The dark guardian

C64

JAMES

—We must think about what we are going to do about it, but where ? Shall we start?— We were sitting, Jinsu , Astrid, Kai and I after what happened with Mike.

—Astrid— Jinsu approached her—when those guys kidnapped you, did you notice something in their physiques? Perhaps if you remember something it can serve as a clue

—Unfortunately no, that is, as I told you before, I only remember that I fell into a deep sleep. I don't remember anything, otherwise I would have told them something—she was hard on herself.

—Well then, we are at the same point as when we started—Kai said standing up—we still don't have any information about these subjects or where they come from, the only thing we know is that they are spiritual puppets, but we don't know what the end of the process is. why do they act that way?

—Yes, the worst thing is that that child's laugh starts to annoy me more and more and as soon as Lakai doesn't appear, I don't know what happened to him—I hit the ground with my shoe—this is complete shit.

"Calm down, James," Astrid placed her hand on my shoulder, rubbing it trying to reassure me, "I don't like to see you when you're like this, all aggressive, believe me, things don't get resolved at all with that attitude, please relax, okay ? " She gave me a kiss on the forehead, which surprised me that she took the initiative—just as you care about me , I do too, although I'm not always very expressive—those plants made me appease the anger I felt at that moment.

—Sorry to interrupt you—Kai said—but we must think of some plan, I still don't understand why once and for all they tell us what those guys want? and so we avoid being with all these absurd games.

—I'm really out of here— Jinsu made the feint to leave—we can't do anything sitting here with our arms crossed. This situation is starting to bother me a bit.

—But where are you supposed to go?— I wanted to know since the important thing at that moment was to be together and not apart— what are we going to do with Mike and the other boys? doesn't that matter to you? Believe me, I was also comfortable in my room, but I have to do it, I have to try to rescue them, but not only, I need your help, so if you leave the possibility will be less.

"Although on second thought I don't think they're in a bad way right now," Kai Tim said in a confident tone of voice, "they've been complying with the rules up to now and proof of this was that they gave us Mike and Astrid."

" Yes , that's very true," Astrid nodded, "also they didn't return me with physical damage, the only thing was with memory loss, but only that."

—I know, but that doesn't guarantee us anything, we can't trust each other—I looked at the sky and there was a flash like a meteor shower which seemed a bit strange to me, it wasn't a meteor shower season.

—What is that?— Jinsu pointed to one of the stars that was coming this way—stand back—we all moved and the star collided on the ground making it shudder.

We approached and it was more or less small, the speed it brought was what had caused such an impact, it was a rock like any other, but this one broke and in the center there was a note.

So that you can see that we are fair to you and your friends, we will challenge you

You must not fail, you have about an hour to do it, in front of you a portal will open which you must destroy, good luck...

—What stupidity is this?—I took the note and destroyed it into several pieces—I don't think they are capable of doing anything, what do you guys say?—At the end of the sentence I noticed that everyone was turning their backs on me, looking in one direction " What 's the matter with you?" Immediately I saw in front of me something that was formed out of nothing, a kind of lights merged, gave way to form something similar to huge doors, it seemed like something out of a science story fiction, but in front of us was a very strange entrance.

"Look, it's opening" Kai pointed out and right away there was a blizzard that was dragging us into it.

"Let's hold hands," I suggested.

LORD

—Hurry up, Trasher or we won't arrive on time— Trasher had sneaked into the world of the vivis in search of information on those spiritual puppets , which was a great point in our favor, the happiness of having a Dark on our side, also in the central palace were other Dark helping us with this matter.

—It seems that when I crossed that portal my body underwent a small change, I get more tired running here than there, it is most likely that the same thing must be happening to Jinsu —he ran after me .

—Look—I stopped short, there was a trace of paranormal activity, a kind of luminous slime was on the ground—do you think those guys are the authors of that?

"I don't know, but I'll teleport him to the central palace and let them find out what this shit is."

WOLFPACK

He hadn't seen Barclays or his twin Rubius in a long time, but he already knew where they would be, in the most important place in the central palace, in the research center. Like any organization, we also had a computer center that allowed us to study the worlds where the enemies came from and thus have prior knowledge of their abilities, weak points and such things. They made our job easier.

—Perfect, I knew you'd be here—I entered the computer room—I knew you two had something to do with it, but tell me. Shall I interrupt?— levanhe same hands in the form of peace.

"Not at all," said Barclays, "you can have a seat, Wolfpack . "

—No thanks, I'm better standing this way, but rather tell me, what are you doing here?

"Well, what 's happening is that something strange is happening in the human world, without them realizing it we sent Trasher to help, apparently some subjects appeared that we don't have much information about," explained Rubius.

-What do you say? I can't believe it. do you think this has to do with Dante?—I really worry a lot if it was.

"Well... that's exactly what I've been thinking," Rubios expressed worriedly.

Information had suddenly arrived, the result was blank, there was no trace of what they had sent, that is, it had no spiritual essence, it was like a finger without a fingerprint.

"This can't be possible," said Barclays, I don't quite understand.

-Do you think they sent you wrong information?- It was a hypothesis

"I don't think so," assured Rubios, "there are no mistakes in this."

JAMES

—This must be a joke—we were still being sucked into that giant portal—we must hold on to something or we'll end up inside it—immediately we grabbed some benches and electricity pipes.

"Look," Astrid pointed and above that portal was the ghost boy.

—It seems that this level is costing a lot, why better give up? This is too much for you— laughs .

"Of course we won't, we're never going to give up," I yelled at him.

—Okay, if they pass this level we may be closer to the final battle—he jumped with joy —by the way you know this—he showed the shirt that Lakai was wearing .

—How did you get that?— Damn, at that moment I was filled with fear with that child, I didn't know him well, but the abilities he had were quite strange, if I catch Lakai he must be a monster .

—I can do this and much more— he smiled once again

—I can't resist anymore—Kai clung to a post, but the wind was getting stronger until it dragged him towards the portal.

Then I saw that Jinsu couldn't resist anymore and even Astrid had let go. They were all heading for the portal at high speed, he had to do something about it.

—Astrid—I let go of my opponent to save her—I have you—I caught her, but it was too late, our bodies were already heading towards that portal. —There is only one thing left to do—I raised my power, unsheathed my sword and tried to destroy that portal , but amazingly my sword didn't respond in the same way, it's like it had gone cold. Instantly the nls portal completely absorbed.

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astrid

Where am I?" I got up confused massaging my head, I saw that a few meters from me was the body of Kai-Kai-I moved his body and instantly he reacted.

—What's the matter? —he rejoined—this place is...

—I don't know, I was wondering the same thing when I woke up, but I don't remember anything, I guess it's inside the portal that absorbed us—I looked everywhere again and it was an empty place, but it had a mountainous aspect.

Astrid !" I heard James's voice in the distance.

— Here we're here!— I yelled loudly for him to find our location—I'm with Kai.

We started running in the same direction as we heard the voices of the others until we could find them. It was a great satisfaction when I saw James and Jinsu running towards us.

—I was very worried about you—James subtly took my hands—the good thing is that we are all alive.

A short time later we heard laughter from that ghost child. People appeared to us with the other subjects who were keeping up with the .

" Wow , it's nice to have you here," he said sarcastically, "it seems that things are even more fun now that you are inside that dimension." they do not believe?

—You will pay for what you just did— Jinsu made the feint to attack him.

—I wouldn't do that if I were you—the boy shook his index finger—look at what's behind me—it was mike in a kind of showcase, he was tied up and black water was rising little by little so that it was covering his feet and so on. —you have half an hour to rescue him—it seems that he enjoyed seeing the desperation of us—make us do the most difficult things yes, you must fight against my two bodyguards, I think that will give it an exciting touch.

The two subjects quickly approached us to attack us.

"Kai, please take care of Astrid while me and Jinsu fight those guys." James suggested taking his sword bravely.

A fight was going on, but there was something we didn't know yet, it was that those two guys had powers very different from ours. On the one hand, I saw that Jinsu attacked one of those guys with his sword, but he formed a portal that returned Jinsu his same attack with the same intensity wounding him .

—Use the dimensions to your advantage—Kai whispered

—What do you mean?— I wanted to know since that was new to me .

—That is to say, even if he tries to attack it, it will not do much good because he will take that gap in space to create it against, although he will try to attack it with an attack with a lot of power, it will not do any good, it will be like shooting yourself .

On the other hand , James was also having a strong battle with that other guy who apparently had the ability to repeat all the enemy's mobjimenros with the same precision. Each time things were getting bad and he only observed that the water was covering more and more of Mike 's body .

LORD

— Trasher , don't tell me you can't go faster?— We kept running towards an evil presence that I had felt.

—I already told you that I still haven't gotten used to the gravity of this earth, but we're almost there , right ?— He was coming after me .

-stay there-we were in an abandoned construction and there was a man with an unusual outfit in front of another.

"What's going on?" Trasher asked very quietly.

I saw that the subject was using some kind of spell with the subject in front of him, it seemed that he had something in mind by the way he approached him.

—Wait a minute—I pounced on the guy, but he was also very fast.— It seems that you wanted to devour his soul, isn't it?

— who are you? And why did you interrupt what I was doing? - I frowned when I saw me - haven't they told you that it's rude to intervene at dinner time?

Then Trasher arrived at the same place.

"We'll see each other again" he walked away little by little.

"Do you want me to follow him?" he suggested . trasher

—no, leave it, we'll have time for him , besides it's also very fast—take the subject's body.— I need you to report this to the central palace please

" Okay," he agreed.

JAMES

The guys were so strong that the two of them joined forces to create a giant sphere that would destroy us completely.

"You have to use your seal number two ," Jinsu suggested. "If you don't use it, that attack will be too much for us."

- It 's okay - I started to concentrate my power more, since seal number two was quite difficult to achieve with little power, there came a point where I was ready to transform, but out of nowhere my power began to decrease - damn it Jinsu , my power is running out and I don't know why.

But by magic, the display case where Mike was was began to break into a thousand pieces, thus leaving the dark water. I breathed a sigh of relief even though I didn't know who had done it. I quickly ran to free Mike.

Are you okay, friend?" I let go of his bonds.

—I am, but I still don't remember how I came to this place—but rather bewildered.

"You seriously don't remember anything that happened?" Come on, please do your best to remember- I insisted

"I don't remember anything, understand, James" he got up

I turned my neck to the left and looked at Lakai 's shirt on the floor , which I found quite suspicious . Something was not right here, but at that moment I remembered something.

—come on, Lakai , you don't need to continue with this game—yelled into the void

"What are you talking about, James?" Kai leaned closer.

-let me. I've come out of hiding Lakai , I've discovered your game—yelled again into the void.

—How intelligent you are— Laki appeared in the shadows next to the three subjects who had been bothering us all this time—How did you find out?

was simole , once I saw your shirt it was the easiest clue to find you, I knew that they wouldn't be able to catch you like that, not with your level of power and now that I think about it everything makes sense, that is, they always put us in very difficult situations but in the end they always brought us back without damage, I noticed it with Astrid and with Mike, everything was a game of yours all this time, but why did you do it? - actually I wanted to know the purpose of all this .

I 'll tell you if you give me back my shirt." He held out his hand and I gave it to him.

—Well, as you may know, I was the one who trained James before entering that dimension, so I saw the opportunity to train all of them using this method, it is more efficient since they put into practice their way of analyzing, they had their own criteria, their I increased my intellectual level and asked me to make decisions in very difficult moments, they also strengthened their bonds of friendship and that is very important when fighting, but above all you have to improve something James—he pointed at me—did you notice that you couldn't use your number two stamp? It is not like this? That is because when you were in the other dimension it was easier for you to use what you were spirit and the plane there is very different from the one here, but on earth everything becomes different, there is no need to use your seal either number two under stress, there are other ways to fix things. But well, I also wanted to tell you something that is happening while we are talking, apparently there is a very strange subject among us that there is still no information, so much so that even those in the central palace are intrigued. That's why they sent a Dark named Trasher to do that investigation.

—Do you think it has to do with Dante?— I wanted to know why everything seemed very suspicious to me .

—I don't think so, Dante escaped to the underworld with the spheres, but those spheres cannot work overnight, it takes a very long time to be able to activate them properly, even if he came again you are too weak to fight against him , but that's why I'm training them, because I know a battle is coming and it's up to you, James, to master your number two seal to perfection. could you make it possible? I want to have things with the consent of all of you, I am not capable of forcing you to do something you do not want, at the end of all you have no responsibility to do it.

"Of course I will," I nodded bravely, "we all know that we are a family now and we will not allow anyone to try to harm us as long as we can stop it."

—Perfect, it is a very good decision, but first we will work on your analytical form, James, I see that it is very difficult for you to use that head, you always act impulsively and that is not good, that is where your enemies take advantage of the situation. I also want to congratulate, Kai, all this time he is the one who has acted prudently and devised alternative plans, I think he is the most intelligent of the group, but of course I am not making you less. They each have impressive abilities that when brought together form a brotherhood.

—Well, thank you very much for the compliment—Kai responded very smugly—it was something that could be expected and more from me—he nodded elegantly.

"Well, now that everything is clear, we should eat something, don't you think?" Lakai suggested . "So much hustle and bustle from top to bottom has awakened a huge hunger in me .

—first of all—I stopped him—if all this is false, how do you explain the disappearance of our friends from the university?

"Don't worry, that was just an illusion that I myself created, but they have never disdained " he smiled "I'm very good, don't you think so?"

—hey Lakai —Lord came out of nowhere— I need to talk to you about something.

— yes ? What do you want to talk to us about, Lord?— Lakai I frowned , surely it was something very important

-It's about the intruder I discovered a few moments ago before he could take the soul of a subject, that intruder is nothing more and nothing less than...