Coming into the fight, there were certain goals that Gary had in his mind. After the humiliating defeat he had suffered, it would be hard for anyone including himself to believe that he would be able to win a fight against Harvor.
However, this wasn't just an ordinary fight. For one, a prize had been agreed upon, Xin's life was on the line, and even more than that, there was Jayden's honor at play here.
To the White Rose, they just wished for Gary to push Harvor, to weaken him as much as possible or to injure him to the point where he would transform and then they would come to help.
They were sure that the Zodiac's would try to jump in and help and that's when White Rose would step up as well.
If that was the case, then Gary could have transformed from the beginning, to use all of his power against Harvor, trying his best to injure him, but Gary chose not to.
He chose not to because he wanted to do things his way. He wanted to see how much he could match up to Harvor, and how hard Jayden had worked. He wanted to do what he could to respect Jayden.
In the end though, if he was hit any more by Harvor, even though he hadn't transformed, there was a good chance that it would interfere with the rest of the fight.
As Harvor wound up ready to punch Gary right in the head, he had activated his form.
[Partial transformation has been used]
Fur started to grow around Gary's forearms and on the top of his fingers. His nails began to elongate, growing larger, while fur grew down the side of his face. His muscles and overall structure grew by around ten percent in size.
Immediately Gary lifted his other leg and snapped it out hitting Harvor in the stomach. His hard grip that had held on through all of the punches and kicks so far had been forced to let him go, and his feet slid across the surface of the floor.
Immediately after, Gary wasted no time, as he leapt forward, and moved to the right and when he was close enough.
[Lethal Pounce has been activated Max]
Gary jumped from the side at lightning speed and instead of using his sharp claws to get the full strength of his hit, Gary swung his fist right into Harvor's side.
The audience was unable to even see the punch that Gary had delivered and could only hear the impact, and right after it, Gary had moved in the air three times following two more loud bangs being heard on Harvor's body.
Gary had appeared behind Harvor when the audience was finally able to see him, his back turned away, and instead on Harvor's body there were three red marks, one on his abdomen, one on his side by his ribs, and one on his shoulder.
It was only moments later that blood started to drop slightly from Harvor's mouth. Lifting up his hand he wiped it away with the side, and looked down at the red mess.
He just looked at the blood, not saying anything himself and not even turning around to look at Gary.
"Harvor, it's not a good idea to just stand like that!" Gary said, as he swung his fist hitting him right into the side.
When Harvor's body was lifted this time he turned around and used his fingers to grip into Gary's shoulder, holding onto him tight, but Gary had grabbed Harvor with both hands and lifted him into the air slamming him right there into the floor.
As Harvor felt the wind hitting him and his back crashing onto the canvas, he could see the arena sink slightly due to the strength of the attack, but his eyes were focusing on something else.
It was the eyes of the audience that were watching. Some of them flinched, some of them were smiling, and there were a few that looked worried. As he looked at them everything appeared in slow motion, all of their expressions and even the sound of their voices could be picked up.
"Harvor's being dominated right now, will he really lose?"
"Of course not, don't you remember what happened against Jayden, he was breaking the rules and still Harvor won out in the end. It will be the same again."
"You might be right, but something feels different this time. I really think Harvor might lose this one."
"This is quite clear, it's his worst fight yet… In every way, it almost seems like Gary Dem is better than him."
All of these words, all of the worries of the audience were being filled into Harvor.
At that point, Daphne Bree seeing the result and standing by the sideline was getting worried and was looking at Gary.
'If Gary pushes Harvor too much, he'll transform… if that's the case I need to get in there as soon as possible.' However, there was one person on the ground floor that worried Daphne. She could see Stanley looking up, and he wasn't looking at the fight, instead he was looking towards her, almost as if he knew something was up.
Still, she needed to be ready for the timing of it all, and she could feel that the timing of it all was getting closer and closer.
She turned her head to look around but didn't stay in one place as she caught where Chen was.
'I wonder how much of a help he will be in all of this. I know he has to have power…. hopefully, he can hold Stanley back, while I get to Gary.'
Harvor's body bounced off the canvas ground as the thoughts continued to fill his head.
'They think I'm going to lose this fight, they think everything is over, even though so little has happened?' Harvor thought. 'I guess this is the perfect time for a turn around to this fight! This will be the greatest fight they will ever witness!'
Around the iris of Harvor's eyes, a slight golden glow started to appear.
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