Isis Faces The Storm Father
A tall woman with silvery arms stood in a great, longhouse full of ten foot tall men and women... no... GODS!
They were fair of skin, red and brown and blond of hair, broad of shoulder and raucous in their blasting voices.
They LAUGHED at the woman with silvery arms and beside her... behind her and to the left, really... stood a woman who looked like the modern image of a Valkyrie; tall and broad, strong and beautiful with one eye of blue and the other of green, hair fastidiously braided and clothing of fur and fine linen!
And upon her brow... a Crown of Iron! The silver armed woman seemed angry... but the other... the queen... was cowed by the greatness of the gods before her.
"I have fulfilled your quests, completed your missions, committed to and defeated your enemies and met all challenges!” The Silvery Armed Woman spoke, her hair short and her skin deepest olive in color.
“I have stepped foot on the new world, fathered a child on its soil and returned with her! I have come now to make YOU follow YOUR word!" She stated, pointing at the table of deities that laughed at her. The lot of the gods at their high tables around her continue to chortle and mock... and at the center of them a twelve foot tall monster of a man guffawed the loudest; nearly six feet wide at the shoulders with a braided beard of red SO LONG that it reached his waist,
"YOU ARE A MERE MORTAL!" He derided,
"Our bureaucracy does not hold us to our words for you! YOU need neither like us nor do what we want... but you BEST get out of our way! You were a welcome distraction for an entertaining year but now you will be gone!" She grit her teeth,
“I Am The Father Of War! I Will Do No Such THI---!" The ceiling of the hall burst and a bolt of lightning came down to strike her, casting her aglow in an instant!
She screamed as the gods burst into hilarity and the queen cowered back silently while shedding tears for the father of her child.
Jagged lines of electricity burst through the walls and corners as well, converging on her and charring the ground where she stood.
Her entire body shook where she stood, flailing like some sort of ragdoll in the hands of an excited child! But as the lightning stopped at the raising of the central god's hand and the lot of them continued their revelry... She did not even bend at the knees.
Instead she shook herself off... and charged! Her body pushed him through his throne, through the back wall and through the mountain behind!
They cratered in the next mountain over, dust and dirt flying miles in all directions from their collective impact.
She raised her fists high and brought them down upon the god's face and the land SHOOK with every blow.
And then the lightning came again.
She was blasted back as the sword of thunder returned to his hand. With a single swing he drove her back and through the mountain from which they’d emerged in the first blow of their battle.
The resultant avalanche fell upon her and shook the land so that many below died as she burst forth.
Curved beams of focused, multicolored light appeared and disappeared between them as The Sky Father effortlessly interposed his mirrored blade, expertly blocking every ray before propelling himself from the stone and impacting her almost as soon as he left the ground. The mountaintop crumbled behind them as he drove her through seven more peaks along the line of the range.
Birds took flight in great flocks as the skies went from clear and calm to dark and angry.
The clouds, black with rage, spun above them and threatened to join the fight! She kicked him from the rubble and from her feet great jets of flame licked forth, pushing her into the sky before he crashed into her from below.
Pulling her down, they landed in a small mountain village that was completely annihilated from their sudden entry.
Tiny missiles shot forth from her shoulders as he dodged between them, swinging for her with his blade before she slapped it from his hand and the two proceeded to descend into a scrap; his fists meeting her torso while her hands struck at his bearded face. Every blow shook the world.
Every single strike cracked the earth at their feet.
The Sword of Thunder Returned to his hand and he swung at her, the cyborg dodging nimbly as the mountain upon which they stood was cleaved in twain! She took back to the sky but the god would not allow the peak to fall, instead taking it in his hand and casting the mass toward her through the air; a literal mountain soaring through the space between them.
She cratered into the ground some miles away and planted her feet as the lightning came back to strike her... and from the center of her chest she unleashed a beam of light that blinded all animals for miles around to strike the soaring summit.
In an instant it was rendering unto a cloud of dust through which the god entered her view; his knees struck her face and drove her into the dirt below, shattering the nearby glacier and breaking the dam! The torrent of ice crashed upon them but as they struck each other back and forth the power of their blows resisted the flow; the flood parting explosively as the god's sword was caught in a clapping motion by the cyborg!
She kicked him back into a nearby outcropping, taking the time of his recovery to fire another blast out of her chest.
The Sword Of Thunder stopped it, turning the beam toward the heavens... then the God grinned with excitement and twisted his blade, redirecting the beam to its origin. For a moment the cyborg took the shot... but then her skin glowed and her eyes lit up as the clouds finally swirled down to meet them in their fantastic spiral motion!
The tornado touched down around her as she suddenly BLINKED out of existence, appearing next to the god and striking him through a nearby summit... her body BLASTING through the base of the mountain and cracking it from root to peak as she gave chase into the depths of the berg.
He laughed as they tangled in the caves below; swinging and blasting, pushing forth lightning and laser.
When they came forth from the depths it was to the sound of an explosion that briefly deafened all in the land, the mountain promptly disappearing as its contents flew far into the sky to blacken the clouds more than before as the resultant dust spread into the heavens. And he met her yet again on the base of another mount, her body moving so fast it was hard even for him to to track as she SLAPPED the sword out of his hand and the two tangled into fists and feet, knees and elbows.
She screamed as he deflected one of her blows and grabbed her by the head, laughing as he sought to crush her skull with his bare hands! Her eyes glowing, her mouth shot forth a blinding light.
"SUPERRADIANT PENROSE OVERCLOCK!" She called out quickly,
"MANUAL OVERRIDE: ATOM PLUTO OXY CARBON ATOM LEAD YTTRI PLUTO SILVER EARTH!"
TIME slowed...
GRAVITY bent! The God Of Storms… The All-Father Of Vaennland… practically stood still as the Cyborg zipped around him, driving him up into the air and showering him with blows from all directions; the two of them surrounded in a corona of fire that she trailed, so fast was she moving.
With a colossal blast from her chest she drove him a thousand feet into the surface of a nearby prominence and landed atop him; body thrashing, fists flying, the two exchanging blows that could be felt in northern Kanda, sending ripples through the land that shook the waters of the Basin Of Eternity! The sword returned!
It swung at her and she again knocked it aside like it were some child’s toy.
They continued to punch and kick at each other as the sword returned again but she kicked it out of the way before it could return to his grasp. They fought for seconds more before the sword returned yet again.
And on the third return...
SHE was the one to catch it.
And upon the god's face, still laughing in excitement and glory, the sword's edge fell!
The mountain was no more, pulverized into a cloud of debris that would take years to fall back to the ground... dooming the winter to a haze that would impoverish so many... And at the center of it all... from her cyborg body steaming in the rubble... a blast of light flew into the heavens and cleared the debris, leaving her standing over the split body of the god.
The lightning flashed above her, the tornado spinning around her... as sudden ports opened in her metal arms and legs. And, with a scream, she pulled the storm into herself and the violence was done.
A New Sky Father Arose.
The Old All-Parent Of Vaennland Was No More.
Now The Pantheon Bowed To Her!
They were fair of skin, red and brown and blond of hair, broad of shoulder and raucous in their blasting voices.
They LAUGHED at the woman with silvery arms and beside her... behind her and to the left, really... stood a woman who looked like the modern image of a Valkyrie; tall and broad, strong and beautiful with one eye of blue and the other of green, hair fastidiously braided and clothing of fur and fine linen!
And upon her brow... a Crown of Iron! The silver armed woman seemed angry... but the other... the queen... was cowed by the greatness of the gods before her.
"I have fulfilled your quests, completed your missions, committed to and defeated your enemies and met all challenges!” The Silvery Armed Woman spoke, her hair short and her skin deepest olive in color.
“I have stepped foot on the new world, fathered a child on its soil and returned with her! I have come now to make YOU follow YOUR word!" She stated, pointing at the table of deities that laughed at her. The lot of the gods at their high tables around her continue to chortle and mock... and at the center of them a twelve foot tall monster of a man guffawed the loudest; nearly six feet wide at the shoulders with a braided beard of red SO LONG that it reached his waist,
"YOU ARE A MERE MORTAL!" He derided,
"Our bureaucracy does not hold us to our words for you! YOU need neither like us nor do what we want... but you BEST get out of our way! You were a welcome distraction for an entertaining year but now you will be gone!" She grit her teeth,
“I Am The Father Of War! I Will Do No Such THI---!" The ceiling of the hall burst and a bolt of lightning came down to strike her, casting her aglow in an instant!
She screamed as the gods burst into hilarity and the queen cowered back silently while shedding tears for the father of her child.
Jagged lines of electricity burst through the walls and corners as well, converging on her and charring the ground where she stood.
Her entire body shook where she stood, flailing like some sort of ragdoll in the hands of an excited child! But as the lightning stopped at the raising of the central god's hand and the lot of them continued their revelry... She did not even bend at the knees.
Instead she shook herself off... and charged! Her body pushed him through his throne, through the back wall and through the mountain behind!
They cratered in the next mountain over, dust and dirt flying miles in all directions from their collective impact.
She raised her fists high and brought them down upon the god's face and the land SHOOK with every blow.
And then the lightning came again.
She was blasted back as the sword of thunder returned to his hand. With a single swing he drove her back and through the mountain from which they’d emerged in the first blow of their battle.
The resultant avalanche fell upon her and shook the land so that many below died as she burst forth.
Curved beams of focused, multicolored light appeared and disappeared between them as The Sky Father effortlessly interposed his mirrored blade, expertly blocking every ray before propelling himself from the stone and impacting her almost as soon as he left the ground. The mountaintop crumbled behind them as he drove her through seven more peaks along the line of the range.
Birds took flight in great flocks as the skies went from clear and calm to dark and angry.
The clouds, black with rage, spun above them and threatened to join the fight! She kicked him from the rubble and from her feet great jets of flame licked forth, pushing her into the sky before he crashed into her from below.
Pulling her down, they landed in a small mountain village that was completely annihilated from their sudden entry.
Tiny missiles shot forth from her shoulders as he dodged between them, swinging for her with his blade before she slapped it from his hand and the two proceeded to descend into a scrap; his fists meeting her torso while her hands struck at his bearded face. Every blow shook the world.
Every single strike cracked the earth at their feet.
The Sword of Thunder Returned to his hand and he swung at her, the cyborg dodging nimbly as the mountain upon which they stood was cleaved in twain! She took back to the sky but the god would not allow the peak to fall, instead taking it in his hand and casting the mass toward her through the air; a literal mountain soaring through the space between them.
She cratered into the ground some miles away and planted her feet as the lightning came back to strike her... and from the center of her chest she unleashed a beam of light that blinded all animals for miles around to strike the soaring summit.
In an instant it was rendering unto a cloud of dust through which the god entered her view; his knees struck her face and drove her into the dirt below, shattering the nearby glacier and breaking the dam! The torrent of ice crashed upon them but as they struck each other back and forth the power of their blows resisted the flow; the flood parting explosively as the god's sword was caught in a clapping motion by the cyborg!
She kicked him back into a nearby outcropping, taking the time of his recovery to fire another blast out of her chest.
The Sword Of Thunder stopped it, turning the beam toward the heavens... then the God grinned with excitement and twisted his blade, redirecting the beam to its origin. For a moment the cyborg took the shot... but then her skin glowed and her eyes lit up as the clouds finally swirled down to meet them in their fantastic spiral motion!
The tornado touched down around her as she suddenly BLINKED out of existence, appearing next to the god and striking him through a nearby summit... her body BLASTING through the base of the mountain and cracking it from root to peak as she gave chase into the depths of the berg.
He laughed as they tangled in the caves below; swinging and blasting, pushing forth lightning and laser.
When they came forth from the depths it was to the sound of an explosion that briefly deafened all in the land, the mountain promptly disappearing as its contents flew far into the sky to blacken the clouds more than before as the resultant dust spread into the heavens. And he met her yet again on the base of another mount, her body moving so fast it was hard even for him to to track as she SLAPPED the sword out of his hand and the two tangled into fists and feet, knees and elbows.
She screamed as he deflected one of her blows and grabbed her by the head, laughing as he sought to crush her skull with his bare hands! Her eyes glowing, her mouth shot forth a blinding light.
"SUPERRADIANT PENROSE OVERCLOCK!" She called out quickly,
"MANUAL OVERRIDE: ATOM PLUTO OXY CARBON ATOM LEAD YTTRI PLUTO SILVER EARTH!"
TIME slowed...
GRAVITY bent! The God Of Storms… The All-Father Of Vaennland… practically stood still as the Cyborg zipped around him, driving him up into the air and showering him with blows from all directions; the two of them surrounded in a corona of fire that she trailed, so fast was she moving.
With a colossal blast from her chest she drove him a thousand feet into the surface of a nearby prominence and landed atop him; body thrashing, fists flying, the two exchanging blows that could be felt in northern Kanda, sending ripples through the land that shook the waters of the Basin Of Eternity! The sword returned!
It swung at her and she again knocked it aside like it were some child’s toy.
They continued to punch and kick at each other as the sword returned again but she kicked it out of the way before it could return to his grasp. They fought for seconds more before the sword returned yet again.
And on the third return...
SHE was the one to catch it.
And upon the god's face, still laughing in excitement and glory, the sword's edge fell!
The mountain was no more, pulverized into a cloud of debris that would take years to fall back to the ground... dooming the winter to a haze that would impoverish so many... And at the center of it all... from her cyborg body steaming in the rubble... a blast of light flew into the heavens and cleared the debris, leaving her standing over the split body of the god.
The lightning flashed above her, the tornado spinning around her... as sudden ports opened in her metal arms and legs. And, with a scream, she pulled the storm into herself and the violence was done.
A New Sky Father Arose.
The Old All-Parent Of Vaennland Was No More.
Now The Pantheon Bowed To Her!
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