A Love In Dark Times

-1 thought Santa Claus was an elitist old man who only left presents for the children of wealthy families, the ones who lef him expensive biscuits and milk, 1 even left him those treats a couple of times, but the next day they were gone, as was what I had asked for in a beautiful letter I had worked so hard to make. -Angie interjected, as she was listening to the conversation.

-Part of growing up in life is changing your beliefs and enduring disappointments. Francisco also jumped into the conversation.

-1 beg your pardon, Luisa. -1 always liked you, I always loved you and I want to ask you to be my girlfriend, please accept me, you would make me the happiest man in the world.

“Wait Mielocito, it's that Luisa and I are together. -Luis announced to her, taking his hands away from her.

The one who has to wait is you, in the end we are nothing, we have to wait for our duel, on the other hand, I don't know how you were able to believe in those slanders to my honour. -said Luisa, leaning back.

That means that you accept me, Luisa my love, I love you. -declared José Honey, trying to embrace her.

Neither honey, you're too sweet, you're going too fast, suddenly you crystallize, it's been a long time and you're coming out with this, maybe later on, I wouldn't like to have a boyfriend soldier, a long distance relationship. explained the beautiful warrior, pushing the harassing soldier aside.

I've already filled the field with white crosses as you told me to. -interrupted a soldier reporting to Francisco.

“I heard that the crosses were similar to a guillotine, an instrument of execution. -Angie observed, running her hand back and forth across her neck.

-It's a symbol that millions consider sacred, that serves to evoke the mystical energy we need for this massive exorcism. - explained Francisco's traitor.

The earth began to tremble, darkness covered the jungle without being able to see their hands, everyone heard cries for help from their friends and gunshots were heard.

The moon illuminated them momentarily, the corpse of a soldier was dragged by a shadow.

Stop, what are you? -asked Francisco, trying to catch the shadow and some soldiers lit their lamps screaming in fear. Behold, the crosses are upside down. -One of them proclaimed, terrified by the symbols that in a moment appeared upside down.

“Where is everybody? -asked the commander, as most of the soldiers ran away.

-Quickly, Luisa, you have to generate a whirlpool that will trap them in something, maybe in that rock. -Francisco ordered her, pointing to a large rock that was sticking out.

Vil try. Tl try," he replied, turning his sword Darmela, creating a whirlpool of black light that absorbed several transluce shadows, “it's not fair to trap them in a rock, there must be another option.

-Luisa, that's the one I know, if you let them free they will continue to cause chaos, as their confusion is too great. - Francisco objected.

- must help them to cross. -With this, Luisa opened a portal of light into which she led the whirlwind, adding: “Please reach your assigned place, follow the path of light and continue your evolution.

The jungle took on a new countenance, suddenly the darkness was not so gloomy, but the magnificent landscape of grey: soothed them, filled their souls with peace, the trees blossomed, the whole ground greened up, and the cold that crept into their bones changed to a lulling sobbing. One by one the soldiers regrouped to look at a comrade who had been kill “Who killed him, what happened,” the lieutenant questioned.

-My lieutenant, I heard soldier Quintero ask me for help, I saw some shadows, and I shot them out of fear,” one of them reported.

-1 saw some shadows, and I shot at them out of fear,” reported one of them. -so did another one.

50 did I. -It seems that all of them had fired, although months later it was proved that the bullets that killed the soldier were from his own weapon.

“Thank you very much, Miss Luisa, thanks to you there will never again be a situation like this. -The lieutenant thanked he crying for his soldier who was killed in those confusing events.

“You have nothing to thank us for, this death was our mistake, it should not have happened in our presence, it is the duty of the warriors of the light to solve these situations. -Luisa answered crying.

-It is regrettable that this poor boy lost his life in such an absurd way, a boy starting to live who was involved in an absur war, pushed by necessity or ignorance, whose life was now blinded, it is something absurd but normal in this senseless w where because of some old men who are safe in mansions, thousands of young people die," and Francisco remained siler because the crying choked his words.

They walked for hours with their hearts hanging in their hands, the sadness of that soldier, the sadness that would multi in his family, in his loved ones, something that could not be replaced, not even with decorations or compensation. The beautiful landscape at dawn motivated them to move forward, to carry out their mission, to continue fighting for good to avoid the deaths of innocent people, everything seemed to be improving, only when they arrived at the distant and hidd lair of the man-wolves, they found something they had not predicted, the whole place was adorned with the remains of corpses, the place was predominantly red, everything was in a mess.

“What happened? -Please look for survivors,” Francisco suggested or ordered everyone, as they searched the place full of hairy corpses.

Please help me. -A hairy hand was raised under some rocks, immediately everyone went to help him, removing the rocks it was that wolf with the star on his forehead.

-Estrello, what happened here? -asked Luisa, recognising the first being that changed.

-My dear goddess, Mephistopheles came for the key of Las Capas, of course we didn’t want to give it to him and that's wh he killed everyone, he also took my wife Paola, as a hostage demanding for her liberation that damned key. -Howled the wolf, mutating into a human to make it easier for them to understand.

-If 1 were you, I would have given them the key to avoid this massacre. -Francisco added, looking around at the dreadful surroundings.

“We don't know where it is, the old alpha hid it.." Estrello almost couldn't finish the sentence, when a red vomit came out of his mouth.