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Chapter 9 - CERVANTES III

The meteorite's descent into the undulating woodland was a spectacle of unbridled fury, as though the heavens themselves were unleashing a maelstrom of fire and brimstone.

The dewy lush green vegetation, evergreen despite the drought, glistened emerald as the celestial rock tore through the atmosphere, leaving a trail of smoldering destruction in its wake.

On reaching the crash scene, a mega farmhouse and cottage were set ablaze by the explosive celestial rock, the flames dancing with an otherworldly intensity.

All life was devoured instantly by the blazing meteor shower, plant and animal alike, their screams and wails echoing through the woodland like the damned.

Cervantes intervened swiftly, his Telekinetic abilities extinguishing the ethereal green flames with a mere thought, reality bending to his will.

He began to search for survivors, his eyes scanning the ruins with a mix of hope and trepidation, his heart heavy with the weight of his responsibilities.

As he inspected the crime scene, he observed an impalpable supernatural force lurking in the shadows, its dark heavy presence, thickening the air, like a physical entity that could be touched and felt.

A translucent dark symbiont trickled animatedly, its form akin to spewed oil crude, devouring a farm animal with an unspeakable hunger that defied the laws of nature.

Ripping the swine from limb to limb, the parasitic spawn feasted on its entrails.

The Lunar Prince, nauseated by the eerie phenomenon, rested his hand on the tilt of his diamond blade, anticipating sudden surprise attacks.

Just then, the creature shrilled, phasing into the remnants of the swine.

The creature's transformation was a nauseating phenomenon, a grotesque parody of life and death.

The swine, now a host for the symbiont, mutated and evolved with a nasty growl, its body contorting and twisting in ways that seemed impossible.

Its neck cracked, freakishly, as razor-sharp tusks emerged from the sides of its hairy nostrils, glistening crimson like a fiery blade.

It lingered in pain, heaving and morphing into a monstrosity.

Its fractured limbs and gutted entrails regenerated, bones snapping like broken twigs.

The Lunar Prince beheld the horror, his heart heavy with a sense of foreboding.

He knew that he had to act swiftly, to vanquish the aberrance before it was too late.

The humongous rarity startled Cervantes, its uncanny speed and agility making it a formidable foe.

Yet, the Blood Prince teleported out of harm's way like a shooting star, leaving a trail of golden hues that shimmered and glowed in the fading light.

The resilient rarity was thrice faster than a cheetah, despite its impeccable weight, its massive body moved with a speed and agility, impossible.

A vicious blood-sucking spawn of Hades, ferociously overwhelming, its presence darkened the essence of nature around it.

Harnessing the Quantum energy contained in his crystalline blades forged from Vulnorox, the Lunar Prince overpowered the fiend, severing its head with a seven-hundred-and-twenty-degree summersault, slicing through the air with an unnerving divine grace that defied rationale.

The sprinkle was gruesome, black blood reminiscent of fine blackberry wine, staining the white roses, painting them red.

The symbiont, excreted like a body fluid, trickled out of the deceased swine and crept into the half-burned cottage, its dark energy seeping into the night.

Cervantes hunted it down, into the ruins of the cottage, yet somehow it had mysteriously vanished.

Abruptly, his sensitive ears detected the coughs of a survivor, the sound echoing through the woodland like a beacon of hope.

Tracing the suffocative sounds, the Lunar Prince discovered an old farmer, scalded gruesomely by the flames.

Moved by compassion, he rescued the hurting agriculturist, his heart heavy with sorrow.

"My Daughter," the old farmer coughed vigorously, "Where is she?"

Cervantes teleported into the house again, in a golden spark, crackling aggressively.

Dashing through every corner of the cottage and farmhouse, the Lunar Prince was dumbfounded, uncovering the remains of a family of seven.

Quickly, he teleported the ashy fossils out of the crime scene, the essence akin to firewood.

"Apologies, Sir," Cervantes said with empathy.

"We're nine, that's seven bodies.

Myself inclusive, nine.

What about my daughter?

Where's Erica?" the farmer coughed.

"This was all I found," the Prince of Lunarfrost said, concealing the victims, each with a spread sheet.

"You understand what needs to be done, Your Highness?" the old gardener said with a succession of chesty coughs.

Cervantes' face grew pale with sorrow, avoiding the lowly peasant's gaze, resisting his plea for a mercy killing.

"Do not panic, Sir. I'll get help.

The royal physicians would be here in no time," he comforted the wounded farmer with a shy dose of optimism.

"It's too late for that, My Lord.

For I am already infected," he groaned in incinerating pain.

"You must not let this pestilence near the city. Get on with it, now.

Salvage yourself!" The old farmer's voice was laced with a desperate urgency, his eyes pleading with Cervantes to end his suffering.

But Cervantes' reluctance to spill blood lingered.

Though, a warrior and protector of the realm, he was a compassionate soul, and the thought of taking a life, even one that was already lost, was abhorrent to him.

Suddenly, the old farmer was caught up in a nasty convulsion, his body shaking and contorting in ways that defied science.

His mouth foamed, and sweat-drops trickled down his face like a waterfall.

His irises faded into his sclera, tormented by a possessive force.

Cervantes took a few steps backward, beholding the horror.

In a split second, the old farm Lord morphed into a creature of the night, gruesomely appalling and humongous, immune to death.

Dark tentacles generated from his back, wriggling turgidly like serpents.

In a sparkling grin, horrifyingly fiendish, razor-sharp teeth emerged, rapidly.

A nasty snarl triggered the Lunar Prince's defensive instincts, as he unsheathed his crystalline twin blades forged from the fabled Vulnorox gems.

The blades glimmered like diamonds, as he gestured in a firm stance.

Abruptly, the symbiotic parasite charged at Cervantes with the pace of immortals, but his reflexes were superior to the swiftness of Light, itself, evading the talons of mayhem.

The abominable spawn of darkness harnessed the volatile power of its tentacles, each more humongous than anacondas.

Cervantes teleported out of harm's way in a blinding glare of gold, ferocious sparks crackling all around.

He appeared in a stunning haze behind the anomaly, slicing his way through at the speed of light.

Yet, with each tentacle severed, a pair only regenerated.

The rarity spread its arms out wide, squealing eerily, its Necro Kinetic cry resonated through the horizon.

Instantly, deceased farm animals were resurrected, bones contorting abominably, mouths foaming with epileptic aberrance, in a similar manner to the farmer's morphing.

Not just the critters, but the family of seven too, fossils of ash, springing to life with impulsive convulsions.

An army of the undead, snarling with bloodthirstiness, horrendously abominable.

They charged at Cervantes, the myriad of rarities, operating via a hive mind matrix, wreaking catastrophe.

Yet, the Lunar Prince's unparalleled mastery in the realm of Quantum Kinetics surpassed the highest grading scale — his immeasurable power levels were abysmally frightening.

Harnessing the Telekinetic power of his Quantum abilities, Cervantes bound the Shadow Terrestrials in an unforgiving psychokinetic grip with a fist stretched.

They hovered mid-air, unable to move, shrilling helplessly.

He repelled them with the negating push of a magnet, scattering the parasitic spawns far and wide.

Abruptly, the Lunar Prince emitted shockwaves birthed from his own Quantum energy, evaporating the Shadow Terrestrials into the wind.

Only a few fiends survived the lethal cosmic storm.

Darting into the leftover anomalies, Cervantes teleported in a sparky glare, swinging his blades with acrobatic precision.

Lethal strikes appeared in a glaring flash from nowhere, unseen by the naked eye, striking the fiends down with incomprehensible pace.

Ferocious sparkles, engulfing the forces of darkness, until the parasite prime was left standing in the old farmer.

The Shadow Terrestrial charged at Cervantes with uncanny pace, in an attempt to smear his blood across the loamy terra.

But the Lunar Prince was astute as he was gallant, vanishing with a specter of explosion and stunning the rarity from behind.

Abruptly, he summoned an ethereal power by virtue of his mastery in the art of Electro Kinesis.

His signatory quantum finisher — the "Surge of Keraunós."

A nightmarish storm of lightning illuminated the woods, transforming night to day, temporarily.

His fist crackled with unfathomable energy as it burst through the creature like a red-hot knife, impaling its bronchial region and brandishing its heart.

A buzzing thunderstorm electrocuted the Shadow Terrestrial, its skeletal system legible in the discharge channel akin to an X-ray scan.

Tremendously struck, the fiend stiffened, its body jolting with bolts of current that coursed through its being like a dark, electric lifeblood.

The air was heavy with the acrid scent of ozone, and the sound of crackling energy still echoed through the woodland, a grim reminder of the horror that had been unleashed upon the world.

And then, in an instant, the symbiont abandoned its compromised host, leaving the poor old farmer to a ghastly fate.

The man's body slumped forward, his eyes frozen in a permanent stare, his face a twisted mask of agony.

Cervantes' eyes teared up, beholding the innocent face of the victim, dangling limply over his impaling grip.

A pang of sorrow and regret shot through his heart, for he had been forced to take a life, a life that had been innocent and pure until the moment the symbiont had claimed it.

"I... warned you," the old farmer gasped, his voice barely audible, a faint whisper of sound that seemed to come from beyond the grave.

And with that, he passed away, his spirit fleeing his broken body, leaving behind a shell of flesh and blood that would soon grow cold and still.

As the parasitic spawn lurked in the shadows, its presence seemed to draw the very light out of the air.

Slender tentacles regenerating with an unnerving silence, the creature crept behind the Lunar Prince like a dark, animate stain spreading across the fabric of reality.

Cervantes, oblivious to the peril lurking mere inches from his back, stood frozen in depression, a perfect host waiting to be claimed.

But Morava, ever vigilant, sensed the darkness gathering.

With a swift, economical motion, she summoned the potency of her Graviton Kinesis, freezing the creature in mid-air as if time itself had been stayed.

The Enchantress of Gemrain bound the abomination within a pinkish time bubble, a glaring force field that shimmered with an otherworldly light.

As the creature thrashed and shrieked in frustration, Morava's mesmerizing quantum energy suffused the atmosphere, drawing forth an enchanting swarm of violet butterflies that fluttered in synchrony with her ethereal hues, their delicate wings beating in a hypnotic rhythm that weaved the existence into a spell of protection.

Yet, even as she subdued the threat and salvaged her betrothed, Morava felt the weight of her exertions bearing down upon her.

Her quantum energy, spent in the defense of her love, now faltered, leaving her vulnerable to the crushing migraines that had long plagued her.

As her vision began to blur and her knees buckled, Cervantes sprang to her side, intercepting her slumping form before it touched the grassy loams.

"Morava!" he exclaimed, his voice low and urgent, as though the sound of her name might be enough to anchor her to the world of the living.

The symbiont, still trapped within the time bubble, shrilled its frustration to the heavens, its dark energy straining against the bonds that held it captive.

But Morava, even in her weakness, sustained her Telekinetic grip, binding the darkness with a determination that would not be swayed.

Cervantes cradled her form, his touch imbuing her with a gentle, loving warmth.

"Morava, are you hurt?" he whispered, his voice a soft, soothing melody that calmed the turmoil of her mind.

Her reply was a faint, exhilarating sigh, a whispered promise that she would endure, that she would overcome.

And in that moment, Cervantes knew that he would do anything to protect her, to keep her safe from the darkness that lurked in every shadow.

"You have to summon a wormhole," he whispered, his voice urgent.

"Dispose of this abomination in a hollow dimension, where it can harm no one."

Their energies, akin to a light display, danced harmonically as the auroras above, pink and gold hues swirling together in a breathtaking spectacle of color and light.

And when the quantum symbiosis was complete, Morava tore open a wormhole, its crackling gateway swirling open like a glaring purple maw.

Without hesitation, Cervantes cast the containment into the abyss, the black hole shutting eerily, like a dark, cosmic mouth devouring the atmospheric waves.

And as the wormhole collapsed, Cervantes cradled Morava's form, teleporting them both to safety, the ferocious sparks crackling aggressively, fading into shimmering hues of gold, twinkling curiously as the stars up above.

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