Barbarian Demons Tourney (B.D.T)

Chapter 9: Determination

The giant semi-transparent looking monster stared down at Riot. Unfazed, Riot stared back menacingly. No fear can be read through his eyes and his hands were in his pockets.

"I'm impressed, most people would have already fainted after witnessing this form." The monster mentioned, acknowledging the fact that Riot is the second person after his master who didn't faze when witnessing his true form.

"Don't include me with 'Most people', it's disgusting." Riot replied, arrogantly. Riot knew that if he did the same transformation from back then against Matt he could beat the man but he didn't want to start attacking innocent bystanders, so the idea was put aside.

"If you're any different then, you shall prove it!" The monster said before lifting it's right hand upwards and launching a massive hit from above on Riot.

Riot's eyes glew red and widened from the rage filling his heart to the brim, simply lifting his hand up and catching the attack as if it was nothing.

The monster grinned as it's hand phased through Riot's hand and towards his chest like a ghost phasing through a wall.

"What?! How can he-" Riot thought before feeling sudden weight increase in his chest as the monster grabbed Riot's heart and gripped it tightly. "GAH! WH-" Riot couldn't speak, move, react, he felt paralyzed and he couldn't even breath.

"Have you finally witnessed true strength?" The monster spoke, Moving closer to Riot while firmly gripping on his heart like a balloon filled with water.

"What is this ability?! It's very-- Powerful! I can't even think straight. He's preventing the blood from exiting my heart, is he seriously about to murder me so easily?"  Riot thought to himself, forcing himself to look at his surroundings to make sure nobody is out there that could potentially get hurt.

When Riot found that nobody was around, he took this chance and attempted to use his ability. All Riot knew about his ability is the barbarian form, thus he thought really hard trying to get it out. "Come on.. Come on!!" Riot thought, his vision slowly getting blurry.

The monster grinned as it moved closer to Riot's ear. "If you don't agree on following me, you'll die." The monster whispered calmly, slightly letting go of his heart in order to hear a response.

"My chance! I can try to hit him like that and then escape." Riot thought as right when it softened it's grip, Riot blasted his hand onto the street lamp beside him, cracking his knuckle bones. "GAAAAAHHNNNM...RRR.." Riot grunted, remembering how he felt when Vanessa cut off his wrist. It was the feeling of pain and anger that drove that form into action.

The monster was confused about Riot's actions. Not wanting to waste anymore time, the monster let go of Riot's heart and pulled it's hand off his chest. "Let's end this, it's getting late." It said before blasting a hit on Riot's neck, forcing Riot to faint.

The monster turned back into it's human form, green mist blasted from him as he lifted Riot up and carried him on his shoulder like a corpse. "Jesus, you're heavy as hell." He said before walking away.

A few hours later, Riot woke up on wooden ground. He felt dizzy and struggled to look at his surroundings. "Where...am I?" Riot thought.

"Oh, He's awake." That voice sounded familiar to Riot, turning towards the voice to look who it was. He saw a tall man with black hair and at the tip of it a green color tint, his vision slowly started to come back as he fully saw the man's face and remembered who that was.