Double Edge

Being both a demon and a human, Rin has the strengths of both. He also has the weaknesses.

Summon

'Hang on a minute,' said Lightning. 'Are you saying you've never actually tried to summon anything?'

How had they even arrived at this topic? Arthur wondered.

'I never needed to.'

'Why don't you try it now?'

'What?' Arthur started at his colleague. 'At a meeting? Are you mad?'

'Why ever not?'

Oh shit. Not him too.

Mesphisto grinned at him.

'What better place to summon a demon than a room full of powerful exorcists?' he asked. 'Besides, we're pretty much finished here for today.' Everyone was turning off their laptops now.

'You probably won't be able to summon anything anyway,' Lightning added. 'Tamers are rare.'

...

'Well, I may as well get it over with,' Arthur muttered.

Now that he was thinking about it, the idea of summoning was interesting.

'Does anyone mind if I try a summoning here?' he asked the other exorcists.

'What do you mean, Angel?'

'I mean I'd like to see if I can summon a demon,' he said. 'When I was a page, we were short on doctors and missed the opportunity to attempt summoning.' After that, he'd been too focused on his knight training to think about it.

'Alright.'

'Be careful.'

'Does anyone have a summoning paper?'

Mephisto produced one from somewhere in his flamboyant coat and they were soon anticipating Arthur's experiment.

He moved onto the platform separate from the table and chairs and prepared to prick his finger.

'Remember, just use whatever words pop into your head!' Kirigakure called, stretching her legs over the table.

Arthur took his time; he wanted to say something meaningful and impressive.

'Don't perish yet, the fire in my heart.

'I can still keep going, so here I go!

'Come out!

'Appear with a blaze of light!'

Immediately, a rush of energy surged through his body. There was a ripple in the air, a flash of bright blue light and a spray of water. Arthur covered his eyes.

Several people gasped.

Arthur's eyes snapped open.

'... What the hell?'

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'What the hell!?' Okumura Rin shrieked.

Satan's half-human son stood on the table, naked and wet. He was covered in bubbles.

Kirigakure and Mephisto doubled over laughing.

'Where am I? What the fuck just happened?'

Arthur gaped at the ridiculous scene unfolding before him. He had just summoned Satan's spawn, that little shit of all demons? And directly out of a shower too.

'Oh - my - god! Nya ha ha ha ha ha!' Kirikagure pounded her fist on the table, tears streaming from her eyes.

'Sh-Sh-Shura!' shouted Okumura. His face flushed red and he covered his groin. 'What's going on, Shura?'

She tried to speak, but only a gasping gurgle came out, so she pointed to Arthur.

Okumura spun around to face him.

'Hey! What's going on here?' he demanded. His tail waved in agitation, flicking soap suds everywhere.

'It looks like our Paladin is in shock, so I'll explain,' said Mephisto, still wheezing.

'Angel attempted a summoning for the first time, and you showed up.'

'WHAT!?'

'Isn't it a surprise?'

'I was summoned? By that bastard? Damn it!'

Mephisto cracked up again.

By now, the exorcists were getting over the shock and drew their weapons.

Arthur shock himself awake too and made to tear the summoning paper.

...

Which was no longer in his hands. Shit.

'Oi, oi, you don't need to point those things at me,' the boy muttered nervously. 'I'm unarmed. And unclothed. I'll just be going now. Hey, Angel! Unsummon me already!'

'Ah, I can't do that,' Arthur said, embarrassed. Shit, he must look really stupid. 'I've dropped the summoning paper.'

'You dropped it.' Satan's brat gave him a blank look. 'Down there? Argh!'

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Eventually Mephisto managed to stop cackling and took control of the situation. He gave Okumura a dressing gown and ridiculous looking slippers and had the boy sit in an empty chair.

'Shall we officially end this meeting now and be on our ways?'

'Yes, let's.' They were done anyway. Arthur wanted to go home and have a good strong drink.

'You're not going to take your new pet home?'

'I'm not his pet!'

'He's not my pet!'

Lightning and Mephisto chuckled.

'He'd make an interesting pet,' Lightning murmured in English. 'When things settle down again, you could put him to good use.'

'Shut it,' Arthur muttered back. 'I don't need that vulgar brat.' (1)

'Hey, where does this thing lead too?' Okumura gaped at the chasm between the chairs and table. 'How do I get down from here?'

'You can come over here,' Kirigakure told him. 'I'll walk you home. Can't have you getting lost here.' She was still breaking out in giggles.

Satan's brat glowered at her and jumped on the table.

'Oi, Angel! You'd better not summon me like that again! Just give me a normal mission briefing.'

'Get lost, brat!' He put his hand of Caliburn's hilt and watched Okumura flinch.

'... Che.' Okumura composed himself and followed after Kirigakure, who put her arm around him and ruffled his wet hair. Arthur watched them leave the room, disappearing into an arched hallway.

Part 2

Arthur was almost certain Mephisto had orchestrated it on purpose. He was obviously bored by the meeting.

The True Cross Order branch heads of various countries were giving their general reports in the courtroom of the Vatican (usually these meetings were in a lecture hall, but that room was currently being used as a makeshift infirmary).

The Oceania Branch Head was stepping up to give his report, passing Arthur, when a summoning seal fell out of his pocket and gave Arthur a paper cut. He didn't even notice until there was a ripple in the air and a flash of blue light, eliciting murmurs of confusion from the gathering of exorcists.

What's that - oh shit.

Okumura Rin appeared out of nowhere, his still body perched precariously on the defence podium.

'Whoa! Where did he spring from?'

'Avez-vous vu que la lumière bleue?' (2)

'Ĉu tio estas vosto?' (3)

'Was zum Teufel?' (4)

Shit, thought Arthur. How - Damn, I'm bleeding. Never mind, I'll worry about that later.

'Uh oh,' murmured Mephisto. 'It looks like he's about to fall. I wonder what will happen if he wakes up and gets a shock?' There was a really annoying smirk on his lips and a gleam in his eyes.

Okumura shifted and slipped over the podium edge and - fuck, will he explode if he wakes up suddenly? - Arthur was sprinting forward and catching the brat in his arms.

'Oo, nice catch, Paladin!' Lightning praised.

Satan's brat continued to sleep soundly, despite the disturbance. He was wearing a t-shirt and track pants and his hair was a mess.

'Paladin! Japanese Branch Head! What is that boy doing here?' demanded a member of the Grigori.

'This is Okumura Rin, an Exwire from the Japanese branch of the True Cross Order,' Mephisto explained, loud enough for everyone to hear. 'He is of demon descent. Quite recently we discovered he could be summoned, when Paladin Arthur Auguste Angel took the tamer test.'

'But why is he here now?'

'I don't know,' Arthur said. 'I must have cut myself on something.'

Several tamers searched their pockets and the Oceania Branch Head discovered he'd lost a basic seal.

'I'm sorry,' he said. 'Hey, what are those spots on him? He looks sick.'

'Oh yes, Okumura-Kun has the chicken pox.' Mephisto grinned. 'I hope you've already had them, Angel.'

'Where's the damn seal?' Arthur asked. 'I'll get rid of him.'

'Zzz... Move over, Yukio. I'm cold.'

To Arthur's horror, Okumura turned and snuggled against him, his hands clutching Arthur's coat and his tail curling around his arm.

Flash!

Poof!

Mephisto smirked at him with the ripped paper in his hands.

'Heh, I told you he'd make an interesting pet,' said lightning.

(1) I'm not trying to make him a Gary Stu, but I reckon a high ranking guy like him would be able to communicate with exorcists from other branches by speaking at least two different languages. *sighs* I haven't quite seen enough of Angel to write him well.

(2) Did you see that blue light? - French

(3) Is that a tail? - Spanish/Esperanto

(4) What the hell? - German

Actually, I imagine most of the Branch Heads are at least passable in another language. For the second part, you can assume everyone understands enough of Mephisto's explanation in English, or that someone is whispering a translation.

The first 2 lines of the words to summon Rin are taken from the first anime opening song: Core Pride by Uverworld. Listen to the whole thing at animelyrics dot com.

I'll only update if new ideas come to me, so this story will continue to be classified as complete.