"Overthrow the stone king, so are you all made of flesh?" yuki

"fleshlings? nay, we are from different races but most of us are fleshlings" Roughe

"dont you find the name "fleshling" offensive"

"why would i find it offensive?"

"if i may cut in, its like calling you a human.. its the only name you have ever known"

"Si, it is something like that. in any case we may mostly comprise of fleshlings but we also have a few stoneoids three metaloids and one diamonling with us too"

"shouldnt that be enough to overthrow the king" yuki

"nay, nearly all the stoneoids still side with the rock king and there is a rumor that he works for an elemental god. he has ties to many other kings and has alot of influence here"

"arent kings supposed to live by the 'live free or die' code or something" yuki

"si, thats why its a secret which we heard through a rumor" roughe

"which one?" ryuga

"its said he works for the water princess"

"so its a basic hierarchy?" yuki

"perhaps if you want to see it that way"

"any more questions?"

"could you provide temporary residence? Yukari doesnt want to return to the stone castle isnt that right."

"indeed master i donnot wish to lay my eyes upon that vile tyrant"

"most certainly. infact i insist that you live with us until the king is overthrown"

"and in return we have to help you with that?" ryuga

"yes, promise us you will and we will help you get your friend back"

"not like we have a choice, i dont even know where she is. the trail has already gotten cold and it will be hard to search through the event log after so much time has passed"

"'event log?'" yuki

"a sort of recorded history log" ryuga

"what are you talking about?"

"see i was born with exceptional power for a fleshling and what i used to control it is called the event log"

*whispers*

"you are lying?"

"twisting words, i was born with it and the event log is just a term i came up with for the record of time"

"if you say so" not pleased by it one bit yuki

*end*

"you must both be from a far away land free from all this turmoil if you donnot know these common things"

"yes, there we are called humans and we and the non humans live together in near perfect harmony"

*whispers*

"again?"

"i never said stoneoids or anything. non humans can also mean animals"

*sigh* yuki

*end*

"master is it ok if i lived with you too? i have no family or friends and was raised in an orphanage those stoneoids destroyed. they may also have a few of my aquaintances locked away"

speaking in a troubled manner

*sigh*

"its one problem after another isnt it" ryuga

"sorry master i know you already did more than enough by saving me i willnot ask for more"

"its not that, i just wanted to be home by now and am just irritated that things are not peaceful enough to lay back and relax"

"master will you help?" yukari

"later for now the overthrowing and rescuing business takes priority" ryuga

"but master they are held captive by arneus's men such as those four you saved me from" yukari

"so that perverted rock, the cleaver guy and the two others served Arneus? that explains it"

"explains what" roughe

"they made a lame threat when they died" ryuga

"it appears overthrowing arneus has now taken the top priority hasnt it" roughe

"but we still need to make sure our friend is safe" yuki

"so do you agree to help us?" roughe

"i dont think i have a choice. i cant wait a day since i dont know whether she lives or not"

"i agree besides we cant let Arneus get away with this." yuki

*sigh* "iam tired of giving a lecture about how right and wrong change from where you are looking so hurray (in a non enthusiastic way), now roughe tell us where she is so we can get one problem over with"

"my sources say that they saw a giant flaming carpet fly off with a fleshling girl on its back. if its the flame demon then it must be at the volcano right now, its in that direction and a bit far"

"great i will be right back"

after saying that ryuga got in a running position with his body lowered, pressure at the legs and when he started running the ground everything around was swirled up by a strong gust of wind while the ground where he stepped formed giant craters, after 30 minutes he returned with a girl. it was leona who was knocked unconscious by the speed

"all done, now for our end of the deal"

surprised by the feat ryuga just managed to pull of yukari and roughe stood in awe yuki isnt surprised, she actually has a look on her face that says 'why am i not surprised'

"you actually managed to get her back, you left before i could say anything but senio`r you managed to do the impossible"

"impossible?"

"master you not only ran thousands of runs (a unit similar to miles) in half an hour but also defeated the flame demon an elemental god"

"i didnt defeat the flame guy, it wasnt there"

surprised by the turn of events their eyes widened as their pupils got smaller while their expressions had turned to stone

recovering from the shock roughe asked

"by the way ryuga how exactly are you related to Arneus? at first i thought you were just a servant or maybe a trader but even though it was a bit odd how you didnot know about our civilization and almost instantly agreed to help us overthrow Arneus but after seeing that i doubt you are that unimportant"

"iam... his advisor?"

roughe laughs for a while then adds

"and i his steward, if you are going to lie atleast make it decent"

"i did not know joking was against the law"

"it isnt but try not to joke in serious conversations, sinor`a could you take care of your friend, she appears to have been knocked unconscience while me and ryuga discuss this further?"

"sure, we were already out of the conversation" yuki replied while pouting

"gracias"

"we were travelling and happened to run into Arneus"

"and what exactly does he gain from this relationship"

"he asked me to overthrow an elemental god"

"he believes in you to that extent? normally one wouldnt even think of asking a fleshling to kill a god and Arneus may be a tyrant but he is no fool, why did he tell you to do it?"

"i choose to withhold that information"

"then i willnot ask, but if you betray us. you will regret it"

"lame threats, atleast make it something scary"

"iam serious"

"ok, anyway if we cant take down Arneus head on because that would complicate things how should we overthrow him?"

"Si, my diamondling friend has given us a plan. he will ask his king to attack this city, Arneus forced to defend it will be taken down in battle and a new king will take over his place and conveniently drive away the diamondlings."

"how exactly will you make the diamondling king your ally"

"simple. right now Arneus is at odds with him. we can promise to be his ally and govern the city for him, hopefully he will see that controlling two kingdoms will be too much for him to handle alone and let us"

"how do we fit in?"

"you will be our spy in the court, or atleast that was the plan. to have one of us inside but i think we should let you play the bigger part"

"iam ok with it as it is"

"no, no senio'r, you must play a bigger part not only do you have a place in the court but the aptitude as well, it will be a waste to let you rot away as a spy"

"there goes my peaceful sleep"

"we are on the verge of a revolution you have no time to sleep, now come we have much work to do"

following roughe, ryuga learned of the inner structure of the rebellion there were fleshlings working while smiling, stoneoids doing their part rather than forcing weaker humanoids to work and he felt that everyone was truly happy

"see what we are trying to build? what we labour for?"

"so whats the dark side?"

"my friend, there is no dark side"

"if you say so, anyway can we wrap this up i need to be somewhere"

"sure if you can somehow stop the water princess from aiding arneus we can handle the rest"

"if thats what it takes, it will be done by tommorrow"

"thank you"

ryuga went to his room to find that yuki and leona were already asleep on a bunkbed while yukari was sleeping on another one. the room itself had two bunkbeds a window which opened up to a brick wall the walls were colored light yellow and made of stone rather than bricks noises of nearby merchants could be heard ryuga went up the bunkbed and slept on the top half .

waking up he saw yukari staring at him and could also feel a few unseen stares around him

"is there something on my face?"

"no master, i merely wished to watch over you while you slept"

"you know where iam from that could be considered a confession, people might think you like me if you do that kind of thing"

"but i do like you"

"seriously?"

"yes seriously"

"in a romantic way?"

"yes master, please stop asking..."

yukari said while blushing

"ok, i have no idea how to respond so i will just pretend i never heard that"

"if that is what you wish master"

"by the way you two i know you are there come inside"

yuki and leona entered the room on their faces literally. while trying to listen in on the conversation ryuga calling out to them surprised them and caused leona who was below yuki to slip causing yuki who was leaning on leona to slip as well

"we had no choice yukari here made us leave the room, she said we were being too noisy and might disturb your sleep"

"calm down leona iam sure she didnt mean any harm"

"human, i must tha...tha...tha..." leona while semi-blushing

"tha?"

"nothing"

"tsundere cat" ryuga

"shut up, why didnt you save me earlier idiot"

"sorry, anyway time to get this over with, now that i have my power back lets go meet us a princess, though i said us... you three will be right here while i go and pay her a little visit"

"hmmph"leona

"but--" yukari

yukari was cut off as ryuga suddenly disappeared into thin air

"i mean it"

a voice was heard from the air

"master where are you?"

no one replied

"save your breath, when that human gets like that no one can stop him" leona

"but i only wanted to help him"

"sorry yukari but i think hes right, we cant help him"

"i understand"

yukari, yuki and leona continued their conversation but it isnt really that important anymore so lets go over to see what ryuga is doing

ryuga arrived at the door of a giant palace made of pure glass you could see right into the throne room but there were a few rooms which could not be seen through made of opaque glass and in other areas there were translucent glass decorations. the castle itself was built on top of water and the only land mass that could be seen throughout the area was a road leading away from the palace, instead of going towards the horizon it appeared to be going into outerspace. the entrance to the palace had ice sculptures on the pillars surrounding the gate while two diamondlings stood guard they were shining and had a slim figure

"halt who goes there" guard 1

"Arneus the rock king sent me iam a messenger"

"he sent a fleshling as a messenger to the water princess? that insolent fool"

"so can i pass or not?"

"what is the message you need to pass on? it will be insulting to the water princess if a fleshling enters her palace"

"is that your final decision"

"watch your tongue fool. you are still alive because you serve a king now give us your message and begone"

"so i cant pass then?"

"are you brain dead? i said 'no you cannot pass' "

"watch me"

ryuga said as he ran past the diamondlings shattering the glass and the very path he ran on. the diamondlings themselves fell down trying to make sense of what happened while ryuga confronted with the water princess who was sitting on the throne

"it appears we have a rather unusual guest"

she was made of water and was completely engulfed in it the only thing that wasnt made of water was the ruby in her tiara her hair was tied into a pony tail and it was long and watery her body could be seen through she had a well rounded body and was as tall as ryuga

"after that you better not disappoint me because if you do i will destroy the planet you came from with all of its inhabitants with it, i donnot care if i must kill the flame demon for that"

"well iam alreayd disappointed so what the hell i will play along"

"disappointed? fine, if you last five minutes in a fight with me i will listen to your wishes, if you die well so does everyone on arneuses planet. he is the one who sent you right?"

"teach your underlings some manners first will you? in any case i will give you a handicap cause i want to enjoy this as well. i will not use anything but my right index finger"

"you cocky brat, i will make you pay you and this entire solar system can just drown"

after saying that she started secreting water from her body very fast it completely engulfed the planet in no time and soon reached the last planet of the 12 planets surrouding the solar systems and sun had already been cooled down and after 20 minutes the water returned as quickly as it came

"that should have done it. i made sure the pressure was enough him while saving my planet"

"that control was not easy though it took more out of me than just destroying everything would have" she continued while looking towards the floor she looked ahead to check the damage but to her surprise ryuga was still standing there

"that was refreshing"

"how?"

"let me explain something"

ryuga said as he disappeared and reappeared right infront of the princess floating in mid-air

"you are an elemental god, a god of sorts perhaps"

forcing her to kneel with his index finger by pushing down her head

"but how can you touch me? iam made of liquid water-"

cut off by ryuga who had a stern look on his face

"as i was saying you may be a god, you may be more powerful than everything in this universe combined other than gods"

"but darling iam the original god, the true god"

"a solarsystem? a universe? i can destroy, no erase everything you saw, everything you heard, and everything you even thought about everything you are is in my hands"

forcing her to raise her head with the same index finger forcing her to look into his eyes which had darkened

"so next time before you talk learn, and before you threaten make sure you know who your threatening"

removing the stern look ryuga materialized a wristwatch and showed her that her five minutes were long over

"who are you"

"someone unimportant"

"liar, you are too powerful to be a mortal or even a god. what are you?"

"how long have you lived?"

"2000 years"

"and in those 2000 years have you ever grown bored"

"i have been too busy to ever be bored"

"well anyway i got three conditions"

"what are they"

"1: you will not tell anyone about what happened here

2: you will not aid arneus if he is attacked by the diamond king"

"so you donnot work for arneus then, what is the third?"

"this one is more of a request than an order, try losing that arrogance and think about ruling fairly. lifes more fun when you are surrounded by people rather than by walls especially if your going to live for thousands of years"

"it shall be done but can i make a request?"

"if there is no harm in it"

"what exactly are you"

"are you familiar with the term 'divine tree'"

"no i have not"

"its the reason you exist"

"how"

"thats a secret but to answer your question it was the original god, and its child created everything that exists"

"everything?"

"yes everything that you see or that you donnot"

"iam the heir to that child, though its more of a trouble than a blessing"

"i donnot understand but indeed you are strong enough to be able to accomplish such feats"

"iam not stupid enough to do so, look what it got the first god"

"what?"

"nothing, anyway if you want i could repair your castle for you its completely torn down"

"if you will"

"here you go"

with the movement of the eye the entire castle which had crumbled and fallen was there without a scratch on it

"thank you, and farewell"

teleporting home ryuga left a small letter on the throne of the castle which entitled

"open when you need to not when you want to"

keeping it in her study she quickly created a water chair and travelled to the planet where arneus was living

"welcome princess, to what do i owe this pleasure"

"i have been bested, and i must not aid you incase of an attack"

"but why mistress please tell me"

"i cannot answer that, but tell me has there been someone unusual here? someone strong for their kind"

"yes a fleshling, though i sent him to deal with the flame demon"

(must be him, should i warn the flame demon)

"what? when did you do that?"

"a few days ago"

"i see"

(so he is not going after the flame demon)

"by the way princess if i may be so bold, you seem to be more humble than last we met. did something happen?"

"i cannot answer that"

a troubled soldier suddenly interrupted their conversation by bursting through the door

"Trouble my king, an army of diamondlings is approaching"

"WHAT!!! JUST WHEN WE LOST THE PROTECTION OF THE WATER PRINCESS DAMN IT"

"what shall we do sire"

"WHAT CAN WE DO? FIGHT OFCOURSE. we have a larger number hopefully that will help us have the generals come up with a plan and a planet to have our fight which benefits us"

later that evening the diamondlings sent a representative to discuss the arena for their battles

since the two races are powerful enough to destroy the planet they are fighting on unintentionally therefore there would be no point in fighting on the planet you are trying to conquer. the king who is being attacked must choose a planet to fight on so that both sides have a chance of gaining something

"i have decided, we will fight on the planet of eternal winds"

the planet of eternal winds is a planet with a very strong whirlwind at its center it contains no land mass and is made completely of rotating air, the air rotates fast enough to give the illusion of a solid ground and this planet cannot be destroyed as there is nothing to destroy unless one stops the whirlwind

during the battle arneus invited ryuga who reluctantly agreed because he was pressured by roughe, the water princess also attended the battles though she only watched from a distance. several other influencial figures could also be seen in the distance such as the flame demon or the carbon king

noticing the water princess ryuga teleported to her

"you are not going to aid arneus are you?"

"ofcoure not, you have my word"

"good"

"but if i may ask why did arneus invite you to fight when you are the one who stopped me from helping him"

"he thinks iam going to help"

"are you?"

"not really iam just going to watch just like you-"

ryuga was interupted by an intense flames

"fleshling how dare you talk to one of us in such a familiar tone" the flame demon said

"is every king a power crazed idiot?"

"no he is special" the water princess

"such harsh words for your future spouse"

"keep dreaming. iam made of water and you are a flame how does that even work? "

"you cannot seperate our love"

"just die"

said the water princess as she shot a highly dense near black ball of water towards the flame demon who dodged it

"i thought you both didnt get along"

"we dont, this freak keeps pestering me to marry him"

"i am not a freak, iam a handsome young god and we get along just fine because we are madly in love, so keep your tongue in your mouth fool"

"so you are the flame demon i heard so much about"

"yes"

"and you also kidnapped my friend the fleshling"

"which one?"

"the one who was sleeping in arneus's castle"

"yes i did, i saw her enter the kingdom and i just wanted to have her for myself. unfortunately i didn't have the time to court her and she disappeared"

"i still need to pay you back for that"

"shut up fleshling cant you see you are stopping me from being with ym true love?"

"can it, iam not your love and this fleshling is my spouse"

"WHAT!!?"

"say what?" ryuga

"your spouse is a lowly fleshling? then i shall melt him away"

*whispers*

"you want to pay him back right? and i want him off my back this way we both win"

"but what if he attacked me, he will know something is up when i dont get hurt"

"i will shield you, my element is water fire cant hurt me"

*end*

"you dare ignore me and talk all lovingly with each other. take this fleshling"

throwing a fireball at ryuga which was blocked by the water princess

"you are lucky she protected you and that there is a battle going on preventing me from burning you or else you would be dead"

"you were right this is good payback"

"what did you say?"

"nothing"

"spit it out"

"nothing now shhh"

"by the way water princess is that your real name?"

"no, my real name is something i cant tell others but i will tell you"

*whispers*

"valeri"

*end*

"ill call you val"

"as you wish"

"not fair why does he get to know and i dont? i love you more" the flame demon

"is the right answer 'to piss you off'?"

"well damn you too"

"anyway val why is this planet made completely of wind?"

"the windblade likes to keep it that way"

"windblade?"

"another elemental look there he is watching"

"he is letting other kings use his land to wage war"

"he likes being entertained"

"that explains it"

a voice from the below echoed

"ryuga please come down here and help us"

ryuga looked down at a giant arneus surrounded by other giants who were not as big as arneus but still huge they were surrounded shining diamondlings who kept cutting 10 giants down for every 2 men they lost

"please find us some rock, with a sufficient size we can beat these diamondlings"

"sorry but the water princess and flame demon dont want me to help" ryuga shouted back

"i never asked you for such a thing" the flame demon in a normal voice which didnot reach arneus

"shh"

"what am i chopped liver? a lower being telling me to shh. hmmph"

taking out a camera gogle (similar to the oculas rift but slimer and more sci-fi and able to record exact images) ryuga started recording the battle

"what is that?"

"a camera. it records whatever it sees so you can rewatch it later"

"what kind of magic is that?"

"not magic, science"

"science?"

"you know the research of the surroundings and so on"

"our cultures are too different. could you let me see too later?"

"sure thing"

after 30 minutes

"is it me or have a few stoneoids disappeared from the field?" the flame demon

"apparently they fled" the water princess

"who knows"

a little while after that a few meteors headed towards the battle field and passed through the middle of the planet one by one stopping the whirlwind which immediately restarted

*whispers*

"ryuga did you do that?"

"who knows"

"iam sure it stopped arneus would have won if it did."

"but it didnt, i guess the luck favored the diamond king"

"or you did"

"well it did save him from wandering space while arneus and his men who were larger in size landed on one planet or the other"

*end*

"what happened. my plan, my carefully thought out plan ruined"

"YOU!!!" pointing towards the windblade

"YOU DID THIS. I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU WILLNOT INTERFERE"

"You misunderstand. i had no part in whatever you are hinting at, although it is curious how the core repaired itself - but do note any further accusation will cause me to side with the diamond king" the windblade

"NOOO...."

as Arneus was pushed down to the ground by a diamond soldier who was just about to slay him with a diamond blade with was his transformed hand he was standing ontop of arneuses forehead who as a giant was larger than the diamond soldier but powerless against his might

shouting in fury, as the soldier was about to kill arneus he was suddenly stopped by a man standing infront of him, it appeared to be another elemental although none appeared to know who he was

"I Decree this battle to be over, the victor is the diamond king and as the victor he is entitled to the stoneoid city"

"Stand back elemental, i do not know who you are but do not interfere the battle will only be over once we know Arneus is dead"

said the diamond king who was riding a diamond horse which was racing towards arneus

"if you continue then i shall be your enemy" the new elemental

although he was an elemental, no one knew who he was what was more instead of any obvious element he was completely white. although not seethrough he was as white as the sun (which is actually white but we see it as yellow or orange because of our atmosphere)

"why are you interfering" "yeah piss off" "take your leave" "go away" were heard by the crowd which was watching the battle from above including the windblade and another elemental being

"someone get rid of this fool" the flame demon who was also irritated by the new elemental

a few radioactive being and a dozen iron beings jumped on the white elemental the flame demon also rushed to assist but was held back by the water princess

"have you seen seen the fleshling who was with me?"

"no i havent, but you have me my love"

"why did i bother asking, help me search for him if you can manage that"

"FINE..*murmer* iam just an extra anyway"

the white elemental raised his hand and a white light completely filled the space, nothing could be seen and after a second it faded. All the attackers could be seen floating or on the whirlwind floor knocked out

"anyone else who wishes for the fight to continue"

"hmmph, fine iam content with the entertainment provided today, now get off my planet" the windblade

"thank you, diamond king please take your leave. i will handle arneus"

"fine, have it your way elemental. if you will excuse me i have a city to visit"

a white light similar to before appeared and when it faded the white elemental was gone. a moment later the water princess found ryuga who appeared to have been napping nearby

"what were you doing?"

"sleeping?"

"i thought you were a bit less lazy, well the battle is over and as promised i did not help"

"well i guess ill go take care of arneus" ryuga

"good luck with that" valeri

"wait a minute, i never said arneus was still alive, are you sure you were still asleep?"

"maybe, or maybe i wasnt, who knows"

"well not that it matters now, take care"

kissing ryuga on the cheeks valeri flew towards the distance and disappeared

"wai- damn she got away, oh well i guess it doesnt matter in the long run. i guess i will go home now and sleep"

ryuga said as he teleported towards HQ only to find that valeri was already there sitting comfortably on a chair crosslegged while roughe fearfully watches over from the entrance clearly irritated by her visit but fearing her powers he didno say anything. ryuga teleported to a location near the headquarters there was an unusual crowd in he streets and construction works were underway. ryuga walked the rest of the way to HQ seeing ryuga roughe sighed in relief as his face cheered up

"ahh ryuga, so nice to see you again. great job convincing the water princess to stay out of the way, i was on my way to meet up with the diamond king to negotiate the terms..... but it appears we have a guest, could you deal with her?"

"again? well i was meaning to talk to her anyway"

ryuga entered the room and was immediately seen by valeri who stood up

"what are you doing here ryuga?"

"thats probably my line"

"i came to negotiate with the most probable new owner of this city but no one appeared, i was growing bored"

"i umm.. kind of helped these guys and kind of live here"

"so i see, these people were the reason you made me abandon arneus, it all makes sense now"

"anyway how did you get here so quickly?"

"dont underestimate water, although i dont understand how you came back so late considering that you can telepo--"

ryuga immediately rushed off and put his hand on her mouth to stop her from talking

"shh, its a secret ok?"

*whispers*

"they dont know yet"

*end*

"i see, then i wont say anything to anyone"

"thank you"

"(damn i lost my chance to ask but ohh well)"

"anyway i will tell the leader of this group the purpose of your visit when he returns, he was completely shaking in his boots "

"as was arneus when i first visited him"

"really?"

"really."

ryuga laughed hard

"i wish you had a camera"

"that reminds me what exactly did you do with him?"

"turned him into a diamondling and sent him to a random city"

"wont he abuse his powers now that he is much stronger?"

"didnt you"

"..."

"dont worry, i only gave him the defence and appearance of a diamondling he is still as strong as a normal stoneoid whats more, he cant obsorb rocks"

"well, i must apologize back then i was completely over confident, i was sure i was the most powerful and i got arrogant"

"if you want to apologize, apologize to the ones who were the victims, well those who were victimized"

"i have already done that"

"then its ok, besides i will be going home soon"

"i wont ask"

"anyway what is the flame demon up to?"

"nothing special, stalking women as usual. i swear he is the enemy of every woman"

"well i dont like him either, leona do you have something to say?"

leona coming out from behind the door or rather pushed through it by the other rebellion members

"who is this ryuga?" valeri

"a friend who was kidnapped by him"

"well seems she is safe, if he did anything she would have a giant hole in her body since hes made of fire and all"

"yeah, else he would have a similar one through his body"

"h.h..hell..hello" leona afraid of the valeri, or rather her kind

"nice to meet you iam the water princess"

"relax shes not going to hurt you leona"

"if you say so, my name is leona by the way"

"donnot fret, i hate him just as much as you do"

"more importantly human what are you doing getting friendly with the enemy?"

"'human'?"

"she isnt an enemy anymore and val wher iam from we call fleshlings 'humans'"

*whispers*

"is she like you too?"

"not really, iam the only one like me. shes more or less like a fleshling, there are also two more but they dont really have any powers"

"so thats why they are afraid of me"

*end*

"any more questions"

"you are going to leave soon right? can i come with you?"

"No, sorry. it would upset the balance of power here"

"cant you do something about that?"

"well i could always bring the flame demon with us as well, *with a low volume* and semi-seal your powers"

*whispers*

"semi-seal?"

"i can give you another power that when activated turns your appearance into that of a fleshling and also stops you from using your elemental powers, although if you deactive it you will turn back to normal"

"you can do that?"

"i think so, yes"

*end*

"i want to see more, know more but i dont want to spend even a second with that insufferable pervert"

she starts thinking

"well if i dont bring him with us the power balance will tip in his favour, although he is stupid he still controls almost the same amount of land as you and if your gone hes the one most likely to take over so the power balance will be disrupted, your choice"

"what if he says no?"

"i cant take you with me then, sorry"

"fine, ill go ask him"

not seeming happy about it at all valeri flew out of the door

"shes gone you can all come out now"

the doors around burst open and humanoids went about their business like nothing happened wood people carrying lumber here and there for construction stoneoids carrying stone or rather absorbing it and spitting it out where ever it was needed fleshlings healing the wounded who got into accidents or levitating items here and there. it appears they were preparing to take over and only stopped because valeri had appeared.

"can we finally go home?"yuki

"not yet, we have three things to do first"

"which are?"

"firstly, we need to wait to see whether those two are willing to join us

secondly, we need to think of something for yukari

thirdly, we need to do what we started our journey to do"

"why do we have to wait for them, we should ditch them human and that vampire can come with us, as much as i dont want her to. its faster"

"good idea leona, for once"

"really?" yuki

""for once" dont look down on me human"

"but you told the water princess you will take her with you"

"that i did. so why not go visit her she is probably with the flame demon by now, i dont need to keep my identity a secret anymore since we are about to leave so grab on"

saying that ryuga teleported the three to the flame demons palace

"i never wanted to come back here" leona

"just bear with it for now"

a palace made of completely red bricks on a red island surrounded by lava awaited them,

unlike valeri's castle this one had lava spilling out of holes and fire surrounding rooftops

"hey ryuga wont i die if i set foot there?"

"dont worry, only the lava surrounding the island is deadly the rest is just decor, i think"

""i think"?"

"hey i cant tell if its harmful or not, it doesnt even feel that hot to me, but since leona got through it without a scratch it must be harmless"

"i dont know if i even came here, i was knocked unconscience and woke up in a room surrounded by red bricks and my way was blocked by flaming bars"

"well you were in the castle anyway enough bickering"

"yukari say something too"

"i completely trust master hence i am willing to do anything he commands"

""anything" do you even know what that means?" yuki

"indeed iam fully aware of the sexual and dangerous tasks that are included and i am willing to fulfill them if my master so desires"

"human what did you do to make her go gaga over you? dont tell me, you changed her thoughts?"

"no i didnt you sadistic cat, more importantly yukari i almost forgot to ask you"

"ask me?"

"yes, now that arneus has been de-throned your friends are probably released. do you want to meet them"

"iam happy with spanding time with you so i must decline, thank you for thinking of me master"

"human enough lets just go inside"

"i will cover you all with a protective aura just in case, yukari i will explain what exactly iam to you later ok, iam sure you must be confused with the teleportation"

the castle it had no lights but there was no darkness, the fire and lava around provided plent of illumination and near the throne valeri was talking to the flame demon

"you rejected me and chose some mere fleshling over me, i wont help you" demon

"your coming whether you want to or not, you should be happy you perverted flame" valeri

"iam not coming and you cant make me" demon

"so he declined?" ryuga

"ryuga..." surprised to see him valeri stuttered "what are you doing here"

"just wanted to get you before we left but since hes not coming i guess we will be going" ryuga

"what kind of man are you? leaving your girlfriend behind while you leave with three beauties, as i thought i must kill you right where you stand"

"shut up, i dont have time to deal with a brat"

"how dare you call me a brat, face my fire"

the flame demon threw a pure black lava ball right at ryuga the intense heatwave was distorting the air around it. ryuga grabbed the fireball with his hands and it suddenly turned intoo pure white ice which he threw back at the flame demon. as soon as it hit the flame demon it burst into a completely spherical ball surrounding the flame demon the ice was moving around the sphere and the surroundings had completely frozen, the lava had turned into frozen rock and iron. even the flames froze the air light around faded a little but was still kept valeri started freezing but ryuga touched her hands which made her thaw out

"we cant have you freezing too"

"isnt that a bit too harsh"

"he wont die with that if thats what you mean"

the spinning ball of ice finally dispersed and left the flame demon completely frozen

the ice surrounding the flame demon was so white you could hardly see anything inside it

a few seconds later the ice started to melt and 3 minutes later the ice burst open and an intense flame replace it which came bursting out the flame demon emerged gasping for breath

"you... are not... an ordinary fleshling... are you"

"ping pong, someone give him a prize"

yukari cast a healing spell on the flame demon

"here is your prize, is this good enough master"

"you didnot have to seriously give him a prize anyway, are you going to come with us?"

"no i willnot, my heart will break if i see valeri flirt with you again so i cannot come my pride as a man wont allow it"

"ok suit yourself valeri i will leave a teleportation gate at your place, if you manage to convince him you can just walk through it to get to where iam"

"i understand"

ryuga flicked his fingers

"done, now lets go"