The Heroic God Slayer
Chapter 27
Okay time to get down to the fight. Also, I'm mostly going off of descriptions and details from various sources for the one foe. After all, not everything about the Mayan gods has been fully translated. Or really understood. But this will be the final part to this little jaunt and arc for Izuku and the rest. So, on with the show.
(No POV)
Marcia's eyes widened as she saw the fogs and could hear what they were doing to her people. 'This will interrupt the festival! I can't let that happen!' she thinks before saying her and Izuku's fight would have to wait. "I need to deal with the matters of these Rogue Gods." Marcia says with venom lacing her voice.
Izuku hums before narrowing his eyes. The color shifting to a grey color as Athena's authority was going active again. "Hold aneki. I might have a different suggestion." Izuku says as his eyes flicker back and forth between green and grey. Marcia shakes her head and says there's no time but Izuku catches her before she could fly off.
"We have a minute and the heroes are going to help some people. All I want you to do is hear me out. Let's change up the contest." Izuku says as the grey takes over his eyes. Marcia narrows her own eyes at this before demanding to know what Izuku was up to. "Nothing at all. Just a side effect of some of the wisdom of Athena. But more importantly, my idea for our contest."
Izuku smirks before explaining they would each take a god and whoever could defeat theirs first won. "And to make things even, I'd be willing to lend some from my side." Izuku says with a wry smirk and glint in his eyes. Marcia is surprised by this and asked what he was up to again. "I just want to finish our fight and this new one. Besides, I can't stand to hear the cries of those sick down there."
The resolve in his eyes makes Marcia falter slightly but she is willing to agree so she could help her home. "Itsuka, help with the evacuations. Momo and Xeimei, you two are with me. Mina and Reiko, help aneki with….. uh which one do you want?" Izuku says before nodding towards where they could each sense their foes.
"I'll take the one who is lazing about up there. Good luck finding the other. Vamos!" Marcia says with a smirk before grabbing Mina and gesturing for Reiko to follow her in flight. "What were you thinking Izuku!? With both of them enhanced by your powers she'll be able to take her god down in no time!" Itsuka shouted before being grabbed by Xeimei so they could leap down the mountain.
Izuku was just smirking as he picked Momo up in a princess carry. "Don't worry. It's all going according to plan," he says as they leap towards the pitch-black deity. And once they arrived, all they could see was the black fog. 'Okay then…. Time to let this guide me a bit more.' Izuku thinks quietly muttering words of power to himself.
"For your eyes see the flow of battle, and in that flow there is a pattern in the chaos. Guide me in the way to defeat the foe before me." As Izuku finishes saying that, his magic spikes and his eyes glow. Looking not just around the blocks where they god had spread his fog, but to Momo and Xeimei as well. And then he saw lights and paths shine before him. Smiling as he says, "I've got it."
With Marcia, she told Reiko to take a few shots at the god she was facing off with before dropping Mina onto the rooftop. "You will follow behind me! I know I am not your true king, but at least aid me in stopping this threat!" she orders Mina who glares at her slightly before speeding towards the pot bellied god.
"I wonder if I could fake missing this shot?" Reiko says to herself while pulling back on her bow. Turns out she doesn't need to fake it, as the god rolled over and down into his own miasmic field. Before launching another belch of gas that struck Reiko. The girl was coughing hard and careening towards a building.
"Merda!" Marcia says before catching the girl and helping her to land. "Sorry I…" Reiko starts but Marcia stops her. "I'm not entirely sure you didn't miss, but I doubt it would have been enough to really hurt or stop him anyway. You subordinate god enhancements help, but they don't make you a full Campione. Rest. I'll try to drive him into the open."
She then takes off into the fog and looks around for the god. "You shouldn't have…. Oh, you're a God Slayer," the god says in an echoey way through the fog. Before a blast of toxins are sent her way. Marcia quickly draws her fans and clears the air around her and stops the attack from the god.
Who ambles forward while picking at his ear. Marcia's nose wrinkles as she could still smell the gas that was making others crazy. As well as hearing more gurgling within her foe's stomach. And that gurgling was intensified as the god pulled a wooden flask and drank deeply from it. Before letting out a loud burp that knocked Marcia backwards.
Marcia felt almost like puking as she regained her stance and said, "nojento. Who are you?" The god coughed and patted his chest before taking another sip. "My name has been mixed and lost in time. But I was known as Acan and Ah Puch by many who believed in me." Acan said while another low burp rumbled in his chest.
Before the Brazilian God Slayer could truly engage Acan, Mina leapt in and attacked the god. Slashing with her claws as fast as she could. Acan meanwhile evaded by using his inebriated state and a few disgusting attacks to disrupt and send Mina backwards. Namely, he let out a fart that had Mina vomiting.
'So much for….. help. Well played irmãozinho. Seems that I shouldn't have lost sight of the goal.' Marcia thinks before realizing she'd walked right into Izuku's trap. Speaking of, he was currently in the black fog moving people out of the way before calling out to his foe. 'If I'm right, he might start looking at me curiously. From…. There!' Izuku thinks before thrusting his harpoon up into the air.
And it slightly impacts something or someone. Who then rolls away as he can hear a light sound of stone striking stone. He glances around before speaking again. "I already know you are here. Is there any chance you'd be willing to share your name?" Izuku asks while moving through the black fog. "What does it matter to you what my name is?" the figure asked from all around.
Izuku smiles before saying, "because I'm a God Slayer. And I figure I should at least know the name of the god I'm up against. Something of a courtesy I guess." Izuku says while walking downhill slightly. Dropping a few items behind himself as he was walking downhill and taking steady breaths of the fog.
He felt part of what he had expected as he kept walking. While also chasing and slashing at a few sounds and getting struck from behind by the god he was up against. But it didn't do much against his thick skin. "You're quite tough God Slayer. But these do not seem to be your realms. What are you doing here?" the god asked suspiciously.
Izuku shrugged and admitted he was from across the ocean and only here because of a different matter. "But now you have my attention. And I must admit, I'm curious how you've been staying hidden so well. That's odd for a Rogue God. Most of you are often very showy and obnoxious."
"Not all of us who rebel are interested in making the same kind of spectacle. Some of us are simply tired of being little more than shadows. Pale reflections of other gods, ironically in my case," the god said somewhat bitterly.
"I see." Izuku says before muttering something into a small radio piece. Then dropping a few more items behind him as his eyes glowed grey and silver again. He eventually catches onto the way the god keeps attacking and clashed his harpoon against a mirror like shield. Getting a good look at the all black body of the god.
He then punches the being in the face and sends him spiraling down a steep hill Izuku had been walking towards. The god unleashes some more black mist, but it and his original fog were disrupted by what Izuku had been dropping. Orbs of a special magic and magnesium compound that caused bright lights to cut clean through the deity's black fog.
Who while still seen as a large black form, Izuku knew something more was off as he used his shadow movement to get closer and keep attacking the god. Clashing against the shield he knew his foe had while dodging a few piece of obsidian being sent his way. 'I wonder how aneki is doing?' Izuku thinks as his plan keeps going as he expected.
The answer was….. fair? Reiko and Mina had recovered somewhat and tried to aid in fighting Acan. But his various toxic attacks and some sound/gas based were messing with their own capabilities in their enhanced forms. Marcia had been able to use Reiko by increasing the speed of her arrows with her fans, and in turn putting arrows into the leg (knee) of Acan.
And while it had caused him to cry out, there was a side effect of making him gas out hard enough to send Mina flying through a wall. "This is becoming more of a problem. If I could just keep him from unleashing gas, I could get in close to finish this!" Marcia said before dodging a blast of gas again. Rolling and spinning away from the torrents of toxins flying through the air.
"Ugh this sucks! *cough* *hack* Bad enough Xeimei jumped ahead and we got pulled into a fight with this Duchess lady! But now we've gotta deal with a disgusting gas bag who's making people crazy! I'd take dealing with Mineta over this guy!" Mina moans while getting herself out of the building she had been sent in.
And then stumbling as her legs went out from under her. "Crap. Gotta…. Gotta try to take him out or something…." Mina says while trying to shake the funny feeling from her legs and body. Only to find herself moving in directions she did not want to go. And making the god laugh at her situation.
Something Marcia took notice of before looking to Reiko and advising where to shoot next. Of course, all of the shots were to be in front of Mina to trip her up and make Acan laugh even more. And while he did let out more gas while laughing, he was also distracted.
For Izuku and his foe meanwhile, the youngest God Slayer had managed to maneuver the god closer to where he needed to be. Thanks to dropping more of the bright magic bombs that he'd had Momo and Xeimei put together quickly. "You think that would stop me!?" the god shouted from within the black mist as it was blasted away by another few mystic bombs going off.
"No, but it will keep you distracted." Izuku says as his eyes go from silver back to green. And he drops into some of the shadows made by mix of fog, light, and what mass he now knew the god had. Coming up right under his foe and stabbing him in the back before the figure clattered onto the docks of Rio.
And he could see the full tiny form of the god he was up against. "I thought as much when I first struck you. It didn't feel like there was much mass to you when you came down on me." Izuku said with a light flourish of his harpoon.
The god snarled at him as he had to crane his neck to look up at Izuku. "Fine. So you see me as I truly look. The tiny inky black god, Ixtlilton." Ixtlilton says with a snarl directed Izuku's way. But Izuku didn't look at him with contempt or see him as a joke. Instead he just needed to wait for the next steps to come into play.
And it would begin as Ixtlilton said, "did you really think it would just be easy because you got me out of my fog? I can always make more to hide in! Even if it won't affect you!" And just as he did, Izuku's wings of Horus burst from his back to push the fog away. "Oh it does affect me, it's just that I can push it back thanks to my other authorities. But the damage it did had the fun little effect that now I get my wings to counter your fog with."
Izuku pulled back with his harpoon before rushing forward and smashing against Ixtlilton's shield again and again. Finally disarming him with the point of the harpoon pulling it back and out of the god's hand. But even when he stumbled, Ixtlilton used that to get closer to the water for a lesser known aspect of his divinity.
"I am descended from Tezcatlipoca! And while he reflects sins and fates with his mirror, I reflect them in the water! You were a fool to bring me here!" Ixtlilton shouts before releasing his black essence towards the waters and making some of it raise up. Creating a fist before sending it towards Izuku.
Back with Marcia, she got more of her moment to cripple Acan as Mina kept tripping over herself. And even started slurring her words and accidentally melting things with her acid. "Be ready. Now!" she said to Reiko before directing her hands towards where Acan was coughing out a few more laughs.
The girl flying next to her fired her arrows, but Acan was only hit by a few of them. He was stopped though thanks to Marcia's other St. Sebastian authority. The Rain of Javelins. And this barrage of magically summoned weapons, pinned her foe in place and while also letting more of his gas leak out before she blew it away again. "Alright! Now to….. damn. Well played Izuku. You win this round." Marcia says before she senses events happening down at the docks.
Just as the fist of water moved towards Izuku, he tapped his harpoon on the ground. And in an instant, the control of the waters was reversed. "It may be true that you have control over water, but it is nothing compared to my control of the seas!" Izuku says before spinning his harpoon and pulling more of the sea water to him. Far more than Ixtlilton could control, as the small god had to take a step backwards.
It was then formed into blades and sent at the small god. Who tried to run by putting out more fog, but a new series of bright bombs were set off. Courtesy of Momo and Xeimei who had been waiting near the docks that Izuku had directed them to. Ixtlilton looked for another way to turn the tides, but they were more against him as the waters struck his back.
He was tossed around by Izuku's authority before being thrown into the air. "Kinda wondered how this would feel. Let's see if my aim is any good." Izuku says while spinning the weapon. Bringing it up to be thrown at his divine foe. And throw it he does with all his might. The force causing a small sonic boom and cutting Ixtlilton in half. "I win." Izuku says with a grey flash in his eyes
Marcia grumbles before flying down towards Acan in anger and annoyance. "Uh hhuhg. Oh hey ushd…. Sera fism? Marfesia? Uh…. Whassph going guck!" Mina slurred as she had been fully intoxicated thanks to the fumes she had been breathing deeply. So Marcia knocked her out while moving towards Acan.
"Enough destruction has been wrought. Time to burn and purge the evil from this world. So that life can spring forth anew from the ashes." Marcia chants while feeling her anger bubbling and a black flame engulfs her hand and arm. Acan looks up and tries to pull himself from the javelins holding him down. But Marcia doesn't give him a chance.
She rushes forward and shoves her fist…. Well it's somewhere you wouldn't want it. And starts burning the god from the inside out. Before flying up into the air as fast as she can with the god. As the gases he had bubbling inside of him due to his constant drinking were starting to ignite. Exploding high up into the air with a strange kind of flash due to the nature of the black fire. But it has the effect needed and she avoids more damage coming to her home. Looking towards the docks with a slight smile. "Seems you were wrong about that one irmão mais velho. He's more clever and now more ruthless than you thought." Marcia says to herself as the flames start to go out on her body.
This is a much weaker fight than most were hoping for or expecting (even myself). But after doing research into the two gods I'd chosen; I realized that the seriousness of the fight might be a bit lost given their natures. And I will say this is one where I'm abstaining from the Smite version of Ah Puch/Acan, because that's not what he's like in a number of other myths. Besides, it seems perfect that Marcia would gain the power of a god of booze to go with her partying. Ixtlilton meanwhile was another I had to make up more of a fight for given he's a protector god. So I went with him just putting people to a deadly sleep while wanting to get out of just being a protector.
I'll get into their new authorities next chapter as well as confirming matters with Izuku and Momo. In more than one way (thank you Marcia). I'm really sorry if this doesn't end up living up to the wait. It's my own fault for painting myself in this kind of corner due to wanting to give Izuku Ixtlilton's authority for a special piece in the future. Please review!