The Demon Story Part 5

*Moose, Wilbur, Charlie, and Larwin are lost for what they should do now. Since the demons are loose and Tarold is unconscious, they are already giving up hope. But when all seemed lost, Moose realized that the entirety of Hancinia and Earth is counting on them to save them all from the demons and if they fail, all worlds are doomed. Moose tells the others that they can’t give up yet and that they need to get Tarold to safety and figure out their next move once they do. They question how they will do that and Moose states that they will worry about that later and that they need to focus on the present at the moment and not dread on the past or what could be of the future.*

*Newly revitalized, the gang leave the tower and immediately head for the exit out of the Cave elf city, but are stopped at the last second by cave elf guards and the group is forced to battle and kill them. Once they are at the exit, they realize that the door they came in through is shut and they cant get out, but then Wilbur steps up and breaks the door open. They take their abandoned car and drive it away from the Boondrak Mountains to a forest and take rest there.*

*They start to wonder how they will solve everything now that it all seems so hopeless, and all of a sudden, all five of their weapons start to glow and a mist pours from them and quickly fills the area. They are baffled over what is happening and then from each weapon comes a foggy blob that slowly assemble into men. The four are shocked at this and ask who the men are and they reveal that they are the champions of their respective elf races, Darinsol, Winthroff, Smorc, Falisent, and Selenthad.*

*Tarold’s friends quickly recognize them and say how honorable it is to meet them. They ask how and why they are here, and they say that their spirits are bound to the weapons they wielded when they were alive and are able to show themselves when they wish. They explain that a very powerful warrior is able to tie his spirit to the weapon they used in their lives and continue to exist in that way. They then say that they chose to come out because Tarold’s friends are lost and don’t know what to do and that they will impart to them their wisdom. First, however, they say that they must heal Tarold before it is to late.*

*The five champions get in a circle around Tarold. Put out their hands, and delharia comes out of them toward Tarold. When they finish, Tarold wakes up and immediately asks where they are and what happened, with his friends explaining everything. Tarold asks what happened to Gaivinore and his friends are confused because they never saw Gaivinore. Tarold then explains to them what happened after they were knocked unconscious and with all five of them caught up, Tarold then sees the champions and recognizes Selenthad among them. Selenthad confirms it and then states that it is time for them to teach Tarold and his friends something very important about the world of Hancinia they hadn’t heard of before.*

*They start by saying that Hancinia has gods that watch over the world and who were also the creators of it. There is Akanth, god of white delharia, Deloire, god of red delharia, Ruon, god of gold delharia, Walise, god of green delharia, Nevesent, god of blue delharia, and Frujel, god of black delharia. Together, the gods created Hancinia and its inhabitants at the beginning of time. Akanth created all organic compounds in the universe for life to be put in, Deloire created all minerals and metals to be utilized for crafting, Ruon created the soul to be put in the organic compounds and give them life, Walise created the atmosphere of Hancinia for living beings to breath and survive, Nevesent created the oceans so that they can be traversed to explore the world, and Frujel created the spirit to give living beings the will to survive and get stronger and smarter.*

*But in the universe, there must always be darkness if there is light to create balance and so to balance out all of the other six delharias, a seventh one was created as well named colorless delharia. It is the delharia of darkness and is named “colorless” because, like the dark, it has no color. It was made in the universe with all the others to corrupt all good things in the universe and make them evil. It is the equivalent of dark matter in Tarold’s universe and is always creeping in on the light to corrupt it.*

*Every type of delharia has a god representing it and who created it; the god of colorless delharia is named Vargonox who was created at the same time as the others. He created colorless delharia to spread his evil throughout all of the universe and slowly corrupt it from the inside.*

*When the other gods noticed that colorless delharia was corrupting Hancinia’s core near the beginning of its creation, they did everything they could to stop it from fully corrupting the world. If colorless delharia corrupts the core of a planet, it quickly spreads to the rest of it, so the gods tried to get rid of it, but by the time realized it was there, it was too late for them to do so. Therefore, instead of taking it out, they created a barrier around the core so that the colorless delharia cannot escape.*

*As life formed on the surface of the planet, so did it in the core. Colorless delharia does not need the other delharias to create functioning living beings since it can do everything the others can by itself. The demons are the living creatures that were created from colorless delharia and have a sole purpose of trying to break out of the barrier and corrupt the world of Hancinia and then move on to others. Therefore, they started to control the cave elves since they were the closest to the demons, with the intention for them to let the demons loose. It was, however, not the cave elves fault for this; they were just the unlucky ones to be cast underground and they are no more evil than the other elves. Selenthad states that Tarold and his friends must stop the demons or they will take over all of Hancinia and there will be no hope left for the world.*

*Selenthad then asks Tarold for them to speak in private and they move away from the others. Selenthad says to Tarold that he has the power to stop the demons using his white delharia. Tarold asks how and Selenthad says that just like how matter cannot be created or destroyed, so can’t delharia of any kind. Selenthad says that because he has white delharia, Tarold has the power of Akanth inside of him and can do what Akanth can do. Because Akanth created all organic molecules in the world using white delharia, he can also change the molecules’ composition. When Tarold seems even more confused, he says that Tarold can change what organic molecules are made of to the way he wants. He can take the colorless delharia in the demons and refine it to cleanse it of the darkness inside of them.*

*Selenthad states that he made a mistake when he fought the demons during his time. Instead of getting rid of them, he simply trapped them away again, delaying the problem for another time and for another person to deal with, that person being Tarold. He says that it is his fault that the present is the way it turned out to be, but there is no point in dwelling on the past, for they must forget their mistakes to create a better future.*

*Tarold now realizes what he must do and thanks Selenthad and the other champions for their information and advice. They say that the pleasure was all theirs’ and if the five of them ever need the champions help again, they will show themselves in times of dire need. The champions then go back into their respective weapons and the mist disappears. Tarold says that he knows what to do and how they will defeat the demons, but they must first tell the rest of the world about the recent events.*

*They take their car to Moarbal, the closest city to them, and make their way quickly to the headquarters to speak to the major chief of the iron elves, named Guldrin. They tell him that the demons escaped their caves and are now planning on an apocalypse of the entire planet. At first Guldrin didn’t believe them, but when he realized who they were, immediately changed his mind. Guldrin says that he saw the demons, or what he thought earlier were birds, to be gathering at the center of the continent, Mount Golrath. He tells them that they will do a preemptive strike on the demons before they can do it to them.*

*Guldrin assembles his army and they all start to travel to Mount Golrath. He also notified the other major chiefs about what happened and for them to join the iron elves against the demons. The iron elves bring their heavily fortified and powerful tanks and various other weapons, too. Once they get to their destination, they are all bewildered to see a giant swarm of demons assembling together in a tornado-like thing. Tarold calls out for the demons to surrender or they will be stopped and then Gaivinore crashes next to them. He says that Tarold just made it easier for the demons to kill them since they saved them the trouble of coming to them and that all of the elf tribes will fall before the demons. He then orders the demons to attack the iron elf army and the entire tornado of demons scatters and all of them rush toward the elves.*

*A long battle then engages where the iron elves have technology on their side, but they are vastly outnumbered by all of the demons. Tarold and his friends join the battle and battle many demons by themselves. The iron elves put up a good fight, but begin to lose due to the sheer amount of demons there are and become overwhelmed.*

*But to their relief, the other elf races arrive to aid them in the battle with their own armies. The star elf army brings their airship fleet, the wind elves bring an army of powered motorcycles, and the dusk elves brought their tamed beasts which they rode and sky machines designed to look like animals, with the dusk elf major chief, named Lyrond, to lead them.. The battle then becomes even because the elves powerful instruments, war machines, and newly increased numbers are now equal to the abilities and numbers of the demons.*

*Tarold tells Gaivinore how he is outmatched and that he should give up, but Gaivinore states that Tarold still hasn’t seen the full power of the demons and once they do, the battle will quickly be over. Gaivinore then orders the demons to transform. All of a sudden, the demons stop fighting and wrap themselves up with their wings and stay like that for a minute. The elves continued attacking them, but quickly stopped when the beams and lasers just bounced off of them. The elves watched with horror as the demons broke out of their wings and now turned from red to a dark purple color with an aura.*

*The battle then resumes, but the demons are now much more powerful and pose a much greater threat now. Tarold then faces Gaivinore, who is also more powerful now, and engages him in battle. Gaivinore turns out to be very powerful and being able to use all kinds of attacks such as eye lasers, demon blasts, and striking with a large sword he carries with him. Tarold uses his blade of Selenthad to counter his offenses, but Gaivinore is too powerful and Tarold cannot match him in combat.*

*Gaivinore creates a crack in the ground which opens up to a deep hole filled with purple demon fires. Tarold is brought to the ledge and tries to get back up, but Gaivinore then burns Tarold’s hands off with his eye beam. Tarold screams in agony and tumbles down the hole, all the way to the bottom, and lands on a ledge. Gaivinore jumps down and says that this is the end of Tarold’s life and prepares to stab him.*

*But just as Tarold is about to get impaled, he has a vision; he sees Selenthad who tells him that he cannot give up and he has to hang on to his hope, for the only way to defeat the demons is to have strong positive emotions which overpower the evil that the demons use. With the vision ended, Tarold then goes into a super-overdrive-delharia mode and quickly dodges Gaivinore’s sword and runs toward his sword. Tarold picks it up and realizes that the place where his hands used to be now have light in the shape of hands holding the sword.*

*Gaivinore then says that Tarold has some tricks up his sleeve, but Gaivinore still has not reached his form of maximum power. He states that he is able to go into a state of power that few demons can achieve to go into and which will make him ten times more powerful than he already is. He wraps himself up in his wings like before and transforms once again a minute later. Now he does not look like he posses a physical body and all Tarold can see is pure darkness: pure colorless delharia. Gaivinore’s body becomes made of pure colorless delharia and all that can be seen of his face now is his eyes and mouth which are white. The flames around them also become black and emit a black light which one would think to be impossible due to the laws of physics. Gaivinore says that Tarold can now see the pure power of the god Vargonox; Gaivinore says that he is the Mortal Incarnation of Vargonox, who assumed a mortal form after he created all colorless delharia in the universe.*

*Gaivinore then quickly attacks Tarold with now lightning-fast speed with his sword which can now cut through solid rock like it is paper. He sends the two of them even further down into Hancinia then they were before. Tarold parries Gaivinore’s attacks, but is now unable to keep up with Gaivinore’s new unbelievable power and starts to lose. When Tarold becomes tired, Gaivinore stops attacking and says how there is nothing left for Tarold to do and he will die now. Gaivinore shoots a demonic blast at Tarold which starts to corrupt him with colorless delharia like before, but now incredibly more powerful. It quickly corrupts Tarold’s arms and legs, then waist and torso, then neck and forehead, until all that is left is his eyes which slowly start to become corrupted to.*

*But just before they do, Tarold has a flashback of all of the people he cares about, of the lands and cities of Hancinia he has seen, of all of the adventures he has had up to this moment in time; and as he sees this all, he hears Selenthad’s voice saying how he must have hope, echoing in his mind. Then from Tarold’s eyes comes a bright beam of pure light and the corruption in him slowly leaves his body and he becomes made of pure white light to match Gaivinore’s pure darkness.*

*Gaivinore is baffled at how he managed to escape his corruption and angrily tries to slash at Tarold who swiftly dodges and then jumps onto Gaivinore’s arm and cuts it off. Gaivinore screams in pain and Tarold then with the same unmatchable speed cuts off his other arm and legs. He kicks Gaivinore’s sword away and he Tarold then goes up to Gaivinore and shoots him with a beam of light. The beam enters Gaivinore and he slowly starts to become brighter and brighter from the inside until he explodes with a beam of light shooting into the sky so incredibly powerful that it parts the clouds. Tarold then goes back to normal and Gaivinore is now back to his normal state as well.*

*Gaivinore says that Tarold may have won this battle, but he will reincarnate into a new body and no matter how many times Tarold kills him, he will never truly die and Tarold will never truly win. Gaivinore’s body then turns grey and he decays into dust. Tarold notices that when the light disappeared from his hands, he could now see two fully regrown hands just like he had before.*

*He quickly gets out of the deep abyss he was in and sees that everybody is cheering and the battle appears to be over. Tarold’s friends go up to him and ask if Tarold killed Gaivinore and he says he did and Tarold’s friends say that a huge beam of light shot out from where they were fighting and at the same time all of the demons exploded into dust. Tarold is glad that they won, but then he faints right where he stands, to his friend’s dismay.*

*When he next wakes up, he is in a bed and feels sore. Larwin comes in and sees that he is awake and gives him breakfast. Tarold thanks him and asks where he is and how long he was unconscious. Larwin says that he is in the guest room of the Moarbal castle and has been unconscious for two weeks, saying how he must have been really tired after all that had happened. Larwin says that they armies went back to their bases and everyone celebrated their victory and for saving the world. Everyone now thinks of Tarold as a hero who saved everyone from the demons and Tarold can’t believe it. Larwin says that he has a surprise for Tarold and shows him to a balcony.*

*Tarold sees hundreds of people standing on the ground below them and when they see Tarold they cheer for him. Guldrin then comes onto the balcony and congratulates Tarold for defeating Gaivinore and saving them all. He thanks him and Guldrin then announces to all of the people that he will give awards to the war heroes. Wilbur comes forward and he is presented a medal and dubbed “Champion Wilbur” and the people cheered. Charlie came forward and was presented a medal and dubbed “Champion Charlie” and the people cheered. Moose comes forward and he is presented a medal and dubbed “Champion Moose” and the people cheered. Larwin came forward and was presented a medal and dubbed “Champion Larwin” and the people cheered. Lastly, Tarold came forward and is presented a medal and dubbed “Champion Tarold” and the people cheered loudest for him.*

*Tarold then sees that a cave elf walks beside Guldrin and Tarold quickly warns him that there is a cave elf, but Guldrin says that its okay. Guldrin states that the cave elf tribe has been treated like outcasts for generations, but that time ends now and the cave elves will now reenter the union of the elf tribes and will be treated as an equal member of the elf civilization once again. They have also appointed a new major chief to guide them into this peaceful future who is the man standing next to Guldrin. He says that he is Major Chief Washong and even before Tarold’s adventure, he was opposed to the conflict between the cave elves and the rest of the elf tribe and says that as Major Chief he will make good work to restore harmony between the cave elves and its sister tribes. Tarold is happy for him and everyone on the ground continues to cheer for Tarold and his friends.*

*Guldrin then says to Tarold and the gang that, with the cave elves help, they have made a discovery and figured out how to create a portal machine that will take Tarold and his friends back to Earth. Guldrin says that if Tarold, Charlie, Moose, and Wilbur want to go back, they can and its entirely their choice. Tarold thinks about it and says that he would rather stay on Hancinia, with the crowd starting to clap when he said that.*

*Tarold and his friends join together and admire the praise they’re getting and will forever remember this moment of their lives.*

### ***Epilogue:***

*Butch is in prison and a jailer comes with prison gruel and tells Butch to eat up. Butch asks for how long he will be imprisoned and the jailer says that considering that he was the right-hand man to Wagdonof he will be in for at least twenty years, maybe more or less depending on his behavior. Butch then says that he actually thinks that he won’t be in prison for very long at all, then a beam shoots out from his eyes.*