The Aura of a Broken Dragon

"Damn! That truly had taken all my energy to finish." Issei slowly moved his hand over towards the ground and tried to push off of it. However, he was too exhausted to even do that. He collapsed onto the ground near his house.

"Let's call it a day, partner?" He was exhausted beyond belief. Ddraig had forced him, even when he wanted to quit the training session, to put in his all during the training workouts.

Ddraig, quickly seeing his partner's condition, decided to finally call off the training session. "You have done well, partner. Tomorrow is the last day of your short trip. I'm guessing you might want to spend it with your family, especially when you've barely have seen them for the past week."

"Yeah, that would be nice."

"Take the day off. You've earned it, partner."

"Thanks, partner." And he was out light a lightbulb.

The next morning, Issei had woken up outside with some bugs on him. Quickly, screaming and shaking off the bugs, Issei ran inside to clean himself with a nice relaxing bath. Finally, getting ready for the day, Issei decided to make himself breakfast. It was early in the morning and his parents hadn't woken up just yet leaving him in charge with the food. Taking some time, Issei decided to make the simplest breakfast that he could make. With a box of cereal, Issei began filling a large bowl with the cereal. There was only Lucky Charms, but that was good enough for the boy.

"Now you humans are beginning to make cereal with faces and random symbols on them. This is outrageous! What happened to the hunting? What happened to the cooking?" Ddraig was having an internal crisis with the fact that his partner would dare to use the cereal in the box in front of him as his starting meal of the day.

"Calm down, it isn't that bad. It actually tastes really good and even fills me up at times."

"At least you don't put in your milk before the cereal. If you did, you would have lost a partner."

"What do you take me for, a monster? I would never do something as scary as that."

"Sure."

Sighing from his partner's antics, Issei continued eating his cereal while glancing outside to see beautiful weather. Later on, his parents finally woke up and began coming down the stairs. Once seeing Issei sitting on the couch and watching his favorite anime, Drag So Ball, they smiled upon knowing that their son wasn't gone for the entire day, especially when today was going to be their last day at this rented home.

His mother was the first person to break the silence in the living room, "Issei dear, what have you been doing for the past couple of weeks?"

Turning to face his mother, Issei slowly got up and responded. "Nothing much, just been doing a little exploring around the area and exercising to stay in shape."

Finally, when seeing their son fully, they were slightly shocked when seeing the small developments his body was going through. Seeing the improvements, Issei's parents were more than glad to know that their son was actually trying to bring himself to better his condition with working out.

"Great, now you're trying to get all the girls at your school to fall for your body, aren't you?" His father jokingly said before walking towards the dining table to wait for his breakfast. However, he was instead met with a powerful slap on the back of his head by his wife. When looking at her, he gulped in fear when seeing her strictly glare straight into his

eyes.

"Want to say that again?" She threatened, leaving the poor husband with a slight bit of head pain for a little while. Issei chuckled upon seeing his parent's little interaction.

After spending a little bit of time with his parents, they all decided to finally begin packing their belongings. Once finally ready for departure, Issei and his family continued on their way to Kuoh. Issei, slightly nervous about the situation that is happening in Kuoh, with the devils supervising their territory and the fallen angels still lurking around. Once entering the territory, Issei began sensing the energy signatures of the devils, with becoming a dragon and having a little bit of training in his draconic aspects, he was able to sense a little bit of supernatural energy signatures. Making their way to their house, Issei decided to use the entire day as a means of resting and thinking about what he should be doing.

"Firstly, my suggestion would be to ignore the devils completely."

"Wait, from what I have heard from you. devils and fallen angels still see each other as enemies. If I eliminate the fallen angels, wouldn't that make the devils less hostile with me since I had taken down their enemies?"

Ddraig sighed in disappointment in his partner's logic. "You've completely forgotten that you're not a devil yourself. Just because you've defeated their enemies doesn't mean you're going to be their allies immediately. Must I remind you that you're a fully-fledged evil dragon? Dragons are beings of pure power and pride. In the supernatural world, we are feared by all factions. Meaning..."

Issei finally began understanding his situation even more clearly. "We dragons are enemies to all factions. That just makes approaching this far harder." Issei sighed in disappointment at himself and the fact that no matter where he went, he was going to be an enemy to nearly everyone. Firstly, it was being the enemy to women no matter what they looked like. Secondly, he was the enemy of the Fallen Angles which lead to him, finally, being the enemy of the devils. What's next, he was going to be the enemy of the Angels?

"Calm down. At least you aren't the enemy to all dragons. Just one of them."

"That surely does help Ddraig." Issei sarcastically responded.

"You're welcome partner. I am glad of being some help." Ddraig played along with Issei, slightly pissing him off.

Issei sighed and finally called it a day. He wasn't going to receive much help from Ddraig, especially when they continue bickering with each other.

Waking up the next day, Issei quickly began remembering what he wanted to do today. The Fallen Angels, he was going to investigate where the hell they would be. Ddraig had suggested for him to travel towards the abandoned church since that would make the most sense for them to hide in, especially when there were barely any good areas for them to hide in. Also, Ddraig had stated that he was able to sense smaller energy signatures that weren't human in that direction while Issei was unconscious and in the hospital. Getting ready and leaving the house, Issei continued his way towards the abandoned church. Ddraig, being the good partner that he was, concealed all of Issei's energy.

"Issei Hyoudou, I suggest watching out for any potential signs of the Devils. I'll warn you when they are coming or are nearby. We still don't want to have conflict with the Devils, especially when two of them are deemed as future prodigies of two elite families."

"Alright, you do that while I run towards the church."

Running full speed towards the abandoned church, Issei was expecting for the worse. The Fallen Angel that had killed him was surely with a small group of Fallen Angels, there was no way that she would be dumb enough to stay in devil territory, especially when two of the Devils are High-Class, without any back up or support. Being in edge, Issei started to slow down the closer that he got to the church. Wanting to be using his senses to the uppermost that he could.

Once reaching the abandoned church, Issei slowly began creeping up onto the side entrance. Wanting to attempt and sense whatever energy signatures in the building, Issei didn't find any...

"Ddraig, do you sense anything in the building?"

"No, this is quite strange." Even Ddraig was quite confused on why there was not a single trace of an energy signature in the building. Usually, whenever there was conflict between the two sides, Fallen Angels and Devils, the conflict would last for a while. "Try and cautiously enter the building."

Issei did exactly that. He would activate the Boosted Gear, but something was telling him that activating it would gain the attention of the devils. He would wait up on doing so until he was in a dire situation. Slowly, walking into the building, Issei was first met with just nothing... There was no one inside the building. Not a single person was inside the building guarding whatever the Fallen Angels were doing.

Thinking to himself, Issei decided that maybe this was the wrong situation until he noticed the obstacle in the middle of the room, the huge rectangular box, was slightly moved over. There was a little sign of something beneath the box. Using his strength, Issei was able to move the box over to reveal some stairs leading to a secret area.

Walking down the stairs, Issei was met with a stench of smell that disgusted him. With his draconic senses, the smell was awful. It was nearly impossible for him to continue forward because of the smell, but he knew that he must continue. Once reaching the bottom, Issei was met with a dark room with a huge cross in front of him, usually used for sacrifices. However, what caused Issei to widen his eyes was the body in the middle of the cross. It was a skeleton of a human being. Walking forward, Issei could tell that this was the work of the Fallen Angels...

Ddraig was already putting the pieces together. Being an ancient dragon, his brain was far more capable of handling situations in front of him with relative ease. Finally, deciding to tell his partner of what was happening... He knew that his partner was going to be angered by hearing the Fallen Angels had messed around and killed another life of a human again, especially when Issei was going to blame her for doing this. "Partner, this must have been the place where I sensed the small energy signature. Knowing that the supernatural doesn't go around harming normal humans and only choose to harm the ones that could become potential danger to them, or recruit those human beings, the Fallen Angels must have sensed that this girl had a special power of sacred gear in which they chose to kill her or must have taken her power. Sensing the small energy boost from when you were in a coma, it was probably the latter of which."

"Are you telling me that the fallen angels had manipulated another human?"

"No, they had murdered whoever this was with cold blood."

The fallen angels were really angering Issei severely. First, they had manipulated his emotions, they had taken advantage of him and stabbed him directly in the back because he had a "powerful and dangerous power" within him. Now, they had, even when the devils in the territory were around, killed another innocent human with cold blood. It was beginning to anger him in just how cruel and disgusting these creatures truly were. Before Issei could attempt to find these fallen angels in hoping that they would receive judgement... He wanted to ask his partner something.

"Ddraig, where do you think the Fallen Angels had gone after doing all this?"

"I'm guessing that after the little energy increase, they had known that the devils would arrive shortly after sensing the sudden burst. That had caused them to quickly evacuate before they would be caught. Basically, the Fallen Angels cowardly ran away after killing a few humans."

Issei was slowly beginning to feel rage like never before.

"Would you die for me?"

Those words have never left him. They still haunt him in his nightmares. He was hopeless in front of the fallen angels. He wanted to make sure that she would pay dearly for messing with his feelings. However, the moment that he comes back to his home with a little bit of training in him, the Fallen Angels had killed another human and had the audacity to run away.

"Please go out with me!"

She seemed like an innocent girl that wanted to make Issei's dream come true. He was the happiest man in the world to hear that a cute girl was wanting to go out with him, especially when he was known for being the most disgusting man in the entire school.

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

Those words had told everything to Issei... he was played like a fool during the entire date. Tears once again began escaping the man's eyes... That moment was never to be forgotten by him...

"Sorry, your existence poses a threat to us."

No he didn't... he hadn't even awakened his sacred gear before being killed. She could have at least recruited him... Why kill him?

Slowly, Issei's emotions began going out of control. Taking control of Issei's power. Issei instantly lost the concealment that Ddraig had placed upon him to prevent the devils from sensing his power. Instantly, his draconic aura began expanding outward. The blue-sapphire type aura began destroying and melting whatever was in its path. Pushing his power with the Boosted Gear to limits that Issei had never reached before. Blood began seeping down his mouth from the pain of expanding his aura.

"I should have known this was bound to happen."

Ddraig tried into snapping his partner out of this chaotic state. However, it wasn't working. Issei was blinded by sadness and anger. Both of these emotions were the cause of his draconic aura to form.

[Boost]

And his power was already beginning to double. The ground around him began shaking violently with his power. However, before anything else could get worse... Someone had appeared.

"So, this is the Red Dragon Emperor."

"Azazel."