Treasure Trove Challenges

Monthly Challenge 1, Fighting: Winter Wanderer's submission

Credit: Winter Wanderer on Wattpad

Deep within an unknown city, two people were walking towards a fountain, preparing for their duel. The first individual was a boy dawning a green cloak, leather armor, and a sword on his hip. The second individual was a man wearing a set of hiking shoes, jeans, a black leather belt, a white-shirt, a watch, and an aviator's jacket with the depiction of a t-rex on the back of it. On the man's head however, was a coyote mask that looked to be of Native American origin. These two combatants were Keyaru and Jack respectively.

"Where are they?" Keyaru asked as he unsheathed his sword to aim it at Jack, and Jack noticed how Keyaru's eyes were glowing green, trying to observe him again. "Where are they?!"

"Well Flare and Norn are getting their brainwashing undone." Jack answered while jamming his thumbs into his pockets, and Keyaru's eyes went wide with rage. "As for the other gals, they're testifying against you as we speak."

"What the hell did you do?" Keyaru asked the man while gritting his teeth. "Do you have any idea what kind of monsters they are? I made them better!"

"What you did was bodily modification and brainwashing two people, neither of which have a place in a civilized society." Jack shifted his weight onto one leg. "I'll be honest with you, back in Jioral Kingdom, yeah, you were the hero, because by comparison, everyone was a dick. But here in Wonderland, you're a villa- Oh! I finally came up with your punishment!"

"My punishment?!" Keyaru let out a maniacal laugh. "Please? Why would I get punished? The Divine Bird God wants me to do all this, so it's all justified!"

"And, I'm above any god." Jack answered as his eyes glowed a pale green color. "If there is a god that will justify and enforce crimes made against humanity, then I'll tear him bit by bit and take his throne. If that's not enough, I'll even humiliate him in front of all his worshipers."

"WELL FIGHT FANS, THE SHOWDOWN BETWEEN KING JACK HISTORIA AND KEYARUGA IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE!" The referee's loud voice could be coming from the speakers in the city. "IN JUST THREE SECONDS, OUR FIGHT WILL START! THREE...TWO...ONE!"

The clock tower bell tolled.

"Ground Shrinker!" Keyaru appeared in front of Jack and the healer's hand glowed a lime green before placing his palm against the king's chest. "Corruption heal!"

Much to Keyaru's horror, his hand phased right through Jack's body. One of Jack's fingers was pressing against the fingernail of another one of his fingers on the same hand. While Keyaru was confused, Jack made a dog hand sign with his opposite hand. The dog hand sign caused the shadow beneath Keyaru to morph into the face of a black jackal before emerging from the ground. The giant black jackal head was roughly the size of Jack, who was taller than Keyaru. Keyaru noticed the jackal head right away and jumped into the air to avoid the bite before using his sword to cut the jackal in half. While he was busy with the jackal head, Jack used his feet to kick a stone pebble roughly 20 meters in front of him and behind Keyaru.

"You know, as a handicap, I suppose I can tell you my ability to give you something of a fair chance." Jack then raised both of his hands. "My ability is Hand Magic, so my magic lies solely in my han-"

"You do realize you have a book containing all your abilities in the library for anyone to read, right?" Keyaru asked as he landed 3 meters from Jack. "I know your abilitit's are Power of Ancients, Bone Collector, and History Maker. You don't use the last two as often as you used to because not many people know about it or choose to ignore it due to the first one being the bigger threat."

"A book?" Jack completely forgot about that book. "How old do you think it is?"

"I'd say like a year or two old." Keyaru answered, and while the healer may not have seen it, Jack was smiling underneath his mask.