Summary: Josh receives a call from Yuna saying that the rest of the group has awoken at the hospital. He heads out as soon as he can, but he, once more, encounters the mysterious fog.

Josh's House: 10 AM

Josh is lying in bed enjoying his Saturday by sleeping in those extra hours. Suddenly, his cellphone rings.

"Ugh, why now," he said to himself. Josh then picks up the cellphone and the caller ID says its Yuna on the other end. He picks up the call.

"Sup Yuna," he groans.

"Hey Josh, get over to the hospital as quick as you can."

"Why, did they go into some critical condition or something."

"No, but they all woke up."

"All of them, at once."

"Yeah, it's a miracle right!"

"Of course it is, let me get ready, I just woke up."

"Oh sorry to disturb your sleep time. See you at the hospital soon!"

Yuna hangs up without even saying goodbye.

"Sheesh, so hyper, whatever."

Josh soon gets himself ready for the day, takes a shower, gets on a new set of clothes, picks up his gym bag and his keys, and heads out the door. Soon he is in his car and driving off to the hospital.

As he was heading down El Camino Real, the fog began to thicken, and he began to slow down the car. Soon he noticed that he was no longer driving on asphalt, but on thick, green grass.

Ahead he saw a tombstone heading towards him at 30 miles per hour. Without any time to react, Josh slammed into the tombstone.

"What the hell," he said to himself as he recovered from the sudden stop. He pushed open the car door and grabbed his gym bag from the passenger seat. "Aww damn it," he cursed under his breath as he saw the wreckage. The whole front half of his care was crumpled and seemingly unfixable.

Josh carefully observed the area around him and realized that he had been there before. The many headstones and the white tomb in the center of the graveyard were all landmarks that stood out in his memory of the triumphant battle the group had over Yorick. However, unlike before, when the fog lifted, it was just him.

There, once again, on top of the white tomb, stood the man who caused him to lose his previous power. Yorick, the Gravedigger.

"What a pleasant surprise," Yorick exclaimed, "look who we have here, the young boy who managed to beat me."

"Why are we doing this again," Josh asked.

"For two reasons, strategically, first, the situation is pretty fair now, a one on one match to the death. Reason two, revenge. I hate you, because my superiors were nearly going to take off my head when they found out I lost to a bunch of kids, and of course, you hate me, because I managed to take away your old power."

"I see," Josh murmured. He grabbed his gym bag and pulled out the worn set of boxing gloves from it. "I guess it's time for us to rumble." He put the gloves on his hands, and they evolved into the giant, mechanical fists that most people are familiar with.

Yorick tapped his shovel against the tomb he was standing on, and a great number of ghouls and spirits poured out from it. Instead of hiding behind the wall of ghouls, Yorick did something way more interesting. He pointed his shovel to his right side, and ghouls began to attach themselves to the end of the shovel. Eventually they formed into a gargantuan hammer composed completely out of ghouls.

"No way," Josh said under his breath. Yorick brought up the hammer and slammed it down upon Josh.

Josh raised his gloves as a defense against the ghoulish hammer. When the fists and the hammer met, a massive shockwave was produced from the force at which these two objects collided. The shockwave echoed throughout the cemetery, and the two of them continued to fight.

"Excessive Force," Josh cried out. He brought his right fist underneath his left one and used it to punch the ghoul hammer. With all of his might, Josh slammed the fist against the hammer. The front part of the hammer broke, but much of the inside was destroyed by the wave of energy created by "Excessive Force."

Yorick, unphased by Josh's raw power, continued to gather more ghouls to form into different objects. He raised his shovel upward and then forward. The ghouls gathered behind him and formed into large ghoulish spikes. Yorick then swept his shovel around, which signaled the ghouls to launch their massive spike shaped forms at Josh.

Josh managed to block some of the flying spikes with his large metal fists. He even managed to dodge some of the spikes, but they came flying back around to strike him in the back.

"Feel my power," Yorick exclaimed. He laughed as Josh was pounded from all sides by the flying, ghoul spikes. Josh soon recovered himself after dodging a few of them. He punched two other spikes that were coming at him into oblivion.

Yorick, frightened by Josh's raw power, brought up the wall of ghouls that he had used before to battle the group of heroes.

Josh brought back his right fist, and a ball of blue energy formed at the top of his middle knuckle.

"Vault Breaker!"

Josh threw the punch toward the wall of ghouls and decimated the near impenetrable defense. He then put a beating down on Yorick. Yorick, feeling Josh's strength in every punch, put up a whirl of ghouls around him. These ghouls knocked Josh back, but Josh wasn't about to back down.

He continued to smack at the ghoulish tornado, making holes in it, but not doing any real damage.

"Denting Blow," Josh smacked the tornado once and the entire structure of it became crippled by the mighty, iron fist. The attack opened up a hole in the tornado, and Josh saw an opportunity, "Vault Breaker." Josh threw his fist into the tornado breaking the outer structure and forced himself into the eye of the tornado where Yorick stood.

Yorick brought up his shovel and smacked Josh across his head. Josh was dazed by the hit, and Yorick commanded a couple of ghouls to bring him into the air.

Josh recovered from the blow, shoved off the two ghouls, and dived down at Yorick, "Excessive Force." The next punch Josh threw at Yorick sent him flying. A pendant in the shape of a sword with a blue aura flew out of Yorick's cloak.

"No," he cried, "my Maramune."

"Eh," Josh disarmed one of his gloves to pick up the lost item. When, Josh touched the pendant, the ghouls went into a wild frenzy and returned to the tomb. "So that's how you were able to control so many of those things," Josh said.

"Yes, but I'll still beat you even without the force of numbers, Omen of Death!" Yorick called out a remnant that took his form. The two of the pounced upon Josh, but Josh blocked the attack of the remnant and used "Denting Blow" to knock Yorick back, weakening his defenses.

"Time to finish this," Josh said. He really hoped his next move would work. "ASSAULT AND BATTERY."

Josh charged forward and his fists acted on their own. Yorick tried his best to run away, but he knew that he was not just Josh's target, but also the target of the fists that he wore. Josh soon caught up to Yorick and with his right fist, empowered by a jet attached to the iron fist, sent Yorick up with an uppercut. Then Josh brought him down with a downward hook with his left fist.

Yorick, battered by Josh's powerful attacks, retreated into the mist. He merged with his remnant to regain some health as he retreated.

Soon, Josh was surrounded by mist, and he reappeared at the hospital. His car not in a wreck, and he was also nice and clean.

"Woah, that's weird," Josh said. His phone rang. The Caller Id registered it was Thomas calling him. He answered the phone.

"Yo, Josh, where are you? Donde Estas?" I asked over the phone.

"I'm in the parking lot. I'll be up there in a sec."

"Ok."

The phone went quiet. Josh went over to his trunk and found his stuff perfectly laid out.

Author's Note

Hey guys, I will be playing for most of this weekend, so if you want to join me or want me to join your team, just add TPBvirus.