The God of Gravity part 2: Olympus

You're a Fool!

I'm panting while looking at the ground while I sit on a chair alone inside the queue. It's been like this for hours after I fought against Philip. That technique I used, it weakened me. This is gonna be hard because whoever wins in Darius's fight - that is going on right now, is gonna be my opponent. Darius is very strong. Even if he loses, he will tire his opponent and it means his opponent is very strong. If he wins, it's gonna be even harder. I don't wish for him to lose, and I don't expect him to lose because he does what he says. But if this is the way for me to become a god on Olympus and stop Lord Enzo's expulsion.....

I will win this!

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"ARGHH!" screamed Darius as he fought against his opponent - who is a twenty-year-old strong sss with a perfect fighting style.

"I can't believe this!" cried out the commentator. "Darius - our very own Beast of the Tournament is nearly out of breath against the strongest sss, Matilda!"

Darius panted very hard while Matilda looks like she's having fun while doing her footwork with her stance. "You're an interesting boy," she says. "I'd like to know more about you. You're quite strong, but not enough."

"Yarghhh!" he screamed as he charged. He punched left, right, left, and a front kick, but they were all blocked and dodged. She grabbed his leg and hit him with her elbow, knocking him down to the solid metal platform. The shockwave can be felt in the faces of every audience in the stadium. He went through it like a bullet that punched a hole against an armor. The sharp edges wounded him, and his blood started to drip.

"Poor boy," she said as she walked away as the count started.

"One..... two..... three..... four...."

Hyeon sensed something strange about the blood of Darius.

"It is not over yet," said Mila to Juliet.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"There's something about that boy. Something interesting."

"Oh....," she said while looking interested to see what happens next.

"But come, I have something to tell someone." She rose up from her seat and went to the door.

"Okay," said Juliet as she stood up and followed her together with Hyeon.

"Where are you going?" asked Aurelia.

"To him, of course," said Mila. Then Aurelia stood up and followed her.

"eight.... nine..... Wait! The fight is not over!" announced the commentator. "Darius stands on his own two feet!"

"What?" exclaimed Matilda as she turned around to see Darius violently clenching his teeth as strong as how he does with his fists while panting like an unleashed beast from a cage. "What's with you?" she asked confusingly while putting her stance cautiously.

He charged in a blinding speed and went all-out against her. She blocked and dodged his attacks and countered him multiple times, but he didn't stop. His every punch only gets stronger and stronger and faster as time goes by. She was overwhelmed by Darius's burst of speed and power that she couldn't keep up with him anymore. Then she tripped back on her own then Darius finished her with a downward strike of his fist.

He cried, "Blood Rage: ALPHA'S WRATH!!!" and punched her in the stomach. The impact is stronger than what she made and the audiences felt it. She went feet deep into the metal ring and instantly fell unconscious. Darius trembled out of control from the power he feels coursing through his veins, telling him to fight more. He panted very hard and fast while trying to loosen his grip on his fists. He gritted his teeth trying to stop himself.

Then, "The winner is Darius Ozan!" declared the announcer.

Darius felt at ease, knowing that he already won and there is no more reason to fight. Finally, his grip loosens as his breathing became calmer. That's when he felt weaker.

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"Leonide Padine," said a woman from the speaker. "You will be fighting against Darius Ozan for the Championship. Please standby, and wait for the announcement of the commencement of your fight."

I inhaled and exhaled. This is it: The last fight. I will win this no matter what. I have to! The minutes I spent alone in this queue, felt like an eternity as I spent it by thinking about how I should fight Darius. I managed to think of an idea or two, but let's just see if it will work. But given the fact that everything I will come up, might fall apart and in the end, it is up to my instinct to win it. Everybody has a plan until they get their faces pounded.

I suddenly felt uneasy as the door of the queue opened. "Hello, Leonidas!" greeted Lady Aurelia as she entered while skipping. When will she learn to call me by my right name?

"It's Leon-"

"You look like crap," said Lady Mila. "Just like your mother and father said."

What? I narrowed my eyes in skepticism as I stood up. "My ladies-" Then I saw Lady Juliet coming in with Lord Hyeon. "and Lord," I added. "How may I help you?" I just noticed that Lady Aurelia is inspecting me as she walked circles around me with her hands at her chin. What's she doing? "Lady... Aurelia," I stammered. "What are you-"

"We find it unusual for a human like you to be able to beat strong demigods," said Lady Juliet.

"Yeah," added Lady Mila. "Give us the details. We know that you use the Recovery Medicine, but how did you suddenly become strong in the last moments of your fight against your friend?"

"I, uh..."

Lady Juliet says "And I also noticed that you use some kind of technique that only the King and Enzo knows."

"What?!!!" exclaimed Lady Aurelia. "Enzo taught him that? That's unfair!" She grabbed me under my armpits and raised me high like a child. "How are you able to master it! Spit it out!"

This is embarrassing and her grip is hurting me. "Uh...," I stammered. "I... I don't exactly know. So, would you please put me down now, my lady?"

"No! Tell-"

"Aurelia!" yelled Lady Mila. "Put him down!"

Lady Aurelia growled as she slowly put me down. "You're gonna spill it out to me later," she said while pointing at my face.

"Okay," said Lady Mila as she summoned a cushioned cloud and sat on it while putting her fingers together. "We know how Dimensional Touch works, but we can't master it." She looked to the side and gritted her teeth. "What we want to know is how did you suddenly become strong."

Do they mean the Demigod Mode Technique that I invented? I said, "I am not sure myself of how it works, my lady but I just figured out that if I can only send the fists of my other selves into my present-"

"WHAT?!!" exclaimed Lady Aurelia and Lady Mila. Their jaws dropped.

"What?" asked Lady Juliet.

Lady Mila just ignored her and she walked closer to me while massaging her forehead with her fingers before saying, "So you're telling me, that you can pull a specific part of the bodies of your past selves?"

"Well, technically I send my 'future selves' into my present and-"

"WHAT?!!" they exclaimed again.

"Leonora!" yelled Lady Aurelia while shaking my shoulders back and forth. "I can tell that you are telling the truth, but tell me you're lying!"

Ack! My neck is hurting! "My lady-"

"I seriously don't know what they are talking about," said Lady Juliet to Lord Hyeon.

"Explain!" the sisters demanded me.

"I don't know, my ladies," I answered.

"Is he lying?" asked Lady Mila to her sister.

"No."

Lady Mila grinned in frustration as she inhaled and exhaled through her clenched teeth. "Forget about that, and just tell us first how you are able to send only specific parts of your future selves."

I answered, "Well, I just did it just like Lord Enzo did. When he did a 'Fist of Three' when he first showed me."

"That's just an expression. The truth is that they can't send only a part of their bodies, but all of them only for a quarter of a second so that they won't get tired. I suggested them to do what you are doing, but they said they can't! How can someone like you be able to do that?"

"I don't know, my lady. I just figured out that it wouldn't be tiring if I do that, and thought that Lord Enzo does this too, so I just trained with him for a long time and he didn't see anything unusual about my DT."

"DT?"

"Short for Dimensional Touch."

She narrowed her eyes and said, "You made sound so lame but time-efficient. Okay, so tell me how did you suddenly become strong in the last seconds of your fight earlier!"

"I only sent the bloodstream of my other self to move my own bloodstream while opening the valves of my heart so that the blood can flow freely."

Lady Aurelia pulled her hair.

"Hey, stop that!" yelled Lady Mila. "You'll damage your hair!"

"I don't understand what you are saying!" let out Lady Aurelia.

"Now I know what you guys are talking about," said Lady Juliet. "it's simple really. He has the gift of sending a part of himself and used his mastery of meditation to be able to do it. We know how to control pretty much everything in our body like temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and others except stopping the heart. Because if we do that, we will die, but that's not the case for you, little human. You used your precise control of your... 'DT' - if that's correct, to let your blood flow without beating your heart and much effort, as opposed to increasing the heart rate - which drains the stamina faster and do it too fast that your heart will burst. Nonetheless, that technique of yours takes a toll on your body the same as increasing the heart rate, am I wrong?"

She's very clever.....

I answered, "You're not wrong, my lady."

"Just as I thought," she nodded then sat in a cushioned cloud of Lady Mila.

The sisters have their eyes wide open while looking at me. I never saw them looking so confused like this. I am confused too. I don't know how rare that ability is until they told me. I was just training and making ways to improve myself. I feel dizzy, so I sat on my chair and looked at the ground. My vision is getting blurry.

"I'll call medics from Olympus to fix you," said Lady Mila. "That kid Darius is as exhausted as you right now. If we fix you up, you will win surely."

"No," I said.

"What did you say?" asked Lady Mila and I saw her confused face as I looked up.

"That would be unfair to Darius."

"Who cares about him?" asked Lady Aurelia.

"We're just making sure that you will win for the sake of Enzo," said Lady Mila. "I thought you want to become the King of Olympus! If you lose here, you're not gonna become a god, and becoming the King will be futile! You can't afford to lose!!!"

"No!" I asserted as I stood up. "Darius is there alone in his queue without help from anyone. I never saw him asking for help. I can tell that he will never ask someone to patch him up as good as new so that he can easily win against me! He is not weak! He will never do that! And I want to surpass him! If I can't surpass him while we are in the same situation, then I am not fit to become the King or even a god!"

"You're a fool!" raged Lady Mila then she turned around and pulled her sister to the door. "If you lose, I will send you into oblivion!"

"Let me teach him a lesson, sista!" growled Lady Aurelia, but she can't get loose from Lady Mila's grip. "How dare you raise your voice-" I can't hear her anymore.

"I'm impressed," nodded Lady Juliet as she stood up with a grin. "See you on Olympus, Leonide." She walked to the door then I nodded back after Lord Hyeon nodded at me.

I am fired up now, so I jogged around to warm myself up. They are right about one thing: I can't afford to lose. It's simple as it is, but it is easier said than done if we're talking about fighting against Darius. I am sure that he's changed after we fought at that crater. I changed too, so it makes us even. I don't know how the exact way to win or what does it take, but I'll know when our fists clash on the ring.

Then the woman at the speaker said, "Leonide Padine, please proceed to the entrance."