Rogue Light

by Brian Nyaude

  40

  The sky raged with large gusts of winds and flashes of lightning. I was bearing witness to a power out of my darkest nightmare. Katarina Fox had transformed into what looked like a huge golden brown furred fox, dwarfing her castle completely. It made sense now, she was not human at all. At least now I knew why her last name was “Fox.”

  “The taste of your fear is sweet,” the fox growled drooling corrosive saliva on the ground.

  “What is that?” I looked at the tail and noticed that it was her trident.

  Her main weapon had been transformed into her tail, glowing effortlessly in every direction. Safe to say, this was her true form.

  How could I fight such a monster? It was wise to run, but I couldn’t. My whole body ached badly, demanding me to stop and rest. The fox looked down on me and roared out loudly.

  “See if you can survive this,” it hissed before opening its jaws up widely.

  Something was happening inside its mouth. Everything below me began to get sucked inside, being drawn upwards by the massive winds sprouting out of its mouth. I ran for cover and took refuge behind a large pile of dirt. In every direction, I watched my comrades ran for their lives, taking shelter outsider her gaze. This was no longer a fight for victory, but for survival.

  “Die you scum,” the fox growled lowering its head to make the effects of the wormhole even stronger.

  Looking up slightly, I thought of something interesting which could work to my advantage. “Katarina,” I screamed towards her with all my might barely holding onto a piece of wall from one of the buildings. “If you suck me into the wormhole you will destroy the axion armor and the gauntlet along with me.”

  She closed her mouth and growled at me, “you are right; I still need those two items; however, I can take them from your burnt body.”

  “Burnt body,” I whispered out of confusion.

  To be honest, I had no idea what she meant by that. I guess she wasn’t that bright when she was transformed. However, I took her words in careful consideration and jumped up into the sky, drawing her away from the others. Oh no, she jumped too, flying after me with relenting speed. Seriously how was it doing that? For something her size, it should be hard to move around quickly let alone fly.

  “Rid where are you going?” Paul screamed, digging himself out of the dungeon debris.

  I took one glance at him and turned away, trying to keep myself focused. For now, it was best to keep everyone away from this rampaging beast.

  “Paul stay there,” I rolled to my right, avoiding the jaws of the creature from ripping me to pieces. “I am going to lure this giant monster away from everyone.”

  Flying faster, I soared further into the sky, past the clouds, trying everything to lose this creature that pursued me. But no matter how fast I flew, I could not lose her or it. Without warning, it vanished behind me, hiding into the depths of the clouds. Pausing briefly, I stopped moving and began to look for her or it. It was confusing so I will just call it a vixen witch. How could a fox that massive disappear like that? It didn’t make sense at all. As I was busy pondering for an answer, I felt the air around me suddenly change, getting hot and dry. My skin felt dry like it was going to melt. Was this the sun? No it couldn’t be!

  I looked up and that’s when I noticed it. The vixen witch was on top of me with its mouth open again. Something was brewing inside its mouth, something very hot. A giant sphere of fire descended out its mouth, dropping down faster than I could evade away from. My word, I could not believe it. Behind her, there appeared to be two more suns far above the sky.

  “What is going on here?” I panicked, flinching a little bit. “It couldn’t be could it?”

  She was about to destroy me and everything below using a small sun of all things. What a tragedy indeed. Turning around, I fled down towards the others, hoping to warn them ahead of time. Getting closer to the ground, I stopped and turned my gaze up at the small sun.

  “Rid,” Kaya yelled from below me on the ground.

  “Darn it, this is just perfect.”

  Above us, the giant ball was picking up faster, coming down directly in our position. It was too big, there was no way to avoid it.

  “Get out of the way Rid,” Ogana screamed, grabbing Kaya and Suzunne and running out of the way.

  No, it was too late for that. None of us could evade this ball of fire in time. Upon impact, it would engulf everything in sight into burning ash. I looked down and realized that my options were limited. The only way to stop this thing was to deflect it out of the way using the power of the gauntlet. Two problems, this sphere was moving too fast, and far too heavy to be stopped at this height. Inside it, I felt an immense amount of pure and condensed energy, too unstable to be absorbed into my body. And if I let this sphere hit the ground, the entire city would be pulverized completely. All my friends were down there, hiding out of sight.

  “I won’t let you destroy everything,” I screamed and soared towards it.

  Within range of it, I stopped in plain air and raised my hands to stop it. Touching it with my bare hands, I took a gamble and started to absorb all of the energy into my body. A rain of sweat dropped hastily on my face, making me squint my eyes constantly. I had never felt such a great amount of heat before. Behind it, I felt my grasp on it slipping, being pushed further back into the ground. Ignoring the burning pain, I absorbed most of the energy out of it and used its power in me to deflect it away from the city, towards the outskirt desert.

  “This is the end Riyo,” the vixen with growled, sending another sun towards us. “Your life will end here. Not even you can stop the power of the suns.”

  Another one! There was absolutely no way I could deflect them away much less survive. I gazed at where the second sun in the sky was before and noticed that it had disappeared too leaving only one sun in the sky. Looking up, I dropped to my knees, lost out my mind. It had taken everything out of me just to deflect the other sun out of the city and now I was faced with another one. To add to my misfortune, the forth blast’s power had disappeared, completely gone out of my body.

  “Riyo what are you doing?” Dashe yelled getting up from his sit. “Is that all the power you have?”

  “Just shut up,” I whispered out of frustration.

  “You wield the sacred gauntlet and yet you fight like a weakling, so pathetic,” Dashe finished, shaking his head carelessly.

  Ugh! I really didn’t want to hear Dashe’s voice at a time like this. He was definitely annoying at times; however, he was right. Even without the forth and the fifth blast’s power, I could still fight. Just barely above me, the second sun was descending down fast, almost within range to cause epic destruction. In the corner of my eye, I noticed Suzanne, still unconscious in Ogana’s right hand.

  “That horrible fiend,” I rattled in anger.

  This was all Katarina Fox’s fault. She had almost killed Suzanne and I wasn’t going to let her get away with it, even if it cost me my life. Slowly, my body began to transform, filled with the power of the small sun I had absorbed. So powerful, it was turning my flesh into raw light. I didn’t know how I was doing this, but I didn’t fight it. For the sake of my friends, I didn’t care if I lived or died as long as I vanquished the evil above us. Power was emanating from all over my body, giving me strength to get up again and face my enemy once more. I jumped up into the air and attacked the second sun without any hesitation. Pouring every ounce of the first sun’s energy directly into my arms and legs, I pushed against it hard. The sun yielded as I sent it hard back into the direction of the fox above me. I fired a new golden bullet into the small sun, exploding it in the vixen witch’s face. The vixen witch roared, ascending into the skies, covered by a chariot of fire. Everything went ablaze above me as I fell down towards ground.

  “I guess this is as far as I was meant to go.”

  I could no longer get up, my body twitched continuously as it felt like a million blades were jabbing me at the same time.
At least everything had become quiet for once. For now, the nightmare was over.

  “Rid are you okay?” Kaya whispered as he came and kneeled beside me.

  I looked at him before looking up in the sky.

  “Yeah I will live,” I said closing my eyes.

  Finally it felt good to no longer worry and let go for a while.