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Kenji's eyes scanned the group of ten that fanned out in front of him, and he quickly identified the leader, a muscular brute covered in tattoos and wearing what looked like military garb but it had been modified with various hides and shells no doubt dread beast materials.
"You're a strange one aren't you?" The man asked before he gestured with his chin and his followers moved to encircle Kenji, "Like looking at a living shadow."
"What do you want," Kenji asked but his voice came out strange, deep and reverberating, almost inhumane.
The brute grinned revealing a mouth of yellowed teeth, "Don't worry about that, just come with us quietly and I promise to be gentle."
A few in the group barked out with short bursts of laughter that promised pain and violence. But despite his precarious situation Kenji didn't feel a twinge of fear, not because he was naturally brave. It was as if the feeling had been muted, normally Kenji's palms would be sweating and his heart would be racing but none of that was happening.
'But do I even have a heart anymore?' Kenji asked himself as his mind started to wander.
"Hey I'm talking to you!" The brute shouted again as his jovial grin quickly turned into a scowl and he reached behind his back. Kenji focused back on the brute as he pulled out a sledgehammer from behind his back, and while the hammer looked like something one could buy from a hardware Kenji could feel the laws of reality warp and bend around the hammer.
"Now I'll say this one more time, we can do this the easy way or the hard way," The brute growled again and when Kenji said nothing the brute snorted, "Fine, have at it boy!"
Excited growls and shouts rose into the air from the circle of thugs surrounding Kenji as he felt the space around him start to ripple and warp, 'What's going on?'
Kenji spun around as he felt a gust of air and saw a ball of condensed earth flying towards him. Holding out his hand Kenji tried to summon the abyss only to feel a muted response as nothing happened, 'What?'
Stunned Kenji didn't manage to react in time and the ball of stone hard dirt struck him in the chest and exploded in a cloud of dust. Kenji grunted as the boulder knocked him over and threw him on his back, but there was no actual pain to accompany the impact.
Staring up at the sky Kenji tried again to access his quirk but found it just as unresponsive.
'The power you wield now will be beyond your reach potentially forever.'
Kenji's eyes widened as Zurx's words echoed inside his head, 'My quirk is gone.'
Just as the revelation hit Kenji he felt a steel toed boot slam into his midsection with enough force to lift him off the ground and send him flying into the air. Once more there was no pain to follow being hit and Kenji was still strangely calm about his compromising position.
Hitting the ground Kenji rolled across the stoney dirt like a ragdoll, but all the while he was thinking, 'Zurx said I would start over as a creature of the abyss…that's what I am now…that's why I look like this.'
Getting back up to his feet Kenji stood up just in time to catch a length of flying rebar that impaled through his chest. This time Kenji didn't budge he just stared down at the piece of metal stuck through his shadowy body before grabbing it with one hand and pulling out the offending piece of metal.
'I can still feel, but it's not the same as before, and I don't seem to be taking any damage,' Kenji frowned before he spun the rebar around and stabbed himself in the hand. There was a brief moment of resistance before the metal pierced through but once more Kenji didn't feel any pain.
Pulling the metal out Kenji tossed it aside before looking back at his attackers who had paused after their first three attempts at damaging Kenji had proven fruitless.
"What are you all doing?!" The brute roared and his followers flinched.
"We hit him as hard as we could, boss but he just keeps getting back up!" One of the followers scrambled to explain.
The brute grunted as he strode forward and hefted his sledgehammer, "Fine, I guess I'll handle him myself."
Kenji prepared himself, waiting for the brute to charge him but instead the man snarled and pointed his sledgehammer at Kenji. For a moment Kenji wondered what the brute planned to do, when the space in front of the hammer rippled.
A second later a concentrated beam of force shot out of the hammer and slammed into Kenji. Pain radiated out from Kenji's chest as he was sent flying from the blow rolling across the ground before popping up into a crouch and coming to a stop.
Looking down at his chest Kenji saw a spider web of cracks spread across his skin highlighted with a flaring purple light. Fortunately it was rather obvious why Kenji had taken damage in this instance and not before, 'If' I'm a creature of the abyss I can't be touch by physical matter, but quirks and there for laws most certainly can.'
Looking back at the brute Kenji stared at the massive grin spread across his lips as he hefted his hammer, "Not so invincible are you now? And that was just a little taste of what Rudy here can dish out!"
Kenji frowned and was only a few moments away from fleeing when he felt something inside him stir, it was restless and eager to be unleashed upon the world to enact its fury.
With a thought Kenji undid the lock keeping the bundle of fury and wrath contained. Once more Kenji's torso split apart to reveal a fanged maw and a second later a shadow darted out of the glowing purple mouth quickly growing in size as it rose into the air.
Everyone watched in awe then horror as the shape reached its full size and unfurled its massive feathered wings with an eye watering screech.
"He's got a damn Dread Beast as a pet!" The brute roared before pointing the head of his sledgehammer at the abyssal vulture and firing another shockwave. Tucking in its wings the vulture dropped out of the air easily avoiding the force projectile as it entered a dive.
"All of you don't just stand there kill this thing!" The leader roared out as he fired another projectile at the diving vulture that managed to dodge once more by snapping out its wings suddenly halting its diving. Then with an angry screech the vulture flapped its wings sending a storm of its feathers raining down from above.
At first Kenji wondered if the vulture had meant to lose so many but when the raiders started to scream out in agony as the feathers embedded into their flesh Kenji realized he had underestimated the bird.
Grunting out in pain the brute weathered through the storm of razor sharp feathers before roaring back up at the vulture, "Is that all you got?!"
As if it could understand the human, the vulture replied with another screech but this one sent a wave of purple force radiating out from its beak and as it washed over the speckled raiders the embedded feathers started to glow with a dull purple light the quickly grew in intensity as they started to smoke.
At that moment Kenji realized he had really underestimated his new companion as every feather exploded simultaneously blossoming into clouds of dark purple fire.