CHAPTER 30: WE ARE NOT ALONE

PREVIOUSLY:

"Cut the bullshit, you and I both know that everything in existence that has a beating heart is either a male or female, or in very rare cases transgender, and we both know that such situations are only limited to humans due to their imperfections" he intoned, her grin widened.

"You are correct again, and the answer to your initial question is no, I am actually a female, I just influenced the records to make it seem like I was a male." She stated with a nonchalant shrug. Percy nodded in satisfaction before cracking his knuckles and then rolling his shoulders, "You got a name?" he asked, "Nope, but call me Khaos" she replied.

"Are we going to fight or did you come all the way here just to kick me to Antarctica and then irritate the hell out of me?" he asked dully and then her grin widened. "I thought you'd never ask".

On that note, the two flapped their wings and burst forward faster than the speed of light and cocked their respective fists backwards before throwing their punches, their fists collided the result was a sonic boom that leveled the landscape once more. Abandoning that particular course of action, Percy attempted to deliver a jab to her jaw only for his attempt to be thwarted by a fierce Sparta kick to his chest, right between his rib cage, making him cough up some more blood and sending him flying – not on his own accord – once more…

NOW:

Percy crash landed in a less than gentle manner on the frozen ground, which miraculously didn't shatter, before quickly rolling out of the way at inhuman speeds, which this time around shattered the ground due to the force at which he moved, just in time to avoid a brutal axe kick.

An axe kick which was meant to hurt him but ironically repaired the shattered ground.

He wiped the blood from his mouth before frowning; he unlike other versions of himself from various multiverses did not enjoy fighting a super strong and skilled opponent who was one hundred percent willing to beat him to a bloody pulp or kill him. No, he would rather fight opponents who were weaker than him head on (taking great pleasure in curb stomping them) and use his large intellect to eliminate a stronger opponent.

That, was the logical thing to do.

He made a mental note to smack some sense into a certain assassin/Avenger doppelganger of his the next time he went dimension jumping…

… on second thought, that would be him asking for trouble so he quickly discarded that idea… and then brought his attention back to the fight.

His purple/sea green eyes darted about looking for terrain or any instrument of any sort that would give him an edge over this formidable opponent (more like stupidly OP).

Seeing none at the moment, he put all his attention on the fight…

… and was sent flying once more courtesy of Texas style super kick.

Percy groaned (his first in a long time) and spat out a mouthful of snow, "I don't know whether to be disappointed at your lack of skill or be offended that you think that you can tire me down by tanking all my attacks" Khaos drawled with the same shit eating grin still plastered on her face.

Percy stood up and cracked his knuckles, "Meh, you hit like a girl anyways" he stated nonchalantly while Khaos continued grinning , "Oh my, I guess I should feel proud eh? I'm kicking your back side and still being feminine about it".

Percy stared blankly at her, "… can't you just take an insult and let it be?" questioned passively, though the erratically throbbing vein on his forehead said otherwise.

Khaos giggled and gave a peace sign before suddenly vanishing, not in a burst of speed, she just… vanished.

Percy's eyes darted about rapidly, but that didn't stop the kick that connected to his spleen. He spun towards that direction but hit nothing but air.

He narrowed his eyes at that before a barrage of kicks and punches began to land on him from all sides at lightning fast speeds.

Thinking quickly (with a bit of luck), his right hand shot out, and grabbed a leg before tugging viciously. Hearing a satisfying tearing sound, he then lifted the now revealed Helixean being of her feet before slamming her down on the ice with enough force to shatter it.

Repairing the shattered ground with just a thought (strengthening it with some Helixean energy), he picked her from the ground and smashed her on it once more, this time around with enough force to make spider web cracks appear on the Helixean energy imbued ice.

He repeated this process again, and again, and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain andagain.

The ice shattered once more, yet Percy remained standing on water. He tossed Khaos up wards before jumping up as well and delivering a vicious axe kick to her mid section, sending her back down to the ground with enough force to make her break the sound barrier.

The force of her landing obliterated all the ice within a range of nine hundred feet, and sent the water found underneath said ice careening in various directions with enough water to cause a tsunami.

Landing on top of the downed female, he pumped Helixean energy into his fist before he began to unload punch after punch on her face.

At the eight punch, she kicked him off with a grunt, sending him fifty feet up in the air where his wings materialized immediately. She was up in an instant, and pitch black Raven wings – similar to Percy's, but more… ominous – burst out of her back and with one flap, she had closed the distance between them.

She threw a powerful haymaker at him, but he blocked his face by crossing his arms into an X, despite his block, he was too slow to do anything about her raised knee. Said knee connected with his groin sending him down as the pain in his groin made him lose the concentration required to maintain his balance as he flew.

He landed less than pleasantly in the crater as he clutched his family jewels while gasping in pain.

Khaos was on him once more but was batted away as his left wing smacked her with enough force to send her careening straight into the wall of the hole that they had created in the process of their… acquaintance.

Percy picked himself up from the ground with a scowl on his face, that was one experience that he had not faced in a long time and he was obviously displeased at having to re acquaint himself with said sensation.

"You… are a pain in the ass" Percy supplied dryly, Khaos chuckled, "Everyone who has ever had the pleasure of coming across me have a tendency to say that… right before I snap their necks" she replied with a smile.

"If you were human, I'd think that you had some tragic back story that left you like this, but sadly, you aren't so I'll just to stick to the theory that you're a simple psycho bitch" Percy said in a thoughtful manner while stroking his chin.

Khaos twitched, it was a miniscule movement, but Percy saw it as clear as day.

The metaphorical light bulb went off in Percy's head, he had discovered the loophole he needed to win this fight.

"Well, I guess I have to kill you now" she said in a tone of voice that while sounding disappointed, Percy knew that she was quite eager to reduce his head to nothing but blood, bone fragments and brain matter.

Her wings disappeared, only to be replaced by four metallic looking spider like appendages which sprouted of her back. She shot forward in another burst of speed, with the intent of skewering him. Percy remained standing with an impassive look on his face as she drew closer and closer, at the last possible moment he was swallowed by the Earth making Khaos stumble and crash as she missed her intended target.

She regained her balance and her eyes darted about quickly so that she wouldn't be caught off guard by any sudden appearances.

Despite her cautiousness, she was still caught off guard as Percy materialized above her and stomped her face into the dirt before bringing his two wings together and slamming it vertically on her spinal column with enough force to reduce the empire state building to dust.

Khaos gasped at the force behind the attack (it want crippling but it hurt like hell, not Hades, hell as in hell) before she was lifted up, hair first before being slammed back into the dirt, making the ground cave in which in turn made the already wide and deep hole even more wider and deeper.

A foot came down on her knee cap, shattering it and making her, for the first time in the duration of the fight, release an ear piercing scream of agony.

"That's right bitch! Keep screaming like the stupid filthy bitch you are!" Percy yelled before lifting her up by the neck and Sparta kicking her away.

He had read her mind (he had used a lot of Helixean energy to do this and hence needed to finish this quickly) and apparently being called a bitch sparked off a deep feeling of self loathing in her and that in turn sent her into a blind rage.

Her charging him blindly was proof enough of that, he was quick enough (and lucky) to have capitalized on it.

His brief moment of rest was cut short as a beam of energy hit him in the chest, frying his clothes and charring his skin before sending him on an impromptu cross country flight… into Auckland.

As he sailed through the air, he released a few pulses of his already diminishing Helixean energy reserves to heal his charred skin, before he could fortify himself further for his impending crash, Khaos was already on him.

Eyes blazing with Primal fury (he took great joy in the fact that he had wiped that stupid grin off her face), she rained down heavy handed blow after heavy handed blow on his face sending his blood spurting about with every punch.

Feeling discontent with the amount of damage that she had dealt out to him, she viciously stomped on his gut, making him cough up more blood before he landed on Australian soil with enough force to crater yet another part of the Earth.

A certain Primordial goddess of the Earth was going to be pissed when she woke up.

Khaos landed on his abdomen just as he himself landed on the Earth, deepening the already obscenely deep crater.

She cocked a fist back and a haze of red energy began to condense on her fist making his eyes widen as he could already feel the destructive energy radiating off it.

It was enough to wipe a country off the map.

He struggled to get up but his shattered bones creaked against each other making him gasp in pain.

Khaos was done gathering the energy, and with a grin filled with sadistic glee, brought the fist down on his face, while he closed his eyes and waited for the incoming pain…

… only that it never came.

Percy cracked a single eye open, only to see Khaos staring at the stump where her fist used to be with a look that could be best described as 'stunned shock'

Her shock was short lived and sandaled leg slammed into her chest making her cough up blood as she was sent flying…

... only to teleport back to the same position by a means that obviously wasn't hers and then grabbed by the neck before being slammed harshly into the ground.

Percy blinked at the scenario in surprise before sitting up to get a proper look at his saviour.

Said 'saviour was clad in blindingly shiny golden armour, and a pure white cape with a single shining sword sheathed at his hip. Percy's eyes trailed upwards, taking in the well built physique of the stranger nly to stare right into neutral white eyes…

… not white eyes as in 'the white of your eyes white'. No, the entirety of this person eyes was a pure white.

Percy blinked, before coughing a little, spitting up some more blood in the process, "Thanks for the assist bud" he managed to rasp out, while the individual continued staring at him emotionlessly.

Percy made to speak up once more but was cut off by a groan of pain that came from behind him. Turning around, he saw Khaos get up while moaning in pain, for some reason the stump where her fist was, was refusing to regenerate.

Before either Percy or Khaos could take action, the mysterious figure spoke up, "Begone" he stated in a clipped, straight to the point tone.

Percy frowned at the 'man' and made to speak before Khaos gasped in shock, "You have never interfered before, why are you interfering now" she demanded in a tone that showed her frustration as clear as day.

Ethereal white eyes turned to stare at her coldly, "My Lord could care less if you pathetic excuses of cosmic beings tore yourselves apart for whatever flimsy problems you have with each other, but he refuses to let you turn his Earth into a playground for your mindless temper tantrums" the mysterious figure stated coolly before his eyes hardened once more, "I repeat myself once more, Begone. This is your last warning, it would be best if you complied willingly, before I send you to himviolently".

Khaos glared at him for a bit longer, albeit fearfully before vanishing in a simple flash of purple light.

Percy blinked at the spectacle before muttering a barely audible 'what the fuck'.

The male figure then fixed his unnerving emotionless eyes on him, making him freeze up. "… I do not see what it is that my Lord sees in you, but I know this for sure…" he paused a bit before outright glaring at him, "… if you should disappoint him, pray that he is feeling merciful because I personally will not hesitate to kill you… slowly and painfully"

Threat delivered, the man stepped back, and his cape warped and folded into two pure, white, glowing Angel Wings.

Percy gaped at the sight and the gears in his head began to turn at rapid paces as he finally connected the dots on who or rather what this being was.

The man stretched his wings, and prepared to take flight. Percy immediately gathered his wits to throw a question at the male figure.

"Who are you?"

The figure gave him what could best be described as a dry glance before shrugging and answering the question anyway.

"Michael"

And with that, the now identified Michael flapped his wings once, and was nowhere to be found.

Percy stared at the place where 'Michael' once stood with an expression that spoke volumes of how awed he was, 'That. Was. Freaking. Awesome!'

AN: I actually wrote this chapter because I (somehow) managed to inspire a certain someone to write a fanfiction similar to this very story.

Heck, he/she prefers this little story of mine over a better written story (in my eyes at least) by a certain author who I'm not going to call for fear of being justifiably flamed to hell.

Gosh I feel like an aged mentor.

For this user's name (the one I inspired), check the Review section of this story.

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