The Forgotten Dragon - Highschool DxD FanFiction

Keeping A Promise

Slowly, I separated myself from Ichiki as she looked away, hiding her embarrassed look. "Just watch me fight, and make sure nobody intervenes. I plan to end this here and now." I informed Ichika as I slowly took my sword back from her, smiling as she looked me in the eyes. "You really got me all worked up didn't you?" Ichika asked sarcastically as she wiped her eyes, leaving me with a strange but happy feeling, one I couldn't describe. Hesitantly, I began to walk over towards everyone else fighting, "wait!" Ichika called out to me. As I turned to face her, she threw something at me. "Take this. It'll help you out." She continued as I caught it, the object was a Phoenix tier capsule.

I struggled to open it, but once I did I let it drip onto my hand, and a strange hue surrounded me. "Thanks you." I responded as I turned away, making my way towards the enemy as my arm slowly began to heal back to its normal self. Once it had fully healed, I smirked at the sight of my glove, pointing towards the man across the battlefield. "Hey! Did you think you were done with me?" I called out as loud as I could, catching everyone's attention. The fight stopped as even the man was confused. He quickly began to move towards me. "Is this some sort of death wish?" He asked me confused and I chuckled. "For you? Yes."

I stood in place as the ground beneath me quickly began to crack. My hair seemed to start floating along with my clothes, like they were being completely unaffected by gravity. A blazing aura surrounded me as I took deep, constant breaths. I was slowly releasing energy into the surroundings, which caused a feeling to overwhelm everyone watching the battle, like they could truly feel how I was feeling. "Get ready, because I'm sure this will be your last fight."

The man frowned, and appeared straight in my face with a raised leg. He bought it down to kick me, and I didn't even react as it slammed right into my shoulder. All the force from his kick went into the ground, causing beneath us to break apart even more. He quickly shot backwards as I looked around. "Though I might be able to keep up with you in terms of speed if I push myself, I can't make my magic move as fast as you." I muttered to myself as I glanced down at my blade. "Sword stream!" I called as I threw it towards the man, only for him to jump out the way of it. 2 cuts still appeared across his chest, tearing through his clothing as he fell to the ground. He rolled backwards and climbed to his feet, looking down at his wounds as I shot right into his face. "Return!" I called as I raised my arm, Kusanagi reappearing in my grasp. I bought it down quickly, striking into the ground and throwing dust up everywhere.

I quickly jumped backwards into the air as I watched him run right for me. My opponent then jumped up, following right after me. He got right up into my face and smiled. "Got you." He muttered, throwing a punch right towards my stomach. Within the blink of an eye, I managed to catch his fist, and get all the force and momentum behind his punch go straight through me. "Are you sure?" I asked him confused as I raised Kusanagi. I bought it down right towards him, and stopped him from moving by keeping ahold of his wrist. The blade came straight down into him, and I let go of him; launching him into the ground below at immense speeds. I took deep breaths, watching the ground below for any movement. The dust which had slowly picked up was blocking me from seeing if I had taken out the man, but then some movement caught my attention. "Stay back!" I called out to someone who had began to walk over. As I peered across, the dust was disturbed, I could tell from the corner of my vision. "Shit!" I called as I turned to face the dust again, spotting the man right in front of me. He grabbed my face and threw me right into the ground, causing me to cough up blood as pain shot through my back.

There was a burning feeling through the lower muscles in my back, and I found myself unable to move. "What? Why do I feel so fragile?" I groaned annoyed as I tried to force myself up. The man quickly flew down at me and I stuck my arms up. I created a sphere which turned into a beam, blasting the man again. This time I watched to see if it actually struck him, and it did. He was thrown away from me to the ground, a small hole blasted through his hip. "You've really got me outmatched, what happened whilst you were out?" The man asked me whilst chuckling. "I got a confidence boost." Was all I could respond. The man began to create a magic circle, and I quickly tried again to stand up. I slowly got to my knees, glancing at the circle. "Negate!" I called as I raised my arm towards it, but it was too far away to stop. The circle activated, turning into a portal which released tons of chains. "Summon magic." I muttered to myself as I watched a massive wolf like beast appear wrapped up in chains. "Release." The man spoke as the chains shattered, causing the wolf to be fully released.

The wolf instantly stared at me, growling to itself as I began to tremble to my feet. "What's up with my back? It's not broken or anything." I spoke frustrated as the wolf lunged for me. I raised Kusanagi, only for the wolf to bite down on my arm, closing my hand and the sword in its mouth. I winced as a tooth pierced right through my left elbow, and I took a deep breath. "Enlarge!" I called, and the sword began to increase in size massively until it stabbed through the back of the wolf's neck. The pain was lowered slightly in my arm as the wolf let go of me, stumbling about until it slowly collapsed to the ground. My whole left hand was unresponsive, like the ligament had been entirely torn and I couldn't bend my arm.

I swapped Kusanagi to my right hand, and slowly began to walk towards the man, blood dripping from my arm. "Hey, you finally done?" I asked him as I stood towering over his body. I pointed the tip of the blade right at his face, and a scared look extended across his face. A circle appeared on my left palm and caused chains to extend out of it and to the ground. The chains then began to wrap around the man as I shook my head. "There's no need to respond, I don't kill people like you. I'm not giving you an easy way out." I spoke joyfully as I slowly began to lower the blade. I then hovered the point over his left arm, right on-top of his elbow. "But I do want you to know how I feel." I spoke as I stabbed the blade right into his arm.

The man screamed as I tore it out, splashing blood across the ground as the chains had fully wrapped him up, keeping him pinned down. The circle on my palm vanished as I dropped my blade, stumbling backwards as a pain shot through my head. Slowly, I began to fall backwards, losing balance. Warmth wrapped around me as I felt someone catch me, and I glanced at them, it was Ichika again. "I wasn't wrong, was I?" I spoke whilst coughing and she smiled. "You did good, just rest up." She spoke whilst hugging me, slowly beginning to lower me to the floor.