Accel World Negative - Book 1: Reign of the Crystal King [S/A]

[Jolta]

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OoC:
http://forum.yugiohcardmaker.net/topic/285064-accel-world-negative-book-1-reign-of-the-crystal-king-nsa/

It was just a regular Sunday...

"Ryujii, Ryujii honey! Wakey wakey~"
That was the sound of a cheerful young lass by the name of Erika Hino.
"Erika, is that you? How the hell do you even manage to get in?"
The answer was from what looked like a young lass known as Ryujii Kirigaya. She rubbed her eyes a little.
"I don't think I have a choice..." Erika smiled as she pulled the blanket off Ryujii, causing him to spin around before landing on the bed once more, body face-up.

"AAAAOooooohhh... naughty wittle boy, what were you thinking of?"

I won't tell you what happened, but I'll give you a hint - Ryujii is a crossdressing male with an absurdly convincing female voice.

"Wha- wha- SHUT UP!"
Ryujii sobbed a little.

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They got to the breakfast table in a jiffy, eating their breakfast.
"Ryujii, you have to do something about Diamond Dragon. I mean, diamond's resistance and his heavy blows are great, but since you reached Level 8 your speed dropped significantly."
Ryujii was still sobbing.
"OK fine, I'm sorry lil' guy..." Erika patted Ryujii's head and smiled.
"It's really hard, I mean, really, really hard. Just look at the weight of that guy compared to mine..." Ryujii sighed.
"Well, I know just how to train you. Don't get connected to the net for now, otherwise your name will be on the list. For now, I'll try getting some Burst Points. Go for a jog, maybe that'll help..."

Ryujii pouted adorably. "I knew that. Well, I guess I have to get going... so long..."
With that, Ryujii got ready his track shoes and sweater to get out.

"Burst Link..." Erika spoke silently. In a jiffy, the place around her turned blue, and looked as if time had slowed down. In actual fact, her brainwaves have accelerated by a thousand times. "Well now, let's see who there is to fight..." She was now in her network avatar - a bride.
She opened a screen, stating the names of Burst Linkers in the vicinity. "Wonder who will be there. Well, Diamond Dragon's not on the list. That's a good boy. Infernal Salamander on the list, that's me..."

She scrolled down to see who else was on the list, who else was ready to challenge her.
"Can't deny how fun it is for a king to challenge the greatest pyromaniac in the game. But risky. Risky but fun. Come on list, show me someone..."[/center]

[Asriel Dreemurr]

On this most regular of Sundays, there was a certain young man out handling a most regular part of his daily routine. He was at the half-way point of his daily run, and had stopped to stretch himself out before turning about to run the rest of his half back the way he had come. It just so happened that, as usual, his running had brought him to the sidewalk in front of one Ryujii Kirigaya's home. The boy was not a day older than fourteen and was on the tall side for his age. As was his usual morning routine, he was out and about without a shirt to cover his well-built torso while he wore black running shorts and plain white sneakers covering his feet and legs. He was fairly well known, being on the school's Kendo team and perhaps the highest scorer in the district. This was Katsu Yokoyama, and he seemed more or less oblivious to everything going on around him.

In fact he was far from oblivious. His ears, despite how he was tired from his run thus far, were picking up every sound within thirty meters of him. Most he ignored, but he was particularly interested in the sounds of approaching cars and footsteps. In the mean time, he wasn't picking up on any sounds which would interest him. He had only just begun his stretching as Ryujii began making his way to to the door to go on his own run. Of course Katsu did not know Ryujii was really a boy, being fooled in that regard as much as anyone. Regardless of that, it should be noted that on the Burst Linker list he was showing up as on standby for anyone who cared to look. Of course he wasn't Katsu Yokoyama on that list, he was the Black King, Onyx Blade.

[Jolta]

(>In Accel World canon, once you're challenged, there's no declining. You just fight.<)

"Onyx Blade? Mmm hmm. Black King. 50% Black, 50% King. I have done research and I know very well his melting point. OK, I'm ready to challenge! I'll probably lose, but I'll get a sweet 90 Burst Points if I win. I'm ready to fight!"
Erika then pressed on Onyx Blade's name on the list.
"Am I sure? Oh I'm not sure, I know..."
In a matter of seconds- or in real time- nanoseconds- her gown and glasses started to be engulfed in flames, burning them down to ashes before her whole body literally transformed into orange-red flames She then grew a fiery tail. In her vision, the surroundings were reconstructed into an odd-looking factory, the room she was in corresponding to how the factory may look like.
"Four square walls, blabla... Abandoned Factory Stage, eh? Oh I love this..."
With that, the flaming avatar, known as Infernal Salamander, altered the shape of her head to a lizard-like one, to add a streamlined appearance.

3, 2, 1, START

With that, she looked up. 1800 seconds on the clock, in Accel World time at least. In real time, that's approximately 2 seconds.
She looked at the screen that acted like a compass, pointing to the direction of her opponent.
"But first..."
She crawled out of the window, looking around not for her opponent, but for items to destroy so that she can charge up her Killer Move gauge.
"Killing two birds with one stone..." She found a metallic, cylindrical barrel, which then she proceeded to continuously smash, before crude oil began to ooze out and her Killer Move gauge began to charge up from all that attacking.
Crude oil and fire. Oh, this will be fun.
Infernal Salamander's size started to increase as the crude oil aided in her growth, a growth by 1.5 times, before heading off the Onyx Blade's location.

[Asriel Dreemurr]

In a sudden flash of nervous activity, that is activity of the nervous system, Katsu found himself in a very different place and in a very different form. His face had lost all definition below the eyes, becoming flat like the bottom-half of some medieval knight's visor. His body was no longer flesh and bone, but had changed in composition and become black crystal. His hair was also no longer black, and had shaped itself into a high ponytail which hung almost all the way down his back; it was now composed of strands of white crystal. In his right hand, the oh so well known crystalline black blade he carried had formed and come alight with the energies that were always present upon its edge. The typical dress of the Samurai had also formed upon his body, and Onyx Blade found himself mildly annoyed by this intrusion into his daily routine,and was immediately made aware of his challenger's Identity.

[i]"Hmm, Infernal Salamander,"[/i] he thought to himself, and would have smirked if he had more of a face than the rubies that were his eyes, [i]"I would be willing to bet she's read up on the properties of Onyx and is trying to get that inferno of hers started. I'll just have to beat her to the punch."[/i] As his thoughts completed, he appeared into the chosen battleground and looked around approvingly. There were all sorts of destructible things lying about to make filling the Killer Move Gauge easier. He was very thankful he'd chosen a material that was a poor conductor of energy as the composition of his character, and he immediately rushed into one of the nearby buildings and found all sorts of pipes through which the crude oil that the factory had refined had once flowed. He immediately began swinging about, taking care with where he placed his strikes. He noticed that his Gauge was filling from all of the attacking, but for now he decided to wait in this close quarters area and hopefully draw the salamander inside.

[Reinforce]

Ryuu was online on the Global Network, playing a game of chess against a random person through the network when the game paused, and everything around him seemed to turn a sort of blue colour. Fairly quickly, he was offered a message from his Reverse Brain Burst program, telling him that one of the people he had subscribed to watch the duels of was fighting. Accepting the offer to watch, he was transfered into the arena, the Abandoned Factory Stage, in the spectator seats with a large amount of other Burst Linkers who were watching the duel alongside him. Glancing down at the arena itself, he could see what looked like a giant flaming lizard smashing barrels, with the name Infernal Salamander. Looking at the other side, he caught a glimpse of a black figure running into a building, who the display was saying to be Onyx Blade, the current Black King, and the person he'd subscribed to watch the duels of. Ryuu liked to keep watch on what all his allies and his enemies were doing, and had thus subscribed to watch the duels of all of the level 9 players currently in existance, the rest of the kings of pure colour and the leader of Crystopia, the level 9 burst linker known as the Crystal King, Diamond Dragon

[Jolta]

"Oh-hoh-hoh. I wanted to try this..." Infernal Salamander simply attempted to shift her body around to engulf another oil-filled barrel. "Gar... it won't work. Maybe after I level up, but for now..."
Infernal Salamander reshaped herself beside the barrel and carried the burning barrel that encased crude oil within, with the strength of a single tail. Odd for an energy being.
She creepily snuck up to the Onyx-based being, before flininging the flaming barrel at high speeds, powered up by a powerful flamethrower from her mouth. It was intended to hit him with great force.
It was a flaming barrel full of crude oil, going at a high speed, straight at Onyx Blade's back. Salamander knew matter-based attacks were a better choice, therefore improvising the environment.

[Asriel Dreemurr]

Sneaking up on the Onyx Blade, particularly when you are a being of energy which constantly produced sound merely by its nature, was a very hard thing to do. As a swordsman he was trained to pay attention to every possible detail that could lead to the discovery of an opening in the opponent's guard. That being the case, combined with the fact that fire was such a noisy thing, meant he knew that his foe was behind him the moment she stopped and prepared to attack.

As the sound of fire passing through the air roared out, Onyx leaped to the side of the attack and spun about in the process. He channeled his skills into a slash which sent a wave through the air towards the creature of flame. This wave of pressure bore the shape of the blade that had made it and came out horizontally towards the creature's torso just below the neck. He knew full well that physical attacks would be almost entirely useless against such a creature, and so he was very thankful that he was capable of performing such feats of skill.

[Jolta]

The barrel of crude oil began to crack into pieces , oozed and burn. Salamander did take the hit. Generally, a matter-based Duel Avatar would be either sliced, chipped or pushed away. But in Infernal Salamander's case, a vacuum was formed at the spot where she was cut. Next, the flames rejoined, akin to regeneration. She did, however, lose a little bit of hit points.
"Oh, tickly..." with sufficient speed, she dashed towards the burning spot where the crude oil landed, causing her to be stronger, faster and slightly larger. Next, she jumped behind a giant metallic cuboid-shaped container, before pushing it towards Onyx Blade at high speeds, possibly slightly more than twice of her original speed.

[Asriel Dreemurr]

The cube which had been hurled at Onyx would have struck him, had it not been for the fact that he had run behind a set of the pipes which had once carried the oil that the plant had been refining when active. Of course the pipes were essentially destroyed, but they prevented the cube from just slamming into his body. Of course now he realized that his foe would have to get closer to him just to have line of sight, and that gave him an idea. He rushed towards the support for the end of the building he was on, and brought his blade about in several arcs onto it. While he didn't cut through it, he weakened it sufficiently that it would only take a single blow to bring it down and while physical attacks wouldn't to much damage to the fiery woman, he hoped to catch her off guard with this and choke her flames out beneath the heap of debris.

[Jolta]

While this was happening, their Killer Move Gauges began to charge up, almost filled. "Ooh hoo hoo..." Infernal Salamander simply let him strike her with his all. Her health started to really steadily and gradually deplete due to her flames getting choked by the debris. As her health depleted, her Killer Move Gauge started to fill completely. All of a sudden, a blue geyser of inferno rose from the debris, melting it. Out from it came the same old Infernal Salamander in one piece, except bluer and hotter. Her flames were close to the melting point of diamond. Every step she took melted the floor. She then simply charged at the Onyx King. Should the blade come in contact with this creature, it would start to melt. Should he come in contact with this being, he would begin to melt. If one was unlucky or made from a softer material, one would boil.

While she charged, she released a blue flamethrower from her mouth. This clash is going to be epic.

[Asriel Dreemurr]

As the entire end of the factory fell down upon Salamander, Blade retreated out of the way of the falling debris. He could feel his killer move gauge filling with each and every strike that landed on his foe until the blade he carried seemed to suck the surrounding light into it. The blade became little more than a vague shape of itself formed from complete and utter blackness. He knew that if he could just get in range of his foe the battle would be over. It was then that the fountain of blue fire erupted from the pile of debris and Infernal Salamander, now in blue and with sufficient heat to burn or melt anything around her, rose up in the aftermath. If he had a mouth, it would have widened into the smile of one who sought only glory in battle and had found it.

At the exact moment that the salamander charged, so did he. The two combatants closed rapidly on each other, Onyx Blade holding his weapon close to the ground in both hands so that the tip left a deep gouge in the floor of the arena. As the blue flamethrower neared him, he brought his blade up and forward to part the flames with a rushing wave through the air. The flames passed on either side of him, setting his robes aflame and softening the outermost layer of crystal at his shoulders. He was certainly very glad in that moment that he was so resistant to energy based attacks. The charge of both combatants brought Salamander within the lethal reach of his blade, and with it in the air he was ready to bring down his killing blow that very instant. In less time than it took for a human to register the sensation of pain the blade was brought to the ground for the Black king's killer move. If Salamander were beneath the blade as it came down, she would discover the interesting property that his killing blow could cut not only through matter but also energy. Were she not, she would still be subject to the forces produced by the blow which would have ripped her body apart were she unfortunate enough to be caught by the strike. The weapon passed through the air with such force that the very air was forced out of an area which equaled that of the building which they had been in. The outward wave of force smashed the walls of the factory down as surely as if the had been struck by explosives. Moments later, the air came rushing back in to fill the void with crushing force. The force of the inward rush threw Onyx to the ground for a moment. It took him a moment to get off the ground, his clothing having been burned mostly away to show his battered crystal form. He turned his ruby eyes around in all directions trying to find his foe, unsure at the moment whether or not victory had been attained.