Legend of Mautau: Angelorum Lux

Ch 4: Anomalies

The dark entity in the black cloak lunged into the air at Grey with inhuman speed. Grey was only able to avoid it barely, showing some inhuman speed of his own as he leapt backwards high into the air, and in the action dropped the cell phone. The cloaked figure’s bladed arms slammed onto the concrete with such impact that it crumbled. Having leapt back close to the library’s entrance, Grey quickly formed in both his hands two masses of EDE, which crystallized into twin swords both like the one before. Bringing his blades to bear, his powerful aura of EDE ablaze, he sped down the library stairs again at breakneck speed. He reached his target and swung his blades at it, but the shrouded being quickly defended itself, blocking both his blades with its own bladed arms.

Loud metallic clangs sounded as blade met blade, and Grey muttered to himself, “Damn anomaly, he really sent me a real winner!” 

Mustering his strength, which was amplified by his powers, he pressed against the anomaly’s blades, trying to push it back.

As the anomaly slowly budged, Grey pushed harder as he said, “Get… LOST!”

Then he unleashed one last ounce of strength and knocked the anomaly off balance, quickly following with a solid kick to its chest which sent it flying into the hover car. It bounced on the hood and started to roll across the roof, and then it brought itself to a halt by stabbing one of its blades into the roof. It tried to recover, but Grey wasn’t going to give it time. Raising one of his swords, he began gathering EDE and channeled it into the tip of the blade.

Forming at the blade’s tip, a sphere of orange colored volatile energy formed, and Grey then used a small amount of EDE to generate a strong pulse that propelled the sphere directly at his target at high speed. It was a direct hit. Upon contact the sphere of energy went critical and exploded. Then there was a second explosion as the blast ignited the power source of the hover car. Grey watched as the smoke cleared, and saw one last glimpse of the anomaly as it attempted to pull its broken body from the wreckage before it began to disintegrate. Soon nothing remained but its cloak and dust.

“H-how do you know Grey?” Amy asked, her curiosity barely overshadowing her sense that there was something dangerous about this Alastor person.

Sitting there in his chair, Alastor replied, “I see, he hasn’t mentioned me. Well, we have had our differences, though he was quite useful the two years he was under my… employ. Pity he did not show the level of capability I had hoped, but…”

Alastor took another sip of his coffee before continuing, “It’s so hard to find good help these days.”

Replacing his coffee on the table, Alastor stared into space for a moment, then said, “It seems I’m running short on time, I had better get started on the preparations. He’s already destroyed the anomaly I sent… It was one of my best too. I’m somewhat impressed…” 

He rose from the table, and as he walked past the confused Amy he said, “I look forward to adding you to my collection, Ms. Grant. Give my regards to the Black Knight…”

Amy stood there in shock for a split-second, then turned around and started to say, “You can’t mean…?!”

Alastor was gone. Amy ran a ways down the sidewalk, looking for where he had gone, but it seemed he had vanished into thin air.

Stopping to catch her breath, as she panted Amy said to herself, “No… it can’t… be…”

Amy leaned against a building as she stared at the many different people walking by, thinking, “Men, women, children… The Black Knight spared no one…”

Amy remembered the day of the attack on Luminosa, it had been reported on TV worldwide. Half the city decimated, hundreds killed. An attack led by a terrifying figure clad in black armor. By Grey.