Author's Notes: hello everyone Gingerjam here to bring you a new chapter of EoH and I do apologize for my absence on Friday so here's an extra-long chapter for all of you enjoy.
Demise: ENJOY!
Fi: why are you yelling?
Demise: I DON'T KNOW!
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His golden eyes shot between the two beings above him. 'Who are these people' neither of the two notice Demise wake due to their bickering.
"I can't believe you did that idiot" the woman yelled at the man.
"You were the one who suggested it" the man yelled at the women.
Demise seeing the two bicker took advantage and teleported out of sight of the two. As soon as Demise reappeared he knew that something was wrong, he fell to his knees barely able to move 'my power?' nearly all of his power was put into resisting the will of the planet, but it left him maimed. Staring at his hands he saw the once scaly flesh that covered his arms had completely receded into his still blackened talons leaving white almost diseased looking flesh instead. Demise went over the rest of himself, his once hulking form had withered away to a still strong but thin form. He put his hands up to his face and into his hair, his hair no longer the literal aflame but had a deep iron red to it and his face felt smooth and young he also had eyebrows. Only then, when Demise ceased his examination of himself did he take in his surroundings, black clouds blotted out the sky no discernible light penetrating the blackness. What light that did show showed through the ground under a thin layer of water that stretched off until it met the sky.
Demise unsteadily got to his feet, failing a few times but eventually standing to his slightly diminished stature. 'Ghirahim can you hear me' Demise spoke reopening his mental link to Ghirahim 'Master you're alive!' he heard Ghirahim's annoyingly gleeful voice through his thoughts 'yes I'm alright but I don't know where I am, where are you Ghirahim?' Demise spoke still scanning the environment 'I am still in the world you created…wait I think I see something' Demise heard his servant speak and to his surprise he saw something as well, the base of what seemed to be a massive pillar intricately decorated with sculpted images of men and beasts led off into the clouds several hundred feet away from him. 'Ghirahim what did you find' Demise mentally spoke as he began walking towards the pillar. Their link was silent for a moment and Demise had just reached the pillar when he heard his servant. 'My lord I think I've found some sort of portal it may lead to your location but…uh oh' Demise heard his servant 'what is it' Demise spoke peering up at the massive pillar. 'Sir, hurry back the portals closing. I'll try to keep it open as long as I can' Demise didn't know where to go he scanned the aria once more seeing nothing and decide heed instead to go up.
Demise grabbed hold of the massive toe of one of the statues carved into the pillar, the toe alone stood taller then he himself stood. He sunk his still blackened talons into the hard stone ascending the statue. Claw and release, claw and release he ascended his way up the statue clawing into the serene features of the man it depicted the climb itself made more difficult due to Demise injured arm when suddenly…
"I'd advise against doing such." Demise heard the condescending voice of the woman before. Demise sunk a claw deeper into the statue and turned his head slightly, seeing the women standing far away but her voice resonated in his ears as if breathing down his neck.
"The lord of this realm is a bit fickle when it comes to one defiling his image" the women said looking at Demise. Demise felt the imposing presence her spirit from hundreds of feet away and in his current state he would be unable to defend himself from such a force. 'I can't even defend myself from a stupid Fairy-boy in tights'
"And who might be the lord of this world" Demise spoke looking at the women.
"I've never met him personally but my colleague has…" the women spoke "…he didn't tell me much so you should ask him." Demise grew tired of their speaking arrangements.
Demise released his grip on the face of the statue falling hundreds of feet to the ground. Although he was decidedly smaller he was still massive and his landing shook the ground and making the statue crack wherever Demise had sunk his claws, leading all the way to its face.
"I may be weaker in my current state but I show no respect to anyone I have none for" Demise spoke already despising the man for glorifying himself so pompously with such a monument. He said as he stood face to face with the women. The first thing Demise noticed was her height she was as tall as he if not taller next was her hair; it glowed like the soft embers of a burnt out flame. Her face was of some twisted angel blue skin, a noticeable nose and bloody red eyes but beautiful nonetheless.
The woman raised her hand to Demise's chin "you haven't changed…my lord." Demise flinched at her freezing touch.
"I know the names and faces of every greater demon that serves beneath me and I have no knowledge of you creature" Demise said not recognizing her at all. (I would say he found her familiar but I killed that shtick last chapter) "But whoever you are you're recognition of power is wise"
"You wound me to no end." She removed her hand and turned away.
"Where are you going" Demise said watching her walk away.
"If you Wish to return to your world I suggest you follow" she spoke not turning and continued walking off into the distance leaving Demise no choice but to follow her.
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Link and the gang said their goodbyes ready to return to their time, the young Impa had explained why she could not return with them and had left a solemn taste in all of their hearts. Link had also said his goodbyes to fi who he was just about to place into the pedestal that came from nowhere when suddenly everyone heard Groose yell. They all went into the Maine chamber when they saw the reason, the portal in time that had brought them all hear had disappeared.
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Demise and the unnamed women walked until Demise saw another figure standing in the distance back turned; Demise saw it was the one with the pointed helm. As the man turned Demise immediately saw something that caught his interest, the symbol decoratively inscribed onto the long cloth on the one with the pointed helm he had seen on the Kilt of the unknown man who had assaulted him.
"So you found him." the man said surprised to see Demise.
"Yes and it's your fault idiot, you scarred him off I told you to take that stooped thing off" the women said banging her fist against his helm, making it ring like a bell. Demise only watched the two begin bickering once more and it irked him to no ends. (Again I would have said it seemed it familiar but…)
"Both of you Cease you're trivial bickering before I end it!" Demise commanded the two and they did and Demise smirked.
"Now tell me, who are you two" Demise demanded of them.
"I am Midna former leader of the Twili" the women, Midna said slightly bowing her head.
"And I am Zant usurper k…" he was stopped when Midna punched his helm again making it ring once more. "I told you you could not use that title in my presence idiot." The women spoke sounding very agitated.
"Well excuse me princess" Zant spoke and both Demise and Midna wanted to ring his neck
"Zant, Midna, where does you're allegiances lie?" Demise questioned that what the women said him being her lord.
"To you of course, but I am not you're servant" Midna said making her point clear.
"I will serve you with my dying breathe" the man called Zant spoke to him "I shall be by your side in battle no matter who you face…my master" Zant spoke ready to serve.
Demise smirked wider 'Ghirahim did you hear that' Demise spoke to his other servant 'I don't like the guy' Demise nearly found Ghirahim's jealousy humorous.
"Now…" Demise said facing Midna "you said we could return to my world" he spoke remembering what she did say.
"Of course lord Dragmire" Demises pupils shrank as she said that.
"What, what did you call me?" Demise commanded as she turned away and back.
The women looked confused for a moment then spoke "forgive me force of habit" she apologized and Demise knew he would need answers eventually but first they needed to get out of here.
"Zant please tell me you didn't misplace the portal" Midna spoke to Zant as if he was an idiot.
"Your condescension knows no bound does it princess" venom was apparent in Zant's words. He turned bowing his head. "My masters please follow." with that he turned and walked away Demise and Midna in step behind.
"Are you two always at each other's thoughts" Demise asked Midna as they walked.
He herd her chuckle "I remember you telling me once you did not mind our spats"
Demise only looked at her for a moment seeing her turn and smile as if nothing was wrong. 'Master, are you almost here' Demise heard Ghirahim's nasally voice 'I think so. Ghirahim what of the hero and weapon?' Demise asked 'they booked it the moment you began to explode' Ghirahim answered his question.
As Demise was have his mental conversation with Ghirahim so where the other two members trekking to the portal. 'Why doesn't he remember anything?' Zant mentally spoke to his partner through their own mental link 'I don't know but something seems wrong' Midna responded. 'He needs to remember quickly or were going to be cooked, I don't want to be a lightning fried Zant, but Lightning fried Midna does sound quite delectable.' Midna responded by punching him once again in the helm.
"What I do that time!" Zant said out loud.
"Idiot" Midna spoke and walked on ahead sensing the portal leaving a confused Demise with Zant. They watched her enter the portal unceremoniously, Zant and Demise soon followed.
As soon as they reached the other side Zant and Midna were shocked to see something very strange, an albino like creature standing on the other side.
"M…master what happened" Ghirahim was once more in his (fabulous) normal form shocked to see the state of his master. Demise did tell his servant he was weekend and Demise had made arrangements if such a problem were to occur. Demise raised his hand to his servant once more, Ghirahim arched as his form disintegrated not into a blade this time but into Demise himself. Demise absorbed Ghirahim directly and the black on his fingers traveled hallway up his arms now restoring some of the power he had lost while battling the will of the planet.
"So cruel to those who serve you" he heard Midna say solemnly.
"Those who worship me expect much worse" Demise spoke flexing his hand in front of his face as he did when he regained his humanoid form. 'Wait how am I still like this' Demise questioned the fact that he needed the goddesses soul to restore his humanoid body, and how the planet had taken that away as well as the power it had given him. 'It is not like the planet to be so pitiable' Demise thought as Ghirahim reconstituted himself within Demises head 'master please give warning when you do such things' Ghirahim's almost whining voice annoyed Demise 'you will ask no such things' Demise thought turning off Ghirahim's voice for the time once more, his migraine had now blossomed to a godly headache that needed mending somehow.
"Master where are we?" his new found servant Zant spoke looking at the serene world around them.
"It is a world of my own creation, an arena fitting for a battle that would have gone down in history; unfortunately the world beyond this one had other plans." Demise spoke watching the blue sky begin to darken and turn red as the sun he had kindled began to set.
"Hard to believe someone capable of such evil is capable of something so beautiful" Midna said not speaking of what Demise thought she was.
Demise thought she spoke of the sunset and dints se her looking at him, felt her words go deeper than they should have and responded with something he believed vehemently.
"Only the weak grapple with ideas such as good and evil" Demise spoke watching the beautiful sunset. And a legitimate smile crossed his young features as he did so standing between the other two in the beautiful world feeling the first time in a long time content.