Fight Till the End

Chapter 18: The Preshow

I looked at Angel to she that she was in shock, as was I. I look back at the man standing in the distance.

Out of everyone I expected it to be, I didn't see this coming. The man in the distance is the same man I fought at my school. Finally, after all this time, I could clearly remember what happened....

*Flashback*

I'm at the bus ramp and I'm talking to Catharine, a girl from my sixth period, "Come on Catharine it wasn't that funny."

"You sat on the front of the desk, it did a complete flip and it landed on you. How is it not?" She said shoving my shoulder. We continued to walk down to the bus ramp.

It was at that moment that a man landed in the middle of the road right in front of a bus. He was almost ran over. He was a tall man and a little too built for his size. An administrator went up to him telling him he needs to get out of the way. He didn't even move and he sent the administrator flying into the school.

"Is any one here worth a challenge." he yelled so everyone would hear, "I will kill everyone in a hundred mile radius if no one steps forward."

I have always wanted to do something different with my life and I have had nothing else to live for in my life. This was a moment of clarity in my life.

"Catharine, hold my bag." I said looking at her.

"You can't be serious" she said stepping back.

"My parents are dead, so is my sister," I said, "if some one doesn't do something, we will all die."

She slowly gabbed my bag from my hand with out breaking eye contact. I looked at her, then at the man who has noticed me among the motionless crowed. I walked towards him scared and nervous, but I was hiding it well for some reason.

I got about six feet from him when he said, "Stand there and don't move."

Obviously I froze. I didn't know what to do. He walked a few feet back, turned towards me. He put his right hand up, his palm facing me. I looked at it confused, then he shot a energy blast at me. I dropped to the ground, bearly dodge it. But with me dogging it killed Catharine and everyone near her. I stood up to see that he was suddenly right in front of me. He grabbed my throat. I grabbed his wrist. But that didn't do a thing. That's when I rush of power came over me. I brought both my feet up and kicked him in the stomach and he let go of my throat. I moved behind him so fast, he was clueless on where I was. I put one hand on his chin and the other on his head. I snapped his neck.

Then all of a sundden a shadow covers the entire school. I look up and see a huge ball of energy above me and everyone else. I looked down and said, "Sorry."

I ran towards the school and jumped on a car, then a truck, then on to the school itself right below the huge energy sphere. Then I jumped straight into it. A few seconds later a massive explosion wrecked the school, killing everyone in a half a mile. I passed out from the amount of energy used to blow it up.

The next thing I remember is awakening to see a Elizabeth in front of me as I fell to the ground.

*End of flashback*

I snapped back to Angel calling my name.

"Tyler," Angel said, trying to get my attention. "that's the man who trained me. He's the one who taught me everything."

It took a long time for me to realize that it was him. I was about to fly towards him but then Elizabeth and the others appeared.

"Stay back," I said, "Angel will explian everything to you." I took one last looked at Elizabeth, knowing, full well, it could be the last.

I turned to every one. "One more thing, when I yell 'scatter' everyone needs to hide for while. Then, when I have him distracted, attack him from behind. I think that's the only way we'll get him, ok." They all shook their heads.

I walked to Elizabeth, and hugged her tight. "You know how we can teleport, I need you to teleport behind him and shoot him with the strongest energy, blast you got, only after I tell everyone to scatter." She hugged me tighter to let me know she understood. I let her go and started to fly towards the man.

In the back of my mind something felt off about the whole situation. Angel saying that he trained him, the guy came back from what seemed like the dead, and my future self not giving me any sign that he was here. It was was weird to me. Well not as weird as the last few years have been that's for sure, but still odd.

I land behind him, he turns to me and looks at me from head to toe, "You've changed, a lot."

"That's what happens after I nearly die. Lets just say that I improved on more that just strength." I said taking a long look at him. There was a mark on his neck, I look like a scare of some kind. "How did you get over the dead part? Because I could have sworn that I snapped that ugly little neck of yours."

"I'll be honest with you... I don't know. What I do know is that I am alot more powerful since then and believe it or not, if I don't exspel this amount energy every few hours, I'll explode and die, and kill everyone on this measly planet." He said all this with a stright face, I couldn't tell if he was telling the truth or not. "I'm not going lie, I like doing it, in fact, I do take some joy it."

The more he went on, the more my anger flared. I balled my fists up slowly. "I don't believe you, at least about the not knowing why you're alive."

One of the key things that all of my trainers have taught me is to use my anger to my advantage, and not to let it control me. Control it. Take the power gain from it and use that to fight.

I unballed my fists. "You know that I still have to fight you."

"Yes, I know that. But before we start, answer me this. Why are you fighting? Is it to protect the one you love and care about or is it for the challenge and pride." He said.

"Why dose it matter?" I asked trying to avoid the question.

"To me, it doesn't. The reason I'm asking is for you my freind. I suppose in the long run it doesn't matter either. You don't have to tell me Tyler. I just want you to think about it."

I looked at him figuring it was some kind of mind twisting of some sort, but the more I thought about it, the more I realize that I was fighting for the challenge and pride the most. But I was also fighting for the one I love. Everyone has a balance, and I found mine.

I thought of a new fighting stance in my head beacuse I had a feeling from his tone that he was confident and I didn't want to give him the edge at all. I readied my new fighting stance."I'm ready if you are you creep."

*Mean while*

"I hope he'll be ok." Elizabeth said holding her arms.

"He'll be fine. I mean we all trained him the best we could." Annalynn said patting her on the back.

"Yeah and besides the techniques he has learned from us." Meagan started to say before Victoria cut her off.

"Both willingly and forcefully." Victoria said looking over at Scarlett then shifting her focus back to me.

"Well that's how I teach. Besides he stood up against all of my best attacks and all of us at once and we still couldn't beat him. I think he'll do fine." Scarlett said with an assurance in her voice.

"You know what, you're right, I'm sure he has this. I shouldn't worry myself." Elizabeth said trying to calm herself down.

Victoria cut in, "Hey, I think they're getting ready to fight. Tyler just got in a fighting stance."

Everyone turns and focuses on me.

"Funny," Annalynn said, "That's definitely not the normal stance he uses, let alone any I have taught him."

"I'm sure he knows what he is doing." Elizabeth says, "Let's just see what happens."