Chapter 20: More Powerful Than You Can Imagine
LAST TIME:
"Y-You male fiend!" She screamed and launched herself at Percy as he didn't dodge as she tackled him and rolled on the ground as she screamed at him.
"What is he talking about?" Asked Envy to Nyx.
"Oh nothing much just Chaos has a small...okay insanely large crush on Percy and likes to take photos of him and put them on a wall kind of like a stalker." She said with ease as Chaos screamed in embarrassment as you could almost see the blush reach Envy's neck as all the men cleared their throats.
"You little bitch, d-don't tell l-lies!" Screamed Chaos in anger as she switched people and lunged at Nyx as her embarrassment continued to rise. All in all you could call this moment 'the time everyone realized Chaos had a massive crush on Percy'.
NOW:
ARTEMIS POV:
My head rang in pain as if I was inside a bell and my body felt like I just went through a blender and then was lit on fire. But still I held onto my bow well what was left of my bow, it was now broken in half and sparks of silver lighting lightly bounced off the splinters that stuck out of it. The other half was completely destroyed so I was now divine weaponless, I could only sigh at the loss of my divine weapon.
"Anybody hurt?" I asked around as I looked around the area which we were at. Currently that pertained to a forest that had old growth in it. Also judging from the smell of salt water the native trees and my memory I could pinpoint our location to somewhere in Oregon by the ocean. However as I looked around at the people around me I was astonished to see what bad shape they were in.
"I think I am okay...Ow!" Zoe yelped as I looked down at her broken left leg. Currently Envy in her human form was helping her limp over to us. Envy wasn't in the best of shape either as four of her nine tails were gone. However instead of blood it only revealed stone, my guess being was since they didn't have bodies anymore Chaos made some from the stone around us for them. All in all they couldn't feel any pain and didn't have to worry about dying, us normal beings had to though.
"I am dying..." Said a male's voice as one spotless Wrath slowly walked over in his metal bindings and threw a whining Sloth on the ground. A gaping hole in his stomach as the stone looked charred inside of him. One of his wings were gone as well but I didn't really care about that much.
"Your fine." I said as I slowly slouched onto the ground and let out a long sigh as I looked down at my shattered bow. I just sighed and tossed the piece of junk behind me as Envy placed Zoe by my side.
"You okay?" I asked her as she looked down at her oddly bent leg, nothing to unusual to me since the hunters did have a tendency to break bones more often then some.
"I could be better...hey Arthur you got any magical healing items on you?" Zoe asked as I looked to see the said person sitting at the base of a tree examining his sword. He just looked up at and shook his head as he winced in pain and reached up to his neck and massaged it.
"Damn your husband packs a punch, nearly broke my neck. Ow!" He said with a wince as he reached inside his mouth and pulled out a broken tooth, but I could only feel my cheeks flush in embarrassment.
"He isn't my husband, he is my fiancé." I said as everyone rolled their eyes.
"Whatever you say, here let me help you out." Said Nyx as she used her shadow spear to hold herself up as I winced at her completely missing leg. But slowly Nyx sat down in front of Zoe and close her eyes. Slowly tentacles of shadow reached up from the ground and wrapped around Zoe's leg.
"On the count of three I am going to snap it back in place." Nyx said as Zoe nodded and seemed to prepare herself.
"One...t*snap*."
"AHHHHH!" Zoe screamed in pain as her broken leg was snapped back into place. I could only wince at the scream as the tentacles seemed to slowly wrap around her leg until they dissipated. In their wake they left a cast made of black material that seemed sturdy enough.
"That hurt." Zoe wheezed out as she pulled her good leg to her chest and starred down at her still broken one. With a quick wipe of her hand the small tears in her eyes disappeared.
"Here." Said a new voice as I turned to see Greed dragging a headless werewolf's body which he flopped on the ground. In the next instant he reached in his pocket and pulled out a stick of ambrosia and tossed it to Zoe who eagerly ate it as I looked over Greed.
"You don't look hurt." I said as he scoffed as he turned around which revealed a massive burn hole in his clothes which revealed molten rock.
"Did anybody else make it out okay?" I asked as I looked around as Chaos soon appeared in the air and slowly floated down to the ground. At the same time she opened her eyes and looked around and sighed deeply as she turned to me.
"Yeah, I did." She said as I rolled my eyes at her. She is the creator so I didn't pay much attention to her.
"As did I." Said a new voice as I turned to see Joan slowly walking forward. Her armor lightly damaged but nothing besides that. Nico quickly following behind her as I noticed him hugging his right arm as it dangled in an odd fashion. I could tell it was dislocated but he quickly popped it back in with a wince and a bite of the lips as he hissed a little at the end.
"What about Sally?" I asked not finding her amongst the group of freaks and Zoe only to not find her as Chaos slowly floated in the air and above the trees to get a look around. Slowly she came back down and shook her head as I sighed.
"Chances are her yin yang goddess of fire and ice was destroyed by Percy and he captured her while he was at it. Let me tell you that man is ruthless." Joan said as everyone shared a nod.
"So how much of the planet did he destroy?" Asked a new voice as I we all turned to see Pride slowly walk towards us, his body in his human form as he seemed unhurt.
"About 75 percent, I was lucky that I teleported us away from him when I did or we would be nothing but dust." Said Chaos as we all starred at her wide eyed. How in the hell could one mortal eliminate 75 percent of the mass on earth. Then again his form he took was...powerful, just thinking of it made me shiver.
"I thought if you die in this place you just appear in your last location before you came here. Kind of like a second life." I said as she nodded.
"Yes you do...forgot about that. But injuries remain if you don't die and that is just a setting he implemented into the system. Before when this place was used as its normal plane of glass for battles it didn't possess that. Anyways I think it is best we just surrender or at least you all because I am like all powerful and stuff." Chaos said in a voice that was more prideful than listening to Athena about a book she wrote, or worse talking about her children.
"Whatever can I just admit defeat and have my leg fixed?" Zoe asked angrily motioning to her injured leg.
"Doesn't work that way, either you die or your injuries reach a point of 50 percent or higher. Either way you won't be able to admit defeat and have your injuries healed in an instant." Chaos said as Zoe rolled her eyes.
"What am I talking to a brick wall or something? I meant you healing my injuries. You don't talk to a lot of people do you?" She said as Chaos gave her a dumb look and seemed to ignore the last part as she sent a glob of white energy into her leg as Zoe seemed to sigh thankfully and watch her leg heal.
"Back on topic how in the hell are we even breathing? I thought he destroyed the planet." I said as Chaos seemed to understand what I was getting at. She just snapped her fingers as a scream appeared before us as we all gapped at the site. On the screen was a picture of the 'fake' earth as it floated in space, or at least what was left of it, the crescent shape that was left slowly floated in place.
Molten rock could be seen floating silently in the space of the crescent massive lightning bolts going from side to side I the massive crescent. Ones so large they would make Zeus's bolts look like a spark. Each one jumping from floating debris to other debris, this alone showed the residual energy left over from Percy's attack. This sight made my heart shake in fear, I had no idea how powerful Percy truly was. This was a prime example of that.
"Oh my god." Said Arthur as he stood up and looked at the screen as his face filled with fear.
"Just how powerful is he?" Asked Joan as Chaos starred silently at the screen.
"More powerful than any god in their prime, but this is millennia of his limitless power at work. His constant evolution is something from fiction or another universe at that. But this is just how powerful he is, the sad thing about this is that he was in his lowest level of power in his Mana Overload form. I don't even want to think about him at level 10 in that form." Said Chaos as we all were just kept starring at the video of the earth.
"Just be happy I am here for you all, otherwise you all would be back in your own world in no time. Anyways I think we should all go off planet, I don't want to be here when the planet starts collapsing." Said Chaos as we all nodded as a bubble appeared around all of us as we all began to float up with great speed. In a couple minutes we could view the whole planet in awe.
"Just how big does this plane of glass?" I asked as Chaos glanced at me then back at the planet.
"It is a whole other universe but Percy decided to replicate just our solar system, see look." She said as she pointed at the distance as I looked closely to where she was pointed to see the plane of glass bellow us. Like our solar system was a massive marble and we were simple sitting upon the plane.
"Damn this place is big." Nico said as we all nodded.
"So what do we do now?" I asked as Chaos seemed to think about it.
"I can give you an answer for that." Said a voice that made us all freeze, slowly we all turned in our bubble to see a certain human floating before us. Currently his arms were covered in a platinum gauntlets that had studded knuckles and solid backs. Though it was evident the tops were thicker than the bottoms. Sticking out of each elbow was a foot long two inch wide glass cylinder that slowly rotated while sparks jumped off of both of them. Inside was a slightly glowing pure white liquid that seemed to slowly be gathering as both cylinders turned.
I knew that that liquid was mana in its purest form and both cylinders were not at they seemed. In fact both cylinders were like pistons that once full could shoot into Percy's arms to give him a massive power boost. And they simply didn't inject it, no they went inside his arms all the way and stayed inside them until all the energy was used up. It was like some sort of super battery that he could plug into himself.
It didn't end their either as on each leg sat a similar looking platinum boot was visible, simple design and thick in the front and thin in the back. However on each leg were similar cylinders on the back of his legs. However there were four of them and each of them was about an inch wide and 3 inches long. Each one lining up laterally as they all spun and gathered up pure mana. All in all it was fighting in a way but somewhat...awesome looking. I believe that is what the kids say nowadays.
"Oh Sh-!" However said cuss word didn't make it out of Lusts mouth as it was quickly clamped upon by Percy as he instantly appeared in front of her. He just gave her a sad look as her eyes seemed to in fear. Presently none of us could do anything besides Chaos but she was currently still reacting.
"Now, now, you haven't let me finish." He said as he disappeared in a flash as he didn't appear in my vision as I got goosebumps as this disturbed me. However a small breath of air was gently let out behind me as a shiver went down my back. Everyone just stared at me, well actually the person behind me, but currently that didn't mind to me. I didn't want to move in fear of what might happen as I stood there silently.
"Sorry about the bow." I heard him whisper slowly in my ears as I instantly reacted with a fist as I tried to punch him. Even with my godly speed my first was stopped with his hand like it was nothing more than a child trying to hit an adult. Quickly I reacted again as my knee raised swiftly to meet his crotch.
Unfortunately my plan was quickly discovered and stopped as a hand stopped my knee from rising. However as I tried to pull away from him I found my body stuck as he held me in place. A smug grin plastered on his face as I felt my eyebrow twitch, damn I just wanted to simply slap that expression off his face.
"Hey I was apologizing no need to hit." He said as he let go, which allowed me to strike at him again, but he was already 10 feet away from me by the time it happened. I just gritted my teeth in anger as he smiled as he glanced at everyone else.
"Come on it has only been three minutes since we started again, I even only let off one attack." He said motioning to the remains of the fake earth as it floated there in its own disaster.
"Yeah kind of went overboard there." Said Pride as Percy shot him a glance.
"Says the dragon that is big enough to hold a mountain in his hand." He said as Pride just glared at him.
"Where is Sally?" Zoe asked as Percy glanced at her then slowly at her leg. He seemed to think over his answer as he starred at Zoe's leg.
"She forfeited after I obliterated her yin yang goddess, kind of a deterrent to see your most powerful attack vaporize in an instant. Anyways I told you to be careful with your power, your body is not fully customized for it." Percy said looking at Zoe as said daughter was just starring at him with a slight amount of shame in her eyes.
"Sorry..." She said as Percy just starred and sighed.
"Well I guess you learn with experience." He said as he looked at Nico as if a hidden meaning was directed at him. The ghost king however ignored him as he rubbed his once dislocated shoulder.
"Percy not to spoil your fun but you are going to have to tune it down to our level, I don't think it would be much experience if they can't keep up with you." Chaos said as Percy slowly nodded in understand.
"Sorry it has been such a long time since I have gotten to use my Mana Overload form, kind of forgot how powerful I was even with my ever growing strength. Anyways back to normal for now." He said as he gauntlets and boots slowly began to morph until the metals slowly slid off his arms and legs until 4 metal poles slowly floated in front of him. Each one a different power type as he slowly reached out for one that was completely black or the pole arm Night.
"Why do those feel so familiar?" I asked as Percy glanced in my direction as he laughed and waved his hand as the left over rods shot towards him as they were instantly absorbed into his body. Kind of a weird site if you ask me as his skin rippled like water on a lake as they went into his body.
"Because your father and his brother each have a divine weapon made of small chunks of their metals. Since the polearms are fused to my soul and body they possess parts of my power, each represents a strong bond to a certain mana type. Metals infused with the power of Lighting, Water, Earth, and Darkness all extremely useful to gods with domains of magic that pertain to them." Percy said as he spun Night as it suddenly transformed into a belt as it instantly slid onto his pants.
"Well...that is interesting and gives rise to many more questions, but those can be asked later." I said as he smiled and laughed, slowly he nodded as he looked over all of us.
"Well seeing as Chaos is playing the parent card to make us all play nice, I guess I should ask if anybody wants to forfeit?" He said as Chaos shot him a glare that seemed like it could make a star explode.
"Yes." Said both Arthur and Joan as he nodded as they both seemed to instantly teleport outside of the realm. As they did his gaze landed on Nico as the ghost boy just glared at him and suddenly teleported out seeing as he agreed to forfeit in his mind.
"Anybody else?" He said starring at Zoe as she just raise an eyebrow as if asking him why he was staring at her.
"Zoe go." I said as she looked up at me with a face that suggested she was not going to listen to me.
"Fine get yourself hurt." I said as I heard a laugh from a certain angle with a hole in his chest.
"Good parenting there." He said but instantly he was punched by Wrath as the iron giant growled in response to his words.
"Sometimes I forget you two are still linked." Said Sloth as he glanced at Percy who help an easy expression, but Wrath punching Sloth showed that he was not as happy go lucky as he seemed to be.
"Yeah whatever you two lovebirds stop talking and get this going, I have things to do." Said Chaos as we all turned to her.
"Like what?" Percy asked as Chaos opened her mouth but stopped as she glanced at me.
"A-Artemis promised me that she would take me hunting after this." She said as my eyes went wide. Sure hunting with the creator was kind of a dream for me but did she really have nothing to do after this?
"Well...that hunt is going to be interesting, I guess we should get started." Said Percy as he seemed to buy her excuse. Chaos seemed to secretly wipe her brow as she dogged that bullet.
"By the way you are going to need this." Said Chaos as she motioned her hand to me as a new bow that looked exactly like my old one materialized in front of me. I just nodded instantly and grabbed it as I slowly inhaled.
"All of you guard us three, I have a plan." Said Chaos as she grabbed Zoe and pulled her closer to me as the 7 sins all seemed to groan at the same time. Even Gluttony who no longer had a head but still seemed to be operating.
"Remember Percy each one you defeat their soul will return to you and take away from of your power." Chaos said with a wink as Percy's face instantly grew glum as all 7 sins seemed like battling him was going to be so bad after all.
"So what's the plan?" Asked Zoe as us three floated together.
"Simple Artemis you need to activate your new powers with your domain of the moon. Zoe you are going to use your power and slowly open the rabbit ability you have to your max. Don't worry about your body being damaged I will take care of protecting you. I will also be supplying you both with as much power as you need, so no need to hold back." She said with a smile as she faced me.
"Oh don't worry I don't plan to." I said with a grin as I activated my new power.
PERCY POV:
Currently my seven parts were not being the best of sports as they threw themselves at me like a chicken in front of a semi. Professionally speaking their tactics were great, try to receive the most damaged while dishing out even more. Since each of their deaths was basically a seal in a way, to be exact each of their deaths would cause a 10 percent drop in my power. Let's just say sealing a soul as powerful as theirs was very energy consuming.
But since I promised to not use my Mana Overload form I was kind of at a loss as I focused on my task at hand. Which was trying to get Sloth to get away from me as he acted as the groups shield in a way. Each time I tried to block a strike his ugly face would pop up and stop me, but the attack would then land on me as I took damage. Lust was having a blast as the shadows of space itself attacked me with a vast array of attacks.
Spears, arrows, dark energy beams, cages, even shadow animals, and let's just say I am tired of prying a shadow squirrel off my body. Wrath basically stood in the back doing nothing as I sensed him providing the others energy. Not a bad idea since he could take trickles of my energy from me, damn monster. Envy was strategically doing a hit and run tactic as her body began a flash of light itself as she took her true form a nine tailed fox.
"You guys suck." I said as I snapped the neck of a shadow dog with ease as I gave Sloth a glare that made him stop for a second but then continue to banter me with his ugly face. I effectively got him out of my face by head-butting him, though the instant I did I felt a deadly presence behind me. It was so fast it was nearly instantaneous, with my currently mind set I was not ready.
In that instant my instincts took over and I could not stop them, in a flash of darkness I reappeared behind the individual. Both hands struck forward and pierced the persons back as I ripped them apart from the middle. I blinked suddenly as I looked at the person as I saw the body of Gluttony twitch on the ground. After a second his body stopped twitching and his body turned to dust. Suddenly I felt my power decrease as his soul reentered my body.
"Shit." I said as I heard a laugh from a familiar voice as I turned to see Greed standing there with a gemstone in his hand. I just inwardly sighed as I recognized that power he just used. I call it 'counterfeit', basically it swaps any gem with something in his hands in the effective range of 10 yards. Basically he tossed the gemstone in his hand behind me and traded Gluttony for it. If you had to ask Greed was second to none in his devious tactics and smarts, he is a devil after all.
"I wouldn't stop moving if I were you." He said as he tossed the gem at but I was ready with a counter attack as I caught the gem. It was the one weakness of his power, he had to see the gem to activate the power. However as I grabbed it I felt it grow warm very quickly in my hand as I felt the power stored in the gem begin to unleash. Greed even took the chance to rush me as he pulled out a whip made entirely of molten gold.
I quickly threw the gem as hard as I could into the distance, unfortunately the instant I did the gem disappeared and was replaced by Greed himself. With the tip of an invisible hat from Greed I turned to see a gem mid explosion about 2 feet from me. I just gritted my teeth and crossed my arms over my face as the explosion erupted in front of me. The explosion itself had the power of what felt like a nuclear blast as I was sent flying into the distance.
I was mostly unhurt because I wrapped myself in my elemental shield, but I knew their plan was mostly to slow me down before hurt me. Even if that mean decreasing my power. However I just gritted my teeth and faced the reaming 6 sins as they all floated in front of me about 100 yards. Wrath and Pride in the back Nyx in middle and Envy, Greed, and Sloth in front. Each clearly damaged from the explosion just a second ago as I saw the light finally dissipate.
"Do you have a few more of those?" Asked Envy as Greed glanced at her and tossed one to her, in her current fox form she stood larger than most horses. Her fur was a glossy white and her face had a sleek beautiful look to it like it was royalty. But a couple of her tail were gone which kind of ruined the look. But the instant the gem was in the air she seemed to ready herself as she leaned back as her already sleek eyes narrowed.
I just starred at them as Nyx kept summoned things in waves currently she had gathered up a massive storm of nearly a million spear as they all spun the space around me. I just slowly let out a breath as I watched the gem slowly descend like a coin. Greed pulled out his whip and Sloth slowly began to glow as a halo slowly appeared above his head. Instantly 6 white wings exploded out his back.
"Go!" Sloth said as all three of them rushed me as the shadow spear descended as well. Each of them coming at me with great speed but to me right now since I straightened out my mind was like a normal person running. Except Envy as she was still much faster as I lost track of her a few times.
"Forbidden 11th tier fire mana skill, supernova." I whispered as I felt the mana around me explode, if you must ask a 11th tier mana skills do exist however they are so powerful that they are called the forbidden tier. As the name suggests that they are forbidden to perform for any mana user. However in desperate times a group can be permitted by the mana association to use one, and yes normally it takes a group of 30 grandmaster tier mana users to even use one forbidden spell.
However thanks to me being far beyond a grandmaster mana user I can single handily use any tier 11 spells on my own whim. However as the spell activated a bright flash occurred a few feet in front of me as I focused. Slowly the light ended as in the middle was a ball of pure red light, however the red light was very dim compared to when it appeared. I just extended my hand and focused on the ball as it began to start working.
"Oh crap he is using a tier 11 skill!" Yelled Greed as his face instantly changed to fear as the ball still grew in my care. Instantly everyone seemed to go faster as I closed my eyes as I sense their positions around me. To me it was like a minute but to them it was only a second as they all reached me as I opened my eyes.
"Explode!" I said as the orb reacted, in an instant a massive concentrated beam of pure and raw power exploded out in front of me as I felt my arm shake. The beam alone was the size of the moon but it was still growing as it lashed out in front of me and towards the 6. I just watched the beam go on and on as it seemed to reach the fake sun in the solar system I made. As it did the beam slowly dissipated until a massive suction force emitted from the path of the beam.
It was strong even to the point I was slowly moving towards it as the tunnel of pure vacuum inhaled the very atoms of the elements that were wondering around in space inside. Eventually after a minute a massive cylinder of debris was now situated in a massive line expanding a massive distance.
"Shit I barely escaped that." Said a voice as I turned to see what was left of Nyx as half her body was completely one, the only remains were a torso as I looked at her floating body. As I starred at her I felt my energy lessen as 4 more souls piled onto the already one. Effectively 50 percent of my true power was sealed, though at full power I was a scary force to be reckoned with. Order himself said that when we dueled one another.
"How much mana did you pour into that?" She asked me as I floated towards her as I looked around to find Wrath still silently floating in the trail of the beam completely unharmed. Well I guess that armor is basically pure fire resistance since it grows stronger the more heat is applied. Actually I would be surprised if that even affected him at all. Yet still he did nothing as he starred into nothing.
"Enough to power 10 tier 11 mana spells." I said as she let out a light laugh.
"Figures that the monster would go overkill." She said as I chuckled myself as I reached out and tapped her forehead, instantly her body dissolved and her soul returned to me. Instantly another ten percent of my power was locked as it all piled onto to sixty percent sealed.
"So what now?" I asked as Wrath didn't respond as he still had his arms crossed.
"Well your now fun." I said.
"Hey! Monster man!" A familiar female voice said as I turned to see Artemis floating about 4 football fields away.
"I prefer Percy, or do I have to start to start calling you Moonbeam." I said as she didn't respond, I didn't even get an eyebrow twitch from her. Damnit, she was serious.
"Whatever you say, but I was just letting you know I was ready." She said as I nodded.
"So tell me Artemis what are these new powers you have?" I asked as she gave a small smile.
"I am glad you asked." She said as she snapped her fingers as suddenly rocks from the area around us began to gather around her into small spheres. Slowly at first then it skyrocketed until maybe a million or so globs stood behind her. My guess most of this power was coming from a outside source but I didn't complain
"Damn." I said with a whistle as she laughed as she pointed her finger at me.
"This is one of the two skills I unlocked, this one is called, or what Chaos liked to call 'battle moon', need to come up with a better name...give me a mintue." She said as suddenly all the globs began to shine and shift until each one resembles the very moon Artemis was in charge of. My eyes just widened in surprised as each moon began to shoot towards me like an arrow. The only thing was that there were millions of them.
"Oh by the way sometimes the rays of the moon can be deadly." She said with a shrug as suddenly some of the basketball sized moons began to glow. As they did they shot off foot long beams of moon light that didn't look to comfortable to be hit by. I just gulped as I raised my defenses as they came at me like a swarm of drones. Each capable of highly complicated movements and shooting laser.
I could only grin as I threw up a mana shield as the horde of them surrounded me as all of them left behind trails of silver in the blackness of space. Lasers pelted my shield as it quickly began to crumble, however this gave me time to observe the trails and firing patterns of battle moons. But as I read them I didn't see a single pattern, they were all random, ever single beam, sharp movement, and patter in general.
I even fired a few tier 1 moves at them and they all dodge them with great speeds, my estimate was each one could reach the speed of about 2000 mph. I just continued to grin as I realized just how powerful this skill it was, even if it cost massive amounts of power for this massive of a scale. But I finally managed to hit one and suddenly it stopped and began to spin rapidly at the same time it began to shine brighter than before as it suddenly charged me.
I only had time to destroy it a few yards from me since they all kept about a 100 yard radius around me. But as it exploded it was a much larger explosion than I imagine as a huge amount of cracks appeared in my shield. That effetely had the explosive force of a tactical bucker buster missile. Oh this was just going to be the best day ever.
"Oh I got a better name." Said Artemis with a snap of her fingers as she smiled.
"Hunters of Moonlight." She said with large smile as I chuckled.
"Hunters of Moonlight, fitting, both these and the hunters are erratic, powerful, can explode on you at any moment, and above all else dedicated to serving their mistress." I said as my shield finally gave in.
Go ahead and review and don't worry about the beginning of the fight I will throw that in a flashback for Artemis next chapter or the one after that. Depends on how long It will take to complete this fight.
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