Wings of Fire Eclipse Falling

Chapter 26

Muck felt the barren space on his face as he picked up his club once again...

Muck roared and charged Quicksand who side-stepped and knocked the handle of his sword against the hole in Muck's face.

Muck blasted fire and Quicksand rolled and saw a hole in the ceiling and flew through it...

Muck roared and flew after him...

'So now stone can fly, that's... normal' thought Quicksand, flying through a tunnel... Quicksand came into a room with lava and heard Muck roaring behind him. 

Quicksand dropped his last albino-flame cacti on a portion of hardened magma which exploded and brought hardened ash to block Muck's path...

Suddenly Quicksand saw the ram's skull break through the ash and saw Muck clawing his way through, so he turned and continued flying up...

Eventually Quicksand flew out of the crater of the volcano and continued flying straight up, higher and higher...

Quicksand saw Muck fly out of the crater and he felt the surge of energy leave him and Quicksand flew down in a dive...

Muck looked up just in time to see Quicksand just before he barreled into the false dragon...

Quicksand tucked his wings in, but Muck wasn't so lucky... his wings and tail crashed against the sides of the crater breaking into rock and dust...

Quicksand flew to an ashen wall and held Muck in front of him, the false dragon was roaring in anger, but when he saw that he was rapidly approaching a wall, he started squirming... but it was too late, the false dragon's front talons, and part of his head and face shattered against the ashen wall.

The two opponents broke through the wall and Quicksand and the false dragon crashed back into the arena both hitting the floor rolling...

Quicksand saw Muck's club land next to him and he reached out, picked it up, walked across the arena to Muck and raised it over his head and slammed it into Muck's side and shattered it into rubble...

Muck attempted to stand up and a portion of rock fell from his underbelly and Quicksand swung the false dragon's club against his other side, knocking him back down...

"You said I couldn't kill you" said Quicksand, panting trying to catch his breath, as he slammed Muck's club against the false dragon's left back talon, shattering it, "But look who's falling apart"

Muck laughed and a portion of rock fell from what used to be his jaw, now just a gaping hole and said, "You can't kill something that didn't live to begin with"

Quicksand raised Muck's club over his head... but instead of delivering the final blow, he dropped it, the skull hitting the ashen ground and falling onto it's handle, the leather covering ripped and torn...

Muck screamed, rock flying from his face, "What are you doing!! Finish me!!"

Turning away from his opponent, Quicksand started to walk away...

Behind him, Muck raised what was left of his head and said, "Fine! Be that way!!" as he breathed in, preparing to blast Quicksand with fire, but was stopped by a talon crushing his head...

Quicksand turned to see Nightmare standing on the pile of rocks that used to be Muck...

"You did better than I would have guessed, but then again, I didn't know what our Founder did to the Necklace" said Nightmare, looking up from the corpse of his attempt of creating a worthy opponent, and continued, "But now your real challenge begins... killing me"

"Wait, so you're the last member of the Family who has the genetics of the first true Nightwing animus and that of the Founder" asked Quicksand

"Of course, the genetics were lost in the true blood of the Family, so my great uncle is the Founder" said Nightmare, "But enough talking, time to die"