The two guys holding Pam, behind Justin, advanced forward.

“Who the hell are those guys?” I asked myself loudly.

“My name’s Jack,” the muscular guy introduced himself.

“And this is Mr Jacobs’ son, Jonathan,” he pointed to the slightly short thin guy. I looked at him with an angry look.

“So you’re the one that killed my mother?” I asked having folded my fists. Jonathan laughed.

“Well, Justin here, is the one that killed your mother. All I did was watch as he burned the building into ashes,” he responded. I looked at Justin. Flames were moving outside of his body in a circular fashion; like they were attracted by a magnet.

“I don’t get it, Justin, why would you kill my mother? What has she ever done to you?” I asked angrily. Justin didn’t respond. “Answer me, god dammit!” I exclaimed frustrated. He still didn’t respond. “That’s it!” I yelled as I ran towards Justin raising my left arm.

“Remove your external energy,” Jonathan shouted. The flames around Justin’s body flew away from him and into the destroyed tanks, police cars and vans that were on fire. Why did Justin do that? He’s wide open for an attack now, I thought to myself.

I threw a left punch on his face and his head slightly moved backwards. He didn’t even attempt to block it. I then threw multiple punches on his face and ribs. He didn’t attempt to defend any punches. My punches made him move backwards sluggishly. I then gave him a huge uppercut and jumped backwards to catch my breath.

“Is that the best you can do?” Jonathan said with a laugh.

Something did not feel right here. Why’s Justin not trying to block any punches from me? It doesn’t make sense, I thought to myself.

“Why’s Justin not defending himself? It’s rather odd,” Collen said, asking Precious.

“Something is wrong here,” Precious said looking at Justin.

I had forgotten how exhausting it is to fight with your normal strength. But even if I increased my strength, I would only be able to access half of it, I thought as I looked at Justin.

“I don’t know what game you’re playing, but one thing is for certain…” I folded my hands into fists, “you’re going down,” I added.

I threw multiple punches at Justin; giving him everything that I had. I threw a right punch to his cheek and blood flew out of his mouth. I then jumped and gave him a knee-jerk reaction.

“That’s it. Continue to fight and drain your energy,” Jonathan said and I ignored him. I moved backwards to catch my breath once again.

I was down on my knees, inhaling and exhaling heavily. Justin continued to stand there like a statue.

“Ofcourse,” Precious said. “Bernard, Justin is being controlled,” she yelled at me. I turned back to her.

“What? Are you sure?” I asked, still panting.

“Yes. He’s been hypnotised. That’s why he ain’t attacking you!” she shouted.

“Took you long enough,” Jonathan said.

“Huh?” I said in disbelief.

“When I came to Saint Moreno, I had initially come to hypnotise you. I did hypnotise you when you went to pick up your award. While I gave you a nightmare I saw that you’re weak. Your strength didn’t interest me; until I bumped into Justin. Looking at his eyes for that split second made me to realise why my father had beaten him into a pulp. My father knew that if Justin was able to control his supernatural powers, which he obtained from the energy drugs, then he would cause havoc for him and his business, since he wanted out. My father was a good businessman but not a good scientist. He could’ve used the hypnotic drug to control Justin but it was at its developing stages.

“With Justin’s strength, my father would’ve had the ultimate weapon. But he didn’t get the chance to complete the hypnotic drug, thanks to you. But I have managed to fully develop the hypnotic drug and now I can control anyone I want, with a blink of an eye. Through hypnotising Justin, I’ve been able to release his true power. I’ve made him the strongest human being on the planet, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me from destroying Stallian,”

Jonathan explained with a smirk.

“Now that that’s over and done with, it’s time that you feel my wrath. Justin, attack!” Jonathan commanded.

Justin ran towards me. Eish I was still exhausted from the multiple punches that I threw at Justin. I didn’t have time to react. I stood there anticipating the impact his attack would have. Justin got kicked on the face and he fell to the ground. I looked to see that it was Collen who came to my rescue.

“Did you think that I’ll let you have all the fun?” Collen said as he helped me up.

“Thanks man,” was all I said.

“Precious told me to tell you, that the only way to release Justin out of Jonathan’s control, is to let him look at Precious eyes for ten seconds, then she’ll dehypnotise him,” Collen explained.

“Didn’t you hear what Jonathan said? He said the hypnotic drug that his father made was at its developing stages; the one that Precious has in her veins. There’s a huge possibility that that plan might not work,” I replied.

“Do you have any better ideas?” Collen asked.

“I plan to kill him,” I responded.