The culprit who's attacking the warriors is an entity resembling a human. Standing at 6 ft, his eyes are yellow, his hair is green, and his skin is made of wood.
"Guardian," he spoke in a deep tone.
"Or shall I call you, 'my beloved'?" he spoke in Kurt's voice.
The entity laughs loudly and speaks in a deep tone. "HUMANS ARE TRULY AN IDIOT!"
"Guardian! Guardian!" the young man from earlier came out of the trees.
His eyes widen as his mouth drops at the sight of the levitating culprit.
"Pull yourself together, guardian!" the young man shook her shoulders.
Clara's eyes are fixated on the entity, her body is frozen and doesn't make any movement.
Suddenly, her eyes narrow as tears fill her eyes, and her brows meet and curve downward as veins appear on her forehead.
"BRING HIM BACK TO ME! GIVE MY BELOVED BACK!"
Tears fall from Clara's eyes while her hands are clenching.
"Silly human!" the entity landed on the ground, "He is gone. Just look around you."
Clara turns her eyes around, and her eyes land on the two warriors applying herbs to a man lying on the ground.
"I love you, Clara!"
"You are my greatest love!"
"You are everything I hope for."
"My beloved Clara!"
Those words echo in her mind as she moves her feet one by one along with her body. Her hands are clenching, and she falls to her knees beside the body that the warriors are healing.
"M-My beloved."
The warriors crawl away, giving her space. Clara puts her hand behind the head of her beloved.
She pulls him to her lap. She shakes her head and caresses the cheek of her beloved. Her lips tremble as tears are now falling from her eyes.
"No! We just went sparring early this morning! Why?!" her tears fell on his face.
The body of her beloved which was once lively is now grey, and there are holes in his neck, chest, and back. Clara continues to cry as she shakes him gently.
"Wake up, my beloved! I beg you, I can't feel your warmth anymore."
One of the warriors near her says, "he was leading us after he located the seed's hideout inside a certain part of the forest.
"The enemy is so strong, we couldn't even defeat it. We're sorry, guardian."
Clara stares at her beloved for a moment, and she gently rests his head on the ground.
"Guard his body." she turned around, facing the levitating entity.
"Done mourning?" the entity laughs, "His essence is so delicious after absorbing him, I feel full–!"
A solid green energy beam strikes the entity.
The entity roars, and flies toward Clara. She inhales deeply and runs toward the entity. She crouches and avoids the sharp claws of the entity.
"What's your name?" Clara grabbed the entity's face and slammed him on the ground.
She raises her other hand. From the forest, the leaves wriggle, and a spear flies toward her hand.
The entity speaks in Kurt's voice. "I love you, my beloved."
Clara's eyes widen, and her mind shows her Kurt, and in that vision, he's smiling at her. She shakes her head repeatedly, and her green eyes glow.
"Stop disrespecting my beloved!" Clara shouted.
The entity stabs her wrist with a thorn, and Clara drags him to the ground before tossing him away.
She looks at her wrist. Her veins are throbbing and her hand is turning purple.
"You've been poisoned, fool!" the entity laughed.
Clara closes her violet hand and opens it. She looks at the entity with narrowing eyes. "You think this is enough to put me down?"
A green aura bursts from the soles of her boots. The green aura covers her entire form, sending a strong burst of wind everywhere.
Clara takes one step, and she vanishes. She reaches the entity's right side in no time, and all the warriors watching the fight are shocked.
Clara kicks the entity's abdomen, sending the entity crashing against hundreds of trees.
The entity releases roots from his back and thrusts them into the ground, stopping the impact from pushing him away. He morphs his right wooden hand into a blade.
"You piece of shit!" the entity roared.
"Are you done crying like a kid?!"
The entity swings his blade, and Clara kicks it away from her. She rolls forward to his abdomen, and Clara punches his abdomen.
But she wasn't done, she sent a wave of punches all over the entity's body. As the entity gets swayed by the punch, Clara spins her spear.
She thrusts her spear, and her eyes widen as the entity shrinks into the ground. A group of woods emerge from the ground, and Clara looks over her shoulder.
"Die." Clara turned around while channeling her energy to the blade of her spear.
The wood combines into the entity's form, and Clara fires an energy beam from the tip of her spear.
The beam destroys the wood, leaving nothing. The Warriors are shaking at the scene.
"Is she this powerful?!"
"The guardian is going crazy!"
"I wonder, is this the reason why the captain courted her?"
A certain warrior lets out a cry of agony, and Clara turns in his direction. The entity is lifting the warrior, and the roots from the entity's back are stabbed into the flesh of the warrior; absorbing his nutrients.
Clara runs toward the warrior, and her legs tremble. She falls to her knees, and she looks at her right hand, and it's throbbing.
She clenches her teeth and speaks in her mind. "The poison is depleting my strength."
She touches the scarf around her neck and inhales deeply. She closes her eyes and opens them.
"All men! Abandon position!" she yelled.
The entity looks around him, and all the men are running away except for a young man standing right next to Clara.
"Oh, who is this moron? He looks like a kid!" the entity laughed.
Clara turns her head to the young man, and she narrows her eyes. "I told all men to leave unless you're not a man?"
The young man straightens his body, his eyes narrowing while his lip is puckered.
"I told your sister that I am not going to leave you, and help you!" the young man clenched his right fist.
"I can feel his soul." his eyes widened, and blue light radiated from his eyes.
"My beloved." he turned his head down at Clara.
She stands up and extends her hand to his cheek. "Is this you, my beloved Kurt?"
Kurt gently nods and holds her hand placed on his face. "I want to borrow this body to kick that entity's ass."
He faces the entity levitating and looks at Clara. He caresses her arm and smiles.
"And to be with you, my beloved. Let's fight together." Kurt said.
Clara nods and spins her spear with only her left hand. She covers her throbbing right violet hand with green energy while standing back to her feet.
"That's what I love in you!" Clara smiled widely, showing her white teeth, "Let's kick his ass!"
Yellow energy covers the entity's entire body, and he releases a roar. "Both of you will not defeat the mighty Gourd!"
Kurt clenches his fists, and blue energy covers his fists. Clara and Kurt begin to run at full speed.
Gourd fires seeds from his mouth, hitting every land. Clara swings her spear while running, cutting all the seeds. She throws her spear straight at Gourd without being detected.
The Gourd captures the spear with its roots, wrapping around its body.
"Is that all?!" he laughed.
Kurt lands on the spear, and sends a fast swing of his foot, striking Gourd's cheek.
"I will be having this!" Kurt grabbed the spear from the roots and stabbed Gourd's throat.
His yellow eyes narrow as they shine. He releases a yellow energy beam from his eyes but Clara punches his chin, redirecting his energy beam up into the sky.
"You imbecile!" Gourd released a strong wave of yellow energy from his body.
Kurt holds Clara's waist and hugs her as the impact pushes them away. He flips in mid-air and lands on the ground in a standing position.
"You're still strong even when you're in another's body, my beloved." Clara smiled, caressing his hair.
Gourd roars, exerting wind pressure in different directions. Kurt turns his head towards Clara.
"Let's finish him?" Kurt smiled.
Clara plants a soft kiss on his lip before leaning away. She smiles. "Finishing things with you is my only satisfaction, my beloved."
Kurt puts his hand down from her waist, and Clara steps away from him.
Gourd inhales deeply and releases a massive yellow energy beam from his mouth, and its size could obliterate the entire forest.
He speaks in his mind. "Soon! They'll be saying goodbye to this pathetic forest!"
The beam disappears, and his eyes narrow. Clara and Kurt are standing with Clara's spear pointing forward.
She spins her spear and slams it into the ground. A heavy amount of green energy covers both of the couples, and their eyes are shining with green energy.
They deepen one of their feet into the ground and jump altogether. The pressure of their jump releases a massive force; causing a huge crater on the ground beneath them.
Clara and Kurt reach Gourd in a matter of seconds. She swings her spear, cutting through his flesh but Gourd holds the body of the spear; preventing it from slicing further into his flesh.
"You imbeciles will not kill me!" Gourd clenched his teeth.
Kurt holds Clara's hand which is holding the spear.
His eyes narrow, and his brows meet. He roars. "We will give justice to those you killed!"
Unknown words appear on the spear's body. Gourd's hands are torn into pieces by the pressure of the green energy while Kurt and Clara swing the spear through the wooden flesh; cutting Gourd's body in half.
The green energy destroys Gourd in pieces, leaving nothing of his existence.
Beneath the shades of the trees, a tall middle-aged woman with dark green lipstick coating her lip is smirking.
"Such a waste. It's good that I cut off his connection with the majesty," she smirks as her eyes mimic a smile, "I enjoyed seeing Gourd get shredded to pieces. Thanks to that woman and that man but I will come back."
Clara looks down on the ground, and a hand rests on her shoulder. She looks around and sees Kurt, and he's still in the body of the young man.
"My b-beloved," Kurt's voice cracked as he forced a smile on his lip.
Clara stares at him for a second, and she smiles as her eyes narrow. Kurt steps closer to her, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"I'm sorry for leaving you. I don't want to leave." Kurt smiled despite knowing that he would disappear.
"You have always and will always be my greatest love." Clara jerked while tears flowed from her eyes.
Kurt's lips tremble, and he places his hand on her cheek. "Thank you for letting me be the love of your life. I can't thank you enough for all those memories that we made."
Kurt starts to be covered in a blue light. Clara pulls him to her body and hugs him tightly. She rests her face on his shoulder, and Kurt caresses her hair.
"I will wait for you. I love you," Kurt said, smiling a little.
Clara couldn't speak, only her cries were filling the air. She opens her eyes, and the light is gone, she looks at Kurt's face only to see the face of the young man that Kurt has borrowed without any sign of consciousness.
"After that day, it has been one of my worst days."
Clara is standing on a wooden bridge with a river beneath it. She removes the lid of the jar she's holding, and with a smile, she pours the ashes of Kurt into the river.
"Sister Clara."
Clara puts back the lid on the jar, and faces Elesia who's standing beside her.
"Hey." Clara smiled a bit but couldn't look at her.
Elesia gently grabs the jar from Clara's hand, and she puts the jar on the wooden ground.
Elesia stares into Clara's eyes, and she wraps her arms around Clara.
"I miss him." Clara rested her face on her sister's shoulder.
Elesia sniffs while rubbing Clara's back affectionately. "We all do."
Clara shakes, and her tears create a wet damp on Elesia's shirt.
The cycle of the sun and moon continues to go on. In every cycle, Clara was always doing her job as a guardian; greeting each citizen, and doing her plans to increase the defense of the village.
One cold night, inside the mansion, Clara is facing the crystal encased in an electric barrier. She touches the scarf around her neck.
"Years have passed, my beloved. People moved on to different cities but I couldn't move on," her eyes narrowed.
She let go of her scarf. "My heart remains yearning for you, and if it takes many suns and moons to pass, I will still choose to wait for you."