Lumia and The Great Mother clashed together, causing an explosion of air, and the eldritch being was sent flying away, while Luma simply recoiled a bit.

She flew about twenty miles away before crashing into the city, creating a crater where she’d landed nearly thirty meters in length.

“You won’t hurt Drade, you monster!” she yelled before proceeding to rapidly shoot bolts of light from her singularities. She did not hold back, each of the hundreds of bolts she shot turning entire neighborhoods into rubble, completely without thought of the people inside. About twenty seconds later, she paused, unable to see through the rubble.

Her eyes widened as a tentacle shot at her. She barely managed to avoid the attack, zipping away just as it reached within a mile of her, but then four more immediately burst out of the smoke as well, and it continued on, puncturing Therin’s warship behind her.

Seeing that in the corner of the god’s eye, she blasted the other four, blowing the black tentacles to bits with a few attacks which evaporated the lake beneath them even from a mile above the surface.

Then, an enormous plant suddenly burst from underneath her, as large as a stadium in with. She blasted a hole through it with her final singularity, then sidestepped it as it continued, but as she focused on the slowly resting dust, she suddenly saw the tentacles slither back into it. Outside of her view, The Great Mother blasted out of the plant, her tentacles planted deep underground, and she raised her robotic arm. From it, a laser shot at the surprised god, and sent her flying backward just as the other had not long ago.

“No, I will capture him, and you will not stand in my way!” she roared, knowing that the god could hear her as she blasted away at Mach twenty.

The Great Mother leaped back toward the airship, but just before her tentacles had made their way to her back, she was tugged backward as the light god had suddenly been enveloped by an enormous aura of a tiger, which grabbed onto her tentacle and spun her around before chucking her away, sending her tumbling into a nearby forest. She then leaped forward and pounced onto the elder god as she tried to recover. The aura suddenly turned into a vortex of light centered on the god and quickly got sucked into a singularity which hovered a foot above her.

Then, in a flash of light, it exploded, turning into a mushroom cloud that began to turn tens of miles of forest, as well as much of the city, into nothing more than a crater.

She waited patiently for the nuclear explosion to sink while paying close attention to the ground, waiting for any sign of the god.

Then, something enormous sent the superheated dust blowing away.

The Great Mother rose up to her feet, now thousands of meters tall. Her left leg was now a mass of tentacles, her right eye shining with stars, a technological cannon the size of a small hill taking its place onto her shoulder, mirroring her mechanical arm, and a swathe of starry blood orbited around her.

“Is that...” she said through a breath, seemingly exhausted, “All you have up your sleeve, sun god?”

The kid shook her head, her expression serious. “What, do you think getting bigger is going to give you any better a chance?”

She smiled, each of her teeth gleaming with a different metal. “Yes.”

Lumia chuckled. “Wanna test that theory?”

Suddenly, she rammed into the god’s stomach as a blaze of light while her five singularities blasted light into the god’s four limbs and head.

The god was sent careening even further across the forest, along with Lumia, who dragged her far from the evacuating area.

On The Great Mother’s cannon, hundreds of ‘smaller’ cannons shot red laser beams, which looped around faster than the blink of an eye and homed in on Lumia. She didn’t avoid the attack, using it to propel herself and the other god over two-hundred miles away, shoving her into a mountain with a blast

Instead, thrusters she hadn’t seen on the god’s back blasted with nuclear energy, turning the entire mountain to rubble to dust as she yelled with glee, smashing her planty arm into the young god, then as she flew away uncontrollably, she enveloped her with the arm, forcing Lumia to break her way out through an explosion of light that hurt herself.

Even as the god’s arm was blown to nothing more than loose, burning vines, it was regrowing without end. She tried to grab Lumia with her robotic arm, only for the girl to zip away high into the air.

“So you are immortal,” Lumia said. “I couldn’t tell because of all the dust, you know?”

“I see that I’m not the only one who hates dust,” the god noted, nodding. “It always gets in the way of seeing my opponent’s expression of defeat.”

“Exactly!” the other one agreed, nodding with closed eyes. “But while I’m not immortal, you won’t beat the sun.”

“Hmhmhmhm...” The Great Mother chuckled. “We will see about that, pesky child. The sun has to set sometime!”

The two gods burst into a rapid and devastating flurry of attacks.

Each second, another mountain was turned to rubble.

Each second, hundreds of sentient specks saw their lives flash before their lives.

Each second, miles of countryside was destroyed.

The next minute, three populated towns had been turned into bloody smears, Lumia protecting Drade with only the barest of thoughts for others.

The next minute, dozens of forests were incinerated

The next minute, the land where they fought was nothing more than an incinerated smear filled with little more than craters.

The Great Mother reveled in this destruction, laughing as they turned cities into paste. Yes. This was what happened when fate broke. She felt as though she could think clearly for the first time in many many years, and the sweet taste of freedom and power was oh, soooo intoxicating. This overwhelming pest would not stand in the way of her revival!

By the end of the minute, Lumia heard a voice in her ear. “Stop it!”

She paused, giving the other god an opportunity to grab her with her human arm and begin to crush her under her grip.

“What’s up?” Lumia asked her earplug as she briefly turned herself into a living black hole, eating away the hand and then dashing away. Neither of them seemed to have sustained even a modicum of damage, although that was a given for the immortal. The truth was, while The Great Mother only posed a threat to Lumia if they fought for many days on end...Lumia could only fight for days on end...

Therin sighed on the other end. “You’ve already killed tens of thousands of people! What sort of fucking maniac are you?”

“A god?” she said with a naive tilt of her head as she dodged a few lasers.

“That...isn’t an excuse, but I can’t say I’m surprised. Listen, I and Drade have come upon...an agreement. He will keep himself protected in Gau’s estate and I will attempt to obtain the divine water. How long can you stall?”

“Until dusk,” Lumia said. “If the sun isn’t out, neither am I...but I think we’ll still have enough power to last an hour if it goes dark.”

“Good enough. I’ll be sending everything I have to take those waters by force. I believe that The Great Mother can track Drade down, so do not underestimate her. The longer you keep her busy, the better our chances. Although...please, try to take her somewhere less populated.”

“Gotcha.” She raised her head to speak with The Great Mother again, yet again conversing with her from miles away. “Okay, Mrs.Meanie, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Do you want to go to Canada or not?”

“That’s north, that way, right?” The god asked, pointing north.

“Yee.”

“Is that a yes?”

“Yeah, I’m just a zoomer, you know how it is.”

The god of life just squinted at the other questioningly. “We can do this the hard way.”

“Kay’ Kay’, boomer~!”

“I do like explosions!” she yelled, shooting another volley of hundreds of lasers.