Beowulf slid the claws across eachother creating an ear grating sound that made Walloproo wince. Beowulf rushed forward and Wallop put up his guard, Beowulf attacked with a flurry of slashes from his Tekko-Kage, the blades ripped up Wallop's arms and he had to jump back. The marks Beowulf left were red and some were dripping "if I can't defend, I'll just attack!" Wallop rushed and threw a jab but was stopped by Beowulf who stabbed into Wallop's gloves causing the villain to yelp in pain. Wallop panicked and threw another punch only to have that hand stabbed aswell "man, you really aren't the brightest lightbulb in the drawer are you?" Wallop struggled to get his words out "s-shut up already!" Wallop tried to move but he pulled Beowulf along with him which caues them to spin around "I don't get it, do you wanna fight? Or dance?" Wallop became even angrier "SHUT UP ALREADY!" Wallop balanced on his tail and donkey kicked but Beowulf jumped over his legs and drop kicked Wallop instead separating the two.
Wallop was knocked back but regained his footing quickly, his arms draped down and blood slowly dripped from the wounds on his gloves and arms "you should probably give up man, whatever is driving you to do these things is not worth the harm it's causing you" Wallop growled "don't bother preaching to me! There are things in this world that you don't understand, like how my Miraculous can buff me up" Beowulf readied himself as Wallop's Miraculous glowed and his veins began to subtly glow red and bulge, his body began to grow as did his height. Wallop finished transforming and spoke in a distorted voice "DEVOUR" Beowulf began thinking "okay, he's bigger so he's slower so-" he was interrupted by a sudden right cross from Walloproo that sent him sliding "okay, still fast, maybe faster, oh boy" Beowulf barely hade time to dodge the next swing but managed to lean back and avoid it. Beowulf ducked underneath a right hook and uppercutted Wallop, his claws had barely dug into Wallop's chin and he responded with a straight that made Beowulf nearly fall over when it struck him, Beowulf struggled to keep conscious from the blow when Wallop whirled and hit him with his tail.
Beowulf flew back and landed on his neck "oh man...in an immense amount of pain right now, Sturnn, please, I need some help with these powers" Sturnn came out and taunted Beowulf "I don't know, it seems like you havw this under control" Beowulf growled at him and Sturnn explained "this form has the ability of Wolf Pack" Beowulf did a handspring and jumped onto his feet "that's all I need, Wolf Pack" Beowulf made hand signs, he outstrecthed his arms and crossed them while pointing his pinky and index fingers forward. Beowulf suddenly started vibrating and soon began to split into five copies of himself, Beowulf put down his arms and looked at his copies "okay, clones, never been one for group brawls but this'll do!" One of the copies rushed and flipped his claws inward to hit Wallop with a liver shot, another took advantage of Wallop's pain and ducked hit Wallop in the kidney, another went behind Wallop and kneed him in the back making him bend backwards then bend down. The last clone rushed and did a handstand right infront of him and shot his legs upward kicking Wallop into the air. Beowulf saw what the clones were doing and began sprinting to them, the one nearest to him turned around and cupped his hands together and lowered them with Beowulf putting his foot on his hands and the clone spring boarded Beowulf into the air. Beowulf did a small twirl and raised his leg while jumping towards Wallop, he brought his leg down and struck Wallop making the villain rocket to the ground causing debris and dust to fly up and a large crater had formed around Wallop.
Beowulf landed and his clones backed him up as they waited for Wallop to resurface, and resurface he did as his massive arm punched through the debris on top of him. Wallop lifted himself out and Beowulf's Pack rushed him jumping and dashing around him slashing and striking him while he was down. Wallop roared and hit the ground with his fists causing Beowulf and his clones to slow down enough for Wallop to catch them, he grabbed one and punched it making it poof into smoke. He turned his attention to another one and jumped forward hitting it with a straight that also vaporized it, one of the clones noticed something, he noticed Wallop's veins were beginning to fade and he was slowly losing muscle mass. The clone went over to Beowulf and pointed this out "he's losing steam, not like Skorpoxus who had better stamina at the expense of speed" Beowulf directed the remaining clones "okay boys, let's play hard to get!"
all of them lept into the air and passed over Wallop who gave chase, he swung at one of them but missed as another lept up and kicked him in the side of the head and another slashed him across the face with his claws. Wallop roared and began swinging wildly forward taking out the two clones, when he stopped he was breathing heavily and he looked more like his original size. Beowulf nodded to his clone and rushed towards Wallop who put up his fists weakly, Beowulf leaped up into the air and that got Wallop's attention meanwhilethe clone slid between his feet and quickly put him in a full nelson. Beowulf then yelled "Wolfsbane!" and punched Wallop with his fist extracting his power "Devour the Power!" He yelled as he absorbed his powers and his right hand became wrapped with a large boxing glove "Here comes the Knockout!" Beowulf reeled back and punched Wallop square in the cheek causing him to fly down the street and the last clone to vaporize upon launch. Wallop bounced across the street and finally hit a parked car, he was knocked out cold. Beowulf ran over to him and noticed the pendant on his chest, Beowulf took it off and Wallop transformed back "who is this guy?" Beowulf asked with a bystander answering "that's Johnny McGonnal, he's a small time boxer who got in trouble with some bad folks, he's my neighbor" Beowulf looked at Johnny and then at the civilian "get him to a police station, maybe they can protect him, I'm afraid they put him up to this, and he failed, and I don't want to see what happens when someone fails them". Beowulf lept away and into an alley where he de-transformed back into Ben, he gave Prowwl some jerkey "this isn't gonna stop, I know it's not, not unless I pull this weed out from the roots, tomorrow we'll start digging".
Ben made it back home where he was surprised to se his friends there with his parents, his mother saw him and ran over to him hugging him "oh my baby, I'm so glad you're okay" his dad came over to him and hugged him aswell "your new friends told us everything, that was brave of you, but very foolish" Ben smiled "love you too dad" he hugged both of his parents and then went over to his friends "how'd you guys know where I lived?" Arnold answered "we went back to look for you but Beowulf was in the middle of fighting, that was when we met yohr parents, they were looking for you and they asked us if we had seen you, that was when Beowulf went flying into Ray's and your parents led us back to your home" Ben sighed and said "well, thanks for looking out for me, but I said-" Mason cut him off "we know, it was dangerous but you were there too, look, we can't go losing the guy who brought us together on the same day he did, you're way too important to us already" Sophia got up from her chair and hugged Ben "don't ever do that again" Ben responded "don't worry, I'll try to think before I act next time".
That night when Ben's friends went home Ben was at his desk looking at the two Miraculous on his desk "what am I supposed to do with these things? They're way too dangerous to be kept in a place like this" a sudden gust of wind caused his balcony door to open and his head snapped to it, he approached the door slowly and peered out over the balcony to see nothing, he then felt a presence next to him and when he looked he saw a familiar old man sitting there "WHOA" he screamed as the old man sat there drinking tea "calm down young Benjamin, I mean you no harm" Ben breathed in and said "hey, you're that old man with the jewelry box...you're the one who gave me the Miraculous!" The man nodded and suddenly glowed with energy, it dispersed and he was suddenly taller and noticeably younger, going from a mid 80s man to a mid 40s man "a little illusion trick a friend cooked up for me, now, you must have a lot of questions, go ahead and ask your first question" Ben started "first question, who are you?" The man laughed "pretty simple question don't you think? although it's a loaded question for sure" Ben shrugged and asked again "should I call you master or something?" The man laughed again "no, no, no, I am no master, I had one once but...not anymore, anyway, from here on out I am your mentor, and from her on you can call me...Donovan".
Author's notes: Hoo boy this chapter was a doozy to write, if you can't tell I was going for a more comedic tone with this chapter, hell I originally drafted for Beowulf to use Walloproo as a speedbag during the final moments of the fight.
