Lucas did not know what had just happened, all he knew was that he was falling from the third floor and a giant hole in the business classroom had opened up. He slightly remembered a fist connecting with his face but that didn't matter for now as a dark haired boy had also fallen from the third floor but instead of falling like Lucas was, he was coming straight at him.
Another fist connected with Lucas' face once more and he hit the ground hard, causing the ground to break and blood erupting in the air. Upon hearing the noise, a lot of students were looking out of various class windows and some were already heading their way to see what was going on.
Chase landed a couple of meters away from Lucas and waited for him to get up. Lucas slowly stood up, wiped the blood from his nose and glared at his enemy.
"Now you've-" A knee to the face sent Lucas flying backwards but was flung in the air as Chase moved with incredible speed to deliver a kick to Lucas' head which sent him upwards. Chase formed a dark energy ball in his hand and flung it at Lucas. It connected and an explosion occurred, causing more and more people to see what the noise was all about.
"What's going on?" A student asked.
"Chase and Lucas are fighting." Another one said.
"Again?"
"But this time, Lucas is the one in trouble." The student said as the playground was starting to be filled with cavities.
Lucas blasted a red energy ball at Chase's but he took no damage from it and it seemed to have angered him more still, Lucas was not done. He took an object from his back pocket and threw it on the ground, which covered the playground in grey smoke. The students heard a bunch of screams and saw a body being flung out of the smoke into a nearby wall.
"How is Lucas losing to him?" Someone asked. Nobody answered since they were shocked as they didn't think that the strongest person of their school would have easily been dominated.
Chase started walking towards the bloody Lucas but was stopped by a mana infused trash can flying rapidly towards him. Chase froze the trash can and it fell rapidly to the ground all whilst turning towards the perpetrators.
Dalic, Eruldo and Keiaa had been watching but had now decided to intervene when their guy was getting flung left and right. Eruldo appeared near Lucas and had started healing him. Chase could have easily stopped him but he wanted to see Lucas get his pride shattered even more.
In a matter of seconds, Lucas was feeling as good as new and he seemed pissed off.
"Now you're dead!" Lucas yelled as he flew at a great speed towards Chase.
"Lucas was probably acting to let Chase think that he had a chance." A student said.
"Yeah, there was no way Chase is going to beat the king of this school!" Another one said, which was backed by other students.
"Go on Lucas!" A voice shouted, "Show him who's boss!" The other students backed it as Chase was receiving blows left and right from Lucas.
The shouting intensified as Lucas started to swing harder and faster and Chase was not reacting at all, making it seem like he was getting dominated.
"Finish him off!!" A multitude of students shouted as Lucas' hand became red and he curled his hand into a fist.
"You shouldn't have came back to this school cheesy!" He said as he swung his fist towards Chase. "Should have stayed dead."
The intensive cheering had gone down the instant Chase had blocked the punch. Lucas and the crowd were genuinely surprised and they were even more surprised when Lucas was punched so hard you could hear something cracking.
Lucas crashed into a wall and coughed out blood whilst clutching his ribs. Eruldo went for another heal but Chase wasn't going to let him do it this time. He appeared in front of Eruldo, grabbed him by the face and slammed him on the ground.
"Eruldo!!" Keiaa and Dalic shouted as they flew at high speeds towards Chase as they prepared to attack.
Their attacks were blocked by two of Chase's fingers and they immediately felt the difference in power. Chase's other hand was lifted and the sky turned black with lightning and rain all around. The two boys were frozen in place and they couldn't move, even as lightning struck them, they couldn't evade it. They screamed out in pain and dropped on the floor but they weren't dead, just shocked.
As Chase finished dealing with them, he advanced towards Lucas and stared him down hard.
"You bitch-"
Chase grabbed him by the collar as soon as Lucas spoke and started repeatedly hitting him, over and over again until the playground was covered in red. The students watching were in complete shock and some had even decided to film the action.
An energy blast hit Chase on his side and he turned to see a heavily breathing Eruldo, with blood trickling down his forehead as he propped himself on one knee with his hand stretched towards Chase. Chase felt two more attacks on his back and saw that the 2 others had slightly recovered from the lightning and had "retaliated". Eruldo had started his healing again and Keiaa and Dalic were looking better. Chase let go off the bloody Lucas, ripped a bit of clothing of off Lucas to wipe his own bloody face from the previous chair attack and his hands before throwing the cloth back on Lucas and advancing towards Eruldo.
*****
A couple of minutes earlier, in a further away classroom, Lily was enjoying lunch with her friends when an explosion was heard and the sky turned dark and loud lightning could be heard from almost anywhere.
"Lily! Lily!" A boy screamed as he barged into her classroom and slammed his hand on her desk, looking quite frightened.
"What's wrong?" She asked as she looked at the boy with concern.
"It's... your brother." He said, trying to catch his breath, "He got into a fight with Lucas."
"Is he alright? I need to go to him right now, where is he?"
"He's in the playground in front of the business building but, he's more than fine. Didn't you hear the explosion?
"I did, but I thought that it was the science department doing another one of their weird experiments and, what do you mean by my brother being more than fine?" She asked, visibly confused.
"It's more like, Lucas is in trouble." Even he was surprised at his own statement. Upon hearing that, Lily quickly got up from her seat and started running towards the area mentioned by the boy.
During the conversation with the boy, another person was running towards the staff room.
"Ms Marina! Ms Marina!" The girl exclaimed as she barged into the staff room. All the teachers looked at her with visible confusion as she ran to Ms Marina's side.
"What's wrong Lauren?" She calmly asked as she focused her attention on the girl in front of her, "If you're worried about the explosion, it's probably the science department again." she sighed.
"No!" The girl exclaimed, "Th-this is different."
"How so?"
"It's Lucas and Ch-Chase." She finally said.
"Why can't Lucas leave Chase alone for once!?" Ms Marina angrily asked as she stood up from her desk. "Is Chase alright?"
"He's more than fine, " Lauren said as Ms Marina started walking towards the door but abruptly stopped. "Lucas is the one in trouble."
"What do you mean?" A bold teacher at the far end of the room asked.
"Ch-Chase is about to ki-kill Lucas."
Upon hearing that, all the teachers stood up in complete shock and started to make their way out of the staff room and, you best believe that they ran.
Everyone was trying to get to the fight as quickly as possible and see for themselves if what Lauren had said was true. Well, if it turned out to be fake, all the teachers had silently communicated to give her a ton of homework for the rest of the year and, she was also going to receive work from classes she didn't even have.
Some teachers arrived by running whilst the others were flying indoors which was against the rules as well as doing weird acrobatics to arrive.
"Ms Marina! Liliana!" A student called out. "Over here!"
The students made way for the teachers and Lily as they looked down at the playground from the 2nd floor and as Lauren had said, Chase appeared to be fine, except for the remnants of blood on his face and hands. 4 students were found beside Chase and they all appeared to be seriously hurt. Lucas was on his knees whilst his friends were heavily breathing and looked as if they couldn't stand up anymore.
*****
Chase's first target was the healer and he started walking towards him, menacingly.
"S-stay back!" Eruldo shouted but, it was too late. Chase appeared in front of him and lashed out with a round house kick to the arm.
The sound of bones breaking was very pleasant to Chase but not to his opponent as he fell to the ground, clutching his broken arm in pain and letting out a high pitched scream.
"Eruldo!!" Keiaa and Dalic shouted as they flew towards Chase. Chase grabbed Eruldo by the head and threw him towards Dalic. Since Dalic had to catch him, he hadn't noticed the ball of dark energy approaching him at an insane speed and it swiftly connected, causing another explosion to be heard.
Whether the two boys were alive or not would have to be determined after the fight was over or when the smoke surrounding them cleared.
"CHASE!!!" Lily and Ms Marina both shouted. Keiaa had stopped rushing towards him after what had happened to his friends and he looked extremely concerned. Lucas on the other hand hadn't moved from his spot, almost like, he couldn't help or he couldn't care less about his "friends".
"That's enough Chase!" Ms Marina shouted as Chase looked at them.
"Please Chase, stop!" Lily chimed in. She didn't feel comfortable with her brother beating people up.
"Yeah! Leave them!" Another student chimed in, followed by more and more students telling him to stop fighting as they were visibly scared.
Chase threw an energy ball at the building where the students were and it destroyed the wall as well as injuring a couple of those who hadn't managed to get away before the explosion caught them.
"Is he crazy?" A student asked, in disbelief.
"Is he trying to kill us?"
"This is bad."
Voices of fear and disbelief were raised but they all shut up when another ball got flung at them.
Lily and Ms Marina were frozen in place and they were so surprised that they couldn't move.
"Someone go help the injured students and call Mrs Jones!" A teacher shouted, giving orders to the students around them but, they all ceased movement when lighting struck on the battlefield.
It appeared that Chase had launched an attack towards Keiaa but it had missed.
Keiaa threw a punch towards Chase and it connected. He followed up with a punch to the stomach and an uppercut, causing Chase to go flying upwards. Keiaa moved with speed and found himself above Chase, ready to use an energy blast to bring him down but, he was frozen in place when Chase gave him an angry look. His fear caused him to attack irrationally and he was about to release his energy blast when Chase kicked the back of his foot, making him fall backwards and Chase followed up with a punch to the face, making Keiaa crash to the ground, his energy attack widely missing it's target. Chase appeared to Keiaa's location, grabbed him and threw him upwards before appearing behind him and grabbing his head with both of his hands on either side.
"W-wait!" Keiaa stuttered, realizing what was about to happen. "Y-you don't have to-to do th-this!"
Everyone watching also knew what was about happen. Even if they wanted to intervene, everyone was frozen in fear and nobody moved. Lucas simply looked away and hoped for the best as Chase's hands jerked violently to the side. Chase let go and Keiaa's body rapidly fell to the ground. Upon impact with the ground, a crater was formed and dust had formed all around the playground. When it cleared, a couple of students started screaming, others were not even watching anymore and the rest of them were standing in silence.
Lily and Ms Marina had the biggest shock that they've ever had in their lives. They didn't think that the weak, docile Chase would become crazy strong and even cold bloodily murder someone in front of the school. The police wasn't going to appear as Maria had made them promise to not interfere in her school's affairs as she was going to deal with the problems herself but, she was nowhere to be seen for the moment.
"K-k-k-Keiaa." Dalic weakly said as he pitifully looked at his friend. Eruldo was knocked out cold with a broken arm and the previous blast had ripped part of his skin off even though Dalic had used a shield on him.
Dalic slowly stood up and stared Chase down. He had blood trickling from his mouth and bruises could be seen on his face and body as well as some of his clothes being torn off.
"How dare-" Chase grabbed his face mid-sentence and strongly dragged him across the ground, creating a loud sound and rocks were flying everywhere.
"H-hasn't he done enough?" A student asked as he crumbled down unto the floor. "We're probably next."
"Come on dude!" Another student said, trying to cheer him up, "He probably doesn't remember and even if he does, we just have to not come in contact with him."
The student was not convinced at all. "He might come after us, you never know."
"That would be such a waste of time for him."
"You don't know that!" The student was clearly shook and nothing was going to convince him that Chase wasn't coming for him next.
The student on the floor suddenly caught a body and saw the severely hurt face of Dalic. Well, that was the last thing he saw before something glinted inside the building and it exploded. Well, let's hope that those students are alright. Now, the rest of the students started screaming, even the teachers were seriously scared but, only Mr Mkpoin had a stoic expression on.
"Chase! Please stop this!" Lily begged from one of the safe buildings. Chase brushed it off and started walking towards Lucas.
Lily's fear had subsided for now and she flew towards her brother, standing between himself and Lucas, all whilst stretching her arms out to prevent him from passing.
"You've done enough big bro." She told him, "You don't need to do this."
"I'm gonna say it once Lily." He calmly said, "Get out of my way."
"Are you really going to hurt me?" She sadly asked. Chase didn't have time to babysit and appeared in front of her which really surprised her but, a gut punch sent her into an unconscious state and Chase caught her before she could hit the ground.
'Take her away from here.' Chase telepathically told Tridius. Tridius obeyed, jumped out of the business building and transformed into his original form before moving quickly to his master's side. Chase placed her unconscious body on Tridius' back and watched them leave the school grounds.
"A-a-a wolf!" A student exclaimed as he fainted. The rest of the school was as shocked as he was but, they didn't faint.
Finally, Chase slowly walked towards Lucas, causing him to stand up and getting ready to fight again.
Lucas moved first and emerged above Chase with a giant fireball in his hand.
"Die!" He said as he threw it. The fireball was stopped by Chase's bare hand yet, Lucas wasn't surprised and flew in fast with a punch aimed at Chase's head. Chase blocked it with his other hand and tightened his grip around Lucas' hand before igniting his own hand as well as Lucas' hand in lightning.
Lucas winced in pain but Chase was fine. Chase pulled Lucas towards him and elbowed him in the face before using ice to summon a pillar that hit him in the back and sent him flying upwards.
Chase put a finger in the air and the lighting became a lot more aggressive and louder. He flicked his finger down and black lightning descended from the sky.
"Help-"
The lightning struck Lucas and he was violently flung towards the ground and smoke escaped from his body. His top had been torn off and his trousers looked ripped, showing off one of the legs that had been burnt by the lightning. Although he was still alive, the previous attack had paralysed him completely and all he could do was cough out blood and silently groan in pain, until Chase stood in front of him again.
Lucas tried to speak but Chase could only hear mumbling or was the sound of thunder too loud? Nevertheless, Chase grabbed Lucas by the throat and lifted him to eye level so that he could look directly at him. With his free hand, dark energy emerged from it and a dark blade was formed into his hand. No words were said but the quiet and soft sobbing of Lucas was heard.
Everyone who was watching was feeling bad for Lucas but they couldn't do anything about it. Some liked him whilst the others couldn't care less about him but, they wanted Lucas to be taught a lesson... not to be killed right in front of them. Suddenly, Lucas stopped crying and laughed before spitting at Chase's face but luckily, Chase had managed to dodge it before smiling.
"Don't think you've won just because of this one fight!" He said as he tried freeing himself from Chase's grip but to no avail. "Next time you won't get so lucky!"
"That is if there's a next time." Chase said as he raised his bladed hand and slashed him across his body. A wound opened, blood erupted and the crowd gasped. Chase slashed him again, forming an x on his body and, he was about to stab him through the chest when something stopped his hand from advancing.
"You've done enough Chase." A voice calmly said. Gasps could be heard by the audience but Chase was not surprised as his gaze shifted to the person who had just spoken.
"What are you doing here Ms Pierce?" Chase asked.
"I have to be here," she explained, "It is my school, and my duty is to stop students like you from rampaging about." She continued. "So would you mind settling down?"
There was no reason to fight her and anyways, she had easily managed to stop his attack which didn't shock him yet it meant that he still had a long way to go before even reaching her realm. The dark blade vanished from his hand and he violently dragged Lucas downwards.
"And let go of Lucas too." She told him. He obeyed after he kneed Lucas in the face before grabbing him by the foot and viciously slamming him on the ground.
"Thank you. Now then, " She said as she turned towards the teachers still on the 2nd floor, "Mr Jol, please call a bunch of ambulances," she asked as Mr Jol dashed away, "You kids still have about 15 minutes till the end of lunch, go enjoy it." With that said, the students cleared the area and, Chase was left alone with his aunt.
She clasped her hands together, "Time to repair the damage."
Once she clasped them together, the destroyed buildings and surroundings were quickly returning back into their original forms and in a matter of seconds, everything returned to how it was before the fight begun.
Chase was clearly surprised and his aunt simply smiled at him.
"Time manipulation." She simply stated as she started walking, "Follow me Chase, let me chat to you for a bit."