Chapter 2: Crime and Punishment (1/4)
"Ha!" Joshua laughed as he watched an old episode of the cartoon, Invader Zim. After killing someone at the party, the Stranding Haven Killer went back to his home after disposing of the cellphone and the rubber gloves. Once he arrived, it was already relatively late, so he decided to prepare himself some dinner. Macaroni and Cheese with Bacon. The boy with emo hair was currently on top of his bed, eating a big plate of macaroni and cheese with bacon that he made. As he finished his dinner, his phone started to ring, signalling that he had a message. Placing the fork inside the empty plate, he grabbed the phone with his right hand to check.
Lydia: Up?
Joshua: Yes.
Lydia: Can't sleep.
Joshua: That used to my bed?
Lydia: Your bed is really fucking comfortable.
Lydia: But no.
Suddenly, she sent him an audio. The audio was basically the sound of two people fucking, which Joshua already managed to tell that it was her mom and her new boyfriend.
Joshua: Either your mom is a hell of a screamer or she's faking it.
Lydia: I'm pretty sure that the guy is a steroid junkie, and it probably shrinks.
Joshua: LOL!
Joshua: Wanna come over?
Lydia: Too fucking dark.
Joshua: Wimp.
Lydia: Fuck off.
Lydia: Why don't you come over?
Joshua: Okay.
Joshua then turned off the TV and stood up in order to move to his wardrobe. He put on a white T-shirt, black jeans with a matching black denim jacket and some white canvas skate shoes. Once he was done, he checked his phone again.
Lydia: Are you fucking serious?!
Joshua took a selfie of himself fully dressed and sent it to her.
Lydia: Holy shit, you are fucking serious.
Joshua: Objections?
Lydia: Nope, just hurry the fuck up.
Alright. Joshua thought as he grabbed his bag and new skateboard before he made his way out of his home. Once he was out, the night was relatively dark and a little cold. Could be worse. He thought. At least it is not raining. Moving towards the street, Joshua hopped on his skateboard and rode it towards the end of the street.
"Where the fuck did you get a skateboard?"
With the skateboard, it took half of the usual time to get to Lydia's home. Once he arrived, Lydia unlocked the front door and let him inside her mother's pawnshop. She was only wearing her hoodie.
"Cindy gave it to me as a gift." Joshua answered her as he handed her the skateboard.
"Lucky bastard." Of course, Joshua didn't told her or anyone about him being "raped" by Cindy. Though, Lydia would probably just ask for details. "I'm riding this tomorrow."
The boy with emo hair just gave a thumbs up for his blond friend. She then signalled him to follow her towards the stairs to get upstairs. Once they entered the apartment upstairs, they noticed that her mother and the guy that she was fucking were sleeping on the couch. And the two of them were naked with only a blanket covering the lower part of their bodies.
Lydia's mom was a pretty attractive woman, with long blond hair and a slim figure. Though, Joshua personally thinks that Lydia is prettier. But that didn't stop him from appreciating the sight of her exposed breasts.
The guy that was with her, was a relatively good looking guy. He had dark blond hair in a crew cut, a trimmed beard, a strong jawline and a sharp nose. He also had a muscular physique, but with clear signs of steroid use, and some cheap looking tattoos on his body.
"You can take a photo if you want," Lydia whispered to him. "But if it ends up on the internet, I'll fucking murder you."
He chuckled, before pulling out his phone and actually taking a photo of Lydia's mother. In truth, Joshua had a collection of nude photos that he took from various different women without their knowledge.
Lydia then poked his shoulder and signalled him to follow her to her room. But as he moved, he noticed a leather vest on the floor. Oh shit... This guy is a Haven Devil? Joshua noticed that the leather vest had the symbol of the Haven Devils, the biker gang that plagues the south side of Stranding Haven.
"A Haven Devil?" Joshua asked in a low voice.
"Why the fuck are you surprised?" Her mom has a track record of problematic guys that she dated.
Soon enough, the blond girl and the black haired boy entered her relatively bland room.
"You really need to do some decorations here." Joshua told her as he placed his bag on the floor next to the door.
"What for?" She asked as she placed the skateboard on the floor as well. "I mostly sleep in your house anyway." The blond girl pointed out as she took off her hoodie, revealing the exact same bra and panties that she wore yesterday.
"Truth." Joshua then started to take off his outfit, until he was only wearing black trunks. "Wanna put something in my room?"
"Nope, your room is already cool enough." She replied before she jumped on the bed.
He followed her example and also jumped on the bed, sadly, unlike his own bed. Lydia's was pretty tiny and he had to squeeze himself for the two of them to fit. But it was clearly not a problem since Lydia wasted no time in wrapping her arms around his pale body in order to spoon with him like always.
"Your bed is shit." It was Joshua's only opinion.
"No shit, dumbass..." Apparently, she shared his opinion. "Why do you think I prefer yours...?"
"Part of me hoped that it was because you liked cuddling with me." He said with his eyes closed.
"That too... But I prefer Erika." She admitted. "She's so soft..."
"Maybe you and Erika should get married or something then..." He joked.
"Nope," She immediately responded. "You two are the ones that are going to get married, and I'm going to be that annoying friend that lives on your expenses and sleeps on your couch."
"Sounds good," Joshua immediately responded to that. I certainly don't mind marrying Erika and have Lydia living with us... "Except the sleeping on the couch part." That was the only part that was unacceptable to him. "You're going to sleep on the bed with us and that's not negotiable."
Lydia chuckled at that. "And what the hell am I supposed to do when the two of you fuck?" That was her only question.
"Join us, we can tag team on Erika together." That was his solution. Several images of what they would do with their redhead friend pass through his mind after that suggestion.
"You wanna kill the poor girl?" She laughed after asking that.
Absolutely not, I don't even kill women. It was his thought. "So you don't want to tag team on Erika?"
"I didn't say that." Lydia clarified. "Those wonderful boobs of hers are just too tempting to resist." Especially when they grow a bit more, I'm predicting that it will be a C-cup or even D-cup.
"Yours are nice as well." Joshua decided to say before he rolled over and buried his face on Lydia's small breasts.
"Not as nice as Erika's." She hardly reacted to what he did.
"I'll be the judge of that..." Suddenly, Joshua lifted Lydia's bra up to look at them. Lydia's small breasts were very lovely and a perfect example that size isn't everything. They were an A-sized and her nipples were flat and pale pink "I was right." He said while he touched them.
"Hmmm... Maybe we should check Erika's boobs as well." Lydia immediately suggested as Joshua caressed her boobs while she caressed his emo hair.
"Next time we have a cuddle pile." He already started to plan it before he placed his lips into her left nipple and started to lick it. Honestly, he was just waiting for Lydia to tell him to stop but all she did was pull her bra off completely and lay on her back completely topless as Joshua played with her small boobs.
Joshua and Lydia's relationship was a confusing one to say the least. They are just friends, but do these types of things from time to time, which is even more confusing since Lydia is lesbian and is clearly only attracted to girls. Joshua suspects that they are just so close in terms of mutual compatibility and otherwise emotional attraction, that his gender simply doesn't matter to her or she is bisexual and is simply in denial. But Joshua strongly believes in the former.
The blond girl moaned softly and caressed his black hair as her best friend played with her boobs.
"I can't just give out free stuff to your friends!"
"I'm not asking for free stuff, I'll pay you back later."
Currently, Lydia's mother and her biker boyfriend were arguing about him wanting to get some free stuff from the pawn shop. The argument just started, luckily, it was after Joshua and Lydia woke up from their semi pleasant sleep, since they ended up sleeping late due to Joshua playing with Lydia's boobs until late. They were putting their clothes on and were planning to get out through the window.
Ignoring the argument that was going on in the living room, Joshua simply stared at Lydia as she put on the exact same outfit that she wore yesterday. She didn't have many clothes due to her mum's small financial problems. The pawn shop makes enough for them to get by, but nothing past that. Which is one of the reasons why Lydia sleeps in Joshua's home more than her own. Not that Joshua cares, actually, he wished that she could just move in with him already.
She finished dressing up and grabbed her blue backpack before signalling the boy with emo hair to follow her.
The two of them immediately went to her window and she opened, the window led to an alley, and it was a considerable drop. But there was a small ledge under the window that they could reach by hanging by the window. Once he stepped on it, Joshua jumped and rolled on the ground. Lydia then tossed his backpack, then her backpack and then the skateboard. Joshua just grabbed all of the three things before she herself got out through the window.
"Ah shit." She jumped but landed on her feet, almost falling on the ground. But Joshua grabbed her. "Thanks."
"You are welcome." He handed her the backpack.
"Let's bounce." Lydia said as the two walked besides one another with their arms wrapped around each other.
"Check this out!" Lydia said while she rode Joshua's skateboard. She performed a kickflip down some stairs right outside of the school.
After a pretty unremarkable class as always, the four friends decided to have lunch outside. They were behind the school in the area where the trash cans are located, but they were far enough from it to not be bothered by the smell. Mostly because Lydia wanted to ride the skateboard and surprisingly, she was pretty good.
"Nice..." Terrence said while giving her a thumbs up. He was wearing long brown shorts, a baggy black T-shirt, red basketball shoes and a green cap. Eating a cheese sandwich that Erika made for him.
"You w-were great." Erika said while clapping at Lydia's trick. She was wearing an adorable blue dress with white shoes.
"My turn." Joshua, who was standing besides the stairs, said. Lydia tossed the skateboard for him and he grabbed it before he climbed the stairs, and he performed a heelflip.
"Awesome!" Lydia said after seeing the trick.
Erika clapped once again.
Terry gave him a thumbs up.
Joshua just picked up the skateboard and checked his phone for the time and realized that class was over. "I guess the teacher didn't make it." Their last class of the day didn't happen because their teacher was late.
"And that's a bad thing because...?" Lydia spoke sarcastically.
"Because... We are literally wasting our time here when we could be somewhere else." That was his response to his blond friend's question.
"You're absolutely right." Lydia understood what he meant. Before she grabbed the skateboard off his hand. "Let's bounce."
"Bounce to where?" Terry asked as he finished his sandwich.
"I have m-music class." Erika pointed out.
"And I told a guy in the MMA gym that I would have a match with him." Joshua pointed out as well.
"That asswipe again?" Terry asked and Joshua nodded in response. "Dude, he's got to be some masochist or some shit like that." Hilariously, the boy with emo hair partially agreed with his friend, because the guy already got beat up by him six times already.
"Whatever, let's just get out of here." Lydia hates school and always tries to be as far away from it as possible.
"O-okay." Erika stood up from her seat, and Lydia got close to her and held her hand, causing her to shyly smile.
"Girl on girl action?" Terry joked, causing Erika to look away embarrassed.
"If she wants." Lydia replied, causing Erika's face to turn red.
"Ohhh." Terry nodded with a smile.
"Quit torturing the poor girl and let's get moving." Joshua told them as he signalled them to follow him.
After the group of friends made their way to the building where the Black Rose and the Lion's Fist was located. Erika and Lydia went upstairs while Joshua and Terrence stayed on the first floor.
"Why the fuck did Lydia go upstairs?" Terrence asked as he punched a punching bag with a bunch of haymakers while wearing blue boxing gloves.
"To see a bunch of girls wearing ballet outfits." Joshua, who was wearing a black muscle shirt and black shorts, replied as he was doing push-ups on the floor.
"Oh shit," Terry probably realized that. "I think I'm gonna go check upstairs as well."
"Terry, please don't do that." He really didn't want him embarrassing Erika.
"I'm just messing with you." Terry started to throw heavy punches at the bag.
We both know that you're lying. Joshua thought as he finished his push-ups. Ninety-nine... One hundred. He finished his set and stood up from the floor. It was nice of Mr. Rutten to let Terry train with him. Moving his head to the left, he sees two people having a Kickboxing match at the ring with everyone observing it.
The gym was separated into two areas, one of the areas located next to the entrance while the other area is located at the end of the gym. The area next to the entrance is dedicated for the striking training while the other area is dedicated for the grappling training.
"I guess the wimp didn't show up." Terry commented as they didn't see Travis anywhere.
"Seems so." Joshua spoke as he did a perfect split on the floor. "So, ever found out what was that shootout about?" I wonder if they found that guy's body. He hadn't seen the news that day, so was unaware if the body he left under that bed was found or if the girl was okay.
"Some of the members of the Stranding Parasites gunned down a police car with two cops and shit hit the fan afterwards." Terrence informed him as he tried to kick the bag, but he didn't know how to kick properly. "My grandmother almost had a heart attack, because she thought that the two cops were my uncle and Erika's dad." By his tone and the fact that Erika was okay, he already saw that it wasn't the case. "It turned out that it was some old-timers that said some racist shit to the guys and they shot their asses in response." He went back to punching the bag with haymakers.
"All that shit because of two old cops being racist?" The boy with heterochromia asked as he stood up from the floor and his friend just nodded in response. There are so many reasons to hate someone, but hating someone because of the color of their skin is beyond stupid. "My turn." It was time to train with the heavy bag.
Terrence nodded before getting out of the way and handing him the gloves. After putting them on, Joshua took his turn on the punching bag. Unlike Terry, Josh delivered several boxing punches into the bag. Delivering several combos with power, agility and precision.
"Dude, I do not want to be on the receiving end of one of your punches, ever." Terry comically comments as he sees the impact of Joshua's punches on the bag.
"You know, you could punch just as hard if you actually learned how to throw a punch properly." He pointed out before he punched the bag with a right hook.
Before Terry could reply, they heard a noise coming from the entrance. Moving their heads to see, they saw a group of people entering the gym, with everyone that was inside taking a good look at the group as they entered. "Who are they?" Terrence asked.
Joshua only partially knows them. "They are from another MMA gym called Wolf's Pawn, and they are kind of rivals with this gym." The gym kind of has a bad reputation but Joshua never cared enough to look into it.
"Oh my, what a warm reception." The group of people was being led by a middle aged man that seemed to be in his mid-thirties. He had artificial looking tanned skin, bleached blond hair in a crew cut, a clean-shaven face, a strangely shaped nose that clearly has been broken more than once, bushy eyebrows and a muscular build. The man's name was Tito Coleman and he was the owner of the Wolf's Pawn.
"What are you doing here, Coleman?" One of the people that was standing outside of the ring stepped forward to talk with Tito Coleman. It was another middle-aged man that was around his late thirties. He was big and muscular, had fair skin, a shaved head, a long black beard, a broad nose, and he had a scar on the side of his head. The man's name was Anderson Rutten, he was the owner and the trainer of the Lion's Fist.
"What is going on?" Terrence asked Joshua, who was only punching the punching bag.
"Both used to be MMA fighters and they were each other's rivals." To my understanding, both of them had forty professional fights. Mr. Coleman has the better record with thirty-seven wins and three losses . While Mr. Rutten has thirty-five wins and five losses. But the three losses on Mr. Coleman's record were from being knocked out three times by Mr. Rutten in a trilogy of fights that they had against one another. "Now, they're kind of each other's rivals through their students if that makes any sense." Basically, they have a dick measure contest by seeing their students fighting each other in competitions.
"That sounds petty as fuck." That was Terrence's opinion on that.
"Says the guy that accepted the provocations of a wannabe gangster and ended up meeting up with him to have a fist fight in a dirty bathroom." Joshua pointed out to him.
Yeah..." Terrence looked away embarrassed. "Jermaine made up a story that he and his buddies were robbed by a group of thugs."
"Considering that they got beat up by two guys that are a year younger than them, I don't really blame them." Especially when you consider how much we mess them up.
An argument between the two ensued, but Joshua and Terrence didn't pay any attention as they noticed some of the students of the Black Rose descending the stairs in front of the entrance that lead to the second floor. There were girls and boys that were around their age coming down from there, with some actually stopping to see the argument between Mr. Coleman and Mr. Rutten, probably because they're expecting some brawl between the two groups. But the two boys were only waiting to see their girl friends descend from upstairs. Though, Joshua noticed that Terry was eyeing one of the girls that was watching the argument from the stairs. Eventually however, they saw Lydia and Erika coming down from the Black Rose while holding each other's hands, getting past everyone else that were watching the argument.
"What the fuck going on?" Lydia asked as she saw the argument.
"Long story short, rival gyms having an argument." Joshua replied as he removed the boxing gloves.
"Ohh... Are they going to fight each other?" Lydia asked, clearly hoping to see some blood.
"Probably..." Terrence spoke as he was still staring at one of the girls in the stairs.
"T, close your fucking mouth." Lydia told him as there was a bit of saliva dripping from his mouth without him noticing.
"Oh shit..." He noticed and immediately started to wipe the saliva off his mouth.
Joshua chuckled at what Terry did and he approached him to ask. "Which one are you staring at, exactly?" He whispered in his ear to ask.
"That one wi-" Before Terry could answer however, someone else spoke first.
"Okay! Okay!" The one that spoke was Mr. Coleman, apparently putting an end to the argument between the two. "I have a proposition to put an end to this."
Everyone that was watching the two groups arguing, listened closely.
Mr. Rutten simply folded his arms in response and looked at him with a serious expression. "Let's hear it."
"One of my students against one of your students, as it should have been in the last competition." That was his proposition.
"Last competition?" Terrence asked Joshua.
"These two constantly put their students to compete against one another in all sorts of combat sports." It didn't matter what it was, it could be a Jiu-Jitsu competition, a Kickboxing competition, a Karate tournament, whatever it was, these two would find a way to compete against one another. In Joshua's opinion, this was a good and a bad thing. Good, because it motivates everyone to train harder. Bad, because it feels like a glorified dick measuring contest between two washed up fighters.
"So, it's like a dick measuring contest with you and those other guys being the dicks." Lydia bluntly pointed out what Joshua thinks about it.
"Pretty much." He confirmed.
"C-can we go...?" Erika requested, since she doesn't really like violence.
"Oh come on, I want to see the fight." Terry spoke to him.
"Yeah, me too." Lydia agreed with Terry, but then she held Erika's hand. "I'll cover your eyes if it gets bloody."
"Ummm..." She blushed in response. "O-okay..." Erika was a bit of a pushover, but they never forced her to do anything that she definitely didn't want to do.
"Or you guys can stay and watch the fight while I take Erika home." Joshua decided to suggest since Erika clearly didn't want to be there.
"That works too." Lydia accepted the suggestion.
"Umm... I-if you d-don't mind..." She was visibly happy that he suggested that.
"Not one bit." Joshua replied and Erika smiled in response. "Let me just get charged."
With that, the boy with emo hair moved towards the locker room to change his clothes. But as he walked, he ended up hearing the two groups speaking.
"Alright, which one of your boys is going to be?" Mr. Coleman asked.
As Joshua was about to reach the locker room, he heard the dreaded nickname.
"Superboy!" Mr. Rutten called out.
Causing Joshua to stop right when he was a step away from the locker room. Seriously? The pale boy turned around and saw that everyone was staring at him.
"What?" He already knew what he wanted.
"Get over here." His martial arts teacher called him.
The boy with heterochromia just sighed before making his way there with everyone looking at him as he did. His friends were the ones that gave him the most memorable looks. Lydia touched her face in clear annoyance. Erika gave him a worried expression. Terry... Was just looking at one of the girls that was in the stairs, but he still can't figure out which one.
"What is it?" That was the question that the boy asked as he approached the group.
"You against his best student, what do you say?" Mr. Rutten asked him. But Joshua got the impression that he wasn't asking.
"HA!" Mr. Coleman clearly found the proposition funny. "You gonna put this kid against one of my best?" He spoke with lots of arrogance. "I guess the CTI is finally kicking in." Him and his students laughed at that unfunny joke while Mr. Rutten and the rest of his students all have hostile looks in response to it.
Joshua was having an urge to say no, because he didn't like Mr. Rutten's tone of voice which indicated that he didn't have a choice. But, Mr. Coleman really pissed him off with the CTI joke. "Fine..." He accepted, and the Wolf's Pawn students laughed in response.
"Oh god, this is priceless." Mr. Coleman continued to laugh. Before he touched the shoulder of one of his students. "Troy Wolf, amateur Muay Thai champion and black belt in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu." Troy Wolf was an attractive olive skinned guy that seemed to be eighteen or nineteen. He had average height but a muscular physique, a square jaw with a dimple on his chin, black hair in a Mohawk hairstyle, hazel eyes, but the thing that stood out the most, was a big scar that he had on his cheek. He was wearing Red MMA shorts, a black T-shirt, a red hoodie and white running shoes.
"Joshua Reese, literally beat everyone he ever fought and has black belts in every single art taught in this gym." Mr. Rutten also boasted, which Joshua found beyond lame and untrue, since he wasn't really a black belt in anything, mostly due to a lack of interest since belts didn't mean shit to him.
"What? You've been handing black belts like those McDojos in shopping malls?" Which Mr. Coleman capitalized on it.
Joshua simply rolled his eyes in response and said. "Look, my friends are waiting." He pointed at his friends who were just standing there. "So, are we going to do this or not?"
"Kid has balls, I'll give him that." Mr. Coleman praised him.
"Come on." Mr. Rutten called them out.
With that, everyone moved towards the ring where the fight was going to happen.
"Come on, Joshua can do it."
"Dude, look at the age, weight and size difference."
"You're older, bigger and heavier than the guy he's fighting right now and he knocked your ass out with a flying kick."
"And that was a striking only match, imagine what he's going to do in an MMA fight."
"Wait? It's MMA?"
"Yeah... My fucking arm still hurts because of that reverse armbar."
As every other student discussed what was about to happen. Mr. Rutten approached him.
"The reason I picked you was because I want to see what you can do when you're not holding back." This fight had rules and protective gear, trust me, I'm still being held back. "Now, I want you to get in there and show me everything that you learned from me." That was the last thing he said as he handed him some MMA gloves in the color black.
Actually, my uncle was the one that taught me how to fight. Joshua thought as he put the gloves on. "Do I get any penalty if I break something of his?" The Serial Killer asked him.
"No, humiliate him as much as you can and then break everything you can break." Mr. Rutten instructed him. "No mercy on him because he doesn't deserve it." The ex-MMA fighter saw Joshua fighting enough times to know that his age and size doesn't really matter, because he always finds a way to win.
"Alright." Joshua was ready to fight him.
Anyone would think this was a mismatch, since it was a mismatch. for anyone that never actually saw Joshua fight of course. As he put the gloves on however, his friends approached him.
"Is this a motherfucking joke or something?" Lydia asked, clearly not liking what was about to happen.
"Nope..." Joshua replied to his blond friend.
"Dude, I saw you fighting before but... That dude looks like the real deal man..." Terrence spoke as he watched the guy taking off his shirt, revealing a buff physique.
"Good, it would be boring otherwise." Joshua replied with a smile.
"B-ut do y-you really hav-'' Erika, who was clearly worried about him, stuttered a lot in an attempt to ask him if he really had to do that.
"Hey..." Joshua touched her cute and freckled face with his right hand. "Don't worry about me, I can do this." He caressed her cheek after saying that. "But, if you'll be willing to kiss any bruises that I might possibly get from this, I certainly would be less worried about the outcome of this fight."
"Ummm..." The ginger girl looked down embarrassed. "Pl-please don't ge-get hurt," She requested. "B-but if you d-do, I'll g-gla-gladly kiss your b-bru-bruises." The girl started deeply into his blue eye with her gray ones, until Joshua removed the bang from his eye and allowed her to stare deeply into his mismatched eyes.
"I got a small bruise on my knee from skateboarding, would you kiss it for me later?" Lydia, who was standing right besides them, asked.
"Hmmm... O-of course." She accepted.
"Hey, Superboy!" Mr. Rutten called him.
"Why the fuck does he call you Superboy?" Terrence asked him.
"Because it sounds better than Boy Wonder..." Mr. Rutten actually tried to call Joshua, Boy Wonder but he asked to be Superboy instead.
With that, Joshua removed his muscle shirt, which revealed a very impressive physique for his age. With Erika pulling out her cellphone and taking a photo of him while staring at him like a hungry animal. Erika is just as much of a pervert as Lydia and I, she is just bad at hiding it and her perversion is more directed towards the two of us.
"Wish me luck..." That was the only thing that he said as he turned around and Erika took another photo of his back.
"Go-good luck." Erika told him..
"Don't get your ass kicked." Lydia spoke as she wrapped her arm around Erika.
"Lay his ass on the match." Terry told him as he turned around one more time to look at one of the girls.
Joshua then moved towards the ring with all of the other fighters patting him on the back.
"Kick his ass, Superboy!"
"Use those Bruce Lee moves of yours!"
"Watch out for the takedowns!"
"If it ends on the floor, don't play around!"
"Yeah, don't toy with him!"
Everyone else basically yelled some type of advice to Joshua which he was thankful for, Mr. Coleman students on the other hand.
"Wolf is going to eat this kid."
"Seriously, are they fucking crazy? Look at the size difference."
"I don't know man, this emo kid has a better physique than us."
"So? There's a bunch of fat fighters out there that can kick ass."
"Yo, shut fuck up."
They all kept underestimating him as he climbed on the ring. With Mr. Rutten handing Joshua a mouthpiece before signalling him to come towards the middle of the ring where Troy Wolf was standing with red gloves on. "Alright, the standard rules." Mr. Rutten warned them. "No biting, no eye gouging and no low blows." He gave the standard ruleset. "Ready...?" Joshua extended his hand to touch gloves but Troy only scoffed and smirked at him with an arrogant grin. You just made it worse for yourself. That was his opinion on the situation. "Go!"
Joshua got into his Jeet Kune Do stance, which was kind of useless since this fight has rules, but it's automatic for him.
Troy got into a Muay Thai stance, which kind of left a small opening on his torso.
Both of them charged at each other, standing in the middle of the ring. With people cheering for each of them.
Troy, underestimating his opponent, decided to toy with Joshua by throwing a bunch of feints at him. With Joshua not even reacting to them as he saw that they were fake attacks. Until he finally decided to throw an actual punch, a right hook that Joshua dodge easily by slipping the punch. Before trapping his arm and delivering a left elbow strike into his cheek, after his elbow hit his face, he grabbed his opponent in a Muay Thai clinch delivered a very hard knee strike to his face with his right knee, landing on his nose and once his head bounced back, he delivered a roundhouse kick with the same leg into his head. The kick made him fall on the mat, but he stood up right away.
"Nice shot!" Terry yelled to his friend.
"Keep kicking his face!" Lydia did as well.
"Don't stop!" Mr. Rutten advised him. "Keep pressing!"
Every single one of Troy's friends and Mr. Coleman kept yelling at him to stop playing around and fight seriously as Troy recovered from the kick. He clearly heard them and charged at the boy with heterochromia once again.
But Joshua immediately saw his next move coming, which was a double leg takedown that he had no trouble in avoiding by performing a sprawl and immediately mounting his back. "Did you buy your black belt or something?" Joshua asked in amusement before he slapped his head. Troy was clearly angered by the comment and tried to get him off of him. But Joshua simply chuckled and slapped his head three times. "Pathetic." He told him before he got off of him.
Troy got up angrily and charged at Joshua again. Trying to throw a low kick into his leg, but Joshua easily stopped it by delivering a Stop Kick to his hip that he followed with a leaping left hook that caused Troy to stumble into the mat again. But he quickly stood up.
"What the fuck?!"
"Damn, this emo kid is good..."
"Dude, did you see the speed of that kick and punch?!"
His friends clearly saw that he was in trouble, but Troy refused to give up. So he charged at the boy with emo hair and tried to hit him. Only for Joshua to roll his eyes and effortlessly dodge every single one of his attacks. Punch, punch, punch, kick, punch, kick, punch. All evaded easily by him.
"Holy shit!"
"This kid is a motherfucking Ninja..."
"Troy, what the fuck!"
"This is not going to end well."
Those were the commentaries from Mr. Coleman students and Joshua couldn't help but notice Mr. Rutten having a smug expression towards Mr. Coleman. Which only made Joshua more repulsed with the situation.
So, after basically dodging twenty attacks, he finally decided to retaliate. When Troy threw a right hook at him, Joshua parried his punch with his left forearm and delivered a cross to his face, followed by a left hook and then an uppercut.
"Jesus Christ!"
"Troy, do something!"
"He's just playing with him now.
"Superboy! Or... Whatever the hell is your name, just finish it already!"
Joshua then delivered a low kick to his thigh, before chambering the exact same leg and delivering a hook kick to his head, followed by a left spinning back fist and then a chambered punch to his face. He then throws a left hook and leaves his hand on the back of his neck in order to establish a dirty boxing clinch that he uses to deliver several right hooks to his face, which he was way too exhausted to block.
"Superboy!" Mr. Rutten called him. "He had enough, finish him off!"
Hearing his MMA coach, Joshua grabbed Troy and performed a belly-to-belly suplex to get him on the mat. Before he mounted him and performed a Gogoplata on his opponent. But, Troy foolishly didn't get the message that Joshua was way better than him and attempted to break free from the submission instead of tapping.
Until he passed out.
I had an urge to hold the submission to cause some brain damage due to the lack of oxygen, but there were way too many witnesses. After Troy Wolf lost consciousness, Joshua let go of the submission and was cheered by his friends and everyone else from the gym while Troy's mates and his coach went to check on him.
At that moment, he was taking a shower inside the locker room as his friends awaited him outside.
The pale boy then finished his shower and turned off the water. Picking up one of the towels there to dry himself before putting his clothes back on. Once he was fully dressed, he moved towards the exit of the locker room. Erika and Lydia were standing there waiting for him.
Sparing one look towards the ring, he saw that Troy actually woke up and was sitting down on the ring with his gym buddies surrounding him. His face was a mess, his nose was broken, his left eye was swollen, there was a cut on the left side of his lip and he was clearly dazed.
"Ready to bounce?" Lydia asked him.
"Yup..." Joshua spoke as he wrapped his arm around Lydia's neck and held Erika's hand.
"A-are you hurt or s-so-something?" Erika asked him in concern, despite watching the fight and basically witnessing him beat his opponent.
"Actually, I'm hungry but that's something that can easily be solved if my favorite redhead makes me something to eat." Joshua spoke with a not so subtle insinuation.
"Of c-course!" And she was happy to comply with it as she held his hand tightly.
But then, the black haired boy noticed something. "Where's T?" He asked Lydia.
"Making a fool out of himself." She answered him while pointing at the stairs, where Terry was trying to make conversation with a girl that was sitting on the stairs.
"Who is she?" Joshua asked Erika.
"Her name is Mo-mon-monica." Erika revealed to them that the girl's name is Monica. "S-she does ac-acting classes up-upstairs.
"She's way out of Terrence's league." Lydia commented as they approached them.
When they got close enough, Joshua was able to see her properly. Monica was a girl around their age with rich, brown skin, light brown eyes, and thick, bouncy, dark curls. She's slender, but not as thin as Lydia. She was wearing dark red jeans, black boots and a brown leather jacket.
"Oh and then-" Terry was speaking with her, but she was clearly not paying attention to him and had her eyes on her phone.
"T, let's bounce." So Joshua decided to spare him from further embarrassment by calling him.
Terry only gave him an annoyed look, because he was clearly unaware that the girl wasn't really paying attention to him. Luckily, the cellphone that Monica was using started to ring.
"Hi," Monica answered in front of them. "Where are you?" She asked whoever was on the other side. "Come on, Angelica..." Apparently, she was speaking with someone called Angelica and it was clearly a private call since she stood up and climbed the stairs to get away from them. "Says the girl that lives in a mansion."
"Thanks for ruining my game, asshole." Terry complained in a jokeful time.
"I think a game over would have been less humiliating than your one-sided conversation." Joshua commented in response.
"She's cute though, so at least you have good taste." Lydia commented as she stared at Monica's ass as she climbed the stairs.
"Hey, eyes off, she's mine." Terry declared.
"Ummm... That's not how this works." Joshua decided to comment over Terry's choice of words.
"We'll see." Terrence spoke in response. "I have to bounce, my grandmother wants me to go buy some stuff at the market for her."
"Alright, see ya." Joshua said goodbye.
Terry fist bumped Joshua and then Lydia before affectionately touching Erika's shoulder. After that, he made his way to the door.
"My place?" Joshua asked his favorite girls.
Motherfucker... After returning home, Joshua decided to do some research on Troy Wolf. Mostly because he heard some people back at the gym commenting that he did something awful during one of his fights and it turned out that it was right. For starters his real name is Troy Madison and Wolf is just a lame nickname. Lives with father and three brothers, above average income due to father being a retired Salesman, doesn't work and his dad paid for his martial arts classes. For what I managed to dig out, he and his brothers are all classic douchebags.
"Shut the fuck up, asshole!" Lydia, who was sitting on top of his bed, yelled on the headset. She was playing an online match of a first person shooter game on one of his Xbox Consoles. "Use the machine gun!"
"Thanks for doing that for me." Joshua, who was sitting on his computer chair, told Erika.
"I-it's no problem." Erika, who was on her knees in front of Joshua, replied. She was massaging his feet using a lotion that smelled like baby powder.
As he enjoyed a foot massage and a very nice Fool's Gold Loaf sandwich that his redheaded friend prepared for him, he watched the footage of a fight on his computer. A fight that Troy had actually.
The opponent was a nineteen years old guy that had a Karate and Judo background. By researching him a bit, he discovered that his name was Armando Castelanno. Lived with his mother and older sister, below average income with mother and sister working in low paying jobs, worked as a waiter to pay for his martial arts class. Overall, he seemed like a decent guy trying to fight his way out of poverty.
The fight itself resulted in Armando being put in a coma. It was pretty uneventful and both gave lackluster performances. Until Armando tried to throw a spinning heel kick that missed and he ended up losing his balance. Troy capitalized on and delivered a high kick. But what really confirmed his suspicion was the fact that after the kick that landed on the back of Armando's head, Troy actually moved to the side and threw three Rabbit Punches on him and the biased referee clearly didn't pay attention to it. This type of thing should be easy to spot on a replay, but this was practically an semi-underground fight. Joshua thought in annoyance as the footage that he was watching was from someone's phone. But the point is, you did it on purpose and got away with it.
Closing the video of the fight , Joshua made up his mind.
Troy Wolf, I'm gonna fucking kill you.
Thanks for reading my story.
Questions and Answers:
For some trivia about Joshua some hopes slash suggestions
Languages he speaks aside from English
French
Spanish
Italian
German
Japanese
Korean
Fact he can speak multiple languages doesn't have to okay into anything Joshua could just say he learnt those languages when he was bored haha
By the way if he does get a harem which I still hope you go for apart from woman both his age and older meant to add hope some girls younger than him like him to so you know when he's all grown up he has college girls eyeing him up haha
I also hope Joshua gets out of the city sometimes to enjoy a nice trip or holiday to somewhere no drama or even killing just nice times all around really heck spring break to
Another thing if he ever goes to say a Halloween party hope Joshua goes dressed as Slender Man or any popular slasher like Jason
Now then since Joshua can fully control his dreams and has a strong interest in woman why not let him have some fun with it where when he's dreaming he uses the fact he can completely control his dreams to insert himself into scenes from movies, Tv series or games for example some films he could insert himself into for some fun
The road to El Dorado where Joshua is a English explorer that's spending some quality time with Chel
Incredibles where Joshua is a hero married to Helen with Violet as his daughter or stepdaughter
616 Wilford Lane where Joshua is the partner and lover of Staci and Randy
Species where Joshua is a boy Sil doesn't want to kill just love
The ring and the grudge where Joshua is the "target" of both Samara and Kayako with a special appearance from Hachishakusama because why not
A odd crossover between Nanny Cam and the Babysitter where Joshua is with Heather and Bee or you know they each get their own dream haha
Joshua could replace Jak from Jak and Daxter and be getting it on with Keira, Tess and Ashelin
Sly Cooper where he's getting it on with Carmelita and Neyla
Lily from siren
Carmilla, Lenore and Sypha from Castlevania
You get the idea movie, series or game you like throw Joshua into it for a segment where he's dreaming haha
He speaks all of those and more. (You see, Joshua's ancestry goes all over the globe.)
It will mostly be of girls that are around his age (That he has a relastionship that is similar to the he has with Lyida and Erika), with the older woman being more casual encounters.
Sadly, something bad will happen in all of his vacations. (Like him and the third girl that will join his harem going on a vacation and the whole city that they went being flooded with Joshua actually discovering that it was proposital to cover something awful that was happening there)
Jeff The Killer... {I actually have a story in mind that would revolve around a cripple guy and his yandere girlfriend having to deal with Creepypasta beings.}
Those are all very cool ideas that I would probably rather save it for future stories. {Actually, there is a story that actually would revolves around a guy being tossed on his favorite shows, movies and ganes that I have in mind.}
Well I had a good time reading this
Firstly yes I have my fingers crossed that you give Joshua a harem made up of the girls his age and some older woman some of whom like Cindy's mom that he's already fucking and what's Cindy's moms name by the way
If Joshua could get her to start having sex with him wonder how long it'll be before he's fucking his teacher Veronica
Also like his relationships with his best friends particularly Erika and Lydia of course hope the three get to have a cuddle pile more haha can definitely see Lydia also being the one in the future to make those wholesome moments more lewd haha
When Joshua debates why he kills I think it comes one from his desire to just help people not in a hero complex manner just he looks at the shitty state Stray Haven is in and concluded the best way to help it and mixing his sadistic tendencies
Now one thing I really hope is the case in this is that Joshua as a serial killer never comes close to being uncovered or discovered by anyone the only ones who find out about him being a killer are the ones he tells and they never betray him
I mean be kinda cliche if someone comes close to uncovering his identity or he's exposed something like that hence why I hope in the history books the Stray Haven Killers identity is never discovered
Meanwhile Joshua lives a complete happy life with his harem even if he never stops killing
I also hope his killings and the fact no one can figure out who's doing them basically terrifies all the criminals and scum of the city into leaving or reforming to give a case of something similar looks up Warhammer Konrad Curze he terrified his whole homeworld into becoming law abiding he just made the mistake of not ensuring the world would be fine without him
So essentially what I hope for is Joshua kills so many people the criminals are to scared to do anything and so then the government improves things in the city so people don't have to turn to crime
But yeah can't stress enough how much I hope no one even comes close to uncovering Joshua killings
With the other big hope like I said being Joshua gets a harem haha so yeah hope he gets away with all his brutal killings perfectly, he gets to enjoy some fun moments and of course all the debauchery he gets up to haha
I'm glad you did, this a reboot of the first story I ever wrote. So you have this to thank for every single story you read from me today.
Cynthia. The older woman will be more casual encounters while the girls his age will be a more romantic kind.
All be has to do, is find something or a weakness to exploit. {Cindy's mom, was basically a unsatisfied housewife stuck with a workaholic husband that hardly pays any attention to her, so Joshua gave her the validation that she desired and that's how he seduced her..}
He loves the two and they're basically his girlfriends in all but name.
It's for both noble and depraved reasons to be honest. The duality is Joshua's most defining trait throughout the story.
Joshua is way too smart to get caught and the city is way too incompetent for that.
Yeah, I hate that kind of cliché.
He may stop one day and just live a happy life.
That is why his killings are exceptionally brutal, because of the fear factor that it creates.
Only after Joshua takes down the Biker Gang and the Street Gang that dominates the south side of the city. major gangs. {Hilariously, the only reason he will do it, is because they messed with his loved ones.}
Only if he allows it.
Well...