♤SPRING SHIELD (MxM) ~fantasy~♤

First time for the last round

"But the point is,I lived even if I could barely remember anything from my past,"Survival  in a tragedy comes with a price I suppose.

"It's been seven years now,can you still not remember anything from your past?"I ask him,sympathy that I rarely spare offered up to his reminiscent expression,

"I can,just not all of it."A pause,"That's all though,what I wanted to tell you. You know,since you're my employer."I keep quiet and face foward back to the printer as it finishes its work on the central device.

"Thank you... for telling me."I whisper,not sure if he can even hear it.

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"So... no overtime tomorrow,right?"Kristian asks,following closely behind me. Our steps in the office are the only noise along side the muffled sounds of the city in the street below. It's dark and everyone has already gone home except for us,

"If that constitutes as overtime to you,White. I'm sorry but these are going to the worst couple months of your life."I say checking my phone to make sure David picked up the boys from school on time,he groans and I stifle a chuckle because its too early to be finding amusement in his suffering.

"Are the boys at home yet?"

"Yes,why?"

"Tell them to call me."

"...I'll think about it."I have zero business letting them get too attached to him,even though they already turned him into a daily talking point.

As we walk off to the elevator I hear something behind us. So does Kristian because we turn around at the same time,"Did you hear that?"before I can nod in agreement,my band lights up with its robotic report,

"Strange motions detected within a ten meter radius,remain alert."

"And what would that be?"Kristian asks me just as I put a protective arm in front of him making sure he's behind me,
"I have no idea but just remember to stay behind me."As my eyes search the darkness,I look back to him and he does to me,"Like I'm your shield."I whisper,attention stuck on the shadows.

Everything stills. The city quiets. It makes it even more terrible when something conjures the darkness around it be real. It clouds my sight as it rushes towards the both of us like wind,I strike at around the same time Kristian stifles a scream.

The emerald ray of my power hits the center of the manifestation splitting it into two. It retreats before reforming.

A dark cloud.

What the hell? A dark cloud hasn't made an appearance in Ferrez for the past... years,it's been years since. The gravity of the situation weights on my shoulders as I realise how dangerous it is.

How much danger HE is in right now.

"What is that thing?!"Kristian shrieks and I curse under my breath,

"Whatever it is isn't the point. Just know it doesn't have eyes and if waits for you to talk."

"Why?"he whispers,holding on to my shoulder and glaring at the cloud as it searches for us,

"Because it changes the way the air moves,Red."I back around the room trying to recall what my protocol teacher said to me years ago about the procedure. I watch carefully as is shifts around like a floating ball of water in the air,never still.

When we stop circling around it and stop in a place I think is safe. Two seconds pass before it cracks it's form towards us and charges. I strike once across its front,taking my time to strengthen my power around my fists to make them my weapon.
The green light around my hands,swipes around the figure once again splitting up its torn form. I sprint to another side of the office to take its attention away from Kristian.
I can take a hit but he- he definitely can't. And I won't let him.
It chases after me as I'd hoped and I prepare to take it down but it stops right in front of me. It turns with a hellish sound and races into his direction instead of mine.
It doesn't want me at all. It's here for him.

Kristian dodges by ducking behind the wall he was safely tucked into as he watched me. The black spreads across the wall like a splatter of blood as it climbs and searches for its target. When Kristian runs down the other end of the room,it reforms. The sound of his pacing breath.
He doesn't make it more than three steps before it goes after him.

I leap between them,straight into the cloud. Immediately it burns my skin like acid as it wraps around me and tosses me into a wall,aggravated. The hellish turns of sound grow louder as it sets out to get me.

My back aches from the wave of force that was just pushed into its bones,I open my eyes just before it comes at me,but the colour isn't dark anymore.

It's one blazing streak of red that flashes infront of me. The creature taken a back lets out a cry of pain as it retreats. "I thought you were human."I ask him as he pants whisps of heat coming from his palms as he stand in front of me doing exactly what I should be,

"Not important."he says back and I silently agree before taking my chance having remembered what to do.
Using a spell I cast a net around the wounded cloud and bind it into the smallest space possible. It protests as I finish it off and it explodes as if it never was. A small object falls onto the ground in the wake of the creatures defeat,"What's that?"Kristian mutters as he picks it up,

A shard of a ruby gem.

"There's a symbol on it."he says turning around in the dim moonlight.
There is a symbol on,I silently agree. But its broken,its only a piece of the symbol. "What does it mean?"he whispers,
"I don't know?"I say when he lets me have it,"I'll give it to the Security Bureau of Ferrez and let them analyse it,it might be useful."I explain pocketing the ticket and walking him out of the building,

"Aren't you hurt?"he asks in unison with the elevator reaching the ground floor,he looks around me,searching for bruises,

"I was."I say,as we descend to the lower parking floor,
"Self healing abilities?"he whispers to himself,looking far to curious for what I deem normal. I don't deny nor confirm his suspicions.

"Let me drive you home."I say opening my car to find out where it is in the darkness,

"No,I just wanted to walk you here and make sure you're okay,you know after all that."A pause,"You were all like this and the monster was like-"he flails his arms around terribly imitating what he say a moment ago.

Despite myself,I grin in amusement. He stops when he realises the ridiculousness of his actions,

"What I mean is you were cool back there."he puts his hands behind his back as he strolls beside me,

"Just doing my job,Red."I open the passenger side of my car and turn to him,"But I'm still taking you home."