--- Kat ---
"Ok... let's back up a bit. I'm, mostly, on board for stopping an apocalypse. I like to think I'm a good person and I'm not just going to let another world end... but I have to ask, why is this our problem? And how exactly did the problem start? You said we had to kill a drake or a dragon but nothing other than that," asked Kat.
"Ok... this is going to take some explaining that alright?" asked Miznark. Kat and Lily obviously replied with a nod. "Ok, good. So at the highest level the reason we're doing this is because we have a contract with the Angels to prevent any apocalypses we can, especially in worlds that aren't strong enough to survive an angel trying to fix things. That's the general reason.
"More specifically in this case? It seems like the drake, or dragon, we'll just call it a drake because it should be mindless... anyway the drake was infected with demonic energy some time ago. We have a decent guess at how and why it happened, though that itself is a long story. I promise I'll get to it in a moment.
"Ok... right so, it's a demonic threat. That means that we, the demons, need to deal with it because of treaty obligation and because we're generally not assholes. Some of us are sure, but we tend to push all the worst demons into their own hubs and let them deal with keeping their ideology alive... usually without good medical care. Ok never mind that I'm getting distracted...
"So this all started a truly massive amount of time in the past. I'm talking thousands of years pretty sure it's more than ten thousand, but less then twenty... though not much less then twenty thousand if memory serves. Ok. So, there was a decent amount of demon activity at the time but the two important demons are... wait am I allowed to give out their real names? Give me a second..."
Miznark pulled out a few more pieces of paper and looked them over quickly. They didn't seem to contain the answer he needed so he shoved them back into his body and pulled out another set, only to still find nothing. "Ok... right. So I have no idea if it's allowed. Just to be on the safe side I'm going to say it's not... and call them Grue and Snee as a substitute for their real names.
"So, Grue and Snee were, and to the best of my knowledge, still ARE best friends. This will become relevant later. So anyway, at the start not much was going on. A few regular summoning and what not until Grue was summoned by the princess by accident. Now you might ask, how was it an accident? Well the princess found the castle's summoning setup and used it when she wasn't supposed to.
"In the end, she asked Grue to spend time with her... and they hit it off. There are quite a few details involved, but in the end? Grue and the princess get... well not married. See the historical records I have are all insistent that she became Grue's mistress instead of wife... and there are enough notes about it that imply heavily that the princess... um... let's call her Grape?
Grape got off on the idea of being the 'other woman' and threw herself pretty heavily into the romance.
"The main reason for this is that... well Grape and Rose didn't feel all that close to their families anymore. Remember this was millennia later, both sets of parents had passed away long ago, and it was mostly due to the resources Grue and Snee had purchased that helped keep them alive and in good condition.
"So they decided it was time to wash their hands of the two kingdoms, or more like empires at this point. They were barely recognisable and the families in charge were increasingly just trying to get information or assistance from Grape and Rose. This was just the last straw...
"So Grue and Snee had their fight. It was a big spectacle but not all that deadly... until Red and Blue did something stupid. Nobody is sure who acted first, once again Grue and Snee helped obscure that information. Nothing we couldn't confirm if we wanted to... but it doesn't really matter.
"They launched nuclear based mana bombs. Dozens of them, all aimed towards Grue and Snee. Now at this point they were more than strong enough to survive such a thing after Ranking up to 6 at this point in time... but the rest of the world? Much less likely to survive. So the pair worked together to block the damage the best they could... to moderate success.
"The fallout was still horrible, it destroyed all of the society on the planet, most of the people, a good chunk of the wildlife. What wasn't destroyed by the initial impacts, or under Snee and Grue's shielding quickly got taken over by magically enhanced radiation. It was a horrible time but the planet didn't get destroyed.
"Now here's where the problem you care about comes in. See... you don't just casually stop 90% of the damage from a weapon like that without using a massive amount of demonic energy... way more then a universe like that one can just bleed off. Especially not in such a short amount of time... and also definitely not when mana bombs have just gone up fucking with the magic of the world in a massive way.
"So cleaners had to be sent in. Now, absorbing demonic energy like that? Very expensive so we don't like to do it if we have to... but it was an apocalypse in the making so Angel treaty comes into play. We thought we got everything... but it seems like that wasn't the case.
"From the information we can put together a draconic egg of some kind was right at the edge cleanup area. Technically just outside of our cleanup efforts but it was connected to a large lake that was in the cleanup area. The lake in question was on the lower priority end of things...
"And we suspect that by the time we got to it the egg had already absorbed massive amounts of demonic energy. It was far enough away that our scanners didn't detect anything... and clearly it wasn't done growing because the think tank is of the opinion that it continued to siphon as much demonic energy from the surroundings as it could... until now.
"Now it's hatched and we have a massive problem on our hands," finished Miznark.