A Small Favor

"Your Highness would like to see you, the Lowliness," grumbled the rude messenger, her father's right hand man, to the immortal daughter.

She went to her father unhappily, after the offensive comment of the adviser.

"Father, could you tell your adviser to stop making rude comments to me?" asked the daughter feeling annoyed.

"I will try my best, but he has always been like that. Don't pay much attention to him."

"Why don't you just get rid of him?"

"I don't appreciate his attitude, but he has been helping me keep peace with the other factions of this realm for years, so I can't fire him now."

"AUGH!!!" she yelled from the frustration caused by her father's decision. "Anyway, do you need something?"

"Yes, I uhhh... have one small thing to ask of you."

"What is it, Father?"

"A teeny, tiny favor that you could easily accomplish in a snap! A slice of pie as humans say! Ha...ha....." The father laughed uneasily, making his daughter unsettled by his sarcastic-sounding words.

"Your nervousness clearly contradicts your words, and the fact that you keep repeating the your favor is really small, makes me think the opposite. Plus, the saying is piece of cake, not a slice of pie, father."

The father, the King of all Guardians, continued with his unusual, roundabout speech style. "Right, anyway its a very minuscule..."

"Get to the point already!"

"Fine! You know that ever since the creation of the universe, we, the Guardians, have..."

"Fought with the Demons, and the Human realm is the main battleground because the Human realm is the only passageway between the two realms, blah blah blah."

"You need to fix your attitude, young lady!" her father lashed back, but surprisingly he did not give his daughter a lecture about her poor attitude. "Well, putting that aside, long story short, some unusual magic levels were detected in the human realm."

"Wait, but humans have very little magic, close to none! Unless it is actually a..."

"Demon," her father finished the sentence without any sense of surprise.

"How is that possible? The different atmospheric conditions shouldn't allow Demons or Guardians to pass through the human realm!"

Her father sighed unhappily, as if that news wasn't worse enough already, but in fact, there was much worse news to come.

"We don't know how they were able to get to the human realm, but we detected the fact that there were monsters in the human realm with very high magic levels, that could only appear if a demon summoned it."

Her father sighed unhappily again before telling her the shocking, groundbreaking, seemingly the end of the world request.

"I want you to go to the human realm, defeat any monsters that you see, and hunt down the demons spawning them, so we can extort information from them to stop the threat from the Underworld."

"No way, just no way! I mean I fell off a cliff, when there were like fifty signs warning me, and I knocked down all the food for the annual feast one year, by tripping, even when there was nothing to make me trip!"

"I know you are a complete klutz, a poor mannered daughter..."

"You are not comforting me at all!"

"But you are the only one who can go to the human realm, since you are half human after all."

That comment made her think about her mother, a human who somehow ended up in the Heaven realm twenty years ago. She shortly died after giving birth to a daughter named Selina, despite the fact her father tried desperately to keep his wife alive. Selina noticed tears coming down on her father's face.

A little later, he noticed it too and brushed off his tears quickly, to avoid seeming too emotional. "Anyway, you are the only one who can cross the human realm and has high enough magic levels to take care of the monsters and potentially demons that are lurking down there."

"Am I really the only one who can do this because I am the last person qualified for this job," the daughter inquired, doubting her own abilities.

"You really are our only hope to stop the war between the two immortal realms, but you are wrong about one thing. You are not the last person qualified for this job, only the second last person..."

"Dad!"

"Just kidding! What I really wanted to say was that you are more powerful, much smarter than you believe yourself to be, so don't say things like that. I personally believe from the bottom of my heart, that you will be able to do it."

"Thanks, Dad."

"No problem." As she was about to leave, her dad remembered a crucial detail. "Wait, I forgot to tell you one important thing. Don't get caught by humans when you are banishing the monsters, using any magic, or anything that seems unnatural to the realm of humanity. In fact, try not to communicate to the humans at all. Just stay low."

"Okay, Dad. I'll remember that." Her father gestured her to go to the departure gate, the portal to the realm of humanity.

"Stay safe!" her dad replied before she went to through the portal with directions in hand.

* * *

The King of all Guardians moved into the public conference hall, to deliver the unfortunate news to his people.

The general public was mixed with a horde of ruffians from other factions, suspiciously eager, as if they were after his head.

The crowd was bustling with all sorts of sounds as usual. "I have an important announc...." he was cut off as the crowd continued to talk and go about its own business. "Again, it is a very important annou.."

An anonymous person suddenly yelled, "We already know it's important, why else would you be here? To talk about your failed daughter?" The crowd bursts into laughter that could be heard from miles and miles away. His anger rose, ever closer to the boiling point, when another one added, "No wonder your daughter is a failure because she is half human!" As their laughter grew, his anger also did, rising above his boiling point. "Enough!" His word suddenly scared the unruly mob into submission and not one dared to even whisper, for they feared for their lives.

"Now, I was going to say that unfortunately... a demon was detected in the human realm." The crowd gasped and soon rose in an another uproar.

A random ruffian suddenly said, "I knew we should have never trusted you! Who thinks it's a good idea to cooperate with the demons?" The crowd was quick to agree, as they were to any comment that got their attention and one yelled, "Down with the King!" Many more of the same cries followed as they staged an unorganized rebellion. The King's guards quickly thwarted the mob's impulsive rebellion as the horde ran, when they remembered the punishment for treason and once again scared back into submission.

"Do not worry, I have sent someone to take care of this matter." The crowd sighed a relief at the sound of his words. But, a terrible realization began to surface.

"Don't tell me, that person you sent to solve this potentially life-threatening problem is..."

"Yes, I sent my daughter, Selina..."

The mob rose into yet another uproar, as they frantically ran around shouting things such as:

"We are doomed! Doomed!" "Its Armageddon!" "Say your last words before those filthy demons take you!"

As the crowd panicked, the King replied, "Please, calm yourselves! My daughter is good at..."

"Good at what? Falling off a cliff? Knocking food for the annual feast down to the ground? Bumping into people because she stupidly stares up to try to see the sky while she walks except, oh yeah, there is no sky above us because we are living in the sky!" The King started to reply until he saw a familiar face which he was very unhappy to see.

"Hello, Draven," he said very coldly.

"Its been a little while since I last saw you, the Shameless King of Sins."

"I see you haven't changed your thuggish ways since I last saw you."

Draven, the leader of the rival faction, laughed at his comment. "Thuggish ways? I think you are mistaken. I'm just trying to restore some common sense here. But you, that's different. You are the thug here. Because you stole the throne from me, the one whose actually capable, but even though you are totally incompetent, you get the throne because 'your little daddy' was a king too!" He punched the ground in frustration, making the ground, along with the mob, tremble. "But that wasn't enough for you, was it? No, you had to fall in love with a lowly human, and even have a half-human daughter! And now, you are risking all of our lives by sending your stupid daughter?"

The King was about to punch him in the face, until his adviser came out.

"Oh, I thought you were dead already, old man," mocked Draven.

"That's wise old man to you, Barbarian. Also, have your brains being knocked out to forget that everyone's an immortal here, bird brain? Oh sorry, I forgot, you were born without brains."

"You cheeky brat," as the thuggish leader prepared for a fight, the adviser reminded him, "Remember if you try to punch me now, you'll be charged with treason. And I'm sure you don't want to be tortured for eternity, do you?"

"Fine," Draven pulled back. "But don't think that I approve of your methods, Shameless King. If you don't have this taken care of in six months, which I highly doubt, I'll restore some common sense into this ridiculous government, using force if necessary.

"Do you think your daughter will be able to do it, sir?" asked the rude adviser doubtfully.

"Don't worry, I know she can do it. I hope."