7 Chapter 7: A Power That Must Be Tamed

Two days have passed since Ren and the squads encounter with Zalvozeth a member of the phantom troupe. They were currently talking in there base about how they could get stronger considering what happened when they fought Zalvozeth. Jeff was the main one talking at the moment. "Alright face it guys we were gonna get our asses handed to us no matter what we did. I'm still worried that we won't win even though we've been training nonstop." Aiko took the lollipop she had in her mouth out of her mouth to speak. "We still have time to train jackass and of course you would say we'd lose considering your the most useless one here." Jeff got a little angry by hearing this and responded. I'm not as bad as the dumbass who cant even control his powers." Jeff pointed at Ren which made him feel a little bad since he couldn't control his powers. Leo clapped his hands together which shut everyone that was talking up. "While it's true that he can't control his powers fully we all have a long way to go before we reach our full potential. For now we're all gonna train to try our best to reach that potential, so we're gonna split into partners for sparring. It goes as follows, Ren and Joben, Akame and Aiko...." 

Leo continued until everyone had their partners ready for sparring and all separated into groups. Ren was stretching while looking at Joben who looked like he was ready to bet Ren into the dirt. "Let's hope for a good match Joben, and let the best man win." Joben smirked before pointing his thumb at himself. "Oh don't worry Ren I plan too." As this was said the two of them jumped back at least five feet away from each other and Ren made the first move. He amped his physical abilities by 3x and launched at Joben aiming a punch for his stomach, Joben simply dodged the punch before retaliating with a knee to Rens stomach. Ren coughed up slightly before amping himself up to x6 and aiming a kick for Jobens leg. Joben hopped over the kick and grabbed Rens face slamming him into the ground. Joben then decided it was time to end this and activated his shadow making it engulf Ren and start absorbing his energy. After a few seconds Rens energy was close to empty and he was near unconsciousness. Joben looked down at Ren before turning around. "And here I thought the kid would be a challenge such a dissap." 

Joben would be cut off by an explosion of shadow energy coming from Ren. His body was engulfed in a shadowy aura as his skin turned dark as the night, his hair turned white and his eyes turned yellow. He seemed to be a creature that had one objective, beating Joben at all cost. Joben looked at Ren or that's what he thought he was before him. 'T-this power it's close to half of that jackass who attacked us. I better absorb his energy quickly before things get rough.' Ren dashed at Joben faster than he could react and punched him in his stomach sending him flying into a wall behind them. Ren made his arms wings of shadow energy and flew towards Joben  slamming his feet straight into Jobens stomach after transforming his feet into claws of shadow. Joben tried to headbutt Ren but he was met with two words in a deep demonic voice that came from Ren. "Shadow counter" Joben was hit backwards with 6 times the force and Ren brought up his arm transforming it into a blade. He brought it down but before it connected the blade dissipated Rens body went back to normal and he collapsed.

The rest of the squad rushed over to Joben and  began tending to his wounds while Dai picked up Ren and took him inside throwing him onto a hospital bed. Ren was in a deep sleep since he extended so much energy from his little berserk event. While in this state Ren woke up inside the confines of his mind. He heard the voice of Sen calling to him which made him turn around seeing the physical manifestation of Sen which seemed to be a small white haired and red eyed child. The manifestation of sen looked up at Ren before sighing. "You really messed up this time Ren, nearly killed one of your teammates and you went berserk. Tsk, Tsk, Tsk I'm disappointed. Ren frowned after hearing this before responding. "You don't have to rub it in Sen I know I messed up." Sen chuckled to himself a bit before smirking. "I'm just joking with you man, don't be so serious." Ren looked visibly annoyed by Sens comment. "Oh shut up Sen you make everything seem serious." Ren acted very hurt by the comment before laughing. "And this is what I mean anyways I have to go recharge my energy and you should two." Sen got up before beginning to fade away, he put up a peace sign as he faded away and Ren passed out.

Meanwhile at the base of Satan's elite squadron two of the squadron's strongest members were sitting at a table drinking wine and tea respectively. The one drinking tea continued the conversation the two were having. "So diablo have you heard the news? Zalvozeth said that he found a member of those disgusting humans who had energy similar to the man who sealed us away all those years ago." Diablo took a sip of his wine before responding. "Oh really I'm surprised he didn't kill him on the spot. But considering the human had similar energy he might have been too strong for him. What do you think Amon?" Amon took another sip of his tea before getting up from the table. "We should wait and see how Zalvozeth does, if he can't kill him then we let him get stronger, strong enough so that someone might be able finally challenge us. Now I must be leaving, I must inform the others of the plan." And with that Amon left the Area leaving Diablo there to drink his wine.