Reigning in the Phoenix

A series of knocks that could rival the blitz rained down on the door to my study lifting me away from my tedious paperwork. I knew who the culprit for these knocks is, they were courtesy of my good friends Sirzechs Lucifer.

"Come in sis-con."

The door then flung in with a tearful Sirzechs running up to my desk and a slightly solemn and depressed Grayfia following him slowly.

"Niren-kun, I need your help."

"What do you want Zechsy?"

"It's the final leg of the battle against Phoenix. My poor little Ria-tan is having to fight that brute for her freedom and you are the only one I can turn to."

Let me translate that, probably for my own benefit too. The heir to the Gremory clan, Rias Gremory, little sister to my good friend Sirzechs is arranged to marry Raiser Phoenix, the third son of Phoenix. They don't see eye to eye, well it's more like Rias detests me and continuously say no but her words fall upon mostly deaf ears. The only ears that listen are Sirzechs but him doing anything would cause ripples and these ripples could turn to waves quickly causing a landslide.

This subject is a touchy one to their friends and family, one that I am also against. I like Rias, she's a good kid with one hell of a rack. She is also my best friend's sister so I will support him. The reason Sirzechs has come to me is because I am the law and if recent rumours are true then I am the only devil able to stop this marriage and safely. Rias could do it herself in this fight but Rias is still an immature devil and yet to blossom, also her opponent is a Phoenix so someone who isn't seasoned will not win unless they have a competant Longinus user or a very competent user of Senjutsuu and from recent news Rias has those but their levels in either thing is extremely sub-par.

"You want me to prove these rumours that are going around about Raiser and in turn abolish this wedding as i'm the only devil outside of your parents who can?"Sirzechs nodded to me furiously and childishly.

"Fine, you got it. I can't let such a perfect little sister like Rias be given to that scum. How long do I have to get everything ready?"

"Rias has ten days from tomorrow to train her peerage. A day or so of rest before the engagement party, so 12 days."

"Alright then, i'll get to work. I'll see you at the party, also record the game for me. I hear Rias has Ddraig and that the host is a fellow perv."

"Just for you, Niren-kun. Thank you."

I winked to him as he left along with Grayfia who bowed to me before closing my study door. A second after the door had closed, I had linked myself to each member of my peerage and spoke out to them.

"Vul, Hime and Claryce, I need you three to go find any imcriminating stuff on Raiser Phoenix. You've got 10 days to do so, don't come back till then. Du, I need you to sniff around the Phoenix castle and it's surrounding region. Try to pick up Raiser's scent. Everyone else is to go about other things until Vul, Hime or Claryce ask for some help."

I was then met with a series of 'Yessir' from my peerage along with a happy bark from Du and a half-arsed growl of acknowledgement from Byakko. It's a good job I made him the torturer, it's a small job and one that is barely used here as magic alone is enough to get the truth out of most people. The next ten days then came in quickly for me, mainly as I had nothing to do while my girls were out gathering intel and Du was sniffing around as only he and scooby-doo can. Du is at least a little competent compared to scooby-doo though. Anyway, I gotta play with Anastasia for a while and learned that she has way too much free time outside of the devil school as I got my ass handed to me way too many times. Luckily though, i'm the grandmaster of racing games. Though that did annoy her and forced her hand, she brought Serafall into the mix and tipped her to her side as we played a final game, a mario party game. Serafall's task was to hinder me however she could, at least that's what I could tell and she did bloody well at it too. In the end, I lost and my poor little daughter had to go cosplay with Serafall. I still can't believe my cute little Anastasia risked her life just to beat me in a video game, she already did so in so many though.

My three girls had went about their jobs in their own fields of sorts. Vul seemed to go back to her roots as she joined the prostitute devils once again and found out that Raiser Phoenix was a rather frequent customer of there's. He would also pay top dollar for privacy but me and my peerage are the only ones you won't get privacy from as we surpass all else. Claryce dotted around the lesser known areas and spoke to the least-respected folk as she is an Elf, they respond to her easier as Elves are typically scorned by devils. However, there was nothing on that front even after a few days of searching so Claryce then met up with Hime and started to go around what was left, the every day devil folk. They would go around towns and cities to look for any place of interest, strip clubs, bars, you name it and they went there to look for any clues. They were the ones who found clues.

According to my girls, Raiser frequents the streetwalkers a few times a week, raped almost ten girls all from Low-class families and actually got two of them pregnant. After compiling this data, I personally informed each girl of the punishment I would give Raiser and thanked them for their help. I then asked them for their documents to prove that they had gotten pregnant and that he was definitely the father to which both girl had only ever had sex once to him. Then there was the stuff I got back from Du, who did very well at his job. His keen sense of smell is impeccable and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone or anything with a better sense of smell. Du was also a smart dog and knew if he was to ever catch on to someone's scent to not give away his full self unless he was supposed to capture the target, he would make a noise that would mistake the criminal for a human. For example, Du could nudge an empty can on the ground causing it to echo scaring the criminal. Du did this on his time scouting out the Phoenix region and foiled one of Raiser's attempt to come onto a young female devil to which Du opened up a circle and I personally spoke to the girl calming her down before Du walked her to safety. Then to top it all off, Du was able to overhear a talk between Lord Phoenix and someone else who both knew what Raiser had been doing. Who knew teaching a dog to be a ninja would be so helpful.

On the 11th day I watched the video of the Rating Game and I found myself very interested in the perverted possessor of the Boosted Gear. His special technique was one all pervs would be proud of. Dress Break, the ability to destroy a woman's clothes and even keep them from reclothing themselves meaning the only way they could hide themselves was with their arms which just makes the whole thing all the more erotic. This man decerves a medal or something that equates a medal in a pervert's eye, a stack of porn and that's what the boy'll get. Exclusive devil and fallen angel pawn courtesy of the Great Governor Azazel, I think he'll be as happy as I am on this gem of a find. And that's all I can really say, I didn't pay attention to anything else other than seeing that Rias and Akeno, Rias' queen were both going through puberty extraordinarily well and my little Koneko was still cute with her petite size. Then came the twelth and final day, the day I spent finalizing all the details and putting them together while being hounded by Sirzechs to see if everything was done and if I could save his sister from a monster. Frankly, Sirzechs was just stunting my development so I beat him until he was unconscious and then Grayfia froze him for me to make it last just that bit longer giving us both some peace of mind. That meant time out of my day but after breaking my work hours I finished them before I finally went to sleep.

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I stayed behind at my castle for a little while longer allowing both Serafall and Anastasia to attend the engagement in their standard clothes. I had made an addition and was going to wear my black jacket with the dragon hood so I could see if Ddraig was awake and also to see if he'd notice me. Ddraig's possessor will likely be shitting himself from my presence alone, dragons have nothing on me.

I was attending to my personal tablet computer that Ajuka created for me. It catalogued all my cases, past and present. It was also linked into the newspapers and internet so it caught news of any disturbances for me, it also had a built in projector so I could easily show my findings for occasions like today mainly for use against nobles as I have to show definate cause as me arresting them is normally in front of others who can speak against me but they'd never win as I have never been wrong and never will be, that's something that I am completely sure of. Just as I was finishing everything off, my partner for apprehending nobles came into my study. My partner is my Queen and possessor of Innovate Clear, Holly Green. Through her manipulation of her gear, she can create master-class earth magic constructs which easily exceed a devil's strength at times, meaning the lazy nobles can't escape her when she has placed her potential God killer cuffs on them. Any sign of movement and rocks will just out into their wrists so they can be rather deadly at times. Holly herself arrived in a simple light green dress that turned frilly at the bottom and was layered with lighter greens before hitting a final frill layer that was a creamy white, and as always to finish of her look was white strapped heels.

"You ready, Master?"

Hearing her say master just feels so … right.

"I sure am Holly, start the circle for us."

Out the corner of my eye I saw her nod her head and the start of the teleportation circle formed creating the crest of Zagan underneath her. After pocketing the tablet computer I took my postion next to my Queen who had in recent years took over the title of 'Ultimate Queen' something I had forced her into doing. Once giving her a soft pat on the butt, she allowed the process to continue and teleporting us off to the entrance to the party.

Once there we were quickly recognized and led down the hallway and stopped in front of two large pristine white doors with golden accents as we waited for our introduction. As a Maou, it's rather traditional. And then as the doors opened, a loud voice annouces us.

"Everyone, please welcome, Niren Satan and his Queen Holly Green!" "And Raiser, there is my proof. I also have a video of one of your failed rape attempts Raiser, wanna see it?"

I never had the attention listen to him. I pressed play on the video and swiped it off so everyone could see and hear the video along with Du and his heroic rescue.

I then looked to Holly and gestured with my head to make him stand up and she did so with a lot of force, enough to cause the famed Phoenix regeneration to act. Then I turned around counter clockwise so I could give Rias a smile on my way round to address the audience of his punishments.

"Punishment numero Uno: his engagement with Rias Gremory is nulled by my hands and authority. Fight if you will, you will only get further back."

I heard a small squeal behind me bringing a bigger smile to my face.

"Punishment numero dos: Raiser Phoenix's peerage along with his evil pieces themselves are confiscated by me and will become my own belongings to help fight crime. Raiser Phoenix will not get a new set of Evil Pieces until he can prove to me that he is a changed man and you can ask Sera, i'm a hard man to please."

Small snickers resound through the large hall at my sex joke. Really, i'm the only person you could find to be at the centre of a situation like this and say something like that.

"Punishment numero tres: Raiser Phoenix is to be under house arrest for the next 6 months. Failure to do so even once will mean a prison life sentence and so I make myself crystal clear, that means even out onto the castle grounds. Eyes are to be on him at all times."

I then take a small breath to re-catch my breath before turning and causing everyone else to follow suite in this tense and serious atmosphere. A small opening then appeared around the person that I was looking at. Just before I walked towards him I gestured to Holly to take him away and she did. I then walked down the two steps from the altar and looked directly at Lord Phoenix earning him questioning looks and a confused one from his wife.

Looking to my tablet, I put all the files on Raiser away and brought out the video on his father and played it allowing everything to be heard by everyone and clearly. This did not bring a smile to Lady Phoenix's face but a very angry expression appeared.

"And punishment numero quattro goes to Lord Phoenix for not informing me earlier. You should know that nothing escapes me, especially when it involves vile people like the scum that has just been taken away."

"Punishment numero quattro: An issued warning along with a fee that you will pay to Rias Gremory herself along with an apology of risking her purity and the first in numerous kind acts you'll do. Secondly, you are to pay each of the victims a hefty sum of money and give to them a valuable piece of Phoenix treasure of which will not somehow find it's way back to you."

I then turned away from Lord Phoenix so I could address everyone.

"My punishments may be strange but they work, if anyone of you do something similar and disrupt the law then I will bring my full power down on you and I will wreck you regardless of your nobility and relationship with my clan. Your rank as a nobility or even a devil means nothing to me in the face of the law, actually i'm more lenient to the Lower and middle class because a lot of you 'high-class' devils disgust me especially the prick we all saw leave just now and his idiot of a father. I'm actually rather tempted to strip his Lordship because he is not caring for his people when he allows one of his own to rape them."

I then turn back to Lord Phoenix who was bowing in front of Rias. "Everything?"

Marion then furthered shyed away from me leaving me to just shrug my shoulder. None of the five girls here were lying, not that someone would lie to me except maybe Anastasia or Serafall when they did something wrong. It's time for me to welcome them to the family so I vaulted the desk and sat on the end of it and threw out of my arms.

"Come one girls, group hug."

And I got what I wanted, a group hug. Marion and Ravel were quick to hug me getting the brunt of it all with the two rooks and knight at the back of the hug recieiving my arms. A group hug is a strange one, multiple places are hit by soft, warm objects that could be a mound or a mole hill. Now all these girls are different heights so a bigger area of my body is filled with their warmth and it's a grand feeling that only a Single Gremory or a Gremory Group hug could beat. The Gremory Group hug is unbeatable, Venelena, Grayfia, Rias and Akeno. They were good times.

"If you girls need anything or want anything then just ask and you will receive. I will do all that I can to make sure you get what you want. Welcome to the family girls."

I then tightened our hug squeezing the girls closer to me feeling even more of their bodies. And we stayed that way for the next few minutes until I had enough and released the girl's from the hug allowing them to breath properly.

"Niren-sama, it may be early but I have a request."

"And that would be Bella?"

I spoke back to her somewhat rigid tone with a happy one. Once I had finished, Isabella carefully took off the mask that adorned her face. Out from under the mask came tender, disfigured flesh surrounding a single eyeball that had lost everything and a single complete white ball. The removal of the mask itself was small but to Isabella it seemed to be different, her whole demeanour changed to one of a scared and nervous young woman who looked completely helpless.

I stared straight at her and not just the wound, I looked at her whole face to show her that I didn't care. To me, it means little and doesn't take away from her beauty at all. As I covered my hand in magic I brought my hand up to her face and slowly placed it onto the disfigured flesh. It was extremely tender, I didn't need Isabella's slight reaction to tell. It was damaged and enough so that even Phoenix tears could take an hour or so to heal, luckily i'm versed in all types of healing thanks to Claryce's Elven magic and my dragon magic. I still find it strange that dragon's have healing magic.

The whole time I had my hand softly placed on the right side of her face no words were said but just the soft stares of the girl's around me.

"So how do you want it done? Phoenix Tears or my own special healing?"

"Your ... own?"

Her voiced sounded somewhat forced as she barely said her words.

"I have learnt Elven healing magic which is on the level of Phoenix tears making it much more effective, plus I have Twilight Healing in my peerage and I can also fix wounds with my dragon scales. So all in all, my special healing would fix the damaged tissue, then overlap it with my dragon scales acting as the skin with magic it'll all fuse together. With time your pupil will come back, the dragonic power from my scales will spread throughout your body making it stronger and more resistant to flames of any kind. Problem being your body will have to take to my power, you've already been given some through the Evil Pieces so there is no chance you'll die but you'll have some pain running through your body for a while. All in all, you'd become part dragon to a small degree."

"Die?!"

That's the only part she picks up on? What's with these kids being scared of death nowadays, take it in your step and go with it.

"Yeah, dragons are strong especially a celestial dragon that can use Holy magic. Your body will be under some torment from it and you will gain somewhat of a resistance to holy magic through it but nothing on my level. Because you are within my peerage it doesn't matter, there is no chance that you'll die."

"Fine."

Her voice now sounded a little happy, well being a part of my peerage does give them a lot of pros more so than as Raiser's but they won't get as much as my actual peerage. Truthfully, they'll be my Zagan peerage while the others are my Satan peerage.

"Well, let's get to it so you can rest quickly."

Keeping my hand on her face, claws formed where my fingers were taking on golden scales as my eyes narrowed and deepened causing my scarlet coloured eyes to envelop and become completely scarlet with a black slit in the centre. As I invoke the dragon magic to transfer the scales thin ethereal dragons fly out from my claw and float around her head as strips of elven symbols coiled around my arm syncing up the process as two distinct magic circles appeared underneath us, one was my Zagan crest and the other was my Satan crest.

I lifted my claw slightly away from Isabella's face as the two crests light up enveloping the room in a gold and scarlet glow which made the strips of elven symbols to erratically spin around my arm applying the ancient healing magic to my scales that were slowly duplicating and transferring themselves onto Isabella's face. One by one, small golden shards of my scales placed themselves together over her soothing damaged tissue like a jigsaw. The right side of her face gains a golden glow as my scales come together to show a strong shine and fit.

The process is slow but effect and after several minutes, it finishes leaving the once torn and burnt flesh now a shiny gold as the scales start to cool themselves down to fuse with her flesh allowing the look of skin to take over bringing her face back to how it was but much, much stronger.

I brought my hand back from her face as my scales slowly disappear away from my hand reverting it from a claw. I wore a smile on my face as Isabella placed her hand over the right side of her face, a small trinket of a smile came to her expression as she no longer felt pain there along with the fact that she wouldn't have to wear a mask any longer.

"Now, the scales will change and fuse with your skin in a few hours time probably sometime during your sleep. You might have a slight numbing in your right side so you may need help eating and as i'm rather free for the next few days I can help you with that plus i'll need to keep check on you and moniter the change as this is the first time I have done this to a lower-class devil but rejoice as that now you are my servants you are High-class. All's fun there ..."

I finished by letting out a dragon's yawn which is remarkably loud and contagious, much more so than regular yawns.

"As i'm not a elf myself, their magic is pretty tiring for me so I will be going to sleep. Do what you will, join me if you like but watch out as Sera might attack."

I yawned once again and waved my hand before slowly trudging out of my study and off to my bed that was somewhere is this bloody castle.