"What do you want to eat?" Liz, asked Mason
"Nothing at the moment... I haven't felt the drive to eat..."
"maybe because of your Demonic skills... or trait."
"care to elaborate for me?"
"sure... how to I put it... demons have plenty of underworld like abilities so you probably don't have hunger for actual meat or vegetation but something else or maybe your just not hungry who knows... but hold on, in fact this is something I should explain also... demons don't have intelligence... at least, nothing like yours or humans... they're basically like pack animals and something similar... anyways, Demons developed skills and traits... physical buffs, and resistance to plague or sickness... but only after time... but since you mentioned being reborned, you likely just were giving this skills... or inhearted them... when you were born did you fell anything during the process of your birth?" she tried to explain and have him understand.
"i get it, basically demons are like cavemen... but it's not entirely rare is it that a demon grows superior intelligence or something like that huh... alright" he stood staring at Liz, then down to Himself. "I'll answer the other question, but I've been walking around nude, I wouldn't hurt to get clothes right? or will I be wrapped in leaves like yourself?" he pointed out, and soon felt her magic as he was wrapped in vines again but had only been wrapped in something to cover his lower body.
"your welcome..." she said after waving her hand. there was a magical and enchanting pattern to her hand and it was intresting to him.
"thanks... and I'm trying to think... I did feel a warm and light flow around me... but also felt a menacing, violent dark aura around building up. there also feeling like I was in the cloud or even couldn't breath, but that is all... next thing and last thing I felt, was my body absorbing it all and I gained consciousness... I killed four humans who were going violate this woman... one looked important, but I didn't care enough to stay around. I was in a very very pissed mood" he said and walked over to Jessica who was still asleep.
"hm... you could have accepted gifts... what I mean is... your body was likely taking in everything around the area... but you fell from the sky, this woman... who is she?"
"beats me... but I had an instinct to save her, but also bring her" he explained.
"hm... she is likely a God then... but, how did demons get there...? and you killed humans? how...? non of that makes sense..."
"You think im lying?" he asked.
"no... you would gain nothing from me after we made a deal already... so I belive you... I'm just confused... see demons aren't even capable... and the heavenly realm is incredibly toxic to humans and demons... but both were roaming up there. it's difficult to even be allowed there..."
"I can say one thing for sure... humans didn't work with demons to reach it... demons and gods and angles all alike were being killed from what I saw..." Mason explained.
Liz was now more lost, but then let it go and spoke. "forget it... back to you... see we know now what your made up of.... but what are you"
"I'm not human is that's what your getting at.."
"of course not... your a demon, angel, human and God. you've gained all there abilities. but why? and how? that woman... well need to learn more from her when she wakes up... for now we know what you can do, and that's a good start"
"how so?"
"well, Sir. if you come with me outside we can practice what exactly. today we're not taking It easy" she said cheerfully,
"fine... fine..." getting up and away from the sleeping beauty known as Jessica, he followed Liz outside to then walk with her. "so what we doing first?"
"magic control... your letting out all that menacing presence out like un capped volcano... think of it as putting a lid on a jar and sealing it... take in all that energy and hold it within your body..."
"so like charging a battery?"
"whats that?"
"never mind it. I'll give it a shot... just try to keep an eye on me... this will be a first for me to control and using magic" he told himself and began to think in how he would do that. terms were lucky similar, as he understood what aura was and had a general idea. but he wasn't sure what his limit was at. "also... let me know when you've sense I look or appear normal..."
"sure... just try pulling in the magic around you... it does the trick and basically regenerates your lost mana, or over caps it, if you got the right skill learned..." she explained and gave him a lesson.
taking her advice, but also then focusing on what her already understood. he began to focuse in first feeling for what mana was.
It was like the energy natural in the world was being absorbed and brought within his body stored. it was a slow and steady process. His body being almost recharged even. it was a little while after his presence was now hidden that he heard her. "good... easy right...? now... time to expell it... magic is a very simple yet complicated mechanism... start with just creating it and make a fire for us to stay warmth tonight... just don't start any inside unless you get the hand of it" she told him, and let him go on to practice. she on the hand left the yard of her home, to go and gather herbs, fruits and berries. as well collect a bounty for two to eat. because of her druid nature, she didn't need any other nutrition except vegetation and magic.
"yeah, take care..." he told her, watching her walk away and hide her body into the forest as she was soon out of sight.
"I guess now is a better moment than any to get use to this world... as much as I hate the circumstances I need a goal..." crouching down on one knee and then setting the other, together to the grass, he had began to meditate, ignoring Liz's demand to practice fire and its attribute to produce it and cast it.
in his mind he thought to himself.
'I still knowledge of my old word... whenever I ran from home... the library was a safe space... I picked up books... learning many things... tactics for war, economics. shit I never got to learn at school... then again I had to leave school to complete focuse on surviving... this is just the damn worse... whatever... just focuse... your getting distracted. again.' his face molded with anger. but slowly eased back to a calmer state of mind. 'feel this world Mason... learn it... absorb it. don't let anything happen again... to your family, to my loved ones... there is no space for weakness. not again. I was worried. about the law, and my death, but being a damn coward kept me from killing, kept me from saving my family. and now we're here, separated. and I have no fucking idea where to start. and who knows when they were gaining consciousness...'
the space around his feet, the still grass and flowers, there color and there life was being pulled and taken. the flowers died and grass as well tress alike wilted rapidly. while he tamed his raged, his mind and soul. he set a goal, his first among many to reach his ultimate goal. "the human underworld... if I want to find my girls... in a shit hoke like this world... I will first need to get my hands dirty. and not with money" he said to himself, as he got himself up holding out his right arm and palm open. just as natural as his breath, a circle appeared over his palm. he was casting magic, and learning rapidly. "no matter the world... one fundamental law exists. kill, or be killed. I will not be restrained again." at the very moment he said those world. the very planet and every major power in the world shook. a shiver as cold as ice flew down there spines. the world noticed his presence and everyone who would be an enemy did as well. there was a change in the air. A storm that was never calming, and forever changing and growing.
"Ignition" a fire blazed from his palm and up over the trees as it spirled like a tornado for only a moment. closing his palm to extinguish the spell entire he then looked to the home as this power was notice by everyone in the town, and also Liz who was quickly heading back after her short time away.
he has control of his magic abilities, and saw the dead life around him. activating another spell, he brought the grass and tree life back. But that wasn't exactly what he did. as he noticed closely from the fire and the grass. the leaves were dead all of it... and so were the trees. all he did was accelerate the process of life. making it seem like they came back, but he noticed they were all new patches all together. and the fire. it was the pulling of molecules and combining them in the right order. only they were also thrown into a blender, as they what made it so intense when he casted it.
"tomorrow... tomorrow I'll begin, but it isn't like I can just demand what I want from the town, I need to co-exist with them. at least a time. but then again, they're just human, and this place has no idea what he'll my world saw... gun... bombs... nukes... and that is just the surface of what we experienced. I know nothing of this worlds history... but I cam imagine they had to deal with monsters like me or far greater... maybe even lessor... and wars with other races using magic... nothing so brutal as what millenia of trouble people have gone through within my world." he had soon sensed Liz and walked into her home. he went ahead and set the fire place a lit for her as she asked of him. when she barged in she was in a panic.
"JERK! I said just practice and you... start... a flame tornado" she was out of breath and did then calm down seeing him hold a steady flame. "if your learning to fast what's the point of teaching you?" she joked in a way, and then had walked inside holding a woven basket. filled with fruits and berries alike. "here... eat if you need too... since you learned something today, tell me about yourself. your old life... since you weren't born here. what sort of stuff did you have and do?"
he watched the fire and played with against a stick as he listened to her. he noticed her happy curiosity, but he thought for now, even now he then said bluntly. "it was fucking hell... not literal like anything here if that exist. but human life for me... was surviving. every single day. it was not kind to me. I never even had any favor from gods... when I died, he didn't even notice. until my family were killed. right before very my eyes. but not after the men around had toyed with them. they made sure I watched, as the children of mine and wife were handled brutally, my only father figuer tortured, hanged by the neck and gutted as they rested his body like a trophy in front of me" he stared back at her, as he had the eyes of a broken man. "if you want to know what it was like Liz. what I was like. I was a coward, and I wanted to die in every moment. I was a weakling. a no magic existed. it was hell and I was at the worst pits of it. can you imagine that...? wanting to die? yet for some unknown reason you find the will to push, and push and push until you find happiness and win? I did all that and had it ripped aparted from me! LIKE IT NEVER MATTERED!" he scowled as he yelled and growled as his words were dark along with his tone. looking back at the fire he sighed and closed his eyes.
In complete awe. Liz was quite. her throat clogged. she couldn't fathom the world like his old one. 'no magic? his family? oh god!' she felt her body sink as she took a moment to sit before seeing every bit of pain in his eyes, buy she only saw a fraction of it. and to hear him saw he was considered a coward and even weak after seeing and meeting him today. there was a snap for sure. and wondered what exactly happened to completely break a mere man to this point. she was afraid more than anything to know. but seeing him in pain, wanted to make her act and help.
"no words huh... I'm not surprised... and you did want to know. so you have no one to blame but yourself if you learn thing you never wanted about me." he said and slowly stood up. "now you. just a part of you... tell me about yourself" Now walking over, he sat with the goddess, and had her resting along his body so he could the one to lay down and she would still be laid out only now on top of him. He rested with ease and didn't bother to look anywhere else but the ceiling.
She had looked up to him, watching him get conformable with the woman who is now laying on top of him thanks to his actions. she picked some fruits and ate quietly. "well... I think..." she didn't know what to say. in her past, her experience. she couldn't even compare. "I'm not sure what to say... so I guess I can start... by telling how I got here... see I ran away from home... the elders saw a future, where I brought calamity to the realm of druids... we as a species live in a different plain to reality very close to this one, a separate domain really and not like a realm such as heaven or hell or the lands of beyond. my home would attacked by monster is all they said. I didn't know at the time, but my mother was constantly ridiculed because of the way I was conceived. I was something unbecoming of a priestess... however she chose to fall for a demon. they were killed when I was a child, and I couldn't take it anymore. I don't posses any Demonic attributes because the druids also had my mother's body modified, and so I wouldn't be a half breed. I'm a pure druid, so I try to hold there values... because I have nothing else connecting me to my mother and my species. still, shortly after they so attacked my parents. monsters and demons charged through a gate killing whatever they could. my father made sure I was also protected and alive away from there. I ran away when I got the chance, and I didn't look back... but In the end the druids elder and higher guards won the short battle and I was free from that disgraceful clan." she was in pain, but try to show it. in fact she hid her sorrow, because if what he said to her was still fresh in her mind.
Mason spoke up shortly. "if your in pain cry... if you want something ask... if you need help. come to me. just because your in pain it doesn't make your lose any less significant than mine. we both lost family. we lost our homes and now are left alone. so don't hold back. not anymore do you understand. be greedy, act selfishly but think clearly. live on for your parents and yourself." he told her as she was out of words again.
He was right. he has suffered, and so has she. so why should she hold back her feelings to cry. she got up and walked over to him, as she got on her knees by the couch he was l laid on, she hugged and softly cried against him. "I... miss them... so much!"
he wanted to encourage her more, but his words would be like a cold knife against her chest. so he stopped himself from speaking. he watched her cry, and soon had raised his hand to touch her head and pat her head. "good... very good... when you have the time. you should move forward. do you understand, do not succumb to fear, do not let what you cherish be taken from you again. and do not let anyone get in your way not humans... or druids."
she nodded, as was in thought. even if she appeared a woman, she was buy a child in her mind. "I will... I want to go back... and set things straight with the druids... in fact... I think I know what I want to do..." she sat up on her knees and looked to him. "I want to avenge my parents."
"so you have a drive to kill...?"
"yes... the very old bastered that acted so blasphemous to my parents... there old way... need to be changed..." she said staring at his in the eyes.
"that's a very selfish desire... I look forward to seeing how it turns out... however... put killing on hold... first try to persuade them... if that fail... then prove with you own might... that the old ways are over. you are surely a very unique and blessed druid Liz" he praised and encouraged her desire. seeing her vows clear in her eyes, she had a path, and goal in her mind and heart. at first, her eyes seemed lost and plain, but now, there life and drive in her eyes.
"Let's both succeed and help out selfishness... agreed?" he offered holding out his pinky.
she cleaned her eyes and nodded linking her pinky with his and squeezed. "of course... my demon lord!" she smiled happily.
Mason looked surprised and smirked. "now that's a beautiful smile if I've ever seen one... it suits you much better.... and of course I will aid you. you have my support to the end."