Bar Fight 3

Using his left hand, Mister Ponytail swung his metal pipe at Cyrus and Cyrus blocked it with his arm. Despite blocking, Cyrus felt such a strong force behind the attack that it made his arm sting.

He pushed himself away from the blow and let his arm heal itself as quickly as it could. 'Did he crack my bone?' he wondered as he felt the pain subsiding.

Mister Ponytail rushed towards Cyrus and swung his pipe twice, once diagonally downwards and the other diagonally upwards. Cyrus dodged both of these attacks as best as he could as he didn't want to risk getting hit again from blocking.

He moved in closer to prevent Mister Ponytail from having the space to swing his pipe, but as he did so, Mister Ponytail swung a fist in between the two of them. He had swung with his right arm causing the chain that was wrapped around his hand to swing out and wrap part of itself around Cyrus's hand.

Mister Ponytail then grabbed the middle part of the chain that was connecting them together and pulled Cyrus in to try and elbow him in his face. Cyrus placed his right hand in front of his face to block the attack. He then pushed away from Mister Ponytail's elbow causing him to stumble back a little as Cyrus unwrapped his own arm from the chain.

Mister Ponytail leaned forward and tried to step on Cyrus's foot but Cyrus moved that out of the way too. Seeing an opening, Cyrus twirled himself around Mister Ponytail and got behind him again.

He placed both arms around the guy and tried to lock them together and lift him up. Mister Ponytail quickly hit the hands that were around his waist before they could lock and then tried to elbow Cyrus in either his face or ribs but missed both as Cyrus moved away again.

"That's a shame" Cyrus whispered. "I always wanted to suplex someone before. I guess wrestling really was fake."

Mister Ponytail raised his pipe as he tried to throw another swing out again, Cyrus seeing this and having his back face a wall let his coat fall down around his arms as he prepared his next strategy.

After getting close enough, he made Mister Ponytail miss his swing as he threw his coat over him and completely hindered his vision/movement. Cyrus then wrapped him up a little bit more, grabbed him, and smashed him at the wall that was nearby.

He then pulled him back from the wall and threw him at another delinquent who was close by in the room. Mister Ponytail was pushed back from the delinquent back to Cyrus and then Cyrus kicked his ankle and brought him to his knees, punched him in his throat, and then lifted him up and threw him over a table.

Looking at him now, Mister Ponytail wasn't moving anymore, as Cyrus stood above him panting a little bit. "Okay, maybe throwing him over the table was excessive. But that is definitely how the Arachnid I am cosplaying would have done it, so it's in character."

Cyrus unwrapped the guy and saw that he was unconscious. He took away the chain that was wrapped around his arm and placed his hat on top of his face as he said to him, "Not bad." Cyrus then threw his coat back on his body as he went to check up on how Dawn was doing.

Under the hat that Cyrus had placed on top of Mister Ponytail, a smile could be seen happily sitting on his face as though he had experienced a memory that one wouldn't come across often and was now taking a nap on the warm floor to rest himself.

In the mind of Mister Ponytail, right before Cyrus had placed the hat on him, he thought to himself, 'Wow. This has been the first time I have ever struggled to hit a guy like this before. I hope we get to fight again,' he said to himself right before he lost consciousness.

Over on Dawn's side, Mister Smiley was panting heavily as he had his arms raised into two fists that he kept close to his chest. His eyes were open and his smile was gone. There was a look of maddening appearing on his face as he yelled, "What the hell is wrong with you!?"

"You don't get tired and you don't seem injured either! Are you even human!? Take off that mask and prove it to me!"

"No," Dawn replied.

"Argh!!" Mister Smiley screamed. He had been dealing damage to this strange masked man and was sure that his opponent was already heavily injured from fighting one of his friends. So why is it that he seems completely fine after all of that!?

He was standing up straight and didn't even seem tired or in pain from their battle which had been well over 10 minutes now. Surely a normal human being would have shown signs of exhaustion by now.

"Hey, if you are tired, you could just sur-" 

"Shut up!" Mister Smiley said as he interrupted Dawn's speaking. "I'll defeat, right here and now!"

He ran forward and threw a punch, and a punch and a punch and another punch. He let out a multitude of straight blows towards Dawn with such fury that even the sound of his fist moving through the air could be heard slightly.

Now Dawn may not have been the most athletic person, but with such straightforward attacks, even he could dodge them by simply walking backward. There wasn't any technique being used or strategized. It was simply a kid, throwing a fit. 

Getting tired of walking backward, Dawn stood his ground, and being surprisingly taller than his opponent, he threw a downward fist at his face. His opponent followed up with an upwards fist of his own towards Dawn and the two of them had punched each other in the face.

With Dawn being much stronger than the kid, his fist kept going downwards and pushed the kid's face into the floor, thereby knocking him out cold with his mouth open and his eyes white.

"Yesh, that was rough," Cyrus said standing slightly behind Dawn's side.

"AH!" Dawn yelped. "Don't do that!" he angrily pointed out to Cyrus. "When did you even get there!?" he asked annoyed.

"Doesn't matter, but what matters is that I got you this," Cyrus said as he dangled the silk chain in his hands for Dawn to see.

Dawn reached out for the chain but then remembered that Cyrus let him get punched in his stead. This memory made Dawn's hand stop moving for a while.

Cyrus seeing this guessed what Dawn was thinking about and said to him, "By the way, I also put that guy you were fighting over there through a table," as he pointed right out towards the scene.

Seeing this made Dawn's anger subside a little, but he was still pissed. He grabbed his chain right out of Cyrus's hand without so much as a thank you.

"And you are welcome," Cyrus said not needing to hear one.

"So, it seems there is still a small crowd of people remaining. Terra and Vito have done their best to clear up the rest of them. We could still join in and help them, but they might be fine without us."

"So what do you want to do?" Cyrus asked as he turned his head slightly.

"Me? I'm done. I don't want to fight anymore, it doesn't interest me," Dawn replied.

Dawn then looked over at where Minty was and said, "I might just go over there and get a drink as well."

Cyrus raised his finger as he was about to say something but then immediately got interrupted by Dawn, "Apple juice, not alcohol. If that bartender over there is serving all of these kids then it must mean that he has enough beverages that wouldn't get people drunk."

Cyrus nodded lightly, impressed that Dawn was capable of an observation.

****

Over nearby where Vito and Terra were causing a Ruckus! Two boys had woken up from their short nap. Finally feeling like doing something about the people that had attacked their base of operations.

"Yo, Dragon. These people are making a mess of our crib." Mikey said as he pushed himself over the warm he so comfortably got thrown into.

"I can tell that for myself, Mikey. The only question is, what are we going to do about that?" Dragon replied.

"Isn't it obvious?" Mikey answered. "We will kill them!"

Just then Mikey spotted someone with a mohawk tending to the bodies of his fallen comrades on the floor. "Oi! Mutt! You still alive?" Mikey shouted as he waved his hand.

Mutt turned around and looked back as he stood up, "Oh, you are awake? About damn time, you've been sleeping for too damn long! And Dragon you weren't even knocked out, you just closed your eyes while waiting for Mikey to come to!"

"H-hey! I was sucker punched ok!? I took some damage and needed to recover!" Dragon stuttered.

"Sure, whatever. Anyways as you can see I was tending to the bodies of our allies. At least what's left of them. And Ponytail and Smiley over there are unconscious. A lot has happened since you passed out, it's been roughly 20 minutes," Mutt replied.

"Oooh, I see," Mikey answered as he rubbed his chin with one hand placed around his waist. "Well, it's all okay now. We are about to counter-attack those guys and I was hoping you would join us. You are the next strongest person I can see still standing after all," he said as he looked past Mutt to see his fellow comrades being destroyed by Vito and Terra.

"I'm mostly a medic," Mutt answered as he looked around, "But I guess I can make an exception for you guys this one time," Mutt answered as he cracked his knuckles.

"Alright that settles it," Mikey smirked.

"Oi!" Mikey yelled from on top of Dragon's and Mutt's shoulders. It was so loud that it caught everyone's attention including the bartender who sighed as he saw that Mikey was awake now.

"This place is about to get more hectic," the bartender sighed in a whisper as he face-palmed himself.

"Hey don't get distracted now, pass me another bottle," Minty complained as she almost finished her third one.

The bartender didn't know what to make of the situation but he hadn't been bartending for that long so he wondered if every bartender who deals with mafia-oriented groups or gangs or even wannabees like he does goes through this.

Vito and Terra stopped what they were doing, which was beating up the people who could barely stand, and looked toward Mikey.

"Dear intruders of my land!" Mikey added. "You have trespassed and attacked us, thereby forfeiting your life! You may kneel and beg now but we are still going to kill you later. Come forward before me and make your case before I come to you myself."

"Love, your executioner~!" he finished.

Terra and Vito nodded to each other as they stepped forward to go and face Mikey and his lackeys. All the other people around the bar who they beat up and still had some energy were cheering and celebrating to know that Mikey was awake.

Cyrus said to Dawn, "It looks like it's going to be a 2 vs 3 fight, so it seems that I have to get involved."

"Do you have to? or do you just like fighting like those two?" Dawn asked.

"Not that I enjoy it, but it does give the mind a workout to try and figure out how to outsmart your opponent. But that isn't why I want to get involved. That kid over there," he said as he pointed to Mikey. "Seems to be their leader. And when Vito went to attack him earlier, he dodged the attack."

Cyrus paused before he continued, "We are faster and stronger than the average human, though I am not sure by how much, and yet he dodged Vito who is an even better fighter than you. No offense obviously, just facts," Cyrus added as Dawn turned his head away from him.

"And you struggled with that Ponytail guy over there. If this gang is how I think it is and the leader is the most powerful one here, then they might need help in the fight they are about to engage in."

Dawn who turned his head back to Cyrus asked, "Has Nobody ever told you that you over-analyze everything?"

"Yes," Cyrus replied.

"Well you have fun, I'm going over to the counter over there," Dawn said before being stopped by someone who placed their arm over both him and Cyrus.

"Not so fast," Edith said. "You two are BOTH going to the counter over there!" Edith pointed with her left hand to them.

"Why-" Cyrus was about to ask before she shushed him with her right hand on him. "I saw you two fighting those two battle freaks earlier and it seems like you had your time to shine. And there doesn't seem to be anyone else worth fighting in here since Terra and Vito went rampant, so you two are not hoarding the spotlight.

Cyrus looked at Edith and then glanced over at Dawn and then said, "You know what, I could go for a drink as well."

The two of them went over to Minty and Cyrus placed a hand on her shoulder to comfort her on one side while Dawn sat on her other side doing his best to provide her company without really looking at her.

"Nice," Edith said as she quickly joined Terra and Vito on their stand against Mikey and his lackeys.

And now, the three of them were standing facing each other as they were about to settle this feud between them once and for all.