Chapter 2
Disclaimer: See first chapter
Grammar/spelling beta: PhillyCh3zSt3ak
The air was cold as ice, and unbearable to any man or living creatures, as Big Boss took a step. His eyes scan warily, his breath escaped from his mouth and he could see it. He crossed his upper limbs, hands locked on his upper arm, as he felt the coldness seeping in his clothes, then to his skin and then to his bones.
He heaved himself heavily; it was so cold for him.
'Where am I? 'he thought as he remembered that he wasn't supposed to be standing on a place where there's a long corridor that was stretched in front of him, the walls are littered with vines and grass, and the sky was grey and the whole place was enveloped in thick fog, which puzzled him.
"Where am I?" he asked again out loud and strangely as he walked on a slow pace.
"John…" he paused suddenly letting the silence filled his ears with eeriness. His ears caught a voice, a woman's and he immediately darted to where it was coming from. His eyes adjusted hard as the fog becomes thicker and thicker and then he caught a movement.
"Wait," Big Boss said, he immediately ran as he felt something had pushed him to follow the figure.
"Wait!" this time he shouted as the corridor turn sharply to the right, he caught another glimpse of the ghostly figure that took off running again, and then sharply to the left. He grunted in annoyance as he crashed down on a wall and then resumed his running.
"Why am I in a maze!?" he protested aggravated to the blind sharp turns of the corridor which gave him an idea that he was in a maze, and it must be correct for he faced a dead end, he only let out a growl of frustration. He looked around, again, irritated to where the ghostly figure had gone to.
"John…" then he froze and turned his head to his left and saw the figure again, turning sharply on a corner.
'Her voice, it sounds familiar.'now Big Boss curiosity had gone up. His mind ran so suddenly, the ghostly voice has strike him a strong familiarity, he wanted to catch her more and then he took off running.
The maze put him in a mental turmoil of confusion and exhaustion. It must've been an hour but he still chased the figure. He could no longer see her anymore; he made a grunt of frustration.
However, he suddenly stopped. The corridors had ended and now, even though he could barely see of what ahead of him, he could see the walls encircling around him, he had reach a clearing and the fog was still thick as he slowly walked again and tried to find the woman.
"John…" the ghostly voice again rang and this time his eyes began to fill with strong reminiscence, he had heard the voice before, his chest swam in sudden shock and anticipation as he followed the voice and eventually his eyes landed on a back of a figure clad in white military suite.
His heart then skipped a beat, an old feeling of sadness and elation mixed in his heart. He recognized her even though without looking at her face, she knows it was her for he painfully recalled the clothing that she was wearing was the same clothes that she wore on that fateful day, where he killed her on that fields of flowers.
"B-Boss?" Big Boss tone wavered in exhilaration and then slowly the woman turned around and at this moment, Big Boss heart melted, he couldn't express clearly but joy had made his face smile, tears of exuberance began to ran down from his eyes. It was no mistake, it was her, the woman who became his mentor and loved as mother figure, 'The Boss,'.
Memories of her rushed in his head, feelings that he had showed and felt whenever she was around him poured out uncontrollably, he dashed in frenzy and enclosed his arms around her and buried his face on her right shoulder. Her warm body, her smell and her breath, he felt it all and it only made him feel more jubilated. She was here now, there's no doubt about it.
"Boss, oh how I've miss you…" tears didn't stop pouring out in his eyes as Big Boss spoke in gladness. He didn't let go, he would never let go anymore for if he does right now, he will feel that same feeling when he killed her, that painful agonizing feeling that felt like death.
"John…" the boss spoke but Big Boss burst into a cry, a painful cry of despair.
"I'm sorry…that I wronged you…I'm sorry if I ruined everything…I'm sorry." Now his heart shifted to sorrow as his dark memories came back of him denying her last actions and words, the legacy that she'd left to him, that he had torn apart by his foolish naïve pride, his heart became heavy like it became a stone, shame began to pierce him. He deemed that the Boss will scold him and hate him right now, and he will accept it all, even her harsh words and her punishment. He wanted to stay with her forever and he'll do anything for that to happen.
"John…" the Boss spoke again, her voice sends serenity and at the same time remorseful distress, to Big Boss who became silent.
"It's all right, all has been forgiven," Big Boss felt her hand behind her back, it was a bliss, he can truly feel her right now.
"However, you cannot go to where I am going. You cannot enter to the place where everyone is right now." The boss's tone then grew cold and Big Boss noticed it. He moved away slowly, even though it pains him, and looked at her with grief.
"What, why? Why can't I go?" he asked as his heartache, tormented to what she said.
"Your sins are too heavy to be forgiven…you're being punished John," her silver grey eyes stared at him and Big Boss could see her sadness, she too, tormented to what she had said to him and to what his fate would turn to.
Big Boss grit his teeth, bitterness swelled enormously in his heart. However, he was in agony, his life was sinful and cannot be easily forgiven, he had only hope of being forgiven in heaven just to be with her but now, as she said it, it has become impossible.
"I'm sorry John, but always remember I will always be there watching you and guiding you." the Boss then had a sad, slow, smile. Big Boss began to cry and then his eyes widened in shock as he saw the Boss was beginning to become transparent, she was slowly disappearing. A wave of terror and pain of being alone in the strange new world hit him hard.
"No! Boss! Wait! Let me come with you! Please!" he shouted in despair, right now he wanted to offer his life just to go to the place where she would be going. The foreboding anguish of being alone slowly enveloped him as he ran and attempted to hug her, but his hands passed through her. Horror formed in his face. He couldn't no longer touch and feel her.
"NO! Boss!" Big Boss, as far as his memory could serve him, had trained to endure pain from torture but this was too much for him to handle. He cried loudly as he his hands flew and tried to catch her but to no avail, the Boss only closed her eyes, her sad smile was still there, she might be trying to tell him that he must cherished her smile for it was the last thing that he will see from her.
"This world needs you John, this world needs… a Guardian," Big Boss stared in misery as he kneeled and watched the Boss disappear after she let out her final word. "Goodbye John…"
Big Boss stared to nothingness as the Boss finally disappeared, he was in a mess, his mind was all muddled and congested with agony, pain, misery and sadness. He was alone again and this time it would be forever. He can't do anything anymore but accept it painfully.
"BOSS!" Big Boss couldn't take it anymore, the pain from being resurrected, the despair of being alone, and the sorrow of living immortal without purpose, all of it will remain with him forevermore, so he only howled like a wolf who lost his mate.
On a cargo Plane
"BOSS!" Big Boss screamed in dread and jolted from sleep. He was breathless as cold sweat began to smear his face. He looked around, he was inside a cargo plane, there're tons of boxes and pallets stack on one another beside him. The floor beneath him shook lightly and his ears began to be filled with the engine sounds of the plane.
'I remember…'Big Boss calmed his nerves, he began to recollect and recalled that he had boarded, more like snuck in, from Ukraine and he was bound for UK, a place that David mention where he sensed a lot of those things.
"Oi, B squared." He looked up and his eyes became plain as David stood on top of a box, looking down at him, unconcernedly. Now Big Boss just wished he could go back to sleep and have another nightmare, he couldn't stand the fox's egoistic attitude.
"Are you dreaming?"
"Yeah, a nightmare." Big Boss plainly said, he only sat and began to replay the dream again in his head.
"From your own memories?" David said a mischievous smile formed in the fox's face as he jumped down and landed in front of the man. "Nightmares sometimes come from dark memories; perhaps your whole life was a dream," a snickered laugh escaped from his lips, and this made Big Boss shot a dark glance at him.
"Hmph, and so what? It's my life." He declared, avoiding David's attempt on pestering him further. David usually lash out his large intellectual ego in order to discriminate him however the things that he usually said were nearly true and that angers Big Boss more.
"I'm bored, where are we?" the man asked as he pulled his black cloak away from his body and stood up. He peaked through the window of the fuselage and saw the dark clouds below the plane and the shattered moon on the distance which he gave a satisfied smile.
"In Slovakian airspace. We've been flying for 45 minutes, B squared, when you scream." David complained, slyly making the man groan in irate.
"This flight has been delayed for an hour and a half back at the airport so we've been flying for at least two hours." He shot back and saw David bit his lower lip, frustrated to his unexpected comeback, and this made him smile.
"Anyway, think you could find me a nearby one?"
"Fine." Not bothered with the change of location, David used his nose again, smelling and sniffing the air and then said immediately, "There's one in Germany, good enough for you."
Big Boss immediately went over to the fuselage door, he didn't waste any time, and kicked it with his left leg. The door burst opened and the whole plane immediately nosedived as the pressure inside changed. The pilot must be panicking right now, but Big Boss didn't care, he was in a cargo plane after all.
"You know, this plane will fly above Germany within two hours," David commented as Big Boss picked him up and shoved him onto his deep right breast pocket of his cloak.
"And I can fly there in just twenty-five minutes at Mach 20," Big Boss said as he bent his knees and shot out of the plane.
Calm and tranquility, that's what he felt whenever flew into the air and this was the only thing that Big Boss liked about his new self, he can fly at a staggering speed of Mach 20, the speed of sound. Air rush past Big Boss, finally he was out and could think clearly about his nightmare, the Boss she appeared in his mind again and said her last haunting words.
"Boss…" he muttered in sadness as he closed his eyes and only continued flying.
Meanwhile in the sky above Germany
North's sleigh came out from the magic portal and swooped down on the city of Berlin. The Guardians inside darted their eyes everywhere looking for any familiar glint of the new Guardian.
"Are you sure Watanuki said he'll be in Germany?" Bunny griped tightly on his seat, he was still uncomfortable with North's flying skill even though he had ridden his sleigh many times before.
"Well he said that that man might've changed his mind and only swooped down to this country." North said as Jack asked fervently.
"What will we do when we find him?"
"We capture and tell him who he was, oh it's gonna be epic and wonderful!" North excitedly said and playfully whipped his reindeers in front of him. Jack too was joyful and excited he couldn't wait to know the man more; he was very interested.
Kirchlengern Forest, Germany
The forest of Kirchlengern stood silent before Big Boss who silently stared back with hunting eyes, standing on the road. He heard about this place before, it was one of the most haunted forest in Germany, spectral sights of unknown are the usual in this place but to him it was all nothing. He was powerful then those kind of things anyway, and he knows it very well.
"Ooohhh spooky forest~," David began teasing him, desperate to evened himself to him from his comeback, "Hey B squared, too spooky for you?"
"No, and what's wrong with Big Boss, hmm?" Big Boss answered coldly and the fox just chuckled triumphantly.
"Now then, 'the thing' is just about a mile from here." The fox dictated and then both of them entered the forest silently, determine to finish off the monster.
It's been an hour after they entered but they haven't found anything. The moon's light shone brightly on ground and illuminated a path where Big Boss was walking. His eyes skirted every corner and scene, looking for 'the thing' creatures and then he let out a groan after he heard his stomach growl in hunger protest.
"Great…" 'I'm hungry again' Big Boss calmly walked on, ignoring his stomach and David who seemed to smile mischievously
"Heh, Big Boss, aren't you a pig?" and then Big Boss suddenly stopped, making David smile grew wider. Finally, for a long time, he touched a nerve now he'll just listen and watch how Big Boss will react and scowl at him with a funny looking angry face of being pissed off.
"Did you hear that?" Big Boss asked and to David's dismay he wasn't affected to what he said, he simply growl in frustration and use his ears. He caught something, a rustle of leaves, breaking of twigs and footsteps of a human.
"So what, this is a public place. Not to mention I saw a camp station nearby while we were traveling here." David said simply, there might be human out there but to Big Boss it was something else.
"It's children, three of them. Now who would let children take a stroll in the middle of the night, in a middle haunted of a forest?" he answered back at David who only snorted. The place was dangerous, the steep cliffs and raging river might take a life.
Big Boss took off running towards the main source of the sound; it was not guiding them back to safety was his primary objective, they could be a good bait for the monster if it ever noticed them, but he'll have to protect them from it, he didn't want them to be killed by the 'things', it would have made him feel guilty.
He then jumped into the trees and jumped branches to branches to get a better view of his surroundings. Then after a minute he stopped, he caught a movement below him and looked down and keenly observed.
There were three children, all were clothed in brown pants and brown shirt, a boy scout uniform. "They're from the nearby camp," Big Boss observed more from the tree branch. The three boys continue walking and their eyes seemed to be in a daze at a group of fireflies that were flying in front of them.
He observed more and noticed something, the insects seemed to attract and hypnotize them.
"It's the thing, David where is it?" Big Boss asked not leaving his eyes at the boys. David right beside him quickly said.
"A couple of meters ahead… in the middle of that clearing-"*SNAP!*a sharp sound of a tree branch breaking had hit Big Boss's senses hard, his instinct revered to life, as his hands draw his two guns and faced the being that he had sensed just now, ready to kill. Big Boss blue eye then met a white haired teenager's blue eyes but then he gasped in shock.
"Whoa easy there! I don't mean to shock you!" his eyes, unsettled shockingly, trailed the boy that was floating on midair. He couldn't believe it; he was seeing someone levitating and seeing him and talking to him.
"What. The. Fuck." Big Boss only muttered, unsettled and disbelief.
30 minutes earlier
"Oh man, this forest is huge," Jack Frost silently complained. After the guardian landed on the forest, as Watanuki suggested via the magical earpiece that he gave to them back for his shop, they quickly dispersed and searched for the new guardian.
"This is funny…" he protested to the earpiece on his right ear, the design of it was a pink beak of a bird with wings protruding to its side; it was too girly for him.
"And why will he catch him? We could just talk to him." another complaint escaped his lips as he took out a red small bag which Watanuki gave to them. The oldest guardian told them that they will need it in order to capture Big Boss and that weirded him out. It seems the man was nothing but an animal to him.
"Ok, but how will this help?" he looked inside and only saw a long, thin, silvery string. He was doubting the object, how would such a flimsy object would capture a huge strong man like Big Boss, it's impossible but then again, this was made by Watanuki. He felt the man could capture Big Boss easily.
"Ok how can I find him?" Jack resumed his uneventful search but then his ears picked up a low thud coming above him. He looked up and saw nothing and then he shifted to the trees and this time caught a movement of a cloak on a person, jumping from branches to branches.
"It's him!" he exclaimed as a feeling of heavy nausea swept in his stomach. He had found the man now, how can he approach him without giving him a shock. He silently moans in nervousness; he couldn't think right now very well.
'Oh great…' With no idea, he only hovered himself to a tree branch and began to follow him. His eyes locked on the man several meters away, who kept on jumping and leaping to branches. Jack was still thinking on how to introduce himself to him, hardly. He didn't want to create a bad impression of himself.
He was still thinking when he suddenly stopped as the figure stop on a branch. He looked closely; the man was in there, looking at something intently. He didn't know what it was, now this was an opportunity to sneak and talk to him, Jack saw it and he immediately flew towards him.
Nervousness had brittle his heart which was beating faster, the man was just below him and all he need to do was to say hello. It would be easy, the person was a human anyway.
'Ok, just calm down…' Jack calmed himself as he began and only rest his feet on the branch above the man, 'you'll just say hello-*SNAP!*Jack yelped as the branch broke, he fell but he recovered and hovered only to yelped loudly in shock as he saw a pair end of a barrel of a gun, pointing in his eyes.
"Whoa, easy there! I didn't mean to shock you!" Jack began as the man stared at him, wide eyed and shock to his appearance.
Silence loomed dangerously between the two. Big Boss trailed his eyes at Jack, astonished and bewildered to the floating boy. His hands lowered slightly but his fingers were firm on the trigger.
"Hey there…" Jack begin, a tense smile formed in his face as the man lowered his gun.
"Who the fuck are you?" Big Boss began, his questioning voice made Jack felt uneasy. The man was indeed tough and strong, he could feel his power within him. Big Boss wasn't sure of what the boy was but he felt something that he was the same as him.
"I am a guardian, um… Boss. I'm Jack Frost, the Guardian of Fun." He hunches was right. His mind traveled back when he thought of other Guardians before but he dismissed that, thinking he wouldn't plan to meet any of them, but now he was meeting one, and at close range.
"Jack Frost…." Strangely to his name, Big Boss only looked at him with hardened eyes, scrutinizing him if he's dangerous or not.
"Yeah I am, and you're-" Big Boss didn't shook his hands when the boy extended him for greeting, his ears caught a sound again and his attention immediately shifted to the children. He looked forward, facing his back at the boy who sighed defeated at him.
"Where are they going?" Big Boss asked himself as he the children stepped into the clearing and continue their daze walked. Suspicion arouse inside him, as to what could be the nature of the monster he will faced.
'That's my cue then…' Big Boss was about to leap to the ground when Jack's curious face blocked him.
"B-Boss, me and my group came to get you-" irritated and annoyed, Big Boss anger flared up, he grabbed him by the collar of his jacket and moved his face closer to his and snarled. "Get out of my way and don't interfere, or I'll kill you."
Jack yelped in fright as he saw the blue sharpness of his menacing left eye, he saw it was murderous; he feebly resisted his grip, but the grip was strong and unyielding as steel. Big Boss then threw him towards a nearby tree and immediately landed on the ground and ran. As much as he wanted to ask him with his so many questions of his own existence, he didn't want to be disturbed as he hunted.
He ran across the clearing filled with tall grasses, cutting through grasses and twigs until he stopped as he sensed something moving along the ground. He paused, his sense heightened for vigilance.
The kids were several meters away from him, he could grab them and ran back to the forest with his super speed however, the monster might only come out if its prey are nearby, he has to see the monster so he would've an idea on how to kill it.
'Might as well hide and wait for it to come out-.' "B-Boss, don't be shy to us I can introduce you to them in a much nicer way-." Big Boss turned around and was startled to see Jack Frost landed behind him. Panic settled in him as the thing might sense him, he immediately shouted at him.
"You son of a bitch, I told you to not to interfer-!" and then it was too late, the ground shook violently and the earth in front of the children burst open. Big Boss and the shaken Jack, looked in fright as a huge creature came out.
It was… a worm-like creature in a shape of a tree; its huge body was dark brown and slimy, and its branches were all littered with smaller versions of the worm, all slithering and lashing like they were tentacles, the roots of it were also composed of worms but its end were all pointed and sharp. The huge tree worm swayed tauntingly at them before it roared ghastly, revealing its ghoulish vertical mouth and its vertical sharp rows of teeth.
"What the…" Jack horrified to what he had seen, limply took a step back. The Monster roared then lunged itself at the children, mouth wide and grisly but before it could bite them all, a loud gunshot echoed and the monster was thrown away to the ground.
"Get the kids!" Jack looked over to his side and saw Big Boss glowing in blue, his two guns drawn, "Now!" he shouted and looked in front of him and was surprised to see a group of children.
"Go now!" his reflexes function and Jack was in the air immediately and with quickness, he grabbed the first one and swing it to his back, then he hugged to other two and flew again. The children were still in a daze as he flew past Big Boss, he looked at him and he was startled to see the left eye of Big Boss, looking back at him, filled with concern.
'He wasn't that bad, I guess,'Jack wondered thoughtfully and continue flying away from the abominable being.
Shots fired reverberated through the clearing as Big Boss ran to the sides, firing his gun at the monster. The monster was howling in pain, grimly as his blue bullets hit his worm branches and roots.
"It's definitely weak one." He said in a calm manner, but his guard was all up as he charged. He fired his gun many times but the monster only moved away, its wormy roots wiggled as violently as it moved away. Big Boss gave it a chase, his gun endlessly fired torrents of bullets.
"I just have to find its head," he was about to plan to defeat it but then his eyes widened in startled manner as the tree suddenly bend forward and jumped high into the air. It landed with a huge thud that rocks the earth and thrust itself upwards again.
'It can jump!?'Unbelievably, he observed and watched the tree moved in many directions, jumping in one place and another until he saw it turn around and jumped towards the fleeing Guardian of fun. He gritted his teeth in anger; it was still aiming for the children.
"God dammit!" Big Boss cursed to the tree's creepy features and immediately charged. He didn't plan to save them, he didn't know that three could jump, he was caught by surprise and he clicked his tongue in dismay as he ran and use his super speed.
"Jack!" He shouted, remembering his name, in alertness as he ran, "get down!"
'Almost there!'Jack said as he flew fast, the battle was still continuing behind him, he could hear the gun booming and the creature's agonizing screams and the loud thuds. He didn't look back; the children must be kept safe.
"Finally!" Jack shouted in delight as he landed on the edge of the clearing and put the children below a tree. Now they're safe and Big Boss was here, the guardian looks strong and can defeat the menacing creature.
"Jack! Get down!" Jack darted his eyes behind him, he heard Big Boss words, and was about to act when the ground shook and a rush of air hit him hard and thrown him towards the kids, his back covered the children as the powerful force caught the Guardian by surprise.
"Jack looked in front of him; the worm tree was now in front of him. Its gruesome mouth was only an inch away; he could smell the foul rotten breath and this made him scream.
"Oh God!" he yelped as the monster roared at his face, throwing its slimy saliva. Jack sensing his ultimate demise, made his one last move he pointed his staff and attempted to freeze it however he shouted in agony as one of the tentacles of its roots moved and whip his staff away. Jack was weaponless.
He silently cringed to his demise as he only used his back to protect the children, he closed his eyes and wait for the inevitable. The monster growled at them and it wasted no time, it moved forward, mouth open wide and forcefully closed it down. A scream resounded throughout the clearing and Jack opened his eyes in shock, it wasn't his scream.
"GAAAHHH!" Big Boss scream in pain as the creature's teeth, dig in to his whole right limb.
Jack was horrified, blood was rushing out and some splattered on his face, he shivered. "B—Boss! John!" he called out as the man looked at him and grunted in anguish.
"G-Go! Take them away!" he commanded and Jack, with fearful hesitation, whimpered and carried them all. He gave his one last look at Big Boss, whose eyes were blaring in agony, and ran away.
"God. Fucking. Dammit." Big Boss spasmed to his injuries, the teeth the creature was gnashing through his right limb's muscles. The pain was tormenting as he tried to move it but its teeth only send more agonizing soreness to him, making him grunt and breathed hardly.
He made several attempted to dislodge it however, the creature's seemed to anchor himself to his almost detached right limb.
"Guess I have no choice, again." Then he painstakingly reached for his eyepatch and forcefully remove it, revealing its redness and its blackened sclera, to the world. The power rushed through him and he accepted, his face contorted to an angry one and then he unleashed a menacing roar.
His aura burst into many directions, fiercely. The monster behind him made a sound of panic, its teeth was still in locked on the man's limbs, as it senses his power but then the man punched the monster with a strong force, pushing it away and severing his right limb on the process.
The Monster was thrown away and landed on the ground with the man's arm still in its mouth. It chewed and swallowed the part, hungrily, before it bared its eyes on the man again, for another attack, but then a tremendous force rushed passed it and before it could react, the monster was suddenly thrown upwards into the sky.
Jack was flying and breathing heavily. It was almost a minute before he left him there, and he could still hear his screams. He only gulped down in nervousness and fright, he imagined the monster slowly cutting the man into several parts before eating him, and it disgust him.
"Bunny!" he exclaimed in gladness, the familiar Guardian of Hope was standing beneath a tree, he looked at him and was startled to see that he was carrying children. Baffled as to what happened, he hopped towards him.
"Oi Jack, what's all this?" he asked inquisitively.
"They're kids, I saw Boss and I think he's in danger!" Bunny was startled as to what he had said. They'd found the new Guardian but it confuses him as to why Jack was in a hurry, he wanted to ask more but after the Guardian of Fun gave the children to him, he quickly ran from where he came from, in a hurry.
'Damn I must save him!' Jack thought as he flew briskly, his face shows concern and worried to the new Guardian that he wanted to befriend. The memories that he saw about him, he wanted to change it all and this will be his first step.
Jack had reached the clearing again but he saw nothing. His eyes darted everywhere in agile, looking for a familiar black colors of the man's cloak, he walked for a bit but then he let out a gasp of horror as his eyes landed on a tattered right sleeve of the man's cloak, fear crept to him as he identified it from the man.
"Oh no, Big Boss." Jack worriedly looked around again, the man was nowhere in sight. He let out a sad sigh because he might've arrive too late to save him.
"Where could he be-" and then as it was answer to his question, a loud thud shook the earth again and he was pushed back from the tremendous wind. Jack looked in front of him, and then his eyes sharpened. The monster was on the ground again; it was wiggling its wormy branch vehemently.
'Not again!' He cursed as braced himself but then he heard an ear piercing shout from above.
Jack looked up and was shocked. Big Boss was up in the air, hovering and blocking the moon. He was relieved that the man was still alive but he was puzzled as the man squirming in midair, he was suffering from tremendous pain. Big Boss was bent and panting up.
And then as Jack observes, the man let out another long anguish howl before his body let out a gruesome crunching noise of his flesh tearing apart. Jack watched in horror as he saw something began to grow and emerge from the man's back.
It was wide and it glinted brightly against the moon's light, hinting that it was made of metal. Jack couldn't believe what he was seeing right now. Big Boss had stopped squirming and moving, and slowly he looked down…and spread his three pairs of large metal-made wings. His wings were enveloped in his blue aura and Jack felt a staggering force emitting from him.
"Big Boss…" He couldn't believe it and was mystified, he silently observed the man as it stared down on the struggling downed creature. The new guardian breathed heavily and then with a speed that Jack couldn't follow with his eyes, the wings of Big Boss fluttered violently and then it extended and shoots downward towards the monster.
The monster roared in pain as the first wing pierced its body and then another and another. The wings of Big Boss move in a rapid motion, it swiftly cut and stabs the creature until there's nothing but whimpers escaping its lips, and then in one final movement, all of the wings moved and pierced the insides of the monster through its open mouth.
Jack watched in awe, as the wings of Big Boss finished its attack. Blood has burst from the monster's wound, it rained in all direction, and some of it smeared his face.
"My God, what the hell is that?" Jack repudiated, the powers of Big Boss were incredible. He stared at him as he landed softly on the grass. Jack then caught his whole figure at such close distance and he was in reverence. The skin of the man had change, it was now all silvery and white and his eyes, both of it had become menacing bloody red.
He wasn't a human anymore to him but something powerful.
Big Boss didn't notice him; his eyes were on his dead prey. He moved passively towards it, kneeled down to the ground. Hunger was residing inside him, it was growing and growling, at last a meal was in front of him and he didn't waste any time as he immediately dug his hands and took out some of the organs and chewed it in his mouth.
If Jack would vomit right here, he would've done so. The boy was horrified as he saw Big Boss began eating the monster's innards. Whatever he has eaten before, it was now surging up in his stomach. It was entirely gruesome and disgusting.
"B-Big Boss," he called out to him, the man was becoming like a monster to him.
"Boss!" he called out but only the sounds of organs being squished by Big Boss's teeth reverberated. He couldn't take his terrifying appetite and hunger; he was becoming lesser and lesser to what he had thought about him, as a Guardian.
"John!" he called again this time with force and then the man stopped. Jack finally caught his attention, the man was lost in his own hungry endeavor, Jack must give some senses to him.
"Big Boss, I am a Guardian-AH!" Jack yelped as one of the Big Boss's wings moved and wrapped around his neck and was dragged by it at a rapid speed, he yelped again as his back hit a tree where the wing pinned him there.
He struggled for a minute but then when he looked in front of him, Big Boss was already staring right at him, an inches away from his face. He was terrified as he could see his own self staring back at the bloody red eyes of the man.
"Big Boss-!" Jack struggled but the wings are made of strong metal. He couldn't destroy it.
"You… How did you know my real name?" Big Boss began, his tone was angry and scary, as if he came from the depths of hell.
Jack then answered honestly, "It was from Watanuki! The moon chose you to be a Guardian! We came here to fetch you-!" but his answer wasn't well received. Big Boss tightened his wing, choking him brutally.
"You've seen me…" he loomed at him. Big Boss didn't expect him to go back, he shouldn't' have use this form, he had never like it and he deemed that if there're other Guardians, they might consider him as an enemy because of his appearance. And now that he was seen, there's no other choice. "Now I'm going to kill you…" he added as Jack only closed his eyes and frighteningly wait to be destroyed by him.
"No you will not kill him, stupid shit." David the fox appeared below him and just as Big Boss was about to looked at him, he suddenly enveloped himself with a brown aura and before the man could even react, a powerful energy coming from his inside, burst with a tremendous force.
Jack yelp from the forceful wind and Big Boss was thrown away from the boy, detaching his wing from him. He was thrown several meters away before he landed on the earth, hard, and hit his head on a large rock. Big Boss vision was then enveloped in darkness as he fell unconscious.
Jack was bewildered to what had happened, he was seconds from being killed and now he was staring at nothing. The power earlier was strong enough to knock the man cold, then it puzzled him as to where it came from.
He looked down and saw a little fox. A tiny animal like it wouldn't be the source of that power.
"What on earth was that?" he asked in a relieved yet mystified.
"Just my spell, now where's my thanks young man." Jack sprang up to his feet and looked down at the fox, disbelief. Even though he was a supernatural being, the fox's abilities caught him by surprise.
"Yeah I can speak, now get over it." The fox said arrogantly at the shocked guardian, seeing his reaction he ridiculed him more. "Anyway is it true that you came for Big Boss?"
The question leads Jack back to his senses as he remembered the mission. "Yeah, the moon has called him," the boy observed the fox as it turned away from him and then he noticed his mouth moved and said something inaudible that puzzled him.
"So man in moon is still alive? Hmph, remarkable." David said inaudible as he looked at Big Boss. Big Boss was slowly returning to his older self, his wings started to degrade and disappear as it turned into dust. His skin's complexion has started to grow back to brown and within minutes, Jack and the fox stared down at Big Boss's normal face.
'Oh so he looks so peaceful when sleeping,' Jack observed, the face of Big Boss was peaceful and calm, contrasting to his other side, a six winged being.
"Ok, now call you friends and carry him," the Fox demanded with authority, making Jack pouted at him, it's been one minute since they met and now he was bossing him around, and that annoyed him a bit.
Jack return his gazed at the sleeping Big Boss, he was so calm and tranquil. "Sorry about this, John." Jack said as he took out the small bag where the thin strings are. The man was dangerous still even though he was still sleeping. Jack Frost would've met him in a nicer way but after seeing what he could do, he began to doubt him as a friendly one. However deep down inside him he was saddened to the treatment that he will do to him.
'I understand you Big Boss,' he thought with concern as he pushed Big Boss, and took his remaining left limb and put his left hand behind his back. 'But the world needs you.' He then began to tie him up.
