Just A Zodiac Story

back to where it began

(gonna say that- demonoids have a passive ability that lets them see in the dark, they have other passive abilities like slight cold and heat resistance and a few others which will maybe be mentioned here so I guess- good chapter to show what the demonoids of my world can do and a bit on my first ever dimension, yes shadowless day is the first I ever made I just added to it over the years)

When yumekui got Julian through the portal, Julian ended up falling, as he landed on the floor of what looked like a dark wood floor he couldn't help but be surprised as he stood up and checked his horns worried they would break again, however soon someone cut him off of his train of thought as he heard a yell of shock and the moving of feet, he blinked confused and looked behind him and then around him to realize he was in a small house, "h-huh?" Julian was shocked as one of the people, a man who seemed to be a human ran and grabbed a pick axe and glared at Julian while the three children and the woman hid behind the man, "who are you!? What is a demonoid doing in our house!?" The man yelled in what sounded like Russian but when you listened carefully you could tell it had hints of another language, Julian blinked processing what he just heard before realizing it was the snowvian language that was very similar to Russian in more ways then one, "m-my apologies uh-" Julian tried to come up with an excuse for why he was there then finally came up with something, "i-i was trying to make a portal home but uhm- my spell went wrong thanks to the area I was in and I accidentally made a portal to here! Really it was an accident!" Julian said quickly as the man glared at him, "i-i am Julian losik von volfir..." Julian said quickly introducing himself, "I'm so sorry for intruding! It was a complete accident I promise!" Julian said quickly as he bowed his head in apology, the man stared at Julian then looked at his wife and kids, "hm.. alright.." the man said suspiciously as Julian smiled nervously, "i-i will be on my way! Once again I am SO sorry for ruining your dinner!" Julian quickly just left one darkenian silver coin on the table and ran out of the house closing the door behind him as he quickly began looking around while wondering if the place he was at had an adventurers guild, after for a while he got into the village and realized that he was in a snowvian village thanks to the way the houses seemed to be made to keep snow out and the flag he saw at one single house that was likely the house of the village chief, "shit..." Julian muttered as he began walking, snow fell upon the quiet village as a moon in it's new moon phase rose up high in the sky, "wonder just what's happening these days for there to be a new moon.." Julian said worried as he looked around and just began walking, he unwrapped his tail from around his waist finding that he no longer had to try and hide his tail and just took a deep breath his horns glowing a dim light purple as he walked, soon he left the village and got into the forest, "I will either find a town or city...or leave the kingdom and go into another area...as long as I can recover my mana however I should be able to send a signal spell into the sky to get hopefully... soldiers from darkenian to my location..." Julian thought as he began walking feeling refreshed and lighter as he was back to where there was stable mana and to where he could easily replenish all of his strength and mana, as he walked however he was not surprised when he randomly got attacked by some monsters, they looked like white sabertooth tigers with ice spikes and patches their eyes glowing a bright white, "crystal tigers.. seriously" Julian sighed and took out his wand, the crystal tigers soon attacked him but Julian just put his wand up, and immediately ice spikes shit into them before they could even attack, "I forgot I don't have to use beginner magic anymore" Julian chuckled as he just went to the tigers and took out their mana stone which was only the size of a quarter, "I forgot crystal tigers don't have big mana crystals.." Julian thought to himself as he took the mana crystals,"barely big enough to count as a mana crystal..if only the mana was more concentrated they could turn into natural mana stones" Julian thought as he continued walking now with the mana crystals in his pocket, he continued to walk and soon he heard voices, he looked around and held his wand a call look on his face before a single demonoid came out, "woah there!" The demonoid said noticing Julian's wand that was out and ready to cast, Julian stared at the demonoid then sighed in relief as he put his wand away inside his coat, the demonoid looked confused and as Julian stared at him the demonoid only grew more nervous, "unit?" Julian asked him catching the demonoid off guard, "unit 13 vice captain of the sun guard-" the demonoid answered on instinct as Julian smiled excitedly, "then you will be plenty useful to me!" Julian said teleporting in front of the demonoid which caught him off guard as Julian grabbed his shoulders excitedly, "wh-who are YOU-" the demonoid tried to ask, "Julian losik volfir of the magic division, mage in command- well was the mage in command" Julian sighed as the demonoids eyes widened in shock after hearing Julian's name, "where's your unit soldier? And what are you doing in snowvian territory?" Julian asked the demonoid, "i-im Alfie salmer! My unit and I were sent here to retrieve some magic items the empress allowed the snowvian empire to borrow during the war.." Alfie answered, Julian nodded and looked up at the sky and sighed, "take me with you back to darkenian then!" Julian said running a hand through his hair, "I...got no idea where the fuck I am and need to get back as soon as possible" Julian sighed, Alfie looked surprised and nodded