The Rebels and The Royals

"Speak, son! Speak! Tell us where he is!" The brown-haired Indian looking man, Elinson, yelled at Akshay while thrusting a hard punch at his abdomen, whose impact threw him behind rolling and at last hitting the iron railing. He groaned in pain, his face twitched, tears flowed through his eyes, blood came gushing from his back and his mouth, and he had trouble breathing.

Tightly clenching his chest with his right hand, Akshay used his other hand to grab the railing to support himself to stand as his legs shook. But suddenly, the railing behind him broke, and he lost his balance.

He tripped and fell directly from the railing. While he was in the air, he wondered why he was not falling to the ground. He was in awe at what had just happened; he was just stuck in the air. It was not just three inches; the distance was the height of a four-story building. He was several feet above the ground.

"Come back here!" At Elinson's command, he got dragged back to him.

The fear, the feeling that he was unknown to, Akshay felt in his heart. The two men standing do not look like humans to him. The only thing he saw was death. He was scared and shivering.

"Calm down! Take a deep breath. And listen carefully, we are not here to kill you. Our only motive here is to find that damn Chimera. Once we get him, we will stop this violence, and then we can all go home together."

"..."

"Speak!!" Anark, the orange-haired man, yelled.

Tears erupted from his eyes. He was crying when he said, "I... I... don't know anything or anyone. I don't know the Chimera that you speak of… Please leave me."

Anark clenched his fist and tried to hit Akshay's face, which caused him to flinch. But just as he was about to touch his face, and crush him with his hand, Elinson lifted him, a few metres up in the air.

"What are you doing? Elinson!"

"I should be asking you that question."

"What... are you doing!? Are you trying to kill him!?"He asked furiously.

"I am not that stupid. Of course, I would not hit him that hard."

"I don't trust you."

"Geez. What do I do with you?"

After his incessant bickering with Anark was over, Elinson turned his attention to the boy who was still hovering in the air, draped in fear. He looked at the boy, and he started to slowly come down to the ground.

"Just as you saw, kid, he isn't very patient in his work. Tell us right now. We don't have much time."

"I don't. I don't know. Please just leave me alone. I have no idea about any of your problems. I am just a simple teenager. I don't know any Chimera."

"Huh! Are you kidding me? Is this some joke? I can see that in your eyes. That glow doesn't come without seeing a chimera. The crimson color of death is visible in your eyes."

"Let's just end it!" And Anark, in the blink of an eye, came forward, his face just an inch away from Akshay, "Okay, you don't wanna talk. Let's end it then." Anark spread his arms and, like a swift wind, attacked Akshay with both of his arms at the same time.

As Elinson became aware of what Anark was trying to do, he shrieked, " Stoppppp!"

But then suddenly, instead of Akshay's skull getting crushed by Anark's power, it was Anark himself who was thrown many metres down the surface, in the meantime getting crushed and falling from the building.

Elinson's eyes followed him as they went wide; he could not bring out any reason for this incident until he looked in front of him.

"Oi Oi Oi. Bullying young kids- Extremely Pathetic."

A man stood in front of Akshay in a plastic pool filled with water. He was wearing striped shorts and a banana suit with a weird mask over his face. This was the man they were looking for—Piero Des Marquetas, Chimera No. Seven.

Akshay fell on his butt as he flinched in pain, and he noticed a person standing in his eyes. He had no memory of ever seeing him. He stood up and tried to get a glimpse of that man's face when the man turned around and waved at him. When Akshay saw his face and costume, he got a little scared.

"Chill, dude, you are in safe hands. From the fear in your eyes, I can feel that you might not remember me. But trust me, I will not let them have a single scar on my body. That's a promise. After all," he turned around, looked at Elinson's eyes, and announced, " I'm Piero Des Marquetas."

That's when a thunderstorm struck the building. It was Anark who threw himself and jumped in the air, and just landed on the building.

He was covered in dirt. Hence, he swept his clothes, cracked his fingers, and said, "At last it got to this. Didn't I already tell you? We should always try fists first and ask questions later."

Elinson locked his eyes on Piero, grinned, and when he replied, "Actually, when?"

"You forget so easily. Don't you remember I said that in February 1999?"

"You mean two decades. I apologize, sir, but that's-" While he was in the middle of his statement, Piero closed the distance between them and then kicked both of them in opposite directions.

Piero said, "Don't play. The fight had already started when I came."