The Guardian (13 page)

Adela was now on her knees facing John and
looking at Galechka fall apart at her man that seemed by all
matters dead. Galechka sobbed and cried begging him to come back to
her. Adela was hoping he was just knocked out and at the same time
was trying to comfort Galechka for she all too well under stood the
feeling of losing the one that you love. Galechka was shaking him
from time to time even begging to the spirits for him to come back
to her. She looked up at Adela with pure hate and anger,” I thought
you were going to be careful with him.”

“
Oh sweetie, I didn’t mean to; you
need to understand I thought he could handle it.”

As Galechka was getting ready to spit some
words of venom, she felt him take a breath, “Oh god, he is alive,
she proclaimed as she tried to be as loving and intensive as she
could with him with tear drops falling down onto him. He reached up
to wipe the tears away trying to calm her down.

With desperation of trying to catch his
breath he asked,” Did anyone get the plate number of the truck that
hit me?”

Galechka slapped him and said,” You’re not
funny, not at all.”

Coughing and laughing slightly he began to
sit up trying to face her he caressed her face and said,” I love
you too much to leave you angel lips.”

This caused her to blush and start to kiss
him over and hold him in her arms. She could tell he was not all
there yet; she knew he was still dazed from being knocked out.
Adela was rubbing his back and patted Galechka on her hand looking
at her with eyes that said: I am so sorry; I did not mean to hurt
him. Galechka took Adela’s hand a held it for a second.

“
So how many more times are you going
to have to knock me out to make sure I am not going to die?” He
asked.

Adela shook her head,” You might be a little
sick in the head, but you are right, we do need to do this.”

“
Oh god, “Galechka proclaimed,” could
we just call it a day already?”

Adela nodded her head and shock John’s head
with her hand being playful and said,” Yeah, I think you need to
get him home and see what is broken.”

John cracked his back and shook his head
from side to side with his hands covering his eyes with his hands;
you could hear his back cracking as he came to his feet with
Galechka’s help. It was clear that this boy was still dazed and
everyone soon came to realize how much damage they had done to the
forest; trees were snapped and broken like tooth picks everywhere.
It truly looked like a tornado had ripped through the forest.

Adela and Galechka helped him along with him
on each one of their shoulders as they headed back towards the
house that he and she was staying in for the last few weeks. No one
said a word until they were almost back to their door.

“
You know Galechka, we do not have
much time left to prepare him? We need to get back to the castle
before rumors start to flare that I have abandoned the
castle.”

“
Can’t you go back and we keep
training him?”

“
No, my girl he has become far too
much for them to work with; if it was not for my new ancient
powers, I would have little more to show him as well.”

“
So when are we going home?” Galechka
questioned Adela.

“
We have a week more and I need to see
what I can get out of him and myself as well.”

“
So, you have no idea of what you are
capable as well?”

“
Not a single idea my dear; it feels
great though knowing that I have so much to explore in myself, but
scares me that I do not have enough to protect the
coven.”

Adela was clearly bothered by the soon to be
fate of her coven. You could see it in her eyes at times and see
how it weighed on her shoulders. Galechka was more worried about
the beatings John was taking and how much farther could they push
him, without killing him or maiming him. She just wanted to get him
home and fixed up for the next morning.

“You know Galechka on the next night, I want
you there, I am going to push him and I think you can help out; you
two need to work on your connection and figure out how to activate
his strengths more.”

“
Do you really believe that I have
such and influence on him?”

“I know I did on my guardian and he has
proven to gain strength when he feels you are in need; for all we
know, you might be able to feel when he has had enough and allow us
to save his life.”

Galechka took these words to heart, because
she knew that he was able to feel when she was in danger, but would
she be able to do the same. As they arrived to the door step Adela
held the door so that Galechka could get him in without bumping him
around too much. Adela waved and was on her way. Galechka helped
him into the shower helping him strip out of his torn and tattered
clothing, being disgusted and concerned about his wounds; she knew
that the bruises and abrasions would be gone before the sun set,
but it still broke her heart to know he was doing this to himself
night after night just to protect her.

*****

John woke up still a little stiff and sore
from the night before; he was surprised to hear quiet laughter
coming from the kitchen area, it was Galechka and Adela laughing
like teenage girls. Wait, I guess Adela is now a teenager again is
what came to mind. As he walked to the Kitchen Galechka placed and
her cup and put out her arms for him to come to her.

“
My poor baby,” she exclaimed,” Adela
you are such a bully.”

“
Oh please, are you joking he is our
one shot at this.”

“
Why does it seem like it might be you
who is the only hope.”

Galechka pulled him close kissing him as he
grunted in pain; she could tell the last match had pushed him a bit
far. Honestly, she was worried about Adela accidently killing him.
She noticed that Adela seemed to be gaining strength in her
abilities even faster than her beloved John. She kissed him on the
head before continuing with,” Adela, please be more careful with
him.”

“
Do you believe the ancients are going
to be easy on him?” Adela questioned before she began to sip her
cup of tea, eloquently holding the cup in both hands like a
princess.

John took notice that everything in Adela’s
persona screamed royalty. She omitted a type of royal energy that
was somewhat majestic even in her new younger form you could not
just see it in her posture, her mannerisms, her charm, but also her
aura omitted an unreal amount of not just royal energy, but a
undeniable heretical energy that suggests her family was a very
powerful family for years.

“
No, but Adela if you kill him,”
Galechka said with a cracking voices, but Adela cut her off before
she could finish with,” My god, one minute you hate him, the next
you cry at me that I might kill him; it is you who are more likely
to cause his death than anyone with your mistreatment of him other
your own insecurities.”

Before anyone could get another word in
wise, Adela sat her cup down and stood up primping her clothing
before walking towards the door. And spinning around to proclaim,
“You Galechka need to stop with your nonsense and embrace what you
have with him. I know what you are afraid of and the younger girls
at the coven should not be a worry to you, let alone what they
might think.” Adela was half way out the door when she paused to
stare,” John get some rest, you have only been out for a couple of
hours and we need to step up our training at the crack of
dusk.”

John was more intent on giving Galechka all
of his attention than getting any sleep; he pulled her close to
kiss her and she kissed him back, but he could feel that her mind
was someplace else. Her kiss and touch was off and he had a feeling
that Adela’s words had put her in a cross mood. John often wished
people would stop making comments that set her into these moods
that he always was the one that suffered not the others.

******

John awoke to Galechka kneading at his chest
almost like a cat while she was sitting up with a look on her face
like she really needed to have a word with him. This worried him,
because some of her needed talks were not so good for him. Rubbing
his eyes trying to collect his thoughts as he sat up and stretched
out a bit and asked, “Baby doll, what is wrong?”

“
I am worried about today, Adela wants
to push you even harder and I am worried that she might kill
you.”

You could see it in her eyes that she was
not joking around at all about this statement. She was nervous and
it was easy to see that she had been fusing about it for a long
time already. Her nails were clearly chewed on from her
worrying.

Galechka sat up and wrapped both her hands
around his one upper are before saying,” Please think of me and try
to survive. She said: Your strength comes from me so we need to
figure out how to open it up.” She patted John on the shoulder with
a look that she said something that was going to change the world.
Moments like this worried him about her, because it was like she
was only half in reality.

“
Ok, I’ll think about you when I am
fighting.” He responded trying to settle her nerves.

On the way to the training grounds she
seemed to get even more nervous than she had been before. He tried
his best to calm her nerves by holding her and pausing every once
in a while to kiss her, caress her and to tell her everything was
going to be alright. She wondered how he could be so calm about the
whole ordeal as she was scared to death about his life, about his
life not her own.

Adela was already there and you could see
her walking around and it appeared that she was thinking of how she
should not only star out, but like she was trying to plan out the
whole training, before they ever began.

“
Adela!” John shouted,” Are you
planning my demise today,” he said jokingly; he was not expecting
to get hit by Galechka for his comment.

He could tell that Galechka was perturbed by
his comment and not to push it any further he clenched onto her
hand and lipped,” I love you and I promise: Nothing will happen to
me today.” She lipped back,” You better not get hurt.”

“
I am trying to figure out how to get
you to open up your gift a bit more. So, I am going to have
Galechka standing off to the side, hoping she will at times figure
out how to get you to open up.”

“
Let’s do it then.” John said
boldly.

“
I am glad to see you are in high
spirits today, because I am going to teach you a few things
today.”

“
If you say so Adela!”

“
Hey!” Galechka screamed,” Don’t be so
cocky and pay attention.”

John thought to himself that he probably
should not be teaching her phrases like that anymore. Actually, she
seemed to use a lot of what he taught her against him.

Adela and John both looked at each other and
Adela motioned to him that it was time to start. She appeared
behind him again without him seeing her, but this time he felt her
and grabbed her hand as she was attempting to grab his shoulder ant
following through with a blow of his own to her chest knocking her
back a few feet. Adela had a smile on her face and looked happily
surprised by this progress that he had just shown to her. She ran
towards him jumping about ten feet before him and rolling until
about three feet away from him leaping forward with landing a punch
into John’s face that sent him spinning around and down to the
ground.

More embarrassed than hurt John was on his
hunches with one hand touching the ground for balance and maybe
some power on the way back up. He looked over at Galechka for a
fleeting second and winked at her to let her know all was well. He
bolted up and towards Adela and began to swing as he got close
enough to her; left, right, left and another right not making a
single impact on her at all.

She laughed and playfully said,” You’re
going to need to do better than that my dear boy.”

He just shook his head and looked at
Galechka for some strength and she was already waiting for him to
look into her eyes. He could see by her stare that she was telling
him to look deep and to pull from his hidden strength. His eyes
began to start to glow a radiant glow and Adela was pleased that
the two were learning to work together on this matter.

The fight went on for hours and the fury of
the fight seemed to expediently increase every so often. Adela was
holding back less and less and wondering how much she could give
him without killing him. She was now starting to dig within herself
a bit to hit him harder and harder it was no longer a game between
them when she felt it, her own strength just had a huge jump and
she was caught off guard by it. She could feel the power surging in
her. John noticed that all the sudden her attacks were not just
stronger, but faster and the fact that her eyes were now glowing
kind of worried him; he concentrated on Galechka trying to keep up
with what was being handed to him.

Adela did not feel as she normally did, she
felt more powerful, more important, and godlier like than she had
ever felt. She felt a burst of energy that felt somewhat evil, but
somewhat good. She did not know what was going over her, but it
felt great; she had the feeling that nothing nor no one could stop
her.

Out of the blue her eyes lit up the night
and she charged at John screaming like a mad banshee, she kicked
him knocking him eighteen of twenty feet back, as soon as he was
about to touch down with his feet she hit him sending him about ten
feet into the air where she met in at the moment of declination and
gave him a spinning kick that sent him lunging into the earth,
leaving a huge burst of dirt and dust as he slammed into it; there
was an indentation around his body and Galechka screamed out his
name.