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Chapter 26 - The Rise Of The Phoenix

'Patter! Patter!', the sound of his foosteps thumpered at a time, step by step, footprints carving through hard layer of the tar. He sauntered towards them, without a voilent flow movement, his foot steps gave arise to an odur of fear. An odur that paralysed them on that particular spot, with their eyes protuding. Their heat beats gained maximum momentum, prompting the heart to vigorously. The likes of Max and Pete started shaking, hands vibrating instantly. A drop of sweat then drizzled down from the forebrown of Pete's forehead while Kuhn Lau clenched a fist and took a deep gulp. Yung Fu only shone a stern glaze, only to mask his fear, where else Indistructro furrowed his eyebrows and his teeth gritted. Ace took a step back and aimed the scythe at him, firmly holding on the bar. Viper's mouth was in awe, in response closed her eyes, inhaling a amount of air and exhaling lightly. "Dear dear me. What is of the matter? Surprised to see me?" Slicer inquired, with each step, the seven positioned themselves in a fight posture, with their fists, hands raised against their ribs. "You shouldn't be!" He continued. "Now that I've exhausted you. Its time that I single handedly knocked you out with just one blow..." They all took a step back and looked at one another, "Rest assured! This will be quick and painless," he said with his head tilting to the side, while a sinister glare carved a hole through them. Ace charged at him with his scythe raised above his head. "Arrhhh!" As soon as he was with close proximity to Slicer he propelled the weapon downward, aiming for his head. Slicer held the wooden part of the scythe, and stabbed him through the gut. The blade peirced through his flesh, it peered out his back. "Ace!" Yelled the seven. Ace widened his mouth and was gobsmacked, Slicer firmly stroke the edges of his long brown hair. He clasped his neck and took out the sword, he shoved it again through his gut, reapetedly shoving the sword in and out several times, as blood sprayed out his wounds. Ace yelped in anguish. Slicer whispered in his ear, "Like I said! Quick and painless." Indistructro grunted heavily, he clenched his fist, while a veins rampanted against his forehead. "You fiend! You will pay for that!!!" He levitated and soared through the air with tremendious speed. Slicer looked up to the heavens and summoned a lightning bolt, the lightning bolt struck him, erupting a massive explosion."Nooo! Indistructro!" Yelled Pete, with his knees falling to the ground. Ther after, he clung his fingers through Kuhn Lau's garments . "Kuhn Lau! We need to do something!!!" A Kuhn Lau looked down at him and stuttered,"....I...I...." Slicer then pulled the blade away from Ace's body, in doing so a spray of blood squirted out with a blast. Slicer then transitioned away from sight and appeared behind them. They all turned turned around; Max raised his hand at him, a colourless orb hovered around his hand. Slicer tried taking another stop but utterly failed, "Do you really think that this will stop me? Fool!" He summoned another lighting bolt, it struck him voilently, while heavily eating through his amor of steel. To make matters worse, the forxe of the lighting bolt began peeling through his garments essentially carving a burn on his flesh. Blood streamed out of his the left side of his lips. Viper also raised her hand at him, summoning vines to coil around him. With the use of his blade sheered his way out of the vines by slicing and dicing them. She gasped while giving him an advantage of transitioninh away from plain sight. He appeared from behind her and shoved the blade through her back. She yelped in anguish, he grabbed the back of her head and shoved her face on the ground. "Viper!!!" Exclaimed Pete, with his hand stretching out to her. A stream of salty liquid content, flowed down bis cheeks. Slicer pulled the sword away from her body, more blood squirted out. "No rest for the weary." Slicer said. Infuriated, Pete clenched his fist and punched the ground numerous times. "Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!" He placed his hands on his head and pulled the very strands of his hair from his sculp, "Arrhhh!" He then looked down and broke down, while doing so he mumbled , "No! No! This is unfair! Why does it have to be me who has to lose everything?! This is unfair!" He rubbed his face and arose to his feet. "If he thinks that he is going to take me down! Then he has another thing coming! I'm taking him to down to hell with me!" He arose to his feet and charged at him. Kuhn Lau called out to him, "Wait Pete Stop! What do you think your doing?!" He ignored him and clenched his fist. Slicer turned around and cluthced his hand around his fist. Pete staggered and gritted his teeth. Then after, he looked up to his adversary and uttered, "Do you really think that this is enough to take me down me down?! Well its not Slicer!!" Slicer then stabbed him through the centre of his chest, his blade peirced through his ribs. Blood oozed from the left side of his lips. He muttered, while both Kuhn Lau and Yung Fu charged at Slicer. Slicer's other limb morphed back into a blade, he swirled it above Pete's head straight at their direction. Evidently the blade repelling air pressure projectile attacks. The projectile attacks repelled them backward, cutting through their upper part of their graments. Slicer then turned his focus to Pete and removed the blade from his chest, he raised him up high and spoke. "You have suffered for a long time Mr Atkinson. No friends, a family nor treasure to cling on too. I believe that it is time for you to rest. You shall not suffer any longer." Slicer tossed his body to the side, leaving him gasping for aid, clouded by torment. Both Kuhn Lau and Yung Fu arose to their feet, in horror they called out to him. "Pete!!!" Kuhn Lau then turned his direction to Yung Fu, "Quickly! Take care of Slicer while I attempt to help him!" Yung Fu nodded and charged at him, he raised his hand at him firing numerous energy balls, though this proved to set him on fire however it failed dismally to wound him. Slicer's blade morphed back into his arm, he swayed his hand to the side and struck him with the under side of his forearm.

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Kuhn Lau arrived at Pete's body, he crouched and stretched his hand to him, he grew a white energy ball grew from his palm, he converted into a healing component. Just as he was about to do so, Slicer appeared from behind and clutched his hand around his scruff, prompting him into total submission by appling pressure around his sensory nerves. "I don't think so." He grunted and bent his other hand into a 90 degree angle. Then after, he struck him with his elbow, unfortunatly Slicer did not flinch. He struck him again with 3 more elbow attacks. Fortunatly, he released him from his clutch and took a step back. Kuhn Lau stretched his hand forth once again, just as he was about to tranfer his energy to him. Slicer knocked him with a kick from behind, causing the latter to fall to the ground. He squinted, tempted to fall into unconciousness, he then subdued the urge and rolled to the side, he proceeded drag himself towards his body. Slicer shone a glare at him, he trailed after him and raised his foot slightly above his spine. Kuhn Lau muttered to himself, "There isn't much time left. I have to get to him before he dies." Yung Fu appeared from behind and jumped on Slicer's back, he wrapped his arms around his hand, one arm under his chin and the other above his his head. Without flinching, Slicer pushed his head backward and headbutted him. He fell of his back and collided against the ground. He looked up to the sky and breathed heavily, he was reluctant to move.

Pete squinted his eyes firmly. The speed of his heart beat decreased with each comsective second. "Is this really the end?" He inquired to himself, while a wounded Kuhn Lau dragged himself to him, his garments skreeched againts the tar, tearing away piece by piece, initially exposing the left side of his chest. He reached his right hand towards him while struggling, ",I can still reach you." As he was about to place his hand on his body, Slicer appeared from behind and stomped his protuding hand. "Arhhh!" He applied pressure on his foot, initially causing his hand to sink through the tar. One last time, Kuhn Lau raised his head and watched as Pete took one last breath. His heartbeat haulted, Slicer grabbed his scruff and raised him up high, he threw him across the street, his body collided against the vehicle. He sauntered towards while he crawled up to his feet, though doing so he fell back on the floor after each try. "Fate was kind enough to spare you Kuhn Lau. Though I would not consider this a priveldge. You have been burdened with a trauma, a trauma where by your eyes witnessed the fall of your fellow peers." He crouched and held his chin, raising his head upward. "Rest assured, this is just the beggining. In due time, Ken Sou will where you lay. Including the rest of his legacy. There is nothing that no one can do about it." He let him go and towered up to his feet. He pointed at him, sparks glistened around his fingers while Kuhn Lau lowered his head and closed his eyes.

Suddenly from the heavens, a ray of light glistened through the pregnant, ominous clouds. The ray desceneded further towards the crust of the earth with tremendous speed. It then glistened on Pete's body, the yellow aura illuminated his entire body, from head to toe. The ray shone with divinity, so enchanted, a mere mortal would be blinded by its sight. The aura ate away at his clothes, then after it proceeded as it to replace his former shelf with new garments. The garment was a white IP, cheongsam robe clothing, it had a tint of red and orange around his collar and sleeves. His body levitated, rotating him until he could stand in the air. His black hair assended, eventually amorphed into a flare of flames. His eyebrows as well morphed into a flare of flames, there after he opened his eyes as only a yellow pigment occupied the spcace of his eyes. With characteristics of those of a bird, he raised his hands while a garnish of flames burned under his sleeves, initially replicating the wings of a mythical bird. This truly was a sight to behold, it grabbed the throat of both Slicer and Kuhn Lau and Yung Fu. Slicer furrowed his eyebrows, "Impossible!" "Astounding," replied Kuhn Lau with his eye glued to the sight. Yung Fu then said with his head against the ground, "Could it be?" Slicer then turned his attention to Pete and pottered towards him. "How can one measly blob wield such power! This is peposterous!" He then charged at him with a clenched fist, "He is not worthy of it!" Slicer transitioned out of sight, with the speed lenght mach 80, he appeared in front of him and attempted to strike him with a blow. Fortunatly Pete's mind was so fast, he percieved the attack before he could even think of it, therefore evading the attack by tilting his head to the right side while his fist soared past. Then after, Pete struck him with a blow on the chest, using the buddha's palm. An attack so ferocious, it repelled him through 10 buildings. Eventually his altitude decreased so significantly, he even collided through the window of a building. There after Pete placed his hands in front of them, shining a stare of bewilderedment as an aura of flames burned around his sleeves. He opened his mouth while fiddled with his fingers, twisting and turning his hands. "My! What is this? Such power dwells in me. I thought that I had reached the end of my journey. Yung Fu then spoke to himself, while sitting up straight. "Could it be? No its impossible!" He nodded, "Legend has spoken, it would only of the most powerful Utopians can ursup to take advantage of of this form. Not only that, Pete only trained for a month, how did he acquire it. What has he done that I could not?" Then from afar, Slicer soared through the air towards him, "Impossible! I refuse to acknowledge an insulent pest to outmatch me!" He stretched his finger forth, summoning a lighting bolt that streaked across the air with the speed lenght of mach of mach 30 . Pete transitioned away from his previous spot and cropped out from behind. He tapped on his shoulder, Slicer turned around with a clenched fist, aiming to strike him with a blow. However Pete peirceved the attack and evaded by tilting his head to the right, watching as his fist soared past. Slicer twitched his eye and mumbled, he throw repeated shots with significant speed. Though his shots were fast to comprehend Pete was still able evade them, only by tilting his head to both sides. Kuhn Lau watched in awe, "Amazing. Not even mine eyes can see Slicer's intended blows. All I can see are blurs while in truth it is the speed of his fists coursing through the air. But how did Pete achive this form? He was supposed to be dead, and by all means what is this form?" He placed his fingers under his chin. "Of course this explains everything, he had to die first to achive this form. This therof references a phoenix thag arose from the ashes. Glorious! Glorious indeed!" Eventually, Slicer pivoted his waist and attempted to land a round house kick. Pete crouched under his kick, there after he placed his hands together and repelled a grandious yellow ki blast towards his gut. The ki blast sent flying through more buildings, the only difference around was that a explosion erupted, towering to the height 600 feet.