Chapter 123-Gaia vs Blaze, Part Two

But then, Gaia hears a loud crack as Blaze's red hot fist SMASHES through the rock wall behind Gaia, jabbing him in the back, and sending him flying forwards.

"How did…you know where I was?!" Gaia cries as he whips around to face Blaze, who struts through the crack he created in Gaia's rock wall.

"It's my eye here," Blaze smirks as he pats his right eye.

"Hmm…" Gaia grunts as he narrows his eyes at Blaze's Devil Eye, "His Devil Eye must have some sort of sensory ability…?"

"VIEW!" Blaze shouts, causing Gaia to flinch, but nothing happens.

Blaze smirks as he narrows his eyes at Gaia.

"I see…" Blaze softly mutters, "That heat's fucking up your body from within.

Gaia's eyes widen.

"EARTH CHARGE-!" Gaia then shouts as he thrusts his wand towards Blaze, "-Level Two: Stone Fists!"

Dozens of pillars of rock with stone first at the end SHOOTS out of the rocky wall behind Gaia, flying towards Blaze.

Blaze smirks as he stares down Gaia's oncoming assault, and resumes his Charge Stance.

"Thermo Charge, Level​ Two: Heat Deviliery!" Blaze shouts, as his fists begin to glow orange front he heat stockpiled in his body.

And a moment before Blaze could be pummeled by Gaia's stone fists, Blaze launches a rapid fire flurry of punches outwards, using his heat boosted strength to smash through Gaia's rocks.

Using the pillars of stone and shattering rock shards flying everywhere in order to blind Blaze's vision, Gaia resumes his Charge Stance.

"Earth Charge, Level One: Pitfall!" Gaia shouts as he swipes his hand downwards, and the ground beneath Blaze's feet begins to clear away, revealing a pool of deadly lava beneath him.

Blaze yelps as he begins falling into the lava below, causing Gaia to smirk.

"Perfect."

Blaze smirks as he falls face first towards the pool of lava below.

As he falls, Blaze resumes his Charge Stance.

"Thermo Charge, Level One: Heat Robber!" Blaze shouts as the ge lava begins to darken and solidify, turning to stone, which Blaze safely lands on top of. Emanating off a Blaze's body is a boiling orange glow.

Gaia stares down at his pitfall.

"Is…it over…?"

But what Gaia doesn't see, is from within his pitfall, Blaze crouches down and coils up in his body.

And then, Blaze SPRINGS upwards, using a trail of flames to propel himself into the air.

Gaia's eyes widen as he watches Blaze leap out of his pitfall.

"I ABROSBED THE HEAT OF THE LAVA AND TURNED INTO STONE!" Blaze cackles, "AND THEN, I ABROPSBED THAT HEAT INTO MY OWN BODY. MORE HEAT EQUALS MORE ENERGY, SO AFTER GOBBLING UP THAT BLAZING HEAT OF THE LAVA, I'M INVISIBLE!"

Before Gaia can react, Blaze then lands a speedy white got punch to Gaia's gut, which sends him flying backwards, his back slamming into the wall behind him in a cloud of dust.

"Ohh…" Gaia grows as the dust settles, "At least…I know what his Devil Eye does now. After Blaze used his Devil Eye ability, he commented about my body heat. And then, when I used the rocks to blind Blaze earlier, he didn't see me enter his Charge Stance. "View," huh? It seems like Blaze doesn't have some sort of miraculous perception ability. He can just see infrared."

"Bingo," Blaze smirks as he aims a pair of finger guns at Gaia.

Gaia then peels himself off of the rock wall, but Blaze resumes his Charge Stance.

"Thermo Charge, Level Two: Heat Delivery!" Blaze shouts, and just as before, Gaia drops to his hands and knees, blood gushing from his nose again.

"SHIT!" Gaia pants, "I can't FOCUS because of this heat! How can I beat Blaze?! I thought dropping him into a pool of lava would work, but he just absorbed it! His body's heat resistance is INSANE!"

Gaia's eyes then widen.

"Th-that's it…!" Gaia says to himself, "Earlier, I only created a small pitfall. What I need to do now is…create a pitfall giant enough that Blaze CAN'T absorb all of the heat! There MUST be some upper limit to his heat storage!"

***

"Woo-hoo, I did it!" Ana cheers as she throws her hands into the air in celebration.

But then…a wave of dizziness courses throughout her entire body, causing Ana to drop to the ground on her rear.

"Woah!"

Luciano claps.

"Sorprendente, Anemoi! You were the first one to Infinity Charge!"

Ana falls to the ground on her back like a starfish.

"Now…I can rest."

A moment later, Ana is snoring loudly without a care in the world.

Gaia slams a fist into the ground.

"DAMMIT! I wanted to WIN!"

Luciano raises an eyebrow at Gaia.

"Vincita? What do you mean? We're training, there's no winning."

Gaia looks away in shame.

"I…was the only one to not win my fight against the Children of Fire. So…I feel inadequate…"

Luciano rubs his chin.

"I see…do you know what you're doing wrong, Gaia?"

Gaia perks up.

"No."

"You're too logico, my friend. Stop being analytical. You're thinking about Infinity Charging like an E-Charger, I already told you not to do that. You have to…envision the CORE of your strength, not how MUCH strength, like a number."

***

Gaia's expression softens.

"I have to…throw it all away…"

Gaia's face then narrows into a scowl as he stands up to face Blaze.

"Throw it all away…DON'T LISTEN TO OUR BRAIN!"

"Oh?" Blaze smirks, "Just WHAT are you doing?"

Orange sparks of energy then EXPLODE out of Gaia's body, grander than Blaze has ever been before.

Blaze's eyes widen.

"What the-"

"Th-Thermo Charge, Level One: Heat Robber!" Blaze shouts as he resumes his Charge Stance then absorbs all of Gaia's body heat. Body Gaia ignores his lethally cold body as he slams a fist into the ground.

"Infinity Charge…"

"-GRAND EARTHQUAKE!"

The entire ground then begins to tremble, causing Blaze to lose his footing.

And then…cracks begin spreading across the ground staring from Gaia' fist.

The entire ground in front of Gaia and around Blaze then crumbles away, dropping Blaze down into the pool of lava below.

"IT'S NO MATTER!" Blaze roars as he resumes his Charge Stance, "I'LL JUST SUCK THE HEAT ALL UP!"

The lava begins to solidify as the orange glow emanating from Blaze's body intensifies, turning blue and then white from the heat. But then…blood EXPLODES from Blaze's eyes and nose, causing Blaze's bloody eyes to widen.

"N-no…" Blaze stammers, "THE HEAT IS TOO HOT?!"

Blaze screams as his body begins to roast due to all of the heart he's absorbed. Blaze's back then slams onto the solidified lava beneath him, as his body is reduced to ash.