A/N: So occasionally I'll write out small scenes depicting what the other Gods are up to in the war.
Nox's realm was obscured to all beings except herself and those she allowed or were considered equal to her. It was nothing special, really. Composing her realm were transparent platforms that provided a view of space and the Earth below.
"My dear, there seems to be a war afoot...how peculiar." Her black feathered robes blended with the night sky as she waltzed over to the edge of the starry platform, observing the darkness encircling Earth. It would've been beautiful if not for the fact that some others' darkness mingled in.
Nox's candelabra floated near her, twirling endlessly in a circle. Perhaps, she thought, she would partake in the war as well. She wasn't for either side, really, remaining in a state of neutrality. Yet, a primordial being such as her couldn't help but wonder what device could cause a God to lose their will.
"Such bad children...this won't do at all." She huffed.
Her candelabra centered itself above Nox's head, spinning in rapid motion in conjunction with her hands. In a flash of dark fog, the Goddess of Night disappeared.
She wisped through unnoticed for the most part, arriving at a small quaint town located far from Rome. It wasn't that she moved to protect its inhabitants, but rather, the only temple left dedicated to her. It has been a few days since the Old Order had their sights on conquering the entirety of the Roman Pantheon, and as she identified herself to be one, it was a rather offensive action against her.
She calmly glided to her last remaining temple as she felt the Old Order army near the town. Defending it would be costly. Every citizen and believer of Nox would most likely die, and knew she would lose the battle, but it wasn't as though she would leave the army without unsustainable injuries. No, she would leave them with tendrils of darkness in their wake.
As the town citizens began to scream at the arriving soldiers, Nox sat on the temple throne, smiling as her candelabra floated beside her. The wicks flicked to life one by one, and on the fourth wick, the room around turned pitch black, nothing seen except the light of her candles.
"Naughty children must be punished..."
In the end, the party left Japan through one of Susano's servants. A large sea serpent, they rode on its scaly exterior. It had only taken them a few hours to reach the Philippines, but they were making good time. They were dropped off on a shore containing a dense green forest nearby, but Susano opted to stay with his servant as the creature was their only way off the island.
It was just Chang'e and Yue Tu once more.
"It's...hot, that's for sure," Yue Tu commented. "Now follow me, if I'm right, the temple should be somewhere in this forest."
The forest they entered dripped with strange energy, something completely different than what they experienced in Japan. They could sense beings and creatures litter the entire forest, but all they heard was mocking laughter. Though, some were friendly and curious. There was one being that leaned next to a tree smoking a cigar that watched Chang'e and Yue Tu passed him by.
"Over here!" Yue Tu yelled, scampering off near a thick brush of foilage.
Chang'e followed, but noticed that the rabbit's expression changed. He motioned for her to crouch down, which she did immediately. She wasn't fond of the increase of leaves on her dress.
"Look over there," Yue Tu hissed. "Isn't that Anubis?"
The Egyptian God of the Dead conversed with a muscular God decorated with skulls, holding a staff with two skulls on the tip. Was he another God of the Dead? He held a contemplative countenance as the two Gods conversed with one another, but it seemed that Anubis mumbled something about humanity starting over, to which the Filipino God shook his head. They disagreed with one another.
"I have no idea what they're saying," Yue Tu whispered.
Chang'e immediately grabbed Yue Tu and covered his mouth, much to his protest.
"Shhh," she shushed, crouching patiently in the bushes.
A few moments later, two skeletal minions neared by, mumbling something in Egyptian that they didn't understand. Chang'e stayed completely still, exposed in the open. She hoped they were ignorant enough to not notice her. It worked, until Yue Tu took a huge gulp of air.
The skeletal minions looked their direction and howled an echoing sound that reverberated throughout the forest. The ground heaved and white hands from the underworld attempted to grab the two.
Chang'e shook at her head at the Jade Rabbit. He should've been able to breathe just a bit longer.
"You were suffocating me!" He protested as Chang'e picked him up and bolted to the path leading back to the beach.
The native birds flew in every direction as Chang'e avoided the hoards of skeletal minions rising from the ground, some attempting to trap them in their grasp in the middle of rising. She simply levitated higher.
"Watch out!" Yue Tu yelled.
Chang'e saw hundreds of locus flying toward her. Yue Tu then grabbed onto her shoulders to allow her arms free movement. As they neared the locus, Chang'e used every move in her arsenal. A Crescent Moon dance destroyed some of the locus. She followed up by a Moonflower Dance to scatter them in different directions. Lastly, she blasted a path through with a Waxing Moon, using her Moonlit Waltz to boost her speed.
"We made it!" Yue Tu said, before his demeanor changed. "Oh no..."
The beach was filled with Anubis's skeletal minions battling against Susano, who struck them down with endless precision. It was evident that he reveled in the battle, laughing proudly at his strength. In the sea, his servant calmly watched.
It wouldn't have done her any good to do the same thing, so Chang'e launched herself in the middle of the battle, twirling and dancing with such beautiful movement that Susano couldn't believe that it actually managed to do anything against the hoard. Swift strikes from Susano's sword and Chang'e's dancing later, they fled the island before more enemies could appear.
"Make a course to China. We need to tell Nu Wa that the Old Order is nearing Xian," Yue Tu scratched his ears. "It's more important than our current mission anyways."
Though he agreed, Susano hated that he was taking orders from a talking rabbit.