"Papa Bear. . . Moving In."
— With a 7ft tall stature, the large bear leaned in and looked down on the creature with its glowing, amber-coloured eyes, the silence only ever broken by the constant whirling, turning and ticking inside of its body.
"What's with this thing.."
The creature gazed up at the bear with one brow raised.
"A Teddy..Bear?"
...
The creature broke its stare and hung its head.
"What am I? A child..?"
He then looked forward with a twitchy eyelid accompanied by the usual frenzied smirk while a visible vein pulsating on his cheek.
"I will rend this piece of childhood failure to pieces."
The bear slightly tilted its head upon seeing the creature frozen below him.
"Are you perhaps horrified."
The tone is monotonous and mechanical, there exists no emphasis on any of its words.
...
*WHOOSH!!!*
*SLAM!!!!*
An elongated, purple-coloured arm flew through the air beside the two before colliding with the bear's cheek, sending it flying in the opposite direction at such speeds that it generated a large dusty smoke.
"..!!"
The old lady trembled, her face becoming a breeding ground of terror as she saw how the imposing stature that separated her from danger was easily sent flying away. With fear-ladened eyes, she slowly diverted her attention towards the creature, who gave her a murderous smile, all of its hands proliferating with the gooey substance.
"I'll be taking that."
— With fear surging through her veins, she could only watch, frozen, as one of the hands extended out and began to slowly descend towards the young girl who remained cradled inside of the old lady's embrace.
*Poof.*
As the hand closed in, it was repelled by a green, transparent dome that surrounded the old lady and the girl from head to toe. The hand was sent away, the creature's eyes widened as he stared, after a few seconds the shock transitioned into a large smirk that covered both of its cheeks with veins pulsating all over its forehead.
"You just like messing with me huh? Fine then."
The Gooey substance that flowed like a stream on the creature's palms transitioned into a bubbly, neon-green colour, giving off a similarly coloured fume-like steam to exude out of it.
"DO YOU KNOW? THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST ACCURSED SKILLS I HAVE.."
[BODILY WASTE]
The hands began to trash violently as the substance started to deliberately flow around the hands and below the palms.
"IT HAS SHREWD REGENERATIVE CAPABILITIES.. BUT ALSO MELTS WHATEVER IT TOUCHES. MEANING.."
One of the hands hovered over the part of the dome where old lady's head was directly underneath, she looked up in horror, the substance dripping off from the palm and flowing around the barrier.
"I CAN MELT YOU WHILE KEEPING YOU CONSCIOUS YA KNOW? IMAGINE, SEEING YOUR OWN BODY TURN INTO A PUDDLE OF BLOOD? YOUR INSIDES GUSHING OUT, WHILE..
YOU.
REMAIN.
ALIVE."
—With that, the creature leaned in, its breath smearing all over the transparent dome before locking eyes with the lady and imitating a normal human smile.
"Let's start shall we."
The Hands slammed down on the Barrier, gripping it tightly with fingers clawing down upon it, attempting to penetrate its surface.
The old lady, though frozen in shock quickly recomposed herself before a glow of green light shined above her fingers, causing the cracks in the barrier to dissipate and gleam for everytime it did.
"RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."
Upon seeing the cracks being mended, the hands began to grip ever harder, much like a vice now, fingers behaving like the claws of a predator digging through the skin of its prey, with it being exceptionally hungry.
CraCkk
CRackckk
Crakckkk
With sweat dripping off her chin, the old lady gritted her teeth as the glow of light above her fingers began to shine even brighter, effectively making the now larger cracks disappear as quickly as it materialized on the dome.
Upon seeing the old lady struggle as the hands clawed and trashed violently on the dome, the creature's heart began to leap in joy as his smile transformed once more to the usual murderous smirk, its crimson coloured eyes trembling with the rushing adrenaline as it remained focused on the two.
CrAccckkkk
craCkkkk
cRakckkkckkkk
The fissures became more and more prevalent on the dome, the Old lady gritted her teeth even harder, to the point that blood began to seep out of her gums, sustaining the glow on her fingers as much as she could until..
*Flicker*
The glow began to not only flash, but also minimize. The light lowered itself into a pitiful match-like illumination causing the old lady to click her tongue as she could only watch while the cracks began to quickly overwhelm the barrier.
After the dome became consumed by fissures, one of the creature's arms elongated its appendages before retracting backwards, it paused then surged to a downward trajectory through the air, placing it in a direct collision course towards the already weaking barrier.
In a final ditch of attempt, the Old lady tightly closed her eyes and casted in a loud proclaimation.
["Febias!"]
"Urgk..!!"
The barrier bursted into a bright, green light causing the creature to get hurled a few meters back before landing on its feet.
With the dome now gone, both of them were rendered defenseless, the old lady, with blood seeping out of her mouth, breathed raggedly as she could only loosely hung her head backwards with her eyes squinted.
"YOU'RE REALLY.."
The creature hastily leaped towards the two, leaving behind a small crater on the patch he stood on.
"PISSING ME OFF!!!!!!"
The right arm to the creature's side retreated backwards before turning into a large, muscular one with a claw-like form on its hand.
*SWISH!*
The creature then brought down the muscular arm unto the exhausted old lady.
"DIE!"
Seeing the arm close in on her, the old lady could only close her eyes slowly.
*poof.*
*CLIIINNNNK!!!!!*
Then, in the smoke a few meters away from them, something extended out in a speed incomparable to the creature, three black, wire-like appendages with considerable thickness raced through the air, at its end; a large fluffy cylindrical, brown object opened up—
*Clunkk...*
—revealing a small, black mechanical hand with only three fingers on it.
The mechanical hand halted the claw from hitting the old lady, in a short span of time lasting only a few good seconds, the three-fingered arm which grasped the creature's muscular arm retracted in the same speed when it raced through the air, pulling the organism as if it was a mere, weightless toy.
"WHAT THE..!?"
Less than a second later, the creature entered the smoke as it was pulled by the appendage, then.
*WOOSH!!*
The smoke was cleared up.—
—showing the large bear delivering a powerful downward smash on the creature's face, imploding it's cheek and sending it towards the ground, creating a large crater around the two but causing another smoke to burst out.
*wiishh..*
Then, a noise that started out in a low pitch but quickly rose up was heard, while the amber-coloured pair of orbs glowed, piercing the thickness of the smoke.
"You are . . . Not a good Kid."
The monotonous voice caused the creature's eyes to slightly widen as he failed to comprehend what was towering over him.
"What in the Hell is this...!!?"
The bear then sat down above the creature's legs before it raised its wide, short arms.
*CLUNKKK!!!*
It then lengthened in a violent manner, each having similarly-thick, three black appendages connecting the arms to the torso. The arms then began to point down at the creature before the lighter-coloured, region of the arms opened, revealing two, metal, three-fingered hands that clenched into fists.
"I need to discipline you."
*SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK*
*SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK*
*SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK*
*SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK*
*SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK*
*SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK* *SLAM* *SMACK*
The arms began to rapidly smash and smack on down the creature, sending a flurry of continuous, violent punches that each caused the surrounding earth to tremble, the organism who could only feel the impact of each blow annihilate his entire body found it difficult to escape, as the weight of the bear pressed down on his legs.
"wh..—" *SMACK* "the..!!" *SLAM* "...heck.."
*SMASH!*
— "izz dish.."
*BOOM!*
*SHHHH...*
The right arm of the bear slowly ascended unto the air, the metallic fist exuding out a thin, smoke-like steam after the flurry of the blows while also being slightly covered in the purplish, goo-like substance.
The creature, laid there motionlessly. Its face imploded with zero traces of any human imitation, body marked with countless craters that caused it to slowly come loose and melt unto the grass, causing whatever greenery it touches to wilt.
"..Wha..."
— The creature, overwhelmed with the sudden shift in power could only ponder internally.
He gazed up, vision blurring upon the colossal figure that towered above him, the glowing pair of amber-coloured orbs imprinted on its face capable of piercing through even the thickest of smokes, the black appendages that resembled wings protruding out of the side of its torso, able to lengthen themselves for God knows how long while its other end was connected to a piece of fluffy, thick, furry arms that hid a metallic hand which can form craters with just a single smash.
Unable to move, the creature could only stare as the bear paused while its right arm was extended upwards, certain that it was charging up another attack, the organism slowly closed its almost, non-existent eyes.
"Accepting your Punishment . . . ?"
— The same monotonous, yet echoing voice from before emanated from the bear.
"I will . . . make it painless then ."
The small fissure that was formed on the creature's face due to the barrage of blows abruptly erupted into an ear-wide smirk.
"What's . . the matter . . ? You scared . . . ?"
*Gushh*
*Tishh..*
" . . . Hm . .? "
The bear turned its gaze to inspect the source of the noise, which was his right arm that was covered in a thick layer of the purple substance, effectively coating every single piece that made up the metallic hand resulting into a soft, gray-coloured vapour to emanate from the covered parts.
"Should've thought twice before letting your hands make contact with me."
— The creature spoke, face transitioning from a solid, purple wax-like form into a melting stream of liquid. Its body, which was overrun with numerous craters had small, but many similarly-coloured bubbles form and sizzle on each of the implosions.
" . . . . ?" — Breaking his focus from the creature, the bear turned its head to the left, seeing his other metallic arm be overrun with the same purple-coloured substance, flowing into the most important regions of it as if possessing some sort of intelligence.
"What's wrong? Scared? You should be."
The body of the creature spontaneously melted into a purple puddle, with viscosity rivaling that of water, the liquid inside of the puddle abruptly leaped upwards, forming a new, smooth, wax-like body for the creature devoid of any damages that it once sustained earlier.
"Ta-Da..! Wonderful isn't it?"
— The creature, which was now rebirthed into a new bipedal form though without its extra arms growing out of its back spreaded out its hands, as if presenting the climax of a magical play.
"This is my power.. I, have limitless regeneration.. while you on the other hand.. will only get weaker..! As you expend energy to try and kill me—"
*SSSMMMMMAAACKK!!!*
With power rivaling that of a speeding train colliding with a wet, yet thick blockade—the Bear sent its right arm soaring through the air in a hook-like motion, its appendages lengthening further and further to accomodate the distance that will be covered.
*FWOOSH!*
A surge of air, opened up like a circular spiral in the trajectory where the creature was sent flying away caused by the impact of the blow from the bear.
*BOOM!*
The creature slammed down on a small elevation from the ground, effectively destroying the side of which he collided with.
"...!!!"
With widened eyes, and a left face slowly melting away. The creature zoned out as he stared on the bear, glaring down at him with those amber-coloured orbs a few feet away, its appendages resembling a frenzied octopus finally finding prey after a long, treacherous hunt.
"I was . . . cautious of that before."
— The bear's resonant, pre-recorded-like voice was heard once more.
Upon hearing the bear's remarks, a scene flashed inside of the creature's head depicting the former events that transpired.
"When . . . I allowed you . . . to punch me."
— The bear then turned its body to face the frozen creature, the appendages connected to the side of its large torso still flaring around aimlessly as if possessed.
". . . I was trying to see . . . If it will harm me."
The Bear, began to slowly walk towards the creature, each footstep sending a resonant yet thunderous growl to proliferate in all directions.
"He . . . told me to be cautious . . . so I did."
The appendages are now trashing around in the air violently.
"I . . . was hiding behind a rock . . . observing you fight . . . that kid with a sword . . ."
Two of the three, thick black appendages formerly connecting the right arm dissolved into a dozen smaller, thinner, tentacle-like strands that still held the same length.
" . . . your . . . power melts away flesh . . . so it seems."
Meanwhile, at the left, only one appendage remained connected to the arm, the other two swirled and straightened repeatedly in an irrational fashion.
" . . . but . . . I wondered . . . how well would it fare . . . against . . . My flesh?"
With each step that brought the colossal stature closer, the creature found himself pushing stronger and stronger against the pile of soil behind him with a horrified expression.
" . . . If it can melt living flesh . . . how about non-living then . . .?"
The purple gooey substances that once coated the metallic hands of the bear was shaken away due to the repeated trashing around and fell towards the ground, motionless.
"Well . . . I can conclude."
The metallic hands, where the substances fell from was seen to have only sustained dismissable damage, some parts of it now had their black paint stripped away, revealing a gray-like version of it.
*Thump!*
With a final step, the bear finally closed the distance between him and the paralyzed creature, with the towering stature leaning downwards to face the organism.
"This . . . melt power . . . of yours . . ."
"Is ineffective against non-living material."
With the realization dawning upon the creature, the right side of its face that wasn't melting consisted of one eye widening in utter horror with a soft mixture depicting the emotion that lacked the ability to comprehend.
"..Just.. what the heck.. is this thing...!?"
The creature questioned internally, for the first time ever, terror flooded his mind like an overwhelming tsunami, given the fact that it was only used to being unshakable during a hurricane.
"If I . . . catch you bullying . . . other kids again . . . I won't be as merciful . . . as today."
The appendages that frenzily danced in the air stopped abruptly, before rapidly retracting themselves towards the opening in opposite sides of the bear's torso.
"Consider yourself . . . lucky. Kid."
*POOF!*
A thick, gray smoke suddenly bursted around the bear. Stunned, the creature could only close its eyes and heave a sigh of relief as it saw, upon the clearing of the smoke, only a small cog-like wheel on the patch of grass in front of it, where the bear stood on which was now nowhere to be seen.
The creature after a few seconds of ragged breathing suddenly recall a fresh memory, causing it to turn its head slightly and gaze on the small implosion on a relatively big elevation on the ground, meters away from itself.
"..We'll.. settle this next time."
The body of the armoured man was now nowhere to be found as well.
—
*Poof!*
A small, lighter-coloured gray smoke bursted on top of the black-haired youth's palm, revealing a small, wind-up toy of a teddy bear.
"Amazing!"
The black-haired youth, with amber coloured eyes was seen sprinting through the yellowish clearing surrounded by the tall grasses with a large grin.
What accompanied him was the old lady cradled atop his back, unconscious in a piggy-back ride. The other was the lass, though with small tears on her eyelids, her expression was determined as they ran through the field.
Lastly, there was a.. bear. Another teddy bear behind them, of also tall stature yet a bit shorter than the one that mauled the organism. It was carrying two horses on top of its shoulders while an unconscious carriage driver was stacked atop its head, where a large flower was branded.
"Success..!!"
— With the youth's large grin, they raced off towards the distant apparition depicting a walled-settlement, though distant from where they were, it was indeed remotely visible.
"Woohoo!"
Chapter V — Fin.