Big Rocky Blues Under the Southern Heat [Skylar + Vulcan]

All was normal during a cool night in Texas, the sun had gone past the horizon and every creature big and small were returning to their slumber. all was quiet and as normal as things could be... except for the large stone giant lying on his back in the middle of a field, Vulcan was contemplating his existence. "Crush..burn.melt...incinerate... liquefy.. decapitate" he chanted quietly "but why......this world is filled with beings far more powerful than myself, I can not change this world to be like Pyrovilia, and I reclaim what was lost....why...why do I feel this burning hatred in my soul...is it envy? Am I jealous of this planet? no...it must be something greater...but what" he raised his arm into the air and shot a burst of magma up into the sky, he watched as it flew into the air and then slowly descend back to him. As the magma landed on his chest he felt it's heat warm his body, but as it flowed over him it landed on a patch of grass which erupted into flame. "Is that all we are?" he said while staring at the burning grass "destroyers?" he continued to lie on the soft ground, staring at the burning grass...wondering what more he was meant for...

Vulcan's head turned to the sound of a woman shouting at him, she had approached him quietly but now was putting out the small burning fire he had created. "I understand you well little one, but I care not for the woodland creatures of your world" Vulcan got up from the ground and stood up, the giant stood at seventeen feet tall and loomed over the woman. "and fire is meant to burn and destroy isn't it? to melt, and scorch, and burn until nothing remain?" he looked down upon the pile of ashes where the grass had once stood, "There is no other purpose than to destroy" he said while looking downward, "If that is all I am made for than why do I long for a greater purpose..." two small streams of magma began flowing from Vulcan's head where his eyes should be "WHY!" he yelled slamming his fist into the ground making an enormous crashing sound "I can never return to what was taken....I have...no home.." he said falling to his knees as lava continued to stream from his face onto the ground...scorching the earth where it fell.

Vulcan stared at the woman as she removed her clothing to reveal her bare legs, it was odd...the fire seemed to only injure her momentarily, perhaps her outer layer was not as fireproof as the rest of her. "They took my home planet...a world called Pyrovilia, oceans of lava and lakes of fire, burning brightly in the universe... it burned almost as brightly as if it were a star itself. No cold, or water to freeze or sting, it was my home" he said as the magma stopped flowing from his face. "i'll find it one day...to be with my brothers and sisters again alongside the stars burning brightly....but if i cant" Vulcan's voice turned far more serious "if I never find my home....I will burn this world and every other world along the way until I do, I will burn a path through the cosmos to find my home, and nothing will get in my way." Vulcan stared at the small woman in front of him "Life is full of sorrow and rage, fire is meant to destroy, not create, and you're a fool for thinking otherwise" Vulcan raised his arm and shot a jet of magma at a nearby tree instantly setting it aflame as the magma covered the wood. "Just look, that is true beauty...destruction of what is weak and fire burning brightly"

Vulcan turned back to the woman as the burning tree fell to the ground with a blaring crash, echoing throughout the night. "My name?? you ask my own name without giving your own, little human" Vulcan crouched down on one knee meeting the female eye to eye. "But since your curiosity outweighs your manners I shall tell you. I am known as Vulcan of the planet Pyrovilia." he said with a proud feeling to his voice. "But who....are you little one?" he said raising his hand up to her face lightly touching her face with one of his massive fingers "You look to be an ordinary human, but since you do not fear me as the others do you obviously are not..." he asked with an intrigued tone of voice.

"nice to meet you..." Vulcan whispered softly, it wasn't a phrase he heard often...it was usually "Die monster" or "Get away you freak". Perhaps not all life on this planet was as useless and disgusting as he first thought. When the girl told him her age though, Vulcan burst out laughing "Twenty seven years?" he chortled at the youth of the female "Compared to me you are but a fly in how long you have existed, you are barely into your third decade, while I have lived for many centuries! You are still a babe just learning to wonders of the universe aren't you?" Vulcan somehow felt different from his usual self... he was often filled with anger and hatred, but this woman, she...she entertained him, if there was no hope of finding Pyrovilia and he ended up destroying this world...perhaps he would choose to spare this woman's life, she was an interesting spark of brightness upon this dark and gloomy world.

It was nostalgic, hearing about the girls family. Vulcan too had once had a brother, but he was lost in the Cosmos along with his planet. "It was not by my choice that I fell to this planet" Vulcan said, "In my escape from those who wished that I not speak of the theft of my world my ship became damaged, it floated through the cosmos for years before finally falling the the gravity field around this planet. My ship was destroyed in the crash, so you see... I am trapped here on this planet" Vulcan said looking up at the stars "but i'll find my way back into the cosmos one day, I know it" The woman's next question startled Vulcan "Throw....Throw you??? the girl was so small and delicate, why would she ask something like this of him. "I suppose I could if you wanted to fly...but I usually find that flying is followed by a worse feeling....falling, but if you insist. Vulcan grasped his hand around the woman gently "Prepare yourself young one" and with that Vulcan launched the girl named Skyler into the air, rocketing towards the clouds.

Vulcan stared as Skyler lay on the ground happily smiling over falling from the sky....a ...strange reaction to such an event. "I lack the schematics to recreate my ship" Vulcan said while lying on his own back staring up at the stars. "Perhaps in a few decades, maybe a century give or take... I will be able to return to the stars in something more than a space raft. This world is still far from intergalactic travel" he listened to her talk of her past in the military "You human's are so confusing, military for each piece of land, back on pyrovilia every single resident of the planet is taught to fight in the case of intergalactic war. Every man woman and child will fight to defend the planet from invaders.....well that's how it used to be...before THEY came and took the planet.". Images flashed in Vulcan's mind, his friends and family upon the battlefield against the invaders. Even with their immense strength and size they were no match for the weapons that the attackers controlled. Even when the planet itself was used as a weapon against them their defenses held out against any kind of assault. Vulcan had been in an assault ship preparing to make an attack against them when something unexpected had happened. In the blink of an eye both the invaders and Pyrovilia vanished, an immense amount of force sent Vulcan and his ship hurtling through space. The force of the explosion had taken out most of his ships controls and he had only been able to sit and wait as he floated through the darkness. So many years in solitude spent in misery and loneliness. His planet was gone, his people were gone, but here on earth. This world with all its disgusting elements and dangers, here of all places he had found a friend in the universe. She wasn't as strong or as big as him. But she was durable like him, even more so...and that fact comforted the Pyrovilian to the depth of his molten core.

Vulcan looked upwards as he heard the sound of the approaching aircraft a bright light was shining down directly into his glowing eyes. He had only wanted to be left alone, but now this woman claimed to be part of their military, a military that would take anything they could find to use as a weapon. He knew how these things worked, the might of a Pyrovilian on any human battlefield would cause the enemy to tremble with fear and be left as nothing but ashes when he was finished. But that was not what Vulcan desired.... He turned to Skyler "I trusted you...and you brought THEM HERE" he screamed at her. With a swing of his giant stone arm he swatted at the girl with the backside of his massive fist. With his other arm he held it up to the air and fired a jet of magma shooting towards the helicopter. He would be no nation's play toy, he would be free.