The Flaming Spirit

Chapter 22: Is This Real?

As the warm light touched my face as I lay there on the clouds I looked around and until I saw her a beautiful angel

I had to adjust my eyes to be sure it was Sophie but instead of her normal smaller child like self she was older. "S..S...Sophie?" I managed to say she put her finger on my lips she shushed me. "Is it you?" I asked "yes it is me this is my true form it's more suited for my new purpose" she answered. I was confused by her answer "what purpose? Did I die? Who shot me?" I asked frantically "calm down all will be revealed and what I can tell you is her name is Alexis and she is a confused person" Sophie answered. Not all of my questions were answered I looked around and saw clouds "what's going on?" I asked. Sophie laughed "it's a dream silly now wake up" she said bopping me on the head. "Ouch, what was that for?" I asked rubbing my head "it's just some divine intervention" Sophie answered.
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"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP" "would you just shut up!" I yelled smashing the alarm next to my bed. I woke up quickly and looked at the destroyed alarm on the nightstand next to me "damn Keiko is going to need to buy another one she's going to kill this time" I say. I flip the covers off of myself and get out of the bed. I quickly notice something very strange this wasn't my normal room it was much larger. There was a large bed that looked like it was designed for more than two people, I could see multiple dressers next to a large closet, a large TV was set up to be seen at the end of the bed. What struck me as odd was that my posters of anime, motorcycles and cars were all gone instead there was pictures of nature, city skylines and animals. I grabbed some clothes from a random dresser luckily there was a mirror on the door that's when it hit me I was completely different my hair was darker, I had a short beard and there was a large scar next to my left eye which probably was the reason it was a milky white color. The things that stuck out the most to me was that Mephisto's slave crest was no longer in my arm and on my left hands ring finger there was a silver ring with nine diamonds and the words "To Live & To Love" engraved on on it.

Time Skip

After the current realization that I was older I decided to go down stairs what I found outside of my room I found a hallway with a few doors to what I assume are other rooms. I hear voices coming from down the stairs and then the smell of something delicious hit my nose. I slowly walked down the stairs the voices got louder and louder with each step. When I reached the bottom I saw a bunch of kids running around they all looked different in age "hey Daddy" a few of them said "hi Papa" another said as they ran outside. I was awfully confused why did they call me dad was I there father I didn't know. I felt a pare of arms wrap around me "hey there baby took you long enough to wake up" a familiar feminine voice said then the person licked my earlobe. I quickly grabbed the person and flipped them over my shoulder the person I flipped looked like Akeno but she was older. "Easy there baby save the rough stuff for when the kids are asleep" older Akeno said "Sorry I had a really weird dream" I said apologizing to her. "That's probably why you slept so late you didn't even do anything fun with us last night" Akeno said I rubbed the back of my head "I guess so" I said. Akeno and I walked to what looked like the kitchen in there was a young woman with long blonde hair. When she turned around I got a look at her face it took me a bit but when I saw an image of a young Ravel it hit me. "Hey sweetheart it's good to see you up I'm just getting ready to make dinner the children just ate lunch their outside with Koneko" the older Ravel said "that's great to hear can I get some water?" I asked. Ravel stopped what she was doing and got a glass and filled it with water "here you go sweetheart" she said as she handed me the glass and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "Hey baby I'm going to make some tea and help Ravel you can go and do whatever" Akeno said "sure thanks I will go and do something" I said before I left Akeno kissed me on the lips. I walked into the living room and saw a woman on the phone she had papers in her hands the woman was Sona she had let her hair grow a bit longer. "As I said before it does not matter that one of my school's teachers are my sister-in-law and my husband's other wife" Sona said to the person on the other end. Sona hung up and looked over at me "hey there love I didn't know you were awake" she said to me "who was that on the other end? what's their problem?" I asked. Sona sighed "it's the school board they don't quite understand that you love multiple women and one of your wives is a teacher and I being the headmaster" Sona answered "just ignore them" I said "I wish I could but thanks for the advice" Sona said she then hugged me and kissed me "Yasaka is with Kunou their out getting groceries so they'll be back soon while Kuroka and Rossweisse are getting drinks for tonight" Sona said. I didn't know who those people were I've never met them before I guess I'd find out who they were later. "Alright I'm going to go check on Koneko and the kids" I said to Sona I gave her another hug then left the living room. I went outside and saw a big green yard with kids playing around everywhere. I saw a young girl with black hair and E/C eyes she was creating red and blue colored lightning from her fingers in front of a very small boy with red and blonde hair he was creating small flames from the tips of his fingers. While those two were doing that I saw a large wolf run by riding the wolf was two girls what was strange was they had cat ears and tails one of them looked older she had H/C colored hair with black patches in it and hazel-gold eyes clinging to her was the smaller girl she had silver hair one of her eyes were E/C and the other was gold. Chasing them was an older looking Koneko she taller and her chest was bigger she had her ears and tail out she saw me and waved. I walked down the steps of the porch and looked over to see Xenovia she wasn't much different except for the scar under mouth she was with a young boy with green hair and E/C colored eyes they were sparing with bamboo swords I noticed a girl with blue hair and E/C colored eyes watching the two spar while she was picking small flowers. I saw a young boy with glasses reading a book under a tree he had short black hair and E/C colored eyes. I turned around and got a look of the house it was amazingly beautiful