(Ok WARNING! This chapter is not for kids! Not a friendly chap here folks. So once again WARNING. Oh also sorry for the big age jump, but I had to do it so...yea bye)
Chapter 7: Exile
"I'm not finished with you lupe!" a roar erupted from an extremely unhappy Demon.
"Psshh up yours Demon. I'm leaving. Hey Everlasting I'm heading out to faerie land tell mom when she gets back ok?" Evil yelled over his shoulder
"Alrighty!" Everlasting shouted back from inside the kitchen. A small metal pop sounded right after the came the delighted yelp of, "TOAST!"
Demon jumped in front of Evil blocking his path. "Not so fast I believe I said I wasn't done. Unless your running with tail tucked I suggest we finish it"
Evil rolled his eyes, "Fine I'll finish it" he then swiftly grabbed Demon by the throat and tossed him out of the way, "I believe I said I was going" he smirked and walked out the door.
Demon glared at his brother and released a growl of pure loathing, "I'll get you soon..." he staggered to his paws and shook off and headed out the door.
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Five years has past since the day Demon was born. Evil and Everlasting are both six, Demon is five and Orange is four. Shadow is still her happy neopian self, and she figured out how to trick the reality detectors at the log in/out worlds. She can now bring her pets things from her world but she mostly only brings Everlasting games. Which he is now addicted to, and carries his Nintendo DS every where he goes. Orange has began to buy CDs, mostly techno. Heavens and Orange stay up late almost every night listening to sand storm until Shadow comes in and steals the CD away with lack of sleep. Evil has become an exploring lupe, he mostly hangs around the lost desert though, a lot of stuff to find. Demon has grown in muscle and intelligence. He has become way over the normal pet intelligence and has obtained a lot of strength from his constant fights over the years with Evil.
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back to the story
"Ugghh Demon is become more of a pain as the years have past" Evil sighed stepping off of his cloud to enter faerie land. He began to walk towards the wheel of excitement, the light faeries laying in the clouds lazily looked up then jumped to their feet when they say him approaching.
Demon landed silently behind a near by cloud, he had become very good at flying by now he could fly as quietly as a whoot. "What are we up to today brother?" he chuckled watching Evil from behind his puff of clouds.
"Uhh yea could you put this spin on darkshadow1005's tab?" Evil questioned then faeries they simply nodded and began to make the wheel spin at a very fast speed.
Evil sat down on his haunches and began to watch the wheel spin, "It better land on the ten thousand we could really use it"
The wheel began to slow to a stop and landed on the lightning bolt..
Demon smirked. He had to see this up close. He jumped from his hiding place just as the lightning cloud began to form, "Heh you do deserve a little zap lupe" he laughed at Evil.
Evil glared at him the was struck by an brilliant idea, or it seemed that way at the time, he ran as fast as he could over to Demon and shoved the kougra right under the cloud that was now sending the bolt strait at them.
It all happened in seconds...BANG and a loud roar was all that sounded and a swift flash of white was all that was seen. Then all of Neopia went silent.
Inside Demon's mind the thin line that kept his mind sane, the very thing that was teetering on the edge, dropped. Everything from that last push to the very first fight with Evil were the only things flashing through his mind. 'Lupes...the enemy...kill them.. loath them..wipe Neopia clean!' a small voice sounded in the back of his head. With the last words he was snapped back to reality. He was laying on his back and staring up at Evil and the light faeries.
The faeries back up and flew back to their wheel chattering in worry but fear of the evil looking kougra.
"Whoa you ok Demon?" Evil said still staring down at him.
Demon's eyes fixed on Evil. His mouth spread into big silvery grin of teeth and he began to laugh. It started as a small chuckled then grew into a maniacal full blow laugh.
Evil backed away slowly, "Demon...you ok? Your not acting like yourself...I don't see what's so funny"
Demon flipped over to where he was on his paws and began to stalk towards Evil with only one thing on his shattered mind, "I'm going to kill you" he said in such a creepy gleeful tone, then he continued with his laugh.
Evil's eye grew wide, "W-what! It was only a small zap! Come on no need to get so violent Demon...Demon!" he began to back away from the stalking kougra till he reached the edge of the clouds, "Well this isn't very now is it?"
Demon growled and leapt towards him, claws extended.
Evil dodged to the left but a blow struck to his side. He yelped as he hit the ground again and turned to look at the wound. A deep gash was in his back thigh, deep red liquid dripped from it and ran over his light red fur. He jerked his head back up to Demon, "You'll pay for that!"
Demon simply chuckled insanely again and looked at his claws of his left paw, stained of blood. "I said I wasn't done earlier brother, I meant it"
Evil snarled and began sprinting as fast as he could to Demon. Demon did the same and they hit with a loud thud, then the battle began.
The light faeries had already flown off towards Fyora's castle. They landed at the top tower where the faerie queen sat at her desk reading a book. "My queen! My queen!" one squealed, "There's a fight down by the wheel." Another pushed her way to the front, "It's going to get pretty bad, we think the kougra has lost his mind. Please help!"
Fyora stood up and grabbed her staff then flew out her window going as fast as she could towards the source of the howls and roars of pain. The light faeries had decided to take a break and sit at the window waiting for their queen to return.
Fyora and the others were not the only ones to notice the fight. From a far away purple cloud sat Jhudora the famous dark faerie quest giver, and rival of Illusen. "Hmm well isn't this interesting? Hahaha I've been looking for some entertainment this should be fun" she laughed again and took off flying towards the fight but hid behind a near by tower when she saw Fyora flying just over head, "Neat I get entertainment and I get to tick Fyora off!" she cackled then edged closer to the fight.
Blood was splattered all over the battle field. The two pets were panting fiercely and both had blood trickling in different places.
"Demon! Stop this! I'm sorry for everything I take it back! I'll stop it if you will. Lets stop before someone does get killed" Evil yelled
"That's the point Evil. To stop it! To stop you, and to kill you" Demon grinned his creepy silvery toothed grin again and lunged at Evil.
He swiped and hit Evil's chest leaving a red crescent shape behind, the blood flow increased in began to flow out of the new wound instead of trickle.
Evil gasp and was running towards Demon but he could feel his body giving in. To much pain had been dealt and to much blood lost. He lost it and collapsed and slid right to the feet of Demon. 'I've lost this battle' he thought then sighed, "Good bye Shadow" in a sad tone.
Demon cackled as he bent his neck down so his head was level with Evil's, "Heh so this is how it ends dear brother? Long live the lupe, oh and don't worry I'll take good care of Shadow and the others" he whispered into Evil's ear and then took the lupe's neck in his jaws ready to rip out the jugular vein and end it.
Evil felt the tight grip of Demon's jaws and the fangs pressed up against his throat, then he repeated Demon's speak over again in his head 'I'll take good care of them?' Evil got a burst of energy from this, the burst of needing to protect his family. All lupes had it but they very rarely had to use it.
He jerked up and bit down as hard as he could. He felt the copper taste of blood in his mouth, he knew he had bit something.
Demon staggered backwards, releasing Evil and yelping in pain.
Evil rolled over on to his stomach and looked up at Demon to see the kougra shaking his head vigorously from side to side. He stopped to look at Evil with the utter most loathing in his eyes. What Evil saw next was going to haunt him for a very long while. A still young darigan kougra panting and bloody, his tail swishing dangerously behind him the red light surrounding it dimming, his wings battered and broken. His face torn in places and a fresh open wound over his left eye in the shape of Evil's fang bleeding freely. His claws and fangs covered in blood. With the red glow of the setting sun in the background.
"Brother...Demon..we can stop this for now please listen.." Evil begged
Demon shook his head, "Shut up! You started this whole thing and I'm going to finish it!" he yelled
"Stop this nonsense right now!" a voice came from above. Fyora was flying down towards them and landed about a foot from Evil. "Never in my whole life have I seen such violence in my kingdom! I will not allow it! You both get out of here now and take this punishment with you!" she scolded and pointed her staff at them and began chanting a spell.
Jhudora who was still hiding saw her chance. She began to chant her own spell and aimed it to the spell Fyora was making and conjoined the two.
"You shall stay on Neopia until your souls can find peace between each other. Forever wander this land until your body's wither and leave nothing. This I condemn upon you!" Fyora chanted her lavender colored spell shot towards them but a green spell came and wrapped around it just before hitting the two.
"You shall wander this place until the other is gone. You shall fight until you die. This burden you shall carry till the end of time!" Jhudora whispered her spell before sending it out to join Fyora's spell.
Demon and Evil were to later to move out of the way and the spells hit them. They shouted as the spells flew through them. Then something unusual happened, their eyes lost their pupils. Demon's eyes turned a solid red color, but Evil's lost everything his turned pure white like he was dead. Jhudora's spell had over powered Fyora's and zapped them of their last life source.
The bodies hit the cloudy ground, unmoving. Demon's glowing light that surrounded his tail tip disappeared completely.
–Later–
"CLEAR!" someone shouted then a bang and jerking noises. "He's coming back!" another voice sounded. Demon had felt as if he had been asleep for a long time but was being awoken. He slowly opened and blinked his eyes into focus. There were blinding white lights, gelerts, and kaus standing all around him. "W-whut?" he mumbled.
"Glad your awake boy. We lost you there a few times. Your in a hospital in Neopia central" a green gelert said.
Demon sat up urgently as everything came rushing back to him. He looked himself over, covered in bandages and stitches. A bandage covered the top and bottom part of his left eye. He looked at his tail at the red glow was back. "That's weird..."
Shadow came rushing into the room, in the halls behind her you could see all kinds of pets running around frantically. "Demon! Thank Adam your alive!" she said running up to him and hugging him. He didn't hug back but waited till she let go. "I can't believe it! You two practically killed each other! Well you did. But the doctors brought you back...but Evil is still in the works.." she said kshifting her gaze to the floor.
Demon grinned, "So there's a possibility that he'll die?"
Shadow nodded and looked up, but Demon wiped the grin off his face before she could see. "Your tail. I figured it out. When your alive and healthy it glow brightly, and when your ill or close to death it dims. Then when you die it dies and leaves no glow behind."
"Shadow we need you out here now!" a buzz yelled sticking it's head into the room then running off down the hall.
"I'll be back later" she said then rushed out the door.
Demon smirked, "Take all the time ye need human" he laid back in bed pulling covers up over his body and curling up as tight as he could into a ball.
-Evil's hospital room-
"We are losing him big time! There is no way to save this one!" voices yelled.
'There are voices...I can hear them but I can't respond..why? I can't wake up it's to dark to find a light if I'm really awake...why isn't my body moving when I tell it to. I want to wake up!' Evil said to himself in his head. He was in a half conscious state.
"Shadow! There you are we need to talk to you about something..."
'Shadow? Mom! Wait no! Don't leave I'm here. I'm not dead mom!' he screamed in his head.
Shadow walked outside the room with the buzz, "Shadow there is only one way to save him. We have to get him a new body. The only way to do that is with a transmogrification potion. It will turn him into a mutant lupe, and it's expensive but it will save him."
Shadow gave him a look like he was out of his mind, "Well duh! If you can save him do it!"
"Ok! I just wanted to warn you about how expensive it is.."
"I'll pay it off, just do whatever you can!"
The buzz nodded and ran off down the hall. Shadow walked back into the room and sat down next to her beloved lupe. "Evil don't die on me." she sighed and stared at the poor thing. He was hooked up to every machine imaginable just to keep him alive.
The buzz came running back into the room holding a dark blue bottle with silver things wrapping around it. He walked over to Evil's bed and pulled out a breathing hose that was down Evil's throat then stuck the bottle tip into his mouth and force the lupe to drink it.
Soon the buzz was knocked to the floor and the potion bottle shattered against the tile floor.
Evil looked awake but was in a panic state as the potion took over. Magic potions plus magic spells didn't equal out good in his body. He cringed in pain as a silver helmet began to grow over his head. His bright red fur turned black and his tan turned silver. The crescent wound Demon had left on his chest healed over but left behind a very visible red scar. His eyes stayed pure white and pupiless, this was a little painful but not as bad as what was coming. He began to jerk with a sharp pain growing in his back, then two big black darigan lupe wings burst from his back, the leathery inside being silver. It magical healed around the wound from which they had sprouted, then nothing.
"E-evil?" Shadow looked up from her corner where she was cowering.
Evil turned his head to her, "Mom, I feel great!" he jumped off the bed ripping off all the other machines that were still attached to him and bounded over to her. He gave her a good face licking before backing off.
"Hehe well I'm glad your ok" she smiled hugging him around the neck.
-Later-
They got to the front desk, Evil and Demon a good distance away from each other and Everlasting armed with a tazer just incase anything happened.
"Well here is your bill. Oh and I would suggest keeping those two a extremely good distance from each other from now on" the kau nurse pointed to Evil and Demon.
Shadow nodded, "Yes. I have a plan..."
They said thanks and good bye then headed out the door.
They walked very far from the neohome where Demon was expecting to go, "Uhh...Shadow? Where are we going?"
Shadow stopped and turned to him, her eyes tearing up. "Right here, but its not 'we' Demon it's you." she whispered.
Demon gave her a look of confusion and examined the land. It was a big green cliff that headed down to a green meadow but eventually the green disappeared and turned into a barren waste land headed into the haunted woods. "W-what?"
Shadow had given up on holding back her tears and began to cry a little, "Demon it's become to dangerous. We can't keep you and Evil near each other anymore. You two killed each other today. Evil and the light faeries explained to me that you snapped and attacked Evil first and wouldn't stop when Evil begged you. So...you are being exiled from the house."
Demon just stood there, shocked. "Eh? This can't be right! He was the one that started it in the first place years ago! Exile him not me!" he yelled
Shadow shook her head, "No. I'm sorry but its you. I knew from your craving of so much intelligence it would eventually lead to something like this. Please go before we have to force you..." she had stopped crying and was looking at him with cold eyes, with no emotion showing.
Demon couldn't believe it. After all these years! He got bit in the ass because of that lupe! Where did he go wrong? He was only getting revenge for all those years of torture. He shook his head in disbelief and began to back away slowly, "N-no you can't..."
Shadow sighed and pointed to Everlasting to use the tazer on Demon. Everlasting walked up to Demon putting the tazer on a good level he looked at Demon with sad eyes. Why should he do this? Demon had been nothing more than a friend to him over the years...but Shadow had told him to and she was his owner...he pushed the button and gave Demon a shock in the leg.
Demon yelped and jumped back more towards the edge of the cliff. He backed up more with each shock and was teetering on the edge...again just like his mind was earlier, and then he to dropped. He fell till he hit the ground and rolled.
"Orange please go and make sure he gets to the edge of the woods" Shadow whispered to the pteri on her shoulder.
Orange nodded and took off. She flew down towards the bottom of the cliff and found Demon. "I'm sorry brother" she sighed and began to peck at him until he began to run off towards the woods. Her eyes filled with tears, "Good bye..." she said under her breath before turning around and heading back to Shadow.
They all watched Demon run as fast as he could towards the woods edge. Orange and Everlasting's eyes teary and crying, they had just lost a good friend and they had to force him to leave. Shadow's eye were still emotionless as she stood there gazing down at the small purple figure run. Evil just stood to the side, smirking.
Demon slowed down as he reached the border of the woods. He turned to look over his shoulder to she the four figures still on the cliff. His sad face read nothing more than the question, "Why?"
(Noooo! I hated having to exile him...but..nah I'm not ruining the story :p)