Post by GREGOLE on Apr 17, 2008 21:50:37 GMT -5
Name: Rygama
Story appearances: Rygama series, Toho Kingdom Arena, FFKT 3
Height: 42 meters(Bipedal Stance)
Weight: 47,720 tons
Length: 78 meters(Quadrapedal Stance)
Wingspan: 156 meters
Physical description:
Personality:
Rygama is a fully sentient creature, despite her appearance. Though she frequently causes trouble seeking food, Rygama is borderline docile as far as giant monsters go. She's a very curious creature and won't hesitate to cautiously investigate an oddity, such as another monster. She's easily provoked, however, and won't pass up a challenge. Her natural aggression and ferocity can override her reason sometimes.
Rygama needs food as well, and will often look to other giant monsters to satiate her hunger. When large animals aren't available, she'll turn to trees and other foliage, though if forced to do this, she'll quickly pounce on an opportunity to feast on fresh meat.
Rygama, while far from cuddly, makes some effort to avoid directly harming humans, more out of respect for a late human friend of hers than anything. She won't directly pursue human prey and will occasionally try to draw an enemy out of city bounds. Still, as a whole, Rygama is less than occupied with the welfare of humans and will hardly make a fuss if she steps on a few.
Rygama is a notably playful creature. She's been observed to taunt prey animals before slaying them, and exhibits a similarly snarky attitude in battle. She's been known to keep out of reach of opponents in the air, in underwater or even underground, only to randomly pop up, deliver a light smack or punch, then hop out of reach again.
Origin Story:
The Xenovore wasn't the only thing that the falling space station brought down.
As the apparent corpse lay smoldering, a muscular tremor shot up its neck and a blue cloud of half gas, half liquid tissue spilled out. Though it was never guessed, this was the remains of one of its recent meals.
It was quickly captured with a dustbuster, then placed inside a glass jar.
The creature was taken to the lab of Simon Duskan, a high ranking college professor who happened to have a history with one of the heads of the squad sent to collect the larger creature's corpse. Simon was given the responsibility of studying the tissue, and managed to stay up late enough in his studies of the being to learn that it was capable of heating up its body. Though he managed to calm it down somewhat, sleep soon overtook him, leaving the creature alone in the night.
A shame, as had Simon stayed awake, he might've learned of another of the creature's odd powers. The fluid creature began searching the desktop for organic material. Not just any would do. Only that which matched a certain genetic pattern would do. This was a defense mechanism that allowed the being to build a body around itself with dead tissue. Its ecosystem was an ancient one, and so only similarly ancient tissue would do. It found this in the form of a rygalisaurus skull that Simon kept atop his desk for luck. This was a notable specimen, as it was a female which had been discovered with the skull of a smaller male lodged in its throat. It was also perfect.
The entity bonded with the tissue, forming a body from it overnight and slinking off into the building.
For days on, it fed on whatever it could find, haunting the campus and making an enemy of the custodian. For one weekend, it stalked him in the dead of night. The stressed janitor tried to report it to his boss, but was met with contempt. He was on his own against the bogeyman that terrorized the campus at night.
Rather than give in, the underpaid worker brought out his old shotgun and engaged the monster one Sunday night, seriously injuring it.
The beast fled into the woods, frantic to repair itself.
The campus was too small a hunting ground anyway. As it grew, it required more and more food.
Simon himself provided an excellent chase, as the creature deemed him worthy as food. Though confused and in an alien environment, the creature quickly learned the ropes and gave chase to Simon's car, which carried it right into Sydney's borders. And unfortunately for it, the predator that it had ridden down to Earth had recovered and drawn military attention. The smaller monster was still the target of aggression and found itself tearing through the city for its life, continuously pummeled by artillery. Despite its agility and raw strength, it proved no match for the combination of blackhawks and portable mini-missile turrets that assaulted it. Hideously maimed, it collapsed into the bay, where it found safety.
For days more it remained in the ocean, modifying its body to suit its new surroundings. Finally, its growth stopped, leaving the creature an official giant monster. Now that it was placed in a stable environment, the creature began to wonder. Where was it? What were all these new creatures? They couldn't fly, and now neither could it.
Curiosity soon got the better of it and in the dead of night, it crawled ashore in a small town and made its first true human contact. A young girl was among the few who noticed its presence, and found herself in the beast's grasp as it connected its nervous system with hers and "spoke". Erica, the girl, discovered what the creature was, to some extent and helped it become acquainted with the "lower world". Erica even gave the creature a name, dubbing her "Luna". Indeed, the creature now recognized that its body was female.
Though defense forces quickly forced Luna to retreat back to the depths, she returned a few nights later to greet Erica in a more secluded location. For days on, this went, before a familiar force stepped into the ring.
Luna crawled ashore one night to find Erica missing. Eventually she gained the courage to check the town, only to find it in ruins, not a trace of life. Erica's house was barely recognizable.
A familiar adversary stood among the carnage. Her kind had no word for it, but humanity had dubbed the beast "Xenovore".
Luna furiously attacked the Xenovore, launching bone-spines from her sides, momentarily crucifying it, only to drag herself further inland and rip right into its flesh.
However, she was no match for the larger, stronger Xenovore, and found herself broken in half and cast into the bay.
As Xenovore made a beeline for Sydney, Luna lay dying on the seafloor, having retreated to nurse her wounds. The biomorphic beast wouldn't die, however. Furiously casting the digestive enzymes from her shell, she rebuilt her body, forming something more to her needs. Though she nearly stripped the coastline of life in the search for energy and biomass, her goal was met.
The Xenovore found itself facing a renewed Luna, sporting wings and completely remodeled weaponry. The press knew nothing of Luna's relationship with humanity, and dubbed her a new name. "Luna" was lost to the ages, replaced by the monster therein known as Rygama.
A difficult battle followed, but Rygama seized the advantage by tossing the Xenovore from the cover of the city and engaging it on her terms. The battle carried back into the sea, where Rygama succeeded in gaining a hold Xenovore's skull while it held her waist in one of its crushing claws. Both monsters squeezed with all their might, but Rygama was now stronger. With a final crunch, she beheaded the loathsome predator, putting and end to the horror for good.
Now, however, Rygama had nowhere to go. Erica was dead and the destruction she had caused in the battle had turned humanity against her. For the time, she was alone. And so she turned and began to wander the sea. Her favored prey of whales took her north, deep into the Pacific.
Little did she know that her prey was taking her right into her next adventure.
Special Abilities:
Rygama is a tank of a monster, able to heft up to twice her own weight with little fatigue. This strength extends relatively throughout her entire body, granting her one of the nastiest bites in the monster world. In addition, it grants her considerable resistance to blunt trauma. Spiked armor also protects her from harm and makes wrestling with her a tricky affair. Her skull and carapace are the most durable points on her body.
Insect-like wings allow her to fly at a top speed of roughly mach 2.4, though she's most suited for an aquatic environment, being a mosasaur-derived mutation. To a lesser extent, Rygama is even able to burrow at roughly half the speed she can walk, making her a true quadraphibian. It should be noted that while her wings are exposed in flight and when underwater, they tuck beneath her carapace when not in use, similar to a beetle's wingcase.
Semi-retractable claws are her weapons of choice, though in a pinch just about any bodily extremity of hers can serve as a weapon. Her jaws are able to pop out of place and engulf massive objects and appendages, then slam back together, effectively enlarging her bite radius and allowing her to gulp down smaller creatures whole.
Most notably, Rygama has no brain, per se, but rather a fluid entity extending throughout her entire body, regulating all of her functions. This entity can alter chemical levels, repair damage at a rate that Showa Godzilla would respect and even grants her the Vorheese-like ability to shrug off damage that would kill other creatures. A series of backup systems allow her to continue to function, even after severe damage to vital organs.
The entity also allows her to heat up her tissue to unbearable levels. Though this ability can't be used for extended durations, the heat it generates is capable of melting diamond, making it an effective trump card.
Combat style:
Rygama, naturally, favors a brutal, straightforward brawl, where she executes a mixture of animal-like mauling and semi-human combat maneuvers. Rygama is brutal, swift and merciless in close combat, often leaving enemies in shreds. While her favored weapons are her claws and teeth, she'll gladly slam her spiked carapace into an enemy's body or repeatedly smash them into the ground. She takes considerable advantage of her strength.
At a distance, Rygama is at a disadvantage, having no ranged weapons. When forced into ranged combat, she may attempt to burrow towards her enemy, hiding herself from opposing fire. Of course, she may very well simply charge right at an enemy.
One of Rygama's most distinct strategies is her lava pit, in which she burrows beneath her enemy, heating up her tissue to the point where the rock around her liquifies, creating a pit of lava into which she can easily drag her enemy. This has been adopted as her "signature move".
It's worth noting that Rygama is intelligent and is not unwilling to alter her strategy for different opponents.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Naturally, Rygama excells in melee. A superb damage soak, a fairly tough body and responsive reflexes compliment her heavy offense nicely. Her skull and carapace are the toughest points on her body, where the armor and bone have joined together. While initially appearing somewhat slow and lumbering, Rygama is capable of shockingly quick bursts of speed. Her powerful muscles afford her considerably high jumps and her sheer aggression has a way of overriding pain for her. When engaged in melee, Rygama becomes a merciless, vicious, tenacious fighter and is quite capable of taking as much as she can dish out.
Rygama's various movement options and body-adjustment mechanisms make her fairly versatile in terms of environment and type of opponent she can affect.
Rygama's principle weakness is her total lack of ranged weapons. She's a pure melee fighter and simply cannot operate any other way. Though she does have some defenses against ranged weapons, she is ultimately at a disadvantage against a competent ranged fighter unless she can rapidly close the distance.
In addition, Rygama has a potent weakness to toxins that cause swelling. A sufficient amount of hemotoxin can cause her body to split apart, similar to the process that a rattlesnake bite may result in, magnified tenfold.
Sample Fight:
The calm of Birth Island was shattered by a terrifying crash. A pillar of water rose hundreds of feet into the air, casting a massive shape from its depths.
Bathed in a blue light, Rygama was thrown from her oceanic sanctuary with unspeakable force. Her great mass provided little protection as she was thrown from the sea and cast not less than a mile inland, stopping only as her bulk slammed into a towering cliffside, boring deep into it. Her spines momentarily pinned her into the rock before her weight coupled with the (quite literally) earth-shattering impact drug her down back to earth and onto her stomach.
Rygama rose to all fours and roared to the sea. She had run afoul of another creature in her travels and found herself facing a difficult battle. Wasting no time, she marched back to the beach and quickly ducked back into the waters.
A moment passed.
And another splash tore through the water's calm, casting another shape from its depths.
Godzilla(Final Wars) slammed into the very same cliffside, a notch to the right of Rygama's imprint and had a similar reaction, collapsing onto his stomach. With a hiss of a roar, Rygama rose from the waters and stormed ashore, coming to a stop two body lengths ahead of Godzilla as he rose. The atomic titan glared daggers at his chitinous opponent. He brought his arms up, pounded his chest with the left, then the right, then pounded both fists together.
Rygama rose to her hind legs and brought her right arm forward, extending her claws to their full length. With a roar, she pounded her broad chest with her left arm and beckoned with her newly enlarged talons in a "bring it" fashion.
Godzilla took her reaction and broke into a forward charge. Rygama did so as well. Two sets of legs coiled and two hulking forms left the ground, flying right at one another.
Godzilla's extended claws raked into Rygama's oddly thin waist, while her brutish talons sliced deep into his throat and skull as they completed their charge and skidded to a halt, now having switched positions.
Rygama spun around, ignoring the large, purple wound in her side. Godzilla turned to face Rygama as well, offering only a disgruntled hiss in acknowledgement of the deep wounds in his face and neck which would have felled lesser beasts.
Rygama rushed forward, extending her other set of claws. Godzilla merely braced himself as the omnipedal mutant tackled him. The dinosaur fell onto his back as Rygama sprawled onto his chest and began raking at his throat. Though she was a head shorter than him, her low center of gravity proved quite the advantage. Her claws ripped deep into his side, his chest and his throat. Blood began collecting in his mouth as her assault failed to relent. Finally, with a loud roar, Godzilla heaved his weight to the side, rolling over and pinning Rygama under his own bulk. Rygama screamed in outrage, struggling to free herself, but this beast's strength was as great as her own! Godzilla held her. His eyes burned into Rygama's chitinous lenses and through his bestial scowl, she felt an air of smugness, knowing full well what was coming, before his fins even assumed their electric blue aura.
Rygama's scream was drowned out as the blue flash overwhelmed her entire world, pounding into her skull, shattering chitin and forcing her jaw out of place as it flooded down her throat and vaporized her breakfast.
Godzilla's very body was thrown back off of Rygama's as his blast propelled him off his belly and into a standing position. He paused for a moment to inspect his handiwork.
Rygama lie on her back, mouth agape. Steam hissed up from her razored jaws. The remnants of the squid she had eaten earlier escaped her interior in a loud, throaty belch. Both of her eye panels were gone, exposing the luminescent fluid inside. Fractures were visible in her external skull and purple vapor hissed up from the cauterized veins that had been exposed. And yet she rose, belching a second time and glaring with empty sockets at her enemy. Without a second warning, she lowered her head, dropped down to all fours and charged.
Godzilla attempted to brace himself, but Rygama was quicker. Her lowered head slammed into his crotch, ducking beneath it and allowing her neck and upper back to slip below, scooping him up as she darted down between his legs and heaved her weight upward.
Godzilla bellowed as his bulk was hefted up like nothing and sent sprawling forward as Rygama's spiked shell presented itself below him.
Rygama braced herself as Godzilla landed on her back, imbedding all twenty four of her back spines into his front half. Blood poured from the monster king's mouth as his innards were mangled by the bed-of-nails-style maneuver.
Cackling with glee, Rygama reared upright, her spines momentarily keeping Godzilla in place as she toppled backwards, forcing Godzilla into the dirt. He let out a loud roar of pain as Rygama's deceptive mass forced her spiny carapace further into his belly. Blood poured from his maw.
Rygama pried herself out of Godzilla's abdomen and climbed to her feet, turning to gaze at her downed opponent. Godzilla wasted no time in getting up. Rygama aimed a kick at his shin, but the monster king was prepared this time. He spun around, dodging the blow and swinging his beefy tail right into her chest with all his might. Rygama wasn't just knocked down, she was sent FLYING. Not less than ten seconds and thirty stories back later, Rygama slammed into the dirt, obscured by a cloud of dust and rock. Godzilla aimed a blast at her while she was down, further obscuring her bulk in the ensuing explosion. A geyser of purple blood launched into the sky, outlining the blast. Rygama's agonized wail marked that the beam had struck.
Godzilla's smugness was short-lived, however, as Rygama came tearing out of the blast, charging on her hind legs and trampling knee-high trees in her wake. Though apparently awkward, she moved with shocking speed and closed the distance rapidly. Before Godzilla could react, Rygama jumped, wings beating rapidly, planting her heavy clawed right foot into his knee, then her left into his thigh, then pushed up off of his body and placed another right kick into his waist. In a mindblowing display, Rygama literally ran up Godzilla's body, kicking at it all the while. Left to the belly, right to the sternum, left to the collarbone, right to the throat, left to the chin, right to the cranium! This whole process took approximately three seconds before she delivered the final kick to his face, knocking his head back at a grotesque angle and pushing away from his bulk. Her wings kept her aloft as she tucked her legs close and literally backflipped off of Godzilla's head, coming to a landing a body's length away as the hulking sauroid collapsed onto his back, minus several teeth.
Rygama wasted no time and leaped at the fallen beast, splaying her body outwards and bringing her elbow forward in a piledriver maneuver - and was promptly greeted by a hefty foot to the pelvis.
Rygama screeched and landed on her side several hundred feet away from the rising Godzilla. Her crotch was fractured, oozing purple goo.
Godzilla roared in triumph as he watched Rygama fall. His fins lit up in an ominous display, reflecting in her newly regenerated eye panels a second before the hellish blue blast struck her chest, pushing her across the ground. Dust and sparks flew as the quadraphibian terror was dragged across the landscape, through trees, boulders and earth, coming to a stop nearly a mile back before the beam dissipated.
Rygama wailed in pain, but rose to all fours, glaring daggers at Godzilla. A second blast was her reward, this one nailing her in the face, spilling renewed blood and knocking her onto her back.
Godzilla roared triumphantly as Rygama fell. His triumph turned to caution, however, as Rygama began rapidly ripping at the ground, kicking up dirt wantonly. Godzilla braced to react as her tail slipped into the newly formed crater and out of sight. He stood and waited. Rygama was gone. He wasn't fooled, however. A sudden bulge in the terrain betrayed her presence and Godzilla opened fire. A loud shriek was his reward as chitinous fragments shot into the air among the debris. Rygama's shell became visible in the earth.
A loud, irritating screech interrupted the dueling titans. A series of explosions ripped through the landscape, giving rise to shiny, pointy objects.
A bulky blue form became visible and lowered itself between the two beasts.
Rygama climbed out from her failed safety tunnel and gazed at the towering hulk, twice her height and at least three times as wide.
Spacegodzilla mentally sneered at the two uncivilized behemoths before him. The largest of the two only came up to the girl thingy-esque indentation in his abdomen. The green one was even smaller! Weaklings, the lot of them! He would have to show them his awsome might. With another grating screech, his shoulder crystals lit up and he vomited forth a spinning, admittedly pretty spiral of crimson energy, blasting Godzilla right in the chest. Thankfully, the wounds from Rygama's shell had already healed, and thus only a few outer scales were scraped off.
Godzilla returned the favor with a blast of his own. Spacegodzilla erected his shield, forcing the beam to slam into it - and promptly shove the mass of hardlight particles right into his own face. Spacegodzilla wailed as own shield was effectively rammed down his throat, for the beam caught him in the jaw.
Spacegodzilla gagged and coughed. This dirty behemoth was a dirty fighter, apparently! He would deal with the weakling later. He would take out the weakest of the weaklings present and make them see how weak they were! ... WEAK!
Spacegodzilla spun and fired another corona beam in Rygama's direction. Rygama stood confused as the fiery blast slammed into her plastron once, twice and a third time, yet only succeeded in creating sparks. Was this a weapon? Or was the behemoth simply trying to polish her armor? That was quite nice of him, actually.
Spacegodzilla grunted in irritation. If his mighty corona beam wouldn't vanquish the vile sleeper, then he would simply rely on other methods. He raised his arms and uprooted not less than a dozen crystaline spires before flinging them all at Rygama.
Rygama, however, saw this coming a mile ahead and had she felt like it, could've had her afternoon tea break before bothering to react. With a great leap, she was in the air, supported by her wings. Arms outstretched, she seized a crystal in each hand. The hulking abberation then did a frontflip and landed before Spacegodzilla's face, looming over him in mid-air. Before the blue borax behemoth could react, Rygama jammed both crystals into his eyes, shredding them as the two spires ripped into his braincase.
Spacegodzilla screeched as Rygama dropped down to the ground and delivered a clawed punch to Spacegodzilla's genitals. Indeed, her light/sound/heat/electricity sensing eyes allowed her to determine exactly where Spacegodzilla's manhood was located.
Spacegodzilla dropped to his knees, wailing in agony.
Godzilla, however, slapped his knee and bellowed an amused cry as his wannabe classy brother was felled so thoroughly.
Spacegodzilla squeaked a final time as Rygama brought her foot back and literally punted the much larger creature's chest, picking him up and sending him flying. Godzilla seized the opening and rushed at the flying monster, spinning around and slamming his tail into the crystaline spines of his cosmic clone. The force hefted the monster up and sent him flying right back at Rygama, who in turn spun around and slammed both arms into the mutant's side, shattering one of his shoulder crystals in the process and flinging him back at Godzilla, who spun around again and slammed his tail back into his demented brother and knocked him right back to Rygama. Five passes later, Spacegodzilla's broken body was minus his other crystal.
With one final punt, Rygama sent Spacegodzilla in Godzilla's direction, only for the blue behemoth to be greeted by a radioactive burst, right in the afformentioned womanly portion of his abdomen. The force of the blast sent him right back into the air, over Rygama's head and into the sky. The monster let out a furious screech before the energy overload overcame him and Spacegodzilla exploded in the middle of the sky, casting a fiery umbra over Birth Island and raining crystal shards and fragments of flesh.
Rygama stomped over to where Godzilla stood, admiring his work. She turned to face the nuclear saurian, a debate raging in her mind. Godzilla turned and glared at the much shorter creature, contemplating how to act next. For a moment, the two stood facing one another, neither acting. Then, slowly, Godzilla extended his hand. Rygama looked at it for a moment before recognizing the gesture. She extended her own arm, pulling her claws back to a neutral position and taking Godzilla's hand in her palm. There on Birth Island, the Atomic Age's greatest hero and the Quadphibian Terror shook hands. When they were done, both turned and parted ways, venturing back into their respective domains of the ocean, Godzilla taking to the northern Japanese region while Rygama set course for the Australian reefs. Each of them understood that they had made a valuable ally this day.
Ability Meters
Melee Ability: 9
Ranged Ability: 0
Toughness: 7.5
Invulnerability: 8
Healing Ability: 7
Physical Strength: 8
Stamina: 5
Instinct: 6.5
Logic: 6
Creativity: 7
Speed: 5
Reflexes: 7
Acrobatics: 5
Casey Harbison
Story appearances: Rygama series, Toho Kingdom Arena, FFKT 3
Height: 42 meters(Bipedal Stance)
Weight: 47,720 tons
Length: 78 meters(Quadrapedal Stance)
Wingspan: 156 meters
Physical description:
Personality:
Rygama is a fully sentient creature, despite her appearance. Though she frequently causes trouble seeking food, Rygama is borderline docile as far as giant monsters go. She's a very curious creature and won't hesitate to cautiously investigate an oddity, such as another monster. She's easily provoked, however, and won't pass up a challenge. Her natural aggression and ferocity can override her reason sometimes.
Rygama needs food as well, and will often look to other giant monsters to satiate her hunger. When large animals aren't available, she'll turn to trees and other foliage, though if forced to do this, she'll quickly pounce on an opportunity to feast on fresh meat.
Rygama, while far from cuddly, makes some effort to avoid directly harming humans, more out of respect for a late human friend of hers than anything. She won't directly pursue human prey and will occasionally try to draw an enemy out of city bounds. Still, as a whole, Rygama is less than occupied with the welfare of humans and will hardly make a fuss if she steps on a few.
Rygama is a notably playful creature. She's been observed to taunt prey animals before slaying them, and exhibits a similarly snarky attitude in battle. She's been known to keep out of reach of opponents in the air, in underwater or even underground, only to randomly pop up, deliver a light smack or punch, then hop out of reach again.
Origin Story:
The Xenovore wasn't the only thing that the falling space station brought down.
As the apparent corpse lay smoldering, a muscular tremor shot up its neck and a blue cloud of half gas, half liquid tissue spilled out. Though it was never guessed, this was the remains of one of its recent meals.
It was quickly captured with a dustbuster, then placed inside a glass jar.
The creature was taken to the lab of Simon Duskan, a high ranking college professor who happened to have a history with one of the heads of the squad sent to collect the larger creature's corpse. Simon was given the responsibility of studying the tissue, and managed to stay up late enough in his studies of the being to learn that it was capable of heating up its body. Though he managed to calm it down somewhat, sleep soon overtook him, leaving the creature alone in the night.
A shame, as had Simon stayed awake, he might've learned of another of the creature's odd powers. The fluid creature began searching the desktop for organic material. Not just any would do. Only that which matched a certain genetic pattern would do. This was a defense mechanism that allowed the being to build a body around itself with dead tissue. Its ecosystem was an ancient one, and so only similarly ancient tissue would do. It found this in the form of a rygalisaurus skull that Simon kept atop his desk for luck. This was a notable specimen, as it was a female which had been discovered with the skull of a smaller male lodged in its throat. It was also perfect.
The entity bonded with the tissue, forming a body from it overnight and slinking off into the building.
For days on, it fed on whatever it could find, haunting the campus and making an enemy of the custodian. For one weekend, it stalked him in the dead of night. The stressed janitor tried to report it to his boss, but was met with contempt. He was on his own against the bogeyman that terrorized the campus at night.
Rather than give in, the underpaid worker brought out his old shotgun and engaged the monster one Sunday night, seriously injuring it.
The beast fled into the woods, frantic to repair itself.
The campus was too small a hunting ground anyway. As it grew, it required more and more food.
Simon himself provided an excellent chase, as the creature deemed him worthy as food. Though confused and in an alien environment, the creature quickly learned the ropes and gave chase to Simon's car, which carried it right into Sydney's borders. And unfortunately for it, the predator that it had ridden down to Earth had recovered and drawn military attention. The smaller monster was still the target of aggression and found itself tearing through the city for its life, continuously pummeled by artillery. Despite its agility and raw strength, it proved no match for the combination of blackhawks and portable mini-missile turrets that assaulted it. Hideously maimed, it collapsed into the bay, where it found safety.
For days more it remained in the ocean, modifying its body to suit its new surroundings. Finally, its growth stopped, leaving the creature an official giant monster. Now that it was placed in a stable environment, the creature began to wonder. Where was it? What were all these new creatures? They couldn't fly, and now neither could it.
Curiosity soon got the better of it and in the dead of night, it crawled ashore in a small town and made its first true human contact. A young girl was among the few who noticed its presence, and found herself in the beast's grasp as it connected its nervous system with hers and "spoke". Erica, the girl, discovered what the creature was, to some extent and helped it become acquainted with the "lower world". Erica even gave the creature a name, dubbing her "Luna". Indeed, the creature now recognized that its body was female.
Though defense forces quickly forced Luna to retreat back to the depths, she returned a few nights later to greet Erica in a more secluded location. For days on, this went, before a familiar force stepped into the ring.
Luna crawled ashore one night to find Erica missing. Eventually she gained the courage to check the town, only to find it in ruins, not a trace of life. Erica's house was barely recognizable.
A familiar adversary stood among the carnage. Her kind had no word for it, but humanity had dubbed the beast "Xenovore".
Luna furiously attacked the Xenovore, launching bone-spines from her sides, momentarily crucifying it, only to drag herself further inland and rip right into its flesh.
However, she was no match for the larger, stronger Xenovore, and found herself broken in half and cast into the bay.
As Xenovore made a beeline for Sydney, Luna lay dying on the seafloor, having retreated to nurse her wounds. The biomorphic beast wouldn't die, however. Furiously casting the digestive enzymes from her shell, she rebuilt her body, forming something more to her needs. Though she nearly stripped the coastline of life in the search for energy and biomass, her goal was met.
The Xenovore found itself facing a renewed Luna, sporting wings and completely remodeled weaponry. The press knew nothing of Luna's relationship with humanity, and dubbed her a new name. "Luna" was lost to the ages, replaced by the monster therein known as Rygama.
A difficult battle followed, but Rygama seized the advantage by tossing the Xenovore from the cover of the city and engaging it on her terms. The battle carried back into the sea, where Rygama succeeded in gaining a hold Xenovore's skull while it held her waist in one of its crushing claws. Both monsters squeezed with all their might, but Rygama was now stronger. With a final crunch, she beheaded the loathsome predator, putting and end to the horror for good.
Now, however, Rygama had nowhere to go. Erica was dead and the destruction she had caused in the battle had turned humanity against her. For the time, she was alone. And so she turned and began to wander the sea. Her favored prey of whales took her north, deep into the Pacific.
Little did she know that her prey was taking her right into her next adventure.
Special Abilities:
Rygama is a tank of a monster, able to heft up to twice her own weight with little fatigue. This strength extends relatively throughout her entire body, granting her one of the nastiest bites in the monster world. In addition, it grants her considerable resistance to blunt trauma. Spiked armor also protects her from harm and makes wrestling with her a tricky affair. Her skull and carapace are the most durable points on her body.
Insect-like wings allow her to fly at a top speed of roughly mach 2.4, though she's most suited for an aquatic environment, being a mosasaur-derived mutation. To a lesser extent, Rygama is even able to burrow at roughly half the speed she can walk, making her a true quadraphibian. It should be noted that while her wings are exposed in flight and when underwater, they tuck beneath her carapace when not in use, similar to a beetle's wingcase.
Semi-retractable claws are her weapons of choice, though in a pinch just about any bodily extremity of hers can serve as a weapon. Her jaws are able to pop out of place and engulf massive objects and appendages, then slam back together, effectively enlarging her bite radius and allowing her to gulp down smaller creatures whole.
Most notably, Rygama has no brain, per se, but rather a fluid entity extending throughout her entire body, regulating all of her functions. This entity can alter chemical levels, repair damage at a rate that Showa Godzilla would respect and even grants her the Vorheese-like ability to shrug off damage that would kill other creatures. A series of backup systems allow her to continue to function, even after severe damage to vital organs.
The entity also allows her to heat up her tissue to unbearable levels. Though this ability can't be used for extended durations, the heat it generates is capable of melting diamond, making it an effective trump card.
Combat style:
Rygama, naturally, favors a brutal, straightforward brawl, where she executes a mixture of animal-like mauling and semi-human combat maneuvers. Rygama is brutal, swift and merciless in close combat, often leaving enemies in shreds. While her favored weapons are her claws and teeth, she'll gladly slam her spiked carapace into an enemy's body or repeatedly smash them into the ground. She takes considerable advantage of her strength.
At a distance, Rygama is at a disadvantage, having no ranged weapons. When forced into ranged combat, she may attempt to burrow towards her enemy, hiding herself from opposing fire. Of course, she may very well simply charge right at an enemy.
One of Rygama's most distinct strategies is her lava pit, in which she burrows beneath her enemy, heating up her tissue to the point where the rock around her liquifies, creating a pit of lava into which she can easily drag her enemy. This has been adopted as her "signature move".
It's worth noting that Rygama is intelligent and is not unwilling to alter her strategy for different opponents.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Naturally, Rygama excells in melee. A superb damage soak, a fairly tough body and responsive reflexes compliment her heavy offense nicely. Her skull and carapace are the toughest points on her body, where the armor and bone have joined together. While initially appearing somewhat slow and lumbering, Rygama is capable of shockingly quick bursts of speed. Her powerful muscles afford her considerably high jumps and her sheer aggression has a way of overriding pain for her. When engaged in melee, Rygama becomes a merciless, vicious, tenacious fighter and is quite capable of taking as much as she can dish out.
Rygama's various movement options and body-adjustment mechanisms make her fairly versatile in terms of environment and type of opponent she can affect.
Rygama's principle weakness is her total lack of ranged weapons. She's a pure melee fighter and simply cannot operate any other way. Though she does have some defenses against ranged weapons, she is ultimately at a disadvantage against a competent ranged fighter unless she can rapidly close the distance.
In addition, Rygama has a potent weakness to toxins that cause swelling. A sufficient amount of hemotoxin can cause her body to split apart, similar to the process that a rattlesnake bite may result in, magnified tenfold.
Sample Fight:
The calm of Birth Island was shattered by a terrifying crash. A pillar of water rose hundreds of feet into the air, casting a massive shape from its depths.
Bathed in a blue light, Rygama was thrown from her oceanic sanctuary with unspeakable force. Her great mass provided little protection as she was thrown from the sea and cast not less than a mile inland, stopping only as her bulk slammed into a towering cliffside, boring deep into it. Her spines momentarily pinned her into the rock before her weight coupled with the (quite literally) earth-shattering impact drug her down back to earth and onto her stomach.
Rygama rose to all fours and roared to the sea. She had run afoul of another creature in her travels and found herself facing a difficult battle. Wasting no time, she marched back to the beach and quickly ducked back into the waters.
A moment passed.
And another splash tore through the water's calm, casting another shape from its depths.
Godzilla(Final Wars) slammed into the very same cliffside, a notch to the right of Rygama's imprint and had a similar reaction, collapsing onto his stomach. With a hiss of a roar, Rygama rose from the waters and stormed ashore, coming to a stop two body lengths ahead of Godzilla as he rose. The atomic titan glared daggers at his chitinous opponent. He brought his arms up, pounded his chest with the left, then the right, then pounded both fists together.
Rygama rose to her hind legs and brought her right arm forward, extending her claws to their full length. With a roar, she pounded her broad chest with her left arm and beckoned with her newly enlarged talons in a "bring it" fashion.
Godzilla took her reaction and broke into a forward charge. Rygama did so as well. Two sets of legs coiled and two hulking forms left the ground, flying right at one another.
Godzilla's extended claws raked into Rygama's oddly thin waist, while her brutish talons sliced deep into his throat and skull as they completed their charge and skidded to a halt, now having switched positions.
Rygama spun around, ignoring the large, purple wound in her side. Godzilla turned to face Rygama as well, offering only a disgruntled hiss in acknowledgement of the deep wounds in his face and neck which would have felled lesser beasts.
Rygama rushed forward, extending her other set of claws. Godzilla merely braced himself as the omnipedal mutant tackled him. The dinosaur fell onto his back as Rygama sprawled onto his chest and began raking at his throat. Though she was a head shorter than him, her low center of gravity proved quite the advantage. Her claws ripped deep into his side, his chest and his throat. Blood began collecting in his mouth as her assault failed to relent. Finally, with a loud roar, Godzilla heaved his weight to the side, rolling over and pinning Rygama under his own bulk. Rygama screamed in outrage, struggling to free herself, but this beast's strength was as great as her own! Godzilla held her. His eyes burned into Rygama's chitinous lenses and through his bestial scowl, she felt an air of smugness, knowing full well what was coming, before his fins even assumed their electric blue aura.
Rygama's scream was drowned out as the blue flash overwhelmed her entire world, pounding into her skull, shattering chitin and forcing her jaw out of place as it flooded down her throat and vaporized her breakfast.
Godzilla's very body was thrown back off of Rygama's as his blast propelled him off his belly and into a standing position. He paused for a moment to inspect his handiwork.
Rygama lie on her back, mouth agape. Steam hissed up from her razored jaws. The remnants of the squid she had eaten earlier escaped her interior in a loud, throaty belch. Both of her eye panels were gone, exposing the luminescent fluid inside. Fractures were visible in her external skull and purple vapor hissed up from the cauterized veins that had been exposed. And yet she rose, belching a second time and glaring with empty sockets at her enemy. Without a second warning, she lowered her head, dropped down to all fours and charged.
Godzilla attempted to brace himself, but Rygama was quicker. Her lowered head slammed into his crotch, ducking beneath it and allowing her neck and upper back to slip below, scooping him up as she darted down between his legs and heaved her weight upward.
Godzilla bellowed as his bulk was hefted up like nothing and sent sprawling forward as Rygama's spiked shell presented itself below him.
Rygama braced herself as Godzilla landed on her back, imbedding all twenty four of her back spines into his front half. Blood poured from the monster king's mouth as his innards were mangled by the bed-of-nails-style maneuver.
Cackling with glee, Rygama reared upright, her spines momentarily keeping Godzilla in place as she toppled backwards, forcing Godzilla into the dirt. He let out a loud roar of pain as Rygama's deceptive mass forced her spiny carapace further into his belly. Blood poured from his maw.
Rygama pried herself out of Godzilla's abdomen and climbed to her feet, turning to gaze at her downed opponent. Godzilla wasted no time in getting up. Rygama aimed a kick at his shin, but the monster king was prepared this time. He spun around, dodging the blow and swinging his beefy tail right into her chest with all his might. Rygama wasn't just knocked down, she was sent FLYING. Not less than ten seconds and thirty stories back later, Rygama slammed into the dirt, obscured by a cloud of dust and rock. Godzilla aimed a blast at her while she was down, further obscuring her bulk in the ensuing explosion. A geyser of purple blood launched into the sky, outlining the blast. Rygama's agonized wail marked that the beam had struck.
Godzilla's smugness was short-lived, however, as Rygama came tearing out of the blast, charging on her hind legs and trampling knee-high trees in her wake. Though apparently awkward, she moved with shocking speed and closed the distance rapidly. Before Godzilla could react, Rygama jumped, wings beating rapidly, planting her heavy clawed right foot into his knee, then her left into his thigh, then pushed up off of his body and placed another right kick into his waist. In a mindblowing display, Rygama literally ran up Godzilla's body, kicking at it all the while. Left to the belly, right to the sternum, left to the collarbone, right to the throat, left to the chin, right to the cranium! This whole process took approximately three seconds before she delivered the final kick to his face, knocking his head back at a grotesque angle and pushing away from his bulk. Her wings kept her aloft as she tucked her legs close and literally backflipped off of Godzilla's head, coming to a landing a body's length away as the hulking sauroid collapsed onto his back, minus several teeth.
Rygama wasted no time and leaped at the fallen beast, splaying her body outwards and bringing her elbow forward in a piledriver maneuver - and was promptly greeted by a hefty foot to the pelvis.
Rygama screeched and landed on her side several hundred feet away from the rising Godzilla. Her crotch was fractured, oozing purple goo.
Godzilla roared in triumph as he watched Rygama fall. His fins lit up in an ominous display, reflecting in her newly regenerated eye panels a second before the hellish blue blast struck her chest, pushing her across the ground. Dust and sparks flew as the quadraphibian terror was dragged across the landscape, through trees, boulders and earth, coming to a stop nearly a mile back before the beam dissipated.
Rygama wailed in pain, but rose to all fours, glaring daggers at Godzilla. A second blast was her reward, this one nailing her in the face, spilling renewed blood and knocking her onto her back.
Godzilla roared triumphantly as Rygama fell. His triumph turned to caution, however, as Rygama began rapidly ripping at the ground, kicking up dirt wantonly. Godzilla braced to react as her tail slipped into the newly formed crater and out of sight. He stood and waited. Rygama was gone. He wasn't fooled, however. A sudden bulge in the terrain betrayed her presence and Godzilla opened fire. A loud shriek was his reward as chitinous fragments shot into the air among the debris. Rygama's shell became visible in the earth.
A loud, irritating screech interrupted the dueling titans. A series of explosions ripped through the landscape, giving rise to shiny, pointy objects.
A bulky blue form became visible and lowered itself between the two beasts.
Rygama climbed out from her failed safety tunnel and gazed at the towering hulk, twice her height and at least three times as wide.
Spacegodzilla mentally sneered at the two uncivilized behemoths before him. The largest of the two only came up to the girl thingy-esque indentation in his abdomen. The green one was even smaller! Weaklings, the lot of them! He would have to show them his awsome might. With another grating screech, his shoulder crystals lit up and he vomited forth a spinning, admittedly pretty spiral of crimson energy, blasting Godzilla right in the chest. Thankfully, the wounds from Rygama's shell had already healed, and thus only a few outer scales were scraped off.
Godzilla returned the favor with a blast of his own. Spacegodzilla erected his shield, forcing the beam to slam into it - and promptly shove the mass of hardlight particles right into his own face. Spacegodzilla wailed as own shield was effectively rammed down his throat, for the beam caught him in the jaw.
Spacegodzilla gagged and coughed. This dirty behemoth was a dirty fighter, apparently! He would deal with the weakling later. He would take out the weakest of the weaklings present and make them see how weak they were! ... WEAK!
Spacegodzilla spun and fired another corona beam in Rygama's direction. Rygama stood confused as the fiery blast slammed into her plastron once, twice and a third time, yet only succeeded in creating sparks. Was this a weapon? Or was the behemoth simply trying to polish her armor? That was quite nice of him, actually.
Spacegodzilla grunted in irritation. If his mighty corona beam wouldn't vanquish the vile sleeper, then he would simply rely on other methods. He raised his arms and uprooted not less than a dozen crystaline spires before flinging them all at Rygama.
Rygama, however, saw this coming a mile ahead and had she felt like it, could've had her afternoon tea break before bothering to react. With a great leap, she was in the air, supported by her wings. Arms outstretched, she seized a crystal in each hand. The hulking abberation then did a frontflip and landed before Spacegodzilla's face, looming over him in mid-air. Before the blue borax behemoth could react, Rygama jammed both crystals into his eyes, shredding them as the two spires ripped into his braincase.
Spacegodzilla screeched as Rygama dropped down to the ground and delivered a clawed punch to Spacegodzilla's genitals. Indeed, her light/sound/heat/electricity sensing eyes allowed her to determine exactly where Spacegodzilla's manhood was located.
Spacegodzilla dropped to his knees, wailing in agony.
Godzilla, however, slapped his knee and bellowed an amused cry as his wannabe classy brother was felled so thoroughly.
Spacegodzilla squeaked a final time as Rygama brought her foot back and literally punted the much larger creature's chest, picking him up and sending him flying. Godzilla seized the opening and rushed at the flying monster, spinning around and slamming his tail into the crystaline spines of his cosmic clone. The force hefted the monster up and sent him flying right back at Rygama, who in turn spun around and slammed both arms into the mutant's side, shattering one of his shoulder crystals in the process and flinging him back at Godzilla, who spun around again and slammed his tail back into his demented brother and knocked him right back to Rygama. Five passes later, Spacegodzilla's broken body was minus his other crystal.
With one final punt, Rygama sent Spacegodzilla in Godzilla's direction, only for the blue behemoth to be greeted by a radioactive burst, right in the afformentioned womanly portion of his abdomen. The force of the blast sent him right back into the air, over Rygama's head and into the sky. The monster let out a furious screech before the energy overload overcame him and Spacegodzilla exploded in the middle of the sky, casting a fiery umbra over Birth Island and raining crystal shards and fragments of flesh.
Rygama stomped over to where Godzilla stood, admiring his work. She turned to face the nuclear saurian, a debate raging in her mind. Godzilla turned and glared at the much shorter creature, contemplating how to act next. For a moment, the two stood facing one another, neither acting. Then, slowly, Godzilla extended his hand. Rygama looked at it for a moment before recognizing the gesture. She extended her own arm, pulling her claws back to a neutral position and taking Godzilla's hand in her palm. There on Birth Island, the Atomic Age's greatest hero and the Quadphibian Terror shook hands. When they were done, both turned and parted ways, venturing back into their respective domains of the ocean, Godzilla taking to the northern Japanese region while Rygama set course for the Australian reefs. Each of them understood that they had made a valuable ally this day.
Ability Meters
Melee Ability: 9
Ranged Ability: 0
Toughness: 7.5
Invulnerability: 8
Healing Ability: 7
Physical Strength: 8
Stamina: 5
Instinct: 6.5
Logic: 6
Creativity: 7
Speed: 5
Reflexes: 7
Acrobatics: 5
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