After four hours, Death woke up. He was quite terrified. His dream was nothing but a disaster. He saw his hands, they were shaking. Zozo came to him, "Young Death, what is it?" He asked him assuming he saw something in his sleep. "No it was nothing..." Death paused for a minute. "Hey will you keep it a secret?" he looked at Zozo. "Oh yes Death, you can trust me." The demon replied. Death got up and went to the toilet. He came back and sitting on the chair he looked back at Zozo.
"Hey, would you mind, if you bring that chair and sit next to me?" Death asked him. Zozo followed his request without a second thought. He was now looking up at him. "Well, it is about the Aetherius and also about the dream, not a nightmare that I had."
Zozo put on his glasses looking at a book he was holding, "So let me tell you about the Aetherius first." He looked back at Death and he was looking at him trying to hold his laugh. "What?" Zozo said. "You look dumb in those glasses." And Death started to laugh.
Zozo was pissed, "Shut up you brat, this is a serious matter." For the first time, Zozo yelled and Death didn't say a word. He then stopped laughing eventually. "Well this dagger-like thing or whatever you'd call it is the Aetherius, in the demon world it is also known as the origin of magic or you can say it got the name due to a particular reason." He stopped looking at the book.
"It was created in the first great war of realms, by parents of the three Elders. As you know it is one of the twelve sacred weapons, it has great power in it just like umm what weapon is the most powerful in this world?" he looked at Death, putting his glasses down on the book.
"I think it's a Hydrogen Bomb, well how can you compare this little thing to a bomb?" Death said, looking at the dagger. "Well, let me tell you what happened during the first war." Zozo got up and put the book back with the other books. "I was young at that time, I was serving as a head of a unit in the royal army, and by that, I mean the demon army."
He paused there. "It was going all good when we heard that the human realm had launched a small attack on the Fairy Realm." Death was now listening to him quietly. "We, Demons were not bothered by it, but after that, they also attacked us. Our Lord issued an order that we will retaliate at once. We all started to prepare for the attack, my unit was said to take part in that attack and the King called me to his room and told me to lead the attack."
Zozo tried to talk but it was hard for him to think what had happened as it was so long ago, he stopped talking for a few minutes, he had many things on his mind. "Yeah, he said that we shall attack them with equal force, though humans were considered weak, they got their hands on something quite powerful, an ancient relic I suppose." Death leaned back on his chair, "So we attacked two realms at the same time, nice, well how many realms are there, and why don't any human know about all that stuff you are talking about?" Zozo continued, "Well I shall tell you later, so where were we? Uh... yeah, we attacked according to the plan, but humans were prepared for it, they captured our unit including me."
Zozo had tears in his eyes, though he was a demon but who knows how they feel. "Everyone was slaughtered in front of my eyes; my son was a soldier in the same unit." He wiped his eyes. "They tortured me for two months and after that, they released me with a message for the Lord. Humans were planning to attack Fairy Realm and they attacked us as a warning, to stay away from the war."
He was looking quite sad, "Well I somehow managed to return alive back to the demon world and conveyed their message. The Lord said to prepare for any sort of situation; we had to help the Fairy realm as they were our allies, interesting right? Are demons and fairies allying? Well, our ancestors are the same and we had some common enemies like humans and from the other two realms, during the preparations, we got the news that humans were allying too with the other realms."
Zozo was talking when suddenly, Death's brother knocked on the door, "Mom said dinner is ready to come downstairs!" and left. "Okay fine wait here I shall be back after dinner and you want to eat something? Maybe some meat?" he asked Zozo as he was feeling bad for him. "Yeah... sure." He replied.
