Kale was happily opening and closing her jaw, Sam was smiling down at his feet, Tegu was repeatedly blinking, Ral was looking at his skinny stomach and arms and Lion had his same serious expression on his face. However, their joy was short lived. There was a maniacal fire demon they needed to kill and it was the first one of the Elemental Demons.

"Lion," said Aspen, "now's your time to shine."

Lion gave a grim smile and pulled out his black and white dagger. Although no one but Lion really noticed it, his hand was glowing black like the day he first received his weapon. Perhaps it really was his chance to shine; a chance to channel his anger at something else.

"Let's do this," he said sharply and ran forward at the demon, dagger raised high.

At that the rest of the group charged after him with their weapons raised. Ral even gave a dramatic battle cry to add to the effect.

Aspen leapt with a snarl at the Fire Demon and she realized with alarm that her paw passed right through the Jr. effy leaving her with a nasty burn. Lion was the next one to realize it and soon everyone did.

Puzzled expressions showed on everyone's faces. If they couldn't damage it, how would they defeat it?

Abruptly the Fire Demon bust into a whirlwind of flames and spun itself around the six in a fury of flame and heat. The monster swirled around, igniting dead trees, as well as Aspen's fur and the two magician's cloaks. Tegu and Kale had their armor heated to an unbearable temperature and their skin began to blister as the other three decided to stop, drop and roll. Only Lion was not affected by the fire seemingly because it was his element.

The whirlwind got faster and faster when Lion angrily thrust his dagger at it and the tip poked out at the other side. He yanked the dagger downward and although it did not kill the monster or even damage it there was a gap where the flames collided into the knife. He then glanced out of the gap and saw demons staring at them, watching with awe. There were only bird and bat mixes but there were at least forty of them. They appeared to be attracted to the light.

Lion drew back his dagger as he heard a cry. Next to him Aspens entire body was engulfed in flames since she was mainly composed of fur.

"RAL! SAM!" Lion cried through the roar of the wind. "Use a bolt, or a claw or something!!!!!!"

And so with robes on fire, the magicians shot a few bolts and claws right into the flaming tornado. That intensified the brightness by ten times with a strange bluish tinge and a few curious demons flew towards it.

The bat and bird mixed demons had never before seen fire before, especially not fire with an unearthly blue glow to it. They flew right at it- and right into it.

The roar of the whirlwind was broken by the painful shrieks and howls of the demons as they burst into flames and flew away as far as they could before their charred and flaming bodies fell to the ground dead.

At that moment the fire demon was disoriented. It changed into a form of a fire boar then rapidly into a fire sentential robot monster then into a bain. A bain is a monster that resembled the dog-like demon with the stone tail they fought only days ago but covered in brown fur with white flame looking patterns on its paws as well as a thick stone collar and massive tusk-like teeth. It smiled and seemed to prefer this choice.

The fire demon stood taller than the Demon Lord himself and at that it lunged at the six who were burned and blistered except for Lion. While his companions recovered he would have to fight it off on his own. He grabbed his dagger and hurled it at the demon's face but the monster swiveled its head around and the dagger bounced harmlessly off its tusk.

Lion gulped. This was going to be harder than he thought.