The War IV: Universal Power Battle - New Gen
She took deep, quick breaths. Gaea looked up to Apoth, a smirk covering her face. Apoth shook his head, "You've made a mistake calling them here Gaea."
Flashes of immensely bright levels appeared behind Gaea, Apoth looked on in interest and honestly a little bit of fear. These beings all together proved to be the rulers of the Universe.
The brightness began to fade and revealed 10 glowing figures behind Gaea. Apoth growled at the sight.
Gaea smirked, "Apoth, let me introduce you to Ouranos, Pontus, Erebus, Nyx, Thalassa, Aether, Hemera, Eros, Ananke, and Chronos. The Primordials."
The beings all radiated with unimaginable power. Apoth growled, "You are all so pathetic, needing to summon the whole of the Primordial Council to challenge me."
Gaea smirked, "Don't try and play that game with me Apoth, I know how much power I need to get rid of you, and I am willing to turn in all my favors to get rid of such an obstacle as you."
Apoth shook his head, "You made a bad choice than Gaea." Gaea grinned, "No matter, as long as you will be put in your place," Gaea took a step forward and rose her clenched fist, "Below my foot and begging for me to spare you."
Gaea walked back to her spot before noticing Nyx had a look of confusion on her face, "Nyx, what is the problem?"
Nyx shook her head, "Tartarus is not present, he should be here to destroy those who he very much despises." Pontus nodded his head in agreement, "Yes, that is quite... unusual. Even for him."
Hemera snorted, "No worries, he is probably in that hole in the ground of his, brooding that I didn't give myself to him."
Erebus grinned and looked to Apoth, "It is no matter," The shadows bent to his will as they thickened, "We deal with the mortal and then go find hole man."
Gaea shook her head, a serious expression over her face, "No, as much as I hate to not do that I believe it is only respectful to allow Tartarus to at least enjoy a little bit of fun, get out a little bit."
The Primordials all nodded. Each and every one of them took a stance and murmured a chant as their symbol was burned into the ground. Time passed and Tartarus still hadn't responded. Apoth giggled at the sight, this would take a while. Surprisingly to him, Aether heard his giggle and broke out of his chant to look at Apoth.
Apoth couldn't help but smirk at the Primordial, which proved to anger the Primordial. Aether got back into a stance but Apoth could tell he wasn't as focused. Apoth smiled, he must've gotten into Aether's head.
A minute passed before Aether growled and turned to Apoth with a glare, "Why do you smile? Is death that much of a joke to you? I will personally send you to the cruelest of tortures!" He screamed as he charged Apoth with a spear of light in front of him.
Aether's battle cry shook the Primordials out of their chant as they turned to the imminent battle. Gaea saw Apoth smirk and her eyes widened, "No! Aether don't!" she warned.
But it was much too late, Aether had already shoved his spear towards Apoth's midsection. Apoth dodged like lightning and teleported behind the Primordial. Apoth flexed his finger as a hidden blade popped out and was shoved into Aether's back, causing the Primordial to scream in pain as he fell to the ground.
Apoth looked to the other Primordials, his grin growing. A black aura wrapped itself around his hand as he threw it to the ground, creating an unbreakable dark dome around himself and Aether. The Primordials ran to the dome but couldn't break through or even see in. They tried to fire their powers at the dome but the dome just absorbed it and glowed a faint purple.
Thalassa pounded her fists against the dome as she tried to barge in. Ananke put her hand on Thalassa's shoulder causing the Primordial Goddess to turn to Ananke. Ananke shook her head. Thalassa looked down but a mask of anger started to show on her face, "I will make that mortal pay for what he has done. Can he not see how much bad the Gods are doing?"
The Primordials present agreed with her. They would make sure to destroy the mortal, with or without the help of Tartarus.
Aether stood up, anger coursing through him. He whipped around to see that Apoth was frowning at Aether. "What has Gaea done to make you support her?"
Aether growled, "A lot more than you could understand mortal. Now surrender yourself and we might not torture you for eternity."
Apoth shook his head, both hidden blades popping out of their hiding places in Apoth's gauntlets. Aether growled and pulled out a sword and shield made entirely out of light. To Aether's surprise, Apoth disappeared from sight and teleported right in front of him. Apoth smiled, "C'mon than 'oh so great Primordial', try and kill me, I dare you."
Aether grinned, "Fine by me." Aether's sword glowed brightly before he stabbed his sword into Apoth's chest. Aether started to laugh, he twisted the sword as it made a sickening noise.
The Primordial ruthlessly ripped the sword out of Apoth's chest. He waited for the mortal to fall to the ground but to his fearful surprise, the mortal just smirked at him. Apoth took a step towards Aether, his wound already healing. "Now... that tickled my lord. Why don't I give it a try to you."
Apoth reappeared behind Aether and lodged both blades into Aether's back. Aether gasped in pain, silver ichor flooding out of his back. Apoth leaned into Aether, his mouth right next to the Primordials ear, "You never had a chance, just like Tartarus."
Aether's eyes widened and his pupils shrunk as he realized the mortal had been toying with him the entire time. Apoth chuckled and leaned back, now happy that the Primordial realized what happened.
Apoth tapped Aether's back with a hand, all the ichor in Aether's body rushed towards his hand, entirely emptying the Primordial. Aether fell to the ground his body now dried of ichor. Apoth let the ichor that was floating in front of him fall to the ground. He rolled his shoulders, stretching a little bit for the imminent work out against the Primordials.
Apoth snapped his finger and the dome slowly opened from the top, letting the moonlight cast itself onto him. The Primordials gasped at the sight of the bone-dry immortal. No doubt that he would be asleep for a long time. Thankfully Aether hadn't faded as his body was still present.
Chronus growled, "It is time for you to die." The Primordials nodded their heads, all eager to get their hands on Apoth.
Chronus looked to his fellow Primordials and then back to Apoth, "Your time has run out."
Apoth looked at him weirdly. Chronus smiled, "Past, Future, Present, your lifespan is ticking like an hourglass because your lifespan has a time limit and the alarm has just sounded.
"Because it is tim-"
"Dude shut up! I get it, you're the Primordial of time, that doesn't mean you have to make time jokes. By all, your jokes are so shit, they are literally putting a time limit on how long I am gonna let you live!" Apoth screamed in frustration.
Gaea growled as she turned to the monster army, "Charge the filthy mortal!" She screamed. Thousands of screams and roars of the monsters answered her battle call.
The 3,000 some monsters charged Apoth, ready to take down their once leader. Apoth growled, his form of Death taking over. Dark black armor covered his body as he charged the monsters.
He unsheathed both scythes as his speed increased, leaving what seemed a trail of fire. "Death accepts your offer!" His demonic voice screamed as he charged into the heart of the army.
He slammed his armored boot into the ground, causing multiple fissures in the earth, swallowing many of his new enemies. Apoth's scythes glowed red as he massacred the monster army. Slicing and stabbing, he was literally hell upon Earth. "WHY DON'T I SHOW YOU WHY I AM ABLE TO TEAR PRIMORDIALS APART! Apoth screamed.
He sheathed his scythes, his hands and eyes starting to glow red. He clapped his hands together as what seemed like a sonic boom of red energy blasted all of the Primordials armies away into dust. Apoth's eyes and hands stopped glowing as he surveyed the damage he had done to Gaea's army. He would've smiled had he not been in such a terrible mood.
Apoth growled and turned to the Primordials who seemed to be in a state of shock. Apoth snarled and charged the Primordials, he would rip them apart, piece by piece. Apoth's speed increased as he charged the first Primordial his eyes landed on; Ouranos. The Primordial narrowed his eyes as he saw that Apoth was approaching him. Apoth unsheathed his scythes and in one motion moved to decapitate the Primordial simple and easy. But, before he could land his strike he was sent flying back by a blast of pure energy.
Apoth was sent tumbling into a nearby camp cabin. He wasted no time getting up and charging again. His eyes locked with Eros, he must've been the one to blast him. Apoth teleported behind the Primordial, his leg glowed black as he kicked the Primordial in the temple, making him fly towards the Big House. Before Apoth could even process his attack he was struck from behind by another blast of pure energy. Apoth went hurdling into another cabin.
He was surprised to find his nose bleeding. Apoth growled, their attacks could actually hurt him. He pulled a single scythe out and teleported back to where Ananke stood. Apoth slashed at her shoulder narrowly missing as she seemed to move at unimaginable speed. Apoth growled, 'Primordial of fate, of course, she knows my next move.'
Apoth turned around as he blocked a blast of lighting from Ouranos with his scythe, he flipped over a beam of light and hurled his scythe over at the direction of where the beam of light came from. He smirked as he heard a female scream and the sound of his scythe digging its way into Hemera. Apoth turned to his left to find Pontus and Gaea charging him.
Pontus' hand glowed blue and a blast of water streamed towards him. At the same time, Gaea's eyes glowed brown as the earth behind her was hurled at the mortal. Apoth consumed the water, it basically coating him like a second skin around his armor and cloak. The infinite strength technique took effect as Apoth caused the incoming earth to turn around and hit both Primordials.
A sword of yellow energy impaled Apoth's back, going right through the other side. Apoth coughed as the yellow energy started to heat up, he flipped over the owner of the yellow blade.
Midair he removed the sword from his gut. He landed gracefully and stuck the sword into Chronos' back just like he had done to Apoth. Apoth twisted the blade of time, making the Primordial of time scream in pain. Apoth kicked the hilt of the blade as it went all the way through the Primordial, exiting through Chronos' stomach and sticking into a nearby tree.
Apoth caught a dagger made entirely out of shadows in his left hand, and then caught an arrow made out of the night in his right hand. Apoth's hands glowed red as he threw the ball of energy into the sky. The red ball exploded and casted a light over the entire woods, providing Apoth with enough vision to spot the Primordials of Night and Shadows.
As he was about to charge towards them he was blasted by more energy, throwing him into a tree. He coughed out some blood, the blast not hurting as much due to his infinite strength technique.
Before he could even stand up 9 flashes appeared before him. Gaea, Thalassa, Pontus, Chronos, Nyx, Erebus, Hemera, Ananke, and Ouranos appeared in front of him.
They didn't even say anything as all of them focused a beam of energy and threw it at him. A cage of energy appeared and wrapped around the mortal, imprisoning him in the energy of 9 Primordials. Apoth growled. He struggled to move but couldn't do anything. He tried to use his powers, any of them, but the chains seemed to negate all of his abilities.
Gaea stepped up and laughed when she saw Apoth tied up in front of her. "You see Apoth, you never had a chance."
Apoth's only response was to snarl at the Earth Primordial. Gaea shook her head, "I hate to see you this way Apoth, but alas, drastic measures had to be taken."
She bent down on a knee as she leaned to whisper in his ear, "And now, you can watch as I take everything away from you; starting with all of your powers."
Apoth's eyes widened and his pupils shrunk, 'she couldn't do that could she? That's impossible!' He struggled in his bonds, fear evident in his eyes.
The Primordials all laughed as they took a stance. They grabbed each other's hands, murmuring in a language Apoth couldn't understand. He struggled harder and harder but couldn't get out. Gaea's eyes glowed green, a green beam connecting with Apoth's body. Apoth screamed in pain. It felt like boiling liquids of acid strangling his soul. Seconds later 8 other beams joined as they tore into Apoth.
His screams were drowned out as the roar of the beams filled his eardrums. It seemed to last forever but before he knew it, the pain vanished and the bright light died down. To say Apoth felt like shit was an understatement. It felt like he had just crashed from a sugar high, and woke up hungover.
His limbs were numb and the chains around him still held him tightly. Gaea cackled as she now saw the weakened Apoth before her. Apoth's stomach churned, and it felt like something from within himself was missing. He couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe how weak he was. 'How?' The question swirled around in his head.
"How? How did you do it?" Apoth croaked, the tiredness in his voice could easily be heard. Gaea smirked, "It doesn't matter how I did it, it matters that I did do it."
Gaea slowly walked over to Apoth. She pulled his hood down and leaned into his ear again, "Now beg, beg for your life."
Apoth shook his head, "I will never bow down to someone as such as you," He snarled back.
Gaea smirked, "That's just what I wanted to hear. Now, punishments are in order, I will make sure to break you from the inside."
Apoth smirked back at her, "Nothing can break me." But a voice broke through to deny his statement, "Possibly, but I have an idea." Apoth's head whipped around to see Eros standing, with a terrified Artemis in his grasp.
She was struggling to breathe, scratching at Eros' grasp. Her face was scratched up and matted with dirt.
Apoth snarled, "You bastard! I'll kill you." Eros smiled, "Ah, I see. Gaea, it does seem we have something that can get through our mortal friend."
Gaea smiled evilly, "Yes, yes we do." Gaea took Artemis by the neck and brought her over to Apoth, she threw the Moon Goddess at the ground in front of Apoth.
Apoth shook his head tears spilling down his face, "No. GAEA! You can't do this, take me instead." Gaea smirked as she approached Artemis.
Artemis got on her knees as she turned to Apoth, her hands caressed his face, "Perseus, I need you to know. I love you. I love you Perseus. I lov-" Her sentence was ripped off as a giant earth spike was shoved through her stomach.
The life in her eyes quickly faded away as she collapsed onto the ground. Apoth looked to her body, tears clouding his vision. He heard the laughs of the Primordials. His binds fell, allowing him to move. He quickly rushed over to Artemis' now dead body. He shook his head, not believing what had happened as he held her body.
Her body flickered. Apoth's eyes widened, she was fading. Apoth screamed, he set her down and rushed at the Primordials. Rage powering him. The Primordials laughed in his face as he was punched backward towards Artemis' body.
Apoth struggled to get up, pain enveloping his body. He reached out to take Artemis' hand. He grabbed her body as he cried into her shoulder. Minutes passed as her body flickered more and more, the laughs of the Primordials drowning his ears.
Apoth's crying had stopped, only silent whimpers coming out now and then. But then there was that one moment, that one moment, and she was gone. Her body disappeared and never came back. Apoth held no reaction as he held nothing but air. He kept thinking she would come back. But she never did. His head fell as he looked to the ground. Anger... so much anger. Rage and fury. His body heated up with hate, just so much hate for the Primordials. Hate to himself.
He heard someone's footsteps approach him, their laughs itching him to fight them. But Apoth wouldn't budge. "You are a monster. You are nothing compared to us," they spoke. Apoth's hate, his pain, his anger was fuelled by the words.
"You are powerless to stop us, you couldn't even save the one you loved. But the funniest part about this," The Primordial leaned in and whispered in Apoth's ear, "It was all your fault."
That was when Apoth lost it and blacked out.