Chapter 1

Level Zero

The garage was dark and damp; there were flickers of light as the crew walked through the parking spots. They kept on seeing what they thought was people's shadows but they kept thinking that it was mostly just the light messing with them. There came a loud boom from the thunder as a large stream of lightning struck one of the light posts outside the garage. While their attention was on the post someone that they had never seen before appeared near them, it was a high level daemon named Shauzeu he was looking at them all pissed and ready to start trouble, so they all stood there in amazement while this freak stared them down. He made a move towards them, Chao took a step forward and said "yo home boy the fuck you think your doin?" Shauzeu acted as if nothing was even said and kept on moving towards them. Chao took a step up and looked at Shauzeu again "Yo doesn't your sorry ass have some other place to be other than in our spot, like damn dawg this fucking garage is big enough for many more than just us." Shauzeu looked up at Chao and spoke in a raspy voice "there must not be any survivors." His eyes started to glow and he started to float off the ground, and again he said it "there must not be any survivors."

Chao getting a little bit more pissed than what he already was wasn't going to take any shit from someone that he had never met. Shauzeu spoke once more "I am the great Shauzeu any mortal that stands in front of me and the prize will perish and become part of me." A great uproar occurred and there were many demons that weren't as strong as Shauzeu, they were just what the mighty Shauzeu had wanted. They circled them and they started chanting in a strange but earie voice all at once. "You all will die, for you aren't as great us." Chao looked at his crew and said "fighting stance." They all gathered round in the circle getting one opponent each, while the mighty Shauzeu was able to just lightly hover above them with a force field covering him. "Bae, Deidra, Megan, and Ashley; you all stay in the center and cover your selves, while we move around and try and move them away where we can fight them in a more appropriate manner" Said Chao. Chao had one on him, Max had one, Ace had one, Kyle had one, and the other guys stayed back to make sure that the ladies wouldn't have any problems with theirs and to keep more from attacking them. Ace used his experience at climbing stuff and lunged upward and grabbed a pipe overhead where he pulled himself up, the demon jumped up and met him there before he was able to fully get up. Chao being like he was started maneuvering through the tight parts of the garage and the demon teleporting to where he thought Chao might be going. Max ran over beside a car and lay on the ground just right beside the car, so that the demon might not notice he was there, and Kyle pulled out his soul sward and waved it at the demon that was after him. They all were in their fighting stances when they heard another loud boom of thunder, and a flash of lightning appeared inside the garage, it was something they had never seen before. The lightning strike hit Shauzeu and slung him all the way across the garage, it was a lightning dude named Storm, he was young and hip and wasn't what they expected to see. He spoke with elegance and tranquility as he said "is yawl okay?" He was obviously from the south, due to his extreme southern accent. He spoke to Shauzeu and stated that "he was in the wrong place at the wrong time." Shauzeu pissed flashed away in a puff of smoke, and his lower level demons stayed there and refused to be vanquished so easy. Storm told Chao and his crew to "get them over with because he had some major things to tell them, things that would benefit them in the long run." Chao told the ladies to branch out, and all the guys that had a demon on them to do as they wanted with theirs so that they all could level up. Max managed to put his legs up under the car to where he could flip it over on the demon, but it was smarter than what he had thought. It teleported up on top of the car and increased its weight, Max being able to lift 6,000 pounds managed to lift up the car still, and he slung it through the roof of level 1 onto level 2.

Kyle ready to see what his sword was made of spun it around to face his demon, it let out a deep chuckle "gruahaha!" Kyle got a little bit uneasy in his boots but he forgot that these were low level demons; he let out a louder chuckle "muahahahaha!" the demon trembled, and Kyle said "give me your soul." The demon began spinning in a circle of teal smoke, and then it was rudely turned inside out where its soul was on the outside of its body. Kyle lunged at it and grasped it in his hands and devoured it in seconds, his eyes glowed red for a second then he chuckled again, and said "I can feel its puny soul coursing through my veins." Meanwhile Ace was up on the pipe still with the demon, he reached in his trench coat pocket and pulled out his desert eagle .50 he said "this one is going right between the eyes mother fucker." He pulled the trigger and the demon teleported out of the way, pissing off Ace even more, he then reached inside his coat and put the eagle away, to reveal his chest harness containing the double barrel shotgun, which was UN holstered faster than the demon could move. He said "How about a little buck shot you prick?" He pulled the two triggers throwing not just one shell but two at the demon; they both struck the demon in the side and ripped through it like a lion at the zoo when it's feeding time.

Chao looked like he was tiring down, he looked at the demon and said "I have had enough of this fucking bull shit, stop teleporting and fight me like the mother fucker that you are." The demon chuckled, muahahaha!" Chao gathered up the energy that he had just used by running and created an eye beam made of 1,000 degree heat. It soared up into a nearby flashing fluorescent light that hung in the garage, and magnified off the bulb. It struck the demon in the face melting it instantly into nothing but a large puddle of goop on the floor. Spade, Chrono, Johnny, fluff, and the ladies were still standing in a circle; they refused to obey the orders of Chao, they had taken out two of the demons together, which left 6 still standing. Storm had enough of the childish demon games and blew them all out of the level of the garage into the devastating storm that was only getting worse.