Omega Wars Chronicles

Chapter 45 Episode 44: Human

   As the audience were staring with anxiety, Xorian's wild grin suddenly grew wider.
"Come at me!!!" Xorian said with a deepened voice.
   Onak and Xorian thunderously bawled and charges towards each other, colliding with so much power that it not only destroyed the ground mightily but it ended up spawning a strong light that caused many among the audience to cover their eyes.
"What the heck?!!"
As the light had vanished, the crowd were astonished as they watched Onak held Xorian's fist while Xorian held his; Onak suddenly pulled Xorian towards him and head-butted him, driving Xorian's body into the ground. Onak tries to stomp Xorian but Xorian vanished from where he laid, appearing far from Onak and immediately sprints towards Onak to punch him but Onak blocks the attack and throws a punch which Xorian blocks but was sent skidding back. 
  Onak and Xorian charged towards each other again and Xorian quickly attacks with a high knee to the face only for Onak to immediately retaliate with a huge slap to Xorian's left shoulder that sent him sliding on his back but Xorian quickly stood on his feet, advanced towards Onak and punched him in the face.
  Xorian began to release a barrage of punches on Onak's face while laughing crazily but was quickly cut short as Onak punched him in the belly which made him cough out blood and spittle and quickly followed his attack with another blow to the cheek that sent Xorian tumbling violently on the ground.
While Xorian was tumbling, Onak tries to attack with double hammer fist from above but Xorian vanishes, leaving Onak's attack to devastate the ground and shake the entire place again; at that moment, myriad red sparkles surrounded Onak while Xorian stood from afar with a shade completely covering his face as he grinned evil with his eyes glowing completely .
"Die." Xorian said with a dried voice.
  Instantly, a massive red explosion spread across the arena, shocking the audience while Xorian was laughing maniacally.
"Oh my gosh!" Iminko said with widened eyes.
  Onak ran off from the explosion unscathed while yelling which ended up surprising Cloud.
"No effect?!" Cloud asked within himself.
   Onak tries to punch Xorian but Xorian bends over his attack and lands a high kick to the chin that sent Onak high in the air; Xorian appeared in the air with Onak and sent him flying with a punch.
  "Formless technique…!" Xorian said with a deranged voice as numerous doppelgangers of himself were attacking Onak from different directions and pushing him higher in the air.
  "Consecutive grand burst!!!" Xorian and his doppelgangers said as they engulfed their fists with red flames and hurled them at Onak.
  "DIIIEEEE!!!!" Xorian echoed as a massive explosion was spawned in the air, stunning so many of the audience while some trembling at the sight of it.
  "What in the world?!" Lizira said.
  "This is seriously getting out of hand!" A man said.
  "Agreed! This is getting way out of hand!" Another man said.
  Xorian landed on his feet while smiling evilly as Onak crashed the ground and created large craters in the act, filling the place with smoke. However, Onak walked out of smoke while facing the ground with no signs of him being harmed other than his jacket missing which left so many people in disbelief.
  "He has showed no signs of him being harmed!" A Tenplar woman said, "What is this boy?!"
  "Is he even human?!!" A Ripar man asked.
  "I doubt it." A Kenar man said with his arms.
"Wait…" A Graundar woman said as she was observing Onak in the action in the arena.
  At the arena as Onak was facing the ground while growling, steam began to discharge from his body and Onak raised his head high with a mighty outcry, releasing a powerful aura that was shot high into the air while shaking the entire arena again.
  "He is still getting stronger!" A man said in shock, "Is there no limit to his power?!!"
"Why isn't anyone stopping this match?!" A woman asked.
  As this was happening, Xorian's aura was pouring out while Xorian was chuckling evilly.
At the Chiefs center, Chief Miza was holding Chief Tenya's wrist while Chief Tenya was on her feet.
"Let go." Chief Tenya said while emitting a faint white aura.
"Chief Tenya-"
"Don't Tenya me!" Chief Tenya cuts in on Chief Miza, "These two have gone out of control and you're trying to stop me from putting an end to this?! You've picked quite an interest in that Graundar boy ever since his battle with Van! Tell me, what is this boy to you? What's your relationship with him?!"
  "That's the thing, i know nothing of this boy." Chief Miza replied which left Chief Tenya in shock, "I know of many in my tribe but i don't know of anyone having a child named Onak or a boy whose Kan energy is the exact match of a terror beast.
That is what has picked my interest."
  "And you're willing to let them kill each other just to satisfy your curiosity?!" Chief Tenya asked.
  "No, they won't." Chief Akuro said.
  "What?!" Chief Tenya asked as she turns towards him.
  "Just watch." Chief Akuro said with a smile.
  At the audience center, Galiel was shivering at the sight of her son's behavior.
  "Tell me, how did your son become like this?" Iminko asked.
  "You've heard of the incident when the high goblins launched a sudden attack on the Kenars and kidnapped 60 Kenar children?" Xoran asked while having his arms crossed, "When the children were kidnapped, the children said something about the high goblins taking 5 children into a tent and filling it with their screams.
  From what we've learnt when we were interrogating Xorian's subconsciousness, Xorian said something about the high goblins playing a twisted mind ritual on them called 'Ghwihun'. Out of the 10 children that the ritual was performed on, only one survived."
  "Your son, Xorian…" Jian said with widened eyes.
"Yes." Xoran replied, "Shortly after that, Xorian caused great chaos that they were forced to return the children."
  "Xorian had always been a wild and chaotic person but ever since that day, he became worse." Galiel said, "When his emotions becomes too high, he enters into a temporal deranged and berserk state that makes him stronger, faster and more dangerous than he was; an unleashed Xorian.
  When Guju became his teacher, Xorian was able to somewhat control that side but now…"
  "So when you were telling me about his feats…" Iminko said as he glanced at Xoran.
  "It wasn't really to brag but to warn you of whom your daughter was facing." Xoran replied as his eyes rolls towards Iminko, "However, the Na'darim combined with the unleashed state is not a good combination at all. Xorian is completely out of control."
  Meanwhile at the arena, Xorian and Onak were delivering vicious punches on each other while creating numerous wind pressures in the arena. During their exchange, Xorian and Onak clashed their heads and both bawled with a deepened voiced that dismantled the ground and caused the wind to swirl around them. 
  "All that from a single headbutt?" Cloud asked.
   "No, it's not a single headbutt." Pit replied with her eyes activated,   "These two had already clashed their heads 77 times."
"What?!" Sting asked in shock.
  "77 times?" Killer bee asked in shock as well.
   "Damn it, my eyes hurt just trying to keep up with their movements and the thing is i can barely do it." Pit said within herself, "Their power levels keeps increasing and these two have completely gone out of control, but why isn't anyone coming to stop them?"
  "The arena can heal itself but if these two continue, they could end up destroying it beyond repair." Lizira said within herself.
  As Xorian and Onak stood from afar, Xorian grinned evilly once again.
   "Die, f**ker." Xorian said as his face was covered in veins while still grinning evilly.
  The flaming streaks on Xorian's body grew larger as Xorian entered into a punching stance.
  "That position… That's the move he used to beat me!" Jagami said within herself.
    Red flames began to swirl round Xorian's arm while a flaming streak drew out of Onak's glowing eyes. The two charged towards each other which levelled the ground behind them to a great extent.
  "Meteor burst!!!" Xorian said as he hurls his fist at Onak which took the appearance of several meteors approaching Onak, creating a strong explosion.
   However as the smoke had cleared, Onak stood unfazed by the attack which left everyone surprised.
  "Huh?" Yulin said.
  Onak quickly grabbed hold of Xorian's arm and pulled it off, shocking and terrifying many of his actions.
  "Xorian!!!" Jagami and Galiel screamed.
"What the f**k?!!!" Rish, Sting and Govo said.
"Holy crap!!!" Cloud said.
  Onak punched Xorian in the face which sent him bouncing backwards on the ground; as Xorian was struggling to stand while clutching his missing arm, Onak descended from above and landed a downward punch on Xorian that drove him chest-first into the ground, causing blood to spill out of Xorian's mouth.
  Onak grabs hold of the back of Xorian's head and began to slam his face repeatedly on the ground and hastily threw Xorian high into the air. While Xorian was in the air, Onak roared and shot out a powerful orange energy beam from his mouth towards Xorian (which he instinctively evades); as the attack moved past Xorian and exploded, Onak appeared behind Xorian from above and knocks him down to the ground with a punch, leaving large craters in the act.
  Onak descends to the ground at high speed while yelling and crashed on Xorian, leveling the ground even further than before and filling the arena with dust-clouds. As the dust-clouds were clearing, Xorian suddenly flew out of the leveled ground and clattered on the surface.
"That attack earlier …" Xoran said with widened eyes.
"No doubt about it, that was an actual attack of a terror beast." Iminko said, "If it had hit your son, he wouldn't have survived."
"Wh-who is this Onak, anyway?" Jian asked.
  "You mean you know nothing of him?!" Galiel asked as she glanced at Jian in shock.
"Even I haven't heard of any boy named Onak or a Graundar whose Kan energy matches that of a terror beast." Rikon said, "I wonder…"
"Who the parents of that boy is." Rikon said as Onak's eyes were completely glowing in the shade he was covered in while walking towards Xorian.
   Xorian stood in his feet while groaning in pain as the flames his body was discharging was decreasing and his crimson scleras reverted back to It's original color.
  "No…!" Jagami said within herself in horror, "His unleashed mode has worn off and his power level is dropping!!"
  "Where… Where am i-?"
  Xorian was cut short as he was met with a big fist from Onak that sent him violently tumbling on the ground. Onak advanced towards Xorian and began to land numerous attacks on him, from multiple hammer fists to vicious punches.
  Onak clamped his hand round Xorian's mouth and lifted him off the ground but Xorian bit that hand in effort to make Onak release him but it was in vain as Onak immediately retaliated by turning Xorian and biting the crown of his head from behind, leading Xorian to scream in agony while the crowd covered their mouth in horror.
   Xorian's scream was cut short as Onak's fist immediately connected to his cheek which sent him violently tumbling across the ground. Onak dashed towards Xorian and began to double stomp him numerous times; after Onak had finished his stomps, Onak started pummeling Xorian brutally with his fists.
  "Holy heavens…" Schroeder said with a wide-eyed expression.
  "Leorona, tell the people responsible for the Ritzku barrier to turn it off." Schroeder said as he glanced at her, "We're moving in."
  "Or we could simply use Kan communication of the heart to tell them to shut it down." Leorona replied.
  "We're doing none of those things." Zotek said.
  "What?!" Schroeder and Leorona said in shock as they turn towards Zotek.
   "Zotek, what the hell are you saying?!" Schroeder asked, "Do you not see the situation of this match?!!"
  "I am seeing it, that is why i feel we shouldn't interfere." Zotek said.
  "Are you crazy?!" Leorona asked.
  "The others have been training to become a pilgrim, Onak, however, has been training to become a pilgrim and have control over himself." Zotek replied, "If we keep interfering, he'll never grow on his own. This is an opportunity to test if those months of training were fruitful or not and by the way, i've placed on restriction on your movements incase you didn't agree."
  "What?!!" Schroeder and Leorona said in shock.
   Schroeder and Leorona tries to move but they found themselves unable to do so.
  "You son of a…!" Schroeder said while glaring at Zotek.
  "Zotek, release us, now!!" Leorona said.
  "I'm sorry, i can't do that." Zotek replied while facing forward.
  Back at the arena as Onak was pummeling Xorian, Onak landed a punch that made blood spill out of Xorian's mouth and splatter on the ground.
  "Zotek, he is going to die!!!!" Leorona said.
   As Onak was still pummeling Xorian, Onak headbutted Xorian's mouth which caused his teeth to go down his throat, making Vaniva to avert her eyes.
  "Stop! Stop, please!!" Galiel and Jagami pleaded as tears flowed out of their eyes.
  "Chief Akuro!" Chief Tenya said as she glanced at him.
   "Just watch." Chief Akuro said.
  "Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!!" Numerous voices echoed in Onak's head as he was pounding Xorian's face with vicious punches and headbutts.
   A flashback takes place in an island filled with skulls accompanied with a blood-red sky as little Onak who happened to be covered in blood along with  overgrown fangs and completely glowing eyes, was viciously punching a Graundar boy who seemed about little Onak's age.
    "Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill him!!!" The people in white cloak said.
   Current Onak's fist paused before it could connect to Xorian's face again, leaving the crowd surprised; Onak's fists were trembling as he was resisting the urge to continue beating Xorian to death. Onak let's off a monstrous roar at Xorian that shook the entire place while many of the audience were trembling at this display.
   Onak backs away from Xorian and sat on the ground while panting for air. While panting, Onak takes a look at the unconscious Xorian's face that has been beaten to the shape of an ash tray and the healers quickly arrived at the scene.
   Onak stood on his feet, placed Xorian on the stretcher the healers brought which left the healers dumbfounded at his actions. 
  "What are you looking at?" Onak asked he looked at the healers with his irises glowing.
  "N- nothing!!" The healers said as they quickly carried the stretcher and moved away.
  Onak walks past Lizira who happened to be trembling and sweating profusely.
  "Hey, are you going to announce the winner of the match?" Onak asked while still walking away.
  "Y-y-yes!" Lizira said in fright, "Y-your w-winner: O-Onak of t-the Graundar tribe…!" 
   However, the crowd remained silent while some carried the look of horror and disgust. Meanwhile as Leorona, Schroeder and Zotek were watching from afar, Zotek snapped his fingers and the two (Leorona and Schroeder) found themselves able to move again.
  Leorona hastily turns to slap Zotek and held him by collars of his coat in anger.
   "You bastard! If Onak hadn't stopped, he would have killed Xorian!!" Leorona said, "Just what were you thinking?!!!"
  "Progress." Zotek answered.
  "Huh?" Leorona asked with a puzzled demeanor.
  "If it was Onak before or when he first arrived, he wouldn't have hesitated." Zotek said, "But after a few months of training, he was able to have some control over himself.
  He is still unstable and it will take years before he can stay in full control of himself but so far, progress has been made."
  "You know, i used to talk about Zera being the crazy one but i forgot how insane you are." Leorona said as she walks past Zotek, "Don't do that again." 
  "You know, sometimes you can be an S ranked asshole." Schroeder said as he walked past Zotek as well.
   "That was close!" Chief Tenya said within herself, "I was about to put an end to the match myself regardless of what the other said. But still…"
  "What made Chief Akuro so confident that Onak wouldn't kill him?" Chief Tenya asked within herself as she glimpsed at him.
  Back at the audience center, some of the audience muttered among each other.
  "Damn, that guy is so dangerous."
  "I think they should remove him from the competition."
  "He should definitely be removed for the safety of others."
  "Just what were they thinking when they let him into the academy? How many students has he brutalized?"
  "How are we even sure that he hasn't killed any?"
  "You know, i was planning on asking that Graundar boy to spar with my daughter Armena so as to see how he'd fare against her." A long black beared Ripar man said, "She was so talented that i felt she was too good for the Tall order pilgrim academy, but now after seeing this match... Not gonna happen."
  While the people were murmuring, the man and the girl with the bushy brows (the ones that Onak saved earlier from Basak) were discussing with each other.
  "Father, i am grateful for what he did for us but let's face it, that boy is an utter savage, an animal... A monster. And i believe he should be locked up in an isolated area for the safety of others." The girl said.
  "Maybe, but he is still a person, Harmolina. " The father said.
  "How?" Harmolina asked, "We saw what he did. His actions were absolutely monstrous. He is not a person at all."
  "You forget that Xorian lost control as well." The father replied, "I'm not justifying his actions but if he was just a monster then he would not have bothered placing Xorian on that stretcher after the vicious beating.
  This goes to show despite his savagery, deep down, just deep down..."
   "He's human." The father said with a smile.

NB: I'm finally through with the first round of the second half. Do you think Harmolina's father was on point or was he talking balderdash? Feel free to let me know in the comments