The Sun Gains Fire."
The moon hung over the League's mountain fortress, pale and cold—
the perfect opposite of the power Damian was about to claim.
He stood alone on the stone platform overlooking the valley.
Talia and Ra's thought he was meditating.
Lady Shiva thought he was training.
Cheshire thought he was napping.
None of them knew the truth.
Not even close.
The System Speaks
A faint chime echoed in Damian's mind—
only he could hear it.
Mission Complete: Slade Wilson Eliminated
Deathstroke: Terminated.
Worldline Stability Preserved.
Reward Unlocked: Mera Mera no Mi (Flame-Flame Fruit)
Conditions:
• Weakness to water: Nullified
• Weakness to seastone: Nullified
• Energy capacity adapts to host
• Fire can merge with Sun Breathing
A golden-red fruit materialized in his hand
spiraled like dancing embers, glowing as if alive.
Damian stared at it, expression unreadable behind his mask.
Fire itself… a weapon no assassin has ever wielded…
If Sun Breathing is the dance… then this… is the inferno.
He tightened his grip.
He didn't hesitate.
The First Bite
Damian bit into the devil fruit—
—and gagged instantly.
It was the single most disgusting flavor ever created.
Rotten metal mixed with burned rubber.
A crime against food.
"—ghk!"
He swallowed by sheer force of will.
The fruit dissolved into heat—
not metaphorically.
Literally.
Fire poured through his chest, his arms, his blood,
as if his entire being were melting into sunlight.
His vision went white.
His heartbeat thundered like a drum.
His bones cracked— but not from being damaged—
from being reforged.
Fire Awakening
Flames erupted from Damian's skin—
silent, controlled, elegant.
Not raging wildfires.
No.
These flames moved like him.
Sharp. Precise. Intentional.
They formed rings around his arms,
drifted from his shoulders like rising heat,
escaped from his eyes like glowing embers.
If Sun Breathing made him heat—
the Mera Mera no Mi made him pure fire.
He clenched his fist and a white-orange flame spiraled around it,
shaped like a blooming lotus.
The system chimed again:
Mera Mera Integration: 18%
Fire Output: Adaptive
Combustion: Controlled
Compatibility with Sun Breathing: High
New Ability: Flame Body
– You can become fire at will
– Heat intensity scales with template adaptation
– Immune to physical weapons when in flame form
New Ability: Fire Manipulation
– Create, shape, and direct fire
– Fire density can harden into constructs (weaponized flames)
Damian opened his hand—
a sword of condensed fire formed instantly.
He swung it once.
The air hummed.
The cliffside thirty meters away split open like butter.
Sun Meets Fire
Damian inhaled.
His breathing slowed.
Sun Breathing: First Form — Dance
Flame spirals wrapped around his feet, his arms, his blade.
He moved once.
Just once.
A streak of blazing heat cut across the night sky.
The stone beneath him melted into red-hot glass.
The mountain wind evaporated into steam
Damian stood completely still afterward—
not even breathing hard—
eyes glowing like molten gold.
"This power…" he whispered.
He didn't grin.
He didn't laugh.
He didn't boast.
He simply nodded.