Burning Tears-Chapter 22
Theme Song: "The Phoenix" by Fall Out Boy
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Meanwhile, In Indonesia...
"He's getting stronger- umphawgh!"
Iblis shoved his clawed hand through Anubis's stomach and tore it right back out. This strike was planned accordingly, as Iblis was aware ahead of time that Satan had injured Anubis last week in the same area. Anubis suddenly felt weak, then lost his flight balance as he plummeted back to down to Earth with a trail of blood spilling out. Horus sensed the familiar life energy dramatically degrade in potency and flew to its direction upon the snapping of trees and the loud thud to finish.
Horus landed before Anubis in concern for his brother, "Anubis!"
"Look out!"
Horus had reacted on reflex and crossed his arms over himself to shield him and Anubis from the cascade of Iblis's inferno breath. Horus almost tipped over from its oppressive force and decided to leverage his block by getting to his feet.
"Horus,-"
"I will be fine!" Horus assured Anubis.
Horus doubted this, as he began to feel the burning of the fire seep through his bejeweled arm guards. He was seconds away from letting loose to burn alive, but the barrage ceased abruptly. Horus uncrossed his steaming red arms to see Ares had just flown in and tackled the blue devil back down and through the side of a skyscraper. The two crashed on the opposite side and Ares quickly rolled off Iblis, as Yama had just arrived on time to gore Iblis with his bull. The bull continued its stampede while it had Iblis hanging from its horns, then it banked to the left and drove Iblis through consecutive rows of street light poles. When they reached the intersection, Iblis decided to grasp one of the horns, and with a quick tug, the whole horn was ripped off the bull's head, causing it to stop and bounce around out of control. When it perched itself on its hind legs, Iblis took the chance to force himself off the other horn and fall onto Yama, both of them falling off while the bull retreated down the road.
Yama through a fist, but Iblis caught it and crushed his hand. Iblis snickered and swiped his claws across Yama's round stomach, adding to the torture. Iblis raised a hand again, but he sensed someone behind him and quickly reacted by thrashing behind him and heavily scraped Ares across his face. Ares stepped back and to bellow to the sky and stop the bleeding on his face. Then, Iblis hopped on his back and pulled off Ares' helmet and sunk his teeth deep into the god's cranium.
Ares tucked forth and threw Iblis from his shoulder, but the lean blue demon rolled in the air and landed as perfect as a cat- and like so, he hissed at a blinded Ares and pounced forth, but was unexpectedly shot out of the air. A bullet penetrated his shoulder and its force knocked him away from Ares in mid-air. Iblis landed sloppily, stunned by the stinging pain he has never felt before.
Like a blur, someone appeared in front of him. His vision switched to above him and was appalled at the hand with a gun barrel protruding from its palm- the hand of The Black Phoenix. Iblis frowned and threw another heavy claw at Nathan's leg, but as soon as he cut a gash on his leg, it sealed completely just a second later.
Another unforgiving bullet shot out of Nathan's hand and Iblis's body flipped backwards onto his face. Nathan then took a step forward and stomped an angry foot onto Iblis's head with a strength that caved the road below him. Nathan then picked him by his neck, his broad phoenix-wings appeared and he flew up in the air with him. While flying up, Nathan held Iblis above him and threw punches hard enough to send Iblis higher and higher to the sky, with blows that were sonorous enough to ring in people's ears and shake nearby buildings. Nathan then ended off by shoving his knee into Iblis's chest to hold him in place, as they were now touching the polluted clouds.
Iblis vomited a downpour of blue blood with this, and could not even move himself off Nathan. Nathan threw him up a little bit higher and violet blade-shaped fire engulfed his arms. Nathan then stabbed an arm-Blazer into Iblis's chest, then the other, then the other again, and proceeded in relentless and rapid succession too fast for the human eye to try and count the amount of stabs there were, as blue blood splashed out over him and rained down to the earth. Nathan ceased his onslaught when he felt Iblis' body was softened enough, then let him fall defenselessly back to ground-level.
Nathan's arms burned brighter and more ferociously now. "YOU DIE, NOW!"
His wings shout out again and he pushed his direction towards the plummeting Iblis who was nearing the ground again. Nathan then increased his speed, as it now looked like he was cutting through the wind with effortless speed. Nathan crossed his arms, readying himself, and finally reaching Iblis, he violently slashed out his arms, front-flipped over, and landed on his feet with a force to rock the ground below. Seconds later, Iblis's body smacked into the ground beside him, then his decapitated head soon after, fading into nothing. Iblis was no longer.
Horus had just arrived with Anubis's arm over his shoulder, with Yama following after with his injured bull by his side, and Ares with a bloodied face, holding an eye.
"Such raw power! I've never seen such before, not even from this spirit!" said Yama.
"The spirit's power relies on rage and vengeance; the more reason there is to tempt it, the more powerful it becomes." noted Ares.
"Take us to America." said Nathan, extinguishing his arms.
Horus raised his staff and everyone blinked away in a golden light.
In The USA...
Poseidon was held deep in Cronus's sickle, weak and helpless as he bled out from this abdomen. Cronus raised the blade and grinned with malice:
"This time, no one will save you when I consume all three of you!"
Cronus pinched Poseidon's body and slid him off the blade. He opened his mouth and moved his hand above to release Poseidon into it, but Geo was back in the fight again and flew in to plant a critical punch on Cronus's gut. Cronus jerked forward and released Poseidon to fall on his own. Zeus saw him from far and shapeshifted into his signature eagle to catch his brother. Cronus saw Geo and smacked him out of the air and through several buildings.
Zeus was near Poseidon for the catch, but Satan had flown in from above and dive-bombed horns-first into Zeus's brown speckled wings, tearing through the limb and causing him to spin out of control with Poseidon in his talons. Before the two crashed, Satan had pried himself off on time and fled the scene, but Hades had just rode in on his Cerberus and the two side heads caught the gods with a painless bite. Hades caught Poseidon's trident and held it with his own, pointed both of them outwards, and the Cerberus ran between Cronus's legs allowing Hades to slice through the ankles with both blades.
Cronus let out a deep groan and knelt down to the ground with the stinging pain. Hades continued down the road with his brothers, but did not react quick enough when the sudden flame appeared ahead. The Cerberus tried stopping to retreat, but Satan had already put a halt to the beast when he stabbed his pitchfork into its chest. The snake-tail stretched to the front and Satan caught it by its fangs. He pulled it to himself releasing the pitchfork, and began spinning around with it, twirling around the enormous canine by its tail. Hades gained some balance while being spun around and aimed his own pitchfork carefully towards the center. He pulled back and released for the throw, but Satan just hoisted him and Cerberus across the city, ripping the purple snake off its rear.
Satan turned back to help Cronus, but didn't realize Hades completed his attack as the dual-pronged fork struck him through the side of his head. He tipped over onto his side, cursing Hades even though the latter had it worse.
From behind, a spear was driven into his back when Athena front-flipped in front of Satan, who now had two weapons in his body. Athena held him close and threw a clean right hook across his face, launched her forehead onto his nose, then straight kicked him onto the floor. She crouched and leaned with her back flat, then Adrianna from behind stepped and hopped off her back, roaring out and landing on Satan with her blade piercing his crotch.
Satan retreated in flames to escape from the bombardment of attacks. Adrianna tried to stand, but fell on her rear.
"That was a bad landing." she told Athena.
"I was surprised you were able to make the jump. Did you feel your bones shift?" the goddess asked.
"I don't think so, the bandage helps."
"And to think, all I used was a piece of my dress. Damn him, he disappeared with our weapons!"
Athena walked to Adrianna to help her get up. As soon as Athena clasped Adrianna, a spear pierced her chest and her hand loosened on Adrianna. She felt her head yanked back by her hair and she stumbled as Satan dragged her away. Satan landed two menacing fists on Athena's face, then swung her by her hair into the side of a parked truck. Satan then removed the sword on his crotch with a grunt and slowly made his way to Adrianna. He tossed the sword elsewhere:
"If I use that sword against you again, I'll only be returning it back to you- well, not that I'll let you survive now."
His tail slithered around and wrapped tightly around her neck, lifting her off the ground. She released her shield to try and pry the tail off, but her struggling only worsened the grip. Satan raised his trident, and slid the heated tips across Adrianna's face burn cuts through her delicate face while she winced.
"No god will save you now!" chuckled Satan.
He went to strike for the kill, but a clamorous crashing sound was heard and a massive cloud of debris blew past the two. When the smoke cleared up, Satan released Adrianna to examine what had happened. Something glimmered in the sky, as this object falling in his direction. The metallic object hit the road with clangor, sliding up to Satan's bare feet. He recognized his metal- weapon rather. It was a sickle, Cronus's sickle. Satan peered up and saw the titan grounded with his chest bleeding out.
"What in good Hell?" Satan gawked.
From out of nowhere, a winged figure swooped in at breakneck speed and tackled Satan off the ground and into the sky. Satan didn't have the time to better see the opposer as his head whiplashed and his body would collide with buildings, after buildings, after buildings- almost endlessly as he noticed he was now on the other side of the city. He was now soaring downwards, and before he could realize it, his back smashed into concrete with a power he has never experienced before. For a moment, he was beginning to think it was a meteor that hit him, but when the person stood above him, it was none other than his son as The Black Phoenix.
"How is this poss-"
Nathan threw a thunderous fist to silence Satan, deepening the crater beneath them. Nathan dragged his father off the ground and easily tossed him out of the crater, but before he landed, Nathan drew his palms and a flurry of mercury bullets poured out from the barrels, keeping Satan elevated in mid-air, then falling when the gunfire ended. Nathan flapped out of the crater and landed right above his father. Satan, with holes punctured all over his stature, and one of his horns broken off, raised a hand at Nathan, but was dumbfounded when the mercury didn't come to him on his command.
"Your power!...How are you at full power?! I stole portions of it! You should not be this powerful!" Satan hacked.
"You didn't steal enough." Nathan replied.
Nathan grabbed him by his other horn and shot another nasty fist at Satan's face, snapping off his last horn and launching him into a fountain across the road. Satan was bashed through the brick fountain edge and he banged into the iron statue at the center. He summoned his pitchfork and just as predicted, Nathan was in front of is already, so he thrusted it into his body. Nathan flinched slightly, but his healing was instantaneous. He grabbed the pitchfork without being burned this time, and flipped Satan back onto his head to crack his neck.
Satan recovered quicker this time to grab his weapon, and kicked out his foot to Nathan, sending him through the windshield of a car. Before Nathan could exit the vehicle, Satan flew in and lifted the up the car in air from the bottom. When high enough, he dropped the car, flew straight down, and skewered his trident through the belly of the car, and forked Nathan into the floor. Nathan held a hand out and scatter-shot five slugs into Satan's face, causing him to fall out of the air. Nathan tore out the pitchfork, bursted out of the car through its bottom and stuck the pitchfork right into Satan's throat, giving his The Devil a taste of his own medicine.
Nathan then grabbed him by his shoulders, bringing his pointed ear closer to himself. Nathan inhaled deeply, then shouted a out louder than a banshee. Sonic waves were created by his amplified Ghost Scream- now Phoenix Screech- and the deafening force blew Satan away far down the avenue, with glass and vehicles and signs all spilling over and beside him. The ground shook, the city rattled, and the remaining hellbats from above turned to ash with the earsplitting scream. Nathan silenced himself, but the screech echoed out of the city, fading to a lower volume with the rumbling.
Satan was several blocks away, ears ringing and body exhausted. He slowly rose s glass rained off his crimson body, using his pitchfork to prevent him from tumbling over. Something wet fell on his shoulder and when he glanced, it was a darker red. Another drip followed, and that's when it occurred to him that his ears were drenched with blood, along with a diminishing ringing sound as his hearing was restoring.
"I'm...going...TO END THIS!" he cried out.
He saw Nathan take to the sky and followed after him. Satan flapped his wings harder and a fiery aura surrounded him, as he was now flying as fast as a comet.
Nathan spotted him and lit his arms, "Let's finish this."
Nathan boomed forward as well in Satan's direction, as father and son, Nathan and Satan, flew to one another at unbelievable speeds. Four seconds, weapons were readied. Three seconds, weapons close, two seconds, Satan thrusted his pitchfork forward and Nathan swiped out his Blazers, and the two finally crossed each other as blinding light illuminated and the collision gave ripped through the wind and atmosphere, giving Jackson, Mississippi its final quake for the day.
*Had that theme song planned out since I first heard it like...two years ago? Something like that, hahaha! Yes, confirmed: This is Nathan's theme song as well. The lyrics work! It's got a bit of a "beginning-to-present" thing...sorta...Yeah, it just works, shh! 😂
But anyway, what happened?? I kept it like that for a reason; because uh...
I may or may not be lying about this being the end....who knows? I'll be nice, so keep your eyes peeled for TOMORROW and find out!
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