The Miracle Clinic

Chapter 67 - Club Azure (8)

Vanessa, Blanko, Tom, & Tim all look on in shock at the sight that they're seeing. Several Club Azure members are all being taken down one by one, and by some scrawny teen by the name of Mesto-Presto.

The person who served them chips and salsa, the person who most didn't assume anything of, and the person who doesn't even have any training in martial arts is currently taking out club members one after another. With his fists? No, he isn't that strong for that. With his speed? No, he isn't fast enough. He's using everything around him – other club members, shards of glass, fallen weapons, even puddles of water – to use as an attack against his opponent. Whether it stuns them briefly or just simply knocks them out.

The fight is messy, it's a street fight through and through, yet despite that those who watch on can't help but feel as if Mesto is doing this with the elegance and swiftness of a dance. Each swing he takes, each hit he lets hit him, even his stance, all of it is calculated.

As the last club member falls to the ground knocked out, Mesto stops to catch his breath.

"I haven't fought in a long time," Mesto sighs, "Guess I'm still rusty."

Mesto then turns his attention towards the allies who all sit there stunned.

"You guys alright?" Mesto asks.

"Uh yeah but if you call that being rusty," Tim remarks as he looks back towards the unconscious bodies of gang members, "I'd hate to see what you usually do in a fight."

To that, Mesto smiles as he begins to enter the nightclub, "Thank you for doing all this. If I got here when you all did, I wouldn't think I'd been that much of a help."

As Mesto walks down the steps, Blanko scoffs at his comments and mimics his voice, " Oh 'I'm still rusty' and 'I wouldn't have been that much help' yeah right. Is he trying to make himself look cool?"

"I don't know but I do know one thing," Tom remarks as he catches his breath, "Next time I eat there, I'm gonna give him a big tip."

Hearing that, both Tim & Blanko chuckle while Vanessa & Tom roll their eyes at the two's immaturity.

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Elsewhere in Club Azure's Employee-Only area. Cameron Dots is sitting down on a couch as he looks down towards the ground. He just wanted to have a friend, he just wanted to feel needed, and this is where it led him. To this hell on earth, one he can't escape from, one that he can't escape from even though he desperately wants to.

But that's just reality, no matter what you try to do, eventually, you'll just keep falling down, with any attempt to climb out from despair being met with another hand pushing you down.

And there's nothing he can do to change that.

Nothing at all.

"So this is where you've been."

Cameron looks up to see Elizabeth standing in the room. She looks exhausted and tired, yet still much better than the state Cameron is in.

"Elizabeth? What are you doing here?" Cameron asks before his head fills with questions and doubts, "Did you just come to laugh at me? For trying to do something without you guys? I know none of you don't even care about me, so just leave!"

As Cameron sits there catching his breath, Elizabeth just stands there silent.

Infuriated, Cameron continues, "Look I know you guys just keep me around because I'm so pathetic! You barely talk to me and you just treat me like an extra! Like I don't matter to you guys!"

Not knowing what to say, Cameron just sits there until Elizabeth speaks up.

"Is that how you really see us?" Elizabeth simply asks.