"What did you say?" James slowly walked towards Jeremy with his eyes furrowed.
James thought he didn't hear what Jeremy said and asked to confirm if his ears heard right.
"Come on! Everyone knows your mom works at the government hospital. You weren't really brought up well right?" Jeremy replied with the creepy smile on his face.
"That's IT! No one talks about my family that way!!" James shouted.
James dashed forward with a clenched fist and aimed right for Jeremy's head.
On the other hand, Jeremy could see everything like it was playing in slow motion. Jeremy quickly moved his head, letting James punch hit the air.
However, James didn't stop there. He kept sending flurry of punches but Jeremy blocked each.
The fight had caught the attention of many students and some were already filming with their mobile devices.
"Come on! Didn't your father teach you anything? Oh! My bad! He abandoned you a long time ago right?" Jeremy kept speaking ill of James's family as he blocked all of James's punches.
"I SWEAR! I'LL KILL YOU!!" James shouted at the top of his lungs.
The fight definitely looked like a student trying to hit his master as all Jeremy was doing was blocking James's punches and didn't go on the attack.
However that soon changed when James feigned a punch and used his other hand to deliver a powerful uppercut to Jeremy's jaw.
Jeremy's feet were lifted off the floor as his body flung from James's front to a good fifteen meters away.
Unprecedentedly, James had activated some cells around his fists when he delivered the upper cut. It was the reason his punch was powerful.
Everyone gasped when Jeremy flew back. They thought their eyes were deceiving. How could James, a skinny teen punch a muscular guy like Jeremy that far was the thought in their mind.
'How did he punch me this far? I'm a...' Jeremy thought but didn't have enough time as James had leapt from his position towards him and was ready for a devastating kick.
Jeremy flashed from the floor and grabbed James mid-air. This action was hardly noticed by anyone.
It felt like everyone blinked and Jeremy appeared in front of James.
"You! How did you?! I thought you were just a mere rival!" Jeremy shouted as he grabbed James by the neck.
He flung James towards the lockers and spat out the blood in his mouth.
James stood up slowly holding his head. When he removed his hands from his head, he noticed his fingers were moist with some kind of liquid.
Blood was trickling down James's forehead.
Although there was a big cut on James forehead, he didn't stop fighting.
James dashed and sent flurry of punches, but it was the same as last time—Jeremy blocked every punch.
James feigned a punch to confuse Jeremy and sent another punch immediately with his other.
Unfortunately, he didn't succeed this time.
"Your little trick won't work again." Jeremy said as he grabbed James's fist. But the sheer force of James's fist flinched Jeremy back.
'He's stronger than he looks like.' Jeremy thought.
Before James could raise his hand for another punch, Jeremy held both of his hands and swung them apart. Jeremy then dragged James closer by pulling his arms and jerked his knee into the latter's stomach.
James was flung back as Jeremy let go of his arms. He was now lying on the floor, twenty metres away from Jeremy and was screaming in pain.
'That should have knock him out! Who is this guy?' Jeremy thought to himself.
Just then, a senior entered the hallway only to see a crowd of students with their mobile devices recording the mess caused by Jeremy and James.
"What's going on here?!" The senior asked as his gaze met poor James screaming in pain and blood all over his body.
The senior turned to Jeremy who stood in the hallway with just blood stain on the side of his mouth and on the collar of his shirt.
The students that witnessed everything were slowly making their way to the hallway exit. Most of them had their backs turned to the three standing in the hallway until...
*CRACK*
"AHHHHHHH! FUCK IT!!!" The senior shouted at the top of his lungs.
About three minutes ago, the senior walked towards Jeremy to ask him questions.
On the other hand, James had slowly gotten back on his feet. He found a broken thick wooden rod in the trash can.
He inched closer and closer towards the senior and Jeremy in the hallway with the wood in his hand.
'I'll pay him back for his loose mouth and all the pain!' James had the determination to inflict a critical injury on Jeremy as his last resort.
Anger had consumed James and his eyes were faintly glowing yellow.
"An eye for an eye." James said as he was already by their side with the wooden rod in his hand.
He tightened his grip on the wood and lifted his hands high.
*CRACK*
"AHHHHHHH! FUCK IT!!!" The senior shouted at the top of his lungs.
Jeremy had managed to see James raise his hand and he knew what he intended. Jeremy quickly gave a slight nudge to the senior so as to avoid the rod.
The rod had successfully hit, but it wasn't the intended person.
So much force and pressure had been exerted from James that the rod still managed to hit Jeremy and knock him out when he flung back and hit his head. However, the real victim was the senior.
The senior fell immediately as the rod cracked his femur. He laid on the floor uncontrollably screaming and crying.
James was now the only one standing with the rod still in his hands.
The students turned to see who was screaming and were surprised to see James standing by the fallen two.
"I can't believe it! He knocked them out!"
"Are they still breathing?"
"He's a monster!"
That's all James heard as his vision was becoming blurry.
"What have I done?" James said and fell off his feet.