Mariano is a simple sixteen year old boy with a simple life, until he meets... the other kind. Enter Maximo, one bad boy who has a wild streak longer than any criminals rap-sheet. Mariano is weary of the street rat but when he is told of a magical world that co-exists with his own he isn't sure who to trust. Things get worse when he accidently insults the ruler of Nit Creuats; and elite group of killing machines hell bent on taking over the human world and now destroying his hometown. Mariano finds himself in a battle for power thats been going on for centuries and the weight of the world on his shoulders.