Chapter 4: The Demon Kings Proposal

It was a dark morning in the early winter months for this world, Tyru and Uqio were preparing an early morning meal while I laid on the grass outside the house, looking up towards the night sky.

"Will I ever see my friends again?" I said, staring up at the stars. The next thing I hear is Tyru calling me.

"Sis! Dinners ready!" Sis had always been like this ever since I met her!

I slowly got up and made my way inside. When I got there, I saw a table full of food, we had huge choices. Most of this choice came from us claiming the missions from the local guild and getting cash rewards for completing them!

"This… This is amazing, and it smells amazing! You always do justice with these meals!" I took a seat at the table and grabbed some of the delicious food.

Tyru is still questioning what happened, she looks over at Kanade and see her digging into the food like her master is.

I laugh when I see Kanade scoffing all the food, "Don't you think that's a lot for you Kanade?" I said.

Kanade with a turkey leg in her mouth looked over at me with eyes that said a thousand words all at once.

After she thought about something, Tyru started to speak. "Sis, don't you think that we should try and find you a way home? This demon king seems to want you, so I think we should try and save you."

After finishing the chicken leg that I was eating, I looked over at her. "Maybe, but right now we know it's impossible for me to get back home. I need to find one more shrine before being able to cast a spell powerful enough to break through the reality of this world and get to my old one." I said, being cautious with the words I chose.

"O-Oh… Even though I know it's risky, I want to remain by your side while we battle these demons." Tyru said.

*Knock, Knock*

A knocking can be heard by them, it seems to be coming from the front door.

"I'll get it." I said to them as I stood up out of my seat and went towards the front door.

"Are you Megumin?" the voice from the cover of darkness said, it was a rough voice.

I was hesitating about giving an answer, but I did anyway. "Yes, I am. Who are you and what do you want?"

"Gooood, I have something to show you. Follow me." The figure walked away from the front door and stood beyond the garden.

I looked over at the others and told them to halt, they were preparing their gear. "I'll be fine, just be ready for my signal if anything happens." This is something that I shouldn't have done.

"This is a gift from my master." The figure gives me what looks like a necklace, I look at it closer and right when I pull it closer is when it's too late. It clings to my neck and I can't get it off.

"Get this off me! Ahh!" I said loudly while I struggled to try and pull it off. The figure laughed and pressed a button, whatever this necklace was it was made to contain a magic user.

I felt dizzy and my vision started to get worse. I could hear my friends rushing towards where he was but before they got there I had completely passed out and he vanished with me in toe.

A couple of hours later I awoke in a place that I had never seen before. Grey stone walls, everything was damp, and the air had the smell of powerful magic users. I tried moving but whenever I moved I got pulled back into the position I was in when I awoke.

I can see someone approaching, a large figure. Different than the creature that did this to me.

"Hahahaha! It's so good to finally meet you, my future bride!" A shiver went down my spine when I heard this, at this point I knew that this was the demon king himself!

"Didn't I tell your goons already? I'll never marry you!" I said, knowing that I'd rather die than marry the demon king.

He laughed and lit up the room, "You won't have a choice crimson witch. In three days, the ceremony will be ready. I will forcibly bind your soul to mine, in which we will be married!" He smirked and put his hand under my head and turned my head to each side.

I gritted my teeth and spit in his face, "My friends will be along to help me! I will never do anything with you even if I am forcibly married to you!"

My vision fades as I pass out again.

"We have to save Megumin!" Tyru said when they arrived outside the castle.

All three of them looked up at the castle in awe at its size.

"How are we going to get inside?" Uqio said but before he got to do anything else, Kanade had already cut through the guards at the main entrance.

She smirks, "We go through the main entrance to save master!"

As Kanade slices through the waves of guards using Sonic Rotation, Tyru and Uqio work on trying to use magic to locate where Megumin is. What they didn't know was that it had been three days since Megumin was taken, their time was running out to save her before she's imprisoned to eternal matrimony to an evil demon.

"I've located her! She's in that tower over here!" Tyru says and points to it.

"I can distract the guards and take them out on your way up there, just watch yourselves." Kanade says, "Go save master!"

We nod and head up into the castle tower, "She should be in the top room of this tower!" Tyru says as they make their way up the long flight of stairs.

Once they reach the top they can see the door is already open, "Careful… We don't know what awaits us inside.

As they enter something comes charging at Tyru, Uqio notices this and knocks her out of the way but ends up getting hit by whatever that thing was and hits the wall outside the room.

"BIG BROTHER!" Tyru shouts, the beast pulls the sword out of her brothers' chest and turns towards her.

Tyru looked at the beast and drew her sword, "YOU WILL PAY WITH YOUR LIFE!" her eyes started to glow, and she rushed the monster, it went to slice its sword towards her neck, but she ducked and sliced it's arm off. The creature screeches in pain and falls to the floor. Kanade joins Tyru at the top after taking out the oncoming attackers. "Tyru… You brother… He didn't make it…" Kanade said after she checked him.

"H-He pushed me out of the way and took the hit himself, he saved me…" Tyru said but before she got to say anything else, laughter and sound of clapping comes from the shadows.

"Well done, I knew you were good but not that good. I might even be scared- Oh who am I kidding? I'm not scared of you!" a tall figure with two large horns and red eyes appears from the shadows.

He approaches Tyru and Kanade, "I know why you're here. Both of you are here to save your friend, Megumin. You're a bit late, but as you made it this far I'll invite you two to our wedding!"

He laughs and snaps his fingers and they appear in the demon church. Tyru can see Megumin hanging mid air in magic locks.

"SIS!" She starts running towards her but is hit but powerful knockback magic.

"You will not ruin this day, you will not take her from me!" But Kanade had already rushed him and he didn't notice, he takes a stab to the neck by Kanade's hand sonic. He grabs her and throws her into a wall.

"You shouldn't have done that, MORTAL!" He said as he held his neck.

Kanade looked over at Tyru, "Get her, now!"

Tyru rushed to try and get Megumin free while Kanade distracted the demon king.

"How am I meant to break this spell?" Tyru said to herself.

The affects of the necklace sleep spell wore off and I awoke to find myself floating in mid-air, the first person I see is my sister, Tyru.

"W-Where am I now?" I said as she struggled to get me free.

She smiled as soon as she realised I was awake, "Thank the lord you're awake! I need some of your wisdom, how do I—" before she got to finish I saw her get thrown into the wall at the fall end of the room.

"SIS!" I shouted, hoping that she was okay. Next thing I saw was the demon king standing in front of me.

"With a kiss, I shall seal the binding spell." He smirked and started to lean in to kiss me but before he did, Kanade rushed towards him using her Overdrive ability and Harmonics, they hit him into the far wall and Kanade keeps on battering him with the hand sonics.

After Tyru recovered she rushed back over to me and looked at the necklace, "What happens if I destroy that necklace. Will it free you?" I honestly didn't know, but It was worth a try.

"I don't know, but we might as well try." I said to her and held my head back, so she could reach the necklace easier. She jumped to reach it and struck it with her sword, the necklace vibrated, and it broke the containment spell. I fell to the ground and had to regain my balance.

A loud shriek come from the demon kings' mouth as he grows bigger and his horns turn into swords that he takes off his back. "If I can't have you, I WILL KILL YOU INSTEAD!" he said as he started to rush towards me, I used the teleportation spell on me and Tyru. I made sure to make it so we landed outside the building, the demon king breaks through the bricks of the church and gets dazed by hitting his head.

"Get Kanade and then run, I'll take care of this!" I said to Tyru, I knew that I'd have to use explosion magic to affect him. It won't kill him, but it'll have him out long enough for us to make a further escape and regroup.

Once I saw Tyru and Kanade get to a safe distance, I balanced myself and started the chant, "Wielder of the most glorious, powerful, and grand explosion magic, my name is Megumin. The blow that I am given to strike, turns a blind eye to the fate of my kindred, rendering all hope of rebirth into anguish, and the model by which all forces are judged! Pitiful Creature! Synchronize yourself with the red smoke and atone in a surge of blood! Burst forth!"

Magic circles appeared around the demon king, "EXPLOSION!"

I watched as the explosion hit the demon king straight on, throwing him high into the air. Before I became too weak, I managed to escape and regroup with my allies.

Tyru came running towards me and hugged me, she was crying intensely. I realised that it was only her and Kanade and thought the worse.

"Don't tell me… Uqio died?" I comforted her as she cried into my shoulder. "How about we go home, and we'll speak about it there." I had just enough mana left to teleport us home, so I decided to use the quick method and teleported us home.

She spent a good few hours just wanting to be comforted by me. "I-I can't believe he's gone… He saved me but he's… gone…" she said, I took her by the shoulder and said to her, "Just be glad that you're alive, I know losing someone is hard but at least he cared enough about you to sacrifice himself to save you." I smiled at her before standing up, "How about we go outside for a walk to take your mind off of these things." She nodded at me and we went outside, Kanade this time followed me just in case the demon king's goons tried anything.

As we were walking, my head started to hurt, and I fell to my knees, what I saw I didn't believe.

"I have a proposal, young crimson witch. The binding was half complete, I can talk to you through your mind now. How about you hand yourself over to me and I won't have to bring any more of your friends closer to their deaths!" he said in my head, I refused. "I will protect them, and you will have to kill me if you try and get them!" he laughed and said one more thing, "You will be mine, soon enough. We will raise a beautiful family!" I forced him out of my mind for now and stood back up.

"Sis are you okay?" Tyru looked at me, a worried look on her face.

I nodded and turned to both, "It seems the binding was half complete, the demon king can communicate with me through my head. He wants me to hand myself over to prevent you from getting hurt. I refused and promised to protect you both." I smiled and hugged both.

"Now I need some rest, shall we head back?" They both agreed, and we headed back to the house, what I didn't know is that the demon king would then make his moves to kill innocent survivors.

In the demon lords castle, his guards announce a guest.

"Ah, Beats. You said that the binding would be quicker, and I wouldn't be interrupted. I was this close to having a crimson witch as my bride. And, she wouldn't have had to do anything with me for me to get some heirs. The binding would've done that already. But we didn't reach that part now did we? Who do I blame, you?"

Beats knelt down, "I'm so sorry my liege. I thought It would've worked. I didn't expect such heavy resistance!"

The demon king sat back in his chair, thinking about what he was just told.

"My patience wears thin, I will give you one more chance but DO NOT FAIL ME THIS TIME!" his eyes glow red.

"Yes, my lord, I will create a new plan and this time she will become yours. The binding was half complete anyway, so it should be easy to finish the rest of it!" Beats smirked and stood up.

"Dismissed, get out of my throne room!" The demon king said as he pointed to the door.

"I can let myself out." Beats said as he teleported away.

I found myself looking out of the window again wondering what would happen next…

End of Chapter 4.

Chapter 5: Bane of Demons