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SHAZAM=spells

''=The guy at centre stage/ protagonist

""=Other characters

""= powerful supernatural enemies

Chapter 4

Lightning crashes into the ground before revealing the man in the suit who looks at the audience 'yeah things are going to get real interesting soon bye' and with that the scene cuts to black.

However unlike previous chapters the blackness doesn't transition to the scene and remains black and silent that is until the tell-tale annoying beep of an alarm clock is heard. Then the darkness is purged by the simple act of turning on a light revealing the still half asleep form of our protagonist Jonathan Black. He began to slowly make his way to the bathroom in order to get ready for the day all the while thinking 'that was one weird dream last night, then again that might be normal for me I mean I don't normally remember my dreams for all know that could be a reoccurring dream'. But his delusions about the previous night were quickly lost when upon getting ready to enter the shower winced in pain 'what's up with me today did is sleep funny last night or something'. However upon checking himself for any bruised or other forms of injuries he may have caused himself in his sleep he came across three scars across his back. Using his fingers he traced the length of these scar his thoughts went back to his dreams of merlin and the guardian title of last night 'could it have been real?' before he shrugged these thoughts off 'that would be ridiculous'.

After a quick shower he headed down for breakfast only to find that it was past 10:00 in the morning which meant his parents were at work and his younger sister was at school. As such he had a quick breakfast before heading out for a jog all the while unaware of the people watching him "that him?" "Yeah that's him". As such a few hours later when he was returning home he was surprised to be stopped by two people showing him police identification 'what seems to be the problem officers?', however his confusion soon turned to worry upon not getting a straight answer on their refusal to give him a clear answer about why they were there and their insistence that he accompanied them. He was debating running and praying they weren't fast when he felt a sharp pain in his side and looked to see one of the "agents" holding an empty needle he had clearly emptied into our protagonists arm. As such throwing caution to the wind Mr Black decided to run from his potential abductors, however due to the drug his escape became less of a sprint and more of a drunken stumble which these strange men could easily keep up with until eventually Mr black the hero of this story collapsed into a drooling mess on the floor which was picked up by these men and taken to an unmarked van which as soon as everyone was in drove off.

Our hero was jolted awake in what appeared to be an interrogation room of some sort alone. However this solitude was soon interrupted by the appearance of a woman in a suit and a folder. "Mr Jonathan Black born 17th March 1996, both parents still alive and married as well as a younger sister, so Mr Black any idea why you're here?" to this our hero simply shakes his head. "Ok then I shall explain, across the planet recently there have been spikes in unknown energies with various people having similar hallucinations of a "realm of eternity" and a "merlin" and a sort of test. "However there is a difference between them and you Mr Black while their bodies had traces of this unknown energy when we checked your body while you were unconsciousness and you cells are saturated so ask again to you know why you're here"? Our hero looks at her before responding 'ok with regards to what you were talking about last night I had a dream that I was summoned to a weird place that may have been the place you were talking about and I met an old guy called merlin and there was a trial where I had to face a monstrous demon' "and you lost?" 'oh no I won' "interesting that would explain why there haven't been any power surges since you go on" ' so then the guy explained a few things then blasted me and made me see various part of my childhood mostly then blasted my again and did some enchantments I think then I woke up'. "That's it?" 'That's it' "in that case let me check with my superiors and we should be able to let you go soon".

A few minutes pass and our hero's hopeful idea of a peaceful resolution is shattered by a large tremor shaking the base. Soon after the agent from before comes rushing into the room and unlocking his hand cuffs "my boss wants you be taken to him now since were being attacked". And so she guided him to the command hub of this base where the head of research Dr Alexander Williams was giving orders but upon seeing our hero was surprised "what's he doing out of his cell" this only served to confuse the agent further but sir you told me to bring him here just now". This only served to confuse everyone until a voice called out "perhaps I can answer your questions" everyone turns to see an exact duplicate of Dr Williams who proceeds to look at those assembled in this room with a sneer "you humans so easy to confuse and outright trick". Smoke forms out of nowhere and swirls around this unknown being before receding revealing a towering black suit of armour completely covering the being inside who proclaims "I am Oblivion the herald of the darkness yet to come, and I have come to slay the currant guardian of humanity". He then looks at our hero Mr Black "ah there you are" his arm then stretches out to grab our hero "you have no idea how much I despise you line" 'this coming from the guy who called himself oblivion, I mean really do you really think I care what you say'? "No matter you views of me my mission was clear as such the shadows will enshroud you and age you into dust" and with that from all over the room the various shadows launched themselves at our hero until they have formed a bubble of pure darkness around our unfortunate Mr Black. After removing his arm from the dome Oblivion was then reminded of their others in the room when various agents began to shoot at him, only for Oblivion to pull from out of the darkness a glowing gold sword. Swinging his blade he launches what can only be described as a black energy wave at the agents obliterating them and causing more to flee "that's right mortals flee, so begins the age of darkness".

Meanwhile within the darkness bubble our hero is floating in the darkness calling out 'anyone here anyone please?' our hero kept calling out in vain, his situation was rendered worse by the fact that the spell accelerated the time within the shadow bubble so that mere years outside were centuries inside. A few in bubble days later our hero began to stop calling out for fellow people and simply sighed in defeat 'so that was what I was supposed to fight against, people are going to get killed because I couldn't stop it, I a pathetic guardian'. However there was then a flash and a featureless glowing golden being appeared in the void before turning towards Black "you were chosen to be guardian for a reason". Black just looks at the being who had appeared 'but I'm trapped how can I get out and how can a beat that Oblivion guy' a smile appeared on the beings face "simple say one small word, the word you have to use to channel your power to save the innocent from the darkness, the word you were destined to say". Our hero smiles for a second before calling out to the sky one word a word that would reverberate through the ages in the power that word held 'SHAZAM'.

Meanwhile outside the darkness bubble Oblivion was still mass killing those who chose the shoot at him as while they weren't harming him he still found them annoying. This caused him to swing his sword obliterating the government agents and destroying the majority of the roof in the room he was in "flee mortals for your end is near". However suddenly dark storm clouds formed above the destroyed roof before a golden bold of lightning strikes the shadow burble causing it to burst due to an explosion of power. When this ceased in the place of the bubble stood a man clothed in a unique ensemble of clothing. He was clothed in the top of the initiate robes that our hero had worn during his test of worthiness however the pants of the robes had been replaced with simple jeans. The unique ensemble continued with combat boots with greaves covering the laces gauntlets and bracers over the hands and arms and a pure white hooded cloak held just under the hood by a chain attached to two circles covered in arcane symbols containing knowledge long forgotten by humanity. This unknown being pulls its hood back revealing it as Black, however the most striking aspect becomes known due to this act. This most striking physical aspect is his eyes which are glowing pure white and have what appears to be lightning pouring out which have focused on Oblivion. "So you aren't dead interesting very well I guess I have to kill you now" and the he charges at our new Guardian at such speeds that an ordinary person would assume that he teleported and brought his sword down in a downward arc. However our new guardian without even looking at this new and clear danger to himself simply raised one of his arms and blocked the sword with his bracer before grabbing the blade with his other hand to the cry of "IMPOSSIBLE" from oblivion. Then his unoccupied hand was clenched into a fist and to the surprise of everyone in the room excluding him became enveloped in an unnatural blue fire before this fist was launched at the blade shattering it before coming into contact with oblivions stomach with the force of a freight train knocking oblivion through several rooms before he came to a stop in some sort of courtyard. A clearly shocked Oblivion with a groan of pain began to get back to his feet while the being who is clearly above him in levels of power walking towards him. "How are you doing this, you shouldn't be this powerful I should be the one ready to end you not the other way around" to this the Guardian says nothing instead he stands there for a moment before separating from the ground and rising into the air. He looks at oblivion with a look of disgust before yelling 'FOUL CREATURE OF THE DARKNESS AS GUARDIAN OF EARTH I BANISH YOU FROM WHENCH YOU CAN AND IF YOU EVER RETURN I WILL END YOU'. And with that a beam of light shoots up from the ground enveloping Oblivion and continuing into the sky until it's no longer visible.

The newly proclaimed Guardian of Earth continues to look into the sky for a brief period of time before the glow in his eyes as well as the leaking lightning power. Once the glowing eyes return to normal our hero stumbles and looks around in confusion 'where am I? Last thing I remember was saying shazam and then I think something hit me how did I get here'? Unfortunately for our hero at that point the remaining government personnel with weapons swarmed from the various entrances into the courtyard and formed a circle around him. Fortunately for our hero there is what appears to be the sound of thunder and a large pillar of light shoots down from the atmosphere striking our hero and forming a large dome of white energy briefly before shooting back up into the sky leaving the agents alone in the courtyard. Meanwhile our hero was deposited into another courtyard before he senses movement behind him spinning round to come face to face with the semi corporeal form of merlin "good your back now we can begin".

TO BE CONTINUED…..