It has been long, but I finally got the second chapter ready. I apology because of the misspelling, I've no way to check the spelling of the words exept doing my best with an english-spanish dictionary.
Please people enjoy.
El Tigre Servant of Death 2
Manny was sweating cold, his eyes couldn't belive what was standing in front of him, this couldn't be real, this couldn't be happening.
"I ASURE YOU MR. RIVERA THAT I'M AS REAL AS YOU" said death. Manny felt uncomfortable to look to the empty sockets in the skull that stared at him.
"Are you here to take her?" asked Manny looking at Frida, she was still breathing but she did no other thing, he left her at his side an looked at Death still kneeled..
Death tried to feel as concerned as possible, he has seen empires fall, millions of lives dissapair in a second, the worst atrocities the world could ever see, but he leaned long ago to respect humans as fantastic and almost unlimited creatures.
"LOOK MR. RIVERA I..." Death wasn't able to finish and Manny lowered his head.
"Please take me instead!" he begged to Death.
"WHAT?"
"Please take me away, let her live, I was the one who was supposed to die, please let her stay!" Screamed Manny.
"SORRY MR. RIVERA BUT I CAN'T, YOU SEE IT'S AN UNFAiR TRADE FOR THE AFTERLIFE" explained Death.
"What!? What do you mean, it's a life for a life, isn't it!?"
"IT'S NOT TAT SIMPLE, SHE IS A WOMAN AND..." but Death looked at Manny and saw that words weren't enought. "OKAY THEN LET ME SHOW YOU THEN"
Death bony hand pointed to Frida, then he snaped it's fingers. A big blue spark came out from Frida's body and floated above her.
"THAT'S MRS. SUAREZ SOUL" said Death, then he snapped his hand again. Manny's eyes couldn't belive what was going on, from Frda's tummy three new lights started to float, one dark yellow, one silver white and one crimisson red. "AND THAT IS THE MIRACLE OF LOVE"
Manny's mind couldn't phatom what he was seeing. "Three, three sss.. ss.. souls?" he spiled crying.
"YES!, THE POWER OF WOMAN, TO BRING LIFE. A WEEK AGO BOTH OF YOU DECIDED TO STEAL EACH OTHER VIRGINITY, THIS IS WHAT YOUR LOVE CREATED" said Death trying not to sound rude. "BUT THE IDEA IS ANOTHER YOU SEE..."
"Nooooooo!!!!!!" Manny screamed while he turned around. "You won't take any of them!"
If Death would have a face it would look a bit surprised. Too little people has been breave or stupid enought to face him.
"MR. RIVERA PLEASE, JUST LISTEN TO ME"
"Alow me to stand for everyone: Bronze Panthera!" screamed Manny, the boots turned like cat feet and blazed in strong white fire.
"PLEASE JUST LISTEN"
"Distort realitiy itself: Chaos Puma" the sombrero's wing started to spin and the top turned night dark. "Crush my enemys: Ancient Tiger Spirit". Manny turned into a cat-like mass of green fire, the darkness of the sombrero and the blaze of the boots invaded his body.
Death stomped his sythe on the floor, Manny's powers vanished inmidiatly, he was back again grabbing Frida beeween his arms and with his eyes filled with tears. He didn't understood what happened and somehow e didn't want to.
"BETTER THEN" said Death ready for his speech. "NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR FULL ATENTION MR. RIVERA I HAVE ONLY ONE QUESTION: DO YOU WISH TO SAVE HER?"
"You. you said what?" asked Manny without beliving the words. He twisted his head a bit, the words that came out of the entity didn't seem real at all.
"I ASKED YOU IS YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR WIFE" this was always the most difficult part in the deal, that they blived you.
"But, but" mutered Mannytrying to get the right words. "you said I couldn't save her!"
Death shaked his bony hand negativly. "I SAID THAT YOUR SOUL FOR HER SOUL WAS AN UNFAIR TRADE, THE REST ARE JUST YOUR WORDS."
"Then why are you offering me this then? Aren't you suppose to claim everyone who dies?" asked Manny building up confidence.
"AAHHH, SEEM THAT THERE IS BRAIN UNDER THAT APPEARENCE" said Death with his empty face at Manny. "YOU SEE MR. RIVERA, YOUR MYSTICAL OBJECTS SEEMS TO BE CONECTING YOU TO THE REALMS OF THE UNDEAD."
Manny looked at Death astonished while kept his weird explanation.
Death looked at him and after a bit reflextion he kept talking "ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE CRYSTAL SKULL?"
"You mean the skull that was "made" by the Mayans and dicovered by an archeologist during the middle f the twentyth century"
"YES INDEED, YOU SEE THAT "MYTH" IS IN FACT VERY REAL" said Death while a huge darkness wing came out of his left side.
"But weren't those just a myth created by the archeologist?" said Manny incredibly confused.
From the wing a stone tablet appeared, by the aspect it seemed to be mayan or aztec..
"CENTURIES AGO AN AZTEC PRINCE CALLED MIKLA WANTED INMORTALITY, A WISEMAN TOLD HIM THAT THE ONLY WAY TO ACHIVE THAT WAS TO BANISH HIS SOUL FROM THIS REALM AND MAKE IT NEVER REACH THE LAND OF THE DEAD. MIKLA SEARCH DURING YEARS FOR A WAY UNTIL HE FOUND AN UNDERWATER CAVE, IN THERE HE LEARNED HOW TO HIDE HIMSELF FROM ME BY USING A SKULL OF A DEMOND, INSIDE IT THE CRYTALS THAT COMPOSED IT CREATED AN ALTERNATE DIMENSSION THAT WAS OUT OF THE REALM OF THE LIVING OR DEAD. MIKLA PLACED IT SOUL IN THERE AND ACHIVED INMORTALITY." The wing closed and Death continued. "TRUE IMORATLITY DOESN'T REALLY EXIST, HE HAS BEEN JUST CHEATING ALL THIS TIME THANKS TO THAT CAVE."
"So why don't you go and get him?" asked Manny even moreconfused than before.
"BECAUSE HIS TIME HAS'T COME YET!" decleared Death. "THE SKULL STOLES A SECOND OF LIFE OF EACH LIVING BEING IN THE PLANET MESSING UP WITH TIME AND SPACE ITSELF, PEOPLE TIME OF DEATH IS SCRUMBLED JUST LIKE IT HAPPENED TOU YOUR WIFE, IF THE STOLEN TIME IS RESTORED SHE MAY LIVE."
Manny looked to Fridas body and then to Death again. "What do you want me to do?" asked Manny with determination.
"I NEED YOU TO BRING MIKL'S SOUL TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING AND STOP THE POWERS OF THE SKULL AND IT'S CAVE."
"Will you then let Frida and our sons live?" asked Manny defingly.
"I WILL WATCH THEM AND PROTECT THEM IN ORDER TO PREVENT THEM TO PASS TO THE REALM OF THE DEAD" othaed Death to Manny.
"Then I will do anything I can in order to keep my family alive." Said Manny turning ino el Tigre. "Now Death I Manny Rivera "El Tigre" will work for you in order to save them: This I Swear!"
Death looked at Manny, if his face would have flesh it would be grinning.
"THEN MR. RIVERA" said Death pulling out some stuff of his robe. "LET ME PREPEAR YOU"
Death pulled out of his robes a little green lemon bird. Manny looked facinated at it because it seemed extremly vivid for a gift from Death itself.
"THIS MR. RIVERA" said Death pointing to the little bird "IT'S A BIRD OF THE SPIRITS, IT'S ATTRACKTED TO ANYONE WHO IS SPENDING MORE THAN HIS CORRESPONDANT TIME IN THIS LIFE."
"What I'm suppose to do with it?" asked Manny seeing possible use for such a strange bird.
"THE CAVE IS A COMPLEX SYSTEM OF UNDERGROUND WAYS CARVED BY NATURE, THIS BID WILL LEAD YOU TO HIS OLDER INHABITANT." Death released the bird and it flew over Mannys shoulder.
"NOW MR. RIVERA IS YOUR TIME TO DEPART, YOU ONLY HAVE FOUR HOURS TO COMPLETE YOUR MISSION, IF YOU SPENT MORE THAN THAT TIME YOU WILL BE ABSORVED BY THE CAVE FOREVER."
"Ok then, just show me where to go and I..."
Death covered Many with his robe, it all turned to darkness. The next second he was at the border of a huge a zenote. His water were dark and emanated a sad aura.
"DOWN THERE IS THE PLACE WHERE YOUR MISSION MUT TAKE PLACE. RUN RIVERA AND REMEMBER, YOUR OBJECTS ARE CONECTED TO THE UNDERWORLD, THE BODY AND SOULS OF THOSE WHO ARE IN THERE CAN BE REACHED BY THEIR POWERS." said Death voice comeing out from nowhere.
Manny nodded, the bird chiped and flew down to a small entrance a bit avobe of the dark waters.
"Frida, hang in there, I will save you and our children, please wait." Manny decended to the cave and penetrated it's demoniac darkness.
Death touched Frida's body, the three smaller souls returned to where they beonged. The big blue stayed infront of Death.
"DON'T WORRY, HE IS STRONG, IF HE PLAYS HIS CARDS WISELY HE WILL RETURN TO YOU" said Death to the blue orb who returned to her body.
"NOW I'S TIME FOR TIME TO MOVE" said snapping his bony fingers. Time returned and everything followed it's course.
"Mija! Mija" where the desesperate screams from cheif Suarez. Maria and Rodolfo shouted Manny's name, but it was futile. After a while everyone gathered around the unconcious Frida. Manny was nowhere to be found.
"A DAY OF YOU HAVE BEEN TURNED IN A DAY OF PAIN" said Death staying in his place, invisible to the sences of everybody.
Death looked around, people called ambulances, heroes moved searching for Manny. It has already been ten minutes since all happened.
"I WONDER IF IT WAS WISE TO HIDE TO HIM WHO ATTACKED THEM" said Death looking around.
A group of paramedic carried Frida away, Death followed them. "LET THIS MADDNESS BEGIN." Said while he got into the ambulance.
To be continue...