THE GUARDIAN 2

CHAPTER 15: NEW GUARDIAN

Ken smacked me in the face, he didn't even use a quarter of his strength but yet I almost fell unconscious when I hit the ground. "Hey Toby, aren't you glad to see me" Carnage laughed as he danced around me. I slowly tried to get back up to my feet but Ken placed his foot on top of my back pushing me back to the ground with devastating force. "Carnage.... Why are you here?" I growled. "Good question, why don't you try and guess the answer" he said as he kneeled beside me. I tried to push up against Kens foot but it was to heavy.

"You'll never get the relic" I spat, "oh no no no no no Toby ma boy, I'm not here for some dumb slab of stone" he said. He then leaned in close to my face."I'm here to kill you" he said smiling. "Ya see, I've modified Kens muscles structure to make him bigger and stronger as long as I promised him Dereks head" Carnage explained. Suddenly Carnage was shot in the back of the head with a bullet, no blood splattered out as he fell to the ground. Derek came running towards Ken with only one of his guns.

Ken got off of me and looked at Derek as the bullets bounced off of him. "DEREK!" he yelled as he ran at Derek, "long time no see Ken" Derek said as he ran towards him. Ken dropped both of his fists down to crush Derek. But Derek leaped back out of the way. He then shot Ken in the eye with his gun. It didn't even phase him and Ken smacked Derek aside. I got up to my feet but Carnage came from behind and smacked me across the back of the head with a pipe he found on the ground.

I fell back on my face and Carnage laughed. "Some hero you are Toby, can't even protect the Ministry correctly". I got back up to my feet and faced him. "You don't seem to be able to die" I coughed. Carnage smiled even wider "can't kill what's already dead" he said. Suddenly my armor disappeared and my power became limited. That's when I really got scared. Someone around here found my sword and picked it up, the only people capable of that is me and......... Majesta. "CARNAGE!!!!" someone yelled from behind Carnage.

He turned and standing there a few yards away was Crimson, no it was Christa, and she had a large yellow battle axe in her hand with yellow armor slim fitted on her body and a yellow cape. Wait a second, that was no regular axe, she had the balancer. "Well isn't that a sight for sore eyes" Carnage laughed. I stood there stunned, I thought she wasn't able to lift the sword when we fought. But then again she was Crimson at the time. She pointed the axe at Carnage "you killed my family" she yelled with tears in her eyes.

Carnage started to walk towards her "you would've been the perfect weapon, the greatest killing machine" Carnage said as he jumped at her. Christa slapped him in the face sending him flying back towards me. Carnage bumped right into me and we both fell to the ground. Christa then flew up and dived back down towards me and Carnage with her axe raised over her head. "Whoa whoa Christa BE CAREFUL!" I yelled. But she didn't listen, she was about to cut right through both Carnage and me. But before she could end our lives Derek rushed in and kicked Christa to the side.

I sighed in relief as I threw Carnage off of me, he seemed to unconscious from that slap. "Thanks Derek" I said as I walked towards him. He then punched me in the face "that's for trying to throw me in that shield of yours!" He yelled. "Oh stop being a baby, you'd of survived" I complained. Derek frowned "yeah with major injurys!" he yelled again.

"DEREK!" Ken yelled as he ran towards us. "You still didn't beat him?" I said in annoyance. "No he won't go down" Derek complained. Suddenly Christa got back up to her feet.

Electricity was shooting out of her body and destroying all the rubble around her. Storm clouds started to form and lightning started to strike the earth. She was going to level this whole place. I looked at Derek and he looked back at me. "Truce" we said in unison. Derek turned around and started firing his gun at Christa as he ran at her. I ran at Ken who wasn't even paying attention to me, he only focused on Derek. I summoned electricity and shot him with a bolt of lightning, but it didn't even slow him down.

Great, can anything hurt this guy I thought. Ken waved his hand at me to swat me out of his way but I jumped over his large hand. "Freeze" I said as I shot ice from my hand at him. The ice formed all around his body until he was fully frozen. But it wouldn't hold him for long. This next spell would use up all of my mana but I had no choice. I focused all my energy into the earth under me. I clapped my hands together and slowly spread them apart. The ground started to shake and a large crack opened in front of me.

A large pillar of lava erupted from the ground and took the form of a hand. Ken broke the ice he was in and roared at the large lava hand. He leaped at it without a second thought. The hand caught him in midair and sunk back into the ground taking Ken to the center of the earth. I fell to my knees breathing heavily. I lost a lot of mana, I need to rest. Suddenly there was a loud BANG! from behind me and Derek fell to the ground right next to me.

His gun was destroyed and his body was smoking. "Are you okay?" I asked him as he sat up. "No, I can't fight her she's even stronger then you" he said as black blood dripped from his lips and cuts. I turned and seen Christa walking towards us. I got up to my feet and limped back to her. "Christa stop this" I ordered, "where's Carnage" she growled. I looked at the spot where I left Carnage to see he was gone. "He's long gone Christa" I answered. Christa gritted her teeth "then I gotta find him, he has to pay for what he's done".

"I know Christa, but not like this, you don't know how to control your power you'll kill people" I said. "I don't care, if anyone gets in my way I'll kill them too!" She said pointing her axe at me. I limped closer to her "is that what your family would've wanted? For you to take others from their own family?" I asked. "Watch your mouth" Christa threatened. "I'm sure your mom would've wanted you to protect rather then take, are really going to let Carnage turn you into a killing machine like he wanted?"

Christa started to shake, and tears started to fall from her eyes. Her eyes went from blue to red and she dropped the axe onto the ground, her armour vanished and she fell to her knees sobbing. I picked the balancer back up and my power returned to me. "I promise Crimson, you'll get your revenge, but first we gotta stop this war between me and Derek" I explained. Suddenly Derek came running "um Toby, please tell me why there are zombies here?" He asked as he approached me.

"Zombies? What do you me-" I was cut short as I noticed dead bodies rising from the ground and rubble. They all shuffled towards us and surrounded us. This was getting ridiculous, what's going on now? That's when it hit me, the only person I know who capable of raising the dead is Cindy, and after all that has happened to the Ministry there'd be thousands of dead bodies around the place. "Oh no" I said, Derek looked at me with worry in his eyes "what's going on?" He asked. I paused for a second "Majetsas going after the relic, and she has an army to back her up".