Season 3, Episode 7 : Supernatural Monster Hunter ( Afro ) โThe Ghosts in the Coreโ
Neo-Ekoโs skies bled silver lightning as the sigil in the sky cracked wider. Waves of static danced across buildings, and the cityโs A.I. systems glitched, speaking in forgotten tongues. Something deep in the cityโs digital core had awakened.
Afro returned to the surface with the hunterโs tooth. His heart beat with an unnatural rhythm, each thud echoing with ancestral memories. Zara met him near the rooftop turbine farms, her face pale. โSomethingโs wrong with the NetHub,โ she said. โThe spiritsโฆ theyโve gone viral.โ
Zaraโs eyes flickered. Her tech tattoos blinked in sync with the storm overhead. โThe sigilโs spreading โ infecting machines and ghosts alike.โ
Bantu slammed his fist on the table. โWe fight monsters, not programs!โ
But Afro, staring at the storm cloud spiraling over the cityโs central Core Spire, said calmly, โTonight, we fight both.โ
At the cityโs edge, they hijacked skybikes and soared through lightning. Below, holograms glitched, screaming warnings. Afro led the charge โ blades drawn, coat whipping behind him like a shadowโs wing.
The Core Spire was once the brain of Neo-Eko. Now, it pulsed red, infected by something older than time. Inside, spirits wept from broken screens. Machines howled with human voices.
A ghost emerged โ Afroโs mother.
She shimmered in pale light, her form made of broken memories. โYou were never meant to be just a hunter,โ she whispered. โYouโre the seal.โ
Afroโs breath caught. The others stared in silence. But the ghost was already dissolving, screaming as a corrupted spirit beast burst forth from her form โ a data wraith with fangs of fire and tendrils of code.
The battle was chaos. Afro ducked a swipe, rolled, and struck. His blade sparked off corrupted energy. Zara launched a plasma pulse, Bantu pounded his drum in rhythm, sending shockwaves through the air.
But it wasnโt enough.
The beast speared Bantu through the shoulder and slammed Zara into a wall. Afro, bloodied and breathless, stood alone.
He drew both blades. His veins glowed red. The hunterโs tooth burned hot in his pocket.
Then he roared โ and time itself seemed to pause. Afro moved in a blur, slicing, dodging, tearing through the wraithโs defenses until with one final spin, he drove both blades into its heart.
It screamed and exploded in a storm of glowing embers.
Afro dropped to one knee, chest heaving.
Zara groaned, alive but hurt. Bantu grinned weakly. โYou cut a ghost, broโฆโ
Afro didnโt smile. โThat was my mother.โ
Zara limped over. โThen you knowโฆ this isnโt just about monsters. Itโs about blood. Memory. The city remembers.โ
Afro stared at the sigil. โAnd Iโll make it forget.โ
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To Be Continued ......!!!!!
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