Enter Velvet Part Two

On the south side of the city, near the stadium where attack team one is, the battle against Velvet has begun.

Velvet is sitting on top of a roof, staring into the eyes of the dead dog head she has on her chain.

"Come on, tell me what's going on here already!" Velvet screams while slapping the dead dog's head.

Kage, Unknown, and Eldrick stare at Velvet with

awkward expressions as she screams.

"Dude, is she really yelling at that dead dog?" Kage asks Unknown.

"I'm still trying to figure out if that dog is real or not because that dog doesn't look like it has been dead for more than 2 hours."

"Oh, so you're a dog expert now?"

"I'm serious, the dog looks like it got its head chopped off a few hours ago; it doesn't even look a little bit decayed!"

Eldrick moves over to the two of them to hear their conversation better.

"Oh my! What are you two boys whispering about?"

Eldrick puts his arms around Kage and Unknown in a creepy way. The second Unknown feels Eldrick's arms around him he flinches with a disgusted expression.

"Yeah, ok, you can join the conversation; just get off me!"

Unknown throws Eldrick off of him.

"Oh my Unknown, you've been really feisty this whole mission, you know."

"Just shut up already, damn it!"

"Shit, both of you stop talking already; the dead dog-talking girl is coming down!"

All of them look over at Velvet, who's flying down from the building. Velvet looks down at all the knocked-down men on the ground.

"Damn, and I was thinking I could use some of the weak-ass mercenaries running around here as my personal weapons, but you pathetic, weak-hearted children didn't kill a single person!"

"And who the hell are you to judge us?" Kage screams.

Velvet lands on the ground next to two of the knocked-out mercenaries on the ground.

"Well, I guess you can still be useful to me."

Velvet picks up the two bodies and cracks both of their necks with minimal force, killing them instantly.

"And to answer your question, boy!"

"Boy?"

"I'm the famed mercenary Red Velvet Moon, Velvet for short."

After hearing her name, Kage and Unknown put their hands on their mouths, attempting not to laugh.

"Your parents really named you Red Velvet Moon," Kage mutters to himself with a smile behind his hand.

Velvet drops the two dead bodies on the ground, and instantly Unknown stops laughing.

"Bro, look at that!"

Everyone notices two long, arm-like black clouds coming out of her back that have red lightning emanating from them.

"What the hell are those things?"

Kage grabs Unknown by the shirt and swiftly moves him out of the way of an incoming attack from the cloud coming out of Velvet's back.

"I don't care what those things are, and I don't want to find out what they do either!"

Kage, Unknown, and Eldrick start dodging the black clouds with their accelerate techniques.

"Kage! What's the plan?" Unknown asks.

"Come on now, do we ever have a plan? We just attack! Attack! And attack until we beat this bitch!"

Unknown hears Kage's response and sighs.

"Of course, I should've known."

Unknown lands on the ground and starts rushing toward Velvet.

"Kage, cover me!"

"Already on it! Get moving!"

Kage starts blasting multiple beams of energy at Velvet.

"Energy multi-attack!"

Velvet starts avoiding the energy beams with ease.

"You're all fools to think you could beat me with only you three boys here!"

Unknown jumps up and, with a spin, kicks Velvet in the arm, which she quickly deflects. She then punches him in the stomach, sending him flying back.

"Don't worry, Unknown, I'll save you with my gluteus maximus!"

Eldrick enlarges his buttocks and tries to slam them onto Velvet, but she catches him by the buttocks.

"Now you're mine!"

Velvet moves both of the clouds and attempts to slam them on him.

"Oh my!"

"Don't make it that easy, dumbass!"

Unknown kicks Velvet in the back, causing her to drop Eldrick.

"Damn boy, stay out of my way!"

Velvet plants her feet on the ground and swings her clouds at Unknown, but he does multiple backflips to avoid them. At the same time, Kage shoots multiple balls of energy at Velvet, which blow up.

"Don't forget, I'm here too, dumbass!"

"I didn't forget, boy!"

Velvet looks up and sees Kage in the air, using energy jet to float in the air.

"Energy cannon!"

Kage inhales, and when he exhales, he releases a huge blast of energy from his mouth.

Velvet applies the flex technique to her arms and blocks the energy cannon by putting her arms in front of her body.

"Block that shit all you want; it's not over!"

Kage starts spinning upside down with energy jet.

"Energy meteor shower!"

Multiple giant beams of energy start to rain down from Kage and head straight toward Velvet.

Unknown sees the energy meteor shower coming and quickly rushes over to Eldrick. Unknown puts his left arm around Eldrick.

"Oh my, what are you doing, Unknown?"

"Just shut up and make sure to follow my movements!"

"Oh, alright, yes, sir!"

"You don't have to call me that!"

Unknown and Eldrick start rushing toward Velvet with the accelerate technique.

"Are you sure we should be running towards the giant meteors made out of destructive energy?" Eldrick screams.

"I have no idea what those dark clouds on her back do, so we've got to work together to make sure she doesn't get a chance to use them! So right now we got to support Kage!"

"Wait, I think I understand now. Let's do it!"

At the same time, Velvet stares at the energy meteor shower with a blank expression.

"For a stupid boy, I'm impressed."

Velvet uses the accelerate technique to jump away from the blast radius of the attack, but then suddenly she feels something on the lower part of her back.

"What the hell are you doing?"

Velvet looks back and sees Unknown alongside Eldrick, using each of their feet to stop her movements in mid-air.

"We knew you would try to escape, but too bad for you; this is a three vs. one!"

After hearing Unknown's statement, a blood vessel pops out of Velvet's head.

"Fuck that shit!

"The long black clouds coming out of Velvet's back start to move around and go in for an attack on the two boys."

"Do we do it now, Unknown?"

"Yes now!"

Unknown and Eldrick bend their knees.

"Go to hell!" Unknown and Eldrick scream simultaneously.

Both of them push off Velvet, causing her to get sent flying forward back into the blast radius of Kage's energy meteor shower and sending themselves out of the blast radius.

"No way I lose to these pathetic boys!"

Velvet gets hit by every energy beam, and with an explosion after the impact, a massive amount of dust covers the area. Kage safely lands on the ground, and on the other hand, Eldrick breaks him and Unknown's falls by expanding his buttocks and using them as a cushion for their fall.

Both of them land on their feet after Eldrick's buttocks deflate.

"Damn, you know I hate your powers for how disgusting they are, but I'll admit they are pretty useful."

"Oh, so that means you're finally over our battle in the tournament now!"

"Never!" Unknown says with a stern tone.

Unknown looks down to the ground and thinks to himself.

"Honestly, I have nothing against you; it's just that when we fought, your powers creeped me out, and I was just immature about it even after the fight, so let's just not talk about it and work together to save this city!"

Unknown looks back over to Eldrick and notices he's not moving, and his eyes have turned red.

"Eldrick, what's wrong?" he screams

Kage gets over to Unknown's location and lands right next to him after jumping off a building.

"Dude, is something wrong?"

"It's Eldrick; he's not moving, and something is going on with his eyes!"

Kage looks closer at Eldrick's body and notices red lighting emanating from it.

"Dude, isn't that the same lighting from that woman's clouds?"

"Wait a minute. I thought I was seeing things, but maybe I wasn't."

Unknown starts to remember when him and Eldrick kicked off Velvet.

"When me and Eldrick used her back to jump away from your attack, I swore I saw him get hit by one of those black clouds!"

"Wait what! Shit, this could be bad!"

Within the mind of Eldrick, Eldrick has the body of a blond-haired boy.

"Oh my, what is this?"

Eldrick looks around and sees that he's on a trail in the mountains.

"What's going on here?" Eldrick says in confusion.

He looks at the ground, where a puddle had appeared from the rain earlier.

"Woah, I look like one of the guys that Velvet killed earlier."

"Hey!"

Eldrick looks to his front and sees a little girl.

"Daddy, come on, we have to get home."

"The hell is this? I can't waste my time here; I have to find a way out of this body and back to the battle in Grava City!"

Eldrick turns around and starts walking away.

"Daddy, where are you goi—"

Suddenly, the little girl gets crushed by a giant rock that slipped down part of a mountain.

Eldrick turns around and sees the little girl's body splattered on the rock and ground, with nothing left to recognize.

"Oh my!"

Outside of Eldrick's mind, Unknown is shaking Eldrick, attempting to wake him up.

"Come on, Eldrick, you gotta speak! At least say something werid so I know your ok!"

"Unknown! If this is happening, then do you think Velvet is still standing?"

Suddenly, Eldrick's eyes turn back to normal.

"Yes, Eldrick, your ba—!"

To the surprise of Kage and Unknown, Eldrick's head explodes, killing him instantly. As the blood from Eldrick's head exploding splatters on their faces, Kage and Unknown hear a familiar voice coming from the dust clouds.

"Do you little boys really think you could beat a mercenary like me?"

Velvet steps out of the dust clouds with tattered clothes and bruises all over. As blood leaks from her wounds, Velvet starts to speak with a frightening tone.

"Hey, boy with the mask!"

With Unknown still shaken up after Eldrick's death, he looks over to Velvet.

"You said earlier that this is a three vs. one."

Velvet starts to smile wide.

"Well, it looks like I just made it a two vs. one, didn't I?"

Chapter 146 end