Slayer: Hello! Once again we have decided to redo this chapter. But now we are in the Redux version!

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Slayer: So true…

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Tales of the dark guard: Book two Rising demons

Prologue: To start Again

Things started out just fine, Neos Drakon a boy of nine years of age, had just finished leaving the Mojave. The farewell party was rather nice since all of his friendswere there. The Courier, having known him the longest gave him a gift to grow into. It was armor that would be beneficial when the young boy was older. The Courier was a twenty two year old man with black hair, brown eyes, and a strong build. The man was at least six feet nine inches tall. Neos was rather tall for his age, being four feet four inches.

He had dark black hair and blue eyes. For clothing he wore a brown long duster with brown desert pants. Over his duster was an iron pauldron on his right shoulder. On his knees he had leather knee protectors. On his chest he wore a black long sleeved shirt underneath a tactical vest.

For weaponry he had a black four foot long daito on the right side of his waist. On his left he carried a black ranger sequoia. A powerful five shot revolver using .45-70 rounds. On the sides of his vest he also had two .45 auto pistols. On his left wrist was a pipboy five-thousand given to him by the Courier after he got the "Blingboy". While on his right wrist was a steel gauntlet. For his hands he wore red fingerless gloves. Now despite being eight years of age he's unfortunately has been forced to fight in many wars and kill many enemies.

Unfortunately as well he had a slight superiority complex, mostly when dealing with what he called the lesser races. You see he was a Dragon knight, a being imbued with the power of an elder dragon. This allowed him to also take on the dragons form.

His master an elder dragon called Patriarch saw this, and wanted him to go out and meet other people. Patriarch knew he couldn't really help his student in his dimension, so instead he's been sending Neos to other ones. This most recent one happened to be a nuclear fallout waste land. Despite this Neos had quite a lot of fun dealing with the local inhabitants… which mostly involved blowing them to smithereens, but hey! The kid was a dragon.

His journey was one of great challenge and he loved challenges. Within the first few weeks of arriving to the Mojave, he encountered the Courier while he was off trying to find a man that shot him in the head. They've been together ever since. Among those who decided to leave with him to his home were… Raze'thur his constant demon companion, and ED-E a robot he repaired in a town called Prim.

The three were pretty much inseparable. Neos had just finished saying goodbye to everyone and opened up a portal to the world of Rivellon. Stepping through the three companions walked down the dark corridor of the dimensional tunnel. Raze'thur bored of the silence spoke to his companions with his demonic voice.

"You know Neos I think I'm truly going to miss that place." Turning his head to his greatest friend, Neos let out a small rare smile before addressing him.

"I know what you mean, for humans they were amazing people. Strong too, after all it's not every day a dragon, even one as young as me, loses a wrestling match with a cybernetic enhanced madman." They all laughed even ED-E though his was a happy beeping sound. Everyone in the Mojave knew about the unorthodox methods of the Courier. A more famous incident caused by the man, was when at a place called the Sierra Madre, instead of opening the way his "employer" wanted him to.

He instead took a rocket launcher to the doors and blasted his way in. It was indeed rather amusing hearing the old man behind the scenes, sputter incoherent sentences. Still slightly laughing Raze'thur continued speaking.

"Yep I must admit those were good times. In fact I doubt Patriarch will ever believe the insane adventures we had. Especially when we tell him about Muggy." Neos chuckled as he remembered the mug obsessed robot. Once again the trio went back to paying attention to the silence of the void around them. However this didn't last long as Neos and Raze'thur, started to feel a darker presence from around them.

"Raze'thur, ED-E I don't think we're alone anymore." ED-E gave out a series of beeps, suggesting he was not in the mood for a fight at that moment. Raze'thur answered him sadly.

"Sorry ED-E but we really don't have a choice here. After all if he managed to get into our dimensional tunnel… then there is no way for us to escape. However the aura our guest has feels familiar." Neos grunted in agreement and pointed in the direction ahead of them.

"Raze'thur I think we're about to find out who our guest is."

"Hmm your senses have increased quite a bit since last we fought. I'm truly surprised you both felt me coming." The trio tensed as they saw a large black demon come out of the shadows. Like most demons from Rivellon he had orange crystals forming hands and claws, as well the same crystals forming wings on his back. His head was alien in nature, and had thick tubes attaching his head to his body. The demon looked like a larger version of Raze'thur. Both Neos and hix demon companion recognized the threat. Hissing Raze'thur spoke to him with a voice dripping in venom.

"Ba'al why have you come here? More importantly how are you still not in Tartarus?!" The demon bellowed with laughter mocking those in front of him.

"Fool! I was once the great demon general for the demon king himself! There're secrets even the demon king, your father! Hasn't… taught you yet." Neos knew Ba'al was just trying to goad Raze'thur into attacking first. So placing a hand on his friends shoulder he started his own mind game.

"Don't let him get to you my friend. After all we both know he was exiled by your father for adding in Yuthor'tuls schemes." Neos couldn't help but smirk as he saw the demons red eye, glow even a brighter shade of red at his comment. He knew what a sore subject the current topic was for the former general. After all once upon a time the demon king was his closest friend. Yuthor'tuls was the demon kings was he who first decided to plague Rivellon with demons. This caused the demons to have a bad rep with the current inhabitants. But thanks to demons like Raze'thur things were slowly turning around.

"He should have just followed us! He should have seen the weakness of the mortal races and came with us to conquer them!"

"My father saw the greed and darkness in your plans and decided against it! However I must thank you for showing up. Because now the three of us can make you pay for what you've done!" ED-E started charging up his attached laser, Neos took out his Daito and one of his .45's, while Raze'thur got into a fighting stance. Ba'al also prepared for combat. The tension in the air quickly rose as the fighters waited to see who went first. However despite the anger Ba'al displayed earlier, inwardly he was smirking as the three in front of him fell for his trap.

By the time the three felt as though something was wrong, it was too late. They were jumped and pinned down from behind by three other demons. Ba'al quickly started speaking in demon.

'Hold them down as I cast the spell!' Ba'al quickly took a breath before speaking again.

'Dimensional unrest!' Suddenly everyone was surrounded by a swarm of magical energy to bright for anyone to see in. When everyone could finally see again, they were in a lush forest with bright green leafed trees. Ba'al only cackled again as the other 3 demons left and his enemies looked around in confusion.

Line break is here all right

Today was on odd day for the woman Glynda Goodwitch. First she talking with her friend Summer Rose, than she received an emergency call from Ozpin. Now Ms. Goodwitch is a middle-aged woman with light-blonde hair tied back in a bun with a curl hanging down the right side of her face.

Her eyes color is bright green and she wears thin rectangular glasses. She has teal hanging earrings with small beads. She also wears a white long-sleeved suit that exposes part of her chest, and puffy sleeves that tighten near the wrist before spreading back out near her hands. Her lower body has a black business skirt with buttons running in a vertical line up the front of it and lighter black-brown stockings.

On her feet she wears black boots with brown heels, and wears a tattered cape that is purple inside and black on the outside, decorated by a row of diamond-shaped brown beads going horizontally across her cape. Having both been called in she and Summer left the café they were at to go meet up with Ozpin back at Beacon academy. An academy meant to train future hunters and huntresses. The jobs of Hunters were to defend the people from the threat of Grim, along with stopping other threats to humanity. Now the grim are a strange group of beings.

They're strange for the fact that they don't have souls. Now all living beings have souls, without them they cannot survive. Normally when people do lose themthey go insane, and start searching for others souls to claim as their own. However those are just people born with souls. Grim are born soulless.

However they attack humanity with a drive unknown to any creature. Why they do this still remains a mystery. But until the next generation is ready to fight them, it falls to hunters and huntresses like Glynda and Summer to protect humanity.

"So I wonder what Ozzy has for us today that seems so urgent?" Despite knowing each other since their own days in the academy, Glynda still doesn't understand why she insists on being so unprofessional. Looking at her white cloaked friend with a sigh she proceeded to answer her question.

"To be honest I'm not entirely sure. He just said that he was calling you, me, and your brother Qrow. For a special assignment."

"Wow so that means he must be quite worried if he's calling in the big guns like us."

"Quite, however I do believe he said that he'd be joining us on this mission as well." She watched as Summer's mouth practically fell to the ground when she heard that. Most days now Ozpin sits in his office signing paperwork and watching over the youngest generations of hunters. For him to actually need to be on a mission was quite nerve racking. Still the two got on the earliest ship to beacon, and made their way towards the headmaster's office. The room was circular in shape with only Ozpins desk in the center of it.

Ozpin in appearance is a middle-aged man with gray hair and brown eyes. On his face he wears shaded glass his neck is dark-green scarf with a small, purple, cross-shaped emblem on it. He wears an unzipped black suit over a black-buttoned vest, with a green undershirt underneath. He also wears black trouser shoes and long, dark-green pants. Despite his hair color however his eyebrows are actually black.

As the friends entered the office from the elevator's noticed another man with graying black, spiky hair, with a red, tattered cloak, wearing a gray dress shirt with a long tail, black dress pants, and black dress shoes. He also wore a ring on his right index finger, two other rings on his fourth finger, and a necklace with a crooked cross-shaped pendant.

Quickly Summer ran over to her brother in law, while doing so white rose petals fell around the path she took. Summer herself had black hair and silver eyes. While her outfit consisted of a white cloak, black long laced combat boots, and a medium length black dress. The office was quickly filled with happy squeals as Summer continued to hug her older brother.

"It's been awhile how have you been Qrow? Meet anyone yet? Wait tell me about the groups you've been following!" Qrow for his credit didn't let on that she was annoying him, but instead quickly gave a brief summary of recent events. Glynda sigh in exasperation at her energetic friend and Ozpin only gave a slight chuckle before cutting in.

"I'm sorry to cut the family reunion short but we have important matters to attend." Instantly Summer stopped hugging dusty crow, and directed her full attention to the speaking.

"Alright then I'll try to keep this brief since we'll need to move quickly. You see three hours ago our monitors in emerald forest, noticed grim running away from an unknown source. At the same time they also picked up on a high energy fluctuation." Qrow raised an eyebrow at that. Usually grim never run. The younger grim always charge in head first, while the older ones actually use some strategy to fight. But if something was making them run I couldn't have been good. Glynda however was more confused on the energy signal they picked up.

"Could you clarify, why you're concerned? These things mostly end up being ruptured concentrated veins of dust."

"Yes you're quite correct on that. However this time it wasn't dust we picked up on, but rather a strange signal that resembled aura." The others in the room looked at each other with worry.

Glynda quickly reprimanded him on the matter. "Ozpin if what you're saying is impossible! No one could ever have that much aura!"

"You misheard me, I said it resembled aura not that it was aura." Qrow's brain started to rack its way around what Ozpin said.

Aura is the energy given off by the soul. It acts as a barrier to protect us as well as empower us. If there is something like aura… why haven't we discovered it yet? The closest we got is… Ozpin looked at the only other male in the room seeing the cogs working in his mind.

"Yes I know what you might be thinking Qrow, which is why I suggested all of us to go and investigate the disturbance. Everyone get ready I'll answer any questions on the way there."

Line break is here all right

Looking around Neos most certainly knew he wasn't in the wasteland anymore. Or even in Rivellon for that matter. Seems like we bit off more than we can chew here. I can only guess that Ba'al is much more powerful than the last time we fought. With the way he dragged us all from my dimensional tunnel to somewhere else… I truly don't know if we can come out victorious this time.

Now normally dimensional traveling took large amounts of energy. Also it should be normally impossible for someone to take others out of their own dimensional rifts. But here Ba'al did so, which had managed to baffle the young dragon knight to no end.

The looks of confusion on his enemies' faces did not go unseen by said demon however.

"It seems to me you're quite baffled young dragon. Here let me enlighten you as to how I've done this." For some reason at that moment, Neos felt an urge to shoot him in the face, with the sequoia right then and there. However actually needing to hear his enemies monologue, he said and did nothing. Ba'al took that as his cue to continue.

"You see me and my master have found new benefactors to help us. They broke us out of Tartarus and gave us knew power and knowledge. All we had to do was help them when they needed it. Not a bad bargain no?" Neos could feel him smirking despite the demon not having any lips to smirk with. Still He wondered who these benefactors were. Because if their anything like his last ones things were about to get complicated, again.

So deciding to look into this later he nodded to his companions and charged at Ba'al. Raze'thur ran to outflank him, while ED-E started to shoot him with his laser. The sudden attack caught Ba'al off guard allowing them to have initiative.

Holding his black Daito in both hands, Neos went in with an overhead slash with blazing speed. At the same time Raze'thur tried to claw at the larger demons back. Breaking out of his shock Ba'al sneered at the pain the laser caused him, and used his right hand to block Neos, while simultaneously using his left to block Raze'thur. Neos jumped back a bit to disengage, and started to gather energy in his left hand for a magic missile. This left Raze'thur and ED'E to distract the demon.

Quickly turning around to attack the smaller demon Ba'al lashed out with his right arm to cleave Raze'thur in two. Noticing this Raze'thur quickly rolled to his left and attacked with his left claw, slightly managing to cut Ba'al before the larger demon jumped away. When he landed Neos let out his spell, hitting the large demon with seven powerful magical spears of light. Staggering forward a bit from the blows in pain, he was awarded with another round of lasers into his chest.

Growling Ba'al decided he had enough of the small metal eyebot, ran towards the laser firing robot. ED-E seeing this unloaded another round into the demon. However enraged as he was he ignored the pain, and smacked the poor eyebot deep into the forest. Seeing their companion get launched into the sky Raze'thur and Neos, screamed out his name in despair.

Hearing this Ba'al only laughed again. Feeling anger boil inside him Neos put away his sword. Looking at his opponent Neos's eyes turned into golden slits and his teeth grew sharper. Knowing what was happening Ba'al jumped back to get distance between him and the fire breather.

Suddenly a distortion appeared around Neos making it impossible to see. When it ended however in Neos's place stood a large four legged black dragon. The dragon was just as large as the demon himself. With a wingspan of twelve meters it was a rather large beast. However Ba'al knew this to be the point where the fight truly began. Raze'thur stood in awe of the dragon, for despite seeing it many times he'll never get over his friends transformation.

Getting into a fighting stance the dragon prepared to combat the demon, while Ba'al prepared to do the same. This however was the moment he had been waiting for; he decided that it was now time to get serious.

Line break is here all right

A few minutes before ED-E got sent flying Ozpin, Glynda, and the rest of the group were slowly making their way towards the location of the disturbance recently being dropped off in a bullhorn. Or a VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) tiltjet aircraft. An airship with high armor and great maneuverability in exchange for carrying space. They all had their weapons out and were carefully scanning for any grim or for whatever they were searching for. Ozpin carried a strange cane, which seemed to have some sort of gaud on it.

Glynda was holding onto an extendable riding crop that also acted as a wand. Summer was carrying a scythe that matched her most prominent color of choice. While Qrow was holding onto a large single edged sword. The blade was separated into a few pieces, while the handle had what looked like gears inside it. The forests name was Emerald forest. An apt name because of its bright green colors. However the part of the forest they were in was probably the densest.

This caused some mutterings from Summer every time something caught in her cape. Qrow and Glynda were having similar luck, but decided to take it out on the thing they were searching for when they found it. If they found it that is, they were starting to believe it was just a glitch since they were getting near the source. Yet no sign of it has been seen. This prompted them to believe it ran off without leaving a trace, stayed where it was, or never existed in the first place. The four of them were slowly starting to think the latter was the most likely, and that it was only a glitch in the system.

However their opinions changed… when Ozpin noticed something coming at his head. He quickly ducked underneath what he believed to be some large metal ball. Unfortunately Qrow who was right behind him… was struck instead. This caused him to back into Glynda, who backed into Summer which caused the three of them to fall to the ground. Groaning Qrow muttered something about his luck before he looked down. To his surprise he saw a large antennae covered metal sphere lying on his chest.

Quickly putting the thing onto his side he got up and helped the two he knocked over up. The group of four quickly recovered and surrounded the strange contraption. Observing it Ozpin made his discoveries to his threeteammates.

"Well this is a first, I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before. Base on its design I don't think that it's Atlesian make and it certainly wasn't made in Vale." Qrow stepped up to it and picked the strange contraption off the ground holding it at eye level. He carefully turned it around to look for any markings suggesting where it came from. All he saw on it was the names Eyebot, Ralphie, and Enclave. This didn't make any sense to the natives of Remnant. However they were all shocked when they heard the contraption start beeping, and rise out Qrows hands.

Looking around ED-E had no idea who these people were. However he did know he needed to get back to the others. So ignoring the surprised looks of those around him, he locked onto the signal Neos's pipboy was giving off and flew towards it. This confused the four natives even more since it was heading into the direction they were.

Summer quickly turned to Ozpin before speaking. "Hey Ozzy you think that's what caused the signal?" With some hesitation the man answered her.

"It could be but… it looks rather small to have caused the warning to go off. Either way we must pursue, it might just lead us to what were after." Agreeing with his judgment, all of them started to run after the floating metal ball.

Line break is here all right

The dragon and demon were staring each other down just waiting for the other to move. Normally Neos is calm, level headed, and tactical. However still being young and not having complete control on his dragon instincts yet, he tended to be a little impatient in his dragon form. Which was shown when he started growling at his foe and charged at him with his right paw, which now had sharp white talons. Ba'al knowing the fight had begun once again dodged to the left, timing it right so he could aim a quick kick to the dragons side.

Seeing the kick coming Neos used his wings to spin to his right, out of reach of the offending leg. Landing on his right leg and right arm he used them to spin back towards Ba'al. However this time he used enough force to spin over the demon, allowing him to lash out with his left arm while above him. The demon ducked underneath the blow and turned towards the large lizard, which had turned himself around to face him.

Seeing a quick intake of breath was all the warning he had, as hot flames spewed forth from Neos's mouth directed at him. Uttering a quick barrier spell he managed to block the flames. However he wasn't able to defend himself from Raze'thur's claws. While focusing on the dragon he completely forgot about the smaller demon. Snarling in rage and pain he caught the demons second strike, and threw him at the dragon in front of him. The two rolled a few meters before settling in a tangled mess. Righting themselves as fast as possible they took their stances to see what the large demon would do next.

When the two saw ED-E come out of the woods,they were happy to seeing him relatively unharmed. However their faces turned to shock as they saw four humans run out right behind him. The humans looked on with utter shock as they saw the both demons and the dragon.

Summer still shocked spoke first. "Um Ozzy I don't think we came prepared for this." Glynda nodded her head to her friend.

"For once I actually agree with Summer. Obviously the world is ending."

"HEY!" Ozpin and Qrow ignored the two in favor of observing the creatures in front of them. Ozpin noted that the small metal contraption went over to the dragon and smaller demon. He was right in assuming the contraption would lead to the source of energy. However he never quite expected this outcome. It had been a while since he actually saw a dragon after all.

Speaking of the dragon… Neos despite being happy his friend returned was still shocked at the humans. Seeing Ba'al turn his attention towards them he called out to them.

"WAIT! Don't come any closer!" This shocked the hunters and huntresses as they didn't expect the dragon to know how to speak. However for Ba'al it gave him an opportunity. To which he quickly took advantage of, with quick speed the demon shoved his left claws into the dragon's chest. Neos felt the pain of both the wound and the demonic poison that was starting to flow inside him.

Coughing out hot blood on to the demons arm, he reacted by blowing fire into the demons face. Not expecting the flames Ba'al wasn't able to defend himself quickly enough. So he pulled his arm back while clutching his face in pain.

"ARRGH! You'll regret doing that DRAGON KNIGHT!"

"Ha you can give the pain but you can't take it by the looks of it." However Neos's words were just for show as he himself was feeling the effects of his wound. This forced him to revert back to his human form however. Shocking the natives even more, Qrow was the first to voice his observation.

"The dragon's just some kid! How is this even possible?" None of them knew the answer for that question. The best idea they could think of was that it was some sort of semblance. A unique power obtained by an individual. But as they watched the larger demon thrash around in pain. Summer knew they had to do something, after all the boy was about the same age as her youngest daughter. So as a mother wanting to protect a young child, she tried to rally her team.

"Come on guys! Dragon or no he's hurt! We need to help them, after all it is our fault he took the hit in the first place!" Glynda only shook her head at her friend preparing to be the voice of reason.

"Summer we don't even know what's going on! We're dealing with things beyond our scope. We need to fall back and think of what to do nex..SUMMER!" She shouted her friends name as she took off in a swarm of white petals. Intent on harming the monster before them, cursing she was soon followed by Qrow. Ozpin seeing that they actually should help. Even if it was out of curiosity took out his cane and charged at it as well. This left Glynda behind. Her face scrunching in anger she too ran into the fight.

Raze'thur truly never thought he would ever see a human running in to save them. It was in truth always them who ran to help strangers in need. However here was some that were running head long into danger. It wasn't like he didn't appreciate the gesture. But he knew they were way out of their league. Unfortunately Ba'al knew it to. Raze'thur watched as Ba'al quickly turned around, and hit the woman in white with the back of his left hand. This sent her flying into a tree with a loud thud. Ba'al laughed as he heard her yelp in pain.

Taking the opportunity of Ba'al's back turned to him Raze'thur jumped onto the larger demons back. Ba'al quickly noticed this and started to try and throw the smaller demon off. Qrow took the opportunity to quickly start slashing away at him with his sword. Ozpin seeing what was happening, also started to rain blows down on the large creature in front of them. Ba'al yelling in pain finally managed to grab Raze'thur's leg, and swung him at the men in front of him.

Ozpin rolled to the side but, Qrow got sent flying along with the small demon as they collided. It was here that Qrow decided the smell of the demon, was not something he wanted to smell again. He also once again cursed his permanent bad luck semblance.

"Sorry about that." Raze'thur muttered.

"It's fine but how do we fight this thing? No offense to you of course." Raze'thur gave him a look before turning towards the fight.

"You don't fight him. In fact take the other humans and leave. This fight is way too much for you."

"I highly doubt that." Raze'thur quickly pointed in front of him while looking straight forward. Turning towards where he was pointing, Qrow was surprised to see the larger demon trying to use Ozpin, whom he managed to catch as a flail to try and hit his sister in law. If it wasn't for the direness of the situation, he might have found it funny. After all it's not every day you see the headmaster in such a predicament.

Thankfully ED-E managed to make the demon let go, with accurate shots to the arm that was flailing the smaller human around. However Ozpin still hit Summer who happened to be in the wrong spot. Neos grimaced in pity and stood up. His wound wasn't all the way healed yet, and he was doing his best with his healing magic, but he knew he had to do something. Raze'thur saw his friend stand up, but before he could move Ba'al's voice echoed throughout the clearing.

"ENOUGH! You worms think you can fight me! The great demon general!" Neos snorted before speaking out at him.

"You mean former general right?" The dragon instantly regretted the retort, for if looks could kill, Neos knew he'd have died a thousand times over. In a bout of rage Ba'al charged the wounded dragon intent on ripping him to shreds. However before he got there a white blur got in his way, and slashed at him with its scythe. The demon however was too angry to care about such a superficial wound. No instead Ba'al jabbed his right claws forward. Everyone's eyes grew wide with horror, as they watched helplessly as Summer was impaled with the demons claws.

Not caring for his recent kill Ba'al tossed the woman away towards Glynda. She quickly ran towards her friend, and started to try anything she could to try and save her. However the claws managed to pierce most of her internal organs, not only that but the green demon poison was clearly visible. In seconds the white reaper had given her last breath. Qrow watched as his family member stopped breathing. Watching helplessly as she died in seconds. It was too much for him to handle.

"ARGH!" Screaming with unfiltered rage and grief he charged the demon in hopes of avenging his fallen sister. Pressing a button on his sword, which quickly extended into a large scythe. Neos also felt his rage break as he once again turned into the mighty dragon. Ozpin in grief didn't act hastily knowing that would be their death. However he stood at the ready waiting to find an opening for the demon.

Ba'al was waiting for this moment however, when the dragon's emotions clouded his thoughts. He knew dragons were emotional creatures, which is why they spent so long mastering them. However Neos was still very young a child even, so he knew he wouldn't be able to keep his emotions in check. Laughing he dodged every blow the human and dragon directed at him.

Glynda looked up from her friend's body to see the fight, and knew it wasn't going well. The monster was tiring both Qrow and the dragon out. Putting Summer down she gripped her riding crop and made some motions with it. Instantly a magic circle appeared in front of her. She didn't want to enter the fight with the others so close to the demon, this was on the off chance he used them as shields. But… at the moment she truly didn't care anymore.

Ba'al barely had time to react, as he saw purple crystal like projectiles come towards him. While they did sting upon first contact, they weren't strong enough to do any real damage. However Ba'al knew she presented a problem. His solution was to grab Raze'thur when he went in for a kick and throw him at the blonde human.

With a cry of indignation of being thrown so many times, Raze'thur wasn't able to do anything as he hit the female. Both of them rolled off into the woods. However this time they stayed unconscious. Growling in satisfaction he turned towards the dragon, and the scythe wielding human. He could see Neos was barely standing, from the life water quickly pouring at of his chest. While Qrow was also on his last legs. Ba'al would never admit it, but he too was tiring but was in obvious better condition.

Ozpin knowing that they wouldn't last much to the eyebot still firing at the demon, trying to lay down some cover fire.

"Hey small metal contraption." ED-E stopped firing and turned towards Ozpin.

"I need to know if you can stall him for a couple of minutes. Can you do that?" ED-E looked back toward his friend and the other human. Seeing their battered states he turned back to Ozpin, and gave off determined beeps. Ozpin unable to really understand him took it as a yes.

"Okay good now when I give the signal you charge in." With that Ozpin ran to where he hoped the demons blind spot was. Neos knew he was losing too much blood, and that if he didn't treat it soon he would die. Looking at the man next to him he also knew that he was on his last legs. His eyes widened as the man over extended a scythe swing and left himself open.

You know this is really going to hurt. With that thought Neos steeled himself and ran in front of the man as quickly as he could, and brought up his wings to protect them. Ba'al just laughed as he saw the dragon knight go flying off into a large boulder with a satisfying crunch. He knew the boy wouldn't be getting up anytime soon. Watching as the dragon reverted to human form he took one last look at him. He wanted to savor this moment, and watching as blood fell down his face he knew he had won. Although he did get a cheap shot in even he would admit to that. But still he took on everyone here and beat them all.

"Hahahaha! Oh how the mighty have fallen. You know I never could get over the fact that a child defeated me. Though I suppose your training did help along with Raze'thur. But now I will squash you like an ant and prove demons are stronger than dragons." Ozpin realizing that the demon was about to crush the unconscious dragon boys head, gave the signal to the Floating robot. Who began to give everything he had to gain the large demons attention. Unfortunately for him it worked.

"Argh! You! I'll turn you into scrap metal!" ED-E Quickly started to fire even faster as the demon raced towards him. Now despite not having true AI… ED-E could feel pain, happiness, anger, and sadness. Now however he was experiencing absolute fear as the demon raced at him. His only hope was the human somewhere nearby. So he was most relieved when Ozpin, came out of nowhere and plunged his cane into the demons skull. The cane being covered in some sort of energy easily bypassed the demons stone like skin.

Ba'al started to thrash around in agony, as his brain was cooked from the aura pouring into his skull. After a couple of moments the demon fell to his side and laid still. Seeing victory ED-E and Qrow ran towards their down comrades at the same time. At that moment Glynda and Raze'thur ran out of the woods. Only to see that the fight was over. Raze'thur ran towards his friend while Glynda ran towards hers. Both she and Qrow could only stare in grief at the lifeless body of Summer.

Ozpin seeing this held back his sorrow and cleaned his cane. Deciding he should leave the other two alone for the time being, he went towards the demon cradling the head of the dragon boy.

"I hope you know we expect an explanation for this?" Raze'thur turned towards the human and nodded his head in understanding. Qrow picking up his sister moved towards them followed by Glynda. Seeing how everyone was there Raze'thur started talking.

"We are not exactly normal as you may have guessed. In fact we're not even from this dimension." Glynda tried to speak but Raze'thur cut her off.

"Please wait until I'm done to ask questions, this will take awhile." Closing her mouth shut she nodded and looked towards the ground.

"Thank you I know this must be hard for all of you, but bear with me. Now you see there are multiple dimensions out there. Each one more different than the last, my name is Raze'thur, the prince of the demons over in the world called Rivellon. The boy here is named Neos Drakon, and the robot is known as ED-E. He's a duraframe steel eyebot, meant to record conversation, hack systems, and hold stored items. He also comes complete with a long range scanner, and rapid fire lasers as you've no doubt seen. He was from another dimension as well. But Neos here fixed him up and we've been together ever since."

ED-E gave some cheerful beeps while bobbing up and down. The three humans couldn't help but smile at the display,

"But we pale in comparison to what Neos is. You see Neos was gifted with the magic of an elder dragon. Thus allowing him to take on the shape and power of one. You see we met because his master an elder dragon named Patriarch, wanted Neos to experience different and unique things. Mostly because the young lad was starting to develop a superiority complex, mostly due to his flawless victory record. We first met when I was in a terrible situation. However he saved me and I've sworn myself to him ever since. Usually I only come to him when needed. But he asked if I wanted to go with him on his next travel so I said yes. In fact we were just on our way home from our latest journey, when Ba'al the other demon you fought attacked us."

Raze'thur than looked down in remorse.

"I'm sorry all of you got mixed up in this but we never intended for it to happen. Even Neos warned you to run and now…" Quickly looking at his dragon friend in shock, he remembered that he was practically bleeding out.

"Listen I know we don't deserve it but I must ask you to tend to Neos' wounds, before he bleeds to death."

"Why don't you do it? I mean he is your friend." Glynda wasn't in the mood to help them since in her mind, they're the reason Summer's dead.

"Listen I would if I could but my hands aren't exactly made for this. Plus I've never learned healing magic." For emphases he put his hands up in front of him and waved them around. Qrow and Ozpin looked at the unconscious boy then looked each other. They both came to a mental agreement. Moving over to the boy Ozpin carefully picked him up as to not agitate his wounds more. Glynda looked on in shock.

"Ozpin what are you doing! This boy is clearly dangerous. We don't know if he'll doing anything once he wakes up! Not to mention it's his fault that…" Surprisingly Qrow quickly rebuked her.

"I don't want to hear it! We all knew that in any battle we could die. That was a fact we took to heart when we became hunters and huntresses. Summer died saving the boy. So I believe we should do everything we can to make sure she didn't die in vain." Glynda looked once again to the ground while Ozpin called for immediate evac. Raze'thur thankful for the help spoke up.

"Thank you we are forever in your debt. However I must take my leave now. I must inform my father about what is happening with the demons. Or else more might show up here. I would take Neos with me, but I can't take another person with me with my current abilities. But do not worry I'll return soon." Ozpin nodded towards the demon before he disappeared within a dark portal. Sighing they all waited for the sound of the ship to come by.

Line break is here all right

It was a week later when Neos woke up to a white room. Peering around he noticed some tubes going into his arm, as well as other areas. Trying to sit up he felt an intense head ache and a sharp pain in his chest. Deciding it would be best that to just lie back down, he didn't even notice the other person in the room until he spoke.

"Finally awake are you?" Jolting a bit Neos saw a man in green sitting beside his bed. He looked familiar but he couldn't quite place it.

Ozpin looked at the boy that has been in a coma for the pass week, and smirked at the timing of his visit that day.

"Who are you?"

"Ah thought you might not recognize me. Let me introduce myself I'm Professor Ozpin headmaster here at Beacon academy. I must ask how are you feeling?"

"Like I've been hit by an airship to be honest." Ozpin smiled a bit until he saw a panicked look start to set into the boys eyes.

"Are you okay? Do you need anything." Sweating a bit now Neos shook his head for no, and turned his head towards the headmaster.

"Do you know who I am?"

Slayer: Well there we go the first Redux chapter of the Tales of the Darkguard book 2. Hopefully this was better than last time. Now as you can see, some minor changes in this chapter. But all were important to the story to run more smoothly.

Neos: Normally I'd be happy about this… but I literally have gone through this mess twice now.

Shadow: Eh… could be worse. But in any case… I am happy to be back in my own series again!

Neos: Your series? Pretty sure I am the main character of the dark guard series. Even back in book one was I the main character.

Shadow: Yeah yeah… just don't tell Jack that.

Neos: Whatever… well I guess we've gone on long enough. Once again send us any questions you have and we will answer as soon as possible.

Slayer: Yep! But now this has been a Dark Guard production now signing off!

Everyone: GOODBYE!