Castoro “Cast” Dammon
General Facts
Age: 24
Gender: M
Occupation
Killer Beaver Warrior
Chief of the Killer Beavers
Appearances
Regular Titles: Books 41–45, 47–51, and 53
Super Battlers: None
Immediate Family
None (assumed)
Character Summary
Castoro Dammon, known to all as “Cast,” came to Alexandria from Beaveron
in Book 41. The Battlers first saw the powerful omni mage battle in the
Tournament of Wonder against an Asian Earth mage. Cast inspired awe from all
who watched him when he used a devastating spell called the Magic Advance, a
spell combining the power of the three strongest spells of a particular magic
element (this one was Earth-based), to defeat his opponent. And then, he ate his opponent. But he was forced to
regurgitate him in order to stay in the tournament. The Battlers nearly
trembled at his strength, all of them hoping they wouldn’t have to go up
against him — especially since they immediately recognized him as a Killer
Beaver.
Unfortunately, they did have to go up
against him. The Battlers met Cast personally when Chief Manhunter led an
attack on them while they were enjoying an early-evening celebration of all
eight of them getting past the first round. There, after Chief Manhunter
introduced Cast to them — and explained he had a new scheme that could only
work if he ate them — a hard battle began between them and twenty Killer
Beavers (Cast was one of them). After the other nineteen Killer Beavers were
defeated, Cast was left and he very easily defeated Gold Battler Deyon
Davis, White Battler Richard
Montgomery, Orange Battler Jay
Dixon, Green Battler Aaron
Rountree, Red Battler Jon
Crawley, Blue Battler Shauna
Davidson, and Purple Battler Diahandra
Christian with a combination of fantastic physical attacks that knocked all
of them out. He and Silver Battler Maurice
Eazel battled hard, as well, stopping only when Maurice
saw Chief Manhunter kidnapping his pregnant girlfriend, Vivian
DiCapa, planning to imprison her until she gave birth so that he could eat
her and her baby. But Cast pulled Maurice back into the battle and got the upper hand
at one point. But Maurice got the
upper hand later and was about to do away with Cast when his Battler Crystal
suddenly powered down on him, transforming him back into his normal self. Cast
took advantage of this and revealed that an omni mage uses all magic elements. He cast different spells of different elements
on Maurice, ending with another
Earth-based Magic Advance spell that nearly killed him. But just in time, Maurice underwent the Crystal Advance
and rose to the Battler Emerald level. He transformed into a new Silver Battler
and used some new abilities to defeat Cast, eventually burying him in an Entomb
spell.
During the epilogue, while back in Chief Manhunter’s hut, Cast thought that his
chief’s newest scheme may have been ruined before it even began since two
Battlers — Deyon and Maurice — had
ascended to the emerald level. But then, Chief Manhunter found out that Battler
Emeralds had more power than Battler Crystals and he was even more determined
than ever. He hatched a new plan, more cryptic than the original, and had Cast
find as many familiar enemies of the Battlers as possible. Although Cast
wondered about his chief’s new plan, he knew he’d have to wait and find out
later. . . .
Cast appeared
briefly in Book 42 in a Magic Animal battle against a young woman. He easily
defeated her Magic Animals with his spider-bear, Ursarachnid, whom he’d
captured in Beaveron. While leaving the ring, he made a successful attempt to
intimidate Richard before he headed
out onto the field to start his battle, surprisingly not eating him in the
process.
He later appeared in
the epilogue, where he was with Chief Manhunter when he received thanks from
Scalorus Gatorus (also known as “Carnivore”),
younger brother of Reptilius Gatorus (also known as “Predator”),
for tipping him off about the White Battler he wanted to find and eat to get
his revenge for his brother’s death. He noticed his chief reading his mind to
find out just what he needed to know and. After Carnivore had gone, he watched
as Chief Manhunter telepathically “X”-ed out a picture of Richard
he had on a mantel with the other Battlers’ pictures. Deyon and Maurice’s pictures had also been “X”-ed out, but not any of the others’ pictures. What
could this mean? What was his chief’s plan? He didn’t know yet, but he knew he
would soon. . . .
Cast only appeared
in the epilogue of Book 43, where it was revealed that he and Chief Manhunter
had been working with Maximole
Diglon, whom the chief he’d met while on a raid to capture and eat a large
group of human campers. He’d tipped him off about Jay
and told him to kidnap Richard. After
finding out everything that’d happened between Jay and Maximole, Chief
Manhunter sent Maximole on his way and Cast watched as his chief once again
“X”-ed out another picture — Jay’s. Why did he keep doing that? What was each
“X” supposed to mean? He is still trying to figure it out. . . .
In Book 44, Cast
appeared long enough to knock Maurice out of the Tournament of Wonder during
round four using Ursarachnid. He appeared again when Maurice,
Aaron, and Jon
heard him chuckling evilly about something outside of the factory they’d fought
Fenrir
Lupus and Goril
Primus at. He ran away as soon as he realized they’d seen him.
Cast also appeared
in the epilogue, when it was revealed that Cast had been the one to fry the
security system keeping Goril locked up, freeing him from UNITY. It was also
revealed that Fenrir had allied with Goril primarily as a favor to Chief
Manhunter. Fenrir was a good friend of Chief Manhunter’s and had promised to
give up his goal to eat Maurice in
exchange for one whole city for himself and his werewolves to overrun when
Chief Manhunter finally took over the world. And after getting the scoop of
what’d happened during Fenrir and Goril’s bout with Aaron, Cast watches as his
chief gave Fenrir two pure-hearted teens — one boy, one girl — to prepare for
the Clan of the Cave Wolves’ Supper of the Werewolves. Fenrir gladly took both
teens and left Chief Manhunter and Cast alone. Cast then saw Chief Manhunter “X” out his fifth picture — Aaron’s. What was his chief doing? What was he after?
In Book 45, the
answer was finally revealed. Chief Manhunter was out to eat all the Battlers
after he coaxed them to ascending to the Battler Emerald level. With Jon the latest target of the chief, Cast launched a
series of attacks on him, hoping to get Jon
to fight hard enough to go through the Crystal Advance.
His attacks failed, at first, but when he mistook Monique
Eazel for Jon’s girlfriend, he
kidnapped her (after winning his quarterfinal battle against Avio Swan in the
Tournament of Wonder) and used her as bait to lure Jon
into his trap. He gladly took it.
Cast trapped both
Jon and Monique in a hut in the New Killer Beaver Village, but thanks to Jon’s
newly-received Villager Power, they escaped by phasing through a wall of the
hut. Cast caught them again, but Jon
helped Monique escape the village and
fought Cast, who, along with Chief Manhunter, revealed their master plan to
Jon. Jon was shocked, at first, but he
got over it and fought Cast tooth and nail. As a result, Jon
did undergo the Crystal Advance,
but refused to use it until Cast used a powerful Magic Advance spell (this time
using a fire version of it) on him and swallowed him whole. When Jon finally used it and freed himself from Cast, he
sent him packing with an Inferno spell. So Cast was defeated — for now — but at
what cost? . . .
Cast popped up again
in Book 47, just long enough to hear the news that the sixth round of the
tournament would be a round robin with one of the final four contestants, Jeremy
Frost, in prison and thus disqualified from it. He appeared again in that
book long enough to defeat Diahandra and knock her out of the tournament,
although not with the greatest of ease like his other opponents. This left him to face Deyon in the final round
since they were now the final two contestants.
Cast kidnapped
Monique once more in Book 48, this time to bring her to the Killer Beavers’
village to be part of the chief’s Christmas Eve dinner. But his chief’s efforts
were thwarted when Deyon let Goril find out, via his publicized thoughts, that
the chief was planning on screwing him over where Aaron was concerned by eating
him instead of Goril himself, causing Goril to go on a rampage that wound up
freeing the Battlers.
In Book 49, Cast
finally faced Deyon in the final round of the Tournament of Wonder, and in that
final round, things stayed pretty close between them the entire fight. It even
seemed like it could be either of them taking the final victory when they used
their Magic Advances against each other. But in the end, Cast proved stronger,
as he only barely withstood the attack, while Deyon was knocked out and thus
finished the whole tournament in second place. Cast, meanwhile, received the
title of the Wondrous One and one-million dollars.
In Book 50, after
following Chief Manhunter for so long, Cast finally turned on his chief. Up on
the Sun Pillar in the sky kingdom
of Cloud Nine, an
all-bird kingdom, following the reveal that the chief had hired the evil Vultura
Scavenge to lure the Battlers up to that kingdom, Cast ate his chief with
the intention of absorbing his powers. He had secretly sent a Killer Beaver
compatriot of his to steal another Stone of Absor from Magicia (there two in
existence, not just one), which he’d eaten two weeks before. Now that he’d
eaten and absorbed not only his own chief, but also every mages his chief had
previously eaten and absorbed with the first Stone or Absor. Now, he was in
total control — of his tribe and of
whether or not to pursue the Battlers.
In Book 51, Cast
made his first big move since gaining control of the Killer Beavers by
recruiting his first soldiers — the Mutant Guerrillas. Fresh off a defeat at
the Battlers’ hands, he gave each of the eight of them — Hurtle, Doomondback,
Coonskin, Bully Frog, Owlina, Thwarthog, Polara, and Lionardo — a fraction of
his newly-obtained power, giving them the power they needed to defeat the
Battlers in a later battle. He had Deyon, Maurice, Aaron, Jon, Shauna, and
Diahandra kidnapped and brought to his village, where they’d lay a trap for
Richard and Jay (who’d escaped from the battle). But Jay outwitted Cast and the
mutants by saving the others without them noticing until it
was too late. In addition, Jay tried out his new Magic Advance spell for
the mountain element and defeated the mutants, much to Cast’s chagrin. Cast
promised he’d get them the next time they met, and he was hoping to make good
on that promise.
In Book 53, Cast overheard
Philip DiCapa telling Jon all about the grief he felt relating to his parents’
deaths and wanted to take the Battlers down for it. Knowing he had an easy-to-manipulate
tool at his disposal, he kidnapped Philip, convinced him to work with him, and endowed
him with magic powers of his own that he wanted him to fight and defeat the Battlers
with. When Jon wound up being his first victim and was nearly killed fighting Philip,
Cast decided that now would be the time to devour his first Battler and start
absorbing his powers. But Jon burned the inside of Cast’s mouth before he could
do that, and Jon escaped while he was distracted.
Cast didn’t give up,
though. After overhearing the eight Battlers planning to get Philip’s brother,
Desmond, and his sister, Vivian, to talk Philip out of working with him, Cast alerted
Philip, who launched an attack on the DiCapa mansion and fought the Battlers there,
well before they were ready to carry out their plan. When he defeated them, Deyon,
Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron, Shauna, and Diahandra were all kidnapped by them.
Jon was left behind to face Philip in a rematch the next day. If he won, the other
Battlers would be released. If he lost or didn’t show up, Cast would eat all of
them.
Sure enough, Jon did
show up the next day for the rematch, which he fought in boldly. But Philip once
again managed to defeat him. He was just about to kill him when Desmond and Vivian
showed up and successfully got him to see that their parents had died because of
their own obsession with the Battlers, not anything the Battlers had done. Philip
admitted that part of him had always known that, and with that, Cast’s hold on him
was no more. Knowing that, Cast attacked Philip and swallowed him whole. He then
entered a battle with Jon that he lost when Jon used the Magic Advance on him. Jon
got to leave the Killer Beavers’ village with Deyon, Maurice, Richard, Jay, Aaron,
Shauna, and Diahandra. But Cast still had a consolation prize — Philip in his stomach,
and his powers being absorbed by the Stone of Absor.
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