Monster of the Tomb

3rd Person POV

(Y/N) pulled as hard as he could to pry open the entrance on the opposite side of the room he and the ORC has been trapped in.

"GAH!" He grimaced as he shook his hands, trying to shake off the pain. "It's no good, that thing's not moving an inch anytime soon."

"Oh no, what are we gonna do?" Asia asked in worry.

"How's the teleportation circle coming?" He asked the Queen of the Gremory Peerage.

"...No good. I can't bring out a single iota of magic in the confines of this place." Akeno replied in a defeated tone.

"You guys think this place might have some kind of magic sealing spell or something?" Kiba pondered as he searched around the room for another way out.

"It is likely. That would be the most plausible explanation as to why we can't even detect our own magical energy." Rias inquired.

"So the only way out is that door that just popped up from the ground?!" Issei whined.

"Fan-fucking-tastic..." (Y/N) grimaced as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. He let out a deep sigh and slowly started making his way to the door. "Well, much like the movie 'As Above So Below', the only way up is to go down. So let's go." He dug through his pocket and brought out a lighter and flicked it on, illuminating the dark staircase inside the door, but only a little bit.

"Wait, you can't be serious!" Issei boomed as he saw everyone follow (Y/N) through the door way. "Can someone please answer me?!" Nobody answered. "GUYS?!"

"Come on Issei, get a move on!" (Y/N) shouted as it echoed through the doorway.

Issei gave up and ran after the others and descended down the dark staircase like the rest of the ORC. As he did, the door was began to slowly close behind them, with no possible way of reopening again.

Time Skip

Down and down they go, through the seemingly endless staircase. As the ORC continued to travel down, (Y/N) and the others began to feel the presence of something familiar reappear within them.

"Hey, did anybody else feel that?" (Y/N) asked.

"Yeah, I can feel my magical energy. It's back." Kiba cheered.

"Nice!" (Y/N) boomed excitedly. He closed his eyes, appearing to try and focus on something. After a while, he let out a heavy sigh of defeat. "Damn, still can't teleport." He groaned. "Akeno, can you, and I can't believe I'm asking this, summon a teleportation circle?" He asked begrudgingly.

"I'll try." She responded. She stretched out her hands and closed her magenta colored eyes and focused her magical energy into summoning a teleportation circle.

"It's no good, I can't seem to bring one out." She says.

"I see, so as we go down our magic returns but teleportation is still not allowed." Rias pondered.

"Seems like it." (Y/N) agreed.

"It kinda sounds like the last room to a boss level in video game." Issei gushes excitedly.

"Nerd." Koneko jotted.

"Hey I'm the only one who thinks so! Right (Y/N)?"

"Yeah that nerd doesn't speak for me." (Y/N) stated casually.

"Come on man, you're supposed to have my back!" Issei cried.

"Whatever." (Y/N) grunted as he turned off his lighter and put it away. He then summoned his Oath Maker in replacement of the lighter and illuminated a larger deal of the staircase hallway. They proceeded further downwards, hoping to find the exit.

Time Skip

As time continued on, the lighter the hallway got. Though, it still seemed to go on forever and ever.

"How is it possible we haven't found a way out of this staircase yet?! It's been like 20 minutes!" Koneko bickered, clearly irritated by all of this descending.

"I have to agree. This is getting ridiculous." Rias agreed.

Just then, the end of the hallway began to shine brighter than the staircase as a whole.

"Hey guys..." (Y/N) called out, gaining their attention. "I think I see a light at the end of this hallway."

"Really?!" Asia asked excitedly.

"YES!!!" Issei boomed happily.

"Finally, a way out of this place!" Kiba cheered.

Everyone, even (Y/N), rushes down that stairs as fast as they could in hopes of reaching the exit to this never ending descent. They speed to the exit, only to find themselves heartbroken.

There was, in fact, no exit. Instead, it was an entrance to another room. A room covered in a thick and ominous blue fog, so thick one could cut right through it.

"...I thought you said this was an exit!" Issei yelled.

"I said no such thing! I just said I saw a light!" (Y/N) snapped back.

"Saw a light, you said! The only way up is to go down, you said! You gotta GPS on that massive light bright of yours?!" Issei chastised furiously.

"Oh, I'm sorry! I was just trying to help! Besides, what would've you done to improvise?!" (Y/N) snapped back.

"Come on you guys, please don't fight!" Asia begged, succeeding in stopping the two devil-dragon hybrids.

"Look, fighting amongst our selves isn't going to solve anything. We need to work together to try and find a way out." Rias ordered. "Understood?"

"Yes ma'am!" The ORC replied.

The two devils look at each other apologetically and they knew what each other meant.

(Y/N) started walking forward into the distance and rose his Oath Maker into the sky. "Goddess Wind!" He cried as he swiped down, sending a powerful blast of wind forward, only to clear the way of blue fog a little. "Damn, this fog's really thick."

"Master, perhaps I can be of assistance." Kohaku stayed as she transformed into her White Tiger form. Her eyes glowed a bright topaz yellow and shined like beacon in the dark. "This way." She said, proceeding to walk forward.

"Hey guys, Kohaku's going to guide us out!" (Y/N) cried, putting away his white sword.

"All right, nice!" Kiba cheered.

"Yay! Thanks Kohaku!" Asia thanked.

"Maybe you're not as useless as I thought you were." Koneko jeered.

The group proceeded to follow the White Tiger as it guided them through the paralless fog. Suddenly, Kohaku began to slow down, eventually coming to a stop.

"Kohaku?" Rias asked, confused as to why she had suddenly stopped.

"We must proceed cautiously..." She warned.

"Why? What's wrong?" (Y/N) asked.

Suddenly, the fog began to slowly disappear from the ORC's sight. Only for it to be replaced with the sudden appearance of a massive statue, seeming to resemble a pitch black humanoid with long black wild hair, a warrior's tunic around it's waist and a massive bastard sword that looked like it was carved out of stone, but the blade being metal.

"Oh wow! Check that out!" Issei beamed as he ran towards it.

"Issei wait!" Rias called out, but it was already too late. Issei was right next to the statue and he began to admire it in its entirety.

"Woah, this this is massive! Musta took forever to make!"

"I had no idea you were so fascinated with sculptures Issei." Akeno smiled, as she and the others approached the tall structure as well, albeit a little cautiously at the same time. "Still, it is rather impressive on how detailed this thing is." She smiled once more.

However, her smile suddenly faded as she looked up at the massive black giant. She seemed to shutter at the sight of what she had been looking at.

"Akeno? What's wrong?" Kiba asked, curious about his senior's sudden change in attitude.

"Is...Is this statue...breathing?"

They all look at it for a brief moment, and see a thick mist coming out of its mouth. The ORC quickly back away and prepare themselves for anything, but nothing happened. The apparent black statue continued to remain motionless, not making a single move, not even the slightest inch besides its current breathing animation it was trapped in.

"Is...Is it gonna do somthin'?" Issei asked.

"Master, is it possible that it's just been enchanted to look alive?" (Y/N) asked, now armed with his Azure Dragon gauntlet.

"It's possible...Perhaps someone placed an animate enchantment on this statue long ago to keep intruders out, hoping to scare them away or something." Rias contemplated, not feeling very confident about her own explanation herself.

"You don't sound too sure of yourself Master." Replies her Azure gauntleted servant.

"Sorry, I think all of this fog is messing with my head." She groaned, rubbing her temples.

"Aright, in that case let's get the hell out of here. We don't need to stay here any longer than we have to. Kohaku, get us to the exit. This place is starting to smell." (Y/N) ordered.

"Understood. Follow me." Kohaku motions and the ORC proceed to follow.

As the group of young devil's walk away, (Y/N) stayed behind and stared at the stature for a little longer. After a while, he began making his way over to the rest of the group. As time pressed on, an eerie silence suddenly occurs. It grew most unsettling to most of them, even (Y/N) grew rather irritable by this sudden silence.

However, he suddenly sensed a monstrous, murderous and nerve-crushing presence right behind him, and with little to no time to react, he caught a massive stone and metal bastard sword with his armored hand.

The clash of metal against metal echoed through the whole plain, and erupted in a massive boom that shred apart the thick fog, Everyone looked behind them to see what had happened, only to see the massive hulking warrior that they believed to be an enchanted stature attacking (Y/N).

It's eyes and body glowed a deep murderous red his teeth were as sharp as a newly forged blade. The beast let out a mighty roar and pushed down on (Y/N) more as he began break under the pressure, falling to one knee.

(Y/N) struggled to hold the sword up, even with his Blazblue: Limit Breaker, using his left arm to support his armored right hand against the heavy weight of the sword. It eventually began to crack and break through the metal.

"(Y/N)!" The ORC cried in unison.

Koneko rushes in and delivered a direct hit on the beast's face, causing it to stagger back a bit.

The raven hair colored queen changed from her swimsuit to a set of shrine maiden clothing, and conjured a large amount of lightning. She didn't hesitate to unleash it on (Y/N)'s attacker, blasting it back and somewhat paralyzing the beast.

"Get away from my servant, MONSTER!" Rias snarled as she conjured a giant ball of ruin fire and immediately shot it at the black giant, sending it flying all the way across the current plain.

(Y/N) collapsed on all fours and let out heavy breaths. He looked down at his gauntlet and saw that the palm of it was shattered. Focusing his magical energy, he begins to heal his armored arm.

"(Y/N)! Are you okay?!" Asia asks in worry.

"Y-Yeah, more or less..." He said, getting risen up off of the ground by the blonde holy devil and his perverted friend. He successfully repositions himself back on his feet, only to see that the beast was staring right at the group of devils. He summons Oblivion in his left hand from purple sparking black smoke and readies himself. "Kohaku. Exit. Now!"

"Yes Master! This way everyone!" Kohaku running in the direction of the supposed exit's location, with everyone following soon after.

After everyone made it a certain distance, (Y/N) joined them in the B-Lining for the exit.

However, as they ran, the presence of the beast did not disappear. In fact, within the blink of an eye, it appeared right behind (Y/N). He slowly turned around, horrified and unprepared for what was about to happen. The monstrous warrior slashed heavily at the young devil, only to be blocked by Oblivion. However, even with (Y/N) pushing down on the blade, it wasn't enough to hold the sheer force of the monster's brute strength. (Y/N) was sent flying over the running ORC, blood splatters in the air as the bleeding devil flew ahead of them. He crashed down on the ground and rolled away until he came to a sliding halt, the floor now covered with a streak of his blood as he now lay face down unconscious.

"(Y/N)!!!!" The ORC cry out in horror.

They all rush to his side and turn him over, only to see that he now has a massive slash wound across his upper body, and it was bleeding profusely.

"My God..." Asia gasped in horror.

"Asia! Akeno! Heal (Y/N)! The rest of you, focus on that thing and take it out!" Rias ordered, readying her ruin fire in her hands.

Kiba summoned two swords and Koneko readied her fists while the Bishop and Queen of the Gremory Peerage healed on of their severely wounded Pawns.

The beast roars and charges at the unconscious (Y/N), only to be blocked by the blonde Knight.

"Sorry..." He struggled. "But if you want to get to him, you'll have to go through us!" He said, only prompting the goliath to push down on the defending swordsmen. Kiba summoned another sword right under his clashing one and swiped it across the beast's chest and ran it straight through the left side of its upper body.

Koneko rushed in an delivered a swift uppercut to the monsters head, following up with a couple jabs at is head and a firce right hook, sending it flying.

As the beast flew, it was blasted by a massive ball of red and black fire shot by the King of the Gremory Peerage, resulting in a huge dome shaped explosion of black and red.

The monstrous warrior simply leapt out of the explosion and began to swipe down its stone-metal bastard sword down on the healers and the dragoniod-devil, only to be blasted down by Rias and slashed away by Kiba using a bastard sword of his own.

"Why does this thing keep going after (Y/N)?!" Kiba asked.

"I don't know, but under no circumstance can we let it near him! Fight back as long as you can. Akeno! Asia! May want to speed it up!" Rias ordered as she took to the skies with her devil wings, charging at the monster.

"Come on Asia, we can do this!" Akeno cheered as she released more magic into her healing.

"Right!" Asia replied. '(Y/N), please wake up!'

'(Y/N), we need your help! Please wake up!'

(Y/N)'s wound began to close little by little, his breath soon returned to him and his eyes began to slowly open.

The monstrous warrior slashes the other devils away and began making its way towards the four devils. Issei stood his ground the best he could, but was only slapped aside and knocked unconscious.

Akeno rose up and unleashed a heavy barrage of lightning bolts, only hold back the beast a short while before reaching the lightning priestess. It rose its sword up and proceeded to swing down, Akeno shielded herself with a Gremory family crest shield.

As the stone sword came down, it was immediately blocked by a black blade. Akeno looked on in surprise and relief. She looked down and saw it was (Y/N) who had saved her, still in pain as the wound had only partially healed. He pushed back with Oblivion and knocked the wild haired warrior back and his black sword became engulfed in black and purple flames. He dashed at the beast and slashed across his body from the right diagonally and again on the left, once horizontally and finished with an perfect vertical slash.

"BLACK FIRE STAR SLASH!" (Y/N) cried as each individual slash blasted the hulking warrior back.

Everyone looked back and saw a barley standing (Y/N), panting heavily and struggling to stand. He fell to one knee, using Oblivion to hold himself up as much as he could.

"(Y/N)!!!" They all cry as they rush to his side, helping him stand on his feet once more.

"Someone...Someone go get Issei...heal him and get to the exit."

"What? No! We're not going to leave you to fight this thing all by yourself!" Rias declined.

"It won't be for long, I'll hold him off for as long as I can until I get some distance between us. After that, I'll head to the exit as fast as I can. NOW GO! THIS IS NO LONGER UP FOR DEBATE!!!" (Y/N) yelled as he rushed after the beast.

"(Y/N), don't do this! Please come back!" Asia cried.

Rias couldn't help but only watch on as (Y/N) charged at the monstrous warrior, slashing him into the sky with the swift strike of his Oblivion and knocking him back down.

"President, what should we do?" Akeno asked as she healed the unconscious pervert.

"We're not going to let (Y/N) suffer through this alone, we're going in to help." She ordered, sprouting her devil wings and taking to the skies.

The ORC follow afterwards, with Kiba carrying the recovered Issei and Akeno flying with Asia.

As the devils tried to make it to (Y/N), he and and the beast continued to attack at each other, hacking and slashing at one another with tremendous speed. The clash of metal against metal echoed through the fog as it created multiple cuts in the air with each attack.

The beast swung down it sword but was caught by (Y/N)'s Azure colored gauntlet. (Y/N) then tried to stab the beast in the heart, but Oblivion was caught by the giant's hand, now resulting in a stalemate between the two.

The beast was suddenly blasted away by a massive ball of black and red fire. (Y/N) looked back and saw that his friends were flying towards him. "WHY!!! ARE YOU!!! STILL HERE?!" He asked, furiously.

"We've come to help you silly." Akeno giggled.

"I refuse to leave one of my servants to fight alone. What kind of Master would I be if I just abandoned one of my own while I ran? If we fight, we fight together!" Rias rockets towards the beast and launches a powerful blast of ruin fire.

Koneko rushes in as well and delivered a series of rapid fire punches at the monster's chest, finishing with powerful uppercut.

Kohaku lunged at the monstrous warrior and used its sharp claws to cut into its face and bounced away using its body as support, making it stumble backwards.

Kiba stabbed his sword into the ground and sent a wave of blades erupting out of the ground rushing towards the beast, impaling it's limbs.

Akeno flies high into the sky and shoots down a barrage of lightning bolts, proceeding to shock and paralyze the beast.

Over in the distance, a certain devil wielding a black sword came crashing down from the sky at breakneck speed. His sword became engulfed in a huge collection of black and purple flames. The closer he grew to the paralyzed monster, the more intense the flames of his sword grew. "Time to end this!!! 1000 DIVINE CU-!!!" He cried, but was cut short as his curse appeared once more...his heart stopped.

His flames had dissipated and the beast broke free from its paralysis and proceeded to knock (Y/N) down to the ground with a powerful strike of its stone sword. He hit the ground hard and his body grew numb from the pain.

"(Y/N)!!!" Everyone cried once more, charging in to finish what he had started, only to be blasted away by a almighty roar, unleashed by the monstrous warrior.

Through the pain and strain of moving his body, through is heart remained dead silent and motionless, (Y/N) used all of his remaining strength to stand. However, he only succeeded in kneeling on one knee by propping himself up with his black sword. He gripped his chest and breathed heavily, for the little to no help that did.

"You...think you've won?...Monster?" He scowled as he tried to breathe. "Because you...you haven't. And you won't...as long as I'm still alive...you...won't...ever win. I...finally have things...worth protecting...I will protect them...WITH MY LIFE! I WILL PROTECT MY FRIENDS!! I REFUSE TO FALL TO A MONSTER LIKE YOU!!!" (Y/N) roared, only for the beast to roar back as it raised its sword up into the air, preparing to strike. "COME ON!"

The warrior swings its mighty sword down upon the dying young devil, but is suddenly stopped when, out of nowhere, a bright light appeared between the two, knocking back the beast's sword and causing it to stagger back in shock and surprise.

The beast charges again, but its sword strike is partied away by, what appears to be an invisible sword covered in wind. The sword begins to show more of the wielder, appearing to be an arm covered in blue with a silver metal gauntlet. The arm thrusts forward at the monster's chest, rocketing it far far away to the opposite side of the thick blue fog covered plain. The light began to reveal more of the owners arm, slowly dying down as the light soon reveals a woman who appeared to be in her late teens, clad in a blue and gold dress with silver metal plates of armor, finely textured blonde hair that seems as if sprinkled with gold dust, tied in the back of her head in a bun held by a braid.

"Wh-What the...How are you...?" (Y/N) asked, on his last ounce of strength to stay conscious.

The woman turned towards him and looked down at the slowly fading young devil with her beautiful emerald greed eyes. Her face showed some signs of naivety and displayed elegance nonetheless. "By thy will I have been summoned." She says. "By my sword and honor as a knight, I shall protect thee and fight my thine side...For you, are and will forever be...my Master."