Book 1 (A Demon's Heart)

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*Book 1: When Worlds Collide* is the first book in the A Demon's Heart series.

### Plot Sypnosis

The story begins with Nisu waking up in his bed. He goes into the royal dining room, with Yujin and Otosan already there, claiming he’s late for breakfast.

Bored of the castle, Nisu jumps out of a tower window and flies around the Underlands. He notices some crystal collectors in a cave, and flies by Demon Mountain. Returning to the castle, he is quickly caught by Otosan.

Otosan doesn’t chastise his son however, and asks if he would like to see more of the world. Nisu agrees and Otosan says he’ll do something about it.

Meanwhile, in the human world, a teenage boy named Blake gets ready for school.

He gets outcasted by his peers. At school, he receives a permission slip to a field trip to Endom Park. Returning home after a miserable day at school, he is greeted by his step-father John and his mother Erica.

Blake gives the permission slip to his mother to sign while he goes in his room and reminisces about his father.

Back in the demon world, Nisu and Yujin are now becoming soulcatchers. Otosan takes the princes to Demon Mountain and introduces them to the Soul General, Gunso.

Gunso then shows the two the soul core, and explains that the need for human souls is to power their world and keep it from “fading into nothingness”.

Then, Nisu is introduced to Jokku, a large and intimidating muscular demon who turns out to be friendly.

The soulcatchers use time travel to go to earth and find some humans. Nisu is shocked to learn that removing their souls practically kills them.

Returning home to the castle, Nisu storms off, leaving his brother and father in confusion.

Back on earth, Blake is on the field trip. He tries to distance himself from the other students, but his bully Max finds him and attacks him.

At home, John is smoking in the house, while Erica disapproves. She asks him not to smoke, since Blake would be returning home soon. John refuses, saying “he’s not my kid, and this is my house.”

Erica quickly goes into the kitchen and drinks some wine. Blake returns to his mother completely drunk and his stepfather being dismissive. He immediately storms up to his room, without saying a word.

Erica notices Blake’s behavior and goes upstairs to ask what’s wrong. Blake snaps at her, telling her to “go finish drinking” and slams the door in her face, distancing himself from her.

Sad and alone, Erica watches tv. Later, she goes into her bathroom and wipes off her makeup to reveal bruises and marks likely from John’s abuse.

That night in the demon world, Nisu has a nightmare stemming from the guilt he feels about taking human souls. Then, during soulcatching, he purposely dosent collect any.

This upsets Gunso, claiming “the son of the king would never disappoint me like this.”

Back at the castle, Kanari has prepared orc eyeball stew for dinner.

Otosan confronts Nisu, and asks him why he didn’t collect any souls. He tells him he thinks it’s wrong, and that humans deserve to live like they do. Otosan disagrees, and the two argue until the king unleashes a sonic yell from his mouth, destroying the dinner.

Nisu storms off again, fed up, ready to make a drastic decision.

That night, Nisu sneaks out of the castle and goes to Demon Mountain, planning to leave the Underlands forever.

Yujin catches him however, and the two fight. Yujin breaks down, blaming himself for Nisu wanting to leave. Nisu corrects him, saying he was never the reason, and it’s mostly their father.

Suddenly, Otosan arrives.

Nisu reveals his plan to leave for good, and Otosan attacks him. Otosan almost defeats him, but Nisu fights back with a blast of fire and successfully escapes through a time travel portal.

Angry, Otosan shuts down the entire system and tells Yujin to go home, threatening him.

After arriving on earth, Nisu gets hit by an airplane and is quickly knocked out cold. Luckily, he lands near Blake’s house, who sees him falling like a comet.

Blake goes outside and brings Nisu into the house, cleaning him up and offering him a rag. The two immediately introduce themselves to each other.

Meanwhile, Otosan enlists Roketa to kill Nisu.