Chapter 8: Fare Well to a Friend
"Can we get going? I'm freezing parts of my body that I don't want to talk about," Misty said. It was snowing so hard and it was so cold that she was in fact starting to turn blue. Ice was forming on her shoulders.
"Yes we must go. And hurry," Mikagami said. All four of them started to walk to the tower. Wind was blowing hard; it looked like they weren't going anywhere. But they pushed forward so they can get to the tower.
"Damn snow," she muttered. Rasheed went over to her and wrapped his arms around her, trying to keep her warm. Mikagami glared at him and started to mutter about him. But the only thing you can hear was,
"Chimp,"
"I heard that," Rasheed said.
"Saya are we there yet?" Misty asked.
"Another mile or so and we will be there," she said.
"Why couldn't you have teleported us at the entrance?" Misty asked.
"Uh, well lets just say because I never thought of that," she said. Misty glared at her.
"Good going," Mikagami said.
"Hey, you should be glad that I brought you along too," Saya said. A few moments later, they were about half way there.
"We are almost there," Saya said.
"Can we hurry it up though, I am already half frozen. Literally," Misty said.
"We are almost there. Just hang on," Saya said. Soon enough they made it to the tower. They pushed open the door. Misty stumbled through the door. They quickly closed it.
"Oh god...thought we would freeze to death. Right Misty? Misty?" Rasheed asked. "Hey what's wrong?" Misty stood there with her mouth open and all wide-eyed. Soon enough all of them did the same. The inside of the tower was glittering. Ice covered it from inside out. It was the most beautiful thing they saw.
"Wow..." she said. She got up and slowly walked around the main hall.
"Guys, we have to be careful. This place is filled with both ice and shadow demons. And I bet you anything that the Goddess of Fear would be lurking about," Saya said.
"So where to now?" Misty asked.
"Through that door in front of you," Saya said. Rasheed walked up from behind and opened the door. It was dark on the inside. Couldn't see a thing.
"Well it's empty here, so lets go..." Rasheed said.
"Wait!" Misty said. Her light green eye was glowing for some reason. She looked around and started to see outlines of the inside. Then a red glow formed in the back.
"There!" she said pointing to it.
"An Ice Demon!" Saya said.
"What? But how? I can't even see it!" Rasheed said.
"It's an Ice demon you ape. It has the ability to camouflage its self in its surroundings," Mikagami said.
"Well how are we suppose to fight it in the dark?" Misty asked. Then without warning light came into the area. A maniacal laugh echoed in the room. The door slammed shut behind them and the locked clicked.
"Well, if it isn't my little pawns. I knew you four would be coming here so I lured you into a trap. But it was almost flawed because of that little brat of yours. But no matter, you are all going to die anyway!" then there was one more laugh and it disappeared. More ice demons appeared left and right.
"Time to party!" Misty said. She drew her wrist blades and got in a fighting stance.
"Be careful guys, these things aren't easy to kill," Saya said.
"Sure know a lot about demons," Mikagami said.
"That's because I am one. Well mainly vampire but that's not the point," she said.
"Stop talking and lets fight!" Misty said. She then lunged at one ice demon and soon enough Saya, Rasheed, and Mikagami joined in. She began to slash at the demon, it cracked and shattered.
"Hard to beat eh?" Misty said. But her smile then faded away as she saw the remains form into two more ice demons.
"I told you to be careful!" Saya shouted from behind.
"Well gee you didn't say anything about them doing that," Misty shouts back. Saya shook her head and sighed. She chanted a spell and fired it at half of the demons, melting them until they were nothing.
"Fire is the only way to stop them," Saya said. Misty nods and looked at Rasheed and Mikagami. She saw that they two agreed and all four of them fired a fire spell at the remaining ice demons. Their screams echoed in the hall as they melted away until they were nothing.
"That was easy!" Misty said. "Now to move on to the next room," All four of them ran through the door and were in a darkened chamber. It wasn't as cold as it was before but they were able to see each other.
"What is this place?" Rasheed asked.
"It's a void...of darkness. We will be fighting some tough enemies here," Saya said.
"What difference does it make? They will all crumble once I get to them," Mikagami said.
"Not if I get to them first!" Rasheed shouted.
"Boys, please stop it!" Misty cried. She looked at Saya and the others and saw they had a still face. She turned her head and screamed. Thousands and I mean thousands of demons were there. All ugly and twisted, almost made Misty throw up.
"The hell...." Misty muttered.
"Get ready," Saya said. The demons didn't hesitate, the all went after them. Let out their blood curdling battle cry. Misty, Saya, Rasheed and Mikagami lunged at them, fighting all of them at once. Misty swung her wrist blades but the demon dodged it with incredible speed. It managed to get behind her and fired a few power blasts of dark energy, causing her to fall forward. Rasheed looked at Misty and ran over to her. He kneeled down to her and helped her up.
"Stay focused Misty," he said.
"That's what I've been doing this whole time. The demon is some how able to predict all my moves," Misty said. Saliva dripped from the demon's mouth. The stench was so horrible that Misty almost couldn't fight. It lunged at her and Misty blocked its attack.
"Saya, what's the best move to use against the shadow demons?" she called out.
"Light magic of course!" she replied "But unfortunately I can only do dark spells. It's up to you, Rasheed and Mikagami to kill these things!" Misty thought a while, 'Light magic they want? Light magic they will get!' Misty focused her energy and a bright light appeared in her hand. She fired a single ball of light at the demons. They screamed as they melted away.
"Bingo!" she shouted. But without warning, there was a rumble in the area. The demons merged together and became a giant. It was the shadow beast Bongo-Bongo. But twice its size and much more stronger.
"Damn..." Rasheed muttered.
"Crap...now what?" Misty cried.
"What else. Fight and kill that thing before it kills us!" Mikagami said.
"Right, so everybody use light magic no matter what!" Saya said. As they talked among each other a drum like arena appeared below them. Bongo- Bongo started to drum on it, causing all four of them to bounce on the drum.
"This.... is...nuts!" Misty said while bouncing up and down.
"Misty!" Rasheed cried out as he moved farther away from her. A pool of acid formed around the giant platform. Mikagami glared off into the pool and then back at Misty.
"Be careful!" he shouts, "We must stay focus, and if we don't pay attention we are all done for!"
"Thank you for telling us something we already know!" Rasheed yelled.
"Guys," Misty said.
"Oh so monkey boy knows what to do without hurting others!" Mikagami yelled.
"Guys," Misty said a bit louder.
"Shut up! You don't know me," Rasheed yelled back.
"GUYS!" Misty yelled. Everyone stared at her and then back at Bongo- Bongo. And saw that its hands were pulled back, about ready to crush someone. Misty and Saya fired a light spell at the hands, causing them to turn blue and freeze.
"Aim for the eye!" Misty shouted.
"What? But how did...the power of the eye," Rasheed said. Misty aimed up at the eye and fired a light spell that was in the shape of an arrow. It pierced the demon and causing it to let out a cry of pain. But it wasn't dead yet.
"Guys, I have a plan. But it may be risky," Saya said.
"What?" Mikagami asked.
"First of all I think we should let Misty finish it off, but we need to distract it long enough for it to happen. Second we need to make sure that after the next few attacks, we fire an all out assault and have it fall in the pool of acid," Saya said.
"Yes yes, we know. But can we hurry because it just recovered and is heading our way!" Rasheed yelled. Bongo-Bongo slowly made his way back to the arena. The hands float around them and then started to beat on the drums. Rasheed, Mikagami, and Saya positioned themselves while Misty stayed far enough so it wouldn't notice her. All three of them fired their spells in random directions. Bongo-Bongo was waving its hands around franticly, while blocking all the attacks.
"NOW!" Misty shouted. She then fired a light arrow at the invisible eye, but to her dismay it blocked the attacked.
"Damn it!" she cried out. It had noticed her and swiped her off the edge and into the pool of acid.
"NO MISTY!" Rasheed yelled. He dove in after her. There was a splash and then small ripples. Bubbles of acid came floating upward. Mikagami stared into the pool,
"No...sister..." he muttered.
"Come on, we have to kill this thing now before it kills us!" Saya yelled. But he didn't listen.
"Hey listen to me! I know it's hard to believe but we need to finish off the boss before it's too late. Besides Misty wouldn't like it if she finds out her brother died over nothing!" she yelled again. Mikagami shook his head and turned to face Bongo-Bongo.
"You bastard...you are going to pay for what you have done..." he muttered. He then lunged at one of the hands and fired a blast of energy. Saya did the same and fired at the other hand. Both hands disappeared leaving it helpless and open for an attack.
"Man without Misty we can't find its eye and kill it off!" she yelled.
"We don't need her. We can always try casting spells in all directions!" Mikagami yelled back.
"That won't work. What if we run out of energy? Then we would be sitting ducks!" she yelled. But as she did, Bongo-Bongo lunged at them. But a bright light shot out of the pool of acid and pierced the eye. Green blood oozed from out of nowhere and finally the true body of the beast came to focus. A golden sphere came out from the pool and landed on the drum. Misty and Rasheed stood there in front of them.
"Thank god you two are ok!" Saya said. Mikagami didn't' say anything but on the inside he was glad to see her alive. The darkness around them had disappeared and they were in a huge room. Crystals everywhere, and ice covered everything. But from out of now where Lilac, the goddess of Fear came from behind and grabbed Saya. The party turned around sharply and glared at her. She gave off her maniacal laughter,
"You fools...now its time for one of you to die!" and she pierced Saya's heart without hesitation. She dropped the lifeless body and it fell with a thud. Blood poured onto the ice-covered floor.
"No..." Misty muttered. Tears fell from her eyes. She ran over to Saya and kneeled down. Mikagami and Rasheed stood behind her.
"No...you can't die.... no"
"Misty..." Rasheed whispered. He wrapped his arms around her and held her.
"Don't cry...please don't cry," he said. Though tears started to fall from his eyes. Mikagami stood there not showing any emotions what so ever. But he did walk over to her and took her hand.
"Don't cry anymore...Saya did so much to get us here..." he said softly. Misty shook her head and punched the ground.
"I could have done something...but instead I just stood there!" she said. Her voice grew louder. Lilacs voice was still to be heard.
"Too bad, so sad...But one of you is next! But I lets just say that one of you will be turning to the dark side soon," she said and disappeared. Both Rasheed and Mikagami stood up and walked forward.
"What did she mean by one of us will turn to the dark side?" Rasheed said. But without warning Misty stood up. A blood red glow formed around her. Her hair flowed around her and slowly turned to a black color. Her eyes glowed a blood red color also. Fangs and claws grew, the two men turned and stood there.
"Misty?" Mikagami asked.
"Misty no more...I am her demon form that was banned long ago...I live to kill and only kill...my name is Rain, demon goddess from hell,"
"Can we get going? I'm freezing parts of my body that I don't want to talk about," Misty said. It was snowing so hard and it was so cold that she was in fact starting to turn blue. Ice was forming on her shoulders.
"Yes we must go. And hurry," Mikagami said. All four of them started to walk to the tower. Wind was blowing hard; it looked like they weren't going anywhere. But they pushed forward so they can get to the tower.
"Damn snow," she muttered. Rasheed went over to her and wrapped his arms around her, trying to keep her warm. Mikagami glared at him and started to mutter about him. But the only thing you can hear was,
"Chimp,"
"I heard that," Rasheed said.
"Saya are we there yet?" Misty asked.
"Another mile or so and we will be there," she said.
"Why couldn't you have teleported us at the entrance?" Misty asked.
"Uh, well lets just say because I never thought of that," she said. Misty glared at her.
"Good going," Mikagami said.
"Hey, you should be glad that I brought you along too," Saya said. A few moments later, they were about half way there.
"We are almost there," Saya said.
"Can we hurry it up though, I am already half frozen. Literally," Misty said.
"We are almost there. Just hang on," Saya said. Soon enough they made it to the tower. They pushed open the door. Misty stumbled through the door. They quickly closed it.
"Oh god...thought we would freeze to death. Right Misty? Misty?" Rasheed asked. "Hey what's wrong?" Misty stood there with her mouth open and all wide-eyed. Soon enough all of them did the same. The inside of the tower was glittering. Ice covered it from inside out. It was the most beautiful thing they saw.
"Wow..." she said. She got up and slowly walked around the main hall.
"Guys, we have to be careful. This place is filled with both ice and shadow demons. And I bet you anything that the Goddess of Fear would be lurking about," Saya said.
"So where to now?" Misty asked.
"Through that door in front of you," Saya said. Rasheed walked up from behind and opened the door. It was dark on the inside. Couldn't see a thing.
"Well it's empty here, so lets go..." Rasheed said.
"Wait!" Misty said. Her light green eye was glowing for some reason. She looked around and started to see outlines of the inside. Then a red glow formed in the back.
"There!" she said pointing to it.
"An Ice Demon!" Saya said.
"What? But how? I can't even see it!" Rasheed said.
"It's an Ice demon you ape. It has the ability to camouflage its self in its surroundings," Mikagami said.
"Well how are we suppose to fight it in the dark?" Misty asked. Then without warning light came into the area. A maniacal laugh echoed in the room. The door slammed shut behind them and the locked clicked.
"Well, if it isn't my little pawns. I knew you four would be coming here so I lured you into a trap. But it was almost flawed because of that little brat of yours. But no matter, you are all going to die anyway!" then there was one more laugh and it disappeared. More ice demons appeared left and right.
"Time to party!" Misty said. She drew her wrist blades and got in a fighting stance.
"Be careful guys, these things aren't easy to kill," Saya said.
"Sure know a lot about demons," Mikagami said.
"That's because I am one. Well mainly vampire but that's not the point," she said.
"Stop talking and lets fight!" Misty said. She then lunged at one ice demon and soon enough Saya, Rasheed, and Mikagami joined in. She began to slash at the demon, it cracked and shattered.
"Hard to beat eh?" Misty said. But her smile then faded away as she saw the remains form into two more ice demons.
"I told you to be careful!" Saya shouted from behind.
"Well gee you didn't say anything about them doing that," Misty shouts back. Saya shook her head and sighed. She chanted a spell and fired it at half of the demons, melting them until they were nothing.
"Fire is the only way to stop them," Saya said. Misty nods and looked at Rasheed and Mikagami. She saw that they two agreed and all four of them fired a fire spell at the remaining ice demons. Their screams echoed in the hall as they melted away until they were nothing.
"That was easy!" Misty said. "Now to move on to the next room," All four of them ran through the door and were in a darkened chamber. It wasn't as cold as it was before but they were able to see each other.
"What is this place?" Rasheed asked.
"It's a void...of darkness. We will be fighting some tough enemies here," Saya said.
"What difference does it make? They will all crumble once I get to them," Mikagami said.
"Not if I get to them first!" Rasheed shouted.
"Boys, please stop it!" Misty cried. She looked at Saya and the others and saw they had a still face. She turned her head and screamed. Thousands and I mean thousands of demons were there. All ugly and twisted, almost made Misty throw up.
"The hell...." Misty muttered.
"Get ready," Saya said. The demons didn't hesitate, the all went after them. Let out their blood curdling battle cry. Misty, Saya, Rasheed and Mikagami lunged at them, fighting all of them at once. Misty swung her wrist blades but the demon dodged it with incredible speed. It managed to get behind her and fired a few power blasts of dark energy, causing her to fall forward. Rasheed looked at Misty and ran over to her. He kneeled down to her and helped her up.
"Stay focused Misty," he said.
"That's what I've been doing this whole time. The demon is some how able to predict all my moves," Misty said. Saliva dripped from the demon's mouth. The stench was so horrible that Misty almost couldn't fight. It lunged at her and Misty blocked its attack.
"Saya, what's the best move to use against the shadow demons?" she called out.
"Light magic of course!" she replied "But unfortunately I can only do dark spells. It's up to you, Rasheed and Mikagami to kill these things!" Misty thought a while, 'Light magic they want? Light magic they will get!' Misty focused her energy and a bright light appeared in her hand. She fired a single ball of light at the demons. They screamed as they melted away.
"Bingo!" she shouted. But without warning, there was a rumble in the area. The demons merged together and became a giant. It was the shadow beast Bongo-Bongo. But twice its size and much more stronger.
"Damn..." Rasheed muttered.
"Crap...now what?" Misty cried.
"What else. Fight and kill that thing before it kills us!" Mikagami said.
"Right, so everybody use light magic no matter what!" Saya said. As they talked among each other a drum like arena appeared below them. Bongo- Bongo started to drum on it, causing all four of them to bounce on the drum.
"This.... is...nuts!" Misty said while bouncing up and down.
"Misty!" Rasheed cried out as he moved farther away from her. A pool of acid formed around the giant platform. Mikagami glared off into the pool and then back at Misty.
"Be careful!" he shouts, "We must stay focus, and if we don't pay attention we are all done for!"
"Thank you for telling us something we already know!" Rasheed yelled.
"Guys," Misty said.
"Oh so monkey boy knows what to do without hurting others!" Mikagami yelled.
"Guys," Misty said a bit louder.
"Shut up! You don't know me," Rasheed yelled back.
"GUYS!" Misty yelled. Everyone stared at her and then back at Bongo- Bongo. And saw that its hands were pulled back, about ready to crush someone. Misty and Saya fired a light spell at the hands, causing them to turn blue and freeze.
"Aim for the eye!" Misty shouted.
"What? But how did...the power of the eye," Rasheed said. Misty aimed up at the eye and fired a light spell that was in the shape of an arrow. It pierced the demon and causing it to let out a cry of pain. But it wasn't dead yet.
"Guys, I have a plan. But it may be risky," Saya said.
"What?" Mikagami asked.
"First of all I think we should let Misty finish it off, but we need to distract it long enough for it to happen. Second we need to make sure that after the next few attacks, we fire an all out assault and have it fall in the pool of acid," Saya said.
"Yes yes, we know. But can we hurry because it just recovered and is heading our way!" Rasheed yelled. Bongo-Bongo slowly made his way back to the arena. The hands float around them and then started to beat on the drums. Rasheed, Mikagami, and Saya positioned themselves while Misty stayed far enough so it wouldn't notice her. All three of them fired their spells in random directions. Bongo-Bongo was waving its hands around franticly, while blocking all the attacks.
"NOW!" Misty shouted. She then fired a light arrow at the invisible eye, but to her dismay it blocked the attacked.
"Damn it!" she cried out. It had noticed her and swiped her off the edge and into the pool of acid.
"NO MISTY!" Rasheed yelled. He dove in after her. There was a splash and then small ripples. Bubbles of acid came floating upward. Mikagami stared into the pool,
"No...sister..." he muttered.
"Come on, we have to kill this thing now before it kills us!" Saya yelled. But he didn't listen.
"Hey listen to me! I know it's hard to believe but we need to finish off the boss before it's too late. Besides Misty wouldn't like it if she finds out her brother died over nothing!" she yelled again. Mikagami shook his head and turned to face Bongo-Bongo.
"You bastard...you are going to pay for what you have done..." he muttered. He then lunged at one of the hands and fired a blast of energy. Saya did the same and fired at the other hand. Both hands disappeared leaving it helpless and open for an attack.
"Man without Misty we can't find its eye and kill it off!" she yelled.
"We don't need her. We can always try casting spells in all directions!" Mikagami yelled back.
"That won't work. What if we run out of energy? Then we would be sitting ducks!" she yelled. But as she did, Bongo-Bongo lunged at them. But a bright light shot out of the pool of acid and pierced the eye. Green blood oozed from out of nowhere and finally the true body of the beast came to focus. A golden sphere came out from the pool and landed on the drum. Misty and Rasheed stood there in front of them.
"Thank god you two are ok!" Saya said. Mikagami didn't' say anything but on the inside he was glad to see her alive. The darkness around them had disappeared and they were in a huge room. Crystals everywhere, and ice covered everything. But from out of now where Lilac, the goddess of Fear came from behind and grabbed Saya. The party turned around sharply and glared at her. She gave off her maniacal laughter,
"You fools...now its time for one of you to die!" and she pierced Saya's heart without hesitation. She dropped the lifeless body and it fell with a thud. Blood poured onto the ice-covered floor.
"No..." Misty muttered. Tears fell from her eyes. She ran over to Saya and kneeled down. Mikagami and Rasheed stood behind her.
"No...you can't die.... no"
"Misty..." Rasheed whispered. He wrapped his arms around her and held her.
"Don't cry...please don't cry," he said. Though tears started to fall from his eyes. Mikagami stood there not showing any emotions what so ever. But he did walk over to her and took her hand.
"Don't cry anymore...Saya did so much to get us here..." he said softly. Misty shook her head and punched the ground.
"I could have done something...but instead I just stood there!" she said. Her voice grew louder. Lilacs voice was still to be heard.
"Too bad, so sad...But one of you is next! But I lets just say that one of you will be turning to the dark side soon," she said and disappeared. Both Rasheed and Mikagami stood up and walked forward.
"What did she mean by one of us will turn to the dark side?" Rasheed said. But without warning Misty stood up. A blood red glow formed around her. Her hair flowed around her and slowly turned to a black color. Her eyes glowed a blood red color also. Fangs and claws grew, the two men turned and stood there.
"Misty?" Mikagami asked.
"Misty no more...I am her demon form that was banned long ago...I live to kill and only kill...my name is Rain, demon goddess from hell,"