Fate, and Change in Time.
Once Kurayami and the girls returned to his room the first thing he did was put the crying Valkeir on the couch that was in his room. He sighed that she was still crying so he sat next to her and patted her shoulder to calm her down.
'I can do this, how hard can it be to calm down a crying woman?'
Even Shin nudged her with his snout as her crying was quite sad. He might now have been a normal dog, but he could see how sad she was. He felt bad for her yet Kurayami's words were less than helpful.
"There, There. It is not the end of the world, just because Odin got rid of you does not mean it is the end. Don't worry, while you may be considered useless to him, h-"
Before he could make the damage worse Raynare and Esdeath both punched him in the face which hurt them more than it did him. He wiped his nose and saw they had made him bleed a little. The one drop of blood turned into a mass of shadows and reentered his body.
Ophis when she got hurt could turn her blood into snakes and the same with her power. Kurayami himself could do the same with shadows, but his blood could not become a creature, but he might in time.
Raynare and Esdeath rubbed their wrists as they glared at him. Raynare sighed at his lack of tack even though she knew it was not his intention to hurt her. He was just too blunt and it resulted in this, still, why was he so tough?
"I knew you were tough, but that is crazy. Now, look at what you did, you big oaf."
"WAHH, I AM USELESS? I knew it, no one will ever love me. I WILL DIE A VIRGIN."
She hid her face on the couch and wailed. He blinked a few times as they did not let him finish, he was going to say that she had a purpose here. Esdeath looked at her purple fist and sat on his lap.
If she got hurt because of his tough face it was only fair she got his lap. Still, his plan was quite evil which she approved of.
'I see what you were doing, you wanted to make her dislike Odin while feeling grateful to you. What a bad man?'
He looked at her and he talked back to her through telepathy.
'Knowing you, you would have done even worse. Esdeath the ice queen, Esdeath the evil, and all the other titles that you are known for.'
She leaned back on him while the other girls watched with jealousy. As for Scathach, she walked toward the door before she bowed.
"Master, I shall take my leave. I think I will go talk to Azazel to see when I can start my training job again. It was one thing I am proud of, and I want to continue it."
"Oh Scathach, this is not Grigori. This is my house."
She sighed before she made a different request.
"Ok, I need a room, I am not going to sleep here am I?"
"You can take any of the vacant rooms. There are a lot here and I would take one on the top floor, it is where I and the girls have our rooms."
Akeno sat on the bed before she explained a little of the top floor.
"As we are all my brother's fiances we share a room. Even though we all have our own rooms, but we rarely go in them. Besides that, there are many empty rooms, but where is Kuroka is my question. She is normally here after all."
Kurayami knew where she was as he had placed several trackers on her and even a few barriers with the Infinite on her. She was currently pregnant with their daughters and he was not about to take a risk with any of them.
"She is with mom, from what I can see she has told our mom about her pregnancy. I mean it was about time we told everyone, but she wanted to make it a surprise."
As for Scathach, she was wondering how strong his children could be. He, after all, was a monster on his own and his women were all quite strong so she was interested. Her teacher side was already going crazy, as she felt if she had more time with Chu Chulain he could have killed her.
Even if her life was no longer in her hands she wanted to see how far her trianing couldd go. She kneeled down and she made a request.
"Master when your daughters grow can I be in charge of trianing them?"
"That depends on what their talents will be. They could be warriors, mages, or what type of weapon they use. You can be one of their trainers if you want."
She grumbled about it as she had her pride as a master trainer. She felt that having too many trainers would have a clash of schedules, but if that was his order.
"I understand, I will take my leave first. Excuse me."
She walked out of the room while Kurayami sat back on his couch. He looked at his divine spark in his chest and even though it was quite large he did not know what aspect to pursue his divinity.
'Gods who take the easy path to Godhood are much weaker than the ones who worked for it. Just like Sun Wukong who fought for his current seat. However, the hard part is trying to understand what aspect to follow. Ophis is a Dragon god of [INFINITY], while I can't copy her.'
He shook his head and decided to take time in his days to ponder on his power, but he knew the path to Godhood was not easy. At that moment Rossweissa wiped her tears and hugged her knees.
"Can *Snif*, stay at Grigori?"
Kurayami glanced at her as he forgot she was still sitting next to him. He looked into her light green eyes and saw that they were wet with tears. He sighed and patted her on the head.
"I'm sorry about my tone earlier. I was going to say you could be useful here to teach me Asgardian magic if that was fine with you."
She glanced at him and the girls and put her face on her knees.
"Fine. Just because the old man thinks I am useless does not mean I will let my heart go to the void."
At that moment Kurayami's glasses shattered and his head shot toward her. She glanced at his Infinity signs for eyes and she felt she was being dragged into them. His face was dead serious and the girls could feel the cold in the air.
Akeno felt sweat fall down her pretty face, but it was not that her brother was angry. It was like he was so focused on something that he lost all restraint in his power.
"Rosweissa, say that again?"
She gulped and repeated. it.
"I will not let my heart go the void."
He grinned at those words and he felt his Divine Spark form cracks in it while the Infinite was surging. Shin stood up when he felt the change in his partner and he gazed at his master ready to do anything.
He broke out laughing like a mad man and he did something bold. He kissed her on the cheek turning her bright red before he teleported directly to the Dimensional Gap with just Shin.
When they were gone Raynare, Esdeath, and Artemis all breath out in relief while Rossweissa was rubbing her cheek in shock. As for Natsume, she fell to her knees in shock as that was the first time she saw him so serious.
Lavinia sat down on the floor while she was panting.
"Ophis, did he succeed? Is he going to be a god soon?"
They looked at each other before Ophis spoke.
"He is on his way to be complete"
Artemis glanced at the Dragon God and saw small black veins show up on her fair skin. Ophis glanced at the change, but it was not something negative. she was born from the Infinite, and Kurayami's use of it came from her.
From the times they had intercourse she had absorbed back the Infinite that went in his body in a cycle that had effectively made it different from the one in her body. All of the Infinite that had cycled in Kurayami's body was now changing to something different.
It felt empty, cold, quiet, dark, and like nothing at the same time. She looked up and one of her formerly Grey eyes turned entirely pitch black and she looked toward Kurayami who was now doing something really dumb.
He did not enter any of the small sub realms that she had made so he could train but had exposed himself to the Dimensibal gap itself. The Infinite signs became nearly blacker than black and it looked like a 'Void' when looking into them.
As for Shin, his body was cracking, but Kurayami's power and his will were keeping them both together. He hugged the dog and he started to ponder on his life in this world. What he had accomplished, his battles, his upgrades, and improvements.
When thought about his power and the hardships he had endured to get this far. Since he was a child in this world he was training in as many ways to improve. he had trained with Incinerate Anthem unit he was exhausted and borderline on burning himself.
He had endured the pain of absorbing Shin, getting Ophis's blessing, his EX Balance Breaker was no cakewalk either as the pain it caused was enough to make most being scream in despair. That was one thing he had not told the girls as they would worry too much.
He thought of his different kinds of fire and lighting and they were really the biggest thing in his life. All the other powers he had were used to make more Lightning and Fire variants and now he knew what he had to do.
He gazed into Shin's eyes and he smiled.
'Ready to start our first steps into demigod hood?"
Shin nodded and all around them all the fire and lighting variants filled the void of the dimensional gap, his purple holy fire, his white lighting fire, black fire, Chrono fire, void fire, and his lighting followed the same patterns.
The sheer amount on Earth would have incinerated massive chunks of the Earth and even Great Red was drawn in by the power. He knew that Kurayami and Ophis were mates and now he was watching how he was going through a half step to godhood.
The giant Dragon of Dragons was the dragon of Dreams and he already knew what his fate was going to be. He had personally sealed the Dimension gap to prevent foreign beings to invade this world, but that would not last longer than a few years now.
He knew that if things went on like this he was fated to die to Regalzeva, which was fine as before he knew the one known as Issie Hyoddo was destined to defeat the EE gods. Yet, Fate changed drastically with just one being, Kurayami Himejima.
At this point, he did not know what would happen, but as he gazed at the newest future Dragon God he felt that just maybe, dying could wait. He like Ophis was now interested in how far this guy could go.
Great Red knew his take over of the Dimensional Gap had annoyed Ophis, but he had to keep her alive as once he died she would be one of the few beings in this world that could even think to face Regalzeva and the rest of the EE gods.
Yet, he gazed at Kurayami who had just ripped out his own heart and which was now absorbing the flames, lightning, Infinite, and some of the Void energy of the Dimensional Gap and he made his choice.
He infused his own power within the heart in secret before he flew away. He knew that Kurayami longed to defeat him, but not kill him. Kurayami was no fool and felt the change and even though he was heartless right now he was fine.
His Dragon body was not just for show and now the heart in his hands no longer looked like a heart. It looked like an Abyss, surrounded by a bright red circle around it. The fact that Great Red had helped him was a boon, but at this moment Kurayami glanced at the distance and said just 5 words.
(LOOK TO THE COVER ART. I ALWAYS PLANNED TO MAKE USE OF KIRIE'S HEART THING AN HERE IT IS!)
"You will be my familiar."
He expected no response, but he got a two-word answer.
"Bring it."
Kurayami slammed the 'heart' in his heart and he felt his Divine Spark fuse with his new heart and now both Shin and Incinerate Anthem felt a strange power. As for the goddesses who had sent him to this world watched with fascination at his actions.
She had to say he had once again surpassed her wildest expectations as was a goddess of death she knew all the manner of ways every being would die. At that moment the number of potential deaths Kurayami and Great Red had were reduced, and some changed.
She was shaking in her throne as this hobby was always fun. Now she had to wait to see just how much he would grow from this. Whatever happened she knew it would be fun.