Chapter 275 - Return Of The Dragon Fist (2/2)

Thinking back, the only energy type moves that Laz knew was the long forgotten Dragon Fist he had learned from his grandpa Chu.

While recalling the information in his head, Laz dropped back and planted his feet on the 'ground.' Just as the girls were wondering what he was doing, Laz moved his body and punched out.

Much to everyone's surprise, not only did his energy come billowing out with the attack, but the energy resembled a dragon made up of black flames.

Before Ruby even understood what was happening, the black flame dragon bashed into her, causing her body to shoot out like a cannon ball.

As she arched through the air, her body flew past Malene who was dumbstruck while looking on.

As Laz drew back his fist, he couldn't help but stare at it like an idiot.

'I did that?” He had no idea how that move he had learned so long ago would be so effective. Luckily, he had controlled his energy when he had done so and only inserted a little bit into the attack. So while Ruby's body had taken a hit, she wasn't seriously hurt. More like seriously surprised. All of them had rather strong bodies, especially Ruby who had undergone the tempering in the cave pool.

On a side note, Ruby and Leona had revealed the cave location to Malene and Kennedy, but the energy from the pool took a while to recover. And even then it wasn't nearly as condensed as it was when Laz had first stepped into it or when Ruby and Leona used it later. It needed far longer to recover. So although Malene and Kennedy used it and the effects were amazing... they weren't quite as amazing as before.

It was still available resource that Kennedy decided was worth buying and therefore purchased everything around that mountain. Even now, Blood Moon was doing some tests to figure out if the pool could be artificially enhanced.

Seeing that Ruby was ok as she stood up and brushed herself off, Laz turned his attention to Malene and smiled.

”Time for your punishment,” Laz said, his eyes twinkling.

”Oh no...” Malene didn't even bother to face Laz by herself after seeing Ruby sent flying. Instead, she turned around and took off, straight towards Ruby. Although Malene could fight hand to hand, it really wasn't her strong point. Killing a few low level clowns wasn't an issue, but towards a monster like Laz, she knew she didn't have a chance.

”Coming in,” Malene said as she flew at Ruby. Ruby had just noticed that Laz was becoming aggressive and flew back up just as Malene came over. Without a word, Malene whisper something while making signs with her hands. Suddenly, a sheet of water covered Ruby, causing her to have a very thin layer of coverage over her entire body.

This was another type of ability Malene could do thanks to her affinity with Aqua. While it didn't have a name, the girls just called it boost. Once covered by the layer of water, one would find their strength, speed and defense greatly boosted. Towards a range fighter like Malene, it was somewhat useless. And in her case, her water body already had these abilities. For a fighter class like Ruby though, the benefits were immense.

Just as Laz thought he took the upper hand, Ruby came back in swinging. Her claw strike was at least twice as fast as before. Before Laz could even react, the claws had penetrated his black flame layer and hit his body, causing a fierce pain and ripping open cuts down his c.h.e.s.t.

Laz's ability in close combat had strengthened immensely thanks to practicing with Julia. Although he still wasn't as smooth flowing with his abilities as her, his natural strength more than made up for it normally. This was both a blessing and a curse. The blessing meant he could win by simply over powering Julia. The curse was that he could never fully grasp her technique due to being able to negate it. But now, being pressured, the lines of attack being shown from Ruby became clear. Even if he wasn't fast enough to totally avoid them, he could predict what she would do and react in a way that made her have to go on defense as opposed to offense.

Ruby's body truely was remarkable. With her snake like lower half and the explosive strength and agility of her upper body, her attacks could come at any and all angles. This was what had caused Laz the headache.

He could tell the girls had truly been working hard.

That wasn't enough to stop him from shutting her down though.

Laz fainted forward, showing an opening to Ruby who took it without question. As he claw swung around to where Laz should have been, he dropped back slightly and reached forward, grabbing onto her arm. Just as she swung out with her other arm, Laz dropped down and slipped around this one too. Slipping behind her while she was trying to free herself, Laz locked her arms around her c.h.e.s.t with one arm while leaning down, Causing her to be off balance and almost fall forward,

Laz didn't let her fall, instead with her leaning forward while stuck in his grip, Laz swung his hand down super hard while releasing another Dragon Fist, this time though the energy was channeled through his hand. As his palm hit, it made contact with where Ruby's b.u.t.t would have been if she were still in human form.

The unexpected hit caused Ruby to freeze up while being unable to react.

Laz then struck again, causing her well rounded and perky cheeks to shake from the force.

Not only was Ruby dumbstruck by Laz's action's Malene had no idea what to make of them either. She hadn't attacked because using the boost ability meant her one hand had to be constantly point at the person with the blessing while channeling the energy. As such, she couldn't use her hands launch and more blades or balls. Originally, the had bet on this allowing Ruby to be strong enough to beat Laz.

Laz couldn't help but laugh.

”Give up?” He asked while still restraining her.

”Never,” Ruby replied while while smiling back.

Laz then struck out a few more times, the sound of the slapping echoing across the night like sky.

”Never?” He asked again.

”Come on. Spank me harder daddy. Make it really hurt,” was Ruby's cheeky reply.

Hearing this, Malene dropped the buff effect. One of the funny things about Ruby while in this form was that she was super aggressive and much more animal like. That also meant that once her switch was flipped, there was no going back.

'Now the real battle begins,' she thought to herself with a grin.