The Guardian's Blade, Episode I

"Listen, this is a creature of darkness. Normal attacks have a significantly less effect upon it. It won't die the same way a normal creature would. If your skin touches the thing, you're going to get very badly burned!"

The creature came for him again but he barely dodged out of the way as the thing slammed into a tree, and the tree suddenly lost all its leaves and became a dead, burnt out hollow piece of wood.

"Actually.." Corona thought. "You may be on to something here..can you hold it down so only the head is showing?"

The creature screeched again and what looked like black claw marks suddenly covered Corona as he was thrown a few feet into the air and a pillar of black fire spurted from the ground and shot up through his back. He fell back to the ground, twitching. Though the attack seemed more dangerous than it really was. He struggled to to get up but the burn left him temporarily stunned.

"Don't worry.. I'm fine.."

Corona stood up and began charging his spirit energy. The creature screeched loudly and more terrible images would enter the mind. It desperately tried to break free, but whether it could or not was irrelevant in th situation. For even if it could, it wouldn't be in enough time to avoid Corona's attack.

"The fist to slay one-thousand demons.." He chanted, rushing at the creature and jumping above it, his spiritual energy charged into his right hand. "Fist of Heaven!" His fist plummeted onto the creature's head. A direct hit that it could not avoid. Holy energy coursed through its body, causing it to screech in pain and desperation. Its eyes flicked and lost their red color, becoming dark and lifeless. Then its body began to dissolve into nothingness. Within a few seconds, it was completely gone. Banished back into the depths of Hell it was summoned from.

A bright light shined in the sky, slowly descending downwards. It finally stopped in front of Corona, who grasped the light with his hand. The light became a shoddy-looking dull longsword.

"Nope, this is what I came for. " He seemed to completely ignore her question about the creature they had just faced.

"This is the Guardian's Blade. And you're right, it is enchanted. But its power is sealed away and unusable. It takes the shape of a "piece of junk"- as you described it - when it doesn't have said power. I suppose the only way someone could tell that it is not mundane is if they tried to use energy to bend it like you just did."

Corona seemed to think for a second.

"Um, can I ask you a favor? I'm about to faint..I'll be out for.. a while. Is it possible for Sparky to take me back to the school?"