AN: Some of you seemed taken aback by my statement of Hyperion's power level in his True Divine Form. I'll be frank here, I'm well aware that the GODs power ranges between universal+ to low-multiversal(to use vs wiki terminology anyway). The thing is, I have a slightly different way of judging universe shaking-destroying feats, based on just how large the structure is. Beerus, when fighting God Goku in the first arc, was about to destroy the macrocosm, while only using a fraction of his power. That feat is anywhere from 9-13 times universal going off of what Death Battle has shown for it, and Beerus, of course, massively upscales from it to an unknown degree.
Zeus meanwhile, in the highest interpretation of the Greek gods power, was able to shake the entire universe there with nothing but a shake of his head. This alone is absurd, considering that the universe, as in, the heavens, earth and ocean/sea, were thought to go on forever/endlessly at the time that was written. So unlike the living universe and other dimensions within dragon ball, outside of perhaps the World of Void, since I've heard there may be some mistranslation with what was stated for it, the Greek mythological universe is infinite in size, meaning any feat of effecting the entire structure would be worth more than any cosmic feat in dragon ball other than Zeno's erasure, and again, the World of Void, if we take that as infinite. Only three characters shook/effected that realm, and that would be Jiren, Toppo, and Goku, if I'm not mistaken.
Jiren's more powerful than Belmod, and upscales a good deal from Toppo, who warped the dimension to change colour and stuff with his Hakai. Belmod isn't as strong as Beerus, but if we go off the manga, most of the GODs aren't so far removed from each other powerwise. Not to any insane degree, anyway. Beerus is clearly being portrayed to be the strongest, but not by much, seeing as Quitela was going blow for blow with him when he was serious. So, lets assume that Beerus, since he's significantly stronger than Jiren, scales above GOD Toppo's feat by about ten thousand times, which should be a decent, if a bit generous estimate.
This puts him ten thousand plus times above Zeus's extremely casual, not even trying feat of shaking the infinite ancient Greek universe. Hyperion, while I wouldn't say he scales at all to peak Zeus who could destroy the whole universe and such at his full might, he'd certainly upscale quite a great deal from a feat Zeus in his true divine form did with no effort at all just sitting on his throne. Which would more than reasonably put him into GOD levels of power, above every other GOD, other than past Beerus, who I think made clear they'd be roughly equals in terms of raw might.
Hope this clears that power-scale up for those of you who were taken aback, and don't really know the full extent of how far along the ancient Greek mythos can/could be interpreted in terms of power. If you still don't agree, that's fine, you're entitled to your opinion, but in this story, this is how I'm choosing to go about things. If you don't mind, then that's great, but if this bothers you too much, then feel free to stop reading here. Its all up to you folks.
Now, anyways, with that Ted talk out of the way, let's get on with the actual chapter now, shall we?
The Olympian God of Destruction:
Chapter 19: The Titanomachy XII
It was impossible to deny the holy radiance that emitted from Hyperion's every pore, following his ascension. His twenty-five-foot frame not looking too different overall from how he had before, as Beerus and the others could finally view him properly through his blinding light that enveloped the entire peak of Olympus. His body's skin now looked like a cross between the ethereal and the tangible, with how it glowed the magnificent hue of heavenly light. His hair, eyes now shone with the perhaps the most celestial milky-gold compared to the rest of his body, whilst the cloth that swirled around his body, as though it was just an extension of him now, radiated a mesmerising, intense scarlet to contrast the white-gold of his form. No longer looking like a piece of clothing, and now looking like a breath-taking swirl of beatific energy that by itself, put even the most gorgeous of gems to shame in terms of splendour.
Honestly, had it not been for the 'cloth', Hyperion might've been somewhat difficult to make out from the rest of the light around them. He really did now look just as much a part of it, as it was of him. Making his mere presence alone, outside of feeling divine, come off as a splendid mix between that which was physical, and that which was purely abstract. Like he was both there, and not there, at the same time.
"Ugh… And just when I thought you couldn't get more irritating…" Beerus muttered in annoyance, as just the light's presence alone, even dimmed, aggravated his vision and made his eyes hurt as he was forced to squint after a bit.
"Still a disrespectful rat even now…" Hyperion's distorted voice resonated everywhere with displeasure, as he glared down at Beerus from above. "We'll just see how long that attitude of yours lasts as I show you your place."
Beerus was about to retort, but wasn't given the chance to. Before even a single syllable could leave his lips, in a fraction of a second so infinitesimally small that no word existed to describe it, he was sent flying back at an angle. His body careening at unbelievable speed and smashing right through the uppermost section of his palace towards the barrier on the far end, where he struck with enough force to cause a booming shockwave that blasted through the rest of the area.
Hades stood where he was, blinking before staring stunned at the form of Hyperion as he was suddenly in front of where he was, and where Beerus had been. His body floating off the ground with his front parallel to it, and arm outstretched with three fingers closed into his fist, whilst his thumb and index finger were stretched wide and apart from each other.
The others looked back dumbstruck as well, after having felt the after-effect of such an incredible impact behind them, and saw the casual pose that Hyperion was in. As though he'd just got done flicking a fly away from himself.
W-When did – "Aghh!?..." Hades let out a shocked gasp of pain, his throat unable to conjure anything more than that, as a beam of light suddenly pierced through most of his abdomen. The instantaneous feeling of having his divine flesh vaporised hitting him too quickly for him to properly register at first, until he managed to glance down for a tiny moment, and see the enormous, gaping hole that had been drilled through him from front to back. He wasn't even given the time to fall back after suffering such a wound, before he was backhanded across the face. The force of the casual blow breaking and sending multiple teeth out from his ichor-spitting gob, almost crushing the left half of his head as he was sent hurtling away to the side, colliding with the barrier an instant later with just as much force as Beerus had, if not more.
Shit!… I didn't even see him move, and he's already sent my eldest brothers flying away effortlessly!... Zeus thought to himself, barely able to register what had just happened before his eyes, due to the quickness with which it did.
The youngest of the brothers didn't get a chance to think much on that, before something blasted forth past the rubble that part of the palace had been reduced to like a comet and rushed toward Hyperion. The Titan having chosen to stand by this point on the ground, and didn't seem concerned as the figure blurred into existence right in front of him, with a purple aura flaring around his body, and his fist cocked back for a punch.
Letting out a battle cry, Beerus, who's face was still messed up somewhat from the flick he'd been given, with ichor spilling from his crushed nose, thrust his fist forward with all the power he could muster currently. Not caring at all that his foe was currently in his True Divine Form.
To his shock however, his punch, and indeed, the rest of his body due to his momentum, merely passed right through Hyperion's torso as if he wasn't even there. On instinct though, he was quick to barrel-roll while in the air, and dig his heels into the ground to bring himself to a halt. By the time he did, he'd left solid twin-trenches in the ground a good twenty feet away from the glowing Titan, whilst his legs spread apart and his arms raised up in a defensive position. "What the heck!?"
"Sorry, were you expecting that attack to do something?" Hyperion's distorted voice spoke amusedly into his ear, causing Beerus' eyes to widen as he saw that the Titan was already behind him, and within his guard without him having even noticed!
Then, before he could react, the back of the Titan's hand CLAPPED him right across the face with enough strength to almost remove his head from his shoulders. The nonchalant blow breaking his jaw and a good chunk of his skull as ichor splashed and oozed out of his eyes, ears and mouth along with some stray brain matter, ringing Beerus's bell hard. The Titan wasn't finished there though, as he grabbed on firmly to Beerus' head to keep him in place as he lifted him off the ground, his hand encompassing his whole head as he brought just one finger up with his free hand and shot it forward. The glowing appendage stabbing through his gut and eviscerating various internal organs before coming right back out the other side of him as easily as a blade going through wet tissue paper, earning a wheezing gasp of pain from Beerus into his huge palm as he did so. All before he violently twisted and turned it around inside of him, and then ripped it back out cruelly. The act spilling the fledgling god's ruined intestines out either side of the huge hole that his body had been given.
As this occurred, despite his immense, if temporary pain, Beerus tried to grab on to Hyperion's forearm or wrist whilst kicking out with all his strength at his body, as his form glowed a deep purple. Both were futile, as his hands and legs just simply passed right through the Titan's body as though he wasn't present. All it garnered was a mocking laugh from Hyperion, as he struggled to do anything against him whilst his body healed over.
"What's the matter, Beerus? Is that all you've got?" Just as the hole and head damage he'd suffered healed over, Hyperion was quick to smash his fist into Beerus front, making his body swing up backwards, as he heard the unmistakable breaking of bones all over the smaller god's torso, and no doubt the pulverization of nearly every organ inside him. "Come on, I know you've got some better fight in you than that!"
Hyperion's taunting was rewarded with Beerus dematerializing out of his grip and appearing a good few metres away with his fists clenched. A hard scowl over his face as he spat out a huge glob of ichor to the ground. His latest massive injury having healed itself as well, for the most part, as he glared angrily at the mockful Titan in a battle stance. "Damnit, how is he doing that!?" He couldn't help but ask no one in particular. It wasn't as if he didn't know that his foe was using some form of intangibility on him, but it didn't feel like anything he'd dealt with in his prior life at all. And he'd interacted with his fair share of ghosts back then!
"How am I doing what?" The Titan's taunting voice came from above him all of a sudden, and Beerus' eyes widened again when he saw his foe had disappeared from where he'd just been again with such unbelievable speed, and was unable to react in time as a massive foot came down on his head. His body unceremoniously being ploughed into the ground, forming quite the crater as his head was totally squashed beneath the sole of Hyperion's foot, sending meaty chunks of his flesh and brain, alongside fragments of his skull flying away in multiple directions.
"Beerus!" His siblings' sans Hades all shouted out in horror and worry, with Metis paling over at the sight of him getting so easily squashed under foot by the ascended Titan.
"Ehehehe… Oh, I'm definitely going to enjoy this!" The Titan laughed. Feeling a rush from striking down on the pathetic fledgling that dared to insight his wrath, which he hadn't felt since he and his brothers took down their father. And it felt oh so satisfying!
"You bastard!" Poseidon growled, unwilling in this situation to be cowed, even after seeing the strongest of his siblings get crushed under foot. If anything, such a sight only angered him more, as he saw him laugh at the fact. "You think that's funny!?" He bellowed out in rage.
"Ahahaha! Of course, I do! What kind of dumb question is that?" Hyperion replied back, levelling his gaze on Poseidon as he began to grind his foot around in the mush that had been Beerus' head, stirring up his clump of hair with it like he was mixing noodles with a broth. "I'm finally getting my chance to show this brother of yours his place after he humiliated me the last time we met. Don't worry though, I'll do the same to you as well. Wouldn't want to give Beerus all the attention now, would I?" The ascended Titan grinned like a madman, as he turned his gaze back to Beerus. Seemingly ignoring them all for the moment.
"Damn you…!" This only incensed Poseidon further, as he threw caution to the wind and charged forward. "The only one who's going to be shown his place around here is you!"
"Wait! Hold on, Poseidon!" Zeus tried to yell out, outstretching an arm in warning to his brother's rash action, but was too late as the tan-skinned deity dematerialized from his spot near Zeus and reappeared just a few feet from Hyperion in the air. His sea-green aura flaring around his form, as well as his new trident as it materialized in hand on his command. It's three sharp tips aimed directly for the ascended Titan's seemingly exposed head, poised to be thrust forward and gore him through the skull in the blink of an eye.
"Heh! Just like your brother, Beerus." Hyperion scoffed, his hand whizzing up at speeds Poseidon couldn't hope to comprehend at his current level, and grabbing him roughly by the face before torquing his radiant body around and throwing him directly into the stairwell leading to the palace. A deafening BOOM resonating through the mountain's peak as his body obliterated it completely, taking the entire front entrance of the palace with him and reducing the whole thing to rubble. His body becoming fully buried deep within the crumbled debris, as the trident clanged down on the ground just outside the rubble. "An impudent gnat who doesn't understand just how outmatched they are. Don't worry though, you'll learn that soon enough!" He then turned to look out at the rest of them. Zoning in on the rest of Beerus' siblings and Metis in particular. "You all will!"
"Ughhh…" Beerus groaned, his head able to regenerate itself back together in no time as Hyperion's foot left the spot where he'd smashed it to bits. The experience still leaving him with a pounding headache as he began to push himself up with a grunt.
"Feel free to come at me all at once if you want." Hyperion said confidently, his voice carrying everywhere throughout the peak of Olympus with everyone able to hear him distinctly. "Believe me, it won't make a difference whether or not you do. You'll all end up being crushed under my heel just like Beerus will, for daring to stand against me and my brothers!" Just then, Hyperion used his unreal speed to grab Beerus' head once again and toss him up into the air. Without giving his mind time to process it, Hyperion then did a small leap up himself. His massive leg swinging forth and crashing into the side of Beerus' airborne body, damn near cleaving him in two and certainly shattering that side of his ribcage, as his body contorted and bent inward over the appendage in a very unnatural fashion. The purple-haired deity barely had time to let out a harsh gasp of pain as the wind, and ichor, was knocked out of his maw and he was thrust sideways with mind-breaking velocity right back into the barrier. His body slamming hard into it with a brutal CRUNCH that echoed over the shockwave that burst forth from his second collisionnear the same spot where Hades had been sent.
"Actually, you know what?" The Titan smiled over at the remaining deities that had been on his radar since they busted out of Mount Othrys. "Since the rest of seem keen on just standing there dumbstruck, I'm not even going to bother waiting for you worthless weaklings to attack me!"
His form then vanished from sight, and before their minds could process anything, Zeus was coughing up golden blood in shock as a now down-sized Hyperion roughly his height whizzed into form inches away from his front with his glowing fist punched straight out through his back. Ichor spilling out from his punctured gut to the soil as he was lifted off the ground, dangling from the fist brutally penetrating through his body. The Titan then smashed the sole of his heavenly foot directly into Metis' stunned face, sending sprinkles of ichor flying out from every orifice on her head as his simple kick mashed the centre of her face inward. Breaking and sending her teeth flying out along with some divine brain matter from her ears and partially popping out her eyeballs as the attack shattered her skull instantly and threw her limp body back. All for her to crash head-first into the barrier as well near the far end away from the palace with a similarly strong shockwave following suit with her collision.
"B-Bastard!..." Zeus managed to choke out, ichor spitting and dribbling from his maw as he made to summon his lightning bolt, only for Hyperion to cut him off before he could. His body suddenly spinning around rapidly like a vortex of white-gold destruction with Zeus' body still held on to the arm impaled through him. A fraction of a second later he savagely sent the silver-haired deity hurtling away at a high angle, where his body too, collided viciously with the sturdy, magical barrier. So viciously in fact, that the rest of his remaining body, before it could've even had a chance to heal, was reduced to bloody mush and bits that clung to the barrier following contact with it. A small rain of golden blood falling back to the ground from where the mushy remains of his body clung to, before he healed back from it, of course.
Not that Hyperion cared for when he did in the next moment or so. Not like he'd be able to do anything to him anyway when he did, so it wasn't worth thinking about in his eyes.
"O-Oh no… Brothers… Metis…!" Hestia's worry shot through the roof after seeing this, looking over at the spots where each of her brothers, and her brother's consort had been sent packing to with the greatest of ease. Her deeply concerned expression for her siblings and Metis' well-being mixed in with increasing fear as she felt the overwhelming power coming from their Titan adversary. And she wasn't the only one when it came to the latter. Pretty much all of their new allies in the courtyard, as well as her sisters, despite their best attempts to hide it, weren't faring much better than her in that regard.
"Hmph! You think it's bad now? I've only just gotten started!" Hyperion remarked with some glee in his tone, now suddenly right in front of Hestia, and grabbing unto her neck as he hoisted her into the air. His grip strong enough around the neck to make her choke a little, as like her twin had done, she tried, and failed, to get a grip on his arm in the vein hopes of getting his hand off of her. Both of her hands just slipping through his forearm as if he wasn't even there, literally holding her up and choking her right now. "Trust me, little fledgling. I haven't even gotten warmed up yet."
"Grrr! Let go of my sister, you arrogant prick!" Hera screamed with fury, shunting down that brief bout of fear that had passed over her, alongside the horror that came over her seeing her brothers, especially Beerus, be so easily disposed of as she burst forward with all the speed she could muster. Momentarily forgetting what had happened when Beerus had tried to strike him as her body morphed into a tigress and leapt for him with her fangs bared.
A move that got her nowhere, predictably, as Hyperion, without even looking at her initially, grabbed her neck right as she was less than a foot away, and gripped on tight. A pulse going out from his ascended body throughout the entire mountain peak, and before Hera knew it, she was back in her normal form, choking even more than her older sister was from his vice-like hold. The Titan then chuckled, with his gaze shifting over to Hera, as he held them both firmly in his hands.
"You call me arrogant, and yet you were the one who was stupid enough to charge me like that without having a True Divine Form of your own? I suppose your brother Beerus' stupidity must be a common trait amongst all of you." He sneered, having already seen Demeter attempting to charge him whilst she thought he was distracted. He was quick to counter by swiping his foot out in a low arc and taking her off her feet. Then before she could even think of recovering, his same foot flashed into existence above her falling frame, and slammed down on her midsection. A crater forming beneath her in the shape of her body when she struck down, as her ribcage was broken immediately, and her body was pinned beneath his foot. A harsh cough springing from her throat as ichor-infused spittle launched from her maw, and dripped out over her chin and chest.
"See what I mean?" He taunted the trio, now that he had all three in his metaphorical, and literal grasp without a hint of true effort. He then let out a hum of approval, as he took the time to look all three of them up and down. "I'll give you this though. What you all lack in intelligence, you certainly make up for in beauty. All three of you are a cut above the nymphs that me, my brothers and nephew tend to bed in our spare time. Especially you." Hyperion said, while looking directly at Hera. "Your two sisters are definitely up to par with even my most attractive sisters, including my wife. But now that I see you up close like this, you clearly edge them all out. Such a shame you don't have the mouth to match that beauty."
Hera, despite being choked, showed her defiance by spitting right into Hyperion's face. An act that's impact was lessened greatly by how it just phased through him and splatted unto the soil instead, but the meaning behind the act remained all the same. "Screw you!... I don't care what you think!" She rasped out, while kicking her legs forth in an attempt to hit him in the groin and abdomen, only to, once again, to her dismay, see them just go right through his body and not affect him in the least. "G-Get your hands and foot off of us before-nghh!?" She croaked, as his grip tightened significantly, almost crushing her neck at this point. With all her attempts to either dematerialize away from him or shape-shift into something to escape his hold failing her, and no doubt her sisters too. A dead giveaway that he'd put up his own magical barrier to block them from doing both.
"Before what?" He cocked his head tauntingly. "What are you going to do? Throw another pathetic kick for my crotch that wouldn't accomplish anything even if it did hit me? Bitch at me for another minute with that foul mouth of yours? Please…" The Titan snorted with amusement. "You have no real power, especially not in my presence." To prove his point, his whole body flashed brightly, forcing the trio of goddesses to shut their eyes before being blinded. And for Hera, even before the light dimmed enough for her to open her eyes again, she felt the cool, pure air of the heavens brush up against her skin across her whole body, and especially around her chest and between her legs. When their eyes were open again, Hera, as well as her sisters, were quick to notice that her tunic had been reduced to nothing, leaving her perfectly curvy body bare before their enemy. One who unashamedly ogled her naked form, soaking in every detail with a form of perverted appreciation that disgusted Hera greatly. Particularly when he zoned in on her bountiful E-cup breasts capped with vibrant pink areolas and nipples, or her thin, just as vibrant lower lips between her pale pillars of femininity, or partially turned her body as he held her, so he could get a good look at her plump posterior.
"You're just an overly mouthy wench who doesn't know her place yet." He continued, moving his ogling gaze back up to her eyes. "Act defiant all you want. It won't help you. Because if I wanted to, I could ravage you and your sisters here and now, and there's not a damn thing you could do to stop me." Pulling her face a little closer towards his then, he smirked devilishly at her. "I have some business to attend to with your eldest brother first though. But don't worry, I'll be sure to rectify that mouthiness of yours soon enough. Once I'm done painting this place with the blood of Beerus and your other brothers, along with those who dared to join you, I may just bring you and your sisters back personally to Mount Othrys and put in a word with your father. It'd be a waste after all to have three gorgeous goddesses like yourselves put to his scythe's blade and have your dismembered remains chucked into Tartarus. Instead, I think I'd like to keep you three around, all on a tight leash, so that me, my brothers, or my nephew, can bed any one of you any time we please."
"Ugh!... Y-You're revolting!..." Hera spat, barely able to squeak out the words of disdain with how strong his grip over her throat was. One arm wrapping over her exposed bosom as best it could while the other snaked its hand down to cover her maidenhood, returning to her some bit of lost modesty. Though it did not get rid of the humiliation of being undressed like this by the enemy. "A-As if anyone of us… would accept that!..."
"Hmph! You make it sound like I gave you a choice there." The Titan of heavenly light scoffed again. "Cover up now all you like, and act as rebellious as you want, but once I'm done here, and we're back on Mount Othrys, I'll show you just how powerless you are, and put that rotten mouth of yours to some proper use while I'm at it!" He promised none too subtly as to what he meant by that, being sure to direct her gaze to his crotch. Something that quickly brought a cringe of even greater disgust from her, and her sisters for that matter.
Heh, he couldn't think of any better way to spit on Beerus' existence. Not only would he be cut to pieces after he was done pounding him into fine paste here, and either have his remains tossed into Tartarus or have them turned to ash and spread into the wind, but after the fact, the spite would continue with his sisters. As to add insult to injury, he and his brothers and nephew would be keeping them imprisoned in the stronghold, and fornicating with the trio for countless days and nights to come. Turning what he probably saw as his beloved sisters into little more than a set of holes for his most hated enemy to fuck to their heart's content. Truly, there was no better way of pouring salt in the wound to the fool who dared challenge them than that.
"Y-You can't…" Hestia choked out, grabbing Hyperion's attention, who's devilish smirk now zoned in on her.
"I can't? And who's going to-" Before Hyperion could finish his sentence, Hestia's eyes glowed brighter, as her aura pulsed outward. The Titan's eyes then widened, as he stumbled back a step, freeing Demeter from his heel, along with his grip on the two sisters' throats slackening enough for both of them to break free. The two falling back on their asses right by their blonde sibling's sides, causing the youngest of the trio's naked knockers to give a healthy jiggle behind the arm that barely covered them at all.
The three sisters were quick to take advantage of the reprieve and fall back, with the wounds of Demeter having already healed as she rose up and leapt back with her siblings a good distance from the surprised Titan.
"Are you two okay?" Hestia immediately asked with worry, looking the two over now that she believed they were a respectable distance away, while keeping one of her eyes on the stunned Titan a good fifty metres away from them now.
"I'm fine. My bones have already fixed themselves, so I'm good as new." Demeter replied, giving an affirmative nod whilst a snort of bemusement came from Hera.
"Outside of the shame of being stripped naked by that revolting 'uncle' of ours, yes. I'm quite fine, sister." She said with a glare towards their assailant as she continued to cover herself up as best she could. "Honestly, I think the worst he managed to do was put the disgusting thought of him and his ilk bedding me in my head. Talk about repulsive!" Hera made no attempt to hide her revulsion at the idea of being reduced to a sexual trophy by the empowered Titan and his allies after everything was set and done. She'd rather be cut to pieces and flung into Tartarus by Beerus side and the rest of her brothers in the case where they lost, before she ever entertained the idea of Hyperion or one of his brethren getting to defile her and take away her virginity.
Speaking of Hyperion, the Titan still stood where he was for a moment in surprise. Blinking at the free trio of goddesses that'd gotten out of his grasp, even if temporarily. What the heck had just happened? One moment, he had a firm hold of them all, with no chance to break free unless he allowed, and then the next, even if just for the briefest of periods, it was like he'd just spontaneously lost some of the will to hold them in place.
Before he could think further on what it was that Hestia had done, he and everyone else in the courtyard felt an exceptionally strong pressure behind him on a close calibre to his own. It was his swift ability to sense the sudden and extreme spike in power behind him, that had Hyperion phasing out of existence just as a greyish-white glowing foot nearly decapitated him with a roundhouse kick. One that sent a ludicrously powerful shockwave billowing out from the extended appendage.
"Tsk. Looks like he dodged." Styx remarked with a small bit of displeasure, but not really surprised that he had all the same, as she lowered her leg. Her voice now just as distorted as Hyperion's was with an otherworldly feel to it, as to all the onlookers, it was clear that she too had entered her True Divine Form. Her usual cloak now nowhere to be seen, as her curvy, bare body glowed from head to toe with a watery-looking, iridescent, greyish-white colour to replace her normally pale skin-tone. Her eyes and hair, which now freely fluttered back behind her in the wind, holding itself aloft as though it was submerged in the ocean, holding a deeper shade of the radiant glow the rest of her body gave off, as she stood gracefully on her toes. Her body occasionally rippling lightly like the disturbed waters of a lake, as her more erogenous areas, like her C-cup breasts and lower lips, were covered over somewhat as if by magic to maintain some modesty on her hour-glass figure.
This being the first time most, including Beerus' sisters had seen Styx in her ascended state, couldn't help but to look at her in awe, as they witnessed the mesmerising beauty that it afforded her. That along with the gargantuan power increase that made her feel that much more fearsome than she already was, as the smouldering stare of her shining, resplendent eyes levelled on Hyperion as he re-emerged in the air a good hundred metres above her. His own glowing orbs glaring down at her with distaste as he crossed his arms.
"Well now, look who finally decided to join us and get what's coming to her." He sneered down at her, narrowing his gaze. "And I see you've wasted no time ascending to face me, either. Not that it'll help you much, other than prolong the beating I'm about to give you."
"Your mindless chatter means little to me, Hyperion." Styx shot back stoically, totally non-plussed by his threat. "I don't know how you got in here, but it matters not. You've sealed your fate by allowing your hubris to get the best of you and come in here by yourself to attempt an invasion."
"Heh, now look who's chattering mindlessly!" Hyperion yelled out, feeling his irritation rise at her insolence, as his form suddenly phased back into existence in front of her, and threw a devastating front kick of his own for her face. Something which the Oceanid was able to block just in the nick of time by raising her arms up in an 'X' formation, though the blow still pushed her back, along with ripping apart a massive chunk of the courtyard behind her several feet deep. With various pieces of debris flying up and away in multiple directions as she held her ground.
"You think you can take me? Go ahead and try, wench!" Hyperion cackled, as he launched into a barrage of attacks so phenomenally fast, that they made his previous ones look like a joke. Punches and kicks flying from just about every angle, as Styx did her best to block and parry them all, a rather difficult task that saw her getting slowly pushed back as his flurry of strikes became fiercer. Each attack being thrown in an instant of time so small it'd make the planck instant seem like an eternity by comparison. Yet even still, the Oceanid was powerful and fast enough herself to be able to take advantage of brief openings in the Titan's guard in between strikes, and attempt to throw her own shots right back for a counter. Thus, forcing him to avoid her attacks and give her just enough reprieve to get her bearings back before he came right back in with his faster-than-light flurry.
"I presume you two are alright?" Nike asked, as she and her siblings touched down beside Beerus and Hades' forms, as they rose up from where they'd been shot too earlier. Poseidon, Zeus and Metis being held up on the shoulders by the other three children of Styx, before being gently lowered to the ground in front of the duo, earning them some thanks from the healed-up deities.
"Ugh… Couldn't be better." Beerus growled sarcastically as he cracked his neck. Two golden, bloody splatters on the barrier wall from where they'd each impacted, showing just how brutal of a crash he and Hades had both sustained from the Titan's initial attack. The purple-haired god not giving much mind to how Styx' spawn all had long, white, feathery wings protruding from their backs now, as his anger spiked up from the way he'd casually been disposed of merely a moment ago like fodder. "That piece of shit has really gone and done it now…" His amber eyes focused in on Hyperion as he battled with Styx, continuously pushing her back with his onslaught of attacks that were shaking the entirety of Mount Olympus at this stage, and were currently far too fast for him to perceive.
"Ngh!... Any ideas for how to deal with him, brother?" Hades asked, rubbing the side of his head that'd nearly been crushed for a simple backhand after ensuring the hole that'd been drilled in him had closed up.
"Yes… I'd be quite interested to know if you have something, brother. Because right now, I'm drawing a blank." Zeus added with a cough, as he remained knelt on one knee. His thoughts being mirrored by Metis at the moment.
"If it involves trying to attack him as you are, I would advise against it." Kratos spoke up, his stony visage showing a flicker of rage when he saw how Hyperion was pushing his mother back. "Without a True Divine Form, you won't be able to hit him unless he wanted you too, thanks to him now being as abstract as he is physical. Not that it'd matter even if you did at your current level. His power is immeasurably higher than it was the previous times you've dealt with him. That much should be obvious."
Yep. That explained fairly well why Hyperion was dodging her attacks rather than just letting them phase through him like he did with his.
"What about with our symbols of power? Could that do anything to help?" Poseidon asked in earnest as he willed his trident to reappear back in his hand, wanting to know if there was anything that they could reasonably do against him. As the thought of having to just be on standby and let someone else fight their battle for them left him with a foul taste in his mouth.
"If they really are made of the same substance and magic that Kronos' scythe is, then it's possible. If you could get the chance to use them properly on him, those should be able to ignore the kind of intangibility his ascended state grants him. As to how effective they'd actually be given your current level though? I have no idea." Bia replied, whilst glaring at the Titan daring to attack their mother. Wanting nothing more than to rip him limb from limb, if she could.
"That's if you could get something off on him." Zelus interjected, eyes narrowing in on the crumbled mess that was the staircase, where Poseidon's trident still lay. "Most likely, given your current level, you'll just end up like Poseidon did. No offence."
"None taken." Said god waved him off, despite the sting that such a fact dealt to his pride.
"There's no need to remind me. I've witnessed that gap between us first-hand already." Beerus scoffed. Feeling his temper rising further as he gritted his teeth. "I don't care how powerful he's become though. There's no chance I'm gonna let this pompous prick take me down for good."
"Then do you have an idea that may be able to help here?" Nike asked, biting her lip as she saw her mother giving more ground to the Titan of heavenly light. "Because as powerful as mother is, she's at her strongest when by her river that flows between the Earth and the Underworld. If she were there, this would be a pretty even fight that I'd bet on mother being able to win on her own, but being as far away from it now as she is, it'll lessen her capabilities in her True Divine Form to a certain degree, and Hyperion is no doubt aware of this. And against an opponent like him, who doesn't have that kind of problem…"
"She's at a disadvantage." Beerus summed up her thoughts in a few words, and just as he did, things took a turn for the worse as Hyperion managed to get through her guard and land flush with a barbarous punch directly into her face that rocked her head back.
What followed next was Styx pushing out more power and attempting to fire right back with a punch of her own, only to get slipped by Hyperion who ducked underneath and then popped up for a mind-numbingly swift uppercut directly to her chin, which dazed her and knocked her feet off the ground. From there, she tried to turtle up and defend, only for the 1st generation Titan to laugh as his body began rapidly vanishing and reappearing instantly all around her, delivering one vicious blow after another to her exposed areas without mercy. Knees to her gut, punches to her face, elbows to her head and ribcage, kicks to her neck and legs, and clubbing axe-handle strikes to her spine and the back of her skull. More and more ichor beginning to drop and splatter on the ground as a result of this, from the progressively more overwhelmed Oceanid, as she was made to endure a beatdown from the laughing Titan. One that was causing a bigger and bigger crater to form beneath them as they went.
"I'm sorry, what is it you were saying before about my hubris? It seems someone was a little too confident themselves about their chances against me, despite never having actually seen me fight for real before." Hyperion gloated, phasing his body out of existence as Styx tried to retaliate with a swinging kick, and made her pay for it with an even more savage kick of his own to her exposed face that he could feel and hear the delicious CRUNCH behind. One that let him now as twin jets of divine blood spilled out of her flattened nose that he'd broken it. "Up to this point, I was just screwing around. Only using my regular speed with my attacks, but here's a little secret you probably didn't know. With my heavenly light expanded out like this, even in such a small scale thanks to this silly barrier from the Cyclopes, I can be everywhere and nowhere within it instantly with but the smallest thought, since my essence is all around you." He continued gloatingly, as he delivered several dozen swift haymakers to either side of her messed up, celestial features. Knocking her head around from left to right and back again over and over, bashing up her face even more.
Styx, showing her toughness, was still able to throw an extremely fast kick toward his sternum as a way to get him off of her. Only for him to show her what he meant about his heavenly light, where his body instantly shifted its position sideways to let her leg pass by, without any actual physical movement from him to do so. As though he'd just thought he was in that position instead, and therefore, he was. And with her leg now exposed, he wasted no time slamming up and down on it with his elbow and knee on either side, crunching down on her watery-like flesh and earning a hiss of pain from her as her leg bent at an awkward angle.
"I'll give you this," He went on, grabbing the awkwardly bent appendage as his leg lowered. "even so far away from your domain, your physical power is fairly relative to mine. However, as you can probably tell by now," Eyes glowing even more luminously with sick glee, he then punched her hard in the gut, sending her soaring back as he let go of the bent appendage. Her body smacking hard into the barrier wall back-first with much greater force than Beerus or the others had, earning another quake from the mountain. "That doesn't mean a damn thing!"
Orbs of blinding light then encompassed his splendidly glowing hands, as he stretched them out towards her still form stuck to the barrier, and then a volley of blasts made of his heavenly light began firing off towards her like twin machine guns. Seeing them coming but not being fast enough to get out of the way or react in time, Styx was forced to take the brunt of each and every light-blast that struck her, with no part of her front being spared. And while none of them detonated like the Ki blasts Beerus had become accustomed to in his old life, instead breaking apart into particles after landing home on her, there was no denying just how much power was packed into each of them. Even condensed down to mainly affect her, the power contained within a single shot would've been enough to obliterate all of Universe 7 countless times over, and it was clear that Styx wasn't taking them well. Not with the way they snapped her head back while butchering up her face, or the way that they made her divine body spasm and jolt in agony against the barrier as he battered her with thousands upon thousands of them. Laying into her with every last one of them ruthlessly, and earning him more and more ichor spitting out not just from her beaten, mashed features, but from various other parts of her ascended body that began to have chunks blown off from the constant barrage and gush out blood profusely.
"Damn, she's taking a beating out there…" Hades muttered, cringing at just how one-sided the bout had turned. A sentiment Styx's children agreed with, as all of them looked ready to jump on Hyperion, despite knowing that such an action wouldn't be wise without a plan.
"Please tell me one of you has an idea already! Because I don't know about you, but I really don't like having to watch my mother getting battered like this right in front of me!" Bia growled. "None of us may be capable of death, but we do still feel pain, even when in our ascended state. And if this continues going the way it is, and mother isn't given the small reprieve she needs to recover from the damage she's sustaining right now, I fear that she'll end up slipping out of her True Divine Form soon enough…"
"What do you mean she'll 'slip out of it'?" Zeus asked curiously, showing both some concern for the goddess that'd been a good aid to them thus far, and alarm at such a statement.
"When two beings in their ascended states clash, they're not just doing so physically, but spiritually as well. Striking each other in both the physical and non-physical side of their existence." Metis chose that moment to pipe in. A nervous bead of divine sweat rolling down her cheek as she did so, while watching the one-sided affair a way's away from them. "A True Divine Form, even when mastered, is mainly sustained through the being's conscious will once entered. What this means, is that if enough consecutive damage is sustained without getting the proper chance to recover oneself, then said being will briefly fall out of consciousness due to the accumulated damage to both their body and soul until they are given the reprieve to do so. To keep this explanation short, the problem with that is, once this occurs, since the conscious will keeping the True Divine Form stable is no longer there, it fizzles away and leaves the being in their base state."
"Shit. That's not good…" Hades muttered with a scowl, not liking what he was hearing one bit. A feeling shared by Beerus and co, as they watched her still manage to hold relatively strong for the moment, despite the beating she was undertaking to keep their enemy at bay.
"It doesn't end there." Zelus continued grimly for her. "To make matters worse, unlike when you're taken out in your base state, which is purely on the physical level, when you're knocked out of your ascended state on the astral level too, the recovery period for your mind to snap back awake is much longer. So, if mother gets knocked out here, even after her physical body fully reforms in its base state, she'll be out of commission for quite some time. Forget about her getting up in a matter of seconds like you all did in your spars, she'll be out for an hour at least."
"Which means that if that prick is successful in rendering her unconscious in that state, she'll be effectively dealt with and he can move back on to us again without having to worry about her." Beerus clicked his tongue in annoyance at their current predicament.
"Not to sound like an echo, but a plan of attack would be very appreciated right now." Nike interjected. Her fists clenched with rage as she barely held herself back from just charging forth against the cruel Titan of heavenly light who cackled as he steadily blasted her mother apart. "Because I don't know if me or my siblings can stomach watching him brutalise our mother like this any longer!"
Beerus sighed, not having thought he'd have to try that out so soon after learning of the potential for it from Gaea a few days ago, seeing as he hadn't really attempted it yet. Looking at the way things were going now though he had no choice but to try it. "I may have something, but I'll need as much of your assistance as I can to get the chance to attempt it."
"What is it that you're going to try and do?" Metis cut in, unable to help her intrigue despite the situation as she threw her gaze to Beerus.
"You'll see it when it happens." Assuming it actually worked. "All I need from you lot, is to keep him as distracted as possible for me. Think you can do that?"
No one was able to give the soon-to-be god of destruction an answer to that, initially, as suddenly another spike in power and pressure was felt by him, and his allies. One coming from around the palace, which Hyperion was also quick to take note of as well, as he felt a very familiar, and powerful presence. One that he'd neglected earlier when it was weaker, due to focusing more on those in front of him first.
His divine instinct, yet again, was all that saved him from getting decapitated there, as he ceased his assault on Styx and phased away just as a sword glowing with an intense, pure grey aura sliced through the area where his head had been previously.
The lustrous, pale-violet sclera of pupil-less, blank eyes making their owner appear blind, as she stared up right where Hyperion had reappeared. A deep scowl having replaced the gleeful grin he'd had previous, as he glared back down at the Titaness who'd attacked him this time. Her expression appearing neutral, not showing any emotion and giving nothing away on her now ascended features toward her fellow 1st generation Titan. Her tunic having also vanished like Styx's, as the once creamy skin of her body had become a shimmering grey to contrast both her now pupil-less, refulgent lilac eyes, as well as her hair, which had shifted from dark to a mix between the two dazzling colours and radiated just as vividly as the rest of her. The dazzling, long hair freed from its bun and lightly waving back behind her, defying gravity in a similar, but different way to Styx's, with latter's waving about like it was beneath a water's depths whilst hers was much smoother. Tracing down elegantly at an angle to the middle of her back. The more private areas of her body, in her D-cup bosom and nether regions being covered up in the same way the Oceanid's were from the naked eye. But even still, her breath-taking figure was on a great amount of display for all to see.
"Huh. So, you've turned against us too, sister…" Hyperion remarked with more of a statement of fact than a question. "Truly, there is no end to foolishness, it seems."
"I agree, brother." Themis nodded back solemnly. "It's a shame that you lacked the intelligence needed to see that invading this inner-sanctum by yourself, was indeed, propagating foolishness."
Hyperion's eyes narrowed sharply, as his fists clenched. Orbs of heavenly light encompassing them menacingly. "You dare?"
"I would not have struck first if I didn't." She sniped back matter-of-factly. "You alright over there, Styx?" She called back over to her side, where said goddess let out a few harsh coughs as she stepped forward a little shakily. Remarkably, having never actually fallen off her feet even with the terrible volley of blasts she'd withstood.
"Yes. Thanks in no small way to your intervention." Styx replied with a grateful look, as her divine form fully mended itself back into peak condition in no time. "I will not deny, he had me on the edge there until you made your presence known."
"You still are on the edge against me, you dumb nymph. Her intervention has but only delayed the inevitable." Hyperion called out, talking down to them both from his place floating up above them in the heavens. "You shall still fall by my hand, as will she, and the rest of you scum stupid enough to stand against me." His gaze then shifted over to where Beerus and the others were. Not noticing how Themis began to whisper something in Styx's ear when she got close enough, as his distorted voice carried over to the assembled group away from him just as menacingly as the light emanating from the orbs that encompassed his hands did. "Be sure to watch closely, Beerus. What I'm about to do to them and anyone else who chooses to fight me will be but a preview of what I'll continue to do to you soon enough!"
Self-absorbed, cocky sack of shit. Like hell I'll let you do that! Beerus thought, wanting more than ever to rip this jackass apart. He'd buried powerful warriors six-feet under and annihilated similar fighters for lesser slights than this.
He didn't let his rage take hold though. As easy as that would be, he knew that charging in without that potential ace-in-the-hole of his was just begging to be slapped away like a fly, as much as the thought gravelly irked him. Rather, instead, he kept himself tame and controlled the boiling fury inside him that wanted nothing more than to reduce this fool to a pile of ash.
"Hey uh, does anyone know what Themis might've said to Styx just now? Because, she seems to be looking over at us right now with a smile on her face…" Poseidon spoke up, looking somewhat confused as he looked over at the duo of ascended goddesses.
"Not at us. At Beerus." Kratos added astutely, seeing exactly where his mother's gaze was focused, as his eyes fluttered between the two. Relief present in his eyes, as well as his siblings', seeing their mother now fine and dandy thanks to Themis' timely intervention.
The purple-haired fledgling glanced over at the Oceanid and Titaness again as he was told this. His amber eyes meeting with the beatific, radiantly glowing pools of the ascended Oceanid, as she gave him a strange, knowing smile and a nod of affirmation. Her lips parting as she mouthed the words, "I understand. We'll do what we can." To him. As though she'd heard him before and was showing her willingness to aid him once again. Even though he hadn't told either of them yet, nor had anyone else here had the chance to, so how could either of them have known?
"Good day to you all!"The answer to his question suddenly leapt down beside them with his brother in tow, startling nearly everyone there, as the duo of goddesses a way's out from them both leapt for Hyperion together, and began to engage him as a team in combat. The shockwaves from their high-speed clashes being the only thing heard and seen for the most part by the collective watching them, as their forms were too quick to spot past the vague after-image of where they'd long since left. The occasional flashes of white-gold, grey and lilac, and greyish-white appearing in places where the trio met and shining as bright as stars before zipping out and reappearing again further away, as the goddesses' attacks collided with Hyperion's own in fierce battle. Unintentionally creating quite the colourful spectacle for those still around and watching, not just in Beerus' group.
"I couldn't help but notice that we have an unwanted visitor in our midst. Hope that plan of yours will work out to deal with this, Beerus." Prometheus continued, smiling in a knowing way, as did his brother Epimetheus, at said 'younger' god.
"Heh. So, I take it you're the reason they're now aware of the situation?" Beerus couldn't help but chuckle despite it all, even with all the anger bubbling up inside him.
"Yep." The Titan of foresight confirmed gladly, knowing exactly as to whom Beerus was referring to as he pointed towards his own head. "Shortly after Hyperion broke in here, I activated my ability to see the future, and rather than see any part of the fighting going on, I foresaw the very conversation you just had. Though a little vague, I was sure to pass on what I'd seen to Themis before she came out here to back you all up, who in turn, has now passed that on to Styx."
"Passed what on?" The regal, and all-too-well known voice of Hera huffed, bringing everyone's attention to her, Hestia and Demeter, as the three sisters had managed to make their way over to them in all the commotion. The former of which drawing more than a few eyes for her total lack of dress as she came to a stop before them with her sisters. Her bare breasts wobbling behind her arm, showing off the valley of her vast cleavage above her slim, taut belly, as she made sure her other hand continued to cover her sex between her thicc, sumptuous thighs. Unable to do anything for the rest of her perfect figure on display, as the young goddess was forced to do her best to ignore the not-so-subtle stares she got from most of the males and females at her nude appearance, and the rising aggravation mixed with chagrin because of it.
"Our plan of attack, you could say, my fair maiden." Prometheus said for them with a slight bow, speaking politely toward the trio while discreetly trying to hide his inability to not ogle the naked goddess to some degree. As rude as it was for him to do. Not that his own brother was any better, given Epimetheus probably couldn't have been any more shameless with the way he was looking her up and down. "Your brother needs us all to keep Hyperion distracted so he can get something ready."
The shockwaves in front of the group became more and more intense following those words, shaking the ground beneath their feet more and more as things ramped up. The two female goddesses doing their best to keep Hyperion at bay, knowing that this was about as much as they could do at the moment, given the advantages he had right now, as they managed to coordinate their attacks fairly well. Almost catching the watcher of the heavens on more than one occasion and landing a blow on him through clever use of feints and misdirection. Of course, despite it being two on one, it still wasn't enough to tip the scales, as Hyperion just used his bond with the domain of heavenly light flawlessly to evade even the closest of encounters with their attacks, and retaliate with attacks of his own. Unlike before however, whenever he managed to break through the guard of one with either a punch, kick, or blast attack, the other goddess would come to their ally's defence. warding him off before he could really start to wild off on them with his raw power and ability to be everywhere and nowhere he desired within his heavenly light.
"He does, huh?" Hera glanced over at her brother, pointedly ignoring the raucous battle going on just a few kilometres away from them. She then sighed irritably, as what she was about to say next genuinely wounded her pride to say. "It looks like I'll have to sit this one out then. Seeing as I'm incapable of doing anything against that prick, no matter how much I may want to. I'd just be a liability out there."
"Well, you could try flashing him with your-" Hera's smouldering glare stopped Poseidon cold before he could finish what he was about to say, even if in jest. Which was followed by him raising his arms above his head in a form of relenting. "Kidding. I was only kidding."
"You're not alone there, sister. As much as I may want to help out, given the circumstance, it's clear that I'd be useless too." Demeter remarked somewhat despondently. Putting a hand on Hera's shoulder to show she was in the same boat, while also unintentionally saving her younger brother from having a hole bored through his head any further by Hera's glare, as the latter's gaze switched to her briefly.
"I may have to agree with that sentiment as well." Hestia said sadly, not because she wouldn't be able to fight, but because she wouldn't be able to back up her family when they needed help. "I hit him with the full brunt of my aura before, and the most I was able to do was stun him just long enough for us to get free. I don't think it'd be too useful against him a second time, and outside of that, nothing I can do would be effective on him."
"Well, that may not be entirely true." Zeus cut in, doing a great job of keeping his traitorous eyes off of Hera's majestic body whilst Metis was right beside him, as he met his eldest sister's glowing-eyed gaze. "If we could get you to time that ability of yours to go off at the right time, you could stun him for us, even if just for the smallest of moments, and we could catch him with a good attack, sister."
"I'll have to agree with Zeus on that one." Beerus nodded his head, finding the idea plausible. "Of course, it'll have to be at a decisive moment. Not a throwaway one that he could recover from and give you away, because that'll only backfire on us and put you in unnecessary danger." Something he didn't even want to bother conceptualising. Sure, she'd heal from any wound he gave her, no matter how grievous, but as much as he liked to call the Titan a moron, he had a feeling that Hyperion would have a way to stop her from being a hindrance to him if they played their hand with her too early. A thought that made his blood boil further. "You think you can be ready for that when I need you to pitch in, Hestia?"
"O-Of course, Beerus. I'll do my best." She smiled hopefully, her eyes glittering with faith in him as she clasped her hands in front of her chest. "Just let me know when I'm needed, and I'll do what I can!"
Beerus nodded, unable to stop the small smile that came over him, as her calming aura yet again pulsed outward, putting everyone in calmer, better spirits then they had been. He then turned his attention to Hera and Demeter. "As for you two, seeing as you won't really be able to help here, which I won't rag on you for this time given the circumstance, either plop your asses down here or find somewhere to hide until this is over. Because as you put it best," He pointed his gaze mainly at Hera. Ignoring his body's damnable arousal that kicked in from seeing her essentially naked, which felt even stronger than before now that he knew about the no DNA thing, much to his own chagrin. "you'll only be a liability otherwise."
Hera nodded, resigning herself to that despite how much it irked her, and Demeter wasn't that much different. "Be sure to beat him down extra hard for me, okay? That smug bastard deserves it after humiliating me like this." she motioned down with her eyes, in case anyone hadn't pieced together yet that Hyperion was responsible for her being nude. "Not to mention that disgusting promise he made of taking the three of us back to Othrys as prisoners once he was done, just so he and his ilk could use us as their new sexual entertainment. I'd shove my whole foot down his throat for that, if I could!"
"He really told you he'd do that, hmm?" Beerus's eyes glowed along with the rest of his body a deep shade of purple, as his new sword materialized in his left hand. The thought briefly crossing his mind for an instant, before he banished it, as his fury rose up a notch, as it reminded him even harder of his so called 'father' in this world. Oh yeah, Hyperion and Kronos were definitely brothers alright. So alike in how many ways you could despise their existence. "Well, we can't have that…"
"Damn right we can't, brother." Hades grinned darkly, as he forced his helm to appear in hand, staring out at the courtyard where the fight between Styx and Themis against Hyperion raged on.
"Yes. It looks like we'll have to teach our wayward guest a lesson, don't you think?" Zeus scowled as darkly as his brother Hades grinned, summoning his lightning bolt to his side and clutching it as hard as he could, whitening his knuckles as he too looked back out to the courtyard.
"Absolutely." Poseidon nodded. A far more serious expression adorning his face, and a glare as potent as the most harrowing, stormy seas themselves in the vague direction of the Titan of heavenly light. "If he thinks it'll be that easy to do us in, he's about to get a rude awakening."
"You all know what you have to do." Beerus remarked authoritatively, getting a nod from everyone around him, as his blade glowed ominously. A feral, unforgiving smile coming over his face as his aura flared dangerously. "Let's show this pathetic excuse for a god our best form of hospitality."
And by 'hospitality', he meant ass-kicking.
AND CUT!
So yeah, this one's a little over a day late. Those of you who read my profile know the reason is due to college stuff. All I can say is sorry about that, but it had to be done.
Hope this chapter came out decent enough, and as you can probably tell, this fight is going to be a two-parter. Because I simply couldn't fit in everything into just this chapter, so in the next one we will continue and see the conclusion to this bout. I didn't want to make Hyperion look weak, given he's the first to actually go into a True Divine Form, so I had him mostly dominate in this one. The tide is sure to be turning in the next chapter though, unfortunately for him.
As for the looks of the True Divine Forms, I hope they're alright. Wasn't completely sure how to make them look, so I went for something that's probably reminiscent of classic Marvel cosmic entities. Let me know what you think of them.
Also, depending on how much I cover, the next chapter will be longer than this chapter, and potentially reach up to 13K or more, so there is that too.
And once again, the two chapters meant to come out this month won't be affected by the tardiness of this one. They'll come out this month for sure.
Anyways, hope you all enjoyed the fighting parts of this chapter, as there's going to be even more of it in the next one, which I'll try to make even more fast-paced. Hope I can live up to your expectations, folks. See you all then!