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Chapter 10+

"Are you alright, Cody?"

"H..h..how do you know my name?"

"What are you stupid or something, we've been together for quite a while now, I'd say about 5 or 6 months."

"Alex? But, who's that with you?"

"Come on, Cody! You can't even recognize your own twin brother! How'd you end up getting good grades in school?"

"Well, wielding that…thing…you looked kind of… different. Plus it was dark out."

"Dark? Really? I could see plain as day." noted Alex.

"Well, I had to light a stick just to see my way around." replied Zack

"Well," Cody responded, "I couldn't see squat until I accidentally cut myself on a damn tree root, then I stuck my hands in the water and this bright light appeared, and then I could barely see enough to make out that…thing."

"Anyway, we should get out of this forest." Cody noted

"I saw a town that way when I flew here." Alex remarked, pointing to his right. "Perhaps we should go that way. Brace yourselves."

"For what? Oh crap, I'm bracing already! I never know what's going to happen next in this place."

"That's right. Get ready, and try not to freak out."

The wind scoops them up, and carries them in the direction of the town. Cody and Zack spot the lights after about five minutes, and they land about 8 minutes after that. Zack, Alex, and Cody try to find out who's in charge, and maybe get some answer about what the hell they needed to do here. The townspeople were friendly, if a bit odd-looking. They looked like they had no muscles, only skin and bones, and had no mouths. They communicated through telepathy, although they had ears, to hear outsider's questions, comments, and whatever else. Their typical style of dress was a single cloth around their waist, and some had a robe that looked similar to a Greek toga. This may have been to establish some form of rank, or maybe it was just a different style of dress, like teenagers and parents. Hey, human generations dress differently, so why shouldn't these guys.

"We shall take you to meet our ruler, oh great ones."

"Great ones? We haven't even done anything here, and we are already considered great? I love this place!" Zack said.

"Yeah, well it's a tad bit dark." Cody responded.

"Our planet is always dark. Get used to it, Cody."

"HOE THE HELL DOES EVERYONE KNOW OUR NAMES!" Cody shouted.

"We can read minds, duh." the guard told him.

"Oh." Cody said meekly.

"We are here. The ruler wishes to see you right away. Go, he does not like to be kept waiting, even for someone as important as you."

"We're going." Cody says, and the trio starts the long walk to the palace.

They go up to meet the king. He has somewhat blue skin, instead of pale like the townspeople's skin, and as only dressed in a cloth robe around his waist. He opens his mouth to speak.

"Ah, finally you have come to save our planet, and you shall be well rewarded for this task."

"Wait, what will this reward be?" Alex asked suspiciously, "I don't want to have to fight this big huge monstrous beast thing and not get paid well."

"Ah, the reward will be anything you wish, as long as we have access to it. My name is Yurihagaki, and I am the king of Ansibrue. A powerful demon with the ability to control the darkness has been lurking deep inside Ansibrue's wilderness. It comes once every three months to take a villager as a sacrifice in order to keep this town safe. He shall come again tonight. We ask that you defeat this demon and reclaim our 181 villagers he has taken. Once you do that, we shall give you your reward, whatever it may be."

"181 villagers! How long has he been hanging around!" Zack asked.

"Around-" Yurihagaki began, but Cody interrupted him

"5 years, 3 months, 31 days." Cody informed Zack.

"That's…exactly right. How'd you do that?" Yurihagaki asked after thinking for a while.

"Oh, it's easy, 180 divided by 12 months a year, then divided by 3 months for each time he came is 5 years, then add 3 months for the 1 extra villager, and since he's coming tonight, that's 31 days." Cody responded.

"Damn, he's pretty good at math." Yurihagaki noted.

"Yeah, he gets, or at least used to get good grades." Alex said. "But anyway, how are we going to beat this demon, and what the heck is its name, anyway?"

"We don't even know its name, however we call him Yokugawchi, which in our language means 'terrible one'."

"We'll get rid of him for you, but we need to think of a way to get in there with everyone else."

"I think I may have a plan. See, you will offer all 3 of us as a sacrifice to him. Then we get in there, mutilate the demon, and get out with the remaining survivors." Cody suggested

"Well, okay, I just hope you know what you are doing." Yurihagaki noted.

"No, not really," Cody said, "but we'll improvise."

"Very well. You, then, shall be offered up as a sacrifice to keep our village safe for yet another month. This decree goes out from the King of Ansibrue, and cannot be changed."

"We won't need any changing." Alex said.

They go out at exactly 11:12PM to meet the demon and be offered as a sacrifice.

"Move it!" A guard shouted, and poked Cody with a sharp stick, drawing blood.

"Geez, you don't have to be so vicious." Cody remarked

"They're trying to make it look realistic. They probably do this to others because they are so unwilling." Alex noted.

"Fine, at least we're there." Cody responded

The demon came. He was very… well… normal sized. The same height as Alex, with a muscular, ripped body with some scars in various places across his arms. He had a yellow vest type muscle shirt on his chest, and two eyes, brown, with grayish pupils, glazed, like he was possessed. Silver hair, long, came down to his shoulders. He had baggy pants on, with blue shoes. He could have passed for a normal person, and looked like he was possessed somehow, with the glazed eyes. He drew a sword, as long as his arm, that was red, and had two black stripes running down it, one stopping at about one-fourth of the way to the end, and one that went half way to the end of the sword. It had a bluish stripe thing running from beginning to end, and looked sharp, and was on the hitting side, meaning that it was what cut his enemy. Then he spoke, and it seemed to echo, like it was spoken twice.

"I am here for your sacrifice."

"Yes, they are ready."

"They?"

"We have three this time."

"Oh really? Well, I'll take them, but don't think this has stopped me from visiting you in three months. I'll be waiting."

He raises a hand, and the three felt a dark power forcing them to rise up into the air, and move towards him. They do nothing to fight it.

"So you accept your fate then? Very well, come."

"Who says we accept this! What if we don't want to come!" Zack shouted

"Ah, but then I would have to force you, and trust me… you don't want that to happen."

"Fine. I'll come, but don't think you're going to eat me or anything!" Zack said

"Oh, don't worry, I won't eat you. You're far too cute to be eaten."

"What's that sup- NO WAY! YOU SICK FREAK! NO WAY IS THAT GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME!"

"Who shall stop it? Come, onward to my lair. There you shall be put into the chambers until I have need of you."

The demon takes them deep into the woods, and into a little shack where he has been staying these past years.

"Here is where you shall sleep. Sleep well. I will be back in the morning."

"Wait! I have one question." Zack said.

"Yes, my love?"

"One, don't CALL ME THAT! And two, what happened to all of the other people?"

"Very well, then I won't call you that. And the others have wandered off, into the woods, and haven't returned. They are most likely dead, eaten by the beasts that roam these woods."

"Well, I won't be running off. Don't worry." Zack noted. (But that doesn't mean I don't plan to escape.)

"That is good. I haven't introduced my self yet, I see. My name is Kimitsu."

The demon leaves.

"When he comes back we will try to escape." Alex said

"What do you mean try? Of course we will escape." Cody said.

"He can't have just sitting around these 5 years. I suspect he has trained a great deal, and his powers are quite substantial. I-"

Suddenly Alex began to flash silver. It started slowly, but got faster and faster, until he was practically a coat of silver. Then he reverted back to his original color.

"I think I just gained a new power." Alex said.

"No fair! Why don't we get any powers!" Cody said.

"You probably will. It may just take longer." Alex noted.

"Fine. But I hope they are cool!" Cody said.

Morning came, and Kimitsu returned to find the three captives asleep.

(Heh. So cute, that one is. He was just like that, before I stole his body, and made it my own. He was willing to fight, and had these awesome dark abilities and a sword to boot. No match for me however, once I possessed him.)

"Come on, wake up little one. Time to get up."

Zack, Cody and Alex wake up at once, and realize where they are. The comfort of the shack was odd; they'd thought they were to sleep on a stone cold and hard as rock floor, with no comfort whatsoever. But no, this demon had supplied them with sleeping mats, and blankets to warm themselves with. He wasn't so bad, when you got past the part where he wanted to rape Zack. They all went outside, and the minute they got out there, Zack spoke in barely a whisper.

"You think that I'm just going to sit around and let you do these… things to me. If so, then you are wrong. I will put up a fight. I will not be taken so easily."

Zack summoned fire around his fists, and got into a fighting stance. Alex summoned a metal spear, and Cody got by a stream. Kimitsu thought about this for a minute.

(Why isn't the other twin doing anything? He acts as if he's too scared to move, but that can't be. I'll find out later.)

"Very well, if it's a fight you want, then that's what you'll get! Bring it on."

The demon flashed with a dark light, and when it was gone the second afterward, he was covered in a spandex suit, with a skirt made of straw covering his waist. He pulled out the sword he'd used to intimidate the village people, and got into a fighting stance, with a dark aura about him.

Ooh, big fight scene coming up! Sorry this took so long to update. Please forgive me, and also please review! Thanks again to dreamerforever101 for reviewing. Please review, it will encourage me to update! Also, please tell me if I could fix anything, or make it better! The person who guesses correctly who the demon is possessing gets 10 cookies! No, I did not make up the description! The cookies are whatever flavor you want them to be, please specify in your review. If you review at all…

-ARK