"My Name Is Zed" by Chibi-chan

My Name Is Zed
By: Chibi-chan

Hello, my name is Zed. You call me and my kind "demons", and that upsets me. We are not "demons"; we are living beings just like you. We have feelings, emotions. Sure, many of us looked drastically different than any of you humans or Elw, but that is no reason to refer to us as something to be feared. You may argue that we were the ones who started a war with you, but it was Mother's decision to fight. Not all of us supported that decision. Hell, some of us that could reasonably pass for human even found love among your kind! And what did you do to them and their new families? You ostracized them! You took their children and made them fight for you, all because you found out they could use the weapons you claimed from us better than you could! Even Mother didn't send out any of her children to fight until they had reached full maturity! And do you think we didn't have losses like you did? I saw my brothers and sisters sliced to ribbons, burned by magic, shot to death, and sometimes meet worse fates than those! You call us the monsters? Why not look at yourselves and see what you find; the results may shock you.

Hello, my name is Zed. I was one of the youngest in my (very large, in fact, during the age of the war, anyway) family. Now my family is dead. However, I'm not sure if that's a bad thing. They never took me seriously. They treated me like I was some just some clumsy incompetent dolt useful only for a distraction if absolutely necessary. You wanna know something? I don't particularly like fighting. The only reason I tried so hard to outwit, out-fight, out-anything you three humans who were trying to stop my family's plans was that maybe… maybe they'd acknowledge me, maybe realize I can be a help to someone if I succeeded. I… I guess I was just looking for some faint glimmer of kindness or affection that was never there. Gee, can you tell my childhood really sucked or what?

Hello, my name is Zed. It's interesting; even tho' I'm the last of my kind here, I don't feel that lonely. Maybe it's because of her, that little girl, all alone in the town Alhazad decided to perform his experiment on, has been the only one who seems to accept me; the only one who's ever seemed to really care about me. Even if it would mean my death, I won't let anything happen to that little girl! I will lay the smack down on anything that tries to hurt her! I will smite and WA-TAK… uh… *cough* Heheh, I got a little carried away there for a moment. Sorry 'bout that.

Hello, my name is Zed. Odd, how you three humans are letting me live here in peace. Even tho' we fought in the past, even tho' I caused you so many headaches, even tho'… hey, this reminds me, I have to smack that Jack guy upside the head for that grappling hook thing. Do you have ANY idea how much one of those things can hurt?! Sheesh, whaddya think I am, some kinda masochist?! … OK, maybe a little bit, but that was because of unavoidable influences. *cough* But I'm getting off track here. Now where was I…? Oh, yeah, "living in peace here" and stuff. There's one little thing that bothers me about you three humans… the one with the blue hair and who wields our lost weapons; is he even human? I vaguely recall from the old history books we had something about those Elw guys makin' artificial humans to fight or something. I'd have to go and check up on that, tho'.

Hello, my name is Zed. Are we friends now, or do you still fear those you call "demons"?

End

Your opponents have feelings too, you know…