A Love In Dark Times

-Let me in, don't get in the way, I have to save her, don't interfere.

-Luis, you can't go in, the council is in session, don't force us to hurt you,” said one of the guards.

Ym not afraid of you, I'm here if you want one by one or all of you in a huddle.

And he tried to pass the gate, until the guards grabbed him by the shoulders, pushing him a few metres back.

I won't stop until I save her.

Well boy, you will put our performance as guards, come on boy, what can you do, don't let us down, I don't think you are just a mouth.

And Luis threw himself on the one that he supposed that he was the weakest for being skinnier, he threw him a hook rammed in energy, the skinny one grabbed his arm raising it and hitting him with his shoulder in the chest, he levered himself up, raising it to then lower it with fury to his knee, Luis ended up on the floor from where with great difficulty he stood up again, the pain was asleep for his purpose, This time he would not give up, he threw himself against another guard and this one just wanted to grab him, he dodged a blow where he turned him around, preparing to neutralize him, only that a drop of blood stained the white suit of that guard, making him lose control, grabbing him with blows from behind until he was stopped by another guard, again Luis was on the floor.

“Wait, Hero, calm down, it's just a stain, it falls with milk" another guard reassured him.

Against all odds he got up again, insisting on going through the door.

-Boy, if you continue with this plan, you'll make it into the hall, but as a ghost threatened another guard.

1 won't give up while they kill her,” Luis shouted in despair.

-What's that racket,” came out to ask the teacher Michel.

-Don't worry, master, it’s just this whippersnapper who wanted to enter without permission,” replied the skinny guard. “You are complicated, you take your job contemptuously,” Michel scolded them, “you should have asked one of us if he could enter.

Sorry, we were just following orders, the grandmaster said no one was allowed in.

“You look like heartless robots, you think you own the doors," Michel continued to scold them, “let him in, he is my studer and he is a friend of the one we are judging, let him in, you will deal with me later.

Inside we were the high ranking teachers deliberating at a rock table.

-Please Michel, sit down,” ordered the grandmaster.

Ym sorry, 1just don't understand why they didn’t let Luis in, this is his business.

“Well, let's go on," I said, “it is said that the girl must be sacrificed for the good of civilisation, we don’t want a proliferatio of so-called monsters, except for those who sneak in through dimensions or are the product of fertilisation or germinatic as the case may be, however, the fact that our main task as guardians is to minimise these populations because of their capacity for destruction and human extermination, which have placed mankind in danger of extinction in other times, therefore, we at this moment sentence this condemnation, the aforementioned will be disintegrated.

1 am opposed,” said Luis.

-I too, especially me,” interrupted Luisa, “it is unjust that I am condemned without even being allowed to defend myself, I should be allowed my due right to a defence.

“No, ma'am, this is not a trial, make no mistake, you have to say that this will be your lawyer," I said, pointing to Luis. No, sir, it's just that they haven't let me defend myself, then why did they bring me here, to be a sheep at the sacrificial table, although I don't know their methods, or my origins, because my mother, may she rest in peace, and her family seemed very normal, a bit quarrelsome and loud, otherwise fine.

“Maybe those gifts come from the paternal side,” Francisco opined.

“1 never knew my father,” interjected Luisa, “he must be a magician because since the day he did that magic to my dear mother, he disappeared and was never seen again.

That doesn't matter, the sentence has already been passed, let's go on, I have things to do," interrupted a cantankerous teacher.

-No, wait, you are the pinnacle of wisdom, think of something, what if my gifts can be used for the cause of light, put me the test, put me through the arduous training, the excruciating trials, try to break my spirit, please give me a chance, let n live, I promise I will not fail.

That could be a mistake, to give power to a being that can destroy everything, that is unthinkable” another fat master, who was not Michel, complemented him.

“Wait, I propose that I, Luis, the new cadet, be her guardian, that I won't leave her side and that if I see that she becomes evil, I will kill her myself.

-That cannot be done,” said the grand master, “although Luisa is right, these are dark times, we must use everything we have at our disposal, it is a good idea that we try to use her power to our advantage.

Stop, great master, this is out of logic,” interrupted Francisco, “you your eminence, you are committing many improprieti it seems that you are losing your mind, either because of your years or because of your meetings with Lucifer.

“Wait, Francis, are you questioning my leadership, what decisions are you referring to?

Yes I question i, lately you have sent us on suicide missions like the one in the forest, I am not convinced by your plan t venture out into the universe to find the keys to go to Las Capas, you claim it is to get metal for weapons when we alread have a juicy amount under that town, when rumour has it that the real reason is that you need to go and rescue your beloved.

Francisco you are insolent, you question my decisions, I am one of the founders of this organisation, I trained you, for th alone 1 will not destroy you unless you want to challenge me to a leadership battle, do you want to do it?

1am no match for you.

-But I am,” the curmudgeonly master stood up and continued; “Grandmaster I question your authority, you can’t send us die every time you feel like it.

“Well Tahur, I accept your challenge, what do you propose?

“We'll fight according to the old rules, we'll last fighting until I don't die.

-It would be fun, all those ceremonies, too bad time is short, let's go outside like in the old west.

We all went out under the expectation of seeing the great master fight, but not the grumpy master, nobody wanted him, I began to throw blows at the great master and he only covered himself, none of us used energy, the grumpy one threw a kick at him, the great master dodged it, as if he were bullfighting him, until he told him:

I really don't have time for this," he approached him sneaking between the blows as if it were water, he connected a bloy in the jaw that made the grumpy master, shot out of his shoes, landing on the marks that Luis had left in his previous fig! That happens almost every meeting’ Michel whispered to Luis, “that curmudgeon manages to find a way to get himself knocked out for weeks.

-I declare that Luisa will live, train, with us and we will find a way to use her power and those who want to accompany me to Las Capas can do so, the rest of you will stay here looking for the chosen one and guarding the land, anyone else question me?

Silence reigned, even Francisco lowered his head, the great master turned to Luisa and said to her:

Please, dear girl, do not fail us, there are many threats looming over the existence of the universe, we have little hope, I trust you are one of those. Of the hopes, not of the misfortunes.