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Chapter 46 - Fight

"So what might you be doing here, at this exact spot..." the boy stopped for a second "You know, the trail that leads here is quite the convoluted one, you knew you were coming here, to this spot with a great activity of Mana."

"Well young man, anything in this world is possible, and it is also possible that me and my friend have been led here by chance. Anyways who are you to be asking such questions?" Jerry thought that he de-escalated the situation nicely and gave himself a metaphorical pat on the back.

"I am from the Sylon." The boy pointed to the right of himself. He then turned around to his sister and told her to continue working on the examination while he dealt with the two.

[That probably would've been my 3rd guess.] Jerry instantly sent a message to Quast.

[Hmm.. why would they have sent two 14 year olds, by the looks of it, are they really that capable?] Quast already jumped onto the theories.

"Huh." Jerry looked surprised and not surprised at the same time. "Why would they send children here?" he said loud enough for them to hear and looked at his friend next to him.

[What are you planning?] Quast instantly asked.

[To see their powers somehow.] very curious answered Jerry.

"Yeah keep talking." the boy who was the only conversing this entire time said, obviously not caring what the strangers talked about. "Regardless of all the suspicious behavior that you guys have displayed, I am going to need you to get out of the examination site."

[But I really wanna see their powers.] Jerry almost sadly said.

"What are your guys' powers? Since you come from the Sylon you must be strong, I bet." Quast took it into his own hands to really abruptly ask such a question.

"I am going to repeat myself, move away from the examination site." the youngin repeated himself quite unexpectedly.

"Pretty please? I have only seen one ability at school ever since I first heard the news, I wonder how they all look like." Quast lied.

"You wanna see our ability that bad?" the boy spoke, quite annoyed by this point, because of these people who were around 2 years older than him and acting this way, causing his work to be disrupted. After all the twins had a schedule to follow, they couldn't be too late to report back to their higher-ups.

Suddenly a single black wing appeared on the back of his left shoulder, it was faint, but the black wing was shrouded in a red aura. And on the back of the girl's right shoulder appeared a faint white wing shrouded in a yellow aura, it was faint because she had no interest in demonstrating anything, but since their abilities were kind of tied together there was no choice.

[Damn, this is crazy, I never would've imagined seeing something like this a few months ago.] Jerry added.

A single black feather fell in front Quast and on the ground where it fell, a small impact hole found its place there, sending a finger thick pebble up into the general area of his torso at quite the fast pace, although even if it hit it wouldn't hurt him that much.

Jerry quickly put his hand inbetween the trajectory of the pebble and caught it. However the young man turned around and didn't see this transpire.

"Wait a second, is it even legal for you to be working at such a young age?" Jerry asked.

"Wow so considerate of you, now bugger off."

Jerry and Quast didn't want to stretch this, so they turned around.

"Huh they really went away." The boy turned around to see them walking away. "Really weird." But at the end of the day he forgot to report about this to his higher-ups.

"He really showed us his british roots with that 'bugger off'" Jerry assumed "..Man, should kids even have this much power?" he rhetorically questioned his friend.

"Says you, big man. But just imagine if they have such power, and I bet he didn't even use the half of his full power and moves, if they have such powers then what about the adults that get powers?"

Back in the USA, Johnathan, who after quite the short legal process was compensated for his wasted time in money. Yet he had lost his income source by being in prison, so he had to find a new job sometime soon.

His mother apologized many times for doubting her own child, however he didn't care anymore and accepted the apology, just glad to be out of prison and with his parents, who of course let him live with them.

Johnathan promised himself to devote the next few weeks to getting a grasp of his new abilities. No one could've expected what would happen next, since the chances were basically 0. The father won a cruise reward on his weekly scratch ticket, thus him and his wife left to go on a cruise. They left the house to their son while they were gone. He was kind of worried for them, because of the undergoing global situation with Mana and all, but he stopped worrying and knew that they were going to be fine.

While being out for groceries late at night and on his way back he saw a very familiar person standing in front of his house... it was his ex-girlfriend, and a very large man beside her, the man was a head taller than the woman, who was already pretty tall, and the man seemed to be very muscular.

"Oooh." Johnathan looked at them "Very interesting what they might be doing there." through gritted teeth he thought, took his phone out and went to the camera app, turned it to the 'Video' mode to take a video. He put his phone into his jacket's pocket but held onto it, he still had it turned on in his pocket, prepared to take a video. But he wanted to act as neutral as possible.

Of course it would be easier if he could just sneak around them and go into his house, just to avoid any unnecessary drama, but then they would still probably see him, he wanted to take his fury out on someone.

Johnathan started recording the video while the phone was in his pocket, just to get the audio and pretended to not pay attention to them and kept walking up to the front door until they saw him.

"There he is." The woman said, and lightly tapped the guy on his muscular arm with the back side of her hand a few times quickly and pointed towards Johnathan.

"Hey you, Johnathan." The man said with the voice that best fit his body type.

Johnathan let his shopping bag filled with groceries lay near the very short brick wall surrounding his house, on which an array of bushes were planted and trimmed very nicely.

"Do you still recognise me Johnny? That 4 months in jail has to have messed up your memory, only seeing those 4 solid walls." the woman said while standing behind the man. "Aren't you glad I admitted to it being a false accusation?"

Johnathan's face relaxed and he had a dead look in his eyes. These people didn't mean him anything well, opening with that kind of talk. He turned around and put all of his valuables that were in his jacket on the small wall, he also set his phone down in the bushes during that time, so that it still had a view of everything but was still hidden by the foliage, he hoped that he hadn't messed anything up by placing it in there, since his original plan was to record with one hand and fight with the other, but maybe he was overestimating himself was a thought.

"Are you here to fight me?" Johnathan asked the muscular guy loud and clear so that his voice would be recorded.

"No, I am here to beat you up, as per my girlfriend's request." the strong man pointed towards her with her thumb. "And also what did you do while at the bush over there?"

"Left my valuables and my phone there so that nothing would happen to them." Johnathan knew what giving out this information meant, the chance that they were going to take his things.

"Sounds like you don't want anything bad to happen to them." the man said.

Johnathan looked at him and took off his jacket, he himself had also built some muscle while in jail, because everyday for 4 months, due to boredom, he worked out.

He went into the most natural fighting stance for him, his left hand above the right one, and the entire body was relaxed, ready to move him to wherever he desired. And looked at the opponent.

The big guy had a huge smile spread over his face.

Ever since getting out of jail if he concentrated really hard he could feel the Mana of the people around him, so many people had such different intensities and levels of Mana, it was truly incredible. The well built looking man that stood in front of him was on the weaker side of Mana related things, Johnathan deduced.

"Do you really want to fight?" Johnathan asked loud and clearly.

"Huh?" the man wasn't sure if he heard right.

"I'm asking you if you really want to fight." Johnathan repeated himself.

"Are you mocking me?" The enemy shouted, beyond angry, since he came from a background in which he was raised to fight.

"I will end it fast." Johnathan hoped. He went forward and stepped down with all the might he could muster on his left foot, all of his muscles followed suit and tensed up. He clenched his fist as hard as he could out of pure adrenaline fueled anger, he didn't care about anything else for now. The fist turned light blue-ish in a split second, signaling the activation of his Mana imbuing ability, he also didn't forget to activate his other ability, the repulsion one.

The buff man put up a guard, but it was easily broken by the ability, and as soon as he knew it the overwhelmingly large man was on the ground.

This made the one on the ground very happy, that a strong opponent had appeared, it was the fighting spirit taking control.

Imbuing his leg muscles with Mana and his feet with Mana and the repulsion ability Johnathan dashed incredibly swiftly to the opposing force who had just gotten up from the ground, leaving an impact mark on the ground.

One moment Johnathan was there, and the other he was in front of his enemy, was how the woman watching saw it and thought of it.

An immensly quick and strong punch to the jaw rattled the brain of the powerful human male as he fell unconscious.

"Is this the power of Mana against a trained human?" The only one standing thought, but it really wasn't, normal people that had trained a lot through the years, and couldn't use a Mana ability could still take out some users that did, it's just that Johnathan was really powerful himself, but he hadn't fought in so long that he didn't know his true power, even without Mana he would've stood a chance.

The ex-girlfriend screamed and ran to her boyfriend, but he was out cold and couldn't move. "What are you?" she couldn't think of anything else to say because of the shock.

Thankfully the recording on his phone was still on, he stopped it and took his things back from where he placed them and put on the jacket once again, still rethinking everything that had happened.

Johnathan walked back to the man who was just recovering his consciousness. "You seemed like a relatively nice guy, and I can tell you, for your future it is best to leave this woman."

"Are you telling me what to do?" the man smiled a faint smile, but he had no more fighting spirit left in him, he was completely beaten in 2 moves.

"What are you doing? Go fight him again!" the woman shouted at the guy who was laid on the ground.

He pushed her away. "I won't fight again, leave me alone!" the muscular male shouted back.

The ex-girlfriend stood up and gave Johnathan a bad look "You won't get away with your actions." she said.

"Yes I will." the winner held his phone up and put it on the loudest setting.

The recording played :

'Are you here to fight me?' asked by Johnathan.

'No, I am here to beat you up, as per my girlfriend's request.' said by the man.

It went on a little more until he stopped it, and the greatest thing for him was that it was all on recording.

The woman, totally beaten, left quickly, and she would never bother Johnathan ever again.

"Should I call you a taxi? Since it seems she left you alone." Johnathan asked with friendly intentions.

"Nah, no thanks." the man's attitude completely turned around as he stood up. "You're really strong.. I'll make sure to rematch you someday and win."

That certainly took Johnathan by surprise "Sure... I guess."

Back at home Johnathan still couldn't believe everything that happened as he made himself dinner, still recovering from the surge of Adrenaline. Thinking of nothing but Mana the entire night, until he drifted off to sleep.