In front of Kali is an old man, ancient if you will but this old man was a monster non the less.
This old man had yellow robes and looked like a monk with a bald head and long messy beard, his whole body was covered in soft monk robes other than his head.
Some would only think him a monk but there was something Kali was having trouble with, he underestimated this old man and didn't think the old silent man would have this much power, control, and precision.
There is something he was familiar with on this old man, and that was the tattoos around the ancient monk.
On his bald head was an arrow that came from the back stopping at his forehead along with other arrows on his forearms Kali managed to catch a glance at.
This man was an Old Avatar.
Kali tried asking questions but no reply came, it's like the old guy didn't even have emotions, even taunting didn't work.
All he did was look lazy as his eyes only stared at the ground, even without his mind not seeming to be in this battle he was winning it, and Kali was frustrated in what to do.
The most annoying thing for Kali at the moment was that he can't use KI, not in the way he wants to at least, he can use [KI Enhance] but not any other techniques like [KI Form] or [KI Force].
His blood was still working but he was barely dodging this Old Avatars attack so he had to focus since he didn't like the feeling of his limbs being cut by air slashes.
Both of them are at an unknown place, to Kali it looked like an endless setting of dessert but he knew it was more than that, why would Magnus sent him to the dessert when he can just take him to another dimension or something.
Plus the ground was filled with blue sand which he hasn't seen on earth or heard of.
It has been about 15 minutes and Kali hasn't landed one hit on this old emotionless Avatar.
Instead his limbs has been cut more than 10 time over the course of battle, and his head was almost cut from his shoulders due to his carelessness.
The area of their battleground was stained with his blood, so much it would dry an average human.
It is hard because there are things he can't do and only few he is still able to.
The advantages he has are his blood effects, [KI Enhance], and his Trident [Kraken].
Everything else?
Gone.
And that includes his fire bending and the powers of his Trident, now it's just a weapon which he hoped was unbreakable.
Magnus has snapped him over here to blow some steam off but he already calmed down on the first 14 minutes his body parts has been repeatedly cut off.
What sucks is he can't even fly anymore which comes from [KI Force], now he has to run and shuffle around.
But he wasn't that angry, he was actually thankful that he still has some advantages left.
Though if he had everything he could have taken this old man out easily with some of the techniques he has been thinking about, alas he don't have the requirements for it.
He can barely get close before he is either blown away by the wind bender or get his limbs cut out, and he didn't like that feeling so getting close wasn't a plan.
More than 30 minutes passed by and he hasn't gotten too far.
Of course there was something he gained from the short bout, the Trident was not something the old Avatar can see or sense.
When Kali threw a fit and threw the Trident at the old man he didn't think anything interesting would happen.
That is until the old man wasn't able to wind blast the Trident away, with a slight surprise the Trident almost stabbed him but the old man moved just in time to avoid it, but his robes were ripped from the prongs.
Whatever happened the old Avatar seemed to unable to have any influence on the weapon, and the wind, no matter how strong wasn't able to budge the Trident once it was thrown on mid air.
Kali saw hope and just when he was about to celebrate this the ground rumbled and shook, he sensed the right side of the ground moving and a pillar like earth shot out with the intended to hit him bluntly but with his [KI Sense] he was able to jump back.
*BRRRRR*
*PAH*
But before he can land on the ground again another earth pillar jumped from the ground and hit his back sending him a few meters.
"WAAAGGHHHH"
The bastard started using earth bending, something he can't do along with wind.
If he was a normal man than his spine would have been screwed up from the attack.
He got up and positioned his right hand calling for the Trident, and it came.
Safe to say the old Avatar would have been stabbed if the wind didn't tell him it was coming behind him.
Luckily the old Avatar dodged and Kali caught his Trident.
And for the next few minutes the battles consisted of Kali throwing the Trident back and forth at the old Avatar while dodging the air blades and earth formed strikes.
But nothing was working for Kali, safe to say nothing seems to be working for the old Avatar as well.
Kali was dodging all the critical strikes, the old Avatar would have ran out of patient and done something stupid but he was more wiser than that and wouldn't mess this balance they have.
But the constant coming and goings of the Trident was nigh annoying, the old Avatar tried grabbing it to stop it but it was like Thors hammer and wouldn't heed anyone but Kali's demands.
A few more minutes more and Kali learned to direct his Trident the way he wanted, which made everything more harder for the old Avatar to stay in one place and had to move constantly like Kali.
Now they are both moving everywhere back and forth, side to side dodging elemental attacks or Trident attacks.
But then the old Avatar paused and stood where he was with Kali doing the same.
Kali held his hand out calling for his Trident, but before it was inches away from his grip his eyes widened as the old Avatar appeared in front of him.
He didn't plan to be in close combat but it seems this old Avatar had a different thought.
Before Kali could make any further moves the old Avatar softly placed his palm on Kali's chest quickly and bend his knees before yelling out and send a destructive force of wind blast on his palm as Kali was blasted away.
*BBBWWWHHOOOSSSHHHH!!*
Kali was having a hard time breathing when he finally stopped being blasted back.
His chest was almost nonexistent, it was caved in and he could see his organs, blood everywhere.
But he can also see that starting from the little veins to the bones and then everything else was healing at a quick rate.
The experience made him wanna vomit at how much of a joke it felt.
He could have near death experience all day and still walk away unharmed at the end of the day, but this shitt was giving him a depressed feeling, of how much immortality is playing with the natural ways of life and death.
He was at the moment wondering how people like deadpool or Logan was able to live with it, or maybe they had to be insane or not think much of it.
He was taken out of his thoughts when he heard the wind whistling, he looked up to see the old Avatar floating quickly his way.
With a quick heal he jerked up and called for his Trident and thrust it out at the old Avatar but with great control the old Avatar used the air around him to move away from the three sharp points quickly before sending another strike on Kali's chest sending him flying.
But before he could get out of his sight the old Avatar did some twist with his hands and the wind forcefully brought back Kali.
And the old Avatar send a strong punch to Kali's face before raising his hand as a giant earth rock blasted out of the ground hitting Kali upwards.
"Tsk, you know I'm starting to hate you as much as I do the old fart, you asshats are giving old people a bad name." Kali said and got up wiping his mouth.
"Hmph!" Old Avatar huffed out before he appeared again in front of Kali.
This time he was using water bending.
But there was no water anywhere...
"GGGGGGGGGRRAAAHAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
The old Avatar had a hand on top of Kali's head as he is kneeled in pain screaming.
He was bloodbending and messing up Kali's insides to the point that Kali felt he was going insane.
Kali slowly raised his right hand up and placed it on the old Avatar's chest.
They may be able to bend the elements but their bodies are not indestructible.
*KSSHH*
With a wrenching sound the old Avatar looked down to see Kali's hand piercing his chest.
"Guess you ain't so wise after all."
Kali smiled as he slowly but clumsily got up with his hand still through the old Avatars chest.
"I don't think you have any regeneration, do you?"
His body was slowly healing from the sudden blood churns.
*Swoosh*
*Chuuk*
The old Avatar felt another pain, this time through his back.
He looked down to see the Trident's three pronged points piercing him.
Kali threw the body to the side as the old Avatar slowly closed his eyes embracing his fate of dying.
"Aaahhh, fuck, that bastard couldn't have just let me have my full abilities?" Kali muttered.
*waang*
An ominous noise sounded out on his side and Kali looked in alert and was surprised.
The old Avatars body was turning into white lights, the blood the old Avatar had was also turning into lights and regrouped at the main big light.
"Damn! Don't tell me he has some kind of heal or something." Kali thought out loud.
*ZOOM*
Suddenly the light zoomed at him as if a last resort bomb of some kind.
"Shitt!!"
Kali swung his Trident at the light but when they touched the light suddenly disappeared, he looked around to see where it was.
But his attention went to the Trident when a smaller but bright light flashed his eyes.
He brought it up to see what was going on.
"No way!"
On the Trident was three gems, one was blue which represented it's abilities to bend water along with other ways to use water.
The other two gems were dead and looked to be unavailable, that was until now.
On the other side of the blue gem was now a white gem.
Which most likely has the ability to control wind like that old Avatar just now.
And of the 6 runes on the body of the Trident, 2 turned white.
"Ohohoho I'm starting to like these surprise fights." Kali said with an ecstatic smile.
.....
In the living room was Keon, Tina, and Hannah on the couch watching TV.
These three were considered the most innocent and softest to everybody.
Keon was too nice and always helped no matter the situation.
Tina was a shy young girl who would always try to stay out of attention, and loves animals because animals are always honest and straightforward.
Her words.
And Hannah was just the most adorable living creature on the planet at the moment.
Ever since everyone started going to college most of the girls at their house were gone accept for Marren and Tina, so Kali told them to stay with them for a bit since he wasn't sure if they could take care of themselves.
Sure Tina was responsible enough but Marren was the one that needs to be worried about, because Marren would always find a way to make someone worry about her... life choices and all.
So for now they were staying there, Tina took the responsibility of taking care of Hannah after school and such.
The boys that are still around are in the basement playing video games waiting fro Kali, it's been more than an hour.
Markus and Marren are out making trouble, if there is one thing they have in common, it's making trouble.
Suddenly...
*BOOM*
"You couldn't have just given me something to relax me other than sending me to another crazy old bastard?!" Everyone heard Kali screamed out.
"They're having another fight." Jack said lazily as Charles sigh.
Tina was covering Hannah's ears from the big scuffle and Keon looked worried.
*BOOM*
"Oh don't jape like you don't like it, you love it you savage punk!!" Magnus yelled in reply.
*BANG*
"And stop snapping me out of place like your Thanos you dipshitt, warn me before you send me anywhere!!" Kali said.
"Aahh wanker off you punk, it's not like you would get "hurt" in fact you got a reward after beating that wise guy." Magnus said.
Later...
It wasn't until they heard Hannah cry that the two stop, and Magnus snapped his fingers fixing everything that they destroyed fixed itself.
Kali and Magnus came up and apologized to Hannah and played with ger before Kali told Magnus to follow.
There has been more than once that Kali and Magnus made a scuffle like that and now everyone is just not minding it.
As they walked up the stairs Kali and Magnus knocked on the door of one of the room which belonged to both Zhang and Roberto.
After knocking they both walked in after opening the door.
Inside was a mess, papers everywhere, books, tech wires, and other things among computers.
Ever since Zhang had his "gifts" from Magnus he barely cleaned after his mess.
When Roberto was still his roommate he told Zhang to clean after himself, which he barely did and it frustrated Roberto.
So when the opportunity to go to college came from Kali, Roberto signed up immediately and went to culinary school mot wanting to stay with the now messy Zhang.
But after he was gone Zhang stopped taking care of the room all together, it wouldn't be crazy to call it a room of trash.
Whats more is that it's dark, and the windows covered by the curtains and in that darkness was the young Zhang with wide eyes and typing away on his three computers on his messy desk.
He absentmindedly looked up to see the newcomers and saw Kali and Magnus.
"Kali, pops." Zhang said.
"Jesus what the he-agh" Kali said but was interrupted by Magnus smacking him in the head.
*Pah!*
"Watch your mouth boy!!" Magnus said looking at Kali.
Kali looked at Magnus holding back the urge to get in another fight but held it in and turned to Zhang.
"Boy! Why don't you clean once in a while!!" Kali said.
"It doesn't look that bad." Zhang said as Magnus laughed in the back.
"It doesn't look that bad?! If we had visitors they would look at this place in disgust!!" Kali said.
"Why would they come to look in the room? They'll just be in the living room and all, it's not like they come to visit the room, plus it's not like we get any visitors." Zhang said turning back to bus computer and typing away.
"Thats not that point!! Ugh." Kali said.
He looked at Magnus and spoke through his mind, and Magnus sigh before nodding and made a simple wave with his hand.
And then the two stood there looking at Zhang for minutes.
1 minute pass by.
5 minutes.
10 minutes.
13....
Then Zhang paused what he was doing and stood up leaning on the desk with his hands on it and made a thought expression.
He wasn't sure but he felt like something is missing...
After a while he connected the dots and looked back at the two still standing on his door.
"Wh- what did you do? WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Zhang suddenly yelled out.
"That is why we are here, we wanted to talk to you but it seems we don't have your attention so-" Kali said.
"No! You can't do this bring it back!! Give it back I need it!!" Zhang said pleading to which Kali frowned at.
"Whats going on?" A new voice came into the mix.
They looked back to see Charles coming in followed by Jack.
"Dude, you need to start cleaning this place up." Charles said along with jacks nod.
"Look kid, you are distancing yourself from the world, your drunk with knowledge and you nothing else seems to matter much to you." Kali said.
"That doesn't matter now! I'm almost finishing up something and I still need it to-" Zhang pleaded.
"Kali is right Zhang, you have been neglecting your emotions ever since I gifted you with [Comprehensive mMind], emotions is a unique trait humans are lucky enough to have, you can't just push it aside for infinite knowledge or such." Magnus said.
"Gift?" Jack asked aloud.
Charles on the other hand crossed his arms looking at Zhang relieved that Kali is finally addressing this issue.
It seemed that whatever they try to say Zhang kept on pleading for the two to give it back, his pleading is something Kali is not a fan of and he is frowning looking at this pathetic look Zhang was giving out.
"I'll show more emotions, I'll do whatever you want just ple-gugh!!" Zhang begged but couldn't finish when...
*PAH*
Everyone but Magnus froze on the spot, something they have never seen happened right in front of them.
If the kids were given a chance to explain what kind of guy Kali was they would say many things, things like him being an way too laid back for life but then again they knew he had the right to be since he is the strongest being on earth to them.
(Other than Pops Magnus of course)
Even one of the days they were out when Markus caused some trouble and was about to fight multiple punks Kali jumped in and beat up the punks with Markus and ran away after that.
Of course Kali also gave Markus a beating after that.
All in all everything was like a joke to Kali, or silly situations, or just silly jokes in all.
And they never seen his serious side, of course the situation at the police department was new to Charles and the other two, but it wasn't too much as Kali was kept in control.
Unlike now...
Kali had a frown glaring at Zhang, who was on the ground and behind him was a broken book shelf where the things reside on fell behind him.
Zhang held his cheek as he looked at Kali, to think he would ever punch him.
He has punched him before but there was always a friendly smile of a teasing mocking expression behind that but he would have never thought he would see this expression on Kali.
And it wasn't a good one.
The look Kali gave out was not a look of anger, safe to say Zhang wished that it was the case.
Because the expression Kali is showing at the moment feels a BILLION times worse than he could ever think, the look of disappointment.
And when Zhang saw that expression on Kali's face his chest throbbed, he wanted to apologize to this man for acting like that for granted.
He wouldn't know where he would end up if it weren't for this strange man, none of the kids would.
Before they were offered the job in the restaurant they were all just young strays running around on the streets with the potentials of being criminals and is most likely fated to die.
But the offer of the job change them, and it became more than a job, more than a team, more than friends, a family that backed each other as they rise to follow their dreams and live life.
When Kali brought them together and decided to do his best in giving them the life they never thought of he only asked for one thing in return.
His words were: "Live life."
That was all he asked in return, it felt a bit sentimental at first but the man delivered.
Protection, closure, friendship, family, smiles, laughs...
He gave them things they never really experienced before, they had more money than they ever had in life, space to have their own personal belongings, an intimate relationship with more than 18 people they have come to trust, a sense of belonging, and knowing Kali as the "strongest" man on earth made them fearless and confident in life.
There was so much that Kali put together for them, even if he forced things sometimes they all came to like it.
There were many more to go on about what he should be thankful for and whatnot, but that wasn't what was on Zhang's mind.
What is on his mind is the fact that he took this new life of his for granted, he remembered how hard it was when it was only him, Charles and Markus.
But now he was being held up in this room for days neglecting the things around him.
"I won't allow you to just easily kneel down and beg for something so stupid, know that in this universe nothing is impossible, so rather than bagging, find a way, your smart enough for that.
There are only few things that are okay to beg for and this is not one of them, so if I see you begging again I won't let you off easy, start cleaning your room." Kali said before he walked out the door.
The three young boys were stuck in place while Magnus stood there smiling.
"Well..." Magnus said getting their attention.
"It seems you've all learned something of that brat... he doesn't seem to be a fan of your usual beggings and kneeling." Magnus said.
*Poof*
Then Magnus disappeared...
Charles was bewildered, the aura Kali let out that moment was unspeakable, he looked back to see Jack full of sweat.
Who can blame him he is a normal human without KI and all and Kali let out frustrating aura like he had never seen.
Even at the station Kali never let out anything, which was smart regarding it was not a place to do so.
Though Charles did feel a bit of [KI Force] then but it wasn't anything worthy to note.
...
Kali left Tina and Magnus in charge of hannah for the next few days which is now the weekends.
He kissed Hannah goodbye before heading out to Kamar-Taj to start his training.
But before he could even get close to his car a portal appeared in front of him.
He slowly entered as he recognized the designs on the other side of the sparkling portal.
"Shall we start soon?" Ancient One asked.
"Ugh, are you watching me now?" Kali asked.
"I can't seem to help it, the young group around you make great entertainment." Ancient One said.