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Chapter 5 - A battle against my demons

Hey kid are you really going to allow them to live after what they did to your parents why not let me kill them all , i looked to the direction of the voice as i can't see anything here it's all black and i found the owner of the voice a big mean looking mantis shrimp he looked familiar yeah he looked the same as me when i first transformed but much bigger than my own transformation at that time .

Right my parents at the thought of this and don't know how but a screen appeared hovering in the darkness showing me my worst nightmares coming true the appearance of my mother and father bodies in that tube came to terrorise my mind over and over and over in the span of milliseconds i don't even know how did i get to that wicked garden yeah it must be another nightmare my parents are still alive .

If you believe so it will make my work here even easier lend me your body and you can go rest already ,as if i'm being charmed by what ever that thing words i found my eyes are getting heavy and for the first time in my life i felt an urge to sleep you see it will end more quickly if i sleep my nightmares that is i looked at that screen for the last time and saw that screen began to blur then showed me another scene it was a scene from three years ago the letter that was left to me by my parents and at the last ounce of my almost completely withdrawing conscious i wondered how can a nightmare transform to a beautiful dream all of a sudden .

My denial of my situation and my parents fate then crumpled as the creature behinds me said : you can now finally rest but it is a disappointment that your parents weren't given that choice and i guess they will be even more disappointed in you but don't worry i will use your body to my heart content this can be considered as if you were the one who did it maybe this way you will even be able to wash away some of the pain and disgrace you brought upon them .

I opened my almost closed eyes wide and didn't even looked at him but looked back at the floating screen and found it now colored in red with the horrendous scene still playing in front of me my parents really had died after falling into the hands of that pig Charlos i wanted to cry to scream and even begun to feel a strange and a strong urge to kill that Charlos i just wanted to do anything to stop my aching heart i didn't notice but my tears began to pour from my eyes in a non-stop manner i wanted to lose conscious i wanted to die if that meant the pain will go away .

How how how how why why why why what did they ever do to deserve such an end i asked myself while screaming and knelling on the ground with tears still pouring down from my now unfocused eyes i spent five minutes or so and kept repeating the question over and over again that i even begun to say it aloud in this weird space stop screaming already you know that you are the reason for all their suffering why trying to act all innocent now you should just go to sleep already and let me have this body of yours that mantis shrimp creature said then licked his lips .

I heard what it said but paid it no mind as i was already blaming myself for not trying to look for them sooner and i began to feel that my mind is going to explode and was hoping that it really does so just then i suddenly felt a familiar touch upon my back and another one on my shoulder a small gesture yet an affectionate one i raised my head to see what is going on ? and where were these familiar touches coming from ?

I looked up and saw both my parents looking at me with a grin on their faces other than that they were completely fine my mother kneeled beside me and reached to wipe down my tears and said why are our little dragon crying are you missing your mom and dad , you don't need to worry about us anymore dear and don't you dare blame yourself for what happened if anyone needs to apologize it will be us apologizing to you for letting you go through all of this alone it pains our hearts to see you in your current state ,but , but if i didn't catch that noble eyes you wouldn't have suffered like this , i can already tell that i'm currently taking to my parents ghosts but i really don't care in my current severe state i can only hope that they are real and really talking to me even if i'm already dead i would have no regrets whatsoever .

they both helped me up and then came my dad voice my precious son i really wanted to teach you a lot about how to interact with the world but the only lesson i can currently give you as i hope it will be able to assist you if you ever found yourself like now always remember son you don't have any control about what other people do either it good or bad , benevolent or evil the only thing that you do control is your actions whether to be a good person or an evil person the reason i'm telling you this is because i can sense your resolve wavering because you feel guilty about what happened to us you can't control what other people do son if we didn't meet our end at the Rosward mansion we were certainly going to meet it at another noble house so that's why son your actions from now on is all that matters pick a dream for yourself and do your best to achieve and protect that dream of yours and always remember you are our beloved son and that we will always be with you and we pray that you will have a happy life and that you will never have to endure those kinds of hardships ever again goodbye our dragon .

But i still want you to stay with me a bit more mom, dad i said as i saw their body began to disappear but they looked at with a comforting smile with a bit sadness attached to it and said silly kid we always were and will always be with you so don't cry okey and then they vanished i found myself smiling with tears still pouring from my eyes i wanted to stop crying but i was so glad to have this conversation with my parents .

If you don't want to sleep then i will force you to sleep said the creature while dashing at me with his club like hands aiming to punch me and in an instant the punch already hit me but then the real me appeared behind him and the one who got punched was the mirage that was created by me using Soru but even after just hitting a mirage there were a shockwave that pushed me back a few steps .

I wanted to give you a quick death but you didn't appreciate it now i want to skin you alive like your parents and i was enraged by his words that i clenched my fist then delivered a punch to his abdomen and it didn't do any damage as i found out that the punch i delivered was just a normal punch powered by my muscles not by my devil fruit what is happening here i thought then as if it read my mind looking for your mantis shrimp power you are looking at it then moved what looked like a scaled limb at his back and swooped it at me i then again used Soru and parred yet another attack from him now that i looked around i saw that the smoke screen from before is now completely red without anyway to see anything from it .

Stop moving and rest already then he charged at me but was disappointed as i used Geppo and i'm now standing in the darkened sky or whatever this place is and asked what he meant by what he just said about my mantis shrimp power .

You see i'm that mantis shrimp power so every ounce of strength you ever had was from me so now that you are like this i want to take back my power so i want you give it all back with interest now and then it jumped to my location with its huge body as if defying gravity but while contemplating on whether what it said was true or not i used a side kick to the air to move away from his attack but with that lower back limb of his he finally landed a hit on me that forced me to crash into the solid ground in a full impact i began to feel some physical pain something that i didn't get to feel for some time now and i already know that with that one hit my body is already in a critical state as i felt my nose and my lips bleeding not to mention a few ribs broken just from the fall why are you trying so hard now you will only suffer more like this why don't you just let go and i promise that i will do my best to make it a long unburdened rest for you just stay there .

Why i'm trying so hard i don't quite know the reason myself but i guess i'm just doing what my heart is telling me to do as a way of cherishing my late parents wishes and i already feel some comfort by doing that oh are you feeling comfortable in your current state then i will let you feel even more comfort he dashed at me again but this time with full force as he charged his right club like hands and came crashing on the still laying me on the ground i wanted to use Soru or Geppo or anything really that i can do to retaliate but my body wasn't answering my calls as i knew why the way those two powers work need me to be at least able to kick so that leaves me with my last rokushiki untrained power Tekkai that i had learned from Garp but wasn't able to train it properly like the other two powers as it requires more than just physical training and its training would have raised a lot of suspicions i know it's another gamble but i just hope to survive this attack then i will begin to think of a countermeasure .

Tekkai was what i used as i felt a lot of my muscles got contracted and my skin hardened then the attack reached me and the result was really devastating a shockwave appeared and nailed me to the ground then came its impact i coughed blood and was already losing conscious i had a few broken ribs before now i can't even feel most of my body i tried father mother i really tried but i'm against a more powerful enemy than me .... Right the moa moa no mi power if he is the one responsible for giving me my power then why can't he use the moa moa power too unless he just can't i was wracking my brain while that creature standing on top of me i can't open my eyes to see it but i felt the weight of his body or maybe it's just a hallucination .

Seeing you trying to stop my attack with that useless power is really amusing why aren't you jumping around now hurry up i dare you to move again hurry up i'm even encouraging you , why i'm always dealing with crazy people but now crazy creatures are beginning to pop out too but i was able to joke in this miserable state then i must be able to counterattack and if my theory is correct then i'm beginning to see hope i getting the hell out of here alive i raised one of my hands weekly and just as i was trying to put it on my body my enemy struck at the raised hand i gritted my teeth in pain as my raised hand fell limply besides me and i lost any feeling that i had with it completely don't forget you are me and i'm you anything you think i can instantly know you were trying to test something right now but you are clueless about it too as i now can't tell what were you trying to do by letting your hand touch your body .

I was going to awaken a secret dormant power that was left to me by my short encounter with my parents ghosts they said they had put it in my left hand but now you destroyed it i curse you and that increased that creature amusement which means i succeeded in desepting him and even confirmed my theory he really can't find anything about my other power now i hope he fall into the trap .

And he did as i saw him extending some extra claws like limbs towards my left hand as he began to inspect it and said smugly yeah i'm smart in contrast to my looks it's useless you won't be able to win now then pushed my hand on my body as if mocking my now limbing useless hand a victorious smile appeared on my face now let's began our counterattack with increasing my healing factor by 40 times i felt nothing happening at first why is that then it hit me my healing factor was enhanced by my Zoan devil fruit now with out it i'm just urging my already dying normal body own healing factor 80 time should do the trick and then as if something began to grow inside my body most of my body functions returned to its peak state then it reattached my broken arms and legs then fixed my ribs completely all in just a mere 10 seconds .

The creature then began to lift me up by my head with its newly transformed into claws like hands still oblivious to the fully healed human he is now holding closely in front of his face maybe this is due to the fact that the human looked small compared to the 4 meters tall like creature this let him to believe that this whole situation was fully under his control i won't waste any more time let's finish this you aren't worthy of my powers now die with that he clenched his other claw like hands and made it become like a spear then drove it towards my my chest i waited for the right moment then increased my strength by 20 times then pushed my still captured body downwards so swiftly that the claw not only missed but with its powerful acceleration and now piercing end mixed with my sudden interval the claw own created shockwaves the claw then proceed to pierce the other one that was holding me and cleaved it cleanly .

The creature was first surprised at how the whole situation changed then screamed in agony as now one of his arms was floating in the hands of that human who it considered already half dead his eyes then changed to red as if enraged by scene of me holding his claw in one of my hands as a weapon he looked at me and i looked at him and the same victorious smile appeared on my face the creature felt as if i'm mocking it and dashed at me but then i used Geppo to rise even higher and for the first time in this battle i was the one taunting it , do you want your limb back sure come and get it hurry up i'm even cheering you and it snapped and began to ran while increasing his running speed trying to gain momentum until i wasn't even able to pinpoint its location then i only felt a shock on the ground and felt as if something huge is heading towards me no need to guess who it was but luckily it was all going according to my plan what was my plan it was simple really just defeat that thing when it's enraged so not to let him know of my next step .

I increased the power i call now multiply to 40 times for my strength and 2 times for the size of the claw in my hands and as if i was imitating its last attack i closed the open claw forcedly to shape it like a spear too then began to swing it around for more acceleration then finally throw it at the now appearing creature and it was a great sight to behold my inhuman opponent was stunned when he saw the claw that was almost his size shaped like a spear appearing suddenly and clashed directly into his chest a few sparks appeared at first then a sounds of something cracking then the whole claw pierced through his chest and abdomen making a circular hole in its body and wasting away all his momentum as he began falling down crashing into the ground and because of the height another shockwave appeared from the impact .

What do you think you will accomplish cough cough now you think that you bested me like this cough cough my healing will just kick in anytime now and cough cough you will die a painful cough death your so called secret power must have been all cough used up so i will just kill you and send you to join your cough parentsafter some rest but i bet they won't even want to see you hahahcough cough cougha , if i hadn't already met my parents his words alone might have caused me to give up but as i recently discovered there were never ifs in this world but he was right about one thing his healing factor is really kicking in as i began to see some of his flash regrowing and is beginning to reform itself .

Might as well try that technique that i got its idea from my father as i don't need to prolong this fight any longer i landed and began to use Soru to arrive behind his huge head and increased my healing to 20 my body strength by 30 and my nerve system by 50 i was beginning to get headaches by just standing but it is needed for my next move i felt as if something was blocking me from doing anymore increase so i tried to disable my body strength increase and increased my hand speed by 30 the enslaved pirates used to say that if you use a Paramecia devil fruit ability continuously you are in risk of exhaustion and in the worst case scenario it could even lead to the death of the user but that wasn't exhaustion it felt more like a limitation and why i'm not feeling exhausted could it be related to how i was laying down for more than half of my life maybe let me focus on the matter at hand first .

I began rubbing my hands and began to feel some heat and after a few mere seconds my hands was burnt black i stopped and increased my healing to 40 then began to rub my hands again this time i only felt some heat then i began to notice some sparks faintly appearing then began to increase own rubbing speed what are you doing behind my head i warn you if you kill me you will die with me , thank you for saying that i was only going to shock you but now that i can tell you are bluffing no need to hold back you see i already know that you aren't afraid of dying you are more afraid of disappearing you didn't exist in the first place now disappear completely from my mind and sight STAATIC SHOCKKOO .

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