Heaven's Pillar Chapter 3

Heaven's Pillar

The King and the Peasant

Part 3

Chapter 3

Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Supernatural, Shounen

Chapter 3-1 The Tyrant

When I was born the very winds cried out the name Bryan, every tree and stone on the earth bowed to my greatness, and the stars proclaimed I would be the lord of all that was before me. when I entered the halls of this institute for the first time I challenged the great ones of this land, and I made each and every one of them bow and kiss my feet; Each stronger and wiser to than the last and each made peasants before my greatness. By the age of 13 I Bryan Baroque became the king of primary school the undisputed despot he who breaks the will of all, and he who will shatter your will, and make you bow.

Bryan: "Look before you Gilder. All around us is the whole school, those that I have placed under my heel in years past. Know that the place you stand is the same place that many have stood in the past. Do not think yourself fancy because you struck me in the past. For my skills in a fight are unmatched, and no one has ever truly beaten me."

Gilder: "You talk too much."

Bryan: "What!?"

Gilder: "You fill the air with hollow words spoken by a coward. You used these terms like king and peasant in order to give yourself a smug sense of superiority. In truth you are nothing but a cruel and spoiled spirit, tired and afraid of retribution. If the adults will not bring you to justice than I will."

Bryan: "Justice? Is that what you think you will do? Come now do you all truly believe he can best me."

The crowd was silent in truth everyone feared him, but in nearly all of their hearts they wanted Bryan to lose more than anything else in life.

Bryan: "I said do you truly believe this peasant will best me!"

Royce Rocco stepped forwards, and turned to the crowd and raised his fist in a threatening manner.

Royce: "The king demands our support cheer for him."

The crowd begins a cheer for their king unwillingly, the pain and sorrow is apparent in their faces.

Bryan: "See that you have no supporters here. Your dream of Justice is nothing more than that a dream."

Gilder: "Are you done with your show or are you actually willing to fight me?"

The words annoyed Bryan and he brought his hand behind his ear and began to scratch it. He was going to finally shut Gilder up once and for all. Bryan stretched out his arms and brought them before his face in a stance like a boxer, then he gave a simple gesture signaling Gilder to do his worse; it was now time, time to deliver the justice this school sorely needed.

Chapter 3-2 Justice

Gilder launched himself across the court his fist at the ready and as he neared Bryan he swung with all his might, but as his fist neared its target Bryan disappeared. Gilder was stunned and surprised where did this 13 year old kid go? In a split second he knew where he went, a foot came crashing down on Gilder's head sending him straight to the ground.

Gilder: *What was that?*

Bryan: "What you thought this was going to be an easy street fight?"

Gilder rose to his feet and lifted up his fist and made a second charge. He swung left but Bryan merely dodged with a sly grin and counter attacked striking Gilder so hard he staggered back, Gilder than swung with a right with a similar effect. Raging he simply fanned out his arms and attempted to tackle Bryan but the rich boy merely jumped into the air landing on Gilder's head and using his weight to smash Gilder into the ground. With Gilder quivering on the ground Bryan began to pace around him his hands behind his back and his face giving the smuggest of smiles.

Bryan: "So this is the mighty Goldwind. The boy causing me so much trouble, if I knew it would be this easy I would have struck you down ages ago."

Gilder: "Shut up, I'm not done yet."

He rose to his feet and they made battle ready stances, the two stared each other down waiting for the other to act but neither moved. Then Gilder slammed his fist against his chest, like a gorilla. Bryan was a little curious about this action but ultimately did nothing till Gilder did it a second time yelling "FIGHT ME!" Gilder was challenging Bryan, challenging him to make the first strike. "FIGHT ME!"

Bryan: *This monkey wants a fight than I'll give it to him.*

Bryan charged Gilder like a mighty stallion and launched himself nearly 10 feet in the air and began to descend like an eagle. He stretched out his leg to drop kick Gilder but as he drew near Gilder leaped in the air fanning out his legs. He soared higher into than either Bryan or the crowd thought was possible for him, and as Gilder neared him he straddled Bryan's shoulder's and used the momentum to pull off a diving hurricanrana, the attack forced the two to spin a full 180 degrees before they starting heading to the ground like a meteor with Gilder sitting on Bryan's chest and hooking Bryan's legs behind him whilst hooking his arms with his legs. The two impact the ground with Bryan's shoulder's back and head slamming against the concrete, Gilder than stands releasing him Bryan from his pin.

Bryan: "What the f*ck was that?"

Gilder: "I call it the Golden Hurricanrana."

Bryan: "Golden what?"

Gilder: "Sometimes I like to watch wrestling and decided to adopt some of the moves."

Bryan: *Just adopt, he says that so casually, that move was executed like a professional. No way had he simply learned it from just watching it on TV.*

Gilder: "Is there a problem I thought we were still fighting."

Bryan: "Oh we're still fighting."

He charged across the court disappearing, and then reappearing in front of Gilder punching him square in the chest, and as soon as he did this he disappeared again. This time he reappeared behind Gilder and kicked him in the back of the head, and immediately disappeared.

Bryan: "Are your senses dull. Come on wrestler this is simple marital arts!"

He yelled this as he reappeared behind Gilder again ready to strike him in the back the head, but as he drew near Gilder slapped his hand away and retaliated with a powerful right cross punch to the face. Bryan staggers back surprised Gilder's senses are as in tune as they are.

Bryan: "heh this isn't what I was expecting. 200$ a month, this better get me a win!"

The two charged in and swung at one another their fists colliding, and with lighting speed Bryan uses his free hand to grab Gilder's attacking arm. He then uses all of his strength to flip Gilder over his shoulder on to the ground, and stomps on Gilder for good measure. Gilder quickly rises and tries to deliver a haymaker to Bryan's face but the slow clumsy punch comes nowhere near him as Bryan slyly dodges and shifts himself behind Gilder. He then arcs his fist bringing it in with a low circle to Gilder's face, and then after stunning him he repeats the process with his other hand. Left, Right, Left, Right, blow after blow is delivered to Gilder, and with every blow a piece of the crowd's hope is blown away. A final strike makes the flesh on Gilder's face ripple and causes sweat and blood to spill to the ground sending the Golden warrior tumbling to the ground like a mighty oak. Gilder lies motionless on the ground and Bryan looks to the crowd lifting up his hand and yelling.

Bryan: "The Dream is DEAD!!!!!!"

Chapter 3-3 Spirit of the Dream

The crowd looked on with shock and fear, Gilder was down, he was beaten. This stranger this bringer of hope he was the only thing they had to depend on. He was supposed to be the one to bring this tyrant down, but instead of hope this moment now filled all of their hearts with fear. Bryan had showed his power, and it was truly terrifying to the audience. No one could ever hope to challenge him now; no one could ever hope to put him in his place. Some began to cry as the realization hit then that Bryan's reign wasn't over instead it was from this day forward going to be far worse.

????: "No! The dream is not dead!"

The crowd turned to see a girl step onto the court it was Aria. She made her way past the crowd and stood in front of Bryan preparing herself for a fight.

Bryan: "Amusing the little Chihuahua has come to challenge me."

Aria: "I will not allow you to torture us anymore, your reign of terror ends here. I will take you down even if I have to do it with my own fist."

Bryan: "Than come try to dethrone the king."

She clenches her fist and runs across the court ready to fight the tyrant with all of her might. She comes swinging striking Bryan right at his chest, causing him to flinch ever so slightly but causing no real damage to him.

Aria: "umm"

Bryan: "You know I've hated you since the day I've met you. You're always so happy, every day smiling like some idiot out of some children's cartoon."

He strikes her knocking her to the ground and then he places a single foot on top of her.

Bryan: "Your constant breaming happiness annoys me to no end. Today I'll make you understand that there's nothing in this world to be happy for."

He pulls from his pocket a wrench and raises it threatening her with the jagged metal object. With malice in his eyes he brings the weapon down aiming right between her eyes. The teeth of the wrench like the teeth of a monster coming down to bite her innocent face off but just before it does it stops. Inches away from her face the wrench stops trembling before her. She looks on and sees a hand grasping on the Bryan's arm, and further up she sees a surprised Bryan staring at a raging Gilder. The boy's teeth were grinding against each other his flesh was turning red with an overexertion of blood. His muscles were tensing and his sheer anger seems to cause some of his hair to rise. His body almost seemed to glow, and in his eyes was a fire, a raging fire that was ready to destroy everything in its path.

Slowly Gilder began to lift Bryan's hand, Bryan trying his hardest to resist. But the boy was so much stronger than him; his strength was intensified at his grip as Bryan soon felt numb in the hand as Gilder cut off the blood circulation in his arm. Before long Bryan had to drop the wrench. Annoyed Bryan struck with all his might with his free arm punching Gilder straight in the face. Unlike before though the blow does not shake the boy, in truth punching Gilder seemed to hurt Bryan's fist more than Gilder's face. It was now that Bryan had full view of the eyes of the boy he was fighting. These eyes were filled with a boiling anger, boiling with an anger not like anything he'd seen before. Through those eyes was like a lion with a mane of fire growling at him. Bryan became fearful of those eyes, and tried to pull his fist back. But just before he could Gilder's let out a warrior's cry and slammed his fist into Bryan's face so hard that it lifted the boy into the air and sent him spinning through the air till he eventually fell colliding with the floor face first.

Gilder: "I've grown tired of you!"

The words echoed across the court and resonated in Bryan's ears sending a chill down his spine. Slowly he walks his way towards Bryan, who as Gilder draws near picks up some sand and throws it in the his eyes. Gilder is blinded as Bryan tries to counter attack he swings his fist towards Gilder, but Gilder still blinded swings his own fist. Their fists collide but Gilder strikes with more force, his punch forces Bryan's fist back towards his own face with Gilder's aiding more pressure as one final titanic blow rocks Bryan to the ground one final time, the impact sending a single tooth through the air and into a basketball hoop. Bryan was out cold his reign has ended.

Gilder looks down towards Aria and sticks out his hand helping her up. The two dust themselves off and make their way towards the crowd. Royce who had saw Bryan get knock out ran the moment Gilder's eyes turned his direction. The boy continued to run all the way home leaving Bryan alone. The crowd dispersed and Bryan remained on the grown beaten and bruised till the sun set. When he finally awoke he was alone his so called friends didn't even move him, and when he ventured to the school the next day he felt something he never felt before. No one wanted to talk to him anymore, his friends where distant, and all the girls stop caring about him. No one was afraid of him anymore, he was no longer king.

End of chapter 3