The Dungeon

After saying our final prayers for Mina, we entered the dungeon. The dungeon was composed of very old silvery-grey materials that had some plant-like pattern on them.

As we went further ahead into the dungeon, some small monsters known as 'Muddies' appeared. They were so small and cute and their pink body colour with a green plant with 3 leaves on their head suited them so well that I even wanted to have one of them as a pet! But unfortunately they were monsters and attacked us so we had to kill them all. Fortunately Alice is a specialist in fire and water magic and these monsters seemed like they were weak against fire magic, so Alice helped me defeat them.

So we continued our journey of the seemingly inescapable dungeon.

Suddenly everything went blank! I was transported to a pitch black space with some green particles all over the space. I didn't know how this happen.

I can't even move an inch. What is this place? "Let me go!" I shouted to the one I saw beside me in that dark space. He was a black monster with huge black wings and was emitting some very dark and powerful aura.

He said in a cold voice, "Human! You dare enter my territory and think that I would let you go that easily. Life is not so easygoing. I am a demon that has lived for thousands of years. My name is Natas. I have killed every human being who has entered this dungeon during my lifetime. I have exterminated so many of you that I couldn't even remember the exact number of humans I killed."

Hearing this sent me into a huge rage. I replied to him in an angry voice, "You will pay for your sins, Natas!" The monster answered in his demonic voice, "Oh, I forgot to tell you that I have taken over your body and that your precious friends would die from your hands." Saying that, he told me to look at something that looked like a LCD screen. I could see Alice and Meril in there.

I saw them being choked from very close up. Then I realised this must be the work of this devil.

At that instant, I shouted with my whole heart, "Alice, Meril don't worry about me. Just save yourself!"

Meril suddenly used her sand magic to convert me into a stone statue temporarily.

Alice said in a crying voice, "What happened to you Rio? Why are you attacking us?" On the other hand, Meril remained calm and said that she could detect that mana emitted from my body had been weakened exponentially. She concluded that this was someone else in my body. I really appreciated her quick thinking. She must have been through quite a lot to be so adept at these kinds of situation. As Meril and Alice were defending themselves from Natas controlling my body and here I was, frozen like some looser! I thought, 'Damn it all! Why the hell couldn't I move from this place? Was all that magic training and becoming stronger for nothing?' And I tried to move with all my might. Natas sensed it. He said, "So you have enough mana to break my body controlling spell, huh? Then I will control your mind too so that you can't oppose me anymore."

Then my mind went blank.

Meanwhile, Alice and Meril were fighting me. Alice was using her fire and water magic but she didn't use her full power so that I wouldn't get hurt. Meril was using her water and sand magic in the same way too. They produced small magic balls all around me and that restricted my movement in the real world. Alice was crying the whole time. Then suddenly, something fell out of my pocket. It was a very small thing, I was about to throw it away but I suddenly started crying. I didn't know why I was crying though. But that was the trigger for me. I remembered that Meril had told me that expelling my mana around the area as a sphere using wind magic would produce a defense against magic of all kinds. I quickly did that and Natas came out of my body. I remembered vaguely what had happened. In my hands was the bottle that Alice's grandmother gave me alongwith it the promise I made to protect Alice. So it was Alice who saved me from the demon. Thinking that I hugged Alice tightly. Her face went red. She looked absolutely charming. Looking towards the demon I said, "So Natas, even a demon couldn't beat the power of friendship and love! Take this!" And I used my minimum power energy beam on him. I thanked Meril and Alice for believing in me and their efforts to protect all three of us.

But the demon wasn't dead yet! He flew away saying that now I had done it and that he will report this to the demon king, Satan. Finally we reached the end of the dungeon and were on the outskirts of Scaro city, in the kingdom of Alkia.