With Issei, Hassan & Loki:
3rd Person POV:
'If I didn't have these boosts, I wouldn't even be able to see them running around.' Issei thought with a slightly nervous smirk under his helmet as he watched the battle in front of him.
The Hassan clones were darting around from shadow to shadow, Loki easily keeping up with them as he parried and blocked their attacks while also creating icicle after icicle and stabbing out with them before clicking his tongue as the clones just melted into the shadows and reappeared back again.
"Can't keep standing here. I got to put work in too." Issei muttered to himself as he shook his shouders, bouncing on the heels of his feet before jet blasters appeared on his shoulders and he took off.
Loki's eyes widened slightly and gave out a gasp of pain as Issei maneuvered through the Hassan's clones and appeared in his blindspot with a vicious uppercut, feeling his organs shift before he was sent flying upwards.
He was not flying for long as a trio of clones appeared behind him and sent him crashing back to the ground with a triple stomp. To his credit, the Trickster God shattered as soon as he impacted the ground before another one appeared like a mirage in front of Issei with a snarl, a cold mist coating his hand before he snapped his fingers and a gigantic iceberg covered everything around him.
[BOOST][BOOST][BOOST][BOOST][TRANSFER][PENETRATE]
The iceberg wasn't there for long as four boosts were called out by Ddraig, Issei transferring all of those boosts to his right fist before he used Penetrate and completely shattered it, one of the Hassans giving him a nod before they went back to badgering the disgruntled Loki.
'Hassan-san is too fast for him to keep up, but it seems his blows ar enot strong enough to hurt him whereas I can hurt him, but I'm too slow to get past his guard. Wait a second…'
"Hassan-san! Boost!" Issei shouted as he landed on the ground, one of the Hassans stopping slightly before they turned and ran towards Issei.
"Oh no you don't, beast!" Loki exclaimed as he quickly rocketed towards the Dragon Emperor, not giving him any chance to think as a quick barrage of jab made Issei curse as he tried to block them.
Issei was not left to fend for himself alone as Hassan appeared behind him along with five other clones, the Norse deity frowning as he leaned out of the way of a roundhouse before grunting as two clones appeared besides him and stomped him away. Loki was quick to recover as he flipped to his feet before his eyes widened as Issei placed a gauntlet-clad hand on Hassan's shoulder.
"Limit Break."
[TRANSFER OVERDRIVE!] Ddraig roared with a grin as every single boost Issei had was transferred directly to Hassan, the shadows around them turning an abyssal black as the Scale Mail around Issei shattered.
Loki watched as the Hassan clones were all absorbed back into the one that Issei touched along with the shadows around them, leaving the area void of any darkness as Hassan looked up with blazing crimson eyes.
'I need to get away.' Loki thought with a frown as he swiftly created a teleportation crest under him before his eyes widened as it shattered, Hassan in front of him with his right hand placed on his chest.
"My work sculpted with mysterious souls." Hassan began his chant as he leapt back, Loki following after him frantically to stop whatever spell he was casting.
"Overflowing with Anguish." Hassan unravelled his right arm and both Loki & Issei choked at the absurd amount of demonic energy flooding the air around them.
"Zabaniya: Delusional Heartbeat." Hassan finished as he leapt towards the Norse Deity, Loki creating an ice spear in his grasp and thrusting it towards him before his eyes widened as the spear went through Hassan like an illusion, the assassin appearing behind him with a dark blue hologram of a heart in his hand.
With a crush of his hand, Loki only had time for his eyes to widen as agony erupted in his chest, the Norse Deity falling to his knees as blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.
"With that, we're done." Hassan muttered as the shadows returned to the area around him, Issei finally taking a deep breath as he could still feel his limbs shivering.
[Yeah, we're glad the Organization is on your side.] Ddraig said and Issei nodded before he stared at Loki, frowning as the deity had a grin on his face.
'Something's wrong.' Issei thought to himself as he watched the Norse God lift his right hand up, ready to stop whatever attack he wanted to launch before his eyes widened as the god turned and stabbed himself in the chest.
"Wha-!" Hassan was cut off by a monstrous aura of malice ripping through the atmosphere, Loki giving them a bloody grin as Norse sigils gathered behind him and formed a glowing green portal.
"I-I…may be dying…but I'm…taking you both with me. Come forth, my precious son! FENRIR!" The howl of a wolf was heard before a gigantic ash-grey coloured paw came through the portal, with the portal expanding until it was nearly ten times the size of Issei.
A second paw soon joined the first before the visage of a monstrous snarling wolf was seen coming through the portal along with the rest of its body.
"S-So…what is the plan for this one?" Issei asked Hassan with a nervous smile as they stared at Fenrir, who was not paying attention to them as he whined at Loki and nudged at him to move, who was still as he laid on the ground.
"Hit and run until someone from the other battles come and help us. Do you have any boosts left?" Hassan said before both of them stiffened up as Fenrir locked onto them, his yellow eyes now glowing brightly as he gave them a baleful glare.
"Just the ones I didn't give you." Issei said and Hassan nodded before he split back up into his 100 clones.
"Good. Use those to stay alive." And with that, all one hundred sunk into their shadows and darted from shadow to shadow towards Fenrir who, to Issei's shock, was easily keeping track of all 100 as his eyes darted to and fro to follow them.
'Ready, Ddraig?'
[As ready as I can be and can I say, if you die, it's been a pleasure to battle against you, partner.]
'Same to you, partner.' Issei said with a smile as he took a deep breath, a determined frown appearing on his face before he spoke.
"Transfer them."
[TRANSFER!] Ddraig's voice boomed and Issei grinned as his body was covered in an emerald glow, feeling his muscles and blood being rejuvenated with tons of energy before he bolted forward, ready to finish this battle.
He was quickly stopped as a paw smashed into his chest and buried him in the ground, Hassan smashed into the ground next to him as all 99 of his clones were quickly destroyed.
"…Did…Did that…just happened?" Issei wheezed, Hassan just coughing in response and making Issei nod his head slowly as they both struggled to their feet. Issei looked up at the titanic wolf before frowning as the wolf looked to be amused at their struggle, though it didn't hide the rage and malice in its glare as it lifted a paw coated in dark silver energy.
Its eyes then widened as silver chains wrapped around its paw and smashed it back into the ground, Issei groaning in relief and Hassan letting out a silent sigh as a familiar person clad in a silver aura floated down next to the duo.
"Really, Issei? We leave you all alone for a month and you're already fighting gods?" Rossweisse asked with an amused smile as she was clad in her Valkyrie armour, the Mistelteinn Wand glowing a bright azure in her grasp.
"Not our fault. We were having a nice relaxing day before they attacked." Issei grumbled and Rossweisse giggled as she nodded before turning to the snarling Fenrir, who bit down on the chains before pulling them apart with a howl.
"Loki?"
"Dead under him." Hassan answered her, Rossweisse zoning onto the still body under Fenrir before she sighed and nodded.
"Then I suppose I should finish things up."
"You sure you don't need any help?" Issei asked and Rossweisse smiled as she shook her head.
"No need. This should be easy."
"You dare think that you can take on Fenrir, the strongest son of Loki and a being on par with Typhon, the Scourge of Greek Mythology?" Fenrir growled, Issei surprised at his speaking as Rossweisse scoffed before waving her wand and a sea of chains appeared floating around her.
"Then let's see how powerful you are, Mr. Strongest Son of Loki." She said with a smile before the chains surged forward, Fenrir howling loudly before he charged forward. Chains wrapped around his limbs to try and pin him down only for him to rip them apart and frown as they just regrew once again.
Rossweisse was smiling as she waved her wand through the air, thorny vines ripping from the ground as beasts of all shapes and sizes sprouted from the vines and rushed towards the giant wolf.
Fenrir howled in pain and shock as the thorns and beasts ripped past his thick pelt and into his skin, blood flowing from the wounds as he wondered how they were even able to get past his skin before Rossweisse giggled.
"I'm sure you're wondering how I'm able to harm one as powerful as you. Let's just say that there's a reason everyone fears a master of runes." She said with a smile before Fenrir gasped as chains ripped through the ground, wrapping around his limbs and pinning him to the ground.
"No…NO!"
"Yes, that is Gleipnir, the chains made specifically to seal away your power and keep you in control. Now, while I wish I could have fought you longer, Lord Vidar is waiting to put you away, so I wish you goodbye." Fenrir roared and howled profanities as he tried to shake himself loose unable to move even a chain from his body before a large Norse crest appeared under him and he teleported away.
"…I need to go on a training trip if this kind of strength is what you can achieve." Issei muttered in shock as Rossweisse floated down and transformed back into her signature dark blue suit and smiled at them as she waved her hand and teleported Loki's body back to Asgard.
"And with that, our battle is done. Let's go and see if Yasaka and Theo have finished their battles."
"Wait, Sensei is back?" Issei asked and Rossweisse giggled as she nodded before walking to where the others were waiting, Hassan & Issei just glancing at each other before Issei shrugged and followed her.
"I swear, Theo meets the craziest people." Hassan muttered to himself as he followed after them with a shake of his head, Rossweisse giggling at his words while Issei just snorted.
A few moments earlier:
With Georgios & Susano'o:
"So, that blade in your grasp is Ascalon the Dragon Slayer?" Susano'o asked with a smirk as he swung his katana, Georgios chuckling as he nodded and smiled proudly at the white blade in his grasp.
"Indeed. Now then, let us not waste any time and finish our bout." Georgios said with a smile before he blurred forward, appearing next to Susano'o with Ascalon coated in a bright white glow.
Susano'o was quick to turn and deflect the blow with Kusanagi, both fighters grinning before they disappeared. Sparks flew as katana clashed against broadsword, both Georgios and Susano clad in their respective auras they parried, blocked and countered attacks.
A horizontal slash from Georgios was deflected upwards before Susano'o slashed at his hip, only for Georgios to leap over the blow with ease and thrust his blade forward as soon as he landed.
Susano'o grunted as the blade impacted his own before he parried it, metal screeching as he lunged forward while parrying Ascalon to the side and Georgios grinned as the Storm God tapped rapidly at his drums.
In an instant, a vicious storm of lightning ripped into existence and Georgios leapt back to Asia & Xenovia before picking up Durandal with a smile.
"I know you do not wish for me to hold, but it will just be for quick while and I'll give you back to your owner." Georgios said and to Xenovia's shock, Durandal gave off a heavy pulse of aura as if disgruntled before it settled back down, making the Saint smile before he turned to the storm that was approaching them.
"Zetten." Before they could blink, Heaven and Earth was cleaved in half, Susano'o staring in shock at the sight of his lightning tornado dissipating away before Georgios chuckled as a familiar figure landed softly next to them.
"Yasaka-san!" Asia exclaimed happily as Xenovia just had a relieved smile on her face, Yasaka giving them a soft smile as Georgios chuckled.
"Do you need me to give you an opening?" He asked and she giggled as she nodded. "It won't be needed, but I'll appreciate it all the same."
"Yasaka, looks like you finally went back to your home to learn Zetten." Susano'o said with a frown as he gripped Kusanagi tightly, Yasaka turning to him with a frown as her tails swayed through the air behind her.
"Is there any way I can't convince you to seize your attack and go back home?"Susano'o just stared at her before he sighed and shook his head.
"I am but a shell of my former shelf, young kitsune. Even if my sister and brother still wants me at home, with my injuries, it will not take long for the other gods to pressure my sister into banishing me from our home for my weakness. Let me die on the battlefield like a true warrior instead of withering away outside of it." Yasaka stared at him before she smiled and nodded, glancing at Georgios and he gave her a resigned smile as he nodded and readied himself.
Silence reigned in the atmosphere as the three fighters stared at each other, tensing their bodies to react within a split second before Georgios was the one to break the silence as he bolted forward.
Susano'o threw Kusagani into the air as another wooden drumming staff appeared in his grasp, the Shinto deity spinning them in his grasp before he rapidly began beating on his drums.
Georgios just gave a chuckle at the sight of hundreds of wind blades and lightning blades ripping through the air towards him, grinning as he gripped Durandal & Ascalon tightly before he began his dance of steel.
Durandal roared & Ascalon sung as they were swung through the air, the explosive aura of Durandal cleaving through the lightning and making them fizz out of existence while Ascalon cleaved through the wind blades with ease & made them dissipate.
Yasaka was not far behind him as she followed in his tracks, her right hand held out by her side in a knife-hand with Touki & Yoki constantly flowing into it & slowly creating a dense armour of aura around it.
"HOLY DRAGON'S CROSS RAMPAGE!" Georgios roared as he leapt into the air, Durandal & Ascalon raised high above his head before he brought both blades down with a bellow.
Light exploded around him as twin gigantic dragons made out of Holy Energy roared to life in front of him and blasted down towards Susano'o, the Shinto God of Storms grinning widely as he dismissed his drums staffs and caught Kusanagi with both hands before raising it above his head.
"AMENONUHOKO!" The attack named after the weapon that created the first island was as powerful as its namesake, Susano'o grinning broadly as a monstrous tornado filled with dense bolts of lightning crashed into the twin holy dragons.
Georgios & Susano'o could not help but give each grins filled with nothing but respect for their opponents as the two attacks pushed against each other, the dragons clawing relentlessly at the tornado while the tornado tore into their light-based bodies to try and cleave right through them.
"I leave everything else to you." Georgios muttered with a smile as he fell to the ground, Susano unable to do nothing but give the head priestess of Amaterasu & the mother of his very own champion a proud smile and a nod of respect as Yasaka appeared floating in the air behind the holy dragons.
"Farewell & I wish you nothing but good health in your next life, Susano'o-sama. ZET-TEN!" Time went still as Yasaka brought her hand down, clouds splitting in two & a large crevice gouged out of the ground as Susano'o smiled while letting go of Kusagani as the two halves of his body flopped down onto the ground.
"Woah." Xenovia muttered in shock as she stared at the devastation, Asia just shocked at her while she healed her and Georgios chuckled as he sat down on the ground next to the two girls while placing the now calm Durandal next to Xenovia on the ground.
"He sure knows how to pick them." Georgios muttered with a smile as he watched Yasaka create a platform of fire under her and float gracefully down to the ground.
"I sure hope the idiot doesn't take it easy on him just because it's his uncle." Yasaka muttered as she stared off to the side, staring at the large cage of electricity that surrounded the area where Theo had headed to.
A few moments earlier:
With Hades, Tesla & Cao Cao:
The hideous screeches of the undead and the shattering roar of a horde echoed throughout the electric cage as Hades' undead clashed against Cao Cao's army.
Limbs flew and weapons were destroyed as each army tried to beat the other, ripping each other to pieces while their commanders stood still and watched the carnage unfold.
'Unlike Hades, I can't keep creating thousands of undead whenever my army is destroyed. We need to finish this before he swarms us.' Cao Cao thought with a frown before he glances at Tesla, who nodded at him before the scientist blurred forward.
Hades scoffed as he blocked Tesla's punch with his staff, the vicious current of electricity not even affecting him as the deity just stared at the armoured man.
"You do realize that your 'lightning' is absolutely pitiful compared to my brother's, right?" Hades said with a smirk, Tesla chuckling as he nodded.
"Of course, but I'm just here to distract you." Hades raised an eyebrow at that before he held a hand out to the side, a dull grey magic sigil appearing out of the palm of his hand and blocking a strike from Cao Cao.
"Damnit. Should have known you wouldn't lose sight of me." Cao Cao said with a grin before both he and Tesla disappeared, Hades rolling his eyes as he stomped his staff on the ground.
Bones sprouted from the ground under him before condensing into a wall in front of him, blocking a bolt of lightning thrown by Tesla before he leaned to the side as Cao Cao appeared behind him and stabbed at his head.
Hades smirked in amusement as his staff transformed into a bident, twisting around Cao Cao's stab assault with ease before he swung his bident outwards in a large circle.
A sickly green aura coated the blade of the bident and Cao Cao cursed as he quickly created a shield of holy energy in front of him, leaping back just in time as the bident's necrotic aura intensified and slashed right through it.
"Plasma Pulse." Tesla was not one to stay still as he released a large amount of electricity before coating his body in it, blitzing forward and appearing right besides Hades as he swung a fist at his head.
Hades frowned at the pure white plasma coating the fist and raised his hand, grunting as he felt the extreme heat from the punch and while it was not as strong as Apollo's divine flames, it was still enough to singe his bony hands. Hades didn't let the heat bother him as he gripped Tesla's fist while tossing his bident into the air and pulling his free hand back, necrotic energy flooding his fist before he swung it forward.
"Maniratana." Cao Cao chanted as he appeared in front of the blow, one of his spheres appearing in front of him and Hades raised an eyebrow as his fist sunk into the sphere before another sphere appeared next to his head and his fist appeared from it.
Hades scoffed as he leaned his head back, his fist sailing past his head before he looked up, directly at the head of a glowing blue spear before it crashed heavily into his forehead.
Both Cao Cao's & Tesla's eyes widened as Hades flipped with the blow, gripping his bident by the polearm near the spearhead before raising it above his head.
"Persephone Titan!" With a roar, he delivered a mighty downwards swing while moving his grip down the polearm all the way down to the end, a gargantuan wave of necrotic energy coating the bident's two-prongs in the shape of a gigantic cleaver.
"Cocytus." Gallons of dark blue water shot out from the ground as the temperature of the area plummeted, Hades' eyes widening as the water crashed into him and knocked him off of his feet while also freezing his aura completely solid
"What the hell?" Cao Cao muttered, just as in shock as Hades, before his eyes widened and a grin appeared on his face as a familiar presence appeared out of thin air behind them.
"I swear, I'm never leaving you guys alone on duty again."
"Ah, and here I was hoping to get more battle data for my Super Automaton, but I suppose getting new data on you should be just as exciting." Tesla said with a grin as he deactivated his helmet, Theo chuckling as he patted Cao Cao on the shoulder and nodded at him.
"Nah, I don't think I can defeat Uncle Hades on my own. So, what do you say on getting more data?"
"Now, you're speaking my language." Tesla grinned as he was back in his full armour before they all looked to the front as the ice-cold water of the River Cocytus disappeared, Hades walking out with his robe tattered and his bident frozen.
With a pulse of his aura, he shattered the ice on his bident before he ripped his robe off, leaving him in just a pair of pants and revealing a glowing silver sphere in the middle of his ribs.
"So, my dearest nephew has finally decided to show his face for our battle?"
"Indeed he has. Now, he's going to ask his dearest uncle if he would like to give up. If not, I'll have to treat him as an enemy." Theo said as he held his hand out and Hades rose an eyebrow at the double-sided sword that appeared in his grasp before he chuckled as he shook his head.
"You know what my answer is going to be, so let's cut with the pleasantries and get this over with." Theo sighed at that before he nodded, gripping his weapon tightly and held it out to his side.
"Cao Cao, cover us with Hatthiratana, Maniratana, Assaratana and Cakkaratana. Tesla, have you used the secret feature yet?"
"No, think it would work with Assaratana?"
"It should." Cao Cao said with a nod, making both captains nod before Theo took a deep breath and closed his eyes before they snapped open with a determined glare as he stared at his uncle.
"Then, let's not waste any time." He muttered before he blasted forward, Hades rocketing towards him as Tesla smashed his knuckles together with a wide grin and Cao Cao began chanting under his breath.
A/N: And there we go! Another chapter for the week.
Next chapter, the end of the war and the aftermath of the attacks.
Apologies for uploading it so late, but I was at my barber's earlier today and completely forgot about it.
Also, I apologize for not finishing the chapter here, but the ideas were not flowing as usual and I didn't want to force myself to finish it, so I decided to leave it until next week.
Now, as always, read, enjoy, review and until the next one…
Ba-Bye~!