Things were coming to a head in the battle.
Yet something troubled Dan, there was something off about his adversary. He seemed too calm for someone that was apparently losing the fight.
Their respective monsters stood over them in their vast size, waiting to perform the next move.
His own, Vexos Dragonoid, resembled a great, black and red dragon, with four orange wings flaring from his back, hip guards, a golden spike on his snout as well as similar spikes running down his neck and tail which ended in a tree-pronged barb.
"There is something wrong with him, Dan." Vexos told him. "We better get on with this quickly."
It was there that his opponent, Emperor Barodius, held up something: a Forbidden Ability Card. Dan gritted his teeth, while he was expecting him to have one, this was not one he had ever seen, or even heard about.
"Ability Card Activate! Vore X" He yelled, smiling. A sentiment that was echoed by his Guardian Bakugan, Phantom Dharak.
He was similar to Drago in the sense that he too resembled a dragon, though he was drastically different in many ways. He was mostly black in color with blue armor plates on his shins, tail, shoulder spikes, arms and head. He had four crescent winglike structures on his backside, and curved purple horns. There were spikes along his belly, and thin, leaf-shaped spines on his thighs. This flashy, yet complicated appearance began to change before Dan's very eyes though, as a purplish aura enveloped the Bakugan.
Then, he simply... grew.
At first he couldn't notice it, as Dharak was already taller than Drago -who himself was around 70' tall- by a good 20' or so; but then it became apparent. He soon rose past the 100' marker, before other things about him changed as well: his frame became ever so slightly wider, and his comparatively short arms extended and thickened to take on a more humanoid look, while retaining the claws and superficial blue plating. Those same arms then proceeded to swell and thicken, rapidly filling out with brawn that seemed to come out of nowhere. All the while he moaned and chuckled in intoxication. His chest beefed up, the green v-shaped visor-like structure on top of it got pushed outward by his developing pecs. The dragon's eyes glowed a sick shade of royal purple. He stopped soon after at 150' tall.
Dharak wasted no time, and tackled Drago onto his back thanks to his now considerable size advantage, pinning him down.
"Drago!" Dan screamed.
"Now... watch." He laughed, yawning his jaws extremely wide open and enclosing Drago's head inside. He squirmed, cursed and protested, flailing his wings and punching his foe in those bedrock-solid abs of his, to try and get free.
Meanwhile Dharak's jaw had already engulfed the other dragon's neck, in spite of all the spines.
But to add insult to injury, things would go on to become even worse.
Just as a purple aura oozed from Dharak, scarlet flames of Pyrus energy began swirling around Drago. For a moment, Dan hoped his Guardian Bakugan would go through the same changes, so they would still have a fighting chance, but sadly, it had the opposite effect.
Drago's physique seemed to wane in size, transferring even more energy to his assailant and exacerbating the difference in their power levels. The golden spines along his hide, including his horn, retracted inward, and Dharak reared backwards, lifting up Drago so his feet were up in the air, allowing the dark monster to close his jowls around his shoulders, while he seemed to grow once more, from 150' tall to 165' tall. The golden spines that had vanished from Drago teethed out of his own backside, and a third golden horn appeared between his original pair.
"All too easy." Barodius said, a visible look of superiority flashing over his face.
Dharak had swallowed Drago up to his knees by this point, his spike-lined belly distended and bloated out to make space for him to fit, and more changes occurred: the vaguely wing-shaped structures on his upper back started to lengthen and mutate to the sound of bones popping and reshaping: dark blue webbing came to be, in a shape that Dan was all too familiar with.
Those were wings he was growing, moulded after Drago's wings. They went on to expand until they measured one and a half times their owner's height, which again surged to 180'.
With one final push, Drago was swallowed whole, and Dharak relished in the result, rubbing his full, bloated stomach which dragged on the ground due to the size if the meal, but Dan found himself expecting it, sadly, to shrink back, having gotten a clear understanding of how this new ability card worked. He recalled all the battles he had fought alongside Drago, who over the years became first a mentor, then arguably his dearest friend.
His knees grew weak, he bowed his head in respect. "Goodbye Drago. We sure showed them..."
