Galactic Earth (30 page)

Instantly, millions of positive thoughts were picked up by Draco. He could hear prayers from around the world. Sweat began to perspire profusely as Draco couldn’t bare the frequency of love energy that was being sent from the human race. He rubbed his head panicky, desperately trying to make the voices go away while shutting his eyes tightly.

“What’s going on?” Draco shouted hunched over in a foreign otherworldly dialect.

“ARGH!” he cried holding his head dropping to the ground. The monster retreated to the darker areas near some rubble getting away from Gudama.

“This can’t be happening, argh!” he said being able to only speak his native tongue.

“What’s the matter, afraid of a little love?” Gudama said advancing, not understanding Draco’s words.

Raising his neck up, Draco’s eyes started rolling up as he felt the divine light being directed at him.

“This is impossible!” said the creature crawling away in an evil tone. He lay over some big rocks under a dismantled building’s shade to regain strength. Turning on his back, Draco saw the world becoming black as he felt his time was coming to an end, yet still pondered at what had gone wrong. Suddenly, his eyes opened in realization. “You…you did this,” he said gasping, Gudama trying to make sense of the words, “I’ll kill you, die human!” Draco cried in a desperate attack.

Leaping like a frog, Draco hurled himself at Gudama tightly wrapping his limbs around him and squeezed only to find that his whole body was melting from Gudama’s light. Draco tilted his head back screaming and jolted off of him in excruciating pain, “This energy, it’s everywhere, it’s too unbearable,” Draco murmured losing breath.

Even though he couldn’t figure out Draco’s words as he only spoke his native language, Gudama knew the gargoyle’s time was ending. Draco squirmed around in agony like a lunatic letting out a demonic screech while crawling away. He shook his head sideways vigorously repeatedly, hopelessly trying to cast away the voices of prayers. Gudama continued to pummel him, each blow knocking Draco several meters away as though he were a toy. Life force quickly slipped away from each hit as Draco started accepting his demise. He felt his life was burning away as his vision appeared darker. While lying, his eye caught a mother in front of the bystanders holding her baby which cried in fear at his ugliness. This distracted the mother and crowd from their meditative state and put a smile on Draco’s face as he drew strength from them.

Hastily, he flew after them, growing stronger from their screams of terror. Gudama’s eyebrows rose as he saw Draco heading for the people to which he dashed after him. Before he could stop him, Andy quickly warned him that the people would die from the radiation of his aura, causing him to pull away. Draco snatched the baby, emotionally tearing the mother’s heart inside. Gudama lowered his power in order to retrieve the baby without burning her with his light. He ran towards Draco, but with a mighty swing, Draco swapped him away like a fly.

Feeding from the crowds combined negative emotions Draco’s muscles grew bigger and stronger. He held the baby in the sky licking her face, taunting the mother to emit more emotions of fear and pain. Gudama clenched his teeth and fists, and angrily attacked only to be knocked down again by Draco’s new found strength. Foam formed from Draco’s mouth as he drew more power from the crowds’ horror. Even Gudama’s anger charged him with extra zest.

Assessing the situation, Gudama positioned himself in front of the crowd, by the mother’s side.

“Listen, I need you all to pray for the baby, no distractions got it!” he exclaimed to all of them.

The mother dropped to her knees with her cross of Christ in clasped hands, begging angels to save her child. Together, their directed energies caused the baby to glow, weakening Draco as he floated back down to the ground.

“Now, we’re talking,” said Gudama powering back up regaining his previous strength.

With the holy light surrounding them and protecting the baby, Gudama could now rescue her. Out of desperation, Draco opened his mouth wide, mentally informing the mother and others of his intention. Sweat ran down the mother’s forehead and her expression revealed she was disturbed from his psychological warfare. Draco clenched his jaw hard for a bite, but was denied of human flesh by Gudama who held his mouth open.

“Get the baby, quickly!” he shouted to bystanders.

The baby was taken by National Guard along with police special units and given back to the teary eyed mother who embraced her child fully with loving warmth. The mother’s relief and gratitude for her daughter’s return irritated Draco, sapping his evil energy making him weaker. Gudama started to get a the upper hand pushing Draco’s mouth wider, attempting to break his jaw when he saw purple dark matter emerging from his mouth. Before he could react, Gudama was hit by Draco’s energy blast, the beam sending him several meters away.

Flying head first up to Gudama’s face, Draco opened his mouth ready to fire another dark beam at Gudama along with the bystanders behind him. Reacting on reflex, Gudama shoved the forming ball of the projectile back in Draco’s mouth with a hand and closed it with the other, preventing the blast from being released outward. Draco’s attack blew up inside him with multiple rays dispersing out of his body. Gudama and bystanders took defensive stances, covering their faces. After the debris had settled, Gudama uncovered his head and found Draco standing motionless with holes all over his body.

Walking tall, Gudama approached the beast with perfect erect posture and super punched it in the gut, piercing right through its flesh creating a loud high pitched whistle like fumes escaping a hot vessel. Draco growled as his eyes enlarged at the excruciating pain. Gudama stepped to his side and delivered a punishing elbow to the back of Draco’s neck dropping him to his knees. Draco was paralyzed from the damage, and his face met Gudama’s knee followed by another blow behind his neck. Gudama raised his arm for another strike, smirking at Draco’s defenselessness.

Sounds of pain vibrated from Draco’s bruised vocal cords, earning him another strike nearly snapping his neck in two.

Gudama threw a round house kick across Draco’s face, juggling his brain.

“Hit him again!” A bystander shouted.

Gudama looked at him surprised that anyone was still there. Taking a horse stance, he gave the man his request with another heavy thunderous kick to Draco, sending a shockwave throughout his chest and body.

“Yea, kick ’em again!” cheered the fat man.

“Yeah, punish that devil!” shouted the mother.

Gudama gave them their wish again, this time across the face of Draco who was helpless on his knees. The crowd encourage for more.

“You like that?” said Gudama to them.

“Harder!” another man said raising his arms.

“More, hurt him!” said the mother holding her baby while raising her fist.

Gudama was taken aback by her unexpected intensity.

Unleashing his pent up rage, Gudama began kicking Draco repeatedly, alternating legs while bystanders cheered after each blow. The skies boomed thunder with every hit. Accelerating strikes, Gudama began kicking rapidly landing multiple hits to Draco in various areas all around his body knocking the wind out of him.

Throwing a weak wimpy attack, Draco’s punch was kicked away by Gudama, connecting with a spin kick across Draco’s face, dark gel like blood splattering on the ground. Gudama continued his fury, kicking so fast that his legs looked similar to flinging a rubber band. All bystanders saw were flash after images of Gudama’s attacks. Draco was in an agonizing euphoria of pain as he had no clue where the strikes were coming from.

At one point he had lost sense of time and space not knowing what was happening. Gudama took a few steps back to line up a finisher. Draco displayed his sharp clenched teeth and got up to counter, walking right into a heavy muscled kick to the face temporarily stopping him in his tracks, but Draco continued roaring to which Gudama responded with a big super kick to the face finally knocking him off of his feet.

Lying flat on his back, Draco slowly rolled over, crawling to get away. Gudama pulled his neck back by grabbing one of Draco’s horns.

“Do you have any idea how much suffering you caused my people?” Gudama angrily said leaning to Draco’s ear. He turned his hand sideways and stabbed through Draco’s neck.

Frozen in excruciating pain, Draco’s mouth fell open as his saucer eyes remained unblinking.

“That is nothing compared to the agony your kind has done to this planet!”

Gudama slammed Draco’s face furiously several times on the ground, dirt covering the monster’s bashed and disarranged face.

“Your evil hierarchy is over,” Gudama said raising a fist generating force. With his bodyweight, he punched Draco’s spine, creating a hole in his back.

Arching his back, Draco screamed as his cold blood oozed out. He dropped to the ground, his body jerking randomly with spasms. Gudama kicked him away like a can. Struggling to escape, Draco panicked as Gudama walked towards him. The flying lizard got on his knees, pleading for mercy. Gudama pulled back a fist and threw it right-square in the nose, shattering the bones and fasciae.

Bending his neck back from the force, Draco lay helpless on his knees. Gudama struck him with his palm, launching Draco several feet away.

As Gudama drew nearer, Draco laid defenseless. Fear filled his eyes at the sight of Gudama. He reached and pulled dirt, desperately trying to escape feeling his life slip away.

“How did you get this power? Where did it come from!” exclaimed the horned demon struggling to crawl away. For the first time, Draco felt powerless as he lay on his back with eyes lowering in defeat, afraid of death consuming his soul.

Turning his neck to the side as his heart surrendered, he caught Layla in the far distance who was worried about Gudama. Gazing at her during the last moments of vision, something clicked in Draco’s injured brain.

Why is he staring at me, thought Layla shakily?

Wait, of course, the girl, he reasoned! Draco suddenly opened his eyes fully, and crouched up with his newly found resolution.

“If you obtained all this power from love, then I’ll just have reintroduce to evil, and make you embrace hate!” he said emphasizing hatred.

Quickly, Draco projected a blast at bystanders, distracting Gudama momentarily and flew after Layla. Gudama’s eyebrows rose and he went after the beam. After dissipating it, he realized it was a trick and sprinted after the gargoyle. The winged beast snatched his dearly beloved, dodging his lunge, allowing his face to meet stone. Brushing debris off of his face, Gudama looked up to his adversary in metal melting anger. Draco dangled Layla and threatened to kill her.

“No, Layla!” Gudama shouted.

“Gudama!” she cried.

“Yeeeeesssss, that’s it,” Draco said like a snake, “feel the anger, feel the hatred!”

“Argh,” Gudama growled with a raised tight fist, “If you do anything!”

“You’ll what? I can crush her instantly in a second! If you dare come closer the only thing you’ll get is her dead lifeless body, graha, ha, ha!”

Gudama became engulfed in rage. His obsession of rescuing Layla seeped venomous anger throughout his blood towards Draco.

“No Gudama, stay focused! Don’t give into his taunt it will lead you to the abyss of hatred! That’s where he wants you!” warned Andy telepathically.

His call went in vain as Gudama’s rage diffused the spiritual light he gained lowering his power.

“Ha, ha, loser!” said the demon blasting a dark beam from its palm, knocking Gudama thirty meters back as it flapped its wings to escape.

“Very well, I’ll give ‘em all the hatred he wants!”

Recovering, Gudama sprung after him.

Running with super human speed, Gudama chased Draco who had captured Layla. He leaped several meters high in the air to grab her, but Draco out maneuvered him, dodging his attempts. Frustrated, Gudama jumped again only this time landed on his hover board, gaining distance on the flying creature.

The evil monster turned his head, lowering his jaw. Out projected Draco’s dark laser beam. Gudama evaded, the hover board exploding into pieces.

Landing back on ground, Gudama saw the creature flying away in the sky.

“Let her go!” he shouted, demanding her release.

His super vision vividly witnessed Draco’s big sharp teeth smiling as his claws pricked Layla’s flesh, wounding her severely as she screamed in agony, tears gushing out of her eyes. Something snapped inside of Gudama at the sight of this, his eyes became blind with revenge. An anger remerged within, one that he had worked long and hard to dispel through spiritual training. The kind he assured Layla he would never succumb to, yet now found himself welcoming the rediscovered rage.

“No, Gudama!” said Andy watching from high above in his mothership.

Enraged, Gudama let out a battle cry shaking the city with his presence as a discharge of immensely powerful energy exuded from his body radiating a destructive plasma aura. He powered up causing his surroundings to shake and shiver and zoomed after his target, running up buildings jumping from one to the other to gain height.

Atop of a very large skyscraper, Gudama leaped on Draco and leaned back, delivering a diamond slicing chop to his neck. Draco screamed and Gudama continued his fury, breaking Draco’s wings with his bare hands. The creature growled as Gudama bit his neck and continued biting it like a wild animal. Both of them crashed through a window in a tall corporate building, Gudama rolling multiple times through debris. Dust filled the atmosphere as he lost sight of Draco. The room they were in appeared to be under some renovation and were primarily made from wood.

Searching for Draco, Gudama followed the debris and ended up in a rusticated office where papers and broken furniture lay everywhere. There, Layla was found siting on the floor against the wall crying, stripped of her clothing. Gudama approached her slowly. “Are you alright?”

“My arm is broken,” she sobbed.

A faint small dose of hypnotic energy was picked up by Gudama’s senses, but his feelings for her over rid sound judgment.

“It’s ok, I’m here. Everything is going to be ok.”

“I’m scared,” she said shaking.

“Where’s the Draco?”

“It flew away.”