Chapter 8!
Maldog jumped a bit into the air and spun his body with the right leg sticking out aiming for the face of Better Dick. It was just a small movement but it was efficient, carrying massive force in such tiny action.
Baby Better Dick performed an arm block his left, it will be a waste of theatrics if he just moved out of the way to evade it.
A loud sound of clap resounded as the skin hit skin. Maldog spun again in the air to negate the impact and then he landed gently like a butterfly on a petal. It was just a probing move but he can't stop smiling for a little bit.
Maldog raised his face to have a look at the baby and he was greatly startled as the baby's tiny hand was blazing a hint of blue radiance, already a mere inch from hitting him. Instinctively, he tilted his head a little bit and it was enough to avoid that little face.
PAAAAAAKKKKK!
But another hand struck him right in his cheek, it was just a slap with not so much force behind it. Just an ordinary slap but it caught him. There was not so much a pain in his face but it battered his ego more even if the whole universe collapse upon his shoulders.
" Keep your eyes on me, you are lucky I want to fully showcase your strength." The baby voice sounded, it was giggly sweet but it sounded hard and mocking in the ears of Maldog.
Immediately Maldog pushed the anger out of his thought, it will only cloud him, making me clumsy and more vulnerable, he told himself.
Blue light gathered in his legs, red inn his arms, yellow in his chest and orange in his head. He was feeling the speed, strength, spirit and intelligence in him. Maldog was buffing himself! It is his Streaking Star ability!
Better Dick smiled to himself, not bad, he thought to himself. " You are good so I will not waste this opportunity." His opponent just give him a smile in response.
PUUUUUUUH! Maldog disappeared as he pounced unto the Better Dick, attacking from the left side of the baby. He let out two quick successive punches at the either side of Better Dick's face. But the baby was able to block both with his tiny hands yet not a shake was made he absorb the tremendous impact. Maldog wasn't disheartened as he was expecting it and he released successive kicks, spinning in the air as he is doing it. Better Dick seemed like dancing himself as he evade and blocked the kicks, still his tiny body with fragile appearance was calm and composed.
Maldog gathered energy ball in his two fist, covering it like a glove. It magnified the strength of his fist at the same time making it faster. Sonic booms was filling the air inside the transparent shield while those apex champions who are standing outside was calmly staring at the two combatants. They are studying their future opponent. The members of Dick clan was having their mouth yet again hanging wide open with amazement at what they are seeing. But the faces of Better Dick's parent, Mr. Arsenius and Mrs. Butterfly Dick was churned into a crumple. They are criticizing the moves their son is doing and in their eyes it was so full of holes.
" He is still too green. "
"Wrong again, it is the fifth same mistake, lucky that his opponent was too stupid."
" Oh! I can't watch, our son is embarrassing us. That's just so."
" I agree dear, oh! Wrong again! Tsk!"
If anybody can hear what the two parents are talking, they will surely spat some mouthful of blood. How can the two of you watch your firstborn engaged in a life and death battle and still criticize him? Moreover he was just less than a day old, how can he learn some complex moves and perfect some techniques? Can you please at least lower your expectation? Baby like him should be sucking milk and sleeping all day long yet here the both of you, disappointed at the mistake your son have made while fighting an apex champion?
This is crazy!
Maldog was pressing his offense right now, he is only accelerating still and his attacks gaining some rhythm of it's own. Sparks was flying in the air, both figure was glowing blur in the air.
Maldog was kicking and punching, swiping with both his hands and feet. He can feel the growing strength in him as he is getting faster too. Every time his punch or kick was blocked, sparks illuminate the air. The colored energy that wrapped his whole body was condensing even more instead of getting spent. The blue was dark like a deep ocean, the red was now a shining blood, the orange and yellow was like a sunset in intensity right now.
Better Dick was just blocking and evading, he is still composed. A clean hit was yet to land on him. Twisting and moving, he is evading the kicks. He have yet to step unto the offense, all he is doing right now was defend. But what was astonishing is that he is still standing in the same ground as when the attack have begun. The flurry of offense from the opponent have yet to move his defense from the spot!
The air inside the transparent spherical shield was roaring right now, even though the shield is far from breaking, it was vibrating and shaking. Maldog was getting faster and faster, all you can see right now is just a streak of multicolored light. He is so fast that his body is not even a blur but turned into a transparent itself with such extreme speed!
ROARRRRRR!
Maldog transformed into a lightning, a swift blade cutting through the turbulent air! The streak of lightning aimed for the head of baby Better Dick, roaring with intensity, sharpness and force. The air was sliced itself, leaving a trail of vacuum by the streak of lightning. Maldog's face would surely obliterate anything in its path. It was heading for the chin of fragile looking baby, forming a path of uppercut!
A mere inches away and swoosh! It hit but there was no sound of loud impact. Instead the force of the fist was nullified into a stream of air.
A tiny hand was holding a fist, half an inch away from landing unto the chin. The blast by the stream of air carried by the fist blown away the glorious mop of Better's hair into upward stroke. The hair was standing on its ends as if Better Dick have activated some sort of aura but there was not, it was the only effect of stopping a fist of great momentum dead right on its highest track.
Maldog was stunned as everybody else. How could something like that be diffused like it was just a cotton punch. Half the force of such before have shattered ships and planets alike before but now it was stopped by a baby, newborn and no more than a half-day old!
Maldog's body was hissing with steam of air, electricity was giving off some spark . The air around him was boiling. But his eyes widened with extreme shock, as if awed by the naked baby before him. It gave him a smile so he jerked himself backward, kicking his feet and moving out away from the baby's immediate range.
It was a great move as he was able to evade the attack that hit him earlier, the pee!
Maldog's eyes was burning with cold anger as he is staring at the smiling opponent of his, who seemed to be amused by what it is doing.
Maldog's body released released some steam, hissing like a poisonous snake into the air. Sparks of energy was coiling all around his body. He seemed to be releasing and at the same time absorbing energy from the surrounding. His muscles shrinking in size, no he wasn't getting any weaker, he was transforming yet again into his refined form, the 3rd form.