A Love In Dark Times

The nauseating smell caused their hearts to tremble, a sulphurous yellow mist urged them to leave.

“We'd better leave, we already have the key. -Francis proposed.

“We can't do that, our main task is to protect the humans from these demons, who were imprisoned for a long time in the dungeon of the Cucacuy, they are thirsty for flesh, they are a danger for the nearby populations. They are thirsty for meat they are a danger to the nearby populations,” said Angie, wielding her sword, cutting a tree-like beast in half.

There are so many of them, if we'd better leave. -Guio snorted, trembling, as he faced two huge bears.

“We can't let them keep running away, several have already left, including that morbid old man called the tunjo. -Luisa formulated, snapping at an anaconda snake that was snaking through the air.

50 let's have some fun. -said Angie, igniting her sword that pierced demons, burning their bodies.

-perfect, I'm not going to be left behind, I'll do my total domination technique, thunderstorm. -That's what Francisco said his technique of throwing huge lightning bolts, with which he destroyed some beasts with the body of a man, with the les and head of a bull, which mooed when they were exterminated.

1 don’t know the reason for naming the techniques, that's nonsense. -Angie was attacking relentlessly, enjoying cutting u a few ghouls.

“It can be used to teach or fight in a group, giving instructions, although there are some who give them strange names, or in different languages, who take it for granted that the others know the meaning, and even make fun of those who repeat the name wrong. -Luis added to the conversation, as he wrestled with an alligator man.

1 would call my movements something indigenous to my land so that everyone would know that I am proud to have bee born in this place, I would name them, for example, chicha fuerte or cumbia torbellino. -Luisa swung her sword at a giant toad.

For hours they dedicated themselves to exterminating as many demons as possible, they also received blows and cuts, because it is difficult to go to a fight without getting hurt, you would have to be someone very powerful and that doesn't save you from getting hurt, itis said that the most handsome gets hurt by a fool.

They were exhausted when out of nowhere the church of the blessed appeared again.

“We'd better get out of here. -Francis proposed and they all followed him without contradicting him.

The portal led them to the neighbourhood where the families of the Luises were relocated.

Why did you bring us here, you bloody traitor? -Luisa demanded, wanting to break him in two.

I just want us to rest for a day with our loved ones before we embark on the dangerous journey that awaits us. -answere Francisco.

-And where will you go? -Luis knew that Francisco and Angie had no family to go to, he didn't know anything about Guio, only that he had been his beloved’s boyfriend, for that reason he loved him better from afar.

-1 will take advantage of the time to spend time with my father, the shaman. -Angie mentioned as she disappeared into another portal.

-As for me, Ill go and have a few drinks in a bar where the waitresses walk around naked. -Francisco was frank about his intentions.

-All right, I'll see you later. -Luis said goodbye, taking Luisa with him, not caring that Guio was left alone in that place, like an abandoned dog.

Luis went to greet his parents and Luisa went to greet her siblings, she was bitterly surprised to find her older brother on the floor bathed in liquor, she picked him up and said to him: “What happened to you?

“What happened to you, it seemed to me that you had many friends who would take care of your welfare, the last time I saw you you were gathered together and an entourage of girls seemed to be fighting for your attention.

Iwas in heaven, it was all like a dream, everything was perfect until the money ran out like water in my hands, it's incredible, how overnight all my businesses lost money, the taxis were stolen or are now junk, even the bank complained about the quotas. It's a bad run, I don't know how the people I helped with their businesses left, it seems that they had agreed to stab me in the back, selling everything, taking the money that I gave them with the confidence of a neighbour. Brother, there is nothing left to do, remember that what goes around comes around comes around goes around,

It's not just that, sis, money has never mattered to me, I only saw it as a means to help everyone, and the Judas joined forces to betray me.

-At least you tried and had a good time too.

You're right about that, sis, I liked feeling important, that everyone greeted me with ornaments, that they begged me for blessings or that I was the godfather of their children or something, I have about a hundred godchildren and what I enjoyed the most was having many lovers, although it was a bit exhausting, sometimes I had to take one out the window enter another through the door while I had some locked in the bathroom. Even one day, I inadvertently locked three lad in a wardrobe, it was funny when they grabbed each other inside, I took the one I had on duty, claiming that they were bewitched spirits, later I found out that one of them had only come to check the electricity consumption, it had nothing t do with my business.

“It's beautiful how money turned you into a soap opera star.

It's true that I squandered the money, but I have good memories, what does give me a hard time is the bad attitude that most of my debtors have when I charge them, it's as if they want to kill me. I remember the story of the scorpion who beg an otter to take him to the other side of the river, who begs him, cries to him, swears to him that he will never sting it, the hairy one accepts taking him dry on his back and the damned bug goes and buries his sting, filling it with his venom and before drowning he asks him why, the arachnid replied that that was its nature, she was the one who made the mistake o thinking that it could be different, that happened to me, as I was so deluded to think that some neighbours who didn't even greet me, overnight would become my best friends just because they did.

That's hard and cruel, little brother, in any case it's your fault, you should have improved your fortune better, the probler was that as you earned it easily, you squandered it in the same way, on the other hand, it would have cost you to earn it, you would still be loaded with money.

“What really affects me, Luisa, is having failed you, my brothers and sisters, and my mother, who is in heaven.

-At least the house, you improved it, it’s very beautiful, now I see that we each have a room when there were times when we all slept in the same bed.

You're right about that, and one of the last profitable investments I have is the restaurant I put up for my step-parents, that's where the food for the house comes from.

You see, not everything is lost, you also have everything you learned, take it as an expensive lesson, its as if you had attended an expensive university, after all, that's life.

Luisa heard the footsteps of a stranger throwing stones at the windows of her house, she drew her sword and asked: -Who is it?

It's me. -It was Luis arriving with a beautiful bouquet of roses.

“It's funny that I brought you with the thought, I was considering coming to see you in a little while. Luisa smiles at him with her love-struck face.

-Of course, Luisa, we must take advantage of the time, I've come to propose that we carry out the duel that we have alrea delayed more than the fixed time. -Luis also smiled, drawing his sword.