The Great

Geon Leventen: He flicked his finger out into the air and a shockwave of air went straight into my body. The shockwave hit my chest so hard that I felt my entire rib cage shatter. I felt blood pour out of my eardrums as the sound of the blast literally exploded my ears. The very ground tore up at my feet as a ravine—so deep that it created a giant chasm in the earth—was formed in the wake of the blast. My body rammed through trees, mountainsides, boulders, and hills until I finally slammed into the inner parts of a deep cave. I crashed into the stone wall with a giant thud as the earth seemed to rumble in the wake of my impact.

Earthquake-like roars echoed around me as blood poured out of my mouth. Maybe I don’t got this… I heard a giant sonic boom blast out in the distance as Teras floated above me–his eyes flashing red and his smile piercing eerily into my soul. My breathing quickened, sweat started to roll down my face, my blood went cold, and my head went numb. He licked his lips, “What’s wrong Geon Leventen? Where’s all the hype?” He lifted up his fist and struck down with impossible power. The blast of air created from his strike screeched across the night as a shockwave of death bore its way towards my body. Come on you fucker, let’s play. My body blasted up off of the ground and I barreled towards the shockwave. I soared into the sky and primed my fist as a giant explosion propelled me forward at the speed of sound. I steeled my nerves and stared at Tears with pure hatred in my eyes, “FUCKING DIE,” I threw all of my weight into one, single strike as my fist collided with Tera’s attack. An impossibly loud sonic-bang ripped through the night as trees, boulders, and entire hillsides were tossed around like wads of paper. Teras dawned a crazy smile as my momentum carried me forwards into a mid-air front flip. I spun back around and threw a hyper-speed left hook. Teras laughed, “You’re a little far away to be–” an arm and a fist the size of a mountain range, made with boulders, trees, mountainsides, and hills slammed into Teras. He was swatted away like a tiny fly as I held out my right arm and called towards the Earth. A rumble which seemed to shake the planet to its core reverberated around the dark, empty forest as another giant earthen arm shot out of the forest floor. I slammed both of my fists down as hard as I could and the giant earthen arms did the same. An earthquake-like roar echoed out throughout the world as hundreds of thousands of trees and other natural debris flew into the air like tiny dust particles. I opened my eyes and soared through the falling rocks, trees, and patches of soil. I looked up towards the sky and blasted my way into the empty expanse far above the Earth–slipping, rolling, flipping, and flying all through hundreds of pieces of debris. The sky cleared and I held up my hands. The giant earthen arms mirrored my movements and I closed my eyes in concentration.

All of the debris, all of the tiny pieces of forest, I need to sense them. The elements inside the earth, the soil, the rocks, the trees, I need their help. Come to me…. The falling earthen debris all zoomed towards the center of my upheld, Earthen hands, and started to form a giant meteor the size of a city. It grew, and grew, and grew and I peeled my eyes in order to keep track of Teras. He was gone but I could sense something–something powerful–lurking on the forest floor. He was super sneaky and impossible to track with the human eye–it was hopeless trying to hit him with a precise attack. So if hitting the target was impossible, I just had to hit everything and hope to hit my target in the process…… I held up my giant meteor in my cosmic hands as I opened my eyes in concentration, “Dodge this motherfucker,” I hurled the meteor forward into the forest floor. My body recoiled back from the force of the throw as I flipped backwards into the air. The meteor crashed into the surface of the earth at blinding speeds as cracks, ravines, and new caverns so deep that pits of darkness were found inside them were formed. The shockwave created by the impact of the meteor forced me back even more as I tried my best to redirect the winds in my favor. I shifted my weight to the left and held out my arms so that the winds from the shockwave pushed me towards the action. I stopped myself above the impact of the meteor as I surveyed the chaos and destruction. I could see our camp which seemed to be going crazy over our ensuing fight. Hundreds of lamp lights were lit and I could see crowds of people standing around–trying to assess the situation. He was Teras–the one who had killed a noble, the greatest butcher ever–but I just threw a fucking meteor at him….. I lowered myself towards the broken and destroyed Earth as everything had gone silent. No birds chirping, no cicadas humming, no crickets crying out into the darkness…. There was nothing left–no person and or thing to cry out to me. I took a step forward towards the site of the meteor impact and felt my heart drop. Teras stood still–completely fine–at the center of the meteor crash. He kicked a pebble into a deep, dark chasm in the ground and stared into my soul. He smiled, licked his lips again, and took his hands out of his pockets. I tried to find my words, “you–you–how…How the fuck…how…I just threw a meteor at you….I hit you with a mountain and a fist the size of a city–so how…” He let out a small laugh.

“Listen, I get that you're tough, but this is the big-boy leagues now. You can’t hit me with that weak-ass-shit.” He lifted up his leg and took a step. His foot barely touched the ground and suddenly, he flashed out of existence. My entire existence, my being, everything inside me that wanted to live told me to duck–so I did. Teras appeared in front of me and tried to spear my head with his bare hands. I barely dodged his strike as a gash appeared across my face. I flipped back and tried to hit him with a kick on the chin but he dodged it. I laced my arms with metal and swept my leg around as giant metal spikes shot out of the ground in a circle around me. Teras blasted through the metal–making it literally disintegrate–and threw a strong right cross. I held up my metal encased hands and blocked the strike. I can lean off, slip left, and counter with a hook or a cross. I can take to the air, or I can hit him with a large-area attack–he’s super close after all–

The strike went right through the metal, right through my arms, and went right through my chest. Blood soaked my shirt and all over Teras’s arms as a sickening squelch rang out into the night. His eyes widened with malice as he pulled his arm out of my chest and hit me with a blazing fast uppercut. Everything went dark for a second as I felt my body fly through the air. Teras leapt up after me and smashed me down back to the ground with both of his arms. A resounding crash reverberated throughout the night as a massive crater was formed beneath my body. I felt my ribs crack, blood erupted out of my mouth, and my head slammed into the hard ground. My eyes blacked out for a second before Teras appeared on top of me with blood-red eyes. I shot out my hands as a massive wall of fire erupted all around us and I let myself sink deep into the earth–like some massive man-mole. I closed my eyes and started to burrow deeper and deeper and deeper as the cold soil brushed up against my skin. I looked up and steeled my nerves as I concentrated hard. I shot out of the ground at lightning speeds as the very earth tore up at my feet. Teras turned towards me and jumped up into the air–entering striking distance almost immediately. I blasted towards him and he shot out his hands in order to latch onto my body. I flipped over him and positioned myself right above his entire body–looking over him with a bird’s eye view. He looked up towards me with another malicious smile, “You’re pretty hard to catch,” I concentrated all of my physical power, willpower, all of my skill, training, and will-to-kill into the palms of my hands as two massive plates of uranium latched onto my hands like huge, square gloves,

“Don’t ever, put a hole in my chest again,” I smashed my hands together as hard as I physically could and the sun suddenly appeared in front of me. Teras smiled before the entire world seemed to perish in my sight. The intense heat seared my skin and the pain overtook every single corner of my body. It was almost like I had just flown directly into the sun as my eyes started to burn away. Entire mountains were vaporized in the ensuing blast as a ball of heat and fire destroyed nearly everything that it touched. A giant sonic boom and a shockwave echoed out through the air as everything seemed to either blow away or vaporize into a million pieces. I finally felt myself land with a massive thud as the intense heat from the blast penetrated my skin. Huge fires raged around me and the crater I had created was so deep that it felt like I was sitting at the bottom of an ocean. I tried to breathe but I couldn’t, my arms were seared, one of my eyes were missing, my entire shirt was gone, one of my legs was burnt to a crisp, and the flesh on my chest and face just weren’t there. I gasped as pitiful little choking sounds reverberated out into the air. I looked up as Teras slid down the side of the crater and came to a halt before me. His hair was a little messed up, his shirt was a little burnt, and his pants were a little ripped. But he was fine–he didn’t have a scratch on him. Anger flooded my heart, rage seeped into the very fibers of my being, and I forced my body to move. In a flash I appeared behind Teras and he whipped around just as quick. He sliced my neck with his hands and I ducked it–immediatly pushing off of the ground with two hands and kicking up at his torso. He blocked the kick but the power had shot him backwards. He slid backwards as his feet tore up the earth and I ran after him. I flashed in front of him and threw a massive overhand right. He slipped it and threw a counter left hook which I ducked under and countered with an uppercut. He blocked the punch and threw a cross which I slipped and I went for a body shot but he blocked that too. I flew into a torrent of kicks, punches, and strikes but his hands flew towards them like magic–blocking and parrying all of my attacks.

It was almost like he was taking the power out of them. It was like I was punching him in my dreams–I wasn’t fast enough, my strikes had no power, and my body didn’t move like it was supposed to. I threw a high kick which he blocked and I jumped up and went for a back kick–all while I was in the air. He grabbed my foot and swung me around as he picked me up and prepared to slam me into the ground. A white-hot flame erupted on my leg and he was forced to let me go. I dropped to the ground and a massive metal spike shot out towards Teras’s chest. The spike hit his body but it shattered upon impact. It didn’t matter–I wasn’t trying to hit him with it. Deep, dark smoke billowed out of my hands as the visibility around us was reduced to zero. I could sense him lurking and preparing to strike. I listened, and listened, and listened until I heard the scrape of his shoes on the hard soil. I summoned a figure–roughly the shape and size of my own body–behind Teras out of the ground. He turned around and hit it with a series of slashing attacks so deadly that my earth clone shattered into thousands of pieces within seconds. I blasted out of the clearing and charged towards Teras. His red glowing eyes widened slightly as he threw a right-hand-bomb at my face. I leaned out of the way and added a giant blast to my uppercut as my right hand connected with his chin. He flew into the air and landed back on the ground–his face filled with surprise and shock. Now’s my chance.

I tried to move but I fell onto one knee. The massive hole in my chest dripped blood onto the soil as my vision began to go dark. I stood up and forced myself to walk towards him…But I couldn’t move…. He looked at me with a mix of curiosity and wonder but after a while his face began to change. His mouth widened into a smile, then he began to laugh, he laughed louder, and louder, and louder until his voice boomed out throughout what seemed like the entire world. He put his hands behind his head and spoke, “You–you’re that brat. No wonder you looked so familiar. You have his eyes, hair, and face, man. You even get that little look in your eyes whenever you’re fighting. You’re about a hundred times stronger than him though….I can’t believe it…” I looked at him with confusion,

‘Who are you…what are you talking about?” He slowly walked towards me as he spoke,

“Your father. He was a butcher–his name was Ryo Leventen and he was a pretty solid fucker. He got the job done and was number one for a while. He picked his fights wisely and managed to never piss off any of the wrong people. But we both took a job one day–to kill this slimy politician in Bondas. The bounty on his head was enough to set a family up for generations and so naturally we fought each other for the right to the bounty,” my eyes–or the one I had left–went wide.

“You did it–you’re the butcher that killed him.” He let out a long, crazy laugh,

“I was only thirteen at the time, did you know that? I got my target–became set for life. But I wanted more. Don’t you love the feeling of cold, hard, cash? I don’t know about you but there’s nothing like the feeling of making money.” He barreled towards me and punched a hole through my heart. Blood poured out of my mouth as I dropped down to my knees–I grabbed his arm to try and stand up but I couldn’t. He looked at me with his cold, red eyes, “A lot of very rich people paid me a lot of money to kill you. I guess they didn’t want to see what you would become once you grew up.” He pulled his hands out and I dropped to the floor. He looked up at a crow perched on a flaming boulder. The crow had pure-white eyes and seemed to be scanning both me and Teras. Teras turned towards the crow and spoke, “good enough? I did my part…Thanks for the cash.” He knelt down and smiled, “See you buddy. Like father, like son.” He flashed out of existence and I felt my eyes start to close. I saw a very bright light appear in front of my eyes as a dark tunnel seemed to be trying to lead me towards the light. So the rumors were right….you do see a bright light before you die… I reached out towards it and felt something soft. It was smooth, comforting, and felt nice in my hands. It felt really familiar….The light started to fade away as Lila’s face suddenly faded into vision. It was Lila, she had tears in her eyes and seemed to be screaming something at me. I didn’t know what…I think my eardrums were officially gone….. I let go of her face as another person landed next to Lila. They shouted towards each other for a little bit as Lila suddenly picked me up and dashed towards camp. My head felt like mush, my body began to crash, and I blacked out into unconsciousness.