Devils and Toasters

Soulles: Hero of Rifts

The bright light vanished and the group found themselves on a grassy plateau. That's what would've happened but someone messed up  playing the hymn of time. It's still somewhat relevant to the main story.... I think.

Sol opened his eyes and was met by a pink Protogen wearing a green tunic and hat.  "Finally,  you're awake. These hands really did a number to you. You were knocked out for three hours." Sol was quite confused but before he could ask a question he was hit with a fan on the back of his head. A orange specter with long braided hair walked in front of him. "Be more carefull next time. You almost got yourself and the Hero killed. I want you to inspect the south  entrance of the forest in the future zone. I feel the  presence of something or someone there. Find them and bring them to me. Alive. "  The specter walk a few steps before turning around. "One more thing.  Don't disappoint me again." The specter vanished and Sol stood up. The Protogen gave him a worried look. "Is everything alright?"  "Mostly. Don't worry about it Grasshopper."  "That's good to hear.  I should go now and take care of the trials of the forest." The Protogen walked towards a pedestal in front of a big tree.  Sol turned around and walked through towards the south entrance. Fireflys illuminated the path and made it easy to forget the dangers that lurk outside the forest around midnight. Three small woodden creature with a unnatural big leaf as face followed him and spoke in a strange language. Sol seemed to understand the language and talked with the so called Koroks for a while. "You haven't seen the Winged Guardian in the last 100 years? That's  quite concerning. I'll talk with Zweirona about it once I'm done with the Miasma stuff."

They eventually arrived at the entrance and found a pale humanoid person with white hair and red long sleeved shirt with a black pattern around the neck. The rest of their body was covered in crimson red and pitch black Miasma. Five hands with eyes circled around them. They noticed Sol and moved towards him with a insane speed but before they could grab him a beam of light shined through the leaves and forced the hands to retreat into the ground.  The Koroks helped Sol carry the mysterious person into a safe area within the forest. The Koroks were quite worried about the hands.  "I know. How were these Gloom hands able to enter the sacret forest? Maybe the Great Deku Tree knows something."  One of the Koroks pointed at the still unconscious person. "Something is definetly odd about them. The entire way to the entrance is covered in Miasma. Unless you fall from the sky it's impossible to get that close with being killed."  The two other Koroks were throwing  a few glowing golden flowers and a few herbs in a pot and somehow managed to turn it into some sort of  paste and gave it to Sol. When he tried to apply it to the Miasma coverd parts on the persons body it ignited for a split second and caused the Miasma to spread even further.  "Great, just great. Sunlight or anything imbued with it hurts them. At least it answers your question what we shoulddo if they are hostile." They sat down around the fire and played a few songs. The Koroks used a single maraca, a pan flute and a drum while Sol used a ocarina.  After a while they noticed that a dark red mist began to form and a few minutes later the entire sky and the moon itself  turned blood red, bathing the entire forest in a eerie red light. "A bloodmoon!? Why... how is it's power able to reach the forest? Something is seriously wrong." The Miasma on the person's body began to  glow  brighter and brighter until it began to infect to ground around the person but as soon as the moon returned to it's normal self the Miasma vanished from the ground.
A loud roar could be heard a few seconds later. "Yep, Big Guy is back." The four extinguished  the fire and returned to the pedestal and put the person on the ground. The orange specter was already waiting with a big zentaur like creature with a mane. "Sol, keep your damn pet under control." The creature just growled and looked annoyed while crossing it's arms and walked over to Sol. "Don't think about it too much Big Guy. Zweirona has just a bad day.... for the last two months... just ignore her." Zweirona took a look at the Miasma coverd person. "First you bring a Lynel into the forest and niw a demon.  How do you even survive that?"  "Big Guy simply decided to be more peaceful than others and that demon guy got almost killed by Miasma and Gloom hands."  The specter created a circle of light around the person and threw a branch at them to wake them up.  Needles to say, they weren't happy about it.  "Do you have the slightest idea who you're messing with?" "The guy who caused a crap ton of trouble to the forest with eleven other demons, Doma? Yes, I did my research."  The demon nooded. "I don't think I caused that much trouble. " Zweirona threw another branch at them. "You and your friends almost allowed the forest to be destroyed by Miasma. But with you here it will finally end. I'll have you and the others executed for that." Doma kept his neutral expression.  "Miasma? Who is that?" Zweirona pointed at Sol who began to explain.  "Miasma is a pure manifestation of evil. It steals the life force and about any other force of it's victims upon contact. Being in direct contact with it for too long will permanently weaken someone until they are dead. It also has some effects on ones personality and that. It's effects can be slowed down by sunlight or anything imbued with sunlight. Something that is in fact lethal to you. So you have aproximately two and half weeks left until the Miasma sucked the remaining lifeforce out of you."  While Sol was explainimg, a Korok put a red carpet on the ground and another stepped on it before stumbling backwards, making a pirouett and falling face first to the ground. The demon tried to stay calm but began to panic a bit.