A War of Flames

[Vatarian]

ucarena.proboards.com/thread/1420/rykaz

vs.

ucarena.proboards.com/thread/1403/nucleaphage

Noxious fumes and droplets of molten rock mingle in the air over a shallow sea of lava surrounding the central caldera of a massive shield-volcano. The molten rock burns at better than 2,000 degrees farenheit and heat waves rise from its mottled yellow and red surface in such quantity that the air above it seems to vibrate.

Rising from the liquid stone at intervals are jagged spires and platforms of solid rock. Towards the lava's outer edges it is cooler; a dull, angry reddish-black with spiderweb cracks of orange scattered throughout.

It is here that two titans of "fire" will do battle.

GIRATINA IS A SMUG BUTTPOOP.

[Tenshi the Sunkern]

THE GOD OF REFFING HAS COME...

LET THE INTROS BE HANDED OUT!

[Revenus]

As the volcanic vigilante felt the now familiar sensation of a teleportation beam washing over him, he began to feel the nerves of combat once again. Last time, he assumed he had gotten lucky when paired up with the automotive assassin, Annihilator.

As he spawned in the chaotic volcanic environment, the beam lancing down to the earth, the humanoid draconian's face curled into a smirk.

This was his kind of place! He could formulate a strategy, hell, he had the entire land at his fingertips.

[Vatarian]

A second beam touches down in a pool of lava perhaps a half kilometer from Rykaz.

The Nucleaphage stands utterly still and silent, silhouette looming 130 meters above the lava. As the teleportation beam fades, gravity takes effect, and the massive, ancient beast slides down into the lava; molten rock splashing about violently before settling around its knees with a hiss.

The Nucleaphage stands in the 2,000 degree heat utterly unaffected.

Fire will not win Rykaz the day here. Not against this opponent.

[Tenshi the Sunkern]

FIGHT

[Vatarian]

Just as silent as for its arrival, the Nucleaphage slouches forward slightly and plods towards Rykaz.

Narrowing his eyes, Rykaz extends a hand, and an orb of fire roars to life before flying at the Nucleaphage..... To strike its armored chest and fizzle away harmlessly.

Rykaz grits his teeth. All of this heat and fire for him to use, and the bloody creature happens to be immune to fire.

Oh well. He has more than fire at his disposal. Trident in hand, the winged dragon leaps into the air and streaks at the Nucleaphage.....

Only for the creature to spin startlingly fast and smash its tail into his chest, dozens of spikes along the appendage's side driven deep into his torso as the raw force of the blow slaps Rykaz out of the air like an insect and smashes him into the lava.

As Rykaz spits out a mouthfull of molten ore and regains his feet, blood trickling from the multitude of puncture-wounds on his chest, the Nucleaphage decks him, massive clawed limb splitting the skin of Rykaz's snout and knocking him in a full circle.

The fire-god stumbles, but catches his footing with a shift of his wings, then spins, trident in hand, and stabs his three-pointed spear into the Nucleaphage's massive forearm as it hauls back for another blow.

The creature pauses as the weapon punches through the armor covering its massive wrist with a dull crunch and a wrenching impact that early tears the weapon out of Rykaz's hands. Thick, sap-like orange blood oozes from the edges of the three tines, dripping like molasses down the side of the weapon inbedded in the Nucleaphage's arm.

The creature seems to study Rykaz for a moment, as the dragon pulls at the weapon with a grunt. Stuck.

The Nucleapahge cocks its head as it realizes the same, then hauls its arm back, massive shoulder rolling and bulging with muscle even through meters of armor.

Rykaz spreads his wings to halt his momentum, but he's too late. The Nucleaphage reels him in by his own weapon and bites down hard on Rykaz's shoulder, peg-like teeth punching through armored scales, skin, flesh, muscle, and then grating against the bone.

For a moment, as Rykaz's perception of things is slowed by magnitudes as a result of the agony he is in, it seems his opponent is going to bite right through his clavicle and tear Rykaz's entire left shoulder away, mortally wounding him and ending the match.

But the Nucleaphage, for all its machine-like behavior, now knows the rules. Its jaws stop short of damaging bone or severing vital ligaments and tendons. Instead, the beast loosens its hold slightly to avoid further damage, and flings its body backwards, tossing Rykaz right towards the pincer-blades of its upturned tail....

[Revenus]

As the draconian destroyer was casually flung away like a frisbee, Rykaz spread all six of his mighty wings, halting his momentum just before he was caught in the vice-like grip of the pincer tails. The draconian charged forth at top speed, grasping the hilt of the embedded Archaiz with both hands. The reptilian raider shifted his momentum, tearing out the three-pronged spear with a loud...

KHARUNK!

The bladed trident fell away, taking a surprisingly large chunk of chitin and flesh with it, sending the Nucleaphage into a world of agony as the reptile casually reached for his signature weapon. The enormous titan of radiation's tail steeped outwards, the blade's of death grazing Rykaz's thigh, as he banked left just a fraction of a second too late. The Volcanic Vigilante swerved and weaved around the hellish landscape of the volcanos, dodging heavy-fisted punches and whips effortlessly due to his highly superior agility and mobility, much to the brutal nuclear behemoth's highly evident frustration. As the Nucleaphage continued his rampage, a torrent of highly corrosive acid ate away at the beast's chitinous protection around his flailing arms and twisting head, causing the armor to bubble and and fizz, as the exoskeleton dissolved into a pitch-black oil-like substance. The Nucleaphage screeched in immense pain, jerking sideways reflexively, turning an ashen hill into cinders in the process. Swerving and juking around enormous pummeling fists, the draconian defender spun Archaiz, around thrice, spraying a healthy coat of acid on the angered annihilator's back before lifting his three-pronged spear by the shaft and slamming it's bladed end into the radioactive ravager's corroded chitinous coating in the small of its back...

[Vatarian]

(Not to be a butt, but the Nucleaphage can't scream. Or roar. The loudest noises it makes are creaks and rumbles, a bit like muffled, distorted whale-noises.)

....WHUMP!

The Nucleaphage's tail comes up hard and smashes into Rykaz's side, flinging the draconian warrior away and ripping the skin on his flanks. Rykaz collides with an island of solid rock and splits it, sliding into the magma behind it.

The Nucleaphageshakes its head and clicks quietly, moving to where it last saw Rykaz....

Only for the firey beast to explode out of the lava, caustic trident aimed for the massive nuclear creature's head!

The Nucleaphage smacks the edge of the trident with one massive hand, knocking the blade aside and thus suffering from only a scrape on one shoulder.

As Rykaz's momentum moves him past, the Nucleaphage catches him in its tail-pincer, shredding the flesh of both flanks to bloody ribbons, then whirls his helpless form about like a lasso over its head, flinging him down instead of forward. Rykaz strikes a massive rock at an angle, pulverizing it and battering and cutting his body with the shards and force of impact.

As the burning hero struggles to his feet, the Nucleaphage prepairs to smash both fists into his shoulders with titanic force.....

[Revenus]

With blood oozing from his fresh gashes, Rykaz struggled, but managed to perform an awkward barrel-roll maneuver to evade the titanic fists, the heavy appendages slamming into the volatile landscape instead, still managing to send shards of igneous rock into the volcanic vigilante's already gash-riddled body. As the clouds of dust cleared, the draconian leapt out of the cover of ash and dust, trident aimed to tear apart the titan's throat. A caustic spray flew outwards, causing black chitin around the radioactive destroyer's chest and throat to once again erode into the black ooze of melted chitin.

Swinging his muscular arms back, the draconian destroyer of darkness pointed his three- pronged trident at the nuclear abomination's left knee before mimicking the motion of sending Archaiz sailing towards the Nucleaphage's gargantuan joint. The behemoth among behemoths slammed the bulk of his colossal arms into the earthen ground, planting them in the ground to form protective pillars in front of its lower body.

It had fallen for the feint!

In heavily fortifying its lower body, the Nucleaphage had left its dissolved chest wide open! Rykaz, for real this time around, heaved his muscled arms back, sending his primed trident directly into the hellish hellraiser's exposed chest with a loud, resonating...

THWACK!!

The Nucleaphage moaned as much as his puzzling vocal chords allowed it to, sounding more like the creaking of an old, leaky boat. The reptilian avenger shot towards his embedded weapon like a speeding bullet, forcibly yanking it out and eliciting another peculiar sound from the atomic abomination. Twirling his trident once, twice, three times, before swinging the bladed edge at the burnt midsection of the colossus...

[Vatarian]

...And the Nucleaphage's massive forearms come UP, sending the trident spinning out of Rykaz's grip and into the lava beside them as they smash into the bottom of it.

As Rykaz turns, and lunges for the trident, grabbing it before it can sink into the lava, the Nucleaphage seizes him by an ankle, and heaves him into the air, grabbing his wrists with its other hand, and then tugging, putting massive stress on the fiery avenger's body.

Bones pop and creak. Joints strain. Ligaments stretch....

The Nucleaphage stops just before it tears something vital out of place, clicking at the memory of the last time it defied the rules, then lunges forward and bites into Rykaz's body like a sandwich, tearing a great chunk of flesh from his stomach, which prompts another yell of pain from Rykaz.

The volcanic warrior sags, then manages to tear a foot free and kick the Nucleaphage in the side of the head.

The massive kaiju spits out the masticated flesh, then grabs Rykaz with its tail-pincher and turns, smashing him into a rock.

As Rykaz sits, momentarily senseless, the Nucleaphage swipes one massive forearm at him, hoping to rip open his throat....

[Revenus]

(You've just started school? I've been in since the 11th.)
Just before the slugging strike smashed straight into Rykaz's trachea, the fiery avenger jerked to the side, causing the atomic firestorm of destruction to pummel the boulder into dust, crushing it with such tremendous force and ease that not a single shard formed, ashen dust fluttering through the smoke-filled air. As the mutated mutilator reeled back for another strike, The Blaze of Justice had already leapt away, the titanic strike splitting a peculiar triangular rock formation like an egg. As a repercussion of said earth-shattering blow, enormous chunks of igneous stone were sent barreling into the sky, one slamming into Rykaz's earlier bite wound, eliciting an agonized roar from the furious flame-beast.

Suddenly, an ear-splitting BANG!!! was heard as a wave of sonic energy crashed into the Nucleaphage, and while the sonic energy failed to topple or throw the behemoth, it did completely offset the nuclear nightmare's balance. As the Nucleaphage hobbled and wobbled in a rather futile attempt to regain its balance, blurs of orange swept around the toppling titanic terror, further distracting the destroyer. Right before the behemoth began to fall as if it were a weary willow in a terrible tempest, the draconian defender raced forth like a bullet at top speed, embedding his titan slaying trident dead center into the colossal harbinger of chaos' still oozing chitinous chest.

In joyful celebration, the drake yells "TIIIIIMBER!!!!" before speeding towards the behemoth turned turtle and retrieving Archaiz with a forceful yank, causing another creaky moan to come from the colossus, as oozing burnt flesh tears away with gruesome ease. Rykaz flipped away, and, using explosive flames as propulsion, the dragon began spiraling in midair, beating his wings with tremendous force to maintain his incredible speed. Suddenly, the fiery avenger unfurled his wings, dive-bombing the Nucleaphage with Archaiz in hand, aiming to crush, or at least crack, the durable chitin surrounding the bruiser's head...

[Vatarian]

....The Nucleaphage's tail arcs forward with deceptive laziness, and smashes into Rykaz's shoulders just before the lizard can strike.

The blow punches the tips of its tail deep into Rykaz's back, halting his momentum at the cost of more flesh as Rykaz's speed works against him, tearing the blades through his flesh from his shoulders to the small of his back.

Rykaz falls to the ground, splashing into the lava with a noise of surprise and agony.

The Nucleaphage recovers its footing as Rykaz rises from the lava, gritting his teeth from the horrible wound on his back.

Before he can move further, the Nucleaphage leans back.... And kicks him! Rykaz is propelled back into the lava by the blow, tumbling head over heals, lips and face mashed by the blow.

However, the firey kaiju draws strength from the heat of the lava, and explodes from its surface, wreathed in liquid flame, long before his much larger opponent can close the gap.

Rykaz dives at the Nucleaphage, but instead of aiming for its chest, swipes at its huge shoulder as hard as he can as he passes.

The shear speed at which Rykaz strikes is almost enough to topple the Nucleaphage again, as the monstrosity mis-places its right foot in a deeper patch of lava and stumbles.

Rykaz grins, and come for another pass....

WHACK!!

Rykaz is smashed out of the air by the Nucleaaphage's spiky tail, and crushed against a spire of rock by the blow, which collapses on top of him.

Rykaz struggles to move, but his battered, punctured body is held nearly immobile by the rock for the moment, only his head and one wing sticking out.

The Nucleaphage turns and prepares to crush Rykaz's head with its massive tail.....

[Revenus]

(Seems like I've come down with the flu, I'd appreciate it if I could get an extension into next Tuesday.

Sorry for the inconvenience)

EDIT: (I'm better, I'll be able to post today/tomorrow.)

[Revenus]

(I'm ok!)
'Fuck, FUCK!!' The Blaze of Justice cursed under his breath, pinned by the spiral of deadly stone. As the thick razor-sharp tail, came hammering down on his prone head, the draconian beat his wings with as much tremendous force as his weakened form could muster, the wave of sonic energy tossed the enormous pillar of igneous rock into the chitinous coating surrounding the massive head of the catastrophic crusher's head, warping and splintering the chitinous armor plating with sickening ease. The Nucleapage threw its head back, heaving a muscular clawed pillar of chitin into the air before whipping around and extending the appendage to meet Rykaz's mangled and ripped chest.

The sheer force of the impact jars Rykaz, nearly sending him spiraling out of the air.

Nearly.

Before he plummeted to the earth, the volcanic vigilante strafes up sharply, swerving sideways to avoid another heavy-handed blow. As the Nucleaphage readied incineratingly hot plasma in its gaping maw, the fiery avenger charged directly at the behemoth among behemoths' throat, hurtling Archaiz towards the Nucleaphage as the blast of destructive superheated flame approached full charge...

Koth....


The radioactive Ravager moaned in a mixture of frustration and sheer agony. Rykaz flew in for another pass, as the Nucleaphage flailed around. Grasping the hilt firmly, the inferno pushed with tremendous force,  causing the tower of chitin that was the titan to wobble and shake before finally toppling it over once more, whooping in glee while doing it.

Using flames almost like a siege weapon, the draconian battered an enormous shield volcano, sending ashen boulders and fragments of stone like a landslide...

[Vatarian]

The Nucleaphage regains its footing with a low rumble and braces its massive frame, holding its armored tail out in front of it and weathering the boulders like a heavy rain, and destroying those that are large enough to potentially harm it.

As a particularly large rock rumbles towards it, the Nucleaphage curls its tail around the boulder, lifts it in both arms.... And tosses it at Rykaz!

The boulder hits Rykaz squarely in his ravaged stomach, and knocks him down, sending him rolling down the slope, his much smaller frame being pummeled by the boulders he himself unleashes as he tumbles and rolls....

Coming right to the Nucleaphage's feet. Rykaz gulps.

And the Nucleaphage, bolstering its power with electromagnetic energy, slams one foot into Rykaz's prone face, knocking three teeth loose and crushing his head into the ground, his scalp splitting even as his jaw is twisted almost out of place by the crushing force.

Keeping the pressure on, the Nucleaphage punches the scissor-blades of its tail into Rykaz's already injured back and rips away a chunk of flesh and muscle, causing Rykaz to writhe beneath him, slamming his claws into the Nulceaphage's pillar like legs and clawing at his feet.

Before he can do further damage, The Nucleaphage slams a fist towards Rykaz's shredded back....