CHAPTER 5

"What the heck was that?" I said.
"High magnetism," a voice said.
"What?" Boom.
The shake knocked me off my feet. I got back up quickly and turned around. The giant gate I had walked through had been closed but now there was a basketball-sized hole in it. All I could hear was a ringing and screaming.

I turned and began to run; I sped up and sped up only till I realized how long the hall way was.

Boom.

Around the turn where the gate was, I saw a light and an explosion there was a slight pull in that area. Not good. I began running again then it hit me.

With all I've been through already you would think this would be the easiest thing ever.

I looked straight ahead. A tug pulled at the inner most core of my body. A numbing sensation ran through my body. Wow this is weird, I thought.
"Well at least you figured it out," another voice thought.

I appeared in the train station again. Walked a few feet and saw a door, opened it and I was in the house again.
"Hello," I said to the two men sitting at a table
They stared up at me.
"Welcome," said a man in a black jacket, it was the same man that passed me on the train platform before. It was his thoughts I was hearing before as well.
"Dumb question, is this the manifestation of my conscious?"
"Hahaha," the man in jeans and a button down laughed. "No dear boy this is your soul."

I winced and looked and the ground and back up. "What?"
The darker one stood up and shook my hand. "This will confuse you so we will wait for a few days, haha. I'm Nicolai and that's Damien and good bye. Oh, heads up; touch the scroll."
"OK," I was still confused. I was pushed out of the soul again…

… and a door was in front of me. I walked up to it, pushed it open and heard the lifting of about 30 odd guns. As the light balanced out I saw 3 turrets and 50 odd men in rag tag armor hoisting g36c. A single man walked out and asked me who I was. I told him who I was and what I was sent here to do. He laughed a hearty laugh. He had an Irish accent and spoke in confidence.

"You lied to get here, didn't you? Haha well, you're welcome to my ranks. Go into the room and guard it with your life, haha." He shook my hand and let me through.
I walked in and there were a couple dozen marbolo men standing with shot guns and pistols. One walked up to me and handed me a full double barrel.
"It only has two shoots so aim well." The man had a very Native American voice.
The magnetic energy was getting more intense.

"Check the deck," Damien's voice said.
I pulled it out. The top card said: lon Cardinal, his power: magnetism and a sense based assault had ruby "eyes" over his body that would open and would activate new powers.
"Sounds fun."
Then a second card appeared. It glowed a different way, though, it pulsed energy all through it. All I could read before a big blast was heard outside was "Gilgamesh".
Another big boom and a split went down the giant door. Another boom and a scream was heard.
Guys, what do I do? I thought.
"Find and touch the scroll, it might give you leverage."
OK.

I looked around a saw a single altar; it had atop it a scroll of paper. I ran to it and touched it.

A sudden warmth hit me while a light came from the scroll. I felt the elements around me they kneeled before me, allowing me their power. It was invigorating. I felt recharged but it felt natural at the same time.
"What's going on?" a soldier asked.
Then outside there was one last solid boom.
The door cracked entirely but stood. Then a light rumble and it fell. A small troop of soldiers in high tech gear and two men stood in front. The first, lon, had ratty long red hair and a scared, mangled, German looking face. His lower legs were metal and fur. Almost wolfish, his body was built for durability that much was obvious. The other man, the man named Gilgamesh, was just visually terrifying. He was 6 ft 7 inches, looked about 400lbs of muscle and was rather lanky. And he was gone. All of the sudden, one of the men in the room was ripped in half and thrown about the room. Gilgamesh stood, the troops' blood drenching him. He stood, arms open. He slowly lowered his head and stared at me.
"You." There was an all eternal hate in his voice. Another boom came and the wall behind me collapsed as a giant mech suit came in with a rail gun type device aimed at Gillgamesh. A hum and then a loud metallic bang.

Gilgamesh stood away from the location, skin and near singed off bone showing at a certain point. lon had magnetically pulled Gilgamesh out of the way but the rail gun energy was attracted to the magnetism, burning him anyways.

lon stared "tsk tsk tsk, don't let emotions get in the way."
Gilgamesh slowly dropped to his knees and died.
Is that it?I thought. But as I thought it lon spoke up. "He doesn't die that easily. He'll be back," as he pulled out a match, lit it, and threw it on Gilgamesh. The body burnt and lon slowly began to walk towards us, his eyes on the mech. It raised the rail gun and charged a shot but lon put a hand up and suddenly brought it down, along with the mechs arm. He threw an open palm out towards it and thud nailed it. It fell back and the men in the room began firing away.

lon took a odd pose and placed his hand perpendicular to his body and the bullets slowed to a stop in front of him. He let them fall and began to point at the soldiers, lightning blasting from his fingers, killing the soldiers immediately.

The mech opened up and there was a blur. A man in a suit jumped up to lon, grabbed him by the shoulders, let his legs pass him and placed them on the ground, slid his arms to the neck and twisted while throwing lon, spun and hit a wall.
"HOW DARE YOU TOUCH ME" lon yelled.
The man in the suit chuckled. He looked and pushed both hands in the air in front of him. A ripple went through the air and hit lon in the chest, throwing him through the wall the door used to be at. The suited guy pulled of his mask and looked at me.