The Last Guardian

Chapter_50: Limitless

Johnathan saw Thelma- the old wrinkly witch rush towards him on all fours- like an animal. He immediately stood up and picked his sword. The Witch jumped at him aiming for his throat but Johnathan swung his sword at her. The witch fell down but stood up instantly. Johnathan was sure he had cut her but it seemed that he had barely scratched her.

“What on earth? How is she still moving?” Johnathan thought.

Both of them began to round each other up and the witch prepared for another attack. She had transformed into some kind of hideous monster that looked human. Her hands were clawed and scratching the ground and wolf like teeth came out of her mouth- she was like a hungry predator ready to pounce upon her prey. And then she jumped at him like a hungry jackal, he pushed his sword at her intending to gut her but she somehow managed to dodge the sword and grab his throat. His sword fell from his hands as he began to turn blue from the choking. It was high time that he unleashed all his powers but he could hardly concentrate. With his full force he grabbed the witch’s bony arms and pulled them apart, releasing them from his throat. He could breathe again and so he called upon his metal arms. He could feel the metal wrapping around his arms tighter and tighter- the witch began to push harder, trying to claw his throat. But Johnathan squeezed her arms so hard that he managed to crush them. The bones crackled and the arms broke like dry twigs. Thelma screamed in pain and her cries filled the jungle air. Johnathan took this opportunity to further inflict damage on her. He rushed towards her and threw a right hook at her face. Her jaw cracked and the lower half of her mouth twisted sideways. He had almost had her. He then kicked her hard on her chest and she fell crashing down against a tree. He then took his sword and rushed at her. The witch let out a terrible scream for a moment before he chopped off her head...

Fiona had walked away earlier, leaving Thelma to finish the job. She went looking for the other ones- Billy, Raven and Lisa- so that she could finish them off all at once. She was pretty confident that Thelma could take care of Johnathan but her screams suggested otherwise. She had walked half a kilometre to the other side of the highway looking for the others when she began to hear Thelma scream in pain. Fiona immediately turned back and vanished into thin air. Moments later, she appeared before Johnathan, who was holding a sword over Thelma’s decapitated body. Fiona gasped in utter shock.

“What have you done?”she rushed towards Thelma’s dead body.

Johnathan stepped back. Tears began to roll down Fiona’s cheeks as she kneeled before her sister’s body.

“Enough of this- I’ll give you one last chance to tell me where the kids are-”threatened Johnathan.

Fiona stood up and turned towards Johnathan. She let loose her black cloak and Johnathan saw her inner, almost transparent white robe as she began walking towards him. Johnathan blushed.

“Stop! What are you doing?” said Johnathan stepping back.

“What’s wrong? You don’t want me, so I’m giving you the chance to attack me- look at me, I’ve got no armour on- hit me if you dare because I’ll never tell you where the kids are-”said Fiona coming dangerously close to him.

Johnathan was confused, he knew that she was a thousand year old evil witch but he couldn’t resist looking at her gorgeous and shapely body, he was weakened, he could barely hold his sword steady, he kept stepping back, the closer she got.

“Men! Ah! It’s so easy to distract you-”smiled Fiona and a gust of wind blew across her long dark hair.

Johnathan noticed a change in the environment and as he looked around, he was shocked to find out that he was standing on the edge of a cliff- one wrong step and he could fall a hundred metres to his death or something closer to death. He gasped and tried to stand up straight. He wondered how this was possible, one moment he was in the middle of the forest and the next moment, in the blink of an eye, he was on the edge of a cliff.

“I could throw you off of this cliff but I know your Chi won’t let you die- so I will get rid of your Chi first and then you will just be a mere mortal-”she said and grabbed Johnathan by his collar and pulled him towards her.

Johnathan was shocked and before he could do anything, Fiona brought her mouth close to his and opened wide. Before he could tell what was happening, Fiona was drawing out all his energy from his mouth and swallowing it in. His life force- the energy that gave him all his ability was being slowly and steadily drained out if his mouth and into Fiona’s. He suddenly started to feel weaker and his body started to hurt terribly. His metal arms were disappearing, his word felt down from his hand and the metal in his feet was vanishing away. He was starting to feel like a cripple again, like the way he was, before he was a guardian.

It didn’t even take a minute before Fiona was done sucking out all his energy and once she was down, she smacked her lips and grabbed him by his throat and lifted him into the air. Johnathan saw her eyes light up like the devil, her hair flying in the wind like the darkness itself, her white transparent robe tightly hugging her shapely body. He could do nothing any more, he was turned in to a mere bag of bones and muscles- he could see and understand things but he could barely move a muscle, he was barely breathing.

“Good Bye Guardian-”she said and let go off him.

Johnathan begin to free fall from the cliff and into the rocky stream below, it would hardly take a few seconds, before his body would hit the sharp rocks below and it would immediately kill him. Fiona kept watching from above to make sure that she have had her vengeance.

He was halfway down, when he closed his eyes and began to pray.

“This is my last prayer to you dear God. If you can, then allow me one more chance- rescue me, just give me this one chance to defeat these witches and rescue the kids- I ask for nothing more...”he said in his mind.

A voice echoed inside his head-

“Look inside- all you want is within you- in your mind!”

Johnathan wondered what it meant but he trusted the voice in his head and said-

“I wish I could fly-”

A loud ringing sensation began to emanate in his head and Johnathan began to black out. He saw nothing and heard nothing. It was pitch black before his eyes and suddenly a tiny white dot began to emerge in the centre of his mind and it started to grow bigger and bigger. It grew so incredibly bright in his mind that he could hardly keep his eyes closed. He was just two metres away from the bottom and gravity was pulling him hard. But as he opened his eyes, rays of light began to come out from his eyes and mouth. He was filled with a new kind of energy, one he was not familiar with before.

He was now three feet from the rocks when his body stopped falling down and now he was suspended a few feet above the rocky stream below. The rays of light slowly disappeared into his body and he began to stand up and float a few feet above the stream. Elevation! He has unlocked a new ability.

Fiona had already walked off the cliff, thinking that he was dead. Now she had to take care of the others but she suddenly started to feel a new form of energy behind her. Johnathan was rising up from below and towards the edge of the cliff. She turned around and saw him in a completely new form, beaming with delicious energy.

“Impossible!” she exclaimed “I’ve taken out all your energy”

He slowly landed on the edge of the cliff and started to walk towards her. She fell back a few steps- he seemed intimidating. But she was one powerful witch and there’s nothing she could not do. She gently raised her arms and pointed them towards him and let out a powerful beam of energy so strong that it would instantly disintegrate any normal human being. But the beam of energy barely scratched Johnathan and he absorbed it like it was nothing. She tried again and again but with the same result. He let her use all of her strength and was planning to exhaust her. He was now glowing from all the collected energy.

Seeing that her tricks were not working any more, she let out her ultimate power and raised her hands up in the air soaking up the energy from all the trees and plants around her. But Johnathan had now had enough. He clenched his body tightly and released all the collected energy towards her. A loud blast echoed across the forest like a bomb had gone off. The energy completely overwhelmed the beautiful witch and it tore through her body. He clothes were disintegrated from the radiation and her naked body collapsed on the ground. Johnathan was exhausted and panting and walked up to her to see if she as still alive. To his surprise, her nude body was now slowly turning to dust and her face was withering. Within moments, she turned to dust and there was nothing left but ashes on the ground.

Johnathan was surprised that he could defeat her but he had other problems in his mind now. He wondered where the rest of his team were and where was Lisa.

“Where the heck am I?” he said looking around at the strange place.