Hogsmeade Surprise

[Asphodel]

"Blasted!" Stan yelled, "Of all the bloody things to happen and at this very time to!" he loocked around, they were somewhere, and it definately wasn't the cave.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

"Don't do anything," Slasher warned Stan.

"Why not? We have to get out!"

"It won't work. This is a no-magic zone. It's a different dimension."

Stan screamed.

"It seems we have been alerted to the Demon's attention."

"Not good eh?"

"Not good at all."

[Scarlet Lioness]

"Hey, Remmy...Can I ask you a question???"

Keshia wiped away her tears and looked down...

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

"And now we wait," said Slasher.

"For what?"

"You don't want to know."

[Un'Anima Persa]

Remmy looked at Keshia.

"Well... I guess.. but I cant guaruntee that my answer will be truthful."

"Remmy" Keshia began "We're stuck here together and Stan and Slasher have vanished. Your father is near death, and the first thing we've got to have here is trust. If we don't have that, then we have nothing."

Remmy stared into Keshia's eyes. She did have a point.

"Alright.." Remmy said uneasily. She moved to a rock and sat down.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

"Ar'garotha is coming for his prey," said Slasher.

"Er... there isn't an off-chance that the prey isn't us, is there?"

"Don't worry, elf man," he said.

"I am your senior, you know," Stan grumbled.

"No you aren't," Slasher replied, and eyeballed Stan. "There are none I am inferior to any longer, I'm afraid."

"Ooookay," Stan looked at him puzzled for a few seconds, then galanced away.

It was all dark. Everywhere.

And the darkness could not simply be an absence of light either, for no light could ever come here. In this dimension this was light.

"Stan, you'd better head off," Slasher said.

"Oh, thank you for your permission, great master..." He rolled him eyes.

"I am kind if you take the time to notice," Slasher acknowledged, ignoring the sarcasm.

"Ahem..." said Stan. "And how do you propose I leave?"

Slasher looked at him irritably.

"Oh, yes..."

Slasher flung out a hand and summoned the darkness to collapse, and poured in the New Light.

With his resolve stronger than ever, his magic poured out, pure and untainted. It was Magic. The power itself.

It was the creation.

It was the last thing Stan saw before he was plucked back into the world, where he would have appeared moments before had it not been for the call of the Demon.

Stan was back in the cave, standing next to Keshia and Remmy.

Slasher was in the other dimension, where light was the absence of darkness.

There he stood, silently.

Slasher was waiting for the Call.

The Call of Ar'garotha was not ignored.

Not by a wizard.

It was the Call of Death.

[Asphodel]

"Where's Slasher?" Remmy and Keshia asked in unision.

"Um..." Stan began, "he- he's doing this- this rubbish demon call thing!"

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

"Alright you," Slasher called out. "Show yourself! Best be doin' it quickly or I'll be getting more tetchy every second or so."

There was a glimmer in the darkness.

There was colour.

Huh? Slasher thought. Musn't be pure darkness after all.

But it is...

[Scarlet Lioness]

"Yeah, well...I no this is like a really bad time to say this but...Can you be my friend? Pleasee, the only friend I have is Slasher, I have no idea where he is..." Keshia was crying...she missed Slasher...

Stan just appeared out of no wehre and said that Slasher wasn't here..

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

The demons were red, but only the kind of red you could get when light and darkness were reversed.

Needless to say, there were no horns.

The foaming at the mouth sort of gave away their nature, though.

"Go back to oblivion, demon!" He shouted at the first, approaching one.

"Here that, fellas?" It said, cheerfully. "Apparently we came from oblivion."

"Yeah, int'restin' that, innit?" The other one perked up. "'Cos I heard you had to be dead to get in there. A sort of a prerequisite eh?"

"Right you are, Gualahpltz," the other one nodded. "And, ah... funny thing is, it's a bit of a prerequi-thingee for a demon to not be alive or dead."

"Indeed it is, Fylentzad," said Gualahpltz, grinning.

"And now, wizard... drop your wand and we'll see you won't come to any harm?"

"Why's that a question?"

"To make up for the next thing he says not being one."

"Ah."

The next thing Slasher said was not a question.

[Asphodel]

Stan mumbled something and sat down on a rock. "What are you to doing!" He yelled as Keshia and Remmy were examining Remmy's father, "That's destroying the evidence tha' is!"

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Demons are generally quite cruel.

Their cruely is hardly ever sudden, though. They tend to draew things out in a rather unpleasant matter for as long as physically possibly.

Actually, that is a common misinterpretation of demonesque attitudes.

One that Slasher Broonhoggle would have learnt rather quickly had he not -

"Oi!," said Gualahpltz. "What do you think you're doing, scum?"

A third demon joined the crew.

"I believe he's dropping his wand, Gualahpltz," admitted the third demon.

"That's Brother to you, spawn," Gualahpltz looked down on him like an older brother.

"Yes, Brother," said the inferior demon.

"And I could see that he's dropping his wand."

"Ah, see you did ask...-"

"-Enough..." said Slasher, slowly.

He'd dropped his wand.

No wizard dropped his wand in front a crew of Ar'garotha's demons.

No wizard.

[Scarlet Lioness]

"Please!" Keshia yelled. "Could you please just try and find Slasher. We need him! I need him!"

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Slasher loved these moments in stories.

Right when the villians worked out who they were really dealing with.

[Un'Anima Persa]

"Hey, Keshia, I don't have any friends... I think you'd be a good one though... so sure... consider us friends."

Keshia's sniffles grew into violent sobs. Remmy didn't know feelings for people outside of one's own family could be that strong, but if it was... then there was definitely more of a reason now than there ever was.

Remmy didn the only thing she could possibly think of... she didnt know if it would work on people, though.

"ACCIO, SLASHER!"