Chapter 146 - Guardian

A blood curdling roar erupted suddenly and Sunday jerked his head up.

"Bane, is that you?" Sunday asked only do this mouth to hang down open as he stared at Bane.

Bane's head was tilted to the side just as running steps began to ricochet off the stairs.

Just what was Bane looking at?

'No... I cannot speak out loud. You know that!' 

Bane replied, flapping his wings to remain afloat as he kept on gazing to the side of Sunday, that is, to right of him.

And it was because something was coming. Something really really angry!

"Ah, ha, ha, ha," Loud huffed breathing began to resound in the air. Sunday tensed just as he felt a surge of malicious intent surging into the air. The atmospere bean to carry with it, a prickly dense aura of dark, evil sensations. The type he had felt when the demons had surrounded them back in Orun Apaadi. 

"D-demon!" Sunday stammered as h took his hands off the rail guard of the balcony and turned to the far right. 

And there, he saw it. 

The demon was fed up of waiting. And so, it was ehre for the kill. 

"AAHHRRRRHH!" It growled a wordless challenge to Sunday as it scampered towards Sunday with its hands acting as supporting limbs for its legs. 

It had bloodshot eyes, large with an thin blue membrane covering it entirely. It lacked eyelids which suggested that the membrane would have defineitely been serving the function for the membrane. That aside, it had a growl on its four squared shaped head. On th sides of it s head were numerous tiny horns that outlined the shape of it while it had an ape type nose that was glistening with some fluid. 

Its skin in general was blue, some area of it having the shade of purple. Its skin was v b.a.r.e and withut clotjhing save for the loincloth of brown tattered material that hung from the diritied strap of what was once a yellow fiber robe which appeared like it was indeed very thick but in the course of line had been weathered down to this thin visage of it. The rope was wound round its waist and from it, the loincloth dangled and flapped just as the demon growled and then bursted out again. Behind him was another loose lying piece of the loin cloth that was intended to protect his rear from being openly viewed. On his waist, just after the wound piece of fiber robe was a little piece of the clothing that covered up the vitals and also the sides of the waist.

It dashed, sagile enough as it scampered from side to side, despite the seemingly bulk size it had. Although it was not any biger than Sunday which meant the demon was roughly at a height of 6ft, which Sunday current height was, but still, its body mss was much bigger than Sunday. Its limbs, the legs appeared to be somewhat longer and more ripped than the upper limbs, which may just have been the reason why the demon had to resort to using its upper limbs in order to balance itself out while running. 

It dashed, just as Sunday gritted his teeth now, having observed all the features about it, fisted his hands. Turning fully now, he did the only thing that came naturally to him as the saw that the charging demon was going to close in on him, any second. 

He charged, muffling a growl by grounding his teeth.

A-HOWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.....

A burst of forceful soundwave energy exploded, just right in front of Sunday, diagonal enough to barely scathe him as it crossed his path and blocked him from movement. The follow up was an explosion of impetus that slammed into Sunday. Quickly, the Irunmole put down his leg down and made an X with his hand just across his face and his c.h.e.s.t as he pressed his leg to the ground, thus resisting the force from completely throwing him away. 

The Sound wave. He recognized it. But why would Bane attack him? 

Sunday looked up and then his eyes widened as he saw the true intent of the soundwave. The soundwaves energy waves rolled off the wall that it had been directed to, cutting out a diagonal path in the opposite direction. And like Sunday, the advancement path of the demon was cut into, forcing the demon to quickly throw its upper body up and push its longer legs to the front as it tried to slide to a halt. 

Unfortunately, the sudden change of direction upset the demon's momentum and the next moment, the shockwaves slammed into it, the force of it ramming it sideways to the balcony railings. 

"AAAAGGH!" The demon roared as it held down to the rail guide, his face smothered as well with the rest of its body by the shockwaves until it subsided. Ultimately, leaving it dizzy and stunned as it swayed helplessly against the railing.

"What the hell, Bane?" Sunday growled as he stared at the Prickled Bane Winged Wolf. "Even if you had the noblest idea, did you forget that your attack could have wrecked his entire building, you know, right? And this is Earth, wtheir structyres and buildings do not regenerate when infused with Agbara, okay?"

'I tried to reduce the power of it, which is even why i had to angle the shot, diagonally.' Bane's solemn voice sounded in Sunday's mind. 

But the Irunmole would not hear it. For all he care about, if that was what Bane thought, then that meant Bane had not even considered that he was in the path of danger. And instead of priotizing his life being that he was the host, Bane had gone up ahead to simply launch an attack. 

It seemed like a selfish reasoning but he did not care. It was going to be really pathetic if he got to be killed by his own soul bond. Another reason why he still had to be wary of this Prickled Bane Winged Wolf. It was not exactly within his power.

"WHta the hell, Bane? You could have killed me! Was that what you wanted, eh?" Sunday voiced out his thoughts.

'If i had not done that, the demon would have surely carved you into two, being that it suddenly sprung on you. Or worse, it would have simply nudged past you and then headed in straight for the human girl to kill her, leaving all your mission a waste of time and efforts.' Bane reasoned to Sunday. 

"Ahhh... Damn you!" Sunday growled, understanding now. 

He was pissed, no doubt but the words that Bane had spoken had given him new insights into the matter. Another possibility there was that the demon could just have sprung up onto the wall, scliming it to the side and totally evading him to get to the human girl. 

Sunday fisted his hands as he stared at the sorry sight of the demon that was staggering at the railings. He frowned at the sight of it, coming to another realization. The shockwave, even the slightest impact of it had been enough to send him back and would have done even worse than that if he had not mustered up energy in his legs at the last moment. But here, the same demon that had taken it full force and head on was still standing here. 

It may have sounded insignificant but he was sure that when Bane had used this same attack on the Primes, Maerius had bent sent flying back. And that was because Maerius was a Prime. He could tank it. But this demon was not anything close to being a Prime. If it was, he would have sensed it. 

Primes, no matter how they restrained their aura within themselves, it was still able to sense a little bit of their power within them. So, for this demon to still be standing even after this hit, it meant it was strong. 

However, it was not Prime Classed. Sunday frowned, he could have a go at it and be sure to win it. He bared his teeth, slightly leaning his body forward. 

"This is nothing! I would be done with him in no instant." Sunday cheered himself up. 

The best moment o strike was while the demon was still trying to get itself. And the best he made of that attack, the better his mission could be protected. Like he had mentioned to himself earlier, if anything did happen to Bolu within the space of his getting to her, that would be tantamount to his falling the mission. 

Now, he was going to be guardian. 

And he was not going to hesitate!

"Bane, Stay out of this. The demon is mine."