Benevolent Demon

Chapter 22: Chapter 22: Massacre



"If you want a fight. I can give you a good time." Sirus chuckled for a moment before he started taking this more serious.

He took a quick breath and raised his fists up to his face, left fist slightly forward whilst his right fist was closer to his chin, elbows slightly bent outwards, he dragged his left foot behind slightly and kept his right foot where it was.

He started to lightly hop in his kickboxing stance, now he was ready to face any enemy head-on. 

'I can't go all out while fighting these creatures, my body isn't accustomed yet to fighting how a kickboxer does or the agile brutal movements. In that case, I will need to fight like a boxer and not a kickboxer.' He cursed to himself that he couldn't fight how he usually does.

He tensed his whole body making his muscles and joints stiffened up. He was still in the same fighting stance, since the 2 martial art stances were quite similar, but he would not use his hind legs to fight but use his fists.

The creatures were confused about what the intruder was doing, in their lifetime they had never seen a humanoid move like this, but that didn't matter, all they had on their minds were to kill, protect, consume.

The creature on the far right, pawed the ground heavily before bowing her head and charging straight at the intruder hoping to end it with one brutal strike with her horns.

Sirus knew with that build and all that muscle mass he couldn't easily hit it head on without getting killed, instead, as soon the creature was 2 metres away from him. He took action. 

He rolled to the left swiftly just barely getting hit by the horns.

Quickly standing back up and turned to his right where the creature charged straight to a tree and got her horns embedded in the tree. Sirus bent his knees slightly and aimed where the creature's heart was mostly would be, he had to bend his knees further in order to hit the creature's heart. He tensed his right arm and used all his power in this one strike to kill or at the least immobilize the creature, he twisted his body slightly to the left and uppercut at the centre of the ribcage and heard a crack, most likely he managed to crack the rib cage to some degree.

Quickly jumping back a few metres away, he glanced at the creature, still struggling to pull out her horns, he cursed and knew he didn't do any significant damage.

To be expected.

'With all that muscle surrounding the body and even the belly where usually it's the weakest. it's covered in hardened bulk muscle that acts as armour, I need to rethink where to aim my punches, but damn, with this body, I can't do any damage.' He glanced at his fist and noticed his palms were bleeding. 'I can't even box with these fucking claws, shit.' He relaxed his hands and instead tensed his fingers forward, if he couldn't box without hurting himself with his own claws, then he would need to get wild.

The creature finally managed to break loose from her temporary imprisonment, she shook her head furiously and looked to her right and pawed the ground heavily sending dirt flying. She opened her mouth and tasted blood drooling, that is when she felt a staggering pain in her chest. She kneed the floor with both of her front hind legs and struggled to stand up.

Sirus widened his eyes for a moment when he saw the creature fall down to its knees, he smirked as he was satisfied that he could at least temporarily wound the creature.

'If I managed to knock that one down then I should have no problem taking the rest down, but if these other 2 weren't here then I would have already sliced the creature's neck and gotten it done already. But with these two I can't.'

He glanced at the other 2, and saw their eyes widened. Even with their animal expression, he could tell they were surprised. These aren't the same dumb animals on earth, where they could only hunt and to some degree hunt together and communicate with one another. These creatures all have intelligence, they talk and communicate just like he could.

Sirus came back to reality when he heard a roar from the biggest creature, the middle one. The creature pawed the ground several times and snorted heavily before charging at the intruder.

Sirus caught on to this threat and quickly entered his altered fighting stance. But what he didn't expect was for the creature to be swifter and quicker then the previous one. Sirus tried to jump out of the way but the time he could even bend his knees to jump, he got stabbed in the far-right abdomen by the horns. The strike didn't hit any organs or intestines but Sirus was embedded in the horns, Sirus spat out a mouth full of blood onto the creature's face.

The creature roared in satisfaction. And rammed again into a nearby tree whilst Sirus was stuck on its horns. Sirus held the horn with his left hand while his other free hand furiously started to scratch the creature's face, his razor-sharp claws easily pierce through the dense muscle mass. With each strike Sirus made, blood spattered all around the surrounding area.

Soon Sirus was covered in the creature's blood, from his lower torso to his head he was covered in the creature's blood.

The creature roared in agony as he tried to shake his head in order to remove the intruder from his horns. With his eyes covered in wounds and in his own blood, he rammed into his injured friend, trampling the creature's body and smashing the head into a pile of mesh. Sirus flew out of the creature's horns and onto a tree, Sirus spat another mouthful of blood upon impact. He layed in front of the tree and curled up into a ball as he placed his hands on his wounds as he screamed in immense pain and agony. Pitch black blood slowly pouring out of his wounds and dying the roots and grass in black blood.

Sirus slowly started to lose his consciousness. But this pain. It felt the best. He started to laugh uncontrollably as his mana flared up like a raging tornado. His mana once again turned part of the pure blue into crimson red. Sirus stood up slowly as he supported himself by using the tree, as he started to laugh louder and louder as he hunched his back.

Not aware that his wounds were already healed. The next moment he stopped laughing and a wide grin formed on his face, he dragged his left leg across the dirt and hunched down, he bolted straight on to the creature that impaled him, he easily leapt 3 metres up. Slightly leaning his body forward, tensing his muscles, ready to pierce straight through.

The creature still in pain and agony kept ramming all over the place, not even noticing he just killed his fellow friend as he trampled her brains into mince meat. The creature lifted his head up and roared loudly and dropped to the floor heavily causing dirt and dust to fly up into the air.

Sirus who landed upon the creature's back started to laugh uncontrollably once again as he tore the creature's flesh to shreds as pieces of flesh and blood flung up into the air.

Dying the surrounding forest in blood, as the creature rolled into its side, it managed to knock Sirus into a tree, but shortly after the creature's entire left side abdomen was gutted open. Revealing its innards for all to see.

Sirus lost his consciousness for a quick moment before he slowly opened his eyes seeing the devastation he caused. He widened his eyes in awe as all he could once see was the greenery scenery, turned into a bloodbath, with intestines hanging on branches and the massive hole that formed on the creature that impaled him.

Sirus sat up and tried to remember what happened, but all he could remember was fighting the first creature and as soon as he got impaled by the horns of the second one. That is all he could remember. Everything else is a haze.

Sirus quickly looked around for the third creature and the small one but saw that they had left long ago.

"What the fuck happened to me?" Sirus looked down and saw his hands shaking as blood dripped down. Pieces of flesh and skin were all over his claws and his body, soaked in crimson blood. He widened his eyes and tried to remove the bloodstain and the pieces of flesh and skin stuck in his claws but it would not come off easily.

"C-calm down Sirus." Standing up with his legs trembling. His stomach rumbling as well. "Right. Food."

Sirus stood in front of the two creatures, once stood a strong powerful figure, now was a creature that was minced meat. He saw the gutted creature and knew that he couldn't use it, so he turned his head to the creature he first fought and saw the body still perfectly intact but the head was squish to blitz, fragments of bones and brains coved the head. He knelt down and started to sever the head with his razor-sharp claws. He severed the head and slowly dragged the body to the river.


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