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Luke's defeat

Nebs shrunk and grew big in rapid succession as Rajin attempted to pry him from the cage. A cage he clung to for dear life.

"Save me, Damocles! Save me!" screamed Nebs as Rajin pulled on all four of his tails.

"I'm here to save you! Quit being such a pain!" snapped Rajin as he gnawed on the steel pinging it open and making Nebs wail louder.

Like a circus going on in the background, Damocles hoped for it to distract Luke, who stood motionless. Damocles stole Luke's stats as he glowed blue and then advanced towards him without warning. Magma sword swinging from Luke's right as another swung from the left, Luke leaned back and dodged both attacks before then locking eyes with the man who put his friends in tremendous pain.

"You hurt my friends..." said Luke in a cold dark voice. A tone so bitter it formed ice as he dismissed Crackling Thunder and delivered a vicious uppercut to a bewildered Damocles.

Luke hadn't put any stats into strength so the punch took a mere ten health away, but it sent Damocles flying backwards. Cracking his jaw and wiping his mouth Damocles smirked.

"I'll give you that one kid. A freebie. Was cheap of me to think you were distracted. After all, I'm dealing with a so-called legend." Damocles spat on the floor as Rajin managed to get Nebs free.

Rajin with Nebs clasped in his jaws hurried to free the other guides as Damocles and Luke prowled the outskirts of the room sizing one another up. The size and age difference being a big gap. Damocles at six-foot-four facing a five-foot-three Luke. Luke had to look upwards ever so slightly from across the room, but he had faced bigger Terror mode beasts.

"Lava Pillar!" Damocles made the first move and summoned a raging pillar of hot lava where Luke stood. Luke bounced back avoiding the ability and as he did Damocles charged to the right producing a series of magma swipes with both blades. All of them meeting Luke's sword.

Both Luke and Damocles raced or more like streaked across the room due to their speed trading blow after blow. CC banners were set alight along with furniture from the droplets of magma and the Lava Pillars that were summoned. The roof of the building became an inferno and was like a scene from a firefighter film. Smoke started to fill the room and made it hard to breathe until Luke using his head sent Thunder Bounce strikes upward to crack holes in the roof.

After a minute of trading blows the town hall was beginning to crumble. Luke watched Rajin and Nebs leave with the other guides and a few people. Rajin refused to save the red players. Damocles had gone from one-thousand-four-hundred health to one-thousand. Luke hadn't been touched and sat at six hundred. This angered Damocles and began to cast doubt in his mind. Even with the added stats, he couldn't overpower Luke. The lingering question of was the boy Awesome Biscuit beginning to enter his mind like a fog of war.

"How did you change so much in so little time?" Damocles took off his jacket and slung it aside before then unbuttoning the top two buttons on his shirt.

"Called training and practice. I'm here to make you regret ever touching my friends. Ever hurting them and for hurting others." Luke seethed.

"Quite the white knight conscious you have. Save it for someone who cares. I now have to get serious against a level five nobody." Damocles opened up his holo watch and grabbed a scroll from within.

Unfurling the scroll it vanished and Damocles gained a blue outline that didn't fade. Luke hadn't seen this before and he didn't know what to expect. Not waiting, Luke rushed in and swung for Damocles. He hit thin air as Damocles vanished. The scroll had upped his speed, and that wasn't all. Behind Luke, Damocles struck with a nasty overcharged LavaBlast. Luke barely parrying the vicious strike read the words block appear in the air but he received two hundred damage and was sent flying towards the burning sofa.

Twisting, turning, and flipping so he landed on one of the vertical pillars, Luke springboarded off. Thunder Bounce in his boots propelled Luke fast enough to strike Damocles and send him skidding across the floor. Even with ice damage from Crackling Thunder Damocles had insane armour values as the attack took off one hundred health.

"Been a while since someone put me below one-thousand health. Take that as your final accomplishment," said Damocles as he soared towards Luke. "Lava Pillar!" he followed as he blocked Luke's frontal sword strike.

Luke expected the Lava Pillar ability to activate where he once stood but Damocles had duped him. In seconds and from blocking Luke's strike Damocles got around the back of him. His speed was hard to contend with, yet Luke managed to block the next strike. Even though the words block appeared Luke took another two-hundred damage and went soaring back and through the very wall of the town hall until his back hit the street outside.

Crashing into the plaza where Moto, Lance, Salamay, Nagori, and Brit were Luke coughed and struggled to get up. Trix remained on the roofs and with Rajin, Nebs, and the other guides he ensured they would all remain safe. As for the people saved they fled the scene as quickly as they could. Luke felt crippling pain in both of his arms as he managed to stand, the pain so unbearable he couldn't lift a finger let alone lift his sword. What had Damocles done and what was the scroll he used? Questions rushed through Luke's mind.

Everyone in the town now paused what they were doing. From vicious fights to cheering. All fell silent as they looked at a crippled Luke with two-hundred health remaining. The silence breaking once Damocles emerged laughing from the broken-down wall. Salamay and Moto couldn't believe the damage done to their boss and that a level five could have caused it.

"Not figured it out yet kid?" said a smug Damocles who clenched his lava swords. "The scroll, or rather scrolls I used were power-ups and defence break. For some reason, I can't so much as land a direct hit on you. But I don't need too." Damocles roared with laughter. "If you block you take full damage, which should be way more than what you are taking. Meaning you have good fire-resistant armour. As for your arms. That's the gore scroll. All damage was taken in through your arms so when a body part received so much damage they are rendered unusable until after two minutes. I win, Awesome Fail." Damocles continued his manic laugh.

"Like hell you do!" Luke charged Thunder Bounce into his feet, summoned Crackling Thunder into his mouth, and shot towards Damocles.

Luke struck hard and fast, aiming for the head to cause critical damage. It worked. Three-hundred and twenty damage and a bewildered audience left the town of Ice silent once more. Damocles fell to his knees, in shock and disbelief. His emotions quickly turning to anger. He would not allow this mere child to best him. Ever.

Eyeing up Salamay and Nagori a sinister smile crept across Damcole's face. all he needed was one solid strike on Luke or for him to parry, or block the next attack in twenty seconds.

"Lava Pillar!" Damocles aimed for the two girls and Luke along with everyone else witnessed it.

Darting across the stone road, across brickwork, Luke dived into the torrent of rippling death and pulled both girls through to the other side. Arms rendered unusable caused tremendous pain to use but Luke grabbed both girls. He pulled them through in the nick of time. Not once had Damocles landed a blow on him and now Luke crumbled to the floor on forty-seven health. Every part of him screeching in agony.

Salamay and Nagori stunned that Luke had done that had lost a massive portion of their health. Salamay couldn't believe Damocles would try and delete her to finish Luke or that Luke would be the one to save her. Nagori wanted to heal Luke but felt she couldn't. This was a one on one battle. She believed in Luke, even now as he struggled to remain on his knees beside her.