In the time of need… the red will become the green…. Put this disk on Naecken forehead.
The words of my future self still echoing in my mind. The disk hangs from my neck, everyone thinks it’s an amulet, they don’t know what it is or its purpose. Nobody knows, outside me.
I am not revealing it to Jackie or Crasher. I was going to, but I felt a chill along my spine. I know it was Ladnikia. She doesn’t want me to reveal it. And since she has saved my life more than one time, I know I have to trust her.
I look at the empty glass. Orange juice, ghha. But after the stupid entrance of those two kids, I am in warrior mode, so to speak. And the need to drown my deeper toughs in alcohol is gone.
The two girls look gorgeus. Who should I invite to dance? Jackie is now a close friend, after what we endured during the haunt of the Georgios, after the hurricane. But I know she loves Crasher… what I don’t know is if Crasher returns her feelings…
“HI, LITTLE EDULCORE!”
I turns, there is a giant turtle looking demon hovering over me.
“Bargh…Baahhhrg… Baghr…” I begins, but the demon silence him gentle with his index in front of his beak. “IT’S JUST UNCLE, FOR YOU, ED”.
“Uncle… what does it means? I have searched for you for a lot of time…”
“I KNOW. LET’S GO OUTSIDE”
I follow him outside, on the balcony.
“Whole story”.
“I CAN’T SAY MUCH. SOMETHING HAS BEEN REVEALED TO YOU BEFORE: THERE ARE TWO SECRET SOCIETIES…”
“…that struggles from the stone age to control the planet. The Hoods, aliens crashed on Earth, that taught technology to man and created the MU empire, and the Capes, or Futurists, or other dozens of names, the champions of Earth rebellion, who discovered magic to fight the advanced powers of the rivals. And since the dawn of history, they always struggle, both parts never achieving total victory, because there is an immortal Neanderthal that always thwart their plans, directly or enlisting the champions of that era.”
“YOU DID YOUR HOMEWORK. YOUR FATHER WAS ONE OF THE HOODS. HIGH IN COMMAND POSITION. HE HAD TO KILL ONE OF THE CAPES, A WOMAN. INSTEAD HE FELL IN LOVE WITH HER. SHE WAS AN HIGH WITCH. I WAS HER SERVANT. THEY TRIED TO HIDE FORM THE SOCIETIES, HIDING IN BOLOGNA, ITALY, AS OWNER OF A LITTLE RESTAURANT. THEY HAD YOU. THEN, WHEN YOU WERE STILL A KID, THEY HAD AN INCIDENT. IT WAS A GEORGIO THAT FINALLY FOUND THEM. THEY WERE BOTH KILLED. YOUR FATHER WAS LATER CLONED. I DON’T KNOW MUCH MORE”.
“Where do you disappeared? This informations are not much more what I knew before”.
“I WAS… AWAY, TO GET INSTRUCTIONS…”
“Where?”
“AWAY… I HAVE RETURNED TO WARN YOU. YOUR SWORD… YOU ARE NOT THE ONE THAT SHOULD HAVE FOUND HER. THERE IS ANOTHER INCARNATION OF THE ETERNAL CHAMPION ON THIS EARTH, THAT IS THE LEGITIMATE POSSESSORS. YOU HAVE NOT THE STRENGHT FOR HER BURDEN.”
I take Ladninkia in my hand, balances her, rotates her over my head. “I have all the strenght I need, demon.”
“MORAL STRENGHT, ED. YOU ARE HER SLAVE. I HAVE ARRIVED TOO LATE. LISTEN TO ME, THROW THE SWORD IN THE OCEAN!”
I laugh. “Ahhh ahhh ahhh, little demon. You come here, saying to either give away my sword or throwing it away? Are you escaped from an asylum or what?”
The demon turns, shaking his head, and returns to the party.
I look at Ladnikia. The euphoria lefts all of a sudden. The weight of Ladnikia now is too obvious. Panic, fears and imagines of horror possesses my brain.
Things I know so well. From when I was slave of a different kind of sword.
