Act I
"Ready Slater? This will be your first true battle." "O.K. Lile, I'm ready, let's go." Slater and Lile descend into the cave and immediately begin to destroy everything. "Wow Lile, you're strong! Hey! I found a spell book!" Lile smiles and looks for a moment at the simple spells that Slater is in awe of. "Thanks, and good job Slater." They continue on, diminishing the demons hopes of a mass attack on the encampment. As the last demon dies, making a large bloody explosion, the cave begins to shake. "Oh no, they're summoning it…" "Huh? What's wrong Lile?" "RUN!" Slater runs towards the back exit. "AAARRGH!" "Lile! What's wrong!" Slater realizes that Lile is nowhere to be found. "Lile, hurry!" She runs out of the cave, watching it collapse as she turns around outside of it. "Lile, my master…" Suddenly a wolf appears, killing enemies with its claws, nearing Slater. "Lile! Help!" she closes her eyes, fearing her life was about to end. A few moments later she opens her eyes and sees a druid in front of her. "Sorry to scare you sorceress." "Uh, no problem, I'm Slater, who're you?" "That's not important, just call me druid." "Err… O.K., well, druid, my master has disappeared, can you please help me find her?" "Sure, what's her name?" "Lile." "THE Lile! How could SHE be captured?" "You know her?" "She was my master as well, we must go to the monastery and pray that we can win a battle such as this." "Whatever you say druid, I wouldn't know where else to search." The two continue on to the Tamoe Highlands, reaching them that night. "The monastery is not far now, it's just across this area." "O.K." "The monastery was once my home, Lile lived there as well once we saved her from a wolf. Then Andariel, the "Queen of Anguish", the first of the four lesser evils, attacked." "…" "My first goal is to defeat her and her tainted army, and then I will help you." "Sure druid…" The two of them continue to the monastery. "Druid, this place seems like a place from a dream I had once, I led an army of demons to destroy this place, but it seemed so real." "Hmmm…" They continue through the barracks and past the jailing areas, killing many demons along the way. They go up the stairs and enter the inner cloister. "Finally, the altar is just through this door." They continue through the altar room, once again, killing more demons. They reach the altar not long after. "O.K, Allow me a moment to pray." "Druid, that altar seems tainted by evil." "I must risk it, I need the strength to defeat Andariel." The druid kneels on the floor and begins to pray at the altar. When suddenly, the room starts to rumble and the ceiling begins to break, fireballs start falling from where the bricks had been and are barely missing Slater and the druid. "ARGH!" "Druid?" The door is blocked off and the druid is kneeling on the ground holding his head, the room begins to shake more violently than before. "Druid! What's going on!" A brick from the roof falls and hits Slater on the head and she blacks out. Later, when she awakes, everything is calm, the door is still blocked and the druid is nowhere to be seen. "What the heck happened?" Slater looks around the destroyed room, all she can find is a stairway leading downwards. "I suppose I'm going down." She heads down the stairs, is immediately ambushed by a small clan of demons, making quick work of them, she continues on through what appears to be some type of catacombs, fighting many demons along the way. She is beginning to lose hope, but then she sees the druid standing in the corner of a room, facing the wall. "Druid? Are you O.K.?" He transforms himself into a bear-like creature. "Druid!" He begins to chase her. They run all around, and then reach some stairs leading downwards, Slater jumps down them. The druid walks away. "Huh? Why'd he stop chasing me?" She walks back up the stairs. The druid is gone. "…?" Slater goes back down and continues on, she goes down two more flights of stairs, where she reaches a burning room; she goes through the only door there, everything inside is on the ground, dead. "Huh? What happened here?" Then she spots the druid lying behind some barrels in the corner of the room. "Druid!" The druid stands up slowly and stares at Slater, and then a loud voice is heard. "HAVING FUN SORCERESS?" "NO! Do I look like it! Wait, who said that?" "THAT IS NOT OF IMPORTANCE…BUT, HOW COULD YOU CONTINUE ON, REALISING HOW EASILY I TOOK OVER YOUR FRIENDS MIND, OR ARE YOU SIMPLY DIM AND DID NOT REALISE IT AT ALL?" "…" "WELL, EITHER WAY, YOU DIE NOW." The druid becomes the bear-man again and jumps at Slater, entirely missing her, continuously swiping at her, missing every shot. "WHAT? HOW IS HE MISSING? THE ANGEL?" "What do you mean?" "NOTHING!" The druid collapses on the ground back in his human form. "What the heck? Where am I?" "You were tainted-" "Explain later, I recognize this place, Andariel lives here, she will die now!" "OK?" Slater quirks an eyebrow at the druid and then prepares for the fight about to take place. "Here we go Slater." The druid opens the door and is immediately knocked back into the wall. "Ready to die?" Andariel runs up to them with her claws raised and swipes at Slater, leaving a large gash in her shoulder. "Feel that sorceress? Poison is quite amazing, eh?" Slater's vision begins to blur and she collapses. "Ready to fight one on one druid?" "Whatever Andariel, just be ready to die." The druid jumps at Andariel, slashing at her throat, she dodges it and laughs. "Nice try druid." "Grr…whatever, you got lucky that time." "Heh, luck had nothing to do with it." Andariel tackles the druid and pins him to the ground. "Now, it's over druid, you die now!" Andariel lifts her poisonous claws and smirks. "See ya Andariel." Andariel turns around to look at who had said that but instead sees a fireball flying towards her face, which ignites on contact it. "AHH! NO!" Andariel falls face first onto the ground, incinerated by the blazing fire. The druid is amazed and when he sits up, sees Slater wobbling around on her legs. "Slater? Are you O.K.?" Slater falls to her knees smiling at the druid and then falls forward onto the ground in a green haze. "Slater!" The druid runs up to Slater. "No! I can never forgive myself knowing I allowed Lile's apprentice to die!" "Druid?" "Huh, you're alive? How?" "I-I'm not sure." "SLATER, YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE, YOU WILL NOT DIE UNTIL YOUR QUEST IS COMPLETE, ALL EIGHT EVILS MUST FALL!" "Huh? Who're you!" "Slater? Are you talking to me?" "No druid, I was talking to that voice." "Err, what voice?" "How could you not hear it!" "Whatever Slater, meet me in Lut Gohlein, I believe that's where Lile was taken." "Sure Druid, I'll see you there."