Chapter 14: Crash
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He just stood there smiling at me as I charged an enourmous amount of chi within my hands.
"Come on Dick... What ya got?" he said to me widening his smile even more as he spoke. the crowd of people gathered around and became somewhat silent. I held my energy as long as I could sustain it, smiling myself as he just stood there, not flinching in the least. Fuckin psychopath was just the same as I remembered him all those years ago.
"I don't wanna do this..." I said to him, holding the blast.
"Do it... Do it fucker... You didn't come all this way to puss out on me did you?" he says arrogantly.
The energy exploded forth from my hands as I thrust them forwards, the blast hitting him square in the chest. It was like thunder without sound, and it was the largest blast I had ever tried. The table exploded into dust around him, and for a moment he was gone. I wasn't even sure if he still existed.
The smoke and dust slowly cleared and James was still just standing there smiling at me. I was dazed, confused, and utterly stupified as to what just happened. Then I seen it, his aura glowing around him, a brilliant white and red. His aura was so massive it had actually formed the shape of wings, that slowly unfolded from around him. "What the hell is that?!" I shouted at him.
"Ha-Ha. You've gotten better with energy Draven. Now it's my turn..." he said, as he pulled his hand from behind his back to reveal a small glowing red and white orb of pure energy. I didn't even know such a thing was possible. He threw the orb towards me, and followed it by connecting his left hand to his right and throwing a beam of chi right behind the orb. The orb slammed into my chest, but never made an impact, it just seemed to try and force its way inside of me.
The blast hit second, which was when I realized he was feeding the blast behind the orb. It was as if he was trying to force the orb through me, I screamed in pain as I let my gaurd down and flew backwards, rolling into the wall and smashing my head. My eyes watered instantly from the pain, as I looked up through the haze to see him approaching, a second orb groing in his hands.
He retracted the energy within himself, and extended his hand. I grasped it firmly and pulled myself up with his help. "Eric Draven Richards... Long fucking time... When was it we last played with energy together?" he said with a smile.
"Shit man, it's been years..." I said when suddenly a blast of blue energy slammed into James from the right, sending him flying off into the distance, I looked to see where the blast had come from but there was no one there as all of the people had long since cleared out. In the distance sirens could be heard.
I readied my own chi blast, and scanned the room again, it was only a matter of split seconds before a second blast smashed into James who had just begun to stand. This time, however, I seen where the blast originated. "WEST!" I screamed to my good friend. "Stop! it's cool! He's on our side!"
"So why were the two of you fighting?" West said appearing beside me in his ninjitsu ensemble, almost as if by magic.
"That's just how we are... We're fighters me and James... so we fight... it's what we do best." I said to him and we approached James who was pulling himself from a rubble of wood, and stone.
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I pulled myself up after the second blast to see not only my old friend Eric, but a new face. Obviously the man who blasted me, I grew a blast through my arm, and just as they were in range slashed my arm horizontally in front of me. The chi nailed both of them directly in the stomach, knocking them back a bit. Eric actually fell over, which wasn't surprising, but the new face just kinda pushed back a bit.
"You're good," I said to the newcomer, licking the blood from behind my teeth. "Who the hell are ya? And what's your story..." I asked him.
"The name... is West, and I'm the Don." was his only reply, as he bowed his head gracefully.
"What the fuck are you the Don of? Cheba hut?" I questioned like the smartass I am.
"No insults to anyone, but maybe we could save the pleasantries for later... Those sirens are getting a helluva lot closer than I'm Comfortable with them being." Eric said from my left as he reached his feet.
He was right too, the sirens had gotten a lot closer. I was honestly amazed they weren't here already. "Well you got any bright ideas chickenwuss? And oh yea... that reminds me... don't use my fuckin word... Dick." I said to Eric as I moved towards the front exit.
"Heh heh, thought you'd like that one." Eric said. "But why the hell you walkin towards the front... shouldn't we be going out the back?" he asked me.
"Maybe, then again...maybe not... Hell if you were a cop wouldn't you expect people to run out the back entrance and not just walk nonchalantly out the front door?" I answered him grabbing my top hat and coat before exiting the building. I removed a pen from my pocket and wrote my cell phone number on a piece of paper, before handing it to Eric. "Gimme a call man... we'll get together." I told him and left in my car. I had more important things to do, and probably a lawsuit or two to straighten out now.
