The rainfall had paused, Sohajan stood frozen. His eyes darted across the carnage, stunned by the bare brutality that laid before him, but before he could react..
WHAM
A bone cracking blow was slammed onto his back, sending him hurtling away. His footings were ripped apart as he spiraled across the blood-slick ground.
CRACK
Anchoring his legs firmly on the blood slick ground, Sohajan forced himself upright, barely regaining his balance on one knee, but before he could rise, a shadow flashed in front of him that smashed his head with a fatal blow, driving his face right into the dirt, the brutal attack even split open Sohajan's helmet with a huge cracks in the center.
COUGH COUGH
Sohajan coughed a few times as he was being suffocated while his face was stuck in the ground. Getting onto his knees, suddenly a chill ran down his spine, in a split second he had sensed the presence of someone beside him. But this time, before the shadow could unleash its attack, Sohajan's body Sprang up into action. He Pivoted on one leg, pushing himself he lunged towards the shadow with an extraordinary speed.
Within a fraction of moments, his clenched fist rose above in a sweeping arc. Before the shadow could even react, the fist landed square at its jaw. The blow caused the Shadow to stagger several steps back to balance itself. The shadow figure clenched it's jaws and fixed it back, as it had been smacked slightly a bit and dislocated.
Sohajan stared at the figure in front of him, draped in a dark black cloak with a hood and a mask covering his face. Sohajan's eyes glistened for a second as he felt a familiar presence from the figure before him.
"So, you too are an assassin deployed by the Masaan clan to take me down?" Sohajan questioned.
"Although I am not an assassin, but you are right that I am here to kill you!" The figure answered.
"You have just given a testament of your cowardice by attacking me from behind, and you think you can kill me?" Sohajan taunted.
The shadow figure grunted quietly, crunching his fists, he darted forward. Sohajan unsheathed his sword and drew it before him to deflect the shadow figure's next attack. However the used an amazing footwork, sweeping around, it momentarily blurred from Sohajan's vision and flashed right in front of him.
Before Sohajan could even react, the figure had already landed another blow on his arm, sending shivers across. A temporary paralysis flared through his arm, causing him to lose grip of his sword. The sword fell from his hands and plunged itself deep into the rough blood slicked ground.
Seizing this opportunity, the shadow figure twisted Sohajan's right arm, and delivered a deadly punch on his abdomen. This attacks sent out jolts of pain through Sohajan's body. Gritting his teeth, he struggled to set his arm free.
Sohajan smashed a kick onto the shadow figure he then performed a knee cut, giving a sharp blow on its chest, pushing the shadow figure and managed to set his arm free. Sohajan distanced himself from the Shadow figure, hiding behind a piece of debris while the shadow figure looked for him.
'His speed is amusing. Fortunately, my armor absorbed the impact implied by his blows.
'I need to counter this speed,' Sohajan thought.
Sohajan grabbed his sword tightly and hurled it with an incredible force. The sword sliced through the air with a sharp shing, gliding towards the shadow figure. The shadow figure moved impetuously as it noticed the deadly projectile.
Within just a few seconds the sword was halted in its way as it was caught mid air by the shadow figure. His hands grasped onto the blade of the sword, looking at it intently, he let out a smirk as he smashed that sword on the ground, completely bending and snapping the blade in half. However, through the corner of his eyes, he saw a massive figure moving towards him. Before the shadow figure could even flinch in reaction, a skull breaking fist landed square onto his face.
The shadow figure staggered several steps backwards before tumbling on the ground. The shadow' figures mask was completely shattered under Sohajan's punch. The mask was broken into several pieces that spread on the ground, revealing the Shadow figure's face. Sohajan seized this opportunity as he turned that man over without even wasting a second to see his face.
As soon as he got a glimpse of the face hidden under the hood, he froze right there, glaring at the guy lying on the ground before him. Sohajan frowned, his eyes seemed to have lost somewhere as if he trying to remember something.
"Sourav!?" Sohajan shouted, the guy who had attacked him with such fatal blows was one of his peers, Sourav.
"I remember now, that guy in the north residential areas I had seen, asking to meet someone was no one else but you, he wore the same cape as you. What is all of this?"
"You still can't understand?" Sourav said sarcastically before delivering a kick on Sohajan's neck, forcing to stumble backwards.
Sohajan fell down to one knee as he dragged a few meters back, somehow regaining his balance. He glanced around to find Sourav standing several steps away from him with a smirk on his face and a hint of mocking him in his eyes.
"So, all this time…. It was you, weakening our forces and entire clan from inside like a disguised bug." Sohajan said.
"Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha, you cracked it, but turns out now its too late, everything is now destroyed, the Skambha clan and it's foundation has now crumbled to just mere debris." Sourav said.
Sohajan's face expressions surged with anger, his muscles tensed up, his blood veins were bulging out from his skin, he clenched his fist, his eyes reddened with pumping blood flooding through his veins. His breath hastened as he glared at Sourav. In the very next moment, Sohajan burst of from the ground, leaping towards Sourav at an astonishing speed.
Sohajan's figure flashed right in front of him, with his fist raised into the air, sweeping right towards him. Sourav, reacted speed with speed as he dashed forward with his fist ready to encounter Sohajan's incoming fist. Both of their fists blew through the air around them before clashing brutally into each other.
KABOOM
A powerful shockwave erupted from the point of collision that just blew everything away into pieces in that street. The ground beneath the point of collision was shattered and split into rubbles. But Sohajan and Sourav seemed unfazed as they immediately lunged over each other, unleashing a series of deadly attacks at each other.
Sohajan didn't even flinch while at the same time evading most of Sourav's attacks and delivering his own blows towards him. Both of them avoided most of the attacks while still being able to land some blows onto their opponent. This stalemate situation continued for a few moments before Sohajan screamed at the top of his lungs and launched a bone cracking punch at Sourav.
CRACK
A crisp crack echoed as the punch landed on Sourav's chest, starting him for a moment before he fell to his knees while clenching his chest. Sohajan took this chance and grabbed Sourav's back neck. Before Sourav could even recover from his ache in the chest, Sohajan pulled him, and drove hi head into a nearby thick wall of a monument.
BAM BAM BAM
Sohajan smashed sourav's head into the thick rock wall for three times consecutively before smacking his back with his elbow. Sourav fell down on the ground , his vision was blurry for a few moments, he coughed whilst feeling a bitter metallic liquid drift in his mouth.
He puked mouthfuls of blood from his mouth as he stood up. He gritted his teeth, clenching his fist, ready to face Sohajan, however, Sohajan stood right there with an unprecedented rage surging through his body. As soon as Sourav moved ahead, Sohajan sprinted and delivered another blow on his abdomen.
Sourav hurtled away as he tried to regain his balance. He looked around and spotted Sohajan's broken helmet on the ground. Picking it up he threw it towards Sohajan. Sohajan just tossed that broken helmet away and threw another punch, but this time Sourav used his incredible speed and stepped aside, avoiding the attack.
Sourav then grabbed Sohajan's arm and delivered a fatal knee cut on his abdomen. Pulses of pain flashed through Sohajan's body. Sourav again darted his fist towards Sohajan but to his surprise, Sohajan's hand caught his fist in midst of its trajectory. Sohajan twisted Soruav's arm and hits his knee with a sidekick.
A sharp pain surged in his knee as he fell down, but avoiding all of that he rose up again. Seeing this Sohajan prepared another attack but unexpectedly, Sourav hit his legs on the ground, leaping several steps away from Sohajan, creating a safe distance between him and Sohajan.
Sohajan stood there for a few moments glaring at Sourav who too stared at him with a deadly look. After a few moments, Sohajan slowly began to walk towards Sourav, whereas Sourav shifted into a poised stance, forming hand symbols to perform a combat technique.
Sohajan rushed towards sourav while chanting a mantra to initiate his own combat technique. But it was too late, Sourav moved with an astonishing speed, he ran around while smashing his legs on the ground, causing the ground to break and splinter, multiple crevices spread around like spider webs. These burst churned up dense clouds of dust around Sohajan.