Desperate And Excited

It's already night time in Osaka, a city in the providence of Japan. The night's sky was illuminated with the bright city lights emanating in all directions from the windows of buildings long enough to touch the skies. Also, coming from down below from the street lamps as the zooming cars drive along the streets.

Inside this grand city, a certain noise was being heard, right now, from a particular building. This uniquely sounding ruckus was being caused by the joyous and enthusiastic screams of people reacting to the sporting event that was being displayed up on a television set meters away from them which took the space of half an entire wall section of a room inside this building. The television was placed at a height which was even taller than that of an average man and the sporting event being displayed on it was called "Demons Battle".

Demons battle is the worlds most popular and richest sport right now to be a part of in the year 2500, and as part of the name suggests, it's a battle between fighters, but not just normal fighters, fighters that have super human abilities. Abilities like; Speed, strength, other heightened senses and all the other special abilities usually seen in movies.

It's a sport that blew all over the world, after humans started showing symptoms of what seem to have been classified as super human abilities, out of the blue and in an instant, after first falling ill from a mysterious and unacertained disease which they got better from, also mysteriously.

Could the process of possessing super powers be as a result of the disease or the mysterious cure those afflicted got? Till date, no one seems to know.

During that past time, when some few humans started showing super humans abilities, the world couldn't believe that what they actually watched in their movies had actually come to life, and as usual, just like with the movies, when something like that happens, the world tried to put an explanation for this strange evolution in human genetics but till this present day they have failed in successfully doing exactly that and are yet to find a clear result to the cause.

Among the different categories of people who tried to find an answer to the phenomenon, however, going through a logical and scientific approach to it, the scientists lazily came up with their theories, terming the cause to the result to pure outcome of human evolution.

However, on the other side to the spectrum of belief, several religions also came up with their own theories which were more in the lines of "saying whatever story they could possibly think of without having any factual backing" with Christianity supporting theirs with the promise that obtaining super human abilities was mentioned in newly acquired books of the Bible which were missing, but then that had been found.

Yes, the modern society was a world with people possessing special abilities. For the most part, they were all also regular and average humans like the rest and that's because when the incident first occured only a small population 1.5 percent of the world's total population were documented to possess said super powers and now that number has actually grown to about 3 percent. These 3 percent just like then are called the "Powered humans" and no matter how we choose to see it, there are way too much a finite amount of these powered humans actually available.

History had it that the world went into a little shock from the super human ability evolution kicked, almost resulting to a disaster but to avoid the chaos from protracting, those in world powers came together and unanimously intervened.

Not too long after that a sport was born where powered humans could fit in and be themselves with their abilities. This sport soon became what the world now know as demons battle.

Although it had meant to just be a powered humans exclusive sport where people with special abilities participated in the sport featuring matches and events to bring out the strongest team or person. The sport really did demonstrate the term "survival of the fittest".

The Demons Battle soon enough became overly popular not too long after it was initiated because of how unique the sport was. It became a means where powered humans and normal humans could find a bond as everyone in the world enjoyed watching this sport. Both powered humans and regular humans come together most time to watch sport and also discuss about it.

Either way, the only requirement to this sport was that the athlete has to be a powered human because it wasn't a sport for a regular human to participate in. The advantages would be extremely clear in the favor of whoever had abilities.

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(Come on, beat him up!!! LEFT... RIGHT... LEFT... RIGHT) the thought going through a 15-year-old boy's mind. A boy who had spiky black hair, a grin from one ear to the other, sweat on his forehead while panting as he enthusiastically pumped his fist at the television screen, mimicking fighting actions he wanted the fighters to take.

He's wearing the most famous DEMON BATTLE merchandise getup, exclusively bought through their website, and with the kind of attention this young man was giving to this fight being displayed on the television it showed the amount of dedication and passion he had for the sport and in all regards it was intense.

What he was doing was reacting to the fighter he was supporting, who was in the middle of a fight . Gabriel, the spiky hair boy, has always been a big fan of the Demons Battle since he was way younger. He took every little spare time he could get to watch the sport and if he doesn't have time to watch a particular match that was a major event then he creates time.

Demons Battle had been Gabriel's passion for all his life.

"F*cking beat that guy up!" A scruffy and bulky middle-aged man with a half empty bottle of alcohol in front of him exclaimed. There were also three already emptied bottles of the same beverage to the side while an almost empty glass cup was in his hand as he, looking hopeless and was tipsy reacted to the fight.

He looked to be in support of the fighter who happened to be losing the current battle and the scruffy man also looked to be overly invested in this particular fight while he had a holographics betting card scrunched in his fist.

During this time period, the distinction between man and machine in terms of functionality isn't as clear as it used to be centuries ago and that is because the concealing parts of machine are made to look as human as possible, so a person with multiple bionic prosthetics can look exactly as how an ordinary person does except for when they undergo a scanning.

One of said functionality that once belonged to machines alone but now has been infused into humans are what they call HOLOGRAPHICS. This is achieved through a miniscule chip implanted in certain areas of the human body which allows a human to generate what used to be only visually represented via computer screens but now is made into holograms and not only can they be generated by those chip implants in humans bodies but the humans, as long as they possess those HOLOGRAPHICS chips in those areas of their body can physically feel and manipulate those generated holograms like they are made out of actual physical substances .

Just like with the scruffy and tipsy middle age man who had the holograph of a betting slip clenched in his fist, the dynamics of the scrunched up holographic paper was actually behaving like how a real physical paper would if it was in the place of the holographic one and the scruffy and tipsy man was actually feeling it against his skin with it having the exact same texture.

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Not just him, but everyone in the bar section of this building was also drinking and reacting to the match, showcasing different emotions to it. Everyone except for Gabriel who wasn't drinking, however, he was in a bar trying to watch the match.

Yes this young man was in a bar. Normally, kids aren't allowed to watch a match at this time because they should be in school much less in a bar, not because of the violence involved in the sport but because violence could break out amongst those watching the match at any point in time whenever alcohol is mixed into something that there's a lot of passion behind.

This could happen either from their favourite fighter losing the battle or getting annoyed after being taunted by the opposing team's supporter. In this sense, the scruffy and tipsy man has been known to get a bit aggressive when his bets don't fall through

The last reason being because it's a bar with a lot of alcohol hanging around. Not a place for an underaged kid to be in. As for the reason why kids aren't allowed to be in there watching the Demon Battle match at this time is because they should rightfully be in school, Gabriel had skipped school just to watch today's match which also shows how passionate he was about this sport.

He's unable to watch this match at home because he was supposed to be in school but here he was, skipping school and watching the match in his district's famous bar.

["...now that was one hit from the Rukon district's t champion and it's a knock out...KILLER JOE WINS!!!] a fast commentary came in through the speakers of the wall high television.

"Yeah!!!" Gabriel shouted with joy because the fighter he was routing for had come out victorious.

(He always wins no matter what. When I'm a powered human I would love to be like him for sure) Gabriel thought to himself.

It was because of this particular fighter and the event he was fighting in today that Gabriel decided to skip school. "Killer Joe" his favorite fighter and the champion of all the different districts together.

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While everyone world wide continued viewing the aftermath of the Killer Joe's victory, showing on the television as the camera changed angles was a calm and relaxed man in red kimono standing in the middle of the ring of the Demon Battle arena with a facial expression clearly depicting the fact that he deserved this particular win.

Not just him but majority of the people viewing into the wall high television display in the bar was sharing the same feelings as Gabriel in celebration of this fighter's victory.

Finally, with the match over, Gabriel left the bar and started heading directly for home because school for the day was already over but not after he had gotten multiple hair ruffles from the fellow enthusiastic and elated supporters of Killer Joe in the bar. At the other side of the bar, the scruffy and tipsy man threw his glass cup to the floor in fury, spilling the drink in it, smashing it and the pieces flying off in all directions.

"F*ck!" the scruffy and tipsy man exclaimed in pain while smashing his hands on to the table. *BAM*

His hit on the table caused the bottles both completely empty and the single one with a small fraction of alcohol left in it to vibrate and tumble off the table and then roll on to the ground where they didn't break on impact because of how strong the bottles were. He had done this because a piece of glass from the cup he smashed to the floor flew towards him and pierced his leg.

Gabriel left the bar with a smile on his face when he saw that, finally feeling at ease that the match was over because he was tired of the smell of alcohol he had to bear to watch the match.

Upon all the places Gabriel could find to watch a match he picked a bar to do so and there was a singular reason why he made this choice and that was because of how big the screen was and how close the viewing area was close to his school.

A fighting career in Demons Battle was the first thing that came up in Gabriel's mind at age 8 when he was asked what he wanted to do in the future.

"You're not a powered human" this is the answer that facts always gave back to him since he had a dream of fighting in Demons Battle.

At the age of 13 kids often display their abilities, although, there are many kids in the world and the population of powered human was very little when compared to that because on average only one powered child was usually born from a couple.

Once a powered human is born, it takes a miracle to find another child with powers from that same family. Although, there were cases of couples with two or three powered human kids but these situations were very rare. The probability of having more than one powered human child born from a couple was a one in a million chance.

There was already a powered human in Gabriel's house hold and it was not him but his elder sister Leah. His sister already displayed her abilities before she was even 13, depicting how gifted and powerful she is and he's yet to discover any abilities on his own end.

Since there's already a powered kid in the family and he's past the average age of displaying signs of possessing abilities, Gabriel was getting to the point of officially being declared as not having any powers at all but the boy hasn't accepted the fact he may not be a powered human.

He's betting on the fact that he may have powers since there had been situations with more than one powered human child born into a single family even if it was very rare. There have also been cases where children didn't show their powers until they were 15 year old although rarely after that and this was one more fact Gabriel was betting on even if it was slim.

Most scenarios and statistics had shown that if a child doesn't show abilities past age 15 then he was a regular human. Gabriel is a 15 year old who's already close to his 16th birthday and still has no abilities yet.

Quotes from top Demons Battle fighter says "my real powers got born in the fight". This was a thought that went on the boys mind when he observed the scene.

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"Hey ya fools think you can take me? Come a little closer and I'll make you guys say soyanara!!!"

"Hahahaha...hey look here deep shit, consider your ass dead kicked"

Just outside the bar Gabriel could see a weak tipsy guy, another one, trying to defend himself from a group of guys and these guys were four in numbers. The weak tipsy guy in a corporate wear wasn't looking like a guy that has the power to back up his words.

And the guy who looks in charge among the four guys was actually going to back up his threat of beating the other guy up. He had already started the process by throwing the first punch towards the weak looking fellow who in split of a second, instead of trying to attack just stood there, expecting the punch.

*BAH*

To everyone's surprise, the punch didn't land on the tipsy mans face because Gabriel then caught the punch with his hand.

"Hey idiot, why don't you take on someone your own size?" Gabriel said to the man in charge who threw the punch and so happened to be a member of the mob while holding his fist.

The second reason why Gabriel picked the bar to watch the fight was because the bar was a likely place for him to get his own fight too and it seems luck is really shining on his side today.

Gabriel was a hardcore fan of Demons Battle but he wasn't a powered human so him participating in the sport as a fighter was road-closed for him but something inside him can't still bring himself to accept that reality. He has had this deep desire to fight after he tried one of KILLER JOE moves on a bully he fought in school and since that time he can't seem to get enough of the feeling he felt.

He was a guy that was thrilled by the violence Demons Battle depicted and today it feels like he got the fight he was looking for as plan.

"Who the fuck are you?" the well built looking man who threw the punch asked with a disgust look on his face now. He was wearing an all black outfit. He looked in charge given the fact that he was way bigger and was looking more well dressed than the remaining guys with him. He also spoke with more command while the rest guys just watched as if they had pity for Gabriel with one of the other guys saying "oh shit"

Logically, they thought that way because the guy was twice Gabriel size.

"Well I'm the guy that's gonna kick your ass punk." Gabriel said with a smirk while making a fighting stance with his fist ahead of him.

"Hey young man this has nothing to do with you, I have business with that weakling behind you so I'm only gonna say this onc-"

Gabriel interrupted by landing a punch on the man before he could finish his statement and it showed clearly that the punch affected the big guy.

"Live the weakling out of this Mister, concentrate on me." Gabriel said with an even wider smile

"Now that does it!!" The big guy attacked with him throwing his own punches, but Gabriel dodge it all.

Next Gabriel held the big guy who was trying to punch him hand with all his might and redirected the hit with the big guy a step behind Gabriel. Completely deflected and now out of balance, Gabriel then placed his hit on the big guy's neck.

While the two of them were in the fight the remaining 3 guys tried to join in as well.

"Wait, don't even come close. The brat's mine." the big guy stopped them with a single hand gesture

"Oh wow, now that's the spirit." Gabriel said "I have to say that you're big but that's just it."

Gabriel went ahead to give the final knockout attack but he couldn't as he felt his hands get slashed by a knife.

"Ouch." he tried to react to the pain as light as he could but everyone knew he felt the pain.

"Hey not fair, you're using a weapon." Gabriel complained.

Hahaha even better the big guy replied while displaying a sharp crystal that looked like a knife from his hand. The guy was a powered human. He had the ability to bring out sharp crystals from his body.

"Hahahaha, I can't believe I just struck gold. I get to fight another powered human apart from my sister." Gabriel exclaimed in excitement making everyone shocked at his reaction.

"Hey, this is my last warning... I'll kill you for sure this time." the big guy replied running towards Gabriel, trying to stab him.

"Bring it on!!!" Gabriel shouted, getting into a baiting stance.

Just as he was about to stab Gabriel, Gabriel parried his hand, dodging the sharp crystal he had surrounding it while he then gave the guy a knock out punch, although, that is what he wanted to happened. This particular move was what he had planned to do but...

He saw himself flying off away from a punch he got from the big guy. He had dodged the big guy's punches earlier but he didn't feel that much strength from the punches that the big guy threw at him initially which made it easy for him to redirect them. He's shocked at the amount of power that came with this one punch he took. The punch was great that he's finding it hard to try and stand up.

(What the hell? Come on, get up. You had this fight just now.) Gabriel thought to himself trying to get back up, but before he could stand, the big guy had stopped him already with one of his feet on Gabriel chest holding him down.

"Hey boy, I play Demons Battle with my kid too. Now DIE!!!.."