Welcome To Walpurgis

***Date Finished***: th, 2023----

***Setting:***

***Characters Involved***:
* Dante Esposito
* Cyrus
* Roksana
* Yaroslav

## Enter the Demon Lords

A blonde haired woman stood the middle of an empty wooden room as she prepared the seats and decor of the room. She hummed to herself happily as she looked over at the preparations taking place and let out a sigh of content.

"I can't believe how much time it takes for this kind of thing," she said with a laugh that echoed off the walls. Her voice was high, sweet and carried a lilting rhythm, but her words were deep and filled with meaning.

"My king and his guests should be arriving soon so I should put my gear on soon. But then again, I believe I'm still missing something from making this area look perfect." She thought outloud. She walked across the room and grabbed a small pouch at her waist. Taking a moment to look through its contents, she found what she wanted and quickly slipped them into her hair. With a final glance around the room, she stepped out of the way as a large portal opened up in the far corner of the room.

"Oh? I wonder who came so early, my king did say he'd be here soon." She questioned before walking toward the portal.

"Oi! Been a while huh Blondie!?" A loud boisterous voice roared through the room as a young man with bright red eyes walked through the portal.

"For the last time, sir Felos, I may be blonde, but I am not named Blondie and I am one of the saintesses of our kings religion. I would prefer if you didn't show such lack of respe-"

"Yeah, yeah, my bad Blondie I forget hahahahaha!" The loud man known as Felos replied, cutting off the woman half way through her sentence. He then placed his fist on his chest and smiled, "it's been far too long, Lady Cielo.... Better?"

"Much." She replied before looking around. "Is our king on his way?" Cielo asked.

Felos laughed, "Let me guess, you're wondering where your king is right now aren't ya?" "Well... yes." "He'll be along shortly, don't worry. Though if I had to guess, by the looks of things he's going to try and play us all like a bunch of fools."

"Why do you say that?" Cielo asked, turning back to face Felos.

"You know how he gets, I'm pretty sure he's being a bit paranoid and is having Queen Scarlet standby at the castle in case someone thinks they're clever and attacks while he's here." Felos answered.

"I see..." Cielo said with a frown, "And what about you?"

"Me?" Felos asked, raising an eyebrow. "Will you be joining in the fun?"

"Hm? Me? Of course. Did you think I would leave my king alone with you? It is my job to ensure his safety here afterall." Cielo nodded with a smile, "Yes, yes it is." The two had shared a quick laugh before Felos turned back to the portal and looked through it. "Ah, good, he's here."

Through the portal walked a young man with beautiful snow white hair that was spiked up and pointed to the sky. He wore two golden earrings and had unblemished tan skin along with a pair of golden amber eyes. He walked with such grace, radiating a pure energy from his gentle genuine smile. He wore a black turtleneck with a cross necklace adorned.

"Are the preparations ready?" The man asked as he walked to the center seat.

"Of course my lord." Cielo replied as she bowed her head before the man.

"Thank you, you've done a wonderful job on this." The man said as he sat down upon the chair.

"It's my pleasure, my lord." Cielo replied with a bow of her own.

"I shall then open the portals to the rest then." He commented before snapping his fingers, manifesting portals all over the room. There he sat, the center of the conference, the number one demon lord, the Arch Dragon, known worldwide as the King of Dragons and figurehead of the Draco Religion, Dante Esposito.

Outside the room dimension where Walpurgis will be taking place, in the kingdom that sits in the center of her territory two dragons fly around the city, fly down close towards the street and up over the buildings, letting the people see these might creatures in awe as they sore with majestic grace and power before finally landing on to the cities castle. Within that the castle of the kingdom's captial, is the home of a Demon Lord. Within it is a young girl that is seen taking a bubble bath within a large room that also serves as mutiple rooms placed together as it appears to also serve as a bed room, office space and even a dinning area all in one room. The young girl raised her arms out to stretch. "Mrmmmr..."

"Your highness, the time is near for your departure, i must insist you prepare." A voice in a deep, rough but noble tone spoke to her out of her view.

"Yea yea fine." The girl replied. She threw her hands back down into the water with an annoyed sigh. "Ughh damn that Dante! He barges in my domain, insist i help him approve for Walpurgis without giving me a valid reason, then expects me to join as vice host." She got out of the water and and calmly walked towards her bedding area, showing no concern for her indecency until she walked by a pillar and passed by completely dry and clothed in her usual get up. "The bastard didnt even bother to stop and consider i have things to do, Now i have to drop everything cause big bad hotshot who thinks hes king of the demon lords just cause hes the first seat leader, tells me to. I'll burn him in hell one day." She made it to her bedding area and stopped at her dressing mirror to work on her hair

"You shouldnt say such harsh words like your highness. If he were to ever get wind of this i'm affaid of..." The same voice spoke up once again before being cut off.

"Oh lighten up, it's not like i was being serious or anything it was just a joke, geez." She complained.

"Even so my lady, Lord Dante has supported you for many years, even from when you had nothing, even if you are considered equal now, you should still show him some form of respect." The voice insisted.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door to her room before it opened. "PARden the INTRUsion your HIGHnesssss" A horrid high pitched voice spoke as it wondered into the room. The man who just entered is a very short, elderly man with a repulsive face almost like a witches face but with male features walking with his staff as a cane. "ALL the PREparATIONs for your DEPARture are COMplete your HIGHnesssss. Your ABsence will HARdly be NOTIccccced." He informed her.

"Yea sure, thanks." She replied, hardly pay attention as shes more focused on her hair.

"Before you leave your highness, I should inform you that the enemies has dropped their weapons in surrender and handed over offerings in the form of the soldiers offsprings in exchange for sparring them from your destructive judgment, meanwhile the heritics who boldly claim you to be a fraud have been looked into and from we know, they have no identification within the city." The noble voice inform while she finishes up her hair

"Which means the heritics are either invaders after my image, or spys from the enemy hoping to destroy my kingdom from the inside while we focus on their surrender." She hypothesized from what info she was given.

"Y...yes your highness." The noble voice stuttered to agree.

Suddenly the portal to Walpurgis opens within her room. "If your worried that my disappearance will change how the people view me, then rest easy." She stood up from her dressing mirror and walked towards the portal. "They may think their one or two steps ahead but i believe thats what makes this game all the more interesting." She says with a confident tone, almost sounding like an actual princess. "If they think they can underestimate my power by pulling cheep tricks like i wont bother sending them to hell." Paused for a moment before her facial expression changed to a more sinister evil look. "Ill be sure to bring hell straight to them." Her face then changed back to normal. "Now come you two, if im going to sit through this boring meeting so will you." She said to the two men in her room."

"Yes your highness but before we do..." She stopped to look towards the noble man. From there she saw a man dressed as a knight claded in armor with his sword unsheathed in hand standing before seven men and women that were tied up and blind folded with tears pouring from each of their faces begging for forgiveness while some were chanting prayers that were made in her name. These people appeared poor as they were barely covered in ragid clothing and none of them looked to be the warrior type. "How should we punish these citizens who dare to show disrespect to their highness?" The knight asked his princess.

The princess looked at them with uninterested, dull eyes before turning back to face the portal. "Make an example out of them." She said as she continued walking towards the portal. Their screams and panic echoed throughout the room as they begged their princess for mercy with every ouce of will they had left only to fall on deaf ears that failed to catch her attention before becoming silent by the sound of slashing and blood splattering.

She entered the portal and didnt stop before arriving at her seat shortly followed by the short wizard and noble knight who stopped just past the portal.

From there she sat, the right hand of the conference, the second seat and oldest of the demon lords, the Dragonoid, feared as the Lord of Destruction and princess of the Dragon Faithful, Tori Dragneel.

"Oh? It's been quite some time Tori." Dante said before giving a soft smile to the demon lord.

Before she could respond, a single woman walked out of a nearby portal. She had a pair of black wings on his lower back, along with a pair of demonic horns on her head. She wore a pure white dress as she walked up to the empty seat.

"My lord, your seat is ready." The woman commented as she looked over to the empty seat.

"I'm coming," an almost groaning voice replied as a single man walked over and through the portal. Unlike the woman, the moment this man took a single step in the room, a cold hollow breeze swat through the room. The sound of his black shoes echoed through the room as well, as each step paused and echoed independently. He tucked his hands into his pocket and found his seat.

"Hm, it appears the rest have not arrived yet. Let's see if any have died or not." The young man says as he looked down at the floor and yawned.

Ciming out of the black portal next to Nero, a young woman stepped out with luminescent white skin, blue eyes and red and white hair. wearing a gothic lolita red outfit. As she took a step out of the portal a young man followed behind her with short white hair and cyan blue eyes with a regal-esque black and gold outfit as his eyes glazed from side to side to the other demon lords in the room.

"We have arrived lord Gavino," the young woman spoke as she looked up at him, "let me get your seat ready."

"Thank you Saria," Gavino replied giving his guard a single nod, his tone deadpan but chilling as Saria went on ahead to get his seat prepared. Gavino headed forwarded down the hall with a elegance to him as his footsteps could be hear as he made his way towards his seat. Gavino then took his seat as he looked to the other demon lords before him.

"Wonder what this is about," Gavino questioned as he slumped in his seat.

Almost immediately after Gavino took a seat, another being emerged from one of the remaining portals, their appearance was surrounded by white feathered case that glowed with divinity. Once this figure full entered the room, the feathered case opened up revealing to actually be large wings with long pink hair flowing out with gold irises with purple cross pupils eyes being seen through the flowing hair revealing this figure to be an angel. The Purifier, Sephra. Unlike the other demon lords who have already arrived with subordinates, Sephra arrived alone.

"Why, hello everyone! Hahaha!" Sephra cried out with joy, waving her hands while giggling. "It's good to see everyone, ive missed you all." She continued. "Hello, Sir Dante." She bowed a little towards the leader of the demon lords. "I dont see lady Feuer here, thats a shame, i hope shes doing well." She let out a friendly grin. "Oh and Tori! How are you? Ah i miss the days when we used to play together, we simply must get together again some time!" She greeted her old friend. She then looked towards Nero, quietly clenching her teeth together. "tch, And you Nero, looking sinister as always. I see your still among the living thats a real shame." She looks at him with her eyes closed and a friendly smile, hiding her genuine malice towards him behind her smile. She then looked towards Gavino and her mood suddenly skyrocketed back to her caring and friendly demeanor. "And Gavino hi! your looking elgant as always, how do you always keep yourself looking like that? Can teach me your fashion tips later? Hahahaha!" She eagerly walked over to her seat and sat down, placing her elbows on the table while resting her head on her hands while bobbing back and forth.

Meanwhile, outside the room dimension in another realm different from the regular world. A realm of blackness void that appears to stretch on infinitely with billions of sparkling stars that spread everywhere litting up the darkness. Within this realm has planet-like orbs floating in the air each with their own customizations and architecture. On these surfaces appear several rainbow colored constructions such as pathways under massive arches that can bridge to other orbs with pillars, crystals and trees surrounding them with floating bubbles, as well as several buildings and a massive ship shown from a distance. Small glowing orbs of light can be see flying by in multiple directions. This realm is known as the Spiritual World and is home to all the Elementals, the elementals live freely in this realm, freed from the burden of having to be forcfully summoned by the humans.

One of the pathways within this realm leads to a floating asteroid with a flat top. On the surface of this asteroid is constructed to appear as the indoors of a palace but lacks any exterior walls making the interior visible to the outside. Walking down from the stairwell is a tall, slender, attractive, and light skinned woman with three beauty marks below her right eye with shoulder length black hair wearing a highly revealing and open fur collared long coat, with heart shaped buttons, short shorts that resemble panties with a heart on it, and thigh high boots.

As she walked down the stairs, glowing orbs of light began flying towards her and hover around her, letting out telepathic screeches crying out to her at once, too many to make out what any of them are saying however the woman shows no concern for their chattering and looked down towards the bottom of stairwell to see two line of elementals hovering between the pathway all bowing towards her. The woman barely acknowledge the elementals and walked through without any form of interations. As she made her through she finds an elemental hovering between the bowing elementals awaiting her approach. "The time has come your majesty." The elemental informed.

The woman walked past the elemental with no change in her expression before coming to a stop. The elemental then turned to her. "Please your majesty, i beg you to reconsider. With your disappearance i fear for what might happen. With the open gates, any human can come in at any time to claim a spirit of their own, and i fear with you gone they use that advantage to take whom ever they wish however way they can. I fear for their methods. Please, do not go to walpurgis. Remain here and maintain peace within the Spiritual World"

"Excuse me?" Feeling insulted, the woman turned her head towards the elemental. "You have the nerve to question my motives and tell me what to do?" She quickly reached out and tapped her finger onto the elementals forehead causing the elementals around her to flee in fear of her wrath. "Such insolence."

The Elemental was panicked on what she was going to do but froze himself when she tapped her finger on his head and came to a state of fear with sweat dripping down his head as her finger remained on that spot. "P..please your majesty i beg for your forgiveness." He stuttered as his skin slowly became pale.

"Ive already made contingency's for such an outcome. Do you truely believe that I, the Elemental Queen, would be so foolish as to be unprepared?"

"N...no your majesty." The elemental stuttered to answer with black veins suddenly shown over his face.

"As for my leaving, isnt that precisely why i left you in charge? You've protected the Spiritual World before, i fail to see how you suddenly lack the ability to do this one simple task to do that again with my absence. If anyone should disturb my world, with me gone then wouldnt that place the blame entirely in your hands? Or were you planning on pinning the blame on me for your failure?" She glares at him with scowl eyes.

"I...i would never, y...your majesty." Fear overwhelmed the frozen elemental as his body was flicker fading in and out of existence.

Suddenly the portal to walpurgis opened up and the elemental queen stood there for a moment glaring at the frightened elemental. After a brief pause she removed her finger from his forehead causing the elemental to collpase to ground caughing and inhailing deeply as he went back to normal.

The queen approached the gate. "Defend my childen well, do not fail me." She said as she went inside.

She then emerged from the portal inside the dimension room with two small orbs of light orbiting around her. She scanned the room to see everyone that arrived before her. "Hpm, I didnt expect everyone here to arrive before me, I might have dilly dallied for a brief moment but i still thought i was pretty quick to arrive." She arrived at her seat and sat down with her arms crossed. "You've all earned a small ounce of my respect for not being as slow as you all appear to be." She says with her eyes close as she leaned back in her chair. "Now if only the rest can arrive sooner rather then having the nerve to keep me waiting." This woman, the queen of the Elementals, Zenobia.

Just then, the portal to walpurgis opened as a young woman with wolf-like ears sprung out with a confident smirk on all fours.

"HEEEEEEEY ALL!!!!" the young woman screeched with enthusiasm as she rolled herself up vertebra by vertebra as she chuckled while a young woman with blue wolf ears appeared behind her with a worrying expression on her face as she let out a sigh.

"Lady Yolanthe, did you honestly have to make an appearance like that," the young wolf lycanthrope asked in a shameful tone.

"Come on Ami, I am what I am and I do what I want." Yolanthe snickered as she nonchalantly headed over to her seat then sat herself down peering over to the other demon lords with a cheeky smile on her face showing no sign of weakness on her face either to show off her dominance or to simple mock them.

Meanwhile in another part of the world outside the room dimension. An area where the sky is clouded by thick dark clouds that render the entire landscape in darkness. Within this darkened landscape, many factories can be found spewing out black smoke that rises into the sky becoming apart of the black cloud that covers the sky and within these factories are the sounds of mining echoing outside each and every factory. Within the center of this monstrous landscap covered in darkness stands a mighty fortress. The dark cloud that covers the land strangely doesnt reach this fortress and instead circles around it so the clear sky can shine down upon it. Within this great fortress, practically every monster of every race lives within this massive fortress, happily living their lives in coexistence with each other under the shining light free from human civilization.

However in the castle of this fortress, the ruler of this civilization, one of the demon lords lurks in the darkness, standing before a large red magic circle and experiments with it as hes blasting the circle with small amout of magic spells from his hand until he heard foot steps coming from behind him. "Was your mission a success?" The demon lord asks without turn to see see who was the one approaching.

A man of an unknown monster race that is covered in scales, emerges from the shadows, sticking his split tongue out while hissing. "Yesssss massssster. I have gathered the item you ssssssearch for." The man says as he places something down before him before bowing to the demon lord. "We are now one sssssstep clossssser to the haven we sssssseek." The man says in rejoice.

"Do not let this one little victory go to your head. The real cause for celebration will be when we finally accomplish are true goal. Dont ever forget that."

"Yesssss massssster." the man bows his head.

Another man emerges from another part of the shadows. He was a tall man of a fairly muscular build, with a black-dotted, pale grayish complexion. His anatomy was quite strange in that his upper torso, arms and legs were all extremely muscular, whereas his waist was incredibly skinny, his pelvis jutting out at an unnatural angle. "That leaves only two more keys to discover and we already know where they are. Please master, let me go retrieve **that** one. I am the best choice to get the job done." He says with one hand on his chest bowing just a bit to the demon lord.

"HO ho ho ho!" A laughing can be heard in the opposite direction as a clown man dances his way out of the shadows and bows in a dramatic pose to the demon lord before looking back at the disfigured man. "Dont make me laugh! Oh wait! i just did. whoopsie!" The clown covered his mouth with his hands and blushed in a sarcastic way.

"grrrrmmm" The disfigured man groaned at the clown. "Got something you want to say clown?" He asked.

"Why yes now that you mention it. You are so confident you think do this single handledly? Ho please, you cant even catch a cold much less **that** target. Its way over your disfigured head green man." The clown informed, taking on various comical stances while i talks.

"Grrrr! What was that!?" The disfigured man was outraged.

"Ah zip it you walking corpse." A regular looking man appears from the shadows and leans against the wall. "Your all giving me a headache. Just send me to get both of the targets, ill settle everything before you know it" The regualr man let out a grin.

"And what makes you so special?" Another figure emerges in the shadows beside the regular man. This man was covered in black cloak that apears to be made of magical power as the cloak itself appears to be fire rising off his body and hovers into the room rather then walks. "Your all useless to the master. So dont act all high and mighty." He says

Tension began to rise to every subordinate in the room as they all clintch their fists almost about to rise it against each other until. "Enough" A calm spoken voice came from the demon lord who remains unchanged as he continues his focus on the magic circle before finishing it and walks in the direction the scally looking man was standing. "There has been a change in plan." He said as he passed the scally man and began walking up a set of stairs. "A new unforseen possibility has emerged itself in your absence." He calm said as he made his way up the stairs.

"Something unforseen master?" one of the subordinates asked as they all made their way to the base of the stairs and kneeled on one knee before their master.

"For reasons i dont know, it would seem Demon Lord Dante, along with the approvals of Demon Lord Tori and Demon Lord Gavino has requested a walpurgis that will begin in any moment now." He said as he continued climbing the stairs.

"What? Walpurgis?" They all repeated at once.

The demon lord finally made his way to the top of the stairs and sat down on his throne looking down on his subordinates. "With Walpurgis under way, all the demon lords will be gathered in one spot. With their assistance, our powers combine will be enough to break the lock even without aquiring the keys necessary. I will have them join my cause for a better world." He informed his subordinates.

"B...but master, this is under the assumption that the other demon lords will be willing to join you. You cant possibly be placing the entire hope of your goal on their own decisions." The normal looking man stutters as he nervously informed the demon lord.

"No i fully expect them to join my cause. They cant pass down my ideal world we have envisioned. They would have to be fools to turn down an opportunity like this." He informed the subordinate. "Clout." He quickly calls out to the clown and throws something at him which the clone catches and looks at it. "I entrust this item to you. Be sure to use it when the opportunity presents itself."

"Yes master." Clout bows in response.

Just then the portal to walpurgis opens and the demon lord rises from his throne and approaches it. "But master, what of the other keys?" The spirit energy man asks.

The demon looks towards his subordinates. "Leave **that** target for now, send your men to search the other. I expect results. You two come with me." He points to the clown and the disfigured man who vanished and appeared behind him.

"We wont fail you master." The enegy man said.

The demon lord walked through the portal and emerged into the dimension room with his subordinates, stomping his staff on the ground like cane with the charms at the top clinging against the staff as he made his way to his seat.

"Huh, I didn't think I would be summoned here on short notice, but alas, here we are," a voice sighed in a lamenting tone, as she stepped through the portal wearing a long purple dress and a black shroud that covered her head. She unveiled herself as another woman appeared behind her with long blonde hair, blue eyes and sporting pointy ears like her mistress.

"We don't have much of a choice milady Bijou," the blonde elf replied as they proceeded down the hall.

"Honestly, did it have to be at this time, Salomé," Bijou whined a bit, "I was about to lay down for a nap."

"Your nap can wait, now march," Salomé snapped as they continued forward as they headed to dimension room where the other subordinates were then took her seat as she sighed once more then gave them a polite smile.

Not long after that another figure walked into the portal, covered in a large robe carried by large sets of silver sholderpads. He looks around and discovered everyone else had alreaday arrived. "My apologies, it would see i have kept you all waiting." He walked over to the table, his subordinates wearing matching black cloaks and purple uniforms with black hoods covering both of their faces, clashing their boot into the other before taking a stance commonly known to military soldiers grabbing their hands behind their backs and staying behind after entering. The Demon Lord Zel Silvers.

"With that we have everyone here!" Dante announced as he took his seats as all the portals closed at once. "I shall open the discussion to any new subjects any of you would like to add onto the discussion today. So go ahead and add to our agenda, if not I shall begin."

"How about we start with the topic we're here for rather then starting the side topics out of the gate." Tori suggested with no concern of what the others think.

"And with that we have the uproar from Tori right off the bat." Dante comments as he raises his hand. "Ha! Called it felos! You owe me ten gold coins." Dante announced looking over at his bodyguard. "Now, allow me to open with talks about the growing power among the humans." He paused looking over at the rest of the demon lords. "Not only did they introduce a new individual into the S-ranks, but they have gathered another hero. But to add to that, an adventurer known as Leonardo Elio has become quite the issue. It appears he came "tame" or enslave monsters. The effectivity of which is thought to be quite troubling. From what I have heard he has recruited a pair of the last Kyubis in the world. Along with the likes of a phoenix another rare and potent monster. These humans from the s class, the order of knights, the magic of the Ivory tower and the likes. It makes me think they are preparing to fight us all back.

Zel grabbed the tea up in front of him and sipped into it. "Even if thats true, no humans have what it takes to compete with us, our armies are just too great, even if they have the ambition to challenge us, actually making it to us is another matter entirely." He set the tea cup back down on the tabel. "If i remember correctly one S-rank challenged one of us in the past, only to retreat without having even making a dent to the main forces." He added.

"Humans are fragile weak-minded slob," Yolanthe added as she stretched herself out in a yawn, "even if they wanted to compete with us or even rage war on us, it's futile and inevitable. It's only going to be a death wish."

"You all say such things yet most of you sit on your hands." Nero chimes into the conversation looking over at the rest. "Unlike you, I didn't need to build a kingdom or territory. I had no interest in doing so, yet you all did. You placed yourselves in the humans radar. Maybe you should do you due diligence and look into this. Frankly two demons from my bloodline were summoned by a human who forcibly trapped them into highly advanced dolls that now serve him. I make it sound simple, but such a fest was frankly unheard of before."

Zenobia looked towards Nero "Are you fool?" She comments to the black demon. "Having a terriotry or not isnt the cause of this." She looks over all the others "The truth of the matter is this, people yern for power, they flock to it. Like moths to a flame, yet at the same times they fear others of the same power they yern for which drives them to seek it even more. Human once tried to seek the Heroes Egg so they could hatch into a True Hero. To do this, they forcedly tried to summon my children to do to just that. Even tho ive prevented them from summoning my children, that does not mean they are safe. There are many ways to enter the Spiritual World, just as there are many ways to obtain my children without needing to summon one. So long as they seek power, they will find a way around just about any obstacles we put up." She looks back at Nero. "You dont realize it because you choose to leave yourself out of human society, believing it be beneath you, but you are also feared and targeted by humans just as much as we are and yet im willing to bet you still think their beneath you to get involed with am i right?"