A week later I was practicing my sword fighting skills when someone snuck up behind me. I lashed out with my sword as I turned around. It was Haydn but I didn't remove the tip of my sword from his throat. "What do you want?" I asked him in an indifferent tone of voice. "Nothing...just came by to see how you were doing." He responded. He hadn't even flinched when my sword came into contact with his skin. I removed my sword, put it back into it's hilt, and said "That's very kind of you but I need to resume my practice." "You need someone to practice with," He said "I could practice with you if you want" I hesitated for a moment then said "Ok" He sheathed his sword and I did likewise. We started to practice and I noticed that his sword looked like it belonged to a warrior of high ranking. I launched myself at him while he was still getting ready. He dodged aside, sheathed his sword quickly, and tried to jab me in the side. I blocked it and aimed for his stomach. He leaped aside. He's good I thought.....too good. So I did what every demon does when she thinks she's losing. I lashed out at him with my tail. He fell down in surprise. I instantly regretted it and helped him up. "Um...do you wanna come inside?' I asked him gesturing towards my house. He nodded and winced in pain as his leg came into contact with the ground. I led him inside, sat him down on a chair, and was about to sit down too when a bunch of idiots burst into my house. "Looks like we have company" said Haydn warily. We both stood up side by side and sheathed our swords."Where's the amulet" asked the leader in a menacing voice. "I don't have it" replied Haydn casually. "Tell me where it is or else..." The leader tried to grab me but i pinned him against the wall with my sword and said "Touch me and die" and with those encouraging words we went into battle. It wasn't a fair one though. We were really out numbered. But it looked like we might have a chance at winning. There was blood everywhere....but just as things were starting to get good Kia arrived. He let out a huge roar and breathed some fire. Lots of people (and my house) caught fire. Haydn jumped on Kia's back and offered me his hand. I declined and got up on my own. Kia took off just as the roof came crashing down on top of the poor soldiers. I clung to Haydn. I had never seen on a dragon before and i wasn't used to heights (me being a demon and all). He held my hand and squeezed for reassurance. Once I regained my calm I pulled back my hand and let go of him. Hayden turned to look at me and gave me a sly smile. I narrowed my eyes in return. "Where are we going?" I asked."To my place" said Haydn.

When we landed I got off and patted Kia. "Thanks" I told him. Haydn led me into the house which mainly consisted of few rooms because the main room had to be big enough for Kia. He showed me to the room where I would be staying. "Im sorry I caused your house to burn down." he said. He looked embarrassed so I said."Oh...it didn't really matter anyway...it was probably gonna come down anyway...(in 100 years)". He gave me a crooked smile and left to see Kia. I sat down on the small bed and closed my eyes. I soon regretted I had because all the memories came flashing back. I tried to hold back the tears but couldn't. Haydn came back and took one look at me and left. How sympathetic I thought all the while crying silent tears. He suddenly reappeared with a plate of chocolate chip cookies and a glass of milk. He said "I...uh...um..here!" He thrust the plate at me and left. I almost laughed out loud. Before I could eat, though, I felt a sort of vibration coming from underneath my foot...

I pried open the a slab of wood with my retractable claws. I pulled the piece of wood away and found a small pouch. In it was a huge sapphire amulet. There was a silver dragon circling the sapphire. It glowed when I touched it. Just then Haydn came back. He went crazy. He started yelling at me and he took the amulet from me. As soon as he did it stopped glowing. He wore a puzzled expression. "What is the meaning of this?" he asked. " I don't know" I said "btw what is that?" He looked at me and sighed. We both sat down on the small bad. He then told me that he came from a long line of dragon riders and that the amulet belonged to him. Lots of people want to destroy it, though. They want to put an end to dragons and their riders. "Why'd it glow when i held it?" i asked. "I don't know...." he said "but i do know someone who might...." He told me we were gonna leave the next day. He said I should keep the amulet. I decided I was going to put in around my tail..."Btw.." he asked "What was it you hit me with when we were practicing?" "Um....my tail?" I volunteered/ He asked to see it and I reluctantly uncoiled it and took it out r=from inside mt jeans. "So you ARE a demon..." he said after a while. "Yup." I said. "A demon that got thrown out of Hell for helping a captured angel escape...and was denied the entrance in Heaven..." "That sucks." he said sympathetically. I nodded in agreement. "Well...I think we should rest because tomorrow's gonna be a long day." said Haydn finally. I looked outside and saw that it was getting really late. "Good night" I said. He said the same and walked out of the room I was staying in.

I laid down on my bed and started to cry. I don't know why....I just did. Unfortunately for me, my room and Haydn's room were only divided by a probably not very thick wall...I was still crying when Haydn opened the door to my room. He stepped inside. "Are you OK?" he asked. I couldn't respond because I was crying even harder. He leaned down and stroked my hair. He then crawled into the bed beside me. As he held me in his arms my sobs subsided to silent tears that rolled down my cheeks and wet the already soggy pillow.

The next morning I awoke to find Haydn still there. I realized that I had my tail wrapped around him. I quickly and gently pulled it away. I got up and walked into the bathroom. I got ready and when I stepped onto the room again he was gone. I went into the kitchen and found him making scrambled eggs. He turned towards me and asked if I slept OK. We both blushed and turned away. Kia was looking at us with amusement and curiosity. While I was eating I looked over at Kia. He had a big appetite. When Haydn and I finished we asked Kia if he was ready. "Totally" said Kia. We pulled ourselves up onto Kia's back and we took off. We flew over a small town, not far from Haydn's house, Haydn told Kia to stop. He did and landed in a forest. "I'll wait here." he told us. Haydn nodded in acknowledgement. We walked through the village and stopped when we got to a run down cottage. Haydn knocked and an elderly man opened the door. He smiled and welcomed us in. Haydn introduced me to him. His name was Mitch. The first thing I noticed about his house was that he had a collection of strange things. Stuff like swords, shields, amulets, staffs, and the likes. "Now, what brings you young adventurers to an old man like me?" he asked politely. Haydn then told Mitch everything. Except the part about me. (Thank God) He then told Haydn that he didn't know...that he needed to find Grazina. She was the first dragon ever. He said she will probably know. We got up and thanked Mitch. He told us to look in the highest mountain. We then started to walk back towards the forest where Kia was waiting for us.

When we got to the clearing where Kia was waiting I turned to Haydn and asked him how long he'd been with Kia. Kia responded for him and said "Since we were born." "So...how old are you guys?' I asked. They said they were 32. "Dang...you guys are way younger than me..." I commented. Both of them looked surprised. "You seem like a teenager." they said. I told them i was flattered and after a dramatic pause I told them how old I was. "You're 10032!!!!!????" they both said at the same time. "Yup." I said proudly. They looked shocked. I got on Kia and Haydn did likewise. "Where are we gonna go now?" I asked. "Home. We're gonna need to rest for the journey that lies ahead." he said.

When we got back to the house I threw myself on the couch and closed my eyes. "This sucks." I commented. "Why?" asked Haydn as he pulled brought some steak for Kia. 'because now we have to go on a loooong journey. Plus i'm not into traveling." he laughed. Just then more soldiers came. These looked like professionals though. I groaned and got up. I sheathed my sword and saw Haydn doing the same. Kia was outside hunting. "Sooo...." I said "Terrorized any pheasants lately?' I asked. The leader glowered at me and turned to Haydn. "I think that you already know why i'm here, right?" he said in an incredibly smooth voice. "Yes, and I think you already know that I wont give it up without a fight, right?" replied Haydn just as smoothly. The looked mad as hell. He turned ti his soldiers and signaled a command. I then felt someone sneak up behind me. I turned and lashed out with my sword but it was too late. I was frozen. Not frozen as in with ice but immobile type frozen. Haydn didn't look too happy. "what did you do to her?" he asked. "We just inmobilezed her for a little while. If you give me the amulet I'll unfreeze her though. And if you don't...she'll spend sometime back where she belongs...but i'm not sure that they'll want to see her back there again...she'll probably be punished pretty harshly...So i suggest you give me that amulet." said the leader. "Haydn nodded and told him to unfreeze me. "It is she who has the amulet." he said when the leader asked why. I was unfrozen. I uncoiled my tail and extended it out. The leader took the amulet and jumped back on his horse. He gave an evil type laugh. I hate it when bad guys do that.

Haydn looked depressed. "It's OK." I said. "We'll take it back later." He nodded but still looked sad. We both sat down on the couch. I had a horrible headache. "I just hate wizards and all those magical ppl. Their spells make my head hurt." I laid down on the couch. I was vaguely aware of Haydn's arms around me.

When I awoke it was still dark outside. Kia and Haydn were still asleep. I gently wiggled out of Haydn's embrace. I stood up. I was thirst. I was tempted to just drink from Haydn...but Haydn was like my brother. . .I couldn't do that to him . . .so I tiptoed out of the house and started walking to the village where we had gone yesterday. When I got there the sun hadn't come up yet. I went inside the nearest cottage because the thirst was driving me crazy. A man was sleeping there. I tiptoed up to him and leaned down. I poked to small holes in his throat with my retractable claws. The claw's injected a certain poison that numbed him. The poison didn't hurt him, it just helped him become unaware of what I was doing. I then leaned down towards where i had poked the holes. I put my lips to his throat and started sucking out some blood. It tasted like heaven to me. I had gone for a whole week without blood. I stopped suddenly because I didn't want to kill the guy. I ran the tip of my tail over the holes and they closed up. I quickly and quietly walked out. I walked to another cottage. There was a family inside. Jack pot I thought. I did my job and left. The sun was gonna come up any minute now. I started walking back towards the house. Hopefully Haydn hadn't woken up yet.

When I got to the house Haydn was at the door waiting. He had his arms crossed over his chest and he didn't look happy. "Where were you?" he asked. I shrugged and tried to walk past him. He grabbed my arm. "Where were you and what is this?" he asked holding up a blue vial. "Uh . . .girls stuff?" I volunteered. "Girl stuff that says sleeping potion on it?" he asked. He looked really pissed off. I sighed and said "Fine I admit it . . .I gave you the potion while you were still asleep. I had to because you're a light sleeper. Anyway I went to the village where we went yesterday. I went to drink some blood. Are you happy now?" He said "Yes, and why didn't you tell me you were a vampire?" "I'm not a vampire." I responded. "Demon's are the ones that drink blood. They made up the whole vampire thing to distract attention from themselves." He looked disgusted so I explained what I did to him. He didn't look as worried and disgusted. He suddenly looked worried. "You haven't bitten me, right?" he asked with concern. I smiled slyly and shrugged he panicked and started to call Kia over so that he could check hi throat so I said "I was kidding. I haven't bitten you." He looked relieved. Just then we both got telepathic messages from Kia. He was in trouble.

"What should we do?" I asked. "Go find her and help her of course." he replied. He then thought spoke with Kia. "He's being help captive by a gang of demons..." he told me. "I have her coordinates. " he said "How are we gonna get to her?' i asked. we usually flew on Kia. What were we gonna do without him? "We're gonna get some horses." he said. So we went to the nearest village and bought some horses. We rode for a long time and stopped when we got to a clearing in a forest. "We should rest up" he said "We're gonna need all our strengths to rescue Kia." I nodded and set out to collect some firewood. Haydn went in search of water. When I got back though, the horses were gone. I was worried. Just then a gang of demons jumped out of some bushes. I leaped around to face them. But what I saw was scarier then a mob of Daelynn clones. (Daelynn's my VERY annoying sister.) It was my friend. My friend that I had in hell....the one who promised to never let me down...I was gonna have to face my bestfriend...

Out of the blue a dragon pounced on 3 demons and killed them. "You get the girl, I'll get her lackies!" said a guy. He was taking out demons that were waiting in the bushes to ambush him.
"Blue crimson!" he shouted as he killed more demons. He swiped his dragon tail and tripped a demon which his dragon killed. "Well? Attack the demon in front of you!" he shouted at me. I saw he had the key blade of the dragon. "Huh? What u waiting for demon? Attack her, damnit! What? She your friend or somthin' ?" "Well if you wont then I will!" Then he tackled her. But was then blasted into the air by her. "Water showeeer!" it started to rain. I didn't know what to do so I just stood there. It was too much for me to handle. I ran and fled. But before I did I went to Haydn and Kia and untied them. As soon as I did I ran back to the house. I knew i was a coward but I didn't care...to go against my friend was like going against part of myself...Kia suddenly appeared in front of me. He told me to go back into battle. I didn't say anything, just nodded. I climbed on him and headed back to the torture that awaited. BOOM! When I got there I saw my best friend dead. He was flying overhead. He lowered himself a bit and said "another demon? how could i have missed you?" he was forming something. " what? you a mute demon?" I said nothing and stepped forward. " Only a fool would challenge me when I'm charging a spell..." he said. "Do you know of demon honor?" I asked "I am no demon, why should I?" he said landing. I stepped forward again. " Hmm . . . well it seems to me that you are a demon. A demon for killing the one person that I cared about." he scoffed " And who was that?" "My friend. That demon laying there on the ground behind you." " if u want i can revive her." he said. I felt hopeful...then doubtful. He took my hand. "I need a living demon's aura . . . RREVIVE!" He revived my friend at the cost of almost all his energy. "b-by the way, names Haydrion." said Haydrion. I still didn't trust him that much. "Keh. She is alive. Ain't she?" he said indifferently. "I have saved her. Why not trust me?" Haydrion asked. What a stupid question. He then flew off in the direction of where Haydn and Kia were resting. I could vaguely hear what they were saying. Something about being a demon. ______said she was leaving. I nodded and approached quietly. I saw them preparing to battle. I climbed up a tree and settled down to watch the show. It ended very soon because Haydn was too weak to fight. Damn it! LOL. I saw Haydrion fly up onto a tree and look about him. I was in the branch above him so he did not see me. When he seemed convinced that everything was clear he settled down to rest. I settled down too but didn't go to sleep. Instead I kept watch over Haydn . . . at least until I went to sleep.
When I woke up it was to the sound of Haydrion waking up and desperately looking for Haydn. "Why do I hear the sound of humens mating? (damn this good hearing)" he said and then went off to the village and peered in a cottage. I saw that his face had the exspresion that said "wtf!?" So I peered too. what I saw was unpleasing. (I'm being nice when I put it like that.) Haydrion looked at me and asked "whats with u?" I merely shook my head and crept back into the welcoming shadows. I did not see him creeping behind me. i went up the tree and slept. I woke up to the scent of water. For a sleepy moment i wondered if it was raining. I love rain and had been wishing for it but i wasn't wet so that was clearly not possible. I Silently and stealthily got up. (Years of sneaking out of my prison paid off.) I looked around me and saw a strange shape but I was too sleepy and depressed to go and investigate. I laid back down and went to sleep. When I woke up I was morning. I stood up and forgot I was on a tree branch. I lost my balance and landed on something soft. Something soft that yelped in pain. Dang it! I probably fell on someone. Great. I quickly got up and helped the person up. I knelt to the ground to pick up the blade he had dropped. "I'm so sorry. I don't usually meet people like that... I was ju- oh its you." I said when I got back to my feet and saw who it was.
"Good morning to you too. . . oww, damn, when you fall on someone, you hit their most painful places . . . (my poor wings and tail . . .)" said Haydrion. I then remembered the classes I took where they told me all about the creatures that existed outside the gates of hell. In order for Haydrion to change back to his original form he'd have to get my blood. "You sure as hell have a nice wake up c-c-ca-ca-ca-call . . . " I saw him blush. "Any who, why are you still here? More importantly, why in the thousand hells are there BITE MARKS in my neck and your neck . . . and why are you not in the hells?" he asked getting up. "hey can i have my shadow death dragon blade?" he asked He then reached for the blade"!!!!!" He looked extremely uncomfortable. He put his hand on the rim of his right wing and blushed again. I gave him the blade. "I'm still here because I am, I don't know why there are bite marks on our necks, and I'm not in hell because I'm banished. That all?" I said answering all his questions. I sighed and looked at him. "I know that in order to turn back to your true form you need my blood . . . that's why I want to tell you that . . . you have my permission to kill me." I said. He looked genuinely surprised. Probably because not many demons have told him to kill them. I still looked perplexed when he sheathed his sword. He wasn't looking at me, though. I he was looking at something behind me. He lunged at whatever that thing was. I turned around and saw him knelt over the body of a demon.
"Well, there goes my brother." I said in a casual tone. He turned to look at me. I could sense he was going to apologize so I said "Don't worry about it . . . he wasn't that great of a brother anyway. Plus, you can use his blood instead of mine." He laughed a this, and started to DRINK my brother's blood. "Eck, I don't know how, but, that was very unpleasing to do, oh well, at least im ME again." I shook my head in disgust. "What?! You do that all the time so I don't know why you're disgusted." he said. He then looked around and sniffed the air, then got out his duel sameri swords." I'm going to KILL Haydn!" he shouted. I laughed and said "Why?" I was in a good mood for some reason. " How long of a list do ya want?" he responded, walking around in a circle with his wings spread out. "Meh, you don't have to tell me." I said "I'm leaving anyway." "To where? If it's out of this place, I'm coming too." he said. "Uh . . . I don't know . . . I think I should go alone . . ." I said uncertainly. "Well, you aint going alone, as long as I have life." he said laughing, and hovering in the air. Great. Just what I needed. An escort. "Fine . . ." I said. Suddenly I had an idea . . ." I just hope that you don't mind escorting me to hell . . . " He paused, then laughed, "Well, I dont mind. It'll be my 30th time going there but my 2nd going without really dying". Damn! I was seriously pissed off now. "Oh? Well . . . If you want I'll help make it your 3rd time going there by dying." I said. I knew I wasn't being very fair to him but I just wanted to be alone. To be alone and start a new life all over again. Haydrion called his dragon over, got on, and said " He's friendly" I got on and planned my escape.
We stopped when we reached a clearing that was smack in the middle of a forest. It was getting dark so we decided to camp out there and wait for morning. I, meanwhile had worked out a plan. I was going to sneak out while haydrion was sleeping. While we were eating I slipped a potion in his drink. Once everyone had gone to bed I checked to see if he was really asleep.He was. I slipped out into the forest and made my way to the gates of hell. I climbed up a tree, curled up, and went to sleep. It wasn't safe to venture into hell at night.
When I woke up it was to see a guy dressed in ragged cloth kicking at the dirt. He seemed frustrated. I jumped from the branch I had been on and said "Hi." He looked surprised to see me. "W-where did you come from?" He asked nervously. "Oh sorry about that. I was sleeping up on that tree and decided to drop by and say hello. Oh and by the way my name's Diana. What's yours?" I said. "I dont have time to chit chat with a pheasant." He said "I have to go down to hell and rescue the love of my life."Wow, such dedication." i said, mocking him. He knew that I was making fun of him. "Such dedication but so little action . . . why haven't you gone in?" I asked him. He glared at me and said "I was just about to . . . " I laughed and said opened the gate. I went in and said "aren't you coming?" He went in and glared at me again. "So . . . who's that love of your life that needs saving? And what's your name?" I asked " Jarithan" he said "And her name is Alezia and she's an angel." I laughed a bit and said "Do you mean 'angel' as in sweet or 'angel' as in an actual angel from heaven?" " Both" he said, not looking back. He sure did like her. "I've loved Alezia ever since I laid my eyes on her . . . but she doesn't love me back . . . I hope that once I rescue her she will fall in love with me." I held back the urge to tell him that what he hoped for would never happen. Angels were like that. The angel I rescued actually slapped me once I saved her. Suddenly I heard a noise. I sounded like a twig snapping. Weird. I turned around to se haydrion. "oh damn" he said. Great. i tried so hard to loose him and now THIS!? I was extremely pissed off. " What are you doing here?" I asked him coldly. "I'm not here for you, I'm here to slay the ruler of hell so I can be ruler" he said. "Well good luck with that." i said. "Oh and . . . once you die where should I send your remains?" "funny, but im immortal when im in hell, eh? who is this?" he said."Oh him? His name is-" I said but then got cut off by Jarithan. "Thank you Diana but I can introduce myself." he turned to look at Haydrion and said "I am Jarithan Reloth the 3rd. Prince of Gerfunda in the distant valleys. Who are you? If I may ask." "i am haydrion the last dragon lith, demi god of shadows and slayer of the god of war. id say nice to met you, but i aint in a good mood." he said. Well i wasn't in a good mood either but that didn't mean I wasn't polite. I was mad at Jarithan for being such a jerk and at Haydrion for interrupting my plan to steal the demon stone. It belonged to the king and if Haydrion succeeded in killing the king I'd have to steal it from him . .. "oh, and if any one is looking for something called the demon stone, im giving it away when i rule hell" he said. "also, im sorry for my rude behavior, but being in shadow lith form, i have the politeness a gnat." he said. "Do you by any chance have the ability to read minds?" I asked him." i learned it a month ago." he replied. Great. He can read minds. "Um excuse me but can we stop all this nonsense and get back to rescuing my beloved?" said Jarithan. "Your what? Are you talking about an angel perhaps? HA!Angels never return love of human!" he said, " I do not read minds with out permission, usually." he said turning to me. I sighed and said. "Ok people, here's what we're going to do. We will all go back to our respective missions, complete our mission, get the hell out of here, and move on with our lives. Everyone with me?" I said. I just wanted to get out of there. I hated it . . . especially since I had lived here as a prisoner for MANY years and was forced to turn from and angel to a demon." well, i agree, ill kill satan, set all the demon tat wee once angels free, kill all the evil demons and then give the D.S. to diana, give Jarithan his love, and then back for my phantom amulet" haydrion said. Great. He read my mind. I glared at him. "Ok peoples, lets go." I headed towards the kings chamber." finally, the throne room, i wonder who ill turn back from demon to angel? I have no clue. maybe my bro." he said quietly. When satan came into view he rushed towards him with his swords drawn. The odds were against paten but satan was VERY powerful. Anything could have happened. Haydrion killed satan. I approached the body. "Um haydrion . . . I dont think you were the one that killed satan . . . he was already dead when u stabbed him .. . " "damn"he said. I could tell that he had been poisoned. I sighed. Well looks like all of our troubles are over. I knew where the D.S. was. Satan always kept it around his neck. I went up to him but . . . THE STONE WASN'T THERE!!!! "Strange, i found half of the stone, but not the other half" said Haydrion. He gave me the half he had found. I was enraged. "Who could have done this!?" I said/yelled. I was seething. i paced around the throne room. "'I only know two people that could do so; my brother named Marith, who loves to piss me off, and some one that you might know, I do not read your mind to that extent, and I doubt Mr. Angel obsessed over there would know anyone." Haydrion said. I had to laugh at what he said about Jarithan. "Hmm...." I stopped pacing. I knew just what to do! I raced out of the room. Haydrion followed. I went to a cell that was located not far from the throne room. " ill open it!" he blasted the lock off. we found alia and she was in rags. Not the person I was looking for. I went to the next cell beside it. Haydrion blasted it open and I found my best friend. "so this is who you were looking for?" haydrion asked. "Yup" I said. In the cell where Alezia was I heard Jarithan recite who know what. I laughed in spite of myself. I knew that Alezia would never love him back. "Caycay, have you seen anything suspicious?" "caycay? i wonder why that name sounds familiar?" said haydrion. "well, while you 2 catch up, I'll go see Jayson or what ever his name is get crushed. It will be funny as a whyvern's mating call." haydrion said. "Wait for me!" i said grabbing Caycay's hand and pulling her with me as I followed haydrion. We walked in and saw Jarithan kneeled on the floor in front of Alezia. "Alezia you are the light that brightens my day, the-" he said. Alezia cut him off and said "Do not speak to me mortal, for you are not worthy of it." And with those loving words she stepped away from Jarithan, swept past us and made her way out the gate. "Um, you do know that the love of you life just left right?" I said to Jarithan. He looked like a statue with a devastated face. "Aren't you gonna chase her down or something ?" I asked. I could tell that Caycay and Haydrion were fighting back their laughter. I knelt down to be at eye level with Jarithan. "(man, that was funny as all the hells!)" whispered haydrion, " (that was almost as funny as when i blew up a undead with a fire burst from inside his lung!)" I turned to glare at Haydrion. "Jarithan you shouldn't be sad about what just happened. Angels are like that. They're vain, silly, little things. You should forget about her." I felt awkward so I got up and said "Ok people, our mission's over. Lets get the hell out of here." "Wait, we still haven't freed all the prisoners yet!" said Haydrion. I sighed and said. "Ok fine then." Haydrion started blasting all the locks. It turns out that there were a LOT of prisoners. I was inpatient to leave. I anxiously turned to look at the gate. How I longed to LEAVE! I turned and saw Haydrion carrying a mortal. She looked like some sort of princess. I hoped that this royal wouldn't be like Jarithan. "Who's the princess?" i asked Haydrion. "My name is Catherine Alera the 2nd, princess of Halenwall but you can call me Catherine." said Catherine. "I nodded and said to Haydrion, Caycay, and Jarithan "So . . . we done now? Is that all the prisoners? Because I gotta go and find the other half of the demon stone." Everyone nodded so I led the way out. When we reached the surface/outside I turned to Caycay and said "So . . . where do we go now?" she shrugged. I sighed in frustration. How was I ever going to get the demon stone?! I turned to ask Haydrion if he had any clue as to where I should start searching. He was busy talking to Catherine so i left him alone. Just then Jarithan approached me. "Um . . . I'm sorry for acting so vainly and stupidly these few minutes or hours (I'm not sure how much time passed) . . . I dont know why I acted that way. I'm usually not like that . . . " he said. "Its Ok" I said. "I can help you look for the stone you're searching for." he volunteered. "Um . . . sure! I can use all the help I can get!" I could have my men send some cavalry if you want." "Ok thanks" I said. I turned to Haydrion and said "Good luck with your "I will be the evil ruler of the underworld" plan. I have to go and find myself that stone." He nodded and waved. Caycay, Jarithan and I walked to where he had left the horses. Apparently he and his 2 fellow companions had been attacked by a rogue dragon. We rode onwards towards his kingdom. Later I heard a dragon's roar, it was haydrion, he looked different, as if he was someone else, but i knew it was him. "well, it turns out that destroying saten upsets the gods and the too away my god like powers AND my control over the hells, and to make matters worse, i gots no place to go!! my home was destroyed, my friends back home probably dead. FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--" He got hit by Jarithan. "Ok, thanks.... I lost what sanity I had left, damn.... *sniff sniff* why do I smell haydn?" Haydrion said,"Anyway maybe I can help ya out. The stone most likely has power, and I can sense demonic power, so that helps a bit...." he sighed. We traveled in silence. I felt bad for Haydrion. We arrived at Jarithan's kingdom after 2 days. Huglaham or whatever it's called. "So this is where you come from?" Haydrion asked. It was a very fancy place. We got to the castle and were treated like royals. Except for Haydrion, who was shunned. Jarithan , though, wasn't pleased with how the servants were treating his friend so he ordered them to treat him fairly or else he'd tell Haydrion to slit their throats. Haydrion was pleased at this deal. Once everyone had been pampered they headed to the dining room. "I've never been in a castle without being chased by guards, looting the castle, or not having to save the place from undead that used to be mine or dragons." Haydrion said. I laughed and said "Well enjoy it while ya can because it's not gonna last long." "Yea... I guess the good parts in my life last as long as ice on the suns surface" He sighed. Damn. I didn't want to make him feel bad . . . After some awkward silence we started chatting again. Mostly about stupid, silly stuff. Haydrion cringed all of a sudden. "Whats wrong?" I asked him. "A hoard of undead led by a demon are coming here, FAST!" he said weakly. Everyone got up emedietly. Jarithan called one of the servants over. "Alert the guards¨¨ He said. "Yes sir!" the battle started soon after and it seemed that Haydrion was having a ball. I wasn't too exited. I just wanted some peace for once. (Plus, I wanted the Demon Stone.) I stood against two undead. Easy as pie. Hehehe. I soon spotted the demon that brought all of those undead here. "So ... how's it been buddy?" I asked him. He turned to look at me and I almost went white with shock. "Y-you?" I stammered, just then Haydrion crashed into him by accident. "Sorry!" he said. When he saw who it was ,though ,he said " Oh, you son of a bitch, you're dead!!" "NO!!!!!" I yelled. I got in front of the demon and blocked Haydrion's path. "Awww, why nooooot?" he said. "Because I have some matters to settle with this one first. Plus, I want to have the honor of killing him. I want to see his blood on my sword." " can i butcher his body when ur done?" he asked. I thought for a while " . . . sure." "Will you guys stop talking about me as if I weren't here?!" yelled/asked Ka'zar. "Shush. Now, kill him! I want to 'play' too!" haydrion said evilly. I laughed and said "So Ka'zar, thought you could get away with killing my beloved?" Ka'zar said "Yes". I then swiped at him with my sword, witch he dodged, then he summoned some slimes and haydrion took care of them. He uses them as a defence? Weak. I used fire blast witch hit him so hard it KOed him. "Hell's chains!" yelled Haydrion, while tying Ka'zar down. "Well, go ahead and kill him!" haydrion said. I stepped forward and raised my sword . . . but I hesitated. "Well?" I shook my head and lowered my sword."I can't do it . . . I'm not a cold blooded killer like him." I tossed the sword to the ground and walked away. Just looking at Ka'zar reminded me of my love.
"Can I kill him then?" asked Haydrion. I nodded without looking back. I looked around and saw that the battle was over. "Wait!" yelled Ka'zar. "If you dont kill me I will tell you some useful information!" "tell me, and if its no use to me, your done for, unless you have an item that interests me" haydrion said. I turned back to see what Ka'zar would have to offer. "I have no item . . . at least not with me. I'm working with someone named Demos. he has half a demon stone." said Ka'zar. "go on" haydrion said. "I also have the princess Catherine captured. If you do not let me go Demos will kill her." haydrion dropped on the ground and then held his swords up to Ka'zar's neck."WHERE?!?!!? WHERE IS SHE RIGHT NOW!?!?" he yelled. Ka'zar laughed evilly because he knew he had Haydrion in his hands. I went up to Haydrion and said "Dont do anything without thinking it through first. Ok?" Haydrion nodded. "Ok, Ka'zar, where is the princess catherine. You take us to her and we'll let you go." Ka'zar did just that. he lead us to devilren territory. " what are devilren?" i asked.
"they re hybrides, part animotrotic, half demon. they are under the rule of the shadow king. this is where they are un removable, for the are MADE here. they are one of the most threat that ,erm, threatens the worlds. there are many kinds f them. examples are sword, sword and shield, shield, shield and spear, gunner, driller, ect." haydrion explained.I nodded in fake comprehension. I wasn't listening at all to what he had been saying. I was to busy trying to come up with a plan . . . "One thing you NEED to know, is that they are weak to water, ice and shadow. We are nearing the demon stone, I can sense it." Haydrion added. Now that I DID understand. " OH NO!" haydrion yelled, then he tackled me. A devilren bazzoker shot a rocket at me but missed and hit Ka'zar. He was probably dead. I looked over at Jarithan, he looked pretty exited. He had changed. In a good way. Many demons and undead came rushing at us. We launched into battle. "these are undead? they are hated by devilren! they must have been attacking here when we came! demons are here! that means they have escaped! devilren are coming! sword and shield devilren!" shouted haydrion using his duel sameri dragon swords to kill off undead and the others. How I hate battles. I sheathed my sword and started slashing at the undead. hours passed and we were still inn battle. no demons or undead now, just the devilren. Haydrion was helping out Jarithan. it was good to see that, but then haydrion took a shot for him, in the heart! haydrion fell down. I slashed off the devilren that i was fighting and rushed over to Haydrion. "Haydrion! Haydrion you gotta tell me what to do to help you. " I said. Jarithan was busy fighting back the devilren that were trying to attack me and Haydrion. "ugh..... BEHINDE YOU!" he yelled ad sot a devilren that could have killed me. "get Jarithan over here!" he said. I quickly called Jarithan over and told him to go to Haydrion. I took his place holding back the devilren. " dont look at me badly for this, friend, but i doubt you will miss the part of ur soul im about to take...." I heard Haydrion say. I couldn't look back to see what was happing for the devilren started to try and sneak past me. I did what I could but there were too many of them. "time to do this, SOL SNATCH!" haydrion said. he then changed into a huge dragon the size of Jarithan's castle! the devilren started yo run away but he was killing millions of them at a time! he grabbed me and Jarithan and put us on his back as he stormed to the devilren's castle. I had no idea how he changed or got better. We got to the entrance and he put us down. Jarithan and I went in. " ill keep watch, all the devilren are out here, ill hold them off, OH SHIT! THEY ARE GETTING OUT THE DEVILREN DEVVISTATORS! HURRY!" haydrion said. Jarithan and I burst into the castle. "Now where would I hide a princess . . ." I said out loud. "How about in the dungeon. . . and if not there then in a fancy room." I nodded and said "Ok, you check for princesses in fancy rooms and I'll check for scared princesses in scary dungeons." He nodded quickly and raced off. I found a dungeon soon after. I made my way inside. No princess. I check about a dozen of them but there was no sign of Catherine. Maybe Jarithan had more luck than I did, I thought. I raced back to where we had left and he was already there. "No Catherine." he reported. "EXSPLOTION!!!!!" as we heard that, half of the castle blew up! and THEN we saw a room full of princesses, even one from Jarithan's kingdom, witch was his sister... "Deziry!" Jarithan cried. He rushed towards a girl with curly red hair and brown eyes that were wide open with shock. I saw Catherine in the midst of a whole bunch of preppy princesses. "Catherine!" I cried. She heard me and turned to see who called her name. When she saw me she rushed towards me. I heard a sob escape her lips. I hugged her and told her it was going to be OK. "I know it's just that they did a whole bunch of awful things to us!" she said. She looked really afraid. "Who did? And what?" She took a deep breath to calm herself and explained "A creature named Haydn... he did Things to us that i dont want to say!" she sobbed. Haydrion crashed in with a huge robot on his face, witch he soon tore in half. Haydrion looked at me and Catherine. "Are you all ok?" he asked. Catherine gasped and hid behind Jarithan. I laughed, turned to Catherine and said "Oh, dont worry about him, it's just Haydrion in his true form." I leaned down to whisper in Catherine's ear. "Kinda ugly in his true form, huh?" She laughed and came out from behind Jarithan. Haydrion went back to his elf form an landed in he middle of the room. Catherine approached Haydrion. He stood up and dusted himself. Catherine gave him a big hug. "Thanks for helping me." she said to Haydrion and the rest of us. "N-no prob.." Haydrion said blushing. I held back my laughter. "Okaaay....so...what do we do about all these other princesses?" I asked Haydrion. I was feeling tired. I NEEDED that stone. "Jarithan, use mu whyvern's to take all the princess back to their homes, diana, your with me to find the stone, i know were it is." haydrion aid while a bunch of whyvern's came and wait for orders."Ok, could you um hurry up that romantic scene over there because I'm gonna die very soon if I dont get that stone so...yeah...dont want to pressure you two but.." "Hush." I stuck my tongue out at him when he turned towards Catherine. "Catherine, I'll see you later, that demon stone is needed." he then rushed off with his tail wrapped around my hand, he knew it was urgent to find the stone. Well not that urgent. Death didn't seem all that bad, but, I still had a lot more things I needed to do so I think death should wait. Now where could that demon stone be . . . "Found it!" Haydrion shouted in night fury form. He had left me to go and explore by himself. He came over to me with it in his mouth and waged his tail. Great now it had his slobber all over it. Oh well, it would have to do. I took it from his mouth and wiped it on my blouse. As I held it up to my eyes it glinted and flashed. I gasped in admiration. Suddenly I had a pain in my chest. Was I already too late?! I hoped not. I doubled over and and whimpered from the pain. It was so INTENSE. I looked up to see Haydn standing over me. He extended his hand. "Give me the stone Diana." he said menacingly. I straightened up and ignored the pain. "Why?" I asked in a steady voice. "Because that stone is mine. Now give it back." he responded. I shook my head "Lair." I replied. "It's not yours." 'Well it's not yours either." he snapped back at me. I held the stone even tighter. I didn't want to fight him. I didn't have the strength. Where was Haydrion when I needed him. "AAAAAAHHHH!!!!" I turned towards the sound . . . and saw Haydrion launching himself at Haydn. Haydn turned just in time to block Haydrion's sword with his. Haydrion was PISSED. "Dont EVER hurt her!" he shouted. Haydn looked a bit shocked by seeing him. "I killed you!!" Haydn exclaimed. "So you think! I came BACK . I am a phantom now ~ My reason here is to KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!" haydrion said slashing at Haydn in an intense battle. Meanwhile the pain had been getting stronger. With each breath I took I seemed to be loosing all my strength. I had to act now. Haydrion came over to me and took the stone, put it together and then put a green liquid on it. "Use it now" he said then rushed into battle. I held the stone and presses it to the place where the pain was coming from. the pain dissipated and the stone disappeared. I gasped in surprise. Haydrion came towards me with blood seeping of his chest and his head. he then collapsed. I turned to see what had happened. Haydn stood there, smiling, holding his blade up in the air. It was dripping with blood. I sheathed my sword and stepped towards him. Haydn slashed at me. I did the same, we were evenly matched, until, he turned into a corrupted angel!!!!!! "I'm gunna blow ya to bits!!!!!!" He formed a huge bomb and chucked it at me, but then Haydrion took the hit, and then called out for..... Jarithan?!?! Apparently Jarithan had arrived from delivering back the princesses just then. Jarithan rushed over to Haydrion. Meanwhile I kept trying to defeat Haydn. It wasn't gonna be easy now that he had become a corrupted angel. he kept using chaos blast and other chaos attacks. i thought i was dead, until Jarithan stabbed haydn in the back, stunning him, which lett haydrion get a good death claw fury storm in, witch he did, that returned haydn to normal. Damn. Why cant I ever win a battle by myself?
Haydn spoke a weird toungh. "oh, get up you big baby, i have been stabbed in my heart 500 times in the past hour, but am I laying down, NO!" haydrion said mumbling. Jarithan taped his shoulder, and haydrion backed off, then the floor i was on, and the one haydn was on, sunk into the ground so we could fight one on one. Great. My wish come true. "Okie dokie then. . . " I stepped forward but Haydn didn't. "Oh come on. Get up. I dont want to just stab you while you're lying there." He slowly got up. "Um haydrion . . . could you use some sort of healing spell on him?" Haydrion looked at me funny "I'm only asking because it wouldn't be fair for me to fight him while he's weak . . ." Haydrion sighed and healed him. He then rushed at me with his sword ... on the ground?/ he then took my weapons and chucked them away then took a fighting stance. he wanted to do a magic battle with hand to hand combat. He then punched me in the jaw, but i returned the punch with a kick to the crotch. He went down with a look of misery and then handed me a sword. I grabbed it and stepped towards him. I stabbed his heart and he fell. dead. then the floors rose back to regular height. "now what?" haydrion said, "now that he is dead, i can goo to heaven, or hell, but the after life is looking pretty sweet! ill be a dooms breseker in hell, and a heaven searcher if i go up..." "I dont know. I have nothing planned . . ." i said. What was I gonna do now that my mission was done? "Hmm....you know, maybe I'll go and try to bring back my love from the dead . . ." "hmmmmmm, where did he go? heaven or the hells?" "I'm not sure . . " I answered "I guess I'm gonna go and look for him in both places." "... i just found out, that im going to be reborn..... damn... as a kid the age of 12! ye demons the gods are mean... oh well... to bad all the memory ill have is my powers and my one weapon will me a dragon dagger!" said haydrion. I laughed. Life wont be too bad. I started to walk away. "Well good luck with your life as a kid. I gotta go and find myself some hundred year old guy. " "If i find him in my brief time in afterlife, I'll let him know you're looking for him."' he said dissipating, "seeya!". he was gone. Great. Now what do I do? i felt strange....i felt sort of tingly. I looked down at my hands....they were see through!!! Oh crap. 0.0I woke up to see . . . darkness. I couldn't even see my hands. If I even had hands. I played back all the recent events in my head. Hmm...what was I doing here? Where was here anyway? "Hello?" I called out tenativly. Well at least I knew I could still speak. "Hello." called a voice. What? Someone was here too? "Hi, um . . . what am I doing here?" I asked cautiously. I didn't know if whoever the voice belonged to was my captor or just another confused person. "You're here because I need you." Oh great. "And you need me because??" I asked the voice. "You are a soul catcher." he responded. "I'm a what???" I asked. The voice sighed and said "A soul catcher. that means that whenever someone around you dies you absorb their soul. You're basically like a bank. When you absorb a soul that soul grows. It becomes stronger. I need souls in order to live, but just talking the souls from regular people wont do. They're too weak. Your's, on the other hand, are strong and supple." I sighed. Why me? "Why cant you find some other person to be your portable bank?" I asked him. He replied in an irritated tone "Because those type of people are very rare." "Leave her alone" said another voice, this one sounded like Haydrion's voice. "Haydrion?" I asked hopefully. "Haydrion, Haydrion.... nope, that ain't me." he said. "You told me that it was ur past life's name once." the other voice said. "No, that was Sorin who told you that. I have to go, see ya later!" said the one voice. "See you later then, Zairo!" said the other voice. 'Zairo' then left. "Well, now back to you.... hmm, your hands are missing . . . Sorin!" "Fuck off! I'm busy!" 'Sorin' said. "Get your but out here!" Sorin came and looked me over. "A soul catcher? HE then gave visibility to my hands."There. Better, Diana?" he said, "I am Sorin and thats Kieto. He brought you here. You will be part of our "family" from now on until our leaders say so. I'm second in command, and for good reasons too." "Um, ok...." I said, warily "I'll be showing you the light now, that way you can see our little place that we reside in." he said with a greeting smile, then I could see the floor. I sighed. Ahhh! Why cant things ever go my way?! "So . . ." I said. "When will you guys let me go?" I asked. "Go?" the two looked at each other. "What? You guys cant expect me to stay here, do you? I have missions to complete. things to say, stuff to do. I cant be you're portable bank forever." I said incredulously. They looked at each other again. "Ok knock that off. Just tell me what's going on, ok?" I told them. "Well, thats up to mister "i must interrupt Sorin's experiments to show him another soul catcher" over there" said Sorin in a pissed off tone "i would love to set you free, but im only second in command, you'll have to wait for Kairos or Mia, our leaders, to decide.... no i must reside to my labritory.... oh, and dumb ass, if you see Lexa, tell her to move into my quarters." he then teleported to his 'lab'. "look, ever play KH?" Kieto asked. "Yea." "We are kinda like the organization 13, only we collect souls to summon creatures. Of course SORIN has to Fuck every thing up by allowing Lexa and her 2 friends to visit.... any who Sorin summons monsters that we control using souls, and you get souls when peps die around you.... are you getting the picture?" I nodded slowly. Great. I wasn't likening this much. "HIIIIIIII~" a girls voice sang, "Where are you Sorin~" Sorin tackle hugged her. "hi Lexa~ leader has told me u have to stay in my room." he sang. "yay!" she sang back. "hey, is it ok if Mea and Ian stay here for a while, they are orphans so . . . " She said. Sorin nodded. They then went in to his room with the girl's two friends. "So . . .what the hell am I supposed to do all day??" I asked Kieto. "Well, you have to pick out a place to stay. . . there are rooms over there, I have to try to find a Girl for Nero." he replied and then vanished before I could ask who Nero was and why he needed to pick a girl. I picked out a room and then made myself at home the best I could. I might be here for a while, that is until I find a way to escape. I then heard a loud crash and then i looked to see a tall kid, probably 18, with his 5 foot long sword drawn. he was wearing all black and had red eyes and white hair that went to his shoulders. "DAMN IT! look, Dero, I know its a habit of yours to Smash into castes with you being a dragon in your past life and all, BUT WOULD IT KILL YOU TO USE THE FUCKING DOOR!?!?!?" shouted Sorin. "Fuck off." said Dero in a dark sounding voice," I'm having a bad day, so if you value your life, you should leave me be . . . now where is my room gunna be?" "Oh, across from the new soul catcher, have the key so you dont bust the door." Sorin replied. Dero took it and then walked slowly to the room across from me. He peeked his head out and said hi to me. I looked warily back at him and said hi.
Dero didn't say much. I went to sleep and woke up at the same time as Dero. We both went to the kitchen to get breakfast. "Mia will give us missions. You'll probably be with the only other person that's my rank so we will probably get stuck together." he said. I nodded my understanding and continued eating. Once we were all done a girl of about 32 came to the table. "I'm Mia. As you probably already know I'm going to give you your missions." She gave all of us a pleasant smile. I sighed and waited for my assignment. "Diana, you're mission is to run a routine check up on the Steam engine of a reactor in base gamma. You will be accompanied by Dero." She announced. I sullenly got up and headed for the door.
When Dero and I finally got there he was acting weird. He kept fidgeting and looking over his shoulder. He then tackled me, making sure I was down for some reason. Just then a heartless soldier jumped over us. The creature hissed as more of them rose up from the darkness. "Crap, they beat us here . . . " Dero said glancing over at me. I cussed under my breath. He had knocked my breath out when he tackled me. "What are they?" I asked him. "Those," he replied "Are heartless." I looked at him quizzically. "Heartless?" "Yea," he responded getting up shakily."They steal people's hearts." "Ahhh" I said also getting up. " We have to tear them to shreds before they do that to you! They already stole mine twice." He said popping a cork off a flask that he revealed from his black, gray and white jacket he had on. He then chucked it at the the monsters before us and they shrieked as they melted away from the mix. I was happy for a while until I saw a dozen more appear from behind the bushes. "Damn." I muttered under my breath. I sheathed my sword. I turned to ask Dero if we were going to fight them but he had disappeared. "Dero?" I called out. Oh well. Never mind him. I got my sword ready and launched my self a group of heartless. I decapitated the whole lot of them in less than a minute. A new record. Dero suddenly appeared and tugged at my shirt collar. When I didn't follow him he dragged me into a portal. I reawoke to see I was on my bed . . . strange. I also sw that a short-ish cloaked person was standing in the door way. I sat up and said "Um . . . so . . . who are you?" He turned to look at me. "Zexion. A master at illusions. Dero told me to watch you until you re awoke. You could not handle the shadow portal's power." I could too!" I responded defensively. "Its just that . . . I . . . was sleepy . . . thats all . . ." He chuckled. "Right." He started to walk away. "Wait! Where's Dero?" I asked. " He is probably still here feeling stupid for dragging you in the portal with him. Keh. He seems to like you a bit." I snorted. "Yea right. Anyway, I want to see him." I shakily got up and took some tentative steps toward the door. Well I might feel like hell but at least I could walk. "Fine." said Zexion. I searched for Dero everywhere. He wasn't in the kitchen, living room, dining room, or any of the other rooms. I got lost once or twice while looking for him. I then finally gave up. I went outside and sat under a beautiful cherry blossom tree. I closed my eyes and was just about to take a nap when a branch fell on me. I looked up to see Dero on the tree. "Sorry" he called out. Well I guess I found him. He crawled down and looked ashamed. "Did . . . did you have a nice rest?" he asked softly. I nodded and gestured at the tree with my hand. "What were you doing up there?" I asked him. "I sleep up there . . . " he said with his head down. "Cool!" I said. I took his hand and pulled/dragged him into the house. "Come on, you have some explaining to do." "O-ok . . . " he stuttered. I sat him down at a tabla and sat across from him. "Ok then. Where are we and why?" I asked. "Well, we are at castle Dream. I am surprised they let me plant my tree out there..." he looked at me, then looked down at his shoes, "I feel stupid for saying that. We collect souls and I create monsters using them. The plan is that we will then take the seven kingdoms by force . . . " he then looked down and then looked at me in the eyes with concern. "Um . . . well I have no idea why you wanna take the seven kingdoms or what they even are but I'm with you one hundred percent." I said and gave him a reassuring smile. he smiled back, blushing, but then looked over his shoulder then asked if he could guard my house. (awkward) "And that would be nessesary because???" I asked him. " if they find out that I told you this they might kill you . . . if they did . . . " He sounded and looked concerned. "Well if they do then I could probably defend myse-" I cut myself off when i saw disappointed flash on his face. He quickly changed his facial expression back to how it was before, though. "I mean . . . sure! It'd make me feel much more safer with you around." He smiled "Um . . . ok." he said. I smiled back and got up. "So . . . what's for lunch?" I asked. "Um, the last time i cooked my "dish" tried to murder me." he said with a small smile. "'Well, I cant cook to save my life" I said. " hmmmmm if WE cant cook, I know some . . . thing that can." he said taking out a weird blue aura sphere out of his satchle he had. " I want to show you something" he said with a sigh. He then said that he was holding spirit aura. He made some weird hand gestures and said "Ziros. Frewor. Go." then a blue vortex appeared in front of him.A weird looking monster came out and absorbed the spirit. "This is cook." he said pointing to the monster while the vortex went away. I saw the monster. It was a human looking thing with 8 arms that had a cooking object in each. "He can cook like a world class cook and he is with me. I control him." Dero said. "What should I cook?" it asked in a bored sounding voice. "vell?"' it asked. Dero thought for a while. "Hmm . . . how about some Deku soup?" The creature nodded and emidiatly went to work. Dero and I both sat down at the table to wait for the food. "Dont you think it's cruel to abuse of the spirits like this? It's kind of as if they were your servants and it doesn't seem fair." Dero looked uncomfortable at my question. " I was almost RAISED in this castle, and Mia is almost like a mom to me. What do children do for their mothers? I do what she asks, and she asks me to do what I just did. I can give him a heart so I cant control him, if you wish . . ." he said in a tone of voice that almost did not sound like it was his own. I sighed and said "Fine, if you're gonna get all angry about it then whatever." He then gave me a look that was a mix of apologeticness, sadness and a bit of something else . . . I just couldn't quite put my finger on what it was. " Heart blessing . . . " he whispered with a tone of sorrow. then cooky then perked up and bowed to me "Hallo ma'am im cooky." he chirped. I had no idea what Dero had meant with 'Heart blessing' but I decided that finding out would have to wait. "Hi" I said to cooky. " i am a world class cook!," cooky said with a bit of pride in his tone, " i wish to cook, may i?" "Sure!" I said and chuckled when Cooky looked exited. After lunch, cooky said good bye and teleported away. in the night i heard . . . swords clashing? I looked out my window to see millions of different heartless . . . even a heartless dragon! "Where the hells did they get spirits and swords?!?!" Dero shouted. He was holding his own quite well, but was starting to get over-whelmed. I quickly sheathed my sword and got to work on the heartless. There were millions. (At least it seemed like millions.) "Sword storm!" Dero yelled as he danced around the heartless, then swords started to fall on the heartless. Dang he was good. I made a mental note to ask him to teach that to me. I kept slashing at the heartless but it seemed like every time I killed one there was always another to take his place. It was exasperating. 30 minuets later the heartless were retreating.Ii had to kill the dragon heartless. It kept spawning flame sports out of the ground. I then sliced its head clear off. I felt strange . . . my legs stopped working! I fell down and could not stand. Dero rushed over to me. "Are you ok?"" he asked in concern. I wanted to nod and say yes but it seemed as if I could not move. I felt searing heat all over me yet there was no fire. I closed my eyes from the pain. When I opened them I was no longer in control. I saw myself sanding up and but not lifting my head. Peering out from under my bangs of dark hair. But those eyes weren't mine. I knew they weren't because I couldn't control them. "Oh shi-" said Dero as he jumped back summoning his dark thunder scythe. He looked at me in surprise and fear. I tried to regain control again but I couldn't. I was powerless. "I am sorry, Diana." he closed his eyes, he looked like a kicked puppy. He then called out these three words "HELP ME DOOM!" just then I was hit . . . badly. I was out cold. When I reawoke I had control of my head and mouth . . . and eyes. I tried to move my hands and couldn't. I started to panic but stopped when I noticed the sound of clanging metal. I had been tied down by chains. I looked around and saw clouds. Clouds?! I looked around again and sure enough, there were clouds. I had a vague idea of where we were. I turned my head and saw Dero. He saw that I was awake and said "We are going to the kingdom ruled by Jarithan or something like that . . . we have to ride there or we would be detected. "As soon as he said that we were shot down and crashed in the middle of Shadow Forest. I saw we were under attack from shadows. A person came out of the darkness and at once i knew who it was. "haydrion!" i shouted. he looked at me then tackled hugged me. "You're ok!" he said in a happy tone. he looked different. He looked smaller. "What happened?" he asked still hanging on to me. I said "I'll tell you if you let go of me." He let go and stepped back. "Ok, all I know is that I was on my way to Jarithan's kingdom and got shot down." I said. "Why were you going to his castle?" asked Haydrion. "oh, ill tell you once off call off he attack!" shouted Dero. "right. SHADOWS, Fall Back" haydrion said as the shadows crept away. "we need to help diana, she absorbed a dragon's spirit nd now she cant control her powers." Dero said. " Oh . . . huh . . . I can help ya get there!" haydrion said happy toned. he then hugged me then put his wing's tip on Dero. "Shadow teleport!" we then were at he palace gates. "Here we are!" he said still hugging me. "Okay, well thanks." I said trying to shake him off. He let go. "Sorry..." he whispered looking down. Dero then nudged me then smiled. I couldn't help smiling back. I gave Haydrion a big hug "I missed you ^^" I said. I then stepped towards the guardians at the gate. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Haydrion blush. "Are you Diana?" one of the guards asked. "Yes." I said back. "Prince Jarithan has been expecting you." "He has?!" I asked. The guard nodded. Haydrion then said something I would not enjoy saying. The guard was not letting Haydrion in, for he turned into a night fury to try to get past, but it did not work. I watched in mild amusement. "Um excuse me but could you please let Haydrion through?" I asked the guard. The guard said "fine" stepping out of the way. haydrion then walked by him then over to me. "i do not favor being in here, the guards are giving me a funny look." stated haydrion. "hey, at least they let you in!" said Dero at the door way waiting for us to come out. I chuckled. "Um, could you let Dero in too?" i asked the guard. "he with you?" "Yea" I said. The guard then reluctantly let him in. "thanks" said Dero. he looked and acted stranger than normally. Hmm.... I fell into step with Dero as we walked towards the castle. "So...whats up?" I asked him." i have been thinking, if Mia needed you so bad, why not try to keep you there, at castle dream. she could have sent Asoor or Devont after us, not heartless." he said. "Hmm....I dont know..." I said. "it would have taken us out. Asoor, the master of the winds and Devont, master of chaos, they would have done a better job, she hates heartless, well except for neo heartless..." said Dero in a weird tone. I looked over at him an worry. I put my arm around him and kept walking. "hmm this seems too.... familiar," said haydrion, "like ive been here, with you two, just like this, but that impossible.... unless, nah." haydrion was acting very timid. I chuckled and kept walking. When we finally reached the castle we paused and looked at each other. We went in and were greeted by Prince Jarithan. He hugged me. huh. "What's wrong?" I asked him all the while trying to wiggle out of his tight embrace. " he probably thought what i thought, you faded away. For good."' said Haydrion. Dero then pried me lose from Jarithan's hug. Dero glanced at him, and growled under his breath. I held back a chuckle. "What do you mean 'faded away'?" I stepped back so that i stranded far enough away from Jarithan as to not get pulled into his death hug again. "when you fade away, reviving you is next to impossible!" "Oh" I said. "So...we were told that you were expecting us. Why?" I said to Jarithan. He looked uncomfortable at the question

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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 14.07.2011

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