Hiroshi Vs Gorokko Part-II : The Steel Celestial

Gorokko: This is... My...

FINAL FORM, STEEL CELESTIAL!

The entire arena melted layers of Metal. Hiroshi fell down as a deep pit formed below his legs.

The metal liquified and merged with Gorokko's body.

He became ten times as large as Hiroshi.

Hiroshi: [confused, In mind] D- Did he just get bigger?! He was already so big! Now he is equivalent to a baby blue whale!

Gorokko: [beast like voice, roaring] Prepare to face the wrath of a Celestial Giant!

Gorokko's sword elongated as metal surged from Gorokko's veins to the sword.

He swinged his sword directly at Hiroshi with agility but missed just slightly, tearing off some part of Hiroshi's coat and shirt.

Hiroshi jumped away.

His coat and shirt knit back each fabric.

Hiroshi: [shocked, in mind] How the hell is he so agile!? Shouldn't his bigger body make him slower?!

Gorokko: My Eclipse-blade doesn't seem to perform well in this battle. Now, I must draw my best weapon.

Metal again surges into the sword from Gorokko's veins. The sword changes its shape.

It gets wider from the end, two axe heads come out from the ends.

The Eclipse-blade had turned into a dual-headed Axe.

Gorokko: This is my best weapon... The Axe of Thousand Metals...

Gorokko slashed down the axe, aiming for Hiroshi's head.

Hiroshi: [realising the situation] Oh... Shit..!

The axe struck, breaking the metal floor. Hiroshi barely evaded it by backflipping.

Gorokko: TERRAIN TYPESHIFT, TITANIUM-TUNGSTEN ALLOY!

Gorokko stomped his feet, it went inside the floor, crushing it.

Energy surged inside of it. Slowly, the entire arena's metal turned into a darker hue of metal. It had shifted it's type to an alloy of Titanium and Tungsten.

He absorbed some part of the arena, and his body turned into the same alloy as well.

Gorokko: Celestial Armor, CARBON STEEL ADDITION!

Gorokko's armor generates thousands of small and cubical spikes. The spikes fuse with his armor. His entire armor turns into a fusion of Titanium, Tungsten and High-Carbon Steel.

Hiroshi: [in mind, tensed] How many times is he gonna change?!

Gorokko: GROUNDBREAKER STRIKE!

Gorokko again smashes his axe on the floor. Hiroshi jumps backwards to avoid.

The floor broke to pieces, forming splinters and rubble.

The floor regenerated.

Hiroshi: [in mind] I need to be careful... If that move hits me, it will crush my entire body!

Gorokko: ATOMIC FUSION, PROPERTY MIXING!

The constituents of his armor, Titanium, Tungsten and High-Carbon Steel, all merged. Not physically, but on an atomic scale.

Their electrons, protons and neutrons merged together. Multiple different atoms turning to one.

The armor became completely black in colour as a new element was formed.

Gorokko: [laughs loud as the entire arena shakes] The properties of Titanium, Tungsten and High-Carbon Steel have mixed to form a new element. Something that I've invented. It's named 'Eclipsium'. The strongest metallic element ever! It's a thousand times stronger than Titanium and Tungsten combined!

Hiroshi: [in mind] is he really trying to flex his creation mid-battle?!

Gorokko: GROUNDBREAKER STRIKE!

Hiroshi: FLAMING SLASH 'N DASH, SUPER SPEED!

Hiroshi dashes right below the axe, barely evading. He got behind Gorokko, leaving a blue-orange trail of flames.

Turns out that after using that attack, Gorokko's axe gets stuck in the ground for a few seconds, making him unable to move.

His axe is free after 5 seconds.

Hiroshi: [thinking rapidly] I got it! He would be stuck for 5 seconds. I take 2 seconds to dodge his attack and go behind him. I can use the 3 second interval to attack on his backbone! Yes! That's the key to defeating him!

Gorokko: RAPID AXE SPIN!

Gorokko extends both his arms forward, axe pointed outwards.

He spins horizontally with rapid speeds in hopes of beheading Hiroshi.

Hiroshi simply lays down to avoid any physical damage.

Gorokko: GROUNDBREAKER STRIKE!

Gorokko takes advantage of Hiroshi lying on the ground and tries to attack.

Hiroshi: ENGULFING FLAMES, RAPID DASH!

Hiroshi dashes away, right behind Gorokko while still laying down

Hiroshi: INFERNAL SLASHES, SINGLE STRIKE!

Hiroshi jumps to stand up and releases a singular arc of blue-orange flames.

The arc hits Gorokko's backbone, he winces in pain.

His axe is free again.

Gorokko: AXE SWING!

He swings it towards Hiroshi, he narrowly evades by ducking down.

Gorokko: GROUNDBREAKER STRIKE!

Gorokko struck his axe at Hiroshi. He dashes sideways to avoid, then dashes behind Gorokko.

Gorokko got stuck again.

Hiroshi: ENGULFING FLAMES, DEEP PIERCE!

Hiroshi rushes at Gorokko's backbone and pierces is deep using his daggers.

Hiroshi jumps back away, leaving a slight effect of blue-orange flames on Gorokko's armor.

The armor breaks slightly and small pieces fall down.

Gorokko: WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE?!

CELESTIAL STOMP!

Gorokko stomps at Hiroshi and he tries to stop it using his hands.

The pressure of Gorokko's stomp is higher than the capability of holding of Hiroshi's Hands.

Hiroshi: TAKE THIS!

Hiroshi takes one of his daggers and stabs it in the nail of Gorokko's toe.

Gorokko: [wails and screams in pain] AARGHHH!

Hiroshi: No matter if you are an animal, a human, a Varkonian, or even a celestial. Everyone feels this pain!

FLAMING SLASH 'N DASH,  RESONATION!

Hiroshi dashes towards a big metal pillar. He jumps right before reaching it and his legs touch the surface of the pillar.

He thrusts his legs, using all force.

He jumps to another pillar, then to another, then to another and so on.

He moves across the entire arena like a ricocheting bullet, leaving a blue-orange flames trail in the air.

Gorokko can't keep track of his movements.

Gorokko: [in mind] what the hell is happening?! What is he doing?!

Hiroshi: TAKE THIS!

He stops on a pillar for a split second, curling his legs and then releases at a super speed, Directly aiming at Gorokko's Back.

He points his daggers at front.

He strikes the back of Gorokko's armor, shattering the whole as it breaks to thousands of small particles, with a burst of flames.

As the armor breaks, He jumps back to be in a safe zone.

Gorokko screams in pain as the armor was a part of his body.

Hiroshi: and for the final strike...

INFERNAL SLASHES, HORIZONTAL SLASH!

Hiroshi releases a powerful slash of flames, Horizonal and aimed towards Gorokko's backbone.

Gorokko's backbone is cut in half.

Gorokko: NOOOOO!!!

Gorokko falls to his knees. His flesh sizzles and his metal starts to melt.

Hiroshi walks up to him, daggers sheathed.

Hiroshi: [bows down in respect] Thanks for this amazing battle. You are one of the first tyrants I had lots of fun battling with. I acknowledge your invention.

A tear falls from Gorokko's face as his body melts away, turning into a lump of meat. His body releases all the metal out into small and uneven chunks of eclipsium.

The pedestal rises behind Hiroshi, containing the sky-blue ember, the Super Jump ember.

He approaches the pedestal and picks up the ember.

His veins glow sky-blue as the energy is absorbed inside it.

The arena trembles as it disbalances due to the lack of energy of the blaze ember.

Hiroshi: FLAME COMET, CONCENTRATED!

He extends his hand above, creating a giant sphere of orange flames with blue sparks all around.

The comet causes the arena to blast up and turn to dust. Hiroshi and Gorokko's body and eclipsium fall down.

Hiroshi: BLAZING TORNADO!

Hiroshi extends his hands far in opposite direction and creates a horizontal flame tornado.

He lands safely and the chunks of eclipsium thuds down along with Gorokko's corpse.

Shinzo comes rushing at him, panting.

Shinzo: there you are, the victorious hero. [Turns to Gorokko's body] and then there's that piece of shit.

Hiroshi: don't disrespect him. He was the strongest guy I fought so far. His personality didn't feel evil to me. He just felt like a king, trying to protect his throne. He was unlike the other tyrants.

Shinzo: yeah yeah, whatever... What's with those chunks of metal?

Hiroshi: it's a new element, Eclipsium. Created by Gorokko himself. His ability to fuse the atomic properties of multiple different elements to create a new element was mind blowing!

Shinzo: [shocked] New Element?!

Hiroshi: yeah, his armor was made out of it. And it was so hard for me to break it...

Shinzo: hmm... We could use it... I mean, HRA could. Eclipsium might help us develop new weapons!

Hiroshi: let's put it in a pile.

They both pick the chunks one by one, piling them up.

While picking them up, Shinzo finds something in the uneven mass of black metal. A perfect, golden, shiny key.

Shinzo: [confused, in mind] huh?! A key? What is it doing here? Well, I should keep it I guess.

He puts it in his pockets and keeps piling up the chunks.

The piling is complete after a short time.

Shinzo: according to my calculations, we picked up around 85 pieces of Eclipsium. And each weighed around two Kilograms. So... It adds up to a total of 170 Kilograms of Eclipsium.

Hiroshi sighs, a hint of sadness sensed in it.

Shinzo: I will message an HRA teams right away, they'll pick this all up and take it with them.

Shinzo notices Hiroshi's sad expressions.

Shinzo: uhh... You alright..? Aren't you happy about this victory..?

Hiroshi: No... It's not that... It's just that... [Sighs] I couldn't find her...

Shinzo: Her? You mean... Ryumi? Don't worry. We'll eventually get to her soon. Be positive! 

He gives a thumbs up with a grin, trying to boost Hiroshi's morale. But it doesn't seems to work.

Suddenly, a loud boom of an Underground explosion was heard, as if someone was mining using TNTs.

The whole ground crumbled beneath their feet. Their body wobbled, they tried to balance.

Suddenly, they fell into a sinkhole.

Hiroshi's jaw tightened, Shinzo was startled. They looked down to see that they were falling into a deep hole.

They both thud on something wooden into a dark cave, nothing visible.

Hiroshi: [groans slightly] Shinzo, are you alright?

Shinzo: [wincing in pain] yeah... I guess...

Suddenly, torches light up and they find that they are in an abandoned mineshaft.

They see a mob of people moving inside a distance, their bodies hidden in the shadows.

Hiroshi: uhh... Hello! Can you guys help us?

A man stepped forward from the group. But he was not ordinary. Eyes yellow, dark circles and full green skin with no hair. It was a zombie.

Shinzo: ZOMBIES ARE REAL?!

Hiroshi takes his stance.

Hiroshi: INFERNAL SLASHES!

He releases arcs of flames, all the zombies are cut into many pieces.

They grab their severed heads and limbs and reattach them.

Suddenly, a small, old dwarf come from behind Shinzo and Hiroshi.

The Old Dwarf: Hiroshi! Come with me! We need to Run!

Hiroshi: Who are you?! And where do we go?!

The Old Dwarf: I'll tell that later. We need to go to Dwarika. QUICK!

Hiroshi: Alright. Get up on my back, I'll carry you both.

Shinzo and the dwarf get on Hiroshi's back.

Hiroshi: Alright, Dwarika... Here we come! 

FLAMING SLASH 'N DASH, SPEEDY RUN!

To Be Continued...

Next Chapter: The Tribe that rules under the Earth

Releasing: Christmas, 2025

Note From Author: Dear Readers, This chapter marks the end of the first arc, Known as 'The Return of Flames' Arc. The next arc, 'The Dwarika Arc' will be released soon.

But, I also need a break because this story's future hold a lot of lore and tension, which is driving me crazy. So please hand on with me...

The second arc will start to be released from Christmas 2025.

Thanks for your support!