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Chapter 2b: Thrilling Comrades! Balthazar's Return?

After meeting with that strange guy who may have had to do with summoning the demons, Arron and Drexel returned back on the way in search for more areas where more demons could be huddling up. "Hey Drexel, do you know of any more places where the demons could be?", Arron asked while looking in every direction. "I think there are some other places around the east side of the mountains. But I'm not entirely sure, maybe we could curve around the west and--". Arron was already off ahead of him running. "Well?? What are you waiting for? Let's go!!", Arron shouted behind him as he ran. "Wait for me! I'm suppose to be here to keep you safe!", Drexel panicked as he chased behind Arron. "Well, don't worry about it! I'll be fine!", Arron replied, still running. "No! I'm suppose to lay my life down in order to protect the last living Flallen!", Drexel said, as he looked down and clenched his fist. "Why? I'm a human being like everyone else! If you were in danger, I would lay my life for you! Because you're my FRIEND!", Arron said, stillllll running. Drexel stopped and had a surprised look for a while and smiled. "Thank you.", Drexel said silently and started catching up to him. Meanwhile with the suspicious man with the white hair. He was flying with his wings to a tall, abandoned tower. "Now where the hell is that little Flallen kid and his buddy?", The guy started using his sharpened vision to search for them and then he spotted him in the wooded area. "There! There they are! You can't escape Okayama!", Okayama said as he dived off the tower and swooped down with his wings. Drexel and Arron had no idea until Drexel heard a noise coming from above. "What's that noise..?", Drexel the nicked up and saw two fire balls coming and Drexel quickly went Phoenix mode, jumped in front of Arron and swirled flames around and pushed it towards Okayama's fireballs and dissolved them. "Not on my watch!",  Drexel said as he deflected those fireballs. "Damn it, damn it, damn it! Stop getting in the way!", Okayama said, as he started flailing his arms and legs around. "I'm not gonna let you hurt him! So back off!", Drexel said as he picked up a stick, set it on fire and threw it at him.  Okayama dodged it and swooped down towards them and attacked Drexel first by firing fireballs at him and while Drexel was dodging, Arron jumped up and and grew his axe blade up a lot  and slashed down on him cutting his shoulder but it was really hard to cut through him for some reason. I was like his bones were made of steel or something. Arron flipped back and looked as Okayama staggered back and took the blood from his shoulder and placed it around the palm of his hand and stamped the ground with it, summoning a mini flying demon. "Sheesh, this is all I can do for now..", Okayama said as he back kept moving and his wounds were healing instantly. Okayama continued attacking Drexel and dodged his flames then flipped up and dropped kicked his head, knocking Drexel to the ground. Okayama starts running towards Arron as the demon was fighting him and he pushes him over and then pins him down and looks around him and doesn't see the Holy Key that he was looking for then he lets go and swoops in the sky. "Damn it! He doesn't have it on him! But if he doesn't then who does??", Okayama started steaming out of his ears and threw a fit in the sky. Drexel got up and looked at Okayama as he was acting like a baby and then he flew up and punched him with his fire hands, knocking Okayama on the ground. "Stop bothering me! I'm trying to look for the Holy Key!", Okayama got angry as he got back up and his face healed. Arron and Drexel both said, "What Holy Key.......?", suspiciously. "Ugh. I said too much. Peace out! Okayama away!", Okayama then scratched himself for some blood then made a portal and swooshed through it. "Shit! He got away again!". Arron said while slicing the head off that demon, that was bothering him. "Well..", Drexel said while he dropped back to the ground out of his phoenix form, "I'm just wondering what he means about a Holy Key.". "Oh, I know what he means. Our family had the possession of the Holy Key. It suppose to unlock the Demon Box or whatever it's called. It contains the Demon God, Balthazar, in it. I don't have or KNOW where the key is even though I'm the last of the Flallens.", Arron then chuckled. "BAKA! That Okayama dude is gonna find that key and unlock Balthazar! And then we'll all be in trouble!", Drexel said while shaking Arron's neck around then he stops, drops him and starts running off into the river banks area which was nearby. "You're paranoid. Nobody has found that key and nobody ever will. I'm sure the previous owners, which was my peoples, probably threw it at the bottom of a lake or something.", Arron replied while getting up and going after him. "Can we at least chill somewhere!?", Arron also said. Drexel took a stop and sat down under a tree and took a big breath. "I guess you're right, maybe he won't be able to find it.", Drexel said. "See? Nothing to worry about.", Arron said, with a approving smile. Drexel smiled too and then realized something. He dug through a pouch that he happened to bring with him and pulled out some kind of leather tool holder. "What is that?", Arron asked and he scratched his head. "It is a axe holder for your axe! I made it the other night. Do you think it'll work for you?", Drexel said with a smile while handing it to him. Arron put on the straps over his chest and back and put the axe in the holder and moved around, flipped, jumped, and ran around fast. "Hey! This things holds on tight! This is awesome, thanks Drexel!", Arron said grinning. "You're welcome friend.", Drexel replied. "Now let's get outta here, I'm bored!", Arron said as he started walking by the river banks and Drexel got up and went a long with him. "Coming!". Drexel and Arron were walking for a long while and it started getting dark and Drexel lit a flame on his hand. "Man, it's getting real dark...", Arron said. "Well yeah it's night time. haha.", Drexel responded with that comment. Arron punched him in the shoulder. "Shut up!". Drexel was laughing and then they both stopped and heard some growling and out came 3 timber wolves. "Crap!", Drexel said while lighting his flame even brighter and bigger and ready to attack. "Wait! Stop!", Arron said while jumping in front of Drexel. "Dude, move out the way. They are gonna kill us!", Drexel responded trying to get a good aim on them. "No! They just noticed us coming past their territory! That's all!", Arron said while walking towards them. Drexel put his hand on his shoulder fast. "What are you doing????", Drexel said loudly. "Just let me do my thing already! Sheesh!", Arron slapped his hand off and moved towards the timber wolves, who looked like they were getting tenser and tenser by the second. But once Arron got up there. He bent down in front of it and he suddenly noticed a fireball coming at one of them and he quickly moved in front of them and got hit with it. "ARRON!!! DUDE!", Drexel said. Then he saw the timber wolves stare at Arron for a while, as he was down,  then they looked up at Drexel and continued growling at him but once they did, Drexel was already up sitting in a tree. A few seconds later, Arron got up and laughed and looked up at Drexel. "Why are you up in a tree?", Arron asked and then he saw the wolves and then realized. The wolves turned around and moved towards Arron again. "Arronnnnnn! Watch outttttttt!", Drexel screamed from the tree. Then the wolves just let Arron pet them and play. Drexel made a highly surprised face and a creeped out one at that. "What? You thought they were gonna kill me? HA! You crazy.", Arron said, laughing some more. "Get down from there and let's go.". Drexel slowly got down from the tree and Arron spoke in some wolf language and made them leave. "Sometimes, I don't understand you but hey it's whatever." Drexel said with a smile. "It is possible for one to truly understand the heart, but for one to truly understand the mind.....You must have gone through the madness." Arron said, as they both started walking again. "Where did you hear that from?", Drexel looked at him. "Oh, Master Nylic told me that one! He also told me another thing too! Like one time-----", Arron went babbling on to Drexel and kept walking...................................Okayama has disappeared. Is he looking for the Holy Key?? What are Arron and Drexel gonna do now? Will Balthazar return for real? 

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