The Twist We Need

Wake Up

Issei fluttered his eyes to see the white ceiling and some crimson hair moving around on top of him. Opening his eyes even further, Issei looked to see Sirzechs playfully drawing circles on his shoulder while humming a soft tone. Staying silent, Issei continued watching Sirzechs continue humming peacefully. After a while, Issei finally moved his hand to carefully pat her head. Sirzechs looked up with her majestic eyes and smiled upon seeing Issei alive.

"You're alive... I thought you were gone." Sirzechs teared up before slamming her head right into his shoulder again. "I was so worried. You entered into the Juggernaut Drive and I didn't know what to do anymore. I'm so glad that Ddraig told me you were in trouble."

Looking down at his hand, seeing the white bandages covering his entire body, Issei knew that the events that he hoped didn't occur were real. Noticing Issei beginning to quiver, Sirzechs hugged him and kissed his forehead. "It's okay. I'm here and I will never ever in my entire existence leave you alone."

"Are they gone?" Sirzechs nodded before hugging Issei right into her chest when noticing him breaking down. Turning to see the hospital door, Sirzechs waved her hand and made sure to lock the door to leave the two alone. They needed each other right now more than ever before.

After a while, Sirzechs noticed that Issei calmed down and began to slowly fall asleep. Slowly, turning the two over where Sirzechs was lying down with her back against the bed and Issei was on top of her with his head still resting on her chest, Sirzechs began to carefully scratch the top of his head to soothe him. In a few seconds, Sirzechs noticed a teleportation circle appearing right next to the two. Covering Issei up in a blanket and carefully applying some magic to make sure he could sleep in peace even if there were alarms going off, Sirzechs knew that she was in trouble.

Grayfia appeared right in front of her with Tanin and Surtr right next to her. The other members decided to not appear since they didn't want to overwhelm the distressed woman. Ajuka and Serafall appeared as well.

"Sirzechs... Is Issei okay?" Grayfia noticed the peaceful Issei, who had tear marks on his face. Grayfia never had a child but the closeted thing to that was Issei even if they barely known each other for a few months. The way that he would cause problems and would prank them was just a child in her eyes. He would always listen to her and side with her when Sirzechs would start to become a troublesome woman.

"He's sleeping. He's traumatized."

Grayfia sat down right next to Sirzechs and Issei and carefully began caressing his face. Noticing the bandages that covered his entire face, Grayfia cringed in seeing her little Issei going through so much pain. "What happened?"

Sirzechs paused before muttering out, "Kokabiel killed his parents."

Widening her eyes in shock, Grayfia couldn't hold back and grabbed Issei and brought him into her hold. Sirzechs let her do this since she was the only other person who she trusted with Issei.

Surtr couldn't help but feel guilty upon hearing what happened. He knew that he shouldn't have told Issei to leave, but he would have been killed as well with his parents if Kokabiel appeared when he was around. Tanin grabbed his shoulder and said, "It wasn't your fault. No one could have known that Kokabiel would have done that. I have a feeling that he was planning on throwing us off and killing off Issei's parents."

Surtr sighed, "I know... Let's just wait for the hatchling to wake up." Tanin nodded before standing beside Surtr watching the scene unfold.

"Azazel had told me that he sent the White Dragon Emperor to retrieve Kokabiel since he went against his orders and acted in his own." Ajuka added in before realizing his mistake.

Sirzechs growled when hearing Azazel's name and Kokabiel's name. "I'LL HAVE THAT OLD BIRDS HEAD! I WILL KILL THAT SON OF A BITCH! LET ME GO! I WILL FUCKING KILL HIM!" Grayfia held Sirzechs down with Serafall aiding.

"Grayfia, remember to tell me to never show up when Sirzechs is angry."

"I'm going to make sure you show up when she's angry." Grayfia added in causing Serafall to pout.

Sirzechs continued shaking and turning before tiring herself out and just holding onto Issei as she remained docile.

"Surtr!"

"What is it?"

Ddraig chuckled when hearing the commotion in the room when he spoke, "Issei said he knows you didn't do anything wrong and it was just bad luck. No one knew that Kokabiel was going to show up."

"Wait, how do you know his thoughts when he's asleep?" Surtr facepalmed himself after saying that.

"Because I'm able to break his dreams and intervene when I need to. I have been speaking with him the entire time to make sure he doesn't go and have a nightmare. The boy needs help... he has never been through tragedy on this level. He has always been an innocent soul just slightly corrupted by an old man showing him some magazines."

Sirzechs gasped before looking at Grayfia, "The magazines! Grayfia, I order you to go to Issei's house and erase all his magazines. I will not have him looking at any other woman that is nearly naked or not."

Grayfia sighed before nodding. She knew that Sirzechs was going to be even more possessive of Issei after nearly losing him. Her first love was already in danger not even a week after they declared marriage.

"Sirzechs, I'll have to explain all this to the other leaders. They were all confused in seeing you act so rash and uncontrolled. Looks like I can switch the blame to Azazel." Ajuka smirked imagining Azazel's face when all the blame goes to him. "I can't wait to get my revenge for when he stole my drink."

With that, Ajuka disappeared through a circle with Surtr and Tanin following after.

"Grayfia... Can I just hold Issei indefinitely?"

"No, he still needs to go to school and train."

"I can teach him and take care of him."

"Bad Sirzechs. Stop being possessive!"

"Never!"

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