Trees hate lizards + open challenge

[griff]

Laeradr stood motionless, in the forest, its roots pulling nutrients from the soil. It had been a long time since its defeat and it had settled in to the forest region of the Lawless Zone. As it fed, a Malua moved silently from a nearby tree and began to crawl on Laeradr's back, completely unaware of the danger this tree presented to the mutated lizard. Laeradr stirred, but did not move as it became aware of it's guest. Slowly Laeradr's tentacles snaked towards the lizard and then struck with such speed that the lizard couldn't even manage to flinch before the tentacles wrapped around it. However the grip was not very strong and it managed to squirm free. The lizard hopped off Laeradr, and turned so its strong tail faced the tree. Laeradr swung towards the lizard, but the Mulua tailwhipped slashing Laeradr around its face. Laeradr howled in rage and charged the lizard. The Malua was much more swift than the giant tree and quickly dodged the tree and hit another tailwhip along its left flank. The tree turned and grabbed the lizard around the haunches but the lizard turned and bit Laeradr's hand. The tree yelled but didn't pull back and with one of its other hands, pulled the lizard off, ripping off shards of bark in the process. With the Malua finally pinned Laeradr was able to wrap it with it's tentacles and siphon its life energy. The lizard's life force was enough food for the day and Laeradr roared a challenging roar to all that could hear.

(OOC: Open Challenge!)
+35MP

[dessy]

Laeradr noticed the air getting colder and colder. Soon, he heard footsteps coming his way. Out from the trees was...Another giant tree, but this one was different from Laeradr. This tree was a pinetree, it's body partially covered in snow with pinecones scattered throughout it's body. The forested area was getting much colder, some of the plants were starting to freeze already just by being close to him. Evergreen came to accept Laeradr's challenge and now the battle of the wood-kaiju would soon begin.

"I bet you're all bark and no bite!" Joked Evergreen.

The powerful pinetree soon got into a fighting position, ready for the fight to start.

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Laeradr roared at the intruder, confused at the presence of another monstrous tree, but quickly decided that Evergreen was just another abomination, one perhaps worse than the others, for it was a mockery of Laeradr itself. Laeradr struck out with his tentacles and quickly pulled Evergreen off its makeshift feet and crashing to the ground. Evergreen lay stunned for half a second, only to be awakened by a sudden shock of pain running through his body as Laeradr used its energy absorption power. Desperately Evergreen used his ice mist on Laeradr's tentacles, and quickly shattered them, freeing himself. Evergreen quickly got back to his feet and charged Laeradr catching the world tree with a shot to the mid trunk, Evergreen went to follow up but Laeradr caught his arm with one of his lower branches. Evergreen swung with his free branch, but Laeradr blocked that shot as well. Laeradr had Evergreen at his mercy and clobbered the comedian with both of his free branches with a double forward punch. Evergreen's head violently whipped back and he crashed back to the ground. Laerader lifted his leg and prepared to crush Evergreen's chest.

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Evergreen quickly rolled out of the way from Laeradr's stomp, but he also left a surprise as well. Laeradr stomped on a pinecone grenade just as it detonated, scorching the bottom of Laeradr's foot and leaving shrapnel in it's foot. This would slow down the World Tree, but Evergreen's assault wasn't going to slow down. The pinetree fires off several pine needles, striking Laeradr in the chest. Laeradr started plucking off the needles but noticed that it was difficult to remove them. Evergreen got back up and charged at the preoccupied World Tree only for it notice his opponent charging at him and decided to punch Evergreen in the face.

The giant pinetree stumbled backwards a little bit. Evergreen then breathed out his icy mist at the evil tree. Laeradr's body started to collect frost and the tree realized that it needed to get away from it. Laeradr barely got away from the icy mist. The attack apparently slowed down Laeradr's movements.

"Go green." Muttered Evergreen as he continued his assault by firing more pineneedles at the World Tree.

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Laeradr spun his face away from the pineneedles and several dug deep into his back, but they didn't prevent slamming Evergreen in the face with a spinning backfist. The blow spun Evergreen around and before he could respond Laeradr had wrapped his tentacles around Evergreen and pulled him into an uppercut. Evergreen rocked back and crashed to the earth where Laeradr began to absorb his energy. Evergreen writhed in pain as Laeradr prepared to absorb more energy from his foe.

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"Sigh, you're not very bright for a tree, are ya?" Muttered Evergreen.

Laeradr continued to absorb Evergreen's energy, which started to weaken and annoy the powerful pinetree.

"Ok, you want my energy? Well here is some of it!" Shouted the pinetree kaiju.

Laeradr then started to notice frost accumulating on his tentacles, soon they were frozen solid. Soon the rest of his body was getting frost-covered. Evergreen was freezing Laeradr by using his body chill ability. The pinetree then removed another pinecone and tossed it at Laeradr, exploding right on chest and sending the tree flying a hundred meters back. The frozen tentacles were torn off, still wrapped around Evergreen's body. The pinetree then removed them from his body.

"I'm hoping you learned your lesson." Laughed the pinetree.

The explosion tore off chunks of bark from Laeradr's chest, revealing the World Tree's Secondary Phloem. Shrapnel from the grenade had dug themselves into Laeradr's body. The World Tree moaned in what could be pain. Evergreen walked up to where the tree was laying at. The pinetree then fired off some more pine needles at Laeradr, several of them striking the wounded area's from where the pinecone grenade had detonated. Laeradr groaned again. Evergreen continued his attack on Laeradr by firing his Ice Mist at Laeradr, hoping to freeze Laeradr or at least slow him down.

[griff]

With its uppermost branches shielding its face and body Laeradr marched against the ice mist, steadily moving towards its glib opponent. Laeradr caught Evergreen in the mid trunk with one of its lower branches that doubled Evergreen over. Laeradr then followed up with a double fisted smash to the back of Evergreen's head dropping the tree to the forest floor. Laeradr lifted its roots and tried to smash Evergreen who quickly rolled out of the way.

"To slow." Evergreen chuckled as he got to his feet.

Evergreen pulled out one of his pine cone grenades and prepared to throw it at Laeradr, however mid throw one of the trees lashed out with its branches, not doing any damage, but forced the grenade from Evergreen's hand. The grenade dropped to the ground at Evergreen's feet, who looked down at it.

"Oh shi..." Evergreen was cut off as the grenade exploded knocking him hundreds of feet back. Evergreen sat up and winced as his roots were badly burned from the pine cone grenade. Remember that he was in a fight Evergreen looked up for Laeradr but had discovered that it had camouflaged itself amongst the trees, who had begun to strike out at Evergreen.

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Evergreen saw a series of tentacles rush at him and knock him on the ground. Evergreen grunted in pain and rubbed his chin.

"Well, if you don't want to come out and show yourself then I'll make you come out!" Roared Evergreen.

The pinetree started firing his pineneedles everywhere, striking several trees. Evergreen heard a groan from behind him, he saw Laeradr come out of his camoflouge. Laeradr was covered in even more pineneedles.

"Gotcha ya bastard." Evergreen muttered.

The pinetree takes off another pinecone grenade and throws it Laeradr. The grenade explodes, inflicting more damage to the World Tree. More bark falls off of Laeradr's body, the pineneedles were lit on fire. The flames from the needles soon reached Laeradr's body. Laeradr roared in pain. Evergreen started laughing but soon groaned in pain from when his roots was damaged by his own grenade that Laeradr used against him. Fortunately the regen should take care of the wound soon.

Evergreen tore off another grenade and instead of chucking it at Laeradr, he threw it off into the woods that weren't frozen during the fight. KABOOM! The grenade exploded, the heat and fire generated from the blast barely managed to catch a tree on fire. Soon the fire started to spread out on the tree and soon it started spread to other trees. Evergreen knew he could put out the flames, but his opponent can't. He was gonna try to force the evil tree to leave or die trying.

Evergreen started looking for another grenade on his body but found none. He wasted his last grenade to start the fire.

"Oh well, more will grow soon." Said the pinetree.

Evergreen fires more pineneedles at Laeradr, hoping to inflict further damage to the tree and provide more fuel for the fire.

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The series of pine needles peppered Laeradr's body, but the ancient tree ignored the pain, as it began to devise a plan. It charged Evergreen, and struck out with a series of jabs and hooks, that Evergreen was able to easily dodge.

"Come on Grandpa, can't you do any better?" Evergreen mocked.

Laeradr swung, but again hit nothing but air. Seeing his opening Evergreen swung, but Laeradr was waiting for this and turned its shoulder, threw out its leg and tripped up Evergreen, who crashed into the forest. Evergreen attempted to stand but found that the trees themselves held him down.

"What!?" Evergreen yelled in shock.

Evergreen uprooted one of the trees, but they were too numerous and he soon found himself being passed through the forest. In a panic he looked in the direction the trees were taking him, and saw the growing forest fire. Now he began to fight for his life, tearing up branches and uprooting trees. He finally managed to get to his feet, but a sudden uppercut from Laeradr sent him flying back into the fire.

Evergreen's pine needles were the first too go, and before he could catch any further on fire, he shot out of the fire and crashed to the first patch of soil he could see. After putting himself out, Evergreen looked up and saw Laeradr.

"You're gonna pay for tha..." Evergreen's sentence was again cut off short as Laeradr kicked the still prone tree in the face.

As Evergreen recovered he didn't notice the trees moving in on him again.

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(OOC: You do realize that Laeradr was still on fire, right?)

Evergreen soon noticed the trees coming closer to him. Instead of getting scared, he welcomed them with open arms...literallly. The trees wrapped themselves around Evergreen, both burning and unburning trees. They were tugging him and pulling him around but they didn't know why Evergreen didn't resist. They would soon find out why...

Within seconds however, the trees were in Evergreen's trap. The pinetree started to freeze all of the trees that were attacking them. The fires on the burning trees that attacked Evergreen were soon put out. Some them tried to retreat but it was too late, they were frozen before they could escape. With a twist, Evergreen broke off several of the trees that had wrapped themselves around him. The massive pinetree simply walked out of that mess. Soon, the pineneedles were grown back again. Evergreen now had that fresh pine scent on his body again.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You should've known better than that. And you made me lose my snow." Said Evergreen with a twinge of annoyance in his voice.

Evergreen fired off more pineneedles at the burning Laeradr. Inflicting further harm to World Tree. The needles were soon caught on fire as well, providing more fuel for the towering inferno. Laeradr stumbled backwards from the force of blow. Bits and pieces of bark was chipping off of his body.

The powerful pinetree extended his tentacle-like fingers and lashed out at Laeradr with them. The tentacles whipped Laeradr, knocking off more chunks of bark from the tree monster. The tentacles then retracted as they had caught fire. Evergreen quickly blew out the flames with his ice mist, extinguishing the flames but at the cost of freezing the tips of his tentacle-like fingers.

Evergreen continued his assault on his foe by breathing his ice mist on Laeradr. The mist extinguished the flames on his body, revealing scorched marks on his bark and exposed body wounds. The pinetree kaiju then extends his branch fingers and tried to whip Laeradr.

[griff]

Laeradr could care less for Evergreen's taunts, the languages of humans were below an ancient creature like itself, all it cared for was destroying this foul abomination, a creature that showed no care for its kin. Laeradr, caught Evergreen's limb and pulled him forward right into a stiff right cross that dropped the pine tree back to the ground. Laeradr stepped back and let Evergreen climb to his feet. Evergreen pulled out another pine cone grenade but Laeradr's tentacles pulled his leg out from under him as he threw, causing the grenade to just bounce a few yards away from where Evergreen landed. When the grenade blew up, both kaiju were struck. Laeradr crashed to the ground his wounds smoldering, however Evergreen's face had caught fire. The cocky tree roared in pain and rolled on the ground attempting to put out the fire that started to spread down his body. Laeradr stood up and wrapped his tentacles around Evergreen and began to siphon his energy.

[dessy]

(OOC: I think I may have forgotten to mention this in Ever's profile but it takes longer for a PG to grow back than the pineneedles. Pineneedles take like 10 seconds. PGs take like 15 minutes to grow back. Just a heads up.)

"Jeezus tap-dancing Christ, you just don't learn don't ya?" Complained Evergreen.

The pinetree started to freeze Laeradr's tentacles again, this time the freezing process was spreading further throughout Laeradr's body. Icicles were forming underneath Lae's arms. Evergreen freed himself by breaking off the tentacles. He rushed over to Laeradr and punched him in the face.

"Timber!" Yelled Evergreen.

The punch knocked Laeradr on his ass. A piece of bark fell off of Laeradr's face right where he was punched at. Laeradr rubbed his injured cheek for a second. He then felt pain as Evergreen whipped him with his tentacles, leaving marks on chest. The tentacles grab Laeradr by an arm and pull him over to Evergreen, only for the pinetree to be met with a fist in the face. The punch sent Evergreen flying to the ground. He got back up, rubbing his cheek as well.

"Oh yea, since you love using my grenades against me. I thought you might have fun with this." Evergreen laughed.

The pinetree pulls off all of his pinecone grenades and toss them into the air. Multiple explosions ripple the sky. Fire and shrapnel rain down upon the area. Non of them luckily striked either combatant.

"Now you can't use them against me for a while." Laughed Evergreen.

Evergreen then fires his ice mist at Laeradr, hoping to stop it dead in it's tracks.

[griff]

Laeradr again waded through the ice mist, he had survived through the ice age, he wasn't about to be slowed down by a cool breeze. Laeradr leveled Evergreen with a right cross. As Evergreen stood up he suddenly felt very disoriented and felt a sharp sting at his leg. He looked down and saw Laeradr's tentacle wrapped around his leg.

"Do you know what the definition of insanity is?" Evergreen said, as his body temperature began to decrease.

Evergreen shattered the vine and stood up, but Laeradr was no where to be seen. Suddenly from out of the trees Laeradr charged and tackled Evergreen, the thorny hides of both kaiju tore into their hides. Laeradr continued to carry Evergreen right towards the inferno.

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"You need to chill out, twiggy." Evergreen joked.

He blew another ice mist, hitting Laeradr's face with it. Ice and frost started to cover the tree's face. Laeradr released Evergreen to try to remove the frost and ice from his face, giving Evergreen to attack the vengeful tree. Evergreen judo flips Laeradr into the inferno that Laeradr tried to dump Evergreen in.

Laeradr roared as the flame roasted his body once more. His body was covered in flames. Laeradr bursted forth from the flames and punched Evergreen, sending the pinetree monster stumbling backwards into some more trees. Evergreen noticed that his cheek was on fire, he grabbed a frozen tree and placed it over the fire, extinguishing the flames with the ice and frost. The pineneedles on his cheek were burnt but he knew that new needles will grow and take their place. Evergreen fired off some more pine needles at Laeradr, pelting the evil tree with several pine needles. Soon the needles went up in flames as well.

"They didn't inflict much damage to Laeradr, but at least they served their purpose." Mumbled Evergreen.

Evergreen fired off his ice mist at Laeradr, hoping he that strikes Laeradr. He knew that he would be helping out his wooden foe, but he would also help himself by doing this. The tree had a plan up his sleeve...

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The ice mist did in fact hit Laeradr, but it did no damage as only managed to put the fire out. Laeradr roared and charged Evergreen who attempted to cut the opposing tree off with a stretching clothesline, but Laeradr ducked under the attack, swung around Evergreen and kicked him in the back. Evergreen stumbled forward and then turned around to face Laeradr who came rushing in with a full head of steam. Laeradr picked up Evergreen and the two crashed into the forest fire. Evergreen quickly dropped his body temperature putting out the remaining fires and forcing Laeradr off as his bark began to freeze. As Evergreen got to his feet he was met with powerful kick to the head that dropped him back to the ground. Laeradr's tentacles grew back and he sent them flying towards Evergreen.