*Author's note: This story is aimed to be a retelling of the events of Madou Monogatari for the SEGA Saturn, so major liberties are going to be taken with the source material. As well that none of the Puyo Fever characters are included, as they weren't created by the time this game was released. With that in mind, hope you'll enjoy the story. *
The sky was a bleak gray color, with thunderclouds razing across the sky everywhere, and the majority of the townsfolk fleeing in panic as they made their way outside the town's gates, trying to escape a horrifying floating eye as it launched several beam attacks towards the ground.
'Quickly! We've got to seek shelter in the forest area!'
"But where will we go from there?! Those...things will come after us there as well!'
'We don't have any other options!' After a few minutes, the entire town was entirely deserted, with what seemed to be the thunderclouds being the only noises filling sky for noise.
A lone blonde girl dressed in a red robe climbed out of the basement from one of the buildings. 'Mom...d-dad?' She was biting her lips, fearing for the worst when she stepped outside, and noticed the darkened gray sky, and shouted in fear: 'IS TH-THERE ANYBODY IN HERE?! HELLOO?!' Much to her shock however, a eye materialized in front of her, and her face turned white as it seemed to be charging up a purple energy from it's iris, unable to do anything out of shock.
Though in the brink of time, a fireball hit the eye, disorientating it, and a black-haired girl in brown clothes came to her aid. 'Phoebe!' The eye vanished, and she grabbed the girl by her shoulders, finally regaining her composure and started to breathe heavily. 'Phoebe, I know this is horrible, but I need you to come with me. Danford might know what's going on, and it's not safe here!' Pulling her hand, Phoebe simply nodded as she followed her best friend towards one of the few houses that remained relatively intact after the attack...
Going down the staircase towards the basement of the building, they spotted a young brown-haired boy observing a map laid on the table. Hearing the footsteps, he turned around, and was relieved to see one of them back safe. 'Ah, you returned quickly, Celidia. Did you find Phoebe?' She nodded, Phoebe walkin in as she tried to contain herself from crying any more.
'Phoebe, are you alright?' Danford inquired, but she faintly nodded, whispering what she went through. 'My...my dad told me to hide in the basement when we heard explosions...I just hided close to the corner and stayed there for about 10 minutes. And then everyone disappeared...I have no clue what happened to my parents or the others...*sniff*.
Danford patted her shoulder in comfort, but looked irritated. 'At least your parents tried to hide you...mine were too busy fleeing while I was upstairs to even care about me, those fools.' She grabbed his hand in return. 'No! D-don't think like that, they were scared out of their wits to think logically, like everyone else is...'
Sighing, he simply turned his attention back to the map. 'So, Celidia, I've been carefully watching where those eyeball monsters go to the last few days, and they always seem to hover towards the east after they're done terrorizing before they vanish...' Pointing on the map, he circled his finger around a tower beyond a canyon to the east. 'I assume this is where they make their home...The Heaven's Tower, which has been abandoned for 2 years.'
'Good.' Celidia grabbed whatever she saw in reach in the closets in the basement, grabbing potions, rations and herbs, and put it in a small backpack lying on a seat close to the table. 'W-What are you going to do?' Phoebe asked, to which Celidia simply turned her head around as she put the backpack on her shoulders. 'I'm heading to the tower right now, to see if they're really there, and if it is...I'll put a end to them!'
Dan dashed over to her side. 'Are you crazy?! Cel, you're seriously going to fight those eyeball monsters on your own? Our whole town fears them, let alone get the idea to oppose them!'
'Then what do you propose we do, just spend our days quivering in fear of whatever they might continue to do to our homes?! Dan, my whole family already fled the town a week ago for a neighbouring town, and our friends at school also fled the instant they appeared...this can't go on!'
He was simply silent as she ranted on. 'First these odd plants appeared all over the place, emitted that smoke which made people go crazy...and then soon those eyes appeared...their attacks on our school...I'll never forget that. I'll never forgive them for terrorizing our town either, not while I still breathe...so I'm heading over there and when I see them...I'll eradicate them!' Stepping outside of the building, she braved the horrendous weather and intended to leave the town right there and then, but she heard footsteps coming closer to her, and turned around, Dan rushing to her side wielding a axe and Phoebe carrying a staff.
'Cel...if you're going to do this...then take us with you.' He stated with a stern face. 'Y-Yes...you're right. We can't let this go on.' Phoebe was determined as well to stop this, and Celidia nodded. 'Thanks, I can't express enough how much I appreciate this...come on! While we still have time!'
'Right, it should be a hour away if we walk on foot.'
A long arduous journey past the treacherous canyon cliffs later, they spotted a large tower on the horizon, the weather was the most horrible around the tower with lightning striking around the top of the tower frequently, already being a clear enough sign to Celidia that this was definetely where those monsters made their base.
Running across the barren plains over a long bridge towards the foot of the tower, Celidia tried pushing the massive wooden entrance open, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't even budge it.
'Step aside!' Danford charged forward with his axe, Celidia jumping aside as he swung it right through the doors, creating a hole with 4 swings that he continued to kick apart the splinters so to make a feasable gap big enough for the trio to slip through.
'Careful, don't cut yourself.' Danford helped the girls pass through, and Phoebe remarked upon his strength. 'W-Wow...I never knew you were strong, Dan...'
'Heh, I frequently went out to chop wood for the family, never knew that would pay off.'
With only a few shimmers of light shining through various gaps in the tower, Celidia muttered some words and made a fireball hover above her hands, noticing how massive the tower truly was from the inside, a darkish gray color dominating all over the interior, with a pale white circular staircase climbing upwards, it seeming more than a mile high until they would reach the top of the tower.
As the lightning strikes grew fiercer, the trio braced themselves and stepped towards the staircase, only for two of the eyeball creatures to materialize in front of them, and summoned a knight in blue armor, immediately vanishing afterwards. 'Watch out!"
The knight attacked, slashing at the trio with Danford pushing it back slightly, but the knight was emotionless and swung it's sword at Dan, barely hitting his shoulder, and Dan winced from the hit, the knight preparing to attack once more and seriously injure him, but Celidia intercepted him by casting a ice spell that froze it's legs in place, and while the knight was trying to break free, Danford charged at him intending to off him for good with a strong horizontal swing to the hips, only for it to fall apart upon being hit, the armor pieces being revealed to be hollow, and quickly vaporized into nothing.
'Urgh...so they can summon monsters as well now? Wonderful...' Phoebe took care of his shoulder, and they resumed ascending upwards towards the top of the tower, the increasing noise of the weather outside not frightening them in the slightest, though fearful of what awaited them at the top...
Finally reaching the top, they went through a squared hole in the ceiling, and they were speechless about what they saw outside, hovering close to the floor was a gigantic green/brown reptilian creature with skinny claws and a single eye on what seemed to be it's face, lacking a mouth and a lower body.
'What the...' Celidia mumbled out, still in disbelief what they saw, though as lightning struck around them and it started to rain as well, it seemed to telepathically talk to them, it echoing from the creature itself.
"So it seems you miniscule creatures have managed to reach me...but it's in vain.'
Phoebe was quivering, but stood her ground. 'What's that supposed to mean? You're terrorizing our world, and we're here to put a end to it, you demon!'
Though right then, the eyes all manifested around them, and the creature itself sneered.
'FOOLS! Your world means nothing to me, the devourer of dimensions! I shall scare off your kind as I see fit before I will ravage it beyond your comprehension...this world belongs to Yogusa!'
As the weather suddenly grew more catastrophic, the lightning striked the various woods in the distances, starting fires and the wind started to pick up around them. 'That's what you think, monster! Thunderstorm!' Casting out her strongest spell, Celidia made one of the lightning bolts hit the eye of the massive creature, it whriting in pain.
'GRAAARGH...' The eyes started to attack with laser beams firing from their irises, but Phoebe casted a shielding aura that nullified their attack on Celidia, and Danford attacked one of them as they flew closer to their altitude to attack them through ramming, him slashing one of them succesfully causing it to bleed out purple energy before vanishing in a smoke.
'My eye...insolence...GGRRR!' Grabbing Celidia as she was caught off guard, the creature held her up close to it's eye, squeezing her tightly. 'Nrrgh... can't...move...' She was shivering being held up close to the demon, and the eyes were fighting against Dan and Phoebe.
You fight valiantly, mortals...for that, I shall reward you!' Raising it's hands, the tower began to tremble ferociously and earthquakes shook the whole world apart, cracks emitting all over the ground.
A white vortex emitted close to the edge of the tower, and it tossed Celidia in it. 'AAAAAAHH!' Disappearing in it, Danford and Phoebe were shocked what happened to her, and let their guard down as the eyes rammed them into the vortex as well, both screaming as they disappeared into the vortex as well, it closing afterwards.
As the forests started burning away in the fire and lightning started to strike the ground and screams echoed all over the place, the whole world started to fade away in a white flash.
'Graaa...HAHAHAHAA! ALL OF IT...DISAPPEAR!