkened room, the place was way too quiet to be natural.

"What a terrible place" Issei whispered.

"Oh yes" A voice sounded out.

Anderson sighed "great"

A fully healed Freed stepped out of the shadows "Oh thank god above for he had delivered you to me and you without your arm to beat me with."

"You look rather well" Anderson said mildly.

"Raynare let Asia heal me before beginning the ritual" he did a little spin.

Rituals never sounded good and often weren't good "Hey you asshole priest where is Asia?" Issei shouted.

"Who are you?" the Exorcists asked tongue hanging out "No matter, the shitty demon loving sister is back that way in the underground ceremony room." the grin became manic "Not that it will matter cause you all be dead!" he pointed at Anderson "Except for you, the memory of you beating half to death with you own severed arm" He put has hands under his chin "That's going to keep me going for a long time"

"...ew.." Anderson grunted

"I'll keep you as a pet and cut off your limbs as much as necessary to" he was cut off as he was forced to dive away from a pew that Koneko had thrown with bone melting force. "Anderson" she hissed "Your arm?"

"Later" he snarled as the insane priest charged him only to be blocked by Kiba's blade. "Please don't forget about me priest-kun" the Knight said with a smile "I'll be sad if you do" The two clashed blades, Freed wielding his gun and blade combo like a master dealing with Kiba's superior speed by using the bullets as deterrents. At the same time he was also dodging pew's that there enraged rook was throwing at him. Which was a little weird, normally she only got mad when you called her small. What had gotten her so worked up?

"I dont want to fight you" Freed snarled pushing Kiba away and leaping at Anderson "What I want is you" he lept forward pure ecstasy in his eyes. "Issei" Andeson said septing to the side avoiding the attack "Promotion" the boy howled "Rook"

He personally did not like using that ability, relying on a power that was not his normally was just asking for trouble when it was not there. But given the boy was only a several day old devil he could cut him some slack.

Freed did not seem to notice turning to face him "Fight me" he howled just as Issei punched him in the back. The Rook powered punch sent the man tumbling through pews and rock "Hey, hey shitty devil you can just bust in on" He squawked as Koneko nailed him with another pew slamming him against the wall. "No fair, not fair" Freed whined leaping up to the broken cross "Theres to many for a proper man's fight" He held out a small vial pointing at Anderson "We will meet again monster" he paused and gave a thoughtful look "Unless Raynare kills you but even so goodbye"

There was a bright light and when it cleared the man had vanished, Anderson moved forward tossing aside a bookshelf that was covering a staircase. Together they ran down the hall that and a familiar voice spoke out as they entered the ceremony room. "A little later than I expected, perhaps Freed had some use after all."

The place was right out of a horror show, fifty or so hooded men chanting in front of stairs that led up to a cross shape. It was wide and flat green energy writhing beneath its stone, upon that was chained the girl in a mockery of the original crucifiction held there by chains. Asia was screaming her body glowing with that horrid light, Kiba's eyes were wide, there trying to take the sacred gear out of her" he cried.

"Done trying" Raynare corrected as Asia's cries reached a crescendo.

-(Internal Anderson)-

Time seemed to stop, everything froze, everything, from the writhing energy to the Innocents screams. And just like that he found himself standing in darkness the picture his eyes were seeing standing before him like a TV screen.

Then he heard something, something he had not heard in three years "And so the devil fails does he?"

He turned slowly to the voice speaking, hanging bound by ribbons of dark fabric cocooned in them was...was himself. The face, that face was all he could see and it was older than his, it had scars under his eyes, and a stubble upon its chin. But it was him or at least something wearing the same face.

They eyes of this..this other him looked up to the picture before him "This is what you should have expected boy becoming a monster."

Anger flared "From where I'm standing the monsters are trying to save a life."

The other him's laugh was painful almost heart broken "Isn't that the point?" the eyes looked up "Is this what you wanted watcher! Me so see a world where everyone I know is upside down and inside out."

Anderson waved a hand in disgust "You're not helpful, you're never helpful." He turned away "Let me out of here I have to save her."

"I did not pull you in her boy, you did that yourself." the boy fell silent. "We both you know you can't do anything at least not soon enough, in the next second that innocent will die." The voice of this Anderson sounded even more bitter "Such a child of God should not suffer a fate like that."

"Then do something!" Anderson snarled at the bound from.

"Do what boy?"

"Can you save her?"

"I'm locked away in your head, so no."

He needed something, he needed to save her and he could not make it in time "What if you weren't locked? I must have come here for a reason?"

The other him stared "You have no Idea what I am, no idea of what I can do, for all you know if I am released I will devour your soul...and you will just let me loose?"

"Can you save her?"

"WHY SHOULD I!" the voice yelled blood boiling in his voice "Why should I help a devil like you."

Fist clenched "You'll let an innocent die because your hate?" Anderson snarled "You're no better than a monster yourself."

The other him when limp again his voice tired and almost broken sounding "I know"

The rage left "Why, why was I sent to watch this, to see a devil in the right and those born of light in the wrong."

"Help me voice, you must, you have to, there must be something you can do"

The face, the older face, the worn face looked at him "Why, why must you be in the right child? Why can I not judge you as I should." …. the nothing stretched on between them as time stood still. "I will help you"

Anderson looked up.

"Not for you boy, not for your friends, but for the sake of an Innocent."

He walked up to the bound figure and grabbed a sash of black ribbon and pulled gently, the man fell from the wrappings standing in front him they were as tall as each other but this man was broader, stronger, more powerful.

The other him tilted his head as if listening to someone "I can do this for free once boy, but try this again and there will be...consequences. The older him vanished leaving him in the blackness along with the screen watching his life. He felt a new presence stand beside him, a different man, shorter than he but...somehow more real, more present. The man wore a pair of jeans, old boots, a white shirt and denim jacket and his black hair some how shown against the dark backdrop.

"Hello Anderson" the man said and everything on his body vibrated at that voice "I am the watcher and we have much to discuss."

1

The girl's screams reached a crescendo as a light appeared over her heart, there was a bare instant before the ritual would be complete and her life would be taken.

It seemed inevitable, unstoppable, that was until there was a sound like a gunshot as stone shattered. The girl's screams were cut off as the energy inside the cross was disrupted, disrupted by a bayonet. It was a strange weapon two feet long with a wooden handle. It truly resembled a sword more than anything else, there was nothing particularly special about the weapon save for one thing. It was currently buried two feet in stone cross. Green light danced around the weapon like electricity, at the same time a shockwave of force with Anderson at the center exploded outward. Dust and aura twisted around his body like flickering flame "It is comforting" He said.

It was a voice that caused all to shiver in fear, human, devil, fallen "That even here Rituals are so….fragile" The ritual cross shimmered as it tired to finish its task. Four blur's of silver priced the top, sides and bottom dispersing and disrupting even more enegry. "Creatures of Darkness" He said walked forward "His eyes looked over the hooded and masked men who had been complicit in this "Monsters in mortal flesh"

Two Bayonets simply appeared in his hands, his twisting arua took shape falling into the form of a flickering grey duster. Aura strong enough to take real shape in the physical world, the final form of Tokai(Fighting Spirit).

"Are these before my eyes ones who would dare stain innocence?" The wooden handles cracked with the strain he put on them "Do you strike at a child of God before my gaze?" He ignored the agony that flared through his head at that word.

There were fifty men there and each were frozen as this boy approached them, light flickered off the silver blades. The glasses made his eyes look like twin points of light, "W-what are you doing?" Raynare screamed "He's going to ruin everything"

Trembling hands drew forth swords of light and blessed gun's "I would tell you that I'm sending you to hell" Anderson said calmly "But for all I know that's a good thing so, I'm just going to kill you."

He was among them in the course of one step to the other moving at speeds perhaps equal to that of Kiba. They could not react in time arc's blood flow tracing along the curved slash of his bayonets.

Above them Raynare turned eyes blazing at the ruin of her plans turning to the girl on the cross she moved. Only a to find bayonet thrown hard enough to blast through her chest that sent her ten feet back and pinned her to the wall. Her scream was something truly hideous and wonderful to the temporally reborn Judas Priest.

Around him men fell some missing heads other's cut nearly in half, bullets tugged at him most bouncing off his semi real duster of aura. The head shots stung but were no real danger to him, blades of light stabbed and slashed. But the aura combined with his healing allowed him to fight without defence unreservedly taking hits to deliver killing blows to these false shepherds.

Then the devils were at his back, the shock of his sudden bloody assault had worn off for them, at least physically. It was funny neither devils sturk to kill as they joined the melee, but it did not matter. He had shattered their resolve in the.. one of the exorcists appeared behind the she devil sword of light poised to stab at her unprotected back.

Three bayonets appeared between Anderson's fingers as he hurled them at the man stringing his heart head and left lung at the same time. The angel's dust paused for a moment looking at his hand, his body had just moved on its own. No that was not it, the boy's emotions, will and feelings were still strong within it.

So it seemed he could not bring harm to these devils even indirectly shame or perhaps that was a good thing after all in this fucked up world these creatures were the good guy's so far.

The boy with the red gauntlet dashed passed him through the clearing of exorcists, several tried to stop him only to meet firsts, swords and bayonets covering the boy's dash. An exorcist ran him through with his blade of light to which the one formerly known as the monster of God smiled as he took off his head. The blade of light cracked and shattered under the force of his healing factor.

Above them the Fallen was struggling to pull the blade pinning her to the wall out of her stomach, all the while Issei was struggling with the chain's holding the Innocent. Raynare saw this and her face became mottled with rage "NO I lied to my superiors for this plan YOU CAN NOT HAVE HER DEVIL"

Holding up her hand a spear of light flung itself outward towards Issei only to be met halfway by a silver Bayonet. The opposing weapons shattered as Issei's sacred gear announced "Boost" as he struggled against the chains.

Beside him Kiba was struggling against his many opponents, Anderson watched in annoyance as this borrowed body of his moved on its own. A wave of bayonets sailed passed the devil, piercing skulls and chests alike breaking the tide around him. Behind him several more used this change to each pierced him with their blades of light. One pierced his heart another his lung and the third his liver. Even his Tokai armament had trouble stopping a thrust from one of these weapons, turning with such force that it ripped the blades from there hands he swung his blade taking all three of them in one attack and sended there blood spattering over their fellows.

"Come to me those that are false" he howled "Goats to be sorted by my hand" He blurred between several more of them and more scarlet blood flew, their weapons of light could not slay him, there bullets could not harm him. Their training could not stop him, they were not fast enough, they were not strong enough. But most of all they did not have the will, the will to strike this monster down, this monster fighting for an innocent.

"Come on" Issei howled "Are you listening you stupid gear give me more power."

"Its useless Issei-kun" Raynare snarled "You're twice critical can never"

"Boost!"

"What?"

The chains began to bend as the boy pulled "Come on! This can't be all" Issei screamed "I don't care where or how just give me power!"

"Explosion" The gauntlet said. Green light, bright, alive and powerful sent a shock wave from the boy.

"Issei-kun" the blonde girl whispered.

"Arrrrhhhh" screamed the devil "Boost" The gauntlet howled again and the chains shattered to pieces.

The innocent fell forward limp and the devil caught her "NO, NO, NO" The fallen screamed ripping the bayonet out of her chest leaping at boy spear in hand.

"You were going to kill her" Issei whispered "You fucking bitch!" he screamed and his gauntlet met the spear of light destroying it.

"What?" the fallen gasped as the red gauntlet smashed against her chest sending her through the stone cross. The boy started at his hand before shaking himself and standing back up leaping down and backwards.

Exorcists swarmed to get in his path but between the Knight, Rook, and Regenerator they were able to get no where.

Issei stopped behind them "Go" Kiba yelled deflecting sword blows "We'll handle this"

Koneko nodded taking a small cut to her arm, the man who managed it got four bayonets in the junk for his troubles.

"NO" Anderson said his voice echoing, he leapt dark wings sprouting from his back he swung his hands back and forth hurling over thirty bayonets in the course of several seconds driving back the remnants of the exorcists.

"Devil's" he said addressing the three "Go, all of you"

He could still sense the fallen, she was not defeated yet "Anderson" Kiba said.

The boy froze as the temporary Anderson turned his gaze upon him "Protect the Innocent devil" he said slowly "No GO!"

Kiba saw it immediately, everything there had heard the change in his voice, the strange way of words and the utter bloody slaughter his fellow piece had wreaked upon the men before them. But it was his eyes, this man before him was not the one he knew, never before had he seen such resolve coupled with such confused anger. The man looked like he want to hug and run him through at the same time. Like there were two minds warring with each other in the same head.

He did the smart thing, the only thing "Ok then I leave it to you, Koneko, Issei let's go"

"But" the boy said.

"NOW!" Anderson snarled at him causing the boy to startle and began to move back, Koneko did not move as Anderson tuned his eyes to her, he did not yell at this one. The other would not let him so instead his voice became softer closer to his other's voice "Go" he said "I will live devil, you need not worry."

He turned his back on her as Kiba grabbed her hand and dragged her down the hall, Raynare got to her feet breathing hard black marks on her face. "What are you doing fools" She snarled at the exorcist's "After them."

Anderson spun jabbing three bayonets into the stone roof of the tunnel, he jumped back into the ritual room. As the wave of hooded men surged forward, he held up his fingers and snapped once. Behind him the bottoms of the three bayonet handles started make the sound of moving fireworks, then with a high pitched whistle they exploded. The tunnel collapsed in on itself sealing them within this room.

The men slowed to a stop as they realized what he had done, Anderson grinned showing all his teeth and his hands snapped together as if in prayer. The other him was too conflicted to use most of Master's Senjutsu. He frowned at himself terrifying grin vanishing strange even he thought of the women as Master perhaps it was because she was a mortal. But anyway he had no such conflict as long as he had something to focus on and the saving of an innocent was the only thing he had left to save him from his own emotions.

He chanted several words his voice bouncing off the walls, his body glowed with blue light as symbols of gold appeared in the air the space around them warping. They appeared at the four corners of the room shedding more fey light over it.

"A barrier?" The fallen asked looking around.

"Not quite lass that is Senjutsu Art of the Ripple" He said "Anyone can walk through it, but no one can teleport through it." His grin appeared again "And guess what?"

The exorcist stepped back at the utter blood lust pouring off him "You're trapped in here with me now goats"

Twin bayonets appeared in his hands and he crossed them "And now you will be sorted"

Before they could move before they could think he charged, finally about to cut loose with pure abandon. They tried to to stop him, to fight him, but he was the one who fought Alucard to a standstill, he was the one who faced creatures of nightmare and death far beyond these failed goats. These ant's who would watch an Innocent suffer, his blades found flesh with ease and the weapons that found him were either defected by his aura or the damage was healed as swiftly as it had come.

They screamed, they fought, some ran, but all died before him the last one someone who looked older put up a semi decent fight. Deflecting the blow on one bayonet he stepped forward through a hail of blessed bullets and stabbed him in the heart. He turned his attention to the fallen watching him from the top of the stairs.

"This is...inconceivable" She whispered as he met her gaze "How, how can such low class scum do this!"

"Good to see that even arrogance remains the same from place to place" He said to the fallen "Though I am hardly one to talk of that."

Her breathing was ragged "Die" she whispered "Just die you freak"

Her hand went above her hand and Anderson looked up to see dozens and dozens of those spears of light glowed above like needle thing stalagmites. "Since blowing up on part of you body does not work" The Fallen snarled "Lets try the whole damn thing" And jerked her hand down The explosion of so many spears in such a small place was Immense only her protection from her own power saved her from the backlash of such a move.

She breathed hard, the pain from that brat's punch combined with her extreme power usage for what was sure to be a splitting head and body ache. The smoke cleared and her heart nearly stopped, the damage was already healing on the former Monster of God. The Tokai cloak had protected him from much of the damage and as before his healing took care of the rest, of course most of his clothing was gone but that mattered very little in the long run.

The fallen looked almost broken as seeing him still standing " Ruin" she whispered "You, you fucking devil you ruined everything!"

Spear of light appearing in her hand she charged him, light clashing against bayonet "How is this possible" She screamed. There blades clashed several times as they went airborne wings flashing in time with their attacks. "I do not sense the power from you to be this strong" The blurred as dozens of strikes took place of a second "You don't have the power to be this fast!"

They locked weapons struggling against one another "And nothing, no one, no devil can simply heal light like that" She screamed out, Anderson avoided the strike and kicked her in the side sending her careening into a wall.

"I feel no need to explain anything to you Babylon" He snarled as he charged, her spear thrust out and he ran himself through on it her back to the wall, her body exhausted she could not dodge in time as he brought his blades down in a dual scything bow.

Blood flew as her arms, cut completely off her body fell to the floor, her breathing seemed to stop as shock protected her mind from the sudden agony. Her mind was still trying to send signals to parts of her body that were no longer attached.

The spear of light in his chest shattered and he stabbed pinning her to the wall with his bayonets. That was when she screamed, it was loud enough the burst on ear drum that healed immediately. Eyes cold he jabbed another one through her throat "Be silent" he growled "The dead to not speak"

He stared for a moment at this defeated creature and felt...nothing he had saved an innocent that was all that mattered. He raised his and bayonet conjured to deliver the killing strike, to put this creature of of his, her's and everyone else misery.

The blade flashed down but as it did so a force slammed into catapulting him across the entire room. Stone cracked and shattered as he cratered the wall with a wheeze of pain, "The hell happened here?" A man's voice said.

The regenerator stood back up bones already setting in place, a tall man stood in front of Raynare. He wore a light purplish robe like clothing with black pants and brown boots, he had black hair with what looked to be natural golden bangs. He features were sharp and hard as he survived the destruction and and the beaten Fallan behind him.

The men's movements were swift and necessary as he pulled out the bayonets from Raynare two magic circles appeared over the sumps of her arms. Other smaller ones appeared over her stab wounds and her throat.

"I normally don't check up on my subordinates often" the man said turning once Raynare had been tended to. The fallen knelt behind the man still unable to talk but her eyes were filled with hope, with….something akin to love at the man standing over her. "But when a Senjutsu barrier, a rare enough occurrence just happens to be at one of our bases it is worth checking out."

Anderson's nose twitched at the smell of burnt flesh and noted that some of the man's chest was marked and seared. "The barrier is well formed, and" the man tilted his head "Familiar" he shrugged "But that does not matter really." the laid back voice disappeared "Were you the one that did this?"

The blood on the floor was spreading and the dead bodies lay where they had fallen "Where you the one who did this devil?"

Anderson crossed his bayonets in front of him who ever this person was he had power, lots of it. In fact this thing had more power than Alucard at his strongest. The Vampire lord had covered London with his power, but this creature could wipe out a continent of that he was sure.

"I ask again did you do this to my subordinate?"

The former Monster of God tensed "Thrice I ask" The voice shook the very stone such was the power in it.

"Yes" Anderson said calmly.

Rock pieces, broken wood pieces of a stone cross began to float upward as the rage this creature felt leaked out into the air. The next word was utterly cold, "Why?"

Anderson smiled "To save an innocent of course" and snapped his fingers.

The senjutsu barrier imploded inward, every single bayonet from the ones stuck in the walls, to the ones in the bodies. to the ones lying at the feat of whoever the hell this was. All began to hiss and then explode, the room collapsed under the force and above them the abandoned church began to crumble and implode. He thought he saw the man grab Raynare as they vanished in teleportation. Well it was like his master said nothing was absolute, with enough power you could teleport through the barrier and that creature had it in spades.

He shook his head again as rock and dirt buried him alive why the hell was he called the boy's master , master. *Sigh* O well the battle was done, he was feeling a pulling sensation as his control of this boy's body slipped. Since the battle was over it was back to purgatory for him, well he considered it purgatory being in the head of a teenage boy he shuttered to imagine if he had wound up in Issei's head. Well no matter, the boy could deal with being buried alive it was no problem of his.

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He could only have been buried for half an hour at most when he felt weight shift off him, it seemed that Rias was moving to save him and he did not expect anything less from his King The time there crushed under countless ton's gave him some time to think. To think upon the words of the watcher, which if true made a lot of sense but called into question everything he was.

His mind felt numb right now or he would have been furious with what he had been told, he would have been enlarged. He had accepted the fate as Rias' pawn he had not been given a choice in becoming the Watcher's.

To becoming an object lesson to a soul in despair, he had not asked for any of that and yet...because of that he had saved someone. Because of this other him locked away in his head Aisa had been saved.

How could he be mad at that? And yet how could he not be?

"You are a piece of this man" The watcher had said "Half of him to be exact"

"What?"

"You are redemption, a second chance, his salvation."

"I am me" he said anger rising.

"Indeed and you are him as well, and he is you."

"I am nothing like him"

"You are not his hate, you are not his rage, you are not his despair, do you know what you embody? Hope, loyalty, faith." The watcher smiled "Granted you focused that on the Princess of Ruin but no mortal is perfect."

"I don't understand."

"You will in time boy, however the most important thing I have come to tell is this should you do this again call upon your other half it will change you. As was my design the two halves will become whole and your life will truly began."

"You mean I'll stop existing?" He snarled

"No boy, your thoughts, feelings, emotions, they are a part of him as much as you, you will not stop existing you will be whole."

There had been more said but he did not want to think on it, more weight was moving above him enough space that his ribs were cracking back into place. Oh everything hurt, he had been so focused on the watcher that he did not know why his other….half had decided to drop a building on him.

There was the sound of crumbling reached ears as something above him moved and cool night air reached his lungs. Considering he had run out of air seven minutes ago only to find out that suffocation could not kill him it felt very very good. Hand bloodied and scraped reached out and pulled him as the Koneko the Rook of Gremory silent tears staining her cheeks let out a sound of pure relief broke his back(Literally) in a hug.

"Hi" he wheezed out as his spine snapped back into place.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid baka" she whispered in his ear holding him against her. Issei's voice rained down from a twenty foot hole she had dug in the ground "Buchou she found him"

Pure relief sounded in the voice of his king as a circle of magic appeared under them and lifted the both of them to the surface. Warmpth filled him as those he called friends reached out to help pull him up. Not that it was needed but it was the thought that counted.

Issei of all people gave him a hug as Koneko moved aside "Thank you, thank you, thank you" the boy cried out. He let go and pulled him to his feet "You saved her" he whispered "You saved her."

Kiba glanced at his eyes and nodded "Seems like you back..good"

He nodded at the knight as a gentle hand touched his thigh, his gaze turned to the girl this had all been for, the innocent. A wave of aura touched him and he sensed the change in her "Bishop?" he asked.

The girl looked confused but Rias nodded "She asked me to change her and I did"

Inside of him his other half let out a loud sigh "I suppose given what she just went through that's not unreasonable son of bitch I hate this topsy turvy world"

"Um" she said her face nervous "T-thank you Issei told me what you did."

He knelt before her bowing his head "I am the pawn of Rias Gremory, Alexander Anderson and I am at your service Bishop." He had done this to both Kiba and Koneko and both had looked unformatable when a seven foot tall boy had done it. Given that he was still taller than the girl while kneeling it made sense that she was uncomfortable as well. "C-call me Asia" She said "...please?" she said in the same voice that kittens would use if they could.

He stood towering over her once again "As you wish"

She gave him an uncertain look glancing at Issei "C-can I hug him to?"

"I don't see why not" the boy said easily.

Anderson did not glare at the boy but he felt like it, the new bishop managed to get her arms to his sides and gave him the best hug she could. Rias coughed meaningfully and he bent over and returned it.

The girl suddenly blinked "Oh no I forget her hands started glowing "Let me heal you, you must be hurt."

He shook his head "No Asia, I have a healing factor."

"One that lets him shrug off light" Kiba said

"And grow back most of his head" Issei said loud enough for the whole world to hear.

"What?" Rias asked voice hard.

"And an arm" Koneko said.

He sighed great now he was in trouble "Can we get to a back to a safer spot than this?" he asked looking back at the wreckage "Before we have a have a...heart to heart."

Rias followed his gaze "What's wrong?"

He frowned faintly "Were being watched"

Everyone turned outward looking "I sense nothing" Akeno said.

"Its hiding from normal sensing but" he trailed off "Ah he just hid from my sense now."

Rias waved her hand and a magic circle appeared, red light glowed as they vanished into teleportation.

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"Hm" a man said from where he had been watching "To even be able to sense with pure Senjutsu, you have been busy haven't you Genkai?"

The form lept skyward six wings spreading out into the night "Looks like I need to have a talk with you." he muttered.

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There was utter silence in the club room as he finished his story, it was a little uncomfortable, Asia looked like she was on the verge of crying at hearing how much injury he had suffered. Rias was furious you could tell by the way she was smiling and showing nothing. Akeno...was Akeno…. upon hearing that he could heal from any amount of pain set her sadist meter off. At least until she looked at Issei again and lost interest.

Kiba and Issei seemed to be in awe, the boy actually broke the silence saying what no doubt he and Kiba thought "You beat that crazy priest with your own severed arm? That so hardcore!"

At the pure anger pouring off of Rias and Koneko he shut up gulping "So what you telling me my pawn is that without knowing you could heal from light you ran yourself threw on a fallen's spear?"

There was really no better way to put that "Yes"

Her fist cracked she was clenching it so hard "Why?"

"Because in chess seven pawns are worth more than one"

Duel slaps struck him they hit the sides of his face at the same time so hard he passed out for a split second. Rias and Koneko had moved with commendable speed leaving hand prints on his face. Well for a second anyway it faded after a moment "Anderson" She said her voice low hard and enraged "I never want to hear you say that again" Her hand grabbed his collar and pulled him to within inches from her face "If you ever do something so stupid again, I'll" her chest heaved "I'll" she dropped letting his collar go. "Don't do that again, your life is precious to me my friend."

He wondered if she realized that was the reason he did what did, his king's life, ambition, future were precious to him. He wondered how long he would be able to keep serving this cause he had devoted his life too...his half a life to. Not even with watcher knew what would happen when the two halfs merged.

Koneko glared at him and punched him in the stomach, it sent him through the back of the couch and the wall. The rook stormed out of the room breaking the door by slamming it so hard. Rias shook herself "You should go apologise to her Anderson."

He gave his king a helpless look that said "For what?"

"You really are a dolt sometimes you know that?"

Standing up letting his ribcage reform he followed the wake of the Rook's wrath but paused at the door. He turned back to Rias "I will never apologise to you for my actions, protecting the king is a pawn's duty."

Before she could answer he stepped through the remnants of the shattered door leaving the group to think over his words.

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It took him a while to find the girl, he expected many things, destroyed rocks, uprooted trees, shattered earth. What he did not expect was to find the Rook crying her eyes out, it actually froze him in place hearing it. She never cried, ever, not for anything, not for pain, fear, nothing.

She was sitting her back against a tree body curled up in a ball and he hesitantly approached her. The girl looked up at him eyes red with tears, it hurt to see this he did not know why but it did. He wanted to do something but unlike Rias a gundam figure would not help, without knowing why he approached her and after a moment took a seat beside her. The Rook moved curling up in his lap leaning her head against his, the crying stopped.

Several minutes passed before she spoke "I'm sorry I hit you"

"I'm certain I deserved it though I don't know why?"

"Baka" she sighed wiping her eyes with his torn shirt "Please" he asked "Tell why you are mad, what did I do?"

"Baka" she said again

"Yes I'm an idiot we established this now tell me why."

"I don't want you to die" she whispered "I don't want you to think your life is something to be thrown away for us."

Not so much thrown as given but he did not say that out loud "I would be...sad if you vanished."

The hell was he supposed to say to this, perhaps saying nothing do her eyes looked up at him wider than he had ever seen them before "I don't want you to die, for the same reason Sona-san would not wish it." What did Sona have to do with this?

Her hand gently touched his face "We like you Anderson"

Pause….*blink*blink* "Your a rook, she's a King" he said as if his confusion should be evident.

The small girl stared up at him confused "You are nobility" he explained "Sona-san is nobility" He felt his mind just go blank "I'm a serf compared to you, to a pawn not even close to your level"

"You can heal your head being exploded and you're not on their level" The other him said

"Shut up" he thought back

It dawned on Koneko what he was saying and her mouth dropped open "Baka, baka, baka BAKA!" she screamed at him enraged, crap what did he do?

"It does not work like that!" the Rook screamed.

"Yes it does" he answered stupidly.

The girl made a sound of pure, utter frustration and reached up grabbing his face and pulling it down to her own. Whatever he was going to say was sealed away with her lips, and his thought his mind went blank before.

"I was a celibate before being trapped here boy and even I could tell what was going on" the voice said.

Currently Anderson did not have the mental capacity to answer back, currently he was being held over her small shoulder like some sort of demented war prize as the girl dragged him back to the club house. Issei was trying to fix the door when she kicked it in ruining his hard work. Rias blinked as Koneko dropped him on the floor "Tell him there is no rule against pawn's liking or dating other people who happen to have a higher piece than them." she demanded of their king.

Rias blinked "Of course theres no rule like that, maybe in the middle ages but certainly not now." She looked from her Rook to her Pawn currently spacing out eye's widening in understanding. "Where the hell did you get that idea?" she asked Anderson.

The pawn looked up "Um...when I heard that you were called my king I looked up books in the Library about proper manners and how things worked. Devils are practically immortal so I thought that perhaps things worked like a medieval hierarchy with similar rules."

"Rules like no dateing above one's station" Akeno said in understanding "My, My Anderson I thought you were just dense not stupid.

The pawn of Rias Gremory just lay there mouth kind of open as he watched his carefully constructed understanding of devil society crumble. "Why didn't you just ask me?" Rias asked.

"Baka" Koneko said again.

Ya...he was a moron, what kind of retarded person lives there three years of their life in a self created lie?

The other him found that thought hilarious and laughed and laughed as Rias sat him down and explained to him things that he should have figured out three years ago.

Sometimes it sucked to be the pawn of Rias Gremory but he would not be anywhere else.

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As the excitement cooled down her pieces seemed to as one fall asleep where they sat, Koneko was curled up in a ball against the chest of her crush. Poor Anderson he really had been living under false assumptions for three years? That was almost a failing in her actions as King, she made a note to herself that she was going to make him sit down and have a long talk with him about the real edicate of devil kind.

Issei her new precious pawn had fallen asleep with his head on Asia's lap that would not do but she could allow it for tonight. However she was going to have to do that to Issei while he was a awake, the girl was cute but she was something of an Innocent in love. While that did have some advantages it also came with some weakness as well. Perhaps she could set it so that she and the her new Bishop spent time side by side with Issei. Perhaps live at his house so he could have ample time to compare the two of them.

Kiba whom was awake spoke to her "Why did you not ask about his sudden change?"

She frowned at that pushing her plans to the back of her mind "He did not want to talk about, you saw how he avoided it."

"Sure but that is something I think we need to know, I've never seen something with so much self loathing and hatred balled up with the strongest desire to protect that I have ever seen."

Rias frowned harder "I think...I think he will tell us in time, right now I have this feeling that what happened is important" Her eye's went distant "But he has to do it by himself" she said with complete assurance "Of that I am sure, also what ever happened he is no danger to us."

Kiba nodded "That I do believe."

"Still" Rias said thoughtfully "Given how much trouble he has been in that he neglected to inform us of would you keep an eye on him for me?"

"Gladly" her knight said.

So what did you think, I hope you enjoyed this long winded chapter.

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