A Love In Dark Times

In that morning Luisa woke up imbued with jewels, with hundreds of beings that she had only seen in fairy tales, surrounded her like a queen, the Mother-Mount placed a necklace of flowers around her and said to her: “Welcome my. child, we are very excited to have you with us:

“Welcome my child, we are very excited that you are with us, I hope we can make your stay a great experience.

-1 guessed that they would liquefy me to create new beasts with my remains,” said Luisa sitting on her bed of leaves, whil some nomos arrived with trays full of fruits, and the hostess answered her;

Contrary to what your people say, we are not barbarians and neither is that the way you use your gifts, you are very confused, the great master has deceived you as well as the others.

Then, why do you want me," asked Luisa looking around, looking for her sword and the way to escape, the mother- mountain mentioned to her:

Dear Luisa, that's how they call you, look, I introduce myself, my name is Gaya, although in this country they call me the mother-mountain, but it doesn't matter how they call me, what really affects me is that man in his hunger to control everything, destroys his environment, it's not something I reproach them, because it's in their nature to survive without caring about what they have to go through, only that what I felt one day wouldn't matter, now it's out of my hands, that's why I need concrete and definitive solutions.

-And me, how do I fit into your plans, Mrs. Gaya?

-Luisa dear, it's simple with your gifts, we will make this world flourish again, to end the plagues.

“You mean the humans?

Yes, but also to their fellows and ramifications, the truth is that I can't stand the beings of darkness that corrupt everything in their path, but let's get to the point, come with me,” he took Luisa by the hand, leading her to a corner wher there were several eggs of different shapes, and continued explaining:

your power, it doesn't come from your vital fluids, it comes from your energy, which means that by killing you you would be a pile of fertilizer more, I will show you, I need you to radiate with your energy to these eggs, we have collected them and taken care of them for a long time, we need you to germinate them, they are from magnificent creatures extinct millions of years ago, please do it, I promise to let you go when we finish, of course I don't advise you to come back, they will chase you and you will end up in a bonfire like the ones in your class.

Luisa touched the eggs trying to find out what was inside them, they had different textures, -you have to hurry up with th bad step, -she murmured, before starting to try, she tried to give it her energy as if she was heating them up.

“You're doing it wrong, I see that no one has taught you, it's logical, the ones in your class were first killed and then they spoke to them, you have to become one with the object and change with it, fuse yourself with the eggs, revive and be bor you can do it," Gaya suggested to her, taking her hands.

Luisa concentrated on embracing the eggs, imagining herself inside as a foetus, feeling the hearts beating again, feeling warmth emanating, she felt herself stretching up to the sky, breaking the vault of heaven and emerging like a geyser, unti some tender grunts brought her out of her trance and some sticky licks on her face, she opened her eyes, observed some tender little eyes, startled she moved her head back, the sight she saw left her breathless, the eggs hatched, the beings that sprouted looked at her believing she was their mother. They were like lizards, she asked Gaya who was smiling at the results:

-Are they dinosaurs?

Some yes, some not so much, you see you are magnificent and this is just one little thing you can do,” Gaya replied, lftir up one of the animals, giving a signal to some elves to feed them. Luisa felt good, it was satisfying to create lives instead ending them, she decided it would be better to stay in this world of green walls, this situation left her exhausted, she fel her eyes closed and she went into a deep sleep.

Her mother pulled her towards the fortress, showed her the sword Darmela, showed her Luis and a white boy with black hair dressed in a red sweatshirt, and also a big man with his back to her, pronouncing: “This is your father, you must find him:

“this is your father, you must find him, you have to help him, you may not know him, but he doesn’t know he has a daughter either, don't escape destiny, please, his name is....

And she woke up, with one of those reptiles playing on top of her, she didn't manage to see its face, immediately some nomos arrived with trays of fruit, she heard some pleadings, she went to see what it was about and there were some creatures that looked like men that showed fangs like swords, the one in front looked like the boss and said something like: “You can't fight us, you can't fight us:

“You can't fight us, don’t pretend that some mushrooms with legs have a chance against us, we are the kings of the night. The mother-mountain, unaffected by his threats, tried to talk some sense into him:

-Calm down vampires, she's not ready and if she is, I don't want her anywhere near you.

“What are you talking about, Gaya? Don't you dare, we need her,” the vampire spoke, “it doesn't take long for a prophet tc appear, a chosen one to come to judge the established or resulting order and it is possible that he will decide to extingui us or limit us like the one who took away the possibility of seeing the sunlight, the one who condemned us to the twiligh and now, no matter how many things we have tried, how many blocker companies we have financed, with her we can increase our power, give her to us by force or we will rip her from your inert green hands.

“Wait, maybe we can negotiate, don't forget that I was the one who intervened with that chosen one so that instead of eliminating them I would condemn them to live like the bats they are, give me some time while she learns to handle her powers.

“No Gaya, what you want is time to build an army of creatures, I hear you've even hired and bought human armies. “Vampires, there is no being that surpasses my dislike, they think they are special, the kings of existence, they only live tc quench their thirst and when they achieve it if they are not measured they run rampant, they live to kill others, they thin! they are the pinnacle and they are nothing more than scavengers incapable of listening to reason, Now you come to my house trying to take away one of my possessions offering only threats, I tried to be reasonable with you and in respect fo this place I give you the opportunity to leave unharmed.

We are not afraid of you, we will destroy this place, we will reduce it to dust, you will be the one who will be sorry for challenging us.

And the vampires rushed at her, biting and scratching her, destroying her body, leaving her with dusty splinters in their jaws, one of them saw Luisa throwing her:

Look, there's the priestess, catch her.

Like a stampede they approached her, terrified, she got into a fighting pose ready to defend herself, to her mind came th image of her sword that was tied by some branches, she concentrated on the sensation of having it in her hands, the coldness of the hilt, “Mari”, so he had named it after his mother, the sword appeared in his hand and with it he stopped t onslaught breaking fangs, from nowhere trunks sprang up and impaled them, and from the earth Gaya the mother mount emerged again articulating:

~You fools, you cannot defeat me, I am a life force of this world, I do not possess a body, it is up to me to create these dol to communicate with the strange beings like you, now I am glad to be able to finish with some miserable spawn, a filthy mixture of bats and men, having obtained the worst of both races, even if I stain this holy field, it will be worth it to finish with your filthy race.

“You are wrong Gaya, we did not all come, we were cautious and left many reinforcements who will take revenge when th see that we do not appear, they will burn this forest, your precious Eden, we know that your heart is here somewhere hidden, we will perish here, but it will be your death sentence.