Hero Tournament: Flashfire Vs Vixen

What a fast transformation! Flashfire grinned as she skidded away, coming to a stop after rebounding from the shield. What was this... a porcupine now? So this was the power of Vixen! She slammed her fists together, smoke pouring from her wide, wild smile.

"What a great reaction! Yeah, this is what I wanted from this fight! Alright, let's turn this up a notch!"

Flashfire inhaled deeply, her chest expanding as she brought in as much air as possible... then she released it with a gasping roar. Flames escaped from her mouth in a great wide cone, blasting forward towards the transforming Hero. Flashfire wanted to see how she would react to her flames, and see if she needed to get even hotter!

As Vixen leapt into the air, Flashfire snapped her jaws shut, flames spluttering out. She popped another chilli biscuit into her mouth, a Bird's Eye Heat, 10,0000 SHU! Her skin glowed warm and hot, more smoke pouring from her mouth as she let out another dominating roar. The crowd was roaring back, excited by the clash of the two heroes. As Vixen began to fall, giant trunk-like legs aiming to crush the Dragon flat, Flashfire dove out of the way. The stadium shook as Vixen landed, as the other hero skidded and twisted to face her opponent. Flashfire rose to her full height, slamming her knuckles together.

Then she surged forward again, fists clenched tight. As she approached Vixen, Flashfire unleashed a barrage of powerful blows, enhanced by her internal heat and the spices that gave her all the power she needed to continue this fight!

All Vixen could do was giggle in the face of Flashfire's ferocity. "You're much too kawaii when you're this fired up! I guess I'll have to try motto harder!" The catch of her shell tail made her exclaim in surprise. She uttered a less than pure cry and could feel herself getting lifted. Her strikes ceased as her tails took on another form, except the one Flashfire grasped. The ones she transformed became snakes that grappled under and around Flashfire's shoulders and arms in the spots where the heat was less intense but still fierce. She winced a bit as she hung onto these parts...as it wouldn't be for long.

The moment she was swung overhead, the tail Flashfire had ahold of reverted from a shell and became much smaller. A rat tail that would easily escape the red-hot grasp of the scorching hero. Now it was Vixen's turn to exert her own strength as she had grown up also watching her share of wrestling and knew that what she was about to do required momentum. Momentum Flashfire had given her so graciously. She had to turn herself in mid-air and used Flashfire as a means of grounding through her grappling limbs. She then made a clench of her own teeth followed by a bellowing shout enough to rival Flashfire's as the snakes wrested and LIFTED Flashfire as she steadied herself for a rough landing.

Flashfire's initial grapple had Vixen landing heavily on both legs but used the rat tail to morph into a hedgehog back for reduced shock by stiffening the quills. She'd take in that traction, ignoring the pain of the heat that irritated her snakes/tails and let out a bestial roar as she took the grappled Flashfire and swung HER overhead and was bringing her slamming down, quickly releasing her snakes to avoid further pain as they sizzled from the heat.

Never before had Vixen put in so much effort into a battle. It had forced her to think and adapt like any animal in nature who had to struggle to survive. But the number of creatures that could survive a blaze were few and Vixen knew she could not fend off the fires forever. Yet Flashfire had persisted and showed almost no signs of slowing down. Where in the absolute hells did they get so many of those cakes? She loved sweets and spicy things as much as the next person but she dreaded to know just what would happen to the average person who'd indulge in those as much as Flashfire.

She shook and her head hurt. But none of that was immediately apparent on her face. She had gotten rusty and now realized the efforts pro-heroes had gone through. Sure, she had gone to lengths to keep a steady ranking but had, until now, gone under the top 10 radar. She often wondered what that was like. Even if she got it just once, she could rest easier.

All her tricks and tactics were flailing against Flashfire and she had just simply tried brute-forcing it. Maybe that was working but now it was time to really start to throw a punch!

Her tails swept ahead of her and took on the turtle shell shape again to shield herself from the fire. But they wouldn't last and she knew it. All she had to do was last long enough to turn at least two tails into something she had proud knowledge of.

The two tails became as snow leopard hind legs and she remember fondly...how far they could leap forward with a singular bound. She built up a growl in her throat as her shelled tails waned but they needed to last a bit more. The remaining tails joined in to bolster the shield as she kicked from her position hard, rushing head-on through the flames as her shells began to falter back the further she went. While in this speedy, headlong leap...her last tail spun around rapidly until it became a massive gorilla arm that then flexed. It swung behind her, winding up. She had closed the gap but the last shelled tail had fallen back and she was left to pass through the remaining flames. But to her, it was worth getting a little singed over.

That massive gorilla arm suddenly came straight at Flashfire fully extended into a clothesline. Vixen eyes turned manic as she had become excited enough to want to show her own brand of strength. She smiled, wanting the blow to connect even as she felt the heat singe some of the hairs on her head. This, in her eyes, was worth getting burned.