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 I walked up to the edge beside him and then stopped.
"Are you sure about that?" Mex asked me as I looked down into the deep canyon displaying a red dragon, a Cyclops, and the same giant lion that I had seen eat the demon that was in here before.
That was disheartening, but they were only monsters, and there were three of us versus three of them. I couldn't really see that much of a problem with the match-up, and I was sure I could take the dragon on if they could handle the other two.
"Dragon is mine, and you and dipshit take care of the one-eyed freak and the oversized house cat, okay? I said as I looked back down at the three creatures that were casually pacing around each other.
It was almost disturbing to see that they walked by each other without care, each of them waiting for their target. Usually, there would only be one left and two bodies if any of them survived.
"None of those things are what you think they are, and there is an excellent chance that they aren't even what I think they are. This Challenger Gem spawns you in a random location and creates random monsters. I haven't told you this, but I came with the Demons when they entered this world from this land, Kubrick and I have fought in one of these before. I was almost killed, but over three thousand entered the first time we found one, including the Scourge," Mex said as he continued to look down.
"The Scourge? Who is that? Some high-ranking Demon Lord?" I asked Mex, but Dao was the one to answer, laughing.
"Ha! That's our fearless leader! And that is no joke; he killed all the monsters that were summoned in the span of a few moments! Scourge, The Demon King, and also the reason why we are all here in the first place!" Dao cackled, but I raised a backhand to him and narrowed my eyes.
Dao shut up and hopped back, and I turned back to Mex. He turned from the canyon and smiled at me weakly but then turned to glare at Dao.
"Yes, Scourge is the ruler of us all, and this idiot is the reason we got almost killed! We only survived because my Grandmother didn't want to eliminate her entire family! Still, you don't learn!" Mex snarled, but Dao grinned.
Suddenly Mex turned and jumped off the cliff before I could stop him. I turned and grabbed Dao before he could get his hands up to stop me and then hurled him off the cliff after Mex.
I dove off the cliff and followed them, and Mex had caught himself with his wings and was drifting down, but I could feel my speed start to pick up. I drove at Dao and then charged my Fire Force Pact that was going wild, absorbing crazy amounts of energy.
Before Doa could catch himself, I struck forward into his back when I was within range about forty feet above the ground. The connection blasted with so much force I was forced back up into the air in a gut-wrenching motion.
Dao was shot downward and exploded into a dark blue stain on the rock, not even making a dint.
I switched Pacts and then activated my Elemental Aspect, and suddenly my body started to change to be clear, and I felt wet. Then I hit the ground in one of the strangest experiences that I have ever had.
My body splashed like a raindrop, and I felt my body change and even parts of me leaving me, but still feeling them. There was no pain, but it was hard to pull myself together.
"I suggest you get a grip, or you're going to become lunch!" Mex called from above me, and I locked on to his voice.
I couldn't feel any tremors in the rocks, but Mex wouldn't lie to me. I focused on his voice, using the direction, something I was having difficulty getting hold of.
My liquid body started to form, and my vision started to become more apparent, but it was still messed up. My one eye was crawling up my face, making everything look tilted, but I could clearly see all three creatures boring down on me.
Strangely they were moving slower than I would have thought them to be, and I could clearly see them pounding the stone of the canyon floor. Were the creatures even real?
I wished I had Harold here, but he might not know much about what was happening, but he could have told me how to use these aspects. I changed to my Fire Force Pact, and suddenly I burst with flames, and I became a human torch.
"Come on, don't just stand there hot head!" Mex called to me, and I turned to find him sweating and panting.
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