Beast Soul

"F*ck, he found me!" Agent Edgerton, who had emptied his lazaron ammunition cartridge, saw the fast approaching Noah, and immediately pulled out his shotgun rifle, quickly moving his assault rifle out of the way. "Sh*t! Abort!" The original Noah grit his teeth and yelled out inside of his mind as he saw the enemy taking the shotgun rifle out. "We won't make it in time!"

"We might…" The transformed Noah had a different opinion, but right before he could finish his words, a sharp pain erupted in his head for a split second, which made him groan in pain, and he reluctantly stopped in his tracks, changed directions, and immediately hid deep within the jungle.

A large strand of light exited out from the shotgun barrel as Noah retreated, slightly grazing by his left ear right bro it struck the ground and exploded, causing mud and dirt to fly into the air.

"Damn it!" Agent Edgerton said as he bit his lips, regretful that his attack did not hit the intended target. "I missed him again!"

Whoosh!

Noah leapt up onto one of the trees and hid behind the tree trunk as he crouched down on the branch. 

"Why the f*ck did you do that?!" Although the doppelganger Noah was talking in a whispered tone, the original Noah could feel the anger in his words. He was furious that he had to stop the attack and retreat so quickly, as he believed that he had a chance at landing a strike on Agent Edgerton. 

"I would've beaten him if you didn't decide to interfere!" The doppelganger Noah said while gritting his teeth, clearly angry at the original Noah. "You don't know that for sure!" The original Noah disagreed with the doppelganger Noah, which only made him even more mad. "You just got scared and pulled out of the attack! That's it!" He said in a condescending manner.

"That's right, I got scared!" The original Noah retorted with a snort. Clearly, he was annoyed at the way the doppelganger Noah was talking to him. He didn't know whether or not Noah could've landed a hit before the enemy could strike first, but he did know that what he did was the safest option that he could've chosen. 

"I put my safety as my number one priority. Just like you said!" The original Noah said with such a 'matter of fact' tone that it even caught the doppelganger Noah off guard. 

After a brief period of silence, he simply shook his head. "Fine. We'll have this discussion later." He clearly didn't want to continue arguing with his human counterpart, and decided to ask him for his cooperation in order to defeat their enemy. "What do we plan on doing against this guy?" He asked.

"He's incredibly skilled when it comes to regaining control over a situation and quicker than any human that I've ever seen, with fast reflexes that may even rival fellow monsters!" The doppelganger continued his words, and Noah listened.

"So you're saying that he would've most likely landed a strike on you had you decided to not listen to my words and continued attacking just a few moments ago.." The original name brought up their previous discussion, and the doppelganger shook his head with an annoyed expression. "I said he's quicker than most humans and 'may' even rival the speed of other monsters," He said while pointing his finger at his own chest. "But not me!"

The original Noah rolled his eyes at the words of the doppelganger Noah, but he didn't wish to make this issue even bigger. Instead, he decided to focus on the problem at hand and said, "Well, I guess we can't attack him head on, considering his impressive speed to respond and fast reflexes would put us at a disadvantage."

"And what do you propose we do to remedy that?" The doppelganger Noah asked. "Any ideas?"

"Give me a few seconds.." The original Noah said. And as soon as he finished his words, Noah suddenly leapt up from the branch that he was standing on and onto another tree right as another bright blue strand of light hit the spot that he was standing on just a second ago, causing that tree to explode into bits and pieces.

BOOM!

"You better think quick, because with the way that this guy is shooting out light beams, he'll burn the whole forest down to get to us!" The doppelganger Noah said to the original one, reminding him that the enemy was still after him and there was simply no time to chill. 

"Wait a minute!" However, as soon as the doppelganger Noah finished his words, the original Noah widened his eyes as though he had discovered something important. "What did you just say?" He asked the doppelganger Noah, who was confused as to why the real Noah was acting in such a manner.

"What? You better think quick?" The doppelganger Noah replied with what he had said a few moments ago with a puzzled expression on his face. 

"No, no, no… not that!" The original Noah shook his head, and continued, "That's not the part that I was talking about!"

The doppelganger Noah thought about what else he had spoken, and said, "Are you talking about the part where I said that he might burn the whole forest down in order to catch us?"

Snap!

"That's it! That's the one that I was talking about!" The original Noah snapped his finger as doppelganger Noah finished his sentence. "No matter how quick and skilled he is, at the end of the day, he is still a human being." The original Noah said with a smile. "And human beings aren't too fond of fire."

He then asked the doppelganger, "We can handle flames, right?" To which the doppelganger tilted his head. "We're not invincible, but we can definitely handle it better than humans, I guess?"

The doppelganger Noah paused for a second before responding, "Don't tell me that you plan to burn the man to death? I thought you were against killing people?"

"Who said I was planning on killing him?" The original Noah said as he jumped onto another branch, and the one right before exploded into fragments as a bright blue light struck it. "We're just going to smoke him out!"

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"Where are you, my dear monster?" Agent Edgerton whistled softly as he aimed his futuristic assault rifle towards the trees, his eyes near the scope as he breathed in an out right before he pulled the trigger, causing a bright blue light to eject out from within the barrel of the gun and strike the tree a few meters away, smashing it into various fragments.

"Well, well, well, aren't you a quick little fella?" Agent Edgerton didn't waste any more time and immediately shifted his gaze towards another tree as he spotted a small movement of its leaves and pulled the trigger once again, destroying yet another tree as it shattered into bits and pieces.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The blue light began to burst out continuously as more and more trees began to explode into tiny fragments, but they just didn't seem to be able to find their intended target.

"This is becoming tiresome…" The fact that he hadn't been able to get a clean hit on his target even after all this time was making Agent Edgerton a bit annoyed, although not to the point that he was blinded by his anger.

Right then..

Whoosh!

Noah's figure leapt up from the tree branches and onto the ground. Although it was an extremely soft landing and would most likely not have been heard by any normal human being, Agent Edgerton had used his special earpiece which was able to detect the change in sound waves within the vicinity, amplify it and send it to his ears, and it helped him hear the sound of Noah's shoes striking on the soft grass land. 

"Oh no you don't!" Agent Edgerton immediately turned the direction of his rifle, pointing it right at the spot where Noah had landed and pulled the trigger, and another round of bright blue light burst out of the barrel of the gun and shot towards Noah with incredible speed.

BOOM!

Even with how fast his reaction time was, the light beam still missed its target and struck the ground below, sending dirt and grass flying all over the place.

Swoosh!

At the same time, Noah stretched his hand out and from his palms shot out a ball of flames which shot straight at Agent Edgerton, who immediately countered it with another light beam. 

BOOM!

The two attacks collided with each other, resulting in a loud explosion that send dust and dirt flying all over the place, as the grass beneath the explosion caught on fire.

"That's not going to be enough to defeat me!" Agent Edgerton yelled out loudly with a sinister smile on his face as he pulled the trigger on his rifle once again, and out came countless blue light beams that headed straight for the fast moving Noah!