Vultura Scavenge

General Facts

Age: 34
Gender: M

Occupation

Scavenger

Cloud Nine Criminal

Appearances

Regular Titles: Book 50
Super Battlers: None

Immediate Family

Unknown

Character Summary

Vultura Scavenge’s story actually began before his introduction in Book 50. The first encounter he ever had with the Battlers was when he stole the body of then-White Battler J.J. Rountree and Green Battler Aaron Rountree’s grandmother, Rose, during her funeral, and took her up to his home on Cloud Nine, a sky city of birds, to eat her there. He was trailed there by J.J. and Aaron, who, with the help of Cloud Nine’s king, Peli Canos, fought and defeated him and retrieved their grandmother’s body. It was J.J. who did most of the work in achieving that goal, and Vultura developed an instant hatred for him for that and vowed revenge.

 

In Book 50, Vultura made his on-page debut when he attempted to kidnap now-White Battler Richard Montgomery, thinking he was J.J. His plan was foiled by Aaron, though. He would later get another chance at taking out Richard (whom he still thought was J.J.) when the entire Black Crystal Battlers team battled him in a large building on Cloud Nine to protect three sacred orbs protecting the city and its citizens. Vultura was out to steal the orbs for himself and use them as collateral to make King Peli give up his throne to him. Though Vultura got the upper hand and knocked out Gold Battler Deyon Davis, Silver Battler Maurice Eazel, Orange Battler Jay Dixon, Red Battler Jon Crawley, Blue Battler Shauna Davidson, and Purple Battler Diahandra Christian, along with their loyal allies, Juliet Kwarteng and Stephanie Sadler, Richard and Aaron managed to defeat him with a combination of water and thunder magic.

 

But Vultura wasn’t giving up just yet. The next morning, after tricking the Battlers into heading to his old hideout to attack him there, he left there before they arrived and snuck over to the suite they were staying in, where he attacked Stephanie and badly injured her. He then proceeded to kidnap Juliet, planning to kill and eat her if the other Battlers didn’t meet him at the Sun Pillar, the highest point of Cloud Nine, at noon, with King Peli in tow so that he could eat him and make his takeover of the kingdom official. The Battlers agreed to his demand, bringing King Peli with them to meet with Vultura. However, after he released Juliet, he got a major shock when he tried to devour King Peli and found out he was a hologram created by a holographic emitter of Richard’s.

 

A now-infuriated Vultura snatched Richard and forced to Cloud Nine’s palace, where he attempted to attack the real King Peli. But when Richard tried to stop, Vultura threw him into his mouth and swallowed him whole. Richard escaped, however, and defeated Vultura with a well-timed Magic Advance for his element, water. Since Vultura was a fire mage, it did a lot of damage to him. But just as Richard was about to gloat, Vultura revealed that Richard had fallen into his trap — his and his boss’s trap. His boss turned out to be Chief Manhunter, who’d hired him to lure the Battlers up to Cloud Nine and somehow get them to the Sun Pillar by noon so that their Battler Emeralds would be as close as they could possibly get to the sun (while staying in Earth’s atmosphere, of course). Because they were there, the sun’s energy gave their emeralds extraordinary power. Power Chief Manhunter wanted them to gain before he swallowed and absorbed them.

 

With his part of the chief’s plan complete, Vultura left Cloud Nine, but only after promising Richard that he’d see him again, and that they’d be enemies from then on. And enemies, they are. Vultura is now, in fact, Richard’s ultimate enemy.

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