Connor was now awake but something had changed about him, he was moving faster and he just seemed like a different person. His right eye was pure black and his left had gone pure white, his veins had gone pure black, his hair had turned from a light brown to a dark black, his skin turning darker. Connor raises his arm up seeming to be aiming his palm at Travis, black flames surrounding his arm spiralling around and ending at the palm of his hand. Travis looks straight into the palm and smiles as his eyes turn into a bright orange looking similar to Connor’s mark but orange, his eyes looking like big balls of fire in the shape of a collapsing star. Travis’ smile becomes larger as he looks at Connor in the sky and sends a shot of bright orange fire straight at Connor, to which Connor uses his other hand to grab the fire shot by Travis and absorbs it into his palm. The black fire in Connor’s palm grows more and Travis now looking scared says something that Connor can’t understand almost as if he said a spell of some kind. Connor shoots the big ball of black fire from the palm of his hand, which Travis just barely dodges. Travis looks behind him where the fire ball had landed and sees a massive crater in the ground, Travis moves onto his back leg and starts to move further backwards trying to get away from Connor. Connor floats down to the ground and starts to move closer and closer to Connor as his eyes are twitching from the black and white to the green they normally are, Connor starts to stumble as he moves forward as he moves forward towards Travis. Travis falls over as Connor makes a fist while smiling and looking down at Travis, Connor brings his hand up as the black fire starts to surround his arm again. He brings his arm up aiming his palm at Travis again and becomes unbalanced, Connor starts to stumble around, not being able to balance himself. Travis stands up and loads his fist back, he swings at Connor knocking him to the ground, the black fire disappearing from his arm and his eyes go back to their normal colour. Connor looks around in confusion and sees Travis swing at him to which he dodges by moving his head quickly to right, he gets up and dodges another punch thrown by Travis and then tries to make a ball of energy in his hand. The ball of energy becomes brighter and brighter and starts to form in the shape of a sphere, the sphere starts to fade in and out, the ball of energy looking very unstable. The colour from Connor’s eyes fade, he falls to the ground, The ball of energy in the palm of Connor’s hand hits the ground it causes a massive explosion sending Travis flying into the far distance. He falls down to the ground with cuts and bruises all over him and struggles to lift his arm up, the pupil in his eyes go back to brown, his eyes close as his arm and head fall to the ground. Travis had lost the battle.
Twelve hours later, Connor opens his eyes, it’s very blurry, he struggles to move his head around, he feels a hand on his forehead. The hand on his forehead moves away from him, his eyes close again. Connor opens his eyes again and tries to sit up, he struggles to get up but fights through the pain and kicks his legs over the side of the bed. He stands up and falls forwards into the wall in front of him. The door comes flying open and Connor’s mum comes rushing in, she comes and helps him stand up. Connor asks “What happened?” Connor’s mum smiles and helps Connor sit down on his bed and responds “You and that guy you ran into at the market, you two fought for like two hours, after you two finished fighting you grabbed that guy and dragged him back home. I couldn’t find you in the rubble so I came back home thinking you would find your way back home again, when I got home I saw you there collapsed on the floor and that man next to you. So I brought you two inside and have been making sure you’re alright.” Connor turns his head to the left to see Travis laying down in the bed next to him. He lays his head back onto his pillow and closes his eyes, two hours pass and Connor opens his eyes again and tries to get up again but this time he is successful with standing up. Connor, feeling better, starts to go for a walk around the house, he walks to the kitchen and opens the fridge. While Connor is stumbling towards the couch after going to the kitchen and grabbing some food from the fridge, Connor’s mum walks into the room where Connor and Travis were to check up on Travis. As she walks into the room she sees that Travis is awake, Travis turns his head to face her and asks “Where am I?” Connor’s mum smiles and replies “You’re at my house, my son grabbed you out of the rubble after your fight and carried you all the way back here to help you.” Travis shoots up into a sitting position which causes him great pain, he quickly swings his legs over to the side of the bed and tries to stand. The second he tries to stand he falls to which Connor’s mum catches him, “Thank you.” Travis says as Connor’s mum helps him sit back down on the bed. Travis looks up at Connor’s mum and asks “What is your name?” “My name is Andrea” She responds. Travis stays seated on the bed and says to himself quietly “You think they might be soon?” Andrea looks down at him and asks “Are you feeling alright?” Travis looks up at her and smiles while saying “My stomach hurts but other than that I’m fine.” Andrea smiles and then walks out of the room, she starts to walk down the hallway and turns into the living room where she sees Connor sitting on the couch. She walks over to him and asks him “Are you ok?” Connor stands up very proud of himself and walks around in a circle whilst doing a little dance then sits back down, “Alright I get it” Andrea responds to Connor’s little victory lap. Andrea moves away from the living room and moves towards her room and disappears into the darkness of her room. Connor gets up off the couch and goes back to his room, not realising that Travis is still in his room. He opens the door and sees Travis sitting there in front of him and he gets scared and jumps a little. Travis starts to laugh at the fact that Connor got scared by him sitting there and says “What are you so scared about?” “Definitely not the person I beat down multiple times in a fight where they cheated.” Connor yells back. Travis stands up from his bed and says “What do you mean I cheated?” “Don’t you think I saw your little magic trick you pulled with your magical eyes” Connor replies, Travis shocked says “What do you mean my magical eyes, we aren’t going to talk about the fact that you floated into the sky and started smiting people like you were some messed up God or something” Connor walks out of the room and shuts the door, Travis opens the door and walks out of the room. Connor looks over his shoulder at Travis and says “What are you following me now?” Travis ignores him and walks away towards the front door. “Where are you going?” Connor asks, Travis doesn’t respond and proceeds to walk out the front door closing it behind him. Connor runs to the front door and opens it hoping that Travis hadn't disappeared already but he was too late. He was gone. Connor walks back inside, closing the door behind him, he walks off and goes back to the couch.
Twelve days passed and Connor hadn't seen any sight of Travis, he checked every in and out of the marketplace and still couldn't find Travis. Just as Connor was about to give up he ran into an Old Man at the marketplace, who says "I might know a thing or two about the man you are looking for, but I need something from you before I give you that information." Connor agrees to do what the Old Man wants to get the information off him. He spends the next five days helping the Old Man fix the marketplace that he had ruined many days ago, after the five days are finished the marketplace had been completely fixed from the fight, Connor asked the Old Man “What was this information that you were going to give me for helping you?" Old Man smiles and replies "You've been looking at the man you're looking for, for the past five days'' The Old Man moves his neck to the side and Connor know sees what seems to be some kind of mask falling off the Old Man's face, the mask hits the ground and there he was standing in front of him, Travis was the man under the mask. Connor’s jaw dropped and was kind of mad at Travis, Connor then asks Travis “Why did you run away from the house?” Travis responds “I had fun fighting you and it was nice to rebuild the marketplace, but I am involved in things that you don’t want to get involved in, so I need you to not come after me and not look for me anymore” Travis then turns away from Connor and starts to walk off into the distance, he then stops turns his around to Connor and yells “Don’t follow me” he then starts to wave at Connor as he disappears into the crowd at the marketplace.
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