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Soon every demon who was able to climb the mountain had done so, and they were all staring at the magical monkey. Even No.l was entranced. 'What is that?' Qwan fluttered his fingers, causing the monkey to somersault. 'It's a simple magical construct. Instead of allowing the sparks to roam on instinct, I marshal them into a recog-nizable form. It takes time and effort, but in time you will have this micro-control too.' 'No,' said No.l. I mean what is that?' Qwan sighed. 'It's a monkey.' As their numbers grew, the demons became more and more agitated. The warriors crashed horns in a show of strength. They bashed each other's chest plates with their forearms and made a big show of sharpening their swords on stones. 'I miss Butler,' said Artemis. 'Me too,' said Holly, scanning the crowd for the greatest threat. It wasn't easy to decide. Every demon in the crowd seemed as though he was on the verge of hurling himself at the new arrivals. Holly had seen three-dimensional models of demons, of course, but she had never seen the real thing. The models were accurate enough, but they couldn't capture the bloodlust in the creatures' eyes, or the eerie whines that curled out of their noses as battle fever possessed them. Abbot barged through to the front of the group and Holly instantly trained her weapon on his chest. 'Qwan!' said Abbot, obviously amazed. 'You're alive? I thought the warlocks were all dead.' 'Except the one that helped you,' said No.l before he could stop himself. Abbot took a step back. 'Well, yes. Except that one.' Qwan closed his fist and the monkey disappeared. 'I know you,' he said slowly, searching for the memories. 'You were at Taillte. You were a dissenter.' Abbot drew himself up. 'That's right. I am Abbot the dissenter. We never should have come here. We should have met the humans head-on. The warlocks betrayed us!' He levelled his sword at Qwan. 'You betrayed us!' The other demons growled and rattled their weapons. Abbot took a moment to study the other members of the group. 'A human! That's a human. You have brought the enemy to our door. How long before the rest of them follow in their metal birds?' 'Metal birds?' said Artemis in Gnommish. 'What metal birds? All we have are crossbows, remember?' There followed a collective ooh, as the demons realized that this human spoke their language, albeit with an accent. Abbot decided to change the subject. This boy was pick-ing holes in his story. 'And you brought an elf too, warlock. Armed with a magical weapon. The elves betrayed us at Taillte!' Qwan was getting bored with all this posturing. 'I know, everybody betrayed you at Taillte. Why don't you give the order you're working up to? You want us dead. Give the order, and see if our brother demons will attack the only being who can save them.' Abbot realized that he was on very dangerous ground. This poisonous little bunch had to be dealt with. Quickly and permanently. 'You want to die so much? So be it, you can die.' He pointed his sword at the small group and was on the verge of roaring 'Kill them!' or perhaps 'Death to the traitors!' when Qwan snapped his fingers. He did this in a very showy way, setting off a magical mini-explosion. 'I remember you now. Your name isn't Abbot. You're N'zall, the idiot who ruined the time spell. But you seem different. Those red markings.' Abbot flinched as if struck. A few of the older demons sniggered. Abbot's demon name wasn't brought up very much. Abbot was a little embarrassed by it, not surpris-ingly since N'zall meant 'little horn' in the old demon cant.

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T love this chair,' he said. 'Actually it's more of a throne than a chair, which brings me to our main business here today.' Abbot reached under a leather flap in the chair and pulled out a roughly fashioned bronze crown. 'I think it's about time the Council declared me king for life,' he said, fixing the crown on his head. This new king-for-life idea would be a tough sell. A demon pride was always ruled over by the fittest, and it was a very temporary position. Abbot had only survived as long as he had by mesmerizing anyone who dared chal-lenge him. Most of the Cquncil had been under Abbot's spell for so long that they accepted the suggestion as if it were a royal decree, but some of the younger ones shuddered with violent spasms as their true beliefs wrestled with this new repugnant idea. Their struggles didn't last long. Abbot's suggestion spread like a virus through their conscious and subcon-scious, subduing revolution wherever it was found. Abbot adjusted his crown slightly. 'Enough debate. All in favour, say graaarghl' 'GRAAARGH!' howled the demons, battering the table with gauntlets and swords. 'All hail King Leon,' prompted Abbot. 'ALL HAIL KING LEON!' mimicked the Council, like trained parrots. The adulation was interrupted by a soldier demon, who burst through the lodge's flap. 'There's a… there was a big…' Abbot whipped off the crown. The general population wasn't ready for that yet. 310 'There's a what?' he demanded. 'A big what?' The soldier paused, catching his breath. He realized suddenly that he'd better communicate the bigness of what had happened on the mountain, or else Abbot was liable to behead him for interrupting the meeting. 'There was a big flash.' A big flash? That didn't sound big enough. 'Let me start again. A huge flash of light came from the volcano. Two of the hunting party were nearby. They say someone came through. A group. Four beings.' Abbot frowned. 'Beings?' 'Two demons, maybe. But the other two. The hunter doesn't know what they are.' This was serious. Abbot knew it. These beings could be humans, or worse still, surviving warlocks. If it was a warlock, he would surely guess Abbot's secret. All it would take was one demon with some real power, and his hold on the pride would be gone. This situation had to be contained. 'Very well. The Council will investigate. Nobody else goes up there.' The soldier's Adam's apple bobbed nervously, as if he was about to bear bad news. 'It's too late, Master Abbot. The entire pride is climbing the volcano.' Abbot was halfway to the door before the soldier finished his sentence. 'Follow me!' he shouted to the other demons. 'And bring your weapons.' 'GRAAARGH!' roared the spellbound Council members. Artemis was surprised at how calm he felt. You would think that a teenage human would be terrified at the sight of a pride of demons climbing towards him, but Artemis was more nervous than terrified, and more curious than nervous. He glanced backwards over his shoulder, into the crater they had just climbed out of. 'The pride comes before a fall,' he said softly, then smiled at his own joke. Holly overheard. 'You certainly pick your moment to develop a sense of humour.' 'Usually I would be planning, but this is out of my hands. Qwan is in charge now.' No.l led them along the rim of the crater towards a low rocky ledge. There was a wooden rod jammed into the ground beside the ledge, and hooked over the rod were dozens of silver bangles. Most tarnished and soot-caked. No.l wiggled a bunch over the top of the rod. 'Dimension jumpers leave these here,' he explained, passing them out. 'Just in case they make it back. No one ever did, until now. Except Leon Abbot of course.' Qwan slipped a bangle on to his wrist. 'Dimension jump-ing is suicide. Without silver, a demon will never be able to stay in one place for more than a few seconds. They will drift between times and dimensions until they are killed by exposure or starvation. Magic is the only reason we're here. I am amazed this Abbot person made it back. What is his demon name?' No.l squinted down the mountain pathway. 'You can ask him your self. That's him, the big one elbow-ing his way to the head of the group.' Holly squinted down at the pride leader. 'The one with the curved horns and big sword?' she asked. 'Is he smiling?' 'No.' 'That's Abbot.' It was a strange reunion. There was no hugging, no cham-pagne and no teary-eyed reminiscing. Instead there were bared teeth, drawn swords and threatening behaviour. The latest batch of imps were especially eager to skewer the newcomers and prove their valour. Artemis was the number one target in the group. Imagine, an actual live human here on Hybras. He didn't look so tough. Artemis and company had stayed put on the ledge, wait-ing for the demons to come to them. They didn't have to wait long. The imps arrived first, breathless from the climb and just dying to kill something. If it hadn't been for Qwan, Artemis would have been ripped to shreds on the spot. In fairness, Holly had something to do with keeping Artemis alive too. She tagged the first half-dozen imps with a charge from her Neutrino strong enough to send them scurrying back to what they thought was a safe distance. After that, Qwan managed to hold their attention by conjuring a multi-coloured dancing monkey in the air.