Mical could already sight the roof of his house. Looking closely, he saw a guy wearing a mask, standing just some metres away from the house.
Mical increased his pace, and when he got closer, Denzel switched with him immediately, jumping to the ground immediately.
"You are here, you must really love your sister. Are you a sister complex?" Pete said the moment he saw Denzel haul himself down. He had an expressionless look on his face.
"Where is Carrie?!" Denzel questioned, his gaze showed how angry he was.
"Who is Carrie? Ohh, must be your sister," Pete walked around Denzel, still staring at him with a blank look on his face.
Denzel dashed towards Pete, carrying his hands upwards to show that he was about to punch him.
But Pete expected that, knowing he had taken his sister hostage. He knew Denzel was going to perform a rash attack on him, and he was already prepared for that.
Suddenly, two long quills grew from his hand, and he pulled it out, flinging it towards Denzel. The spikes stabbed Denzel in both shoulders. It got in, and Denzel felt the pain, but he didn't stop.
Denzel kept running to him, Pete continued sending those quills to Denzel.
Denzel was already starting to look like a Hedgehog when he finally got to Pete, He bent down a bit, punching his lower abdomen continuously until some quills grew around Pete's lower abdomen, and they punctured Denzel's fist the moment he was planning on delivering another punch to Pete.
"Arrghh!" Denzel shrieked, he raised his fists and saw the blood that drooled from it.
"Denzel, why don't you switch with me, let me take care of him," Mical said to Denzel, but Denzel completely ignored him, focusing on the opponent he had at his front.
After about ten minutes, Denzel was already beaten to a pulp, his strength wasn't enough for him to match up with Pete. At some point, when Denzel wanted to attack him, he would suddenly disappear, as he could camouflage with anything. That was possible since he was also a Beast of two, possessing a Porcupine and a Chameleon.
When he wasn't camouflaging, he would bring out the quills of his porcupine to attack Denzel.
Denzel's downfall commenced the moment he aggressively attacked Pete out of anger but when he realised that, it was too late. He couldn't do anything anymore, he was already prepared to switch with Mical.
"Mical... switch with me... I... I am completely weak," Denzel managed to say as Pete held him by his head.
"You want to switch? Mical? Who the hell-- Your Beast huh?" Pete understood that he wanted to switch with his animal, and before anything could happen, he used the side of his palm to hit Denzel's neck.
All of a sudden, Denzel kept shut, he already lost his consciousness. That way, Mical couldn't switch with him.
"You are gone already, How boring," Pete began to drag Denzel's body with him on the ground, not even caring about what happens to the body. "You are already gone, but I would tell you like I love to tell my victims. I love keeping hostages because it makes it easier for me to battle my opponents. They all lose their cool. Any rash attack is advantageous for me. I used your sister so that you wouldn't speculate before fighting me. Secondly, it makes it possible for me to add to my collections. Most of all, I make money from it, demanding a ransom of five hundred thousand Xin to get their family back."
On his way home, Chris held a pack in his arms, he didn't bother carrying his car since the store wasn't a distant one.
He kept on whistling when he saw Pete drag the body of Denzel.
"Denzel?" Chris dropped the pack he held, increasing his pace as he walked towards them. When he got closer, he confirmed that it was Denzel and that was when he ran to Pete, landing a punch to his face.
Pete could notice that Chris was already coming towards him so he held his fist, stopping his attack.
"Ohh, you must be his dad. Just to let you know, he also tried saving his sister, but he ended up this way," Pete said, not even caring about anything that was to happen.
"Huh? Save his sister? What happened to Carrie?" Chris asked, still trying to pull his hands off.
"Yeah, you didn't know. She is the hostage I used in defeating him," Pete said to him, turning to face his initial destination. He let go of Chris's hand.
"What?" Chris pulled him back, hitting his hands for him to let go of Denzel.
"Why are you pulling me back? He is done already,"
"Whether he is done or not is my business, leave him alone," Chris took Denzel, carrying him in his arms, then running away with him as fast as he could. 'Is he dead?' Chris said when he saw the way Denzel's arms kept dangling, looking like he was already lifeless.
Chris was still running when Pete appeared right at his front.
'Where did he come from?' Chris thought to himself, he turned around to run the other way. Pete ran beside him, slapping his hands rigorously to let Denzel drop to the ground.
"I won't let you have him," Chris said, standing at the front of Denzel to guard him against Pete. "You have to kill me to get him," Chris said, taking both fists up and getting into a boxing stance.
One thing Denzel never knew about his dad was the fact that he was a Boxer when he was in high school. He was the strongest in his set and was also the youngest fighter to qualify for the national competition. He didn't make it through to the knockout, so he hid the fact that he fought from anyone that didn't know him then. "It's not something to brag about, in fact, I should be hiding in shame," He said to the ones that knew him and praised him for it.
Chris began to fight Pete, dodging the quills he could evade, and ignoring the ones that already pierced through his skin. The pain was as if something had stung him, but it wasn't as painful as he expected it to be.
They continued the fight, Chris launching different attacks to his face, his body and anywhere his hands could reach.
The ones that got to Pete, was a great deal as Pete staggered back each time Chris punched him, but it was just a few that could reach him.
Just as he did when he fought Denzel, he kept up with the camouflage, confusing Chris each time he attacked him.
Slowly, Chris's speed began to decelerate, he didn't understand why. "I don't think I should be this tired," Chris mumbled to himself, breathing heavily.
"Hmph! My quills must be taking effect by now. Do you think I would just use it without it having a catch? To let you know, it's poisonous, every tip of it. And believe me, I didn't miss your vital points," Pete blabbed, pointing to the places his quills already stabbed in Chie's body.
That was when Chris looked down and noticed that Pete wasn't telling a lie. He did attack his vital points, adding up the poison, he could see why he got exhausted quickly.
"I'm weak," Chris muttered to himself. He looked back at Denzel, he saw that he was still the way he was, unconscious. Chris didn't want to give up at that point. Looking at Denzel, he couldn't choose to give up. He mustered the courage to continue fighting, pushing himself continuously each time he saw Denzel's lifeless body.
Chris did all he could, but a defeated person would always be a defeated person. Chris wasn't as fast as he normally was, so Pete used that chance to begin his attacks on Chris.
Pete was not merciful, he continued to attack Chris, retaliating for what Chris had done to him.
When he was done, he hugged Chris tightly, bringing out his quills from every part of his skin, using them to stab different spots on Chris's body. Chris was done.
He fell to the ground. Pete then used his fist to punch Chris's chest.
The moment Chris fell, Denzel's eyes opened slightly, and he caught the scene of that final attack.
Denzel opened his eyes a little more, he could see his father bleed from all parts of his body, his father coughing continuously.
"I was going to leave you if you let me capture him, but now, I am not leaving you. Die!" Pete yelled, he pulled one of the quills that grew on his body, using it to stab the lower heart in Chris's chest.
Denzel couldn't take the sight of it anymore. For a moment, his dad turned his face and looked at him, and he forced out a soft smile.
Seeing his dad smile, his mind went dark for a minute. The next minute, he began to see all the people he cared about die, and by the looks of it, they all smiled at him before they died. After he saw the flash of his dad's death, the next scene he saw was the face of his younger sister's smile, and it seemed like she was already dying.
"I will kill you!" Everything went blank again, and the next place he saw himself was with Mical. Apart from Mical, everywhere was completely dark.
"Now, you need me,"
"I will kill that guy! Whether you help me or not,"
"Seems it's time to show you,"
"What's that?!" Denzel yelled angrily, his eyes were completely red.
Mical shifted from where he stood, and it seemed like he could see a spotlight on two vast things that seemed to be eggs. Suddenly, they both cracked, revealing a Bear and a wolf.
"Now go," Mical said to Denzel.