Chap 1- KOBORN!!

Chap 1- KOBORN!!:

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( A/N: Edit; Rework: 20/06/2024. )

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{ Z-city's North-Beach; 05:25 PM}

Waves.

They always seem to come by and hit the beach docks, sometimes agitated and other times calmly, making their usual advance into the sand before returning to their home, the vast sea.

Many adore them, enjoying the sensation of bathing in their cold or hot waters depending on the season.

Many dislike them, fearful of what lies beyond them in their lower levels and their vastness, a seemingly infinite length that disappears in the horizon if one were to only use their bare eyes to watch it.

But there was one thing both sides would agree upon, one of the few things that no matter who you were there was a great percentage that both sides shared one thing in common.

And that one 'something' was that they both could appreciate how absolutely beautiful and stunning it was.

The calming sound the waves would create once reaching the sand or rock formations…

Although their current predicament was more eerie than anything else, the once beautiful skies now adorned hundreds of dark clouds giving an impression rain was soon to come, and it wouldn't be a light one.

What further added to the notion this peace nor calmness wouldn't last could be spotted as a human-sized blurry shadow that was on a higher ground was sent rocketing down into the lonely beach.

The high ground the blurry figure had descended from at high speeds had a concrete staircase giving easy access to a highway.

At the end of the day, this beautiful beach was one of the many tourist points around the area. But as of right now….

 It could be considered a dead place, with no civilians in sight no matter where one looked at, the reason for such a lonesome situation in this usually crowded place? Fear.

* CRASHHH!!! *

* SPLASHHH!!! *

A young adult crashes face-first into the water of the beach.

Now that he got a good gulp of that 'delicious' salty oceanic water he gasps, pulling his upper body from under the shallow sea area, the feeling of water going back and forth lightly takes over the lower parts of his thighs as he struggles to get up to a kneeling position, he was still in the less deep parts of the sea.

His breathing getting rougher with every chunk of air he took in, giving his already somewhat normal messy black and dark obsidian-black eyes a very beaten-up look.

Even so…. The eyes that fought to stay open burned with a determination that wouldn't let anyone on this Earth stop them from continuing the path they chose to take.

As for clothes, he spotted nothing more than a casual running greeny-blue tracksuit that had seen better days given how many holes and torn parts it had.

Not to say his clothes were his ultimate worry at the moment, the water had washed it away at first but now the open wounds forced the man to bite his lips in order to hold down the pain of the salt water permeating them as they had yet again started to bleed.

A large red trail soon forms itself down his face, followed by a dozen more around other limbs.

Although…. Even in this poor state, he still forced his body to move. It was that or accept his fate… Which was not something the black-hearted man would ever do now that he had this resolve.

Shaking, he stood up blood still dripping from his body into the sea. Trying his best to balance his almost limp body as the waves washed away any leftover blood that made contact with it. 

The Waves even roughed up a bit for some reason after the man's blood had first made contact with it. Not that the one who was almost exploding a blood artery by standing up would notice.

Gasping and clenching his teeth he soon tasted the iron in his mouth that came as a gift from a trail of blood that was going down his nose. For a few long moments before finally standing up strong. 

The determined gleam his eyes bore shining stronger than ever now that he raised his head, but before going to see what he was looking for, it had already closed in the man forming a giant shadow that now overshadowed the entire man's body.

* THUDDD!! *

Something landed on the beach's shore, raising a large ten-meter-tall pillar of sand and water before gravity pulled it back down, giving us a good view of the culprit.

He was huge, it looked to be some sort of dark-purple humanoid hydra but with just one hand as his other one was seemingly nowhere to be seen as courtesy of the man it was fighting against, just the stump of his bone and bloody flesh on display.

His body was at least 5 meters tall and 3 in width ( 15f tall, 9,8f wide ), not in fat, but pure Olympian-like muscles, something that even a peak human bodybuilder could only ever dream of achieving.

But even while having such monstrous characteristics it was still pretty worn out himself. Blue blood dripped everywhere across his reptilian-like face, where two red slithered eyes were locked onto an average-looking guy who wore a worn-out tracksuit as the Hydra showed its sharp teeth while growling.

The Monster had been regenerating for a long time already ever since it started this fight, all wounds from the minute his energy started to run low would now end up just like his lost limb, any critical attack would be one hundred percent fatal.

"AHHHHRR!!!!HAAAA!!!" - Although it was not like it showed much intelligence about its current predicament. The monster steps on the shallow seafloor speeding up towards the young man, ready to finish his prey.

As the guy got up, the monster broke into an even faster dash, yanking an arm back right before arriving at a perfect distance and eventually twisting his whole body forward at enormous speeds. The hydra was sure this straight punch would certainly end the man's whole career.

* PAM!!! *

Hitting the guy straight on the face carrying enough force to resound an echo similar to a gunshot at close quarters, but to the Monster's disdain all his punch did was make the other party take some steps back from the impact.

Not that it didn't do any damage, the blood going down the Hunan's bloody nose was at full display showing the attack did, in fact, hurt a lot… Even though the smile and shining eyes that showed on the man's face were screaming he was far from being done. - " OKAY THEN! NOW! MY TURN!!! "

* PAM!!! * - * PAM!! *

"GRRRAUHHHH!!??!" - In a one-two sequence, the enthusiastic human connected two punches, one was a right uppercut onto its stomach forcing the monster to bend over with his head lowering, and a left jab that hit straight onto the Hydra's face, sending it stammering towards the side as it vomited blood.

The hydra of one head did try to take back some steps after finally regaining his bearings, though his retreat was cut short by the sound of water splashes approaching in. 

Quick to turn towards the sound, all it caught was the blurry image of someone jumping, sending water exploding from where they had propelled off. Glancing up towards the one who was seemly hovering and about to deliver the Hydra's fate that was reflected upon the monster's red eyes.

" Sleep well, overgrown lizard!!!! " - * PAMM!!! * - The guy jumping was quick to put both hands interlocked above his head. In a loud battle shout, he swings it down just above the hydra's head, flattening its bone and fresh completely like it was made out of paper.

* Splash * - * SPLASHH!! *

The man soon falls back to his feet on the shallow beachy waters looking at the body of the monster which also crashed into a deeper part of the water causing a larger quantity of water to be raised.

Soon the monster's blood permeated and integrated itself into the sea's blue color as the waves started to carry its corpse into the vast sea. Strangely the sea seemed to become more aggressive after the monster's blood had fallen into it, although this could solely be a coincidence.

"Well...huff.... guess, I am done for today. Still need to buy some groceries on the way back..." - Turning his head back to the highway up ahead, he starts climbing the stairs in an exasperated manner, after a short throttle he finally reaches the now ruined asphalt they were fighting at first before falling onto the eerily silent beach.

He gives one last look at the sea, it was like a weird feeling of sorts was creeping behind his back, but shrugging it off not seeing any need to worry about it, he chooses to walk away.

Unbeknownst to him, the Hydra's body that had disappeared, eaten by the deepest parts of the sea was being torn apart by its depth's pressure.

Something deep into the now raging sea was being birthed, and the man was about to be surprised about it sometime very, very soon.....