Raven let a soft hum out as he and his opponent stood across from each other casually. Raven was idly flipping a knife in his hand, and Indra was sipping away at his drink.
However in the next moment two things happened. Indra's drink was empty, and in the exact middle of each other a knife and straw collided, the force between them canceling each other out and falling to the ground.
"Impressive." Raven said as he leaned back to avoid a punch aimed at his face, he landed a kick to Indra's side, but the god merely grinned as he tanked the kick and landed a knee to Raven's stomach sending the magician flying back.
"I'm not impressed so far." Indra mocked as he crossed his arms. The next moment he threw himself to the ground avoiding a flying kick, and then in a sudden burst of speed he shot up to grab Raven's leg, but the teen was gone in that next moment.
"Better."
"Don't worry, the fun's only just began, after all, it's not everyday I get to throw down with one such as you." Raven's battle lust started surfacing.
"We shall see if you are worthy of being a magician. The center of creation chose you to wields its power, prove it right." Indra said, but then in the next moment he grunted as a hard kick to the stomach sent him flying.
"Don't begin to doubt me yet Meghavāhana." Raven chirped coldly as his eyes glowed a bright cyan color.
(Rider of clouds)
"Haven't been called that for a while." Indra mused as he appeared completely fine. Not a spec of dust or any sign of injury on him.
"I can refer to you as your other epithets, but I think we both would prefer to go about beating each other up." Raven said as he cracked his knuckles. His body visibly glowed with a bright cyan aura for a moment before it died down.
"Well said. Let us as the kids say, throw down." Indra agreed as his own body glowed a dark blue and golden for a moment before it died down.
The next moment their fist clashed causing a sudden burst, this was repeated several times as they disappeared and reappeared, each hit shaking the surroundings. Until finally the statlemate broke and Raven landed a rough kick to Indra's leg and then a solid punch to the face.
Indra tumbled along the ground for a moment before getting back up and spat a few drops of blood out as a grin formed on his face.
"You shall be a worthy opponent before I fight against Shiva-" Raven cut Indra off with a second punch to the face, but around his knuckles was a pair of knuckle dusters.
"Don't start yapping yet." Raven grinned before he blocked a punch and ducked under a high kick.
"Very well, I'll get serious now." Indra said as he suddenly disappeared and Raven's instincts and eyes told him to flash, what's he taken to calling his short form teleportation technique, away. The next moment Indra holding a spear made of lightning was aimed where his eyes had been.
"I'm not really into impalement, but I know a guy who is-" Raven summoned Malevolent to block it as Indra suddenly changed the direction of his attack. "His name was-"
"Do you ever shut up?" Indra asked as he suddenly kicked the lightning spear at Raven who only cackled and casually cut the spear into two pieces.
"Sorry, but my off switch is permanently disabled." Raven quipped as he raised his sword and blocked Indra from swinging a spear of lightning at him.
"Then I will make a new one." Indra grinned before he suddenly launched a hailmaker of a punch right through his own spear of lightning and straight at Raven who only ducked down and kicked Indra away.
"You can try." Raven quipped back before Malevolent glowed with dawn energy and then shot off at Indra who threw a blast of lightning at it. The two energy attacks clashing before their creators suddenly clashed again.
Raven paused for a moment as he and Indra stared at each other. Suddenly in the sky several giant floating swords appeared, each one containing several colored bright orbs.
"Don't worry, those are for later." Raven reassured Indra who only raised an eyebrow before the sky started thundering. Bolts of lightning struck the ground, each spot charred black and indented.
"We shall see if you get that far." Indra replied as he raised his hand and several bolts of lightning flew at Raven from the clouds.
"Come now old man, you'll need your best to injure me." Raven grinned as he casually dodged each attack, and then he suddenly fired off a barrage of dawn laser blast at Indra.
The Deva reacted by summoning more bolts of lightning from the sky to clash with each laser, the single beam that reached him was blocked by Indra using his hand, however he did have an injury on his hand from it, which quickly started to heal with a golden glow.
"You divine beings and divinity are truly cheaters." Raven said annoyed.
"I don't want to hear that from you of all people magician." Indra retorted and Raven smiled at him before suddenly a giant, regular, metal sword formed in his hand, and Raven swung the giant 50ft sword at Indra who raised his hand towards the sky as a single bolt of lightning landed on it, and then suddenly the giant sword was blasted apart and Raven sent flying.
"Oh the Vajra already, for shame. What would the other gods think of the mighty Svargapati needing it against a mere teenager?" Raven mocked Indra as he summoned Malevolent as it changed its form to a spear.
(Lord of Heaven)
Indra only raised an eyebrow before he shook his head refusing to rise to that level.
"They would call me stupid for not taking a magician seriously, and for that I will apologize to you. Raven Inanis, with this blow, I will erase your existence." Indra stated as he raised his spear up to waist level as lightning started crackling along the golden spear.
(Images at bottom of chapter)
Raven felt a large measure of panic rise up in that moment, he wasn't ready for this! So with a single thought he summoned his Ars Almadel Salomonis, the large ring of light appeared in the sky, pulsating with a bright white light.
The light started condensing into a singular arrow and bow. The arrow pulled itself back and started glowing more brightly. The several floating giants swords started sending colorful beams of energy to the arrow as it started glowing a more majestic white, then black, before finally becoming a cyan color.
"HEAVENS STRIKE!" Raven yelled out!
"VAJRA!" Indra in returned yelled out.
The intense clash between the arrow and blast of lightning caused the entire area to be bathed in colors of cyan and light blue. When the smoke from their clashes disappeared, the two opposing enemies looked at each other.
Raven stood, but his right arm was gone, one of his eyes was gone and a chunk of his face was torn up revealing inside of it.
Indra comparatively stood with a hole in his chest and his left arm gone from the elbow down.
"A tie then." Indra declared and Raven snorted.
"Tie my ass. If your attack had been five inches to the left I would have died, not to mention I had to rip off part of my soul to survive the attack. Plus you can still fight, I am barely able to stand. I lost." Raven retorted with a bit of difficulty as he stood up as his physical wounds healed and his true form surfaced. He grimaced for a moment before standing straight.
Indra smiled as he casually walked forward and met Raven eye to eye, and then held his right arm out. Raven shook it, albeit with some difficulty.
"Fret not Raven, you have proved yourself worthy of my recognition and respect. None besides Shiva, Vishnu and Yahweh have ever done such damage to me. After we return, I shall spread word of our bought, the whole world shall know of the magician who single handy held himself against Indra and lived to tell the tale." Indra promised as he vanished in a bolt of lightning.
"How scary, I almost died today." Raven fell back first onto the ground as he held his hand up. "This feeling of defeat, it's new. Complete and utter defeat with no chance of winning in a death battle." Raven didn't dislike it, if he were to die fighting, he'd be happy.
So with a grunt of exertion, he stood up and walked through a portal.
In the distance of the battlefield, giant pieces of the floating swords laid, the ground charred and two large opposing fissures were visible, thousands of feet deep and hundreds of feet wide. The result of Heavens Strike and Vajra clashing.
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[Vajra]
[Damocles]
The heat's killing me. Legit killing me. I need immediate winter weather stat lol.