The ball of energy-infused magic hits James. From the ground, a massive and colorful explosion can be seen. James falls from the explosion, barely keeping himself conscious.
James: I need to... I need to get away!
James tries to use his Energy Magic but his mana is drained.
James falls onto a rock on a beach. His spine shatters and he dies on impact. His clothes are torn up and shattered. The Demon Parade members quickly rush to the site and surround the body.
Demon Parade Member 1: That was fucking easy
Demon Parade Member 2: Can't believe boss told us to be careful with this guy, He died within minutes.
Demon Parade Member 4: Let's get the Gem from his body and leave. The King's personal guards might come here anytime.
The Demon Parade members walk towards James's body.
The Red Gem cracked when James was hit with the energy-infused magic. And slowly, the gem in his pouch broke, and the mist being inside escaped from it, a dark clouded being with glowing red eyes but something… something was wrong.
Inside James's body, something was still keeping James's soul at bay. Within James's Soul, a ball of energy is kept on a runic pedestal that's almost flickering from existence in front, in a dark room with a ball of green magic chained on a huge wall. The wall seemingly has writing over it and around the Green magic ball. The chains were made of glowing yellow runes.
The ball of Green, begins to shake starts to break out of its chain. Its influence over the pedestal and the real world grows stronger, the more it begins to shake. In the real world, James's body began to glow green, and green chains emerged from James's body, tied the Clouded being, and started to pull it inside James's lifeless body.
On a distant island, A monk is meditating in a temple atop a hill. He quickly opens his eyes and his eyes glow orange for a moment. He quietly laughs
Monk: Fate has called upon its powers once more.... How will it go this time, I wonder?
The being was now completely pulled inside James by the chains and James's body stopped glowing green and His eyes opened, glowing red.
Demon Parade Member 2: (Visibly Shaken) Guys....
As James stood up, his body healed on its own, his skin darkened to a pale grey, his hair turned black, and a halo and cape made of fire were formed. Gauntlets made of some kind of black rock and fire covered his hand.
The Demon Parade members were terrified of this sight. Even amongst the various magic and its types, till date, there was nothing that could revive the dead or anything of that level.
To top that, James Mgrath was said to have a fairly normal amount of magic, at least for an adventurer yet his presence was enough to make someone faint from the ungodly amount of magic exuding from him.
The Demon Parade members were terrified of this sight, James Mgrath was said to have a normal amount of magic yet his presence was enough to make someone faint from the ungodly amount of magic leaking
Now, It was certain that the demon that was prisoned inside the Gem all this time, had been reborn inside James Mgrath's body.
The 5 members of the Parade look at each other,
Parade Member 1: What the fuck is going on! He's supposed to be dead!
Parade Member 3: The Mana… from him… It's almost drowning me!
Parade Member 2: What's going on with the fire? He just used Energy with us, right?!
Parade Member 4: We can't let this stop us, If we go back empty-handed, we all die. We've killed worse before. He ain't that much
The Demon in James's body looks at its hands and legs, It moves the body slightly, almost as if testing its abilities. The Demon then turns its head to look at the bewildered group,
Demon: Hmm?
It fully turns around and looks at the hostiles in front of it. It put his hand to its back, about to take James's sword but thinks for a second.
Demon: Haha... Let me have some fun in this body
It puts his hands back to a fighting position. It starts to look closer, closer at the Magic the Parade Members are using.
Demon: Interesting, Humans have learned Dark magic. Let's see how adept you are at it
The Parade Members all take a stance in dear. Neither one would admit it but none of them wished to fight.
Parade Member 4: Take Offensive stances! CHARGE!
3 of the Parade members charge at him, covering their hands with their affinities such as air, water, and Lightning. They all try to land a punch on the demon but the demon keeps its hands in the clothes pockets and simply dodges, while standing in the same spot, almost as if it's toying with them.
Demon: I expected more from you humans but no matter, this is enough!
The demon then starts to get offensive, starting with making the Lightning Parade Member punch himself by pushing his arms into himself and killing him instantly, the other two members who didn't rush the demon make a rock sphere around the Demon to trap it while the other use their respective magic affinities to strengthen it.
The sphere moves rapidly as the demon inside tries to escape it but all the Parade members put all their energy and magic into this task and finally, the sphere stops moving. All the Parade members breathe a Sigh of relief. Suddenly the sphere explodes, throwing rocks everywhere and incapacitating the Parade members. In the middle of the exploded sphere was The demon, standing as if nothing bothered it.
Demon: This body is AGILE! Good!
The demon looks at his left hand and it's covered in Energy, He takes a good look at it.
Demon: What's this? (turns his hands around) Energy? Impossible… It's not… that means…
The Demon takes a look at his other hand, covered in flames. He claps both hands together and as he opens it, a huge blue ball of fire is made and he slams that ball into the ground.
Demon: For good measure….
The ground starts to boil and suddenly, the surrounding ground around the demon turns into lava. The Members who were still alive after the rock pummeling, died in agony as they burned in the lava but the demon stood over the lava and walked on it without suffering any soft damage. The demon thought to itself
Demon: Humans are using magic at an extraordinary level… It's not particularly strong but compared to what they had before, they've achieved good control over it… Especially with the fact that these idiots were using Dark Magic… How long has it been? There's a lot I don't know…
Suddenly the left arm glows with energy brightly and starts to choke the Demon.
Demon: What! This body… It's attacking me! This Human is still alive!
The Demon tries to fight the left arm with his right arm but is quickly getting overpowered. The demon jumps into the air uncontrollably as the demon and James fight for control.
Demon: What… the… fu…
Finally, James takes control. His original features are returned and he realises that he's in the air. He lands gracefully by using his Energy and falls flat on the ground as soon as he finally hits the land. He's out of breath and is coughing
James: What… the actual…FUCK… just happened?
James puts his hand over his head, trying to rethink what happened and trying to piece it all together.
James: I.. died… but then, I came back…. Wait, the Gem!
James looks in his pouches for the Red Gem and he finds it in on the ground, broken into pieces. He pics it up but the pieces dissipate into the air in front of James. He looks at it closely, trying to discern everything. He closes his hands and places the remaining pieces back in one of the untorn pouches.
James: I need to… I need to get back to Meliach and Silvie.