Chapter 129 - Black Challenge

"This is Liam's health reports before and after you visited him".

Riley took the papers, she froze seeing the reports.

"Riley, Liam health reports showed he was dying but after you came to him, all the red flags were gone".

"You healed him Riley" he adds with shaky eyes.

Riley compared the two papers, her eyes shaky, how was this possible?

"How's this possible?" she said puzzled, her gaze not leaving the papers.

"What Liam did?... To the train... It was enough to kill him, he didn't just merge bodies with Ghost, it was more than that, you saw" he said with serious eyes.

She faced him.

"Riley that should be enough to kill him" he adds.

"But when you came, it was enough to stop the process, there's a lot of mystery between you two I don't get and I'm dying to find out, I have this certain feeling that all the answers we are looking for gotta be in that book".

"Book?" Riley said puzzled.

"Yes, I discovered an ancient book with ghoul documentation inside, and I have a feeling it might have all the answers we need" he said certainly.

"But I thought, ghouls don't have any documentation, I thought Jonathan Jones was the only man that could have only written about ghouls" Riley said with a skeptical look. 

"I thought so too, and he only talked about the greater power which is Liam and his ancestors, about the power they wield but I feel there's more and that more have to come from that book and what's confusing, the date of the expedition was the same as Liam's date of birth".

"15th October, 1998" Riley said with wide eyes.

"Exactly, we need answers Riley, I have a feeling this is way bigger than us", not just the feeling, he knew it definitely have to, the connection they both had was unusual"

She gulps.

"First we have to get Liam out of Steel, that should be our very agenda right now, for all we know they might be torturing him to gain answers" Riley said as her body tensed of the thought.

***

Section Thirteen

Steel Prison

A tighten fist connected with Liam's cheek, his head turning to the side, as blood splashed from his lips.

"FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" the rest of the prisoners chants loudly, both up and down.

Liam went unsteady on his feet, blood trailing from his nose and mouth, his body ached with pain, damn Steel around his neck, he wasn't healing like he supposed to.

Channeling all his anger he faced his opponent and fuck he was big and huge, baled hair, angry big muscles that wasn't even compared to Liam's medium ones, his prison clothes fashioned to his own style, ripped at both arms revealing his budging muscles, his pants ripped at the down also but just at the feet.

And how did he did he end up in this mess in the first place? Well his cell opened all of a sudden and he saw others heading somewhere, he remembered Riley telling him about the drill and her experience in Steel, it was breakfast time as they called it and then being in the midst of other ghoul's sort of trigger his identity and now this big guy threaten him by saying 'How could the greater power that protects the ghouls be locked in here with him', it was unacceptable and thereby challenged him to a duel, which sounded childish to Liam but he wasn't just gonna back down from a fight.

Another tighten fist came between his eyes, well that was gonna leave a mark... He stumbles backwards but Liam held his ground. 

"You're tough black ghoul, I will give you that" the big guy said with his deep menacing voice, with a deep chuckle that sort of remind him of Ghost.

"Well" Liam began spitting a mouth full of blood to the floor, raising his tighten fists, above his chin level.

"I'm just getting started" he smirks.

The big guy smirks in response.

"FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!", the chants became more louder and appealing.

Liam came at the big guy in speed, punching as hard as he could but his solid muscles gave no room for penetrations.

The big guy sent another punch to his head but Liam ignored the pain, spinning and sending a kick to his face making his head move to the side slightly, finally an effect.

The big guy growled coming at Liam, as fast as he could Liam deflects his hammering punches, he quickky used his elbow to connect with his jaw, earning a loud cry from the big guy.

The crowd cheering and roaring.

The bug guy saw red as he so suddenly and abruptly grabs Liam off his feet, pulling him upwards, seriously was he gonna give him a smack down? Well hell no, Liam growled rotating out his grip, stumbling downwards behind him grabbing his neck from behind and then using all the strength he could muster to raise him from behind and then slamming him hard on the ground, his front connecting to the metal in a loud thump sound that sounds like the floor cracked, maybe it did.

The big guy gave a weaken growled.

"Finally respect my status now?" Liam said with a dark smirk.

"BLACK GHOUL! BLACK GHOUL! BLACK GHOUL!" the crowd chants loudly in an uproar.

"Damn right" the big guy said struggling to stand. 

Liam held out a hand for him to take, he took it, with a pull he was up.

"So what's your name big guy" Liam said tilting his head upwards to meet his gaze.

"Big guy" he shrugs.

"Your name is big guy?" Lism said raising an eyebrow.

He shrugs his shoulders once more.

"Isn't it obvious?".

***

Camera Control Room

"Shouldn't we call it in" one of the operators said.

The other shrugs.

"It was satisfying to watch the black ghoul get his ass kicked".

"Well at the end he got the other ass kicked".

"Just leave them be, prison fights are part of the system in any prison, why should ours be any different".