42 41: Punchbag

*Boom!* *Crash*

Explosion sounds echoed on Father's Island, this made some of the citizens a little bit alerted, on the Royal Training Grounds, where Byron was with Banner, he was teaching him martial arts and how to control his anger. He also was teaching him how to use and control the type of energy perfect for him, Ki. "Again!" Byron shouted at Bruce, who was on the ground, wincing with pain, he got up and attacked Byron again, who easily dodged his punch and counterattacked him with a simple tail whip that threw the poor Banner across the Training Ground and made him hit the wall.

The wall absorbed the impact because it was made of Vibranium, Banner slowly fell from the wall and got up again coughing blood.

"Again!" Bryon shouted with a heavy tone, he wanted Bruce to be an Elite fighter strong enough to protect his empire and its people, he obviously won't become an unbeatable warrior with the passage of one night, it will take a lot of days, weeks, and even months. "Ugh!" Banner was hit by Byron's tail again, the claw attached to it cut through Banner's flesh and blood started to flow out. "Keep Calm, control your anger. Again." The objective of this training was to make Banner able to resist the transformation even through great anger and pain. This training went on until midnight when Bruce fainted. His body had too many cuts that were slowly regenerating.

Byron brought him back to his room, the clothes on his body has been destroyed again because he transformed into Rage while training, it took him a great amount of mental strength to resist the transformation for a long time, so he went on and reverted his transformation controlling the Gamma Radiation inside his body and removing his anger, reverting then his transformation.

When Bruce woke up the next morning, he was completely naked on his bed, the cuts simply regenerated and he was fine, he only felt a little bit of pain in his muscles because they were regenerating slower than his skin would. He went to his closet and got new clothes, he wearing then he went to eat because he became a demon, it was the biggest of the honors to him eat beside his Divinity. Bruce asked how it happened to him and Byron explained to him how Demons are different from humans, how they would adore, and worship any demon that is stronger than themselves... "How are you feeling," Byron asked while taking a bite from a giant apple he had in his hands, it had the size of a human head...

"I'm feeling fine with a little bit of pain in my muscles, sir." Bruce's personality would have a 180 turn near Byron, normally he would be a very serious person but near Byron, he would be a military serious person. His expression was so serious that even Byron wanted him to relax.

"Oh, that's good. Eat, you will need it. Today we're going to train Ki again, and later the same training as yesterday but a little different. I hope you're ready." Byron nonchalantly spoke while eating the giant apple in his hands, it also leaked a red liquid... Bruce really doubted that it wasn't an apple and it was just an illusion to hide what he was truly eating, but he left this thought aside and ate. The food he was eating comes directly from Alexandra's Island, a food that enhances the natural regeneration of the body while providing nutrients to amplify the regeneration process. In minutes all the muscles of Banner's body were perfectly fine, in fact, better than it ever was before.

After eating, both of them went to the Royal Training Grounds, this place was underground, below the Royal Palace, the wall was made of Vibranium with some runes that protected the place from internal and external attacks and if something was broken it would automatically regenerate and reconstruct everything. Bruce sat on the ground in Lotus Position, he was going to "cultivate". This room is completely secure, it can separate several types of energy easily, you could switch the room energy from only Ki to only Mana and even to only Cosmic Energy. Right now Bruce is absorbing all the Ki he can and increasing the capability of his body.

Byron stayed there with Bruce, waiting. After four hours he got up from the ground and was ready to be a punching bag again.

***

The government was crazily searching for Bruce Banner after he fought against the Abomination he simply disappeared, even SHIELD and Hydra were searching for him. But it didn't matter how much they searched for that guy, he simply disappeared out of thin air! The government thought that he had hidden, SHIELD thought that another organization had captured him, and Hydra thought that SHIELD got him, but later they found out that even SHIELD didn't know where he was.

Natasha was talking with Clint about everything that happened in their mission of hunting a terrorist that was trying to destroy and blow up everything in Cairo, Egypt. SHIELD was also investigating what happened on a Mall in Canada, but they still didn't found anything worthy, the victims didn't remember anything at all! SHIELD even asked Charles Xavier if he could do something about it, but he said that it wasn't in his hands to do anything, even if he wanted to do something he didn't dare to. It was when SHIELD and Hydra knew that Bruce Banner was taken by Tartarus.

"Agent Natasha Romanoff, Agent Clint, Director Fury wants to talk with you two. Please do follow me." A random agent walked to the two who were talking to each other, saying that the paranoid director of SHIELD wanted to talk with them. They went all the way through the hallway until they arrived at Fury's room, they were received by the scene of Fury looking at a computer screen, on the screen an image of Markus was there. "You may know who this may be. This is Markus Handablot, or this was his name when he registered to the army on WWII, his real name is Markus Tartarus, he is the son of a powerful creature, probably the king of a whole race. We know his name, Byron. Byron Tartarus, he is also the owner of the Tarts Industries, the richest man alive."

Nick paused and looked at Natasha and Clint, saying: "I want you too to talk to him, we want to know if he has Bruce Banner under his wings. I don't want to provoke him, you may not know what happened that day, but I don't want to repeat it."