The fight between snake and man

The mine started to shake from the collapsing walls or floor. Everyone on the upper floors began to panic while Vlad and old Nius were looking at each other.

Hearing the old man's comment, Vlad started thinking of the unfortunate souls that got their deaths too soon. Not long after the earth finally stopped shaking, he started thinking of Inorra and Kipset, who were deep in the mine.

"Old man, I need to go down to see what happened. I have a feeling that those two brats of mine might get themselves done. Those cheap bastards, instead of targeting me directly like they always have done, most likely went for them. I have to check on them." said Vlad while looking with serious eyes at Nius.

"Then go, kid, stop wasting your time with me. I will also go down, but with those old bones, I'll be slower."

"No problem, old man. Just make sure you also come in case I need some help with the stones."

"Ahh, just look at you making me do extra work. Still, make sure that if those unfortunate kids are still breathing to get them out of the mine and get treated. If not, at least to search the cause of why this happened." replied back Nius with a firm face.

Getting Nius confirmation, Vlad started rushing down the gallery path. Even though the road down had dangers around, he ran, not minding the obstacles around him.

Seeing Vlad rush ahead, Nius just kept staring at his back and thought to himself.

'I still can't use my Observation on the boy for some unknown reason. Sigh, whatever, it's probably that thing from two years ago. Still, this is my chance to check if the kid reacts in any way that it could move a bit his Haki if the other brats really got done.'

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Back to Vlad, he already passed past the upper part of the gallery. However, he still had doubts about what actually happened.

Yet, someone who was not having doubts was Glim, who had his face pummeled down with lots of blood flowing from his nose and eye arch, and was running with a desperate and panicked expression toward the upper floors while his left arm was limping as if being broken.

'I need to get out of here and reach sir Belpel, otherwise that Zagreus guy might find me. Arghh, he probably is already rushing down here. I need to hide since there's no other way toward the upper floors than passing directly using this path.'

'Damn you, Kipset, you broke my arm and even did this to my face. I hope you rot in hell for this.'

But what happened to Kipset and Inorra, who clearly prepared themselves for the worse to come? For that, we will need to go back before that earthquake inside the mine to happen.

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Going back to that point, 1 hour back in time, to be specific inside the zone, Kipset and Inorra were assigned to work.

The zone was held and supported by wooden beams to not collapse down on the people. It was the same principle as constructing the roof of a house. At that moment, only the sound of iron hitting stone got heard.

Down there were only three young guys, respectively Kipset, Inorra, and the snake Glim.

The floor around them was filled with rocks, waiting to be picked and deliver out of the mine.

The two boys switched around their spots to watch on Glim, but it still looked like no one around would make the first move.

Minutes passed, and still no one was making their move. It was a silent war of nerves and suspicions, Glim felt as minutes passed that he should quickly put his plan in motion while Inorra and Kipset had the feeling that they should act regardless that they might create a conflict.

Glim, with his squinted eyes, thought to himself as he was pretending to do his job.

'I should get going and start to proceed with my plan after those annoying bastards get to face me back. Otherwise, I'll never get the chance to end them, complete the task sir Belpel asked me to finish.'

'With how unstable the logs are here, with only a push, it would be enough to collapse the roof on those bastards and in this way.'

'After I get them killed, I should rush fast to head guard Belpel. He should be able to deal with that freak. This would serve as a good present for Mayer and the freak.'

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While Glim was thinking, Inorra and Kipset looked at each other, nodding their heads. They got closer to Glim just in case he started something weird where they could react in time.

Inorra, thinking that he countered Glim, which made him feel relaxed, move to signal Kipset to be careful of Glim.

Glim started to get a weird feeling when seeing those two approaches but still played it down, acting normal.

"Guys, I think I will take a break. It's already been 50 minutes that I began swinging the pickaxe. My hands start to hurt a bit."

As he said that, he walked for a bit more away from the digging point and walked toward a stone that had a flat surface.

Inorra and Kipset saw him move away from the digging point and finally reacted, saying to him.

"Don't go too far away. You need to stay here with us." said Inorra to the walking Glim.

"Ohh, why are you saying that, Inorra?"

"Stay put, don't you dare walk more than where you are!"

But as Inorra said that, Glim only responded with a crazy laugh as he dropped his pickaxe and began moving for the exit of the gallery point and the spot where the base of the supporting platform was.

Kipset, ready to react after hearing Inorra's warning, got some stones in his hands and began throwing them toward Glim's back.

"ARGH, you motherfucker. Why have you done that?" screamed Glim in pain after one of those rocks thrown by Kipset hit the mark that was his back.

"Let's go Inorra, we have to catch up with this lying snake. He surely wants to do something stupid on us."

Saying that, he already began rushing toward Glim, who had a decent advantage ahead of him, but to his luck, the stone that he managed to hit the snake slowed him a bit. Inorra followed in tandem but slightly slower than Kipset.

"You bastard, if you think you are going to harm us by doing something stupid, you are mistaken. It's only in your stupid mind and dreams that you will end us!" said Kipset, who got some distance from Inorra and approaching Glim.

Hearing loud and clear what Kipset said, Glim sneered and responded.

"It's not a dream, you bastard. Once I got you killed with the collapsing roof, I will have my revenge on that Zagreus for all the humiliation he gave me those years back."

Taking a long breath because of the effort he put in running while also conversing with his former roommate, continuing, he said.

"You can only blame yourself for not stopping that Zagreus. Now you will suffer the consequences while I will get the rewards. Finally, seeing that kid suffer for real. With that said, good luck stopping me, you bastards."

Inorra heard what Glim screamed and retorted back while running toward his back.

"It's all your fault for being a retard. Do you think that everyone that would come to you has some problems with you? You got what you deserved."

"Hah, I got what I deserved? You'll also see what you deserve from being betraying pieces of shit." replied Glim as if turning a bit mad.

Meanwhile, Inorra also heard what by saying to Glim while approaching step by step the backs of those two.

"You retard be glad that you weren't killed by Zagreus and only got away with your wrist broken and some wounds."

Kipset didn't comment on anything and only focused on running even harder.

He was getting closer and closer to Glim. Still, while doing so, they were also closer to the supporting logs.

Using another stone in his hand, Kipset used it to throw it at Glim's back, hitting him once again.

"Tsk, just drop down already, you retard." commented Kipset when seeing that Glim was still on his feet and running.

'This bastard is on drugs or something that he doesn't drop down? Sigh, I can only run faster, so fast that I can catch that bastard, use my entire reserves in my body and give everything I got because it might be my last chance in the end.'

As he thought that, Kipset's body started to tense all over the place, while his face started to get redder. His muscles began hardening all over his body, especially his legs showing veins all over it.

Looking now at Glim's body that was closer than when he started, he told Inorra.

"Inorra, you better move your ass faster. Once I catch this snake, you give me support and pummel the shit out of him. Do you hear me Inor, you need to move faster than you are doing now."

"I know that Kip, I'm doing my fucking best here. Just catch that snake, and we'll kill him together."

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Not long after hearing Inorra's reply, he started sprinting with everything he had.

In seconds, the distance between the two quickly got closer with each couple of seconds.

Hearing the footsteps getting closer to him, Glim started to frown a little but didn't waver. His desire for revenge and being a free man overwhelmed his fear and pain coming from his back.

He, too, used everything he got left to reach first the wood supporter in a mad rush. Yet this amounted to nothing for Kipset, who was faster than Glim.

After an intense rush, right before getting directly next to the wood beams, Glim got tackled by Kipset and got dropped down spontaneously from the collision's impact.

"Now we are talking, you bastard. You wanted to collapse the roof of the gallery on us?" (A/N: Let's wrestle, kid - Let's Wrestle - Conor McGregor/ Couldn't hold myself)

Following that, he punched Glim on the face hard and took a mounting position that looked similar to the ones the wrestlers would do to hold people down.

Punching him a lot more and relishing in Glim's pain, he asked him.

"What are you going to do next, rat? I got you for good. Let me show you what I learned from living with brother Zagreus for 2 years." (A/N: Damn, Vlad taught them to wrestle)

Kipset learned some interesting ways to handle people when they got taken down while playing around with Vlad. Usually, he would be fastly put on a chokehold by Vlad. Still, it was a helpful experience for him, in the end. It helped him figure out how the most efficient way to handle people was, something that he later would test on Inorra.

Kipset, from the inexperienced boy who rushed at people to fight like a mad bull, now started to form a plan to take Glim down in the most efficient way.

Still, in a mounted position, Glim began to struggle with bruises that started to appear around his face. Following some of Kipset's powerful punches, blood began to be shed from his mouth.

"Motherfucker, get off me. You want to fight. Let's have a fair fight then."

"Piss off, you idiot, do you think I will give my advantage away?"

"Argh, you bastard, even if you stop me, your fates will remain the same. Others will control your future, such as that Zagreus guy.

You will remain slaves to someone regardless of where you are. Just look at yourself having this blind faith in that monster, just because he's nice to you. You're blindingly following that guy like loyal dogs only after he feeds you a bit. So what's the bad in getting killed here now? At least you're giving someone else the chance of getting out of this damn mine. That one is ME!!!"

Kipset with a cold face while looking down on Glim's pained face, he just continues to pound his face.

"You retard, do you think that Zagreus is treating us like slaves? You are delusional. If you wouldn't be offended him, you would also experience how it is to be with him. Learn all sorts of things that your stupid brain can't comprehend. Just like this."

As he ended by saying that, he transitioned to hold his arm in a peculiar position as if he wanted to break his arm.

"ARGHHHH. MOTHERFUCKER LET GO OF MY ARM!" screamed Glim in agony when the pressure Kipset placed on his arm amounted to a limit.

His screams continued on but were ignored by Kipset until finally, he heard something break in Glim's arms following but an insane scream of pain that also began echoing around.

"Kill me already, you bastard. Come, do you have guts to kill a person?"

"I might not have the guts of killing you, but I can break all your bones."

Saying that, he quickly transitioned toward his mounting position and began pummeling on Glim's face, then as he moved to take hold of his other arm, the snake finally reacted.

Looking with his bloodied face at Kipset, he accumulated all the blood in his mouth and spit it in Kipset's face like it was a mist veil that entered inside his eyes.

Following that opening, as if he was really drugged and ignored the pain he felt in his body, he pushed Kipset off and delivered a big blow to his nutsack.

"ARGHHHH. YOU FUCKING CHEATING BASTARD! I WILL KILL YOU!" said Kipset while dropping on his knees from suffering the agonizing pain of having his balls hit.

"Too late. You've missed your chance. Didn't that Zagreus teach you that everything is fair in a fight? Well, here I go teaching you that."

With that said, Glim, who rose on his feet and saw Inorra approach with an angry expression, delivered another kick to Kipset's ballsack and later another kick in his head that put him on the ground.

"STOP RIGHT THERE, YOU SNAKE BASTARD!" screamed Inorra when he saw Glim approach the supporting logs.

"Haha, no need. Take care, you bastards. Keep a warm place for Zagreus next to you in hell because he will be next after you." ended Glim with a laugh while his face was battered and full of blood and with his left arm limping.

When Inorra heard that, he reached Kipset and looked at him with a worried face, then he cursed Glim once again.

"You will never get scot-free from this. You guys underestimate Zagreus too much. He will figure everything that happened here and will kill each one of you slowly. You'll just switch his mindset and really make him do something stupid such as killing everyone in this camp."

Laughing at what the young boy said, he commented back.

"Sure kid, when I reach down there, we will see about that."

Ending, he pushed the log that supported the mine's roof deep down. It was enough for him to move one side of the supporting beams to collapse the ceiling on Inorra and Kipset.

So it happened, Glim rushed madly out of the zone while gritting his teeth and also using his right hand to wipe the blood on his face.

Thankfully for him, the wood beam he pushed to collapse was close to the exit. Slowly but not long after, the support started to break down from the floor pressure in a domino effect.

Then rocks began falling in different directions since the collapse of the first wooden beam.

"FUCK, WHY I'M SO USELESS AND CAN'T I BE OF ANY HELP WHEN NEEDED!"

Inorra was feeling terror seeing all the stones fall and took Kipset's hand, he wanted to rush for the exit, but Kipset was still lying on the ground, holding his balls from the pain he felt.

When the beams started collapsing faster, the stones began falling with more intensity. It was at the point where Inorra and Kipset were meters close to the exit.

"Inorra, it's fine. Arghhhh, that motherfucker hit my balls two times. Let's get out of here, find Zagreus, and tell him everything. He will know what to do."

Saying Kipset, and he was starting to get on his feet wobbly feet. He could hear the stones falling and the ground shaking from the collapsing beams.

Then something unthinkable happened, and a stone decent in size escaped from the supporting platform. They were seated and hit Inorra right on his head, leaving him unconscious.

Before Kipset could even react, he saw Inorra fall on the ground from the impact of the stone.

"NOO! INORRA, ARE YOU OKAY?"

Taking Inorra in his arms while grimacing in his pain, he shook him a bit, but there was no response.

"I need to get the hell out of here. At least this is something I can do for Inorra, who has no fault for me not being brave enough and kill that guy on the first occasion."

Taking Inorra in his arms, he began following the gallery's exit while the stones started raining down in an even more ferocious manner.

Stone by stone, as Kipset was moving out, they began tearing up on his back skin along with bruising and breaking his bones. Still, the young man continued on until he was meters away.

But suddenly, he felt an agonizing pain, following by numbness of his body, right when he only had some meters to go to the exit.

"NOOOO! COME MY BODY, DON'T GIVE UP ON ME NOW!" cried Kipset in despair while the sound of stones falling intensified.

He tried to push himself to take a step, but he couldn't move even a step, as if he got himself pinned on the ground.

Looking around himself, and especially at Inorra, who by now had a big lump from the stone impact.

"I'm sorry little Inor, it's my fault that you got to suffer this. All I can do now is throw you in the hope that you'll be okay. Sorry Inor, If there's a next life, I hope we meet again like brothers."

As he said that to Inorra finally, he felt some movement in his arms and threw the boy from his embrace, straight for the gallery's exit in the hope that maybe he will be able to survive.

Having thrown Inorra, he was standing there, waiting for what was next to come. Not even being able to walk, he waited for the unknown. He waited until the roof collapsed, producing a shockwave so hard that it was unknown what happened to him.

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A/N: No words for this one, just hope that you enjoyed the grappling and jiu-jitsu holds.

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