???- *Getting pushed out of a door* “But sir if I just had some mon-”
*Slam*
???- “Herald, as a friend I beg you to stop this quest to find proof of those myths and legends before you run out of money. What will happen to your son if you keep this up.”
Herald- “If you were my friend you wouldn't tell me this behind the door. Anyway, I will take care of my family and accomplish my work don’t worry.”
???- “*Sigh* J-just take care of yourself Herald.”
Herald- “….”
Herald- “I will, I promise.”
….
….
*Opens and closes front door*
Herald- “Hey Hashi, I’m home.”
Hashi- *Runs up and hugs his leg* “Hi dad!”
Herald- *Picks him up* “So what’s up, whatcha been doing while I was gone.”
Hashi- “Reading.”
Herald- “Still reading those same books huh, I thought you would have gotten over them by now.”
Hashi- “I love those books dad.”
Herald- “I know and I’m happy you still love the mythical as much as I do.”
Hashi- “Of course!”
Hashi- “Dad?”
Herald- “Hm?”
Hashi- “Those stories are real right?”
Herald- “….”
Herald- “Of course, one of these days I’m going to bring you home a pet dragon.
Hashi- “*Smiles* Coool!”
Herald- “….”
Herald- “So should we continue our game of Dungeons and Dragons?”
Hashi- “Yeah!”
Hashi- “I can’t wait to talk with that Spider girl again.”
Herald- “Oh? Are you’re falling in love?”
Hashi- “Dad, I’m only eight I’m too young for love.”
Herald- “Remember what mother used to say?”
Hashi- “You’re never too young to love.”
Herald- “And I always say just don’t kiss any girls until you’re 13.”
Hashi- “Dad, that’s gross!”
Herald- “Hahaha, okay just don’t tell me in the future that you love kissing when you find that special spider girl.”
Hashi- “Dad...”
Herald- “Okay, I’ll stop.”
….
….
Herald- “And that’s the end of the campaign for today.”
Hashi- “Oh man….”
Herald- “It’s time for bed, besides there’s always tomorrow.”
Hashi- “But I have to wait for you until 6pm.”
Herald- “Well I have to find that dragon egg somehow.”
Hashi- “Oookay, I’ll wait for you.”
*Takes Hashi to bed upstairs*
Herald- “Same bedtime story as usual.”
Hashi- “The one about the 4 heroes!”
Herald- “Yeah, Journey to the North.”
*Tucks into bed*
Herald- “Long ago, there was a God of Hope who led his people not as a dictator but as a righteous king who led with compassion and empathy. He led thanks to the crown of unity and all was well until it was stolen by a mysterious man. Without the crown the God could not rule his people justly and most of them were aimless without a good king to lead them. Before the kingdom could fall into ruin, the mage named Shun rode out to retrieve the crown and on the way he meet 3 companions; a young vampire named Gabriel, the beautiful female werewolf Gurada and the wise and powerful shapeshifter Baragon. This is their story.”
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….
Hashi- “Zzzzz”
Herald- “Man, you always sleep when we get to the good part.”
*Kisses him on the forehead*
Herald- “Good night Hashi.”
[Next Day]
???- “I heard of you. The lunatic that has been trying to get funding for an exploration of the mythical. Like that hasn’t been done before, what makes you special and worth investing in?”
Herald- “Not much sir except that I’m passionate and a believer.”
???- “So were the other before, hunting ghosts and such.”
Herald- “I not talking about ghosts sir, even though it would be nice to find one.”
Herald- “I want to research myths and legends, our gods and monsters.”
???- “Oh god, you’re not going to say aliens did it like that one guy.”
Herald- “….”
Herald- “No.”
???- “Then what, you actually believe in stuff like Greek myth?”
Herald- “….”
??? 2- “You got to be kidding me...”
Herald- “I promised my son that I would get him a Dragon pet one day and I plan on doing it.”
???- “Then you are a fool to have promised him that.”
Herald- “….”
???- “You may go Mr.Herald.”
Herald- “Yes sir, thanks for your time.”
*Walking home confused and disappointed*
Herald- “???”
Herald- “What is that...”
Herald- “A blob of..shadow?
???- “Whose there?”
Herald- “!!!”
Herald- “Who said that?”
???- “A human, just my luck.”
Herald- “*Looks towards the shadow* You...can..talk.”
???- “Go ahead, pray to whatever God you serve. Put me out of my misery.”
Herald- “What are you?”
???- “What are you blind? I’m a demon.”
Herald- “*Stumbles to ground* I..can’t...believe...it.”
???- “Wait a minute, you’re not a servant of father or any other God?”
Herald- “*Shakes head*”
???- “….”
???- “Sooooo, want to make a deal?”
Herald- “No, I’m not dumb. I know what happens if I make a deal.”
???- “Come ooon, you do get something out it.”
Herald- “No.”
???- “Well I tried.”
Herald- “However, you are proof of what I been seeking so I’m going to just...”
???- “Sorry, I can’t be touched, I’m in my incorporeal form.”
Herald- “Hmmmm.”
Herald- “Can you possess objects.”
???- “I don’t like where this is going...”
Herald- “I’ll take that as a yes.”
*Takes out a sphere glass ball*
???- “You want me to go in there, why would I?”
Herald- “Because based on what you said before, I can assume that you’re being hunted.”
???- “….”
Herald- “I promise to keep you safe as humanly possible.”
???- “Like a human can protect me from an angel.”
Herald- “Maybe not but what are chance between where you are now verses with me.”
???- “….”
???- “Fine.”
*Darkness flows into the glass sphere and makes it glow black.*
Herald- “My son is going to love you.”
???- “Yeah that’s smart, traumatize the kid.”
Herald- “He could handle a demon in a glass sphere.”
???- “….”
Herald- “Okay maybe you’re right, I did promise a dragon not a demon.”
???- “You promised you son a dragon! Hahahahahaha!
Herald- “….”
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….
Herald- “Hashi I’m back, D&D time!”
Hashi- “Dad!”
Hashi- “What’s that glowing thing?”
Herald- “Oh, just a paperweight I found at the store.”
Hashi- “Ohhhh, can I see?”
Herald- “Um, sure.”
Hashi- “This so cool, it’s like the black inside is moving.”
Herald- “Well, that’s enough for now. Why don’t I put this in my room and we can play D&D?”
Hashi- “*Nod* I’ll be waiting in the living room.”
….
….
Herald- “Thanks for being silent demon.”
???- “My name is Gorta human.”
Herald- “Okay, well my name is Herald, nice to meet you Gorta.”
Gorta- “Yeah...”
[After playing D&D and reading the same story to Hashi]
Gorta- “Hahahahahaha!”
Herald- “What’s so funny, laughing as soon as I come in to go to sleep.”
Gorta- “I can hear your game and I couldn't help but notice that you give your son a very lighthearted take on the supernatural.”
Herald- “What’s so bad about that?”
Gorta- “He’s going to be very disappointed.”
Herald- “He’s just a kid, I’m not going to tell him about the dark side.”
Gorta- “I would.”
Herald- “You would do that.”
Gorta- “So what now, are going to show me off to someone in hopes of a quick buck.”
Herald- “*Getting in bed* No, I figure you would stay silent when I introduce you or they might think you’re a toy.”
Gorta- “So what’s your plan?”
Herald- “Since I’m going to protect you from your enemies, I think in exchange you give me all the info about you’re world.”
Gorta- “Well look at you making deals.”
Herald- “I signed nothing and I’m the one who initiated so if anything I’m the one that gets your soul.”
Gorta- “Good thing I don’t have one.”
Herald- “Yep.”
Gorta- “Well if I’m going to educate you on the other side, we need to get something straight.”
Gorta- “We demons don’t want your soul, we just want a body.”
Herald- “?? I find that hard to believe.”
Gorta- “Why because of some book? True, in the search of a body we… do things. But we don’t deserved to be...well...demonized as you say.”
Herald- “Hmmmmm...”
Herald- “Why do you want a body so bad that you would become the enemy of Gods and angels?”
Gorta- “….”
Gorta- “You wouldn't understand what it feels like to be incorporeal, unable to interact with anything in the world. No sight, no touch, no smell, no taste just a sense of things around us.”
Gorta- “I don’t know how angels can stand such an existence.”
Gorta- “The only difference between demons and angels is that one can handle being incorporeal while the other can’t. My race has done terrible things in order to escape this form but….
Herald- “I’ll admit that sounds terrible but how do I know that you’re telling the truth?”
Gorta- “Like how you do with a human, I guess you have to trust me.”
Herald- “Hard to when I’ve grown up and studied otherwise.”
Gorta- “….”
Gorta- “Well, that’s enough talking for one day. Aren’t you suppose to go to sleep.”
Herald- “I guess...”
Herald- “Goodnight then.”
Gorta- “I don’t sleep.”
Herald- “See you in the morning then.”
….
….
Gorta- “….”
Hashi- “So my father knew you and you were with me when I was a child.”
Gorta- “Yeah.”
Hashi- “So what happens next, how did you end up inside me?”
Gorta- “Herald and I exchanged information about each other’s world. He became more knowledgeable and edger to prove the existence of mythics while I became more starved for a body.”
Hashi- “So you took mine?”
Gorta- “No, That’s not what happened.”
Gorta- “*Sigh* You’re father kept me company with our talks and for a while it allowed me to forget my form but I couldn't get it out of my mind.”
Gorta- “Same for him, during the 2 years before his departure I told him what might happen if he exposed our side but his desire to abandon everything to do it was unstoppable.”
Hashi- “I remember that day…. The day father left me with grandfather for 5 years. I was only 10….”
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….
Gorta- “Are seriously going to do this?”
Herald- “*While backing* I can’t stand this anymore I must find solid proof of all that you’ve told me.”
Gorta- “But what about Hashi?”
Herald- “He’ll stay with his grandfather and you’ll be there.”
Gorta- “I don’t count and why his grandfather of all people?”
Herald- “I know he hates me for marrying his daughter, he never liked the fact that we both loved the mythical.”
Herald- “But he’s the only one I can ask to do this. I know he’ll take care of him while I’m gone.”
Gorta- “You don’t have to do this, stay.”
Herald- “I have to go! I promised my son a dragon and if this works then maybe we can find someone that doesn’t mind sharing a body with you, I know you been dying inside there.”
Gorta- “….”
Gorta- “That can’t be the only reason Herald, you never talked about it but there’s something else isn’t there?”
Herald- “…. *Stops backing*”
Herald- “Hashi was a stillbirth.”
Gorta- “!”
Herald- “My wife and I were devastated, we had so many plans. After awhile we had given up hope but during the night after I came back from the bathroom I saw something near my wife while she slept. It was a light and it was beautiful, it left after I came and the next day my son was alive and later was born healthy and strong.”
Gorta- “….”
Gorta- “So this is the reason why you seek to prove the mythical?”
Herald- “Not only that but to merge our two worlds.”
Gorta- “….”
Gorta- “You’re kidding right?”
Herald- “Imagine the amount of broken families that can be saved like mine if the mythical were not afraid to show themselves. Imagine the amount of debates and conflicts ended if we knew which Gods were real and what they actually wanted. We used to live with the mythical and yes it was dangerous but things have changed. This sad and aimless world can have wonder again.”
Gorta- “That’s foolishly naive, you would risk the chance of catastrophe for the sake of a utopia?”
Herald- “….”
Herald- “*Continues backing*”
Gorta- “Herald!”
Herald- “I don’t need backing anymore, nothing will stop me this time. Don’t worry the future will be bright for both you and Hashi.”
Gorta- “….”
….
….
Grandfather- “You should have done this a long time ago.”
Herald- “Sorry to do this so suddenly.”
Grandfather- “It’s fine, go waste your life on fairy tails, I’ll make sure you’re son doesn’t end up like you.”
Herald- “….”
Hashi- “Dad….where are you going?”
Herald- “*Bends down* Don’t worry I’ll be back with a dragon and maybe something even better.”
Grandfather- “Don’t fill the boy with lies, you’re probably going to sleep around.”
Herald- “….”
Herald- “Can you give us a minute.”
Grandfather- “Why?”
Herald- “You’re not a military commander anymore. *Looks at him menacingly*”
Grandfather- “….*leaves*”
….
Hashi- “Dad I don’t want you to leave me here.”
Herald- “I won’t be gone for long, I’ll promise to come back with something great. Even the world will change, it will be just like the D&D games we used to be play in real life.”
Hashi- “*Sniffle* You promise?”
Herald- “I do and take this as sign of my promise.”
*Takes out a necklace with a glass sphere on it that glows with darkness inside*
*Puts in on Hashi*
Hashi- “Thank...you... dad, *wipes away tears* please come back soon...”
*Touch Hashi head with his own*
Herald- “I promise, take care you two.”
Gorta- “….”
Hashi- “*Nod*”
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….
Hashi- “It took him 5 long years to come back….”
Gorta- “By that time it was too late.”
Hashi- “What did he find that could have caused such a catastrophe.”
Gorta- “I can not even guess but it set the world on fire.”
Gorta- “He unleashed something that caused a massive war that almost killed all mythics.”
Hashi- “I remember it on the news; dragons, fairies, mermaids, centaurs and more all fight and dying. My childhood fantasy turned into a nightmare.”
Hashi- “My grandfather kept me inside during that time but I could not seat still when I saw that….”
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Newswomen- “Reporting on the latest vocal battle between the apologists and humanity and what is this? This just in, the man that discovered the thing that started this whole mess has appeared.”
Hashi and Gorta- “!!!”
Newsman- “Do we know what that things is?”
Newswomen- “No our government has deemed it too dangerous to even reveal to the public.”
Newsman- “Wow it must be something truly something and this guy somehow unearthed it and caused this huge mess.”
Newswomen- “Yes and it seems he still wants to save the mythics after everything that has happen, what is he crazy?”
Newsman- “I just hope this does not become a riot like so many others. Good think the military is there to try to keep the peace.
Grandfather- “I always knew he was crazy but to cause this, I’m glad she was not here to see this. Hey Hashi, don’t be like that fool.
….
Grandfather- “Hashi?”
I had to run, I had to see him.
Dad….
Is this what you wanted?
Was I worth this?
….
….
Crowd- “Why are you here monster!”
Crowd- “You dare come here after everything!”
Herald- “I’ll admit that what I unleashed was wrong but we don’t need to commit genocide.”
Crowd- “You apologists are traitors to humanity!”
Crowd- “Why do you defend those monsters?”
Herald- “We’re animals too and dangerous, just because they are dangerous doesn’t mean we need to kill all of them.”
Apologist- “Yeah, what happened to freedom of religion?!”
Crowd- “That was stopped when one of your gods destroyed a continent!”
Crowd- “Why would you worship murderers and narcissists?!”
Herald- “Look, not all of them are like that. Maybe we should kill some of them, but not all of them!”
Crowd- “They are too dangerous!!”
Crowd- “Most of them are walking nukes while others rape and kill children!”
Herald- “….”
Hashi- “Daaaad!!!”
Herald- “!!!”
Herald- “Hashi….”
Hashi- “*Runs up to dad*”
Herald- “No, don’t come it’s too dangerous!”
Crowd- “*Looks towards Hashi*”
Crowd- “Who is that?”
Crowd- “Maybe his son.”
Crowd- “Another apologist?!”
Hashi- “*Makes it to Herald*”
Hashi- “Is this what you want Dad!?”
Herald- “!”
Hashi- “What did you do, why!?”
Hashi- “All those mythics dead, I was not worth this….”
Herald- “Hashi I’m sor-”
*Alarm*
Military- “There’s a mythic nearby!”
Crowd- “!!”
Hashi- “What, where?!”
Herald- “*Looks at Hashi’s necklace* Gorta….”
Crowd- “That child!”
Crowd- “The alarm went off when he came.”
Herald- “Hashi keep close to me.”
Hashi- “Dad...”
Military- “Sir step aside.”
Herald- “NO!”
Crowd- “What’s that on his neck!”
Military- “!”
Military- “*Draws weapons*”
Military- “DEMOON!!!!!!”
Herald- “NOOOO!”
Crowd- “They were harboring a demon?”
Crowd- “His child is demon, what if he is the anti-christ!”
Crowd- “Shoot them! Don’t let those devil worshipers infect our children!”
Military- “FIRE!!!”
Herald- “AEGISS!”
A giant shield appears and blocks the bullets, but...not...al…
Herald- “HASHI!”
Herald- “Oh my god what have I done, after all of this…”
Herald- “You’re going to bleed to death, damn it….”
Gorta- “Herald!”
Herald- “!”
Gorta- “He’s not dead yet, you can still save him. Don’t waste time!”
Herald- “….”
Herald- “You’re right.”
Herald- “Is he still somewhat conscious?”
Gorta- “Yes.”
Herald- “….”
Herald- “This is not how I wanted it to happen.”
Herald- “Gorta enter inside Hashi and take him to his grandfather.”
Gorta- “What?! You do it, if I do that I can’t just exit the body. He’ll have to deal with a demon living inside him until he dies or gets exorcised which in this day means death.”
Herald- “I have no choice, I have to maintain this shield until you and everyone gets away, I can barely even talk.”
Gorta- “W-what about you?”
Herald- “….”
Herald- “I’ll pay for my mistakes.”
Gorta- “No, you don’t deserve death.”
Herald- “You told me not to but I was….”
Herald- “Only if I didn’t find that tomb, maybe we could have coexisted.”
Gorta- “No, only if the human weren’t animals and insisted on genocide. It’s their fault and those Gods that countered with sinking an entire continent! Why are they so fucking stupid!”
*Explosion*
Herald- “Tch...I don’t have much time, can you please save and take care of my son.”
Gorta- “….”
Gorta- “I will.”
*The darkness transfers into Hashi and his eyes open up as sharp blood red.*
Herald- “So this is what you would look like when inside a body.”
Herald- “Goodbye Gor, my friend.”
Gorta- “Goodbye Herald, my only friend.”
….
….
Herald- “Please be save Gorta, Hashi and….forgive me for what I have done.”
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….
*Opens door and collapses*
Grandfather- “Hashi! Where have yo-”
Grandfather- “Oh my god...”
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….
Hashi- “After that I woke up and found out my father was dead. It took awhile for my grandfather to convince everyone I was not a demon but I guess I did have one.”
Gorta- “….”
Hashi- “I guess you was always there for me in some way, through the tears and pain.”
Hashi- “That’s a little comforting.”
Gorta- “Enough about me, what about you. What piece did I steal from you?”
Hashi- “I forgot why I even cared for mythics.”
Hashi- “It was because of my father’s stories. You’re were my friends and family when I was young playing D&D and reading.”
Hashi- “But now I know I was naive, there are heroes and villains to every story.”
Hashi- “I know what I have to do.”
Gorta- “What do mean?”
Hashi- “Dad sacrificed his life for me, I’m not going to let that go to waste. I’m going to fulfill his dream.”
Gorta- “But it was-”
Hashi- “I know, naive, but with the world as it is, something similar can be done.”
Hashi- “I can at least save those that can be saved and convince the ones at top to stop this genocide plan.”
Gorta- “How?”
Hashi- “By showing the side that they did not see. Me, you, Arrea, Kate, Dullahan maybe even Albeis show the good in the mythics. It starts with Moryuu, I’ll convince him first.”
Gorta- “And if you fail?”
Hashi- “I’ll at least protect the ones I care for, this I swear.”
Gorta- “*Smirks* So what now?”
Hashi- “I don’t want to just let you have control or synchronize using anger. I want to synchronize with you because we’re friends and technically you’re like my older bother.”
Gorta- “!”
Gorta- “That has never been done, a demon and human sharing a body at the same time helping each other out.”
Hashi- “Then we’ll be the first.”
Gorta- “That kind of form won’t last long.”
Hashi- “We’ll get used to it and besides we won’t need that much time.”
Gorta- “*Smile*”
*Handshake*691Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbAoB3zopr
Hashi and Gorta- “Let’s save Kate!”
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