"Deen?" Shaper said as he was taken aback by the declaration he just heard. He then looked back to the others, as if asking if they knew what was going on, only to get a shrug in return.
"That's right, Deen, with thirteen Es a few capitals and probably an I, I can't remember. Also not to be confused with Ned" She said cheekily. Completely reminisced of a child introducing themself.
"You mentioned Grimm, right? Do you know if she is ok?" Shaper asked another question to her.
"Oh yea, Grimm is fine just taking a nap, should wake up in a bit, but hey you have me now, let us take that as a win," she said, before looking at what was going on behind Shaper and the rest.
Coming from behind them, Rak was quickly catching back up to the group carrying a large object in his hand behind him. He was carrying the body of the demon he had dealt with and even from a distance, the group could see several large cuts and burns across its body, whatever their captain had done to it must have been harsh.
Once he met up with them and threw the body to the ground he looked around and noticed the sorry state everyone was in, as well as Gremlin or Deen as it is now, who had did not have her mask on. He then asked, "So how did everything go?"
Before anyone could speak up Deen started bouncing in place and putting both her hands up yelling "Me, me, let me answer teacher!"
With a slight bit of hesitation at her sudden change of character, Rak answered hesitantly "Ok, go ahead."
"Can I do it in song?" came the reply
With a rightful stare at Shaper, Rak basically demanded an explanation of what was going on, completely ignoring Deen till he was caught up on the events here. Although saddened at the prompt to stay silent, Deen murmured under her breath "Buzzkill."
Shaper responded hesitantly after putting what words he was to say in order "All the demons are dead, but it looks like Gremlin had suffered some... damage." he said as he looked over to Deen, who was currently looking around joyously.
Upon hearing the last part of what Shaper said Deen swiftly looked at him and said "I told you Grimm is fine, just napping, should wake up in a few hours."
Rak thought deeply about what could have happened during his teams' fight to cause this, was she knocked insane? Looking toward Deen, Rak asked, "Who are you, and are there more of you?"
"I'm Deen, and if you mean Grimm and me? No, just us three, like its always been. Or four if you include Ned." Deen spoke with a smile, happy to have someone to talk to. Then in a panic tried to fix what she said "I mean two of us yea, not three, or three including Ned but he is not here anymore so just the three of us, I mean two!"
With a sudden saddened expression like she had been wronged, she then spoke up again "I'm not supposed to talk about that so don't let Grimm know I told you, ok?"
"And who is this Ned? you mentioned him before." Shaper took his turn to ask.
Back with a happy smile Deen spoke "Ah yea, Ned is great he was my second best friend, but he isn't around anymore Grimm made me get rid of him."
"And who was your true best friend?" Rak asked finding this conversation quite enjoyable.
Deen immediately spoke with an even higher tone in her voice as she was really excited to talk about him "Oh yea Jeffrey, I miss him most of all, we used to play this game called Demon Lord and Captive and it was so much fun. But he got mad at Grimm once and I had to stop him from hurting her. He was also really tall, basically made out of fire, had this big sword he carried around also made of fire, could not miss him."
"Interesting." Rak thought to himself, it seemed like she had been in a bad situation and developed a second and maybe even a third personality to deal with it, or even more.
Turning back to look at the rest of his team, Rak noticed Larry who was still weary-looking and seemed like he would fall asleep again at any moment, and Anubis was busy running to the demon that Deen had just killed. Running over to its body, Anubis planted his hand on its chest before a small white light seemed to travel from its chest, up to his arms, and into his chest. Although missed by many, Rak noticed the small increase in his height even if it was by half an inch or so.
After he was done with the body of the second demon, the first being the one Larry finished off, he ran over to the third one Rak himself had brought back before repeating the process and growing just a bit taller again. Walking up to him he asked Anubis "Is there anything new?"
Anubis then looked at him and with a disappointed voice said "A little, although I got some power back it is still nothing compared to what was taken from us, after a few more we might get something back."
Looking around one more time Rak gathered everyone together and started heading back to Bastion's walls when he called out to the newest member here, "Deen if you want a treat make sure to be on your best behavior ok?"
Giving him a quick salute like an old soldier she replied "Roger Dodger Susan."
"What did you call me?" Rak turned around and asked in a tone that pricked everyone else's skin with killing intent.
"Susan." Deen made sure to repeat, "That's your name right?"
"Far from it." Rak retorted in a low growl.
"Nasus?" Deen said, tilting her head in wonder.
Stifling a laugh, the rest looked away when Rak gave them an evil stare, turning back to the direction of the city he knew this was going to be a long day.