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According to the people who experienced the horror and survived to tell the tale, the Dark One is a breathing personification of demonic energy.

The monster race and Human race live in harmony on both continents until the Dark One emerges on this planet. The lust for the unknown power leads the continent of Ailar to start the never-ending war between the Monster and the Human race.

The Dark One devours every soul it encounters, giving birth to dark fiends to bring chaos to the land.

After five years of suffering without knowing the real enemy, a group of monsters and humans worked together to find the real culprit and stop the madness it caused.

A gecko monster and a human hero weakened the Dark One for the first time but could not defeat it and sealed it away.

One oracle prophecied that the Dark One will rise again to bring havoc to the land, but no one believes. They don't even know who the Dark One is.

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The High Priest of the Blood Moon Cult prays in the main altar alone in the middle of the city for everyone to worship and pray, and it's close for the public today. A messager comes near the High Priest and whispers.

"Only one of the seven groups of messengers delivered the message about the Dark One's revival," The messager sadly said and continues, "It caused us major sit backs, and only a quarter member from the front line come back alive."

"That's okay... Let the enemy invade the city and tell everyone to come back home! We will show our real power with the help of the Dark One!" The High Priest promises.

"As you wish, High Priest," The messager said and walked away.

After the messenger left the main altar, the High Priest starts laughing maniacally and mumbles something like he's talking to someone.

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In the middle of the night, when the moon illuminates the Enchanted Forest, Bm and Jio talk about anything to pass the time.

"Vanilla or Chocolate?" Jio asks.

"Vanilla," Bm answers.

"Winter or Summer?" Jio Asks.

"Winter," Bm answers.

Walking down the hill, Bm suddenly trips, and Jio tries to catch her only to roll together down the hill as fireflies fly away from the field. When they stop, Jio is on top of Bm while the moon illuminates her face and the fireflies set the mood. Jio can not help staring at Bm's beautiful face as she starts blushing, but a weird flying butterfly stun Bm to ruin the scene.

When they stand up and continue walking, Bm suddenly falls with a high fever that makes Jio worry and carries Bm to a safe place for them to stay for the night. Jio stays all night to take care of her fever and finds food in the morning for breakfast.

When Jio gets back inside the small cave, Jio saw a six-year-old version of Bm in a white dress. When she opened her eyes and saw Jio looking at her confused, she backs up, panicking till she hits the cave wall.

Jestterfly: A type of butterfly that causes humans to lose their memory temporally when stung. This insect can be very dangerous to any Monster race because there's a high chance that they will lose their memory forever.

"Who, who are you?" The little girl asks, holding a dagger.

"Oh! I'm Jio De Vil, and have you seen my friend, a Gecko?" Jio calmly asks.

"I'm sowwy, mister, but I dont no you!" The little girl answers.

"It's okay, here's a picture of her," Jio slowly walks toward the little girl.

Jio took out a mirror and handed it to the little girl. When she looks at it, she falls in love at first sight after seeing herself as a beautiful little kid. With the power of the Queen Slime, Bm shapeshifted back to her six-year-old body and memories.

"Thats you, little miss," Jio let out, hoping she gets back to normal or remembers everything.

"No way!" She protests, knowing that she's a little Gecko monster.

Jio tries to explain everything to the little girl that a jestterfly stung her yesterday as he cooks mushroom soup for breakfast. The little kid did not believe what Jio said, but she believes that Jio might be telling the truth after repeatedly looking at her face.

"Anyways, what's you're name?" Jio asks.

"It's a secret," The little girl answer and continues, "Guess my old ve...version is... is still testing you."

"If you say so, Lala," Jio replies

"Lala? who's Lala?" The little girl asks.

"OH! It's a made-up name for you," Jio answers.

"It's shitty name," Lala let out.

"Who taught you those words?" Jio asks as he looks at Lala just to be ignored by her.

After eating breakfast, they continue to move, hoping to find a small town or city to stop and rest in a comfortable bed. Walking for an hour, Lala starts to complain about walking, leaving Jio to sighs and offer Lala to hop in on his shoulders. Before Jio could look back and assist Lala, she climbed Jio's back like a professional mountain climber, and when she reached the top, she put a flag made out of a leaf and stick in his head, out of nowhere like she just climbs the tallest mountain.

"Onwards, my noble steed," Lala shouts, pointing forward.

Jio smiles for no reason and complies with Lala's demands.

*Little Angel, Little Annoyance* Jio thought

To be continued,