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 two 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 shifted 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. 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 their opponent out 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 fog generated by the deity within. 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 the 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 potbellied 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. Your 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. As well as fighting her in a way one could describe as drunken boxing. Kicking her through a wall was a wobbly spin.
'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. But this wouldn't deter the second oldest of the Campione. Especially as Acan let out a bit of magic and with a breath of a new kind of gas started something new.
That being raising up a few of those who had been knocked out by his toxic mist and commanding them to attack. "Great. Well, it's not the festival I was hoping for. But maybe I can find a rhythm to all of this." Marcia thinks aloud while bringing her fans closed. Shutting her eyes as well while listening to the steps and a few moans from the intoxicated citizens.
Smirking as she could catch a beat and started "air drumming" with her fans. Drawing a confused eye from Acan until she started to move. As one person swiped at her, Marcia evaded with a dance like spin. Smacking the person in the face with her fan before coming around with a hit to the top of their head. As another came at her from behind, she easily side stepped and then caught the zombie like person with a pair or kicks to the chest and head. Before being struck once more by her fans.
She then gripped the arm of the person (a woman) and danced with her and used both their bodies to smack around more of the controlled citizens. While also creating gusts of wind with fanciful sweeps of her fan. As Reiko looked on, she swore she could almost hear the sound of a guitar playing as the Duchess spun around through the waves of foes.
"I must compliment your light feet. But what do you hope to achieve? And why have you not gone about just eliminating all of my thralls?" Acan questioned before taking another drink. Marcia kept her eyes closed as she wove through the crowds, shifting flirtatious sways of her hips as she moved. Her fans swinging and striking those in the crowd as she continued to move. And setting up something special.
After she had moved all around Acan, much to the god's confusion, Marcia was ready. "It was not just because I found the beat that I could enjoy some of my fight to. It was for this!" As she was saying that Marcia struck the ground and completed a magic circle. "I must thank meu irmão mais velho. After all, he made it to where teleportation magic is far more accessible." Marcia said and the spell ran it's course. Teleporting all of the humans away from the battle and removing Acan's thralls.
Which shocked the god before unleashing a deadly burst of breath at the Campione. "You went to all that trouble just to rescue them!? Campione have grown soft!" he snarled before trying to use some ghastly breath to poison her again. Only to be shocked as her fans blew back the waves of toxins he was unleashing. "Its no fun partying alone. And I'd rather prefer to continue enjoying the parties among my people," she said with a quick snap of her fans.
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. Making impressive flourishes as she leapt and slide along the streets as well as flying.
"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 into by an attack.
Acan was getting more furious as the fight went on. And he grew even more irate when Reiko managed to impact his chest and necklace of skulls. Cutting the accessory off before hitting him in the knees again. "Enough of this! Let us see how you handle those from the lowest pits of Xibalba!" Acan shouts before slamming his booze on the ground.
And as he did, a handful of specters started to rise from the earth. With more appearing as Acan's magic was building. Each looking burned or drowned from his treatment of their souls. Some even looking like modern humans with the appearances showing a number with quirks. And each one was now controlled by the god as tools to fight Marcia and the girls.
Reiko was shocked by this but quickly went about firing arrow after arrow at the beings as they started attacking. Mina had to shake her head a few times before slashing with her claws to cut down as many of the wraiths as they came at her. "This is so freaky!" she shouted before coughing at the gasses filling the area and her lungs.
Marcia meanwhile was battering and blasting the beings as best she could. Striking with barrages of kicks before unleashing wind blades from her fans. "Shine bright as the gleaming stars!" she called out before a number of beams of white light poured down on the beings. With some of the light coming from her wings as well and clearing away the darkness. 'If only I hadn't used my Raksha blades already. I could use them on my feet for more damage,' she thought while considering the other drawback of that authority. Not only did it need to consume a target or herself, but it could only be used once every 24 hours.
There was one benefit to all of this though. Between a few wild charges from the ghosts and Mina, not to mention her own misfired beams of light, there was a fair amount of destruction being caused to her home. And it would strengthen her coup de gras. "It does me little good though when I'm being swarmed and I don't want it going out of control." Marcia thought aloud before hearing a different crash to her side.
Mina stumbled as her legs went out from under her and she rolled through a door and then a wall. "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 while trying to stay stone faced, Acan couldn't help but find himself amused by the funny "human". Chuckling and then laughing at her clumsy bits of slapstick. Including one where she fell to the ground and started "running" on her side. Eventually looking like a pink top as she spun on the ground.
Something Marcia took notice of (while stifling her own laughter) before looking at 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 and didn't notice when Marcia sealed up his portals to Xibalba.
And 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. Slipping as she tried to get her feet under her. Marcia took to the skies and narrowed her gaze at the rogue god. "Be ready. Now!" Marcia 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. "What!?" he shouted in shock as the shafts were flying down towards him. And with 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.
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. Her dark flames building up in her as she moved forward to finish her foe.
"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. "Let us see how you like being burned like this from the inside," she mutters while thinking on what little she knew of the various gods of Maya. 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 at first. Aside from being an evil deity, it seemed perfect that Marcia would gain the power of a god of booze to go with her partying.
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!