Leider pointed one finger at him from a fully extended arm as he straightened up from his rough landing. His finger twitched at the end as he stared straight at Samuel.

"Okay motherfucker, right now you have two things going against you."

Samuel just adjusted his stance, and stared back with a blank expression.

"One" Leider continued fuming "I am extremely pissed off right now, two you're a big guy and so is Rolf. So here's what's going to happen okay I am going to close my eyes and pretend you're him then beat the crap out of you and vent. Sound good?"

"I wouldn't do that" Samuel warned

"Really? Cause I just did" Leider said throwing himself straight at Samuel who uses his wood power to quickly wrap him up. Leider hit the ground with a heavy thud. "Asshole" he screamed "and a fucking user! "Samuel looked over him .

"I told you not too". Lieder laughed and suddenly their was a mechanical clicking and whirring noise as sawdust filled the air. Seconds later Leider stood up unhindered. "Nice trick, but you'll need more then that."

Samuel shrugged and with a quick arm gesture three wooded spikes shot up from the ground right at Leider's feet. But Leider was quick on his feet dodging two, but not that quick as the third took a good chunk out of his lower leg.

He bent down as if he was roller skating and shot off. He was fast and graceful; it was almost as if he was gliding. Of course that optical illusion was probably due to the fact he was gliding, on his feet now turned into small conveyor belts. He smashed straight into Samuel much large frame attempting to tackle him down. Samuel took the severe hit to the chest and swayed backwards but his feet stayed planted he rocked back like a punching dummy. Lieder smiled, "tough bastard aren't you".

Samuel shrugged as two spikes of wood shot out of the ground, but Leider was too fast easily jumping back avoiding both spikes. He quickly shifted momentum and slammed into Samuel again, this time jumping before hitting him so that his center of mass slammed high against Samuel's chest over-torqueing him as Samuel screened in agony and finally he fell over. Lieder continued with a hand to his Samuel's face smashing it deep into the ground after knocking him over.

"A clever trick with the roots, it's a pity you needed to root yourself to do it" Lieder laughed as he back-flipped off the body landing gracefully in behind him. Samuel grunted drawing himself to full height again and then turning and brushing himself off. Lieder smirked "You're big, but I've dropped bigger. You need more than that to survive in this business". Once again Samuel quickly move now more roots shot out of the ground, except now they are angled all around him in every direction.

"bored now, I wanted to vent but now all I feel like is sighing" Leider mocks as he launches himself up landing on one of the angled roots. In a second the bottom of his feet have once again changed into conveyor belts and he was quickly sliding down the root straight at Samuel who continues to flourish and more roots shoot straight out attempting to skewer or at least trip Leider. He dodges them with a contemptible ease once again launching himself at Samuel and smack him hard across the jaw. "Come on you must be better than this" he laughed "I'm almost disappointed at this". Samuel turns to face Lieder once more and plants his feet assuming the same stance.

"My you really are a one trick pony aren't you?" Leider says already moving straight for Samuel at high speeds. Samuel cracks a small smile. Leider jumps straight at Samuel only realizing just to late that no roots have actually shot up from the ground, instead wood begins to form out of Samuel's palm and almost instantly he is holding a rough club. Samuel sidesteps Leider uncontrolled attack and swings his club in a massive underhanded movement hoping to catch Leider off guard. However at the last moment Lieder was able to cover his chest with his forearms, quickly turning them into small conveyor belts that began to whir. The wooden club met with the conveyor belts and little wood chips began to fly as the wood was slowly ground down. However even the conveyor belt wasn't sufficient enough to grind down to much of the heavy club and Samuel smacked Leider a good six or seven feet through the air. He landed with a heavy thud on the ground; Samuel shrugged tossing the club aside. Leider got up scowl spreading quickly over his face. "Son of a bitch well I guess you did have a little bite." Then he added with unnecessary poison "Note the past tense."

"Yeah I did, clever man clever" Samuel replied, drawing his hands together and causing wood to shoot out between them forming itself into a massive spear.

"Maybe this will be good for venting after all." Leider smirked, Samuel shrugged. Both charged at each other. Dust flew as they clashed. Samuel had the reach and the size jabbing out with his massive wooden spear try to keep Leider from closing the distance. Leider for the most part had to play the defensive. He ducked, dodged or parried spear thrust after spear thrust with his forearms, now transformed into conveyer belts. With each clash Leider's forearms shaved a bit more wood then the last as the blows glanced off. Finally Samuel drew back his spear and thrust forward once more grasping the spear with both hands attempting to skewer Leider through the chest. Then Leider made his move.

He planted his feet, bringing his arms to form and x across his chest. The conveyor belts growled like hungry animals, the mechanical whirring noise rising to a fever pitch as Samuel's spear slammed straight into it and shattered. The conveyor belt ate away at his already weakened spear like a power sander simply reducing the shaft to twigs and splinters. Following it up Leider ducked down and shot up one fist running straight up his chest and into the bottom of Samuel's jaw. The final blow was bad but what was worse was at his fist ran up across Samuel's chest the conveyor belt on his fore arm scratched and ripped its own path leaving a massive friction burn across its path. Then to finish it off Leider slammed his leg straight into Samuel's knee with a heavy crunch. Samuel yelped and went down on that knee. Leider grabbed Samuel's shoulder and his other hand raised as if to punch him, but then he formed an open palm that quickly turned into a conveyor belt which slammed into Samuel's face. With his shoulder being held Samuel's couldn't recoil from the blow so the conveyor belt simply cut and ripped into his face pulling the top skin off and leaving it raw and exposed. Lieder retracted the hand seconds later and there was a small mechanical whirring as little conveyor belts appeared on the big belt that was his open palm. Samuel, aching from pain all over and open able to see out of one eye could tell that th smaller belts spun in the opposite direction as the bigger one. Leider slammed his hand back into Samuel's face this time the pain was even more unbearable. Now the opposing belts tore and ripped his face apart opening cuts all over the one side they had contacted. Samuel lashed out with his massive arms hoping to get a good shot off, but Leider had already bounded backwards out of his reach. Samuel lifted himself up getting ready to prepare for another attack, when suddenly he found himself being drawn to Leider at an alarming speed. He was standing on a conveyor belt that was quickly traveling straight at Leider. Fumbling he tried to get into a defensive stance but he was too slow as Leider slammed his fist straight into Samuel gut immediately stopping all the extra momentum the conveyor belt created.

Leider smiled straight at Samuel's wobbling form "You know I'm glad you stole that box I had forgotten how much fun this was." Suddenly Samuel straightened up. His face was burning as blood trickled down the red raw meat that was currently showing, only adding to the irritation of raw skin. His knee barely could support his massive weight and he still hadn't really gotten his bearings back, his chest was a similar story the raw skin burned only made worse by the dusty atmosphere. He felt like each particle of dust set a small fire off on his skin. To top it all off his suit was ruined. His long blank face finally showing a smidgeon of anger. And with that he quickly began creating thin wooden spikes about a foot long and chucking them directly at Leider.

Leider smile immediately stopped as he began furiously batting them away or else utterly destroying them within the jaws of his conveyor belts. Finally Samuel crossed his hands over as if two draw two swords from behind his back and flung two much larger wooden spikes each probably two and half feet long. Lieder dodged around one; heaving heavily he shouted "is that the best you got" as he contemptuously smashed the other straight into the ground with a ground shattering crack. Samuel's frown became a small smile.

"That was good, but can you do it in reverse?" Lieder face went white as Samuel slammed his two massive hands together in a clap and all the wooden shards and splinters from the wooden spikes began to tremble and finally shot straight at Lieder.

He tried to dodge but there were too many, coming from too many directions. In just seconds tens of cuts had opened up all around his skin as the shards shot past him. In the background a muffled voice shouted "Samuel give the bastard one hell of a head ache". So he did.

Drawing his hand back wood began to form around it. At first it was simply a dowel that his fist wrapped around but it quickly grew into a hard ball that encased the fist like a boxing glove. From there the front stretched out forming a massive spike on the front which he then thrust straight at Leider. Leider screamed a defiant yell and fired up his conveyor belts covering his face. They shrieked and screamed spinning at an increased rate, hoping to simply reduce this latest attack to splinters with ease. The two forces hit each other with a thunderclap as immediately the air was filled with dust and wooden splinters as the conveyor belts tore into the wood. Leider laughed at this futile attack. Samuel smiled and kept pushing, Lieder got pushed back slightly his smiling faltering as he began to grit his teeth together, Samuel was just so much bigger, so much heavier. Once he had got Leider's attention Samuel redoubled his efforts, forcing Leider to accept the challenge of strength, and Leider began to push him back. And once he was fully committed, Samuel simply swung his second hand also covered in a wooden glove directly at Leider's exposed face. Leider took the hit hard.

SPLASH.

A solitary splash echoed out of the silence followed by the heavy thud of Leider's body hitting the ground. Across the square Fredrick grasped at the sides of the bank fighting through the pain and pulling himself up out of the water. He looked back at the bubbles shooting up from the water. He looked around still disoriented by the tumbled he had taken on the conveyor belt that ended so abruptly in the river.

"Fredrick that you?"

"Yeah, Samuel?"

"Yeah, need help?"

"Nope, you?"

"Nah" Fredrick replied ignoring the shooting pain coursing through his body as he finally got the rest of legs on the bank. "I will however being laying here for a while"

"What about Kilford" Samuel replied shouting.

"Shit" Fredrick mumbled as he forced himself up onto his weak legs.