Meeting of Demons [GRADED]

She’d found who she had picked up on, it was the same mean demon that had insulted her and then fought with her over next to nothing. Granted, she probably shouldn’t have gotten any closer at that point, but she did anyway and what she saw astounded her. The other demon managed to heal the dead tree back to a growing live one, she felt the life blossom as he’d done so and frankly didn’t even know such a trick even existed, let along someone willing to use it on something as humble as plant life. It was frankly a small miracle as far as Jaci was concerned and so she approached cautiously. Catching the words of the other demon she gave a little sniffle and spoke up as she approached, happy that for a change she could actually communicate with the man and using her native tongue

“Jaci just wasn’t strong enough. One of the mean powered suits came for the forest and was strong enough to injure me so badly I was forced the flee. Then everything got taken.”

She turned her face a little so he could see the healing burn along her face, it’d gotten a lot better than the day she’d turned up to attack lettuki for lying to her. Though it’d turned into a strange misunderstanding and there seemed to be no hard feelings over it. She could only hope that this would also be the case here, the two demons hadn’t exactly left on the best of terms.

“It’s very impressive that you can restore them to life though, would you be willing to show Jaci how it’s done sir?”

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TWC: 590

Jaci was quietly fascinated by the incantation. She had never heard of doing such a thing before from how her father acted. Maybe he should have learned such a thing if he really wanted to be as powerful as he had gone on about. This kind of magic had seemed like an invaluable concept and yet none of the training he had tried to give to Jaci had had nothing to do with it. Just trying to force her into using the natural affinity with ice.

She shrugged a little at him turning away, it was fairly understandable that he didn’t like her with how they had parted ways during their last encounter. So when he started being quite civil towards her she calmed herself down a little and even managed to smile. What he said made sense, she had had no training in magic. But maybe this other demon would be able to help her deal with the ice that she’d struggled with and buried for so long. Have some explanation for it, and how Jaci was able to just create it when she tried.

“Um, I’m not sure I know any magic really. But maybe this counts?”

She raised a hand carefully, a small amount of ice swirling into existence within the palm, starting as little flakes and locking together to form a tiny match head of flame out of the nearly flawless blue hued ice as Jaci smiled slightly at Vuoto. The act had felt no different to someone creating a ki blast if Vuoto had the senses for it, so he could make of that what he would

“I’ve been able to do it since I was tiny… But, kind of kept it hidden until Lettuki brought it back out. It was the cause of a lot of problems for me. But if it means I can help restore my forest. I’d love to try and learn if you’d be willing to teach. I know that’s asking a lot after how we last met.”


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TWC: 928

Jaci carefully crushed the tiny little sculpture within her hand and dusted the rest of the ice free of her palms while she watched him deliberate. Though it seemed as though he wasn’t going to be accepting her request. Maybe because he actually thought she wouldn’t be able to do. Or just because he didn’t want to share in such gifts, Jaci couldn’t blame him. The few other demons that weren’t family that she had met were all the same. Jealously guarding their knowledge and power lest another showed up having mastered it better than they could and used it against them.

“I see, I had to suppress it to stop father’s beating. Made myself seem weaker than I was so that he wouldn’t try to use me to further his own power against his rivals. He went about unlocking what I could do in a … Horrible way. Though it seems little different from how Lettuki tried to calm me down when I was angry at him for almost getting me killed.”

The little demon rummaged in her pockets for a moment before coming out with a bag of what seemed to be trail mix and took a small handful for herself before casually offering him the bag and smiling at him. A small gesture of friendship that with any luck, the other demon would accept as she stared around them at the destruction and added.

“I had friends in this forest. They’ve probably all fled when the metal suit came to destroy the trees. I hope they are okay, and.. How hard would it be to restore all of the forest? It seemed to be quite difficult to just save this one tree. Do you think you could do it to all of them? Oh, and sorry for upsetting you when we first met. Mom, mom, mom, mom and mom all taught me to act like that. But form how you reacted I guess it made you feel weirded out?”

She shrugged a little and looked about her, it seemed like most of what she had learned within the demonic realm was proving to be rather wrong. Save for the Log.Co clan that had attacked her often, humanity had seemingly proven to be quite the peaceful race. Some of them more scared of her than she them, and the other demon she’d met found the acts she had been raised to display rather weird rather than a proper greeting.

“I don’t get it though, why don’t more demons come to this place and instead stay in our own realm? It’s nicer here and people aren’t always trying to kill you.”

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TWC: 1370

Jaci looked a little bit on the offended side when her bag of food just vanished into Vuoto’s coat. The demon blinking at him and looking a little expectant, she had offered him some of that food not all of it. Oh well, it wasn’t like she didn’t have more of it. She just felt it was a little bit rude, but then again it was a good step up from trying to blow each other up. Her bright red eyes stared evenly into his glowing one, a little flicker of blue flashing through them for a moment or two. His explanation however made Jaci a little worried, especially considering how easily it had seemingly been for her father to force her out here through that seal.

“Oh, that leaves me a worrying thought. Father forced me out here easily, he thought I was stronger than him … Maybe I shouldn’t get the hang of the ice then. It might be dangerous.”

That flicker of blue once again before jaci took a slow breath and smiled at Vuoto, gently rubbing her hair where the stump of the horn had been. Her face a mixture of nervousness and excitement, partly at making a friend that truly understood what she had to say and at the same time worried that this Vuoto would attempt to make use of the strength that her father wanted from her so desperately.

“M..My injury? Oh the burn, it’s fine. It’s healing a lot. It was much worse when I first got it. I always did heal up pretty well from little injuries. But uh a clan of humans that I think is called Log.Co did this to me. They aren’t strong, but they have these metal suit thingies that have weapons on them. Normally I can break them down, but Lettuki gave me this heavy thing to make me taller and it slowed me down so much I got caught out and hurt and was forced to flee. It’s not been that long and they’ve done all this since. I came back here because I buried a lot of the broken metal suits here and was going to dig them back up and make myself some armour like theirs.”

She grinned happily and gently rubbed at the burned side of her face before the smile grew a little darker and more malicious from the normally always happy and bubbly little thing. Her anger was obvious, the little tremors running through her as she thought about her battle with the power suit and her failure to protect what was hers.

“I’m going to ruin their homes like they ruined mine. Father always did stress the importance of maintaining fear over the lesser beings. So, they’ll fear me for what they did to me.”


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TWC: 2036

Jaci seemed mildly relived when the bag was returned to her. She’d taken quite the bit of time to gather the fruit and nuts after all. She was careful to thank him though for returning the bag. Politeness was always a good thing when trying not to annoy people. That cold look, with her once blue eyes gleaming blue turned onto Vouto for a while as she calmly regarded him.

“Be that as it may. One clan of humans destroyed my home. If someone tries to stop me I’ll argue my case, if they refuse to listen because of what I am. I’ll, have to call in help. I’m sure I can arrange a few sympathetic fighters. One particularly large fighter comes to mind already, I doubt there’s much on world that can stop him.”

She calmed down again and sighed, shaking her head off and trying to eat the mix with a slightly trembling hand, if Vouto was observant he’d notice that each small handful of the mix was edged with ice, though Jaci was being very careful not to look at them as she asked him, her now red eyes blinking a little as if to clear tears that just weren’t there.

“I think I met a police once... I ventured near the city and he tried to take me further inside, said something about....” She tried to remember the strange words he had used and switched to the Earthling language “F-f... inding, parents?”



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TWC: 2458

Jaci couldn’t help but look guilty at the comments regarding her icing up the food and she crunched on her treat, continuing to pretend that she couldn’t feel the chill of the ice as he tried to dissuade her from her course of action. The demon was being rather stubborn over this one. Though how was Vuoto to know what it was like? He’d not had the joy of a place to call you own and friends to comfort you, only to have them all snatched away by violent monsters from the night time fear inducing stories of your parent.

“I’ve come across the guns before. Along with the pads of armour, there’s a few of their guns buried around here. Didn’t know what else to do with them and I assumed the world would reclaim what was it’s in due time. The large suits have them now and then but they are slow and easy enough to dodge.”

She was being a little cavalier in front of the other demon. Having lost control enough to be unable to stop herself freezing her own food was clearly bothering her and she was trying to talk big to someone whom she oft was worried was going to get in the way. Though he did seem to be much nicer to her now that she wasn’t doing as her parents had suggested. Then again it did seem like a lot of what they had told her was wrong.

“I’m glad you won’t interfere… I don’t think I’d be lucky enough to handle their weaponry and you at the same time. Especially since you are stronger than me. If he was feeling kind I might ask for Lettuki’s help in this endeavour.”

She seemingly didn’t notice the vunerability of the other demon. Maybe she really was too young to capitalise on it and instead paced a few times to find a spot and started to dig. Pulling up a curved piece of powered suit with the log co logo on it and smiling grimly.

“I’ll wear their darn clan logo when I fight them too.”

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TWC: 2810