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Darkest Before Dawn - 35

Chapter 35

“Everyone! Are your preparations complete?!”

“For fuck’s sake, Iida,” Kazuki cursed under his breath, bringing a hand to his forehead. He was already feeling like he’d get a headache any moment now with the crowd of people – and thus, emotions – that he could feel. Nevermind the fact that they were a few minutes away from going out there to face said crowd.

A crowd that would likely take no time at all to recognize him. Kazuki coul...

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Teams:

Pierce Lawson:

- Narcissa, Beedrill

- Orion, Onix

- Cygnus, Abra

Lillian Dale:

- Root, Bulbasaur

- Talon, Spearow

- Gem, Geodude

- Star, Cleffa

Cerulean City IV

“I think Lily will take a little longer than expected,” Pierce mused, looking out of the Pokemon Center window next to the table he was sitting at in the dining hall. The raindrops slid down the glass surface on the outside w...

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Disclaimer: I don’t own Highschool DxD.

I Feel You Radiating Energy

Joshua brought his cup of tea to his lips and took a sip.

In front of him sat Yasaka, going through some paperwork with a slight smile on her face. It wasn’t much, but it might as well have been her singing or something, considering that he’d always seen her just working through things with a serious expression. He brought his cup to his lips and took another sip, this...

Darkest Before Dawn - 34

Chapter 34

“Looks weak,” Kamakiri commented, looking at the “new” grimm, the Apathy, completely unimpressed. “I thought you said it’d be dangerous or some shit.”

“It’s… more complicated than that, but yeah, this isn’t the kind of grimm you’d be interested in,” Kazuki acknowledged. Kamakiri was a battle maniac, after all. He wouldn’t care for a grimm that was supposed to make fights avoidable. “I have plans for stuff that you�...

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Teams:

Pierce Lawson:

- Narcissa, Beedrill

- Orion, Onix

- Cygnus, Abra

Lillian Dale:

- Root, Bulbasaur

- Talon, Spearow

- Gem, Geodude

- Star, Cleffa

Cerulean City III

“Good to know that it fits your refined tastes, Vaporeon,” Pierce commented with a grin as the water type evolution of eevee gave him the approval to his latest pokeblock attempt. Little Poliwag gave a little celebratory dan...

Game of Monsters - 114

Disclaimer: I don’t own Highschool DxD.

-To More Than I Can Be

He stared at the two.

First, he looked at Yasaka, who seemed about as calm as one could be. He tried to read her through his Life Sense, but he knew it was useless. She was a master of Senjutsu, after all. There was no way he’d read anything but what she wanted.

Serafall wasn’t much better, sitting there like a happy child waiting for… something. She wasn’t a mast...

Darkest Before Dawn - 33

Chapter 33

After some time, the novel feeling of enjoying something as normal as class was starting to wear off. ‘I’m suddenly understanding some of the others’ complaints about school,’ he mused, noting down the things All Might wrote on the blackboard. As he did though, he took a deep breath in to remind himself that no, his chest and stomach weren’t trying to kill him. It was just his teacher’s condition.

‘Focus, Kazuki,’ he to...

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Teams:

Pierce Lawson:

- Narcissa, Beedrill

- Orion, Onix

- Cygnus, Abra

Lillian Dale:

- Root, Bulbasaur

- Talon, Spearow

- Gem, Geodude

- Star, Cleffa

Cerulean City II

The next morning started… quite late, really. Pierce woke up much later than he was used to, that was for sure. He believed that was understandable though, since he’d been absolutely spent the day before. So, he sluggishly ma...

Game of Monsters - 113

Disclaimer: I don’t own Highschool DxD.

You Raise Me Up-

“Hm, people don’t like me much, it seems,” Joshua commented, drawing a sigh from both Griselda and Gabriel. Xenovia and Irina showed their own unease by shifting a little as they walked, as if they wanted to turn away from him but couldn’t quite do so without stopping escorting him to the ward room he’d use.

“Things continue to escalate,” the Seraph answered after a mom...

Darkest Before Dawn - 32

Chapter 32

“So, moving on from first aid supplies to weapons, huh?” Kazuki asked, leaning back on his chair. “That’s quite the jump, Beauty,” he added in a joking tone, getting a roll of Yaoyorozu’s eyes. “In all honesty, it’s a good idea. Once the public starts knowing what you can do, I’m betting villains will try to take you out. You can learn to provide support items for other heroes, making them stronger, better.”

“I… hadn’t quite be...

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Teams:

Pierce Lawson:

- Narcissa, Beedrill

- Orion, Onix

- Cygnus, Abra

Lillian Dale:

- Root, Bulbasaur

- Talon, Spearow

- Gem, Geodude

- Star, Cleffa

Cerulean City I

“Good luck, Helper-Speaker,” the Xatu that had teleported him said as he blinked and looked ahead. Apparently, he’d been dropped right in front of the Cerulean Gym. The psychic bird wasted no time teleporting away, ...

Game of Monsters - 112

Disclaimer: I don’t own Highschool DxD.

Don’t Live Too Fast

“You’ve done a great job with this, you know?” Joshua commented, looking around the garden that Asia had made for herself at the back of his house. It was a good thing that the place had rather good and spacious training facilities underground, because the nun had slowly but surely filled his backyard with plant life.

It was all covered in different plants, supernatural an...

Darkest Before Dawn - 31

Chapter 31

“It’ll be fine, Creepy,” Hagakure reassured, patting him on the back. Kazuki wasn’t quite that sure, but he didn’t think that pointing that out would mean much. Instead, he just rubbed his hands on his face to try and calm himself down.

“I know,” he decided to say instead. “I just… it’s been a while, and I don’t know how he’ll react to me… To who I am right now,” he admitted, deflating where he sat.

“The way I see it,...

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Teams:

Pierce Lawson:

- Narcissa, Beedrill

- Orion, Onix

- Cygnus, Abra

Lillian Dale:

- Root, Bulbasaur

- Talon, Spearow

- Gem, Geodude

- Star, Cleffa

Route 4 VII

Swimming had been something that Pierce had always enjoyed. The feeling of the water washing over him as he moved was a pleasant experience by itself, of course, but there was also something very… freeing about just floatin...

Game of Monsters - 111

Disclaimer: I don’t own Highschool DxD.

I See Myself With the Gods

“Honestly, this feels great,” Joshua commented, lying lazily on the couch, head on an arm rest and his feet on the other. Next to him, on the coffee table, laid a tray with some snacks and drinks. To the side, Serafall sat on an armchair, happily munching on the things he’d brought to eat. “No pressure, no deadlines, no nothing. Feels like forever ago since I didn’t hav...

Darkest Before Dawn - 30

Chapter 30

“They are getting more bold,” Kazuki commented, glancing towards the classroom door while they waited for their next class. There were  students from other classes at the door, peeking in as if they weren’t as inconspicuous as a fire alarm. “It’s very annoying,” he added with a grimace.

He could feel their frustration, their envy, their anger.

These people really didn’t like Class 1-A, for some reason. Kazuki could take...

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Teams:

Pierce Lawson:

- Narcissa, Beedrill

- Orion, Onix

- Cygnus, Abra

Lillian Dale:

- Root, Bulbasaur

- Talon, Spearow

- Gem, Geodude

- Star, Cleffa

Route 4 VI

“There you go, little one, you are doing great,” Pierce encouraged softly as he held onto Star’s little arms and made her practice swimming with her legs. It was very different from teaching and playing with his little brother an...

Game of Monsters - 110

Disclaimer: I don’t own Highschool DxD.

-Don’t Act the Fool

[Rosar Phenex]

He’d seen a great deal of things in his long, long life as Lord of House Phenex.

And yet, this human, a child by all accounts was… He’d shown them…

… How?

He looked at the human, the magician, for what felt like the first time in the whole meeting. He’d barely given the man a passing glance ...

Darkest Before Dawn - 29

Chapter 29

Kazuki blocked a blow with the armor on his forearm.

Adding some defense to his outfit had definitely been the right decision, he thought. Granted, he wasn’t actually using his hero costume, but Yaoyorozu had made him some relatively similar replacement armor to get used to it for the moment. After all, he couldn’t get the actual costume whenever he wanted. It was property of the school, unfortunately… Or fortunately, depending on how one looked a...

Searching Far and Wide - 37

Teams:

Pierce Lawson:

- Narcissa, Beedrill

- Orion, Onix

- Cygnus, Abra

Lillian Dale:

- Root, Bulbasaur

- Talon, Spearow

- Gem, Geodude

- Star, Cleffa

Route 4 V

“Razor Leaf,” the trainer across from him called and Pierce grimaced.

“Come on, Orion! Blast-Modify!” he called, drawing a confused look from their opponent. The girl quickly shook her head and focused on the battle though...

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Disclaimer: I don’t own Highschool DxD.

Take Your Shot-

It was done…

After so long, the Healing Spell was done. He’d tested it a bunch of times with a handful of different people. Hell, he’d even tested it on different people from different races with some help from Yasaka and Serafall. Keeping things quiet might have been a problem, but the number of people involved was low and he trusted the two women’s judgment.

Besides, t...

Darkest Before Dawn - 28

Chapter 28

“All ready?” Mineta asked, holding one of his beads in his hand and throwing it up and down. Around them, the shorter boy had already prepared his field, covering it on his Quirk’s balls. Kazuki, for his part, let his shadow darken and wisps of grimm to be flaring out of it, never quite forming.

“I’m ready,” Kazuki answered with a nod and a determined looked. They’d be fighting with Quirks this time, but he’d limit himself to no grimm. I...

Searching Far and Wide - 36

Teams:

Pierce Lawson:

- Narcissa, Beedrill

- Orion, Onix

- Cygnus, Abra

Lillian Dale:

- Root, Bulbasaur

- Talon, Spearow

- Gem, Geodude

- Star, Cleffa

Route 4 IV

There was a shine in Pierce’s eyes as he watched Cygnus and Gem practice with the primeape and a few mankeys. However, it was nothing to the little sparkle that he could see in front of the abra’s fist when he sent it forward. It w...

Game of Monsters - 108

Disclaimer: I don’t own Highschool DxD.

I’ll Rise Like the Break of Dawn

“So, remember,” he said, turning to look at the class after finishing writing some things on the blackboard. “Sometimes, it’s necessary to make changes to your design that might carry over further work through the entire thing. It’s frustrating and you’ll want to avoid it, but doing so will only delay you and get you nowhere. If you find a simple solution that...

Darkest Before Dawn - 27

Chapter 27

“I’ll admit, I’m still not used to that,” Jiro commented as Kazuki relaxed, letting the arm that held onto the bow of his violin drop. “I’d have guessed you’d play something with more… relation to what you like hearing.”

“Hey, there’s rock songs with violins involved,” he pointed out. Unnecessarily, he was sure. No way Jiro wasn’t aware of that. Sure enough…

“I know that. But still, you gotta admit that people don’t...

Searching Far and Wide - 35

Teams:

Pierce Lawson:

- Narcissa, Beedrill

- Orion, Onix

- Cygnus, Abra

Lillian Dale:

- Root, Bulbasaur

- Talon, Spearow

- Gem, Geodude

- Star, Cleffa

Route 4 III

“I, uh, I have to go already,” the girl they’d helped, with her eevee in her arms, told them. “Thanks again though, take care.”

“That was… rude,” Pierce commented, unimpressed. The girl had seemed in a real rush ...

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Disclaimer: I don’t own Highschool DxD.

Between the Good and the Evil

[Kalawarna]

Things were calm, and that was both worrying and reassuring at the same time.

She was starting to feel like being conflicted about her emotions was going to be the norm, honestly. However, there was an explanation for those. On the one side, being left alone meant that Davis was more likely to just forget about them, or at least focus o...

Darkest Before Dawn - 26

Chapter 26

[Nezu]

“I can’t believe this. When’s the last time a student from the hero course became a villain?”

“We will have to check them more thoroughly from now on.”

“But how much can we really accomplish that way? It’s not like we can run a full background check on every student. There’s always a chance that something slips by. Like with this very kid. Aoyama seemed like a perfectly fin...

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Teams:

Pierce Lawson:

- Narcissa, Beedrill

- Orion, Onix

- Cygnus, Abra

Lillian Dale:

- Root, Bulbasaur

- Talon, Spearow

- Gem, Geodude

- Star, Cleffa

Route 4 II

“Doing well, buddy?” Pierce asked Orion, who nodded stiffly. He didn’t blame the pokemon too much though. After all, he was focusing rather intently on the matter at hand. Which, at that moment, was working on Sand Tomb once more...

Game of Monsters - 106

Disclaimer: I don’t own Highschool DxD.

Like There’s Something Missing

The energy consumption problem of the Phoenix Spell was turning out to be more of a pain in the ass than Joshua had anticipated, and that was saying something. The fact of the matter was that the spell was powerful and like with all powerful things, there was a price to pay. The energy for the healing had to come from somewhere, after all.

Some would argue that Phoeni...