• Chapter 8
    Out cold Lie

    "Chaos!" shouted Hero ramming through the warehouse entrance, Kei and

    Acqua following in behind, wet, "Ah the guests of honor have finally arrived," Seirgei's voice sounded from over head,

    Where's Yume, what'd you do to her?!" he spoke in haste.

    "In time little one her location will be known, but tell me. Did you enjoy your warm up?" Seirgei's calmly asked.

    "Warm up?!? Sending Mr. Lock to delay my arrival isn't a warm up, it's a sneer plan to wear me down." he growled as his patience was thinning.

    "Now, Now Hero Aiyami, I was merely testing you." Seirgei spoke coming down out of the shadows slowly.

    "Testing me?" Hero questioned.

    "Testing him?!" both Kei and Acqua repeated.

    "Yes, and although with the aid of your comrades you passed with style." he answered.

    "Why all of this examination," Hero asked while trying to stay still.

    "To see if you were worthy enough to heir to the one in the legacy." he explained giving a sly grin.

    "Tough enough to face you...of course I am. As to the heir to the legacy, I have no idea what you're talking about." Hero boasted with confidence.

    "Hero, don't go in over your head, we don't even know how powerful he is yet." Acqua noted. He got into his fighting stance.

    "He's got the ability to use the wind current at his disposal. So what, like that's going to stop me." He continued to boast.

    "You should listen to her Hero. There's more to him and it's not good..." Kei trailed off.

    "Do you have any better idea to save Yume? I'm open to suggestions." He asked looking back to them. Both ladies looked away and shook their heads.

    "Thought so" He grunted.

    "Shall we get this over with? I've got a business to run and a world to rule." Sergei yawned. Taking off his school trench coat, revealing a muscle shirt and a pair of black wings, feathers scattered everywhere.

    "Conditions are as followed for this match;

    I win, you tell me how you have half breed abilities and you die slow and sufferable.

    I lose, you get your precious Yume returned to you, fox magic and all and you gain a little bit of my respect." he explained while stretching.

    "Clear on all of it aside from the half fox magic stuff. Oh and two things; One, I'm human and Two, who says your going to live when I beat you anyway?" Hero confirmed.

    "Before we begin one more additional rule to be mentioned; your friends cannot aid you at all. Any motion made by them to tip this fight in your favor, Yume will be killed instantly." he sharpened his tone.

    "Man you want to really win this, do you not?" Hero asked eager to do battle.

    "Hero, please. There must be another way to do this." Acqua cried at him.

    "Acqua, I've accepted his conditions, there's no other way out. Please just be with me on this. Well get out of this alright, trust me" he contemplated with her. Seirgei then appeared right beside him.

    "Never take your eyes off your target mutt." he spoke, giving a clear shot to Hero’s face, sending him skyward into the dark rafters.

    "Heh you just gave me an advantage, you can't fight what you can't see now can you?" Hero spoke, wiping the blood from his face.

    "Hiding in the dark isn't much of a great tactic if you keep talking; it gives your position away easily." Seirgei mocked him, flying towards him.

    "I better mo-!! Ack," He was cut off as Seirgei swooped above him giving a double handed shot to his head.

    "Told you," Seirgei smirked, watching him dive to the ground, Creating a crater and smoke.

    "Fast bugger, aren't you?" He huffed, dashing out of the smoke from a new angle to attack.

    "There's got to be a way I could take him out, but how?" he pondered, and then an instinct came over him, as he ran up the wall. He continued up the wall passing the rafters, bending his legs he bounded off the wall. Doing several back flips before reverse axe kicking Seirgei in the back of the head. Seirgei landed on the ground feet first, Hero right after him.

    "Whoa, what the heck did I just do?" He asked himself in shock.

    "You let your guard down!!" Seirgei answered, throwing a right hook towards him. Still surprised at the defeat he just accomplished, Hero sub consciously put up his hand, catching Seirgei's punch.

    An instinct came over him again as he right hooked Seirgei in the chest sending him back a few inches. He repeated to beat on him, moving faster with each blow.

    "Fast fist times one thousand" Hero mumbled under his breath. Seirgei caught the last two hooks thrown at him giving a wide sly grin.

    "You cannot beat me you pathetic excuse for a half demon" Seirgei smirked tightening his grip on Hero's fists.

    "I am no half demon!!" growled Hero, bearing fangs as he climbed up Seirgei's chest, kicking him twice in the chin. As Hero was in the air, Seirgei grabbed his heels, tossing him into the wall.

    "Where'd Acqua go?" Hero thought before going unconscious on the ground.

    "HERO, you're going down Chaos," Shouted Kei spinning in the air landing two shots to his face, knocking him down.

    "Heh, so you saw through my bluff huh?" he chuckled getting back up.

    End Chapter Eight
    Out Cold Lie