Chapter 42: Combat 2

Feeling death was approaching, his body moved once more.

His hand held the being's wrist, softly twisted it, before pulling it to him. Coiling his two legs around the being's waist, he then grabbed its head and gave it a hard head butt.

The being smiled as it felt the pain on its head, it was surprised that Rueben managed to escape when a feet was pressing down on his neck.

The being gave Rueben an elbow to the face, followed with a left jab. Rueben caught the jab and swiftly gave its elbow a slight push, cracking the joint.

Rueben then grabbed its head and kicked it with his knee, then pulled its hair up and gave it three jabs and finished it with an uppercut.

The being grinned as it felt the rising fighting spirit of this man, he was happy.

Rueben was like a beast that couldn't be stopped, after giving the being an uppercut, he followed it with a roundhouse kick before connecting it with a side kick.

Both kicks hitting its head and chest simultaneously, the being grunted and tried to attack yet he was parried and continued to receive blows after blows.

'Life is unfair? Life is fickle?'

The being suddenly crouched down, dodging the roundhouse kick that Rueben performed, and tackled him before kicking Rueben's chin.

Yet Rueben only silently grunted, with eyes filled with ferocious fury, he opened his mouth wide and bit the foot and tore it off.

'Is life truly that?'

The being's eyes went wide.

[Animalistic!]

Rueben growled, he spat out the foot and span, now their position was switched. He got up and swiftly kicked its head and started chocking the being.

The being laughed, knowing full well that it doesn't need oxygen to breathe. It then started choking Rueben, gripping tightly on his neck.

Rueben swiftly found out that the being does not need to breathe, as the being was choking him, he then started kicking its head.

Live.

Once again, he heard a voice inside his head.

This gave Rueben a sudden increase in strength and his eyes turned bloody red. His mouth opened wide, so wide that it could probably fit an entire apple inside.

Rueben felt that his mouth this wide was not enough.

So he freed his left hand and grabbed his lower mouth before tearing his own mouth wide open. Blood spewed out from the wound but Rueben didn't feel a thing and directly placed the entire head of the being inside him and pushed his chin up.

The being grinned and used his hand to stab through Rueben's stomach.

His cheeks ballooned up before he spat out quite a mouthful of blood. The being then grabbed his head with both hands and gave his skull a hard smash with a rock.

[Haha!]

It laughed hard, it was amused, excited and very aroused at its opponent. It saw Rueben coughing up even more blood, exciting it even more.

[Tell me, rotten pest. Why is a prey called a 'prey'?]

It then stood up and grabbed Rueben by his neck.

[It is because a prey is easy to kill. Easy to hunt. Easy to eat. Easy to satisfy. Easy to dominate. Easy to lead around.]

Its eyes curled up into crescent like a crescent moon as its mouth started deforming, turning more unlike a human.

[Like you. You are a prey.]

It "smiled" and grinned, wheezing that sounded more like moaning. It sounded like a monster cackling while hiding under the moonlight, hiding in the shadows.

[Yes, you might be strong. You can fight unlike me. You have all these methods that far surpasses mine. Everything that is beyond me, you have it all.]

It looked at Rueben in the eyes, as his eyes slowly turned black.

Blood kept flowing from the stab wound on his stomach, he was losing strength to go on.

Finally, Rueben felt the threat of death. Its sickle looming over his neck, just waiting for that one moment before it cut off his head from its body and burn his soul into hell.

[Yet i won. I won!]

The being laughed, as its body started growing.

[I, a being that is eternally trapped here, a being that knows nothing of the world above, nothing! Won against you, who have everything he could gain from above! I am superior.]

Finally, it returned into its true form, a large crocodile like creature that somewhat resembles a whale shark. Eyes bigger than Rueben, teeth sharper than even the most sharpest sword.

Countless rows of teeth, three tongues, 5 tails and a body so large, slimy and filled with scales that it was just a mess of everything mixed in together.

[I am a predator.]

It raised Rueben up in the air.

[And soon, i will become God.]

Rueben's eyes slowly died down. The light in his eyes dimmed.

***

"I too fear death, young one. Everyone does."

My teacher answered my question.

As i gaze upon the endless dark forest infront of me, holding just a scimitar and a knife in both hands.

"No one can escape the fear of death. Even immortals fear of death, much less mortals like us. Death itself is a concept that should be feared yet here we are, talking about it."

I stabbed a beast in the eyes, then started digging through, dealing more and more damage.

That was the first time that i asked my teacher if he feared death.

The second time was when i stabbed his heart.

I asked him once again, Do you fear death?

His answer, changed.

"No. Not anymore, child."

He held me in his arms as the light in his eyes slowly dimmed.

"I feel that death is a blessing to us, child. It is a wonderful gift given to us, a gift to sleep eternally and never wake up. A gift that gives us rest from the misfortunes and horrors of Life. Of living."

"I will soon welcome my eternal rest and reside in the Eternal Dream." He looked at me with his wrinkled face.

A face that i once hated.

A face that i once respected.

And a face that i once, cherished.

As tears of blood fell from the corner of my eyes, he wiped them away with his twig of an arm.

"But child, although death is a blessing, isn't Life more fulfilling? Living gives you a [Reason] to move, to feel, to act, to think, to cherish, to regret...."

"My child, whatever happens. Promise me, something."

"I promise."

"Live."

That was when his curse struck my soul.

A curse so cruel to give to someone in this god forsaken world, this whole mishmash of misfortune and despair.

This chaotic bundle of madness.

And a curse too warm that it fills me with rage everytime i think about it.

His burdens, which he shoulders for countless years, was passed to me.

At that day, i felt my shoulders were heavier than before.

That day, my burden increased.

***

Rueben opened his eyes and saw the ceiling.

He stared at the ceiling for a while before he moved his head slowly, looking around.

He was in a place that seemed to look like a bed room.

On his left, was a bed.

On the bed was a woman and what seemed to be a dog hybrid with a human. A beast? No, beasts were more beastly and horrid looking than this.

What the fuck?

Are they copulating infront of me? What kind of degenerate would fuck a dog like human? A weredog of some kind.

What the hell, is that woman enjoying it?

Looking at the scene infront of him, Rueben blankly stared at the madness that was happening.

His mind went blank as his ears was disgusted by the moans of pleasure from the woman.

"Auughh, yessssss, ughhh, fuuuuuckkkk, more, more, more, ugh yeah, that place, piston it!"

"Awoo! Aw aww!!"

"Yesssssss, fill me up with that semen of yours, impregnate me with your pups!!! Make me into a doggy mommy!! Ugh i love your cock."

"..."

Rueben's eyes closed and he turned around, finding a knife.

He then grabbed the knife and stood up before walking towards the dog and woman copulating.

The dog sensed him but ignored him because it was more focused on impregnating this woman it was mating with.

The woman also didn't sense it because she felt more pleasure and satisfaction from the dog cock.

Rueben grabbed the dog's neck before stabbing its eye.

"!!!"

Then he took out the knife and stabbed it through its throat before digging his hand into the hole where he stabbed it through and casually used it to forcefully take out its brain.

"Awwooon!!!"

"Uwaah!?"

The dog soon died as the woman gasped in surprise. She hurriedly looked behind her and saw the entire thing happen. Blood splat all over the place, dying the entire room into red.

The woman looked at Rueben, who looked at her expressionlessly... No, an expression that clearly showed disgust. He then turned around, the knife still in his hand and went to the door.

This all happened so abruptly that the woman didn't know what to say or even do. She only came to her senses and yelled,

"What the fuck do you think you're doing!?"

He ignored her and waltz straight into the door, intending to leave without talking to the crazy woman and left the room.

Yet the woman caught up to him and grabbed him by his wrist.

"The fuck? Are you ignoring me?"

She then forced Rueben to looked at her but then Rueben suddenly clenched his fist and punched her straight in the face.

"Guoh!?"

Then he turned around and opened the door, revealing a beach, the sky was dark and the only source of light was from a torch.

He looked around, in confusion. He swore that he would die from that being's hands yet why is he still alive?

What was going on?