Chapter Sixty Five: Among the Leaves

The Nodal Guard was running through the dangers of the unknown tunnel of light; it was enveloped in the sharpness of the neon colors (of various kinds) that changes intermittently. The light was piercing her soul, and the damage is felt within her inner power source. 

And then she saw it herself.

The black phoenix rose from the floor of the tunnel, and it immediately breathe fire towards her direction. Surprised by the sudden attack, she abruptly stopped from her tracks and summoned the desired defensive weapon from her command of the maple leaves. She spun at least twelve of the sharp leaves to create a tornado of cold wind. It suddenly collided with the raging fire head on, and there was a loud explosion as the two defined impetuses met approximately in the middle between them. There was a sonic boom created by the massive explosion that forced her backwards, but she manages to keep her attack position, nonetheless.

As elements dissipated from the created forces, she was stunned to the core upon seeing the black phoenix inside the tunnel. Something was not right, indeed, and it slowly confirms her suspicions.

"Who let you out --?"

But before she can finish her sentence, the black phoenix could not wait to initiate another attack. Three balls of blue-ish fire came rushing down towards her direction; then responding to natural reflexes, she purposely maneuvered her maple leaves to counter the aporoaching fire balls. The leaves and the spherical fire met with excessive force and it created a rather stronger bomb explosion.

She was suddenly carried away by the shock wave towards the backward direction of the tunnel. She stumbled very far; but the black phoenix was unbothered though, totally unaffected of the situation and the respective impetuses that detonated. Things are not looking good for the lone Nodal Guard at this point.

"You are supposed to guard the main gate of the Purgatory," the Nodal Guard finally managed to murmur to herself. "How in the world --?"

The black phoenix initiated another attack.

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She suddenly closed her eyes. This is the scene of the film that she could not really bear to watch. It was in this sequence that the audience would finally learn about the grand treachery that involves the sabotage of the Purgatory in order to allow the souls there to escape the purification process. Of course, these souls would soon be rescued from eternal damnation. But because their purification wasn't complete, they were ultimately gathered around to be repurposed into another being.

The escaping souls from that fateful moment, those who managed to roam free from the known boundaries of Purgatory before the miraculous Angels have arrived to the scene to seal the damage caused by the collision of the exploding impetuses, have been rescued ultimately but with a costly price.

For the record of eternal literature, it shall state:

These souls then became known as the Dementors of Azkaban. The film called "Dementors" has reached its brutal climax, and it was a scary resolution to an unimaginable conflict that involves the dynamics of goodness as well as spiritual madness.

She lifted her head from the cover of her two hands and had found the courage to open her eyes--finally, after a long pause--and decided to turn off the monitor. She couldn't bring herself to finish the film no matter how hard she tried. As an Anti-Plagiarist, she knew something is definitely behind this fear she is feeling but couldn't quite place it with certainty.

The Records always speak for itself.

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