Galactic Earth

by Luthra, G. S.

With the holy light surrounding them and protecting the baby, Gudama could now rescue her. Out of desperation, Draco opened his mouth wide, mentally informing the mother and others of his intention. Sweat ran down the mother’s forehead and her expression revealed she was disturbed from his psychological warfare. Draco clenched his jaw hard for a bite, but was denied of human flesh by Gudama who held his mouth open.

  “Get the baby, quickly!” he shouted to bystanders.

  The baby was taken by National Guard along with police special units and given back to the teary eyed mother who embraced her child fully with loving warmth. The mother’s relief and gratitude for her daughter’s return irritated Draco, sapping his evil energy making him weaker. Gudama started to get a the upper hand pushing Draco’s mouth wider, attempting to break his jaw when he saw purple dark matter emerging from his mouth. Before he could react, Gudama was hit by Draco’s energy blast, the beam sending him several meters away.

  Flying head first up to Gudama’s face, Draco opened his mouth ready to fire another dark beam at Gudama along with the bystanders behind him. Reacting on reflex, Gudama shoved the forming ball of the projectile back in Draco’s mouth with a hand and closed it with the other, preventing the blast from being released outward. Draco’s attack blew up inside him with multiple rays dispersing out of his body. Gudama and bystanders took defensive stances, covering their faces. After the debris had settled, Gudama uncovered his head and found Draco standing motionless with holes all over his body.

  Walking tall, Gudama approached the beast with perfect erect posture and super punched it in the gut, piercing right through its flesh creating a loud high pitched whistle like fumes escaping a hot vessel. Draco growled as his eyes enlarged at the excruciating pain. Gudama stepped to his side and delivered a punishing elbow to the back of Draco’s neck dropping him to his knees. Draco was paralyzed from the damage, and his face met Gudama’s knee followed by another blow behind his neck. Gudama raised his arm for another strike, smirking at Draco’s defenselessness.

  Sounds of pain vibrated from Draco’s bruised vocal cords, earning him another strike nearly snapping his neck in two.

  Gudama threw a round house kick across Draco’s face, juggling his brain.

  “Hit him again!” A bystander shouted.

  Gudama looked at him surprised that anyone was still there. Taking a horse stance, he gave the man his request with another heavy thunderous kick to Draco, sending a shockwave throughout his chest and body.

  “Yea, kick ’em again!” cheered the fat man.

  “Yeah, punish that devil!” shouted the mother.

  Gudama gave them their wish again, this time across the face of Draco who was helpless on his knees. The crowd encourage for more.

  “You like that?” said Gudama to them.

  “Harder!” another man said raising his arms.

  “More, hurt him!” said the mother holding her baby while raising her fist.

  Gudama was taken aback by her unexpected intensity.

  Unleashing his pent up rage, Gudama began kicking Draco repeatedly, alternating legs while bystanders cheered after each blow. The skies boomed thunder with every hit. Accelerating strikes, Gudama began kicking rapidly landing multiple hits to Draco in various areas all around his body knocking the wind out of him.

  Throwing a weak wimpy attack, Draco’s punch was kicked away by Gudama, connecting with a spin kick across Draco’s face, dark gel like blood splattering on the ground. Gudama continued his fury, kicking so fast that his legs looked similar to flinging a rubber band. All bystanders saw were flash after images of Gudama’s attacks. Draco was in an agonizing euphoria of pain as he had no clue where the strikes were coming from.

  At one point he had lost sense of time and space not knowing what was happening. Gudama took a few steps back to line up a finisher. Draco displayed his sharp clenched teeth and got up to counter, walking right into a heavy muscled kick to the face temporarily stopping him in his tracks, but Draco continued roaring to which Gudama responded with a big super kick to the face finally knocking him off of his feet.

  Lying flat on his back, Draco slowly rolled over, crawling to get away. Gudama pulled his neck back by grabbing one of Draco’s horns.

  “Do you have any idea how much suffering you caused my people?” Gudama angrily said leaning to Draco’s ear. He turned his hand sideways and stabbed through Draco’s neck.

  Frozen in excruciating pain, Draco’s mouth fell open as his saucer eyes remained unblinking.

  “That is nothing compared to the agony your kind has done to this planet!”

  Gudama slammed Draco’s face furiously several times on the ground, dirt covering the monster’s bashed and disarranged face.

  “Your evil hierarchy is over,” Gudama said raising a fist generating force. With his bodyweight, he punched Draco’s spine, creating a hole in his back.

  Arching his back, Draco screamed as his cold blood oozed out. He dropped to the ground, his body jerking randomly with spasms. Gudama kicked him away like a can. Struggling to escape, Draco panicked as Gudama walked towards him. The flying lizard got on his knees, pleading for mercy. Gudama pulled back a fist and threw it right-square in the nose, shattering the bones and fasciae.

  Bending his neck back from the force, Draco lay helpless on his knees. Gudama struck him with his palm, launching Draco several feet away.

  As Gudama drew nearer, Draco laid defenseless. Fear filled his eyes at the sight of Gudama. He reached and pulled dirt, desperately trying to escape feeling his life slip away.

  “How did you get this power? Where did it come from!” exclaimed the horned demon struggling to crawl away. For the first time, Draco felt powerless as he lay on his back with eyes lowering in defeat, afraid of death consuming his soul.

  Turning his neck to the side as his heart surrendered, he caught Layla in the far distance who was worried about Gudama. Gazing at her during the last moments of vision, something clicked in Draco’s injured brain.

  Why is he staring at me, thought Layla shakily?

  Wait, of course, the girl, he reasoned! Draco suddenly opened his eyes fully, and crouched up with his newly found resolution.

  “If you obtained all this power from love, then I’ll just have reintroduce to evil, and make you embrace hate!” he said emphasizing hatred.

  Quickly, Draco projected a blast at bystanders, distracting Gudama momentarily and flew after Layla. Gudama’s eyebrows rose and he went after the beam. After dissipating it, he realized it was a trick and sprinted after the gargoyle. The winged beast snatched his dearly beloved, dodging his lunge, allowing his face to meet stone. Brushing debris off of his face, Gudama looked up to his adversary in metal melting anger. Draco dangled Layla and threatened to kill her.

  “No, Layla!” Gudama shouted.

  “Gudama!” she cried.

  “Yeeeeesssss, that’s it,” Draco said like a snake, “feel the anger, feel the hatred!”

  “Argh,” Gudama growled with a raised tight fist, “If you do anything!”

  “You’ll what? I can crush her instantly in a second! If you dare come closer the only thing you’ll get is her dead lifeless body, graha, ha, ha!”

  Gudama became engulfed in rage. His obsession of rescuing Layla seeped venomous anger throughout his blood towards Draco.

  “No Gudama, stay focused! Don’t give into his taunt it will lead you to the abyss of hatred! That’s where he wants you!” warned Andy telepathically.

  His call went in vain as Gudama’s rage diffused the spiritual light he gained lowering his power.

  “Ha, ha, loser!” said the demon blasting a dark beam from its palm, knocking Gudama thirty meters back as it flapped its wings to escape.

  “Very well, I’ll give ‘em all the hatred he wants!”

  Recovering, Gudama sprung after him.

  Running with super human speed, Gudama chased Draco who had captured Layla. He leaped several meters high in the air to grab her, but Draco out maneuvered h
im, dodging his attempts. Frustrated, Gudama jumped again only this time landed on his hover board, gaining distance on the flying creature.

  The evil monster turned his head, lowering his jaw. Out projected Draco’s dark laser beam. Gudama evaded, the hover board exploding into pieces.

  Landing back on ground, Gudama saw the creature flying away in the sky.

  “Let her go!” he shouted, demanding her release.

  His super vision vividly witnessed Draco’s big sharp teeth smiling as his claws pricked Layla’s flesh, wounding her severely as she screamed in agony, tears gushing out of her eyes. Something snapped inside of Gudama at the sight of this, his eyes became blind with revenge. An anger remerged within, one that he had worked long and hard to dispel through spiritual training. The kind he assured Layla he would never succumb to, yet now found himself welcoming the rediscovered rage.

  “No, Gudama!” said Andy watching from high above in his mothership.

  Enraged, Gudama let out a battle cry shaking the city with his presence as a discharge of immensely powerful energy exuded from his body radiating a destructive plasma aura. He powered up causing his surroundings to shake and shiver and zoomed after his target, running up buildings jumping from one to the other to gain height.

  Atop of a very large skyscraper, Gudama leaped on Draco and leaned back, delivering a diamond slicing chop to his neck. Draco screamed and Gudama continued his fury, breaking Draco’s wings with his bare hands. The creature growled as Gudama bit his neck and continued biting it like a wild animal. Both of them crashed through a window in a tall corporate building, Gudama rolling multiple times through debris. Dust filled the atmosphere as he lost sight of Draco. The room they were in appeared to be under some renovation and were primarily made from wood.

  Searching for Draco, Gudama followed the debris and ended up in a rusticated office where papers and broken furniture lay everywhere. There, Layla was found siting on the floor against the wall crying, stripped of her clothing. Gudama approached her slowly. “Are you alright?”

  “My arm is broken,” she sobbed.

  A faint small dose of hypnotic energy was picked up by Gudama’s senses, but his feelings for her over rid sound judgment.

  “It’s ok, I’m here. Everything is going to be ok.”

  “I’m scared,” she said shaking.

  “Where’s the Draco?”

  “It flew away.”

  “You were with him when he took off, which way he went?”

  “I don’t know, hold me Gudama, I need you.”

  Strong sexual energy tempted Gudama to fall into lust. His heart beat in over drive as he fought himself to resist temptation. The urge was unlike anything he felt before. Sexual thoughts cycled rapidly in the screen of his mind. He drew nearer as he saw her exposed body waiting for him to experience. Just near the zone of danger, a flicker went off from the depths of Gudama’s soul. He felt calm, a gentle holy awakening of divine guidance revealing to him the reality behind the illusion.

  “Do you remember what you said before, about those warm fuzzy feelings? At first I ignored it, forcing it away with will power, but now I realize it was much more,” Gudama said with bent arms sending the energy of love from his heart to her.

  The expression on the girl’s face was that of confusion.

  “You were right Layla, I did have mutual feelings,” he said looking down.

  The woman’s eyes morphed into that of a reptile’s. Gudama then looked back with piercing eyes and a smirk, “and that is something, you’ll never understand.”

  Shape shifting back, the monster screamed and flew at full force, but Gudama parried, flicking with his foot a sharp piece of wood from the debris which pierced Draco’s heart. He fell silent of the pain and crashed out through the window. Gudama leaped out to follow.

  Free falling with Draco above him, Gudama twirled his arms around in a circular manner gathering energy. Sensing his attack, Draco opened his mouth wide and projected his deadly plasma breath. The beam drew near as Gudama was focusing his spirit within.

  “Go to hell,” he said and with the roar of a dragon released his powerful Gitma Sun Beam, incinerating the Draco’s projectile upon collision

  Soaring high above earth, the monster roared in agony as it felt its flesh disintegrating from the radiation of the blast. In orbit, Andy teleported outside of his ship and with a push of his arm sent an invisible shockwave completely obliterating the horned beast off the face of earth.

  Lighting the skies, everyone watched the explosion high in space, cheering for the defeat of a hideous evil plague.

  Unknown to Gudama, Layla slipped through Draco’s grip before their crash, screaming as she was helplessly falling a long way down. Guilt plagued him as he dwelled on the worst regarding Layla’s predicament.

  Dust, rocks, and other rubble fell from the sky as Gudama pressed a button on his belt and flew through the debris. Bystanders saw him emerge from the smog and Gudama slowly floated in the middle of a crowd where much to his amazement, Layla was sighted. It was the same street where she first saw his global message.

  Bystanders applauded Gudama as he descended down. Maneuvering around many people, his eyes met Layla’s through the crowd being taken away by an ambulance. Gudama quickly intervened halting them from leaving and ripped open the door, pulling Layla out.

  “Gudama,” she said faintly.

  Paramedics were performing an operation using minor surgery, disinfectants, and a gel to seal her wounds in an attempt to save her. Angry, Gudama intervened, demanding that they ceased their activity. Reasoning that Layla needed medical attention, Gudama shoved them away and ripped Layla out of the strap, placing her gently on the road.

  Examining her wounds, Gudama took out a few materials from his utility belt. Using acupressure, Gudama directed Layla’s own body energy to heal itself, his hands moving so fast that paramedics were speechless by his performance. After finishing, he concentrated energy in his hand and placed it over Layla’s body. Through willpower he focused healing light into her and right before everyone’s eyes, Layla’s wounds miraculously healed as if nothing had happened at all. She got up in amazement embracing Gudama in a warm hug.

  “You ok?” he asked.

  “Yeah, you?” she said.

  “Never been better,” replied Gudama smiling.

  Seeing each other’s faces delighted them.

  “How did you do that?” he asked.

  “Do what?”

  “Heal me, when you held me in your lap, I never felt that before…it was amazing.”

  “I…don’t…know,” said Layla.

  Andy was right she’s not a mere human, he thought.

  Gudama smiled and simply took her in, hugging her to which made Layla shine inside.

  “Thank you,” Gudama sincerely said in gratitude.

  Both gazed at each other’s eyes looking into their soul. Layla’s bright bluish green eyes delighted Gudama’s sight. His smile, however faded as something plagued his consciousness.

  “What is it?” asked Layla concerned.

  Feeling bad for failing to prevent her fall, Gudama’s expression quickly morphed into that of guilt.

  “I’m so sorry I let you fall…” Gudama said with his head down in shame, “I was blinded in rage.”

  “Hey, you saved my life,” Layla said lifting his chin to meet her eyes making him feel better.

  “I cannot be more grateful for your survival,” he said placing a hand on her face.

  “Neither can I. Thank goodness for friends. We brought emergency rescue with us to cover the story. They were able to break my fall with a giant trampoline,” she explained, letting out some laughter. Turning towards her friends and the volunteers,

  Gudama sincerely thanked them for their heroic efforts, Eric being among the bunch that tracked Layla’s position and notified emergency responders of her fall. Officers and rescue personnel smiled in acknowledgement, happy to have saved a precious life so dear to him whi
le Layla’s secret admirer stood stone like as he watched her embrace another man.

  Wrapping her arms around his neck, Layla smiled as she glowed in the light of joy.

  “You healed me too,” she said smiling.

  “Well…”

  “And you defeated the monster. How do you do all these miracles?”

  “Through spiritual energy and my notorious stubbornness,” he said jokingly.

  Layla let out a bellow of laughter closing her eyes, leaning back as her mouth opened wide with her glistening teeth. Her complexion resembled a blissful rosy child’s as she shook her body to shake off the barrels of uncontainable joy.

  Picking up her contagious bubbly personality, Gudama too joined in on the laughter.

  “Heh, are you a god Gudama?” she asked smilingly.

  Gudama merely smiled.

  “I didn’t know you can fly.”

  “Antigravity belt,” he said pointing to his waist, let’s me do the trick for a while, but it’s not the best for aerial combat,” he chuckled.

  “Hey look, back to where it all began,” Layla said looking at the big screens on the building where she first saw his message.

  “And where it all begins again,” Gudama said taking her in his arms. Electricity went up Layla’s legs and down her spine as her eyes locked on Gudama’s mesmerizing gaze. The crescent moon on his forehead seemed to add to the excitement and anticipation sweeping her off her feet. As he drew nearer, her neck was stiff, petrified from nervousness. With a caress of his hand through her hair Layla’s fright all seemed to vanish and like a snake wrapping around its mate, she yanked him closer giving herself completely in a warm loving kiss. Gudama was taken aback by the intensity of her passion.