8 First Date/First Fight Part 3

"In the end you were too confident thinking you can take us by yourself" Jeff whispers...

[back to Hermes fight]

Hermes' stopped breathing. His eyes must be deceiving him he thought. The human he had been fighting this whole time was transforming into some sort of animal. His hands and feet were turning into that of a canine. Hermes was so shocked that he didn't realize that Dan had moved from the battlefield. Dan was so sure of Hermes' death since Don transformed into a beast, he went to the other battle field to see what's going on in defeating Ashely.

Hermes started looking around trying to find where the other guy had gone, he thought they where plotting to ambush him from different sides.

A mistake!

A fighter should never take their eyes off their most dangerous opponent. This is common sense.

SWING!!

Before he could even react, Hermes' right arm was broken by only one of transformed Don's attack, he was hit so hard that he broke through a wall and kept bouncing a couple of times off the ground like a ripples forming on a lake after throwing a pebble.

It was hard to catch his breath, the air was knocked out of him.

"Hehe, in the end trash will always be trash" ~transformed Don said as he appeared in front of Hermes.

Don flexed his hand and took out his Dog claws and said to the knocked down Hermes laying on the ground, "inferior beings should know their place, you can't match us in a million years. This is what you get for fighting back thinking you can match me, you weakling... A dog's death."

Don was about to kill the defenseless Hermes,

however, it was a bait...

Hermes stayed waiting for the perfect moment to present itself.

This was it!

Don let his guard down and attacked Hermes with all his might, at this moment Hermes tossed a lot of dust mixed in with as much rocks as he could grab with his left hand, then he rolled over and got up, took out the little knife he always carries around with him and swung from the bottom up with all the force he could up in it, with all of the strength he had left, he swung since his life literally depended on it.

The knife passed all the way through Don's thick jaw and blood started splattering everywhere.

He grabbed Don by the Jaw, Hermes then kicked the handle of the knife at the bottom in order to deepen the wound, this worked to perfection since the trajectory of Don falling forward assisted Hermes' kick. He followed with a double punch to the stomach. Don coughed up more blood on the ground. I bet it felt good to finally have the upper hand in the fight, but Hermes didn't let this make him lose his focus, he still had in mind that there's a possibility that Dan could attack him any second now.

Don fell down to one knee as Hermes stood in front of him with a killing intent and a stare that would make anyone feel inferior, it was like the king looking down at his peasants. Hermes was about to kick him in the back of the neck to the ground. He has learned to not hesitate or give his opponent room to have the opportunity to gain the upper hand or room to breath.

Hermes went for a kick to the back on Don's head.

Boom*

Don stopped his kick with one hand and started laughing…

"HahahaHAHAHAHA, i really do hate people like you," ~Don "You put up a good fight I'll give you that Hahahaha the more reason I have to kill you now so you dont come back in the future and be an enemy to us. hahahaha. Oh I haven't been this excited for a while."

*wtf how can he talk to I pierced his jaw and tongue*

The air started getting thicker, this pressure that started forming around them was not the same as Hermes felt with Ashley and her crew, no, no, this was what a true beast looked and felt like. Survival of the fittest at is finest.

Hermes became desperate, there weren't any options left, nothing more up his sleeve, all there was left was all the blood that he lost during this fight. His broken arm and passion for art.

Even after hitting Don's arm several times as an attempt to make him let go of his leg, Don didn't even flinch and opened his mouth and like a black hole everything around it started getting pulled in, a sphere with yellowish lighting started forming...

Desperation can make you do unusual things, it crossed his mind to start praying to a god that he does not even believe exists. However, he accepted his fate and just said to the un-existing god to take care of his loved ones.

*this is it for me I guess* Hermes thought while staring straight into Don's eyes *I guess they lied, I haven't seen my life flash. All I see is a beast in front of me that's not going to let himself be tamed* *yeah this is the way a man should die*

He smiled.

Don felt as if Hermes eyes looked straight into his soul, he acknowledged Hermes at the very end...

BOOM!!!!

All of a sudden Don was laying on the ground. He was no longer conscious. Dead...

"Are you ok Hermes?"

"Huh"

Hermes looks up, it was Ashley who had an innocent smile and was floating mid air. He couldn't say a word. He wasn't shocked by the dead person laying right in front of his feet or that Ashley was literally flying. No, the reason he didn't say a word was because Ashley is in front of him, after she had to deal with other opponents of that caliber by herself, they probably could transform and had all sorts of weird powers and the fact that she hasn't been scratched... What type of monster is this cute girl really...

He couldn't help but be excited in this moment of near death.

Ashley flew down next to Hermes and in a ball of wind to her left were the other 3 guys and she said "so now do you see how dangerous this lifestyle could be?"

Hermes sits and said acting like nothing happened, "meh, it's not that bad",

man he sure doesn't stop trying to act cool...

They both giggled a little, as Ashley helped Hermes with his broken arm and cleaned him up a little.

At this point, Hermes started thinking about Ki and was a lot more interested in all of the mysteries that Planet Europa brings. He hadn't been this excited about anything in his life before. He looked at Ashley and smiled at her and she blushed and said, "what?"

He just smiled, "nothing, just looking"

*You're the first mountain I must climb Ashley, I guess can't help but want to become stronger.*

He looked up at the sky, with an exciting look in his eyes. Like a kid that's drawn into everything with curiosity and uncontainable joy.

…

Ashley called the ship and some of the guys came to pick up the bodies of the enemies, only one of them was alive but he was badly bruised. They also provided some medical treatment to Hermes, someone used some sort of fire power to heal his arm fully.

Brand new!

After all of this, Hermes couldn't get out of his head how Ashley did all that by herself. His new goal became surpassing her and while simultaneously trying to make her his, he's not going to rest until he reaches his goal.

Hermes picked his jacket up from the ground and put it around Ashley as they walked back to Hermes car. Even though she could've gone home in the ship they took the bodies in, she stayed to see where this went.

She held Hermes's arm as they made their way towards his car, the Sun was coming down, the sunset was a perfect blend of pinks, oranges and reds. The setting was perfect in both of their eyes to finally kiss...

"um, Ash.." Hermes said as he grabbed Ashley by the hand once they were in front of his car, then he smoothly pulled her soft body against his, she started blushing and helped by leaning closer and then looked at Hermes in the eyes and said softly "soo…"

Hermes looks at her in the eyes and slides one hand down her waist as if his hands were a pencils without erasers... drawing her body without stopping and gently brushes her hair with the other hand as he looks at her lips and says "soo..."

The rest was history, it was instant synergy on the first kiss. It had been a long time since either of them had felt a connection that deep, everything around was nothing, the world does not exist, nope it really doesn't, only they do in that moment. The spark they had could energize the planet.

They stared at each other blushing a little longer, this felt more right then anything before.

<3

"So this is the thing you had to do, YOU FUCKING LIER"

Hermes thought he was tripping (going crazy) because he heard the last voice he wanted to hear at that moment. Not even his expectations to be disappointed by others matched this timing.

It was T who was standing next to some of her friends. She started crying and they all looked at Hermes with anger and disgust. She didn't even care about Hermes being hurt, all the scars he had or the ripped clothes. Nah, she only cared about that gorgeous girl she's never seen before in "her mans" arms.

Hermes was more concerned about Ashley because at this point she slightly pushed him away from her. She was confused about what was going on.

"You ain't shit, I should've listened to my girlfriends" ~T

"Hermes I'm leaving... Better not be late tomorrow" ~ Ashley

"Wait, Ashley don't leave let me take you" Hermes said. It was the only thing he could think to say... those words were his last hope. He had finally found somebody he cared for this much in only a matter of days. But now this was ruined as fast as it came.

Ashley looked at him with a smile that slowly faded away and didn't say anything, she just kept walking. It felt like there was a bottomless void in the place where her heart was supposed to be, *guess it was too good to be true* she thought.

[Back to hermes]

He's just looking at Ashley walking away while T was yelling in his ear and punching his arm. He didn't feel anything, he was only focused on his dream getting out of his grip. He finally grabbed T's hand and brushed it away.

"Can you stop this already, you're making a whole scene. Come to the car and let's go to the house and talk about it there." Hermes said as he took his key out to unlock the car.

"NOO IM NOT GOING ANYWHERE"

"You asshole" one of her friends said as they all held on to her and started brushing her hair. "She staying with us"

T kept yelling at him and they hit his car window with their bags.

"You deadass doing the most right now, you wasn't even my girl we were just macking. Stop playing the victim, don't think I don't know about what happened at that party or that other one from downtown."

She stopped crying and just looked at Hermes after he said that. Then he continued. "exactly what I thought, but just forget it, we're done here." Hermes said as he got into his car and drove away.

Played music and started smoking.

"cosmos/space lion" and his full "Almendra" (almond) playlist was playing on the aux.

Where his heart was supposed to reside was always a small vessel only used to continue blood flow. now it became a blackhole in the big empty universe, it was bottomless.

At least he still had to see Ashley from here on is all that crossed his head.