"What is he doing!" shouted the the same demoness from the tavern in town watching events unfold betweenBowhan and HER Daughter!
"He was supposed to abandon her so I can use her to destroy all humans!" The demoness seethed with rage "Some thing you just have to do by YOURSELF!" she shouted disappearing from her spot then reappearing outside the house.
With fire in her hands and murder in her eyes the demoness approached the house throwing both fire balls at the house catching it on fire hopping to burn the human fool inside alive knowing that the flame would not kill her daughter only cause her to go in flames her self and be reborn.
"Yes burn, burn and die Bowhan you shall die for all you have killed!" the demoness said with an evil glee.
Inside the house Bowhan instantly woke from his sleep as his house caught fire. Springing to his feet daughter in his hands Bowhan raced for the door and struggled to open it finding it closed from the outside. Ramming his full body weight against the door it didn't move an inch. the whole house was now on fire and he was having trouble breathing coughing as smoke filled his lungs.
"Yes burn, burn and die Bowhan you shall die for all you have killed!" Bowhan heard from outside
With time running out Bowhan looked out the window and immediately rushed into and threw it to the outside where the same demoness from the village was still laughing from watching the house burn to the ground.
"Damn demon you think to kill me!" Bowhan said under his voice reaching for his sword before he remembered he had left it inside after taking it off to sleep. "Damn it" Bowhan cursed under his breath
"Gods forgive me for this."Bowhan said laying his daughter on the grass and rushing towards the house and threw the window to try and find his sword his rentry into the house heard by the demoness where as his previous exit was not.
"So her think to escape threw the... AH HA!" the demoness said with a demonic joy seeing her prize simply laying in the grass.
The demoness approached HER daughter slowly knowing that the house would be completely burned to the ground in moments killing Bowhan and saving her the trouble of doing it. As she came closer to HER daughter she reached down and picked her up looking at HER daughter and noticed she was in her mixed form.
"Bah the fool managed to look past her as a monster and saw her as a human but no matter she will be a phoenix soon enough." the demoness said holding Her child to her chest. Turning slowly to watch the rest of the show the demoness heard a crash as the door was knocked from its hinges and a human ran out with a sword in hand just as the house collapsed.
"YOU!" the demoness said cold and evily "You just cant seem to die can you?! Fine then I will simply kill you my self!" the demoness said approaching Bowhan her left hand out and a small ball of fire in it that quickly changed into a sword of fire itself.
"Put ... my daughter down ... you bitch or else I will be forced to kill you!." Bowhan said coughing and raising his sword towards the demoness.
"Humph I highly doubt that human you will die by my hand just as easily as every other human has." the demoness said closing the distance and swing down at Bowhan with her fire sword.
Bowhan blocked the attack with his own glaring at the demoness with anger. "You will not find me easy prey demoness give me back my daughter and I shall spare you!" Bowhan shouted stirring their daughter from her sleep.
"Your daughter? She is mine and I shall raise her to hate you and every other human in this lousy world! She will be the most perfect killing tool able to get inside cities castle's villages ANYTHING and burn them to the ground from the inside!" the demoness shouted striking again and being blocked again by Bowhan.
"You shall not turn my daughter into some instrument for your enjoyment!" Bowhan shouted as the demoness attacked again.
"HA! Then do something about it! As you clearly cant hold out forever as I can!" the demoness shouted attacking still
Damn it if only she would put her down I could attack her but she is using her as a sheild against any possible attack. Bowhan thought angrily
"Ah ha ha I knew it you wont dare attack me as long as I have MY daughter in my hands to bad for you." the demoness said evily knocking Bowhan over and onto the ground
"And now you die Bowhan." the demoness said reaching back
"GODS FORGIVE ME!" Bowhan shouted plunging his sword forward threw his daughter and into the demoness who instantly dropped her burning sword which landed onto their daughter and disappearing.
With a loud screech of pain their daughter burst into flames immediately burrning into nothing but ashes at the demoness feet.
"YOU!" the demoness shouted grasping at the sword embedded in her chest taking several steps backards and falling to her knee's gasping for breath.
"This will not be the last you see of me human I will be back and I will take My child to use against you and all humanity!" the demoness said as Bowhan got up walked towards her.
"Not for as long as I live demoness." Bowhan said grabbing his sword pulling from her chest and stabbing her threw the heart.
With a blood curling scream the demoness started to burn as well and disappeared altogether. With sword in hand Bowhan turned towards the ash pile that was his daughter and walked towards it dropping his sword. Once beside the ashy reamins of his daughter Bowhan fell to his knees and for the first time in years cried for the loss of his daughter that he had killed just to simply be rid of the demoness.
"I am a fool! A blasted fool for what I have done!" Bowhan cried cupping some of the ash into his hands and raising it to his face level.
Dropping the ash back into the pile Bowhan covered his face with his hands and wept having completely forgotten that she was part phoenix and able to simply come back to life if killed by any other means then by the special phoenix poison. He stayed that way for several minutes and did not notice when out of the ash his daughter reappeared completely unharmed and in her full phoenix form.
Looking around her she looked for her father who she loved so much and gave a very loud and happy chirp when she saw him right beside her and began to nuzzle him happily with out a care for the world other then she was with her father nothing else mattered. When Bowhan heard the loud and happy chirp he instantly looked down and saw his daughter rubbing her head against him as happy and content as could be reaching down he picked her up in her hands and hugged her tight against his chest thinking of her as his human daughter now crying for joy at having her back. Standing back up Bowhan looked towards what was left of his house and gave a low sigh as it had been completely destroyed and as well as everything in it.
"Hopefully something survived threw that other then me and my daughter." Bowhan said approaching it carefully
After several minutes rummaging threw the wreckage Bowhan found nothing but a few gold coins and the same cloth that had been wrapped around his daughter since he first saw her in that tavern in town.
"Well it's something." Bowhan thought rapping his daughter in the blanket to keep her warm though he highly doubted she would need it. and pocketing the few gold coins he had left and started towards the village this had all started at no more then 5 hours ago but seemed like a lifetime ago.
"Well Artemis I was hoping to raise you away from the city but it looks like we have no choice for the moment." Bowhan said towards his daughter following the same path he took to get here hoping no one would see him or recognize him from earlier that day.
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