They say a mother's love is eternal, and that a mother will always love their children no matter what… My name is Maria Di Fiore; I am a member of the Order of the Holy Maiden. We are in charge of protecting the innocents from evil spirits and demons. I swore to eradicate all evil from this earth, however…My son turned into an evil spirit known as El Charro Negro. When that happened, I didn’t know what to do; this is the story of a mother who once tried to kill her own child for the good of this world…

On a certain wedding day…

A young Maria looks at the altar; she is wearing a beautiful white wedding dress with silver on the borders of the dress. She has her face covered with a veil, and she walks slowly to the altar with Sister Griselda by her side. On the altar a young Roberto, wearing an elegant tuxedo, looks at her with a great smile, the sun shines down illuminating the glass of the angels, Roberto blushes as he comments:

“You look beautiful, Maria”

“Thank you” Maria blushes as she starches her hand to Roberto, both of them stand together as the ceremony begins. Father Clemente is the priest who stands in the altar as he is the one in charge of the ceremony.

Maria looks at Roberto; “Roberto, can you please promise me that you will stay by my side forever?”

Roberto holds her hand tightly and replies; “Of course, I promise you that we will always be together Maria because I will never break my word.”

Maria and Roberto kiss making them official husband and wife…

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11 years later, during the night of January 31st…

(PUUUUUMMMM, PUUUMMM)

Maria stands outside the dome created by Roberto trying to see what is happening inside, however all that she can see is smoke and multiple clashes of energy. The wind blows very hard making her impossible to see.

Maria is surprised and sees Roberto again being thrown in the air and clashing in the barrier where she was.

“Damn, that hurt a lot, that bastard I may end up dying here…” Roberto thinks to himself, but then he feels a poke on his back.

“AHHHH, who is it?” Roberto turns around and sees Maria with tears in her eyes.

“Don't say that you idiot!” she replies poking Roberto again.

“I am sorry.” Roberto says, bowing his head.

“Let me in please. I want to fight too.” Maria begs Roberto.

“You know I can’t do that… but I have a plan, I need you to shoot your spear in the air please.” Roberto stands up and Maria stands up as well, both of them put their hands in the barrier almost as if they were touching, the electricity hurtsMaria but she is resisting the pain.

“Maria, you are the love of my life… please you have to change your name in order to be free. The Vazquez family dies tonight, but your new family “Di Fiore” will be born because that was your last name before we got married. I always loved your name “Maria Di Fiore” meaning Maria of the Flower. You are a beautiful flower to me so please be the head of this family and protect them.”

Maria then cries out his name:

“Roberto you fool please don’t die I love you, I love you, so don't leave me alone”

“I won´t leave you. I will always be with you. You will never be alone you have three wonderful children that will protect you, so please protect them as well” Roberto senses Darius approaching slowly as he charges the Sharur once again.

“Maria be ready, this is the last favor and please stay as sexy as you have always been.” Roberto puts a smile on his face as he begins to walk backwards away from Maria.

Maria says to him in a low voice: “Pervert”

Both of them yell at each other at the same time: “TE AMO” ( I LOVE YOU)

With the help of Maria’s attack, Roberto managed to get a hold of Darius…

“Let me go you idiot, what are you doing?” Darius struggles trying to break free then Roberto replies: “As the head of the Family I must protect them. You are a threat, so we’re both going out together….”

Roberto focuses every particle of mana energy on his chest and screams:

“EXPLOSION DIVINA DEL LOBO SOLITARIO”

“NOOOOOO!!!!!” Darius screams with all his might.

A bright light begins to shine in Roberto and the light extends to the whole area. Suddenly a beam of energy shoots to the sky and expands to the whole base destroying the barrier and everything around it.

“NOOOOOO!!!!! ROBEEEEERTTTTOOO!!!!” Maria screams with all her might but she faints because of the shock.

“I´m sorry Familia, I guess this is the end”

Roberto disappears as the explosion ends leaving a smoke screen with a huge air pressure striking the surrounding areas.

“Roberto, you promised me that you wouldn’t leave me, why?”

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The Next Day after Roberto´s Death…

After the night of what it was known as the Borderland Catastrophe…The Vazquez Family disappeared…This is the story of what happened after that night, and how Uriel Vazquez ceased to exist…

“Maria, I´m sorry but I will be going somewhere far…” Maria floats in a dark space, she looks at Roberto who is facing away from her, Maria looks at him and cries:

“Roberto, where are you going? I´ll come too….”

“No, you must stay here and protect our children. I´m sorry, but I couldn’t keep our promise, Maria, please… you must be strong…”

“Why are you saying that? Roberto, look at me please…”

“I can't, because I broke our promise, listen to me…Uriel is a good boy and he is your son, never forget that, even if he isn’t human anymore…Goodbye, my beautiful flower…”

“ROBERTO WAIT, DON’T GO…” Maria stretches her arm; Roberto walks away and begins to disappear by turning into mana particles.

Suddenly, behind her, a man on top of a horse with black armor and red aura appears. Maria, feeling fear, begins to run away but she can’t escape, the Horseman appears in front of her with his glowing red eyes:

“Your son's soul belongs to me now….”

“NOOOOOOO”

Maria opens her eyes screaming, she is sweating because of the nightmare and looks around.

“This isn’t my room, where am I?”

Maria feels pain in her stomach; she looks at herself and sees that she is covered in bandages:

“Why do I have bandages…”

Maria remembers the events of last night; “NO, ROBERTO, NO, HE DIDN’T DIE!”

(KNOCK, KNOCK)

The door slowly opens, Maria looks at it with hope as she shouts; “ROBERTO, IS THAT YOU?”’

“No, mi hija, it’s just me” Sister Griselda enters the room.

Sister Griselda is an older woman wearing a black nun attire, has wrinkled face and white hair. She has normal features, light brown skin and green eyes. She has been Maria’s guardian ever since she was a child.

“Sister Griselda, where are my children?”

“Your children are fine, they are sleeping upstairs.”

“Thank God” Maria feels relief, she looks at Sistr Griselda with a worried face, and asks:

“Where is Roberto, he is alive, right?”

Griselda lowers her head, Maria stands up and grabs Griselda’s arm and struggles as she screams repeatedly; “NO, PLEASE DON’T TELL ME THAT HE IS DEAD, HE IS ALIVE RIGHT, HE MUST BE, WE MADE A PROMISE.”

“Calm down Maria, I need to tell you the truth” Sister Griselda looks at Maria and continues to speak:

“Last night, '' El Diablo” came to my house and brought you and your children with him. You four were in serious condition but not life threatening, he explained everything to me, and unfortunately…”

Sister Griselda begins to cry; “Roberto Vazquez, your husband passed away last night.”

“NOOOOOOO!!” Maria cries with all her heart, she falls into her knees screaming for Roberto.

I promise you that we will always be together Maria because I will never break my word.

“Roberto, you promised me that you would be with me forever, why, why?” Maria begins to lose her composure, Griselda hugs her:

“Niña, you must calm down, I know it’s painful about his death, but you need to compose yourself.”

“I want to die, Sister, I want to die.” Maria feels a great pain in her heart.

“Stop it, don’t say that, you still have three children to remember. They lost their father but you are still here. Maria, you must look after them.”

Maria opens her eyes and tries to calm down; “That’s right, my children, they…” Maria remembers Uriel’s marking in his forearm. She looks at Griselda and asks:

“Sister, please tell me that I had a nightmare last night, and that my son isn’t El Charro Negro.”

“Please take care of my successor, I will return tomorrow and see how he is doing.” Griselda remembers Juan’s message:

“No Maria, I’m afraid that your son was tainted by evil.”

Maria is in shock, she lets go of Griselda and looks down to the floor; “Then my son, Uriel, really turned into a demon?”

“I’m afraid so, now I don’t know why, but we can’t judge him yet. Maria, try to act normal for the time being.”

Griselda steps out of the room, Maria is left speechless, and her eyes are hollow as she looks at her wedding ring; “Now what am I going to do?”

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“Where am I?” Uriel sees nothing but a blank space floating with nothing surrounding them. His father is wearing white shirt with white pants, he then begins to talk to him:

“Uriel, my boy…I need to tell you something important…”

Uriel looks confused; “What is it papa, what is happening?”

“Uriel, you are the head of the family now, please protect them...I need to set on a journey and you won’t see me for a long time…Hijo, you must be brave…You have to take care of your sister and brother who will follow your steps so please be stay strong…” Roberto makes a smirk; “Also no porn…”

Uriel chuckles as tears come out of his eyes:

“I will Papa, I´m going to be the strongest…also I won’t look at porn…”

“That’s my boy…take care, hijo…” Roberto smiles and begins to fade away. Uriel runs towards him and tries to reach him:

“Papa, don’t go please.”

Uriel disappears as everything starts becoming black.

(BBBAADDDUUUMMPPP)

Uriel wakes up and sees a fang that is turning in the ceiling giving him some breeze. Uriel stands up from the bed and he feels pain in his body but that doesn't stop him from getting up.

“Where am I?” Uriel opens the door to see the stairways. He passes near a cross and feels pain in his forearm; “Ouch, why do I feel pain in my arm?”

He lifts up his forearm and sees the mark of the flame. Uriel begins remember everything that happened to them. Suddenly, he feels weak and nauseous. Uriel throws up near the stairs.

“What are you doing mijo, you should be in bed. Now you vomited in the stairs, what a mess.” Uriel looks up and sees Sister Griselda talking to him.

“Abuelita Griselda where are we?” Uriel asks her, holding her arm tightly.

“You are in my house niño, and you should be in bed now.” She responds by grabbing his ear as a punishment.

“Where are my brother and sister?” Uriel looks around, searching for them.

“They are sleeping in a room next to yours”

“That is a relief.” Uriel responds and begins to cough. Uriel opens his eyes and asks:

“Where are my mom and my dad?”

Sister Griselda looks worried; “Well that is a complicated matter, you see they….”

“Your father died, Uriel.” Maria answers Uriel with a somber face. Uriel opens his eyes wider; “What did you say?”

“Maria, don’t be so harsh…” Sister Griselda looks at Maria with anger; “He must know that his father died…” Maria replies with anger. Uriel gets into his knees and begins to cry; “WAAHHH PAPA….”

Maria goes to him and hugs him tightly crying as well:

“Listen, hijo, I know it is hard but we need to be brave. Your brother and sister are younger so they will suffer more, so please stay strong.” Maria says with a shivering voice.

“That's right, I need to protect my son…” Maria remembers the Horsemen in her dream and quickly separates from Uriel.

(KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK)

Someone knocks in the door. Sister Griselda goes to answer it, and she steps back frightened. In the door there was a tall man with brown skin, and a mustache. He is dressed in a black Mariachi suit (a Mexican singer).

The man smiles; “Buenos Días, Señorita. May I come in?”

Sister Griselda takes a deep breath; “I don’t have a choice do I? You devil…”

“Hahaha, I’m no devil.Stop fooling around, this is a serious business, Sister”

“Come in then, I´ll give you a coffee.” Maria glares at the man. The man laughs; “Maria, I really love that attitude of yours.

Uriel looks at him. The man smiles at Uriel:

“Hello Muchacho, I see that you are doing well…I’ll introduce myself once more, I am Juan de la Trinidad, El Charro Negro…”

Uriel opens his eyes wider; “So it was true…everything was real…”

“Your correct muchacho, it was real.” Juan changes his expression to a serious one.

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Sister Griselda decided to continue their conversation in the kitchen to avoid anyone seeing Juan de la Trinidad…

He takes out a newspaper and shows it to Uriel:

“EARTHQUAKE IN BORDER CITIES, MANY PEOPLE ARE DEAD!”

Uriel puts on a shocking face as he learns that their family was among the casualties that appear in the newspaper list. Maria glares at Juan:

“Why did you come here?”

“Hahaha…getting down to business ehh…” Juan bows his head; “Believe or not, from the bottom of my heart…I am sorry but Roberto asked me to not interfere…”

“YOU LIAR! YOU HAVE NO HEART!” Maria stands up with anger, Uriel looks surprise upon seeing her mother’s anger. Sister Griselda grabs her arm; “Maria, calm down, and listen to that man…”

“Thank you Sister…” Juan looks at Uriel; “Muchacho, that mark on your forearm is the symbol that you will become El Charro Negro…”

“Me, El Charro Negro?” Uriel looks scared. Juan continues to speak; “Listen…by accepting the deal, you are now my successor…it means that you will be a target for “them” and you must be prepared…”

“For them? What are you talking about?”

Juan makes a proposition to Maria and Griselda:

“Look señoritas, “they” will begin to move because they know you are not dead so my proposal is to leave the region and go to where Sister Griselda is located. I need to train this boy for the future. Coincidentally, I also live nearby…and Tapatio, Jalisco is a great place to live in, right Sister?”

Maria stands up once again; “No, my son is going to have a normal life”

“Hahaha, there is no normal life in this world Maria and you saw it yesterday remember.” Juan changes his expression to a serious one:

“Besides, there is another drawback…Uriel Vazquez will die…”

Uriel opens his eyes wider; “What do you mean by that?”

“Your existence will disappear, everyone will forget about you…except for me…”

“What are you saying? He 's going to die?” Maria and Sister Griselda look at Juan with shock.

“Something like that…you see, due to the amount of power he received, his entire being will be overwritten and a new being will emerge…in other words, Uriel Vazquez…everyone will forget about Uriel Vazquez, his pictures, documents and basically, everything that involves him will be forgotten…unfortunately, that is the price Uriel Vazquez will have to pay…”

The room is silent, Uriel begins to tremble and sweat upon the horror of him dying; “It can’t be, I will die?”

“No…it can’t be, I will lose another one…first Roberto, now Uriel…no…” Maria panics. Sister Griselda looks at Juan; “Is there a way to prevent that from happening?”

“No…i’m afraid not…it happened to my predessessor and it happened to me…I also had a life before I became El Charro Negro…”

Uriel takes a deep breath and grabs his mother’s shoulder, Maria looks at him. Uriel smiles and says:

“Don’t worry mama, I’m going to be okay…Mr. Juan, how much time do I got left?”

“Just call me TIO, muchacho, I like the sound of it better…it takes 72 hours for your soul to be overwritten…you still have time…”

Juan looks at Maria and Sister Griselda; “So, what will it be? Do you stay here and be hunted or go to Tapatio and live a more peaceful life?”

Sister Griselda looks at Juan and sighs; “I accept, Diablo, but only with the condition that they will live with me.”

“Then it is settled, muchacho. Do not worry, I made a promise to you father that I will train you and protect you until you are ready.” Juan says to Uriel who looks scared. Maria looks down depressed but she knows it is the only option.

“Fine, we will leave this city.” Maria leaves the kitchen.

“Maybe it's for the best, I mean if I get a chance to get away from here. I'll accept.” Maria feels weak and leans on the wall as tears come out of her eyes.

Uriel looks at Juan; :Hey, Tio…I have a favor to ask…”

“What is it, muchacho?” Juan looks at Uriel confused.

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Sun City…

Uriel asked Juan de la Trinidad a favor, and that was to go to their former house in search of something…“El Charro Negro” knocked everyone in their surroundings unconscious, giving them time to search something that Uriel wanted. The police, the neighbors, and everybody passing were knocked unconscious as well.

In the former house of the Vazquez family located in Sun City, Uriel and Juan were searching for something among the rubble.

“Are you sure it is in here, muchacho?” Juan asks Uriel who is still searching and he replies:

“Yes tio, it has to be here somewhere.” Uriel says it as he continues to search.

“I found it, here it is tio.” Uriel says to Juan as he holds up a family picture of them.

“This was the last family picture taken on Christmas, I´m so relieved it is still intact.” Uriel looks to Juan with tears in his eyes. Juan chuckles; “You know that you will disappear from that picture right?”

“I know, but at least, I want to see it for the last three days of my life…” Uriel looks at it with a smile.

“Well then, shall we go to Muchacho?” Juan tells Uriel as they begin to walk away.

“Uriel, please wait.” Both of them hear a voice coming from behind.

“It can’t be…” The voice came from a girl named Marjorie, she quickly runs and hugs Uriel; “URIEL, YOU’RE ALIVE…I’M SO GLAD!”

Uriel turns and asks Juan:

“I thought your spell was supposed to make everyone sleep?”

“Well, this is a surprise, she must have a huge amount of mana huh, I guess I need to make her sleep.”

“No wait…I want to speak with her, one last time…”

“Do as you wish, you have two minutes…”

Marjorie continues to hug Uriel; “I thought you died, I was really sad, my future husband was dead.”

“I’m sorry for making you worry, but I am going to die…” Marjorie lets go and with a scared face, she asks:

“What are you saying, you don’t make sense, Uriel.”

Uriel explains the situation to Marjorie who begins to cry of sadness as she learns that he is going to disappear and that her memories will be erased. Uriel looks at the rubble and sees a necklace that appears to be golden and cut in half, with an image of half of a rose. Uriel remembers that his mother told him about that necklace, the necklace that binds two lovers together. Uriel gives half of the medallion to Marjorie:

“I would like to give you this…This medallion represents my life that belongs to you and I will keep the other half is your life that I will keep…we will meet again one day and once again put them together and make them a whole…because we are always going to be together… “

“You promise?” Marjorie with tears in her eyes looks at Uriel who nods in agreement.

Marjorie looks up and kisses Uriel in his mouth:

“Well consider this our engagement. Please promise me that we will get married someday. I will forget about you, but remember this, I love you. You now know how much I love you.”

“U-U-U-U-G-G-HH-H-HH” Uriel is speechless and does not know what to say.

Uriel also begins to cry; “Marjorie, I love you too…even if I disappear, I will keep this medallion with me until the day that I return…”

Marjorie smiles, feeling happiness. Juan grabs her head and says:

“Well time´s up, you are really bold. You have my respect, señorita” Juan says as he casts the spell on her directly. She begins to lose conscious and closes her eyes as Uriel says to her “Good bye”

Juan puts an unconscious Marjorie next to a light post; “Time to go, someone else is coming..”

“Right…” Uriel looks at her and looks forward; “I am not looking back anymore…”

Alejandro runs as fast as he can in search of his friend. As he arrives at the house, he sees that it was completely destroyed, there was nothing there, the strange thing is that there is somebody in front of the house standing there.

“Marjorie” Alejandro runs towards, Marjorie is looking at the house with her eyes shallow. Alejandro grabs her shoulder calling her name. Marjorie reacts and sees Alejandro.

“Alejandro, when did you get here?” Marjorie asks with a smile.

Alejandro sighs:

“I’ve been here all along, why are you standing in front of Uriel’s house, and what happened to it?”

Alejandro knows that Marjorie is in love with Uriel, and that she’ll probably remember him.

Marjorie looks at Alejandro with a clueless expression and asks:

“Who’s... Uriel?”

Alejandro looks at her frightened, he begins to tremble, and lets go of her shoulder.

“This can’t be...not even she remembers Uriel? What’s going on?"

“Hey Alejandro, are you alright?”

Marjorie touches his arm. Alejandro grabs her shoulder’s tight.

“Marjorie, please remember him, Uriel was a great friend of ours, he went to our school, he was in the same class as us. You always said that he was your future husband....Please remember...”

“Alejandro, you’re scaring me....” Alejandro lets go of her shoulders and apologizes, Marjorie begins to leave as she asks herself who might Uriel be.

“No one remembers him, did he even exist...I know that I am not imagining things, I know that Uriel lived here with his family...”

At the top of a hill, two figures mounting horses, look down at the cities.

“So, muchacho, it appears they “erase” the Vazquez Family, and not even your friends remember you, are you okay with that?” The man with red eyes asks a boy who is next to him. The boy begins to move away slowly with his horse as he says showing a pair of red eyes:

“That's fine, I don't need them anyway, my only objective is to get stronger, stronger so I can kill that man....”

“Hahaha, excellent, now then, that's what I expect from my successor, well then time to go, we have a lot to do before you can return here,Uriel...”

The boy with red eyes looks at the clouds and says:

“Uriel Vazquez will die but El Charro Negro will live on and I will have my revenge…I swear I will become stronger...”

On that day, Uriel decided to sever all ties and head towards Jalisco…little did he know that another threat was waiting for them there and that he had another enemy…his own mother…Stay tuned…Next Volume…