Highschool DxD: Sword and Spear

I am back with another chapter. I changed Ren's hair colour to be similar to Irina's because I realised other than purple eyes, its not really that obvious that they are twins.

Life 3: Reunion

(2 years ago)

"Cao Cao…." I, Ren, rattled through my head on where I heard that name before but then it clicked me. "As in the-"

"Yes, I am the very descendent of the man." He interrupted me. I was shocked to hear this to say the least. The descended of the brilliant general during the ancient Chinese warring periods. "And also the wielder of the Strongest Longinus, the True Longinus." He added.

In retaliation to this, I readied my Magic Circle to summon my spear. I won't lie, with the pressure he has been giving off, the cool and confident look in his eyes, I have a bad feeling that I was at a disadvantage. I pulled out the black and red spear and aimed the polearm at him.

"Whoa whoa there," he said, holding up his free hand with the palm facing, telling me he did not want to fight. "I never said I was going to fight you." He told me.

Me being me and being skeptical of his words, I slightly lowered my spear, not willing to give away any openings. This man was strong, I knew that for sure. "Then what are you doing here?"

"For various reasons…" He told me whilst he eyed me from head to toe as if he was examining me. "I wanted to see the man who carried the opposite of my spear." He pointed out. It's true in a sense, the Gae Bolg is the almost the polar opposite to the True Longinus, due to the fact that one was the Demonic Spear and the other was the Holy Spear. But why would he care about the wielder? I am just a normal man who happens to have the spear. "I wanted to see the spear itself and feel its aura. And quite honest, I am so far I am impressed. I have heard that the spear itself carried a wild aura that was difficult to control but you seem to have it under control." He commented. Now the fact he beginning to pick out all the little things about me and my spear is a bit annoying. "It is said that throughout history, only a handful of people could control the spear whilst others grew berserk from its power. You are quite worthy to be my rival, Ren Shidou, I can see that."

"So what? You and I are not bound by fate, I will not be anyone's rival." I told him but to be honest, I feel this weird unexplainable pull towards him. I know it seems silly to admit it when I just denied it, but I know he and I were going ruled by the destiny.

It was similar to the story of the Two Heavenly Dragons, the red and white dragons who fought each other during the Great War. The red one had the ability to boost its own abilities and transfer it to other people whilst the white one can halve the abilities of the enemy and adds their stolen powers to his own. Both were decimated by the Three Biblical Factions and their souls were placed into Sacred Gears: The Boosted Gear for the Red Dragon Emperor, Ddraig, and the Divine Dividing for the White Dragon Emperor, Albion.

So yeah maybe we were bounded to the same fate. But here, I am at a slight disadvantage. No matter how powerful my spear was, it never truly was a God-slaying Sacred Gear. It held the potential to reach that class, to become the 14th Longinus, but not even Cu Chulainn, its Strongest User, has ever reached it. Cao Cao's spear was the original Longinus, and the strongest. Sometimes it is laughable at how fate has given me an unbreakable wall to try and break through.

"Are you satisfied working for the Church?"

I was surprised to hear that, to say the least. Why would he care? "What's it to you?" I asked. Hoping to get answer. "A better question, how did you find out about me? Until now, I never used this spear outside the training grounds of the church."

He smirked, "It helps when you spy on someone you supply Magic Seals to, you get information about a lot of things." He explained to me, I realised instantly what he meant.

"So you're the one that gave the vampires the Magic Seals." I accused him. "Why? Why support the vampires? It doesn't make sense."

"Very perceptive, I like that." He commented, but to me he sounded a bit like he was mocking me. "I am looking for people…people like us."

"People like us?" I asked.

Cao Cao began walking up towards to me and explained. "Sacred Gear users. Humans with the power of God's Treasures in them. People who were shun by the normal world for their strength. I want to give these people meaning, to feel like they have something worth fighting for. Together we shall fight and defeat the evils in this world, ones that wold bring harm to Humanity." He placed his own spear on mine and slowly lowered my weapon. I did nothing in retaliation, curios to see what he wanted to tell me. "You and I are the same, Ren. We are two individuals feared by the people around us. Untrusting of the people around us. Tell me, have you ever fully trusted the Church? Do you follow the Biblical God's teachings? Did you ever feel like the Church is using you?"

I said nothing to him, not wanting to satisfy him with an answer. I can't lie, he was asking me questions I had always to ask myself. I barely knew the man and he has seen through me like I was a piece of glass.

"Judging from your silence, I'd say that you don't trust the Church and God's teachings." Cao Cao smirked at me. Damn him and his analytical personality. He placed his free hand onto my shoulder. "Join me, Ren Shidou. I am not going to let our Sacred Gears determine our fate to fight and kill each other. No I want to make use of your powers and skills to show that we, Humans, are the strongest. We are the Heroes of our time."

I was shocked to hear what he had told me honestly. This was a bold statement to say the least. "I…I…" I did not know what to say to him.

He gave me a smile. "You don't have to give me an answer immediately."

-x-x-

(Present Day)

I felt a jolt of surprise when the plane landed, its landing was a bit too rough for my liking. I, Irina, was finally back in my hometown, Kuoh. That's right! I was born here and spent most of my early years here. My father was a pastor who worked in the church in town and my mom ran a local cafe when we lived here. So it was just me and Ren. In my hand, I stared into the picture of the two of us when we were 6 with another boy with us at the time. Back then, we were best friends, his name was Issei Hyoudou.

I was very excited to be back after soooo long. Though it wasn't for the best of reasons, three of our Excalibur Swords were stolen from us. The Excalibur Nightmare, the Excalibur Rapidly and the Excalibur Transparency were the swords and they killed our friends in order to get them. Fellow Excalibur users. It was horrible. From our investigation, we found out that it was the Fallen Angels, more specifically Kokabiel, who instigated this incident. Kokabiel was a Fallen Angel Cadre who was strong enough to be recorded in the Bible.

I won't lie, I was not very happy to be back after 10 years for that very dreadful reason. I blamed the Fallen Angels and their leader Kokabiel for taking the Excaliburs away in the first place. In my heart, I had hope that the Lord will grant them a punishment far worse than death.

"So this is where you were from, Irina?" I heard Xenovia-chan ask me. I turned to her and nodded happily.

"Mostly, the airport is just outside the town, so we need to get a train into town." I told her.

I wasn't alone, I had Xenovia-chan and Eliza-san with me. Xenovia-chan was my usual partner for my missions from the time we grew up training up until now. Eliza-san has been with us for the last year joining us on regular missions. With her around, we became a great team.

Eliza-san was a really beautiful girl of our age. She had beautiful blue eyes. Her hair was long and luscious with deep red colouring to it. Though at times she had this playful attitude, when she has to be serious, she can be really scary at times. She was a really good fighter too.

I am sure you all know who Xenovia-chan is. To me, she was one of my closest friends, I have rarely gone through a mission without her.

The three of us currently wore suits, which was more acceptable to wear than our usual exorcist battle uniforms in our current situation in the airport. Once we grabbed our stuff, we left the airport and took the train into town.

Despite everything, I couldn't stop smiling to myself.

I really can't wait to see Issei-kun. It's been 10 years since I last saw him, I am so excited! I was pretty sure that he would be shocked once he sees me. A beautiful young lady and everything!

"Irina-san, do you know where we are supposed to go?" Eliza-san asked me.

For this mission, as I used to live here, I've been given charge of the map for us to meet with the priest.

"Don't worry! Despite everything! I still know where the Church is!" I replied.

-x-x-

We had arrived that night into the old Church of Kuoh City. I haven't been here since our family left Kuoh, I used to remember the Sunday Masses, and the event and marriages that were held here. So many fond memories. It breaks my heart that the old church was defiled.

Right now we had changed from our suits to our Church battle uniform, which was generally a black unitard with black thigh high stockings, black gloves that reached up to our biceps and black boots. We wore white cloaks over our attire. On Xenovia-chan's back was the Exclibur Destruction wrapped in cloth, I still had my Excalibur Mimic in its armband form and Eliza-san carried a longsword in its sheath on her waist which was hidden behind the white cloak.

"Looks like this place is in ruin." Xenovia-chan commented. It was true, statues, the paintings and the holy bible that were in here were destroyed. It was as if these acts of heresy were done so out of spite. Though I did hear something interesting happened here a few months ago.

"Rumour has it that a fight between a Devil and a Fallen Angel broke out here." I told them. Though it wouldn't surprise me if it was true, this was Gremory territory after all. If a Fallen Angel came here and caused trouble, I would imagine that the Devil's won't take things too kindly.

"I don't like the feeling here…" Eliza-san added.

"Its already late…" Xenovia-chan said. She turned to me and asked. "Are you sure we are supposed to meet him here?"

"Oh please, give me a credit will you? Did you forget that I lived here?" I asked rhetorically as I pulled out the old photo and showed them. Though to be said, it is true that he was supposed to be here when we had arrived, though we were already late because the trains were delayed. For him to not be here even it was already an hour late into our appointed meeting time was worrying to say the least.

"Though that is to be said, it doesn't change the fact that he is still late." Eliza-san added, before she asked the two of us. "Should we go for a walk? I am sure we will find him if we go out."

-x-x-

As we were walking through the town, I felt a fresh sense of nostalgia building up in me. In the years that past by, I was glad to see that nothing much has changed. It makes me wonder what had happened in the past that made us move away from home.

I noticed a small house in the corner of my eye. I had no doubt about it! It was Issei-kun's home! Without thinking, I walked towards the house.

"Where are you going, Irina-san?" I heard Eliza-san asked. But in my excitement, I had forgotten to give her an answer.

"Irina, what are we doing here?" Xenovia-chan asked me.

"Come on Xenovia-chan! We are just going to have a little detour. It'll be fun." I told her.

"We are tasked to retrieve the stolen Holy Swords from the Fallen Angels. We don't have time for detours." she said back.

Eliza patted her back, giving her some form of reassurance. "Its fine, Xenovia-san. Irina-san just wants to see old faces of the town she was born into." Eliza-san explained. Thank you for understanding me! Sometimes I feel like you know me very well Eliza-san.

I rang the doorbell and I heard a distinctive mature, feminine voice yelled out. "Coming!" When she had opened the door, she looked confused at the sight of the three of us. "Ah, hello there. Who might the three of you be?" she asked.

I smiled and waved at her. "Hi, Mrs. Hyoudou. I am not sure if you remember me but my name is Irina Shidou. I used to go to school with your son, Issei-kun." I pulled out the photo and show her, as if to show her that I wasn't crazy.

Mrs. Hyoudou took a good look before she looked back at me. She squealed.

"Oh my god, Irina-chan! My god have you grown! I couldn't recognised you there! You certainly have become a beautiful young woman. Anyone would have mistaken you for a boy back then if they didn't know any better." She said, as if the excitement had taken over her. She clasped her hand together suddenly and said, "Ah! Where are my manners? Please come in!" We entered the house and were led into the living room. "Do you and your friends want anything to drink?" she asked politely.

"Oh no! Its fine!" I replied. I didn't want to burden her or anything.

When the three of us sat down on the sofa, she had asked. "How are your parents? I haven't heard from Touji-san in a while."

I replied with a smile. "Papa is doing good, he has been travelling around the world doing some missionary work whilst Mama is running a restaurant in England."

"Ah I see, well that's good, at least everyone is still good" she said before she remembered. "So if I remember right, you have a twin brother, don't you? How is he?" she asked.

I won't lie, that question struck a chord with me slightly. I looked down, trying to compose myself before I answered. "He died…Two years ago…" I guess it still stings even after so long.

The answer surprised Mrs. Hyoudou to say the least. "Oh…I am sorry to hear that." she said to me.

"Oh no its fine, it happened years ago, life goes on," I told her as I shook my hands, trying to bring up the mood. "At least he is with our Lord now."

After a while we started talking, just going through some of the more embarrassing stories as time went by. I admit it though, it was nice to hear that Issei-kun was doing well, apparently a couple of girls started boarding here, and various other things.

As the conversation went on, I noticed a young man and girl around our age peering behind the door. The young man had brown hair and eyes. His hair was messy and had a bit of a mullet. The boy himself was cute. He wore a school uniform, with white shirt and black trousers, underneath the shirt was a red t-shirt. I had no doubt, this was Issei-kun! He still looked the same as back then!

The blonde girl behind him could only be described as cute. I think that would be the right world. Very innocent looking that's for sure. She was of European descent and had big green eyes. She wore the same uniform as Issei-kun had. Their stance told me that these two were tensed at the sight of us.

"Oh look who's home! What's with the sour face? Issei, do you remember who this is?" Mrs. Hyoudou asked.

"Long time no see, Issei-kun!" I said. For a second there, they had tensed up even more. "How could you forget this face? Its me!" I smiled. I was really happy to see him again. It was then that Issei-kun's mom told them who I was and showed the photo of us when we were kids.

"Whoa! That's her?" he jumped in surprised.

Issei-kun's mom agreed with him. "I know right?! She looks so different! I mean if you hadn't known better, you would've mistaken her for a boy and look at her now! She is gorgeous!"

I blushed at the comment. It was really nice that I was being called good-looking by other people.

"You must be joking!? I really did think she was a boy back then!" Issei-kun cried out as if his expectations were shattered.

That shattered my ego-boost.

"That's not very nice, now apologise!" his mom scolded him.

Issei-kun was taken back. "For what?!" he questioned his own mother.

"Oh he can't help it. I was heavily influenced by my brother, Ren, at the time. So I did act like a boy back then." I told them. I was trying to diffuse the situation.

"Yeah that made it confusing." Issei-kun rubbed the back of his head.

Inside, I was bit unhappy, I had noticed the natural flow of demonic aura that was flowing through him and the blonde girl.

"Its okay, but we should catch up! A lot has happened to the both of us over the last ten years." I told him, I smiled at the both them. "Also...I love reunions! You never know what's going to happen!"

Issei-kun...had become a Devil.

-x-x-

I was summoned to the Cardinal Priest's office, a few days after my meeting with Cao Cao. I haven't told anyone about the unexpected visit I got from Cao Cao. I don't know why but something inside of me told me to keep it to myself.

Once I reached his office, I had straightened myself out before I sighed. I had wondered why I was being called to Vasco Strada's office. Last I had known, I haven't done anything that disgraced any of the Lord's teachings. I knocked on the door before I heard a "Come in" from the voice on the other side.

"You summoned me?"

Vasco Strada looked up from his work and closed his book. "Ah yes. There is a mission for the church that I'd like for you to take part of." He replied. I won't lie something felt off about him right now…

Maybe it was my imagination. He then gave me the details of the mission.

"You are to be working with a specialized team in this mission. There is a group of Fallen Angels working with an unknown party and they have been kidnapping people for various unknown reasons. Your task is to eliminate these Fallen Angels and find out who this unknown party is."

He handed me the file. I looked through the file and in it was the information of each of the Fallen Angel and where they might be operating at. Looks like this mission will bring me to France. This file also gave me information on the team I would be working with.

Little did I know at the time, this would be my last mission with the Church.

-x-x-

"So that was interesting…to say the least."

Eliza-san said after we left the home of Issei Hyoudou. I could see where she was coming from. I wanted to visit Issei-kun to see how he was doing after so long, only to see that he has become a Devil. It had broken my heart, the boy I've wanted to see after ten years became my very enemy. Fate must be cruel. No doubt a test from God above.

"Looks like first contact has been made with the devils in this territory. Let's just hope that they don't take this as a sign of aggression." Eliza-san said. I guess that was true. In times like these, we had to be careful of how interact with other factions due to the nature of the peace we had today. One small mistake and it could lead into a full scale war.

"Look at that!" I heard Xenovia-chan called.

The three of us looked to see a man in church affiliated clothing lying on the ground. A sense of dread loomed over us as we raced to where the man laid. Our worst fear was confirmed when we made him lie facing upwards. It was the priest who we were meant to meet.

Looks like the Fallen Angels have gotten to him first. I didn't like where this was going.

"Ha Ha Ha Ha!"

We heard a haughty laugh from up above. We all saw four four-winged Fallen Angels descending down on us. It was a group of 3 men and a woman and each of them carried a look of bloodlust on them.

"I'm sorry! Our little priest got too excited after receiving an Excalibur Fragment." she said mockingly. This Fallen Angel was a buxom lady who had green hair and was slightly tanned. She had yellow eyes and wore crimson red leather jacket and skirt. Buttoned in a fashion that revealed her cleavage. "He went and killed that priest over there. It would make life a lot easier if he had waited it out but since you three found him, we are going to clean up after the child! Who cares anyway...You won't stop what Kokabiel-sama has planned for this city."

"I don't care what you guys are up to! But we are going to take back our swords!" I called back. This was the mission anyway, we are to take back our swords from the thieves or destroy them. We aren't going to stop Kokabiel. That's going to be a side bonus.

"Hahahaha! I thought the Church was stupid but not this stupid! In response to us stealing their Holy Swords, they sent the rest of their Holy Swords after us!" she roared finding our situation funny. "You girls were sent here to die! Well anyhow, you dogs are going to die tonight. You might as well let us kill you and take your swords with us." she turned to her comrades beside her. "Kill them!" she ordered.

"Xenovia-chan! Eliza-san!" I called out to them, waiting for them to make a move.

"Looks like we have no choice," Xenovia-chan said before she unwrapped the cloth surrounding, revealing the sword known as Excalibur Destruction, Eliza-san merely unsheathed her sword and pointed the blade of Galatine towards the Fallen Angel, whilst I tugged the armband and transformed the piece accessory into a Japanese Katana. We threw off our white cloaks.

In an instant, a fight broke out between us. I took on one Fallen Angel, Eliza-san fought the female Fallen Angel and Xenovia-chan battled the final two.

I blocked an attack from the Fallen Angel before me before I slashed back at him. I made the blade go limp and tried to whip the Fallen Angel but he dodged each attack. He dashed towards me. In retaliation, I stiffened the sword and locked swords with the Fallen Angel.

Xenovia-chan roared as she threw a slash at the two who flew out of the way before throwing a spear of light at her. She sliced the spear into pieces before she jumped high and tried to take a slash at them. With each slash, taking advantage of the sword's destructive power, she destroyed every weapon that came at her.

Flames erupted from the Galatine and Eliza-san used her sword to destroy each spear of light that challenged her. As she got closer and closer to the Fallen Angel, she threw flaming energy slash which the busty green haired lady flew upwards to avoid. The red-head crossed blade with the female Fallen Angel. With a final slash, they both locked weapons.

"You are good child!" the Fallen Angel said to her. "But you are still green!" she sent Eliza-san tumbling on the ground with a hard kick.

"Eliza-san!" I called out. I kicked off the Fallen Angel and rushed towards her. As I helped her up, I heard a roar from my behind, I turned around to see the the Fallen Angel I fought rushing after me. But he stopped and he pushed away by a slash from Xenovia-chan.

"Watch your back!" she roared before she regrouped with us. I cursed at our predicament. We were about to be outclassed by these four former Angels.

We were surrounded by four Mid-level Fallen Angels.

How could we survive through this? By the Lord's guiding light, in my heart, I prayed for his protection.

-x-x-

I raced through the forest as fast as the stallion I rode on could go. When I had arrived into Kuoh Town with the help of the horse's teleportation ability, I had heard the sounds of a battle ringing through area. I feared the worst. At the end of the forest, where the suburban area meets the woods, I saw my sister, Xenovia-san and a woman I did not recognised were surrounded by a group of Fallen Angels. No doubt, Kokabiel's men. The girls were surrounded on all sides, with the enemy creating their lights spears for the death blow.

"Granni!" I yelled out the beast's name as I made him gallop faster and faster. Hoping to reach them in time. Granni cried in response, running faster than it had been before. This horse was famous for being the descendant of the famous Norse horse, Sleipnir, itself. But even then, I knew that even he won't be quick enough for me to reach them. In response to this truth, I held out my left arm and with a single breath, I called out. "Balance Break!"

-x-x-

"It's over!" one of them cried.

But before any of the spears were thrown. A sudden gold streak pierced through the one before me in the neck. The Fallen Angel suddenly dissolved into light as his feathers were scattered everywhere.

Was this our God's helping hand? Could he have sent reinforcements to save us from his enemies?

I had hoped that this was the case.

"Who was that?!" the female fallen angel shouted as she looked behind her. She wasn't the only one who wanted to know who had intervened our fight.

The three of us turned to see who our saviour was. My eyes started to tear up without any warning. I didn't know why, but deep down, no matter what he did, he was still my brother. I haven't seen him in over two years. I had resisted the urged to ran up to him and hug him.

Sat on a black stallion whose hair shone an unnatural neon blue was a young man with the same purple eyes as me. Wearing the same battle armour, though the white scarf he had was tattered, ragged and on his body sported added armour parts, as the day I had last saw him. His chestnut brown hair was shorter than before, looking at bit spikier. His face looked manlier than before, no longer that innocent looking face he had before. His face was battle hardened, no doubt he had faced many fights these last two years. In his left arm was his black longbow and he held as if he was in a firing position.

"Are you alright, Iri-nee? Xenovia-san?" he asked. His voice was lower than before but I knew it held the same kindness from before.

That was the day Ren Shidou, my brother, came back into my life.

-x-x-

I remember those days very well. The days, it was probably up till a week, after my little brother had revealed his trump card, the Demonic Spear, I, Irina, had been cold to him. We were family, we had been together since before we were born. No lie should be kept between us! I was so angry at him.

Though to be fair, no lie should break our bond. We're twins, no matter what, we would always have each other's back. I just hated that feeling of being betrayed, and I wasn't thinking rationally.

I stood outside his room. To be honest, I was finding it difficult to be there. I had heard that Ren had gone off to do another mission a couple of days ago and is expected to return today. I was hoping that we both could let go past this and move on today. I heard movement from inside the room.

I knocked on the door, calling out to my brother on the other side, "Ren?" No reply. "It's me. Your sister. I was just wondering if you could talk." I waited for the response. I felt a bit annoyed at being ignored, so on impulse, I opened the door whilst raising my voice slightly. "Don't give me the si-"

I had stopped mid-sentence because instead of Ren being in there, Griselda-san and Papa were in his room. Griselda, my sword teacher, and my Papa were currently gathering up my brother's stuff. I had a bad feeling about what was going on.

"Papa? Griselda-san? What are you doing here?"

Both held a look of distraught as they looked to the other before turning to me, as if something bad had happened.

"I don't know how to say this…" Griselda-san began.

"Irina-chan…Your brother…he…" Papa tried to find the words, I saw his fist clenching. With a single breath, my father unclenched his hand and told me the news.

That day was a really difficult day for me.

That was the day Ren Shidou, my brother, disappeared.

-x-End-x-

I am quite sorry if it's confusing to find out whose view is whose. I wanted to show how Ren was first invited to the Khaos Brigade. I wanted to delve into Irina's POV as to try and see from her point of view, especially what her thoughts were when she met Issei and Ren again. Well it didn't really go to well, I think. I think after this chapter, I am going to stick with Ren's POV, maybe Issei's as he is the main character of the series. I won't lie, I think I rushed this chapter a bit. But I didn't know how to write up some of the scenes.

Though to be honest, I did create this story randomly, so I am going to spend more time planning it out and work through each of the characters. This story will follow the original storyline mostly with a few stories trying to delve into other parts of the world. Btw I am mainly following the light novels but with a few scenes from the anime.

Here is an updated Harem so far I think. I am throwing in a couple of original characters in it but I am not naming them yet.

Harem – Xenovia (main), Jeanne, Rossweisse, Kiyome Abe, Reya Kusaka, Eliza (OC), Lucielle (OC),

"I wonder what does the members of the Church want with us."

"You disappeared from our lives for two years and this is how you came back into it!?"

"I will not go back to the Church!"

Life 4: Meeting