We walked through the streets of Ponyville, everyone talking among themselves, listening to music or making some few questions about what happens when the Guardians play together. Soon we were at the castle and Twilight was going to start her ‘study session’. While she prepared a notepad and some quills, the others were filling us in what happened the night before.

“Wait. So the five of them, with less than 600 Hp, tried to kill an Orianna 13/2/4 with full life?” I asked in disbelief. “Were they retarded or something?” We were sitting on some chairs Twilight teleported from around the house, but some were still standing. You'd think she would have a lot of seats around; looks like not.

Sapphyra giggled. “I said the same thing at the time. Needless to say, I destroyed them easily. Killed four with my R + W combo and the fifth with a Q and a few auto attacks.” She said with a smug grin.

“One beautiful Penta. Shame it wasn’t instantaneous.” I concluded with a nod.

Twilight soon returned with a small box floating beside her and sat on a chair, putting the box at her side. “Well, I got my notepad, quills and ink. Shall we start?”

I looked around and saw that the entire group was still there. “Huh, I honestly thought you all would exit to make something more interesting than study. Especially you, Rainbow Dash.” I said with an arched eyebrow.

“Well, I got curious about you. It’s not every day we meet a hunter, after all.” Rainbow said with a shrug.

I nodded in understanding. “Fair enough.”

“Well, let’s start with the basic. I already wrote down what you said before, so let’s continue from there.” Twilight said, lifting her notepad with an eager smile.

I looked at the others. “You guys can ask questions too. One might forget a question while other not.” I blinked and turned to the Guardians. “And you eight can help me answer. Only Scarlett, Dolph, Viper and I are from Hybrios, but we told almost everything we know about our magic during our Skype calls.” They all nodded their heads.

“Good idea.” Twilight said. “Well, let’s start with the basic. How many elements exist?”

“You mean how many were discovered. The poison element didn’t ‘exist’ until three hundred years ago.” Viper corrected her.

“Well, until now there’s Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Light, Shadow, Plant, Ice, Thunder, Arcane, Metal, Sound, Spirit, Nature, Crystal, Summon, Glyph, Dracon, Star, Chaos, Poison, Necro and Blood; twenty three elements.” I said, counting the elements.

I saw Twilight scribbling on the notepad and Starlight turned to me. “Wait, what exactly are the elements Star, Chaos and Necro?"

Luna jumped in. “Star-wielders like me can use stardust to create weapons, star energy to create our attacks, and other few things I can't remember right now. Normally the Star-wielders are attuned to either the sun or the moon, and they can control its energy to use as their weapons. It isn’t enough to actually control the sun and moon, as they’re directly connected to me and Tia.” She explained. “Chaos-wielders like Discord can bend reality at will; they can’t make others disappear from reality, but they can create houses out of thin air, for example.”

Scarlett sighed. “They’re a pain in the ass to fight against, and the worst part is that they’re not that rare; I’ve already met three different Chaos-wielders on my life. Well, Necro-wielders are basically necromancers; raise the dead, control/destroy the soul, summon weapons made out of bones, and all that jazz. One of our friends in Hybrios is a Necro-wielder, actually. He’s cool.”

“Wait, so in Hybrios they can practice necromancy like it’s a normal magic?” Twilight asked astonished. “Necromancy is a bad magic. It shouldn’t even exist!”

We snorted and rolled our eyes. “There’s no such thing as ‘bad magic’, Twilight. There’re good wielders and bad wielders. Talon may be a Necro, but he’s very kind; it’s someone you know you can trust. And also, Twilight, of all of the elements I said, which one is the ‘holiest’ to you?” I asked with a smirk.

“Uh? Well…” She nervously read her notes again. “Light, I think.”

My smirk widened. “I knew you were going to say that. There was one time I met a Light-wielder who had killed ten diamond dogs just because he thought it was fun.” They looked at me in shock and I chuckled. “Not so ‘holy’ now, eh?”

“And he got away unpunished?” Fluttershy asked with wide eyes.

I rolled mine. “Of course not. How do you think I met him? I went to beat the motherfucker up and throw him in a prison for the rest of his life.”

“Wait, so you’re a guard or a hunter?” A voice asked. We looked to the door and saw a white unicorn with dual-toned blue hair and tail walking over to us; I recognized him as Shining Armor, Prince of the Crystal Empire. He was wearing a red sleeveless shirt with a blue 'X' on the front, his shield Cutie Mark on the middle, and grey camo pants.

Twilight rushed to him and locked him into a hug. “Shining!”

He chuckled and returned the hug. “Hello, Twily.”

They let go of each other and walked to the chair, Shining Armor standing at his sister's side. “How are Cadance and Flurry?” Twilight asked as she sat on the chair.

“They’re fine. Flurry aced her latest test.” He said with a smile. “They couldn’t come, but they said hello.” He turned and walked over to me and my friends. “When Celestia said that Hybrios was sending help to protect Ponyville, I got curious and wanted to know who it was. I’m Shining Armor, former Captain of the Royal Guard.” He said to us.

I stood up. “I’m Fairy, member of the Elemental Guardians, a group of elite hunters and protectors.” I shook hands with him. “Those are Scarlett, Dolph and Viper.” The three nodded to him.

“What are those hunters and protectors, if you don't mind me asking?” He asked, returning to Twilight’s side.

“Protectors are what you would call a patrol; they basically walk around the towns and if they see someone doing something wrong they notify them at best, arrest them at worst. There are also medics and paramedics that are considered protectors, normally Plant, Water, Nature, Arcane and Light-wielders, since they have a ton of healing spells.” I explained. “The hunters also can be separated in two groups, the beast hunters go out of the towns and hunt monsters that are considered a danger to the citizens, but they don’t have to kill the monsters, just push them away from the city. And the headhunters are hunters that go around town and quietly arrest people that are too dangerous to be free.” I paused for a moment to think about it. “Actually, we should be called bounty hunters, since we don’t really need to kill.” ‘Most of the time.’ I thought.

“I’m a protector, but those three are headhunters that double as beast hunters.” Dolph said and pointed at us.

He nodded in understanding and Twilight continued to take notes. I looked at Rarity and she seemed like she really wanted to ask something. “Rarity, shoot.” I said.

“Uh?” Rarity blinked.

“Your question. I know this face you’re making.” She blushed a bit.

“I just wanted to know why do you wear these clothes if you fight beasts regularly. It doesn’t look, uh… like it would protect you.” She said, almost reluctantly.

‘You’re not telling everything, are you?’ I thought. “Yeah, and they don’t.” Everyone stared at me in confusion. “A body armor would be useless to me, since I need agility. It would just get in the way.”

“How so?” Shining asked in confusion.

“You can say I'm an assassin. It means my fighting tactics are basically hit fast, hard, and out of nowhere while avoiding being hit.” I explained, calming them. “I need to be fast, jump, do flips, and above all, evade. I can’t exactly do that with a shit-ton of metal with me, can I?” They nodded in understanding.

“There’s something that caught my eye when we were at the picnic.” Celestia said.

“Besides the fact that we went Inazuma Eleven at the ending?” I joked.

She looked at me strangely for a moment. “No… What caught my eye was the fact that the two of you are griffons, but have cutie marks.” The CMC’s eyes widened comically.

I looked at Scarlett with a smirk and saw that she had the same expression. “We’re hybrids, duh.” We said together. “Half-Griffons, Half-Ponies.”

“Oh.”

The CMC rushed to us. “What are your cutie marks?” Sweetie asked with an eager smile, but it disappeared when she didn’t saw it on my shoulder. “Why it isn’t here?”

I laughed. “Honestly, no idea. I think it’s because my shoulder is feathered, but my lower body has fur, so it still in my butt.” I pointed at where my cutie mark is. “It’s a pink heart with a light pink chain wrapped around it.”

“Mine is a black heart with a drop of blood falling from the bottom, and the outlines of fangs on the top.” Scarlett said with a proud smile. “More questions?” She looked around.

“Y-yes, but is more about your… family, if you don’t mind…” Fluttershy said nervously.

“It’s ok, go on.” Scarlett said dismissively.

“Well… Aside from the wolf, do you have any more pets?” She asked after a moment.

Rainbow rolled her eyes and got punched on the shoulder by Applejack, making her wince. I looked at the duo and chuckled as Viper answered the question for me. “We have five. Amaté is Niner’s pet wolf, Valor is Aguion’s eagle, Niv is Fairy’s cryophoenix, Mighty is Lobis’ grey wolf, and–”

“Oh, for buck’s sake, do every pet of you have a reference as a name?! I mean, one is ok, but four?!” Pinkie facepalmed hard, making us all laugh.

Viper contained her giggles before she continued. “And Neon Rose is Flora’s tarantula. This one is not.”

Pinkie nodded, still grumbling. Celestia seemed astonished. “You have a cryophoenix? They’re really rare…”

“One of the towns in Hybrios is an animal paradise; almost every species that I remember lives there, and they actually get along with the residents.” I explained. “We visited about two years ago and I met Niv there. We got along very well, but I didn’t know she wanted to come with me.” I smiled at the memory. “When we exited the town, she followed us, and we just noticed it when we were almost in our town. I adopted her on the spot and named her after Anivia, a video game character.”

“What are ya’ll elements?” Applejack finally asked.

“Arcane.” I said.

“Blood.” Scarlett said with a grin.

“Water!” Dolph said with proud.

“Poison and Summon.” Viper said quietly.

“Dracon and Fire.” Spike said again.

“Ice, Water and Dracon.” Sapphyra said with a smile.

“Shadow and Dracon.” Soul said calmly.

“Light and Shadow.” Eclipse said proudly.

“Star and Shadow.” Luna finished. “Any other question?”

“I a request, actually. Could you tell us one of the hunts you made?” Shining asked.

I thought about it for a moment before widening my eyes and turning to my friends. “Hey, did we tell you five our latest mission? With the demons?”

“No, you forgot.” Eclipse said wih furrowed eyebrows.

“Then we'll tell you now. Scarlett, help me here; you can say what you said back then and make some comments, but let the narration to me.” When she nodded, I cleared my throat.

It happened four days ago, we were watching TV when I got a call on my phone; I looked at the number and my eyes widened for a moment before answering.

“Fairy talking… Oh hello, boss.” Scarlett’s brows furrowed and she looked at me. I pressed the phone’s screen and set it on the table. “Speaker is on and we’re alone. What’s happening?”

A gruff voice echoed from the other side. “Where are the others? I have a mission for you five.”

“I’m here, but the others are either too busy or out.” Scarlett said, returning her gaze to the TV.

“It’s ok. This mission is dangerous, but not that much… probably.”

“How dangerous, at max?” I asked, watching the TV.

“Possessed Necro-wielder dangerous.”

Scarlett groaned. “And here we go fight against a legion of zombies. Hooray.” Sarcasm is OP.

“Hehe. Anyway, the guy is trying to summon a demon lord, according to our sources." That got our attention. “Your mission is, find him and bring him to justice, we’ll try to free him. But if it’s necessary...” He trailed off.

‘Oh, wow. That’s serious.’ I thought, frowning. “Let’s hope that’s not the case.”

Killing is a high crime in Hybrios; killing one person is twenty years of prison at best.

The only killing that’s ‘explained’ is when a headhunter is forced to kill a target, probably because the target is too dangerous to be free or even alive. Serial murderers, possessed, psychopaths… you name it.

Even then, we always try to find another way to complete our missons. Anyways, you said the next line.

“Where?” Scarlett asked with a serious expression.

“I’ll send the coordinates via e-mail. Although is a simple mission and seemingly not too dangerous, I’d recommend maximum caution.”

We nodded. “Ok, send the location and we go right now. I’m sure our friends will understand if we get late to our game session.”

“Good luck.” He said, ending the call.

I heard a ding and saw it was the e-mail with the location. I turned to my sister. “Let’s go?” Receiving a nod, I got up and walked out of the house, Scar following me.

We walked through the town while I studied the coordinates. I noticed it was near our home, about 6 miles away, making me raise an eyebrow. “This section of the city is constantly monitored, why in the hell he would put his base here?” I asked to no one in particular.

Scar shrugged. “There’s a chance he’s being possessed, Right? If that’s true, maybe whatever is in control of him doesn’t know that.”

“Good point. Scar, since it’s near here, let’s run. The sooner we finish this, the better.” I said, pointing at the target's general direction.

She nodded and we start running through the streets, avoiding crowded places, and got there in forty five minutes.

“Why were the streets so crowded today? It’s 9 pm, for fuck's sake!” Scarlett complained.

I giggled a bit and walked to the front door, looking at it. I used a searching spell to find Shadow Dust – that’s the target’s name – and felt nothing. ‘Maybe he’s not here?’ I wondered. ‘That’s good, it’ll be easier.’ I turned to Scar. “See a way to get in?”

She stared at me for a moment. “Teleport? Y’know, the magic that we go poof and appear somewhere else?”

I rolled my eyes. “Is not that simple, and I wanted a more badass way to enter, but ok.” I grabbed her shoulder and looked through the window to mark my destination. With a burst of magic we appeared inside the house, on the living room.

“Now, if I were a bad villain that wanted to bring the dead to this land, where would I put my secret base…?” I wondered, looking around.

The room was simple, a sofa, some trophies on the wall, a fireplace, a TV above the fireplace, a shelf with some books on it… Nothing seemed out of place. I looked to my sister and our gazes met. “Underground.” We said together.

We think a lot alike. Years of being exposed to her.

You flatter me. We split up and walked around the house, looking into other rooms. Two bedrooms, one bathroom, one dining room… “Found it.” I heard Scar say. I went to her side and saw she was kneeling inside the broom closet below the staircase leading to the second floor. “Hear.” She knocked at the floor outside the closet, making a light sound, and then knocked the floor inside the closet, making an echo.

“Good call.” I smiled at her. She stepped out and I lifted the wooden floor, the floor offering no resistance at all. “Loose.” We looked inside the hole that was revealed, an orange light illuminating the tunnel below. “You go first?”

“Scared?” I didn’t turn to look at her, but I could hear her smirk.

“Fuck you.” I said, jumping into the hole. She chuckled before following me.

She gave a low whistle. “I want a place like this.”

“Yeah, it’s your style.” I walked ahead, using the torches on the wall to guide me.

We walked in silence, carefully not to make any sound, and in about ten minutes we reached a metal platform over a chamber of sorts. We looked down and saw about thirty lesser fire demons kneeling, and a hybrid between pony and minotaur in some sort of altar-

Wait, wait, wait.

“What is it, Rainbow?” I said, annoyed.

“A hybrid between a pony and a minotaur?” She said, looking disgusted. “How does that even work?”

I looked around and saw some indifferent, curious and disgusted faces; the disgusted ones being Rainbow, Rarity, Sweetie Belle and Starlight Glimmer, before answering. “We aren’t called Hybrios for nothing. A lot of couples are inter-species, and almost every species are compatible to each other.” I looked at Rarity and smirked. “I really want my friends to visit us soon. Three of them are quite the dogs.” I said with a wink. She seemed to understand me, since her eyes widened a lot and her pupils shrank to pinpricks. I chuckled, remembering when Spike told me what happened to the unicorn before returning to my story. “Anyways…”

The hybrid was standing on some sort of altar, a large rune craved on the floor around him. He was wearing a black cloak, the only thing out were his arms and his head. His coat was grey and he had black hair, with two horns emerging from the sides.

I looked at the rune around the altar and at the demons for a moment before widening my eyes and kneeling behind the barrier that prevented anyone from falling, going out of view.

“What?” Scarlett whispered, also kneeling.

“He really wants to summon a demon lord…” I whispered quietly.

She stared at me with her beak hanging. Seeing as she wasn't going to say anything, I decided to look again just to be sure. I peered over the edge and examined the rune. “A Magma Demon Lord, to be exact.”

“This guy has to be possessed.” She whispered while pinching the bridge between her eyes. I remember that a headache started at that moment.

“Actually no.” I corrected. “That rune is mixed. It’ll summon and control the Lord. Or at least try to.”

“This guy is crazy.” She concluded, her hand going a bit higher and massaging her temple. “How do we stop him?”

“If we stop him now, the energy that’s already on the rune will explode. But…” I trailed off.

I was silent for a while, studying the rune and trying to think something to stop the ritual. I recognized some of the symbols and the grails that were placed on certain points of the rune. As I studied the ritual, a plan was forming on my mind, the horrible kind of plan.

“Let him.”

What?!

Everyone stared at me as if I was crazy. Though I kind of am for thinking that...

“Let him?! How the hell is that a plan?!” Spike shouted angrily.

I couldn’t help but wince. "Calm down, I’ll explain.” I said quietly.

“Better be a good one.” He growled, my friends nodding in agreement.

Just as assumed, Scarlett looked at me as if I was more insane than the Necro-wielder below.

“He wants to control the Lord, right?” I started to explain, she nodded in confirmation. “To control a creature summoned of that tier, the creature needs to be weakened. A summon ritual like this needs energy, from the summoner, the summoned, or both. He’s going to reach for the Lord, take its energy to power up the ritual and, at the same time, weaken him so it’ll be easier to control.”

“But it won’t be enough to control the Lord. It’ll probably lash out in rage and kill the guy, but it will be weak enough so we can send it back to where it came from.” Scarlett completed, realizing my plan. “You know the chances of we ending up dead are really high, right?”

“Tonight seems like a good night to die.” I said, giving her a grin.

She matched my grin and we both stood up, reaching for our weapons. “Let’s kill the lesser demons in the meantime, they’re not very strong but it’ll be a pain in the ass. Then, it’s Boss Battle Time.” I said with a critical eye, judging the enemy and twirling my Chasers on my hand.

“Could you stop while you’re ahead?” Scarlett groaned, gripping her Fangs. “You’re going to start talking like we’re on a video-game quest. It gets annoying after a while.”

“Nope.” I said happily.

U-uh… Excuse me…

Oh, for fuck’s sake…

“Yes, Fluttershy?” I hissed.

“Eep!” She hid herself behind Applejack who glared at me.

I sighed. 'Spike told me the mare is a lot less shy now than she was before, but looks like she still gts scared easily.' I thought with a shake of my head. “Sorry, but everyone is interrupting and it’s getting really annoying, so…” I clapped my hands and gave her a smile. “What do you want to ask?”

“W-Well, what are t-those things you mentioned? C-Chasers and Fangs?” She asked meekly, returning to her position at the farmer's side.

I reached behind me, grabbed all my six Chasers and showed them. I gave one to Twilight to examine and another to Rainbow, who had a curious look. I saw Scarlett unclasp her daggers from her belt and do the same. “Careful, they’re really sharp.” She warned.

“Cool…” Scootaloo said, reaching for my Chaser, but Rainbow pulled it out of her reach, making Scoots pout.

“Careful, squirt. These aren’t toys.” Rainbow said. Scoots grumbled put obeyed, inspecting the knife from a distance.

“I thought Scarlett was kidding when she said you treated life like it’s a game.” Eclipse said, sounding disappointed.

I rolled my eyes again. “I do, but to an extent. I treat our abilities like they’re spells, passives, stats, and shit-like, but I won’t go jumping into a hole thinking I have extra lives.” I grumbled. “Besides, most things I say make sense, if you think about it.”

“Unfortunately, that’s true. And only encourages her to continue.” Scarlett sighed.

“Back to the story.” I said before this could continue.

We jumped from the ‘balcony’ and landed on the level below, startling the necromancer and making the beasts hiss at us. The guy turned around to see what the hell happened and snorted when he saw us. “You came here to try and stop me? Ha! You’re too late, the ritual has begun, and-”

“’And the Lord will come, bringing darkness to the world, with me on his command!’ Yeah, we know all of this, already. Could you just summon your god so we can kick both yours and its asses?” Scarlett interrupted while I rolled my eyes.

No fucks given.

“What?” He said, stunned.

“If we stop you now, the rune will explode, bringing half of the town with it.” I explained. “I kind of don’t want that, so just summon your god so we can kill him.”

“O…k…” He said slowly before shaking his head returning to his normal tone. “Ha! You think you can fool me?!” My sister and I both groaned. “You two are the fools here! Demons! Kill them both!”

“I was hoping you’d say that.” Scarlett said, grinning menacingly.

“Bring it, dead weight!” I shouted to the demons. They screeched and ran toward us; we just held our weapons and when they were close enough, jumped above them.

“Arcane Bomb!” I shouted, throwing four Chasers at them; the knives exploded on the impact, leaving nothing behind.

“Blood Swipe.” Scarlett said while she took one of her Bloodstone Pearls. The pearl turned into blood and swiped at the demons, cutting two of them in half.

“They’re really weak, not even worth the mana we’re putting into this.” I commented, using my other two Chasers to cut a demon’s throat.

“Stop it!” Scarlett shouted, using the Fangs to cut the demon’s arms off. She finished it by shoving her dagger on its mouth, the blade going all the way to the back of its head.

“Nope.” I jumped on top of a demon and kicked its head, the force of the impact taking its head off and making me blink in disbelief. “Seriously? My Atk-” I saw Scarlett glaring at me with murder in her eyes, making me trail off and jump to my paws, letting the demon's body fall. “…My physical strength isn’t even that high, how a kick took off its head that easily?” I half-complained and half-mocked the Necro-wielder. I dropped to the floor to evade a swipe and jumped back to my paws, cutting the attacker in half.

“Shut up!” The villain wannabe shouted. “I have perfect strength! My puppets are perfect! Stop mocking me!”

“Summon the demon and control it, then we’ll stop.” I said simply, evading a demon's slash and grabbing its arm, throwing it at the others. Scarlett jumped to my side, her clothes covered in blood. I looked down and saw that mine weren’t that different.

“Count?” She asked.

“Seven. You?” I replied.

“Eleven.” She said with a smug grin.

I rolled my eyes. “That’s because I don’t want to spend too much mana in them when I can hit kill them all.” I retorted, parrying a demon’s attack and shoving my knife on its heart. Or were it was supposed to be. “They break too easily. Looks like the boss fight will be really hard, eh?”

“I’ll just ignore your comments from now on.” She grumbled, killing two more by using the blood around her to cut them vertically.

“You should have done that when we started the quest.” I said and laughed when her eye twitched rapidly. “Ok, ok, I will stop. Or at least make less RPG references.” I threw my Chasers on two demons and they exploded like the others before. I focused my magic and my knives returned to their places on the chain going around my back. “Gotta love Soulbound Weapons.” I commented, grabbing them again.

“Hahaha! The ritual is complete!” The madman laughed ‘evilly’ while a black and red mass formed on the air.

“Scar!” I shouted and jumped high.

“Blood Fest.” She said, sending needles of blood to the demons around us that decapitated most of them. I fell to the floor and killed the other two that somehow survived the onslaught.

We turned towards the altar and saw the mass of black and red slowly morphed in a… well… I think the best way to put it is ‘demonic form’, but that’s pretty obvious. The Tauren-Faunus – that’s the most popular way to call a minotaur-pony hybrid, by the way – was standing at the altar, looking at the spell with a crazed smile, and then he turned toward us when it was complete.

The Lord had the shape of feral dragon; gigantic, red scales, dragon head, horns going out of his forehead with a curve that sent the tip to the back of its head, and all that, but his torso, hands and feet were glowing red, like lava. “Now, with this demon in my control, this land is mi-” The Necro-wielder was cut off by a slash from the demon, killing the guy instantly.

“Dumbass…” Scarlett muttered and I nodded in agreement.

“This fool thought he could control Us, but We are the Lord, WE ARE UNCONTROLABLE! Now, We need to thank you, without you two We would not be able to conquer this world.” I turned to Scarlett and pointed to the Lord. She just shrugged. “We will reward thou, by giving thou the least painful death We can manage.”

Luna, shut the fuck up. I don't know shit about archaic language, I'm doing my best here.

“Yeah, boredom is a good way to start.” Scarlett said with an unamused stare.

I’m cocky like that.

Shut it. Anyways, her comment made the demon angry, so, obviously, I joined in. “We have an appointment in two hours, we want to get there in time, y’know.” I said with a raised eyebrow while tapping my pulse like I had a watch.

“We have?” Scarlett turned to me with furrowed eyebrows.

“We promised to help Dolph on her Minecraft world, remember?” I clarified.

“Ah…” My sister nodded slowly.

“Thou dare to ignore Us for, for! That?!” He shouted.

“He doesn’t even know what Minecraft is. Or videogames, in general.” Scarlett grumbled under her breath.

“Enough! I’ll kill thee, and that’s final! Now, DIE!” We felt a huge wave of heat and energy going out of his hands, and he unleashed a torrent of molten lava towards us. We jumped to the side together, avoinding his attack. The moment we were back on the floor we started running around him to make ourselves hard to aim at.

“Lava? Huh, and he didn’t even need to use a trigger.” Scarlett commented when she jumped behind a rock to block a ball of lava.

“He’s a master-tier entity, you idiot. The only reason I’m not running out of here as fast as I can is because he’s weakened from the spell.” I explained to her while we evaded more attacks. “A spell like that would run you dry of magic at least four times. That’s why the summoneds are always weak at first; the summoners always take energy off them to power up the spell, because powering the rune by themselves is a death-sentence.”

“Thou are a smart one, are thou not?” The Lord said, not giving up from attacking. “Tis a shame We have to kill thee.”

“Yeah, she’s a nerd.” Scarlett said, turning to the demon and backflipping to evade an attack that was sent on her direction. “Always were.”

“Hey Scar, he’ll be quite the bitch to kill, so why not bring the big weapons? Just watch out for your passive.” I said, jumping to a wall and using my Chasers to climb.

“Alright!” She shouted, using her blood control to create a platform to send her high into the air.

Before anyone interrupts, a passive is an ability that we can't control, and has both a good side and a bad side. It’s one of the few things that I actually agree with Fairy saying game-like.

Scarlett’s passive is like that; Her Mag increases when there’s blood nearby, increasing in the same pace the blood increases. But, she gradually loses control over herself, again, in the same pace the blood increases.

…Translating, my spells hurt more when there’s a lot of blood nearby, but if there’s too much blood I lose my sanity and attack everything nearby. I never got close to attack innocents or allies, but still.

Mine appears later, so I’ll explain when it comes up. Anyways, we were above the demon and released our spells. “Arcane Storm!” I summoned a shit-ton of arcane spheres and made them rain over the Lord. Scarlett grabbed two more of her pearls and turned them into blood, her passive immediately buffing – Ugh… – Hush, her passive immediately buffing her magical power, making her next spell incredibly dangerous. “Blood Rain!” She shouted and the blood around her turned into needles, joining my own attack. Our combined spells proved to be strong and made a great deal of damage on the demon, possibly a quarter of his HP. Nope, I started narrating this fight like it was a game, and I’ll finish it that way.

He roared in pain and tried to retaliate with a stream of fire, but I was ready for this and created a barrier around me while Scarlett used her blood control to push herself out of the way. I sent a blast of magic in the demon’s direction, the blast exploding inside the demon’s mouth and stopping his attack. I dropped my shield and shot a chain towards the ceiling; the chain embedded on it and I swung towards the place Scarlett had fallen.

I jumped and fell to the floor, rolling to absorb the impact and skid to a stop at Scarlett’s side. “Like a boss.” I commented. Scarlett rolled her eyes and we both turned to our enemy; the Lord coughed uncontrollably.

“It’s not working, his scales are absorbing most of the damage. We still hurt him, but not that much.” I complained. “I told you this fight were going to be a pain.”

“Any plans?”

“One that won’t turn you into a psycho? No.” I sighed. “My spells just disperse when it touches him; your spells are more physical, so they deal more damage.”

“But it’s not enough, since his scales still block them.” She completed for me.

We noticed the Lord had stopped struggling to breathe and was looking at us, prepared for another attack. We ran around him again, evading the spells that were sent our way.

“I… think I have one, but I need you to give me an opening.” Scarlett said reluctantly.

I raised one eyebrow. “Which kind of opening?”

“Breaking his scales.” My eyes widened a bit, almost unnoticeable. “If he’s really that weak, his scales should be very weak too; a very strong attack should do the trick.” She explained. “But I’ll also need some time to power up.”

“That’s… a good plan, actually. Ok, I’ll do it.” I stopped aimed my hand at him. "Arcane Missile!" A blast of magic surged forwards and impacted the Lord, gaining his attention. “1v1?” I suggested with a hand on my waist and another spinning one of my Chasers.

“Thou are more of a fool than We had thought.” He chuckled.

“Yeah, yeah. I’m bat-shit insane, sue me.” I rolled my eyes and he sent a very large fire ball towards me. “Aw, hell...” My eyes widened and I moved out of the way, but the explosion sent me flying towards a wall, hurting me. “Fuck you, low Def.” I cursed and jumped in time to avoid another fireball; this time I also shielded myself, and the explosion sent me towards the Lord. As he went forward to try and eat me, I used the shield to propel myself over his head and on the ceiling

“Arcane Chain Trap!” I shouted when I touched the ceiling, 'kneeling' and impacting the surface with my palm. Dozens of chains appeared around me and held the lord in place, lifting him a few inches so his feet were dangling and his torso was exposed in Scarlett’s direction.

‘Now or never.’ I thought as I fell and shot a chain upwards, the chain embedding itself on the ceiling again and sending me towards the demon. I released the chain when I got close to him and somersaulted multiple times on the air to gather speed. “Vault Breaker Kick!” I kicked the demon’s chest with all my strenght and fell to the floor.

Man, that move was a bitch to learn. It’s like that; I power up my magic on my paw and kick something that’s heavily armored or resistant. The magic will disperse on the target and then explode, breaking it. I learned that spell from the son of a thief that robbed banks with a punch version of this attack to punch holes on the vaults, hence the name. Never used that way, but it’s really useful against tanks.

Like Scarlett said and I presumed before, the Lord was really weakened by the ritual and his magical aura was almost non-existent, so the scales were pulverized by the kick. To be fair, I think I overdid when I powered it up. “Now!” I shouted when the scales fell, the Lord roaring in pain and finally breaking free from the chains. A bit too late, though.

“Death’s Call: Bloodstone Spear.” Scarlett triggered her spell, her eyes glowing red for changing her most powerful attack. A large spear that glowed crimson formed on her hand, made out of the blood she was controlling plus the blood from the demons from earlier. She hurled the spear towards the demons heart, penetrating the exposed flesh and going all the way through him. The spear impacted the wall behind the demon as he roared and tumbled to the ground, out of energy.

Scarlett fell to her knees, having spent all her energy on that attack; I ran towards her in time to stop her from falling on her face. We turned to the Lord and saw his glow was dimming, a signal his life was ending. “What… did… thou… do…?” He said, gasping for breath.

“That spell only kept you here for a time, to make you a ‘resident’ of this world you would need to live here for days.” I explained while I sat on the ground, putting Scarlett's head on my lap. “The only things that kept you here was your energy and your summoner’s, we just needed to kill him and tire you out to send you back to the hole you came from. That’s the bad side of being a god; you may be immortal, but there’s a lot more rules attached to you.”

“Clever…” He croaked out. “We… will… return…”

“And you’ll get your ass kicked again.” I said with a grin, noticing that his glow was finally disappearing. I turned to Scar, who was looking a bit better. “How much XP do you think we won from that?” I asked, still grinning.

She groaned in frustration. Loudly.

We stood there in silence for a while. “Two-thousand at minimum.” She chuckled, humoring me. “And an achievement.” I laughed out loud and got up, helping Scarlett to her paws. She stumbled a bit, but regained her balance after a second. “I’m good.” She said. I nodded and released her, walking towards the staircase that led to the platform from earlier. Scarlett controlled all the blood that were scattered, well, everywhere, and formed her pearls, the extra blood creating two more. She was about to follow me, but she heard a grumble coming from her stomach. She put a hand on her belly and looked around, spotting one of the grails used on the ritual.

She grabbed it and saw that the red liquid inside was blood. Licking her beak, she did the stupidest thing she'd ever done.

She drank it.

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Shut the fuck up. So, the imbecile drank the blood and every grail on the room started glowing red. She got startled by that and dropped the grail, which made a ‘clank’ when it hit the floor.

I noticed the glow and slowly turned towards my sister. “What. Did. You. Do?” I slowly asked, already having an idea of what happened.

“Uh… Nothing?” She replied nervously. I teleported to her front and rubbed a talon on her beak, coating it with blood, and looked at the fallen grail before returning my gaze to the idiot.

“Are you sure?” I asked, feeling my eyes start warming as my anger made energy rush through them.

“Ok, I drank a bit of blood from… the… grail…” She said as sheslowly stepped backwards, putting distance between the two of us. I felt my left eye twitch and my vision start turning pink. I blinked to dissipate the energy before the results of her fuck-up decided to show themselves.

The grails exploded in red light, forming ghostly red figures that floated around us. The figures started to multiply, and then turned into heavy-armored knights made out of coal and lava. They looked weak, but I could feel the magical aura around them; they had auras that had almost the same strength as mine. I turned towards Scarlett with a flat face and she gave me an apologetic look. “I fucking hate you…” I said before turning towards the Magma Warriors, preparing my Chasers once again.

Author's Notes:

Hey! I'm really sorry for not releasing this chapter last weekend, but I needed to do some things and didn't even get close to the computer for more than an hour, so I slowly wrote this during the week.

If you guys are going to comment about the messed up archaic language, even after Fairy said she didn't know squat about it, you have to remember that this – the whole fic – is being narrated by a seventeen-years-old teenager; half of the typos are on purpose, the other half are letters on the wrong place. Or missing.

Also, sorry for the cliffhanger, but I didn't really want to write a 10k words chapter, 6k being released two days before it should – or five days late – is more than enough.

This time the page breaker is different. That kind of page breaker will mark flashbacks or stories.

I hope you enjoyed it!