#demon invasion

[starchbean]

If Sha Hualing's invasion of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect had gone as she wanted it to, would she have gone on to become the new ruler of the long vacant Southern territory of the Demon Realm? We know that Mobei did the IAC to secure his status and right to rule. Was Sha Hualing attempting the same thing?

[randomkposts]

Mikage-Cho is a Mafia town.

And while this is hardly the weirdest thing about it, Innocent Sin has PSP only sidequests that establishes one of the classes at St. Hermelin has a class Pet Boar.

And now I have to wonder, what did it get up to durring the demon invasion? Pigs can be pretty tanky, and are very omnivorous.

Did it spat with Demons? Did it win? Did it eat any demons?

Was a student in a tight spot until there was an unexpected intervention by the pig? Who ate it?

Does it haunt them?

What level is the class boar?

[trivalentlinks]

Highway from Hell

[Demon invasion crack-fic inspired by various demon stories, primarily Unsong.]

Notes:

- this crack-fic is really weird and maybe darker than canon. (Hardison kills some demons (not directly, per se, but still)) - I've lived in Christian places, but I'm not Christian, by culture or religion. Apologies in advance if parts of the mythology are wrong.  - Tagged OT3, in that they're "married", but it's not depicted as sexual or romantic.

Hell had been preparing for this day since the Divine Light started to shine in the universe once again. The day the prince of the demons would emerge from the Hellmouth with all his armies behind him, to take back what he believed to be his.

The humans had predicted this. Even as their laws of physics stopped working and their technology was dying, they had figured out where the Hellmouth would open just outside of Las Vegas. The entire southern half of Nevada had been evacuated, along with surrounding areas in California and Arizona.

However, while the humans may have been preparing for weeks, the demons had spent years setting this up--infiltrating the most powerful human organizations, debasing all the holy water reserves, and corrupting or abducting the clergy from the Pope down to the newest street pastor, anyone who could make more.

Then, the armies of hell ran into Eliot Spencer.

Facing the prince and his armies behind him, Eliot stood alone in the middle of the interstate, right where it crossed the Colorado river. The demons standing around their prince drew their weapons as they approached.

"Come now," the prince said to them. "Is that any way to treat an old friend?"

The demons put their weapons away.

"Leave this world, Damien," Eliot said, crossing his arms. "And don't come back."

The prince laughed. "You're not serious.

"You have sixty seconds to turn your forces back."

"Or what, Eliot? Can you even touch your powers anymore?"

"There are older forms of magic than ours--than yours, even."

Damien stared at Eliot in disbelief. "Love? Really, Eliot? You know better than that."

"The universe runs on magic, now, since the Divine Light returned. The magic of love, but also the magic of stories," Eliot said. "I love this world. It's my home. So tell me. If this were a story, and you marched in with all of hell's armies, while I stood here alone, who d'ya think would win?"

"Good thing this isn't a story," Damien said.

"Good thing I'm not alone," Eliot said.

To their north there was a series of explosions and then floodwater started to flow towards them.

"Seriously? That's your strategy? Blowing up a dam? You know we can't drown."

A moment later, though, he heard the screams of agony of the demons upstream, running away or, the ones who could, taking flight to avoid it.

"That's not possible," Damien said. "We destroyed all the holy water and corrupted or abducted every priest who could make more."

"The magic of stories," Eliot said. "I know a con man who learned enough about priesthood--still has enough of it in his soul--to play one, and a grifter who could weave his story convincingly enough to sway the universe itself."

"You'll die, too, when the water gets here. You can't even fly."

The demons who could were already taking flight and hovering some distance off the ground.

"Maybe," Eliot said. Then he added, "Clouds, now."

Dark and ominous rainclouds rose up over Lake Mead and advanced towards them.

"Want to guess what those are made of?" Eliot asked.

"How--That. Not possible."

"I also know a hacker with enough angel in him that when technology stopped working, he took to hacking the code of the universe itself. Starting with cloud formation."

"How are you signalling him? When technology stopped--even the code of the universe doesn't allow--"

"Like I said," Eliot said. "There's older magic than ours. The rituals were there. We just had to decode them, and, well. Hacker."

There was a beat of silence. Eliot could see the moment it clicked for Damien.

"Ritual marriage? You married a human for this? To use a soul bond as a comm unit?"

"I wouldn't call it married--"

"You need real love for that to work. Human love."

"Yes," Eliot said. "You do."

"Wait. You married an angel?" Damien spat, his disbelief turning to fury.

"Part angel. But yes."[1]

Damien reached for his bident in his pocket dimension, only to find it was not there.

Eliot smiled. "I also married a thief."

"You'll die, too, when the water comes. You made that choice when you joined us. Throwing your lot in with the mortals won't be enough to--"

He was cut off when a man flew in out of nowhere and barrelled right into him.

"We were talking, Quinn," Eliot said, rolling his eyes.

"You were taking too long," Quinn said, while he pummelled the prince of hell.

Some of the other demons tried to reach for their weapons from the pocket dimension, only to find that theirs were also gone.

"Like I said," Eliot told them. "I married a thief."

"Did you marry this guy, too?" Damien gasped.

"No, he's just a friend," Eliot said. Quinn landed a few more punches. "Acquaintance." More punches. "Person."

"The rest of you," Eliot said, addressing the crowd, again. "You can leave if you want. Don't hurt any humans, and I won't pursue you."

"And be a traitor, like you?" Most of the demons spat, but a few of them sheepishly started to fly away.

[Rain,] Eliot thought towards Hardison in his mind, when the demons who wanted to leave were gone.

It started to rain, and more of the demons tried to flee as they screamed.

"That really is holy water," Damien said between gasps, clearly feeling the sting. "You'll die, too!"

Suddenly, Eliot started to glow with an angelic light that Hardison projected through their bond. The rain and oncoming floodwaters flowed right off of him.

When Eliot spoke, the voice wasn't his own. "C'mon, really? Are you serious? Is this guy serious? As if I would just let my husband die."

[Dammit, Hardison, I'm not your husband,] Eliot thought furiously, while Quinn held Damien down in the holy water flooding up around them and Damien struggled furiously as he finally started to breathe the water into his lungs.

[You know, you shouldn't curse so much now that you've joined souls with a part-angel,] Hardison replied in Eliot's mind, and Eliot hated that with their new connection he could now feel Hardison's smirk.

[Hardison--]

[Also, it was a marriage ritual, man. Nate called it that. Even your old boss called it that.]

[It was a marriage of convenience.]

[Still needs actual love, so. Still counts. We're husbands.]

"Whatever," Eliot said out loud, taking back control of his own voice as Damien stopped struggling. "Come on, Quinn. That's enough. Let's go."

"But he's not dead," Quinn whined. Still, he let go of Damien's unconscious body and stood up to follow a still angelically glowing Eliot out of the floodplain.

"I know. But you won't fix that by drowning with him. Besides, lungful of holy water will put him out for a while, and when he wakes up, he'll have no home to return to."

Quinn frowned at that for a moment. Then he laughed. "Really? He opened the Hellmouth in a floodplain? He's more of an idiot than I thought."

"I don't think he got to choose that," Eliot said. "The universe determines where the Hellmouth opens."

"Still."

"Still," Eliot agreed with a smile.

End.

[1] Hardison inherited the angel part from his foster mom. Because genetics also work on story logic. After all, this is a story.

PS: If you’re still here, uh, sorry, but I warned you that it was a weird one. Have no idea what came over me but I just woke up with this idea in my brain of “the OT3 save the world from demon apocalypse with the power of magical polyamory” and also “why only Nate got a gloat scene at the end of TSLJ?? why not Eliot?” so here’s those two ideas combined.

[overanalyzingelswordiswhatido]

Before I bothered to look at the time progression of the story

I thought the demon invasion arc took longer than it did. And I still feel like it should've taken at least a little bit longer. I'm not thinking much more than an extra year but idk. Cuz there's a lot of travel time between the different towns, at least if we're assuming the El Search Party doesn't have access to particularly advanced methods of transportation. And there from what I can gather, there doesn't seem to be a lot of fast or efficient transportation in the current era. Elrios is kinda post-apocalyptic/dystopian. It's 500 years post apocalypse but still. The El Explosion seemed to knock human civilization back pretty far developmentally. The world map doesn't appear to have a legend but the towns seem pretty far apart to me, especially Hamel, Lanox, and Sander. And with the added likelihood of ambush, the El Search Party would be slowed down even further. And then theres the actual events the story covers. Those seem to go by pretty quickly to me but then there's the recovery time after all the battles and stuff? Though I'll admit, I have NO CLUE how long that could take. I THINK, story wise they hit ssecond job technically in Velder?? despite the quest being completed at some point in Feita. But then theres two years between that and Forgotten Elrian Sanctum, where they hit third job. And that doesn't seem to be a long enough span of time for everything that happens.

[myanimethought]

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[whiskysourz]

Me in demon invasion sites 2 weeks ago vs me in demon invasion sites now

[warcraftviews]

So, I was leveling with my warrior from 65 to 100 mainly by doing invasion. And for that time I collected all of these boxes. (41 large and 41 small + I’ve already opened like 4 of them during leveling).  And what I’ve got in them?  About 600 Nethershards, tons of equip (worth about 2k), four weapons and 6  Coalesced Fel. :)

[wowadventures]

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