Triple Demon Threat

  An electrical power station, a small door, what one assumes just leads to some room or maybe panel or something. From this door in the afternoon sun a man steps out, a tall pale buisiness man in black suit, white shirt, red tie, and a haircut and goatee that would any long time tv viewer instantly peg him as someone's evil twin, or corrupt crime boss. He isn't the former, although on several continents...all but Antarctica actually, he is the later.

   As the man exits the power station he takes a red crystal sphere from his pocket, bringing up a tiny hologram of the Earth, "Rhulan is halfway over the Pacific," he mutters to himself, "heading for Paramalia...heh...too bad for her I know all the short cuts...homefield advantage."

    It isn't long before he finds what he is searching for, a rather plain house between other plain houses, not fearing being spotted for is the power of the devil to only be seen by those he wishes to see him. However this does not prevent him from smacking directly into an invisible barrier.

  "What...is this?" ponders the dark lord Lahk Fhar.

  The girl known as Mirai walks out of the house and raises on eyebrow, "It is a forcefield..."

  Lahk Fhar's fist blazes with hell fire as he strikes the barrier, and his eye twitches as pain shoots through his entire body.

  "Rhulan isn't even here," says Lahk Fhar, "how..."

  His eyes shoot out lasers which are absorbed by the forcefield, "Bullshit!" he exclaims, "I can see through the forcefield...it can't block light!"

  "Its not a clear barrier," says Mirai, "It is a selectivly permeable multi-dimensional membrane. It is creating a projection on its outside and inside that perfectly matches what is on the place on either side of the disruption...also just to make it clear its a sphere...an even stronger spell than the Perfect Sphere, this...is the Dimension Sphere."

   Lahk Fhar smiles, "You are more clever and talented than I thought...." says Lahk Fhar, "well little girl...as my minions tell me you are a summoner...you summoned...of all impossible things...Rhulan Rokonaka to this world...but her contract is clearly broken with you...or she wouldn't be able to...well...I am also told you like little fuzzy animal friends. You summoned a demon ferret and some...cowboy dog...well."

   Lahk Fhar manifests a slew of small fuzzy creatures, including a tiny unicorn.

   "Wow," says Mirai in a mock tone, "what...no candy and a windowless van? Mirai is a grown woman despite her youthful looks you know."

   "Well....wait..." says Lahk Fhar as his expression turns to hate and with the snap of his fingers the fuzzy cute things change into hideous demon goblin gremlin creatures.

   He narrows his eyes, "You are one of her summons guarding her home arn't you?"

   Mirai smiles and transforms into a tall blue skinned woman wearing an ornate oriental dress of dark blue and purple flowery designs, her hair is a silvery blue and very long with a high widow's peek, as well as two slightly curved demon horns abover her pointed ears. Her eyes glowing a fiery blue she speaks, "I am that demon ferret...she named me FiFi...you and I have never met...oh tiny red devil of a pitiful hell."

   Lahk Fhar fumes and transforms into his large red skinned, pan legged, oversized black bull horns form. There is commotion in the neighborhood as he is no longer invisible.

  "Insolent summoned bitch!" screams Lahk Fhar as he unleashes fire from his horns, his eyes, his mouth, and both of his hands.

  the real Mirai comes running out the house and watches. Gene (the yellow dog in the cowboy hat) just yawns and sits by Mirai's foot. FiFi calmly walks over the barrier and speaks, "Did you think the great mother would leave this princess defensless in her absence?"

   "How can a mere summoned beast...have such a field?" questions Lahk Fhar, "even without the obelisks, the rules of summoning on this planet reduce your powers without the use of mystic cards outside of the battle zone."

   "A small percentage of one's power," says FiFi smiling back at Mirai who knows where this is going and nods. FiFi looks back at Lahk Fhar, "Tell me...do you know who won the last Overlord Tournament? The one for the planet Sahrn?"

   "Rhulan Rokonaka," answers Lahk Fhar, "I had heard she went into hibernation after that tournament...not much of one...I wasn't there so...no...I heard..."

   He creates a sigil and summons his demonic S&M biomechanical assistant, right in the street. She looks around startled and then looks at FiFi and freezes up.

   Lahk Fhar however is looking at Mirai past FiFi, "Well...guess your summon wants to play games. Your protection commands no doubt? Ask impossible questions? Well....I cheat..."

   "Sekelena...who won the Overlord Tournament for...what was it...oh...Sahrn..."

   "Her..." says Sekelena.

  "What?" asks Lahk Fhar, turning to see his assistant is looking at the horned blue woman with odd fear and surprise.

  Lahk Fhar looks at FiFi, "I...ah...you took the shape of that individual...a clue rule I see...hmm..."

  FiFi looks back at Mirai as though waiting for instructions.

  "Please kick his ass..." says Mirai.

  FiFi smiles, "As you wish,"

  She reaches through the forcefield (multi-dimensional fold) and blasts Lahk Fhar into the car across the street before stepping out.

  "Oooh," says Mirai, "please don't destroy the neighbors...or their stuff FiFi."

  "As you wish," says FiFi walking past Sekelena.

  Lahk Fhar charges her like a bull only for her to grab his horns, flip over him, and slam him into the road.

  "I was the winner," says FiFi, "I am the Goddess of Verena, the Land of Solitude...I am also known as..."

  She aims her index and ring finger at Lahk Fhar's face as it starts to stand up, "Sahralia the Star Killer."

  A beam charges up and stops, she smiles and says, "Your plan was to kidnap Mirai and hold her as a hostage wasn't it?"

   Lahk Fhar stands and backs up a bit, "I know that name..."

  "Seriously?" asks FiFi, "Not...the reaction I normally get...I take it you don't keep up on...events that greatly predate you actually...as well as fairly recent ones."

   "Do not mock me..." growls Lahk Fhar.

  "She's the Star Killer!" yells Sekelena, "Master...she is Rhulan's eldest daughter! She is a planet destroying Celestial Demon Goddess!"

  "Wait..." says Lahk Fhar, "How did a summoner summon two Over...lords....where'd she go?"

  FiFi is behind him and says, "Kick his ass."

  With one swift kick to his ass she sends him flying into the air, him biting his lip teleports away, although still crashing into a dune where he arrives.

  He shakes the sand off his body and morphs back to his human form, and glares into the horrizon, "bitch planned ahead...but still...damn, so much for the hostage plan."

  Back at Mirai's place as FiFi walks past Sekelena, "You may want to tell your boss, he dodged a bullet on this one. Rhulan has the power of revival, you can't hold someone hostage with her...others have tried before...if he had refused her offer to let Mirai go unharmed she would have killed him...painfully...even with the rules she would have made him suffer long and hard before it would have taken effect...she really doesn't like people trying to get to her through others...also he really should do better homework on other Demon Lords...not even knowing who I am...pitiful...especially for a devil."

  In a flash of blue light Sekelena is by Lahk Fhar, she remembers Sahralia's words but can't seem to remember where she was or who the girl was. A blue flash shoots through Lahk Fhar's eyes...he glares...he doesn't remember the location or the girl...but he knows that he has forgotten them.

   "Master..." starts Sekelena.

  "The book," says Lahk Fhar, "I would know my enemies better...and their forms and underlings."

    ******

   As FiFi walks back towards Mirai there is a blue flash, and the street and neighbor's car are fixed and FiFi is back in her blue demon ferret form bouncing to Mirai.

   "Huh...." says Mirai looking around before heading back inside, "He did have a point...the book is pretty vague on what you can do when guarding or otherwise acting on vague orders in the real world...and also..."

   She pauses and blinks a few times, "Wait...did I...was it...was I...almost kidnapped by the devil?"

    ******

   A bright sunny day shines down upon the tropical island, a mer-shark frollicks in the waves, a crab-taur woman scuttles about the beach as demon wasp/bees pollinate Alraune flowers on the mountain side and the tiny village goes about their daily lives. This calm is interrupted however by a rolling darkness across the sky as the demonic form of Rhulan floats in the air, her voice projecting like thunder, "Mortals upon the Earth below hear my voice! For I am Cataclysm, scatter into the hills!"

   She flaps her wings summoning forth a powerful wind, "With each flap of my wings I could summon a hurricane, with a single breath call forth an inferno to reduce the world to ash, a single footfall could bring forth earthquakes!"

  A powerful beam of light shoots up from a temple on the beach, destroying the dark clouds. A woman's voice eminates from the beam, "Go my subjects...go into the mountain and be safe from the battle."

   B. Mai Valentine the Wasp Woman watches from her lair, as the population heads up into the mountains around her lair, she does not like it, but she dares not act against the resident goddess. The Mer-shark transforms her tail into legs as she leaps from the water and runs beside the crab-taur into the hills. As they depart the beam of light transforms into a gargantuan pink skinned Octo-girl with tentacles in place of hair.

   "Now then," says Rhulan, "We can fight..."

  "Insolent little demon!" shouts the goddess, "you dare threaten the subjects of Paramalia!?"

  She slams her fist upon Rhulan smashing her into the water. The residents of the island cheer, which is cut short as a strange expression comes over Paramalia, she can feel tentacles with suction cups wrapping around her fist. Her arm is jerked and then suddenly her entire body pulled into deeper water. In the depths the tentacles grow larger, wrapping around her waist, interlocking with her own tentacles, and around her arms. She sees a grey face grinning back at her, and with all her might pulls them both to the surface.

   The sight is unreal a second Octo-girl, one with grey skin, webbed clawed hands, black tentacles, and in place of hair or head tentacles its a ribbed fin in the rough shape of long hair like some hellish veil. This new creature holds Paramalia by the arms, their breasts practically touching.

   "What are you?" asks Paramalia trying to free her tentacles, the wrestling appendages causing massive waves.

  "The Queen of the Abyss," hisses back Rhulan, right before issuing forth a great red beam of energy from her mouth, blast Paramalia in the head and upper chest. Paramalia vanishes in red smoke. The Queen of the Abyss (Rhulan) lands in the water, her tentacles no longer entwined with another. She gestures to the island, a ring of light springing up around it in the water a short distance off its shores. The island shakes and rises into the air as Rhulan lifts her hand as though lifting a saucer, being lifted with some sea in a great energy bowl.

   "I send you now mortals," she says, "to the Twilight Sea where your goddess resides now. To the world given to her."

  With that the island vanishes in a whirlwind of blue and white sparkling energy. Rhulan's giant octo-girl form turns to shadow and morphs down to her humanoid demon-dragon form, with the dark red mane of hair instead of the netherflames. She looks back in the direction of "home" and narrows her eyes, "I will need to deal with this immediatly." and vanishes like a ghost.

    ******

   When Mirai came to her grandmother's house she didn't expect to be greated by a woman who looks no older than she is...or for Billy Bob (Bill on some occassions, Bob on others) would be in his battle form. As they sit for tea in the parlor Yuki gives Mirai the cliff notes version of what happened, when the Dimension Police sent everyone away, the contracts were temporarily broken and the summoners sent to their summoned one's domain. Mirai remembers meeting Rhulan in her castle, Rhudra, the mysterious elf princess...for Yuki however her journey was to a dark castle with a lab, meeting an android woman named Jessica...Yuki *blushes* at this moment and omits some details; taking a sip and skipping to Rhoan "claiming" Yuki as his and turning her young, essentially making her a sort of vampire like being. This ensured when they were brought back Rhoan could prevent the previous contract made by their ancestors from.

   Rhoan chimes in, interrupting first with a laugh as he walks begind the couch and looks out the window, "Five generations ago, I was summoned to this world, and made a servant. It was known then that whomever last held the contract would become my servant for all eternity...he turns towards Mirai, stopping short as FiFi in her lap (Gene being left back at the house in case Lahk Fhar tried to do something with the house while they were gone, not knowing about FiFi's mind wipe), glares at him. He turns and starts to monologue about the Overlord Tournament, about who he expected to appear, he doesn't something wrapped in cloth pass into Yuki's hand by an invisible presence; but he does hear a whisper in the air.

   "Are we trying to scheme something?" asks Rhoan turning around, "I distinctly heard...bind him...now...girls...wait..."

  He stops short as Yuki is holding the stone of storms. He looks at Mirai, "How is that? I would have sensed it! You couldn't have!"

   In an instant upon being touched by Yuki's hand the stone glows and the broken energy sigil contract appears and reforms.

  "NO!" shouts Rhoan as his body is enveloped in red smoke, which is sucked into the sigil, leaving behind Billy Bob the servant.

   "Damn," says Bob, He *sighs* as he sees Rhulan appear from shadow.

   Mirai remembers holding the stone before, nothing like this happened for her, perhaps something had to be prepared. Such thoughts are cut short as Rhulan takes the stone and places into the darkness inside her cape, removing it from Midgardia.

   "Ya'know," says Rhulan, "The last time I saw this stone come to think of it, I was tossing it onto Param...very odd that it would be here...but it does find its way around somehow."

   She smiles as sits beside Mirai, her arm over the couch behind her, "The Dreamer and the Dream...Rhoan's full conciousness was summoned. As such this avatar will remain...but he is out of the tournament now...bound...subdued. I assume his plan was to do this exact same thing to me."

  "Of course," says Bob, as he nods to Yuki.

  Yuki crosses her arms, and looks at him, "Contract."

  Bob *sighs*, and says, "Yes MiLady", he fetches a sigil inscribed scarf, "this was going to be a gift, Mirai you were going to be warned that the stone's power might attract more devils to you and this would hide it...when in fact this is the Crimson Binding Scarf...which can fully bind Rhulan even in her awakened state to a summoner...her own design...kinky...but requires the Stone of Storms as well...she would have been subdued...and yours fully again and..."

   He turns to see MewMew and FiFi lying together in Mirai's lap. The scarf suddenly starts glowing, mystic floating sigils appearing around it and it shoots through the air and flies down and ties around one of Mirai's ankles.

  "What?" asks Mirai looking down at MewMew, who only gives her hand a few licks.

   This however is all interrupted by a tall woman with long wavy blue hair entering the room, "Rhoan honey I detected a dimensional rift did you...."

   Her eyes narrow looking at Bob, "get bested by Rhulan..."

   She looks around, "Scanning...oh...there she is....as a small fluffy animal right beside Sahralia...and...well this is awkward."

   Yuki stands, "Miss Jessica you are welcome to stay in my home...however Billy Bob is once again my servant...although..."

  Yuki starts to *blush*

 Jessica actually smiles looking at Bob and Yuki, "I think you could use a maid, keep this bad boy in line."