Sty had the chance to leave this place yet had decided to stay. So he could prove to everyone that he could beat Numba? He had already proven that. He had already won once. Which was why Gary believed that Sty was an incredibly petty person. That needed to be taught a bigger lesson than the last one.
However, there was a chance that if Numba could beat Sty in the fight, that it would bring an end to everything. Numba would be the one that had humbled his opponent.
‘It’s going to be hard, we only had a little bit of training, but you were the one that improved the most. If you can get a hit on him like you did me..it will be interesting.’
The two in the centre had transformed, and just like before, they looked no different. Numba had his large Ram-like horns that would curl and extend past his face. In contrast, Sty had his large bug eyes and wings on his back.
However, the start was different compared to before. Rather than charging in from the get go, Numba had gotten into a crouched position, one where he could kick off from his legs with explosive power when needed.
He looked right where Sty was. Seeing this,Sty started to fly around and decided to try to approach Numba from a different angle. At that moment, lifting his front foot and swirling around, Numba had made it, so his body was facing Sty.
Seeing this, Sty was changing direction, trying to get behind Numba in some way, flying to his left to right, and each time Numba would follow him, not allowing for his back or side to be facing Sty, constantly swirling on his feet and having a bounce in his steps as he swirled around.
“Man, just watching Numba is making me feel dizzy,” Ian said, holding his stomach. “He just keeps turning and turning. Can’t one of them just attack already?”
For the people watching, they were getting restless as well. While it was tense, the fight had no such action yet, making them get bored as they hurled insults and began to chant the words. “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
However, Numba wasn’t going to let anything get to him as he continued to do this, waiting for the right opportunity.
“You’re annoying more than ever. You think you have everything figured out?” Sty said as he flew forward. No longer trying to find an opening.
Numa waited for Sty to get closer, and closer, then when he was in range. His back feet pushed off, and the sudden explosive charge was set. His head was held down as he was ready to hit Sty on with full force.
Regardless of this, Sty’s reaction speed was incredibly fast, as he flew upward slightly and pressed his hand right on top of Numba’s head. Spinning in the air before coming back down and kicking him right in the back of the head.
It was a strong kick, and due to it being in the back of the head, Numba saw black spots for a few seconds. He stumbled on the ground slightly and found his hands touching the floor.
‘He’s still faster than me… he can still avoid my charge…but that’s not all I have.’ Numba thought, quickly spinning around using his knees to pivot him into position before standing up again, taking the same position as before.
“Man, I thought he had him there. That was a good chance, his timing was perfect, and his speed improved a lot more after doing all those drills.” Ian commented.
“I have to admit. Sty is really fast; he might even be faster than me.” Gary said nervously. He realised that if he hadn’t used his magnetic howl skill, maybe even Sty would have been able to react and avoid the attack.
It was only because of his skills and raw power he was able to do something before Sty could. Maybe everyone here, including him, had underestimated Sty.
‘Faster, faster. I need to move faster …maybe if I wait till the last second, or if I swirl and then punch at the moment he thinks I’m going to change.’ Instead, Numba had come up with another idea at that moment.
Once again, Sty was hovering in the air, waiting for his opportunity. He flew from side to side and could see Numba was doing the same thing. At this point, he was testing to see if Numba had slowed down after the last attack, but he was just as fast, so Sty would be cautious once more.
Diving in, he went straight ahead at full speed. Numba waited carefully, again trying to find the right time to push off, and that’s when he could see his opportunity. He blasted off, heading straight for Sty.
As usual, his Altered form allowed him to have super reaction speed timing that could move him in less than a second, to react to what he was seeing, and in doing so he flew up, avoiding the strike again and was aiming to come from behind.
At that moment, though, Numba, using every muscle fibre he could in his leg, had stopped his advance suddenly. There was great pain in his joints, suddenly stopping as he had done, but bearing through the pain, there was a repeated word in his head.
‘Just one hit…I just need to get one hit..and then I know I can take him out!”
After suddenly stopping, using his explosive power, he twisted his body, turning him back to face Sty, who was now in front of him. A loud bang was heard on the floor when placing Numba’s foot down.
Sty couldn’t believe it. As he went to attack Numba, his leg was already in a Kicking motion like last time, only this time, Numba was facing him.
Once again, using all his strength, Numba kicked off his two feet, charging forward suddenly.
It was a seamless three-move motion. One time charging in, a stop and another burst spinning around and then a final burst straight towards Sty.
With his fast reactions again, Sty started to move backwards as he could see the horns coming toward him, but that wasn’t what he needed to worry about because there was an overhand being thrown at the same time heading straight for Sty’s face.
Swinging it out, Numba couldn’t see, but he felt contact as Sty was sent sliding across the floor.
“I did it…I hit him.” Numba said out loud he was so pleased.
“Well done.” Sty said, wiping away the blood from his mouth. “So you hit me once, but do you really think that’s enough to win?”
At that moment, another part of Sty’s body began to transform. There was a lot more that Sty could do, far more that he hadn’t shown.
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