章節 99: Elmenhilde

Finally the day the vampires came to visit came, and Alex wasn't too excited for it. He recalled they wanted to take Gasper to use against his own childhood friend Valerie Tepes. The ones taking part in the meeting were Rias as the one who requested it, her peerage, Azazel as the former Governor General, Sona and her queen Tsubaki, and finally the queen of Gabriel and someone like an older sister to Xenovia, Griselda Quarta. Since this was the first time they met she bowed her head, and introduced herself, before turning to Alex.

"It's an honor to meet you red dragon Alex, who is apparently not only the man of Xenovia, but also my king Gabriel. Its surprising that there was someone who managed to woo her, though it has been a little troublesome lately." Alex laughed awkwardly at Griselda's words, as he knew she was talking about Gabriel's newfound love for sex. Griselda then also took a more serious look and said,

"Seriously though, thank you for helping to look after Xenovia." Xenovia turned red at her words, but Alex just waved them off and said,

"It's nothing, she's a pleasure to have around." Griselda narrowed her eyes at his words, but didn't say anything as with the setting sun they noticed the arrival of some cold presences. At their arrival Kiba left to greet them while everyone else got into their respective positions. Rias was at her desk with her peerage behind her, Sona was standing next to her with Tsubaki behind her, Griselda was sitting on an extra chair with Irina behind her, Azazel was sitting on the couch as comfortable as he could be, and Alex was sitting next to him.

A few minutes later Kiba returned with the guests, a group of three vampires walked in behind him, a guy and a girl in suits that looked to be bodyguards, and a doll like girl between them wearing a dress that belonged to the Middle Ages. She sat in front of Rias and said,

"Greetings to Rias Gremory, the next heir to the house of Gremory. I am Elmenhilde Karnstein of the Camilla faction." Rias smiled politely and replied,

"Greetings Elmenhilde, I hope you don't mind me cutting to the chase, but why has the Carmella faction that has been ignoring us suddenly come out to talk?" Elmenhilde looked straight at Gasper and said,

"We wish to borrow Gasper Vladi formerly of the house of Tepes." Everyone except Alex was surprised and Rias had a slight frown to her face. He one most effected by this news though was Gasper himself, as he couldn't understand why he was suddenly wanted back. Rias then said,

"I'm sorry but I'll have to trouble you explain step by step why it is the Carmella faction want him." Elmenhilde then started to explain,

"Recently the Tepes faction has apparently gotten their hands on a Longinus sacred gear user who's also a half. The Longinus they are in possession of is the Sephiroth Graal." When her heard her words Azazel immediately became more alert, and said,

"Of course it's one of the holy relics, something that can be considered the ultimate healer that can turn around the principle of life itself." Elmenhilde nodded and continued explaining,

"The Tepes faction is using it to become ultimate beings that can't die. They have not yet succeeded but they are close to it, and they have obtained bodies that are hard to destroy. By doing so they have abandoned their pride as vampires, and have also started attacking our side and induced casualties, they need to be executed." She then looked at Gasper and said,

"That is why we intend to borrow Gasper Vladi who is from the Tepes faction, along with his power." Rias's eyes became sharp at her words, and she asked,

"I see, and what is his power?"

"Every now and then a vampire is born who surpasses normal vampires, this is becoming more true with the half's in this day. Gasper is one such being. The one who possesses the holy grail is another half by the name of Valerie Tepes." When he heard that Gasper looked as if he was about to cry, as she was his only friend when he was younger. He then said,

"Though I want to help Valerie, I don't want to go back." Elmenhilde simply replied by saying,

"I have prepared a document. It states the interest the Carmella faction has in talks with the alliance regarding a truce." The document she handed over simply stated that by handing over Gasper they will be open to peace talks, resulting in glares from Rias, Griselda, and Azazel. The idea was that if they refused these terms for the sake of one person it looked as if they were picking who they wanted an alliance with.

It was a cowardly way of handling things, but it was effective. Though Alex wanted to interrupt this involved too much politics, plus the vampires would be seeing the error of their ways soon enough. After leaving a bad taste in everyone's mouths Elmenhilde took her leave while stating that one of her servants will be left in town for contact. Right after she left Gasper spoke up,

"I-I'll go! I want to help Valerie, I owe her from before!"everyone looked at Gasper warmly, but Rias shook her head and said,

"I'm going to go and sit down with the the house of Vladi themselves. It will also give me a chance to see what's going on over there with my own eyes." At her words everyone else looked ready to go as well until,

"I want everyone else to stay though. We can't show up with this much fire power, and there's the risk of someone attacking this town while we're away." They looked concerned, but Alex pointed at Kiba and said,

"You're taking this guy at least thought, no discussion. And if I find out anything happened to my woman while you're there I'll raze the entire vampire nation to the ground." Rias blushed at his words and the rest of the girls started giggling somewhat, Azazel made a motion like he was barfing in the background though. Normally Alex would go with her, but he knew people would attack the town in the near future for Ravel so he didn't. Alex let out a sigh and thought about how annoying everything was getting.