Warning: This fanfiction will eventually contain mild shounen-ai. If you don't like it, then I suggest that you don't read it.

Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I don't own Demon Diary, but I'm also not making any money from borrowing it, so please don't sue.

Dedication: To Amber, for convincing that it is possible for me to write a 'happy' story. Also, this story was very loosely based on the very short-lived first ever Demon Diary RPG, and is such also dedicated to the people involved.

Fire and Ice

Chapter One – Day

I am Day; I bring again
Life and glory, Love and pain:
Awake, arise! from death to death
Through me the World's tale quickeneth.

From a poem by William Morris


The great and scary demon lord Raenef idly watched a butterfly as it floated around behind his tutor Eclipse's back. It seemed to come within an inch of the tall, dark demon without Eclipse even realising it was there.

"Are you even listening?" Eclipse snapped at his lord and student, causing the butterfly to flutter away as fast as its delicate wings could take it.

Raenef's eyes filled with tears when Eclipse chastised him. He pouted at his tutor, feeling that the demon's snapping was entirely unjustified. Of course he was listening. Eclipse's rich, silky voice made it almost impossible for the demon lord to not pay attention. He hadn't absorbed a word the demon had told him, of course, but he had at least been listening until the butterfly had distracted him.

"Yes Eclipse," Raenef sniffed. "Of course I was listening."

Eclipse seemed to calm down. The truth was he could never stand to see his young master put on that face. It was like kicking a puppy. Not that Eclipse hadn't kicked puppies before, but it's just a saying. Oh, you get the point.

"Fine then, my Lord," Eclipse said as calmly as he could manage. "Perhaps then it's time that we should try the spell."

The spell? Raenef wondered. Oh, that's right, he was saying something about a spell to… do… something… I really don't have a clue. What was it called again? Ah, that's right.

"Okay!" Raenef smiled. He put both of his hands in the air as Eclipse had told him to, gathered the required mezraez, focused his energy and then shouted. "Fiery Haze!"

The energy swirled around the both of them, and then suddenly stopped. Raenef couldn't detect any change at all.

"It was Fiery Blaze my Lord, Fiery Blaze!" Eclipse practically screamed. "You were supposed to summon a large ball of fire to hurl at your enemy, but now I'm not sure what you've done!"

"Oops," Raenef offered.

Raenef, Eclipse, and the other inhabitants of the castle worked out exactly what Raenef's botched-up spell did when half an hour later, the temperature around the castle had risen by at least ten degrees, and showed no sign of stopping.

Raenef had created an unexpected heat wave.