Titanomachy II

(Poseidon POV)

The war had begun and instead of hiding, we were now in full-on confrontation. Kronos hadn't shown himself on the battlefield yet, since he didn't take us seriously. The disappearance of his wife is not something that scares him. Rhea stays on Crete or moves to not be captured again. She doesn't really interest me that much. No matter what her divinity is, I am not going to have feelings for her as my mother, just because she gave birth to me. I am thankful to her, but that is enough from my side.

I was currently standing face to face with Atlas, one of Kronos' generals in this war. He was tasked with getting the 'insubordinate brood'. But that wouldn't happen any time soon. The longer this war went on, the stronger I became as I never stopped using pools of inspiration. More and more control over my domains and more strength, physical and mental as well as spiritual. It was a grind and I was the best one in this game because I didn't necessarily have to do anything to grow.

"Come now, little godling. Let's end this farce. Kronos will welcome you in his ranks and reward you, should you change sides and fight for us. You may even gain the position of ruler of the seas above Oceanus. Kronos has been unhappy with him anyway.", Atlas tells me.

"Do you think because we're in a desert I am powerless?", I ask him in amusement. He was ridiculous. Not very smart and also not strong enough to be a threat.

"You are at your weakest here and no matter what happened when we were on Mount Othrys, you will not manage to do that again. I underestimated you, but no more."

"I see. Well then show me what you got.", I say and motion for him to come at me.

"As you wish.", Atlas says and gets into position.

...

*Booom*

In a flash, he is in front of me. His giant fist approaches my face and gets closer. Similar to the time it was last time, I can both see and feel it coming. But this time, I did something else. As his skin makes contact with my face and I feel the massive force behind the attack, I absorb all of that force and move around his fist like water flowing and deliver a punch to his face with more than double his force.

*BOOOM*

I feel bones break but his head doesn't explode as he is not the Titan of strength and endurance for nothing. He spouts blood and shoots backwards falling into the sand and painting the ground golden with his ichor, the Gods and Titan's blood.

I wait for him to get back on his feet and slowly walk forward. He is slowly getting back up again and looks at me with anger and surprise. He didn't expect me to be this strong. Well, while I could use that much force and much more as well, I didn't do it that way. This was his own force used against him.

Atlas is back on his feet.

*Tuu*

He spits a clog of ichor to the ground and cracks his neck. He is like a brawler. Good, I wanted to try this out anyway. He runs towards me again and punches me in the stomach. I block his attack and move towards him. With fast hands, I strike his chest with several punches and strikes.

*Boom*

*Bam*

*Boom*

I continued my assault attacks and moved around Atlas' blocks and retaliation strikes with increasing ease. I felt my martial arts improve and grow beyond what I had learned up to that point. Moving like water was something that came naturally to me. So it was obvious for me to use the pools of inspiration and attain everything I could about the martial art from One Punch Man, the Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist.

I continued using the martial art and as I used it, it started to change and grow alongside me. My punches grew more powerful and quicker, my movements more unpredictable and I felt myself turn more and more into a liquid as I rained down punches and kicks on the sad Titan.

I started to reach a barrier, but thanks to my Essence, I passed the barrier like it didn't exist and with it, an understanding reached my mind and body. I was beginning to understand ... the flow of the fight. The flow of movements and the flow of how to punch, kick and use more powers. Flow ... what an interesting concept and a widespread one at that. The flow of this fight was slowly being figured out, without using the Essence. And suddenly it clicked and I saw the outcome of this fight.

Without realising when it started, other aspects of my divinity began to mix with my moves and do more damage. Atlas was a training dummy at this point and wouldn't be able to stand after what happened today.

I feel the vibrations of my own movements and start to take them in, instead of letting them out. So instead of making vibrations on the ground and the air, I absorbed them. This wonderful idea had great consequences for the fight. I no longer felt any resistance to my moves. I felt myself approaching another barrier and it was a grand one at that.

*BAM*

My fists started to rain down on the long unconscious Titan and just before I felt myself pass the barrier, my body moved without me thinking about it and just in time.

*VRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM*

A massive beam of light hits the position I was at just a moment ago. I look into the sky and see another Titan floating there with eyes shining brightly, full of divine energy and his divinity of light.

"Hyperion..."

The Titan of Light lands on the ground next to Atlas and observes his nephew who is in a very sad state. He was punched and kicked into a near-death state by me, so it is natural that he is unrecognisable at the moment.

"What an embarrassment you are, nephew. To think that you are one of the generals in this war ... truly a disappointment.", he says and kicks the Titan lying on the ground.

*Sigh*

He turns towards me and looks at me with contempt.

"Despite his performance and my disgust at his loss, he is still my nephew, so doing this to him is unforgivable. You will pay for this, boy.", he says.

Hyperion has his hands behind his back and looks like a distinguished royal with his flaming eyes and the shining glow around him. But he doesn't intimidate me in the slightest. On the contrary, he ruined my 'breakthrough', so it is better he offers himself up for that.

*Bling*

*BOOOOM*

A fist hits my face with the speed of light and makes me shoot through the desert at incredible speed. Before I cross the entire desert, my movement stops abruptly. I once again absorbed the vibrations I was emitting and with it the waves emanating from my body. I neutralised the kinetic energy by absorbing the waves and stopped my body from flying further back.

Instead of pain, I feel energised. This was the first time, I absorbed the energy waves coming from my body like this and I was eager to see whether it would work ... apparently it did.

*Whoosh*

Hyperion appears in front of me again with a surprised look on his face.

"Impressive of you to stop your momentum like this. But what does it matter? You won't be able to hit me at all. But I hope you don't give up anyway.", Hyperion says with an evil smirk on his face.

(3rd Person POV)

Poseidon gets into position. His hands move in a circle in front of him.

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Hyperion's figure disappears and while it may look like he teleports to those who have slower reaction times, Poseidon is not one of them. His expression is focused completely and his body moves instinctively. Like a tidal wave, his fists blur and move forward finding their target and creating waves of energy that attack Hyperion's approaching figure.

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*VOOOOM*

The fist of Hyperion moving at the speed of light versus the hundreds of thousands of fists flowing like liquids also moving close to that speed, clash against one another. Hyperion understands that his momentum is ruined and also begins to attack Poseidon using his immense speed to punch him. And while his speed is faster than Poseidon's in the beginning, the moves of Poseidon make it hard if not impossible to hit him.

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That wasn't all. As the clash goes on, the evolved form of Poseidon's Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist did more and more damage to Hyperion. The problem was that at the speeds they were going, Hyperion couldn't do anything but power through or take massive amounts of damage.

The continuously growing martial art of Poseidon results in the release of powerful shockwaves that surge through Hyperion's body, causing devastating internal damage, which can't be healed fast enough by his healing factor. The shockwave generated by this technique is so potent that it starts to pulverize surrounding debris into fine powder and is also starting to do the same thing to Hyperion's bones.

But it is still not finished. Something else starts to change in Poseidon's fists. They start to shine with bright light and a buggle begins to form around it, starting to distort the surrounding air.

And then ... it happens.

Poseidon's fist reaches Hyperion's face.

'Vibration Knuckle'

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*CCRRRRAAAAAACCCCCKKKKK*

The air and Hyperion's face cracks and then breaks apart, exploding into a shower of brain matter and ichor ...

...

From the beginning two Titans, only one is still alive. Atlas has managed to prove why he was the Titan of endurance and is once again standing. He looks at the dead body of his uncle, Hyperion the Titan of Light and mourns slightly. He knows the repercussions of this fight will be felt in the coming time when Kronos grows furious. He does not accept failure and what he and Hyperion showed this day, was nothing short of embarrassing and pathetic. But that wasn't really true.

Poseidon was a different beast altogether and he simply overpowered them with skill and power. The power the God of the Sea and Earthquakes has shown this day, will be remembered as a new age of battle. No weapons were used, only unarmed combat and pure skill and use of his divinities.

But Atlas wasn't done yet. His short sadness was replaced by fear of his uncle Kronos' reaction and anger. He was fuming and used his top speed to zoom towards Poseidon. His steps once again could be felt through the ground and the air, but Poseidon was not paying around here. He still remembered the comment Atlas made at the beginning of their fight.

"What was it you said before? 'You are at your weakest here in the desert'. If there is no longer an ocean, I can simply create one ...", Poseidon says and takes a deep breath and looks at the ground.

'Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave'

*WHOOOOOSH*

From his mouth, he spews out a massive amount of water, which starts to accumulate and cover the entire area around them. The sandy desert starts to fill with water and a ferocious tsunami forms, rising hundreds of metres into the sky.

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Atlas stops running and looks at the ginormous tsunami in front of him. All his will to fight disappears like a candlelight in a hurricane. Disbelief, confusion and fear are seen on his face and he doesn't even react as the wave collides on top of him.

*BBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM*

...

All of the Titan's bones are crushed completely and his entire body breaks, turning him into a piece of paper with gore and ichor splashing all around and painting the water golden.

As if that wasn't enough, a trident pierces the poor sod's back. The little ichor that is left in his body and inside the water around them, is drained from the Titan's body and absorbed by the trident, ending his life once and for all.

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