"Hey! Do you even know how much it costs to repair the damage you have done to my roof?"
Ali thundered at Soso.
"Shut up!"
Soso took out his gun. HEXA appeared behind him.
"The powers you wield are mine, I shall retrieve them." Soso started walking towards Arman.
Then Arman pursed his lips. "Okay, take whatever you want."
Soso was flabbergasted.
"I didn't even think of it in my dreams that you would agree to me this easily. Alright HEXA kill him and bring the powers."
Arman's expression changed. "Wait, I am willingly giving you the powers. Then why kill me?"
Soso answered Arman's question
"The powers are now connected to you. To remove this connection, we will have to kill you. Or else the powers won't be seperated. And it will stay in you."
The voice from the gem said to Arman.
"Do you still want to get rid of me?"
"Shut up!" Arman said to the voice from the gem. "Mr. whoever you are, I can't die for you. So please leave after you have compensated for the losses we have suffered because of you." Arman declined Soso's words.
"I am not asking for your permission. And you, HEXA, stop wasting my time and retrieve the power." On hearing Soso's order, HEXA ran towards Arman.
HEXA moved towards Arman. In a moment, he punched him hard. Arman couldn't see that coming.
Arman was sent flying.
He then stood up and ran away from HEXA.
But HEXA closed up the distance in an instance and slashed Arman many times.
He then grabbed Arman by his collar and slammed him to the ground.
And all that was left was a final death blow.
HEXA gathered all of his energy in his fists.
But Arman's hand automatically gripped HEXA's hand to stop the attack.
His hand then threw away HEXA.
HEXA regained his balance and fired a missile towards Arman.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Arman thought that this was his doom.
But the missile didn't hit Arman. He opened his eyes to see that a barrier, made of fire was shielding Arman.
"See, my powers can save you. Try and use my powers. That is the only way you can survive."
The gem said to Arman.
"No, I will not use your powers." Arman said so and ran away.
HEXA fired another missile, but Arman tripped over a rock and fell to the ground. The missile missed him.
"The choice is yours." The gem said to Arman.
"Okay, but how do I do that?" Arman agreed and asked the gem.
"The powers are like an organ of yours, try to use them."
Arman tried to do so, and a ball of fire appeared in his hands.
Arman then threw the Fire Ball at HEXA as if he were pelting a stone at him. HEXA was blasted away.
"It is working. Let me try once more."
Arman swinged his hands rapidly and waves of fire arose from his hands. He directed the waves of fire towards HEXA. HEXA was hit by them and suffered heavy damage.
Even though Arman was using his powers, it would take him time to gain the upper hand.
"What do I do now?" Arman asked the gem.
The gem guided Arman
"Try to make a weapon with the flames."
Arman focused a little bit, and a vague figure of a handle started appearing in Arman's hand.
It completely developed and turned into a scythe.
Arman punched HEXA hard and he was sent flying.
Arman prepared another punch and threw it onto HEXA. But HEXA blocked it.
"Enough." Saying so, HEXA punched Arman.
"Keuk" Arman spat out hot blood.
HEXA fired many bullets on Arman.
But Arman deflected them all using his scythe. Or, to be more precise, tried to deflect.
Unable to deflect them, he tanked them with a barrier.
Arman swung his scythe. It was about to hit HEXA, but Soso saved HEXA by firing his EMP on Arman's hands.
"Move away, you bastard." Soso smirked at Arman.
Arman conjured a barrier beneath Soso. The barrier rose up and hit Soso.
Meanwhile HEXA stood up and attacked Arman. Arman easily dodged the attack.
He hit HEXA with his scythe.
HEXA was stunned. Arman quickly dashed towards HEXA and hit his abdomen with many consecutive attacks.
HEXA fell to the ground. Arman dashed again, and changed the scythe to a sword and stabbed HEXA. He then summoned fire vines to bind HEXA. Finally, he formed a hurricane of fire and directed it towards H.E.X.A..
"HEXA, try to break the vines, orelse you will be destroyed!" Soso screamed.
HEXA started his engine on full speed. Trying to fly away.
The hurricane was about to hit HEXA, but at the final moment, he got away. Ofcourse, H.E.X.A.'s limb was severed and HEXA hadn't even completely come to his senses, but Arman came and kicked him. HEXA fell to the ground.
Arman came and slashed Soso with his sword. And finally held the sword on Soso's neck.
"Go away, or I will kill you." Arman spared HEXA and Soso's life.
Arman opened his mouth again. "And yeah, pay for the damage you have caused."
HEXA and Soso covered for all the losses.
They left, but they for sure would come back.
But Arman was prepared for that.
Arman snorted, and turned towards Ali and Jamal.
"Big brother! are you okay?" Ali and Jamal asked.
"Yes, seemingly." Arman replied.
"What about our home?" Jamal asked.
"Don't worry, I made that fool compensate for our home. We should get the construction starting." Arman calmed down Jamal
"Where will we live till then?" Ali asked.
"In our ancestral palace." Arman replied.
"What? I don't want to go there." Ali said.
Ali hated that place. The palace was the kind of stuff which gave him creeps.
"And yeah, that is very far away from our schools."
Jamal complained.
"Don't worry, I will drop you guys." Arman rubbed Ali and Jamal's heads.
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A castle, taller than the sky, surrounded by clouds.
A hall, of colossal size. The hall was so big, that it enclosed a volcano within it.
"My liege, someone wants to see you." A guard came and said to a man with spiky scales on his head, sitting in a magnificent throne which was placed on four pillars that rose from within the volcano.
"Send them in." The man ordered his servant.
Eight men and one woman, of a very high dignity and charm, entered and took a knee.
"Tell me, why did you come here." The man asked.
"To convey an important piece of information." His visitors said.
The man asked. "If it was a small task of conveying a message, one of you were enough. But why did all nine of you come together."
"It is very important, we all need to discuss this." Another of the visitors said.
"Don't waste my time and finish what you want to say quickly." The man exclaimed.
"The flame king has descended."
"What?" The man was surprised, he took a deep breath and let exhaled.
He continued "No worries, I will crush him."
"It won't be easy." The visitors warned the man.
"Why? He has just got his powers. There is no way that he will become powerful enough to kill us in a few measly years." The man said to his visitors.
"We should not underestimate anyone. This time, he chose a human vessel." Another visitor expressed his opinion.
"A mere human? I will crush him easily." The man showed a gesture of crushing something with his hands.
"Even though he is a mere human, we cannot underestimate him. As that human, wielding the flame king's powers, and also, 'his' descendant."
The female visitor said with a very dark voice.
The man's expression darkened too.
"Flame king's powers and 'his' descendant?
This human indeed is very special. But he won't live long."
On hearing these words, the visitors said.
"He is in earth, it will take a millennium till we reach there. By then he will become powerful enough to crush us."
The man laughed.
"Don't worry, we will reach there in four years."
The visitors asked. "But how?"
The man said. "With the help of a posthumous gift received by an enemy."
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"Ahh! Don't be crude. Do it softly." Soso said to HEXA.
"Ah, sorry Boss." HEXA continued with bandaging Soso's wounds.
"I spent 42 years of my life in search for the powers. But no use! All because of you!" Soso was very angry at HEXA.
"Now what do we do, Boss?" Genius asked.
"We will wait, for the right chance. Then, we will kill that boy." Soso shouted in anger.
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"Come on! Try harder!" The voice from the gem came out loud.
"Alright, I will. By the way, what should I call you?"
Arman asked.
"You can call me anything you want." the gem said.
"Alright, so can I call you 'shit'?" Arman taunted the gem.
"Shut up! You bastard." The gem silenced Arman.
Arman replied. "Sorry, I was joking. Hehe hehehe."
"You can call me Flame King." The gem said.
"Okay so flame king, what is your real name?" Arman asked.
"Concentrate on your training."
Flame king directed Arman with his training.
"Hey, back then, I was trying to summon a sword. But a scythe appeared. Was it because I couldn't control my powers, or something else?" Arman asked with a confused expression.
"No, it has nothing to do with your incapability.
Even though you are incapable, a scythe shouldn't have appeared. Instead, a faulty sword should have appeared. Maybe it was because my previous candidate used a scythe." Flame king replied.
"Previous candidate? Am I not the only one who has this power?" Arman asked.
Flame king replied. "I can't tell you that now.
Later, when you will become more powerful, I will tell you."
"But how do I become more powerful?" Arman enquired.
Then flame king started to explain.
"Well, to become strong, there is only one way.
Try to hunt different kinds of enemies and upgrade yourself.
But, if you learn how to control your power more efficiently, your battle prowess will for sure increase.
I suggest that you should train through both the ways. With this, you will become very powerful. And it's not like you need to make a choice. You can change your mind anytime you want."
Arman cut off Flame king and started his own.
"So when I am fighting my enemies, my strength will increase. Whereas while I am not fighting, I can learn to control my powers."
"Why do it that way? You can do both of them at a time." Flames continued.
"I didn't quite understand."
Arman expressed his confusion.
"It is so simple lad. While you will be fighting, you will use your powers. Extensive use of the power results into better proficiency in controlling the powers. Now, do you understand?" Flame king explained the situation.
Arman said "Oh, so by learning to control power, you mean to use them more proficiently. I thought that I would have to meditate to gain control over my powers."
Flames laughed at Arman "Pfffffffffft, who told you that? You... you seriously thought that by meditation you will be able to control the power?"
Arman's became angry. "Stop it already."
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NASA
"Sir, we have detected a meteor dashing straight towards Earth." A woman came reporting.
One man responded "What? A meteor, all of a sudden. How come we detected it late!"
"We too don't understand this sir." The woman replied.
"Do we have an image of the meteor?"
He asked.
"Yes sir, we do have an image." Saying so, the woman gave the man a tablet.
He saw the image and commented "It is not a meteor. Zoom it."
"Alright." She zoomed in the photograph.
"Is that a spaceship? Where is it heading to?" He asked.
"Erm... We are still processing the information, but the trajectory says that it is heading towards Japan.
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The spaceship which NASA scientists thought to be a meteor landed.
A beautiful woman came out of it.
"Boss, I have arrived. What should I do now?"
The Woman seemed to be talking with someone remotely through a device.
"Okay my girl. Now go and get me all the information on the Flame king."
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