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Daemon sat in his room sipping calmly from his tea before setting it down and continuing his paper work which had increased due to the multiple deaths that occurred within the guild has had him on edge lately. What was more vexing was that he was unable to find anything useful while examining the places where the attacks occur. In Daemon's mind he felt as if he chasing a fool's errand  as he mulled over the reports and pictures taken by the few informants that lived long enough to send them to him. Daemon growled quietly as his blood began to boil. Someone or someone thing was targeting his friends people he considered to be practically his family and he wasn't any closer to finding out why! Damn it!" He said as he nearly slammed his metal fist to his desk.

Daemon's fist was suddenly jerked forwards and nearly smashed his favorite tea cup  by a mere centimeter due t him gaining a brief sense of control over his anger. Daemon's got up quickly and rushed to the window and promptly jumped out of it and landed onto the ground below and quickly placed his hand to Genbu's shell that layed underneath  the grass and dirt. Being an able to shift into a animal came with multiple perks one of which included Daemon's ablilty to understand them including the massive turtle he and his guild called home. As Genbu reached his top speed Daemon listened intently to the creatures cries and shrieks as it led them to an unknown location during which Daemon couldn't shake off the feeling of something foreboding about their new journey.

In the kitchen a  bumbling new  guild member in named Ben Cobalt was enjoying a quick lunch when he was thrown forward and nearly landed on set of knives which would have pierced his red t-shirt and brown pants respectfully turning the poor smock into a cutlery board. Luckily for the young mage he avoided certain death by grabbing onto something soft yet firm unfortunately  for him it turned out to be another new recruit's butt  causing the girl to punch him in vindictive fury .

Daemon grimaced at the sight of the burning tree. It didn't take Daemon long to figure out that something of that size shouldn't be on fire unless it was some sort of religious ritual but that thought was quickly swept aside as he began to sense divine energy from the tree. Nekros I think we just found that tree you've been researching and by the looks of it someone doesn't want to keep it standing." Daemon said as he slowly stood up and whistled for his friend Lunos to come to his side with his sword. Genbu shrieked as he reached the shore closest to the tree while Lunos Daemon's magical pet wolf pup jumped down with Daemon's sword in his mouth and landed right by his friend's left foot and wagged his tail playfully .

Daemon smiled to the wolf pup and reached down to gently pet Lunos's head while grabbing his sword from his mouth while the new recruit slowly and painfully shoveled out of the main building holding his balls from the rather savage assault that he suffered through. Daemon looked back at ben and glared. "Ben front and center were going to need your abilities on this one " Daemon shouted to the recruit who shoveled and tied his best to ignore the crippling pain.
While Ben didn't look like it at the moment he was actually a competent water mage granted he was still a D rank but he could passively control water for non-combat purposes for as long as he needs to. Ben looked at the burning tree in front of them and gulped. Uh sure looks easy man

Daemon smiled savagely as his blood began to surge through his body as he slowly unsheathed his blade while his partner Lunos shifted into his combat mode which actually transformed him into a full grown dire wolf who growled viciously as he and Daemon ran towards the main gate and proceeded to use their forward momentum and enhanced physical strength to jump over the gate and across Genbu's shell and neck before jumping to the shore and into the forest beyond towards the Blazing tree while using the Branches as stepping stones. As Daemon and Lunos reached the tree they both caught the scent of something strange and quickly stopped on a tree branch that was slightly hidden from the rather open area around the great tree . They looked around to try and find the source when their eyes both locked onto a small group of brigands carrying torches. These brigands were holding torches to the tree yet the flames didn't seem to do any real harm, Daemon found this rather perplexing from his initial assessment of the situation. The brigands near the tree didn't seem to posses any form of natural magical energy or at least none that Daemon could sense.

Daemon's eyes narrowed slightly as he quietly moved closer to the group using the trees as cover until he was around twenty feet away behind a large Spruce while Lunos was hiding in the nearby bushes. Daemon knew Nekros could handle himself on the left flank while he could keep these peons distracted long enough for Ben to do his thing. After taking one more deep breath Daemon spun around and slashed the tree behind him and only the tree behind him sending it falling towards the brigands causing them to huddle together in shock . Daemon still being hidden by the tree jumped onto the falls trunk and quickly ran up into the branch and jumped into the air above them. Lunos seeing his opportunity rushed out and jumped at one of the brigands and bite savagely into their neck and clawed at their arms and stomach While Damon landed in the middle of the others and slashed at their throats while moving in a rapidly spinning motion going in a counter clockwise motion.

Daemon looked around and carefully noted that the trees that had been set ablaze slowly began to reignite after a small period of time. Daemon's eyes narrowed then proceeded to flick the blood from his blade and carefully returned it to it's sheath. Daemon walked over to one of the blazing tree and proceeded to examine the flames carefully noting that the flames even reappeared on spot that were already charred . A flame shouldn't be able to reignite on burnt wood even with an adequate source of oxygen and fuel." Daemon thought to himself as his nose suddenly acquired the scent he smelt earlier coming from the brigands and now from the blazing tree before him.

Daemon grimaced at the foul odor than turned back to the brigands and walked over to their corpses and proceeded to examine their clothes and bodies for anything of use when he suddenly felt a rather unpleasant jolt through his hand; not enough to actually hurt but enough to annoy him. Daemon's left eye flinched a bit as he withdrew his hand from what appeared to be a strange looking charm composed of a black piece of paper with the symbol for fire and writing which smelt of blood . Daemon slowly closed his eyes and tried to think of where he had smelt that kind of blood before. Daemon's face slowly contorted into a frown due to being unable to recall where but an idea did form in his mind but he knew that he couldn't act on it without more clues.

Daemon redrew his kusanagi and slashed the paper into bits than proceeded to due the same to other he later found on the rest of the brigands bodies. As Daemon finished he heard Jaeger's pet Nava mauling several of the few mages that helped start the fires. Jaeger some of the men I killed had some strange charms of them composed of black paper written on in blood. This place is protected by the massive tree in the center you said it was focused on healing right, does that healing include itself or is it simply meant to heal others ?" Daemon yelled out into the forest knowing full well that it would lead enemies too him but he had to acquire this information if he was to prove his theory correct.

Daemon looked carefully at the papers he had acquired and  grimaced slightly at the implications these type of charms could be used for. Well we've got two options for finding that out. One we could go into the tree its self and look around or we can look around in the buildings around it to see if theres any sort of clues  " Daemon said as he pointed out that a good portion of the vines and shrubs in the surrounding area were burned by the surrounding fires reveling multiple buildings surrounding the great tree. Daemon walked over to one of the larger buildings and examined its slightly scorched entranceway . He noticed a rough edging into the stone that was used for the archway that caught his attentions. Daemon grabbed onto an un damaged vine that was close by  and proceeded to climb up it and examined the edging in greater detail. Daemon grimaced slightly as he was unable to actually make head or tails of the entire edging yet he was able to make out a symbol for a library.

This seems to be some sort of library... Jaeger I'm going to head in hear and take a look you check the tree for anything.  " Daemon said as he proceeded into the building and went to the closest book case to find anything of use. While the guild hall had amassed an extensive collection of literature and questionable objects it never hurt to add to it's collection. Daemon skimmed  the book cases noting that many of them held stories talking about how great the tree is but nothing along the lines of what it was or how it came to be. This is odd even in a secluded area like this someone people should at least have been a bit curious on what makes that tree so special... hmm ?  well this might be useful..." Daemon said as he came across a large book inside of a glass case with a small plague reading " The legend of the holy tree " Daemon took his left arm and quickly swipped his left fingers across the glass smashing it with relative easy.

Daemon picked up the large tome and  opened it's cover carefully and examined the table of contents for anything useful within it's pages . Daemon stopped as he examined the title of a chapter named " The battle of the shooting stars and the birth of  the tree of life ." Daemon's eyes slightly narrowed at the title. While Daemon was an orphan without a proper education in academic standards his " home schooling " by his people's goddess he quickly learned multiple titles for both divine and demonic entities one of which was a term that signified servants of the gods and was written right before his eyes. "Shooting stars" meant that tree had connections to angels. Daemon grimaced at the thought of divinity messing with the lives of mortals with the exceptions of Lady Luna.

Daemon flipped to the chapter and began to read about the battle of the shooting stars that took place roughly two hundred years ago. The book's details on the battle was vague at best but there was a singular passage that stated all but ten of the stars returned to the heavens leaving those ten to fall across the continent of Fiore and it's many islands. Daemon turned the page and gazed upon some sort of map which marked the locations of a few of the locations where the angels' feel to the earth. Daemon's eyes widened slightly as he noticed that the island they were currently on was marked on the map with an X's location being right on top of the massive tree in the square. It didn't take Daemon long to piece two and two together before carefully putting the book into his bag along with the others and slowly reaching for his blade.

This isn't good. The papers were designed to specifically harm the tree meaning they effect angelic beings; but those peons from earlier probably though they were simply fire charms. if someone gave them those charms they must know about the angel within the tree.... Were dealing with an executioner.   " Daemon said as he felt a slight surge of divine magic close by. Daemon quickly rushed towards the exit and out onto the center of the path before whistling Lunos to his side with his blade drawn in his right hand as his eyes darted left to right as he cautiously moved towards the tree behind him while pushing some of his demonic energy to the surface.

Daemon grimaced at the numbers of the angels compared to theirs. While the majority of the angels were rather weak several of them could give him and Jaeger some trouble. Daemon's mind was running at a mile per second as he tried to think of a way to even the odds in their favor without risking the life of the angel within the tree.

Daemon slowly backed towards Jaeger and the angel not taking his eyes off the angelic soliders. As Daemon reached them he began to whisper to Jaeger. Jaeger you think you could hold off the lower ranked angels while I tackle their leaders? " Daemon sensed the four leaders amongst the group's power at roughly B-rank while they wouldn't give Daemon too much trouble he didn't want to risk the possibility of Jaeger or the Angel having to face four arch-angels. Daemon knew that in his current state of being his chances of walking away from this fight without injury was rather small but it actuality that made him happy; Daemon enjoyed combat especially against divine beings.  Daemon gripped kusanagi carefully with both hands as he channeled Demonic enrgy into it's blade causing poisonous vapor to slowly exude along the blade as a stoic look took hold on his face. "Messengers of the forgotten god. This island and it's guardian are under Sleeping Forest's protection. Leave now if you value your lives if not then come and taste my blade's steel !    " Daemon said as he stood ready for against the holy warriors.

Daemon smirked with pride as Jaeger and Nava tore into the weaker angels with brutal efficiency. Daemon watched as two of the angel's leaders attempted to charge at Jaeger in vindictive fury for the comrades while the othe two simply watched and examined their foes' actions until Lunos rushed up the trunk of the great tree and onto a near by branch in order to jump at one of them biting savagely into his prey's shoulder causing the angel to scream out in agony while they attempted to shake Lunos off as they began to fall t the grow . The angel who was partnered with the one currently being mauled violently by Lunos charged down and raised his spear to impale the beast from behind.  DIE YOU FOUL MISCREATION !" The angel shouted as it brought the spear head down.

However the angel was unable to impale the Dire wolf as it abruptly transformed into a small wolf pup and let go of the angel's shoulder causing the spear into impale his comrade through the stomach causing the poor fool to cough up blood in agony as he glared up at his ally as the two landed on the ground as the angel stood above his friend and desperately remove the spear . "Well that's a bit of bad luck isn't it ?" Daemon said standing next to the two Angels gently scratching Lunos's head with his left hand with his sword positioned raised over his head with his right. "Pray to your god that you die Quickly..." Daemon said as he brought his sword through the top Angel's Neck  with extreme precision causing a massive amount of divine blood to splatter onto the impaled angel  painting his face a sickening scarlet as his friends face fell next to his on the ground.

Daemon grimaced at the piercing scream that rang in his ears causing him to close his eyes and clasp the left side of his head. The angel within the tree was screaming in agony as the angels began to attack Jaeger while he was fused with the tree. Daemon turned his head and looked back long enough to see Jaeger pull off a wicked three head shot combo into one of the angels dome piece.

Daemon turned his head back and looked down at the blood stained and currently traumatized angel's face with a look of indifference as it looked back into his with a look of pure terror. Seeing it's friend beheaded infront of him while he was pinned to the group by that friend very spear proved to be too much for the poor fool's mind to bear and caused him to pass out in sheer terror. Daemon sighed as he noticed the angel had lost consciousness and flicked the blood from his blade before looking up to the other two leaders who was charging towards him with two celestial swords poised to run him through. Daemon sighed at this and mentally commented that angels have a one tracked mind when it came to combat. "I finally understand what my father meant by angels being too one track minded " Daemon readied his blade just as the two angel proceeded to fly around him and slash at him from two different angles at the same time causing Daemon to go onto the defensive as he blocked every first and third strike while acquiring four cuts to his clothing and chest along with 3 nicks on his face. With a deep growl Daemon tackled one of the angels and slammed their arms to the ground as he clawed and bite at their body like a savage beast. The other angel flew up behind him and attempted to stab him in the back until Lunos still in wolf pup form jumped onto the angel's face and proceeded to bite their nose and digs his claws into their cheeks .

( Daemon's current HP : 85% minus 15% from sword injuries )

Mean while back at Sleeping Forest's Guild hall.

Ben was sitting in the bar with a glass of Gin & tonic enjoying the sound of the waves rolling against Genbu's shell as a smile formed on his face as he was already on his fourth glass. As he slowly brought his glass to his lips a black winged angel gracefully landed in the garden just outside of the bar. Ben turned his head to the angel and nearly dropped his drink on the counter as a thick blush appeared on his face. Wow I was secretly hoping a girl would appear out of no where but I didn't think it would actually happen.." He said out loud in his slightly drunken stupor.

The Angel looked around slightly and unfurled her wings as a slight breeze through the guild hall. Her hair was long and smooth dark navy blue hue and her eye were like a pair of elegant sapphires; she was dressed in a thin black silk v-necked top which hugged her frame and exposed a very generous amount her sizable chest, a pair of black jeans and belt with an obsidian black skull buckle. On her hips the Angel was carrying a pair of twin blades each with their own keychain. One the left pommel was a small wolf pup and on the right was a beautiful angelic wing. The Angel looked around the guild hall the turned her attention to Ben after hearing him talk about her falling from the sky. The angel walked over and leaned against the counter with a playful smirk. Hello Handsome would you happen to know where your guild master is ?" Ben shook his head causing the angel to frown slightly before drawing one of her twin blades and slicing off Ben's arm in a downward swing causing Ben to fall to the floor screaming in agony.

Back on the Island with Daemon and Jaeger.

Daemon had just finished firmly slamming the final angel leader's head into the ground with a skillfully performed German suplex before quickly snapping their neck by twisting the lower half of their body. Daemon wiped a small bit of sweat from his brow as he carefully sheathed his sword as Lunos licked his bloody paws. Daemon looked to Jaeger and gave him a thumbs up at the angelic corpses around him. Nice job dude " Daemon said with a laugh until his ears picked up screaming coming from Genbu. Daemon eyes turned to the shore and sensed another divine presence beside Lady Luna. Daemon's blood boiled over as the scent of blood reached his nostrils. JAEGER THERE IS AN ANGEL IN THE GUILD HALL THEY'VE ALREADY ATTACKED ONE OF THE OTHERS WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO THE GUILD!" Daemon said with a loud voiced soaked in concern for the younger guild members and quickly dashed  up to the closest building to the forest over looking the shore and jumped to the roof of said building and headed to the ledged before jumping again  and landing on one o the tree tops. Daemon looked to Genbu with a slight fearful look and dashed swiftly across the treetops to the shore .

As Daemon reached Genbu's shell he was panting a little at the sheer strain to his muscles; but Daemon knew that member of his guild were in danger so he growled deeply and pushed his pain to the back of his mind and jumped onto Genbu's shell and dashed to the mains gates of the guild hall with a fierce look of determination on his face. Daemon leapt over the main gate and landed roughly in the main walk before tearing through the thicket of bamboo  and rushed over to the left side of the guild. Daemon's eyes quickly went wide before his hand immedently went to his katana's handle while the angel with the twin blades turned her head with a sickeningly loving smile on her face. The angel quickly sheathed his sword and jumped at Daemon tackling him to the ground while burying her face into his chest .  As Daemon growled deeply and struggled to get up the angel giggled and lifted her head up to look him in the eyes. Darling It's so good to see you again!" The Angel exclaimed as Daemon shuddered slightly as she rubbed her hand over Daemon's kimono. Daemon glared at the angel and quickly used what was left of his physical strength to roll the two of them over and pinned the angel to the ground. Ayame  what the hell are you doing here!" Daemon asked with a vengeful look in his eyes. The angel now known as Ayame simply giggled again and attempted to press her body against Daemon's wih a sultry smile. Oh darling please don't tell me your still upset about that little disagreement we had back then." Daemon's glare intensified as she spoke. We didn't have a disagreement you witch. We broke up after you attempted to stab me in the back after I told you I was a priest to Lady Luna."

Daemon glared at Ayame who simply giggled as she drew her left blade and pressed it against Daemon's throat causing Daemon's glare to intensify as Ayame forced  Daemon back and straddles his stomach. Normally Daemon would've easily stopped her blade from even coming near his throat but the running from here to the town on the island and back plus the battles between the vagabonds and angels took their toll on his stamina. No then Darling now that you've calmed down how about we get to know each other again in an intimat--" WHAM!  A large fire bird  rocketed across the garden and right in between Ayame's and Daemon's skulls before imbedding itself into the ground before it exploded into a plume of flames reveling an iron spiked kanabo club while an aura filled with hatred and slight jealously which caused Daemon to sweat in fear and slight arousal. ( Yes this is gonna get weird real quick XD)

Daemon turned his had to look at the source o the rage filled aura and saw his childhood friend and the guilds housekeeper Rinkah Agi a fire oni from the Isle of midi. This woman was one of Daemon's closest confidants and current romantic relationship. The fire onis  of Midi had one major rule in their culture which was attempting to get close to their lover with romantic intent then said person wold be beaten within an inch of their lives. Rinkah walked over to Ayame as the ground beneath her feet literally was set ablaze with her fury. Ayame glared at Rinkah and started to ask her who she was only to get a flame covered fist to the right side of her face send Ayame to the ground with a firey growl as Rinkah spoke in midian to Daemon in order to use him as a translator after she helped Daemon to his feet. Daemon nodded to Rinkah turned to Ayame and started to translate to Ayame. My name is of little importance to you but touching what I view as mine has just earned you a world of hurt you chicken winged bitch. RInkah I'm not saying anything after that since your mind quickly went into the gutter and we will discuss that later." Rinkah's face burned bright red in embarrassment as she punched Daemon  in the stomach telling him to stop playing around with her words causing Daemon to groan before kneeling to the ground before weaky saying alright.

Ayame glared at the cocoa skinned woman standing next to Daemon as a black aura of  light began to flare behind her threatening to purify the guild. Darling why is that woman so close to you and why is she blushing like a little school girl and why did she just hit you like I do?" She said as she drew her twin short swords  while began to glow with the same black light with a maniacal and lust filled expression on her face. Don't worry darling I'll be done with her soon then we'll be together forever.." Ayame said as she rushed towards Daemon and Rinkah as the two of them jumped backwards yet Rinkah hit by a thin wave of divine light causing Rinkah to scream in agony as the divine energy  burned her stomach.

Daemon caught Rinkah in his arms and spun them around as he took the second strike to his back. While Daemon was half demon he was also half divine due to his ancestors forbidden love which caused Ayame's magical wave of magic to only sting him slightly. Thinking quickly and noticing the moon in the night sky Daemon quickly raised his right hand the celestial body and said a prayer to lady luna. Within seconds Daemon's hand became enveloped in a silvery light; Daemon then placed his hand over the mark that was left by Ayame's strike which was a long diagonal slash with a purple tint and gently glided his hand over the wound removing the purple tint yet he was unable to heal the wound itself. Daemon glared with vengeful fury at Ayame as his mind began to run at a mile a minute to formulate a method of countering her divine magic which didn't involve him absorbing it to the point of him going berserk .