Chapter 41- RAFFAELO JUN
The Monkey King, Son Goku sat calmly on the top of his staff as his lips curled into a grin while he stared at Raph.
"What is this ?! You don't seem to be surprised at all ?!"
'..why would I be…' Raph thought with a sigh. In his past life, a situation like this had occurred as well. The Lineage of Son Goku have the special ability of summoning their forefather once every fifteen years.
'It was such a pain in the a*s last time so I'm a little excited that I get to battle him now that things are different'.
He took his stance and a short deep breath in.
For a single second, it had seemed like time had come to a stop as the force of his charge blew the solid ground open forming a crater while the debris flew into the air.
He appeared in front of Son Goku in the blink of an eye, swinging his sword towards him.
Son Goku smirked, using his tail to pull himself down while backflipping and throwing his staff into the air.
He caught it as soon as Raph was in front of him and they clashed weapons all in an instant.
The force of their pre-emptive strike caused an explosion of air blowing the ground apart only by a little.
Raph increased the strength and speed of his swing as he pulled his sword up and struck down again.
Of course, Son Goku did the same, striking his staff nonchalantly at the same time.
The force caused an even wider and stronger burst of air and the speed increased drastically, impossible to be seen with the naked eyes.
"Oh ! You're pretty good kiddo !....but".
The staff suddenly increased in length as he aimed a thrust at Raph pushing him by his left shoulder away from him.
Raph held onto it and forced his feet back to the ground, stopping himself as the length of the staff stopped pushing him towards the wall of the Arena.
"It's not going to be that easy" He muttered, gritting his teeth due to the pain of the staff forcefully clinging to his collarbone as he looked up only to find him gone from his former position.
'Shit !' He thought when he felt a chill creep up his spine.
It seemed like the air had wisp as Son Goku appeared below him, standing on all four with a smirk on his face.
He suddenly twirled, pushing his right leg up and slamming it on Raph's chin with great force.
"..." Raph choked out blood as his body was forced motionless into the air.
Son Goku twirled around in the air horizontally as he kicked him away into the ground.
Raph's body tumbled on the ground for a short while as his body slammed against a rock debris stopping him from reaching the wall by a hairline.
The heads of each family except Michaelo seemed to have reached a desirable conclusion and the masses were now praising the strength shown by the Monkey King.
It was an excitingly one sided battle now and the so-called only son of the Jun wasn't much to look upon…or so they thought.
Raph had slowly risen to his feet as he sighed.
".....huh ?" Son Goku muttered, staring deeply into him. "You should be unconscious by now…"
"...well…I wanted to check for myself….just how fun this battle is gonna be". Raph said as he wiped off the blood stain from his lips and stretched his body.
"...what are you talking about ?!"
Noticing the sudden change in the Arena, the Masses had turned quiet and Heads of each Family grew tense. What more could this kid have to offer to them ?.
Raph took in a long deep breath and on exuding it, what came out was a vividly chilling breeze.
"....you…better keep up".
Son Goku raised a brow in confusion when his field of Vision warped. He looked up in haste as his eyes bulged open in shock.
'When did he ?!' He thought as he quickly held out his staff to block the swing that came from above with Raph landing on the ground.
The force pushed son Goku deeper and deeper into the ground. 'He's much stronger !'
The force suddenly stopped as the weight of the blade was no longer pushing him down.
He quickly adjusted his position in an attempt to counter attack when Raph forced his sword down once again.
The sudden increase in speed caught him for a second and he was able to block by a hairline.
A cut appeared on his right shoulder as blood oozed out from it. 'I couldn't block the whole thing ?' He thought in surprise.
Raph withdrew his sword and swung it from below upwards towards his face.
Son Goku quickly retreated before the attack could land a solid hit but just as he got to his new position, Raph appeared as if he had expected him to withdraw to this position.
He bit down on his lip hard as he quickly swung his staff and blocked another one of Raph's attack.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
The speed and strength only increased exponentially until Raph suddenly struck him with an even greater force causing his staff to move upwards exposing his chest and abdomen.
Raph threw his left fist at him, blowing him with an outstanding force of power.
An explosion of air occurred as he twisted his fist on Son Goku's abdomen before he sent him flying away.
Son Goku coughed out blood as he used his claws to stop himself from hitting the wall of the Arena but the force was too great causing it to break and snap forcing him to use his bare fingers to stop himself.
His smirk had turned into a grim expression as he stood back up and pulled out a fist full of hair strings from his hair.
Each of the hair strings puffed into a clone as he pointed at Raph.
"Get him !".
A whole bunch of him reaching a thousand in numbers rushed up to Raph jumping into the air as a total of ten staffs increased in mass and size.
The size of the staff was equivalent to the height of the Eiffel tower and as wide as the Enger Tower.
All staff hovering over the Arena while casting its magnificent shadow at them were aimed at Raph but yet he didn't falter.
Raph smirked as he jumped up, dodging a staff that slammed the ground with great force causing a large crater and a small tremor to the audience section.
He landed on the side of it as the remaining 9 crushed the ground with its mighty weight. He ran upwards when ten more Son Goku's suddenly jumped down towards him swinging their staff's or aiming a kick or a punch at him at the same time.
He flipped over dodging one of them as he curled his body back grabbing the one that passed him by his tail.
He pulled him up and slammed him on three more that rushed towards him. He quickly jumped into the air flipping forward as he dodged the sixth one, then landed safely on the side of the giant staff as he slammed the next two away with the clone that was still held firmly by its tail.
He slammed the one he had been holding all this while to the ground and stabbed him to the staff. The clone shrieked in pain as he regressed back to a hairline.
"You prick !".
The ninth screamed out as he aimed his staff at him. He deflected it to his side with his sword and aimed a punch when the tenth aimed his staff at him.
He twirled his blade behind him deflecting the tenth's sudden attack.
The ninth twirled his staff aiming a thrust at him when Raph deflected it to his foot, stepping on it and stopping him from moving any further. The tenth clicked his tongue as he swung his staff towards Raph's head.
Raph bent his back dodging the attack and grabbed the staff before the clone could retrieve it as he took a deep breath.
".....Code…Zero". A chilling cold sensation spread towards the staff turning it into cold ice.
It continued to spread to the monkeys turning them into perfect ice statues.
Surprised by the sudden attack, Son Goku glared at him as he sent all his clones at him at once.
Raph smiled as he flung his sword to the ground and widened his palms as a chilling blue aura like snow emitted out of them.
He rushed towards the numbers dodging them skillfully and touching them at the same time as he descended down the staff.
They turned to ice each time he touched them and the ice spread each time they touched someone or something else.
'The true ability of code zero….spreading ice…not only do I turn them into statues of ice, I also spread the ice to surrounding areas through them..this way. I can make this whole Arena a land of ice'.
Raph thought as he punched the last one that clouded his path away. He descended with his hands gripping the staff as he spread his ice around each and every one in contact with that staff.
He was about done freezing them when one suddenly jumped out from the side towards him with his staff aimed for his head.
Raph suddenly glared at him as a white shimmer appeared on his eyes.
The clone suddenly froze in the air and soon after began to scream and cry out as if he was in pain while scratching his body profusely.
Raph landed safely as he completely turned the 10 statues and about a thousand clones into a beautiful sculpture of ice frozen in air.
He slowly walked towards his sword that was stuck to the ground when the last one crashed to the ground still screaming in pain and scratching his body profusely.
He slowly turned his gaze towards Son Goku causing him to take a step back.
'Did….I just get scared ?' Son Goku thought as he stared at Raph with shaky eyes. It was a feeling that was very familiar to him once but he didn't expect to get this feeling from a human.
Humans were always beings with the possibility of growth and their limits were only set when they think anymore would be impossible. At times it is impossible but a human that's able to make that "impossible" possible is no longer a human but a god.