Azazel wasn't sure what to think about the boy that had just popped up in front of him with no warning and wanted to chat. While he looked calm on the outside he also prepared to defend himself in case this was a distraction for something else. "Well, you'll have to give me more information than that if you want me to know you know more than my name."

Nodding his head, Issei could understand where Azazel was coming from as they didn't know each other in this timeline yet. Heck, no one in the supernatural world outside of Irina's father knew about him. "I can understand your concern. You're the Governor-General of the main faction of Fallen Angels as well as you know a ton about Sacred Gears and have also been looking into making Artificial Gears. I also have a Longinus level Sacred Gear but I don't feel safe showing it off here like I said out in the public. Oh and for the record, so I can have it out now, I'm Issei Hyoudou since I already know your name."

While Issei had been talking, Azazel was both listening to him as well as checking his surroundings and was surprised to hear what the boy was saying as well as that he could find no one else around so decided to humor the boy and see where it went. "Ok Issei, I'll play your game and see where this goes. We can talk at my office." He said, and once getting a nod in acceptance, opened a teleportation circle underneath them that lead to Grigori HQ.

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Once they got to his office, Issei sat down in one of the chairs in front of his desk while Azazel sat behind it. As Issei started talking, Azazel couldn't help but notice that he could feel what felt like multiple presences in his energy as well as something else he couldn't place that made the back of his mind tingle.

"I won't go into detail right now how I learned about the supernatural, I can say I just recently learned about it and my Sacred Gear which was enlightening as I learned a lot more about the world, especially when I learned just what Gear I had." He said, before bringing out the Boosted Gear as promised and shocking Azazel as he wasn't expecting that Gear as well as he now possibly had another issue on his hands.

'Well crap, if Vali felt that power, this could be interesting,' Azazel thought, thinking about his 'daughter' that he was taking care of after he had found her on the run from her family and who also happened to be the White Dragon Empress of this generation.

The one thing that he had realized early on was that she seemed to always want to battle someone and with them now finding her Gear's intended rival, it could go many different ways. "Well that definitely may cause some issues down the line but we can get back to that later. How far along are you in meeting DDraig?"

While Azazel was having his own thoughts on the matter, Issei remembered something he'd forgotten about when they decided to approach Azazel. 'DDraig, we might have an issue. I forgot about the fact that Vali was under Azazel's care from a young age so we might have to deal with him sooner rather than later.'

'[Your right but this might also be a good thing if we can get on his good side early, we won't have to deal with fighting him at a later date and who knows what sort of training we might be able to do with his help.]' DDraig commented, getting a thoughtful hum from Issei at that thought. Since they had been able to get over their differences in the previous timeline, he knew they should be able to do it once again, he just wasn't sure how it might go with them being a lot younger as he never really heard any stories from then.

Right as Issei went to answer Azazel's question, the door crashed open surprising Issei as he wasn't expecting anyone to barge in on them though after he thought about it a second, he realized it shouldn't be a surprise.

Though once he looked back at who barged in, he couldn't help but notice that her energy felt all too familiar. The girl who walked in had long wavy silver-white hair pulled back into a braid as well as bangs hanging over her face and just short enough not to block her eyes, and had light blue eyes that he could tell seemed to have a lot of knowledge behind them.

'DDraig, correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't her presence feel familiar? And now that I think about it she almost reminds me of what Vali might have looked like as a girl.'

'[I have to agree with you partner, so if it isn't we both are wrong. I can also sense Albion on her so unless Vali was always a girl in the past timeline but we never noticed it, or something happened in this timeline to change him to a her, I can't tell you what's going on.]' DDraig thought back, agreeing with his partner as he was as stunned as Issei on what he was sensing.

Red couldn't help but step in at this time as he knew what happened after looking into it himself when Issei went to Grigori. 'That's Vali alright and something did happen to him but I won't go into details due to what I saw and let them tell you if they get their memories back or depending on how you handle this situation.' He commented but before Issei or DDraig could reply back, Vali spoke up.

"Azazel, where did that energy I just felt come from. Albion just let me know that he sensed his rival in here." But before Azazel could comment, Issei did it for him, just deciding to get it out of the way.

"That would be me. Issei Hyoudou at your service." He commented making her turn towards him as the Boosted Gear came out.

"[It's been a while Albion.]" DDraig said as the Gear materialized. "[Seems like you might have a strong host there.]"

"{DDraig! Why are you running around with someone with low power levels!? Are you wanting to void our battle this time around?}" Albion said shocked at what he could feel coming from Issei, but both Vali and Albion were confused when DDraig chuckled at his words.

"[Normally I would agree with you but my host is holding a lot of his power back right now so it's no surprise you can't feel it.]" He said out loud, but said to Issei in his head as he could feel his confusion. '[Well, I'm hiding it for you for now but the point still stands.]' Getting a nod of agreement from Issei at that.

Vali couldn't help but be excited by that response. "How about a fight than right now. 1v1 that's just a spar to see where we're both at." She asked getting a not surprised look from Azazel as he heard her request but wasn't sure how Issei would respond.

Issei knew that this would come up but also knew that it was too early. "I don't want to fight you, not yet at least but I can promise I will spar with you at some point as I just met with Azazel today so who knows what might happen in the future." He said getting a nod from Azazel and when it looked like Vali might disagree, he commented once more to her happiness. "How about instead of that, we go somewhere where I can show off some of my power."

Azazel couldn't disagree with that as it would hopefully sate some of Vali's interest as well as he was curious. "I wouldn't mind as like you said we just met so I don't know much about your power either." Which after getting nods from the two, they stepped out of his office and headed towards a training room.

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'DDraig, any ideas on what to do here that might wow them? I know we can just release my power which I would think should be pretty high even at my age but do we have any more things to do?'

'[While I wouldn't normally suggest this, we do have access to your Balance Breaker but only for just under a minute before I would have to shut it down so we could go that route.]' He suggested much to Issei's shock but he decided to go that route and worry about it later.

'I'll let you do the job of activating it to try and stop any issues from popping up for now.' He said, getting a nod from DDraig as he didn't disagree.

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As they reached the training room, Issei went to the center of the room with the other two off to the side, he turned towards Vali. "I likely should have asked this earlier but didn't get the chance to. As I already introduced myself, can I get your name as well? Seems only fair."

While Vali didn't like the last name she was born with, she couldn't disagree with what he was saying. "I don't go by a last name but you can call me Valiana or Vali. Either one works."

Nodding, Issei felt better now so he didn't mess up any time soon accidentally. 'At least her name is still the same and she even is going by what her female name would be.' Out loud he commented. "Thank you. Now to get on with showing off some of my power to you," he commented before passing the reigns to DDraig as well as calling out the Boosted Gear. "[Welsh Dragon, Balance Breaker!]" Was called out before a bright flash of red blinded both Azazel and Vali.

As Issei saw the bright flash disappear, he couldn't help but notice how shocked the other two in the room looked at how he already had Balance Breaker unlocked, and by the expression on Vali's face, he guessed that she didn't have it unlocked yet on her end. "I can't keep this form long but I also just learned as I asked DDraig what we could do walking over here as he knows more about where my power is right now he suggested this." He commented getting no response from the two before DDraig went ahead and canceled Balance Breaker so there weren't any undue risks.

Azazel though couldn't help but notice that when the Balance Breaker went up, he could also feel two other presences in the background that most would likely not have sensed; the primal power of two other dragons that are even higher than DDraig in power, Ophis and what he was highly suspicious of being coming from the other Dragon God Great Red.

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After that scene, the three of them went back to Azazel's office so they could continue their talk after he showed off his power. "So if we go off of what Issei said right before that show Red Dragon, you know more about how he got this powerful than he does?" Azazel asked as he was curious. He'd never heard of anyone this young already having the Balance Breaker form but he always knew there would be chances of this happening. "And why did I sense who I'm pretty sure was Ophis and what I thought might be Great Red in the power behind the Balance Breaker.

"[Just call me DDraig, and yes, I do know more about it than Issei does as the power released when it happened knocked him unconscious, and while I had hoped you wouldn't sense that part, I can easily explain it too.]" DDraig said sighing, as he dived into the story him and Red had concocted together while Issei was sleeping.

"[I'm honestly not too sure myself how the powers of the two Dragon Gods came to be inside my current host but they have allowed him the ability to adapt a lot sooner than most of my hosts at this age and he has, as you could tell, already gained my Balance Breaker thanks to their interference in what only I can guess was either blind luck, or something with when he was born made them decide to give this boy their strength for the road ahead, whatever that might entail. With those two it's never easy to know what they might be thinking.]"

Issei though couldn't help but wonder when DDraig had come up with that idea and which his partner was ready to answer. '[Me and Red talked about it as we knew at some point it might be found out and came up with this idea one night when you were sleeping.]' He commented, getting an 'Oh…' from Issei at that.

After that little bit of information, the three of them sat back to talk more about Issei and his powers as well as anything else that he might require being answered.

Meanwhile

On the outer edge of Kuoh, a black magic circle that had the design of snakes all around it in an infinity signal popped up and out of the circle came Ophis, but not the one from this timeline.

After Red had sent Issei back in time, he'd actually run into her right before he himself time traveled, and there she had learned about the plans Red and Issei had made to travel back in time and try to stop the destruction of their universe, but at the time, Ophis decided not to do anything and stay in the previous timeline as she saw no reason to help them in their quest as she finally could have peace and quiet like she had been hoping for.

But now something had changed and she had decided to travel back in time herself and watch from the sidelines until the time was right to meet him once again.

Meanwhile

Fast Forward 1 Month

Sitri Mansion

Sona and her parents were sitting down in one of the meeting rooms in the Sitri mansion while Ajuka sat across from them as he had finally finished looking over her Pawns.

"What did you find out Ajuka? I hope it wasn't anything too major." Revan, Sona's father, asked, having instantly contacted Ajuka through Serafall once they learned what had happened, though it took a month before they had heard back from him and he wasn't sure what to think.

"From what I was able to determine, I do have mostly good news, but maybe some bad too depending on how you take it." He said, getting confused looks from everyone else. "To start, the four Pawns that turned a darker shade of blue than the original have actually turned into Mutation Pieces, and from what I can determine that's what caused the lightning." He said before Sona stood up shocked at what happened.

"Mutation pieces? But how did that happen? I thought that would only happen when you receive them or if they are in someone already."

Nodding his head at her words, Ajuka continued. "You would normally be right as those are the only times I've ever seen, but in this case, it did happen and that leads to my next point. From what I've been able to determine, the pieces have been claimed." He said and before anyone could step in with anything else to say, he continued. "I tried to use them on an animal to see if I could and not even me as the creator could use them."

"What does this mean? I get what you mean about the pieces being already claimed but nothing else." Ariel, Sona's mom, asked.

"Well, whoever has 'claimed' the pieces must be powerful for him to require all eight pieces, and I have an idea on that that I'll come back to in a minute, but for four pieces to mutate at once makes me even more sure that they will be a powerful asset when you find them." He said getting another look of shock from everyone as Sona asked another question.

"You said you have an idea on who it might be?"

"Yes. At one point when I was holding the pieces, I had a vision where I was able to see someone in red armor which after searching for images that matched it, I was able to determine that whoever is your Pawn will be the latest generation of the Red Dragon Emperor. That explains all eight pieces but whatever happened to cause four to mutate, I can't even begin to guess at this moment." Causing Sona's parent's eye's to widen as they realized how big of a deal this was and a confused look from Sona as she didn't recognize the name, which turned to shock once her mother realized that and explained it to her.

Revan came back to his senses the quickest and had one more question for Ajuka. "Well, that's honestly surprising that we would have the Red Dragon Emperor as a part of my daughter's peerage, as well as the boost that we might have at having him or her on the Devils side. Do you have any ideas on who it might be at this moment?"

"Not a clue and that is also one of the things that was keeping me from having this meeting sooner is I wanted to look into if I could find the Emperor and at least get eyes on him or her but I couldn't find anything on the latest generation. I do plan on keeping an eye out for them as well as have put out some feelers and will let you know if I find anything." He said before catching the looks coming from Revan and his wife and stepping in before they could say anything.

"Please, don't think anything about me helping out in this situation as it's something I'm curious about myself since I have never seen anything like this before and we all know how Serafall will handle this," he said getting nods from everyone else as they thought about the one Sitri member that wasn't there as they knew how she was. All it took somehow was that Ajuka promised to keep her up to date the instant he found anything out.

With that out of the way, the group settled back and talked more about how to find the Red Dragon Emperor and what it might entail with them in Sona's peerage.