Nightfall, the time was exactly 8:30. Most people in Raid Town were either asleep or spending the night out but Max was currently at a mansion sparring with a blue-flamed girl. What started as a simple question turned into a full-out battle between the two, teenage fire mutants. Max was having the upper hand over the mutant girl and he was enjoying every second of it. With his new fire knight grade, increased energy, and new skills, he felt much stronger than he once was.
" C'mon Moka, don't you have any more skills to use?" Max taunted but she wasn't having any of it. Moka deactivated her fire suit of armor and instead used it to do the unexpected. Her flames gathered together and soon, they formed a giant beast-like creature. Moka sat on it and smiled eerily as she said, " I showed you this skill before. Too bad you can't use it yet." Moka rode her fire beast and charged it at Max who jumped out of the way just in the nick of time. Using the two fireballs, he turned them into large fire ropes and tried to grab a hold of Moka's beast. The second the ropes made contact with the beast, they burned themselves out, leaving nothing but sparks.
" What the..." Moka's beast once again charged at Max and this time, it managed to hit him, sending him flying a few feet away.
-20 HP
Health 130
Energy 120
[Healing activated.]
" Damn...if this is the strength of these beasts, then I have to learn it as soon as I can." Max quickly got back up on his feet and stretched out his arms towards the beast.
[ Skill activated: Flame Raid.]
[Progress: 5%]
Max could feel himself struggling to take control of Moka's beast but he still kept persisting. *Ding*.
[ Flame Raid skill is being over-ridden. Progress 15%]
[More energy will be used to raid the flame.]
Energy 110....100
Moka saw what Max tried to do to her fiery beast so she hurriedly tried to force her beast to charge at Max one more time. Suddenly, her beast started acting up, like it had a mind of its own. Its color would change from blue to yellow then to red and when she looked over in Max's direction, she saw him focusing really hard to take control of her beast.
" No, no, no." Moka used more of her energy and made her beast much bigger. Thinking that she won, she cockily laughed but then, her beast jumped up, making her fall off. When she looked at it, it was no longer blue but rather red. The beast quickly run for her and placed its large foot on her chest, holding her in place. Max walked over with his hand still held out and said to her, "You're a good fighter but your overconfidence makes you vulnerable to simple attacks. Don't worry," Max squatted to get to her level. " Even if I'll have to beat it out of you, you will teach me everything you know."
A few minutes later, Max left the mansion and had a nice walk to his house. After unlocking two new skills, he was very pleased with himself. " Instead of waiting to level up, I should just keep finding excuses to unlock them. Maybe then I'll be much stronger whenever another incident happens." Little did Max know that his next 'incident' was going to happen by the end of the week and three strange men were watching him in secret. The mysterious man Fang and Damion would always watch Max every day, making sure to see what he would do. Damion was having second thoughts about revealing the fireman's identity but he already told his boss. For some reason, he had a bad feeling about it that made his stomach churn.
" Poor kid. He was only trying to save the girl from Bruce and those boys but now, his whole life might change after Bruce does whatever he does. I need to do something." Damion slowly but discretely followed Max, making sure that he didn't do anything that would alert the young boy. As Max got closer to his apartment, he couldn't shake off the feeling that someone was following him so he tried cutting them off by going through narrow alleys. Max took a wrong turn and ended up at a dead end and when he tried to turn around, the stranger who was following him was blocking his way out. It was too dark for Max to make out who it was so he only saw a silhouette.
" Oh crap, I've been followed. Maybe he's lost or something." Max thought to himself. " Hello," He yelled. " Are you lost?" The man at the other end didn't respond but instead walked slowly towards Max. " Sir, do you need help, or are you one of 'those men?" Max asked one more time but the man still kept walking without saying anything back.
" You asked for this."
" Wait." The stranger finally said. " I know who you are, Max Lin, or should I say, fireman."
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In Raid City, somewhere inside an underground laboratory, a bunch of men and women in lab coats were running some tests on certain creatures. These scientists belonged to Lidong and they were currently working on some horrifying creatures. Unlike the green and red creatures Lidong previously had, these were black with the same features as the others but something was off about these. The red and green crazed beasts had long claws, white clear eyes, razor-sharp teeth, and hunched backs but this new batch walked straight, still had long claws and razor-sharp teeth but their eyes had pupils in them. A few of them were even saying a few words in the English language.
" Sir, I don't think what we're doing is...right." A scientist, who was standing next to Lidong said. The large wealthy man looked at the scientist and grabbed him by the neck. " Since you don't like them, why not...join them." Lidong threw the scientist into the pit that had all the crazy beasts. The scientist got up quickly and tried to look for a way out but the walls were too steep and were surrounded by electric wires. The black crazed beasts slowly walked to the scientist and sniffed him. The scientist closed his eyes and waited for whatever was going to happen but seeing nothing happening to him, he opened his eyes and looked at the beasts. " Oh, your not that bad." He said to the creature. The beast opened its wide mouth and mouthed out, " Long...live...dead." It thrust its long claws into the scientist's mid section and twisted them, making him lose a lot of blood. It then pulled out its claws and the scientist's guts spewed out like a volcano. The beasts raised their heads and screamed a loud eery shriek that horrified the remaining scientists but made Lidong smile.
" Excellent. Let's see the fireman kill this."
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