The Last Guardian

Chapter_53: Johnny Dark

Johnathan had turned into a full demon now- something with no sense of regret or sympathy, just with an insatiable bloodthirst. He saw the Golems and saliva began pouring out of his mouth. His tongue portruded out, like a rabid dog. He was hungry for more dark energy and the rock Golems were the perfect meal. He crouched like a hungry wolf and waited for the Golems to come closer. Billy was watching everything from the sidelines. He was starting to doubt whether it was a good move to feed him with demon blood- what if he doesn't turn back to normal?

The Golems stepped closer- Dark Johnathan leaped fifteen feet into the air and thrust himself at the monsters. As he did so, his arms turned into blades. The clumsy Golems could barely move before he striked them at lightning speed and cut both of them in half.

The rocky monsters fell apart into tiny pieces of rocks.

Baba Yaga was shocked. This was the first time in centuries that someone had retaliated against her. She felt a familiar presence of Darkness in Johnathan but it was strange. He also had positive energy inside him.

Johnathan crawled on the road like a mad dog. The blood of the Demon and his own positive energy were fighting against each other trying to find a balance. He was more like an animal at this point, barely thinking or conscious. Seeing that the Golems had been finished, he rushed at the next powerful source of Dark energy- the Witch herself. Baba Yaga was old but way more powerful- she had a lot of tricks. With one move she turned the entire place into a darkness. The morning sun was gone and the sky turned black like night time. This was her ultimate move- creating another dimension to defeat her enemy.

According to conventional Physics, there exists multiple dimensions or universe and each dimension is different. The Witch had access to the darkest dimension and hence her powers got stronger. Johnathan however didn't care, he was hungry for blood. He jumped at the witch with all his strength. Baba Yaga concentrated all her strength and threw it all at him. A huge bright light started to emanate from her. It's strength closer to the sun itself. She hoped that this would incinerate Johnathan. The light engulfed Johnathan and there was pin drop silence for s moment. Billy could hardly watch and closed his eyes. The witch was confident that she had defeated Johnathan. A minute passed as the bright light slowly started to subside. To her amazement, the witch saw Johnathan barely a scratch on his body.

An inner voice told Johnathan that the Witch needed to die a horrible death and so he plunged at the Witch's throat. He grabbed her and pushed her back a few metres. And then his demomic powers arose. With enormous strength, he tore apart the Witch's body, ripping her into two halves. Blood splattered all over him and he enjoyed every bit of it. He split her into half and made sure she was dead anbd then he began feeding on her dead meat!

Billy was observing all this and he knew that it was time to turn him back to his normal self but he wasn't sure if anything would work on him- he had gone too far. He was a Demon now- the ones that he used to kill. But he had to try-

"Johnny? Listen to me boy! You got to come back, this ain't you- you hear me?" he said.

But Johnathan was too busy chomping on the dead witch's body.

"Come back Johnny, let go, let Azazel go!" Billy said.

As soon as he hears the name Azazel, Johnathan stopped, Billy understood that this was the only way to bring back Johnathan- to excorcise the demon out of him.

"In the name of the father and the son- be gone! Be gone Azazel! Leave this vessel- the holy one commands you to leave- Azazel leave right now!!" said Billy taking out a small cross from his pocket.

Johnathan turned towards him and growled. Billy repeated the chant over and over and stepped closer to him. Johnathan was starting to glitch now, the positive energy was fighting against the darkness in him and it was winning. In a few minutes, he was turning back to normal but the demon won't leave him so easily. The exorcism was working but before Azazel left he made Johnathan suffer. He tried to burn and break Johnathan's every organ in his body and had it not for Billy, he would have been dead. But Billy prayed and excorsised harder and within a few seconds the demon left Johnathan's body and dissolved into thin air. Johnathan collapsed on to ground, unconscious, his mouth full of blood!

Raven arrived at just that moment with a huge armoured truck. There were fifteen men loaded with big guns. Raven saw that the fight was over and sighed. She saw Johnathan in that state and understood what had happened. They lifted Johnathan and took him away on the truck. The fight was over - they had won but something else was going on somewhere-

The whole scene was messy, there were huge boulders of rocks in the middle of the street and the dead body of the witch lay torn into pieces. Johnathan was carried away by the men into the armoured truck. Billy went along explaining everything to Raven. Soon they would leave for the City hospital and treat Johnathan.

But there was something else in the spirit rea that none of them were aware of. After he had killed the witch and was excorcised by Billy, his soul went away to the spirit realm briefly, there he met Baba Yaga's spirit. Both of them would be judged by the God of death - Anubis, before they would be sent to heaven or hell.

Johnathan's spirit rushed towards her and asked-

"Where did you hide the kids? Tell me- you're going to hell anyway-"

"Underneath the Old Church-"murmured the witch, depressed and frustrated by her defeat.

Raven was trying to bring back Johnathan by doing some basic CPR- she was pressing down on his chest, rhythmically. After a couple of minutes, Johnathan gasped for air- he was back from the spirit realm and he knew where the kids were- all he had to do now was to wake up!