V2CH26 Beating Up The Elderly

“What the f*ck happened to you.” Gary asked shocked looking at my roughed-up state.

“An old friend’s father came to town.” I told the teenager.

With a chuckle, “You guys have a disagreement or something?”

***

Two men stared at each other inside a dark hallway both waiting for some sign from the world to start trying to kill one another.

Jessie Cole, for now at least, was a tall slim figure with mismatched eyes and a blond storm raging on his head. The energy vampire took a stark white gun from its holster and shifted it to a spear.

Bulk Brogan was a mountain of muscle with slicked back grey hair and earthen eyes. His armament was a pair of golden knuckles.

As they took each other in, both readied themselves for the upcoming fight.

Jessie’s spear became surrounded by a trio of halos: a sickly green one made of necromantic essence, a black one made of shadows that was near invisible in the dark alley, and a blue one made of water. Next came a new technique he had developed to give him some much needed power. The halos combined into a dark greenish blue one representing the essence combination River Styx. The new halo ranked as tier seven on Jessie’s scale.

Bulk’s weapon meanwhile ignited with orange flames displaying the sea of chi his body contained. Bulk had a mastery of chi nearly unrivaled in the entire history of humanity. He was able to empower everything around himself ranging from forces like gravity and wind resistance to concepts like beauty and ignorance. Not the best example for the concepts I admit, but I think you get the picture.

A car backfired in the distance and with that away they went.

Jessie surged forward with his spear leading the way and watery shadows trailing behind him.

His spear was redirected to the side inches away from Bulk’s throat by a patch of increased air resistance. The only reason Jessie wasn’t rocked by the haymaker Bulk sent in reprisal was the shadows that were wrapped around the offending arm. Shadows made up of River Styx essence were best at weakening, corrupting, and nullifying. And as Bulk soon found out, they stick to whatever they are attached to like gangrene on a bone.

Bulk tried to burn the shadows away by empowering their conceptual death. While it worked, it required all of Bulk’s chi to bring death to such a powerful naturally resistant essence like River Styx with its undeath alignment.

Before Bulk could completely rid himself of the River Styx shadows, Jessie embedded his spear into the alley’s shadows, turning them all into a pseudo-River Styx. This made it so Bulk had to invest all his chi to the task of resisting the new domain. At the same time Jessie lost his primary weapon and had to invest all essence control abilities in his task.

This made it so that the fight was now man to man with no special abilities. Both sides had advantages in such a fight.

Bulk had his knuckles made of a metal that was like acid to Jessie and a combat talent rarely seen. He also had about a foot on his opponent, at least a hundred pounds of muscle, and a significant reach advantage.

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Jessie meanwhile had mastered nearly every way of harming another in this life. While you could maybe make the case that Bulk was the better warrior, Jessie was by far the better killer.

Bulk adopted a boxing stance as his golden knuckles were the only method he had of harming Jessie at the moment.

As Bulk charged and threw a jab at his opponent. Jessie dodged and put his finger through Bulk’s arm at a pressure point. The destruction of that pressure point removed the protection on his arm opening it up to the River Styx. The domain turned his forearm to dust.

Bulk threw another punch through the cloud of dust aimed at Jessie face. That lead to another pressure point being destroyed and that lead to his other arm turning to dust at the bicep.

Bulk tried to continue the fight, but it was already lost.

Eventually Bulk was defeated.

“You have won my boy. I hope you make her proud.” Bulk said from the ground before passing away.

I forgot to mention Jessie’s largest advantage, he still wanted to win. He still wanted to live. He still had to honor his friend’s memory. And the fact of the matter was that Bulk just did not. Bulk had lost his parents as a child to a werewolf. Had lost his wife to cancer. Had lost his only child to bad luck. Had lost his chance of vengeance to time. Had simply lost the will to win.

All of this was simply to see if Jessie could obtain the revenge he sought against the force that took his daughter.

As Jessie was walking away from Bulk’s corpse, he took in his appearance. All his clothes were covered in blood and tears, with the most noticeable being his previously white currently crimson T-shirt. The clothes did do a well enough job covering all his welts and bruises. Excluding the ones on his face of course.

While Jessie probably should throw an illusion around himself, his head was bumping and he had little desire to maintain one long term. Luckily Slaughterville was the kind of place that you can walk around looking like you got in a car accident, and no one will bat an eye.

Next stop the diner as while food did not fulfill my hunger, it did provide some comfort.

***

Breaking from my thoughts, “You could say that, but it’s fine. He’s cooling off with his daughter right now.”

“Well hope all that works out for you. The usual?” He said awkwardly.

“The usual.” I said before resting my pounding head on the diner table.

Being:

Body:

[Nascent Energy Vampire Progenitor]

Soul Tattoos:

[Celestial Weaving]

[Sand: Tier Three]

[Water: Tier Five]

[Faith: Tier One]

[Holy Water: Tier Three]

[Shadow: Tier Five]

[Necromancy: Tier Five]

[Rot: Tier ErRoR]

[Phoenix Fire: Tier Nine]

Special Abilities:

[Empowerment: Tier Nine]

[Emotional Empowerment: Tier One]

[Emotional Manipulation: Tier One]

Current Equipment:

Head:

[The Black Wasp Jackal’s Face]

[Vampire’s Hunger]

Earrings:

[]

Necklace:

[]

Clothes:

[Idle Hands]

Rings:

[The Mentalism Ring]

[Mena’s Book]

[Petrifying Ring]

[Olivia’s Friendship]

[Brash Ring]

Bracelets:

[]

Shoes:

[Comet Kicks]

Armaments:

[Beastly Heart]

[Murder Weapon]

Storage:

[Various Utility Artifacts]

[Various Articles Of Clothing]

[Death Dogtags]

[Leech Muscles]

[Leech Teeth]

[Chimeric Essence]

[Spark Of Emotive Flame]

[Gargoyle Remains]