Seal of Light - Enlightened

Chapter 10: IX : The Calm before the Storm

Mat and Rigs was running for their lives inside this mysterious jungle.

“Mat, I never thought that thing would take my threat seriously, I would like to take it back now…”

“Shut up and run faster Rigs, we almost died from the last attack that he did…” Mat said gasping for air.

Streaking toward them from behind was a huge log thrown to them by this unknown creature who was

pursuing them right from where the two female dryads lefts them.

"This is a silly way to die!" Rigs said while bursting his remaining energy to overrun Mat.

“Eventually, we will drain out and he will catch us, we must fight back Rigs!”

“Do you have a plan in mind Mat?”

“Rigs, can you use your whip to hold him at least to buy me a few seconds to attack him?”

“I’ll try, get ready Mat…” Rigs said while parting away from Mat and extending his ki-whip from his fist.

Mat’s seal lit up as he watch his friend maneuvered to a rear position from the creature that was

chasing them.

Rigs swing his whip in full force to tangle the creature’s feet, he tried to pull the whip to close the feet

together but it didn’t work, so he rolled sideward to entangle one of the creature’s arm. Rigs was able to

cord one arm but was caught in the process.

Mat did not wasted any second and rushed forward spearing his ki-blade towards the creature that was

now lifting Rigs. With an additional burst from a quick leap, Mat pressed his blade to the chest of the

creature.

The creature slowly turned his view to Mat who was still trying to press his blade deeper.

“I admire your courage, young Mat Adam and Rigs Perez, but by now the both of you should have

realized the difference of our strength and power, and that you do not have any slight chance of

defeating me.”

“He knows our name Mat.” Rigs whispered.

The creature released an evil wave of unseen energy from his body that made both Mat and Rig spin

around, hit the ground and rolled away from him.

“Your young master should have thought of training you further before sending you both to this mission.

But he had no choice because he could not fulfill this mission alone, so he took the risk of bringing all

available help there is, even his unprepared amateur students.”

The creature stood tall as he gaze down on Mat and Rigs who was still on their back and tendering

their aching bodies.

“Who are you?” Rigs asked.

“Enji Oni” The creature said as he prepares to stomp on Mat and Rigs.

A huge beam of light struck from nowhere hitting and creating a giant hole on the creature’s chest.

“What…”

Mat and Rigs stood up and watch as the creature crawl back covering the hole on his chest with his

hand.

“You have escaped death this time, but we will meet again Mat Adam and Rigs Perez.” The creature

said while fading away to the dark side of the forest.

“That was our second win, but did we win by luck again? And where did that very powerful shot came

from?” Rigs asked

Mat was tracing the direction from where the shot could possibly originate.”Let’s follow this path Rigs.”

“I hope we won’t run into another battle anytime soon, we could slow down a bit to recover our strength

Mat.”

After more than a half mile walk, they saw a figure of another black pillar. They are not sure but they

knew they saw a young boy standing in front of it.”

They moved closer and took cover from a wide old tree.

“Yeah, it’s a boy alright, but could he did that powerful shot awhile ago?” Rigs replied with a much

exaggerated suspicious look.

Mat paused for a second and gave this serious look at Rigs.

Rigs was not sure how to respond so he made more funny faces instead.

“OK Rigs seriously, here’s the plan.”

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Rigs slowly sneaked to the next tree, moving closer to the mysterious boy who was standing before

and facing the black pillar.

“OK, here goes…”

To Rigs’ surprise, just before he made his next move, the boy suddenly appeared standing in front of

him.

“N-no, d- did he just performed a quick leap?” Rigs thought while standing frozen with his cheeks

randomly palpitating.

The young boy stood still in front of Rigs and gave him a blank stare.

“Is he waiting for my next move? Is he trying to read my mind at the moment? Is this another

possessed person?” Rigs thought as he stood motionless and returned a flattened stare to the young

boy.

After several moments of silence, both of them felt the bullet speed movement occurred near the pillar.

“So you guys figured out how to free the captive soul huh?” the young boy ended the long absence of

words between them and said in a very calm and soft toned manner.

“He talked to me! Did he saw that too? Did he know I had company?” Rigs thought as he raised his

eyebrows, slowly looking back to the boy.

“He had the situation under control, I must not let my guard down,” Rigs thought as his seal slowly lit up

in preparation of any sudden assault. © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

Still with a searching glance, the young boy raised his hand and pointed his finger to Rigs’ face.

“Oh no, here comes the slow motion attack with a big blast, come on seal, don’t fail me now, and must

pull up my spiritual barrier before…”

Rigs’ thought was interrupted,

“Sir, is that a bruise on your face?”

The question was genuinely sincere, Rigs wanted cry, or faint rather.

Rigs’ cheeks were now palpitating violently.”What kind of demon are you? You are playing with human

emotions.”

The young boy felt Rigs’ anxious response. He turned about and faced the recently emptied pillar.

“I was trying to help the person inside the pillar, but I don’t know how, I was also trapped inside one of

those but I was able to free myself, I can’t even explain how I did it, but I did it.”

“You are not a demon, right?” Rigs asked, still with a raised brow.

“No, I am not, I am Jimmy Fang, I am looking for my elder brother, Sieg Fang.”

“Sieg? Jimmy? The Fang brothers,” Rigs thought.

“You know my brother?”

“You really can read minds do you, young Jimmy?”

“Uhm, Yes, well, not everything, especially when it is deep or long, it would be cloudy, but you with that

short phrased thought, I definitely could.” Jimmy replied with a bit of a proud gesture and a crossed-

arm.

“Um, OK, that’s good enough, I’m Rigs by the way, listen Jimmy, we need to help my friend Mat, to free

the other captives, your brother might be in there too.”

“Alright sir, both you and your friend seems to be good fellows, I will do whatever I can to help.”

“I saw you did that quick leap a while ago, can you do that again?” Rigs asked with a grin.

Jimmy showed a childish grin and nodded back.

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On the highest location of the mountain, somewhere nears the central black pillar.

Mat landed after performing several long quick leaps. He carefully placed down the person he was

carrying and he exhaustedly fell to his knees with his face almost an inch away from the ground. He

gave several deep breathes.

“Thank you for saving me back there, I hope you’re alright kind sir?”

It was a very familiar soft voice. It was a young woman’s voice. How could Mat forget that sweet gentle

tone, but could it be possible? That she’s here too?

Mat slowly tilted his head, and to his surprise.

“It’s you!” the both of them said at the same time.

“Summer Eve? How did you…”

“Mat Adam! I can’t believe this is happening, but I am really glad to see you here.”

Summer gave a quick hug, and then settled back with a slight distance and an awkward look at each

other.

“Oops, I-I just got carried away,” Summer blushed.

Mat was still in shock, his feeling was a mix of excitement and fear, his heart was beating double time.

Summer could not help but notice the seal that was half lit on Mat’s right shoulder.

“That seal, I’ve seen than symbol on my mom’s bracelet, there were other seals besides that. “

“The bracelet that I have brought to you,” Mat recalled.

“Yes, from my aunt Lily. So it is true, everything my mom said was true, these supernatural powers do

exist, the carriers of the seal, and you seem to be one of them.”

“If I say yes, will you be afraid of me?”

“No, no, in fact I’m a bit excited myself, my mom used to tell sto…”

Mat interrupted and took Summer and then quick-leaped away from their location.

A giant blast of dark energy almost destroyed them.

On a safer location, Mat scanned the area where the blast could have been casted.

“Look Mat, another pillar,” Summer said, pointing to a black pillar similar to where she was taken

earlier.

A silhouette of a person was seen behind it.

“Mat, I think there is someone inside it.” Summer said on a bit higher tone.

“OK Summer, wait I’ll have to make a quick scan on the area, I can feel someone lurking around. Stay

hidden behind the pillar. ”

Summer nodded and sat behind the black pillar. She slightly moved her head to peak on where Mat

was.

Mat was about to quick leap to a nearby spot when someone caught him on his face, it took a grip on it

and slammed him hard on the ground.

“NO!” Summer screamed and then quickly covered her mouth and sat back to hide herself behind the

pillar.