Life 0: The End is Where We Begin

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[Prologue]

"Ack!” A black haired teen screamed as another part of his body was slashed open. His dark red eyes looked shakily at the side of the chair. Crimson red. The color of the blood which covered the torture chair and the muddy ground below him. Echos of wet footsteps slowly walked from behind him and a women’s cute sadistic laughter reflected off the walls of the torture room, "Fufufu…”

The woman placed her finger to her lip seductively as she looked at a small bucket and back to her victim. “I'm going to fill this bucket to the rim." The woman giggled placing the bucket to the side of her restrained victim. This psychotic mistress was the high class devil Amelia.

From the back side of her belt, she unsheathed a short glowing weapon. She waved the weapon across the teen’s eyes causing his body to shiver all over. “Please… No more…” He muttered helplessly to his master. Playfully, she took a small hop back landing in a dirty puddle. The high class devil wiggled her feet in the water giggling to herself again as she brought the knife close to her chin and placed her index finger on the tip of the blade. The light radiating from the knife emphasized the crazy features of his master. She tilted her head to the side and stared cheerfully at her servant. “Hmmm, nope!” Without any hesitation she slashed across Ichiro’s chest.

"AGGGGHHH!!!" He howled in agony. His blood splattered from the wound on his chest, before settling down and dripping to the ground, creating a small pool of blood under his chair.

His master clapped her hands together. “Wow! Ichiro, even after a wound like that you’re still breathing! ...” She was covered in his blood from head to toe, but her twisted mind wasn’t bothered by it at the least. In fact she looked as satisfied as she could be. She placed her blade back into its holster and brought up the bucket, looking down to check how much essence of life she collected. “Damn! It’s not full yet!”

Ichiro’s breaths started to become slower and weaker. His skin color was starting to become paler and colder from the lack of blood. With his remaining strength, he turned his head so he could see behind his psychopath for a master. Slowly his head dropped to his shoulder and his eyes looked over to the wall. With his blurry vision, he focused enough to find his teammates. Thirteen beautiful girls, all chained up to the walls stripped of their belongings and clothing, stared in horror as their heads were afixiated by their master’s magic to watch the horror show in front of them.

The black haired boy felt his soul yell to him to do something to stop this, but as seconds past, his body ached… No, longed to be put to rest. This torture was far worse than any living thing could endure...should endure...his dark red eyes started to lose their life, the sound of his heart beat that once thundered in his ear weakened and slowly became a small thump, and his vision started to fade. As moments passed, Ichiro forced his eyes to stay open knowing once they closed, it would be over, but somehow his body became more and more obsessed with the thought of dying. Eventually, the battle for the future of his life came to an end. His body had won. Reluctantly his eyelids started to close as his last breaths were just about to leave his body…

“AAACCCKKK!!!” A burning feeling of a knife punctured his body and instantly jet out. Ichiro’s whole body jumped back to life for a moment before falling back limp into the chair.

“Fufufu, such a handsome boy.” His master giggled as she grabbed his head to face her, “You won’t die yet Ichiro. I still have big plans for you!”

* splosh!*

A muffled sound of a glass cap splashing on the ground went through Ichiro’s ears. A cold feeling of water entered his mouth. Without any notice, he felt all the pain he endured disappear without a trace leaving Ichiro to make sense of what happened. Slowly he regained his strength. ''“W-what happened right now?” ''As his vision returned, his confusion turned to horror as his crazy master was looking at him straight in the eyes and smiling at him as if she was insulting him. And suddenly all the injuries and marks on the boy's body disappeared, his crimson blood still remained but all cuts and bruises disappeared from sight as if they didn't.''“What am I doing here! I-I was so close to escape this hell, but… Why am I still here?!” ''

In his master’s hands was a crystal clear bottle with all the content inside of the bottle was gone. She laughed arrogantly at him. “Hahaha! Phenex tears Ichiro…” she giggled. “With one bottle full of it, suddenly all the injuries and marks went poof! I’m glad it didn’t get rid of all your beautiful blood!” She sighed as she finished her little rant.

She began to circle around her servant like a predator watching its prey. She traced her fingers along his arm and finally gently held onto his fingers, holding one finger at a time. “Fufufu, you fingers even came back!”She walked in front of him and leaned forward. They were faced to face now and all her features were more noticeable, despite the fact that she was covered in blood and had an insane smile on her face, she still was as beautiful as the day when Ichiro first met her. Her long dark purple hair was still long and reached her back, it glistened softly to the light in the room, and her beautiful red eyes hidden behind the pair of glasses on her face. Her look gave her the appearance of youth and vigor. Seductively, she cupped his cheeks in the palms of her hands. "You're a fine one did you know that Ichiro? It's been two hours and you're still sane" she purred.

Ichiro’s breathing intensified in response to his heart racing from the fear he felt towards his master. Her lips curved into a cocky grin. She backed away and put her hands behind her back tracing along her utility belt of torture devices. The woman picked up a pair of long sharpened scissors this time. With that infamous crazy look in her eye she sliced and sliced Ichiro’s chest open again. “HAHAHAHA!!! MORE! GIVE ME MORE!!!” She yelled like a maniac, “MORE BLOOD! FEEL MORE PAIN! SHOW ME THE ANIMAL INSIDE!!!”

*SLICE**SLICE*
 * SLICE* *SLICE* *SLICE*

Ichiro collapsed forward. Everything hurt. He just wanted to cry, but it hurt to cry...his eyes had been cut…she had cut horizontally across his eyes. The girls dangled against the wall helplessly unable to do a thing. They were paralyzed by magic and their hands were restrained to the walls. They could not scream from the gags their master forced on them.

The master stared cockily at her only male servant. “Ichiro, do you know why I chose you to become part of my peerage?” She said walking near the walls of the room with the scissors still in her hands and beginning to walk by each of her restrained servants, dragging her bloodied scissors across the wall, looking over any obstacle in its way.

“Because Ichiro-chan, you are strong. And I need someone like you to help me rid this world of the four Great Satans and take the Underworld for myself!” The woman hissed angrily at him before she started to giggle again. “During the time of the Great War, I was interrogator under a very powerful ultimate class devil named Rizevim Lucifer.” She said as she giggled some more. “He was a man who kept growing more wrathful towards the New Devil Society. He believed this new way of life was a disgrace! He was disgusted by the evil pieces, the thought of other creatures becoming devils sickened him. So he and my family abandoned our people and hid away in Luucifad which had become extra demon territory”.

"Fufufu, what fools they were. They chose loyalty to Lucifer, over power and wealth" the woman laughed, looking at the blade of her weapon. “One day I made a decision to leave my idiotic family and return to the New Satan Society. I created a new name for myself and I worked to achieve the rank of a High Class Devil, so I could unlock the ability to have my own servants by using the devil recruiting tools.” Amelia explained.

“Over the past few years, ever since that day I took you from that damn orphanage I found you rotting in, I’ve been… ‘experimenting’… with your blood. I needed you to become stronger. Strong enough to rid the problems the four Great Satans have caused me…but you tried to mess with my plan. I would’ve let you rule the underworld and in the future, heaven, with me. I would’ve let everyone in this room share in the glory of ruling over the three factions. But you. You nearly ruined my plan.” She growled at Ichiro. “You nearly got everyone of my servants to abandon me.”

“YOU WERE GOING TO GET US ALL KILLED!” The boy screamed as his eyes watered. “You were planning on using us as tools! You never once considered the pain you put us through! YOU WERE HURTING US!!!”

“Hurting you?” She turned to the thirteen girls behind her and tilted her head to the side, “Is that true? Was I hurting you all?” She questioned, but no one answered. They were too frozen with fear.Amelia shook her head and let out a small sigh. She looked over the crowd and finally gracefully walked towards one of her smaller servants, a beautiful small petite girl with shoulder length black hair and brown eyes, a girl by the name of Moki.

"No…No…NO…PLEASE DON'T" Ichiro's cries of pain fell on deaf ears as the woman picked up the girl by the neck. "Amelia…Amelia ZAGAN…PLEASE DON'T" He yelled as he tried to shake free from his chair.

Moki was in her hands crying, shaking, and trying to plead with her mouth gagged. Amelia ignored her foolish attempts to cry. "You know Moki…I was always afraid that you were more beautiful and youthful than me. And that you would try to take my Ichiro-Chan from me. But now I'm going to make it so you never have that chance"

Amelia brought her weapon up high and slammed the scissors straight through the girl's eye making her scream and have blood leak from her wound. "Noooo!!!" Ichiro screamed, but his master ignored his cries and pulled the scissors out of Moki’s eye. Amelia stared at Moki’s one good eye and smiled as she looked back at the scissors with Moki's eyeball stuck to the tip of blade. Amelia’s smile grew more psychotic. Out of the heat of the moment, she bit the whole eyeball off the blade and swallowed it whole.

Amelia smiled again as she pushed a crying and screaming Moki to the wall, the gag falling from her mouth. "STOP! PLEASE AMELIA-SAMA! I LOVED YOU! I RESPECTED YOU! I DIDN'T HATE YOU! I WANTED TO BE AS BEAUTIFUL AND SMART AS ME!"

Amelia ignored the girl's screams and pleads "That doesn’t matter now, little girl." She glared at her. Once again she rose her weapon in the air and started ramming the scissors deep into her skull. Moki’s blood spurting out of her body finally making the other girls to scream through their gags. Ichiro continued to kick, cry and scream for any kind of mercy, even begging Amelia to take him instead of her.

Moki flailed around as the blades went deeper into her skull until her body suddenly froze lifelessly… she was now dead. Amelia smiled at the other girls "Now which one of you pretty ladies is next?" She smiled showing off her knife this time.

[Kuoh Town]

A young man happily skipped excitedly down the sidewalk. Today was a new day for this young man, today was the day when he would begin his first year as a student at Kuoh Academy. He was a teenage boy with a rather skinny but lean build with short blonde hair and grey eyes. He wore a uniform letting any passerbyer know he was a student for Kuoh Academy albeit he didn't wear the blazer and his sleeves were rolled up.

'Maybe I should join the basketball club, no the chess club, or maybe take my chances with the student council, or maybe the disciplinary committee' He let out a small laugh at that thought, him a member of the disciplinary committee? He wasn't exactly a troublemaker but he wasn't someone who would be good at enforcing the law. The boy continued skipping to his new school, without a worry in the world.

The boy pondered his club choices. He wanted to make his time at Kuoh Academy the best years of his life, I mean, you only get to attend high school once, why not make it count?

"Hey Saji!" A feminine voice called out his name.

Speaking of making it count.

The boy turned around with an excited smile on his face knowing who was trying to get his attention. Running towards him with an almost sad pout on her face, was one of the few girls he had known since middle school.

A beautiful short and small girl wearing a female version of his uniform. The girl’s brown hair was in twin ponytails which danced as she ran and her green eyes looked worried. In her hair was a pair of green clips and instead of the usual brown stockings that came along with the female Kuoh Academy uniform, she wore striped green stockings.

The uniform held to her petite frame perfectly and really showed her womanly features. "Saji! Wait up!" the girl repeated with a pout on her face. "I thought we were going to walk together the first day of school like we always did!".

Saji smiled at the girl, despite her being a year younger than him, walking together to school was their yearly tradition. Last year, Saji's first year as a high school student and her last year as a middle school student, Saji made sure to show up at her parent's house in order to walk her to her middle school to complete their tradition.

Saji chuckled "I thought you would grow out of that kid's stuff and we would just meet each other at the front ga-"

*BAM!*

The girl whacked him on the head before crossing her arms in frustration. "Meanie! It's not kids' stuff it's supposed to be our thing!" she said putting emphasis on the word "our" as she stuck her tongue out at him.

Saji rubbed the spot where she hit him before laughing again. "Sorry Nimura," Saji apologized with a kind smile. "If it'll make you feel better we can go get some cake after school today?" The girl's face instantly lightened up at the thought of eating delicious treats.This has always been her weakness which he could exploit anytime she was mad at him.Saji laughed again before he started walking towards the school.

Saji was an academic genius; he had been given a scholarship to the prestigious Excel Academy, but after his first year he decided to transfer to Kuoh Academy so he could be close to Nimura who was attending the school and hopefully get his first girlfriend.

The two walked down the street towards their destination chatting about various topics including what clubs they wanted to join, experimenting with new fashion ideas, and even about becoming popular among the school.

"So there are three girls at Kuoh Academy who attended all three years and even attended the middle school division of Kuoh Academy. There's names are Akeno Himejima, Rias Gremory, and Sona Shitori. The two named Akeno and Rias are known as the two great ladies of Kuoh and the one named Sona is the student council president this year" Nimura said.

Saji laughed, "You really did your homework, huh?"

"And that's not all" Nimura said excitedly as she lifted her finger. "Rias and Sona both come from really wealthy, noble families from somewhere foreign! I remembered going towards Sona's mansion on the outskirts of town one time and it was massive!" Nimura's eyes sparkled with amazement making Saji laugh again.

"Knowing you, you would love a flamboyant and flashy mansion like that" Saji replied patting Nimura on the head. The two then arrived at the front of Kuoh Academy.

"GOOD MORNING GEN~CHANNN!!!" a voice sang through the air.

'Oh great' Nimura thought looking downwards with an annoyed expression. Suddenly a pair of arms wrapped affectionately around Saji. Nimura watched as a girl jumped on her friend and she pretended as if she was about to vomit.

Saji laughed nervously as he patted the girl affectionately on the head "Good morning, Momo-kun" Saji said smiling as the girl excitedly wrapped her hands around him.

After a few minutes she finally let go and smiled brightly at Nimura "GOOD MORNING NIMURA-CHAN!" Momo said with a bright smile.

"…Hi…" Nimura said waving with a bored sigh escaping her lips.

"I'm so excited you both decided to attend Kuoh Academy" Momo smiled cheerfully. Momo, was a girl who Saji and Nimura had met during their middle school years, and she had become a very affectionate friend of Saji due to him being the only one who approached her during middle school which not a lot of people did because of her clingy attitude.

Momo a pretty beautiful girl with long pure white hair and blue-green eyes. She had an affectionate smile on her face and just like Nimura, she wore the Kuoh Academy female uniform which really showed off her curvy body.

"I didn't really have a choice." Nimura said with a sigh. It was semi true; her grades had been barely passing, making her believe she only got in because of the need for more students.

Kuoh Academy was originally an all-girl school, despite being a very prestigious school, Kuoh Academy was facing a problem due to the drop in enrollment and numerous of the student population transferring or graduating too early. So the school decided to make the school co-ed so the student population could increase again.

Nimura wasn't a very bad student, it's just she didn't do well on tests where the marks really came in. It was most likely her excessive extra-curricular activities got her admission into Kuoh Academy in the first place.

"Whatever" Nimura said a bright smile crossing over her face while waving off the attention of her past grades. "This year I promise to improve my marks and I will become more popular than Rias and Akeno!" Nimura said excitedly pumping her fist into the air.

"And this year, I promise to-" Saji paused, not having anything to say, his grades have always been perfect, he had friends, he already had club options, there was nothing for him to improve on.

"-you promise to take Momo on a date"

"YEAH" Saji agreed excitedly. Saji then realized what he had said and turned to face Momo who had an innocent andmischievous smile written all over her face. "We'll see you two later, I have to go check in with Sona-Kaichou!" Momo said with a smile. "She's planning to give her speech soon at orientation. Also I look forward to that date you said you promised!"

"Oh right, Momo-San, I remembered you told me you had joined the student council" Saji replied back ignoring that last part of her sentence.

Momo smiled back, "Bye-bye!" she said before running off.

Nimura glared with a hateful look in her eyes as she watched Momo run off "That little-!"

"Come on Nimura,” Saji interrupted her little moment. “We should go try to get good seats for orientation." Saji said with a bright smile. Nimura let out a sigh of defeat, and followed Saji towards the main auditorium.

~Somewhere else in Kuoh Academy…~

"AWWWW YEAH MAN WE'RE FINALLY HERE!" all eyes turned to the loud and rowdy three guys standing at the front gate of Kuoh Academy.

"HELL YEAH WE'RE HERE! LOOK AT ALL THE BEAUTIFUL CHICKS!" A boy with glasses said eyeing all the girls, unbeknownst to the students, he was secretly "scanning" the girls of their measurements.

"OH YEAH! WHO'S READY TO BECOME A HAREM KING" bright smiles crossed over all three of the guy's faces. After hearing that outburst, most of the girls walked away seeing the guy's for the perverts they were.

"HEY ISE! Why did we enroll at this Academy again?" The boy with the shaven head, and a camera strapped around his neck.

"Oh it's simple," Issei said, a lecherous and devilish looking grin crossing his face "Because this school's boy and girl ratio is like 1:9 due to the school being a girl's only school for so many years and just recently going Co-Ed, it will be perfect for us to develop our very own harem! This place is like a paradise filled with chicks!" The boy with spiky brown hair said.

All three boys were dressed in the Kuoh Academy male uniform, albeit a few differences in their appearances compared to the average male student. "WHO'S READY TO SEE SOME TITS!!!" the boy known as Matsuda yelled out loud.

"Eww…what a creep" some girl muttered with a lot of disgust on her face, as she began walking away.

"Now come on guys, I heard some chick who is the student council president is giving a orientation speech" the one known as Motohama said with a excited smile. "You know what that means?"

[ALL THE TITS THIS SCHOOL HAS TO OFFER WILL BE IN ONE PLACE!]

 

"What's wrong? Why do you cry?" Ichiro’s eyes shot open. He looked around and was no longer in the basement being tortured by his master. Instead, he was in a large lush field, surrounded by flowers.

"I'm…going to die." Ichiro admitted with fresh tears running down his eyes.

"Even after everything you've been through and everything you've done…you’re still afraid of dying? How Amusing..." the girl purred cutely, but her every word she said felt like a nail being driven into Ichiro's heart. Ichiro looked up at the girl in shock. She was a girl with bored yet a sad looking expression on her face. She had dark purple eyes and shoulder length, light purple hair. The girl walked over to Ichiro, who was still strapped into the chair he was in, she then calmly took her finger and wiped some blood off of Ichiro's face before putting the finger in her mouth and savoring the blood for a moment.

The girl then giggled, but her giggled was monotone, as if no emotions were behind it.

"…Who, who are you?" Ichiro said in shock.

The girl didn't answer. She turned around and stared into the far horizon "your master is here."

In mere seconds, the valley of flowers disappeared, and Ichiro was back in that room again, only this time-

"OH-oh my god! What the fuck! What the fuck! WHAT THE FUCK!!!" The pain from mentioning 'GOD' didn't even register inside of Ichiro's head as he continued to scream out loud. Corpses…that's all that laid around him.

The main one that stuck out was the corpse where the body had been sliced horizontally in half. The internal organs were completely visible and spilling out as droplets of blood poured from the hand. The floor wasn't even recognizable, fully covered in the crimson red blood of Ichiro's household "Maria…" He muttered looking at one of the bodies.

Her corpse… It was mangled and bit in some places. There was another corpse nearby and it was impossible to tell if it was even human anymore, the lower half was missing and flesh was skinned off showing both bones and flesh, Ichiro stared at the body intensely…despite the missing flesh he could tell "…ADDISON…" she had been a beautiful girl with long black hair and glistening golden eyes. Ichiro remembered, she was the one who taught him to defend himself and was always the one who cleaned and healed his body whenever he got a beating from his master.

All the bodies laid, all the members of his former peerage, some were torn and twisted in ways not even humanly possible, others suffered missing limbs, the room was painted in blood. "Why? WHY! WHY!?!?" Ichiro's eyes widened as he looked at each of the corpses in front of him. Wait…there was one missing.

"Freya? FREYA!?" Ichiro screamed her name as if his life depended on it. "If she's alive…maybe…maybe master didn't…."

"Oh, you finally woke back up Ichiro-chan!" Ichiro looked straight ahead and his eyes widened. In the hands of Amelia Zagan, the only remaining member of the legendary Zagan family was an unconscious girl with beautiful snow white hair and crystal blue eyes. The girl in her hands looked like a sleeping angel, she had beautiful fair skin and a perfect feminine body despite her short appearance.

"Amelia, please don't hurt her! Please stop doing this!" Ichiro pleaded. More tears fell from his eyes.

Amelia turned to the unconscious girl in her hands then back to Ichiro "So this is the one?" Amelia lifted the girl to a chair before strapping her in and then having her face Ichiro.

The girl's eyes began to open, her crystal blue orbs stared directly at Ichiro "I-Ichiro-Chan?"

*SMACK*

"Freya!" Ichiro cried in pain.

"I told you never to call him that you little whore!" Amelia grabbed Freya's neck tightening her grip around it causing her to choke.

"Stop it!" Ichiro cried. "PLEASE AMELIA, STOP IT. JUST STOP!"

Amelia turned to Ichiro, an almost innocent looking smile on her otherwise maniacal looking face. "If Ichiro-Chan wants me too" Amelia let go of Freya's neck letting her gasp for air and stutter for a few seconds.

"Ichiro…I'm sorry" Amelia said with tears seeping from her eyes. "This is all my fault… If I hadn’t... Please forgive me".

"Don't blame yourself for this. It's not your fault" Ichiro said. "I was the one who messed up everything"

Amelia laughed psychotically. She paced around her two remaining servants. "You were the one…you tried to steal my Ichiro-Chan from me" Amelia said with a happy smile on her face, but her words were filled with hatred.

"YOU WERE HURTING US" Ichiro shouted. "CAN'T YOU SEE THAT? AFTER ALL THIS, CAN'T YOU SEE?" Ichiro said, pleading for her to rethink what she had done, and what she was currently doing. He was trying to plead to her sanity. Amelia’s face turned red. She stomped over to her. She pushed his chair down and he hit his head on the wet ground. His master sat on top of his chest and looked down at him, visibly enraged.

"You're in love with her." She hissed, raising her hand up in the air.

*SMACK*

His cheek turned a bright red "I loved you more! More than she could ever love you!" She yelled down at him.

*SMACK*

"You were my servant! You belonged to me and only me!"

*SMACK*

"I made you into a strong warrior! And this is what you do to me!"

*SMACK*

"YOU WERE GOING TO BE MY KING AND I WOULD'VE BEEN YOUR QUEEN!!!"

*SMACK*

"YOU’RE MINE!!! NOT HERS!!! MINE!!! ALL MINE!!!"

*SMACK*

"WE COULD'VE RULED THE WORLD TOGETHER"

Amelia had finished her sudden outburst and placed Ichiro’s chair back up. There was a small stream of red falling from Ichiro's face again. Both his face and Amelia's hand were a bright shade of red. His master let out another cold hard laugh "but we still can be Ichiro-chan…” She whispered in his ear, “We can be lovers for all of eternity".

"Stop!" Ichiro shouted as Amelia left and walked towards Freya. Amelia pulled her knife out of her belt and held it up to the girl's throat. "If I take this one out of the picture, then we can be together forever Ichiro-chan!"

"Amelia, please stop!" Freya screamed trying to save her own life.

"Shut up!" Amelia shouted back, ignoring Ichiro screams. "I'll kill her and then I'll erase your memory Ichiro-Chan…you'll forget all these unfaithful servants even existed…then you'll be mine Ichiro-Chan…then you'll be mine alone..."

"ACK!!!” Freya's screamed echoed through the air, Ichiro's world froze. Amelia had slammed the knife into Freya's leg, hitting major nerves and blood vessels. Her blood gushed everywhere, and some of it even managed to hit Ichiro's face.

"IF ONLY YOU HAD BEEN STRONG ENOUGH"

"I'll KILL YOU"

"IF ONLY YOU HAD BEEN A TRUE WARRIOR"

"I'm GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU AMELIA"

            "IF ONLY YOU HAD LET GO"

"I'LL KILL YOU!"

Ichiro's world then faded into darkness.

'''            ~Kuoh Academy~     '''

The auditorium was packed in Kuoh Academy this morning, despite being a pretty big stage room it was packed with the hundreds of students that attended the Academy from 1st year to 3rd year. Almost every student from the high school division, including all the teachers and staff, on the stage stood a beautiful girl with shoulder-length black hair and violet colored eyes with a serious look on her face.

Her name was Sona Sitri, a devil who was under the alias of "Sona Shitori". She was the elected student council president for Kuoh Academy. She was to give an orientation speech in place of the Headmaster who was out for the day. Sona tapped her foot impatiently on the ground as she looked to the crowd. She could tell the students and even the teachers were impatient.

It was a Kuoh Academy ritual for the Headmaster of Kuoh Academy to attend the orientation for the New Year and give a speech to welcome all new students. But sadly, the Headmaster had called in sick and had requested the Student Council President take his place.

Now to make matters worse, the president of the Disciplinary committee hasn't showed up. Sona tapped her foot on the girl as she waited impatiently. If it was just an ordinary student council speech she would've started already, but this was student orientation for Maou sake. How could she be late on such an important day?

"Sona-Kaichou" Sona turned around, an angry expression on her face, to the right was a girl with long black hair and heterochromia eyes, she was a very tall girl, had a pair of glasses on her face, and was wearing the Kuoh female uniform.

"What is it?" Sona said a little annoyed, she wasn't in the mood for this, and she woke up believing she would stand by the headmaster side as she gave the speech but now she had to give the speech.

"The students outside are getting…a little annoyed, you should start without her." the girl said. Sona looked at her queen, Tsubaki Shinra, the middle class devil of Kuoh Academy, the only middle class devil in the entire school.

Sona let out a sigh "you're probably right Tsubaki-San" Sona said with a sigh. She stepped towards the podium passing her childhood best friend, Rias, a girl with long beautiful red hair and blue-green eyes.

A wave of silence fell over all of the students as all eyes shifted to the podium. "Good morning, Kuoh Academy staff and students. It is with a great honor that I welcome you all to another year at Kuoh Academy"

There was a wide array of cheering and applauding as all the students and even some of the teachers and staff jumped up and down in excitement. School spirit was extremely high, at the beginning of the school year.

As Sona began to give her speech about school clubs, grades, field trips, sport teams, and much, much, more many of the students began to drone out and chat among themselves.

"Now at last, I wish you all the best and you should all go to your-"

"WAIT FOR MEEEEEEE!~" the whole auditorium suddenly got quiet as all eyes turned to the door. A girl with long beautiful blonde hair and shining light blue eyes came sprinting towards the stadium, in her hands was a small white rabbit resting peacefully in her arms.

The girl came to the stadium and stood right next to Sona. All mouths were left agape in complete and utter silence until the student council president decided to be the one who broke the silence. "This is…" a sigh escaped Sona's lip "Aurora Buer…she is the president of the disciplinary committee. It would be appropriate…" another sigh escaped her lips "…if she gave a few words to welcome all students for the school year".

Sona the stepped back and the girl came up to the podium. Everyone didn't know if it was her natural beauty or her entrance but they couldn't turn their eyes off her. "Greetings students of Kuoh Academy, it is with great honor that I welcome you all to another year at Kuoh Academy"

"I already said that" Sona whispered with an annoyed expression.

"Oh…my apologizes" Aurora said bowing her head.

“So cute"

"Adorable"

"Aww…I wonder if she's a secret tsundere…that would be so cuteeee~"

The males in the crowd all began to talk amongst themselves.

The girl's face formed into an angry pout. "I just have one thing to say. As the leader of the disciplinary committee it is with great importance that I inform you…IF YOU ARE CAUGHT BREAKING THE SCHOOL RULES I WILL SHOW NO MERCY ON WRONGDOERS".

The auditorium then became silent again, everyone was genuinely confused. Was this the same girl who has made the ditsy entrance earlier?

"Last year over two hundred students were caught skipping class and they received slaps on the wrists, I promise that this year, I will make sure that all wrongdoers are punished according to their deeds. There will be no slaps on the wrist with me heading the disciplinary committee. The reign of the Buer family has arrived and we will show no mercy to those who break the rules of justice. JUSTICE WILL RULE THE DAYS SO ALL YOU SINNERS BETTER WATCH-"

Sona put her mouth over the girl's mouth. 'Why me? Oh Maou why me?'. Sona then went to the podium "Thank you for your time, please return to your scheduled classes and… Ouch! don't bite my hand. I mean, your home rooms should give you all your schedules for this school year. Thank you and have a good first day." Sona finished her speech dragged the girl back into the curtains with an amused looking Rias following behind.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" Saji asked in confusion. He was frozen in place still staring at the auditorium.

Nimura giggled as she tapped Saji on the back "we should go find our class" Nimura said with a smile. Saji then shook it off and followed Nimura out of the auditorium.

~Sona Office~

After giving the girl a proper scolding for her behavior, Sona retreated to the student council office. Both her queen and her bishop were waiting there filing and filling out paperwork, there was a lot of it due to many students sending in club requests.

*Sigh* "That girl" Sona said as she sat in her seats and picked up a stack of papers, club requests forms that would need a seal of approval from the one and only Student Council President.

"Kaichou…I'm surprised you even let her talk on the stage" Momo said, still giggling from the incident.

"She's the disciplinary committee president, I had no choice but I never expected she would pull that stunt in front of the entire student body" Sona said as she continues stamping papers.

"Kaichou…you were the one who approved her becoming the president of the disciplinary committee" Tsubaki replied.

Sona then let out a sigh "When her father, Lord Buer, requested that I take my younger cousin under my wings, I originally expected the sweet and innocent little girl she was before I came to Kuoh. But she became…a bossy brat" Sona remembered how the girl tried to order around her servants. "Aurora Buer, is the 2nd heir to the Buer clan, I thought that by putting her in a position of power would help her mature and become a better leader but it only made her worse. She has her evil pieces and she's going to need to grow up or else she isn't going to survive in the world of devils" Sona finished her speech as she continued to stamp the papers. The rooms going silent as the only sounds being heard are the shuffling of papers and the stamp.

 

Ichiro slowly opened his eyes, he had an aching headache. He had been sleeping in a pool of blood. "Ichiro…" a wheezing voice called his name. "Ichiro…please get up"

Ichiro quickly jumped up in shock and confusion. His eyes widened in shock…there on the ground laid the head of Amelia Zagan…his master, tormentor, and owner.

"FREYA" Ichiro called out in confusion.

"Ichiro…"

Ichiro quickly turned to the corner. "No…NO…NOO!" Ichiro ran to the corner. "Freya please be ok…I can get help…we can find a nurse…a healer or something…"

Ichiro couldn't take his eyes off of it, in the middle of Freya's stomach was a hole as wide as a basketball. "Ichiro…Ichiro…there's no point" Freya coughed up a pint of blood, tears running down her eyes. "Ichiro…I'm sorry I failed you…I failed to save you from Amelia…I failed to control your rage".

Ichiro stared into Freya's beautiful crystal blue eyes…he remembered the first day he looked into her eyes. He had fallen in love the minute he looked into them. He remembered all the moments they spent together: growing, training, fighting…she was his first kiss…she couldn't die.

Tears fell from Freya's eyes "Ichiro-Chan…I'm afraid…I'm afraid to die…what's going to happen to me?"

Ichiro felt his heart stop as more tears fell from his eyes, the worst worst a person could ever hear from someone they love. Ichiro stepped over to Freya and kissed her passionately on the forehead.

"I always thought I was ready to die…but I'm scared Ichiro-Chan…" more tears fell from her eyes as she felt her entire being began slipping away.

Ichiro wrapped her in a hug "Don't be afraid...you go now...where many have gone before you...and don't think for a moment you have failed me. I have found comfort in you, you have quelled my anger, and you have done it all with love and kindness. Now you go now, where many have gone before and where I will go in time. Just know, there will be no more pain, no more heartbreak…" Ichiro then walked over to Freya's ears "…you will find peace and you can finally rest..." he whispered passionately.

Ichiro held onto Freya until the moment she died…

"Mako…Yuko…Maria…Julie…Abigail…Addison...Elizabeth…Freya…you're all gone…you're all really gone…"

"I said I'd live out all our lives, easy to make that promise"

~The Occult Research Club~

Rias sat happily in the Occult Research club scrolling through paperwork and request forms. She felt a little bad as she looked through the club try-outs knowing she would have to reject them all. You see, the Occult Research club was merely a disguise so her and her peerage could work in peace.

It was the end of the first day of the school year and it had been a successful first day. Despite the headmaster being absent and the speech Aurora gave at the orientation, there have been no acts of rebellion or student revolt. It was considered a good day in the Gremory princess's book.

"Buchou, Sirzechs-sama sent us a stray devil report…" the crimson haired girl looked up with both interest and shock. "Really? Who Akeno?" Rias said looking at her queen, a beautiful girl with a voluptuous figure around the same age as Rias with very long black hair and violet eyes.

"His name is Ichiro Pendragon…he's wanted for S-Class felonies…he's wanted for the death of his entire peerage" Akeno answered her master.

Rias looked up in shock and confusion "What was his ranking?"

"He was ranked a middle class devil".

Rias was shocked to hear that news, to think someone who was ranked so low would be able to kill an entire peerage of devils.

"He has been missing for over two weeks now. Sources say that he has arrived in Kuoh Town" Akeno said with a serious expression.

"Akeno, try to use a locator spell to find this stray devil. I'm going to call Sona and tell her to be careful" Rias commanded. If someone is powerful enough to wipe out an entire peerage single-handedly, Rias wanted to make sure, her childhood friend and all her friends were safe.

~Aurora POV~

"Stupid Sona, kicking me out of school for the rest of the day" Aurora kicked a can that was in her way. "I didn't do anything wrong. I just wanted to make sure nobody broke any rules and she punished me for it…STUPID SONA STUPID SONA STUPID SONA!!!"

After Sona told Aurora to go home, she decided to spend the evening shopping, buying numerous new dresses and jewelry. It was all on the Sitri's family card so she had no qualm about overusing it. Aurora was the daughter of her father, Lord Buer, the leader of the devil clan that is considered extinct and Yayoi Buer, formerly Yayoi Sitri. It had been an arranged marriage, but it worked out for the best because both members were in love before the marriage was arranged by their parents.

After the marriage Yayoi Sitri, the sister of Sona's sister took on the name Lady Buer and became the mistress of the Buer Kingdom. They both gave birth to three children: Aurora was the youngest child of the three.

Lord Buer decided to send Aurora to Earth so she could study here under her cousin, Sona Sitri and mature as a devil. It had been a year since Aurora arrived in Kuoh Town…but to Aurora it felt even longer. Sona had hoped that Aurora would have found a servant by now…at least one, but a whole year in Kuoh Academy had given her nothing.

Whenever Aurora tried to take someone into her peerage, the second they learned she didn't have any other servants…and they realized her age…they would instantly refuse. She always got so angry when this happened that she felt like she would explode.

Aurora considered herself both an intelligent and a beautiful girl, she couldn't figure out why nobody wanted to be her servant. "IT'S JUST NOT FAIR!!!" Aurora kicked the can again.

The young devil turned to the sky, it was pitch black, she was confused. When she started shopping it was still morning, she couldn't believe time had fled by so suddenly. Aurora gripped the bag of clothes in her hand tightly.

"JUST YOU WAIT SONA…ONE DAY I'M GOING TO HAVE A PEERAGE FULL OF LOYAL SERVANTS THAT ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU AND RIAS COMBINED. THEN I'LL BECOME QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD AND YOU CAN NO LONGER SCOLD ME LIKE A CHILD!!!"

* BZZZZT*

Aurora stopped in her tracks. She turned her eyes to the lamp post that she could see out of the corner of her eyes. A lamp post flickering wasn't enough to frighten Aurora, but it was a incentive movement for one to turn their eyes toward it.

"Ahhh, I'm getting myself worked up over nothing" Aurora then continued her walking.

“Ouch!” Aurora dropped her bags in shock, gripping her left hand tightly. A intense wave of pain just passed through it. "Ok, that's not normal". Aurora tried walking forward again, but she felt the same jolt of pain.

"Ok…this isn't normal" Aurora said grabbing her bags again.

* BOOM*

Suddenly the sound of a loud explosion could be heard a few blocks away. Aurora thought of running away from the sound, but what would Rias and Sona think? They would believe she was a coward. This was Kuoh Town; it was under the protective wing of a Gremory, a Sitri, and a Buer. Who would dare attack this place? Aurora dropped her bags and began sprinting towards the place of the explosion. She didn't even pay attention to her surroundings; her main focus was getting to the place.

~Ichiro~

It had been two weeks since he ran from his past, he had thought of staying behind to bury their bodies, but he quickly realized there was no point. The other higher class devils had already arrived there, he knew that if he stayed he would be killed on the spot; they wouldn't care about anything he had to say. Ichiro didn't even take the time to grab any money, food, or clothing. He escaped out of a back window and began running.

That's what his life has consisted of for the past couple of weeks: running. He had started moving from abandon church to abandon church. Stealing small amounts of food that he found. He thought of trying to find some new clothes at some charity organization or maybe a clothing store but he was paranoid and on edge, he knew every second a devil could be watching him, waiting for the right moment to take him out. He decided to blend in with the shadows and hide away from people. But he had made a big error on his part, focusing entirely on devils not finding him, he never considered the possibility of a fallen angel.

When he arrived at an abandoned church that he had been staying at for the past two days, they were all already waiting for him.

It was a group of almost twenty of them. Creatures of light that have broken their pact with God forced to walk the Earth for the gates of the Heavens were forever closed on them. The fallen angels decided they wanted to have their fun with Ichiro, so they told him that in the name of sportsmanship, they would give him twenty seconds to run.

His time was up, he had ran all the way from the abandoned church to the town of Kuoh hoping he could blend in with the crowd, forcing the fallen angels to hide themselves but as fate would have it, the town of Kuoh was fast asleep this night. “Die you devil scum!" An fallen angel yelled.

Ichiro swiftly jumped out of the way of a light sphere that almost took his head off. He continued running for some refuge, to find somewhere to hide.

[Chaos Edge] a fuma shuriken appeared in Ichiro's hand. Ichiro turned back around to face the group of fallen angels.

[Chaos Explosion] three energy blasts of both black and purple light shot out of the fuma shuriken straight towards the fallen angels.

"This is child play boy" one of the fallen angels, a man in a trench coat said still laughing as he made a barrier of light to block all of the light spears.

[Chaos Blast] A pure blast of black and purple light shot out of the Fuma shuriken. "Let's kill him now." a fallen angel said with a grin, a female angel in a red trench coat with long navy blue hair said with a grin, jumping into the air and destroying the attack with her spear of light.

"Dammit!” Ichiro choked out as a spear of light landed in his leg. Ichiro collapsed to the ground. "DAMMIT!!" Ichiro pulled out three shurikens and tossed it at the group. He was a wounded animal, lashing out to survive. His shurikens made contact with one of the fallen angel's wings forcing it to collapse.

"You little brat!" the fallen angel then shot multiple spears of light that hit Ichiro directly in the stomach forcing him to choke out a pool of blood. "Not like this..." Ichiro collapsed to the ground.

He was going to die….he had tried to live on his one and he could only manage to last two weeks…Freya…please forgive me

"STOP IT"

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The fallen angels stopped in their tracks, genuine confusion written on their faces. "Who are you?" the fallen angel man with the trench coat asked in anger.

"My name is Aurora Buer, and as a devil living in this territory, I cannot allow you to kill a devil" Aurora held her arms out in defiance. She wasn't going to budge.Of course she could tell that he was a devil, if you just sensed his energy you could feel the demonic energy radiating off of him. She didn't understand the situation but he was a devil like her, Sona, and Rias, right?

The fallen angel in the front then let out a laugh "little girl…this isn't just an ordinary devil…my name is Dohnaseek, and the thing you're defending is known as a stray devil".

Aurora's eyes widened in shock, she looked down at boy in shock. She had remembered seeing a stray devil before; they were hideous monsters who were only capable of destruction. Aurora looked down at the boy he was beautiful, he was dirty, his face had dry blood running down it, and a hole through his stomach but despite this Aurora could see beauty in his face.

"You're wrong… Just fly away and leave him alone! I’ll deal with him!" Aurora shouted in anger.

Dohnaseek grinned "As you know, the current peace treaty makes it unlawful for fallen angels to murder devils except stray devils and those who defend stray devils. Little girl, are you going to continue to defend this stray?" A light spear started to form in his right hand.

"I'm telling you; you have the wrong person, so go away" Aurora threatened, blue magic sigil appeared in both her hands.

"Good bye little girl." Dohnaseek tossed her light spear, she closed her eyes as she put both her hands forward ready to stop the spear from hurting the boy by using her own magic.She waited ten seconds…then twenty…and then a full thirty seconds. Aurora opened her eyes in confusion, standing right in front of her was a frozen spear of light that had fell on the ground and began dissolving. "Amazing…did I…just?"

"No that was me"

All the fallen angels and Aurora turned in shock and confusion to the left, in front of them stood Rias and Sona both with their queens, Tsubaki and Akeno behind them.

The second Rias had called Sona, the Sitri leaflet Sona had stuck in Aurora's pockets began to glow signaling that she was near creatures of light.

"Sona-chan, Rias-chan…what are you both doing here?" Aurora said in shock.

"You were in trouble, so we came to help you" Sona said glaring at the fallen angels.

"Fufufu, what naughty creatures, they attack a defenseless girl in the dead of night. They deserve to be punished" Akeno giggled to herself.

Aurora glared angrily at Akeno who was still smiling happily "I'm not defenseless! I could've stopped that light spear myself!"

"Fallen Angels, leave this place by order of Rias Gremory who has control over this town or I'll be forced to destroy you all" Rias Gremory said with anger and authority in her voice.

"That creature over there is a stray devil, he must be destroyed at all cost" Dohnaseek said angrily. He then summoned a light spear, the fallen angels behind him mimicking him. "ATTACK!"

[Sword Birth!] A valley of swords appeared and blocked the fallen angels from attacking the four. The fallen angels looked at the barrier of swords in confusion.

"Sorry I'm late Buchou" Rias turned with a smile on her face, a handsome boy with long blonde hair and grey eyes stepped from the shadows. He was wearing a Kuoh Academy uniform and had athletic and lean figure.

"It's fine Yuuto, it seems you came right in time" Kiba Yuuto…the only knight of Rias Gremory. The fallen angels wasted no time and began trying to destroy the barrier of swords. "Ok, let's get out of here" Rias commanded.

"Wait…what about him?" Aurora said pointing to the unconscious boy with light spears sticking out of his stomach.

"We can't bring him with us." Sona said fixing her glasses. "He's not a member of our household so therefore he can't use our magic circles" Sona said.

Aurora frowned "Are you really just going to leave him?"

"Aurora, there's not time" Sona said. "The sword barrier Yuuto created is beginning to disappear and we can't fight them on our own. We have to go" Sona said. Aurora frowned, she was about to do something rash. Aurora pulled a bunch of her evil pieces out of her school uniform’s pocket. They weren't ordinary pieces though…these pieces were glowing with blue energy.

"Don't do something stupid" Sona commanded. "Get in the barrier now Aurora!"

Aurora ignored her as she ran towards the boy. She bent down to the boy, the light spear was disappearing from his body. Aurora then tried a pawn…then two…then four…then all eight…"Why aren't they working?!" Aurora said to herself in anger.

[Lightning] Aurora turned towards Sona to see the group trying to defend from the fallen angel's assault. Aurora tried her strongest piece, the queen piece but it had no effect.

"Why the hell isn't this working?" Aurora growled in anger, if all eight of her pawns and her queen didn't work, what will?

Aurora looked at her pocket in shock, she could feel one of the pieces was calling out to her. Aurora pulled it out of her pocket, the piece was glowing with blue energy…it was the mutation knight, the piece she received from Ajuka Beezebulb.

Aurora looked at the boy; he couldn't even speak due to his unconsciousness. 'Well, here goes nothing' Aurora thought.

'''{I wish to reincarnate this boy as a member of the House of Buer, may he rise from the ashes of his former life and be reborn as a member of the Buer Clan}''' There was a glowing blue light as the evil piece flew to the boy's chest and phased through it.

Sona turned to the fallen angels "Now that he is a member of the Buer clan, you no longer have authority to attack him, leave" Sona commanded.

Dohnaseek glared at the devils in anger. "Fine then. Everyone, it’s time to take our leave." he commanded. Dohnaseek then grinned at the devils that stood before him.

"If any harms comes to this boy, then you will face the wrath of the house of Gremory and the house of Sitri personally." Rias said glaring at the fallen angel.

"I'll be watching you boy" Dohnaseek said turning to the boy who was slowly recovering on the ground. Dohnaseek then sprouted a pair of black wings and flew away. Ichiro looked up, he caught one glimpse of the girl's face.

…then the world around him went black…