Everyone soon turned into their demon forms after the Fire Demon was dead. Sam found it easier to walk as a demon, Tegu found herself with a stubby back set of legs and better sight, Kale had three long pointed teeth sticking out from the upper part of her newly discovered mouth, Ral was more crow than mushroom, and Lion was a ferocious looking grupin that no longer had such a pitiful child's voice.
Although they had no idea where the next Elemental Demon would turn up or where the Demon Lord's castle was and even Aspen was confused, Ral had the idea of going wherever the amount of demons appeared to be the thickest. One could only assume that the demons would want to be where their master was.
As the six traveled onward they became weary and bitterly fed up with the utter darkness.
"OhmygawdIhaveamouth!" Kale cried happily even though this was their second day since fighting the Fire Demon and everyone was perfectly aware that she had a mouth.
Lion growled and swung a paw through the heap of fur and Kale appeared to disperse where Lion hit her then reassemble.
"Mwa ha ha ha I'm invincible!!!!!!" said Kale with her ridiculous looking overbite.
Lion groaned and ran ahead away from Kale.
"Kale, quit bothering him," moaned Aspen who's paws were too sore to really care about their fighting.
Tegu shivered at how similar Aspen and Lion were getting. She wondered of they realized that but Lion always seemed to be too busy fighting with someone to realize anything.
A few minutes later Ral collapsed. He had been bouncing and flapping his wings the whole time. If trying to fly made him go faster no one noticed.
"You guys," he panted. "We need to stop."
"Works for me," said Sam and he fell onto his side so abruptly he almost crushed Tegu. His massive bulk did crash into Kale, however, but she dispersed in a flurry of hair and returned back into the heap of fur that she was.
"I am the almighty ball of fluff!" the huntress cried triumphantly. "Fear me!"
Aspen laid down. "Ah… I need a good rest," she sighed.
"Me too," growled Lion. "Especially from that annoying bucktoothed yeti thing."
"Those things have names, you know," snorted Kale angrily, "me."
Tegu groaned as she listened to them fighting. She then squirmed around until she was comfortable. Of all demons, she had to be a curse eye. The warrior yawned. Hopefully the mix that these legs belonged to was something better than a curse eye or a wild boar.
Just as they were all comfortably (or not so comfortably) drifting off to sleep they were jolted awake to the sound of thrashing and snarling. Sam woke up with a start and nearly screamed when he saw Aspen forcing back the silver pointed tail of a dog-like demon aimed right at his throat.