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The magician was tall, with short, smooth, black hair. He was wearing a top hat, pure white suit with a red tie, stark white gloves and shoes, and a smiling mask. He was performing a magic card show. He took a deck of card and told one kid to pick one of the cards. The kid chose the Joker card and concealed it in his pocket. The magician later threw the deck of cards away, he waved his hand in the air, and took a Joker card out of thin air. The kid checked his pocket and surprisingly, the Joker card was gone. Everybody clapped their hands, chattering, flattering, and threw a few quarters for the magician. The magician was delighted, he bowed, took off his top hat “Abra”, spun it “Kadabra,” and put it back “Alakazam.”
Then the rain stopped, Abra’s cards tingled as a sign of warning, and Abra had a bad feeling. In a distance, there was a figure and it was moving towards Abra. The figure was metallic green and purple black. It has a pair of wrist blade and two katanas at his back, and it was wearing Master Chief’s Mjolnir armor made out of Vibranium. The figure was moving fast, and it was coming at him. Abra looked closely, and smiled metaphorically through his mask “Another challenger…”
Within a flash of light, the ‘figure’ was standing in front of Abra. Abra bowed and asked, “Who are you, may I asked?” with an interesting glare.
“I’m Matthew Gray, the Manipulator of Gravity. I’m here to defeat you.” said Matthew.
Abra gestured and walks around Matthew, “Interesting. Are you sent by the bunch of guys who hunts me?”
Matthew answered, “No. Just a guy who wants to challenge himself.”
Abra chuckles, “Shall we begin?”. Matthew nodded. “Showtime!” Abra shouted. Matthew drew both his katana and steady his breathing. Abra grabbed a deck of cards, “Don’t lose your head.”
Matthew ran and started slashing at Abra’s direction. Abra jumped and dodged the attack, he threw his cards at Matthew who was moving very fast, the cards struck nothing but the street, each missing its mark. They were fighting like Batman vs The Joker. The park was calm by the swiftness and fluidity of Matthew’s movements. Out of Abra’s surprise, Matthew charged and aimed for Abra’s heart with speed so fast Abra teleported with shock of the consequences of the attack. But, Matthew was faster than teleporters, he calculated the angle, direction and trajectory of Abra’s possible route and slashed an ‘X’ at Abra’s chest, Abra gasps a deep breath from the pain. He teleported again and the results were same, this time, he got his back slashed a ‘T’. Abra tilted his head and look at his wound, “You’re not like the others. You’re stronger, I like it!” and Abra started summoning fire breathers and knife throwers. They attacked Matthew simultaneously with a storm of flames and knives. Knives of different type ranging from butcher knives to daggers glinted in the air as it soars towards Matthew like a cyclone. But Matthew dodged the attack with his lightning reflexes. Then, the fire breather blew a void of swirling fire. Matthew ran towards their direction, dodging the fire demon, slid between them and stabbed the dynamic duo. Abra saw with astonishment as both of them fall on the ground, he suck them back to the portal in his face and he summoned a strong man, made purely of muscles, strength, and a horrible breath. The strong man charges towards Matthew like a boogey bear and hoisted him up into the air, he tries to crush Matthew with a bear hug. Abra took advantage of Matthew’s disadvantage and spawned a clown and a grenade juggler. They plunge at Matthew like the Three Stooges and knocked Matthew to the ground. Abra leaped on Matthew chest, “You’re weak…Perhaps I don’t need to kill you myself.” He tapped his shadow and conjured a creature from the magician’s shadow, Marionette. The monster had four arms, and in each hand was a cross that had strings hanging from the ends. The face was adorned with a long nosed, bone white mask.
Matthew knew the threat of Marionette’s strings from the testimony of many bounty hunters across the world, he doesn’t want to lose a limb, according to his power, he could kill the monster. So within a blink of an eye, Matthew stab his sword into deep into the monster’s mask and slide it open, as the mask broke along with the body, Marionette vaporized. Abra was shocked and amazed by the ‘first-time’ defeat of Marionette no one has done before, “How?” he asks.
“That was just warm up. But you’re playing this game quite seriously huh? I’ll play serious.” Matthew answered. He grabbed Abra’s suit at the chest and threw him at the ground. Abra stand on his ground and grabbed another deck of card. Matthew stood up and placed his katana back to his sheath at his back.
With anger Abra raged. He threw his cards at Matthew from all direction by teleporting again and again. But Matthew anticipated that move and waved his hand downwards, with unity all the cards were on the ground, trapped under Matthew’s gravity ‘pull’ field. Abra was now angrier than usual, he stayed out of the ‘pull’ zone and ordered the clown, strong man, and the grenade juggler to charge at Matthew. As the Three Stooges were aiming for Matthew, he shuts the gravity field around him and it was back to normal, enabling a better fight against them. The strong man builds up momentum as he charges towards Matthew with the force of a uncontrolled train, Matthew acted quickly and imagines that the strong man is flying, and with that, the strong man started levitating to the skies. At a certain height however, Matthew waved his hand downward and the strong man begins heading down towards the ground like a meteorite and turned into minced of meat at impact. The grenade juggler started unpinning his grenades and threw them at Matthew’s direction, the grenades were like frenzies of firework that were preparing to illuminate its master’s wish. Matthew took the chance of using the grenade. He imagines that the grenade’s weight was being focused towards its master’s weight, the grenades obeyed Matthew’s command and did a U-turn towards the Grenade Juggler’s direction, the Juggler shed a black tear drop and did a last frown before he was blown to pieces.
Matthew pointed at the final clown, “You’re next.” But, without Matthew’s effort, the clown went and committed suicide.
Abra’s nerves are now going wildly. His hands clench tight, his anger growing, his mind losing its conscience. Abra roared like a lion and took his mask off and spawned an entire circus troupe. Even his elephant, Funkfreed joined the fight. The dancers, animals, acrobats, daredevil, jugglers, strong mans, and clowns, all equipped with long range, Mid-range and melee weapons. Matthew was thrilled by the desperation of the magician. After that, the fight was mayhem.
Matthew waded through the bunch of clowns and performance, ploughing down anyone who stood in his way. The jugglers and strong man-pride of Abra, well trained, highly dangerous killing machine-fell apart under the assault and the sheer novelty of being on the side whose ass is getting kicked real hard. Most of Abra’s concern was Matthew, the first of all who challenged him and still live after the assault of his best trained. Matthew fought like the wind, whirling through the performers in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with his katana instead of stabbing like a four year old would, whacking trained animals with the flat of his katana and generally causing mass panic on Funkfreed the elephant. Abra screamed with a shrill voice-maybe ordering his circus team to stand their ground, maybe trying to sing soprano-but Matthew put a stop to it. Matthew formed a fist with his left hand while forming a exposed palm on his right hand, he slammed the open palm vertically on his left hand fist and all of the performers were turned to minced meat caused by the extreme ‘hammering’ of gravity harnessed by Matthew months ago. He somersaulted and slammed the butt of his katana onto Abra’s mask. The magician is now tempered, he took a quick deep breath and roared fire from the portal of him mask. It was done surprisingly within milliseconds. Matthew who does not anticipated that dangerous move backed off quickly, clenched both of his hands together, ‘pull’ his feet steadily on the ground and meditated. He imagines a black hole diameter of one and a half meter in front of him and a black hole was formed, swirling with purple aura and a black void of emptiness, it sucked the blazing fire into complete darkness and puffed with white smokes as if it was saying “Scrumptious!”. Matthew unclenches his hand and the Black Hole vanished. Abra who is staring at Matthew is now desperate to win this battle, the negative thought of losing begin to haunt the mind of the magician. He bowed, “Now you will witness my true strength!” and injected himself with Morphine IV.
Abra took his mask off and his bone white suit turned rosey red, his black top hat, gloves, and shoes turned sinister black and his pain receptors are now numb. Matthew looked, “Morphine state…”
“Now I’ll play real serious!” Abra shouted.
Abra took his cards out and turned them into a sword, “I’ll fight melee now!”
Matthew draws his wrist blades, “So be it…”
Both of them charges towards each other with velocity and clashed. Abra feinted and slashed at Matthew’s gut with his new strength and it sank into the flesh of the ‘immortal’ human. Matthew knows no pain and he does not bleed so he closes the gap of the wound with his power and continue slashing. Matthew thrusts his wrist blades at Abra but he dodged and paired with Matthew’s movements. Abra continue loses his self and continues fighting. Although fast, but not fast enough, Matthew saw a chance as Abra wield his sword up high, exposing the vulnerable body and he sank his horrifying 8 inch deep wrist blades into Abra’s torso. But Abra did not stop, he slashed and dodged again yet again. After 10 minutes of slashing, stabbing, and dodging, Abra’s attack begins to form a fast repeated movement. He repeats the same movement in order that has been known to be random because of the different angles and trajectory Abra attacks and Matthew began countering every attack Abra make. Matthew slashes and stabs on Abra’s flesh that is beginning to reap slowly, causing more fatal wounds to be casted upon him. When Abra tries to stab Matthew for the last time with full strength, Matthew imagine the gaps of the cards being ‘push’ and Abra’s sword dismantled into shredded paper. The time went slow motion as the sword dismantles. Matthew who is still moving normally throws his sword in midair and grabbed it back upside down, he cuts the veins on Abra’s wrist and the back of his legs and Abra was crippled. The Morphine begins to fade its effect and Abra was back to his original look.
Matthew looked at the defeated Abra, “You lose.” And with that horrible fact, Abra fainted. The next day, Abra woke up at Stickpage Hospital. [/spoiler]
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Matthew living in Stickpage City at the time and he had set up shop in a nice comfortable house, paid out of American government’s own dime. One of his numerous computers that were nailed in the study rang off, signaling a breach. Matthew moved quickly even though he was cladded with in his Mjolnir armor. It had soft black plating at joints to allow for easier bending and mobility, but the armor in all was a rock hard fortress. He opened the file and looked at the IP address that had found his real name. “Abra… Why does he sound familiar?” He went on to another nearby computer and hacked into the WRHG database, he founded Abra’s file and opened it, “Abra the genocide magician. He seems pretty powerful, why is he looking me up though?” Matthew searched deeper into Abra’s history and uncovered the bounty. He whistled, “4 mil, commissioned by, Viper… Okay let’s see, hmmm they’re a hit man organization. Hey they have a shell company. Wait what the hell! That’s the company who funded the Large Hadron Collider in Germany!” Matthew stretched, “Well I don’t blame him for searching me up then. Well lets see how far he’s gotten.” Matthew hacked into Abra’s computer and turned on the video camera. “What a weird mask, and he’s so white!” Matthew observed Abra’s shield-shaped smiling mask and the pure white suit he was wearing, they even included gloves.
Abra’s search was hopeless, he was too easily derailed from his search, Matthew watched with rib hurting enjoyment as Abra would search for more information then get dragged away, “Okay so let’s see this business was started at… Oh puppies! Oh they’re so cute!”
Matthew face palmed, how does this dude have a 4 mil bounty? Matthew turned on his messaging system and sent a PM to Abra, “Heard you were looking for me.