A/N: I'm pretty tired out from reviews and should probably be doing homework, but I got hit with so much inspiration I just had to :3
Seathe the Scaleless vs Black Dragon Kalameet, the white dragon vs the black dragon, the bringer of calamity vs the mad scholar, who- is- deadliest? To find out, our highly skilled team of this author will scrutinize their attributes with (partially) completely unbiased reviews and the latest in scientific speculation. Then, running the data through this author's educated opinion, we'll see the results!
Strength:
-Seathe: Very strong, able to knock the average chosen undead around with his claws with ease, his tails are even stronger still, since he can lean all his weight into them and crush even the heaviest armor, though he relies mostly on ranged sorcery attacks and dragon breath.
-Kalameet: Ungodly strong- even his lightest attacks are able to crush heavy armor in seconds, and even with a massive arrow through his shoulder, he's able to launch himself into the air on his gimp wing
-advantage: Kalameet
Speed:
- Seathe: He was born deformed- with no visible legs and highly recessive wings, limiting his speed to a crawl
-Kalameet: Extremely mobile- thrusting himself forward on his legs, gliding on his wings, and leaping large distances with ease. Normal flight speed is very difficult to intercept.
-Advantage: Kalameet
Agility:
-Seathe: Very slow and clumsy- uses his three large tails to sweep the environment and guard his rear- cocks his fist back to strike opponents at the front
-Kalameet: his movements are liquid- striking with his claws, tail, and fire in rapid succession with impeccable accuracy, leaving his opponents very little room to hit back or defend themselves
-Advantage: Kalameet
Build:
-Seathe: a mutant- has long, slender arms and a slender torso, but a very wide lover body that has difficulty maneuvering. However, Seathe is enormous and can reach very far
-Kalameet: Streamlined and elegant, but medium sized at best- relies on grace and speed over brute force to close the distance and evade attacks.
-Advantage: Kalameet
Intelligence/Strategic Ability:
-Seathe: while weak in body, the white dragon has an incredible level of intellect- however, his research to discover immortality free from the fragile primordial crystal has rendered him mad and unable to reason effectively.
-Kalameet: born of the ancient dragons, Kalameet has had hundreds, perhaps even thousands of years to perfect his combat skills and turn his body into a living weapon. Average intelligence by human standards, and prone to incredible bouts of destructive rage and mania
-Advantage: Kalameet
Armor:
-Seathe: Born without scales, Seathe's pale flesh is exposed to the elements
-Kalameet: Coated in an impenetrable suit of obsidian scales, the black dragon is all but invulnerable to damage
-Advantage: Kalameet
Weapons:
-Seathe: uses his claws and tails to mash opponents
-Kalameet: uses his claws, his razor sharp obsidian tail to cut and knock opponents around, and his angular- very tough skull to ram opponents with incredible force
-Advantage: Kalameet
Magic:
Seathe: The godfather of magic- who may have invented it in the first place, manipulating the force of life through crystals, commanding an archive so engorged with accumulated research it drove the foremost master of sorcery insane just trying to comprehend it.
Kalameet: limited to no knowledge of the arcane
Advantage: Seathe
Miracles:
-Seathe: though worked with Gwyn for a massive period of time, he has no apparent grasp of divine miracles- relying on his own intellect
-Kalameet: fought the gods in ancient times and lived to tell it- relies on his own might and power to dominate the battle
-Advantage: neither
Pyromancy:
-Seathe: as a creature of magic, he is highly vulnerable to fire and cannot wield it, using crystal breath instead
-Kalameet: uses a unique form of black dragonfire only he can command, which can vaporize unwary foes in seconds
-Advantage: Kalameet
Darkness:
-Seathe: has dabbled in the dark arts to uncover immortality, but has no further connection to the abyss
-Kalameet: born in ancient times long before the abyss existed
-Advantage: neither
Special:
-Seathe: uses arcane magic infused with crystal to pierce numerous targets at a time. Wired his soul into a primordial crystal deep beneath the earth that renders him completely invincible.
-Kalameet: the black dragon can project a staggering level force with the might of his will alone, crushing and repulsing anything that draws to close
-Advantage: Seathe
Vulnerabilities:
-Seathe: his flesh is very sensitive to fire and mildly sensitive to lightning, and the primordial crystal that renders him immortal is very fragile and needs to be guarded at all times
-Kalameet: his obsidian scales can be peeled away with lightning or pierced with heavy magic
-Advantage: Kalameet
Overall combat skills:
-Seathe: A scholar of unimaginable intellect that can destroy most adversaries with his magic and crystals, though he isn't accustomed to open warfare
-Kalameet: Ferocious in battle even for a dragon, even mighty Anor Londo dared not provoke his ire.
-Advantage: Kalameet.
Total:
Seathe: 2
Kalameet: 10
-The Duel-
Wind blew around the black dragon's wings in a gale force- his piercing, rusty orange eye sweeping the environment below as he circled a great, rotund building with a royal blue roof that had to be the fabled "duke's archives" at the edge of sun glossed Anor Londo.
As the bringer of calamity swept around the acropolis, he spotted a deep pit in the earth- crystal lining the sides and sparkling in the trees like coats of crisp winter ice.
"So-" Kalameet growled into the air in an ancient dragon tongue, "this is where the traitor Seathe chose to bed himself down? The Great Duke- Gwyn's favorite pet- father of sorcery." He bayed, angling his fine dark wings, "Perhaps I should put the great 'lord soul' to the test- see how great the first flames might truly is."
The black dragon tucked his wings to his side, the wind rushing through his jagged horns as he dove with his sleek, elegant body angled like an eagle mid swoop. As the wind begun to whistle over him, he spotted several shapes below- foggy pale looking up at him-
Soon, small, jagged crystals begun to fly from below- shredding through the air like glimmering daggers, Kalameet's demonic eye flaring- the crystal shards impacting on the force of the falling dragon and shattering to dust before him, the black dragon sending a wave through his body to straighten himself and slingshot down the outer wall and over the grassy ground.
The crystal golems- ape-like things continued firing at him, the black dragon taking a deep breath and feeling the euphoria of immense energy gathering in his bosom-
A plume of fire- so strong and so dense it was blackened in the air with a corona of gold- like a sun in eclipse- blew from deep in his lungs and scorched the trees to ashes instantly- the microscopic molecules of air and moisture in the golem's construction flashing to steam- the things bursting with a tremendous crack-
The dragon left nothing behind but piles of scorched crystal settling to the ground and blue hot flame engulfing the forest- the sweet smell of ash clouding the sky.
Kalameet angled his body once more, his wings gliding over the wall of the pit- the dragon's pure black shadow dancing over the pearlescent surface with a striking red light for an eye.
Yes- this was the shadow of the bringer of calamity- the harbinger of despair!
Seathe looked up from the pretty- pretty surface- like maidens flesh- the ripples so- so- immaculate- from the primordial crystal. A familiar screech was beginning to fill the air- Seathe feeling all his golems coming apart under hellish fire- a shadow passing over the lands as he felt heat- fire- burning far above. His channelers- his eyes- blinded by acrid smoke.
He was here- the last of the true ancient dragons- the- the- destroyer, the desolater- no mere small drake or descendant. The white dragon tore himself from the crystal's radiance- its- power beauty life giving beauty- pulling the arcane around him as he moved in front of the precious- his precious life crystal- feeling for the crystal and souls around him to spot his adversary in the darkness of his hazy, blind blue eyes.
The bringer of calamity detached from the wall, rolling from the edge and gliding forward, the mad scholar raising his claws to his sides and materializing dozens of small blue orbs- projecting them through the air as they blew forward and crystalized- homing in the rapidly approaching target.
They angled in on the core of the beast- tracing azure as the bringer of calamity pulled his dark wings in all manner of angles to weave through the cloud of soul spears- biting at his sides like a cloud hornets.
Kalameet bayed as one tore over his chest- a few obsidian scales loosening as his sensitive skin beneath felt the ache of soul energy, the black dragon charging himself even faster until he was little but a shadowy streak heading in on the mad scholar.
Seathe pressed his hands together, a corona of several bands of homing masses of souls shooting from him and rapidly orbiting until he was wreathed with rings of them, the mad scholar thrusting his palm forward to send rapid fire clusters of them at his adversary.
The black dragon's eye flashed brightly, the soul masses- smaller and faster than the spears- but weaker- breaking on the wall of force and leaving him unscathed as he put his wings to the side- slowing down to swoop in front of the mad scholar- who dispersed his soul masses and absorbed the soul power.
"Away- away demon!" he shouted, trying hard to turn to the sound of Kalameet's snickering as the bringer of calamity calmly circled him-
"Aww- what's the matter?" he leered, "can't stand the presence of a true dragon? Did I break your poor little toys, runt!"
"Away- away- away- do not- you're breaking- my- my- crystals- my SOULS!" the white dragon threw his head around in a roar, spewing crystal from the glowing mass near the base of his stomach- the blind, mad scholar sweeping all around to catch him-
The bringer of calamity merely breathed in once more- unleashing an eclipse of fire into the air- the crystals meeting his shaft of flame- the air filling with the sound of shattering and crackling as the flames consumed the white dragon's crystal- slowly burning down until the mad scholar himself was engulfed, the very earth around him breaking away under the wrath of the black dragon.
Kalameet finally choked his breath- laughing as the smoke blew around-
a soul javelin parting the smoke and striking Kalameet in the chest- raking down his side and gushing black blood as it dug under his scales.
The bringer of calamity roared in pain, falling from the air and crashing to his feet, his darkened claws digging in as the white dragon- in the truest expression of blasphemy- looked down on the black dragon, cackling madly as the burns down his face and body instantly disappeared- like soft white paper burning in the reverse.
"See! See!" he shouted, maddening as he remembered the time before the war- "See! You- arrogant- you're arrogant- you will fall I'm cleverer than you, cleverer than all of you!" he pulled his claw back- driving it down-
His pale claws broke in two as they struck the black dragon's force, Kalameet roarING with such fury the trees at the top of the crater split open and the very earth quaked-
"Insolent inbreed!" he screamed, "You- who fornicates with the gods- with the humans!" the mad scholar was pressed back from the black dragon's growing bubble of wrath as he ground the crystal stalactites to snow- his rusty eye burning like magma caldera- "I'll crush everything you made- I will burn your library to the ground- I will grind your bones into dust- I will find and destroy everything you ever cared for- INSECT!"
Seathe panicked- swinging around as he felt his precious primordial crystal resonating at much too great a frequency- it was cracking- the mad scholor bringing his hands around and sheathing his crystal with a thick curtain of woven icy pillars- sighing as he felt the resonations stop- the bringer of calamity spying the actions-
"Oh- are you distressed? Do you want to keep me from that?" the black dragon rushed around the mad scholar- the white dragon screaming incoherently and flailing the tendrils of his legs to try and stop Kalameet.
The bringer of calamity thrust his head to the side, catching the wind with his wings to send him from the flailing appendage, his black claws digging in like cleats on the slippery surface- a few places giving him a lurch- like he was freezing, so he jumped the rest of the way to the crystal flow, the scholar turning as fast as he could and continuing to shout for Kalameet to stop, though he was stuck to the dirt-
"What's wrong, slug?" Kalameet roared, "You're far cleverer than I- surely you can figure a way to keep up with me!" the black dragon turned to the crystal flow, bracing his feet and focusing his rage into the base of his throat-
Seathe screamed as he sent a barrage of soul spears at the bringer of calamity- Kalameet leaping into the air and springing from the crystal flow- running up the wall with the aid of his great wings and claws as Seathe continued to fire on him- the spears landing close- but with his blindness he lacked the accuracy to strike Kalameet as the black dragon lunged side to side-
He detached and rolled upright- diving down on the crystal flow with a torrent of whooshing fire- the flow eroding until Kalameet crashed down on it with the force of a comet shrouded in force and blew the entire thing away- the exposed, brightly glowing crystal inches from the black dragon's glowing- rusty eye-
"No- no- no- no!" Seathe screamed continually, too distressed to think as he slid over as fast as he could- crawling at the bringer of calamity as he turned about-
"Yes- it is pretty, isn't it?" he mocked, flicking his tail-
The obsidian pillar of his tail- one of the lightest and strongest dragon scales in the world- shattered the primordial crystal- it's light fading as Seathe bellowed in pain, a distinct- vulnerability surrounding him as his magic lifted. The black dragon hunkered to the ground-
"Now we play one of MY games." He blew forward, his claws racking the ground as he charged towards Seathe with all his rage- but his eye was still- no- he was going to take him apart with his physical strength alone-
The mad scholar recovered, swinging his arm forward, the bringer of calamity jumping aside and grabbing the white dragon by the wrist and leaping from his hind legs, his entire body leaving the ground as his obsidian tail jumped forward- Kalameet's jaws crushing Seathe's brittle bones-
The obsidian blade tore the side of Seathe's head open like soft butter- his pale blue eyes bursting-
The mad scholar threw himself back, but Kalameet kept rotating- his teeth- stronger than steel ripping into Seathe's flesh and pulling the mad scholar's arm until a brittle crunch and spray of blue blood marked the removal of his foe's appendage- the pale dragon's arm falling from Kalameet's maw as he licked the sweet blue blood from his lips- his own black blood boiling with the high of combat.
The pale dragon threw his side tails wildly- Kalameet jumping side to side- one ramming him in the flank and pushing him aside, but his scales took the shock well, the bringer of calamity leaping back and swinging about as the pale drake's broken but free arm came down- missing him as Kalameet jumped back with a whirl and raked him over his exposed groin- a bulbous thing filled with crystal- with the weapon that was his tail
It tore open- the soul energy pouring from Seathe as the glowing light flickered a bit- the pale dragon leaning down and blasting the bringer of calamity with everything he had- the black dragon tucking himself in as he felt himself surrounded the crystals- their cursed energy seeping into him as the mad scholar entombed him in a great ball- everything going quiet-
The orb started to crack- them tremble as a bright- angry red orb lit within it- the crystal exploding and soaking the area with flame- Seathe reeling from the shrapnel and heat washing over him- a shadow bursting from the dust and over the scholars head, sweeping around racking his spear-like claws down the mad scholar's back, landing behind him and jumping over his swinging tail, spinning and cutting deep into his back, each sweep of Seathe's flailing tails leaving the black dragon with another dive and another slash over the pale "dragon"…
Seathe stood tall- heaving heavily as torrents of blue blood flowed from his shredded flanks- his severed tails flopping limply on the ground- little more than pale pieces of shredded meat- his head foggy with all the strikes and claw marks- he remembered- remembered faintly the maidens- his Gwynevere- his crystal- all were gone- gone- gone-
He flexed the severed stumps that were once his arms- reaching for the monster- the bringer of calamity that dared cut him so deep- his blood pooling in an ocean around him-
There was a whoosh of wings, Kalameet flying eye to eye with the mad scholar- watching him growl in agitation as he tried to find something Kalameet hadn't torn apart- finding none- wheezing with fatigue.
"It's over now," Kalameet snarled, his eye dimming as he pressed everything into his throat- Seathe's head limply pulling up and filling with crystal energy- "Die." The mad scholar opened his glowing maw-
His throat filled with black fire- his gullet swelling out as Kalameet unleashed the full torrent of his might into the throat of Seathe- the mad scholar convulsing as he burned from the inside out, finally collapsing into charred bones- a grimace of horror not unlike his test subjects frozen to his petrified skull.
That evening- night was turned to day over Anor Londo- as the great duke's archives, a testament to knowledge and the wisdom of the gods, fell into calamity…
Winner: Kalameet by apocalyptic flaming death.
Was there ever any doubt? Seathe is deformed wannabe dragon while Kalameet is a fucking force of nature- he should've been the carrier of the lord soul, hands down, no question (had he been alive at this point, which he isn't if you go by cannon). Seathe had many advantages in ranged combat, but in close quarters combat Kalameet was superior in every category and proved far too much for Seathe to manage, Kalameet's strongest weapon being Seathe's greatest weakness sealing the deal.
As Mr. Selfish pointed out, had the battle taken place in Kalameet's home territory- far from the primordial crystal- Seathe would've eventually prevailed as Kalameet's scales were slowly broken away and he wore himself down with his high speed movements and extensive use of fire, none of which could hurt the white dragon.
However, in a fair fight, Kalameet is the undeniable strongest of the ancient dragons- no question.
This is probably the most one sided raping that will appear in these fights- future ones should have more balance, but nonetheless, I hope you enjoyed :3