(Aden's P.O.V)

Ares' ashes drifted through the air as his divine energy joined with the rest of the divinities already gathered.

"Ares..."

I could feel their shock and anger.

"Careful, goddess of wisdom." I warned Athena as she unsheathed her sword in Fury.

"Make the first move and I will slay you where you stand, denying you a few more minutes of life."

Athena ground her teeth but wisely stepped back.

"Well?"

I looked back at Zeus.

"What's your plan now?"

Amaterasu stepped forward.

"You are powerful."

She acknowledged and despite the fear I could sense in her, her tone was confident.

"However, you should understand that Killing us will not change the past. Furthermore our deaths will leave the universe and Earth unprotected from those who truly wish harm upon..."

"You're not getting out of this by talking."

I shook my head. Infact, I couldn't believe it. Laughter bubbled out of me.

"I gave you a chance to come up with something and you chose to appeal to my good nature? Sorry, that is only reserved for innocents. Your memories show me that none of you are."

"We won't be ruled by fear. Even from someone as powerful as you."

Hades spoke up.

"I don't expect you to. I expect you to fight, and then die."

Why was it hard for them to understand?

My response made Zeus' face contort in rage.

"So you would willingly spit on our offer for a peaceful resolution to this conflict?! Haven't you killed enough of us!"

"No!"

I shot back, eyes blazing with rage.

"We are way past that and before you use the Darkhold as an excuse, it only really took control of your minds recently. You chose to use the infernal arts in that damned book. You turned my son into a battery. You chose to stole his life force from him and god forbid, but if I had slept for a few more years...he would have died!"

That was why I was so mad. Despite all my failings, I had never let harm befall my kids. This was the first and last time. Ever.

"You will serve as an example. Mess with me but not my family."

Sun Wukong begun clapping happily.

"I told you all that it was too late. Monkey's always right! Now can we fight? Can we please beat on each other until one of us dies?!"

He questioned with an eerie smile full of battle lust that was aimed at me.

"Fine."

Amaterasu decided, and with that I smiled. Fuck negotiations, I was killing me some gods.

"I'll make pulp out of you! Squish your insides like the mushy goodness of a banana!"

Sun Wukong laughed out loud as the major gods finally joined in on the fight. I ignored his rumblings and instead turned to the only ally I had.

"Remember Chaos, stay out of it."

I ordered, sensing him hovering above the sky while invisible.

"Whatever you say boss."

He replied in confirmation.

The first few steps the Monkey King took towards me, saw him directly transformed into a fiery form, a massive fireball surrounding him as he roared and attacked. I raised my hands and summoned a wall of ice to block his attack. The ice shattered as he broke through with a powerful blow from his staff, but I was ready.

I manipulated the air around us, creating a sonic boom that knocked him back. I followed up with a wave of fire, but he transformed into a thunderbird and took flight, dodging my attack and sending devastating lightning attacks raining down on me. The streaks were wide and volatile, managing to land on the other gods, Killing a few minor ones.

Occupied as I was with The Monkey King, the rest decided to get in on the action. One last ditch effort.

Zeus, Amaterasu, Hades and Susanoo led the charge, their divine abilities exploding towards me with a ferocity that I had never seen before from their DC counterparts. Lightning bolts danced through the air, scorching everything in their path.

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Amaterasu sent a beam of pure sunlight blazing a path towards me. An earthquake shook the entire ring, no doubt the work of Hades. Susanoo, not one to be left behind called upon cutting winds and sent them my way.

The attacks landed on a spinning psionic shield and failed to break through. Zeus and Hades unleashed their full power in response, divine energy making the metallic ring quiver even more. Then they combined their powers and called forth massive bolts of black lightning and black ice, showing the true strength of the Greeks.

I countered their attacks by increasing gravity and forcefully slamming them onto the ground with the force of a freight train. A swipe of my hand and silver flames rose up in the form of a flower, consuming the attacks.

With streaks of multicolored lightning, I disappeared in a burst of superspeed, Amaterasu found herself defenseless from a mule kick that sent her spiralling through the air and bowling over minor gods like pinballs.

"Sis...ack!"

Susanoo chocked as I grabbed his neck. His fingers clawed at my hands, eyes bulging off their sockets.

"Lemme show you what a real storm looks like."

I held out my right palm and gathered multiple wind currents, compressing them and then adding in a chaos element.

"Open up."

Blood bending forced his mouth wide and I sent the compressed ball of chaos storm down his throat. I pulled my hand back and threw him onto the ground.

Through my divine sense, I felt Wukong cut through the sky in a new form. That of a silver being riding on a sleek surf board. I couldn't believe it and looked back, only to see the Silver Surfer, bearing down at me with the force of the heavens. I dropped to the floor of the ring and slammed my hands down.

Spikes the size of massive oak trees and as tall as redwoods emerged from the floor, glowing purple before shooting out towards him. The Silver Surfer expertly evaded each attack, carving a trail through the air before coming back in for another attack. I tightened my palms and the Vibranium pillars, now suspended in the sky above him, shot down towards the ground.

By the time the Monkey God looked up at the shadows over head, it was too late and he found himself smacked off the air and onto the ground.

A massive explosion timely occured as the chaotic winds I had forcefully made Susanoo swallow, ripped him apart and engulfed the gods closest to him in a freezing, cutting and shredding tornado. The Whirlwind of death grew to the height of touching the energy field around the ring. Over half of the remaining gods were killed. One if them being Athena. She should have attacked.

"Aden!"

Zeus bellowed from where he and his brother were still restrained under the weight of 500× the gravity of Earth.

"Oh I forgot about you. Unfortunately, you've reminded me of your presence."

The gravity doubled, making the two groan in pain.

"Every 10 seconds the gravity will multiply by two. If I were you, I'd escape before you become pancakes."

I looked up just as a rumbling sound reached my ears. The sound was followed by the pillars of Vibranium being forcefully thrown away by a large form. A blue eastern dragon with whiskers that swished in the air.

"This is what I have been missing! No one in the heavens can give me a fight this good! I want more!!"

Sun Wukong yelled, his voice deeper than before.

Light blue hair ran from the back of the Dragon's head to it's tail. With a flex of it's body, the hairs detached, falling away before changing into thousands of monkeys. 82,000 to be exact. All no doubt possessing the powers of the OG Monkey King.

"Nope. We're not doing this."

I stated, space collapsing at the position each monkey occupied and Killing them.

"Cheater!"

The Dragon yelled, twining it's neck around before producing a deep blue fire breath that was simultaneously hot and cold. I scrunched my eyebrows in thought. Okay, maybe I'd been approaching the fusion of all my elements wrongly. Instead of combining all four, how about I begin by two?

"Thanks for giving me a new perspective Monkey."

I said then stretched out both palms to the front.

Calling up the familiar warmth just above my groin, I pictured it fusing with ice, it didn't need to be a perfect fusion, all it needed to do was complement the volatility of each element. The oppressive nature of fire and the calm nature of water. A blue whirl of twisting pale blue flames shot out of my palms, colliding with Wukong's own attack.

The result was a shockwave of hot and cold winds that washed over both of us and then the gods present. Ice sheets that were so cold they immediately caused frost bite, covered the surroundings. Screams of pain rang out and the god's numbers went down to a measly 200.

Meanwhile, Sun Wukong managed to catch himself before he could collide upon the shield of energy around the ring.

He paused for a while before attacking, an indescribable look of shock on his face.

"How...how did you do that?"

He questioned.

"Are you sure you want to get distracted while on the battlefield?"

To drive my point home, space fractured around me as I appeared at his back. A shiver visibly went through his spine, his body stiffening in the air.

I created a sword made of solid light and charged towards him, leaving a trail of light behind me. I swung the sword and he dodged to the left. I spun while in the air and kicked him on the chest. He was pushed away and entered a portal. I was able to manipulate space and made him reappear from another portal infront of me.

The sword passed cleanly through his back and out through his chest, eliciting a groan of pain.

"Time out Monkey. You try to pull out the sword and it will explode. I'm sending you into my own personal realm. This is thanks for giving me a great idea about something I was struggling with."

A boom tube opened up and he fell through, the light sword still stuck on his chest. On the other side of the portal was my Homunculi Puppet, waiting for him.

That done, I turned to the other major threat around.

"You have taken everything from me! No matter the cost, I will destroy you Aden Strong!"

A shining beacon of light accompanied the voice. The light was burning and almost blinding. Amaterasu sent forth multiple beams of light that engulfed the entire ring.

The divine energy exceeded my expectations, an entire portion of the ring went up in flames, melting away under the heat of the living sun. My hair wildly flapped in the air from the pressure blast produced.

I felt...challenged.

I spread out my hands, exposing my body to the naked glare of her barrage of attacks.

"Is that the best you got?"

I laughed at her naivety.

"You're merely a god of the sun, Amaterasu! I am a god of Stars!"

I pulled on my divinity and sent out a burst of my starlight. The explosion of light and thermal energy burned white hot, my body changed as I immediately went into a godly form, that of the Star God. I lost the tight control I usually held onto my powers and simply allowed destruction to swallow everything. Devastation was born.

I could feel massive amounts of not only the god's divinity get swallowed up by the explosion but an exorbitant amount of chaos energy was produced. The light moved past the ring and engulfed the planet below, my shield barely standing in opposition before it broke apart, killing everything and everyone on Earth. Nothing was left, the molten rock simply disintegrated, It went further and the moon was similarly swallowed up in the blast.

Only when it reached Mars did I come to my senses.

The light died away and I was left standing in the cold dead space, alone.

"Fuck."

I muttered.