Natsu Dragneel In Dxd - Volume 1 Chapter 20 How To Train Your Vampire
“I can’t believe it there’s two Asias,” Natsu held his head with both of his hands to stabilize the dizziness he felt at the moment, “I I gotta tell the other Asia right now!” He quickly got off the bed and dashed towards the door, ready to reveal the shocking revelation to his other friends.
“Natsu, wait!” Sirzechs called out, grabbing onto Natsu’s wrist before he rushed out the currently opened door, “There aren’t two Asias and there never will be.”
“But, you said-”
“I know what I said, Natsu. But I was talking about another Bishop.” Sirzechs explained tiredly, not feeling a hundred percent to deal with Natsu’s antics. ‘This isn’t a time to play around. I need to have Rias summon back her other Bishop or else even I might not be able to handle the things in the future. His powers will be very useful to us right now and I can’t let that opportunity slip by. With Natsu around I’m sure things will go smoothly I hope.’
Natsu-hearing what Sirzechs said about another Bishop that’s not Asia- sat down back on the edge of the bed to hear out Sirzechs about the rest of the story, “So, this other Bishop is this person that strong to have locked away?”
“Unfortunately, yes.” Rias answered with a sigh as she crossed her legs over top each other, “But it’s not to say that the person is strong but the powers that my Bishop has is too untamed to have freely roam around.”
“Yes, precisely. The Bishop’s physical strength is little to none. But the powers that the Bishop contains is something imaginable on a power scale. It’s abilities can render even the strongest of Devils helpless. But that’s only if properly controlled. That’s why we locked Rias’ piece away, for that reason specifically.” Sirzechs calmly got off the chair and walk towards the door. Turning around before completely readying his leave, he spoke once more, “Rias, I’m counting on you for this.”
Standing up from the bed and facing forward towards her brother, Rias straightened her stature, “If my brother- no. If the Great Satan Lucifer and future head of the Gremory Family commands this of me, I will fulfill your wish.” She bowed politely to Sirzechs, showing her respect to the man while he just smiled and nodded before completely walking off.
Watching the whole thing on the bed, Natsu lazily laid back on it and spoke, “Now that this is happening, when are we gonna bring back your Bishop?”
“Tomorrow evening, when school is out and everyone has left, that’s when we shall do it. Our club is allowed to stay late because of our subject that we’re supposedly studying.” Rias answered seriously, going to sit on the chair that her brother previously sat on.
“And when are we gonna tell the others?” Natsu asked again, staring idly at the ceiling.
“Of course, we’ll tell them as well. The minute we all walk through the club’s door we’ll discuss this matter at hand. And we’ll all go see my other Bishop.” Rias stared at Natsu’s form, putting a hand under her lip. ‘I was so close. Just a few more seconds with Natsu without any interruptions and I could have-‘
“Hey, Princess, what’s with that face?” Natsu was seen sitting up and staring confusedly towards Rias with one of his fingers pointing at her as well. That’s when she realized that her whole face was a blushing storm with drool slightly coming off the side of her mouth.
“O-oh, it’s nothing. I was just thinking about food, that’s all.” She quickly wiped the drool away from her mouth with the back of her sleeve and tried even harder to stop the blushing. But that didn’t work so well.
“Really, ’cause I was too! Don’t you think food is the best? One time I had to go days without food, all for training! Can you believe that! But it was worth it- I mean, seriously, look at these things!” Natsu rambled on to Rias until the last part. When he said that he wasted no time to pull off his shirt and flexed his muscles in front of Rias, “Isn’t this awesome! I could be a workout model I saw on TV or whatever they’re called! That training sure did it out for for me! The best part is that I got a couple of new scars, though I never showed it anyone ‘cept you!”
Natsu looked back at Rias only to see no Rias.
“Huh, what’s her problem? Where’d she go?” Natsu put his shirt back on and walked out the door to go back down stairs, “Man, Princess can be so weird almostLucy weird.” Natsu shivered at the thought. ‘Lucy is nice and all but sometimes she can get a bit crazy. It just doesn’t make sense to kick your friend out of your window for sneaking in their house, crashing on their bed and eating all their food. What did I do wrong then?’Natsu thought intensely about this until he eventually gave up and continued down stairs. ‘Although, Princess isn’t far off.’
Well, going back to what happened in the bedroom, when Rias saw Natsu’s half n.a.k.e.d body she immediately flared up thinking, ‘I know I kissed him earlier but this is going way too fast! Is he this shameless!? No, I mustn’t be thinking like that, I need to go on the offensive as well. If Natsu is willing to go this far, I must follow if I ever wish for our relation to go further.’And so, looking back to where Natsu was standing(and flexing) Rias took in more detail of his chiseled, well-defined, sculpted muscles that lined all of his body as many integrated scratches and scars were detailed over most of his upper torso that lead to his back as well. All she could say was, “…” nothing. ‘This is way too much! I can’t take the offensive like this- feeling all fl.u.s.tered, looking at his well toned body with those scars that I’m sure will tell many interesting tales and- stop it! This isn’t the way to go! You know what, I should go now!’
So after all the turmoil in her head, Rias sneakily tip-toed out the still open door, leaving the rambling Natsu to talk on about his adventures and food.
Location at the Occult Research building, evening 6 o’clock:
“Wow, so this is the place? I’ve walked through here like, a million times.” Natsu, Happy and the others(Rias’ peerage) were all standing in awe at the giant wooden door that stood firmly in front of them. It was wrapped in many thick chains, with the door knobs having the most, as it was finished with a bigger-than-usual square lock with your average keyhole in the middle. They were in a relatively wide hallway with the door being the end of it. There were windows to the left of them, showing the sun bleeding its colors in the sky with magnificent reds, yellows and even some blue riding in the view.
“I can’t believe the other Bishop was here the whole time? It’s been living under our noses” Kiba stared at the door in wonder, wanting to know what this new powerful Bishop was like. But, before all this when they gathered in the club room Rias, had told them what the situation was and how she was going to play it out. It shocked most of them that didn’t already know but the others that did felt the tension build within their bodies as they already knew what kind of power the person had.
“The seal releases late at night, but the person sealed here still doesn’t wish to get out.” Rias explained, walking up to the front of the group by the thick lock.
“The most surprising thing is that Rias’ Bishop makes the most contracts out of all of us.” Akeno smiled, looking at the shocked expression of Issei,”He does this by answering and completing people’s requests online.”
“Are you serious!? How powerful is the dude to do this kind of stuff from this bedroom!” Issei screamed astounded.
“Anyway, let’s get this started.” Rias stretched out her hands as aMagic Circlethe size of the door appeared, making all of the binding chains disappear into red sparkling dust, “There, the seal has been broken forever. Alright everyone, let’s go in.” Rias instructed, putting her hand on the lockless door knobs. Slowly opening the door and walking in, everyone followed suit and walked in the dark room as well with the only light being the one from the open door. Inside the room was pretty simple, there was a bed to the right corner, a closet in the other top left corner and a giant coffin in the middle wait, what?
“There’s a coffin? But for what?” Natsu’s question wasn’t even acknowledged as they all heard a high-pitched sound coming from somewhere.
“Good evening. I’m glad to see you’re doing well.” Rias said smiling at the floor where the coffin was.
“H-huh, w-w-what-t’s hap-p-pening! Who a-are these p-p-people!?”
“Wait so the sound is coming from the coffin?” Issei asked curiously.
“Come on there, it’s time to get out. The seal has been broken and you can get out whenever yipou want now.” Akeno walked over to the coffin and bent down to its side as she held tightly to the top and pull off the lid.
“No! Please, don’t! I don’t want to leave!” And what came out was something neither Natsu or Issei could prepare for.
“By the power of Ddraig! Holy shit! The super powerful Bishop is asuper cutegirl!” Issei couldn’t stop staring at what he saw pop out of the coffin. The Bishop Rias was talking about indeed looked like a cute girl. The person had pale skin and platinum blonde hair that went down the nape of its a neck. It was wearing the standard girl’s uniform but with no shoes on, just the stockings. The Bishop had bright lavender eyes and a little cute fang jutting out from the top left corner of its mouth.
“Huh, something doesn’t smell right about this kid. It looks like a girl but” Natsu sniffed the air around him until his eyes widened in surprise, “No, this can’t be! My senses are confused!”
“Natsu-senpai, what’s wrong?” Koneko asked stoically, looking like she didn’t really care much about any of this at all.
“Everything is confusing!” Natsu rushed at the new Bishop and started to sniff rapidly around the person, “Gah, this doesn’t make sense! She looks like a girl but smells like a boy! What the hell is this!?”
“Nya~, help me! This man is crazy!” The Bishop screamed in terror hugging tightly onto its legs.
“No, this whole situation is crazy! How do you smell like a boy but look so much like a girl!? My brain can’t take this level of obscurity!”
“Eh? W-what’d you say Natsu?” Issei’s dream of double bodacious blonde Bishops was beginning to shatter in front of him.
“I said, she looks like a girl but-”
“Smells like a boy, correct?” Akeno interrupted Natsu with a smile, “That’s because “she” is a “he”.”
“So you’re telling me, that this person’s pronouns are masculine?” Issei stuck up a shaky finger toward the Bishop in disbelief.
“Well yes, you could put it that way.” Akeno said giggling, “He just likes cross-dressing.”
“Yes, and that is one thing I love about my Bishop,” Rias walked over to said person and bent down, giving the cross-dressing boy a comforting hug, “His name is Gasper Vladi a part of my family. He’s a freshman here at this school and he was a half breed between a human and a vampire before he was reborn.”
“Vampire!?” Issei screamed in shock. He would have never thought that this wimpy looking kid who also looks like a cute defenseless girl but is actually a boy that likes to cross-dress which makes the concept of it really stupid, would be a damned Vampire.
“A-a Vampire?” Asia asked shaking a bit, “Will he drink our blood?”
“Hey, how ’bout everyone just take a step back,” Natsu called out getting everyone’s attention, “Now when can I fight this guy?”
“Natsu, you’re not going to be fighting Gasper,” Rias said strictly, turning to face Natsu with a glare, “Anyway, Gasper, let’s go outside of this stuffy room, okay?”
“N-no! I can’t do it!” Gasper shrieked, shaking his head rapidly.
Hearing this, Issei walked up to him and grabbed onto his hand carefully, not wanting to scare the boy, “Come on now. It’s the President’s order. You gotta go outside.” Just when he was about to pull Gasper up, he vanished from everyone’s sight, “Ah! What happened! Where’d he go!?”
“Mhm?” Natsu took a whiff of the air and outstretched his arm in a certain direction, “Oh, he’s over there.” He was pointing toward where the closet was as it did show Gasper huddling to himself in fear.
“Please don’t make me go out there! I just can’t do it!” Toward to where the dresser was, it did show Gasper huddling to himself in fear, “Don’t hate me for this, please!” Gasper backed up closer to the corner while putting his hands up in defense.
“W-what just happened?” Xenovia asked nervously staring at the boy in bewilderment.
“That kid definitely just did something” Kiba said to himself under his breath.
“I don’t understand how did he get over there in such a short time?”Asia questioned, pointing towards where Gasper was trying to hide.
“Forbidden Valor View That’s hisSacred Gear,” Rias answered, crossing her arms, “When he’s distressed, Gasper is able to stop the time of anything within his field of sight for a short period of time.”
“Because of Gasper’s inability to control his power, Sirzechs-sama decreed that he would be locked inside the room until Rias was powerful enough to tame his power. It also happens to be that Gasper-kun’s power is able to refine itself over time.”
“And by “refine”… you mean get stronger, not more controllable.” Koneko disclosed as Rias sighed when she said this.
“Yes, that’s true. But using the word “refined” can be used both ways. While his power does become more uncontrollable, the more time passes the more Gasper would be able to control it. That’s what we meant by refined.” Rias explained herself, “That also means he might be able to doBalance Breakerin a shorter time. ”
“Really? He can do that in such a short time?” Issei asked curiously.
“Wah! Stop talking about me! It’s embarrassing!” Gasper’s voice sounded from somewhere in the room as he was out of sight again.
“That is annoying.” Koneko said to herself. ‘I wish bought some Pocky.’
“Rias, it’s almost time to go.” Akeno informed walking to Rias’ side.
“Uh, really?” Rias said surprised, “Okay, we’ll leave as soon as possible.”
“Hey, get out of wherever you’re hiding!” Issei fumed, getting really annoyed with his disappearing act.
“No, I won’t! This is my fortress of solitude!” Gasper yelled in denial.
“Listen everyone! I have an announcement!” Rias yelled out above all the noise, immediately having their heads turn towards her, “I have to leave with Akeno to go to the preliminary meeting to make sure we’re all in agreement. I want Kiba to come as well because my brother wants to know more about yourSacred Gear.”
“Yes, President.” Kiba bowed, walking over to Rias and Akeno to leave with them. Just before they were about to walk out the door, Rias did a sudden stop.
“Oh, I almost forgot something,” Rias said to herself, “I’m going to have you all train Gasper so he has more control over his abilities. That’s the main reason why I brought all of you over here.”
“Good luck!” Akeno said cheerfully as they all vanished in a bright red light.
“Huh, training? How are we supposed to train this wimp over here?” Issei asked.
“Issei-san, that’s a mean thing to say.” Asia said puffing out her cheeks, very annoyed at Issei crude behavior.
“I’m sorry.” He apologized sincerely until Issei felt a dark presence engulfing him.
“So we’re supposed to be training, huh?” Natsu said aloud while walking over to the bed. He reached below and pulled out a fearful Gasper shaking in his boots. Natsu looked at him with beady eyes and a sinister grin that showed he was down for business, “I’ll get you all straightened outGasper.”
Issei shiver at the scene, watching Natsu carry Gasper off through the door.
“What was that all about?” Xenovia asked feeling a bit shaken up at the display of evilness Natsu just showed.
“Natsu and training never mess with Natsu and his training.” Issei answered, remembering the cold early mornings that he had to jog through and the weights he lifted in the early morning gym. All he can say is that Natsu was a monster when it comes to working out.
“Natsu-senpai is weird.” Koneko said plainly.
Outside the Club building:
“Hahahaha! Run little Vampire, RUN! Hahahaha!”
“I’m too tired! I’m too scared! I don’t want to die!”
“You better dodge this or else I’ll be having BBQ Vampire for dinner tonight!Fire Dragon’s Brilliant Flame!”
BOOM!
“M-monster!”
“I’ll be the one to drink your blood! Hahahahaha!”
“This is way over the top.” Xenovia said from the sidelines as she watched the pyro throw constant fireballs towards the cute Vampire.
“I told you, never mess with Natsu and training.” Issei said, staring at the sight before him.
“I never knew Natsu-san could be so sinister.” Asia said, covering her mouth.
“If you don’t wanna die then use your magic!”
“I-I can’t!”
“I thought the training would be fun but this is just a massacre.” Xenovia said in a shaky tone.
“Natsu-senpai looks like a Vampire Hunter.” Koneko said while taking a bite out of the Pocky stick that she wanted. ‘He also seems to be having fun.’
“If you slow down, you’ll face the might of the great Satan Salamander! Better known as the Great Demon Lord Dragneel!”
“No one calls you that. In fact, I never heard of that in my life.” Issei said in a very unimpressed manner, waving his hand in front of his face.
“W-why are you trying to kill me!?” Gasper was seen lying against a tree with Natsu standing above him looking very much superior. His face was shadowed but you could clearly see the sinister light that reflected off his eyes.
“Your true strength only comes when faced with an obstacle that can potentially end your life. The feeling of adrenaline running through your body gives you the power to fight on against that obstacle. You must fight to protect your life and the ones dearest to you. So, I’m starting off your training with a simple life and death situation.” Natsu explained his reasoning to him while the others heard this as well, realizing the truthfulness of his words.
“How is a life and death training simple!” Issei yelled, disagreeing with Natsu.
“Shut up Pervert, or else I’ll cook you too!” Natsu yelled, turning to face towards Issei with a scary flaming face.
“Can we take a break now? I can’t move an inch.” Gasper fell back on the tree to relax his sore muscles until Koneko came up to them with something in her hand.
“Here, eat this. It will surely give you energy.” Koneko held out a what looked like a vegetable.
‘Wait a second is that garlic?’Natsu thought to himself. ‘Nice goin’ Neko-chan!’
“Wah! Garlic- I don’t like the stuff!” Gasper jumped up immediately to avoid contact with the dangerous vegetable that Koneko was shoving in his face. A chase around the field-similar to Natsu’s- erupted from that second with Koneko stoically trailing behind the terrified boy.
“No! Why’re you being mean Koneko-chan!?” Gasper was still running for his life while said person was dodging the garlic being thrown at him.
“It’s not good to be picky about your food source.” Koneko didn’t seem like she was trying hard but there was still a glint in her eyes that told otherwise. ‘I can see why Natsu-senpai enjoys this so much.’
“Is Koneko really teasing him?” Xenovia asked surprised.
“Who knew she had that kind of side to her.” Asia said happily. looking at the uninsightful cat and mouse game with glee.
“But doesn’t garlic kill Vampires?” Issei asked worriedly but no one bothered to answer him.
“That’s right Neko-chan! Get ’em!” Everyone deadpanned at what Natsu said.
“Anyway,” Xenovia said walking away with Asia, “How do you think we can help with Gasper’s training in a less violent way.”
“Well, I’m not sure how to put this but-” Asia was interrupted from her explanation when someone unexpected came from nowhere.
“Oi, Issei! How’s it hangin’!”
“Wow, Saji! What’re you doing here!?” It was Saji. He came from around the entrance building and walked over to Issei, Xenovia and Asia with a bright smile plastered on.
“Well, you see, I heard from Tsubaki who heard this from Sona who heard this Serafall-sama who got this from Sirzechs-sama that the Gremory family was reawakening someone from the Hikikomori family,” Saji took in many deep breaths from the very unexpectedly long tale of how he got here, “What are you doing out here?”
“Watching Natsu and Koneko train Gasper.” Issei pointed to the scene of the cute Vampire being helplessly bullied by the two powerhouses.
“BY GLORIA!” Saji’s eyes were filled with sparkles at the beautiful sight of the cute defenseless Vampire girl being chased by monsters. By this point, he was fantasizing about being the valiant who rescued the damsel in distre-
“That’s a cross-dressing boy by the way.” Issei pointed out blatantly. This immediately got a reaction from Saji as he fell on his knees in denial and distress.
“T-there’s no way this can be happening” He mumbled under his breath.
“It’s okay Saji I know how you feel!” Issei went down with Saji as the two boys cried over their dead fantasies, “All I wanted was a Bodacious Blonde Bishop Duo!”
“I guess, this was never meant to be” Saji said in a depressed manner.
“Suck it up boys. There’s no reason as to why you should be crying over something as trivial as that.” Xenovia scolded the male teens but hey never stop their mumbling.
“Mwuahahahaha! The Great Demon Lord Dragneel shall drink your blood!”
“Hurry and eat this. It will give you energy.”
“This is too much for me! Please, I don’t wanna!”
“Why did this have to be”
“Be quiet already!”
These were the things that Asia heard and witnessed throughout whole ordeal. The chaos she heard brought a smile to her face when looking around at the calamity forming before her. She was very glad that she got accepted into this family so easily and loved how everyone treated her. Then ever sense Natsu came, her life just seemed so much brighter. Natsu and Issei were easily her best male friends and even if Xenovia just came, she was absolutely herbestfriend. Asia loved how Natsu’s carefree attitude was able to lift everyone out of their shells and show their true self. She always wanted to be that kind of person.
“Hey, Asia! What’s up!” Natsu called out, walking towards her lazily.
“Oh, Natsu-san, nothing much. I’m glad that you’re having fun with Koneko-chan.” Asia answered happily, turning towards the man that was walking to her.
“Yeah, I’m having a blast! I can tell that Gasper has a lot of magical power but it just keeps on fluctuating.” Natsu answered cheerfully, stopping in front of the blonde girl, “Although, I do wish Happy was here. He always misses the good stuff.”
“I’m sure Happy-kun is fine.” Asia said trying to lift the boy’s spirit, “I was thinking that maybe we can all do something with Happy included. It’d be nice to finally- uh!” She fell on the floor abruptly startling Natsu to no end.
“Asia! Asia, what’s wrong!?” That’s when he noticed that it was happening to everyone. They were all dropping like flies onto the ground, helplessly eating the dirty. But at that moment, that’s when Natsu felt it. It was like a magic flood, drowning all the residents that manage to get trapped inside. Natsu stood strong going against the overwhelmingMagic Powerthat he was feeling. For the second time in his life he wasscared.
“Hohoho, it seems that I’ve interrupted a get together,” A voice echoed through everyone’s ears that made them shiver at the might of it. It was like the sound itself carried tremendous power, “I haven’t seen my Devil clients in a while- Natsu, Issei.”
“T-this smell I know this person.” Natsu said to himself, almost falling to ground again from the sudden wave of magic. He felt that the person was coming closer to their area and that it continued any longer Asia- no, everyone would die at that point including him. ‘Why would he be doing this? It doesn’t make sense’
“Now who’s ready for a lesson in power?”
