The Golden Dragon Empress (HighSchool DxD)

Introduction To a New World

Natsuki gasped as she breathed in, opening her eyes in shock that she was still alive. She quickly sat up, looking around to see that she was in her bedroom. She quickly looked down her shirt but saw that there was no hole in her chest.

There is no way that was a dream, right? It felt too real to be fake. I mean I was dying, and now I suddenly woke up in my apartment perfectly fine, I don't even remember getting back here.

The girl grabbed her phone that sat on the desk next to her bed and realized that she had slept in, seeing that she was now an hour late. The girl noticed that her alarm wasn't set, even though she always sets it before she goes to sleep every night. She jumped out of bed and began rushing to get ready, temporarily forgetting her previous thoughts as she dashed out the door.

A few hours later

Natsuki sat alone against a heavily shaded tree in the school yard during lunch and all she could think about was how badly her day was going so far. As the girl ran to school that morning her body felt off, not painful or anything, but every time the sunlight touched her, she felt as if she was being drained. Then she had to deal with her ears ringing because of Sensei yelling at her in front of the class for being late and then yelling at her again because they had to take time out of the lesson to yell at her in the first place and by the end was given detention for her troubles. And to top it all off she still couldn't get what might have happened last night off her mind. This led her to avoiding the Perverted Trio as she could hear the Issei trying to convince the others he had a girlfriend named Yuuma but them not knowing what he was talking about. Which made her even more confused on whether the night before was real or some kind of shared hallucination between her and Issei.

Not to mention that voice and the glowing pendant. Wearing that golden pendant and hearing that voice encouraging me to fight just felt so right, as if they were a part of my very soul.

Suddenly the girl felt as if she was being watched, causing her to look up at the school. In one of the windows Natsuki saw her, the girl she apparently asked to save Issei's life last night.

Rias Gremory

The two stared at each other for a moment before the older girl smiled at her and walked off down the hallway. It's not as if Natsuki didn't know who she was, you couldn't go 5 minutes at Kuoh without someone talking about the one of the great "Onee-Sama's". But why would she even look her way, they were on completely opposite ends of social hierarchy?

Does this mean that last night really did happen and that was her way of acknowledging it?

Damn it! Why is my life getting so complicated suddenly?

It was late in the evening and Sukehiro Natsuki could be seen making her way back home visibly annoyed after serving her detention. Her thoughts continued to weigh heavy on her mind as she walked.

Her own body was adding to the irritation as it had begun to act up. I know that it's dark, I saw the sun go down and yet I can still see all around me as if it didn't! There's also my ears, being in that crowded school building made me want to jam pens in them just to stop the noise! Thankfully, my body does not feel sluggish anymore like it had been since I first woke up.

The girl came to a stop at the entrance to the park. She hesitated for a moment before walking again, sighing in relief as she didn't feel the same wave of unease and terror that she did yesterday.

This means that everything is normal, at least I won't- the girl came to a halt as the same sinister feeling had once again appeared to take hold on her, looking up she saw the color of the sky change just like it did before Yuuma revealed her true nature.