User blog:Ronchellster/Round 1

I follow the guy for about twenty minutes, in the meantime he has already drank the four sodas like nothing else, we finally stopped at a community football pitch, I already knew the place, I used to go when I was a kid, but it's been years since last time I put my feet in that place. The place was clearly full despite the fact that it didn't appear to have a game scheduled.

- What are we doing here? - I ask.

He looks at me over his shoulder. - Jake.

- What?

- Jake, that's my name. - He says pointing to himself. -I ended up not asking your name.

I swallow hard. - It's Isaac.

- Okay, nice to meet you Isaac. - Jake says happily. - So… what I wanted to show you is this. - He points to the small stadium.

- Let me see if I understood? Did you make me leave my job to see a clandestine football match? - I ask feeling betrayed. Jake laughs.

- Clandestine yes, football no, just follow me.

Jake goes ahead and talks to two big guys in front of the entrance, one of them is a very large Afro-descendant with a well-defined physique, the other was a red oni, both were dressed in plain clothes, the oni had one more detail to wear a tiger-skin cloak over her shoulders. Jake chats with both of them excitedly, the man seems happy to see him, the oni homever looks annoyed, one moment he's pointing at me, then the Afro-descendant signals that I can enter. I follow Jake down the hall to the stadium.

- Your friends? - I ask.

- More or less. The guy is called Joe, we already practiced karate together, good guy, the mammono, her name is Kyomi, we already dated, but that was before she became a monster.

- Got it. What did you talk about?

- I asked him to do me a favor and let you in.

I didn't even dare ask what would happen if he hadn't asked.

Once inside the bleachers Jake soon got us a place to sit, the seats weren't comfortable, but so far it wasn't a theater. The place wasn't full, but it wasn't empty either, I'd say it was in the middle, yet I didn't expect to see so many people inside a community stadium, not to mention that most didn't wear any uniforms or anything related to the game, except one or another exception.

- We arrived just in time. - Said Jake.

From one end of the field there appeared a mamono, a lizardmen, I rarely saw one up close, they tend not to like crowds, she must have been 6 feet tall, had a well-defined and robust body, the scales on her arms and legs were very thick and glowed a very beautiful emerald color, while looking like very menacing thorns.

- Wow… - I speak without thinking.

- I know how you feel. - Jake said. - I was also was like that in me first time seeing it, not many people know this, but lizardmen have many sub-races, this girl must be one more related to crocodiles.

- Crocodiles?

- Yeah, the encyclopedia doesn't tell you that.

The girl comes to the center, looking closer I can see that she wore a leather bodice to cover the parts where the scales didn't reach, her hair was black and quite short, a kind of clumsy cut, looking like she used a sword.

- Do you know who the girl is? - I ask.

- Not much, I know her name is Millene, a newcomer. - Jake says calmly. - I think she's reasonable, but I still have to see the other guy.

From the other side of the field came a man, not very tall, five foot seven I think, bald with graying hair, must be in his 55s – 60s, dark skin from spending a lot of time outdoors, his clothes are basically a pair of shabby jeans, a white shirt soiled with dirt and a Japanese outfit over the top, the kind that old people wear in anime, his physique doesn't seem to be very impressive.

- What's this old man doing over there? - I ask.

Jake looks at me with a smile. - That old man is Motobe, he's already a veteran and one of the best.

- Are you kidding me?

- No, but I understand your disbelief.

Out of nowhere I hear a gong noise, my eyes that were on Jake at the time go to the arena, I come across Millene attacking Motobe with an armload using her scales, the attack seems strong, but it shouldn't be that much, because Motobe uses just one hand to hold the blow, with the other he grabs the girl's arm and throws her into the air.

My mouth drops open, that old man managed to throw a monster girl into the air, she must have weighed at least 70 kilos. Millene still in mid-flight manages to throw herself towards Motobe and attacks with both wrists, he jumps back and she hits the ground forming a crater right where he was. Pretty impressive, but if her attack is that strong then how is Motobe who held back an attack with his hand. Millene attacks with a string of blows using her heavy fists against Motobe and he just dodges and touches her arms lightly with each blow. She lifts one of her feet for a kick, but the old man manages to hold her leg without any problem.

- Come on, is that all you can do? - Motobe asks smiling in disdain.

Millene laughs, the kick was just a feint, as he held her leg didn't notice her tail coming and hitting his temple.

- That must have hurt. - I think.

Motobe's head shakes to the side and I can see a thin trickle of blood coming out of his forehead, Millene breaks free and attacks with both hands hitting the old man's chest, a very loud noise is heard as if something has broken. My thought is that the old man's rib cage was in pieces, but the noise didn't come from Motobe, it came from Millene. She takes her arms off his chest and the scales that once felt hard as iron and polished like jewels are in shreds, as her wrists.

Jake whistles. - Massive.

- WHAT HELL IS THAT? - I ask Jake.

- That my friend was the KI.

- KI? Like the one in the anime?

- Not exactly, the application is quite different, but the basic concept is the same. While Millene was attacking non-stop with her fists, Motobe looked like he was just dodging, but he was also slowly injecting his Ki into her scales damaging them internally, the damage was light, but done right can cause that effect you saw, when she put all her strength into her damaged fists they destroyed themselves, the tail blow he received was just to make her use that fist attack.

I was amazed, never in my life would I have imagined that humans had a chance against monsters in a fair fight, but in a single day everything I knew was destroyed, first by Jake and now by Motobe. I can't explain, but knowing that my heart started beating faster.

- Pay attention it's not over yet. - Jake warned.

Millene hadn't given up yet, she jumped into the air followed by a spin and attacks Motobe with her tail, but he doesn't let himself be shaken, he steps forward and with one hand grabs her tail and with a squeeze pull it out, by her expression, Millene is felling much pain, but she didn't scream, when she hits the ground she returns with a kick that Motobe avoids and retaliates with an attack that makes her leave a few inches up the ground, Motobe starts a sequence of blows, always keeping her in the air without letting her fight back, after the seventh blow, he finishes her with a punch to the temple that makes her fall heavily to the ground. Someone starts counting, but it's useless at that point, there's no way she's still conscious after a blow like that.