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Chapter 16 - Chapter 16: Demon Forest Exploration Pt. 2

After Lucas battled Pau, he and Quint and Shay went deeper into the forest. They noticed several demons watching them, but none dared to approach them. Was it because they could sense their power or maybe it's because of their fear of humans because of their previous run in with Mary many years ago. Whatever the reason was, their bloodlust could be felt.

Quint was sick of being glared at from the demons, so he stopped suddenly and shouted "Hey! You stupid demons! If you got a problem with us, come and do something about it!" The demon ran away. "That's what i thought," said Quint. Suddenly, they heard loud thuds and the ground shook beneath them. "Whoa! Whats that?!" asked Shay while trying to keep her balance. The thuds got louder and the ground shook more violently. They all turned towards the direction of the sound. There stood a giant demon that stood among the trees! The demon had one yellow eye on the middle of its head, no nose, and four fans protruding through its mouth. It carried a tree as a club.

They immediately start running away from the demon. The demon chased them through the forest, knocking down trees in its way like it was nothing. "How dare you wake me from my slumber?!" yelled the demon as it chased them. Shay and Lucas stared at Quint with a "this is your fault" face. "Answer me! " yelled the demon as he swung his tree at our heroes. Lucas stopped, turned around used his stone skin to block the tree and protect Quint and Shay. The demon's power was so mighty that it knocked Lucas into Quint and Shay and sent them against a cliff. The tree snapped as it made contact with Lucas.

The demon looked at his tree and noticed that it was shattered all the way down to the trunk. The demon made a sad face. He clearly had some sort of emotional attachment to the tree from the way he reacted to it being broken. Soon after, the demon's sad face turned into an angry one. Tears stopped forming and the demon shouted at the top of his lungs, "MY TREEEEEEE!!!" The demon's skin turned black, his eyes red, and fangs were popping out of his face.

"I think it's time to get out of her," said Quint as he tithes towards Shay and Lucas, but they were gone. They had already ran away when they heard the demon's cry. "Damn them!" said Quint whole looking around, trying to decide what to do, "They fucking left me!"

The demon jumped into the air and landed right in front Quint. The ground shook do badly, that Quint was knocked off his feet. The demon bellowed loudly. Quint turned around to run, but the demon flickered in front of him. Quint then hit the demon with an energy blast.

He was unscathed. "What the fuck am I going up against?" thought Quint as he started running away again. The demon chased after him, moving faster than before. Quint picked up speed and caught up to Shay and Lucas.

"Oh, Quint, your not dead!" said Lucas while looking shocked. Quint looked at Lucas and said, "Did you two think I was gonna die?" "No of course not," said Shay sarcastically. "Well, that's messed up. I can at least run away from him," replied Quint. A huge shadow hovered over them and got bigger and bigger. "Move!" yelled Quint. All three of them went in different directions. The demon landed in between them crushing the trees and anything else under him and he once again bellowed.

" Looks like we have to fight," said Quint as he jumped into the air. "I'll follow your lead," said Lucas and then he stomped the ground and the pillar of stone appeared under the demon's right foot and knocked him off balance. Shay immediately fired an energy blast at the demon's body. The demon's body teetered even more. "Fire Punch!" Quint's fist were engulfed with angry flames. He punches the demon repeatedly until it fell over. The demon crashed into the ground causing it to quake.

"Yeah! We got him!" said Lucas. "Nice teamwork!" said Quint with a thumbs up with his back turned to the demon. "You two do realized that we only managed to knock him down. We're far from beating him," said Shay as she was pointing to the demon as he stood back up even angrier than before. Quint and Lucas slowly turned around and witnessed the demon rise back up. The demon swatted them both and they went flying into the trees.

The demon turned his attention to Shay and cried out "I'll kill you first!" Energy surrounded his fist. He attempted to punch Shay, but she sidestepped it. The demon's punch caused an explosion when it hit the ground so Shay felt the aftershock of the attack. She fell back in order to regroup herself and also give herself a tactical advantage. The demon smirked as he watched her regroup. "I thought that he only relied on brute strength, but he's smart. He separated us, thinking he can beat us one by one. He must think that I'm the weakest. I'll show him," thought Shay.

Shay assumed her fighting stance. The demon laughed at the thought of her actually challenging her. "What's funny?" asked Shay while looking him dead in the eye. "I just pictured a hundred different ways that I could squash you like a bug," answered the demon as he started back laughing. Shay got angry and said "Water Cannon!" She fired a huge, concentrated stream of water. The attack hit the demon in the middle of the chest and raged through him. The demon stupid there, frozen in shock. "Ha! Victory is mine!" said Shay.

The demon's eye looked down and Shay and he smiled again. A chill went down Shay's spine as she looked upon the demon's smile. The hole in his chest began to close. "He can regenerate?!" thought Shay while she backed up one foot at a time. She knew this was a losing battle, but she had one tactic that always seem to work. "Bring it on!" said Shay as she charged up her energy. "This strategy never fails!" thought Shay. The demon stomped his foot and roared as an attempt to intimidate Shay. The roar was so mighty that it pushed her back some. Shay fully extended her arm and fired an energy blast at the demon. The blast hit the demon in the balls. His eye rolled to the back of his head and he fainted.