Jesse opened round two by launching a barrage of petrifying stone shards. Adam flashed sideways avoiding the entire salvo. Jesse did not give up though, he formed a huge spike of petrifying stone and rushed his opponent utilizing the increased speed granted by the comets covering his feet.
“Enough with these toys!” A staticky voice shouted before Adam suddenly appeared at the side of Jesse’s body. He promptly crushed the stone spike and the eye at its core. The resulting explosion of petrifying energy slid off Adam like water off a duck’s back.
Adam flashed again and appeared across the rooftop, “Fight me like a man or I’ll kill you like a dog.” He growled.
Hearing this, Jesse started a chant.
“With boiling blood and overflowing bile.”
“Towards everything that makes me hostile.”
“To burn to ash all that I revile.”
“As the one who unleashed your anger from its cage.”
“As the one who set you on your rampage.”
“By my authority as your liege I demand my wage.”
“My Regent of Rage.”
When the last word left Jesse’s mouth a torrent of blackish red energy poured out of his body. The giant bull’s head covering his left hand proceeded to breath in the sea of energy morphing in the process. The bull became a blackish red metal that then spread up Jesse’s arm until covering his shoulder.
As Jesse prepared to reengage his opponent steam shot from the vent formed in the new arm covering. Jesse then charged with a vicious haymaker lined up.
Adam met his charge in the middle with a haymaker of his own. When the two fists met, Adam’s immediately plowed through shattering all of Jesse’s temporary armaments. Jesse was sent flying and landed in a heap at the edge of the roof.
Adam was over him in a flash.
“I’m disappointed. I really am. That witch promised me a lion and all I got is a mouse. Do not worry though I will end your shame right now.” Adam said standing over his opponent preparing to stomp his head into a paste.
Just as his foot was about to reach Jesse’s head it stopped, and Adam flashed backwards.
“You are just delaying the inevitable. Why do you not just give up?” Adam said with a shake of his head.
His question was met by a series of icy spines lurching from the floor.
Adam took in the newest of his opponent’s forms. Jesse’s right eye had turned into an orb of artic blue with a trail of frozen tears flowing from it. His skin had turned a deathly pale, and his lips turned a cyanotic blue.
Jesse dropped an empty milk carton on the floor. He then slowly walked towards his opponent.
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Vampires are a funny race of creatures. For you see most creatures are at their strongest when they are well sated. Not the vampire though. They are creatures of hunger. Hunger brings them closer to the core of their existence. It unleashes something primal.
In the case of the energy vampire, it releases an ever-hungry frost. A frost that consumes all that dares to be warm. To be vibrant. To be alive.
As Jesse approached Adam could feel the changing environment. Everything slowed to a crawl. Air. Thoughts. Lightning. The metallic armor he wore slowly grew a layer of hoarfrost.
When Jesse got close enough, he lifted his hand and placed it on Adam’s chest. From the hand sprouted tendrils of an abyssal black ice that spread like a cancer throughout the lightning bolt that made up Adam’s body.
As Adam looked into Jesse’s mismatched eyes, he saw nothing. No pain. No joy. No anger. No sadness. No mercy.
As Adam looked into himself, he felt those same things fade away. He remembered something he had read as a boy. The best way to die was to be murdered. Blooding pumping. Adrenaline racing. Life on the line. You never feel so alive as when you die that way. The worst way was to freeze to death. Systems shut down one by one. You realize just how much a machine you are as said machine breaks down. You feel how much you were never really alive as you die.
“No.” Adam whispered under his breath.
“This is not how I die.” Adam said it slightly louder and with renewed energy.
“I am Adam Victor Frankenstein the Fifth, and this is not how my story ends!” Adam shouted before unleashing an electrical storm around himself that vaporized all the ice by overloading it with energy.
Jesse slid away from him after creating a shield made of ice between them.
Turns out that it was not only Jesse who got to be a multi-stage boss.
Adam had gone from lightning bolt to living storm. He was a twister of lightning and metal shrapnel forced into a vaguely human shape.
Adam surged towards Jesse as a cloud of death and was met by Jesse surrounded by a snowstorm of black ice.
The black ice did slow the lightning and cause some of the shrapnel to crumble into dust, but it was a losing battle. For every lightning bolt that fizzled, two more burned across his skin. For every shrapnel that Jesse took, five more scored his skin. For all that his new form gave, it took as well.
Jesse was unable to use any other energy type or ability. Which meant that he had no way to heal the damage accumulated. He covered his wounds with ice to both protect and mitigate them, but it was a stopgap at best.
Jesse had to break the “in case of emergency” glass, his last resort. He had to unleash the rot and hope for the best. He just did not like what “the best” was looking like.
Being:
Body:
[Nascent Energy Vampire Progenitor]
Soul Tattoos:
[Celestial Weaving]
[Sand: Tier Three]
[Water: Tier Five]
[Faith: Tier One]
[Holy Water: Tier Three]
[Shadow: Tier Five]
[Necromancy: Tier Five]
[Rot: Tier ErRoR]
[Phoenix Fire: Tier Nine]
Special Abilities:
[Empowerment: Tier Nine]
[Emotional Empowerment: Tier One]
[Emotional Manipulation: Tier One]
Current Equipment:
Head:
[The Black Wasp Jackal’s Face]
[Vampire’s Hunger]
Earrings:
[]
Necklace:
[]
Clothes:
[]
Rings:
[The Mentalism Ring]
[Mena’s Book]
[Olivia’s Friendship]
Bracelets:
[]
Shoes:
[]
Armaments:
[Beastly Heart]
[Murder Weapon]
Storage:
[Various Utility Artifacts]
[Various Articles Of Clothing]
[Death Dogtags]
[Leech Muscles]
[Leech Teeth]
[Chimeric Essence]