Hello, and welcome back!
If the name wasn't obvious, this story is a collection of random fighting sequences I wanted to write for no apparent reason! All tucked into the same Alternative Universe, or AU.
To returning readers, this story takes place in the same universe as "Nemesis Vs Rajin – The Race of the Century."
To new readers or people just stopping by to read something cool, don't even worry about it, and read on!
DISCLAIMER:
The power of the Gods depicted in this story are not completely identical to what is seen in-game. Though they share resemblance, the strength, abilities, and power-levels of most featured Smite characters have been scaled-up and dramatized for your viewing pleasure.
I hope you enjoy the first fight of… the Book of Battles!
Chapter 2 – No Holding Back!
Faraway from any sort of city, town, or village, the vast and wide wastelands of Earth were out to explore. Where the air smelled fresh, where wind always seemed to blow, where the skies were usually clear, and where nature remained mostly untouched by all of mankind. Forests, deserts, savannas, mountain ranges, swamps, oceans, tundras, plateaus, and rocky wastelands were laid out all over the world, most of it empty and pristine.
Outside of the boundaries of a city, where the rules of what was known as an "Authorized Battle Arena," or an "ABA," didn't apply to supernatural beings, those with powers were free to exercise their abilities without breaking any laws.
The Arena had come to be known as "the Official Battlegrounds of the Gods." It was a place where mortals could come watch their deities compete against one another for sport and competition.
The Arena was by far the number one source of entertainment. There was nothing more awe-inspiring than watching multiple great figures of different Pantheons clash in all out battle.
But occasionally, the Gods didn't wish to be watched, recorded, judged, and bet on by millions of mortals that simply yelled at the top of their lungs in the bleachers of ginormous Arenas, stuffing their faces with popcorn and chugging down cans of soda pop while watching the matches.
Sure, participating in The Arena's tournaments was one of the many pleasures that the Gods could exercise. In exchange for respect and worship, the Gods gave back to the humans by providing entertainment that befitted both sides: The mortals and immortals.
But today, outside of The Arena, thousands of miles away from any nearby civilization of mortals, stood three Gods.
The skies above were cloudy with an oncoming storm, the gray clouds occasionally flashed with powerful lightning being charged up from deep within their cores. The wind was blowing a little harder than usual, and the air felt heavy and tense.
A hard, rocky ground lay beneath their feet. Nearby mountains and plateaus spotted the horizon and cast shadows over the wide valley. Not too far away, the sound of the ocean's waves could be heard. The tide was beginning to come in at this time, and the gentle splashing of the waves filled the area.
Bunches of round and spiked rocks alike spotted the deeper areas of the water, where aquatic mammals such as seals watched farther away from the coastline. There was no sand, just water making direct contact with slowly deteriorating rock.
Due to being farther up north, ice and snow could be seen up on the mountain tops and near the edges of the rock's edges. The wind had a bit of a frigid touch to it, a touch that could easily cause one to let out a shiver or two without proper protection.
Countering this cold, solemn feeling, one corner of the valley's flatland felt warmer than the rest. The air felt warm and cozy, its light breeze could give one goosebumps that didn't mix well with the natural colder air in the area.
The three Gods stood far from one another. All of them faced inward, towards each other. They stood at equal distances away, and at far corners of the circular valley they had managed to locate.
The rocky, mountainous terrain that stood to one side, and the blue, cold ocean that stood adjacent.
The cold air continued to blow, the ocean's waves continued to crash against the rocks, and the storm clouds still loomed above the sky.
The first deity took a step forward. Her figure was young and lean, her body not necessarily well dressed for the cool weather of the valley. She held her double ended spear in one hand, her other hand simply planted itself on her hip.
She grinned at the two other Gods, her cyan eyes glistened in the light of the distant sun behind the clouds.
"Isn't this nice? I honestly feel like I'm really going to enjoy this little sparring match," the Goddess smiled.
The second deity took a step forward, the golden soles of his boots resting heavily upon the stone ground. His bright blonde hair billowed gently in the wind. His powerful figure and strong body stood proudly at his end of the valley.
He chuckled lightly as he looked to the Goddess who had first spoken.
"I feel the exact same way, Morri. Even though I personally get lost in it sometimes, it feels nice to not constantly be hearing the cheering crowds of The Arena. I could honestly get used to this," he said.
The Goddess scowled momentarily, before shaking her head. "What did I tell you about calling me 'Morri'. It's 'The Morrigan' to you. Remember that."
The God scoffed, laughing quietly as he ran his hand through his hair. In his other hand, a mythical hammer sparked with electricity. "Alright, alright. As you wish. It's not like anyone ever actually calls you by your full name. Plus, Morri is… cute, as the mortals say, and you know it."
As The Morrigan was about to respond, the third deity interrupted the interaction with a giggle. The warm air in the area began to expand as she began to move around. She flowed like water, despise it being her least favorite thing in the world. Her curves and fiery skin could blind anyone if they stared at her for long enough.
Though who could blame them, for Sol's body was one no one could resist without checking it out at least once. Though the complication of her literal hot essence gets in the way of her beauty.
"Thor has a point, Morrigan! I think it's cute, too! You should really think about embracing it," the Sun Goddess winked.
The Morrigan shook her head in response, groaning softly as she dug her face behind her hands. She could hear Thor and Sol laughing in the distance.
"Ugh! Both of you better take this match seriously, because you two have really put me into a mood…" The Morrigan growled, opening her hand and shrouding it in purple magic.
Sol and Thor both grinned at the eager Goddess, easily detecting that her intentions were ones of competitive spirit and not actual malice.
Thor took a step back and began to spin his hammer. He spun it faster and faster, until it was a simple blur that could be seen sparking in circles.
"A good old-fashioned sparring match! So, any rules?" Thor asked, glancing between the two Goddesses before him.
Sol clutched both of her fists at her sides, bringing them up and engulfing them with hot flames. As her arms grew in temperature, the brighter they became. She shook her head, grinning with excitement.
"No holding back. All three of us, full power, all abilities allowed, no healing items, and any type of fighting goes. We finally get to let loose without the pesky rules of The Arena holding us back."
The Morrigan nodded her head, taking a step back and breathing deeply through her nose. "Indeed. I am quite eager to begin. But of course, just because we're going all out doesn't mean we have to kill one another."
A momentary silence followed.
"Right…?" she then said, narrowing her eyes at her fellow deities.
"Of course not," Thor responded, his voice deeper than it normally was. He was serious. "As soon as one of us is unable to fight and can no longer continue, they're out. I brought healing pots for after the match. The winner can help out the two losers."
Sol flew up into the air, laughing. "Prepare to drink heal brew, because there's no way I'm losing this spar."
Thor crouched down low, eyeing the storm clouds above. "We'll see about that. Don't get too cocky, or Nemesis will come along and ruin everything."
The Morrigan closed her eyes and took a deep breath.
All three gods grinned at one another as the tension the air grew. For the last time, they took in their surroundings and analyzed one another, coming up with split second battle plans.
Thor grit his teeth with vigor, Sol trembled with giddiness, and the Morrigan grinned the thrill of an incoming battle.
The three Gods looked up, eyeing a storm cloud above. The electricity flashed, the cloud roared, and as soon as the bright lightning bolt hit the ground in front of them, the three Gods let out yells of battle.
"Here we go!" Thor huffed as he took to the skies with his hammer in a blur.
The two other Goddesses watched as the Thunder God disappeared into the clouds.
The Morrigan was the first to look forth. She lunged forward, her spear and hand shrouded in dark magic.
Sol laughed as she flew backwards, preparing for her enemy's attacks.
"Come here!" she yelled.
"Hold still!"
Using her spear, The Morrigan slashed towards Sol's torso, the Sun Goddess easily dodging it. The Morrigan continued to attack Sol with her magic, failing every attack. The Sun Goddess saw a split-second opening and took full advantage.
She fired a quick burst of fire at her opponent, who quickly dashed to the side and dodged it, the hot fire blackening the stone ground where it hit. Sol powered up her fiery fists and began to strike back.
The Morrigan couldn't afford to get hit with a direct punch, so she quickly took the defensive stance. She dodged to the right, to the left, and then took a step back and watched as Sol wound up an uppercut.
"Hyup!" The Morrigan grunted as she gracefully backflipped away from the blow, Sol's fist stuck in the air with shock.
The Phantom Queen recovered and attempted to rush forward and retaliate, boosting off both feet and flying forward, but Sol was too fast to recover. She jumped over the attack by boosting upward with a blast of fire.
The Morrigan shot her hand upward after missing, tracking Sol's movements and firing two quick shots of magical energy at Sol, who deflected them using her fiery forearms, sending the blasts spiraling to the sides and detonating into smoky puffs in the air.
"Not good enough!" Sol cheered, slamming downward at an amazing speed, her fist leading the charge.
The Morrigan grunted as she set her spear out in front of her, blocking the hit on the ground.
Purple magic and fiery embers sparked everywhere, a strong shockwave rang out from the impact of the colliding Goddesses.
Sol pulled her arm back and flew back, firing herself away from her enemy by using a recoiling blast of fire. The Morrigan fell onto one knee and shielded her body with her magic-infused arms, and was sent sliding backward across the stone floor from the sheer force of Sol's retreating blast.
Her forearms were smoking lightly.
"Hmph. Was that supposed to hurt?!" The Morrigan yelled suddenly.
Sol put her fists up as two of the Morrigan's clones appeared and launched themselves at her, attempting to jab and kick her with limbs of dark magic. Sol simultaneously dodged both clones' attacks, before cutting one in half with a flaming chop.
The second clone looked up and was quickly destroyed by a follow-up blast of fire. Sol turned around to see more clones rushing forward. She watched one launch itself over her head, twisting and turning in the air. It set both of its hands out and fired rapid-fire blasts of magic. Sol deflected the blasts, sending them to the surrounding rocky walls of the valley, causing small explosions with each deflect.
"Ghah! Huh—" Sol yelped as she watched the clone jump forward and land in front of her. As she prepared to attack it, a second new clone charged her with a claw of raw magic from behind.
Sol panicked, blocking the blow with her forearm. The first clone began to slash fiercely at Sol, the second one firing sparks of magic less than a meter or so away. Sol began to lose ground as she stepped back, struggling to block the flurry of lightning fast attacks, the blasts from the second clone detonating rapidly against her guard, shrouding her vision in smoke.
"Faster! Let's go!" The Morrigan laughed, clutching her fists and increasing the strength of her clones by amplifying the strength of her magic.
Sol felt as a clone's painful kick struck her in the chest. She let out a small cry as she flew back, only to receive a sharp jab of magic from another clone to her back, knocking her forward again. Sol quickly launched a blast of fire underneath her forearm, hiding its true direction, and disintegrating one of the clones.
Two more continued to attack her, but the Sun Goddess began to catch on. She launched her leg in a back-kick and sliced straight through a second clone. She then turned to the last clone and blocked its kick.
"Die!" Sol yelled at the clone, before hearing the Morrigan snap her fingers.
The Sun Goddess watched as the clone leapt up and sent its other leg into Sol's face, forcing her to let go, regardless of having grabbed the clone first.
It leapt away, and before even managing to touch down, was launched back at her with the help of a new clone that threw it back in her direction. The clone wound up a powerful kick, which Sol managed to block.
A third clone appeared to Sol's left, and two clones stood in front of her. The Sun Goddess, with a frustrated grunt, took to the offensive.
She planted her foot into the stone ground and flew towards the clone to her left, punching clean through its guard and blowing it up. She then flew forward and kicked off a wall to fly to a second, crushing it with a fiery ground-pound that caused an eruption of fire to annihilate the area. Sol huffed as she flew into the air and kicked the head off of the final clone, before turning to the Morrigan, panting.
"More clones, or what?" Sol asked, gasping for air.
"How did you guess—"
Before the Morrigan could even answer, in the blink of an eye and a sudden burst of speed, Sol appeared right in front of the Phantom Queen, placed her palm mere inched away from her face, and sent her launching back with a beam of fire.
"GAH—! Hrngh… kyah!" The Morrigan grunted as she summoned two clones behind herself, her arms up in front of her face in a cross shape, blocking the beam of raw fire from Sol as she flew back from its force.
The two clones charged at a cliff wall and kicked off it with immense force, shattering the stone of the wall from the force needed to jump off it. They tore through the air, right towards their master and grabbing her as the beam ceased to fire.
They both grunted in unison as they managed to stop the direction she was traveling, reel back, and send her launching directly at Sol.
The Morrigan shot through the air, a shockwave exploding in a ring behind her from the speed. Shooting her fist forward, Sol and the Morrigan clashed.
A huge explosion of dust erupted around the two Goddesses as they collided.
The Phantom Queen attacked first and launched a strong kick at the Sun Goddess, which was parried with a forearm.
"Bad move, Morri!" Sol laughed as she kicked her right left outwards, sweeping the Morrigan off her feet and causing her to fall on her back.
Sol stomped on the ground, launching the Morrigan up into the air with a geyser of fire that had erupted from below the ground. The Sun Goddess flashed above her opponent and slammed her into the ground with both fists, the Morrigan releasing a cry of sharp pain as she cracked into the ground.
The two clones the Morrigan had summoned before rushed to help, but failed to do so effectively. Sol launched into the air and slammed into the floor between both clones, thrusting her fist into the floor and sending out a wave of strong fire, killing them both.
Sol then turned to the Morrigan, who was still recovering from the last attack she took. The Sun Goddess took advantage and sparked behind the other Goddess, punching her in the back, launching her forward. Sol huffed with effort as she increased her speed once again, vanishing and reappearing in front of the Morrigan and kicking her straight in the stomach, close-lining the other Goddess and folding her over her fiery shin.
"CAUGH—!" The Morrigan gasped out, saliva splattering out from her mouth as the wind was knocked straight out of her body.
Sol completed the kick, launching her leg outwards and sending the Morrigan back, crashing and rolling onto the ground. The Sun Goddess took a deep breath and paused, watching as the Morrigan slowly stood back up, her eyes flashing with power.
"You've got more in you, show me!" Sol yelled.
The Phantom Queen grit her teeth as she dropped her spear and let out a yell of power. A purple aura of deep energy erupted around the Goddess as the ground began to quake and the wind began to blow harder.
Sol felt as her opponent's power grew. Her heart began to beat a little faster as it began to get uncomfortably close to her level of effort.
With a loud shut of the jaw, teeth clacking together loudly, the Morrigan launched forward, arms arched at her sides.
Sol reacted quickly, setting her hands out in front of her and blasting a huge beam of fire.
The other Goddess flew over it, set her hand out, and began to fire large blasts of dark energy at her fiery opponent from above.
With grunts of effort and panic, Sol deflected the blasts with her fiery fists. She looked up to see a sphere of energy that was too powerful to deflect, so she was forced to jump over it. A huge explosion went off below the Sun Goddess as it made impact with the ground.
"Holy shit… she's getting serious!" Sol exhaled.
She looked up and reacted as the Morrigan shot forward with amazing speed. She flew up at her, her fist wound up for a charged jab. With a loud yelp, Sol dodged to the side, avoiding the blow, but witnessing as the Morrigan's fist shot a huge burst of wind force out through the air, even if she had missed.
The Sun Goddess cried out with surprise, and proceeded to slam both of her fists down on her opponent's spine, managing to ground her.
A dust explosion went off upon impact.
The Morrigan looked back up and saw Sol's bright palms facing her up in the sky.
The fiery blast came quickly and with amazing force. The thick laser of concentrated fire drilled the Phantom Queen into the ground, the Sun Goddess yelling as she fired the beam from her quivering hands.
But then, suddenly, a powerful kick struck Sol in the throat. A shockwave of pure force shot out from Sol's body as she flew back and crashed into the rocky walls of a nearby plateau, her body causing a huge explosion of fire, smoke, and rock as she made impact.
The Morrigan's clone responsible for the powerful kick jumped down into a charred crater and helped its master back up to her feet. As the two identical looking Morrigan's slowly floated up from the burnt hole in the ground, they turned to look at the settling dust of Sol's explosion.
"U-Ungh… agh—oh!" Sol coughed and groaned as she ripped her own body loose of the deep hole she was dug into.
In that moment, she felt too weak to maintain flight. So she stumbled onto the ground and fell onto all fours, holding her throat.
She looked up with a look of anger in her bright eyes. She got up onto one knee and fired a thin laser of fire from her fingertip, shooting the clone straight through the forehead and killing it.
The Morrigan watched the clone explode into black smoke.
The two panting Goddesses glared at one another, and then at the same time, released yells of power.
Auras of ferocious fire and powerful magical energy shot up around the bodies of Sol and the Morrigan respectively.
The two launched at one another, leaving traces of their afterimages behind them from their amazing speed.
But right as they were about to clash, they suddenly felt a level of energy so high, it stopped the two in their tracks, skidding to a halt mere inches from each other. They looked up into the sky and spotted a flash of lightning about to strike. Only both knew it wasn't lightning, and that it was something much worse.
The entire time, Thor had been up in the storm clouds, allowing endless bolts of lightning to strike his body, furthering the limit of his maximum energy. With his hammer out in front of him, his mouth wide open, fueling a strong yell, he shot through the sky after splicing a large circle in the cloud he blasted out from.
His incoming charge sent both Goddesses hurtling away with a devastating attack of brute force and overwhelming power.
Sol was sent flying into a nearby mountain, causing a huge explosion as she collided with it.
The Morrigan shot through the air, colliding with the ground multiple times, cracking and shattering small holes into the stone before rag-dolling into the ocean with a splash.
Thor stood up proud and looked around, his eyes narrowed.
"Hah!" he laughed, holding his iron gut and clutching his hammer tightly. He laughed for a short while longer before taking a short breath of recovery.
He glanced up at the mountain top that Sol had crashed into, watching as the distant cloud of debris slowly began to clear. He then craned his neck to look at the ocean, whose tides were still gently splashing up against the rocks.
There was no sign of either opposing Goddess, and Thor began to think he had ended the fight with a single definitive blow.
It wasn't until he felt two flaring energy levels sparking up from either side of him, both of which were rising in power by the second. Thor's lips slowly curved into a wide grin, his eyes sparkling with enthusiasm.
"Hah… good to see they're not done just yet," he chuckled.
And then, he let out a happy grunt as both Sol and the Morrigan sent powerful beams of energy at the Thunder God from out of nowhere. He dropped his hammer and set his two arms out on either sides of his body and brought the two beams to a complete halt with one hand each.
With a short grunt, he cancelled them out with a shock of lightning, causing two small smoke explosions at his left and right.
A mere second after, the two Goddesses zipped at him and shot their fists forward, Thor catching them in the center of his palms with two short shockwaves.
He laughed as he slammed the two deities together, Morrigan and Sol crying out in pain as their foreheads clashed loudly. He then threw both in opposite directions.
Sol recovered in midair and panted desperately, while the Morrigan slammed into the ground once and then rolled to a stop on one knee.
"Nice attempt at a double team!" Thor taunted, picking up his hammer.
The Morrigan slowly dragged herself onto her feet, holding her head in pain, teeth gritted.
"Ugh… I'm not done just yet!" she yelled, clutching her fists and calling back her magical aura.
Sol floated in the air, filled with anticipation.
"Well, I don't need Morri to take you on, Thor!" Sol said boastfully, surrounding herself in a sphere of fire, arms spread out at her sides.
Thor's hair waved around in the air from their auras.
"Then show me!"
The Morrigan growled quietly under her breath. "You got me wet, you bastard! You're mine!"
Thor took to the offensive first. He ignored the Morrigan and launched at Sol, his foot swinging out to kick her.
The Sun Goddess blocked the attack with both of her forearms. Thor launched backwards and retreated, twirling in the air straight towards Morrigan, who had summoned a clone to assist her.
Thor dodged a strike from the clone and went straight for the Goddess herself. He raised his hammer in the air and swung with pure power, Morrigan ducking underneath the missed attack and moving to counter, but failed as the Thunder God raised his knee up and felt it connect with her cheek.
The Morrigan's head flew up from the force of the knee, and her body followed suit, being sent upward briefly, before Thor took advantage and smashed his hammer into her ribcage, sending her violently flying to the side and crashing into another rocky wall with yet another large explosion of dust and stone.
He turned to the clone and sent it into the air with a single blow of his hammer as it tried to attack him, obliterating its form instantly.
"Wow…" Sol whispered to herself in awe, having just watched Thor completely outclass and overpower the Morrigan.
But then, she sensed a faint energy behind her as the cloud of dust and debris that the Morrigan had left behind shifted.
She turned to see her preparing for a sneak attack. Ever as resilient.
"I'm not done yet!" The Morrigan grunted out, thrusting her spear forward, infused with energy.
"We'll see!" Sol shot back, dodging the spear strike and turning to punch the other Goddess in the face.
But before she could, the Sun Goddess sensed a presence behind her. Without turning around, she reached back and grabbed onto the neck of a clone, and launched it over her shoulder.
The Morrigan jumped back, watching as her clone was destroyed mere inches before her from the sheer impact of hitting the ground. Before she could react, Sol zipped forward and seized her by the throat. The Morrigan clawed at Sol's hands, gagging and squirming in her fiery grasp.
"Enough of your clones!" Sol grunted as she slammed the Morrigan into the ground with all her strength.
The ground cracked and fractured as the Phantom Queen erupted with a cloud of dust upon direct impact.
Sol didn't let go, and lifted the debilitated Morrigan back into the air again, this time throwing her with a burst of energy. A shockwave of wind surged through the air as the Morrigan smashed into a nearby mountain a second time.
Thor was busy dealing with more clones. He angrily smashed and clobbered his way through them. He turned to Sol and narrowed his eyes with the intention of attacking but was interrupted by more clones.
He charged forward, sweeping one of its feet and stomping its head clean off, gut punching straight through a second, kicking the head off a third, breaking the spine of a fourth, discharging seventeen billion volts of energy into a fifth, using a sixth as jumping board to kick a seventh, then going back to kick a hole through the stomach of the sixth.
He spun around, ready to attack what he thought was an eighth clone, but he thought wrong. As he slammed his hammer into the so called "clone", he gasped with surprise as he realized it was the real Morrigan, as only she had enough strength to block his hammer with her spear.
"How?!"
He was sent stumbling backwards as Morri cracked the end of her spear into Thor's jaw, and then uppercut him into the air, his body zipping upward with a burst of air.
The Morrigan summoned another clone right under where Thor was going to land after the attack, but the Thunder God saw straight through the attack as he recovered in midair.
He performed a backward somersault and came down with a stomp onto the clone's head, crushing its skull, and jumping off it back towards the original Morrigan.
As he hurdled towards his target, he suddenly felt himself fall to the floor. He felt weak and exhausted, despite not taking any major damage.
"W-What?! What in Odin's… n-name is happening? Why do I… feel so s-sluggish…?!" Thor questioned aloud as he attempted to lift himself onto one knee.
He looked up to see the Morrigan laughing. The Phantom Queen hummed to herself, looking at Thor with a look of mischief.
"That clone was special. I cast a spell on it. I made it so whatever touches its physical form has its energy instantly split in half. That's why you feel so weak right now," The Morrigan giggled, preparing to charge the now halved Thunder God.
But before she could, she felt a sudden rush of heat heading straight for her. She dove to the left, barely dodging a huge blast of fire Sol had sent forth.
"Dirty move, Morrigan! I thought we were supposed to give this fight our all!" The Sun Goddess yelled.
The Phantom Queen shook her head as she recovered, her hair whipping about as she turned her head to face Sol.
"You said anything goes. I'm merely using my techniques! Plus, Thor's energy level was already too ramped up after charging up for so long. We needed this handicap. So be grateful and take it!" The Morrigan snapped, before rushing towards Thor.
She prepared to thrust her spear into him but was interrupted by a sudden shock of lightning from Thor's hammer. She staggered backwards, electricity spreading across her chest and slowing her movement more and more by the second, getting stronger the more she was electrocuted. She began to panic as she watched Thor begin to slowly close the distance, walking closer to her, the hammer's electricity getting stronger from the closer range, causing the lightning to violently spark throughout her entire body.
"G-GAAAH! AAAH!" she cried out, her body jerking and twitching uncontrollably from the insanely high voltage that was coursing through her body.
Finally, once he was close enough, Thor reeled his hammer back… and smashed it upwards in an uppercutting motion, the hammer making direct contact right below the Morrigan's chin.
With an electrical shockwave, the Morrigan was sent rocketing upward, harshly.
In a flash of light, Thor appeared above her, moving faster than lightning. He raised his hammer up again and swung it downwards this time, catching the Morrigan's body with the swing and sending her into the ground.
He watched as the Morrigan made a new massive crater from the fall.
Clinging to her consciousness, the Morrigan's hands pushed against the dirt she laid on, trying to get herself back onto her feet. She was shaking, blood spilling down the corner of her lips, and as her mouth opened to breathe, three of her teeth fell out. Not entire teeth, either.
The force from when Thor's hammer smashed into her chin forced her mouth shut with far too much force. Some of her teeth literally shattered like glass vases. White pieces of ivory fell from her mouth, looking like… dust and scraps.
She managed to shove herself onto her back, laying at the center of the crater with half-open eyes. And above her, she saw…
Lightning. Brewing in the clouds.
"THOR—!" she cried out, blood sputtering off her lips. "NOOOO—"
With a huge, earth-shattering explosion, a bolt of powerful lightning struck and detonated directly onto the Phantom Queen.
Sol and Thor stood staring, waiting to see if the other Goddess was still standing. After the dust cleared, both Gods grew wracked with shock as the Morrigan was nowhere to be seen within the huge crater. Sol slowly hovered forward, looking around with worry.
"Wh… where did she go…? I don't sense her energy anywhere—"
"Sol, look out!" Thor suddenly yelled out.
"WHAT?!" Sol cried out, before turning around to look behind her.
She could only gasp.
Moving faster than any eye could see, and in complete silence, the Morrigan thrust a bright, glowing sphere of pure purple magical energy into Sol's chest. A ring-shaped shockwave of pure heat shot out from the two Goddesses as the attack made direct impact.
"AAACK—!" Sol bellowed out as she was hit.
The Morrigan had managed to summon about five clones, all stacked on top of each other to block the raw power of Thor's bolt of lightning, which would've finished her if she hadn't quickly found a way to stuff the brunt of its damage.
While she still received shockwave damage, she was able to summon a low-energy hidden clone behind Sol using her energy signature and heat to track her location. In the moments of silence that Sol and Thor had shared awaiting to see if she had survived, the Morrigan switched her consciousness into the hidden clone…
And it became the original.
Within the crater, what was now a clone, puffed into smoke.
And behind Sol, the true Morrigan was able to attack with a close-range attack, while Sol's guard was down, meaning her energy level was lower.
And the attack had increased effect.
The Morrigan and Thor were sent flying back from the blast, both sliding onto the ground and skidding to a stop. Thor was shocked, his eyes wide as he glared at the Morrigan.
Morri, meanwhile, was panting as she crouched, staring ahead in the direction in where Sol had been blasted off towards.
Sol eventually crashed into a mountain side.
Erupting from the hole of impact, she floated idly, panting, her chest radiating with pure black smoke, which meant that she had taken heavy damage. She looked up at her two other opponents, trying to suppress her quiet grunts of pain by pressing her lips together.
It was hard to tell, but they were trembling.
She collapsed onto the ground and held her chest, her back smoking now. She coughed… and more smoke spewed out.
The Morrigan grinned. A successful blow.
"Hmph," Thor huffed.
Then, Sol looked up, one of her eyes closed from the intense pain that was surging through her body.
"Thor…" Sol winced.
The Thunder God flinched, caught off guard that the Sun Goddess was able to talk already.
"What."
"D-Don't try to help an enemy… you fool!"
Sol came up onto one knee and raised her hand in Thor's direction, quickly firing a gargantuan blast of fire. The size of the attack brightened up the entire area with a blinding light and filled the valley with a deep heat.
The Morrigan stood up, her hand out to fire a blast of energy to counter. But she was caught off-guard, and before she knew it, was being forced backwards, engulfed by a huge blast of fire. And the same went for Thor.
The Phantom Queen and Thunder God scrambled and stumbled backwards, struggling to stay on their feet.
Once the blast had finished firing… they both stood dripping with sweat and panting with both panic and exhaustion. Their bodies were emitting smoke from Sol's flames, their clothes and armor were charred and parts of it were burnt off.
Exerting herself and feeling her body get hotter and hotter, Sol swung her arm out in front of her, sending forth a 20-foot-high wall of moving fire at her two opponents, who both put their arms out in front of themselves and tucked their heads behind them.
Both Thor and The Morrigan grunted with a stinging sensation as they endured through the wall of fire. They put their guards down and glared at Sol, whose power had grown significantly after taking excessive damage.
"So, she's getting serious too…" Thor huffed to the Morrigan, who only exhaled with exhaustion, her arm coming up to wipe at the blood that had trickled down her chin from the corners of her mouth.
"It seems so…" she panted desperately.
Thor eyed his hammer, which was sparking with weak lightning. His power was still halved, and he couldn't go any higher even if he wanted to. This put him at a disadvantage, as the Sol and The Morrigan could still increase their power. The Thunder God grinded his teeth, sweat trickling down the side of his face.
"I don't know how I can keep up with these gals. That spell the Morrigan set on me MUST be broken! There has to be a way I can break it. If my power stays halved, these two will overpower me and knock me out in seconds! But… I know I can stay in this if I can just manage to get my full strength back…"
Thor looked up, he watched as Sol shot forward, instantly breaking the sound barrier. She punched the Morrigan using all her momentum, a powerful boom erupting from the force of the impact. Thor's eyes widened as he could literally feel the force of a punch that didn't even hit him.
"This is payback!" Sol yelled into the Morrigan's face as she hit her.
Her fist dug into the Morrigan's cheek, and from the speed, was able to fire straight through the Phantom Queen's guard, slipping between both of her forearms, and connecting straight.
"URGH—" Morri grunted.
He watched as the Morrigan slammed into a nearby plateau, and was about to fall to the ground, but wasn't allowed to do so. A bright, fiery inferno engulfed the Phantom Queen as she was pinned to the stone wall by a huge fireball, fired by none other than Sol.
The ball exploded and shook the ground as the Morrigan was buried under huge boulders and chunks of debris as a result of a rockslide.
Once again, obliterated.
Suddenly, Thor's hammer sparked with its full radiance. The Thunder God's body became surrounded by an aura of unbelievable amounts of electricity, so much of it in fact that it was pouring out from his body, crackling and sizzling the air and ground around him. His eyes lit up with a white glow as he raised his hammer in the air, a bolt of lightning striking it as his power returned to him.
Sol covered her eyes from the bright light as she felt the dramatic spike in Thor's energy.
"So that was it! A high enough amount of damage was the key to breaking her spell! That makes sense now… because if she's too worried and distracted by the pain and discomfort of enemy attacks… she can't focus enough to maintain the effects of the spell, since it was placed on me by a clone, and not her," Thor monologued to himself.
He puffed his chest out as he gripped his hammer more tightly. "Thanks for the helping hand, Sol. Isn't it a bit ironic? Since you were the one who told me not to help out an enemy," he grinned.
Sol clenched her fists and shook with anger. "So you're back at normal power, huh? Well, show me what you got, oh, 'mighty' son of Odin!"
Thor let out a short yell as he flew up into the air and began to shoot blasts of lightning at the Sun Goddess that moved like bright flashes. The movements required to dodge were a combination of anticipation, guessing, and split-second reactions.
Sol bobbed and weaved through the bolts and let out a huge yell of effort as she boosted forward and launched a strong flaming kick at Thor's face to send him into the air.
"GAH!" Thor yelled out as he was hit and flew back, zipping upward through the sky and colliding into a mountain's apex, destroying it completely. Huge pieces of rock splashed into the water as the mountain's very top edge was annihilated.
The kick's force was so great that it kept Thor moving, shooting straight through the first mountain and into a second, which managed to stay in shape thanks to the help of the first slowing down the hurdling God's speed.
A massive eruption of dust detonated upon Thor's initial contact with the mountain's face. He let out a painful groan as he began to plunge into the water below, but before he could allow himself to fall, a streak of fire lasered through the air.
With the appearance of a bright meteor and the speed of a comet, Sol slammed into Thor and swerved him into the surface of the ocean. The speed was so great, that instead of falling into the ocean, the surface tension of the water caused the bodies of the two Gods to bounce up off the water, giving the surface of the ocean an even greater durability than solid ground itself.
"G-GUAH!" Thor gut out, his saliva flailing from his mouth.
His hand slammed itself into Sol's face, pushing it away, before lightning sparked in his palm and blasted the Sun Goddess in the face, point-blank range.
Sol let go of Thor and flew backwards, holding her smoking face and flailing around in pain.
Thor gained control and boosted away from Sol to gain distance, but Sol recovered fast and trailed behind him as a torch of pure fire.
Both Gods giving rise to huge rifts of water as they shot along its surface. Sol sped up and caught up to Thor, shoulder checking him forcing him into yet another mountain, water and rock colliding together and causing another massive detonation of matter.
Sol let out an angry yell as she shot forward and crashed into the crater with him, forcing him along, drilling him straight through the entire base of the mountain. Thousands upon thousands of miles of pure stone. Drilling through it all.
The two Gods shot out the other end with a huge blast of light, stone from the mountain flying beside them in the air as massive rock-slides began to crumble downward into the water.
Sol grabbed onto Thor tightly and swung him into the stone, the Thunder God harshly colliding with the rocks and bouncing back to Sol, like a rubber ball, allowing her to hit him back into the stone over and over. Because they were so close to the water, waves and waterspouts of force gave the air a misty feeling.
"KGH—! Sol—GGH! GIVE ME—DAUGH!"
His grunts were rapid. He couldn't see. His head was rocking.
"A—CHANCE! KCHGH—?!"
Sol kicked Thor back into the mountain for the sixth time, his skull cracking into the stone. The Sun Goddess didn't let up.
She flew to him, maintaining her speed of sound. She grabbed Thor's head and began to fly along while holding it, dragging his face along the entire face of the mountain, scraping and forcing it against the stone, leaving behind a messy long line, or trail in the surface of the mountain where Thor's faced had been indented.
She then relentlessly ripped it out from its deep crevice in the mountain, with huge chunks of rock exploding outward from the force of the pull.
Thor's face was covered in bruises, bloody scrapes, and dirt.
Finally, the Thunder God grew tired of being bashed and thrown around. He roared out in power, pushing Sol back with his raw energy. He threw his hammer forward, slamming it right into Sol's gut faster than she could react.
The Sun Goddess let out a horrible shriek was she was sent shooting backwards, crashing into the surface of the water and being sent back up. She flipped up and recovered, coughing out puffs of deep black smoke. She looked up and gasped, Thor having teleported to his hammer's location above her and preparing to zap her.
"Oh… no!"
Sol turned to run. She took off with a loud sonic boom, Thor quickly increasing his speed to tail her. The two Gods flew along the surface of the blue ocean, water kicking up behind them in beautiful arc and splashes.
Sol dodged to the left, right, right again, left, right a third time, and then left again. She gasped and yelped with every movement, watching as the lightning hit the ocean's surface mere inches away from where her body just was.
She sensed a bolt that was heading straight for her, one she couldn't dodge. She turned around for a split second and cancelled it out with a quick burst of fire, causing a split-second smokescreen in front of her.
During that split second, Thor launched into Sol's body, his electrocuted hammer leading the blow. This time, despite even greater speed, the surface tension of the water's surface broke, and both Gods plunged into the water with a huge splash that triggered tidal waves to crash onto shore.
"You think you've got power!? Witness the strength of the God of Thunder!" Thor yelled loudly, his voice ringing out through the water and throughout the entire landscape.
He whipped his hammer into Sol's body with his full power, causing her body to shoot straight through the water, sending her directly to the bottom of the ocean floor.
Even with all the water pressure and massive resistance of the entire ocean, literally tens of thousands of feet of water, the Sun Goddess' body torpedoed through it all and slammed into the crust of the planet at the very bottom.
Thor raised his hammer into the air and called forth upon the storm clouds above. With one huge flash from the heavens, hundreds of powerful bolts of lightning struck the water, instantly electrocuting a couple hundred square miles of the ocean.
Sol's body was cooling down, which meant bad news. The water, the water pressure, the massive amount of damage, and unbearable amounts of electricity caused the Goddess to release cries of true pain, water entering her mouth and weakening her fire essence.
The Goddess' fiery heart was beating out of control, and she could feel herself dying. She couldn't see two feet in front of her, for no light from the sun could reach down to the bottom of the ocean. The only light she had was the light from her own body, which was quickly fading to the oppressive odds that were all not in her favor.
She flailed around and held her throat, the electricity dealing more and more damage by the second, the water killing her fire essence, and the time left to escape was running out fast.
The scared Sun Goddess' life flashed before her eyes.
With a last-ditch effort, she raised her power to its limit, its ultimate maximum. She begged for Thor to allow this to happen, for no more attacks to interrupt her, for if they did, she would surely die before being able to cry out for help.
Her core flashed with a bright light, and her body began to heat up again. She kept increasing her energy, more and more. Her body kept getting hotter and hotter. The water around her began to evaporate, smoke and vapor surrounded the Goddess along with her flaming aura. Like an underwater water volcano, her heat was causing the water to turn to gas, while still surrounded by liquid.
With a final yell, Sol's body in that moment became hotter than the sun's core.
Up above ground, The Morrigan and Thor were at each other's throats.
The Morrigan grabbed onto Thor's sparking body and flew him back to land, driving him straight into the ground and creating a ravine using his body as a shovel.
She kicked his body into the air and punched it forward into a plateau, splitting a second new ravine straight into it with a massive eruption of dust.
Thor slowly flew back into the air after a few long seconds of recovery, his eyes widening at the horrid sight he saw before him. During his sequence with Sol, the Morrigan had been creating an army of clones to overpower and overwhelm him and the other Goddess, a dirty but smart plan.
"You're at your full power, Thor! Then I shall go at my maximum as well! It's about time the Gods display their true power!" The Morrigan laughed.
She clutched her fists and let out a cry of utter raw strength.
Her energy rose to a stunningly high level, Thor himself staring with shock.
An angry aura of purple-colored magical energy surrounded the Morrigan as the wind and ocean around the area began to go berserk. The storm clouds above shifted in circles, making a spiral in the sky. The ocean grew angry and restless, huge waves and endless lightning bolts was all that could be seen. The wind was heavy, the hair of both gods flowing in the cold air.
"I'm impressed, Morri. I didn't think you possessed such a potent amount of power. Here I was thinking you were a Goddess that relied on trickery, dark spells, and black magic to fight… but no, I was wrong. The level of Divine Energy I can feel radiating from you… is definitely something I wasn't expecting," Thor admitted, a small smile developing on his face.
He was truly ecstatic to witness such a sight. A Goddess giving it her all right before him.
"Oh, yes. A God… cannot be a God, without enough raw strength! Any mere human can learn witchcraft and magic. But to be a deity… one must do far more than that!" The Phantom Queen announced, her aura radiating with bright particles of godly energy.
The wind slowed a bit as the Morrigan's aura calmed, and she stopped channeling her power-up. She was at full capacity.
In the blink of an eye, the Morrigan shot her arm out, sending forth a powerful beam of pure energy. Thor was barely able to put his arms out in front of it and block it, but he underestimated its force, and began to get pushed back. He grit his teeth together and pushed back, slowly beginning to yell with effort.
He let out a shout of despair as he shot electricity into the blast, blowing it up with a large display of smoke.
Expecting a blow to be coming through the smokescreen, Thor put his guard up in front of himself to shield his face.
Unexpectedly, the blow he was anticipating came from below, instead. He felt his jaw shatter as the Morrigan's fist shot straight into it, sending him shooting straight up into the sky, with a huge direct blast of untamed, wild energy blasting him straight after. The Morrigan's energy powered uppercut completely annihilated Thor, his body going limp as he coughed out a bit of blood that spilled through the air.
His armor and clothing was torn and burnt from blasts of fire and energy, his body was smoking from the blast he had just taken, and his body was aching with excessive amounts of damage.
High up in the sky, he began to fall back down. As he fell, he opened his eyes, letting out a grunt of fear as the Morrigan shot straight up into his face, her fist digging into his cheek, sending him even further up into the sky. He shot through a few dozen clouds, clearing the skies by leaving circular holes in them.
Thor flipped and thrashed through the sky, trying to recover his sense of direction. As he finally fixed himself, he halted completely, watching as the Morrigan flew up right in front of him. This time, he was ready to fight back.
"Hngh!" he grunted.
"Hah!" she belted out.
The two began to rapidly cuff, jab, kick, and strike at one another, their punches and heavy blows causing visible and audible shockwaves in the sky.
Down below, Sol erupted from the depths of the ocean, searching for her opponents. As she finally picked up on their energy levels high up above in sky, she had an idea. She could see the shockwaves and waves of force from her two fellow Gods locked in a melee high up in the sky.
She closed her eyes and concentrated, calling forth the power of the sun itself. Summoning a spire of flame around her body, she began to emanate with an undying light. She could feel her forces, her powers all coming together, her voice crying out for them to unite, her radiance so bright, it enlightened the other side of the world, brightening their cold, dark night.
As the sun began to blaze, she giggled to herself, knowing that this was the ultimate fight. As she opened her eyes, that were now shining brightly, she put her hands together and exhaled, securing her attack.
Thor and the Morrigan could see the light. They looked down and knew that Sol had reemerged. But suddenly, the entire world became brighter.
Both Gods turned to the sky, where the Sun was blazing hot. A single spot of the Sun was pure white, brighter than the rest of the mighty star. As both Gods realized the incoming attack, they exchanged glances, their auras expanding and becoming more intense than before. Down below, Sol's bright torch, her spire of flame, could be seen.
Her powerful voice reached the ears of the two other Gods, striking a sense of deep ecstasy into their hearts.
"Solar… Flare!"
Coming straight from the core of the Sun and hurdling through the solar system at the speed of light, the biggest, more powerful blast of fire shot towards the Earth.
Thor and the Morrigan turned to face the huge beam together. Thor put his arms out in front of him, charging up a high concentration of lightning and electricity of high voltage and power. The Morrigan cupped her hands and charged a flashing blast of pure energy, the sphere growing brighter and bigger.
Light took approximately 8 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun. The entirety of those 8 minutes was spent powering up enough energy to counter the attack.
As the Solar Flare finally entered the atmosphere with Sol still channeling it, Thor and the Morrigan could no longer look at it directly.
But regardless, they both let out two ultimate yells of pure power and strength straight from the bottom of their hearts. Thor and the Morrigan shot forward their own massively powerful beams of lightning and energy respectively.
The two beams began to rapidly swirl and spin around one another, before merging and becoming one singular supermassive blast of power that was just as large as Sol's Solar Flare.
Sol grit her teeth as the Solar Flare collided with the attack of her two allies.
All three deities were locked in the ultimate struggle.
Their yells and shouts were made from pure, raw emotion that came from deep inside their souls.
All three of them made one final big push to end it all, emptying their energy reserves and putting all of their power into a single struggle.
The whole world felt the massive explosion.
Storms were caused all over the world. Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, everything. The world was rocked completely.
One could only assume that the Gods of each pantheon rushed to protect the people of their respective nations, struggling to contain, control, and stifle the natural forces that were a result of such an explosive battle.
Poseidon, Yemoja, He Bo, Ao Kuang, and Maui wrestling against tsunamis.
Tsukuyomi, Awilix, and Chang'e helping to control the waters with the forces of the moon.
Pele, Terra, Surtr, and Geb fighting earthquakes and super-volcanic eruptions.
Chaac, Susano, Rajin, Kukulkan, and Zeus working to ease the heavens and their violent storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
Atlas and Jormungandr helping to keep the planet's crust and integrity held together.
Ra and Amaterasu extended their hands to calm the sun.
And even down to the primordial level… Tiamat, Olorun, and Neith all ensured that the literal fibers of the planet's existence, its physical matter and place within the universe's weaves and plane… remained stable and definitive in spite of its near destruction.
The Morrigan and Thor both fell back to the Earth and crashed into the ground from exhaustion, two minor explosions of dust covered the craters they landed in.
Sol's energy rapidly faded. With the Solar Flare being her ultimate attack, she was left worn out. Her body grew dull and faint, like a firefly's light. She too fell out of the sky and cracked into the hard ground of the Earth, a small crater left in her wake.
All three Gods were back in the valley. All three of them were far too exhausted too continue fighting. None of them could move enough to reach the healing pots. What could they do besides wait a few hours for the pain to fade, for the exhaustion to deplete, and for their energy to refill?
Luckily, a glowing white figure came into their visions, providing the healing pots to their lips. As each of them drank and recovered, they all looked to see who it was.
"You three had quite the match. I was watching the entire time! Though… it went a little too far at the very end," the figure spoke.
Their voice was… feminine, yet deep. It was… calm and collected. It sounded ever so heavenly, reverberating and pulsing as it traveled through the air, sending shivers down the spines of the three combatant Gods.
"Sol, please be more cautious with your Solar Flare. If it wasn't for Thor and the Morrigan, the Earth might've taken some serious damage. Take that into account next time before you even consider doing something like this again."
They were… being reprimanded.
"But otherwise… you all looked like you had fun, right?" The white, heavenly figure said in their soft, smooth, and beautiful voice.
Thor, Sol, and the Morrigan all exchanged glances and nodded. They all watched with widened eyes and open mouths as the white figure's light faded away, revealing who it really was.
Before them stood the daughter of Zeus himself, Athena.
One of the most powerful Gods of them all, Athena, had been watching over them, knowing the inevitability of the encounter before it had even occurred.
The charming Goddess of Wisdom was holding her spear and shield. She winked at the three other Gods and smiled.
"Are any of you up for a round two? You three… versus me! It's been a while since I myself have been able to have some fun. Don't hold anything back, I'm sure I can take whatever you three have to throw at me!" Athena said cheerfully.
The heartbeats of the three other Gods increased immediately. Wide grins spread across their faces as they nodded.
The four Gods slowly rose into the sky, flying slowly. With the mood set, weapons at the ready, and energy levels ready to skyrocket, the fight was ready to start.
Athena got into position with a smirk.
"Very well… ready when you all are."
Thor, Sol, and the Morrigan got into position. With anxious, but excited smiles on their faces, all three of them spoke simultaneously:
"We'll give you our all!"
"Ready… set… BEGIN!"
I hope anyone who made it to the end enjoyed it! If you did, please let me know by leaving a a review, or comment! I'll be updating this story from time to time with more fight sequences, so… if you enjoyed, come back around sometime!
Though, you should expect that updates will be sporadic and inconsistent, as I will only update this story when I'm bored and feel like writing something cool. Anyways, till the next fight. Have a good one!