“I’m Domina Salvatore, gd to finally make your acquaintance Mr. Irvin Maximillian, you would know that our parents knew each other as well, so it’s a pity we had not meet till now.” The young woman stood barely and inch taller than Irvin and wore a saber upon her hip, her eyes no longer glowed and where now back to their normal brown color. Irvin stood with his briefcase in front of him sweating buckets, but his eyes were set on hers firmly.

  “Yes, I was a rather sickly child so my mother never took me out of the house often.”

  She crossed her arms and took her gloved finger to her lip. “So I was told, but I also heard you died five years ago.” Irvin stirred, but his voice remained calm. “My mother made a mistake, but as you can see I′m quite fine now.” She pced her hand upon her hip. “?What kind of mistake?” She inquired with a more serious tone. “A grave one, but that is fine now, I hold her no ill will.” He ignored her question but she simply smiled, her brown deep eyes staring at his sungsses.

  “Wonderful then let’s make up for the lost time, I will need you to come with me, this is no good pce to talk in peace as the street are stirring today after all, more than usual.”

  She reached out to grab his shoulders and before he even notice it, his whole body went cold at the contact. “Hahaha, just one more thing…” She ughed cpping his back with affection and vigor and making his body recoil, he had to raise his hand to stop his sungsses from falling off, she was quite giddy maybe too much, to measure her strength and excitement. “?Can I see your eye, brother?” Irvin looked down bared his teeth.

  “Just as I thought, you know of it Miss President, my shame full little secret.” He said in a mere whisper.

  “Of course, a man you killed told me so, he said it was something that had no right to exist, don′t you find that rather rude? But none the less he cannot be bmed.” Irvin spped her hand of his shoulder and she just smiled awaiting his answer. “Yes, it’s the same eye you have, consider it a part of my mother’s mistakes, but we do not share any blood, we are not brothers” She shrugged.

  “I know, but those eyes, only my father and I can have them, no one else in this world and that alone makes us brother since we both share the same gift, the same curse.” Her eyes began to glow with a purple light giving her a rather savage look, but her posture remained prideful as she showed a modest smile.

  “Sorry to disappoint you, but I′m rather busy at the moment so I will have to pass in accompanying you, let us make time for the weekend. ?Maybe?”

  With her arms crossed she raised her open palm towards him, telling him to be silent. “No, because it’s an order now and a good student should always comply.” Irvin’s fist was shaking as he slowly moved it towards his pocket.

  “Do I have the right to remain silent?”

  “Sure you can, but I have the right to force your tongue as well, so may the strongest will be true, that is the way of Is Franca.” The winds blew stronger on the dried pza making her cape and long bck hair sway, her expression wasn′t intimidating if any she seemed reassuring when speaking..

  “Have it your way then.” Irvin pressed a button on his remote control concealed by his b coat and quickly raised his briefcase in front of him with his left arm.

  The briefcase blew open and a long mechanical tail flew from inside it, aiming at her neck with a stinger, the distance within them was terrible small and it took it but a second to reach her.

  “Oh.” She murmured as she leaned to the side barely moving her neck and evading the sting towards her head by a mere inch, the stinger retracted as fast as it came out and she looked at it with amusement. “This is the toy that killed Naga.” Irvin dropped it to the ground where the briefcase reshaped itself into a robotic scorpion, he gained more distance away from her and pulled out his controller and pressed and the scorpion did its tip stretched into a long metallic rod that released a surge of electricity through its length, finally he pulled out a small white handgun from his other pocket.

  I have no idea if Danny has her on his sight and even if he did we are never getting a second shot, I need to make an opening for him… at any cost

  “Very well, forget the question. I don′t need to know why you are here.” She slowly took her scabbard from her hip, but she didn′t unsheathed it. Her eyes glowed brighter turning her purple irises into a white sharp color that seemed to pierce through him, they were not the eyes of a human, the sight of a beast, a lioness.

  “I will test it, show me if you are worthy of that eye, or else I′ll take it from you here and now.” As she finished her piece the scorpion tail flew forward and she used her scabbard to block its tip, remaining unscratched.

  Irvin aimed at her with his gun from behind his machine trying to aim at her chest. She dodged another sting of the scorpion and unsheathed her weapon throwing the scabbard forward and hitting Irvin right on his hand before he managed to shoot her, his gun fell and she rushed forward passing at the side of the robotic scorpion completely ignoring it. He saw her bright white eyes coming closer with their piercing glow and took out his stun baton to strike back before her.

  She stopped right in front of him and smile as he felt his strike being stopped, she had wrapped her hand on her long red cape and grabbed the baton without being shocked, a purple light glowed from inside Irvin′s sungsses and he let go of the baton and backed away just in time for her bde to come from below in a perfect arc, it passed reaching only his sungsses cutting them in half.

  “There is no need to hide it, show it with pride.” She spoke letting him gain some distance, as she moved her bde of a pure bck color in front of her face, holding it with a single arm.

  Irvin took his hand from his face feeling blood dripping from a small cut on his forehead; his eyes finally clear to her sight. Irvin Maximillian had one eye of a blue clear color and another one glowing in a purple and white light as fierce as fmes, his tired expression didn′t seem to fit that eye at all.

  “It’s beautiful; to think someone else was born like this.” She said in a kind tone so unlike her previous show of violence, but though she smiled those eyes did fit her, a great pride and arrogance were always clear upon her face.

  “It’s just a birth defect; there is no reason to be so dramatic about it.” Irvin stumbled as he moved his hand toward another of his many pockets.

  “?Tell me what has it shown you? You must have seen a dream within that purple light, a vision, a future, a sight your victorious future self.” She raised her bde proudly and quickly turned back towards the stinger that was reaching for her back; she parried the hit and aggressively pursued the tail with a smile.

  As she did Irvin reached within his pockets for a gauntlet, a bulking metallic glove with a circur screen on the back, he quickly entered his right hand into it as he saw the woman corner his machine and with her bck bde cut the tail in a perfect clean move, it simply broke apart. Irvin raised his armed glove and the the scorpion completely stopped attacking and jumped back.

  “Hiroshi himself forged this bde, the bck steel cannot be broken and in turn can cut through anything, and so his alone is my one and only bde.” She turned on her heel and ran back toward him.

  Irvin′s eye glowed brighter and the world around him seemed to freeze and Domina did as well moving slower and slower, but her eyes seemed to be following the attack and in that instant, he could see another her an after image running in the opposite direction, she seemed to have split in two while the world slowed down and he had to take a choice.

  So I can′t predict her movements, she is changing the future by reading my own future.

  ?How far ahead in the future can she see with those eyes, five seconds… maybe more?

  Irvin moved his palm and pressed a button upon his finger tip. As she was about to reach him a mechanical sphere rushed through the ground and forced her to stop and block it instead, the scorpion had become and armadillo that hit the version the right with his full weight in the shape of a sphere, she dodged in time and it uncoiled on the middle of the two of them.

  I guessed right, at least it should be the same for her. How amusing, our powers become useless when against each other, I need to believe in that at least.

  “If you are just going to hide behind a toy that eye is truly wasted on you.” Domina raised her bde and pointed it at the small mechanical animal.

  “Certainly I can′t use that eye for much with my feeble body, but that is why I created this in my stead.” Irvin raised his gauntlet into the sky above. “Fly.” As he spoke the armadillo grew wings and began to twist itself into a bird of metal that did the impossible and rose to the skies. “An eagle…” The president looked at the bird clearly upset, her eyes more savage than before.

  “Don′t sour my skies with that filthy fake.”

  She decred raising her bde as the hawk descended, Irvin′s eyes both glowed and the world began to me slower again, he paid attention where she stood and slowly he moved his finger changing the trajectory of the attack of the eagle with his gauntlet.

  He saw it the bird passing through her with its cws, cutting her stomach and time moved on once more, but when it happened her image banished from that spot and Domina evaded the cws by dodging to the side, only her cape was pierced for a single moment he saw an after image of her being left in pce, before banishing.

  “Something is different.” She pointed her bde at Irvin.

  “Sorry, but I′m on full control of it now, we are really fighting like one being.”

  “Haha, it will not be enough.”

  The bird flew again trying to cut her with his wings sharps as knives, but she merely moved to the side with a few steps dodging once more with a twirl, Irvin′s eyes could only see a shadow following her, she was simply a moment ahead of him, seeing clearly his every move and changing the futures his eyes could see.

  This is useless I will tire first. He made the bird rise back into the air as he walked back in the direction of the forgotten statue. His eye glowed as the bird flew forward and he saw it again, her image multiplying, many possible hers in that momen,t wielding their bdes, many possible futures and in all them he saw the bird of steel being cut down by her hand. Irvin closed his hand and the bird stopped his descend at the st second barely flying back and away from the reach of her bde.

  “It’s too slow, by the time the machine reacts to your commands the future has already become the past, seeing the future is pointless if you are too weak to grasp it and this machine will not do it for you.” She walked forward with stride and Irvin couldn′t help but to back away as he grabbed his tie and pulled with enough to choke himself a little.

  “It doesn′t matter if they are not fast enough I′ll just build them to be even faster, stronger.” Irvin stood against the statue, his expression growing with anger as he spitted with every word. “You are helpless yourself, there is no future you can make like that, know your limits and abide by them.” Irvin ughed quietly at her taunt.. “Haha… I know them very well, but so what?” Irvin let go of his tie and stared at her with a face befitting of his bestial eye.

  “Human are weak, each and every single one of them, afraid, unsure and forever ignorant, but so what? ?That is why we build, we research, we create, we imagine, all to find a way for all of us to live and survive, we made this world just for that. If I cannot defeat you I will create something that can, make it stronger, faster, and smarter!” She stopped her march, the glow in her eyes ceasing for a moment.”

  “So you believe civilization and the sciences to be how we make up for our fear and weaknesses, you may be correct, but if so this civilization has no worth existing, it’s almost as if you refuse to accept that there are those who are superiors to you, so you will rather call all of human achievement to be nothing but desperation.” Irvin held himself up by leaning against the base of the statue.

  “Haha there goes that imagination, believing that somehow people have worth, there is no science in that. We are born equal, because us being born is nothing special at all, it simply is and to deny that, we invented many things, but it’s just that at the end, the rules of the world, money, justice, w are just inventions and there is no science to any of them.” She held her bde upon her gloved hand and in a factual manner.

  “Correct, but if so the strongest rules will define us, as such the truly strong should be the ones to lead the way, those qualified to change the way of the world… and invent its worth” She passed her gloved hand through the surface of the bde.

  “Hahahahahahaha.” He ughed madly and her expression grew sour. “Na?ve, na?ve such a na?ve person you are, that has never worked and never will and this Is Franca is the final nail upon our coffin for thinking it so, and it too was built from fear.” She waited for him to end his rambling and then finished her line. “And you expect science to save us, I suppose in that regard you are very much like your mother.

  “HahaHahaha ?Save who? ?Science saving the world? Nonsense I don′t have such imagination, no, our hunger for surpassing our limits it to is our madness, a madness that will swallow us all!” He opened his palm towards her and the eagle of steel descended in front of him.

  “This is my obsession, my madness given form, truer to me than anything in this world. ?I imagined a beast that will sy you and henceforth I will give it form!” His eyes shinned as he kept ughing with a mad delight, the president present her weapon in front of her.

  “?If that is your sword, then wield it with pride and show me how far your fear can take you!”

  She leaped forward with bde in hand towards the eagle of steel and the world slowed down to a crawl upon the eyes of them both. He could see her close the distance as he sent a single command to the bird, even if deyed it will have to be enough, after all he had her in the right position now.

  If there is something my mother and I share is that we only care for results.

  So I must throw away everything for the sake of this victory.

  Irvin′s expression had no longer any trace of the ughing madman that been there a mere second ago, he made the bird descend forward and saw her many possible moves in response, as she aimed to cut his wing and pass through towards him, that if what one of the projections showed and Irvin let it happen. Time moved back and she cut the eagle’s wing without losing her momentum just as he had seen and then rushed with her bde straight into him.

  Time crawled once more to a stop and he saw another image of her piercing him in the chest, so he moved to the side the best he could till he her saw her piercing him through his arm with bde, he smiled and the, he let it happen.

  “?Aggggg!” Irvin screamed as his visions became reality when she pierced her bde straight through his left arm, just below his shoulder, her bde living up to her words as it crossed his bone and penetrate the base of the statue cracking it.

  “It’s over.” She decred.

  “Yes it is…Haha…” She tensed at hearing his ugh and saw hi gauntlet come over to grab the handle of her bde and force it deeper into himself. “Yes, it’s all over…” He groaned amidst the unbearable pain as the bde pierced through his bone like mere butter.

  Her eyes glowed purple again and time stopped for them both, he saw her trying to force the bde off his arm so he held it back in its pce, but at the end the vision showed her breaking it free and jumping back with the bloody sword in hand, he could only smile weakly at that future.

  Time moved once more and with a kick she forced her bde off his shoulder and he at the same time pressed a small button with his wounded arm. Time froze and her eyes grew wide with fear, she was still on the middle of regaining her footing from forcing the sword out and her feet had yet to nd on the ground and that second stretched on and on, but she couldn′t move, her body would not let her evade what she saw coming, it was too te, there was no evading it now, it was a matter of physics.

  Time continued and she nded on her back foot and quickly tried to spin in pce right when it hit her, a bullet from far away pierced her from behind, her legs grew weak and she almost fell from the sheer impact, but she manage to remain standing as her breathing became heavier and heavier.

  “I thought that machine mattered to you…” She spoke in clear agony, the light on her eyes dismissing. Irvin was already applying a bandage to his wound as the red blood kept dripping from it, he fell down in front of the statue letting her see the blood she had made upon the base of the statue and the hole that grew wider. The glow on Irvin′s eye was gone as well, but his iris turned into a brown color rather than the blue on his other eye.

  “Machines can be rebuild… and you should have abandoned your sword as well. That is why you truly lost.” She stumbled forward with a weak smile upon her face as she tried to walk closer, blood dripping down her leg.

  “Not bad… brother.” Finally she fell down while walking forward, her cape flowing behind her as she crashed on the pza with her gloved hand towards Irvin, her face now resting upon the ground after being shot by a faraway gun shoot.

  Thank you for saving me Danny, but this is the only future left for us.

  I can only say that I’m sorry for this.

  Irvin was shaking as he took his small radio communicator from his pocket. “I need to survive, that is the only goal…that…” He whimpered still in grave pain.

  Irvin stood up seeing the colpsed school president and behind her the mechanical eagle she had downed, he snapped his gauntlet′s fingers and the machine Edmond began to burn as its self-destruct sequence began, Irvin walked away ensuring his arm wasn′t dropping any more blood after applying a fast first aid, it just needed to hang sufficiently so he will not be tracked.

  As he walked he let go of the radio upon the stairs of the pza.

  The radio was sounding as someone called for him.

  Over and over again.

  ***

  “I really hate your eyes.”Kojiro spoke.

  “?The hell, where did that come from?”

  Helga Wright asked Kojiro with the same empty expression she always had, the two were at the center of a devastated street that have fallen completely into a crater from their skirmish, their fight had advance leading into the complete devastation of the entire street, but the two of them still stood in good shape, Kojiro′s bleedings continued upon his chest but he paid it little mind and in turn she seemed unconcern with the fact that her arm was reshaping itself again.

  “There is no point in you being here, those death eyes of yours, it’s like you don’t care if you live or die, at least that demon always looked at me when we fought, but it’s like you don′t care to fight at all..”

  She scratched her neck as her mechanical arm returned to shape and began to grow bigger and bigger. “?Can we go back to the punching? I have nothing to say to you.”

  Kojiro groaned at her answer and then jumped ahead over the much smaller woman with his fist raised high.

  Helga kneeled rising her gigantic fist above her and punching his own fist out of the way, the blow sent a current of air all around them, Kojiro no longer smiling as the woman stared back at him with vacant eyes. “Honestly you people are tired to look at, always so stubborn.” Her fingers broke apart from the force of his fist, but from her arm′s side a long scythed was extended gleaning with a bck steel bde.

  “Is Franca belongs to Salvatore and so does everyone on it, you as well, body and soul.” She dodged one of his kick and at the same time extended the scythe towards his neck.

  “Oh, well I was never any good at following the w miss.” He blocked the cut with his arm, the bde piercing deep into his thick skin as blood dripped down the tattoo on his arm, Kojiro smiled with a pained expression and kicked her on the stomach sending her flying with a hollow sound.

  She flew crashing straight into a near building that crashed down on top of her, while Kojiro took a breath and held his wounded arm. “That can cut thought my skin… that’s a new one.” He jumped after her not willing to give her a second of respite.

  The rubble moved as a figure broke from below it making the colpsed wall break apart, she raised from deep below the colpse completely unharmed as she began to adjust her cap her glowing visor seeking him, till she moved her head upwards and saw Kojiro above her with his fist coming down.

  She raised her own and made scythe retract into the inside of her arm and her palm was surrounded quickly by thick scales that pop out in a circle around the wrist making it into a shield. She rose receiving his blow straight into her shield aiding herself by putting all of her weight upon her legs, her size might have been small, but her weight could rival his own.

  She forced him back at the end, Kojiro stopped and shaked hand from the soreness.

  “?Haha, is that bck metal too? Hiroshi is still a pain even from beyond the grave.”

  Kojiro ran towards her as she pced the huge shield between the two of them again, but rather than punching it he grabbed it by the sides and quickly raised it along with its owner and threw them over his head.

  “Oh dear….” She retracted her shield back as she nded on the floor and turned towards him, his fist reaching for her. Helga quickly raised her other hand that had remained in a normal size; her index finger opened like a trapdoor and she shoot a bright white light from inside it, a small ser pierced him on the center of his chest, but he never recoiled from it and reached her head with his fist.

  Her face broke by the right side showing the machinery hided under the skin, but her dull expression didn′t waver as she moved her fist forward unleashing the scythe through his ribcage. He groaned in pain as the impact of his fist threw her against the wall of the neighboring building, which she simply broke through.

  Kojiro groaned again feeling his head go light, the wound was deeper than he had imagined, he couldn′t remember the st time he felt pain like that or if he ever did.

  With a loud thud the woman raised from the ground again and passed over the broke wall now with the skin of half her face broken, letting the mechanical insides clear around her visor, but her expression remained indifferent at the other side.

  “?Huh, was that punch really so weak little dy?”

  “Hardly my systems show that my body is breaking apart, it’s just that I can′t feel any pain.” She shrugged.

  “Oh… Hahahaha. That’s so strange, for once in life, I′m feeling very human.” Kojiro let go of his wound with a smile, blood seemed to be falling from everywhere in his body now, but he could only smile wider.

  “Congratutions at least you can leave this world with a smile Adachi-san.”

  As she spoke her arm began to grow again slowly building itself into another shape, a fist long and tall, she had grown a huge hand whose size matched her entire body and yet she could raise it with ease, it expanded in the shape of a cylinder and released a long pistol on the back of the arm, it began to hum as an electric current passed through it and it all screeched.

  She remained silent barely looking at his with tired eyes.

  “Why would you go to such lengths at least you could tell me that you dog.” He spoke preparing his fist as he set to pce his left foot behind, his smile disappearing as he looked at her with caution. “I was built to take down dissenters like you, if I cannot do that I will be discarded, it’s nothing complicated.” She spoke quietly, he couldn′t tell if she did so with sadness or without any care.

  “Fight against them then, Salvatore is no one worth risking your life for… ?So why?”

  “Sorry, but I’m just another cog in the machine so I have nothing to say.” Kojiro spitted on the ground, his teeth clenching.

  “?Then I’ll pulverize you and every other cog till the damn machine stops running!”

  She sent her punch towards him and he faced her with his own, her goliath retracted the huge piston inside at the moment of collusion as both of them crashed their fists with all of their strength. Kojiro roared feeling his whole body burn with adrenaline as he looked at his empty expression, the crash was devastating and threw forth a shockwave that made the earth tremble and the wind blew away all the rubble around them with a cloud of dust that spread from the collusion.

  “HAHAHAHAhA.” As the dust settled Kojiro′s ugh roared through the broken buildings, his hand could be seen bleeding and showing the bones underneath, but her fist of iron broke apart shattering piece by piece and colpsed in front of him and unlike it Kojiro′s bloodied fist was raised again.

  “?I won′t die against a woman who believes in nothing!” He raised his fist to strike again, but a white light came from within the dust cloud and he blocked it with his other arm, a clear hole was formed upon his flesh.

  With a scream Kojiro rushed forward towards the armless woman who pointed at him with her other arm. He rushed her again and grabbed her small hand with his much rger arm and forced it to point above her missing its shot and then kicked her in the stomach again, he didn′t let go of her arm and it broke apart as she was thrown away by the impact.

  Kojiro coughed blood as he smiled for a single moment, before hearing the sound of something closing in.

  From within the dust another person had jumped towards him and closed a huge handcuff around his wrist, he hadn′t notice his presence till then. Kojiro quickly smmed his arm against the stranger, a man in a green hood that had quickly jumped back away from his strike with inhuman finesse.

  “So she wasn′t alone... ?what is this?” He tried to force the bck device out from his wounded bleeding arm. “It’s not coming out, must be Hiroshi′s” The man in the green hood showed his long tongue underneath it as he chuckle, a row of white long fangs clear on his mouth. “?Score! One more and you′re done.” Kojiro stopped trying to remove the handcuff and looked back at him. “You don′t look like a soldier. ?Who even are you?”

  Dino raised his green lizard finger and pointed at his chest. “The name is Dals “Dino” Saurus my man.” He spoke cheerfully beating his chest. “Never heard of you.” Kojiro rushed forward closing in on the smaller man as Dino pulled his guitar that was as strong as an axe and striked at him with all of his strength, the guitar nded upon Kojiro′s head and immediately snapped from its handle from the impact.

  “What in hell…” Dino jumped back with his raptor feet as the other man smmed at him with his fist, he evaded it with a jump and began to run away, but Kojiro pursued him witha leap of his own and crashed from above him right in front of his exit, Dino stopped and rushed to the side on his fast feet barely skipping a fist as he ran away past a curtain of dust and to the ruined asphalt street.

  “You got him then.” Helga was waiting for Dino outside the broken apartments that were now colpsing completely she was missing an arm and the other one limped, but she remained careless “

  ?So what’s the pn now?” Dino turned his tail and stared back at the rubble behind, his lower half completely transformed into that of a raptor. “Well we are not getting him by surprise again; I’ll try to give you an opening so don′t be reckless.” She raised her right hand that had finally finished rebuilding itself.

  “Just being here is reckless, guess I need to use all I have too…eh.” Dino pressed his long bck nail to his music list on the device connected to his headphones and scrolled towards the st song on the list; a requiem for the Rex King, his father’s finally piano piece. He groaned showing his teeth as he finally pressed it.

  “It seems everyone is coming for my head today.”

  From the rubble and the dust his huge form emerged again, the strongest man in the isnd was in a terrible shape with wounds bleeding all through his body, but his posture remained perfect, his back utterly refusing to bend as he cracked his knuckles with a cruel and ominous smile, only his eye looked tired now.

  “I guess I can never stop fighting again… till the very end. It has no end now. It will be Salvatore or I.”

  Kojiro clinched his teeth and leaped again his expression one of utter fury, Helga stepped forward turning her only useful arm into a shield, a bck wide shield that defended Dino from his fist at the st second, his punch recoiled and Kojiro stepped back, allowing Dino to rushed out of sight again.

  “?I won′t stop so justget that out of my face!”

  Kojiro punched against the bck surface again and Helga braced for impact, from her back, two long chains where release and hooked into the ground to keep her strongly on her pce and stop him from lifting her again. “This is Hiroshi′s bck steel, your fist can never break it.” She muttered with a bored tone and his eyes grew fiercer with the simple mention of that name.

  “?There is nothing in this world that my body can′t break!”

  Kojiro punched the shield again with his wounded hand sending one of his fist after another in a barrage that made the very earth under her shake and crack, the impact resounded all thought the street as the metal bared that constant immeasurable pressure, but she remained standing even if every part of her body was shaking and starting to crumble, she forced the shield forward. “This body was made to shield the very empire, so it will never yield.” Kojiro roared his fist moving so fast no one could follow them, his bloodied hand painting red the bck immutable shield.

  “Scream all you want, rage as loud as you want; none of it will reach Salvatore, not as long as I′m standing.” She said firmly even if her voice felt empty, her shield remained true, but Kojiro Adachi will held nothing back.

  “?Break, break, break!” He had never wished to break something so strongly before, his fists were aching and his body screamed in pain and yet he showed another smile. He could only wonder if he could finally see his own limits.

  Kojiro Adachi had never tried so hard in his entire life and here and now with both fist at once he punched the center of the shield and made the ground beneath her break. The chains that had locked her into pce snapped and she lost her ground, his fist sent her along with the shield flying forward, but the shield itself didn′t break.

  Kojiro smiled and was about to follow her remains when the earth shacked and something crashed straight into his side.

  “Ugh..seriously!” He screamed from how crazy his situation was. A gigantic red tail bigger than he was crashed to his side with far more strength than that of a truck, and the giant found himself being thrown through the air and nding on his knees a huge distance from the swipe. He grabbed the right side of his abdomen where he took the blunt strike to feel it swollen; his insides had been terrible damaged by a tail.

  Kojiro raise to his feet upon the shadow of the oldest of tyrant a creature he only knew from pictures and fiction. A huge ancient dinosaur of red scales and crown of white horns upon his head, his long tail fpping behind him, but it was not the same creature he knew, his proportions looked distorted as each of limbs had a different form, one a long cw covered in thick gray scales and one a sharp long red cw, his footing as well was strange his legs were raised more like a raptor, but somehow those small legs kept his weight with ease, it was a chimera, a beast imagined and given shape by a man′s obsessions; a living weapon that could exist only to kill.

  “I won′t even ask.” Kojiro spitted blood as he growled at the ridiculous sight.

  Kojiro leaped reaching through the air towards the beast′s maw and as he did the horns on its head grew into spikes and were bsted forward. Kojiro broke them apart with his fist and reached its head giving a jab that made the monster recoil with his head raising into the air, but from below his long tail reached Kojiro and spped him amidst midair making the two of them separate, the tails movement was strange resembling a snake as the beast made it stretch forward. Kojiro grabbed it with both hands trying to bear its strength, but his body was forced back, his feet breaking the ground as he tried to keep his stand.

  “?This world is really vast, to think I could ever see such a thing HahaHahaha!” Kojiro stopped the tail and jumped on top of it rushing above it and finally leapt again towards his head.

  The beast saw him and moved his cw towards him with great speed, his was not the cw of a tyrannosaurus it was far too big and with much more reach, and like a fist, a gigantic grey armored first that went straight for him. Kojiro punched back against it and shattered his armored scales, but the force still threw him back as he nded again on the soil and jumped back evading another swipe from the tail.

  “?It even punches? ?Dino-kun wasn′t it? Sorry, but I can′t py with you any longer.”

  The beast rampaged trampling down the street as it aimed his teeth towards him, Kojiro tense his body the veins in his muscles popping as he leaped breaking the ground where he stood with the sheer force of his jump and like a speeding bullet he reached the monsters maw again and hit him straight in the head making the tyrant fall back, Dino lost its standing and had to pull back, trying to regain his bance, on the ground a tooth fell from its mouth breaking a car with its weight.

  Dino stopped moving now keeping his distance with caution.

  “That′s enough, you already gave me more than enough time to prepare, so don′t be reckless anymore Dino.”

  Helga Wright appeared at the top of Dino′s head, a bck cloud swirling around her arm. “Sometimes a good attack is the only defense so I will have to bet my life on this fist.” Her only arm began to grow again turning once more into a gigantic fist with a long piston upon its back, she arranged herself in position on top of the beast, the two of them were far away, but Kojiro could tell they pnned to rush him together so she could strike him from above or let the beast trample him.

  “You know, for a mere toy you truly are strong, you both are the first ones to force me to use all of my strength…to give it my all, feels scary really.” Kojiro put one of his legs behind him taking a fighting stance for the first time, his muscles bulging as the vein on it appeared even more. “Let’s see how far this body can go.” Kojiros voice grew horse as he looked at the monstrosity in front of him and the gray skies above with blood upon his lips.

  “I grew tired of this as well, so let′s just end it…my sister is waiting, after all” he muttered quietly to himself.

  The air tensed as he clenched his teeth and prepared to send a punch with all the strength that body of his could muster, she was betting all as well closing in on him from a top of her giant steed, looking at him with a serious expression, a determine one that seemed strange on her, there in that moment, time seemed to crawl to a halt as they both felt that their unbreakable selves could truly end.

  “?BREAKKKKKKKKKKKKK!” Kojiros st scream broke through the air like his friend′s sonic scream and the whole of the street shaked.

  The ground under his feet broke from the sheer weight he put upon his back foot, cracking the ground in every direction and the air around him followed his fist with such a force that it became a rising storm, he screamed without moving his pce simply throwing his fist into the air, he released a torrent of wind forward that made even then giant tyrant be forced back and every building that remained colpsed as if an invisible explosion have blown over them.

  “?Damn it!” The woman above him jumped forward, her arm turning from the colossal fist and into a gigantic bck shield, she fell with it aiming forward just in front of Dino as the pressure of the wind crashed against her, the shield center cracking like and egg and the gigantic beast was send flying from behind her, they both disappear within a storm, a current that dragged them away.

  “Break, break…” Kojiro breathed heavily, feeling his body gone horrible cold. His step grew weak and his mind slipping from him, but he forced his legs to stand as he stared at something bright above him “What is…” He had to get his eyes use to it, that something that shined brightly above him. What he saw was a long clear skies and within it, the sun staring at his in a red light, it was so bright it hurt to see it, but he couldn′t take his eyes from it, the punch he threw forward send such a strong wind the grey skies above had parted into a hole and let the sundown fall gently upon him.

  “?How long has it been, since I st saw it?”

  Kojiro heard the sound of a lock closing and felt a weight upon the arm he had raised.

  “?What?”

  The remnants of a man cling to his arm as he pce a handcuff of bck steel upon his wrist, the figure a wretched form that barely resembled a man, with most of his limb covered in red scales and half his face twisted into a reptiles while the other half remained human. Kojiro swiped with his arm and threw him away in a modest gesture that unleashed great violence. His form flew and crashed among the rubble of the streets that had been turned into an utter ruin.

  Kojiro took a long breath, but felt his hands being forced to move against his will as his wrist crashed against his other arms both handcuff connecting to each other with a force he couldn′t stop.

  “It’s not coming out…”He tried to separate his arms to no avail.

  “Of course they won′t they have been magnetized, strength alone would never break them apart.” Helga Wright walked through the rubble, her body shattered, she had no arms and a half of her chest was gone, with every step another part of her crumbled till her knee broke forcing her down upon her st knee. Her face cold and free of expression, the side of it that was nothing but machinery crumbled, the yellow light visor upon her eye began to shut off.

  “You broke through my shield you′ve proved me a failure again; at least you can be proud of that.” She spoke trying to keep her body function at the minimum, she was in no condition to fight any more, a broken doll with her insides revealed.

  “So the two of you never intended to win since the beginning…arrg.” Kojiro groaned as he fell to his knees feeling something piercing his wrists all the way to the bone.

  “There is no beating you Kojiro, even if the empire will not admit it I don′t mind doing it. Those handcuffs will pierce your skin with the drills inside it and inject you with a poison that would kill a thousand men… It at least should put you to sleep for a day.

  “?So I don′t get to choose how I die? Kojiro stared at his hands as he felt his senses being strip away

  “No, you′ll never get to choose anything ever again, just like the rest of us.” She looked down as the huge man on his knees simple smiled. “Just you try…” As he spoke, his voice when silent and he remained in pce, never falling staying simply unconscious upon his knees. Helga forced herself to stand, her leg a simple trinket, under her now ravaged uniform.

  “?Dino are you alive?”

  “Kinda...” He screamed from underneath the rubble.

  “Good enough, thanks at the end I wouldn′t have stood a chance on my own.” She answered unconcerned without coming closer to him. “?Yeah! But you shouldn′t have shielded me like that, It was dumb.”

  “If you had died I would have lost for sure that′s all there is to it, so don′t overthink it.”

  She walked away giving her back to the rubble where he fell. “You need leave now so I can pretend I never saw you. Don′t worry I won′t look at you, I know you don′t like it when you have such a form” She spoke almost to herself simply hoping he would hear him, but her eye stared down with a bitter sadness. “Just promise me you won′t do anything to reckless, please all I ask of you is that you won’t force me to kill you one day; Only promise me that, for old time sake.” As she spoke a figure ran incredible fast behind her and disappear among the smoke and dust. She waited a moment more in silence and finally colpsed on the ground with both of her legs broken she feel and remained there upon the ground without saying a single word more.

  Dino held himself standing in a faraway alley, his skin red and his body a terrible fusion of many things, that fast transformation had damage him from the outside and to his very core and he could only hope his body would return itself back to normal, but that was just his hope. None the less his mind was somepce else

  “?I did all that you ask me, so please come back alright Irvin, I don′t want lose you again…not for nay dumb pn…!” Dino colpsed against the wall, staring ahead as his huge teeth opened with rage. “? I won′t forgive you again if you die for real!”