"On it!" Rias called forth another dark ball of energy and personally walked to the spider before slamming the ball right on top of it, pinning it down and making sure it could not escape.
Then with a final squeal of pain, the body cracked and disintegrated, leaving behind a small pile of ashes that drifted in the breeze.
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"Yuuto-kun!" Rias did not give any more attention to the deed and rushed her way to Kiba whom Ise gently placed on the ground. With worried eyes, her hands went all over his body, checking for any grevious wounds. After a while, her eyes softened and she let out a relieved sigh.
"He is all right. My dear knight is safe." Rias let out small tears of joy as she lightly cradled Kiba in her arms.
"Thank goodness." Ise let out a tired sigh as he slumped on the ground. Normally he would be jealous of Kiba in such a position, but for this round he would just let it slide.
"Well that is over." Akeno also let out a tired sigh as she looked around. "Now we just take a short break before helping the exorcists with Kokabiel." Ise wanted to mention that they needed a long break, but that wish did not come true in the form of falling bodies near them.
"What the?!" Momo jumped back a little before her eyes widened at the sight of the wounded exorcists. "Shit, you guys are banged up!"
Xenovia groaned in reply as she clutched her wounds in a futile attempt to stop the bleeding, while the other two were unresponsive, seemingly knocked unconscious from their fight with Kokabiel. With a sinking heart, Ise noted the damage on Excalibur Destruction and Durandal; both of them were sporting deep cracks on their blades and the Excalibur Shard in particular looked like it was subjected to a trial of hellfire, what with the scorch marks on the face of the blade, before getting hit with a chipped hammer. It looked like crap.
"Ah, you guys have finished your little tussle." Ise looked up to find Kokabiel floating down to their side. "Hah, took you long enough."
"Kokabiel, you would not live to see the end of this day! I am going to make you pay for what you did to my knight!" Rias yelled as Koneko took over to move Kiba away from the area, but Kokabiel merely looked at them with a bored expression.
Too bored now that he was looking at him, and that was making the hair on Ise's neck stand up rigid.
"… Fine, let's get this over with." Kokabiel replied while giving out a tired sigh. "Might as well pass the time until the magician returns."
"Right then, let's!"
"BOBOOMM!"
"Sorry, you were saying something, lowly devils?" Kokabiel picked his ear as he looked down on them with disdain. "You would need to speak up."
Ise coughed up some blood while clutching his wounds. It all happened without a moment's notice; one second Rias was about to go into her speech, the next all of them were spread apart by an explosion that tore through their defensive charms and injured them deeply. It was a miracle that they were still alive with all the blood loss and lack of energy used for their healing.
"This is why I don't want to deal with your lot, you guys go down too easily, especially after I have eaten the fruit." Kokabiel let out another bored sigh as he looked at Rias and Sona struggling on the ground. "The two of you, I am really disappointed. The Red Dragon Emperor I can forgive for being weak on the basis of him being a greenhorn, but I was hoping for more of a challenge considering you are both the heirs of your clans and the sisters of the Maous. You two are a disgrace."
"Why you ERGH!" Whatever retort Rias was about to say got interrupted when Kokabiel let loose some of his energy to her back to the ground, with the others gasping for air. Ise himself wanted to scream if not for the fact his chest was being crushed to the ground.
"Silence." Kokabiel said that softly, yet the tone made it sound a lot louder. "You have no right to say otherwise."
"RRRROOOOOAAMMM!"
The pressure ceased immediately, enough for everyone to breathe properly while looking up from their side to find the gymnasium explode spectacularly at one side, with a blast of blood red energy and lightning rushing out and demolishing some of the other buildings and trees in its way before disappearing, leaving only scorched grounds and debris in its wake.
"… Yes~" Once more, Ise felt chills at the excitement in Kokabiel's tone as he looked at the building with a demented smile. "I can sense him, he is still alive. My real prey!" With that he spread his wings and flew straight for it. There was only one though in Ise's mind before he blanked out.
'Be careful man. This guy is a complete monster!'
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'Present time'
Okay this was bad.
On the one hand, Kiba was finally rid of that weird spider device on his neck and was now lying unconscious on the ground. On the other hand, the others obviously expanded a lot of their energy dealing with him and got their asses handed to them by Kokabiel. Considering the amount of firepower he possessed, I imagined that he did it with little effort needed.
"So boy, now that the minor distractions are over, shall we get back to our little bout?" Kokabiel looked down with a crimson light in his eyes. "This time we won't have any interruptions."
'Great.' I thought grimly as I looked at the others. At least they were still alive, but it looked like it would take them a while to get back to their feet, especially with Asia unconscious. I would need to get Kokabiel away from the area and…
"Oh don't worry boy." I looked back at Kokabiel who gave the others a bored look. "I have no interest in these weak people, and I can tell you would be too concerned about their well-beings to fight your best, so why don't we take this fight elsewhere?" Before I could reply, he swooped down to my level and grabbed my head, using his wings to propel the both of us well away from the others and to the front courtyard of the campus.
And that was a good 6 kilometers away. Damn.
Further thoughts were put on hold when Kokabiel threw me to the ground, forcing me to use the momentum to go into a roll and back on my feet after a few rounds.
"Right then." Kokabiel let out a dark chuckle. "Let's continue where we left off shall we?" With that, he called upon another rain of spears to take me out, forcing me to create a wall of swords to block the bulk of the attack before rolling out of the cover in time to avoid getting overwhelmed by the remainder.
"[Ice Heaven Custom]!" I commanded [Hell's Trident] to grant me a white spear with clear crystals decorating the shaft and the head made of solid ice. Twirling it lightly, I pointed the spear into the sky. "First Dance, White Hail!"
"Whoa!" Kokabiel called up a barrier in time to avoid becoming Swiss cheese as icicles rained down from above and struck his barrier like a few dozen sharp boulders at once. The barrier held for a short while before cracking and breaking apart, leaving him open to the hail that forced him down to the ground.
Good, now for the restraints.
"Second Dance, White Moon!" I traced a quick circle on the ground with the tip before stabbing the spear in the middle of it, making the outline glow brightly. As Kokabiel tried to stand up, the ice around him created a rough circle around him and glowed brightly, before more ice started to grow and extend towards him. Seeing this Kokabiel poured a bit of his Prana into pushing away the icicles before flying upwards to avoid the ice on the ground.
Too bad that would not work for this spear.
The ice on the ground momentarily stopped before bursting upwards the fallen angel, who was clearly taken off guard by it and attempted to move away only to have one of his wings caught in what would be a perfect pillar of ice. For a while he was stuck, then with an annoyed snarl Kokabiel used a spear to cut off the wing just in time to see it get encased in ice.
"Well, that is something you don't see every day." Kokabiel mused as he watched the pillar cracked and break apart along with his wing. "That was rather innovative. Clearly you have pushed the use of [Hell's Trident] a lot further than most would anticipate after gaining a Sacred Gear. I dare say not even Regeis could be this innovative."
"Which begs the question, what else are you holding back?"
Seriously, why must you have such a disturbing expression when asking that? I am not into guys damn it!
Further thoughts on questioning the Fallen Angel's preference were put on hold when Kokabiel took another quick bite of that apple, restoring his missing wings and healing his injuries again. Though it was concerning, there was something I noted; it seemed the apple's properties diminished with each bite, what with the Prana Levels that he gained being lower than the previous times, not to mention some of his injuries did not heal completely, leaving behind some scarring. And he was also looking a bit rugged from the ongoing fights we were having.
That meant he was not invincible, just a little harder to kill.
And I specialized in dealing with these type of creatures.
"Third Dance…" I held the spear similar to Lancer as snow and ice gathered behind me. With a hard push, I leapt forward and drew back my arm. "White Storm!" With that, I threw the spear right at Kokabiel, the snow and ice that accumulated behind me following suit in a spiral of freezing chaos.
"Oh shit!" Kokabiel folded his wings and poured his Prana into creating a barrier between him and the spear as it hit him, pushing him back as the torrent of ice and snow came soon after and enveloping the area. I prepared Kanshou and Bakuya in my hands, my eyes fixed on the spot where Kokabiel was standing.
Please just go down already!
"RROOOWWWOOAAAAA!"
My prayers went unanswered as the torrent of ice and snow seemingly bloated and blew up spectacularly, enveloping the area in a thin layer of ice that snuffed out the flames and made everything looked like some freakish remake of a snow storm. A few seconds later, the snow cleared enough to find a smirking Fallen Angel.
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A/N : The Story Needs More Power Stones ;)
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