"Am I really going crazy?" E said.


    She was still looking at the ne, which without any doubt was now brighter than it was once, but she still couldn''t make out anything from the voice in her head.


    "Hurry up, your friend won''tst any longer!"


    E could notice the light of the crystal getting dim and then brightening up again as the voice spoke in her mind.


    Without any form of hesitation, E picked up the ne.


    ''I''ve picked you up. Now how are you supposed to help me?''


    ''What your friend is fighting there is a starved incubus.''


    "I don''t need your exnation, just help!" E almost screamed.


    ''Ok.''


    Silvia was struggling to hold the possessed man off as her face was beginning to turn red, as for her hands they were in pretty bad shape.


    "For a human, you are really trying to match up to my strength." The man said with a smile. "But that still changes nothing."


    The man pulled his right hand back and was about to smash his hand right into Silvia''s head when a long green vine grabbed him by his hand and yanked him back, away from Silvia who suddenly fell on the floor breathing heavily.


    When E hurried the ne to help she expected something less that may help them be able to escape, but to her greatest surprise, nts started to pop out from underneath the building, different types of nts, nts she had never seen before.


    The possessed man got up and growled at who he thought the problem wasing from, with his feet floating in the air he dashed towards E but he had failed to take notice of the vines by the side which grabbed him at both arms and smashed him on the ground.


    E couldn''t believe what she was seeing, the same person they had struggled with was now easily receiving a beating and it was all being done by the ne.


    "What are you?" E asked, rubbing the stone on the ne.


    "I think the question now should be, what have you been fighting?"


    "Yeah just tell me."


    It felt like the ne was more inclined to tell her about whatever this man was than anything else.


    "The man you have been fighting is possessed by an Incubus."


    "What''s an Incubus?"


    "A demon who feeds off women."


    "He eats women?"


    "Not in the literal sense but yeah." The ne said. "He''s going on a rampage now because he has been starving for a very long time and seeing two pretty girls just made his hunger worse."


    "Do you know how long the Incubus has been inside the man?"


    "I don''t know but if I were to guess I would say a year or two."


    E could hear groans as the man was now getting up, as he got up the vines also rose above him.


    "What happened?" The man said, rubbing his head.


    "I think the demon is gone," E said, taking a step forward.


    "Don''t be fooled, that''s the demon trying to trick you."


    As if the demon could hear the ne, the man''s eyes suddenly turned golden yellow.


    "I can''t let you do that." The ne said.


    Before the man could take a step forward arge nt with a sucker covered the man''s head, the man struggled to break free as he began to scream in pain.


    "What are you doing?" E asked, sounding panicked.


    From the little exnation from the ne, she knew that the person fighting them wasn''t the man but the demon inside him and it wouldn''t be right to just kill the man.


    "Sucking the demon out."


    Unable to get the nt off its head the man let out a mighty scream.


    "Are you sure he''s not getting hurt?"


    "Emmm, this is for his good."


    A yellow light began to fill the nt''s sucker and it didn''t take long before the thing blew up, revealing a yellow humanoid figure that was floating in the air.


    "You will pay for this." The demon said, pointing at E.


    "Kill him?" E ordered, the vines were ready for attack and reached for the demon but he was just too swift and fast for the branches and eventually escaped through the door.


    "I don''t think he will be much trouble unless he finds another male body to possess."


    "You mean an Incubus can''t fight in its true form?"


    "They can, just that a human body grants them more strength depending on the strength of the person possessed."


    "E." E turned to her left to see Silvia staggering towards her, her sleeves were all torn up. "Who are you talking to?"


    E didn''t know that Silvia was still conscious which was why she had been talking so openly to the ne.


    "Nobody," E said, putting the ne into her pocket. "I was just trying to remember something."


    Silvia looked around and then finally her eyes stopped at the man who was passed out on the floor.


    "How did you….."


    Silvia was beyond amazed, she couldn''t believe that E was the one that knocked out the man that almost killed her.


    She had been partially passed out that she failed to notice any of the actions taken towards defeating the man, the only thing she could remember was a green vine pulling the man away.


    "I just hit him in the right ce and he passed out."


    The reason E was lying about the ne was simple, the ne had told her to keep it a secret, for now, it stated that it wouldn''t have even helped them, only that he couldn''t stand watching innocent girls getting mauled by an incubus.


    "I should finish him off then."


    Silvia summoned her sword and was about to strike the man''s head when she heard E scream.


    "Stop!"


    "But he tried to kill us."


    "I know but he wasn''t exactly in control."


    "What do you mean?"


    "I think he took a really bad drug, by the time he wakes up the effects will be over and he will be back to normal."


    Silvia didn''t exactly buy E''s exnation but she unsummoned her sword reluctantly.


    "Come on, let''s go," E said walking through the door.


    While walking out Silvia took notice of one of the nes which was no longer there.


    "You know you are terrible at lying?" The ne said.


    ''Yeah, let me see you try.''


    The walk home between the duo was a silent one as none of them even had the strength to speak, it was more evident on E, who had been in a near-death situation twice now.


    E crawled onto her bed immediately after entering the room, Silvia figured that she needed a bath ASAP and headed to the bathroom, immediately she was gone E pulled out the ne from her pocket.


    "Now can you tell me what or who you are?"


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