Issue #6-Chapter 9: The Stranger, Part 2

Gideon and I widened our eyes and shivered a bit. "Holy shit! D-D-Demons!" I cried.

Gideon turned to the woods, then me while the monsters rushed towards us like four legged animals. "We have to run, Mike! Let's go before the monsters kill us!"

I quickly turned to Gideon. "You don't have to tell me twice!"

When we turned to the woods and ran away from those monsters, they were getting close to us. Melonia dismissed her spell from her hand and smirked at us, running for her life. She didn't even bother saving our lives.

Then we turned to Basilia once the bell rang, assuming that was an emergency bell. People's screams, explosions, and monsters' roars also echoed into our ears. It was just like my third dream. It was a huge disaster.

As Melonia looked back and forth with her continuous smile, she sensed something beside her. "Huh?! What the-?!" She turned back to the front and gasped while Gideon and I didn't even pay attention to her.

There she saw the stranger standing there with two large demons beside him, pointing at us with a smile. "After her!" The stranger said in a low voice when those monsters ran after her, magically transforming himself back into the black hooded man.

Hearing the monsters' roar, Gideon and I around and saw those same monsters still chasing after us. While we turned around in panic and ran for our lives, we looked back and forth to see those demons gaining momentum in speed. Our hearts were beating hard and fast on our chests and sweat poured down on our faces.

As I was about to turn back to my front, I spotted something that intrigued me from afar. "Huh?!" Melonia fired her light ball spells from her palm at the monsters and the black hooded man, the same guy who scammed us earlier today. Those monsters exploded into black dust. Yet the black hooded man quickly casted a shadowy ball from his palm against her hand, managing to overpower her and capture her.

Melonia grabbed onto her wrist and looked down at her hand, seeing it disappear from it. With the shadow casting upon her, she looked up and saw the black hooded man grabbing her arms.

The moment I saw the black hooded man held onto the resisting princess, I glared at him right then and there. "Hey, it's that scammer from earlier!"

Gideon turned to Mike. "Huh?!"

Remembering that woman's cry from her third dream, I turned to Gideon and the black hooded man back and forth. "That scammer from earlier is kidnapping the princess right now!"

"What?! I can't hear you!"

I loudly repeated the phrase and Gideon turned to the black hooded man. "Ah, I see what you're saying, Mike," Gideon understood.

"We need to go get her now!"

"No, we can't go save her now!" Gideon disagreed. "We need to save ourselves first."

"But-!"

"Trust me, we'll go rescue her and get that money." Gideon returned to his destination. "Right now, we need to save ourselves from those monsters."

I sighed and looked back at the black hooded man one last time, before he completely disappeared in darkness with the princess. I returned to my destination and turned to Gideon and my destination back and forth.

"Yea, I guess you're right, Gideon," I agree at last.

Gideon smiled at me. "Good."

That scammer darted his glowing red eyes at me and chuckled viciously while he disappeared from my sight. I started to realize something: the woman with a crown, the shadowy monster and now the burning kingdom finally came true. Then the monsters roared behind us and we turned to them, seeing them get closer to us with their claws out forward. I widened my eyes.

Oh, man! They're getting closer to us! I better go find a way to at least stun them before we get killed!

I turned to my direction and searched for something to stun my enemies, yet I hadn't spotted them until I spotted a tree branch right in front of me. I smirked at it while I looked back and forth. That branch would help me slow down my enemy's advancements which gives us some time to find a hiding spot.

As we got closer to the tree branch, the more those monsters got closer to us. With one of the monsters roaring at us, I looked back to see that monster raised its claw above me, getting ready to strike. I turned to the branch and quickly pushed it away from me. It struck its face and the monster didn't even bother to strike me.

The monster screamed out of pain and took a couple steps backwards, touching its face. The other monster kept charging at us. I looked back and grinned at the harmed monster. One monster down, one more to go.

I turned back to my destination. Now I wondered if I could find another item to stun that monster. I looked everywhere in front of me and couldn't find it. My heart pumped panikally when I looked back at the monster. It roared at us with its claw raised up.

Widening my fearful eyes, I opened my eyes and turned my head towards my destination back and forth. I kept searching for something but still couldn't find it, no matter how many times I tried. It looks like I may die after afterall.

When the monster was going to swing its claw at me, something hit its head from the left and made it stop moving. "Huh?!" I curiously stared at the monster and something tapped on my shoulder, turning left.

There I saw Gideon gave me a thumbs up and smiled at me. I grinned at him and gave him a thumbs up back. I was happy he saved me from that monster. What a hero!

"Thanks for saving me, Gideon!" I exclaimed.

"No problem there, Mike!" Gideon responded as the monster's roar echoed behind us.

"Huh?!" Widening our eyes, there we saw a monster rushing past the other one and chased after us, angrily breathing hard a couple times.

I couldn't believe this monster's still after us. Now what?! Then something tripped me over on the ground. "Whoa!!!"

Gideon stopped running and turned to me, shouting my name. I turned to something that tripped me over and it was a medium-sized rock, making me frown at it before I turned back at the monster.

The shadow casted all over me when the monster finally stopped in front of me. It raised its claw up above its head and was ready to strike me, chuckling a bit.

Oh, man. Now I'm a dead man. Get ready to be reincarnated into a life worse than a homeless man, Mike. You're gonna need it, bro…