Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 33

Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 33

Even when Noah was this battered and bruised, he let out one final sentence ,"That was one amazing fight, you better get ready next time, because next time, I'm… gonna… beat…" Noah blacked out, but was still standing while Apollo replied, spitting on the ground ,"Don't fuck with my raccoon." Apollo began to walk away and thought (Oh shit, BANDIT!!!) when he saw something strange, Bandit was already outside, happy as can be waiting for him. ,"Buddy I was so worried about you." They reunited and Apollo said with a smile ,"Let's go home." ,"Who wants to go home?" a voice behind him said in an upbeat tone. Apollo opened his eyes wide to look back at Noah fully awake.

,"We're not done yet," Noah said with an eye twitching, a freaky grimace and a malicious energy exuding from his being. Waking up with even more power than before, he had a sort of awakening, unleashing untold power reserves that made him 3 times stronger than before. Where he got this power from was his ability to reach inside of his own soul and draw out his own potential through destroying walls that limited his strength. His own body feared the repercussions of releasing this force onto himself so as he continued to train and get stronger, more of his total force was locked from him, to save him from himself. But with a fight like this the wall was getting damaged over and over until it eventually couldn't handle being locked away.

Although he was strong, he didn't have as much control with his ki as Apollo and thus couldn't handle the strain before when it moved throughout his body because he might actually self combust under his own power. But because of this fight and what he analyzed from Apollo's way of fighting, he could now control his power and fight back at a higher percentage of his energy. Noah walked towards Apollo creating craters in the ground as he walked, Apollo getting into his fighting stance. But when Apollo tried to attack Noah with full power he missed because Noah easily dodged and hit Apollo with a jab and followed up with a hook punch. Though Bandit wanted to interfere, he knew that he'd die if he tried.

Apollo's defenses were now not enough to fight against Noah. Noah's skill combined with an insane force that Apollo couldn't fight against was horrific. The repetition of blows caused Apollo's bones to break, his skin to split and his mind to waver. Noah continued and pelted Apollo with kicks. As much as Apollo tried to dodge or block, nothing was enough against a foe this strong. He faded in and out of consciousness and he kept trying to regenerate himself to peak condition but no barrier nor amount of reinforcing his own body gave him enough time to do so. As fast as Apollo healed himself, his energy wasn't strong enough to do it as fast as he needed it to. After a fight like before, something like this wasn't optimal.

Noah smirked and said ,"Thank you for the powerup, but I ought to end this now" and kicked Apollo with a roundhouse kick. Apollo's vision faded to black. He woke up with Cias standing over him, tapping his shoulder to see if he was alright ,"APOLLO APOLLO APOLLO, YOU ALRIGHT." Apollo smiled at seeing his friend and said ,"Do I look alright to you" and they both laughed hard before Apollo coughed a little blood and was brought back to his home. When he arrived his sister said ,"WHAT HAPPENED" his mom said ,"Oh no." She started to cry and took him from Cias's back. She laid him out on the couch and activated Art: Recovery, a purplish pink aura surrounding Apollo to heal him near instantly. Ella's excellent healing ki astounded everyone in the room including Kenji (Apollo's father) who just walked in. ,"What happened," his mother said, Apollo replied ,"Nothing" but as much as he tried to dodge the question, his mom screamed at him ,"YOU BETTER TELL ME RIGHT NOW MISTER." So he told her the truth ,"Oh my god" Aki (his sister) said and Apollo replied ,"At some point in the future I'm sure I will have to fight him again, for now I must train." Silence filled the room until Kenji said ,"Well then, I must teach you all the techniques I know and polish up your basics it seems" and with a nod from Apollo, everyone knew what had to be done.

That night, Noah walked through the city to visit Apollo, not for a fight but for an invitation. It was an invitation to an underground fighting tournament that would be held in a few months that Noah intended to participate in. He sneakily went to Apollo's window and slid it through the pane until it fell into his room with the words "I'll be waiting" on a post-it note at the bottom of the letter.