This is my first fanfiction so please don't be to harsh. Criticism is appreciated as with it I can write better stories but flames are not and will be ignored.

I do not, nor will I ever own High school DxD

prologue

Issei is a 16 year old male and currently a 1st year in high school about to be in his second. He is of average height and a slim build that very successfully hid the strength that he truly possessed. He has spiky brown hair and deceivingly innocent doe brown eyes. Normally Issei would wear a red shirt to represent his favorite color and black pants. Not many people actually knew the real Issei other than that he is a very smart, calm, and quiet person, as he would only up to those that he trusted completely, but those that did know him would say that he was a very different kind of kid. Issei always knew he was different, actually him prided himself on it. I mean who else hears hundreds of voices in their head, that were always chatting, debating, and most of all guiding him throughout all of his problems. They didn't tell him to do bad things like steal, kill, or destroy things, but instead told him amazing stories, facts, and advice.

It had all started when he was a young boy and he had been in the park with his best and only friend at the time, a very tomboyish girl, who most thought that she was actually a boy until Issei would set them straight as he got annoyed at anyone who got it wrong. As they were walking through the park an old man had stopped them and asked if they had wanted to watch a puppet show, Issei was about to tell him no and that they had already decided to go swinging. When Irina had turned to him and begged to watch it, as she was a big fan of anything to do with the theater, even if they weren't real people. He had finally relented when she pulled out the puppy dog eyes. So he and Irina were led to a small group of kids sitting in front of a crudely built stage with a sheet over it. The man had then given both him and Irina a bowl of pudding to share, though Issei didn't eat any of it as his parents had warned against weird looking strangers or offers of candy or food, and since this man fit into both he just sat waiting for the offer of candy into a windowless white van. The man had then walked behind the stage and disappeared. A few moments later the sheet in front of the stage was lifted and two puppets appeared on the stage and started talking about all of the greats things in the world. After a while Issei was bored out of his mind until the puppet on the left spread its arms and said, "but of all the great things in the world nothing is better than that of a woman's oppai," as a flying oppai appeared above the two puppets. At this point Issei had gotten very interested and his mind had started to change to that of nothing but of thoughts of oppai and probably would have changed him into a lecherous fiend in the future if a voice hadn't all of a sudden started to speak in his head.

The voice had been very masculine and gruff. It sounded irritated as it told Issei to snap out of the delusions going through his head. When the voice had first spoken Issei had been very startled and had looked around for the source of it, getting some weird looks from Irina. The voice had then told him to stop looking around like a crazy person as he wouldn't find anyone. After this Issei had gotten very scared as his mother had told him about the time his uncle Akira who had been put into a crazy house, as she had called it, when he had started to claim that he heard voices. At the point that Issei's fears had almost completely taken a hold of his mind a second voice had spoken up telling the other one to be quiet and calmed Issei by telling him that he wasn't going crazy. At this point Issei had tried to ask them something but when he had started to speak out loud, three voices hushed him and told him to reply in his mind. Issei had been very startled when the third voice had spoken up, but had decided to comply. He had then asked in his mind, "Fine but if I am not going crazy then who the heck are you people and why are you in my head."

If anything their response had only confused him more when they had told him at the same time that their name was Ladon. He then angrily responded back, thinking that they were messing with him," You can't all be Ladon, stop messing with me!"

The second voice had then spoken up, "Yes I can see how that would be confusing, But in truth we are all named Ladon. Though I can see how that would be confusing so how about we all take different names to help cause less confusion. You can call me Garreth."

The third voice had then spoken up," Well if that is the plan, then you can call me the mighty... Gallifrey slayer of all opponents and the most dashing of all the heads of the mighty Ladon"

Issei could tell by the all of a sudden annoyed vibe coming from the other two that if they could, they would be face palming. Issei had the thought back" Erm... Mister Gallifrey coul..."

"Hmm mmm"

"Oh, um, sorry. I mean mister Gallifrey slayer of all opponents... could I..."

"and-"

"Oh, and ummm... the most dashing of... all the heads of the ...mighty... Lad...on, would it be fine if I just called you Gallifrey?"

"Well why didn't you ask earlier. Then we could have gotten through that question much quicker."

At this point Issei thought that he himself was going to face palm himself. It was quiet until the first voice had then spoken up " If we are all taking names, than you shall call me Erabor." he said clearly stating that any other name would not be accepted or appreciated.

At this point, he felt Irina tapping him on the shoulder. Issei shook his head and looked at Irina and saw that she was annoyed by him refusing to pay attention to her and pinched his cheek.

Irina was getting really mad now as Issei had still not responded to her, I mean really she had been tapping on his shoulder for about two minutes, and he hadn't so much as acknowledged that she was even there. She was already upset because some other mean adults had come and ruined the puppet show, they were still over there arguing with the man calling him a pervert and telling him that he should be ashamed at what he had been doing. After the other adults had come she had turned to Issei to ask if he wanted to go swing now but he was starring at the ground and wasn't moving. She had started to poke his shoulder but he didn't respond at all. She then started to poke his arm harder and called his name but he still ignored her. She then thought that he was being a big meanie and was doing it on purpose so she then stood and pinched his cheek."Owowowowowowowowow... Hey what was that for?" Issei shouted.

Irina just huffed, crossed her arms, and walked away. Issei got up and ran after her leaving the adults to argue. Issei finally caught up to Irina when she stopped at the swings. He recognized the look she was giving to him, it was a look that she gave to people when they had made her really mad. Usually Issei was never one to receive this look as he always tried to stay on her good side and keep her happy. Issei, instead of trying to plead his innocence (having tried that when they had first became friends and got nowhere), instead asked, " What did I do wrong this time?"

Of course like every other time that Issei had gotten on her bad side, Irina just looked away from him and huffed. Issei saw the way she was sitting on the swing and holding on to the chains going up the sides, as she barely rocked back and forth, and took the hint that she wanted him to push her. So he went behind her and started to push on her back making the swing go higher. Issei had learned to always do what Irina wanted when she was in one of these moods as it always made her calm down faster. Honestly girls and their moods confused the heck out of him, he didn't know why they didn't just tell guys what the problem was, but he had just put it down to girls liking the attention guys would give them to cheer them up.

After about ten minutes of Issei pushing her on the swing, Irina finally stopped with the silent treatment and started to laugh as Issei pushed her higher and higher. Issei started to smile because he liked when Irina was happy, but his smile gradually went away as he dove back into his mind, trying to find the voices he had been talking to earlier

"Hello?" Issei mentally shouted half hoping nobody would respond

"What do you want kid." Answered Erabor

" Ohhh... ummm... I realized that you guys didn't answer my question from earlier why are you three in my head?"

" And what made you think that there were only three of us?" asked a newer more feminine voice.

Issei was able to keep himself from jumping this time at the arrival of a new voice, "Who are you?"

Issei could feel the new voice mentally smile as it answered back, " I am Ladon," with a teasing voice. Issei was about to get mad when the new voice started to laugh and continued " but you can call me Sarriba"

Issei decided that he didn't want anymore surprise voices popping up so he asked, " Is there any more of you all that I should know about?"

This time it was Gallifrey that responded " well there is one hundred and two minds in here even though there should only be one hundred and one, that is you and us one hundred that are Ladon but there is another mind that is separate from us... And hey kid are you even listening?" he asked in an offended tone, I mean he was Gallifrey the slayer of all handsome... Wait no, it was Gallifrey the slayer of Ladon... No that wasn't it either, that doesn't matter the kid should have been paying complete attention to him no matter what name he had chosen.

Issei had almost fainted when he had said that there was over a hundred voices in his head how could he not be insane. It took all of the voices to get his attention back to them and when he did he almost screamed out loud to them to tell him exactly who they were, what was a Ladon, and why they were all inside his head.

This time it was Garreth who decided to answer Issei's question,"First of all, We have told you who we are, we are Ladon, well we were until our physical body was destroyed and we were placed into a sacred gear. Ladon was what you humans would call a Greek mythological creature, meaning we are supposedly made up. We were a dragon that had one hundred heads and we guarded a tree in the garden of Hesperitas. This tree was very special as this tree bore golden apples. One day we were doing as we always did and were laying wrapped around the tree, arguing amongst ourselves, what the point in guarding the tree was,as very few people ever came to the garden, and only the Heliades would ever stay. They were always nice to us and fed us only the best of what they gathered. We then saw the figure of a very buff man standing a good distance away. We thought nothing of it as our job was to guard the tree and only the tree. If he wanted to wander through the garden, then power to him. It wasn't until a few moments later we saw an object headed straight for us. We were able to figure out that it was an arrow. We didn't move as our scales were able to block all objects from piercing into our skin beneath them, but it wasn't until it was to late that we smelled it, Hydra blood, the only thing that could melt our scales. It went straight through and hit our heart. The pain was so great that we passed out and since then we have been, I guess you could say sleeping, but from where we were, we were able to watch the world progress along with heaven and the underworld. It wasn't until eight years ago that we were able to gather the strength to find a suitable host for our sacred gear, and low and behold just as we gathered our strength, the finest host we have seen so far takes his first breath of air. Since you were a newborn your mind was a lot easier to find residence in, as since your mind was still developing in was able to expand a lot easier for it to grow and accommodate us. Although when we did as you would say take up residence we noticed another presence. We have tried to contact him many times but he either doesn't want to talk to us, or he is still asleep. but anyway since then we have just been waiting here gathering our strength for when you would need us."

Issei being already very intelligent for his age processed through what Garreth had told him. Finally he came upon something that confused even more than what he had been told. " What is a sacred gear?"

Sarriba decided that she wanted to answer as she over spoke Garreth when he had started to speak, " A sacred gear is an object made by the God of the bible, They are powerful objects that can only be bestowed upon humans, so that miracles could be preformed on Earth. There are many different Sacred gears that all do something different though most sacred gears have multiples, as in more than one person can have a certain sacred gear. There is a group of sacred gears that are called the Longinus sacred gears. These sacred are completely unique and only one of each can be present at one time. The Longinus sacred gears were named after the true Longinus which was the spear that was used to kill Jesus Christ when he was nailed to the cross. It is the most powerful of all the sacred gears. There are thirteen of them, though some are stronger than others. God of the bible had at one time planned on their being fourteen longinus's with us being it but as we were to weak to occupy it until now no one else knew about ours."

"You said that there were a hundred of you all, why are only you four speaking to me?" asked Issei

"They are still asleep or are just beginning to wake up, We four are the strongest of all of the heads so we were able to gather our strength the quickest." Replied Gallifrey sounding smug.

Just as Issei was about to reply, Irina's voice snapped him out of his thoughts. " It's getting late, we should probably be getting home."

Surprised Issei looked up and saw that the sky had started to darken. He realized that he must of been pushing Irina for over an hour. "Wow it's this late already"

Irina hopped off the swing and turned to him, again with the same look from earlier," Ooh... so you can hear that, but not me trying to get your attention since the puppet show. Do you not like playing with me any more, do you not want to be friends any more?" she said with a voice that sounded angry, but also very scared.

"No no no... It was just... I was.. erm"

"You were what" she snapped

Issei realized that even though he wanted to, he couldn't tell Irina the truth, as she would probably call him a liar and even if she believed him she would probably still tell someone else and he didn't want people to think that he was crazy. He was about to say that it was nothing but realized that, that would probably make her even angrier "I'm waiting" said Irina as she tapped her foot.

Issei then remembered something that his mother had said that morning when he had told her that he was going to the park with Irina today. Hopefully this will be a good cover thought Issei as he spoke."I was thinking about how much prettier you've gotten since when we first met."

At this Issei looked up from where his head had dipped to look at his shoes, when he realized that he would have to lie to Irina, to see that Irina's whole face had gone tomato red. At first Issei thought that she was about to cry from him saying something so stupid so he reached out and gave her a hug to apologize. When he pulled back Issei got even more worried because her face was an even darker shade of red. He was about to run and get help when Irina reached out and grabbed his hand. He looked at her and saw that her face was starting to go back to normal, even if she wouldn't look at him, so he calmed down a little. " We should get going." she said still looking at anything but him.

Issei was sad as he thought that he had upset her, but didn't want to upset her further so he just nodded and they started to walk. As they walked Issei realized that Irina still hadn't let go of his hand but thought that it was because she was afraid of the dark. On the other hand, Irina thoughts were on Issei saying those same words to her on their wedding day, effectively making her go red again.

That night Issei was going over all of the things Garreth had told him and found something else that he didn't understand so he decided to see if the voices in his head ever slept. "Is anyone awake?" he called into the echoes of his mind.

"Uh... What do you want kid?" responded Erabor

"Umm... well... I wa..."

"You really need to stop that kid your starting to piss me off."

"Stop what?" asked Issei confused.

"The stuttering you always do, you need to be more confident. Pretty soon you'll be one of the most powerful beings out there and you'll need to act like it."

"Ooh... um... Ok, but also that was what I was going to ask, you said most powerful beings, and earlier Garreth said that sacred gears can only be given to humans."

"Yyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaa... aaaaaannnnnnndddddd?"

"So does that mean that there other people out there?"

"What else do you think it could mean?" He said as if Issei was a small child that needed to be talked to in one syllable words

At this Issei finally decided that he had had enough, "So, Am I just supposed to believe that there are hundreds of different people out there, and that we humans have never met them?"

"Well at one time the border between the different people wasn't there, but eventually humans started to become paranoid that all of the different people posed a threat to them and the existence of their kind, so they started to become hostile towards all of the other peoples until they all broke complete contact with humans and have lived apart from you all until recently, when a war that's been going on since anyone can remember between all of the different peoples threatened to drive them to extinction, so to, as you can say "resupply" their species, they have looked towards humans to bolster their forces." Erabor said exasperatedly. As if he was just asked to define the color orange.

"I don't think that I can believe that," said Issei " It is just to hard for me to believe."

"And your head being crammed with one hundred and two different minds is something that makes total sense?" Erabor asked

"It's either I believe that you all really are Ladon or accept the fact that I am insane and start picking out the colors for my padded cell."

Erabor let out a grunt and told Issei that he was done with the conversation, before fading into the depths of Issei's mind. Issei worn out from all of the information that he had learned during the day just rolled over and fell asleep wondering what life would have been like if Ladon hadn't arrived during the puppet show.