11 - The Fight and The Aftermath (2/2)

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I apologize for the delay, I said I would post this chapter in a few hours last week, but when I read what was the chapter before and reading a few comments about the last one I decided to change a few things and add new ones.

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Looking around Beat saw several people with various types of injuries, from obviously broken bones, probably caused by the repercussions of his last strike, as it caused a shock wave that sent debris into them, to unseen ones as he saw some people bleeding from the ears, nose, and mouth.

'Shit! Shit! This wasn't supposed to happen!'

'Does that mean that I've to consciously control this? The Z fighters didn't seem to have this problem...'

"-t, Beat! Hey! Wake up, kid!" Beat was woken up from his thoughts by someone squeezing his shoulder, he was a little impressed by the strength, when he saw Gilgamesh's face he understood why.

"You're pretty strong..." Beat said absentmindedly.

"Yeah, and you're a crazy and reckless kid, did you really think that using that kind of strength in the middle of a crowd was a good idea!?"

"I don't... sorry..."

"...Don't apologize, go help those people." Gilgamesh said after observing Beat for a moment, he gave Beat a strong slap on the back and went to help too.

Looking around Beat saw a few Eternals dispersing the people, and others separating the injured people by the degree of their injuries, looking through those groups he saw the five kids he met a few weeks prior sitting between them, seeing that all of them had small wounds all over their body's made Beat frown.

'Fuck it, I would've bought it sooner or later anyway...' After making up his mind Beat opened the Shop and bought a healing technique he saw before, he didn't know if it was the same one that Dende used, but he bought it anyway.

'The name's just Healing huh, well, I'll know if it's worth it, pretty soon.'

After buying the technique Beat took a few minutes to understand how to use it, when the Eternals were about to question him about his strange behavior he opened his eyes and ran to the kids.

'Why all of those techniques are ki-based? Shouldn't it be some kind of magic? Well good for me I guess.' He thought as a blue light appeared in his hand as he raised a hand over the head of one of the kids, he saw that the kid had a fearful expression on his face, but he didn't care for that.

As he kept his hand over the kid, Serci that was close walked toward him, "What are you doing?" She asked but he didn't respond as the kid's wounds were healed in a few seconds.

"Sorry about that." Beat said to the kid, then he healed the others as well, all the while ignoring the dumbfounded Eternal by his side. Soon it was the kid named Kai's turn, while Beat healed the kid, he kept staring at him, as if wanting to ask something.

"Are you mute or something? If you want to say something just say it." Beat said after he healed Kai.

"Mute!? You were the mute one remember!?" Kai exclaimed while pointing a finger at Beat.

"Are you sure? I don't remember saying that." Beat said with a fake confused face.

"No, but you-"

"Then you must have dreamed it, I was just too tired to talk that time." He said while healing another girl.

"...I- what?"

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"You have a tail." Dari affirmed while looking at the tail around Beat's waist.

"Yeah, so what?" Beat replied strangely.

"Did you always have it? I don't remember seeing it that day."

"That's because I kept it below my clothes, isn't that obvious?"

"How did you-" He tried to continue but Beat interrupted him.

"Sorry, we can talk later, I have to finish this first." He said before standing up to heal the rest of the people. All the while the Eternals watched him from the side.

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While Beat healed the humans, a few came to thank him, though the majority still had looks of fear in their eyes, the Eternals understood them though, they got hurt because of him, after all.

"I'm glad he has this ability, though he's just a kid with immense power, he seems to be a good kid." Ajak commented while looking at Thena's arm.

"How is it?" She asked the fighting Eternal.

"Better, thank you, Ajak." Thena said and Ajak nodded.

"What should we do?" Ikaris asked Ajak.

"Nothing."

"But-"

"But... we will keep an eye on him, as we do with the  humans, we will try to guide him, so he can stay that way or be better." She said pointing to Beat healing people and asking for forgiveness.

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'Thinking of it again I was really dumb, how could I think that fighting in the middle of a crowd was a good idea?'

Sighing Beat shook his head while shoving an entire piece of beef into his mouth, looking around he saw people eating, drinking, laughing, and a few passed out on the floor, it was a feast, thrown by the people in power to make the working class momentarily forget their suffering and grieving.

Looking back to his table he continued eating his food while people stopped now and then to see him devouring enough food for a group of people, no one was complaining though, as he threw a bag of coins at the first guard that tried to stop him from taking more food.

From a distance he saw a few Eternals arriving, they were Kingo, Serci, Gilgamesh, Thena, and Sprite, they easily found him as he was alone at a table full of food.

"What-hic, what do you want?" Beat groggily said, his voice completely contrasting his stoic face.

"Are you drunk?" Kingo asked with an amused look on his face.

"Off course not-hic?" He replied while chugging down a mug of wine, "This thing is horrible-hic and weak, how could I get drunk from it?"

"With all your powers I figured you would've resistance to a thing as simple as intoxication." Kingo said as he sat at Beat's table.

Then Beat used his healing ability to detoxify himself, "I have, I just lowered it enough to have some fun, but this thing is weaker than I thought." Beat said as he looked at his empty mug, then he looked up to see Kingo trying to grab a piece of roasted pork.

"What the- hey!" Kingo exclaimed as he saw it floating into Beat's hand.

"...you- you just floated that-!?" Kingo said with an incredulous face.

"Indeed, I call it <Force> and by the way, this is mine, you can eat a fruit or something if you want." Beat said as he pointed at the fruits on the corner of the table.

"<Force>? What does that even mean?" Kingo asked with a confused face as he ate an apple.

"<Force> means force and this is the power to manipulate physical things with my mind." Beat gave a wide grin when he thought of their surprised faces when Star Wars came out in the future.

'The original was more than that but who cares?' He thought while floating the roasted pork in front of him.

"Did you make a name for your power?" Gilgamesh smiled and said as he poured drinks for him and Thena.

"Of course, I have to call it something cool, right?" Beat said as if it was obvious.

"Hey, do you plan to eat all this?" Kingo said while looking at all the food on the table.

"I don't plan to, I will." Beat said before he began to eat a bowl of soup in seconds, and beginning to eat another right after.

"...What the hell? How is that possible? Do you have a power for that too or what?"

"Huh? Nah, that's normal for me, I can eat an entire cow if I'm really hungry." He said downplaying his saiyan appetite, in fact he had to eat much more than that.

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"Don't bother about it, not even I understand how that works."

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"Hey, can you control your tail?" Serci curiously asked after being silent since they arrived.

"Yeah, it's like a monkey tail." He said while unwinding his tail from his waist and grabbing a jar of wine with it.

"That's so strange!" Sprite said in surprise.

"Uhm, why do you have it though, the majority of the animals who have one use it for balance or some other essential purpose, but you don't need that, I don't see anything that you could use it that your hands couldn't do." Thena said while looking at it.

"There's a actual use to it." Beat said smiling.

"And what is it?" Sprite curiously asked.

"You will have to wait for the full moon for that."

"Why?" She asked frowning.

"...I can only show it on a full moon." Beat shrugged and said.

"Then just say what it does already!"

"No! I will not spoil the surprise." Beat said while grinning.

Then they continued talking with Beat asking about their powers, while Sprite began to tell tales to everyone with her illusions while Kingo commented it to Beat, then he challenged Gilgamesh to arm wrestling that ended with a broken table and no winner, the others just watched and laughed while talking now and then.

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A few days have passed since Beat's encounter with the Eternals, he maintained contact with them, primarily to make them fight him, that turned out to be more difficult than he thought, just because they have powers doesn't mean they like to fight, to them their powers were more like a means to an end, that was protect the humans from deviants, in those few days he just fought Thena who was the only one who liked to fight and Gilgamesh, the duo that were the only physical fighters amongst the group besides Ikaris and Makkari who the forte was her speed.

Besides fighting, figuring a way to mitigate or negate the energy generated by his movements was his top priority, he could picture that if he didn't deal with it he would end up with massive explosions every time he tried to punch a thing as his strength and speed grow.

Now after staying a few days in the city and postponing it, he decided to try his luck, so the first thing he did was find sand, which wasn't hard at all to find in the Mesopotamia.

'Let's begin with a light one.' Then he prepared to throw a punch,  while on the sand so he would be able to see the impact generated by it and hopefully find a way to lessen it.

"DETROIT..." He pulled his arm back and punched with all his strength.

"SMA-Fuck!" A sand cloud raised by the winds of his punch quickly engulfed him, he flew up coughing his lungs out while flying away from the center of it.

"That was not even close to a Detroit Smash." He said as he flew down.

'I'll keep it simple first.' Then he prepared to throw another punch, but this time he tried to will his strikes to not do anything to the environment.

"Hump!" As he threw his fist forward to his surprise he saw just a small gust of wind, even though he used the same strength.

"What! That's bullshit! It can't be this easy, right!?" Although seeing it with his own eyes he still refused to believe so he repeatedly punched while willing his power to not disturb his surroundings.

"Fuck! That's it?" He stopped throwing punches when they made so little wind that it made it look like a normal punch, even though he was hitting with the strength to make a gory mess of anything hit by it.

'Did it affect the power though?' As he thought that he raised a hand with the palm facing the sky and a two cubic meters block of bronze appeared in it, throwing it in the air he punched it, his fist hit it like a hammer on a metal plate, the bronze deformed under his fist pressure and flew a dozen of meters before starting to roll.

"Hum... that's actually pretty good!" He exclaimed as he saw that his punch made just a small shock wave.

'... but How the fuck does that work?' Then he began trying to understand what happened.

After several punches and kicks he discovered the cause, "my ki is doing something! I don't know what but it's doing something!"

He also discovered that after doing it for a while it was a little difficult to make an old punch again as if it was wrong and his body didn't want to do it.

'Almost like learning to ride a bike, after learning you won't fall again unless you're trying to, and even then it's hard.' Beat thought to himself while trying to apply it to his flight too.

"Aaand... Got it!" He exclaimed after a few seconds of in and out of supersonic speed to see if he was making sonic booms.

Landing in front of his house Beat sat down and began to grill several pieces of meat.

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A few months passed since Beat's arrival, in those months he had fought alongside the Eternals, in these months he bought a few more techniques that would help him increase his powers.

"So, what happened, you got tired of fighting?" Gilgamesh asked Beat as they carried giant deviant corpses away from the main roads.

"No, why?" Beat asked confused.

"You didn't show up for a month, then you appear out of nowhere calmer than before, so something happened, I asking what." He said as he threw the corpse into a pile.

"How can you tell that something happened?" Beat asked with a frown as he watched the other Eternals bringing the last deviant corpses.

'You not asking for a fight as soon as you see us is a dead giveaway.' Makkari said in signs with a smirk, as he interacted with them he ended up having to learn sign language as it was the only way to talk to her and was her condition to race against him, a race that ended with an easy win for him as his speed far surpassed hers.

"Hum." Beat grunted to them, then with a smirk, he lowered himself and a transparent version of himself began to form by his side, when it completely separated it looked like the exact copy of him.

"You can make illusions now?" Kingo asked while looking between the two.

"No, I'm a clone." The Beat, Kingo was looking at, said as he gave a slap on the Eternal's hand that tried to touch his hair.

"Right, you're the real one, right? And that's the... illusion?" Kingo said but became confused when he saw Makkari touching the other Beat's arm.

"Wait, come here!" He screamed while holding the clone and running to Beat then grabbing his arm too.

"What the hell!? How did you do that?" Kingo said with surprise, then the other two began touching him too.

"Hey stop that you idiots!"×2

The Two Beats flew up while grumbling about personal space. He had bought this technique more than a month ago, but it took him a lot of time to make it do anything more than just vanish with one attack like the Kage bunshin, even then it could not talk much.