Chapter 5
And it came to pass about 2 days after Noah Shields the son of Jonah was asked by Venomeous to think about his offer to join him, since the dark lord had cultivated some of his powers already, and has also given him a new apparel to wear, as armor during battle. And most importantly, the dark lord healed him and saved him from the hand of the one reeling the Dark Phantom Sword.However, Noah after taking off his black Lumanite apparel or uniform so that he could fit back into the real world was then troubled by what Venomeous had said to him. So he woke up early in the morning once again, to go to the Living Water Sanctuary, and consult the sage and the prophet.
So as Noah arrives at the sanctuary and enters the room, west of the sanctuary where the sage and the prophets were, just right before he can even say a word to them, Prophet Dan tells him that he would be tempted by evil. That he shouldn’t give into it, no matter how difficult it becomes, because he knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that Noah had more weaknesses than the original Lumanite. Making it easier for him to join the dark side, if he wasn’t careful and aware of what‘s going on around him.
“Then what should I do since I’m called the next Lumanite with growing supernatural powers and I have a new master, who has healed me, saved my life and is willing to make me more powerful than the ones who wants to kill me!”
Then Prophet Dan replied back to him, feeling a little bit distressed, thinking that he was already being tricked and was already giving into joining the dark side, “Don’t believe anything coming out of that slithering deceitful Venomeous! He was, and is, and will always be the Lord of Darkness. He was the one sent from the dark side, to fight you to the death or cause you to fall like the original Lumanite!”
Then Sage Tanner adds in, “He will only deceive you by telling you lies trying to help you out by healing you, and saving your life from his own deceitful apprentice! He planned it all from the beginning. He knew that his apprentice Raiden wanted to kill you, so he planned it so that he can put himself in a position where he can save you and try to convince you to join the his side!”
Then Noah using his wisdom also brought his new Lumanite apparel to show them but hadn’t pulled it out of his bag yet, and said to them, “Then what do you say about a uniform that supernaturally formed around me while I was in battle, a product of Venomeous’s magic?”
Then Sage Tanner, being very witty and using his utter most intellect almost ignored him completely, especially when he mentioned “a product of Venomeous’s magic” and said to him, “Just say to your tempter Venomeous, I will only serve the God of heaven and his son Jesus..." He didn’t know about the uniform until Noah pulled it out of his bag. However, prior to that he had to ignore him once to fulfill prophecy to get Noah focus on the good things like God and Jesus first, so that it can get into his spirit, before talking about the bad things, like the dark lord’s magic.
Then Prophet Dan added, “Noah, remember where you came from and what your dynasty stands for, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. You cannot let evil or the dark side rule over you my son!”
Then Noah turned over and pulled out his new Lumanite uniform out of his bag to show them.
“Then what do you guys think about this! It’s my new apparel. Apparently it was given to me by Venomeous! It supernaturally formed itself around me while I was fighting Dynatose and Raiden!” Noah said to them softly.
“Mmm, let’s see that!” Sage Tanner replied as he takes the black uniform from Noah to examine it thoroughly, then he all of a sudden knew everything about it.
“Mmm, it looks like the fabric from what they call; Deli powder that transformed into the deli goo or slime that formed into this!” Sage Tanner said as he continued to examine the uniform.
“Yes that’s right, some kind of goo or slime was stuck to me and I couldn’t get it off, then it formed into this, then I started to regain my strength for some reason!” Noah explained to them.
Then the sage replied, “It looks like the enemy Venomeous is helping you to enter into your God given destiny as the next Lumanite, it seems!”
“Really! So what does this mean? This dark lord is also my ally on the side?” Noah questioned with a slight bewildered look on his face.
Then Prophet Dan replied back and said, “Heaven’s no! It means that whatever the enemy Venomeous meant for evil, God meant for good, like we told you earlier! And according to the prophecy, this is supposed to happen. Right now you see your apparel as being black in color but as soon as you see the face of God, it will change color and you will be known as Lumanite X and more powers will be given to you to defeat all your enemies, which is also part of the prophecy!”
Then Noah replied back, looking even more confused… “See the face of God! Now what are you guys talking about?”
Then Prophet Dan replied back to him by saying, “It’s a little complicated for you to understand right now my son. I will let you experience it for yourself as I was directed by God not to tell you before it happens. Besides, you have enough supernatural powers right now to handle all the evil that’s being conjured up in the city so far! However my son, later on you will have the desire to want to get rid of the premonitions, because it gets more and more horrific as time goes by, but you mustn’t fear my son. You mustn’t give into that temptation, as well as the temptation of the Dark Lord Venomeous! Just tell him, I will only serve the God of heaven and his son Jesus!”
Then Noah trusted in both, the words from the prophet and the sage and went on his way. He left his Lumanite uniform behind to let the sage and the prophet examine it further, including other parts of the uniform, like the helmet and the boots.
So, about ten minutes later after Noah left the sanctuary, all of a sudden the word that the prophet said to him came true. Noah, all of a sudden wanted to get rid of his premonitions, because he feared that it would become more and more horrific.
Then he felt a light voice speaking to him about how he can get rid of his horrific premonitions. He gave into this light voice that was speaking to him. He became even more determined to stop it, so he started running. He was hoping that a slight physical exertion that he puts on his body would help shake off the premonitions. So far he did discover that when he did this, from time to time his premonitions would get weaker. However it didn’t always work. So one time he became so irritated that he decided to run even faster, putting more exertion on his body to see what would happen. So he found out that, all it did was make his body feel much lighter to start flying even faster and much higher. So he started flying again and this time even higher than ever before, and was drawn to the Tower of Methanom to meet Venomeous.
So Noah was able to reach as high as 30,000 feet in the air when he arrived at the Tower of Methanom. Venomeous was sitting down on his throne. He still had on his golden armor full of crystals and pearls, and he still had his golden mask on. Venomeous dares not to take off his mask otherwise it would reveal half of his grotesque looking face. People, especially the people of Metromantis, that he is still trying to deceive, would start questioning him, and might figure out that he was indeed, a product of evil. So he planned on leaving his mask on for as long as he can to cover his shame and defeat; that was inflicted upon him earlier by the hand of the Lord.
So Noah aka Lumanite arrives at the Tower of Methanon, and all he had on him, was his shorts and his short sleeve shirt. He left his black Lumanite apparel behind.
Venomeous was sitting on his throne while he arrived and said to him. “Well my good friend Noah, It’s a pleasure to have you here. I see that you’re ready to make a decision to join my empire! And by the way, why have you left your Lumanite apparel behind? It makes you look handsome!”
Then Noah replied in anger trying to correct him, “I came here to tell you what the prophet and the sage told me and it‘s about…!”
Then Venomeous interrupted him and said, “Oh you mean Prophet Dan and Sage Tanner, the faithful servant of the Lord of Heaven and Earth, who both dwell in the Living Water Sanctuary!?”
Then Noah replied, “What! How do you know so much about them?”
Then Venomeous replied back to him with his usual deceit, “Noah, Noah my faithful friend, I know about everyone, especially the ones that used to serve evil and now pretending to serve good!”
Then Noah replied back, “What! The prophet and the sage used to serve evil? I don’t understand! I don‘t believe you Venomeous!”
Then Venomeous replied back, “Woe, woe, calm down! There’s so much more you need to yet learn about young Lumanite. But before we go any further, there’s something I need to show you!”
Then Venomeous takes Noah to one of the tower’s elevators, and they went down one level beneath the top of the tower. Venomeous projected three screens with his supernatural magic. The three screens were gigantic; almost like an Imax movie screen.
The first screen displayed a treasure room, it was full of silver and gold and all kinds of precious stones including rubies and emeralds. They were all so pleasing to the eye that Noah almost wanted to jump into the giant screen to touch the treasures.
The second screen displayed a room full of perfumes and sweet aroma like sugar. Noah could even smell it because Venomeous also had the supernatural abilities to conjure up a magic that allowed him to smell it very fervently. Then in that same room, there came out of the curtains the most beautiful women from all over the earth and some from different dimensions. They were all so beautiful and looked so innocent and pure to Noah‘s eyes, that he almost started to cry, and wanted to be with them. It was almost as if Venomeous was casting a spell to cause Noah to become seduced by mere sight and sensation that these women had when they were near.
Then finally the third screen displayed a room full of weapons for war. Then several hands of brave men and soldiers were picking up the weapons and raising it up. They were all proclaiming victory over their enemies. Announcing victory over their; triumphant battles, victory over their fears and premonitions, and above all, victory to enter into peace for eternity. Then there was a large army of about 1 million supernatural soldiers, and in front of the army was the leader. When Noah leaned closer to see who the leader was, he saw the image of himself, physically built like a tank, and exalted with so much supernatural powers that there was literally no one that can stand up against him. The army that stood behind him gave him glory for their victory.
This third room appealed to Noah the most and he really wanted to enter this realm so that he can put everything behind him, the battles, the fears, and proclaim victory over all his enemies. However, when he realized that, while they were proclaiming victory to enter into peace for eternity, he thought about Jesus.
Then Venomeous brought him back to the top of the tower and went back to sit on his throne. He also had Raiden on his left side to be a witness of when Noah makes his decision to join them.
“So wise Noah, son of Jonah, the next Lumanite, have you made your decision to join us? Greater powers will be given to you, including riches and honor and everything that you’ve every desired in your heart!” Venomeous said to him as he leans over to give him his new Dark Phantom Sword.
Noah was tempted to join them, but then realized and remembered what the prophet and the sage told him. So he utters out in a confident tone of voice, “I will only serve the God of heaven and his son Jesus!”
Then Venomeous’s anger started to elevate as the entire place started to shake. Noah realized then that Venomeous was indeed the lord of darkness, and had a lot of supernatural powers along with the abilities to make things shake due to his anger, so he wasn’t afraid at all at that moment. He placed his entire faith in the Lord to protect him even if he had to fight Venomeous right at that moment.
So while Venomeous became furious, he wanted to kill Noah on the spot, but decided not to. However Noah was on guard ready to fight him, as his black dynamite claws started to grow out of his knuckles once again. However a small still voice from the Lord told him not to fight Venomeous now because he wasn't ready. So Noah runs away and flies back down from the Tower of Methanon... Raiden tried to pursue him, but Venomeous apprehended him to stop and says, "No Raiden, don’t bother! I will try to convince him again to join our side." Venomeous realized that Noah was increasing in even greater wisdom and power. He knew that one day he will be more powerful than even his current apprentice, Raiden.
He also thought to himself as long as Lumanite is alive, he can cause him to fall just like he did with Rika; the original Lumanite, and eventually made him his most powerful ally, who’s currently still trapped inside the dark crystal. So after Noah took off from the Tower of Methanon, he descended back to the city.
Meanwhile, in the Living Water Sanctuary, the prophet and sage started to celebrate and rejoice, because they knew right away that Noah had made the right decision.
Then Noah entered the Sanctuary to tell them what happened. Sage Tanner runs over to him and gives him a big hug and says “Great job, hero!” Then Prophet Dan leans over, shook his hands, grabbed him and also hugged him and said, “I’m proud of you Noah!”
“What! You mean, you already know?” Noah said in amazement.
“Well of course! That’s why they call me a prophet!” Prophet Dan yelled enthusiastically!
Then the sage and the prophet rewarded him for choosing the right path so they gave him more wisdom by laying their hands on him again. Noah increased in faith and became even more powerful, with more dynamite powers than ever before. Nevertheless they did warn him of one thing.
“Noah Shields, son of Jonah the next Lumanite, you did excellent, you have passed the first test!” Sage Tanner said to him.
“Great, that means I can now go and clobber that idiotic Raiden!” Noah said in a confident tone of voice.
“No my son, you still have more things to learn, Raiden’s supernatural powers still far exceeds yours!” Sage Tanner replied back to him. Then followed with, “I need to warn you of a few more things you need to do and a few more things that you need to avoid!”
Then Noah replied back, “What, I thought this, or being this Lumanite character was going to be easier than I thought!” Noah said while feeling a little confused once again.
“You mustn’t give up young Lumanite nor take things too lightly! All you have to do is walk by faith and not by sight. When you think you are ready to lose, or all hope is lost, that’s the time to be even stronger! Or when you think that things are becoming easier in your life, that‘s the time to be on your guard and become stronger and wiser!” the sage explained to him.
“What do you mean?” Noah replied back, still feeling a little bit confused.
“You need not walk into any more fears, otherwise Venomeous and Raiden will win and you will lose!” Prophet Dan said to him plainly, while giving him back his black Lumanite apparel.
“In other words, you now have the power to defeat the evil one through faith in the one that gave you these dynamite powers even before the foundation of this world! But I still sense fear in you. Therefore Venomeous will indeed triumph over you and find all the dunamis crystals.” Prophet Dan adds in.
“Now wait a minute guys, I thought I was the hero and I was supposed to win!” Noah said back to them.
“You are the hero, but you still have to prove yourself in a big way. Because you have been given great powers, much is now required from you to give back.” Sage Tanner said back to him.
“In other words, with great powers, comes great responsibilities right?” Noah says in a mundane tone of voice, while thinking about one of his favourite comic books that he always liked to read.
“That’s correct! We have also thoroughly examined your Lumanite uniform, especially the helmet. We’ve found out that the oval glowing clasp on the helmet will indicate the supernatural sense for you to know where trouble is brewing, and at the same time help you enhance your premonitions!” Sage Tanner said to him while handing him back his Lumanite helmet.
“But I feel like getting rid of my premonitions once in for all and battle without it. Besides I’ve learned that the more I fear because of my premonition, the more the enemy becomes stronger! I feel only the son of God and the Spirit Force can help me now!” Noah said back to him while another premonition was trying to land on him.
“Boy, you sure have grown in wisdom knowing this, the only one that could have revealed it to you was the Holy Spirit!” Prophet Dan said to him.
“I’m proud of you, young Lumanite! You’ll make a great hero one day. You’ll just have to keep your faith up and your fears down. And by the way your Lumanite helmet’s glowing clasp will not only help you to enhance your premonition, it will also help you control it and minimize your fears during the process, so that you’ll be able to prevail over your enemies, including Raiden and Venomeous!” Sage Tanner said to him proudly.
“Well that’s the best news I’ve heard all day. I feel there are people in trouble I need to go and help right now, so I need to get going!” Noah said anxiously as he was putting on the rest of his Lumanite apparel.
“But one word of advice, young Lumanite, as you increase in dynamite powers, you still have to train yourself to control your premonitions, and most importantly, your ego. As you may have heard, with pride, there also comes the fall. So please guard your heart diligently young Lumanite.” Sage tanner advised him.
Then Lumanite received the word from the sage, and was ready to take off. So while he puts on his Lumanite helmet, he was able to sense the danger a lot more clearly without fear. In a matter of fact, he felt more confident than he has ever felt in his life, as he stormed out of the Sanctuary.
Then Noah being fully equipped with his Lumanite apparel along with his boots that were designed to increase his traction during battles, and of course his Lumanite helmet with the oval clasp that clearly lead him to the crime scene. From a fair distance he was able to see 20 gang members, so he ran towards them, to see what was really going on, knowing that they were up to no good. These gang members belong to the Death-Skull Gang. They are utterly the most notorious gang in the city of Metromantis. They were so corrupt and deadly that even the Metromantis police force feared them.
All the gang members were at least 250 lb. and very muscular and knew how to fight with deadly arrays of mix martial arts and they had the most powerful projectile weapons in the city. Some of them were connected to the Metromantis Mafia who were wiser and more organized in their criminal tactics.
However, once Lumanite arrives on the scene, he saw one of the gang members, who was totally outright attacking these two young couples who came back from a stroll in the park. He asked them for money, but the guy with his girlfriend refused. So the gang member pulls out a knife on them.
Lumanite, already knowing what to do, he started to provoke the gang member, by saying, “Hey drop it, or you’ll find yourself naked at the city dump begging for mercy!”
The gang member who was also quite stupid and very inexperienced at committing crimes, turned around and yelled back, “Hey who do you think you are?” then sees Noah in his Lumanite apparel and also says, “How many of you costume clowns are out there who thinks they’re Batman or Superman, or something, trying to stomp our joint! I‘m getting sick and tired of seeing freaks like you, running around telling people what to do!” Then he ran towards Lumanite with his knife. Then Lumanite says, “Man this city is a cesspool full of crimes with sleazebags like you, and somebody’s got to clean it up, and that somebody is me!”
So Lumanite dodges the knife attack and grabbed him by the neck and flipped him. His 270 lb. body slammed on the ground very hard. Everyone around the area including 15 other gang members heard it and saw Lumanite on top of one of their gang members. So the leader of the gang, who was also carrying some heavy chains yelled out, “Hey what’s the big idea! Everyone attack this costume freak!” And he also started to swing his heavy chains, while picking up momentum, and ran towards Lumanite. All the others, about 14 of then attacked Lumanite, and each having different weapons in their hands.
Lumanite jumped off the one gang member that he just body slammed to the ground, so that he can be on guard for the other 14 gang members.
Normally with Lumanite’s supernatural powers, he has the potential to beat all 14 gang members in just one blow. However since he has never had more than 2 people attack him all at once, let alone 14 people, his mental state of strength couldn’t keep up with his physical and supernatural state of strength. So he started to feel a little bit anxious and fear started to creep up once again and take over him, as though he had no supernatural powers at all. So because of this, when the leader swung the heavy chains at him, even though he blocked it, he still felt pain as though he was mortal. Then he realized one of his dreadful weaknesses, which was fear. Then Lumanite remembers what the prophet and sage said to him about fear. That he shouldn’t walk in fear because it only causes destruction and causes the enemies he fought to prevail over him. That he must walk by faith and believe that he can overcome the enemy with his supernatural powers.
Therefore, Lumanite in the heat of the battle, as knives and bats were being swung at him along with barrels and axes, pulled himself up and started to believe that he can overcome his enemies with his supernatural powers. Then he started to believe that he can actually beat all 14 gang members in one blow. So his faith got restored even during the heat of the battle, like a shot of adrenalin, violently entering into his bloodstream.
Therefore, after feeling that remarkable sensation of blood rushing through his veins, Lumanite grabbed the heavy chains that was being swung at him from the gang leader. He pulled him forward, violently while knocking down 3 other gang members simultaneously, then gave the leader a dynamite uppercut. The leader goes flying about 10 feet in the air and knocking down 2 other gang members. The leader being over 300 pounds, wearing metal boots with spikes, instantly landed and crushed the other 2 gang member’s legs and punctured their skin.
One other gang members was behind Lumanite and grabbed him by the waist and was ready to flip him. However Lumanite counter attacked and retaliated by flipping himself one direction to give himself extra momentum to counter flip the gang member that grabbed his waist. So he goes flying in dynamic speeds almost like a freight train while knocking 2 other gang members down hard.
Then another one grabbed him by the neck from behind trying to chock him. Then Lumanite just took his dynamite claws, which grew out of his knuckles once again and stabbed the gang member’s hands. So he released Lumanite from the chock hold involuntarily, then Lumanite elbows him right in the chest. Then he used his dynamite claws to grab the gang member by his leather vest which was slightly torn, and flipped him 180 degrees and slammed him to the ground. Seconds later another one, swung a jagged knife right at his face. Lumanite dodges the knife, leaned back quickly with a flip, kicking the knife out of his hands. Then in the process Lumanite took flight and hovered about 6 feet in the air, then about 10 feet. They were trying to grab him even in midair. Then he went up about 20 feet while picking up some dynamite momentum. Then Lumanite swoops downward with lightning quick speed while knocking down the closest gang member.
Then he swooped horizontally with lightning quick speed, knocking down 9 gang members that were in his way.
He then stopped and saw the gang leader entering into a hover car with a couple of his other allies. The hover car looked familiar. It looked like it was one of his dad’s creations that had been stolen from the lab, which was also create by the white dunamis crystal, seeing that it was very shiny and illuminated. Then he knew for sure that it had been stolen from the lab where his father worked. While his anger arose, he activated his faith and determination to return the hover car back to the lab.
So as his supernatural powers also increased in the process during that intermission before the heat of the next battle, the gang members starts firing gun shots at him from behind trying to distract him. The bullets ricocheted off him more effectively and he barely felt any impact from the ammo at all, since his supernatural powers were almost at full strength. Then all of the sudden the gang leader took off in the hover car and enters the nearest parkade. This parkade also happened to be the biggest parkade in the city with high ceiling, about 12 feet high.
So as the hover car enters the parkade, Lumanite screamed, “Hey come back with that hover car!” Right away Lumanite pursued the hover car.
The hover car started picking up speed of about 300 miles an hour. Lumanite then picked up his flight speed at about 350 miles an hour as he was gaining on the hover car. While this was happening the gang leader had 2 other people in the back of the hover car that were firing their semi-automatic weapons at Lumanite. The bullets were ricocheting off of him, however it was distracting him and was slowing him down. While this was happening, the hover car kept a constant speed and started moving further away from Lumanite. Lumanite became more furious and started to avoid the lines of the bullets that were being fired at him in succession.
Lumanite then started to pick up flight speed once again. He then waited until they ran out of bullets, then he started to pick up speed, while gaining closer distance to the hover car. Unfortunately the hover car started to move at the same speed as Lumanite, the warrior of light.
They were almost at the top of the parkade, which was about 100 stories high. Lumanite knew he wasn’t making any progress, while moving at the same speed as the hover car. So he decided to use up all of his current supernatural powers, to pick-up enough speed to eventually catch up to the hover car and get the job done.
Therefore, he exhausted most of his supernatural powers to finally catch up to the hover car. Fortunately, the hover car had bar-like handles at the back that he held on to. So he grabbed the handle and started slowing down the hover car. The 2 gang members at the back jumped off because they didn’t want to fight Lumanite. At this point the hover car was only moving at a measly 10 miles an hour when they jumped out, making it less risky.
So right before Lumanite brought the hover car to a complete stop, the gang leader also jumped out of the hover car. He too didn’t want to fight Lumanite, especially after seeing the amount of damage he has already done with his supernatural powers. So the gang leader took off in a flash, heading to the same direction where his 2 friends took off to. Lumanite wanted to pursue them and bring them to justice, but was more worried about making sure that the hover car was safe. Especially being a product manufactured by his father Jonah Shields, he wanted to make sure that it was well protected.
Afterward, just as Lumanite was ready to take a few minutes to rest, he gets another premonition. Then he sees in a distance another enemy that was pursuing him. The premonition told him that it was Raiden. Fear came over him, knowing that he completely ran out of supernatural powers to even think about fighting anyone, let alone Raiden, his most powerful opponent. So with the little amount of energy he had, he quickly picked up the hover car and flew off. He even thought about entering the hover car to drive it back to the lab to save some energy, but didn’t know how to operate it. He even thought to himself, it was a shame that even the criminals knew how to operate it, but he didn‘t. However he didn’t allow that to effect his ego, he was way too tired to even think, so he decided to just carry it quickly and fly with it to the lab. Luckily the lab was very close by. So after he returned the hover car back to his father’s lab, he went straight home hovering very slowly in the air just like a tired fly of bee with no more energy and near death. He barely had enough supernatural powers to even fly.
So when he arrived at his house he just fell to the ground, his father Jonah picked him up, and helped him to get to his bedroom.
