High on the parapets, Venrus stood and waved down to his friends as they went on their way. "Teara, come here."

Slowly one of the maids of the Keep came out of the shadows and a message appeared above her head. "Yes Master."

"Bring me one of my chilled bottles of mountain pine raspberry tea."

"Right away Master." was the message he read before she began to walk away. She soon returned and silently handed him the drink.

Now with drink in hand he waited. Stretching his magic past the open field and into the forest beyond he looked for danger. All he could feel was a pack of wolves as they cornered an elk and a patrol of lizard men. Though their route would not bring them close to the Keep.

Pulling back his magic Venrus looked to the sky. "Such a beautiful night." A gentle breeze was blowing through and he could feel the moonlight that shined upon him giving him strength. As he bathed in the moonlight he lifted his voice in song. There were no words but the howling was beautiful all the same. As he sang out his daughters soon joined him and in that moment the world couldn't be more peaceful.

As the minutes ticked by nothing happened at the Keep and Venrus grew tired but held his vigil. What he did not see was that there was less then a minute before the game was to shutdown for good. As the clock struck zero his world turned black.

Venrus was awoken by the sound of hushed speaking, it sounded like two small girls and one older man. He could not make out what they were saying but it sounded like they were worried. As he sat up he opened his eyes to great the morning and he saw nothing. As he thought about this he knew he was not blind IRL. Then it hit him he had never logged out of the game last night before shut down. He looked to were the clock should be on his HUD but it was not there and when he tried to bring up the menu he was met with the same.

"Master, are you ok?" asked the male voice.

Venrus thought about it for a moment and remembered they had a few male servants but only one ever really talked. "I don't truly know Darthus. What happened to me?"

The voice he heard was not Darthus' but that of a child. "We were singing with daddy on da battlements,"

Then a different child's voice cut in for the other "when ya passed out all of a sudden. We went and got,"

"Darthus to take ya to bed." the first voice finished.

"Asha, Mellia is dat you my girls?" The only reply he got was two tiny forms slamming into him, giving him tight hugs that he gladly returned with tears in his eyes. "Darthus do ya know what might have made me black out like dat? I didn't feel any enemies with my magic and da bow did not worn me of an attack. What time is it?"

"I am sorry master, I do not know. The only thing that occurred this evening was a shift of the Keeps location. It is late in the afternoon of the day after you blacked out."

"What! Bring me my bow, I need to see dis!" the girls quickly got off him as he stood from his bed.

"Here you are sir." Darthus stood next to the window with the bow.

Venrus gripped it and pointed it out the window "By our pact I call upon ya to awaken, Eligos!" The eye on the bow shot open and began to franticly look around. "Eligos I command ya give me use of yer eye!" the eye on the bow came out and buried itself in the forehead on his mask. Dark magic ran from the eye to the purple glowing eyes on the mask and they turned black. After a few minutes he could see but it caused him pain like no other. As Darthus said, the Keep had shifted to a new location. "End focus." with that the eye returned to the bow.

"A potion for the pain Sir." Darthus held it out to him.

Venrus quickly drank it "Has anything come near da Keep?"

"A manticore and some strange wolves made of wood papa." Asha stated.

"We saw some normal animals like rabbits, birds and dear as well." Mellia chimed in.

Venrus put his hand to his chin in thought. "Darthus put da Keep on high alert. We are in a new and unknown area, I don't want anything sneaking up on us."

He bowed and left "Right away Sir."

"Girls why don't ya go play with Uncle Brights insects, daddy needs to think somedings over okay."

"Yes daddy." they said together and ran off.

Venrus sat in the chair next to the window and began to think to himself "Okay ya need to keep calm. First ya are now stuck in yer character in da game. Second ya are now blind because of a pact with a demon weapon." He then stretched his magic out into the woods to see if he still could and it worked. "Okay so ya still have full use of yer magic. Ya are in an unknown location and ya don't know if yer friends got sent here too or not. Okay we need to keep the Keep safe since my magic still works like it did in game. I should be able to fight just fine."

Just then his stomach informed him it was time to eat. He walked over, picked up Eligos and headed for the dinning hall. As he walked he looked to the bow "I hate ya so much."

"And here I thought we were such good friends." a women's voice replied.

"Holy rabies! Who said dat?" he stopped, raised the bow and notched an arrow.

"What do you mean who said that it was........Wait you can finally hear me?"

Venrus looked to Eligos and saw the eye staring at him "Eligos was dat ya just now?"

Eligos eye widened as she screamed "Yes, Yes, Yes! You can finally hear me! Oh thank the Dark Lords our pact has become strong enough for you to hear me."

"Ok and dis is a good thing because?"

"Because now I can talk to you. Do you know how lonely it is not being able to talk or move even though you are sentient. Plus we get to do more with the pact now then ever."

"Like what?"

"Well for starters when you use my sight it wont hurt for at least an hour now. Also I wont have to put my eye in your armor anymore, I can just flout around you. You can leave the bow anywhere and so long as my eye is with you I can bring it to you. The best part is you can active a new type of possession and we will fuse together becoming something more for a short time."

"Ok well dat gives me something ta think about. Right now though I want food." with that Venrus entered the dinning hall and made his way to the kitchen. With the help of the butler and maid assigned to the kitchen he began to prepare a meal, then was struck with a brilliant idea. Not long after he had a meal fit for his family. He used the telepathic link to all the maids, butlers and his girls to call them all to the dinning hall for a big meal like they used to do. After the meal was done and cleaned he went to sleep and posted some guards with orders to wake him should anything come too close to the keep.

As he entered his room Asha and Mellia ran past jumping onto his bed. "Daddy can we sleep with ya tonight?" they said together.

"Sure my little ones lets go to bed." he climbed in and got comfortable with his little girls sleeping together next to his right and soon they drifted off.

Author's Note

This is what I had in mind when I was talking about the song.