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Golden Gash!!: Demon Revolution Army (remake) [Chapter 25 - The Fallen King Chapter 3]

Golden Gash!!: Demon Revolution Army (remake) [Chapter 25 - The Fallen King Chapter 3]

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Golden Gash!!: Demon Revolution Army II - The Fallen King


Golden Gash!!: Demon Revolution Army II - The Fallen King, also known as "Konjiki no Gash!!: Mamono no Kakumei-gun II ~Taoreta Ō~ (金色のガッシュ! !：魔物の革命軍II 〜倒れた王〜)" and "Zatch Bell!: Mamodo Revolution Army II - The Fallen King," is a sub-sequel/extension to my Zatch Bell! / Konjiki no Gash (Bell)!! fan fiction, Golden Gash!!: Demon Revolution Army (specifically my remade version), which is a fan sequel to the Zatch Bell!/Konjiki no Gash!! manga series by Makoto Raiku. This new story arc takes place directly after Chapter 16 of my remade storyline in the other timeline, thus branching off from Chapter 17 and onward, which means that this sub-sequel can be read after Chapter 16 (remake) or after the final chapter (Remake: Chapter 22). However, it is recommended to read this story arc after reading the Revolution from the Dead (RftD) story (Remake: Chapters 17–22) due to potential spoilers and that The Fallen King (TFK) arc is labeled after the last RftD chapter.

27 years after a young demon boy named Gash Bell become the new King of Demon World, a rebellious group called the Demon Revolution Army—led by its leading Death Generals #1 Zega and #2 Zecross—commenced war on Demon World to bring chaos and pandemonium into Demon World. As each day passed, the Demon Revolution Army was being defeated. After defeating the Demon Revolution Army, the former seventh Death General—the Great Mad Genius Scientist Dr. Zulu—created his empire, the Zulu Empire, in the Human World and later in the past's timeline (Timeline B), 27 years ago. Demon Prince Raiden Bell, the son of Demon King Gash Bell, and his friends stopped the Demon Revolution Army and put an end to Dr. Zulu's empire in the present and past. Raiden and his friends said their goodbyes to young Demon King Gash Bell and returned back to the future in peace, but only to face another terrible threat in the present timeline (Timeline A): Armageddon. Meanwhile, back in the past timeline (Timeline B), how are the young and kind Demon King, his resurrected parents, and his friends doing? Have the future warriors taken care of all of their problems in the past timeline or were more problems created in response?

Trivia: Franchises that inspired me to make this new story arc are Warcraft, StarCraft, Harry Potter, and Star Wars.

Chapter 25 (The Fallen King Chapter 3): Fallen, Lost, Despair...


Recap


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After the heroes of the future timeline went to the past to prevent the Demon Revolution Army from forming, it seemed that there would be peace in Demon World in the past once again. Gash Bell's and Zeon Bell's parents—who were the previous King and Queen of Demon World— were resurrected a month after peace was restored. However, their resurrections didn't last long enough: Their summoner, the Fortune Teller Lady, reached the end of her lifespan a month later. As to the rules and regulations she was given for her necromancy, all of the demons she resurrected were sent back to the afterlife. A public funeral was hosted for the previous King and Queen of Demon World. With the confirmation of their deaths and after all of the other previous chaotic events, a criminal organization called the Laughing Deathstock Gang made a surprise seize on the capital city, using a four-armed colossal demon known as Argus the Iron Titan to assault the city and distract Royal Knights and all soldiers alike. While chaos spread across the border of the capital, the selected four members of the Deathstock gang seized the Royal Bell Family Palace. Prince Zeon and the Lieutenant General-ranked Royal Knight, Rajin, returned to the palace to protect their King. Lieutenant General Rajin, despite being one of the top 5 strongest knights, was slain by the gang's assassin leader, Hyenus "Max" Maximus. The school headmaster also came to protect the King by teleporting him and the King's girlfriend to Mochinoki City, Japan of Human World. Will Prince Zeon and the Headmaster be able to stop Gang Leader Maximus from taking over the throne and crown? How are Gash and Patie doing in the Human World?
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Scene: In the streets of Mochinoki City, Japan of the Human World (evening)


The school headmaster's dimensional portal sent King Gash Bell and Patie to the Human World, specifically in the city of Mochinoki of Japan. They appeared to be slightly injured from Thodrum Thunderbeard's thunderbombs when he bombed them at the portal before Gash and Patie escaped. Patie asked her injured boyfriend, "Gash-chan, are you okay? Those bruises. Ouch!" She tries picking Gash up as he was more injured from the electrical explosions of the thunderbombs. Patie wondered, "Where are we?" Gash recognized part of the area, "Is this, Japan? But what about Zeon? Ah, my crown, my wand. They're still inside the palace. Oh, no! They'll take my crown! I left it in our room." He was really concerned about Demon World and his depression was growing back. With the King's Crown still in Demon World, there is a chance that the enemy may claim the title of King of Demon World from Gash. Patie then carried Gash around a neighborhood and said, "Gash-chan, now's not the time to be doping around. I'm sure they'll be fine. You are still the King." Despite the cheer, Gash still felt depressed and worried, "Not if those bad guys get their hands on it. And right after mother and father... Why is this happening to me? It's not fair; I'm King!" After the yell in his last sentence, Gash started to cry. Patie felt sad for him for all the misfortunes he had, "Gash-chan..." They then heard a familiar male voice over the right side of the fence. "That voice," Patie recognized. It was Kiyomaro Takamine and he was walking with a girl his age with short hair named Suzume Mizuno, who would be his wife in the future's timeline (Timeline A).

As Kiyomaro was walking with Suzume back to his home, Kiyomaro noticed something strange; he saw the air being distorted, "What was that?" and ran around the corner to find Gash and Patie on the ground, injured. As Patie was still carrying Gash, Kiyomaro reacted in surprise, "What?! Gash? Patie?" They responded, "Kiyomaro?" Gash was about to cry but he wasn't sure if it would be in happiness, sadness, or both. Suzume got so confused, "I wonder what that was in the sky." Suzume can be klutzy and clueless; the opposite of what Kiyomaro is. She continued, "Never mind, it's so great to see you again Gash... Ahh!" She just noticed the injuries. Kiyomaro said, "Gash, what happened? Why are you and Patie back in the Human World? Those injuries..." Gash finally cried, "Kiyomaro..." Patie answered, "We were attacked... again." Kiyomaro was surprised and curious, "What?!" Patie tried explaining to him, "After Gash's parents umm..." Kiyomaro wondered, "What about them?" Gash ran up to Kiyomaro and cries to him while explaining things that happened after Kiyomaro returned to the Human World, "Kiyomaro! Just when my parents... were revived, they died again... Today, or yesterday? The fortune teller we visited to bring them back... she died... and my parents went back. My palace is attacked. They came for my crown and my title." Kiyomaro wondered, "Who?" With the way how Gash said it, Kiyomaro was immediately thinking it was the Demon Revolution Army but wants to doubt it since they were rehabilitated. Patie explained, "They called themselves the Laughing Deathstock Gang. A criminal organization, I think." She started to tear too, "It just happened... so suddenly. Like in a flash." Gash cried, "Zeon-nīsan is fighting to protect me. Zeon-nīsan... Our Headmaster sent us here to be protected until they're defeated. I left my crown in Demon World. If they take it I might lose my title as King. I'm worried about Zeon. His teacher... his teacher died in front of us. It happened so fast, I got so scared and I didn't know what happened. I thought it would have been me next." Kiyomaro felt awful and sad for what happened to them, but he said, "I'll take you guys home to get taken care of. Suzume, I'll see you later." His girlfriend replied, "O-okay... See you later Takamine-kun. And bye, Gash-kun. Hope you and your little friend get better and welcome back to Mochinoki!" Suzume then went to her home.

Meanwhile, Kiyomaro brings Gash and Patie back to his house. As Kiyomaro's mother Hana Takamine welcomes her son home, "Welcome home, Kiyomar—OHH?!" she noticed Gash and Patie with Kiyomaro and the two still have some bruise marks, "Oh, Gash! Oh dear, what happened to you and your lovely girlfriend? And weren't you living in that other world?" Gash cried to her, "Hana-dono... Eeeh-hheh-heh! My parents died again. I haven't been with them much and they just came back for a month... and they're gone again." Patie still feels sad for Gash and she still misses her own parents too even though she doesn't think about it. Patie's feelings for Gash's keep changing and she can't make her mind up to show sympathy or tell her boyfriend to toughen it up but she knows her boyfriend is going on a very hard time. While Hana was worried, she smiled and said, "Well, you two are welcomed here as long as you want. We'll talk about it later. You two can clean up and I'll make dinner. You must be very hungry." She then asked her only son, "Kiyomaro, sweetie, is Suzume coming over?" Kiyomaro replied, "She went home after our date." Hana responded "Okay."

Gash and Patie bathed together in the bathtub of the bathroom with bubbles and bath toys. Patie was scrubbing her boyfriend's back with a washcloth and soap but Gash still seemed down. Patie didn't like seeing him frown, "Gash-chan? Come on, dear, cheer up. Here, let's play with some duckies and with Mr. Octopus. Enjoy yourself." Patie squeezes a rubber duck and made squeaky sounds. Gash responds emotionlessly, "I guess," and plays with the bath toys with his girlfriend. Though, Gash was still feeling uneasy. Mentally, Gash is currently feeling almost the same as he was when he was under the influence of Zeil's dark clone apparitions during his grief of his parents' first deaths, with his anxiety gradually increasing.

After their bubble bath, they put on new clothes to let their old clothes to be washed in the washing machine. Gash and Patie joined Kiyomaro and Hana for dinner. Hana cooked fish cakes, rice, and some vegetables. While the group was eating dinner, Kiyomaro just thought of something and was about to ask Patie, "Hey umm... Patie..." Patie responded, "Huh?" Before Kiyomaro could say anything, Hana asked Gash, "Gash, what's wrong, dear? You haven't been eating much." Gash hasn't really touched his plate of food, still feeling anxious on what's happening in Demon World at the moment with paranoia increasing gradually, "I... I can't... Zeon-nīsan..." Feeling mentally overwhelmed by anxiety and paranoia, Gash immediately throws the chair off his body and immediately sprinted out the house in a panic. The others were shocked and worried for him with Kiyomaro and Patie yelling, "Gash(-chan)!" A second later, Kiyomaro and Patie ran after him. Before Kiyomaro left the house, he told his mother, "I'll make sure he's alright." Hana was very worried and curious about Gash.

Scene: A playground in Mochonoki City (evening)


Gash went to the public playground he used to go to all the time. He was swinging slowly on the swing set, looking at the ground, thinking about his brother and Demon World. Zeon is the only family he has left (other than his girlfriend) and Zeon is fighting against dangerous criminals.
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Suddenly, as Gash is slowly swinging in the chair swing, an intimidating-looking human girl around his age with big teeth widely shown, riding in a red toy car, sees the poor demon child swinging on a swing set that she's familiar with, "Is... Is that..." She then made a nasty grin and a sinister chuckle, "Chuchu-hehehe..." As this scary-looking human girl approached Gash from her car, she said, "Well, well, well, if it isn't Gash." Gash recognized the voice and became frightened from hearing the girl's voice. As he slowly turned his head, his depressing-looking face turned into fear, seeing the human bully who picks on him, "N-N-Naomi?!" The bully said, "To think you would ever come back." Then she yelled at him angrily, scaring Gash, "Why did you leave me?!" Gash screamed in a frightening panic, "Tyaaaa-ha-ha-haaa!!!" and started running around the playground, crying in fear while the bully chases after him in her toy car. As Naomi was chasing Gash near the entry gate of the playground, another girl stops the bully's vehicle with her right ballet flat after Gash passes by. Naomi yells at Patie, "Hey, who you are?! Get your foot off my car! Shoo!" Patie then made a creepy face and yelled in a gravelly tone, "What do you think you are doing to my boyfriend?! Leave him alone!" Naomi got frightened and intimidated by Patie's ruthless expression and drove away in a heartbeat. Kiyomaro, who was behind Patie, thought to himself, being a bit frightened himself, I forgot how scary Patie can become when angered; her and Tio.
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Normally, Gash would be frightened too and Patie apologized to him for having to show that side of her again, "Oh, I'm sorry. I know you didn't like it when I act like that but..." Gash didn't really care. He went back to a state of depression and slowly walked back on the swing set. Patie was worried about her boyfriend, "Gash-chan..." She joined her boyfriend on the swing and asked him, "What's wrong? Was that the Naomi girl that you told me about? Why do you let her bully you? But please, Gash: You just need to stay positive. I don't like to see you moping around." Gash said, "I know. But Zeon is the only family I have left." Patie argued, "I'm family too, aren't I?" Gash said, "Of course, but... I already lost too much. I don't want to lose either you or Zeon. And those guys back there, they look too strong. That boss guy killed Zeon's teacher. It happened too fast, it made my heart beat, I thought I was having a heart attack; I got scared. I was thinking he would do that next to me or him or you. And now that he and the headmaster after fighting them. I know they're strong but I'm scared for them. I might lose my title as King of Demon World." Patie couldn't handle Gash's depression anymore and instead of taking sympathy again, she smacked him in his right cheek with her left hand, leaving a small red mark, but not as hard, yet it made Kiyomaro shock to see Patie's action. Gash reacted to that in slightly pain, wondering why Patie slapped him, "Why... why did you do that?" Patie said, "Gash, I know how you feel but..." He wonders, "Huh?" Patie stated in a serious tone, "... I don't like seeing you like this. I can't love you for the way you are now..." Gash was surprised to hear that and was afraid of what Patie might say. For Patie, the one who was highly infatuated and obsessed with the King prior to his reign, to say such a thing. But she explains, "... You were always so positive, always smiling. That's what I always loved about you. You aren't under the possession of Zeil's dark clones again, are you?" Kiyomaro wonders about that but Gash said, "I... I don't think so." Patie then says, "Then there is no reason for you to be like this. Gash-chan, why did you change? Why do you have so much doubt? It's only been an hour and you're already like this. I know we've been through a lot of terrible things and I still miss my family to this day, but I haven't cried about them over and over. I became stronger since that happened since I have you. I want you to go back to the way you were, even in times like this." She smiled softly and continued, "I want to see your smile, your happiness, your love. Listen, I'm sure your brother will be alright. I know he was a jerk, but he is really strong and caring. I'm sure he can take care of himself against those thugs. Okay, even if you lose your crown, I'm not giving up on this and I won't give up on you. I'll make sure you're still King... or will be King again because... I was going to be your queen. I was your queen in the future; a strong and kind one. I'm still on the road to redemption. I still feel like I haven't done enough for the bad things I've done and I'm not quitting. You shouldn't either. So smile. Don't give up hope." Gash wiped his eyes and made a smile, "Unu!" Though, while he is appearing to be happy, is he really in a happy mood? Even so, Patie is smiling to see his smile again.

For a while, Kiyomaro has forgotten what he was going to say to Patie but remembered it now, "Oh right, Patie, I was going to tell you, umm..." Patie wondered what it was, "Huh?" Kiyomaro decided: "Actually, I'll keep it a surprise. When you two are ready, we'll head to the bakery, if he's still selling them here in Japan." Patie wondered, "Who?" Kiyomaro said, "You'll see," and escorted Patie and Gash to buy something from the new bakery store in town. What could Kiyomaro had in mind for the sweet, little ex-yandere?

Scene: A new bakery shop in Mochinoki City


As the three arrived at a bakery store and as the shopkeeper bell rung when Kiyomaro opened the door, an employee asked, "Hello, what can I do for... Uhh!" The man sees a familiar face among Kiyomaro's group, "Patie?!" Patie paused for a half-second wondering, then she became really thrilled when she noticed him, "Eh?! Ururu!" Ururu was Patie's bookkeeper and partner in the Human World during the Battle to Determine King of Demon World. He was a poor man back then. Kiyomaro said, "Hey..." A manager in the back of the store asked his employee, "More friends of yours?" Ururu responded, "Yeah." After the manager went to the backroom, Ururu asks Patie, "What brings you back to the Human World?" Patie: "Well..."

After Patie explains the current situation about Demon World in moderate detail, as well as some previous events, Ururu responded, "How terrible. I've never been to Demon World so I wouldn't know what it's like over there. In the past week, when I started touring my pastry specials in Japan, Takamine-sama told me all about it and how you've been doing. Even heard you two had kids in the future and heard bad things about what happened to you two in said future. I'm glad you've been doing better, from what I heard. Striving to become a kind queen." Patie smiles and nods, "Mmm-Hmm!" She then blushes and said, "Raiden and Rain were great, especially our little Rain. Well, Raiden... He's kind of like Gash but also umm... kind of like me, but crazier. But it was terrifying when we saw our older selves died." Ururu said, "I heard about that. Sorry for their loss..." He then said something else, "When we first met, we've done terrible things together, that I wasn't proud of, even if it was to support my family. We were very poor." Patie felt bad, "I know. I was awful and selfish. All I cared about was making my beloved Gash to notice me and for you to guide me to him. We finally got together after our parents were murdered... That Zophise... You were right about him and I was blinded from my broken heart. I hate him more than anything. He hurt me and Byonko badly. Byonko is living with our friend Kyanchome. Everything I did with you, I regret it all. I didn't think I could face you like this, which is why I was scared to mail you." Ururu said, "You shouldn't be. I would have been glad to visit you and see what your world was like." Patie continued, "Anyway, I wanted to become Gash-chan's queen to redeem myself and become a better person. I wanted to do that before meeting you again. If Gash-chan hasn't lost his title as King of Demon World yet, I can do that. I believe that I—we can make Demon World a better place, for everyone to be happy. That's my goal. If Gash-chan loses his title as King of Demon World, I'll do whatever it takes to make him King again, even if we are stranded here in the Human World for a long time. He deserves it; not this Max guy... and not the guys from the Demon Revolution Army." Gash smiles a little, "Patie-chan... Thank you." He is slowly returning to normal, hearing that speech. Ururu was happy for his former demon partner, "You really have changed a lot since I last saw you. I'm really proud of you, Patie. Oh yeah, now that you're here, I was wanting to give you this."

Ururu goes into the back and returns with a surprise, "I've even baked cakes with the old hairstyle you had." He shows the three a strawberry cake in the shape of Patie's head with the bunny ear hairstyle she used to have as frosting, along with frosted crowns. Patie drools over it, "Wow! That's awesome and it looks so delicious!" Patie loves sweets. Even Gash even thought it looked tasty and awesome, "Ooh! Haha!" It's nice to see Gash all happy again. Patie said to him, "I'm glad your back to normal, Gash-chan." Kiyomaro said, "Ururu baked a lot of these cakes when he came here to Japan within the week." Ururu said, "Tomorrow is my last day. We're heading to Australia to sell my pastries. You can keep this one for free; this one's on the house." Patie was happy but Kiyomaro was worried and curious, "Are you sure it's okay that—" Ururu said, "You guys supported me enough already. And it was thanks to Patie I got this job, despite the awful things we did. Even bad things can end up being better things. I pray for you two little ones and I hope for your success as King and Queen." Patie thanked him, "Thanks, Ururu. Later, and thank you so much." After Kiyomaro, Gash, and Patie left the bakery story, the manager from before told Ururu, "Even if they are your friends and that little girl is the star of your work, you really should be giving our pastries away for free. Gosh, darn it, Ururu." Ururu apologized to his manager, "Sorry about that, boss. Just a thankful offer. You can take that one off my next paycheck, sir." The bakery manager shrugged it off, "Whatever. I'll allow it this time, but I expect extra sales tomorrow."
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Scene: Kiyomaro's bedroom in his house (an hour before midnight)


After Kiyomaro and the young demons return to his home, Gash finished his dinner after Hana reheated his dinner. Gash and Patie had some fun later in the night before bed. They slept together on a floor bedding in Kiyomaro's bedroom like Gash used to always do when he lived with Kiyomaro.

Gash seems happy or tries to stay happy but still very worried. It's been a whole day and no one has brought them back or informed them the current situation. As days passed by, Gash started becoming upset again and started losing hope. As much Patie wanted to keep Gash happy, she was feeling uneasy too but tries to keep her hopes up. What could be going on in Demon World?

Scene: Royal Bell Family Palace (2 days after the incident)


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Two days later at Demon World after the night Gash and Patie first returned to the Human World... The royal palace had cracks and holes in the walls. There is a big fight outside the palace. Inside the palace, "Kyahahoo! Feels great to be King of Demon World. They're scared of the Laughing Deathstock Gang." Hyenus Maximus, the new self-proclaimed King of Demon World, is wearing a lot of bling as well as a golden crown around his head in addition to wearing Gash's King crown that he found in the King's bedroom. The throne that surrounds him is filled with blocks of gold. Though, the King's wand isn't anywhere to be seen so that must have been presumably destroyed at some point. What happened to Zeon Bell and the school headmaster?

Araneae Zer'ghul said, "Heh, the Demon Resistance Army can't handle my armada of arachnid demons. My Arachnid Army won't disappoint their Spider Queen." Apparently, Demon World Military was reformed into Demon Resistance Army (or DRA for short, the same acronym the terrorist group Demon Revolution Army had). In other words, the Demon Resistance Army is like the new Demon Revolution Army, fighting to bring back their freedom and privilege. They are currently fighting Araneae's swarm of arachnid centaur demons. Arachnids such as spiders, scorpions, ticks, but with a human-like upper body. Empress Zer'ghul currently have the damaged palace on guard with two powerful-looking, armored scorpionic warriors, serving as Royal Guards. For the Laughing Deathstock Gang, they seem to be alright for them except they lost a lot of members (but the small group that was with King Maximus is still alive) and that they are constantly being attacked by rebel soldiers from time-to-time. Guess they truly do reign Demon World now unless if the new Resistance dethrones them for unauthorized reign since Gash is still alive and they would know Gash wouldn't approve of their reign.

Among the Laughing Deathstock Gang inside the palace, the ogre demon Ogro was feeling down, "Ooooofff..." King Maximus asked his ogre buddy, "What's wrong, Orgo?" Orgo replied in third-person speech, "Orgo misses Argus." Thunderbeard was feeling down too, "We aw still misst the big guy, lad. Oh, Ah misst me big bro. Cid, whaur ar ye?" Thodrum wonders where his older brother Cid is and he misses him. He is hoping his older dwarven brother isn't dead. Cid is a stronger and tougher dwarven demon than Thodrum who uses Weaponry Magic and Mechanical Magic, building, crafting, or summoning powerful artillery like cannons and such. Both Thodrum and his missing older brother are blacksmiths with Thodrum being a bomb maker. Though, Thodrum's brother seems to be missing lately and no one has confirmed his current status. King Maximus stated, "I'm sure your big bro will be alright. Cid is a tough one; one of our big hot shots. We lost a lot of members, but as boring as Argus may have been, he was our strongest crew member, stronger than all of us combined. His sacrifice wasn't in vain. We wouldn't have become rulers if it wasn't for him, and if it wasn't for him, we would have been in jail by now, telling jokes behind bars. Either that or they would have erased our memories and give us a normal, boring life. Kyeheh! Anyways, cheers to Argus the Iron Titan, our brave, strongest warrior." Max lifts up his arm with a red glass drink in hand, "Cheers for Argus! Cheers for everyone else that died for us!" Orgo cheered in, "Cheers!" Thunderbeard agrees to that too, "Aye!" Arachnid Empress Araneae was still in a serious mood and argued, "Honestly, you guys gave that giant hundred-eyed ogre too much credit. He was most likely going to leave our group, abandon us." King Maximus said, "Now, now, Araneae, no need to get uptight." Araneae wondered, "Milord, what about the prisoners you ordered me to keep alive in the dungeon? There's no need to keep them alive. They're from the Resistance after all." King Maximus replied, "I know, but I believe in second chances. If they're willing to cooperate and join the Laughing Deathstock, we might as well give them that chance. We may be a cruel laughing stock but we can't show that we're just a bunch of laughin' murderers. Oh, who am I kidding?! I'm a freaking assassin and a mercenary who turned King, with all of this glory and gold on my side. Hehe! Anyway, I'm willing to take that risk and they'll come to respect the Laughing Deathstock Gang sooner or later."

Suddenly, outside the palace, as two scorpion Royal Guards were guarding the palace, they saw five robed demons walking towards the palace from a distance and the left Royal Guard said, "Hold it!" while the right Royal Guard said, "Intruders? Who goes there?!" The left Royal Guard wondered, "It must be the Resistance, but how could they have gone past our warriors?" The right Royal Guard said, "No, these guys are something else. Arrest them!" The scorpion guards charged after the introducers. One of the robed guys made an evil smirk and chuckled in an evil, dark manner, "Hehehe..."

Back inside the palace, Araneae was thinking about Demon King Hyenus Maximus, I still can't believe he used the crown's power to wish for all that gold and accessories. Seriously, what a waste of a single wish. Seems like the King's Crown has the ability to grant the new King one wish and only one wish if they haven't already wished for something after winning the Battle to Determine King of Demon World, which sucks for Gash since he couldn't wish for eternal peace in addition to restoring the bodies of the participants' souls. Maybe Gash perhaps, also made a useless wish because what if the participants' souls would have returned to their bodies regardless? Even if Gash takes his crown back, he already made his wish at the end of the King Festival and wouldn't be able to make another wish. Araneae continued thinking with a betrayal look on her face, ... enjoy the throne while you can, mercenary. You're not a real royal unlike me, who really deserves the throne. I'm the Spider Empress, the Queen of the Arachnids... At the same time, she also said, "I'm still against this idea. Ya know what? The only reason my warriors and I are still part of this ridiculous gang is because we are still in debt to you for slaying those pesky n—"
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As much as King Maximus doesn't like Empress Araneae's attitude, he was worried about something else. Suddenly, the entrance of the palace started to quake and banged with a loud noise and the entry gate was being bombarded. King Maximus asked loudly, "Whoa?! What's going on out there?" Thunderbeard wondered, "Is... Is it the Resistance? Haur already?" Araneae was wondering what her scorpionic Royal Guards are doing, "Impossible! What are those fools doing out there? Those Royal Guards better do their job." What's interesting about Empress Araneae is that she and the Reptilian Queen Zedusa are archrivals. They battled out in epic wars throughout centuries between their Arachnid Army and Reptilian Army respectively. Their races are equally matched and they would either end in the draw or the absolute King of Demon World, which was Gash's and Zeon's father at the time, would send his Royal Knights to stop their rivalry war. Both racial queens, however, were battling each other to prove who would be suited as the better Queen of Demon World when they planned on overthrowing the absolute King of Demon World, but in the end, both armies were equal in power. In the past of the future timeline, they even battled out while Zedusa was working with the Demon Revolution Army while Araneae cut her relation with the Laughing Deathstock Gang. The co-leaders of the Demon Revolution Army were interested in Zedusa's archnemesis that they wanted to recruit the Arachnid Army to their side, but it wouldn't happen with Zedusa's Reptilian Army on their side; that would have caused too many problems but Araneae's group was one of the rebel groups that would have gone war on Demon World when Zega and Zecross announced that other groups would attack. Zedusa and Araneae had a long, deep history with each other and Araneae were one of the demon children who bullied Zedusa during their school days for how "ugly" Zedusa looked and Zedusa once turned Araneae into stone once she unlocked her Petrification Glare ability. Their real rivalry began since then when the "Pretty Princess" Araneae was first unpetrified.

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Anyway, intruders are bombarding the entrance gate and they blew it up. The scorpionic Royal Guards were apparently defeated and couldn't stop the five intruders. Could they be from the Demon Resistance Army or are they from something else? Orgo saw a few robed figures in silhouette through the dark smokescreen, "Intruders?! Show yourself or Orgo will Gravity Scream you into—" Suddenly, waves of bony spikes appeared beneath the ground, heading and thrusting towards Orgo and Thunderbeard in waves. Thunderbeard shouted, "Watch out!" and dodged away from the bony spikes but unfortunately, Orgo didn't dodge in time and got impaled from the bones through his torso and his head. Orgo instantly died and suddenly, his soul was being pulled towards the intruders for some reason.

Thodrum and King Maximus got worried and cried, "Orgo!" Thunderbeard said angrily, "Whoever did 'at will taste me thunderbombs. This's for Orgo, Ganzu Zabegiru! Get thunder boomed!" Thunderbeard generated multiple black bombs with lightning symbols into his hands and threw them at the entrance, creating electrical explosions non-stop. Araneae was trying to aim at the intruders through the smoke with her X-Spider Bow and poisonous arrows but Thunderbeard is generating more smoke from his thunderbombs and couldn't see the intruders, "Will you stop creating more smoke, Thunderbeard?! Forget it, Arakuno Baruron!" Araneae summons poisonous spider demons that burrowed into the ground to chase after the intruders. While Thunderbeard still threw bombs, a mysterious invisible being (under the invisibility spell Gu Riaruku, the same invisibility spell King Maximus uses for stealth and sneak attack purpose that's the same as Pancho's Inbisuruku but with a different incantation) snuck up on him and revealed his ugly zombie-like face and blue hood in front of Thunderbeard, jumpscaring Thunderbeard, "Yaaargh! Whit the—" The invisible zombie-like demon opened its undead mouth. King Maximus shouted, "Thodrum, watch out!" The revealed zombie head used some Soul Magic (without incantation) to pulled Thunderbeard's soul and spirit out of his body into his zombie-like mouth and chewed Thunderbeard's soul before swallowing it. Thodrum's body then collapsed with King Maximus crying, "Nooo!" Araneae fired her poisonous arrow and pierced the zombie demon's head. However, it had no effect. The zombie revealed his right undead arm with a blue-robed sleeve and pulled the arrow out of his head and broke the arrow. His flesh, skull, and brain were healed a second later rather than being damaged by the venom. Araneae was shocked, "What the heck?!" The strange zombie turned invisible again via Gō Riaruku without providing its incantation. Who was that undead creature? He seemed immortal. Anyway, two laughing gang members down, two to go. What is this new threat?

As Araneae's poisonous spiders were lurking beneath the ground for a sneak attack on the other intruders, a robed demon put his hand out and telekinetically pulled up two floors of stone from the ground with rocky spikes where the spiders were, pulled those spiders above them and smashed them with the spiked earth pieces right-side up as stone walls. The robed demon casted the Earth Wall spell Gurandamu (but with spikes added to the Earth Walls) without shouting its incantation. Being able to cast spells without yelling its incantation is pretty difficult, but Gash's horse friend Schneider was able to do it with his mind since the young horse couldn't speak properly to cast spells vocally. These strangers must be experts at casting spells voicelessly. However, one of them, a female, incanted her spell in retaliation with an evil and creepy feminine voice, "Mwehehehe! It's time to exact my revenge! Oru Ryūrosudon!" Araneae wondered, "What's going—: The robed female demon summoned undead, man-eating roses beneath Araneae. King Maximus yelled, "Araneae, watch out!" Araneae noticed it right away and quickly jumped on the ceiling of the palace, hanging on top with her spider legs. As the man-eating roses lunged their thorny vines towards Araneae, Araneae readies her X-Spider Bow with several poisonous arrows and took aim. Before she could release her arrows, additional vines that were apparently above the ceiling, broke through the ceiling and ensnared Araneae's spider body. As she was struggling to break free, it was too late for her. Plant heads lunged at her body spider and started chewing Araneae's body. Araneae screamed in pain while being eaten alive, "Aaaarrgh-ha-har!!!" while her attacker is laughing sinistrously, "Myehehehahaha! Finally, your plant food! Revenge is finally mine!" Who is this crazy lady and what is her relation to the Spider Empress? King Maximus cried out for his ally, "Araneae!" Araneae has then been pulled underground with the undead man-eating plants and a geyser of red blood poured out the hole. Three down, one to go. Self-proclaimed Demon King Hyenus "Max" Maximus is the only one left to go. Where are the rest of the Laughing Deathstock Gang members? Where is the Arachnid Army? Why aren't they backing up, protecting their New King of Demon World?

King Hyenus Maximus got really frustrated and cried angrily, "Darn you, you're not the Resistance Army. Whoever you are, you are seriously going to regret crossing the Laughing Deathstock Gang and the new King! You killed my best friends!" He then charged after the intruders. A robed figure in silhouette said, "We're not the Resistance Army, but thanks to your friend's soldiers holding them off, my new King, your reign is coming to an end very shortly, Your Majesty." Max charges after them with his deadly claws and preparing his assassination technique, "Darn you! This is for my friends! Gō Riaruku! Zeruku!" Hyenus turned invisible and tried to claw his way through the intruders. The other blue-robed demon that used the earth spell put out his hand and bound Max in mid-air with telekinesis, as well as revealing him from Gō Riaruku. This earth-elemental demon in blue robes, who appeared orcish, was a sensory-type that detected Max's presence with Demon Perception, even detecting Max's high velocity. The blue-robed demons grouped together. The one that killed Orgo with Bone Magic appears to be a horned skeleton with a scary, beastly face with glowing red light from its deep, black, eye sockets. King Maximus struggled while trying to move in mid-air, "Urgh! Who... who are you, people? What do you want?" The mysterious leading demon in purple robes walked up to him, used telekinesis to take the King's Crown from Max's head and smirked, "To take my rightful claim..." This is it. It is the end of the Laughing Deathstock Gang. Another dark group rises up to take the throne of the Demon World King. Who is this dangerous dark group of people? Does this really mean Gash Bell is no longer the King of Demon World?
[/End of random eerie/battle music]

List of Chapters (remake) on DeviantART

Volume 1: Demon Revolutionary War - The Revolution Begins
Volume 2: Demon Revolutionary War - Climax of Chaos
Volume 3: The Zulu Empire
Volume 4: Revolution from the Dead
Volume 5: The Fallen King - Reign of Chaos
Volume 6: The Fallen King - Battle of the Dead
Volume 7: The Fallen King - For the Nether

List of Chapters (original/obsolete) on DeviantART

Volume 1: The Revolution Begins
Volume 2: Climax of Chaos
Volume 3: The Zulu Empire
Volume 4: Pre-Revolution Army [Chapter 15 extension]
Volume 5: Revolution from the Dead [Chapter 15 extension]
Spin-off Chapters [non-canon chapters]
First written on February 3, 2017. Finished writing on February 8, 2017. Published at DeviantART on March 14, 2017.

AUTHOR NOTES: Sorry it took me so long to finish this. I would have actually finished this much sooner but I was really held back by my New Year song cover remasters with six YouTube videos and there was so much to do for some of them. Also, as I was writing this chapter, I was doing character drawings of each character in this chapter that I introduced (six new characters).

List of updates in this chapter
  • Update #1 (April 6, 2017, 12:24 a.m. EDT): Further "enhanced" Thodrum Thunderbeard's Scottish accent. I researched more Scottish words and phrases as I was talking to dwarves in Final Fantasy (PSP version, as the translation of the PSP version of FF1 gave dwarves a Scottish accent). Currently playing that game.
  • Update #2 (November 29, 2018, 12:59 p.m. EDT): Closing a link I forgot to close in HTML mode. Why am I still finding these kinds of mistakes in these chapters after all this time?! D:
  • Update #3 (May 11, 2019, 10:12 p.m. EDT): Fixing grammar errors (there weren't much) and removed an inappropriate scene without looking at it. While I didn't remember there being one (what it was or where), I suspected there may have been something in this chapter...and I'm glad I found something to remove.

Ordered from first to last. If a character was mentioned before being seen, I will place that character where he/she was first seen instead of the first time that character was mentioned. I will also list their roles, whether they were a protagonist, supporter, or antagonist of the chapter (or for the entire fan fiction) unless if they were only mentioned. Characters with "†" symbol next to them are deceased/dead.
Character roles:
  • Protagonist: Heroes that will commonly appear in each chapter.
  • Protagonist/Supporter: Heroes that won't get much attention but will still appear or at least be mentioned in each chapter somehow.
  • Supporter: Hero/neutral characters that will only appear in a chapter or two.
  • Anti-Hero: Evil/Neutral characters playing a "hero"-like role but doesn't want to be heroic.
  • Antagonist: Evil characters. The entire Demon Revolution Army are the antagonists of my fan fiction. Background antagonists are minor antagonists briefly seen or mentioned that don't get attention.
  • Mentioned only: Background characters that are only mentioned that don't have any role in my fan fiction.
  • Flashback: Only seen in flashbacks.
Timeline A characters
  • Suzy (Suzume) Takamine-Mizuno - Mentioned
  • OC: Zeil, former Death General #3 of Demon Revolution Army - Mentioned
  • OC: Demon Prince Raiden Bell - Mentioned
  • OC: Demon King Rain Bell - Mentioned
  • † Gash Bell, former King of Demon World - Mentioned
  • † Patie Bell, former Queen of Demon World - Mentioned
  • OC: Zedusa, Death General #6 of Demon Revolution Army and Queen of the Reptilian Army - Mentioned
  • OC: Zega, co-leader and Death General #1 of Demon Revolution Army - Mentioned
  • OC: Zecross, co-leader and Death General #2 of Demon Revolution Army - Mentioned
Timeline B characters

Copyright
This fan fiction and original characters: ©TDPNeji/NejiHyuga900
Konjiki no Gash (Bell)!! / Zatch Bell!: ©Makoto Raiku
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