"Seems like that lad underrated your power," Mical said to Denzel. Denzel could tell that he was snickering from the way Mical squeaked.
"Is he running away?" Denzel began to dab his body, wiping the dust that had stained his body.
They continued with their chat, Mical making a mockery of Owl and Denzel giggling continuously.
They didn't give interest to Owl, who had already begun a major modification, the wings of his Owl becoming visible behind him, his finger and toenails began to get sharper, his feet began to get scaly, showing that his Owl's legs began to get visible, and some of the Owl's feathers began to show on his body.
That was the highest point Owl could revamp to. Normally, a human's raw strength is the lowest class of a Beast's power, the next phase of a Beast's strength is the Creature's power, the raw strength of the animal in the Beast. The highest class, which comes from when the creature and the human have finally synchronised, is when the human combines with his Creature, at that time, the human can get to use both his strength and the Creature's strength simultaneously.
That highest class was what Owl had transformed into, it was very hard for anyone to win him in that form. Owl was always naturally a very skilled person who was directly trained by Leia, and his creature was no lesser.
While Denzel and Mical kept up with the chit chat, Denzel felt another eerie chill around his body, and the next thing he knew, Owl's foot which was more of the feet of an Owl, looking bigger than it was normally meant to be, came rushing towards his face.
Owl's feet was already about five centimetres away from Denzel's face when he noticed it. Reacting as fast as he could, Denzel ducked, dodging the attack, but that wasn't all, Denzel could see that Owl's other leg was getting off the ground, and as he expected, Owl sent the other leg towards him.
Denzel was able to swerve it, as he jumped back, but he couldn't evade it completely, the force from that attack got Denzel flying back.
"Mical, why does he look like that? And he is much stronger than he already was,"
"Of course, he would, he has completely synchronised with the Animal in him, so he can do that, and of course, he would be much stronger than he was before, you achieve your strongest form when you harmonize completely, some Beast's might not even be able to fight again when you use that form fully, It completely depletes one stamina,"
"Wow... He is coming!" Denzel said, running around, he looked behind him and saw that he was being pursued by Owl, he had to do something.
"Why are you running?" Mical asked, his voice sounding chippy.
"I can't face him that way, I need to think of what to do but I can't do that since he is not taking a break in his attacks."
"Huh? Are you stupid? I have been awoken, do you think you can't still defeat him? Let me make something clear to you, I am much stronger than that Lad right now, he can't kill me,"
"Are you serious?" Denzel said, still running as fast as he could, looking behind him once more, and he saw that Owl had almost gotten closer to him.
"Yes, now man-up and face him"
Denzel turned around, halting in his steps, he looked at Owl, and saw that Owl's eyes were completely blank, Denzel went into his fighting stance, preparing an attack to send to Owl.
Still running, Owl sent his hand to Denzel to graze him by his face but Denzel was able to act fast, he placed his right hand on Owl's belly, lifting him, he used his second hand to lift his chest and then he flung him away, running towards the opposite direction.
"You are running again?"
"That guy is much stronger than you think, just raising him took almost half my strength, I have to retreat for now,"
While Denzel was still having a conversation with Mical, Owl suddenly appeared by the side of Denzel, hauling his hands towards Denzel once more, he was able to scratch Denzel by the side of his face.
"How fast is he?" Denzel tried to avoid that attack when he saw Owl, but he wasn't fast enough.
Denzel stopped running, but Owl couldn't stop immediately since he didn't expect Denzel to do that. Owl stopped finally, ran towards Denzel, lunging with his hands raised.
Denzel was expecting an attack from the hand he raised, so he was preparing to counter that as soon as he could, but, it was another thing entirely that Denzel encountered, Owl used his wings to sweep Denzel away. The wings were much bigger than it normally was, so, the wind that was produced when Owl flapped his wings was very strong.
Denzel couldn't get his balance, he met himself on the ground when the wind blew him off. He was already injured, and he had used most of his power to run, Denzel was already breathing profusely, gasping for breath.
"Hey, kid, switch with me," Denzel heard it and without any further argument, Denzel adhered. Owl could see that Denzel was already transforming, so he halted in his tracks as he ran towards Denzel.
Owl began to move forward slowly, preparing an attack for Mical.
"Hey, lad, you should know something, you can't win this fight... You are weak,"
'Huh? Have we even fought, how can he come to that conclusion by just looking at me? Let's wait and see,' Owl thought to himself, out of anger, he ran towards Mical, but he didn't know that he was making a grievous mistake.
Owl didn't expect what he experienced, He felt a heavy wind blow him away, it threw him to the ground, when he fell, he turned to take a quick look at what Mical could have done.
He saw that all Mical did was to wave his left-wing towards him, and that little flap made him fly away.
"How can it be this strong? He didn't even do much," Owl said to himself, standing up to his feet as fast as he could.
Owl was still getting up when he saw Mical at his front, preparing to use feet to trample on him. To be more precise, he had already done that, and that sent Owl back to the ground, Owl couldn't even try to get up to his feet, Mical's feet pack a lot of power and after struggling for a while, he began to cough.
Mical was already using his toenail to pierce through Owl's chest slowly, and Owl's final form was already disappearing, his wings slowly entering back into his body.
"Mical, wait a minute!" Mical could hear Denzel's voice and he stopped. "Switch with me,"
"Don't you want to kill him?"
"Just switch," Mical began to transform back to Denzel slowly, and Denzel looked at Owl, nodding his head.
Denzel dragged Owl with him, going towards the dead bodies of those teammates that were already burnt.
Denzel took a leftover rope and tied Owl with it.
"You do know that I can kill you right now if I want," Denzel said.