8 Chapter 7

Underground Azazel Mansion.

"You're pretty good at this, Karan-kun." said a man with black hair and yellow bangs, he has been training Karan while Baraqiel was training his daughter. Over the past days Karan has been feeling more and more eager to train. He finally met the man known as Azazel who was the supposed leader of the Grigori, a faction which held only Fallen Angels. His first impression of the man where laid back and not caring, as he would constantly be in a room filled with many nudity magazines and unknown devices.

"You seem to be very familiar with fire." Azazel says as he dodged more fire shots which Karan is somehow throwing out of his hand. To him this is child's play; he could see why having a chant could explain the power behind his more powerful fire attacks. Since Karan is supposedly a human, he cannot learn the light spear attacks which Azazel has perfected.

As Karan dodges more light spears he returns at Azazel firing more fire attacks which seemingly have no effect on the Fallen Angel. Shuri, Akeno and Baraqiel all are impressed with Karan's progress they could easily tell he was a human born with magic as a gift. But what puzzled them was the fain divinity he was giving off. As Akeno cheered him on Karan became annoyed by Azazel's continuous tampering and trying to make him do something stronger.

"C'mon Karan-kun! I know you can better! Show all of what you can really do!" he said hovering above Karan. Now Karan was normally a calm person when it comes to fighting, but this was just getting on his nerves.

'It can't hurt to use a weak ability.' he thought as he begins thinking of what technique to use. After moments of thinking he finds one which isn't too powerful, but enough to show Azazel something and to get him to shut up.

"O Agni" Karan says in his mind as medium size ball of fire appears out of nowhere in front of him, The Fallen Angels including Azazel had their eyes wide open, normally magic came from the hands with only a few exceptions coming anywhere else. Yet, Karan managed to create a pretty good sized ball of fire magic.

Azazel smirked victorious in managing for the boy to reveal just a little bit of his strength, Baraqiel had been sharing his experiences with Karan to Azazel, saying that he is less of a child and more of a warrior type of person. Baraqiel spies on Karan when he goes to his private training but Karan could sense him, which is why Baraqiel hasn't really seen anything that would cause him to question Karan.

Karan appears before the family feeling exhausted from training with Azazel, he could have gone longer but his patience wasn't like the original Karana. He had a limit and it was broken today, he would have to work on that.

"Karan! Are you ok?"

"Yes Akeno." he says smiling at her, he grabs her hand and moves a little too closer to her.

"Karan…" she says blushing their faces were only a few centimeters apart but Karan didn't know what he was doing.

*COUGH* "A-Ahem!" Baraqiel grunted seeing his young daughter having intimate contact at such a young age, he was about to hurt Karan until Shuri stopped him just in time. Karan noticing Baraqiel flaring killer aura looked at him with confusion. Azazel approaches Karan clapping his hands impressed at his overall performance.

"Karan-kun you have impressed me greatly." he said having a massive grin on his face, "How would you like to become a high-ranking member of the Grigori?" Baraqiels eyes shot open, It was rare to find such people strong enough and trustable enough to become a high ranking member of the Grigori, but he was not all that surprised, Karan had to managed to also sway Baraqiel to feel impressed with him.

Akeno knew what this meant, he would have to leave to the underworld and begin a massive yearly long training experience with Azazel, she looked at Karan with desperation in her eyes, she didn't want him to go and she also knew that he wouldn't leave her.

"No thank you." he respectfully declines, he doesn't care about the Grigori, once his body is finally matured he will able to take on Azazel in a full on fight without being scathed.

"But Karan-kun!" Baraqiel tried to protest angering Akeno and Shuri.

"Yes Baraqiel-san?" Karan says responding to his sudden outburst, he knows he wants Karan to become a Fallen Angel but Karan doesn't need that, he is Karan Lancer, a Demi-god as well as a heroic spirit, the son of the sun god and the hero of charity, relying on becoming a Fallen Angel just to gain a little power would be disgracing his name, and that he would never do.

"Its fine Baraqiel, maybe one day he will want to come to our side, I just hope you don't join that devil you were talking to the other day." Azazel said smiling at Karan. The family of three suddenly turned to Karan with narrowed eyes, he never told them he spoke to devils.

He just didn't want Akeno to find out he was speaking to female Devils.

'For him to spy on me, without me realizing it…I need to be weary of you, Azazel.' Karan thought cautiously.

"Yes they wanted me to join a peerage of some sort, but I turned them down and we said our goodbyes, however I didn't catch a name." he lied on the last part. Azazels smile fell, Karan figured him out already he had someone else watch him rather than himself, and he knows whoever Azazel sent couldn't hear anything so that left even more suspicion for Azazel and Baraqiel.

"You seem to already know many powerful attacks, Karan-kun." Azazel said with a new smirk, "I wonder if the reason you pass out is because, you lack endurance." he thought aloud.

'Psh, He got me.'

"Yes Azazel-san, If my endurance was strong enough to handle my offensive capabilities then I wouldn't pass out." Karan said keeping a toneless voice. He was smart not to reveal anything that might let them know he can do superb attacks with very high destructive capability.

"Hmm…I wonder Karan-kun…how strong those offensive capabilities are."

"Well…we won't know if my endurance is weak...right Azazel-san?" Karan said getting a curious gaze from Azazel, now Karan had him where he wanted him. With this Azazel will continuously be interested in Karan and that would mean he would want to train with him more and more. Baraqiel had his own eyes on Karan, while he hasn't seen his abilities; he has seen enough of his character.

"Karan-kun before you go I want you to meet someone, he's a bit older than you but I think you two can become good friends."

"C'mon out, Vali."

As he said this a boy about only two years older than Karan came out with a shy look, the boy had silver hair and blue eyes, it was obvious to anyone he's a bit traumatized.

"I have a feeling Karan that you and Vali will become friendly rivals." Azazel said smiling at Vali who is starting to enjoy the part of fighting, but he knows right now he cannot fight Karan.

"Quick fight?" Vali asks with a weird looking smirk on his face, Karan shrugs but agrees. Karan takes a step back, he can feel the strength of Vali from just simply looking at him.

"Scale Mail!" Vali utters before his body transforms into an incomplete looking version of the Vanish Dragons scaled male form. Baraqiel gives Azazel a questionable glare but he says its fine and Vali will not kill Karan.

As Karan ready's himself he gets a lot farther back, with this no one will be able to see his Mana Burst. Vali wasting no time, charged Karan using his immense dragon speed, as he gets behind Karan and goes for a punch from behind but somehow Karan knew he was there.

Karan dodged the punch without even turning around, as Vali lunged forward missing Karan comes behind him and try's to kick the armor, with no success he uses it as a leap and hopes into the air.

The spectators awe in amazement, this was the complete opposite of what they had expected, Akeno had faith and completely believed Karan would destroy Vali.

As the first encounter did impress them, they knew this was coming to a close when Karan was falling down back to the ground. They all knew the Vanishing Dragon was fast, and Karan being a human would not be able to even see the silver haired boy.

As Vali goes to make a punch directly on Karan face, he predicts this and immediately goes in the defensive. As the punch comes closer to Karan dodges again shocking the Vanishing Dragon Emperor.

Karan suddenly grabs a hold of Valis incomplete scailed maile form and begins trying to punch him. As nothing of success he realizes that his armor is so strong for any of his punches to make even a dent,

"O Sun" he utters before flames begin erupting out of left hand, he brings it towards the armor and shreds it to pieces.

Vali, now out of his scaled mail form begins falling down to the ground alongside Karan who is preparing for another attack. Karan suddenly appears under Vali. Karan kicks him in the back causing him to yell in pain, Karan proceeds to do multiple kicks at Vali forcing him to go higher up in the air.

With Vali now high in the air and on his back, Karan goes in for the final blow, he appears above Vali surprising him yet again, and with on last kick to Valis stomach he is sent flying down to the ground. A small crater emerged as Vali lies defeated against Karan. Azazel and Baraqiel both had surprised expressions; they didn't think Vali would be defeated by someone who's only had one lesson of training.

"That was impressive Karan-kun, to be honest I didn't expect you to defeat Vali."

"Karan!" Akeno says running up to him. She embraces him in another hug,"I didn't know you could handle flames!" she says amazed that he is a more proficient fire user than she is lightning user.

Morning, Next day

As Karan wakes up he slowly removed the arms of Akeno away from his body, he didn't mind it when she would tangle her body with his, but sometimes she would 'accidentally' put her hands in spots Karan would feel weird about.

As he gets up to once again explore the Shrine he sees Shuri cleaning, 'she must have gotten up really early.' normally Karan would get up and clean the Shrine.

"Hello Shuri-sa-"

"Oka-san." she says making a sweet smile.

"Shuri-san I-"

"Oka-san." she reminds him. It's not as if she's trying to act like his mother, she just wants him to call her that because she firmly believes that he will one day 'officially' become her son, even if not blood related.

"…"

Karan now try's another approach.

He gets on his knees like a beggar would, "Himejima-sama, I believe it is my duty to keep the Shrine in check, someone of your status should never have to do such a thing."

Shuris blushed at being referred to as –sama as well as Karan talking and using her last name. Out of nowhere Baraqiel came put his arm around Shuri, "It's about time." he said making Shuri giggle, she had a problem with her family accepting Baraqiel, so she was treated badly and was forced to live in the Shrine, but she is happy and that's all that matters.

At Night

'Kacach,' Karan utters in his mind as the legendary perfect armor begins forming around his body. 'Finally' is what Karan thought as he is able to hold his Kavach without being crushed by the enormous power it holds. Karan is smiling as his Kavach is evolving to its almost full state, as he does this he feels a string of energy suddenly come from his body.

'What is this energy!?' he thought amazed; it kept coming, this unknown energy which he could tell it's his, but not his at the same time.

Karan was planning to stop in fear of something would go wrong but a voice told him otherwise.

'Finish It!'

'Complete it!'

'Perfect it!'

'Yours is powerful, more powerful than my previous'

'Who are you?' Karan asked the voice. Karan can feel his Kavach almost at its final state.

Karan stops all of this in fear of hurting himself, if he was somehow able to manifest the form of Karan to a high degree then he would do it when he was ready, which he is not right now. The voice stopped talking and Karan thought it would be a good idea to rest before something bad occurs.

Shrine

As Karan is approaching Akeno's room he feels someone else walking about late at night, curious Karan goes to find out who it is. As he makes a turn he bumps into a very odd looking Baraqiel, he was wearing some sort of outfit that had holes in it as well as chains.

The most notable thing that he was wearing was a black dog collar with spikes on it, he also noticed dry tear marks on his face as well as a few cuts that look like came from whips, 'What the hell…'

"Karan-kun,"

"Baraqiel-san,"

The two stared in deep silence, Karan's mind has many questions going on, one was what he is wearing, another being why he is crying, and another is why was he whipped.

"Karan-kun what was enormous energy I felt a few moments ago?"

"Baraqiel-san why are you crying?" Karan shot back trying to avoid the question Baraqiel asked.

"…."

"…"

"…."

"Karan-kun you never saw me."

"And you never felt that energy."

"Of course I didn't." he says keeping a very neutral tone.

"Good night, Baraqiel-san."

"Night Karan-kun, oh and don't be surprised you'll be in the same position as me one day." and with that quickly walked away.

'I didn't hear that.' he said to himself. Karan also couldn't think of a situation that he would be, wearing a dog collar, being whipped, and was crying.

As Karan casually walks back to his room, he can't shake the feeling that something is going to happen. He gets into bed with Akeno who was surprisingly awake, sometimes she can't sleep unless Karan is there. However, Karan cannot sleep, something is bothering him, it's as if he knows something going to happen and he won't be able to stop it.

Something bad is about to happen, something that will change Akeno's life.

Something very bad is going to happen.