บท 10: 10 - The Fight and The Aftermach (1/2)

Beat glanced to the side where the Combat oriented Eternals were being yelled at, the one doing so was the Prime Eternal Ajak, seeing this going on he sighed, after his fight was stopped Beat was brought with them inside the city, now they were in one of the palace rooms, it seems it was made to discuss battlefield strategies in case of war, or the goings of the city, he didn't bother to ask.

"What's your problem? you have been sighing nonstop ever since we came here." Sitting across the table with arms crossed was Sprite.

"Shut up, you guys arrived right when the fight was getting interesting." Beat grunted under his breath with his head resting on top of the table.

"You mean you getting your ass kicked by Thena?" Sprite shot back with a smirk.

"Hump! I wasn't going all out, if I used more power it wouldn't be a fair fight." Beat affirmed while raising his chin high up and crossing his arms.

"Ha! You say that because you never saw Thena fighting for real." Sprite shook her head while walking out.

Beat just ignored her and looked at the other person that was looking at him, "What? are you going to say something or what?"

"... so, I heard you're not human?" Serci curiously asked him.

"That's right." Beat said while swinging his tail in front of him.

"...Then what race are you, do you know it?" Serci curiously asked, after a few seconds looking at the tail.

"... I'm a Saiyan, we are a race that likes fighting..." Beat said after thinking a bit, he was a bit scared the Celestials would abduct him because he was of an unknown race, but he decided to tell anyway, maybe he was just being paranoid, besides he told Odin already, so it wouldn't be difficult to discover the truth.

"You Like fighting huh, we know someone like that." Said Druig before sitting down next to them.

"Oh, Thena?" Beat guessed.

"She too, but the one I was thinking is not an Eternal, but forget about him, he's a good fellow but his kind, not so much, in fact, they are a bunch of degenerates, if they got wind of you they will eat you alive," Druig said while munching some fruit.

"So, what's his name, how am I supposed to avoid them if I don't know who they are?" Beat said annoyed with the fact that those people underestimate him, he made a mental note to show more power when he got the chance.

"Hum, you know that there are more races out there, right?" Beat just nodded.

"So, there are a few of those races that are physically much stronger than humans, have magical abilities, live much longer and don't age or the process is extremely slow, all those things together made the humans ignorantly call them Gods and those races choose to let they think so too."

"Oh, wait, you mean the Asgardians?" Beat asked confused.

"You met them?" Serci asked in surprise.

"Yeah, Odin and Frigga came to see me after I did some things." Beat replied vaguely.

"Oh, then you got lucky, Odin's much more calm those days, he was a warmonger a few centuries ago, he and his daughter..." Druig said frowning, as he remembered the old times.

"Anyway, the ones you have to keep distance from are the Olympians, when they come down to this world they generally just stay in their territory, Rome, Sparta, Athens, and areas around mount Olympus."

"Olympians..." Beat just sat there with a frown.

'Those incestuous fucks exist here too!'

"Fuck!" Beat cursed while thinking of all the things Zeus is famous to have put his thing inside.

'To Those assholes, if a thing has a hole is fuckable!'

"What was that about?" Kingo asked after seeing Beat curse out of nowhere, after being reprimanded by Ajak for what felt like hours they finally got released.

"I was telling him to stay away from the Olympians, it seems he heard the tales." Druig replied with a smile.

"Oh, I get it, they are a weird bunch for sure." Kingo nodded to it.

"So, what was that about?" Beat asked while pointing to Ajak who was speaking with Ikaris, Thena, and Makkari at the moment.

"You mean Ajak? We totally forgot we were supposed to report to her right away as soon as the fight was over, and when she saw Thena summoning her weapons against what she thought was a human kid, it made her very angry."

"Well all of us were surprised by that." Phastos said from the side.

"So, what now?" Beat said when he saw all the Eternals approaching him.

"I want to ask you a few questions, but you don't have to answer, if you don't want to." Ajak said with a smile, when Beat nodded she began asking questions, it was almost the same things Odin asked and he answered the same way.

"Are you done?" Beat asked.

"Yes, I also want to thank you for your help in the fight, Makkari told us what you did today, you didn't have to help but you did anyway, I'm grateful for that." She then got up.

"The humans always make a feast after a deviant attack, you should wait for it." She commented before walking away but stopped when Beat spoke.

"Can I fight one of you now?" Beat said grinning at them.

All the Eternals turned to Ajak waiting to see what she would say.

"...If you want, I'll allow it, just be careful." To this Beat's grin got even wider.

On the city's training grounds a commotion was happening, the cause of it was the fight between one of their heroes and a mysterious person that suddenly appeared and was said to be as strong as them.

Due to this, a crowd had formed there, and in this crowd, there were the five kids Beat met when he first came to the city.

"This guy must have some problem, Do you think he has a chance?" Dari a 157 cm tall boy with messy brown hair, said while looking around.

"I don't know, but we saw him flying and killing monsters easily." Said a small sick-looking girl named Lilia, turns out that those kids watched Beat fighting earlier.

"Are you sure this is the same guy we met?" Asked Turi, the tallest of them at 163 cm tall, with his arms crossed and a skeptical face.

"Yeah, I saw just a little but I'm sure it was him." Lilia's older sister, Leila replied while looking forward.

"Look! They're coming!" Kai who was quiet until now screamed with an excited expression.

Everyone around them looked to where he was pointing, on the corner of the training ground they saw all the Gods and Beat passing through the crowd, he was using red and yellow clothes and a-

"Is that a fricking tail!?" Dari exclaimed after seeing the brown furry thing swinging behind Beat.

"Hey, he seems to be... talking?" Kai said while looking at Beat, "Do you guys think the Gods cured him?"

"Or he just lied." Leila simply said.

"What about the tail!?" Dari exclaimed.

"Shut up! it's starting!" Kai shushed him when he saw Beat and Thena preparing themselves, they saw Beat saying something, and the next moment he shot in Thena's direction, before the crowd could react they started trading blows, but it wasn't a fight as they expected, what they saw was Thena and Beat throwing and receiving attacks that would've been deadly to any normal human being with ease and no sign of stopping.

The crowd was silent, the power they were seeing was otherworldly, incredibly fast and powerful attacks were thrown easily by Beat, Thena's fast reactions and combat experience were being shown to everyone, she dodged, blocked, and counterattacked and when Beat began to land more hits, she changed her style and made him change with her, but when she seemed to be getting tired, they separated and talked for a few seconds.

Then out of nowhere Beat seemed to disappear and appear right above Thena while delivering a much faster and more powerful punch, a shock wave and a thunderclap like sound hit everyone around when Beat fist encountered Thena's shield, making everyone watching lose balance, the people on the back just had a buzzing sound in their ears, the closest though weren't that lucky. When they finally got to see what was going on, everyone watching, even the Eternals were speechless.

"Shit..." in the quiet training grounds the only thing that was heard was Beat's silent curse.

(MINUTES AGO)

"So where are we going?" Beat asked Kingo who was by his side.

"To the training grounds, you guys will be fighting there." He said while they all walked through the city streets.

"We borrowed it for a few hours, so we can see what you can do." Gilgamesh said with a small smile.

"We should've gone out of the city..." Beat murmured, then he heard a laugh from behind.

"Ha! Did you believe that? He said he could destroy this city with one attack!" Looking back he saw Sprite chatting with Ikaris, Ajak, and Serci.

Sprite smirked when she saw him looking at her, then she jumped in front of Serci and said with a mocking voice, "Be careful Serci, his glare is so powerful that he can erase us with just a look!

"Stop it Sprite, you're being mean." Serci said with a reprimanding voice that contrasted her smile.

Beat just scoffed seeing that, 'I should've kept my mouth shut, at least they took it as a kid's bragging.'

"This isn't the right way to get a girl's attention Beat, you shouldn't exaggerate things too much about yourself, just little bits that will not make them suspect you're lying, but enough to impress them." Kingo said jokingly while smirking at Beat.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Beat shot a weird look to Kingo, 'Where'd that come from?'

"You know..." Kingo said while not so stealthily pointing his finger behind them.

Beat looked at where the finger was pointing and saw Sprite looking weirdly at him.

With an offended face, he glared at Kingo. "What? I was just talking with her! Are you crazy?"

"Hahaha!"

"You all are thousands of years old, right? What are you doing pushing a kid onto an adult in all but body?"

"Wow, I was just kidding man, I would've told you that!"

"I don't think so..." Beat replied, completely ignoring Kingo afterwards, "Why is there a crowd here?" He said after seeing all the people flocking the area.

"Hum... they probably want to see their heroes fighting without the danger of dying to a monster." Druig commented.

"It bothers you if people see the fight?" Gilgamesh asked him.

"Nah, I don't care, wait here!" Beat said while flying to the top of a house, there he took out a martial arts Gi, just like Goten's, but with different colors, dark red instead of orange a yellow undershirt, a green belt, black shoes with a white sole and a white stripe on the middle of it.

He found these clothes after delving into his memories of everything he knew about the DBZ series, the person who used them was one of the protagonists of Dragon Ball Heroes, a boy with the same appearance and name as his, after the shock of this discovery, he made the same clothes for himself, he didn't care if his body was that of someone who already exists, he just shrugged and copied his clothes.

After several tries he managed to change the color of his clothes, he wasn't using them because of the attention it would bring, but now he decided to not hide anymore.

After putting on his new clothes he went back to the Eternals, "Why the change, and where did you get those?" Kingo asked with a curious face.

"I just felt like it, besides it's easier to move in these."

"Okay, but where did you get it from?" Kingo insisted.

"It's a secret."

The crowd quickly opened so they could pass, they stopped at the center of the field where Beat and Thena separated from the others.

"Aren't you going to hide your tail?" She asked.

"I don't think it's necessary, a lot of people saw me so I don't feel like hiding anymore."

"Then, shall we begin?" She said with a competitive tone in her voice.

"Yeah, but please take this seriously, last time I was holding back, this time I will be going all out." Beat said sternly to show how serious he was.

Thena nodded and summoned a shield and a sword of energy, when Beat saw that she was ready he ran to her, although he said he would use all his strength, he didn't plan to do that, for what he felt on their interrupted fight, although she had a good amount of life force, it didn't necessarily mean actual strength to them, so he suppressed his ki and began the fight.

Closing the distance Beat was met with a sword trying to stab his stomach while dodging he punched Thena, she blocked but he used more power than last time, she was forced to take a few steps back, but he didn't stop there, while she was recovering he started a barrage of attacks that kept her in a defensive position, she countered a lot of his strikes.

Because of his saiyan inheritance, he could instinctively analyze a person's body language to predict attacks, but Thena was an experienced warrior, it's much more difficult to read her attacks, Beat took several blows to begin to understand her attack pattern, but when he got it he started to connect more strikes and block or dodge incoming ones, soon he began to overwhelm her not only with power but with technique too.

"You learn fast." Thena commented when they separated for a bit, she saw Beat was smiling and breathing steadily as if he was just jogging and frowned.

This time she started attacking more aggressively and not letting Beat adapt, she kept changing weapons after a few attacks showing all of her experience as a warrior that's lived for thousands of years.

As more and more attacks started hitting Beat, it just made his grin get bigger, at the moment he was having more fun than when he learned how to fly, he was trying to keep this joy from showing but he was certain he was failing, but seeing his opponent face he guessed it wasn't really necessary, Thena at the moment had a big grin on her face too.

"This isn't all you have right!? Show me!" Thena shouted to him.

'I can't show you everything as I don't think you would survive, but I'll end this with a bit of strength.'

Right after, he shot straight at Thena with a fist in a punching motion, with his increased perception he saw her arm slowly begin to raise the shield to block the attack, although Beat could have changed the attack's direction he decided against it, he wanted to see how durable her cosmic energy shield was, while in the middle of the motion he took a glance around to see if the other Eternals at least could follow his movements, as he glanced at them he locked eyes with Makkari, who still could keep up with his speed, 'As expected from a speedster.'

He had time to see her surprised expression before looking back to Thena, seeing that even with her enhanced perception she barely managed to raise the shield to block his attack was a bit sad to him.

'A pity.' While he thought that, his fist made contact with her shield, for a moment he felt resistance, but that soon faded, Thena's feet dug into the ground, her shield crumbled into golden particles, and Beat's fist hit her arm, albeit slightly weaker it still had enough power to overwhelm the Eternal making her defense crumble and her bury her body a few inches into the ground, had Beat not punched downward, the outcome would've been bloody to the crowd.

"Shit..." was the only thing he could say as he saw how strong his punch actually was, he began to wonder if Thena was alright when he saw she trying to get up, so he went over and gave her his hand.

"Are you okay?" He asked her.

"...it hurt a little but yes." She said after seeing that her arm wasn't broken.

Beat nodded and looked around, he saw a lot of people with hands on their ears, looking closer they were all bleeding.

'Shit! I went supersonic in that last one!?' Beat frowned while looking around.