This chapter might be the last one for this post for this year (2018) but I'll be posting another story before the year's end. Keep a lookout for the that, other than that let's continue the story.
Chapter cover- Daggers lodged into the side of a tree with leaves blowing by.
Sc3- The demon town
As we're walking along a forest path to the town Amallie told us about, I hear the brushes rustling using my ears, I pick up two people talking. I tell Peace and Pony to ready themselves thinking the voices are bandits.
"Alright bandits, show yourselves and we promise not to hurt you!" I tell the bandits while pulling out my sword.
"For fuck sake! Why do we keep getting attacked?!" A boy shouts sounding irritated before coming out the bush followed by a girl.
The boy has bandages wrapped around his hands and feet wearing a black vest with an orange sash around his waist.
The girl is wearing light blue armor and boots. Giving her a stealthy look but it's hard to make out the rest of her due to her cloak hiding most of her body.
"Sorry- you do not look like bandits." I see my mistakes immediately and apologize to them.
"No problem. Nice to meet you, I'm Himiko and this is Axel we're adventurers." Himiko introduces themselves telling us why they're here.
"We're adventurers too, this Pony," Pony introduces herself by shaking Himiko's hand, "And this Peace," While Peace just points herself out.
"And I'm Cortney. Were you heading to the town?" Before ending with myself and asking why they would be here.
"Yeah, we were heading to Dark town." Axel confirms, "If we're going to the same place why don't we tag along?" Axel then suggests alway to come along with us.
During our walk to Dark town, we explain to Himiko and Axel what we are and the adventures we had so far, by the time we're done retelling our we made it to Dark town already.
I could see how Dark town got its name, the town seems to be filled with demons and demi-humans. The sky seems to be a bit darker but it other than that it looks to be a normal town there's seems to be a large tower in the distance, I try to ask someone if there's an inn we can stay at.
"Excuse me mam-" Before I can finish the woman bows for no reason.
"My lord, what are you doing outside the castle?" She asks leaving me confused.
"What- lord? Sorry, you got the wrong person." I explain but before putting two-and-two together, "What's the fastest way to the lord!" I hastily ask the women to which she points to a reddish-black portal, I thank the woman before jumping through the portal.
On the other side, I'm in front the tower giving me a better look at the tower, the bricks are red and being held in place with white mortar giving it an ominous feel to it. It's in great shape, I walk up to the stone doors they're pretty basic but get the job done. Pushing them aside I feel familiar energy leading me as I follow the candles burn to life with the same fire as the portals.
Soon I stop feeling the energy in front one final set of doors pushing them aside revealing someone I never thought I would see again.
A woman with white hair and demonic skin covered in a black robe hiding most of her body but I can tell you it is by their magic.
"SIS!" I run at my sister who I haven't seen since she became the Dark Lord to give her a hug. Back in the old days, the Demon Lord used to be very evil but as time went on, the evilness slowly died. When I was around seven or eight, the previous Demon Lord died and my sister was the next in line and one was the reasons I set off on this journey in the first place.
"Hey sis nice to see you again." Sis meets me halfway for our hug, and kinda funny thinking of someone walking in and seeing Demon lord hugging a little girl is just funny to me.
"Yeah, I've gotten much stronger than I once was. After someone mistook me for the Demon Lord I rushed through a portal to see you again. I've met some great friends on this journey and wait for you to meet them.
"Hey Sis, since your adventurers and in town, I have a quest for you. Let me give you some backstory." Sis walking around her castle and begins again, "This town was nothing more than the demon lord's castle, but now it's a bustling town. I've set up portals to help out the villagers but, there's massive dungeon underneath here filled with monsters. Nobody wants to or is equipped for exploring it, so it's one of the few places without access to my portals, that's where you come in." Sis points at me.
"I want you and your friends to explore the dungeon, find out how everyone is doing and create a portal for them, you can keep anything you find and I'll pay you on top of it. Sounds like a deal?" Sis holds out her hands.
"Sure, Sis." I find it funny that my sis, the demon lord, is giving me a quest to explore their dungeon and I'm getting paid for it.
"I accept. When do you want us to start?" I ask Sis when I can begin our quest.
"You can start tomorrow, until then enjoy yourself, and go sleep at the inn." I wave Sis off before jumping through a portal back to town.
"Cortney, where were you?" Peace asks me as I enter the town square, "You just up and left without saying a word."
"Sorry." I apologize for making Peace and Pony for my sudden disappearance, "I was talking to my sis, she gave us a quest and she said that she'll pay us too." Peace's mood does a complete one-eighty when I mention money.
"How much was it?" Peace blurts out.
"I don't know, we have to make a portal for the citizens in the dungeon, she also said that we can keep anything we found." I show Peace the portal components.
"Sis said we could start tomorrow, and to rest at the inn. Let's go find Pony, and tell her what we're doing." We find Pony along with Axel and Himiko at a fruit stand and tell them what we're doing. After that, we spend the rest of the day shopping and then rest at the inn. I brought some potions for everyone, Pony brought some gloves so her arrows won't slip her hands.
"Ahh." The first bed, I've slept in since I started my adventure, this beats sleeping on the ground any day.
"I'm right there with you Cortney." Himiko comments, Axel is in the room across from us because he's a guy, he didn't mind.
I take a bath and then go to sleep, the next day we eat, then head for the dungeon. It's a bit out of town but doesn't take us long to find it, it looks like the dungeon is still being cared for, the bricks are still clean and well cared for.
We enter and I take a look at the map Sis gave me, "Who are you?" A feminine voice asks, I turn to the source of the voice and find a short woman who barely reaches my legs, she has green skin and brown hair with little horns poking out. I think these are goblins, Dad said it's common to find a lot of them in places with loot.
"Hi, I'm Cortney and my sister has me on a quest to set up a portal for you," I tell the woman what my business here is.
"Oh, thank you for helping us would you like me to help you around?" The woman asks.
"No, not really, but anything we should look out for?"
"We disabled the traps, so you don't have to worry about them, but keep an eye out for the mimics, they even catch us off guard." The woman tells.
"Um, any way to identify a mimic?" I ask since that's the thing Dad hates the most, he never told me why he hates them.
The woman shrugs, "Your guess is as good as mine. Good luck." Then she walks away.
We go deeper into the dungeon, we meet more denizens of the dungeon and creatures of all races after we a few mimic encounters to check if a chest is a mimic or not, we kick the chest open if the chest is a mimic then they're be stunned and show their bodies.
"Hey kid." A voice calls me out, I can track where it's coming from, following the voice leads me to a greatsword like my own, chained down on a rock and then I realize that the sword was the voice talking to me. The sword seems to be releasing dark magic.
"Great, now pull me out of here." The sword almost demands I grab the handle-
"Let me guess, the second I grabbed you, you were going to taking over my soul. I'll let you on a secret, I'm an anti-magic demon." In this world, everyone has magic even monsters and animals, but anti-magic demons are scary in that we sacrifice our ability to use magic in exchange for being able to cancel other magic and as a bonus, our bodies automatically cancel any effects put on us even curses and instakill magic.
"What's stopping me from destroying you right now?" I give the sword one chance to change my mind.
"You have a nice rack." The sword comments absolutely not helping its case. I proceed to start bending the sword forward in order to break it.
"Waitwaitwaitwait! I can help with your anti-magic." The sword blurts out, I decide to give it the chance to explain itself.
"I'm listening."
"My old user was an anti-magic demon like yourself, but I was created as a catalyst for him to use magic. Try using a spell while you're still holding me." I want to see if I can actually use magic myself, so I try a simple light spell, normally spells fizzle when me or Mom try, but instead a simple light forms in my hand.
"See. I wasn't lying." This sword could be useful for me, but I still can't fully trust it.
"Alright...I'll carry you around." I break the sword out its bindings and stab my sword in the ground leaving it standing up, and sheathe the cursed sword.
"I should tell you that my sheath is a bit special…" Suddenly all the power of the sword is transferred into the sheath leaving making the sword back to normal.
"My sheath can steal the magic from any weapon I put in it," I grab my sword and sheath it, where the cursed sword is now fused to my sword, "And transfer it into other weapons."
"Got it." The voice sounds like it wants to throw up. I take a look at the greatsword the voice was in previously in and it looks to be in good condition, selling it might be worthwhile.
"Cortney!" Pony yells out my name, "What's up with you? You keep going off on your own without saying a word." And calls out my recent behavior.
"Sorry, I thought I found something but it was just a normal greatsword." I hold up the greatsword for Pony to see.
Pony takes a second to look over me, "We found a good spot for the portal and you have the components." Pony then leads me to where the others are, I take a second to say sorry for leaving and then set up the portal.
"Jumping through this should bring us to my sister." I tell them before jumping through myself and the others follow.
On the other side my sister is there praising our work, "Ah, I see you were able to set up the portal, thank you, Cortney."
"You're welcome, Sis. Let me introduce you to my friends." Sis introduces herself and reveals that she's the demon lord, everyone looks to me and I just shrug.
"Here's your payment." Sis hands me a bag of gold with some weight, "So what are you going to do now?"
"We'll probably stay in town to get supplies and what not. what about you, Axel and Himiko?" I ask seeing as we never really ask them what they plan on doing.
"I think we'll be sticking with you guys, you fine with that Himi?" Himiko nods while raising her hand to the sky.
"Awesome. See you around Sis."
Writer: Hey there everyone sorry for the sudden stop but this chapter was taking forever to make so I'll be working on this later in the future. And I have some news, I'm working on another story.
Team DEMI takeover- A RWBY\Monster Girl encyclopedia story. I currently only have the first chapter posted but I'm working on it. I don't a routine yet so that chapter will be sporadic for a while but keep a lookout. Until then, see ya' later.