The Black Dragon

Double Trouble

With a V-shaped slash, Xenovia finishes off one of the two hell hounds. Seeing this Asia looks at the exorcist in amazement. "She's incredible," Asia says as Koneko quickly brings her attention back to the battle at hand.

"admire her later, for now, focus on the enemies that are still here," Koneko says as she leaps forward and punches the remaining Cerberus. The hound stumbles back and quickly gets electrified by Akeno.

"Thunder Resound!" Akeno shouts as the lightning strikes the gatekeeper of the underworld

However, with a mighty roar, the beast scatters the electricity before unleashing three beams of raging flames from its mouths. Akeno manages to just bearly dodge the attack her left shoulder be grazed by it, burning off a portion of her uniform. Koneko picks up Asia and jumps out of the way of the flames.

As the fallen angel watches the show he notes Rias out the corner of his eye. She fires off a fully charged blast of her destruction magic straight at Kokabiel who smirks at the sight of the fruitless attack. "How cute." The war-hungry fallen says as he bats away the bast of magic with a simple slap. Seeing this, Rias' eyes grow wide with both surprise and worry.

"He swatted it away like it was nothing more than a mere fly," Rias says as she gulps as she looks back toward Valper and the remaining hell hound. "As long as he doesn't directly fight we should be able to last until my brother arrives," Rias tells herself as suddenly a blinding light fills the area.

Everyone looks toward the origin of the light and that origin is Valper. The exiled priest smiles as he looks down at the sword before him. "It's finished, it's finally finished," Valper says as his smirk widens into a full wicked smile that reeks of evil. "The ritual is complete, four holy swords have become one. Now, once twenty minutes past this entire city shall be leveled." Valper explains as the eyes of everyone who are fighting to defeat Kokabiel widen.

"T-twenty minutes?" Akeno asks in complete shock

"Yes, and there is no way to stop the ritual, well unless you defeat Kokabiel before time runs out," Valper explains as Rias grits her teeth.

"Damn, with such a short time limit we don't have time to wait for my brother's reinforcements." Rias glares at the fallen angels as her thoughts race through her head. "The hell are we supposed to do now?"

"Freed, use that sword to make the closing of this little scuffle entertaining." Kokabiel orders as the group see Freed leaning on a tree next to the school.

"He was here this whole time?" The entire group as Freed begins to walk toward the newly forged Excaliber.

"You got it, boss," Freed says as he grabs the handle of his new blade. "To think I'd get to wield a blade as legendary as Excaliber-chan, I can't think of any greater honor." Freed sarcastically states as he mockingly looks a Xenovia. Pulling the sword from the ground he points it at the exorcist and seeing this Xenovia begins to approach the mad priest.

"This is my battle, don't interfere," Xenovia says as she charges at Freed, and in return the priest charges at her. The two clash swords. the two continue to clash blades, however, neither of them can get the upper hand.

"Call the Lightning!" Akeno shouts as five bolts of lightning strike down upon the hellhound but again they seemingly have no effect. "I had always assumed Cerberus was tough, but this is completely different from anything I could have expected," Akeno says through gritted teeth.

"Akeno move!" Rias shouts as her queen flies upward. This gives Rias the chance to let loose another fully charged attack. The attack burst upon impact with the hell hound's head and to everyone's surprise, there's some lasting damage on the beast.

"Aim for the center head!" Rias shouts as Akeno and Koneko nod and begin their attack.

With Xenovia and Freed, the two continue to clash, and as the two separate Xenovia glares at Freed.

"How has he become so strong?" Xenovia asks as she's suddenly pushed back. "An Excalibur increases the capabilities of the user, but not to this degree. I was informed that he had tasted defeat at the hands of the knight of Gremory, so with that mind, I should have been able to defeat him ten times over." Xenovia tells herself at the make some distance between each other. However, before anything else can happen a large gash appears diagonally across Xenovia's chest. Her eyes wipe as they shoot back toward Freed to see that his sword has changed. Once a straight blade, the sword is now a snake blade, that reconnects its as Xenovia looks at Freed.

"That's Excalibur Mimic's ability. Can it truly harness the abilities of the other Excaliburs used to form it?" Xenovia asks herself as she puts a hand on her wound. "Still, how was that attack so fast?"

"You look confused little one," Valper says with a sadistic smile on his face. "Allow me to explain why you fall short of my Excalibur. You see an Excalibur naturally increases the natural abilities of the wielder but that boost is minuscule. However, by combining four pieces of Excalibur I've discovered that the increases stack. So now not only have each blade combined their strength into one but just by wielding the blade Freed's natural abilities have been multiplied by four!" Valper shouts as Xenovia glares at him.

Quickly the exorcist jumps back. "I have no choice, I must summon it. Back I first need to make some dist-" Xenovia doesn't;t get to finish since Freed appears before her, his sword now taking the form of a rapier.

"Sorry Blue but you can't run from me." Freed states as he sticks his tongue out at the exorcist as he thrust his rapier at Xenovia at blinding speeds. The thrusts are fast that Xenvoia can hardly see them and therefore can nearly block them. While she manages to black the blade from piercing any of her vital the sword goes through her left shoulder and the lower right side portion of her chest.

When the assault stops Xenvoia falls to her knees, blood pooling around her. Freed stands over her triumphantly. "This is the best the church can offer? Wow, I guess I'm just too good!" Freed laughs as Xenovia grits her teeth. "Well, guess it's time to finish this, Free the Excorist Slayer, has a nice ring to it, what do you think?" Freed asks as he raises his sword above his head. The sword then changes again to a large claymore. "DIE!" Freed shouts as he brings his blade down.

As Freed brings his sword down Cerberus center head unleashes a blast of flames that Koneko leaps out of the way of. However, that's what the beast wants, as soon as Koneko is out of its way the hound leaps forward. Mouth open, ready to devour the ex-nun that is now defenseless. Rias, Akeno, and Koneko's eyes all widen as they notice this.

"ASIA!" The three devils shout as the bishops in horror at her imidate death.

"SWORD BIRTH!" Shouts an all to familiar voice as ten giant blades erupt from the ground impaling the Hound of the underworld and keeping its body extend in the air. The beast is a mere inch away from devouring the young bishop. Then three blasts of magic rocket fourth and hit Freed's blade. These shots of magic force the priest's blade to the left, making it just miss cutting Xenovia in two.

"The hell just happened!" Freed shouts as he looks toward the origin of the shots only to see a barrage of more shots coming at him. "Oh fuck!" Freed shouts as his blade return to its original form. The mad priest swings his blade vigorously to block the oncoming for but even though he's capable of blocking each shot the sheer force and number of blasts coming at him forces him away from Xenovia.

"Looks like we got here just in time. " Felix says as he and Kiba stand side by side. Felix resting his pistol over his shoulder while his other hand rest by his side holding another pistol. Kiba holds his Katana in his right hand while his left hands rest by his side. His eyes narrow in on the fat priest and his serous looks changes to a glare of pure hatred. Kiba takes one step forward but Felix puts a hand on his shoulder.

"Wow now skippy, didn't you tell me your plan on regaining your title as a knight," Felix asks with a smirk. "Besides that tub of lard's little minion just tried to kill a close friend of mine. So I wanna cave his face in just as much as you do. So what do ya say we do this together?" Felix asks as Kiba nods.

"Gladly," Kiba tells Felix as the two being to walk toward Freed. Weapons ready.