Beast Soul

Before Mr. Carrick could push his face onto the cavern wall for another attack, Noah screamed loudly, anger and frustration evident in his voice as a giant ball of flames escaped out from his throat and onto the wall in front of him, and the force pushed him backwards, which negated Mr. Carrick's attack, and gave enough time for Noah to stretch his hand back and grab hold of Mr. Carrick's right leg, and swung him sideways, sending him flying onto the wall.

Mr. Carrick crashed onto the wall and fell down, and Noah screamed loudly before leaping towards him and slamming his fist onto his face!

BAM! BAM! BAM!

Noah slammed his fist repeatedly on Mr. Carrick's bruised and beaten face, which caused him to crashland onto the ground with a loud noise.

"I'm not done yet!" Noah screamed loudly as he raised his leg up while still in the air, and shot down in an instant, all while swinging his leg down along with his movement, and his feet slammed down onto Mr. Carrick's body with a loud noise.

BAM!

Or so he thought.

"What?" Noah looked at the spot where his feet had slammed onto, and his eyes widened with surprise. He couldn't see the body of Mr. Carrick underneath his feet, which meant that his attack had landed on the ground and not on his enemy as he had imagined. 

"Sh*t!" He cursed loudly and began to look around, trying to find out where Mr. Carrick was hiding. 

Swoosh!

"I'm not done yet either, boy!" A rough and rusty voice entered Noah's ears, making his face turn alert, and he looked down at his feet once again only to find a hand popping out from underneath the ground.

'He was under the earth?' Before Noah could move his feet and get away, the hand had already grabbed onto his feet, and Noah was pulled into the earth with intense force, even though he was trying his very best to resist it.

"Let me go!" Noah screamed as he tossed and turned, watching as his lower body was being completely submerged underneath the ground that seemed to behave like it was liquid, for some reason. 

"F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!" Noah kicked repeatedly, trying to make the enemy let of of his leg, but as he was focused on trying to locate where the enemy's location was based on the location of the hand that was grabbing his leg, a shadowy figure slowly began to emerge from underneath the ground right behind Noah.

The dimly lit candles illuminated the face of the shadowy figure, revealing it to have a horrifying appearance that would remind someone of ghouls and creatures of folktales.

WHAM!

Before Noah could turn around, the monster stretched out its hands and grabbed Noah's face from behind, pulling him down into the ground forcefully.

"You're not grabbing me from behind again!" Noah knew that he couldn't fall for the same trick twice, and he immediately spat out a giant ball of flames down onto the ground, creating a large explosion that shot back mud and dirt all over the place and flung both Noah and the monster backwards.

"Gah!" Noah screamed as he somehow made an alright landing without falling down onto his butt. Both Noah and the monster had landed side by side without making any mistakes, and the two glanced at each other.

"Well, well, well.. aren't you one ugly motherf*cker.." Noah had now taken a good look at the monster and the terrifying appearance that it had, and he clicked his tongue. 

"You've got a sharp tongue, young man. But you do know that we're not so similar in reality, right?" The monster spoke with a grin and it's sharp teeth became visible, revealing itself to be the transformed version of Mr. Carrick. Noah raised his eyebrows in response. "I don't know man. I mean, have you seen yourself? I'm honestly certain that you're in denial right now." 

"Snarky little sh*t! I'll show you!" The monster sneered with anger before leaping straight for Noah, who immediately responded to the threat by stretching out his leg and goitin for a powerful kick right for the monster's abdomen.

Twack!

But all of a sudden, the transformed Mr. Carrick moved his hands with such incredible speed that it wasn't even possible for Noah to keep up with his motion, and caught Noah's leg right before it made contact with his body.

The monster pulled Noah's leg and twisted it in mid air, and Noah's whole body was forced to rotate along with his leg, right after which he crash landed down onto the ground with a loud noise.

WHIP!

The transformed Mr. Carrick swung his leg without wasting a single second right as Noah's body made contact with the ground below, slamming his foot onto Noah's chest and sending him flying sideways and causing him to collide onto the wall.

BOOM!

The impact caused crevices to be formed on the wall, and all of a sudden, boulders began to drop down from the top of the cavern, forcing the monster version of Mr. Carrick to take a few steps back in order to avoid the falling rocks. 

"F*ck!"Noah gritted his teeth in pain right as a boulder fell in front of him, missing him by only a few inches as it crashed onto the ground next to him, creating a large crater on the earth.

"Looks like the whole place might collapse sooner or later!" Noah mumbled under his breath as he placed his hands on his head and winced in pain. 

"I've got to put an end to this fight as quickly as.. urgh!" He couldn't finish his sentence as a sharp pain entered into his brain and all of a sudden, his vision began to get all blurry.

'No, no, not right now…' Noah wanted to continue fighting and wanted to resist what was happening, but he also knew that there was no way he could fight against something which he had absolutely no control over and he reluctantly closed his eyes.

"Ah, careful now.." A disturbing and sinister ami appeared on the terrifying face of the transformed Mr. Carrick, as he slowly walked up towards Noah, who seemed to be unconscious. "I don't want you to be crushed to death! I want to kill you myself!"

Tap! Tap! Tap!

His footsteps were soft and yet somehow sounded powerful at the same time, and as soon as he reached near Noah, he stretched out his scaly hand and grabbed hold of Noah's hair, pulling his head up as Mr. Carrick opened his mouth to speak. "Now, do you have any last words, young man?"

WHAM!

All of a sudden, Noah's hand reached forward and grabbed hold of Mr. Carrick's own hand, gripping it tightly. His hand movements were so quick that even Mr. Carrick was surprised. This was the fastest Noah has ever been in this entire fight!

Was he only playing with me all this time? 

"You son of a b*tch! Did you underestimate my power?!" Mr. Carrick screamed loudly as he tried to pull Noah's hair once again, but found that he could not move his hands. 

'What the- how the hell? Why is he so powerful?' Mr. Carrick thought to himself as he felt the pressure on his wrist increasing bit by bit, and pain began to envelope his mind. 

He tried pulling his hand back using all his strength, but he couldn't even move a single inch. 

Anxious and afraid, the monster's gaze then shifted to Noah, who tilted his head up to make eye contact with Mr. Carrick.

His eyes were completely black, and a powerful aura had enveloped him, giving him a terrifying presence. 

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"If I can swing to that spot and hook the rope that's on my hands, then perhaps…" Gerald murmured under his breath as he looked at his tied up hands. His gaze once again turned towards the pointed rocks on the wall. One of them was in a location which was pretty close to the spot where Gerald was hanging from. 

Perhaps he could swing himself in a pendulum motion and shorten the distance…

"It's worth a try!" Gerald said to himself, and he then started to wiggle his body, slowly making himself swing to the sides, trying to push his hands towards the direction of the pointed rock.

"Oh, I'm feeling dizzy.." Gerald could feel that he was slowly feeling the urge to throw up. He attributed it partly due to motion sickness and partly due to the fact that he was tied upside down, but he resisted the feeling. 

"Just a bit more…" Gerald said to himself as he began slowly stretching out his hand forward. He just needed one more swing! 

He went back for another swing, but his eyes were stuck on the rock. 

'Now!'

Gerald stretched out his hands as soon as he went for another swing and right when he shortened the distance between his hands and the rock, he used the rope to hook his hands onto the rock!