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Man, Machines and Magics
Chapter 1: Bawl the Animal

Chapter 1: Bawl the Animal

A boy who looks 16 is sitting on a giant branch, an enormous lake below him, he has black spikey hair that spikes downward and has two long strands in front of his ears that hang further down the rest of his hair and a large ahoge that curves, yellow eyes, and a muscular build, He wears a simple white oversized t-shirt, baggy black pants with an orange sash around his waist, foot sleeve copper joint compression socks and sandals, he looks around it before seeing the shape of a scorpion under the water.

He pushes himself into the water by going under the branch and then propelling himself towards the water towards the underwater beast.

A few moments pass before the giant scorpion comes out from under the water, the boy squeezing at its neck tightly, the monster continues to struggle and continuously goes in the water and out before running onto land and jumping on its back in an attempt to get the boy off of him, the boy lets go and lands on his feet.

The monster gets up and rushes at him with its claws and tail, intending to kill him, however the boy still remaining calm with a nonchalant expression prepares himself the monster tries to use its claw to kill him, however, the boy places his fist on his palm, before striking the claw once, destroying that claw instantly, the monster bleeds from the attack and tries back up, however, the boy jumps in the air and falling towards it, once again puts his fist on his palm before punching the monster and killing it in one blow.

It switches to the boy now having some of the monster pieces over a fireplace that he intends to light up and using some branches and leaves to create a tent, he walks to the man-made fireplace and crouches in front of it, he starts rubbing his hands together, creating a lot of friction and it starts heating up and soon enough, in a instance of a little spark, he blows at it, causes a large amount of fire to release and light the fireplace, cooking the food.

It cuts to him eating some of the cooked flesh while also having more still being cooked. It cuts to 3 men who appear mad and are storming to the same lake the boy is at.

“WHO DARES KILL MY TAMED BEAST, I WORKED SO HARD TO TAME, I SWEAR I'M GONNA-.” the man says, who appears bald and wearing a robe.

“Sir, calm down. We’ll bring this man to justice,” one of his subordinates, who has a horrendous cut, says.

“Yeah. We’ll make sure he learns his lesson.” another man says who has a mohawk.

“Yeah, yeah, I should calm down.”

The 3 men continue walking and it reaches nighttime. The men finally reach the lake and see the fire in the distance as well as the skeleton of a giant monster.

“No way, this person, ATE MY MOTHERFUCKING MONSTER!”

He looks towards the person but before engaging with him, he sees him doing something and before he knows it, he sees that the boy...is pumping iron extremely fast, doing push-ups, sit-ups and running in circles, all while in a different attire of a gray skin-tight t-shirt with short, foot sleeve copper joint compression socks and white sneakers.

The 3 look in shock and worry. “We can forgive and forget right?”

“NO, GET HIM!”

The lackeys, although worried, decide to charge in, the mohawk man summons these large needles into his hands and jumps towards the boy, the boy picks up his weight, unaware of the mohawk man charging him from behind.

The mohawk man hits him, however the needles break upon touching the boy's skin.

“...huh.”

The boy turns his head quickly, looking straight into the man’s eyes, the man is now afraid. The boy grabs the barbell he was using and swings it at the man, breaking the Mohawk man’s arm and sending him flying into the ocean, the guy with a horrendous haircut stare for a good chunk of time, contemplating his life choices before the bald man pushes him, “Get to it!”

The man is still hesitant, but the man gives in and summons a gold lighting ball of lighting.

“This ball of energy is so strong that I was able to defeat a dragon and that’s rare, he may have beaten that other guy, but he isn’t beating me!”

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The man thinks to himself while charging up his ball, he shoots it at the boy who just stands there, dropping the barbell and then saying, “Rock”, grabbing the ball with his bare hands.

“W-WWWWHHHHHAAAAAT! THAT’S NOT POSSIBLE!” He says, shooting more balls, however, the boy decides to drop the one he caught, says, “Paper”, then slaps the other one away with ease.

The man tries one last ball, this time, it's much bigger but he doesn’t get the chance to throw it since the boy goes on top of the ball which is on top of him.

“Scissors.” He puts his fingers in a scissors gesture and chops the ball in half.

“That’s bullshit, that’s just bullshit, he’s pulling things out of his ass.”

The boy falls towards the man, declares rock, then punches him in the face, knocking him out.

The bald man watches all this, now afraid but still determined to avenge his pet, he summons 3 more giant monsters such as a squid, rabbit, and wolf.

“Incapacitate the boy!”

The monsters roar and charge at him, intent on killing him but the boy gets into a fighting stance and effortlessly beats the monsters, biting all the squid tentacles, grabbing the rabbit's ears and swinging it around, making it dizzy and slapping the wolf into submission.

The man doesn’t give up, for...whatever reason, and summons a giant hammer that manifests from absorbing the mana from his monsters.

“YOU SHOULD FEEL HONORED THAT I, BRANAL AZZHOLE, WILL USE THIS TO DEFEAT YOU!” The giant hammer fully manifests, and he swings it down on the boy, the boy seems uninterested in this display of power and just dodges it, the man is confused and looks around for him, the boy appears behind him, grabs his head, and pushes him down into the ground, feet first and only his head remains out the dirt.

“H-how, this makes no sense who are you and what are your skills?”

The boy thinks to himself for a while, thinking of the bald man's name and tweaking it a little, “B-Bawl, Bawl.”

“Bawl, Bawl what?” The boy looks at him confused by what he means.

“Just who is this kid, he’s acting as if he’s a toddler.”

The boy just stares at him before he is restrained by chains and tied up.

A group of people enters the scene, riding platforms held together by glowing propellers, seemingly controlled by one mage in a white cloak and a mask. All the men land and walk towards Bawl, he breaks free, but the chains just retrain him again. This annoys him, which is very noticeable in his expression.

“Branal, appear in court tomorrow.”

They take Bawl and leave the scene.

The man just remains there, still in the ground, “Not even some help.”

It changes to Bawl who is now in a cell and curled up into a ball.

“Hey bud, what did you do to get in here?” Bawl just stares at him before shrugging his shoulders.

“Not much of a talker huh, that’s fine, you’ll be judged tomorrow to see if you are guilty or not, I hope you are innocent, you’re too young to be in here.”

The man falls asleep, and Bawl does as well.

Bawl sleeps soundly throughout the rest of the night and dreams of swimming in an infinite pool of chocolate wafer cookies.

He is awoken by the sound of his jail cell opening and is once again restrained by the chains, they pick him up and bring him to a room filled with different people, standing against a man who is seemingly the king, to others, he is attractive, but to Bawl he looks like a regular person.

They restrain his feet to the courtroom stand and place a plain cookie in front of him.

“Eat it.” As the man says this, he notices the cookie is not in his hand anymore and sees that somehow, the boy took the cookie from him and is already eating it. The man walks away and stands to the side.

The King sits up straight and declares, “Court is now, IN SESSION!”

A woman walks up to Bawl with paper and sets them down, “Do you know why you are here?”

Bawl just shakes his head, “Really, you’re that ignorant?” Bawl says, “I don’t know.”

“Well, you attacked a higher-up of a guild when you were in the wrong and you refused to accept the punishment you deserved.”

“Hmm, they attack me first, wrong to defend?”

The woman just looks at him in confusion before responding, “Yes it was, you were in the wrong and therefore you have to accept punishment for your wrongdoings, you wouldn’t be here if you accepted the physical punishment, now you may have to face far worse consequences.”

Bawl just nods at this information.

“Branal, step up to the witness stand.” Branal appears at the witness stand, having teleported to it.

The woman walks towards Branal. “Tell me, what did he do last night?”

“That brat ate the monster I tamed, beat up my 2 men, then beat up other tamed monsters, and finally, shoved me into the dirt! He's awful!”

”I see, thank you, your other men couldn’t testify due to their injuries, but their physical injuries are more than enough proof.”

“With all this evidence, we declare, TRIAL BY COMBAT!”

The entire room remains silent, the king stands up and stares down, “Approved.”

Everyone claps, Bawl still confused at what’s going on, decides to clap along. 

“In three hours, your real trial shall begin.”

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