//------------------------------// // Tons of new OCs and a cheater // Story: The Displaced Demon Hunter // by Kris The Kris //------------------------------// The red-headed demon approached the seventh layer of Tartarus, where most of the demons and monsters lived. “Why do we need to hire more demons to help us? We can take out all of those demons with one hoof behind our back!” Adell glanced back at Zuku as they walked through the city of metal, rock, and duct tape. “Because I get the feeling at least one of them will have an army backing them. We should at least get a medic.” “Then why are we in the weakest part of town!” Zuku stomped her hooves in protest. “I mean, we could get much stronger medics in the part of town that isn’t being held together by sticky silver plastic!” Adell held up two fingers.”Two reasons. One, this is a long journey, kinda like a video game. We’re just starting so we get starter stuff.” “Still don’t know what a video game is. You know, training isolation.” “Two, I want to give some lucky demons a chance to get more powerful and go to the better part of town.” Adell smiled at the fuming Zuru as they reached what they had come for... the hiring board. It was a big piece of plywood with papers of demons and descriptions all over it. Zuku grumbled as they walked up to it and started looking through the papers. She saw a paper for a healer named Allure and grabbed it in her mouth. “Okay, found a healer! Let’s go pick her up and go!” She started to walk off but was grabbed at her headband by Adell. “Hold on, I found two other interesting demons to recruit.” He muttered as he pulled off two papers and showed them to her. “Really, a Red Skull and a Thief? Why?” “Because we need long range fire and someone who can move quickly.” “That’s what a magic knight and ninja are for!” “There’s a method to my madness.” Adell chuckled, walking away to get the new characters. Adell covered his eyes as he and Zuku walked through the gates. Close behind them followed three new figures. The first one was tall and slender deer with shaggy blonde fur and eyes that were perpetually closed. On her head were a pair of small antlers, decorated in simple gems and gold chains to enhance her looks while making her magic that much better. She wore a simple sleeveless black and red striped dress with noticeable patches in it where she had to fix it several times before. Her name was Allure. The next one was a deer demon as well, only shorter and a bit fatter with rust colored fur. He wore all read with shorts, a long sleeve shirt, and a cape. The most noticeable thing about him though was the fact that his face and head were completely covered by a larger deer skull, only a pair of red eyes peeking out. The antlers on the skull had been shortened but sharpened to make his spells all the more deadly. His name was Matchstick. The last one was the oddest one out. She looked like a normal griffon at first, if not kind of weird for her fur color being a light shade of purple. However, the changes came out as one came close. For one, she was wearing red goggles around her neck and a red toolbelt around her ‘waist’ with a gun holstered there. For another thing, her wings were radically different with them turning into bat wings at the bottom part and her tail being much more like a common house cats. Her name was Jasmine. Her first act out of the gate was the cheer and jump into the air, taking flight. “The air tastes so good out here!” The two magic users just shook their head as the griffon demon kept doing aerial stunts in the air. “So, how did Rozalin and Thane respond to your extended away from Tartarus?” Zuku asked, looking up at the red head. “Well…” FLASH BACK Adell walked into his home, a cave formed into a nice two bedroom, one bath, with two stories and lots of empty rooms. “Honey, I’m ho-” He got cut off by Rozalin just slamming into his face with her own, passionately kissing him. He caught her and started kissing back, a young looking teenager with blonde hair with red stripes in it that fell past his pointed ears and dark red eyes stuck a finger in his mouth to make a gagging noise from the nearby couch. “Get a room.” He called out before looking back to the game on his phone. “They reacted accordingly.” “So, pot to the head and begging to go with you?” Zuku guessed. “Yyyyep. Good news though. Rozalin is pregnant again.” Adell rubbed the back of his head with a huge smile on his face as he looked to the looping Jasmine. “Oh, you dog.” Zuku smiled as well and smacked him on the butt. “Yeah, though Thane didn’t take this news well, so we might run into him later on trying to take down one of the criminals waaaaay out of his league. And so close to him turning 1500 too.” “Oh yeah.” Zuku put a hoof to her chin. “Probably should get him some candy then. “You know he hates sweet stuff, right?” “Yeah, your point?” A couple hours later... The same teenager from the flashback walked out the same place his father had been, covering his eyes with his arm. “Stupid light.” He grumbled, looking around. “Don’t see why this place is so special. It’s just really bright and green.” He was wearing a skin tight yellow shirt with black baggy pants and simple black slip on shoes with an opening on the back of the shirt for his small red bat wings. “Well, you know he wasn’t a demon or from this world, Thane.” He looked back to see his best friend, a demonic diamond dog named Rusty walk out as well, his tan poncho blowing in a non-existent wind that didn’t knock off his holey blue hat. He looked like he hadn’t slept in days and his fur was a rusty brown covered by an open blue vest and his poncho. On his side were a pair of holsters with a pair of guns in them. “I know. He’s just never told me what he was before he became a demon.” Thane muttered as he started walking with his phone out. “Anyways, let’s find that Prinny guy so maybe Dad will get stuck up here forever!” Rusty face-pawed. Five minutes later… “Where are the enemies?” Thane asked irritably, putting his phone up as they entered a forested area. “I mean, we should have run into at least a bunch of enemies to be our tutorial fight.” “Dude, calm down. It’s only been five minutes.” The gunner shrugged. “We can’t expect an enemy to just show up out of nowhere.” Unknown to them for another minute, someone did show up. Unfortunately, it was a thing that could kick their asses five ways to Earth and back without even knowing it. His name was Aaron “Motherfucking” Heibai. And he entered with an explosive display of fireworks and loud music worthy of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Thane just gave Rusty a ‘told-you-so’, who responded with a ‘shut up’ look, look before taking out his sword. Then he jumped at Aaron, going, “Raaaah!” Aaron blinked and blocked Thane without so much as a single flinch, “Well, while that’s not the worst greeting I’ve ever gotten, it’s still rude as a motherfucker. So, mind apologizing before I scatter your atoms and reform what’s left into a kitten?” “Hey!” Thane jumped away. “You aren’t supposed to block!” The demon complained. “Thane.” Rusty was shaking. “C-check his level!” Thane snorted. “It can’t be that bad.” He spoke out loud, bringing up a menu in the air to check Aaron’s level. “I mean, he’s the first enemy we’ve encount- WHAT?!” He screamed, seeing the infinity symbol instead of numbers. “Yeah…. There’s no way we can-” “He’s a cheater!” Thane pointed a finger at Aaron. “That’s my domain,” Aaron smirked, “Aaron ‘Motherfucking’ Heibai at your service. I’m the God of Cheating. And yes, that means I can cheat better and harder than anyone else in existence.” Thane was getting really angry with this guy. “That’s not fair at all! You’re the first enemy! You should only be like level one or two!” Rusty sighed. “Sorry about Thane. He’s an idiot.” “Hey!” “It’s true.” “I’m not an enemy, kiddo. I’m the salesman you meet on the side of the road.” Aaron crossed his arms as space warped and distorted into Aaron’s shop, “See?” “But I don’t have a lot of HL to spend.” Thane responded, not really bothered by the change. “My dad and mom don’t give me an allowance and the HL I did get was from stealing.” “I got a thousand.” Rusty muttered as the two walked in. Aaron grinned, “Don’t worry, I sell things for cheap. Not just cheap things, but really high quality things too.” “Like the Baal Sword?” Thane’s eyes sparkled, thinking about using that huge, powerful and extremely rare sword. “Too expensive” Rusty muttered. “Let’s just go get some manga or games.” Thane started to pout slightly before starting to walk deeper into the shop with Rusty. Aaron walked up to Thane, “Hey, kid, you smell weird.” “Uh, yeah. I haven’t showered in over 300 years.” “Not like a physical smell, but… metaphorical. Why does a demon smell like his past used to be a human when you’re clearly a full-blooded demon?” “What’s a human?” Thane had to ask, Rusty just looking confused. “Never mind,” Aaron shook his head, “It’s just the musings of an old God, I suppose. Anyway, go ahead and pick what you like.” Rusty shrugged and walked off, Thane following with an irritated look on his face. Aaron sat back and waited at the front desk, idly dozing off while Rusty and Thane did their business. Thane was walking among the games, grumbling about not getting to know anything when the cover for a certain cover caught his eye…. Because it had an image of his mom and dad on it. “...The hell?” [/hr] Thane slammed the box down on the counter in front of Aaron. “Why are my parents in a game?!” “Because there are more things on Heaven and Earth, Thane-ratio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” Aaron replied, chuckling, “Bit of Hamlet, there. Anyway, it’s cuz the Multiverse is big and contains every permutation of existence ever. And I do mean every permutation.” “...What’s Hamlet? And why did you add ‘-ratio’ to the end of my name?” Thane asked, being the clueless heathen that he was. “... Nevermind.” “And I still want to know what a human is?!” Thane snapped. “Humans…. well, since you are what you are, I’m going to let you in on a bit of a thing,” Aaron half-explained, “Humans are well, sorta beings like you, except without anything especially notable about them most of the time. Most can’t even lift more than a hundred pounds.” “They sound really lame.” Thane was picturing a really scrawny version of himself with grey hair. “And why would I be half-breed? My parents are both full demons.” Aaron grinned, “Yes, but you weren’t, not at first. See, I looked through your history and found that, surprise surprise, you used to be a human. Well, you spent the first three months in the womb as a human.” Thane started thinking about how he was a weak human for a month but the thoughts went too far down the wrong path. “Ewewewewew! Why did you make me think of my parents having sex?! The mental images burn my brain!” Aaron snorted, “Serves you right for taking that path. Anyway, are you buying the game or not?” Thane shuddered. “No. I don’t trust it now.” He pushed the box away as Rusty showed up with a carton of cigarettes, placing some golden coins with demon faces on them on the counter. “Anyways, what does me being a human for three months have to do with anything?” Aaron placed a hand on Thane’s shoulder, “Well, kiddo, it means you are, officially, a Displaced, due to your parents. What is a Displaced, you ask? Well that’s answered easily by me doing…. this.” He tapped Thane between the eyes, seamlessly sliding all the relevant information about being a Displaced into Thane’s memories. “Tada~! Now, since it’s a free service I apply to all Displaced, would you like to make a Token?” Thane held his head, grumbling about stupid headaches. “Fine.” He took out his phone. “I can use my phone right and just get a new phone?” “Yep!” Thane looked to the phone and said his phrase. “I am Thane, Prince of Tartarus. Call me and I will help you fight… for a fee of course. We, Demons, need money too.” Then he tossed it to Aaron, who threw it behind him into a portal. “So, what’s a Displaced?” Rusty asked, still confused. “Well, it’s a human who got sent from their own universe to Equestria.” Thane muttered, looking through the phones on display before he stopped, connecting the dots over just tossing his phone away as a token. “SHIT! ALL MY GAME DATA!” Aaron burst into a fit of laughter, along with Rusty, “AHAHAHAHAHA! You’re a fucking dumbass!” “SHUT UP!” Thane punched the closest being in the face… which was Aaron. “I lost my team of Hera’s!” Aaron appeared behind Thane and handed him a phone exactly like his old one, “No you didn’t.” “... Freaking cheater.” He pocketed his phone while Rusty continued to laugh. He started to leave. “So, guess we’ll see you later?” “Mmm, perhaps,” Aaron grinned, snapping his fingers and letting his shop fade away, “That all depends on whether or not Thane calls me here. Ta ta~” He vanished, exiting from the Universe without leaving a single trace behind. “Well that was weird.” Rusty finished his laughing session with that comment.