Both their eyes met one last time until one of them lost. The battle between the fire and water had begun!

  Hilol dropped into a stance. Left foot forward, fists high. Aldred charged at him like a bull to punch him. He swung his left fist, which ran around Hilol's face due to his dodging the attack. With all his strength, he tried to punch him using his right fist.

  Hilol dodged it again with ease. Aldred threw a stream of punches, but they were all dodged easily by Hilol by either jumping left or right.

  Hilol kicked his gut, which caused Aldred to fall back. He held his gut with pain. He bit his lip to ease the pain. He stood up, and he grunted with anger.

  Anyone! He thought, Anyone who hurts my friends... He removed his hand from his stomach while he clenched his eyes. They deserve death! He started sprinting at him with full energy to fight back. Kill! A thought brushed his brain while his eyes burned with rage, Kill! The voice said with more energy. The nerves and blood vessels bulged in his eyes due to his sheer rage, I WILL KILL YOU!!! The voice said with full might. His fist flew up the corridor of the school while piercing through the wind. The fist came till Hilol's face, which hadn't flinched a bit. He sighed and widened his eyes. He ducked down, dodging the attack. He quickly took the support of his hand, which he had placed on the floor, lifted his feet, and kicked Aldred's feet, causing him to fall on the ground helplessly.

  " Talent is there..." He slowly stood up from the floor while looking down, trying to taunt Aldred," But...rage isn't enough!"

  Aldred's head lay on the floor, thinking about what had just happened. The f**k happened? He questioned himself and the world.

  Shit! Kyra thought as she saw Aldred fall on the floor. Amanda was sitting on the floor with a blank face. I can't help him! She herself was wounded. Her legs couldn't move, her stomach was bruised, and her head had been smashed on the wall many times, which had given her a concussion.

  Aldred lay on the ground thinking about what Hilol had commented. Hilol started to move towards Amanda, who was completely blank, terrified. He bit his lip in rage, YOU USELESS PIECE OF TRASH!!! His mind shouted at his useless body. STAND THE F**K UP!!!

  Hilol pulled Amanda up by her collar and proceeded to punch her face to knock her out.

  Aldred's grunting intensity increased as he dragged himself.

  Hilol's fist grazed her face, but that was when he heard a scream. The fist stopped moving suddenly, creating a shockwave which moved her hair backwards. He slowly turned back to see Aldred running at him with his eyes completely blank, covered with rage.

  Hilol's eyes widened; he threw Amanda down and dodged the attack, which hit the wall, cracking it. A wave of blood dripped from the wall from Aldred's fist.

  Aldred turned back, pulled his fist back, and ran at Hilol, who had backed off a moment ago.

  Hilol slowly dodged all the attacks, his face a mask of shock. How can anyone even move after that...

  KILL! He punched the air multiple times. KILL!! He tried to kick, but Hilol dodged again and held his feet, throwing him against the wall. Aldred broke the wall on which he had crashed. He slowly stood up with a wound on his back, and rubble fell from his rage-filled body.

  Blood slowly covered his body due to the wounds. Blood dripped from his mouth, from his forehead, and from his ears. But even these wounds couldn't stop this monster he had become.

  This guy! He's not using his brain... Aldred started to charge at him again. His body is moving on its own while he's unconscious!

  Hilol dodged again, but for how long would he just dodge? The reality is that he didn't want to hurt Aldred and Kyra. His shock increased second by second, fist by fist thrown at him by Aldred.

  He used his arms to block off Aldred's attack, but suddenly, after the long barrage of attacks, a single kick hit his gut, strong enough to cause Hilol to spit out blood. He fell to the ground as he was shocked at Aldred hitting him.

  He slowly stood up and wiped the blood with his hand. He gave a serious look towards his teammates, who were also scared by this monster. Steam pumped out of his mouth due to sheer rage, which burned his body, hence evaporating the water in him. He was panting while leaving steam with each pant. His eyes were completely blank. A single drop of blood dripped from his eye and fell on the ground. The blood made a trace on his cheeks.

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  Fight! His mind said to him, even though he was tired and unable to, but his body didn't care a bit. He started walking at Hilol. Each step increased the intensity of the tension between the two fighters.

  Kyra looked at him one last time before fainting on the spot. Amanda, on the ground, finally came out of her trance due to a single drop of tears falling on her feet. It was her own tear. She witnessed the fight in front of her.

  " Who the f**k are you?" Hilol questioned Aldred, who didn't give any reply, proving that he wasn't thinking or listening to anything during this battle. I have never seen a guy like him! Hilol thought about him, a person who uses rage instead of intellect in a battle.

  The speed at which he walked increased with each step. He then started to sprint at Hilol.

  Hilol made a sign using his hands, which indicated the teammates about something.

  All of them left Kyra and charged at Aldred. They all grabbed him. Some grabbed his legs, some grabbed his hand, and some grabbed his head.

  His speed decreased, but he didn't give up.

  How? Hilol's eyes widened as he saw Aldred still charging at him with all his strength. Aldred raised his fist and pushed it forward, which also pushed the teammate who had grabbed his hand. But the fist stopped just before Hilol's face, leaving a shockwave which made his hair move like a wave of the ocean.

  Someone from behind pushed Aldred forward; hence, he fell on the ground just beside Hilol's feet.

  Hilol was in full shock, how! How can a person like him exist? His mind gave him an unsolvable question. Respect for Aldred had increased in him, but there was a slight anger that pulped from his heart. How can a person like him come this close to defeating me! His ego had been hurt. But he quickly calmed himself and started to walk towards Amanda again.

  Amanda started to scream. She quickly stood up and prepared to run away from her archenemy. But fate had other plans for her. Hilol took control over her. He lifted her by the neck and ripped her clothes to reveal her bra.

  Aldred finally woke up from his trance and looked at the sight.

  " Hey!" He shouted at Hilol. He looked back and winked at his teammates.

  The other people, except the two who were disgusted, started to drag him towards the wall. Two people pinned him against the wall, one from behind, removed a pocket knife from his pocket, and stabbed his chest, his heart, to instantly kill him.

  Aldred felt thunder in his chest. The pain slowly disappeared as everything around him turned black. He felt like this was death.

  He saw two people in front of him, or to say he saw two giants with ornaments and armour. One had a symbol of a clock, and the other had the symbol of the five nature elements.

  Both the giants lifted their arms towards Aldred, providing a way. But that quickly ended as he felt a pain in his head.

  A diamond-shaped symbol emerged out of nowhere in front of Aldred, which had bent the space itself. Suddenly, the two giants behind the symbol exploded.

  He kept his hand on his head as the symbol slowly vanished.

  A human-sized conference table appeared in front of him from a mysterious fog, then the chairs emerged, eight in total, with one in the front.

  Each chair had a torch, which momentarily glowed as Aldred looked up.

  And then there at the master chair, appeared a person who looked like a human. He stared at Aldred for a few seconds and then smiled at him while he rested his head on his fist, which was placed on the table.

  " Mister Brat!" He mockingly said," The scar will now, finally 'glow'!" He put more effort while saying 'glow'.

  Aldred blinked once, and he came back to the original world.

  The knife which was pierced in him suddenly broke with the bending of space.

  All the people who were holding him exploded into pure blood, which covered Aldred's body. He slowly looked at Hilol, who turned back.

  Hilol finally felt fear. His ego had disappeared from sheer fear. The person who had stabbed him also exploded.

  The people who were disgusted by Hilol took the opportunity and ran away from the school.

  Aldred slowly, menacingly, glared at Hilol. He ran at him with rage. While running, the wound on his chest suddenly healed by itself with an effect of spatial bending around the wound.

  Aldred held Hilol's skull and pushed him side. He then turned to his right and punched Hilol's face.

  Hilol broke threw the wall and fell on the floor of a classroom with benches.

  Aldred stepped in through the broken wall and kicked his face with disgust.

  Amanda from behind tried to stop Aldred, but he was covered in rage, blinded by it.

  He took a chair and then hit Hilol's body, which in turn broke the chair.

  He then lifted Hilol by the skull and bashed it on the wall of the classroom, which wasn't damaged.

  He then tightly held Hilol's throat and lifted him against the wall, trying to choke him till death.

  Amanda ran at Aldred and punched his back to awake him, but there was no effect.

  Amanda quickly backed off after realising what was about to happen.

  " You people disgust me!" Aldred screeched at Hilol, who was trying to break free from Aldred's grasp.

  " DIE!" He shouted at Hilol.

  Hilol's body slowed down.

  With a sound of bone cracking, the movements of the body halted as the person controlling the body had died.

  Aldred threw the body away. He was panting badly, and all the strength he had gained slowly dissipated as his vision went blurry.

  He checked his palm to see a wound cut open, which quickly healed to take the shape of a diamond. The scar glowed yellow as Aldred's body fell to the floor. He went unconscious.

  What will happen now? Amanda thought with fear, clearly seen in her eyes. She covered her mouth in disgust and then vomited.

  She quickly wiped her mouth and called the police.

  The case had begun!