The Watch – Part 143:

If I’m going to defeat Magician once and for all, along with all of those Monsters, I’m going to have to increase my powers to that of beyond anything I’ve ever reached before. Magician said that portal cannot be written out of the equation by rewriting time, but it isn’t unstoppable. If I increase my magical powers enough, I will be able to blast it with enough energy to make it collapse in on itself, preventing any more Monsters to come through, then I can go about wiping out the rest of them, and putting a stop to Magician. He will think twice before wanting to go up against me again.

I was mere seconds away from waking up now. My watch appeared on my wrist as my body slowly became heavier, indicating that I am now back in the real world. All I have to do now is open my eyes. But before I do that, I communicated with Interface, requesting him to navigate through the watch’s menus, picking and choosing all that I need, increasing each power to a level that no one would be able to stand up against.

I could feel the rush of energy as each power entered my body. I felt stronger, determined and contented than ever before. The more I increased my power, through my eyelids, I could see a white haze slowly materialising around me. It was then Interface’s voice spoke inside my head.

‘Sebastian,’ he said calmly, ‘if you increase your powers any more, you will destroy the world,’ he explained. I stopped immediately. Due to the watch taking energy from the universe, and that the more I took, the large the items I would start disintegrating as I took their energy, I remember requesting Interface to warn me whenever I was about to destroy anything huge of any sort.

‘Thanks for letting me know, Interface,’ I said, just as calmly.

‘You are welcome,’ he nodded. I breathed in deeply, letting out a long blow as I adjusted to the level of power that was now running through my body all at once. I was ready to open my eyes.

I had returned. I could feel the dried up tears on my face from earlier. Magician believes that I am defeated, that all he has to do now is take the watch from me. Well, he is sadly mistaken.

I snapped my eyelids back, letting the sunlight enter my retinas so I don’t have to wait for them to adjust later on. It was time…

‘What are you doing?’ Magician asked, stunned. He has noticed the white haze around my body and he can’t figure out how someone as defeated as I can generate something like that. I uncurled my body, straightening my legs and arms out before rising upwards, turning myself around so that I was staring at Magician in the eyes. This time, his insanity didn’t affect me. Instead, I affected him. He stared at me, wondering how I’m able to do this and what I’m about to do.

I looked up and saw the portal, still holding strong in the sky with more orbs of light than before. By nothing more than just willpower, I flew towards the portal, charging up a ball of white-coloured magic in my hands, and when I reached the point that I knew was deadly for the portal, I stopped. I hung in the air for a second, waiting for the magic in my hands to finish building up. When it was just right, I swung my arms around and fired a solid beam of white light at the portal, hitting it with tremendous force. The two energies collided in a spectacular light show, spanning across the entire sky in every direction, absorbing many orbs of light that were unfortunate enough to not get nearer the ground, forcing them back through, returning them to their home Universe where they will remain trapped forever.

My powerful, unrelenting attack proved effective when the portal started to do what I had expected of it: Close in on itself. Slowly but surely, the outer circumference grew gradually smaller. I could feel my arms growing tired with every second that passes, the palms of my hands drowning in sweat. The portal grew small enough that my beam of white light engulfed it entirely.

Then, with a satisfying explosion of all the colours of the rainbow across the sky, the portal closed. I stopped my attack. The portal had gone, leaving behind a clear blue sky. Peaceful. I had hoped that with the portal closing the Monsters on the ground would automatically disappear as well, but they are still rampaging free, destroying what’s left of the world. I looked down at the ground and saw Magician watching me. He was stunned. I did what he thought was impossible.

Without turning, I floated downwards feet first, landing softly on the ground in front of Magician, who was shocked into speechlessness.

‘I must congratulate you for closing that portal,’ he said, surprising me. ‘I told you that it was unstoppable, that it would be there no matter how many times you travel through time. I thought you hadn’t mastered the watch as much as you’ve shown. You truly are a worthy opponent. But tell me, are you going to use your magic to wipe you all the other monsters?’ he asked rhetorically, ‘if you are, I must ask what you are going to do afterwards. Once all the monsters have been wiped from the face of the Earth, how are you going to fix a ruined world. Travelling through time won’t work; you know just as well as I do that if you were to travel through time, to before the portal was ever opened, you will have to go through me first. Changing time, creating a new universe, sounds simple, doesn’t it? Except, I will follow you. Wherever, whenever you go. I will follow you.

‘I hold in my hand, a powerful magical object…’

‘Shut up,’ I spat. My confidence took him by surprise. ‘I am done playing your games. This ends right here, right now.’

‘I’m fairly confident you don’t know any of the watch’s secrets,’ he smirked. ‘I can tell you haven’t, because your perspective would change considerably if you knew any one of them.’

‘Don’t you dare,’ I shouted.

‘Don’t I dare… what?’ he was trying to get inside my head one more time.

‘I don’t care how many secrets you may know, or may be tricking me into thinking you know I will not let you be the one to tease me with that knowledge. It’s rational to think that there are plenty of secrets, but I will be the one to find them when I am ready.’

‘For all you know, I may have a secret that no one else could ever know.’

I smiled. He looked a bit uneasy. ‘That’s illogical. You would have had to find that somewhere. It may take me a while, but I refuse to let you be the one to tell me anything.’

‘Very well, then,’ his smirk growing. ‘Then let me tell you something about my magical object instead. The moment I came in contact with it, it showed me everything it is capable of…’

‘Shut up,’ I shouted again.

‘Then attack me,’ he shouted back. ‘Attack me and win this fight. Give me a fight worth losing,’ and he opened his arms and stood there, waiting for me to strike. Why?

TO BE CONTINUED…

Thanks for reading

Antony Hudson

(TonyHadNouns)