There was darkness. No there was only darkness but what else would you expected from the void of death.
“So is this it? ...It's not so bad. Not like this is the first time I've sat around with nothing to do” said the lose soul in upbeat way
“Most have issues with the lack of things to do, and before you ask yes you died, yes you will have another life in a while then your next death, No I'm not an all powerful god that'll give you some power in your next life I'm just some guy that works here. Is there anything I missed ?” said a voice to the side In a costumer service way.
“So what's next?” Loss Soul
“That's up to you. More or less” the voice of costumer service.
“More or less what?, How do I chose and what are my options” Loss Soul fully aware of how nasty the people with the power of costumer service can get.
“well you talk of what you want and then we see what you get, like it or not” costumer service matter-of-factly
“well I don't want to be human they're git's and I was never a they good one” Loss Soul
“I won't argue with you there... Wait you still remember you're old life” asked costumer service
“well it's fuzzy but it is there I get feelings from them and I know I tried to be a good person but I was not good human” said Loss Soul
“well that's not my area so you don't to worry about it but you may have issues so I'm going to give you a reset and don't what ever the fizzy memory's will comeback just as you grow older.”costumer service
“OK thank you. So...were am I going” Loss Soul
“I don't know. I have NO idea how the system works but the fact you were a sentient race in your last life means you have a good odds of being one again. Just before you go what kind of world would you like to be born into ” costumer service
“hmm. I like to say a world with magic but not the adventure playbook ones. A world that is with no need to go off and fight a demon lord or god unless I want to” Loss Soul
“hmm that sounds nice. But reality is not there is always trouble. So you get what you get” said the costumer service as he said that the space around the Loss Soul fizzed.
There was wetness but there was a lot more falling from the new eyes of a baby. The blurry sky rushed by. The baby was in something soon the bright sky turned red cloudy and hot so they hot then there was hard hot rough ground. The baby started crying it was hungry, hot and it did not understand. The crying continued and continued. then the beast came and drew close to the loud screaming thing.
As the beast drew closer then came the Imps. Who just managing to fight back the breast from it's month size snack. One of the smaller Imps started to pick up the Baby by a leg and he (of course it was a he) got a club to the head. The Baby was picked by a bigger female one then the Baby was swarmed with cooing females, males giving a few looks then going on lookout and scavenging what they could from the fight. After the problematic return to the Imp village. The elders was informed and assembled.
“So what are we going to do with IT and what is IT to begin with?”elder 1 the IT in question had been fed with uollt's milk (think demon goat) then put on a blanket to sleep in a “cool” corner.
“What do you mean. We are going to look after IT.” elder 2
“We don't know what IT is. It's clear that IT isn't from fire sand's or any of the heat and fire area's. It might die before night.” elder 1
“So we just leave it and let it die. can you hear this Koov” elder 2 speaking to a third elder sitting quiet in the corner fiddling with something
“you both are right. We know little of the child but I know he drank uollt milk and now sleeps. This tells me he has never tasted his mothers milk or any of his old kins. He was thrown away as soon as he was born.” Koov. heavy silence filled the tent.
“I also know he's a fallen and if the whole village dose not work together he will die”
the other two were shocked. fallen were criminals thrown into the worst environment possible, for practising the forbidden, hurting many of there kin or worst. To make matters worst fallen is favoured for there flavourer by the more powerful and dangerous of the fire and heat area's.
The two other Imp elders were having trouble with the idea a child that need milk to live could have done something so bad to find itself in the fire and heat area's.
“Why?” elder 1 had a face of a man who had been focused to eat uollt waste.
“you would have to ask his mother but if I had to guess, his mother was mated with someone who she should not have or his hair, which is soot grey and could have be seen as a cursed child, or the family that he came has a dark past but all of this matters not. He's here now with us” Koov said as he finished the thing he was doing and hung it around the small child's neck. The breathing that had been getting shallow slowly returned to normal, it's skin looking less cooked.
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“we're going to have to move good thing that's nothing new” elder 1 chuckling
“IT is going to need a mother” elder 2 both elder 1 and 2 hate the idea of doing the same thing as the arrogant inhabits of the high plans
“yes, elder could you get your daughter” Koov said while breathing have heavily. Elder 2 nodded and left for her daughter.
“you know that charm will only last so long and it could kill him before heat.” elder 1
said after a while
“yes that might be but I had something else in mind for this charm” koov
“oh oh, do tell” elder 1
“the energy inside it is not strong enough to over power his own but it mixes then dissipating leaving a tiny change in him after all being the lowest of the low has to have some benefit to it. What change it'll bring I don't know ” Koov
“Ha ha ha so that's what you meant by the whole village” elder 1
“It should be good practice for the young” elder 2 said walking back in with her daughter
after explaining to the young Imp the problem.
“So this is a fallen?” female Imp
“Koov thinks so. He has no wings, he hair is soot grey and I don't know what his eye colour is, I would not bet on it being blue-silver but fallen or no this a child he needs a mother, we understand if you don't what take responsibly for him” elder 2 there were a few tenses moments.
“I understand. I'll do it.” female Imp
“Ok now pack everything we're moving” elder 1
News spread fast but it did not need to most of the village had nearly completed their packing by now because they sported the light made by the Baby's arrival.
They were on the move a few miles away from their old village sport, when what they feared come, A high demon they felt it before they saw it. The pressure hit them like ton of bricks.
“have any of you wingless Imps seen any highly dangerous beings around here” high demon standing in front of them
“....” elder 1 trying to speak
“oh sorry here you go ” high demon as the pressure lessened”now what that”
“we saw a light off in the sky and started moving to get away from danger m'lord” elder 1 said while pointing the way.
“good good you have done well here” high demon throw a scroll to the elder Imp. Then the high demon rushed off. all Imps ran as fast as they could. It was not long before they heard different fights start behind them and more by the second.
Over the next few day they didn't move in the day only move at night until they come to a canyon there they made a new home, the elder finally look at the scroll made him grin ear to ear then paled realizing what it meant so he hide it and waited, time went on.
Now for a little background info
This has happened in the Ethereal estate the place where summoned creatures come from and return to.
The Ethereal estate is massive. It's ten or hundreds of World thrown together and on top of each other.
The lesser wingless fire Imp is as low as you can get. They are born that way. They can grow there own wings if they save up ethereal energy but that would take thousands of years and there better thing to do with the energy for one survival, for another fighting. It will drew attention from everything that can take it. For a lesser wingless fire Imp alone that is everything else. they are seen as useless by everyone even their own parents.
The wingless water Imp doesn't need there wings.
The wingless grass Imp just grow grass from there back and use it to glide.
The wingless earth Imp dig just all day.
However the wingless fire Imp are smarter then other Imps because they have to be.
It is not uncommon that Imp's do not have a name they only get a name from those stronger then them Koov got his name from his summoner.
Death has little meaning but it dose hurt. For permanent death one needs to run out of ethereal energy and in general lesser wingless fire imps only live because they can take the energy no of the area (but all Imps can do that)