"Oh, come now, Harold, we are all friends here, right? Since you decided that this wasn't good enough, and wiped your brain, let me remind you, Zack! Heslin Zero, millionaire, and extraordinaire, but now I am this thing because of you!" Zero said to me and then walked around to stand in front of me, and I flinched despite not being able to move.The creature that stepped in front of me was any but what the voice suggested. Instead, horrendous and graphically disturbing just could not encompass all the random teeth, eyes, and mouths all over the body.Zero had galaxy-sprayed skinned with fast rotating solar systems that actively floated around the inside, but it was hard to concentrate on anything. Each time I did try to follow it, I would run into a mouth filled with a red swirling substance the spiraled inside or an eye."So, what do you think? King of everything, but what did I have to give up? Everything, of course, because I don't get a choice in this anymor

"How do I know that I can trust you? You could just kill them the moment I get to you, right?" I asked, and Neft's face distorted into a smile filled with sharp teeth."Think of it this way. Most of the women and the missing ones that I have been trying to find and kill for the last thirty-odd years are at the beach working on some strange metal shell. I should be killing them, but that will just end up getting me into a fight with someone that is very angry and unreasonable," Doa explained."What do you hope to gain from talking to me? Do you think I am going to spare you after all that you have done and are still doing?" I questioned, and Neft's head nodded to me with an understanding look that annoyed me."Yes, I do see where you are coming from, but it is a matter of view, my boy! In this life, a demon has one task. Conquer until there is nothing left, and then we all move on! But if we die, that doesn't happen until we are born again! I don't really want to

"Alright, Kali, this is Hanna; I want you to take her back to the Keep. Grogvel, can Windorf and you escort them back? I need to go rescue Mex; Dao took him," I explained to everyone as my Elemental partners gathered around me."We can, but are you sure that it is a good idea?" Gorgvel asked me as he made a grinding sound scratching his chin."Don't have much of a choice; I have to go deal with Dao, but he has Demons surrounding the Keep, and I don't want to send the girls back there alone. You can also help defend if it comes to that. The rest of the girls are at the beach right now, but they will be coming back at some point, and they are being watched as well," I explained."What happened there? How did everything become so blown around?" Windorf asked in disbelief, but then his eyes went big. "Where is my daughter?!""She is with the girls, and she is safest there, so you two need to get there and make sure that the place is ready to defend if it come

I looked over Crater City as I had dubbed it and examined the buildings, but most of them were typical brick buildings with clay tile roofs. I did count at least ten blacksmith shops, and that made sense.The most prominent things were three sizeable black circus tents that looked to be about one hundred and fifty feet across. There was a much larger one at the far end of the crater, and the bright red light was on top of it.That must be where I would find Dao, so I started to jog around the edge of the crater, and as I passed on of the smaller tent, I started to hear cheering and screaming. There was a crazy, frantic, wild, panic, but excited aura coming from the tent, and I knew it. The ring.That savage excitement of wanting to pound the other person down until they give up or stop moving. The crowd cheering you on to do that and so much more; the energy of the place was something I was familiar with.I kept moving and started to run faster, but I sta

I stepped forward and into the red wall, and then the lights went out, and I was lying on some kind of dirt. I opened my eyes, and I was staring into a kind of purple sand.'Where am I?'There was no answer from Hero, so I pushed myself off the ground and saw Mex stand at the edge of a sandy ledge. Doa was groaning on the ground while grabbing at his neck, but I ignored him; Mex was looking at something."What is it?" I asked as I got up, and Mex whipped around."Wait!? Why did you come in! I thought that you just threw this idiot in here with me and be done with us! You're not supposed to die! The girls will hunt both of us down in our next lives and kill us both!" Mex said as he threw up his hands in the air in frustration."Yes, but we aren't going to die here, so calm down. There is no way that I could just leave you here, and maybe I should have just killed Dao rather than bringing him with us, but that's water under the bridge now," I said as