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Issei struck first. Akeno had explained it quickly, due to the limited time they had. That they had gained powers from her. The powers of a Hollow. Bala, Cero, enhanced physical power, speed and durability. And, if they truly tapped into their Hollow, unique abilities available to only them.

[BOOST TIMES TEN!] A deep, almost savage voice boomed from within the red and white gauntlet on Issei's arm.

Kokabiel gnashed his teeth and summoned another light spear, swinging it against Issei's incoming fist.

*CRAAACK!*

Flabberghasted, the resulting impact made cracks form all over his light spear. Though it was made hastily, one had to realize how ridiculous the situation was. He was an Ultimate class Fallen, a Cadre. Even something made hastily and swung out quickly could obliterate anything at the low class.

Issei slid back a dozen meters, noticing the distinct lack of searing pain when he was struck by anything harnessing holy power.

[Hmph.. This has to be due to that girl's power. You aren't a pure Devil, that's for sure. Your soul's about half as strong as mine as it is.]

Ddraig informed, his voice portraying astonishment as he closely inspected the transformation Issei went through.

"Do not get cocky!! A mere.. minor power given to you and you act as if you could beat me.. It's insulting!" Kokabiel roared as he formed two longblades made of light and prepared to skewer Issei on them.

Issei felt the imminent danger and decided to try one of the abilities Akeno stated he had. The principles behind it were similar to his 'Dragon Shot' but used spirit energy instead of magic. He let his instincts guide him, opening his mouth as spirit energy and magic coalesced into a sphere.

[BOOST TIMES TEN!]

*BOOOOOOOM!!!*

Like the breath of a dragon, a flaming orange and crimson beam flew out of his mouth and slammed into Kokabiel, who held out his lightblades to block it. He was pushed back as the cero began to burn his body. Two of his ten wings covered his body, though both ignited as the cero blasted him into the track field.

"Asia." Akeno called out, seeing as how Kokabiel had his arms burned nearly down to the bones, along with two of his wings being scorched. He was panting in a burning crevice, shakily getting up as Twilight Healing worked its magic to restore him.

Asia's healing capabilities were strong even before the transformation. But now, even her Hollow power seemed to specialize in healing and advanced regeneration. It reminded her of the people in black robes. They had spells that healed, created barriers, did damage and could even bind others. She wondered if she could teach that to everyone at some point.

"Switch out. Koneko, get him." Akeno stated, watching the small girl practically leap in front of Kokabiel with eager eyes. Like a cat hunting her prey, her instincts were telling her to shred Kokabiel to ribbons.

"Hehe! Did I do good, Akeno-senpai? I think I'm starting to get the hand of this form." Issei jogged over, saluting Koneko as he disregarded the Cadre.

Akeno nodded. It was interesting seeing how Hollow forms changed them. Issei and Ddraig's souls were connected but only he was bestowed the power of a Hollow. Though it seems Ddraig was also being influenced as well.

*CRACK!*

Akeno returned her attention to Koneko and the newly healed Kokabiel, seeing her senjutsu enhanced punch shatter his light blade and his sternum in one hit.

"BUAAGH!" Kokabiel slid back, vomiting blood from the impact smashing against his sternum and internal organs.

His light blades launched at Koneko as soon as as he stabilized himself. There was no way he'd willingly get within her range again with her monstrous strength.

Koneko's eyes narrowed as she got on all fours and charged straight forward despite the flying blades of light coming at her. When they approached, Koneko leapt up and tucked her little body inward, completely avoiding the blades by narrowly tucking herself in through the small gap. Two white flame colored wheels materialized behind her back as she landed, her body growing in both height and development as she cocked her fist back.

"WHAT!?" Kokabiel called forth all the light energy he could muster, forming a dense hardlight barrier in front of him as Koneko's fist came at him.

*SHATTER!*

But it hardly mattered, as Koneko's enhanced punch successfully broke through and landed on his face, breaking his nasal, lacrimal, zygomatic and jaw bones into several pieces and caving in his face.

"Oooooh.... That was brutal." Issei winced, watching the Fallen skip across the ground like he was a stone thrown across a pond.

"What is that sudden growth though..?" Rias asked next, watching Koneko look at herself in what seemed to be pride.

"Hm.. Not as big as sister's yet. But I can grow too." Koneko clenched her fist and muttered hopefully, ignoring the blood and bone fragments she punched out of Kokabiel's face.

"Hahaha.. Her priorities are a little off but I like it. Asia, once again please? Rias, you're up next." Akeno turned to Rias, who was carrying Akeno's currently souless body and groping it.

"...Huh? Oh, right! I do want to test myself, actually.. You don't mind, right Koneko?" Rias asked, though still continued to feel Akeno's body up.

"Alright give me my body back, Perv." Akeno sighed and took her body away from the now pouty redhead.

"Alright fine, ruin my fun. We can talk about a threesome later..." Rias coughed and strut over to Kokabiel, whose face was being regenerated by Asia.

"Between me, you and my unconscious body..? I thought I was freaky.." Akeno snorted. Though she said that, she also began to physically 'inspect' her body too.

"Should we.. do anything? Can we?" Xenovia asked, frustration evident in her voice. Akeno smiled at her apologetically and shook her head.

"Sorry. Things got a bit hectic. We'll hand over whatever holy swords are left and you can return to the church, mission complete." Somehow, Akeno's words didn't cheer Xenovia up. She gave a cursory glance to the ORC, who had all changed somehow, due to Akeno. A trace of envy briefly flashing through her eyes.

"Keuk..!" Kokabiel stood up with a scowl that would terrify most people. Feeling humiliated was something he had experienced before at the hands of Vasco Strada. While he may not be the strongest Ultimate Class, with his over reliance on his holy light and summoning magic, he was still more than enough to kill a few High class Devils.

"I'm going to be fair here. Your whole goal here? Your motivations? Tell me what they really are. I may not forgive you for trying to take my dear Akeno's soul but I'd like to hear for what reason would you even want that power for." Kokabiel glowered in response to Rias' words.

"Fallen are the ultimate beings. If we continued our war from so long ago, we would have crushed you vermin. You Devils and our slave brethren in Heaven. We would have annihilated you all. This war shall resume again once I kill you all." Though he said it, he found it hard to muster the sadistic glee and confidence he had before.

Rias held her arms out to the side and raised her palms upward. Several daggers made from the Power of Destruction floated above her hands. First there were two, then four, then six, then eight, then ten, until over three dozen were made in just a few seconds.

"Seems my concentration training came in handy." Rias smiled, flicking her finger up as several darts of light clashed with her daggers of Destruction.

The sheer magnitude of the daggers concerned Kokabiel, thus he tried to interrupt her. But Rias smiled and stood there as more and more daggers were formed, quicker than she was losing them in the clash. She then snapped her fingers and added more of her Demonic power to them, turning them into barbed spears, greatswords, arrows and longswords.

Kokabiel paled and moved to do the same, but Rias was faster. Her hands moved up, making two daggers slip past his defense to pierce his palms.

"DAMN IT!!" Kokabiel roared in pain as the Power of Destruction began to destroy his hands. He started to fly, to get away and pry the daggers out of his hands by any means necessary. But he was forced to stop, lest he be skewered by the numerous weapons made from Rias' Power of Destruction that were floating above him.

"It doesn't make sense... How..!?" Kokabiel cried out before hearing a snap and getting pinned to the ground via a rain of Destruction constructs.

"That would be me. Rias, hold me for a bit." Akeno walked over, placing her body in Rias' arms.

"Yay~ That was fun." The redhead admitted, playfully sticking her tongue out as Asia once more healed Kokabiel after Rias' Destruction constructs were dismissed.

Kokabiel panted. Not even back in World War Two had he suffered injuries like this. He looked at Akeno with a scowl before realizing her demeanor had changed suddenly. There was no confident smile, no sadistic aura, only a stoic and grave expression. The kind that reminded him of the day he fell. The kind his Father made.

"Must you really commit to this? To war? Do you even know what you're really seeking?" Even her words reminded him of his Father.

"Of course I know!! The slaughter of my enemies! The wails of the defeated as the Fallen take their ultimate place..!" He screamed his ambitions aloud, a haze of madness evident in his eyes.

"The deaths and loss of your family. Of those you were determined to protect." Thoughts of Tir's twin sister, his friends, his trusted animal companions and a girl flashed through her mind as the clouds above darkened.

"Azazel knew about your ambitions. Tried to steer you away. Just like Dad, Shemhazai and Penemue. Your family tried to pull you off this path. And you ignore them. Determined to bring them on the path of ruin with you. Do you even care?" Akeno asked but she could see it in his eyes. Any semblance of the Angel he used to be died a long time ago. Replaced with a savage animal.

*SHHHH*

It began to rain heavily, the smell of ozone becoming stronger as Kokabiel stared hatefully at Akeno.

'This kind of power.. It's not right! It should have been mine! I could have..! The war..!' His thoughts jumbled, spiraling into madness as he stood up and created his most powerful spear of light and charged at Akeno, his mouth frothing.

She only looked at him with pity as she aimed her palm at him. "...Cero soberano"

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!*

A bright purple flash lit up the sky, followed by the deafening sound of thunder. An intense heat was felt for just a moment before it was drowned out by an overpowering scent of ozone. And when everyone could see again, they noticed a massive chasm and a distinct lack of Kokabiel present. Akeno turned back to them and gently took back her body.

"Wh.. What happened to him?" Irina asked, still recovering from the sound of thunder.

"He's gone. Erased. How's Kiba?" Akeno deflected the intense stares she was getting and looked over to where Kiba was.

He had successfully kept Valper alive long enough to survive total dissection. Despite the grizzly scene of the priest being opened up like a frog in biology class, he looked at peace now.

"That was.. incredible! Wow.. good thing Sona is getting a familiar right now. She would have lost her mind at the damage behind the school.." Rias snorted in amusement.

A sudden tremor shook the space above them, immediately drawing Akeno's attention. Space split apart, just like a Garganta. Though this was different. The tear was deeper. There was no Hueco Mundo or Soul Society here.

"Akeno!" Rias cried out as all of the ORC began to get pulled into the open tear in the sky.

"Prez!? Akeno-senpai!?" Issei cried out as he and Asia were carried through the tear in space.

While Kiba and Koneko were yelling as they tried to hold on to anything. Gasper had already been carried out the window.

Akeno tried to stabilize herself and resist the pull, but it was as if a black hole were drawing them in. It was inescapable. She took Rias' hand before they were drawn in, but grabbing everyone else was impossible with how fast they were being drawn in.

"Hold onto me! Do NOT let go..!" Akeno pulled Rias and her own body with her before they passed the point of no return.

*VRRRRR...-PSHH!*

There was no time to recover or see what was in the void before both her, Rias and her own body crashed into a sand dune.

"PFFF! Auh... sand in my mouf.." Rias spat, trying to spit out the grains of sand that ended up in her open mouth.

Akeno landed on something strangely soft and fluffy. Though she wasn't sure what it was, as she had essentially buried it under her chest. She looked around and immediately knew where they had ended up. The endless night sky, the ever-crescent moon and the pale white sand.

Hueco Mundo. Somehow, someone or something had taken her and Rias back here.

"Woah... Akeno..? Is this.." Rias sat up and took in the sight.

"Hueco Mundo.. I barely remember it but this has to be it. There's no other place that looks this.. desolate." Akeno sighed and sat up, seeing what she buried.

"...?" They both looked down, seeing a small plush toy.

"That's so cute!" Rias almost instantly forgot the situation and picked the plushy up.

It was a tiny blonde foxgirl plushy with fluffy tails. Though what Akeko focused on was the Hollow mask on half of her jaw. Something definitely up Rias' alley. But it wasn't with them when they left.

"I don't.. feel anything from it." Akeno frowned, thinking it may have been some Hollow disguising itself. But it seemed that wasn't the case. That only confused her more.

"Really? Well I'm keeping it. It had to have appeared here for a reason, right? Plus it's so cute.." Rias tucked the plushy in between her chest and stood up.

Akeno still thought it was weird but decided to let it go. There were bigger things on her mind. Such as the absence of everyone else who ended up in the tear in space.

"Hah~ Alright.. We have to figure out where our dear Kouhai are. I still feel a connection to them but they're probably in an unfamiliar place." Akeno stated, seeing the same worry in her lover's eyes.

"I'll leave directions to you then. This place feels.. confusing. Scary, even." Rias muttered.

Akeno nodded and stood up, carrying her body on her shoulder. "Then let's go. I sense several large presences somewhere a little far away. Stick close. Hollows roam around the desert and may try something."

"Mn! Let's hurry then."

[Chapter dedicated to the lovely Lilith_Zenon whose birthday was recently! Also the inclusion of Plushwyn is a lil cameo not a plot device lol]