Croire and Histoire were drinking coffee when the demon and CPU arrived. Both tomes respected both of them for different reasons, and Croire always tended to do anything Hookubo wanted, considering that they were both beings of evil. Histoire always performed favors for the CPU because he was the original CPU who helped her raise the goddesses. "Milords." Histoire addressed them as, and Croire just licked her lips.
"Hey demon lord, ready to take me up on my offer of world hopping and destruction?" Croire asked, brushing the blond hair out of her eyes. Croire lent her worldly energy to give Hookubo true shape, the six winged silvered haired and black eyed demon rolled his eyes.
"Soul Seal. I would have taken it up years ago if I was not so afraid of this warrior sealing me indefinitely in silence." Hookubo stated, waving a marked up clawed hand. "Either way, it would be too easy. Unless the two of you could offer up a dimension that could present a challenge to either of us."
Histoire floated into the air on her tome, looking at Clear Heart who showed no reaction to her intrigue. "Is this true? You plan to leave?" He nodded silently. "What about your nation?" Histoire asked, and Christian nodded.
"Inter dimensional timezones are complicated, but since I've traveled to other worlds before I won't be gone for that long number one, number two I was going to ask you to take care of my nation in turn for when I gave you 2 years rest and controlled Gamindustri for that period." Histoire blushed in embarrassment when she remembered how the CPU had taken over for all five nations to give the current generation a break. It was meant to be only a month, but multiplied 24 fold.
"Yes sir... I would not mind that." Histoire said, but Christian raised a hand.
"Hold on. I am going to wait awhile to give you time to search. Don't give us a challenge, just give us something to fix." The being requested, summoning his wing back and taking off towards an unknown objective.
"Please consider this, miladies. If you'll excuse me, I have to go so I do not loose him." The king was off and Croire sighed, looking through the worlds as her sister did the same, just with less urgency as she puffed out her cheeks. Hookubo had reverted back to a blade and found that he had lost Christain, so he flew off in his own direction. He decided to bother some humans for entertainment, and found a familiar one questing, so he lunged at top speeds at the earth.
IF was walking through the fields looking for monsters, only to have to jump back after hearing something whizzing through the air and leaving a gigantic dust storm in front of her. The dust vanished as she approached, noticing the black blade impaled into the earth on top of the hill. The katana wasn't emitting anything strange until IF whipped out her eye scanner. It was classified as demon, and it's appearance was an illusion. This had appeared once before, and she remembered the day clearly as the blade willed her too.
It was her first mission back when she was younger, and her hair was shorter along with her being shorter. She had just passed the academy when she went out to hunt her first high class monster, a Boss Lizard. She was running through the hilly barren wasteland, searching for the one the report had specified. In no time she found it asleep on the ground with Dogoos guarding it fiercely, snapping at dust. IF hid behind a dune, her hand blades equipped and she was ready for action. She waited for one to falter for before lunging over the dunes, ready to strike. She slipped on the sand and went tumbling down the hill at rapid speeds, being stopped by a blade that appeared out of nowhere.
"Chunnis... They are so cute, but take a couple years to become competent if they ever do." The blade said, and IF jumped back, brandishing her weapons.
"Who's speaking? Where are you?!" She asked aloud, her voice breaking.
She was tapped on the shoulder, and she whirled around to find her CPU standing above her. "Hello there, little IF." He ruffled her hair with a smile, but IF barked at him in anger.
"Master! You said I could handle this mission alone!" IF complained, and Christian laughed.
"Did I? I meant to say, if you take this seriously you could handle this mission alone. You started off fine, but the second you began to run at the enemy you proved yourself incapable." Christian answered, turning around. "Hookubo, you deal with this one."
The blade grew into the demon king, who stretched as he examined the Dogoos and then cried in happiness. "Toto? Is that you Toto? My boy! it's been decades! Is that Max? Lynx? Come on guys, answer!" Hookubo spread his full 12 foot, eight set wingspan and flapped a couple times. "Come on pals? Crowd around me!" The demon said happily, extending his claws to the Dogoo clan. All the Dogoos crowded him and all of the group was hopping around, but she noticed it.
IF backed away, realizing something. She ran up and swung at Hookubo, slicing the demon and hearing a laugh. "Master... Can I please fight?" IF begged as the illusion faded to reveal IF had just struck the blade. Christian waved his hand, Hookubo being forced out of the ground and one-shotting all the Dogoos before returning to his spot.
"Sure, on one condition. You have to use Demon Flames at least twice." Christian said, and IF gasped.
"Master, I can't do that!" IF said, scared. "I can't even make the hand..." She was flicked into a dune with a finger, and she she began to perform the hand seals muttering some insulting words to her Master.
"I can still hear you." Christian called, and IF made the hand seals faster. IF was the only person to be trained beneath the CPU of Applostation, as she was the only one to hack his device and for such Christian had taught her some sealing and release signs. The worst was True Demon Flames, as she could never perform it no matter how hard she... "I can read your mind thanks to the contact. Stop monologuing and focus!" IF puffed out her cheeks and activated her version of it, and the gray contact lit up clear.
The dune around her began to separate and swirl around her. "This is my..." Christian slapped her. "Demon Flames!" The black and white flames danced around the fat Boss Lizard and Hookubo's blade form. She made fists clashing, then palms, then her eyes bugged out. "Amplify!" The now awoken Boss Lizard was scrambling through the air, waving it's arms around and then flying at IF as the flames grew. IF kneeled down and waited, then when the beast came close enough she launched her hand blade in the beast's stomach. IF then ran at the monster and lodged the blade deep in the monsters stomach after kicking it. The flames had begun to fade away, and IF knew once they did she would be in the deficit without one of her weapons. She had learned a sealing technique that could work, if she could get her other blade in. The technique would shatter her contact and hurt her for days based of her practice of the Basic Seal, but it would do her good in the upcoming years. She took out the container and released a Super Otaku to hold off the damaged demon class monster, and the controlled monster ran at the Boss Lizard, armed with IF's last hand blade. She began to weave the hand seals she had been taught, hoping that her five-second plan would work.
"Hm? Hookubo! Think it will work?" The CPU asked, and the demonic blade had stopped cursing from all the pain it was feeling from the previous release attack.
"After that bitch burned me I'm lost on your question. Care to explain?" Hookubo asked, floating away from the battle field.
"Look at her hands and you'll know." Christian answered with a confident grin directed towards his pupil, who was working hard. Palms together, hands apart, knuckles aligned, rectangle, triangle, circle, arms crossed in an X, palms flat towards the ground then the bare blue sky. The Super Otaku was crushed in an instant, lodging IF's weapons inside the Boss Lizard. With her previous release signals still active she activated the release for the second time, the contact responding in kind.
"Demon Flames!"
"Oh HELL no!" Hookubo was off over the horizon when the Boss Lizard was once again engulfed in the black and white flames, causing it to roar out in earth-shaking agony.
IF was breathing very heavy now. Using SP was easy, using them in battle was hard, using releases were extremely hard, and activating a powerful seal was especially dangerous. Her knees were shaking and her hands were claiming and the sun seemed ten times hotter than it ever was, so her sweat was a river. She began to weave seals faster, using one hand to clench her fist, point a finger to the sky, and to the ground. The seal was finished in one more hand sign, and IF was so tired she nearly forgot it. However she clasped her hands and whispered, "Seal." The still burning demon began to roar even louder, it becoming less angry and more panicked. More energy began to vanish from it and IF's contact that was glowing vibrantly now shattered as the beast finally lost it life to the Monster Seal just as IF lost consciousness, only to fall on a returned Hookubo who she gave into.
IF couldn't help but laugh at the memory as she drew the blade from the earth, smiling at Hookubo. "What are you here to save me from now, Master?"
"Saving isn't the right word." Hookubo stated, eating away at IF's SP so he could take his original form. He did this without consent as usual, as the two regarded each well. "Warning is." The demon turned his empty voids onto IF. "You need a true demon to seal, now."
Two a day bruddas! Let's aim for that!