Corrupted Radiatons

by Michael Rogers

  *Ginger's words caused the shurikens to suddenly spiral on their own accord, swirling back towards the Scoldrant's head.*

  Gargoyle: "SOLER FLARE" *It roared out a small, faint transparent beam towards Ginger, as if it didn't care about the shurikens.*

  Ginger: *She gasped in shock and quickly placed her finger on her arm, before sliding it down her arm.* "COMET'S VEIL"

  *A comet-like boulder shot itself in line with the Scoldrant's beam, causing it to explode into rubble.*

  Ginger: *She covered her face, as pieces of rock flew past her.* "Ykkt!"

  Gargoyle: *Blood from small cuts on Ginger's face, caused it to act more aggressive.* "Garr!"

  Ginger: *She watched the flames extinguish, allowing her to see her shuriken's location.* "Yoeshh!" *She swayed her arms, causing the shurikens to violently scissor the Scoldrant's face.*

  Gargoyle: *Sparks flashed off its scales, causing it to sway its arm in front of its face, as if a fly was annoying it.* "Garthh!-"

  *A ball of bright red flames clustered above the Gargoyle and suddenly exploded downwards, sliding it back across the ground.*

  Ginger: "Cosmic flames, crash down, blasting burns, SPIRAL FLAMES" *She stood in a battle-ready pose, as a red glyph flashed into nothing.*

  Gargoyle: *It waited for the fire to extinguish, allowing it to notice several burnt scales.* "Garth?"

  Ginger: (An incantation boosted Spiral Flames did not even penetrate its scales? I know it directly hit, even the Rasticsplash pushed it that far-)

  *Ginger crossed her arms and clicked her fingers, causing shards of her shurikens to burst and pierce into the Scoldrant's body.*

  Ginger: "Shuriken Burst." *She stared at the shuriken's blades sticking out of the Scoldrant's body.*

  "Yoeshh! You must be more resistant to Remenistal than you are to physical attacks-"

  Gargoyle: *It stepped forward, causing all the blades to casually fall to the ground.* "Garth!"

  Ginger: "How! Illogical!" *She shouted on her breath, observing the Scoldrant's scales.* (My blades never penetrated its body-)

  Gargoyle: *It flapped its wings and flew into striking distance, scratching towards Ginger's chest.* "Gar-"

  Ginger: *She front flipped on top of the Scoldrant's hand and started to run up its arm towards its face.* "Neurons draw, Astragons repel, ETHEREAL BANDAGES" *She flipped forward and faced the ground, as two ribbon-like strings of light flickered out of a small white glyph from her hand.*

  Gargoyle: *It watched the strings of light wrap around its arm, before spiralling to the ground.* "Gath?!"

  Ginger: *She landed on the Scoldrant's head, as the ribbons of light pulled its arm down, locking it in place.* "Yoeshh!"

  Gargoyle: *It tried to bite Ginger's ankles, as it attempted to pull its arm out of the ground.* "Garth!"

  Ginger: *She jumped off the Scoldrant's head and high into the air while straightening her arms, spreading them to each side.* "Storms flash and swirl, instantly spark and wrap your energy around me, ELECTRIC TORNADO"

  *Ginger swirled in a spiral motion and streams of electricity, flashed around her.*

  Gargoyle: *It watched the lightning intensify, as it swirled into a tornado, sparking up and down its arms.* "Garth!"

  Ginger: (Yoeshh!) *She smiled to herself, as she elegantly spiralled in the electric tornado towards the ground.*

  Gargoyle: *It twitched its head to the side, realising it had a free arm.* "Garh!"

  *The Scoldrant suddenly threw a fist at Ginger, punching her out of the lightning tornado.*

  Ginger: *She hit the ground and tumbled onto her stomach, as lightning swirled around her.* "Ykkt!" *She gritted her teeth and swayed her wrist, causing all the electricity to flash in nothing.*

  Gargoyle: *It pulled its arm out of the ground, causing the sounds of wires snapping to be heard.* "Garth!" *It stepped forward, readying to attack.*

  Ginger: *She pushed herself up off the ground and faced the Scoldrant, holding onto slight burns.* (It has an all-round immunity?)

  Gargoyle: "Garth!" *It flew towards Ginger, not allowing her time to react.*

  Ginger: *She glanced over her shoulder towards the wooden fortress, discreetly touching a glyph on her arm.* (Arcadia, are you that busy?)

  Gargoyle: *It swooped into striking distance, scratching towards Ginger's exposed neck.* "Garth!-"

  Ginger: "PIERCING CLOUDS" *She looked back in front with an emotionless face and three streams of cloud-like smoke wafted into the Scoldrant's stomach.*

  Gargoyle: *It was suddenly lifted off its feet and pushed back by a pulse of cloud.* "Garth!" *It flapped its wings, trying to stabilise its landing.*

  Ginger: *She felt the ground rumble, as it landed on its back.* "Despite having a strong Remenistic defence, there should be an elemental weakness?! Yet, nothing has worked so far?!"

  *Ginger frowned in thought, watching the Scoldrant stumble back onto its feet as if she didn't know what to do.*

  Ginger: (You can tell an opponent's weakness by determining how strong they are against which element. Despite its scales, my Spiral Flames did absolutely no damage. Therefore its weakness should be ice or water-?)

  ?????: "We believe its weakness is ice-"

  Ginger: "We? Who goes there?! Please respond!" *She shouted, watching a man dressed in a red silk sun-like robe, walking into the clearing.* (Those sun hair ornaments-) "Skyward?"

  Skyward: "This long-lived Scoldrant is our guild request."

  Gargoyle: "Gargargarth." *It laughed at Skyward, as if it found his presence humorous.*

  Ginger: "Don't be foolish, you have no power-"

  ?????: "That's right, brother. No power at all." *A woman dressed in a blue silk, moon-like robe followed Skyward.*

  Ginger: (Hayward.)

  Hayward: *She walked by Skyward's side, holding his hand.* "You need to strike it down-"

  Skyward: "By using a fast Remenistal-"

  Hayward: "With heightened or condensed pulses of Neurons."

  Ginger: "Pulses?"

  Skyward: "Yes."

  Hayward: "This is done by-"

  Ginger: *She shook her head.* "It's quite easy to alter your Neurons and Astragons, but altering the level of Neuron or Astragon input during a Remenistal is quite hard, let alone pulsating your Neurons."

  Skyward: "You speak-"

  Hayward: "As if you know the formula?"

  Ginger: *She nodded her head in an insulted-like manner.* "I am a full fledged Remenistal User, of course I know the formula."

  Skyward: "We have fought several Scoldrants that have progressed to the stage three state."

  Ginger: "Stage three state?"

  Skyward: "Around three years ago, there was a Scoldrant User-"

  Hayward: "That started to get aggravated. His Neurons unnaturally spiked-"

  Skyward: "And his eyes turned yellow."

  Gargoyle: *It faced Skyward and Hayward and flapped its wings, flying across the ground towards them.* "Garth."

  Hayward: *She firmly held Skyward's hand, as a red and blue glyph simultaneously drew itself underneath them.* "That was stage one."

  Skyward: "Stage two-" *He swirled with Hayward and a wave of fire and water crashed into a violent scorching wave.*

  Skyward and Hayward: "HEIGHTENED MERCURY BLAZE"

  Gargoyle: "Gart-" *It prepared to fly through the water and was unexpectedly pushed back.*

  Skyward: "Stage two is where the body disproportionates and a further increase of Neurons is poured into the brain."

  Hayward: *She spiralled with Skyward and jumped forward together, both pointing in front.* "And stage three-"

  Skyward and Hayward: "WATER-CRIMSON-STORM-BEAM" *A blue ray flashed directly towards the Scoldrant and hit it, pinning it down to the ground.*

  Gargoyle: "Garth!" *It moaned, as water-like fire ran down its arm.*

  Skyward: "Stage three is what you see now."

  Ginger: "Ey, Hayward, Skyward, how do you know of this?"

  Hayward: "Th
ere was a reason why-"

  Skyward: "The Seraphic Sunders stopped taking on public requests."

  Ginger: (They've been tracking these things on purpose?)

  Hayward: "Despite it being our mission, we owe great respect to Grey-"

  Skyward: "So, in the name of Silver Wind Island, please take it down."

  Ginger: *She shook her head.* "I don't know how to do that? It's illogical to think I haven't tried already."

  Skyward: "Something fast-"

  Hayward: "With several pulses of heightened Neurons."

  Ginger: (Fast with pulsating Neurons..) *She watched the Scoldrant continue to fight off the water-fire current.*

  *Skyward and Hayward remained in their pointing pose, keeping an ongoing current on the Scoldrant.*

  Ginger: *She admired the water-like fire.* (Logically, that technique would be a perfect combination to break through shield-like Remenistal-) *She gasped in realisation.*

  Skyward: "I'm getting tired-"

  Hayward: "You know I am, too." *She spoke with a loss of concentration.*

  Ginger: (Out of my current Remenistal, Comet's Veil or Electric Tornado are my fastest base speed Remenistal. But Electric Tornado would be easier to add Neurons in mid-strike as I'm still connected to it.)

  Hayward: "Please assist!"

  Skyward: "It will break free."

  Ginger: "Yoeshh." *She frowned in determination and started to run towards the Scoldrant.*

  Gargoyle: *It watched the scales on its arm slightly glow red, due to the ongoing rush of water-like fire.* "Garth!"

  Hayward: "This Remenistal wasn't used to pierce its heightened Neuronic scales, but-"

  Skyward: "To hold it down."

  Ginger: "Storms flash and swirl-" *She ran into striking distance and enthusiastically swayed her body to the side.*

  Hayward: *She watched the lightning suddenly thicken and thin, causing it to look like an electrifying snake.* "She's-"

  Skyward: "Doing it."

  Ginger: "Instantly spark and wrap your energy around me-" *She swayed both arms while rotating on her heels, watching the lightning move to her will.*

  Gargoyle: "SOLAR FLARE" *It roared out another weak, transparent beam, bursting the Ward's water-like fire.* "Garth!" *The lightning caught its attention, causing it to notice Ginger spiralling the lightning towards it.*

  Ginger: *She twirled into striking distance and swayed her arms up in an uppercut-like manner.* "ELECTRIC TORNADO"

  Gargoyle: "Garth?" *It froze in shock, as its face lit up due to the incoming lightning.*

  Hayward: "May the Astragons bless you in the afterlife." *She tilted her head to one side, causing her moon and star hair ornaments to bounce.*

  Skyward: "Giihee." *He chuckled, causing his sun and star hair ornaments to wobble.*

  Ginger: "Begone!" *She shouted and watched the lightning swirl straight through the Scoldrant, causing it to moan in pain.*

  Skyward: "Hayward, now!"

  Hayward: *She ran by Skyward's side directly towards the collapsing Scoldrant.* "We must-"

  Ginger: *She stopped spinning and staggered back, watching the Ward's rush towards the Scoldrant.* "Yoh... Yoh..." *She struggled to breathe..*

  Skyward: "Do it now!"

  Ginger: *The bamboo-like strings holding her hair unstrapped, causing it to sway in front of her face, as she hunched for in an exhausted-like manner.* (Ey? For someone who has supposedly mastered the basic uses of Remenistal Using, I am quite worn out-)

  Hayward and Skyward: "Hi-Ougi."

  Ginger: "Hi-Ougi?" *She watched Hayward and Skyward hold hands while they ran, which looked quite comical.*

  Hayward: "With the Remenistic seals of the relaxing waters of The Astral Plains!"

  Skyward: "Burning depths of Valhalla, I summon the breakdown seals!"

  Ginger: *She watched Hayward and Skyward straighten the arms they held hands with and jumped into opposite directions, revealing a blue and red string.* "They're holding a string?" *She whispered to herself in curiosity.*

  Gargoyle: *It held its healing chest in pain, watching Skyward and Hayward run in a circle around it.* "Garth!"

  Hayward: "Wash my foes into the circular darkness of the violent seas!"

  Skyward: "Burn the waters into ash, and with it, create a new matter!" *They ran in a complete circle and held opposite hands, raising the arms they held the string with.*

  Ginger: (They've circled the Scoldrant with that Roharnia based string?) *She thought to herself in confusion, as if she wasn't sure what she was seeing.*

  Hayward: "Combine into your new matter, inhale your relaxing death!"

  Skyward: "Emerge from your new matter, inhale your burning death!" *They threw their arms to the ground, causing the circular string to suddenly expand into a glyphic platform.*

  Ginger: *She noticed the area darken, as the blue and red glyph lit up the surrounding area.* (They've not only mastered the element, but have taken their twin-like bond to a whole new level-)

  Gargoyle: *It looked down, staring at the glyph.* "SOLAR-"

  Hayward and Skyward: "EVAPORATING ASH STORM" *Mist-like water steamed up from the glyph.*

  Ginger: *She looked confused.* (All that incantation and Neurons exhausted for steam?)

  Gargoyle: *It waved the steam away from its face and opened its jaw, readying to roar out another beam.* "FLAR-"

  Hayward: *She smiled, as a sweat bead ran down her forehead.* "Giiheehee."

  Skyward: "Done." *He stood up in a relaxed-like manner, causing the red parts of the glyphic platform to fade away.*

  Ginger: *She noticed Skyward no longer in a battle pose.* "Ey? The Scoldrant has yet to be defeated-"

  Gargoyle: "Gar-?" *It coughed out black smoke and staggered back, catching Ginger's attention.*

  Hayward: "Our Hi-Ougi combines the mastered state of water and fire-"

  Skyward: "And changes its property into water-like vapours-"

  Hayward: "Which is actually fire."

  Ginger: "Mist fire? Illogical! There is no such thing!"

  Gargoyle: *It noticed bursts of flames spurt out from its scales, as it continued to breathe out black smoke.* "Garth-arth-arth?"

  Hayward: "After many battles, we noticed the only effective way to destroy these stage threes-"

  Skyward: "Is by destroying them from the inside out."

  Ginger: "So I was just a pawn? Please respond!"