The large man was lying on the floor, his shoulders were shaking. His hand lifted to the top of his hood and he pulled it down. The only thing one could see was the large grin on his face and his large pearly white teeth.
Using the momentum of only his legs, he jumped up from the ground. The workers that were watching felt like the hit had to have had some sort of effect on the large man. After all, who wouldn’t after being thrown in the air like that, and from Midwak of all people.
When standing, he looked like he had next to no trouble at all.
“This is what I was expecting, this is the type of power I was expecting from a tier-2. You must hook quite the high potion in the Howers gang. It’s a shame for you, that it won’t be enough.”
Midwak pointed both of his hands out, and nails started to fire out from them. The large man quickly spun his body, avoiding all of them and charged forward at the same time.
“You're fast for a big guy!” MIdwak said. “But I’m faster!”
Jumping in the air, Midwak transformed his legs and kicked the large man with both his legs right in the face. As he was leaning back he used his arms to punch him back up again, and swung his arm giving a hard punch right to his head.
Midwak continued, as he went for hit after hit, he did so from side to side, again and again. The large man’s head was swinging rapidly as steps back were taken.
‘Why… why does it feel like none of my punches are fully connecting!’ Midwak thought. Glancing at his opponent, he could see under the hood that there was a smile on his face.
Midwak soon could tell, other than the first initial hit he had done at the beginning, none of these hits had the full force of his weight behind them. The large man was predicting where he was going to hit, and was going with the flow as he swung his head side to side.
The large man swung his body again, but this time when Midwak went to strike, he swung back and his arm clashed against Midwak's. The two of them collided in the air with neither of them losing out in terms of strength.
‘What type of Altered is this guy even, he’s able to withstand my strength!’ Midwak was getting annoyed. The veins on his head were growing and his eyes started to narrow.
“If I eat you, I guess I’ll get a nice little boost in strength!” Midwak declared.
His whole body started to transform. His legs, his arms, and his size started to grow along with the rest of his fur. With his hand pointed out, Midwak fired out his nails again. They pierced the man’s chest and blood was dripping from his wound.
Now having fully transformed as well, Midwak swung his arm overpowering the large man, and went to swing with a clawed hand.
Just in time, the large man was able to lift both of his hands. The claws ripped through his hoodie sleeve, and cut the skin on his arms. He was sent a few meters back, skidding on the ground and then jumped a couple of times to make sure he was away.
The man noticed that the speed of Midwak had increased along with his strength.
“I should have expected?” The man lifted up his arms, blood dripping down them. “They said that I should have been able to do this job without having to transform, but I had an inkling that they were wrong. You guys are stronger than I thought, but you will never be able to go up against us.
The large Altered started to change, his whole body was growing large in size, he had finally activated his Altered from. Midwak was staring at the turn that was happening in front of him.
His eyes were continually looking up higher and higher as the change continued and a shadow had been cast over his whole body.
“You're one ugly F*ck.” Midwak said.
The other workers at this point had decided it was time for them to leave, and had run out of the casino, abandoning their position, while the two other werewolves had gotten up, heading toward the back of the establishment.
“We can’t leave Midwak to deal with that thing!” Bardo shouted.
“If we stay, we’ll die.” Bardolph replied.
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Gary had finished his meeting with Xin, he wanted to do more with her, spend some time with her, but he felt somewhat bad that he was hanging around with her while she was worrying about her brother.
So the first thing he decided to do, after leaving the hotel, was to head to the Wolf’s Pool club in order to meet Kai.
Standing outside the hotel looking at the city lights, Gary could see the eyes of others looking at him. He smiled and gave them a wave. While in public he was Gary Dem, the business tycoon.
Only when he had the mask on, was he the leader of the Howlers, but the Howlers gang still treated him with respect as well, as they knew Gary Dem worked closely with the gang.
They treated him just as nicely as they would any of the core members, on the orders of Kai of course.
‘Ah, things aren’t quite like the past, he could be busy, held up somewhere or working on some project. I should give him a call, just in case he isn’t there.’ Gary thought pulling out his phone.
“Oh, Gary, I was actually just about to call you.” Kai said, answering.
It was strange because Kai rarely called him unless it was something big, otherwise he would always much rather just send a message, so it concerned him a little.
“It’s about Midwak, he’s in the hospital.”
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