Dead Or Alive?

"You do have some nerve coming to challenge me, E, I really hope you don't regret this, later on, that is if there would ever be a later on,"

Denzel said nothing to reply to Owl as he kept on walking towards him, all that mattered to him was that he wanted to try what he did during his combat against E-phant.

"Hey, kid! We are rooting for you, You can do it!" One of the men yelled out from where they were, each of them holding a part of their body that kept hurting them.

"Leave it to me," Denzel stopped, making himself go low as he bent his knees, almost forming a sugar stance, but lower.

Owl waited for Denzel's attack since he wasn't the type to start an attack in a fight, he was always ready to defend against any attack and then retaliate.

"Come at me," Owl said to Denzel, he also got into a fighting stance, particularly a boxing stance.

Denzel began to move onward slowly, still staying low. Denzel was trying to balance two things together, focusing on bringing out his inner virtue that he was yet to understand, and also trying to foresee Owl's movement.

But, he couldn't do both at the same time. He got closer to Owl, stretching one of his hands to get a hold of Owl's leg and then tug him down.

What he got for trying to do two different uneasy tasks at once was a very rapid kick Owl sent to Denzel's face and that attack sent Denzel flying to the ground.

"E, get up now," Owl said to Denzel, walking towards him as he spoke.

Denzel got up, went down a bit, and then began to walk towards Owl, cleaning the blood that seeped out of his nose.

After that first attack, Owl began to attack Denzel, sending Denzel a series of attacks that he was unable to dodge, shielding each attack that Denzel kept sending to him.

Denzel kept getting up to his feet, refusing to give up on that fight, still telling himself that he must protect the delinquents.

"Did we really think this kid could protect us?" One of the outlaws said to another, the other one shuddered in reply.

"Let's just hope he can get Owl to be fatigued so we can finish Owl when he is done for."

Denzel heard their conversation, it pissed him off that the people he was trying to protect were planning that against him.

"Can you see the retards you are defending? they don't give a fuck about you" Owl said to Denzel, while he walked closer to him to pick him up from where he punched him.

Denzel himself already deduced that he had no chance, but each time he felt Owl's attack on one part of his body, he hoped that it would trigger something in him that might help him win.

After Owl had crushed Denzel, he saw that Denzel kept striving to stand up when he knew he had no chance, "Huh," He said, and stopped, giving Denzel a chance to stand up, "E, are you trying to do what you did when you fought E-phant? I would advise you to take a break from that, and concentrate on this fight alone,"

"What do... you know?" Denzel said, the way he gasped was like he had lost his whole breath.

"You do know that you will lose your aim if you keep fighting me while trying to figure that out, you will lose the battle, and your life, and when you lose your life, you have no other chance to figure it out. I figured I would have to break it down this way for you to understand."

When Owl said that, Denzel began to rethink, taking heed to what Owl told him, he stood up, wiping the blood that showed on his lips.

That was when Denzel rushed towards Owl, squatting to dodge the punch that Owl sent to his face. He went low as usual, and shot his fist to Owl's abdomen, trying to attack him as fast as he could.

However, Owl had seen Denzel fight a lot of times, he knew that strike was one that Denzel did the most, so when the attack almost got to his belly, he placed one of his palms on the area Denzel was aiming for, making him get a hold of Denzel's hand. He used the elbow of his second arm to hit Denzel's back, and it made Denzel fall to the ground.

"Arghh!" Denzel yelled, but he didn't allow that to be the end of his attack. When he fell to the ground, he used his other hand to hold Owl's leg, grabbing it to knock Owl off his balance.

That attack worked out, as it made Owl fall on his back.

Owl released Denzel's hand, and held it back immediately, dragging the arm closer to himself till Denzel's head got to him. Owl used his both legs to lock both that arm he held and Denzel's head, giving him a chokehold and making it tighter at the same time.

Denzel kept on hitting Owl's legs, grunting in pain as he did. When he saw that Owl wasn't even listening to him, he folded his legs in a position to make it look like he wanted to crawl, and then he got himself to be on his feet, lifting his upper body together with Owl that refused to release his leg.

"Yes, you can do it," the men all sat up, cheering Denzel as he did that, "Slam him back to the ground," They kept screaming, throwing their fists up.

Owl was faster than they expected, so still interlocking Denzel's head, he switched from the position he was to a more suitable position that enabled him to do the chokehold as Denzel stood.

That way, it was difficult for Denzel to do anything, so he tried to go back down.

But before he took the step to do that, Owl released his legs, and the next thing that happened made the delinquents confused.

Denzel went straight to the ground, but the delinquents didn't know whether Denzel was dead or unconscious, as Denzel wasn't moving anymore. Owl then kicked Denzel away, and when Denzel didn't move, the delinquents concluded that he was dead.

As Owl was releasing his legs from Denzel's head, he twisted his neck a bit, and that was what made Denzel drop dead.

"Now that he is dead, what do you all want to do? Do you prefer that I should kill you quickly or do you still want to fight?" Owl walked towards them, he noticed the way they kept on trembling, but he just giggled, looking at how terrified they were.

One of the men stood, saying, "Like I would give up," He ran towards Owl, and the others joined him, each of them shrieking as they ran towards him.

Owl shook his head, looking unconcerned and tired of the way they acted stubbornly.

"Y'all should just die," Owl grabbed the first one by his neck, choking him, dropping him to the ground as soon as he got lifeless.

He saw that the others didn't stop, he sighed, running towards the rest of them.

He ran through the rest of them, and they all fell to the ground.

He then tied all of them together, carrying Denzel from where he was and then placed him at their middle.

"He caused this himself," Owl said to himself, "Would Leia be in support of this? Another chance?"