Chapter 21: Axel vs Jeff Part 5
Lars stepped out from the bushes grinning from ear to ear.
"Alright! I'm done playing around with you Jeff!" Lars said defiantly
"Hahaaha," Jeff laughed arrogantly. "You haven't even landed a punch yet!" He laughed
"Exactly my point! One punch is all I need!" Lars remarked, drawing out his fist. "And at this distance there's no way you can stop me in time!"
Lars closed his eyes and tensed up his hand trying to gather the water into it.
"No good!" Thought Jeff "He's going to use that attack again! I forgot he's extremely strong at close range! I need to fall back."
"Heh! What good is a punch if you can't reach your target?" Jeff said, jumping back further away from Axel. "I'll slap you down before you get anywhere close with my strongest attack!"
Focusing his ether into all of the fibers in his hair, his flesh began to be covered in violet liquorish once again. As the strands in his hair met the ones in his arms, a large spherical liquorish began to erect from the tips of his arms. After a few moments of expanding and forming, a giant Spear of Licorice stretched out from his fingertips. It was a huge arrow shaped shard with a long 20 foot pointy end with a base of at least a 5 foot diameter that covered his face.
"Don't think I can't be this far away and still attack! I'm not limited like you are!" He yelled.
"Bring it on!" Lars yelled channeling his ether
"Silver!" He yelled catapulting the huge spear towards Lars .
Lars had enough time. He clenched his fist as the bursting fountain of water he had hit PB with earlier pulsed in his hand...
"AHHHHH!" Axel yelled running towards Jeff
"What is he doing?" said Jeff as his long arrow of Licorice shot out at Axel. "Does he have a death wish! If he runs into my attack like that he's as good as dead!"
Lars continued on the straight path carrying the bursting flood of water in his stride.
"Axel!!!" His friends yelled supporting him.
"He's gonna get himself killed" Reggie yelled taring out his hair.
"Heh I see what he's doing." Lance remarked.
"What's he doing?" the group asked.
"Just wait and see," He said. "Not bad at all Ax. Not bad at all"
Just as he was about to make contact with Jeff's arrow Lars changed position. He jumped over it smiling as he soared through the air with a trail of water following close behind. Using the water in his hand to propel him into the air, he was now drifting above Jeff's attack way out of range.
"Hmph! You really think!"
Jeff seid, grabbing his arm and pulling it towards the sky.
"I can't turn this thing around!"
With a huge motion from his right hand the arrow changed directions and bolted into the sky towards Lars , its diameter becoming smaller and smaller as its tip became sharper and sharper.
Lars smiled as the arrow came just a few feet from reaching him, and with his left hand ran the current of water over as a shield as it made its way towards him.
"HA, you think a little water is gonna stop it!" Jeff laughed
The arrow penetrated straight through the water traveling further up Axel's path.
"AXEEEEEEEEE LLLLLLL!" 6 shouted from the distance.
The Licorice strand reached Lars's position, and with no shield left Lars extended out his hand to block the attack.
"HAHAH You're Finished!" Jeff laughed.
Smiling Lars used his bare hand and flattened the licorice like a tootsie Roll. Then using his right leg He kicked the licorice, sending it catapulting to the ground.
"WHATTTTT!!!" Jeff said digging his hands into his head.
"WHHHHHHHATTTTTT!" Axel friends remarked
"WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!" The entire crowd roared.
"WHHHHAAATTT!!!" Grant remarked.
No one could believe what they had just seen. The loser that was getting knocked around had somehow deflected Jeffs attack with his bare hand!
"HOWWW!" Jeff said, as his arrow drifted toward the ground. Using all of his strength, he tried to reposition the Licorice but it wouldn't budge.
"You didn't notice it before but your tiny shards are useless in water! It seems like once your liquorish gets wet… its starts behaving like normal hair! You were shooting them out at me and not retracting them back into your skin so you never noticed! On top of that, with the amount that is now drenched in water you can no longer lift it! It's now several times heavier! You may have better control over ether than I do, but at this distance from your body there is no way you can freely control something so heavy!"
Jeff looked to his left and right, He was screwed. Nowhere to run and now with no time to reload his licorice he was defenseless.
"Hahhh! You'll never hit me from that far away! I'll just"
"Aqua Jet!" Lars shouted. Using all of the water in his hand he created a boost accelerating him towards Jeff at blazing speed.
"That's Impossible!" Jeff said as Lars dive bombed out of the sky.
"Boom!"
Blood blasted right out of Jeff's mouth as Axel's foot crashed into his stomach. As his body completely blew back from the force, Jeff was sent flying into the depths of the valley.
Dropping like a rock down onto the ground, he slid across its it and bounced of the ground crashing into a giant boulder.
"The loser you know is gone" Lars said. "The loser is who I was! It's not who I am!"
As Jeff looked up from the crater his vision began to blur as he became weary.
"I lost to a kid who falls asleep in class all day and can't take a punch?" He said losing his strength, "PB... I guess... I'm a loser as well."
Lars shook his fist at Jeff as he fell unconscious. "Enjoy your nap!" he shouted
Dropping his shoulders, Lars let his arms hang by his side. Running out of breath, he fell into the arms of his friends. He had done it. He had won,
"AXXXXXXXXXXXXEEEEEEEELLLL" cried 6
"That was amazing! That was awesome man!" Reggie said.
"Baby blue! Nice job!" B said deadlocking him.
"I I can't breathe!!!!" Lars yelled.
"I knew you could do it" 6 looking into his eyes.
"I had no idea if I could … but…. I was still willing to bet my life on it!" Axel said. "I never want to see my sister in tears again!"
"Nice kid, I always believed in you!" Grant said smacking Lars on the back.
"Haha thanks Gen…. General Grant!" Lars exclaimed
Grant towered over Axel and the others with his arms crossed. He was grinning but soo evilly that it was impossible to maintain eye contact with him.
"And that's not all!" Seymour said joining Grant.
Within moments, The scene was flooded with S.P.A teachers comin gout of the woodwork.
"Ahhh geez" B said shaking her head.
"OHHH shoot we're in big trouble now!" Reggie laughed.
"Tsk, this is what I get for hanging with losers" Lance said
"Well atleast you won the fight Axel!" 6 said smiling
"Ughhfff" Lars said face palming himself. "Something tells me" He said looking at General Grants evil eyes. Grant was smoking, blowing the huge rings of smog out of his nostrils straight into Lars's face, with absolutely no regard for his safety.
"Something tells me the next battle ahead of us... is going to be much worse!"