With Theo:
3rd Person POV:
Shock waves ripped through the area as Theo spun and swung his double-sword, Hades grunting with a furrowed brow as he blocked Theo's attacks before countering them.
Theo grunted as the bident landed a shallow cut on his right cheek before he gripped it tightly and leapt into the air, flipping over Hades and landing behind him before slashing at his legs.
The God of Death grinned as he leapt into the air, letting go of his bident and spinning through the air before delivering an axe-kick down into the side of the bident, Theo grunting in surprise as it flew out of his grasp while also nearly slicing his eye out.
"Phlegethon." Theo did not stop in his tracks as he raised his hand to the sky, Hades' eyes widening as a hole ripped through space before a jet of bubbling lava shot out. The deity was quick to create a magic crest in front of him, grunting as the lava smashed into him and sent him flying back first into the ground with a gasp.
A spark of electricity in front of him was all warning he got before it grew rapidly and transformed into the armoured visage of Tesla, plasma coating his fist as he swung it forward.
Hades just glared as he raised his hand to the side and his bident shot out of the ground and towards his grasp, transforming midway into its staff form as Hades caught it before swinging it upwards.
"Assaratana." Two spheres appeared in between the two fighters, both of their attacks being absorbed before Hades gasped in pain as his staff smashed into his chest and Tesla's fist crashed into his jaw.
"Bye~!" Tesla waved in a cheerful tone before he transformed back into electricity and disappeared just as Hades swung a leg at him, surprised to see Theo appear to grab his fist and threw it to the side before stabbing him through the chest and pinning him to the ground.
"Cakkaratana." Hades tried to swing at Theo's head with his staff before cursing under his breath as another sphere appeared in front of the staff's path and blocked the attack, the orb pulsing as cracks slowly started to spread across it.
"Cornucopia!" Hades exclaimed as he pulled his staff before thrusting it upwards at his nephew, the staff transforming into a bident midway.
Theo's eyes widened as he leaned out of the way before he gasped and wheezed as Hades' bony knee crashed into his chest, the god giving him a grin before he flipped out from under him and delivering a barrage of spin kicks to Theo's jaw, watching as his nephew was sent flying through the air before an orb appeared behind him and teleported him back to Cao Cao's side.
"You okay there, captain?" Cao Cao asked while keeping an eye on Hades, who was all too busy dealing with the hit-and-run barrage of attacks from Tesla as the mad scientist kept him distracted.
"Ah, a few broken ribs and a cracked jaw, but other than that, peachy." Theo said with a groan as Cao Cao helped him stand up, Theo giving him a thankful smile before shaking his head with a sigh as Tesla was given a right hook followed by a thrust kick that sent him crashing into the ground next to them.
"You okay there, Tesla?"
"Never…better." Tesla gasped out as he pushed himself up, Theo chuckling before they turned to Hades, who was slowly waving his bident around before frowning at them.
'So, that is your plan, huh? What else should I expect from my brothers? Fine then, if that is what you want, then that is what you will get, but do not blame me if I accidentally kill him.' Hades thought to himself with a frown before he took a deep breath and closed his eyes, feeling his body transform back into its mortal form before his eyes snapped opened in a determined frown.
To the shock of Theo, Tesla and Cao Cao, Hades coated his right hand in necrotic energy before grinning as he stabbed right into his chest, the deity giving them a bloody grin before he ripped out his heart and held it against his bident.
"W-Why did he transform back into his human form just to rip his own heart out?" Tesla asked Theo, who was shocked silent as he realized what was happening.
'You're that determined to not want to go back, Uncle Hades?' Theo asked in his mind as a bright silver aura enveloped both Hades and his bident, the pillar of energy stretching up to the sky as Theo frowned.
"Cao Cao, start charging up your strongest attack! Tesla, you're on protection duty!" Theo exclaimed before he bolted forward, Cao Cao and Tesla giving each other confused frowns before Cao Cao sighed with a helpless shrug and closed his eyes.
Grasping the True Longinus tightly between both of his hands, he started chanting under his breath as the energy surrounding the spear slowly started to increase. Theo crashed through the pillar energy while cutting deeply into his wrist, grinning as bright gold blood flew from his wrist and coated both ends of his sword as he saw Hades' bident coated in his very own golden ichor.
"Ichor: Desmos!" Both Hades & Theo roared as Hades' torn-out heart fused with his spear & Theo's double-sword fused with the blood flowing onto it, coating both weapons and their respective fighters in a bright golden glow as the two golden figures pulled their weapons back before swinging them forward.
"Four-Blooded Spear of Destiny!/ Lamenting Trident of Forgetful Sorrows!" Hades and Theo exclaimed respectively as their weapons clashed, the glowing auras that were coating them shattering to reveal their new forms.
Hades had transformed into a red-skinned behemoth, wearing nothing but a pair of pants with a chain wrapped around his waist, tattered bandages wrapped around his wrists and biceps and a pair of armoured sandals adorned his feet with chains wrapping around his lower legs. Pitch black horns sprouted from the sides of his head and curled upwards, his face that of a skeleton with a mane of silver hair hanging behind him and bright blue flames burning in the sockets of his eyes.
In his grasp was his dark purple bident, the two silver prongs now joined by a third silver blade running through the middle as all three blades converged into a bloodstained tip at the end. Veins were visibly pulsing throughout the polearm and as he swung it, golden ichor slowly began to drip from the tip.
Theo had transformed into that of a handsome man with dark blue skin, his face completely devoid of emotion with a mane of pure white hanging hair hanging to his upper back with sea weed hanging off of it. A white waistcoat with golden circular patterns was tied around his waist, one which split in two at the front with a single cloth going down like a loincloth. Bright blue gloves adorned his arms with the same dark blue clothing covering the entire upper half of his body while leaving his abdomen and chest bare, golden rings were worn around his biceps and a pair of matching baggy pants were on his legs, with a pair of ice boots coated in sea weed adorned his feet.
Bright silver blue eyes stared apathetically at his uncle and grasped in his right hand was a dark blue trident with sea-weed designs engraved onto it & a blue-purple fin-like covering at the base of the three prongs, the blades made out of crystal clear ice and as Theo sighed, the temperature around them plummeted as the humidity rose, a crown made out of ice and sea-weed appearing on top of his head.
"Is there any way I can't get you to cancel your Desmos and just surrender?" Theo asked Hades as he placed his trident on the ground, the death god just chuckling before he reappeared in front of Theseus and stabbed at his throat. Theo quickly moved his trident to parry the blow before stabbing at Hades' chest while gripping his bident tightly, Hades catching his bident as the two gods stared at each other.
"You know my answer, so save your breath and let's get this over with."
'Apologies, Aunt Persephone. I tried my best.' Theo apologised to his aunt before he let out a soft sigh, looking at his uncle with a sad yet resigned look of determination as he nodded and leapt backwards, both fighters crouching into their respective stances before lunging forward.
"So…this is what a true battle of gods look like." Tesla muttered with a nervous smile under his helmet as he watched Theo and Hades clash, the two fighters having forgotten about everything around them as they clashed over and over.
A swift stab from Hades abruptly turned into a feint for a horizontal slash, only for the Theo to parry and deflect it to the side as he countered with a barrage of quick stabs, lunging in and out as he tried to impale his uncle.
Hades leapt away from the attack and moved to the side as Theo was hot on his heels with a roundhouse, Hades dropping to the ground and snapping his leg out in a leg sweep that made Theo jump before he put his trident in front of him and blocked a heavy hook from Hades who had quickly leapt to his feet.
"Persephone Kallichoron." Hades muttered as he lunged forward and into the air after Theo, thrusting his bident forward with a heavy grunt as the air surrounding the bident was forced forward and transformed into the shape of a giant spear.
"Amphitrite." Theo chanted softly as he flipped to his feet and lunged forward into the attack, his trident nothing but a blur as it rapidly crashed into the attack's shock wave and completely dispersed it, Hades looking amused and slightly surprised as Theo did not stop there and lunged at him.
Quickly coming to a stop in front of him, Hades rose his bident to block the attack before his eyes widened as Theo smirked and leapt into the air with a flourish, twisting his body to face the ground as he pulled his trident back.
"Khione Tyro Demeter." Theo chanted as he unleashed an endless barrage of trident thrust down onto Hades akin to that of a lightning in a thunderstorm. The Death God grinned as he saw how fast Theo was going, the afterimages increasing more and more until they all completely hid Theo from his sight.
"Persephone Cerberus." Hades, however, was not that easily defeated as he spun his weapon above his head before stomping it on the ground, the bident-like spear coated in a silver glow before it shattered and transformed into a skeletal-shaped staff, a skull with three blue eyes and horns on the top of it.
Theo's eyes widened as Hades grinned up at him before his aura increased tremendously, enough to make him stop attacking and guard himself as the aura pushed him back and sent him flipping through the sky.
"Fallen Down." Hades chanted under his breath with a sad smile and Theo's eyes widened as a giant silver magic crest appeared above floating above him in the sky. The magic crest pulsed once before a thin beam of green energy shot down into Theo, the god gasping as the beam went right through his trident & his chest and into the ground, the beam expanding rapidly as it quickly grew to dozens of times its original size.
Theo was unable to give anything but a silent scream of pain as he felt the necrotic energy of the beam eating away at his flesh, with the giant laser continuing to fire down on the position of Theo before it finally began to die down.
As the light slowly disappeared, the grounder under Theo was revealed to have been turned a gaping crater of charred, desolate ground, with all life surrounding the crater having withered away to nothing but dust.
"O Spear. The true Holy Spear which pierces through God." Hades' eyes widened as he heard that chant, his head snapping to the side to see Cao Cao chanting as the seven orbs of his Balance Break slowly sunk into the True Longinus.
"Suck the ambition of the King of Domination sleeping within me and pierce through the gap of blessing and destruction."
'I can't believe I forgot about the fucking spear!' Hades cursed in his mind as he lunged towards Cao Cao, who frowned slightly before grinning as Tesla appeared in front of him and blocked Hades' path.
The laser from earlier had torn off most of his armour on his upper body and his legs while eating away at his skin too, revealing his left arm completely gone while the skin on the left side of his face had been torn away.
And yet, that didn't stop the massive and ecstatic grin on his face as he charged towards Hades.
"Hahahahahaha! Yes! This has been my greatest experiment yet! I thank you Hades for showing me that my science has not peaked here!" Tesla exclaimed as he pulled a fist back, plasma overflowing from it before he disappeared in a flash of lightning, Hades' eyes widening as Tesla appeared at his right and smashed the plasma fist into his jaw while Tesla's left arm appeared under him and landed a vicious uppercut that disoriented the death deity.
"And with that, I bid you adieu." Tesla said with a flourish and a bow before he disappeared, just in time as Hades looked up to see Cao Cao stopping in front of him with divine Holy energy pouring off of the True Longinus.
"You. Announce the will, and turn into a glow. Truth Ideal." Cao Cao finished his chant as he stabbed forward.
"Ichor Eos: Thrust of a Thousand Sorrows!" Hades exclaimed as he pulled his bident back befor stabbing it forward with a heavy grunt, grinning as necrotic energy overflowed from the spear and clashed with the True Longinus.
Cao Cao gritted his teeth as he felt the heavy necrotic energy from Hades flowing into his body, slowly breaking it down while Hades forced his body to continue pushing as he felt the full brunt from the divine Holy energy in the True Longinus trying to eviscerate his body from existence.
"Bring time to a still." Hades' eyes widened as soon as he heard those words, Cao Cao stopping his pushing as he threw True Longinus upwards and into the grasp of Theo before everything went still.
"Goodbye, Uncle Hades." Theo said with a resigned smile, chuckling softly at the peaceful smile on Hades' face as he pulled True Longinus backwards before throwing it with everything he got, watching as the spear sunk into the chest of Hades and through his heart.
"Resume." The tattoo on Theo's forehead shattered and Hades gasped as time resumed, the pain of Holy energy destroying his heart finally hitting him as True Longinus went right through his chest and pierced into the ground behind him.
"Heh…nice." Cao Cao muttered with a tired smile and a thumbs-up as he fell backwards on the ground, Theo letting out a relieved sigh as he deactivated his transformation before gritting his teeth with a hiss as he felt the muscles trembling and shaking with exhaustion and agony.
"T…t-to think…that my own nephew…would take my life…W-well…well done, Theseus." Hades gasped out as he fell to his knees, Theo forcing his body to move forward as he quickly caught Hades' falling form and lowered him softly to the ground while placing his staff right next to him.
"Why didn't you just fucking surrender?" Theo gritted out as he sat down on the ground next to Hades, with the god just giving him a bloody chuckle before gasping in pain as his laughter aggravated his wounds.
"Because….w-we…both know that I…would never surrender. F-For a king never yields…"
"A king never falters…and a king never bows. He is the one who is always in front of his people." Theo finished his sentence with a sigh, Hades chuckling as he nodded slowly before letting out a garbled breath. "M-My time has come, m-my…my nephew. N-Now…it is your turn." Hades muttered as he placed his left hand on Theo's right hand, Theo watching as an azure glow covered both of their hands before his eyes widened as millions upon millions of memories flew through his mind.
"Good luck…in your new role…King of the Underworld." Hades said with a tired yet proud smile before letting out his last breath, Theo just shocked silent as he stared at the deity's still corpse before sighing.
"I bid you farewell, Uncle Hades." Theo muttered with a smile as he softly closed Hades' eyes, picking up his staff and placing it in his grasp before he stood up while staring at the skull on the back of his right hand.
"I'll be sure to do you proud, Uncle." Theo declared with a determined frown as he stared at the skull, which pulsed blue once before dying down and Theo smiled as he nodded before softly picking up Hades' corpse in a bridal carry.
"You okay?" Theo heard Tesla ask and turned to see the mad scientist walking towards him, chuckling at the sight of a groaning Cao Cao thrown over his shoulder.
"Not quite yet, but I will be. How about you two?"
"Just great! I got all sorts of new information to be processed and new research to conduct!"
"Give me a burger and I'll be ready for battle." Cao Cao groaned before going back to lying still, Theo chuckling as he nodded before a teleportation crest appeared under them.
"Come on. I should have a work study for you to use and a burger for Cao Cao to eat."
"Yay." Cao Cao cheered tiredly and both Theo and Tesla chuckled as the teleportation crest pulsed once before they disappeared.
A/N: And there we go! The final battle finally done. Hades was going to be a lot stronger, but then I'd have to pull shit out of my ass on how to actually beat him since I made him way too stronger and so, this is what I decided on.
…I'm a really shitty writer, huh?
I know people have said it in the reviews, but it's finally sunk in how shitty I am with just keeping to a rough timeline of the story as well as the power scaling of my fanfics.
Anyway, that's the end of the battles and next chapter, a look at what's going on with the attack on Olympus & the aftermath.
As always, read, enjoy, review and until the next one…
Ba-Bye~!
