Death Won't Stop Me

Take care

A few hours before Eddie attacked Jon and Ana. In the spirit world, manager Kent's office.

*KNOCK* *KNOCK*

"Come in." Kent said as he stopped what he was doing and looked at the door.

"Manager Kent." A middle aged man wearing an executive attire and black glasses came into the room and acknowledged Kent.

"Mn. What is it?" He nodded and asked.

"Director Fuller wants to see you." The man in glasses said.

"The director? What is it about?" Kent asked again as he stood up from his desk.

"I was not informed." The man said. He turned around towards the door and added. "Follow me please."

Manager Kent had an inkling on what this call was about but he decided not to say anything and followed the man.

***

Half an hour later, in the middle part of the spirit world, a circular corporate looking building was standing tall. It was seven stories high and about half a kilometer in diameter. 

Manager Kent stopped at the entrance and looked at the top of the building for a few minutes. He looked as if he was thinking about something. He sighed, looked towards the entrance and continued walking.

The man in glasses escorted him to the highest floor. The seventh floor of this building only had seven rooms. It was allocated for the spirit world's so called "Higher Ups". These are the seven directors of the spirit world and also the seven strongest people. They are the ones tasked to manage everything that happens in the spirit world. 

Manager Kent was led to the third director's door. The man in glasses knocked and said towards the door: "Director, manager Kent is here."

"Let him in." A muffled male's voice sounded from inside. The man in glasses bowed towards the door and turned to manager Kent, stepped to the side and gestured for him to go in.

He breathed in to calm himself, opened the door and went inside.

***

Jon and the twins were in a standoff right after their transformations. The twins were looking at Jon while he was being vigilant towards them. He was waiting for them to make the first move so he could probe for their strength. He knew that he could not get reckless right now as he was the only one between them and Ana.

"Should we?" Bors suddenly asked Lionel.

"We should, but can I?" He asked back

"You sure?"

"Yeah. Test."

"Okay. Five minutes?"

"Three."

Bors then shrugged to himself as if he had no choice in the matter and stepped back.

Jon narrowed his eyes towards this. These scumbags actually want to go one on one against him. It seems that after their transformation, they felt that they were way stronger than him, strong enough to just fight one on one.

Lionel suddenly walked towards him in an unhurried manner. Jon looked at him and tensed up. He felt that Lionel's pressure suddenly got stronger but he was not letting out any aura at all. Jon's hair on his back suddenly stood up and he ducked and rolled forward as a blurry kick materialized on the spot where his head was and Lionel appeared at his back.

"Good reflex." Lionel said nonchalantly then added: "But can you continue?"

Jon didn't have time to even think of a comeback as Lionel appeared in front of him and punched. His punch was not even near Jon but he felt an air pressure already striking his face.

"Haah!" He punched out in a hurried manner to counter the incoming blurry fist. But he was shocked that his fist just went through as the blurry fist continued to his face. "Damn it!" He shouted as he jumped backwards and retracted his fist and threw another punch but this time with a large flaming fist emitted from his punch and rushed towards Lionel.

"Hmpf!" Lionel harrumphed and also retracted his fist and swiped forwards with his other arm. A little dust devil materialized in his front and blocked the flaming fist.

A combustion looking explosion happened at the collision. Lionel smiled at the effect that happened and was about to taunt again when Jon suddenly flew through the smoke and launched another flaming fist towards him. He panicked and swiped again with his right hand to block it with another dust devil. 

The collision hasn't even happened when Jon appeared again to his left sending another flaming fist. He again, panickily sent out another dust devil with his left arm to block. But Jon appeared again, and this time, to his right. Same thing happened and three booms simultaneously exploded near him. He got disoriented a little from three loud explosions ringing at small intervals in his ears. He did not have time to compose himself when Jon appeared again. 

Jon was above Lionel, falling down with azure flames all over his body like a falling blue meteor in the night sky. He threw another three flaming fists towards Lionel and released his full pressure towards him so as to lock him in place.

Lionel felt that he was looking at death's door and he could not even evade with Jon's pressure locking him in place. He could only block it. He raised both of his hands in a blocking manner and air condensed right above his arms and formed a barrier as the flames came. The first collision shook the air barrier but the shaking was not even finished as the second flame collided with the barrier. Another combustion happened as his air barrier broke and the third flaming fist went through and hit his arms and caused them to ricochet to the sides. The pain from his arms haven't even registered yet when Jon's own fist went through the smoke. Lionel's pupils shrunk like needles as he watched with dread and regret, that flaming fist come in contact with his temple.

A huge explosion sounded within all the smoke and a little mushroom like cloud sprouted upwards after the sound. This all happened within two minutes and Bors wasn't able to react fast enough and felt his connection with his brother disappear. "No!" He shouted as he dashed towards the mushroom cloud and went inside.

"BROTHER!" When he got inside he saw his brother's body lying beside Jon, headless. His brother's neck was singed like it was cauterized and burn marks could be seen all over the body.

Bors' eyes reddened at the sight of his brother's dead body. All signs of intelligence faded from his eyes as his killing intent exploded out towards Jon and he madly rushed while shouting towards Jon and punched out with all of his strength.

Jon felt like a huge mountain was coming towards him aiming to ram him to death. He urged his flames to coat his right hand and jumped a little to cushion the blow as he caught Bors' fist and got pushed back in mid air. When his feet dropped to the ground, he was still pushed back a little more and made two ditches with his feet. 

"Miscalculations? Definitely." Jon taunted as he gripped with his right hand tightly and urged his whole energy to his left fist as the black ring on his back rotated faster to absorb more energies and punched in an uppercut towards Bors' chin. Intelligence returned from Bors' eyes as he heard Jon's taunt and the look in his eyes were the same with Lionel's, fear and regret, as he also felt death's door calling to him. Huge, azure flames burst out from Jon's left fist at the same time as his punch connected with Bors' head. The flames were so hot that Bors' neck bone melted quickly and his head detached with the force of the punch. His head then burnt to dust in mid air as he saw his body slumping to the ground beside Jon.

***

"This is bad!" Geraint reacted quickly when he saw the mushroom cloud after the explosion. He quickly looked at his two companions. Percival was locking Caradoc's head with her left arm as her right hand was pressing on his scalp, giving him a noogie. "Dimwits!" He shouted at them angrily and added as he rushed towards the fight in the distance. "Stop clowning around! They need help!"

Percival let go of Caradoc's head when she heard Geraint's shout towards them. They both looked at the direction of the fight and could not see the twins. All they could see was a little mushroom cloud. They looked at each other and rushed out to follow Geraint.

***

When the three of them got inside the cloud of smoke, they got to see Bors' flaming head in mid air turn to dust and his body slumped to the ground. "Tsk!" Geraint click his tongue as he knew that his punishment was inevitable now that they had casualties on this seemingly easy mission.

Jon was startled when he felt three more energy signals come inside the smoke. He looked towards their direction and saw a man in a hoodie and jeans with rings connected with chains in his left hand, a young woman in a messenger hat and sheepskin jacket and a middle aged man with unkempt short hair in a tank top and jeans.

"There's more of them?!" Jon was shocked. Is there like a club for these guys?! Why do they keep showing up? And what's worse was every time they come there's one more than the last wave. "Can I still keep up?" He asked in his mind.

"The leader is currently way stronger than us, master. I suggest running." The mysterious voice answered.

Geraint suddenly released his aura and air blew outwards from him and dispersed all the remaining smoke in the area. He then looked over his shoulder and said towards his companions: "Kill them, don't pull back your punches. No more mistakes or it's our heads on the line. Caradoc, you take Eddie and return to base." He then got ready to pounce on Jon and the girl looked towards Ana. "GO!"

"Tsk!" Jon clicked his tongue and disappeared from his spot and appeared beside Ana and got ready to defend. He saw the hooded man coming towards him and the girl at his back following him, while the middle aged man was already carrying Eddie at his back and disappeared right after.

When they were about to get close to Jon, a shadow suddenly dropped down in front of him and rushed towards Geraint. He was startled with the sudden intervention, but he was experienced enough to throw a punch towards the shadow to block the sneak attack. They both got pushed back at the same time and he looked at the attacker and saw manager Kent in his trademark slick black suite, looking coldly back at him.

"Protect Ana, apprehend the others." Kent shouted.

"Yes, sir!" About a dozen voices sounded and eight shadows surrounded Ana and Jon, four more appeared on manager Kent's side all of them were wearing black corporate attires.

"Tsk! They're here." Geraint looked towards Percival and added: "Retreat!"

They both turned to shadows and rushed out.

"Follow them!" Kent ordered and the four people on his side rushed to follow the two. He then turned to Jon and walked towards them.

"Leave Ana to us. We'll take it from here." He said to Jon.

Jon relaxed a little when he heard that they knew Ana but did not let his guard down.

"It's okay. I'm her bother." Kent said when he saw Jon's hesitation.

Jon pondered for a bit then nodded his head towards Kent then made way for him. Manager Kent nodded at Jon for understanding then walked towards Ana, crouched down and carried her. "Thank you." He whispered as he looked towards Jon when he got up. He turned around and walked away.

When he got out of the encirclement of the eight men, they suddenly tightened the encirclement towards Jon and looked like they were about to pounce on him. Jon was startled at the hostility aimed at him, but still got ready to fight. "Stand down." Manager Kent's voice was heard as he was walking away.

"But sir!-" One of the men tried to explain but was cut short by Kent's answer. "He's not one of them. Let him go. I'll take responsibility. Let's go."

"Yes, sir!" The eight answered and turned to walk away towards Kent.

They all then turned to shadows and vanished.

Jon looked at the direction they left as he sighed heavily and relaxed. He smiled sadly and whispered: "Take care."