The Occult Research Club assembles; Devils vs. Chimeras, we'll show you what happens when you mess with us!

"My, my! What a twist~! A real pookie palooka! A real drumming conundrum! A big-oh, it's just so terrible that I can't come up with any catchier words~!"

In her blood tainted and twisted lab, the female figure was dramatically crying out loud while she was spinning around in a rolling chair. Apparently, she had just seen the escape of Natsuru's prisoners, who were powerless, who couldn't defend themselves against her creations. But what did they do, yes, those very same weak prisoners escaped from the very same creations, who were powerful enough to stop them.

"But master you don't seem to be concerned, nya~!"

Cautiously purring to her hard to read leader, the tiger woman along with the two other Feline hybrids who captured Michael and Shirou stood behind the figured woman, who continued to spin around in her chair.

"That's right! That's right!" The figure sang and jumped out of her spinning chair.

"Because this became so much entertaining! Watching you all with your animal genetics making you into natural hunters to hunt down your prey! It's almost like freaking watching the discovery channel it's amazing! Also Lookie here~!" The figure pointed to a row of names next to bulbs of lights. They each revealed the status of every active and deceased creation that's out there right now.

Looking closely the tiger woman blinked as she was the only one who took interest.

"What's this, master?"

"They are chips I've ingrained into all of your bodies to keep me up to date about each of your statuses whether your alive or mashed up into a bloody stew of flesh, broken bones and splattered guts."

"Kya! The way you described that made my skin crawl! Nya~!"

The tiger woman shivered and hugged herself in fear.

The hooded female sat back in her rolling chair and rolled back towards the panel of lights.

"Oh don't worry, you three are an exception. The ones outside however, aren't…if they die to them then they weren't worthy enough to get my attention."

Looking at the panel of lights, she noticed that each bulb was dying after 5 or 10 minutes passed. She was really disappointed that her creations were being killed by a pair of teenagers, but the fact that those boys were still able to hold their own after having their power dampened showed that things would get even more interesting in the future. But even so, for them all to escape like

"Dying by the hands of those insignificant kids, if we have guys like that on our side then we shouldn't bother ourselves worrying about them." The Panther man said, coldly.

"Kikikiki! That's right, that's right! If they can't cut it then let them roll over and die!" The Cheetah man laughed.

"Hm…If they don't make it then I'm not interested either. I only like the strong guys, nya…" The tiger woman traced a finger on her chin and looked up.

Despite being on the same side, these three didn't naturally care for their subordinates, it was about survival of the fittest to them. If the others prove to be strong by surviving then good for them, if they die then they die.

"But either way, I feel as though we should do something to capture the escape prisoners." The hooded woman rubbed her chin before looking back to her three creations.

"What is Nat-Nat doing right now? It would be a shame if she were to hear of this?" The hooded woman asked.

"Natsuru-sama is currently freshening up in her quarters to begin her copulation with the Red Dragon Emperor host. She requested that we bring him to her after she was finished."

The Cheetah man explained, with the Tiger woman looking quite jealous that Natsuru was getting a crack at one of the two they captured.

"Oooohoooooo~! So Nat-Nat wants to go straight into it, eh? She's still so young, but already wants to make babies that quickly? It's a shame that her boy-toy escaped before they could get into it. What a shame indeed!"

The hooded woman cooed and wailed.

"So does that mean you want us to capture them again!?" The tiger woman breathed heavily, she could probably get away with a few things before she handed them back to Natsuru.

"No."

"Eh? But isn't it bad if they find a way to escape, nya?"

"Not to mention that Natsuru-sama would be pissed."

"…"

The three genetically enhanced chimeras looked to their original master for answers.

"And how do you suppose they'll escape, hm?" The hooded woman said, "With the use of a magic circle, even though we raised a barrier to jam anyone that activated one? Using their powers, that have been dampened because of the handcuffs I enhanced? Nope, none of them will escape. But if I was a betting girl, I'd say they were probably trying to call for help."

"Really, nya?"

"Ufufu, I did create this place's jamming system and barrier by the way. It's impossible to track this location and teleport to it on the outside. It would be a different story if they summoned someone here instead."

"But shouldn't the magic circles here be jammed, so it's pointless." The Cheetah man said.

"Yes, it would be if it were any ordinary magic circle, but if it was a direct summoning circle then it would be a different story. Only devils who belong in a clan can execute that."

"And we captured both devils so why shouldn't we go after them, Master, nya?" The tiger woman asked.

"Because…" The hooded woman sighed and giggled, "Isn't the thrill of suspense the best?"

"Eh?"

"..?"

The three hybrid chimera didn't know how to respond to their master's question.

"Just think about it. A battle between the strong and the weak, Big animals vs. small animals. Between my creations and the weakened dragons, who would win? There's no question that number 5, wait, no since the original number 4 is dead then I guess Lion-kun would be 4 now. Anyways, it would still be in his favor if he were to gang up on them, but as it is now, they could barely capture the little rats. Even if the standings aren't in their favor the escapers still fight, isn't it just fun to give them that chance while they get whittled down?"

"But what if there's the off chance that they kill all of them in the process?"

"Then you guys end things by going in yourselves to capture the two exhausted captives. Make sure to kill any surviving failures if you come across them, if the majority fail, then rest should be discarded as well. So when the time is right, have a super spectacular happy hunting~!"

The hooded woman may have been excited to see the outcome and potential that these devils had, but at the same time she was absolutely livid and tried to mask it with her over the top cute voice. In the end, the captives did escape with the help of some sneaky rat, who snuck through their tightened defenses and freed them. Being lenient as to send her three top chimera wouldn't change that fact.

They're on their own now, if they could redeem themselves then they were worth experimenting on, if not then they could just die and spare her the memory of ever bothering to make them a successful creation.

"You want us to capture the one who broke them out of their cell, too?" The panther man for the first time spoke, he wants to know for certain if they should leave the one who started all of this alive or not.

The hooded woman took a moment to think it through and looked back up at the past surveillance recordings. Glossing over the figure of the infiltrator while going over the guesses and possibilities through her mind, she was able to come to a conclusion with a smirk hidden beneath her hood, her voice no longer high and creepily cheery anymore.

"I remembered one thing that Nat-Nat told me once, and that was to make this operation completely sound with no interruptions, no loose ends, and definitely no interferers. No matter who they seem to be, they must be taken care of. So when you capture the two captives and you see the stealthy sneak who caused all of this I want you to end her life as soon as possible."

"Wait "her" so you already know who it is, nya?" The tiger-woman asked.

"Uh-huh. But that doesn't matter now, all I want you to do, if the others down there don't get it taken care of, is to kill the one person who broke them free. They're the biggest threat to everything we've worked for, so show no mercy when you see them. Am I clear?"

"Yes, Master." The three loyal chimera bowed to their leader.

"Good, now run off all of you~! Go make yourselves scarce before I give the signal~!" The woman returned to using her cute over the top voice again.

"And should Natsuru-sama ask us of the current situation?"

"Hmm…sure, you can tell only if she asks for the information, if not then don't worry about spilling the beans." The woman found that if that were to happen then it would be best to spill the beans, either way whether she knows or not makes no difference about the fun that will ensue.

"Now you're all dismissed." With that the three chimera leave the hooded woman to her lonesome in her lab as she glosses over the panel of lights depicting the status of her remaining creations. Almost a third of them have been wiped out ever since they entered the forest.

"Ufufufufu, ara ara, how pitiful they're dropping like flies, but that's good the more that die the more that tire our adorable captives~! I wonder where number 4 is, probably is getting close to finding them or the one that broke them out."

She had only wished that she could have installed some surveillance in the forest, but the suspense of not knowing only drove her into keeping an eye out for the fallen chimeras who were slowly dying. But the only one she focused on was the Lion Chimera's status, until he dies then things will finally end for the escapers and their little friend.

"Now let's see who can survive out there the longest. You, devils, or my creations…" The woman huskily whispered as her attention was completely on the panel.

XXX

The sound of pattering water filled a huge shower facility as Natsuru bathed inside of the warm water. She made sure to clean any lingering sweat she may have procured from her plan. However, she wasn't all that sweaty because the entire thing went off without a hitch, there was no challenge that she didn't find difficult when in the farce set up for a carnival.

Her opponent wasn't even worth acknowledging, she could have ended her life if she had wanted to, but it would have been pointless like the opponents' vain attempt to overpower her with just her natural given devil ability.

"Finally…" Natsuru slowly pushes some of her hair away from her eyes. Her expression was content and she knew that things were as they should be, in her favor. There would be no one to interfere with her and there is definitely no one powerful enough to even make her reconsider her plans. The game has been set.

'Gremory-san, you may have prospered this far with the help of your servant, but I'll do much bigger things with him on my side.' Natsuru let out a kittenish giggle, while placing a finger on her mischievous smile.

"The Red Dragon Emperor, an amazing asset like that will make a suitable stepping stone for my fallen race's revival. It will probably take a while, breaking Michael-kun's spirit will be difficult, but if push comes to shove I'll just utilize any method I can to get what I need."

Natsuru rubs her stomach gently.

"Maybe I'll be lucky enough to give birth to a strong enough child with his dragon aura. Ufufu, who knows maybe I could give birth to a pair of twins so the other wouldn't be lonely." Natsuru licked her lips as she lazily reveled in the warm water, "If I could add to my race more power from a dragon then I could slowly raise its standings against even the devils. We won't be just a minority amongst the other youkai anymore."

Natsuru knew how serious a matter this was and was willing to go through with it even if it meant she had to do a few questionable things to accomplish her task. It was her responsibility to pick up the broken pieces of her fallen kin that were killed right in front of her. The method didn't matter anymore; she was so caught up with completing this task that she even used the same tactics that "they" did back then against her entire race.

All of this, she would commit heinous crimes, hurt even the loved ones of others and break even the proudest of people because of just a single promise she made.

"Makoto-chan…" The smiling face of her little brother flashed through her mind, her eyes showed a faint look of sadness before she says, "Don't worry, your Onee-chan will make sure your dream will come true…"

She began to think about Makoto's friendship with Michael and went over the details on how she could break Michael enough to be absolutely loyal to him, it would save her the heartache of seeing her little brother potentially losing one of the first friends he's ever had.

But that thought wouldn't assure her of a clear conscious about her family considering she was taking her little sister's fiancé. Making a plan to appease Makoto's worries would be easy since he wouldn't catch on, but what she was doing right now wasn't going to get past Kiyome's attention. She would probably have to think of a plan sooner on how to handle her when she finds out, but until then she'll do her best to comfort her.

She could only do this much for her sister, despite being the cause of her eventual depression. Doing this for her shows how much trust and devotion she has for Kiyome as her older sister. She loved both of her siblings and didn't want them to be indirect victims to her actions, but any precautions made would lessen the guilt she would get by getting them involved.

"Kiyo-chan, please, just endure it. You'll understand one day. Just like Makoto-chan, I'll make sure you won't suffer because I'm your older sister. Even if we don't share the same blood, I'll always consider you as my family after all that you've done for me and Makoto-chan."

Natsuru smiled and reminisced about the past, back then it would have been just her and Makoto drifting around with no home to stay in. They could never return to the home that was taken from them, so they drifted and drifted to the point of complete exhaustion. Wandering was all they could do and with no food to give them the energy they needed, they eventually broke down and settled in a small town to slowly regain their energy by stealing and scrounging off of the food of any careless humans.

It would always be her responsibility to keep her brother well fed before she could eat herself. She would always place his wellbeing above her own, and that was why she kept feeding him all of the available food she had kept for herself. Neglecting her own appetite, she was close to verge of death from starvation and one day fainted during one of her scrounging runs. With no more energy left to even lift a finger, she would have died a pathetic death and by extension soon enough Makoto would follow along with her.

The shape the two were in was already worse for wear as they pushed themselves too hard to survive all at once.

It would have been her last moments in this world had it not been for the curious and sympathetic kindness a young Kiyome showed to her that day. As soon as she caught a glimpse of Natsuru's injured body she didn't even hesitate at all to call her parents for help. Natsuru was at a lost of words mostly because of her loss of energy but also because of the kindness this true Samaritan showed for her. Doing her best to mumble some words she was able to reveal of Makoto's nearby location and with a plea begged her to him before herself.

And with a smile, a bright smile that Natsuru still to do this day could never forget, Kiyome agreed to do her best to help her sibling once they found him, and they did without any problems. Of course, the identity of their true forms were revealed to their saviors, but that didn't change their hospitality towards them. Kiyome and her parents were already accustomed to supernatural creatures and only welcomed the fact that they had the chance to meet even more newer ones.

So it didn't take that long for them to be accepted by the rest of them. Soon enough, Kiyome grew attached to the two siblings while they stayed to regain their strength. Not being able to do much Natsuru was grateful that Kiyome was able to fill in for her and watch over Makoto who soon saw her as just another older sister. And soon enough as enough time passed, it was natural for the two to be around the Abe household and soon enough they were gradually accepted into the family after Kiyome's parents saw how attached she grew to them.

Because of the kindness that Kiyome exhibited to them, she was able to live up to this very day. Wronging the person, who not only saved her life but her little brother's too, was something she couldn't bring herself to do.

"No, I can worry about that later." Shaking off her worries, Natsuru turned off the shower and stood inside of the steamy stall with a smirk, "Pointlessly worrying about the future won't do, I just need to do what I already can now. Which is make sure nothing gets in the way of my plan."

The image of her hooded contributor reminded her of something crucial in the very future.

"Even if I have to get rid of the support I've been given so far." Natsuru said with a slowly, but subtle killing intent in her words. It was understandable now that she's gotten what she wanted, there was no more use for them unless something like the devils locating them for an attack should it happen then she would hold that thought until it was completely over.

"So far I can rely that they can at least handle a simple job of bringing Michael-kun to me when I ask them to." Natsuru exits the shower to dry herself off to prepare for her tryst with the restrained Red Dragon Emperor, still not knowledgeable about their current escape. If she could she would have at least felt a spike in their energy signatures should they have escaped with their restraints off.

"Now what would be the most appropriate thing to wear for an occasion like this?" Natsuru naughtily cooed as she went through her wardrobe.

XXX

Meanwhile, in the forest just outside of the facility.

*CHING!* *CHING!*

"Whoa there! Where do you think you're going!?"

"You're going down, cat-guy!"

The sounds of chains jostled as they were tied around the throat of a chimera soldier who was caught in his pursuit for the escaped captives. Standing on both sides of the captured creature while tugging their chains, Michael and Shirou had to make do with what they got so they used the long chain of their handcuffs to their advantage along with their heightened devil senses to try and predict the movement of any incoming chimeras.

"Graauk! Damn you, two! Just you wait when I get out of this-!"

"Save it, freak, you were after us first so we decided to get rid of you before you got rid of us!"

Tugging the chain even harder the two of them made sure that the chimera wasn't going to be given a chance to escape. Knowing that he would lose the vying battle to prevent his windpipe from breaking, the chimera slowly released one hand and tried to sneak something out of his pocket.

Eyes widening, Shirou shouted, "He's pulling a fast one like the others pull harder now!"

"Huraaaaah!"

"Gyaaack!"

*SNAP!*

The sickening sound of the chimera's breath being strangled out filled the forest around them while being followed by a loud snap of his neck. He was killed.

Releasing the deceased chimera, Shirou wiped his forehead and walked over to the corpse and took from it a flare.

"This one was so close into revealing where we were this time." Shirou said as he tossed the flare aside and shook his head as he walked back with Michael who looked back at the dead body of the chimera.

"Yeah, but he gave us an opening so we managed to make quick work of him." Michael scratched his cheek as he thought back on the past catches they were able to make. Fleeing in the forest was the only thing they could think of at the time and they knew that the chimera would obviously chase after them so quick off the bat they decided to keep them at bay by getting rid of the closest chimera approaching the location they've currently been hiding in.

"Guess your right about something." Shirou said.

"Now that we handled that guy lets hurry back and see if Kiyome-senpai finished the summoning circle." Michael grinned.

It was actually their idea to make use of their weakness to be their main strength by using the chain to wrap around the chimera's neck. Even if you were to be a powerful monster, you would still drop dead after having your windpipe broken.

They trudged back a couple of miles into a vast forest clearing which was one out of the many others they passed. Moving deeper into the forest when they were retreating they needed to find a safe place to hide far enough so that they can stop any enemies from interrupting their plan to summon to the entire Occult Research Club to their location.

But to do that they needed time to craft it and the only one who's able to do that was Kiyome, who stayed behind at the clearing.

Arriving back, the two see that the magic circle was almost complete with the base of it finally completed. Kiyome exhaled in relief once she finished creating the perfect circumference for the circle, but once she heard the sound of footsteps approaching she jumps up and gasps in fright and turns back to see that it was just Michael and Shirou returning from another perimeter check.

"Oh my goodness! You two almost gave me a heart attack." Kiyome breathed out.

"We're all done with clearing the area." Michael said.

"So do you have that magic circle done yet or what?" Shirou asked.

"Well, if you must know. I just need to create the Gremory family crest along with using Michael-kun's blood to activate it." Kiyome pulled out a small vile filled with Michael's blood the attack he shielded her from made it easy for her to procure a big enough sample.

"So how long will that take?"

"It shouldn't be too hard. So probably 5 minutes."

The thought of having that much time made everyone wonder if they could hold out for that long. More and more of those chimeras were reaching this spot and they're numbers compared to theirs were still giving them the advantage.

"So all we have to do is hold these guys off until those 5 minutes are over?" Michael said looking over to Kiyome.

"Well, 5 minutes is the expected time, but it may go over a minute or two depending on any mistakes I made." Kiyome explained then looked closely at Michael's bleeding arm.

"Hah! An extra minute won't change a thing! I'll show you how I get things done no problem!" Michael grinned cracked his knuckles.

"Shush! Keep your voice down, stupid. You're gonna get us caught!" Shirou slapped Michael's head.

"Ouch! Hey what was that for? And why are you shouting at me about being quiet when you're as loud as me, Hypocrite!" Michael rubbed his head.

"Out of the both of us, you keep cheering loudly every time we kill one of the things. And now your yelling when we're trying to speed things up for this summoning to work." Shirou growled.

"Geez…fine. But still my head hurts…a lot…" Michael complained.

"Michael-kun." Kiyome approached Michael, worriedly.

"Yes, senpai?"

"How is your arm?" Kiyome reached for Michael's bleeding arm.

"You mean this?" Michael looked at it, which also caught Shirou's attention.

"Holy shit! How long have you left it like that!?" Shirou said and looked at Michael for his strange inability to bring up the injury.

"Actually, it all started when…oh…" Michael realized something.

"What?" Shirou questioned the pause to his explanation.

"Shh…your yelling is going to get us caught…" Michael shushed at Shirou.

"You know just because I can't use my powers doesn't mean I don't know how to break an arm." Shirou threatened Michael who sweatdropped.

"Michael-kun, can I see?"

"Sure."

Compliantly to letting her see it, Michael gave Kiyome his hand to examine.

"Does it still hurt?" Kiyome felt some pain once she saw the deep wounds embedded on his arm and wrist.

"Actually the pain stopped a while ago, but for some reason it's still bleeding a little. Don't worry it'll stop eventually." Michael passed it off as a temporary bother.

Looking at Michael closely, Kiyome needed ask another question, "Okay. Let me ask you another question. Can you feel anything with this arm?" Kiyome bounced the arm up in her arm and expected Michael to react on the pain, he didn't at all.

"…" Rubbing the shoulder of his limp arm, with some alarm on his face, Michael's face began to grow pale as he slumped down and muttered, "B-But I still don't f-feel the pain, so that's normal, r-right?"

Covering her mouth, Kiyome gasped, "Oh good lord, you've been bleeding out… Oh my god, you've been bleeding out this entire time! Why didn't you say anything?"

"I didn't think it would be this big of a problem." Michael exclaimed.

"Well it is because your veins were torn up which is the cause of all of this blood flow." Kiyome pointed at the trail of blood dripping off of Michael's injured arm.

"We need to tighten the injury around the arm with a bandage, but we don't have one so we have to find a substitute." Kiyome looked around frantically before turning back to Shirou who looked at her strangely.

"What?" Shirou blinked.

"Your sleeves." Kiyome said.

"Yeah, what about them?" Shirou slowly said.

*RIIP!*

"Would this work?" Michael said after ripping one of Shirou's sleeves right off without his consent.

"…"

Looking at his bare arm then back at Michael, Shirou gave Michael a powerful death glare which was powerful enough to make him notice.

"Oh my…uh…yeah. Just let me tie it for you, while I stand riiight here." Kiyome scooted in between Shirou and Michael to prevent the young man from attacking the injured teen.

"M-Michael-kun…" Kiyome whispered low enough to Michael, "I think you should say something to him before he gets really mad."

"Oh, don't worry. I know exactly what to say." Michael whispered back with a wink.

Using his free hand, Michael pats Shirou on the naked shoulder he tore the sleeve off of and nodded, "Thank you for your noble sacrifice, Shi-rou, I swear it won't be in vain."

"I meant an apology!" Kiyome tightened the knot of Michael's makeshift bandaged arm enough to make him flinch back in pain.

Breathing in sharply, Shirou shakes his head, "You know what after all that's happened today, I'm not surprised you would say that. So I'll just let it pass for now and…" Shirou touches the shoulder Michael touched and paused, "What the hell is this?"

"Oh crap, I forgot that I had some blood on my hand and accidentally rubbed it on you." Michael nervously chuckled, "So are you still mad or…"

"…You know what fuck it!" Shirou's calm expression slowly turned to that of pure rage before he sternly said this is a resolute yet dark voice, "You filthy, god damn son of a bitch! I will smother you in your sleep and bury you alive! I will kick your ass from here all the way to the Underworld, you disgusting bastard!"

Looking at each other after that released display of anger, Michael and Kiyome were a little cautious of Shirou until he breathed out in relief.

"Whew…my bad didn't mean to spring that up on you, I just felt really mad and needed to say all of th-"

"Shush! You're going to get us caught." Michael shushed.

"They'll never find your body." Shirou threatened.

Breaking the growing tension, Kiyome finished covering Michael's wound, cutting off his blood loss.

"You're good to go now. Please be sure to tell us about this or we would have had to worry about you and making contact with the others." Kiyome may have not meant to but she scolded Michael for his reckless behavior.

Rubbing his patched up arm with a dubious expression, Michael said and raised his hands up defensively, "R-Right, I'll make sure not to make the same mistake twice, okay?"

"Are you sure?" Kiyome poked Michael's chest, she wasn't too sure about that and needed to hear a complete and honest promise.

'Geez, it's almost like she's interrogating me…' Michael's eyebrow twitched.

"Absolutely, I promise to speak up next time." Michael nervously chuckled.

"That's better." Kiyome looks back at Michael fiddling with his injuries before saying, "I'm sorry about your injuries though."

"Huh?"

"If I wasn't a burden back there then you wouldn't have gotten hurt in the first pla-." Kiyome started to blame herself.

"Boo!" But a poke to the head from Michael stopped her, "Don't go thinking like that, senpai. It's not your fault that you were attacked so don't worry about it."

Kiyome rubbed her forehead and looked at Michael with a little guilt.

"After you risked your neck to save us, I wouldn't even start to blame you for getting myself hurt. And besides it was my choice to take the hit for you, so don't beat yourself up about it, kay?" Michael lightly tapped Kiyome's forehead again but this time he did it in a gentler manner than before.

The gentle physical contact made her cheeks flush a little as she looks up at his bright smile.

"So don't worry too much about it and don't worry too much about me because soon we'll handle all of this and see Natsuru-senpai together. So let's do our best."

Slowly nodding, Kiyome smiles and says,

"Thank you, Michael-kun, for still believing in Natsu-nee. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who still feels that way about her."

"Hey, she's my senpai too, so I'll do whatever it takes to straighten things out with her." Michael said.

The two forgot about their third party member, who turned away and said,

"My, my, you two are looking at each other so passionately."

Michael and Kiyome had turned a little red when they turned back to see Shirou facing the other way commenting about that little moment they had.

"Makes me feel like I'm the odd man out. Maybe I need to pick a song to sing so I can block out the eventual making out you engaged idiots will be doing."

"I-It's not like that." Kiyome shook her like mad after hearing that implication.

"No, no…it's cools. I understand how it is because you two are engaged and all. But if you want to get all close and stuff, then you can. But let me give you a piece of some advice, before you two start to get into this romantic scene maybe you would like to get back to making sure we get out of this alive!"

Shirou said with a pushy tone.

"Aw…Shirou you seem to be very stressed right now. Do you, do you need a hug?" Michael opened his arms.

"No, don't touch me! We're still in the middle of trying to get the upper hand on the enemy! So shut up and-!"

"Hey, Shirou."

"What?"

"…"

"…Well, what!?"

"Is it your time of the month?"

"I swear to god, Mike! Just one pillow is all I need to shut you up for good!"

"But he's right, messing around will prolong our chances of getting out of this mess. I'll just go back to carving out the magic circle." Kiyome picked up her long stick and continued to draw the seal inside of the blank circle. It wouldn't be an effective circle if her hands were unsteady so she has to do things slowly and precise.

"As for us we have to be prepared for when one of those creatures get close to this spot. So move it." Shirou yanked on the chain of the handcuffs and forcibly tugged Michael to follow him.

"Hey, why don't try asking me to follow you, you bastard?" Michael grunted and rubbed the chafing wrist Shirou tugged his arm with, "I'm not a dog, you know."

"Well, at least a dog would actually listen unlike you." Shirou groaned and started walking towards the trees, "Let's get moving, I think we have another one closing in."

"Fine…let me lead the w-whoa!"" Michael got interrupted by a push back from Shirou.

"You must be out of your mind if you think I'm letting you lead. You've already done enough to piss me off, and I don't want to get an aneurism because of you. I'm leading and I'm going to make sure we get rid of this next scrub do you understand?" Shirou turned around, but still looked back at Michael who was staring into the dark depths of the forest, he could faintly see the outlining of some tall bush behind Shirou. But the darkness the forest was surrounded in was making it hard to vaguely see anything.

'Is that thing moving?' Michael looked at the outlining of the object within the darkness and noticed something. It was moving slow, so slow that he couldn't even tell by a first glance. Perhaps if his eyes weren't more attuned to the darkness then he would have missed that the object wasn't just any insignificant bush!

Michael quickly grabbed onto the chain of the handcuffs and shouted.

"Look out, Shirou! Behind you!"

"Hm?" Shirou was confused and considered the warning by looking back.

"TOO LATE!"

But once he realized that it was already too late because out from the shadows appeared a large clawed hand to lacerate Shirou's neck.

"Get over here!" Michael pulled the chain and by extension Shirou without constraint of using his strength. However, he didn't take into account how much strength he was using and threw Shirou up in the air.

"WHOA!"

"WAH!"

Because of the handcuffs linking them together, Michael was pulled up into the air too and followed Shirou on his way back to the ground where they stuck a shaky landing.

"Gyah! Dammit, that hurts!" Shirou rubbed his pained bottom.

"Argh! My ass! My ass!" Michael cried and rolled around over the ground.

"What happened, you two?" Kiyome tried to approach the boys, but was stopped by Michael's raised hand. She caught the humorless expression he was wearing as he glared through the shadows of the tall trees.

"Stay back, senpai…" Michael was crouching down as Shirou propped himself up on a knee.

"Dammit, I can't believe how careless I was!" Shirou blamed the handcuffs for dampening his abilities. Whoever it was that attacked him must have completely concealed their presence for them to not even notice.

"Shucks! I missed, next time I'll have to do better to not get detected." Walking from out of the shadows was the very same leader of the chimera soldiers who attacked them in the facility. It was a large and muscular lion-man chimera who wore torn black clothing that matched with the other low ranking chimeras.

"Grr! We've been found out!" Michael growled.

"Just how the hell did you know we were here?" Shirou glared at the big chimera.

"It wasn't hard to find a couple of rats. Also the screaming gave you all away at the last minute." The lion chimera sized up each of his prey while talking to them.

Staring accusingly at Shirou, Michael and Kiyome sighed and said, "Way to go…"

"O-Oi!" Shirou growled and was embarrassed that everything was led to being his fault.

"You seriously suck at keeping your mouth sh-!"

"No, you don't have any right to say that to me!"

Shirou interrupted Michael from saying something very ironic.

"Heh! Still doesn't disprove that you caused all of this to happen!" Michael said.

"The screaming was just a bonus compared to the trail of blood I followed to get halfway here. And when the trail ended I just sampled some of the blood and followed your scent." The lion chimera tapped his nose, saying that he smelled his way here.

Everyone looked at Michael's bandaged arm then back to him with mad looks as he simply coughs.

"Oh…" Michael gulped.

*SMACK!*

"Ow!"

"Idiot!" Shirou smacks Michael from behind the head.

"Now that we've confirmed things, how should we go about doing this?" The Lion chimera confidently approached the three and stretched out his clawed hands.

"Do what?" Michael asked.

"I mean how should we handle capturing you all? I know the choice you weaklings have don't matter to the real strong ones, but I'd like to know how you want things to go down. We can do this the easy way or my personal favorite, the hard way? The choice is yours." The Lion-man bared his sharp teeth with a huge grin.

"Give us a sec." Shirou raised his index finger.

"What? No, you have to decide right n-!"

"Sir, sir! We just need to discuss things so would you please give us some time to think of our answer?" Michael shouted.

"But I-!" The Lion-man began

Shirou whispered into Michael's ear.

"Also you hurt Shirou's feelings by almost denying the request. Say you're sorry!" Michael shouted.

"You have got to be kidding me, why should I?"

"Hey, man. We all have feelings how would you like it we just trampled on your feelings and hurt them, huh? Would you feel good?"

"W-Well, no actually not at all."

"Well you hurt Shirou's feelings now say you're sorry!" Michael placed a hand onto his chest.

"I'm sorry." Kiyome couldn't believe her ears, he actually made this monster apologize.

"Good, now the healing can begin. Do you have anything else you want to say, Shirou?" Shirou whispered into Michael's ear one last time.

"Really?"

"Yup."

"Are you sure?"

"I can do it if you want." Shirou shrugged.

"No, no. It's just the apology then this?" Michael bit his knuckle while Shirou shrugged in a uncaring manner.

"Well, okay. Also, Shirou wants to thank you and also says to "Go fuck yourself" by the way." Michael said nonchalantly which angered the Lion chimera.

'Anger, rising!' The Lion-man thought and was THIS close to just killing them all.

Getting close enough to still stay within the sights of the magic circle, Kiyome whispered, "What are we going to do? You guys can't fight him that thing, your powers are all gone."

"We can try fighting him but we should focus on stalling." Shirou said.

"Do you think he has more of his soldiers around?" Kiyome asked.

"I only saw his shadow so I think it's just him for now." Michael inferred.

"Then shouldn't we be careful in case he signals them?" Kiyome looked between the two, worriedly.

"This guy won't be doing that anytime soon." Shirou noticed the overconfidence the chimera had, "He's probably too confident that we're powerless to match his current strength. So he thinks no assistance is necessary. We'll use that to our advantage."

Michael thought about that and said, "Eventually, he will call for help so we have to stall him until that happens?"

"Bingo."

"Hey, senpai do you know how long it will take to finish that magic circle?" Michael turned back to Kiyome who looked at the half finished work she's done.

"About three more minutes is all I need. But the time won't be exactly at that minute it could take a couple of more seconds if the activation time is slow."

"I think this guy could take us out in under 30 seconds, but if its 3 minutes then I guess we'll have to do our best." Shirou groaned then looked between the two and raised his hands to either of them, "I know I'll regret asking but do either of you know how to be extremely annoying so we can piss this guy off?"

Shirou immediately looked at Michael who was giving him that knowing smile.

"Ugh…well do you?" Shirou rolled his eyes.

"I'll do it, only if you promise to do two things for me." Michael raised 3 fingers.

"Should have seen this coming. Okay, what do you want?"

"First, I want a rematch."

"What?"

"A rematch. Not after this thing is sorted out but a rematch someday after I get strong enough. I want a rematch because after that fight I had with you, I realized that I still had way more things to take care of before I can face you again." Michael also included Vali too. Both Shirou and Vali were now people, he needed to face after getting enough control and power to surpass them.

"If that is all then I can make that promise, no sweat." Shirou grinned challengingly and raised his fist.

"Good." Michael raised his fist and fist pounded with Shirou.

"Now onto my last request."

"Hm?" Shirou blinked as Michael leaned in to whisper something to him and pulled back.

"That it?" Shirou asked.

"Yup, so are we good?"

"No complaints so far? Heh, who'd knew I'd get to do that in place of my rival. This will make a very delicious victory on my part."

Facing the Lion-chimera together, the two young men stood in front of Kiyome who proceeded to draw out the magic circle's crest.

"So we've been talking and…" Michael began.

"We'll take the hard way." Shirou finished.

The Lion-man's muscles pulsated as his eyes grew redder, his teeth were now bared to threaten them.

"Are you sure? Because before you make that choice let me tell you that I am the fourth strongest out of the others. My power is on a whole other scale compared to those weakling soldiers I control. Now do you understand what could happen if you mess with my might?"

"Fourth strongest? Wasn't there a guy like that we fought?"

"And I killed, remember?"

Michael and Shirou remembered the Chimera, who proclaimed that title back at that fake carnival.

"…!" The Lion-man almost bit his tongue when he heard that, "You must have been hearing things."

"No, pretty sure he called himself the fourth strongest. Well, not anymore because that guys deader than Aaron's love life."

"I don't know who this Aaron is, but he sounds more disappointing than Saji." Michael said.

"Huh? Wow…Saji…that sounds kind of disappointing, too." Shirou scratched his head.

"So since this guy is the fourth strongest now then doesn't that mean he earned that title by default?" Michael gasped in surprise.

"Grrr! You'd better watch your mouth, boy!"

"Hahahahaha! So it is true, you did earn that by default! Aren't you supposed to be the king of all cats because you're a lion? But I guess not since you had to claim the rank of fourth strongest! Hehehehe...Bwahahaha…!"

"Grrrrrrgh! Hard way it is then!" The Lion-man leans down and prepares to pounce on them with his razor edged claws. His hind legs were pulsing as he lunged at them with the built up energy he placed in them.

"You punks, I won't walk away after wounding my pride!"

"Here he comes!"

"Hit the deck!"

"No, wait, stop!"

By dodging to the left, Michael accidentally pulled Shirou with him as the Lion-man's claws made contact with the ground and created a medium sized crater.

"Idiot, we're chained together! You can't just jump ahead like that!" Shirou shouted.

"Then just follow my lead!" Michael pointed at himself.

"No, you'll have to follow my lead!" Shirou growled and got up, but Michael shushed him.

"No, follow my lead!" Michael winked.

"I don't get what you're saying." Shirou shook his head.

"My lead!" Michael winked.

"Just because you do the same weird thing the first time doesn't mean I'll get it the second time." Shirou shook his head and rolled his eyes.

"You weasly, little-!" The Lion-man got back up and charged at Michael and Shirou while thrusting his clawed hand at them, more likely Michael who didn't notice the attack on time.

"Grgh!" Shirou pulled the cuff chain to drag Michael out of the attack's range.

"Drat!" The Lion-man clicked his tongue.

"Hah, you missed, and you call yourself the King of Animals? Pfft! You really suck, y'know?" Michael insulted the chimera. He was to act like the diversion until Kiyome was finished with the magic circle, all Shirou needed to do was act like his back up throughout

"Tch! I'm really going to tear out that throat of yours!"

"Yeah, right! Like you can even do that! Fourth Best! Oh, wait a minute, Fourth best by default!" Michael squats down and puts his hand in the dirt.

"Graaaaaaaaargh!" The chimera growled and took the bait and raised his hand to swipe at their defenseless bodies.

"What? You mad bro!?" Michael smirked.

'Just a little more and…!' Shirou thought as he sidestepped once the chimera got close enough and pulled Michael out of the way.

"Whew! That was a close one! NOT!" Michael threw some dirt at the Chimera's eyes.

"Gyaaaaaaargh!" The lion-man cried out in pain and held his dirtied eye.

"Yeah, got him!" Michael grinned then gasped when he realized the world around him was spinning, "Wuh-whoa! What's happening!?"

Spinning Michael around in a circle, Shirou roared like a mad man as he spun on his heel to increase the speed he was going at, "Uooooooooooh!" Taking a single step to stop himself, Shirou leans in closer to the wincing lion chimera and tried to stall the built up kinetic force of his swinging.

'What are they- no, stay concentrated. I only have this last rune to carve out until I'm done.' Kiyome thought as she proceeded to do that.

"Shirou, what are you doing!?" Michael mumbled as he tried to compose his dizzy self.

"The hell is this!?" Even the Lion chimera was at a loss of words as he saw the incoming teen hold back the semi-airborne Michael.

"Prepare to taste my new attack, Human Flail!"

"I'm the Human Flail!? No, stop, this is gonna hurt me, dude!" Michael screamed.

"Don't worry, I'm following your lead!"

"That's not what I me-!"

*THUD!*

"Byergh!"

Shirou roared and released the chain and slammed Michael atop of the Lion Chimera's head slamming him into the ground with some minor damage.

"Ouch! Damn it that hurts!" Michael jumped up and bounced around rubbing his back in pain.

"Wow, that actually worked." Shirou rubbed his chin, he didn't believe the attack would actually take effect.

"You psycho! Warn me next time!" Michael cried.

"Okay, so how about you act as the Human Shield next time?"

"You know, how about we take turns being the flail? Now let me swing you around like a ragdoll!" Michael grabbed the chain.

"No way, you're the decoy, now prepare to shield me with your body, test dummy!" Shirou pulled the chain, too.

"So my name is Test dummy now, huh, Test dummy # 2?"

"Don't call me that and you #2, I'm obviously #1!"

"No, I'm afraid I'm number one here, Number two!"

Arguing like a couple of immature children, Michael and Shirou were not taking notice of the growing shadow right behind them.

It only took Kiyome a mere second to see their progress and gasp while screaming, "Both of you, look out!"

"Huh?"

"Oh shit…"

The Lion-man stood over the pair with his one good eye glaring down at them, his body was emanating a fierce killing intent which momentarily paralyzed everyone. Trembling, the Lion-man started to shout, "I am officially One-Hundred and Ten Percent done!"

"Hah! Who ever heard of the King of all animals having to use their full power right off the bat? Geez, you really are living up to that fourth strongest title. Oops, sorry. That's a title you didn't earn yourself, right?"

"UOOOOOOOOOH!"

"I know that wasn't necessary, and this might come back to bite us in the ass. But kudos, Mike. I'm actually proud of you for once!" Shirou had to shout because of the chimera' load roaring.

Michael may have known that making the Lion-man mad would only make their chances of holding out way worse, but it was pretty much necessary to have him stay concentrated on them than Kiyome.

The Lion-man's muscles pulsated to the extent to where they grew in size along with his entire body as his overgrown muscles ripped through his clothes' top. The pressure around his body was growing more and more as the ground shook from all of the power that coursed through his body.

"UOOOOH! GET SHREDDED TO RIBBIONS! WOOOOH! I'M ABOUT TO GO WILD!"

The Lion-man excitedly laughed and rejoiced in the full indulgence of his full power as he stood over the speechless young men.

"Whoa! That's a big kitty cat!"

"I'll smash both of you!"

*THUUUUUD!*

Making a fist with his large hands the Lion-man leaned in to clobber them with a single punch. Luckily they dodged just when he was about to hit them because the blow created crater in the shape of his fist. He was now utilizing superhuman strength against them, which would prove very fatal should he actually hit them with it.

"He increased his muscle mass to do that so of course he was able to get this strong. I bet any damage done to him physically wouldn't affect him because of his new durable body."

"But with that bigger body, he's a lot slower now, isn't he?

"Your right, so we just have to move faster to avoid getting hit. Just remember a single hit from him could cripple or kill us."

"So run and make sure not to blown to pieces by a single punch, got it."

Though things might have looked bleak, there was still some hope for them.

Slowly hunching over and flexing his muscles the Lion-man wore a twisted grin as he heard their plan.

"If you think I've lost my speed then your sorely mistaken, you brats!" The Lion-man jumped high up in the air and spun around in a spiral while extending out his claws.

"Beast King Dual Shredder!" Like a buzz saw, the Lion-man spun with his razor claws out and zoomed right after Michael and Shirou. Unprepared for this new development, the pair quickly ducked and watched as the spinning Lion-man slashed a row of trees behind them down.

"You guys!" Kiyome screamed while looking at the surprised boys who watched the amazing display of power.

"Dang! I thought he can't move faster than us!" Michael wiped his lip.

"Kikikikiki! My body as a while may be slower when using individual limbs to attack but altogether at this impeccable speed, I've been able to combine my might with it to cut down my victims!"

The Lion-man prepared to go in for another attack by spinning at them from behind.

"Dod-Crap!" Shirou tried pull Michael with the chains of the handcuffs but found that the attack wasn't just going for both of them anymore but for him personally.

"Don't worry I've got you!" Michael instead pulled Shirou away from danger as the spiraling attack missed.

"Thanks."

Shirou gasps as he looks behind Michael, "Look out, he's coming back from behind you!"

"Huh?" Michael gasped then tried to move as he heard the frightening sound of razor claws swinging wildly as it approached his back.

*SHING!*

*SPLURT!*

"Duuargh!" The spiraling Lion-man raised himself high and left a deep wound on Michael's shoulder.

"This one's way worse than the wrist!" Michael gripped his bleeding shoulder in pain, the wound was way deeper than the one from before.

"Hmph!" The Lion-man returned to normal and stopped his attack, "I've officially decided to change my tactics. Instead of trying to get you both at the same time I'll just resort to taking one of you out. If there's a body dragging either of you down, then that makes your chances of survival very slim!"

The Lion-man jumped in the air and resumed his previous attack, "Beast King Dual Shredder!"

"We gotta move!"

"Nrggh! I'm doing my best!"

Shirou tried to pull Michael who was still holding his wound, the blood loss from before is impacting his train of focus and reaction time.

"You better start running or else you'll die!"

The Lion-man laughed as he was about to cut the two sitting ducks in half.

"Move!"

Looking at the situation, Shirou decided to push Michael to the ground while trying to fall right after him. If Michael were to get taken out now, then he wouldn't last trying to protect him and drag around his body while under attack.

*SHING!*

*SCHLICK!*

"Guuuargh!" Shirou received 3 deep wounds to his back as he falls forward, it would have been a fatal attack that might have ripped him apart, were he to stay sitting up.

"Chi! I missed!" The Lion-man clicked his tongue, and maneuvered around along the ground

"Michael-kun, Shirou-kun!" Kiyome cried.

"Senpai, don't worry about us!" Michael turned back to face Kiyome, she was no longer holding that long stick to carve out the crests anymore. Michael took that as her putting the final touch to the magic circle, so the only thing she needed right now was time to activate it. Time that they have to manage for her even if it worsens their health.

"Just focus on what you can do!" Michael gave a thumbs up before helping Shirou up, the wounds on his back were deep and inflicted pain to his back which impaired some of his stature to stand up straight.

Kiyome was hesitant, if those two were to die then all of this would be for nothing. Swallowing her hesitation, she resumed with the needed procedures to activate the magic circle. Pulling out the vial of Michael's blood, she begins with the ritual of summoning through the magic circle.

"I'mma run you both over like roadkill!" The chimera's buzz saw-like attack tore through the ground as he made his way towards Michael and Shirou.

"Damn him!"

"Don't worry! I got you, man!"

Using his free shoulder, Michael helped Shirou up and started to run away from the spiraling clawed ball of death. His wounded shoulder was still bothering him, but they weren't as fresh as Shirou's so he decided to take endure the stinging pain of his shredded shoulder and help move them away from their imminent deaths.

Being huddled together like that made things easier for the lion-man, they've managed to slow down because of their bleeding injuries and since they weren't separately running as two individuals that made his job of tearing them apart easier.

'Everyone, please, hurry we won't last long like this." Kiyome prayed in her head as she poured the blood within the magic circle. There was a dim light that was starting to come from the circle's round circumference. It was working but the startup time was still taking too long, 'It just needs one more minute, one more minute and we're finally in the clear!'

"Where do you think you're running off to!?"

*SHIIING!* *THUD!*

"Guuuuargh!"

"I've had about enough of you, you bastard!"

"Pathetic!"

*SHIIIIIING!* *SCHLUUUCK!*

"Uuuuuuuurgh!"

Receiving fresh wounds while howling out in pain, Michael received multiple claw wounds to the back while Shirou's right torso was carved out by the Lion-man's rather fast claws. The pain was just a hindrance to them, it might have hurt then but it didn't stop them from trying to evade the chimera' deadly attacks.

'Hurry…this is way too much…' Kiyome trembled in fear and could do nothing but listen to the blood curdling screams of her friends getting maimed by some weird large cat creature.

There were so many close calls whenever the lion-man tried to devastate them with aerial attacks by jumping in the air while trying to crush and tear their bodies into the ground. Stamina was all they had to rely on in this fight, and they didn't have a ton to spare if they continued to get cornered by this monster.

'He's not slowing down!' Michael's eye twitched as the Lion-man was getting closer with each attack he made.

Barely hanging on by a thread, the two young men could only hope that they're breath won't get any harder to take because this chimera was letting up his attacks. They were getting to exhausted to even take short gasps of air as the chimera arrogantly landed on the ground. He stopped his deadly technique after getting a good look at the two.

They were already fatigued so any hope of escaping they had was very slim.

"Kikikikiki! How sad, out of steam already?" Stomping his way over to them, the menace loomed over them with his smarmy toothed smile and clenched his fist. He didn't need speed to finish things anymore, his superhuman strength will be the tools to end this little hunt.

"Are you kidding, we can do this all day."

"Easy for you to say that because I've been dragging your ass the whole time…!"

"Whoa! No, no, no, I've been dragging you after you got hit and twisted your ankle, dumbass!"

Arguing with each other with the Lion-man relishing in his soon to be victory, he laughed, "It doesn't matter who was the deadweight between you two because you both won't be moving after I'm done with you!"

The Lion-man's fist held way up high would finally end things for both of the tired teens who awaited to receive the hit.

*SHIIIIINE!*

XXX

"Is that-!?" Natsuru dropped a black risqué babydoll and questioned the appearance of multiple presences on the island.

"…That better not be what I think it is…" Natsuru snapped her fingers and instantly clothed herself with her Kuoh Academy uniform, she's made it to be much more durable than most of her other clothing. Barging through her room's doors, she made a straight beeline to a place where she'll get her answers.

XXX

But just in the nick of time a bright light flashed and took the attention of not just the saved boys but the Lion chimera as well as they see the back of Kiyome facing the magic circle she had just finished crafting.

"It's working!" Kiyome shielded her eyes as she looked through the bright light of the magic circle, it was a close call, but it managed to send a direct link right away.

"Oh, yeah!" Michael fist pumped.

"A magic circle?" The Lion-man gasped, "How is that possible those shouldn't work here? I get it now you two were obviously keeping me from that girl friend of yours! That magic circle won't teleport you all away, but to be safe I'll just smother it out with your friend's blood!"

The Lion-man charged at Kiyome while ignoring the distressed opponents he has yet to dealt with.

"He's going after her!"

"Oh, no! Senpai, run away!"

"…!" Kiyome froze in fear as she turned back to see the charging monster coming at her.

"We have to go save her now!"

"Hold up! Whup!"

*THUD!* *THUD!*

Michael and Shirou couldn't make it in time as they fell down in an attempt to follow them.

"Come to me, little girl! Kikikikiki!" The Lion-man pulls out his claws as he lunged at Kiyome once he got close enough.

"Senpai!" Was the only thing Michael could scream as he cursed himself for being too weak to save her.

"Mngh!" Stricken in fear, Kiyome closed her and waited for the inevitable.

*ZAN!* *THUD!*

"Gyaaaaaaaa!"

The sound of flesh being severed filled the forest followed by a heavy thud, everyone and everything was silent as a lone scream filled the entire forest clearing. And that scream belonged to the Lion-chimera himself as he held his new stub for an arm after it had been mercilessly chopped off by a figure who stood in front of Kiyome, who everyone recognized.

"Sorry to keep everyone waiting. Are you all, okay?" The one who saved Kiyome was Kiyome who brandished a black steeled katana which radiated Kiba's demonic energy.

"Pretty Boy!" Michael with a jaunty smile, laughed upon the arrival of one of his best friends.

"Michael-kun? What a relief, I'm glad I was able to make it just in time." Kiba released a breath of relief, "Thank you, Kiyome-senpai for summoning us like you did." Kiyome could only shake her head and thank him back for making it in just in time.

"Aren't you forgetting, someone, you blonde asshat?" Shirou coughed.

"Oh? Sorry, Shirou-kun. I didn't mean to leave you out like that." Kiba's handsome smile pissed Shirou off, "You seem to be in a similar state as Michael-kun, do you need any help, if so I can always-!"

"Shut the fuck up, Kiba!" Shirou shouted.

"Okay, he's fine."

Earning that familiar response, Kiba could tell that Shirou was still okay, mentally though. Maybe…

"Grrgh!"

"Now as for you." Kiba saw the beaten states of almost everyone there and turned back to ruefully, glare at the chimera whose arm was now severed.

Holding his bleeding arm, the chimera growled, "Who in the flying fuck are you!?"

"My name is Kiba Yuuto, Knight to Rias Gremory and friends to these people that you hurt." Kiba introduced himself.

"AHEM! Just to clarify, when he means friends he means both Michael and Kiyome, not me!"

Kiba almost sweatdropped after hearing Shirou say that.

"What a devil? But how? No one can pinpoint this location and your magic circles shouldn't even work!" The Lion chimera hissed.

"True, but we didn't need to pinpoint this location ourselves thanks to Abe-senpai summoning us with the Gremory Clan's seal imbedded into this magic circle. It was all because of that we were given a chance to arrive."

Clenching his fist, the Lion-man knew that he wouldn't get out of this one alive, he had first failed to capture these powerless whelps in the facility, now he has to deal with the impending onslaught of these devils. If he were to get overpowered then he had better make use of the situation, he slowly reached back into one of his pockets as he roared,

"You maggots…You bothersome maggots!"

Swinging the blood off of his blade, Kiba threateningly points it at the chimera, "Give it up, if you don't then I can't promise you'll walk out of here with your life."

"Yeah right! I won't be the only one who won't be getting out of this alive!" The Lion-man pulled out a flare gun and points it high up in the sky.

"Huh?" Kiba didn't get the gist of what was happening until Shirou had to shout out,

"You, bastard! He's about to alert the other enemies! Stop him!"

"…!" But before Kiba could take his first step.

"Too late!"

*BAAAAANG!*

A big red burst of light filled the night sky of the forest as it immediately alerted the many other soldiers coming their way.

"A flare?"

"Woohoo! Somebody's found them!"

"Let's go rip them apart!"

The hollering and wild calls of the all the chimera soldiers filled the forest as the clearing was get louder by the approaching enemies that would infest it soon enough. Wearing his cocky grin, the Lion-man laughed at the shocked faced of everyone around him and laughed in victory.

"Heh! All of you are dead for sure, I may know that I can't handle a group of devils alone, but if I had my entire squadron of soldiers with me to help then my chances of killing each and every one of you would increase! Kikikikiki! No matter what happens, I'm still going to have the advantage!"

The Lion-man couldn't help but laugh but as soon as he saw the shock expression on Kiba's face slowly change into a smile, he had to ask out of discomfort,

"Why are you so chipper, devil?"

"Because you decided to do things the hard way. I wanted to give you an out, but you just made things harder for yourself." Kiba shook his head, "When I threatened that your life would lost, I didn't say I was the one to take it, in fact, that was a person I was referring to and right now she is royally displeased. So don't regret what happens next."

"Who the hell are you talking ab-!"

"He means "She" with a capital "S" by the way!"

Another voice added.

*DOOON!* *DOOON!*

Shot past both of Kiba's sides were to blocks of demonic energy imbued with the power of destruction. The Lion-man struggled, but managed to dodge each of them in time as they zipped past him. He looked up and gasped upon seeing a group of other individuals walk out of the intense light the magic made.

"Forgive me, Buchou, he was able to alert his comrades." Kiba bowed his head, apologetically.

"Don't burden yourself, Yuuto. Even if we came here undetected, we would still be sensed by our collected powers suddenly appearing in their home base."

Walking ahead of the group was one more individual, she stood taller than the others and was wrapped around in a thick, red veil of demonic aura which matched her livid mood. It was Rias and she wasn't too thrilled about the current scene in front of her.

"Personally, I want them to know we're here. And this time we're the ones who are going to take back what they've taken from us." Rias crossed her arms, it was her intention to get caught so that Natsuru can know that she was back. And this time, she'll settle things with her for kidnapping her serv-boyfriend.

"Gremory-san, I-" Kiyome rushes over to Rias while looking reluctant.

"Forgive me for not speaking up sooner about this, I just…" Kiyome did her best to apologize, because after all her sister ruined they're and stole her servant.

"You don't have to say anything. Without you, we would never have found this place before it was too late. Thank you, Abe-san." Rias placed a hand on Kiyome's shoulder and smiled, she wasn't about to be mad at someone who did their best to help them.

Kiyome was relieved that Rias wasn't that mad with her, but felt concerned since she could literally feel the animosity she had towards Natsuru. Her thoughts however were interrupted by the sight of her younger brother, Makoto, running towards her in tears.

"Kiyome-neechan!" Makoto ran from the group and into Kiyome's arms.

"M-Makoto-chan? Why and how did you get here?"

"K-Kiyome-neechan…! I couldn't find you or Natsu-neechan anywhere!" Makoto sniffled and hugged Kiyome tightly, "I-I was so sc-scared that I asked Rias-san to bring me along in case they ever found you."

Noticing Makoto's loneliness, Kiyome could only blame herself for not even thinking about his feelings in all this. Not just that, but the fact that his own blood sister was the cause for all of these terrible things made it difficult for Kiyome to say anything but,

"I'm sorry for scaring you like that." Kiyome quietly said as she hugged the frightened boy back.

"It's okay, I'm just so glad your fine! But…" Makoto looked around, "Where's Natsu-neechan, I thought she would be here with you?"

Kiyome could only respond with silence that until they were interrupted by the shouting of the Lion-chimera.

"Hey! Stop ignoring me, you filthy devils!"

Her attention now on the giant chimera, Rias now proceeded to cast him a glare as her aura went a little wild with rage. She was silent and saw no use in responding.

"You all may think your clever by coming here alone, but don't underestimate us! I was able to handle these two schmucks over there so easily because they were weak I'm the fourth strongest of my master's creations so don't think I'll keel over like those two weaklings over there."

*CHING!* *THUD!* *CHING!* *THUD!*

Looking past the monster's shoulders, Rias blinked before wearing a confident smile, "Weaklings? Just who are you talking about?"

[Dragon Booster!]

[Welsh Dragon Balance Breaker!]

Two calls were heard along with two different colored bright lights which filled the clearing.

"The meatbags that are obviously bleeding out on the gro-!" The Lion-chimera froze in fear as there stood two fully armored men donning their sacred gears. Michael's with his Boosted Scale Mail and Shirou with his Grand Chariot, the two both exuded a powerful dragon's aura as they stood over there enemy without their handcuffs.

"Yo." Michael cracked his knuckles.

"Care to repeat that, Meatbag?" Shirou crossed his arms.

"How!? You two shouldn't be able to use your powers! How did you take off the handcuffs!?" The Lion-man staggered back and almost fell down, but suddenly remembered the two blasts of demonic power that he dodged, 'Wait a minute, that attack was meant to set them free!?'

The Lion-man gulped as the two young men were pressuring him with all of their pent up energy flowing out in rage after the beat down they had received from this creature.

"So do you want to pummel him into a bloody pulp or do you just want to end it?" Michael was mad, and it wasn't because of just the ass whooping this guy smacked down on them. It was also because he was about to kill Kiyome right in front of his eyes, so he needed something to quell his anger."

"I'm still a little pissed from him trying to dice us into pieces. So let's have some fun with him." Shirou may have laughed that part off, but the tone in his voice was dark and just about the same level of mad Michael was at.

Grinding his teeth, the Lion-man shouted, "Don't screw with me! I just knocked both of your blocks off a couple of minutes ago. Just because you have your powers back doesn't mean things will change that drastically! I'll probably do even worse to you, too. Especially to that wimpy white haired punk, he went down rather easily after Natsuru-sama used her poison on him, so prepare for the nightmarish battle of your life!"

Shirou paused as Michael put a hand to his mouth, that was blocked by the Scale Mail's mask, and looked back at Shirou.

"*INHALES!* Hmmmmmmmm!"

*SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!*

Everyone blinked and turned back to Shirou whose reaction was hard to read through the mask of his armor, but the dragon aura which came out of him on grew in pressure. He was mad.

"What? Did I strike a nerve?" The beast smirked.

"You pushed the Shirou button." Michael was holding in a smirk of laughter.

"And what's th-!"

*BAAANG!*

"Goooough!"

From point A to point B. Shirou's aura cladded fist made contact with the chimera's stomach which forced the beast to throw up a mixture of his vomit and blood. Looking up at the beast with his eyes shining through the helmet of Grand Chariot, Shirou growls,

"You shouldn't have done that…"

"Bloough! Why you little-!"

*SWOOSH!*

"You missed, jackass." Shirou dodges a punch to the face and raises his foots while surrounding it with touki once the lion-chimera left his unbalanced leg wide open for an attack.

"W-What are you-!?"

*SNAAAP!*

"Gyaaaaargh!" The impact of Shirou's leg smashed and broke the chimera's leg leaving him to sprawl out on the ground and crying in extreme agony.

"You, god damn bastard, don't expect that I'll let you live for th-!"

"Hey, Mike, you want a shot now

"Are you kidding I've been waiting to get some payback!"

"No, hey, stop it!"

"Okay." Michel shrugged.

"R-Really?" The lion-chimera blinked in surprise, he seriously didn't think that would work.

"Of course, you asked me to stop so I stopped, walking. That is." Michael stood over the beast while cracking his hands and grab the lion and pulled him up by the fur on his chest and cocked back his fist while imbuing it with touki.

"So lets me get started on the payback for almost killing, Kiyome-senpai!"

"No, let me g-Aaaaaaaaaaah!"

*WHACK!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!*

Jumping into things, Michael punches the chimera across the face and kept beating him senselessly until the beast's entire face was swollen to the point to where he couldn't form proper words.

"Vurce…tvou, Vasterds! I'm the bourth stroungets!" The Lion chimera muttered through his beaten face.

"There's my well-deserved satisfaction payback done, so…" Michael placed his hand out in front of him.

"Let's take out the trash." Shirou stood by him and did the same as he did the same.

Both created large masses of demonic aura within their palms as they begun to eliminate the chimera beast, who grinded what was left of his teeth and muttered,

"Vall, Heil, Measteress Aszreal, mwey her pwower shoh yuou twue hwell!" His words were tough to translate but he had a deep sense of loyalty in them. Sadly, they were his last.

*DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!*

The two demonic blasts fused and engulfed the body of the lion-chimera turning him into ash along with the forest trees behind him. Where a massive crater of their attack carved out the entire landscape.

"Phew! Now we get to breathe a little easier!" Michael and Shirou drop back to the ground once their past wounds started to get to them as they took off their armor to catch their breath.

"Michael-san, Shirou-san!"

"Thank goodness you're alright, Michael-sama!"

Thankfully rushing towards their aid was Asia, along with the entire Occult Research Club to circle around them to check on the two's wellbeing. Attending to their wounds, Asia made quick work of their collected damage since they were captured.

"Thanks for that, Asia. I feel all better now." Michael stretched his arms, he still felt a little exhausted after running away all of this time but thankfully, he could still move and he had enough stamina to enter his Balance Breaker, so things aren't that bad.

"I'm sorry that you had to go through all of that, Michael-san, but I'm glad that we were able to make it in time." Asia turned to Shirou, "How are your injuries, Shirou-san? Are they still bothering you?"

"No, they are gone, thanks to you. Thank you, Asia."

Shirou smiled gratefully.

"Holy crap! Shirou! You just thanked someone an honest to god smile!"

"Ara, ara, who'd knew this would ever happen?"

"…Amazing…"

"I-I didn't even know this was possible!"

"I see; the world truly is a marvelous place."

Michael, Akeno, Koneko, Gasper, and Kiba made surprised remarks about Shirou's kind attitude towards Asia.

"Okay, all of you can officially go straight to hell!" Shirou cursed them, they made him sound like an apathetic person.

"Heheh! He's so easy!" Michael stood up and laughed.

Approaching him, Xenovia looked concerned, "Michael, are you sure you are okay?"

"She's right, you three just barely escaped almost getting captured twice in a row. Maybe you should sit this one out for a while Michel-sama." Raynare approached with the same concerned look as Xenovia, she was worried to death when she heard he was taken. This time being at the scene of it almost happening again has made her worried.

"Don't worry, it's not like I was crippled and too broken to fight. I just need some time to catch my breath that's all." Michael grinned, "I mean it is me, we're talking about remember? I'm the greatest!"

"…"

"Hmmm?"

Michael looked back and noticed a long faced Koneko, she looked really anxious and depressed. Right now would have been a perfect chance for her to get a shot in at him. He couldn't help, but worry a little for her strange new attitude.

'Did something happen?' Michael was curious enough to bring up Koneko's worried look.

"Michael."

But realizing who called him, he swore to himself to dive into what was happening with Koneko later. Michael smiled and turned around to face Rias with his usual smile and a wave, "Hey, Buchou, I see that you guys had finally arrived!"

Pacing her way towards him, Rias was silent but Michael who didn't get the message still rambled on.

"I mean it was pretty flashy for an entrance, but I think it made for an awesome comeback for our part in the end. And besides I knew you would come, eventually. I didn't even have a doubt in my mi-!"

*HUG!*

Getting embraced by Rias, Michael could feel the tight amount of pressure she placed in her arms, like she wasn't going to ever think about letting go. She was also trembling, realizing all of the pain that his absence brought to her made him feel a little sad but incredibly happy.

'See? Rias being able to overcome all of this to save me is something I'd expect no less from her.' Michael's face formed a gentle smile as he soothingly rubs Rias' back before the pair broke their subtle embrace.

Rias didn't want to let go of him so earl, but knew things weren't over. Not when Natsuru was still out there to plan the same tricks like before. She still had to finish things with her before she can even think about savoring her time with Michael. Turning back to face all of her servants, Rias says,

"At this moment we are in enemy territory, so we cannot advance until we have taken out a decent amount of their men. Only when we finish our time with eliminating them, do we proceed." Turning back to face Shirou and Michael, she asks,

"Just what are their main forces, if you've seen what they could do?"

Sighing, Shirou couldn't believe he had to debrief someone who wasn't his own master, but figuring how things played out. He just decided to listen to orders, "To be honest, we've faced some pathetic enemies who are easy to handle if it were handled one at a time. But those freaks… they're a pain in the ass to kill if they work together."

Shirou looks at the massive crater they made and says, "They'll go after the weak ones first while trying to allude the strong ones with confusing traps and techniques."

Nodding, Michael grits his teeth, "And not to mention that we have those 3 bastards from earlier possibly coming out to get us. Together they could be a pain in the ass for us in our Balance Breaker states! Especially that panther-guy!" Michael grinded his teeth, "He treated my head as a floor mat, so I'm definitely going to pay him back, you sure as hell can bet on that!"

"Balance Breaker?" Shirou looks up at Michael with a questioning look.

"Yeah, our armor balance breakers. Our Scale Mails." Michael nodded.

"Mike, I haven't used my balance breaker yet."

This caught Michael off guard, "… …What?"

"It's true. I only just use my standard Sacred Gear."

"But! But! Your using dragon armor!"

"Yeah, that's my sacred gear's basic state. My balance breaker is something else though..."

"And you were that strong without it? Hacks!"

Michael pointed at Shirou's face.

"What, what are you doing?"

"Calling hacks! Your sacred gear is freaking broken as hell!"

"It's not broken, idiot! And how is this my fault it's not like I was given the choice for this power to be like this!"

"Then why don't you just use it and help speed things along?"

"Because I don't want to use it and also it makes my shoulders stiff just after using it." Shirou rubbed his shoulder.

"The heck kind of excuse is that? No, you have to use it now! No excuses! Now I'm curious!" Michael grabbed Shirou by the shoulders and shook him, excitedly.

"Don't touch me!" Shirou slapped Michael's hands away.

"Come on already just use i-hm?" Michael cuts himself off once he heard the approaching sounds of footsteps, everyone was silent once they heard the encroaching feeling of malice surround the clearing.

"They're almost here." Kiba's grip on his katana tightened as soon as he heard the sound of grass crunching under swift heavy footsteps.

"Buchou, what are your commands? What strategy do you think we should take?" Akeno purposely requests, she knew that the best one to make the decisions from here on out would be Rias.

Pondering over the thought of the impending battle, Rias thought more closely about the main three enemies Michael described. She vaguely remembered them as they were there when Michael and Shirou were kidnapped. If those three could hold back those two then it would be a problem if they fought altogether, not to mention with their lackeys around stirring enough trouble.

Wearing her serious yet beautiful expression, Rias nods to herself as a way to confirm her thoughts before saying, "All right everyone, listen. This must be handled with the utmost urgency or else we will be boxed in."

*GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!* *GLEAM!*

The forest around them filled with blood red eerie pairs of eyes, they were filled with blood lust as only one thing went through each one of their minds and that is to: mutilate and rip apart all of their vulnerable prey, who were blinded in the dark.

Despite the multiple malignant stares being thrown their way, the Occult Research club plus Shirou stood tall as they finished listening to the plan that Rias had created. Standing even taller than the others, Rias sports her usual confident smile, she didn't know whether this idea would work, but still had faith that the tides of this whole battle will be in their favor.

"Now…" Rias breathes in once the chimera soldiers hidden within the dark forest began to inch out slowly into the moonlight covered clearing. The sounds of their footsteps were echoing in her mind, the time to begin their counterattack is about to commence!

"Move out!"

"Yes, ma'am!" Everyone bellowed with the same fervor as their leader as they rushed into the fray of the fight.

XXX

"Hmhmhmhm~!" Humming so cheerfully, the cloaked woman taps her fingers against the dimmed light of the leader over the chimera soldiers. She didn't expect much and actually found that his death was much more entertaining than him actually surviving. Dragged out battles with someone who wasn't important enough to still be alive wasn't entertaining.

And because of his death, even more fun things will be happening now!

"Oh well~! Looks like Number 4 by default couldn't make the cut! So you 3 know what that means~!"

Turning around in her rolling chair, the cloaked woman laughed and faced her top 3 experimented chimeras. They all nodded in response to their master's gesture. Their signal to head out was already set. Now all they had to do was-

"Gyaaaaaagh!"

*SNAP!*

"N-Natsuru-sama, please, n-no, n-gyaaaah!"

*BANG!* *SPLATTER!*

The horrific dying sounds of a few chimera soldiers guarding the lab door interrupted their plans as the door slowly creaks open. The three chimeras were shocked once they saw the approaching, nine-tailed figure of Natsuru covered in a furious amount of aura and the spattered blood stains of the guards she just killed.

"You…" Natsuru lowly mutters as she glares at the cloaked woman while ignoring the threatening pressure the chimeras made as a way to indicate their willingness to protect their true master from her. But to Natsuru, she didn't really care about them, her attention was on the giddily laughing mystery woman who was hidden beneath the hood of her black coated jacket.

"Hey, Nat-Nat! How you doin'?" The hooded woman tried to play around with Natsuru but was met with a blast of ki grazing the side of her body and destroying one of her large computer screens. The dangerous pressure Natsuru had around her body told her that she wasn't in the mood for trivial games anymore, she was pissed off and needed answers.

"Explain."

"Explain my day? Why thank you, that's very nice of-!"

*BAAAAM!* *BAAAAM!* *BAAAAM!* *BAAAAAM!*

"Explain…everything…" Natsuru's golden eyes shimmered through the dimly lit room.

Swinging around like a couple of clubs, Natsuru used her 9 tails to demolish more than half of the lab around herself. During most of this she did not break eye contact with the hooded figure, who just remained silent.

Breaking that silence, the hooded woman said, "You three have been permitted to leave, you may go~!"

"B-But, master, what about you, nya?" The tiger-woman whispered.

"Yeah?" The cheetah-man voiced his concern.

"…" As the panther-man stayed silent and observed his master.

The chimeras were worried about the safety of their master, but the hooded woman figured they could have been allowed to go since Natsuru was only focused on her.

"Oh! You three! Surely you must know that this a talk just between us two girls! Like an unexpected rat giving us trouble? Am I right, Nat-Nat?" The hooded figure giggled, but had some edge in her tone that took even Natsuru by surprise.

Natsuru was still mad and stayed quiet, partially interested in what the hooded woman meant.

"Of course, I'm right! So you three better move out! Remember, to kill any stragglers that are in the way, okay? And try to get as much on you so I can know how effective your skills are!"

"Yes, ma'am!" The tiger-woman and cheetah-man nodded along with the panther-man who gave Natsuru a cold glare before the three dashed out of the lab and the facility altogether with their superhuman speed. Following the powerful presences that reside within the forest.

Left alone inside of the lab, the hooded woman sat down in her chair and giggled, "Now, we have our deserved privacy, Nat-Nat! Just tell me about the juicy details you had planned for that Red Dragon Emperor-boy? Were you going to torture him with pleasure? Pain? Or did you want to tickle the sensitive spot on the back of his neck until he wets himself?"

"Address your past comment about that rat. How could you even imply that someone from the outside could manage to break in this tightly guarded facility, free our prisoners, escape with them, and summon the entire bleeding Gremory family onto this island?" Natsuru pressed for answers and wasn't in the mood for false accusations.

Spinning around in her rolling chair, the hooded woman shrugged, "I don't know who it is, but they caused all of this to happen, didn't they? At this point it doesn't matter. All we know is that they did it."

Giving the woman a suspecting glare, Natsuru began to circle around her, "You know, maybe you're the one who freed them yourself?"

"Le Gasp! Moi~!?" The woman playfully gasped, "Now why would I ever do such a thing like that? It's not like I'm in it to betray you."

"I don't know about that... I just have a hunch that you're trying to lead my plans astray for your own goals. Goals, that you've kept hidden from me… It would be a shame if those goals were meant to ruin everything I had in store, right?" Natsuru loomed over the woman while her nine tails were spread out in a threatening manner as an orb of Ki floats in her hand dangerously. Her intentions were to make use of this benefactor until you proved useful or until she was proven useless.

She had no need for someone who would purposely sabotage all of her progress. The hooded woman was treading on thin ice now but the only reaction she made towards that accusation was just a simple giddy giggle.

"Goals? No, no, I only have a goal, but not that many. A goal that I would make sure to achieve even if I had to destroy your well thought out plans to achieve them."

She didn't deny to the accusation.

"I see, then you are no longer of use to me…"

*FWOOOOOSH!*

"Die…"

Natsuru's orb of ki suddenly was surrounded by a harsh blue flame that threatened to burn alive anything it came in contact with. It should be enough to turn this dirty trouble maker into

Lazily leaning back in her chair, the hooded lady looks up at Natsuru with her revealed pair of violet eyes which halted Natsuru impending attack along with the words,

"Are you sure you want to waste so much of your time with killing little old me, right now? Especially when you can get a permanent result for your plans?" The woman said.

"Permanent result?" Natsuru questioned.

"That's right~! You can probably already tell that all of Rias Gremory's servants are on this island. Right now should be the time they fight my lackluster experiments who'll tire them out along with the three strong ones, I sent to deal some effective damage before they become "inefficient" for any more of my tasks. By the time things end, you'll probably be able to wipe them out."

The hooded woman explained her plans while telling Natsuru, her chances of a "possible" victory.

"That would be obvious."

"But if you take them all on by yourself, you would most definitely lose wouldn't you? I mean how would you handle the Red Dragon Emperor and that other young man with a dragon?"

"Hmph, you surely must be dense. I still have the poison I created to subdue them before I can just use it again."

"Except that you only made a single powerful dosage which took you an entire month to create, right?"

The hooded woman saw through the bluff. Natsuru was trying to avoid the big picture that was leading to…

"If you kill me now, then your chances of getting your preferred results would be very slim. But if you were to say leave me alive, then I could help assist you with any interferers that may prove to you a hassle."

The hooded figure stood up once Natsuru dispersed her flaming blue orb of ki.

"If you were to eliminate everyone who's a threat to you now then you wouldn't have anything to worry about when you've successfully recaptured the Red Dragon Emperor-boy. Killing his loved ones may also make subduing him easier it will break his spirit faster that way. Any loose ends afterwards will be taken care of easily."

Natsuru's temper calms down as she reverts back from her youkai form to her base form. Whether she was telling the truth or just spouting a petty lie to live a little longer, Natsuru actually thought through about that plan.

Although, it made her question the woman's motives if she would take any measures to sabotage her work any further. She wasn't in any position anymore to be stingy with choosing her allies, even though they may be her plan's main antagonist. In the end, she does need a strong accomplice to carry half of the weight needed to get her plan to succeed.

Seeing the hooded woman hold her hand out, Natsuru looks at her with a wary glare.

"So do we have a deal, partner?" The woman asked.

Looking at her hand then back up, Natsuru cursed herself for being too lax around this person to even make a deal with them, someone who allowed things to progress this far, it was like making a promise with the devil, himself.

"Deal." Natsuru agreed only with this temporary truce, but made killing her, her top thing to do after they finished things, "Don't kill-"

"The Red Dragon Emperor? You know I haven't forgotten your objective. Don't worry, I'll make sure to destroy anyone, who would even dare to stop your plans." The woman smirked under her hood, as a subtle, dangerous blackish-pale yellow light surrounded her body.

"Thanks for the sincerity, but that won't change my initial impression on you." Natsuru's body was starting to get wrapped up in a fierce and calm aura. Her emotions referenced her caged up rage that was meant to be released upon this woman, but was kept under wraps until the right moment.

But it still did not stop it from leaking out enough power to describe exactly what she was thinking/feeling. Soon…she'll finally get rid of Rias Gremory and her servants, cut off and kill this hindrance of a benefactor, and finally seize Michael's dragon power through their offspring.

These things must be done, or the effort she made just to fulfill a promise for him, would be for nothing.

Chapter 56: The Occult Research Club assembles; Devils vs. Chimeras, we'll show you what happens when you mess with us!

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