The dark guardian

C78

The night continued to advance and the enemies were coming out of Karius ' lair , they were thirsty for more souls, but not only that.

—tonight my dear friends we will test our obtained strength, we will have to fight against James's friends, since so much insistence we have to give him his own medicine— Karius was in front giving directions to his group of faithful dogs—others will come soon hornets with more nectar from those souls of the living for them to drink once more.

Meanwhile the group left.

—Do you think Karius is doing things right? —Marck questioned—it's not that I don't trust him, but rather that the methods he's doing are very different.

"What do you suggest?" one of them asked, "will you fight him ? "

"Not precisely, even if he did, I don't think he would have a chance against him , his power is much more than mine." He crossed his arms.

"At least I plan to do everything he tells me," said an old man, "you have to be grateful to him . " After all, he is the one who has given us this power that we have never experienced.

KARIUS

"Master Karius , do you want me to follow you?" Bulls was in the lair.

—It is not necessary, they are already trained to fight against those boys and with the other dose it will be more than enough, believe me, meanwhile you just take care of the entrance, I will have to go to rest—I retired to my chambers.

JAMES

walking with katsuro looking for jinsu but we still hadn't succeeded in finding him, but we still felt his power when suddenly he vanished.

"What do you think it is?" I asked Katsuro worriedly, "you do n't think…

"Don't even dream of it, I don't think they defeated him so easily, one thing I'm sure of is that Jinsu won't die easily. " Lakai had arrived with a small briefcase.

—Until I finally find them, I finished it—he opened the briefcase and inside it there was a tracker in a circular way—the only thing that if I don't promise you is that it works in its entirety, these things usually require more time, but given the circumstances I had to do it less.

—What are we waiting for?— I took it and turned it on, since it was already giving a location—we'll have to run.

—wait a moment—said Katsuro —before all you go , I'll go for jinsu so after that we'll follow you.

"Okay, I hope you're doing well" I walked away quickly.

The tracker told me that it wasn't that long, I turned onto several streets and reached a parking lot, I still didn't see anything, but the location was still there. I hope this is working.

walked a little further and that's when I saw a body behind a car that was being absorbed by those hornets.

Damn it! —I snapped—it was Harry's body, I had to do something immediately to rescue him, I unsheathed my sword and managed to cut them, a viscous liquid began to come out of its interior. Surely it was part of his soul, at the moment I was lifting it someone attacked me and immediately my reflexes were activated.

A subject had arrived, I think I had seen him before.

"Who are you and what do you want to do to my friend?" I sentenced him with my sword.

if I told you, it would be pointless since in a short time you will be dead , you don't know who you have in front of you, but soon you will feel my great power—metal spheres floated around him that little by little merged until they formed a solid metal monster—I present to you my metal doll, he will take care of destroying your fragile body, right ?— I speak to his doll—that's right, Master Marck—he replied, it seems that this doll had the ability to speak also.

—I don't care what kind of doll that is, but I don't have time to waste it with you, my priority is to save my friend—I repeated, but that thing had thrown a metal ball at me with which I stopped it with my sword, I he backed up several meters from the speed he was bringing. It seemed to be very strong—I can tell that your attack had a good speed, but it won't be enough for you to defeat me.

—I wouldn't be sure if it was you—he pointed down, where the metal sphere was, it was destroyed giving way to more small spheres similar to marbles and they began to attack me, hopefully I could repel if attack

"Don't get distracted by that," he told me when he was almost on top of me. I managed to dodge his attack but he had already hurt my forehead which caused me to bleed—I'm so sorry, I didn't think I'd mess up your hairstyle, but you look so cute now that you're my prey, that's why I like being the one he goes after his victim —he laughed, believing himself to be the victor.

KATSURO

I still can't find Jinsu 's body , now that his power has completely diminished it's hard for me to find him in this whole city, it's like looking for water in a haystack.

In the distance I could see that Astrid was standing looking at some buildings.

"You haven't been able to find anything yet?" I asked.

—no, rather I feel that Jinsu 's power disappeared completely, surely he fell unconscious in combat, but we must look for him immediately—he was with his hands in the form of a prayer.

—don't worry we can find it—we ran, but instantly I felt an object approaching us—bend down—I took it and we dodged an attack that if it had hit us it would have been catastrophic.

—Where do you think they 're going?— a fellow with a sword and a boomerang, the strange thing is that the two objects could talk—the night is just beginning and I want some fun—he attacked again—instantly I took out my katanas to stop the attack.

"I need you to get out of this place," I yelled at Astrid, with her things would be difficult.

—I'm not going, this time I'm going to fight—she stayed in front of the subject and attacked him with a spell—I'm tired of running away, this is our city and I won't allow them to try to destroy it, least of all my friends.

"Perfect," he smiled, "so I'll have more people to have fun with."

"I'm anxious to kill them," his sword spoke.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him. I assumed this guy was a Volt.

"Soon you'll realize, but that's not the most important thing at the moment, we have to continue the battle, I'm very interested in obtaining the girl's soul" she pointed at Astrid while licking her lower lip.

—I won't let you hurt her, damn—I stood in front of her preventing her from doing anything to her.

JAMES

"Come on, don't keep running," the doll said as he shot more of that metal bag at me, I was trying to find a weak point, so I dedicated myself to just running from one side to the other dodging his shots.

"What a bad habit you have of always playing with my prey," said that guy named Marck.

—What happens is that he won't live long and I like to play before I can kill him—he smiled—I want to give him the worst pain he's ever felt.

—I wouldn't be so sure of you, you sound very convinced that you're going to beat me, but you haven't even seen my true power—I stopped short with my sword in defense mode.

so that 's fine, I'll make you get the best of you" I attacked Harry's body, but luckily I had my flash step and so I was able to get there in time to repel all his shots.

"You're a bloody dog," you glare at him, "the battle is supposed to be between you and me, you don't have to involve innocent people like my friend." Harry was stirring on the floor.

"James…" he whispered, apparently he could see me.

—I see that this boy can see you—Marck approached and I was really surprised why he could see me—do you know what it means? That means that the hornets absorbed part of his soul and soon he will die, that happens with the dead, at the end of his short life they see spirits and that is why he can see you.

"Why did you do this to him?" She was sad for him , he looked bad.

—For the simple fact of becoming stronger, that is, when one of those hornets manages to completely suck the soul of a human being, it concentrates it in a small capsule which we take and thus we become stronger. So I plan to take the souls of as many humans as possible.

—That's not fair, they can't do all that by sheer power, you have no idea of the lives they destroy and the families that are hurt just because of a selfish ambition—I clenched my hands, I felt angry about everything that was happening and the I was really fed up with guys like the one who only looked for his own benefit while my friend was slowly dying.

At that moment I remembered everything I had lived with Harry since we were little, the moments he had with me in kindergarten, all of that filled me with anger and I immediately lost consciousness.

Mark

But what the hell was happening to that boy, I see that his physical appearance is changing and it seems that something is dominating him, he even looks stronger than before.

"This time you won't be able to escape from me," he said with a distorted voice that logically wasn't his .

"Who are you?" I asked, surprised at such a change.

—The point is not who I am, but what I'm going to do to you at that moment—he took his sword and it didn't last a second when he had cut my metal doll into a thousand pieces.

—I guess now you're scared—he immediately approached me with slow steps, he had a thirst for revenge that not even I could stop him for a long time.

—I'm not like James when he's soft, I'm stronger and wilder— he smiled , but his face wasn't the same, he wore a wolf mask and was half a demon with yellow eyes— no!— he yelled desperately as he stood he had his hands up to his face—don't be stupid , this time let me do everything , if you go out, they will most likely kill you, stupid — there were two voices inside him, one was from him and the other was from that spirit that I was dominating him. Immediately he took his hand to his face removing the mask that covered him, this time he had returned to normal but fell to the ground from so much exhaustion.

—I can see what's happening in you—I stood in front of him—you still don't have harmony with that spirit you carry inside, that's why you're still weak, I'm sorry to tell you that you had listened to your inner spirit—I invoked my doll which again it regenerated to attack.

JAMES

listened to what Marck told me, but my leather did not react, I could only see the two of them because of the metal monster that he summoned, he was about to give me the coup de grâce. It seemed that James Brixt 's life here would end—I closed my eyes waiting for his final blow...