Immortals War

Chapter 1

A Bat Demon Attacks the Monterey Park Aquarium

Hi my name is Jason Gladius, I may look like an average thirteen year-old boy, with black hair, dark eyes, in the seventh grade but if you've known me for long enough you would know that I am no ordinary kid. First things first, I am an aura weaver, special warriors born with a special gift to help them combat the forces of evil!

I know I may sound crazy but I swear I'm not, I guess the best way to make you understand is to make start from the beginning.

Guess I should start from how I got here in the first place. Well it all started on a field trip with my class. I live in Los Angeles, California. My school is this private school called Promise Middle School . On that day we were taking a trip down to the Monterey Park aquarium. We were driving on the highway. I was on the bus chatting with my friends, Niko Kane, a dark skinned kid. He was skinny, and didn't have much muscles.

He is very laid back and loves to talk but he can get furious from even the slightest of insults. Anyway, we were on the bus chatting away when a book smacked Niko in the back of the head.

"Ow! Hey who threw that!?" he yelled across the bus. I heard some laughing from the back of the bus and sighed, looks like ol' Zackary is pulling his pranks again.

Zackary is the entire middles schools biggest jerk. Our school gave out award for best bully he would have earned it every year. He loved to mess with Niko especially because of Niko's scrawny build.

Niko stood up in his chair, "Oh, so you wanna go huh!?" I slapped my hand to my face and sighed. I pulled him back into his chair, "Calm down, it's not worth it."

"Come on Jason we could take him on!" Niko complained.

"Not with all his goons." I replied. Niko scoffed, I sighed, "Look if we do fight him he and his goons would beat us up, not only to that but we would also be put in detention."

"But at least they would be in detention, too!"

"I'll let you have part of my lunch."

The rest of the bus ride was uneventful, Niko was snoring away next to me, having nothing else to do I looked out the window. I thought about my life and how it was the same everyday, wake up, go to school, come home, sleep, and repeat. There's the occasional field trip but even that is starting to get dull. I thought about my mom and how she was doing at her work. She works at a clothes company, under a really hard manager that makes most of the workers work overtime.

As I stared out the window contemplating this I noticed something flying in the sky. At first I thought it was some eagle or a raven maybe, but it was way too big to be a bird. As I looked closer I saw that it was humanoid, but it had leather bat wings about seven feet across. I rubbed my eyes to make sure I was seeing correctly, when I looked again it was gone.

Once we arrived at the aquarium, I pulled Niko to the back of the line and told him about what I saw, "And it had like huge wings like bats, what do you reckon it was?" I asked him.

Niko shrugged, "Probably your imagination." Then he muttered something under his breath, I wasn't sure what he said but I thought he said, "I hope it's just his imagination." That didn't do anything to reassure me. I was still thinking about this when I got a shove from behind.

I turned around to see the ugly face of Zackary, "Hey watch where you going punk." He said as he brushed past me, followed by his goons laughing and snickering. One of them shoved Niko onto his butt, "Hey!" Niko shouted.

The goon gave him a rude gesture then walked off laughing followed by his friends. I went over and help Niko to his feet, "Swear one day." Niko said shaking his fist at Zack.

We entered the aquarium, with our school, it had many interesting exhibits but I couldn't concentrate my mind kept drifting back to what I saw on the bus. In addition to that, I felt as if something was watching me, I told Niko this but he just gave me the same answer as before, though he did seem to tense up.

We walked through the aquarium checking out all the exhibits once again I felt as though someone was watching me again. I turned around and spotted a big burly man in a trench coat with a wide brimmed hat staring directly at me.

I tapped Niko on the shoulder and gestured to the man, "What's up with him?" I asked, Niko looked over his shoulder and his eyes widened, he grabbed me by the shoulder, "Let's go" he said as he steered me away, "Wha—hey wait! Maybe he just wants to talk!" I protested.

"Nope we are leaving right now." He said eyes intently locked on the exit. I looked behind me and I saw the man walking menacingly towards us. "Yeah, ok lets go." I started to walk towards the exit fast, Niko keeping pace behind me.

I looked over my shoulder again and I saw the man about ten feet behind us, I started to run with Niko running alongside as well. The man started to sprint after us and was gaining ground quickly.

"Crap, crap, crap, crap!" Niko said, as we ran full sprint at the door, it was getting closer and closer, when suddenly I heard a scream from behind me and Niko shouting, "Jason watch out!"

I spin around only to be knocked off my feet by a giant dark figure. I flew back several feet before hitting the ground. I scrambled into sitting position, when I looked up I saw the man standing in front of me with wings sprouting out from his back, He snarled, then he spoke in a hoarse voice that sounded like bones being grinded together, "The lord said you would be more powerful demon hunter. Looks like he was wrong." He said, then let out a strangled laugh, I scrambled backwards only to bump into the wall, "Don't worry I shall bring you a quick death." Then his fingers started to grow and extend into razor sharp claw the size of knives.

He raise it ready to slice me to bits when suddenly Niko yelled, "Hey stink breath!" then jumped onto the monsters back, "Jason catch!" he yelled then threw me something.

I reached out and caught the item, I held it up and saw the gleaming blade and elaborate looking hilt, "A dagger?" I said to myself.

"Help me!" Niko said, then keeping his arm tightly wrapped around the creature, he flipped backwards, throwing the monster across the room, it crashed into the fish tank shattering it to bits.

I ran up next to Niko and stared at him, stunned, "What was that!?" I said in shock.

"That," he said gesturing to the creature that was struggling to get up from the broken fish tank, "is a Gargoyle, an elder by the looks of it."

I stared at him as if he just fell out of the sky and said he came from Mars, I spoke the first thing that came into my mind, "What?"

"I'll explain later, but first…" he placed a hand on my shoulder, and then murmured something in another language.

I felt a tingle travel down my entire body, "What did you do?"

"I activated you aura."

"My what?" I asked

"Later, first let's take out this guy." Niko said, he pulled out two twin metal bracelets, each was a metal band with runes carved on it, he placed them on his writs, instantly they shifted and changed into twin gauntlets.

A green gem was embedded in each knuckle. He punched a fist into his palm, around him a glowing green silhouette appeared, without another word he let loose a battle cry and charged the gargoyle with inhuman speed, my brain too three seconds to react, "Hey, wait!"

The Gargoyle swiped its claws at Niko, he ducked then came back up with an uppercut to its jaw, there was a sickening crack as the gargoyle was knocked into the air; it flapped its wings and straightened out in the air.

Its jaws were bent at a funny angle; it let out a low growl, and then cracked its jaw back into place. It snarled at Niko, "Enough games time to finish the job." It dived down, directly towards Niko, the Gargoyle slammed into him, sending him flying past me, crashing into a wall.

The gargoyle circled around and came in for another dive, this time at me with its claws outstretched, I ducked and rolled out of the way then sprang up and grabbed onto its back. It began to buck and thrash around, trying to shake me off.

I held on, tight, raised my dagger and plunged it into the Gargoyles back, it shrieked, and began to fall towards the ground, just before it crashed I jumped off, tucked an rolled, then landed in a crouch.

I got up slowly, my hands trembling with adrenaline, Niko ran up to me and clapped me on the back, "That was amazing!" he said with a laugh, I let out a nervous giggle, I looked back over my shoulder at the Gargoyle's corpse, it was slowly dissolving into black smoke, leaving a smell of burnt coal behind.

I looked down at my hands again, they were shaking, in addition to that, there was that same glowing silhouette around them, like the one that appeared around Niko, the only difference was it wasn't glowing green it was glowing blue.

"What—how?" I was breathless; my heart was pounding in my chest, the shimmering blue outline slowly faded. I turned to face Niko, "How did I do that?" I asked him not believing what just happened.

"Your aura helped you during your fight." Niko replied. "My…aura?" I said.

"Yeah, it's the energy your soul produces, that's what help you with the gargoyle, hey you're looking kind of pale are you feeling alright?"

I stumbled, my mind was swimming, aura, gargoyle? All these words didn't make any sense, I was starting to feel a bit dizzy, I suddenly felt really tired.

"Hey Jason buddy, you alright?" Niko asked.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine…" I said, then I black out.