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Two streaks of light can be seen clashing in a violent and twisted dance of red and white. Two figures clad in dragon like armor, striking at one another with resounding thunder. Fist meets fist, knee meets knee, elbow meets elbow in a macabre dance between to equal warriors fighting to the death.
And so the battle continues, strike meets parry, parry to a counter, a counter parried and so the cycle continues.
Hours pass, yet neither has the advantage. No words are exchanged, but wrathful growls and grunts of exertion.
As the battle continues the warrior in red destroys the armor of the warrior in white. Before the battle can continue the red one sees a radiant blue sapphire jewel on the ground and in his battle fuel delirium, they lunge towards the jewel.
"Hahahahahahaha," the red warrior madly cackles has he holds the blue jewel. "I'll take your power for myself and with it, victory!" he cackles. "You Fool!" shouts a deep voice from the luminous green emeralds in the red armor. " You'll kill yourself. My power and Albion's power are polar opposites, they cannot be together in the same host body! It will destroy you from the inside out!" growls out in both rage and disbelief.
"Be silent dragon! I will do as I please and I alone am worthy of all this power! No one else!" bellows the warrior.
The white one took this moment of distraction to repair is armor in motes of blue light, not dissimilar to the jewels adorning his armor. Deciding that it would be better to kill the red one before he can achieve whatever mad plan he has conceived within his mind, the white one charges strait forward wih a fist ready.
Unfortunately, the red one sees this and quickly smashes the jewel into a green jewel adorning is right hand, before the white one can strike. Suddenly the red one screams in agony has he holds his right hand and falling to his knees. A violent vortex of chaotic energy explodes outwards.
The explosion violently connects with the white one and launches him into nearby debris. The red one is destroyed inside the raging vortex in agonizing pain.
Not long after the battle has ended with the death of both warriors, a gloom of dark clouds and rain embrace the scared landscape of the epic battle, a battle unseen and unrembered by all but the two dragons sealed within the armor of the two warriors.
Unbeknownst to all, the red warrior was successful in stealing the power of the white one, but could not withstand the power nor had he the time to truely adapt the power as his own.
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An unknown amount of time later.
A young boy no older than eight year old is sitting in a swing with a look of sadness on his face. Subtle traces of tears roll down his face and soft sniffling coming from his nose.
This is Issei Hyoudou, a young Japanese boy with brown hair with two lock hanging down is neck and light brownish eyes. Issei, wearing a red shirt and brown shorts, gentle swinging his legs back and forth to rock his swing.
Today he has lost his best and only friend due to relocation. With his friend having moved away, he had no other friends and was miserable.
Issei suddenly sees a pair of pale feet enter his downcast vision and looks up to see a young girl with pale skin, long black hair, a pair of grey eyes with slit pupils and pointed ears. The most bewildering fact of the girl that he notes is her strange clothes. A black jacket of sorts, purplish ribbons around her torso, a pair of white frilly short and two black crossed tape across each of her nipples.
Issei deadpans at the girl with a sweatdrop on the side of his face.
"Why are your eyes leaking?" asks the girl in a monotone voice. Suddenly realizing he was crying, we wipes his face on his sleeve. "I wasn't crying, I just got some dust in my eye, uh... yeah, some dust in my eye," he says trying to act strong and tough.
The girl blinks and slightly tilts her head, not understanding. They just stare at each other, with Issei becoming increasingly uncomfortable.
"Uuhmm, can I help you?" Issei asks her uncertaintly as she continues to stare at him blankly. After a while Issei just gets an idea, reaching into his pocket he pulls out some candy.
Handing one to her, she stares at the candy, back to Issei and back to the candy, unsure what she's supposed to do with it. Issei seeing her decides to take a second one from his pocket, opens the wrapper and popping the candy in his mouth.
The girl seeing his actions decides to copy his movements and when she does, her eyes open marginally with a slight spark in her eyes that is unnoticeable to other.
"Hello," Issei greets her politely if a bit awkwardly, "I'm Issei Hyoudou, what's your name?" She stare blankly, "Ophis," she answers simply. An awkward silence ensues, Issei thinking he might have a new friend asks her to play. She simply follows along.
The play for hours from the jungle gym to the sandbox, the slide to the swings again. By the time Issei realizes it, it's already nearing dusk. "Hey Ophis, I'm gonna go home now before my parents start to worr...AGH!?" Issei suddenly exclaims as a piercing yellow light goes through his heart.
"Their you are Lady Ophis," a masculine voice says. "It's time to go, we still have some plans to recruit more to help you.." the man trails off with a slight quiver in his voice. Ophis glares at the man in annoyance, before walking towards issei.
She rolls him over seeing the damaged area and his lost heart, but slightly surprised internally at seeing Issei clinging to life. Giving him a thoughtful look, she then presses her hand against his chest and creates a new heart for him.
Giving Issei a once over, she stands and walks towards the man before the teleport away in a glash of purplish light.
Unbeknownst to all even Ophis this new heart give Issei more than just his life back, but something extra as well.
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Two years later
We see a slightly older Issei standing infront of a mirror, frowning at his reflection. A few notable if only slight changes can be observed, his eyes have developed a slightly more of a slit pupil and his ears have become slightly pointed at the top. Snarling in annoyance we see two gleaming canine teeth, that appear if they are better suited towards a small carnivorous animal.
He sighs tiredly, before coughing out some warm smoke and embers. Clutching at his chest as his eyes water, the smoke gets thicker and more embers are coughed out with each cough. A burning sensation courses through his veins and both his arms are turning a bright red.
"W-what is...AGH...happening to me?" Issei groans out in pain. "Well this is certainly very interesting," a deep male voice comments. Issei's eyes shoot wide open and he whirls his head from side to side in a frantic panic.
"Look down at your hands, boy," the voice comments amusingly. His eyes snap to his hands which are covered in red gauntlets that reach his elbows, a golden spike like blade along each elbow, dark red armored clawed hands, emerald green jewels in the palm and near the elbows and several golden spikes along the gauntlets
"Wha...," Issei befuddles, his pain all but forgotten. "I seem to have an interesting host this time around," the voice comments. Looking at the gems in his gauntlets he asks, "w-who are you, whats happening to me and what happened to my arms?" The voice chuckles, "I am the Red Dragon Emporer, Ddraig Y Gosh. This is the Boosted Gear and as for what's happening to you. Hmm. You're going through some form of dragonification," he says getting more serious.
"Red Dragon Emporer, Boosted Gear, Dragonification?" the boy asks dumbly. Ddraig sighs, "The Boosted Gear is a Sacred Gear. Sacred Gears are artifacts bestowed onto humans by the Biblical God to survive against the supernatural. I'm a one of the two heavenly sky dragons, I was sealed into the Boosted Gear by God, after my rival and I found our way into a battle between the three faction of the Abrahamic faction."
Ddraig gives Issei some time to digest the information, "The three factions are made of Heaven with God and the Angels, the Grigori with the Fallen Angels and Lucifer with his Devils. During this war the two Heavenly Sky dragons had a battle and came across the three faction war. The three sides made a temporary truce to deal with the two dragons and then sealed them into two sacred gears. I was sealed into the Boosted Gear and my rival was sealed into the Divine Dividing.
As for Dragonification, it is the process of turning into a dragon. Any further questions?" Ddraigh finishes.
"Why me?" Issei asks tearfully causing Ddraig to sigh. "The system that distributes the sacred gears does so at random, I believe. And from what I can tell your possession of me already gave you dragonic properties, but you somehow aquired a dragon's heart, which is why you're going through Dragonification," Ddraigs says curiously.
"The best you can do know is get stronger and adapt to your situation. Those born with sacred gears rarely live peaceful lives. Sooner or later one of the supernatural factions will notice you and attempt to either recruit or kill you," Ddraig says seriously. A long silence follows, Issei deep in thought with a scowl on his face and Ddraig waiting patiently to see what his host will do.
"What will happen to my parents?" Issei asks quietly. Ddraig hums to himself for a moment. "Many will try to use your parents to get to you. Again the best you can do now is get stronger to prevent that or alternatively you can seek out a faction and ask for their protection. Although, some factions will try and be controlling if they don't just out right kill you," Ddraig answers sagely.
Anothet silence ensues, before a determined expression overcomes Issei's face. "I'll do it. I...I'll get stronger. So strong no one can threaten my parents and friends," he says, a fire burning in both his eyes and heart.
Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, the strongest Red Dragon Emporer has awakened and just taken his first steps to domination and a blazing truth.
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Three years later
Issei is sitting on his bed with an annoyed expression on his face.
"Any ideas Ddraig? I have to master Juggernaut Drive. I've got the previous users beaten thanks to Elsha and Belzard. Now I just need complete mastery over the form and its curse," he asks his friend and mentor.
Humming, "I'm not sure. Hiding the Balance breaker is one thing but Juggernaut Drive will have them gathering like vultures," he answers uncertaintly.
"Oh, I have an idea if you boys are game," a sweet feminine voice answers excitedly. "Oh and what would that be Elsha?" A rich male voice asks. "How about the Dimensional Gap? It's the perfect place for training and no one will be able to sense us there, what do you think Belzard" Elsha suggests kindly.
The three males all humm in contemplation, "I concur, our only problem would be Great Red and he has little interest in others too," Ddraig agrees.
Belzard just humms in agreement.
"Right to the Dimensional Gap than," Issei finally agrees. With their course of action decide he stands up and moves towards the door, only to suddenly stop. "How do we get to the Dimensional Gap?" Issei asks embarrassed. The three souls trapped in the sacred gear all sweatdrop.
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Some time later
Issei is standing in a forest, "Balance Break," he announces calmy. Suddenly a red light covers him before revealing a red dragonic armor covered Issei.
Raising his left arm with a knife hand before doing a downwards slash.
A whitish magenta tear is carved strait into the air.
After grabbing both side he rips open the tear creating a multi coloured portal.
"Well done," "As expected," "Nice job, Ise-Chan," Ddraig, Belzard and Elsha congratulate Issei. "Thanks guys, now lets go," Issei says before jumping into the portal, after which it closes.
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A year later
A massive red dragon with dark red hide, a dozen of emerald green gems embedded in the body, a long segmented mechanical tail protruding from the upperback and a pair of wings with four greenish energy feathers.
"HELL YEAH!" shouts Issei in Juggernaut Drive as he shoots through the Dimensional Gap at high speeds.
Issei shouts in joy and excitement as he flies around doing rolls and loops.
Unfortunately a portal opens up infront of Issei has a crashes into a massive red dragon. "You punk! Ya pickin' a fight, huh? Wait Ddraig, ya bastard that you?! I told ya if ya thought I'd go easy on ya caus' were both red dragons then be ready to be pummeled!" The massive dragon roars furiously.
"Huh! This is your fault you overgrown lizard! You just open a portal infront of me!" Issei shouts back angrily.
Meanwhile Ddraig, Belzard and Elsha are looking on in horror.
The massive dragon blinks owlishly, once, twice, thrice, as he stares at the little dragon that just lashed out towards him.
He suddenly realizes what happened and growls towards Issei. Issei growls back.
What ensues is almost comical has the two start throwing insults and blame at each other.
The three souls are looking on in horror, befuddlement, surprise and a little bit of intrigue at the two arguing dragons.
The two suddenly go quiet before bursting out laughing. "Hahahahahahaha, ya got some guts, brat. Not bad," the large dragon says, "Your not to bad yourself, ya bastard," Issei fires back.
The dragon snarls menacingly than smirks, "So what ya doing in my turf brat?" "I 'was' just flying and doing a few stunts before a certain someone opened a portal right infront of me," Issei says pointedly. The massive dragon snorts, "Like ya know anythin' 'bout flyin' and stunts brat, but ya got my attention, what ya gonna do 'bout it?" the dragon asks menacingly.
Gulping slightly at the pressure, Issei takes a deep breath, "I'll kick your ass,ya bastard!" he shouts with as much courage as he can muster. "And my name's Issei Hyoudou not brat!" he roars.
The dragon smirks, "Is that right ,huh? The name's Red. Non of that great crap, I ain't no one's god or nothin'. And I'll call ya what I like, ya have to earn the right to be called a name, Brat," he says challengingly. Issei just grumbles.
"So lets see some moves brat," Red says. Issei eloquently answers with a 'huh'. The dragon rolls his eyes, "Ya said ya're doing stunts. If ya're gonna fly in my turf, ya gonna do dat shit right, got it?" He says before blitzing past Issei with a strait barrel roll for several dozen kilometres.
He looks back and sends a smug look at Issei.
Smirking, Issei blitzes forward reaching Red. The two smirk before racing around trying to out do the other.
An unlikely alliance and friendship is born, one that will shake the very foundation of the world.
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Two years later
Two massive dragons are blitzing through the Dimensional Gap at high speed.
The bigger one, a hundred meter long western red dragon with four wings, light red underbelly, four dragon wings and a horn on the snout with golden eyes.
The second dragon, a sixty-five meter long western dragon with dark crimson hide, crimson scale armor, a semi-humaniod body, a long segmented mechanical tail from the upperback, four mechanical dragon wings with amber energy feathers, and a dozen amber gem all over the body and amber gem like eyes.
Both heading towards a dimensional distortion forming a portal. Shooting strait into the portal to a new dimension. Gradually accelerating past the speed of light, they see a purple cat person thing fighting what appears to be a guy with red hair in a orange outfit, knocking them over. Before entering a second spacial distortion leaving two confused fighters.
The second dimension they see an army of tiny green glowing people forming somesort of barrier and a man in blue tights with a red cape and... underwear?
Giving each other a look, before shrugging and barreling straight through them and into the collapsing portal on the other side of the universe.
"Ha I win brat!" bellowed Red smugly. Issei grumbles in annoyance, about cheating overgrown lizards.
They calmly cruise through the Gap.
"Man that was a blast! And did ya see that dumbass with the red undies, Hahahahahahaha," Red bellows. Issei snorts in amusement, before laughing himself.
"Well I've got to go. See ya Red, got a dilvery to catch and prep for high school," Issei says calmly detransforming.
Issei is has matured into a tall teenager, with long dark reddish brown hair with two locks at back of the head, sharp angular features with a rectangular face, a lean muscular build, brownish amber eyes and slit pupils.
He's wearing red v-neck shirt, a brown hoodie, a black leathet biker jacket, a pair of jeans and brown leather boots.
Red snorts loudly, "Why ya gotta waste time with that crap, I'll never understand. Ya can beat any other moron to a pulp from here to wherever and back, but ya still insist on doing and acting like those other annoyances out there," he questions dully.
An audible sigh escapes Issei's lips, "Maybe, but I still owe it to my parents, Red," Issei answers curtly.
"Well, whatever," Red snorts out, " I'll be here doing some awesome stunts if ya get bored with that shit, later Brat!" He fires as a flies away
"Ass," Issei grumbles with a smirk, snapping his fingers a reddish tear forms in reality. With a crack of the neck Issei steps through the portal, back into his room.
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After a quick shower Issei sets out on his black, red, crimson and gold coloured motorcycle. He eventually arrives at a fancy and large school with a large wall around it.
Driving and parking in the school parking lot, Issei starts walking around the campus grounds.
"Hmmm, pretty nice place," he mumbles to himself, "And view," he smirks seeing some of the girls on campus, all of which are beautiful, mature and or cute in some form or another.
The female uniform consists of a white shirt with black vertical lines, a black ribbon around the collar, a black caplet and corset with white trim, a maroon mini skirt with white trim and brown leather shoes.
Smirking as he walks by and making sure to take a good look around. "Having fun Ise-chan?" a feminine and bewitching voice asks teasingly.
Answering back with a twitching left eye, "Elsha, stop calling me -chan, dammit," he shoots back in agitation, before smirking. "But if you must know, than yes. I'm definitely enjoying myself."
"Aggghh, do you two ever stop being such voyagers," asks Ddraig. Both answering with a 'nope', popping the p. "Remember why we're here Partner," Ddraig sighs.
Snorting in amusement, Issei starts moving towards the main building entrance.
"Hello can we help you?" a voice asks, glancing to the side Issei sees a petite young girl with black hair in a bob cut, magenta eyes and a pair of red framed glasses.
"Hmm, yeah, I'm Hyoudou Issei. I'm here for my enrollment documentation and to recieve my uniform," he answers dully.
"I see. I'm Shitori Souna the Student Council President. Please follow me than," she replies curtly, before walking off. Shrugging Issei soon follows her through a few twists and turns and up a set of stairs into an office.
"Before we continue with the paperwork mister Hyoudou. Please to keep in mind, I take my job as Student President very seriously and will not tolerate misbehavior and troublemakers in my school, are we clear?" she demands.
Issei raises a single brow and shrugs, "Yeah, yeah. Behave or else. Yeesh, some people got no chill," he answers back, causing her eyebrow to have a faint twitch. Narrowing her eyes, she glares hotly at Issei, who just gives her an amused smirk in return.
After awhile and seeing no real reaction, Souna sighs and takes Issei's documentation and hands him his uniform.
"I believe you can see yourself out mister Hyoudou," she says bluntly. Still smirking Issei shrugs and leaves.
"He's going to be a pain, I just know it," Souna sighs, " well he'll at least be better than the other two perverts attending. I hope," she mumbles the last line out tiredly.