Sorry this chapter took so long. I've been studying and working on my final exams for this semester. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving and stay safe out there. Enjoy the latest chapter.

Chapter 6:

Buttercup vs. Solgadan

Buttercup's P.O.V.

"Swing Sonic!" I shouted when Sol fired some dark energy at me. They were able to cancel each other out, creating a small explosion. He flew through the smoke and hit me with a right kick. I blocked it with my left arm & used the momentum it created to kick him with my right leg. He was sent back a little, but it didn't seem to faze him. He charged forward & speared me through two buildings, then threw me toward the forest outside of Tokyo City.

I hit into several trees and brought up dirt as I crashed through the ground. When I stopped, I took a few heavy breaths and eased myself up. I looked up and saw Sol flying toward me...FAST! I leapt out of the way and he dive-bombed into where I landed. When the dust cleared, he was headfirst in the ground trying to pull himself out.

I yelled, "Megaton Dunk!" I hit the ground with my hammer and the trees, along with Sol, are sent into the air. I swing my hammer at him, and he's flown into the air. I fly after him as he's spinning in the air. I draw back my hammer and feel my muscles pulled with power. I swing with all my might, hitting him and sending him through the volcano. I need to finish this and help the others, I thought.

I notice what looks like gray snow flowing in the air. I turn around and hover toward Tokyo City. My eyes widen and I gasped at what I saw. The neighborhoods near the edge of the city were reduced to nothing, apartment buildings damaged beyond repair. Only one of them was still standing, but the top half was gone almost as if it was melted. A huge blue fire explosion radiated from a neighborhood in the north-eastern area. All the buildings and billboards were decimated by it.

I start to fly over there when I hear, "Uh hello. You're supposed to be entertaining me." I turn around to see Solgadan floating 6 feet away from me with his arms crossed and an evil smirk on his face. I grit my teeth and tighten my grip on my hammer, "How have you not suffered damage?!"

"Simple. You're just not strong enough to harm me."

"WHAT?!"

He cracks his neck and says, "Well, it's about time I start having fun." His smirk turns into a sadistic smile as he raises his right hand, shooting a dark energy ball at me. I yell, "Smash Block!" It's sent right back to him exploding on contact. I smile a little as how weak his attack was. I blink once and he's right in face with that smile. Before I could even react, he punches me in the stomach knocking the wind out of me. He then proceeds to hit me with a left uppercut, a right hook, a left hook and a roundhouse right kick. I'm sent flying backwards, but I was able to recover myself, right in time to see him prepare another energy attack.

He says, "Dark Sphere." A large dark energy ball is shot from his left hand, and I prepare myself. I yell, "Smash Block!" Swinging my hammer with all my might. When it made contact, a huge explosion was produced, and I was sent crashing into the ground. "AAAAGHHHH!" I yell before hitting the ground, making a small impact. I wince in pain wondering, What the hell was that?! He was weaker just a minute ago! I see him float down towards me and I grasp my hammer, or at least I thought I did. I look to my left, then my right to find it nowhere in sight.

No way, I thought, that one attack destroyed my hammer?! I hear him land and I try to sit up, but before I could he grabs my top and throws me toward Tokyo City. I couldn't even catch myself before he punched me, sending me higher and higher into the air. I couldn't defend myself because his attacks were so precise and there was so much force behind them. I hear him yell, "Shadow Strike: Darkness!" He proceeds to hit me consecutively, hitting harder and faster than the last.

I'm...defenseless. I'm just a rag-doll in the air. After his 30th attack, I'm twirling in the air, and I notice him above me pointing his right palm down at me. He yells, "Dark Sphere!" He shoots an energy ball down at me, sending me crashing in the middle of Tokyo City. I'm lying in the crater, head spinning & bleeding. My ribs feel like they're all broken. I place my hand on them and they're not. A few, hopefully one or two, are probably broken. The bones in my limbs feel like they may snap if he attacks me again.

When the smoke clears, I sit up slowly. I prop my right hand on my right knee and stand up. I look around to find a few citizens looking at me, wondering if I'm okay. "I'm okay. Just stand back please," I said, and they listened. Sol was nowhere in sight, then I heard two screams: one of a little boy & one of woman behind me. I turn around and find Sol holding by her shoulder with his left hand, her son screaming, "LET GO OF MY MOMMY!" He just smiles, looks at me for a second and then looks back at the boy. "Make me, squirt," he says. The boy runs toward him with his right fist raised and I yell, "DON'T!" He grabs the boy with his right by the head, lifts him off the ground and turns him around so that his mother & her son are facing me. "Now," he says, "Who do you choose?"

"What?" I ask, with a disturbed look on my face.

"Which one do you want me to spare? You can only pick one."

"PLEASE SAVE MY SON!" The woman yells with tears in her eyes.

"LET MY MOM GO!" The boy yells while trying to escape his grip.

"Shut. Up. Both of you," he says calmly. His voice caused them to be quiet and me to shiver in place.

"Hurry up, Buttercup. This offer won't last forever."

I gulp under the pressure. My sweat dripping down my face and back. After a minute went by, I've made a choice. "Let the kid go. Spare him," I say. He just smiles and nods his head. He looks at kid and then begins to crush his head. I yell, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" I charge at him to tackle him, but he doesn't even budge. I proceed to hit him with a right hook, but he's still unfazed! I strike him with multiple punches and kicks, but he just stands there unbothered by my attacks. The mother, tears running down her face, yells, "STOP! LET HIM GO!" She turns to me and yells, "DO SOMETHING!"

"I'M TRYING!" I yell back and I decide to pry his grip away from the kid. I'm hear him screaming in pain and his flesh being squished. I tug with all my might and it's useless. I tug again, nothing. I tug and tug again, again, again and again to no avail. I just watched hopelessly as the boy was scratching Sol's grip on his head and him crying. He shouts, "MOM-" but before he could finish, his head is crushed in Sol's grip. Blood, tissue and brain matter fly everywhere, covering me, Sol and the mother. His skull was shattered to pieces. His hands fell to his side. Blood streamed down his lifeless body. Sol let go and his body fell like a bag of bricks to the ground, slowly creating a pool of blood behind where his head used to be.

I couldn't believe it. He...he killed a little kid...in front of his mother...and I couldn't do anything to stop it. He couldn't have been older than 7 years old, but that didn't matter to Sol. She was hysterical, hitting Sol while shouting at him. I couldn't hear what she was saying, all I could hear was muffled sounds. I'm glad the people in the area went to find safety. No one needed to see this. I was out of it. It's one thing seeing gory stuff in movies or TV but seeing it for yourself is another matter entirely. I felt myself about to puke. I snapped back to reality when he grabbed my top and tossed me over his shoulder. I land on all fours and stand up, a little wobbly. I turn toward him and noticed that his left changed from on her shoulder to around her neck. She wasn't screaming and carrying on anymore. Her mouth was slightly open, and tears were still running down her face. Her eyes held no expression, no light. She looked numb. Soulless.

"Well," he said, "That was quite fun. Usually I kill children slower, but hey what can you do." He shrugs his shoulders as he says it. "Besides, I haven't done THIS in a while!" Before I could ask what, he puts his middle & index finger on his right hand and put into the mother's mouth. She didn't even react, she just looked at me and closed her eyes. He pulled her jaw and dislocated it. I hear her gag on her own blood. She didn't even fight him. It was as if she wanted to die. I held my hand over my mouth. He continued to pull, what followed suit was...horrific! As he pulled her dislocated jaw, everything from her chin and downward followed. He tore her jaw out and her neck was being torn along with it. You could hear her skin and muscles being ripped apart. I couldn't bring myself to look away. I didn't have the strength to move. My eyes were glued to what Sol was doing to this poor woman. My feet were stuck to the street, knowing full well I wouldn't be able to do anything even if she wanted me to.

He continued to pull her jaw; her torso was torn off with it. He gave one tug, and everything form her jaw to torso was ripped from the clinging skin and muscle. He flung it toward me, leaving a trail of blood, and I was able to dodge it. My eyes widened as I saw that her entire front half of her body was exposed. Her throat, ribcage, lungs, heart & other organs were fully visible. Blood streamed down her clothes and dripped on the floor. Sol let go of her neck and she fell on her back to the street. I finally puked; I couldn't hold it anymore. My hands on my knees, I just let everything I ate come up.

"Oh, come now. Aren't you supposed to be strong? Where's your backbone?" He says with a smile on his face.

"Screw you," I spout back as I felt a surge of energy flow through me, and my muscles tense up.

"All that talk, and yet you can't even harm me. Not once have I shouted or screamed in pain. Pathetic!"

"Shut Up!" The energy keeps building up. I can feel my blood circulating through my body.

"Oh?" He got into a battle position as a light green aura surrounded me, "You seem to be getting stronger. Let's see if you can actually damage me."

He charged forward and prepared to throw a punch. He swung his right fist and I blocked it with my left arm. It's weird because he seemed to move... slower. His eyes widened and he smiled, then tried a left kick. I was able to dodge it and answered with a left kick of my own. He staggered backwards, so I changed forward with a right hook, left hook and a right kick.

He flew back and recovered; he was still smiling even though he was getting hit. "Ah, now that's what I'm talking about! C'mon show me more of that power!" A dark aura surrounded him, so I answered by making my aura bigger. I feel the energy course through my veins. I feel the ground shake as we charge our energy up. We charge toward each other, draw our right fists back and a burst of strong wind erupts from the collision of our punches. It shatters the surrounding windows of the buildings and I hear people screaming. I hit Sol on his right side with a left spinning back kick. I fly after him, he spins around and shoots dark energy spheres at me. I was dodged most of them and deflected the ones I couldn't. He uses the opportunity to close the distance.

He tries to punch me, but I deflected it. I try to punch him, and he blocked it. This exchange of throwing punches or kicks went on for a while. We couldn't land a hit on each other. While I was gritting my teeth and focusing on his attacks, Sol still had a smile on his face. It was as if he was enjoying himself. I thought, I'm sick and fucking tired of this asshole! He wants fun, I'll give him fun! After I blocked his left hook with my left arm, I pushed his fist out of the way and punched him hard in the stomach. "AAGHH!" He yelled in pain. I hit him with a double axe handle on his head and he crashes into the street, creating a crater in the process.

He struggled to stand up and he looked up at me. I made a flash step toward him, and I hit with a right hook. I then hit with 30 kicks in quick succession and hit him with a vertical right kick, sending him into the sky. I follow after him, but he recovered himself. Sol steadied himself in the air and fired a volley of dark energy spheres down at me. I fly past and around them, learning my lesson from last time. When I'm close enough, I double knee him in the stomach. "GAAHHH!" He yells. I then use the chance to kick off of him, sending him further into the air and me to the street.

When I land, a crater forms underneath me and I'm in a squatting position. I use the force that generated from my landing to launch myself back in the air, creating a giant burst of wind as I fly upwards. I charge toward him, light green energy bursting from my right hand, with my fist cooked back. His eyes widen and he yelled, "Shadow Cursor!" He fired dark arrow from his hands, they make a jagged zigzag path toward me. I weave past and through their paths. I open my right hand and a forest green energy sphere formed in my hand. I fly above him and yell, "Star Shot!" I fired an energy wave from my right hand. He puts up his guard as it connects, resulting in a large explosion.

When my energy wave dissipates, I see a figure shrouded in smoke falling fast to the street. As they crash into it, a crater is formed with smoke escaping from it. I look at my hands and my aura is fading in and out. I'm running on fumes, I thought. I float down in front of it, and I hear faint laughter as Sol's silhouette walks out of it. When he steps out of the smoke, I see his annoying smile on his face while his shirt & jacket was destroyed, and his pants were ripped. There isn't a scratch on him though! How?! I thought, how is he still able to stand?! I caused him damage, didn't I? He doesn't say anything, he just gestures me with two fingers as if to say, "C'mon." I grit my teeth, charge at him and punched him square in the face with my right hand. He doesn't even flinch, just smiles more.

I feel my new power wane even more, so I decide to hit him with another energy attack. I focus whatever is left into my right hand. I say, "I'll end you right here, RIGHT NOW!" He simply stands there and opens his arms wide. He doesn't even bother to move! He mouths the words, "Bring it." I grit my teeth, tighten the muscles in my right arm and yell, "Star SHOT!" I fired an energy wave bigger than before directly at him, resulting in an even greater explosion. A gust of wind bursts through the street and some of the buildings start to shake & crumble.

When the wind stops, my aura and new power is gone. My right arm limply falls and I'm exhausted. My breath is heavy and it's a little hard to breathe. There's nothing but silence, you could cut through it with a knife. I lower my head, close my eyes for a moment and rest my hands on my knees. I try to catch my breath as I start to feel light-headed. "Is that it?" Those words sent shivers through my body and down my spine. My eyes shot open, and I start to flip with sweat. I raise my head and Sol is standing there unscathed. His smile is gone, his eyes have no light and the look on his face was filled with pure annoyance. I stand straight up and start to back away, my legs trembling in fear. I'm...I'm...scared.

He sighed and said, "This was fun while it lasted, but now I'm getting bored." He vanished and all I felt was deep gut punch. His left fist was elbow deep in my stomach. "AAGHH!" I yell as I cough up blood. He just flexed his arm, and I was sent flying backward. He kicked me in the back up to the sky. I'm flipping up in the air until he grabs my face with his right hand. He just charges toward the park, with my face still in his grip, and slams me into the ground. It creates a large crater, with the trees in the surrounding area uprooted or destroyed. He let's go of my face and all I could open is my left eye.

My right must be covered in the blood pouring from my head. I try to move, but my limbs betray me. I look at him standing over me, with that same look on his face. He puts his hands in his pockets and says, "Now, let's see if I can break you. Physically and emotionally."