Jack: "I think we are far enough",

He says to Lenny.

Jack and Lenny stop running, Henry quickly catches up to them. Now all three are in a deserted alley.

Henry: "Next time warn me alright?"

Jack: "There will be no next time, from here our path's part"

Henry is shocked,

Henry: "WHAT? WHY! The officers already seen me with you there is no point in

seperating"

Henry thought he finally found his first friends on his adventure. He surely did not expect loosing them this early already.

Jack: "Yeah but you would only drag us down"

Henry becomes angry,

Henry: "I-"

Lenny interrupts,

Lenny: "I don't think he will drag us down big bro, in-fact I think he would be of great help"

Jack: "Shut up Lenny, you are the reason we are in this mess anyways"

Henry: "That's right, but i mean, thanks to the explosion, the officers will leave us alone for now, I think"

Jack: "You're right"

???: "It was a masterpiece, right?"

An evil voice echoes from the sewer, right next to them.

Slowly, mud rises up the sewer until it is big enough to form itself into a man. It's the evil man, standing in-front of them.

Evil man: "It really was a masterpiece!",

He says with his evil smirking face.

Henry: "Who are you"

Evil man: "Oh sorry I forgot to introduce myself, names Balte"

Jack: "Alright baltee, what do you want"

Balte: "The kid there has something I want, give him to me",

Balte points at Lenny.

Jack: "Nope can't do"

He responses in his cool-guy tone.

Balte: "Thought so".

Balte smirks and turns his right hand into a wrecking ball, connecting the ball to his arm with a chain, formed by mud, flinging it into Lennys direction. Henry jumps infront of Lenny, trying to block the attack but Jack jumps infront both of them, blocking the attack.

Balte smirks and laughs, but then stares confused, seeing Jack who didn't took any

damage by his attack, blocking his wrecking ball with his arm. He stares at Jacks right arm which is wrapped in black reptilian like scales, basically, his hand all the way to his shoulder gained the appearance of that of a dragon.

Balte: "I never thought I would meet someone like you here of all places"

Jack: "What, scared of what you are seeing?"

Balte: "Can't say that im totally happy, fighting someone with a dragon-beast"

Henry, who stands behind Jack looks at him excited,

Henry: "WOW JACK, YOU HAVE A BEAST?"

Jack: "I thought you would be more shocked"

Pointing out the fact that he thought, someone seeing something that bizarre would be seemingly more shocked.

Henry: "WATCH OUT"

He shouts before pushing Jack to the side, trying to block the wrecking ball that flew from up.

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Jack, Balte and Lenny look in shock when they see Henry successfully blocking and tanking the attack without taking any damage.

Normally, a person would die or seemingly take more damage, but Henry didn't get a

scratch or seem bothered by that sudden attack.

As it seems, the only thing that took damage by that attack is the ground that cracked under Henry's feet.

Balte: "Impossible"

Lenny: "W-WHAT"

Jack: "But how, I can't sense you using soul energy"

Henry tosses the wrecking ball away, leading to it turning back into mud. He then rushes at Balte, punching him in his face.

Henry: "W-What?"

Henry is shocked after noticing that the spot where he landed his punch, had turned into mud.

He was sure he landed it, but it felt like punching into a puddle of liquid mud.

Balte didn't even flinch by that punch, basically taking no damage.

Balte smirks again,

Balte: "What's the matter, shocked by my Awakening?"

He says mockingly,

Henry: "Not really, but it seems you didn't took any damage".

Balte turns his left hand into a hammer, swinging it into Henry's direction, slamming Henry into the wall to his right, leaving him stuck in a completely cracked wall.

Balte: "That's the effect of my ability, my mud Awakening, means if your weak, I won't take damage"

Jack jumps at Balte with his arm wrapped in dragonscales,

Jack: "Take that!"

Balte swings his hammer-arm into Jacks direction, leading into a clash with Jacks in dragonscales covered fist, leaving a loud sound and shockwave.

Jack then turns his mouth into that of Dragon. He then opens his mouth and lets out a very loud roar, a roar similar to that of a dragon. While roaring, he unleashes purple lightning from his mouth, launching it towards Balte.

Balte:

"Uh-Oh"

He says, before turning his right arm into a mud shield, trying to block the purple lightning.

The purple lightning pierces threw the shield and hits Balte in his chest area, burning his chest and launching him around two feet away.

The Alley is now hulled in smoke, Henry opens his eyes after getting slammed into the

wall.

Still in the wall, he is unable to see anything because of the thick smoke.

Henry: "Jack? Lenny? where are you?"

He shouts into the alley, hoping to atleast receiving a sign.

Jack: "ARGHH"

Jack shouts in pain,

Henry: "JACK!!"

Henry is slowly able to see threw the smoke. In the middle of the alley, Jack is risen up over the ground with his upper body fully covered in mud by Balte who turned both his arms into mud, letting it look like a child holding up his plush toy.

Balte smirks and laughs, while his entire chest area all the way up to his chin is completely burned and crusted by Jacks purple lightning attack.

Balte: "How you like that?"

He says while smirking and laughing, crushing Jacks upper body under his mud. Releasing uncomfortable sounds of bones cracking and bursting out of Jacks body.

Jack: "AARGH"

He screams in pain.

Henry: "I have to do something",

He says before charging from the cracked wall at Balte in high speed and launching a sucker punch to the side of his head. Balte takes no damage by again passively turning the part where Henry hits him into mud.

Balte: "I told you already, you are too weak to damage me"

Balte tosses Jack away from him. He then attacks Henry by turning his arms into mud whips.

Henry jumps over the first whip attack but gets hit by the second one. Henry stands his

ground, cracking the ground again and holding onto the mud whip but then gets

slammed onto another wall.

Balte: "You just had to give me the boy"

He says with a mockingly tone.

Lenny approaches Balte from behind, trying to throw punches at his back but while Lenny

punches him, his hands get stuck in Balte's back, after he turned it into mud and then hardening it.

Lennys hands then gets sucked further into Balte's body.

Balte: "There you are"

He says to Lenny again in his mockingly tone.

He then turns his whole body into mud while keeping his human form. Then puts his hand

inside his stomach to grab Lennys hand, letting it look like as if he searches for something inside of his body and then pulls Lenny through his body from behind him to the front.

Balte: "Alright boy, wheres the stone"

Lenny shivers in fear, thinking he is the only one left, unable to do anything and knowing noone else will come to safe him.

Balte: "Come on now, your friends are already dead, just give me the stone"

He says with his bizarre smirking face.

Henry: "Who says that i'm dead"

Henry says.

Lenny: "HENRY"

Lenny shouts in happiness. Gaining all his hope back.

Henry, who stands infront of Balte, completely covered in dust and dirt, stares Balte with an expression full of anger, turning his hands into fists, looking like as if the veins in his face and fists would pop any second.

Balte: "Boy, stop trying alright?"

Henry: "Let him go"

Balte: "Boy, did you just ignore me?"

Henry: "I said let him GO"

Henry gets more furious and again, charges at Balte at high speed.

Balte: "Here we go again"

He says mockingly and tosses Lenny to the side.

Henry then charges at Balte, throwing a punch. Balte mockingly lets him land the punch.

But Balte did not notice something. Before Henry could even land the punch something in Henry happened, something Balte did not notice until the very last moment, a phenomenon that is very rare, infact it is so rare, that in the history of the Great Empire, it had been only documented once, it is so rare, that you could even build a monopole worth trillions on it if you have any documentation or evidence of that phenomenon.

This very rare phenomenon is called: awaken an Awakening.

This phenomenon happened in that very moment inside of Henry. He awakened his

Awakening while throwing his punch at Balte. Henrys whole arm had been completely wrapped by a bright blue energy while being in the middle of landing his punch on Balte's right cheek, allowing him to not only land his punch successfully, but also launch Balte through the wall next to them and even further through the building and even further through another building and another building, leaving only a trail of holes.

Henry stares at his arm which is still wrapped in that mysterious shiny blue energy, but then turns back into his normal arm.

Fully exhausted from the fight, Henry sits down on the ground. He then wipes of the sweat of his face.

Lenny: "whoa, an Awakening".

He says to Henry before instantly remembering Jack,

Lenny: "BIG BRO"

Lenny runs to Jack who is laying, completely wounded on the ground, Henry quickly follows Lenny.

Henry: "JACK"

Suddenly, smoke appears from Jacks body, healing Jacks wound by letting it look as if his wounds are dissolving and turned into smoke. Similar to water turning into steam after dropping it on a hot pan.

Jack then proceeds to wake up leading to Lenny falling all over Jack,

Lenny: "BIG BROO"

He says while crying and hugging Jack.

Jack: "Im fine Lenny, what happened to that mud guy?"

He asks, confused of the situation they are in.

Lenny: "We won big bro, Henry ended him with a MASSIVE punch with his Awakening, launching him threw BUILDINGS"

Jack: "An Awakening? You? You have one?"

Henry: "Since now"

Lenny: "Ain't that cool?".

Lenny laughs and hug's Jack, being happy of the outcome.

Jack and Henry also start laughing, after winning against this strong enemy. after all, they never lost hope.