The dark guardian

C62

We went back to Lakai 's house looking for answers about what had happened, since we had no idea who those guys were, or why he was taking us to that dimension . 

— Lakai , are you there? - I knocked on the door of his house, inside it could be seen that there was a dim light in his room. 

"Hey guys, it seems they're back, but... and Mike?" he searched between us, "what's up?" I don't see it with you. 

—That's what we're here to talk about—Kai expressed as we entered. 

—Who has tea? —He was going to the kitchen—it is good to have a little to relax what they bring, there is a solution for everything and I will listen to you—I take some cups from the shelves and place them on a very small table—Perfect, can you tell me how was they in their rescue attempt? 

—They took Mike away— Jinsu clenched his hands in rage—I don't know who they are, but not even my sword could cut them, do you think this has anything to do with Dante?— It seemed quite logical to me, but I had to listen to Lakai 's opinion . 

—I don't think so, this has nothing to do with the spirits from beyond, I did some research, but it was impossible, I didn't find anything related to what they tell me. These subjects have only appeared without any history. 

—Apparently they want to take us one by one—I got up very angry—first with Astrid and now with Mike. Who else follows? 

—I know, but we can't do anything at the moment—Kai tried to control myself. 

—Well, depending on whether you said that their powers did not affect them, it means that the strength lies in a power called mansum, this is a power very different from theirs, they are like oil and water, they cannot be mixed or not they are compatible so to speak, perhaps if you use seal number two it could work, it is a clear hypothesis —Lakai explained —besides the only one who has powers other than those of a vigilante here is you, Kai, perhaps you have more luck than the boys , but you also wanted to clarify something else, if those hippies otimeron came for, Astrid and then Mike, it means that they have sought the most vulnerable among you, that means that our enemy is a very cunning enemy 

Immediately the phone began to dream over and over again, a number still did not appear on the screen, it was surely the same guy. 

Hello ?" I answered without any answer, only the same laugh as always was heard—damn son of a bitch you will pay me dearly, wherever you are I will go looking for you and kick your ass—I felt very angry that he was watching me. silly face. 

"Lower your voice, James," Kai suggested, "if you yell at him, we won't have any more chances of finding out where the boys are." 

" Okay," I agreed, lowering my tone of voice, " what are you calling me for?" 

—It's just that La Cerda I've been having so much fun with you that it would be boring for me if I left and didn't show up here anymore, besides I have your two friends and I think that hasn't left you alone since I took them away? Isn't that right ? — he laughed like a madman — but if you want we can meet in the old building that is south of the city, one that has blue and white windows, please come, this will be fun. 

"hey, but...

hung up. 

—This is starting to tire me, I swear it is—I threw the cell phone on the ground

—What did he say to you ?— Jinsu approached. 

—He told me to go to my old building that is south of the city—I shook my head—I think we have no choice but to go to that place, I know it will be risky, but we have no choice but to go—everyone nodded . 

—we better be careful—we were standing in front of the huge building—we should watch each other's backs if we want to be together for a long time. 

"One should stay outside on guard duty," Kai continued. 

—Your idea is quite good, but if we knew that they don't have hosts , but unfortunately we know how the situation is so we all have to go in— Jinsu suggested . 

We entered and everything was dark and dirty, old desks, overturned chairs and a great mess everywhere, it felt quite unpleasant and even smelled very bad. 

—We're here—I shouted and the walls of the building echoed upwards—we've done everything you asked us, now reveal yourself at once—hear us some laughter that retracted from one side to the other, generating uninterrupted echoes. 

—Welcome guys, as you can see, we always like to be playing with all the new things we know and this case we want to play with you, do you want to find your friend? Well, first find us in this building and we promise that we will give them to you without any tricks.

—We don't have time for these stupid things, guys—the three of us stared—what do you think? 

—Well , I don't know , I suppose we have to look for the three of them, right ?— Kai suggested—there is no other option but to play their game. 

" Okay, we'll do it ," I yelled into the void, "but if you try to fool us again, I promise we'll kill you." 

—Don't worry, Ah, first of all we also wanted to request that you leave your swords on the ground, it's to avoid misunderstandings and make things a little more interesting—he laughed as if all this was child's play. 

—I don't know—I shook my head—I don't see this Plan well, our Weapons are the only things that protect us at this moment and I can't generate powers with my hands, something that you can do, Kai. 

—I say the same— Jinsu was worried—if I don't have my sword I'll be vulnerable, but we have no choice but to do it. 

"As you say," I replied leaving our swords under our feet. 

—Perfect, what good guys they are —he laughed and that laugh was starting to tire me. 

We went further into the building arriving at a small room with many spider webs hanging on the walls. 

—I feel something strange here—Kai said taking his chin. 

"How what ?" I turned on my heels towards his direction to try to feel the same as him . 

"What the hell is this?" Jinsu snapped a little later, we immediately kept walking until we got to where he was and the room had changed completely, now there were many doors and worst of all, there was no end in sight. 

"This must be some kind of labyrinth and I suggest we go this way," Kai pointed out, "I have a very good intuition with labyrinths." 

We followed him, but the strange thing is that we ended up in the same place as always as if we were walking in circles. 

—This has to be a joke— Jinsu had gone ahead and you could tell how surprised he was. 

—What 's going on?— We ran towards him and noticed that the door where we had entered was not there either, this time the place had been transformed into a labyrinth that had neither a beginning nor an end, you could only see doors and more doors. I swallowed hard because at that moment my ideas had been blocked. 

"I have an idea," said Jinsu , " how about we start destroying the walls?" That way we will find the exit faster. 

—no, that won't help us at all—Kai positioned himself in front of us—please think just for a moment, what the enemy wants is for us to despair by lowering our guard while they strengthen their position, please see this as a riddle that we had in college. I know that you don't go to university, Jinsux , but you must have also gone through something similar in your world, usually there are clues in riddles and surely there must be something like that here, that's why world let's not separate and be always with our eyes wide open—we started walking behind Kai. 

Jinsu said , " how about I make a hole in this wall?" That way we'll know that we've already passed through here and take another route, do n't you think so?

" Okay." Actually, the idea didn't sound so bad. 

We kept going until later we could find a door different from the others, but the background looked darker. 

—Do you think it's the way out?— I wanted to know, but I wasn't very confident. 

—I don't know—Kai said—but we have to go in, we have no other choice. 

It didn't seem like a good idea to me , but we went in and the place was totally dark and cold, there were some shelves thrown and some big boxes in front of us, we got closer and saw that there were some coffins, but a dense mist began to emerge from the ground, taking away our vision. completely, I kept taking a few steps forward and there was a coffin with a glass bottom. Inside it was Mike, he looked like a dead man. 

—I found Mike, guys— I warned and right away Kai had said that he had found Astrid in the same condition that I had found Mike, the fog was dissipating and immediately I felt that someone had taken my body without knowing. In the blink of an eye we notice that we are inside those coffins. 

"But what the hell is going on?" Kai was struggling inside his box just like Jinsu , he didn't know how we got here, but we heard laughter everywhere. 

Suddenly I felt that my body was transferred to another dimension like some kind of space travel, but everything made a better sense when I woke up on the ground. Apparently it had all been a dream, but Jinsu and Kai's bodies were next to me, I shook them until I saw them awake. 

What happened here?" Kai widened his eyes. 

—My head hurts a lot— Jinsu rejoined. 

—I don't know, apparently we fell into a deep sleep, what I most believe is that the fog that completely covered us had some kind of sleeping pill, but let's move on. 

"be more careful guys" the voice of the mysterious subject was heard through the walls. 

Damn, how I hate that guy and his games...

Again we walked for several minutes until we found a room that seemed secure batanare, at the end of that room there was another mysterious batanare door. 

"This time I'm not going to go in there," I shook my head, "after we've gone by, I won't even do it crazy." 

—of course yes— Jinsu took my hand taking me by force—we came here and we are not going to let ourselves be frightened by these idiots, we crossed the door. 

—wait—Kai tried to stop us, but it was too late. 

There was a big cliff after that gate, a kind of endless cliff, dark and gloomy. Unfortunately we only depended on my arm that managed to get caught in a part of the door. 

Jinsu yelled under me. "Be strong, James." 

—It's your fault this happened, I told you I wouldn't cross that door and it was the first thing you wanted to do, now you hold on because the truth is I can't stand it for long, you're too heavy—I held on tight. 

"Take my hand." Kai extended his arm trying to reach me. 

—That's too long, Kai—I looked up again and couldn't continue resisting—please let us fall, you keep looking for the boys, we'll fix it. 

—nothing like that—he extended part of his body to take us and fortunately I was able to take his hand—on the count of three we'll go up. 

-One 

-Two 

" Three!" We did our best until we could get off the cliff. 

—That was close—breathe relieved—thank you very much, Kai, without you we wouldn't have made it out alive . 

—Don't worry, but please don't make decisions lightly, let's keep walking down here—he pointed to another corridor, but the most interesting thing would happen inside oooc as he reached the mark he had made in Hindi on the wall—this must be impossible . 

"Looks like we're still walking in circles ," Jinsu snapped. 

After walking again and again for more than an hour our bodies were tired and we no longer had the strength to continue walking apart from the fact that desperation was winning us, this labyrinth could not have been worse. 

—Wait a minute—Kai stopped short—I think I have the solution to this. 

Is it serious? - I wanted to know approaching him - what's your idea? Because the truth is that I am already very tired. 

—Lend me your necklace for a moment, James—he extended his hand—what we will do is the following, we will return to the room where that cliff was and we will cross it running. 

— What? — Jinsu had been surprised — you're crazy, we could barely get out of that one and now you say we run across it? 

"Listen to me, if you want I'll go ahead of you," he suggested. 

We immediately ran after Kai, heading towards that endless cliff, before crossing the door I closed my eyes without looking down and before magic we were walking on air. 

—I told them—Kai, Jinsu and I were crossing the cliff until the illusion of the labyrinth dissolved giving us the place where we were before, in the old building. 

Immediately there was a small boy in front of us laughing as if this was all a game. 

"Who are you?" I wanted to know . 

—I'm one of the guys who kidnapped your friends, but this doesn't end here, look behind your friend—he pointed to Kai, who was being held by another guy we had seen. 

—I knew they would do this trick—Kai had touched the guy who was behind him immediately fainting —as I thought they are spiritual puppets, that's why you can't detect their presence. 

The boy freaked out when Kai found out the truth of what was happening and he immediately ran towards the exit. 

—Wait a minute —we ran after him and when we left Astrid and Mike were totally unharmed—but how are you here? —I wanted to know. 

"I don't know, we just showed up here and that's it," Mike replied.

—That's right, I felt the same—Astrid was fine. 

But suddenly the same portal appeared as before, the one that led to the underworld. 

—As promised, there are your friends—another subject had appeared—you won this match—He threw Our swords at us—but we'll see each other again, don't worry—the portal doors began to close little by little until they had completely disappeared.