The Realms

Act- 2 chapter 5

It was mid afternoon sun at its peak shining down on the demon kingdom, destiny flips through the pages of the spell book examining each page with focus, she reads and notes down as much as she can.

"Destiny, please help me!" Lukas crawls over to Destiny. "These children are extremely hyperactive and extremely strong for children, please help me!" Lukas begged, he felt something grab his leg, he looked back and saw demon kids dragging him back. "No wait, Destiny please help!" Lukas gets dragged away and he quite literally tries to claw his way out.

Destiny was too focused on the spell book zoning everything else out. she turns a page and finds a torn out page. "What the?" She examines the town page before sighing and moving on.

Lukas runs across her field of vision as a mob of demon children chase him down. "Goddess of light, protect me!" Lukas shouts as he runs. Lukas stumbles slightly as he runs down a stairway regaining his balance at the right moment he takes a sharp turn and hides in an alleyway he watches as the demon kids run past.

He takes a sigh of relief, he slowly comes out of hiding and carefully makes his way up to where Destiny was, he sits down next to her and slumps over the bench. "What's up with you, for the past two days you've been examining the spell book, are you looking for something?" Lukas asked curious. "Not really anything in particular, just examining and reading through it you know" Lukas tilted his head in confusion. "Not really but alright"

"Everyone I found him!" A demon kid yelled at the others, like a swarm of ants they all came marching one by one, till there was a huge group. "Why is there more you you than before!?" Lukas shouted as he scrambled off the bench jumping into the bushes behind the bench. "We can't let him get away after him!" One shouted as they chased after Lukas. Destiny chuckles as she actually sees this.

Lukas jumps landing and running into another alleyway, again the kids run past him. "Ha, looks like I won again" Lukas grins. "Are you so sure?" Lukas jumps slightly as he turns and sees multiple kids standing there with smug looks on their faces. Lukas makes a run for the alleyway entrance but sees the other mob of kids blocking it, Lukas looks back and forth.

"Hey what's that over there!" Lukas shouts pointing in a random direction, all the kids look in that direction and Lukas starts climbing up the wall. "He's getting away!" A kid shouts causing all the other kids to look back and see Lukas climbing. "Ha can't climb up here it's dangerous!" Lukas runs off knowing he was in the clear. Lukas jumps down into the castles garden. He lands rolling a little.

He hurts his leg when landing not that it matteres with his leg already messed up. "A shadow wound... Huh didn't think Shawn would let one of you be injured for so long" Lukas looks up to see Xander, watering the roses. "I can tell you've had it for awhile, I've seen wounds from shadows before yours is pretty tame from most I've seen, if you don't tend to it now it'll only get worse..." Xander places the watering can down.

"You do know what happens if you have a shadow wound for too long right?" Lukas shakes his head no. "Thought so..." Xander walks over helping lukas up. "Come follow me I'll tell you" Lukas followed behind the demon as he walked into the castle, his mantle drags across the floor, and his armor straps against itself as he walks.

"There's actually two types of shadows, ones made of a person's negative emotions, their dark desires, their thoughts, then there's ones created by infection, shadows are leaches that crave positive energy to get that energy well..." Xander looks at Lukas's wound. "They feed off the wound until that person becomes a shadow themselves" Xander continues to walk and Lukas continues following.

"That wound has only spread a little which is surprising for how long you've had it" Xander stops suddenly looking at a picture. Lukas looks at it as well. "Is that..." Lukas reached and touched the painting. "Yes the god of shadows, we demons had a short war with the shadows we oddly enough, won..." Xander walks past the painting and Lukas follows.

"How much do you know about the gods?" Xander asked Lukas, side eyeing him waiting for an answer. "Not much that was more of Destiny's thing, I've seen one and that's it." Xander stares at Lukas. "Which one?" He asked.

Lukas turns to him. "A lady in white, long white hair, blue eyes, with a long white dress." Xander looks at the painting next to them. "Ah yes the goddess of light, lady Diane" Lukas looks at the painting and sees the woman she's seen in many paintings and murals. "This lady, she's appeared more than the other god, the god of shadows, why is that?" Xander sighs.

"Cause the god of shadows died long ago after the war between demons, he just died, and since this was so long ago, people have forgotten about this second god, many only remember the goddess of light, not the god of shadows" Xander looks at one more picture that was far down the hall. "And who's that?" Lukas asked.

The painting showed a man, a cloaked figure holding a ball of light and shadow, he looked down on a lush green land. "That's Scin, the old god of shadows and light, he watched over our world for the longest time before falling, then his children took over" Xander stares at the painting.

"I've never seen anything about him in any books, not anything, why?" Xander sighs and signs for Lukas to follow him. Lukas follows and xandr leads him to another room. "Cause of this man..." A picture of a man with a white book, with the symbol of light on it, standing above a lush green world, seemingly using magic. "Oswald..." Lukas mumbled.

"Yes Oswald the great warlock, he used a powerful spell that caused powerful sand storms to form and destroy the world, any books or stories of Scin were destroyed and lost to the sand, that's why he is no longer know, only the demons are aware of his existence as our species has survived for ages, these stories of gotten from my father, which he got from his and so on" Xander looks to another painting. "One day I'll be painted alongside them" Lukas looks to see a large picture of hundreds of demons by each other.

"Is that all the other kings?" Lukas asked. "Yeah it is, my father, his father, and his" Xander slides his finger across the painting. "After a king's death the painting is taken down and the king is painted onto the painting..." Lukas stares at the painting. He sees another. "What's this one?" He asked.

Xander looks seeing a picture of him, a young Kai, and Abigail, he stares at it. "A picture I hold dearly..." Xander coughs, clearing his throat. "Let's get going I don't want to keep you for too long. The two walls away from the painting and continue to chat.

A white cat walks in front of the painting, they stare at the young Kai and meow, they walk up and lay down in front of the picture falling asleep.