"You honestly don't wish that they suffered a little, brother? Since we were children, humanity has ground us into the dirt. Looked down their noses at us. Thought us freaks and monsters. Never once did you ever think that maybe it's humanity that deserves to be wiped from the world? That they're the blight, the stain, the taint that needs to be purged?"
Dromas' words echo in Darin's mind as he stares at the oncoming ki blast. Was this it? Was this what Dromas wanted Darin to become?! Someone so twisted and...and stupid?! A hulking monstrosity taking an eye-for-an-eye approach?!
Darin doesn't have enough time to dodge the blast. He clasps his hands low in front of him.
"You..."
He swings his arms upward using enough strength to crack the bones in his forearms. The ki blast has weight. It burns. It rips through his body with force as he slams his right foot into the ground behind him to brace himself, sending spiderweb like cracks tearing through the earth beneath him.
"IDIOT!!!"
Darin pivots and throws more of his strength behind is swing. Enough that he can feel the ball of energy start to bend — as if it were a steel girder. Across his body, blazing blue chain links start to surface, like brands on his skin. Encircling his arms, crisscrossing his body beneath his clothes. They pulse like veins and with a surge of power, he sends the ki blast skyward.
His arms are a mess. Bleeding and torn up, they hang at his sides. Blood drips from his numb hands and stains the earth beneath him as he throws caution to the wind and rushes the giant brute down.
"YOU THINK YOU KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT LOSS?! ABOUT SUFFERING?! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING! IF YOU DID, YOU'D REALIZE MONEY DOESN'T BUY A SINGLE GODSDAMNED BIT OF HAPPINESS OR RESPECT!! ALL YOU WANT IS A WIN!! WANNA KNOW WHY?!"
"BECAUSE YOU'RE A LOSER!! THE ONLY THING YOU'LL EVER AMOUNT TO IS DETERMINED BY THE WEIGHT OF YOUR PURSE!! AND IF YOU THINK I'M GONNA LIE DOWN AND LET YOU STEAL THE HAPPINESS I'VE LOOKED FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE, THEN I WILL BURY YOU HERE, NAPPA!"
Miraculously, he manages to lift his still numb arms in an attempt to throw a devastating haymaker squarely at whatever part of Nappa he can reach.
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Dromas' words echo in Darin's mind as he stares at the oncoming ki blast. Was this it? Was this what Dromas wanted Darin to become?! Someone so twisted and...and stupid?! A hulking monstrosity taking an eye-for-an-eye approach?!
Darin doesn't have enough time to dodge the blast. He clasps his hands low in front of him.
"You..."
He swings his arms upward using enough strength to crack the bones in his forearms. The ki blast has weight. It burns. It rips through his body with force as he slams his right foot into the ground behind him to brace himself, sending spiderweb like cracks tearing through the earth beneath him.
"IDIOT!!!"
Darin pivots and throws more of his strength behind is swing. Enough that he can feel the ball of energy start to bend — as if it were a steel girder. Across his body, blazing blue chain links start to surface, like brands on his skin. Encircling his arms, crisscrossing his body beneath his clothes. They pulse like veins and with a surge of power, he sends the ki blast skyward.
His arms are a mess. Bleeding and torn up, they hang at his sides. Blood drips from his numb hands and stains the earth beneath him as he throws caution to the wind and rushes the giant brute down.
"YOU THINK YOU KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT LOSS?! ABOUT SUFFERING?! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING! IF YOU DID, YOU'D REALIZE MONEY DOESN'T BUY A SINGLE GODSDAMNED BIT OF HAPPINESS OR RESPECT!! ALL YOU WANT IS A WIN!! WANNA KNOW WHY?!"
"BECAUSE YOU'RE A LOSER!! THE ONLY THING YOU'LL EVER AMOUNT TO IS DETERMINED BY THE WEIGHT OF YOUR PURSE!! AND IF YOU THINK I'M GONNA LIE DOWN AND LET YOU STEAL THE HAPPINESS I'VE LOOKED FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE, THEN I WILL BURY YOU HERE, NAPPA!"
Miraculously, he manages to lift his still numb arms in an attempt to throw a devastating haymaker squarely at whatever part of Nappa he can reach.