Chapter 188 - Black Beast (Part 2)

"Iris, Iris... look at me!" Riley hissed going on her knees beside Sean's bleeding body. Her teary eyes met Riley.

"Do not take your hand off" she warned.

"Or he will die" she adds.

Iris nods applying more pressure.

"Liam we have to get him out of here, now!" Riley said but no answer.

"Liam!" She turns.

Liam stood still as a wind but Riley knew fury burned his inside, his ghoul eyes present staring at a distance. Riley eyes followed the direction of the gaze seeing Seth Judson.

Seth stood there, wearing a smirk, about 10 of the spider leg bones behind him, swaying back and forth, covered in blood.

"Black Ghoul... there was a party and you didn't even bother inviting me" he said in beaming amusement as his red eyes beamed more.

"Liam" Riley began.

"Leave" it was a simple order that left no room for question... she knew Sean was his best friend and he was angry... but there was something off, he wasn't just angry, his intent to kill was high.

He took off his jacket, handling it to Riley without even sparing her a glance.

Riley took it in silence, turning back to Sean using it to apply pressure more on his chest.

"Signal the rest" Riley whispered to Iris who nods.

Liam took off his mask flinging it to a corner.

"Isn't the power couple gonna face me this time? I was hoping for it" Seth said in amusement as in a flash he was beside Liam, he looks down, hoping to find them but they nowhere to be seen, like they just disappeared.

"Seth Judson" Liam said sternly not sparing him a glance as his whole body erupts in black shadow.

"You made a big mistake coming here" he hissed.

Seth growls using his claws to dug in Liam's chest, he smirks at his accomplishment but it fades when Liam grabs the hand connecting to his chest, blood splashing. Liam's dangerously ghoul eyes lands on him and then he shift, his body increasing in height, in Ghost form, extended arms and leg, bald head, with a black spiky crown around his head, black aura around it, his body wrapped in black black bandages, his body erupting in black aura, he stood high and tall no longer hunching. His eyes covered with black bandage.

Seth quickly drew back, as fast as he could, the bone retreat back inside him.

Liam growled deeply... it shock the earth around them.

"You really aren't the Black Ghoul I faced three years ago" Seth said in amusement.

Liams claws extended, ready to rip Seth to pieces without blinking.

"Good thing I brought backup...let's say someone who can match up to your strength" Seth said smirking.

As suddenly like a sharp bullet a being lands beside him, Liams body tensed on seeing it... it was unlike any ghoul he has ever seen.

It stood high and tall the same 10 feet as he was, the body covered in something like a coil, dark brown in colour, a horn at the center. It looked more like a beast than a ghoul, having no eyes but sharp deadly fangs for a mouth.

'That thing is unlikely anything we have ever seen' Ghost said in Liam's head.

'Wouldn't be the first' Liam replied not trembling a bit, but there was this odd feeling he felt when he saw that being.

"I present to you The Beast... amazing isn't he?" Seth said admiring the piece of art before him, Vincent Jones really was a prodigy at what he does.

"I wonder what innocent human you had to disect to create such Beast" Liam said in a deep demonic voice.

"Why Don't we see what's he's capable of then... I might interest you on a story of how it came to be" Seth said smirking.

Liam stood on high alert.

"Let's dance!"

The Beast zapped towards Liam in lightning speed that he almost didn't see him coming.

'LIAM LOOK OUT!" Ghost shouts in Liam's head as in a flash the Beast was behind Liam, the claws fused with gold substance slits Liam's back, he roared in pain but that didn't stop Liam as with one kick the Beast was sent flying across the wall, breaking them instantly, waving backwards as the sound kept fading from the constant crashes it had to endured.

Liam went on one knee, the pain on his back was excruciating.

'The substance is the same with the bullet that hurt Silver and Riley' Ghost snarled.

He heard tongue ticks... it was coming from Seth.

"Pity" Seth said tilting his head to the side.

"I waged the Beast's claw wouldn't pirece you... too bad" he mocked.

Liam growled pissed, rising to his feet.

"WELL I'M JUST GETTING STARTED" Liam roared coming at Seth who didn't flinch at the plague coming at him.

In a zap of speed the Beast pushed Liam before he got to Seth, they both engaged in an animalistic battle as they both clawed at each other while roaring.

The Beast several claws found Liam's body, marking, clawing and none healed due to that strange substance, but Liam didn't back down, he put up much of a fight than they expected.

Liam grabs the Beast by the neck slamming him to the ground, he then tightens his hand in a fist, punching... each punch sent the Beast head deep into the ground crater, he kept punching and punching as hard and fast as he could to overpower this thing but the Beast was stubborn and aggressive just as he was.

The Beast roared loudly... and then biting down on Liam's shoulder, making he roar in pain.

Liam growled digging his claws in the beast chest but surprisingly enough he went further... he froze.

"No heart?!" Liam said in shaky breath... how was this possible.

Now caught off guard, Seth bones came for Liam in a fast speed without him realising it.

***

Outside

"Take everyone out... clear the building" Riley said, Linda nods walking out.

Riley turns to Iris inside the SUV with Sean's head lying on her lab.

"Take him back to the Hometown" she said.

"What about you?!" Iris asked worried.

"Liam is still in there" Riley said sternly closing the car door. It drove off.

She turns to the building walking in.

***

Inside

Bodies still on the ground, blood trails everywhere, the lights flicking. Riley looks around in high alert, she then heard crashing sounds from the next entrance.

"Liam" Riley panics rushing towards there but instantly a tentacles slammed her against the wall.

Riley growled turning meeting with Jade, a smirk plastered on her lips. Riley sighs seeing the troublesome girl once more.

"I'm sorry Jade... but I don't have time to play" Riley said as her body erupts in white aura, her eyes changing to her ghoul ones.

"But I wanna play... you are a worthy opponent" she states as 10 green tentacles came out of her back swaying behind her dangerously.

"Tell me dearie... have you seen me in my true form" Jade said smirking as she transformed.

Riley watches with unreadable eyes as the girl transformed to her claw form, extended arms and leg, tall in height, in feminine structure, green bandages wrapped around her skin from head to toe. Her tentacles covered in green bandages also.

"Do I look like a more worthy opponent now 

?!" She said in deep double voice, her ghoul green eyes beaming dangerously.

"Far from it" Riley said sternly.

***

Blood trailed on the floor, leading all the way to where Liam was against the wall, still on his Claw form, his head bent down as he took harsh breath, his body had several claw marks that bled all over.

"You may be a god Liam, or the reincarnation of a being as the ghouls say" Seth said sternly, the Beast beside him, growling.

"But you will always fall to your enemies feet".

Liam growled deeply at his words.

"Just like your mother did" Seth began taking a step closer making Liam's body tensed.

"Your sister Jenna... your father" he chuckled.

"Your son... and then soon enough the only family you have left" he states smirking.

"Riley O'Brien"

Liam snaps as roared at them in a loud deadly sound that shock the earth, all memories of their deaths played over and over again in his head... as well as a mirage vision of Riley's death.

*

Liam's consciousness 

In a dark endless void, the ground like glass water, in space, an ash big tree lies there, containing four-leaf clovers, some witters dropping to the ground in ash and as it did, another grew in replacement, emerging out of the branch.

Ghost was present as his body tensed.

"This feeling" he said as his body shock more, his heart slamming loudly in his chest. His smirk always present on his lips fades, his fist clenched in a tight hold as he turned to the illuminating dark figure behind him, this presence, this familiar feeling, one he haven't felt since centuries not until he met Liam, the very first human to call upon him.

"Omari!"