3 more demons left.
My vision started to get blurry and my head felt dizzy. The pain in my left arm was increasing with time. I couldn't bear to look if there was any blood coming out, if I did that I could never move.
Dermis finally looked at me and he finally gave me his soft smile. He looked pretty beat up too. Before he could come to me, the remaining demons came forward. Two of them were the same as the ones before, however there was one that looked the most disturbing. She was definitely the leader. A body built of navy blue scales, two small horns sticking out at each end of her head, pale skin and blue lipstick. She had an ordinary figure of a women, yet that small body was emitting such aura.
It was less than Tremious's, yet so strong and suffocating. She gave an ordinary smile, a smile a mother would give to her children. I wonder why? Is it because we killed these demons? Were they her children?
"Why did you kill them?" She pronounced with her demonic voice.
Dermis kept his mouth shut and just picked up his [last breath of Sphinx King] up. I moved forward and Kyoko came alongside.
"I could ask you the same thing, why did you kill all those humans?"
"They bear no meaning to you but those demon did to me"
"Don't lie, a demon does not have emotions. You are only given the ability to speak" Dermis finally spoke with an expressionless face.
"What would you know about our kind?. We kill that have no meaning in this world" she said with her usual motherly voice.
"Stop speaking nonsense!" With that exclamation from Dermis, he charged towards her.
***
Tremious from the sidelines frowned with concern. He realised that with everyone fighting her, there would be no victory. They will all die at her hands. He quickly looked at Ororon, who was trembling with fear while looking at the party being injured in the fight.
Tremious made Ororon face him and locked his eyes with him.
"Kid, stay here. Don't move an inch. I will cast a strong shield on you."
Ororon grabbed Tremious's shirt tightly and made a scared expression.
"If I don't go they will die, do you want them to die?"
Ororon shook his head desperately and bit his lips before letting go off Tremious's shirt.
"I will be back soon"
With that, Tremious levitated and he flew with speed towards the party.
The blue demon pointed her fingers at the party and signalled the two demons to attack first. Those two went ahead with full speed and pounced on the party. One of the demon had a rusty sword while the other wielded daggers.
Dermis countered the sword of the demon. Metal met metal and sparks flew, the vibration reached the tip of his feat. The demon twice of size of Dermis putted his weight on the sword,so that it would pierce Dermis. Kyoko shot her [Merrows Arrow] at the the demon's eye that was fighting Dermis. The demon moved his head on time and dodged her arrows, he stopped his feet, resulting in the ground to shake and Dermis to lose balance. That was enough time for the demon to swing his sword and cut off a piece from Dermis.
His chest was deeply cut and blood rushed out from his body and mouth. Kyoko's mouth fell to the ground and she again pointed her arrow in desperation. Even though, she shot at him, it didn't work. She didn't have enough faith in herself to shoot.
The demon again lifted up his rusty sword and swang at Dermis, now leaving him in the ground. He then gave Kyoko the ugliest stare before coming towards her and grabbing her by the neck.
Kyoko was helpless in his grip as he began lifting her struggling body . Her legs trembled and her breath become shorter and shorter.
'Dangggggg'
With a loud bang, an ounce of red mana flew towards the demon. And it engulfed him immediately. The mana started moving and the demon inside started vaporising. The mana was made into acid. A strength only Tremious could achieve.
Kyoko fell to the ground and started coughing hard. Tremious knelt to her level and held her hand. He placed the healing stones in her hand and said.
"Use it quickly, we need you to save green head"
Kyoko nodded and Tremious hurried towards Dermis. He picked his motionless, blood dripping body up with his mana and used the healing stones on him. It had very low effect. Tremious anxiously searched for Aniel for her healing stone.
Fortunately, Aniel managed to defeat the other demon and she herself was in a bad shape. She quickly located Dermis and her eyes trembled with fear.
"D-dermis?"
"Quick, give your healing stones!"
Aniel quickly fidgeted her pocket in search for it and gave it to him.
With two healing stones, Dermis finally regained his consciousness and met Aniel's anxious eyes. Even in cruel pain, he smiled softly at her.
"Aghhhhhhhhhh!!!!"
Suddenly another loud screaming was heard from a distance. Their faces abruptly turned towards the sound.
"N-no....Ororon" Tremious shuddered.
Ororo was in the grip of the blue demon and she was suffocating him. Ororon's eyes trembled, tears streaming down his face, his feat didn't reach the ground, his heart beating so fast as if it's the last time and his vision slowly started to blur.
When he looked at that blue face from the final time, he recalled a moment from his past.
In that past.
He ran across a bushy forest at dark night in his mother's arms. She was desperately running away from something. She clenched him in her embrace and he looked at his crying mom in confusion.
"Mom?"
"It's fine! It's fine Theo! Mom will protect you!"
'Stab'
"Urgh"
She vomited out blood and fell face flat on the ground. Tears were mixed with sweat and Ororon called out to his mother in desperation. His chest clinched tightly and his little hands trembled at the sight. Tears prickled at the corner of his eyes. A big black shadow appeared from behind, a thing with horns. His mother finally told her last words to her son while holding his little hands tightly.
"Run...."
'Tacklkkkkkkk"
A loud noise bought him back to reality. And his adrenaline rush increased to the max. He was finally down, because of Tremious interruption. He tightly grabbed his chest and breathed heavily, his little mind went into a dilemma and his eyes were shaking.
He clenched his hair next and let out a wild sscream. His little heart beating to the max. Anxiety, fear you name it.
***
I quickly held Ororon in my arms. Something was wrong with him. He was breathing heavily and couldn't hear anything that I said.
"Ororon! Ororon!"
"Quickly pinch his face or something" Kyoko added hurriedly.
'Pinch'
He came back to his senses somehow, and he starred at both us confused. Out of nowhere, he started bowling his eyes out in my embrace and grabbed the both end of my cloth tightly.
I patted his back. It must've been traumatising.
There, Tremious was battling the blue demon. Tremious couldn't be injured or waste his mana like this. We need him to take care of us later.
"Tremious! Take care of Ororon!!" I shouted before jumping towards the blue demon.
I had to someone kill her and send her off. As Master Majong said, if you give up you will be a loser.
With the tip of [Starlight's tomb] I tried my best to penetrate the scales on her body. My hands ached from gripping onto my spear for so long. I could taste the salty sweat that dripped till my mouth, my hair was half wet because of it. I struck again, quickly and sharp but she was faster and calmer. Her demonic energy surrounded me and grazed every part of my body. The demon energy was sharp as many blades and it cut through my body.
My body now was in a state, where if I moved my muscle I would surely lose an arm. Again, out of nowhere, a red mana came towards me and went inside me. My wounds slowly were covered by the red mana and I could stand up again. Kyoko shot her arrows in the meantime to distract her.
She changed her prey and started attacking Kyoko. With one single blow from her, Kyoko went flying to another direction. Tremious looked at me and I nodded by head. He went to save her.
When I finally locked eyes with the blue demon. Instead of finding her, I found a massive wave of demonic energy coming towards me. My body couldn't move, my brain didn't have enough time to process this. I'm doomed.