Beast Soul

'Not yet, not yet…' Noah reminded himself to get the timing right. He knew that in the position that he was in right now, he could only open his mouth partially. And that was only if he tried really hard, since his head was now pushed down onto the wet mud, which would make the mud enter into his mouth as soon as he opened it.

So he had to shoot out the flames in a relatively short time. As the agent began to raise the knife higher and higher, Noah began to count. And right when the agent swung his knife down, Noah opened his mouth, which resulted in a loud explosion.

BOOM!

The flames that had been gradually building up inside Noah's mouth had finally filled his throat completely, which was when Noah opened his mouth. The result was the large and quick exiting of the flames which resulted in a loud and enormous explosion that pushed Noah's body upwards with intense force and flung both Noah and Agent Edgerton backwards.

Whoosh!

The two men flew up into the air before crashing down onto the trees right beneath them, breaking the branches as they fell down right before crash landing onto the ground, rolling and bouncing on top of the wet mud.

"Gah!" Noah, who found that his eyes were closed, tried with great difficulty to open them mid crash, and saw that he was rolling down on a slope of land which was filled with shrubs, grass and trees, and at the end of the pathway was a large cliff. 

"Sh*t! I have to stop rolling!" Noah knew that if he continued to fall down with the same pace as he was falling with right now, he would end up falling down from the cliff which, from the looks of it, seemed pretty high from the ground. 

But the problem was that because of the large explosion that was filled with incredible amount of force, he was now falling at an extremely high speed, and even though he was now rolling on the land, which did decrease some of the acceleration that his body had built up from the impact of the explosion, it was still not enough to save him from falling down from the cliff.

Twak!

Noah stretched out both his hands with great difficulty and then grabbed onto the ground beneath him as he continued to crash and bounce on the wet mud in an attempt to abruptly make a forceful stop, but it didn't seem to work.

Whoosh!

He continued rolling down the steep hill, crashing through various shrubs, grass and trees and destroying them by colliding with them. He desperately tried to grab onto whatever he could find, but it didn't stop him from falling down.

"Come on, come on…" Noah yelled out loudly as he gritted his teeth, and he stretched out his hand and struck his hand down onto the ground once again, this time even deeper than before and with even more force behind his strike.

BAM!

His fingers slid through the wet mud and began making a long cleavage within the ground as he fell down, still not stopping, but Noah didn't release his hands and continued digging further, even as he continued to slide down.

"You can do it, you can do it!" He continued yelling in order to motivate himself and began breathing hard. The skin on his hands was beginning to tear away, causing it to bleed like crazy, but Noah still didn't let go.

Swoosh!

After a few seconds, he began slowing down, and Noah let out a sigh of relief. But that relief quickly washed away from his face as a bunch of loud noises made him look up the steep hill, and found Agent Edgerton falling down from above, crashing through various tree branches and shrubs.

"Sh*t! I have to catch him or he'll die!" Noah glanced back and forth at the falling Agent Edgerton and the cliff down below and clicked his tongue right before jumping to the side and stretching out his hands, as he stood in his way.

BAM!

The two bodies collided together, and Noah caught hold of Agent Edgerton's body with great difficulty as he let out a groan filled with pain.

"Gah!" He held the pain within his heart, and his gaze then shifted to Agent Edgerton who was in his grasp and whispered under his breath, "Is he unconscious?"

Like Noah thought, the agent was indeed unconscious. He had suffered too many injuries that were simply too severe for a human body to handle. It was a miracle that he was even alive right now.

Whoosh!

The impact of Agent Edgerton's body had caused Noah to continue accelerating, and the two bodies fell down together, hitting on various tree branches and shrubs as they fell.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

Noah winced in pain as they broke through multiple trees, destroying them each as they fell down, but he did not let go of the unconscious body of Agent Edgerton. 

BAM!

The two people crash landed right next to the cliff, stopping just a few meters away from the tip of it. 

"Hah.." Noah gasped loudly, breathing in and out as he placed Agent Edgerton carefully on the ground.

'Is he still alive?' That was the thought that passed through Noah's mind as he stared at the unconscious Agent Edgerton right in front him.

"You know, you worry about this man a bit too much!" All of a sudden, a voice interrupted his thought process, and Noah's eyes widened with surprise at first, before quickly transforming into that filled with rage and hatred. It was a voice that was just way too familiar to him.

"Why on earth are you showing up just now?" The original Noah lashed out at the doppelgänger Noah, who was the one who spoke right now. "You disappeared right when I needed your help the most, and now you're here and the first thing you do is lecture me on what I should be doing?" Noah seemed like he had enough of the doppelgänger Noah's antics. He was angry at how helpless he felt without the help of the doppelgänger Noah, and he hated being in such a situation.

"I didn't go because I wanted to, alright?" The doppelgänger Noah wasn't having it either. He was angry at Noah as well, who had risked his life to save the human who wanted to kill him. "And don't even think about asking me for help. I told you that you needed to be merciless, and yet you ignored my words. And look what that caused?" 

"I saved him because it was the right thing to do!" Noah said with an intense stare. He was angry, but he also knew that he was right. Otherwise, he wouldn't even consider dragging along this verbal battle with the doppelgänger Noah.

"I am not saying that what you did was wrong! I'm saying what you did was naive!" The doppelgänger felt the need to correct the original Noah, who was hell bent on doing the right thing rather than choosing the safest option.

"But if you think that you can keep this up, then you'd be wrong, Noah! Don't just think about others. You have to think about yourself as well," The doppelgänger Noah spoke with a serious and yet calm tone. The original Noah but his tongue and spoke softly, "I know, I know… I know all that. But still," He looked at the severely injured Agent Edgerton and continued, "I can't just ignore what I feel. That just feels… that just feels wrong!"

"Guh.. gah.." All of a sudden, a loud cough coming from the mouth of agent Edgerton interrupted the intimate conversation that the two Noahs were having, and he turned his gaze towards the person lying on the ground, his eyes widened with surprise.

"He's awake!" The original Noah yelled out with a sigh of relief, and the doppelgänger Noah spoke to him with a warning tone, "Be careful!" He said. "That man is not our friend. He's someone who's tried to kill us multiple times. Just because he's injured doesn't mean he's not a threat. Don't forget that."

"I know, I know…" The original Noah shook his head as he walked towards the injured Agent Edgerton. "Don't worry, I'm not an idiot."

He walked up to the agent, who was breathing softly and lying on the ground. With the wounds he had on his body, Noah was almost sure that he wouldn't even be able to move a single muscle.

"You're… you're just.." Agent Edgerton began to murmur softly as he saw the figure of Noah approaching. He looked the young man right in the eye and said, "You're.. just a kid.."

Noah touched his face, and realised that his mask had broken and fallen down. 

"I'm... I'm sorry…" The agent whispered softly, and before Noah could ask him any questions, he immediately bit down his teeth, and the doppelgänger Noah shouted, "Look out!"