Ah, yes. Part 5 of Fading Lights. The last part of the first season.
Let's end it off with a bang, shall we?
After the unfortunate turn of events a few days ago, Jura finds himself in a different area than he's used to and will meet new friend...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
Just as Pietro started asking the next question, Hero suddenly screeched and attacked, jumping at Pride. Jubilea and the others were immediately standing, with Lust catching Hero mid-air and slamming him into the table, and Jubilea immediately putting a spell on the demon. Hero went limp as Scotty sighed, frustrated. "Can someone take this damn demon away?", he asked sharply. "What, you're planning on taking out my only weapon?~" Pietro let out a loud growl. "Sylvie! I swear to whatever you else is more powerful than us, I will murder you if you had your hands in this!", he hissed. I was a bit surprised at that, he seemed so calm at the start. Now he was pissed... I let out a shaky sigh and looked back at Sylvie, who just giggled. "I had hoped that a demon would be enough to murder you guys. But it seems as if I was wrong!" Scotty started talking a bit with Ben until they both agreed on something and teleported away. Over the course of the next few seconds, spent with Pietro and Sylvie having a vocal war, Scotty and Ben arrived with Red and Jura, latter looking a bit bored. Red was more disturbed than anything when he noticed what was up, not used to this. Since both had their weapons out, Sylvie soon realized what was truly up. But that didn't scare her at all, instead she started giggling. "Oh, really now?~ You wanna fight against me?", she asked smoothly. Pietro growled lowly, pissed off. "Oh no, we don't want to fight, kiddo~ We want to kill ya~", Scotty stepped in before Pietro had to, smirking. The other realms seemed to agree, Jubilea already had his grimoire open to use a couple of spells, not showing too many emotions. I grew a bit tense as Hero suddenly started to move again, slowly getting up. The spell from before seemed to show no effect, which visibly confused Jubilea and made him unsure of his next actions. I noticed and tried to repay the favor from before, giving him a reassuring smile. He hesitantly smiled back too before concentrating back on Hero. Red seemed to tense up more as the demon got up, rubbing his head a bit with a groan. Sylvie smirked before raising a hand, taking over. Hero struggled, but since he was much weaker, he didn't have a chance against her. Red whimpered. "Hero, calm down please...", he whispered. I sighed at the desperation in his tone. This was bad... Hero didn't seem to show a reaction, just stood there quietly. He tried to move a bit, helpless. But Sylvie had him, and there's no escape from that. She however looked much more interested in Reddie now. Then I remembered something and rushed over to one of the less busy realms, Mirko. I cleared my throat once next to him. "Hello. I need your help for a moment." He raised an eyebrow as I explained my plan to him. A few minutes later he nodded and we teleported back to our home, more specifically, the basement. I'm glad that the bodies weren't gone yet, but there seemingly was a flaw that I had forgotten about. It didn't matter, so I went to the stand Hero made and got down Red's skin, aka the onesie. Then I turned to Mirko. He was more than just the perfect size. Since he was muscly, yet slim, he would fit in there perfectly. The cotton inside would ensure there was no difference between the two. There was however the problem of eye colors. Red's were, as the name suggests, red and white. Mirko's were a pretty bright yellow. Said realm was watching me, raising an eyebrow. "What is your plan, Jaylord?", he asked coldly, already fully aware of what I'd ask him tho. He just prayed that this was a bad joke as it seemed. I held out the onesie. "You need to put that on." "This is human skin, Jay." "Doesn't matter for now, we just need you to match appearance-wise." Mirko seemed to cringe at the mere thought of slipping into a once functioning human body, but reluctantly agreed.
"I absolutely despise that." I readjusted the mask, chuckling. "Yeah, I get that. But at least it's supposed to be comfy.", I replied and patted his shoulder. Mirko let out a small grunt, rolling his eyes. "Why am I agreeing to get into Redrare's skin, this is bizarre!", he complained. I flicked his forehead. "Calm down. Can you change your eye color?", I asked. He let out a sigh, but did just that instead of replying, now looking almost identical to Red. "Great. Thanks!", I thanked him happily. He sighed and nodded, not exactly proud that he managed to slip in this thing without it ripping. "What even is the plan?", he asked, unnerved. "You told me you'd need me for something, surely it isn't because you just wanted me to try this thing on." I smiled a bit. "Well, you're right. Sylvie seems to show more interest in Red than Hero. So I want to confuse her and prepare a better chance for us to stop her." "A spell would work too...?" "It wouldn't, sadly. We need a lookalike that also has his smell. And that's where that skin comes in." "Talking about game skins in a literal way, huh..." "Yup!", I answered, grinning. He let out a reluctant groan and offered me his hand. I took it and he teleported us back to the judgement hall. Once there I looked around, already worried. But all seemed to be okay. Sylvie had Hero next to her, seemingly trying to manipulate the poor guy into murdering us. But Hero couldn't agree to killing us, nor attacking us, so he just stood there, staring at his feet in silence as Sylvie kept trying to get through to him. The other realms were distracted with a ton of small vexes that flew around, attacking. They fought back quite a bit, so no one noticed me and Red-Mirko. That was absolutely perfect. I looked over at Mirko, who started realizing what I wanted him to do. I saw him grin, and then he went at it while I watched from afar.
