The Watch – Part 145:

I rose into the air, a white haze wrapped around me. I stopped when I had every Monster in sight. They were looking at me, wanting to attack me, rip me to shreds and devour me. The white haze around me grew brighter the more I charged up my attack. Magician knew exactly what I was about to do.

With one magnificent burst of dense white energy, extending outwards in every direction, shooting the speed of light, engulfing every single one of the Monsters in turn. For a few moments, all that could be seen was nothing but white as the Monsters slowly disintegrated, piece by piece until they were only but particles of dust floating chaotically in amidst the white energy. Then the particles dissolved into atoms, then the atoms broke down into nothing, wiping them from existence entirely.

When my attack eventually faded away, nothing was left behind. Silence. It was hard to imagine there ever being many hundreds, maybe even thousands of Monsters there in the first place. All of them, wiped out in a single moment. The air around me settled back down as I slowly descended to the ground once more, landing in front of Magician. He struggled to comprehend what just happened. He had the upper hand. His plan was working. It had worked. He had gotten inside my head and won. Then he would be able to take the watch from me. That was his plan. And it failed.

He tried to figure out when it all went wrong.

‘What part?’ he asked. ‘What part of my plan did you take and turn it on its head?’ The tables have turned He’s asking me at what point did I start to think that I could do that. In truth, everything about my giving up was true. I genuinely believed that I had lost. It was my parents and Amy who stayed by my side, giving me the support I needed to realise that losing was all in the mind. It was when I was waking up that I formulated my plan. I increased my intelligence and figured out his tactics, his plans and his ways. I knew from that moment on that he would do anything to try and get inside my head, and win by sneaking in. That was my final victory. And he knows it. He’ll never know at when I started to turn the tables, and that is going to eat him from the inside. He knew that he was defeated. There was nothing he can do from now on.

‘What are you going to do to me?’ he asked numbly.

‘Nothing,’ I said calmly. ‘I’m going to let you leave.’

‘Just like that?’ he asked.

‘Just like that,’ I confirmed.’

He didn’t try and more mind games. He just accepted his defeat.

A purple doorway opened up behind him and he spun around on the balls of his heels, silently walking through. The purple door closed, leaving no trace of there ever being a disturbance here. The air was still. I stood there, looking at the emptiness stretching as far as the eye could see in every direction. It was hard to believe that there was ever a fight here. It was such a relief to finally have him gone so he will never cause any more havoc.

But my job is far from done. Magician might be out of the equation, but the world is still in ruins. I now have the task of rebuilding the world, saving everyone who were unfortunate enough to feel the Monster’s wrath. There was a simple way of doing so. Changing the future, creating a new timeline, but by going back in time would mean going back to when the Monsters roamed freely, where I’m still questioning myself. If Magician learns that I’m somewhere else in this world, he might latch onto that and run with it, destroying everything that I’ve worked so hard for. There has to be another way. Simply rebuilding what we lost isn’t enough. I will not accept that. I want everyone who died to be alive again. Magician will not beat me even with the tinniest of victories.

And then, once I’ve completed my mission, I can go back home where Amy would be sitting, waiting, none the wiser as to what happened. And then I can amend any confusion that Tom has against me, bring our friendship back to what it once was.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Thanks for reading

Antony Hudson

(TonyHadNouns)