Arelaeno Zeusisu's Story

Adion sat as the shadows. He saw King Zedilan walk up to the gates. He sat in wait, knowing that trying to feed from the dark elf that was so corrupt would have been a bad mistake. Instead he watched, watched as the dark elf took 2 of the town's women. Soon, soon someone would want to go after them. It was only a matter of time before Adion would get a ride to being able to feed on Zedilan. All Zedilan needed to be doing for Adion to safely feed is be distracted with fighting. Once that was done, Adion could simply form around him and consume all his greed.

Now he sits in wait. The demon who hides in shadows waits for the next true rebellion. All it takes is one person for Adion to latch onto. All he needed for that was hate. He could not feed on the hate, no, but it worked as a great way to hold onto another being. All that is left is someone who wants to get those 2 women back. Just waiting as the shadows. Seeking the vengeful.

The sun was shining down on Arelaeno's back as he stepped out of his make shift home. It was a rectangle box, made out of wood with a door in the front, made of only two rooms, a living room with a tree trunk bench, and a bedrom with a leather blanketed bed. Strapped around his shoulders was his iron, human made long sowrd. Most humans would have to cary it with two hands, but because of his strange past, he can use only one hand. As two of his neighbours were carried off, he felt a feeling of concern stirke him. 'It had to be the king.' He began to think to himself, slowly walking towards the torn down gates, but after about seven steps, his slow walk turned into a slow run.

As he got to the gates, he almost forgot about the guardian. It goes from stone, then turns into a large samurai warrior, about seven feet tall with a sword that turns from a regular katana, then too a sword that is the size of three grown up trees up together, whener it is swung.

"I don't suggest you try it." The guardian bellowed.
" Damn you, okay? Damn you!" Arelaenob began to yell. He knew those people, the mother would always give him five coins when he helped her out, and now he wanted to get her back.

Adion spotted the awakening guardian and felt the hate that emanated from Arelaeno. Within moments, Adion threw his whole mass onto the guardian, crushing it to oblivion. The demon then forms into a humanoid form and turns to Arelaeno. Adion then begins "Hello human. We both seek a common enemy, with different reasons. But fear not, I have no reason to bring you harm. It would not bring me what I seek in my existence, but bringing you little king to his end would bring me precisely what I want. All of his delicious greed." Adion started at Arelaeno with 2 glowing dots the color of blood. By all means the demon seemed completely sincere in all his words, a trait that few demons posses. Although, how likely is that mortal weapons would be able to cause him harm.

As the guardian was destroyed right before his very eyes. He had his hands grasped around the hilt of his sword, ready to pull it out as the demon took its form. Apparently Arelaeno and this demon looking guy had a common enemy. The king. There was always more to the king than every one thought, so maybe there was more to this guy than he thought. Arela listened to what the guy had to say, then let go of his sword. Wanting to wave his hand through the mans body, to see if its real.
"What are you saying?" Arela asked, eyes narrowing in concern.

"I feed on a kind of greed that only seems to manifest in high level leaders. The type of greed that you possess is weak, tasteless, and painful. But the greed that your 'king' possesses is so pure, so delicious, that I can feed from it. I am like a hungry stray, you are the man who takes in the animal, and your king is the meat that you feed to the stray. They have ways of keeping me out of the city, ways that when an human army attacks, are diverted to that and not demons. This is why I need you. And, as a foreigner I used to know would always say, 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.'" Adion hissed out. It wasn't like an angry hiss, but one that matched the smoke coming off of his almost ethereal body. The demon had not moved at all, excluding his smoke, when he spoke. He seemed to be starting intently at some part of Aleraeno, but since the eyes were a pure, pupilless color, that could not be told which part though.

Arela could not help but let the side of his mouth curl up into a small smile.
"I have taken in a stray before." The other side curled up, forming a full on smile. "Non have ever offered to help me. But, I can tell you mean buisness. If you feed on greed, it would seem you are a.....god damn me for saying this but, your the good guy." Arela spoke, offering his hand out infront of him. "So, what do you have in mind? After you smoked the guardian, you made it easier for me to get out. It is harder for me to get past that out post maybe three miles up ahead. But hey, for a chance like this, I'll do anything."

"Under the cover of night, I cannot be seen unless one knows what to look for. They are nothing once the main anti demon defenses are down, all you have to do is give the chaos demons an hour to be on the place. They don't tend to leave survivors." Adion said. It was true, though humans might not understand this as they are used to only the chaos demons. Adion soon continued what he had begun saying with "All you have to do is knock those out. A simple arrow or rock can to the trick, it just has to hit the floating blue orb. Once that is out of place, the defenses are useless. If you do so at night, then the guards won't be able to see everything fall until chaos consumes them." This was something that Adion had seen work before. A tricky human knocks down the defenses and the chaos demons swarm the place with the purest of blood lusts. It would take little more than an hour for the place to be overrun and so long as humans didn't travel in to large of groups, they would be fine. Adion then thought of something else that he needed to add. "Just remember that groups of 6 or more humans will attract the chaos demons."

"Hold on a second." Arelaeno gasped out from holding hisbreathe to try and understand what was being said. "YOu want me to take out this outpost in a group of humans? I think I can handle them. The tricks your asking me to use are just too damned complicated for me. Im 25 for crying out loud, I still have my strength and speed to rely on, I can do this...UNless, you want me to take a team out, then I'll round up some of the local malitia, just tell me what to look for in people." Taking the sword off of his shoulders, Arela took his long sword out of its sheath, and tossed the sheath on the ground. "My blade, is yours...For the time being."

Adion formed his hand into a blade that's smoke went from black to red. "You need the blade more than I. Another thing you need is to know that traveling in groups bigger than 6 is a death wish. If you have an archer who is a good enough shot, then send them to knock out the crystals. All they would have to do beyond that is stay hidden. I have seen other humans do this before, and I am sure I will see such a maneuver again. Unfortunately, you will want to wait for the night. There is another advantage that the one with the bow would have. The guards put lamps around the defenses, making spotting them that much easier." Adion said before lifting the hand that was a blade and changing it back to a hand. As Adion did so, a large shadow seemed to move from him to Arelaeno's blade, which the shadow then lifted up in the air and placed near Arelaeno's feet. Adion then began his speaking again. "You will need this more than I. Soon, the kings reinforcements will be coming to ensure that the rest of the militia are dead. They will be coming from both the west and the east."

Arela shook his head, then took the sword that the man was offering. "I don't hide behind cheap tricks. I go in there, and I slay them all. I don't take teams, I don't shoot arrows at orbs, and I most definately, don't take blades from strangers." Arela grunted out, taking the blade and shoving it into the ground right beside Adion. "You have me confused with someone else. Sure ill fight the king, but its my way, or no way at all."

"If you want my aid, those barriers must go down. Them men keep you in, the defenses me. I have seen the number that exist there, and just you stands no chance. If you let the barrier go down, the chaos demons will spread and thus thin in total numbers. Such will make this village safer, and with those who can fight wanting to go after the king, it would be a good way to increase the safety of the remaining villagers." Adion hissed in a slight aggravated tone. He gave this human reason, but the human was so stubborn about it. How annoying it was to give others much needed advice and have them completely disregard it. Adion needed this human just as much as this human needed Adion.