Raven let a soft hum out as he clenched his fist and landed a solid punch into a mountain side as it split the mountain in two, and the three behind it.
"I'm almost back to my peak." Raven laughed as a single wave of his hand had the mountains start knitting themselves back together before anyone would notice and throw a hissy fit about him destroying mountains for no reason.
"You are such a scary existence." Izanami deadpanned.
"Hm?" Raven titled his head confused as he looked at the goddess.
"Raven, you are 17 years old, and your power is at the point where even divine beings have to take you seriously in a fight, your recent bought with Indra says as much. Normal 17 year olds can't throw down with being ranked in the top 10. By my creators, normal 17 year olds can't even hope to manage the top million, but here you are fighting with Indra."
"So I'm the honored one?" Raven smirked before being sent flying away with a kick to the face. He crash landed inside a mountain. "Worth it." He chuckled as he pulled himself out the mountain.
"Now, shouldn't you head back already? Isn't your little apprentice to fight a dragon soon." Izanami started once Raven reached her again.
"An astral projection of me is already there, so you don't need to worry." Raven smiled as his eyes focused on something else, and Izanami knew he was watching from some spot.
Raven's eyebrows furrowed in confusion before he vanished in a flash of dawn energy. Izanami blinked in confusion and then pouted as she realized she was left alone.
"He left me!" She grumbled. She focused on their bond and noticed he had teleported somewhere near where the first round of the tournament was happening.
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Rose Rhea Potter took a deep breath as she calmed herself, her opponent was possibly the worst one she could face, a dragon, or in Raven's words, a drake.
Drakes were the equivalent of a dragons weaker younger cousin. True dragons could speak in any tounge if they choose too, wield a unique power of their own and are born with power greater then Dumbledore.
Drakes merely held a similar apperance and the ability to breathe fire. They couldn't communicate in tongues like dragons, nor was their power so great at birth, drakes would be lucky to even have that much power as an adult.
"I've got this." Rose said to herself as she felt the flame that made up her very being burn in readiness, eager to come out, to prove its dominance.
Her eyes briefly burned with the maroon flames brought by merging her birth flames with her sacred gears flames.
Bang!
With a deep breath she marched her way out the tent and into the field where her chosen drake lay in wait. The Hungarian Horntail. Considered at the top for drakes.
"OUR FOURTH AND FINAL CHAMPION HAS APPEARED TO FACE HER DRAGON! THE MIGHTY AND FIERCE HUNGARIAN HORNTAIL! HOW WILL OUR YOUNGEST CHAMPION FAIR AGAINST SUCH A BEAST!?" Rose would have rolled her eyes, but Raven's training had taught her not to lose sight of your enemy.
She took a deep breath before she grabbed her wand and used transfiguration to change some loose rocks into cheetahs as they ran around to distract the drake.
In that moment she brought out her flames and shaped them into phoenixes that started attacking the drake. Each one rammed into the drake, the flames managing to burn it somewhat.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT FOLKS! OUR YOUNGEST CHAMPION HAS BURNED A DRAGON WITH FLAMES! WHAT FORM OF SORCERY IS THIS!?" Rose winced as she knew that Raven would be pissed if he heard that, she licked her lips as she felt his killing intent spike in the nearby area for a moment suffocating the arena and causing the drake to freeze.
She took that moment to form a spear of flames and toss it into the feet of the drake, the next moment she had her wand waving as rune covered chains formed and started wrapping around the drake in its moment of weakness and shock.
"Submit, I don't want to hurt you more." Rose spoke aloud as she filled her words with her intent, her desire not to harm it. The drake roared as it tried to stand up, trying to move its body more in front of her clutch of eggs.
"How cruel." Rose muttered as she slowly moved towards the eggs, and in the middle of the clutch laid a golden one, she grabbed it and then all of a sudden ducked as a tail swung at her backside.
She used wandless magic to cause a spike of earth to raise up and launch her back, she skidded against the ground as she slid to a stop and stared up. L She undid her chains and stared down the drake as it seemingly counted her clutch before covering it with her body.
Rose took that moment to slowly walk backwards out the arena, never showing any sign of weakness and exited the arena, in the corner of her eye on a pillar in the corner she could see Raven smiling as he watched. She smiled back and walked out the arena never seeing the smile disappear as he seemed to flicker before disappearing.
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Raven appeared in the forbidden forest, a weird and mysterious dark energy was practically permeating throughout the forest. He slowly tracked it down.
As he moved deeper into the forest the potency of the energy was becoming greater and greater. He curiously grasped the energy and formed it into a ball and frowned at its weird constitution.
It almost felt like devil energy, but more sinister and less aware, almost instinctual is what he would call it. Like the energy had no purpose, but still knew what it was to do, corrupt and destroy.
The dead trees effected by the energy became more and more in quantity as he got furthur inside, soon all he could see was dead trees and a weird fog that was slowly becoming thicker.
"What is that?" Raven mused curiously as he saw a group of strange beings seemingly… chanting? When he got closer and used magic to see through the fog he was then. Demonic beings straight out of horror movies.
Between them all was a large magic circle slowly being fed energy drawn in from the forest. They were killing it to do whatever they were doing.
At the edges of his consciousness, he could feel Gaia and Alaya both desiring him to rip and tear these demonic creatures. He was inclined to agree due to them harming the forest.
"Well now what are you?" Raven idly mused as in a sudden burst of speed kicked them all away and raised a barrier at the same time locking them in, with him, but what really caught his attention was the magic circle being formed.
"Daemon summoning? Why did I say it weird just now?" Raven asked himself confused. "Daemon or Demon. No, definitely daemon. What the hell is a daemon?" He asked himself as his eyes automatically anylized the magic circle to what it was summoning,
"Daemons are born from the primordial darkness that existed prior to creation." Izanami said casually as she appeared in her cat form on his shoulder.
"Interesting." He smiled as he summoned Malevolent and pointed it forward in spear form. "Let me see what these primordial born beings are made of then."
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It's been a while I know, but instead of doing a single larger chapter, I decided to split this one in two.
Also what did you all think of Rose getting her own little snippet of the chapter, showing that she is her own force to be reckoned with?
Also I've changed the final pairing list, I've removed some and added one, I've also decided not to go through with Artoria and Morgan being pairing options, I've decided that Raven will just have two girl parents who he isn't in a relationship with, which I'll now have to make it so him and Artoria break it off in a good way, so I'll see how ima do that, but here is the final list of pairings for the story.
[Rose] - Main girl
[Arcueid]
[Izanami]
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Anyways, I'm getting ready to go to sleep now, I've started getting more morning shifts, so it's been weird having morning, afternoon and night shifts. My sleep schedules busted as hell lol.
Sleep schedule? Never heard of it.
Till next chapter!
Bye~
-Voidy, The Insomniac Writer