Aftermath

After beating Loki, Alex saw Saji arrive on the battlefield as well, in his berserk dragon mode. He sighed as he watched Saji rampage while looking for opponents, as he dint have a good enough relationship with the guy so he couldn't connect with him the way issei did. Not coming up with any better ideas, Alex used his speed to swiftly move rig next to Saji's head.

"Sorry about this buddy." He then slammed his fist down on Saji's head, and caused a crater to form under him from the impact. Being knocked unconscious, Saji then started reverting to his normal form. Everyone let out a sigh of relief that the fight was over, and that they didn't have to fight their own comrade. He then saw Barakiel and Akeno making their way over, and Barakiel asked,

"If you could kill him, why let him live?" Alex shrugged and said,

"I don't think the mythologies would take kindly to me if I started killing gods, even the evil ones. We can turn him over to Valhalla and they can deal with him." Barakiel nodded at his words, then his expression turned even more serious,

"I have to ask, do you truly care for my daughter?" Akeno turned red at her fathers question, and Alex just laughed lightly and replied,

"If I didn't, then I wouldn't have bothered with her in the first place you know? I may not seem like it, but I like to think I don't just chase any woman that crosses my path." Barakiel looked relieved at Alex's words, and a little annoyed at them at the same time. After that Sona came and collected Saji, and Rosswiesse arranged for Loki to be picked up and taken away for his crimes. They later heard that the meeting went well, but everyone was concerned as the Vali team had also disappeared when the fight was over.

Alex wasn't too worried though, he knew they were busy taming Fenrir and wasn't too concerned as he was also aware that he most likely wouldn't fight Vali in a life or death fight in the near future. He also expected Kuroka would contact him soon, or maybe just get ahold of him for fun. They returned to the manor that night quite content with the way things ended, no major injuries, and most importantly no deaths.

As the one who did most of the work, Alex was relaxing in the bath while the girls spoiled him. Akeno was clinging onto his back, pressing her breasts against him. Asia was clinging onto his right arm, trying to bury it in her moderate breasts, while Xenovia took his other arm. Rias of course was on his lap, making sure she took all the advantages the position gave her. Sitting to the side was Irina, who was slowly getting used to being naked around Alex, and Koneko, and Ravel, fuming at not being able to join in. Alex felt bad leaving the other three out, but he isn't want to tease Koneko and Ravel when he said he wouldn't take them until they matured, and he didn't want to risk Irina falling before rather baby making room was created. Later Alex was a about to go to bed, when he said the group of girls,

"I'll just be with Akeno tonight, I want to make up for last night." When she heard his words Akeno blushed as she recalled her actions the night before, but didn't hesitate to follow him up the stairs. After going into his room Akeno tried to start hanging onto him, Alex grabbed her by the waist, and threw her towards the bed. After landing Akeno swiftly removed her clothes, and Alex was also finished stripping by the time he reached the bed.

He crawled up to her, and planted his lips over hers while his member lined up with her already soaking entrance. As he entered her, the two started the first of the many rounds of lovemaking that night.

***

Several hours later, the two started to fall asleep. Once Alex fell into slumber, he was unaware of the discussion of the two going on inside of his head.

'Ddraig, tell me have you also noticed it?' Lauren asked the other entity that existed inside Alex's mind. He stirred and responded to her question.

<Are you talking about how he seems to be weaker than he should be? I noticed alright. With the power he displayed the first time he transformed, and the amount of growth after, Loki shouldn't have been that much of a fight. Somethings been weakening him, hasn't it?> there was the sudden mental image of Lauren nodding, as she tried to scan what happened to Alex.

There were several factors for why his performance could have been hindered. During the fight with Shalba they all assumed it was his inexperience with the super Saiyan, but even after training he was being overpowered by Fenrir. But they also weren't sure if it was a bad thing, as due to his weakness Alex focused on maintaining and controlling his transformations, and learning proper ki control. The main problem though, was that there were two beings monitoring him from the inside, who would be able to cripple him without them knowing?

'Im running several checks, but there's nothing here. I don't know what to think.' Lauren was the most shaken, as there shouldn't be anything in this world that could escape her notice. Suddenly, Ddraig seemed to have an idea,

<Nothing huh? I wonder if that means more than we think. We'll obviously be looking for something, but not "nothing". Or it could mean that the one who did something, used the power of "nothing"?> At Ddraig's words the two thought of two beings that could represent "nothing", and both were capable enough that Alex would never even threaten them. They simultaneously agreed not to tell Alex until they could identify what exactly happened, so that he didn't do something stupid.