The Karcist and the Lord
a S.C.P. Foundation Mythos x M.G.E. crossover
Chapter 18: A War Gods' fate
As the Gods looked upon the man sitting in Aries' throne, the War God looked him with a look of annoyance. She stepped forward, getting into the Grand Karcists' face. After a few seconds passed between the two staring at each other menacingly, she scoffed in disbelief, and looked at the Chief God. Her appointed superior stared at him with nervousness, and the others who were there, except for Dionysus. Dionysus, when Ion first appeared, choked on the wine she was sipping, as she was sitting next to Aries. Her drunken red cheeks were still flushed, though she seemed a bit taken aback by his introduction, and decided to pay attention for now. While the others were laughing, she was trying to figure out how they missed his being in the room up until now.
"This is the God of these new Humans?" Aries asked, then started laughing while the other Gods had similar looks of amusement. "A Human? Is this some kind of sick joke? A Human man, a God? Not only that, he apparently became one by eating his fellow Pantheon, since you called him a God-Eater?" She continued in a jeering tone to the Chief, while Dionysus looked as Ion smirked. She could tell that something more was going on. While he seemed to be but a normal Human, a normal Human could not possibly just appear from nowhere, and act nonchalant around the Pantheon of Heaven. Ion looked back at the drunken God of Wine, and when he smiled, he open his lips enough to show off row after row of fangs somehow stretching into an infinite void contained within, and an eye looked back at her from the black abyss in his mouth. When Dionysus shirked back and blinked, he was suddenly back to normal with his mouth closed, causing her to set aside her never emptying drinking horn. Ion meanwhile looked back at Aries, who everyone else was focused on as her laughter filled the room. Aries noticed the shocked look on her friend and fellow deity was doing.
"Oh? Is there something up with this man? You look like you saw a Ghost!" she jeered.
"I uh, I think you should stop Aries. He did manage to sneak up on us, and he is starting to creep me out." Dionysus replied, then rubbed her forehead.
"Ah, just drink some more honey, he's nothing the God of War can't handle with her bare hands, right Aries?" Hel inquired, amused at the this. She was known to be almost always downcast, so her peers seeing the normal stoic and ornery Death God laughing highlight much they did not take the Chief Gods' concern. She was known to have never liked either of the Chief Gods, as she was always required to attend to the souls of the dead, and hated being in an underworld of souls ever crying out in suffering for what she considered punishment for just existing. It had been rumored that the reason the undead are so prolific is that they're Human and Mamono women that have been given a second chance at finding love. At her quip, Aries flexed her muscles, and the others cheered her on.
"Come on girl, let him have it!" Eos cried.
"Yeah, show him why your the God of War!"
"Go! Go! Go! Go!" Hel started chanted, causing every God except the Chief God, who sighed and facepalmed knowing what was going to, and Dionysus, who saw this, as well as how unbothered Ion was at the display before him. So when Aries reached over and grabbed his shoulder, the God of Wine cringed, expecting his reaction to be swift. However, Ion calmly looked over at the well-toned and muscled arm that grabbed him, and then into the eyes of the War God, who noticed his causal attitude towards her.
"Are you sure you want to proceed with this?" He asked, Aries' smile lowered, but did not completely fade. As the others went with a collective ohh at the applied challenge to her authority, Aries then proceed to lean over to his ear.
"Yeah, I'm sure. Whatcha going do about it?" she whispered. With a simple but easily seen flick of his finger, Ion sent Aries flying into a pillar. When she smacked into it, a loud crash that echoed throughout the chamber resounded, shaking everything like an earthquake as the Gods stared dumbfounded at the display of power. Dionysus nearly stood up, having grabbed the arms of her throne, which looked like a cornucopia with fruits and meats of all kinds in it, her emerald green and hazel eyes wide. Ion then stood up, and proceeded to walk over to Aries, who shook her head to clear out the feeling of dizziness. When she saw Ions' sandeled foot, she looked up and saw him staring down at her on one knee.
"Want to try again?" Ion asked, his voice shifting into a deep and guttural tone as his robes turned a crimson red, and began to began one with his body, and the hood enclosed itself and harden into a plate of bone, from which three eyes gazed out.
**POV SHIFT**
Lescatie Forest
Klavigar Nadox inspected his new body, how it was covered in a wolves' fur, and felt the half-muzzle that was his face. He conjured a mirror, and gazed upon with a pair of eyes he thought he would never see again. He still had eyes in the palms of his hands, but he smiled anyway. He could feel that he rebuilt his body from the remains of his previous one and the one that Elf/Were-Wolf so unwittingly gave to him. When he grinned, his fangs were like ivory knives, surrounding his leathery tongue like a crown made for tearing meat, and crushing bone. He dispelled, and walked away. If that Bapthomet from Royal Makai knew better, she would back off. When she teleported in front of him. He stopped.
Guess not. Nadox thought as he grabbed her before she could speak, and threw her at a tree behind him, which exploded on impact. When the other three Mamono took positions, he prepared for battle, then stopped.
There's the Tengu, the Red and Blue Oni, so where's- ah. Nadox lifted a hand and stopped the Queen of Hearts in mid-flight, who tried to dive bomb him from behind while he was distracted, electricity crackling from her hands.
"SHIT!" she screamed, the curse not befitting of her form as a little girl.
Nadox tutted in mock disapproval while wagging a finger, the clicking sound causing the Lilium to blush at how he was scolding her like a child. the Tengu then conjured a spectral sword that glowed purple, flinging at the Klavigar. Without dropping the Queen of Hearts, he caught the blade in one hand, then threw like a real knife back at the Tengu, who dodged it as he spoke.
"Little girls like you should not be aware of words like that." Nadox chided. "Either way, I suppose I shouldn't also need to point out how dangerous can be when in the wrong hands. You could quite severely hurt someone." he explained as the two Oni charged him from behind.
"LET GO OF THE QUEEN!" the Red one yelled, raising her club and swinging from the left. Her blue-skinned cousin was dong the same gesture, but mirror so she came from the right. With a sigh, Nadox jumped back and tossed the Queen of Hearts into his place instead. Both Oni had looks of horror, but the Lilium was quick enough to block enough both attacks at once with her hands. They sighed, only to gasp and pale as the Klavigar used the opening to slap the leader of Wonderland as she turned around. He hit her from the top of her head, causing her to be propelled into the ground. A crashing sound could be heard, then a bolt of light flew from the dust cloud that had formed on impact Nadox was caught off-guard, having expected that to be enough to defeat her, and so was stunned when it hit him, blinding the Mage. As he began to use the eyes in his palms to see, the Bathomet and Tengu both launched chain nets they summoned from a pocket dimension, the metal enchanted to work together as they wrapped and entangled the enraged Sarkic.
He tried to charge his finger, but the Queen of Hearts immediately grabbed and twisted it, snapping it loudly as Nadox cried out in pain.
"GAHH! I'M GOING TO BEAT YOU AND YOUR BATHOMET SISTER WITH A BELT ONE DAY!" he screamed as spittle flew from his mouth, as the chains tightened before he had a chance to retaliate. The links also fused into one piece, leaving him stuck in a fetal position if he didn't want to be crushed in further.
"Now now, that would be child abuse." Alice said teasingly. "That is very much frowned upon in this world big brother."
"You, a child?! Then I'm a Unicorn Cerberus with spider legs!" Nadox retorted.
"Let's just go back to Royal Makai. Though I should go on ahead. I think I have an idea on how to more securely contain him until the Monster Lord gets back." the Tengu said, teleporting over to the capital of the Mamono.
**POV SHIFT**
Grand Palace of the Gods, Heaven
Aries was outraged. This Human Mage dared to attack her. Sniffling a bit, she got back up to her knees and tried to tackle him. However, when she looked up, Ion had disappeared.
"What th-" she muttered, looking around the white marble room. Hel suddenly pointed to something behind the War God.
"LOOK OUT!" she screamed, Aries was too slow. But the time she turned, a crimson arm and hand that looked like exposed and raw muscle punched her in the side, then disappeared into the portal that it came out of. Aries turned around, only to duck just in time to avoid a tentacle of some kind from stabbing her in the head. It had some form of chiten on it, and while it was still exposed, Aries called her twin swords Wrath and Fury to her. With glowing blades alight, she slashed at the empty air, and a single spurt of black and rotting blood came out of the portal as the tentacle retracted. An unnatural scream was heard, causing the room to shake more. Ion himself emerged, with a slashed chest, covered in some red organic flesh that covered him like a second skin. Aries immediately could see that despite the lack of bleeding that the wound had, she did catch him off-guard, and got a serious looking wound. However, the flesh quickly knitted itself together, and the several eyes formed on its surface, all of which were glaring with hate at Aries, who stood confused, as she now could sense Ion, with a power akin to her and her fellow Gods...something else with him.
Ah hell. She's awake. A voice spoke inside everyone's mind. The Chief God most visibly paled in fear, knowing who Ion was referring to, as the piece of the Devourer of Gods Ion wore awoke.
**POV SHIFT**
Pain. That was what she felt. The feeling of being cut and sliced like when that lowly human filth tore her skin off as his armor. However, unlike normal wounds, it didn't just cut her physical form, it burned her mind through dimensions. As a result, while the human was fine, to her that cut was like an acid that poured into the wound the Sorcerer-King carried that was part of her body. This snapped her out of her stupor, reminding Her Undulating Vastness of how far she had fallen since Mekhane entrapped her on the backwater world known as Earth. Opening a number of eyes, all of which scanned the room sighted the goddess that struck her. With the rage that saw entire planets burning, and sent her lesser gods and goddesses running for their lives, she began to attack by firing off a blast of elderitch lighting, the indescribable color being one which no life on this planet had seen before. The goddess was struck by it, and screamed as she was launched into the air.
As she looked around the room, she realized she could feel that this part of her body the human stole was in a different world. What is this place? She didn't get a chance to wonder for long however, as Ion asserted his mental control over the Old God-Eater, forcing her to go and sleep once again.
One day, I will free myself from this parasite she swore to herself, one day...
**POV SHIFT**
As Aries groaned from the pain, she looked up to see Ion walking towards her.
"What the hell was that?" Dionysus asked, turning to the Chief God.
"That was Yaldobaoth. Simply put, she was the Old God-Eater, went around her universe eating other Gods just as terrible as her, breathing out their remains into what began the lesser lifeforms such as the Humans Ion rules over. Then, she got into a fight with a God made of metal and stone, who imprisoned her with a cage made from his body. After some time passed, Ion found her and ripped a piece of her skin off, has full control over her as a result, and she just woke up from Aries cutting her with her swords." the Chief God. She was paraphrasing of course, but that seemed enough for the other Gods to know what was going on.
Now then Aries, I believe it is time to stop playing around. Ion 'spoke' while revealing the Y scar on his torso. Aries looked up to see that it was opening, and saw a black void stretching to eternity, with the exception of the multitudes of mouths at the border.
"No." She muttered, then tried to get away when something grabbed her ankle. "Gah!" she screamed, as she pulled with enough force to faceplant onto the marble floor. A snapping sound could be heard, and when she looked up, her nose was broken and a golden ichor that every God had for blood leaked out. She began to panic, as she looked back and saw tentacles of some kind shoot out from abyssal mouth of Ion, intent to drag her into the void stomach within.
"SAVE HER!" Hel screamed, and the other Gods tried to attack all at once. However, Ion simply waved his hand, and a barrier was created that knocked them away before disappearing. Aries let out a final scream before being taken into ion, and his mouth snapped shut.
The pain-filled screams of the God of War did not go silent however, as Ion's mouth could be seen writhing and bulging where the trapped goddess was trying to push out. More of her ichor could be seen spraying out occasionally from the cracks in its shape, as Ion stood arched over, letting the life-blood of the Gods drip down in a macabre display. Crunching and ripping sounds could also be heard, as the void Aries was trapped inside tore her apart, crushed her bones, and lapped up her ichor as her sister goddess' stared in mute horror at what was unfolding.
They could also see that her soul was fading away, and grew dimmer. Ions on the other hand, was shining brighter and brighter, and weight of his power grew and grew, until it was a force intolerable even for the Pantheon, who began to shirk away as the Sorcerer-King turned his gaze upon them, until Aries was gone, her struggling ceased and her screams went silent...