Galactic Guardians: Pumpkin Patch

   The man stood in the middle of the pumpkin filled field. A black suit and tie, his hand gnarled vines, his head like a pumpkin made of orange flesh. Inside his mouth there is not flames or hollow, past the carved looking teeth are rows of dagger like teeth filling a horrendous mouth and a three tongues. His eyes may appear to be hollows, yet just beneath the carved looking surface is sunken sickly yellow flesh and a pair of pale yellow yet human eyes.

 

   His suit explodes into a robe of tattered shadows and a scythe forms in his hands as the lone female figure approaches from above, her body covered in a latex like costume of blue, red, and black with stars on the inside of her cape and the symbol of a galaxy on her chest. Her long brown hair offsetting the blue back of her cape.

 

   “You are too late Galaxy Girl,” states the monster in its cold deep monotone voice, “my plan has borne fruit already. When the clock strikes midnight,”

 

  “The pumpkins will come to life?” states Galaxy Girl, “yeah…no…sorry, but, uh, didn’t you know that Weena villain already did this bit last year?”

 

   “I am not some costumed holiday obsessed…girl,” states the monster, “I am the Hollowed King, embodiment of this Holiday. ALL decorations will rise, they will devour the children as a proper sacrifice and there is…hey!”

 

   Galaxy Girl faster than the blink of an eye lifts the Hallowed King high into the air.

 

  “What…what are you doing?!”

 

  “Stop it,” demands Galaxy Girl, “stop the carnage or I will throw you into the Earth as hard as I can!”

 

   “No you won’t,” states the Hallowed King, “you are a super-hero, a good guy,”

 

  “I’m the avatar of a living Galaxy,” she says, “No different than, no…worse…than those things you worship. You are an ephemeral blip, a monster, I WILL kill you if you don’t stop this madness.”

 

  He pauses a moment, “very well…”

 

 He pulls out an amulet, Galaxy Girl takes it. He smiles as he expects her to smash it, instead she swallows it, somehow it distorts and is drawn into a darkness inside her mouth.

 

   “You…you….you weren’t lying?!” the Hallowed King’s eyes are as wide as they can get.

 

  “Now you die,” says Galaxy Girl as she climbs in altitude.

 

 “No…wait…your…your divine grace…you said…you said you wouldn’t kill me.”

 

  “No,” says Galaxy, still able to speak as the air gets too thin for the Hallowed King, “I said or I’d throw you at the Earth as hard as I can, I never said I wasn’t still going to kill a monster like you in some other way.”

 

  “You…” he tries to speak.

 

“I vowed to protect humans, and do them no harm within the confines of the law. You gave your soul to the Dark Dwellers. You are no human.”

 

  She throws him above her and focusing her pale blue psy blast beam before her eyes blasts him into oblivion with its discharge.