Chapter 122 - Chapter 124 (1/2)
Amell was walking inside the town of Gaoling, there were people rushing, either way, causing the streets to be filled to the brim with people. Everyone was forcing their way through, and knocking down other people. All expect for Amell. Running into him was similar to morons that willingly rush headfirst straight into a metal wall. So most people that were knocked down were people trying to push Amell out of the way.
Amell didn't sense Toph inside her home so he was a bit more anxious than before, ”Excuse me!” Amell grabbed the arm of a young man rushing past him. ”What do you want, old man?” The young man said in disdain and annoyance.
”Tell me, why is everyone in such a hurry?” It didn't slip passed Amell that the people were more excited than he had ever seen them. So obviously something was going on, but he had no idea what.
”Earth Rumble, the fighting tournament! You never heard of it, old man?!” The man said and forced himself loose, but he only succeeded because Amell let go of his grip, otherwise he would never have escaped that iron grip.
”Earth Rumble. An underground thing maybe,” Amell tapped his foot on the ground and his sense went deep and finally, he came upon the massive arena hidden underneath the earth. And his senses also picked up a little lady standing on the stage, facing off against a much bigger man.
'There you are! No wonder I couldn't find you by just searching the surface level in this town. Toph, my sneaky little lady.' Amell tapped the ground again with the same foot and a hole opened up underneath him. He fell down into it and the hole closed before anyone noticed he vanished from his spot.
On the stage underneath the town, Toph stood bravely against her opponent. And her opponent was just below two meters tall. Toph was a talented bender, maybe the most talented earth bender in the world, but she had just started and her opponent had been fighting for many, many years.
The stands were filled all around this arena, except for the front rows. People loved all this fighting, but they weren't suicidal so no one dared to sit on the front rows where rocks would be flying constantly. Usually, if someone sat here it would be the other contestants.
And right now on the front row sat a couple of contestants and watched the fight on stage. And suddenly a hole opened up right next to them and Amell flew up and sat down right next to them. The casual movement of his whole entrance what was caused the people next to him to lose control of their jaws. From nowhere someone just came jumping out of the ground and sat down like it was nothing.
”H-Hey, man. Only fighters can sit here!” A timid looking man in his late twenties said to Amell carefully. He was slightly nervous because of Amell's massive size. He towered over them even when sitting down.
Amell's hand came down on his head, hard. ”shhh” Amell shushed him without even looking at him.
”What the hell!!” Another slap came down on his head, and this one almost knocked him out completely. He felt almost getting buried inside the ground.
”No talking while they're fighting!” Amell said and raised his hand to threaten the men sitting next to him, and surprisingly they all shut up. They gave him a glance full of evil intent but no one dared say anything on their own.
At this point in the match, Toph had lost her chance in going on the offensive. Her opponent had been hesitating when he saw that she was blind, but after finding out how skilled Toph was, he stopped holding back. Toph could now only defend rock after rock that her opponent threw at her.
The longer the match was going on the more ground Toph lost against him. She was almost at the edge of the arena and her opponent, the man with a shaved head took a big step forward and summoned an earth wave and it took off toward Toph. The entire stage was vibrating from this move and Toph finally smiled slightly, she kicked the ground and the man's wave stopped abruptly and he flew off it towards Toph.
”Gotcha!” He said in mid-air as he sent two pebbles he held in his hand toward Toph. One hit on the shoulder with enough power to force her out of balance, and the second one hit her in the chest and sent her to the absolute edge of the stage. With a roar from the audience, he landed right in front of Toph and with his fist covered in a hardened layer of earth, he aimed his punch towards Toph's head.
”Stupid move!” A man appeared between Toph and the punch, and the rock punch hit Amell right on his chest. The whole arena shook, and the man hurt his hand from hitting Amell right on the chest.
”That punch would have killed her. Do you have a conscience?” Amell grabbed the man's wrist and squeezed until a loud crack was heard and the man fell down screaming. Amell walked up to him and grabbed his shirt. And threw him towards the stands, and he landed and crashed into the first row while destroying a few seats.
Amell looked at the host with slight killing intent in his eyes, ”I interfered so she lost the match. But if I ever see one of your competitors go for a killing strike again, I will come for you. Is that understood?” Amell said the last part really slow and also he increased his killing intent around his words. And the host was a normal person, so even though Amell barely released his aura, the man almost fainted from fear.
”U-Understood, Sir... What is your name?” The host while feeling dizzy. He tried to stand straight because he didn't wanna show weakness to all these people that he was entertaining through this event. He was feared by his own people and all of these people coming and watching his organized fights, and he needed it to stay like that.