Reunited Again

Entry 002
Lucy Hare

I managed to find more clues about Krystal's whereabouts. Her twin brother, Grey was currently located on Corneria. Luckily I was able to contact him and explain the entire situation. He didn't know Krystal's location but he stated something about a Demon Hunter's ritual. I didn't know what that was, but regardless, Grey had listened to my request and fought Demon Fox head on. I don't know if he can return him back to normal or end his suffering. But I believe in him, he is just like his sister but more kind at heart than her.

Just like that, I was able to recruit him to the team again just like my father wanted him to be from the beginning with General Pepper. He is currently our only hope at making contact with Krystal and stopping Demon Fox. I told Grey to use Fox's former Arwing to travel towards Fichina. I hope those guys will be alright.

Slippy's status in Star Fox is active but he isn't allowed to join in until he is fully recovered. His wounds have healed drastically from the new technology that the scientists have discovered and created. I believe it's called BioNanos. It is an injection that safely heals the deepest wounds inside the body. Allowing a quicker and cleaner recovery. When the team gets back together officially, it will be like a dream come true.

End of Entry 2

Years before the Anglar Blitz Invasion

Location: Corneria

Our lovely fox couple were enjoying their date in Corneria's finest restaurant. They sat face to face talking about their previous histories before, after and right now. Krystal had her hands together on her lap enjoying the smile on Fox's face. Fox gently brushed his hand into Krystal's blue hair. "Your hair has such a lovely feeling to it." He said to her causing a deep red blush just like a red rose.

"Why thank you, Fox." She responded back kindly towards his compliment.

"I didn't want to be rude when I say this, but it's true your family doesn't have an official last name right?" He asked. Krystal nodded yes back to his response. "How about Rose? Just like your beautiful face when you blush."

"I think that's a lovely name Fox, Krystal Rose." She smiled happily as the two kissed each other in the lips.

Present Time (Outside Cerinia's Orbit)

My full name is Krystal Rose, just like Fox said when he still loved me. I won't forget it my darling. Just like that, a surge of hope filled her heart. Flying through space back to Corneria when suddenly a distress message appeared on her screen. It came from planet Fichina. Luckily it was just en route towards Corneria so she changed course. Krystal played the message and a face popped up. A face of a hooded being appeared on the screen. His face couldn't be made out on what they looked like but his left eye had an eye patch and glowed a blood red beneath it. His other eye was a stable neutral gray color. Their ears were shaped like fox ears so Krystal assumed it was someone of a fox variant.

"If anyone can see this message, please come straight to Fichina. Quickly!" The message ended abruptly.

Who could that have been? Those ears seem quite familiar but I can't make out who it is, Krystal began to think. She continued down towards Fichina. She traced the source signal of the distress call, it was closer to where her landing point was. Landing her Arwing, she saw another one next to her own. This looks just like Fox's own Arwing but he doesn't fly one anymore. The distress signal was coming out of that Arwing. She got out of her CloudRunner and searched for the person. Despite being a cold planet, Krystal didn't feel a slight cold feeling inside her body. Like if something was warming her insides. A blizzard began to storm the planet. Whatever happened to those climate regulators they had to maintain the planet's climate she wondered. Still, Krystal didn't feel the slightest of cold as she continued walking through.

"Hiyah!" A voice of someone yelling was heard in the distant. At least 300 meters away from Krystal's landing point. Krystal picked that noise up with her telepathy and ears. Someone was fighting in the far distance she heard and rushed to help them out. She quickly scaled the icy mountains and saw a familiar sight in her eyes. There they were, the hooded fox and Demonic Fox fighting each other. Krystal noticed the eye patch was no longer covering the hooded fox's eye and revealed his own blood red eye. Could he also know what is happening lately with Demon Fox? She quickly slid down the icy mountain and intervened. There he is, the Cerinian Demon himself, Vel.

"I'm coming for you Vel," Krystal shouted with distortion. She jumped straight into action in demon form, unleashing her demon claws. *Roar*

The hooded fox heard Krystal's roar. "There's another demon?" He flipped backwards after Krystal's attempt to slash down Vel within her demon form. Demon Fox dodged out of harm's way and she almost attacked the hooded fox.

"Stay still you damn demon." Demon Fox didn't show a sign of response but he did spawn more of his demons and vanished from sight. Krystal was angered that he escaped and the demons began to surround her. I don't have time for this crap. There were too many to take out as more appeared each time. The hooded fox slashed out the demons that were going to attack him. But they all jumped onto Krystal, knocking her down but the hooded fox got rid of all of them in one fell slash.

"Are you a Demon Hunter too?" He asked. He lent his hand to Krystal to help her up. Holding a black and red blade his right hand.

Krystal gripped his hand and got up. "Thank you and how did you know that I am a Demon Hunter?" He pointed towards her cursed purple eye.

"That's the proof of the Demon Hunter. You and I are the same, Demon Hunters." He pointed towards his red colored eye.

This guy knows a lot about the Demon Hunter. Who is he? Krystal thought.

"Don't forget, I can read your mind too. Say, you seem very familiar." He took off his hood.

Krystal took one glance at the hooded fox. The hood he had just worn had revealed his entire identity. There he stood, the gray-furred fox, Grey. Krystal's eyes had widened open. "G-Grey?"

"What, Krystal?" He ran up and hugged her. Grey recited his next words in his mind, "It's been too long since we last met after the Anglar Blitz Invasion. I was assigned somewhere else and heard you were kicked off."

She wrapped her arms around Grey. "Yeah, before the Anglar Invasion, Fox had kicked me off the team and I lost it all. But after the invasion's end, I still cared for him, then I found out he became a demon and I took on the Demon Hunter. You remember the urban legend too right?" Grey released his arms and explained what he remembers.

"I remember it very clearly." Grey changing back into his normal form. The clothing he once wore, black hooded robe and changed into his normal clothing. Red sweater with a white scarf, beige khakis, and black sneakers.

Whenever Vel is released from his eternal slumber, he takes form onto whoever releases him. Ever since Fox had released him, Fox became the possessor of Vel itself. If Vel the Cerinian Demon awakens, the Demon Hunter will rise to slay Vel and his demons.

"I took the Demon Hunter's Oath under my own will after I heard about Fox from Lucy. You performed the trials to become the Demon Hunter right?" Krystal knew he was right. It took her three trials to become who she is now. The powers made her look and sound insane but she was hunting down demons that Vel spawns.

"Lucy had sent me a message in regards to the situation." The message Grey read from Lucy was that former Star Fox member, Krystal Rose betrayed the team and forced Fox down the deep end of darkness. Krystal was then branded a traitor when she and her former team Star Wolf defeated the Anglars. That's when she realized her mistake and felt guilt down her heart.

"If you want to know, Lucy and I have been searching for you. Even though I'm not with the team right now, she at least asked me if I knew where you were. I tried my best but all I found was Fox." Grey tried calling his name but Fox just attacked him he stated.

"Have you mastered your Demon Hunter abilities?" Krystal asked. Grey placed his sword back into its sheath as he answered. "I haven't fully mastered the powers just yet. But I currently possess the ability to see and slay demons with this eye and sword." Krystal didn't know what to expect. She also possessed the same powers except there was more to expect from her.

"I still have my old staff and the trials gave me this black pendant to control the Demon within me." Just like that, she transformed part of her left arm to show Grey. Her fur had changed colors from blue to black. Growing out long and sharp claws. Then it reverted back from black to blue. Reverting her claws back into her normal hand.

Grey placed his hands into a thinking gesture. "Such power you currently possess. We also need to get going back to Star Fox now that I found you."

Krystal didn't feel happy when she heard the words "Star Fox" ring through her ears. She felt guilt enter her body and couldn't move. Grey felt that same feeling she was experiencing even though he wasn't going through that feeling.

He placed his hand onto her shoulder. "I know they may not forgive you but at least apologizing will convince them. The past is in the past, worry about what is going to be ahead of us." Krystal didn't know what to expect and listened. Grey pointed out the Arwing used was located behind the mountain near where Krystal landed her Arwing. She remembered about that other Arwing she landed next to. Grey was the one who rode that down to Fichina. They arrived at their Arwings after climbing the icy mountain downhill.

"Lucy told me to find you at least and we need to get going back to Corneria." Krystal looked up. "I understand. I'll just accept whatever punishment they have in store for me." Grey didn't know what to expect coming out of Krystal. All he heard were mumbling curses out of her mouth. She was like that for a while. They hopped inside their Arwings and traveled back to Corneria straight into orbit.

Grey opened his communications with Krystal. "I'll be messaging Captain Peppy about our arrivals. Just hang tight for a bit." Krystal felt her heart sink with guilt, she didn't want to see the faces of her former friends knowing her as a traitor. "I'm finished now, he knows we are on the way back."

"Grey?" Krystal eyes began to water up.

"What is it now Krystal?"

"I don't want to go back, they will hate me forever." She cried.

Grey knew the situation Krystal was in is a bad one. He didn't let that take over her mind. "Nonsense, I tried my best to convince them you aren't a major threat to anyone. I promised them a lot of things. Just don't give up, stay with them, your friends need you again. One last time."

One last time? I'm sorry my friends, I won't ever betray anyone again. I will stick with you guys until the very end.

"That's it sis, I still need you. Only the true lover can save their beloved."

"But aren't you a Demon Hunter? Can't you save him too?" Grey knew himself that he possessed the same capabilities, just that he doesn't transform into an actual demon. He only has the same physical capabilities, strength and speed wise. "Yes I am a Demon Hunter by doing the Demon Hunter Ritual. But I didn't do your trial, Heart and Soul Ritual."

"Heart and Soul?" She picked up her pendant noticed a change in its colors from earlier.

"It only happens when someone you dearly love is lost to the darkness." The Heart and Soul ritual was the 3 trials Krystal had completed in an earlier chapter. It consists of the Demon Hunter's Pendant, the Heart and Soul. The emotional views towards certain situations and the final test of becoming a Demon Hunter by defeating the darkness from within one's soul. It is the only way to save Fox, Grey explained. "The true Demon Hunter, is the one who surpasses their own selves and to protect and rescue their loves. That person, is you Krystal. I'm setting course back to Corneria where they are meeting us back again. Here are the coordinates to where they currently are."

"Thank you again, Grey. Always looking out for your terrible hearted sister."

"Don't you ever say that, you are still the best twin sibling. Now let's speed up and get out of here." Both of their Arwing's G-Diffusers activated turbo boost and they set off for Corneria.

Just a heads up, the pendant Krystal is currently wearing represents a blue heart and red soul. We can see where this is going. Blue heart represents Krystal and the Red Soul/Flame represents Fox. I called it the Heart and Soul.

Also Grey is reintroduced into this story once again. Welcome back Grey!

Grey: Thank you, thank you.

Prof. Sealies: Don't forget your lines alright? They are very crucial for the next chapters, got it?

Grey: Understood!