-The Figure of the Malice-

'That's the last one!'

I think Directing a ray of light toward what is the last one of the dark coloured insects that has come out from the cracks on the ground. The ray hit it and its body explodes into a purple mush.

The silence finally descends on the place: we arrived here just a few minutes ago and as soon as we arrived, we had fought against these creatures. It is tiresome, but now it has ended and now we have to find a way to close that huge crack on the ground from which those monsters have come out.

Looking around, the ground is stained with those creature's corpses and their purple blood. They seemed to be infinite and there was one more powerful than the others that proved to be much harder to deal with than the rest of those insects. I can still see its corpse: its mouth still open and its teeth stained with the same purple blood of the other insects. When we arrived, we found it eating the smaller ones, but as soon as we were 'seen' by it, it charged at us and shortly after it, many others of those small insects swarmed out of that cracks and joined the fight. We fought with everything we had and we barely did it, there were a pair of times on which it seemed like we were about to lose, but at the very end, we did it.

"Now we have to close that crack."

The others turn toward me and then toward it: normally such kind of crack would close up by itself after the insects are defeated, but strangely enough this one is still open, and so we now have to close it before more creatures come out

"Why don't we try to…"

Jinx can't even finish her sentence that the ground shake with such force that we all fall on the ground, we try to get up, but a second quake prevent us from doing it. Then a third, together with a scream from that cracks and a growing purplish brightness. At that my fear was increasing and probably the others feel the same, I don't know what is coming now and that scream made my blood freeze: it was a mix of anger, suffering and malice mixed with the voice of a monster.

Standing up, I prepare myself to face whatever will come out, but a sudden flash of the light that blind me for a few seconds. I open my eyes, and what I see leave me speechless: from that crack had come out a huge insect like creature with two huge pincers and covered by a pitch black armor that denied every light around it. Still, what truly leave me speechless was the other figure: the general shape is almost like that of a man, but looking closely, it was more like a monster. Its body is completely clad in some kind of armor made of the darkest black metal plates I've ever seen. Under it swirls some kind of dark energy that seems to also be part of it and that leaks from small fissures here and there. Its arms are thin: the left one is covered entirely by those dark plates while a curved blade longer than its own arm come out. The right one instead has its upper part mostly bare, showing the dark energy and another curved blade, this time slightly longer than the section of its arm, and with a pointed plate that is almost like the tip of a spear in the point where the blade starts. But there is a common thing in both blades: they are made of a metal even darker than the plates that covers its body and have dark purple lines run on their surface. The legs are covered entirely by those same pitch black plates but the general shape of that pseudo armor is more similar to that of a pair of trousers and a pair of shoes, but with a more metallic shape. From its shoulders a ragged mantle of pure dark energy flows until its knees. The head has the shape of a black helmet that almost resembles the upper part of an elongated head of a reptile like monster with numerous spikes. As if its appereance that seems to comes from a nightmare isn't enough, that head connects with the collar of that armor, making it look like a jaw with sharp teeth that seems to be able to pierce anything. The eyes, however, are a pair of yellow lines full of malice and hate and that is making me shake uncontrollably. A darkness that can't even be seen and that desires to swallow everything without leaving nothing, that is how I feel by looking at those two lines.

I can't stop shaking and yet, I stand up, my wand in my hands, but both them and my body can't stop shaking. I try to move, but it refuses to listen to me and stand still.

'I…I have to react…'

I keep looking at that dark figure that seems to devour all the lights around its body and make the world fall into the deepest pitch black darkness. Its eyes were looking at us with such malice that make me unable to move or even talk, it is almost like the world has stopped and the only thing that don't is that figure. I want to run, I want to escape from that place, but my body don't move, it doesn't listen to me!

I see those eyes still staring at us, seemingly looking inside our souls, but then, it directs its gaze toward the giant insects and I feel again my body return to its senses. I then look at the others: Jinx, Lulu and Poppy have the same gaze as mine, filled with fear of that figure, but Janna is different, I don't know how, but her gaze isn't the same terrified one as mine, but I can't grasp what the true difference is, I can only feel it.

"Janna…?"

She doesn't listen, her gaze fix on that figure, who is now walking toward the giant insect with calm steps.

"JANNA!"

In an attempt to wake her up of her trance, I yell at her; the nervousness of the moment was becoming all the more suffocating after each moment, even the others turn to look at me and finally Janna returns to us. All of them were looking at me with doubt and fear, none of us knew exactly what to do or what was happening, our fear clouded our mind and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't think perfectly straight.

Then, I hear the same shriek that came out from that crack and immediately my head turns in that direction: the two monsters that came out from the portal are facing each other now and the giant insect is looking at the other with the pure intention to kill it. The other then direct its gaze filled with malice toward it and then run toward it. In response the giant armored insect release another cry and then when lunch one of its pincers toward the other, but it only serves to crack the ground where it hit; instead the other one don't wait and use the spear like plate on its right hand to attack the exposed limbs. The attack land and crack the carapace, but the limbs is still attached to the body.

Crying for the pain: the insect uses its head to attack and its mouth open wide, showing all of its sharp and long teeth, ready to tear the other's flesh. But it misses: the other figure jumped up in the air and successfully avoid the attack. Then, I see him fall and use that speed to give more power to its blades and he use that to its advantage to cut in half one of the four appendages on its back and receding completely another one.

'How…how did he managed to do it?!'

I can hardly believe to it, but that figure managed to easily injure that monster with ease and all of this without being hit even once. Such thing is simply impossible for our group.

I keep staring in fear and surprise at that dark figure who is fighting against something too strong for all of us.

The insect charge once more, its mouth and one of its pincers ready to strike, the other one is lying on its side. The other figure then run toward it. I can't divert my gaze and I see the smaller of the two dodge the incoming attack by shooting itself toward the other. Then, it used one of its blades to cut the only good pincer the insect had and then with a jump he was behind it. Then he makes use of both the blades to cut the other's back.

A shriek is what came, one louder than all the previous ones and the giant insect fell on the ground.

'It…it killed it…'

I am at loss of words, I stare first at that corpse and then at the other figure, but it run away before I could say anything. I try to run toward it, but then, the corpse rise and look at us: its eyes are now completely yellow and purple blood is dripping from its mouth and the limb that was broken is now moving.

'Wa-wasn't it dead.'

I look at its huge body and then at the others, it may be wounded and weakened, but it was still dangerous, but we had to defeat it.

A shriek, the attack of that monster begin and we fight back.

Well, looks like I didn't post anything in the last few days. This time it was because of some problems, but don't expect this story to be updated too often, I'm still a high school student and I'm in the middle of my last year, which means exam at the year's end and I'm sure it will be worse than hell. So please be a little patient. With this said see you next time.