Elyzia & Valfiel's Story

"First of all, you remind me of my mother because she had a large amount of ethereal energy inside of her and she was very kind and always happy. second of all, I have the upper hand here because there isn't any light so if someone tries to attack me it won't have any effect. And last of all, I don't like fighting innocent people, I only fight evil."

He disappears into the darkness "I see you but you can't see me" his voice echoed around everyone, he then reappeared but this time much larger in size to intimidate everyone.

He laughs " I wouldn't harm anyone without a proper reason, but if they want to fight I'll give them a fight" he smiles

So it was just a coincidence that he was called Herobrine. The Chosen Few relaxed slightly with this thought dispersed, but they were still wary around him; anyone who had a nearly uncontrollable demonic side to them is enough of a reason to be a bit antsy. Odd how he picked up their thoughts on his reaction to Owru though. Maybe it was a demon trait.
When Vargas sums up their task to fight the Fallen Gods, ironically tasked by another Fallen God, the Chosen Ones would shrug as if to say "Well yeah, pretty weird, but that's the gist of it." The stick figure would say, "Yeah, I know it's a bit ironic, but we were told to kill these Gods of your's by Maxwell, who we picked up as your world's Creator. I mean, it makes sense, it would be a bit controversial to want to have your own world destroyed. But yeah, we're dealing with your Fallen Gods. In our line of work, it might be a bit weird, but it does involve dealing with chaos. We're like... policemen," he would add slowly, looking towards his comrades hesitantly before looking back. "Yeah, policemen. Dealing with trouble within the Imagiverse, which you are a part of, lucky you!"
"Oh yeah," he would continue, sheathing his pencil. "We didn't introduce ourselves. The skeleton's name is Adam Skelecoot," he would gesture to the skeleton, who would give an awkward wave, made slightly more awkward with his puppet-like movement. "The cube guy's Max the Robloxian," - the "Cube Guy" would wave - "the duck's name is Jack "The Ducky Boy" Quackers," - the duck would make a devil horns sign with his gloved hand, grinning - "and I'm Fancy Pants. We're the Chosen Ones, like the intergalactic defenders or whatever of the Imagiverse, which is the universe we live in. It's like the realm of fantasy, I think."
The now-introduced group would watch as Owru demonstrated her ability to shape-shift into any being by transforming into a... what was supposed to be a racoon, but bigger and still slightly alien. When Herobrine said that Owru's ethereal energy reminded him of his mother, they were visably surprised.
"Oh!" said Adam Skelecoot, sheathing his sword down the back of his ribcage. "I guess that makes sense."
He didn't go any further until Herobrine vanished into the night's darkness. He was right; they couldn't see him until he reappeared much bigger. The Chosen Ones would back away slightly. Well, it was a good thing he isn't evil.

Selena simply sighed, so Maxwell tasked them all to kill the other fallen gods. She guess that Vargas had decided to go along with it because the others decided to go with it. However..."I guess times do change, one day we nearly faced extermination by the Gods and now you work with complete strangers to help one kill the other Gods...you must have lost it." Selena spoke, her eyes narrowed at all of them.

Here she was, looking at her friend from the war along with some sort of shapeshifter, a skeleton, a duck boy, a cube looking man, and a man who has lines for his arms, legs and body. And they were saying something about being policemen. Vargas simply scratched the back of his head. "Look...I know this all sounds incredibly stupid on paper...which it is. But an opportunity to kill the other Gods unapposed by one of them is nice, even if I don't trust Maxwell at the very least if it does come down to a betrayal we can handle that. We can finally rid the God threat from the lands Selena! We need your assistance!" He spoke enthusiastically in the end.

Selena shook her head. "I will not work for a God...after all we have been through that is the last thing on my mind. You can certainly handle it with your group, I do not wish to go back to battle once more." She crossed her arms and Vargas continued to press the issue.

"Look Selena, I know what the heck you been through. However if we rid the last of the God threat don't you think the world will be that much safer? I mean, no more Gods. We can then finally focus on the demon threat. Wouldn't that be a much safer world? Everything we faught for was for everyone to love a normal life, not end up dead on some battlefield. Please Selena! Consider it!" Vargas pleaded.

Selena simply sighed, his reasoning was...sound...however there was one thing she knew he would say. He always said this. "You know full well what you have to do. So get it out of the way first." She had a small smile of her face. "You know me full well, I challenge you to a fight!"

Watching Herobrine's display, to her amusement Owru points up at him with squinted eyes. "Oh? You can change size too?"

Her antennae twitch as her attention was drawn elsewhere, her head twisting an almost complete 160 to look over at Selena and Vargas. Turning to them she tries to interject only for the other to speak so instead just listens, shifting her gaze from left to right as each of them says their piece. The way it ends, however, was the one that hit her by surprise. They intend to decide this by a fight? Something tells her that it is best not to intervene.

"Stranger," she mutters softly to herself, thinking how it means essentially the same as Outsider.

When Herobrine hears about Vargas going to kill the rest of the demons, it worries him "why would you kill the gods and the demons? I have a demon inside of me, that means that you will have to kill me to get the demon out of me!" He questions Vargas.

When Owru aks Herobrine about him changing size he awsners, "oh.... when I release more demonic energy I begin to transform into my full demon form, so if I were to release all of my demonic energy I would very quickly transform into my demon's full form." He awsners Owru's question. "And also I have yet to unlock my full power." He added. "Oh and I can change the texture of the black material that's on me, for example I can make my tail have fur" he says with utmost joy. His tail grows larger and changes it's texture to have fur, he them covers himself with his tail. "it's so soft" he rubs his tail when speaking.

The group would look back and forth between Vargas and Selena as they argued. It was reasonable that one would not simply work with their life-long enemy when said enemy offers to let them kill their other enemies. It was suspicious behaviour; for all they knew, Maxwell was possibly planning something behind their backs. They were also self-conscious that they, a ragtag bunch of ridiculous-looking idiots, were assisting a regular warrior in dealing with his problems. Not that their appearance hindered them; they had long ago accepted that they were weird, and that it took many to create the Imagiverse, where equestrian animals used magic and the dead could return to the land of the living and sell merchandise.
It took them by surprise, however, when the two decided to fight one another. From what they said, something must have happened between them that was never resolved until now. Well, they weren't gonna stop them. The Chosen Ones sat themselves down, making themselves comfortable whilst they watch the fight.
"Jack," Adam would say. "Got any snacks in that backpack? Besides those pies," he added. The duck would reach into his backpack and get out a few striped paper bags, handing them between his comrades.
"Aw, sweet," the Robloxian said, taking out a transparent yellow cube. "Lemon Cubes."
"Humbugs!" Adam said, looking into his bag.
"Gummy worms!" said Fancy. The group would dig into their bags and continue to watch the fight. "Oh, don't mind us," Fancy would add. "You do what you gotta do. Don't let us stop you!"

"I accept your challenge. I can already guess the stakes. If I lose, I go with this party and help out...however if I win I will be on my way. Sounds about right?" Selena spoke as she turned around to get a fair distance away from the other. "You are correct, been meaning to train with you one day. But a good fight is still good." Vargas replied as he also walked away a fair distance away.

As they got a bit of yards away, the two faced each other. Everyone could feel their power now radiating, it was a duel but a duel with perhaps their full strength. From Selena the air around her chilled, from Vargas you see the heat waves radiating off of him. The two grabbed their swords at the time time.

"Roar! Dandelga!"
"Lets go...Lexida!"

The two shouted in unison as the two unseathes their weapons and in a blink of an eye closed the distance on each other and had their swords clash with each other. Vargas took to the offence first, using his more powerful strength he shoved Selena's sword to the side and engaged with an uppercut strike using his sword before going in for wide, but slow horizontal strikes with his sword. Selena who was quite agile dodged to the sides and ducked each attack Vargas threw at her before spinning on her heel and went in for a spinning strike as Vargas was about to deliver another attack.

Vargas quickly reacted by also spinning around using his momentum in his would be attack for a defensive strike which caused both swords to collide with a clash of steel before bouncing away. "This beats training and cutting down trees any day!" Vargas heartily laughed while Selena sighed but she has a small smile on her face. "Always training I see...You never did change much."

"It... it isn't a matter if what they are as much as what they do," Owru answers Herobrine, looking down at and crossing her bottom set of arms and scratches her cheek with her upper right hand. The thought of killing anything in the first place still was hard to swallow, even though she had decided to follow this through to its end. "They actively pose a threat... threaten people's lives, what little they have left. I t-think if it were different, then there wouldn't be a conflict to start with. A-aside from that... one of the fallen at l-least looks hopeful, so not all are necessarily bad. And b-besides, my Id, Laadan, looks pretty crazy and she wasn't attacked, so don't think you have anything to be afraid of, h-heh."

She once again watches the fight between Selena and Vargas, though she was technically watching everything with those three eyes of hers. They were opposites in nearly every way, even their elements were, one fire and the other ice, but they were not enemies. Despite the intensity of their blows, they were doing so without anger, perhaps in one's faith of the ability to counter the other. It was in a way, perfect. Maybe I think too much. Her attention is drawn back to Herobrine who explains the source of his growth and ability to adjust his texture.

"I can change texture too, size too, and shape as you saw, is rather easy... though all of it is really imperfect, I can't change weight as I'm k-kinda... light all the time, and I always have three eyes, and overall I just end up looking like... me in a different form," she says before giggling a bit before placing her hands behind her back, looking down at her feet. "I'm fine with being strange, I just hope I'm not intimidating."

"No one is perfect, for example my flaw is that all of my strength came from my demon, so if I didn't have that demon in me I wouldn't be anything. Also I have the tendency to become a bit crazy because of the strong amount of demonic energy in me, and the fact that my whole family was slaughtered right in front of me" he sighs and sits down, he watches the fight between Selena and Vargas.

The Chosen Few would watch the skirmish with interest, both stuffy and freezing cold from the emanating forces between the two warriors, whilst they listened to Owru explaining to Herobrine the difference between him and the Gaian demons. She also explained her shape-shifting abilities and their restrictions, mainly how her weight is always minimal. They have never seen anything like the Outsider; even Jonathan never mentioned anything about a schizophrenic, shape-shifting entity from near the edge of the Imagiverse. When they get back, Adam was going to tell his brother all about this new find.
The skeleton hesitated on his humbug. Jonathan didn't know about this; If Adam knew about the journey, he would have brought him with him. But, then again, he wasn't sure that bringing the Governor of Skeleville would have been a wise idea. Sure, John was normally nice to new people, but he was the sort who would disassemble a new entity to find the tick. Maybe it would be a better idea to leave it till he gets back.
He would wince when Herobrine mentioned the death of his family. Worrying memories of a dark figure loomed within his eye sockets; a man who was no longer a man, dripping black-purple slime, and a grin which still sent a chill down his vertebrae. The teeth were a white-pink, and looked weirdly crystalline...
Adam shook his head. He had gotten over the memory years ago, but he couldn't shake off the pain in his abdomen, as if a tentacle shot through his body, and the strange familiarity of the murderer. He wasn't sure what happened to the rest of his family, but he could guess what had happened to them.
Pushing the memory aside, he finally put the humbug in his bone-skin mouth, chewing the hard candy before swallowing. It was an education watching a skeleton eat; when Adam swallowed, the crushed candy went down just above the ribcage and vanished, as if it went through an expertly-hidden pipe.

As the fight continued on, you could feel the power clashing between the two. They were now turning it up. "Now that the warm ups are done! Time to give it our all!"[/colour] Vargas called out as his swird was surrounded by fire. He charged forward and Selena immediately reacted. [color=teal]"Just ensure you don't hit the others...Divine hail." She replied as the air around her began to freeze into ice shard which was then shot forward. Vargas raised his sword using it like a shield and continued to charge forward. Ice shards peppered his body but he continued to slog through until he closed the gap. "Flare Ride!" He then slammed his blade in the ground before getting right up to her and swinging his blade upwards sending rock, along with a geyser of fire with it.

Selena quick on her feet quickly raised her sword and jumped back, but not without a lone rock flying right by her face scratching her. As she skid backwards, the momentum carried Vargas into the air which gave Selena an opportunity to strike back. Clouds formed above Vargas as Selena channeled her magic. "Blizzard Pain..."

A hail of ice shard peppered Vargas, each one eithe rimpacting his armor a or giving him a rather minor cut. He laughed heartily as Selena seemed to also be giving it her all as well. Soon flames surrounded his whole body causing the ice shard to melt on impact. He once again charged forward however Selena seemed to have predicted this even though Vargas was pretty straight forward. "Cocytus Zero..." Suddenly the air all around him became solid, and a massive ball surrounded him before surrounding him and crushing him.

For a moment, all was still. Selena seemed to breathing heavier than usual although from a distance she seemed fine. Compared to Vargas she was not training. However suddenly the ice shattered and out came the fiery hero a little worse for wear but still going at max throttle. "Flare Ride..." Vargas started as a wide eyed Selena who was catching her breath tried to get a move on, however she stumbled a bit which was all Vargas needed to close the distance.

He crashed into the ground which shattered, he then dropped his sword and slammed his fist into Selena. "Plus! Sorry about this really!" He then soared along with Selena into the air, the impact sounding rather painful. As the two came back down to earth, Vargas still stood while Selena had a more harder time getting up. A pang of guilt washed over him and rushed by her side. "Did I overdo it? Seriously sorry." He then helped her up.

The winner was of course Vargas. "I'm fine...Just not used to exhausting my magic...compared to you continuing to train..." Selena spoke in periodic breaths. Back then training was what she always did, but after the war she never trained at all.

Owru stands observing still, close enough to the brawl that the impact between the two heroes blows her antennae left and right, her eyes squinting as ice and fire blows by her. It was the same fearlessness when it came to Herobrine, curiosity in its place. Though it looked like she was only staring, she was actually seeing the fight in a multifaceted way, from the physical to the metaphysical. She focuses so hard that she is like in a trance.

This trance inevitably breaks, however, when the conclusion of the fight is met, Vargas's flames proving to be greater than Selena's ice. Perhaps it was skill that ultimately decided the outcome, or more so Vargas's honed strength and endurance, as Selena had so pointed out. Either way, she sighs, some relief to see a light-hearted fight after the one that came before.

"You did w-well, b-both of you," she says finally, squinting her eyes and curling her antennae up almost in the shape of a heart. "U-um... but I hope you haven't hurt y-yourselves out too much."

With a brief pause, she looks at her hands then holds up her arms with a giggle.

"Though, even if you did knock yourselves out, I guess I could carry two," she muses with a laugh.

"Well I guess that's that ima go-" he passes out on the ground, this is due to the fact that he was in demon form for so long, it drained all of his energy. When he passed out he slowly reverted back to human form.

Realising the fight had finished, the Chosen Ones grabbed their paper bags and stuffed them back into Jack's backpack. The fire warrior Vargas was triumphant, having almost broken every bone in the ice hero's body. They would stand back up, dusting themselves off before walking towards the fighters.
"Well, that was impressive," said Max. "Now that you've gotten that outta the way, we could get to finding the other heroes. I get the feeling we will need to find them all to fight these Gods of yours, so we will certainly need your help, Selena."
The group would look back briefly when they hear a thud behind them, which revealed to be Herobrine passing out as the last of his energy depleted. They were slightly relieved when he began to meta-morphosize back into human form.
"So yeah," said Fancy, looking back at the two warriors. "Are there any heroes nearby?"

Selena breathed a bit heavily, however she took a minute to surround herself in a light blue glow. The light healed her body before speaking. "I am not sure if the others are alive...I had though I was the last one alive...Vargas, do you happen to know if they are alive?" She looked at Vargas. "Not sure, Maxwell said the other four had met an untimely demise however...From what...she...said, It would be safe to assume that the other may possibly be alive. We would have to head to many far off lands so unfortanantly they are not nearby. However if word spreads out they might come to us...best case scenario that is..." Vargas replied as he helped dust Selena off.

"In the worst case we would have to find them our selfs."

Owru still had her arms held up as Herobrine collapsed to the ground, one of her antennae dropping to the side leaving her remaining to be a question mark. Blinking for a moment she looks down at him, reverting back to his human form, alive but completely out cold. With a short hop over she crouches down to get a closer look.

"H-huh, I was only joking, well up you go," she says whimsically before showing no hesitation to reach down and with no effort carefully takes him over her shoulder holding him with her upper left arm and stands back up in one unbroken motion and stands with the same lightness on her feet. She was quite a bit stronger than the seemingly frail physique showed, but was strangely very soft at the same time. She then turns to Selena and Vargas once more. "Is there any way I could be of h-help?"

As Herobrine was lifted onto Owru's shoulder he began to morph into a small creature which resembled his demon form. This was due to the state that he was in, you could say that it was some sort of a defense mechanism.

The group would look around and take in their surroundings. It was obviously night, there was no other time of day when the moon was up instead of the sun. They were in a plains, standing next to a path which lead to a cave, glowing red from the inside. Well, that's a start at least.
"Well," said Max. "There's no point standing around like idiots, so our best bet is through those caves. At least it will get us going."
At this point, a cowardly hero would comment "I'm not too sure, it looks dangerous. It might have bats the size of your arm", but, this being the Chosen Few, they would nod and mumble collective approval of the idea.

"I'm fine...A little bit of healing magic will get me up soon. As for our destination it's not through the caves." She then pointed in the opposite direction, past massive mountains at right at a tower. It appeared to be miles upon miles away. Days even to even to trek that far. "That tower holds the portal to the next continent. Unless someone has a portable means of transportation it will take a few days at best to make it. There is also the danger of monsters, the demons...or even the remnants of the God army and their disciples...If you all are still determined. This journey could take us months or even years to make. The land is bountiful so we can stock up in forests and plains. Just...stay safe everyone." She finished her explanation.

Vargas seemed eager to make this journey despite his past reluctance. "Whatever gets in our way, we are going to destroy them all! Today is finally the day that we take the fight to them once again!" He began to psych himself and others around him. Valfiel cheered along while Elyzia nodded. A day when everyone can live peacefully, it was everyone's wish through these times.

Of course with the conversation of food, a certain fire hero's gut rumbled. "Speaking of food...I don't think I packed any...And I missed all three important meals of the day!" He laughed while Valfiel seemed to whistle as she also did not pack anything for the trip. Eliza shook her head, she had nothing either.

"I am staring to think you and Eze were the same people. Always training and fighting first, afterwards forgetting about your food...Start a fire Vargas, it's still night and everyone needs their energy." Witha quick nod, Vargas ran off and after a minute returned with a bundle of sticks and with a snap of his finger, ignited his hand and burned the sticks making a good sized campfire. Selena herself began to stick some needles through some slabs of meat and planted then near the fire. It was a wonder how they survived, she honestly though that hunger would have killed them better than any God.

Owru with the transformed Herobrine in tow watches with slight confusion as the set of heroes mildly contend on which direction they shall proceed in, looking in each direction then tilted her head to the side looking more like a confounded puppy with her antennae flopping to the side like ears. Selena seemed to know the best option though, and yet stated it will be fraught with perils, while Vargas naturally scoffs at the general direction of danger! Squinting her eyes she chokes back a chuckle, as soon after his burst of enthusiasm his stomach rumbles.

"U-um, actually, I-," she squeaks before getting distracted by the preparation of fire and food. It was interesting, she never truly ate before, through Laadan she more-so displaced instances of reality rather than actually eating it as sustenance. She ran on something, of course, but even she does not know exactly what. "I c-could be transport, so to speak. I-it would not be a burden to me, I can assume a form more capable and I can move... well... fast. I'm very light on my feet... h-heh."

She says, kneeling down to watch the fire closer, the light of the flame going straight through her translucent body. her eyes widen and antennae standing up then looks over at Herobrine. Then points at him with her three other hands.

"Oh! U-um, thanks but I think he needs to eat far more than I do," she says to Selena in response to food. Her antennae then lower, her gaze diverting to the side. "I'm... uh... d-different, anyways, he-heh."