Chapter 15: Chaos ensues.

White hot fury boils in my heart. Or what's left of it anyways.

My strength begins to triple furiously. Fueled by the death of my most trusted comrade, the power I generate begins to enhance my already perfect abilities.

Within seconds, I develope a new form of magic, a new body, a wide array of melee attacks, and a new personality. The blind rage that enveloped me before dissipates quickly.

I drop to the ground and the force of my impact causes a fissure in the ground below me.

My hair, grown much longer now, falls around my face. I look at my hands. They have both turned into black and maroon colored claws.

My shirt has been ripped to shreds by the force of the energy I generated. My chest and arms are bare. All I see is black. A black so smooth and dark, that my eyes seem to almost roll off my skin.

I stand up and realize I've grown almost another 3 feet. I inspect my arms.

My veins have changed from being invisible under my human skin, to being entirely visible along the black skin of my arms. They change from maroon to a sickly green, to a pinkish purple, and back to maroon.

I cough up a wad of liquid.

My reflection in the liquid shows my hair has turned raven black and grown extremely long.

"What the hell?" I hear Bruce behind me.

I turn and whip my hand into the ground. My arm stretches and my fingers dig in. Spikes shoot up out of the ground and impale Bruce.

He screams in agony as he realizes the spikes are covered in the acid my blood secretes when it collides with open oxygen.

His face goes pale and the color drains from his golden blonde hair.

Maddy screams and slices the spikes jabbing into Bruce. They fall and he with them.

She turns and points her blade at me. I bare my teeth and beckon her forward.

She screams again and flies at me, sword pointed at my throat. She slashes and it hits me in the side of the throat.

I smile at her and take hold of the blade. I pull it from my neck and it begins to sizzle from the acid in my veins.

She rips the dissolving blade from my grip and swings it again at my leg. It hits my kneecap and snaps in half.

She screams in rage again and fabricates a blade of energy in her hand. She swings it at me and I dodge to the left. The blade shoots out a bolt of energy and it tears a hole through the mountain behind us.

I phaze forward and punch Maddy in the gut. She is propelled backward and into a mountain. She smashes through it and bursts out the other side.

All the other girls converge on me, blades swinging, magic blasts whizzing around me.

I easily dodge, parry and weave around most of the attacks. Some of them hit me but just glance off of my adamantium-hard skin.

I drop to the ground to avoid a slash to the neck and slam my fist into the ground. Spikes burst out from the ground around me and impale one girl and fatally wound most of the others.

I laugh maniacally.

"How amusing! Y'all are fucking dead! I'm gonna rip each one of you limb from limb!" I laugh again.

One of the less injured girls flies at me with her katana. I catch her by the throat with one hand and snap her katana in half with the other.

I take the broken blade and thrust is up into her rib, but it stops before it enters her ribcage.

A bright white light catches my attention.

I look towards it and snarl. Bruce and Maddy stand there and they spread their life force over the battlefield.

Everything I'd destroyed, and everyone I'd destroyed begins to heal. The girls lift their weapons and point them at me.

"Wha….When the fuck did you two gain this power? I'm supposed to be unstoppable! Genkeshi, you lied to me!" I roar in rage.

I rocket upward and throw a punch at Bruce. He easily stops it. I snarl in anger and aim a kick at his knee.

My leg connects and I hear a snap. I howl in pain. My kick did nothing to him but broke my shin. I fabricate a sword of energy and swipe at Bruce with lightning fast speed.

He raises his hand and stops the sword dead mid-swing with his little finger. I throw a punch and he smacks my wrist and I hear another sickening crack.

Blood spurts from a large gash across the back of my wrist.

"How the hell are you so strong?! I should be able to easily overpower you!" I roar in rage again.

Suddenly, Bruce phazes behind me and palm thrusts me in the back. I gasp as my spine snaps.

I hurdle downwards and smash into the ground. I raise my bloodstained hand above my face and see the blackness fade from my skin.

I stay the same height and build but my power drains within seconds. I look at my stomach and see a circle with a bunch of runes in it with ink chains twining themselves around my abdomen and up over my chest and down around my arms as well as my legs.

"You bastard, a seal? Of course, I knew you couldn't kill me. But why a seal?" Bruce floats down with Maddy at his side. The other girls gather around us as well.

"We knew for a fact we'd be unable to beat you, so we sealed off some of our own life force so you'd underestimate us. We found out a while ago that our life force could act like a regenerative field when projected out over long distances."

"It's over now John."

I smile and let the blood trickling from my mouth slide down my cheek. I clench my fist.

"No, it'll never be over."

I slam my fist into the ground. I push myself up and sway a little as I gain my balance. I look up at the sky as it starts to rain.

The rain washes the blood from my face and soaks me to the bone.

I look Bruce in the eye.

I phaze in front of him.

His eyes go wide.

And I grab the back of his head and pull forward.

Our foreheads touch and I whisper to him.

"You got me. I'll allow that. But next time, you won't be so lucky."