As the door creaked open, torches visibility lit the very large boss floor.
"Oh, it looks like we have more fresh food!" one of the demons laughed.
"Sister, oh dear sister, please come out, we have a vampire… a human… an Uthra… and a half-god?! We might actually need you today!"
The large female Demon, who literally looked like a fiend, with wind quickly swirling around her, popped up from what appeared to be a nest, fresh with corpses, blood, and flesh dripping from her mouth.
"Ooooooooh, that sounds quite the delicious meal. That's enough to last us months if we eat it sparingly, wouldn't you say, my little brothers?" She mocked the party.
"The elemental four. Shit." Sasha said with a hint of fear.
"System, what are the elemental four?"
The elemental four are three S ranked demon brothers, fire, water, and earth, who closely follow their oldest sister, wind, who is SS ranked. They are well-known in demon lore, although no one alive can tell the tale of their existence, and now we know why. They must be protecting whatever this dungeon holds or are free to come and go by the order of the King Demon."
"Levi, any idea on how we beat this group?" Sora asked.
"We have to work together and use our strengths and try to get them into one-on-one fights. I'll obviously take the Earth one. I wish I could handle the wind for you. Brie, you take the fire one. Sasha, I trust you can handle the pesky water one? He's the youngest of the brothers. Sora, the Queen's all yours. Her wind magic is said to be unmatched in this world, so be careful!" Levi ordered.
The ground beneath them began to shake. The Earth elemental demon appeared. "Ooooooh, sister's out to play. This must mean we have food worth eating!"
The fourth fiend appeared, from a blaze of flame, and seemed annoyed. "Stop playing around. Let's end these intruders quickly before we hear from Azazel."
"How dare you speak our Lord's name in front of these worthless, frail creatures?" the Queen snarled.
"Like they'll live the tale to speak of it," the fire fiend said while blasting a large fireball towards the party.
Brie knocked it away with a pool of water, and sprinted away from the fire fiend, tossing ice spells in his direction.
"Go fetch the water whore," the Queen ordered.
"As you wish." the fire fiend stated, turning back into a flame, shooting away toward Brie.
****
Levi already engaged the Earth one in battle. Flames shot from his sword at the makeshift mud walls the Earth demon made, and Levi slowly, yet steadily, closed in on the demon.
"Sora, a vial. I need your buff, I'm sorry. Brie won't be able to contain me, so if anything, after I deal with this water friend, knock my ass out if you have too!"
"System, please give Sasha a vial of my blood."
Transfer complete.
She immediately popped the top off and drank it, while leaving just a little bit of it at the tip of her fingers.
She immediately let out a scream and shot the remaining half-god blood at the Water fiend and exploded it at the last second, not only catching the fiend off guard, but clearly doing larges amount of damage to it.
"You are the pathetic brother," the Queen screamed, while turning her attention to Sora.
Her attacks were so fast. Sora did everything he could to dodge and evade them, but saw no opening to get an actual attack in. He only hoped his endless stamina would provide an advantage, although it didn't seem like the Queen was tiring out.
Sora glanced over and noticed Sasha absolutely ripping into and gutting the water fiend.
'Yikes. She did say only to give her that blood in need of a super buff, but I'm guessing she's going to be out of commission shortly.' Sora thought.
As he ducked and evaded the Queen's attacks, Sora noticed Brie was in trouble. He teleported over to her, blocking off an enormous fire barrage from the fire fiend.
****
"Divine Protection!" Sora screamed.
Divine protection cast. You and Brie will be safe for 15 seconds. I'd advise bringing the fire fiend to Sasha, she has a little more left in her. Then have Brie use her ability to knock her unconscious, wake her up, give her a potion, and re-group. It's the only way. This fire fiend is far too strong for Brie.
"Thank you Sora… I'm so sorry. He's too strong. He's toying with me. Had you not appeared when you did–"
Sora cut her off with a hug. "I promised you I wouldn't let anything happen to you and there's nothing to be sorry for. Actually, I have a plan. Sasha's cracked out on my blood, and we should teleport to her and let the fire fiend try to attack you."
Brie nodded that she was following along.
She'll rip him to shreds trying to protect you, but you'll have approximately 15 seconds to knock her unconscious, wake her up, and feed her some potions and a mana potion so I need you to focus, ok?" Sora said with the sweetest tone.
"Got it! Let's do this!" Brie said, pumping herself up.
****
"Teleport to Sasha Valencia!" Sora said while holding Brie's hand.
Sasha noticed the movement, and as the fire fiend formed behind Brie, with a large, fire fury forming in his hands, Sasha used her vampiric ability to transform her arms into giant arms. She grabbed the fire fiend by the shoulders, held it down with one arm, while elongating a nail and slicing it cleanly through his neck."
Like a puff of smoke, the fiend evaporated into the dungeon's dark, heavy air.
"Brie! Now!" Sora shouted.
"Sasha, go to sleep!" Brie shouted while slamming her hand on her forehead. Sasha quickly fell to the floor, unconscious, and the Queen flew over trying to slice through the unconscious body.
Fortunately, Sora met the Queen with both of his blades, using all the strength and magical reinforcement he could muster.
Brie teleported Sasha away to Levi, who was still locked in battle with the Earth fiend, but clearly on the winning end of the battle.
"Sasha, wake your lazy ass up!" Brie shouted while smacking Sasha in the head.
"Thanks, Brie." Sasha said, as she grabbed the two potions, blood bag and mana potion from Brie.
"Don't thank me, we owe you the thanks. Had you not risked your own safety with Sora's blood… I'd be long gone from this world by now." Brie said, while hugging her best friend.
Levi shouted, "You two, get away from here! Danger is still among us! I can handle this one, assist Sora, if you must!"
"Sora told us to teleport to you; he's dealing with the Queen! Let's finish this Earth one off! It's the last of the S ranked fiends!" the girls shouted.
The three worked in tandem and finally finished off the last of the S ranked brothers. A noticeable screech could be heard from the Queen.
"Not another one of my brothers! You shall all die and Azazel will allow each of his demonic creations torture you for eternity!"
"Well, I guess that means we've taken care of the three demons, but I'm exhausted." Sasha said.
"As am I," Levi said, while drinking a potion, quickly followed by a magic potion.
"We're all tired, but we can't let Sora do this alone! What happens if he doesn't make it?" Brie cried, with visible tears flowing from her eyes.
"You can't think like that Brie, and let's be honest, other than maybe Levi, we would probably just get in his way." Sasha said and hugged her best friend.
"Sora has great friends, and I'm glad to be here. But I agree with Sasha. I sense a great battle is about to take place. One that we will only be lucky enough to witness and live to tell the tale, just believe in the gods and Sora!" Levi cheered.
****
The force of the Queen's wind attack eventually sent Sora flying. He held off with both blades, reinforced with magic, for as long as he could, just long enough for the girls to teleport before he went flying through the room, crashing into the cold, dark walls.
You received multiple critical hits. Your health is at 10/100 HP. Administering emergency potions. Your health has been replenished. Do not take on any direct hits moving forward. She's too strong for your current HP level.
"Thanks system, I feel better already."
'At least I was able to get the girls to safety, now my only concern is…' Sora's thoughts were cut off as he heard the Queen flying his way.
"System, any advice on how to beat this fiend?"
Unfortunately, Sora, I do not. I would suggest trying to attack it together, but that would put your other party members at great risk. Wind is weak against Earth magic, but she seems to slice through whatever you're throwing up at her. Hand to hand combat might be the only way, but slowing her down, I'm not entirely sure how we go about doing that.
Sora smirked and thought, "I've faced hell far worse than this demon bitch. The cries of screaming children, my skin literally burning to my body. This is nothing. I can defeat this demon!"