Death Won't Stop Me

Midnight

Ana felt like all her injuries were suddenly gone and her body felt light as she scrambled to throw herself to Jon and held him tight as she cried her heart out. He felt his heart ache while he watched Ana rush to him and held him tight. He clenched his right hand into a fist, he clenched it so tight that his hand started to bleed. "Stronger. I need to get stronger." He thought to himself.

"Let's go." He said to her.

"Mn." She sobbed a little as she tried to stop crying in order to answer him, but she couldn't so she just nodded her head and made an agreeing sound.

"Can you walk?" He asked.

She nodded her head again. He helped her up slowly. They looked towards the place where Eddie was then turned to walk away.

He suddenly felt an extreme killing intent aimed towards them, He felt that with his almost spent energy and with Ana's heavy injuries, this incoming killing intent was something he can't defend at while protecting her. So he decided to push Ana away to the side and jumped a little forward while turning towards the back in mid air as he punched out at the same time.

It could not be said that it was planned nor was it intended, but as he punched out, a huge fist also came towards him at the same time. Before the contact, he urged his seed to release a very tiny amount to his hand and burst it out just as fast. His glove amplified this punch so it was almost, if not the same, as his normal punch without spiritual energy.

But this was not enough, he shot backwards a few meters away. Though it was lacking, he still managed to block that fatal strike without any injuries, and only his hand felt numb.

"Raah!" A snarl full of anger was suddenly heard as Eddie followed him and dashed towards him in a seemingly maddened state and threw another punch full of killing intent.

Jon felt like Eddie was not himself and was overcome by hatred, anger and a pure desire to kill. He breathed in and out as he calmed his heart and relaxed his body. He put both hands up and got into a boxing stance.

When he saw Eddie's punch was almost near him, he jumped back a little again and punched with a tiny amount of energy from his almost depleted pool. This technique helped him absorb almost fifty percent of Eddie's punch. Added his enhanced punch, he was able to absorb at least thirty percent more.

"Raah!" Another snarl was heard and Eddie continued to attack like a madman.

Ana was a little astonished to see that Jon was able to go toe to toe with Eddie despite the level difference and with him in a synchronized state too. It was so unbelievable that she felt like she, herself, would laugh if someone else told her this story instead of seeing it personally.

***

"Dammit! I can't keep on doing this. I can't beat him even in his state right now." Jon was starting to get pushed back as his punches starts to lose energy. He knew that he was getting nearer and nearer to his absolute limit. And when that happens, both Ana and him are going to die.

Still in a maddened state, Eddie released another full powered attack at Jon, but this time, his punch had a little less power in it than it usually has. "Is he starting to lose energy too?" Jon noticed this and thought to himself.

"I can do this." A bluish light flashed in his eyes as he urged his seed to absorb more and more energy to use as a substitute for his own power to his punch. As the energy started to get absorbed inside his body, his pores again, felt like thousands upon thousands of needles suddenly pricked him. He was shocked and afraid, but still, he gritted his teeth and keep on urging his seed so he can match up to Eddie until he depletes his own.

He did not notice that as he did this, something was starting to happen in his seed. The vague shadow inside seemed to start getting restless. Then all the impure residual energies that were left in his body started to accumulate in his seed, bypassing the vortex around it. The shadow inside was starting to have a distinct shape.

"HAAH.." Jon shouted as he formed another fist to counter Eddie. He then saw Eddie stagger three steps back. "This is it! Chance!" He was delighted at what happened, he thought that Eddie was now reaching his own limit.

He did not wait for Eddie to punch out and he, himself went towards him in a seemingly maddened state too. The fight was starting to tilt to his advantage as Eddie was getting pushed back more and more.

He did not notice the light flashing in his eyes were starting to turn darker and darker as the fight was continuing.

***

A few more rounds of maddened punches, and Eddie's consciousness was starting to stabilize. As the fight started to lean to his disadvantage more and more, Eddie was starting to get calmer and calmer. He was no longer snarling. Since his eyes were already red and one could not see his pupils at all, no one noticed than the intelligence inside was back.

"Damn this monkey! I went mad for a while there. Good thing I did not die while in a berserk state." Eddie thought as came back to himself. "That was one hell of a sneak attack, my head is still ringing a bit." Eddie shook his head a little to lessen the disorientation left in his head.

Jon pushed on his advantage towards Eddie and kept of raining punches. He thought that Eddie was still in a berserk state and was only punching out in reflex.

"Heh. You think I'll go down easily?" Eddie was now looking for an opening to finish him off. He faked another stagger back to make Jon drop his guard.

Jon saw this so he urged his seed to send more energy to his punch and aimed it at Eddie's face again.

Eddie laughed inside as he acted berserk and threw out another punch. But before his punch collided with Jon's, he put in more power than when he was fighting reflexively before.

Jon suddenly felt that the punch that Eddie sent out had way more pressure than when he was in a berserk state. He then saw Eddie's mouth suddenly formed a smirk as their punch collided. His left fist got ruined and his glove was destroyed as his whole arm felt numb. He shot out in an arch with blood from his mouth trailing in mid air, like a broken kite. Eddie's punch had so much power that when he fell down, he bounced from the ground and his body flipped to face the ground.

A large hand suddenly caught his head in the air and immediately smashed it back into the ground. The ground shook and it looked like it formed waves from the impact.

Eddie pulled Jon's head from the ground. His face was covered in his own blood and his body had bruises and cuts all over. His clothes were in tatters and his pants was starting to change color from his blood. His left hand was broken with some bones sticking out and blood continued to drip from it.

"Had enough fun?" Eddie's snarling voice was heard in his ear.

*Cough* Jon could only cough out blood as an answer.

"Heh. You're too weak to even fight me to begin with. And you had the gall to think that you could win?" Eddie mocked him even more. He then tossed Jon to skid face down towards where Ana was lying.

"Jon" Ana looked at the barely conscious Jon in front of her and tears started to fall from her eyes again. She tried to crawl towards him.

"I sense something between the two of you. There's care in your eyes." Eddie said to Ana as he started to walk slowly towards them. He then transformed back to his human form as a black mist started to hover around his body and the wolf head materialized beside him.

As he got beside him, Eddie stomped his left foot on his spine which caused him to cough out more blood. "Stop!" Ana cried out. 

He looked at her and smiled sinisterly. He removed his foot and reached out towards Jon's head and lifted him up. He whispered to him: "How about I torture her in front of you before you croak?"

Jon could only grit his teeth from Eddie's provocation. He could not even muster enough energy to speak. He could not even move his body, let alone stop him. "Pathetic. I'm Pathetic. Useless. What's the point of this strength if I can't even protect those close to me?" He thought to himself.

Eddie let go of his head and went towards the crawling Ana. "Go" He ordered Pharaoh. Then the wolf head charged towards Ana. 

The little dragon rushed towards the wolf without Ana even ordering it. It felt that it needed to protect its owner as she did not even have any power to stand nor protect herself. "Nugget." Ana said in a low, choked voice.

"I forgot about that nuisance." Eddie's voice sounded, then he rushed towards the little dragon then punched out in full force. He hit the dragon from the side and it dispersed into golden lights. Ana coughed out blood from the backlash of her guardian's body being destroyed.

"Haha! Annoying little bug." Eddie laughed as he watched the golden lights return to Ana's body. He continued walking towards her again. "Don't kill her. Make her suffer." He said to his wolf. Pharaoh growled lowly and charged towards Ana again.

The wolf shadow smashed towards Ana and she got thrown back causing her to cough more blood. Then it did not let up and turned into a sickle and sliced at her. It made very light cuts on her so as not to fatally wound her but the pain of a thousand cuts and more was unbearable.

"Hahaha! Nice. Nice. Keep going." Eddie was watching to the side as he laughed sinisterly. He then turned towards Jon. "How's the view back there?" He mocked him again as he saw Jon's eyes burning with anger as he looked on helplessly towards Ana being tortured by his pet. He felt elated seeing those eyes and that expression of helplessness from Jon.

"Hahaha!" He kept laughing, feeling fulfilled of his thirst for revenge.

***

Jon's tears were forming in his eyes as he looked at Ana being cut again and again. He felt frustrated as he heard her screams of pain. He wanted to tear Eddie to pieces.

"Do you want power?"

He was startled as he heard a mysterious deep male voice. He saw that Eddie did not seem to hear the voice. He moved his eyes around looking around for the origin of the speaker.

"Do you want the strength to protect those you love?"

The voice was suddenly heard again, but this time the voice seemed more pronounced. He felt that the speaker was speaking in his mind so he asked: "Who are you?"

"Do you want the power to seek revenge to those who've done you wrong? Do you want the strength to not be looked down on by anyone?"

The voice did not answer him but continued to ask him. "Yes." He did not even think about it at all and replied resolutely.

"Then call out to me. Call out my name. Let the contract be done!" Jon heard a snapping sound inside his body and he felt his seed started to absorb energies at high speed. He felt his injuries heal rapidly. His left hand's bones returned inside his skin and mended together. He now had enough energy to move so he stood up slowly.

"Hm?" Eddie felt a surge of energy from his back so he turned to see Jon standing, looking at him and his eyes had an azure glow, flashing brightly.

Another snap was heard inside his body. Then another and another, he heard the snapping sound four times. He then felt a surge of information rush to his mind and imprinted itself there as a new memory. He felt the surge of energy inside his body. He closed his eyes as he let his seed absorb everything. His body actually floated from the ground due to the enormous amount of energies entering his body.

"W-what is happening? Pharaoh!" Eddie called back his guardian to get ready for any surprises. The wolf left Ana as she dropped to the ground, barely conscious from all the wounds it inflicted on her. It returned to Eddie and let out a low growl. "What do you mean run?!" He got pissed at the wolf and snapped at it.

It took a few breaths of time for his seed to finish absorbing everything. Jon felt his body grow stronger by at least ten folds. His body slowly landed on the ground.

Eddie looked at Jon seriously as beads of sweat formed on his forehead. His wolf was baring it's teeth at Jon, shivering. The whole place turned quiet. It felt like hours to Eddie.

Jon suddenly opened his eyes, still glowing and looked at Eddie. He then opened his mouth to say something.

"Midnight!"