The dark guardian

C82

Mike

We were in a park late at night, fortunately at this time no one was around these places, I was with nova, the spiritual puppet. You always went with me since I had the ability to detect the Volt. In front of us was an old man sitting in an awkward chair, he had a cane in his hands.

—A long time ago I had forgotten how good it feels to be young—he settled in his chair—but now that I have this power I feel like a young man in the body of an old man, how lucky you are to be able to have that skin texture .

—I don't care what you think—I glared at him—I just need to know why you're attacking the lamas of the living?

"Isn't that more than obvious?" He smiled . "It 's about power and more power." As I absorb more souls, my body will also grow stronger. I want to have complete control of the entire city, but in your little head I don't think you know about these things.

"You can't go around absorbing those souls just for your benefit, but if you don't stop you'll leave me no choice but to destroy you right now and I'll have no mercy just because you're an old man." I prepared to transform and attack.

Immediately in front of us the body of a woman had fallen. Those hairs were familiar to me and that dress too. I think I had seen her somewhere. He turned on his heel and yes, it was Luz.

—Mike—he greeted me—but it's nice to see you again, I haven't seen you for a long time, exactly since you came from the central dimension, but how have you been?— he acted as if nothing was happening.

"I'm fine, and you ?" I shook his hand, but my gaze was always back, where that old man was.

—What a beautiful city you live in, I didn't know that humans had many things to see, since I came here I haven't stopped seeing very beautiful things, its structure is very different from ours, by the way—he looked back— Who is your friend?

—It's called Nova, it's a spiritual puppet created to detect Volt—she approached him and greeted him.

—Nice to meet you, Nova—she shook her hand and shook it—my name is Luz and I'm a vigilante, just as you hear it—she pointed to her chest.

"Nice to meet you, Luz, but look," he pointed to the old man.

"Oh, what is an old man supposed to be doing here at this hour?" He kept ignoring the danger that lay ahead of us. "Do you think it would be good to take him home?"

—Luz, that old man is a Volt—I shook my head—if we're here at this hour it's because we were looking for them.

-Really? Well, it doesn't seem so strong, let's say—snorted

"You can be fooled by my appearance, young lady, but since you are reunited I will show you a little of my power." He took his staff and struck it against the ground. It began to shake, it seemed that it was going to split and out of nowhere the old man began to sink into the ground, it seemed that he had been swallowed.

—But what the hell...—we were all alert—Nova, can you feel it?— he thought for a moment.

Let 's jump!" he yelled, immediately upon jumping out from under us a huge whale came out.

He couldn't believe what he was seeing, that whale swam through the land as if it were water and the size was gigantic. This old man would give us a severe headache.

Luz had the ability to fly and apparently from the air she had better vision than we did.

—I can see how it moves from here—he said with his sword in his hand—no matter what size it is or how it moves I will kill it with my sword—he swooped down with his sword, I tried to bury it in the ground, but it was in vain, I couldn't do any damage—this is impossible, I had seen that his body was here.

"Behind you!" I yelled at him, I had seen the shadow of that thing.

—No !— Luz was terrified when she saw the big jaws of that beast, her sword had adhered well to the ground which did not allow her to leave the area, little by little the whale approached and would devour her.

I used my speed and was barely able to rescue her.

"Thank you very much, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have trusted my power," she pouted.

—Don't worry, that's why we watch each other's backs—the whale had sunk again.

Little by little he emerged from the ground again, but this time he had shown himself as he was, on his back was that old man attached to his body.

—It seems that they have realized the power of my whale, for little and Debora the soul of that vigilante, if it had not been for your friend I think you would already be in the stomach of my whale.

"Talk a lot of stupid things," Nova told him.

“I wouldn't be so confident of being, you. My whale has the ability to transform your entire environment into an alternate dimension, which allows it to swim freely around here as if it were a sea, my whale is much more powerful than all of you, isn't it? - I speak to the whale.

"That's right, my lord," he replied in a very deep voice.

"I didn't know that dolls could talk," I commented to Nova.

"That's right, dolls have minds of their own which allow them to behave like a normal person," he explained.

—It seems that the boy next to you is a little smarter than you—the whale continued to float.

—I don't care who you are and I don't intend to listen to your stupidities either—Luz told her—now my sword will destroy you—he placed his sword in front of her and began to disintegrate, he had generated a dust with his sword that little by little went the whale, it opened its big mouth—it can't be—he frowned—go back now—he ordered the dust and his sword regenerated again.

I don't understand why he would do that.

What a pity you did that," said the old man, "it seems that you have realized that if your sword had reached the mouth of my whale, you would have completely lost your sword," he shook his head in discontent, "so much that he wanted have the sword of a vigilante.

Immediately a device that Luz had on her chest began to sound.

—I need you to have my location and freeze this place in a range of five hundred kilometers, I also want you to give me protection from Alma—it seems like it was like a transmitter.

—Okay, whatever you order, we also have information that jinsu was applied seriously, which we deduce that he didn't have soul protection either.

"What's going on?" I wanted to know.

—What happens is that I contacted those from the central dimension and asked them to freeze this place so that we would ask to fight against those things in the same way, so we don't reserve our limits.

—That's good news—I turned into a wolf and started running towards that whale, I was sure I could defeat it, I used my claws to hurt its sides, but I only felt that my hands had passed through it but without any damage.

Immediately Nova attacked him as well and her spell had passed through his body without doing any damage.

—Take this—Luz had launched a forceful attack at him, but it didn't hurt him either.

Apparently this whale was swallowing all our attacks.

—We have to go up to that building—I suggested and we all went to the roof—it seems that he can't hurt us from here.

—Hey, Nova—Luz spoke to him—just recently , you were able to predict where he would attack us from. How did you do that?” I frown .

"Well, it's because that thing uses an alternate dimension and when it connects to ours it creates a little ridge in the air and that's when I can see it, but it's not something I'll follow us to track."

"It means that from here he can't do anything to us, surely he feels our pressure when he hits the ground," I told him.

"Then how can we attack it?" Luz asked.

—Well, I've also felt small waves like sonars, surely that's what this monster uses to detect our souls—Nova explained to us—obviously we can't attack him head-on, that way he can deal with all our attacks.

Right after the wall the body of that whale emerged .

"How is that pobile ?" We both jumped aside to escape from the mouth of that allens or she would end up devouring us.

At one point I think we were only in danger on the ground, but now I can see that this hypothesis is ruled out.

—Come this way, Mike—Luz and Niva were higher up, I headed towards them and we started running.

"It doesn't matter where we are, this thing only needs one dimension to be able to go through anything," Luz said as she ran.

—You're right—said the old man appreciate them in front of us—my whale has no limits, his stomach has something special. If you get inside it, you will fall into an unknown dimension and not only that, also my whale we have the ability not only to devour the soul of a living being but we also have the ability to absorb the body of the victim , so I hope that one by one they are inside my whale—he smiles, believing himself to be the victor—Now! Attack,” he ordered his whale.

"Roar this time, sword!" Luz used her attack again, disintegrating her sword into thousands of particles.

"Don't pay attention to his silly maneuvers," the old man said to the whale , "see me, he can't hurt you."

That bit had created a circle under us and made the surface cut so that the attack from that whale passed over us.

"Damn witch, what have you done?" The old man had gotten angry.

“You're not the only one with skills. Stupid , but you shouldn't be aware of us but rather of what you have on top of you—he pointed to a large sign that it had, the bases were cut and it was falling on the old man's body, fortunately we had left the place before it fell on us too.

"Do you think we'll be safe here?" I asked Nova, we were in a very narrow alley, quite far from that whale.

—Believe me, yes, from what I see that thing needs very large spaces to be able to move, so I think they have the ability to reduce their body or something like that in such a small place.

"I hope you're right because the truth is that I already feel quite tired of running away from that thing, I'm not one of them who lives on the run, I'm not a coward and I'd like to face it face to face" I clenched my hands.

—I know, but nobody is saying that you are a coward, we are simply devising a plan to attack efficiently or do you want to die in vain?— Luz had called my attention—you have to be a little patient, I still feel tied of hands.

"Hey, but do you think I'm asking that sign to fall on that old man?" asked Nova.

—I don't know, but I hope so , I do n't think he's given him time to get away from it—Luz scratched his head.

—Wait a minute—Nova looked a little thoughtful—I have an idea and I hope it works, how can those things see their alternate dimensions like the ones I use, I keep being close to him to encapsulate him in one of my dimensions to be able to attract objects that it has inside its stomach, but to do it I need you to distract it enough, otherwise it can't be done, are you sure you can hold it back a bit?

—Say no more—I began to walk—I'll be the one to distract him and you can stay behind—I told Luz.

—Of course not—I take my arm—I'll be the one to distract him.

—Of course not, I will not put you at risk, you are a woman and my duty is to keep you protected—he had stopped his step, she must have been behind me and not the other way around.

—It seems that you still forget who you are talking to—the body of light began to radiate so much power that it made her body illuminate the place where we were and yes, she had ignored all this time that she was a vigilante and that she possessed great power— so let's go fishing, we need that whale's butt—he walked ahead of us.

"Hey, old man, we're here," Luz shouted, we were standing in an open field, hoping to draw his attention, a few minutes from land that huge whale came out again.

—You move slower than I thought—Luz was provoking him.

"You will pay dearly for what you just said, damn conceited woman" the whale went towards Luz, but could not devour her, Luz moved very fast, her flash step was incredible.

"Take this!" I lashed out with my fist at his side, this time connecting in a way that knocked him back a few feet.

—What the hell is going on?— the old man again ordered his whale to attack Luz—this time you will stay in the stomach of my whale—he smiled while that thing opened its mouth to devour Luz, but she used her sword placing it in the whale's mouth preventing him from doing anything.

"You fell, stupid old man. " Luz had smiled, everything was going according to plan. Immediately I gathered strength to grab its tail, I began to turn in circles throwing that whale in the direction of Nova, this had created a portal that was absorbing the body of that whale.

— What? — the old man had been surprised by what was happening — you can kill him with that thing — he opposed the attraction that portal was generating — a lifetime fighting against things stronger than you and devouring souls not they will make me as weak as they think—the whale was slowly backing away.

—You have to do something or we won't be able to catch him—Nova was struggling with his portal, that whale was big enough, but there was something bigger than that and it was my will to do justice for those people who were his victims , those families he left destroyed.

I took a big push to connect with a powerful blow which made the whale end up approaching Nova's portal. Fortunately, I could see that the body of that whale was slowly being introduced into the portal until it came to nothing.

Nova had fallen to his knees, surely so much power he used in that portal had left him exhausted.

"Is everything okay?" I tried to help him.

—Yes, everything is fine—he got up and began to take a few steps forward, but he was staggering—stay there please—his body began to flash red, his face and all his limbs began to struggle with each other.

—You look bad—Luz approached like me to help him, it was seen that he was fighting with a contained power, something that he could not control for a long time.

"Please step aside," he warned us, his body began to rise a little and his arms and legs extended, the portal he had generated earlier was forming again and that huge whale was coming out of it.

Nova !" I ran towards his body, he was damaged and unconscious.

—It seems that this would be something entertaining—said the old man—I am afraid to tell you that I am an old man for a reason and that is that you do not have the experience that I have in battles and that strategy will definitely not work for me , but now that I see I will have to take this battle to its conclusion. I think that's been enough of children's games.” He took his cane.

Once again our hopes were gone and now it was just Luz and me to stop that guy, I felt bad for Nova, seeing him there on the ground wounded had filled me with a lot of anger.