NIGHTBLADE

Chapter 8

The next day, an announcement popped up on the school's Facebook page that classes are suspended due to the reconstruction of the pipelines and the building.

As messages from his classmate's GC buzz on his phone, Damian was lying down on his bed as he was thinking about what happened yesterday.

"What exactly happened back there?" he thought to himself, He tried to think back before the battle ended. Then he remembered the time he read the words show.

Damian felt his phone vibrating beside him. He lifted it in front of him, he saw messages from his classmates

"Let's meet up later. @ Cafe de Aliana." Cristina messaged in the GC, "1 pm sharp."

Damian looked at his watch. It's 11 am. He opened the door and remembered that he was told to take his dog out for a walk by his aunt. He went to the backyard of his house but no one was there, not even a sign of a dog.

When he went inside, he found Marvel, his Pomeranian dog, lying down on the couch. The dog sat up, wagged his tail as he saw his owner standing beside him while holding a leash.

An hour had passed and Damian, along with his dog Marvel, arrived at the cafe where his friends said they'd meet up. He couldn't get in since there was a sign that said, "No Pets Allowed"

William noticed him and waved at him to come in, but Damian pointed to the leash he was holding. After realizing the situation, William told his friends that they should sit outside.

While they are all discussing their project, they can't help but notice Damian's dog that was sitting on his lap. It was too cute to look away from it.

"Remind me again why you brought your dog to this meeting?" Cristina asked

"I, uh, was told to take him out for a walk," Damian replied

A little while later, they all got to work on their tasks. While Cristina and Liz were discussing and William browsing on his computer, Damian was using his phone searching for information for their presentation at the same time holding his dog Marvel in his arms.

Then a slight breeze blew past Damian's ear, followed by the smell of smoke. He looked around, but couldn't find where it came from.

He then stood up putting Marvel down. "I have to bring my dog back to my place," he told the others. "I'll be back in a jiffy." Then he rode in his bike and took off.

Damian pedaled as fast as he could until he was able to go home and put Marvel in his cage. Suddenly, - BOOM!! - he heard a loud explosion from afar. He turned around and saw a large smoke downtown.

"Darn it. I won't make it in time." He muttered to himself. Then a thought flashed in his mind. He remembered what happened yesterday.

"Neon?" He called out.

"I'm right here, boy." Neon replied,

Then the medallion began to glow. but just before his medallion was about to glow, Damian quickly hid behind a large dumpster, and immediately his clothes changed into his black and blue suit.

He took a deep breath and began to concentrate. He felt the wind blowing around him as he was lifted in the air. Then he immediately flew to where the explosion took place.

Meanwhile, people were panicking and running away from what appears to be flowing molten lava. And amidst it all, a beast is formed from the lava. A large bull-like stone creature emerged from the lava. Its eyes burning with murderous intent and hatred. A long line of lava was spewing on its back. On its head, a mark of a fire symbol glowed in pure white.

"NIGHTBLADE!!" It roared, "Come out. Come out wherever you are!"

"Right here!" a voice replied,

The beast looked up and saw NightBlade dashing toward it while holding his sword on his side. The beast then charged a ball of fire in its mouth and blasted it towards NightBlade but he quickly swerved to his right, glided to its side, and managed to slice one of its legs causing the beast to fall to the ground. THUD!!

NightBlade then flew above the beast and surveyed the area. Lava continues to flow, melting anything that it touches. He then noticed that the beast standing back up as the leg that was sliced reformed from the rubble.

He then looked at his sword then he looked at the ground. "Let's see if this works," he said to himself as he swooped down floating above the buildings.

NightBlade landed on the ground just a few meters away from the flowing lava. He then stuck his sword on the ground and began dragging it around forming what appears to be an empty hole. He then realized that the lava was getting closer so he took his sword from the ground and flew high up into the air.

The lava continues to flow however when it reached the hole that NightBlade made, it wasn't deep enough.

Suddenly, - KA-BOOM!! - he was hit by a ball of fire. He crashed on top of a building just 20 meters from the giant stone bull.

"Ow," NightBlade muttered. He then felt like his head was spinning but he managed to shake the feeling away as he stood up.

The beast was charging enough power for another blast but he was hit in the head by a mailbox thrown by NightBlade. However, the beast didn't react.

Suddenly, NightBlade felt his heart beating hard. Then he noticed the beast shaking his head as if it was trying to get rid of something. On the other hand, the white mark on its forehead began to pulse like it was reacting to something.

Could it be the same as the feather that we found the other day? NightBlade thought

"What if it is?" Neon said

A split second before NightBlade could react, he felt the wind pushing him aside as something was headed straight for him. Luckily, he dodged it and when he looked back he noticed that it was a horn from the stone bull.

NightBlade sighed, "Can this day get any weirder?"