Ketos & Gustave vs. Otalsys & Leviathan

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

The fireball spread like a crimson flower of death, and Gustave could only turn and let it wash over his armored back. The storming croc growled and grunted angrily as his thick scales and scutes were scorched. His boney hide soon dripped and drizzled the soft volcanic soil with suffering. Even a beast as thick-skinned and stubborn as the famed croc couldn't help but cringe under the heat.

Gustave spat in a deep rumble as he was bathed in noxious flames. "I have your head for this!"

"Get in line."

The fireball was split by a rush of water.

Otalsys arched back in surprise, but a second geyser slammed into his gored neck. The water punched deep into the oozing wound and filled the worm's simple structure like a living water balloon. Tough hide split like taunt rubber, and a line of water erupted from Otalsys as hs ruptured all down his serpentine length. The gatekeeper howled miserably as his innards dropped to the ground in thick wads. A third watery blast came, but this one raked the ground before Gustave. The seawater began seeping into the jagged terrain immediately.

"Do not," hissed the dragon to the crocodile. " Waste that."

Ketos drew his arm back, and Otalsyzls's side detonated as a raging mass of water tore from it, leaving a hollow cavern filled with ragged strips of flesh and hide. The worm shrieked terribly.

"RECYCLE!"

The blood-stained, airborne rapid was launched at Leviathan like a wall of spears as the Demon of the Deep pointed a hooked talon towards the sea monster. The liquid assault stopped though, ripped from Ketos's grip and into Leviathan's. The gory water swirled into a large cannonball-like object, froze, and was 'fired' towards Ketis only seconds after. The icy sphere rammed into the dragon's gut like the horns of a kaiju-class mountain goat.

Leviathan cooed mockingly as the frozen ball rolled from thd blue beast with fresh blood splattered across it. " Tssk, Tsk... so feeble for an..." The serpent sneered maliciously. "Ocean king.

The undersea ttitan growled softly. "You do not know Ketos. I am not a king. I am the king!"

The dragon lunged for the serpent, and Leviathan prepared to smite him with unholy powers. A cloud of searing steam left the nostrils of the sea tyrant though. Leviathan recoiled with a hiss, unharmed, but startled. Ducking under the reared serpent, Ketis lashed out with his claws. The sapphire sabers bore between triangular scales and into the gap between two armod plates. Gripping one of the plates, Ketos ripped up. Leviathan screamed briefly, a great plate tassled by shredded tissue dangling from his underbelly.

Cackling and wrenching the bloody plate completely off, Ketos swung it over his head and took a wild hack at the Death Worm head...

[Blerhwave]

24 hours, KK.

[The Merry Lambfish]

The plate hit hard, sending the deathworm head reeling back, stunned for the time being. Ketos raised the plate above his head to strike down at Leviathan’s center head. Seizing his chance, Leviathan’s Naga head and center head both shot forward, ramming Ketos in the gut. Combined with his unbalanced posture, the blow was enough to send Ketos tumbling onto his back and into a large crevice that had split the rocky ground. As he fell, roaring in surprise, the plate slipped from his hands and sailed into Leviathan’s outstretched hand. Leviathan finished the short combo by firing a heat beam into the crevice, burning the sea monster with the heat and melting the rocks around him, adding further too the damage. The three-headed serpent snarled as he observed the bloodstained plate.

Now he was angry.

Leviathan thundered towards the melting crevice. Lowering his right arm, he closed his fist around Ketos’s throat and pulled him free of the melting rock. “You believe yourself to be a king?” The serpent hissed, this time in anger. The ball of ice behind him began to melt, the water spiraling into the air. “Then consider this the day you were overthrown!”

And with than, the water splashed in between Ketos’s neck and Leviathan’s palm, seeping into his gills. Not long after, Ketos began to squirm as the water inside began to harden and develop icy spikes. Soon, two long icicles speared out from the blue monsters hide, one in each shoulder. At Leviathan’s command, the icicles began to widen, stretching the wounds to cause his enemy even more grief.

Roaring, Leviathan dropped Ketos, letting the icicles melt into water again as he did so. Spotting Gustave only a few hundred meters away, Leviathan fired another blast of his heat ray, scoring a hit on the crocodile’s unprotected knees. The reptile groaned, but refused to let himself collapse, despite the force of the weapon.

Now that he had Gustave’s attention, Leviathan whipped his tail against a large pillar of rock, smashing the structure and sending dozens of sharp boulders sailing in Gustave’s direction…




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(OOC: Sorry guys. I've been a bit forgetful lately, because of the lifeguard training I've been doing. I'm not exactly good at remembering things when I'm tired. I've bookmarked this match so it won't happen again. Feel free to smite a karma off me if you so desire. I kinda deserve it.)

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ooc: let this be my first use of Blood Bending!

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The rocks came, but Gustave merely lifted an arm to protect his eyes. The rocks struck, smashing into smaller bits as they impacted against the crocodiles very tough hide and rocky plates. Not hurt, though. It was like being struck with paintballs in a paintball game... a very, dangerous paintball game.

Cackling with some delight, Leviathan worked his claws around with eagerness. "You I shall enjoy harming, prying each scale and plate off so you can scream bloody murder! And he marvel in it. Would, if he had a chance.
The demon began to come at Gustave with as much speed as he could manage, with the Naga-head coming out far with its spiked tongue. Bu Gustave... he just lifted an arm and twisted it with. In mid-stride, Leviathan stopped in his tracks, all of his eyes widening in the shock of something was gravely, GRAVELY wrong. "Why... cant... I... moooooveeee!?!? This was a perplexing situation even to him! Suddenly his own Naga-Head came around... and came, biting and goring his own throat with the spike. The beast let out a long, gargled shrill.

After that, he rose up... with Gustave's hand. THAT explained it! "What demonic power is this!? Leviathan demanded.
Gustave snorted. "Do not I like sadistic beasts as you. I kill, and over it. I do not like torture! he twisted his claw again, causing the liquids inside Leviathans body to lurch and twist, breaking free of whatever pathways his anatomy has. "Now you will suffer as others have suffered! Jerking back, Leviathan screamed as several ruptures came from his neck, shoulders and chest. Rivers of blood came out of them and through the air, swirling around the crocodiles claw until it coiled around his arm, creating a whole gauntlet of blood around his arm.

Leviathan felt lightheaded with so much liquid leaving his system. It was all he could do not to pass out. Throwing out a punch-like fish, Gustave sent the creature flying back as if hit by an invisible hand, letting the biblical creature crash down a step valley, tumbling along for the moment.

Now Gustave stomped over to Ketos, who was just getting up. Grabbing the dragons arm, he helped him up with one heavy heave, and shoved him hard in the shoulder. "Get up, or stay down and die! And use your gift of water like a real king! " he barked in the face of Ketos, showing him the blood around his free-arm which flowed like a river. Blood of his enemy... Blood. Where there was life, water almost always was. If water was not available in this volcanic wasteland, then this was the next best thing.

Trudging past him, Gustave went after Leviathan. Leaping up, he began sliding down the fall after Leviathan. As he went, he brought up a claw with the blood swirling to make sharp cutting edges to hack into the damn thing and bring the pain!

[Tenshi the Sunkern]

However, it had appeared that, during the gangup against Leviathan, that both Gustave and Ketos had forgotten about their other opponent... Otalsys.

Before the crocodile could reach the biblical monster, the ground beneath him tore open, and the head of the enraged worm bursted out and clamped down upon his tail. Gustave snarled in rage as the worm swung his head back with all his might, smashing the crocodile against one of the walls of the valley, magma pouring out from the impact zone. The blue eyes of the Gatekeeper narrowed. He had thought that in this realm of lava and fire, that water use would be impossible... but both Gustave and Ketos had proven him wrong, by means outside the worm's mind. But no matter, he would make them pay for turning him into a water toy!

As Gustave tried to pull himself free of the crater, the worm had burrowed back into the ground. Silence followd for what seemed like an eternity...

Until the ground behind Ketos gave way.

The Sea Dragon whirled to face his opponent, water building up in his maw... But to his surprise, the jaws of the worm locked onto his as he came up. What the... what was this thing-

!!!

Only too late did the fight against Thanatos warn him as to what would occur. The worm's body expanded as the poisonous gasses inside were expelled out of the mouth and into Ketos's body, some of it leakin gout of the holes created in the worm's sides. Likewise, Ketos's water blasted down into Otalsys's throat, blasting the worm back down into the valley, but the damage was already done. The prideful sea dragon's insides began to scream in pain, as if a chain saw was being applied inside his throat. his insides were being turned to mush, the walls of his mouth, throat, and stomach being eaten away, and blood was spilling out of his mouth. The pain... it was horrendous... "Curse you, worm... NO ONE DEFILES THE KING OF THE SEA!" Ketos garbled as his own blood clogged up his throat...

Back down in the valley, Otalsys had landed ontop of the freed Gustave. With magma running through the crevice, the worm looked down at the reptile, his head readed back to bite down on the back of his head...

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

Instead of Gustave's skull, it was the worm's neck that suffered. Like a cannonball in reverse, a bloody orb of water- the liquid sphere formed out of the spray from Ketos's maw- tore from Otalsys in an explosive geyser of shredded flesh and liquified innards. The gate guardian writhed greatly and screeched in agony, the back of his neck blown open like an execution-style gunshot had pierced him. But his suffering was far from over. As crimson water spilled from the worm's saturated body, it formed a firm leash around Otalsys. The watery tether did not squeeze or cut or harm, but simply held. The helldweller thrashed about madly like a fish on a hook, but the fisherman was having none of it. Reeling in his 'line' with a curl of a single taloned finger, Ketos drew the worm in close. The dragon's face was contoured by rage, his lips curled hideously and his eyes blazing slits against a scrunched brow. Blood still drizzled from his snarling maw. Raising a clutched set of claws, the dragon summoned water from Otalsys's interior and allowed his own life essence to spill into it. The swirling ball of red liquid squeezed into a tight sphere.

"You attacked my inside, groveling serpent," growled the Demon of the Deep. "Allow me to return the favor."

With that final rumble, Ketos flicked a talon and hurled the blood-sphere into the screaming maw of Otalsys. With a twist of his other index claw, the sea monster sent the orb into wild spins that sprayed blades of water out in a broad spiral- like a spectacular firework of blood and water! Otalsys was flayed from the inside, several long, winding gashed carved all the way down his length. Throat to gullet, gullet to anus, it was all craved with gory grooves that squirted goop and mucus. Flailing in the traditional earthworm dance of suffering, Otalsys was left behind by Ketos, the dragon turned to face his other foe-

Leviathan.

"Overthrown? Me?" The blue beast gave a deep cackle. "The oceans will sooner dry up. Not,"[/i] he added with a dangerous edge. "That you would ever live to witness such an event!"

As he spoke, the Tyrant of the Seas began rushing the chimeric sea serpent with thunderous footfall. The ancient evil flexed, readying himself for a clash of aquatic kings, but he was taken off guard when Ketos screeched to a stop and spun on a heel. Flat tail paddle cutting through the air like a blade, the dragon directed the serrated fin towards the central head of his foe. There was a flash of blue, a splash of blood, and the joint of Leviathan's jaw were slashed wide open! The wicked being let his jaw fall with a crimson arc and a shrill yell.

"You needed," heckled Ketos. "To lighten up."

Water burst from the jaws of the dragon and towards Leviathan's permanent smile...

[Blerhwave]

24 hours, 'Jones.

[The Merry Lambfish]

(OCC: Me, not Jones, SW.)




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A vengeful hiss escaped Leviathan as the jet of water suddenly exploded into a harmless steam, his elemental abilities saving his jaw from any further destruction. The steams own soft hiss mixed with that of the angry sea beast, his yellow eyes locked on Ketos’s ruby red. He had underestimated the blue monster since the beginning of the match, though Leviathan’s sheer arrogance would never allow for him to admit it. While both were indeed quite arrogant, Ketos had one advantage over his serpentine foe. He was also extremely stubborn. Arrogance was the cause for both their pride, but it was Ketos’s never give up attitude that gave him an advantage over Leviathan.

This only fueled the serpent’s anger.

The two monsters attacked, Ketos leaping with his claws outstretched, Leviathan with all three jaws wide open. An explosion of blood erupted just as the two collided. The sapphire scaled sea king raked his claws down Leviathan’s center neck, while the serpent’s naga and death worm heads whipped around and latched onto his back, just below the shoulders. After a few moments of their intense struggle Ketos unleashed a scream of pure rage as his body grew limp, failing to respond to his brain. The death worm had injected its paralyzing venom in and around Ketos’s spinal chord, temporarily disabling the sapphire monster. The three headed sea monster grinned as his opponent slumped to the ground. Only his head could properly move.

“No need to fret,” Leviathan smirked, his sliced jaw giving him a psychopathic facile expression. “The paralyzation will only last a short while. The question is… what shall we do in the meantime? Before Ketos could muster an angry response, a heat beam exploded from Leviathan’s middle head, hitting Ketos in the face and pushing his body into the side of a small mountain. As the heat began to melt the scales of his face into liquid, an explosion erupted around the impact point, shrouding the dragon in smoke and flames and sending flesh flying in all directions.

Now for Gustave.

The crocodile was already preoccupied with the demonic worm tunneling through the volcanic rock. By the time he noticed Leviathan’s presence, the serpent had already struck! Sharp, teeth-like plates slammed into the back of his neck, where the neck met she shoulders. The force of Leviathan’s bite crunched the armored scutes into loose crumbs and ground skin and flesh into hamburger meat, effectively creating a gap in Gustave’s body armor. Leviathan’s jaws opened again, and another heat beam fired from the opening. The beam drew closer to the wound on the crocodile’s neck…

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The beam fired and struck, partway. Just as it fired and hit, Gustave simply threw his entire body right into Leviathan, pushing the three-headed monster back with all the power his muscles could push. Near the end of his pushing, he flung his head upward and bashed his skull against the monsters middle-head. Oh what a satisfying cracking noise of bone upon bone smacking together.

Leviathan had a nasty crack going along his armored face after that. It bleed constantly, going all the way up and into the back of his head. It riled him greatly. "You shall pay for this, and expect interest. He lunged, both side heads coming at Gustave to strike.
However as they came, Gustave reached out and grasped both tightly in his claws. Both heads squealed and writhed in struggle but to no avail. With one hard yank, he pulled Leviathan toward him and slammed his hard skull against Leviathans one... two... THREE! A fourth one sent the beast right into the ground, dazed, and his armored skull bashed up. At least one of his plated teeth fell out.
Gustave glared and kicked the middle head he just beat senseless. "You talk too much. Do instead of talk! Leviathan enjoyed himself far too much. If Ketos's weakness was arrogance, then Leviathan's was simply not shutting up when he should be fighting instead.

At least Otalsys had that part down. The worm came from below, aimed at the legs. Gustave heard it coming as rock split and the creatures shriek echoed out. Gustave turned just as the mandibles wrapped around his leg and attempted to pull him down into the hot earth. Probably to bury him in lava or something.
But Gustave was a big and heavy creature. Gustave pulled his leg back and ripped it free of the teeth. He reached down to pull the worm out of the earth, but missed. Annoyed, Gustave dug at the ground, trying to dig it up. But Gustave was smart, and gave up.

Stomping away from the stunned Leviathan, he kept an eye out for the worm. Otalsys was a pesky creature, but he had to give it credit. It used stealth and ambush, just like him. Gustave thought... then had an idea.
Gustave raised his claw and waved it around. The ash clouds above obeyed and down came several fingers of blackness. Twisters! As each one struck the ground, they tore up the rock and earth, picking up everything in between; Lava included.

It wasn't long until Otalsys came too close to the surface and was ripped out of the baked earth and into the air. The worm was thrown for a loop, to say the least.
Open to an attack, lightning generated by volcanic clouds began to charge and fire. Gustave commanded the storms above. Otalsys was struck several times while it was in the air before it finally the wind released him and sent him crashing down.

Standing there for a moment, Gustave felt empowered. A growl rumbled in his throat, then he spread his jaws in a mighty and fierce, grumbling roar.

[Tenshi the Sunkern]

With the crocodile's roar, the serpentine worm raised his own head up. Pain was all over his body. Blood, his own blood, was dripping from inumerable wounds. The lightning strikes and the fall had done great damage to Otalsys...

But they had also enraged him. Never had he suffered this kind of punishment before. The Gatekeeper reared his head back and from his maw erupted a blood-curling screech, one that was more in tune with the howling winds of the volcanic landscape than with any normal roar. His eyes narrowed at Gustave and Ketos.

No one treated the favored pet of the Goddess of the Underworld like a living electrical conductor. No one!

Flames churned inside of the gargantuan worm as a single fireball was expelled out, aimed for the crocodilian. Gustave commanded the winds, and the fireball dispersed before it reached him...

All of which serves Otalsys's distraction well as the worm crashed into the croc, sending him tumbling onto his back.

With the croc pinned under him, for the first time in the match, and to the complete surprise to both him, Ketos, and leviathan, the worm spoke, and in a voice most unfitting for it's appearance.

"How unfortunate. You have actually pissed off Otalsys worse than anyone else. I feel most sorry for you, River King and Ocean King." The voice spoke out, the voice feminine, and also childish, like that of a ten year old. It wasn't so much that Otalsys was talking, but someone else was emmiting their voice from his mouth!

The shocked look on Gustave's face was replaced with a steam of poisonous gasses straight into his face. In pain and retaliation, the croc's tail whacked the worm across the face, knocking him off the River King, but the damage was done. Already, his face was once more suffering from the effects of the poison. Otalsys snarled in unbound rage, clamped his jaws down on the throat of the crocodile, and using all his might, the worm hurled him through the air, right for Ketos, accompanied by a bellowing howl from the injured Gatekeeper...

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

The worm rammed into the dragon's scaly chest like a living balistic missile, the Gatekeeper's teeth and poison slashing into his veins like knifes. The king of the oceans roared in anger and pain, his blood burning like a wound that slowly smouldered and the toxic mist from Otalsys's maw wisping up into his mouth and nostrils. The Tyrant of the Seas howled in fury as his talons wrapped around the tubular musculature of the guardian.

"Reeemmooovvvveeee," hissed the blue beast. "YOURSELF FROM ME!"

The sea monster hurled the worm away- a sizable chuck of his breast still in the invertebrate's snaggled rows of fangs- and whirled with his tail cutting through the air like joint sabers. Before his wriggling length even struck the ground, the paddle came down upon Otalsys like a sapphire axe. Once, twice, thrice, and finally four times the finned appendage struck, each blow hacking into rough flesh like a blade into wood. But instead of thick, sticky sap, Ketos was reward with a hot gush of blood for his efforts, his bladed scales drenched in the life essence of his foe. Leaving Otalsys open and writhing, the Demon of the Deep spun upon Leviathan with dark fire in his eyes. The blue behemoth's body was still sore and aching from the serpent's venom, and Ketos was never one to forgive.

"You will taste your own power, wretch."

Leviathan sneered, and his naga head reared with fangs stretching wide. A cold mist curled from the yawning pink maw, and Ketos narrowed his eyes. Quick as an aquatic streak of lightning, the dragon spat a thin stream of boiling water and used a raised claw to curve it into the naga's slitted eye. The bubbling water scorched the vulnerable optic tissue like liquid suffering, and the reptilian mug jerked away with a screech. Like spears, the ice shards spilled out. But not toward Ketos.

Towards its own sibling heads!

The main and Death Worm heads of Leviathan bellowed in pain as they were skewered, stabbed, and pierced, blood pumping down their curved necks like tangled rivers. Chuckling darkly, Ketos raised a set of talons and smashed his clawed digits into a first. The ice- under the influence of the arrogant monster- collapsed inwards, crushing into Leviathan's wet flesh in a glistening layers of tiny blades and chips. The ancient evil thrashed and wailed as his open wounds filled with sharp fragments of cold, Ketos laughing merrily as he dug them deeper and deep with his mind, claws scrapping against his palm with the dry groan of sandpaper-on-sandpaper. Perhaps, considered the cruel giant as he watched red fall from his victim like rain, he could force the cutting slush all the way to the brain...

[The Merry Lambfish]

The ice shards soon slowed to a halt, as the agonized serpent began to resist with his own water based powers. Not wanting to be out done, Ketos concentrated further. Leviathan pushed right back. For nearly twenty whole seconds, the two struggled for supremacy as if in an arm wrestling match. Neither gave in to the other. Both giants remained even in their contest.

Still, Leviathan was never one to play fair.

As the two pushed their powers to the brink, Leviathan's middle head opened to reveal his swirling orange heat ray, striking Ketos's left knee and causing him to lose both concentration and flesh amongst the fiery explosion. Seizing the opportunity, the ice shards popped out of Leviathan's flesh. 

Stumbling back onto his feet, Ketos swiped at Leviathan's right shoulder, drawing more blood. The naga head, the closest to thee attack site, responded with its tongue spear. The long weapon speared into the sapphire monster's gut, but instead of retracting, the sharp tip began to thrash about on the inside.tearing apart muscle and blood vessels. As he did this, a black orb of energy materialized into Leviathan's right hand. The serpent whipped the disintegration orb towards Gustave. Upon impact, the crocodile's mighty scutes and scales on his upper back simply broke down, creating a nice gap in his armor and earning the all-so-pleasant additional scream of pain. Pain, as well as rage.

The Naga's tongue slithered out of Ketos's body, its owner joining up with the deathworm head. The two fired off a simultaneous beam, and both ice shards and electricity combined into a swirling, high voltage barrage of razors. The combo beam closed in on (in a dick move by Leviathan's part) Gustave's crotch area...

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Luckily for Gustave and out of sheer luck, his own stumbling saved him a rather painful strike... or at least at full force. The attack struck and partly hit home, where the rest hit his side, tearing up scales and ice shards imbedded into his strong hide.

Though, in pain, Gustave was royally pissed the fuck off. Just because he was a pissy attitude to begin with, that... really... HURT. And what did oh mighty Gustave do when he was angry? They roared... Loudly.
Glaring at Leviathan, who was still mostly busy with Ketos and tearing up the unfortunate dragons guts, Gustave's throat rumbled with anger. A deep breath was taken, big as he could take for one his size. Throwing his head forward, a mighty hollering roar straight at the three-headed monster. A master of wind, the roar kicked up a something fierce gale of wind strong enough to rip up rock. Naturally, this display of fierceness and power brought his enemies attention to him... but as he looked over, the wind struck with enough force to knock the titanic thing right back into the nearby lava flow in which the creature fell into and sank...

Despite already sending one of the enemies right into a fiery pit, Gustave was still having a huge outrage. He stomped around, roaring, hissing, and probably cursing as far as anyone could have guessed. As he kept on raging, the wind all around the area blew and whirled in a great cyclone, threatening to turn into a nasty storm. But with no water, it could not be done.

Ketos, rubbing his stomach in pain, yanked out part of the tentacle that was left in him when Leviathan was knocked off him. He threw it into a nearby lava flow, letting it sizzle and burn. "Accursed beast defiled me... Ketos was rather pissed off too, obviously and glared off at the pool of Magma.
Exploding from the magma, Leviathan shrieked and flailed his way out of the hellish pool of fire. Hot molten rock stuck to his entire body, scolding him in great pain.
Lips curling in a snarl, Ketos had means to rip him a new one...

Now in his rage, Gustave was being stalked by Otalsys. After the last beating, the worm was not going to get near him while he is so damn alert. encircling the area, he waited, but he did not have to wait too long.
In his stomping and crushing, the entire volcanic area shifted. So much lava flow beneath, something as heavy as monsters could cause massive parts of land to shift is something broke. For Gustave, he did that on accident and made the entire area for all four of the monsters shift, slanting the flat area...
And Gustave went down. In a sinkhole-like fashion, he landed on his back about one-hundred feet or so, falling on his back. Naturally it pissed him off more.

Otalsys attacked! Coming from the side and out of the rock, the worm released a burst of flame and hit the reptile hard. Diving head down right after the attack and on the other side of Gustave, Otalsys backed around and coiled, bringing a crushing force around the monster.
But Gustave would not have that. Yanking one arm free, he grasped worms head as it came around, and planned to slam his strong jaws upon the gatekeepers face..

[Tenshi the Sunkern]

Otalsys shrieked in hatred and pain as the jaws of the crodocile slammed shut on his head. sharp teeth tore through the worm's flesh, and blood ozzed out of the bite marks. The worm thrashed around, trying to free himself, until suddenly, he went limp. Gustave, curious as to what this meant, let go, and the worm's body slumped down onto the ground. Gustave kicked the worm's corpse once. Was it... dead? The croc bent his head over to get a closer look...

And recieved a face-full of poisonous fumes right into his mouth.

As Otalsys slithered off into the earth to attack from a diffrent angle, Gustave screeched in pain as he felt the insides of his mouth and throat burn from the poison. Teeth began to fall out of their gums, and the croc's mouth filled with blood. It was agonizingly painful, and it made the river knig rage even more, tearing through the lava and magma begneath him in blind fury.

"Oh... you and your friend seemed so confident that both of your water powers were sufficient... that both of you were kings, yet where is your pride now? Where is your power now, Gustave?" The voice came again, this time from behind him. The croc whirled around... and took a deadly uppercut from the worm's tail to the chin. The force of the blow sent the crocodile flying out of the lava pit and onto his back. Dazed by the hit and impact, Gustave was at the mercy of the worm, who was swift to erupt out of the ground and latch onto the croc's throat. Coils wrapped around Gustave's arms, and within moments, he was held binded by the worm, the latch on his throat slowly suffocating him away, while the poson from his fangs ate at his flesh. "Dream of the power you wished you had... Dream of the victory you wished to obtain." The childish voice whispered out of Otalsys's maw, the giant worm acting as a megaphone for the voice that was not the worm's own...

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

As the great worm held Gustave in his toxic chokehold, he felt the sharp, burning pang of teeth piercing his own scaly hide. Chomping deep into a portion of skin, scales, and meat near the worm's backside, Ketos narrowed glowing eyes. No sooner than his teeth slid into flesh, a torrent of hot water followed it. Filling like a balloon, Otalsys straightened with a muffled screech, foam and salty drips joining the blood and poison that seeped from his maw. Water sprayed from the damaged portion of the guardian's cylindrical length, slimy geysers filled with lifeblood bubbling from his side, spine, and neck. The breathing space in his tube-like form lessening and grip loosening, it was only a matter of time before...

WhhhHHH!-OOOUUUUUuuuurrrgghhhh...

Otalsys launched from Gustave's jugular like an escaped balloon. The worm whizzed back almost two hundred meters, sea foam spewing from his open jaws like a comet's tail or a rocket's jet flames. Smashing into the jagged earth and tumbling- water and spray cast up from him like a gruesome yard toy- away from the two aquatic kings, the gatekeeper squealed miserably as soon as his mouth was devoid of enough water to do so.

"Stupid serpent," mumbled Gustave, his claws wrapped around his torn throat. It still ached and pained, but Ketos's liquid breath- channeled through Otalsys like a hose- had cleaned out much of the venom and infection.

Ketos curled his lips to put in, but a mighty hiss interrupted his deep rumble.

"I am the serpent you should be truly worried about." Leviathan hauled himself from the river of lava, flesh and armor still sizzling, and glared with all three heads. "I shall end the pair of you."

The Demon of the Deep chuckled. "You have a little something on you. Please... allow me."

A wall of boiled water slammed Leviathan like a hammer, and the legendary evil was pushed away, claws slicing into the volcanic soil. The molten rock that coated his lengthy structure cooled and cracked rapidly, encasing the sea monster in an obsidian suit. The frustrated serpent hissed and snarled as he attempted to break free, but the black glass restrained his movement severely, and what did give way often just sliced between his scales and into his flesh. Charging forward with a monstrous chortle, Ketos whirled on a heel and crashed his paddled tail into the trapped entity. Glass and blood flew outwards as Leviathan was pulverized with a broad stripe of jagged shards and chips. Sheets of crimson spilled out, and the ancient killer let out a mixed breath of fury and agony.

Curling his tail back, the Tyrant of the Seas smirked and swung out the heavy appendage again...