A Fated Meeting (Part 2)

Gary had never been the aggressor. Not really. Everything he had ever done started with something simple, he needed money to survive. That was it. That was all.

Now here he was, staring down his uncle in a life-or-death battle, both of them transformed into monsters.

The entire situation boiled inside him. Why couldn’t he have just lived a normal life? A life where he got to sit at a dinner table with his mom and dad. Where he actually met people like Lupus not on the battlefield, but as family.

Why had everything always been so complicated?

He pushed every twisted memory, every betrayal and hardship, into his limbs, his muscles, his heart, and he fought.

When he finally closed the distance, Gary launched himself into the air. Lupus was already gathering energy around both his claws, white-hot and deadly.