The Aura of a Broken Dragon

"Raynare, did you kill the human?" Another woman spoke to Raynare with a bored expression printed on her face.

Raynare grinned remembering the absolute priceless facial expression that Issei Hyoudou had when she had announced that she had made the date a farce. She had to hold herself from laughing in front of his face. "Yeah, it was quite pathetic to see his condition after telling him everything was a lie. You should have tried doing the "date" thing with him, Kalawarner."

Kalawarner gave a look of disgust once hearing the suggestion. "Eww, I would never go out with a weak and disgusting human ever."

"Come on. the satisfaction of destroying their dreams is worth it."

"Nope! Anyway, when will the nun arrive? I want to go back to the main base as quickly as possible."

"Don't worry, Freed had said that she would be arriving in a few days. Then, we can begin the extraction." Raynare devilishly said before walking away towards the other Fallen Angels.

Kalawarner was only left thinking about what Raynare had said. Maybe she should try this "dating" thing for the experience. The Fallen Angels had continued initiating their plan leaving the Devils anonymous to their intentions. However, Issei was still stuck in his coma state.

Days went by and School was normal. However, it was bizarre having the leader of the Perverted Trio absent for multiple days. Many, even if they didn't want to admit it, kind of missed the entertainment that the young Hyoudou brought to school. Rias Gremory and Sona Sitri were most especially surprised with the news of Issei Hyoudou being in a coma state. It was nearly impossible for the young Hyoudou to survive an encounter with the Fallen Angels, but there was a possibility that he could have had a different accident.

Weeks passed by and nothing different occurred for the Hyoudou family until...

Fluttering his eyes open to the blazing sun shining down upon his eyes through the glossy window directly adjacent to the bed that he was resting upon. The white ceiling that he was slowly focusing on was becoming unfamiliar to him. Questions began popping up in his head while he began thinking to himself of how he had gotten into this situation? This wasn't the sky. Was he in Heaven? However, slowly with some time, he began regaining his senses and heard a machine beside him. Turning his head, with immense effort, he saw a monitor. Not just any plain monitor, it was a heartbeat monitor. Instantly, Issei began connecting the dots and realized that he was in the hospital.

"What the Hell." Issei gripped his head in pain. What bothered him the most was that his eyes were seeing things far differently than usual. He was able to see far clearer than he remembered.

Eventually, the doctors began entering the room while checking up on him. Going through the entire process, Issei was deemed to have recovered from the immense internal damage that he received at record timing. His parents had been notified that Issei would be going back the day after, in case if anything bad were to have happen today.

Slowly, closing his eyes once more, Issei decided to rest for the entire day. This was too much. He remembered that... Woman... Had killed him, but how was he even alive? Finally, drifting away into a deep slumber. Issei continued thinking to himself while drifting off to sleep.

"We finally meet at last."

In front of him stood a massive crimson dragon. Easily reaching some of the largest buildings that Issei had seen. Opening its mouth, crimson flames began enveloping the entire area of where the dragon stood.

"I am Y Ddraig Goch. However, you may call me partner." Pride was all that Ddraig could feel when telling his partner who he was.

"Woah!" Issei, even through his dry tone, was amazed when seeing the huge dragon. Even when he was fearful of the huge dragon in front of him, the amazement that he felt was still evident.

Ddraig quickly looked at the changes that were evident in his partner, specifically the small draconic changes such as the sharpened pupils.

"Issei Hyoudou, we have to talk about your supposed death." With that, the first conversation that Issei was going to have with the dragon was about the topic that he feared the most would never be brought up again.

"Where should I begin?"

Issei was still amazed by the site of the dragon in front of him. It was something that he always wished that he could see ever since he was a child, a fully grown fledged dragon.

"Let's begin with the basic information." Ddraig continued speaking about the basics of the supernatural world, from the three factions and their weaknesses. "You see partner angels, fallen angels, and devils all exist."

Issei, knowing parts of these creatures thanks to a childhood friend of his speaking about those creatures nonstop, on instinct was immediately doubting such news. How could they have been real? However, beginning to properly process the information, he was murdered in cold blood by a, he was taking a guess, Fallen Angel and was revived by the same dragon in front of him. He was thinking that he should be far more open minded with the information being told to him since he knew jack shit about the supernatural world and the being in front of him may know nearly everything about the supernatural world. Ddraig, seeing the doubt in Issei's eyes beginning to disappear as his partner began thinking more thoroughly, was slightly impressed, but he should have known that this was going to happen since his partner was met with a rude conference with a Fallen Angel.

"However, I'm pretty sure you already have seen enough to believe that. What I'm going to tell you is something far more interesting. Sacred Gears, they are the gift of "God" that were created to give humanity, your people, a chance in defending themselves and turning the tides of a battle in the supernatural world."

"That would mean the thing that Yuuma said was true."

"Yes, the things that she said was true. I am your Sacred Gear, the Boosted Gear, one of the most powerful and most broken Sacred Gears to exist. It allows for the user to be able to boost their power exponentially for as long as the host's body can handle it. Let's give it a test run." With a snap of his finger, Ddraig had forcefully brought out the twice critical form of the Boosted Gear onto Issei's right hand. "Did you feel the sensation of the gear appearing?"

Issei looked amazed in seeing the gauntlet appearing. Looking back up to the dragon, he nodded. "Good, because you'll need to replicate this sensation when in the real world when attempting to use the gear."

[Boost]

"Holy shit." Issei began feeling far more powerful than before. Slowly, a small smirk began appearing on his face when feeling the power coursing through his entire body. "This feels absolutely amazing."

After a little while.

[Boost]

It happened again; Issei quickly began throwing some punches in the air to see the results. His punches were indeed far faster than before. Issei's mind was blown away by this revelation.

Ddraig wanted to blow away Issei's mind even more. He could already tell that Issei wasn't entirely paying attention to what he said about the powerup that the Boosted Gear brought to the table, which is why he was going to allow Issei to experience the boosted power in person. "If you were your old self, this would have been your absolute limit."

[Boost]

Issei felt the same power. However, Issei thought that the power would be multiplied onto him, but the power was exponentially increased. Instead of feeling a smaller increase of power from the second to the third boost, Issei had felt the same increase in power from the second to third boost. Issei, thinking to himself for a moment, began thinking of a possible explanation for this phenomenon.

Ddraig was slightly impressed with his partner in finding the true power of the Boosted Gear. "I'm quite impressed with you, partner. Not only did you sense the same increase in power from the first boost to the second boost but also with the third boost to the fourth boost. If it isn't a simple boost in power in multiples of two... then that would mean."

Issei widened his eyes in realizing just how overpowered this ability was. The sensation wasn't multiplying his power by six folds, something that he thought that the power would have done but the power had instead increased his power by eight folds. Doing simply math, it was basically two to the power of the number of times that he boosted. That was when Issei finally reached his limit of how much his mind was blown away.

Grinning with pride in seeing his partner's mind being blown, Ddraig decided to give his partner a few moments to...

*EXPLOSION*

Never mind, Issei had already reached his limit even with the new draconic body. Instead, Ddraig decided to give Issei a few moments to process everything that had happened to him. After a little while, the ancient dragon began speaking once more.

"Now, onto information that you most certainly want to hear about. You see, when you were stabbed by the Fallen Angel, you were bleeding out on the ground. Through your determination, your efforts, and emotional state, I was awakened." Ddraig spoke in a sour tone remembering the horrid scene that he had to see when awakening. "Seeing your destroyed form and knowing who had killed you. I decided that I wasn't going to sit back and watch your very soul leave your body. I decided to pour my own essence into your body, the body that I manipulated into changing from human to dragon, to ensure you would be able to survive. I made sure to do so fast enough before your soul would leave your body."

Issei, hearing all this, even when he had doubts in people being revived. Today, he had already met a dragon, an ancient dragon that was said to have been fake and only parts of myth to bring pride or fear into the brace warriors that fought said creatures, so it wasn't farfetched that this dragon had revived him.

"So, I'm a dragon! COOL! But is there a weakness to being dragon?" Ddraig nodded... Being as old as he was giving him the advantage of being very patient with the many hosts that he had over the many years. It was why he decided to have a long, detailed conversation with his host about what world he was finally becoming a part of.

"Dragons are weak to dragon-slaying weapons. Just from the name alone, you should know that these weapons are lethal to us dragons. However, there is one thing that should be mentioned. If we become strong enough, even these dragon-slaying weapons won't have much of an effective upon us."

"So, the stronger we become, the more resistant we become to these lethal weapons." The ancient dragon nodded to what Issei said.

'You're taking this far more effectively than most of my other hosts.' Ddraig thought while watching his partner getting into position to celebrate.

Before Issei could celebrate in not only being alive but also being a dragon, Ddraig had continued in what he wanted to know, "However... When reviving you something strange had happened." Issei instantly raised a brow before Ddraig's flames seized to exist from the wave of the mighty dragon's hand. "The first thing that occurred with you is that your draconic body was beginning to alter due to your strong negative emotions. Slowly, you began transforming from a regular dragon to an Evil Dragon. These types of dragons are known for mass destruction and cruelty. However, some are forced into such states due to traumatic events and are cursed with being one for eternity... which is what happened to you."

Once hearing that, Issei gritted his teeth upon knowing who had caused this to him. Ddraig could feel the emotions of his partner which had led him into changing the subject into what interested him more about the changes that Issei had felt. "Another thing had also occurred when changing your body into one of a dragon. Issei Hyoudou, do you feel anything bizarre within you? Anything that is wanting to be released inside your body?"

"Come to think of it. When waking up, there was this very small, odd sensation, a sensation of pain inside of where my heart is. I didn't seem to notice during our conversation, but the sensation had weakened. Do you know what that is?"

"Well, here goes nothing. I want you to close your eyes and begin dragging out that sensation. Focus on where the power is coming from." Issei did exactly that... "Once again, focus on where the sensation is coming from and slowly draw it out. You'll know if you've done it correctly once you've produced some flames."

Issei began feeling the sensation and pinpointed the area of where the burning sensation was coming from, Issei slowly began focusing on drawing the power out to his hands... However, due to his precision and skill being a little lack luster, instead of bringing a small portion of the power out, he instead surrounded his entire body with the same royal bluish flames that he initially had brought out when unlocking his aura... This is when Issei began feeling pain all over his entire body. Beginning to scream in dire pain, with his draconic traits taking over his voice and forcing him to roar like a dragon, all be it a small dragon. Ddraig, once seeing his partner in pain, instantly knocked his partner out cold.

"Damn, I should have known to train you into controlling your magic instead of trying to see a small peek at your aura. Almost got you killed." Ddraig began seeing his partner beginning to disappear. It was time for him to wake up in the real world. "However, that will have to wait for your little reunion with your parents."

With that, Issei began disappearing into the real world. Immediately upon disappearing from his mindscape, Issei shot up awake while staring straight at the wall of the hospital room. To his surprise, he was indeed alive, and whatever he experienced with the dragon in his mind... Issei wanted to believe that it was a dream but knowing that he was indeed killed by a fallen angel— he remembered feeling the pain before being killed— and that he was still alive must mean that Ddraig indeed had revived him.

'Smart thinking, keep it up and you'll be able to impress me.' Hearing the same deep, dark voice from the dragon before he was transported to the real world, Issei quickly was going to respond until the dragon interrupted him. 'I suggest speaking with your mind instead of talking out loud. You don't want another reason to stay in this room... Do you?'

Issei was left thinking to himself. Speak with his mind. What did that mean? Did he mean by using his thoughts to communicate with Ddraig?

'Alright Ddraig, can you hear me?'

'Loud and clear, partner.'

'What should I do first? I'm guessing that the situation with the Fallen will only get worse since I am still alive. Do you think I will have to leave the town for a little while? I can't leave my parents alone here. What if they come after them?'

'Calm down partner. For now, take another two weeks off from school. We will have to organize a plan for you to gain a footing in the supernatural world. Speaking of breaks, here come your parents.'

The moment that Ddraig stopped speaking was the moment that the door to the hospital busted wide open and mama Hyoudou came rushing in. Upon seeing her son alive and well, she quickly rushed towards Issei and leaped into the air. Diving straight toward Issei for a hug, she successfully did catch him in a hug and began sobbing into his chest.

"Thank the lords for this. My son is alive! My son is alive! My baby boy is alive!" She continued repeating these phrases while sobbing for a while. Issei had never seen his mother this hurt before.

"Miki!" Gorou Hyoudou came charging in as well to see the scene with his wife hugging his son, who was awake and seemingly healthy. "Damn you little brat... You had us worried for multiple months!" Gorou, trying to sound tough, just couldn't hold it anymore and soon began sobbing as well. The family was together once more. Alive and healthy. Nevertheless, the changes will become apparent soon enough... However, that was a situation for another time for both Miki and Gorou Hyoudou.

Quickly, they began bombarding Issei with questions. "Issei, what happened to you? Why were you in this condition?" Miki asked him innocently not knowing that just one phrase had brought in a terrible pain of remembering that woman who killed him.

"I just got dumped and, on the way, back home, something happen to my body that caused some immense pain. That's all I remember." Hoping that they would take the information truthfully, Miki Hyoudou wasn't entirely convinced.

"What caused the pain in your body? We must-"

"I don't know what did? It was as if it randomly happened."

"But-"

"Miki." Gorou calmly placed his hand on his wife's shoulder before looking at her with a small smile. "Let's deal with that later. Maybe Issei doesn't want to speak currently about the issue. Let's just be grateful that he's alive."

Miki Hyoudou instantly nodded and pushed her questions aside. The Hyoudou family was finally a happy family of three once more, after many months of suffering for the parents. They had heard from the doctors many times that their son could potentially be stuck in a permanent coma, which had devastated the family many times, but the parents stood strong in their hopes for their son. The doctors had reported many times that their son was healing some of the internal damage that he sustained very slowly and that their son would potentially even be permanently damaged for life if he woke up, but the Hyoudou's stood strong in their dreams for their son. And when they heard the news of their son finally waking up early in the morning, let's just say that the entire neighborhood could hear a woman screaming in joy for the entire day.

After finally leaving the hospital, Issei was finally well on his back home. However, the same thought was still lingering in the back of his mind.

"What would he do when he sees that woman again?"

Ddraig was seeing through Issei's thoughts silently while thinking of a potential idea. What if his family went on a two-week vacation to a different city and got the time being? No way having Issei in this territory would cause no conflict. The High-Class Demons that he was sensing in the territory and the Fallen Angels in the territory would all immediately antagonize Issei due to the uncertainty of how he lived through being killed. The time for another Dragon to rise from the ashes to ascend to the divine was coming... And Issei sure as hell has an amazing teacher for that.

However...

While driving back home, Issei could see through the window of many civilians enjoying their day: walking around, talking with each other, and dating each other. Nevertheless, Issei would always be reminded of his pain. But it only worsen when he would look directly at a woman smiling because...

'Why?'

Issei would always be reminded of that woman.

'Why?'

Her smile... It was so sincere and loving...

'Please, why?'

Yet, it was all a farce. Issei slowly, without even knowing it... Began sobbing...

"It was fun. The short time I spent with you. It was like playing house with a little child."

He still remembers those words when she transformed into a Fallen Angel. It hurt Issei to remember the look that she gave to him.

'It was all a game.'

Issei couldn't stop staring at all those around. They were all having a blast.

'Issei, would you die for me?'

Those words still haunt him especially when her smile quickly began changing to a facial expression of disgust.

'I should have known... I was always destined to be alone.'

Ddraig was hearing all this with his jaws clenching with pure hatred. He had never seen such treacherous acts by a Fallen Angel, especially when his partner was the one being fooled.