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Chapter 5 - Rage

IN KUOH

Everyone inside Kuoh Town started to feel odd. Some started to feel goosebumps all over their skin. Others couldn't breathe properly, barely having the strength to hold their own breath. Others started to sweat profusely and felt cold and chills all over their body. Their survival instincts were telling them to run, the further the better!

 However, a huge pressure fell upon everyone, paralyzing them on the spot! Their faces lost all color, and they all could feel as if a disaster was about to happen. Some of them got lucky and just fainted after some time, but others had to deal with this. However, everyone inside the city whether supernatural or not, started to experience those symptoms. As if something terrible just happened! As if the balance and peace of the world was just broken! As if a chained monster just broke his bindings! The clear and beautiful night sky turned pitch black, not even the moon could be seen.

Fog started to appear around the city, giving it a spectral look. Coldness erupted everywhere and a menacing vibe surrounded every living soul! They could feel their hearts being gripped by an invisible hand, ready to crush them with a single movement!

 At the same time, the same sensation was experienced by all of the ones inside Kuoh's College Division. "How could that be possible?! It's halfway through summer, even if its night time this is ridiculous!" - Reiji said, letting out his breath in between his hands. One could still see the frozen breath in the air slowly dissipating. He knew that this climate change was not normal! Looking towards Akeno and Rias he saw them surprised and frightened, for whatever reason it may be. However, they didn't move so he became worried. Walking towards them, he felt how in the place they where standing the atmosphere felt many, many times worse. As if all of this was directed towards them. Their lips were pale, almost blue. Their faces drained of all color and they were barely hanging onto their consciousness. They were shaking, their teeth also chattered noisely. Sweat started to flow down their foreheads, just like a terrible fever. They were petrified, not daring to move and inch! He tried to move closer but when he reached just 10 feet away from them he fell to his knees, trembling all over and, -

 * Huff! Huff! *

- Breathing heavily. Whatever was the cause of this ridiculous climatic change, it didn't want him to get near them!

 In other places around Kuoh the rest of the girls Irina, Asia, Xenovia, Ravel, and Koneko felt the exact same way as Rias and Akeno! Their bodies completely frozen, as if trapped in ice! But just as the feeling came from nowhere it was also gone… They were freed from that feeling of terror! Like it was a bad joke from the Heavens, as if it didn't even exist!

But they knew it was real! However, no one else felt what they did, the symptoms they felt compared to the rest were vastly different-and in fear of making whatever it was that did this, angry, they did not dare report it to the higher-ups. The sky cleared up, the moon could be seen amongst the many clouds in the sky, but the mist was still there. The coldness disappeared and instead, the climate of a normal, chilly summer-night appeared. The sole difference was that it was much darker than before, just like midnight. They did not know what had happened, it was too mysterious. Thankfully no one got hurt, they were the worst ones of the bunch, but after a couple of minutes they returned back to normal. But that sensation, that feeling of impending death… Was something they will never forget…

WITH ISSEI

The air in the park was filled with the feeling of dread and despair...…

That surprised and scared Ddraig. He knew what his partner wanted to do! He thought that they had lost it after gaining a new power! But it seemed that it was still there!

 The Juggernaut Drive!

With a voice that came from the grave. A voice that seemed to reach the deepest depths of the entirety of Hell. He chanted;

 I, who am about to awaken

[Partner! Wait, don't do it! They are not worthy of you sacrificing your life to ensure their destruction! Listen to me! Is this really how you want everything to end!?] - The Dragon hurriedly said to his partner, clearly worried. At the same time he felt anger and disgust towards those women! Yet the answer of his Partner was only another chant…

Am the Heavenly Dragon who has stolen the principles of domination from God

[Shit! Partner, listen to my voice. Is this what you want?! Killing innocent people that did nothing wrong except being in the wrong place at the wrong time! You are better than this! Show them not by destroying but by your own strength that you are different from what they say!] Noticing that the next part of the chant was not coming as quickly as before, he knew his partner was still there! Broken beyond repair, but still there! There wasn't much time, the next part of the chant was soon heard…

 I laugh at the "infinite", and I grieve at the "dream"

 This time the chant came more abruptly, as if he didn't want to continue. Ddraig took advantage of it. [Partner! Issei! Please don't do it! I know you are suffering! I know you want revenge but this is not the way… ] Breaking his speech, the next part of the chant became present.

 I shall become the Red Dragon of Domination

[Come on, Issei! Come back to your senses! You're the best possessor of the Boosted Gear in History! The one with the greatest potential! The one I dare to call a friend!]

 [Don't you dare go down that path that leaves nothing but pain and agony!] - He was desperate.

 [Don't you dare leave after all we have been through!]

 [I know you can overcome this, just like you always have my friend! So show me one more time, how Hyoudou Issei makes the impossible possible!]

 As the words of Ddraig finished the chant also stopped, the glowing and trembling of the park was now gone. The Boosted Gear dissipated, becoming red particles of light. Issei fell down, barely conscious, he was breathing and sweating heavily.

 "So I am your friend Ddraig… Good to know I at least have someone I can trust. Thanks for everything, and sorry about scaring you."

"We can speak about that later, I am going to faint…" - Being his last words of the day he felt asleep. One couldn't blame him, after all, this day was just horrible.

 [As always you make me worry, but I could not have asked for a better Partner!] - He sighed in relief. [Better rest Issei, because that aura you showed is something that will make you even stronger! HaHaHaHaHaHa! I can not wait to tell you about it, Young Drake!] - Saying those words with so much pride and arrogance Ddraig decided to rest as well.

[If he is capable of mastering that aura, then we would have a new Heavenly Dragon running around the world!] - Those were his thoughts.