Elyzia & Valfiel's Story

Herobrine's ears twitch when he hears the mention of food, his eyes slowly begin to open. "Hey..... what happened? And why do I smell meat" he questions as he slowly got up and yawned.

"Years?" There was a collective groan from the defenders. They didn't come here to spend years getting from one continent to another. There might be an intergalactic war going on in the Imagiverse and they wouldn't be able to stop it. They haven't got years to solve the Grand Gaia problem. They would relax a bit when Owru volunteers to transport them to the mountains, though their annoyance was replaced with doubt. They never rode an alien before. Hell, they never rode a horse before; ever since they went to Equestria, they could never look at a wild equestrian the same way again.
The Chosen Ones would sit down next to the fire, swallowing the saliva building up in their mouths as they laid their eyes on the spitting meat. They couldn't remember the last time they ate, minus the preservatives during the spar, and they couldn't wait to bite into some animal flesh.
"Y'know, it'th a shame John didn't come," said Jack, noticing the skeleton wince. "He would have loved to check thith place out. He's alwayth looking for more platheth to go."
"Funny you should say," said Adam. "He was thinking of building a portal to Grand Gaia. Though, that was a few hours ago, I think." Time, the Chosen Few thought, was something that happened to other people. "It would probably take him days to get the thing started. You might like him, he thinks himself the brains of the group, although he isn't really a Chosen One."

"Well...Its not everyday you find someone who can shift their form into a means of transportation...However, this can severely cut down the time needed in our journey. Perhaps a few months now at best. There is still the issue of encountering the remnants of the God Army but other than that this seems well for now." Selena sighed with relief at the notion of their travel time being cut down. In their world a means of transportation was so rare that not even many of the capitals have much or anything to move around. Only using portals mostly for research and moving on foot.

Upon the mentioning of jack, Valfiel chimed in. "I think John would enjoy working with the head researcher of Randall. Noel...although it's safe to say they both may have a few bolts loose in their head... He really is a smart person, just forgets things have conseqences...or things happen to go wrong." She chuckled a bit, although more out of nervousness. "In any case, people can benifit from his research. We can find new means of energy or to improve our skills in combat. He also researches the history of the world, and even has a device to show an alternate history of certain parts of history. Although, it's more of a calculated conclusion then what actually would happen. In any case, you could learn so much from him." Elyzia added as she and her sister joined by the fire.

As the meat finished cooking she handed one for everyone Which a bit extra to spare presumably for Vargas to devour with his intense training which required a bit of energy to maintain. "You know, for someone who uses ice and water, you are pretty good at cooking Sel." Vargas spoke as he began to chew into his meat. "Well if you would learn not to burn all our food every time we ask you to then I would have not have had to learn how to cook. Remember the time when you burned our remaining meat stocks and when we went out looking we had to slay a dragon just to eat it?" Selena glared daggers at Vargas who simply scratched his head and smiled. "You have to admit, that was good training. The fire warrior laughed while the ice warrior simply ate her piece of food, trying to ignore the fact that fighting a dragon was 'training' in his mind along with the nickname he called her by. If she did not know better he burned their food on purpose to hunt something. But it honesty, he was not that clever enough to burn their food so they could stumble on that dragon. If anything he would have Probaly ate the food and hunt the dragon himself.

"I suppose when you start from nothing, you can be anything," she says as she sits down next to the fire. The logic was, mildly put, strange, and she didn't really seem to understand herself much either, at least when it came to why she is this way. "C-changing size and shape are easy, looking convincing is not, h-heh-heh."

As she sat there she continued to watch the fire as they talked. She was trying to understand everything and chuckle along, but she again realizes just how apart she was from everything else around her, that even the physics of this world did not recognize her. Though, strangely, she did not feel as sad as usual, as now she had some use to others in her anomalous state of being and that made her happy.

"You should eat and rest," she says to Herobrine, trying to smile again. "I hear sleeping on an empty stomach is unpleasant."

Vargas and Selena got along in their own way, along with the fairy sisters that admired them each of the oddball heroes had each other almost like a band of offbeat war buddies. But all she had was aspects of herself that somehow attained some independent will. Again, she wasn't sure why.

"S-so, um, what would you do if you were the only one of your kind?"

"Umm that's not going to fill me up, I haven't eaten in four months." Herobrine's stomach starts to growl.

As Herobrine talks he senses a large amount of demonic energy wich isn't his own, "not to startle you but I sense a large demon nearby." Herobrine says with fear in him.

"Oooh I'm gonna take that demon's power so that I can destroy anything" Herobrine says to himself quietly and with a demonic tone as he eats his meat.

"Yeah, John's nuts, there's no denying that," said Adam, with the certainty only a loving brother could have. "For as long as I've known him, he had a certain quirk to his personality. Not to mention that business with Alice..." He would lower his gaze, as he was strapped onto the front of a car racing down Memory Lane.
"Oh yeah, his wife," said Fancy. "She was a forest nymph he met. I think he was still in his bachlorhood when he met her, so he got that out of his system. Shame about that Darkling killing her, though. He was never the same after that. I think it got so bad he had to be taken to an institution." he would give a short brittle laugh.
"Yeah, after he set a town on fire," Max would say, smirking. "Even now, he admits it was a bit too far. But he said it was then that he started to "embrace" his craziness. He's still psychotic, but he keeps it in check most of the time."
"Yeah, complete nutter," Jack would contribute to the conversation. "But really good at machineth."
The quartet would talk about this rather ghastly memory with a sort of wistful undertone. It was certain they had faced worse things then their friend, and in one case their brother, going over the madness horizon and accelerating, as they didn't seem that much traumatised by the event.
"Can't remember how long he was in the loony bin for," said the skeleton with a slight smile. "Possibly for a year, maybe three years. Skeleville didn't go nuts when he was absent, which was weird. I guess it kinda runs itself."
The Chosen Ones would come out of their memory daze when Herobrine mentions a demon nearby. Just in case, they grabbed hold of their weapons. Max would grab a meat chunk and take a huge bite out of it. The robloxian had an attitude to food that focused less on the enjoyment of food and more on filling his stomach. His lower jaw pounded on the meat before swallowing, then he stuffed the rest of the chunk into his mouth.

With the mentioning of a demon, Selena and the two sisters tensed up a bit as they too took a hold of their weapons. However Vargas simply laughed. "Well, looks like we got a welcoming committee. Anyways, we will deal with it when it arrives, but if I were the last of my kind...I guess I will fight for what I believe in until I bite the dirt." The fire warrior shrugged as he hungrily devoured his meat, devoid of any sort of manners.

Selena Glared at Herobrine first almost guessing what he had planned for the demon, then she glared at Vargas who was displaying manners not even close to a proper knight. She slowly ate her food before speaking. "If I were the last of my kind...I would love to explore the open seas. And Vargas at least show some manners, there are ladies around and as knight that is really...not a nice sight to watch." As Selena spoke, Vargas simply nodded and ate less quickly. Not an improvment but it was better.

Valfiel and Elyzia simply pondered the question. "I could never imagine a life without my sister by my side. We are inseparable! And we work well together." "I can say the same, we are one together, but if I was alone...I am not sure." The sisters to empathis this(Mostly Valfiel who wanted to show this) held their hands together.

"Anyways, onto another topic. If you have not eaten for four months then try this." Selena opened up a pouch and pulled out a container. "Its a sort of 'nutritious' drink...I say this loosely because it is made from roots and herbs. It tastes bitter and leaves a sour aftertaste, but it will fill you up if you can drink it. I keep this on me in case we run out of options for food, and I rather not have to cook for a long while to try and fill you up. I have plenty to spare, so drink up." She shook the container, holding it out for Herobrine to drink. His decision to either accept or refuse it.

Herobrine politely takes the container, opens it and smells it. "This smells like Holy Water, I can't drink Holy water it will kill me..." he angerly closes the container and hands it back to Selena.

"Anyways, I don't need to eat much, I could just absorb the demon's demonic energy and I'll be fine, it's like my food source... but I still need to eat physical food... just not as much as normal people..." he then noticed that he forgot to answer Owru's question.

"Oh sorry, I got distracted. To be honest for all I know I can be the only person who has a demon inside of them so technically I'm the only one of my kind... and I wouldn't want anyone to go through the pain I'm in..." he said slowly having a sadder tone after each word he spoke.

"I-I see," she says quietly in response to their answers. She looks to Herobrine, then narrows her eyes looking down sadly. "I'm sorry... b-but I'm sure at least you were brought into this world through some sentiment like love... not all have that."

She's disrupted from her thoughts with the mention of incoming threats and snaps up to her feet. Aside from the boy, she did not know what demons were like, not exactly anyways. Based on the reactions from everyone else, though, they were likely not coming to have a nice chat. She gazes off in the direction to where they seem to be coming from, trying to make out anything at all.

"What are normal demons like... normally?"

"The demons we face don't always follow the same plan," said Max, standing up with his colleagues. "But they're normally vice incarnates, as John calls them. You would be amazed how many vices make up the demon population in the Imagiverse. I don't know about the demons here though."
The Chosen Few would scan their surroundings, looking for a sign, any sign, of danger. This was partially fueled by a hunger for action, but above that is a universal need to not be disemboweled. Shadows skittered between the trees, although they were probably just the normal wildlife.
"What if the demon'th invithible?" said Jack.
"Shut. Up."
"Don't worry, guys," said Fancy. "If Herobrine can sense it, it won't be hard to find it."

"Most demons here are massive with the power to back it up. Most of the time they are but mindless creatures who attack anyone on sight or try and lumber to anything with power. Other more dangerious demons are the ones with intelegence. To talk, to think, to plan. They are rarely seen and most times they stay in Ishigria, the demon world. They can't exactly sneak around well, and they are not one to keep hidden as most just up and roar when they get close. But in any case most people would run the opposite direction, we can eliminate one quite easily. So there is not much reason to fear." Selena spoke. Quite frankly she hated the Gods, demons were like minor nusinces but since their numbers keep growing they are turning out to be a threat.

Vargas finished eating with a satisfied smile on his face. "That reminds me, Hey Valfiel. You said you had a 'bundle of joy'. So...you just gonna leave her behind?" Vargas asked and in response Elyzia's face turned a bit red. However her sister responded. "Don't worry, we are heading to Bauria anyways. We can take her along for the ride."

The two heroes looked at her with raised eyes. "Don't worry, she is a gifted fighter. Besides we can't leave her by herself alone. And to fix this situation...she is not our 'bundle of joy' she is a gifted young woman who grew up with us."

"The demon won't get here until a few more minutes." Herobrine says with a bit of joy.

"I hope the demon has a ton of demonic energy inside of it" Herobrine laughs demonically.

Listening to the different definitions to demons from the heroes of Imagiverse, and the heroes of Grand Gaia, her antennae slowly curl around resembling the horns of a sheep.

"Vices," she mutters, narrowing her eyes, folding her upper arms, and placing her lower ones on her hips. "They don't sound like that big of a problem either way... I guess."

Her eyes widen and she flips her neck back, looking over at Herobrine with her head upside down. He was laughing more than a hyena at stand up. Wait, what kind of simile is that? Either way she is perplexed by his behavior.

"Hey, what's so funny?"

"All right, calm down," said Jack, giving Herobrine a Look. "Whilst we're waiting, anyone know a good card game?" As he says this, he reaches into his backpack and gets out a pack of cards. He would take out the cards and begin to shuffle them.
"How about Cripple Mr Onion?" said Adam, as the group sat down and were given their five cards. If they were going to wait for the fight to come to them, they were going to at least hone their card skills.
"Thinking about it, this place seems a lot more normal than the other worlds," said Adam, looking at his cards.
"Well durr, the other worlds barely have any humans living in them," muttered Max.
"At least this place gives us a proper challenge," said Fancy. "The Darkness is alright, but what one really needs is increasing difficulty to keep it interesting."
"Hey, the Darknethh liketh improving itthelf," said Jack. "It'th very modern."
"Yeah, it's looking like a cross between an advanced alien hive and an evil wizard's lair right now," said Max.
"Yeh, but it's still the same, innit?" said Adam. Dammit, got a Bagel. "Fold. The Darkness changes it's looks to suit the times alright, but is it gettin' more resilient to Order?"
"No," chorused the group.
"Exactly, so it's not really increasingly difficult, is it?"

The four Grand Gaians, Vargas decided to take the opportunity to train for a bit, Selena decided to just relax, and Valfiel and Elyzia watched the card game. "Don't worry about the difficulty, this is just the beginning! The weaker demons come here, along with the basic monsters. However past this point, we are gonna have to battle fallen spirits who continue to walk the land, stronger and tougher monsters, demons that have survived many battles and are thus strong enough to give us some trouble, and eventually attacks by the God army. Be warned that many of them can fly, and are skilled in magic and battle. But it's not really fair to bring out all the dangers at the start of a journey!" Vargas laughed.

Selena looked over at him. "Most people rather have an easy journey than one filled with many dangers. However, learning to survive danger makes further roads more bearable at least." She sighed before turning to Owru. "You are correct, the massive demons do not pose a threat as long as they do not gain power. However thanks to their size if they continue to survive battles they grow stronger and their size means they can hold much more power. Still...in Mistral the demons hardly pose a threat and the monsters here are rather harmless or just getting in the way. Like...that little guy there." Selena smiled as she spotted a small blob hopping around, and it was glowing in the darkness. She quickly got up and picked up the rather cute looking slime and returned back to camp.

Vargas laughed as he spotted Selena. "Still got a soft spot for those slimes? I remember the first time you saw one and that was the greatest thing I saw! You were so--- Vargas was about to speak however Selena, who's eye seemed to twitch as he was about to bring up that moment decided to do something quickly. "Cocytus Zero!" And with that, ice trapped the fire hero once again. She shook a deep sigh before speaking. "A-Anyways, slimes here are wonderful little creatures. This light slime can light up the darkness well, and other slimes can help out like a water slime which is like an infinite source of water or a fire slime which can keep you all toasty like a campfire." She spoke about the slimes before patting the slime in her arms.

Eventually Herobrine stoped laughing. A large cloud of demonic energy began to seround Herobrine. "Hmm I guess the demon died on its way here." Said Herobrine. The large cloud of demonic energy slowly began to be absorbed by Herobrine's body.

"Where I c-come from is more primordial, not really a world but an expansive... nothing... yet something," she begins to say in response to the Chosen Ones, before beginning to rub her head, her mood getting slightly gloomy. "T-things that live there are nothing like anything here, living wills and sentiments rather than flesh and blood beings, from infinite to infinitesimal... I guess compared to most things I'm a... u-uhm... bunny."

She giggles slightly at her analogy, tugging on her antennae and wrapping them under her chin.

"With the exception of fluff, I guess I got the aesthetics covered! Honestly, I don't miss that place one bit, no humor, you are either absolutely alone or nearly getting engulfed by another Outsider's... will. You seem to like a challenge but... well, whatever you do, never breach the 'veil'. A-"

Her eyes widen and snaps her head around as Vargas is put on ice. She rushes over and pokes at the frozen hero, antennae crookedly standing up. She then glances over at Selena, who describes slimes as quite versatile creatures. She blinks her eyes, her antennae wiggling. Like her, the creatures seem to have a not-completely-solid, translucent body. In fact, Laadan, which was just a part of her was very much an advanced kind of slime being. She literally seems to blink over to Selena, hovering over her, her eyes sparkling with enthusiasm.

"Oh! They kinda sound like me," she squeaks, her tail twirling, before her face reddens and she rubs the back of her head. "Y-y'know, malleable, versatile, different forms... not a source of water."

Then finally Herobrine mentions that the demon died on the way here and all Owru could think as a response to that was.

"U-um... you know... demons don't sound like the type to just... trip over and die, or die to animals so um... t-that isn't a good sign."

The Chosen Few would listen to Vargas' explaination on the demons in Grand Gaia. Apparently, compared to fallen spirits and the "God Army", demons are what Darklings are to their superiors. They had to admit, even though they openly admit that they deserve a challenge, deep inside, they just want to get through the day in one piece. At least they've got something to build up their experience with. They would briefly turn their gaze away from their game towards a glowing blob. Although, they wouldn't even bother with that.
It came to a bit of a surprise when Vargas brought up a memory he didn't finish because he was too busy being frozen solid by Selena. The intitial shock dissipated quickly and the paladins started laughing. They would try and stiffle their merriment when Selena, still slightly flustered, explained the different types of slimes and their uses. The fire slimes sounded like the fire elementals that Skelecoots sometimes use to fuel their steam engines. John would love this place, thought Adam.
The Chosen Ones would groan slightly when they hear that the approaching danger had apparently died on it's way.
"Stupid demon, trying to take away our freedom of enjoyment," muttered Max.
"Well, either the demon died, or that cloud near Herobrine was just some form of excrement," said Fancy. "Fold. If it's the latter, the demon in question must be more powerful than we thought," he would add, attempting to cheer up his compadres.
"I hope so. I think Hope's getting a little frisky," said Adam. The group would look at the sword slotted in his ribcage. It was starting to vibrate. The skeleton would grip the handle, trying to keep the blade still. The sword, which was apparently named Hope, seemed to possess a form of vague personality. It was obvious that the weapon was magical, so said energy must have given the sword sentinence. The glow from the sword was starting to brighten a little.

The ice trapping Vargas soon broke as he finally hacked his way free, a goofy smile on his face. "Eheheh...Sorry Sel. It was too good to pass up." He spoke as he noticed the sudden change it atmosphere. His expression turned a bit more serious.

"Demon died on the way here...Either one of the six heroes decided to visit this place..." Selena started. "Or...The God Army recognised our presence...and they so happened to run into the demon..." Elyzia finished her sentence for her.

"You guys wanted a challenge right!? Well guess our adventure is starting off on a higher difficulty. Never expected them to already notice us already. Then again...we are walking targets for them." Vargas chuckled as he unleashed Dandelga. Selena got up and unsheathed Lexida. She also let go of the slime and let it go back to the wild.

Valfiel responded quickly, she got up and drew her scythe. Elyzia did the same just in time to see what had killed the demon. Up on the cave Selena and Herobrine had came out of. A group of humanoid figures appeared, however they all had wings. And they all wore bright looking armor and had swords. "Angels...They sure are stubborn..."

The lead angel, recognised by her more well decorated armor and great sword stared down at the group below. "Those that did not originate from this world! Bow your heads in surrender! Our mission is to kill those that stand up to the Gods! You will be spared however if you attempt to fight we will kill you as well! We give you one warning!" She then pointed her sword down at the group.

There were nine angels, they did not look like much but there was a reason they were the soldiers of the God Army. This would not be a short night.