The Battle With Ebun

When it was already obvious that the car wouldn't stop, Grandpa Matt made to swing his sword but before his sword could come down, there was a flash of bright white light from the car and it disappeared and appeared behind them and zoomed off immediately. 

"what the….?" 

Steve and Grandpa Matt quickly hopped onto the bike and chased after them as well. 

The bike was well built for speed so it was only a matter of seconds before they caught up with the black car. Grandpa Matt jumped out of the moving bike and ran alongside it, his legs were moving very fast as he held his sword to the right. 

'what the…how is an old man able to do that?'

Steve thought as he looked at his grandpa in awe and admiration.

Suddenly Grandpa Matt skidded forward with white sparks of mana shooting out from the soles of his shoes and said 

Sword Of Grace: Activate 

Grandpa Matt's sword became white with Mana and as he swung it, a beam of energy flew from it and struck the car at the back. The blast threw the car off it's wheels and it summersaulted and crashed upside down in the middle of the road. 

The car shook violently as it crashed, the ground around it was covered with broken glass pieces from the car's windows and windscreens and the back was crumpled from where the blast had struck it. 

A hand suddenly pushed one door open and a man crawled out, even with the blood on his face, Steve could see that he was a handsome man and from the type of blood stained black suit that he wore, he was either a wealthy business man or a CEO, trailing behind him was another man in a black cloak dragging an unconscious Fiona.  

"Gordon…" 

Grandpa Matt said softly as Mr Gordon stood with the cloaked man. 

"Don't even think for a moment that you're getting away with this… Gordon" Grandpa Matt said, the hate and rage dripping in his voice 

"Oh…. I'm impressed, Mr Matthew Heracles, you've really done your homework seeing as you already know my alias" he said with a sinister smile on his face as his eyes turned orange

"But honestly, I am not Michael Gordon" 

"Then who are you?!, What do you want with those innocent girls?!" 

Steve shot back at Mr Gordon, he could feel something weird stirring and rising inside him. 

"Oh dear, if it isn't the Heracles family disgrace, Steven Heracles….even if I told you, do you think you can stop me?" 

'disgrace?, Does he know about Steve's deficiency?' 

Grandpa Matt thought as he narrowed his eyes at the menacing man who stood before them. 

"Oh yeah? it's two against two" 

Steve said and took a stance, "I'm stronger than you think" 

"I ...am more than enough to take on the two of you" he said as his hands suddenly went up in red flames burning up the sleeves of his suit then he said to the man behind him 

"Take her away, I can handle these two"

 The man nodded, turned away and began to run, as he ran, long black leathery wings shot out from his back and he took to the air to cover more ground. 

"I'll cover for you, try to stop the flying man, let me handle this guy….. I'll be joining you shortly"  

Grandpa Matt said to Steve as he mysteriously brought out another silver sword and gave it to him 

"How do you do this?"  Steve said with a smirk on his face as he faced Mr Gordon. 

"Try stopping this" 

Ever since Steve transcended enhanced swordsmanship into supernatural swordsmanship, his physical abilities without Mana enhancement exceeded those of normal swordsmen. 

Mr Gordon was surprised when Steve ran very fast towards him, he shot some blasts of fire from his hands but Steve dodged them all and rushed past him in pursuit of the man with Fiona. 

"You filthy human!!, Are you playing with me?!!" 

He screamed out in rage and amplified his blasts as he turned to strike Steve but his attack was cut short as he felt a searing pain in his arms and they fell off. Grandpa Matt had closed the distance between them and chopped off Mr Gordon's hands. 

'What the….?'

Mr Gordon thought in surprise as he instantly regenerated his arms only for them to be cut again by Grandpa Matt's sword. The sword was headed for his heart when…. 

WHOOSH! 

He jumped and kicked the air between them with great force that the resulting air pressure pushed them apart. 

"Who are you and what do you want with those girls?" 

Grandpa Matt asked as he stood, breathing softly with his sword held tightly in his two hands in front of him. 

"Even if I tell you, you still won't be able to stop me" 

He engulfed his whole body in flames while Grandpa Matt enhanced his whole body with mana and they both dashed towards each other.

***

Steve chased after the flying man for some time before they arrived at a stone tower, it was then that Steve realized that they were miles away from the city and he had never been to this area before. 

'how do I stop him?, How do I stop him?'

When they were a few metres away from the tower, he decided to throw his sword at the man, he stopped, aimed and threw the sword. As his hand was about to leave the sword, he felt that thing that had been stirring inside him rise quickly and materialize into white energy that covered the sword and projected it with super speed towards the masked man. 

Steve's eyes went wide with surprise as he thought

'how am I able to do that?'

But his surprise was cut short when Mr Gordon appeared in front of the sword and caught it by the blade in mid air, his suit was in shreds and there was blood all over his body but no visible injury. 

'What?, What's he doing here?, did Grandpa lose?'

Steve was still thinking when Mr Gordon crushed the blade of the sword with his bare hand. The flying man had already shoved Fiona into the stone tower. 

"You Heracles are just stubborn" 

As Mr Gordon said those words, his whole body went up in red flames and he transformed into a huge dragon with red scales and huge orange eyes. 

KSSSHHH!! 

Everywhere was filled with hot smoke as a result of the transformation, Steve couldn't see anything or anyone. Suddenly he felt someone grab him and push him to the side of the road, when he turned, red flames burned the place where he stood before. 

He was relieved when he saw that it was Grandpa Matt who rescued him, Grandpa Matt's clothes were also torn and he was bleeding from a gash on his forehead. 

"Grandpa, are you okay?" 

"Yes, you?" 

"I'm alright" 

Suddenly they heard the flapping of huge wings and all the smoke was blown away. 

They could see *Ebun sitting on the stone tower, 

"Is that Mr Gordon?" Steve asked 

"Yeah…Apparently, he's a dragon fiend"  

"Ha ha ha ha" Ebun laughed coarsely in his deep voice 

"All your efforts are in vain, now these girls will die because you failed to rescue them". 

He beat his wings twice as he ascended into the air and breathed red hot flames on the stone tower. 

"No!!!"  

Steve screamed and wanted to run forward but Grandpa Matt held him back. 

"Why Grandpa?!, Why?!, He just killed all those girls!!…. including Fiona" he turned to Grandpa Matt with anger in his eyes. 

"Calm down boy, you can't fight him in this state, he's just too powerful right now…..take a look" 

Grandpa Matt said as he pointed at the burning tower, the red flames had turned to purple and a lich now stood in front of the tower, cloaked in a black garment, a hideous face with a dark, powerful aura around him chanted in Latin 

"De profundis inferni Finium te vocamus 

Venimus cum potestate liberandi te 

Surge de abysso, et vince"

'the dark cult?, No wonder we weren't able to find the fiends all this time, they got help from these demonic low lives'

Grandpa Matt said in his thoughts as the lich ended his chant. 

They heard the loud roar of a dragon as the ground shook violently like the earth was about to split in two. 

Suddenly, someone held Steve and Grandpa Matt's hands and said 

"Let's get out of here, it's getting dangerous" 

'what the…?, How did he get behind us?, I didn't feel his presence at all'

Steve was still in his thoughts when they teleported out of there and he lost consciousness.