Final Push! Escape the Tomb!

3rd Person POV

The battle was finally over. The hulking mad beast warrior had finally been slain. As the tension of the hard fought battle died down, both Akeno and Rias carried the barely conscious Dragon Emperor towards the exit.

"See? This is exactly why I told you not to fight anymore." Rias scolded.

"H-Hey, it's not like this h-hasn't happened to me b-before." (Y/N) laughed through the pain. "B-Besides, being so close to death isn't r-really anything new to me."

"What are you talking about?" Rias asked, feeling confused by what her servant had just said.

"Don't worry about it. I think having s-so much of my energy used up is m-making me a little crazy." (Y/N) tiredly explained. "By the way...a-anybody else see that peacock over their playing the tambourine?"

"I'm starting to think the blows you took transferred to your brain and are causing you to act like a little weird." Rias stated worriedly.

"I don't know about any of th-that stuff, b-but when did that giant sheep get in here?"

"...Akeno, how's the healing process coming?" She asked, growing more and more concerned by the growing state of her servant.

"It's taking a lot longer than I thought." Replied the raven-haired shrine maiden. "Seems like he used up too much of his own life energy in the last battle."

"Anybody else craving corn dogs right now? I could totally go for taking down one of those giant walking corndogs and having some right now." (Y/N) stated casually, his condition clearly not getting any better through Akeno's healing magic.

"Okay, it's official. My favorite servant has now become a complete moron." Rias facepalmed.

"Lady Rias, please refrain from insulting my Master from his current condition." Artoria scowled as she walked closer to her, seemingly insane master.

"I'm sorry. Hey, I know this is a little much to ask seeing as how we just met but can you heal (Y/N) as you did before?" Rias asks Artoria.

The blonde knight shook her head in denial. "I'm sorry, but in the last unified attack I performed with Master caused me to use up all of my magical energy as well. My apologies." The knight regretfully down in shame.

"It's fine, but now it just means that we'll have to move faster and get him to Asia. Hopefully, she's recovered by now. Maybe Kohaku can heal him too." Rias suggests.

"Can Kohaku heal?" Akeno asked in uncertainty.

"It's just a hunch, but given the superiority of Kohaku over other familiars, it'd be possible. And not to mention she did hypnotize us, so underestimating her would be bad judgment," Rias explains.

"TWINKIES!" (Y/N) cried suddenly, causing him to cough up a massive amount of blood in the process. "Oh, God." He groaned.

"Yeah, I think we should start running before this gets any more out of control." Akeno suggests fearing about how much longer (Y/N) could hang on for his life.

"Here, allow me to carry him the rest of the way." Artoria requested the other girls.

"Thanks, we would really appreciate it." Rias says passing the fading devil to Artoria. "We'll continue to heal him as we go." The Crimson Haired Princess of Ruin suggested as her and Akeno's hands became engulfed in the green healing light.

"I suggest we wait for such actions." Artoria suggested.

"But why? He's in pain!" Rias yelled angrily at her suggestion.

"Because I recommend that we reach the exit and get out of this fog. Have any of you noticed how this fog is messing with one's head?" The knight asked.

Rias and Akeno became confused with what she was implying. (Y/N) may have been acting strangely, but the two merely believed that was because he had lost too much blood to the point that it was affecting his brain.

Suddenly, a loud roar echoed from far behind the girls and fading young devil.

"Okay, yeah, time to go. NOW!" Akeno shouted sprouting her wings and flying into the air. "Rias, Artoria, time to go!"

"She's right. Let us go Lady Rias." Artoria said before she rocketed off towards the exit, Akeno following after her in the air. Rias sprouted her devil wings as well and took to the flies and took off towards the exit with the others.

Room Exit

At the exit, the other members of the ORC waited anxiously for their friends and fellow members to make it to them. Kiba continued to pace back and forth in front of the exit. Asia sat next to Issei, as he was still unconscious due to the fact that Asia still hadn't recovered from trying to heal (Y/N). Koneko just sat against the wall and stared out, wearing her usual bored expression, but she was still worried regardless of appearance.

"What's taking them so long? I'm starting to get worried." Kiba said worriedly.

"Oh (Y/N), please be okay. Please be okay." Asia prayed, clasping her hands together and then getting a migraine for a brief moment, forgetting that she was a devil, meaning they would not be received well.

"You okay?" Kiba asked.

"Yes. I just keep forgetting that that's gonna happen because what I am ." Asia laughed in embarrassment.

Koneko only hummed as she continued to pet Kohaku, who continued to lay next to the silent loli devil.

Suddenly, the sound of wings flapping and multiple sonic booms echoed far from the ORC, but grew closer and closer by the second.

"Is that..." Kiba asked as he looked out into the distance, only to see Rias, Akeno and the blonde female knight rushing towards them hastily.

The three quickly stopped the moment they had reached the exit, and proceeded to approach the other devils.

"President! You're all okay!' Kiba cheered in relief.

"That's not exactly true." Rias stated pointing to (Y/N), who was laid down on the ground gently by Artoria.

"Oh my goodness! Is he okay?!" Asia asked, terrified at the condition (Y/N) appeared to be in, covered in blood and dirt.

"I EAT NAILS!!!" (Y/N) blurted out, shocking Asia and the others.

"There's your answer." Rias added.

"The bleeding stopped, but he's lost a lot of blood and exhausted all of his magic power. He needs help!" Akeno informed, fearful of his worsening condition. The Thunder Priestess then walked toward Kohaku and decided to confirm Rias's theory. "Kohaku, do you perhaps have the ability to heal wounds? Because (Y/N) needs all the help he can get." Akeno asked the small tiger.

"I'm sorry. I may be able to do many things, but healing isn't one of my abilities." The White God Beast answered regretfully.

"Then I guess we'll just have to make do with the three of us. It's the only choice we have." Rias states.

The ground began to shake with each loud step slowly approaching the ORC. They all looked back and grew worried as to what might be coming from.

"Please don't tell me that's what I think it is." Koneko said.

"It's not the beast from before. He's dead." Rias assured.

From the thick blue fog, emerged a headless giant body, walking slowly and carrying a rather angry head and familiar-looking massive stone and metal bastard sword.

"You sure? BECAUSE IT SURE LOOKS LIKE IT!" Kiba shouted.

"You just don't know when to call it quits. Just die already!" Artoria yelled, gripping her invisible wind covered sword.

"EVERYONE, GET TO THE EXIT, NOW!" Rias ordered, prompting everyone to head into the exit one after the other.

The headless monster noticed them trying to leave, resulting in it beast's stomping to turn into a loud and earth-shaking run.

Rias and Artoria quickly lifted (Y/N) up off of the ground and carried him hastily into the exit, only to be met with a blinding white light. The beast jumps up and swings it's massive sword, only for the attack to be blocked as the door behind the blonde and red-haired beauty to close behind them.

"Well...Hopefully that's the last we see of him." Kiba says carrying Issei on his back.

"Master, are you alright?" The knight clad in blue and silver asked.

"Y-Yeah, much better now that I'm out of that damn fog." (Y/N) replied finally breathing in relief and coming back to his senses.

"Oh (Y/N)! I thought you were dead!" Asia cired, running to hug the barely conscious devil, causing him to surge with pain.

"OWOWOWOWOWOWOW! PAIN! PAIN! ASIA! RIDDLED WITH PAIN!" (Y/N) bellowed, his cries echoing throughout the whole room.

"Oh sorry." Asia apologizes, letting go of him immediately.

"It-It's okay." (Y/N) reassured, patting the innocent devil on the head.

"Master..." Kohaku approached her master, now appearing in her smaller form and dawning an apologetic look.

"If you're going to apologize for not completely putting Rias and Akeno under, then don't worry about it. To be honest, I already thought it wouldn't work. They are strong-willed girls after all." (Y/N) chuckled, feeling his insides quiver in pain once more.

Kohaku perked up, at least a little bit as she still felt a sense of guilt in failing the task her master had given her.

"Anyways, is that a wall?" (Y/N) asked, weakly pointing to a nearby wall.

"Y-Yes?" Rias responded, confused as to why he would as such a thing. "Why?" She asked.

"Yay~." The young devil sang wearily, getting out of the support given by Rias and Artoria and shuffled over to the wall he pointed at, leaned against it, slid down... "Hello wall..." He slid down and collapsed to the floor, completely passing out cold.

"DID HE JUST PASS OUT?!" Kiba boomed.

Akeno and Asia rushed over to the devil on the floor and observed his current condition, only to see that he was still breathing, filling her and the blonde holy devil with relief.

"He's okay." She sighed in relief. "He's just asleep."

Upon hearing the news, the remaining members of the ORC let out their own sighs of relief, feeling the uncomforting presence of worry leave them.

"Thank goodness. Well, while he's out, we have to finish healing him so he can be as good as new when he wakes up. Akeno, Asia, think you can handle it? After all Asia did use a considerable amount of power earlier." Rias asked the raven haired devil.

"I'll do my very best." Akeno stated enthusiastically.

Akeno and Asia soon began to heal (Y/N) once again. He wasn't damaged much because of the previous healing attempts, but he was still in fairly poor condition because of his exhaustion.

"The rest of you should get some rest as well. After all, there's no telling what we might run into next." Rias suggested calmly.

"Yes President!" Everyone exclaim cheerfully.

Time Skip

After what seemed like hours, Asia and Akeno had managed to heal all of what remained of (Y/N)'s wounds, as well as Issei, which didn't take as much effort, seeing how he was only knocked out with one blow.

Everyone managed to get an adequate amount of rest, feeling fully rested and rejuvenated. Although, everyone began to feel the feeling of nervousness creep up on them, mainly about the blonde-haired and blue battle dressed knight sitting next to her presumed master.

"...So...Artoria..." Rias called, prompting the light to look towards the red-haired beauty. "Now that we finally have a moment, I'd like to ask you something."

"Of course." Artoria replied compliantly. "What would you like to know?"

"Oh, just two simple things..." Rias smiled. "Who are you? And what are you intending to do with my servant?" She asked, with the slightest hint of hostility, which was not unnoticed.

"Is that hostility I detect from you Lady Gremory?" The blonde knight glared.

"Depends on your answers, and if I like them."

"...Very well." Artoria complied. "Throughout history, masters of the mystic arts are chosen by a divine force to uphold a time-honored tradition of battle. In these battles, each competitor is required to summon a spirit of the past who have been deemed as Heroes through time. Side by side, both Master and Servant compete against each other in brutal conflict, all for the goal of attaining a divine and ancient relic capable of granting any wish. The Holy Grail War."

"Are you saying...that (Y/N) is supposed to fight in some sort of war, and that's why you were summoned?" Akeno fretted.

"No, that tradition had faded many years ago." Artoria informed, relieving the worrisome devils. "I was summoned here to protect my Master, and serve him until the end of time." The devils looked at each other in confusion, not able to make and solid conclusion as to why and how she was summoned.

"So, how exactly were you summoned? There was no magical circle or anything." Kiba asked.

"I myself am unsure." Artoria replied in uncertainty. "As far as I know, the condition for summoning a Heroic Spirit requires a catalyst of some sorts. An object of the past or shared memories."

"Heroic Spirit?" Asia asked.

"It is just a term for beings such as myself." Artoria clarified as she referred to herself.

"Oh, I see." She replied.

"What did you mean by shared memories?" RIas asked the blonde female knight.

"I can't exactly explain it. But, I feel as though I share a deep connection to my Master. That he and I are more alike than I originally thought." She claimed.

"What did you think before?" Koneko asked.

"Normally, Heroic Spirits and Masters usually share characteristics and traits. I suppose one would be that both of us have a loss of memory." She claimed casually.

"What? What do you mean loss of memory? Are you saying that (Y/N) has memory loss?" Akeno worried, clearly more panicked than her fellow devils.

"It appears that way, yes. The only thing I can manage to remember is my name and my duty. My Master however..." She looked solemnly at her slumbering Master, still recovering from the life or death battle previously fought. "He seems to have a large gap in memory. Many years of missing memories in fact."

"I see..." Akeno whispered to herself. 'That makes sense as to why...'

"Excuse me." (Y/N)'s Azure gauntlet shined brightly and a deep voice echoed from its red gem. "I request that you refrain yourselves from prying into my partner's past." The voice requested.

"W-Wha-Who said...?" Rias frantically looked around, looking for the voice that had suddenly appeared along with everybody else in the ORC.

"I did." The dragon from the gauntlet called, prompting everyone to look down at (Y/N)'s right arm, now dawned in it's Blazblue: Limit Breaker gauntlet. "Hello everyone, my name is Starvlador. I am the Azure Dragon Emperor, the True Dragon!" The dragon claimed his identity. "Now, I request that you all drop this matter and focus on recovering." He asked the ORC before falling silent once more, the light fading from the gauntlet and disappearing.

"Starvlador..." Rias pondered for a moment, trying to think as to where she had heard that name before, but came up empty. "I suppose it can't be helped, I think we should focus on resting." The redhead smiled, dropping the subject. "Artoria, it's a pleasure to have you aboard. I look forward to working with you." She smiled, offering her hand.

Artoria smiled, proceeding to take her hand and shake it. "Thank you Lady Gremory, and I look forward to working with you as well." She says.

A loud yawn echoed through the room, prompting the girls to look over and see the sleeping young devil lying comfortably on the ground.

"He looks so cute and peaceful when he's like this." Akeno giggled, smiling at how adorable (Y/N) looked while he slept.

"I agree, and he deserves this rest for all the hard fighting he has done for us." Rias nodded in agreement, quickly noticing Akeno walk over and kneel next to him, lifting his head up to place it in her lap. "What are you doing?" She asks.

"Well, despite how he makes it seem, I think he must feel uncomfortable sleeping on the hard ground, so I thought I'd give him a pillow to rest his head on." Akeno answers.

"Then I should be the one to do it! I'm living in his house and he saved my life, so I should repay him for all that he's ever done for me. " Asia volunteers abruptly.

"Oh Asia, I'm afraid that not going to happen. After all, since he is my junior, it should be my responsibility to make him feel comfortable." Akeno suggested, licking her lips seductively.

"Well if we're playing that game, it's my job to take care of my servant's wellbeing." Rias argues.

"You are wrong, Lady Gremory. It is the job of a servant to care for their master when he or she is injured. And that being the case, I shall be the one on which he rests upon." Artoria stood up and declared to the trio of devil females.

The tension between them all was so fierce, one could easily see sparks shoot from their eyes and clash with one another, creating a massive collective spark.

"Okay, idea! We can stand here and argue about whose responsibility it is to let (Y/N) sleep on their lap or we can decide this in a mature and fair way." Rias says and then the four females gather in a circle and stick out their right fist. "Now whoever wins, no hard feelings. Agreed?" She asked, receiving a nod from every one of the girls participating. "Great, everybody ready?"

"Rock, paper..." They chant in unison, beginning the fight to dote on them resting devil.

Time Skip

Flickering light slowly began to break through (Y/N)'s closed eyes, eventually causing him to slowly open his eyes. He blinked a few times and yawned, feeling completely restored. "Man, I haven't slept that great in weeks!" He bubbled happily.

"Really? That makes me so happy to hear." Akeno replied, sounding extreme close by.

He looked behind him slowly, only to see his senior devil smiling down at him and petting his head. He blinked a few more times and looked down, seeing that he was laying in her lap. His face blew up, becoming a giant red mess. He hopped up off the ground and off her seemingly comfortable lap.

"Oh, what's wrong sweetie? Don't you like laying in my lap?" She asked seductively as she giggled.

"Wha-Yes! I mean no! I mean, I mean, I uh..." He stammered before looking down, trying to hide his gushing red face. "It...It was really comfy. Thank you...For letting me rest in your lap." He mumbled.

"Aw~" Akeno sang, prompting (Y/N) to dawn a bewildered expression. "Seeing you so embarrassed is so cute. Maybe I should tease you more often~." Akeno said, pulling the blushing devil into her large and supple bosom.

"P-Please don't." He pleaded between her breasts.

"AHEM!!!" The loud sound of someone clearing their throats projected through the whole room, causing the two devils to look back at their Master, who looked at them boredly, but was clearly inraged to a degree that they could see her rage filled magical red aura radiate off of her. "If you two are done flirting, I think it's time that we left." She said with hostility.

"NO ONE'S FLIRTING!" (Y/N) boomed as he pushed himself out of Akeno's large breasts and swung his arms up in the air, showing that he was not touching her.

"(Y/N)...Do you like big breasts?" Asia asked, feeling dejected.

"Wh-What kind of a question is that?! What brought this up?!" He asked, shocked that Asia would even ask such a question.

"Perv." Koneko glared, in her usual uncaring tone and soul piercing eyes.

"HOW?!" The (H/C) devil asked, clearly confused.

"Now now girls, you shouldn't feel angry in the slightest. After all, all is fair in love and war. Same goes for Rock Paper Scissors. We all played fairly, so no complaining. Those were the rules you set Madam President." Akeno teased the others.

"I know but still..." Rias mumbled.

(Y/N) looked back at his small white tiger, hoping for some clarification as to what the hell the girls were going on about. "Kohaku, what the hell happened while I was out? What are they talking about?" He asked via telepathy.

The white tiger merely looked at her Master and then away. "What does anyone fight for? Territory."

"Huh?"

"Anyways..." Rias spoke up, seeming to drop the subject. "How are you feeling (Y/N)?"

He smiled and slammed a fist into an open palm. "I feel great!" He cheered. "Better than ever. I managed to make a full recovery! I fact, I feel much stronger now!" He smiled cheerfully.

"I see, well that's good to hear. Seems like we're ready to move out then." Rias claimed, prompting the others to get ready to leave.

"Right!" Everyone who was awake cheered.

Over in the corner, Kiba slowly opened his eyes, only to rub them open. "What's going on now?" He asked.

"Hey, mornin' sleeping beauty. We're getting ready to leave." (Y/N) replied, greeting the sleepy-eyed Knight.

"Oh okay." Kiba replied, rising up off of the ground. "Glad to see you're looking much better." He stated.

"I feel much better too." He cheered. "Oh! That reminds me, how's Issei doing? Is he healed yet?" (Y/N) asked worriedly.

"Oh yeah, he's just fine. He's just resting. Seems like that blow he took was a lot stronger than my healing could do." Asia replied, looking down at the sleeping pervert in worry.

(Y/N) walked over to the two and placed his hands on his hips and sighed. "Yeah, that sounds about right. I mean, with his stature and physic most would probably be dead. I think because of his devil properties is why he's still alive." He stated, feeling somewhat relieved that his friend was recovering, but still unconscious. "Kohaku, can you carry him?" He asked.

"Yes, Master." Kohaku obeyed, transforming into her God Beast form and lifting Issei up onto her back.

"Great. Now, everybody get ready. We have no idea what's beyond this entrance, but if we're ready, then we can take on anyone and anything!" (Y/N) cheered, resulting in everyone cheering as well. "Let's go!" He ran to the exit, everyone followed after, only to be engulfed in a bright light.

Every one slowly opened their eyes, having their sight return to them little by little, they were shocked to see what lies before them. A massive empty purple room made of stone, the only light illuminating the whole room came from the strange markings in the floor, shining a bright light from below, and a door shaped light all the way across the giant stone room.

"Is...Is this it?" Kiba asked, completely baffled.

"I...Think so?" Artoria replied, feeling confused as well.

"Hey, what's that?" Asia asked, gaining the attention of her friends and pointing to something over in the distance.

Over to where the blonde innocent devil pointed, hung from the ceiling and held up from the ground by wires was a massive completely black sphere.

Everyone immediately went on high alert and braced themselves for anything. But nothing happened. The giant black ball just hung in place, completely motionless and filling the whole room in an awkward and incredibly tense tension.

"Well, if it does do something, I don't think we should stick around to find out what." Koneko suggested.

"You have a point." Rias nodded in agreement. "Everyone, head to the exit!" She ordered.

"Right!" Everyone replied, running towards the bright light door shaped hole across the room.

'Something doesn't feel right. No way it can't be this easy, not after what we've just been through.' (Y/N) thought as he continued to pace himself behind the others in case of any dangers that may pop up. A sudden shiver was shot down the devil's spine and his body went into high alert. He slowly looked back at the giant black ball, only to see it glow red markings on the front in the form on an eye.

The eye seemed to spot the running devils, only for it to glare at one in particular with hostile intent, near the point of wanting to kill him.

(Y/N) quickly noticed this all of his instincts practically screamed at him, warning of what was to come.

The giant black, red mark glowing ball sprouted wires from behind it, pointing at him and his friends. It shoot the wires at terrifying speed giving the devil little to no time to react.

(Y/N) summoned his Oath Maker and quickly slash it down towards the ORC and his servants. "GODDESS WIND!!!" He shouted, sending everyone flying and landing mere inches away from the exit.

"(Y/N)?! What was that for?!" Rias shouted, only to see that her servant was fighting off a flurry of wildly swinging wires attacking him at tremendous speed.

"Get out of here!" He ordered, summoning Oblivion and rapidly swinging both of his swords to fight off another wave of violently waving wires. "GO!" He ordered again, summoning a barrier in front of his friends, preventing them from interfering.

"(Y/N)! Don't your dare do this again! (Y/N)!!!" Rias yelled furiously, and slamming her hands on the barrier he summoned.

More and more wires sprouted from the hostile giant black ball and charged at the young devil, only for some of them to be cut down or swiped away by his swords.

(Y/N) slashed a few of the attacking wires, only to jump up into the air when they attempted to attack where he was standing, only to attack incoming wires. Once he landed, he sprouted his devil wings and took to the sky, flying off in attempt to dodge the many never ending and attacking wires. The flying devil swan dived back down to the ground, stopping and gliding above the ground, looking backwards and fending off many of the following attacks with his swords. However, amidst the many of attacking wires, one managed to successfully penetrate (Y/N)'s shoulder from behind, causing him to fall onto the ground, quickly jumping back to his feet.

He braced himself for what he saw before him, dozens upon hundreds of thousands of drill tipped wires aiming directly at him, readying to end it in one massive, collective attack. "Come on." He taunted.

The wires' drills spun a terrifying speed, the sound of quickly spinning metal grew closer and closer to the prepared dual sword wielder. With an instant reaction to each attack, (Y/N) cut, slashed, swiped, or parried. (Y/N) managed to defend himself against the onslaught of the seemingly alive giant black ball.

The giant eye mark, and the others surrounding it glowed brighter and more intense. The sphere sprouted 2 giant wires, both the size of roman stone pillars and equipped in tendrils, hurling towards the devil at terrifying speed.

The devil shielded himself by crossing his arms and repelling the attack as it slid across his blades. Sparks flew as metal clashed against metal. He yelled ferociously, breaking his guard and sending the wires flying off in the distance, freeing himself from the attack and allowing him to breath for a brief moment.

However, while letting his guard down for even a moment, allowed the enemy to strike, piercing the devil in the right side of the lower half of his body from behind. This broke his concentration, dissipating the barrier he had summoned to keep his friends safe.

He knelt down, holding his new wound as it continued to bleed profusely. No matter how tight his grip became, blood continued to flow through his hand. 'God damn it! I let my guard down! Freaking rookie mistake!' He shouted to himself.

He slowly looked up, only to see even more wires ready to come down and end him. 'Shit...this doesn't look good.' He thought, readying to defend himself against anything he could in his condition.

As the attacking wires descended down upon the injured devil, they were immediately incinerated by familiar looking red and black fire.

He looked behind him to see Rias and the others coming towards him.

Rias descended from the sky and landed next to him. "Hang on (Y/N), Asia's almost here." SHe reassured the bleeding devil, holding him up until the blonde holy devil arrived and proceeded to heal her senior devil and friend.

"Oh (Y/N), please hang in there." Asia begged as she healed the young devil, slowly closing his wounds and restoring his form.

"Th-Thanks Asia..." (Y/N) said in exhaustion.

"Don't worry about it. Just please stop throwing yourself into such dangerous situations!" She begged with tears in her eyes. "I can't stand to see you this hurt!"

"Y-Yeah..." Was all (Y/N) said as he looked own in shame. "Sorry."

As Asia continued the healing process, the other members of the ORC continued to fight back against the attacking black sphere. Kohaku and Artoria continued to protect their Master and his non-combatant allies as the battle continued.

"Asia how much longer?" (Y/N) asked eagerly, hoping to jump back into battle.

"Just a little more, almost there. Thankfully this wound isn't as big as the last one." Asia reassured.

Over on the battlefield, many wires from the giant glowing ball swiped the flying King and Queen of the Peerage down to the ground and onto its other members, sending them crashing into each other and sliding across the ground. The slowly aimed at Artoria and lunged at her.

"NO!!!" (Y/N) cried, quickly lifting himself up off the ground and pushing the blonde female knight out of the way of the attack, only for his left arm to be pierced through in a swift body piercing strike.

"(Y/N) No!" Asia cried as she became terrified as what she just saw.

"Master!"

The wire did not remove itself from his arm after dealing the blow. Instead, it began wrap itself around his arm and pulled him towards the source.

"Shit!" (Y/N) grunted, struggling to keep his footing as the pulling wire was too strong.

The closer he got, the more wires sprouted and slithered through the air to wrap themselves around the resistant devil.

"Damn it! Let me go!" (Y/N) shouted as he tried to pry the wires off of him. They began to dig into his skin and go inside his body, latching themselves to him, it would seem almost permanently.

"Master! Hold on!" Artoria cried, running towards her Master and trying to pull him away from these leeching appendages.

"(Y/N), hang in there!" Asia yelled, running to aid her friend.

"Ready?! PULL!!!" Artoria shouted and the two girls tried to pull (Y/N) away, only for him to scream in agonizing pain.

"It hurts! THIS FUCKING HURTS!!!" He cried.

"Artoria, sto-!"

"DON'T YOU DARE STOP! KEEP GOING!! I CAN FEEL THEM LOOSENING!!! KEEP PULLING!!!!"

The girls, albeit reluctant and hesitant, did as they were instructed and continued to pull as hard as the could.

(Y/N), through the unmeasurable amounts of pain he felt, managed to regain his footing and began to pull away as well. He reached out his most available hand to Artoria, hoping for her to grab it.

She reached out, gaining closer and closer the two grew to each other, now only mere inches apart.

The animate sphere noticed this and its eye glowed a more furious shade of red, sprouting more wires and launching them towards its entrapped prey, stabbing him through the weakest parts of his body; the back of his knees and his elbows.

His blood spurted out of each and every wound he had, as he screamed in agony. (Y/N) quickly lost his footing and falls, behind pulled away from his friends and servants at tremendous speed.

"NO!!!" Everyone cried as they only watched as their friend was pulled towards the dangerous threat.

The black sphere suddenly sprouted an arm, grabbing the young devil in a tight unwavering grip, continuing to squeeze the life right out of him as he continued to scream.

"Hold on! I'm comi-" Akeno tried flying to his rescue, but was immediately slabbed back down to the ground by another wire.

The wires suddenly disappeared, retreating back into the sphere. The eye on the giant black sphere slowly shifted over to its prey, only to glare at him and open his hand, turning it upside down and hanging (Y/N) by the cords embedding into his body. Suddenly, small electrical sparks surrounded him for a brief moment before disappearing.

"Wha-? What was-!!!" Suddenly, his body erupted into a massive purple spark, electrifying the poor helpless devil as he unleashed a blood curdling, soul-crushing, heart-wrenching scream. The shock disappeared and (Y/N) hung suspended by the wires, his body smoking, covered in black burn marks and his head hanging.

His body slowly rose up, back into the hand of the dark matter sphere. However, the hand seemed to engulf the unconscious devil into whatever matter the monster was made from, slowly absorbing him into its body.

Behind all of the fighting devils, a certain pervert began to come to. "What the hell. What's with all the noise?" He asked, clearly unaware of what was happening. His sight slowly recovered and he looked onward, only to be horrified by what he saw.

(Y/N)'s body continued to slowly sink into the black sphere's hand, until his head completely submerged into the matter, completely succumbed by the dark matter.

Issei and everyone watched as their friend disappeared from their very eyes.

The brunette's eyes went wide, his pupils shrunk at the horror he had just witnessed, his whole word shattered the moment he saw his childhood friend disappear while he did nothing. As he watched, something inside him began to burn. This burning sensation grew and grew until he began to radiate a red and green dragonic aura, one similar to (Y/N)'s.

"N-No...(Y/N)...Don't tell me...I let him down...Not again." Issei muttered, rising up off the ground and slowly shuffling his way over towards the battlefield.

"Issei, what are you doing?!" Asia asked, running towards the young devil, only to be blasted back by an eruption of surging dragonic magic energy.

"You...Give him back..." A bright red light began to radiate off of Issei as he felt his rage growing with each passing second. "Give him back!" He shouted. "Give me back my friend...GIVE ME MY BROTHER BACK!!!" He roared, his magical energy and aura flared up, erupting into a massive and tall spire reaching into the sky. Amidst the spire, Issei appeared to be replaced with a larger body of crimson red armor, it's eyes emerald green and yellow spikes appeared on a few parts of his body.

"No way..." Akeno gasped, struggling to rise up off of the ground.

"Madam President...Is that...?" Kiba stuttered.

"Yes. Issei's Sacred Gear Balance Breaker: Scale Mail." Rias stared in awe.

Issei raised his armored arm and pointed his open claw at the sphere, which began to change its shape as well.

It's form turning more humanoid than its pure round shape, its color turned from pitch black with red marks to an evil purple with white marks, its arms growing claws and pure red flames around its wrists and around its head, looking more of a lions mane also growing a blue horn. It unleashed a mighty roar as it finished its transformation.

"Suck on this!" Issei shouted, summoning a small red ball in his hand, quickly growing in size. "DRAGON SHOT!!!" He roared, punching the ball of pure dragonic energy, sending it hurling towards the newly transformed beast. Once the attack hit, its left arm was completely blown into oblivion.

The beast staggered back, holding its now open wound, covering it mercury looking insides.

Issei charged at the monster at full speed, passing by everyone in a red blur. He immediately began striking the beasts with a flurry of rapid-fire punches and kicks.

"Koneko!" Rias called.

"On it." The white-haired Rook replied, lunging toward the beast and Issei to aid in the assault.

The arm on the beast quickly restored its missing arm and unleashed yet another mighty roar, blasting the two devils back before firing a pair of thin lasers from its eyes, aiming and cutting the ground all the way across, resulting in a massive delayed explosion.

Inside the beast, (Y/N) hung suspended by wires all around him. Everything around him was silent, though his mind still continued to race. As he hung, trapped in engulfed inside this beast, he felt helpless. The taste of blood in his mouth lingered, and the sound of his slowly beating heart grew quieter and quieter as time passed on. "Damn..." (Y/N) muttered weakly. "Is this really how my life ends? Stuck in some giant ball and drained of all of my energy until I die?" He asked.

"Is that really what you want?" Starvlador asked. "You just made a life for yourself. You just made friends, and you want to abandon them? Do you want to just give up without even trying? What the hell will that solve?!" The dragon shouted. "You have people who care about you now! And you're just going to abandon them?!"

"...No." (Y/N) snapped. His body began to steam, his power slowly returning and growing. He slowly began to struggle out of his bindings. "I have people who're counting on me. I'm not gonna let some overgrown stress ball kill me." His dragonic aura exploded, engulfing him and surging all over his body, far more intense and pure than before. "I have people who need me!" He shouted, his power erupting more furiously. "I won't die like this! I REFUSE TO DIE LIKE THIS!!!" He roared, erupting in a massive explosion of azure blue and red dragonic aura.

The chest of the purple and red monster burst open, revealing its mercury silver insides, along with a roaring (Y/N). Though, he looked completely different.

Both his arms and legs covered in dark blue scales up to half of his biceps and thighs, and lightly around his eyes. Sprouted from his head, two sharp, yellow dragon horns bending backward. His back had also sprouted a pair of blue and dragon wings.

His roar died down and he simply remained motionless in the air, his aura subsiding before disappearing. He slowly turned around and glared at the beast behind him with his two new yellow dragon eyes.

He instantly disappeared from sight, only to reappear by kneeing the beast in the face from below. He jumped backward and conjured magic into his claws, tossing it towards the monster, forming two buzzsaw shaped projectiles, making two massive cuts across the sides of its body, causing silver liquid to burst out. (Y/N) flies up high and aims his claw at the beast, shooting a rapid-fire barrage of smaller Dragon Shots, blasting the creature back. Quickly he descended back on the ground near his friends, only for them to be surprised by his new appearance.

"(Y/N)?" Asia asked.

He rose his arms up and clapped them together, only to spread them apart with blue lightning emerging and putting his wrists together, forming a sphere of dragonic magical energy in the middle. He proceeded to crush it until it disappears, only to fire a massive stream from his hands.

The impact resulted in the beast gaining a massive hole in the chest, but the rest of still remained. As a last-ditch effort, it lunged at the Dragonoid devil, only to be pushed back as it grew mere inches away.

"EVERYONE! ONE FINAL BLAST!! GIVE IT EVERYTHING YOU GOT!!!" Rias ordered, conjuring her Ruin Fire into a massive burst.

Akeno fired a massive stream of lightning.

Rias unleashed her Ruin Fire.

Artoria and Kiba slashed down their swords, summoning two curved blasts.

Issei fired a massive Dragon Shot.

(Y/N) unleashed a mighty roar, releasing more of his power into his own blast.

All of the attacks joined into one massive light purple stream, destroying the remains of the beast in its entirety. Whatever did remain disappeared into a mercury colored liquid and into the cracks in the floor.

Everyone breathed heavily as they finally felt the relief from danger.

(Y/N) stood motionless with staggered breath, he fell backward to the cold hard ground and his transformation disappeared.

"(Y/N)!!!" Everyone cried, running toward the fallen devil.

Before Issei could even take a step, his Balance Breaker broke and armor disappeared, causing him to fall to the floor as well.

"Asia, go heal Issei! Kiba! Koneko! Help carry him." Rias ordered as she and Akeno gently lifted the unconscious (Y/N) over their shoulders.

"Yes Ma'am!" They replied, carrying out what they were ordered to do.

"So, are we done here?" Akeno asked jokingly.

"Well, seeing as how we just completely blew the top half of some purple lion unicorn person filled with mercury into nothing, I'd say so." Rias said lightly.

Suddenly, the bright light from the exit began to shine brightly. Its light was warm and inviting as it seemed to call them to it.

"Well, time to go." Rias said, walking toward the exit with Akeno and the unconscious devil. The others followed after, walking into the light one group after the other.

The ORC was blinded by the engulfing light, only for it to slowly die down as the scene before them appeared to be more familiar. The beach they were on earlier that day appeared before them. The only difference that the sun went down.

"We're...We're out. We're actually out! We made it!" Asia cheered.

"It's about time we got out of that hell hole." Koneko says, grinning a smidge.

"Th..." (Y/N) weakly gasped, slowly coming to.

"(Y/N)?"

"The sky...Look up." He said, weakly pointing his finger up to the sky.

Everyone looked up and saw a truly amazing sight. The sky was riddled with bright and beautiful stars and cosmic waves. Shooting stars reflecting off of the flaming water of the ocean.

"These temples...Have a reward that's...usually the same. Whoever shall persevere...And make their way through without fear...Shall attain a glimpse of what lies beyond each door, the glimpse of a whole new world." The young devil gasped his final remaining breathe before he slips into unconsciousness once again.

"(Y/N)? (Y/N)?!" Rias shook, receiving nothing but light, gentle breaths as he fell into a deep sleep.

"I think it's best we all get him to somewhere where he can be treated properly." Akeno suggested, summoning a teleportation circle below her and the ORC.

"Yeah, let's get out of here." Rias agreed.

The teleportation circle shined brightly as everyone disappeared from the beach, ending this whole escapade.