Author's note: So this will be a continuation of the last chapter and I will be doing it in a sort of vs. Match format. I hope you guys enjoy it, please read and review. It helps give me the courage and will to continue writing this.
Skaar & Apollo VS Artemis & Lyra
"Why, why do you not perish by my flames? These are flames of the heavens monster, yet why do you not burn." Apollo shouted as he bathed Skaar in three thousand degree flames. Never before had the god witnessed this. Sure there were those who could protect themselves from his sun fire. But standing within them, unfazed, laughing boisterously, well this had to be a first. "As if fire could ever harm me, clearly you don't know who you're messing with, sun god. Allow me to teach you." Skaar shouted over the roaring fire. Streams of blue energy began to pour into him from the mountain, a sign of his control over the old power. Skaar absorbed one trillion tons of lithosphere from mount Olympus itself, then released it all in a massive thunder clap that shook the mountain. Apollo's flames were immediately extinguished as even the clouds above were scattered. The god was blown out of the sky yet again but managed to land on his feet this time. He stared at Skaar in disbelief and rage; for never had a mortal brought him down, twice. "Well I would be lying if I said that this was not interesting, I would not have conceived anything as being immune to my flames. No matter, if my fire cannot roost you, then I'll simple beat you to death with mine own hands." The god declared as he rose to his full height. Skaar couldn't stop the grin that spread across his face at the god's threat. "You're gonna beat me to death by hand, that's rich. You seriously think you stand a chance against me in a contest of strength? You must have fried that tiny little brain of yours. But please, feel free to try. I could use a good laugh." Skaar retorted as he waded through the pool of molten rock he now stood in. The two bore savage smiles as they cracked their knuckles for the slug fest to come.
Okay, maybe her title is well deserved, Lyra thought to herself as she hid behind a large boulder. She had to admit that the fight was tougher then she was expecting. She had to use every skill and weapon she had at her disposal. After all it's not like she was immune to magical arrows the way her brother was immune to fire. That was just plain cheating. Currently she had four arrows imbedded in her back, two in her left arm and one in her left leg. "Dammit these things hurt, and no one said anything about them being able to change trajectory midflight like that. This is going to be a problem. A distance battle will only be to her advantage, I have to make this a closed-quarters fight. Alright then, let's see how she handles this". She whispered to herself as she removed the arrows. But as Lyra hid and strategized, so did Artemis.
"I was not expecting her to be so strong; clearly I have grossly underestimated her, she may very well be my equal. The goddess thought as she crouched behind a large tree. She surveyed the multiple lacerations to her arms, legs and Torso. Not the mention the hole in her gut from being impaled by Lyra's spear. It was a vain and foolish decision she had made not to block the thrust. Believing that the spear could not pierce her armour, she was wrong. "That spear is a hinderance; I cannot allow her to throw it again. However my intuition warns me that she will attempt to make this a closed-quarters fight now. If that be the case I am more than happy to oblige. Let us see how she handles this." The goddess finalized, summoning her hunting knife and charging at the boulder where her enemy was hidden. How surprised she was to see her enemy charging towards her as well, her weapon – the spear – switched to a Tonfa format. "So I was right, you have chosen to make this a hand to hand fight," Artemis said wistfully. "Oh so great minds do thing alike, well the minds of great women that is, this will be fun." Lyra cheered as the two clashed once more. "Agreed, so it shall" Artemis returned in sentiment.
Sparks flew from their clashing weapons and shockwaves from their heavy blows shook the air. The two traded blow after blow, trying to gain the upper hand, and Lyra was winning. Before they engaged in their second round, while they remained hidden, Lyra had entered her serenity state. In which she can perceive everything around her and react to them faster, plus it boost she strength greatly. She gains the ability to see the gamma waves emitted by all living things, to see and absorb it. Making herself fundamentally stronger. She is the only one in her family that becomes stronger the calmer she gets. Then battle took a turn in Lyra's favour as she disarmed the goddess of her hunting knife. But as luck would have it – or not have it, both women were blown off their feet by a shockwave generated by their clashing brothers.
"What the hell bro" Lyra shouted as she got back to her feet. "Seconded, your beastly thrashing interferes with my dual brother, do it elsewhere." Artemis shouted in concert, getting up and brushing the dust off herself. Both men seemed to stop their own fight to glared at theirs sisters. "Sister I have no time to entertain your girlish little squabble. Maybe it is you whom should go elsewhere." Apollo snorted, Skaar nodded firmly in agreement. "Sister's man, always a pain in the ass right." The two men laughed loudly, completely unaware of the hell they had just unleashed upon themselves. "Are they seriously laughing at us?" Artemis hissed, summoning her bow back to her hands. Lyra nodded to her, "Well I don't blame them. It has been a while since I've beaten Skaar to a pulp. Clearly he's forgotten his place as the younger brother." She spat out. "Clearly they need to be reminded of the order of things." Artemis declared and the two came to a mutual understanding. Their fight had served an unexpected purpose of creating a strong bond and respect between the two warriors. And they used this new found bound to attack their – pig headed – brothers.
Needless to say the double team was completely unexpected by the two men as they were repeatedly bombarded with blow after blow and arrow after arrow, never give a chance to rest or defend themselves. The two Sisters, now fellow comrades in arms, smiled widely as they continued to mercilessly beat their brothers.
Ross VS Poseidon
This is becoming irritating. That thought ran through the minds of both Poseidon and Ross as they battled. Ross wasn't like the other's, he was in a league of his own, the second strongest hulk and a brilliant strategist. Which is why he chose to fight the one he deemed the second strongest god. However this fight was literally between the personifications of fire and water. The hundreds of gallons of water summoned forth by Poseidon were instantly vaporized by Ross. This left both combatants temporarily blinded. Likewise, whenever Ross started releasing omnidirectional flames Poseidon drown them out. Poseidon also used his trident to kept Ross at bay, never allowing him to close the gap between them. He knew it would be to his detriment if Ross got in too close. Poseidon discharged a blast from his trident that propelled Ross into the cliff face hard enough to dig a sixteen meter deep cave. "Oh have you fallen already monster." Poseidon hollered into the hole, only to be brought to his knees by a blast of blue Energy. "No, have you" was Ross's snide reply.
He emerged from his self made cave cloaked in a force-field carrying a old power teaser in his right hand. "Oh, you're still conscious are you? And I had this thing on the 6.9 setting too. You're one tough-ass fish I'll give you that." Ross said in mock praise. "Guess you're wondering what this thing does, then allow me to educate. You see this thing uses old power – or earth juice if you wanna call it that. To induce vibrational damage to your molecules, like your own personalized earthquake. And the power I just hit you with would have been strong enough to kill wolverine. Hell it would have out the juggernaut flat on his ass so don't feel too bad." Ross boosted as Poseidon spat up blood. The god couldn't believe he was rendered to such a state by a mortal, a monster at that. It felt like every cell within his body was shaking apart, the pain almost unbearable. In his rage the god lashed out with his trident, firmly planting the shaft into the rib cage of the red hulk. Ross spat up blood as the sound of his ribs breaking was audible. The force had blown away his shied and sent him hurtling into the mountain with such force that fissures nearly three miles wide spread out from the impact point. As Ross dragged himself back out of the mountain, he cursed himself for letting his guard down while his injuries slowly healed. "Ow, that fucking hurt bastard." Ross cursed as he stood before Poseidon once again; it seemed the god had time to recuperate as well. "Oh, so you have fire in you still young one." The two men ready themselves for round three. "If I've still got fire in me" Ross snickered. "Why don't you piss me off and find out."
Voltoria VS Boreas
The fight was currently at a complete stand still. Due to Voltoria possessing lightening speed and Boreas's wind-like movements, it was near impossible for one to land a clean hit on the other. Voltoria's lightening was cancelled out by the icy winds of Boreas and Boreas's Ice attacks did little more than annoy Voltoria. "Enough of this, I'll put an end to this fight, now." Voltoria said in her flat matter-of-fact way. Boreas bellowed loudly, finding Voltoria's plainness in battle amusing. "True words brave mortal girl. Even though I harbour no ill will against you, I must obey the command of the king and destroy you for daring to go against the gods." Boreas said with a sigh.
"My father says that you are not gods but more like inter-dimensional beings. That it is only the weak humans who perceive you as such. Kind of like the, Asgardians." Boreas's left eye twitched slightly at that comment. "Little girl, angering me is not wise." He warned and Voltoria nodded in full agreement. "This is true. As a so called god you should know of my family's history here on earth, specifically my, father. So you should be well aware that angering me would also not be, wise." Boreas went from mildly amused, to greatly annoyed, to downright furious in a matter of seconds. This mortal girl had just overstepped her boundaries and it was time she be put in her place. He summoned forth thick black clouds, preparing to bury the foolish girl before him in snow and ice. Not knowing of Voltoria's secret weapon. Upon seeing the clouds gather, Voltoria wasted no time in summoning her great weapon the Sky Crown. Using Boreas's clouds the Sky crown began to generate electricity.
The resulting thunderstorm cloud blanketed half of Florida. Dumping rain lightening and hail upon the confused and terrified citizens. Boreas snorted at Voltoria. "So you had such a trick concealed thunder witch, not that it will do you much good against a god." He jeered, breaking out in a hearty laugh. It was soon silence as Voltoria raised her right hand to the sky and calling down lightening. Boreas prepared to block only to realize he was not the intended target, she was. Voltoria absorbed every bolt of power into herself till her skin glowed and her hair turned to plasma. Boreas was rendered speechless, only ever having felt such electrical energy from one other source. The master bolt itself. "Now, let us put your title of 'god' to the... test." With that said the second round began. The two bounded into the sky, each blow exchanged resulted in destruction. Trees were set ablaze when struck by lightning, only to be frozen solid, and then shattered by crashes of thunder. Fierce winds and snow swept down the mountain freezing everything in its path. It hit Florida moments later as the demon child of thunder and frost, burying cars and bursting windows with snow and rapturous sound. However the safety of humans was neither the concern of hulks nor the Olympians at the time, only the enemy before them matter. And so the war between the two family's raged on.
Athena and Jen
The two women of intellect stared each other down, knowing that the one who faltered and showed an opening first, would be the one who lost. Beads of sweat streaked from their brows as they use their analytical skills to the limit. The two women desperately tried to discover everything about the other that could give them an advantage. A flaw, a tell, any kind of weakness that could be discerned. Finally one of the women caved, bending to the pressure of the other. "Oh man I fold. You win this round, but don't let that go to your head girlie, I just got a shitty hand that's all," Jen pouted as she threw her hand of playing cards onto the pile. Athena smiled and collected her winnings. The two women were currently located at a small table outside of a restaurant, hundreds of miles away from Mount Olympus.
"Oh don't feel too bad about it, I just possess more experience than you. I've lived far longer after all, though you have given me more of a challenge that anyone else has in centuries. Take pride in that fact." Athena boosted as she ate her gelato. "And I must say, I am liking this plan of yours, far more reasonable than what my hot head father demands." She sneered only to receive a complimentary nod from Jen. "I now right, my cousin is the same way too, stubborn to a fault." Two women shared a laugh at the expense of the families. "But still I am glad that you took my offer." Jen continued, Athena remember their discussion when they first meet.
Flashback
"Well, speak this proposition of yours. I've already allowed your comrades to go past, prey that your offer is satisfactory mortal or you will suffer the consequences." Athena warned to which Jen held up her hands in a show of peace. "Whoa there, look I just thought that since we're both women of great wisdom here. We could put our heads together and come up with a diplomat solution to this. You know, instead of getting involved in this senseless macho brawl that serves no real purpose. Well to us anyway." Jen offered using her lawyer persuasion skills. Athena narrowed her eyes at jen, clearly pondering over her proposal; it really wasn't a bad one. "Hmm, I can see the wisdom in your words. Truly it would be foolish to jump into a fight which serves no real merit. Very well then, let us relocate to a more accommodating venue." Both women slimed, finding amusement in their shared likeness.
Flashback End
The two women were now, 'discussing', a peaceful compromise over gelato and a game of blackjack. They look over to see a thunderstorm brewing over the Mount Olympus, hail and lightening being pelted in all directions. "Um you sure that barrier you put up round the mountain is gonna hold? Cause it looks like that storm is getting awfully close." Jen asked with a hesitant laugh. Athena surveyed the encroaching clouds carefully. "That barrier was made to strengthen itself by absorbing kinetic force. It should stand up to any force our warring families can throw at it. It's the only reason this state hasn't been destroyed yet. However that storm cloud is another story. Oh well, guess the humans are just going to have to get through it as best they can." Jen shrugged at the goddess's melancholy words. And it was just a year ago that such news would have greatly troubled her. But now with her family relocated and this new incredible life her lived, it just didn't seem to bother her much. "Well whatever the case, we've done the best we can to protect the humans from this fight. Now where were we?" Athena said as she started shuffling the cards. Jane raised an eyebrow as she took another bite of her gelato. "I believe I was just about to avenge my last defeat.
Hephaestus VS Amadeus
"We'll be at this all day you know." Amadeus complained as he sat on a rock, turning yet another of Hephaestus's machines into something else. The two had long since given up trying to battle each other. Instead they shifted to building things and seeing how best the other could counter it. "Yet it does not appear to me that you have some place overly important to be." The god retorted with humourless laughter. He watched as Amadeus reconfigure a bronze eagle automaton into a nine meter long snake. The god snickered as he waved his hand and transformed the serpent into a tank. Amadeus sighed heavily, why did I have to get the boring fight, he thought. Both men knew that they were not warriors, they were thinkers and inventers. In his boredom Amadeus's attention slipped slightly, as a result. He accidentally built a hydrogen bomb. Both of their eyes bulged at the sight of the device before a simultaneous "Oh Shit" fell from their mouths. They were barely able to throw up protective shields in time before it went off.
Every other group stopped fighting as they felt the explosion. Chunks of stone and debris were sent flying through the air in every direction. This was when everyone realized that they had been locked inside a barrier as the debris bounced off an invisible wall. Raining back down on the whole mountain and setting everything that was not already on fire, on fire. "What the F are they doing up there." Jen mused from where she and Athena sat, 'discussing' peaceful negotiations. "I am lost as to their reasoning myself; however it is a good thing that we erected that barrier. Florida would be a sea of fire right now had we not. Oh and it's your turn by the way." The two women shrugged then returned to their game.
Delphyne immediately knew that her husband was responsible for the explosion. An explosion so massive it reshaped the face of the mountain, bringing all combatants into one area. "Honey what the hell did you do? And don't try to lie to me and say that it wasn't you cause I know it was." She screamed as soon as she saw him. Amadeus cringed at the sound of his irate wife. "What, of course it wasn't my fault, I mean it was, technically. But not intentionally I swear." He tried and failed to defend himself. "What the fuck does 'not intentionally mean dumbass. You nearly freaking killed us." Griffin shouted while trying to put out his arm that had caught fire. A multitude of voices hurling insults at him arose. However all were silenced by the arrival of Hera and Betty. "Ok, who here wants to kindly explain to me just what the fuck is going on here?" Betty said, anger literally rolling off of her in waves. Her hair was on fire as she gritted her teeth hard enough for everyone to hear it. "Who is responsible for this?" Hera said in the kind of low and calm voice that made your bowels want to let go.
Everyone immediately pointed at Amadeus, who immediately started to shake. "Look I can totally explain this." Amadeus quickly tried to defend himself again, which is hard to do when you're facing down two queens. The combined glare of the two women suddenly had Amadeus feeling very small. "You are the one responsible for this destruction to my home. I would recommend that you prey to every god you know. But can I tell you right now that we would not listen." Hera moved forward to personally strangled Amadeus. However a hand on her shoulder held her in place. "Easy there now, he may be idiot, but he is one of our idiots. I won't let you kill him." Betty warned, however Hera simply swatted her hand aside. "You presume to command me mortal" Hera said threateningly as she glared at Betty. Betty got right in the goddess's face grinning savagely. "Listen bitch, I'm just about sick and tired of you. So how bout we finish what we started before." Their eyes burned with energy as they ready themselves for the decisive battle. Just then the earth began to shake violently. It fact it felt like the whole fucking continent was shaking. It was only at this time did anyone noticed it, the absolutely monstrous surges of power that could only come from two people.
"Um look, we should probably go stop our husbands from, you know, destroying the planet."Betty sweat dropped.
Hera sighed heavily, lamenting the juvenile behaviour of her husband. "Agreed."
TBC