The demon went blasting against the wall, back first before touching down on the ground with his stomach.

He coughed as he stood up from the ground with a sinister smile on his face, "My lady, am I to understand that you are siding with this human? that's not very lady like you know".

He took hold of his sword from the ground and the minor scrape on his head started recovering as he slowly moved toward Uta.

Uta still had her eyes on Zeno but she also couldn't distract her attention from the demon standing in front of her.

"That is of no concern to you." Uta responded, "The fact that you took over a body should be enough reason for me to kill you." She stood in front of Zeno while stylishly monitoring him.

"How can you be so cruel, milady? what happened to the days you ruled over us as our leader?" Darangel inquired of, that was the name of the demon.

'I don't have time to deal with this imbecile!' Uta pondered to herself as she glimpsed at Zeno's bleeding body again.

"Just shut up and return to the demon empire already!" Uta yelled at her body brimming with magic.

Darangel sneered and didn't stop his approach, "Your sister wants you back, and I'm here on orders to do just that, so My lady, won't you please come back?" He asked politely.

"Sorry to disappoint, but I don't plan on going back, she can shove her efforts down her ass for all I care." She responded.

Uta then coated her body with dark magic that came rushing in with a gush of wind.

Being a demon and all, her power was on a whole other level, sparks of blue lightning networked around her as the magic increased.

Darangel sighed, "That's too bad, I was hoping you'd follow me no question asked" He gave a sinister smile.

"Sorry my lady, but that won't do, we already have the Glinx attacking the village, so I can't fail this mission, if I do... how would I be able to look Lady Rachel in the eyes again!" He dashed towards her and struck his sword with full force.

....

With a huge gasp for air, Zeno found himself waking up in an empty castle, there wasn't much inside although the materials in there were enough to ask questions.

"Where am I?" Zeno mumbled before standing to his feet, he immediately felt a huge pressure on his head which led him to fall back down on his knees.

He groaned in pain as the strain in his head continued, "What the hell? Why is this hurting so bad!" Zeno spoke.

He suddenly gave attention to the sound of footsteps heading toward him and his intuition directed him to look up.

Standing in front of him was an even aged version of himself, wearing a hooded cloak and a red scarf around his neck.

"You only feel this pain because you haven't gotten used to it.." His older version uttered.

"No way, you look just like-.".

"Yeah, that's because I am you." The older version uttered.

"This is crazy!" Zeno yelled, examining around to see various pictures of him on the wall.

"Zeno!.. Zeno.. Zeno!" The older version called out to him to get his awareness.

"Listen, I can't keep this link for long, so hear me well, once you have been saved by her, look for the other Ankia and head for Rizaha. It's very important that you break the se-"

The older version of Zeno suddenly disappeared, leaving only a piece of his clothes to drift in the air as the breeze blew past it.

"He just left.." Zeno muttered, "What the hell even in an Ankia!" He shouted.

.. . . . .

Meanwhile, Uta and Darangel were still going all out in the forest with magic flowing everywhere.

Sprinting towards him, Uta retained his sword with her bare hands before anchoring a solid hit to his guts; the punch was so powerful that her fist went straight through it.

Coughing out blood, he smiled before whispering, "You are still as strong as I remembered, my lady".

"You should have thought of that before attacking me, you bastard." Her eyes turned blue and Darangel's body began to singe in blue flames before deteriorating.

After eradicating him, she instantly raced toward Zeno before positioning his head on her lap.

"I'm sorry Zeno, I know you won't like it, but I also can't let you die." She uttered impatiently.

She jabbed herself with her hand strived at her chest and then she plucked out her heart.

It had a blue mystic aura flowing inside it, as soon as she pulled out her heart, her once-black hair turned white and her crystal blue eyes turned purple.

She jerked out Zeno's heart, leaving her hands falling in drops with blood as she gazed at her own heart.

'I made a promise before.. I won't let anything happen to you, not on my watch,' She thought to herself.

She then placed her own heart where Zeno's heart used to be, and a a luminous surge of blue light resonated around the place.

. . . . . . . . .

Ava was in the living room when she started hearing the screams of the people coming from outside the building.

She took it as them celebrating so she disregarded it and proceeded with her sleep with a book hiding her face.

"Ava! Ava!"

Anna shouted as she sprinted down the stairs, "Ava get your stuff we're leaving now!" She voiced out.

Ava stood up from the couch wondering why Anna was panicking around the house, "Sis, what's going on?" She asked.

"Are you deaf or didn't you hear the screams just now, the Glinxs broke through, they are in the village!" Anna responded with dread written all over her face.

Ava fell her book to the ground as the scare hit her, "Wait wait, what about Zeno, he's out there somewhere!" She yelled.

Meanwhile, the Glinxs had already started flooding the village, they got underway to kill a good number of people although some were able to escape in time.

The village is so far in that most people haven't heard of it, if not, they would have gotten help from nearby villages.

No one expected the Glinx to attack so easily, the reason being that they had a special plant around their village that pushes the Glinx away.

Annabelle seized her sister and started to run for it. She had with her a box that had a cursed weapon inside; their father was the chief of the village and before he died he gave them the cursed weapon to use as protection.

But it's so powerful that both of them feared making a contract with it, and it was considered to be a legendary weapon.

"What about Zeno?" Ava stopped running, "We have to find him first." She yelled.

"I'll get you to a safe place first, then I'll come back to look for him, come on." Anna tried to pull Ava but she fought back.

"I'm not going anywhere without Zeno, I mean it." Ava refused.

"What is your problem?" Anna yelled, "What makes you think he's even in danger? We have to leave here before they get close!" She was yelling at Ava but then she noticed that Ava's eyes were fixed on something behind her.

Anna pivoted to check and saw a teenage boy with a long sword. She couldn't get a a precise view of the boy's face but his whole body and sword were oozing with blue energy.

"It's Zeno." Ava uttered.historical

Anna took a closer look and saw that Ava was right, "You have got to be kidding me." she whispered.

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Author's note

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